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USWCC2009 Issue 9.Pub Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Issue 9 ChampionshipChampionship ChronicleChronicle 2009 US Women’s Chess Championship Zatonskih Finishes In Style, Baginskaite Wins Race For Second IM norm in the process. and play slowed down, Krush realized her position was lost and Foisor had earlier sacrificed an Abrahamyan forced her to resign Inside this issue: exchange for some pawns and an just a few moves later. attack but it was Baginskaite who ended up with the mating attack WIM Alisa Melekhina found herself Ben’s Best: 2 after she defended well and then finishing in third place, tied with Baginskaite-Foisor counter attacked with precision. Krush but awarded on the tie- breaks of having most blacks in Ben’s Best: 3 IM Irina Krush was unable to force the tournament. Abrahamyan-Krush a second place play-off as she was undone by WFM Tatev Abra- She played 1.d4 for the first time Zatonskih-Fan 4 hamyan. ever knowing her opponent, WIM Battsetseg Tsagaan, would play Abrahamyan’s attack came at just the King’s Indian Defense. Goletiani-Zenyuk 5 the right time, with just a few seconds left on Krush’s clock to The opening was guessed right meet the 40 move time control, although the game itself ended up Melekhina-Tsagaan 6 and so Krush didn’t have time to good for Tsagaan at some stage. find the right defense to Abra- However, in her usual time trou- IM Anna Zatonskih, 2009 US hamyan’s sacrifices. ble, Tsagaan was unable to find Photo Gallery 7 Women’s Chess Champion. the best defense and she fell into (Photo Betsy Dynako) Once the time control was reached a mating attack, which ended the IM Anna Zatonskih, who had al- game. FM Mike Klein’s Daily 8 ready sealed the Championship Wrap-Up In the fifth and final game, IM the day before, showed off her Rusudan Goletiani beat WIM Iryna positional skills to beat Yun Fan in Zenyuk in an interesting struggle, the final round. although both players were proba- Final Standings: The win left Zatonskih finishing on bly kicking themselves after they each missed some good chances 1 Anna Zatonskih, 8½ an unbeaten 8½/9, a performance she said was her best ever. Fan towards the end. 2 Camilla Baginskaite, 6½ finished the tournament on 2½/9, 3-4 Irina Krush, 5½ The game itself was quite instruc- which was for her just one point Alisa Melekhina, 5½ tive, at least in terms of how to shy of a WIM performance. 5 Tatev Abrahamyan, 4 open diagonals for bishops. At the end Goletiani’s pawn push was too 6-7 Sabina Foisor, 3½ WGM Camilla Baginskaite won an Rusudan Goletiani, 3½ entertaining game against WGM much for Zenyuk to handle in Sabina Foisor in the final day’s mutual time trouble and resigned 8 Iryna Zenyuk, 3 WGM Camilla Baginskaite finished in when Goletiani put her second 9-10 Battsetseg Tsagaan, 2½ play to finish the tournament in 2nd place and score an IM norm. queen on the board. Yun Fan, 2½ second place, scoring her first ever (Photo Betsy Dynako) Page 2 Championship Chronicle Ben’s Best: Baginskaite vs Foisor GM-Elect Ben Finegold Annotates His Joint Game of the Day Baginskaite,Camilla (2356) − XIIIIIIIIY XIIIIIIIIY 41.Rf6! Foisor,Sabina (2379) 8r+-wq-trk+0 8r+-+-+-mk0 Now Camilla thought she had 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 7+p+n+lvlp0 7+p+n+-+p0 a big advantage. It was now 4.e3 a6 5.Qc2 g6 6p+p+-zp-+0 6p+p+-zpl+0 clear, as Krush had lost her game to Abrahamyan, that a The a6 Slav is very popular 5+-zPp+p+-0 5+-zPp+-+-0 4-zP-zPp+-+0 4-zP-zPp+P+0 draw would secure clear sec− nowadays. Black could also ond, but, Camilla said she choose 5...b5!? but the text 3+-sN-zP-+-0 3+-+-wq-+-0 wanted to win the game now, move is also quite popular. 2P+QvLL+PzP0 2P+-+-wQP+0 as she felt comfortable here, 6.Bd3 1tR-+-+RmK-0 1tR-+L+R+K0 and that black had little xabcdefghy xabcdefghy counter−chances. Rybka likes Preventing 6...Bf5 white's position after the ex− 17.Bd1!? 26...Qc3 cellent 41.Rf6. 6...Bg7 7.Nf3 0-0 8.0-0 Bg4 9.Ne5 Be6 During the live commentary, I Sabina should have tried the 41...Rxf6 42.gxf6 Kg8 expected this move, thinking equalish endgame after... 43.Qh6 Qf7 44.Rg1 Bf5? When looking at this game in white would want to play Ne2− 26...Qxf2 27.Rxf2 Kg7 In− my database, I was shocked f4. Rybka prefers the pedes− stead, she keeps the queens I thought black had to play to find 100 examples of this trian 17.Rxf5. on, and black has trouble de− 44...Qc8 here, but, I felt white position! Now, I thought fending her king in the end. A was already close to winning. Camilla played a very com− 17...Bh6 18.Ne2 Kh8 19.Kh1 difficult decision. Rybka thinks black can de− mittal move, but, it turns out to Rg8 20.Ng3 fend, but, in a tournament be the most common at the 27.Be2 Re8 28.Rac1 Qa3 game, this seems unlikely, as White wants to play Nxf5, but, 29.Qf4 Re7 GM level, and scores 70%! Foisor has other ideas, and black has to watch out for For someone who did not plays an interesting exchange White was in time trouble mate, the g6 knight, and the bring her computer, she cer− sacrifice. here, and Sabina, although b7 pawn. tainly knows her stuff! having 20-25 minutes left at 45.Qg5 Bh3 10.c5 Nfd7 XIIIIIIIIY this point, makes some mis− 8r+-wq-+rmk0 takes. Now white can enter XIIIIIIIIY I expected this move, but, 7+p+n+l+p0 the queenside effectively with 8-+-+-+k+0 10...Nbd7 is more common, 6p+p+-zp-vl0 30.Qc7! but, with the clock and, was once played by Gary ticking, her main concern was 7+p+-+q+p0 Kasparov. 5+-zPp+p+-0 to make the time control! 6p+p+-zPn+0 4-zP-zPp+-+0 Camilla only had about 7 min− 5+-zPp+-wQL0 11.Nxd7 Nxd7 12.b4 3+-+-zP-sN-0 utes left at this point. 4-+-zPp+-+0 2P+QvL-+PzP0 The most popular, but, visiting 30.Rce1 Rf7 31.g5 f5! 32.g3 3+-+-+-+l0 GM Pascal Charbonneau ac− 1tR-+L+R+K0 Qxb4 33.Qe3 Nf8 34.Rb1 2-+-+-+-+0 tually lost to 12.Bd2 in 2004, xabcdefghy Qa4 35.Bd1 Qxa2 36.Bb3 1+-+-+-tRK0 against Moiseenko. 20...Rxg3!? 21.hxg3 Qc7 Qa5 37.g4 Qc7 38.gxf5 Bxf5 xabcdefghy 12...f6 13.Bd2 39.Bd1 Be6!? 22.g4 46.Qg3 The bishop is poorly placed on A novelty. 13.e4, 13.f4, and Jen and I thought white may e6. Black is still doing fine, In the commentary room, we 13.Bb2 have all been played give back the exchange with but, white is able to make the all thought... 46.Bxg6 hxg6 previously. I like the text 22.Rf4!? but, instead, Camilla move as well. time control! 47.Qh5 was winning for plays a move Jen liked, that I white... but, we all overlooked 13...Bf7 14.f4 e5 15.f5 e4 had not considered. Rybka, of 40.Bh5 Ng6 the computer move... 47...Bf5! 16.Be2 course agrees that 22.g4 is XIIIIIIIIY and black is better! 48.Qxf5?? best. Qh7+ Excellent play by both players. 8-+-+-+-mk0 White would like the kingside 22...Qg3 7+pwq-+r+p0 46...Bf5 47.Qb8+ Qf8 closed, so she can use her Jen and I both thought black 6p+p+l+n+0 48.Qe5! Qc8 49.Rg5 Be6 space advantage on the had excellent compensation 5+-zPp+-zPL0 50.Bxg6 hxg6 51.Rxg6+ Kf8 queenside. Black tries to force for the exchange. 4-+-zPp+-+0 52.Qd6+ Kf7 53.Rg7+ play and open up the kingside. 23.Rxf5 Bg6 24.Rf1 Bxe3 3+-+-wQ-+-0 53.Rg7+ Kxf6 54.Qe5# 16...gxf5 25.Bxe3 Qxe3 26.Qf2 2-+-+-+-+0 1-0 1+R+-+R+K0 xabcdefghy Issue 9 Page 3 Ben’s Best: Abrahamyan vs Krush GM-Elect Ben Finegold Annotates His Joint Game of the Day Abrahamyan,Tatev (2342) − played e5 even earlier! finding the proper defenses is 39.Be4+ Kg8 40.g6! Qc5+ Krush,Irina (2490) [B42] exceedingly difficult. 41.Kh1 Qf2 42.Rg1 Qxh2+ 14...Nh5 15.N1d2 Qc7 43.Qxh2 Rxh2+ 44.Kxh2+−) 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 26...Bxg5 27.fxg5 Bxb3 I thought this position was 35.Qh8+ Kf7 36.Bxg6+ Kxg6 28.axb3 Tatev said she was surprised dynamically equal. White has 37.Qh6+ Kf7 38.g6+ Kg8 at this move, and figured chances to build up a kingside XIIIIIIIIY 39.Qh7+ Kf8 40.Qh8+ Ke7 Krush would play the classical attack (as we shall see!) and 8-+-trr+k+0 41.Qxg7# with d6, cxd4, Nf6, and Nc6 as black has a very solid, flexible 7+-wqn+psn-0 34...Nf5? she has done many times formation, with good counter− previously. Also, Krush likes chances on the e5 and c4 6p+-+p+p+0 34...Qc4!= to essay the O'Kelly with weaknesses. 5+p+-zP-zPp0 2...a6, which she has played 4-+-+-+P+0 35.Bxf5 Qc5+ 36.Kg2 exf5 twice previously against 16.Rae1 Rad8 17.Bb1 Rfe8 3+PvL-+R+Q0 37.Qh6+ Tatev, with Irina scoring 2-0 This was a bit surprising, as it 2-zP-+-+-zP0 37.e6!+− those games! weakens f7, but, Krush 1+L+-tR-mK-0 wanted to reposition her 37...Ke7 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 xabcdefghy bishop, which is an excellent XIIIIIIIIY This opening is a favorite of idea.
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