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Round Six - Part Two

The Hampshire Individual Champion was going to be decided on the top two boards, with the four players involved currently having 4 points from 5 games.  

On board two last year's champion Michael Yeo was playing three time champion Dominic Tunks. Michael has kindly annotated this game in full, this is especially welcome as he the game did not go well for him!

Initially White had a very good position, which was probably winning, but then Michael played one bad move, which allowed Dominic to play a nice combination, netting White's Queen.

In the diagramed position right, Mike gives the following comments ...

23.Bf4?? [I had originally intended 23.Bf6! but after 23...Nf3+ 24.Kf1 I spotted 24...Nd2+ Even so, 25.Ke1 Nxb1 26.Qxg4 Nxa3 27.Nf4 is a lot better for White as Nxe6 is a threat; Even after 23.Bf6 Nf3+ it would also have been possible to play 24.Kh1 since after 24...Qg8 25.Bg5 (25.gxf3? e3 is curtains) 25...Rxg5 26.Nxg5 Qxg5 ( 26...Nxg5 27.Qg4 is good for White) 27.Qxg5 Nxg5 28.h4 amusingly traps the knight!] So why not improve on this by covering the d2 square while attacking the knight? 23...Nf3+ 24.Kf1 Rh4 and Black won 25.Qxh4 Nxh4 26.Rb3 Qg7 27.Rg3 Ng6 28.Rd1 e5 29.Be3 f5 30.f4 exf3 31.gxf3 f4 32.Bxf4 exf4 33.Nxf4 Qf7 34.Ne6 Qxe6 0–1

 

The full game, with Michael's annotation is well worth playing through - it makes a change from my comments as well!      Yeo v Tunks 

Michael Yeo - Dominic Tunks Hampshire Congress Round 6

Yeo v Tunks 

So this gave Dominic 5 points from 6 games and this meant that at the very least he would share first prize; but the board one game was key as to whether he would become Hampshire Individual Champion for the fourth time! 

 

Before going on to this, it's worth saying something about Dominic's performance. This year Dominic was the 7th seed and he has not had particularly good performances in this years Southampton and Portsmouth Leagues. Despite this he scored 5 points from 6 games and  played to about 200 strength (difficult to calculate as he played 3 ungraded players).  So hats off to Dominic for turning in another star performance.

 

Anyway, onto the Tony Corkett - Martin Simons game. The turning point was in the position right, where Martin Simons declined taking the b2 pawn and instead played 17...Ne6. This allowed White to take control of the d4 square and squeeze black into an uncomfortable position.

The game eventually turned into a rook and opposite colour Bishop ending, with White a pawn up. Black's problems were more to do with his lack of development of his Rook though, than the pawn.

The pressure was kept on by Tony Corkett and in the end Martin Simons fell into a mate in one in a hopeless position.

This meant that Tony Corkett and Dominic Tunks tied for 1st place in the Hampshire Congress with 5 points. The Hampshire Individual Champion was Tony Corkett, as his sum of progressive score was the superior of the two players.

So congratulations to Tony Corkett on becoming Hampshire Champion for the fifth time. 

Update May 2004: Tony has now supplied annotation to this game, which is a lot better than my attempt!   Corkett - Simons annotated.

Tony Corkett - Martin Simons Hampshire Congress Round Six

Corkett - Simons

Thanks are due to Pat McEvoy who again gave his services free and ran an extremely smooth tournament. As you can see, I have annotated a lot of games, but if anyone has anything to add (especially participants) please send your comments to me at News@HampshireChess.co.uk and I will do my best to add them.  A selection of photographs from the last round and the prize giving is available. 

 

Finally I am pleased to say that the Hampshire Congress is going from strength to strength and I am already looking forward to next years!

 

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