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| Chess by Malcolm Pein of the Daily Telegraph   Malcolm Pein writes for the Daily Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk)
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British Round 11 Friday 1st August 2003 The Indian Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte is the 2003 Smith & Williamson British Chess Champion after fending off the challenge of Joe Gallagher, victor in 2001, in the last round. For the second year running the £10,000 first prize has gone to an Indian player. Kunte scored 8.5/11 including a memorable victory over Scottish number one Jonathan Rowson. He lost just one game, to Adam Hunt, and then scored 7.5 from his last nine games. Kunte's compatriot Pentyla Harikrishna also had a chance to reach 8.5 points but chose a line of the Petroff Defence against Jonathan Rowson that is good for a draw at best when he needed a win to force a play off. Perhaps he was trying to provoke his opponent into some unsound play but he did not succeed and although Rowson played long and hard for the win he never looked like achieving more than a draw. The championship was effectively boycotted by the top twenty English players but the British Chess Federation has finally seen the light and has decided that next year the championship will only be open to British residents or citizens. Hopefully there will be a stronger field next year. However unless some expenses are offered to our leading GMs I doubt they will come in significant numbers. Gallagher (7) draw Kunte (8) Rowson (7) draw Harikrishna (7.5) Kotronias (7) 1-0 Rahman(7) Motwani (7) 1-0 Bakre (7) Hossain (6.5) draw Arakhamia-Grant (7) Pert (6.5) 1-0 Turner (6.5) Wells (6.5) 0-1 Summerscale (7.5) The fifteen year old prodigy Teimour Radjabov played another sensational sacrificial game and claimed the scalp of world number three Vishy Anand in the second round of the Sparkassen Chess Meeting at Dortmund. The boy widely seen as a future world champion played the Kalashnikov Sicilian which gave him a bad pawn structure but plenty of piece activity. He sacrificed his queen and outplayed the Indian in style. At Linares in February Radjabov performed a similar feat against Garry Kasparov playing a deep sacrifice and triumphing in the complications. World champion Vladimir Kramnik was happy to draw against Viktor Bologan. The Moldovan GM qualified by winning the Aeroflot Open in Moscow and produced an interesting novelty against Kramnik's Sicilian that had the champion deep in thought. Dortmund round two results Bologan draw Kramnik , Sicilian Sveshnikov, 27; Leko draw Naiditsch, Ruy Lopez Anti Marshall, 45; Anand 0-1 Radjabov, Sicilian Kalashnikov 39; Anand,V - Radjabov,T [B32] Dortmund (2), 2003 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb5 d6 6.c4 Be7 7.b3 f5 8.exf5 Bxf5 9.Bd3 e4 10.Be2 a6 11.N5c3 Bf6 12.0-0 Nge7 13.a3 0-0 14.Ra2 Qa5! 15.b4 Qe5 16.Re1 b5! Gives up a wing pawn to create two connected passed pawns in the centre. 17.cxb5 axb5 18.Bxb5 Nd4 19.Bf1 d5 20.Rd2 Be6 21.f4 Qxf4 22.Rf2  22...Qxf2+!! 23.Kxf2 Nb5 Threatening the Nc3 and a discovered check from the Bf6. 24.Kg1 Nxc3 25.Nxc3 Bxc3 26.Bb5 [ 26.Re3 was worth consideration.] 26...Bxe1 27.Qxe1 Nf5 28.Bb2 Rac8 29.Ba4 Rf7 30.h3 h5 31.b5 h4 32.Be5 d4 33.b6? Looks like a blunder or perhaps an over-ambitious winning attempt. [ 33.Qxe4 Rc1+ 34.Kh2 Ne3 35.Qxh4 Nf1+ 36.Kg1 Ne3+ 37.Kh2 is only a draw.] 33...e3 34.Kh2 d3 35.Qb4 e2 36.Bc3 Rxc3 37.Qxc3 Ng3 38.b7 Rxb7 39.Qa5 Rb8  The e2 pawn will promote. 0-1 |
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