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[Wayne Komer]

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From chess-news.ru

19-0

Thursday, 20.08.2015

According to a long tradition, Garry Kasparov is spending part of his summer in Croatia. Yesterday, on August 19th, he held a simultaneous exhibition on 19 boards in the city of Pula.

There would be nothing extraordinary about that if it weren't for the scale of its coverage: the simul was broadcast live and recorded professionally on several cameras. The participants themselves could watch every game live.

The 13th World Champion hasn't slipped a single time, and the 19-0 final score, announced by the anchorwoman, was met by ovation.

The action lasted a bit longer than 90 minutes. 13 year-old Anamarija Radikovic of Rijeka was the last player to capitulate.

That game:

Kasparov, 19 Board Simul, Pula, Croatia
August 19, 2015
Kasparov, Garry – Radikovic, Anamarija
B01 Scandinavian

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nxd5 4.d4 Bg4 5.h3 Bh5 6.Be2 e6 7.O-O Be7 8.Ne5 Bxe2 9.Qxe2 O-O 10.Rd1 c6 11.c4 Nf6 12.Nc3 Nbd7 13.Rd3 Qc7 14.Bf4 Bd6 15.Rg3 Kh8 16.Rd1 g6 17.Rf3 Kg7 18.Qe3 Rfe8 19.Bg5 Bxe5 20.dxe5 Ng8 21.Rd6 h6 22.Bf6+ Ndxf6 23.exf6+ Kh7 24.Ne4 Rad8 25.c5 b6 26.b4 bxc5 27.bxc5 Qa5 28.a3 Qa6 29.Qd4 Rb8 30.Rd3 Rb7 31.Kh2 e5 32.Qc3 Rc7 33.Rd7 Qc8 34.Qd2 Rxd7 35.Rxd7 Rf8 36.Qd6 Qe8 37.Qxc6 Kh8 38.Qd6 Qa8 39.c6 Rc8 40.Rb7 Re8 41.Rxf7 Qc8 42.Rd7 1-0

[Wayne Komer]

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September 6, 2015

The 2015 FIDE World Junior Under-20 Championships (Open and Girls) is taking place (31 August – 16 September) at the Ugra Chess Academy in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

Peter Doggers is covering it for chess.com:

http://www.chess.com/news/world-juni...-mansiysk-2775

Peter says, “Both tournaments are very long: 13 rounds! The top groups in Wijk aan Zee have a similar schedule, but they get three rest days. The juniors get only one — but on that day they're probably playing blitz all day anyway.”

This game from Round 3 of which Peter says, “GM Karen Grigoryan grabbed sole lead as the only player with three wins behind his name. He was too strong for one of Norway's biggest talents, IM Aryan Tari.

In this encounter between “the Aronian and Carlsen of the new generation,” for 13 moves the players followed a game between.... Aronian and Carlsen! (With reversed colors though.)

Tari was doing very well until he allowed a trick just before the time control, 36…Qd4?”:

World Junior Open U20, Khanty-Mansiysk
Round 3, Sept. 4, 2015
Grigoryan, Karen – Tari, Aryan
D38 QGD, Ragozin Variation

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.d4 Bb4 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Bg5 h6 7.Bxf6 Qxf6 8.Qa4+ Nc6 9.e3 O-O 10.Be2 Be6 11.O-O a6 12.Rfc1 Bd6 13.Qd1 Ne7 14.Na4 b6 15.Qf1 Bg4 16.Ne1 Bd7 17.Nc3 c5 18.Nc2 c4 19.e4 Bf4 20.Ne3 Qg5 21.Ncxd5 Nxd5 22.exd5 b5 23.Bf3 Rae8 24.Re1 Bd6 25.g3 Qf6 26.Bg2 Qxd4 27.Re2 f5 28.Bh3 Qf6 29.a4 g5 30.axb5 axb5 31.Ra7 Bc8 32.Qe1 Kh8 33.Nd1 Rxe2 34.Qxe2 g4 35.Bf1 f4 36.Ra8 Qd4 37.Rxc8 Rxc8 38.Qe6 Qc5 39.Qxh6+ Kg8 40.Qg6+ Kf8 41.Qf5+ Ke7 42.Nc3 Kd8 43.Ne4 Qb6 44.Qf7 Be7 45.Qxf4 Qd4 46.d6 Bxd6 47.Qxd6+ Qxd6 48.Nxd6 Rb8 49.Nf7+ Kc7 50.Ne5 Rg8 51.Nxc4 bxc4 52.Bxc4 Rb8 53.b3 Kd6 54.Kg2 Ke5 55.h3 gxh3+ 56.Kxh3 Ke4 57.Kg4 Rb7 58.Kg5 Rg7+ 59.Kf6 Rh7 60.f4 Rh3 61.f5 Rxg3 62.Ke6 Kf4 63.f6 Re3+ 64.Kd7 1-0

Aryan Tari b. June 4, 1999 Elo 2518

Karen Grigoryan b. February 25, 1995 Elo 2609

By my calculation, Grigoryan is over 20. Do you think I should tell someone?

[Hugh Brodie]

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[Wayne Komer]

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To answer my own question in my previous posting:

The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on the first of January in the year of competition) organized by FIDE.

[Wayne Komer]

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September 15, 2015

From the World Cup Baku 2015, Round 2, Game 2

Classical Game
Grischuk, Alexander – Fedoseev, Vladimir
E15 Queen’s Indian, Nimzowitsch Variation

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.b3 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Be7 7.Nc3 c6 8.e4 d5 9.exd5 exd5 10.Bg2 dxc4 11.O-O cxb3 12.Re1 bxa2 13.Ne5 Bb7 14.d5 cxd5 15.Qa4+ Kf8 16.Bg5 h6 17.Bxf6 Bxf6 18.Nxd5 Bxe5 19.Rxe5 Nd7 20.Re3 Nc5 21.Qxa2 Qd6 22.Rd1 h5 23.Nc3 Qb8 24.Rde1 Rh6 25.Re7 Re6 26.R1xe6 fxe6 27.Rxb7 Nxb7 28.Qxe6 Qe8 29.Qf5+ Qf7 30.Qxf7+ Kxf7 31.Bxb7 Re8 32.f4 Re1+ 33.Kf2 Rc1 34.Ne2 Rc2 35.Ba6 Rb2 36.Ke3 b5 37.Nc1 Ke6 38.Nd3 Rb1 39.Kd4 b4 40.Kc4 Kd6 41.Nxb4 Rb2 42.Nd5 Rxh2 ½-½

About this game Colin McGourty said in chess24.com:

Vladimir Fedoseev deserves some kind of curiosity of the day prize for turning his e-pawn into an a-pawn on move 12 after four consecutive captures. True, when Grischuk then blew open the centre that escapade began to look a bit risky, but Alexander failed to find anything convincing – perhaps because there was simply nothing in the position.

[Wayne Komer]

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October 5, 2015

(Chess24) - As the World Cup is drawing to a close other tournaments have begun to emerge from its shadow. The one that stands out, so far, is the traditional Karpov Tournament in Poikovsky, an oil-rich Siberian town of only 26,000 inhabitants not far from its better known chess neighbour, Khanty-Manisysk.

The players: Ernesto Inarkiev, Viktor Bologan, Anton Korobov, Emil Sutovsky, Igor Lysyj, Alexei Shirov, Denis Khismatullin, Viktor Laznicka, Ilia Smirin and Alexander Morozevich.

I think it is almost a year since we last saw Morozevich in action.

The tournament takes place from 28 September to October 8, 2015.

The reason for choosing this game is the 20 moves by white queen, until it is finally taken by the black queen. I put the game on autoplay and was made fairly dizzy by the back and forth motion on the third rank.

16th Karpov Poikovsky 2015
Round 3
Lysyj, Igor – Inarkiev, Ernesto
D12 QGD Slav

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 Bf5 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bd3 Bg6 7.O-O e6 8.Bxg6 hxg6 9.Qd3 Bb4 10.Bd2 O-O 11.Nxd5 Nxd5 12.cxd5 Bxd2 13.dxe6 Ba5 14.exf7+ Rxf7 15.Ne5 Rc7 16.e4 Nd7 17.Qb3+ Kh7 18.Qh3+ Kg8 19.Qb3+ Kh7 20.Qh3+ Kg8 21.Qe6+ Kh7 22.Qxg6+ Kg8 23.Qe6+ Kh7 24.Qh3+ Kg8 25.Qb3+ Kh7 26.Nc4 b6 27.Qh3+ Kg8 28.b4 Bxb4 29.Qb3 a5 30.a3 Be7 31.Nxb6+ Kf8 32.Qf3+ Kg8 33.Qb3+ Kf8 34.Nxa8 Qxa8 35.Qf3+ Kg8 36.Qb3+ Kf8 37.Rac1 Qa7 38.Qf3+ Kg8 39.Qb3+ Kf8 40.Rfd1 Nf6 41.Qf3 Kg8 42.e5 Ne8 43.Rxc6 Qb7 44.d5 Rxc6 45.dxc6 Qb5 46.Qd5+ Qxd5 47.Rxd5 Kf7 48.Rxa5 Nc7 49.f4 Ke6 50.g4 g6 51.Kg2 Bd8 52.Kf3 Nd5 53.Ra8 Bc7 54.h4 Ne7 55.Re8 Kf7 56.Rxe7+ Kxe7 57.Ke4 1-0

[Jack Maguire]

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Coincidentally, Igor Lysyi is playing Moro today and we, of course, have an unorthodox game. Apparently, Moro may have borrowed his 8. ...b5!? idea from Albin Planinc. You can follow the still live game at:

http://www.chessbomb.com/arena/2015-...vich_Alexander

For those not familiar with the name Albin Planinc, check out:

http://en.chessbase.com/post/albin-p...third-wild-man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albin_Planinc

[Jack Maguire]

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Albin Planinc has a bevy of "Notable Games" at chessgames.com. The first hit therein certainly caught my eye (:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1145440

[Wayne Komer]

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Oct. 6, 2015

I looked up the game in Chess Life and Review for May 1975 and it is given with annotations by Pal Benko in an article celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hastings. In Hastings 1974/75 Hort won the tourney, with Vaganian second, Planinc 6th and Miles and Benko further down the list. Benko talks about a “model mate” and refers to the game Uhlmann-Barcza, Havana 1963.

Benko’s description of the lower table winners is interesting and I quote it from his In the Arena article on Hastings:

“Sixth place was taken by the Yugoslavian Albin Planinc. He is a venturesome, romantic player, committed to taking any risk to win. this helped Hort finish first by himself, since in the last round Planinc declined Hort’s draw offer and finally lost.

The present World Junior Champion, Tony Miles of England, managed to come seventh. He used a special “executive” swivel-chair, the same as used by Fischer in the 1972 Reykjavik World Championship Match. It must have helped, for Miles defeated both Soviet participants. During the tournament I thought he would reach the grandmaster result and win the fine sum of money offered by British businessman James Slater for the first English grandmaster. But the latter part of the tournament was played languidly by Miles.

Eighth place was taken by the English master William Hartston, who scored 50% as he did last year.

I tied for 9th and 10th with Botterill, the present English Champion. It was with him that I played the last game, which lasted ten hours. A win for Botterill would have meant reaching the international master norm, but he could only fight for a draw during the entire game, which he finally managed to obtain. Of course, I cannot be satisfied with my result. But it seems I was sleeping during the whole event, losing four games by overstepping the time limit. If you will accept an excuse, I should mention that I was a last-minute replacement for Robert Byrne, who was unable to play because of other commitments.”

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So many old familiar names!

Albin Planinc (18 April 1944 – 20 December 2008) was a Slovenian chess Grandmaster. His best result was achieved at the Amsterdam (IBM tournament) 1973, where he shared first place with Tigran Petrosian, ahead of Lubomir Kavalek, Boris Spassky and László Szabó. He was awarded the GM title in 1972, then became a chess trainer when the strain of playing tournament chess was contributing to his poor mental health (in those days, medication was relatively ineffective). Planinc continued to suffer from severe depression for decades.

[Jack Maguire]

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Albin Planinc's 2nd 'Notable Game' at chessgames.com is another absolute stunner (:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1262429

[Wayne Komer]

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October 8, 2015

Isle of Man

I once asked my young son where the Isle of Man is. He knew of the motocross and guessed the place was in Wales.

Well, actually it is in the Irish Sea and about the same distance from Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland.

The PokerStars International Chess Tournament is held there. It is one of the strongest opens worldwide. This year it has 108 players from 28 countries. There is a combined chess/poker side tournament, which, I confess, puzzles me. In the past I have heard of Jennifer Shahade and MVL playing there. My concern is a recent game in the International with an interesting endgame.

PokerStars International 2015
Isle of Man
Round 3, Oct. 5, 2015
Shvayger, Yullya – Illingworth, Max
B91 Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.g3 g6 7.Bg2 Bg7 8.O-O O-O 9.a4 Nc6 10.Nb3 Bg4 11.Qd2 Qd7 12.f4 Bh3 13.Nd5 Bxg2 14.Qxg2 b5 15.axb5 Nxd5 16.bxc6 Qa7+ 17.Qf2 Nb4 18.Qxa7 Rxa7 19.Ra4 Rb8 20.Na5 Rc7 21.c3 Nxc6 22.Rc4 Rbc8 23.Nxc6 Rxc6 24.Rxc6 Rxc6 25.Kf2 f5 26.exf5 gxf5 27.Be3 Kf7 28.Ra1 Bf6 29.Ke2 e5 30.fxe5 dxe5 31.Ra5 Ke6 32.Kf3 h5 33.Ra4 Kd5 34.Ke2 Bd8 35.Kd3 e4+ 36.Ke2 Bc7 37.Bf4 Bxf4 38.gxf4 Rb6 39.Ke3 Rxb2 40.c4+ Kc5 41.Ra5+ Kxc4 42.Rxf5 Kb4 43.Rxh5 a5 44.Rh8 a4 45.f5 Ka3 46.f6 Rb7 47.Kxe4 Kb2 48.Kf5 a3 49.Kg6 a2 50.Ra8 a1=Q 51.Rxa1 Kxa1 52.f7 Rb2 53.f8=Q Rg2+ 54.Kh5 Rxh2+ 55.Kg4 Rd2 56.Kf3 Kb2 57.Qb4+ Kc1 58.Ke3 Rh2 59.Qc5+ Kb1 60.Qf5+ Kc1 61.Kd3 Rc2 62.Qe4 Kb1 63.Qe1+ Kb2 64.Qb4+ Kc1 65.Qa3+ Kb1 66.Qb3+ Ka1 67.Qa4+ Ra2 68.Qd1+ Kb2 69.Kc4 Ra6 70.Qe2+ Kc1 71.Qe1+ Kc2 72.Qf2+ Kd1 73.Kb3 Re6 74.Qf3+ Re2 75.Kc3 Ke1 76.Qh1+ Kf2 77.Kd3 Re3+ 78.Kd4 Rg3 79.Qh2+ Kf3 80.Qh5+ Rg4+ 81.Ke5 Kg3 82.Qh6 Kg2 83.Qd2+ Kf3 84.Kf5 Rg2 85.Qd3+ Kf2 86.Kf4 Ke1 87.Qc3+ Kd1 88.Qa1+ Ke2 89.Qa6+ Ke1 90.Kf3 Rc2 91.Qa5+ Kd1 92.Ke3 Rb2 93.Qa4+ Kc1 94.Kd3 Rb3+ 95.Kc4 Rg3 96.Qa1+ Kd2 97.Qa5+ Ke2 98.Qf5 Ke3 99.Qe5+ Kf2 100.Kd4 Rf3 101.Qh2+ Ke1 102.Ke4 Rc3 103.Qg2 Rb3 104.Kd4 1/2-1/2

Tim Harding has analyzed the Queen vs Rook ending at:

http://www.chessmail.com/games/shvaygling.htm

and he says:

This endgame begins at 47.Kxe4 when exchanges brought about a 7-man rook and pawn ending with White having f- and h-pawns against a-pawn.

Since the Black king is over beside its own pawn, the characteristic draw against those split pawns is unavailable. The endgame should have ended quite soon in a draw. However, Black’s 50th move was a blunder, which brought about the pawnless ending of Queen versus Rook. The continuation of this game was extremely instructive and shows how hard it is in practice, against the clock, to win this endgame. White missed an easy win at move 65, and after further mistakes was still as far from victory then as at the start. Black defended tenaciously throughout and was eventually saved by the 50-move rule.

Online comments at the English Chess Forum:

- Queen against rook should be a win according to Fine’s Basic Chess Endings, but obviously not easy.

- Should be, but I couldn’t do it recently, wound up taking the Rook with Queen in frustration. First time I’ve had it. Computer made it look easy too.

(Tim Harding) - I also looked at what John Nunn wrote about the Q versus R ending in his "Secrets of Pawnless Endings". Those that required 20+ moves to win from the start, like this one, he classed as difficult. She almost had it won at one point but then she let it drift away...

[David Ottosen]

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October 8, 2015

Isle of Man

I once asked my young son where the Isle of Man is. He knew of the motocross and guessed the place was in Wales.

Well, actually it is in the Irish Sea and about the same distance from Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland.

The PokerStars International Chess Tournament is held there. It is one of the strongest opens worldwide.

I'm playing in this event, poorly.

[Wayne Komer]

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October 13, 2015

In the World Blitz Championship in Berlin 2015, Vassily Ivanchuk as Black faced Milos Perunovic in Round 4. The time limit is 3 minutes with a 2-second increment. Black takes the pawn on b2 and doesn’t get out fast enough. 17…Qc4? 18.Qd2 c5 19.Bf1 and the black queen is lost.

World Blitz 2015
Round 4, Oct. 13
Perunovic, Milos – Ivanchuk, Vassily
B01 Scandinavian, Pytel-Wade Variation

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd6 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 c6 6. Ne5 Nbd7 7. f4 e6 8. g4 Qc7 9. g5 Nd5 10. Nxd5 exd5 11. Bg2 Nxe5 12. fxe5 Be6 13. Be3 Qb6 14. O-O O-O-O 15. a4 Qxb2 16. Qd3 Qb4 17. Rfb1 Qc4 18. Qd2 c5 19. Bf1 cxd4 20. Bxc4 dxe3 21. Qxe3 dxc4 22. Qxa7 Bd5 23. a5 Kd7 24. a6 Rc8 25. Rxb7+ Bxb7 26. Qxb7+ Rc7 27. Rd1+ 1-0

Milos Perunovic is a 31-year old Serbian GM (2004), who was just in the World Cup in Baku 2015. He exited in his first match with Wang Hao. Wang Hao lost to Lu Shanglei, who in turn was dropped by Veselin Topalov.

Is Milos experienced in blitz? Read this 2013 report: Chess Club Lebane (Serbia) hosted a blitz tournament on 2-3rd November. 24 players, including six Grandmasters, played in a double round robin format with 46 rounds. However, unlike the Saverne Marathon where games take place 24 hours non-stop, this event allowed overnight sleep. Grandmaster Milos Perunovic took the top prize after finishing the race with 39 points, two points clear of the former World Junior Champion GM Igor Miladinovic.

At the end of Round 11 in Berlin he had a score of 7.5/11 for ninth place.

[Wayne Komer]

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October 20, 2015

I confess right away that this is not a game from a recent event. I first saw it in Chess Review in August of 1961. It is suitable for this thread because it has a good backstory. That is sometimes more important than recentness.

Dream Game

Russia, 1961
Bronstein, David – Bronstein, David
E30 Nimzo-Indian, Leningrad Variation

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Bg5 h6 5.Bh4 Qe7 6.Nf3 d6 7.Qa4+ Nc6 8.d5 exd5 9.cxd5 Qe4 10.Nd2 Qxh4 11.dxc6 O-O 12.a3 Ng4 13.g3 Qf6 14.axb4 Qxf2+ 15.Kd1 b5 16.Qb3 Be6 17.Qa3 Ne3+ 18.Kc1 Qe1+ 19.Nd1 Qxd1# 0-1

Do you know the story of Coleridge, Kubla Khan and The Man from Porlock?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in 1797, had been reading a book about Kubla Khan and fell asleep in his chair. The sleep may have been induced by opium. While sleeping, he composed a poem of two to three hundred lines. He awoke with the whole work clear in his mind and began to write it down. You probably read it in school - it begins:

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

At this moment, he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from the nearby town of Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away.

Some have speculated that the person from Porlock was fictional and intended as a credible explanation for the fragmentary state of the published poem.

Regardless, the man from Porlock has become a metaphor for an unwanted intruder who disrupts inspired creativity.
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I had not been aware of the literary allusion before I played over the game in Chess Review. The incident was related there slightly differently.

The title heading it was:

There’s No Porlock in Russia!
By Jack Straley Battell

and the final paragraph was:

A jewel of a game – but the most interesting point is that David Bronstein says he dreamed it! So the game can rank as a chessic Kubla Khan. And we are fortunate that there was no businessman from Porlock to awaken Bronstein in mid-dream as he interrupted Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

[Hans Jung]

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Thanks for that reminder of Bronsteins contribution to chess culture and history Wayne! Imagine that! a dream game. Can one put that in a database? - or will it corrupt the database. Let the pundits discuss. GM Paul Motwani (in honor of Bronstein who he was fond of) published his own dream game in a variation of 1.Nc3 (der linke Springer).