The 118th Scottish Championship have started with the first ten boards ‘live’ .
It is the world's oldest continuous chess event first contested in 1884.
http://www.sncl.org.uk/scotchamps2011/index.html
All 10 produced a positive result with all but two games going the way of the grade.
So no Manhattan Dodge’s here. (a quick draw in the first round is the Manhattan Dodge.)
See Thread 140532
These losses could be a bash at going for the Spanish Shuffle.
(which is not to be confused with the Donald Duck).
So for Hugh Brechin the circle of circumstance is now complete.
The last time I wrote about him was when showing his win against
Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard. Today he losses to a 1799 player.
Chess is like that.
M. Sanderson (1799)- H. Brechin (2052)
Next we see a ex-Scottish Champion Jonathan Arakhamia-Grant, husband of the
tournament favourite GM Keti Arakhamia-Grant underestimating White’s attack.
E. Campbell (1876) - J. Arakhamia-Grant (2204)
Originally posted by greenpawn34wow, second game was awesome
The 118th Scottish Championship have started with the first ten boards ‘live’ .
It is the world's oldest continuous chess event first contested in 1884.
http://www.sncl.org.uk/scotchamps2011/index.html
All 10 produced a positive result with all but two games going the way of the grade.
So no Manhattan Dodge’s here. (a quick draw in the first r ...[text shortened]... 6 33. Rxa7+ {The smart wrap up was 33.Qxb8 and mate in a few. Black resigned.} [/pgn]
Round two and a couple of games from the lower boards.
D. Will (1946) - D. Heatie (1587)
- line 2: Unrecognised token '.g4'
- line 2: Unrecognised token '.Qd4+'
- line 2: Unrecognised token '.Bh6'
- line 2: Unrecognised token '.Qb6'
- line 2: Unrecognised token '.cxd6'
- move 18 could not be played: Invalid PGN : Error converting move Bxf4
1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 exf4 {Playable 4...d5! is the recommended response.} 4. e5 Qe7 5. Qe2 Ng8 6. d4 Qh4+ {An interesting moment for White, he has a lead in development but has to make a King move to try and capitalise on it. It's either that or 7.Qf2 and the Queens come off.} 7. Kd1 g5 {Black is running the Queen around as the only developed piece and is now hanging on grimly to the gambit pawn. Attacking players lick their lips and prime themselves for the alert shots.} 8. Nf3 Qh6 9.g3 {This looks good but meets another opening principle breaking move, too many pawn moves, this mixes up the game good and proper.} 9..g4 10. Bxf4 {White perhaps trusting the fact that sooner or later his lead in development will lead to something sacs a piece. Yes, it's all done with judgement, calcualtion of all the possible moves are beyond us.} 10...gxf3 11. Qxf3 Qc6 {This stab at getting the Queens off meets the expected response 11...Qb6 right away was better.} 12. d5 Qb6 13. Bc4 {With a masked attack on f7, the perennial target if one side is lacking in development.} 13..Qd4+ {More broken rules, this is the Queen's 6th move in the opening but at least it knocks the Bishop off f7.} 14. Bd3 {Now Black although a piece up is seriously lagging in the pieces out department. He knows his postion is hanging by a thread and perhaps only a Korchnoi could wriggle out of this. Guided by principles he goes for a piece swap and his position goes belly up.} 14..Bh6 15. Bxh6 Nxh6 16. Qf6 Rf8 {It get worse, Black is seeing ghosts hitting f7. Although anything he does now the piece has been won back leaves him with an awful position.} 17. Nb5 {But White is not interested in winning back the piece. He is after bigger game.} 17..Qb6 18. Nd6+ {Well spotted.} 18..cxd6 19. Re1 Rg8 {nothing else works, this sets up a neat finish.} 20.exd6+ Kf8 21.Re8+ {Black resigned 21...KxR 22.Qe7 mate.}
J. O'Neil (1980) - J. McCrae (1744)
- line 3: Unrecognised token '.d5'
- move 12 could not be played: Invalid PGN : Error converting move exd5
1. e4 Nc6 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 e5 4. d4 exd4 5. O-O
Nf6 6. Ng5 {Now the best move for Black is 6...Ne5 holding f7 and hitting the c4 Bishop}6..d5 {This leads to all kinds of trouble.} 7. exd5 Na5 {This belongs in another variation where White has not castled and the e-file is not open. Black has got lines all crossed up.} 8. Qe1+ {The a5 Knight is gone, Black resigned a few moves later.}
Originally posted by greenpawn34The first game was interesting and I like your annotations. What did what White open with against 1 . . . c5.
So for Hugh Brechin the circle of circumstance is now complete.
The last time I wrote about him was when showing his win against
Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard. Today he losses to a 1799 player.
Chess is like that.
M. Sanderson (1799)- H. Brechin (2052)
White was heading for a Grand Prix Attack (an early f4).
Going for this pawn formation.
2.f4 can be answered with 2....d5 so to save memory cells White plays
2.Nc3 first (also to disguise the Grand Prix Plan.)
The above pawn formation does no do any favours to the f1 Bishop
so White likes to play Bb5 (before of course d3) to chop it for the c6 Knight,
also White does not want that Knight landing on d4.
However.... (I hope you are taking notes)
They both play in and for the same club so Black knew White played
the Grand Prix Attack v The Sicilian so slipped in 2...a6 to stop Bb5
to cross him up.
In the game the c6 Knight did go to d4 and it ended up taking the Bishop.
I was speaking to Hugh today and he agreed taking on g5 was a baddie
but added right away that White played well.
You can pick up the first two rounds here
http://rs7.blueapricot.com/scottish/2011/r1/r1.pgn
http://rs7.blueapricot.com/scottish/2011/r1b/r1b.pgn
http://rs7.blueapricot.com/scottish/2011/r2a/r2a.pgn
http://rs7.blueapricot.com/scottish/2011/r2b/r2b.pgn
Then, apparently, simply change the last bit r3/r3.pgn etc.