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News & Notes 3
By ICCF GM Yoav Dothan
This column contains five game from the GM tournament in Biel, and four
correspondence games that I received with notes from the winners. I
add the invitation letter of the German Correspondence Chess Federation to
the next ICCF World Cup.
I will be happy to
get comments or analyzed games – you can mail them directly to
yoavchess@gmail.com.
Bruzon,L (2667) - Carlsen,M
(2675) [A39]
GM Biel SUI (4), 27.07.2006
After 35 moves the
game reached this position:
 
 
 
 
 
 
Carlsen could play
35...Nc3 36.Bxe8 Nxe4 37.Rxe4 Kxe8 and reach a position that wins a pawn and
maybe the game, for example: 38.Re2 Qa1+ 39.Qg1 Qxg1+ 40.Kxg1 Rxg3+ White has
a horrible pawn structure and he is minus one pawn. Instead Carlsen chose
35...Rc8 36.Bc4 Qf5 37.Bb3 e6 38.Kg1 Rc3 39.Qh4 Nf6 40.R4e3 Rxe3 41.Rxe3 Ra8
42.Re2 Qb1+ 43.Kg2 Qd3 44.Rxe6 Nd5 45.Re1 Ne3+ 46.Rxe3 Qxe3 47.Qf6 Qe2+
48.Kg1 Qe1+ 49.Kg2 Qe2+ ½–½
Radjabov,T (2728) -
Pelletier,Y (2583) [B47]
GM Biel SUI (7), 31.07.2006
After 37 moves the
game reached:
Black played
37...Rd6
and the game soon ended 38.f5 dxe6 39.Rxh6 Ke7 40.Rxe6+ Rxe6 41.fxe6 Kxe6
½–½
Could he make the
whole point by playing 37...d6 38.Rxh6 Ke7 39.Kb2 Rf5 40.Rh4 Kxe6? I
think that Black can win this ending.
Morozevich,A (2731) -
Carlsen,M (2675) [B30]
GM Biel SUI (7), 31.07.2006
After 26 moves the
game reached a position where Morozevich has a strong position:
Morozevich could
play 27.b4 Bb6 28.Qe2 Bf7 29.c5 Bc7 30.Bg5 fxg5 31.Rxf7 and thus maintain a
small advantage but instead chose 27.Bg7? and Carlsen did not miss his
chance to turn the outcome of the game: 27...Bg4 28.b4 Be3 29.h3 Rd1 30.Rxd1
Rxd1+ 31.Kh2 Bf4+ 32.g3 Rd2+ 33.Qxd2 Bxd2 34.hxg4 Bxb4 35.Bxf6 a5 36.Kg2 Kd7
37.Kf3 Bd6 38.Ke4 Bxg3 39.Kd3 Ke6 40.Bd4 a6 41.Kc2 a4 42.Kb1 Be5 43.Bf2 Kd6
44.Ka2 Bc3 45.Ka3 Ke5 46.Kxa4 Kf4 47.Bb6 Kxg4 48.Ba5 Bxa5 49.Kxa5 Kf4 50.Kb6
a5 0–1
Morozevich,A (2731) -
Radjabov,T (2728) [B30]
GM Biel SUI (4), 27.07.2006
After 34 moves
White could play now Rg4 or Re7 and get a strong advantage for example:
35.Rg4 Nd3 36.Rxg5 Qxg5 37.Qxg5 hxg5 38.Re8 Bf5 39.Bd1 Bd7 40.Rd8 Nf4
41.Bc2+ g6 42.h4 and White is much better.
The game continued
35.f4 Rxd5 36.Qd8 Rd2 37.Qxc8 Rxc2 38.Re8 Qf5 39.Rh8+ Kg6 and the position
is equal.
White could
continue 40.Qc6 for example.
40.Qg8 Kh5 41.Qe8
Qd7 42.Qe3 Qf5 43.Qf3+ Kg6 44.Qc6
Within a few moves
we see that Black's position is deteriorating. What could he play? Maybe
40...Nd3? Also here 44...Nd3 seems better.
44...Ne6 45.Rd1
Rxb2 (relatively better is Re2) 46.Rxd6 Re7 (relatively better is
46...Re2)
Another
possibility was to play: 47.Rd5 Rxg2+ 48.Kxg2 Qe4+ 49.Kg1 Qb1+ 50.Kf2 Qc2+
51.Kf1 with a large advantage.
47.Re8 Kf7
48.Rxe7+ Kxe7
Here White could
save himself a few hours and more then 40 moves, and win at once with 49.Rd5
Rxg2+ (or ...Qc2 50.Rd7+ Kf6 51.Bh4+ g5 52.fxg5+ hxg5 53.Qf3+ ) 50.Kxg2 Qe4+
51.Kf2 Qc2+ 52.Kf3 Kf7 53.Rd7+
49.Qd7+ Kf6
50.Bh4+ g5 51.fxg5+ hxg5 52.Qd8+ Kg6 53.Qg8+ Kf6 54.Bxg5+ Ke5
Another chance to
shorten the game comes again:
55.Qb8 Rxg2+
56.Kxg2 Qxg5+ 57.Kh1 Qf5 58.Qxb5+ Kf6 59.Qxf5+ Kxf5 60.Rc6
55.Rd2 Rxd2
56.Bxd2 Qd3 57.Be1 Qe3 58.Bg3+ Kf6 59.Bh4+ Ke5 60.Qb8+ Ke4 61.Qxb5 Qxc3
62.Qc6+ Ke5 63.Qxa4 Nd4 64.Qe8+ Kd5 65.Qd7+ Ke4 66.Qh7+ Nf5 67.Qb7+ Ke5
68.Qb5+ Ke6
Another chance to
shorten the game with a nice series of moves with the queen arrived in move
69:
69.Qe8+ Kd5
70.Qa8+ Kd6 71.Qf8+ Ke6 72.Qg8+ Kd6 73.Qg6+ Kc7 74.Qxf5
69.Qc6+ Nd6 70.Bg3
Qxa3 71.h4 Qd3 72.h5 Qd5 73.Qxd5+ Kxd5 74.Bf4 c3 75.g4 c2 76.Kg3 Ne4+ 77.Kf3
Nf6 78.Bd2 Ke6 79.Kf4 Nd5+ 80.Kg5 Nf6 81.Bc1 Kf7 82.Kf5 Nd5 83.g5 Ne7+
84.Ke5 Nc6+ 85.Ke4 Ne7 86.Kf3 Ke6 87.Kg4 Kf7 88.Bb2 Ke6 89.g6 Ng8 90.Kg5 Nf6
91.h6 Ne4+ 92.Kh4 1–0
I next bring you three
games sent to me by GM Turkov. Most of the comments are his, I just
added a few of my own. The first game is a fine example of a win in
the endgame stage:
Turkov,V (2457) - Ohtake,S (2596) [C43]
EM/GMN/004 ICCF Email, 25.06.2002
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3
Nf6 3.d4 Nxe4 4.Bd3 Nc6
A rare and rather dangerous
move in Correspondence Chess. The usual move is 4...d5.
5.Bxe4 d5 6.Nxe5 dxe4 7.Nxc6
bxc6 8.O-O Bd6 9.Nc3 f5 10.Qh5+ g6 11.Qh6 Bf8 12.Qe3 Bg7 13.Rd1 O-O
The opening phase
leaves Black with a nice position.
14.Qg3 Rb8 15.Rb1 Rb4 16.Ne2 Ba6 17.Bd2 Rb7 18.Nf4
18...Bc4 19.b3 Bf7
would bring the bishop to a better position. 20.Ne2 Re8 21.Bf4 Qe7 22.h4 h6
23.Be5 Bxe5 24.dxe5 Qxe5 25.Qe3.
18...Qd6 19.b3 Re8 20.Be3 Rbb8 21.c4 Bb7 22.h4 Qe7 23.h5 g5 24.h6!
Bxh6 25.Nh3 Qg7 26.Bxg5 Bxg5 27.Qxg5 Qxg5 28.Nxg5 Rbd8 29.Nh3 Rd6 30.Rb2
I think that Black
should be able to draw the game, for example: 30...Kf7 31.Nf4
Rh6 32.g3 Rg8 33.d5 Ke7
30...c5 31.d5 c6 32.Nf4 Kf7 33.b4 cxb4 34.c5
(34.Rxb4 Rd7 35.d6 c5) 34...Rd7 35.d6
a5 36.a3 bxa3 37.Ra2
Maybe 37...Re5
38.Rc1 Bc8 39.Rxa3 Ra7 40.Kf1 a4 is best here.
37...Ra8 38. Rxa3
Bc8 39. f3 Kf6 40. Kf2 Rb7 41. Ke3 Ke5 42. Rd4 exf3 43. Nd3+ Kf6 44. gxf3
Bd7 45. Rda4 Rb5 46. Kd4 Be6 47. Ne5 Bb3 48. Nxc6 Bxa4 49. Rxa4 Ke6 50.Kc4
Rb1 51. Nd4+ Ke5 52. f4+ Ke4 53. Ne2 Re1 54.Nc3+ Kxf4 55. Kd5+ Kg3 56. c6 h5
57. d7 Ree8 58. c7 h4 59. Ne2+ Kf2 60. dxe8=Q Rxe8 61. Nf4 Rc8 62. Kd6 Kf3
63. Kd7 Rg8 64. c8=Q Rxc8 65. Kxc8 1-0
Turkov v (2487) - Aronov I. (2438) [B06]
RCCA-10 B, 2004
1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7
3.Nf3 d6 4.Be2 c5 5.c3 Qc7 6.O-O Nf6 7.Re1 O-O 8.Nbd2 Nc6 9.d5 Ne5
10.Nxe5 dxe5 11.Qc2 e6 12.c4 b6 13.b3 Ne8 14.Bb2 Nd6 15.f4 exf4 16.Bxg7 Kxg7
White is creating
a strong pawn on d6.
17.e5 Nf5 18.d6
Qd7 19.Ne4 Bb7 20.Nf6 Qc8 21.Qd3 Ne3 22.Rf1
22.Bf1 Rh8 23.Re2 Qc6
22...Nxf1
22...Nxg2 23.Qh3 h6 (I would play Rh8
-YD) 24.Rf2 Ne3 25.Rxf4
Nf5 26.Bd3
23.Rxf1 f3
23...Bc6 24.Rxf4
24.Bxf3 Bxf3 25.Qxf3 h6 26.h4 Qd8 27.Qg3 a6 28.Rf4
28...Rg8
Trying other moves
here fails too – for example:
28...b5 fails to 29.Rg4 Qa5 30.h5 Kh8 31.hxg6 fxg6 32.Rxg6 Qd2 33.d7; or
28...Rh8 29.h5 g5 30.Rg4 Rh7 31.Qd3 Rh8 32.Qe3 Rh7 33.Qe4 Rh8 34.Qf4
29.Rg4 (29.Nxg8 Qxg8) Qf8 30.Qe3 Rb8 31.Rg3 a5 32.Qe4 Kh8
33.h5
1-0
Turkov,V - Eliseev,E [B22]
FKR-1/4, 1999
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3
Nc6 3.c3 Nf6 4.e5 Nd5 5.d4 cxd4 6.cxd4 d6 7.Nc3 dxe5 8.dxe5 Ndb4 9.a3
Qxd1+ 10.Kxd1 Na6 11.b4 Nc7 12.Nb5 Nd5 {better is ...Nxb5} 13.Bc4 Bg4
14.Bg5
When analyzing
correspondence chess games there is always a problem: you know that (in this
example) GM Turkov spent many hours of thought on this position, sometimes
it can be even days. Why did he not play 14.Bxd5? Or 14.Ke2? This is relatively a
small matter, but in complex positions it is very difficult to understand
as the outsider will never spend even a small fraction of the time that the
players spent on the original game (at a pace of 60 days per 10 moves, or a
"blitz" pace of 30 days for 10 moves!)
14...Nxe5
14...a6 15.Bxd5
axb5 16.Ke2 e6 17.Bxc6+ bxc6 is also an option.
14... Bxf3+ 15.gxf3 a6 16.Bxd5 axb5 17.Ke2 e6 18.Be4;
or
14... O-O-O 15. Nd6+ exd6 16. Bxd8
Nf4 17. Bg5 Nxg2 18. Be2 dxe5 19.Rg1
15.Bxd5 O-O-O 16.Rc1+ Kb8 17.Kc2
Rxd5 18.Nxe5 Rxb5 19.Nxf7 Rg8 20.Bf4+ Ka8
White decides to
exchange his rook VS the black bishop, maybe the most active black
piece.
21.Rhd1 (21.h3)
Bxd1+ 22.Rxd1 a5
22...b6 23.Rd8+ Kb7 24.Rd7+ Kc6 25.Rd3 Kb7 26.Nd8+ Kc8 27.Ne6 a5 28.Rd8+
23.Rd8+ Ka7 24.Ne5 axb4 25.a4 Rc5+ 26.Kb3
b6 27.Nd7 Ra5
27...Rf5 28.Be3 Kb7 29.g4 Rf7 30.Kxb4 e6+ 31.Kb5 or
29.Kc4 Rd6 30.Rb8+ Kc7 31.Rxf8 Rxf8 32.Nxf8 Rc6+ 33.Kxb4 h6
28.Be3 Kb7
29.Rb8+ Kc6 30.Nxf8 Kc7 31.Re8 Kc6 1-0
A possible
continuation could be 32.Rd8 Kb7 33.Ne6 Rxd8 34.Nxd8+ Ka6 35.Nc6 Rh5 36.h3 Kb7
37.Nd4 Rd5 38.Kc4 b3 but Black decided to resign even though the win is still
not trivial.
DOTHAN Yoav (ISR) -
JÄDERHOLM Bo (FIN)
NPSF 60GM email 2005
Most of the
comments were written by Mr. Jäderholm.
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3
d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6
6.Be3
-
6.Bc4 e6
7.Bb3 b5 8.0-0 =+ Ketola,V - Jäderholm,B, 4.email FIN-ch 2004.
-
6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.0-0 Be6 9.f4 Qc7 10.Kh1 0-0 11.f5 Bd7 +=,
Jäderholm,B - Arppi,H 4.email FIN-ch 2004.
-
6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Be7 8.Qf3 Qc7 9.0-0-0 Nbd7 10.Bd3 b5 11.Rhe1 Bb7 12.Qg3
b4 13.Nd5 exd5 14.exd5 Kd8 15.Nc6+ Bxc6 16.dxc6 Nc5 17.Bh4 Kg8 18.Bxh7
(18.Bf5 Qxc6 19.Bxh7 Re8 20.Rxe7 Rxe7 21.Qxg7 Rxh7 22.Qxf7 Ra7 23.Qxh7 Qe4
24.Qxe4 Nxe4 25.Rd4 Kc8 26.Bxe7 Rxe7 (+- ?) (1/2-1/2 33 moves) Jäderholm,B-Sferle,M, ICCF XVII Ol.Prel. Sec 2, Board 4 2005) 18. - Rh8 19.Qxg7 Rxh7
20.Qxf6 Rxh4 21.Qxf7 Rh8 22.Re5 Rf8 23.Qg7 b3 24.axb3 Nxb3 25.cxb3 Qxc6+
26.Kb1 =+ (1/2-1/2 82 moves) Atakisi,U - Jäderholn,B, 2.email Ol.turn.Sec.2.
Board 4 , 2005.]
6...e5 7.Nb3 Be7
8.f3 Be6 9.Qd2 Nbd7 10.g4 0-0 11.0-0-0 Qc7 12.Kb1 b5 13.g5
Nh5 14.Nd5 Bxd5 15.exd5 Nb6 16.Rg1 Rac8
16...g6 17.h4
Rab8 18.f4 Nc4 =+ Kristol,Luba - Jäderholm,B, NPSF 60GM
email 2005; 16...Rab8 17.N5 Nxd5 18.Qxd5 = Acs,P - Womacka,M, Pardubice
Chech op 2005
17.Na5 g6
17...Nxd5
18.Qxd5 Qxa5 = Kraamnik,V - Vallejo Pons,F , Amber-rapid 2004
18.Bh3
18.h4 Nxd5
19.Qxd5 Qxa5 20.c4 Nf4 21.Bxf4 exf4 (position not quite clear but nearly =), Bologan,V - Vllejo Pons,F, Selfoss Milk Masters 2003. I agree with Mr. Jäderholm's evaluation, the position is almost equal.
18...Rb8 19.Rg4
19.Bg4 Nc4
20.Nxc4 bxc4 21.c3 Rb5 22.Bxh5 gxh5 (position not quite clear but ½-½ in
32 moves) Quezada,Y - Qun Zhe, Wch U 20, Kochin 2004
19...Rbe8 20.Bf1
f5 21.Rg1 Rc8 22.Nc6 Rfe8 23.Rc1 Kh8 24.c4 bxc4 25.Bxc4 Nxc4 26.Rxc4 f4 =
YD – the other
move I considered was 27.Bf2 Qd7 28.Qd3 Qh3 29.Rc2 Bf8 30.Qe2 Ng7 31.Rgc1
27.Qc3 Qd7 28.Bb6
Bf8
28.Qf5+ 29.Qc2 Ng7
(position not quite clear)
29.Qd3 Ng7
30.Rc3 Ra8 31.Qc2 Kg8 32.h4 Qh3 33.Bf2 Nf5 34.Qd1 Bg7 25.Rb3 a5 36.Qf1 Qxf1+
37.Rxf1 e4 38.fxe4 Rxe4 39.Re1 Rae8 40Rxe4 Rxe4 41.Rb8+ Kf7 42.Nd8+ Ke7
42.Nc6+ Kf7 44.Ne8+ ½-½
The International
Correspondence Chess Federation is delighted to announce that the German
Correspondence Chess Federation will be the main organizer of the next ICCF
World Cup Tournament:
The tournament will be played in three stages. The
Preliminary section will be played via postal and is expected to start on
15.12.2006. Registration will begin upon receipt of this announcement and
will close on 15.10.2006 to allow for pairings. All chess players are warmly
invited to participate to this event. It will be possible for any player to
apply for multiple entries during the preliminary stage. The preliminary
section via postal is expected to be finished no later than 15.06.2010.
Preliminary stage:
Each section will consist of 7-11 players. Every participant will play one
game against each other player of his section (round robin tournament). The
winners of each section will qualify for the semi-final stage. Other
qualifications will depend upon the number of entries in the preliminary
stage. If two or more players share first place in the section, the
qualification will be decided according to ICCF rules through the Sonneborn-Berger
system.
Pairings for the
semi-final and final stages will be announced later, depending upon the
number of entries and the form of play selected by the applicants in the
preliminaries.
Allocation of
players in the preliminary and semi-final stages will be made as random as
possible; however, geographical distribution as well as achievement of
reasonable equality of the average rating will be taken into account. In
addition, those players who qualified for World Cup XIII and XIV finals will
also be entitled to play in the semi-final stage of World Cup XV and the
winner of WC XIV final will be eligible to participate in World Cup Final
XV.
Although the
number of preliminary groups for each player is unlimited, no player will be
allowed to qualify for more than two semi-final sections or for more than
one place in the final.
Winners of
preliminary and semi-final stages will receive book prizes. A cash prize of
one thousand (1000) Swiss Francs will be awarded to the winner of World Cup
XV, with a trophy and gold medal. There will also be prizes of six hundred
(600) Swiss Francs to the silver medalist and four hundred (400) Swiss
Francs to the bronze medalist. The above prize money is subject to the
formal approval of the ICCF Congress 2006 in Dresden.
The following
qualifications can be achieved in the final:
- The winner of
the World Cup Final XV will qualify for the Final of the next World Cup
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Tournament Rules, Article 8.6.c).
- All participants
in the final will qualify for the semi-final of the next World Cup
Tournament (ICCF Tournament Rules, Article 3.6)
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- All participants
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finishers (when the category of the final is XI or below) will qualify for
the semi-final of the World Cup CC Championship (ICCF Tournament Rules,
Article 1.2.2.e).
The German
Correspondence Chess Federation has appointed:
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29699 Bomlitz
Email:
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been selected as Central Tournament Leader (CTL) of this tournament. He will
be assisted by a team of Tournament Directors (TD). The appeal instances are
the ICCF Appeals Commission (Playing Rules) for cases concerning the
application of ICCF Playing Rules and the ICCF Appeals Commission (Other
ICCF Rules) for cases concerning the application of Tournament Rules, Code
of Conduct and any other rules matters not covered elsewhere.
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will be presented to the player during his/her registration process.
Applications via
National Correspondence Chess Federations must reach the CTL not later than
15.10.2006, preferably by e-mail. We ask that first applications be sent as
soon as possible and thereafter on a weekly basis.
We wish all
participants many interesting games and new links with CC friends in other
countries based on the spirit of friendship and the ICCF motto:
AMICI SUMUS
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