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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 Norwood at their Chess Club (to read the columns you need to register which is free). A final between former world champion Garry Kasparov and former title challenger Nigel Short became a distinct possibility as both got through to the semi finals of the Reykjavik Rapid at the Icelandic capital's city hall. Short is in the top half of the draw and faces Russian international Alexey Dreev while Kasparov is in the bottom half and plays Peter Heine Nielsen of Denmark the winner at Hastings in 2002-2003. Short overcame the Icelandic IM Stefan Kristjansson in the first round but then faced stiffer opposition in former world junior champion Levon Aronian of Armenia who defeated the Kasparov in the blitz contest held to determine the seedings. Short drew with white but in the return Aronian played a Trompovsky, a rather cheeky notion against an Englishman. By improving on a game played by Luke McShane in which McShane was white against Israeli GM Emil Sutovsky, Short secured good chances with a pawn sacrifice. Aronian then sacrificed a piece but misplayed it and overlooked a tactical trick - see below. Kasparov had an interesting match against Jan Timman and it must have been a relief for him to be playing a relative veteran after the way he suffered against thirteen year old Magnus Carlsen in round one. Kasparov drew the first game easily with black by playing a line of the Queen's Gambit which had been played against him by the computer programs Fritz and Junior. The world number one then won the return with white when he found a deep combination that won a piece. The games are being played 25 minutes on the clock and the players receive 5 extra seconds for each move made. Round two results Nigel Short draw 1-0 Levon Aronian; Anatoly Karpov 0-1 draw Alexei Dreev Garry Kasparov draw 1-0 Jan Timman; Emil Sutovsky 0-1 draw Peter Heine Nielsen Semi finals: Short v Dreev, Kasparov v Nielsen Aronian,L (2648) - Short,N (2702) [A45] Rapid Reykjavik ISL (2.2), 19.03.2004 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 Ne4 3.Bf4 d5 4.e3 c5 5.Bd3 Nf6 6.dxc5 Nc6 7.Bb5 e6 8.b4 a5 9.Bxc6+ bxc6 10.c3 Ba6!N Short's improvement. [ 10...Ne4 11.f3 Nxc3 12.Nxc3 axb4 13.Na4 and White consolidated. 13...Ba6 14.Nb6 Ra7 15.Qd4 f6 16.Qxb4 e5 17.Bg3 Bb5 18.Kf2 Ra6 19.Qc3 d4 20.exd4 exd4 21.Re1+ Kf7 22.Qb3+ Kg6 23.a4 d3 24.axb5 Bxc5+ 25.Kf1 Ra3 26.Qc4 d2 27.Rd1 Re8 28.Qc2+ Kf7 29.Nc4 Rd3 30.Nd6+ Bxd6 31.Qxd3 Bxg3 32.Qc4+ Re6 33.hxg3 cxb5 1-0 McShane,L-Sutovsky,E - Pamplona ESP 2003. The Week in Chess.] 11.Ne2 Nd7! 12.Nd2 e5 13.Bg3 h5 14.Nf3 [ 14.h4 would create another weakness.; 14.h3 Qb8 intending 15.Rb1 Bd3] 14...Qf6 15.h4 Be7 16.0-0 Qf5 17.Re1 0-0 18.a4 [ 18.Nxe5 Nxe5 19.Nd4 Qf6 20.Bxe5 Qxe5 21.Nxc6 Qe6 22.Nxe7+ Qxe7 23.Qxh5 was a very interesting possibility.] 18...Rfc8 Short prevents the possibility of Nxe5 he allowed on the previous move. 19.b5 Bb7 20.Ned4!? A dangerous practical chance. 20...exd4 21.exd4 Bf6 22.Qd2 Nf8 23.Be5 Ng6 24.Bxf6 Qxf6 25.Re3 Re8 26.Rae1 Rxe3 27.Rxe3 Nxh4 28.Nxh4 Qxh4 29.Re5 Rf8 30.Qe2 g6 31.Re7 Bc8 32.bxc6 [ 32.Rc7 would have given White serious compensation.] 32...Qf6 33.Rc7 Bf5 34.Qb5 Qg5 35.Rb7 h4 36.Rb8 Qc1+  the queen comes back to f4 with check and picks up the rook on b8. 0-1 |
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