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Mystery game #48: White's patience and precision subdued weird 'Modern'
Mystery game #48: White's patience and precision subdued weird 'Modern'
Here is the text of an interesting game. You can discuss the game, player strengths, setting, era, time controls, etc. I will provide all the data in a few days. Enjoy!!
Gerald de Lugt (~1850) -- Brian MacDonald (~1700), Kingston Championship 2003, Group II, rd. 3. Played 2003-02-02. Time controls 30?90, SD/60.
This is an offbeat line in the Modern Defense, reachable only from a move order not involving e2-e4. This means it fits into the volume A of ECO, and would probably be under A40. A look at 365chess.com shows that White gets best results with 5.Qc2, as played in this game. Lines with 4...Bxc3+ 5.bxc3 f5 were popularized in Canada by players such as GM Igor Ivanov and IM Deen Hergott, starting in the mid 1980s; both scored very good results, through forcing a White structure similar to a Nimzo-Indian in many ways, with a bishop-for-knight exchange on c3 to double White's c-pawns.
In the game, Black's early play is provocative and committal, so White challenges with 8.g3, opening a kingside file, and holds back on his own plans for castling until 13.O-O-O, setting up an opposite-sides castling scenario. White's play flows more smoothly than Black's, since Black is unable to get his pieces to the queenside to menace Black's King.
Gerald de Lugt, playing White here, is a South African civil engineer who immigrated to Canada after World War II, settling with his family in Kingston. He had a lengthy and respected career as a municipal engineer with the City of Kingston. He was a member of the Kingston Chess Club for some 40 years, and worked with Dr. Jim Cairns as the main organizer and tournament director for nearly 20 years, until the mid-1990s, and remained on the Club Executive after that. The two -- Gerald and Jim -- made a strong team with high quality work and classy interpersonal connections. Following his retirement from the City of Kingston, Gerald joined the KCC group of chess coaches visiting local schools, and assisting with youth events. He also made a reputation in competitive bridge in the area. He is the toughest non-master defender I have ever encountered!
Brian MacDonald has long-standing family connections to the Kingston area. He has not been that active as a player in recent years, but is a solid competitor who has also assisted with youth chess organization. Brian works in the real estate industry.
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