Monthly Archives: January 2013
Trends 3.e4 e5 QGA 2012
Here is a recent game in the QGA 3.e4 which is Schandorff’s aggressive repertoire in Playing 1.d4 The Queen’s Gambit(Quality Chess 2012).
GM Khismatullin,D wins with a nice attack.
Bio and Photo Echesspedia
‘Russian Grandmaster (2004) who won the silver medal at the World U16 in 2000 and was World University Champion in 2004 (shared).
- Privolzhsky 2005,
- Vladimir Open 2005,
- Voronezh Open 2006 and 2010,
- Izmailov’s Memorial 2008 (RUS),
- Gubernators Cup Ugra 2009 and
- Memorial Izmailov Petr Memorial (RUS) 2011,
- 1-4th;Botvinnik Memorial 2011 (RUS).
Position 1
White is aggressively placed on the kingside. What do you suggest for white?
White to Play
Basel Rapid 2013-Hansen,E(CAN)
GM Hansen,E(CAN) wins again sharing first with GM Bartel,Mateusz(POL).
From German Newspaper basellandschaftlichezeitung
‘Schach verbindet. Robin van Kampen aus Holland und der Kanadier Eric Hansen haben sich bei Turnieren kennengelernt. Dabei geniesst Schach in ihren Herkunftsländern einen völlig unterschiedlichen Stellenwert. von Olivier Winistörfer
Eric Hansen(l) and Robin van Kampen(r)
Am Basler Schachfestival nähert man sich der Entscheidung. Mit im Rennen um den begehrten ersten Platz ist auch der 18-jährige Niederländer Robin van Kampen. Dabei kam der junge Grossmeister erst durch seinen guten Freund Eric Hansen aus Kanada zum Turnier in Basel. «Eric war vorher in Holland und meinte, dass er am Turnier teilnehmen würde. Als ich dann hörte, dass ein eingeladener Spieler nicht teilnehmen könne und somit ein Platz frei wurde, habe ich mich gemeldet.»
So verbrachten die beiden Silvester nicht in Kanada oder in den Niederlanden sondern am Rheinknie. «Wir kennen beide die Schweiz nicht sehr gut. Aber was wir hier in Basel sehen konnten, hat uns wirklich gefallen», meint Hansen zu der wenigen Zeit, die sie in der Schweiz Zeit hatten neben dem Turnier.(more)’
From tournament site Schachfestivalbasel Rapid-basel
‘Mateusz Bartel could have been forgiven for taking life easy after winning the Aeroflot Open and a coveted place in the Dortmund super-tournament. Instead he went on to win the Polish Championship for the third year in a row. Leszek Kropisz interviewed a player whose star is in the ascendancy.
For a number of years Bartel appeared to have reached a rating ceiling at a little over 2600, with much of his time devoted to launching and editing the excellent Mat chess magazine (from which I’ve translated a number of articles for Chess in Translation). It was his friend Radosław Wojtaszek who was the first Polish player after Michal Krasenkow to break through the 2700 barrier, but now Bartel is close to matching that feat, with 2700chess.com recently quoting his live rating as 2691.8.
| Rank | Teilnehmer | Title | TWZ | Land | Win | Draw | Loss | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hansen,Eric | IM | 2568 | CAN | 7 | 1 | 1 | 7.5 |
| 2 | Bartel,Mateusz | GM | 2629 | POL | 7 | 1 | 1 | 7.5 |
| 3 | Turov,Maxim | GM | 2630 | RUS | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 4 | Edouard,Romain | GM | 2686 | FRA | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 5 | Melkumyan,Hrant | GM | 2656 | ARM | 7 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 6 | Grachev,Boris | GM | 2688 | RUS | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6.5 |
| 7 | Ghaem Maghami,Ehs | GM | 2572 | IRI | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6.5 |
| 8 | Vachier-Lagrave,M | GM | 2711 | FRA | 4 | 5 | 0 | 6.5 |
| 9 | Fier,Alexandr | GM | 2573 | BRA | 4 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 10 | Van Kampen,Robin | GM | 2581 | NED | 4 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 11 | Vajda,Levente | GM | 2603 | ROU | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 12 | Istratescu,Andrej | GM | 2654 | FRA | 6 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 13 | Djuric,Stefan | GM | 2471 | SRB | 6 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 14 | Gavrilov,Alexei | GM | 2501 | RUS | 6 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 15 | Lekic,Dusan | IM | 2385 | MNE | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 16 | Schwierskott,Marc | 2232 | GER | 6 | 0 | 3 | 6 | |
| 17 | Pelletier,Yannick | GM | 2604 | SUI | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5.5 |
| 18 | Züger,Beat | IM | 2403 | SUI | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5.5 |
| 19 | Filipovic,Branko | IM | 2369 | CRO | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5.5 |
| 20 | Maisuradze,Nino | WGM | 2306 | FRA | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5.5 |
| 21 | Karabalis,Harilos | 2245 | GER | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5.5 | |
| 22 | Seitz,Benjamin | 2177 | SUI | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5.5 | |
| 23 | Vulevic,Vjekoslav | FM | 2299 | MNE | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5.5 |
| 24 | Schacht,Holger | FM | 2224 | GER | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5.5 |
Trends QGA 2012 3.e4 Nc6(D20)
Here is a recent game in the 3.e4 Nc6 Queen’s Gambit Accepted played by Rodshtein in the Biel Masters 2012.
The theme is the overextended queenside.
QGA Trends 3.e4 Nf6(D20)
Here is a model game on weak dark square play from the recent Istanbul Olympiad. The 3.e4 line is Schandorff’s repertoire recommendation in Playing 1.d4 The Queen’s Gambit(Quality Chess 2012).
The themes are
- Weak dark squares
- Kingside attack
- Alternation play
Bio
‘Radosław Wojtaszek (born 13 January 1987 in Elbląg, Poland) is a Polish chess Grandmaster.
In 2004 he won the European Youth Chess Championship (U-18), the World Youth Chess Championships (U-18)[1] and the Cracovia Open with 7.5/9.[2][3] He won the Polish Chess Championship in 2005.[4] In 2006 Wojtaszek played for the Polish team at the Chess Olympiad played in Turin scoring 9 points out of 11 games.[5]
In December 2008 Wojtaszek became the European rapid chess champion.[6] In 2009 Wojtaszek finished second in the Polish championship, shared second with Michael Roiz at the international tournament in Lublin and won the Najdorf memorial played in Warsaw. In 2009/10 he tied for 1st-5th with Eduardas Rozentalis, Pavel Ponkratov, Luke McShane and Igor Lysyj at the 39th Rilton Cup in Stockholm.[7]
In January 2010 Wojtaszek finished again second in Polish championship. Wojtaszek won the 5th International Tournament of Polonia Wrocław played between the end of June and beginning of July 2010.[8][9] He participated in the San Juan International tournament played in Pamplona during the end of July and beginning of August 2010 and scored 6.5 points out of 9 games winning the tournament.[10][11]
At the Chess Olympiad in Khanty Mansiysk, Wojtaszek played on the first board for Poland scoring 6 points in 9 games. In June 2011 he won the 9th Gyorgy Marx Memorial in Paks, Hungary.[12]
He has been one of the four seconds to world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand since his successful title defence match againstVladimir Kramnik in October 2008,[13] also assisting him in defending his title in April–May 2010[14] against Veselin Topalov and in May 2012 against Boris Gelfand.[15][16]-‘Wikipedia Wojtaszek R
The kingside attack is well under way. How should white continue the attack?
- 40.h6+(as played) to exploit the dark squares, especially g7.
- 40.hg opening up the h-file.
- Something else.
White to Play
Hart House Open Toronto 2013 Final Standings
The U of T Hart House Open was a big success. See HHchess UToronto.
Great photos from HH albums. Games coming later.
Note that at Hart House tournaments, we give free entry to those who are playing in their first ever CFC tournament. It can be a turn-off paying an entry fee as well as membership dues to those starting out. 15 people took advantage of this, welcome to the tournament scene!
Bryan Lamb, great as always, Geordie Derraugh, superb in all fronts while also playing (!), and myself, take much of the credit by being in the spotlight at the tournaments. However there are a million little things that we needed help with, and I’d like to give a big thanks to Leon Perelman,Chris Wehrfritz, Ben Hahn, Lali Agbabishvili, Andrew McMillan, Kit Ng, Adie Todd, Jack Ding , Tyler Longo, Day Milman & Aquino Inigo.
Section Open
Artiom Samsonkin took clear first with 4.5/5.
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| # | Name | CFC Ratng | Total | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Artiom Samsonkin | 2547 | 4.5 | 1500 |
| 2 | Bator Sambuev | 2684 | 4 | 750 |
| 3 | Nikita Gusev | 2309 | 4 | 750 |
| 4 | Nikolay Noritsyn | 2598 | 3.5 | |
| 5 | Tomas Krnan | 2576 | 3.5 | |
| 6 | Bindi Cheng | 2485 | 3.5 | |
| 7 | Michael Song | 2322 | 3.5 | |
| 8 | David Cummings | 2443 | 3 | |
| 9 | Roman Sapozhnikov | 2440 | 3 | |
| 10 | Arthur Calugar | 2429 | 3 | |
| 11 | Victor Plotkin | 2350 | 3 | |
| 12 | Razvan Preotu | 2300 | 3 | |
| 13 | Michael Dougherty | 2271 | 3 | 150 |
| 14 | Michael Humphreys | 2269 | 3 | 150 |
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| # | Name | CFC Ratng | Total | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Fu | 2127 | 4.5 | 500 |
| 2 | Aquino Inigo | 2193 | 4 | 120 |
| 3 | Wajdy Shebetah | 2144 | 4 | 120 |
| 4 | Leon Perelman | 2112 | 4 | 120 |
| 5 | Derick Joshua Twesigye | 2095 | 4 | 120 |
| 6 | Jonathan Yu | 2046 | 4 | 120 |
| 7 | Yelizaveta Orlova | 2071 | 3.5 | |
| 8 | Mark Plotkin | 2161 | 3 | |
| 9 | Alexandru Florea | 2133 | 3 | |
| 10 | Stephan Tonakanian | 2107 | 3 | |
| 11 | Zehn Nasir | 2059 | 3 | |
| 12 | Agastya Kalra | 2047 | 3 | |
| 13 | Sergey Noritsyn | 1924 | 3 |
Troy Hansen and Robert Li shared first with 4.5/5.
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| # | Name | CFC Ratng | Total | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Troy Hansen | 1612 | 4.5 | 430 |
| 2 | Robert Li | 1526 | 4.5 | 430 |
| 3 | Pi Nasir | 1852 | 4 | 85 |
| 4 | Randy Moysoski | 1829 | 4 | 85 |
| 5 | Jiaxin Liu | 1736 | 4 | 85 |
| 6 | Steve Nickoloff | 1712 | 4 | 85 |
| 7 | Shankar Balakrishnan | 1839 | 3.5 | |
| 8 | John W Chidley-hill | 1839 | 3.5 | |
| 9 | Mickey Stein | 1890 | 3 | |
| 10 | Aris Marghetis | 1872 | 3 | |
| 11 | Sasha Chuchin | 1833 | 3 | |
| 12 | Jack Ding | 1822 | 3 | |
| 13 | Brian Clarke | 1753 | 3 | |
| 14 | Alex Kitaygorodsky | 1676 | 3 | |
| 15 | Lakes Liang | 1670 | 3 | |
| 16 | Sankar Govindarajan | 1614 | 3 | |
| 17 | Daniel Sirkovich | 1612 | 3 | |
| 18 | Richard Wing | 1599 | 3 | |
| 19 | Justin Quinn D’Souza | 1564 | 3 | |
| 20 | Harmony Zhu | 1538 | 3 | |
| 21 | Thomas Guo | 1501 | 3 | |
| 22 | Benjamin Lin | 1469 | 3 | |
| 23 | Emmanuel Cousin | unr. | 3 |
Yanchun Zhao, Patrick L Huang and Amir Mohammad Shafiee shared first with 4.5/5.
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| # | Name | CFC Ratng | Total | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yanchun Zhao | 1519 | 4.5 | 400 |
| 2 | Patrick L Huang | 1382 | 4.5 | 400 |
| 3 | Amir Mohammad Shafiee | unr. | 4.5 | |
| 4 | John Young | 1548 | 4 | 50 |
| 5 | Daniel Molev | 1514 | 4 | 50 |
| 6 | Michael Rogers | 1499 | 4 | 50 |
| 7 | Richard Guo | 1487 | 4 | 50 |
| 8 | Alexandre Michelashvili | 1565 | 3.5 | |
| 9 | Ken Kurkowski | 1555 | 3.5 | |
| 10 | George Supol | 1514 | 3.5 | |
| 11 | Kyle France | 1478 | 3.5 | |
| 12 | Michael Ashcroft | 1449 | 3.5 | |
| 13 | Leonid Aghamalian | 1435 | 3.5 | |
| 14 | Graeme Knight | 1310 | 3.5 | 166.67 |
| 15 | Daniel Muntaner | 1265 | 3.5 | 166.67 |
| 16 | Vlad Nitu | 1135 | 3.5 | 166.67 |
| 17 | Harry Zhao | 1596 | 3 | |
| 18 | John R Brown | 1586 | 3 | |
| 19 | Gary Hua | 1492 | 3 | |
| 20 | Constance Wang | 1414 | 3 | |
| 21 | Daniel Liu | 1350 | 3 | |
| 22 | Nika Akophyan | 1271 | 3 | |
| 23 | Milan Cvetkovic | 1222 | 3 | |
| 24 | Nameer Issani | 1048 | 3 |
Bosnjaci Open CRO 2013
18th Bosnjaci Open 2013
Delchev,A won with 6/7 and Aczel,G was =2nd in a large group with 5.5/7. Here is his tough rd7 endgame win.
Aczel,G (2448) – Cabarkapa,N (2313)
Rilton Cup 2012-12
Krasenkow,M won with 7.5/9.Wenzel,B(CAN) scored 3/9. He started strongly with 3 draws against 2200+ players but then started to fade.
Here is Wenzel’s rd4 game.
L’Ami,Alina (2390) – Wenzel,B (2092)
Position 1
It’s not so obvious what white should be doing next. Black’s kingside looks vacant and invites an attack. How should white continue?
White to Play
Grunfeld Trends TWIC 948(2013-Jan-08)
Here is a recent game in the 8.Rb1 Exchange variation(D85) played in Basel this month.
Loetscher,R(2395)-Vachier Lagrave,M (2711)
Position 1
The counterattack is well underway. How should black continue?
Black to Play
BudapestChessNews 