Jeff Tomy nominated for British Malayali Young Talent award – Watfordobserver

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Don’t mess with this young lady.

Pawn Study
24.11.2012[Tomalty,Alan]

White to Play and Win

Big fish eats little fish
Blogs feeding other sites

Budapest Chess News is now feeding TorontoChess

More chess later…

The Huebner Variation usually features blocked play and maneuvering inclosed postions. In the featured game, black takes a gambit pawn in the opening and suffers.

Portisch,Lajos (2630) – Timman,Jan H (2585) [E41]
Hoogovens Wijk aan Zee (5), 01.1978

Critical Position 1
The center is open but white is down a pawn. What should white do?

White to play

Critical Position 2
Black’s pieces look congested. Is there a way to exploit this?

White to Play

This small IM norm tournament could easily escape one’s attention. Papp,Petra one of the rising stars on Hungarian women’s chess, gained valuable experience scoring 4/9.

See ChesshouseIM

Final Standings
Eggleston,D won clear first with 7/9. Papp,P got 4/9.

                                                        1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
1 Eggleston,D             2323 +233     * 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1           7.0/9
2 Semcesen,D            2464 -20        1 * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1         6.0/9
3 Andersen,Jack         2328 +88      ½ 0 * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1         5.5/9
4 Pedersen,NicV        2453 -89      0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½         5.0/9 19.75
5 Skytte,R                  2401 -31      0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ 1         5.0/9 19.00
6 Jacobsen,Bo            2302 +39     0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * 1 0 1 ½          4.5/9
7 Papp,Petra               2303    0      ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 * 1 ½ ½         4.0/9
8 Hansen,Mads3         2341 -82     0 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 * 1 1              3.5/9
9 Hagesaether,H         2278 -54     0 1 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 * 1             3.0/9
10 Sorensen,TorbenK 2181 -105   0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 *             1.5/9

Average elo: 2337 ; Category: 4  

This is the Hungarian Open Championship. Horvath,J won clear first with 7/9.

1 Horvath,Jozsef 2530 7.0/9
2 Horvath,Adam 2505 6.5/9
3 Nagy,Gabor 2375 6.0/9
4 Gonda,Laszlo 2557 6.0/9
5 Berczes,David 2550 6.0/9
6 Csonka,Balazs 2277 6.0/9
7 Tesik,Csaba 2339 6.0/9
8 Sipos,Janos 2223 6.0/9
9 Szekeres,Robert 2259 6.0/9
10 Vegh,Endre 2256 6.0/9    

Here is an intersting game from Round 9 that shows Horvath’s subtle positional style.

Horvath,Jozsef (2530) – Vegh,Endre (2256) [A11]
Zalakaros ‘A’ (Magyar Nyílt Bajnokság) Zalakaros (9), 16.06.2012
This game can be studied with the following themes in mind

• Small center attack
• Pawn centers in full contact
• Attack  

Position 1
The solid small center has been formed. White has just played 14.Rfe1. There does not seem to be much happening in the position so it is hard to anticipate the course of events.

Position 2
The center has expoded after white played 23.e4 and now the pawn centers are in full contact.

Position 3
The attack is well underway.But how to kill black?

White to play

A new tournament(Amator Cup) has been added to the Budapest tournament schedule. For details see Tournament Notices from Chess.hu.

Tournament notices are usually in Hungarian here.

The Entry fee is 5000HUF (22.90CAN; 23.06USD; 17.80EUR). This is quite modest and in line with the local rates for other Budapest 1 game/day RRs and open tournaments.

Local Entry Fee Range
Hungarian Tournament Prices for 2012 in tournaments I played this year.

                                                      Rounds Prizes      Entry Fee(For >FIDE 2000)
                                                                                 HUF   EUR   USD    CAN       
Round Robin(1 game/day)*
Torokves A RR                                    9      Yes      5,500   19.4   25.00    25.00 April
Frech Karolyi                                       9      Yes      4,000   14      17.67    18.00 June
Torokves A RR                                    9      Yes      5,500   19.4   25.00    25.00 Sept
Amator Cup                                         9      Yes      5,000   17.8   23.06    22.90 November

Open(1 game/day)
Perenyi Memorial                                 9      Yes      5,500   18.9    24.3     24.4 January
Budapest Open                                    9      Yes      7,000   24.6    30.9     30.5 August

*First Saturday also has a monthly series of RR tournaments First Saturday Program 2012-13

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A verseny helye:(Site)
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1055 Budapest Falk Miksa utca 10.

A verseny időpontja:(Date) 2012. November 15.– November 24.

Versenyforma:(Format)
9 fordulós körmérkőzés formában.

Csoportok: (FIDE Sections)

• A:1300-1500
• B: 1500-1700
• C: 1701-1900
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• E: 2101+  

A játékosok értékszámuknak megfelelően lesznek besorolva.10 résztvevős csoportokba.

Játékidő (Time Control)
A, B, C,D csoportokban 2 x 90 perc + 30 másodperc lépésenként.
E csoportban 90-90 perc 40 lépésre + 30-30 perc befejezésig + 30 mp lépésenként

A fordulók naponta 16.30 órakor kezdődnek, kivétel az utolsó forduló (november 24.-én), amikor a játék, 14.00 órakor kezdődik.

Megengedett késési idő: 15 perc
A versenyhelységben TILOS a dohányzás.

Helyezések eldöntése:(Tiebreaks)
1.Berger-Sonneborn,
2.több győzelem,
3.TPR.

Díjazás (Prizes):
1. I. 10.000 Ft.
2.II. 7.000 Ft.
3.III. 5000 Ft.

Vezető bíró: Orsó Miklós és Györkös Lajos nemzetközi versenybírók
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■ E-mail: msszversenyiroda@gmail.com,

A verseny résztvevői: A 2012. évre érvényes versenyengedéllyel rendelkező, hazai versenyzők, valamint az érvényes regisztrációval, (FRD) rendelkező, illetve azt a helyszínen befizető, (Br. 1500 Ft) külföldi versenyzők. A versenyen csak a 2012. évre érvényes versenyengedéllyel lehet részt venni!

Nevezési díj: (Entry Fee)
5.000 Ft. minden csoportban(22.90CAN; 23.06USD; 17.80EUR) 

Nevezési határidő: (Entry Deadline) 2012. november 5

Helyszíni nevezést csak korlátozott számban tudunk elfogadni, a megmaradt szabad helyek erejéig!
Eredményes, sportszerű jó versenyzést kíván a Magyar Sakkszövetség

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Mar del Plata 2012 :
‘The banana ate the monkey’– Chessbase News

Canadian GM Hansen,E qualifies for the World Cup. Hansen scored a GM norm in the recent Olympiad and also won this year’s Canadian Open Championship for a highly sucessful year so far.

As he later explained, with nothing to lose (his description), the tension lifted and he played at his most relaxed. He by no means rolled over Flores, but a late mistake by Diego when both were down to a minute, cost him the game, and Eric Hansen had pulled off the miracle, coming from behind and becoming the last and least expected qualifier.

The banana ate the monkey.’-From Chessbase.com

Final standings after eleven rounds
Rk Tit Name Fed Rtg Pts TB rtg+/-
1 GM Granda Zuniga Julio E PER 2647 8.5 73.5 3.8
2 GM Shabalov Alexander USA 2570 8.5 71.0 9.3
3 GM Flores Diego ARG 2598 8.5 71.0 2.4
4 IM Hansen Eric CAN 2527 8.5 68.5 7.8
5 GM Kaidanov Gregory S USA 2587 8.5 67.0 5.9

Felgaer,R (2579) – Hansen,Eric (2527) [C18]
7th Americas Continental 2012 Mar del Plata ARG (11.5), 21.10.2012
GM Hansen,E(black) to play against GM Felgaer managed to survive the storm and went on to win a clutch game in a topical French Winawer line.