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Chess by Malcolm Pein of the Daily Telegraph
 Malcolm Pein writes for the Daily Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk)
you can read his chess columns along with those of Nigel Short and David
Norwood at their new
Chess
Club (to read the columns you need to register which is free).Chess for Saturday 12th April Negotiations are at an advanced stage to hold the next Classical Chess World Championship match in Budapest. At the opening ceremony of the Hunguest Hotels Super Chess Tournament in the Hungarian capital the Hungarian Prime Minister Dr. Péter Medgyessy declared Hungary would spare no effort in bring the match there to give their hero Peter Leko home advantage in a sixteen game contest against the champion Vladimir Kramnik. The Technical Director of the Hungarian Chess Federation Gabor Kallai has also indicated in an interview with Hungarian news agencies that negotiations are continuing. The other possible venue of Dubai is being talked up by rights holders Einstein Plc but in view of recent events in the region it seems unlikely that a match there could be organised as early as June which is when the Hungarians want to stage the championship. Leko plays the Hunguest Hotels event in a ten-player field that also includes Judit Polgar and Nigel Short. The full lineup is: Peter Leko 2736, Judit Polgar 2700 Boris Gelfand (Israel) 2700, Nigel Short (England) 2690, Zoltan Almasi 2676, Sergei Movsesian (Czech rep.) 2663, Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) 2643, Christopher Lutz (Germany) 2640, Peter Acs 2623 and Ferenc Berkes 2570 The natural order of things was restored at the 110th Scottish Championships being played at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh as WGM Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant outplayed the overnight leader Graham Kafka and now shares the lead with top seed and defending champion GM Paul Motwani on 4/5. Kafka, 20 and a student at Edinburgh University hails from West Kilbride and plays for Edinburgh Chess Club. He had caused a sensation by drawing with Motwani in round three and taking the sole lead in the fourth round while in the process matching his points tally at last year's championship of 3.5/9. Motwani reached four points with a knight sacrifice that shattered the defences of IM Craig Pritchett who has moved back to Scotland after a long exile south of the border. Standings after five rounds: 1-2 GM Motwani, WGM Arakhamia-Grant 4/5; 3 Kafka 3.5; 4-8 IM Pritchett, Gourlay, IM Orr, Fraser, A Grant 3; 9-11 GM McNab, J Grant, Robertson 2.5; 12-14 Spencer, Redpath, Brown 2; 15-16 Burnett, Stevenson 1.5; 17-18 MacArainn, MacDonald 1; Arakhamia,K - Motwani,P [C77] 110th ch-SCO Edinburgh (4), 04.2003 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d3 d6 6.c3 g6 7.Nbd2 Bg7 8.Nf1 0-0 9.Ng3 Qe7 10.h4 h5 11.Bg5 Nd8 12.Qd2 Ne6 13.Bb3 Nxg5 14.hxg5 Nh7 15.Nh4 Kh8 16.Nxh5 White plays very aggressively and had foreseen this sacrifice well in advance. 16...gxh5 17.g6 Qf6 18.gxh7 Bh6 19.Qe2 Bg4 20.f3 Bd7 21.g4 Kxh7  22.Ng2 Too cautious perhaps. [ 22.Nf5 was more dangerous eg. 22...Bxf5 23.Rxh5 Bg6 24.g5] 22...hxg4 23.fxg4 Kg7 24.Kd1 Qg5 25.Rh4 Rh8 26.Kc2 Qg6 27.Rf1 f6 28.Rfh1 Bg5 29.Rh5 Rxh5 30.gxh5 Qh6 31.Nh4 Bxh4 32.Rxh4 Rh8 33.Rh2 Kf8 34.Qf3 Ke7 35.Kb1 1/2-1/2 |
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