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Wood, OBE, MSc EDITORIAL BOARD Jimmy Adams Malcolm Pein IM John Henderson Editor: Executive Editor: Associate Editor: DISTRIBUTORS POST SCRIPTUM LTD ‘Unit 1, Pylon indusrial Estate, Coty Road, ‘London, E.16 4SP ‘TEL 0207473 0771 FAX 020 7473 0772 PRINTED BY SIMPSON DREWETT & COMPANY LTD, 70 Sheen Road, Richmond, Surey, TW9 UF “Tel: 020 8940-7441. fe it bono cons ae EE Secnmeatey coer ieee tec ‘pet ee are ee ear smn OUR FRONT COVER toe ed be GM Joe Gallagher, formerly of don, Dut now resident with his wife family in Switzerland, is the popular new British Champion. With fis robust, optimistic style, he was always in the leading grovp and Finally took a decisive lead in Round Nine cottish IM John Shaw. Joe -s this game on page 22. “Joe is elso highly regarded as a chess writer who is prepared to tackle the sharpest of all openings, He has Books to Photo: John Henderson CONTENTS British Championship 4 Title wins for Joe Gallagher and Mel 6. Readers’ Letters 18 Marathon men The Other British Championships 19 Junior, Senior & Major Open games. A Critical Game 22 How the Champion took a decisive lead. The World Junior 24 Fine results for two British U-21 Champions. Find the Winning Moves 28 Sharpen your tactical vision. Old Slade 29 ‘The twinkle returned to his eye, the smile..." How Good is Your Chess 31 Take cover - it’s Odondoo Ganbold! Magical Miniatures 33 An endgame study by Fritz... Two Chess Diaries 34 Don't make Dudeney’s mistake! An Enigmatic Character 35 The first British Charnpion. A Tale of Two Cities 37 From Berlin to Vienna. Dreaming 37 A chess poem. Collectors’ Corner 38 Is it or isn’t it? Plugging the Dragon 40 A red hot opening book for club players. Addicts’ Corner 44 The old-timers and the Dancing Girls. U.S.Open 49 A ‘Qualified’ Success, New Books 50 New Best Garnes collections. The Baron 52 No! You can't take a nap. Problem Album 53 Canadian counterbalance. American readers - you can e 2363 Oak Tree Lane, West Pal or by ringing our US Cust 1-888-CHESS-06 or in England: e-mail: ehesscentre@ ¥ Phone: O11 44 207388 2404 (ROW dial 0044 207388 3404) (act us Stateside at each, Florida 33409 October 2001 CHESS 3Are you going to Scarborough Fair? asks John Henderson Let's yet this right from the start | really do° love to be beside the seaside, And. for seaside, quite maturally read British—or perhaps even British Championships as this is ususlly wehen the annual congress is at its best) by the ‘seaside! No other country or culture comes close to the British scaside’s heady blond of sdnicless raffishness, dated awfulness and sheer and carefres Technicolor indolence {all overladen by w variety of sticky and ‘offen unspeakable things). ‘We will buy—and wear—a silly ‘iss me-quick hat, srack our tseth on rock, tolerate the rump of a fly-blowa donkey have an unbridled appreciation of Donald MeGill’s rude and gloriously saucy sea side postcards, and stab with a piste fork from a polystyrene tray an endless sus session of fish and chips—and all the Detter if you manage 10 get the right ‘weather to accompany this rather than ‘wind and rain! ‘As | sot off, Britain had been basking in conditions to’ rival holiday resorts across the globe, as the mercury soared 19 ap Dprooching 32C (that’s 9OF in oll money) Millions made their way to the seaside, in the process blocking roads and eramming ‘on tothe beaches as the weather turned out hotter than Havana. And there sas me stuck in my Volvo amongst the throng, of Haffic ying in vain to get to one of those sorsalled seaside resorts—Scarborough in Nomi Yorkshire, venue for the Smith & ‘Williamson British Championships. Scarborough is reckoned 10 be the world’s fist seaside resort, and has been _major attraction for visitors Tor almost 400 ‘years—not to mention also being stespedd ina thousand years of diverse hisiory. The Noth Yorkshire resort has gone feorn the ‘aging battles of the Romans; the invasion of the Vikings: laid siege to twice daring the English Civil War; to fame and inmer= tality in the pop charis and at the movies ‘with Stinon and Garfunkel after the duo rippedoff English folk singer Marin Cart= Ihy's arangements of the elassie song, Are You Going To Scarborough Fuir® made fimous afte it was used on the soundtrack tothe classic 1967 film, The Graduate, The song is a rendition of an old Eny lish folk sony that dates back to late medi- eval times, when this part of the world was fan important venue for tradesmen From all over England. Scarborough quickly. be game a major port engaging if the Nom ‘Sea Trade with Germany und Seandin Medieval trading vessels were builtin the south bay. ‘The World famous Scarborough Fair ‘was a sin-week trading festival, which ran for $00 years, until ending. in the 1700s. People from all over England, and even some from the continent, came to Scarbo~ rough to do their business, As eventually the harbour started to decline, so did the Fair. But it left behind a legacy of that song with the haunting lyrics 4 CHESS October 2001 Are sou going to Scarborough Fair? Parstes: sage, rosemary and tye Remember ve to one wha lives there For once sie was tne love of mine ut who would Scarborough be fai 10 during the 88° Championships? Would it be defending Champion Jultan Hodgson —ininus the” Executive chait this tine!—ayain as went for a hat trick of wins, or would there bea new name on the trophy? Afer is disastrous defence to bis ttle last year at Millfield Shoot in Street, Where he stated with a 4/2, Hodgson, as usual, rode his luck to yet off tothe perfect start this time with wi Julian Hodgson (2581) 1Phite Desmond Tan (2253) Blac Tramponsky Arch 14 262 gs The Hodgson eating cand’ The Trompowsky’ 2.06 34 h6 4 Ruf WIGS 63 ioscan eiree roel oa el isle the pawn ef acon Sas! Ais isa pod, oid epy eS Wd87 OD cS Wile ot crt, Blck wl get a decest "renee, The ol ape at Fk ‘ofl pried and» HG eb the inne pon Bates Lies 9 a3 06 100.0 £47 Tan's big fet 60-day eating as longs is humanly possi, could only Ive been aad ofthe A, Ws Uae, Delpetbs ets cor a diaper wa sen W011 de B le 12 We3. Ques 13 Wh? + BF 14 DxeS+ fred 15 Wy6+: 11... We7 12 Wd3 y6 13 Wd2 By7 14 WES with the attack) 12 oxi “Wxfé 13 Wed Rd7 14 Dd? Bacs. Qbdz Wc7 12 Wer Ke7!? 13 Bled a6 14 Bact Sc8 15 Qb3!7 Narrly Whi coe be more gircet but Blk is chances eg. 1564 Sa 16 bl died 1) Set hee Decem enough Te Roe! GO (UR. 719 Sic} Wa 20 Meron) 1943 0s 20 4 15... W#b6 16 Rb1 Dust Hada Ten tek inthe gum. Bok's next ink siply 1 cnet tc os if fea, Ts, Hodgson hs preve 17 QxaS Bras 18 Odd Bes A eeterice it weeks 19 edt dad And 200, lack bs forced am weakness nthe Whe cap. 20 2)b3 Who 21 Sd! Hodson ie loking for a way tom prove the poston Hi tok his te faut fol: sprog ue toned wan ‘in ge u tealng he bahop 21 ed “We7 (21 .. dnb} 22 axb3 Xe?) 22 8 inb3 23 ixb3 (23 axb3 0-0 24 us 15 (24. u6 25 Wy3 Dh? 26 hd e727 bs 80 35 BN 26 iE} 38 Os, on ixb3 22 axbd dhe? 23 Red go 24 1 Looks equal but why should it be? White has two rooks im play to. Black's 25a Haat 0-0 26 g hét—the resource that Hodgson prevents in the game —27 5 xy 28 Wed Sino 29-Wshd eT 28... Was 25 0-0 26 gf? with a strong atack. 26 Band Les 27 Ee ras Noi sil he Fan starts as the xm thes avery sharp fur Tan gocs up. year and ounces that he wil igh for the inte 28 Slo e729 begs Bx f6 30 eal Debate ensued i the commentary room bout the felaive ments of ech pave cp {ure Inthe end we rejected 30 xt de to So. he 31 Bye a7! This» the hey idea 32a ie? 33 Wg7 WTS and lack Actes, 30...n4 31 Eb4 bS 32 Wed W633 go Tan Keeps his head now. Black's post tion appets almost eric, but all i nok Tosti fic, the very opposite! 33. ge 34 Wad hoe 3s Wg Wi 36 W7 WeS 37 Anger Gas 38 Bras 38... Be6? Is truly ditficlt to play chess property with the king so exposed. Even if you can't see win for the other guy, Fear often yets the better of you—especially against someone like Hodyson!—and a blunder results. This was. Black's lst shance—he had to eteate counterplay with 38... HZ, a move that seems to calch White out, eg. 39 doh] ES (39. Wb 40 Wb Bd7 $1 e8+! dined 4 Wres+ Sbdk 43 WadS+ eh 44 Wos+ as 45 Was) 40 Wxe6 (40 shad Wa 41 Wor e842 Wreer dey 43 WIT+ ho 44ixbS» Bxb5 45 Bede de? (45 shes 46 Wer.) 46 Wer! Beo=) 40... Has! 4] bl Bal 42 W15 Wx! (Black can't st back and allow White t play 4,1 move that would be winning for White—the Biack King is caught in the middle and ow White’s defending all the backrank ccheapos) 43 Wid, and White takes the perpetual. All well and good 4 few hours after the game with the reliable help of a in sidekick like Deep Fritz to cut complications. By now, how ever, the only “Usep” Tan sould call on ‘was dcep time-trouble, which explaias the is doubleedyed game. Sad, le had played so resourvefully up 39 Hast Ze7 40 gxh3t Very strong. Now, sith no thr ww his fing, Whit 40 on 10 can march te visiory 41 Eps Sed 42 ba Wc 43, Hard to imagine: but this year we also celebrate the 25" anniversary of Tony Bcitin’s first Since gaining tke tile im 1976, 1 thank he’s been about the most active GM on the sireuit wuth (if you pardon the pun) more iniles on the clock than any’ ether player ‘You name i and our Tone"s played in i His passport has got more stamps in it than a philatlist’s convention, He's been there scen it, and bought the T-shit But the British? Ah, that’s never been him, Despite being by far the top fivin the middle by his own’ standards, he's only vie failed to perform at his best; tory being at Torquay in 1982. Miles" success came at the end of the Keene-Hartston-Basmman-Whiteley gener ation, The race was on to become Britain's first GM thanks to the aid of the man who ‘saved the Spasshy-Fischer match in 1972, financer Jim Sl newly founded Slater Foun ferod a generous reward of stoverthe-board GM. For 2 ume, looked as if Bill Hartston had it in the by two in the 1972/73 Hast far the GM. tithe Necding just «half out of Harston was subs sonsciowsly putting Slater's cheque for £5000 into his bank account and thinking up witty answers 10 the many press ques- lions when tagedy struck. He foolishly fumed dows a draw against Wollgany Unlmuns in the penultimate round as he went all out for glory and the ttle im the belief he hada mating atack, Sadly, it tumed out to be nothing more than a mirage and poor Bill had the daunt ing task of facing By in the last round—and noeding, sell ta cat Dane nate. The 3y, is history Meanwhile, a new generation of English juniors, ‘identified by the likes of Bob Wade and Leonard Barden, were om the a major breakthrough: Miles, Speclman and Nunn. tn 1973, thanks again to the generous support of Slater, Miles and Stean had taken silver and bronze asspestvely behind “Big Al Belyavsky at the World Junior Charnpion- tat Teesside. Miles vowed there and thatthe following year he would Sure enough, Miles dominated the Manila the next your to tke the World Junior erowa 1'4 points clear of the field The race to become the first GM then lursed imo a tworhorse affair between Miles’ und Ray Keene; by sow Hartston had more or less given up the ghost. The torning_ point in the race came one bleak February in 1976 when Miles, totally wn Prepared, accepted. lute invitation 10 a very tough tourament in the USSR. He only just got his visa im time and headed for snowy Dubna, a scientific come near Moscow, to score a dream result with an amaving feet—the GM tile in a Soviet tournament ah TE was ineredible. At the stan of 1970, you would Rave been laughed at if you had suggested that British chess would have a player who would win the World Jofn Henderson with Julian Hodgson, who was going for a hat trick of British title wins... Junior Championship, Become « GM, snd beat household names such as Geller Bronstein, Larsen, Smysiow Spassky and Karpov was: Miles who had the last laugh: he did all of these=-and mor By 1977 his GM status was more thar confirmed with first prizes at the Amster- darn IDM and el tournaments, and sce fond prize behind Karpov at Tilbung. the first of the new series of Super grand ‘master tourmaments there. Miles had made the breakthrough and he was to become the catalyst fur what was described as The Great British Chess Exploston” when the likes of Nua, Mestel, Spelman and Shon cte made England a force 10 be reckoned with by the start of the 1980s 33 ‘the game went through a renaissance inthe UK Th his “peak years", Miles was a re= owned expert in the Sicilian Dragon but lost interest in it after some high-profile battles where he was on the wrong end of the result. With the advent of more and mone opening theory as computers came 10 the fore, he decided it was time for a change ‘and stared venturing towards some obscure systenss by the tum of the 1980s, Who else but Miles could have had the chaspah ta outplay Karpov inthe 1980 European Tear Championships with 6 in reply wo 04? The weird and the wonderful soon be came part of Miles’ opening arsenal the English Defence, the Herlin Defence, the Nimzowitsch Defence with | riby! System and the Alekhine Laurence Trent (2249) IMfize Tony Miles (2565) Black ‘Alekhine De Vel OG 28 U8 3.04 Db 4 a4 U6 exdb ead ‘A sign of the times, fn the past, ends vas regarded as Black's best option, How ever, im recent years, i's been shown that ‘Whe gets an easy game withthe stile plan of 5. cxd6 6 Bic} uh 7 Se3 de? S Eerooubs 1 Sic} Seb 7 Led Be7 83 0009 ed Bes ck has beter: 9. Res!? 1008 (10 ngs WhayS 11 2 Heke 12 Gye? dot; 10 Wd2 SixeB 11 teed Whats 12 93 WT) 10. Bee} 11 feed He8 12 of 8! and in sich case Black has more than equalized wor 1OH3!? is more dan 10. sega TT 00 dt A thematic move in sueh positions with the Alekhine: the st of the game hinges fon White's fied pain 12 65 Se8 13 3 ALIS 14 a3 6 1S bo 6-163 D8e7 17 Bad a6! 18 Stet 18 04 a3! 19S Sb 18... Wd7 19 £14 206 Wit the idea af Buiing up the pres: sute-on dl with DMS, White decides to lash ‘ut before he ets hemmed in 20 b5 a8 21 Wd axbs 22 Labs “The alternative recapture was also worth ‘considering as 66 isnot an option now: 22 Sixb5"7 Heck 23 Des (23 Ror kes! 24 Zb2 Lol) 23 .. Snes 214 Ares Dect 25 WHI (25 We? Giees 26 dees We7 27 Hel ‘Wy! 2K hl 28 LI Bes!) 28 .. eb) October 2001 CHESS $2S ... Dees (28 .. ES 26 d3) 26 dxes i hl) ene: Wht ate ces compensate for the weak pawns on Sh cS and eS: although long-term this sould prove bad for White—and, bearing in mind Miles’s endgame prowess, the youngster wisely decided ayatnt it gid ~ 06 9 AN Det 4 Dat Og6 25 rey Birses ey ray 28... dB [A ice retreat—the bishop finds a more ative diayonal on the que 26 dix A decisive mistake, White's was © go for 27 Wh2 dict 28 Be} 28 Db6? Ards 29 enb6 ds 30 Des Wi 28 .. Hab! 29 He3 bSi 30 exbo Exb6 and Black has the better of it—though no clear path 1 victory, 27... Axbi 28 Dad7 Axel 29 Dds. 29 Bret ad7 30 Baek Axes 31 R43 Bx, 29... Zua3 30 Evel dues 31 Dre Zb3 32 Oido En 33 Dd? Ros 34 14 De7 35 SLM OS 36 Ghats Gants 0-1 Round 3 ‘There's a schoo! of thought im chess that in order to be a potential GM, you need to sian as young 3s possible like Luke MeShane or David Howell, However, 1 Know for a fact that that wasn't the ease with the Seot who was one of the stars of this year's. British Championships: Kil ‘mamock’s John Shaw. Such has been his progress since he took up chess seriously, [shudder to think what would have hij pened had he learned the game at five oF Unlike the wonderful wunderkiads, John, 32, was a very late starter. He as almost 15-years-old when he leamed 19 play chess. Of course, whem he got to uni- versity he soon discovered allthis “extra” fre time on his hands and suddenly found his game coming on in leaps and bounds, Tell remember him telling ms during his first British at Plymouth 1992 that he thought he'd finally made a in chess when the managed to get a rating of 2000—and that was when he was nineteen. Leonard Barden eat your heart out! He's what we'd most definitely call a “late stare may be young at heart, but to make the top these days i's practically unheard of if someone stars out in chess so late in life as John has He struggled (boy, did he strugule) to finally get his IM ttle just over two years age. Achieving his fist GM nom has proved just as hand, He missed out by half point at fast year's Istanbul Olympiad 6 CHESS October 2008 and Groningen 1999 (where he totally 0 played the highly-rated 2600+ Viadimir Epishin). He's also missed out by a point inthe last iso Cappelle-la-Grande tour: coine his way in the future if he tain this sort of form? Hee came so close to first norm at Seat= borough and sensationally led outright ly all the top players and had 6°8, defending solidly when necessary, and Punishing those thar averreached in an of fort to win, Tony Miles sory nearly fell {nto this category extly on. ohn Shaw (2478) thie ‘Tony Mites (2565) Black Pribyl Variation 1 ef db 244 20663 3 6 ‘The Czech or Priby! Variation, Popul rised by Czechs like Viastimil Jans and, oF course, not forgeting Mr Pribyl himself, 4 (4 Has 505 Des oWO ‘This isthe erunch line for Black, 6 md 87 203 BY Now here's a turtup for the book: Scoilana’s national youth coach comes up agains an ineresting new ides, pioneered ‘on the Intemet Chess Clb by one of Sot land's youn hopefuls for the fatare, Joe Redpath! In his notes 19 the postion on ihe ICC, Redpath sates, “one ef ry ther ciical novels, which I think keeps the Whole opening alive for Black ™ Be ees Bit 3c idea ofthe gambit is rap develop- rent: 9 dLxed dyed 10 Wed + eU8" (10 Ber bY Op! Bes? 12 De5e4) 1 WG3 (IT ©13 GES 12 We2 tbs 13 Wa2 Ec8+ 14 ‘bf Od7 15 Eel Exel 16 Qxel Dbo. with “good. peospevts—White's postion lacks coordination.) 11 65 12 Wal iso and Black has stong compensation for the pawn? bisiorpain, efile for the rooks arid the easier development of the Pieces 9... xd2 10 xd? Wor? 16 6 is more common here. How- ever Siles decides to ty and complicate the postion inorder o pay fr the win 11 Whs+ Gd8 12 OF! Wab2 13 a3! Ws Black does have a very interesting con= ion: 13... £d6!? 14 Bes!? (14 y3 1S Whel is the game) 14 .. fxes 15 }+ Be? 16 Wry? BiB 17 Bho) Weal 18 Hxal ef 19 Be? Dna 20 Wxh7 Qd7 and is nt all hat easy for White to make Iwogress wih the wo Ringside passed pawns i 14 hel dG 15 53 WeT Miles has to stop Shaw's queen intirat= ing the Black defences with 16 Zeit ‘The threat of doubling rooks on the e= file—with the idea of Hes+—3s deadly ‘Again, Miles has to make another unusual 16... W47 17 act e7 ‘The ownright audseious 17 ts to be dooried: 17 xa3! 18 hg Whs (18 e719 BES Was 20 Axed shxc8 21 Gyo Bus 22 Bere she7 23, DerdS4! ed 24 Do7e she? 25 GIS wine thingy 19 @ndst (19 WT WaT 20 Whs ‘WhS 21 WT Wor 22 Whsey 19" Rd7 19. exd5 20 fxdS+ WaT 21 Bast b6 22 Waa} Qe6 23 eb! with a big advan- Tage) 20 Oxf gxfB (20... Abi 21 cB abxc3+ 22 xc} pnt 23 WF she? 24 WET with a decisive advantage), Wes 18817 Bar 19 aan? we? 2 winnang 18 ha bs axa 19 Aabst? Looks effective, but docs. Shaw have betier? Well, yes: Miles should have been dead and buried with 19 got hxgs (19... Ey8 20.Ge7! Dds (20 . Heb? 21 Dexds+ grdS 22 SixbS+ b6 33 Eae8).21 Wah7 Wud 22 D6! easily winning) 20 Was Brad 21 dings bs 22 Les! (The move rnissed by Shaw as he tried to calculate all the myriad complications.) 22. Was 23, HeTs! Axc7 24 Kxe7r dp6 25 kh5 WS 26 Wid8+ a6 27 Des! and White's ‘nating 19 we dena 19" exb52 20 He?! Bre? 21 Bac? Bas Qi. Wae7 22 Dade has 23 Dxc7 xc 24 Dyo+ hyo 25 Weis seb 26 Wag?+ 217 27 Wh and Black's paral: ysed.) 22 GixdS+ 47 23 GUS! Ges 24 Bg?! winning. 20 Ord WrdS 21 Wards exds 22 Bxa3 ded6 23 Zac ‘White's just going to double rooks on the seventh to good effect.23. Deb 24 eb Hreb 28 Be7 BoB 26 BIT a8 27 Bec7 af 28 el a3 29 Lb1 29 2.7? ae! 30 cbt Baa7 31 Exar 6 32 Be7 dhe 29. ab 30 Ec7+ &b6 31 DIS Rebs 32 Ged GaSe 33 dad shad M4 Oras Ebr 35 Gal Bek 36 De3+ In time-touble, Shaw misses his chance: 36 te?! Hob 37 c3+ has (37 bt $3 Diy 38 Hes ba 30 Dai 36... h4 37 BdS+ ad 38 Ded+ And naturally again: 38 Bfe7# wins. Un~ fortunately Shaw had very litle time left and took the rpstition. 38 oe bd 39 QUS+ Yo-V4 Peter Wells (2510) Wire Craig Hanley (2278) Black Slav Defence Idd d5 2 64663 OD Dfe4 G3 dred 5 ad SIS 6 De5 Clbd7 7 Orcs WET 8g 059 dueS Ores 10 £64 D107 ‘This is line that was thoroughly tested during the Alekhine-Euwe World Chan pionship matches of 1935 and 1937. Al- though Black 1s solid, i's thought that White holds the upper hand due’ to the better devetopment, 1 ig? £6 12 00 Des Coming mote up to date, this is the Mo~ rozevich tecatment—the exciting young Russian has had many entertaining games with this variation, 13 De3 seo 14 bs Zs is Wi ‘Anand-Morozevich from WAZ 2000, sontinusd: 15 We? O26 1605 Obs 17 Wek Bes 18 Bad 040 19 Ged Hat 20 Bad) ds 21 Gieds exdS 22 Eads Deas 23 Wad5+ Gh8 24 €B and Anand had ‘enough for the dra. 15... Dab 16 DS OBE 17 bres bres 18 The big difference berween WI and We2—White has the cefile for the rook for the queen. 18 ., eS! 19 Bxc$ WeS 20 Ga! cSt (20... Bead? 21 Rxco+! 17 [21 .. he? 22980711] 22 Brad Hos 23°We2 Axa? 24 Wrads 47 25 Bd) de? 26 Ba, threar- ning Exe? and forking with 0t3+, 26 tS (26... Dhe8 27 Ba!) 27 Baa with a big plus) 31 Qiabs exb4 2 Rebs O47 23 od dheS wih chances for bath sides, 19 Spst Wa7 20 at Wics 21 Das Be$ 22 Dred 22 suneS!? tres 23 Qac6 Rd + (23. Qxc6 24 GOS Bx 25 Arco eT 26 fe} witha big pluc) 24 Gixdl WET (24... ixcb 25 WBS!) 25 EIxds Axb4 26 Lek 36.27 G3 and White has enough for a ‘winning advantage. 22 an Badl+ 23 Wxdl Wae6 24 Eel A625 Dek Da? 26 Zal cd The smoke has finally cleared and it looks as though Black is he is going 10 27'Wel2 Wed! 28 Rre$ freS 29 Wd ef The only move, 29... 7 30 Wd7+ 1 31 Sed red 32 fhe} Dred+ 33 bhi Bel 34 Wdsy 7 35 Sb! wins instant 30 WoR+ Ld8 31 Bes+ IT 32 ed Wad IF Wadd eens 4M ua 38 xef 38. £067 Wells thought he would be hard pushed to win afier the more accurate 35... Bes! 36 a3 (36 1 Qxi3 37 ext Bxe} 38 xe iG; 36 DIS Sint 37 Aat5 €5 38 Bet e739 RoI g6=) 36... g6= ‘36 ZbI Beh 37 ed Just one inaceurate move with 6, and suddenly Black's fighting a losing bate. 37 eg8 38 3! ‘The bishop dominates the board from —why movi? 38 ., Za8 39 ZD6 dB 40 557 Ze8 41 ide Has 42 OB! 96 43 Ed7 gS A hs Bre8 45 ngs OB Black has 100 many endgame weak= nesses, 6 de BOG 47 aS gat 48 Za7 Bis 49 Bras 4 50 gad Bald $1 es ‘BO7 52 SS a7 $3 28 tT $4 itd D7 586 RDAs 56 eS 1-0 Round 4 Murray C1 Rishard ‘Sicilian Defence LeteS 23 Avcommon way of playing the Grand Prix Antack these days a it avoids the Tat Gambit with 2 .. d3—firt played by the ‘maestro against ill Hariton at Tallinn 1979=a line that took al the fun out of the GPA with Larsen original? 14, 63146-4000 27S het “The veriaton has proved the or rei ien ver the years—especially with lower. ‘ited piyers It's the Toute one 10 gol technique. 18 followed by Wel-ht, With ‘nat te ollow! eb 600 667 dd Oger 8 Wet ho By delaying esting, Palser hopes to take wie ofthe sting aut of he Whi Wack. 8 0-0 9 5! isnot exactly a forced ‘it fr White, bt ae ls ‘etending for lack very, very eek game ae 90-0 oF usually seen here 10 Sad exdd 11 Qe2 aS Premature ack would have been ‘much better keeping his options open: 11 0-0 12 Qb3 (17 Wha?! Deo 13 Wed GaS=) 12. 6-13 of B47! and Black's going 10 get good counterplay on the ‘queenside with ideas like bS, 12 &b3 0-0 13 Rat! Geo a4 snd ‘Was? Black's problem is how 10 complete his development with the problem bishop on e8? Therefore, he should have played 4 aS! 15 af (1S Bad Wot: 15:1577 afl) 1S-~ b6 16 ex (16 2 dacs 17 duct 6 and Black's generating good, astive ly Rims) 6 ds, 17g wet 18 del @e7! 19 WI Leo 20 gi WaT 21 'n3 ae8 and he's still in this game with « rock-solid position, 18.8! 26 is the only moves White's got all his pieces on the best ‘squares, and now Inunches a brutal assault ‘with ammove that cuts Black in half 1S ex Black's best now was a piese sac for an impressive looking pawn chain: 15 Axed? 16 £6) 63 17 fay xg? 18 el 19 c3 (19 Wh 05 20 63 (4 and Black has serious compensation) 19 .. eS 20 exdd 20 Wes 141) 20... cade 21 Eaxasi? Brad 22 fixes Qxb3 23 Weds, a nasty litle in termerzo, 23 .. ih (23. WG 24 Wxb3 6 25d) 24 Wxb3 and Black still has many problems 10 solve du to the lack of development: 24 .b6 (24. £425 42 a5 36 Ruel!) 25 Bdel* deo (25... Rb7 26 Bet WaT (26 ... Was? 27 Ber? hs 27 ‘. BS 28 Hxb7!) 28 Wed!) 27 d4 dS 238 Wh3 We7 29 D9 Back 30 Les withthe better prospects.) 26 ficS! Wxe5 27 Exes sand Whites much beter. Vs exdS e717 bd WAT 18 ef ducd 19 Gixe3 Be8 20 Lad Ancd 21 Axed Palliser can’t prevent WeS mating with: ‘gut dropping serious material 216303 Qaxd5 (21. Wd6 22 Rxc8 wins) 22 ‘eis! 1 October 2001 CHESS 7Jonathan Rowson White Tony Miles Black Round Five, British Championship, ‘Searborough 2001 Ruy Lopez (Notes by GM Jonathan Rowson) Web eS 2B D6 3 Lbs Lif 4 0-0 Dred $d4 Zid6 6 Bes dacs 7 dxes DIS 8 Wadse dexd8 9 Ge3 Bd? It's hard enough to understand this vari ation in general terms, but making sense of countless wrinkles is extremely taxing Black sometimes puts the king on ¢8, sometimes on 8,_ Sometimes he plays aS, sometimes .. bd. He can play ..R6 or AS, ..0e7-26 is quite common too, and _.03 offen happens when you least ex: pect it. Although | have had some success against Tony in this line before, I was not ‘entirely chuffed to see it again because in that game (Redbus KO 2000) | pounced ‘on an inaccuracy and seized the initiative stand these positions and he understands them as well as anyone in the warld, with the possible exception of Kramnik Black's 9th move looks decidedly odd surely the bishop should be on e6, £5 or 4? Indeed, i is basically because of this Piece that Black allowed his pawns to be omupted and king to be misplaced. How ver the prolate is just « guest on d7, and has bigger plans forthe funae, The rain priity 4 (0 improve the King’s postion Ind Black hopes to do this with ~ wic8, ‘band ...707. My impression isha ths Sppeoach 1s By far the most problematic far White because in many of the games in which White has had success inthis ine, has been the result of whipping up some heats aginst an avhvar-onking King one’ 10 Zd1 ces 11 Des Leko had some suecess with this ap- proach against Kramnik s0 1 desided 10 five ita try. Black's bishop is further mi placed and tne White Fpawn is fee to ad ance. The down side ofthis move is that White loses some control over the di square Ve eB 12 3 White etn try to do without this, but he tas to be ready to mest 5, threatening 12... b6 13 br Gb7 14 Hd3 Be7 18 ‘Dged Hes 16 Sad Se ‘A good move and a big improvement over Leko-Keumaik, Budapest 2001 Which went 16 xa 17 sa h52t 19 Ast! (ining gS) when White took ‘control ofthe game, Thad along think bere because | wasn't sure what to-do now that Tam fully 8 CHESS October 2001 ‘mobilised, Ihave choice berwcen a quick but somewhat reckless advance. of my Kingside pawns Benning with go pay f4 followed by 72 and hope that someth~ ing tums up; ty ta being my €3 knight to ffland Titer vith intent af playing <6 or try fo provoke hs and make use ofthe g3 square 'm sill not sure which ofthese ts best and I suspect that White has no ad aiage bare 17h 17 4 This is cial and worth a close look: Black sem tobe fine ‘17 -- Bed8! worried me because | could see's nasty pin with». g6 coming, but ts probably beter not vo help White ontel the thied rank inthis way. 18 x3 Set 19 Fi hs 2083 I (Tony pointed out tht Black should delty hag to avoud fy Dh resources) 21 ext ext (his felt shite scary, but | suppose there's no rea: som why White should be worse) 22 0! (Gm important move =f fe quite @ major vicakness) 22» xg 23. heed gh 24 Bg} 15 (4. ys 23 15 Bho docsnt look rich beter) 25 ext8 Hag} 26 Ong and White probably win b) 17 Gh 18 Bede (esos) I) 19 617 20 ex gf 21 f4 Rs 22 Hg) (5.23 guts Bagh 24 xg) a7 and fot only #8 Black not worse, but by Keeping the hrpawne (retaining fom. s)he as changes to better. 62) 19, WS 20 h3 Sig6 (20... 16 21 xf guts 2 £4 gh 23 Ba3 haps 24 hogs £5 25 gals Kag+26 ough dl eaual) 21 Geo ings 22 ings 7 23.) sah 24 Hy? Heh 25 (6 10 may look good for Back but tht not he ate ater 26 ex Exot 27 15 Ges 28 fag? ie 29 Gh He$ 30 Zigi Bixgi 31 dexgl when White appears o be sinning The minor allemativey we not encouray ing ete 17 4S 18 8 a?. There a big danger of drifting for White here While Black can pt is bishop on 6 and srt thinking about how to advance the Gqucenside pawns 17 Qed c3! 18 8 eo 19 as nds 20 Baas Dust 21 Haas xg 22 dads Budd 73 Beds cx 28 4 ‘a7 and Black is beter. 17 AS 18 Let Following Leko, but now that Black is covering d¥ and I've weakened my src. ture with My the idea loses almost al fis sting " dB 19 243 = Had} 19 End ha 20 gs Zs “Tony played this rather quickly, and | suddenly saw a possibility which I thought Fhe had overlooked. However, there was something 10 be said for not yielding ts fsmptation here because the esuliing posi ions are not in my favour. That sad, | felt the need of something a little radical be- «cause there is some danger that | could ber fone worse now as my positon is ‘otherwise running out of steam. NER? 21 4 47. Tony poimed out that he ‘was now threatening to move his bishop, away and make my bishop on 5 look a litte silly. assumed he meant 10 £8, when his rook seems to Fook equally silly, but of ‘sourse—if you know Tony's style—he meant a3 after which his bishop 1s quite happily looking at the 1 square and his rook can look vaguely useful on e8, 22 se? 02 bP bas) 22. Oxct 23.2 “LIS 24 ed hs. Etink Black is some ‘what better here because I have no con- siructive pln while Black can ty to play 5 and bring hs king to of and perhaps bishop te gb and the ly BS 21 ~. dst? is more shocking that ef fective and White is beter afer 22 dine? Dxet 23 6! Dae) 24 ent? Saxt7 25 BX. 22 xeT Oxti+ 23 prt Bes On arrival, | realised that ny assessment of this position had been rather superficial knew that | would have a choice of tak- ing on band allowing him to play 1, Eel and Zel, winning the €2 paun, of put the bishop on gS oF a intending 10 fover el, oF sneak in to #8 and hope 10 Cause some trouble. However, in all eases Black has absolutly nothing 10 worry about. “AS Tony. put it 10. me, hall jokingly. “Well, “talk to, your pieces Whieh of them is happy?” and of course fone of them are. He also made the ob- Servation that my knights can make very litle headway against his qucenside pawn ‘ass hile all of my pawns are vulncr- able. Moreover, his took and bishop have excellent scope. So it doesnt Took too ood, but the materialist inside me as- sumed that 1 coulda't really be much worse with ro pisces for a rook—and so played the least dynamic of my choices and offered a draw, 14 as? This makes things worse, but my posi tion is already dificult and given dt | thought 21 BP would give me the advan 61 found it hard wo adapt. (@) 24 dixhal. However much activi this gives him, is elearly an important pawn to remove, 24.15 (28... hs!” 1143 Exh is also better for Black, accor: ing to my distinguished opponent, but clearly this is «bi improvement on the game for White because the scope of Black's ook thas been reduped and i's ‘more dificult for him to over-setch my rminor pieces) 25 y5 (25 2g3"| barely considered this oddTooking, move but it Sgens to work quite well eg 28. HeS 26 ged 65? 27 b4 Hes 26 eT. Creal is 25". Hel+ 26 sg? Het but White has sounier shanees.afier 27 Qxf3).25 Bel+ 26 de? Hel 27 e219 Bac. | re- member losing a game on the white side of the Berlin to Jonathan Parker i 1993 in Which of some moment I gave him. the pawn in retum for some sort of activity or Convenience. When Mark Hebden later asked me about the game he said someth- ing like: “Oh no! NOt the €2 pawn, anj- thing but the €2 pawn” and indeed, after this poes Black often has an overwhelmingquecnside. 28 Sd 6! 30 Dg? a7 31 6 a5 32 {5 unt 33 2iafS Hb? 34 Get Bxb3 35 or Us! and Black is winning 24 Ags (3.28 ts Leb 26 Gigs Zels 27 eg) a! This is faicly typical posi- tion for this line asa whole and although it may look about equal, Tony fel that ‘White was almost lost. The main reason is that simply ean’t do anything constrc= tive, but this is compounded by an inactive king and a vulnerable qusenside 24 LIS 25 Bag? (25 Sigs Bel 26 shy? u6) 25 He? Bo hfs 217 27 daha fae 26 fred. If White could take control here he would be better. but Black has the sreatest weapon in chess" namely the next move, 28 .. HIS! 29 @c2 (29 @b1 ZC!) 29... Le! and Blick takes control 24 28 2ig8 Bel+ 26 sop? eB 27 4 bst Just in time, 27. eos 28 £8 bs 29 S12 Bhi 30 y2 Bel 31 WH allows White hold 28 axes [realised now that I was probably losing 9 Uhod a close look at 28 13 ba 29 Bhi 30 hy? Bet 3) de Ber 32 ds U7 33 Qxb4 ends 34 nbs which is @ long forsing tine leaving Black with a difficult task ahead. However, given that if all the pawe comes off Iam losing (this often surprises people, but its theoretical ‘win worth knowing about—just play around with the pieces for @ while and you'll see that the six picses ending is ‘Completely one-sided because the defender wdequately control the squares of the ‘opponent's bishop), I didn't feel to0 com fortable here. The thought of being mated in the seventh hour with H+2fopp) v SRiopp}+@ was far from inconceivable fan even further from pleasant, AW the sare. this scers to xive me better draw ing chances than | had in the game. B, Le6+ 2918 39 BB? docsn't look prety in general, but 29... e6! is quite # neat way to ex- plot the pin immediatly 2. Bel ‘My position is alot worse than it looks, and it doesn't even look very good. All my pawns ane weak, my king 1 bad and my pieces don’t coordinate. It was time to put the theory of infinite resistnce into act Gee chapter 3 of The Seven Deadly Chess ‘Sins), though 1 must admit that | didn't ‘hold our much hope at this stage. ‘30- dub Be2+ 31 gt ‘A difficult decision because the king ‘wants to hold back Black's potentially lethal qucenside pawns and hold onto the h pawn. In some ways i's pty he's not a queen! 31-1 67" For some reason ths idea of putting the king on b6 and playing aS really troubled me but ¥ didnt calculate the consequences very wel. 32 Deb xt. 1 think 1 stopped here in my head and made an emotional assessment based. on Some vague patteen of dangerous h pavin, rook on Ze rank combining with nast bishop, Fair enough if it was. Bla move, but I'm increasingly realising that chess is mostly « question of seeing ‘the ext move” and one should always try 0 look deeper before reaching an. asses somont 33 da! Ay? 34 Gagl BED 35 isfS ah3 (BS oe D6 36 Gia Las 37-18) 36 @xha and White. should survive. 3H. aT! Threatening eS and bs. 32548 ‘A. vaguely: suggestive knight hop 10 tickle his nervous system 32... xa? 33 08! it seemed to be worth winning 2 kings side pawn of to, if unl) to give his something to worry about 38...a8 Mi ding? Ba? ‘Aliiough Black #s probably stilt win- ‘ing afer this, fel a glimmer of hope, 34 Bias 35 bf axbe 36 Sbxba 5 37 OA5 bd iooks much more convincing. Two con- nected passed pawns are usually more than twice as good as one passed pawn, 35ST b7 36 Deb eS This could perhips have waited, 1s the sort of move yeu play when you haven yet decided on your winning pian 36. 4 37 bxad bund 38 TT 03 39 bel Bh2 40 Qahs 9? 41 go al We 42 Bal Bh + 43 Gd) Baal leaves White ‘with some drawing chances, bur it Fels as if Black should get there in the end. 1 uess he wanted 10 force resignation be- fare the rime contro. avant On seeing the necessity of this move, 1 did rather wonder about the wisdom of my 31st move, but in the given postion it gguod by fare est sans of soning i. 37... 4 38 baad bag 39 cel Asef gain ofa tempo whieh should not have been allowed 39. Bh? 40 Lis! ‘A wood 40th move, forcing hit to make a diffcult dscision before the time contr 40...04 Stil winning, but my bishop was pleased to see the a3 square and my king fancied his chances of holding the pawn, 40. oib6 looks more promising, for snarnple: 41 Qed eB 42 Re? BOS 43 @ylT a3 44 Dados has 45 fo a2 46 D3 ca! 47 @)x04 dhab and Black wins casi 41 bal Abs? Tony couldn't explain this move, He wanted 10 play c3 followed by Abs but Somehow got his moves the wrong, way round. 41 =, «3,42 ibd c2+ 43 set dS 44 Qixhd (44 Des RA and L won't be able to stop his h pawn) 44... 3 45 a3 This 46 he? Dal + 47 ed els 48 Bret Bxcl+ 49 Exe a3 and the {nights look on in shame: 2 bse This looks lke salvation, but infact iis only Black's next move which fully lets ‘me off the hook Rob? 4200 431? 43 xa cd 44 Deol (4s ‘Lb looks better until you see 44... Bade 45 bel He2+!; similarly, 44 Qehd @a3! 45 bel Hes 46 chal HOH 44. Behd 45 Esha Eichs 46 a2c2. Black now has to Work very hard to win and even then it may not be possible because there doesn’t seem to be a way to prevent my king from. y to oS unless he lets ene Keep my £ pavers, (2) 46, BU? 47 de} Bel 48 Oat 3+ 49 db? a7 (49. 3") 50 do ‘bo 51 e2 with good drawing chances, (b) 46... e647 Sic} xB. White cannot defend this position passively eg veith King on ¢3, knight on d6, bishop on 5 because Black will graduaiy infirate tnd force zigeweng, but by attacking the Fpawn it looks like Black can be. pre vented from seizing the intatve, 48 at ho6 49 es des 50 Date a $1 bs hl 52 G6 Hdl. Back still has practical chanées, but think White should hold #3203 Bb3 de Tony somchow — hallucinated and thought my king could only come to 42.1 left the board now and. teaised that 1 should star thinking about adjusting tothe possibilty of winning this game. Tony thought for about twenty minutes before xiving me the option of a theefold rept tion and during that time I couldn't quite seo my way through the complications £9 playing on would definitely have meant “playing for 3 result’. 1 was pleased 1 lave clawed back half « point and afer ‘hinking for about half am hour, | desided otro push my luck “ 44°" 43 45 x6! seems to be winning for White. #5 Gb? b3+ 46 died Bad 47 be 47 Ghd BOT! (47 Has 48 1 Ha3!? is algo possible) 48 Oy6 (48 02 Rb3+ 49 Sed a3) 48 Rade 49 SOE £Ba3! looks like Black's best, when T again have the option of repesting. It looks as though | should tke this time Because the rook on 3. plus the a pawn is deadly combination, (49... Bh? $0 es Abs 1 Deo Haid 52 Sat b6 53 Oats is a least not worse for White) 50 2 (50 Bhd Lb3+ $1 er a3 is beter for Back.) 50... Had $1 61 Ha3 and | shink White should consent 19 a draw with $2 bed Maybe I should have tied this though be- cae Tony was obviously upset for hav ing messed things up, and may. have overplayed his ind. In any case, 1 was pleased to put an end to this exiemely Complex game which contained lets of ine teresting teas. vie October 2001 CHESS 9Round 6 Now I"ve been corning tothe British for ‘more years than | care 1 remember—OK, since 1979 at Chester. And believe me, Scottish winners have been far and few be- tween. In fact, you need to go back SS-years to 1946. im Nottingham for the last Scot to win she British crown—and ‘even then they didn’t particularly want to let him int In that first post war championship, ‘whieh featured the likes of Alexander, Broadbent, Golombek, Wade and Winter, all past or future British Champions, the ‘Seottish nominee 10 play, Elgin lawyer Rober Forbes Combe (relatively unknown in England and elsewhere for that matter) ‘was initially refused entry as the orga nsers believed "he wasn't trong enough Now there may have been « kemel of ‘rath in that statement. Afterall, wasn't he the same R.F.Combe that holds (and stil docs if you are interested!) the record for the shortest loss—four moves, sad with ‘White!—in an Olympiad? RECombe White V.Hazentuss Black Folkstone Olympiad, 1933, Sicilian Defence (by transpositions 1d 82 eb exdd 3 BO 8 resolved on the eve of ps by William Fairhurst, the then godfather of Scoitsh Chess and famed bridge designer, who succesfully appealed 10 the organising commit, wouching for Combes character and play ing strength. Nevenheless it was only the last minute that Combe was allowed to take part and, against all the odds, duly justified his inclusion by bringing the he {wo Scotland! Nine yeats, but only wo championships, after Faishursts pre-war win in 1937. Sadly, Combe was plagued by ilheatih throughout his shor life and the died just few years ater Could Combes’ surprise success be c- peated 55 years on? Our no.| player Jone than Rowson fel back carly in the second week with couple of uncharacteristic losses. Bu there was stil hope: John Shaw as plying the tournament oF His ie and, ater the following win over Hebden atthe nd of the first week, started a magnificent run which atone stige, as he hogged the top board, looked as if it would result in win ofthe tile and the the £10,000 fist prize. Unfortunately the Scottish bubble ‘as burst in dh ninth-when be faced Jos Gallagher 10 CHESS October 2001 Stil, for afew rounds it looked as if we were going to see that long-averdue Scot lish victory. ‘Mark Hebden (2550) White ohn Shaw (2478) Black Slav Defence 144.45 2€4 €6 John Shave likes to play simple chess — especially with “Black—and the Slav Defence is a good choice for this. 3.00 264 3 gd Shs dnt 6 WoO £67 D3 Ohd7 § Ad? Ad69 pat? Not so much a TN, more a. TM: Tony Mies! Tony fist ce up wih his ue sressive move Four years ago in Germany. 9. WG 104 WeF 11 gS Det This nullfes White's aggressive thrusts ‘on the kings, 12. Det 12 gxhor @ixd2 13 sera? Baho 14 exd5 exd5 15 hS 16 and Black is much better: control of ef, andthe hS weakness 12. dyed 13 Wye brgS 14 hag cnt 15 Want Biygs 16 0-0-0 0.0.0 17 fe Whi has a small plus from the opening but, against correct play, nothing realy to ‘work on. Hoping to bet the leading pack decisive second week, too hard for a win 17... 16 18 £3? a5 Bg8 followed by g5, and Black's OK. 18... Re? 19 ed Wer! ‘The reason for this nie ite eteeat will soon become evident. 20h3 D6 21-A Here iti: 21 37 Wa3+ 22 @b1 Dect! and suddenly Black's ontop. 21. dibs 22 Wy gt Easy cyuality: White should really be thinking by now of conceding that the game should be drawn, but instead he cot tines 10 overpress 13 Gags Kespig te gues on singly asia all of Black’s pgees: 23 fhg8 gS 28 03 HixgS 25 We2 e5! 26 04 exdd 27 xcs ‘Bc5 and Black's better. 23... WrpS 24 fags Hp 28 d3 Bags 2G Bhd Leh 37 ob 27 Eh7 looked much better, but Black's OK: 27 15 28 Be? Hg6 and following ideas like 8, Bg} and ng 3. gS 28Za1 press fr the win as he has the bishop pa: 28 be? Zg2+ 29 b3 Hy 30 Be? (30 “be? Hyde) 20... ha7 31 Hh? e7 and White's never going to organise a break through—Black's to ste. 28. 293 29°¢S Atte! 30 a2 30 shh} Dats) 30... Bd?! 31, Had? 7°32 b4 (32 Ed? Sind? 33 cbxd? oS!) 32 8 33 d5 Dio 34 neo (34 de bo! 35 exbo (35 Hed Axa 36 end? bxcS 37 byes O47 38 ‘Lu 08! wins cS—and d6!) 35... axbs- 36 a4 eS and Black wins a pawn.) 34 bbxe6 35 the? ind? 36 bad? aS 37 03 axbd 38 axb dhe 29... BP 30 hed O47 31 Ebr Bese S2abbi Laz 33 2 de? M405 Her ssi To keep any som of advange Hebden had to play 35 Bilt Hel (35 ... ie3 36 ic} Br2 37 Bxt2 xf? is much the same.) 36 xe! Sxe} 37 Sh? hd8 38 Med he? and | can't see any conclusive icathrough for Whie. 39 2i3 G30 cb bon: 39 aiic$! a0 dves gy 39 ky 40.54 B64) ANS (42 oxid Of 4D AD td6~ 35 .. BM 36 a} e337 Ge? BM 38 Edt Ge8 39 dS e$.40 Shi Add! 41 Let? It was time to finally admit that be had nothing cus Al xd Bad 42 BAS de? 43 Bh7 HP 44 dxc6 tres 45 Sb2>. Az GhS+ WeT 43 do+ hbo 44 45 He8 Ef 46 dad 263 4707 ‘Exel+ 48 Ga2 Qrd7 49 Axd7 Ered 50 ‘Gb3 S64 $1 bs Add Sx Res I+ 53 E28 $4 Zab Od Although Scarborough is over_cighty miles from the traditional Bronté Country im the Pennines in Yorkshire, it's the fil resting place of easily the most famous person 10 die here (though | have heard that some of the entertainers haven't done too well during the notoriously tough summer season); novelist Anne Bronte, she of the lesser-known works Agnes Gray and The Tenant of Wildell Hull ‘Ac the tender age of 28 in 1849, Anne, the youngest of the Bronté brood, visited her favourite seaside town with Charlotte, of Jane Eyre fame, in tow. Desperately il with consumption, she hoped the seu at would do her some good, but just days ito the visit she died and her yrave—still beautifully Kepi—can be seen inthe churchyard of St Mary's, just below Sear ‘borough's farnous caste ‘A sad story. But at least she does have an official yrave that ean be visited—un- like the strong 19th century player Cecil Valentine De Vere, who died tragically young of the same illness (only too eon mom in those days) in. 1875 just five days short of his 30° birthday én another Eng- lish seaside resort at the opposite end of the country.LONDON CHESS CENTRE VISIT US AT GET YOUR COPY OF OUR SHOP ONLINE AT CHESS AND BRIDGE FREE CATALOGUE & CALL US WWW.CHESS.CO.UK THE LEADING CHESS SOFTWARE AND COMPUTERS, THE NEWEST BOOKS, AS WELL @S CHESS SETS, BOARDS, CLOCKS, STATIONERY AND SCOREBOOKS CONTACT US TODAY TO RECEIVE A FREE COPY OF THE NEW CHESS CATALOGUE 2001. Chess & Bridge Ltd - 369 Euston Road London NW1 3AR Tel: 020 7388 2404 Fax 020 7388 2407 Email: [email protected] WWW.Chess.CO. UKFew documented fiets are known about his private life, beyond, sonically, the ei cumstances of his death and funeral Though even here, as our diligent press offiger Bob Jones discovered just two years ago during the British: Champion Ships in Torquay, mysteries remain He decided thi there shouldbe « book wetfen on De Vere and, withthe collabor~ ation of Owen Hindle, who coincidently had is best result of second equal in the Batish Championships in 1964 Just 4 few miles up the coast at Whitby, bas sched tule it for publication in October. Infact the 1Wo authors et fr the fest fime during the British in Searboroush (the wonders of modem eehnology*) and gave me a sneak preview of the book. Maybe next year, when the British Chant ptonship retums to Torquay, more fucts will have come 10 player White Matthew Turner (2511) Bluck Tronepowcsky Ariack 1 dd Gif 2 £95 Olet 3 O18 6S 48 WaS+ $B DIG Gas WET Lel 6B end 9 xd?! ‘A curious move—first played by Kochiev against Gurevich back in 1984 th tries to unbalance the position, The big ica is to activate the dark-squatod bishop on the cS-u diagonal Wed eS 112! 0-0 12 Led do 13 Ded Oha7 4 Obed Ges 18 Das od 16 b3 Dred 17 bred Waed 1 acs Wes 19 Risky. Very risky. Either Tumer has prepared this (doubtfal), or he's confused the move order of another Hodgson game (more likely) against Wells _ from Copenhagen 1996, that went 19. e8 20 Bel us 21 Qi Whe 22 Ws bs 23 axb3 sd 24 ZaS ob 25 of ic? 26 ExuS+ and White's marsinally beter. 200413 Wad 21 04 Was 22 a2 Bhs 22We2 eB 404 | wonder why Hodgson ruled out the active 24 EhDI? It seems to lead 10 the ‘ort of position he usually revels ns 24 MBI!) Wet (24. Web 25 deny Hac 26 rod Sineds 27 aby! Oxy 28 bd ES 29 We3! Sc6 30 Hel and Blick's in trouble.) 25 ib Wes 26 dixys dS 27 Wb? ‘dxo4 28 Bel and White's ready to-come in forthe kill, 2. WhOt 28 Led Was 26 ha 12 CHESS Qctaber 2001 John Shaw came close to becoming the first Scot in 55 years to win the British Championship 2600 et? Purely speculative. But what can Black do? Advancing the gepawn would have been bette, but docsn’t give Black any respite: 26 527... Od?? 26 Wes 16 29 D4 Bes 30 45) 26 Wel! (28 Wb2 7 29 As Deb 3013 Woe! 31 Wado axb6 32 Oxc6 Axed 33 Afb=) 28. Wael (28... WUE 29 Wel Se7 3 Weal) 29 hxc! Be? 30 DE and White has good prospects of winning despite still boeing a pawn down. How does Black cat ete his developenent and defend against hs? 27 Wh? Dred 28 feed Ered 29 WS xb 30 axbs eh 31 Seb hs 32 EhhI Bac8 33 Bhel a7 34 td Lal 35 OahS Ede6 36 Laa7 Bnet 37 Exel Brel 38 exe! This isn't easy. but Hodgson shows reat technigue 38... SHY 39 D4 eT 40 Led Leb 41 a2 Ga7 42 ed Met 43 Het Heo 44 Be} ADL 45 Ded ads 46 bd ABE AT g) Add 48 Dae ds 49 des Ag 50 £4 des SI Ab3+ dds $2 Das ho 83 yr fo $4 sibd ES $8 Drdo Lad So b§ 87 Gat Led $8 Qrbs a3 59 Te Gd4 60 De8 £8 61 Odo LAS 62 <4 [Black can't defend f8 in the long run: 63 Qed Rad 64 Dede sho (64. od 65 ib and White heads unchallenged 19 £6 Win eSdb6rc7-16) 65 shud 3-66 bes B42 67 Gg? 203 68 QI e7 69 Bhs $d6 70 Sie Bad 71 LoS + the7 72 O43 and White gets 10 #4 vine}. 1-0 Round 7 With his favourite bS against Chas Ward's Sicilian, Shaw took the sole lead in the tournameen with an impressive win over the 1996 Champion, Joba Shaw White Chris Ward Black Sicilian Defence 1 ef s 2 2B do 3 Aps+ Sa7 4 Aad7+ Hrd Sc4 Seo nthe pawn is Jong-nown to be Wet?" 600 Bred Tt xd 8 6 9 Bel Wed 10 Bat» WaT 1) Died eS 13 Sigs e714 Bodl 0-0 15 xf gn 16.65 96 17 Dido Web 18 Dvb7 Ribs 19 246 Bus 20 Bed Qb7 21 Wht 15 22 Wy3r te 23 res +0 Aaguare-osephsen, Denmark 1995, 6 fie} Ses Chris has played this nennber of times rows I well recall an interesting sigue he hd against Marusenko at the isle of Mana few years ago. 78 There's also an underrated sideline to this variation that's certuinly worthy of Bixes! died $00 This pethaps gives White too much of am aiack. More stable frst capturing on 447 exdll 8 Wdd Ob 9 WU? ONG 100-0 g6 11 83 Ag? 12 Ab? 0-0 13 Beet Wis wath a roughly” level_position Morusenko-Ward, Port Erin 1999. Again taking the paw only Teas to rouble. 7 SaxedPt§ Gues ded 8 We2! and Black is senously lagging in development 8 gxB exdd9 Bd c6 10 Led D7 11 0-0-0 Zico 12 Wa? Ses 13 Wed Wes $3 2e7 1S Shgt 0-0 1614.47 17481 ‘The oubled. Fpawns shauer Blak’s game. He'd really like to put the Knight Back on the superb outpost of e5-touble is that White has a second bite at the cherry with another {1 to continue the tack 17 AG 18 Ad o5 19 Sed bs: Black's in lie strats—and Id he’s in a pop group with Mark. Knopfler! This is the only way to fi he dacsa’t play it, White will Have 50 many weak points to concentrate on: d8, ee. 20 Dbs Wret 21 Cisd6 Wo6 22 West ‘Threatening 4 cash trough with ho, a move thit forces Black 0 exchange qucens22. o$ 23 Dred OeS 24 Dats WHI 25 Wigs Ws; an Not only is White two pawns up, alse got an overwhelming, position’ with the better pieces 29. Be7 40 Zed 7 31 Zag e832 coh? Eb7 33 Hed3 eB 34.203 Oe7 38 teat ‘White doesn’t want the spectre of Black activating his rooks with a Eyed, The Black arpawn is doomed anyway, 3S... ShxlS 34 Bag h6 37 Bad 17 38 ds Gie7 39 Bdas Qeo 40 Hes Qe7 41 (8 ive 42 65 The rest is simply goud, winning technique, 42. gS 43 sed pb 44 Las Ber 4s hed gi 46 bd Gigs 47 edt gb 48 45 AS 49 Seb Ge? 80 Ze? OS St ExT EAT 5? b6 wub6 $3 exb6 dies $4 Les BAT 85 Shs HF 56 b7 1-0 Danny Gormally 2481) White Peter Walls (2510) Black Nimzo-Indian Defonce 14 £56 2 063 D3 A443 0.05 AaB dS 6 D9 cS 7 040 end 8 ead dred Faxed A standard 1QP postion that can arsive by transposition from three different oper ings: Caro-Kann, Queen's Gambit-and Nino tai 9 uw b6 10. Sg S67 1 13 Wd aknedt This is where Kasparov went disastrous ly wrong against Kramnik in their BGN ‘teh Jat year ip London: 13. Be7™ 14 Axle Sst6 15 Bac6 fic6 16 robs hs 17 We? 2x13 18 ext3 Wadd 19 Dds Wxo2 20 Bees Bees 21 Oe Hos 22 iT ys 23 es Bis 24 Gus ns 25 ie? 1-0 1 Qba7 12 63 NG 1S ns {An important move ina critical position. The idea is simple: to exchange off the bishop pair, Subsidiary ideas include the contol ofthe square in font ofthe isola ind the possibility thatthe ht bishop isnot isa ‘New and planning wicks with an evens ual eT picking up the exchange. Wells naw has 10 play very, very precisely Lacily this es'a Wells trait 16 a6 Whig has too many active pieces to even somider king om 13: 16 -. xO? Tun a5 18 038 17 Ges eS 18 dies Ded 19 Zs Sixes 20.07 a7! 21 Was 21 db? bs 22 Sinf¥ Bcd 23 a6 bal! wins de wo the back rank mate 21. Wadi 22 2b3 WHSE 23 Lame Bis 4 bye 24. Welt ‘A highly unusual way t9 force the draw White may be picce up, but he docs have to defend his own backerank, Avery iter esting. draw from both players. 25 Wid 25 ed Wxed 26 Wall R45 und any dis covered check i harmless: Black simply wins the ending asthe a2, ¢3 and eS pavwns all weak, 25 132? Wel 26 wh2 Wat? mates, 25... Wad +26 Sxd0 Gix08 27 Se? a5 vs Richard Palliser (2337) White “Tony Miles (2568) Black Aledhine Defence 1 ed 2if6 2.68 Das 3 ef Db6 4.44 dS exd6erd6 6 G03 S67 D1 7 Sic} Be7 83 0-09 Re? Bek 10 25 gd was seen in the first round with ‘Tremt-Miles. Ton die? 8 U5 Des 9 Ores des 10 Sie2'0-0 11 040 £5 17 e3!? F413 Sixbo Axbb 14 Died eS! 15 GiveS bees 16 Aagd Bag 17 Mags 8 ‘A big decision for Miles, which took hhim about SO minutes on the clock, Black has to deewe if he an press on without ‘isking dete, 18 fel 18... Ba6t Nicly versing the rok ino the fay across to cither x6 or hé, Taking on g2_ aves White te afantagt 18. bs 19 ixeS Ha6 20 He6! Hxe6 21 Wxes+ dhs Do Bel WHA 25 WET wns ney 19 g3! Zg6 20 Wh3 White has to be careful: 20 Wes?! @d7 20 kes Bret 2 we Bat 2318713 843 Hag 24 Wags ott 25 ti Bead’) 4 24 Bact WIS and White's all tied up— theres ag way ouravel owt a0 wes 20. Bh6! 21 Wed! (21 SN Wes with strong preouteega sae cay) TEED? pat By 23 Wage nny 24 ed 42.25 sin] Wh4 26 S01 Wx winnie 21 Bed Wa 22 acl Wxb2 23 dae newdwa7 iad Understandably White wants 10 avoid any cheapos, 50 Palliser finds a way to ex ‘change queens-—but in the process he mis ‘ses a golden opportunity: 25 Wxe7! Wxcd 26 db Wad 27 7 His 28 BoP! and the ‘Geadly threat of Hay7 is unstoppable, 2S... Zg06 26 Bie Or 27 Wes Wa2 zane 28 BreT Wrcl+ 29 Wel Zre? 30 Wos+ HIT 31 d6 Hod? 32 WdS GnT= eventually Black will round up the d= ‘pawn; White the e-pawn, 28... oEn7! 20 Wede cbh8 30 Sar EAT 31 Be3 Wal 32 Bet Wad 33 Be3 ‘Wal+ 34 Ghz WIO 35 Wes says 36 Hal (6 37 gf S14 38 Wy3 Exed 39 Ze7 OS 40 Zxe7 DAB AN db ek 42 Bag 7 bd 3 Eb7 Bad 44 95 Edo ih Round & ‘The SabS+ Sicilian “theme” toumament ‘on the top boards continucd as Joe Gallagher made his move forthe title with two decisive wins at a crucial stage of the Championship—here against Murray Chandler, and in round nine against John Shaw (ovhish he has kindly annotated else ‘where for Cliess readers), Murray Chandler (2540) White Joe Gallagher (2516) Black Sicilian Defence Let ss Joe's i Sicilian die-hard, So much so, when he was a junior he would often play 13 hoping for the teply |. so that he could play 2 ef with a reversed Sicilian! 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Heil enolic ORDERS OVER £50 stooge ‘CHESS & BRIDGE LTD - 369 EUSTON ROAD LONDON NW1 3AR Tel: 020 7388 2404 Fax: 020 7388 2407 email: [email protected] www.chess.co.uk2B d63 &bS+ Od7 Gallagher at leas practises what he prenches— Je strongly recommends this Ins book Reuting dhe Ann Sten. 4°44 Zigle § Lied cxdd 6 Wadd eS 7 Waa new Hed eT 9 Let a6 10a 7 You can see why Joe endorses this iy ‘system with 3... €\d7° his position already resembles a Sian Naor 11 0-0 Ge$ 12 dxeS Wes 13 abt abt 11042 2h 1S Sn feb Novslck covers the operant 8 ied arc can prepare #5 thrust ner J: Dut hw she yong to dtend 16 om 17 ‘Simple, really. The king is safe on £7, 176003 WeT 18 sh gS Stopping ideas of £4, opening lines wo the ki 19 Shai hs 20 Wa3 Ws 21 Wer The problem for White is that he can't find a way to make progress due 10 the sonia Black's unas Setup exes over the centre 21... Wb4 22 £3 BS 23 axbS axbS 24 hd p$ 25 14 Wed! 26 Dd Opening lines with 26 fkeS may have been moe promising, 26 ou WeS 27 £5 D4 28 fue6+ Gae6 29 ind5 30 exdS+ e731 ¢3 Sh ‘now has the upper hand. The end ing ist going to be easy for White 32 Qed Wed 33 Eal bre} M4 bre? ‘Any chances of saving the point lay in 34 Ha 7H! Ghde (4 Le? 35 Be Wee? 36 Bxc3~) 35 bac} Eb8 36 g3 BO 37 Ha? Whee? 38 Bae? BN (38... Bas 39 BaS-139 dig? Bal 40 Bas bol 41 Bead wih a draw. 34... ab! 35 Zbl Sa? 36 Wes 30 The earlier slip-up allows the Black Sree wet Time twouble: 37... Baxhs! 38 Eb7+ shes 39 Rost (39 Who Nz! 40 Hoss S07 41 Rb7+ e742 Was Hal + 43 hz By! 44 deg? Wa2+ mates) 39... 817 go Ror 6 41 Ba nh 2 as 43 Woe Bil a4 dn2 44 an) Watt 45 Ph? Exe? mate) 44 WEIS 45 Wes WAS! 468d Wah mate ‘38 QahS Sal 39 Sra? ‘Again time intervenes: 39 Bid? Eb! 40 Babi Eels ai Batt Want> 42 hz Sxhd 43°Wa7+ and Black can’t avoid the perpetual 39... Waal 40th? 40 oe BE This has got to hurt—Gallagher holds his nerve during the time seramble and is rewarded with & winning position; and the rests, wel, simply 2 mater of technique, a bag3 41 Sx} Bans mate; 41 Wrgd abt 42.Wahet ahd wins 41. Sahdy 42 hE AO 43 Wee exF4 44 ONES Wg AS Gh3 Led 46 Ded Whis 47 dy3 Welt 48 ER WR 49 shed Ah6 Ot lian Hodgson (2581) hite Aaron Summerseale (2510) Black ‘Sicilian Defence Heb.cS 2 g3 63 Hg? eb 4 Ded 06 5 O13 .d8 6 exds OadS 7d 7 B00 0.0930) This move belongs to Mihaé Sub, who outlined the ideas behind iin his excelent Tits book Dynamic Chess Strategy, White simply wants te play on the queenside With a set-up of eS, Wad, fel and bt Son le White gets to0 much play if Black goes for the pawn with 9. Was 10 Sd? @xc3 Hy axes Wea? 12 €3 d8 13 We? cxdt 14 Dead Dds 1S ads WES 16 Ebel a6 17 Wht with a decisive advanage Spestman-Aibur, Taxco Interzonal, 1985, 40 Qinds Wad 11 dacs Wes 12 ed New. 12 Wad dd? 13 e3 Wer 14 Wea ack 15 b4 b6 16 Ld? Brus 17 bs Das 18 isd We8 19 ad with a big advantage: Subs-Petursson, ‘Thessalonike Olympiad 984 bwat Niee. Hodgson has guinea time with his novelty of Se}, due to its threat of eS ‘Already White hasan advantage 13. Bd8 14 kes Wes ‘Quite a concession already—but there's no option, Black ets pinned if he goes to ihe efile: 14 WET? 15 ba be 16-03! 6 (16 WaT 17 bS Ge7 18 Ge5) 17 SH G7 18 eS Lees 19 red Wre6 20 dexct x64 21 dak winning. IS bd bo 16 DS @as 17 bd OT 18 Bixas bya$ 19 Wed We? 205fe1 The endgame 1s yoing 10 be hell for Black ro defend du the pecarous tte ofthe a-pawns 2. R62 hd BAS 22 Dest Hodgson moves swifly to the endgane 22 a. ng? 23 ding? Saes 24 Wres WHT IS Keo a6 Activating the rook with 25... Ba2!? may be the only option for Black to try ind salvage the game Bb ed axbS 27 Ee7 WG 28 Habs Wad wie The pressure from Hodgson is relentless —he's squecring as much as he can out of the position. Eventually, Summeneate succumbs, 29... 207 30 Bad7 Wxd7 3 a Blck’s appawn is now well and truly doomed, 3h. bd 32 05! Ward 33 gat HS Back ceded to activate the king. as quickly as possible to try to save the game: 33. Sh7! 34 BH (34 HS gO 35 gor ‘Exu6 and the passed hrpawn could come inuseful.) 34. y6 35 ood QS and this nding is far from over. The botiom line i that, wih’a passed h-paven, Black can book seriously at fines that sterifiee the rook should is a pawn fall 34813 EB is too late now: 34. sbh7 35 ches (g6 36 Eb6! and the threat of 15+ allows White 10 win the rook ending. 35 Bras Be3+ 36 wed Best 37 hes Gh7 38 a7 6 39 a5 Bad 40 26 Oetober 2001 CHESS 15' an easy win—but the technigus is instructive 40 «. Rad 41 add Zag 42 wieS Eat 43.57 Ex ‘There's no salvation even in taking the Iepawa: 43... Bxhd 44 a7 Hod 45 b6 he 46 Hes dys 47 a8 W Heat 48 Byos ded 49 Kad! x5 (49 3 50 Bede seh 3 Eig?) 50 a7! h3 51 But? Whs 52 Bh Ses 53 dies and White closes in forthe Kill—the Fepauin is doomed 44 a7 a2 45 b6 GIS 46 Ea dines 47 Gh7 hdd 48 Bars hes 49 ak nab 50 iva eS $1 Zag? e4 $2 E07 1 Round 10 Alter his loss to Gallagher, any preten- sions of a famous Scottish victory or even 8 first GM norm for John Shaw quickly disappeared afer ihe following horific Penultimate. round encounter with John Emms, John Shave (2478) White John Emms (2532) Black ‘Sicilian Defence Led cS 220 «6 AL least this euts out any possibilty of Jon's Movounie. 3” BS “agains the 3.63 O46 4 eS Das § dd ends 6 ord 46 7 exd6 dard6 8 Oe3 Dred ‘A ood choice from Emms. In praxis i's easier 10 play against the hanging ‘pawns than ayainst the isolated. -pawn, 9 bred We7 10 Ld? Hd7 11 Ld 6 12 040.867 13 Bet 040 14 es?! Based on a total oversight in Shaw's salevlations—he thought later” on he ‘would be able to play 18 Bes, V4 .. QueS 15 dueS e816 Bane ouhT 17 WSs Spe 18 nes In disgust John now realise late inthe doy that his intended secsproe fails! 18 ves Erde 19 As (120 Wh (20 BIS Weo!; 20 Het c5) 20 .. Sxh8 21 Ehs+ Gig8 22 vc? BAT 23.4 05 24 Wed Bes with 4 superb posiion where the White ‘ok safe om 8 18. Wae8 19 HxeS Bras! 20 det Not the sort of postion 10 defend insta good, slid GM—Erams can play {ese sot of positions uni the cows come hhome. However, Shaw had to option but to retreat! 20 sed 15121 Has (21 Bxc6? ‘DM! traps the rook} 21. Hac 22 63 as 23°B3 HO? and White's im a bad way. 20, dS 21 Bet Sed 22 a2 16 CHESS October 2001 White's only glimmer of hope isto try and exchange down 10 an opposite loured bishop ending. 22... Sud? 23 Sd? 248 24 Bel Homiblet Simply horrible, The only thing Shaw eon do is just sit back and watch Fanms do all the work. However, maybe his only chance t salvage 30 thing (anything) was 24 203 Bd3 25 a4 Exc} 26 aS bxas 27 Beal a6 28 BS Zed 29 band at leat he's more likely to get the bishop ending and even thats lost! 248! GE fee : In order to win, it's very important 0 seize control over the black squares: the white squares are already in his hands. 259 Hd5 26 S12 15 27 a} 17 28 Edt 5 ial deo 30 Ld? hs 31 Sel 2 32 al Lode 33 er chas The kiny’s coming in via cl-b3 to win, Mog} edt 38 ddl Ab3+ 36 shed Bets Cruel. This is just prolonging the agony. 37 Gl d3 38 shel Ze2+ 39 ed ed 40 hd Zb2 41 HS a6 42 sel a8 43 Gal a4 44 Del S45 a There's nothing White can do: 45 yf! 4b fixes gs, 45... 803.46 wet es 46. Bad?? 47 Hnad dxa2 48 dct! and White draws=it's an opposic bishop ending. 48 .. 1 49 3! Wb? 50 Les threatening 28, which gives White time to defend the weak points of 3 and a3, 47 Gal Las 48 he? 266+ 49 xd Gnd? $0 Ebi Zbz $1 Sel e+ $2 Ft 1+ 53 wes aad $4 go eb? 55 ‘agl a3 $6 6-02 $77 Zh 0-1 Charis Ward (2493) hice Mark Hebden (2550) Black King's Indian Defence 1d O16 2 c4 g6.3De3 LyT 4 et a6 S 8 The Simisch is a big favourite of Ward's. 5. 0-0 6 Dged ¢ king's knight is always White's problem piece in the Simisch. By pull 1 on e2 (forgoing @h3-12) now, Wi delays the development of the qucen’s bishop so that he ean choose later between 5.3 or f4 (in some cases even leaving, it at home on.) bv 067 ed 6 ‘The Byrne Variation—ahe idea isto diss suade White from casting long as Lack ts a ready-made aackon the quensde 8 €5 DS! 9 exdo exd6 10 Dict QbA7 1 Secd BoB 12 2 €5 13 daeS Dues 14 0-0-7 IS bs 15. Deb Thete was also the spoeulative punt 15. Binet 16 od Dred? Sed Leal 18 G3 U8 Saxder Bess!) 18 7 19 eS Her (19 06 20 Dar ar7 21 v5 Heo 22 yt) 20 213 Wreds 21 Wied Zoe} 23 dnb? a7 23 hus Hes? 24 Gia5 6 25 Get HeS 26 eb Bad 27 Daa? Had with an unclear position—the pwns should ve lack enough con pensation forthe piece 16 Qb3 Se8 17 Eact dst 18 Oras SxdS 19 Exe8 Wreck 20 eds Eas 21 Ea Pushing the pawn was the best hope: 21 861 298 22 eS Bek 23 Bel WoT 24 dT! Bea 28 Wed Baes"26 Gacs cs 27 eS 21. 8 22. Das? ‘Ain 22 d6. 48 was safer as it lod to th above note. 22. EndS 23 Wes WIR! 24 Wek Bas Has 25... ds! ‘With the White queea out of play om a6 Black's pieces suddenly spring fife 26H Sas 77 Sr Sea 26 ht 28 Hel h3+! 29 yxh3 Qube 30 2 rel 31 nel Wer 32 Bie Wyss 3 ‘hi Wea? and White can't stop S265 with 2 mating tick 28... Ghd 39 Heh Zim! ‘This is Hicbden at his best ashe extracts as much as he posibly can om this pos tion. We'll soon see the reason for thir move. 29... Bxe8 30 Wre8> As 31 Wel and White i dfendin 30MM xf 31 31 Wes Wort, the reason forthe subtle EEK, and the extra topo allows lack to 3H ae inb3 32 axb3 We 33 Spt Comming’ up to the time control, Ward iets himself into a tangle. He can better defend if he goes tothe other end ofthe board as i gives the king some breathing space: 33 Ha? bt 34 g3 eo (64 Os 35 ct De} 36 dined Wred 37 8B7-) 35 ‘hed Wel + 36 sy? Weds 37 ht 33. ba 34 Wed34 g3! Deo 35 Set We3 36 Wad Se? 37 WO7 Wel 38 Sy? Wd2+ 39 wh! Wel 40 Su? Wa? t=. 3... De6 38 Wd3?! The two bishops on the back rank make White's task of securing the half po very difficult: 35 We8 Wu? 36 wed Oty 37 BN Ded 3s dine? Wre2 39 dar ‘ys a0 h3 Wal 41 gt HS and Blac has an avanage here due to the wulner se dark squares around the White kin 38. Wel Soke 3 Walsh defend for » whi, bt te sight of all the White pices om the back rank does exactly fogk heath. 36... SieS 37 ad? WI! 38 dS: 3x6 Wit! soon mites. 38. WS 393 39... Had! 40 el 40 dings wr 40. Wel 0-1 Round 11 You of eourse expect the top boards to bbe nothing shor of a bloody ladiatorial contest ila Russell Crowe in the final round, don't you? Afterall they should be fighting to the death with al that money at stake, Shoulda’t they? But there are some things in life you take for granted, like death, taxes and last round draws. And sure enough, in walks tournament Ieader Joe Gallagher 10 the toumament hal, eyes definitely fooking & bit tod around ihe edges due to lack of sleep 36 he suddenly realised that by the end ofthe day he could have a big payday by becoming Betish Champion—or even involved in a playorf for the tile. Lose the game, and he’s blown the big on ‘His opponent, Keith Arkell, looking ‘mote nervous than usual, shortly follows him into the hall 1f Keith involved ina playoft- time opportunity 19 win the Bi Play stants, and after | o4 «6 2 4 5 35 2 he? 4 Del} Go § a3, suddenly Joe punts the draw offer! Withots as mach fsa blink of his eyelid, Keith was shoep~ ishly signing the sooreshees [At this point, the audience moaned...1 felt panicularly sorry for. Keith's imum—she had specially made the journey. fiom far-off Worcester to see Keith “play for the British crown. And, within five minutes of secing her son in action, she twas as perplexed as everyone else in the tourmanent hall shy the shor, GM draw? Turns ut that Keith had ‘spent thse hours in the moming preparing for Joe on Chesstiase ("Oh, ood. He only plays 3 Se} against the Fassel FIL play’ the McCutchcon—he wont expect that”) only to realise that he suddenly had a Tarasch For Joe's par, he'd spent a. good few hours on ChessBase also, noticing: that when facing 3 E2. always played 3... det. Both had gone way out oftheir i, with money already in bay particuasly wanted 19 pres the “yale” burton Ake was the underdog but surely he should have made an efort—he wan't get better chance fora crack at the ile than this. He isa hardened pro on the noton = ‘ously tough weckend tournament circuit (22 Nactones im the last nine rons 10 Tead the Terence Chapman Grand Prix) andl renowned for hs endgame alll. Gal- lagher was the one that had the most ofthe two 10 lose—theefore likely 10 be more Rervous. Arkell risked £1,800 by plying on with possible yain of 10k and a i= time ambition achieved-—excellnt ods and surely worth more than five ioves? T'm reminded of the late, great Paul Keres who must have been spinning in his grave. Anolating his game aginst “Taimanov from the 19th USSR Cham- Pionship (1951), Keres notes: “This game was played in the last round. inorder to ‘win frst prize had to all-out fora vie~ tory a8 my nearest rivals were oaly ball 9 point behind me” Where have all the Paut Kereses in our game gone However, the ‘cop aut on the top eft everything to play for on the other four ‘boards: Hodgson vs. Wells, Hebden vs ‘Summerseale and Eris vs Lalic—a win inany of these boards and C tor Neil Graham got what he'd been pray {ng not to happen all week: a playofT. And, despite the fact that they attempied to have 4 go at each other, with the advantage on ing to and fo the sad fact is that nobody won to take the Champion- ship into a Grams playort. Sotun Ems (2532) White Bogdan Lali (2528) Back Caro-Kann Defence 164 c62 dd dS 3 ends cxd5 4 of 165 Ded 6 6 OB Abt 7 LAB dred 8 Axed 0.0 9°0.0 b6 10 dips b7 11 es Axed 12 bxe3 We? 13 D3 Deb 14 Lato gate 1524 rams had a draw in hand~ but playing, for a win would have given him a phiyot? with Gallagher for the nile: 15 Wed hs 16 Wh fxe5 (16. We7? 17 Axe Dees 18 Be2 wins a8 £5 drops the queen: 16 {57 17 Woe Sys 18 Rael Was 19 ho hxe5 20 Laos) 17 hes igh 18 Wigs +=, 1S S16 Gis? 16 hs? 17 hs bur 18 Wyss hs 19 Who mares 17Dhs+ she 17, Sey8? 18 WAP 6 19 Out with a big plus 18 dS! Zags? 18 exdS 19 0 (with the threat of ‘Wh rating) 19 . Was 20 Bxads Badd 21 Whs, and White has an advantage de the beter minor poses an those Weak f pawns. 19 4? Missing the win—and the playoff for the British tite: 19 Wel? exd5 (19. Bes 20 Wh6 A+ 21 xf Hess 223 Ze6 23 Whd winning; 19 .. Ry8? 20 dxcb Wee 21 13 Ha3 22 Ged Bcd 23 WH oS 24 Bacl WeS+ 28 dh Beet 26 Rect Wes 27 245 winning) 20 Ws 16 21 ft! and Black san't defend against all the threats: @ind5, eo and D6". 19... €5 20 Wa2 Dad The game his pow swung 10 Lal he's the one looking for « playofT with Gallagher now: 4 (6.22 Sack DS! 23 feeS fue 24 eS ret 28 ded devds 26 S05 dads 27 Be3 BS 28 Wh6 E17 29 eel W630 ‘WS ho 31 Wes (4 32 Wha GE 33 Ze. 2a34an1 4. B65? Uniclievable! Lalie vs. Gallagher for the British ttle was all there for the ake ing, Unfortunately, Laie was unable to ick up the invitation: 34. xg2+! 35 ig? 13! 36 Wed (36 Wy?” xg? 37 Wrg? Geel 38 Wake oth? 39 Weds ys) 36 37 xe? Orel 38 Wrei Wh2s 39 bs BIS 40 Wl Bys+ 41G8 Wore a2 sbes Boor 43 Wyse 44 shes Bans 45 Was Wes 46 Wio+ ih? 47 We7+ Wy? and) wins fad p24 36 Bag? Bag? 37 dy ee 2 Bag? 37 dag October 2001 CHESS 1737_.. 87), wins—the threat is @Qahs and Bs, 38 Gh! Gas 39 Was Sh7 40 Was wr? Was one last ty for playoff 40 Atel a1 Wiss She 42 WS iors 43 dogt BIS! wins) 41. Best az BA Befle 43. soar) Wah? 44 Wado his 45 wre Wans 46 Were bys 47 Wxa7 and Black can have # yo ar winning this. notoriously tough queen and pawn ending. Vole Safely in the clubhouse with a fow wine hing score of 8/11, Joe was soon to dis cover thar after his five-move draw he Would be having the £10,000 cheque all 19 himself'as the other contending boutds had halved out, But one se [Now that Joe isa citizen of he had to pay a whopping great 22% with holding tax on his Winnings before he got to open the envelope at the prize giving the next day? Roughly translated, it meant he was heading Back to his tax haven of Neuchatel with £7,800 instead of £10,000—thanks ta eemain Gordon Brown of 11 Downing Steet, who came second behind Joe in the money stakes at the British with his “winnings” of £2,200. Joe was very sanguine about it all He's the sort of happy-go-lucky yoy’ that takes suecess and adversity in his stride. He re ned himself to the fat that he'd have 10 40 through the Iengthy—and not 1o men: tion downright tedious—task of form filing back home to recoup some of the money to pay a more realise Swiss rate oF around 10 per cet. I's a times like this that you soon rea {ise that the only difference between a ax collector and a taxidermist is that a last the taxidermist leaves the hide! And, in a way, i's fiting thatthe Chancellor of the hequer makes money out of chess— afer all, we gave him his job title! Look’ in any good quality. dictionary under “Exchequer”, and you'll discover that it came from counting out money on a Very large chequerbourd used for chess. In 1080 the Normans named their financial Aepartinents of State I exchequier afer the chessboard, which was used as a form of abacus as they would tally up the squares ‘with various sums of money on it L READERS TN TS abou mentioned ‘Two champions - Joe Gallagher and Melanie Buckley Leading scores in the SMITHS WILLIAMS British Championship Searborough 2001 GM Joe Gallagher EnglundSwiteerland 81; GM Keith Arkell, GM Julian Hodgson, GM Peter Wells, GM John Emuns, GM Bodin Lalie, GM Mark Hebden and IM Daniny Gormsally GM Aaron Summerscale, GM Jonathan Rowson Seotand, IM Matthew Tumet, IM John Shaw Scotland and GM Chris Ward 7; GM Murray Chandler, IM Colin Crouch, IM Niek Peet (Joint British U-21 Cham pion), FM Richard Palliser Goint British U-21 Champion) and IM Gary Lane 6 1M Simon Ansell, Avwest Ghasi, Adrian Jackson, IM Brian Kelly, IM Simon Know, IM Andrew Ledger, Gerald Moore, FM Richard Pert, Martin Simons, Gurpreet Singh Ard, \M Sitvon Williams, IM Zhao Zong-Yuan Australie 6; Bret Addison, Neil Berry Scotland, Jonathan Blackburn Wales, Phitip Ui ‘Marthew Broomfield, Joc Conlon, Lorin D'Costa, Jonathan Lappage, Mark Lyell, GM Tony Miles, Desmond Tan $14 Melanie Buckley (British Women's Champion), Simon Buckley. Jim Burnett, Sam Collins dreland, Robert Eames, Craig Hanley, Gaseain Jones, Martin Walker, Clive Waters 5, played) MARATHON MEN Richard Forster's interesting ar ticle about Burn, Cologne to Frankfurt in 100 mites. E twas in the spirit of the time. A PLAY GMs and IMs IN THE LONDON LEAGUE! The Metropolitan Chess Club need experts for its 1st Division London team to play against teams which last season fielded GMs Emms, Levitt, MeDonald, Parker, Spelman, Turner, Watson; IMs Ansell, Bates, Crouch, Kelly, Martin, Pert, Wade, Ledger, Littlenood, Fis Kwiatkowski, Sowray etc. n the July issue, walking year earlier, having won the BCA R iourmament ending in London on July 19, Blackburne (and others) Ss dake to Natta (120 rie) to compete in the CCA tournament ‘due to begin on August 2nd. Not liking some aspects of the conditions, he withdrew, a8 did Mason snd Mackenzie FREE MEMBERSHIP FOR BCF 180+. or FIDE 2100+ Contact; Andrew McGuinness Tel: 07973 682243 Fax: 07970 084664 e-mail [email protected] Players of all standards are welcome as we run 6 other teams. The Clubs also running its Annual Congress on 6-7 October. Contact Ray Hamilton at 020 7378 4606 or e-mail rayhamilton@lineone, net. Ken Whyld Gainsborough 18 CHESS October 2001The Other British hampionthips by Riehard Pallifer aturally the British Cham pionships are not just about the Championship, but are also there for the other 880 or so players who come for a chess holiday and to com pete inthe junior champion ships or in ene ef the many all-play-als and graded swisses, Fresh from. his success im July's Monmouth Intemational, Ukrainian IM Alexander Nosenko impressed in the Major Open. Nosenko always looked likely to tke first place and was inthe end able 1o coast home with three draws, but behind him there was always a bi battle for the thee 2002 British: Championship qualifying places. Jonathan Matton impressed early on, ineluding a fine win aagtinst Nosenko's compatriot, IM Pett Marusenko, and showed that, whilst he plays litle’ these days, he is still very Talented, but losses to. Nosenko and 10 smother talented junior, David Shaw, saw him miss out on a prize. Shaw Tooked composed and solid throughout and thoroughly deserved his 2nd place, ahead (of a number of experieneed 2300 players ‘As usual the Major Open was fiery competitive and full of junior players keen to pick up a FIDE international eating: something which was obtained by several players including Teresa Khoo who made an inipressive 2143 performance en route to finishing as the top U-18 femate player. Pethaps, however, the Major Open was missing a few more 2200 players at the iinly the Uritish Champion 10 have quite « long tail. Naturally i is right that all players should have the opportunity to qualify for the British Championship and to play along: side the IMs and GMs, but perhaps there are now simply too matiy qualifiers; some thing which both weakens the Champion ship and the top end of the Major Open, Once again the Seniars Championship continued to grow and this year saw 33 entries, including eight from players traded over 170.1 the end the leading far vourites were al blown away by the ener ie and lively ply of Neville Gill Conceding just two draws, Gill finished a nd the Doulas player has no ied from his regular experi= fences in the super Monarch Assurance Isle OF Man international open, The junior championships once aysin saw muh rivalry and, a has become quite normal these days, the younger events were dominated by’ a large and very tal ented Indian contingent, some of whom Would appear to have the talent 19 become the mext Sasikiran or Harikrishna. Apart from some fine resistance from Subin Sen in the Under-8s, the other U-I1 tiles all fell to the Indians, but in the U=12s Simmon Fowler and James Hanley saw off the Under 11 Champion, Arjun Chirukandath Manoj. This was more proof that Jimmy: Hanley. younger brother of Craig who just missed out on his second orm in the Championship. would also appear ta have the talent 10 also become avery strong player, Unlike his older brother, however. Jimmy prefers the Dragon to the French and also Open Sicbins to the English, But he is also capable of a mature positional style when the ocsasion demands it Robert Heaton (139) hiv simray Haney (135) Black Round Six, British U12 Championship Bird's Opcning 14 Of62 OP go 3 ae The Stanewall was cenainly agsin very successful in the US, U9 and UO Cham pionships, but for the UI2s 1 does appear to be a linle too simplistic, Hanley now shows that against a flanchettocd kingside White cannot gain any real attack and should have instead prefered 3 true Bird's wih 363, 3 g¥ or 3 63 3..8g7 4 Bd? dB Clamping down on both the et-square and the ¢4 pawn break, tut also possible ‘06 and was 4. O07 5 of (otherwise then paying for. ¢3.0F.€5 i Black yood play) $ dS! 5 c3 0.0 6 d3 Sbd7 7 0 6 8 cd b6 95 67 10 Es Put the g7-bishop on €7, move the g pawn backwawds to 47 and. suddenly White's attack looks quite dangerous, but there Black is far tw said on the kings Thus White should have Jevelopsd with [band 1b? or possibly even begun some aqucensi play wit 10 ba"? 10 oe s8 11 2 D8! Rerouting the knight 1 a central square and also preparmg 10 evict the eSeknight before it does too much damage with 1 i 12 p06 1340 13... Dae 137 14 Gixd7 Wya7 15 gi oF was. obviously very promising for Black, but Hanley has seen a way to apen the Pile and then to aac. 14 fyes Ded 15 Sg 1S Binet dxes 16 Wg3 15.17 ent fb 18 xf Ws was possibly the lesser evi, but White will be hard pushed to defend dawn both the F-and e= (ater an exchange ond) files 1S 2 8 16 gnfS ES 17 Wid e718 ha? Creating further serous kingside woak- fess aswell as underestimating the sirength of Black's clright and. play down the ffte, This had to be challenged with 18 Gig3, although then 18... Hes 19 Wed Exg3 20 xy BAW sll leaves Black with several kingside weaknesses 10 aim 18 19-2? i aerial and whilst 19 G3 xy} 20 Wad £0 21 Wad WH was not for White, Black rust sill ind decisive breakthrough, 19.02! 20 S005 Qag421 Lag 21 abt Many juniors would probably have struggled to smoothly convert this material advantage, but Hanley is very clinical. He ‘comectly “aims 10 tum his passive ‘b7-bishop into the best piece on the board from ef and is also impressively in no hurry to win the h-pawn until the time ts ight 22 Oh2M Rad 23 HSM Bet 24 Zed gatist Winning further material 25 GS Ind 26 h3 245 27 Ded Lag 28 Cixgd Wes ‘A prety convincing win against the ‘Stonewall, whilst it was impressive how Hanley completely outplayed one of his main rivals, Ol Neville Gil (168) Wie Wor Smith (170) Black Round Six, British Seniors Championship g's Indian Defence 1d4 26 2 OG 963 64 ig 4 Ded 0-0 Sef d6 6 died c5 70-0 exdd 8 Duda Bed 913.6 10 ni! ast ‘This thematic liberating break is simply premature here and fails to take into ac count White's sneaky previous “move, ‘After 10 .e3? d5t, thanks to the prob {ems caused by the undefended <3-bishop, Black is fine, burt here the cl-bishop can come straight to uS, placing heavy pres: sure on the Black cent, Later the same clay, Wells Gallagher (British Champion- ship, Round 10} demonstrated how Black shoutd handle the position; 10... @bd7 11 igs ho 12 ind Ges. 13 4 Dees 14 xu aug 15 Wa Mc8 16 Bae! We7 Here White enjoys 2 space advantage, but October 2001 CHESS 19Black's solidity and bishoprpair maintain the balance 1 eed exdS 12 gS duet Already Black must give way in the xn as 12... e613 nS! costs bi tonterih: eg 13, Be 14 Set OAS 13 axes ixeS 16 Saez and White went on To conven his extra exchange in Gnusarev=Siuniakov, Prokojevsk 1997 1 feet 13... ho! First seen in Spraggett Ho Van Huynh, ‘Manila Olympiad 1992 this move, Fighting for the dask squares and to break the pin. was endorsed: by Burgess in The New Classical King’s Indian feels that earlier 13 Sd White's best ry for an advantage. Instead 13... @ba7" presents White with mediate challenge and now 14 4db3! hé 1S Bhd gS 16 digs Gnet? 17 Exod kot 18 dhs Ber 19 c7 Hos 20 B45 saw the undeveloped side already acca ‘with serious material foss in Tkonnikov~ Haak, Vlssingen 1998 rey 14 Bhat? was also critical, but now Black can probably grab the epawn with 14... g5 13 ig3 Ges, However, Black's ‘exposed King and lick of development should give White excellent compensation ‘Then 16 xed (16 S47! is less good as Black casily defends with 16... Qxg3+ 17 hxg3 BB.) 16... Bed 17 Bhs! Wri 18 Band! co (or 18... Bxe2? 19 48+ Gh? 20 Kno and the pin is devisive,) 19 2 Be? 20 Qc? Bre? 21 Lac? eG and Black has insufficient compensation for the exchange: But instead 16 .. Wadt!? 17 Qd6 Wadd 18 Radi HIB, Now, although he is losing back his extra pawn, Black wil beable 1 develop, whilst his strong. dari-squared bishap helps to maintain the balance: 19 Due8 19 Bel Bet 20 263 h7 21 NIT Ble6 22 24517 might be more ch Tenging. for Black.) 19. Bxc8 20 03, Soot 21 Bae? eS 22 dS Lads and ‘White's lack of co-ordination should result inhis losing the bishop-pair. M4, Axo 18 ase! 15 Led was tried inthe aforementioned Spragget-Ho Van Huynh clash, but Gill wants a central ouipost for his knight to sompensate for his lack of dark-squared Conirol. However, this plan should have {ured out to bean slow which explains ‘why Sprageet tried to stir things up with 15 Ref BIB 16 24d5 Ap? 17 eS! was just ubout able tom balan. 15 ww dees Now White is able to drum up play against the exposed Black monarch 8nd 50 20 CHESS October 2008 the logical 15... aT! was preferable The eis iced bt afer 16-2 2g 17 Bibs” (Ihe only way to pose any prob- lems) 17... 19 eS 18 WH2 Wh! 19g Bags 20 Qbe7 Bye? 21 Dre? Bhd [Back is doing very well to waz begins to fight for the Kings dark squares, but also tempting was 16 hes", hoping Yor 16 ~ 262 17 Gincé bxcb 18 Sit although Black can instead defend with 16. 208 16m e617 O19 7 18H #4 tams out o be an optimum square for the queen as from here she can defend ot swell as targeting the weak spots of 7, and h6 8. g8? Far too loosing. 18 .. e619 ad wives White some pressure, but Black's dark-squared. control makes it very hard for him 9 ineease it, whilst 18... RFS!?, unbalascing the postion, was also playable 19.Qxgst Exploiting the Black king's lack of pawn and pees cover. 19... bags 19 2. dee6 20 ON67 a7 21 WaT ‘8h 22 hsb? isalso crushing 20 WixtT+ he 21-446 ate 22 Dats e623 ahs and Black Resigned as 23 Wags sih8 25 hoe! Bane 26 €y827 dete forces mate -0 ye 24 ixhisr Alexander Nosenko (2436) Nite Jonathan Mutton (2164) Black Round Eight, Major Open ‘Queen's Indian Defence 1 d$ 2162 O13 66 3 of bO4 Oe3 b7 5 gS ks 6.5; ‘An interesting common 6 3 Gu. €5 7 a3 dhxed & bxe3 h6 9 Lhd a6 loses ‘Alhouh Black should stil be fine after this, it might well have. been better 10 develop the queen's Knight to the more tive c6 square. After 10 2. cb cursson, Leeland 1994 con- 1e3 We? 12 Las es 13 ds as 14 Wats bus! and with his king about 10 be ideally placed on 7, Black was very comfortable 114s Qba7 12 ed Mw 13 At Prophylaxis against the intended 13 gS and 14... Big6 Now 13... g8?! can be met by the undermining 18 ha 13 a Dg Although the Knight looks useful here, Black now struguies to find a decent plan {twas probably Better to leave the King in ative 10 the mote the centre and only ther to put the knight (on 26 afler first gaining some uscful space with .. 8. Thus 13. g8!? looks logical When after 14 h4?¥ (Better, bur still fine for Black, is 14 a4 yS 15 a5 D647 .) 14 5 15 hxgs hg 16.04 44 Black has some Very useful counterplay T4p3 eB Already a clear sign that Black is strug sling for a plan, Mutton now continues to aim for some kingside play, but this never quite seems satisfactory. 1shst Gaining some useful kingside space and also hindering Blacks alfempts to gener ate some play in that sector. 15..W8 16 de3 ONT 17 has Wo Unsurprisingly, with his king quite safe and his having the option of playing on both flanks, Nosenko comectly rejected a draw here 18 We? Der 19adt Now that the Black queen is cut off from her queenside, Nosenko finally de- ides to make some progress on that flank, 19» Wg6 20 Bgl #5 21 aS bras 22 Bras 26 23 Bags! Taking full advantage of the hole an gS to disrupt Black's kingside build-up, 23... red?l Releasing the tension like this makes Nosenko's life rather to0 casy and prefer= able was 23. 0-0! Then White sill has Yo decide what to do with his knight and 3-bishop, whilst he will be loth to break with £4 with his own King still quite ins secure, Nosénko might well have con- tinued to manoeuvre with 24 42", sill hoping for exchanges and a beter ending, but he would have fad 10 avoid 24 ext Axt5 25 Det OQxet 26 Aret dred 27 fixed Win! 28 BxeT?! We7 29 Wyns? Wo? and suldenly Wte ign senous trouble duc to his very exposed king. 24 Dixed Dred 28 Bred AS 26 dz 28 27 48! Logically forcing exchanges (to high light Black's weak qucenside and king) and also guining a useful potential king- side attack. 27. Axed 28 fred hugs 29 Wags 0-0 30 ns uh7 31 a3!” Continuing the yrdual build-up, al- though the more aggressive 31 We6v BE? 32.h6! would have won material Phe 12 Eaal D633 hot With all his picces now well placed for eo fatally weaken the [Black monarch’s defences, Bou 26.34 Ball Bxfl Nor would 34 .. @417 35 e6 Hack 36 ‘Wid6 have saved Black AS Zafl Heh 36 L462 ches37g Forcing: mate 37... aS 3 We6+t 0 the win of the queca, Major Open. LIM Alexander Nosenko (Ukrsine) ot 2 David Shaw (Flinton) 84/11 3. Andrew Bigg (Oxted), Chris Dor rington (Bourne), FM Graham Lee (Wood Green), Don Mason (Solihull) & Nick Thomas (Northampton) 8/11 the last wo famed, along with Shave, qualify for the 2002 rtish Championship, ‘Also included sn the Major Open were ‘the British U18 titles UI8 Champion: David Shaw (Flixton) wt Girls U8 Champion: Teresi. hoo (Weybridge) 611 British Senior Championshi | Neville Gill (Doulas) 677 2, George Ellison (Poulton-le- Fylde) & John Toottult (Windermere) 5/7 British Under 16 Championship: 1 Ezra Lutton (Basildon) 64/7 also ‘winning the British ULS Championship 2=, Stephen Jessel (Si Germain en Laye) & Chris Rawlinson (Godalming) 5/7 UIS & UI6 Girls Champior ‘Chevannes (Sutton Coldfield) 31677 1 Sumet Ghasi (Birmingham) 677 2. Adam Eckersley-Waites (Oakham) David Eyeleston (Durham), Thomas Exe" leston (Durham) & Matthew Harbooe (Basingstoke) $7 Girls UES Champion: Sueie Blackburn (Holmes Chapel) 31477 British Under 13 Championship: 1 William Bennet (Oakham) 61477 2 Thomas Exyleston (Durham) 8147 3. David Eggleston (Durham) & Paul Lam (Coventsy) 87 1s U1 Champion: Sarah Heyany (Woking) 37 British Under 12 Chanpionshi T= Simon Fowler (Telford) 4 James ey (Lancaster) 677 3 Arjun Chirukandith Manoj (India) sar Girls C12 Champior (aC9) 3147 Hi atic Martin British Under 11 Champic 1 Arjan Chirukandath Mano) (India) 6.7 25, Gauri Chirukardath Manoj (Indi Daniel Hall (Swindon) & Thomas. Pym (Oswestry) S157 Girls ULL Champion: Selina Khoo (Weybridye) $77 British Under 10 Championship: 1 Gauri Chirukandath “Manoj. (India) OAT 2 Parimarjan Negi cindia) 6/7 3 Selina Khoo (Weybridue) S197 alsa winning the U10 Girls Championship British Under 9 Championship: 1 Parimarjan Newt (India) 777 2 Gauri Chirukandath Manoj (India) 6°7 3 Prachura Padakannaya (India) 4/7 Girls U9 Champion: S Venkstachs Sah Priya flndia) 877 British Under 8 Championship, 1 Suton Sen (Essex Juniors) S416 2°. Henry Chang (Richmond Juniors), Gauri Chingkandath Manoj (India), Par rmarjan Net (India) & Peachuta Padakan- raya (India $16 Girls U8 Champions: Stephanie Hale (Essex Juniors) & Rhian Hughes (Edinburgh) 36 British Under 175 Championship. 1 Graham Borrowdale (Surbiton) 44/5 3+. Stephen Connor (Ruthin), Brendan O'Gormin (DUSS) & Ale Toll (Norwich) 4/5 British Under 180 Championship: 1 Robert Heatos (New Maiden) 414)S 2s, Christopher Dixon (Ashtead), An~ drew Price (Learmington) & Douglas Cook (Liskeand) 43 British Under 125 Championship. T Mantvew Palmer (Louth) 5° 2 Michal Neeson (Northampton) 4145 3=. Laurence Cormhill(York) & Nich Jas Mahoney (Doncaster) 4/5 British Under 100 Championship. I=, John Battersby (Wallasey) & David Dunne (Nottingham) $14°5 3+, Simon Cage (Royston), Chris Mar- tin (BCs) de David MeGladdery (Brighton) as Harry Baines Week One 1 Daniel Rosen (Ashtead) 7:49 2 Paul Kendall (Bedfordshire) 6.49 3+. Stephen Connor (Ruthin), Petse Mercs (Faveways) & Jim Vickery (Leeds) 69 Harry Baines Week Two ‘A 1 Janes Packin (Inverness) 7249 22 Neil Crickmore (ford) 79 3 James Hawkins (Hunts Cross) $149 k Two °B" 1 Colin Ramage (Eastbrook) 8/9 2=. Clive Davies (Leeds) & Tony Pas ‘on (Leeds) 5149) 5 Day Week One Op T. John Dodgson (Hastings), Ri Paige (Edinburgh) & Alec Toll (Norwich) as 5 Day Week Two Open: T Bo Nyberg (Sweden) & Tim Tumer York) 4’5 3+, Mark Bowhay (Lasingstoke), Nancy Lane (Sydney), Roger Paige (Edinburg) & Tony Stalmans (Hull) 3/5 Atkins (Weekend Open): 1 Nigel Blades (Norwich) 5/6 2=. 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Subscribe direct to CHESS magazine Our address: 369 Euston Road, London, N.W.1 3AK Tel: 0207 388 2404 Fax: 0207 388 2407 email ‘[email protected] Qctober 2001 CHESS 21Joe Gallagher Wite Sohn Shaws Blick Round Nine, British Champronship, 200 ‘Sicilian Defence My preparation had been the usual mare of indecision. After brcakfast | started looking at The Kalashnikov and Sveshnikow “vaniations—Johh's main Weapons against | e4—but by about I] sum. decided that | didn't fancy either of thom. The next few hours were spert wad ing through various Closed » Sicilians (including the one 1 finally played), 1 at 452 gS, The English and anything else | ‘ould think of Suddenly it was 2 o'clock (2.15 stan) so | dashed off wo the Spa com: plex, grabbed some lunch in the news ayenis downstairs (Yorkie ar and. fruit {wiee, very nutritious) and calmly tok my place on Board 1 of the British Champion: ship not having a clue what ever my first move Was worn to be Vet | played this instantly. You don"t want to look like an idiot in front af everyone. Vn 652 OB De6 3 bs So't finally setied on John Shaw's own favourite way of meeting the Sicilian. A Tne bit risky as | have hardly ever played the move but I had noticed on the database that he struggled ay often 0 when ‘aeing 1 The ‘main Line also Ted to the sort of position | wanted. Basically, a tough manoeuvring ‘game without much chance of losing and where I hoped my greater experience would tll in the end (I know he's ot much you ac but he's a late d \eloper). Ham no longer the complet hacker of my youth, Jon 264 Sere6 de Jolin had suffered a few defents with 4 bxc6 and hid switched to 4. dxe6 in at was also pretty disastrous (see below) Sd3 ag? ons Not strictly necessary as White is not worried about. digd {Blick sould have played it on move 5, for exarmplc) but a Useful move all the stme. White keeps his options upen (with his king, for exatnpls) and will decide on his scheme of develop: tment afler he Soes Black's next rove Rowson-Shaw, ‘Scottish Ch, Absrdcen 2001, went instead 6 0-0 65 (6 -, QB) ? 23 a3 § ed ys 9 Dbi2 WoT 10 bat exba 11 axbd xd 12 G4! with an ex cellent game for White bn Oil On 6». eS then 7 Se} followed by & bald is interesting 7 Oa 27 22 CHESS Qcrober 2001 Joe Gallagher: A Critical Game How the new champion took a decisive lead... andard_ plan, Black will follow up with eS and one day’ hope to execute the smangeuvre .. QA-c6-dd Bed eS 9 Wad We7 10.46 1 ig riyh to exchange bishops even if White's 1s theoretically the better piece, ‘The first, and obvious, reason is that the lark squares on the liack kingside may become weak without his bishop to protect the second, and! mors import ‘of the White queen. Black ‘actually has a space advantage in ths rev cersad English Oj for White 0 ex ‘ot so many that he ea 10.16 ‘A debatable decision, 10 .. 0-0 looks more natura. A recent example is Adams Chandler, Redbus 2001: 11 Bhd ak 12 Dud O13 rg? diag] 14 Whos Ses 18 0-0-0 c4 16 dec Ryd 17 hued Wes 18. Wacd 19 Eads Eads 20 Wes Bes 21 Wed Hus 22 Wau ends 23 B02 Bee 24 Gd2 Bus 25 03 b5 26 Bal 5 27 08 a6 38 axbS anb§ 29 Ea5 and White went on {tw vin the ending. dint look lke much alter the opening thou 1 Sgt apr 12 Wes bo ow Fefained from 12°. We? as he was opeeral abou 13 gm ro sue Hwould have played it and may well have aimed for the usual £3 143! a Otherwise bs will give White an edge ‘play fora win) There was actually quite a deep idea be+ hind my innocuous looking 13th move. Basically, I'm trying to provent Black from playing ico. On 14. OI 1 had planned 15 B4! axb§ (15... S66 16 a4 is good for Whitey 16 abt Baal 17 Esl exbs 18 Wybo! bxe}. 19 Zax WaT Weis bes 20 19S SUR 21 Ea7 Wee 22 23 Has. As have to play 20 though White gets a waning. endgame ier 21 cbs WaeS 22 Bach~ Gals 23 a8 7 24 a3. AC ot surprising tat Shaw was alert to this possibility afer his recent experience against Rowson 15h The plan isto play, though it was a toss-up between the fet and 152 1s. ab? This Is not meant to be a permanent hme forthe bishop. Black just wants 0 set his queon's rook ini play 1614 Bac8 17 eS I dida’t want to block it ap with 17.45 although White can probably clin an cage there a5 17 oy Gane 18 HMB WAT 19 Sat seg? 2026 1 spent quite Tomy time deciding bee two the solid text, which keeps the black quegh out of dt, and the more ambitious 30-Bat?. The old adage, knights on the fam are di, finally wom, the day even though | suspected 20 Gad was best (White can often follow up with ba. 20. id {8 good move overpeoteting (6 and pre= paring to bring the bishop back ito play ai war {was pleased with this move, At first 1 thought Thad to play 21 Wy} but | was a linle Frustrated as couldn't create any’ eal threats om the kingside. In some lines Black managed vo equalize the game by a Timely .. £3 and it was because of this that the idea af We2sc3 ocurred to me. The ‘eray pressure on the long. diagonal should stop Black from even thinking about {S While the queen is also well placed to sup- port an eventual bs 21 su Wd6 22 Wed a6 23 b3Just tidying up and rultng aut any af oF ‘of from Black. ‘There 1s no neod to hurry a Black doesn’t have Wo. 23. E74 EbIP ‘My 24th move had been a title carctess 24 Bal!) asit gave Black the opportunity to change the course of the wame with a piese sacrifice on 3. I had thought this ‘would just run into a pin but afer 24 Sad3"?, neither 25 Zdb Sate! 26 Baus x04 nor 25 Ha? Wands! 26 darn? Oar? are a good idea for White. 1 would have Bad to pay, the ending afler 25 cxd3 Wad 26 Wed ad3 27 Hdl acd 28 Oe 4s still probably slightly" beter for White afier 28... 5 29° Dat but | prefer the postion with all the pieces on even iit is ‘objectively not much beter. 20M! Now you know why | wanted 10 vacate the #1 square—so that | can bring my ‘knight on h2 bock into play, 1 didn't want ‘wo exchange it forthe black night on e3 a that would lead 10 a drawish position and besides. 1 was hoping, to kick that away with done day’ 35 .. SAB 26 Ed “This time the sai serious threat 26 we SacB 27 D3 Sa ‘The last two moves sum up Black's position, Allie ean do is wait for White 10 undertake some aggressive action and hope that backfires on him we Mainly to defend 43 so that | can play -EbI- again (I want t0 play ay but there were also a few vague tities on the Kingsde 28... e629 bt Wdb 30 De? 0n30 DhS+ Black, of sounse just retreats his king. | thought 1 better come back and stop Wu again 30. Bee? Thad scen that he might be able wo sake ‘on d3 ayain but as we only had about 10 minutes Fe each 1 was sure he wouldn't waste me suleulaing it Afler 30 @xd3"7 31 exd3 the pins. don't work aygamy 31 Wad 32 Wad} snd 33 Za Sno) 34 Ere? Zaed Black should be able io hold the draw bat wih a bit more suffering than i the previous version 31be The exclamation mark is not for the strength of the move but for the timing of it. The main action must take place in the run up 10 move 40 when Black will have ile time to make some important dseisions. ‘3 €NbA 3B aNb$ aX 1 wasn't ‘concerned about allowing Black a passed pawn (32 .. a4) as White would Wen faye a massive advange in thee 33 Exba bs This was one of the difficult decisions Shaw didi Hike 33 68 98 1 allows a White knight into U5 but the most import a thing Was to op White fom playing i 34 bt {was pretty sure that he wasn’t going to play e5 she hadn't played ion the last move 30 devided fo improve my rook be- fore playing di Mon 36 2g3t This Inte tacuat tick (36. Way3 37 Sr) allows me to defend e4 in the mest convenient manner. And you never know. he may just overtook the deat of 15 36 . Ob6 37 BOS digB 38 Hdl? | good move which allows my queen freedan in the event of it boing attacked by - Slat (it no longer has to defend the «f-pawny and also introduces ideas of 5, Thad 2 a move and ended up playing it im a panic with Justa few seconds to spare. Lhd no ticed the tactical possibiluies 40 ed and 40 Bet but never actually got round 40 nutes left to play my 40h analysing them. ¥ don’t think they are any teeter than what 1 played. | spent some tame on 40 eS but realised thatthe end same wasn't clear after 40... WxeS 1 dxeS dS 42 GixdS Ex03 43 ext exds. The most obsious move was best 40 ‘endo! Bxc3 41 De4 Bai when | had scen that 42 infos fils 1042 — BAO 43 Eto Bxe} but hadn't appreciated the sirenuth of 4 dS! Blak isin serious wouble, eg AD... exd5 43 Eind$ Bx t3 44 Esxd6!; 42 G\xd$ 43 Goxd5 Bx03 44 Se7+ or 42 Lb? 43 cs. Probably Black should jei= Som a pawn sith 42. c3 40. iad? With Just a few seconds remaining Black ‘makes the desisive mistike: He should have played 40 WHS at once as afer 41 ex Hxe3 (41... Sed =) 42 Zxe3 et 43 Wed Qred 44 Wed Bas the same is level. A better try #5 41 Qe but aftr. ad 42 Wel $c3 43 Oxe3 (43 Qrib+ Ex 44 Ext Beds 45 O12 Welo+ 46 oxi Qxcl 47 Excl b=) 43 Bae} 4 Hatt 05 45 Gigh Ha 46 Boe shine 47 Bet 1 doubt hat White ean claim more than an unclear game, 41 Bel WE Unfortunately for Black this forced as AT feeS runs nts 42 Sad Defi Due 10 the loose position of the Black rook on a} White wins a gracal pawn, also spent seme time looking at mare fore ing. continuations, eg 42 ed which transposes into the notes to move 40 and 42 DelS? which runs into 42 Ext} 43. Dho+ Who, ba might not be a good idea to code con- tool of e4 but its unlikely that Black ean save himself whatever he does. 43 Zaft Ged?! 44 Ded Not only threatening the rook on a3 but also an invasion on ¢5, 44 ow a The last throw of the dice Black relies (on a dangerous a-pawn for some ticks. 45 Guxad 2 fT 46 Wall bead 47 Zac a2 48 Wal! [was reluctant to block the pawn with ‘my queen until I realised it was actually going to be very active on the al-hi diag ‘onal wvhen I get the rook and d=pawn out ofthe way) 48... ZaT 48” Wha 49 m3. a Frony here the rook both defends (it can go back 10) and attacks. 49... WIT 50 Ges Has 51, x7 $2. Bib. 5206 1-0 od October 2001 CHESS 23The World Junior Championship anian GM Peter Acs re launched his chess carger in afler something of a Jean ‘spell, by storming 10 Vietory in the 2001 World Junior Chess Champion: ship (Under tally recovered Athens, Aes gr: losing his first round ie and then powered to vistory by wit his final three games against Merab unashvili, Gabriel Saryissian and Bu Xuungehi, His victory over the World's youngest ever Grandmaster was particular Niangahi Bu (25 Peter Aes (251 Round 13 ) White Blac A typical minority attack situation has ansen, although ‘here White coold. really do swith some knights. Not only ix Bu ing t make any further progress on s tather short exploits this the firepower bearing down White kingside and also setting a low the bishop be whilst White mes misplaced, ever develops any serious Wicenside-coumterplay, Ths better was 24 243, although obviously Black would still then have retained a strong attack 24. WET 28 nd Not 25 fixcé" RABE and Black wens material Ee 26 Be? Eh2708 Desperately aiternpiing to ¢reate tuft as after both 27 83 Sxh2!? (27. wh ig also sttong) 29 yt WES 30 xe RHI and 27-h3 Ashi Black has a crushing attack 2a Bande Not just winning @ pawn, but more im= penned in and! thee mate beginning with 29... 23+ 30 gt hs 29 Zed digit 30 er Ghz 31 Se gst Decisively bringing his final piece into play 24 CHESS October 2004 by Richard Palliser Joint British U-21 Champion Richard Palliser was the top Western player in Athens. 32 fg? Bu tempts 10 sacrifice material tn ‘order 10 rum with his king, but this merely serves to hasten the end. However, even after the preferable “itS 33 Wa? (Worse is 33 Was? ed! which would transpose into the game nfter 34 fred.) 33 <3 Bh e's attack continues to gain Bow WR 33 Sd} Bagh 34 Wres ‘whi! ‘The neatest finish, Bed +1 0-1 Wri 36 Acs was followed by the Caucasian pair ‘of Merb Gaganashsh and Levon Ato nian. For the 2444-rated Gorgian this was 1 very impressive result as he remained on the top boards throughout, wilst Aronian was afte disappointed after being unable ty overcome Poland’s Kamil Miton in the final round, when &-win would have given him Gold on tiebreak, Thnughout both Gagunashvili and Aronian produced many exciting yames, whilst Aronian wae. al Ways capable ofa suerfical finish Levan Aronian (2562) Ihize G.Papp (2291 ) Black White has a crushing postional advan: ss, but Aronian unsurprisingly spotted the quickest Finish 2S Bvt! nt Now White forces mate. but had the rook not been captured then Aronian would have decisively fumed up the pres Sure further, such ay after 25. hi 26 Wyo or 25.05 26 Ber. 26Wh7 Bads $F mate was threa 9 runs into. mid: hes 28 WSs Sd 29 Wed + es 30 EUS mate 27 exd6 Ef 28 Els eS 29 dt xa7 30 Wes And as 30 ., a6 31 Bal picks up the qusen 0 Meanwhile what of England? Well, we were espresented by Nick Pert and miysel whilst Melanie Buckley competed in the World Girls Championship. Partly thanks much detailed opening preparation with IM Peter Wells, T managed to make a very satisfying 2554 performance and thus ian IM norm. Events started well fom the first round when F was pred with the top seod Ni Hua (2568) Phi Richard Palliser (2337) Bi Round One Sicilian Defence 1 M6 4 Qc} end g bs Les 8 13 2 Bhs 12 Wa? 9513 Ops Drgd 14 ings at 1S Deb sheT This is new and not particularly wood as the bishop docs little on e7 letter was ccither 15. WaS (as played by Shiv) when 16 f4 g6 17.Dd3 Sig? 18 43! was unclear in T-Paehte-Fressinet, Cappeile fa Grande 2001, oF an irmmediats; 13... directed ayainst White's f4-£5 push. 164 We8 17 Bas! The most accurate both 18 Bsxbs and 18 ing threats. Vow bE inuation a now ‘are rather annoy 18 oxba?t This and White's next were very lacs tout de Het Black of the hook. Ths preter able was 18 bd! (Plachetka) when say Black's tricks with. a3 never quite seem oor, Meanwhile afer TR. HPT both 19 he? and 19 Gd ane strong, whist 18 Be$ 19 Bec$t dred 20 OS is alo ‘ery pleasant for White Tew axb3 19 a3 Wh? 20-004 Aiming to gain a pawn on 5 (after 5... dexd5, xd), which would rather cut Black's position in two, Thus Beforethis oscurs lack must quickly seck ‘counterplay azainst 20... 65 21 ine des 22 US nds Dexils ses Xt aga 23. Bast Continuing to play as actively as possible 2M Lg? Sd 28 Wed tas! Avoiding White's threat of 26 fxe5, whilst on 8 the Black king is relatively sal, 26 fueS LveS 27 040-02 ‘This is preity suicidal and Ni presuna- biy soverely undereslamated the strength of lack’s attack, Instead White had to castle short, although after 27 0-0 He 28 Wd2 Wa? Black will gsin good counterplay on the dark-squares against the weakened ‘White kingside. 27... Ze8 28 2b1 ‘Avoiding Blbek's main threat, but now White is in very serious trouble down the wile 28... WaT! 20 Shel ‘There was nothing better as 29... xa} was possible even afer 29 Ws: zs 30 bya Wxa3 31 Eaa:? ‘end 32 2 tas When considering 25 .. @u8 1 had thought that here Black might well have to exchange qucens (although | did. alo. doubt very much that this variation would ‘occur, but instead the text move is crush= ing as 33 He? d3 wins further material, 4 Perhaps a word on the time control is neesssary hee, as in Atbens the new FIDE time control (40 moves in 75 rninutes and then 15 minutes wo complete the game with an increment from the beginning of 30 seconds per move) was again in se. | ean not really add anything new to all that has already boen writen on the subject, except to emphasise that the time control dors seem fo be pretty pointless and Teads t0 a lower quality of chess. It might sem un likely that the second seed, Lev Aronian, could miscaleulate and blunder a picce and ‘then that {would soon blunder it back (the game later ended in a drave), bet this was sadly quite a common occurence, It is probably also worth mentioning that play with the new: time control is just as sMressful as a normal seven hour game, This is because fron) around move twenty onwards one is perpetually in ume trouble and unsurprisingly this also led to several eros, such as in the following: Richard Palliser 2337) iPhire ‘Amon Simutowe (2462) Bleck Round Thirteen Semi Slav Defence 1 dd dS 2 ch 06 3 OB B06 4 3 06 5 Dba? Gha7 6 Les v6? 7 0-0 U6 8 et dyed 9 Dred Sived 10 ved ATH Eel 00 12 hed Preparing wan the Back Kngide ‘with 3, whut sadly pared a cunning defence to the tempting 12 xb, which fais due to 12. bxh? 13 Bhgs> deus 14 WHS Sa 15 Wha (Now Black is struggling to prevent the lange ‘threat of ie3-h3, but he ean defend) 13 £51 16 Hed cd (16 .. x6"? should also sdofend) 17 gat Senet! IN dues SaxeS 19 Hxe5 Wdl+ 20 Ged Re? and Black has the stranger attack, 1 he? ‘This looks logical, but is risky as here ‘White can exploit the resulting h7 weak: ness. Albo possible was 12 .. He® 13 Wd x6 (Simutowe) when Black is slightly ‘worse, but can defend with .. 6 ‘whilst the freeing. 8 i on the ears, 13 Wid3 So 14 Bes e515 git ‘Making Black regret his welt 1S oe eB 16 Date ‘This cost fr amount of time on the Glock, whist it was probably better to in- stead prefer 16 d5!?, Now 17 dxe6 is ack should avoid thot ‘HAR! when play might well with 16 transpose into the game. However, Black the kaight with 16 .. Qed hI bis 18 Wass ber 19 Excos! hu? U9. tee 20 Wixg7e is mate) 20 WxeS+ and White emerges an exchange ahead 16. Waf6 17 Wh7+ Gay 18 a5 ps A radi way 10 defend his king, but Simutowe often scems prepared to rake such risky moves, expecially. when. a5 hore. he knew that there was Yoon to be a sounteratask 19 dco Sue6 20 Zne6 Whe6 21 uz eS 22 Bel et Now it Becomes lear, aftr a fuily forced sequence, thar Black's queen and bishops are also very dangerous and so | decided to fore a draw with my net. 23 dnd Her 25. Wga! 24 Wxh6r dys 25 43 (or 25 8 a So pad na is fit too much oF 3 mess 49 make any real prowress) 25... W326 WagS+ 8 27 Wh» dogs and White rust force the por petual 19 avoid being mate. da hat As 24 dhe} alowed 24... xcs! 25 Exc6 Ixe6 and Black should be fine, 1 ‘sd ereated some useful future Iuf Also ow 25 te} is threatened, whilst gS is loose. and overall Black i in serious trouble ts Alimatively ater 24... Wd6 25 Eres! is ill tong a5 25. BxeS 26 Wh8+ Ge 27 tc} pins the rook to a mate on e. 35 Hes! Due 26 ed grb? Droppings material, although 26 .. be? 27 WB Web 28 Weds bth 29 HOR was also very good for White. aM : Picking up the rok, 27... Kel+ 28 Axel bS 29 SxbS h3 30 eB ds 31 EMT Sagrst? Desperately hoping that a perpetual will tum up, but there is none and the White king ean safely dash arose to a3. 32 Sxg2 hie 33 aah hse 34 Ser Set 35 Wares 0 cer Wee 37 Gd? Were 38 del N+ 39 de eas 40.03 Was AT ad 1-0 Nick Pert had a very solid toumament, drawing 10 of his 13 games, but was un- doubtedly disappointed to finish on just +1 However, he did scem to be quite tired, having just played rwo events consecutive ly prior to Athens (the European Junior Championship and the British Champion= ship), whilst he never quite go used to the fast time contre Still on occasion Nick did demonstrate the talent that will no doubt soon see him reaching 2500 and thus gaining the GM title October 2001 CHESS 25S.Kapnisis (2373) Whit Nick Pert (2475) Black Round Eleven French Defence me ANA MAW Bowe This continuation is prety rare, but ap pears to be a much improved version of 18 Advance Variation for White as 1s gained the useful move 4, support the bridgehead on <5, White's main d Black simply capture on 44, is to castle and then to develop a dangerous Kingside initiative, probably beginning witha well timed Sys, 7. 6 Now & .. 64 is threatened and so White ‘must either revert to a normal f4 Tarrasch with 8 3 or play asin the garne 8 dieS Sixes 9 Db3 Dbd 10 Ler yxb3 11 axb3 at! A prepared novelty, which makes use of a litle trick (12 xd? Wad) to ain some very useful space and use of the <45-square and hi-aB diagonal. Instead 11 Lc?! 12 63 e613 4! Os 14 son Led 15 g3 eel 16 Wael 0-0 17 det White, who threatens the postionally strong bS and Q4l6, a dream position in Kapnisis-Antoniewski, Murck 1998, Iz Sed 7 13 63 dxe3 14 bxe3 © 15 Bids exds 16 Odd BB 170.01: here Nick and Pete's prey od on 17 Ab? de8 18 bishop eon 00 28 shen, with 26 CHESS October 2001 the excellent el-squate, Black is fine text, however, is much more da an! gives White stong attack in Tetum forhis pawn, 7a Bed As tT. SicS could now be met by 18 4c} Black had to grab the pawn and hope forthe best 18 2 apa Pet continues to find only moves ashe rushes his king ino relative safety to avoid being crushed by: an 5 and 6: break through 19 ht 0.0204 est Another only move, but again a very good one, With variations such as 20 He§? 21 c6! theo 22 theb nes 23 Oines lurking just beneath the “surface, Black must be very accurate and comestiy takes aim nt the advanced White pawns 20 though with 21 B63 running mo 21 Ect5 Whit had lite atematve Br kes Sidestepping the threat of 22 fy ‘2xg7P (stead the rook: mast move though then 23 B06 o¢ 23-65 sill leads to very rong attack) 23 of Ras Probably not Wiking th x05! 25 Ded 23 WH) 23 _. Hed 24 Eubd Wxbs 25 Wes Se6 when Black begins to make good use of his light square control, Kapnisis instead prefers to ny to re-route his knight into the attack. 22, WS 23 Wel?! Now Black continues to gain funter ac look of 22 fxg? tivity with is queen and so 23 fug7 must have been eniical. Then 23. We2 24 WrdS! See 25 Wad leads to a very un clear position. The Black king is still a cause for concem, byt then $0 100 is White's as the B-knight is now pinned against amate 23... Wer 42a? Overlooking a key tactical resource and cad it was possible to remain fully in aan unelear game after 24 Oda Wedd Rnd? 26 Boa? ‘White Would have had to make this uly capture anyway after 25 gi Ext! trans- Posing into the game, whilst if 25 he then 25... Red? is very strong 25... Buf 26 Eel 56 Now it becomes fully clear thatthe roles have reversed, Pert can easily defend bis king with .. 8 if necessary, whilst itis now Whites king which is seriously exposed 275 Ef Foreing favourable simplification. Black will now be able to push his very strong passed d-pawn as well as picking up the eS-weakling 30 Ext Wells 31 Bel Whe 32 Wed 33 Waa7 da 34 Wes Wels 35 Eel Weds 36 Sy? Eues 37 eas Zes 38 Wes The rook ending is obviously lost, but swith an awtil stucture, exposed king and ng a monster d-pawn White could have already resigned, 3 39 ved Eves 40 Bd? Zed 41 Eas 0-1 2 U3 28 eS Ries 29 Wres Also taking part in the World Junior Were Sam Collins of Treland and’ Scot land's James: Parkin. James had. a. fairly quiet but probably Plsased to gain a few rating poims, whilst Sam showed flashes of his large’ talent, but, like Nick, never seemed t fully gt to ips with the new time control. Elsewhere i roeent visitors to England im P. Mahesh: Chandran, who con sted in the 2000 British Championship a Millfield and drew there with Julian Hodg- san in the frst round, made an impressive 36 performance to record his first IM fon. Meanwhile Zong-Yuan Zhao, fresh fiom playing in the Smith & Williamson Young Masters and the British Champion ship, raced away to 3/3 before a mid:tour hhament collapse and then an impressive recovery to finish on 7/13 As astal Zhao displayed » keen tactical eye “Zong-Nwan Zhao (2359) White Markos (2479) Black Round Two With, rook on the seventh and the Black “king rather exposed, ‘Zhao. now found an elegant way to decide matters oe ; ing his remaining pice into the stack ind threatening 34 Bled e693 and 36 Bigot 33 es “Ausinpiing to gover 26 (afer 34 We2 DE), but allowing’ a mice combo. Stilthere was no other way to attempt to save the game with 34 €3e4 a rushing threat, 34h: The queed is immune as 34... Dxd3 35 yt forees a picturesque mare (after 35 “E18 36207 mate or 35. GhS 36 7 as Preventing 35 6+, but allowing a further queen sacrifice. 35 Huds! gxhs 38. WedS 36 Gifs dhe 37 BHT ‘and again the knights and rook com 36 BIB+! and Markos Resigned as 36 , S08 37 WIT is mate i) Whereas in the Boys’ event the Chinese narrowly missed out on a medal, they did xin one in the Girls’ Championship, hav- ing had three players challgnging. at the top for most of the tournament. However, it was to be a frequent visitor to English events, WGM Humpy Koneru, who was to take the Gold medal on tiebreak, on route calmly outmanoewvring most of het main rivals Melanie Buckley fought hard through ‘out and, tut for several accidents and ‘much misfortune during time scrambles with 2300s, would undoubiedly have fi Ished with far more than fifty percent. Mel also. constantly owtmanocuvted stronger ‘opponents. But her preparation was also pretty impeessive, including improving on an Adams-Kramnik clash. Probably” her finest effort was the following: A.Hersvike (2000) White ‘Melanie Buckley (2118) Back Round Eight French Defence Led e623 d5 3 Dd? O15 4 Deh Deb 5 cB a8 605 D477 ds 66 8 exo?! Releing the tion 2 iy es Back an ey yime nea preteable was § bs when pay bas tronsposed nie 4 Guimmard Tarasch (2 dt d5 3 0912 co) With Black having gained the move «a3 Then 8 fos 9 daeS de? 10.090 0-0 11 et eS 12 Bb] Oa? 13-2. gave White svalledge im Viasov- Dickenson, Euro- pean Club Cup 1996 Bn HFG 9 ADS B46 100-02 Now Black quickly sets bout exph ing White's lack of development 10 the initve and so 10 ©T should prob ably have been preferred, although then iBack stil hasan easy game after the liber ating 10. 10 0-0 1 Obt Uti butte only way 0 compete e+ velopment sien ace the nara Eer'Ulek poses seins probiens wih 1 eS 12 deS BdxeS 13 Lxc6 bee! and Wigner cl how Whe tere wht Sut is on the way 10 increase the reser Theres! 2.dgs Hei he shorter misplaced and acy besos» tre bu en was 12 dxeS GdxeS 13 Dxe$ Wres nee 12 ou Wg 13 dueS DaneS 14 Dres Uncanny 1 ns woul fave teen tu potty nd Lean be prised by Th e613 Gxes nes 16 Wd? Os! 14, Oe 15 4 15... Dgat Cantina 0 pay a5 postvsy as pos ible and ot ivi Heit single > Ws Bus Prevetting 16 «eS, bat allowing bisck's her treat Sl was impossible to meet both tre, whist neuer would 16 WxdS+ have helped. Then after 16 heb 17 Wed (After 17 Wxb7 Zab8! 18 Wad BS 19 ad WeS+ 20 bhd OO+ Bleck not only wins an exchange, Bt is also if watt crushing stask) 17 ‘Dyh2! ack has an even song ta than in he game 16... ix?! iy sling te sti SY Eel cove kas asst ‘fer 18. W919 Bed White cn si opt defend, bt intend Backey ensu tht after 4 tage of bishops she can lace farther pressure on Fad 5. 19 Lxf5 ExtS 20 We Preventing 20 hg 21 Sind Ors, but ‘now Black plays .., Qg4 with a decisive fan often, 20... Qgs 21 Web+ Wre6 22 Sxe6 misplaced comrecily wants even more tnd now ses bout winning te White bishop by force 23 Gant 1724 el ho 2st Ens “Trapping the poco and effectively end- ingthe game 2623 e527 fagS hgS 28 SIs p6 29 Oa} gaht 30 OB hugh Oot Mel also suffered during one round from the ingorrect pairings (for about five boards) being displayed in the hotel, ‘which was obviously unacceptable, Indeed the gencral level of organisation ‘of Athens which appeared to be full of col Tapsing conerete apartment blocks, was rather depressing and doss not bade well for the forthcoming 2004 Olympics. Alt though the four star hotel was very reason- able, the players then had to endure a 25, ‘minute journey through bleak suburbs, de- void of any famous old buildings (indeed the visit on the rest day to the Acropolis was probably the highlight af the trip), 10 the venue. Once there events usually ran to an acceptable level, although the prize iv- ing Was certainly. very poorly organised, ‘This may have featured many well known Greek dignitaries, but unbelievably the whole of the nearly hour long ceremony was conducted in Greek with no transla- tion at all! In conclusion the English players cst= tainly enjoyed most ofthe tournament and overall did reasonably well. Thanks for this must go to the suppor ofthe BCF and tall the chess and non-chess help of eur hardworking coach, Peter Wells, Scores: 1 Peter Acs (2514, Hungury) gold 10/13 Merab Gagunashvili (2444, Geor- 7a) taking silver on ticbroak & Levon Aronian (2562, Armenia) bronze 914 4 Ni Hua (2568, China) 9 5. Serge! Azarow (2401, Bulgaria), Bu Xianw2hi (2553, China), Zviad beara 2486, Georgia), Evgeny Shaposhnikoy (2519, Russia), Kamil Miton (2516, Polund), Mighacl Roiz (2511. fsraed) & ‘Adam Horvath (2504, Hangary) 816 128, Gabriel Sargissian (2514, vm. ita), B. Mahesh Chandeat (2339, ind), Richard Palliser (2337, England), Jan Markos (2479, Slovakia), Andreas Schenk (2455, Germany) & Levente Vajda (2507, Romania) 8 Sis. Nick Pert (2475, Englund) 7 56>. Sam Collins (2194, ireland) 6 {63=. James Parkin (2122, Scotland) S14 (89 competed) Girls: 1=, Humpy Koneru (2387, Jaa) gold & Xue Zhao (2372, China) 913 Nadezhda Kosintseva (2327, Rus- sia) bronze & Xiaobing Gu (2300, China) 9 Se. Lilit Mirtchian (2376, Armenia), Yuanyuan Xu (2431, China), Nana Dz nidze (2321, Georgia) & Inga Charkh lashyili 2378, Georgia) 84 26=. Melanie Buckley (2118, Englud) A (60 competed), SAVE 5% ON YOUR (CHESS PURCHASES by subscribing direct to ‘CHESS Monthly at 369 Euston Road, London, N.W.1 3AR ‘Tel: 0207 388 2404 Fax 0207 388 2407 email: chesscentreseasynet.co.uk £34 95 for one year for UK addresses—rates for other countries given on page 3 October 1001 CHESS 27FIND THE WINNING MOVES A selection of positions taken from tournament play. Can you work out the winning ways? The Skripchenko White Nalditeh Blick solutions are on page 52. Moskalenko White Castillo Black Cullera 2001 Vimmaw Hire Avrukh Black Lost Boys, Amsterdar era Black Jonkman iWite De Vreugt Black White so play ancl win wast Darter Cars 08 aye Ammen Cot = ¥ x reg) sa a4 el & kag ae Waa A mA Rams 18 8 Bay ie : 8 aA 2uow GA z 2S Slips te Lopez 2001 White 1 play and win Rowson Wie Pert Blick British Championship 2001 White to play end win Matras iPhite Flanta Black Bergen 2001 koswes fh ake xoaw & ahh BAD i Wo aa aw aa as a a wae a ad aa ay a a Al ARAB Bal w anim @ ARAWAR ow &® SRAM AR bad & = oe wes Black to play and win ‘Tkachiey White Sokolay Bluck ‘Shanghai 2001 White 40 play und win Buckley White Humt Black British Championship 2001 White to play and win Mikanovie White Moisan Black Quebee Open 2001 = EA n wie x ae a a a Cake Wa ak Mom @ 2 aww aa abs a ayy a a 28 A DWAD ms) & Ree & ae Am i BA 2 2 mg a we se Waite to play ancl win Whire to play and win White to play and win 28 CHESS ¢ 2001(DILID SIVAIDIE “At times Ihe was playing with two bishops on the white, at times wich the same two on the black, while his rooks moved all askew. And Iam sure that he castled ewice. But he won. The twinkle returned to his eye, the smile, the dream..." would soon find a way ir there. And you know,” pointing with bis pi Ociober 2001 CHESS 2towards the board, “there must be a way. but we ean’ see it We should be playin Ul momning #F we were to fight oul thor perhaps we shouldn't be done i He took ® long, contemplative look at the board and shook his head significantly, “Tithing,” F said, afer a Yong tact sur vey of the board, “That it could be done. That is,” | added apologetcaly, “with the sacefie of pisces, of course He shook his head again, all he replied, Thad to assert myself then. After all he had to feel that in holding his own aguinst “me he was doing something really big. Where would be his trumph if I were the merest dud? Just a skitler, as he was wont ta call the other players of the vik lage? To be lumped among. them touched my pride a Title, and 1 d= cided to be district champion once more, iFonly fora game. ‘ut nor sill the following evening, Sat urday evening, his fasourite hour. It was very silly when 1 entered, with just the slock ticking gravely in the comer and himself puffing slowly at his pipe, He had n awaiting me, | noticed, forthe bord was set and the lainp draw up. Somshow tm that metlowed homely light {felt w bit of a dastard; and—though perhaps it was faney—everything in that old and int mute room accused me, the heavy: low beamed coiling, the dark cakepaelling round the walls, the pewter thal stood Nevert” was the patriarch, years and long traditions against i ted. Isat doven with « and-argay-one spiny late my offnge, He was a lake surprised, but he opened his eyes wide when 1 plunged into a risky bil-on the king's side In a tries: my Knights were through and I soon began 10 spread red ruin among his pisces. | 400k his qucen after discovering check om the king, and a moment later | forked his king tnd rook, He woul have been mate in the “Everything in that old and intimate room accused me... In a way | was pulling the beard of the patriarch, and years and long traditions were crying out against it thinith move but fora wild onslaught that Ihe made in return. In his panic agitation he id not ep tothe files, and his avenging bishops and rooks came skipping oblique ly down the bourd and made the most un expected captures. 111 had not resorted 10 similar rneasures, that i, in the list thove, ate should fall bly have fost. ft was a treacherous sab in the back, but wht could {da? il, Broke his heart, Not that he bee grudged me the vietory, far he Was & yal lant shan and a sportsman, but he knew that he had been living in illusions. Every ‘mingled with its awn shadows on the si board, the antlers that hung above the door. tna way I was pulling the beard of evening had been adding lee realty 40 his dream, softening out his merori heping him back through the long y and the days when he really played chess. And now swith a blow it was gone. He was an cold man, afterall, woll over eighty, a more remnant of his younger self, with « frail body and a failing brain. He gave me a siruguling, look, muttered something af his fold, old age, and. after a few vain pofls at huis pipe went out and retired 0 bad. | Inca his slow step going up the sais, and Uhave never heard a sadder sound than ‘when he closed his bedroom door. It sent a long lonely echo inte the sifence that fl lowed, and seemed 10 dic away as a ight ‘muffled Footfll is th Tk was days before we brought him round. He had wo be fondled and Whispered back to his old and better self, and there was mush secret talk of my rather crooked victory. had taken him unawares, rushed him if a way, and I Believe sogtnone said tht in my haste I had stolen a move, et a Word slip that this was also my émpres sion, dws, a8 | hinted later, 10 my teal f Of losing. That U had fears as well gave im heart, We sat down to a game on following Saturday, and he won in te sounding style. Lt was his tum to do the rushing. At times he was playing with to bishops on the white, al times. with the same two on the black, while his rooks ‘moved all askew. And | am sure that he castled twice. But he won. The twinkle ee tured to his eye. the simile, the dream: and his lecture on my errors for an hour aller the game was most elated. “And yet," he said at last “Y should like Yo have’ a’ match with a really. dosent player Countrywide Computers Victoria House, 4 High St. Wiurton, Cambs C86 3RB ‘Suppliers of all COMPUTER CHESS products, lat best possible prices and no pip chargest DEDICATED chess computers: \" Novag. Mephisto, Kaspamv & Saitek PC SOFTWARE: (=the word's TOP PLAYING programs - Fritz, lares, Rebe! Strecker, sunior and Ninzo l= the TOP DATABASE programs - that means ChessBased and all ts various packages and magazines on CD! l= the BEST TUTORIAL programs - Chess Mentor, Maurice Ashloyand ChessMates. 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Apart from that, 1 know little else, The 78 gemes on the “MegaBase 2001" CD Feveal him to be quite an erratic player. When he is good, he is very good, but when he is bad—well ot pretty, But today, let's concentrate on the good stuff. This game is pure inspira~ tion, It's a bit like the Brazilian foot~ ball team in full flow: artistic, joyful ‘and deadly in the penalty box. Enjoy vyourselt. Cover the page with a card or sheet of paper, lowering it gradually to re= veal a line at a time. Begin after the first diagram, Whenever Black has moved, stop and try to guess White's reply which will be on the next line. ‘Try to analyse as much as you would in a game—it could eam you valuable bonus points depending on how deep ‘your strategy is. The article will test your standard of play, of, if you prefer, just enjoy a fine game. 0. Ganbold Whiee 1H Banikas Black Istanbul Olympiad, 2000 Sicilian Defence 65 2 DB 6 3 of Deo 4 ds Qxdd WeT 6 Ded a6 7 Re? 1 oxd )f5 8 0-0 Lb49 Dxc6 bue6 10 We? des 25 Wxd8 Wxt7 26 WIB+ Heo 27 Be? mate 23 Exe One point. 2B Exhs 24 ge E’ght points. Wonderful. MRS If 24... fx@6 then White forces checkmate: 25 Wh8+ ded? (25... sb? 26 Wxd8 only delays the end) 26 Wh7+ seo 27 Wegor BHO (27. ba7 28 WiTs We7 20 Wxe7 mate) 28 ‘We8+ We 29 Wre7 mate. This vari ation is a potent demonstration of how the queen and bishop complement each other perfectly. The bishop con- trols the dark-squares, while the queen attacks the king on the light-squares, 2s nse ree points. This isn’t the only winning move, The same score for 25 Exh6, threat~ ening Dh8+, If 25 ... Bas 26 Wes+ tha? (26 .. She6 27 Bxe6+) 27 Eh7 1B 28 Lxf8 Wxf8 29 WF, forces the decisive breakthrough; while 25 a7 26 WHS (5 27 Hh7+ ek 28 ‘Wh6 is going to end in mate. 2% eT 2600 «WHT Four points. | am beginning to get 3 feel for our friend's style! It seems typical that he chooses the most artis- tic way to finish the game, I love the subtlety of this queen nudge. 2 Hes 1f 26... Bag6 thom 27 Wai? and mate, 27 Bf One point 27 eB 2% ExT One point. These are the easy moves —xe'ting to this point was the difficult part. Once the breakthrough has been made, Black's king stands no chance. Black's army is still completely uncoordinated. 2, dT Preventing &c7 mate. Instead, how would you deal with 28... e6 ... ? Answer on the next line ‘The simplest solution is just to take Ae ausen Two posi you chose 29 His Wet 30 x68 ond Black will quickly lose more material 29° Ber ‘Two points. White begins the task of clawing back the material investment. 29 HIS, winning the queen, also seores two points. 29 Se7+ isn't a5 good. The king steps off the back-rank, 29... ske7, and. breathes a sigh of reliel—until White realises he has made a mistake and plays 30 Sd6*, forcing the king back again. But repeating the position is obviously unnecessary. AL this point, Black played 29 .. HeS and resigned before White could mate his reply. The best move isn't 10 take the queen, but to play 30 Exes Material would then be level, but Black's queen is about to disappear as 30.806 31 We7 would be mate, AA scintillating game. 1 particularly like the one-square nudges 24 16-26, and 25 Wh8-h7; they provide a fine Counterpoint to the crashing sacrifices. Long may Odondoo remain erratic Now add up your points. 61-72 Grandmaster 50-60 International Master 40-89 FIDE or National Master 30-39 County player 20-29 Strong club player 11-19 Average club player 0-10 Unlucky Magical Miniatures Studies Competition by Colin Russ J.Fritz Svobudne Slovo 1961 White to move and win LiProkes Pavulléle 50 1948 White 1 move and draw To enter, send your name and address With the min variation Bridge Lid, 369.” Euston London, NWI 3AR postmarked not later than November 15 2001, There is 4 £25 vouster for the ist comet ety Solutions to July miniatures Kubbel: 1 a6 (not | axb6?, as we] Shall see) | e327 23 aBeW el 4 WaS*) this indispensable move ows froma promotion on, not on 8) 4 Gp 3 Wa3;, now most moves by Bhaek’s queen allow a mat in to of her immediate capture, oF even both, ‘The alirnaive continuations are charm ingly interceated: 5. Wel 6 Wad aca 73+ and 5. Wal 6 We+ dad 7 3+ Malberstadt: | Qgfos 48 2 Oa7+ BB (2 Geb 1 DSK, 7+) 3 Oe5.G Sie dhe 4 Bes sou is sale 4 Be + $5, say BaeS*) 3 7 (3 «a7, say 4 Sir, when 4 BS, allows 5 Qyors) 4 Stor ns 4. 5 Deu7s) 5 uo! ars (otherwise mate i immediate; note that iF the white king had gone to d8 orf, Black would have had the. pianing| checking answer 5.2858) 6 FANT, £25 voucher winner: J.Wray Devizes October 2001 CHESS 33(CHESS AS.A DETERMINANT AE RELATIONS "PWEPS Tt SEXES isa subject retaining quite 1 bit of mileage. We can all quote passayes from favourite novels to illustrate the ¥ Cissitudes of chess and love, Trollope’s Burchester Towers supplying a convenient Mr Slope loved furiously, insanely, and truly, but he had never played the ‘game of fove. The signora did not love at all, but she was up to cvery move on the board. It was Philidor pitted schoolbos fe examples of ‘oppositesex clashes over the chessboard, or ill-assorted relationships in which one ‘party isan aficionado and the other uncon Verted ? Here, from opposite ends of the lovelhate spectrum, are a pair of case studies worth pondering. 1848, vias oF nevoUnIONS. Night after fight, in an isolated community. im up country Now York State, a man and is wife play at chess. At the end of the even ing the man confides the results ofthe eve- hing’ play to his diary: how many "beats were achieved by cach pany, and in what style—outrgeously, handsomely, griev- ‘ously, nefariously, arociously, slapping, Ssmashingly. magnificently, triumphantly. rappingly, with a dig! These are just some af the phrases he applies to these nightly encounters. “Wifey” for her part derives a ‘son pleasure fiom the defeats inflicted on hher masterful (and very famous) husband, particularly when she sontsives. an carly checkmate with almost all the picees still ‘on the board, “One of these beats puts her im good. spirits for the whole evening,” ‘And the loser, who is none other than Lust of the Mohicuns author James Fenimore Coopers finds the traditional excuses for these disasters: “can only say that I play somewhat carelessly, for I dislike plodding ‘over the board. Then Susy 1s so inwardly ddolighted to beat, while I care nothing...” nally “the outside world “im- great and Useful idea! Chess."), of practical concems come to the fore: “Caught a turkey and killed it myself, and. bought a key of oysters on iy way back... Chess with wife. she beating outrageously.” And so they continue, through a smallpox out break, a spell of weather in which the ther mometer falls to 16° below zero, and a variety of small-town incidents: a tea party and dance, the burning down of a nearby factory, the stocking of the Coopers’ ice hhouse to see them through the surner, “The diary covers a period of only five ‘months, but from it and other evidence it ‘wauld seem that the couple enjoyed reg: ular sessions at the chess board through the greater part of their four decades of snartied life. They are even reported 10 Ihave played a skitfle on their wedding day ISI 1, between the ceremony and the marriage supper. It was, in the words of fone commentator, “the only ground on Which they met in open and authorised ri- walry, Over the chessboard man and wife sere enemies. There was a peculiar thrill the relation. [t enchanted the masterful fone to sce his slave in prety attitudes of defiance and even conquest. But an the cother hand, a master ought to win.” Chess, iH clear, formed part of the 34 CHESS October 2001 Real Chess: TWO CHESS DIARIES dynamic of this long ful marriage, (Our sfcowb exauarce features rather less successttl pairing. Henry Emest Dy: fs Known today as the “puzzle King’, wherever that ttle is not awarded t0 Sam Loyd. A natural yenius of mathernat: ies, but excluded by circumstance from a eer in academia, he found an alternative route to falfiment as 2 composer of in xgenious brain-teasers, published _ over many years in mayarines like the Strand and Blighry. At least one of his books, Anusenents in Mathematics (1917), in clues lengthy section of chess elated puzzles, Dusdeney made the mistake of manying a best-selling novelist who could not abide ‘chess. Alice Dudeney’s journal ofthe mar Tiaye, extraets from which have been pubs lished as A Lewes Diary, 1916-1944 (198) casts the ubsessional chess player tn a leak lh Wis full or refer- ences. to Emest and his “ever of marrying a best-selling bhsting GTS movelist who could nox abide Plainly throush chess. And it was his gus! ‘seh preoccupation with the royal quently “matters AME Which destroyed his fevome “even marriage—that and che nore tush” endless round of visits to the 1925. Suh local chess club.” dbazzlingly ho ly morning, Felt | must do something, so paid £1 38 fora trouser press for Ernest | ‘was automatically thanked and he never even unpacked it Went off First to Bowls ana fice supper to Chess”. What rotter ‘The following day the trouser press woos back to the shop, Ase having fist de nominated her husband “vile as usual”, while he “wound up by calling me liar and foot” Aside from Duleney himself, assorted clubland heroes wander through the pages of the diary, among them the Dudoney"s loctor andthe focal pariah priest, who fig tres in several cryptic enti: "Mtn 10 make an omelette for supper but Me Grit fths turned up at 6 & stayed tll 9.0, playing chess’ The ev. E. Griffiths was hot one of Ms Dudeney’s favourites, one fest of his Frequent visits being to reduce her husband o a sate of invaliism. After the night of the ometetic Dudoney: spent the following day in bed, is spouse cm menting tary: “Vm perfectly certain that So mush chess takes it out of him; But sin’ say so”, Dudcney’s abilitiss as a player were ‘modest, and outsie the local area he had few frends inthe chess world. An excep: thon was Antoay Guest, chess editor ofthe Morning Post and a long-time intimate ‘One of the more touching sections of the diary concerns Guest's visit to the Du- ddeneys at Christmas 1922, when the three fends sat together afer hunch, “two old men, one old woman, close friends since | “Dudeney made the mistake as eighteen and they were nwenty-eight Iwas lovely to sit in my chair and just listen to them talking; of dead and gone limes and for the most part dead and gone fiends. Lovely sunset, lovely occasion, L felt that al storms were over” was, of course, 180 good to last, and when Guest visited 2 year later "Emest practically never spoke all day. Sour gloom, Most embarrassing”. It was 40 be the last meeting between these two chess. friends, as in litte more than a year Guest ‘was dead. Typically, Dudeney left ito his wife to attend the death bed but went 10 the funeral himself, “looking lugubrious in black” The Dudeneys' marriage would have been dysfunctional, ane fancies, if Emest Inud never raised «pawn im anger or en* aguged with Cubic Knights’ Tours. But it ‘was his preoccupation with the royal game which destroyed it—that and the endless round of visits 10 the local hess club; E went to Brighton chess match. E hasn't tbeen the best company n the world! He played chess with Dunstan... E gone to the Club, After tea E had a pany to play chess with hum. went into the garden and found sore erocu- ses... Tm up here (as Fire). E playing chess im fonight; $0. sup pose I'd better not have fire in the ‘drawing room... At night Eto chess, E went to chess... E playing chess AL night Mr Griffiths played chess with E & rather exhausted him .. Ein bed. I'm perfectly certoin that so much shess takes it out of him, but mustn't say so... Life with E is advays prison: & for over 30 years I've been beating atthe bars How different, one reflects, from daily life at the Coopers’! Would thinys have been any bette, | wonder, if Emest had introduced Alice to the mysteris of Immovable Pawns, Chest board Solitaire, and, of course, the Cubie Knight's Tour? Perhaps not. Mrs Dudency ‘might not have taken so easily as Mrs ‘Cooper toa series of "beats", whether out- Fagious, nefarious of achieved with a dig! ‘While her husband, ifn the losing side in such encounters, would almost certainly fot have adopted! Cooper's preferred ther- apy of killing a turkey or spading the as- Pingus beds, More probably he would have taken to his couch, Real Chess, it would seem, claims its victims quite’ as offen as it crowns its Iheroes, atleast when played in the domes” tie eile, But then those of us with Chess Widows (or Chess Widower) in our lives knew that already by C.P.RAVILIOUSAn Enigmatic Character Bob Jones poses a chess trivia question par excellence: Who were Britain's first Grandmaster and first official Champion, and what fate did they have in common? Anyone confident of answering all three parts correctly really can claim to be a Chess Mastermind. be fest is the ist, Comins Mansfietd, arded his GM title by FIDE in 1972, several years ahead of Tony Miles. The tthe is Cecil De Vere who won the fist tournament ever held to det in F866, And what do these Two ferent people have in common? T died in Torbay and their funeral services held at Torquay Cem So how well did you do? Mansfield's great contribution over many decades 10 the problemists” art, is well-known and well-documented, | of course, but what of De Vere? Most of is conteraporaries have left some legacy of thotrcontnbution to the game; Stet, for example, came to dominate the last quarter of the century as World Champion and an unrivalled match player, yet few remember at 4 young De Vere, scarcely out of his teens, ounsed him 7-3 in a match, albeit at the small odds of pawn and ‘move, Blackburne lived on until 1924 to besor the Grand Old Man of British chess and Bird left us his eccentic opening, but what da you know of this shadowy the” strange-sounding name Vere? Pro Te is a fact of chess history that each jon has to leam his achiev anew, almost from scratch, He open ame, indced he knew litle theory; nor has any book has ever been written about hint, ‘until now, that is Many weird coincidences impinge on the life and death of De Vere, the most re cent being the fact that two people, quite independently and unknown t9 each other, bbeyan to investigate aspects of his life and ines. In Cromer, Norfolk, Owsa Hindle had begun collecting as many of his garnes as ho could wave, with a view to ‘or variation that bears his publishing Jones, in Ex mes collection, whike Bob uth, Devon, became inter fsted in the fhet of his death in nearby Torquay. and unearthed, (aot literally you understand), some interesting facts, appar cently unrecorded in any’ literature that he ‘sould trace, Sirangest ofall, bath desided to write to Ken Whyld for help in theic re Scarch, their letters arriving on Ken's doormat ow the sume day? “I do. not be cit!” he replied, “It is truly astonish ing that & man, mote or less neglected for should suddenly becon the focus of attention in two different parts of the country The outcome was that Hindle and Jones readily agreed to cooperate and put their joint efforts into a book that is due 10 be published this month. It contains 1O1 of his games, which in clude all his known wins, with some draws and lasses, cach with Background notes and some analysis by Hindle, Britain's top Senior player. Thess games are attached to illysirale the player's and annotaor"s syle Bob's interest was originally srou shorly before the British Championship was dc to come to Torquay in 1998, and fhe was tickled by the idea that the’ fist [Grtish Champion Short, as it hours at The did was to visit Torquay to locate the grave and tomb: stone. Sure enough, there it was, found within minutes, lose to where it hic been described in the ehess archives. But hall way trough jotting dawn the: the headstone, —“Ceeil De Vere binh and death ee a did't quits ty and looking at the name more closely, it was in fact, one William Cecil De Vere ‘No problem, om w the correct plot was identified about 20 metres ip of the Cemetery Superintend But there was no sign of the small isk that was paid for by public sub- seription andl erected in TS84—it was rothing but a patch of new-mown grass The cemetery records confirm that « mem ‘rial was indevd paid for and erected. The 19* century chess writer, Leopold Hoe, reported on it in his magazine Chess Monthy, with a picture and a copy of the epitaph, Which read, “To the memory of Ceeil De Vere the well-known chess muster. Bom 1845: Died 1875. This stone was erected by chess players of Great Brit tin and Ireland in adrucation oF his genius and sortow at his loss. So, as often happens in historical rer search, instead of answers 10 questions, nore questions. What hap’ pened ta De Vere’s memorial? And who this other Cestl De Vere buried nearby? Could this be just-another al: mighty coincidence, or ‘could thete be some connection between the wo? The urge 16 pursue this Fine becomes stronger sehen one appreciates that our chesssplaying De Vere was actually born Valentine Brown, and only adopted the name by which he became known to the world at some point before he entered his teens, Hitherto. it had generally been js ges October 2001 CHESS 35Bob Jones assumed that the new name was plucked Out of the air, a¢ an act of self-aggrandise- fent, bil iow one begins to wonder Could there have been some logical reason ‘With an absence of any hard fact, the urge 10 spesulate is iresstible, and Bob Jones has indulged himself in this. direc tion—if there is a connection between the two De Vere's, what might it possibly be? Bob has gathered a few scraps of fim in formation about thems and ‘woven them ino a theory which atleast hangs together Oliver Cromwell, William Shakespeare, William the Conqueror, and the Irish ars toctacy al get 8 mention in the story, from, fone can detect the feint whilf of scandal De Vere's playing eareer started and fin ished early. He was only thirteen wher he came to the notice of Samuel Boden, Fran cig Burden and the Revd. George MeDor: nell, who encouraged him, and introduced him to London chess circles. On # Satur day aflernoon, he would play the best available opposition at the appropriate adds, ui, im 1865, he was backed to take on Ste nite himself, ina ‘match at pawn & move, Stcinitz was stunned at losing 73 and took some ribbin from his elubmates Soor afer, in 1866, the British Chess As sosiation put up a new trophy. the Challenge Cup, the winner of which would become the frst official British Champion. De Vere won it with ease, wit ning. all rwelve games involved, He went on 1 te for the second Championship in 1868, and again in 1872, but lost the two play-ofl fo Blackburne and Wiser respectively In fact, bis decline hhad set in soon after his first victory, when hhe was diagnosed with B. His approach 1 Ti has been lai back 36 CHESS October 2004 A young Stein at the best of times, ut now he saw no point at all in honest endeavour of any Kind, and took to the bottle, mush to the despair of amest colleagues Just before the end came, when he was lesperately ill his fiends arranged for him to go to the seaside to comvalesce ay in Navernber 1875, KS Inter, sill only 29, this Life as he had en: under the name of Walemtine Brown, though exactly who would have ‘known that th original name, in 8 town where he supposedly knew no-one, nd Why revert at that stage anyway, is yet sinother mystery In his obituary. Stetnite, who knew him well as a fiend and respected opponent, called him “A. Young Morphy", and the authors have picked up on this, calling their book “The English Morphy”, the question mark being an invitation 13 readers to compare their ows assessments, fer playing tough the games, with that oF teint But, Valemtine Brown or Cecil De Vere —who exactly was he? Was he of Eng lish, Irish o Scottish descent? Who was huis father? Why should a bieth certificate, that would provide important answers, be so hard to find? Does one exist at all, and if not, why? What happened to his memor ial? Why would anyone want to get rid of The authors freely admit they have no conclusive answers, but have at least pin- pointed some of the right questions to be asked. Ifany readers who fancy theit skills a5 chess slewths can come up with some further fhcts about his life or mare of his wins, not already’ in the book, please feel free to do 40, snd let us know the results Help solve the enigma that was Cecil De Vere ‘Owen Hindle Meanwhile, here are three games. to remind us of his unquestionably great tural talent De Vere tire W, Steinitz Black Dundee September 1867 Ruy Lope 1 ef eS 2 DA 2ic6 3 BbS Bb 4 Dred $ Bel Dado 6 Dives Ones 7 AeT 8 date? If .. 0-0 White would have good ar tacking chances with 9 2d3 but instead of the weakening text move, Black should hhave been content with the straightforward 8. Qixbs, 9 Eel Qxbs 10 Whs+ g6 11 Wb 123 ds 13 ef! Black has no_satisfctony move ex, if 13... 0-0 14 exd5 exd5 15.83 or similaely: 13... deed 14 Wred Wd5 15 Wed5 exdS 16 De}, 14 Sie ded 15 Wacds hg? 16 dt An MW AAR ne Ss 6. eXdS If 16. Bd? a possible continuation would be 17 Bt exds 18 Df ete17 Oads 58 He could not play 17... eS because of 18 G7. 17... Sudo was, however. a com paratively better try. 18 info! ial Black would lose his queen after 18 exte? 19 wh 19 a2! “The exquisite stylist” was R: N. Coles" description of Cecil De Vere. 19..05 20 WdS b$ 21 Zack! WI 22 Waal eb 23 Wed Laat 24 Wed+ beh 28 He7 Was 26 Wads+ Lads 27 Bes Black resigned. ‘A beautiful game. RB. Wormald Hite C.De Vere Black Glowworm Tourney 1868 Ruy Lopez 1 eb eS 2 D6 De6 3 WS a6 4 Bad Di $ 0-9 eT 6 Wer ‘Wormal's name is associated with We? inthe Ruy Lopez 6-5 723 0-0 8 d3 679 a4 bE 10 Led? ds De Vere lrctly seizes continues in impressive fashion throughout the game, MW exds Dads 12 Oba? 15 13 ys ‘This s easily refed. TRadlygS M4 Oags Das! itive and fenongette 1s ws. If 18 WeeS White is lost after 15 2xb3 ‘since then, for example, 16 Ge6 lows 16. ct No 16 SxdS+ Sas 17 Dees Beret 18 hl Des 19 hs Wand 20 Qaxh4_g5 21 Dh ef 22 Ded exdd 2 xd} Kae8 24 b3 er 2$ Eat 3! "Pretiy and decisive” The Field, De ccember, 1868. 26 Ons 27 Een Een 28 Der Axb3 White resigned. C.De Vere Wile JH Blackburne Black Grand Tourey, Westminster Club, 28" June 1872 French Defence Led 66 2 dé d8 3 exd5 exdS 4 D3 DMG S dd Ld6 6 DE 0-07 0-0 B88 Bigs 66 9 el £e6 10 QeS Dba7 1 The new book is called "The English Morphy”"?—The Life & Games of Cecil De Vere, and due to be published by Keverel Chess Books on October ist. Qua 7? 12 to ex 13 Wns 1514 at Blackburne must have overlooked this possibilty when he allowed his king"s side to be broken up. 146 15 gxfS 07 16 Who 267 17 Bed Shs 18 Sact Ugh+ 19 wit Las 20 Der 5 21 «3 cad 22 exds BeB 23 Os Ey? 24 g3 Rags 25 Dgoo! Abie finish, with both 25 x6 vet by 26 18 mate, 26 20 fig 6 eS 27 yxh7 sbxh7 28 Hes tes xe6 d6 28 Zale, We7 29 Wd WeT 30.217 We6 31 E+ cg? Or 31. Bx 32 WaiBe Uys 33 97 rate 32 Enc Wae8 33 GIF ah6 34 Wxh7# p53 47 Black resigned, A TALE OF TWO CITIES {was interested in your Bits and Pieces column in the August issue of CHESS on tucking the Berlin. The move Sd} and the awkward position of the Black. on dé reminded me ofa line in the Viena ‘which someone (F fongst who) told ms of Some forty years ago and with which I had same small success in the early 1960s be fore giving up tournancat chess Here, nase it should be of any inset isa broity 1 played a Paigaton then 1 eb eS 2 De3 OG 3 ed Ded 4 WhS DAG 5 Wre8+ We? 6 Wet RxeT 7 Add £68 213 0-090.0.516 Eas Fe) ores Compate this position with that on p.21 ‘August CHESS, belore 11 xh?s 10 b3 Hef 11 tad Lxe3 12 des Det 13 Bifel 45 14 dined Sued 15 Sncd dies 16 3d) Od 17 Ges Black resigned. R.F.Holmes Cambridge CHESS POETRY My husband wasa keen chess player and 4 good one. He took CHESS magazine for many years Tragically he was killed on 18th August 2000 in a road traffic accident and 1 is ‘only mow that | find myself able to deal with some of his papers. 1 know he weote poetry when he was younger and 1 cam across this poem, amongst other, in an ex cise book, in his writing. Ido not know if he wrote if as there is no eredit given 10 any of the poems by way of an author's hame—some of them | know svere his {think it is good, bur then I would? Yours sincerely Dorothy Pearce (Mrs) Hunton, Bedale, Norh Yorks Thank you, Mre Pearce, for kindly send ing inthe beaut poom und please uceept ur condolences and best wishes DREAMING Red squares and white White squares and red {played throughout the night, Dreaming in my bed Prancing down the board Rode a gallant knight, Followed by a gleaming horde - ‘Thearmy oF the white ‘The Queen of the amy red, Rising in her might With her crown upon her head, ‘Slew the gallant knight ‘Then with laughter gay And every sign of fun, ‘The pawns begin to play, ‘Amusing everyone, A last one broke away, But soen his race was done; Forthe king stood in his way Dreaming at Bishop one. Neither side would f [Nor weaken in the fight; “Twas a noble thing to sec. But which of them was night? ‘White men and red, Red men and white: Performing in my head A dance of sheer delight. October 2008 CHESS 37COLLECTORS’ CORNER by Gareth Williams 1851 and the Mystery Painting hese days, thousands of ‘ational and international tournaments are organ ised each year around the world. For an ambitious chess competitor, the toumament circuit provides an ardu 4s, competitive, and stimulating envi- ronment for’ rapidly gainin experience, talent and skill. And for a few exceptionally. gifted, ambitious players, the chess tournament fias and does, serve as a direct channel to uni- versal celebrity It was entiely different a hundred and fifty years ago when the first inter- national tournament was held in Lon- don. Organised by Howard Staunton, and the St George Chess Club, invita tions were sent throughout Europe to players of hearsay repute. For the first time an opportunity was available for players of renown to meet and. test theie chess skill and prove the worth of their reputation against their peers. Sixteen of Europe's best known play ers were able to accept the invis and arrive in time to participate én th toumament. Mathematician, Adolf Anderssen of Breslau, was the surprise winner. He went on to win two further imemational tournaments and estab- lish a reputation among. the chess greats. Staunton, who had been the fa Vourite, came in fourth. This historic event is recorded in detail, including a fascinating account ofthe organisation of the tournament in Staumton’s 1852 book The Chess Tournament—London 1854, Carl Jaenisch 38 CHESS October 2001 Of course, not all the original invit- ees could attend. A letter received from Hungarian, Vinge Grimm, who, with Lowenthal and Szen, had played famous correspondence match in 1843-5 representing Pest against Paris, explained that he was unable to attend due to being exiled in Aleppo, “the nar tive town of Stamma, 10 reflect upon the faults we have committed”. An ar- figle in the German Lilustrierte Zeitung of 1850 pravides an account of ow Grimm, a highly skilled lithographer, had been involved in the unsuccessful Hungarian uprising of 1848 tor inde pire, Grim was arresied Tor printing and distributing subversive literature, Hie could have been’ sentenced. to Vince Grimm death: he refers to this in his letter as; “We lost! 1 was fortunate enough t save my head; but they sent me here The article also had a sketch of Grimm, it shows bim sitting, wearing his working smock, while his elbow rests on a table containing very faintly sketched chessmen. A condition of the exile prohibited any politial activity, To ensure the safety of hs life, his bat Hes had to be restricted to the chessboard, There was great emtbusiasm in Rus- sia forthe tournament, but the diffieul ties of tra such a distance provided an extra obstacle that for many proved insurmountable, Major Jaenisch, author of Analyse nouvelle ‘des ouvertures du jeu des ech (1843), wrote to Staunton st A young Alexander Petrof “Your undertaking, so eminently prac- tical, must meet with sympathy everywhere... circumstances, quite independem of my will, eave me only slight hopes of being able to reach London this year. But | confidently hope Mr.Petroft will not tet this unique opportunity of entering the lists with you eseape him”, Jaenisch me tions two other Russians that. wou like 10 attend, M.Kireefski and Sch oft. However, the only one who did suceced in travelling to London was Major Jaenisch. Unfortunately, he ar- fived 100 late 1o enter the tournames but was able to play in the series of set matches organised subsequent to the main event, Jaenisch was draw against Staunton and they played a ten game mateh which resulted ina con- vincing win for Staunton, 7 wins, 2 lost and 1 drawn, twas particularly unfortunate that Alexander Petroff was unable to at- tend, as he was the one player with the potential to have made a difference to the final result. Known as ‘the North ern Philidor’ he had won decisive matches against his Russian contem- Poraries but never played the leading players of Wester Europe. In 1824 he had published The Game af Chess. de ranged in an Orderly System and Con: taining Phitidor’s Games und Notes there on. Petroft was also a pioneer in chess problems, being « pecially fond of creating. multi-movers Which eulminated. ina speetacular as his ‘Napoleon's Flight from Moscow to ParisAlexander Petroff, 1824 Napoleon's Flight from Mascow to Paris Der kas 3 5 bs § Dbed+ a6 6 Dbss ga 7 Ons+ Lbs & 8 9 Dat BAT 10 ObS+ Dick cen 12 Da7+ sos 13 DoT bs 14 Dg? mate This shows the chase of the Fren Emperor, the black king, by the Rus- an cavalry, white knights, The al square represents Moscow, and the h8 square, P s. The af-h| diagonal sym ses the river Berezina where Napo~ leon could have been captured. Petro wrote ning the sixth move that the white queen should have barred Napoleon's way by moving to squi a8; in that case he would not have gone on to Paris but would have been checkmated there The Mystery Painting Apparently, here are two illu tions of Petroff in his later years, he lived to the age of 73. One an oil painting by Russian An oil painting by Russian artist G.G.Miasoedov, G.GMiasocdoy, titled “Alone ar titled ‘Alone or a Game of Chess’ but is this Petrofi? Game of Chess’, done in 1907. forty ars after Peirofl’s death. The other Comparing the two, there are many However, the late Natalia. Ivanova, in authenticated, well drawn sketch of @PPA¥ent features, the glasses, the Director of the Moscow Chess Petrofl by L Seriakov beard, the shape of the head, and the Museum, being in a position ta chess interest would be easy to as- compare’ the painting with other work was Petrol done by Miasoedov, noticed that he ie than shown in the line had used the same o leman in ther paintings. In 1902, he produced, what chess historian “Od Mun with a Book’ depietin Aecander Dmitryevich same person, believed to be a Issac L he first saw the p Moscow Chess M gardener Is it Petroft, or simply a remarkabl S prove- coineide an artist's model nance seeme onfirm it was Pet- should be Petroff"s double, and used to roff, as it had come from Russian illustrate a chess player, Or is there chess collector V.A.Dombravsky, who any significa in the rose? Could ndant have from Miasc 34 the ation inscription had used his Petroff look-alike by the author to his furure wife, Linder gardener to sit for the portrait. Linder assumed the picture had been painted is trying to trace descendants of from a photograph taken shortly Petroff’ , in the hope that they may before Petroft dic, have am answer. In the mei picture have fait An authenticated ske commissioned pos be Pewroft Alexander Petroff by LSeriakow request of his relatives, 200) CHESS 39Chris Ward: PLUGGING the DRAGON ©, I'm not referring 10 patching up the suppose edly mumerous dubtous theoretical vati that many uneducated individuals — mistakenly believe win for White in the Yugoslav Attack—against_ what is pethaps the best chess opening ever invented! Indeed, nothing could be further from the tnuth—'ve merely been called upon to say a few words to promote my new book Winning With The Sicilian Dragon 2. Sure, | could say that this new text is a must for Dragon addicts or for those secking an excit- ing change to their opening repertoire However that would be too predict able and so I won't bother? Anyway it’s been a tong time eoming but I hope thase who have al- ready purchased it (and for that matter any potential buyers!) will not be dis- appointed. Yes, as it happens, 1 put Guite a lot of Work into it and rather than just re-hash ld stuff’ (which 1 have observed is a common trait of openings books) I have included a arcat deal of previously unseen analy~ sis as well as lines worked out at home. OF course, this will leave me having to do much more work in the future as any potential opponent will now be able 10 see what has been on my mind since the first edition (wip), Funnily enough, just after the book went to print I did have a toumament game in an obscure (ie. practically zero _practical-encounter-based) line that 1 had recommended. Normally you would only be able ta see the fol- Towing annotation if you subscribed to my regularly updated monthly “Dra- ‘k0ns’ websife at chesspublishing.com (thought | might as well get that plug in to0!). However for this special oc- sasion I have lifted my thoughts on the game for lucky readers of CHESS! K.Visweswaren (2299) Ihite C.Ward (2493) Black Politiken Cup, Copenhagen 2001 Sicilian Defence 1 ef eS 2 DiS d6 3 dd cxdd 4 Dvds D165 Ded 26.6 she} 97 713 Deb 8 40 CHESS. Qetober 2001 Wa? 0-0 9 0-0-0 27 10 seb1 Kes 1 g4 eS 12 n4 his is the most natural continuation although the more cautious 12 Se2 hhas been tried a few times. Great timing of course! | suggested this move in Winning with the Dragon 2 but when it came to recommending it, 1 found there was a distinet lack of practical encounters. 13 95 White can consider several alternar tives to this move, which rather blocks up the kingside. Indeed, | have looked at 13 h6, 13 gS, 13 SRe2, 13 DAS and 13 exhs. 8 In the old 9 0-0-0 lines where Black layed casting kingside and then met gt with nS, the knight could be forced to h7 by the gg pawn ad- vance, The black steed is however far more useful on e8. Placed here, the d6-pawn is protected should Black wish 10 advance his e-pawn and, as ccan be seen in the game, it has other ‘options toa. 1458 14 £4 Digs 15 Bgl oS! is fine for Black, although 14 ©d5 is hardly an improvement 14.07 18 D4 1 suspect that my opponent intended 15 cA but then noticed that 15...Bie6! Would in fact neta pawn, 15.5 On f4, White's knight gets in the way of White’s already limited attack ing options and so Black has plenty of time to get things going on the ‘queensice 16 b3 a5, 17 Ber Black has adequate compensation after 17 WxaS Ha8 18 We? Wb8 but in fact 17.28! 18 Wid Be3+ is even stronger, 17.bd 18 Qd3 Drd3 19 sind dst UxwW er This is often the move that the Dragon player is looking to play. Ex posing White's centrally posted pieces 18 one motive behind this traditional break, while obtaining the dS square itself as a post for a black knight is another potential plus, 20 We? eS 21 Obs Tall expected 21 GPS but, as well as accepting the sacrifice, Black could continue with 21.44 and then aim to trade lightesquared bishops and get in bS-a3(or C3). ndyed 22 Ded ext Thad foreseen—and was happy with —the game continuation, although it must be said that 2..@3xb$ 23 ixbs AxbS 24 Wrbs WET is also very strong. 23uR The f3-pawn is out of bounds. In- ded after 23 Wx13 a number of things ‘work, including 23..€xbS 24 Lxbs We7 25 Bd3 (or 25 Bxd7 Wae2+ 26 shal edt) 25.284 23,05 24 SLxbSa nSRNbS! This was my intention all along Black’s position is just so easy to play after this positional queen sac 25 Ead8 full 26 £6 ‘The 13-pawn still can't be taken— this ime because of 26.006, 26,..0e8 27 xa8 ed 28 6 28 Sxb4 c3 29 Wal 6 30 Wh3 Ssh 31 Wahl e2 would soon be curtains, 28. He6 29 ed Zec6 30 Edt Le? 31 Bet Ses 32 ad bea 33 des Bixe3 4 Wired Exc? first, had been on the cards for a while. The black king hasn't been remotely troubled all game and a black pawn promotion is inevitable, on ‘As you can see, though my on-line comments are of course quite current —being generally based on recent games and subscriber questions—they. are less formal than the book, which must say I am very pleased with Though some brief tips-on the Anti cilians are provided at the end, the main bulk of the book is on the Open Sicilian, Well, maturally (when I think of all those royalties that could be coming. my way!), I should be—and therefore aam(!}—advising you to check it out for yourself. In the meantime though, here are a couple of snippets to whet your appetite: From Chapter 6 Yagostav Attack 9 g4 Game 7 D.Popeseu White D.Dumitrache Black Creon Open 2000. Led c5 2 D1 d6 3 dt 16 4 Ded exdd 5 Dra 26 6 Le3 Sag? 7 13 0-0 8 Wad eg 90-00 Dxdt 10 red eG IN gt WaS 12 03 Hab8 13 hd bS The difference between this and the last game (in the book) is that Black thas substituted ..fe8 for .bS. | real- ise that 1 am prone to the occasional sarsasti¢ outburst, particularly on the subject of sovcalled Yugoslav Attack players ‘bottling’ it to endgames, aim for while it is on 3, in order to prevent this from happening, However, with this particular move order, White must be advised to get those’ queens off now by 14 ds ‘Then 14..Wxd2+ 15 Exd? a5 would franspose to the next game while 1S.KK8 was just handled inthe previous example. 14 hse Played in the spirit of things but probably suicidal. Obviously, in yen eral, 2fe8 isa very useful move, but the tempo saved on not playing it here ‘ranslates to 2 swift crashing down the bile. 14..b4 15 Db Not for.the first time | observe that 15 axb4? loses to 15..Wal+ 16 Obl a2 The only obvious alternative is 15 @d5. Though, on the surface, it after looks less passive, in fact xd5 16 exd5 WxdS 17 the trapped white king is lac in defenders. One practical encounter saw 18 c3 Hfo8 19 hygo hxge 20 bS 65 21 £2 of! 22 Bod Dds 23 of (Pinned pawns is the theme for this illustrate 24 see2 Qba+ 25 eds Har 26 aixdd a5 mate.) EX: ne je Soe S wall im A wes is (82g) 23..e3 24 Wh? Bred+ 25 Dred Wack 26 Wed Hes 27 Bh2 Badd 28 Be2 Df 0-1 E-Tomning-s.Reschke, Groningen 1995. 15..5fe8 1 Suppose a crude explanation of suceess for White in the Yugoslay Arr tack isto crack open the hefile forthe queen and rook and then trade off the key defensive black fé-knight by d5. Indeed, as we know, often Black must sacrifice a rook for the knight » & | a jamgsA = 5 Ea Ea here the white knight isn"t proving to be much of a threat! 16 hxg6 txg6 17 ps It's vaguely worth pointing ou 17 Axio? Sisto 18 Who, essentially hoping for a spite check or two (though I doubt White quite sees it that way when engaging in such a se- quence), fails miserably, Besides the crushing = 18...bxa3, Black has. 18..£g5+ winning the queen or 18...Sxb2+ 19 dexb2 bxa3+ with a mate in four, ¢.g. 20 Wel Exbi+ 21 Gexb! a2 22 bb2 Wed+ 23 hel Wre2 mate. AMl in all, not to be recommended! S 18 SexgT dexg7 19 04 igh rather slow, this is still 's only real offensive option, 320 a3 x62? 21 Sxc2 b3 22 Od (But not the crowd-pulling—that is before the pieces are rapidly set up for the next game!—22 Wxa5?? Exc? mate), 22..bxc2 23 tox? Watt 24 Wel Dei 25 Lhel Dred also looks rather good 2 Exh Predictable (don’t White players just love to get this move in!) but aetually not that helpful. sshS 22 Ehi a2 23 £5 brad “hs 25 Exhs ext White’s advances on the kingside might look a litle frightening, but in fact he was threatening zilch. Black plays cautiously but eould have gotten away with 25..axb2+ 26 ddl Bxbl 27 Ghz Mxcz+ 28 sed2 Was+ as the white king has nowhere to hide. 26 26 Qctober 2001 CHESS 412 wy Amusingly, 26..2b2 27 Exh? dig8 28 Ehs- sexhs 29 Who+ ses 30 Wh GAR 31 w7+ Lek easily wins for Black as, of course, the a2-bishop guards g8. 27 Wt axb2+ 28 did? Wad? OL A bizarre time to resign as 29 3 may well have had Black kicking him self for passing up the numerous op- portunities he had to kill off his ‘opponent From Chapter 8 Classical Dragon S.Daniliuk Hite V.Malakhov Black Russian Championship 1995 Led e5 2D g6 3 d4 p74 O exdd 5 Oxdd De6 6 Ob3 E1167 0-0 8 0-0.d6 9 Le3 Le6 10 £4 Ze8 There is nothing wrong with the old ‘continuation of 10...4a5, making the ed-square immediately’ available, However it's always going to be desir~ able to have a rook on the e-file and the text shows no fear of 11 £5, Be WL Clearly the most tempting move as White tries to squeeze Black into sub: mission, The less committal alternatives are discussed in the next game. td This may look passive but, as you will soon see, it is. quite important. IL..2xb39! would obviously save a tempo and, yes, it's true that this light= squared bishop is frequently Black's most troublesome piece 10 activate However, the b3-knight isn’t fantastic and, more importantly, helping to transfer White's. a-pawn to the b-file 42 CHESS October 2001 Chris Ward - a fighter and a writer! takes the sting out of any ,.Bx63 6: change sacrifices which would other ‘wise ripple his stru A naive White player would naw assume that he is steamrolling his way to victory. With 13 8 in mind, he aims to make the d5-square his own, 12.018 13 € Surely I'd given the game away Please tell me you were anticipating, meeting 13 g5 with 13...2xc3! Excellent, then it will come as no surprise 10 You that {4 bxe3 (note that after 14 gxfé Exe} 15 fx27, the black rook, though behind enemy lines, cannot be tapped) 14..axe4 15 ixgs hxgo 16 Wel Greed. as has been played before, is horrendous for White, whose King isthe only one © posed, Sure, rooks are great at moving Song straight lines, but with so much ‘pen space inthe centre it's the minor plese that are going to rule the day In this encounter, White attempts 10 take measures to than Black's in- valuable positional sacrifice, but the bottom line is hat it's not snowgh! 13.883! Vou guessed it (I hope!), White has provided more suppor to e4 but this Sill doesn't deter Black. 14 bred Leb The e4-pawn remains the immediate target, although Black would happily take the gf one for free too! The a7-pawn is still sort of em prise but even if it could be captured. success- fully (ie. without the bishop being trapped by ...6) it still doesn’t figure highly in the main scheme of things 15,213 Ont Black opts to capture the bishop as he intends opening up the e6-hl diag onal big-time. 16 WB ast a aie & a Sel pm 1 > Bebe Co be fot » x AGA & See what | meant 17 ddd 17 e5 dat 18 Wig} dxe} 19 ext WAS (an obvious reason for making the c6-hi diagonal such a big deal) 20 2)13 Sax16 leaves the bishops well on 19 a x oe le P 17.udved 18 Wh3 Orgs A handy tactic to remove more of White's Mimsy king cover. 19. Dse7 Or 19 Weed Sxdér 20 exdd Wadi with the decisive 21..63 follow (21 Hf2 not being possible be sas of the hanging al-rook) 19..8yg7 20 Dred ‘Both knights were hanging. 20.8 D6+ 21 SAND gafS 0-1 White is completely paralysed and doesn't want to wait to be done over on the g-file. Now what was it | was saying “about Black's light-squared bishop? 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Modesty forbids us to dwell on out ter rific performance*, but we urge those of you who have stared drawing their Old ‘Age Pension to forget about the Saya holi day next year. Head for Torquay inste For fun-packed chess, the British Seniors ‘Tournament is hard to beat Ts an old folks glub that meets ence a year. A few of the members have more ‘years than grading points, The first thing You do on arrival is en- quire—diseretly—which of your rivals has gone to the Great Chess Club Beyond ‘The Clouds during the year, Annoyingly, several of them are still hanging on ‘Then you check that none of the great beasts of OAP chess—the Wades, the Bardens, the Littlewoods, and heaven for bid, the Pentoses, have been unsporting ‘enough to enter Finally you check the gradings of the ewcomers— sporty kids of sixty or so. ‘One of the attractions of the Seniors Toumameet is the huge range of grades among the entrants. This year it went from sub 90 10 plus 200, But it wasn't al lambs fo the slaughter. In the carly rounds, the Hotshots were tumbling lke ripe apples In round one Wily Wilf Morgan, (89 [prade, not age) and inventor ofthe appal> ling Moryan's Folly—I bf, 2 bS against practically everything) snuck a win off ‘Maurice Hill (148), One sugar and ‘And here's: Rocking Roy Woodcock (226), one of the stalwans of Midlands 1 draw with Black against 1 dif d5 2 64 £63. OP A 4 03 bos Qe} a0 603 Abs 7 a2 ODds7 8 ad 040 9 060 eB 10 a3 Arch 11 sexed Det 12 £02 fo 13 Ger DP 14 Set ek 1B gS 16 EA 6S 17 hs OMT 18 exds Lad} 19 dxeé Aig6 20 ea07 x17 21 dae8 Wadi 22 Exdt 2ab3 23 a3 es 24 Bes Ses 28 dz bS 26 2ie2 Be7 27 Bas Za7 ‘And Black, who is not worse, offered a draw, White accepted, 44 CHESS October 2001 Our own most gratifying effort was yet another draw against Stewbaby——the former Chairman of the BCP. As one of the ancient spectators cammented after the adjournment “It was always going to be & ddraw—beards oF opposite clus.” Oh yes, the winner was Neville Gill— congratulations! + (RU-The Fats, folks—four points out of seven—equal 10" in the tournament table), (MP: What have you done lately, Richard?) 165 The Dancing Girls Of particular interest to us oldsters was the incident of the Dancing Girls and the Arbiters ‘Adjacent to the British Championship HQ in Scarborough is the famous Spa Theatre. This year's big show starred the Keankies.(-Fanedal sersumed. the posters), Craig Dougles (if you're under sity, don't ask) and the stunning Manhat- tans (a troupe of seven dancers ofthe oppo- site sex to the majority of BCF officials) ‘The changing rooms in the theatre are Separated from the rest of the Spa complex by a folding panition. On one particular warm evening, the Manhattans, havi ished their routine, and needing a line soot air, decided to open the partion, They as- sumed. that, it being Tate, all those weird cess people would have long since gone home. ‘Their assumption was incorrect Several arbiters were still at work, doin Whatever arbiters do between rounds, The result, a bizurte conftoniation: | two Principal Arbiter, on their way out of the building, meet four (or seven—aceounts vary) very undressed dancing. girls. The screams could be heard all the way to the pice. The dancing girls were a bit flustered v9, [Neil Graham yets the FARCE norm and the pint of Stella Artois we'd promised for any good stories coming out ofthe British He nearly made it two in a row, with a promising account of how # senior BEF official had been saughi a the St. Nicholas ‘th bid in his room. This, apparently, hhad caused something of a broubaha among the hotel employees. We were all afte with the possibety of a scoop we could sell 1a the Sivn, nti it transpired (you've guessed already haven't you?) that the bird was a Payson PS The last ume we met Cray Dour glas—along with Frank Ifield and Des O°Connor—we were organising the famous Puffed Wheat Talent Contest—but that's another (long and very boring) story. 1166 Halloween Speaking of loony openings (sce Mor xgan’s Folly, above), here's a weleome con: bution from Britain's Worst Dressed IM: the Halloween Attack in the Four Knights In goes Let oS 2 Of Oc6 3 Bc3 is 4 hxe57!. This has been punted on the Iivemet by an Austrian chap, Steffen A, Jakob using a computer program, Brause, a Crafty clone which he has taught to play the opening. Other players have been suffi cicnly impressed io take it up themselves. Not quite as nutty asi first appears-—but almost you're twisted enough to want to know ‘more about the Halloween, cheek out Stef fen’s website: htip:/vuw jakob atisteffea! halloween.html. There's even. more infor mation on this gambit on Tim Krabbe's site (originally published at the Chess Cafe) Fook up hitp:/mw-xstall.nl/timkeiout! breeze hum, from where we cri the fallow ing games: cs GIES (th use - Betrueger, German server) blitz, 1997 1 ef e 2 ON Deb 3.Ded OH 4 Ores Def $ dd Bb 6 dS C87 oS Ligh 8 46 £69 dict (6 10 Wiese go 11 cafe Wate 12 Bere bas 1d et 10 Brause - Cloth (IM) ICC blitz, 1998 Leb e5 2 Deb 3 Hes OI 4 Ores Ques § dd go 6 ef DyS 7 Led ds 8 xdS 6 9 Sb3 Leo 100-0 Labs 11 faxb3 15 12 Was Sioe7 13 gS g6 14 as S405 15 Stel ho 16 S06 Bh7-17 Dbs Seg? 18 Wed G18 1947 eo MrAmonymous » RZiat (IM) ICC bility, 1999 TedeS 2 23 £6 3 Bed O16 4 Dixed DueS $44 De6 6 dS Hes 7 U4 ys 8 5 Digh 9 do cade 10 exd6 a6 11 Wed O8e7 The} DS 13. OdS 1-0 Crekky - Toranaga (IM) TEC blitz. 2000 B.uc69 Let DS 10 Seb3 Ghd (Or 10.15 11 Gas Gas 12 ext Bato 13 Wed 1:0 (Brause-sekere, ICC bli, 1998)) 11 3 Dh6 12 Aahé Waho 139 DebS Dab 14