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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 3 30th December 2003 Vasilios Kotronias of Cyprus took the lead away from Mark Hebden in the third round of the Hastings Premier being held at the Horntye Sports Centre. Kotronias checkmated the Russian Alexander Cherniaev while Hebden was comprehensively beaten by back marker Danny Gormally. Kotronias has 2.5/3 with Hebden sharing second place on 2/3 with last year's winner Peter Heine Nielsen of Denmark and Russian Vladimir Epishin Playing white, Gormally produced a very strong new move in the opening that pretty well refuted one of Hebden's favourite lines in the Ruy Lopez. The idea has been seen before in a similar position but was overlooked because White played it so badly. Gormally gave up a rook for bishop and pawn and a dominating centre. Hebden's pieces became short of squares and in desperation he sacrificed a piece to create some tactical tricks but Gormally kept control and won convincingly. Kotronias used a plan in the Sicilian Defence that has been used by world champion Vladimir Kramnik and built up a huge kingside attack in the style of the King's Indian Defence that forced mate. Visitors to the congress can compete in events for all strengths and there is daily commentary on the Premier games from GM Chris Ward. The tournament continues until January 5th Round three results: Gormally 1-0 Hebden, Ruy Lopez, 42 moves; Conquest draw Rowson, Sicilian Defence, 47; Nielsen 1-0 Lahno, English Opening, 46; Kunte draw Epishin, Slav Defence, 18; Cherniaev 0-1 Kotronias, Sicilian Rossolimo, 38; Scores: 1 Kotronias (Cyprus) 2.5/3; 2-4 Hebden (England), Epishin (Russia), Nielsen (Denmark) 2; 5-6 Cherniaev (Russia), Rowson (Scotland) 1.5; 7-8 Kunte (India), Conquest (England) 1; 9-10 Lahno (Ukraine), Gormally (England) 0.5; Gormally,D (2471) - Hebden,M (2560) [C91] Premier Hastings ENG (3), 30.12.2003 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.d4 d6 9.c3 Bg4 10.Be3 exd4 11.cxd4 d5 12.e5 Ne4 13.h3 Bh5 14.Nc3 Bb4 15.Nxd5! Bxe1 16.Qxe1 a5 17.a3 a4 18.Ba2 Bxf3 19.gxf3 Ng5 20.Kg2 Ne6 21.Rd1 Qh4  A couple of lines indicate Black's problems in the face of the white pawn mass, note how the Ne6 has no support and is driven out of play so much so that White's material deficit in an endgame is more than compensated for. [ 21...Re8 22.f4 Qh4 23.Qe2 Ne7 24.Nxe7+ Rxe7 25.Qg4 Qxg4+ 26.hxg4 c6 27.Rc1 Nd8 28.f5 h6 29.Kf3] 22.f4 Na5 23.f5 Nc4 [ Sacrificing the piece was a desperate ploy but if: 23...Ng5 24.Nf4 Nc4 25.Bxc4 bxc4 26.f3 Qxe1 27.Rxe1 threatening to trap the knight 27...h6 28.h4 Nh7 29.d5] 24.Bxc4 Ng5 25.Be2 Qxh3+ 26.Kg1 Nf3+ 27.Bxf3 Qxf3 28.Ne7+ Kh8 29.Rc1 Rfe8 30.Rxc7 b4 31.Qxb4 Qg4+ 32.Kf1 Rab8 33.Qxa4! the decisive blow the attack on the e8 rook paralyses the b8 rook. [ Not 33.Qd2 Rxb2 34.Qxb2 Qd1+ with a draw.] 33...Qh4 [ 33...Qh3+ 34.Ke1 Qh1+ 35.Kd2 Rxb2+ 36.Kc3 Reb8 37.Rc8+ Rxc8+ 38.Nxc8 h6 39.Qe8+ Kh7 40.Ne7 wins] 34.Qc6 Qg4 35.b4 Qd1+ 36.Kg2 Qg4+ 37.Kh2 Qh4+ 38.Kg1 h6 39.f6 Qg4+ 40.Qg2 Qd1+ 41.Kh2 gxf6 42.Ng6+  1-0 Cherniaev,A (2476) - Kotronias,V (2626) [B31] Premier Hastings ENG (3), 30.12.2003 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.d3 Bg7 6.h3 b6 7.Nc3 e5 8.0-0 f6 9.a3 Nh6 10.b4 cxb4 11.axb4 Nf7 12.Be3 f5 13.Qb1 f4 14.Bd2 0-0 15.Qb3 Qe7 16.Nb1 Be6 17.Qb2 Ng5 18.Nxg5 Qxg5 19.Kh2 Rf6 20.Rh1 Qh5 21.f3 g5 22.Kg1 Rh6 23.Be1 g4  24.fxg4 Bxg4 25.Nd2 Bf6 26.Bf2 Kh8 27.Rh2 Rg8 28.Kf1 Be6 29.Ke1 Rhg6 30.Rxa7 Rxg2 31.Rxg2 Rxg2 32.Ra8+ Kg7 33.Qa1 Bh4 34.Qa7+ Bf7 35.Qb8 Bxf2+ 36.Kf1 Qd1+ 37.Kxg2 Qg1+ 38.Kf3 Bh5#  0-1 |
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