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Last update: Wednesday October 31, 2007 16:54
| 3.17 | 23 | Cercle d'Echecs de Strasbourg | 4½ - 1½ |
32 |
Hilsmark Kingfisher | ||
| 1 | GM | Rozentalis Eduardas | 2581 | ½ - ½ |
GM |
Arkell Keith C | 2479 |
| 2 | GM | Doettling Fabian | 2541 | ½ - ½ |
IM |
Greet Andrew | 2441 |
| 3 | IM | Roos Louis | 2370 | 1 - 0 |
IM |
Houska Jovanka | 2404 |
| 4 | GM | Kallai Gabor | 2464 | 1 - 0 |
Tavoularis Nicholas | 2246 | |
| 5 | FM | Reinhart Emmanuel | 2295 | ½ - ½ |
Briscoe Chris | 2273 | |
| 6 | IM | Roos Jean-Luc | 2324 | 1 - 0 |
WIM |
Andersson Christin | 2209 |
After the elation of the previous day’s fine team performance round 3 was something of a disappointment. Although we were facing a strong Strasbourg team with 3 GMs to our 1 I still felt we had chances to cause an upset. Sadly we didn’t even come close.
Keith achieved an excellent result on board 1, holding GM Rozentalis to a draw with black although he had to play accurately to neutralise a nagging white initiative in a 4…Nd7 Caro. Despite getting short of time he was able to find an exchange sacrifice that defused white’s initiative and forced white to repeat moves.
On board 2 Andrew was super solid and mass exchanges led to a 14 move draw against a 2541 rated GM.
Sadly we were outgunned on the bottom 4 boards with only Chris drawing. Jovanka
appeared to have a fairly equal position for most of the game but blundered
and eventually had to give up a piece to stop her opponent’s passed b
pawn.
Nick’s misfortune continued on board 4 where despite his opponent equalising
and gaining a comfortable middle game Nick seemed to be gaining an edge before
a blunder where he sacrificed a piece but missed a vital queen check which left
him a piece down for no compensation.
Chris appeared to have the better of a tactical Najdorf with opposite castling. His well timed exchange sacrifice on c3 gave him a strong initiative and white was eventually forced to giver the material back. Black still appeared to be better but white was able to escape to a Q&R ending. Allowing an exchange of rooks probably ended his winning chances as he was unable to make progress in the Q&P and subsequent K&P ending due to his doubled a pawns.
Christin was unable to build on her round 2 victory and after achieving a slightly unusual opening a tactical sequence led to a better position for black and her black squared weaknesses around her king led to her dropping an exchange and she was unable to recover.
A disappointing result but the test now is for the team to bounce back against a lower rated but unpredictable Turkish side in round 4.
