London Chess Classic FIDE Open

[John McKenna]

Did the Eric Hansen game really happen as advertised? That's an extraordinary blunder to be made.

I can believe that it did, but eye-witness confirmation would be good.

Eric Hansen confirmed this on Twitter: "@hansenchess: Gladly accepted a free queen today. 3/3 in London"

Thanks, no better confirmation than that.

The reason I said that I can believe it is because I have both won and lost a queen in one move to a N move.

Now I'm having trouble believing it, though, because in my two games a N moved and attacked a Q but here the Q moved...

If you missed the game -

[Event "LCC FIDE Op."] [Site "?"] [Date "2015.12.05"] [Round "3.2"] [White "Hansen, Eric"] [Black "Thorben, Koop"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B31"] [WhiteElo "2577"] [BlackElo "2418"] [Annotator "JM"] [PlyCount "43"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g6 4. Bxc6 bxc6 5. O-O Bg7 6. Re1 Nh6 7. c3 O-O 8. d4 cxd4 9. cxd4 d6 10. h3 f6 11. Nc3 Nf7 12. Be3 Rb8 (12... Bd7) 13. b3 Qa5 14. Rc1 Bd7 (14... Re8 15. Qd2 Bd7 16. Ne2 Qa6 {1-0 [44] Kaleqin,E-Khismatullin,D 2008 Kazan Ch.}) 15. Nd2 f5 16. e5 Rbd8 17. Nc4 Qa6 18. Bf4 d5 19. Nb2 g5 20. Bd2 e6 21. Nca4 Qd3 $4 22. Nxd3 1-0

Edit: I got the round/board the wrong way round (2.3) corrected to (3.2).

[Barry Sandercock]

The blunders are all there on the board waiting to be made (Tartakower)

[MartinCarpenter]

Quite believable I think. Its always relatively easy to forget about oddly placed pieces and what on earth is a knight doing on b2 in that position?

[JustinHorton]

I wonder if the knight was "hiding" behind the pawn.

[John McKenna]

Justin, "you cannot be serious..." that N was out.

Koop could have thought that Hansen had moved the other one instead, 21.Nb2-a4, then 21... Qd3 is playable.

Perhaps he will twitter about it one day.

[John McKenna]

R5 pairings -

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Bd. Sno. Name	 Rtg     Pts. - Pts.	 Name	      Rtg Sno.

1 1 GM Postny Evgeny 2670 [4] - [3½] GM Bok Benjamin 2594 8

2 5 GM Lenderman Alex 2626 [3½] - [3½] IM Swayams Mishra 2477 26

3 9 GM Hansen Eric 2577 [3½] - [3½] IM Sagar Shah 2441 36

4 23 GM Arkell Keith 2490 [3½] - [3½] GM Hawkins Jonathan 2569 10

5 28 GM Hebden Mark L 2469 [3½] - [3½] GM Rambaldi 2560 12

6 13 GM Vakhidov Jahongir 2546 [3½] - [3½] IM Krishna Crg 2367 51

7 33 IM Bartholomew John 2443 [3½] - [3½] GM Baron Tal 2544 14

8 59 IM Cox John J 2342 [3½] - [3½] GM Vishnu Prasanna V 2514 16

9 89 Lahtela Silvo 2236 [3½] - [3½] IM Sadzikowski Daniel 2506 18
 
10 107 Osborne Marcus E 2180 [3½] - [3½] GM Fodor Tamas Jr 2492 22

[Includes all players on more than 3/4]

[Nick Grey]

Marcus Osborne's run has come to an end. Hopefully he can play at his level for the rest of his matches.

[Mick Norris]

Marcus Osborne's run has come to an end. Hopefully he can play at his level for the rest of his matches.

He is still doing well, considering he has played 3 IMs and next has his third GM
results

[Mick Norris]

Round 7 pairings

Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
1 1 GM Postny Evgeny 2670 5 5 GM Blomqvist Erik 2493 21
2 5 GM Lenderman Alex 2626 5 5 GM Fodor Tamas Jr 2492 22
3 33 IM Bartholomew John 2443 5 5 GM Bok Benjamin 2594 8
4 9 GM Hansen Eric 2577 5 5 FM Martins David Pt 2372 49
5 51 IM Krishna Crg 2367 5 5 GM Vishnu Prasanna V 2514 16
6 28 GM Hebden Mark L 2469 4½ 4½ GM Gharamian Tigran 2654 2
7 32 GM Georgescu Tiberiu-Marian 2453 4½ 4½ GM Melkumyan Hrant 2654 3
8 4 GM Edouard Romain 2627 4½ 4½ IM Esserman Marc 2411 43
9 42 GM Mcdonald Neil R 2417 4½ 4½ GM Hawkins Jonathan 2569 10
10 11 GM Dragun Kamil 2564 4½ 4½ IM Roberson Peter T 2407 45
11 53 IM Milliet Sophie 2362 4½ 4½ GM Vakhidov Jahongir 2546 13
12 14 GM Baron Tal 2544 4½ 4½ IM Guramishvili Sopiko 2368 50
13 15 GM Hillarp Persson Tiger 2521 4½ 4½ FM Buchicchio Giampaolo 2313 66
14 59 IM Cox John J 2342 4½ 4½ IM Sadzikowski Daniel 2506 18

[soheil_hooshdaran]

Sorry, are the games annotated anywhere?

[John McKenna]

Sorry, are the games annotated anywhere?

The FIDE Open notated games (they are not annotated, so just the moves) can be seen in two parts R1-5 & R 6-9 here -

http://www.londonchessclassic.com/repla ... deop15.htm

http://www.londonchessclassic.com/repla ... deop69.htm

Many other interesting things can be found at the event website -

http://www.londonchessclassic.com/

Chessbase have a link to download PGNs from the Open -

http://en.chessbase.com/Portals/4/files ... 15open.pgn

And, their most recent report on the event can be found here -

http://en.chessbase.com/post/london-rd5 ... so-endgame

[LawrenceCooper]

Simon Williams has a typically unbalanced game, this time from a Sicilian 2 b4 with two pawns sacrificed and black's king unable to castle.

[LawrenceCooper]

Jonathan Hawkins finished 2nd= after a win against Romain Edouard http://chess-results.com/tnr197807.aspx ... =30&wi=821

[Richard Bates]

Is there any easy way of finding out if anybody got any norms (and/or came close)? It seems to be one of the downsides of the current chess-results site that the software doesn't give a tournament wide overview of performance information/rating changes (I think there used to be a version that did, albeit may have had some errors in it, and one always needed to bear in mind that you had to do extra work for norms due to the regulations on minimum ratings).

[IM Jack Rudd]

Karthik and Martins got IM norms.