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White mustbe 13.Nxb6+ "No thanks - I will have the whole The eight New Zealandplzyers plus two parents 14.Be5 Rg8 15.Rel Be6 l6.R (F0-017.Ne2 very careful. 25.Nxh4 [Another way was 25.g4 King" 13...axb614.a4 Rhg8 Still under the delu- and I as manager/coach had a long flight to Zt- Bg7 18.Bxg7 RxgT 19.f4 2O.Rhfl Bt5 94 fxg4 (25...Ne7 26.Ne3 fxg4 27.Nxg4 NJ5 28.Rgl) sion that she only has to furn up on the queen- rich via Singapore, but enjoyed a brief stopover 21.Ncl f6 22.Re2 Rb7! Bobby closes down the 26.Qxf7+ Qe7 27.Qxe7+ NxeT 28.Nf4 Rh6 side to win, White ignores the waming bells that across the border into access to pawns. 23.b3 there before travelling knight's his weak [ If 29.Nd3 and White is not worsel 25...Rxh4 should have been ringing loud and clear... France. 23.}$b3 c4! 24.dxc4 d3 and White is suddenly in 26.gxh4 Nxh4 27.Qg3 Qd8 28.Qf4 [28.Qd3 15.a5?? Qh3 16.93 Ng4 No more smiling now. trouble The Swiss train from Zurich to Basel was fabu- I 23...Kd7l24.Rfel Kd6 25.Re8 RxeS offers the draw 28...Qg5 29.Q93128...Ng2 White resigned (Fl lous. We arrived on the dot. Could one expect 26.Rxe8 Amazingly, the white rook can roam at 29.Qe5 Nxel 30.Rxel Qh4 31.Qe3 Rg4 32.Rgl anlthing else? Then a scrape up and down stair- will behind Black's defensive line, but cannot Re4 33.Qg3 Qxg3+ 34.fxg3 Black's rook is more Shirley Wu - Girls Under-14 ways to get to the border control and catch the achieve anything whereas the white knight is active - but the passed h-pawn keeps White's Score 5.5 pts locked in behind its own pawns. 26...896 French train from Basel to Belfort. Somehow position intact. 34...Ke7 35.h4 Rg4?! Now White Yet another excellent effort - Shirley was never this train managed to be delayed, despite con- 27.Rh8 Rh7 28.Rxh7 BxhT 29.Ne2 a5 30.a4 can both improve his King and nulliff Black's worse than -1 and played solidly throughout, stant forward motion. A foretaste of things to Kd5 31.Ncl Ke6 32.Ne2 h5 33.Ncl Draw active rook - Black has to be very careful from losing only 3 games. I have been an admirer of come... agreedYr-/, here. 36.Rfl Re431.Kg2 Kf6 38.Rf4 Kg6 her play for some years, and I was not disap- venue saw complete pandemo- Arrival at the 39.Rxe4 fxe4 4O.KD,f5 41.Ke3 a5 42.Kf4b5 pointed. One episode in particular impressed me nium in the registration area - the team waited Andy Chen - Boys Under-12 43.g4 Kt6 44.95+ Kg6 Dr awn /,-Y, - under immense pressure on the board and on the outside I spent hours in a permanent Score 4.5 pts while clock for many moves, she held her nerve splen- scrum. was one the fortunate dele- Andy had perhaps the most reason to be disap- And I of Sue Maroroa - Girls Under-I4 didly until her opponent ran out of ideas and of- gates... pointed his result at this toumament. On with Score: 5.5 pts fered the draw. Eastem European countries showed 50Vo with four rounds to go, he looked odds-on Certain Another excellent effort - Sue was +2 and unde- superb rugby skills in this room - forming tight- to achieve 50Vo or better overall, but of all our feated after 7 rounds, and consistently meeting Shirley WU (l\ZL) - and obliterating any at- players, Andy was the worsGaffected by the five scrum formations opponents notjust highly-rated but very well Gwanaelle Francis (WLS) tempt at queuing. Having finally convinced the playng conditions. Andy's strength is certainly prepared. Despite this, there was only one open- l.e4 e5 2.NR Nc6 3.Bb5 d6 organisers of our genuine right to be there ( and in the middle game. It was no accident that he ing calamity. Her second loss was a middle game This opening went out of fashion in the 90's - the our ability to pay we were allowed our first won outright a strong B-grade competition at the ), tactic missed when under pressure.