South Wales International 2009

[IM Jack Rudd]

This event started today. Three GMs and three IMs are playing, in a field of 50.

A notable giant-killing occurred in round one:

[Event "South Wales International"]
[Site "Treforest"]
[Date "2009.07.11"]
[Round "1.6"]
[White "Tew, Paul"]
[Black "Rudd, Jack"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A47"]
[WhiteElo "2056"]
[BlackElo "2326"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2009.07.11"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "WLS"]
[SourceDate "2009.07.11"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 b6 4. Bd3 Bb7 5. O-O c5 6. Nbd2 Nc6 7. c3 Be7 8. a3
O-O 9. Qe2 a5 10. e4 d5 11. e5 Nd7 12. Re1 Re8 13. Nf1 f6 14. Ng3 fxe5 15. Nxe5
Ncxe5 16. dxe5 c4 17. Bc2 Bc5 18. Qh5 Nf8 19. Bg5 Qd7 20. Be3 Bxe3 21. fxe3 g6
22. Qg4 Qg7 23. Qd4 Nd7 24. Ba4 Reb8 25. Bxd7 Qxd7 26. Ne4 Kh8 27. Nf6 Qc7 28.
Rf1 Rf8 29. Rf3 Rf7 30. Raf1 g5 31. Nxd5 Bxd5 32. Rxf7 Qc6 33. Qg4 Rg8 34.
Rxh7+ Kxh7 35. Qh5+ Kg7 36. Rf7# 1-0

[Mick Norris]

http://www.southwaleschess.co.uk/SWI/

Some other interesting results, with Miezis only drawing with white against Oliver Jackson, and Keith beating Martin Brown (who held him recently at Heywood)

[benedgell]

Can i get a penny for each time Keith Arkell wins an ending? I want to be a millionaire, but I'm not having much luck with lottery tickets

[IM Jack Rudd]

You'd have won 2p so far.

[Keith Arkell]

In round 4 Radulski beat Miezis in the clash of the top 2 seeds.

By the way,check out Jack's round 3 game if you want some entertainment. At one point he had 2 Bishops and 5 pawns for a R+N+N !

[IM Jack Rudd]

In round 4 Radulski beat Miezis in the clash of the top 2 seeds.

By the way,check out Jack's round 3 game if you want some entertainment. At one point he had 2 Bishops and 5 pawns for a R+N+N !

Round 2, actually - the win against Chris Gibson.

[Keith Arkell]

As the site has gone quiet I guess I could give an update.Things finished thus:

1 GM Radulski 2539 8/9

2 GM Arkell 2521 7

3-5 GM Miezis 2572 6.5
IM Petrovic 2479
IM Marusenko 2323

6 IM Rudd 2326 6

Rainy,hilly,friendly.

In an innocuous position,after I had just chalked up 2 out of 3 off seeds 1,2 and 4(I was seeded 3),Oliver Jackson said to me '' what do you need to score from this game'' .I'm not sure whether this was a tacit draw offer,but I replied '2 points''.Actually 2.5 would have been more accurate!

And to Ben Edgell,you win 5p because I won 5 endings.My other win was a mating attack against Alan Byron in a game in which nothing got exchanged until move 18.

Apologies if this reads a bit me me me, but obviously others are welcome to give their perspective...

[IM Jack Rudd]

I will be doing a report on this event. Any games that have particularly struck people's attention, let me know - I may annotate them.

[Geoff Chandler]

Hi Jack - great game v Gibson.

Had to share with it RHP users.

http://www.redhotpawn.com/board/showthr ... 251&page=1

Also this enables the lazy chess players to see the game without them having
to dig it out for themselves.