On the local front

Finally, here is a chance for me to catch up with the results of some recent tournaments here.

In Kuala Terengganu, the 17th Terengganu closed championship was won by lawyer Ghalam Sani Abdul Rashid who finished the event with six points out of seven games. His only drawn games were with second-placed Mohd Fairin Zakaria and third-placed Nur Ilhamuddin Shaikh Ali who each scored 5.5 points.

This was the fourth time that Ghalam Sani had won the Terengganu closed title; his previous successes were in 1981, 1990 and 1993.

Fourth in the competition was Abdul Rahim Ramli who obtained five points, while those who scored 4.5 points each were Fairul Yusoff, Mohd Sallahuddin Salleh, Chok Kong Wai, Muhammad Arshad and Senu Mohd Nor. Adnan Salleh, last year's champion, was in 10th place. A total of 32 players took part in the three-day tournament which was held at the Astaka MPKT.

According to the Terngganu Chess Association, Ghalam Sani, Mohd Fairin, Nur Ilhamuddin and Abdul Rahim qualified for the state team which shall be playing in this year's Merdeka team championship in Kuala Lumpur in September.

The association's novice tournament attracted 75 players and it was won by Wan Md Zainuddin Abdul Majid. On five points were Nik Rosli Nik Lah, Shahril Anuar Zainuddin, Loo Soon Khai, Tg Norazlan Tg Sulaiman, Razali Yunus and Wan Mohd Fuad Wan Sulaiman.

The under-12 tournament with 60 players was won by Mohd Salami Ibrahim with five points from six games. In joint second place were Ahmad Fasidi and Azan Abu Bakar with 4.5 points each.

ARAB-MALAYSIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

In Kuala Lumpur, the Petronas chess team won RM1,500 at the first Arab- Malaysian Labour Day chess championship held earlier this month at the Menara Tan & Tan. Petronas scored 20.5 points from the seven-round event.

In second place was the Arab-Malaysian team whose 18 points earned them RM1,000 while Public Bank and Mainstech Knights - joint third prize winners with 16.5 points each - received RM375. EPF and BPM Patriot each scored 16 points and won RM75.

Arab-Malaysian Merchant Bank Berhad was the main sponsor for this event while Tan & Tan Development Berhad sponsored the venue.

VISION 2020 MEET

Here are some updates on the Penang Vision 2020 tournament, jointly sponsored by BHL Bank and Mar Vista Resort, which the Penang Chess Association will be organising next Wednesday.

The tournament will now be held at the Pusat Kecemerlangan Sukan Westlands, Jalan Padang Victoria (formerly Victoria Green Road).

Entry fees for the tournament will be RM8 for members of the PCA and RM15 for non-members. Readers interested in taking part can contact Quah Seng Sun or Goh Yoon Wah after 9pm.

Registration of players at the Pusat Kecermelangan Sukan Westlands hall on May 31 will be between 8am and 8.30am, and only the first 100 entries will be accepted.

GAMES OF THE WEEK

Gary Kasparov had one of his worst tournament performance when he lost to Dutchman Jeroen Piket in the final round of the double round-robin VSB Euwe Memorial tournament in Amsterdam.

This loss, coupled with an earlier defeat at the hands of Frenchman Joel Lautier, pushed Kasparov to second place with 3.5 points in the tournament. Lautier, the winner, was undefeated with four points.

Piket's win was compensation for the loss which he suffered to Kasparov in the second round. Nevertheless, it was insufficient to lift him from the bottom rung of the four-man event. In third place was Bulgarian grandmaster Veselin Topalov.

[Event "VSB Euwe Memorial"]

[Site "Amsterdam NED"]

[Date "1995.05.16"]

[Round "4"]

[White "Kasparov, Gary"]

[Black "Lautier, Joel"]

[Result "0-1"]

[ECO "B48"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Be3 a6 7. Bd3 Nf6 8. O-O Ne5 9. h3 Bc5 10. Kh1 d6 11. f4 Ned7 12. a3 b5 13. Bxb5 axb5 14. Ndxb5 Qb6 15. Bxc5 dxc5 16. Nd6+ Ke7 17. Nxc8+ Rhxc8 18. e5 Ne8 19. Qh5 h6 20. Rae1 f5 21. Rf3 c4 22. g4 fxg4 23. Qxg4 Ra5 24. Ne4 Qc6 25. Nd6 Nxd6 26. exd6+ Kf8 27. Rg1 g5 28. Rg3 Rf5 29. Qh5 Nf6 30. Qxh6+ Kf7 31. Kg1 Rg8 0-1

[Event "VSB Euwe Memorial"]

[Site "Amsterdam NED"]

[Date "1995.05.18"]

[Round "6"]

[White "Piket, Jeroen"]

[Black "Kasparov, Gary"]

[Result "1-0"]

[ECO "D97"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Qb3 dxc4 6. Qxc4 O-O 7. e4 Na6 8. Be2 c5 9. d5 e6 10. O-O exd5 11. exd5 Re8 12. Rd1 Bf5 13. d6 h6 14. Bf4 Nd7 15. Rd2 Nb4 16. Qb3 Be6 17. Bc4 Nb6 18. Bxe6 Rxe6 19. Na4 Re4 20. Bg3 Nc4 21. Nxc5 Nxd2 22. Nxd2 Re2 23. Qxb4 a5 24. Qxb7 Rxd2 25. d7 Rxb2 26. Qd5 Rb5 27. Rd1 Bf8 28. Bd6 Bxd6 29. Qxd6 Rab8 30. h3 Rb1 31. Rxb1 Rxb1+ 32. Kh2 Rb6 33. Qe5 Kf8 34. Qh8+ Ke7 35. Qe5+ Kf8 36. f4 h5 37. Qd5 h4 38. Qe5 g5 39. Qh8+ Ke7 40. Qe5+ Kf8 41. fxg5 1-0

 

Time for zonal championships

The Malaysian Chess Federation will stage the East Asian/Oceania zonal championships at Genting Highland from June 12 to 27.

The tournament is open to 15 countries in this zone; as host country, Malaysia will field two players in the men's section and three in the women's.

In the men's section, one place has been offered to national player Mas Hafizul Rahman and the other to Jimmy Liew. If Liew declines, then it will be offered to Peter Long or Ooi Chern Ee.

Zonal championships are now being held in various places around the world and the qualifiers will advance to the interzonal stage. Both zonal and interzonal competitions are part of the world chess championship cycle run by the World Chess Federation (FIDE).

BAYVIEW CHESS LEAGUE

On June 11, the Penang Chess Association will organise the fifth Penang Bayview Chess League at The City Bayview Hotel, the sponsors for the annual team championship.

The hotel, which donated an 18-inch pewter challenge trophy worth RM6,000 two years ago, will again sponsor RM5,000 and the use of its premises during the championship which will be played over several weekends.

Only teams legitimately representing the public and business sectors, factories, universities, schools, colleges and registered associations, societies and clubs are allowed to play.

A guest player may be included in each team, but the other players must be employees, students or members of the organisation which they represent.

Provision is made for 24 teams to take part, and each team is allowed to register up to eight players. However, only four players from each team can play in every round.

Entry fees are RM150 and attractive cash prizes are guaranteed for the top five teams in each division. Division One will consist of the top teams in the state, including two teams promoted from last year's Division Two.

Teams taking part for the first time will be placed in Division Two and their prospects for promotion to the premier division will depend on their performance in the league this year.

The organising committee has posted entry forms to all the teams that played in last year's league. New teams that wish to take part can contact Alan Phang or Goh Yoon Wah in the evenings for the entry forms. Entry forms are also available at the reception counter of The City Bayview Hotel.

Closing date for entries is June 3, and a meeting of all team managers will be held at the hotel at 8pm on June 7.

VISION 2020

The Penang Chess Association will organise the Penang Vision 2020 tournament on May 31 at the Mar Vista Resort in Tanjung Bungah. This is a one-day event jointly sponsored by BHL Bank and Desa Mar Vista, and run over seven rounds.

The concept for this tournament will be slightly different from all local tournaments which have been held in the past.

Although the players are grouped in one common category and paired under existing Swiss rules, prizes will be given to winners in four different rating groups - 2100 and above, 2000 to 2099, 1950 to 1999, and 1949 and below. The fourth rating group will also contain the unrated players.

This categorisation of prizes is made possible with the adoption of the PCA's own rating list which contains names and ratings of some 600 local players in Penang.

Players from the other states are also in the PCA rating list and if they choose to play in the Vision 2020 tournament, they must accept the rules of the tournament and the PCA ratings.

Five prizes will be awarded to the best players in the first rating group and these will be RM250, RM200, RM150, RM100 and RM100. For the second and third groups, three prizes worth RM200, RM100 and RM100 will be given for the winners of each group. Finally, the fourth group will have two prizes - RM150 and RM80.

Entry fee is RM8 for members of the PCA and RM15 for non-members. Readers interested in taking part should contact Quah Seng Sun or Goh Yoon Wah after 9pm. Registration of players at the Mar Vista Resort on May 31 will be between 8am and 8.30am, and only the first 100 entries will be accepted.

NATIONAL AGE-GROUP

This is a reminder to readers that this year's national age-group chess championship, sponsored by the Asia Insurance Co Ltd and the Asia Life Assurance Society Ltd, will be played from May 26 to 28 at the Wisma MPSA in Shah Alam.

There will be separate events for boys and girls in the under-10, under-12, under-14, under-16 and under-18 age groups.

Readers who wish to play in this tournament can contact the MPSA and speak to Hassanuddin Ghazali, Sheikh Ahmad Hassan or Asmah Mohd Zin.

GAME OF THE WEEK

A four-man tournament is presently underway in Amsterdam. Known as the VSB tournament, it features Gary Kasparov (Russia), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria), Joel Lautier (France) and Jeroen Piket (The Netherlands).

In the second round, Kasparov again uncorked the Evans Gambit which he had used to great effect against Viswanathan Anand in Riga several weeks ago. This time, his victim was the Dutch champion, Piket.

[Event "VSB Euwe Memorial"]

[Site "Amsterdam NED"]

[Date "1995.05.13"]

[Round "2"]

[White "Kasparov, Gary"]

[Black "Piket, Jeroen"]

[Result "1-0"]

[ECO "C51"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bb6 {Piket chose to decline the gambit; Anand played 4...Bxb4} 5. a4 a5 6. b5 Nd4 7. Nxd4 Bxd4 8. c3 Bb6 9. d4 exd4 10. O-O Ne7 11. Bg5 h6 12. Bxe7 Qxe7 13. cxd4 Qd6 14. Nc3 {After the game, Kasparov said: "This must be played, obviously. I was sure I was winning now. Just how, I was going to find out."} Bxd4 {If 14...Qxd4, Kasparov gave this fantastic variation: 15 Nd5!! Qxc4 16 Nxb6 cxb6 17 Qd6 Qe6 18 e5 Qxd6 19 exd6 Kd8 20 Rfe1 Re8 21 Rxe8+ Kxe8 and Black, a bishop and pawn up in an endgame, is totally helpless.}15. Nd5 Bxa1 16. Qxa1 O-O 17. e5 Qc5 18. Rc1 c6 19. Ba2 Qa3 {Kasparov thought for a long time, not entirely sure about the attach after 20 Rc3 Qxa4 21 Ne7+ Kh8 22 Rg3, and settled for the win of a rook} 20. Nb6 d5 21. Nxa8 Kh8 22. Nb6 Be6 23. h3 Rd8 24. bxc6 bxc6 25. Rc3 Qb4 26. Rxc6 Rb8 27. Nxd5 Qxa4 28. Rc1 Qa3 29. Bc4 1-0

 

Farewell to a grandmaster

Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinik, the sixth world chess champion, died last Friday in Moscow at 83.

Born to a Russian couple holidaying in Finland in 1911, he learnt to play chess at 12. Four years later, he was already good enough to qualify for the final league of the Soviet Championships. This clearly marked him out as the potential World Champion that the Soviets were seeking.

In 1946, negotiations were underway with world champion Alexander Alekhine for a world title match but everything halted when Alekhine was found dead.

The World Chess Federation saw this as an opportunity to assume control of the world championship cycle and in 1948, a five-man tournament between Botvinik, Vassily Smyslov, Paul Keres, Samuel Reshevsky and Max Euwe was arranged.

Botvinik's superiority over the others were never in doubt and at 36, he was crowned the sixth world chess champion.

The following three years, Botwinnik did not play any chess. Instead, he pursued his studies as an electrical engineer and was awarded his doctorate in 1951.

He returned to active play the same year when he was required to defend his title against David Bronstein. Botvinik almost lost but somehow he managed to tie the match at 12-12 and retained the crown.

In 1954, he again retained his title after drawing 12-12 with Smyslov. Smyslov was again his challenger in 1957 and this time, Smyslov won with a convincing 12.5-9.5 margin.

But Smyslov's hold on the title was short, for Botvinik exercised his right to a return match and won back his title the following year with a 12.5-10.5 score.

As the 50s were ending, 24-year-old Mikhail Tal was setting the chess world ablaze with his swashbuckling fiery style of play. Tal qualified for the right to meet Botvinik in 1960 and proceeded to rip the older man apart in many complex games. Botvinik lost by 8.5-12.5.

By this time, retirement from world championship play was obvious for Botvinik but he confounded his critics by winning the return match in 1961 with a 13-8 result.

It has often been said that Botvinik had never won a world championship match as a defending champion. He drew in 1951 and 1954, and lost in 1957 and 1960. In 1963, Tigran Petrosjan was Botvinik's challenger; again, Botvinik lost his title by a 12.5-9.5 score.

This time, the loss of the title was permanent for FIDE had decided there would be no more return match for the defeated champion. This ended Botvinik's tenure as world champion.

Botvinik continued to play in tournaments and caused trouble to the younger generation. In 1970, at 59, he finally retired from active play.

In the 37-year period, Botvinik played many matches and 31 hard tournaments where he faced the cream of grandmasters: Emanuel Lasker, Jose Raoul Capablanca and Alekhine in his youth, and Tal, Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer in his later years.

Botvinik was credited for setting up his Botvinik School of Chess which teaches good basic chess to the very elite of Soviet juniors. The first Botvinik school was started in Leningrad at the end of the 1930s and his most talented pupil then was Mark Taimanov.

The school restarted in 1963 this time in Moscow. It lasted for one and a half years and among the pupils were Anatoly Karpov, Yuri Balashov and Yuri Razuvaev.

The final school was held from 1969 and continues until today, although now it is known as the Kasparov Chess School. Gary Kasparov himself joined in 1973 and players like Artur Yusupov, Lev Psakhis and Sergei Dolmatov were members.

In recent years a large number of the most talented newcomers like Vladimir Kramnik, Vassily Ivanchuk and Alexey Shirov attended the school although Shirov said he hated it and found it rather "useless".

NATIONAL AGE-GROUP CHAMPIONSHIP

The Persatuan Catur Melayu Malaysia, with cooperation from the Majlis Perbandaran Shah Alam and the Majlis Sukan Sekolah-sekolah Malaysia, will organise the national age-group chess championship.

This year's championship, again sponsored by the Asia Insurance Co Ltd and the Asia Life Assurance Society Ltd, will be played from May 26 to 28 at the Wisma MPSA in Shah Alam.

Like in previous years, there will be separate events for boys and girls in the under-12, under-14, under-16 and under-18 age groups. A new category is the under-10 age-group.

For the under-16 and under-18 categories, the male and female champions will each receive RM240 and a challenge trophy. There are four other cash prizes for the top boys and girls.

The winners of the under-14 category will each receive RM200 and a trophy while in the under-12 category, RM150 and a trophy awaits the best players. For the under-10 category, the best players will each get RM100 and a trophy. Cash prizes will also be awarded to the other top boys and girls in the three categories.

In the past, the various winners were later sent to several international junior chess events. For example, the winners of the 1992 championship went to Duisberg for the world age-group championship while in 1993, winners played in the Bratislava world age-group championship. Last year, players were sent to Szeged in Jungary.

To take part, call the MPSA and ask for Hassanuddin Ghazali, Sheikh Ahmad Hassan or Asmah Mohd Zin.

 

A move up for chess

Last month, the Malaysian Schools Sports Council (MSSM) held its annual Milo/MSSM national sportsboy-sportsgirl awards at the Crystal Crown Hotel in Kuala Lumpur.

There were many front runners for the sportsboy award but it finally went to a swimmer from Sabah who beat 13 other contenders for this title. The runner-up was an athlete from Johor but one of the surprises was chessplayer Ooi Chern Ee's third placing in the roll of honour.

It might have been a surprise for most people at the ceremony but for those who knew of Ooi's accomplishments in the past year, the result was not without anticipation.

But question is: Why only third? Why not second or even first?

Apart from Ooi's fine chess achievement at national and international levels, consider too his academic performance. In his PMR examinations, he obtained straight "A"s; as a fourth-former in Penang Free School last year, he was best student in the form. There could not have been a better candidate for the top award, in my opinion.

It was interesting that Ooi was not the only chessplayer nominated for this year's national sportsboy awards. He was, of course, the nominee of the Majlis Sukan Sekolah-sekolah Pulau Pinang, after having garnered the Penang sportsboy award recently.

There was also present national champion Mas Hafizul Hilmi Agus who was the nominee of the Majlis Sukan Sekolah-sekolah Kelantan. Presumably, Mas Hafizul would have won the Kelantan sportsboy award too in order to be at the national awards function.

So in Kuala Lumpur, chess was actually represented by two youngsters from different parts of the country. In previous years, there would hardly be any representative. Chess is certainly becoming more acceptable to students as an alternate to other more popular games or sports.

But there is a problem with the choice of winners of the sports awards, especially at state and national levels. The paradigm of chess is that it is usually recognised as a low category game.

Why should this be? Chess today is not the domain of the fuddy-duddies who indulge in the game when they are past their retirement age. Chess playing is not all sitting at a table; the rigours of a chess tournament demand that a player be both physically fit and mentally alert.

Chess is a youthful game dominated by people in their teens, 20s and 30s. People like Gary Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov were already among the best players in the world when they were only in their teens and in their early 20s, they won the world championship.

In the list of the top 53 players in the world today, four of them are in their teens, 21 are in their 20s, and 18 are in their 30s. There are just nine players who are in their 40s and only one player in his 60s who is still an active professional.

Back to recognition for the game, is it because chess is not an official game at the Summer Olympics and thus is not viewed as a bona fide game by the Olympic Council of Malaysia? I know it is not from lack of trying that the Malaysian Chess Federation is not a full member in the OCM.

But chess has already been given full recognition by the International Olympic Committee. Last December in Moscow, IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch even agreed with World Chess Federation president Florencio Campomanes that there may be a possibility to include the game as a demonstration sport at the Atlanta Olympics.

If this is a possibility coming up, I see no reason why chess should continue to play second fiddle in the country. I say now is the time for the Malaysian Chess Federation to represent its case for full recognition from OCM.

GENERAL MEETING

The Penang Chess Association will hold its annual general meeting at 6.30pm tomorrow at the Bayan Baru Residents Association clubhouse. Before the meeting, the association will stage a competition at 4pm over 25 boards between its senior and junior members.

GAMES OF THE WEEK

The Professional Chess Association kicked off its activities this year by organising two top-class events. The first was the Tal memorial tournament in Riga - mentioned in this column last week - which was won by Gary Kasparov.

The second event was the Moscow leg of the PCA world chess Grand Prix which is sponsored by microchip giant Intel. The qualifying rounds were run according to the Swiss system and the six qualifiers then joined 10 seeded players in a knock-out Rapid Chess event.

There were 78 players in the qualifier - 67 grandmasters and 11 international masters - and the lucky ones were Alexander Khalifman, Ilya Smirin, Alexander Morozevich, Vladimir Epishin, Jonathan Speelman and Boris Gulko.

In the first round of the knock-out event, Vassily Ivanchuk beat Predrag Nikolic 2-0, Viktor Korchnoi tied with Zurab Azmaiparashvili 1.5-1.5 (but Korchnoi qualified on tie-break), Artur Yusupov beat Alexey Vyzmanavin 2-0, Vladimir Kramnik beat Smirin 1.5-0.5, Morozevich beat Gulko 1.5-0.5, Viswanathan Anand beat Khalifman 1.5-0.5, Speelman beat Veselin Topalov 2-0 and Kasparov beat Epishin 1.5-0.5.

For the second round, Ivanchuk beat Korchnoi 2-1, Kramnik beat Yusupov 2-1, Anand beat Morozevich 2-1 and Kasparov beat Speelman 1.5-0.5. So those that advanced to the semi-finals were Ivanchuk, Kramnik, Anand and Kasparov.

At this stage, Ivanchuk and Anand qualified for the finals by beating Kramnik and Kasparov respectively. Ivanchuk won 2-1 while Anand went through with a 1.5-0.5 result. Ivanchuk won the final with a 1.5-0.5 score against Anand.

[Event "Intel PCA Rapid Chess Grand Prix"] [Site "Moscow RUS"] [Date "1995.04.28"] [Round "1.3"] [White "Speelman, Jonathan"] [Black "Topalov, Veselin"] [Result "1-0"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 g6 3. Bg5 Bg7 4. Nbd2 O-O 5. c3 h6 6. Bxf6 Bxf6 7. e4 d6 8. Bc4 Bg7 9. Qe2 c5 10. dxc5 dxc5 11. O-O Nc6 12. h3 Qc7 13. Rfe1 Rd8 14. e5 Rb8 15. e6 f5 16. h4 Na5 17. Bd3 Rd6 18. Nc4 Rxe6 19. Qxe6+ Bxe6 20. Rxe6 Kf7 21. Rae1 Nc6 22. h5 g5 23. Bxf5 Bf6 24. Ne3 Rd8 25. Ng4 Kg7 26. Nxf6 exf6 27. b4 cxb4 28. Nd4 Rd6 29. Re8 Ne5 30. Ne6+ Rxe6 31. Bxe6 bxc3 32. Bb3 Qd7 33. Ra8 b6 34. Rd1 Qe7 35. Rdd8 f5 36. Rg8+ Kh7 37. Rh8+ Kg7 38. Rag8+ Kf6 39. Rxh6+ Ng6 40. Rgxg6+ Ke5 1-0

[Event "Intel PCA Rapid Chess Grand Prix"]

[Site "Moscow RUS"]

[Date "1995.04.29"]

[Round "2.1"]

[White "Morozevich, Alexander"]

[Black "Anand, Viswanathan"]

[Result "1-0"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Nc3 c6 5. Bb3 d5 6. exd5 cxd5 7. d4 Bb4 8. Nf3 O-O 9. O-O Bxc3 10. bxc3 Qc7 11. Qe1 Nc6 12. Qh4 Ne7 13. Bxf4 Qxc3 14. Bd2 Qc7 15. Ne5 Nf5 16. Qf4 Be6 17. Bb4 Rfc8 18. g4 Nd6 19. Rae1 Nfe4 20. c4 dxc4 21. Bc2 Nf6 22. g5 Nh5 23. Qf3 g6 24. Nxg6 hxg6 25. Bxg6 fxg6 26. Rxe6 Qf7 27. Qd5 Nf5 28. Rxf5 1-0

[Event "Intel PCA Rapid Chess Grand Prix"] [Site "Moscow RUS"] [Date "1995.04.30"] [Round "semi-final"] [White "Anand, Viswanathan"] [Black "Kasparov, Gary"] [Result "1-0"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Qxd4 Bd7 5. c4 Nc6 6. Qd2 g6 7. Be2 Bg7 8. O-O Nf6 9. Nc3 O-O 10. Rb1 a6 11. b3 Qa5 12. Bb2 Rfc8 13. Rfd1 Bg4 14. Qe3 Nd7 15. Nd5 Bxb2 16. Rxb2 Bxf3 17. Bxf3 e6 18. Nc3 Rd8 19. Rbd2 Nde5 20. Be2 Nb4 21. h4 b5 22. cxb5 axb5 23. Nxb5 Nbc6 24. a3 d5 25. exd5 Rxd5 26. Rxd5 exd5 27. b4 Qa4 28. Rxd5 1-0

[Event "Intel PCA Rapid Chess Grand Prix"]

[Site "Moscow RUS"]

[Date "1995.05.01"]

[Round "final"]

[White "Anand, Viswanathan"]

[Black "Ivanchuk, Vassily"]

[Result "0-1"]

1. e4 c6, 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nf3 e6 5. Be2 c5 6. Be3 Nd7 7. c4 dxc4 8. Nc3 Ne7 9. Bxc4 Nc6 10. d5 Nb6 11. Bb3 exd5 12. Nxd5 Be7 13. O-O O-O 14. Rc1 Nxd5 15. Bxd5 Nb4 16. Bc4 a6 17. e6 fxe6 18. Qb3 Qc8 19. a3 b5 20. axb4 bxc4 21. Rxc4 Rb8 22. Rfc1 Qb7 23. Qa2 Bd3 24. Rf4 c4 25. Ne5 Qd5 26. Nxd3 cxd3 27. Qxd5 exd5 28. Rd4 Rxb4 29. Rxd3 Rxb2 30. Rxd5 Ra8 31. g4 a5 32. Rd7 Bf8 33. Rcc7 a4 34. Ra7 Rbb8 35. Bd4 Rxa7 36. Rxa7 Rb4 37. Be5 Re4 38. Bc3 Rxg4+ 39. Kf1 a3 40. Ke2 Rc4 41. Kd3 Rf4 42. Bd4 h5 43. Ra8 Kh7 44. Ke3 Rf7 45. f4 Bd6 46. Be5 Bc5+ 47. Kd3 Kg6 48. Ra5 Bb4 49. Ra4 Rb7 50. Ke4 Kf7 51. Ra6 Be7 52. f5 Rb4+ 53. Kd5 Rg4 54. Ra7 Rg2 55. Ke4 a2 56. Kf3 Rc2 57. Ke4 Re2+ 58. Kf4 Rxe5 59. Kxe5 a1=Q+ 60. Rxa1 Bf6+ 61. Kf4 Bxa1 62. Kg5 Bb2 63. h4 Bc1+ 64. Kxh5 Kf6 0-1