English GM Nigel Short Can. Open Champion

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1 THE Independent Voice for Canadian Chess Covering and Beyond! Chess IS Life! GM Bobby Fischer Issue # 1-23 August 15, 2013 English GM Nigel Short Can. Open Champion

2 2 Articles, etc. Table of Contents Page FIDE August 1, 2013 Regular Rating List Open/Women 23 Can. Olympiad Selection Ratings - National 65 Can. Olympiad Selection Ratings Women s 66 Canadian Junior Players in Top 50 in the World 66 Canadian Girl Wins USA Chess Scholarship 68 Malmsten on Chess - Chess at the CNE Part 3: Spassky FIDE August 1, 2013 Regular Rating List Canadian Open/Women 77 Teaching Classic Games of Chess Double Knight Sacrifice Jung 98 Ken s Chess Trivia 103 TCN Readers Lead Article Invitation 106 TCN Readers Chess Sightings 107 TCN Readers Have Questions 107 TCN Readers Feedback 107 TCN s Readers Opinion Column Smith 107 Tournament Reports FIDE World Chess Cup, Norway FIDE Grand Prix # 5 (Beijing) 8 46 th Biel Chess Festival, Switzerland 17 Sparkassen Chess Meeting, Dortmund, Germany th British Chess Championships USA Open, St. Louis 22 Canadian Open, Ottawa 35 Canadian Seniors Championship, Kitchener 49 Canadian Amateur Championships, Kitchener CYCC Tie-breaks, Ottawa 64 Quebec Open, Montreal 93 Maritime Open, PEI 97 Organizations with News Reports Chess Federation of Canada ( CFC ) 31 Aurora Chess Club 89 Hamilton City Chess Club 91 Kitchener-Waterloo Chess Club 91

3 3 Tournament Notices Mississauga Open 108 Toronto Labour Day Open 110 Community Bulletin Board 111 NOTE re GAME ANALYSIS I use Fritz 13 in my game analysis. My research, using Fritz for many years, establishes that Fritz 13 evaluates 1.e4, 1.d4, and 1.Nf3 as a slight advantage to White, whereas historically, these positions were generally considered equal. Many still dispute this evaluation. Though W has "initiative", some/many (? ) feel Bl., with best play, equalizes. But in my research on the three W openings where Fritz gives +/= after W's first move, Bl never should equalize, as long as W does not make a mistake (a general operational principle). And true enough, even into the middlegame of my " perfect " games, Bl. remains +/=!!. So the computer has now convinced me to switch camps, where I used to believe in " Black equality ". However, it may be that the "horizon effect" will yet establish equality for Black when the "perfect game" is taken far enough. But, since I am using Fritz 13, I therefore follow its lead, and so have felt it necessary to make some note re these first moves. In the past, I gave this explanation above in annotations to these three first moves. But, for regular readers of my analyzed games, I know this annotation became irksome; but people who are new, come to my analyzed games on the TCN Website, or where a TCN newsletter has been forwarded to them, and, for them, an explanation of this unusual Fritz 13 feature is required, to understand what I am doing. However, I agree with some readers who suggested a general explanation would be preferable to the annotation in every game starting with these three moves ( which is most of them ). I appreciate my repeat readers' patience til this change. I therefore began using this other format of a general explanation after the table of contents, to explain this interesting computer phenomenon ( and not insert it into the actual annotated game ). In the game score, I will just note the symbolic and numerical evaluation by Fritz on these first moves. I hope this small change improved the quality of TCN for all subscribers.

4 4 INTERNATIONAL Tournaments 2013 World Chess Cup This tournament of 128 of the world s best players in a knockout format is being held in Tromso, Norway. Rd. 1 took place Sunday, Aug. 11 & Mon. Aug. 12. Rd. # 1 Two upsets were Judit Polgar (Hungary), highest rated woman player, losing against Cuban GM Isan Reynaldo Ortiz. Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia) was knocked out by 14-year-old Wei Yi (China). Two surprises were Anna Ushenina (Ukraine), Women s World Champion, beating Peter Svidler (Russia) in Game # 2, to take it into tie-breaks, where she then lost, and former Women s World Champion, Hou Yifan, drawing both games against Alexei Shirov, and then losing on tie-break. Canadian Participation: Canadian Champion, GM Bator Sambuev, won in Game # 1 against the higher-rated and well-known Alexander Morozevich (Russia), with an unsound R-sac, but Alexander later blundered. But Alexander won Game # 2, to force it into tie-breaks.

5 5 Here is the tie-break system: two (2) tie-break games with 25 minutes for each player with an addition of 10 seconds after each move; 2 games with a time control of 10 minutes plus 10 seconds increment after each move; 2 games with a time control of 5 minutes plus 3 seconds increment after each move. If still there is no winner, one sudden-death game will be played. In the tie-break, Alexander won Here are the two games, and the winning tie-break game (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Game # 1: Sambuev, Bator (2524) Morozevich, Alexander (2739) [D87] FIDE World Cup 2013 Tromso NOR (1.16), [Armstrong, Robert ] 1.d4² Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 Grunfeld Defence 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bc Ne2 c Nc6 10.Be3 Qc7 11.Rc1 b6 12.h4 Bb7 13.h5 e6 [13...Rad8 14.h6 Bf6²] 14.hxg6?!= [14.h6 Bh8 15.Nf4 (15.Bg5 Qd7²) 15...Na5²] 14...hxg6 15.Nf4 Na5 16.Bd3 e5 17.Nh3 Rad8?!² [17...exd4 18.cxd4 c4 19.Qg4 Rfd8=] 18.d5 c4 19.Bc2 Bc8 20.g4?!= [20.Rb1 Bxh3 21.gxh3 Qe7²] 20...Nb7?!² [20...Bf6 21.Kg2 Kg7=] 21.Kg2 Nd6 22.g5 [22.Rh1 f6 23.a4 Rde8²] 22...Rfe8 [22...Nb5 23.Ba4 Nd6²] 23.Rh1 Kf8 24.Ng1?!= [24.f3 Ke7 25.f4 Kf8²] 24...Ke7 25.Rh7 [25.Nf3 Rh8 26.Nh4 Rh5=] 25...Rh8 26.Rxg7 Bator goes up a B 26...Ne8 [26...Kf8 27.f4 Kxg7=] 27.Rxf7+?!³ wrong P; a slightly unsound sac [27.Rxg6! fxg6 28.Qf3 Rh4=] 27...Kxf7 Alexander is up the exchange, but Bator has a P compensation 28.f4?-+ Alexander gets a "winning" advantage [28.Kf1 Kg8 29.Qf3 Qe7 ] 28...Kg8 29.Qf Qh7 30.Kf1 Ng7 31.Ke1 Rf8 32.Kd2 exf4 Alexander is up the exchange 33.Bf2 Qh2 34.Rf1 Rh4?! [34...Rh5 35.Qe2 Qg2-+] 35.e5 Rg4 36.e6 Rxg5 Alexander is up the exchange + P 37.Kc1 Bb7 38.Be4 Qh5 39.e7 Re8 40.d6 XABCDEFGHY 8-+-+r+k+( 7zpl+-zP-sn-' 6-zp-zP-+p+& trq% 4-+p+Lzp-+$ 3+-zP-+Q+-# 2P+-+-vL-+" 1+-mK-+RsN-! xabcdefghy Qxf3??+ a blunder; Bator gets a "winning" advantage [40...Bxe4 41.Qxe4 Rd5 ] 41.Nxf3 Bxe4 42.Nxg5 Alexander is up a P, but Bator has 2 connected, passed P's, one on the 7th and one on the 6th 42...Bc6 43.Bd4 Nf5 44.Be5 Rc8? [44...Nxe7 45.dxe7 Rxe ] 45.Rf2? [45.d7 Nxe7 46.dxc8Q+ Nxc ] 45...Nh6??+ leads to mate [45...Nxd6 46.Bxd6 Bd ] 46.Rxf4 material equality 46...Bd7?+ mate in 5 moves [46...Nf5 47.Rxc4 Nxd6 48.Bxd6 Re8+ mate in 11 moves] 47.Ne4?? missing the mate [47.Rf6 Bf5 48.d7 Rb8 49.Rf8+ Rxf8 50.exf8Q+ Kxf8 51.d8Q#] 47...Bf5??+ mate in 38 moves [47...Nf5 48.Nf6+ Kf7 49.Nxd7 Ke6 50.Rxf5 Kxd (50...gxf5?? 51.Nf8+ Kf7 52.d7 Re8 53.d8Q Rxe7 54.Bd6+

6 6 mate in 8 moves) ] 48.Rh4 Ng4??+ mate in 2 moves [48...Kf7 49.Rxh6 Ke6+ mate in 32 moves] 49.Rh8+ Kf7 50.Ng5# 1-0 Game # 2: Morozevich, Alexander (2739) Sambuev, Bator (2524) [D41] FIDE World Cup 2013 Tromso NOR (2.16), [Armstrong, Robert] 1.c4= e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 c5?!² [4...Nc6?! 5.e3 Be7²; 4...Bb4 5.Bd2 dxc4=] 5.cxd5 Nxd5 [5...cxd4 6.Nxd4 Nxd5²] 6.e4 Nxc3 7.bxc3 cxd4 8.cxd4 Bb4+ 9.Bd2 Bxd2+ 10.Qxd Bc4 [11.Rc1 b6 12.Bb5 Bb7²] 11...Nd b6 13.Rfe1?!² Bb7 14.a4 Rc8 15.Bb5 Nb8 16.Rad1 Qd6 17.d5 e5?!± Alexander gets a "clear" advantage [17...exd5 18.e5 Qe7²] 18.Qb2 f6 19.Nd2 Rfd8 20.h4 Rc5?!+ Alexander gets a "winning" advantage [20...Qc5 21.Rc1 Qd6±] 21.Nc4 Qf8 22.Ne3 Ba6 23.Rd3 [23.Qe2 Bc8 24.h5 Nd7+ ] 23...Bc8 24.Red1?!± [24.Ra1 Na6 25.Qb3 Kh8+ ] 24...Qd6?!+ [24...Qf7 25.Qa3 Bd7±] 25.h5 Qf8 26.d6?!± [26.Qe2 g6 27.Qf3 f5+ ] 26...Be6 27.d7 Bf7?!+ [27...Qf7 28.Rd6 h6±] 28.h6 g6 29.Rd6 Qe7 30.a5 Be6? [30...Rc7 31.f4 Rdxd7 32.Bxd7 Nxd ] 31.axb6 axb6 32.Ba4 b5 33.Bb3 Bxb3 34.Qxb3+ Qf7? [34...Kh8 35.Qe6 Qf8 (35...Qxe6? 36.Rxe6 Rcc8 (36...Nxd7?? 37.Rxd7! Rcc8+ Mate in 17 moves) 37.dxc8Q Rxc8 38.Rxf6 Kg ) 36.Nd5 b ; 34...Kf8? 35.Re6 Rc3 36.Rxe7 Rxb3 37.Rxh7 Rxd7 38.Rh8+ Ke7 39.Rxb8 Rxd1+ 40.Nxd1 Rb1 41.h7 Rxd1+ 42.Kh2 Rd8 43.Rxd8 Kxd8 44.h8Q+ Ke ] 35.Nd5? [35.Re6 Kf8 36.Ng4 Nxd7 37.Nxf6 b ] 35...Kh8 36.Rxf Alexander goes up a P 36...Qg8 37.Qg3 Nxd7 material equality 38.Rd6 Qf8??+ mate in 27 moves [38...Rxd5? 39.R1xd5 Qe ; 38...Rf8?? 39.Rxd7 Qe6+ mate in 22 moves; 38...Qf7 39.Rxd7 Qxd7 40.Qxe5+ Kg8 41.Nf6+ Kf7 42.Rxd7+ Rxd7 43.Qxc5 Kxf ] 39.Nf6?? missing the mating line [39.Rxd7! Re8 (39...Rxd7?? 40.Qxe5+ Kg8 41.Qe6+ Kh8 (41...Rf7?? 42.Nf6+ Kh8 43.Qxf7! Qxf7 44.Rd8+ Qf8 45.Rxf8#) 42.Qxd7 Rc4+ mate in 4 moves) 40.Nc7 Kg8+ mate in 15 moves] 39...Rc1 40.Qd [40.Rxc1? Qxd6 41.Nxd7 Qxd7 42.Qxe5+ Kg ] 40...Rdc8 41.Nxd7 Alexander goes up an N 41...Qxh6? 6.25 [41...Rxd Qxd1 Qxh6 43.Nxe5 Qc ] 42.Nxe5 Qf4??+ mate in 10 moves [42...Rxd1+ 43.Qxd1 Qc ] 43.Rd8+?? missing the mating line again [43.Nxg6+! Kg8 (43...hxg6 44.Qd4+ Kh7 45.Rd7+ Kh6 46.Qg7+ Kh5 47.R7d5+ Qf5 48.Rxf5+ gxf5 49.Qh7+ Kg5 50.f4+ Kg4 51.Qxf5+ Kg3 52.Qg5#) 44.Nxf4 Rf8 mate in 7 moves] 43...Rxd8 44.Qxd8+ Kg7 45.Qe7+ Kg8 46.Rxc1 Qxc1+ 47.Kh2 Qf4+ 48.Kh3 Qxf2??+ mate in 17 moves [48...Qf8 49.Qe6+ Kg7 50.Kg3 Qf6 6.33] 49.Ng4+ mate in 12 moves 1-0 Tie break Rapid Game # 1: Sambuev, Bator (2530) Morozevich, Alexander (2736) [D03] World Cup 2013 Tromso (3.16), d4² Nf6 2.Nf3?!= verified depth 20 [2.Nc3²] 2...g6 3.Bg5 Bg7 [3...Ne4 4.Bf4 Bg7= (4...d5?!²) ] 4.Nbd2 [4.Nc3 d5 5.e3 0-0=] 4...d5 5.e Be2 Nbd7?!² [6...h6 7.Bh4 Be6=] c5 8.c3 b6 9.Qa4 Bb7 10.Rfd1 a6 11.Qa3?!= [11.h3 Nh5 12.Ne1 Qe8=] 11...h6 12.Bh4 Rc8 13.Rac1 b5 14.h3 Re8 15.Bg3 c4?!² [15...Qb6 16.Bh2 Rf8=] 16.b3 Nb6 17.Ne5 Nfd7 18.Ndf3 Nf6 19.Nd2 Nfd7 20.Nxd7 Nxd7 21.bxc4 dxc4 22.Bf3?!= [22.Qb2 Nb6 23.Qc2 Bc6²] 22...Bxf3 23.Nxf3 Qb6 24.e4 [24.Qb2 e5 25.dxe5 Nxe5 26.Bxe5 Bxe5=] 24...Qb7 25.Re1 Nf6 [25...e5 26.Bxe5 Bxe5 27.Nxe5 Nxe5 28.dxe5 Rxe5=] 26.Nd2 Nh5 27.Bh2 e5 28.g4? for the first time in the game, Alexander gets the advantage, a "clear" advantage [28.d5 Nf6 29.Rb1 Nd7=] 28...exd4! [28...Nf6? 29.Bxe5 h5±] 29.gxh5 dxc3 Bator is up N vs 2 P's 30.Nf1 b4 31.Qa5?!-+ Alexander gets a "winning" advantage [31.Rb1 a5 32.Qa4 Rxe4 ] 31...Qb5 32.Qxb5 axb5 33.e5 b3 34.Rxc3 Bator is up N vs P 34...b4

7 7 Position after 34 b4 XABCDEFGHY 8-+r+r+k+( pvl-' pzp& 5+-+-zP-+P% 4-zpp+-+-+$ 3+ptR-+-+P# 2P+-+-zP-vL" 1+-+-tRNmK-! xabcdefghy 35.Rxc Bator decides to sac to stop the P's [35.Rce3? bxa2 36.Nd2 Red ] 35...Rxc4 36.axb3 Alexander is up the exchange, but Bator has a P compensation 36...Rc3 37.hxg6 fxg6 38.Nd2 Rd3 39.Re2 Kf7 40.Kg2 Ke6 41.Ne4 Rc8 42.h4 Rxb3 Alexander is up the exchange 43.f4? [43.Nd6 Rc6 44.Re4 Rb ] 43...Rd3? [43...Ra3 44.Bg1 b ] 44.Bg1? [44.h5 gxh5 45.Nd6 Rb ] 44...Bf8 45.h5 gxh5 Alexander is up the exchange + P 46.Ng3 b3 47.f5+ Kd5 48.Nxh5? Alexander is up the exchange again [48.Nf1 h4 49.e6 Rc ] 48...Rc2 49.Nf4+ Kc The other Canadian GM playing, Eric Hansen (qualified through the Americas Continental Championship),

8 8 was defeated in Rd. 1 by Vladimir Malakhov, Here is the losing game: Malakhov, Vladimir (2707) Hansen, Eric (2584) [A05] FIDE World Cup 2013 Tromso NOR (1.31), Nf3² Nf6 2.g3?!= [2.d4 d5 3.c4 dxc4²] 2...g6 3.b3?!³ [3.c4 Bg7 4.d4 d5=] 3...Bg7 4.Bb c4 c6?!= [5...d5 6.Bg2 Nc6³] 6.Bg2 d Bg4 8.h3 Bxf3 9.Bxf3 Nbd7?!² [9...Qd7 10.h4 d4=] 10.d4 Ne4 11.Nc3 Ndf6 12.Qd3 Nxc3 13.Bxc3 Qd7 14.Bg2?!= [14.Kg2 Qe6 15.Rac1 Ne4²] 14...Ne4?!² [14...Qe6 15.Rac1 Rac8=] 15.Bxe4 dxe4 16.Qxe4 Qxh3 17.Qxe7?!= Vlad goes up a P [17.Rad1 e6 18.Rd3 Rfd8²] 17...Rae8 18.Qxb7 Vlad goes up 2 P's 18...Re3! XABCDEFGHY trk+( 7zpQ+-+pvlp' 6-+p+-+p+& % 4-+PzP-+-+$ 3+PvL-tr-zPq# 2P+-+PzP-+" 1tR-+-+RmK-! xabcdefghy 19.Qxc6?!³ refusing the draw, and sacking the B [19.fxe3 Qxg3+ 20.Kh1 Qh3+ 21.Kg1 Qg3+=; 19.Bb2 Rxg3+ 20.fxg3 Qxg3+ 21.Kh1 Qh3+ 22.Kg1 Qg3+=] 19...Rxc3 Vlad has 3 P's vs B 20.e3 Bh6?!= [20...Qg4 21.c5 Rd3³] 21.Qh1 Qxh1+ 22.Kxh1 Rc2 23.Kg1 Rd8 [23...Re8 24.c5 Kf8=] 24.c5 Kf8 25.b4 Ke7 26.b5 Ke6 27.a4 Kd5?± Vlad gets a "clear" advantage [27...Kd7 28.a5 Bg5=] 28.a5 a6?!+ Vlad gets a "winning" advantage [28...Bg5 29.Rfc1 Rb2±] 29.b6?² Vlad is losing his advantage [29.bxa6 Bg5 30.Rfb1 Ra8+ ] 29...Kc6 30.Rfb1 Kb7?+ Vlad gets back a "winning" advantage [30...Bg7 31.b7 Kc7²] 31.Rc1 Rxc1+ 32.Rxc1 Kc6 33.Rb1 Rb8 34.Kf1 f5 [34...Bf8 35.Ke2 Kb7+ ] 35.Ke2 Bg7 36.Kd3 Rd8? [36...Bf6? 37.Kc4 Bd ; 36...Bf8 37.Kc4 Kb ] 37.Kc4? [37.b7 Kc7 38.Rb6 h ] 37...h [37...Kb7 38.d5 Kb ] 38.Rd1? [38.b7 Kc7 39.Rb6 Rb ] 38...Rd5? [38...Kb7 39.d5 Be ] 39.f3? [39.b7 Rd8 40.Rb1 Kc ] 39...g5 40.e Thanks to both Bator and Eric for so admirably representing Canada! FIDE Grand Prix # 5 (Beijing) (Adapted from TWIC) The FIDE Grand Prix # 5 (Beijing) took place 4th to 16th July Opening ceremony 3rd July. Players: Boris Gelfand (Israel), Anish Giri (Netherlands), Alexander Grischuk (Russia), Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Gata Kamsky USA), Sergey Karjakin (Russia), Peter Leko (Hungary), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan), Alexander Morozevich (Russia), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria), Hao Wang

9 9 (China), Yue Wang (China - replacing Teimour Radjabov). The prize fund to be shared by the players is 170,000 EUR. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won the event with 7/11 half a point clear of Alexander Grischuk. Mamedyarov moves second in the Grand Prix and if the calculations of Mark Crowther of TWIC are correct, only a Caruana or Grischuk win in the final Grand Prix (venue formerly Paris but now not known) can deny him a Candidates place. Veselin Topalov's final round win gave him a share of third place which means victory in the Grand Prix series and that he is the first qualifier for the 2014 Candidates. In Rd. 2, Sergey beat Hao to move to 2/2, alone in first. The remaining games on the second day were drawn, leaving Alexander and Veselin tied 2 nd /3 rd. Here is Sergey s game. (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Karjakin, Sergey (2776) Wang Hao (2752) [B09] FIDE GP Beijing Beijing CHN (2), e4² d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4 Austrian Attack in the Pirc Defence 4...Bg7 5.Bd3 [5.Nf Be2 c5²] 5...e5 [5...Nc6 6.Nf3 0-0²] 6.dxe5 dxe5 7.Nf3 exf4 8.Bxf Qd2 Nc Be6 11.h3 Nd7 12.Bg5 Bf6?!± Sergey gets a "clear" advantage [12...f6 13.Bf4 Nce5²] 13.h4 h5 [13...Qe7 14.Bb5 Qc5±] 14.Qf4 [14.Bb5 Bxg5 15.hxg5 Qe7±] 14...Bxg5 15.hxg5 Qe7 16.Bb5 Nb6?!+ Sergey gets a "winning" advantage [16...Qc5 17.Bxc6 Qxc6±] 17.Bxc6 bxc6 18.Ne5 Nc4 19.Nxc4 Bxc4 20.g4 Rab8 21.gxh5 Sergey goes up a P 21...Qb4 22.Rd4?!± [22.Na4! Qe7 (22...Qxa4?? 23.hxg6 Qxc2+ 24.Kxc2 Bb3+ 25.Kb1 Rfd8 26.axb3 Rxd1+ 27.Rxd1 mate in 4 moves) 23.Qh4 Kg ] 22...Qxb2+ material equality 23.Kd2 Rfd8?! [23...Rbd8 24.Qf6 Rxd4+ 25.Qxd4 c5±] 24.Qf6 Rxd4+ 25.Qxd4 Qb6 26.Qxc4 Sergey is up an N 26...Rd [26...Qf2+ 27.Qe2 Qg ] 27.Kc1 Rd4 28.Qe2 Qc5 29.Nb1 Qxg5+ Sergey is up N vs P 30.Nd Standings after Round Three Karjakin 3 Mamedyarov 2 Grischuk 2 Topalov 2

10 10 Giri 1.5 Wang Yue 1.5 Leko 1.5 Kamsky 1 Ivanchuk 1 Morozevich 1 Wang Hao 1 Gelfand.5 In Rd. 5, Alexander G. defeated Shakhriyar to take over second place. Here is the game (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Grischuk, A (2780) Mamedyarov, S (2761) [A29] FIDE GP Beijing Beijing CHN (5), c4= Nf6 2.Nc3 e5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 Nb Be7 8.a d3 Be6 10.Be3 Nd5 11.Nxd5 Bxd5 12.Qa4 Re8 13.Rac1 a6 14.Rfd1 Bf8 15.Rc3 h6 16.Rdc1 both players have maintained equality from the start to here 16...Rc8?!² [16...Rb8 17.Nh4 g6=] 17.Bh3 Rb8 18.Bf5 g6 19.Be Bxe4 [19...f5²; 19...Qd7²] 20.dxe4 Qd7 21.Kg2 Qe6 22.b4 Qg4 23.Qc2 Qe6 24.Qa4 Qg4 25.Qc2 Qe6 26.h3 g5 27.Qa4 Qg6 [27...Red8 28.R1c2 Nd4²] 28.Nd2 Rbd8 29.Rxc6 [29.b5 Nd4 30.bxa6 Qxa6 31.Qxa6 bxa6 32.Rxc7 Nxe2²] 29...bxc6 30.Rxc6 Alexander goes up a P 30...Re6 31.Rc4 h5 32.Nf3?!= [32.Qc2 c6 33.Nb3 Be7²] 32...Be7 33.Nd2 g4 [33...Kg7 34.Qc2 c6=] 34.h4 Bf8?!² [34...Rdd6 35.Nf1 Kh7=] 35.Qc2 c6 36.Nf1 Red6?!± Alexander gets a "clear" advantage [36...Rc8 37.Bg5 Rd6²] 37.Bg5?!² [37.Bc5 Re6 38.Ne3 Kh7±] 37...R8d7 38.Be3 Re6 39.Rc3 Rd8 40.Nd2 Bg7?!± [40...Ra8 41.Nb3 Kh7²] 41.Rc5 Bf8 42.Ra5 c5 43.bxc5 Alexander goes up 2 P's 43...Rc6 44.Ra4 Qe6 45.Rc4 Rc7 46.Nb3 Qc6 47.a4 Rb8 48.Qc3 Qe6 49.Nc1 Rb2?!+ This loses another P. Alexander gets a "winning" advantage [49...f6 50.a5 Rc6±] 50.Qxb2 Qxc4 51.Qxe5 Alexander goes up 3 P's 51...Rc6? [51...Rd7 52.Nd3 Qe ] 52.Qd5? [52.Bd4 Rh6 53.Nd3 Qxa ] 52...Qxa4 Alexander is up 2 P's 53.Nd3 Re6 54.Bd4 Bg7 55.e5?!± [55.Bxg7 Kxg7 56.Ne5 Qe8+ ] 55...Bh6?!+ [55...Qc6 56.e4 Qe8±] 56.Nf4 Bxf4 57.gxf4 Qc2 58.e4 Qd1 59.f5 Re8? [59...Qf3+ 60.Kg1 Qd1+ 61.Kh2 g3+ 62.fxg3 Re ] 60.e6 Qf3+ 61.Kg Standings after Round 5 ( Tues., July 9) Sergey still in clear first Karjakin 4 Grischuk 3.5 Mamedyarov 3 Topalov 3 Giri 3 Leko 2.5 Ivanchuk 2.5 Morozevich 2.5 Wang Yue 2.5 Wang Hao 1.5 Gelfand 1 Kamsky 1

11 11 In Rd. 6 (Wed., July 10), Shakhriyar defeated the leader, Sergey. Thus Alexander, Sergey and Shakhriyar were tied for first. Here is the game (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Karjakin, Sergey (2776) Mamedyarov, S (2761) [C42] FIDE GP Beijing Beijing CHN (6), e4² e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Nc3 Nxc3 6.dxc3 Be7 7.Be3?!= [7.Bd Bf6²] 7...Nc6 [ Bc4 Nc6=] 8.Qd2 Be Qd7 10.Kb1 h6 11.h3 a6 12.g4 h5 13.gxh5 (verified depth 22) [13.g5 Ne5 14.Nd4 (14.Bg2?! Qc6²) 14...Bd5=] 13...Rxh5 14.Rg1?!³ [14.Be2 Rh8 15.Nd =] 14...Bf6 15.Bg Bxf6 gxf6 17.h4 Ne5 18.Qe3 Kb8 19.b3?! Shakhriyar gets a "clear" advantage [19.Be2 Re8 20.Qd4 Nc6³] 19...Bg4 20.Be2 Bxf3 21.Bxf3 Rxh4 Shakhriyar goes up a P 22.Bg2 Qf5?!³ [22...Re8 23.c4 Qf5 ] 23.Rd4 Rg4?!= [23...Rh2 24.Rb4 d5³] 24.Rxg4 Nxg4 25.Qd4?-+ Shakhriyar gets a "winning" advantage [25.Qh3 Re8 26.Bxb7! Re2=] 25...Qxf2 Shakhriyar goes up 2 P's 26.Qxf2 Nxf2 27.Rf1 Ng4 28.Bh3 Ne5 29.Rxf6 Shakhriyar is up 1 P 29...c6 30.Rf2 Rg8 31.c4 Rg3 32.Bf5 Kc7 33.Rh2 Rf3 34.Rh5 a5?! [34...b5 35.cxb5 axb5-+] 35.Kb2 Rg3 36.Rh7 Kb6 37.Bc8 Rg8 38.Bf5 Kc5 39.Rh4 Rg2 40.Rf4 Rg3 41.Bc8 b6 42.a3 Rf3 43.Rxf3 Nxf3 44.Kc3 d5 45.b4+ axb4+ 46.axb4+ Kd6 47.cxd5 cxd5 48.Kd3 Ne5+ 49.Ke3 Nc6 50.c3 Ke5 51.Kd3 Ne7 52.Bb7 Nf5 53.Bc8 Nd6 54.Bg4 f5 55.Bf3 f4 56.Bh5 Nc4 57.Bf3 Ne3 58.Be2 Ng2 59.Bg4 Ne3 [59...Kd6 60.Kd4 Ne3 ] 60.Be2 Nc4 [60...Ke6 61.Bf3 Kd6 ] 61.Bf3 Nd6 [61...Na3 62.Ke2 Nb5 ] 62.Bh5 Ne4 63.c4 d4?!³ Shakhriyar is losing his advantage [63...dxc4+ 64.Kxc4 Nd6+±] 64.Bf3 Ng5 65.Bg4?-+ Shakhriyar gets back a "winning" advantage [65.Bh1 Ne6 66.Bc6 Nc7²] 65...f3 66.c5 f2 67.Ke2 bxc5 68.bxc5 Kf4 69.c6 Kg3 70.c7 Kg2 71.c8Q f1q+ So both Q's are back on the board, and Shakhriyar is still up a passed P (last one on the board). Can he queen it? 72.Kd2 Ne4+ 73.Kc2 d3+ 74.Kb2? [74.Kb3 Qb1+ 75.Ka3 Qa1+ 76.Kb3 Nd2+ 77.Kb4 Qd4+ 78.Kb5 Ne ] 74...Kg3? [74...Qf2+ 75.Ka3 Qa ] 75.Qf5 Qg2+?! [75...Qe1 76.Qf3+ Kh4 77.Qxd3 Qb4+-+] 76.Ka3 Qh1?= Shakhriyar has lost his advantage. It is now a draw. [76...Nf2 77.Bh5 Qa8+ ] 77.Bd1 Qxd1 78.Qxe4 Qe2 79.Qg6+ Kf2 80.Qf6+ Qf3 81.Qd4+ Ke2 82.Qe5+ Kf2 83.Qd4+ Kf1 84.Qa1+ Kg2 85.Qg7+ Qg3 86.Qb7+ Kf2 87.Kb2 Ke2 88.Qe4+ Qe3 89.Qg2+ Qf2 90.Qe4+ Kd2 91.Kb3??-+ a blunder the losing move. Shakhriyar gets back his "winning" advantage [91.Qb7 Ke2 92.Qc6 d2=] 91...Qb6+ 92.Kc4 Qa6+ 93.Kb3??-+ leads to mate [93.Kb4 Kc2 94.Qd5 Qb ] 93...Qb5+ 94.Ka2?-+ mate in 8 moves [94.Ka3 Kc3 95.Qe1+ Kc2 96.Qb4 Qxb4+ 97.Kxb4 d2-+ mate in 11 moves] 94...Kc3 95.Qe1+ Kc2-+ mate in 5 moves 0-1 In Rd. 7, Sergey lost and Alexander G and Shakhriyar won, leaving them now tied for first. Here is Alexander G s win over Yue (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Grischuk, A (2780) Wang Yue (2705) [A07] FIDE GP Beijing Beijing CHN (6), Nf3² d5 2.g3?!= [2.d4²] 2...Nf6 3.Bg2 c6 [3...c Nc6=] [4.d4 g6 5.c4 dxc4=] 4...g6 5.d3 Bg7 6.Nbd e4 a5 8.a4 Bg4 9.e5 Nfd7 10.d4 c5 11.h3 Bxf3 12.Nxf3 cxd4 Yue goes up a P 13.e6?!³ [13.Qxd4 e6 14.Bf4 h6=] 13...fxe6 14.Nxd4 Nc5 15.Re1 Ra6 16.c3 Nbd7 17.Be3 Kh8?!= [17...Ne5 18.Nb5 Qc8³] 18.Nb5 Qc8 19.Rc1 [19.Qc2 Ne5 20.Rad1 Kg8=] 19...Rd8?² [19...Ne5 20.Re2 Kg8=] 20.b4 [20.Re2 Ne5 21.b3 Nf7²] 20...Ne4 21.c4 axb4 22.cxd5 Nc3 23.Nxc3 bxc3?!± Alexander gets a "clear" advantage [23...Bxc3 24.Bd4+ Nf6²] 24.Bd4 Bxd4 25.Qxd4+ e5 26.Qb4 Qc5 27.Qxc5 Nxc5 28.Rxc3 material equality 28...Nd7 29.Re4?!² [29.Rc7 Rxa4 30.Rxb7 Kg8±] 29...Rd6 30.Rc7 b6 31.Re1 Kg7?!± [31...Kg8 32.Bf1 Kf7²] 32.f4 exf4 33.Rxe7+ Kf6 34.Rxh7 fxg3 35.Rc3 Ne5 36.Rxg3 Alexander goes up a P 36...Rc8 37.Rh4?!² [37.Re3?! Rc4 38.Ra3 Rd4²; 37.Rb3?! Rc4 38.Ra7 Nd7²; 37.Ra3 Rc4 38.Rh8 Nd7±]

12 Rc4?!± [37...Rc1+ 38.Kh2 Rc2²] 38.Rxc4 Nxc4 39.Kf2 g5 40.Rg4 Ne5 41.Rd4 Ng6 42.Kg3 Ke5 43.Rg4 Kf6 44.Rc4 Ne7 45.Rc3 Kg7 46.Rd3 Rh6?!+ Alexander gets a "winning" advantage [46...Kf6 47.Kg4 Nf5±] 47.Kg4 Kf6 48.d6 Rh4+ 49.Kg3 Nf5+ 50.Kf3?!± [50.Kf2 Rf4+ 51.Ke2 Nd4+ 52.Kd2 Ne6+ ] 50...Nd4+ 51.Kf2 Ne6 52.d7 Ke7 53.Bc6 Nd8?!+ [53...Rd4 54.Re3 Kf6±] 54.Bb5 g4 55.hxg4 Rxg4 56.Rh3 Kd6 57.Rc3 Rb4 58.Ke3 Ke7 59.Rc8 XABCDEFGHY 8-+Rsn-+-+( 7+-+Pmk-+-' 6-zp-+-+-+& 5+L+-+-+-% 4Ptr-+-+-+$ 3+-+-mK-+-# " ! xabcdefghy Rxb5?? the losing move, though the game was already in trouble an unsound exchange sac [59...Rb1 60.Kf3 Rd ] 60.axb5 Kxd7 Alexander is up the exchange 61.Rb8 Kc7 62.Ra8 Ne6 63.Ke4 Kd6 64.Rc8 Nc5+ 65.Kd4 Nb3+ 66.Kc3 Na5 67.Rh8 Kc5 68.Rh5+ Kd6 69.Rg5 Kc7 70.Kd4 Nb3+ 71.Kd5 Na5 72.Rg7+ Kc Kd6 Kb8??+ leads to mate [73...Nc4+ 74.Kc6 Kd ] 74.Rc7 Ka8 75.Rc8+ Kb7 76.Kd Ka7 77.Kc7+ mate in 30 moves 1-0 In Rd. 9 (Sun., July 14), Shakhriyar defeated Anish. Here is that game (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (2761) Giri, Anish (2734) [D90] FIDE GP Beijing Beijing CHN (9.5), d4² Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Qa4+?!= [5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Nxc3 7.bxc3 c5²] 5...Bd7 6.Qb3 dxc4 7.Qxc Bf4 c6 9.e4 b5 10.Qb3 c5?!² [10...Qa5 11.Bd2 b4=] 11.dxc5 Shakhriyar goes up a P 11...Qa5 12.Bd2 b4 13.Nd5 Nc6 14.Bd3 [14.Qc4 Rad8 15.Nxb4 Nxb4 16.Bxb4 Qc7²] 14...Be6 15.Ng5?³ for the first time in the game, Anish gets the advantage [ Rad8 16.Bc4 Nxe4 17.Nxe7+ Nxe7 18.Bxb4 Bxc4 19.Qxc4 Qa4²] 15...Rad8??+ Shakhriyar gets a "winning" advantage [15...Bxd5 16.exd5 Ne5³] 16.Nxe6 fxe6 17.Nxb4 Shakhriyar goes up 2 P's 17...Nd4 18.Qc4 Nd Nc6 Qxc5 20.Nxd8 Shakhriyar is up R + P 20...Ne5? [20...Rxd8 21.Bf4 Qxc4 22.Bxc4 Nc2+ 23.Ke2 Nxa1 24.Bxe6+ Kf8 25.Rd1 Nc2 26.Bc7 Nd4+ 27.Rxd4 Bxd4 28.Bxd8 Nc Shakhriyar would be up 2 P's] 21.Nxe6 Shakhriyar is up R + 2 P's 21...Qd6

13 13 Position after 21 Qd6 XABCDEFGHY trk+( 7zp-+-zp-vlp' 6-+-wqN+p+& 5+-+-sn-+-% 4-+QsnP+-+$ 3+-+L+-+-# 2PzP-vL-zPPzP" 1tR-+-mK-+R! xabcdefghy 22.Nxd4+! a Q sac 22...Nxc4 23.Bxc4+ Shakhriyar is up R + B + N + 2 P's vs Q 23...Kh8 24.Ne6 Rc8 25.Bd5 Bxb2 Shakhriyar is up R + B + N + P vs Q 26.Rb1 Rc2? [26...Bc3 27.Bxc3+ Rxc h ] 27.Rxb2?? an unsound exchange sac [27.Kd1 Rxd2+ 28.Kxd2 Bf Shakhriyar would be up 2 R's + N + P vs Q] 27...Rxb2 Shakhriyar is up 2 B's + N + P vs Q 28.Bc3+ Kg In Rd. 10, Alexander M defeated the leader, Shakhriyar. Here is that game (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Morozevich, Alexander (2736) Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (2761) [D78] FIDE GP Beijing Beijing CHN (10.3), Nf3² Nf6 2.c4?!= [2.d4²] 2...g6?!² [2...Nc6 3.d4 e6=] 3.g3?!= [3.Nc3?! c5 4.e4 (4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nc6=) 4...Bg7=; 3.d4 Bg7 4.Nc3 c5²] 3...Bg7 4.Bg d4 c6 [5...c5 6.d5 Qa5+ 7.Bd2 Qa6=] d5 7.Qb3 dxc4 8.Qxc4 Qd5?!² [8...Na6 9.Nc3 Be6=] 9.Nbd2?!= [9.Qa4 Qd8 10.Nc3 Nbd7²] 9...Qxc4 10.Nxc4 Be6?!² [10...Nbd7 11.Rd1 Nb6=] 11.b3 Bd5 12.Ba3 Re8 13.Rac1 Nbd7 14.Na5 Rab8 15.Rfd1 Bf8?!± Alexander gets a "clear" advantage [15...Bh6 16.e3 Nf8²] 16.Ne5 Bxg2 17.Kxg2 e6 18.Bxf8 Kxf8 19.Nec4 Ke7 20.b4 Rec8 21.a3 g5 22.Nb2?!² [22.f3 g4 23.e4 b6±] 22...Ne8 23.Nd3 f5 [23...Nd6 24.Nb3 Rd8²] 24.h4 g4 25.Nf4 Nef6 26.Rc2 Nd5 27.Nd3 Rf8 28.e3 Rfe8 29.Re1 N5f6 30.Rb1 Rec8 31.Rbc1 Rd8?!± [31...Nb6 32.Nc5 Rc7²] 32.a4 Ne4?!+ Alexander gets a "winning" advantage [32...Rh8 33.b5 cxb5 34.axb5 Nd5±] 33.b5 cxb5 Shakhriyar goes up a P 34.Rc7 Nd6 35.Nc5 bxa4? Shakhriyar goes up 2 P's [35...Ne8 36.Rxb7 Rxb7 37.Nc6+ Kf6 38.Nxb7 Rc8 39.axb5 Rc ] 36.Ncxb7 Shakhriyar is up a P 36...Nxb7 37.Nxb7 Rf8 38.R1c6 Rf7 39.Nc5 Ke8 40.Rxe6+ material equality 40...Kd8 41.Rec Shakhriyar resigned. He must lose material 41...Ke8 42.Nxa4 Nf6 43.Rc5 Rxc7 44.Rxc7 a6 45.Ra7 Ne4 46.Rxh7 Rb4+ Alexander would be up 2 P's, with 2 passed P's to Shakhriyar's 1 passed P 1-0 In the final Rd. 11, Veselin defeated Alexander M, to tie for third and guarantee himself a place in the 2014 Candidates Tournament. Here is that game (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Topalov, Veselin (2767) Morozevich, Alexander (2736) [C41]

14 14 FIDE GP Beijing Beijing CHN (11.5), e4² d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e5 4.Nf3 Nbd7 [4...exd4 5.Nxd4 Be7²] 5.Bc4 [5.Be2 Be ²] 5...Be a4 [7.h3 c6 8.Re1 b5²] 7...c6 8.Re1 a5 [8...h6 9.a5 Re8²] 9.h3 Nb6 10.Bb3 Nfd7 11.Be3 exd4 12.Nxd4 Nc5 13.Qf3 Nxb3 14.cxb3 Be6?!± Veselin gets a "clear" advantage [14...Nd7 15.Rad1 Ne5²] 15.Rad1 Nd7 16.Qg3 Ne5 17.Re2 Ng6 18.f4?!² [18.Nf5 Bxb3 19.Nxe7+ Qxe7 20.Rxd6 Be6±] 18...c5?!± [18...Bd7 19.Bf2 f5²] 19.Nf5?!² [19.Nxe6 fxe6 20.Qg4 Qc8±] 19...Bxb3 Alexander goes up a P 20.Rdd2 Rc8?!± [20...b6 21.Rf2 Qb8±] 21.Rf2 Kh8 22.h4 Rg8?!+ Veselin gets a "winning" advantage [22...Bxh4 23.Nxh4 Qxh4 24.Qxh4 Nxh4±] 23.h5 Nf8 XABCDEFGHY 8-+rwq-snrmk( 7+p+-vlpzpp' 6-+-zp-+-+& 5zp-zp-+N+P% 4P+-+PzP-+$ 3+lsN-vL-wQ-# 2-zP-tR-tRP+" mK-! xabcdefghy 24.Nxd6! an N sac; material equality 24...Bxd6 Alexander is up a B, but the B is pinned 25.e5?!± [25.Nb5 Rc6 26.e5 f6+ ] 25...f5?!+ [25...Qe8 26.Rxd6 Bxa4±] 26.Rxd6 material equality 26...Qe8 27.Qh3 Be6 28.Rfd2 h6 29.Nb5 Nd7 30.Qf3 b6? [30...Nf8 31.Rb6 Rb ] 31.Qd1 Nf8 32.Rxb6 Veselin goes up a P 32...Qe7 33.Qf3 Nd7 34.Rb7 Rb8 35.Ra7 Rgd8 36.Rd6 Qf7 37.Nc7 Bc4 38.e6 Qe7 39.Rxd7 Veselin is up N + P 39...Rxd7 40.exd7 Qxd7 Veselin is up an N 41.Nb5 Qe6 42.Qg Here is the final cross-table: FIDE GP Beijing Beijing CHN Thu 4th Jul Tue 16th Jul 2013 Leading Final Round 11 Standings: Rk Name Ti FED Rtg Pts TB1 TB2 1 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar GM AZE 2761 * 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ Grischuk, Alexander GM RUS * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 6½ Topalov, Veselin GM BUL ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 6 ½ 31.75

15 15 4 Leko, Peter GM HUN 2737 ½ ½ ½ * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 6 ½ Karjakin, Sergey GM RUS ½ 0 0 * ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 5½ 2½ Wang, Yue GM CHN 2705 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1½ Morozevich, Alexander GM RUS ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ * ½ 1 ½ 0 1 5½ Giri, Anish GM NED ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ * 1 0 ½ 1 5½ Gelfand, Boris GM ISR 2773 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 * ½ 1 ½ 5 1½ Wang, Hao GM CHN ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 ½ * ½ Ivanchuk, Vassily GM UKR ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 0 ½ * 0 5 ½ Kamsky, Gata GM USA 2763 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 * 3½ players Here are the updated Grand Prix standings after 5 events: Name Fed Criteria London 2012 Tashkent 2012 Zug 2013 Thess Beijing 2013 (Paris 2013) Best 3 total Topalov BUL Rating Mamedyarov AZE Rating Grischuk RUS World Cup x 315 Caruana ITA FIDE President x 305

16 16 Morozevich RUS AGON Karjakin RUS Rating x 255 Wang Hao CHN AGON x 240 Ponomariov UKR World Cup x 235 Leko HUN AGON Dominguez CUB AGON x 225 Nakamura USA Rating x 215 Kamsky USA Replacement Gelfand ISR Match x 200 Kasimdzhanov UZB AGON Giri NED AGON x 130 Svidler RUS World Cup x 95 Ivanchuk UKR World Cup x 95 Wang Yue CHN Replacement Adams ENG Replacement Bacrot FRA Replacement Radjabov AZE AGON 20 x 20

17 17 46 th Biel Chess Festival, Switzerland. (adapted from TWIC) The 46th Biel Chess Festival 2013 took place 22nd July to 2nd August The main GM event took place in honour of Olivier Breisacher the organizer who died just after last year's event. Indeed it has been a sad year for the event with the loss of Hans Suri, Lucio Barvas and Rino Castagna who were all closely associated with the tournament. The 6 players in the double round-robin were: Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia); Etienne Bacrot (France); Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France); Richard Rapport (Hungary); Alexander Moiseenko (Ukraine); Ding Liren (China). In the last round, Maxime defeated Liren to make a 4-way tie for first after regular play. So there was a 4 way play off Fri. Aug.2 (Semi-Final 5m+2spm; Final 15m+10spm). Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat Liren Ding 2-0 in a blitz (5 min. + 2 seconds per move) semi-final and Alexander Moiseenko in a rapid (15 min seconds per move) final to win the first Breisacher Memorial as part of the 46th Biel Chess Festival. Final Here is Maxime s win in the rapid final, game 1, against Alexander (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Vachier Lagrave, Maxime (2719) Moiseenko, Alexander (2699) [B30] Breisacher Memorial Playoff Biel SUI (2.1), e4² c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3?!= [3.Bb5²] 3...d5 4.exd5 Qxd5 5.d4 Bf5 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Na3 cxd4 8.Bc4 Qa5 9.Nxd4 Nxd4 10.Bxd4 e5 11.Bb5+ Bd7 12.Bxd7+ Nxd7 13.Nc4 Qd5?!² [13...Qc7 14.Qe =] 14.Qe2 Be7?!± Maxime gets a "clear" advantage [14...f6 15.f4 b5²]

18 18 15.Nxe5 Maxime goes up a P 15...Nxe5 16.Qxe5 Qxg2 material equality 17.Qb5+ Kf Qg5+ 19.Qxg5 Bxg5+ 20.Kc2 Be7?!+ Maxime gets a "winning" advantage [20...b6 21.Rhg1 f6±] 21.Rhe1?!± [21.Be3 b6 22.Rd7 g5+ ] 21...f6?! [21...b6 22.Bxg7+! (22.Be5 Rg8±) 22...Kxg7 23.Rxe7 Rhe8±] 22.Bxa7 Maxime goes up a P again 22...Rd8? [22...Rxa7 23.Rd7 Bc5 24.Rd8+ Kf7 25.Rxh8 Bxf ] XABCDEFGHY 8r+-+-mk-tr( 7vLp+-vl-zpp' zp-+& % $ 3+-zP-+-+-# 2PzPK+-zP-zP" 1+-+RtR-+-! xabcdefghy 23.Bc5! Alexander resigned. He must lose material 23...Rxd1 24.Bxe7+ Kf7 25.Kxd1 Rc8+ Maxime would be up B + P 1-0 Standings: 1st Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, 2nd Alexander Moiseenko, 3rd Etienne Bacrot (on Sonneborn-Berger from Ding), 4th Ding Liren, 5th Ian Nepomniachtchi and 6th Richard Rapport. Sparkassen Chess Meeting, Dortmund, Germany After 6 rounds, both Vladimir Kramnik, 14 th World Champion, and Michael Adams, top English player, had 5 points. They met in the final round 9. Adams leading by ½ pt.. Mickey won the 41st Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund after playing a quick draw with Vladimir in Sunday's final round. The 41-year-old Englishman finished on 7/9 (TPR 2923) which was half a point more than Vladimir Kramnik ( who had won ten times in Dortmund, but not in 2012 and not in 2013).

19 19 Mickey Adams Here is Michael s round 3 win against Italian Fabiano Caruana, no. 3 in the world (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Caruana, Fabiano (2796) Adams, Michael (2740) [C67] 41st GM Dortmund GER (3.4), e4² e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf Nxe4 5.d4 Nd6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.dxe5 Nf5 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 9.h3 Bd7 [9...Be6 10.g4 Ne7²] 10.Rd1 Kc8?!± Fabiano gets a "clear" advantage [10...Ke8 11.Nc3 Be7²] 11.g4 Ne7 12.Ng5 Be8 13.f4?!² [13.Nc3 b6 14.e6 fxe6 15.Nxe6 Bf7±] 13...h5 14.Kf2 b6 15.f5 Kb7 16.Nc3 [16.c4 f6 17.exf6 gxf6²] 16...hxg4 [16...Nd5 17.Nxd5 cxd5²] 17.hxg4 Rh2+?!± [17...Nd5 18.Nxd5 cxd5 19.Bf4 (19.Rxd5? Rh1 20.Kg2 Bc6 21.Kxh1 Bxd5+ 22.Kh2 f6³) 19...Be7²] 18.Kg3 Rxc2 Mickey goes up a P 19.Nh7?!² [19.e6 f6 20.Nh7 Ng6! 21.Nxf8 Nxf8±] 19...c5 20.Nxf8?!= Fabiano is up N vs P [20.e6 fxe6 21.Nxf8 exf5²] 20...Bc6 21.f6? for the first time in the game, Mickey gets the advantage, a "clear" advantage [21.Nd7 Rg2+ 22.Kf4 Rg8=] 21...Rg2+ 22.Kf4?!-+ Mickey gets a "winning" advantage [22.Kh3 gxf6 23.Bh6 f5 ] 22...gxf6 [22...Rxf8?! 23.fxe7 Re8±] 23.exf6 Rf2+ 24.Ke Rxf6 Fabiano is up N vs 2 P's 25.Nh7 Rf3+ 26.Kd2 Rd8+ 27.Kc2 XABCDEFGHY 8-+-tr-+-+( 7zpkzp-snp+N' 6-zpl+-+-+& 5+-zp-+-+-% P+$ 3+-sN-+r+-# 2PzPK+-+-+" 1tR-vLR+-+-! xabcdefghy

20 20 Rxc3+! nice sac 28.bxc Fabiano is up R vs 2 P's compensation [28.Kxc3 Rxd ] 28...Ba4+ 29.Kb2 Rxd1 Mickey is up 2 P's 30.Bg Nc6 31.Rxd1 Bxd1 32.Bf4 Bxg4 Mickey is up 3 P's 33.Nf6 Bf3 34.Ne8 Na5 35.Nxc7 Mickey is up 2 P's 35...Bc6 36.Kc2 Kc8 37.Kd3 Kd7 38.Kc2 Nc4 39.Na6 Bb7 40.Nb8+ Kc8 41.Kd3 b Here is the final cross-table: 41st GM Dortmund (GER), 26 vii-4 viii 2013 cat. XIX (2709) Adams, Michael g ENG 2740 * ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2784 ½ * 1 ½ ½ 1 6½ Leko, Peter g HUN 2737 ½ 0 * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 4½ Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER ½ 0 * 1 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 4½ Andreikin, Dmitry g RUS ½ 0 * ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ Meier, Georg g GER 2610 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ * ½ 0 ½ ½ Caruana, Fabiano g ITA ½ ½ 1 ½ * 0 ½ Wang, Hao g CHN ½ 0 ½ 1 1 * Khenkin, Igor g GER ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 * ½ 3½ Fridman, Daniel g GER 2629 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ *

21 th British Chess Championships 2013 The 100th British Chess Championships took place 29th July to 10th August The winner was David Howell, with 9.5/11, With one round to go, he had already won the Championship.. Here were the top players after 10/11 rounds (from chessgames.com): 100th British Championship Tournament David Howell 9/10 (+8-0 =2) [view games] Mark Hebden Gawain Jones Yang-Fan Zhou Bogdan Lalic Glenn Flear Peter K Wells Stephen Gordon Keith Arkell Gyula Meszaros Daniel Gormally Richard J Palliser Alexander Longson Ameet Ghasi Dietmar Kolbus Jonathan Hawkins Charles H Storey Jean-Luc Weller Andrew P Horton Richard A Bates John Emms Marcus R Harvey Christopher Ward Simon Kim Williams Jack Rudd Daniel Howard Fernandez Simon J B Knott Dominic Mackle 7.5/10 (+5-0 =5) [view games] 7.5/10 (+5-0 =5) [view games] 7/10 (+5-1 =4) [view games] 7/10 (+4-0 =6) [view games] 7/10 (+5-1 =4) [view games] 7/10 (+6-2 =2) [view games] 7/10 (+5-1 =4) [view games] 7/10 (+6-2 =2) [view games] 7/10 (+5-1 =4) [view games] 7/10 (+7-3 =0) [view games] 6.5/10 (+5-2 =3) [view games] 6.5/10 (+4-1 =5) [view games] 6.5/10 (+5-2 =3) [view games] 6/10 (+3-1 =6) [view games] 6/10 (+4-2 =4) [view games] 6/10 (+5-3 =2) [view games] 6/10 (+4-2 =4) [view games] 6/10 (+5-3 =2) [view games] 6/10 (+5-3 =2) [view games] 6/10 (+3-1 =6) [view games] 6/10 (+4-2 =4) [view games] 6/10 (+5-3 =2) [view games] 6/10 (+5-3 =2) [view games] 6/10 (+6-4 =0) [view games] 6/10 (+6-4 =0) [view games] 6/10 (+4-2 =4) [view games] 6/10 (+5-3 =2) [view games]

22 22 Neil Carr 6/10 (+5-3 =2) [view games] (107 players total; 79 players not shown. Click here for longer list.) Here are the final top finishers: 100th ch-gbr 2013 Torquay ENG Sun 28th Jul Sat 10th Aug 2013 Leading Final Round 11 Standings: Rk Name Ti FED Rtg Pts TPR 1 Howell, David W L GM ENG ½ 1 ½ ½ Jones, Gawain C B GM ENG ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ Hebden, Mark L GM ENG ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ Gordon, Stephen J GM ENG ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ Gormally, Daniel W GM ENG ½ Lalic, Bogdan GM CRO ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ Wells, Peter K GM ENG ½ ½ 1 ½ Zhou, Yang-Fan IM ENG ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ Flear, Glenn C GM ENG 2456 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ Arkell, Keith C GM ENG ½ ½ ½ USA Open, St. Louis Going into the last round, Alex Lenderman led with 7.5/8, and 5 were tied for 2 nd /5 th with 7/8. Overall winners were GMs Julio Sadorra and Joshua Friedel and IM Mackenzie Molner on 8.0/9, with Friedel taking the US Open title on tie-break.. Tournament Website:

23 23 Articles FIDE August 1, 2013 Regular Rating List Open/Women s Open Magnus Carlsen ( Norway ), # 1 for most of 2010 & 2011, all of 2012, and all of 2013 so far (now the player with the most # 1 s), the youngest player ever to hold this position, and the highest rated human ever, sits with a rating of 2862 (had a peak rating of 2872 is it really possible he may one day be the first to break the 2900 barrier?). The second player over 2800 is Armenian Levon Aronian, at [ Garry Kasparov ( Russia ), 13 th World Champion, retired March, 2005, was the first player to break 2800 ( peak rating - July nd highest rated player ever ); Kramnik was the second player; Veselin Topalov, 2005 FIDE World Champion, was the third; Viswanathan Anand, 15 th and current World Champion was the fourth; Magnus Carlsen was the fifth; and Levon Aronian is the sixth. ]. Besides these 2 in the 2800 s, there are 44 players in the 2700 s ( same as last list ). The top players are ( birth date of younger players [Under 22 yrs. as of Jan. 1 = born in or after 1991] in brackets, after country ) : # 1 : Magnus Carlsen (Norway), rated 2862;

24 24 # 2 : Levon Aronian ( Armenia ) rated 2813; # 3: Fabiano Caruana (Italy 1992), rated 2796 (up 22 points!!). # 4: Alexander Grischuk (Russia), rated 2780.

25 25 # 5 : Vladimir Kramnik ( Russia ), 14 th World Champion, rated # 6: Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan), rated 2775 (up 14 points); # 7: Viswanathan Anand ( India ), 15 th and current World Champion, rated 2775 (up from # 8);

26 26 # 8: Sergey Karjakin (Russia), rated 2772; # 9: Hikaru Nakamura ( USA ), rated # 10: Veselin Topalov ( Bulgaria ), rated 2769;

27 27 # 54 : Judit Polgar ( Hungary ), the strongest women s player in the world, with 2696 ( over 2700 from October December, 2012 lists last time before that was on the July/12 list ) ( in 2005, she was in the top 10 with a rating of She has taken periods off to have children and had dropped below 2700 for a while, before going back over 2700 again for a while).. Some other past World Champions/FIDE World Champions still in the top 100, and their current ratings are : # 13: 2002 FIDE World Champion, Ruslan Ponomariov ( Ukraine ) at 2756; # 47 : 2004 FIDE World Champion, Rustam Kasimdzhanov ( Uzbekistan ) at Here are the younger ( Under 22 as of Jan. 1 ) players we re watching - not in the top ten, but in the top 30, ( birth date in brackets after country )[ note: juniors = U 20 yrs. as of Jan. 1 ]: # 20 : Anish Giri ( Netherlands 1994 ) # 28 : Ding Liren (China 1992 Chinese surname first) 2718 (lost 16 pts.).. Women Four women have broken the 2600 barrier: first: GM Judit Polgar ( Hungary ) also only woman to break 2700; second: Humpy Koneru ( India ); third: Hou Yifan ( Chinese surname first ) former Women s World Champion and 2013 Women s Championship Challenger, against Women s Champion Anna Ushenina ( Ukraine ) ); fourth: Anna Muzychuk ( Slovenia ). The top 10 women in the world are : # 1 : GM Judit Polgar ( Hungary ), rated 2696 ( first woman player in history to break 2700; peaked at 2735 in the July 1, 2005 rating list; was back in the 2700 club briefly on the July/12 list, after a number of years in the 2600 s; dropped down again, and was briefly back again from Oct. Dec./12 );

28 28 # 2 : GM Hou Yifan ( China 1994 ), rated 2600; # 3: GM Humpy Koneru ( India ) 2607; # 4 : IM Anna Muzychuk ( Slovenia )

29 29 # 5: GM Nana Dzagnidze ( Georgia ) 2569 (up 11 pts.); # 6: GM Zhao Xue ( China ) 2562 (up 9 points); # 7: GM Kateryna Lagno ( Ukraine ) 2542;

30 30 # 8: WGM Ju Wenjun (China), rated # 9: GM Nadezhda Kosintseva (Russia), rated 2531; # 10: GM Tatiana Kosintseva (Russia) rated 2528

31 31 NATIONAL Organizations Chess Federation of Canada ( CFC ) Website: Chess Discussion Forum: (by TCN Liaison for CFC, Bob Armstrong, CFC Public Relations Coordinator) CFC Governors 1. Provincial Rep. Governors Vacancy (YT entitled to1 governor - vacant; NWT and Nunavut have no members and so are not entitled to a governor) Note all executive who are provincial representative governors or past presidents, except President and Past President, remain such. AB 5 Rick Pedersen Simon Ong (Vice-President) Vlad Rekhson Terry Seehagen Edward Porper BC 5 Lyle Craver (Secretary) Peter Yee Paul Leblanc (Rating Auditor) Alonso Campos Valer Demian MB 2 Ken Einarsson Steven de Groot NB 2 Ken Craft George Hensel NL 1 Alick Tsui

32 32 NS 1 Chris Felix NU 0 NWT 0 ON 19: GTCL 9 Michael Barron Ilia Bluvshtein Egis Zeromskis Marcus Wilker Evgeni Tobolovsky Bob Armstrong (Public Relations Coordinator) Nikolay Noritsyn Chris Field Bindi Cheng SWOCL 5 Lee Hendon Chris Mallon Garvin Nunes Patrick McDonald Hal Bond (FIDE Rep) EOCA 4 Aris Marghetis William Doubleday Garland Best David Gordon NOCL 1 (updated) Ellen Nadeau PEI 1 Fred McKim QC 3 Hugh Brodie Felix Dumont Marc Poulin SK 1 Robert Sasata YT 0 ( Vacant 1 ) 2. Governors at large vacancies A - Executive 3

33 33 President Vladimir Drkulec Immediate Past President Mark Dutton Youth Coordinator Frank Lee B. Non-Executive Officers vacancy Masters' Representative Deen Hergott Women's Coordinator Liza Orlova Tournament Coordinator Richard Berube Director of Fund-raising vacant; ( Note: Public Relations Coordinator ( Armstrong ) and Rating Auditor ( Leblanc ) are prov. reps.)

34 34 C Other Organizations vacancy Chess Foundation of Canada - Lynn Stringer Canadian Correspondence Chess Association - vacant D - Canadian Champion and Runner-Up 2 Bator Sambuev Anton Kovalyov E Former CFC Presidents ( some Life Governors ) 12 ( i ) Life Governors 9 Phil Haley Les Bunning Terry Fleming Francisco Cabanas Peter Stockhausen Maurice Smith Yves Farges Halldor Palsson Bruce D Thomas ( ii ) Presidents in the past 5 years ( Excluding the Past President ) vacancy holds the governor-at-large position of Past President vacant (Michael von Keitz declined to hold the position) Bob Gillanders Eric Van Dusen David Lavin 3. Total Governors vacancies Note: You can see from the above: 1. There are 9 former president life governors ( 2 consecutive term presidents, or appointed ); 2. The President, when elected, is no longer a Provincial Representative governor on becoming president, he becomes a governor-at-large. He has the power to appoint a replacement governor for himself from his home Province, if elected as a Provincial Rep initially. This list is complete as of 13/08/09. Tournament Reports (Note: if you play in a tournament, and have a good game, send it on for us to consider publishing with our tournament report)

35 35 Canadian Open GM Nigel Short (ENG) and GM Eric Hansen finished with 7.5/9, with the title going to GM Nigel Short on tie-breaks. 1st GM Nigel Short (7.5/9) $4000 2nd GM Eric Hansen (7.5/9) $4000 =3rd-7th (7/9) ($1060 each) GM Ivan Sokolov, GM Lazaro Bruzon, IM Aman Hambleton,

36 36 IM Edward Porper, IM Arthur Calugar =8th-14 (6.5/9) ($100 each) GM Elshan Moradiabadi, GM Bator Sambuev, IM Artiom Samsonkin, IM Raja Panjwani, GM Ioan Cristian Chirila, GM Luis Manuel Perez Rodriguez, IM Keaton Kiewra, Rodney Perez Garcia U2400 1st (6.5/9) ($1200) FM Roman Sapozhnikov =2nd-7th (6/9) ($190 each) FM Kevel Oliva Castaneda, Evgeny Miller, FM Michael Dougherty, Kevin Pacey, Victor Plotkin, Alex Yam U2200 1st-2nd (6/9) $850 each Stijn De Kerpel, Agastya Kalra 3rd-7th (5.5/9) $55 each Digeng Du Steve Demmery Yevgeni Nahutin Ramon J Cova James Chan NB: Qiyu Zhou tied with 5.5/9, but is was eligible for a more valuable prize. U2000 1st-2nd (5.5/9) $700 each

37 37 Saeid Sadeghi Dmitry Chernik 3rd-10th (4.5/9) $40 Jeremy Hui James Currie Gordon Giacomin Adam Adriaanse Max Gedajlovic Amos Kuttner Mateusz Dydak Paul Leblanc U1800 1st-3rd (4.5/9) $458 each Nathan Farrnt-Diaz Guy Piche Matt Morabito U1600 1st-3rd (4/9) $383 Edward Selling Jill Ding Rinna Yu UNRATED 1st (4.5/9) $250 Vitaliy Matytsyn 2nd (2.5/9) $150 Ken Douglas WOMEN 1st (5.5/9) $400 Qiyu Zhou

38 38 2nd (5/9) $200 WCM Alexandra Botez JUNIORS (U18) 1st (6.5/9) $400 IM Richard Wang 2nd (6/9) $200 Michael Song SENIOR (+60) 1st-2nd (5.5/9) $300 each William Doubleday IM Leon Piasetski Top Prize Section Games In Rd. 3, James Fu upset Can. IM Bindi Cheng. Here is the game (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Fu, James (2257) Cheng, Bindi (2516) [B25] Canadian Open 2013 Ottawa (3), e4² c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.g3?!= [3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4 Nf6²] 3...Bg7 4.Bg2 Nc Nf6 6.Nc Re1 d6 8.d3 Bg4 9.h3 Bxf3 10.Bxf3 Rb8 11.Bg2 Nd7 12.Nd5 e6 13.Ne3 b5 14.a4?!³ [14.e5 d5 15.f4 Rc8=] 14...b4 15.Nc4 Nb6 16.Nxb6?! Bindi gets a "clear" advantage [16.Nd2 Nd4 17.Rf1 Qd7³] 16...Qxb6 17.Rb b3?= [17...Qa5 18.Bf4 Rfd8 ] 18.c3 Qa5 [18...Qa6 19.Bf4 Ne5=] 19.Bf4 e5 20.Be3 Qxa4 Bindi goes up a P 21.Ra1 Qb5 22.Ra3 a5 23.Bf1 Qb6 24.Qg4 Kh8 25.Be2?!³ [25.Qe2 Rb7 26.Qd2 Rfb8=] 25...f5 26.exf5 gxf5 27.Qh4 f4 28.gxf4 exf4 29.Bxf4 material equality 29...Nb4 30.d4 [30.Rd1 Nc2 31.Ra4 Qc6³] 30...Rbe8 31.Bd Rg8 [31...Bf6? 32.Qh6 Rg8+ 33.Bg4 Bg7³] 32.Kh2 Qc6 33.f3?-+ Bindi gets a "winning" advantage [33.Bg5 cxd4 34.cxb4 Re4³] 33...cxd4 34.Rxa5 d3??+ a blunder into an attack; James gets a "winning" advantage, after being down all game. [34...d5 35.Kh1 dxc3 36.Bxc3 Bxc3 37.bxc3 Nc2-+] 35.Rh5?= James has lost his advantage [35.Bxd3 Nxd3 36.Rh5 Be5+ 37.Rexe5! Rg7 38.Rxh7+ Rxh7 39.Qf6+ Rg7+ ] 35...Be5+ 36.Kh1 Rg7 37.Bd1 Nc2 38.Re4 Rf7 39.Rh6 Qa8 40.Qh5 Ree7?!² [40...Ref8 41.Rg6! Rf5 42.Qh4 Rxf3 43.Bxf3 Rxf3=] 41.Rg6

39 39 Position after 41.Rg6 XABCDEFGHY 8q+-+-+-mk( 7+-+-trr+p' 6-+-zp-+R+& 5+-+-vl-+Q% 4-+-+R+-+$ 3+pzPp+P+P# 2-zPnvL-+-+" 1+-+L+-+K! xabcdefghy Qa1?+ James gets a "winning" advantage [41...Qf8 42.Reg4 Bg7²] 42.Reg4?!± [42.f4 Bg7 43.Rxe7 Rxe7 44.Rxd6 Rf7!+ ] 42...Bg7?!+ [42...Rf8 43.Rg1 Qa8±] 43.Rg1 Ne1? [43...Qa6 44.Bh6 Qa ] 44.Bxb3 James goes up a P 44...Re5??+ leads to mate. [44...Qa8 45.Bxf7 Rxf7 46.Rxe1 Rxf ] 45.Qg4? missing the mating line [45.Qh6! Rg5 46.R6xg5 Qa8+ mate in 12 moves] 45...hxg6 46.Bxf7 Qa8 47.Rxe James is up B + P 1-0 In Rd. 4, Eric beat GM Reynaldo Vera of Cuba. Here is the game (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Hansen, Eric (2587) Vera, Reynaldo (2514) [B52] Canadian Open Ottawa (4), [Event "Canadian Open [Site "Ottawa"] [Date " [Round "4"] [White "Hansen, Eric"] [Black "Vera, Reynaldo"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B52"] [WhiteElo "2587"] [BlackElo "2514"] [PlyCount "79"] [SourceDate " e4² c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Bd7 4.Bxd7+ Qxd7 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 g6 7.d4 cxd4 8.Nxd4 Bg7 9.f Be3 Nc e6 12.Rc1 Rfd8 13.Kh1?!= [13.Qd2 Qe7 14.Nxc6 bxc6²] 13...Ne5?!² [13...Rac8 14.Nxc6 bxc6=] 14.Qe2 [14.b3 Rac8 15.Qe2 a6²] 14...d5 15.cxd5 exd5 16.f4 Nc6 17.e5 Ng4?!± Eric gets a "clear" advantage [17...Nxd4 18.Bxd4 Ne4²] 18.Nxc6?!² [18.Bg1 Nxd4 19.Bxd4 Nh6±] 18...bxc6 19.Bg1 Re8 20.Na4 h5?!± [20...Bf8 21.Qa6 Rec8²] 21.Qa6 Rec8 [21...Rac8 22.Nc5 Qe7±] 22.Nc5 Qe7 23.Nb3 c5?!+ Eric gets a "winning" advantage [23...Qd7 24.Na5 c5±] 24.Rxc5 Eric goes up a P 24...Rxc5 25.Bxc5 Qd7 26.Bg1 Rc8 27.Nc5 Qe8 28.Qd3 Bf8 29.Nb3 Qa4 30.Qxd5 Eric goes up 2 P's 30...Qa6 31.Rd1 Rc2 32.Rd2 Rc4 33.h3 Nh6 34.Nd4 Rc1 35.Kh2 Qf Nf3 Bc5? [36...Nf5 37.e6 Bd ] 37.Qd8+ Kh7??+ leads to mate [37...Bf8 38.e6 Re1 39.exf7+ Nxf7 40.Qf6 Be7 41.Qxg6+ Kf ] 38.Ng5+ Kg7 39.Ne6+?? missing the mate [39.Qf6+ Kg8 40.Rd8+ Bf8 41.Rxf8+ Kxf8 42.Ne6+ Ke8 43.Qd8#]

40 40 Position after 39.Ne6+?? XABCDEFGHY 8-+-wQ-+-+( 7zp-+-+pmk-' 6-+-+N+psn& 5+-vl-zP-+p% zP-+$ P# 2PzP-tR-+PmK" 1+-tr-+qvL-! xabcdefghy 39...fxe6??+ Reynaldo is up N vs 2 P's, but gives Eric back a mate [39...Kh7 40.Bxc5 Qh1+ 41.Kg3 Nf5+ 42.Kf3 Qf1+ 43.Bf2 Qa (43...fxe6? 44.Rd7+ Ng7 45.Qe7 Qd1+ 46.Rxd1 Rxd ) ] 40.Qf6++ Reynaldo resigned. It is mate 40...Kh7 41.Rd7+ Be7 42.Rxe7+ Nf7 43.Rxf7+ Kh6 44.Qg7# 1-0 In Rd. 5, the two eventual winners, Nigel and Eric, drew. Here is that game (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Short, Nigel (2697) Hansen, Eric (2587) [C47] Canadian Open 2013 Ottawa (5), e4² e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3?!= [3.Bb5²] 3...Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 Bb4 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.Bd3 d5 8.exd5 0-0?!² [8...cxd =] 9.0-0?!= [9.dxc6 Re8+ 10.Be3 Bxc3+ 11.bxc3 Ng4²] 9...cxd5 10.h3 c6 11.Qf3 Bd6 12.Bf4 Rb8 13.b3 Qc7?!² [13...Rb7 14.Rae1 Bxf4 15.Qxf4 Re7=] 14.Bxd6 Qxd6 15.Rad1?!= [15.Qg3 Qxg3 16.fxg3 Re8²] 15...Re8 16.Na4 Be6 17.Rfe1 c5 18.Bf5 Bxf5 19.Qxf5 g6 20.Qf3 Nd7 21.Re2 Rxe2 22.Qxe2 Nb6 23.Nb2 Qf6 24.c4 dxc4?!² [24...Rd8 25.g3 Kg7=] 25.Nxc4 Nxc4 26.Qxc4 Qe5 27.g3 Rb4 28.Qd5 Qe2 29.Rd2 Qe1+ 30.Kg2 Re4 31.Rd3 Re5 32.Qc4 Rf5 33.Rd8+ Kg7 34.Qc2 Qe7 35.Qc3+ Rf6 36.Rd2 Qe4+ 37.f3 Qb4 38.Rc2?!= [38.Qc2 Re6 39.Qb2+ f6²] 38...Qxc3 39.Rxc3 Ra6 40.a4 Rb6 41.g4 Kf6?!² [41...Rc6 42.Kg3 Kf6=] 42.Rxc5 Rxb3 43.Rc7 a6 44.Rc6+ Kg7?!± Nigel gets a "clear" advantage [44...Ke5 45.Rxa6 f5²] 45.Rxa6 Nigel goes up a P 45...g5 46.Ra5 h6 47.Rf5 Ra3 48.a5 Ra2+ 49.Kg3 Kg6 50.h4 f6 51.h5+ Kg7 52.Rb5 Kg8 53.Rb8+ Kg7 54.Rb7+ Kg8 55.Ra7 Kh8 56.Ra8+ Kg7 57.Ra7+ [57.Ra6 Kf7 58.Ra7+ Kg8±] 57...Kh8 58.Rf7 Rxa5 59.Rxf6 Kg7 60.Rg6+ Kh7 61.Re6 Ra2 62.Re1 Kg7 63.Rf1?!² [63.Re7+ Kg8 64.Rc7 Rd2±] 63...Ra3 64.Rf2 Rb3 65.Rd2 Ra3?!± [65...Rb6 66.Ra2 Kf6²] 66.Kf2?!² [66.Rd7+ Kg8 67.Rb7 Ra8±] 66...Ra7?!± [66...Ra6 67.Rd8 Re6²] 67.Rd4?!² [67.Rd6 Rb7 68.Rg6+ Kh7±] 67...Re7?!± [67...Ra6 68.Ke3 Re6+²] 68.Re4 Ra7 69.Re6 Ra3 70.Ke2 Rb3 71.Re7+ Kg8 72.Rd7 Ra3 73.Rd3?!² [73.Rc7 Ra2+ 74.Kd3 Ra3+±] 73...Ra6 74.Ke3 Re6+?!± [74...Kg7 75.Ke4 Kf6²] 75.Kd4 Re7 76.Rc3 Kg7 77.Rc8?!² [77.Rc6 Rf7 78.Ke4 Re7+±] 77...Rf7 78.Ke4 Rf4+?!± [78...Re7+ 79.Kd3 Rd7+²] 79.Ke3 Rf7 80.Re8 Ra7 81.Ke4?!² [81.Re6 Ra3+ 82.Kf2 Ra2+±] 81...Ra4+ 82.Kd5 Ra5+ 83.Ke6?!± [83.Kd4 Ra4+ 84.Ke5 Ra5+²] 83...Ra6+ 84.Kf5 Rf6+ 85.Ke4 Rf4+ [85...Kf7 86.Rh8 Rf4+±] 86.Ke3 Ra4 87.Re7+ Kg8 88.Rd7 Rf4± ½-½ As well in Rd. 5, Can. IM Aman Hambleton