The Tony Miles Memorial Tourney
Tony Miles Memorial Tourney
Standings
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- ThoBjo
- BuccoAle
- Alternate
- Gaalad
- trikmamak
- GoldMark
- Ornitorinco
- supernike
- Zauberer
- ferkelchen
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The
TIO 69
held on November, 22nd, was dedicated to the memory of GM
Tony Miles who passed away
on November, 11th at the age of 46. The tourney was a 9
rounds 4 0 swiss tournament, and it saw 120 participants.
The tourney was carried on smoothly, with only
exception of Tokjogho who was disqualified since he
let another, stronger player use his account.
At the end of the tournament 3 men were tied at 7.5/9 but
the tie-breaker proclamed ThoBjo winner with a Bucholz of
48.0. Second was BuccoAle with Bucholz 46.0 and third
Alternate with 36.5
Here follow 2 games annotated by the top 2 scorer.
alexeyl - ThoBjo
FICS - 22 November 2001
Benko Opening, A00
notes by ThoBjo
1.g3 c6 2.Bg2 d5 3.d3 e5 4.Nf3 Bd6 5.e4 Nf6 6.Nc3 Be6
I wanted to get away from common lines, since I know that
alexeyl's theory knowledge is greater than mine.
7.O-O O-O 8.Ng5 Qe7 9.Nxe6 fxe6 10.Re1 Nbd7 11.h3 Qf7
I think I played this too fast, black should double his
rooks on the f-file and put some pressure on f2.
12.Qe2 Bc5 13.Nd1 Kh8 14.c3 Bb6 15.Kh2 Ne8 16.Rf1 Nd6
17.Bd2 Qe7 18.Ne3 Rf7 19.Ng4 Raf8
Here I felt quite satisfied with my position, but as
alexeyl will show white doesn't have a bad position either.
20.Rae1 Re8
To avoid losing the e5-pawn after 21.exd5. Maybe the
pressure on f2 is enough compensation for black, but I
didn't realize it at the moment.
21.h4 d4 22.c4 c5 23.Kg1 Rff8 24.Bg5 Qf7 25.f4!
Ouch, didn't see it coming. Now white has a clear advantage.
25... exf4 26.Bxf4
(see diagram)
26... Nf5
White can't capture 27.exf5 right away because of
27. ... exf5 28.Ne5 Nxe5 29.Bxe5 Bc7.
27.Ne5!
Very nice move, if the queen moves there will follow Nxd7
and then exf5.
27... Nxe5 28.Bxe5 Ba5 29.Rb1 Qg6 30.exf5 exf5 31.Bd5??
Losing. Better was 31.g4 f4 32.Rf2 Qe6 (32... Bc7?? 33.Be4
Rxe5 34.Bxg6 Rxe2 35.Rxe2 hxg6 and the game is won for
white.) 33.Bxg7+ Kxg7 34.Qxe6 Rxe6 35.Rbf1 and white has
a small advantage, but I doubt he can get more than a draw.
31... Bc7 32.Bxg7+ Qxg7 33.Qg2 Re3 34.Rf3 Rxf3 35.Qxf3
Re8 36.Qxf5?
Makes the win a lot easier for black. This move is best
explained by the fact that alexeyl didn't have much time
left (neither of us did).
36... Qxg3+ 37.Kf1 Qxh4 38.Be4 Bd6 39.Ke2 Rf8 40.Qxh7+
40.Rh1 was the last chance to make it a little difficult
for black, now the win is easy
40... Qxh7 41.Bxh7 Kxh7 42.Rg1
The rest of the game was played at the speed of light and
is therefore better left without comments.
42... Re8+ 43.Kd1 Bf4 44.Rg4 Bh6 45.Rh4 Re3 46.Kc2 Re2+
47.Kb3 Rd2 48.Rh5 a5 49.Rxc5 Rxd3+ 50.Ka4 Rd2 51.b3
Rxa2+ 52.Kb5 d3 53.Rd5 d2 54.c5 Rb2 55.Kxa5 Rxb3
56.Rd4 Rb1 57.Rd7+ Kg6 58.c6 bxc6 59.Rd6+ Kf5 60.Rd5+
Ke4 61.Rxd2 Bxd2+ 62.Ka6 Kd5 63.Ka7 c5 64.Ka8 Kc6
65.Ka7 Be3 66.Ka8 Kc7
White ran out of time.
0-1
BuccoAle - Feest
FICS - 22 November 2001
A40
notes by BuccoAle
1.c3 d6 2.d4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.Bg5 Nd7 5.e3 c5 6.Bd3 Ngf6
7.O-O a6 8.Nbd2 b5 9.Re1 Qc7 10.e4 e5 11.dxc5 dxc5
12.c4 b4 13.Nb3 a5 14.a4 Bb7
Here I saw: 14. ...bxa3 15.Rxa3 Nb6 16.Qa1 a4 17.Be3
15.Qc2
maybe Qe2 is better
15. ...O-O 16.Rad1 Rfd8 17.Nbd2 h6 18.Bh4 g5?!
The white knight now aims both at d5 and f5
19.Bg3 Nh5 20.Nf1 Nxg3 21.hxg3
with idea:Ne3 and Nd5
21. ...Nf8 22.Ne3 Ne6 23.Nd5 Bxd5
23. ...Qd6 24.Be2 Nd4 with an unclear position
24.exd5
(see diagram)
24. ... Nf8?
I noticed 24. ... Nd4 25.Qd2 Rf8 and I really didn't know
how to reply.
25.Qe2 Ra6 26.Qe4
now white has the initiative
26. ... Ng6 27.b3
fixing the pawn structure, but I think it's a waste of
time
27. ... Re8 28.Nh2
How about going to f5?
28. ... Raa8 29.Ng4 Re7 30.Ne3 Rf8 31.Bb1
Nf5 can wait...
31. ... Rfe8?
here Black had little time.
32.d6 Qd7 33.dxe7 Qxe7
Now white has only to move fast to win
34.Nf5 Qe6 35.Nxg7 Kxg7 36.Qe2 f5 37.Qd3 Re7 38.Qxf5
Qxf5 39.Bxf5 Nf8 40.Rd5 Kf6 41. g4 h5 42.f3 hxg4
43.Rd6+ Kxf5 44.fxg4+ Kxg4 45.Rd5 Kf4 46.Rxc5 e4
47.Rf1+ Ke3 48.Rxf8 Kd2 49.Rd5+ Kc3 50.c5 e3 51.Rf3
Kxb3 52.Rd3+ Kc4 53.Rfxe3 Rg7 54.c6 b3 55.Rxb3 Kc5
56.Rbc3+ Kd6 57.c7 Rxc7 58.Red3+ Ke5 59.Rxc7 Ke4
60.Rb3 g4 61.Rc4+ Kf5 62.Rxg4 Kxg4 63.Rb5 Kf4 64.Rxa5
Kg4 65.Rb5 Kg3 66.a5 Kg4 67.a6 Kf4 68.a7 Kg3 69.Rb1
Kh4 70.a8=R Kg3 71.Ra3+ Kf4 72.Rb4+ Ke5
73.Ra5+ Kd6 74.Rb6+ Kc7 75.Rh6 Kd7 76.Ra7+ Kc8
77.Rh8#
1-0
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