Blunders: Where do they come from?
Where do blunders come from? If only one could scan his brain and eliminate the "blunder gene" completely! My Anzac Day Weekender ended with a "tragedy". I blundered a piece in one move in a completely winning position.
Does it mean i should get disillusioned in chess? I do not think so. I guess I should be humble instead and simply accept that blunders are part of the game..same as brilliancies :).
Australian Day Weekender Day1: It is Clear that Nothing is Clear!
The Aus Day Weekender attracted a small but compact field. Top 5 seeds are all rated above 2100. Lets see what is going to happen tomorrow.
City of Melbourne Open 2007: What a strong field!
City of Melbourne Open started last Monday at MCC. The field is quite compact but very strong. It includes 2 IMs (Guy West and Mirko Rujevic) 1 FM (Doug Hamilton) and a number of other strong players (Malcolm Pyke, Jesse Jegger, Panno Skiotis). Lets see who wins! :)
Battle of the FMs: A Positional Sacrifice
In the following game black made two concequtive pawn sacrifices..simply to gain some positional benefits.
[Event "GCS"][Site "GCS"][Date "2007.04.17"][White "SirPacMan"][Black "MichaelBaron"][Result "0-1"][WhiteElo "2216"][BlackElo "2305"][TimeControl "180+0"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 O-O 5. f3 d6 6. Be3 Nc6 7. Qd2 e5 8. d5 Nd4 9. Nge2 Nxe2 10. Bxe2 Nh5 11. g4 Nf4 12. Bxf4 exf4 13. Qxf4 c5 14. h4 b5 15. cxb5 a6 16. bxa6 Bxa6 17. Bxa6 Rxa6 18. g5 Qb6 19. Qd2 Rb8 20. Rh2 Be5 21. Rg2 Qb4 22. a3 Qc4 23. Rc1 Rab6 24. Ne2 Qa6 25. b4 cxb4 26. axb4 Rxb4 27. Rf2 Rb2 28. Rc2 Qa1+ 29. Nc1 Bg3 30. Kd1 Bxf2 31. Qxf2 Rxc2 32. Qxc2 Qd4+ 33. Qd3 Qg1+ 34. Kc2 Rc8+ 35. Kb3 Qxc1 36. e5 Rb8+ 0-1.
Australian Day Weekender: April 21-22 at MCC
An innagural Weekend tournament will be taking place at the MCC next weekend. I am not 100% sure that i will be free to play (due to the work committements) but hopefully, i will make it.
Please note that the tournament has been registered as a GP event this year!
Rogers Wins Doebrl Cup!
Australian Grandmaster Ian Rogers scored an outright victory at the innagural Doebrl Cup in Canberra. Ian finished on 6/7 half a point ahead of David Smerdon, Steven Solomon and Gary Lane. It was very pleasing to see the Australians finish the tournament ahead of visiting overseas stars!
Portish at his Best: Portish-Petrosian (1967)
[Event "It"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "1967.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "L Portisch"]
[Black "T Petrosian"]
[ECO "D13"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "48"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. cxd5 cxd5 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. Bf4 e6 7. e3 Bd6
8. Bg3 O-O 9. Bd3 Re8 10. Ne5 Bxe5 11. dxe5 Nd7 12. f4 Qb6 13. O-O Qxe3+
14. Kh1 Qb6 15. Qh5 Nf8 16. Rf3 Ng6 17. Bf2 Qd8 18. Nb5 Nce7 19. Nd6 Bd7
20. Bh4 Qb6 21. Rh3 h6 22. Bf6 Qxb2 23. Rf1 Nf5 24. Bxf5 1-0.
Lajos Portish - 70!
Lajos Portish, famouse Hungarian grandmaster selebrated his 70th birthday a couple of days ago. Lets wish him many happy returns ..and many happy chess games to come!
An Exiting Finish: Another Internet Blitz Game
The following game was played with a 3/0 time control. It is obviously full of mistakes but White's sacrificial play is exiting to watch i guess .
[Event "GCS"][Site "GCS"][Date "2007.04.05"][White "MichaelBaron"][Black "eceprof"][Result "1-0"][WhiteElo "2377"][BlackElo "2065"][TimeControl "180+0"]
1. c4 e6 2. Nc3 d5 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nf3 Bb4 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. e3 c6 7. Bd3 dxc4 8. Bxc4 Qa5 9. O-O Bxc3 10. bxc3 Ne4 11. Bh4 Qxc3 12. Rc1 Qa5 13. Qc2 Ndf6 14. Ne5 O-O 15. Bd3 Nd6 16. Bxf6 gxf6 17. Bxh7+ Kg7 18. f4 Rh8 19. Rf3 Rxh7 20. Rg3+ Kh8 21. Ng6+ fxg6 22. Qxg6 Qd8 23. e4 Bd7 24. Rc5 Qf8 25. Rh5 Qf7 26. Rxh7+ Qxh7 27. Qxf6+ 1-0.
