Kapiti Chess News Letter - 25 November 2018
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Greetings Chess Lovers and Welcome to the Kapiti Chess News Blog. Catch up with what is happening at the Club and see how the regions best players play, plus tips on how to improve your game and much more.....
KAPITI CHESS CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 2018
Last week saw the Club Championship enter its final stages with Round 10 (2 rounds to go) being played to a nearly full house.
Results on the Night were:
Ross Jackson 1/2 - 1/2 Gordon Lyall
Alistair McGowan 1 - 0 David Paul
Alan Winfield 1 - 0 Guy Burns
John Whibley 1 - 0 David Scott
Geoffrey Gunawan 0 - 0 Mark Woodward
Valera Bonyushkin 0 - 1 Mark Summers
Rick Lowe 1 - 0 Asher Te Whaaro
Hamish Lester Bye
STANDINGS
Current Standings in the Club Championships, with 2 rounds to go in all grades:
A Grade:
Gordon Lyall - 7.5
Ross Jackson 5
David Paul 5
Alan Winfield 4.5
Alstair McGowan 4.5
Lars Dobbertin-King 4.5
Well, as can be seen from the above table, the Club "Congratulates Gordon Lyall" for becoming only the third winner of the Club Championship in the past 10 years, joining David Paul and Alan Winfield in what has been a select "Club" (David 8 wins Alan 2).
His game against Ross is shown below.
With stretching his lead to 2.5 points Gordon secures the title with 2 rounds to spare. A very credible performance.
Looking to keep his hopes alive, David had to win against Alistair and in a rare lapse of judgement, allowed Alistair to threaten "Mate" or loss of a piece in the early stages of the game. Needless to say David opted to lose a piece but found the deficit to great and resigned shortly afterwards,
With Lars away for the night the remaining game, Alan v Guy, saw Alan over come a good opening by Guy and after winning Blacks white squared Bishop in the middle game, converted his piece superiority to a win. (Match shown below).
B Grade:
John Whibley 5.5
Mark Woodward 5
David Scott 5
Guy Burns 4.5
Valera Bonyushkin 2.5
Geoffrey Gunawan 2.5
With two round to go only 1 point separates the top 4 players so at this stage it seems the B Grade champion is not going to be decided until the last night of the tournament.
John Whibley did his chances the world of good be defeating Grade leader David Scott though with only a half point lead he is not home and dry yet.
Hoping to have a final say in the matter is Mark Woodward who saw off the challenge of Geoffrey Gunawan to jump into joint second place.
Guy had the toughest draw of the group with his pairing to Alan, however it is likely John/Mark and David may be drawn against an A Grader in the next two games so his chances are still realistic.
C Grade:
Brandon Holman 7
Hamish Lester 7
Rick Lowe 6
Mark Summers 6
Asher Te Whaaro 1.5
Savannah Edwards .5
Like the B Grade, only 1 point separates the top four in the C Grade so this too looks like it is gong to go to the wire.
Rick saw off the challenge from young Asher and Hamish seemed to have the luck of both the Night and the Draw, as firstly Brandon did not turn up to play and the draw allocated Hamish the bye.
Most champions will admit that apart from playing well, you need a little luck, so take it Hamish and see if you can make it count over the final two rounds. Still a lot to play for, for the top 4.
SUBMITTED GAMES
Ross Jackson v Gordon Lyall - A Grade
An interesting game with some not so usual moves in the opening (7.....Nfd7?!). The middle game saw White advancing his king side pawns which exposed his King to Black's conter attack. The move 27......Bxf1? saw his "Stockfish" assessment of almost +3!! disappear to +0.3 wheres 27...Ng4+ 28.Kh1 Bxf1 29.Rxf1 Nf6 30.Qh2 Nxe4 31.Ra3 Qf5 32.Ne3 Bxe3 33.Rxe3 Qxd5 gives Black a commanding position).
Strangley after the exchange of Queens and following 31....gxf5, 32. e6 gives white two passed pawns for Black to worry about.
Alan Winfield v Guy Burns - A/B Grade Match up
A fairly even start for both players with Black coming out punching with an early c5, both getting pieces into the game and looking to attack on the Queen side. Taking with his b-pawn on move 10, left his a-pawn isolated and this was the point of attack for White.
After exchanging a and b pawns Whites 22.Qc7!! attacking Blacks Bishop left Black with the decision of defending the Bishop, or counter attack with Qb2, attacking White's Rook and Bishop.
Defending with 22...Qb7 proved to be an error after 23. Ra7!! left White in control of the game. Better was either 22....Qb2 or 22.....Qb6 leaves the position after either move evenly balanced.
On move 25, Black reacts to the attack on his c-pawn and overlooks White's 26. Rc7 attacking both Queen and Bishop. The game continued with Black looking to lay a few traps of his own but eventually succumbed to White's material advantage.
From the B Grade, a clash of the top two players saw John Whibley and David Scott go head to head.
A fairly well matched game with some interesting plays and though White was on top for much of the game,Black fought back and by move 36 was slightly better. Unfortunately Davids fatel error was 37.....h3. We assume this was a general oversight as White quickly snapped it up.
David unfortunately compounded the error by exchanging the remaining pieces. Its generally not a good idea to swap off all major pieces in the ending if you are down in material and do not have a clear reason for doing so.
The win by John helps him leapfrog David to the top of the B Grade Table with just two games left.
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WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2018
To kick off this weeks News Letter I thought it appropriate to let the World Chess Championship lead the way.
For Die Hard chess fanatics, most of you would be aware that Norwegian, Magnus Carlson was defending his World Championship Title against American, Fabiano Caruana in London.
As chess buffs, I am sure you are all aware Magnus defended his title but only after tie-ing the series 6 - 6 thereby taking the match to a 5 game play-off, which was played on a Rapid format with a time frame of 20 minutes with 10 second increments per move.
I have down loaded a brief video of the games with analysis from the English Grand Master - Simon William (The Ginger GM) which plays through the three winning games, which I am sure you will all find fascinating and informative,
Links for Chess Training
* For Beginners and Novice players, Click Here Chess for Beginners with Yasser Seirawan to learn the basic set up positions of good development of pieces when starting a game of Chess.
WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2018
To kick off this weeks News Letter I thought it appropriate to let the World Chess Championship lead the way.
For Die Hard chess fanatics, most of you would be aware that Norwegian, Magnus Carlson was defending his World Championship Title against American, Fabiano Caruana in London.
As chess buffs, I am sure you are all aware Magnus defended his title but only after tie-ing the series 6 - 6 thereby taking the match to a 5 game play-off, which was played on a Rapid format with a time frame of 20 minutes with 10 second increments per move.
I have down loaded a brief video of the games with analysis from the English Grand Master - Simon William (The Ginger GM) which plays through the three winning games, which I am sure you will all find fascinating and informative,
KAPITI CHESS CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 2018
Last week saw the Club Championship enter its final stages with Round 10 (2 rounds to go) being played to a nearly full house.
Results on the Night were:
Ross Jackson 1/2 - 1/2 Gordon Lyall
Alistair McGowan 1 - 0 David Paul
Alan Winfield 1 - 0 Guy Burns
John Whibley 1 - 0 David Scott
Geoffrey Gunawan 0 - 0 Mark Woodward
Valera Bonyushkin 0 - 1 Mark Summers
Rick Lowe 1 - 0 Asher Te Whaaro
Hamish Lester Bye
STANDINGS
Current Standings in the Club Championships, with 2 rounds to go in all grades:
A Grade:
Gordon Lyall - 7.5
Ross Jackson 5
David Paul 5
Alan Winfield 4.5
Alstair McGowan 4.5
Lars Dobbertin-King 4.5
Well, as can be seen from the above table, the Club "Congratulates Gordon Lyall" for becoming only the third winner of the Club Championship in the past 10 years, joining David Paul and Alan Winfield in what has been a select "Club" (David 8 wins Alan 2).
His game against Ross is shown below.
With stretching his lead to 2.5 points Gordon secures the title with 2 rounds to spare. A very credible performance.
Looking to keep his hopes alive, David had to win against Alistair and in a rare lapse of judgement, allowed Alistair to threaten "Mate" or loss of a piece in the early stages of the game. Needless to say David opted to lose a piece but found the deficit to great and resigned shortly afterwards,
With Lars away for the night the remaining game, Alan v Guy, saw Alan over come a good opening by Guy and after winning Blacks white squared Bishop in the middle game, converted his piece superiority to a win. (Match shown below).
B Grade:
John Whibley 5.5
Mark Woodward 5
David Scott 5
Guy Burns 4.5
Valera Bonyushkin 2.5
Geoffrey Gunawan 2.5
With two round to go only 1 point separates the top 4 players so at this stage it seems the B Grade champion is not going to be decided until the last night of the tournament.
John Whibley did his chances the world of good be defeating Grade leader David Scott though with only a half point lead he is not home and dry yet.
Hoping to have a final say in the matter is Mark Woodward who saw off the challenge of Geoffrey Gunawan to jump into joint second place.
Guy had the toughest draw of the group with his pairing to Alan, however it is likely John/Mark and David may be drawn against an A Grader in the next two games so his chances are still realistic.
C Grade:
Brandon Holman 7
Hamish Lester 7
Rick Lowe 6
Mark Summers 6
Asher Te Whaaro 1.5
Savannah Edwards .5
Like the B Grade, only 1 point separates the top four in the C Grade so this too looks like it is gong to go to the wire.
Rick saw off the challenge from young Asher and Hamish seemed to have the luck of both the Night and the Draw, as firstly Brandon did not turn up to play and the draw allocated Hamish the bye.
Most champions will admit that apart from playing well, you need a little luck, so take it Hamish and see if you can make it count over the final two rounds. Still a lot to play for, for the top 4.
SUBMITTED GAMES
Ross Jackson v Gordon Lyall - A Grade
An interesting game with some not so usual moves in the opening (7.....Nfd7?!). The middle game saw White advancing his king side pawns which exposed his King to Black's conter attack. The move 27......Bxf1? saw his "Stockfish" assessment of almost +3!! disappear to +0.3 wheres 27...Ng4+ 28.Kh1 Bxf1 29.Rxf1 Nf6 30.Qh2 Nxe4 31.Ra3 Qf5 32.Ne3 Bxe3 33.Rxe3 Qxd5 gives Black a commanding position).
Strangley after the exchange of Queens and following 31....gxf5, 32. e6 gives white two passed pawns for Black to worry about.
Alan Winfield v Guy Burns - A/B Grade Match up
A fairly even start for both players with Black coming out punching with an early c5, both getting pieces into the game and looking to attack on the Queen side. Taking with his b-pawn on move 10, left his a-pawn isolated and this was the point of attack for White.
After exchanging a and b pawns Whites 22.Qc7!! attacking Blacks Bishop left Black with the decision of defending the Bishop, or counter attack with Qb2, attacking White's Rook and Bishop.
Defending with 22...Qb7 proved to be an error after 23. Ra7!! left White in control of the game. Better was either 22....Qb2 or 22.....Qb6 leaves the position after either move evenly balanced.
On move 25, Black reacts to the attack on his c-pawn and overlooks White's 26. Rc7 attacking both Queen and Bishop. The game continued with Black looking to lay a few traps of his own but eventually succumbed to White's material advantage.
From the B Grade, a clash of the top two players saw John Whibley and David Scott go head to head.
A fairly well matched game with some interesting plays and though White was on top for much of the game,Black fought back and by move 36 was slightly better. Unfortunately Davids fatel error was 37.....h3. We assume this was a general oversight as White quickly snapped it up.
David unfortunately compounded the error by exchanging the remaining pieces. Its generally not a good idea to swap off all major pieces in the ending if you are down in material and do not have a clear reason for doing so.
The win by John helps him leapfrog David to the top of the B Grade Table with just two games left.
That is all for this week.
Hope you have enjoyed this issue and the section on the World Championships, and always Remember - Keep your King Safe and your Queen Handy!!
Hope you have enjoyed this issue and the section on the World Championships, and always Remember - Keep your King Safe and your Queen Handy!!
Yours InChess
Alan Winfield
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