Hampshire Individual Championship 2000
Round 2
The first round saw a number of players take an half point bye, so with the second round starting the Open saw a full compliment of players. The unfortunate thing about this was, that as there was an odd number of players, someone had to have a bye.
The main upset of the round was Ian Stenhouse of Southampton Chess Club beating reigning champion (for the last two years) Dominic Tunks. Apart from my game, I don't have any games from this round, so I cannot show you how Ian won, but if anyone has a copy, please supply. With James Sherwin and Mike Yeo winning, this left only these two players on 2 points, so a major clash was going to happen in the 3rd round.
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Round 3
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A expected, the third round paired IM James Sherwin and Mike Yeo. Now I don't know how much preparation these two did before the game, especially as this was played on the Saturday afternoon; but I am sure they knew that if they both played well, they would meet each other at some time in this tournament. The point of this is that the position soon reached an unusual line of the Sicilian, that was following a game of Mike Yeo's against the Argentinean IM E.Mendez. |
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Yeo,M (2225) - Mendez,E (2405) [B32] Havana op Havana (8), 1994 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6
3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Qb6 5.Nb5 Nf6 6.Be3 Qd8 7.Nd2 a6 8.Nc4 axb5 9.Bb6 bxc4
10.Bxd8 Kxd8 11.Bxc4 Nxe4 12.Bxf7 e6 13.Bxe6 Bc5 14.Qg4 Nxf2 15.Qg5+ Kc7
16.Qxc5 Nxh1 17.0–0–0 dxe6 18.Qd6+ Kb6 19.b4 Rxa2 20.Qc5+ Kc7 21.Qd6+
Kb6 22.Qc5+ Kc7 23.Kb1 Ra4 24.Qd6+ Kb6 25.Qc5+ Kc7 26.b5 Nf2 27.Qd6+ Kb6
28.bxc6 Nxd1 29.c7+ Ka7 30.Qxd1 Rf8 31.Qd8 Raf4 32.c4 Rf2 33.c5 e5 34.c6
bxc6 35.Qe7 e4 36.Qb4 Ba6 37.Qxe4 Kb7 38.c8Q+ Rxc8 39.Qb4+ Bb5 40.Qe7+ Rc7
0–1 I cannot find any games of James Sherwin, where he played 4..Qb6 in the Sicilian so maybe he prepared this line especially? I suppose only one of the players would know - so if they let me know - I will let you know! Now even though Mike lost his game against Mendez, it seems he got a good position and it did not take James Sherwin long to deviate as he played 5..a6 rather than 5..Nf6, which are the main moves in this variation. The game then followed a game between FM O.Cuasnicu and G.M O.Panno from 1988 which was drawn, until Mike deviated with 10.f4, rather than 10.0-0. Again, I would say that Mike has a good position, but James Sherwin slowly improved his position, until he was slightly better. In the diagramed position Mike Yeo has just played 21.Bh4 and Black now decides to sacrifice the exchange with 21..Bxf4. From this position White's king starts to look very fragile and in the end Black wins the exchange back, but by this time has three extra pawns which proved too much for White to overcome. Play through the game using the Game Viewer. D.Black overcoming John Wilkinson and Jessie Gilbert's draw with Dominic Tunks were the only games that went against form in this round. |
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Round 3 Results
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