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Chess Quiz L. Janjgava – V. Sakalauskas15th ETC Gothenburg SWE (2),

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The European TeamChampionships,

Gothenburg, Sweden

Round 3 top match results:

MenIsrael – Netherlands 2-2 (all gamesdrawn: Gelfand – Van Wely, Sutovsky– I. Sokolov, Smirin – Tiviakov,Erenburg – Timman)Sweden – Germany 1-3 (Agrest –Lutz ½-½, Hellsten – Gustafsson ½-½,Berg – Graf 0-1, Hector – Dautov 0-1)Russia – France 1½-2½ (Svidler –Bacrot, Motylev – Lautier, Bareev –Dorfman all draw, Timofeev –Fressinet 0-1)

Armenia – Georgia 3Azmaiparashvili ½-½,Jobava 1-0, Vaganian 0, Lputian – MchedlishGreece – Azerbaijan– Radjabov 0-1, PapaiMamedyarov 0-1, Ban½-½, Mastrovasilis – G

France and Germanteam points and 8½ in

Round 4 top matcheFrance (6) – (6) GermSwitzerland (5) – (5) INetherlands (5) – (5) ARomania (5) – (5) AzeCzech Republic (4) – (Croatia (4) – (4) PolanSweden 2 (4) – (4) BuEngland (4) – (4) SerbMontenegroUkraine (4) – (3) Swed

WomenRussia – Greece 3-1 Dembo 1-0, N. Kosint0-1, T. Kosintseva – M0, Galliamova – FakhirArmenia – Romania(Danielian – Peptan ½Foisor 0-1, Aginian – Andriasian – Bogza ½-Georgia – Ukraine 2(Chiburdanidze – ZhuLomineishvili – LahnoUshenina, Arakhamia-Vasilevich all draw)Poland – Germany 2(Radziewicz – Paehtz Kachiani-Gersinska ½Nill 1-0, DworakowskBulgaria – France 2-drawn: Stefanova – SkVoiska – Sebag, DjingGenova – Muller)

Romania and Russteam points and 9½ in

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Round 4 top matches:Romania (6) – (6) RussiaFrance (4) – (5) GeorgiaPoland (5) – (4) GreeceBulgaria (4) – (4) CroatiaNetherlands (4) – (4) Sweden 1Ukraine (3) – (4) Armenia

See selected games from the 2nd and3rd rounds in today's databases.

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Smith & Williamson BritishChess Championships

The Smith & Williamson British ChessChampionships 2005 takes place onthe Isle of Man, 1st –13th August 2005.

Top-seeded players are JonathanRowson (2599), John Emms (2509),Stuart Conquest (2503), Chris Ward(2485) and Simon Williams (2461).

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4th Guelph Pro Am International

Round 9 top boards:Kunte (5½) – Krnan (6)Shipov (6) – Ganguly (5)Zugic (5½) – Burnett (5)Kogan (5) – Stevens (5)Zhe Quan (5) – Matveeva (5)Noritsyn (5) – I. Ivanov (5)

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Open Dutch ChampionshipDieren Netherlands

In the 6th round Maxim Turov beatFriso Nijboer with Black and becamethe sole leader with 5½ points.

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Annotated Gameby IM Vladimir Barsky

White: Vasilios Kotronias (2587)Black: Teimour Radjabov (2682)European Chess Team Championship2005 (3)Ruy Lopez/Anti-Marshall- [C88]

Vasilios Kotronias and TeimourRadjabov deserve high praise for theirfighting spirit in this game. It was quitea boring opening line and I suspectmany players would have been able todraw somewhere between move 20and 25. In this case we'll never see thisfantastic middlegame.

1.e4 e5 2.¤f3 ¤c6 3.¥b5 a6 4.¥a4¤f6 5.0–0 ¥e7 6.¦e1 b5 7.¥b3 0–0 8.a4 (D)

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A popular Anti-Marshall set up.8...¥b7 9.d3 d6 10.¤c3 b4 11.¤d5¤xd5 12.¥xd5 ¦b8 13.¥d2 £d714.a5 ¤d8 (D)

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A reasonable counter-plan: Blackwould like to exchange the strong d5-bishop, while his knight is going to e6and maybe to f4 later on.15.¥c4 c5 16.c3 bxc3 17.bxc3 ¤e618.£c2 ¥f6 19.£a2 ¤c7Black changes his plans and theKnight is heading for b5 now. Theposition is almost equal - White has a

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bit more space but nothing more.20.¦ab1 ¤b5 21.h3 ¥c6 22.¤h2White continues to find his chances -the knight is going to g4 and then e3.22...£e7! 23.¤g4 ¥g5 (D)

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To my mind now Black has solved allhis opening problems. Maybe it was time to play something like 24.Ne3and ask his opponent, if he plays forwin or agrees to a draw. But Kotroniashas other plans.24.¥xb5?!OK, a fighting spirit is a very goodquality, but from a positional point ofview the bishop on c4 was strongerthan the knight on b5. 24...axb525.¥xg5 £xg5 26.¤e3 £e727.¤f5 £d7 28.d4!?This is the point of White's play. Atfirst glance he gains an initiative.28...exd4 29.cxd4 c4 30.d5 (D)

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Otherwise Black will play d6-d5, anddon't forget he has two connectedpassed pawns now...30...¥xd5Anything else and White will beclearly better. So this is the only move,but it's rather strong.31.£a1 f6 32.¤xg7 ¥xe4 33.¦xe4¢xg7 34.£d4 d5 35.¦be1 ¦f736.¦e6 b4 (D)

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A very interesting position! White hassacrificed a pawn in order to weakenhis opponent's king position. All hispieces are very active, so it's very easyto create a dangerous attack here. Onthe other hand Black has two welladvanced passed pawns...37.¦1e3It looks like better was the nice blow37.¦1e5! for example: 37...¢g8(37...fxe5? 38.£xe5+ ¢g8 (38...¢f839.£h8#) 39.£g3+ ¦g7 40.£xb8+ ¢f741.¦b6+-) 38.¦b6 ¦d8 (38...¦xb639.¦xd5 £xd5 40.£xd5 ¦bb7 41.£xc4b3 42.£c8+=) 39.¦e3 b3 40.¦xf6 ¦g741.a6„ But of course the text move isvery tempting also.37...¦bf8Black has to defend the f-pawn onemore time. 37...b3? 38.¦g3+ ¢h839.¦xf6 ¦g7 40.¦b6±38.¦b6 b3 (D)

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39.¦ee6White had a draw here: 39.¦g3+ ¢h840.¦g5 ¦g7 41.¦xg7 (41.¦xd5 £xh342.g3 ¦xg3+! 43.fxg3 £xg3+ 44.¢f1£f3+–+) 41...¢xg7 42.a6 ¢h843.¦xf6= But maybe he didn't want adraw.39...£c7 40.£g4+An interesting alternative was 40.a6!?and Black could move only his queen.It looks like White has the betterchances here. On the other hand he

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couldn't take d-pawn:; 40.£xd5?! ¦d8!41.£f3 c3 42.¦xf6 ¦fd7! and accordingto Fritz this position is winning forBlack - White doesn't even have aperpetual. It's really hard to believe inall these machine lines.40...¢h8 41.£d4 c3! (D)

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Now it's Black who doesn't want torepeat the position. OK, after the timecontrol White could find 41...Kg742.a6!42.¦ec6 (D)

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42.¦xf6 £c4 43.£e5 (43.¦xf7+ £xd444.¦xf8+ ¢g7 45.¦d8 £xb6! 46.axb6c2–+) 43...¦xf6 44.¦xf6 ¦xf6 45.£xf6+¢g8 46.£e6+ ¢f8 and it looks likeBlack's king can escape from all theseannoying checks, so Black has to win.42...c2! 43.£c543.¦xc7 ¦xc7–+43...¦c8! 44.a6 b2! (D)

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It's not everyday we see such pawns!45.£xc2 £xb6! 46.¦xc8+ ¢g747.£b1 ¦e7 48.¢h2™ (D)

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48.¦c2 ¦e1+! 49.£xe1 b1£–+48...¦c7!Of course not 48...¦e1?? because of49.£xe1 b1£ 50.£xb1! (50.£e7+ ¢h651.¦g8 £xf2 52.£g7+ ¢h5 53.£g4+¢h6 54.£g7+=) 50...£xb1 51.a7+-Black exploits White's king positionon h2.49.¦xc7+ £xc7+ (check!) 50.g3£c1–+ 51.a7 £xb1 52.a8£ £c253.£a7+ ¢g6 54.£d4 b1£55.£g4+ ¢h6 0–1.

Solutions to our quiz:

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23.¤xf6! ¥xf623...¦xd1 24.¤xe5!+- (24.¦xd1 £c8+25.¤d7+-) 24.£e6 ¦xd1 25.£xf6+ ¢g826.£e6+ ¢g726...¢h8 27.¤g527.¤g5 £d7 28.¦xd1 £xe6+28...£xd1 29.£f7+ ¢h8 30.£xh7#29.¤xe6+ ¢f6 30.¤c7+- ¦c831.¦d6+ ¢f7 32.¦d7 ¢f6 33.g41–0.

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34...¦a1+! 35.¢b335.¢xa1 £c1+ 36.¢a2 £xb2#35...axb2 36.¥xe8+ ¢f836...¢f8 37.¢xb2 £c1+ 38.¢b3 ¦xa5–+ 0–1.

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