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| Chess by Malcolm Pein of the Daily Telegraph   Malcolm Pein writes for the Daily Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk)
you can read his chess columns along with those of Nigel Short and David
Norwood at their new
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Round 1 28th December 2003 Experience overcame youth in the first round of the Hastings Premier as the fourteen year old Ukrainian prodigy was smoothly outplayed by Anatoly Karpov's former trainer Vladimir Epishin. Three of the five games played at the Horntye Sports Centre in Hastings ended decisively with Mark Hebden grinding down the British Champion Abhijit Kunte of India in a typically gritty performance. Two of the three International Masters who have hopes of qualifying for the Grandmaster title met in the first round with Alexander Cherniaev of Russia defeating his Hackney Chess Club team mate Danny Gormally with some ease by employing an offbeat variation of the Ruy Lopez with black. Gormally did not appear to know the theory of the variation and just drifted into a bad position. It was a very hard fought round with the average length of the games nearly sixty moves. Visitors to the congress can compete in events for all strengths and there is daily commentary on the Premier games the tournament continues until January 5th Round one results: Epishin 1-0 Lahno, Queen's Indian Defence, 59 moves; Gormally 0-1 Cherniaev, Ruy Lopez, 45; Kunte 0-1 Hebden, Ruy Lopez, 72; Conquest draw Kotronias, Torre Attack, 51; Nielsen draw Rowson, Gruenfeld Defence g3, 68 (Rowson was better but lost a couple of pawns in time pressure and had to defend a rook ending a pawn down); Luke McShane missed a one-move win against America's top junior player Hikaru Nakamura in the fifth round at Pamplona. Nakamura took some liberties with his kingside in order to grab a pawn and with all his pieces around the black monarch McShane missed his chance. The early leader Miguel Illescas overpressed against his compatriot Alphonso Romero-Holmes and lost quite unnecessarily from a god position a result that allowed the former European Individual Champion Emil Sutovsky to take the lead. The world's youngest GM Sergey Karjakin has lost two in a row and is bottom of the tournament table. McShane,L (2649) - Nakamura,H (2565) [B50] It Pamplona ESP (5), 26.12.2003 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.c3 Nf6 4.Be2 Bd7 5.Qc2 Bc6 6.d3 Nbd7 7.0-0 e6 8.c4 a6 9.Nc3 e5 10.a3 Be7 11.b4 b6 12.Be3 0-0 13.Nd2 Ne8 14.Bg4 Nc7 15.Nd5 Ne6 16.Rab1 g6 17.Bh6 Re8 18.Bxe6 fxe6 19.Nxe7+ Qxe7 20.f4 Qh4 21.Bg5 Qh5 22.Rf3 exf4 23.Bxf4 e5 24.Be3 Rf8 25.Rbf1 Rxf3 26.Nxf3 h6 27.b5 Bb7 28.bxa6 Rxa6 29.Qd2 g5 30.h4! gxh4 31.Bxh6 Rxa3?! 32.Bg5 h3 33.Nh4 Nf8 34.Qf2 Ne6 35.Qf6 Bc8 36.Ng6  Threatening Ne7+. 36...Ra7 37.g3 [ 37.Bh6! Qxh6 38.Ne7+ wins the queen.] 37...h2+ 38.Kh1 Qh3 39.Bh4 Nf4 40.Qh8+ Kf7 41.Qf6+ Kg8 1/2-1/2 Scores 1 Sutovsky (Israel) 3.5/5; 2-3 Illescas Cordoba (Spain), Romero-Holmes (Spain) 3; 4-5 McShane (England), Pelletier (Switzerland) 2.5; 6 Bologan (Moldova), 2; 7 Nakamura (USA) 2; 8 Karjakin (Ukraine) 1.5 |
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