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Editor John Saunders DURHAM - IM Richard Palliser took the £200 first ; prize at the Durham Open (5-7 April) with 4%/5, Associate Editor ahead of Bret Addison on 4, and Jim Burnett, An- Bemard Cafferty drew Butterworth, Roger Coathup, Colin Walton Shop Manager and Dusan Zdjelar on 3'4. 90 players played in the Paul Harrington a EASTER CONGRESSES - Winners of open tour- Leading contributors: Murray Chandler, lan | naments at the various UK Easter congresses were as Michual Adios Bete Stade Gary Lane, lows: Graeme Buckley and Paul Georghiou Lubosh Kuvaiek, Jon Speeinan Jobn” | (Coulsdon); Simon Knott and Simon Williams ‘Emm, Joe Gallagher, Jonathan Rowson, | (Southend); Mike Surtees (Bolton). Mikhail Golubev, Daniel King, Julian pe eee enn Peasy. 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We have seen chess jazzed up for television before, but somehow the combination of stage and set (like a TV quiz programme), the exotic backdrop of the United Arab Emirates and its hypermodern architec- ture, and the rich mixture of chess players’ nationalities... well, we were slightly stunned by it, and perhaps you will be too. FIDE, their commercial partners Octagon and the UAE Chess Federation certainly made a big effort to produce something out of the ordinary. That said, it is quite a short report. Once you have seen the pictures, and taken in the big story— women’s world champion Zhu Chen’s historic defeat of her male counterpart, Ruslan Ponomarioy — there are precious few quality games to look at. We felt that not many of them merited going over at length. The shape of things to come? Maybe, and of its type, it was an entertaining tournament. We are happy to see more of these events, but let us fervently hope that they will be “additional to” and not “instead of” the real thing. Elsewhere we have a report on the March weekend of the 4NCL from John Emms. It is a pleasure to report that conditions at the hotel have improved markedly over the last two weekends, both in terms of the ambient temperature and the efficiency of the staff. The 11th Melody Amber tournament saw a remarkable come-back by Morozevich, whose debut as a blindfold chessplayer was highly successful. Now, if FIDE want an idea for a TV chess en- terprise, how about a blindfold chess world championship: that is surely something that could be presented in such a way as to stun the general viewers (not to mention, us ordinary players) with the extraordinary mental powers of the top grandmasters. CONTENTS 230 FIDE Grand Prix - this wasarapidplay knock-out tournament expressly tailored to the requirements of TV. Peter Leko won a sudden-death play-off with Alexander Grischuk. TV commentator Danny King provides the photos, captions and highlights. 246 Wroxham - a little-known village in Norfolk was the venue for a grandmaster tournament featuring five men and five women. The men didn’t have it all their own way — but our reporter, and tournament victor, Keith Arkell did, 268 BCF Direct Membership - the British Chess Federation is on the point of making direct membership compulsory for all English rated players. But is this prac- tical — and what will the money be used for? Nigel Davies and John Nunn have their say. 226 Late News 257 Chess Questions Answered 236 4NCL, March 2002 260 Melody Amber 245 Forthcoming Events 264 The Kavalek File 250 News In Brief 274 Quotes and Queries 252 FIDE Rating List, April 2002 275 Endgame Studies 254 Reviews and New Books 278 More Reviews and New Books228 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE FIDE GRAND PRIX DUBAI, 3-8 APRIL Left: the women's world champion Zhu Chen from China is seen with her husband, Grandmaster Mohammed Al-Modiahki from Qatar, who also participated in the tournament Bottom: Ruslan Ponomarioy signs the score sheets at the end of a first round battle of world champions that produced a sensation. Ponomariov looked nervous all the way through his match against the women's world champion, Zhu Chen. He was lucky to survive the first game: Zhu Chen agreed a draw, not realising that the final position was actually a theoretical win. She was not in serious time pressure. Game two was full of mistakes - but Ponomariov mace most of them, and Zhu Chen won comfortably, Once again, time pressure was not a factor.THE BRITISH CHESS MAG are ries Top: Sergey Karyakin from the Ukraine, pictured here with his father. The 12-year-old, al: reacly ra 39, gained entry to the event by qualifying through an internet tournament but was knocked out by Topalov in round one. Bottom: Peter Leko hoists the trophy aloft230 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE FIDE GRAND PRIX FIDE’s new Grand Prix got under way on 3 April. It took place at the very plush Dubai Chess and Culture Club, in the United Arab Emirates. This is the first of five scheduled Grand Prix events this year, the others being pencilled in for Moscow (May), India (July), Dubrovnik (August) and Rio de Janeiro (September), These are all rapidplay knock-out events, specifically tailored to TV presentation. Grandmaster Danny King was there to pro- vide the TV commentary on the action, and we are grateful to him for supplying descriptions ofthe sudden death play-offs, plus photos of the players and the venue. ‘The first round brought a sensation when FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomarioy suffered elimination at the hands of his fe- male counterpart, Zhu Chen of China. This was no fluke: though both games ebbed and flowed, Zhu Chen showed exceptional tacti- cal flair and might easily have won both games had she exploited a winning endgame in the first game. Ponomarioy had the better of the opening in the second game but was shaken by some bold counter-attacking play by the women’s world champion. This time there was no let-off and Zhu Chen exploited her advantage in excellent style. Round I Game I Zhu Chen - Ruslan Ponomarioy a ae woga mmr a oo 8 @ Sg wae mA we a8 8 8 “ou White’s advanced pawns are full of menace. Ponomariov, probably flustered, now goes off the rails. 28.25? 28...We5 29 c6 bxo6 30 Qxf8 xf is slightly advantageous for Black. ‘By 29 QxfS gxf5 30 c6 Web 31 25 Perhaps Black had missed the strength of this when he played 28...2£5. 31...b6 32 &xb6 Ha8 33 exd4 Wxc6 34 aS Hc8 35 Whi 218 36 Wh3+ dg7 37 Hal Le7 38 a6? Throwing away the win. 38 d5 was the right way to proceed. 38..2b8! 39 a7 Exb6 40 Wxb6 Wxb6 41 a8W Wxd4+ 42 Shi Wa3 43 Wa7 g6 44 Wa6+ 44 Wxe7 allows a simple perpetual check with 44..,Wf3+ ete. 44...Wxa6 45 Exa6+ 266 46 epg? h5 47 GA Wg7 48 we3 Le5 49 eb 28 50 Be8 2d6 51 bd4 h4 52 gxhd &xh2 53 He6 &f4 $4 h5 eh7 55 Kf6 03? 55...2g5! and if 56 Bxf5 thé 57 bxe4 bxh5 is a draw. 56 S03 2.9557 Be6 Lh6 58 Se2 264 59 2 Bh6 60 Ht6 297 60...e2! 61 xe2 Sg5 looks better. 61 Exf5 2d4 62 Bd5! 2c3 63 Sxe3 By playing some quick moves to accumu- late some thinking time, it might have been possible to make progress. 63...cch6 64 3 2b2 65 deed Bel 66 as S.d2 67 He2 Le3 68 He6+ Lg7 69 13 This king retreat is a sure sign that White doesn’t know how to proceed. 69 Bg6+ &h7 70 BES L671 Wi6 g7 72 Beb Qd4 73 def! and eventually White gets @2g5 in and a check on c7, after which it is relatively straightforward. 69...2d2 70 Hed 2g5 71 gd Le3 72 Bc7+ &h6 73 He6+ 4%THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 231 Round I Game 2 Ruslan Ponomariov Zhu Chen Sicilian B90 LedcS2 AB d6 3 d4 cxdd 4 Axdd Af6 5 Ac3 a6 6 £3 e5 7 Ab3 Le6 8 Le3 £e79 Wa2 h5 10 2e2 Abd7 11 Dds Axd5 12 exd5 2£5 13 0-0 0-0 14 Aas We7 15 04 &f6 16 acl b6 17 Ac6 a5 17...2\b8 18 Axb3 Zaxb8 19 b4 Wd7 20 c5 bxcS 21 bxeS dxc5 22 Bxc5 &e7 23 Ec6 &b4 and Black won eventually in David-Dinstuhl, Bundesliga 2000. But 18 f4 would have been an improvement. 18 £4! exf4 19 2xf4 © 96 20 2d3 &xd3 21 Wxd3 Kae8 21...Qxb2 22 We2! and Black cannot take the rook on cl because of the threat of 23 DeI+ and 24 WxhS mate. So 22...Rf6 23 ‘Wrxh5 and Black has to worry about her king’s safety. 22 Ee2 Abs 23 Wy3? White misses his best chance: 23 Wa3! Dxc6 24 Qxd6 We8 25 dxc6 Ld4+ 26 Phi He3 27 Wad Hfc8 28 &g3 and White has an extra pawn, though Black has some compensa- tion in terms of extra activity. 23.uh4! 24 Wi3 24 &xd6? Wxc6! and Black has the advan- tage. 24...A\xe6 25 dxe6 Ke6 26 Hd2 Me8 27 b3 Wxc6 28 Kd5 Hce8 29 ad We7 30 94 Slightly loose play by Ponomariov. Better was probably 30 h3 with the idea of playing against the d6 pawn. 30...2e5 31 gS We7 32 &d2 2b2 Rerouting the bishop, intending to go via a3 tocs. 33 ES 2.d4+ 34 whi 168 35 WdS LS 36 Sc3 Zg6 37 Hel Was A concession. Black probably should play 37...He6 and admit that the %g6 idea was not best. 8 seed White should get an equal game with 38 Bed. 38...Wa8 39 Wxa8 Exa8 40 Re7? 40 @h3 and White wins the h-pawn. He may even be slightly better. 40...f6,41 Lh3 d5 42 Ler 42 Xd7 came into the reckoning but after 42... Me8 43 gxf6 Me3+ 44 bxh4 Bxc3 45 f7+ h7 46 cxd5 £8! 47 d6 Bh6+ and Black is doing very well. 42...04 43 O.d2 fxg5 44 ded 44 &.xg5 is better as Black’s d3 ideas don’t work in this position, 44...32f8 45 Lixf8+ dexf8 46 He5 h3! a ee - a “ere a a 22 2 47 &xh3 Zhu Chen had set a sneaky trap. If 47 &xa5. dG! 48 BlS+ B66 49 Sxb6 Exf5 50 exf5 d3. 51 a5 &xh2 52 dg4 Of4 and Black wins a piece; that said, White’s three connected passed pawns still offer some hope for White. 47...g4+ 48 Sp2 d3! 49 Of4 49 Ed5 Bd6 50 g3 Exd5 51 cxd5 te7 52 fd &b4! wins. 49...216 50 Hed? A blunder after which Ponomarioy might as well have resigned. But he is lost anyway: 50 48e3 Hd6 51 &d2 and now Black can win with abold king run: 51...27 52 2g3 wf6 53 Bel 5S 54 BEl+ eS! 55 BF4+ ddd and the king escorts the d-pawn home. 50...d2 51 Sxd2 22+ 52 dg3 Exd2 53 cbxpd Kd3 54 h4 Kxb3 55 Mf4+ Sp8 56 cef5 Gh7 $7 h5 Hh3 58 Sg4 Mad 59 ho Lxh6 60 LFS 26+ 61 Lt LhS 0-1 ‘A game of two halves, but Zhu Chen's play after move 40 was remarkably free of blem- ishes considering the time limit.THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINETHE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 233 Zhu Chen faced another world champion in round two:\Anatoly Karpov. The great man was a bit too experienced for her and played to avoid her tactical flair, winning 2-0. There was a major cull of recent FIDE champions and finalists: Khalifman fell to Topalov, Ivanchuk to Bacrot, and Vishy Anand going out to Azmaiparashvili. Nigel Short, who had beaten his fellow cricket-loving chum Peter Svidler in round one, lost a tie-break to Alexei Shirov. ‘The quarter-finals saw the exit of Karpov at the hands of Kiril Georgiev in a blitz tie-break, and other qualifiers for the semi-finals were Leko, Grischuk and Shirov, although the latter had a lucky break when Azmaiparashvili missed a shot in the first tie-break which might have reversed the result. Round 3 Game 3 Azmaiparashvili - Shirov 2 0 a ba 6 6hk La a Le 3 a On the surface, it looks like a smooth vic~ tory for Shirov, but Azmai missed a great op- portunity near the end of the game. 29 Hes? Nigel Short pointed out after the match that White could have played instead 29 Wxd2! Wrd2 30 Me8+ wh7 31 Kec’ Wags 32 wl (The only move. For example: 32 h2?? Wi4s 33 cog? p5) 32...@\g3+ 33 shel and Black has run out of sensible checks and must lose. Instead: 33 fxg3?? WI6+ 34 Wel g5 will probably end in a draw. This missed finish is oddly similar to a famous game of Alexander Alekhine’s (see further down). 29...Wxf3 30 Wxd2 Dfa 31 Wxts Wxta 32 Bedi Wxg5+ 33 dtl di 0-1 30 Wxd7! Exd7 31 e8+ Hh7 32 Hec8 Ed8 33 Hexd8 1-0 In the semi-finals Leko-Georgiev went to a fifth and final (sudden death) game. Leko was drawn to play White, having five min- utes against Georgiev's four but with an ob- ligation to win at all costs. Danny King describes the dramatic denouement: Semi-Final Game 5 Leko - we ie y Y ae Leko had outplayed Georgiev and has a win- ning position. Added to that he had about a min- ute left to the Bulgarian’s 16 seconds, Italicized234 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE time references hereafter are to the number of seconds the players had left, 1.243 Hdd 2 Qxg6 de3 Leko 43, Georgiev 15. Leko grew visibly nervous, glancing at the clock, then back again to the position, hovering with his hand over the board. Suddenly mate is threatened. 3 Sf 32 Hea 13 41 Bbb2 The body language said it all. Georgiev sat up, realizing he was in with a chance, as Leko froze. Perpetual check is threatened which would be good enough to send the Bulgarian through to the final. By the time Leko made his next move he only had 12 seconds remaining. He started checking randomly, hoping ‘some- thing would turn up’. It did. 5 We6+ cexf3 6 Wet+ 3 7 We3+ Bes T'll confine myself to describing events rather than give any analysis. The wise words of Miguel Najdorf spring to mind at this point: ‘Never analyze blitz games’. 8 We5+ dexe4 9 Wxb2 Soxhd A rook is in the bag, but clock times were about even at this point, with each player hav- ing around five seconds each. In other words, the game was still a lottery. Leko said after wards that he played for the following trap. 10 Wh2+ 2. a” uy a "a Eo "2 ee "an Y Z me "a “a i ee me In playing this move, Leko managed to knock his own king over. 10...20h3 ‘And in playing this move, Georgiev knocked his king over. 11 Wa mate Leko played this final move with neither his king, nor his opponent's, standing. The players reset their pieces on the correct squares. Leko confidently stood up, claiming the game by holding out his hand. Georgiev shook it witha rueful smile. It was difficult for him to argue with the final position. Watch the slow-motion replay on the TV programme if you want to verify this for yourself. The other semi-final was a repeat of the 2000 FIDE world championship semi-final: Shirov versus Grischuk. The younger man had been so close to success on that occa- sion, and this time, despite throwing away a good position to lose the first game, he fought back and finally took his revenge. The final also came down to the sud- den-death play-off. Eye-witness Danny King describes the scene for this show-down: Speed chess favours youth. Peter Leko, from Hungary, is 22 years old. His opponent in the final, Alexander Grischuk from Mos- cow, is 18. Grischuk has just pushed through the 2700 barrier, confirming his rapid progress over the last two years. Their match was tense, though neither wanted to risk too much. The first four games — two 25+-10 games, then two tie-break 5+10 games — were drawn. Both know their openings well — too well — and the games burt out to draws. Leko won the blitz decider on time with two seconds to spare af- ter Grischuk fumbled a queen move. No one pretends that this format produces top-quality chess, but for the spectators and the TV audi- ence, it was a tremendous spectacle. The drama was heightened by the use of a studio set and lighting similar to that of the TV show ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire’. As to the question — when will this be on the TV? — this is not known at present. Such programmes are made, collected together with other programmes and sold to TV channels in bundles. 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Division 1, 2001/2 - Table after Round 8 DL | Gp | Mpe 1| 0 [43%] 15 7[0| 1 [asl 14 [elo] 2] 40 | a Barbican 4NCLI | 8 | 5 | 0/3 | 32 | 10 ‘Midland Mon’s FHteHHart s 4}o|4 & 3 [ala 7 3[a[4 7 3{o]s 6 2[1]5 cal 1fol7 ait 1fol7| 2 ROUND SEVEN Saturday 23rd March A CUNNING PLAN After a tense and crucial victory over their biggest enemies Wood Green | in round six at the previous 4NCL weekend, the title was only Beeson Gregory's to lose. Having already played all of their main ri- yals and dropping no points, no one could seriously see them slip up against the teams occupying the lower reaches of Division 1. Upsets at this level have been extremely rare and many top versus bottom clashes have produced cricket-like scores. A quirk of the fixture list, however, had paired Beeson Gregory I with Wood Green’s second team in the following round, and Wood Green’s captain Brian Smith saw this as a golden op- portunity to devise a cunning plan. But if Beeson Gregory could defeat Wood Green’s first team, what possible chances were there to go wrong against their reserves? Plenty, as it tured out. Firstly, Beeson Gregory were certainly not at full strength (Michael Adams, Julian Hodgson and John Nunn were missing, while this time there was no Viktor Korchnoi lurking. behind a tree). Secondly, by strengthening his first team with the introduction of Norway’s top grand- master, Simen Agdestein, plus Ketevan Arakhamia~ Grant, the Wood Green captain was able to use his “squad rotation system’ to full effect and drop a few first team regulars (including Matthew Turner, Chris Ward and Harriet Hunt) into the second team for another bite at the cherry. The icing on the cake was the ‘wild card" introduction of Sweden’s Tiger Hillarp Persson on top board. Having shed a few rat- ing points over the last couple of years (Hillarp Persson was rated at 2456 on the Jan- uary 2002 list but has been as high as 2549), he easily conformed to the 80-point rule and proved to be a dangerously underrated oppo- nent. Despite all of this, the plan was still a long shot as Beeson Gregory remained heavy favourites (they outrated Wood Green II by nearly 80 points on average). Smith’s ingenuity at juggling his re- sources brought some mixed reaction from other captains. Slough’s boss Nigel Johnson was quick to applaud: “While I am no fan of Wood Green, one has to appreciate the qual- ity of the trap they set for Beeson Gregory in round 7, on Saturday. If it had succeeded, then besides allowing their Ist team to catch up with Beeson Gregory, it would have also allowed them to improve their game points; plus, this trap works best on a Saturday,” Barbican’s Jonathan Rogers was a bit more scathing: ‘Have Wood Green given thought as to why they want to win the 4NCL so badly? Do they not care about appearing toTHE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE ROUND 7 be desperadoes who will bend the rules to breaking point if necessary?’ Moving swiftly on to the action: as a spectacle the match certainly didn’t disap- point. Six decisive games were recorded and the outcome remained undecided until the final game was finished. The employment of Hillarp Persson on board one proved to be a great success; the Swede converted an extra pawn in a rook ending against Luke McShane. Matthew Turner completed a double against Beeson Gregory (he defeated Mark Hebden in round six) by beating Murray Chandler in a tense game affected by tite trouble. Beeson Gregory hit back on the next two boards, with both Mark Hebden and Glenn Flear converting early pawn gains. Beeson Gregory also won on board six, where Alexander Cherniaev’s three passed pawns on the queenside were too much for Mark Heidenfeld to handle. Two former British Champions occupied board seven, with Wood Green’s Paul Littlewood getting the better of Jonathan Mestel in a complex ending. 237 So, at 3!4-3%, the entire match rested on the fortunes of board eight, a crazy Benké Gambit encounter between Ruth Sheldon and Peter Sowray. For much of the game Sowray’s chances of salvaging anything ‘were somewhere between slim and none {and Slim was out of town), but a wild time scramble left a completely drawn position on the board, despite Sheldon’s extra piece. A 4-4 draw meant that Wood Green’s bid to catch Beeson Gregory had failed, but it was mighty close. Wood Green can take some comfort from gaining a valuable point for the second team’s relegation battle, and. preventing Beeson Gregory from obtaining what would be the first ever ‘Grand Slam’. Meanwhile Wood Green I’s 6-2 victory over Bristol was not as comfortable as the score-line suggests. On top board Simon Ansell thissed a win in a complex battle with Nigel Short, whilst I should certainly have lost against Charles Cobb well before miss- ing a win near the end. David Collier played. well to defeat Malcolm Pein in a rook end- ing, but wins by Speelman, Baburin, ey238 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE Agdestein and Martin brought home the points for Wood Green, Third-placed Guildford-ADC won a- close match against Slough, excelling on the top six boards where they scored five points. Tony Kosten and Jim Plaskett contributed important victories with Black against Peter Wells and Colin McNab respectively. Onto relegation issues, and Barbican’s second team scored a fantastic win over Beeson Gregory Il despite being heavily outrated on some boards. Highlights here in- cluded Sam Collins’ 17...2\d5!! against Da- vid Norwood; Lawrence Trent’s first win for the club; and Stefan Shikeroy’s fourth con- secutive victory. Barbican’s first team com- pleted a happy day for the club by defeating Wessex 5'4-2', the decisive wins coming from Andrew Webster, Simon Knott and captain Jonathan Rogers. Midland Monarchs moved out of the tele- gation zone with a convincing win over Thistle Birmingham White Rose. In-form Keith Arkell scored a win on board one against Simon Williams, but this was the only high point for the Yorkshire club, who achieved only half a point from the bottom: seven boards. ROUND EIGHT Sunday 24th March NORMAL SERVICE RESUMED No shocks at all in this round as normal ser- vice was resumed with a vengeance. Beeson Gregory I showed no ill effects from the previ- ous day’s scrap and clinically disposed of their opposition. Keith Arkell scored the only half-point for Thistle Birmingham White Rose who, discounting his results, scored a miserable 1/14 over the weekend, Wood Green I proved that they are finally getting to grips with their traditional bogey club Barbican, their 7-1 victory over Barbi- can I being the worst ever defeat (points-wise) for the latter. Guildford-ADC kept in contention with a comfortable vic- tory over Beeson Gregory II, who are now firm favourites for one of the threeTHE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE. 239 relegation spots. Wessex are also virtually doomed after losing 6-2 in a crucial match with Bristol. Wessex have only two match points and have a dire run-in, having to face both Beeson Gregory | and Wood Green Lin the final weekend. Slough proved to be just too strong for Barbican Tl, although Kanwal Bhatia’s debut was a high point for the London team. She drew a very interesting miniature against IM Miroslav Houska and certainly could have played on in the final position, Midland Monarchs reached the relative safety of eight match points with a close 4-3 victory over Wood Green II. Wood. Green had been in front in this match, but the final two games to finish (A.Ledger-Hillarp Persson and R.Pert-P:Littlewood) both brought wins for Midland Monarchs and turned the match on its head, Going into the final weekend, Beeson Gregory I require maximum points against relegation fighters Wessex, Slough and Bar- bican II to ensure a second consecutive title. Wood Green’s best chance of success proba- bly rests in the hands of Slough, although it would be a bit much to expect too many fa- vours from their old adversaries, Wood Green have yet to face Guildford, which may well end up as simply a battle for sec- ond place. NOTES BY EMMS Round 7 CiMurray Chandler (Beeson Gregory 1) @ Matthew Turner (Wood Green II) Sicilian, Hyper-Accelerated Dragon B27 Led 05.2 Af 6 ‘The Hyper-Accelerated Dragon, which has become a useful move order for Black to em- ploy if he wishes to play the Accelerated Dragon without allowing White the option of playing 2...c6 3 &b5. 3d4cxd4 4 Wxd4 ‘The main way of trying to punish Black for his move order. Otherwise 4 Dxd4 Ac (or 4...297) simply transposes into the Acceler- ated Dragon. 4.06 5 &bS!? This weird-looking move was the invention of David Bronstein, White’s idea is to prevent ..d7-d6 and prepare to exchange on c6 after ..BDe6. Other tries include 5 e5 and 5 Bc3. 26! Xe6 6 &xc6 dxe6 (6...bxe6 7 5 AdS 8 0-Dis nice for White) 7 Wxd8+ Lxd8 is solid - but probably a little better for White. 6e5S ‘The most consistent continuation. 6 2a4 is met by 6...b5 followed by ...\c6. 6...axb5 7 exf6 Ac6 8 We3 8 fxe7 Wxe7+9 We3 was originally thought to be very good for White on account of Black's pawn structure, but the discovery of 9...b4!, clamping down on the queenside, has cast doubt upon this assessment, for example: 10 0-0 Wxe3 11 &xe3 B97 12 c3 0-0 and White finds it difficult to develop effectively ‘on the queenside. 8 Whd is an alternative although then Black can utilize the half-open a-file with 8...21a4!. 8...06 Now Black simply plans to round up the pawn. The onus is on White to drum up some compensation. 9 De3 b4 10 AbS Has! Making use of the active rook. 11 Wa3. IL...240 Grabbing on f6 with 1 1...Wxf6?? is a move too early. After 12 295! the black queen can- not move without allowing mate with Dc7. After 11,..d5, however, the f-pawn is attacked for real — Black’s king has access to d7. 120-0 If 12 &g5, the bishop can be pushed away with ...n7-h6 and ...6-g5. 12...Wxf6 13 ad! 13 Dc7+ sed7 doesn’t achieve anything so Chandler correctly decides to complicate while Black’s king remains in the centre. 13...bxa3 14 2d2! Rb4! 14,..2la4? 15 £03! is strong for White. 15 &xb4 Dxb4 16 DAd6+ wd7 17 Yaz Deb 18 ba! Chandler has played with great energy and has some serious pressure for the two pawns. Now the black rook is forced home as 18...2a4?? loses to 19 Ded and De5+. 18...Ba8 19 Dxf7!? White has other promising ways to proceed, but this pseudo-sacrifice looks very togical. 19..,W/xt7 20 bS Regaining the piece — the knight cannot move on account of Des+. 20... WEG 21 bxe6+ bxe6 22 Tifel A difficult position to assess. White is two pawns down but he has dominance over the dark squares and Black’s king is still vulnerable. ‘Tumer's next move is brave: he gives back one of his pawns in order to activate his bishop on c8. 22,..058? 23 DxeS+ cee7 24 Wh 245 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE After the game Matthew Turner showed me the neat variation 25 Exa3 Ehb8 26 We3? d4! (26...2xa3 27 Wxa3 Wes 28 WaS+!) 27 Wes Bxa3 28 Wxa3 Wre5! and Black wins due to the back rank trick 29 Wa7+ ded8!. However, White has the resource 26 Wf4! Bxa3 27 De4+! so perhaps Black’s best move is 25...Wid6! forcing the exchange of queens. 25..Hhe8 26 Wed+ od7 27 Aes+ ZixeS!? ‘A tempting exchange sacrifice to relieve some of the pressure. Afler all, the pawn on a3 is certainly a potential winner in an endgame. However, objectively 27...d2e8 is a stronger move, after which the position remains ex- tremely unclear. 28 Exe5 He8 29 Bxa3?? This just loses. I imagine this blunder was a result of time pressure. After 29 Zacl! White may well be better, for example 29...5ixe5 30 Exe5! (30 Wxe5?? WxeS 31 HxeS Sed and the a-pawn promotes — White must keep the queens on the board) 30...a2 31 Waa! (threat- ening Exd5+) 31...Wd6 32 Wa7+ ked8 33 WaS+ dd7 34 Bel and White will continue with Wxa2. 29...llixeS 30 Ba7+ Sc8 31 Ha8+ Lb7 ol Round 7 D Ruth Sheldon (Beeson Gregory I) Peter Sowray (Wood Green IJ) Benké Gambit AS7 1d4 4\f6 2 c4. 053 dS bS 4 exbS.26 5 £3 6 6 €4 exd5 7 5 We7 8 We2 Ags 9 Dc3 £b7 10 Ah3 04 11 Os Attacking the queen in this manner looks natural but in fact 11 25 is quite rare. Normally White plays 11 e3. 11... WeS 12 a4 12 0-0-0 axbS 13 2c3 Wh4 14 Exds Wxc3+! 15 bxe3 Oxd5 16 Af4 @a3+ 17 Wbl e7 gave Black excellent compensation for the queen in Notkin-V. Ivanov, Moscow 1994. 12...d4 13 Ded Wh4+ 14 Sf2 d3 15 We3! Sheldon is not afraid to let her b-pawn go with check. 15 Wd2? &xe4 16 fxed axb5 ey ee oeTHE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 241 would leave White in a terrible ending. 15,..Wxb2+ 16 &g3 245 Played so that Black can block the e-file with ....2¢6. The greedy 16...Wxa1?? loses to 17 DAG+ Lxd6 18 exd6+ L18 19 Le7+ Les 20 Bf6+. 17 Hel 2 @ SBA ace OAR 2 8 020% 17.226? Entering into the spirit of the position, but this allows White a path to a clear advantage. I can see nothing clear for White after the straightforward 17...axb5!. 18 &xh6 S.xe4 18... gxho simply loses to 19 Df6+. 19 xed! 19 Wixed gxh6 20 Wxa8? Eg8+! is less clear. 19...2.b7 20 2f4 Material is level but White’s great develop- ment advantage is very significant. 20...axb5 21 Wb6! 26 22 axbS 27 23 &xd3 hS 24 Be2 h4+ 25 &f2 W326 Hdl 0-0 27 &e3 White has consolidated to some extent and under normal circumstances Black could al- ready contemplate resignation, but mutual time trouble creates more havoc. 27...Ra2 28 Hxa2 Wxd1 29 Hd2 Whi 30 bxc6 Axc6 31 Wh1 Wxh2 32 Wel 32 Mf4 traps the queen, but Black has 32...R05+1. 32...Wg3+ 33 gl Wes 34 Ded Oh4 35 7 Ha8 36 Sdl 2c3 37 Axc6 Kal 38 38 Bd8+! &h7 39 hed+ 26 40 Sb wins for White. 38... Wxe3+ 39 DM Exdl+ 40 Wxdd 2d4 41 Wel Lai 0 De a a am 0 @ a awn 2 AG 2 8 ewe Around this point Black’s flag fell and a re- construction was needed before everyone was satisfied that Black had reached the time con- trol. The position is now a dead draw despite White’s extra piece. The pin on the a7-g1 diag- onal is just too powerful. 41.4g5 42 847 Or 42 &b5 3! 43 oxh3 Wxt3. 42.097 43 25 Wd2 44 oe4 bf6 45 2b7 Les 46 Bab G4 47 We2 Wxe2 48 Rxe2 2g3 49 S04 Bxf2+ 50 whl £6 51 Le6 2e3 %% Y ‘ecm a Round 7 CiDavid Norwood (Beeson Gregory 1) @Sam Collins (Barbican 4NCL If) Reti AO7 1 g3 d52 Bg? 663 At3 2g4 4 b3 Dd7 5 2b2 ADgf 6 0-0 6 7 d3 2d6 8 Abd2 0-09 h3 2h5 10 e4 dxet Maintaining the tension in the centre with 10...e5 is more common, 11 dxe4 &e5 12 3! TUlooks a little strange to block the bishop in like this but White must keep his b2 bishop to have any chance of an advantage. 12 Sxe5 ®xe5 looks very comfortable for Black. 12...207 ‘The bishop cannot remain on the e5 post for too long: for example 12..,We7 13 We2 and242 ‘THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE White already threatens g3-g4 followed by 2yxeS and F2-F4, 13 We2 13 a3! Be8 14 We2 a5 15 Add was better for White in the game Akopian-Beliavsky, Linares 1995. 13..De5 14 94 Axf3+ 15 Axf3 15 2\xf3 Bg6 16 Sh4? allows 16...Axed! 17 &xe4 Mxe4 and the knight on h4 hangs. 15...5.g6 16 2a3 He8 17 Hadi? A perfectly natural-looking mave, but this allows a brilliant response. (Om eX Pe we ae awa) io Ati A msl oe ee i A A BH osGa A A BOR 7 EES 17...Dd5!! Now White is completely busted. 18 exdS exd is devastating, while Blackalso threatens both ...Axc3 and ...2\F4. Norwood decides to give up an exchange and a pawn; the best prac- tical decision. 18 Ded Axc3 19 We3 Dxdl 20 Lxdl Wh4 21 kg? Red8 22 Ad6 &b6 23 We2 eS 24 Bb? We7 25 2a3 Ld4 26 Bcd 205 27 &xc5 Wre5 28 hd £6 29 hS 2.17 30 Ne3 Exdi 31 Wxdl Wad 32 Wel Black has skilfully consolidated his advan- tage and is winning comfortably. Now 32...h6 prevents any counterplay and is probably the easiest route to victory. 32...05? 33 g5! fxg5 34 AS Wd8 35 h6 36 36 Ac3 heat ‘Sg4 WaT 38 dg3 ad 39 WeS axb3 40 axb3 Ze8 41 £3 Converting the advantage into a full point is not quite as simple any more as Black always has to watch the weaknesses in his own king position. White’s knight will find an excellent home on g4 and Black’s queenside pawn ma- jority is not so easily galvanized. 41...We7 41...Wd4! looks stronger, for example: 42 Bxe6+ Bxe6 43 Wel Bf6 44 Des Kea and Black should win. 42 2x06 Exe6 43 “gd He8 44 eg? Wes 45 We3 We7 46 We3 Wd6 47 Weds Lf 48 Wel We7 49 We3 cS 50 Gh3 b6 SL bg? Sg8 52 Wed+ Gh8 53 Was Was 54 Wh7 He7 55 We6 Wis 56 Wxb6 Md7 $7 Dxe5 Bd2+ 58 HCl Kh2 59 AtT+ gs 60-Axgs Bxh6 61 We6+ hs 62 Wes+ bys 63 Was+ Shs 4-4 Not the first time David Norwood has had to rely on his legendary swindling technique. Round 8 O Miroslav Houska (Slough 1) @Kanwal Bhatia (Barbican I) Torre Attack A46 13 A reversed Caro-Kann? In fact, the game ‘soon transposes into a Torre Attack. 1...f6 2 2)3-c5 3. d4 b6 4 2e5S ‘An interesting idea for White in this posi- tion is 4 dxeS!? bxc5 5 ed! as 5...Dixe4?? fails, to 6 Was!. 4..Ne4 5 Qh4 5...&b7 looks safer but 5...g6 contains a deep trap. 6 dxeS bxeS! This seemingly allows a deadly fork but Black can rely upon a powerful resource.‘THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 243 7 Was? Wh6! 8 Wxad 8 Wxe4 Wxb? threatens both the rook onal and mate on cl. After 9 &g5 Black plays 9...:67 followed by ...Wxal. 8... Hxb2 a Z hae ga: z Again threatening both the rook on al and mate on cl. White’s reply is forced, 9 ddl Dxc34! 9...ldixal? 10 Wxe4 simply leaves White a piece up. 10 Dxc3 Wralt 11 ke2 Bg7 12 Wxbs By letting the knight on c3 go, White ac- knowledges that he has a draw at best. After 12 Dd5 Wra2+ 13 Sd3 Whit 14 Ld? c4 Black threatens ...c4-c3+ followed by ...,Wb2+. 12.0 Wxe3+ 13 2d Walt 14 Lez We3+ Heading for the safety of perpetual check but 14...Wxa24t 15 ddl 0-0 leaves White very precariously placed. Black has three pawns for the piece and White’s king is look- ing extremely vulnerable. One sample line is 16 &xe7 d5!17 &xf8 Wale ee waa a aa a enw aoe aor 18 ded2 (or 18 He2 RES+ 19 e4 hxed+ 20 B43 Wed+ 21 ddl Wxdd+ 22 Dd? Wxf8 and Black wins) 18...b2! and Black mates: 19 sbe3 Welt 20 Dd2 We3+ 21 eid g5+ 22 cbxgs Wi6+23 hs We6+ 24 cbhd Wed mate. 15 Sdl Wal+ 16 Se2 Wed+ 4-4 Round 7 D. ree - Burnett a a A pleasing finish in Midland Monarch’s. victory over Thistle Birmingham White Rose. 28 Wh6+! 1-0 White mates after 28...gxf6 29 gxf6+ (or 29 exf6+) 29...92f8 30 Eh8. Division Two and Three Report by John Saunders Perceptron Youth had two desperately close matches but came through them to maintain their lead in Division Two. A 4-4 draw with Barbican I, including a default win on bottom board, and a 44-3 win against their main rivals South Wales Dragons bronght them three priceless match points. One of their older players, 20-year-old Martin Taylor, from Rainham, Kent, won both his games. Richnjond moved into second place after scoring two comfortable wins against two rivals, Numerica (formerly Levy Gee) 3Cs and North West Eagles. Despite their Sunday defeat, South Wales Dragons still look the likeliest side to gain promotion alongside Perceptron and Richmond, but244 much will depend on the strengths of teams for the final weekend. Despite getting a match point on the scoreboard at last, Witney & Swindon look doomed to demotion. to Division Three, and Slough II are likely to join them. Round 8 CMartin Taylor (Perceptron Youth) Peter Richmond (5. Wales Dragons) Catalan A14/E08 14 e6 2 93 d5 3.292 c64 AE At6 50-0 a 6 We2 0-0 7 b3 Abd7 8 Ab2 Hes 9 aoe ae a re “Ba “e om . ar ew ke Bag exe | 9..Ded 9...2d6 10 Dbd2 (10 e3 Was 11 ef dred 12 Dxed Axot 13 Wret AO 14 We2 was Bouwmeester-Hamdan, Siegen Olympiad 1970, won by White in 41 moves) 10...We7 11 Biel Ba 12 Qc3 Bb4 13 Qxb4 Wxb4 14 c4 Dxet 15 Axed dxed 16 Wes Af6 17 Wit and White had a slight edge in Mohrlok-Simisch, Biisum 1969. Later Black lost on time ~as he did in all the other 14 games he played in this event, 9...b6 followed by 10...£b7 is perhaps more logical in terms of development. 10 Dtd2 10 Dbd? £5 11 Axed fred 12 DeS DxeS 13 dxe5 27 14 £3 exf3 15 exf3 and a draw was soonagreed in Serper-Handoko, Jakarta 1994, 10...£5 10...xd2 11 @xd2 D6 12 05 Wel 13 13 d7 14 -b4 was played in Obsivac-Medunova, Olomouc 1998, and eventually drawn. ! on Ww naa je be bit hm “ We, a we THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 11 Axed fxe4 12 £3 exf3 13 exf3 26 14 Dd2 Wheé 15 Wa3 AB? It is better to play 15...e5 and then if 16 ‘Bael Hd8!? and, despite his shaky develop- ment, Black's position seems to hold up quite well. Now White prevents the e3 break and takes hold of the position. 16 4 207 16...c5 doesn’t help the Black cause as White simply plays 17 f3 and any pawn ex- changes will only serve to improve White's position. 17 Af3 5 18 Eifel dxed 19 Wxed Hec8 19..cxd4 20 &xd4 &b5 21 Wht Lxd4+ 22 ‘Wxd4 Wxd4+ 23 Dxd4 £26 leaves White with a pleasant positional advantage. After the text moye, White finds an excellent way to maintain his control of the position. 20 dxc5! &xb2 21 exb6 Exe4 22 bxed axb6 23 Des! Rightly disdaining to defend the a2 pawn with 23 Hdl &xal 24 Hxal Dg6 and, though White is still much better, he does not achieve quite the dominance of the text line. 23...&xe1 24 Excl Lxa2 25 Obi | ee mem atem Ma Momentarily White is a pawn down, but he gets it back with considerable interest. All his pieces are so much better posted than his op- ponent’s. 25...b5 26 exbS b6 27 2.6 27 Bed is also very strong, wi ‘b-pawn. 2732 28 Hal Suddenly White’s threat to play his rook to ing the |™ THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE the eighth rank is a difficult threat to meet. 28...2.x06 29\bxc6 Re2 This is a desperate throw, giving up a piece to try and eliminate as many pawns as possi- ble. But 29...5d8 was no better as, after 30 ¢7 Ec8 31 Ba7, White soon wins by moving his knight to threaten Dd6 or AxbO. 30 Ha8 g6 31 Ad7 Rxc6 32 Ext8+ g7 33 Hb8 He7 34 eS g5 ‘The point of White's 34th (once again prefer- ring position over material) is that, if 34...e1+ 35 deg? Ebi, then 36 2b7+ drives Black's king to the back rank, where it is likely to be harassed. further by the took and knight partnership. 35 fxg5 HeS 36 Rb7+ Lg8 37 Ad7 Hes 38 deg2 bS 39 AfO+ LEB 40 Dxh7+ 1-0 Division Two After Round 8 1 Perceptron Youth 14(40); 2 Richmond 13(42); 3 South Wales Dragons 12(37%4); 4 N. West Eagles 10(324); 5 Numerica 3Cs 9(30); 6 Barbican III 8(33'4); 7 Poisoned Pawns 7(33); 8 Kings Head 7(32'%); 9 Beeson Gregory III 6(25%4): 10 Athenaeum 5(26%); 11 Slough Il 4(25); 12 Witney & Swindon 1(26). Warwickshire Select have taken over the divisional lead after scoring two wins at the weekend. Despite losing the lead, South ‘Wales Dragons II would have been pleased with their weekend’s work, having held a much strengthened Guildford-ADC II team to 4-4 draw and then going on to defeat a very useful Mind Sports side 5-3 on the Sunday. White Rose TI and Guildford-ADC II now look like the major contenders for promotion alongside the two leading teams. Division Three after Round 8 1 Warwicks, Select 14(39); 2 South Wales Dragons II 13(38'4); 3 White Rose II 11(39); 4 Guildford-ADC I 10(34%), 5 Mind Sports 9(3514); 6 S. County Stars 8(32), 7 Bristol IL 7(30%4), 8 Nidum Knights 7(28), etc.246 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE WROXHAM MASTERS by Keith Arkell NE THING you can be sure of when you accept an invitation to play in a tournament organised by Cathy Warwick (née Forbes) is that it will be out of the ordi- nary! There was the 24-player blitz tourna- ment a few years ago, which took place in Cathy and husband Mark’s home in Islington. —at which there was a near-infinite supply of refreshments and alcohol; and then there was the St.Ives Rapidplay and Blitz last year (to be repeated again this year), in which the . chalet accommodation provided the players with the use of a jacuzzi, a sauna and a whole range of free sporting facilities. You can also be sure that there will be no expense spared in providing all the trimmings, leav- ing you feeling well catered for. This time Cathy and Mark teamed up with Lawrence Cooper, who has also put to- gether a whole range of events in the past, for their most adventurous project yet: an all-stars grandmaster tournament featuring five male and five female players. The Daisy Broad Lodges in a village called Wroxham, about ten miles from Norwich, provided the playing venue, the sleeping and eating quarters, in this “Big Brother"-style event. And, being on the Norfolk Broads, naturally we had at our dis- posal a few boats — provided we were pre- pared to steer them ourselves. I mentioned eating quarters and yes, not only did Lara Barnes (ably assisted by Clive Waters) offi- ciate as arbiter and deal with the media, but she also tripled up as our in-house chef — and, boy oh boy, is she a good cook! I decided at the start of this year to cut tight down on weekend chess and divert the energy saved towards FIDE-rated events. This approach, at the time of writing (two weeks after Wroxham, having just drawn a difficult game with Black in the French League versus Bacrot, rated 2649) has so far netted me 65+ FIDE rating points (mostly collectable in July). I claim no great credit for this, of course — it’s just a shift in emphasis. Thave also had plenty of practice lately in overcoming what for me used to be a psy- chological stumbling block: that is, compet- ing against women. Going back a few years, | Wroxham Masters (ENG), 9-15 March 2002 Average Rating 2417, Category 7, GM Norm = 7, IM = 5, WGM = 41s, WIM =3 ————‘THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 247 Thave to confess that I have allowed myself to be ripped to shreds by women in some awful games. The atmosphere here was cheerful and buoyant throughout. How pleasant it will be if one day the chess world as a whole contains equal numbers of both sexes. Anyway, time now to let the chess do some of the talking. Here are the key mo- ments from two games which featured re- markable tactical sequences: Round 5 Repkova - Bauer which, apart from the draw offer next move that Bauer certainly should have accepted, led toa winning position after... 15...Wxt2 16 Dgxeo! For the next 20 moves Christian tried every- thing to mix it up... 16266 17 DxtS Sxd4 18 Aeé &xb2+ 19 bxb2 WHS 20 Bel Des 21 Dgs Axe4+ 22 bxe4 h6 23 Dl3 ties 24 Des Wd4+ 25 Sb3 Ke8 26 AB Wa7 27 WR &c6 28 Bal Da6 29 d4 Db4 30 Des Bxe5 31 dxe5 Se 32 Hhdl Wye4 33 a2 Wyo 34 Bad @h7 35 We2 fs ‘but finally... 36 3! .w giving back one exchange, clarified mat- ters in White’s favour. 36...224 37 Wel &xd1+ 38 Wxdl Ac6 39 We2 Dxe5 40 Wxg6+ Exg6 41 c5 bxeS 42 Ed5 c44 43 Pa3 ts 44 Exas 251-0 Round 3 G.Flear - Repkova ‘The game highlights Glenn's exploitation of Eva's uncoordinated pieces. She had al- ready shed the exchange and, looking to com- plicate the position, proceeded with 26 x7, but an unusually long sequence of tactical blows left Glenn a whole took up: 26...2x47 27 DdG+ LB 28 Bxe6 2d3 29 Odd BixaS 30 e5 Dd5 31 Kal Atd 32 Ded RabS 33 Le3 Eb 34 25+ wes 35 DaG+ Se7 36 Aged Bxd1+ 37 Lxdi Ebi 38 Dedt+ eG 39 De3 Hel 40 Bad Now 40 Sd4 and 40 3ub4 both go down to 40...De2+. 40... Exe3 41 &2b2 Ee7 42 &b3+ Dds O41 I kicked off with 3...c5, christened the ‘Arkell/Khenkin Variation’ by New in Chess ‘on account of my addiction to it. Round 1 (Melanie Buckley Keith Arkell Caro Kann B12 Led 062 d4 d53.e5c5 4 dxeS Dc6 5 QbS €6 6 Le3 Dge7 7 c3 RAT 8 Lxch Lxch I thought Mel would probably be less well prepared to play against this move than against 8..2\xc6. 9 f4 is now impossible but, to248 ‘THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE compensate, White will have the option of re- capturing on 4 with the queen. This is impos- sible after 8..2xc69 D3 We7 10 Ldd Dds because Black is better after 11 Wxd4 &xc5. 9 DP DES 10 ddd Axd4 11 Wrd a5 Pe wee @ & as aban a aM oo o 8 7a ae 7 RAR BO) © 72 12 Dba?! White stands worse after this move. I have twice faced 12.4, which leads to great compli- cations after 12...We7 13 b4 axb4 14 exb4 b6, and managed to win one game, somewhat for- tuitously, and draw the other. 12...a4 13 0-0 Ha5 14 b4 axb3 15 axb3 Rxc5 16 Wed Bxal 17 Bxal 0-0 18 Ad4 If the position opens up, then the bish- ops will be good, if it doesn’t then White will have weaknesses on the queenside. Mel tries to play actively, but her pieces end up not being able to defend her pawns, 18...2.d7 19 b4 Le7 20 Nel We7 21 He3 a8 22 h4 Hal+ 23 &h2 Xa2 Ds ea” z, mane a 28on QD RAS = oes Already winning because 24 243 drops the e-pawn to 24...£6. 24 Dl Hxf2 25 Dg3 £5! I just had to be sure that, after 26 exf6 Ext6 27 ®xe6, | would win with 27..B.xe6 28 Bxe6 de! 26 exf6 Exo A more orthodox kingside rook would just go directly from 8 to f6, and not via a8, al, a2 and 2! 275 2d6 28 Hf3 24 29 Ade2 Les 30 Exfé &xf6 31 Wr3 Wed 32 degi h6 33 DEL 2bS 34 Dfg3 Wd3 35 Wxd3 &xd3 36 2f2 22537 26 e5 38 gd 2d2 39 03 SET 40 ALL Losing a second pawn, but in any case it will soon be zugzwang. 40... S.xe2+ O-1 My most complicated, and therefore most error-riddled, game came when I em- ployed the “Speckled Egg” — as 3 b4 is known — against the King’s Indian of one of the world’s strongest (and, I’m sure, only temporarily under-rated) women players, in round six: Round 6 OKeith Arkell @ Keteyan Arakhamia-Grant Speckled Ega/King's Indian A48 14 Af6 2 Af3 g6 3 b4 06 4 e3 Wh6 5 a3 a5 6b5! Other moves leave White looking a little embarrassed against Black’s direct attempt at refutation. 6...cxb5 7 c3 Iwas a little afraid here to sac a pawn with 7 8)c3, but certainly Christian Bauer thought it best. Tew ad 7 8 Wh3 0-0 9 &xb5 < xb5, with a slight structural advantage, was Pike possible. 9...d6 10 a4 &e6 11 We2 a6 12 0-0 ack 13 Ags £5 14 We? 14e4 mums into 14...4)\xe4 15 Axed d5 with advantage to Black. 14.,.h6 15 04 gd 16 DL e5THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 249 Yip yO BD Kete felt that she had to challenge me in the centre, and as 16...d5 17 eS De4 18 c4 favours White, she chooses a slightly dubious but ob- scure pawn sac. 17 dxe5 dxe5 13 h3 Se6 Perhaps 18...d.xf3 was objectively the best move, but it gives White a lasting edge due to the two bishops. 19 Dxe5 De5 20 Dd2 Dh5 21 Dees We7 2205 Df4 23 Wed 25 24 203 b625Ad6 25 Zadl is better. Now Black can get her pawn back. 25..Hcd8 26 A2cd Axed 27 Axed Dxad? She had to play 27...2.xe5 and hope that her knights were as good as my bishops. My next move prepares the way for a decisive central breakthrough. 28 g3) Axh3+ 29 Gh2 g4 30 e6t fxe6 31 xe6+? 31 Wxe6+ followed by AbS, &xf8 and ‘Bxa4 wins on the spot. 31...2h8 32 AbS Web 33 Axf8 HxfB 34 cdl? Here it hit me for the first time that my in- tended 34 2\d4 would have run into 34...Wxc3 35 Eixa4 Wxe3 and the rook on f1 is now unde- fended. Suddenly, although I am the exchange up, there is plenty of work still to do. At this point ‘we entered into a time scramble, which we pursued well past move 40 and on until move 47. During this time the position clari- fied into a winning endgame for White: Z sa _e ane a ar a a a. 34...D05 35 5 2as | 6 36. 36 Eadi h5 37 g2 Ags 38 Has Aho 39 Wad Wxdd 40 x4 a4 41 AES Lh7 42 Dxho Sxho 43 Ed6+ cig? 44 Bxb6 03+ 45 Oxf3 Bxf3 46 SbS “\b3 47 se? a3 48 Hb7+ keto 49 Ba7 Ad2 50 Ket Ded 51 Ze2 eS 52 HaS Dd3 53 Ba2 Des 54 05 Acd 55 ZaG+ ded 56 He2 bd5 $7 c6 KiB 58 Bad 1-0 After this game I switched into drawing mode, even accepting an offer in a very promising position against Brian Kelly, as I tried to cruise to my target of seven points. Before I move on, I should mention Eva Repkova’s tremendous performance. She suffered with an unpleasant cough through- out the tournament, began with 0/3, but somehow picked herself up to score five points from her remaining six games to complete her (full) interational master title. Finally, it was time for the blitz tourna- ment — a Terence Chapman Group Elite Grand Prix event, in which the players were joined by five newcomers, headed by Grandmaster Peter Wells. Meanwhile Eva took a rest. My total destruction at the hands of Martha Fierro Baquero, a very good blitz player, kept it nail-biting until the end. It fin- ished: 1 Arkell 11/13, 2-3 Bauer, Kelly 10%, 4-5 Wells, Fierro Baquero 10, 6 Flear 8, 7-8 Arakhamia-Grant, Cooper 6, 9 Peterson 514, 10 Paehtz 5, 11 Gormally 344, 12 Melanie Buckley 2/4, 13 Waters 2, 14 Barnes 2,250 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE NEWS IN BRIEF KOSTENIUK - There has been a “Kosteniuk frenzy’ in the UK media recently, with the ‘women’s world vice-champion’ being the subject of feature articles in a number of broadsheet national newspapers. Finally a ma- jor UK tabloid, The Daily Mirror, featured her in a bikini (displaying FIDE’s game-playing website address in two prominent positions) and other glamorous apparel on page three of its April 16 edition, under the caption ‘The Pawn Star’. Alexandra's younger sister Oksana has recently registered to play for the ANCL (British Team Championship) second - division side, Numerica 3Cs. USA - The prestigious Foxwoods Open, 28-31 March, held at the casino of the same name in Mashantucket Pequot, an Indian res- ervation in Connecticut, ended in a six-way tie for first place between IIdar Ibtagimov, Ilia Smirin, Joel Benjamin, Alexander Goldin, Countrywide Computers ld Victoria House, 1 High St. Wilburton, Cambs (86 3RB Suppies of CHESS COMPUTERS and CHESS “TWARE at best possible prices! DEDICATED chess computer © Novag, Mephisto, Kasparov & Saitek. . Schiller Maung Ashlee ard Chas. 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Foxwoods 2002 Olidar Ybragimov Giorgi Kacheishvili Nimzo-Indian E49 1c4 062 Dc3 d5 3 d4 2.b44 e3 Ato 5 a3 2xc3+ 6 bxe3 057 exd5 exdS 8 L.d3 0-0 9 De2 b6 10 0-0 2a6 11 £3 Axd3 12 Wxd3 Ae6 13 e4 WaT 14 2g5 cd 15 Wer De8 16 Kael Ae7 17 Ags b5 18 eS a5 19 DhS Aes oe xen Zag wo aan #28 20 216! g6 21 f4 gxh5 22 £5 De? 23 He3 26 24 Fxe6 fxe6 25 Bg WA7 26 hd b4 27 exb4 axb4 28 axb4 Hfb8 29 We2 Exbd 30 WichS c3 31 Who 1-0 VARSITY MATCH - Two clarifications are in order following our report of the Ox- ford-Cambridge match (BCM, April 2002): Bob Wade points out that it was not true that he controlled “for the 51st time” at the last ‘Varsity match (page 212). It is true that he attended the Varsity match for the first time 51 years ago and has officiated on manyTHE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 251 occasions since then, eitheras adjudicator or arbiter. Peter Gibbs has informed us that the *un- identified’ player in the upper photo on page 220 is David Gamer. He knows him well, having given a simul against him and other boys some years ago, and was pleased he got a scholarship to Oakham School and then a place at Cambridge. WALES - The 2002 Welsh Championship was held over Easter in Swansea and spon- sored by Interbrew UK. Richard $ Jones, who turned 19 on the opening day of the tournament, claimed his first Welsh title with an impressive score of 6/7, including a half-point bye in tound two, ahead of Mi- chael Binks and Pat Bennett 514, Jones's score included wins against four former Welsh champions: Leighton Wil- liams, Sven Zeidler, John Trevelyan and Pat Bennett. The last-named won the title in 1960 and 1961. 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Bids for items mustbe received by 31 May 2002 Readers without internet access please contact the shop for auction list BCM Chess Shop Tel. 00 44 (0)20 7486 8222 Fax 00 44 (0)20 7486 3355252 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE FIDE Ratings - April 2002 The World Chess Federation Rating Lists came out on 10 April. Kasparov’s Linares vic- tory made no difference to his rating. Topalov has moved up to 4th and Ponomariov to 6th. Grischuk has joined the 2700 club while Van Wely has dropped 14 places down the order. Humpy Koneru of India has fallen back almost as dramatically as she moved up on the Janu- ary list. 12-year-old Ukrainian IM Sergey Karyakin is now up to 2489, England’s David Howell, 11, is now rated 2239 and is already England's Sth highest rated player aged under 20. He is 7th in a list of the world’s top under 12s. WORLD TOP 67 PLAYERS 44 Alexander Onischuk GM USA 2641 30 Title EloGames 45.Mikhall Gurevich GM BEL 2641 22 46 Michal Krasenkow GM POL 2641 11 1 Gary Kasparov GM RUS 2838. 12 | 47 Zhang Zhong GM CHN 2639 9 2 Vladimir Kramnik GM RUS 2809 0 48 Francisco VallejoPons GM ESP 2638 12 3. Viswanathan Anand GM IND 2752 12 49PeterHeine Nielsen GM DEN 2636 8 4 Veselin Topalov GM BUL 2745 9 50 Rustem Dautov GM GER 2636 0 5 MichaelAdams GM ENG 2744 25 51 ViktorKorchnoi_ GM SUI 2635 2 6 Ruslan Ponomariov GM UKR 2743 19 52JohannHijartarson GM ISL 2634 6 7 EvgenyBareev GM RUS 2724 22 53 Smbat Lputian GM ARM 2634 0 8 Alexander Morozevich GM RUS 2718 22 54 Krishnan Sasikiran GM IND 2633 61 9. Vassily lvanchuk GM UKR 2711 19 55 AndreiKharlov GM RUS 2633 18 10 Boris Gelfand GM ISR 2707 22 56 Vladislav Tkachiov GM FRA 2633 9 44 Peter Leko GM HUN 2707 22 57 Yasser Seirawan GM USA 2631 9 12 Alexei Shirov: GM ESP 2704 12 58 Matthew Sadler GM ENG 2631 0 13 Alexander Grischuk, GM RUS 2702 22 59RobertHiibner © GM GER 2628 0 14 Alexander Khalifman GM RUS 2698 13 60PavelTregubov GM RUS 2627 20 18 Anatoly Karpov GM RUS 2690 9 64 Sergei Tiviakov © GM NED 2625 9 16 Peter Svidier GM RUS 2688 0 62SergeiMovsesian GM CZE 2624 16 17 lia Smirin GM ISR 2685 9 63AlexanderGraf © GM GER 2623 9 18 Viadimir Akopian GM ARM 2678 9 64 KonstantinLanda GM RUS 2623 2 19 Alexey Dreev GM RUS 2677 22 65£EvgenyPigusov GM RUS 2623 0 20 Judit Polgar GM HUN 2677 0 66 Alexander Shabalov GM USA 2622 18 21 Zurab Azmaiparashvili GM GEO 2676 0 67 Alexander Motylev GM RUS 2622 9 22Ye Jiangchuan © GM CHN 2676 0 23 Joel Lautier GM FRA 2675 22 TOP TEN WOMEN PLAYERS 24 Rustam Kasimdzhanov GM UZB 2674 13, 25 Nigel Short GM ENG 2673 6 1 Judit Polgar GM HUN 2677 0 26 Rafael Vaganian GM ARM 2664 9 2 Xie Jun GM CHN 2562 0 27 Vladimir Malakhov GM RUS 2663. 12 3 MaiaChiburdanidze GM GEO 2516 0 28 Alexander Beliavsky GM SLO 2661 13 4 PiaCramling GM SWE 2508 0 29 Emil Sutovsky GM ISR 2660 9 5 ZhuChen GM CHN 2505 0 N 30 Jeroen Piket GM NED 2659 13 6 AlisaGalliamova IM RUS 2500 9 31 Sergei Rublevsky GM RUS 2657 9 7 WangLei WG CHN 2499 0 32 Aleksej Aleksandrov GM BLR 2654 9 8 Nana loseliani IM_ GEO 24910 33 Kiril Georgiev GM BUL 2654 9 9 HumpyKoneu WG IND 2486 27 34 Xu Jun GM CHN 2654 0 10 Almira Skripchenko WG FRA 2484 20 35 Etienne Bacrot. © GM FRA 2653 9 36 Predrag Nikolic = GM BIH 26530 ‘TOP SIX UNDER 20 37 Viktor Bologan GM MDA 2652 17 38 Zoltan Almasi GM HUN 2650 16 1 Ruslan Ponomariov GM UKR 2743 19 39 Konstantin Sakaev GM RUS 2649 0 2 Alexander Grischuk GM RUS 2702 22 40 Ivan Sokolov GM BIH 2647 17 3 EtienneBacrot GM FRA 2653 9 41 VadinyZviaginsev GM RUS 2645 9 4 Francisco Vallejo Pons GM ESP 2638 12 42.Christopher Lutz GM GER 2644 2 5 TeimourRadjabov GM AZE 2610 9 43 Lock VanWely GM NED 2642 24 6 Bu Xiangzhi GM CHN 2601 9THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE TOP ENGLISH \ Title 1 Michael Adams cm 2. Nigel Short cM 3. Matthew Sadler GM 4 Julian Hodgson GM 8 Jonathan Speelman GM 6 John Nunn cM 7 Stuart Conquest GM 8 Murray Chandler cM 9 Luke McShane GM 40 Bogdan Lalic GM 11 Mark Hebden GM 42 John Emms GM 13 Anthony Kosten GM 14 Jonathan Parker GM 15 Glenn Flear cM 46 William Watson cM 17 Daniel Gormally IM 18 Daniel King Gm 49 David Norwood GM 20 Matthew Turner IM 21 Aaron Summerscale GM 22 Chris Ward GM 23 Peter Wells cM 24 Jonathan Mestel cM 25 Nigel Davies cM 26 Keith Arkell cm 27 Jim Plaskett cm 28 Nicholas Pert IM 29 Michael Hennigan = IM 30 Andrew Martin IM 31 Richard Palliser IM 32 Malcolm Pein IM 33 Simon Williams IM 34 Harriet Hunt iM 35 Andrew Webster IM 36 Graeme Buckley im 37 Jonathan Levitt cm 38 Karl Mah ™ 39 James Poulton 40 Gavin Crawley ™ 44 Paul Littlewood iM 42 Geoffrey Lawton iM 43 Andrew Kinsman IM 44 Simon Ansell IM 45 Andrew Ledger mM 48 Michael Rahal IM 47 Adam Collinson FM 48 Neil McDonald cM 49 Angus Dunnington IM 50 Jovanka Houska wen 51 Philip Rossiter FM 52 Susan Lalic ™ 53 Mark Ferguson IM 54 Simon Knott IM Elo Games 2744 2673 2631 2598 2596 2595 2582 2543 2538 2537 2537 2537 2536 2532 2530. 2520 2514 2508 2507 2505. 2503 2500 2499 2495 2481 2478 2462 2452 2451 2443, 2443, 2424 2423 2415 2413, 2412 2412 2409 2409 2403 2403 2402 2401 2396 2395 2395 2391 2389 2382 2380 2380 2378 2376 2370 25 ewcccoe ap eSSo0o0 Sooocodowwecoocesewocasccee 55 Chris Baker IM 2368 56 Lawrence Cooper iM. 2366 57 Colin Crouch IM 2365 58 Adam Hunt IM 2365 59 Richard Webb FM 2361 60 Robert Bellin IM 2360 61 Richard Bates IM 2358 62 Nigel Povah IM 2351 63 Gary Quillan 2348 64 Jonathan Rogers FM 2346 65 Graham Lee FM 2338 66 Chris Duncan FM 2336 67 Richard Pert FM 2327 68 Robert Eames FM 2327 69 Anthony Corkett FM 2326 70 Erik Teichmann FM (2326 74 Stephen Dishman 2323 72 Tom Hinks-Edwards FM 2322 73 Craig Hanley FM 2313 74 Peter Sowray FM 2312 75 Richard Tozer IM 2312 76 John Cox FM 2314 77 James Vigus FM 2314 78 Ruth Sheldon WIM — 2310 79 Stephen Berry FM 2309 80 John Richardson FM 2308 81 John Littlewood FM 2304 82 Andrew Law FM 2302 83 Graham Burgess FM 2301 SCOTTISH TOP TEN 1 Jonathan Rowson = GM_— 2527 2 Paul Motwani GM 2507 3. John Shaw IM 2503 4 Colin McNab GM 2411 5 Douglas Bryson IM 2383 6 Stephen Mannion IM 2367 7 Eddie Dearing 2343 8 Craig Pritchett IM 2318 9 Timothy Upton FM 2317 410 Alan Norris FM 2307 WELSH TOP FIVE 1 John G Cooper IM 2333 2 James Cobb FM 2324 3. Leighton Williams FM 2304 4 Richard Dineley 2284 5 lolo Jones 22077 IRISH TOP FIVE 1 Alexander Baburin GM 2565 2 Brian Kelly IM 2845 3) Mark Quinn IM 2423 4° Gavin Wall 2378 5 Mark Heidenfeld IM © 2370 253 @MenocooMoMmHOCCTSCSSSOONOSOC@SCSO 19 19 cocce o@moose eccco254 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE REVIEWS AND NEW BOOKS Prices exclude postage and packing. To order from the U.K. please add 10% postage (20% abroad). Send all orders to 44 Baker Street, London W1U 7RT. Phone 020 7486 8222; fax 020 7486 3355; e-mail BCMchess@compuserve.com Secrets of Chess Intuition by Alexander Beliavsky and Adrian Mikhalchishin, Gambit, 176 pages, £13.99. Until now few authors have extensively tackled the problem of how to cultivate intuition. This is not surprising, since by its very nature in- tuition is impossible to analyse rationally, and indeed the generalisa- tions and quotations which begin this book do not get us far. Subse- quent chapters examine various kinds of intuitive decision, relating to combinations, sacrifices, positional judgements, rook placement, + opening choice, psychology, and so on. Finally there are 22 challeng- ing exerci ‘Appropriately for the subject, the two Ukrainian grandmasters oid trying to draw many general conclusions, instead presenting a galaxy of example game fragments. The lack of complete games may nnoy some readers, but the authors have a knack of choosing exciting, critical middlegame positions; they have clearly researched widely (despite the absence of a bibliography). A nice feature is that games by one particular player of distinctive style — Tal, Smyslov, Capablanca — are often clustered together, giving some continuity to an otherwise rather miscellaneous book. Annotations are generally light, with variations minimal, presumably because intuition should be about feeling rather than precise calculation. This approach perhaps works better in some chapters than others. It is suitable for illustrating “Mysterious Quiet Moves”, but in some of the complex tactical examples one suspects that the players did much more concrete calculating than the commentaries suggest. At times the authors seem to drift into using “in- tuitive” to mean “good”, which can be a way to avoid giving a full explanation fora particu- lar decision. However, the excellent chapter “Analysis, Intuition and Mistakes in Judgement” partly addresses this problem, acknowledging that no player's intuition is in lible. The essence of intuition is still a secret by the end of the book, but study of the diverse, entertaining games and notes should help any player accumulate the kinds of pattern intu- ition feeds on. Review by James Vigus. CHESS INTUITION Can You Be a Tactical Chess Genius? by James Plaskett, Everyman, 144 pages, £14.99. This is a fairly conventional chess puzzle book. There are 12 tests, each with 15 puzzles to solve, with each puzzle worth 5, 10 or 15 points. One novel twist is that you can “aska grand- master” — perhaps the author was thinking of the TV quiz. show where you can “phone a friend”. Asking a grandmaster means looking up a textual hint which steers you in the right general direction without actually telling you the answer; it costs you 2, 4 or 6 points each time you do so. A bright and breezy book from a master tactician. We spotted the Porterfield-Rynd versus Lynam “game” being quoted; people who read John Roycroft’s masterly article in the December 2001 BCM will know that this was probably a concoction, although the interesting position is useful material for a book such as this. a aeTHE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 255 World Champion Emanuel Lasker, ChessBase CD-ROM, £18.50. ‘This CD-ROM features extensive biographical material on Lasker: a complete collection of all his 1,182 games or game fragments, reports of all significant tournaments and matches, analyses of major games, a multi-media database with interviews with Averbakh, Baumbach, etc, plus video footage from the Lasker Conference in Potsdam in 2001, with Hiibner, Unzicker, etc, plus Lilienthal going through his game with Lasker from Moscow 1935. Only the Averbakh interview is in English; all the others are in German. Despite the language barrier, it is almost worth buying the CD-ROM just to watch the 90-year-old Lilienthal demonstrating his draw against Lasker from Moscow 1935. Elmars Zemgalis by John Donaldson, Pomeranian Publishing, 160 pages, £12.99. ‘There have been quite a number of retrospectives recently on ob- scure but talented players. Sub-titled Grandmaster without the Title, this isa short chess biography (with 36 annotated games, a further 154 unannotated and photos) of a Latvian player who shone briefly in the late 1940s whilst living as a displaced person in Germany. He was good enough to share first place with Bogolyubow in a big tournament at Oldenburg in 1949. Thankfully this is not another book with a depress- ing final chapter describing how X died in a labour camp or Y took his | SgRueau US own life; Zemgalis is alive and living in Seattle, where he enjoyed a long career as a maths professor, Donaldson makes out a good case for his being awarded a FIDE title. Bird Opening by Dmitrij Oleinikov, ChessBase CD-ROM, £18.50. ‘The Bird Opening (1 £4), more commonly known as Bird’s Opening, does not get many out- ings at super-grandmaster level, but the rest of us (particularly the “theoretically challenged”) maintain a healthy respect for its potency. This is a very well laid-out CD with some useful background material on the opening, and on the player after whom it was named, HE Bird. ‘There is plenty of sensible advice (in 14 text chapters) on the best way to play the opening. The author is clearly a resourceful man; he wanted to know which were the commonest ways of meeting the Bird Opening in practice, so sat down and played 1,000 games with it on the Internet Chess Club, and then worked it out from this prodigious sample. 47 training tests, da- tabase of 15,093 games and a variation tree. One of the best ChessBase opening disks so far. American Chess Bulletin, Vol. 40, 1943, Moravian Chess, 120 pages hardcover, £19.50. Despite the world being in the thick of war, there was still some chess activity for the USA's excellent chess periodical to report. New York’s chess clubs were still carrying on their championships, while George Koltanowski was stunning the onlookers with his blind- fold simultaneous play. ‘American Chess Bulletin, Vol. 41, 1944, Moravian Chess, 120 pages hardcover, £19.50. A photograph in the September-October issue showed Arnold Denker shaking hands with the British champion Hugh Alexander. The latter was based in Washington for two months though, bearing in mind his Second World War code-breaking activities, it is hardly surpris- ing that the magazine does not allude to his reason for being there. Denker went on to finish a point clear of Fine in the 1944 US Championship.256 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE The Chess Monthly Vol.10 (Sept 1888 - Aug 1889), Ed. Hoffer, Moravian Chess, 380 pages hardcover, £24.99. This is a particularly good example of the magazine, with annotated games, gossip and a modicum of vituperation (mainly directed at Steinitz), In the May edition, two problems were published in tribute to the late US problemist Mr Charles A Gilberg. The Chess Monthly Vol.11 (Sept 1889 — Aug 1890), Ed. Hoffer, Moravian Chess, 380 pages hardcover, £24.99. In the first issue of the year, the editor published a letter from Mr Charles A Gilberg (see pre- vious review) in which the US problemist expressed appreciation for the fulsome obituary written about him the previous month, but took issue with its timing as he was not yet dead. The Chess Monthly Vol.12 (Sept 1890 - Aug 1891), Ed, Hoffer, Moravian Chess, 380 pages hardcover, £24.99. ‘Another obituary, this time of Captain George H Mackenzie who died of tuberculosis aged 54. He had still been playing good chess in 1890, giving Tarrasch a good run for his -money in the Manchester tournament. The Columbia Chess Chronicle, Vol.l (July 1867 ~ Dec 1887), Moravian Chess, 280 pages hardcover, £24.99. A periodical connected with the Columbia Chess Club of New York, but reporting on in- ternational, as well as domestic, chess news. There is coverage of the Frankfurt tournament. Mr. Blackburne’s Games at Chess, Moravian Chess, 331 pages hardcover, £18.50. Published in 1899, the sub-title reads “selected, annotated and arranged by himself” but this is really P. Anderson Graham’s book. It contains 407 games (many offhand or from multaneous play) and also a selection of Blackbumne’s composed problems. With the lapse of time Blackburne tends to be forgotten when people assess the greatest British chessplayers of all time. In his prime he ranked amongst the best half dozen players in the world. Solving in Style by John Nunn, Gambit, 238 pages, £12.99. ‘This is a welcome, unaltered reproduction of a book first published in 1985. Since the problem world does not change as rapidly as other areas of chess, the book has stood the test of time and temains the classic introduction to problem solving. Review by Ray Edwards. Super Nezh: Rashid Nezhmetdinov by Alex Pishkin, Thinker’s Press, 221 pages hard- cover, £22.99. A limited hardcover edition of a book published in 2000 and originally reviewed in BCM, January 2001, page 28, where Steve Giddins described it as “a wonderful book, which is a veritable feast of glorious games.” The Treasury of Chess Openings, Volume I: Open Games by Attila Schneider, Caissa KFT, 284 pages, £14.95. ‘This book purports to give 1 ¢4 eS openings the encyclopaedic treatment, with coverage of the obscure lines as well as the more conventional. There is explanatory text and complete example games from the 19th through to the 21st century. But the indexing is very poor and the overall impression is of a very skimpy and shoddy article. Not recommended.THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 257 CHESS QUESTIONS ANSWERED by Gary Lane AN OLD ROMANTIC Michael Agermase Jensen, from Odense, Denmark, has apparently been toiling away for the last five years trying to improve the Hamppe-Alllgaier Gambit. I think this offbeat line of the Vienna is one of those openings that demand you spend countless hours trying to think up new ways to justify the sacrificed material. Indeed, it produces the sort of positions that send computers crazy because they count the extra pawns but end up getting mated, Novgorod 1998 OAndrei Vinokuroy BAlexey Feoktistov Vienna Game C25 1 ed De6 2 Ac3 eS 3 f4 ext 4 23 955 h4 5.d4 was discussed in BCM, January 2002, page 22, and Jensen agrees with me that 5...g4 6 Sc4 gxf3 7 0-0 and now 7...Axd4! busts the line that is stated as good for White in the latest edition of Modern Chess Openings. Indeed, EJensen-M.Jensen, corr. 1997, continued 8 &xfa (8 Wxd4? is well met by 8...We5 threat- ening ...S2c5 and Wxg2 mate) 8...805 9 dhl d6 10 b4 (if 10 2¢3 then 10.26 is good for Black) 10....4b6 11 Dd5 fxg2+ 12 dexg2 Deo 13 Wes &\xf4+ 14 Wxf4 Wd7! and Black is better. 5.ngd 6 Ags? Ithink anyone playing White who wishes to try this line should be congratulated on their aggressive, imaginative style and then be told that, since its heyday in the 1880s, it is no lon- ger in vogue. 6...d6 6...d5 is Mr Jensen's suggestion and it has some merits although I think the sample line 7 exdS Ad4 8 Bb5+ AxbS 9 We2+ is fine for White, In comparison the text is probably the best way to handle the position so that Black has control over the e5 square and does not give away a pawn, One way to really throw down the gauntlet is the critical line 6...h6 inviting the sacrifice 7 @\xf7. For example: 7...%xf7 8 Rcd+ d5 9 Bxd5+ teg7 10 d4 ANG 11 Axf4 Bb4 12 &xc6 bxc6 13 0-0 led to immense complications in Shulman-Marciano, Ubeda 1997. 7 d4h6 8 Dxf7 Lxt7 9 S.xfa In compensation for the piece White has a ready made attack against the black king which is looking rather vulnerable. Black adopted a slightly different set-up after 9 fcdt &g7 10 2xf4 in the game Forster-Almasi, Horgen 1995. There fol- lowed: 10...2e7 11 Wd2 2£6 12 Ae2 Wes 13 0-0 &xh4 14 2)\g3 Df6 15 Bael Abs 16 We3, which gave White the traditional attack, but Black won in only 26 moves, 16 10 2.c4+ Yg7 11 0-0 c only way to make sense of how White h positions is to view the complete game. King’s Gambit expert Hellers took on Akesson in the Swedish Team Championship 1985 in an encounter that is baffling to mere258 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE mortals. That game went 11 Wd2 £e7 12 0-0-0 We8 13 Zhfl Wh5 14 e5! (an echo of the main game because this opens up lines for ‘White's better developed pieces) 14...dxe5 15 dxeS Dxes 16 Ads Dxc4 17 We3 &c6 18 Rg5 bxgs 19 xf We6 20 Ads+ eh7 21 \xe7 WaT 22 Hf6! Wrxe7 23 Bel We7 24 Rexe6 Bhi8 25 Wd3+ Wes 26 Ze6 Mads 27 Bxg7+dxg7 28 Wg6+ [-0. aa 12 Wa2 Wh5 13 Rael Wxh4 14 et A key idea to help White’s attack succeed is this pawn advance to try and disrupt Black’s piece co-ordination. 14...dxe5 15 dxe5 2c5+ 16 2e3 Hd8?! This makes White’s task easier although 16...2\xe5 runs into 17 2.xc5 g3 18 Bxt6 Wxi6 19 HxeS and White wins. 17 exf6+ PhS 18 Wxd8+ Axd8 19 2xe5 Now it is White who has a material advan- ‘tage and is the Favourite to win 19...€6 20 £7 2xf7 24 dd+ Sh7 22 Qxf7 93 23 0 98+ bg6 24 Biot segS Rises a ZZ ee 7 “2 At least with this opening White has every chance to play a brilliancy and the king-hunt is an added bonus, The game concluded: 25 Deds+ ths 26 Dxg3+ Wrps 27 Les Wxg8 28 Eh3+ &g4 29 Gh2 Was 30 Hg3+ bhs 31 Se3 Al7 32 Bh3+ sag 33 Thfa+ begs 34 Hd44 1-0 Steve Kendall, from Chorlton, Manches- ter, is a big fan of the Winawer Coun- ter Gambit that is apparently a good way of creating unclear positions straight from the opening. Of course, that is assuming they take the pawn, so he wants to know what to do against the cowardly response 4 e3. I think it is a good idea to get White in- volved in something completely different, which is why I think you should transpose to the Advanced French with colours reversed! Swiss Team Championship 2002 OVadim Milov M Michele Godena Slav D1O 1d4 d52c4.063 Ac3 05 403 ‘This whole line rose to prominence at the 1992 Manila Olympiad, when the game Kasparov-Nikolic won the brilliancy prize and controversially it was later revealed that one of the judges was Mr. Kasparov! White contin- ued: 4 dxe5 d4 5 Ae4 WaS+ 6 &d2!? (at the time this move was considered a strong nov- ehty) 6...WxeS 7 Dg3 Wd 8 ALB Do 9 We2 Be7 10 0-0-0 0-0 11 €3 dxe3 12 fxe3! and White eventually won. 4.04 Black has entered an Advance French where White has to prove his extra tempo makes a difference. This position can also oc- cur upon 1 ed c6 2 d4 d5 3 65 cS when Black also has a knight on 06, 5 Wh3 Are 6 2d Or 6 exd5 cxd5 7 Age? £.d67! (an amusing idea to play the ultra-aggressive Milner-BarryTHE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 259 Gambit with colours reversed) 8 &d2 (8 @xd5? Axd5'9 Wxd5? &b4+ has been played before, so pick your opponent carefully) 8...2.c7 (an admission that things have gone wrong because the Milner-Barry line is not so impressive upon 8...0-0 9 Dxd5 @xd5 10 Wxds Qc6 11 Wxe4 Hes 12 Woi and now of course the usual 12...2\xd4 fails because, with a knight on c2, the ¢-pawn is simply not pinned) 9 Wa3 Aic6 10 AbS &b8 11 Bel a6 12 Dec3 Le6 13 Re2 De7 14 Wad a7 15 Wad 0-0 16 Adi &xb5 17 Axb5 £6! when White wins material, Schatz-Roeder, Freising 2001. Guued€T 7 xd Also possible is 7 Dh3 heading for {4 to put pressure on the d5. For instance: 7...b6 8 cxdS cxd5 9 &.b5+ BFS @...£d7? 10 Bxd5) LODE &b7 11 0-Og5 12 Ah3 w4 13 As Kgs 14 hl Wg5 isa novel way of defending the d-pawn but Black's pieces lack harmony, giving White the advantage in Silman-Cartagena, Califor- nian Championship 1996. Tutxd5 8 Age? Aab 9 Af4 Ac7 10 Be2 0-0 14 h4!? White is wary of allowing the option of .27-g5 and stops it. Also possible 11 0-0 Wd6 (or 11...g5!? 12 @ib5 Axh5S 13 &xh5, intend- ing £2-f3, which looks fine for White.) 12 acl b6 13 DbS AxbS 14 Lxb5 b7 15 a3 HfeS 16 &b4 Was 17 Rfd1 and a draw was agreed in Petronic-Cetkovic, Kladove 1991 11...Wd6 12 Mgi!? h6 13 h5 13 g4 can be met by 13...25 14 hxgs hxgS 15 Dh3 Wh2 16 Bl b6, which is slightly in Black’s favour because White’s pieces are re- eating. 13...Hd8 14 g4 Dh7 15 0-0-0 Dgs 16 Hdfl b5! 17 @b1 If 17 Dxbs then White is in trouble after 17...2xbS 18 WxbS a5! 19 Wad &a6 20 &xa6 Bxa6 when Black can install a strong knight on {3 and use the semi-open lines on the queenside to infiltrate with his rooks. 17.05 18 (3 ad 19 We2 exf3 20 2x63 a 21 Exf3 2b7 22 Ad3 Rde8 23 Acs 2! The queen infiltrates White’s position. 24 Eifes?! Or 24 Heft SxcS 25 dxeS HER (25...4? is greedy and is swiftly punished upon 26 Ext7 dxc3 27 Exp7+ dxg7 28 We6+ leads to mate) 26 11342 We5 with roughly equal chances. 24.,.2xc5 25 dxc5 De 26 Axb5 Exe5 27 De3 d4 28 exdd Dxd4 29 Wa3 Af3 30 H1g2 Whi+ 31 Scl Del 32 Wadd Bxc3 Another option is 32...2xg2! 33 Wxes Rett 34 fal Dc2+ 35 dbl Da3+ 36 wal Wyel+ 37 Db! Wrb! mate. 33 Wxc3 Sed+ 34 Sal Axe? 35 5 Wel 36 gxh6 Wxe3 37 bxc3 Zb8 0-1 In my March column I mentioned how it is possible to have a wacky opening named after you. Shaun Press from Australia wrote: “Re: the ‘Pawn Attack’, there is a club player who deserves to have his name attached to this. In ‘Canberra it is known as ‘The Galli”, named af- ter Karl Galli. With White it is ‘The Galli At tack’, and with Black, “The Galli Defence”. To appreciate the power of this system you have to play Karl. If you manage to defeat him, which I must say is quite common, then in the post-mortem he is always able to show you exactly where he went wrong, and how he should have won.” Perhaps, it is only a matter of time before the name Gaili appears in the books. © If you have any questions for Gary Lane, please send them by letter to the BCM or email to editor @bemchess.co.uk260 ‘THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE MELODY AMBER ESPITE ITS novelty format, this tourmament has become something of an institution. ‘The 11th such event took place in March as usual in Monie Carlo, and many of the play- ers come back year after year for the rapidplay/blindfold event, and no doubt to enjoy the luxurious playing conditions available in the principality of Monaco. There was a ‘new boy on the block’ this year, Alexander Morozevich, whose last venture into France had ended in disaster when, despite being top seed, he had finished last at the NAO Masters in Cannes. He might have been forgiven for going away to lick his wounds af- ter such a calamity, but, returning to the fray just two weeks later, Morozevich staged a re- markable come-back, This time he was not top, but bottom, seed according to the FIDE rapidplay ratings (on which list he ranks well outside the world’s top 100). So, in a neat re- versal of his earlier result further along the French coast, he finished in first place, and re- futed the notion that the Cannes result might have affected him psychologically, Of course, the FIDE rapidplay rating list has not been around for very long, and conse- quently is not yet quite as reliable or well-known as its elder brother. The top two players on it, Kasparov and Adams, were not playing here, but it was surprising that we didn’t see any French players in the Melady Amber. French names are well to the fore on the rapidplay list; Lautier is 4th, Tkachiev 7th and Bacrot 9th equal. Despite the ‘French connection’, we have to disregard a player whom the list refers to as ‘Vichy’ Anand who is also amongst those in 9th place on the published rapidplay list. Kramnik was top seed and, like Morozevich in Cannes, he failed to justify his status as fa- vourite. However his lack of success was not as spectacular as Morozevich’s had been. He finished on a 50% score so it was more medioctity than calamity, though he did rather embar- rassingly hang a piece to Piket (and in the rapidplay). Chess world champions are not for- given mediocre results these days (as they were back in the 1960s), and Kramnik needs some Success soon to maintain his prestige. a[2]3]4|s [67s |9 | 10] 1 [12 | tote 1 | Morozevich | 256 |@@|%%4|4110% A1\41\1 L)0%| 41/41) 1%) 1 1) 1S 2| Shirov 266 [44 oe) %l% x) 4I[oulo tim) w1[1 1 [ 1 a] 14% 3) Leko 266 AO) OO) OFT ITA OM AIT LL 1AM A 4) Tvanchuk 274 | 144 4AA OS! 01/4%)1 0/41/40) 411%) 9%) 13 S| Gelfand 276 (40) %0)1%)1 0) O/%41)%%)%%/ 1 1/1 0/0 0)9 1) 12 6 | Topalov 273 |40/%%|0 0)4% KOloe|1%| 41 14)1 0/41/04) 12 7 | Bareev 22/00) 1 O/OK/OL “KOK o@ 1 TrOlr%it%ia a) 2 8| Kramnik | 278/1%4/0%|1%4|%0 4%] 400 0 ees 4/0 1/11/41) 9) Almasi 263 |%0\%%|40|%1/00/04|0 1 KKlee@lO%n4|1%) 9 10) Piket 27040400 0/49 010 LOK TO LKie@ 1K/01) 9 11) Van Wely, 268 10% 00)00/0%)11;/40)0% 00 440% OO/0%) 6 12) Liubojevic 262 )0 0)0 0)%%)0%)0 0/0 0/00) %0\0%)1 01% oe) § 1th Melody Amber Tournament, Monte Carlo (MNC), March 16-28 2002 Rapidplay and Blindfold (Rapidplay scores given first). FIDE rapidplay ratings shown,THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 26) Gelfand won the rapidplay with 7/4, with Topalov and Ywanchuk on 7. Morozevich only scored 6 in the rapidplay but he was ab- solutely dominant in the blindfold from the moment that he started off with a King's Gambit against Almasi in the first round. He won his first four blindfold games, finally finishing on 9 points ahead of Shirov on 8 and Leko on 7. Thete wete the usual crop of blunders in the blindfold competition, with Ivanchuk and Topalov both leaving their queens en prise and other players shedding lesser pieces. ‘Though there was as ever a strong element of brinkmanship about his play, Morozevich made no major mistakes in his blindfold games; so pethaps he might consider dis- pensing with board and pieces completely. Monaco Blindfold 2002 O Veselin Topalov Alexander Morozevich Petroff C42 Led eS 2 Af3 D6 3 Axes do 4 ALB Byxe4 5 dd d5 6 2d3 2d6 7 0-00-08 04 c69 Hel &g4 A temporary pawn sacrifice. 10 &xed dxe4 11 Hxed f5 12 Hel Qxt3 13 Wxt3 Wh 14 g3 Wxdd 15 Wh3 Probably an improvement on 15 Wc3 and 13 Edi which have been played here before. 15... Wb6 16 2e3 After this White has a little trouble defend- ing his doubled b-pawns. 16.,.Wxb3 17 axb3 Aaé 18 Ac3 Ac5 19 Had] Efe8 20 &xc5 Bxel+ A bold move, as Black has to be sure that White’s rook is not going to do him damage on. the Sth and 7th ranks. 21 Exel Axc5 22 b4 Ad3 23 He7 Bb8 24 b3 Axb4 25 De2 Da6 26 Add White is a pawn down but might expect that his much better placed pieces will come to the rescue. 26...618 27 Kd7 Acs 28 Ze7 Las 29 DsfS g6 30 e3 a5 31 Hxh7 Rd3 Black’s a-pawn looks a lot faster than White’s h-par 32 Eh8+ eT 33 Ba8 Axb3 34 h4 bS 35 A? 35 Ha6 , to check the queenside pawns’ for- ward movement, was best. Now Morazevich decides matters with an unexpected blow. 35...Lixe3! 36 fxe3 bxe4 37 eB c5 38 38 Hb8 a4 39 Ba8 c3 40 Exad c2 41 Bea 1+ 42 Exel Axel wins easily. 38...c3 39 ez c2 40 ExeS Axes 41 v2 d3 42 xe? Ve5 0-1 Monaco Blindfold 2002 OBoris Gelfand Alexander Morozevich Caro Kann B14 1c4-c6 2 e4 d5 3 exd5 cxd5 4 d4 Ate 5 De3 26 As Jon Speelman said in his 1992 book New Ideas in the Caro Kann, this is the move that “Black would like to play if his position would support it.” Black has to give up a pawn and though he usually gets it back, has to fight hard for equality. But Morozevich is a great sup- porter of unfancied variations. 6 Wh3 297 7 cxd5 0-08 Le2 ab 8... Abd7 9 £3 Ab6 10 ge? is a more fix- miliar line, but not necessarily better than the text. White usually maintains his edge well into the middlegame. 9 213 Wh6 10 Wxb6 axb6 11 Age2 Ab4 12 0-0 Has 13 d6 Making a virtue out of necessity. White262 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE cannot defend the d-pawn any further, for ex- ample 13 Df4? Dc2 and Black wins the &-pawn. 13...ixd6 13...exd6 14 Hdl Acé 15.Bg5 De7 16 Ald h6 17 &xf6 @xf6 18 Dfds and White won quickly in Penrose-MacDonald Ross, British Championship 1965. 14 24 Bd7 Black’s position is very awkward. 14...2d7 was forced because of the threat of the bishop coming to c7 and picking off the b-pawn. So the c8 bishop is going to be stymied for some time to come. Also Black’s doubled b-pawns look very weak. 15 Hfdi Afds 16 2; Dc 18 Af4 Za5 19 Das ®Dxe3 17 bxe3 \d3 Ha3 20 del ‘Though Black has made no progress in un- raveling his position, and moved a knight to the edge of the board, White is struggling to demonstrate an advantage in the position. 21 Babl Ac4 22 Eb4 Ad2 23 Exb6 A\xf3+ 24 exf3 Exa2 25 cS HAS 26 DxbT h5!? Gelfand has made the best of it and won a pawn, but Morozevich is lining up some tacti- cal shots against White's bishop on g3. 27 DcS Bh3 28 Bb8+ Gh7 29 Ad3 29 ed is better, but it must be overwhelm- ingly tempting to play a move which threatens a major piece fork in a blindfold game. 29...Hf5 30 Hel 30 £4 looks very ugly but it might be best way to beat Black’s attack off. 30.425! Ever the street-fighter, Morozevich wants to keep the position as taut and complicated as possible, and resists the temptation to let White have a few easy moves with 30...3xf3 31 Ata BF5 32 DAS, ete. 1 £4 31 DeS hd 32 Oc7 Bxf3 33 Ded sg6 and Black is on top. 31...d2 32 De5 gxf4 33 hd O06! Tes all over. 34 Bed dxhd 35 Axd2 EgS+ 36 Shi Qxf2 0-1 Monaco Rapidplay 2002 OViadimir Kramnik Alexander Morozevich Slav D17 1d4 d5 2 c4 063 Af3 Af6 4 Dc dxed 5 a4 &£5 6 DeS Abd7 7 Dxe4 We7 Not the only move Morozevich employs here: 7...Ad5 8 g3 e5 9 Bg? exd4 (9...Dxc3 10 bxe3 exd4 11 Wxd4 Des 12 We3+ Aes 13 a5 and White was better, though he went on to lose in Kramnik-Morozevich, Wijk aan Zee 2001) 10 Wxd4 Wo 11 Wxfo D7xf6 12 Dxds exd5 13 De3 and Black drew after an inge- nious defence in Kasparov-Morozevich, Astana 2001. 8 g3 eS 9 dxeS AxeS 10 24 Dfa7 10...2d8 11 Wel 2d6 12 Axd6+ Wado 13 B.g2 0-0 14 0-0 and White enjoys the advan- tage of the two bishops.THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 263 snws a Re Played in a number of obscure games in the 1980s and 1990s, this move was taken up by Morozevich a year or so ago. Gelfand and Bareev have also given it an airing, so it has an impressive client list. 12 xe5 Diverging from Kramnik-Morozevich, Astana 2001 which continued 12 @e3 gxf4 13 Dxf5 0-0-0 14 We2 DeS (14...Dg4 is less convincing: 15.a5 fxg3 16 hxg3.a6 17 Ead was Kasparov-Morozevich, Wijk aan Zee 2000, which White won in 45 moves; 14....8b4 15 gxfd Dod is another possibility) 15 0-0 Deb 16 Had1, and a draw was agreed on move 23. Bareev-Morozevich, Wijk aan Zee 2002, also reached this position and ended in a draw. 12..gxf4 13 Dxd7 0-0-0 In the last round at Monaco, Piket-Gelfand continued: 13...2xd7 14 Wadd Bes 15 ety 27 (16 2317 0-0-0 ~ 16...2.xh3 17 Wah7 forks rook and bishop - 17 &xd7+ Wxd7 18 Wats Be5 19 WE Od2+ 20 SF1 Wh3+ 21 Wg2 We6 22 Wet Wh3+ agreed drawn, Gelfand-Bareev, Wijk aan Zee 2002) 16 a5 a6 17 Had fxg3 18 hxg3 Bed 19 £4 £520 We3 Ke? and, despite the fact that Black appears to be in ‘good shape, he went on to lose. 14 Wad Wxa7 15 xt Kramnik doesn’t fancy 15 Wxh8: 15...Wd2+ (15...f612 16 Wxf6?! 2g7 and Black threatens a back-tank mate with &xc3+, ‘Wa2+ and Wd1+. White can bale out with 17 Wxd8+ Wrxd8 but his development is very backward) 16 Sf1 Wxb2 17 Kel 2b4 18 Wis ‘We2 when 19 De4 should lead to equality. 15...2.46 16 Wel 16 Who Wee 17 Wxe6+ &xe6 18 a5 a6 was Stern-Lamprecht, Bundesliga 2000, which ended in a draw. 16...a5 17 0-0 eB a z oy me 4 sz gy as oa of y sae i oe | a fa Bok “we 78s | 17...Re5? 17...2b8 was a necessary precaution, 18 Abs! We7 Kramnik plays for control of the important eS square. It’s too late for 18...2b8 because White plays 19 WS! and if 19...cxb5? 20 WrxeS+ Wa8 21 axbS and it is all over. 19 Da7+ &b8 20 Axc6+! A very inviting sacrifice. 20...bxc6 21 Wxe6 a7 22 WbS Fritz prefers 22 Bacl which leaves Black with precious little hope of defence, but the text is also powerful. 22...28 22...Hd6 23 We5+ tb8 24 Sadi threaten- ing 25 Bes. 23 Wxa5+ 26 24 Rack Mc8 25 bd Ac7 26 WES HheS 27 b5 &b7 28 &xb7 exb7 29 Wd5+ 2b8 30 b6! &xb6 Anything else and White rolls his a-pawn down the board. 31 Ebi Wee If 31...2a7 32 Exb6! soon mates. 32 Wxe6 Hxe6 33 a5 Hec6 34 3 1-0 Not only will White be two pawns up, but he will be able to cut off the black king's ap- proach to the kingside. he x ia264 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE THE KAVALEK FILE by Lubosh Kavalek UPS AND DOWNS LAYING CHESS well most of the time is not easy. Certainly, Garry Kasparov, who turned 39 on 13 April, knows how to do it. His win in Linares, Spain, in February marked his tenth consecutive victory in elite tournaments, a phenomenal achievement. Others are not so fortunate. In one of the greatest upsets this year, Zhu Chen of China, the women’s world champion, stunned FIDE’s overall world champion, Ru Ponomariov of Ukraine, and eliminated him in the first round of the FIDE Grand Prix rapidplay in Dubai. But the champion in ups and downs must be the Muscovite grandmaster Alexander Morozevich. In March he finished dead last in the elite NAO Masters in Cannes, France, and afew weeks later won the Melody Amber tournament in Monaco, which combined rapid and blindfold play. Morozevich scored 15 points from 22 games, Alexei Shirov of Spain finished second with 14% points, Peter Leko of Hungary was third with 13/4 points. World champion Viadimir Kramnik of Russia scored 50 per cent. Boris Gelfand of Istacl won the rapidplay, scoring 7% points from 11 games, but Morozevich dominated the blindfold competition with 9 points from [1 games. Morozevich displayed his attacking tal- ent against Yugoslav grandmaster Ljubomir Ljubojevic ina rapidplay game featuring the Fischer variation of the Najdorf. Black be- came a victim of his passive opening play. Monaco Rapidplay 2002 (Alexander Morozevich Wi Ljubomir Ljubojevie Sicilian Najdorf B86 1e4c52 Af3 d63 d4 cxd4 4 Axd4 DfES D3 a6 6 Lcd 06 7 Lb3 Abd7 8 Bes More common is 8 £4 but Morozevich likes to find new ways in less usual lines and open- What has Morozevich prepared against the equalizing line 8...h6 9 hd WaS 100-0 Wh5, played in the game Ehlvest-Kasparov, Skelleftea 1989? 9f4 207 10 Wi3 2d7 Trying to improve on the game Istratescu-Akopian, Mamaia 1991, where after 10..,We7 11 0-0-0 bS 12 2x6 Lxf6 13 DES! D\xb3+ 14 axb3 exf5 15 dS Wh7 16 exf5 0-0 White missed 17 Axf6+! gxf6 18 Wed+ dhs 19 Wh4 We7 20 She! Wd8 21 g4, followed by Bdl-d3, with a formidable attack. 11 0-0-0 0-0 12 Sb1 Zc8 13 h4 bs Black has played the opening rather pas- sively and his attempt to create counterplay fails. Ws 14e5! This central burst gives White a space ad- vantage and opens the door to a powerfulTHE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE attack on the kingside. 14...\e8 15%e4 Dxb3 16 axb3 d5 17 &xe7 Wxe7 After 17...dxe4 18 @xd8 exf3 19 fe7 Black's position is hopeless. 18 gst An annoying knight that Morozevich does not intend to remove. 18...h6 19 Wa3! £5 20 g4! Morozevich needs to open one or two files on the kingside to finish Black off. Liubojevic accepts the knight, yielding the h-file. 20...hxgS 21 hxg5 WE7 No better is 21...g6 22 exf5 exf5 23 06 Stc6 24 Bh6 Wg7 25 Edhl, followed by 26 Wh3 wins; or 21..,Wc5 22 g6 fxg4 23 We2 BES 24 Wrg4 a5 25 Bh2 Who 26 AxfS exf5 27 Bhs bf8 28 WeS wins, 22 gxf5 exfS 23 Wh3 Wg6 24 e6! 1-0 Liberating the square e5 for his knight. Af- ter 24....2xe6 25 2\f3! there is no reasonable defence against 26 e5 and 27 Wh8 mate. Moscow grandmaster Evgeny Bareev, winner of this year’s Corus tournament in the Dutch town of Wijk aan Zee, is mixing excellent tournament results with spectacu- lar short losses. In Monaco he collapsed quickly against the Bulgarian grandmaster Veselin Topalov after making just one care- less move in the Burn variation of the French Defence. Monaco Rapidplay 2002 OVeselin Topaloy Evgeny Bareev French Defence C10 1 e4 e6 2.d4.d5 3 Ac3 ALG 4 Ag5 dxed 5 Axed Abd7 6 DAl3 hot? The latest twist in the Burn variation, sur- rendering a lead in development for the bishop pair. 7 Dxf6+ Axt6 8 2x6 Wxf6 9 &b5+ c6 10 2d3 &d7 In the game Topalov-Anand, Dortmund 2001, Black tried 10...a6, but after 11 ¢3 ¢5 12 DeS 2d6 13 We2 White was better. 265 11 We2 c52! Barcev is taking chances. Safer is 11...8d6 12 0-0-0 0-0-0, as Korchnoi played against Svidler in Biel last year. 12. 0-0-0! Topalov improves on his game against Bareey, played in Cannes in February, where after 12 Wed Hb8 13 eS &d6 Black soon equalized. 12...0-0-0 13 Red! It is the bishop, not the queen, that belongs on this square! 13...2b8 14 DeS exd4? A careless blunder, Black had a tricky de- fence 14...2d6}, for example 15 Axd7+ Exd? 16 dxeS and now 16...We5+ 17 %b1 Wxcs bails him out. DG | Gx 7 15 &xb7!! This powerful bishop sacrifice generates a deadly attack. 15... 4+ After the immediate 15...dexb7 White has 16 Wed+ ec7 17 Wxd4 £e8 18 Wxa7+ wed 19 cd Exd1+20 Exdi Wia+ 21 sob1 Wred 22 Wa8+ sec7 23 Wxe8 winning. 16 &bi &xb7 17 g3 WES ‘The queen is in trouble, but switching to the queenside does not help either; 17...d3 18 Bixd3 Wad 19 63 Ws 20 c4 Wes 21 Mhal wins. 18 Bxd4 2c5 19 Efa! Black was ready to give back his bishop, but White has better ideas. 19.45 On 19..Wh3 20 Xxf7? We? 21 Bdl the ad266 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE cross-pins decide. 20h4 1-0 After 20...We7 21 Hxt7 We8 22 Wb5+2b6 23 We6+ da6 24 Dxd7 Wet? 25 Dcs+ Has 26 Wad mates. Also good was 20 Eixf7 e721 £4 winning. COMPUTER ANXIETY Fear of the unknown can play hayoc ina chess player’s mind. In 1997 Garry Kasparoy lost to IBM’s powerful computer Deep Blue after he convinced himself that the machine was helped by human interfer- ence. The Deep Blue team denied that, and Kasparov could not prove his allegations. But it preyed on his mind and in the decisive last game he was simply unable to compete, and quickly lost. In Secrets of Pawnless Endings, English grandmaster John Nunn shows that com- puter databases created by Ken Thompson can state with certainty the correct result of any position with five or fewer pieces. In an updated version, recently issued by Gambit Publications in London, Nunn adds some endings with six pieces, Last month, the computer program Deep Shredder, the reigning single-processor world champion, convincingly beat grandmaster Boris Gulko. It looked like the machine had solved the ending of 32 pieces, not giving the former Soviet and US champion many chances, Man vs Machine 2002 Deep Shredder MBoris Gulko French C03 14 e6 2 e4 d5 With the French Defence Gulko is aiming, for blocked positions where computers have fewer chances to excel. 3.Dd2 16 4 gh DG 5 0.03 cS Releasing the pressure. 5...dxe4 backfired in the game Jansa-Marovic, Madonna di Campiglio 1974, where after 6 @xe4 &b7 7 We2 S07 8 214 Dbd7 9 0-0-0 Dus 10 az ®Db4 11 Axbs Lxb4 12 HeS 0-0 13 Dxd7 ‘Wxd7 White won with a mating combination: 14 )f64!! axf6 15 Axh7+! hs 16 Bhs eg7 17 We4+ Bh8 18 d5 Bfds 19 d3 sexd5 20 RES &xg? 21 Wg? and Black resigned. 60-017 A novelty, leading to an interesting pawn sacrifice. 6.047 Re2 dred Gulko is not backing off. 8 Dg5 Qb77 ‘Was it the fear of the computer’s calculating superiority, that prevented Gulko from snatch- ing another pawn with 8...Wxd4? White has good compensation after 9 Ddxe4 Wxdl 10 Exd1, but Black’s position seem defensible. 9 Dyed Be7 10 eS 0-0 11 Led Creating the first dangerous threat: 12 Dexf7! Hxt7 13 Bxeb. 11... 2d5 12 Se2 ho?! Provoking White to give up his horses for a rook and a pawn. y 'Y ak a‘ 2a ae ae J an a a tole inee ‘awolee 13 ee 17! Shredder does not hesitate. After 13 3 Abd Black is fine. 13...2xf7 14 Dsf7 dxt7 15 264 Maybe Gulko has misjudged the position. White has a simple plan: to fortify the centre and open up the kingside with £2-f3. 15....b7 Better was to challenge White’s most active piece with 15...d6. For example 16 Wd2 Oxf4 17 Wxt4 De6 18 Ha Wes. 16 ¢3 De6 17 £3!THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 267 A key move, opening the e-file to pee the pawn on e6, 17...exf3 18 &xf3 Wa7 19 We2 eS?! 20 hS+! Creating more weaknesses. 20.26 fter 20...Axh5 21 Wxh5+ t7g8 comes 22 Axh6!, for example 22...gxh6? 23 Wg6+ dhs 24 HT and 25 Wh7 mate. 21 2gd Axgd 22 Wxed &g7 Unfortunately, Black has no time to consol idate his position and is finished off swiftly. 23 Bxho+!! Computers hardly ever miss combinations leading to a mating attack. 23...2xh6 24 Wh3+ &g7 25 He7+! 1-0 A final statement. After 25...€xf7 26 Wh7+ biG 27 Bfl+ Sg5 28 hd+ ed 29 Wxgs+ sloxh4 30 Bf mates. OPENING ANXIETY Chessplayers always fear being lured into an opening which they have never played or studied. In the 1985 US championship I faced grandmaster Max Dlugy, a former world junior champion, who played queen pawn openings exclusively with White. The action in this game was packed into the first three moves, before Dlugy bailed out of the challenge. US Championship 1985 Max Dlugy Mi Lubosh Kavalek. Pirc/Irregular BO7 1d4d6 ‘Threatening 2...05, this move was a good al- ternative against those players who did not in- ‘vest much time learning king pawn openings. ‘Their usual answer here was cither 2 Af3 or 2 A, 2e4! Bravo! Suddenly Dlugy decides to play the best available moye. A year earlier, at the New York International tournament, he chose 2 4 and lost in 31 moves. ue DI6 Now after 2 c3 g6 we would have the Pire Defence, a king pawn opening. Therefore... 3B? With the clear intention of playing 4 c4, transposing to the Simisch Kings Indian, a queen pawn opening. So... 3.051? A novelty at that time, this queen pawn dou- ble-pump was later picked up by grandmasters Tony Miles, Vishy Anand, Michael Adams, Jaan Ehtvest and Julian Hodgson. It prevents the Siimisch and asks for the French Defence after 4 eS, another king pawn opening. 4 exd5?! * Dlugy always played this untroubled move, drawing all his games. He could not bring him- self to play the strongest 4 e5. 4...Dxd5 5 4 D6 6 Ac3 Ac6 7 Be3 058 dxeS DxeS 9 Wxd8+ Hxd8 10 0-0-0+ w% Gambit Publications recently issued two books where this opening is discussed. Valeri Beim’s Chess Recipes from the Grandmaster’s Kitchen has a smal} chapter on the extravagant 4 e5 @\g8?! but excels in presenting new ways of thinking in chess. An Explosive Chess Opening Repertoire for Black by grandmaster Jouni Yrjola and IM Jussi Tella from Finland advocates answer- ing any white first move with 1...d6. Both books are recommended for tournament players.268 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE BCF DIRECT MEMBERSHIP In last month's News In Brief (page 214), we reported the British Chess Federation's (BCF) plans to make direct membership of the federation compulsory for its rated players. At least one reader was surprised to read this. Ronald Pearce, of Swindon, wrote in to say that he was “taken aback to read your note on this subject. It had really never occurred to me before that membership of the BCF was not normal for our titled players and so I wondered if your men- tion of some resistance to the proposal could be correct.” It is indeed correct and what follows is a record of an interesting debate which has taken place via email over the past few weeks. It began on 13 March when the BCF Intemational Director, Stewart Reuben, sent out the following message to some English rated players “and those interested in international chess”, via an email distribution list: “At the BCF Council Meeting 27 April the following will be proposed: that, from Septem- ber, all players whose names appear on the World Chess Federation (FIDE) Rating List as from England shall be required to be members of the British Chess Federation. There is little doubt this proposal will be passed. This seems to me to be perfectly reasonable. The cost to the BCF of trying to ensure players are rated accurately is considerable. Some of you, from personal experience, know this to be a battle which, though valiantly fought, is often unsuc- cessful through no fault of yours or ours. The BCF provides the means by which title norm applications are made. We also represent your interests.” He then went onto to explain the various benefits of direct BCF membership (which may be read in detail at the BCF website at www. bef.ndirect.co.uk/produets/membership.htm). NIGEL DAVIES WADES IN Grandmaster Nigel Davies stepped into the debate and responded as follows: “L guess you sent this email to gauge opinion about this prior to the meeting. I will there- fore provide you with some feedback. There are almost no international tournaments in the UK, and those that there are have very little in the way of prizes. The situation is certainly better in some other countries (Iceland, Spain, Italy, Greece, etc) where there are far more events and grandmasters have been known to receive honoraria from their federations simply for being grandmasters and representing the country as such. When this is the case it digni- fies the status of the international title system and chess in general, making a statement that this aspect of human culture is valid and worthwhile.” “A requirement for grandmasters to pay for their FIDE ratings, on the other hand, docs not dignify anything. It just looks like the BCF, having been unable to obtain sponsorship for chess, is now struggling for its own survival. Having hunted round for something to charge for, it has come up with this. No doubt someone has decided that the ‘professional elite’ is making money from chess and should therefore be paying for this ‘service’. In my view this should not be what a chess federation is about. It is a sign of either pure desperation (failure toraise money from other sources) or complete ignorance of the history, culture and meaning of chess, and the financial status of full-time ‘professionals’.” “Fortunately Iam not in their situation and have little need of a FIDE rating. I could easily afford the membership fee and would not have cancelled my membership (a couple of years ago now) had the BCF achieved more in the past decade. But as things stand I will not beTHE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 269 paying a penny, and if this proposal is passed it will ensure that Inever will. Yours sincerely, Nigel Davies (International Grandmaster).” JOHN NUNN’S VIEW OF THE PROPOSAL Another very distinguished grandmaster, Dr. John Nunn, responded to Stewart Reuben’s email, thus: “This proposal is exceptionally far-reaching in its implications, since it completely changes the relationship between ordinary players and the BCF. In addition, it has a host of practical implications. | would have thought that such a proposal deserves a wide debate, yet so far as I can tell it has not been publicized. Casting my eye over recent issues of ChessMoves reveals no mention of this proposal. Given that the BCF has such an outlet available, it seems extraordinary that no attempt has been made to invite a debate on this con- troversial proposal, especially amongst the players and organisers who will be affected by it. Indeed the way in which you put it (“There is little doubt this proposal will be passed.’) sug- gests that it is a fait accompli.” “Key to the proposal is the implicit threat that thase who do not become members of the BCF will be struck off the FIDE rating list (otherwise membership would be voluntary, and the proposal would not change the current situation). This raises a large number of questions: © Why does the BCP think it has the power to have players struck off the FIDE list, which is after all administered by a body independent of the BCF? Is there any agreement between the BCF and FIDE regarding the striking off of English players from the FIDE list? Inote that FIDE have found it very difficult to strike players off their own list, even in cases in- volving flagrant manipulation of the rating system - doubtless they are wary of the legal implications of doing so. @[tseems to me that the BCF’s involvement in the FIDE rating list is minimal. Tournament directors send the results to FIDE, who process the results and issue the list. In some cases queries may arise, but even in these cases the BCF acts as a little more than a con- duit for information which could in fact go directly to FIDE. By contrast, the BCF runs its own national list which is a considerable administrative burden and which has caused a fair number of headaches in the past few years. Can you therefore explain the logic by which those on the FIDE list (which involves the BCF with very little work) have to pay a special levy while those on the national list (which involves the BCF with a great deal of work) do not? Moreover, as you haye said, FIDE intends to extend its list down to include essentially all active players. In this case there would be no need for the BCF to run its own system. Perhaps you could explain why the BCF should seek to obtain a great deal of extra money as a result of a change which will additionally allow the BCF to make large savings on administration and expense? © Under this proposal, membership fees would within a few years become the BCF's larg- est source of income. There is absolutely no mention as to why the BCF should need this extra money, or what it intends to do with it if it arrives. Over the past decade, the BCF has presided over a considerable decline in chess activity in England. Many sponsors have disappeared and tournament attendances have dropped. The main p ive innova- tion, the 4NCL, had nothing to do with the BCF — indeed, in its early days the BCF did its best to kill it off, fearing a threat to its own National Club Championship. This definitely happened —I attended a BCF meeting at which you, Stewart, were also present, in whichVee... 270 ‘THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE the first topic for discussion was ‘How can we kill off or take over the 4NCL?", Under such circumstances it would hardly be surprising if players felt that their money might not be well spent.” © If a player does not become a member, or ceases to be a member, when will he be struck off? Will a warning be issued?” Nunn then enumerated a list of practical difficulties which would arise in the event of players being de-listed, not least of them being the problem that organisers would have if a tournament invitee were to be de-listed by the BCF just before a rated toumament began. “In the current climate, it is hard enough for British players to be invited to overseas events, This problem will only become more severe if overseas organisers fear that any Brit- ish players they might invite could suddenly be struck off, damaging their tournament. These points all seem quite important, and I hope that you will be able to give me the answers with- out too much trouble, Best wishes, John Nunn.” SCCU WEBSITE DEBATE It is worth noting that news of thi itiative had appeared on the web on 11 March, at Richard . Haddrell’s excellent Southern Counties’ Chess Union (SCCU) website (wwwsecundo.co.uk). He had scooped the BCF website by several days and posted David ‘Smith’s account of the BCF Management Board meeting of 9 March, Smith reported that BCF proposal as stated above, and that this was one of the reasons it had launched its new, cheaper, membership structure (£12 being the lowest adult cost of membership). The federa- tion had already decided to write to all rated players inviting them to join but this has not been done yet, and the board agreed to ask the April Council meeting to ratify the decision to do it, Anyone not joining by September would be removed from the FIDE list. The website published some feedback from readers who were also less concemed about the £12 fee than the principle behind (and timing of) the BCF proposal. STEWART REUBEN’S REPLY Many questions, but as yet no answers. Stewart Reuben responded at the BCF website on 20 March: “The following will be proposed at the BCF Council Meeting in Leeds on 27 April. From September 2002 all players listed on the FIDE Rating List under England will be required to become members of the British Chess Federation. I circulated all the English players for whom I have email addresses. There were few replies, but even so a number of interesting points were raised.” 16.1 of the FIDE Rating Regulations has stated for some years: To be included in the FIDE Rating List a player must be a member of a national chess federation. In my view this is completely unworkable without the co-operation of the federations, Also, the BCF could simply state that all rated players are members. Six weeks” advance notice is adequate. Ithad been Suggested that a similar proposal agreed at Council last year was sufficient, but I was adamant that this had not been adequately circulated.” Then, after the reiteration of the benefits of membership and enumeration of future pro- jects: “One argument is that this is a waste of time, there being only 500 FIDE-rated players.THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 271 The FIDE List will go down to 180 from f July. This should lead to a 20% increase. FIDE hope eventually to go down to 1001, which is equivalent to BCF 50. That would be about 25,000 people. Even if they fail, it is being proposed eventually that the BCF itself require all players who play in graded events be members. If that is successful, it may lead to a large in- crease in income. Congresses could save about £20,000 per year if everybody received ChessMoves monthly and it had more detailed information on forthcoming events. Starting off with the FIDE-rated players is a relatively easy step. The people who gain most from the BCF are active, strong and junior players. Fora very small sum, the international players can encourage a big leap forward.” “[ quite agree that all grandmasters and woman grandmasters should be entitled to free membership, as should international arbiters and directors. However, I think this is politi- cally impossible. For those of you who coach it is becoming essential to join a national regis- ter and for checks to be made on your background. It is a less expensive process under the umbrella of the BCF. It is very likely this will be agreed in April. It is mostly organisers who vote and they will not be disadvantaged.” “There will be considerable technical problems. Non-publication of players who are rated but not members, can only commence with the 1 October 2002 list. Players, organisers and FIDE will have to be given adequate warning. Contact with some inactive players will be di ficult. Clearly if you play against a de-listed player, the game will not count for rating of ther player. This is not new. This year all Russian players were temporarily de-listed.” BEWARE THE UNRATED GRANDMASTER Nigel Davies and Stewart Reuben had discussed various related points in a series of emails, Nigel has copied his comments to us and kindly allowed BCM to quote from them: “In order to be a grandmaster requires a lot of work: in fact most grandmasters devote their lives to this. When I got my title it was from competition against grandmasters who were be- ing paid for their efforts and skills. What are the rewards for being a grandmaster now? Well, in these days of ‘no prize’ tournaments, not very much. There seems to be an expectation that we will participate in the title/rating system as fodder for aspiring players, but with no reward for doing so. And now it looks like we're being expected to pay to be fodder. I personally have had enough of it, and this rating proposal just confirmed in my mind that it’s better to do something else. I’ve got my title and I enjoy chess in the few games I’m currently playing, but I’m not the one that needs me to have an FIDE rating. [look forward to spoiling people’s rating/norm chances (as an unrated) in the 4NCL and other events.” The debate between Davies and Reuben was amiable and constructive. It was clear that Nigel Davies was concerned not so much with the requirement to pay for a rating as the man- ner of its implementation: he feels that it was “deeply insulting to those who have given their lives to chess and dictatorial in its manner (the lack of debate is mentioned in John Nunn’s well-argued letter)”. Nigel’s outlook for the future is pessimistic: “The likely prognosis seems to me to be that the current downward spiral will continue and national federations and FIDE will become increasingly irrelevant. Chess will continue to be played, of course, probably within a variety of new, looser organisations (the Internet Chess Club, for exam- ple). And I'm not sure it’s possible to say that this will be a good or a bad thing.” On 30 March John Nunn wrote again to Stewart Reuben (copied to a large number of \op-rated English players and journalists): “L have waited a couple of weeks before commenting further on this matter in order to272 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE allow discussion to develop, but in fact there seems to be hardly any interest in the matter. I thank the handful of people who did respond (basically supporting my point of view), but in view of the general level of apathy surrounding this controversial proposal, it hardly seems worthwhile taking any further action. However, I would just like to make a few final points.” “Perhaps there is little interest in the BCF’s proposal as it is perceived as affecting just a small group of top players. There are now 808 English players on the rating list, but some of these are inactive and I would guess that only about 500 are actually active. Thus the pro- posal would bring in a maximum of £6,000 per year at the moment. If one makes the reason- able assumption that about one-third of the 25,000 players on the BCF grading list with ratings above 50 will eventually be caught by the BCF's new chess tax, this adds up to £100,000 per annum for the BCF (assuming the £12 figure does not rise, of course).” “This isa very large sum of money for an organisation the size of the BCF, and almost all of it will come from ordinary club players, By the time the FIDE list extends down to BCF 5\ one may anticipate that the BCF’s own rating list will wither away, so paying the membership fee will be the only way to get rated. There are of course other countries which have a compul- sory membership scheme, but the BCF has in addition a game fee scheme, whereby it receives 30p per competitive game played (about to be raised (o 33p per game: there is a lower fee for rapidplay games), At the time the game fee scheme was introduced, there was a discussion as to whether to have an individual membership scheme or the game fee scheme, with the latter being adopted. Now the BCF wants to have its cake and eat it, by introducing double taxation for English chess, For a grandmaster such as myself, the £12 is completely irrelevant (except for the principle involved), but it seems extraordinary that so little interest has been raised by a scheme which could extract £100,000 per year from ordinary club players.” “My detailed queries regarding the operation of the scheme have been almost entirely ig- nored, so I cannot comment further on this aspect of the proposed scheme. Perhaps the main points are:” © Why should the BCF receive wt to £100,000 per annum extra money from English club players in return fora service which is administered by a completely different organisa- tion? Nobody has attempted to defend the logic of this. © Why does the BCF need this money and what will it do with it if it receives it? Possibilities which spring to mind are the organisation of some more sub-committees or perhaps a few extra meetings. Then again, maybe it will be used to try to sabotage worthwhile develop- ments such as the 4NCL. Such thoughts arise naturally because no explanation has been provided as to why this extra money is needed. Organisations which raise extra money nor- mally provide detailed business plans with performance targets on which the directors stake their reputations, but I dare say that the idea of performance targets is not one which will find much favour within the precincts of the BCR. “Stewart Reuben has repeatedly emphasised that, due to the incompetent administration of the FIDE rating list, itis considerable work forthe BCF totry to ensure that players end up with correct FIDE ratings. If this is really true, then it seems folly to send lists of players to FIDE to be struck off or reinstated in the hope that these instructions will be followed to the letter. I would suggest that it is only a matter of time before a grandmaster gets struck off because a similarly-named player hasn't paid his £12. 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Dh6 64 Wh8+ Wh7 65 Wixh7 mate, Analysis by A.Orobeiko in 64, 5 August 1937, examines 58...&h6 59 Wa8! W3+ 60 Wxf3 gxf3 61 exf7 d1W 62 18W+ & moves 63 We7 mate. One of the benefits of old age is that losses are forgotten, and draws upgraded in the mind. It seems that the combination of the frailty of the 90-year-old Lilientha) and the inexperience of the editor led to this embar- Tassment to the Hungarian chess community. No. 5602 - Michael Negele writes about ‘Mr. H(e)yde's crime’ in the current issue of the excellent German chess magazine, Kaissiber. It is a detailed study of Albert Heyde, an important figure in German chess life at the end of the 19th century. He was, for example, an editor of Deutsches Wochenschach, the fierce rival of the older Deutsche Schachzeitung. In 1891 he was the first man to write a monograph on the French Defence (the main theme of the magazine’s issue). His promising chess career came to an abrupt end in December 1902 when he dis- appeared, along with money, worth about half a million pounds in today’s terms, from the bank at which he was an official. In 1920 Deutsches Wochenschach reported (p. 143) that Heyde, born 1866, had just diced in Aberdeen, Washington State, USA, after a stroke. Negele reveals that Heyde had changed his name to Hoffmann. There is a curious echo of Oscar Telling. In Q&Q 4832 we described how, in 1914, he had swindled a bank in USA and fled to Ger- many before settling in Monte Carlo.‘THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 275 ENDGAME STUDIES by John Beasley, 7 St James Road, Harpenden, Herts ALS 4NX | @ : x | | pees | lam & 22 8 ® | Ja - after 4 g7 2-win Paul Michelet’s original study 1 was left for solution last time. The natural start is | Ads intending 2 2d4+, but Black has 1...ceb2 2244+ dee2 3 A(d)— b4 and the pawns are strong enough to hold the day. Better is the sacrifice 1 Jad guarding b2, because 1...bxa4 flicks Black’s b-pawn to the a-file where it is less threatening. There follows 2 204+ @\b2, and now comes a manoeuvre first shown in the famous “Indian” problem of 1845: 3 &h8! a3 4:bg7 (see La) and the stalemate is lifted. The rest is easy: 4...42\-- 5 S#7+/s2g6+ Ab2 6 216 D-- 7 Se6+/S5+ etc and wK comes down the staircase. The alternative wK paths down the hill are inevitable in so light a setting, but it would be nice to avoid them and Paul’s 2 (diagrammes 2002) does so by using an extra black bishop. 1 &d4+ (1 Bf1+ &b2 and Black escapes) 1...A\b2 2 RF1+ &b1 3 deg5! (there is no sacrifice on the a-file in this version, but this little piece of trickery offers compensation) 3...26 4 @h6 55 ih8 gd 6 bg7 gives 2a, and this time only the diagonal f7-c4 is available to White. ‘There follows 6...2)-- 7 274 Ab2 8 Lf6 and so on down to 14

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