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Gibraltar Tradewise 2013 Rd6-GM Hoang(HUN)
Here is GM Hoang’s rd6 win.
Hoang eventually ground out the win in a RRB-RRN ending that black came close to saving.
Position 1
White wants to push the a-pawn but cannot. What do you suggest for white now?
White to Play
Gibraltar Tradewise 2013 Rd5-GM Hoang(HUN)
Here is Hoang’s rd5 game against Shirov.
Position 1
Black has just decentralized the knight with 15…Nh7. How should white react?
White to Play
Gibraltar Tradewise 2013 Rd7 Standings
Overall Gibraltarchesscongress 2013
GM Vitiugov Nikita takes the overall lead with a massive 6.5/7. Le Quang Liem, Kamsky Gata and Short Nigel D are 2-4th with 6/7. Short has been piling up the wins after his early upset loss.
Photo-from tournament website
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GM | Vitiugov Nikita | RUS | 2694 | 6.5 |
| 2 | GM | Le Quang Liem | VIE | 2705 | 6 |
| 3 | GM | Kamsky Gata | USA | 2740 | 6 |
| 4 | GM | Short Nigel D | ENG | 2690 | 6 |
| 5 | GM | Adams Michael | ENG | 2725 | 5.5 |
| 6 | GM | Jones Gawain C B | ENG | 2632 | 5.5 |
| 7 | GM | Ivanchuk Vassily | UKR | 2758 | 5.5 |
| 8 | GM | Navara David | CZE | 2710 | 5.5 |
| 9 | GM | Tkachiev Vladislav | FRA | 2650 | 5.5 |
| GM | Georgiev Kiril | BUL | 2643 | 5.5 | |
| 11 | GM | Yu Yangyi | CHN | 2688 | 5.5 |
| 12 | GM | Vachier-Lagrave Maxime | FRA | 2711 | 5.5 |
| 13 | GM | Salgado Lopez Ivan | ESP | 2606 | 5.5 |
| 14 | GM | Sandipan Chanda | IND | 2590 | 5.5 |
| 15 | GM | Shirov Alexei | LAT | 2708 | 5.5 |
| 16 | GM | Fridman Daniel | GER | 2667 | 5.5 |
| 17 | IM | Oparin Grigoriy | RUS | 2478 | 5.5 |
| 18 | GM | Zhao Xue | CHN | 2554 | 5.5 |
| 19 | GM | Iturrizaga Eduardo | VEN | 2650 | 5 |
| 20 | GM | Ehlvest Jaan | USA | 2603 | 5 |
| 21 | GM | Al-Sayed Mohammed | QAT | 2507 | 5 |
| 22 | GM | Wojtaszek Radoslaw | POL | 2723 | 5 |
| 23 | GM | Dzagnidze Nana | GEO | 2555 | 5 |
| 24 | GM | Felgaer Ruben | ARG | 2557 | 5 |
| 25 | IM | Muzychuk Mariya | UKR | 2471 | 5 |
| 26 | IM | Larino Nieto David | ESP | 2497 | 5 |
| 27 | IM | Ibarra Jerez Jose Carlos | ESP | 2538 | 5 |
| 28 | IM | Gunina Valentina | RUS | 2490 | 5 |
| 29 | GM | Muzychuk Anna | SLO | 2582 | 5 |
| 30 | IM | Kjartansson Gudmundur | ISL | 2408 | 5 |
| 31 | IM | Nezad Husein Aziz | QAT | 2394 | 5 |
| 32 | GM | Cramling Pia | SWE | 2518 | 5 |
| 33 | IM | Tania Sachdev | IND | 2403 | 5 |
| 34 | GM | Vazquez Igarza Renier | ESP | 2565 | 5 |
| 35 | WGM | Dolzhikova Olga | NOR | 2239 | 5 |
Gibraltar Tradewise 2013 Rd7 Standings-by Country
For more info see Gibraltarchesscongress 2013(All photos are from the nice gallery at the tournament website)
Hungary
GM Hoang lost and stays at 4pts. Rudolf made another draw and now has 3/7.
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| SNo | Name | Rtg | FED | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Pts. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | GM | Hoang Thanh Trang | 2469 | HUN | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 91 | WGM | Rudolf Anna | 2312 | HUN | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 3 |
| 214 | Lochte Szilvia | 1923 | HUN | 0 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 2.5 |
Canada
Piasetski and Fairbairn both drew.
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| SNo | Name | Rtg | FED | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Pts. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93 | IM | Piasetski Leon | 2310 | CAN | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 3.5 |
| 185 | Fairbairn Stephen | 2021 | CAN | 1 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 3 | |
| 209 | Agbabishvili Lali | 1954 | CAN | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
USA
Kamsky and Ehlvest both won and have 6/7.
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| SNo | Name | Rtg | FED | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Pts. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | GM | Kamsky Gata | 2740 | USA | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 22 | GM | Ehlvest Jaan | 2603 | USA | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | 5 |
| 46 | IM | Zatonskih Anna | 2491 | USA | 1 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 4.5 |
| 189 | Hutton Jack | 2017 | USA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.5 | |
| 226 | Kang Leo J | 1814 | USA | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Enlgand
Short is now the leading English player with 6/7. FM Lyell won his last 2 games and has moved up to 3/7.
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| SNo | Name | Rtg | FED | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Pts. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | GM | Short Nigel D | 2690 | ENG | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | GM | Adams Michael | 2725 | ENG | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 5.5 |
| 17 | GM | Jones Gawain C B | 2632 | ENG | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 5.5 |
| 34 | GM | Gordon Stephen J | 2533 | ENG | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 4.5 |
| 63 | IM | Houska Jovanka | 2416 | ENG | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 4.5 |
| 113 | FM | Storey Charles H | 2245 | ENG | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 4.5 |
| 121 | Spence David J | 2226 | ENG | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 4.5 | |
| 57 | IM | Zhou Yang-Fan | 2439 | ENG | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 4 |
| 60 | IM | Trent Lawrence | 2429 | ENG | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 99 | Chapman Terry P D | 2292 | ENG | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | 4 | |
| 73 | IM | Quillan Gary | 2398 | ENG | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 3.5 |
| 140 | Byron Alan M | 2167 | ENG | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 3.5 | |
| 149 | CM | Walton Alan J | 2153 | ENG | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 3.5 |
| 118 | FM | Lyell Mark | 2235 | ENG | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 130 | O`toole George E | 2204 | ENG | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| 136 | Jaunooby Ali R | 2178 | ENG | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| 150 | Burrows Martin P | 2153 | ENG | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| 162 | Cawley Paul F | 2113 | ENG | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 3 | |
| 184 | Hamer Martyn | 2025 | ENG | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
| 192 | Hackner Oskar A | 2015 | ENG | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 3 | |
| 211 | Tranter Stephen | 1938 | ENG | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 3 |
Washington U Chess Club at Pan Am Ch 2012
Division II Champions Studlife Division-ii-championship
‘Harvard? Cornell? Neither Ivy League institution put up much of a fight against the Washington University Chess Club in its most recent major tournament.
In its fourth year of existence and third year competing, the University’s ‘A’ team captured the Division II championship title for its best ever finish at the Pan-American Intercollegiate Chess Championships, held in Princeton, N.J. from Dec. 27-30. The victory earned the chess club a trophy and $125 in prize money.
“This year, [our ‘A’ team] just played extremely well and consistently well,” chess club president, junior Jason Zhang said.
In addition to the team title, sophomore Mark Heimann finished as the second most successful player in the tournament with four wins and a draw in six matches.
“The competition was quite stiff, but I think that was true for all of us,” Heimann said. “A number of the teams we faced had internationally titled players even on their lower boards. I am pleased with my individual result and am definitely glad to turn out a solid performance, but I’m more excited about the strong performances of my other teammates that led to us netting the Division II prize.”
The tournament was seeded by assigning each player on each team an overall rating; teams with the highest overall ratings compete in Division I. Wash. U.’s ‘A’ team held a rating of 2,181, just 19 points below the Division I cut-off of 2,200.
The Division I championship ended in a five-way split for first, with the University of Texas-Dallas ‘A’ team receiving top honors after a tie-breaker.
In the tournament, each team plays six matches against various other teams, followed by four players facing each other head-to-head. A win is awarded one point, a draw is given half of a point and no points are awarded for a loss. The team that totals the most points in the matchups is given one point in the overall competition. The team with the most overall points wins the championship.
The Bears defeated the University of Utah, Princeton University’s ‘C’ team, Harvard University’s ‘A’ team and Cornell University, and fell to Webster University’s team of Grandmasters and University of Maryland-Baltimore County’s team, rated at 2,512, to accumulate four points.
A final-round sweep of Harvard sent the Washington University team back to St. Louis with the trophy and check.(more)’
Gibraltar Tradewise 2013 Rd4 -Fairbairn(CAN)
Here is Fairbairn’s rd4 win.
White obtained a slight edge in a QN-QB position and ground out the win after some adventures for a good result.
Tradewise Gibratar Chess Festival 2013 (4.80), 25.01.2013
Position 1
White the good knight vs bad bishop in a QN-QB configuration. What do you suggest for white now?
White to Play
Gibraltar Tradewise 2013 Rd2-Fairbairn(CAN)
Here is Stephen Fairbairn’s(CAN) rd2 game. White tried the solid London System and ran into a wall.
Position 1
The endgame has arrived. White has active minor pieces but black has the favorable pawn structure. What do you suggest for black?
Black to Play
Gibraltar Tradewise 2013 Rd6 Standings
Overall Gibraltarchesscongress 2013
Le Quang Liem,Vitiugov and Georgiev share the lead with 5.5/6. After a tough start, Short is only half a point off the pace in a large group with 5/6. IM Larino Nieto, David(ESP) is the only non-GM with 5pts.
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| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GM | Le Quang Liem | VIE | 2705 | 5.5 |
| 2 | GM | Vitiugov Nikita | RUS | 2694 | 5.5 |
| 3 | GM | Georgiev Kiril | BUL | 2643 | 5.5 |
| 4 | GM | Adams Michael | ENG | 2725 | 5 |
| 5 | GM | Navara David | CZE | 2710 | 5 |
| GM | Iturrizaga Eduardo | VEN | 2650 | 5 | |
| 7 | GM | Jones Gawain C B | ENG | 2632 | 5 |
| 8 | GM | Ivanchuk Vassily | UKR | 2758 | 5 |
| 9 | GM | Kamsky Gata | USA | 2740 | 5 |
| 10 | GM | Tkachiev Vladislav | FRA | 2650 | 5 |
| 11 | GM | Salgado Lopez Ivan | ESP | 2606 | 5 |
| 12 | GM | Shirov Alexei | LAT | 2708 | 5 |
| 13 | GM | Short Nigel D | ENG | 2690 | 5 |
| 14 | IM | Larino Nieto David | ESP | 2497 | 5 |
Canada
Piasetski continues to make draws and now has 3/5.
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| SNo | Name | Rtg | FED | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Pts. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93 | IM | Piasetski Leon | 2310 | CAN | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 3 |
| 185 | Fairbairn Stephen | 2021 | CAN | 1 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 2.5 | |
| 209 | Agbabishvili Lali | 1954 | CAN | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Hungary
GM Hoang got back onto the winning track and now has 4/6.
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| SNo | Name | Rtg | FED | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Pts. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | GM | Hoang Thanh Trang | 2469 | HUN | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 91 | WGM | Rudolf Anna | 2312 | HUN | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 2.5 |
| 214 | Lochte Szilvia | 1923 | HUN | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 2.5 |
USA
Kamsky is the top American with 5/6.
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| SNo | Name | Rtg | FED | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Pts. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | GM | Kamsky Gata | 2740 | USA | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 5 |
| 22 | GM | Ehlvest Jaan | 2603 | USA | 1 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 4 |
| 46 | IM | Zatonskih Anna | 2491 | USA | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 189 | Hutton Jack | 2017 | USA | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.5 | |
| 226 | Kang Leo J | 1814 | USA | ½ | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
England
Adams, Short and Jones are the top English players with 5/6.
GM Jones has a nice blog Gawainjones.
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| SNo | Name | Rtg | FED | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Pts. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | GM | Adams Michael | 2725 | ENG | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 5 |
| 10 | GM | Short Nigel D | 2690 | ENG | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 17 | GM | Jones Gawain C B | 2632 | ENG | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 5 |
| 34 | GM | Gordon Stephen J | 2533 | ENG | 1 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 4 |
| 57 | IM | Zhou Yang-Fan | 2439 | ENG | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | 4 |
| 60 | IM | Trent Lawrence | 2429 | ENG | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 63 | IM | Houska Jovanka | 2416 | ENG | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 3.5 |
| 99 | Chapman Terry P D | 2292 | ENG | 1 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 3.5 | |
| 113 | FM | Storey Charles H | 2245 | ENG | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 3.5 |
Gibraltar Tradewise 2013 Rd3-GM Hoang(HUN)
Here is GM Hoang’s rd3 game.
White played a tremendous attacking game using 1.Nf3 f5 2.d3!? against the Dutch. This poisonous line had already been recommended by Kindermann in his 2005 book on the Leningrad System.
Position 1
White has a lead in development and the natural plan is to attack. How should white proceed?
White to Play
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