Tassie Falls To Bonham
Newcastle Herald
Friday June 21, 2002
TASMANIA'S championship was won by Kevin Bonham who defeated the other 18 contenders with a picket fence 6/6 score in Burnie.
A reminder that there is a tournament in Taree this weekend. Contact Endel Lane on (02) 6559-9060 to enter.
* SOME exciting events are on the horizon.
The scheduled match between Vladimir Kramnik and computer program Deep Fritz, postponed due to September 11 events, now will go ahead in Bahrain.
The match will have eight games and will run from October 4 to 19.
Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik also soon will play a six-game `advanced chess' match in Leon, Spain. Each game will last an hour and players may consult computer databases during play.
The event is sponsored by ChessBase.
* DETAILS of the upcoming `Match of the Century' have been announced.
The event will feature most top players, including Kasparov, Karpov, Kramnik, Khalifman, Bareev, Svidler and Dreev for Russia.
The opposing side will include Anand, Ponomariov, Gelfand, Leko, Shirov, Topalov and Ivanchuk.
It is interesting that the `Rest of the World' side now has so many top players who would have been part of the USSR before 1991.
The 1984 USSR versus The Rest of the World match featured four game matches.
At the top, Karpov on board one played Ulf Andersson and Garry Kasparov on board two played Jan Timman.
The USSR eventually won 21 to 19.
The USSR also won the 1970 event.
* NIGEL Short won the Sigeman and Co tournament in Malmo, Sweden, on 6/9, with no losses.
Alex Wohl, now a frequent player on the European circuit, will be Australia's official entrant to the upcoming British Championship.
US champion Larry Christiansen and Canadian champion Pascal Charbonneau staged a five-game match in British Columbia for the new title of North American Chess Champion.
Evidently, Mexico is not included in North America and the Mexican champion was not invited.
Every game was decisive and Christiansen took the new title 4-1.
Here are some interesting games. Kasparov versus Radjabov (Moscow, 2002) 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 d6 5.Be3 Nd7 6.Qd2 Ngf6 7.Bh6 Bxh6 8.Qxh6 e5 9.0-0-0 Qe7 10.h3 a6 11.dxe5 dxe5 12.Bc4 b5 13.Bb3 a5 14.a4 b4 15.Nb1 Ba6 16.Nbd2 0-0-0 17.Qe3 Kb7 18.Bc4 Nc5 19.Bxa6ch Kxa6 20.Nc4 Nfxe4 21.Nfxe5 Rd5 22.Nxc6 Qg5 23.Rxd5 Qxd5 24.N4xa5 Kb6 25.Nxb4 Resigns. Khalifman versus Beliavsky (Moscow, 2002) 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 0-0 7.e3 b6 8.Be2 Bb7 9.Bxf6 Bxf6 10.cxd5 exd5 11.b4 c6 12.0-0 a5 13.b5 c5 14.Ne5 Bxe5 15.dxe5 d4 16.exd4 cxd4 17.Na4 Ra7 18.f4 Qd5 19.Rf2 Nd7 20.Rc1 Rc8 21.Rxc8ch Bxc8 22.Qc2 Bb7 23.Bc4 Qe4 24.Qxe4 Bxe4 25.Rd2 Nc5 26.Nxb6 d3 27.Nc8 Rc7 28.Nd6 Ba8 29.b6 Rc6 30.Bd5 Rxd6 31.exd6 Bxd5 32.Rxd3 Be6 33.d7 Resigns. Solution to Problem 1014 (The position was; 8, 5pk1, p7, 2p3qp, P1PbB1p1, 6P1, 5r1P, 3Q1R1K)
1. ... Qd2 threatens Rxh2 mate. 1. If 2. Qxd2 Rxf1 ch 3. Kg2 Rg1 mate. Problem 1015 Boto versus Cursi, Yugoslavia, 1980. White to move and win.
(Check: r1b2rk1, ppp3q1, 4p1p1, 3nP3, 6Q1, 1P6, PBP5, 1K1R3R).
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