All,
My fourth round game.
A slow grind this one. White exchanged queens early on. I was cramped, but
managed a way to find to equalise.
19. g4 is a poor approach to press the advantage. Typical hacker’s approach.
Even my opponent was critical at such a poor move in the post-mortem.
39... Re4 seems to have been my downfall in the time-scramble. With seconds on
the clock for both of us, with us having to reach move 40, black’s defence
seems to have been solid enough and adequate enough to hold. At the turn of the
control, my opponent had 4 seconds and I had 9 seconds on the clock!
Although, it is an annoying blunder to quickly finish the game, the b6-pawn is
too weak to hold and the rest would have been a boring and painful slog. So,
glad enough to have it finished so quickly, although till that point, the
position was more than tenable.
Still, a loss against a much better player and me with the black bits.
Tomorrow, I have a float-up against Thomas Jahn, rated 2195, with the white
bits. He plays similar Kan/Pausen openings as me, so will have to ponder on how
to take him on, despite him playing 1... e5 in round 4 today.
Game from round 4 below.
Take it easy
Chris
[Event "Lichtenberger Sommer 2016"]
[Site "Berlin, GER"]
[Date "2016.08.16"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Ahmadinia, Ebrahim"]
[Black "Ross, Chris N"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2357"]
[BlackElo "2199"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "2016.08.16"]
1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 e6
3. c3 d5
4. exd5 Qxd5
5. d4 Nf6
6. Na3 cxd4
7. Nb5 Qd8
8. Qxd4 Qxd4
9. Nfxd4 Na6
10. Bf4 Bc5
11. Nb3 Bb6
12. Be2 O-O
13. Nd6 Nc7
14. c4 Na6
15. O-O Nc5
16. Nxc5 Bxc5
17. Rfd1 a5
18. Bf3 Ra7
19. g4 h6
20. h4 b6
21. g5 hxg5
22. hxg5 Nh7
23. Kg2 e5
24. Nxc8 Rxc8
25. Bxe5 Nxg5
26. Rd5 Nxf3
27. Kxf3 f6
28. Bg3 Kf7
29. Rad1 Rc6
30. b3 Re7
31. Rd7 Ke6
32. Rd8 Kf7
33. R1d7 g5
34. Kg4 Kg6
35. Rg8+ Kf7
36. Rdd8 Re2
37. Rh8 Be7
38. Rd7 Ke6
39. Rb7 Re4+
40. Kf3 Re1
41. Rhb8 Bc5
42. Re8+ 1-0
