Adam Bukojemski, one of Battersea’s strongest players, finished first equal at a highly competitive Central London Open weekend tournament at Imperial College last weekend. There were 35 players in the field. Although no GMs or IMs entered, about a half the players had ELO ratings over 2000.
Taking a bye in the first round, Adam won all the four games he played and shared first prize with Philip Tozer.
The full result is at http://www.chess-results.com/tnr310141.aspx?lan=1&art=4&flag=30&wi=821 .
Here is one of Adam’s wins from the tournament with Fritz analysis. At the end of the game Black is either losing his queen or faces a mating attack after 23…Rde8 24 Ba2 Qd8 25 Nxc6+ bxc6 24 Qa6.
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[Event “Central London Open”]
[Site “?”]
[Date “2017.11.05”]
[Round “4”]
[White “Bukojemski, A.”]
[Black “Mitra, R.”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “C13”]
[WhiteElo “2202”]
[BlackElo “2087”]
[Annotator “Fritz 15 (60m)”]
[PlyCount “45”]
[EventDate “2017.11.03-05”]
{C13: French: Classical System: 4 Bg5 Be7, Alekhine-Chatard Attack} 1. e4 e6 2.
d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Bd3 Ngf6 6. Bg5 Be7 7. Nxf6+ (7. Qe2 Nxe4 8.
Bxe7 Qxe7 9. Bxe4 O-O (9… c5 10. Nf3 O-O 11. O-O Nf6 12. dxc5 Qxc5 13. a3 Re8
14. c4 e5 15. b4 Qc7 16. c5 Bd7 17. Nd2 Rad8 18. Rfc1 a6 19. a4 Be6 20. Nf3
Nxe4 21. Qxe4 Bd5 22. Qe2 e4 23. Nd4 Qe5 24. Qe3 {Johansson,L (2379)-Smith,A
(2457) Gothenburg 2015 1-0 (56)}) 10. Nf3 Nf6 11. O-O-O Rb8 12. Ne5 Bd7 13. f4
Rfd8 14. g4 Nxe4 15. Qxe4 f6 16. Nxd7 Qxd7 17. Rhe1 Re8 18. Kb1 Qd5 19. Qd3 b5
20. Re4 Rbd8 21. Rde1 Kf7 {Loskutov,O (2441)-Lavrov,S (2451) Cheliabinsk 2005
1-0 (38)}) 7… Bxf6 8. h4 $146 (8. Be3 Nb6 9. Nf3 Nd5 10. Bd2 c5 11. c3 cxd4
12. cxd4 O-O 13. O-O b6 14. Ne5 Bb7 15. Re1 g6 16. Qg4 Bg7 17. h4 Nf6 18. Qf4
Qd5 19. Nf3 Rad8 20. Bc3 Nh5 21. Qe3 Qd6 22. a3 a5 {Sprangers,R (2188)
-Feoktistov,A (2445) playchess.com INT 2007 0-1}) (8. Bxf6 Nxf6 9. Nf3 b6 10.
c3 Bb7 11. Bc2 h6 12. O-O O-O 13. Ne5 Qd5 14. f3 c5 15. Bb3 Qd6 16. Qe2 cxd4
17. Rfd1 Rad8 18. Rxd4 Qc5 19. Rad1 Rxd4 20. Rxd4 Bd5 21. Bxd5 exd5 22. Nd3 Qb5
{Szabo,G (2235)-Horvath,P (2405) Debrecen 1998 1-0 (66)}) 8… Bxg5 9. hxg5
Qxg5. 10. Nf3 {White threatens to win material: Nf3xg5} Qa5+ 11. c3 {Black’s
piece can’t move: c8} Nf6 12. Ne5 Bd7 13. Qe2 (13. Qf3 Qd5 14. Qg3 Rg8 $14)
13… h6 14. O-O-O Qxa2 15. Bb1 {White threatens to win material: Bb1xa2} (15. d5 Qa1+ 16. Bb1 Qa6 $11) 15… Qa6 $15 16. c4 Rf8 (16… Qd6 17. Rh3 $15) 17.
Rh3 $11 Qd6 {Black has a cramped position} 18. Rg3 {White threatens to win
material: Rg3xg7} O-O-O 19. Rxg7 Be8 {Black has a cramped position} 20. Rg3 (
20. c5 $142 Qa6 21. Qxa6 bxa6 22. Ba2 $11) 20… Bc6 $4 {releasing the
pressure on the opponent} (20… Rg8 $142 {is a viable option} 21. Ra3 Kb8 $11)
21. Ra3 $16 Kb8 $4 {another step towards the grave} (21… Nd7 $142 22. Rxa7
Kb8 23. Nxc6+ bxc6 $16) 22. c5 $18 Qd5 (22… Qe7 {does not help much} 23.
Nxc6+ bxc6 24. Qa6 $18) 23. f3 1-0
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