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NZ Chess NZ Chess I 107th New ZealandChess Congress 107th New Zealand Championship, Auckland 1999-2000 Player Rtg R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 RO R7 R8 Rg R10 R1l fts TB lil l',utl \l,rllcr 1 Rogers l. 2574 W15 WO W3 DZ W4 W5 W7 Wg W8 W13 W10 10.5 2 Sermek D. 2545 W19 W13 D4 D1 D5 W3 DO W11 W7 Dg W12 8.5 69.0 A first class venue, superb playing conditions, Club and other private sourccs 1:.rrrr:rrrlr r ri lltat 3 Kulashko A. 2396 W16 W18 Ll W10 WO L2 W4 W5 Dg W7 W13 8'5 67.5 top overseas players all combined to make the the prize luncl could be maintairretl ;rl tlr( \:urc 4 van Riemsdijk HC 2422 W8 W10 D2 D5 L1 D11 L3 W13 DO W14 Wg 7 71.0 107m New Zealand Chess Congress held at the level as previous years. 5 Garbeft P.A. 2360 W17 W11 D7 D4 D2 L1 W13 L3 W12 DO W14 7 70'5 Waipuna Intemational Hotel and Conference It was clisappointing that thc supporl lor lhc 6 Ker A.F. 2321 W12 L1 W15 W13 L3 W10 D2 Lt D4 D5 W16 6.5 Centre a memorable and significant event in the Maior Opon (as has becn thc trcncl over llrr' lirsl 7 Dive R.J. 2448 - W8 D5 Dg D13 W15 L1 WO L2 L3 W17 5.5 64.5 long history of New Zealand Chess. f'ew ycars) was less than anticipalcd. Ilrr lcrcl 8 Wastney S.C. 2193 L4 L7 D12 W19 W18 Dg 011 D10 L1 D17 W20 5.5 57.5 The Howick-Pakuranga Chess Club first of entrics firr thc Championship wls crce llcrrt 9 Smith R.W. 2290 L'l'l D16 W17 D7 D15 D8 W10 L1 D3 D2 L4 5 68.5 began the planning ofthis event 18 months ago, with 20 in all. including CM,s lan l(ogcrs 10 Green E.M. 2265 W20 L4 W18 L3 W16 LO L9 D8 D1l W19 Ll 5 62.0 intending to invite a number of strong overseas (A[JS) and l)razcn Scrmek (S1,O) as rvell as lM 11 Bjelobrk l. 2112 Wg L5 113 W14 W20 D4 D8 LZ 010 112 D19 5 58.5 players to lift the profile of the event and a-lso Herman Van Ricr.nsdiik (BRA) and lrairiu 12 Barlow M.J. 2155 L6 115 D8 D17 W19 D14 D20 W18 L5 W1l LZ 5 54.5 to give New Zealand players a chance for Zakaria (MAl-) . lizLirin is completing nredical 13 Watson B.R" 2260 W14 L2 Wl1 L6 D7 W16 L5 L4 W20 L1 L3 4.5 71.0 international title norms. The club sought and studics in Auckland and rcpresentecl Malaysiir 14 Bennett H.P. 2200 L13 D20 D16 111 W17 D12 D15 D19 W18 L4 L5 4.5 50.0 gained the backing of the Waipuna at the Chess Olympiad in Moscow. 15 Perry R.L. 22A5 L1 W12 LO W20 Dg L7 D'14 L'17 D19 116 D18 4 55.5 International hotel and Conference Centre, with lan Rogers anrl r'vife Cathl urc lirrrriliirr 16 Zakaria M.F. 2185 L3 Dg D14 W18 110 113 119 W20 117 W15 LO 4 51.5 the use of their main Exhibition Hall and visitors to Ncw Zealancl. havirrg lirsl corrrlre lctl 17 Metge J.N. 2160 L5 D19 Lg D12 L14 120 018 W15 W16 DB L7 4 50.5 Carbine Room for the event and reduced room at thc Notth Shore Congrcss I re:rr:;rro. rates for players. I)razen Sermek was makiug his st'torrrl risit- last year's winner IM Russell Dive and 1997198 The Championship ran into an immediate The withdrawal of sponsorship from Sir having played in the Ircncilrle \'l:r:lt rs itt champion FM Alexei Kulashko. These players glitch when only hours before the start NZ Robert Jones in January 99 came as a Howicl< tn l9L)7. Herman Virrr l(it rrr',tlrll' r.vas were joined by FM's (and former NZ champion Russell Dive rang from Wellington bombshell for the organisers. Undeterred, making his first visit to Nl irntl torrrlirrr, rl t lrcss Champions) Paul Garbett, Anthony Ker, Bob to say he was recovering from a very bad bout however, preparation continued through the playing with a visit to his ht'ollrer lirrrrrlrorrl. in Smith and Ewen Green. Ewen, along with of food poisoning and would be unable to make year with Paul Spiller liaising with the New' Plymoulh. [le slayr:tl rrlir'r llrr' ( \ ( nl li)r a Bruce Watson and Scott Wastney (who has round one. Fortunately for Russell, and the Federation sponsorship committee of Roger mini-tour of thc North Isllrrrtl. pl;rr rri, r('vcral been chessing overseas) were all making a toumament,he managed to drive to Auckland in Perry and Martin Dreyer to follow up many and sinruls and thcn a lccturc scrics rrr ,\rri I'lrlrd, comeback championship. time for round two, but it took a few more days varied leads. A few weeks before Congress was but more on this latcr. welcome to the Rounding field were NZ Junior until he had really completely recovered. due to begin a call was received from Martin to With one or two cxccpliorts. rrro',1 ol Ncw out the Champion Igor Bjelobrk (who soon moves with say he had some good news. A sponsorship Zealar.ds best players wcrc rrrrle rr'tl. irrt lu,lirtg his family to Australia), and hopetuls Hilton Round 1 deal had been secured and this combined with Bemett, Roger Perry, Nigel Metge, Bob Results went as expected (see crosstable), the funding from the Howick-Pakuranga Chess Gibbons, Paul Spiller and John Sutherland. only "upset" being Bob Smith's loss to Igor The opening ceremony began with a slightly Bjelobrk. different twist when the Howick Town Crier, replete in all his regalia, rang his bell and Smith,R (2290) - Bjelobrk,I (2112) welcomed all competitors to the toumament. R 1 [C00] French Defence address Pat This was followed by a witty from t.e4 e6 2.We2 Ae7 3.AB c5 4.$ Abc6 5.Qg2 96 Booth, editor in chief of Suburban Newspapers 6.0?0 9g7 7.c3 0?0 8.d3 d6 9.4h4 Hb8 10.a4 and chairman of the Howick Community a6 ll.f4 f5 12.exf5 gxfs B.Ad2 b5 14.axb5 Board. Pat recounted his days as a joumalist for axb5 15.6dR b4 16.Qd2 h6 17.6h1 bxc3 the Auckland Star where he became well 18.bxc3 Eb2 19.Hfc1 Qd7 20.Ofl Ad5 21.Ue1 acquainted with Orfvin Sarapu, who for many Wb6 22.Ag2 Eb7 23.Hab1 Hb8 24.Hxb2 Uxb2 years ran a column in the paper. Pat then 25.6e3 6xe3 26.Qxe3 Hb3 27.Qd2 6h7 2s.Ag1 officially opened the toumament. The opening Ae7 29.Qg2 AdS 30.4e2 Ea3 31.Qf3 Ha2 finished with a message of welcome from 32.Hd1 Qa4 33.Qc1 Eb3 34.Hd2 Axc3 35.Hxa2 NZCF President Peter Stuart, on behalf of the dxa2 36.Hd2 Aal Sl.gl Uxd3 38.Uxd3 Axd3 Federation, and one from Paul Spiller as 39.gxf5 Axcl 40.Axcl exf5 41.692 be6 42.bf2 The llowick Town Crier welcomes players to Congress. At back right are tourrurntr'nl r tr t,, tttrr, t organiser on behalf of Howick-Pakuranga CC. Qc2 43.Qc6 Qe4 44.Qe8+ bf6 45.4e2 &e7 Paul Spiller and guest speaker Pat Booth. New Zealand Championship 46.Qg6 6e6 47.Ag3 Qbt 48.6e2 Qb2 49.Qh7

NZ Chess NZ Chess 7 6 '(xh2 Qcl 50.613 Qd3 51.Qg8+ Of6 52.h3 c4 53.4e2 28.R dl2 29.Ha3 b5 30./i)c2 b.l .1 l. ,(.] 38.6f2 697 39.Hc6 6f6 40.6c8 Hxd5 41^.Axd6 looks very effective. There are so many threats Qd2 54.4d4 c3 55.Qb3 Qe4+ 0-1 32.Qh4 Hc8 33.Qxf2 Hcc2 3.1.',r,'g\ rrrJ .l5.Af4 a5 42.6c4+ &g7 43.Ha6 Hd4 44,Axa5 Ha4 for Black to deal with. Qd7 36.4d3 Yb3 37.4f4 )(rc.r 18.'rlre-] a5 45.Ha7 Ha2+ 46.&glh5 47.4c6 17...Se8 18.Axa6+! bxa6 19.Sxa6 Ue5 20.8d3? 39.Qel 4u.be2 Hc4 r,"l's J l-lih2 d4 Round 2 95 41.lltrt Against 20.c3 Black will face more problems. This round provided some interesting games. 43.Hd2 b3 44.6xd4 Hxd4 45.)"ixrl.l lrl -16.r'kll 22.Uxc6 Hxd3+ Anthony Ker looked to be holding Ian Rogers 20...Sxb2+ 2l.bd2 Eds Hxa3+ 24.& e2 Wb 4 on board l, but finally succumbed in a bishop 23.6xd3 versus knight ending. Bruce Watson fought his Black has almost equalised. way back to have a good chance of a draw with 25.Hd1 Hd8 26.Hxd8+ QxdS 27.Ud5 Qf6 28.h3 GM Sermek, but the wrong decision in a piece Eb2 exchange left him with no chance. Drazen said Here my opponent offered a draw which I after the game that Bruce played very well, and declined after a lot of thinking. White still has a at one stage was better. small advantage. Scott Wastney was unlucky to run into his I h6? second consecutive IM, this time Russell Dive 29.Uc5 a.fter meeting Herman Van Riemsdijk in round A clear mistake. 29...8e5 may be the best one. .Herman had a rematch in this round with option. 47,Hxa7 48.Axa7 h4 49.&f2 f5 50.4c6 6f6 Ewen Green, 25 years after they first played in '30.Qf4! Qd8 31.Qe5 Uuz sz.Qxgz Uxgz 5l.Ad4 gs 52.aR 696 53.6e3 6h5 54.6d4 94 the Nice Olympiad in 1974.(a game that was &a8 46...a4?? 55.6e5 1-0 33.Ub4+ the initiative drawn). This time Herman seized 33...Kc8 34.Qg4+ is of course a winning early and won after winning one too many 46...ed3 4j.e.xa5 blg 48 )lxb I !.)rtr I rlr:Lws Van RiemsdijkE (2422) Sermek,D (2545) ending for White. pawns. eomtbrtably. - R 2 47.Qc3 a3 48.Qxh2 axh2 -l').) i'h I l-- &17 [801] 34.Uga Ub7 35.Wa4+ &b8 36.Qxh6 Notes by Herman van Riemsdiik Ker,A(2321) - Rogers,I (2574) 50.Hxb2 Qc6 51.6f2 696 52.9-l h5 5.1.h3 hxg4 White is a sound pawn up. 54.hxg4 Qd5 55.6e3 Qc6 56.1,1 grl{ t 57.rbxf4 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Uxd5:.AcS Udf R 2 [4.46] d4 others 36...uh1 37.gbs+ &c8 38.uf5+ 6b8 39.uf3 ual (,0.]i ill6+ This is a common choice for Sermek. He Qds 58.Hb8 Qa2 59.Htlr !i]h.r 697 Ed1+ 43.692 l.d4 af6 2.Qg5 e6 3.e4 h6 4.Qxf6 Hxf6 5.4f3 probably will have to change it because its too 40.ub3+ &cs 41.Qf4 ud4 42.6R gd8 6l.6gs 1-0 6b6 d6 6.4c3 Ad7 7.Ud2 a6 8.0?0?0 9.h4 b5 easy for White to get a small advantage. Ed4 44.UR Sc4 45.Ug4+ 6b7 46.8f5 10.93 Qb7 11.Uf4 Ec8 12.Qh3 c5 13.d5 e5 47.Qe3+ 6b7 48.6R c6 49.9d3 Uh4 50.692 Round 3 4.d4 Af6 5.AB a6 6.Qe2 ac6 14.Ue3 Qe7 15.6b1 Hb8 16.Qxd7+ HxdT Qc7 51.c4 lan extractcd thc full prtirtt rrgrrittsl AIcxci in Sermek has played mostly 6...Md7. In 17.4d2 Qc8 18.f4 Qf6 19.f5 h5 20.94 hxg4 Here is making progress. round 3 and lookcd to hc cortlitruirtr llrc qood Very slowly White 21.h5 he7 22.Hdgl Wc7 23.adl c4 24.4f2 Wb6 round 5 he came back to it against Garbett. lbrm that gaincd hirr Lop 1)litcirrss itr lrt,o sltong 51...f5 25.Axg4 Uxe3 26.Axe3 Qd7 27.4R Eh7 28.Hh2 7.Qe3 Qg4 events in Europc leccntl), Virrr l{icrrrsdiilt. a error, but Black is anxious to simpliff Hbhs 29.Hgh1 6f8 30.494 Qd8 31.6c1 96 An pawn his advantage 7...e5 8.dxe5 Axe5 9.Axe5 Sxe5 10.Qd4 also 32.hxg6 Hxh2 33.Hxh2 Hxh2 34.97+ 6xg7 up, triccl harcl [o convcrt things. against CiM Serrnek, but accuratc dclcrrcc hcld gives a slight advantage to White. 35.Agxh2 Qb6 36.6d2 f6 37.afi Qe8 38.493 52.8b1+! 6a8 53.Uxf5! Uxc4 54.Hc8+ Qb8 the drarv for Drazcn. Paul Carbetl drerv with 8.8d2 e6 9.0-(Fo o-o-o 10.a3 Qe7? 6h6 39.6e2 a5 40.c3 a4 41.a3 Qn O.AhZ bgS 55.691! Russell to stay in touch with the leaders and a a3.6R Qgl 44.Ag4 Qe$ 45.4e3 Qxe3 46.6xe3 An unexpected error. 10...Qd7 was the best possible title nonn. Black is almost in z'ngzwang. Qhs 47.6f2 Qat as.6es 6h4 49.4h1 Qhs option for Black. 55...Wa4 s0.6f2 Qdl 51.6e3 695 52.412 Qh5 53.4h1 11.Ag5lHd{8 (257 4) Kulashko,A (239(r) &g4 54.Af2+ 6g3 55.4h1+ bg2 s6.At2 QR Rogers,l - The only move. Sermek needs the d8 square for his queen. If 57.4H 6xh3 58.6x8 6h4 0-1 R 3 [E8 !] Samisch IL..trhf8 12.Age46)xe4 13.Axe4 Sd5 l4.Qxg4 56.h4 c5 l.d4 Af6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 d6 4.6c3 g{r s.("1 (r)g7 Uxe4 15.Q8 and Black's position is ruined. Sermek,D (2545) - Watson,B (2260) 6.R 0?0 7.Qg5 6a6 8.Age2 Ac7 9.\rkt2 e6 ll).r.1 Qxf615.d5 R 3 [B22] Alapin Variation cxd5 11.cxd5 h6.l2.Qe3 6hZ t:.ll,t.r h(r l{.'rlc2 l2.Age4 Was rS.Axtf fue2l4.Hxe2 15.0?0 l7.rrrlr5'r'xh5 exd5 16.Axd5 6b8 1.e4 c5 2.c3 Af6 3.e5 Ads 4.AB Ac6 5.d4 cxd4 a6 Qd7 16.HabI b5 i\l,J r (h8 6.cxd4 d6 7.Qc4 e6 E.0?0 Qe7 9.Ue2 0?0 18.b.{ Qxe2 19.Agxe2 cxh4 2l).'i After all these forced moves Black is in bad Hxh4 Ad7 27.i.\'|1.1 re5 24.14 10.We4 Uc7 l1..abd2 b6 12.Qd3 f5 13.exf6 2l.Hrbl 22.Hxb4 shape. )"(rtl :7.1r.1 {:ltb Axf6 l4.We2 d5 r5.a3 Qd6 16.He1 He8 17.Qb5 Ag4 25.Qxg7 bxg7 26.4d4 28.ac6 Ud7 29.Yb7 6xe4 30.i)xrJ lire-l I l.\tias Qd7 18.Afl a6 19.Qxc6 Qxc6 20.493 Qb5 gf5 33.Ual+ ri,,h7 l.l. r('7 fr/d3 t7.ab4 21.Udl EacS 22.a4 Qd7 23.4e5 Hc2 24.Qg5 Hxf4 32.Hxc7 35.Hc8 Hd4 36.Uc1 .17.\r/rrl I ii!dI+ Interesting but perhaps not the best. l7.Qc4 Bxdl 25.Hexdl Qxe5 26.dxe5 Ag4 27.HelHc2 Edl+

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14.g4 dht6 l5.af2 Ab6 16.h4 Axc4 17.Qxc4 Kulashko,A Q396) - Green,E (2265) 12...Qxg213.6xg2 6c6 14.Uh5 Axe5 gxh4 18.Hxh4 ad7 19.Qxh6 AeS 2O.Qe2 Qd7 R 4 [B23] Closed Sicilian Rogers suggests 14...Qd7. 21.Hh5 Qxh6 22.Hxh6 Exh6 23.Sxh6 0?0?0 e6 1.e4 c5 2.AB dc6 3.f4 96 4"0f3 Qg7 5.Qc4 15.Uxe5 Ed6 16.Ue4 0?0?0 17.4b5 Uds 24.a5 c4 25.Ue3 6b8 26.&d2 HhS 27.f4 ag6 6.0?0 AgeT 7.d3 0?0 8.Qb3 d5 9.a4 b6 10.Uel 18.Axa7+ 6bs 19.Uxd5 Exds 20.4b5 Hxd2 28.adl e5 29.dxe6 fxe6 30.4f2 e5 31.f5 af4 ad4 ll.Axd4 cxd4 l2.Ab5 a6 13.0a3 6h8 21.Had1 Hxdl 22.Hxd1 6c8 32.a6Ag2 33.Uf3 Eb6 34.AdtAf4 14.Qd2 dxe4 15.dxe4 Ac6 l6.eS Hb8 17.4c4 b5 this ending as a draw, but for 18.axb5 axbs 19.4d6 f6 20.Uh4 fxe5 21.Uxd8 I had evaluated sure White has a very small advantage. Axd8 22.fxe5 Qb7 23.Qa5 Hxfl+ 24.Hxfl Qxe5 2s.Oxd8 Qxd6 26.Qf6+ 698 27.Qxe6+ &fB 23.h8 Qe7 24.&e4 28.gxd4+ 6e8 29.H17 Qc8 30.Qb3 Eb7 3t.Exb7 QxhT 32.c4 bxc4 33.Qxc4 6e7 34.b3 h5 35.h3? 1-0 Ker,A (2321) - Watson,B (2260) s7.ufs? R 4 [A45] d4 others mistake. 57.Qe6 and 57.h5 are easy l.d4 Af6 2.Qg5 e6 3.4d2 c5 4.4e4 Qe7 5.Qxf6 *l:rtb" gxf6 6.dxc5 QfB 7.Ud2 Qxc5 8.4d6+ Qxd6 9.tsxd6 Ue7 10.Ud2 d5 11.4fi Ac6 12.93 e5 57...Uxh41 58.Ud5+ &a7 59.Qxc5+ 6a6 13.Qg2 Qe6 14.e3 Hd8 15.0?0 h5 l6.Ah4 d4 60.Qe3? 17.c3 d3 18.e4 Hd7 19.Ue3 d2 20.Efd1 Aa5 axb6 After 60.Uc6+ 6a5 61.Ub6+ 6a4 62.Hxb8 I 2l.Qfl Qc4 22.b3 Qxfl 23.6xfl Ac6 24.be2 0? 35.We3?? Hh2 36,Uxb6 Hxe2+ 37.6c1 had missed Qg5+, but this is still the best 0 25.Hxd2 ug4+ 26.u4 Hxd2+ 27,&xd2 Hd8+ 38.a7+ 6a8 39.95 Exe4 40.96 QxfS 41.97 Qh7 continuation. White has good practical chances 28.&e2 Wd7 29.We3 Ae7 30.8c1 Ub5+ 31.c4 0-1 for the whole point. Ua5 32.Hc2 ac6 33.4f5 ad4+ 34.Axd4 exd4 24...f5+? (2360) Sermek,D (2545) 60...8h2+ 61.6f1 Ed6 62.Ua8+ 6bs 63.8b7+ 35.gel ue5 36.f4 se6 37.6f2 uh3 3S.&s1 h4 Garbett,P - 24...Rd8, t{xd8+ R 5 Scandinavian 6a5 64.Qd2+ 6a4 39.Hd2 Wg4 40.&92 h3+ 41.6f1 a5 42.f5 He8 I didn't want to suffer with [B0l] reasonable 43.He2 He5 4.UR Ug5 45.Uf4 gh5 46.8d2 b5 Kxd8 26.Kd3, but that was a 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Uxd5 3.Ac3 Ud6 4.d4 Af6 5.AR Now Black doesn't need to go for the queens continuation. The best, however, would have 47.Hxd4 bxc4 48.Hd8+ &g1 49.bxc4 a4 50.a3 a6 6.Qe2 abdT 7.Qe3 e6 8.Ud2 b5 9.495 Qb7 ending any more. blocks with h4, Black 6h7 51.6e1 bg1 52.hd2 Hcs 53.Ud6 Ugs+ been 24...h5. If White 10.4 c5 fl.dge4 Uc6 12.0?0?0 c4 l3.Axf6+ 65.f4 Ud3+ 66.6e1 Ug3+ 67.6e2 Ug4+ 68.6f2 can still go some time for the rook exchange s4.6d31-0 Axf6 t{.Ad ads 15.Qf2 b4 16.Ug5 f6 17.Ehs+ wh4+ 69.6e2 ug4+ 70.6d3 ufs+ 7r.&d4 Ef6+ and h4 mean a weakness. Also 24...f6 was will 1s.Uh4 b3 19.Axf6+ Axf6 20.gxf6 bxa2 72.&c4 Ue6+ 73.6c3 Qe5+ 74.Sd3 Ef5+ 75.6e2 interesting, because the black king can simply 96 Round 5 21.&d2 c3+ 22.bxc3 Qh6+ 23.Qe3 HfA%-y, Wg4+%-Y, move after an eventual Nd6+. I totally missed Kulashko's chances of an IM norn were the Rd2 idea after 30.Ne4. looking stronger after his round 5 win against Green,E (2265) Zakaria,F (2185) Round 4 - Anthony, as was Paul Garbett's after his draw 25.6e5 Qf6+ 26.bxe6 He8+ 27.6xf5 He2 28.f41 R 5 [882] System with 6.?l The anticipated GM clash was marred by an with Sermek. (Ironically a draw against Sermek Hxc2 Notes by Peter Stuart unfortunate incident at the Hotel when Drazen, two years ago in the Fencible Masters 31.c3 is just before retumed his 28...HxM 29.0t6+ &b8 30.4e4 Qd4 1.e4 c5 2.at3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.dxd4 Af6 5.4c3 the round began, to toumament would have secured the IM title for room to find that a considerable amount of also very bad. z6 6.f4 e6 7.Hf3 Uc7 8.g4 Ac6 9.Ab3 ab4 Paul). Rogers continued in winning form by b5 money had from his room. This 30.6e4 Hxa2 10.Hg2 h6 ll.aj Ac6 l2.Qe2 Ad7 13.h4 been stolen giving Herman his first loss to a GM in over a 29.ad6+ 6bE game 14.Qfi Ab6 15.95 Qb7 16.96 0?0?0 t7.Qg4 mearlt a delay in his and my against year. 30...0d4 31.8d2 Hcl 32.495 is also very necessary report &b8 l8.gxf7 UxfT 19.Ug1 bc4 20.a4 b4 2l.Abs Fairin Zakaria as it was to the simple. theft in person to the Otahuhu Police Station. e5 Ro gers,I (257 4) - Van RiemsdijhH (2422) 34.8d3 Unfortunately this spoiled the rest the 31.Axf6 gxf6 32.6xf6 Exh2 33.f5 Ef2 2l...axb5? 22.axb5 Ae7 23.Wa7+ bc} 24.4d4?. of R 5 [B40] Sicilian toumament for Drazen and was very 6c7 35.6e6 b5 36.f6 He2+ 31.h{l c4 38.bxc4 he Notes by Herman van Riemsdijk 22.f5 Qa8?l unsettled for the next few days, opting to leave bxc4 39.813 1-0 ee 3.b3 the hotel and stay back at my home. In any 1.e4 c5 2.aB af6 4.e5 0d5 5.Qb2 ac6 22...ds1?) 6.93 d6 7.Qg2 dxe5 8.Axe5 Oxd 9.Qxe5 Qd7! Ker,A(2321'S Kulashko,A (2396) event he duly drew against Ian, in a fairly - 23.Hh3 Eb7 24.Q.e2 axbl? colourless game. This left Sermek, Kulashko, 10.0-0 Qc6 ll.Eer 6e7 12.4c3 R 5 [A45] d4 others 24...4b61 Van Riemsdijlq Ker and Garbett all on 3 points, In the New Zealand Rapid Bob Smith tried t.d4 Af6 2-Qg5 Ae4 3.Qf4 c5 4.f3 Ua5+ 5.c3 half a point behind Ian. 12.Na3, but the same as herc, Black had a Af6 6.ds d6 7.e4 96 8.4a3 Qsl 9.Wd2 AbdT 25.axb5 Uxb5 26.Qxc4 Exc4 27.8b6+ Qb7 comfortable game. 10.4m h6 t1.Ac4 Hc7 12.t4 95 13.Qd Ah5 28.Aa5 Uxe4+ 29.Qe3 Ed7

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29...0sxa5 30.Sxd8+ Qc8 3 l .Exa5 l-. 6e8 31.Hxg7 6dS 32.Exb7 0c8 33.Hgc7+ 6d8 31.Ufl+ 0h7 32.Uhs+ 698 33.Ue8+ 6h7 now a very real chance of a norm. Paul Garbett 30.Axc6+! Uxc6 31.8a8+! 6xa8 32.Sa7# l?0 34.Hxh7 1-0 34.Uh5+ 698 3s.Ufl+ b}Il7 36.a3 Ad4 maintained a glimmer of a norm possibility by Bruce Watson. Lower down Nigel 36...Ae5 37.Uh5+ Qh6 38.Hf6 As4 39.Hf4*. defeating Round 6 Sermek,D Q545) - Kulashko,A (2396) Metge presented Paul Spiller with a wooden 37.uh5+ 698 38.He8+ 0h7 39.8h5+ 698 The Rogers GM technique was too much for R 6 [B06] Pirc, Modern Defence spoon, perhaps anticipating a close race for last 40.8fl+ bh7 4t.i&h5+%-% Garbett, who could not repeat his draw against l.e4 96 2.d4 Qg7 3.4c3 d5 4.AR dxe4 5.6xe4 place! Ian from the championship 3 years ago. Drazen af6 6.axf6+ Qxf6 7.c3 gd6 8.Qh6 QtS g.Qca Zakaria,B (2185) Watson,B (2260) (2422) focused hard for his critical game against Aal n.Hez 0?0?0 11.495 Qxg5 12.Qxg5 f6 - Kulashko,A (2396)-Van Riemsdijk,H R 6 Modern Var. Alexei and won a very fiicky 2 rooks versus 2 13.Qd ab6 t4.Qb3 ads fi.Qdz Af416.Qxf4 [859] R 7 [C48] Four knights Notes by Peter Stuart rooks ending, thus improving his chances for Uxf4 17.0?0 e5 18.93 Eh6 19.dxe5 fxe5 Notes by Peter Stuart the second place spot. Igor Bjelobrk created 20.Uxe5 HheS 21.Sc5 b6 22.Wc6 Qe4 23.Qe6+ l.d4 Af6 2.c4 e6 3.6c3 Qb4 4.e3 0?0 5.Qd3 d5 l.e4 e5 2.N3 Ac6 3.Ac3 Af6 4.Qb5 Ad4 5.Axd4 enough chances to be able to get counterplay 6b8 24.Uxe4 Hd6 25.Had1 Edxe6 26.Sc4 H6e7 6.6R c5 7.010 Ac6 8.a3 Qxc3 9.bxc3 dxc4 exd4 6.e5 dxc3 7.exf6 Wxf6 8.dxc3 Qd6 9.Qe3 and hold the draw against his experienced 27.bg2 g5 28.Ed5 Ue6 29.Efdl 6b7 30.a4 h6 10.Qxc4 Wc7 ll.Q.a2 e5 12.h3 e4 13.4h2 Qfs 0?0 I0.Ed2 We5 11.Qd3 Qc5 12.0?0 Qxe3 opponent. An exceilent result for Igor. Earlier 31.a5 Ue4+ 32,Exe4 Hxe4 33.axb6 axb6 l4.Ag4 Qxg415.hxg4 HadS 16.He2 Hd6 17.f4 13.fxe3 d6 14.Hf4 Qd7 l5.Hafl HaeS 16.E1R in the game Igor had incorrectly tried to claim a 34.H1d2 6c6 35.h3 E8e6 36.6R b5 37.Hfs &b6 exl3 18.gxB He8 19.Uh2 We7 20.Qd2 Ads Qc6 17.Hh3 96 18.8f2 f5 19.Eg3 @d7 20.h4 draw by threefold repetition of position. This 38.Ef6 He3+ 39.fxe3 Hxf6+ 40.694 He6 41.He2 21.Oxd5 Hxdl 22.e4 Hd7 23.d5 AeS 24.Hael bgT 21.h5 ds 22.:UB c6 23.Hh4 Hg8 24.&n had been the situation earlier, but Herman had HeS 42.e4 6c5 43.6h5 6c4 44.Sxh6 6ilt c4 25.bg2 f6 26.Hh1 95 27.Uhs affi 28.8h3 He7 25.Hf4 &18 26.Eg5 6e8? since moved a pawn, and the position had 45.Hf2 c6 46.94 be3 47.Hf5 Hxe4 4S.6xg5 b4 Axel+ 29.Qxe1 Hfl 30.8xfl+ HxfT 3l.Qf2 a6 changed. An interesting point that Herman 49.h4 b3 50.h5 6d3 51.h6 Ee2 s2.h7 Hh2 32.Qb6 Hc8 33.6f2 Hd7 34.6e3 Hd6 35.Qd4 shared with a few of us later was that the 53.696 6c2 54.Hh5 1-0 697 36.Hh1 &s6 31.Qa7 b5 38.6d4 Ed7 conect procedure when claiming a draw is to 39.Qb6 h6 40.Qa5 Hh7 41.d6 Ha8 42.6d5 Hc8 write down your intended move on your Van RiemsdijkIJQ422) - Bjelobrk,I (2112) 43.Hh2 Hh7 44.He2 h5 45.gxh5+ 6xh5 46.6e6 scoresheet first, then call the arbiter and claim R 6 [B06] Pirc, Modern Defence Hc6 47.6f5 6h4 48.Hd2 hg3 49.d7 HxdT the draw by showing the intended move. If the Notes by Peter Stuart 50.Hxd7 0xf3 51.Qb4 94 52.Hd6 Hxd6 53.Qxd6 o1 draw is not upheld the move written down must l.e4 96 2.d4 Qg1 3.AB Af6 4,e5 de4 5.Qd3 d5 stil1 be played. 6.Abd2 QrS Z.UeZ 6xd2 8.Qxd2 Qxd3 9.Uxd3 53...&e3; 53...a5; 53...be2. 0?0 10.h4 h5 11.e6 Ud6 l2.exfl+ HxfT 13.0? 54.e5?? Rogers,f Q574)- Garbett,P (2360) 0?0 Ac6 14.Qca Ef4+ 15.6br Ug4 16.Ubs Eb8 R 6 [D00] d4 others 17.Ag5 HfS 18.93 a6 19.Sc5 54.Qxg3 6xg3 55.6xf6 a5 56.e5 b4:. l.d4 Af6 2.Qg5 d5 3.Qxf6 exf6 4.e3 Qd6 5.c4 54...fxe5 55.Qxe5 g2 56.Qd4 a5 57.6e5 b4 58.axb4 axb4 59.cxb4 c3 60.Qxc3 glE 61.6d5 dxc4 6.Qxc4 0?0 7.4c3 c6 8.e4 He8 9.Age2 c5 26...gt6. oz.6c4 6e4 63.b5 Uc7+ 64.6b4 6d5 10.ub3 ue7 11.4b5 HdS t2.axd6 Exd6 Uto 27.Qxf5 6d8 Ue7+ 0-1 13.dxc5 Hd7 14.8e3 Se5 r5.6c3 Ed4 16.Uxd4 65.Qel 27...Mf5 28.Hfxf5 gxf5 29.Hxg8+ 6f7 30.Ed8 Hxd4 17.Qd5 Aa6 l8.Ae2 Hb4 19.Q?0?0 6xc5 and White retains the initiative as well as his 7 2O.Ac3 a5 21.Ehe1 6fS 22.h3 Qe6 23.f3 Aa4 Round extra pawn. Ian and Russell played a seesaw struggle on 28.hxg6 hxg6 29.Hxg6 Hh8 30.Qxd7 ExdT '7. board one in round Late rn the game Ian had 31.EI7 Hh7 32.Hxh7 HxhT 33.Uga be7 34.&e2 won a pawn but his position seemed to hang on a5 35.Hg5 uf6 36.Ef5 sh4 37.8e5+ 6d6 a knife-edge. Drazen commented to me that 38.HeG 6d7 39.8e4+ Uxg4+ 40.Hxg4 Hhl Russell could force the draw by an attack on 4l.Hg7+ bcl 42.94 Hh2+ 43.SR Hxc2 44.95 the queen thus repeating the position. Whether 6ds 45.96 6e8 46.Hxb7 6fB 47.e4 dxc4+ Russell did not see this possibility or simply 48.6xe4 Hd2 49.6e5 698 50.a4 Ed5+ 51.6e6 tried to win I am not sure, but when the dust 19...8xg5 20.hxg5 e6 21.Ua3 Uxg5 22.Qd2 Ug4 Ydz 52.b4 Ha2 53.bxa5 Hxa4 54.Ha7 c5 55.a6 settled after the time control, he had a lost 23.Qe3 Qxd4 24.8 UxR 25.Ud3? Eg4 56.6f5 Ha4 57.6e5 1-0 position. GM Sermek agreed a draw with 25.Qxd4 Axd4 26.Ue7*. Anthony, an interesting position being reached game 25...Uxe3 26.Uxg6+ Qg127.Hdfl Ef8 28.Hxt8+ after Drazen played his favourite anti- extensive notes for his against Russell 6xf8 29.Eft+ 698 30.Exh5 ge4? Trompovsky system. Alexei played an insipid Dive. These, along with the round-by-round opening variation against Van Riemsdijk and summary of the rernaining rounds, and many 24.Axa4 30...8h6! 3l.Uf7+ &h7 32.Hxa: 0d4 33.Exb7 Hxa4 25.exe6 fxe6 26.Hd7 Hxa2 only his fierce determination and a slip by. more games, will appear in the April issue of Wd2. 27.bbl Ea4 28.Hcl e5 29.Ecc7 Ed4 30.Hfl+ Herman allowed him to gain the full point and NZ Chess.

NZ Chess NZ Chess t2 r l3 Paul Spiller summarises fiom both the Championship and Maior Open. NZ Major Open, Auckland 199912000 In the final analysis ofthe Charnpionship, Ian It also provided some additional publicity for Player Rtg Rl R2 R3 R4 R5 RO R7 R8 Rg R10 R11 fts TB Rogers proved to be a deserving winner, with a Waipuna Hotel and results from the toumament fi 1 Beach P.K. 1944 w22 W7 W4 L6 W10 W2 W8 D11 W16 D3 D9 8.5 winning margin of 2 points over Sermek and also appeared on THIS WEEK IN CHESS. 2 McNabb M. 1801 D9 D18 W15 W17 W6 L1 W4 L7 W14 W16 W8 8 Kulashko. He had his luck of course, but his Herman has been writing a column for a major 3 Hair P.l. 1840 D15 D9 W23 D7 L4 W12 D1',l D5 W6 D1 W16 7 66.0 superiority was indisputabie. Brazilian newspaper for the last 30 years and I 4 Croad N. 1686 w19 W21 L1 W23 W3 L6 L2 D8 D5 W11 W7 7 64.0 Drazen Sermek demonstrated his grandmaster am sure some of the games will appear in this 5 Rogers C. 1547 113 W20 D8 D14 L1l W23 W17 D3 D4 W18 W6 7 59.0 class. With a slightly more laid-back approach as well. 6 Lynn K.W 1824 w11 W10 w12 W1 A W4 W7 116 L3 D9 L5 6.5 70.0 than Ian he was content to split the point on a Anthony Ker was well deserving of his sixth 7 Vital H. 1622 w24 L1 W21 D3 W13 W16 L6 W2 W11 LB L4 65 66,0 number of occasions, but he exploited any place and continues to demonstrate that he is 8 Wang P. 1626 D18 D15 D5 D12 W21 W9 L1 D4 W13 W7 L2 6.5 65.5 weaknesses in his opponents' positions one of New Zealarld's best players. He along 9 Forster W. 1558 D2 D3 113 W25 W17 L8 W10 D14 W12 D6 D1 5 65.5 ruthlessly. He is a talented and intuitive player with Paul Garbett and Alexei receive automatic 10 Gibson G,M. 1537 w16 L6 W14 W13 L1 L1| L9 W17 D20 D12 w24. 6 64,5 and his analysis sessions alter the games were selection into the Olympiad team that will be 11 Gunn N,J, 1575 L6 D16 D22 W24 W5 W10 D3 D1 L7 L4 W23 6 60.0 appreciated by opponents and spectators alike. travelling to Istanbul later this year. Russell 12 Pakenham J, 1440 w14 W13 L6 D8 116 L3 W15 W20 L9 D10 W99 6 59.5 Alexei took the New Zealand title and again Dive will certainly be disappointed not to have 13 Godfrey P 1746 w5 112 W9 110 L7 W19 116 W21 L8 W24 W18 6 58.5 demonstrated that he has reached International finished higher this year, but considering his 14 Gloistein B,N. 1635 L12 W25 110 D5 D19 W',ls W18 D9 L2 D17 W22 6 56.5 Master standard. His dynamic and aggressive first round default and poor health at the 15 Howard M.l. 1580 D3 D8 L2 D18 W23 L14 112 W99 D22 W21 W25 6 48.5 style constantly posed problems for his beginning of the toumament it was a very 16 Beesley R.A, 1646 110 D11 W18 W'19 W12 L7 W13 W6 L1 L2 L3 5.5 67.0 opponents and it is only a matter of time for creditable result. Scott Wastney can also be 17 Stracy D.M. 1622 w25 t23 W24 t2 L9 W21 L5 110 W99 D14 W20 5.5 48.0 him to gain his last norm and the IM title. pleased with his final standing after a difficult 18 Cheng H. 1419 D8 D2 116 D15 D20 W99 L14 W22 W19 L5 113 5 57.0 Herman Van Riemsdijk and Paul Garbett both start. 19 Voss P,J, 1546 L4 D22 W20 116 D14 113 W25 W24 L18 W99 121 5 46.0 demonstrated their master class and are true Thanks must be extended to all those who 20 Wilson C. 1642 L21 L5 119 W99 D18 W25 W24 L12 D10 W23 117 5 425 gentlemen on and off the board. Herman was contributed in some way to the success of this 21 Bojtor J. 1502 w20 L4 L7 W22 L8 117 W99 113 125 115 W19 4 50.5 always most willing to offer his help to the event . Peter Stuart is a dedicated servant of 22 Johns D.P. 1590 L1 D19 D11 121 W99 124 W23 118 D15 D25 114 4 47.0 organisers and spent a great deal oftime setting New Zealand Chess and his direction of the 23 Stierand R, unr w99 W7 L3 L4 115 L5 L22 D25 W24 L20 L|l 3.5 up a website for the toumament, updating toumament was professional and efficient at all 24 Nicoll A. 1293 L7 W99 117 111 W25 W22 120 119 123 113 110- 3 47,5 round by round results and providing games times. Peter produced an excellent error-free 25 Martin O. 1399 L17 L14 W99 L9 L24 L20 L19 D23 W21 D22 L15 3 45 0 bulletin on time every day, accompanied by excellent crosstables and round results which were posted regularly on the toumament noticeboard. WANTED TO BUY Top seed takes Major Open Help from sponsors the last four rounds kept Beach safely Sponsorship was provided by PDL Industries Paul Beach, with a rating 100 higher than his three of Chess books, by way of Toshiba batteries for use in the nearest rival, eventua11y established a ahead. Philip Hair, second seed, lost only to Croad, Periodicals digital clocks and New Zealarrd Chess Supplies commanding lead in the Major Open and draws draws kept him in third place, which he providing a quantity of free stationery. North in the last two rounds left him a clear winner. but six & other chess literature consistent Croad and Cathy Shore Chess Club provided free use of their Rounds 4, 5 and 6 were the critical period of shared with the Rogers. Cathy, Ian's wife and a popular clocks, Spiller Enterprises Ltd made a financial the toumament. William Lynn started with Beach round 4. The competitor at Congress, played above her New Any age, any condition contribution towards some of the overseas straight wins and met in leader on 4. Zealand rating to join the tie for third. players' expenses and Ray Thomson made a top seed lost, and L1,nn was clear jtmior finished in a tie for 6m with Vital and 9- Please send details to: financial contribution towards the prizefund. However, southem Matthew McNabb, Lynn year-old Puchen Wang, whose results were Without the help of these sponsors it would who was unbeaten after starting with two was consistent - losses only to the top two place- have been impossible to have held the draws, won from Lynn in round 5, so there Jacob Feenstra, Bookseller getters, a slow start with four draws which toumament. a multiple tie at the top, with Beach, McNabb, but 10 Ree St., Waitati 9060 Lynn and Wellington junior Nic Croad all on 4. kept him from contending for a top place. some of the key games. (Dunedin) In what became the decisive game for hrst Here are p1ace, Beach beat McNabb in round 6 and McNabb's last chance of winning the event Beach,P (1944) - Lynn,K (1824) Ph. (03) 4821457 went when he lost to Henry Vital in round 8. R 4 [B0l] Scandinanvian Fax (03) 4821838 Although he finished with three wins, draws in 1.e4 ds 2.exds af6 3.0fi Qga 4.Qbs+ AbdT

NZ Chess NZ Chess l4 15 5.c4 a6 6.Qa4 b5 7.cxb5 Axd5 8.d4 e6 9.bxa6 22.Hxf8+ bg7 23.Hlf7+ 6h6?+ Black's pieces NZ Rapid Championship, Auckland, 10-11 Januaryr 2000 Hxa6 10.Qxd7+ UxdT ll.0?0 Ab412.ad Qd6 ate too strong. Player Rtg R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 RO R7 R8 R9 PtsTB 13.Qe3 h5 14.a3 0:d5l5.Ae4We7 16.h3 f5 16.81t2 1 van Riemsdijk\. 2422 W24 W15 W6W3 W2W4 W9WS D5 8.5 t7 .Aeg5 QxR 18.4xfi f4 19.Qd2 20.Ub3 95 16.0b5 is another plan:. 16...94 l7.H3f2 c6 2 Rogers l. 2574 W17 W4W7W9L1 W8W10 D5 D3 7 Hh6 21.Sa4+ bfl 22.Hfel g423.hxg4hxg4 ls.Abd4 gxh3 19.AAT. 3 Dive 2375 W21 W13 W16 Ll D8 110 W12 WgD2 651.5 24,4e5+ Qxe5 25.93 fxg3 26.Hxe5 Hhl+ R.J. 4 Sutherland 1974 WZI LZ W19 W20 W7L1 L8 W24 W16 649 27.hg2Hxal28.Qg5 gxf2 29.bxt2 Exb2+ 0-l 16...94 17.93 Uh6 J.L. 5 Barlow M.J. 2147 D32 W18 L8 W28 W17 D12 W15 D2 D1647 I overlooked 19.Rh2; otherwise I would have 6 Smith R.W. 2302 W23 W26 Ll L8 W27 113 W20 W10 W11646.5 Lynn,K (1824) - McNabb,M (1801) played 17...Ug5 18.hxg4 Qxg4 19.b3 sacrificing 7 Pearce R. 2147 W22 W12 L2 yU25 L4 115 W27 W14 W13645 R 5 [807] Pirc/l\4odern Defence the exchange to blunt Black's attack, and White 8 Green 2214 D19 Wll W5W6 D3 L2 W4L1 D12 5.5 55.5 has good queenside play; however still better P.R. 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Af6 3.4c3 96 4.Qg5 Qg7 5.Ud2 Ker 2317 W14 W25 W10 L2 D12 W11 L1 L3 W175.551 for Biack I feel; l7...Wxh3 l8.He3 and it will 9 A.F. AbdT 6.Q.e2 c5 1.AR cxd4 8.6xd4 Ac5 9.QA 10 Bjelobrk 2021 W33 W20 Lg D 14 W24 W3L2 LO W19 5.545.5 take Black several moves to get his attack l. Ba5 10.e5 dxe5 11.6c6 Wc7 lz.abs Ub6 13.0? 11 Gibbons 1986 018 W29 W19 W14 L9 W17 W16 L6 5.544 gomg agaln. + R.E. L8 0?0 AcdT l4.dxe7 Uxb5 15.Qxf6 Qxf6 r6.Qce 12 Croad N. 1762 W37 L7 W35 W16 Dg D5 L3 W15 D8 5.543 bxc6 17.6xc8 0?0 18.4d6 Ua4 19.a3 EahS 18.hxg4 Qxg4 19.8h2 Ug5 20.HIf2 13 McNabb M. 1850 W28 L3 W22 L24 W20 W6116W18 L7 5 44 20.8d3 e4 Zl.dxe[ Qxb2+ 22.&d2 Efe8 21.rufl. see note to 17...Qg5. 14 Wang P. 1681 Lg W30 W15 D10 111 W19 D18 L7 W26544 23.Hhe1 AcS 24.Axc5 Uf4+ 25.8e3 Hbd8 43.5 20...He3 21.Ucl? Qd4 15 Lim B.U. 1896 W31 Ll L14 W35 W28 W7L5 L12W24 5 26.4d7 HxdT 27.wxd7 uxf2+ 28.6il1 uxe3+ 16 Krstev A. 20'17 W29 W34 L3 L 12 W26 W24 W13 L11 L4 542 2l...Uxcl+ 22.0:xcl Qxg3 23.Ytg2 Qv$2+ 29.6c4 Ue3# 0-1 17 Beesley 1741 L2 D29 W32 W18 L5 W25 111 W22 Lg 4'543.5 24.bx|r2 h5T is simpler. However, I thought I R.A. 18 Simpson D.J.W. 1573 D11 L5 W21 L17 W33 W26 D14 113 D204.54'l McNabb,M (1801) - Beach,P (1944) saw more there. when it wasn't 1104.540.5 R 6 [B20] Sicilian 19 Godfrey P. 1638 D8 W32 L4 L 11 W29 L14 W30 W21 22.Qb1 EaeS? 23.Uft Qxe2 24.dxe2 Qg7?l 20 Vital H. 1749 W36 110 W34 L4 113 W28 L6 W25 0184'538.5 1.e4 c5 2.b4 cxb4 3.a3 d5 4.exd5 Uxd5 5.AR 24...4xe4* This was the natural move; but I 21 Farrington L.B. 1719 L3 L27 118 W99 W30 D22 W29 119 W314.533 e5 6.Qb2 Ac6 7 .axh4 Qxb4 8.6a3 af6 9.Qb5 0? was afraid of White's atLack on my King. I 22 Cater J.E. 1599 L7 W37 113 136 W34 D21 W23 L17 W304.532.5 0 10.Qxc6 bxc6 11.Ue2 Qg4 12.c4 gd8 13.Ue3 decided to play it safe with the move played. 23 Millar B.W. 1645 L6 128 D31 130 W32 W36 L22 W33 11U294.531 He8l4.Ac2 Qa5 15.Ha3 Qb6 r6.Ugs Qxf2+ 0?1 24 Wood 1123 W31 W36 W13 110 116 W25 L4 115443.5 25.e5 h6 26.exd6 cxd6 27.Hh5 Ae4 D.A. L1 Wang, P (1801) - McNabh, M (1626) 25 Hair P.l. 1784 W30 Lg W27 L7 W36 L17 L24 120 W34435 R 11 [807] Pirc, Modern Defence 2'l ...Qxbz+ Winning a pawn, and after Bg7 26 Rogers C. 1781 W35 L6 L28 W37 116 118 W36 W27 L14432.5 next move, White's attack is still going W37 L26 D283.537.5 Notes by Matthew McNabb 27 Urbanski Z. 1566 L4 Wz'l 125 W34 LO L7 nowhere. White should have played 27.b3 to 28 Allen-UrbanskiJ. '1334 113 W23 W26 L5 115 120 W37 131 D273-537 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Af6 3.Qd3 96 4.4e2 Qg7 s.0?0 0? stop this. 29 Cheng H. 1579 116 D17 111 W32 119 W33 L 21 W35 1233.537 0 6.c4 e5 7.d5 28.Qxe4 Hxe4 29.Ehf5? 30 van den Bosch K. 1330 L25 L14 D33 W23 L21 W31 L '19 W 99 1223.532.5 strengthening queenside We now have a King's Indian Defence, but 29.b3, White's 31 Booth A.J. 1530 115 L24 D23 133 W99 130 W 32 W 28 1213'530 pawns, 29...Hxc4 30.6h2 Hc2 with a slightly unusual piece position for was necessary 32 Wilson G. 1633 D5 119 L17 L29 L23 W99 L 31 W 36 W373.529.5 31.HsR White. 33 Howard M.l. 1599 110 135 D30 W31 118 129 W 34 L 23 W993.529 31.4c3 is best try: 31...8xf2+ 32.Wxf2 White's 34 Cooze B. 1182 W99 116 120 L27 L22 W35 L 33 W 37 125328.5 7...Abd7 8.Abca a5 9.m ah5 10.Hc2 Ac5 Uxf2+ 33.Hxf2 Qe5T with a superior ending, 35 Judkins G.L. 1323 126 W33 L12 115 137 L34 W 99 L 29 W36326.5 tt.f4? but a lot of work still to be done. 36 GothorpT.H.T. 1224 120 W99 L24 W22 L25 L23 L 26 L 32 135231 31...Ug5 Black would love nothing more than to have 37 Millano A. 1293 L'12 L22 W99 126 W35 L27 L 28 L 34 L32229 31...We4 capturing all of White's helpless the main diagonal open for the 97 bishop. , lfalrbs indicates unplayed game; "99" indicates a bye. pawns, is simple and easy. 11...exf4 12.Qxf4 Scores adjusted for unplayed games for calculation of tie-break scores' 32.Hfs 12.axf4 od4+ 13.6h2? Qes+. 32.Af4l (threat Ne6) , and White follows up 12...Axf{ r3.Exf4 with Qg2, guarding all pawns. Van Riemsdiik takes NZ Rapid' NZ The fight for minor placings and the New 13.Axf4 Qd4+ 14.6h1 Qe5 15.Afe2 Sh+ with 32...Ug6 33.b3 Hxa2 34.9b1 Eb2 35.8d3 title shared Zealand title went dor,m to the wire. IM Russell great play. 35.Ue4 Hxb3?+ isn't much better. Herman van Riemsdijk showed his quality in Dive had to flght back after losing to Igor 13...Qe5 14.H4 Eh4 15.Haf1 g5!? the New Zealand Rapid Championship, in Bjelobrk in round 6, but a draw with Ian Rogers 35...He8 0-1 15...Qg4! l6.H3t2 f5 l7.exf5 (17.b3 Qxe2 which the decisive clash was his game with in the final round kept him in a tie with John tuh2+ 18.Yxe2 Wg3 t9.tsJ3 20.bf1 Q.g3 21.Hel2 GM Ian Rogers in round 5. They shared the Sutherland, Matthew Barlow, Bob Smith and R YaeS?+ with total hosin$ 17...Axd3 18.Uxd3 lead with a clean sweep after 4 rounds, in Pearce. Sxf5 19.UR Exc4 20.94 Qd3 2l.Wxf8+ HxfS which both players went for a win. Here is the key game.

NZ Chess NZ Chess t6 l1 Rogers,I van Riemsdijk,H van Riemsdijk ll Sutherland,J - - Visiting IM coaches and gives simuls R 5 [D03] d4 others R 6 [B30] Sicilian By Herman van Riemsdijk Notes by Herman van Riemsdijk 1.e4 c5 LAB Ac6 3.66 e5 4.Qc4 Qe7 5.d3 af6 l.d4 bf6 2.AB e6 3"Qg5 d5 4.e3 Qe7 5.Abd2 c5 6.4d2 d6 1.Afl Qe6 8.Ae3 Qxc4 9.dxc4 Ad4 In my first and untbrgettable trip to New 6hB 18.a4 Hc8 19.QI2 Ac6 20.Ue3 HcdS 6.c3 Ac6 7.eff ad7 10.8d3 0?0 11.6cd5 Ae6l2.Af5 6xd5 13.cxd5 Zealard I had the opportunity to give a three- 2l.Abs zxb' 22,axbs Ab4 23.Ua7+ 6c8 Beliavsky has played this more than once. ac7 l4.Hg3 6e8 15.h4 6hS 16.Hh3 Hg8 17.h5 day course based on my book The Final 24.Ua8+ Bb8 25.Ua5 d5 26.Ac5 b6 27.Axd7?? 8.Qf4 Qr8 1S.Wf3 Ed7 19.Qss f6 2D.ah4 h6 2t.Qd2 95!? Countdown (written with Willem Ha.jenius), New as far as I know. Ac7 22.Hg3 AUs z:.cs a6 24.Hg6 Aa7 25.Hg3 Ac8 26.AfS Ae7 27.Axei SxeZ ZS.Oxhr Ufl which deals with pawn endings. Paul Spiller 9.Qg3 h5 10.h3 Ub6 11.Wc2 f5 12.h4 94 B.aes 29.Qe3 f5 30.ex6 Uxf5 31.h6 6h7 32.895 Uf7 made the effort to organise it in the Howick & AfSl 14.dxc5 Uxc5 15.0?0?0 Qd7 16.e4!? fxe4 33.hxg7 HxgT 34.0?0?0 Qe7 35.Hh1+ 698 Pakuranga Chess Club. It was attended by ll.Agxe4 dxe4 18.Axe4 Was 19.4d6+ Qxd6 36.Uh3 Ur0 SZ.HxgZ+ HxgT 38.Ue6+ 6fB about 10 players, some of them very strong 20.Qg6+ 6d8 21.Hxd6 Wxa2 22.Hhdt Ab4l 39.Hhs 6e8 40.Eg5 1-0 (Spiller, Gibbons, Bennett, Metge, E Green and 23.Ue2 Hc8? + Wang). I think 23...Qa1+ 24.Bbl Rc8 is a win for Ker takes New Year Open It was a great pleasure to discuss with them Black. Anthony Ker joined several of the young the beautiful "key-squares" theory." 24.Hxd7+| AxdT 25.Wd7+t 6xd7 26.Ub5+ 6c6 players at Congress in the New Year Open, and - I had the opportunity also to give three simuls, 27.Wxb7+ 6dS 28.Qf4 Ael 29.Qg5 Hal+ his win over Igor Bjelobrk in round 4 was the the first one against 12 boards in Wellington, 30.6d2 Ec7 31.Qxe7+ ExeT 32.Ub8+ 6d7 decisive game. Igor won a1l his other games. on January 17. It was held in the Shepherds 33.Uxh8?! Here's the one from round 3. Arms pub, where my friend Bill Forstff meets a After this forced sequence, Rogers shows his Chilvers,M Bjelobrk,I group of chessplayers each Monday evening. - 21...wf4+ habitual optimism. He can go for a draw with lc07l The second one was in the Nbew Plymouth Qb7+. 1.e4 e6 2.d4 dS 3.4d2 cS 4.c3 Ac6 5.AgB Af6 Chess Club and was organised by Errol I was not happy to see 27...Qf4+, just when 33...Hxb2+ 34.Qc2 Ub6 35.6e1 6c7 36.He5+ 5.es 7.b3 f6 8.Qb5 fxe5 9.Qxc6 bxc6 Tuffery. It was also against 12 boards and there the game was so interesting. After 27.Wxb4 adi gc7 UA6 lz.HxhS Ed7 38.Ug5 Sc6 39.Ue5+ 6c8 10.6xe5 Axe5 11.dxe5 Wc7 l2.AB Qe7 13.0?0 I had my only defeat (no draws at all!), against bxc5 28.Qxc5 9xc5 29.Hxc5+ 30.8d4 I 40.Ue3 Bxg2 4l.Qe4?? 0?0 14.Hel a5 15.Qg5 Qa6 L6.Qxe7 HxeT Michael Freeman. Maybe Michael (who I knew prefer White. We were both with about 2 minutes left. 17.Uc2 Hf4 l8.Hadl EafS 19.8e3 Qc8 20.Hd2 from several chess olympiads) proved to be too 2s.6bl bxas 29.4b6+ 6b7 30.c3 Axe4 41.Qc5 maybe is still a draw. Qd7 2t.Aet Qe8 22.Uc1 Qs6 23.4il1 Qxd3 strong for a simul. This was the only time that I 31.Qd4 Ad2+o-t 41...Ug1+ 0-1 24.Hexd3 Ug5 25.Uel He4 26.8e3 Hxf2 27.bxf2 saw good publicity in New Zealand. The simul gf4+ 28.HR wh4+ 29.93 uxM+ 0-1 made the front page with photo in the local van Riemsdijk,H - Wang,P Daily News, against no lines at all on the [C12] Classical system national championships, the latter very Simul, Howick, Game 1 New Year Open,2000 surprising. R1 R2 R5 l.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.4c3 Af6 4.Qg5 Qb 5.e5 h6 R3 R4 R6 Pb TB The last exhibition was outdoors, in the 1 Ker A.F. W1l W4 w3 w2 D6 W8 5.5 6.Qd2 Qxc3 1.@xB Ae4 8.Ae2 c5 9.dxc5 Ac6 Howick Commerce Centre, on a beautiful 2 Bjelobrk l. WB W6 W9 Ll W3 W4 5 r0.Qd4 He7 11.4d 6xd4 l2.AxeA Axc2+ sunny Mardi Gras Saturday. It had nine boards 3 Lim B.U. W12 w15 L1 W8 t2 W6 4 22.0 13.Uxc2 dxe4 14.Qb5+ Qd7 15.Qxd7+ UxdT at the same time. During two and and half 4 McNabb M. W'18 L1 W7 W5 W13 L2 4 205 16.Uxe4 Ub5 17.a4 Uxb2 18.0?0 0?0 19.Hab1 hours I played 30 games. The most interesting 5 Cheng H. L6 w17 w11 L4 W16 w12 4 15.5 uc3 20.Hfc1 E,d2 2l.Hc2 ua5 22.Exb7 HfdS t by far were the two I played against the best 6 Croad N. W5 L2 w12 W9 D1 L3 3.5 24.0 23.Hbl HacS 24.93 Hd5 25.c6 Exe5 26.Ub4 New Zealand junior, Puchen Wang. He's only 7 Wood D.A. D'14 w'16 L4 L13 W18 w1'l 3.5 13.5 Ec7 27.wb7 udS ZS.c7 t-0 l0 years old but already has a good technique 8 Vital H. L2 W,IB W15 L3 W9 L1 3 20.0 and an amazingly good tactical feeling. You'll 9 Chilvers M. W17 w14 t2 L6 L8 w16 3 17.0 van Riemsdijk,Il - Wang,P hear more of him very soon! '10 Chilvers C. 115 L12 w10 L14 W17 w13 3 11.0 lB22lCaro-kann 11 Gloistein B.N. L1 w13 L5 D12 W14 17 2.5 20.5 Simul, Howick,Game2 Van Riemsdyk,H - FreemanrM 12 Fanington L.B. L3 w10 L6 D11 W15 L5 2.5 19.5 1.e4 c6 2.c4 dS 3.exd5 cxd5 4.cxd5 Uxd5 5.d4 [B95] Poisoned pawn var. 13 Gibson G,M. D16 L1',l W14 W7 L4 L'l0 2.5 17.5 Ed8 Simul, New Plymouth Ac6 6.AR Qg4 7.Qe2 e6 8.0?0 Af6 9.Aca 14 Davies R.E. D7 L9 113 W10 L'11 w17 2.5 '15.5 13.h3 Notes by Herrnan van Riemsdijk 10.ub3 Hbs 11.Qe3 Qd6 12.Efd1 0?0 15 Smith R.G. W10 L3 L8 D16 L12 w18 2.5 14,5 1.e4 c5 z.AR d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Axd4 Af6 5.4c3 Qh5 14.ds Aa5 r5.Sb5 a6 16.9b6 Qc7 17.Ud4 16 Haase G.G. D13 17 w17 D15 L5 L9 2 Sd6 a6 6.Qg5 e6 7.Uf3 h6 8.Qh4 AbaZ S.ototo Ucz exd5 18.Qg5 Ac6 19.Uh4 QxB 20.Qxf3 17 Williams KA. L9 L5 116 W18 110 L',t4 1 HfeS 22.Qe4 Eh2+ 23.6ft dxe4 24.Sg5 10.Qe2 Qe7 11.Qg3 6e5 12.Ue3 95 13.h4 EgS 21.Qxf6 18 Trundle G.E. L4 L8 L7 115 0 110 t17 14.hxg5 hxg5 15.Ab3 Qd7 16.f3 0-0-0 17.Ud4 1-0

NZ Chess NZ Chess 18 t9 New Zealand News Games Asian teams championship [810] Caro-Kann Waitemata CC 8.4e3 Qe6 9.g5 fi5 10.6ed5 Qg7 11.Qe2 Qxd5 Here are some games from the later rounds of Notes by Paul Spiller The feature of Waitemata Chess Club's latest 12.Uxd5 Af4?l teams toumament Shenyang, the Asian in l.e4 c62.d4 d5 3.fi dxe4 4.fxe4 e5 5.AR Qe6! Championship was a family quinella. Bob Better 12...Nc6. China. First, as Paul Spiller reported, Peter Smith successfully defended his title for the Green's gritty defensive style paid dividends Black's best move. Before the game I had a 22"d year in a row, with 717 in the finals. His 13.kf4 exf4 14.Uxb7 Ad7 r5.Qb5 Qxca+ against Vietnam's No. 1 player in rounds 8. quick look to see what my GM opponent closest pursuer was his u.ife Viv, who scored 16.bxc3 6e7 played against the Caro-Kann and decided that 5.5 and had Bob on the ropes in their individual Green,P - Dao,T (2543) this was the best choice against the "Fantasy variation." game until going wrong in time trouble. The [D48] Meran other frnalists were : Mark Brimble (5), Paul Notes by Peter Green 6.c3 af6 7.Qd3 6bd7 S.Ag Godfrey (3.5), Roy Harish (3), Rob Calder & 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.4c3 e6 4.8 Af6 5.4f3 AbdT This was unexpected. The usual continuation Bruce Pollard (2) and Albert Tibble (0). 6.Qd3 dxc4 7.Qxc4 b5 8.Qdt Qb7 9.0?0 a6 is 8.Abd2 Qd6 9.0?0 tse7 l0.Ue2 with a The Reserve Championship was won easily by , 10.Ae4 c5 11.6xc5 Axc5 12.dxd Qxc5 13.We2 balanced position. Alen Machina with 6.517, but his rating made 0?0 14.e4 ad7 15.Qf4 h6 16.Eac1 Ue7 17.e5 s...Ub6 9.Qc2Qg4 him ineligible for the title, which was shared by , Hfcs 1s.Ad2 Qd4 19.a8 Qb6 20.994 6h8 second place-getters John Lin, David Wong 21.Uh3 El8 22.Qbl Excl 23.Hxcl fS 24.exf6 I was starting to feel happy about my position and Gary Collingwood (4.5). Uxf6 about now. The Most Improved Player award went to The Black placed a threatening 10.Ud3 h611.4fl Qxa 12.gx8 Paul Godfrey and Roy Harish, while the Junior Q is in position. Cup was won by Paul Godfrey. My original intention was to play 72...exd4 13.cxd4 0?0?0, threatening to play 14...Ne5 o Waitemata CC has a very busy year under Black wants to play ...Rb8 without BxdT+. 25.Qe3 Hl8 26.Hfi Qxe3 followed by ...Qxd4 and Nx8+. I changed my way - in addition to the 23'd Waitakere But now White finds a crusher. Now all the pressure is on f2. Trust Open, the club is organising this mind, tying to create some kingside play. 17.e5!! Hb8 27.Uxe3 Qas zt.6cs year's NZ Women's Champs and the next However, this lets White take the advantage. New Zealand Championship Congress. If I 8...Kxd6 19.0?0?0+ wins. The isolani on e6 becomes ztarget. t2...Qe7 t3.dd2 ahs la.acl Qna+ I8.exd6+ 6e6 Here's a game from the club championship: 28...4xc5 29.Hxc5 698 30.Uc2 tsgs 31.f4 Uf6 Not the best continuation. Preferable was l8...Oxd6 19.0?0?0+. 3l...Ex?l 32.Uc8+ @fl 33.Wc7+ 6e8 34.Uc8+ 14...Qc7. Smith,R - Pollard,B 19.Qxd7+ UxdT 20.He4+ 6xd6 21.0?0?0+ 6c7 be7 35.Wc7+ 6e8 36.Uc8+ 6fi 37.Uc7+ 6e8 15.6e2 15...Sc7 16.dxe5 Axe5 17.Ud6 Uxd6! [B8U (Fritz 5). Notes by Bob Smith 22.H\d7+ 6xd7 23.8d1+ 6c7 24.Se7+ 6b6 The move I had overlooked. 25.8d6+ 6b5 26.Ue5+ 32.a3 Hd8 1.e4 c5 2.AR e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.axd4 Af6 5.4c3 18.6xd6+ 618 19.Axb7 Qg5 20.fu5 lf 26...Kc4 27.Rc6# or 26...Ka4 27.Ra6#. l-0 33.Uh7+ bft 34.Hf2.. d6 6-94l? e5?! 7.4f5 96?! 132...Qc4 Black is a pawn down, but not completely 7...h5. 33.8d1 0f8 dead! Black threatened 20...Bxc1 and Rb8. ) 33...Uxf4 doesn't work because of 34.Uh7+ 20...Af4+ 21.Of2 Hd8 22.h4 Qe7 23.Qxf4 6tB 35.Hfl Uxfl + 36.6xf1. Qxcl+ 24.be2 dg6 25.Qg3 h5 26.f4 be7 27.f5 1 34.Uc5+ 6e8 35.9d4 Arur- zt.Qae Hc8 29.Qe5 Ad7 3o.Qd4 Details of each eyent are available from the organising club 35.b4 95 (35...Wxf4 is worthless because of 30.Bxg7 allows Rhg8 and Rg2+. NZ Women's Championship, April 21-24 Aprll (Easter), at Kelston Girls' High School, run by 3 6.@96+ &d7 3 7.Hfl ) 36.tsl 30...Oxd4 31.cxd4 c5 32.Qxd7 6xd7 33.d5 WaitemataCC. Waitakere Trust Open, May 6-7, Licoln Green Motor Hotel, Lincoln Road, Henderson, 35...Uxd4+ 36.Exd4 HcS 37.6f2 6e7 38.8d2 Possibly Rhgl immediately was better. Hcl 39.Qd3 6d6 40.Qe4 6c5 41.Hc2+ Hxc2+ Auckland. 3 grades, prizes more than $3600. Run by Waitemata CC. 33...6d6 34.Hhg1 HhgS 35.Hg5 6e5 36.6e3 42.Qxc2 6d4 43.93 Qc4 44.Qb1 Q&l 45.Q42 NZ Junior Championship, proposal from Wanganui CC, Queen's Birthday weekend Hb8 North Island Championship, proposal fiom Wellington CC (merged with Civic), details later. Qfs 46.6e2 Qg4+ 47.bd2 0e4 48.CIb3 hs 49.a4 I was running short of time, so my opponent South Island Championship, September, 2000, Otago CC. 6R 50.a5 692 51.6e3 bxllr252.bf2 6h3 53.Qc2 55.Qc2 was playing fairly quickly. He was now poised NZ Championship & Major Open, 2000-2001, Waitemata CC, Auckland, Dec 28 - Jan 9. Qfs s4.Odr Qg4 Qfs s6.Qd1 Qga %?v, to play 37.b3, when I could have played 37...f6 NZ Rapid Championship, 2001, Waitemata CC, Jan l0-1 l, 2001. ThongT (2515) - Spiller,P (2200) and then ...Rb4, giving me some hope. Clubs are asked to supply details of 2000 eyents as soon as dates are finalised R 8, Asian teams championship However, he changed his mind and played ...

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37.f6+ Sxf6 38.b3 96 39.Hc1 HbcS 40.e5+ bel Wanting to simpliff, but h3 is a better idea. White was faced with a pawn deficit, a Krstev game 4l.Hg2 HgdS 42.6e4 43.exf6+ 6xf6 marauding black knight and three minutes to Antonio Krstev sent us the following game, f5+ 16...Qxe2 l7.Hxe2 Had8 18.Afl Ahf[ 1l9.Hd2 44.Hf2+ bg1 45.Hfc2 Ee8+ 46.6d3 reach the time control. which he played in a tournament in Caoirle, Exd2 20.Qxd2 Hd8 3l.Ae7+ Italy, in 7979.

31.a3 is a better try. Krstev,A - GuseperP [D35] d4 others 31...0f8 32.4d5 Axd5 33.exd5 6e7 34.a3 f5 Notes by Antonio Krstev 35.h4 95 36.hxg5 hxg5 37.b4 6d6 38.6f2 e4 39.6e3 exf3 40.6x8 6e5 7.d4 e6 2.c4 Af6 3.ad d5 4.e3 Qe7 5.aR 0?0 6.Wc2Abd7 7.c5!? c6 Time to go home. 0-1 In modem chess White doesn't usually play c5 Adams in Australia early, which gives the opponent the chance to Cancellation of a project on which he was attack the centre with ...b6. working as a in Christchurch for IBM New 8.Qd3 b6 9.b4 a5 10.b5 Ab8 11.cxb6 9xb6 Zealand led to an offer to Jonathan Adams to l2.Aa4 Vb7 13.b6 abdT l4.Ae5 Axe1 15.dxe5 transfer to Sydney as a senior business analyst. 6az r6.Qxtrz+ 6h8 17.f4 Once he settled in Jonathan joined the Manly This was the position I had been hoping to If the e-pawn has gone, Black has a strong The idea I was working with was Bxf4 here, Warringah Chess Club and played in their get, when I had intended to play 46...He5 centre and a much better game. as ...NxPl, Rdl with Ng3 looking reasonably tournament. a 47.Hxc5 Hxd5+ 48.Hxd5 Hxcl However, I 9-round summer With solid. But I thought playing Rdl first can't be provisional rating 1700 he was seeded 17...f5 thought the position after 49.Hd7+ and RxaT of bad. second and was delighted to win the event with was lost. After the game Peter Green pointed Weakness. Black thinks only his diagonal is a 8.5/9, 1.5 pooints ahead ofthe nrnners-up. out that after 49...bf6 50.Hxa7 Hhl it was not 21.HdlAxg2 weakness, and the White pieces are passive, Here's one of Jonathan's games. clear. A big shock. but.. . 46...95 47.hxg5 He5 48.6c4 Exg5 49.Hd1 22.&xg2 Adams,J - Sandalcyam,A 18.Q96 Qb4+ 1e.Qd2 Ed8 Hg4+ 50.6b5 Eb4+ 51.&a5 Hb6 Sokolsky The counter sacrifice 22.gxh6 Exdl 23.Uxdl [A00] With the idea of ...Nf8. Notes by Jonathan Adams Black was getting very short of time and goes gxh6 24.bxg2 is probably best .. but I couldn't 20.Qxb4 axb4 2l,Acl'!,l, astray in the next few moves. Fritz 5 considers believe that the knight sacrifice was sound. t.b4 Af6 2.Qb2 e6 3.b5 b6 Rb7 here. To distract the Black N from defending the h7 22...4h4+ 23.6h3 \ Quite playable, but never going to refute the freld. If now Black plays 21...Qb6, 22.Qe2l - 52.d6 Hd8 53.Hxc5 Hbxd6 54.Hxd6 Exd6 Sokolsky. because of ...Qe3+ and later Black I didn't expect tb-sufvive running into the not 22.Nxd7 55.Hxh5 696 56.8b5 1-0 is consolidated. corner, which was the natural move that my 4.e3 Qb7 5.4fi d6 6.d4 AbdT 7.Qd3 96 8.abd2 opponent would expect. For example, 23.6h1 Qg7 9.e4 0?0 10.0?0 Hc8?! 21...Axc5 22.He2 > 23.9h5 Aaz+ zl.&ez Gibbons,R Q200) - Kaiumov,D (2471) Hd7 24.4e3 Utr: ZS.Qct Ed6 26.Hxd6 . R 9, Asian teams championship aR Makes White's next better than before. Axe5 25.fxe5 Despite a big plus in material, White will get lA00l Black resigrrs, as he cannot avoid mate. mated. 11.a4 c5?! Notes by Bob Gibbons 2s...Hd7 26.Wh7+ 6f8 27.Uh8+ 6e7 28.Se8# 23...Hd624.493 Will leave a horrible weakness on d6. This was the last-round game against [28.Uxg7+ 6ds 29.Uf8#] 1-0 Uzbekistan, who were after a 4?0 result to gain I didn't want to restrict my bishop, but it is the l2.bxc6 9xc6 13.Qa3+ 6e8 14,e5 6h8 Under-l0 win first place. The plan, then, was to keep things as king which need the mobility. However, After a long think, to give the rook a square. Here's a sample of play by the winner of the quiet as possible. 24.4e3 Hg5 25.Ag4 Eh5 26.693 f5 is not pleasant for White. 15.Qa6 Ea8 16.4c4 HgS l7,Axd6 6xd6 world underlO boys' championship in 1.e4 e5 2.4f3 Ac6 3.Qc4 Qc5 4.Ac3 d6 5.Aa4 1S.Qxd6 AbS 19.Qc4 ad7 20.Qb3 Hc8 21.c4 Oropesa, Spain, in which Puchen Wang played. 5.0?0 f5 seemed a complication to avoid. 24...wd7+ 25.afs Qb7 22.ds exd5 23.cxd5 AcS 24.Hel h6 25.Hcl 5...Qb6 6.6xb6 axb6 7.c3 6f0 t.Ucz 0?0 9.0?0 ffioops! 25.&xM 95+ and White's two extra Ee8 Andreikine,D - Ibarrarl Qg4 10.Qe2 Aei tt.dA A96 t2.b3 pawns can't save the king. White's advantage is less now, so I probably [c0l] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 dS 3.4c3 Qb4 4.exd5 exd5 5.Qfft To ultimately free the queen's rook. 2s...aR missed the strongest line somewhere. 6ez 6.Utrs Aat l.Qgs h6 s.Afl cs 9.0?0 af6 Considering the short unhappy life of the black Now Black cashes up and the rest is history. 26.Qxc5 Exc5 27.Hxc5 bxc5 28.d6 UaZ ZS.Qas 10.gxf6 gxf6 ll.Efel Qxc3 12.bxc3 Hg8 bishop, Bg5 here was probably better. Qxds 30.Uxd5 HcS 31.Hb1 Hc6 32.Hb8+ 6h7 26.693 Exd2 27.Hxd2 Uxd2 28.Uxd2 Axd2 13.Hxh6 Qg4 14.Uxf6 QxR l5.Ux13 c4 16.Qf5 12...h6 13.Qe3 Ue7 14.dxe5 15.Hfe1 33.4d2 Hb6 34.Exb6 axb6 35.ue4 Qf8 36.ua8 dxe5 6h5 29.ft 6b1 30.c4 Ac3 Ed6 17.8e5 6d8 18.Hael He8 19.Qh3 Hb8 t6.adz Uga?! 37.UxI8 Udl+ 38.afi Uxa4 39.Uxf7+1-0 20.Uxf7 b6 21.Hxe7 1-0

NZ Chess NZ Chess 23 22 "Black Swan" tournament in Queensland Correspondence report By FM Bob Smith By Gordon HoslEn

My wife Viv and I enjoyed a week's holiday Solomon and Smith-Pardoen. The 2000-01 trophy toumeys get under way a draw after 22...Wf6 23.Hxe5 Wxa2 24.Exf6 in Noosa in November and amongst the Still grieving after my slip-up against on March 1. The current TTs conclude on uib3 25.uxh8+ bd7 26.lud4+ 6c7 27.Qxh5 a5 swimming, tennis, golf and shopping managed Solomon, I came out all guns blazing. March 31, with unfinished games being 28.h4 a4 29.Qd1 Eb4 30.Ue5+ 6b7 31.h5 a3 to fit in two days of chess. Seventy players Pardoen's caro-kann barely survived the adjudicated. 32.h6 a2 33.h7 alU 34.Hxal Ue1+. tumed out at the Discovery Beach Resort Hotel complications of an early c4!? He lost a pawn, With the death of IM Ortvin Sarapu, NZCCA 22...c5 23.Wg6 be7 24.Hxf6 Hxf6 25.Ug7+ Hf7 in beautiful weather for the Maroochydore got behind on time and then dropped a piece to lost its long-time adjudicator. ICM Roger 26.Uxh8 Wxa2 27.Eld3 Qd7 28,Wxe5 Wbl+ "Black Swan" Open. a tactical trick. Chapman filled in at short notice, but now a 29.Hdt Ufs 30.Ud6+ 6e8 31.8f1 Ug6 32.8d1 Top seed by some 200 points was IM Stephen Meanwhile Solomon was in trouble against new adjudicator has been appointed. Sg5 33.Hb1 QcS 34.QR ge3+ 35.6h1 Hxf3 Solomon. I had the daunting experience of Stawski and looked as if he would be lucky to He is ICM Michael Freeman, who is based in 36.Uc6+ Qd7 37.UxR Sxf3 38.gxl3 a5 39.Hb8+ being seeded second - a natural target for draw. Several times Stawski could have forced Stratford, but plays for Wanganui. Michael, 6e7 40.8a8 Qc6 under-rated and ambitious Aussies hungry for a draw, but decided to go for all or nothing. In who heads the NZCCA master points list with 40...a4. more sporting success. the event, he got nothing after blundering a even 39.8 points, has an impressive record in 41.Hxa5 QxI3+ 42.691 6d6 43.6f2 Q0t ee.Ha3 rook in time trouble - to my great chess. Competing in NZCCA Popular time control correspondence Qg4 a5.Ee3 Qfs 46.8a3 &e5 47.6e3 Qh3 disappointment. 1977 ar,d 1985, from 87 games The time control was a fairly popular one in events between 48.Ha1 h4 49.Ha5 9fI 50.Hxc5+ 6d6 51.Hh5 in the trophy toumeys he scored 66 points at an Australia - 60 minutes each plus l0 seconds a Qxc4 52.Exh4 Qb3 53.8h5 Qdl 54.Hg5 6e7 Tie for first average 75.86 per cent. A second placing in move. They rate these games fully across the of 55.Hg6 &f7 s6.Hh6 Qga s7.bf4 697 s8.6gs Qf5 This meant Solomon and I tied for first with was followed by a win in the Reserve, Tasman. TT2 s9.Hh4 1?0 6.517, a point ahead of Sunshine Coast players Michael played six times in the After two rounds most of the top players were after which Otto Mehltreter and Paul Summers. Vivian championship for the following results: 1, 2:, on fuIl points, including me. Boyd,S (2240) - Freeman,M (2345) also finished well, winning her last two games ard2=. A-11 in all, he recorded 50 wins, Viv had also started well, with two good wins. 2:,4, I [B96] Sicilian, poisoned pawn to come l2th equal and win the Women's prize But this was where the "under-arm bowling" 32 draws and only 5 losses! Paul Spinath Memorial, 1994 of A$50. My prize-money of ,4.$350 combined coveted International came in. Obviously galled by two kiwis being To qualiff for the Notes by Michael Freeman nicely with Viv's to help towards holiday Correspondence Master title, Michael gained among the 16 leaders, D.O.P. Ian Munay 1.e4 c5 LAB d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Axd4 Af6 5.4c3 expenses. his first norm in the 2od Pacific area team contrived to pair husband and wife together, a6 6.Qg5 e6 7.f4 b5 8.e5 dxe5 9.fxe5 Wc7 Here are a couple of the games: toumarrent 1982-85, on board 2, scoring 4 Viv having black. 10.ue2 afdT 11.0?0?0 Qb7 t2.gg4 ub6 13.Qe2 wins and 4 draws for 6/8. I played somewhat unconvincingly against her axe5 14.uh3 6UaZ ts.Ehel h6 16.Qh4 hs L1ky,J - Smith,R The second norm came in Abonyi 13 in l99l- Pirc and came under some pressure. But 17.QR QxR 18.ax8 Ag4 19.4d5 Uc5 \ [A3O] King's Indian Attack 5 wins and 5 draws for 7.5/10 (6.5 staunch defence plus a time trouble mistake by 95, scoring for ICM norm). This position was reached in Chandler-Vera Viv brought home the point for me. I also won l.AR Af6 2.g3 b6 3.Qg2 Qb7 4.0?0 96 5.c4 c5 needed an in 1977 and is described in the books as my next two games - a little more 6.Aca Qe7 7.d3 0?0 8.Ebr d6 9.He1 abdT Here are two previously unpublished games (a encounter) "unclear". convincingly - and in round six graduated to 10.b4 Uc7 11.b5!? d5! l2.cxd5 Axd5 13.6xd5 by Michael Freeman. One wild 48th Championship and the top board, with Solomon and me the only ones Qxd5 14.a4 a6! 15.Qb2 axb5 16.Qxg7 6xg7 from the NZCCA 20.695 Hc8 2l.Hd2Hh6 22.4e4 Uc4 23.Ug3 17.axb5 Ea2 18.4d2 Qxg2 19.6xg2 HfaS other (a knife edge) from overseas play in the still with a pefect score. I prefer the quieter move 23.6b1 Age5 24.4f4 2O.Ac4Ae5 21.Hb3 Axc4 22.dxc4 H8a3 23.Ud1 1994 Paul Spinath Memorial. Solomon, playing white, used the Panov- f5 25.Qg5 L\e4 26.Qxh6 gxh6 and its still very Ue5! 24.6f1? Ue4 25.691 Uxc4 26.Ud8 Se6 Botvinnik attack against my Caro-Kann and unclear. FreemanrM deGrootrP gained a slight theoretical edge. However, with 27 .e4 wf6 28.f4 Hc2 29.ud7 Eaa2 30.uh3 ud4+ - Hg2+ Sicilian, poisoned pawn 23...8xa2 24.Adc3?l sensible play I gained the advantage and looked 31.6h1 Ef2 32.f5 Ul3+ 33.0g1 1-0 [A45] 48ft NZCCA 1981182 likely to score an upset win. But - tragedy! In a 24.c3 Ua1+ (24...exd5?? 25.4d6#; Koch,W Notes by Michael Freeman mutual time scramble I had a choice of two Smith,V- 24...Age5?? 25.Hxe5!) 25.bc2 Wa4+ 26.6b1 e5 Closed Sicilian pawns to push. One won, the other drew. My [B23] 1.e4 c5 z.aB d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Axd4 Af6 5.4c3 (26...Wc4 27.fu7) 27.h3 f5 28.495 and white hand automatically pushed the closer (wrong) 1.e4 c5 2.Ac3 e6 3.f4 d6 4.AR Ac6 5.Qc4 a6 a6 6.Qg5 e6 7.f4 Ub6 8.Wd2 Uxb2 9.Eb1 Ua3 has plenty of compensation. one and Solomon escaped with a half. 6.a4 96 7.0?0 Qg7 8.d3 6ge7 9.Ue1 0?0 10.6hr 10.f5 Ac6 11.fxe6 fxe6 l2.Axc6 bxc6 13.e5 24...Wa1+25.abl This left us still tied for first with 5.5/6, with ab4?! 1r.Qb3 Qd7 12.f5 exfr 13.Hh4 6ec6 dxeS 14.Qxf6 gxf6 ll.Ad Qe7 16.Qe2 h5 The theme around the next few moves is black fourth seed Nik Stawski (who I beat in round 5) 14.Qg5 Ues 15.Qh6 Qe6 16.695 We7 t7.Qxg7 17.Hb3 Ua4 l8.Axf6+ Qxf6 19.c4 Ha7 20.0?0 kying to prevent Nd6+ and a recapture with the and fifth seed Alain Pardoen lurking half a 6xg7 18.exf5! Qxf5 19.Uxh7+ bf6 zD.Acet+ Ed7 21.8e3 Hft 22.We4 white queen on d6 with a rrrale to follow whilst point behind. 6e5 21.4R+ 0f4 22.93+ t o new move 1981, the usual move being - A in developing his own threats against bl andb2. The final round pairings were Stawski- 22.Qc5. Now it is known that 22.Hxf6 leads to

NZ Chess NZ Chess 25 24 25...4ge5 26.Hed1 dc4 27.Wc3 Roberts 516, JC Rapp 4/6, EGA Frost 3.5i8, NZCF Rating list for 2-1999 (636 players) BM Williams 317, GE Lovelock 1.513, CA Mold 1/3, RS Phillips 0i4, KG Reed 0i4. Ranking; code no.; name; club; standard rating; number of standard games in latest period; rapid TT2: JCV Larsen 8/10, BJ Edwards 7.5/l l, rating; number of rapid games in latest period. DE Dolejs 718, EA Gidman 5/12, PC King 3 5 C 6-.,49t)2 Z!\r),KavLC 3 AC 1B96 urr 3.5i10, J Veldhuizen 3.5/10, W Anderson '1 9 Dir,'E R.r ?368 5 2.'1i5 I 4989 KUI-AS}IKO ,rr AC :.:361 r 2-l 14 6 64 5008 SEP.EBRIANY L) CA r88i 1988* 3.5112. '/'10? 30ti8 SPI]TH RW './,lL :).364 21 6 6\ 4393 DUNN AS P'l LiJlS I 11 t 6 TT3: AN Hignett 8/9, CM Ford 6.5/9, GH 3OO2 G},RBETT PA NS 2339 9 234A 72 66 3434 llUl{LEY A UII .1 876r unr Mills 5.5/9, PE Rossiter 5/7, RGA Taylor 517, 3383 KIR AF C] 2333 5 ?31/- 14 57 30311 GO|-FIN- PB AC .l 8 i 4 6 unr PE 4 193u PG Coghini 5/8, AW Hendry 4/8, LR Cotton 3255 Noll.,Ll Ml' 22Al 2.it.99 69 3913 Grr,i, C AC I864 3696 LI]KLY 5G (]A 2212 222.4 6 41 4A M/\CDONALD P .AC M4 5 1120* 2.519, JWH Atkinson 116, BC Sullivan .5/8, S 3L]03 SUTTON R.] CI 2265 22b6 1A 446'i M1S|L'RY P Nll LLl62 918(,1 Holdaway 0i6. 10 3460 ])REYER !1F .AC 2244 2254 71 501 9 EEEIJSTRA .I O',l 1861 1829 (]A (, '12 TT4: CL Ward 4.5/5, RR Trevis 4.517, A 11 33] 4 MC1 /\REN LJ a23 t 1?, ?2.',n8 505 / ITAVTEII RE P',I' I B5t 10 1i69* 12 -1206 r,,!,r\! soN lltt li;q 22A3 9 ?.?A1 6 512]tI'RASS R GA.l 85/ 18 18111 2/6, Chowdhury 017. Clark3l3, LF Purvis SR 13 l00t aiRt}]li tiM tlP 219r.r 21?.A 74 5383 r{}jItEMArA D UH 1856' 17tlt* Certificate toumeys: 74 .]199 GRELI1 PR i\C 2\85 5 2214 6 1986 VINCITNT Mll OT 1356 1809 27...Hc71 CT9806: Murray Dunwoody 5.5/6, l; Bill 3OO5 STUAR'I PIIIi NS 2119 ir lll34 6 16 5155 S''.'llllAIlOVIC :l 18481 I669* 76 3009 r,JAl{srNK F( Or '2 l'i] 2241 35 5 tl VE ]'ru\RAN I i\1,4 PAIi A quiet move with a dual purpose, defending Anderson and Gordon Hoskyn 4.5,2:. t'7 i83U !,iAi_tTrlEY :tC GA 2115 2).?,1 i{A 18!8 1904 d7, and threatening the vicious ...Na3 ! CT 9807: Julian Larsen 5.516, l; Glenys Mills 18 4.]64 SIIICLA]R M PE 2159 B 2236 6 /B 4991 HII(ICINS.l r\C 1E4l :r unr 28.4d6+ Qxd6 29.Hxd6 e5 30.Hxh6 gxh6 5. 2: Barry Williams 4.5.3. 79 4140 aioRrs ri aA 2iaj.t 5 2001 j9 t359 COATE:I t_r CA L:14!r 618.56 LOVE OT 2).3 CORKLIFi K ll42+ 1 unL 31.8il1 Handicap game 3176 A.I I 2242 B0 5431 2l 4929 UARE '.i(] GA ') a)t 1942 81 399:J HAIR PI NS 181i0 15 I784 3l.Hd6 b4 32.Uxb4 Axd6 33.9xd6 Hxc2+ Here's a game from the curtent handicap 22 .l.j 95 ltoYD KNl (]T :t:I 21:15 82 )659 BLldKS GR PT i838 1825 34.bxc2 Wa4+ 35.&c1 Uxh4 and black is better. toumament. 23 -1319 llo,'il^lhLL Nil A(l 2122, )2 2.12.3 6 83 4350 RUSSELL T rll\ 18,16 1900 24 .12 91 BAR1 Oi4 .n1,I NS 21lt 21 41 3845WTNFTELDAW Cl .l 836 5il-J6 31...Hc6 32.Eg3 25 l:0l sTFA)vr\N titv.tl cI 21A9 Lrnr 85 4671 CUI4MINGSI N\/ CA I83!r 2Otllr Rossiter,P FrostrE 32.b3 Wxc3 33.Hxc3 Aa5. - 26 4 190 (lllTIlRIEl Lll! O I 2t 0t 2!a I B6 -i6,98 BL/\XALI C3 HP 1831 5 i7B9 [A25] Reverse Siclian 2'l 3101 HAViKES PD GA ,.'.C99 unr 87 3t,32 JOHNSON Q CA 18al0 1832 32...f6 33.Hg6 Ac5 28 314 8 DOI{DE].J R-A O'J 2.A94 2729 88 3028 HAASE GG OT 182U 13 .l?82 1.c4 e5 2.Acj af6 3.g3 Ac6 4.Qg2 Qcs 5.e3 d6 This knight is heading for either e4 or d3. 29 34tr2 SfAiN aA GA 2A9r r3 2149 33ll NOrT,Et DG UP 18211 l8/9 6.Age2 0?0 7.0?0 He8 8.a3 a6 9.Uc2 Qa7 10.d3 30 315] FREE}IAN MR N! 2AA6 2ll O 9A 3A32 LINN KI'!r rLA' 1824 i .l 18 9C 34.b4? Ue7 11.4d5 Axd5 12.cxd5 Ad8 13.Qd2 Qg4 31 3350 COOPER DJ hIA :.OJB 2()42 91 3A19 HOSKYN GA WA 1t123 1649 White is also in serious trouble after... 14.Qc3 Ug5 15.Eae1 Uh5 16.4c1 Ql3 17.QxI3 ..]01' T,EONH-ARITT I,i NS 33 .J.]I,9 !]I.LSH BC HA :aa52 5 11()2+ 6 93 :-r:r09 I"rETarE KM PT 18lll 18-13 34.Hg8+ 35.8a8 (3s.Wg3 Wxb2+ 36.&dt 6f7 Sxf3 18.e4 c6 19.dxc6 Ae6 20.We2 Ag5 21.h4 35 48]O PI;,RI]Y R AC :101i8 9 1813 94 5i59 GLADKII(H A C/\ I 809 1ts01* Hd6+) 35...Ad3+ 36.Wxd3 (j6.cxd3 fus Bxg3+ 0-1 36 ,l5 0l il^ti'l R N-q 2045 t2.A96 (t 4Ii6 IIIJDSON S Cr\ 1809 1560 37.Wxc6 Axc6 38.Qe1 Ha4) 36...Wxb2+ 37.6d1 4872jR.rErOBRK T AC ?()44 24 2A2i 6 96. 3449 STAI'ITON RA KP I BOE i80l Hd6l. 38 ,j-Joii NIJItr\.N .tir cl 2,()42 I921 97 43-13 JACKSON Lli l^lll 180:l I 3 17!:0 39 51011 KtisTEV 1\ t,tI )c)41 9 2o',I'l 12 98 :1414 SClil,,lASS MP OT I IlC2 1824 34...4fi+ 0-1 2000 zonal in Auckland 40 :]C5'] I{II1R PB NS 20:17 1 988 99 39lll MCNAtsB 14 CA i€101 5 1350 The 2000 zonal toumament for the South-west 4L 3 9 7I Flr,T. tO1' Dr3 NS 2O?t Iq88 IAA 5224 SANTOSO B aL'.7192^ rnr 42 i02q,IA.KSON,lR Nti 2018 trnL 3554 SINTON P'r a'l 1 192, i811 Trophy Tourney progress Pacific sub-zone will be held in Auckland from 3.-]93 POST MJ hIA 2015 781 4 I02 4953 H]riNllERSON l'{ ALI I ltrg 5 18621 Progress scores in the 1999-2000 trophy May 20 - 28. 44 1454 Sr_rTHEr{r,ANLt .ll,Ot- 2A.4 7914 103 5205 JOVANOVSIiT !l 17841 1693* toumeys (as at 25-1-00): It will be a 9-round Swiss, and NZCF is 45 3013 POMEROY A.T C1 2010 2051 3105 Srr'4S rM 1784 1.6?-9' 46 I4\RNER (l PE 1 tA91 6 105 3072 NrJllll\N l\J CA 1782 19 I i 18 H.P. Whitlock Memorial Championship: TJ discussing details proposals with the sub-zone .i2!r:l I988 41 4I?4 I,IM RU HP 1916 ')896 106 3423 BURRIDGE tr All I 719+ lt34 t Doyle 7/8, LB Frost 719, GA Hoskyn 6.5/10, president, Graeme Gardiner, of Australia. 48 5355 t,I:lli LIS l{T 1970* unr 3021 POWER PW NS 1ll9r 5 171 0+ ML Dunwoody 4.517, PB Goffin 4.5/9, BW There were be five "qualifiers" - two from 49 338 6 llillltiii I,l,lR tl AC 7966 rA 2:A4t) 108 533 I JAR]NA MT NS I 772{ l/45x 4068 MACKWAY-JONES Millar 4.519, IIP Bennett 2.519, Rl Dive 216, Australia and one each from New Zealand, Fiji 50 3558 DUNN P CI 1956 9 1930 5 109 51 423t ['UAT]\] [ PT 1955 lj30 RA iN 1765 5 1122 and Papua New Guinea. PAR Vetharanram216, DJ Cooper 2/9, PJ Voss 52 3OI]9 I]ENNIIIT HE' HA 1946 Li 1923 6 110 3259 BOOTH AJ llP 1765 15.10 1.516. The event will be open to other players with a 53 5068 B!]ACII PK AC 1944 '.4 urrr 111 4196 WARD K ]\C 11 64 5 111/* Latest results: Doyle b Goffin, Bennett. FIDE rating of 2100+, with an entry fee 54 3162 S PI.L L,[H PS HP I93r 12 1955 6 7l? 4556 TrDEY:iB Wl 1750 11 1687 55 32 93 VA].] G]NKEII .]I'NLi 1930 1868 a) 113 4708 VAN DEN HELryEI l\ Dunwoody d $400.00. Hoslgn b Bennett, d Goffrn. 56 3037 GIBBONS IlEJ G'\ 1926 6 1986 NS 1i58 14 r.rnr Goffin, Cooper. Goffin b Cooper, Voss. Millar Inquiries can be made by email to Michael 57 4300 EIlRNli CJ I/irA 19?.A 1855 114 3635 GOODWTLLIE C HA 1753 6 1658* 6 b Cooper, d Bennett. Dive b Miller. Bennefi b Freeman, at 5B 4691 LATII"IER B AC 192.2 i 91!rl .115 3472 AI,DRII]GE Al CI ]'149 5 17 91 59 419] CAIJ]I,AN(] AS -A.C 1913 unr 1]6 4BE5 GODIREY P WT 1146 ?9 i638* Goffin. Cooper b Bennett. Vetharaniam b 1003 5 12.27 I 4@compuserve 60 402] RUP]\SII'IGIII] SDWI] 1908 1890 4931 MACLEOD S H1\ 1146 i6 7193 Bennett. 61 4320 PH]LLlFS J IdIi L9A2 5 1938 t4 178 4196 GOUDTE D Vill 1744 6 1598* Reserve Championship: A Short 6/7, EN 62 5402 SUI,AI}4AN O AC 1.901* 5 1816* 5297jIKATCHENKO S WE I 744* unr

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NZ Chess 3l 30 China's first grandmaster, Ye, played two of Reggio-Emilia Overseas news the most interesting games: The five grandmasters in this traditional New places, By NM Peter Siluarl Year toumament took the first five each losing at least one game along the way. The Ye Jiangchuan - Fedorov European team championship continues. winner was Leonid Yudasin (ISR) on 7, Sicilianl Armenia added to its fine record in team 29.4h6+ be1 [B5l] followed by Igor Khenkin (GER) on 6% afi 1.e4 c5 z.AR d6 3.Qb5+ ad7 4.d4 cxd4 competitions by winning the European Team White could take perpetual check hcrc by then Romanishin (tlKR) and Solozhenkin 5.Uxd4 e5 6.8d3 h6 7.Qe3 Agf6 8.4c3 a6 9.Qc4 Championship held at Batumi (Georgia) in checking with the knight on f5 and h6 but (RUS) 6. Next were GM Efimov (ITA) and Qe7 10.0-0 b5 11.Qd5 Hb8 12.Qa7 6xd5 December. Their lY,-2% loss to England in decides to play for a win. Vezzosi (ITA) on 5. served only to 13.axd5 Hb7 l4.Axe7 UxeT 15.Qe3 Af6l6.Ad2 round 6 ofthe nine-round Swiss 30.aR Ed8 31.^d4 EadT 32.ahf5+ 698 33.4c6 0-0 r7.Ab3 Qe6 18.4a5 Hc7 19.Qd2 d5 Pamplona reduce their lead to half a point. A 3-1 victory uc3 34.He3 ual+ 35.6h2 Ee8 36.sh6 uf6 20.exd5 Qxd5 21.Hfe1 Hd8 22.Qc3 Qxg2 T'he strongest of the New Year toumaments over the Netherlands increased thefu leadto l% 37.h4 6h8? points with two rounds to go and they came 23.Ug3 Qa8 24.Hxe5 Ed6 25.Hael Hcdi 26.a3 was this one in northem Spain which reached A mistake which justifies White's chasing the 29.Wf4 Wc7 home with two tied matches including the last Eb6 27.h3 Hdl 28.6h2 bh7 category 15. Nigel Short recorded his best tull point. Better was 37...e61? 38.h5 Hxd5 69S 31.691 Hxel+ 32.Qxe1 round clash against bronze medallist Germany. 30.8f5+? toumament re{irlt since his match loss to ftg6 and Black looks to be holding his Hungary was also consistent, holding on to :H*U 32.Hxe1 Hd5 wins the queen. Kasparov in taking first place with an second place for most ofthe way; they needed 32...8d1 33.b4 Uc3 34.6f1 96! undefeated 7 points, which gave him a one- 38.h5 Hxd5 39.Acxe7! HddS a 3-1 win over Belarus in the last round to tie 35.Uxf6 gxh3+ 36.6e2 Ug4+ 37.R QxR+! point margin over runners-up GM Zoltan UgB with Armenia on game points but could 39...Hxe7 40.hxg6 Sxg6 41.9f8+ 38.UxR Hxel+. 0-1. Almasi (H[IN) and Boris Gelfand (ISR). manage only 2%-l%. Germany, too, maintained 42.Uxg8+ 6xg8 43.6xe7+. Young Spanish GM Francisco Vallejo (17) tied (FRA) a strong challenge through the second half of 40.hxg6 fxg6 41.Uxh7+! 6xh7 42.Hh3+ 1-0. Ye Jiangchuan - Ilauchard for fourth place with GM Joel Lautier on (HIIN) & the event. [B0l] Scandinavian 5%. Their. camo. 6-7 GM J.Polgar Leading scores: I Armenia 22%,2 Hungaty GM Timman (NLD) a, 8 GM Illescas (ESP) 3; Groningen 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Sxd5 3.6c3 Ua5 4.d4 c6 5.Qc4 22,3 Germany 21, 4 Bulgaria 20%, 5 Russia won the 100- 9 IM De la Villa (ESP) 2t/z; l0 GM Magem Russian GM Sergei Tiviakov Qf5 6.afl af6 7.Qd2 e6 8.4d5 ud8 9.axf6+ 20%, 6 Ukraine 20%,7 Israel 20Y2,8 Slovenia (ESP) l%. player Open at the end of December wilh a wxf6 10.ue2 ad7 11.0-0-0 Qd6 12.Qgs Ug6 20%, 9 Belarus 20, l0 England l9'/,, ll 15 score of 8%lll. The field boasted 13.d5 cxd5 14.Hxd5 Qe7 15.Qxe7 exd5 Netherlands 19y2, 12 Czech republic l9%, 13 grandmasterg. Illescas - Short l6.Qxd5 Qe6 17.Qd6 Hd8 18.He1 Ab6 19.8b5+ Bosnia & Hercegovina l9%, 14 Switzerland GMs [D58] Queen's Gambit Tying for second place were the Uzbek Hd7 20.a6 ug5+ 21.8e3 axd5 22.axd7 a6 79'/,, 15 Spain 19%. . . 36 teams. Kasimdzhanov and Nenashev together with 23.Af6+ 6d8 24.Qe7+! 6c8 1.4fi d5 2.d4 Af6 3.c4 e6 4.Ac3 Qe7 5.Qg5 h6 The results of Russia and England were the IMs Burnett (USA) and Najer (RUS) on 8 6.Qh4 0-0 7.e3 h6 8.Qe2 Qb7 9.Qxf6 Qxf6 25.Axd5+ 26.Sb6+! &xd5 obvious disappointments. The former were a points. Among those on 7/rwere GMs Gylmesi 24...&xe7 6d6 10.cxd5 exd5 11.0-0 Ee7 12.Ub3 Ed8 13.Hfd1 27.Wa5+ 28.8d2+ bc6 29.Yxe6+ fxe6 bunch of young relative unknowns (GM (HIIN) and Vaganian (ARM). b5 c6 14.Qf1 Aa6 l5.Hd2 Ac7 16.a4 6e6 17'a5 b5 30.9xg5 +-. Filippov, GM Volkov, GM Kobalija, GM 18.Ua2 a6 19.Ecl c5 20.dxc5 d4 21.fud4 Qxd4 Galkin and IM Gritschuk) while the latter Leko v Khalifman 25.uc5+ 6b8 26.4d7+ 1-0. 22.exd4 Axd4 23.6h1 (Short, Speelman, Emms, Conquest &. Peter Leko On his home turf in Budapest 23.b4aB+t Chandler - all GMs) were lacking Adams, convincingly beat world champion Alexander Den Bosch Sadler and Nunn. Khalifman 4y2-1% rn a six-game match played Privately organised by New In Chess publisher in early January. The Hungarian GM won all Rend Olthof, this category 7 toumament Anastasian - Tiviakov three games with the white pieces and drew afforded title norm opportunities which nobody [D00] Trompovsky each ofhis black games. was able to take advantage of. Dutch GM Friso l.dA af6 2.Qg5 d5 3.e3 c5 4.9xf6 gxf6 5.c4 Nijboer won first prize with 7%19 with lhe cxd4 6.exd4 Qg7 7.48 dxc4 8.Qxc4 0-0 Belfort other two GMs, Ian Rogers (AUS) and Paul 9.Age2 bc610.d5 6e5 11.Qb3 f5 12.0-0 Ud6 A category 15 double rounder in December van der Sterren (NI-D), tying for second on 7 t3.Ad4 ag4l4.Af3 Qd7 15.h3 Ae5 16.Ee1 696 was won by Moldavian GM Viktor Bologan points. Nijboer lost his clash with Rogers but l7 &d2 b5 18.4e2 a5 19.Had1 a4 20.Qc2 HfcS with 6Y,ll0, helped by back marker Arnaud conceded only half a point in his other eight 2t.Ag3 Qxb2 22.Q\fs Qca 23.Uh6 Qxfs Hauchard who won both games against his games. 23...Qxel 24.flxel af8 25.Qe6! winning. closest pursuer Alexei Fedorov. The other scores: 4 IM Bosch (NLD) 5; 5-6 IM Hergott (CAN) & IM Welling (NLD) a; 7 24.axf5 Uf6 25.94! Qxel 26.Hxel Ha7 21.495 Scores: I Bologan 6%; 2-3 GM Fedorov Biicker (GER) 3%; 8 Span (NLD) 3; 9 IM Eh8 28.ghs HI8 (BLA) & GM Ye Jiangchuan (CHN) 5%; 4 M.Gurevich (BEL) 4%; 5-6 GM Donaldson (USA)2%; 10 Stone (CAN) l%. 23...4,31 28...Hc2 29.Ah6+ 6fB 3o.Ahxf/ and the attack GM Zvjaginsev (RUS) & IM Hauchard (FRA) 4. Anyray!

NZ Chess NZ Chess 33 JZ 24.Exd8+ rer4+! 2s.6s1 Uc6 and the attack 6.cxd5 96 7.e4 a6 8.h3 b5 9.Qd3 Qg7 10.0-0 Ud6+ 36.He5. c4 tt.Q.A 0-0 12.ff4 He8 13.8e1 9b7 14.a3 3r.Ag5 Hc7 32.Hd4 Exd4 33.Hf8+ 1-0. 24.Hdd1 Bg5 with good attacking chances for :ri?* Wb6 15.Qe3 Ec7 16.8d2 AhdT t7.Ah2 Acs Black. 24...QcS 25.Ve2 r8.Qd4 HabS 19.fo4 Acdl 20.4e2 Axe4 26.4e2 Wh4l 27.gxf3 The editor at fault 24...Hxd8 25.c6 Qxc6 25.Axc4 Eh4+ 26.&g1 Exg3! 2l.Qxe4 Hxe4 22.Qxg1 6xg7 23,493 Eee8 There was an error in the score of the Wxf228.Af4 24.4e4 f6 25...dxe3 26.f4 Eg8 27.b38e6 28.f5 Uxe5! conespondence game Roberts-Williams in the 28.Exc6 Uxfl + 29.691 Hd2; 28.Q.g2 Hxe2. 24...f5 25.Wh6+ &h8 26.4g5 Hxel+ 27.Hxel last issue, for which the editor apologises. It 28...QxI3+ 29.Qg2Hd2 30.Eg1 Qe4! 0-1. 29.Qxe5 H14+ 30.6g1 Qxg2 31.Hxg2 e2+. 0-1. AfB 28.4t6 #g7 29.Uxg7+ 6xg7 30.4e8+ Exe8 arose from a kind of mistake which occurred (30.bg9 i1.He7 and 31...Hxe8 is forced) for the first time since the editor has been Short - Magem g(d5 Hastings 31.Exe8 32.8d8 is better for White. entering games in ChessBase for use in the [B47] Sicilian The oldest of the New Year toumaments 25.Hc3 He5l 26.f4Bfs 27.Ag3Exf4 magazine. 1.e4 c5 z.aca e6 3.4fi ac6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Axd4 was this year of calegory 13. Israeli GM Emil Usually, when entering games from a score 27...Hxdl 28.He7+ 6fB 29.Hxh7 Uc6 30.Uc2 Vc7 6.Q.e2 a6 7.0-0 Af6 S.0h1 6xd4 9.Wxd4 Sutovsky took first prize with 6% points with sheet, a mistake becomes apparent because a Hd3 31.Ue2 with strong threats. Qc5 10.8d3 b5 11.f4 Qb7 l2.Qf3 h5 13.Qd2 Alexei Dreev (RUS) and Jon Speelman (ENG) subsequent move can't be played. Benefits of Ag414.He2 96 15.Hac1 Hc8 16.a3 f5 17.h3 617 sharing second place on 6 points. Murray 28.He7+ 6h8? using this system are that it is fast and accurate, l8.Ecdl Eb6 19.Qel Ec7 20.exf5 gxf5 21.Qxb7 Chandler, on the comeback trail, would This loses quickly. Better was 28...&fB 29.We3 and qdiinimum of checking is required. On this UxbT 22.H8 Af6 23.Qh4 AeA 24.Axe4 Wxe4 probably be disappointed with his result and Hxg4 30.hxg4 Uc5 31.Uxc5 Axc5 32.Hxh7 Qxd5 occasion the error slipped through. EhcS 26.Hel Ec6 27.Hg3 ud6 28.Hd3 25.t&d2 chagrined at his last round blunder versus 33.8fl 698 34.Ea7 HfB 35.Hdl Qe6 36.Hxd6 However, the error was also the cause of the Wc6 29.We2 Eh8 30.Ue5 Hg8 31.8f6+ &e8 Sutovsky which gave the Israeli player the full Hf/ 37.Hxf7 &xf/ 38.Hc6 Ad3 39.Hxa6 editor's mystification about why White 32.Qg5 1-0 point from an equal position ? and undivided although here, too, White has the advantage. resigned, and it made nonsense of the first place. subsequent comments by the editor (and not by Timman - Vallejo Other scores:4 GM Bischoff (GER) 5;5 GM 29.Ue3 95 30.4h5 Hxg4 31.hxg4 Ef8 Gordon Hoskyn). 32.Hxh7+! 1-0. [D43] Queen's Gambit Emms (ENG) 4%; 6 lM McShane (ENG) a; Here is the correct game score: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.AR Af6 4.Aca e6 5.Qg5 h6 7-9 GM Chandler (ENG), GM Lalic (ENG) & Krush Emms - Krush 6.Qh4 dxc4 1.e4 S.Qg3 b5 9.Qe2 Qb7 10.h4 GM LSokolov (BIH) 3Yz; l0 WIM Roberts,E - Williams,B 95 (us{)2%. [886] Sicilian 94 ll.Ae' Hg8 12.h5 AbdT 13.Axd7 axdT [C33] King's Gambit la.Qxg4 Eb6 15.0-0 Hd8 16.e5 1.e4 c5 2.aB d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Axd4 Af6 s.aca NZCCA TT Reserve, 1998 LSokolov - Sutovsky a6 6.Qp4 e6 7.a4 Qe7 8.0-0 6c6 9.Qe3 0-0 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf{ 3.Qe2 d5 4.exd5 Af6 5.Af3 [D85] Griinfeld 10.6h1 d5 trl.exdS exd5 12.Qb3 He8 13.h3 Axdi 6.c4 Qe6 14.Sf3 Ae5 l5.We2 Ob4 16.axe6 fxe6 l.d4 Af6 2.c4 96 3.6c3 d5 4.cxd5 0xd5 5.Qd2 Qgl 6.e4 Ab6 7.Qe3 0-0 8.Qe2 Ac6 9.6R Qg4 l7.Qd2 Ac6 18.Ud3 Ed6 19.Hae1 6h8 20.f4 10.d5 gd3 ll.QxB AeS l2.Qe2 Aec4 l3.Qc'1. HadS 2l.Ae2 Qxd2 22.Hxd2 e5 23.c3 Ae4 c6 14.dxc6 bxc6 15.Uc2 Ed4 16.0-0 HfdS 24.8e3 exf4 25.Axf4 d4 l7.Htrl Aa3 18.bxa3 Hxc3 19.Uxc3 Qxc3 20.Qa6 c5 2l.Qf4 Qd2 22.Qe5 c4l 23.Qb7 f6 24.Qc7 24.Qxa8 fxe5 25.Qb7 c3 26.Hb5 YdTl (26...c2 27.Hc5 cIW 28.ffic1 Qxcl 29.Hxc1 Hd2 30.fi Hxa2 3l.Hc7 with a slight edge for White) 27.Qc6Hc7 28.Hc5 6f8 and the threat of e7-e6 followed by 6e7-d6 is hard to meet as 29.a4 16...4f6! 17.Qxe6 fails to 29...4d7 . 77.exf6 Hxd4 18.Qc7 Hxdl (But not 25.Qxa8 ExcT 26.Qd5+ Axd5 27.exd5 6...Ah4 7.d4 Qfs 8.0a3 9.h4 r0.Ag1 A8c6 18...Wc5?? t9.Ae4! Wd5 20.Wxd4! Hxd4 24...Hd7 95 94 30.692 f5 31.f4 6e8 11.Qxg4 Qd3 12.48 Axd4l3.Wa4+ 21.Had1 r-l t9.Qxb6 Exal 20.Exal Hxg4 c3 28.93 A 29.Hbcl6f7 l?o 34.Hxc1 6d6 35.6d2 21.Qxa7 c5 and Black has several positional 32.013 0d7 33.6e2 Qxcl Drawing attention to the error, Earl Roberts pluses which addup to aclear advantage. 6xd5 36.a4 h5 37.a5 a6 38.h4 6d4 0-1. comments ofl Black's excellent play, 26.Exe4't? Hxe/. 27.Hxe4 dxc3 28.bxc3 96 particularly his 6ft move. He searched several l7...Hxd4 18.ue2 adsl 19.Qxd5 cxds 20.6h2 29.6e6 Hc8 30.8f7 Ae5?? Dreev - Emms sources for this move, but the only reference he b4 zt.Adt HeA 22.Wd2 Hg5 23.Ad d4! 30...Ua3!? was better but White [A70] Benoni a try could find was in a game from the World 24.Hadl maintains a strong initiative, e.g. 3l.Qd5 Ae7 1.d4 2.c4 e6 3.6{3 c5 4.d5 d6 5.4c3 exd5 Computer Championships 1 995. Af6 32.N8 Ag8 33.Ee8 Exc3 34.Hfe7 Hc1+ 35.6h2

NZ Chess NZ Chess 34 35 NZCF annual meetins Zy NZCF President Peter Stuarr clubs are requested," ".*#'.?,t:*tSyll*:.s in detairs given berow. The Annual General IVleeting in Auckland on Championship to Otago. 'Ihere were no offers 5th January was extremely poorly attended, for the 200112 Congress, nor for this year's with only six clubs represented. Two clubs had national Junior Championship. Waitemata's Ashburton PO Box 204, Ashburton. Meets Fergusson Drive. Sec, Roger Smith (04)528- representatives prosent but without credentials, offer to organise this year's national Wotnen's Monday 7.15pm (Feb-Oct), Room I (upstairs), 2721. while another club's delegate got his dates Championship was gratefully approved and Public Library, cnr Havelock and West Streets. Waitemata Thursday 7.30pm, Kelston Comm mixed up. Whether this means that everyone is Civic (now Wellington CC) indicated that they Contact, Roy Keeling (03)308-6936. Centre, cnr Great North Rd and Awaroa Rd, perfectly happy with the way things are going, were interested in organising the North Island Auckland Chess Centre Meets Monday 7.30 Kelston; jun 6-7.30pm Thursdays, schooldays. I'm not sure! Certainly we cannot know what Championship; a finn offer has since been & Thursday (social) 7.30pm, l7 Cromwell St, Contact Bruce Pollard (09)818-2342. might have happened with regard to the three received verbally. Mt Eden, Auckland 1003. Tel (09)630-2042 Wanganui Mondays 7pm, 1stfloor, clubroom; contacts club captain Paul Commercial Club, St Hill St. Pres, Gordon remits up for discussion if we had had closer to rnes MacDonald (09)534-7930; secretary Tony Hoskyn, 7 Pehi St (06)343-6101; sec, K full represer-rtation. Only one remit was carried The year 2000 version of this database is now Kesseler (09)4 I 2-8 I 84. YoJsroq, 5 Mitchell st (06)343-7166. and had the three clubs referred to above been available, with more than 13,600 games in would have been lost. Canterbury, PO Box 25-242, Christchurch. Wellington (now merged with Civic) Tuesday able to vote that too ChessBase format. Over 1,100 tournaments are accounts were ". Meets Wednesday, 7.30pm., 227 Bealey 7.30pm, Museum Room, Turnbull House, The annual report and represented, including 92 of the 107 New this including the financial statements Avenue; tel (03)366-3935 clubroom. Pres, Bowen Street, Wellington 1. Pres, John adopted, Zealand Championships, 36 of which are Gavin Dawes (03)352-485 1. Gillespie (04)476-3729; Sec, Brent Southgate for the 199213 and 1993/4. complete. There are almost 2,200 games from for positions on the 2000 Civic (now Wellington CC) Tuesday 7.30pm, (04)47s-7604. Those nominated 1998 to date, including games from the follows: Museum Room, Turnbull House, Bowen Street, Council were duly elected as 199912000 Congress in Auckland and all the Vice-president, Bob Wellington L Pres, John Gillespie (04)476- President, Peter Stuart; main events played in 1999. Associate members 3729: Sec, Brent Southgate (04)475-7604. Gibbons; Secretary, Daniel Johns; Treasurer, The total number of NZ Championship games Gisborne, 4126Haris St, Gisbome. M.P. Gambit Sec, Ted Frost, 103 Koromiko Road, Roger Perry; Auckland Councillors, Jim Cater, is now 3580, while there are over 2400 from Grieve (06)863-0101. Late Gonville, Wanganui. Tel (06)347-6098. Martin Dreyer and Michael Freeman. events played overseas, including Olympiads, New Plymouth I I Gilbeft St, New Plymouth. Ted Frost Hamilton: Wed, 7.30pm, St Pauls Collegiate nominations had been received for Zonals, Asian events, etc. There are also Tuesdays, 7.30pm. Pres, R P Bowler, l7aHori (Wellington Haase School. Inquiries Gary Judkins (07)855-5392. Councillor) and Graham several hundred more of Ortvin Sarapu's games St (06)753-6282. Contact, Bob Bowler. (Otago elected. Hastings-llavelock North P.O. Box 184, Councillor) and both were (now l12l in total), including his 17 games NZ Correspondence Chess Assn, P.O. Box three vacancies on the Cor.rncil: Hastings. Wed, 7.30 pm, Library, Havelock N There are thus from the Oldenburg toumament played, in 1949 3278, Wellington. Sec, J W (Sandy) Ma.xwell, one Auckland Councillor, one Wellington High School, Te Mata Rd. Sec, Chris Smith (04\237-4753. shortly before he emigrated to New Zealand. ln (06)877-4583. Councillor and one Canterbury Councillor. this event Ortvin defeated Efim Boguljubow, Whangarei Thursday 7pm, Whangarei (from Waitemata) affecting Howick-Pakuranga Tuesday 1.45pm (uniors yWCA, The one remit who played two world title matches against Rust St.. Contact, Geoffrey 6.30-7 .30), St John Ambulance Hall, Howick- the rules related to the abolishing of most Alexander Alehine. Sarapu finished fifth, just ci1 (09)438-3035. penalties palment and this was Pakuranga Highway, Highland Park. Sec, Kees for late filing or one point behind the joint winners Boguljubow van den Bosch lost on a show ofhands. and Zemgalis. New Zealarder Bob Wade District Associations (Howick-Pakuranga), (09)52r-5828. The remit on fees finished tenth on 8.5 points. Auckland Chess Assn, Sec, Kees van den proposing large increase in registration fees Invercargill Wednesday 8pm, staff room, a The database is available in CBH (new) or Bosch, 614. St Johrs Road,Auckland 1005 (09) (to and forjuniors), altracted South School, Ness St. Sec, Robeft Mackway $30 for adults lll5 CBF (old) format; please specit, when 521-5828. Jones, 5 Pine Cres, Invercargill (03)217-1154. some support but not enough to be carried. ordering. For ChessBase Light users the Wellington District Chess Assn Inc, There acceptance the need for Kapiti Wednesday, 7.30pm, Salvation Army was evident of database can be split in two to keep the number Federation operations and a Hall, Bluegum Rd. Paraparaumu Beach. Sec, more funding for ofgames per database below 8000. smaller increase might have been carried. Rosemary Kingston, 5l Ames St, Paekakariki well Prices: $89 within NZ, incl. post/packaging. review (04)2e2-815',7. Perhaps the time has come for a full of Upgrades (please return diskettes): From 1999, the fee structure. North Shore P.O. Box 33-587, Takapuna, $39; Aom 1998, $59. Orders and cheques to: remit having Auckland 9. Wednesday 7.30pm, Northcote There was one further which, Peter W Stuart passed, Federation pay Community Centre, cnr College Rd/Emie Mays been requires the to for 24 Seacliffe Avenue Federation St. Club capt, Peter Stuart (09)445-6377. toumament stationery used in Belmont, Auckland 9 toumaments. Otago 7 Maitland St, Dunedin. Wednesday and Tournament venues were also on the agenda. Saturday, 7.30pm. Tel (03)477-6919 clubroom. The 2000/l Congress had already been awarded Pres, Trevor Rowell, (03)455-1441. to Waitemata and the 2000 South Island Upper Hutt Monday 7.30pm, Hapai Club, 879

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