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Metge, Martin and NEW ZEAIAND CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP Sarfati beat Love, Sutton and Spain respectively. Sluart-Dive looked 28th Decernber lSi to gth January 1SZ headed for a draw till White's king invaded Black's queenside with terrifying speed. Dreyer survived a shaky opening to draw with Smith. By Ben Martin 1 AKer v PGarbett The otago chess club hosted the lgEl-lggz RJI national chess I d6 2 hB e5 3 Bg2 cG 4 d4 Qb6 5 e3 I{d7 6 b3 tgf6 7 a.bz congress I 94 played at Universlty college Dunedin, John l-larraway once a4 8 d5 Nxd5 9 Bxe4 Ob4+ lO IIdZ Nc3 ll Af3 te5 l2Qg2 more took on the rask of dircclor of play and performed it with his usual ilxe4 13 Qxe4 Qre4 14 ilxe4 f5 15 t4lre4 16 fxeS d5 17 NeZ thor0LiShness and efficiency. Bb4+ 18 c3 Bc5 19 Nd4 O-O 2O Ke2 Ttre venue, a uniuersity hall of residence. was excellent. All rhrse b6 Zl c4dxc4 22bxc4 Ba6 23Racl lsurnantentrs fitted easily into one huge room with th6 championship Bxd4 24 sxd4 RfS 25 Bc2 RafS 26Plh2 players in an alccive off to one sido The analysis room was larqe. with re---KI7 27 Bcl bS 2ARl2KeG 29 ,% %"m television and a ping-pong "ruzt% table iri an adjacent area Accornrnmodatiorr Bs3 bxc4 3O Rc3 BBfZ 3l Rxf3 Hxf3 ,/ru_%: was o{fered at nearby Selwyn Collega, 328d2 Kds 33 Bxf3 c3+ 34 Kdl exf3 % David fleid, olago chess club presidont, officially oponacJ rhe 35 Be3 Ke4 36 e6 Bc8 37 e7 BdZ 38 congress Thare were 64 players, a litlie clown on last year's toral hrit Bgl Kd3 39 a4 a5 40 95 c5 O-l- still a nespecfablo nurnber JSarfata v GSpain with three Dlympiad places aI stake a stronq tield was assembled for 1 e4 d5 2 exds Qxds 3 ltlc3 QaS 4 i'% i the championship lt includod five former Naw zealarrd champions and d4ltlf6 5 ltlf3 c6 6 Bd2 Bfs 7 Bc4 e6 the currBnt titlehoidBr, Thoy were top soed Ben Martirr; Anthony Ker, 8 ileS NbdT 9 Gte2 Bb4 lO NrdT l{xd7 I I a3 O-O-O 12 O-O Bxc3 champion in 1991 and winner of the North lsland championship wirh BIB; 13 Bxc3 Qc7 14 b4 NfG 15 f3 RhgB 16 Bel Nhs 17 c3 18 Oo3 Bichard sutlorr; 95 Paui Gartrett. Flussell llive and Jonathan sarfati rht: Of4 19 Qe2 Qc7 2O EaZ 21 Bh4 RdfB 22 Qe,3 g? 23 hxg3 other 94 comFjetitors were Rober1 Smith, Martin Dreyer, Graeme Spain, Nxg3 24 Hel h5 25 Bg5 Bh7 26 Bf4 tf5 27 Qe,4 ad7 28 QeS Petsr Stuart, Tony Love and NigelMetgo Kd8 29 Ob8+ Qc8 3O QraT Rg6 3l OaS+ Ke,B 32 Bd3 l-O- Round 1: lnnmediately the tournantent was of f to a f iqhring start with Round 3: Again a good round to be White. Dreyer stormed Stuart's four wins The rnajor surprise was Ker's unleashing of Basman's opening kingside to win convincingly. Love opened his score by beating Smith ro (l 95) beat spain. Dreyer bear Love, Marrirr beat Metge and Garberr and Dive converted his extra pawn into a win against Ker. Garbett and had a good win versus stuart Dive-Smith and sutton-sarfati were Sarfati had a short draw while Sutton and Metge had a longer one. interesting hard-fouqht draws Spain was a clear exchange up against Martin in an endgame but was I swindled at the last moment. PGarbettUPStuart MDreyer v PStuart I e4 c5 Z Nf3 e6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nc6 5 NbS d6 6 c4 trtf6 Z 1 e4 c5 2 ilc3 Nc6 3 93 HbB 4 f4 96 5 ltlf3 Bg7 6 Bg2 b5 7 d3 Nlc3 a6 I Na3 Be7 9 Be2 O-O lO O-O b6 tt Be3 Bh7 tZ Ob3 Nd7 b4 8 trle2 e6 9 O-O l{ge7 lO a3 a5 I I axb4 axb4 12 e5 d5 13 d4 l3 Rfdl NcS I 4 QcZlrlb4 t5 Od2 Bf6 t6 Bf4 Be5 tZ Bg5 ec7 lB f4 cxd4 14 Nexd4 Bd7 15 Be3 ltrd4 16 ltlxd4 O-O 17 Ad2 ReB r8 Bxc3 l9 Qxc3 hlc6 2O Qe3 Ne7 Zl Bft f6 ZZ Bh4 RfdS 23 Hact 94 BbS 19 Hfz NcG 2O lfrc6 Bxc6 2l BcS EfA 22 BxfS RxfB 23 Nd7 24 8f2 BabS 25 Bg4 Ktt 26 b4 Ba8 27 Rc3 NfB 28 I{cZ e5 f5 srfS 21 gxt5 Re8 25 e6 fre6 26 frg6 htg6 27 Oh6 Hb7 28 29 f5 Qc6 30 Bf3 b5 3 t cxbS exbS t2 Rct RdZ Ag eb3+ KeB 34 Bafl Hg7 29 Bf3 ReeT 30 Bh3 Rh7 3l Clxg6+ BhgT 32 OhG Bh7 a4 Cla5 35 RxdT NxdT 36 Bh5+ Kd8 3Z Rxd6 ec7 38 ed3 Bxe4 33 Bg3+ RhgT 34 RxgT+ BxgT 35 Qre6+ Kh8 36 Ah6+ KgB 37 39 RxdT+ QxdT 4O Qxe4 Ctxf5 4t ee2 96 tZB,g4 ef4 4i! BeC t_O.