Wednesday 10 February 2010

2010 ANU Chess Club Masters

For the first time in its short history, the Australian National University Chess Club is organising a FIDE rated tournament. The 2010 ANU Chess Club Masters began this evening on the first club night of the year. It is a 10 player round robin with 5 FIDE rated players and 5 FIDE unrateds. The aim of the tournament is to give more club members FIDE ratings, as well as to play some serious, long time control chess.
4 of the 5 games from the first round were played this evening ( 1 deferred game will be played in a few days) and it looks like the field is still feeling each other out. 3 games were drawn while the 1 decisive game was in a sense 'un-drawn'.
Alongside the Masters event was the clubs regular swiss tournament and this attracted a healthy field of 22 players. So for an opening night, 32 players in attendence is a very good figure.

Guo,Emma (1958) - Ingham,Glenn
2010 ANU Masters (1), 10.02.2010

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.e3 e6 4.Bd3 a6 5.0-0 b5 6.c3 Bb7 7.Nbd2 d5 8.Ne5 Nbd7 9.f4 g6 10.Ndf3 Bg7 11.Nxd7 Nxd7 12.Ne5 Rc8 13.Qf3 f5 14.Nxd7 Qxd7 15.Bd2 0-0 16.Be1 a5 17.a3 c4 18.Bc2 a4 19.Bh4 Qf7 20.g4 Bf6 21.Bxf6 Qxf6 22.g5 Qg7 23.h4 Kf7 24.h5 Rh8 25.Kf2 Bc6 26.Rh1 h6 27.Rag1 hxg5 28.Rxg5 Rh6 29.Rhg1 Rg8 30.Rxg6 Rxg6 31.Rxg6 Qh7 32.Rg5 Be8 33.Bd1 Kf6 34.Qg2 Bf7 35.Qg3 Ke7 36.Rxg8 Qxg8 37.Qg5+ Kf8 38.Kg3 Qxg5+ 39.fxg5 Kg7 40.Kf4 Bg8 41.Ke5 Bf7 42.h6+ Kg6 43.Bh5+ Kxh5 44.h7 Kxg5 45.h8Q 1-0

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