Passing the time in Budapest.

New phone. New apps.

Pizza place waitress

Tiny Euro coffee and pastry

Working semi-hard on Rubinstein 🙂

Was hard work today

At some point I have to read Vol2 too.

On the To Do list

MTK-Vizyugyi

MTK won two games but I don’t know the final result.

Yip-Csapo,Z Board 3

King’s Indian Saemisch

After 24..cd(Diagram)

After 24..cd

In the final position, Black resigned when the position was in fact drawn.

After 34.d6(Diagram)

I checked carefully and confidently pushed the d-pawn and my opponent quickly resigned.

After 34.d6

But 34..Qg1!! draws as White cannot escape the perpetual.

Gallery

U2200 Final Ranking after 6 Rounds

Torok Tamas Titusz took clear first with 5/6. Mester Attila got off to a fast start but could not keep up the pace and finished with 4,5/6 and a share of second place.

I did nothing special and finished with 3,5/6.

My games were nothing special.

Nemeth,Z-Yip Scotch(C45)Rd2

This game was quite tragic.

After 59.g7(Diagram)

I managed to find 59..Kd6??

After 59.g7

And after 60.Nf6! had to resign.

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U1600 Final Ranking after 7 Rounds

Fulop Peter Benjamin took clear first with 7/7.

Gallery

The tournament feast at the Tandori Indian restaurant was a reward for completing three games on Saturday

Butter naan bread

Some tournament pics

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More chess this weekend!

I registered a bit late-Sorry.

Starting Rank U2200

Some familiar faces at the top.

Starting Rank U1600

Results

I made a draw with black on board 10.

I was one of three foreign players in the lineup today. One declined to be photographed due to having a bad hair day.

Emmer,A-Yip Board 10

English Opening(A25)

After 28.b6(Diagram)

I missed a good move which should have won the game but instead could not win a long drawn out endgame with an extra pawn.

After 28.b6

I. osztály, Lilienthal Andor csoport
BEAC II – SENSE I 6:6
Újpesti KSE II – MTK Budapest III 4:8
Mattolda SSC I – Pénzügyőr SE III 7:5
Tabáni Spartacus II – Palota Sakk I 6:6
Vasas SC II – Barcza GSC I 7,5:4,5
Fabulon-Lombik-1st Sat. – Sirály I 7:5

II. osztály, Bilek István csoport
BEAC III – Csepeli TK 4,5:7,5
Sárkány DSE II – MTK Budapest IV 7,5:4,5
Mattolda SSC II – A. Láng MKKE 4:8
Aquaréna KSC III – HÜSI SC II 9,5:2,5
Törekvés SE – Barcza GSC III 7:5
SENSE II – Pestszentlőrinc II 5,5:6,5

III. osztály, Szén József csoport
ATTE-ARISZ – Pénzügyőr SE IV 2,5:9,5
Sárkány DSE III – Aquaréna KSC IV 6:6
Palota Sakk II – MLTC II 4:8
MTK Budapest V – Rákosliget 9:3
Sirály II – Pestszentimre 7:5
Újpesti KSE II – HÜSI SC III 7,5:4,5
Aquaréna KSC V – Barcza GSC III 6:6
HASE III-Hóbagoly – BEAC IV 8:4

Pics

Yip,M(CAN)

Final Ranking after 13 Rounds

IM Kantor Gergely won clear first with 11/13.

Learning the game of go.

Sergei G(left) and me(right)

The event was held at the Westend Mall as part of a Logic Games Festival.

Foosball

Darts

The playing venue was a tent

TWIC 1144 is now available.

Caruana-Adams

Berlin Defence(C65) 4.d3 Bc5

After 36.Qg4(Diagram)

Black has defended well so far and has two pawns for the exchange but the Nd8 is rather passive.

What do you recommend for Black?

After 36.Qg4

Hovhannisyan-Aleksandrov

5.Re1 (C67) Anti-Berlin

After 29..Rcd8(Diagram)

I like the original plan that White found.

After 29..Rcd8

MTK-Hort

The first game of he season had the usual little dramas. The round was supposed to start at 1800 but at 1730 the room temperature was 14C which was quite a bit lower than the required minimum 17C.

Would the room heat up in time?

The opposing team got lost and was as not present at the start of the round and had to be rescued.

On top of that, our board one player FM Mihok,Laszlo had car problems and was late also.

All this was before the first move was played. But around 1830, 6 players from each team started the match.

I won my game quite quickly.

Bokros-Yip

Scotch Opening(C45)

For the first few years playing in the Monday league, my opponent beat me game after game until I finally made a draw last season.

This game he again greeted me with a big smile,…but this time there was a different result.

White played rather carelessly on the White side of Scotch and then followed up over-ambitiously to leave his king fatally exposed.

After 19.Qd3(Diagram)

Yes the king really is on a3. Black must find a good plan now.

After 19.Qd3

Gallery

Fodor,Balasz

Team Captain Balla,Attila(left)

Bokros,Istavan my opponent

Board one for Hort

Boris G. is a cool guy. We chatted briefly after he signed my book. He was looked forward to enjoying some of the nice cake after the final was over but was quite disappointed to find none left after his two game final was over.

Boris with the big prize

Thanks also to GM Gabor Papp(Head coach of the Hungarian National women’s team) for hunting down Gelfand to get Dynamic Decision Making in Chess signed.

Gabor is a fan of the New England Patriots who will get QB Tom Brady back this Sunday.