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French Advance Review 2013-06

Jun 2

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e2e4ChessNews FR Advance Review June 2013
Here is a summary of recent and potential white ideas that defenders must be aware of. I also surveyed a 3…b6 which can be used as a backup to the main line 3..c5. 

My favorite game is game 2 where Toth completely dominated GM Gonda in the TCh-HUN 2010–11.

  • Games 1-3 3…b6(Backup)
  • Games 4-6 3…c5(Main Line)

Example Background Video
All games come with a background video.




Game 1
This is a key game showing black’s potential in the 3…b6 line. White got a bit behind in development which allowed Short to favorably open up the position.

Khalifman,Alexander (2690) – Short,Nigel D (2676)
FR Advance 3…b6 [C02]
Moscow Fide.com Cup Moscow (3), 26.03.2001


Black to Play


Game 2
A really fantastic example of play over the whole board and positional domination.

Toth,E (2414) – Gonda,L (2550)
FR Advance 3…b6 4.c3 Qd7 5.Nf3 [C02]
TCh-HUN 2010–11 Decs HUN (6), 20.02.2011


White to Play


Game 3
This is an update to the Khalifman-Short Moscow 2001 game. Black was fine but allowed white to start a dangerous attack.

Feygin,M (2538) – Jochens,A (2298)
FR Advance 3…b6 4..c3 Qd7 5.Nd2 [C02]
Bundesliga 2012–13 Norderstedt GER (3), 10.11.2012

White to Play


Game 4
Black had an excellent position from the opening but allowed white too much counterplay. GM Williams recommends 6..f6 against 6.a3 but other moves are possible.

Strange,M (2335) – Pavlovic,Milos (2509)

FR Advance 5.Nf3 Bd7 6.a3 Nh6[C02]
Admiral Niels Juel Cup 2013 Koge DEN (5.8), 23.04.2013

Black to Play


Game 5
The usual plan for black is …b6 followed by …Ba6 to trade light bishops. Black tried a new way to engineer the bishop trade(5…a6/..Bb5) and got an equal game. Later black lost an exiting back and forth battle.

Cubas,Jo (2550) – Gutierrez,Ca (2253)
FR Advance 4.c3 Bd7 5.Nf3 a6 [C02]
VIII American Continental 2013 Cochabamba BOL (3.12), 09.05.2013

Black to Play


Game 6

Black was fine in the opening using the 6…c4 line which adds to black’s options as Vitiugov recommends 6…Nh6 in The French Defence Reloaded (Chess Stars 2012).

Motylev,A (2669) – Fodor,T jr (2475)
FR Advance 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.a3 c4 [C02]
14th Euro Indiv 2013 Legnica POL (8.66), 13.05.2013


Black to Play

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First Saturday 2013-06 Rd1

Jun 1

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Introduction
First Saturday got underway today. 40 players are participating, the same as last month. Usually, the summer is the peak season but so far attendance this year has been nothing special.

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GM 
Group		 IM 
Group		 FMA FMB
Month  GMs Other Total IMs Other Total 2000+ U2000 Total 1800+ U1800 Total Total
Feb
3
7
10
3
7
10
6
4
10
2
4
6
36
Mar
3
7
10
5
5
10
5
5
10
0
0
0
30
Apr
3
7
10
7
5
12
8
2
10
2
4
6
38
May
3
4
7
6
10
16
8
3
11
3
3
6
40
Jun
3
3
6
3
7
10
8
4
12
4
8
12
40
Total
15
28
43
24
34
58
35
18
53
11
19
30
184


GM
A small group this month.

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Rk. Name FIDE FED 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pts.
1 GM Andreev Eduard 2498 UKR *** 1 1
2 GM Akesson Ralf 2449 SWE *** ½ 0.5
IM Franco Alonso Alejandro 2487 ESP *** ½ 0.5
GM Gonda Laszlo 2524 HUN ½ *** 0.5
FM Hujbert Florian 2456 HUN ½ *** 0.5
6 IM Szalanczy Emil 2285 HUN 0 *** 0


IM

My RAC teammate Mark Lyell is back in action this month.

FM Mark Lyell

No. Name FIDE FED 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pts.
1 IM Farago Sandor 2277 HUN * ½ 0.5
2 FM Lyell Mark 2238 ENG * ½ 0.5
3 Sean Winshand
Cuhendi		 2186 INA * ½ 0.5
4 FM Torma Robert 2392 HUN * 1 1
5 FM Kantor Gergely 2352 HUN * 0
6 FM Korpa Bence 2357 HUN * 0
7 IM To Nhat Minh 2302 HUN 0 * 0
8 Li Bo 2307 CHN ½ * 0.5
9 Sisatto Olli 2274 FIN ½ * 0.5
10 IM Szeberenyi Adam 2309 HUN ½ * 0.5


FMA

Farkas,R continues to win and is on his way to 2200.

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No. Name FIDE FED 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pts.
1 Farkas Richard 2198 HUN * 1 1
2 Rabovszky Gyorgy 1913 HUN * 1 1
3 Darazs Zoltan 2142 HUN * 1 1
4 Montolio Benedicto
Cesar		 1972 ESP * ½ 0.5
5 FM Juhasz Bela 2222 HUN * 1 1
6 Juracsik Jozsef 2155 HUN * 0 0
7 Jelic Neven 2091 CRO 1 * 1
8 Mester Attila 2075 HUN 0 * 0
9 Szakacs Aron 1875 HUN ½ * 0.5
10 Hocevar Nikola 2005 SLO 0 * 0
11 Reh Philipp 2068 GER 0 * 0
12 Burgin Ryan 0 ENG 0 * 0


FMB
House player FM Mayer is in this group this month.

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Rk. Name Rtg FED 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pts.
1 FM Mayer Istvan 2060 HUN * 1 1
2 Takacs Zsolt 1830 HUN * 1 1
3 Nemeth Otto 1724 HUN * 1 1
4 Schmidt Wolfgang 1450 GER * 1 1
5 Vasilev Sergey 1521 RUS * ½ 0.5
6 Steer Jozsef 1938 HUN * ½ 0.5
7 Lukacs Albert 1917 HUN ½ * 0.5
8 Csiba Tibor Dr. 1587 HUN ½ * 0.5
9 Szabo Miklos Istvan 1322 HUN 0 * 0
10 Brassoi-Tarnovszki
 Aurel		 1642 HUN 0 * 0
11 Marcu Simon 1879 SVK 0 * 0
12 Mihaly Zoltan 1798 HUN 0 * 0

Budapest Tournament Information
First Saturday Prices / FS Contact 
(Note-for FM groups Hungarian player fee is 12,000 HUF, foreigners see website list; everything negotiable; No prizes)

Other tournaments
Many bargain tournaments available, all with prizes and modest entry fees. Check the Hungarian Federation event listing for events.

Budapest Open-August 17-25 2013 
This is a wonderful event on the calender that I played in last year. This should be a great event again.

Yip(CAN) on the left playing in round 1


Also
Hungarian Chess Federation Tournament Listing(Hungarian Language)
Budapest Entry Fees 2012(Scroll down to bottom of blog too)

Budapest
Things to see.

Posted in Budapest Entry Fee Summary 2012, First Saturday 2013-06

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GM Spraggett Blog Comes Back(!)

Jun 1

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GM Spraggett Blog-Has a New Home

Warning-Excellent Chess Content

Hi!  WordPress will now become Spraggett on Chess new home for the present. I intend to also have a parallel blog on Tumblr set up before the end of the month.  

The next week will be a learning process for me as I try to understand all of the new features here that are different from how Blogger does things.  

In particular, the Caissa pgn-view does not seem to work very well in WordPress (as some might have already noticed), and so top on the list is to find a pgn-viewer that will serve as well here in wordpress.   

I have uploaded about 3/4 of my blog archives so far, the rest to be folow sometime in the next week.

As well, I will have to customize this homepage, gadgets, links, favourite sites, downloads, etc. 

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French Tarrasch Review 2013-06

Jun 1

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French Defence Tarrasch Review June 2013-e4ChessNews
A review of 9 interesting recent games that should be of interest to French Defense and 1.e4 players. My favorite games were

  • Game 4-Kamsky’s strategic suffocation of Shabalov in the US Ch(1) 
  • Game 9-Fedorchuk’s technical R-R ending in the Agzamov Memorial(3) 

Material usually has background video(s) for example-Tashkent,Uzbekistan.



Game 1
GM Volkov kept pushing his IQP to dominate the position. The ending was not perfect but the French Defence earned a valuable victory.

Petenyi,T (2455) – Volkov,Sergey (2610)
FR Tarrasch 3…a6[C03]
14th Euro Indiv 2013 Legnica POL (8.69), 13.05.2013

Black to play


Game 2
GM Arizmendi Martinez defended with the ambitious 3…Be7 line and grabbed a pawn but allowed GM Sjugirov fantastic piece play.

Sjugirov,S (2654) – Arizmendi Martinez,J (2571)
FR Tarrasch 3…Be7[C03]14th Euro Indiv 2013 Legnica POL (7.23), 11.05.2013

White to play


Game 3
GM Howell got nothing special from the opening but GM Williams slowly lost control of the position.

Howell,D (2634) – Williams,Si (2511)
Tarrasch 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Ngf3 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Bd3 Be7 [C05]
4NCL 2012–13 Hinckley ENG (8.111), 24.03.2013

White to play


Game 4
GM Kamsky played a model squeeze using a good knight vs ineffective bishop to suffocate GM Shabalov.

Kamsky,G (2741) – Shabalov,A (2544)
FR Tarrasch 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 [C05]
ch-USA 2013 Saint Louis USA (1), 03.05.2013

White to play

Game 5
Amanov got nowhere against IM Sevillano’s defensive wall on the kingside.

Amanov,Z (2375) – Sevillano,E (2500)
FR Tarrasch 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Bd3 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Ne2 [C06]
27th Metropolitan GM Los Angeles USA (3), 16.05.2013

Black to play

Game 6
5.dc is gaining some popularity but white got nothing special in the game. GM Firman massaged down GM Rustemov’s IQP in a nice ending.

Firman,N (2531) – Rustemov,A (2544)
FR Tarrasch 3.Nd2 c5 4.exd5 Qxd5 5.dxc5 [C07]
Bundesliga 2012–13 Schwetzingen GER (14), 06.04.2013

White to play

Game 7
GM Pavasovic sacrificed a pawn for tremendous compensation and prevailed when Schroll chose an over active defense with a tactical flaw.

Pavasovic,D (2555) – Schroll,G (2403)
FR Tarrasch 3.Nd2 c5
4.Ngf3 cxd4 5.exd5 Qxd5 6.Bc4 Qd6-10…Be7 [C07]
TCh-AUT 2012–13 St.Veit AUT (10.4), 23.03.2013

White to Play

Game 8
GM Akopian used an original plan to gain kingside space and earned a victory when GM Meier opened up his kingside.

Akopian,Vl (2687) – Meier,Geo (2648)
FR Tarrasch 3.Nd2 c5 4.exd5 Qxd5 5.Ngf3 cxd4 6.Bc4 Qd6
7.0–0 Nf6 8.Nb3 Nc6 9.Nbxd4 Nxd4 10.Nxd4 a6 11.Re1 [C07]
40th Olympiad Open Istanbul TUR (9.3), 06.09.2012

White to play

Game 9
GM Fedorchuk played a model R-R ending to capitalize on an isolated pawn.

Fedorchuk,S (2652) – Aitbayev,A (2434)
FR Tarrasch 3.Nd2 c5 4.Ngf3 Nc6 5.exd5 exd5 [C09]
7th Agzamov Memorial Tashkent UZB (3), 16.04.2013

White to play

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French Winawer Review 2013-05

May 31

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A review of 7 recent games in the French Winawer. Material should be useful to French Defence and/or 1.e4 players. Most games come with  videos.

For example: More About Poland
Gdańsk is Poland’s principal seaport as well as the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. It is also historically the largest city of the Kashubian region. 



Game 1
Robson,R (2620) – Shulman,Y (2570)
FR Winawer 4.ed ed[C15]
ch-USA 2013 Saint Louis USA (6), 09.05.2013
Game 2
Vocaturo,D (2511) – Bruno,Fabi (2428)
FR Winawer 4..b6[C16]
45th Italian Teams 2013 Bratto ITA (2), 28.04.2013
Game 3
Hector,J (2512) – Berg,E (2561)
FR Winawer 4.e5 c5 5.Bd2 [C17]
21st Sigeman & Co Malmo SWE (3.2), 24.05.2013
Game 4
This brilliant positional game is my favorite.


IM Artemiev(left)


Aravindh,Chithambaram VR (2328) – Artemiev,V (2524)
FR Winawer 6…Qa5[C18]
The Black Queen Blues Variation
Somov Memorial 2013 Kirishi RUS (6.4), 13.05.2013
Game 5
Franklin,S (2322) – Pert,N (2557)
FR Winawer Poisoned Pawn 12..d4[C19]
4NCL 2012–13 Hinckley ENG (10.116), 05.05.2013
Game 6
Tazbir,M (2555) – Socko,B (2651)
FR Winawer 7.h4 [C19]
ch-POL 2013 Chorzow POL (6.4), 18.04.2013
Game 7
Bartel,Mat (2619) – Socko,B (2651)
FR Winawer 7.a4[C19]

ch-POL 2013 Chorzow POL (8.1), 20.04.2013

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Zalakaros Open 2013 Rd9 Final Standings-GM Gonda(HUN)

May 31

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Final Standings
GM Gonda took clear first with 7/9. Kozak, Adam had a great result with 5/9.

Some background-Hungarian players in action.


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Rk.   Name FED FIDE Pts
1 GM Gonda Laszlo HUN 2524 7
2 GM Medvegy Zoltan HUN 2552 6.5
3 GM Berczes David HUN 2532 6.5
4 IM Nemeth Miklos HUN 2450 6.5
5 IM Nagy Gabor HUN 2439 6.5
6 FM Kilgus Georg AUT 2418 6
7 GM Banusz Tamas HUN 2592 6
8 GM Horvath Adam HUN 2528 6
9 GM Boros Denes HUN 2498 6
10   Havasi Gergo HUN 2040 6
11 IM Almasi Istvan HUN 2389 6
12 GM Varga Zoltan HUN 2470 6
13 GM Czebe Attila HUN 2490 5.5
14 FM Gledura Benjamin HUN 2421 5.5
15 IM Meszaros Tamas HUN 2415 5.5
16   Takacs Balazs HUN 2334 5.5
17 FM Tesik Csaba HUN 2351 5.5
18   Kozak Adam HUN 2092 5
19 GM Lechtynsky Jiri CZE 2361 5
20 FM Radnai Adam HUN 2263 5
21 WGM Papp Petra HUN 2307 5
22   Zsirai Peter HUN 2199 5
23 FM Pasztor Ferenc HUN 2219 5
24   Havanecz Bianka HUN 2121 5
25 IM Bokros Albert HUN 2459 5
26 FM Bozinovic Bogdan CRO 2210 5
27 IM Vegh Endre HUN 2302 4.5
28 IM Ianov Viktor UKR 2327 4.5
29   Varga Melinda HUN 2213 4.5
30   Peczely Sebastian Zsombor HUN 2147 4.5
31 FM Csala Imre HUN 2180 4.5
32   Marosi Levente HUN 2035 4.5
33 FM Csonka Balazs HUN 2354 4.5
34 IM Borsos Bogdan UKR 2270 4
35   Juhasz Armin HUN 2198 4
36 IM Rigo Janos HUN 2287 4
37 FM Veleski Robert MKD 2262 4
38 IM Kernazhitsky Leonid UKR 2305 4
39 FM Frink Ferenc HUN 2136 4
40 FM Suto Gabor HUN 2193 4
41 FM Kincs Imre HUN 2184 4
42   Secheres Adrian-Simion ROU 2130 4
43 FM Wukits Rene AUT 2292 4
44   Srebrnic Vojko SLO 2176 3.5
45   Kende Gyorgy Dr. HUN 2171 3.5
46   Erdos Boglarka HUN 2225 3.5
47   Friml Antonin CZE 2124 3.5
48 FM Juhasz Kristof HUN 2345 3.5
49 FM Vukovic Ivo CRO 2170 3
50   Bereczki Janos HUN 2180 3
51 FM Hrbolka Ladislav CZE 2133 3
52   Jentsch Dieter GER 2173 3
53   Piroska Istvan HUN 2127 3
54   Vrchotka Josef CZE 2001 3
55 WFM Medvegyne Balogh Emese HUN 2052 3
56   Sonnberger Thomas AUT 2126 2.5
57   Stifter Ewald AUT 2013 2
58   Razsits Geza HUN 1995 2
59   Bella Zsolt HUN 1402 1
60 IM Majeric Zoran CRO 2279 0
  FM Kragelj Igor SLO 2181 0

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Polgar Sisters Interview(Video)

May 30

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From Las Vegas
A question-and-answer session with the Polgar Family, and a bonus lecture by Susan on chess principles, tactics and combinations.

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Salento Open Gallipoli Rd2-GM Horvath Cs(HUN)

May 30

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More about Gallipoli
The feature game was played in the Salento Open hosted in Gallipoli. Here is some background on this coastal town




TWIC 968
GM Horvath used the bishop pair and a central break the Classical Dutch in rd2.

Horvath,Cs1 (2516) – Caruso,Au (2272) 
Dutch Classical 7.b3 Nc6[A96]
2nd Salento Open Gallipoli ITA (2), 26.05.2013


Position 1
Black is under pressure from white’s well coordinated pieces. What do you recommend for white now?

White to Play

28…Rf7

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Chess & Bridge(UK)-Shop with 3-D Viewer(!)

May 30

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Browse our store! 

Fully interactive 3D view – use the arrows in the middle of the screen to move about the store, click the mouse and move it to change your view and zoom in on any set or book on our shelves using your mouse scoller or buttons on the top left – enjoy browsing!

Check out the cool store browsing feature. I have never seen anything like this before. 

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Polgar Chess Festival 2012

May 29

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The annual Polgar Chess Festival, in its sixth edition by now, has firmly established itself as a very prestigious social event, where celebrities, athletes, artists, scientists, businessmen, politicians and most importantly children like to participate and have fun for an entire day. 

The EU Youth Talents vs Judit Polgar simul , the world’s N°1 female chess player, as an ambassador of Chess in School program adopted by the European Parliament, gave a 27 board simul to children representing the 27 nations of the EU. 

The event also served as a promotion of the European Year for Solidarity between Generations by implementing the Generations Chess Clash into the program. 

The Polgar Chess Day provided meaningful programs for three generations sharing the same passion, from 4 years old kids to 99 years old chess enthusiasts, to grandchildren, grandparents and parents.

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