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Doknas,J-Antal,G

Queen’s Gambit Accepted(D20)

After 27.R1d2(Diagram)

White has an isolated pawn. How should Black continue?

What follows is a nice lesson in practical play with a better structure.

After 27.R1d2

Final Ranking after 9 Rounds

IM Aczel GergelyHUN) ,GM Mihok Oliver(HUN) and GM Talla Vladimir shared first with 7,5/9.

Mihok is also one of my MTK teammates.

See also Official site

GM Mihok,O(HUN) on the left and GM Talla on the right

The big matchup was

Mihok-Aczel

Sicilian Kan(B43) 6.Bd3

After 29..h5(Diagram)

Mihok showed subtle endgame technique to capitalise on a strong RN-RB ending. Black is threatening ..h4 to close down the kingside.

How to continue?

After 29..h5

GM Papp,Gabor(HUN) played in the World Open.

The Spanish

Game 1: Li,R-Papp,G

Berlin Defence 5.Re1

White got nothing much in the opening but eventually won a P to reach an equal rook ending.

After 44.e4(Diagram)

How to play the rook ending?

After 44.e4

Game 2: Gabrielian,A-Esipenko,A

Zaitsev Variation(C92)

Black seemed to make quite reasonable moves but eventually got into some trouble on the kingside.

After 28..c4(Diagram)

White is trying to attack. But how to continue now is a big question as Ra3 is not helping much on the kingside.

After 28..c4

Game 3: Borisek-Ivanisevic

6.d3 d6(C84)

White tried to play against the queenside pawns with an early BxNc6 trade but did not get anywhere.

After 30.Kh1(Diagram)

Black has the bishops and the centre. What next?

After 30.Kh1

Rank after Round 4

Teglas B(HUN) and IM IM Aczel G(HUN) share the lead with 4/4. There are quite a few Hungarian players taking part.

Photo: Official Site

Teglas,B(HUN) on the right

Games from Aczel(from TWIC 1130)

Aczel-Miturova Rd3

Torre Attack(A46)

White build up a strong attacking position from a nothing special opening. The Torre Attack uses a pawn triangle formation to secure the centre. More on triangles later.

After 19..Qf6(Diagram)

How should White continue?

After 19..Qf6

The pawn triangle in the Torre Attack gave a strong foundation for a later attack. Now let us see Messi use a triangle based attack in football.

Triangle Offence in Football: Messi and Tiki Taka

Mild Reaction

England were beaten by Iceland in Euro 2016

Very Polite Fans

Brazil

Germany

Affectionate

England

Brexit…no more this

The state of English football.

USA

Women are not that into sports.

It’s a guy thing.

Looking for chess news. Not much happening right now.

Sports things from around the world.

Soccer

Mysterious.

Basketball

Emotional.

Football

Superbowl at halftime.

Rugby

OK I don’t get this at all

ChessBoxing

Almost forgot.

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More About the Petroff-Wolochowicz,Piotr From YB119 letters

There was something I did not understand in this game so I had to feed it to Stockfish and have it explained to me.

After 24.Ke3(Diagram)

The White king is clearly exposed.

Black to Play

No hints.

After 24.Ke3

Did you see everything?

If you did, well done!

Two interesting book on pattern recognition training have been written by Van de Oudeweetering.

I try to read a chapter a day. Just finished ch30 A Practical Piece Sac.

Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition

There are 40 chapters, each with some lightly annotated games and also 40 exercises.

Chapter 1 A Very Powerful Piece: The Octopus(just a couple of the examples inserted with shortened notes)

Mellkumyan-Postny 

After 17..Nxe7(Diagram)

After 17..Nxe7

The Nd6 is Mr Octopus

Train Your Chess Pattern Recognition

The format is similar in this sequel with 37 chapters and 37 exercises.

MTK team Captain Attila Balla did not forget the burger he promised and who am I to refuse?

We discussed the 3..Qd6 Scandinavian and a few other topics between bites.

I must say he has excellent management skills.

Chess Pattern Recognition

The biggest burgers in Budapest

Board Pairings

Hungary swept Poland 2-0.

WGM Gara,Ticia(HUN)

Board Pairings Open