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| Chess by Malcolm Pein of the Daily Telegraph   Malcolm Pein writes for the Daily Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk)
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Round 4 Thursday 24th July 2003 Grandmaster Aaron Summerscale and International Master Adam Hunt drew on the top board but victories for IM Danny Gormally and GM Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh resulted in a four-way tie for the lead after four rounds of the Smith & Williamson British Chess Championship at Edinburgh. The game between Indian GM Pentyla Harikrishna and Joe Gallagher, the victor at Scarborough in 2001 went the distance and the draw was only agreed as the end of the seven hour playing session on move 86. Gallagher lost a pawn in an endgame with both rooks and a pair of knights but held it with active defence. Eventually Gallagher gave up his knight in order to remove his opponents last two pawns but Harekrishna played on trying to mate with rook and knight against rook but this is fairly easy to draw. Jonathan Rowson swindled a second Indian opponent after his attempts to escape from a slightly inferior position landed him in a hopeless situation. The Scottish number one was also forced into an endgame with rook against rook and knight but also managed to remove all opponent's pawns and then used a stalemate defence to hold with rook against rook and knight. His opponent did not persevere. Smith & Williamson British Chess Championship Round four leading results Scores at start of play in brackets Summerscale (3) draw Hunt (3) Harikrishna (2½) draw Gallagher (2½) Kidambi (2½) draw Rowson (2½) Ganguly (2½) draw Ghate (2½) Arakhamia-Grant (2½) draw Motwani (2½) Rahman (2½) 1-0 Rudd (2½) Gormally (2½) 1-0 Williams (2) Sowray (2) 0-1 Kotronias (2) Turner (2) draw Gwaze (2) Mohota (2) 0-1 Kunte (2) Pritchett (2) 0-1 Pert (2) Wells (2) 1-0 Greet (2) Singh (2) 1-0 Hossain (2) Woodward (2) draw Vijayalaskshmi (2) Bakre (2) draw Ahmed (2) McNab (2) 1-0 Vujatovic (2) Collins (2) 1-0 Dignam (2) Ramsawamy (1½) 0-1 Ansell (2) Leaders: Summerscale, Hunt, Gormally Rahman (Bangladesh) 3.5/4 A fine counter-attacking game from the Georgian WGM who lives in Edinburgh and is also the joint holder of the Scottish title. England international Stuart Conquest is always an uncompromising player but his approach was inconsistent. He chooses one of the quietest lines against the Gruenfeld Defence developed by former World Champion Vassily Smyslov and then plays for mate with an attack on the king. At Biel Alexander Morozevich and last year's winner Ilya Smirin share the lead on 2.5/3 after drawing their individual game. Morozevich seemed to be better for a long time until Smirin reached an endgame with rook and two pawns against rook bishop and one pawn which somehow he managed to draw. Scores: Morozevich (Switzerland) & Smirin (Israel) 2.5/3; Lutz (germany) 1.5; Korchnoi (Switzerland) 1; Pelletier (Switzerland) 0.5; Conquest,S (2560) - Arakhamia,K (2408) [D85] ch-GBR Edinburgh SCO (3), 16.07.2003 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bd2 Bg7 6.e4 Nb6 7.Be3 0-0 8.Bb5 Be6 9.Nf3 Nc4 10.Bxc4 Bxc4 11.h4!? Nd7 12.h5?! c5! 13.d5 f5! Black has countered the wing attacks with the classical breaks in the centre with pawn to c5 and pawn to f5 and uses her control of light squares to develop an attack on the white king which should have fled to the queenside when it had the chance. 14.hxg6 hxg6 15.Bh6 Bxc3+!! 16.bxc3 fxe4 17.Bxf8 exf3 18.Qxf3 White can't keep the exchange. [ 18.Bh6 fxg2 ( 18...Ne5 intending Nd3+ and Qxd5 lead to an overwhelming attack.) ] 18...Nxf8 Black with two pieces for a rook, cleans up efficiently. 19.Rd1 Qd6 20.Qe4 b5 21.f4 Rd8 22.Kf2 Bxd5 23.Qe3 Qe6 24.Qg3 Rd6 25.Rhe1 Qf6 26.Kg1 Bxa2 27.f5 Bc4 28.fxg6 Nxg6 29.Qe3 Rxd1 30.Rxd1 Nf4 31.Rd8+ Kf7 32.Rd2 Nd5 33.Qxc5 Qf1+ 34.Kh2 Qf4+  0-1 |
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