Results

MTK won.

I contributed a draw on board 12 on the White side of a Benko Gambit. My position looked promising but misplayed a winning position.

Yip-Major,I Board 12

White initiated tactical play and the following position was reached after 21..Bxe5(diagram) I liked my position as the Be5 is unstable and the d6 pawn vulnerable.

After 21..Bxe5

White continued with the logical looking 22.f4?!(better was 22.b3 undermining Nd3) 22..Nxb2?+-(diagram) and White should win.

After 22..Nxb2

Black has problems with loose set of minor pieces and weak d6 pawn. All that is left is to calculate the finish which I failed to do.

23.Qc2?

Lets the win slide away Better was 23.Qb1!+- and White keeps the Nb5 under guard and keeps the extra piece or 23.Qa1 when the queen makes deadly threats on the long diagonal after 23..Nxa4 24.fe Qxa4 25.Bh6 etc.

23..Bg7 24.Bd4

White is still clearly better but I continued to make inaccurate moves in a sharp dynamic position and the result was an eventual draw.

I. osztály, Lilienthal csoport
BEAC II – Újpesti KSE 5:7
Pénzügyőr SE – Aquaréna KSC II 2:10
MTK II – MLTC II 7:5
SENSE I – Fabulon-Lombik 2:10
Tabáni Spartacus II – Vasas SC II 5:7
Barcza GSC I – REAC SISE 8:4

II. osztály, Bilek csoport
BEAC III – Pestszentlőrinc II 7,5:4,5
HÜSI SC II – Siketek SC 7:5
Törekvés SE – A. Láng MKKE 5:7
SENSE II – Csepeli TK 5:7
Sárkány DSE II – Sirály 9:3
Barcza GSC II – Pestszentimre 10,5:1,5

MTK 4.5-Vízügyi SC 3.5

I won a lost position on board 3 in mutual time trouble.

After 24.Kh2(diagram)

After 24Kh2

Black should have played 24..c5!-+ with a crushing postion. However, I was too focused on the kingside and played 24..Nh5? giving White the better chances.

Much later in the game I played 41..R1d2(diagram) when Black was not suffering as much as earlier in the game.

After 41..R1d2

White then gave the game away with 42.Kg3?? Nf5+ 43.Kf3(diagram)

After 43.Kf3

The game ended with 43..Qxh3+ 0-1

Not exactly a high quality effort on my part but my good fortune continued from the last team match where I also saved a lost position.

Team Captain Attila Balla was taking pictures early in the round so there will be photos soon.

Starting Rank

The starting list to date.

MTK 4-Hort 2

I saved a bad position with a useful draw as Black.

Board 3 Bokros,I-Yip

My position was awful and I made is worse with 20..h5(diagram)

After 20..h5

White had a think and played the obvious 21.Nxg6! and won a pawn.

Later in the game I was still wriggling around after 32..Rg8(diagram)

After 32..Rg8

White played 33.Re2 giving back two pawns and I was back in the game.

Somehow my luck continued and in the rook ending I stood better after 43.Rh7(diagram)

After 43.Rh7

I should have played 43..Ke5! and Black is winning with the active king and fast a-pawn. Instead I focused on counterplay with 43..a5 and eventually earned a draw.

So there it is. I must study openings, middlegames and endings.

Pics by team Captain Attila Balla

Thinking and more thinking

Intense action

Side view

I’m way back on the right

Calm before the storm

U2200 Final Ranking

Bohus Adam took first on tiebreaks over veteran Kis Bela, Kovacs Marton and FM Kosztolanczi Gyula; all with 5/6-Well done!

Szabo Marton Mihaly won the elo lottery and picked up a whopping 92 elo points.

I had a draw and a heartbreaking loss to my MTK teammate Laza Szabolcs in the last round.

Rds 1-4 are ready to download from Chess Results

All in all, this tournament was a great time. I was quite surprised to see another Canadian player-Suller Lorant-who was visiting from Austria where he works. Even more surprising was his excellent command of Hungarian.

The entry was a bargain at 3,000HUF(10EUR) so the Art Pub series of events is a real Budapest bargain.

Rd6 Laza-Yip

I just played 32..N8f6?(diagram) when should lose.

After 32..Nf6

White was in some time-trouble and zoomed in with 33.Qd6?(diagram) This is just a complicated bluff but I fell for it.

After 33.Qd6?

All I had to do was take the bishop but…I saw some ghosts and played 33..Nfd7?? After a long think I played this nonsense move.

There followed 34.Bc4 a5 35.Qc7 Qb7 36.b4 ab I calculated to here and thought Black was fine.

I thought I was winning after 37.ab(diagram)

After 37.ab

I confidently played 37..Nxb6 thinking all was under control. The dangerous b-pawn goes and Bc4 is attacked, but I missed 38.Qd8+ and the tactical point after 38..Kh7(diagram)

After 38..Kh7

White continued 39.bc Nxc4(diagram)

After 39..Nxc4

And now I saw the light after 40.Qh4+! was the point I missed, winning the stray knight.

1-0 after a couple of moves.

U2200 winner Bohus,Adam

Mark Juhasz(right) in action

U1600 Final Ranking 6 Rounds

Chowaniec Artur took clear first-Well done!

Winner U1600 Chowaniec Artur

U1600 prize winners

Rank Round 4

Piroska Istvan leads with a perfect score after outplaying me on board 1.

Youngsters in action.

Clash of generations. Olah,L(left)-Karacsonyi Kata(right)

Results-Round 4

I made it to board 1 only to play like a lame and tired old duck. Piroska Istvan had more energy to give to the game and slowly ground me down.

Results-Round 1(So Far)

Some results still to come.

• Veress Gaspar(1826) had the big upset over FM Kosztolanczi Gyula(2165) on board 2.
• Palczert Miklos Dr(1776) did well with a draw against Markos Adam(2126)
• Dibusz Domonkos(1631) drew Jeszenszky Jozsef(1979) for another good result-well done.

MTK Captain, Balla Attila won.

Canadian players won 1 and lost one.

Three hard games to come tomorrow.

Some great pics by the organizers from the Site gallery-thanks!

Top seed Mark Juhasz(2166) on the right.

Promising junior Ongut,Tamas(1729) on the left thinking hard

MTK Captain Balla,Attila(right)

Starting Rank-Open(Details)

I had to rub my eyes but it looks like two Canadian players are playing(!)

Starting Rank U1600

Results

MTK was quite successful with the top team tying and MTK II and MTK III winning.

I. osztály, Lilienthal csoport
Barcza GSC I – BEAC II 5,5:6,5
REAC SISE – Tabáni Spartacus II 7,5:4,5
Vasas SC II – SENSE I 7,5:4,5
Fabulon-Lombik-1st Sat. – MTK II 6:6
MLTC II – Pénzügyőr SE III 8:4
Aquaréna KSC II – Újpesti KSE 9,5:2,5

Az Újpesti KSE 2. táblán kontumálásért 1 büntetőpontot kapott.

II. osztály, Bilek csoport
Barcza GSC II – BEAC III 9,5:2,5
Pestszentimre – Sárkány DSE II 5,5:6,5
Sirály – SENSE II 9:3
Csepeli TK – Törekvés SE 4,5:7,5
A. Láng MKKE – HÜSI SC II 3,5:8,5
Siketek SC – Pestszentlőrinc II 9:3

III. osztály, Szén csoport
Barcza GSC III – Rákosliget 4,5:7,5
BEAC IV – Sárkány DSE III 6,5:5,5
MTK IV – ATTE-ARISZ 7,5:4,5
MLTC III – MTK III 4:8
Aquaréna KSC III – HÜSI SC II 4:8

Yip-Tordas Board 3

I contributed an unnecessarily dramatic win after trying a new line against the King’s Indian.

I had no real idea of what I was doing but eventually acquired a good knight vs bad bishop position and a dominating position.

After 36..Rxf5(diagram)

Yip-Tordas after 36..Rxf5

I played the safe 37.f3 instead of the much stronger 37.Rd7! and won a chaotic game after losing control.

The drama happened late in the game with Black down to his last few seconds. After 55..Rf8(diagram)

After 55..Rf8

I was checking 57.Qe4 offering a queen trade but the endgame advantage seemed too small and I searched for something better and came up with  56.Rc2?? winning a tempo by hitting the queen first. My plan was Rc5 to tie Black to the weak b-pawn. Better was something normal like 56.Rd2 just keeping the extra P.

Black quickly replied 56..Rxf3! and White is lost but did not realize it. Then came quickly 57.Qd8+ Rf8(diagram)

After 57..Rf8+

Playing instantly 58.Qxf8+?? Bxf8 59.Rxc6 1-0

But it was not until I reconstructed the game at home that I realized that 58.Qxf8+?? is an illegal move which neither of us realized in the scramble and White should have lost as having touched my queen I would have to give her away and the game with it.