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New in Chess 01-01 Decemberr Cover_Layout 1 13/11/2017 21:07 Page 1 03-03 Contents_Chess mag - 21_6_10 13/11/2017 21:36 Page 3 Chess Contents Founding Editor: B.H. Wood, OBE. M.Sc † Executive Editor: Malcolm Pein Editorial....................................................................................................................4 Editors: Richard Palliser, Matt Read Malcolm Pein on the latest developments in the game Associate Editor: John Saunders Subscriptions Manager: Paul Harrington 60 Seconds with...Chris Ward........................................................................7 Twitter: @CHESS_Magazine The leading Kent coach and GM will be commentating at the Classic Twitter: @TelegraphChess - Malcolm Pein Website: www.chess.co.uk Brexit Looms for White Rose .........................................................................8 Steve Barrett reports from a final foray into the European Club Cup Subscription Rates: United Kingdom How Good is Your Chess?..............................................................................14 1 year (12 issues) £49.95 Daniel King presents a fine win by Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 2 year (24 issues) £89.95 3 year (36 issues) £125 Magnus on the Move.......................................................................................18 Europe Junior Tay watched Carlsen’s first appearance in Singapore 1 year (12 issues) £60 2 year (24 issues) £112.50 Chris Ward defeated in Orpington Simul................................................22 3 year (36 issues) £165 Actually Chris scored pretty well, as Conrad Allison explains USA & Canada 1 year (12 issues) $90 Not so Sunny in Crete.....................................................................................24 2 year (24 issues) $170 Kanwal Bhatia reports from the European Team Championships 3 year (36 issues) $250 Stocking Fillers...................................................................................................30 Rest of World (Airmail) Sean Marsh has some suggestions for your Christmas list 1 year (12 issues) £72 2 year (24 issues) £130 How not to Organise a Simul .......................................................................32 3 year (36 issues) £180 Charles Higgie hopes you will learn from his mistakes Distributed by: Post Scriptum (UK only), Enjoying Life à Paris.........................................................................................34 Unit G, OYO Business Park, Hindmans Way, Carl Strugnell witnessed a lecture down the local club by a GM Dagenham, RM9 6LN - Tel: 020 8526 7779 LMPI (North America) Find the Winning Moves.................................................................................37 8155 Larrey Street, Montreal (Quebec), Can you do as well as the stars at the European Club Cup? 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You can even order Subscriber Special Offers online Saunders on Chess............................................................................................58 via www.chess4less.com John ponders a recent game by Stephen ‘the Rookie’ Moss Photo credits: euroteams2017.com (pp.26, 28), Rolf Haug (p.47), Andy Howie Printed in the UK by The Magazine Printing (p.50), Eteri Kublashvili (pp. 10, 36), Phil Makepeace (pp.7, 33, 52), Amruta Mokal Company using only paper from FSC/PEFC (p.35), Lennart Ootes (p.52), Fiona Steil-Antoni (pp.15, 45), Sophie Triay (p.11, suppliers www.magprint.co.uk right), The Guernsey Press (p.49). www.chess.co.uk 3 18-21 MagnusMagnanimous_Chess mag - 21_6_10 13/11/2017 21:30 Page 20 Olimpiu Urcan succinctly put it, I was about to be subjected to severe medieval torture. 27...Îed8 28 Ìc3 Îe8 29 Îf3 Îc8 30 Îb5 g6 31 g4! Stopping ...f7-f5 and keeping absolute control on the kingside. 31...Íe7 32 Êf2 Îa8 33 Êe2 Êg7 34 Êd3 Îa1 35 h3 h6 36 e4 Îg1 37 e5 Îe1 38 Ìd5 Íg5 39 Êc4 Íd2 40 Îfb3 Îc1+ 41 Êd3 Íg5 42 Ìc3 Îh1 43 Îxb7 Îxh3+ 44 Êc4 Îd8 45 Ìe4 1-0 And with his knight jumping to d6, my kingside stymied by a solitary pawn on g4, and with his passed pawns about to be set in motion, I’d seen enough. ÌÌÌÌÌÌÌÌÌÌ I believe the following game best reflects Magnus’s boa-constrictor style of play, this exchange sacrifice being played against the CEO of the Edge Group Singapore, Tom Hellebø. The latter plays at about 1700 level on Chess.com and performed best among the Success! Ms. Esther Koh and Ms. Michelle Tay managed to get Magnus to sign chess books Norwegian contestants. and boards for their children after parking themselves next to Magnus’s rest area. Of course, the all-important photo opportunity with the world champion was a must and they were rewarded for their perseverance and strategic positional sense with a beaming Magnus pose. M.Carlsen-T.Hellebø Singapore (simul) 2017 f5 13 exf5 gxf5 14 f4 exf4 15 Íxf4 Ìe5 in it is still not much fun from his perspective. King’s Indian Defence Matlakov-Shimanov, Sochi 2017) 11 g4 a4 12 a4 Standard stuff. 12...h6 13 a5 Ìh7 12 g5 Ìe8 13 h4 and now Black played a cool Black prepares to play ...f7-f5, so Magnus 1 Ìf3 Ìf6 2 c4 g6 3 Ìc3 Íg7 4 d4 0-0 pawn sacrifice with 13...c6!? 14 Íxc5 dxc5 trains his guns to await it. 5 h3 d6 6 e4 15 Ìxa4 in Li Chao-Schmaltz, Deizisau 2015, 14 Îg1 Êh8 15 Ìc4 White has a firm grip The world champion decides on the when 15...cxd5 16 Ìxc5 d4 gives Black on the queenside and the touring c4-knight is Makogonov System, a big squeeze line. powerful compensation for the pawn minus in well placed for any central action. 6...Ìbd7 the form of the protected passed d-pawn 15...f5 6...e5 7 d5 Ìh5 is the vogue continuation and the space advantage that comes with it. I wanted to put a question mark here, but in master praxis these days. 9 g4 to be fair I can’t see any decent plan for Black 7 Íe3 e5 8 d5 Ëe7?! Beginning the Petrosianic (Carlsenesque to provide counterplay. A ‘wasted’ move as the queen isn’t better or Carlsenic somehow doesn’t sound quite so 16 gxf5 gxf5 17 exf5 e4 on e7 than on d8. I suppose there is some fluent) squeeze. logic if Black intends to play....c7-c6 and the 9...c6?! queen on e7 holds the d6-pawn, but ...c7-c6 The resulting opening of queenside lines mostly helps White open lines on the queenside. benefits White more than Black. The standard continuation is 8...Ìc5, 10 Ìd2 cxd5 11 cxd5 a6?! though the knight usually gets here via the a6- square: 9 Ìd2 a5 10 Íe2 Íd7!? (White obtained a slight plus after 10...c6 11 0-0 Ìfd7 12 Ëc2 A good idea by Hellebø, freeing up the King’s Indian bishop and preventing Magnus from using the e4-outpost for his knight. However, the world champion had already taken this into account as shown by his This removes the a6-square from the queen’s stunning rejoinder. knight. Perhaps Black was anticipating queenside 18 Îxg7!! castling by White, though in this set-up there is A most impressive concept, removing usually no need for White to castle for a long time. Black’s best piece and ensuring a restless The only way I can see for Black to make future for the black king with the bishop on use of ....c6 and ....cxd5 is 11...Ìc5 12 b4 e3 poised to cause trouble. That said, Magnus Magnus awaits Kevin Goh’s 38...Íg5. Ìa6 13 Ëb3 Ìc7 with ....Íd7 to follow, but actually has a second and different agenda in December 2017 20 24-28 Crete_Chess mag - 21_6_10 13/11/2017 21:29 Page 28 50...Ëc7 was safer, as if 51 Íd4 Íxg3+ 52 Êg2 (or 52 fxg3 Îe2+) 52...Íe5. 51 Êg1 Îe7 52 Íd4! Ëe1+ 53 Ê g2 Íe5 54 Ëd8 Ëe4+ 55 Êh2 Íxg3+ 56 Êxg3 Ëd3+ 57 f3 1-0 Black is out of checks and mate inevitable. Overall, the Women’s section was more predictable than the Open. While Spain and Italy over performed in this section too (it would be interesting to see what their national federations have done in the past few years), the final standings of Russia, Georgia, Ukraine went according to seeding, and were never really in doubt once Russia had beaten Ukraine in round 3 and Georgia in round 4. The ever-entertaining Valentina Gunina won critical games in both these matches. V.Gunina-A.Ushenina Russia vs Ukraine Valentina Gunina once again starred for the gold-medal-winning Russian women’s team. Sicilian Rossolimo 1 e4 c5 2 Ìf3 Ìc6 3 Íb5 g6 4 Íxc6 bxc6 5 0-0 Íg7 6 Îe1 Ìf6 7 e5 Ìd5 8 c4 Ìc7 9 d4 cxd4 10 Ëxd4 Ìe6 11 Ëh4 d6 12 exd6 Ëxd6 13 Ìc3 h5 14 Ìe4 Ëc7 15 Íd2 Íxb2 16 Îad1 Íg7 17 Íb4 a5 18 Ía3 Îa7 19 Ìfg5 0-0 20 Ìxe6 Íxe6 21 Ìg5 Îb7 22 h3 Ëb6 Mamedyarov (second left) looks to the heavens as the Azeris win the Open competition.
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