Pawn sacrifice and active king
In round 8 I played my 3rd game against the 12 years old Greek talent Antonios Gkavardinas.
He made a new move compared to our 1st game. He played c6 instead of Nh5 to catch my f4 bishop. I used the similar b4-b5 pawn sacrifice theme like in my other 2 games in the tourney:
Another Knight endgame victory against Anishka Vikram
Queens gambit victory against Gkavardinas Antonios
The middlegame was very sharp, but after a few mistakes I got a much better endgame. I had a centralized king and a c7 passed pawn. He also had 2 passed pawns so it was not clear how good my position is. I found the way to activate my king even more:
In the morning I ran in the forest. I was so peaceful and beautiful. I suggest you to join me next time!
Team-Composition with round-results
| 1. Young generation (RtgAvg:1950, TB1: 0 / TB2: 0) | |||||||||||||||||
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | FED | FideID | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Pts. | Games | RtgAvg | |
| 1 | Anishka Vikram | 2000 | IND | 45013314 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | 2,0 | 8 | 2140 | ||
| 2 | Milovs Daniels | 1905 | LAT | 11623187 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3,5 | 8 | 2093 | ||
| 3 | Gkavardinas Antonios | 1944 | GRE | 25883097 | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | 4,0 | 8 | 2088 | ||
| 2. Old generation (RtgAvg:2107, TB1: 0 / TB2: 0) | |||||||||||||||||
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | FED | FideID | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Pts. | Games | RtgAvg | |
| 1 | IM | Turzo Attila | 2338 | HUN | 704954 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7,5 | 8 | 1957 | |
| 2 | Torok Tamas Titusz | 2008 | HUN | 715026 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | 3,5 | 8 | 1943 | ||
| 3 | Poor Sandor | 1975 | HUN | 703460 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | 3,5 | 8 | 1949 | ||
You can look all the details of the tourney at http://chess-results.com/tnr631905.aspx?lan=1&art=1&turdet=YES
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