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Mystery game #78: Future IM achieved notable feat with this win!
Mystery game #78: Future IM achieved notable feat with this win!
Here is the text of an interesting game. You can discuss the game, variations, era, format, player strengths, setting, time controls, etc. I will provide all data in a few days. Enjoy!!
Raja Panjwani (1861) -- Ron Brice (2177), Kingston Open 2001 (1). Played 2001-02-10. English, Symmetrical, A36. Time controls: 30/90', SD/60. Organizer Rob Hutchison, TD Frank Dixon.
Raja was age 10 years, 10 months for this event, and it marked just over one year since I began coaching both him and his father, Dr. Dilip Panjwani. In the previous year's Kingston Open, his first event in his new home, his rating was 1210, so it had been a very good year together. He won the 2000 Ontario YCC 10s; placed 2nd at CYCC, and then made an excellent result at his first WYCC in Spain!!
Although Ron Brice was not an NM at that time, his rating, here just below 2200, had earlier been as high as 2247. So, it would be an open question as to whether this win counts as defeating a Master. If so, it must mean that Raja is one of the youngest Canadians ever to attain this. Others would likely be Alex LeSiege, Justin Gushuliak, Andrew Ho, Nikolay Noritsyn, and Anthony Atanasov.
Raja had been taught this transpositional method, with 2.c4, against the Sicilian, to the English, by his father, before they met me, and they both played it. From a practical standpoint, it has merits, since it avoids the tremendous stack of theory in mainline Sicilians; this is good for a junior player, for study time optimization. As his coach, I didn't try to change this, and we spent almost all our time together on tactics and the middlegame. Raja had a very good practical opening repertoire, so we merely tuned this as needed. A few years later, as he got stronger with more experience, Raja did begin to widen his repertoire against the Sicilian. He was playing the Open Sicilian at his first Zonal, Toronto 2004, when his rating had passed 2200.
As it turns out, Ron also plays the system as White! The game is completely symmetrical to move 8; as it turns out, after White's ninth, Black scores a bit better, from 365chess.com. But Raja has a position he knows and is comfortable with; this is important.
At move 14, time use was (19,23), with both players playing quickly. At this juncture, the game leaves previous examples which I have traced: Fuller -- Jamieson, Melbourne zt 1975 had also reached this position after Black's 14th move (0-1, 42).
I was very happy to see Raja using his time so well for the next few moves. He used 22 minutes for move 17, a further 21 for move 18, and then a further 11 for move 19, putting him into some time pressure before the control at move 30; 15 minutes left for 8 moves at move 22. He and I had worked hard on this. Black also slowed down, and had used 60 minutes to move 22. Raja put his clock time to good use, finding excellent moves. Facing a higher-rated player with much more experience, Raja holds his composure, and it is Black who goes badly wrong with 27...Rc2??, losing the exchange for no compensation, to 28.Nxd4! Raja asserts his advantage, makes the time control, soon wins more material after another Black error, and wraps up the win in efficient style!! Bravo, Raja!!
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