Bay Area International

[Hans Jung]

Bay Area International. Lots of interesting players. Is that Dr. Anthony Saidy playing?

[Hans Jung]

Shiyam Thavandiran is playing. Go Shiyam go!

[Vlad Dobrich]

Shiyam is playing Go? At a chess tournamnt? I played Go there - in San Francisco (a good Go club).

[Kerry Liles]

Shiyam is playing Go? At a chess tournamnt? I played Go there - in San Francisco (a good Go club).

There were two sentences in Hans' post. Shiyam is playing in the chess tournament it seems.

[Wayne Komer]

Bay Area International 2019

January 5, 2019

Anthony Saidy was born in 1937 and so is 81 years old.

I have been able to download three of his games from the official site. The sixth round was completed today.

Bay Area International 2019
Round 1, Jan. 1
Naroditskiy, Daniel (2616) – Saidy, Anthony (2309)
C10 French, Fort Knox variation

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bd7 5.Nf3 Bc6 6.Bd3 Nd7 7.O-O Ngf6 8.Neg5 Bd6 9.Re1 h6 10.Nh3 Bxf3 11.Qxf3 c6 12.c3 Qc7 13.Nf4 O-O-O 14.h3 Kb8 15.Bd2 e5 16.Nh5 Nxh5 17.Qxh5 Nf6 18.Qf3 exd4 19.cxd4 Nd5 20.Bc4 Qd7 21.Rab1 Rhe8 22.Red1 Re7 23.b4 Nb6 24.Bb3 Bc7 25.a4 a6 26.b5 axb5 27.axb5 cxb5 28.d5 Rde8 29.Be3 Nc8 30.d6 Bxd6 31.Ra1 Qc7 32.Rdc1 Qd7 33.Rd1 Qc7 34.Rac1 Rxe3 35.fxe3 Qb6 36.Rd4 Be5 37.Rd7 Nd6 38.Kh1 Rd8 39.Rxd8+ Qxd8 40.Bxf7 Nxf7 41.Qxf7 Qd2 42.Qf8+ Ka7 43.Qa3+ Kb8 44.Qf8+ Ka7 45.Qc5+ Ka6 46.Rb1 Qd3 47.Rc1 Qd2 48.Rf1 Qe2 49.Qc1 b4 50.Rf5 Bc3 51.e4 Qxe4 52.Qf1+ Ka7 53.Qf2+ Kb8 1-0

Round 2, Jan. 2
Saidy, Anthony (2309) – Polavaram, Rithik (2056)
E46 Nimzo-Indian, Reshevsky variation

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Ne2 d5 6.a3 Be7 7.cxd5 exd5 8.g3 c6 9.Bg2 Re8 10.O-O Bf5 11.f3 Bf8 12.g4 Bg6 13.Nf4 Na6 14.b4 Nc7 15.g5 Nd7 16.Nxg6 hxg6 17.f4 f5 18.Qd3 a6 19.h4 Nb6 20.h5 Kf7 21.hxg6+ Kxg6 22.Ne2 Qd7 23.Ng3 Nc4 24.Bh3 Nd6 25.Qe2 Kf7 26.g6+ Kxg6 27.Qh5+ Kf6 28.Nxf5 Nxf5 29.Qg5+ Kf7 30.Bxf5 Qd6 31.Ra2 g6 32.Bd3 Be7 33.Qg4 Rh8 34.f5 g5 35.f6 Bxf6 36.Raf2 Ke7 37.Qf5 Rh6 38.Rd1 Rah8 39.Kf1 Rh2 40.Rxh2 0-1

Round 4, Jan. 3
Saidy, Anthony (2309) – Kung, Thomas (2133)
D10 QGD, Semi-Slav

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.e3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.b3 c5 6.cxd5 Nxd5 7.Nxd5 Qxd5 8.Nf3 Nc6 9.Bc4 Qd8 10.d5 exd5 11.Bxd5 Be7 12.Bxc6+ bxc6 13.Qxd8+ Bxd8 14.Ba3 Ba5+ 15.Kd1 Bg4 16.Ke2 O-O-O 17.Rhc1 Bf5 18.Kf1 c4 19.bxc4 Bd2 20.Nxd2 Rxd2 21.Ke1 Rhd8 22.Bc5 R2d7 23.Bd4 f6 24.a4 Kb7 25.Ra2 Ka6 26.Rb2 Rb7 27.Rxb7 Kxb7 28.Rc3 Be6 29.Rb3+ Ka6 30.Rb4 c5 31.Bxc5 Rc8 32.Be7 Rxc4 33.Rxc4 Bxc4 34.Bd8 Bb3 35.a5 Kb7 36.e4 Kc6 37.Ke2 Kd7 38.Bb6 axb6 39.axb6 Kc6 40.Ke3 Kxb6 41.e5 fxe5 42.Ke4 Kc6 43.Kxe5 Kd7 44.f4 Ke7 45.g4 Kf7 46.f5 h6 47.h4 Bd1 48.Kf4 h5 49.g5 Ke7 50.Ke5 Bg4 51.Ke4 Kd6 52.Kf4 Kd5 53.g6 Kd4 54.Kg5 Ke5 55.f6 gxf6+ 56.Kh6 Be6 57.Kxh5 Ke4 58.Kh6 f5 59.h5 f4 60.Kg7 f3 1/2-1/2