Chess Olympiad Khanty Mansiysk 2010 (England Team)
England at full strength for the Olympiad
IM Malcolm Pein - Wednesday 30th June 2010
After a donation the England team will now be at full strength for the Olympiad in September.
A Telegraph reader has come to the aid of the England team which will now be at full strength for the 38th Chess Olympiad to be held in the Siberian city of Khanty Mansiysk from September 19th to October 4th. The ECF financial difficulties have been well documented and following a request from the governing body I made an appeal here for funds to pay reasonable fees to our leading players Nigel Short and Michael Adams.
Nigel nevertheless agreed to play and he will be combining his playing duties with that of being ECF Fide delegate. There remained a significant shortfall which the anonymous donor has generously agreed to cover almost entirely and I will donate the difference. Unfortunately, the donation came after the team had been announced, which created a dilemma for the ECF. International Director Lawrence Cooper made what I believe was the right decision and informed GM Stephen Gordon, who had been selected in Adams' place, and he generously agreed to stand down.
The Telegraph reader wanted England to have the best possible team. Now that Luke McShane has returned to full time chess we will have, for the first time in many years, an excellent blend of youth and experience. The team is:
1 Michael Adams, 2 Nigel Short, 3 Luke McShane, 4 David Howell, 5 Gawain Jones.
Another of the decisive last round games from Bazna. Sometimes it pays to look at the games of an opponent's trainer when preparing. Gelfand's assistant Alexander Huzman played 12.Bf4 c6 13.Bxd6 cxd5 14.exd5 against Luke McShane in 2005 and White was better but lost. 12...d3! improves.
B Gelfand - T Radjabov
King's Indian
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.d4 0-0 6.Be2 Na6 7.0-0 e5 8.Be3 Ng4 9.Bg5 Qe8 10.Re1 exd4 11.Nd5 f6 12.Bf4 d3! 13.Qxd3 Ne5 14.Qd2 Qf7 15.Rad1 Nc5 16.Qc2 c6 17.Nc3
(17.Ne3 Ne6 18.Bg3 f5!)
17...f5!
(Not 17...Nxc4 18.Bxc4 Qxc4 19.Bxd6 Rf7 20.Rd4 and the queen must leave the defence of the knight)
Teimour Radjabov
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Boris Gelfand
Position after 17...f5!
18.Bxe5
(18.Nxe5 dxe5 19.Be3 Ne6 20.exf5 gxf5 21.f3 Nd4)
18...dxe5 19.b4 Ne6 20.c5 Nd4 21.Nxd4? exd4 22.Nb1 Be6 23.exf5 Bxf5 24.Bd3 a5 25.b5
(25.a3 axb4 26.axb4 Ra2)
25...cxb5 26.Na3 Bxd3 27.Rxd3 Rac8 28.Rf1
(28.Nxb5 Rxc5 29.Qxc5 Qxf2+ 30.Kh1 Qxe1#)
28...Qd5 29.Qd2 b4 30.Nb5 Rxc5 0-1
Black wins a piece, if 30...Rxc5 31.Nxd4 Rd8 32.Rd1 Bxd4 33.Rxd4 Qxd4 34.Qxd4 Rxd4 35.Rxd4 Rc1+ mates.
Teimour Radjabov
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Boris Gelfand
Position after 30...Rxc5
Florencio Campomanes the former FIDE President who died recently at the age of 83 had a good eye for tactics.
F Campomanes - F Benitez
Munich Olympiad 1958
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Bg2 d6 5.0-0 0-0 6.d3 e5 7.Nc3 Bd7 8.Bg5 Qc8 9.Qd2 Bh3 10.Bxf6 Bxg2 11.Nd5 Bxf6 12.Nxf6+ Kg7 13.Nh5+ Kh8 14.Qh6! 1-0
