Tourney in Ireland - Ennis rounds 4 and 5
In the round 4 in the Ennis tourney which started at 10:00 am I played with the strong Ukraine International Master Oleg Gubanov.
I played the London system. He replied with the queen's indian setup. He exchanged the bishops with Ba6 and later offered the queen exchange with Qa6, which was a mistake. It allowed me to play Qb5 to offer Qxb5 exchange. He declined the exchange and went back to b7. I was able to gain space on the queenside and get a string d6 knight.
I got the better position, but I was not able to break his defense.
He defended well and he used time better, than me. Sorry, I forgot about time and only realized the danger when I had around 1 minute versus 10 minutes and I started to make bad moves and lost the game.
In the afternoon I played with Sergey Beryozkin.
He played the solid 3.e3 4. Bd3 setup against the Slav defense. I decided the develop the bishop out of the pawn chain with Bg4. He developed the knight to e2 to block the bishop. I wanted to neutralize his d3 bishop c2 queen battery and maneuvered the bishop to g5 by h5.
He build up a strong center with f3-e4. I countered it with e6-e5 to force d4-d5 to get the c5 square for my bishop to attack his king. After Bc5 the knight joined the attack on g4 and after his mistake I was able to finish the game with a nice combination:
I presented an Ave Maria book to the Father of the church.
I finished the tourney on 6th place with 3.5 point out of 5 games and gained 1,3 FIDE rating points.I got a good position in every game out of the opening. I still need to work on time management, use less time when there are more than one similarly good moves and make one of them quickly to save time for more critical positions.
The final result:
Final Ranking after 5 Rounds
| Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | K | rtg+/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | IM | Gubanov, Oleg | UKR | 2285 | 4,5 | 9 | 14,5 | 10 | 11,3 |
| 2 | 1 | IM | Costachi, Mihnea | ROU | 2471 | 4 | 9,5 | 15,5 | 10 | -1,3 |
| 3 | 10 | Naughton, James | IRL | 2055 | 4 | 8 | 13,5 | 20 | 14,2 | |
| 4 | 7 | FM | Daly, Colm | IRL | 2135 | 4 | 7,5 | 12 | 20 | 13,6 |
| 5 | 2 | GM | Arkell, Keith C | ENG | 2366 | 3,5 | 10,5 | 17 | 10 | 1,5 |
| 6 | 4 | IM | Turzo, Attila | HUN | 2278 | 3,5 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 1,3 |
| 7 | 9 | AGM | Arellano, Robert | PHI | 2075 | 3,5 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 2 |
| 8 | 6 | FM | Venkatesan, Kavin | IRL | 2166 | 3 | 8,5 | 15 | 20 | -0,6 |
| 9 | 8 | FM | Culbeaux Tello, Oscar Abraham | MEX | 2094 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 20 | -14,2 |
| 10 | 32 | Mcilroy, Gerard | IRL | 0 | 3 | 6,5 | 12 | |||
| 11 | 17 | Higgins, Kenneth | IRL | 1849 | 3 | 6,5 | 11 | 20 | 4,8 | |
| 12 | 5 | IM | Baker, Chris W | ENG | 2237 | 2,5 | 10 | 16 | 20 | -23,4 |
| 13 | 19 | Petrenko, Maryna | UKR | 1814 | 2,5 | 9 | 14 | 40 | 22,8 | |
| 14 | 12 | Liu, Jason | IRL | 1958 | 2,5 | 8 | 12,5 | 40 | -10 | |
| 18 | Dunne, Thomas Junior | IRL | 1837 | 2,5 | 8 | 12,5 | 20 | 5,4 | ||
| 16 | 16 | Beryozkin, Sergey | IRL | 1852 | 2,5 | 7,5 | 12,5 | 20 | 0,4 | |
| 17 | 29 | O`sullivan, Aidan | IRL | 1611 | 2,5 | 7,5 | 12 | 20 | 12,8 | |
| 18 | 27 | Kononova, Alina | UKR | 1632 | 2,5 | 6,5 | 12 | 20 | 29,4 | |
| 19 | 11 | CM | Murchadha, Oissine | IRL | 1959 | 2,5 | 6,5 | 11 | 20 | -11,8 |
| 20 | 33 | Yefremov, Hennadii | IRL | 0 | 2,5 | 5 | 10 | |||
| 21 | 28 | Mcilroy, Ben | IRL | 1620 | 2,5 | 5 | 9 | 40 | 23,6 | |
| 22 | 13 | Morriss, Pete | IRL | 1934 | 2 | 10 | 16 | 20 | -5,6 | |
| 23 | 14 | O`grady, Martin | IRL | 1886 | 2 | 8 | 13,5 | 20 | 16,6 | |
| 24 | 25 | Gallagher, Brian | IRL | 1700 | 2 | 6,5 | 11,5 | 40 | -3,6 | |
| 25 | 20 | O`brien, Kieran | IRL | 1798 | 1,5 | 7,5 | 12 | 20 | 0,4 | |
| 24 | Bennett, Eric | IRL | 1730 | 1,5 | 7,5 | 12 | 20 | 1 | ||
| 27 | 22 | Fil, Alkim Alper | TUR | 1760 | 1,5 | 7 | 11,5 | 20 | -0,2 | |
| 28 | 31 | Mcnamara, John J | ENG | 1373 | 1,5 | 6,5 | 12 | 40 | 6,4 | |
| 29 | 23 | Du Berry, Ross | IRL | 1743 | 1,5 | 6 | 10,5 | 20 | -19 | |
| 30 | 15 | Leichert, Piotr | POL | 1854 | 1,5 | 6 | 9 | 20 | -40,4 | |
| 31 | 26 | Casey, Gerry | IRL | 1672 | 1 | 6,5 | 10,5 | 20 | -20 | |
| 32 | 30 | Arun, Nitish | IRL | 1556 | 0,5 | 5 | 9,5 | 40 | -7,6 | |
| 33 | 21 | Neaga, Bogdan | IRL | 1780 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 0 |
The winner of the tourney International Master Oleg Gubanov from Ukraine. He moved to Ireland 2 years ago.
2nd place: International Master Mihnea Costachi from Romania.
3rd place: James Naughton from Ireland. He is one of the local players from Ennis. He played her with the best woman player of the tourney
Myresults and rating changes against the different opponents:
| Rd. | Bo. | SNo | Name | Rtg | FED | Pts. | Res. | K | rtg+/- | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 20 | O`brien, Kieran | 1798 | IRL | 1,5 |
|
10 | 0,80*) | |||
| 2 | 4 | 10 | Naughton, James | 2055 | IRL | 4 |
|
10 | 2,20 | |||
| 3 | 1 | 1 | IM | Costachi, Mihnea | 2471 | ROU | 4 |
|
10 | 2,50 | ||
| 4 | 3 | 3 | IM | Gubanov, Oleg | 2285 | UKR | 4,5 |
|
10 | -4,90 | ||
| 5 | 5 | 16 | Beryozkin, Sergey | 1852 | IRL | 2,5 |
|
10 | 0,70 |
*) Rating difference of more than 400. It was limited to 400.
I got a very early flight back to Budapest. I got up at 3:15 and we departured at 5:45 am.
In the airport I got time to watch the collection of the aircraft.
We landed at around 10:00 am
I invite you to visit Budapest and Hungary! I organize chess holidays. One of my students from the United States will come in March to play, to study and enjoy the city.
Would you like to improve your chess?
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