[Event "Budapest"] [Site "?"] [Round "0"] [White "Pogats"] [Black "Portisch"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B18"] [Opening "Caro-Kann: Classical"] {Black forces a favourable liquidation} 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. Nf3 Nd7 7. h4 h6 8. Bd3 Bxd3 9. Qxd3 Qc7 10. Bd2 Ngf6 11. O-O-O e6 12. c4 O-O-O 13. Bc3 c5 14. Kb1 cxd4 15. Bxd4 Bc5 16. Qe2 Bxd4 17. Rxd4 Nb8 $1 {Clearing the way for liquidations on the d-file. Moreover the exchanges prepared by this move are give an especially forceful character by the vigorous entry of the Knight on c6} 18. Rhd1 Nc6 19. Rxd8+ Rxd8 20. Rxd8+ Qxd8 21. Qd2 $2 {An error leading to a poor Knight ending} (21. b3 Nd4 22. Nxd4 Qxd4 23. h5) 21... Ng4 22. Ne4 {Defence by counterattack} 22... Qxd2 23. Nfxd2 Kc7 $1 (23... f5 24. Nc5 e5 25. Ne6 $132) 24. Nf1 (24. f3 { The e3 square is weakened} 24... Ne3) 24... Nd4 { Protecting e6 and thereby threatening ... Pf5} 25. f3 Ne5 26. b3 Ng6 $1 { Now White must lose material} 27. h5 Nf4 28. Ne3 Nf5 {Black plya s to win the g-pawn rather than the h-pawn, thus leaving White with isolated and vulnerable pawns. White resists this plan, but will must lose} 29. Nxf5 exf5 30. Ng3 g6 $1 {Black nears the goal. The g-pawn is lost} 31. Kc2 Nxg2 32. Kd2 Kd6 33. hxg6 fxg6 34. Ke2 Ke5 35. Kf2 Nf4 36. Ke3 Nd5+ $1 37. Kd2 (37. cxd5 f4+) 37... Nb4 38. a3 Nc6 39. Ke1 Nd4 (39... Kf4 40. Kf2) 0-1