British Championship 2010 (2)
Adams moves on to 2/2
IM Malcolm Pein - Thursday 29th July 2010
Malcolm Pein looks at Michael Adams win against Aaron Summerscale in Round 2.
England number one Michael Adams moved smoothly to 2/2 at the British Championships underway at the University of Kent in Canterbury. Adams faced GM Aaron Summerscale whose solid Caro Kan Defence was undone by a strong novelty on the eleventh move.
M Adams - A Summerscale
Caro Kann
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 e6 5.Be2 c5 6.Be3 cxd4 7.Nxd4 Ne7 8.Nd2 Nbc6 9.N2f3 Be4 10.0-0 Ng6 11.Bb5! Qd7
(11...Qc7!? 12.Ng5 Ngxe5 13.f4 Nd7 might be critical)
12.Ng5! Ngxe5 13.f4 Ng6 14.Nxe4 dxe4 15.f5 exf5 16.Bxc6 bxc6 17.Nxf5 Qxd1
(17...Qd5!?)
18.Raxd1 Ne5 19.Rf4
(White regains the pawn with a big advantage in development)
19...f6 20.Rxe4 g6 21.Nd6+ Bxd6 22.Rxd6 0-0 23.Bh6 Rf7 24.h3 Re8
(24...Rc8 25.Bf4 soon wins a pawn)
25.Rxc6 g5 26.b3 Rfe7 27.Rxf6 Nf7
(Black hopes to trap the white bishop but Adams uses a mate threat to extricate it)
28.Rxe7 Rxe7 29.Rc6 1-0
Aaron Summerscale
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Michael Adams
Final position after 29.Rc6
Ruslan Ponomariov survived one or two nervous moments against Le Quang Liem in the last round and emerged victorious at the Sparkassen tournament at Dortmund. Vladimir Kramnik salvaged something from the wreckage of his tournament by defeating Shak Mamedyarov to reach 50%. I suspect Kramnik may have analysed this all at home.
V Kramnik - S Mamedyarov
Queen's Gambit Ragozin
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.Bg5 Nbd7 6.cxd5 exd5 7.e3 c5 8.dxc5 Qa5 9.Rc1 Ne4 10.Qxd5 Nxc3 11.bxc3 Bxc3+ 12.Kd1 0-0 13.Bc4 Nf6 14.Bxf6 Bxf6 15.Ke2 b5 16.cxb6
(16.c6 Ba6 17.Qf5 Qa3?! 18.Bd3 was good for White in Kramnik - Ponomariov Tal Memorial 2009 but Black can impove, Kramnik gets his improvement in first)
16...Qxd5
(16...axb6 17.Rhd1)
17.Bxd5 Ba6+ 18.Bc4 axb6 19.a4 Bb2 20.Rc2 Rfc8 21.Nd2!
(With a series of precise moves Kramnik has consolidated his extra pawn and his king is well placed for the endgame)
21...b5 22.axb5 Bxb5 23.Rb1
(Keeping minor pieces on the board and his winning chances alive, 23.Rxb2 Bxc4+ 24.Nxc4 Rxc4 should be a draw)
23...Bxc4+ 24.Rxc4 Bf6 25.Rxc8+ Rxc8 26.Ne4 Re8
(26...Be7 27.Rb7 Kf8 28.g4 is not much fun but Black can defend for a long time)
27.f4 Bd4?
(27...Be7)
28.exd4 Rxe4+ 29.Kd3 f5 30.g3 Re7 31.Rb5 1-0
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
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Vladimir Kramnik
Position after 31.Rb5
White wins in all lines but advancing his pawn supported by his king and cutting off Black's king where necessary. 31.Rb5 g6 32.Re5 Ra7 33.d5 Ra4 34.d6 Kf8 35.Kc3 wins or 31.Rb5 g6 32.d5 Kf7 33.Kd4 Ra7 34.Ke5 Ke7 35.d6+ Kd7 36.Rc5 Rb7 37.Rc7+ Rxc7 38.dxc7 Kxc7 39.Kf6
Scores: 1 Ponomariov (Ukraine) 6.5/10
2 Le Quang (Vietnam) 5.5
3-4 Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan), Kramnik (Russia) 5
5-6 Naiditsch (Germany), Leko (Hungary) 4
