The National Junior Chess Championship began over the weekend for eight qualifiers. Seven juniors played the qualifying tournament and got into the championship. The national champion Cecil Cox qualified automatically. The tournament is a round robin one with a time limit of one-and-a-half hours per game.
The seniors will play their qualifying tournament from next weekend. A total of nine games per player will be contested. All the top chess players of Guyana are expected to play in the tournament.
The time limit for that tournament will also be ninety minutes plus increments. The schedule for the games in the seniors national qualifying tournament is as follows:
Sun Oct 17……2 rounds beginning from 9am.
Sat Oct 23……1 round from 5pm.
Sun Oct 24…..2 rounds beginning from 10am.
Wed Oct 27…1 round
Sat Oct 30…..1 round
Sun Oct 31…..2 rounds beginning from 10am
The qualifiers from this tournament will play in the national championship.
In international news, the Ukraine defeated Russia to emerge victorious in this year’s Chess Olympiad in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia.
Vassily Ivanchuk of the Ukraine had a successful tournament. The world’s number one player Magnus Carlsen lost twice in the tournament, to Georgia’s Baadur Jobova and England’s Michael Adams. Over 140 countries participated in the Olympiad.
Kamsky v Cheparinov
In this Najdorf variation of the Sicilian Defence, Cheparinov loses his Queen, and naturally, the game. Kamsky plays brilliantly, and ends the game with precision.
Kamsky, Gata (2705) – Cheparinov, Ivan (2661)
39th Olympiad Men Khanty-Mansiysk RUS (9.6), 30.9.2010
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nf3 Qc7 8.a4 h6 9.Be2 Be6 10.0-0 Be7 11.a5 Qc6 12.Ne1!? Nxe4 13.Nxe4 Qxe4 14.Bf3 Qb4 15.c4!? Nd7 16.b3 Rb8 17.Nd3 Qc3
18.Nf4! exf4? 19.Bd4 Qb4 20.Ra4 Qxa4 21.bxa4 0-0 22.Re1 Ne5 23.Bxe5 dxe5 24.Rxe5
Bf6 25.Re4 Rbd8 26.Qc1 Bd7 27.c5 Bc6 28.Rb4 Rfe8 29.Kf1 Rd3 30.Bxc6 bxc6 31.Qb1 Rd5 32.Rb8 Bd8 33.g3 Rxc5 34.gxf4 Rxa5 35.Qb3 Rf8 36.Qc4 Be7 37.Rb6 Rc5 38.Qxa6 Rc2 39.Qb7 Bc5 40.Rb2 Rc1+ 41.Kg2 Bd6 42.Ra2 Bxf4 43.a5 Rc5 44.a6 Bb8 45.h3 g6 46.Rd2 Rg5+ 47.Kf1 Rf5 48.Rc2 Kh7 49.Rxc6 Kg7 50.Qd7 Bg3 51.Qxf5 gxf5 52.fxg3 Rb8 53.Rc1 f4 54.gxf4 Kg6 55.a7 Ra8 56.Ra1 Kh5 57.Kf2 Kh4 58.Kf3 h5 59.Ra5 f6 60.Ra1 f5 61.Ra5 Kxh3 62.Rxf5 h4 63.Ra5 Black Resigns ! 1-0
