Well, the
tournament is approaching its finish and we can conclude that from the main
favourites, only Grandelius and Tikkanen have the chance to win the tournament
after today’s round.
The results went Marley’s way today, and the whole round felt as if the top players
were waiting for the deciding two rounds to come.
He quickly
got the bishop pair against Pontus
Carlsson’s Scotch Four Knights, which was transformed into a bishop vs.
knight endgame. Even with an extra pawn he couldn’t win though, Carlsson defended pretty well.
Draw.
Tikkanen should try to play aggressively against
Brynell to try to win, and as Black
he again went for 1.-Nc6 to try something unorthodox.
However, Stellan quickly went for a position
where he absolutely cannot lose but might have some slight pressure. His dream
of nine consecutive peaceful results is still alive!
Draw.
Tiger Hillarp Persson, probably inspired by Grandelius, decided to avoid the main
lines against Smith, who is hoping for good result. 1.b3 happened. They
later reached the diagrammed position:
The
position is objectively equal. I guess most people, including myself, expected
42.Nd3, with a transfer to e5 in mind. It doesn’t change the objective
evaluation of the position but only White can hope for some practical chances.
Instead Tiger decided to force a
draw with :
42.
Nxe6, fxe6
43. Qxc6, Qb3
and the game soon ended with perpetual checks.
Draw.
Two games
ended with decisive results. Jonny
Hector is having a bad tournament but hasn’t lost his appetite for chess.
He went for a complicated position against Lindberg
and won a nice game.
Earlier in
the tournament Jesper Hall entered
some Inception stage at one part of his commentary, watching himself watching
his own commentary in some infinite loop. (The same thing once happened to Mr. Kenneth Hastings).
Today he rightly
pointed out that the following maneuver was nice from Hector.
How to put
more pieces into the attack of the Black king?
33. Rf3!?
The rook is
taboo because of the discovered attack after 33.-Qxf3?? 34.Bxe5+.
33.-Re7 34. Nb4! Qc4 38. Rb3
..and in
this way the rook joined the attack with fatal consequences. Hector won.
Pia Cramling won her third game in the tournament against Wiedenkeller. She nicely showed why
rook and bishop works better together than rook and knight.
Wiedenkeller started well but only
scored a draw in the last four rounds.
Tomorrow Grandelius plays Hector and Tikkanen
plays Smith.
| Plac. | Namn | Nation | Rating | Klubb | Poäng | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
| 1 | Grandelius Nils | SWE | 2573 | Lunds Ask | 5.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 16.50 | |
| 2 | Tikkanen Hans | SWE | 2528 | Lunds Ask | 4.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 15.00 | |
| 3 | Smith Axel | SWE | 2461 | Lunds Ask | 4.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 12.50 | |
| 4 | Cramling Pia | SWE | 2524 | Sk Team Viking | 4.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 11.00 | |
| 5 | Hillarp Persson Tiger | SWE | 2528 | Lunds Ask | 3.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 13.25 | |
| 6 | Brynell Stellan | SWE | 2484 | Limhamns Sk | 3.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 12.25 | |
| 7 | Hector Jonny | SWE | 2509 | Limhamns Sk | 3.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 10.00 | |
| 8 | Carlsson Pontus | SWE | 2516 | Eksjö Sk | 2.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 8.25 | |
| 9 | Wiedenkeller Michael | LUX | 2475 | Sk Rockaden, Sthlm | 2.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 7.75 | |
| 10 | Lindberg Bengt | SWE | 2410 | Solna Ss | 2.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 7.00 |
In other
news, I follwed the draw of the qualification stages of the Europa League with
great interest.
The most interesting encounter of the next round will be Malmö FF against Hibernian of Scotland.
Who knows, maybe even Mr. Kenneth Hastings
will be in the away stand in Malmö
when the two teams face eachother on Thursday.
If not him, surely there will be
other people linked with this blog that will root for the Hibees.
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