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| Chess by Malcolm Pein of the Daily Telegraph   Malcolm Pein writes for the Daily Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk)
you can read his chess columns along with those of Nigel Short and David
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Round 2 Tuesday 22nd July 2003 There were a few quiet draws on the top boards in the second round of the Smith & Williamson British Chess Championship at Edinburgh. Lower down the accelerated pairings pitted some of the stronger players who failed to win their first game against lower rated opposition who did. Most of the games were decisive and won by the player with white. Adam Hunt took his second Indian GM scalp in two games and is one of the leaders and England junior Rafe Martyn scored a splendid result and held top seed Vassilios Kotronias to a draw. After his fine win yesterday Scottish number one Jonathan Rowson had a farcical game against Indian IM Neelotpal Das. Rowson blundered a pawn and then shed more and more material for virtually no compensation. A rook ahead, Das found an ingenious way to avoid victory and the game ended in a draw. Gormally draw Conquest Harikrishna 1-0 Hossain Neelotpal draw Rowson Kidambi draw Motwani Rahman draw Haslinger Bakre draw Gallagher Hunt 1-0 Kunte Summerscale 1-0 Sowray Ghate 1-0 Pert Ahmed 1-0 Shaw Barua 1-0 Thomas Martyn draw Kotronias Ganguly 1-0 Simpson Vujatovic 1-0 Sattar Turner 1-0 Rendle Wells 1-0 Anderton Ashton 0-1 Vijayalaskshmi Arakhamia 1-0 Nixon Longson draw Hanley McNab draw Rudd Leaders: Hunt, Summerscale, Vujatovic (England), Harekrishna, Ghate, Ahmed (India) 2/2 At the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen Luke McShane tried a very dubious line of the Gruenfeld against Peter Heine Nielsen and was summarily despatched in round seven. Nielsen then lost to the Indian champion Krisnan Sasikiran who shares the lead with Russian GM Konstantin Sakaev on 7/8 going into the last round. McShane and Jon Speelman have 6/8. This is the last opportunity for Daily Telegraph readers to enter the Winton Capital British Chess Solving Championship 2003-2004 by solving the problem which is given below. All correct answers will qualify you for the Postal Round and the best performers from that will go through to the final. The winner will collect a cash prize a trophy and a place in the British team for the next World Chess Solving Championship. From the starter position it is White to play and mate in two against any defence. WCBCSC Starter 2003-2004 White to play and mate in two  Send your entry by writing White's first move only, together with a cheque or postal order for £3.00 payable to the British Chess Problem Society to: Paul Valois, 14 Newton Park Drive, Leeds, LS7 4HH. The championship is only open to B ritish residents and the closing date is July 31. Please be sure to mark your entries Daily Telegraph. All entrants will be sent the answer and receive a copy of the British Chess Problem Society's magazine "The Problemist'' For more information on the British Chess Problem Society and the competition you can find the organisation's website at http://www.bstephen.freeuk.com Jonathan Rowson's fine sacrifice from round one which may be a theoretical novelty. Rowson,J (2536) - McDonald,N (2384) [C18] ch-GBR Edinburgh SCO (1), 14.07.2003 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 Ne7 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 c5 7.Qg4 0-0 8.Bd3 Nbc6 9.Qh5 Ng6 10.Nf3 Qc7 11.h4 cxd4 12.Kd1 dxc3 13.Rh3 Nce7 14.Ng5 h6 15.Nf3 f5  16.Bxh6!! gxh6 17.Qxh6 Rf7 18.Rg3 Rh7 19.Qg5 Qb6 20.Ke2! Bd7 21.h5 Bb5 22.Rd1 Bxd3+ 23.Rxd3 Qb1 24.Nd4 f4 25.Rh3 Qc1 26.Qg4 f3+ 27.Rhxf3 Rf8 28.hxg6 1-0 |
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