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| Chess from Malcolm Pein Chess for Wednesday
November 30th 2005 Malcolm Pein writes for the Daily Telegraph The 2005 the FIDE World Cup is underway with 1.57 million US dollars at stake that includes $100,000 going to the winner. The tournament is a 128 player knockout and takes place in the Russian autonomous region of Khanty-Mansyisk an oil-rich area over 2000 kilometres east of Moscow. The top seed is Vasily Ivanchuk who started with a typically sparkling victory in the first round which is the best of two games. The tournament runs until December 18th. There is more than just money at stake as Fide's cavalier attitude to the world title continues. After the relative success of the San Luis Fide world title tournament, largely due to the outstanding play of Veselin Topalov, Fide have decided to repeat the format in 2007 and determined its composition without consulting player's organisations or even it seems giving the matter very much thought. Although chess players enjoyed the San Luis tournament it made virtually no impact on the wider public outside of Hungary, Russia and Topalov's homeland of Bulgaria. The idiots running world chess, whom it must be hoped will be unseated at the next Fide Congress seem neither to realise or care that it is head to head matches, traditionally the format that has determined the world champion, that grab the attention of the public and promote the game by bringing it to a wider audience. The hastily conceived plan is to give the top ten finishers at the World Cup a berth into the next series of Candidates Matches. Five more qualify by rating and the final place will go to 2004 champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov. These matches will produce four players who will join the top four at San Luis; Veselin Topalov, Vishy Anand, Peter Svidler and Alexander Morozevich in the next eight player title contest. Confused ? you will be. H Hamdouchi - E Sutovsky Fide Cup Khanty Mansyisk (1.1) 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.c3 Nf6 4.Be2 Bg4 5.h3 Bh5 6.0-0 e6 (Not 6...Nxe4?? 7.Qa4+) 7.d4!? Nxe4 (why not?) 8.d5 Nd7 9.Qb3 e5! (A center pawn is always better than a wing pawn. WCC Candidate Bent Larsen would approve) 10.Qxb7 Nef6 11.Re1 Be7 12.c4 0-0 13.Nc3 e4 14.Ng5 Bg6 15.Bf1 Re8 16.Bd2 (16.Ngxe4 Nxe4 17.Nxe4 Rb8 18.Qxa7 Bf8 With a pin that wins material) 16...Bf8 (Threat h7-h6) 17.f3 Rb8 18.Qxa7 Rxb2 19.Rad1 Ne5 20.fxe4 (20.Ngxe4 was better but perhaps fearing something like 20...Nxe4 21.Nxe4 Qh4 22.Bg5? Qxh3! 23.gxh3? Nxf3+ 24.Kh1 Rh2# White allows the Black pieces to spring out) 20...Nh5! 21.Be3 Be7 22.Qa3 Rc2 23.Nf3 Nxf3+ 24.gxf3 Bg5! (The dark squares around the white king fall and his queen is offside) 25.Nb5 Bf4 26.Bxf4 Nxf4 27.Qe3 Qh4 28.Rd2 Qg3+ 29.Kh1 Rxd2 30.Qxd2 Bh5 0-1 Sutovsky  Hamdouchi Final position after 30...Bh5 |
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 Books 2000/1/2/3 |
