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Where has all the doom and gloom gone???
I jest! Some phenomenal chess being played at the moment and it is really pleasing to see we have so many performing well over their grades. Can I dare to dream of a top 10 finish for one of our players? We were hoping for top 50!
We are loving the games being posted here. Please keep it up. Any chance of seeing Carl's short one??
"How sad to see, what used to be, a model of decorum and tranquility become like any other sport, a battleground for rival ideologies to slug it out with glee"
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Here you go, Andy. =)
[pgn][Event "European Youth Chess Championship B16"]
[Site "Prague, Top Hotel Prague"]
[Date "2012.08.20"]
[Round "4.33"]
[White "Milton, Carl"]
[Black "Fargac, Martin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D10"]
[BlackElo "2051"]
[PlyCount "27"]
[EventDate "2012.08.17"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxc4 5. a4 Qa5 6. Nf3 Ne4 7. Bd2 Nxd2 8.
Nxd2 Qb4 9. Qc2 b5 10. axb5 cxb5 11. Qe4 Qxb2 12. Rb1 Qxc3 13. Qxa8 e6 14. Qxb8
1-0[/pgn]
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And here is Murad's game from yesterday. Takes full advantage of a slip from his opponent.
[pgn][Event "European Youth Chess Championship B12"]
[Site "Prague, Top Hotel Prague"]
[Date "2012.08.20"]
[Round "4.31"]
[White "Abdulla, Murad"]
[Black "Porta Tovar, Guillem"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[BlackElo "1865"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[EventDate "2012.08.17"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 d6 5. Nxd4 Ne5 6. Bb3 Nf6 7. Nc3 Be7 8.
h3 O-O 9. f4 Ned7 10. O-O Nc5 11. Qf3 Nxb3 12. axb3 Nd7 13. Be3 Bf6 14. g4 h6
15. Rad1 Re8 16. Nde2 Qe7 17. Ng3 Bxc3 18. bxc3 Nf6 19. Rfe1 Nxe4 20. Bf2 d5
21. Rxd5 Be6 22. Qxe4 Bxd5 23. Qxe7 Rxe7 24. Rxe7 Rd8 25. Re3 c5 26. Rd3 Rd7
27. c4 Be6 28. Rxd7 Bxd7 29. Bxc5 a5 30. Ne4 a4 31. Kf2 axb3 32. cxb3 f5 33.
gxf5 b5 34. cxb5 Bxb5 35. Ke3 Bd7 36. Nd6 Kf8 37. Ke4 Ke7 38. Ke5 h5 39. h4 Bc6
40. b4 Ba8 41. b5 Kd7 42. b6 Kc6 43. b7 Bxb7 44. Nxb7 Kxb7 45. Bf8 1-0[/pgn]
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Thanks for the annotations Andrew. I liked your strong technique in the rook vs bishop endgame. I must admit when I quickly played through your game last night my only thought was MESS
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Well done Carl: as with a lot of tactics it is often all very obvious with hindsight - and its a reasonably common tactic in the QGA - but its never quote so easy OTB when you have a million and 1 other thoughts and ideas buzzing round your head. Not to mention you're playing a highly graded opponent.
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Been following the game of Diana Mirza, the U12 Irish girl that played in our Scottish championships. She is going great with 3/4 and has black today. She has played 17.. Ng4. Her opponent has taken a very long time to play. It looks as though you feel Diana must be losing material but it's tricky.
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nice games from Murad and Carl, glad i'm not playing them
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Not sure exactly what's happening today on the scores front. It's not just us that seem to have a lack of scores being updated, it's everyone.
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First result in and sadly Murad has lost. Knowing him, he will come out with all guns blazing tomorrow.
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also really good mature games from Andrew and Hamish
