Bishop and Exchange sacrifice in the Grunfeld defense against IM To Nhat Minh
In round 5 of the Vezerkepzo International Master Spring Tourney I played with International Master To Nhat Minh from Hungary.
I played a new line in the opening which did not work out well. I misjudged the position. I got development advantage, but I could not open up the position to use my developed pieces. His pair of bishop gave him an advantage. I was able to equalize when he allowed me the e3-e4 break. I got a weak d4 pawn. I could put my knight to e5 or c5. I decided to put it to the center, but was better to put it to c5 to attack the b7 pawn.
I developed his rooks and I felt I needed to take action to continue my attack and I sacrificed a bishop and then got a rook and pawn for 2 bishops. He played the best moves and my second sacrifice was bad, because a counter-check at the end of the variation:
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Today I will play against Pham Tran Gia Phuc from Vietnam
Rank after Round 5
| Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | ||
| 1 | 1 | GM | Neverov, Valeriy | UKR | 2414 | 4 | 8,5 | 11,00 | |
| 2 | 3 | IM | Krizsany, Laszlo | HUN | 2347 | 3,5 | 8,5 | 10,25 | |
| 3 | 4 | IM | To, Nhat Minh | HUN | 2342 | 3,5 | 8 | 8,50 | |
| 4 | 2 | GM | Varga, Zoltan | HUN | 2384 | 3 | 8,5 | 8,25 | |
| 5 | 11 | Gandhi, Anish | IND | 2187 | 3 | 6,5 | 4,25 | ||
| 6 | 5 | IM | Turzo, Attila | HUN | 2288 | 2,5 | 9,5 | 7,00 | |
| 7 | 6 | FM | Pham, Tran Gia Phuc | VIE | 2238 | 2,5 | 8,5 | 3,75 | |
| 8 | 10 | Turcsanyi, Vince Gergo | HUN | 2202 | 2,5 | 8 | 6,50 | ||
| 9 | 8 | FM | Xie, Felix | NZL | 2227 | 2,5 | 7 | 5,75 | |
| 10 | 13 | WIM | Pandey, Srishti | IND | 2156 | 2,5 | 6,5 | 3,25 | |
| 11 | 12 | Otawa, Yuto | JPN | 2160 | 2,5 | 6,5 | 3,00 | ||
| 12 | 7 | FM | Zentai, Peter | HUN | 2238 | 2 | 8 | 5,25 | |
| 13 | 16 | Laddha, Yash Jayesh | USA | 2067 | 2 | 8 | 4,50 | ||
| 14 | 9 | Karamsetty, Jeevan | USA | 2206 | 2 | 7 | 2,25 | ||
| 15 | 15 | AIM | Szalay-Ocsak, Bank | HUN | 2133 | 2 | 6,5 | 4,50 | |
| 16 | 14 | WFM | Erdos, Boglarka | HUN | 2139 | 0 | 7,5 | 0,00 |
I started my day with meditation, player and running:
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See you tomorrow!
Attila Turzo
International Master
