Keres Memorial 7-10 Jan 2016

[Mick Norris]

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includes Svidler, Gelfand, David Howell

11 rounds, 15m + 10 sec

[Mick Norris]

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Starts at noon today UK time

[Mick Norris]

Round 2 - Krupenski, Juri vs Gelfand, Boris

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Ne2 d5 6. a3 Bd6 7. Ng3 c6 8. Be2 Nbd7 9. O-O dxc4 10. Bxc4 e5 11. Ba2 Nb6 12. dxe5 Bxe5 13. e4 Qe7 14. Nf5 Bxf5 15. exf5 Rad8 16. Qf3 Qc7 17. h3 Rd7 18. Bg5 h6 19. Bh4 Rd4 20. g4 Rfd8 21. Rfe1 Rd3 22. Qg2 R8d4 23. Re2 Nh5 24. gxh5 Rxh4 25. f6 Bxf6 26. Re8+ Kh7 27. Qg6+ fxg6 28. Bg8+ Kh8 29. Bf7+ 1-0

[Barry Sandercock]

Good queen sacrifice. Very neat finish.

[Mick Norris]

Duda leads with 5/5 - Howell among six players on 4.5

[Leonard Barden]

David Howell beat the fifth seed GM Matlakov in 31 moves in round six and now shares the lead with Duda on 5.5/6. They will meet in round seven, starting any moment now according to the schedule.

As one who once lost to Keres http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1072643 and who also played blitz games against Howell when he was aged 8, I'll be following the live coverage of Duda v Howell with interest.

[Tim Harding]

Howell seems to have played a steady draw; I only saw the last 10 moves or so (on chess24). The next round starts at 2.30pm GMT.

Boards 2 and 3 were also drawn but Duda and Howell are joined on 6/7 by Jumabayev and Miton. Pairings not available yet (1406).

[Leonard Barden]

Brilliant round 8 attack by Howell with knight and rook sacs, quite in the style of the youthful Keres, gives him the sole lead on 7/8.

[Tim Harding]

Smashing win by Howell, now in the sole lead:

[Event "25th Keres Memorial — ACP Open"] [Site "chess24.com"] [Date "2016.01.09"] [Round "8.1"] [White "Howell, David W L"] [Black "Jumabayev, Rinat"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2646"] [BlackElo "2590"] [PlyCount "53"] [EventDate "2016.??.??"] [WhiteTeam "England"] [BlackTeam "Kazakhstan"] 1. c4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. g3 Qb6 7. Ndb5 Ne5 8. Bg2 a6 9. Na3 Bxa3 10. bxa3 Nxc4 11. O-O O-O 12. Bg5 d5 13. Rc1 Nxa3 14. e4 { After 6 minutes! The next two moves took 4 minutes total and the rest was blitzed out.} d4 15. e5 Nd7 16. Ne4 Nxe5 {Diagram #} 17. Nf6+ gxf6 18. Bxf6 Ng6 19. Qh5 e5 20. Rc6 Qd8 21. Qh6 Qxf6 22. Rxf6 Bg4 23. Bd5 Be2 24. Rxg6+ hxg6 25. Qxg6+ Kh8 26. Qh6+ Kg8 27. Be4 1-0

David is now the sole leader as board 2 was drawn.
Three rounds to go.

[Paul Dargan]

All of that practice playing on increment paying-off now!

[Tim Harding]

All of that practice playing on increment paying-off now!

David also spent a minute on a half on move 3 deciding to go for this.
Yet he was ahead on the clock after his combination and clearly had it all calculated well during his long thinks. His opponent's clock-handling was poor, using less than a minute on the critical reply to e2-e4.

Last three rounds are tomorrow.

[Mick Norris]

Good luck to David tomorrow, he will certainly need it in round 9, couldn't be tougher but a good test for him

Round 9 on 2016/01/10

Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.

1 1 GM Svidler Peter 2736 6½ 7 GM Howell David W L 2646 10
2 14 GM Duda Jan-Krzysztof 2603 6½ 6½ GM Kovalenko Igor 2734 2
3 3 GM Gelfand Boris 2733 6½ 6½ GM Miton Kamil 2597 16

[Mick Norris]

Rank after Round 8
Rk. SNo Name FED Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3
1 10 GM Howell David W L ENG 2646 7,0 38,0 34,0 0,0
2 14 GM Duda Jan-Krzysztof POL 2603 6,5 39,5 35,5 0,0
3 2 GM Kovalenko Igor LAT 2734 6,5 37,5 32,5 0,0
4 1 GM Svidler Peter RUS 2736 6,5 36,0 32,0 0,0
5 3 GM Gelfand Boris ISR 2733 6,5 34,5 30,5 0,0
6 16 GM Miton Kamil POL 2597 6,5 34,0 30,0 0,0
7 12 GM Georgiev Kiril BUL 2612 6,0 39,5 34,5 0,0
8 6 GM Berkes Ferenc HUN 2685 6,0 38,0 33,5 0,0
9 27 GM Kosteniuk Alexandra RUS 2514 6,0 37,5 33,5 0,0
10 29 IM Sveshnikov Vladimir LAT 2467 6,0 37,0 32,5 0,0
11 17 GM Jumabayev Rinat KAZ 2590 6,0 36,0 31,5 0,0
12 20 GM Tregubov Pavel V. RUS 2566 6,0 35,5 32,0 0,0
13 11 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar IND 2615 6,0 35,5 31,0 0,0
14 26 GM Romanov Evgeny RUS 2529 6,0 34,0 30,0 0,0
15 19 GM Neiksans Arturs LAT 2579 6,0 33,5 29,5 0,0

[Mick Norris]

David seemed to be doing well against Svidler for more than 20 moves until he ran very short of time

Having lost, he then drew with Gelfand in the penultimate round

[Tim Harding]

David seemed to be doing well against Svidler for more than 20 moves until he ran very short of time

Having lost, he then drew with Gelfand in the penultimate round

No shame in those results. Now he is blitzing Sutovsky in a line he maybe knows well? About 8 minutes ahead on the clock after a dozen moves.

EDIT: Gelfand drew with Kovalenko and Ganguly with Berkes, so Kovalenko has won (9 pts) and David is playing for a share of second.
Sutovsky has grabbed the a8-R and dared David to do his worst.