‘I bravely decided to continue’
"My game against Stellwagen yesterday was really interesting. I got a slight advantage from the opening. Later on we started to complicate matters. He offered a pawn, which looked just like a temporay sacrifice. However I found a way to keep the pawn, but this allowed him winning an exchange but costing another two pawns. So this was basically a good change from my side. He soon won one of the three pawns back, but then I got a strong initiative and mating threats around his king. But it was very complicated and I didn't find anything convincing, which resulted in that I used up a lot of time and run into a horrible timetrouble.
At one point I could have forced a draw playing 35.Ng6+ Qxg6 36.Qc8 Qxf7 37.Qxf8 Qg8 with a draw. But using up almost all my time I bravely decided to continue with only 34 seconds left for the remaining five moves. Unfortunately for me he found the right defence and I didn't have any advantage left. Still there should be a draw of course, but I got totally surprised by his 39.Rf6 and despite having four seconds for the last move I didn't manage. I played 40.Rg1 in time but didn't reach to push the clock. This end position is still a draw, but here it's already Black who is trying. Today playing Black against Khenkin, who has lost two games in a row now. Probably he still likes to try with white today, so I am looking forward to a tough battle again!"Deze overwinning bracht Stellwagen naar de tweede plaats in het klassement, net onder Jan Timman. Dit had een gedeeld eerste plek kunnen zijn als Dani?ɬ´l zijn eindspel tegen Hector had gewonnen. Het was gewonnen volgens mij maar Hector hield het op zijn tandvlees remise.Met een snelle remise gisteren behield Timman zijn mooie eerste plek; hij?Ǭ†blijkt?Ǭ†inderdaad in vorm?Ǭ†te zijn.?Ǭ†Na een goede overwinning op Tiger Hillarp-Persson?Ǭ†(wederom een mooi eindspel) kreeg hij in de derde ronde tegen Khenkin met zwart de volgende opmerkelijke stelling op?Ǭ†het bord.Khenkin-Timman
Sigeman & Co (03)
Beide koningen gaan te maken krijgen met twee zware stukken op de onderste rij en zullen om hun pionnen heen moeten gaan lopen! 34.Tc8? Een vreemde zet, waarna zwart als eerste komt. Eerst 34.Th8+ Kh7 en dan bijvoorbeeld 35.Dd6?Ǭ†was beter. 34...Ta1+ 35.Kh2 Df1 36.Th8+ Kg6 37.Dg3+ Kf5 38.Df4+ Kg6 39.Dg3+ Kf5 40.Df4+ Ke6! Timman speelde terecht door want het is zwart die gewonnen staat.>> speel de (deels geannoteerde) partijen na
Peter Doggers joined a chess club a month before turning 15 and still plays for it. He used to be an active tournament player and holds two IM norms. Peter has a Master of Arts degree in Dutch Language & Literature. He briefly worked at New in Chess, then as a Dutch teacher and then in a project for improving safety and security in Amsterdam schools. Between 2007 and 2013 Peter was running ChessVibes, a major source for chess news and videos acquired by Chess.com in October 2013. As our Director News & Events, Peter writes many of our news reports. In the summer of 2022, The Guardian’s Leonard Barden described him as “widely regarded as the world’s best chess journalist.”
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