One Hour / Maiden Trophy
Round 1 results:
Garvin Gray 0 Nathan Shaw 1
Mark Taylor 0 Brian Willcock 1
Andrew Robinson 0 Ray Adams 1
In addition to the players present, only John and Greg braved the cold to make an appearance tonight.
Ray knocked off the current Flood Cup champion with his trademark consistent play, but also one brilliant move that immediately sealed the encounter. At move 11 Ray captured a pawn, and Andrew realised his knight and bishop would be pawn forked upon re-capture. Andrew spent seven minutes in calculation before deeming it safe to capture the pawn. However it took six further moves to rescue the knight after the pawn push through a series of moves that avoided piece loss. This was a crucial loss of momentum for white, and in a still materially equal game black held a slight material ascendancy. At move 28 Andrew thought he could swap off the remaining pieces, and then win the game due to superior king position. However, he failed to consider 29… e4! into his calculations, and this fatal oversight trapped white’s king and allowed black the cruise to victory at his pleasure.
Andrew Robinson – Ray Adams (Round 1 One Hour tournament 2007)
1. d4 e6, 2 c4 Nf6, 3 Nc3 Bb4, 4 Qc2 0-0, 5 Nf3 b6, 6 g3 Bb7, 7 Bg2 d6, 8 0-0 Bxc3, 9 Qxc3 c5, 10 Bg5 Nbd7, 11 Bf4 cxd4, 12 Nxd4 Bxg2, 13 Kxg2 e5, 14 Nc6 Qc7, 15 Ne7+ Kh8, 16 Be3 g6, 17 Nd5 Nxd5, 18 cxd5 Rc8, 19 Qxc7 Rxc7, 20 Rac1 Rfc8, 21 Rxc7 Rxc7, 22 Rc1 Rxc1, 23 Bxc1 Nf6, 24 b3 Nxd5, 25 a4 Nc3, 26 Kf3 d5, 27 Bb2 d4, 28 Bxc3 dxc3, 29 Ke3 e4!, 30 f3 f5 etc 0-1
Nathan reports below on his game with Garvin:
The game started along standard Sicilian lines with an early Bg5 by white and immediate fianchetto by black into the dragon. Black accepted the loss of the isolated d-pawn in return for greater activity, and I think I was compensated as white castled queenside - perhaps not if castling had been kingside.
White exchanged down and black equalised on material, before white's active knight was trapped behind enemy lines, and he was forced to lose the piece for two pawns. From there black's pieces were coordinated well enough to deflect white's attack and once the rooks were off the board white soon resigned. However, black had to navigate a few tricky moves by white to hold the advantage.
Garvin Gray – Nathan Shaw (Round 1 One Hour tournament 2007)
1.e4,c5 2.Nf3,Nc6 3.d4,cxd4 4.Nxd4,Nf6 5.Nc3,d6 6.Bg5,g6 7.Bxf6,exf6 8.Qd2,Bg7 9.Ndb5,0-0 10.Qxd6,a6 11.Qxd8,Rxd8 12.Nc7,Rb8 13.Ncd5,f5 14.0-0-0,fxe4 15.Ne7+,Kf8 16.Rxd8,Nxd8 17.Nxc8,Bxc3 18. Nd6,Bd4 19.Nxe4,f5 20.Nd6,Bxf2 21.Bc4,b5 22.Bd3,Bc5 23.Nxf5,gxf5 24.Bxf5,Kg7 25.Rd1,h6 26.Rd7+,Kf8 27.h4,Nf7 28.Be6,Nd6 29.Rh7,Rb7 30.Rh8+,Kg7 31.Rg8+,Kh7 32.Bd5,Rg7 33.Ra8,Ra7 34.Rd8,a5 35.c3,Re7 36.b3,Re5 37.c4,bxc4 38.bxc4,Nf5 39.Rd7+,Re7 40.Be4,Kg6 41.g4,Rxe4 42.gxf5,Kxf5 43.Rd5+,Re5 44.Rd8,Kg4 45.Rb8,Kxh4 46.Rb5,Be3+ 47.Kc2,Rxb5 48.cxb5,h5 49.Kd3,Ba7 50.Ke2,Kg3 0-1
One Hour 2007: Current standings
All players to play 11 games
|
No. |
NAME |
POINTS |
PLAYED |
|
1 |
Russell Lyons |
3 |
3 |
|
2 |
Andrew Robinson |
3 |
4 |
|
3 |
Ray Adams |
2 |
2 |
|
4 |
Cameron De Vere |
2 |
2 |
|
5 |
Tony Howes |
2 |
3 |
|
6 |
Nathan Shaw |
2 |
3 |
|
7 |
Kieran Lyons |
1 |
3 |
|
8 |
Garvin Gray |
1 |
3 |
|
9 |
Brian Willcock |
1 |
3 |
|
10 |
Mark Taylor |
0 |
2 |
|
11 |
John Curran |
0 |
3 |
|
12 |
Greg Colwell |
0 |
3 |
One Hour 2007 results in detail
Odd Knights Tournament
No game played.
Quote of the night
“Ray, I suppose you want to turn this conversation to more wholesome subjects” – Nathan, to which the reply follows..
“Well if I could just shoot across the bows, even though we know that Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed Solomon king, how did you get your name?” – Ray
“I PUT queen en pris, I did not LEAVE it en pris” – Brian, quickly scuttling any rumours that he is a reckless player