Road to the Grandmaster title - April GM round 1 - Counter-attack
In the 1st round of the Grandmaster tournament I played with the 15 years old talented International Master Marcell Borhy.
I played the Chebanenko Slav. I played too slow in the opening and he won a pawn with active play. He could win the pawn 2 different ways. He selected the worse options, which gave me good counterplay to block his extra pawn.
He tried to win too hard and I was able to attack his king and win the game:
In the morning I studied 1 hour tactics:
You can solve a few puzzles:
Pairings/Results
| Round 1 on 2021/04/14 at 14:00 | |||||||||||
| Bo. | No. | Rtg | Name | Result | Name | Rtg | No. | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 2553 | GM | Plat Vojtech | ½ - ½ | IM | Mishra Abhimanyu | 2408 | 10 | ||
| 2 | 2 | 2406 | FM | Borhy Marcell | 0 - 1 | IM | Turzo Attila | 2312 | 9 | ||
| 3 | 3 | 2280 | FM | Gombocz Ferenc Jr. | 0 - 1 | Souhardo Basak | 2349 | 8 | |||
| 4 | 4 | 2511 | GM | Nagy Gabor | 1 - 0 | GM | Czebe Attila | 2385 | 7 | ||
| 5 | 5 | 2464 | IM | Petenyi Tamas | 1 - 0 | IM | Livaic Leon | 2507 | 6 | ||
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