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).

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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


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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