London chess-FIDE open

[LawrenceCooper]

Most of the games going according to rating but in addition to a few draws I also noticed:
De Coverly Roger D 1921 0 1 - 0 0 IM Krishna Teja N 2368

[Paul Dargan]

I think Jack's posted the game in the other thread (International). Well done Roger

[Leonard Barden]

Nice thematic game, a pleasure to play over. Bravo, Roger.

[Nick Grey]

Nice one Roger.

[Roger de Coverly]

Nice thematic game, a pleasure to play over. Bravo, Roger.

Ray Keene's Flank Openings used to imply that the Kings Indian Attack was a forced win for White. In this game anyway, Houdini seems to agree. I found on review that I'd had the position at move 9 as Black in 1969 when I had lashed out with .. b5 and as White in 1971 when my opponent punted .. a5.

In the train on the way to the tournament I commented that my opponent was apt to attack the advanced e pawn with g6 and Bg7 and I had recently been trying the idea of trying to sneak in c3 and d4 in those positions where they try to capture on e5.

[Kevin Thurlow]

"In the train on the way to the tournament I commented that my opponent was apt to attack the advanced e pawn with g6 and Bg7 and I had recently been trying the idea of trying to sneak in c3 and d4 in those positions where they try to capture on e5."

It seems to have worked! Well done.

[LawrenceCooper]

Pairings/Results
Round 9 on 2017/12/09 at 1630
Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
1 9 GM Melkumyan Hrant 2633 7 6½ GM Motylev Alexander 2675 1
2 2 GM Sargissian Gabriel 2672 6½ 6½ GM Hawkins Jonathan 2579 12
3 14 GM Donchenko Alexander 2569 6½ 6½ GM Nabaty Tamir 2657 4
4 61 WGM Vo Thi Kim Phung 2380 6½ 6½ GM Maze Sebastien 2614 10
5 28 GM Hector Jonny 2493 6 6 GM Grandelius Nils 2647 6
6 11 GM Cornette Matthieu 2606 6 6 IM Cawdery Daniel 2447 37
7 21 GM Kotronias Vasilios 2524 6 6 IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag 2397 55
8 64 FM Gumularz Szymon 2376 6 6 IM Nihal Sarin 2507 22
9 45 IM Raja Harshit 2420 5½ 5½ GM Jones Gawain 2654 5
10 13 GM Moussard Jules 2576 5½ 5½ IM Ladron De Guevara Pinto Paolo 2422 43
11 16 GM Le Roux Jean-Pierre 2560 5½ 5½ Henderson De La Fuente Lance 2419 48
12 49 GM Arkell Keith C 2416 5½ 5½ GM Mikhalevski Victor 2545 17
13 18 GM Vishnu Prasanna V 2536 5½ 5½ GM Sundararajan Kidambi 2419 46
14 51 IM Houska Jovanka 2407 5½ 5½ GM Handke Florian 2526 20
15 23 IM Stany G.A. 2502 5½ 5½ IM Martins David Pt 2400 52
16 60 Zujev Oleg 2381 5½ 5½ GM Fernandez Daniel H 2500 24
17 25 GM Vakhidov Jahongir 2500 5½ 5½ GM McDonald Neil R 2397 54
18 29 GM Gormally Daniel W 2477 5½ 5½ IM Van Delft Merijn 2393 56
19 31 IM Hambleton Aman 2474 5½ 5½ FM Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 2384 59
20 35 GM Williams Simon K 2453 5½ 5½ IM Krishna Teja N 2368 65
21 58 Akash Pc Iyer 2390 5½ 5½ IM Bartholomew John 2448 36
22 66 FM Sowray Peter J 2357 5½ 5½ GM Wells Peter K 2441 41
23 42 GM Cherniaev Alexander 2436 5½ 5½ Globus Or 2253 86

[Christopher Kreuzer]

I think Jack's posted the game in the other thread (International). Well done Roger

A link to help people find the game later:

viewtopic.php?f=31&t=9426&start=30#p208948