Dortmund 2010 (Preview)
Looking foward to Dortmund
IM Malcolm Pein - Friday 16th July 2010
Malcolm Pein again looks forward to the Dortmund tournament which is now underway.
Le Quang Liem. Photo © Georgios Souleidis | http://www.sparkassen-chess-meeting.de/2010/
The fourteenth world champion Vladimir Kramnik is back in action at his favourite tournament, the 15th Sparkassen Chess Meeting at Dortmund. Kramnik won the event for the ninth time last year and is top seed again. The 6 player double round all play all begins this afternoon so each player will play ten games.
As is customary, there are four elite players, local star Arkadij Naiditsch and a player who qualified by winning the Aeroflot Open, Le Quang Liem of Vietnam.
The full line up is: Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) world ranked 4
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan) 6
Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine) 14
Peter Leko (Hungary) 16
Arkadij Naiditsch (Germany) 51
Le Quang Liem (Vietnam) 55
Andrew Greet leads the Scottish Championship on 3/3 after defeating GM John Shaw in the following game. Black never generates any counterplay and Greet attacks both wings and forcing weaknesses. In round four, Greet faced stern resistance from club player Jimmy Doyle who was fighting on beyond move 90, two pawns down in a queen and pawn endgame.
A Greet - J Shaw
Scottish Ch Hamilton
Pirc Defence
1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.f3 e5 4.d5 c5 5.Ne2 Nbd7 6.Nbc3 a6 7.a4 h5 8.h4 g6 9.a5! Bh6 10.Bxh6 Rxh6
Black exchanges his bad bishop but he will find it hard to generate counterplay with f7-f5 as his kingside is weakened
11.Qd2 Rh8 12.Nd1 b5 13.axb6 Nxb6 14.Nec3 Kf8 15.Ne3 Ne8 16.g3 Nc7 17.Na4!?
Trying to expose the c5 pawn, a6 is also weak and White can strengthen his position with c2-c4 and prepare f2-f4
17...Nxa4 18.Rxa4 Bd7 19.Ra2 Bb5?! 20.c4 Be8 21.f4 Qf6
(21...f6)
22.Qc3 Kg7 23.fxe5 dxe5
Black has to guard a6, c5, e5 and f7
24.Bh3 Qd6 25.0-0 f6 26.Ra5 Rb8 27.Qa3 Rb4 28.b3 Qb6 29.Rf3! f5!?
(Black might as well go for broke as Ne3-c2 will win the rook on b4. If 29...Rxb3 30.Nf5+ gxf5 31.Rxb3)
30.exf5 e4 31.Rf2 Rf8 32.Qb2+ Kg8 33.Ra3 Bd7 34.Kg2
(34.fxg6 Bxh3 35.Rxf8+ Kxf8 36.Qh8+ Ke7 37.g7 but this also win)
34...gxf5 35.Bxf5 Bxf5 36.Nxf5 Rf7 37.d6 1-0
John Shaw
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Andrew Greet
Final position after 37.d6
J Shaw - A Green
Scottish Ch Hamilton
Alekhine's Defence
1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 dxe5 5.Nxe5 c6 6.Nd2 Nd7 7.Ndf3 g6 8.Bc4 Bg7 9.0-0 0-0 10.Re1 Nxe5 11.dxe5 Bg4 12.h3 Bxf3 13.Qxf3 e6 14.a4 Qc7 15.Qe4 Rfd8 16.h4
Black has no counterplay so White attacks
16...Rd7
(16...Nb6 17.Ba2 Nd7!?)
17.h5 Ne7 18.Bg5 c5 19.c3 Nc6 20.hxg6 hxg6 21.Bf6 Na5 22.Bxe6! fxe6 23.Qxg6 Qc6
(23...Rd2 24.Re3 Qf7 25.Qg4)
24.Re3 Rf8 25.Rh3 Rc8 26.Qh7+ Kf8 27.Rg3 1-0
Andrew Green
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John Shaw
Final position after 27.Rg3
