Final Ranking 6 Rounds

Kovacs Marton(2141) took first on tiebreak ahead of Fodor Balazs after both finished with 5/6. FM Mihok Laszlo took third on tiebreak with 4.5/6.

I finished with a modest 3.5/6. Thanks to Thomas Heyl(GER) for the nice pictures taken in rd4.

Thirty-five players came by the ‘Castle’ to battle it out in another edition of the Rakosmente Open. There will be more pics later.

The ‘Castle’-the super venue

Top boards in action in Rd4

Horvath Csaba(left)-Yip(right) in rd4

Yip,M-Kovacs,M Rd2

I played the top seed and eventual winner, Kovacs  in rd2. During the last month I worked quite hard on solving tactical problems and had some minor sucesses in other games but when it counted the most, I could not navigate the tactical problems that my opponent gave me.

I started with my usual 1.d4 and was met by the solid Nimzo-Indian. After 17..c5(diagram) I had good reason to be optimistic

After 17..c5 Yip(1925)-Kovacs,M(2141) Rd2

I found the strong 18.Bb5! and Black replied with the meek 18..Rf8 and followed up with a draw offer, which I quickly declined. White has a strong mobile pawn center and the bishop-pair to work with while Black’s minor pieces lack stable posts.

A bit later Black played 21..Bxf3?(diagram) The position is now winning for White and all I had to do was find the correct sequence in a ‘White-to-Play-and Win’ type of problem. But alas I could not.

After 21..Bxf3 Yip-Kovacs

I played 22.Qh4? to get the queen out of forking range(..Nh3+ trick) and to attack the hanging Ng5. Black replied 22..Ng4! and eventually I lost my way in a complex tactical fight.

Winning outright was 22.Bxf6! Qxf6 23.Qa2!(getting out of the f-file pin).

Results

GM Boros,D(HUN)  finished with 4.5/9. IM Panjwani, Raja(CAN) finished with 3.5/9

Results(from Chessbase)-Final Open standings

Hungary takes the gold!

‘In the Open event, teams of four players come to play, and the Elo favorites were unquestionably the Hungarian, who not only fielded a team of grandmasters on all boards, but also held the highest average Elo.see Chessbase for full report)

GM Acs,Peter(HUN). Photo-Chessbase

Hungary Results-From Chess Results

Standings

Marcu, Simon won with 5.5/6. Well done!

No.  PNo.  Name                       Score WP    SB     PS    rat.  TPR  W-We
  1.    3  Marcu, Simon                5.5  21.5  19.25  20.5  1832 2058 +1.22
  2.    8  Mate, Maria                 4.5  18.5  13.00  14.5  1738 1869 +1.15
       15  Szucs, Edina                4.5  18.0  12.25  14.5  1558 1839 +2.14
       11  Gergo, Gyorgy               4.5  17.0   9.50  15.5  1652 1797 +1.05
  5.    9  Szurkos, Andras             4.0  20.5  13.00  14.0  1725 1731 +0.13
        5  Karacsonyi, Gellert         4.0  18.0  12.25  12.5  1798 1681 -0.61
  7.   26  Revesz, Hunor               3.5  17.0  10.50  10.0  1254 1665 +2.05
        4  Szlenka, Attila             3.5  16.5   7.50  13.5  1812 1623 -1.08
       16  Remeny, Lajos               3.5  16.5   8.75   8.5  1533 1425 -0.60
       10  Gazsovics, Bela             3.5  16.0   9.50   9.5  1712 1565 -0.67
 11.    1  Bartuszek, Andras           3.0  26.5  12.00  15.0  1875 1720 -1.18
       14  Ongut, Tamas Gunes          3.0  21.5   9.00  13.5  1579 1707 +0.80
       17  Kidd, Balint                3.0  19.0   7.75  11.0  1509 1529 +0.08
        2  Krizsany, Laszlo Sr.        3.0  19.0   8.75  10.5  1865 1613 -1.76
       24  Radics, Nora                3.0  18.5   8.00  10.0  1299 1519 +1.50
        7  Izso, Istvan                3.0  15.5   8.50   7.0  1745 1648 -0.33
       13  Pinter, Tamas               3.0  14.5   7.25   8.0  1629 1452 -0.97
 18.   31  Kovacs, Mate                2.5  19.5   5.50  11.0  0000 1449  1449
       30  Halasz, Daniel              2.5  19.5   7.00  10.0  0000 1531  1531
       12  Xiao Hu, Chen               2.5  18.5   8.50   9.5  1630 1598 -0.15
 21.   23  Fodor, Kornel               2.0  21.5   6.00   7.0  1314 1413 +0.56
        6  Lakat, Gyula                2.0  20.0   7.00  11.0  1768 1478 -1.07
       20  Karacsonyi, Kata            2.0  20.0   6.00   7.0  1398 1431 +0.07
       19  Csontos, David              2.0  19.0   3.50   7.0  1435 1326 -0.92
       22  Losonczi, Marcell           2.0  18.0   3.75   6.5  1339 1475 +0.77
       21  Czipp, Janos                2.0  16.5   5.00   6.5  1397 1492 +0.44
 27.   28  Bangha, Otto Peter          1.5  15.5   3.25   5.5  1193 1148 -0.23
       27  Revesz, Rego                1.5  14.5   2.75   3.5  1246 1190 -0.22
       18  Revesz, Mariusz             1.5  12.0   4.75   5.5  1506 1251 -0.93
 30.   25  Wallis, Janos               1.0  17.5   0.25   1.0  1276  723 -1.47
       29  Gomez de la Garza, Pedro    1.0  12.0   2.50   2.0  1142 1207 +0.23