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Round Three

Well for some of us, this was the last round of the day, whilst the more committed (choose your own interpretation of the word) still had another game to look forward to in the evening. There were five players on maximum points but A.Chahine had a half point bye in this round. This made the top pairings straightforward with Tony Corkett playing John Wheeler and Michael Yeo against Martin Simons.  

 

So this was really a club tournament, with all four players being members of the 4NCL Wessex Chess club (if you count board three, all six players are Wessex players!). Tony Corkett did a lot better against John Wheeler's Petroff than I did in the first round and although personally I am not convinced that 4.a3 is the best move he did get an advantage. This was converted into the full point and with Michael Yeo and Martin Simons drawing meant he was the only player on maximum points at the end of round three.

 

White

Grade

Res

Black

Grade

Res

A.R.Corkett

207

1

J.F.Wheeler

180

0

M.Yeo

194

½

M.Simons

207

½

D.Tunks

178

½

D.Pye

185

½

W.Purkiss

181

1

D.Cordner

164

0

I.Cary

151

1

S.Keskinen

u

0

T.Anderson

151

½

G.Lock

171

½

I.Stenhouse

145

0

K.Esmat

165

1

G.Moore

123

0

J.Coburn

142

1

I.Matthew

135

0

R.Perrin

159

1

P.Byre

132

½

F.McLeod

159

½

M.Krawczuk

163

½

J.Wilkinson

159

½

G.Stuart

138

½

M.Cutmore

166

½

D.O'Mahoney

u

½

L.Allen

153

½

D.Cutmore

167

1

S.Gonem

137

0

M.Buckley

153

1

A.Mills

134

0

A.Chahine

u

½

Bye

 

 

S.Dunleavy

u

1

Bye

 

 

In fact Michael Yeo had a great chance to share the lead, as he had an excellent position against Martin Simons. In the position below Michael as white played 18.Red1 which is not bad. More forcing and stronger though is 18.f5 Nf8 19.Nxb5+- where the knight we go to d4 and  white will push his e pawn.

Michael Yeo - Martin Simons Hants Congress 2003 Round Three

Yeo - Simons

Stuart - Cutmore,M Hants Congress Round Three

Stuart - Cutmore,M

My game also was quite interesting, as after the opening I had a pretty lousy position, which drifted into a probably lost one. Just as my opponent looked to be building up the pressure to win on the Queenside, he allowed me counterplay against his King.

 

Time was ticking by though and instead of delivering the killing blow, I took a perpetual check.

 

The winning move is  31.Nxf5. gxf5 ( 31...Qa3 32.exf7+ Rxf7 33.Nh6+ Kg7 34.Nxf7 Qf8 35.Qh6+ Kg8 36.Qxf8+ Kxf8 37.Nd6) 32.Qg5+ Kh8 33.Qf6+ Kg8 34.exf7+ Rxf7 35.Re8+ Rf8 36.Qxf8#, whilst I played 

 

31.exf7+?  31...Rxf7 32.Qe8+ Rf8 33.Qe6+ ½–½

 

So, those of us with the evening bye disappeared, leaving those with more stamina to play their third game of the day.

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