Sicilian Grand Prix Attack | round 3 | Lyell-Turzo
In round 3 of the Vezerkepzo international tournament I played with the great attacker FIDE-Master Mark Lyell from England.
I played 2...d6 against Nc3 to be able to play the Najdorf if white continues with Nf3 and d4.
The drawback of d6 if I want to play d5 I lose a move compared to d7-d5.
He played the Grand Prix attack. I prepared for that, but still I was unfamiliar with the early f4-f5 system after d2-d4. I rememberd to play gxf5 exf5 and e6-e5, but I did not like to open up my king. I played Qe7 to defend e6 but it was passive and he got the high pressure. I defended well and the position was close to equal, but I used too much time for the defense and in the time pressure I made a big blunder. I was fixated on a nice combination, I forgot his move opened the c3 square for the knight to stop my b2 pawn. So my rook sacrifice was a rook blunder.
It was a painful loss, but made me more determined to study and play better!
Rank after Round 3
| Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | ||
| 1 | 2 | AFM | Fishchuk Vladyslav | UKR | 2253 | 2,5 | 0,75 | 2 | |
| 2 | 8 | IM | Turzo Attila | HUN | 2312 | 2,0 | 2,50 | 2 | |
| 3 | 4 | FM | Fule Simon | HUN | 2280 | 2,0 | 2,00 | 2 | |
| 4 | 6 | GM | Neverov Valeriy | UKR | 2455 | 2,0 | 1,50 | 1 | |
| 5 | 5 | FM | Lyell Mark | ENG | 2153 | 1,5 | 3,00 | 1 | |
| 6 | 7 | Nemeth Zalan | IRL | 2177 | 1,5 | 2,50 | 1 | ||
| 7 | 1 | IM | To Nhat Minh | HUN | 2331 | 0,5 | 1,25 | 0 | |
| 8 | 3 | Majoros Rozsa Evelin | HUN | 1957 | 0,5 | 0,25 | 0 | ||
| 9 | AIM | Daroczi Donat | HUN | 2132 | 0,5 | 0,25 | 0 | ||
| 10 | 10 | FM | Juhasz Agoston | HUN | 2364 | 0,0 | 0,00 | 0 |
You can look all the details of the tourney at https://chess-results.com/tnr648141.aspx?lan=1&art=2&fed=HUN&flag=30
The games start at 3:00 pm Budapest time, which is 9:00 am New York, 6:00 am Los Angeles, 2:00 pm London time.
Today I will play with International Grandmaster Valeriy Neverov from Ukraine.
In the morning I was running with my daughter who joined me with the roller skate.
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