Tuesday, July 31, 2007

July TNT Final Round

Alex Nikouline won the tournament winning his last game over Jay Khedkar. It looked like a Morphy game, but according to the silicon beast, Alex erred at move 17.


Alex played 17. Qxc4+ which the computer gives as equal. But it is a tough position for Black and Jay lasted another 6 moves before calling it a day.

The crusher is apparently 17. Nd6 when after the essentially forced 17...Qxf7 18. Rxf7 Black loses the bishop on e7.

Ed Tang won his last game to score 4 -1 and finish second.

Tony Boron or Jim Lauritson had a chance to join Ed in second if their encounter was decisive

Jim had a pawn and pressure when this position after Black's (Lauritson) move 38.


I (Tony) immediately rejected Be1 as the knight on d4 is loose. 39. Nxc6 was the idea I had in mind several moves back with threats of mating after Nxe7+ and Qxf8. Jim played 39...Kh8
and now I played 40. Nxb4 instead of the easily winning Be1. I can only speculate that I didn't really look at Be1 as I had rejected it on the previous move. And that I was fixated on my original mating idea, (which ultimatelty helped me hold a draw).

See the games at http://www.chessmanitoba.com Tournaments and results.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

TNT Game of the Night

Some wild games last night. Nikulin - Van Wyk is an obvious candidate although I have to look at Rutter - Raihman later.
Here is Nikulin - Van Wyk after 13...dxc3


See the entire game at http://www.chessmanitoba.com

Thursday, July 12, 2007

July TNT after Round 2 of 5


Tournament: 2007 July TNT

CFC# Results Total
01: Khedkar, Jay S. 102391 W15 W12 2.0
02: Lauritson, Jim 102783 W13 W14 2.0
03: Van Wyk, Joseph 123131 W16 D 9 1.5
04: Kaptsan, Aron 112549 W17 D 8 1.5
05: Tang, Edward 123723 D10 W20 1.5
06: Nikouline, Alexandre 112475 D 0 W18 1.5
07: Raihman, Igal 0 D11 W21 1.5
08: Rutter, Blair 132113 W22 D 4 1.5
09: Zhou, Lu 139779 W23 D 3 1.5
10: Atem, James 146062 D 5 W24 1.5
11: Goodman, Clifford 136888 D 7 D19 1.0
12: Pottinger, Carl 124202 W25 L 1 1.0
13: Lange, John 121045 L 2 W26 1.0
14: Raihman, Daniel 0 W26 L 2 1.0
15: Liu, Weixi 145394 L 1 W25 1.0
16: Huynh, Peter 0 L 3 W23 1.0
17: Campbell, Gary 146063 L 4 W22 1.0
18: Pang, Michael 143100 W24 L 6 1.0
19: Boron, Anthony 101126 D20 D11 1.0
20: Trueman, Francis 103193 D19 L 5 0.5
21: Lipic, Stephen 145479 D 0 L 7 0.5
22: Gibson, Fred 132549 L 8 L17 0.0
23: Husby-Wall, Evan 0 L 9 L16 0.0
24: Kwiatek, Jordan 131214 L18 L10 0.0
25: Magnusson, Saul 125303 L12 L15 0.0
26: Boggio, Joaquin 0 L14 L13 0.0