GRENKE Parties

April 5, 2018 /

During the tournament I played 9 games in 5 days, 4 hours a game on average. At the end, I managed to get two wins and a draw (a stalemate better to say due to a rush). All in all, I am happy to return to the chess world with such a challenging tournament and now I have much to do, starting by learning from my mistakes. I will also add a short commentary, but here you can view my parties by clicking any move.

[Event "GRENKE Chess Open"] [Site "Karlsruhe"] [Date "2018.03.29"] [Round "1"] [White "Unutmaz, Ergun 1401"] [Black "Funk, Hermann 1742"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "D30"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.e3 Bb4+ 5.Bd2 Qe7 6.Bd3 Ne4 7.Qc2 Nxd2 8.Nbxd2 Nd7 9.O-O c6 10.a3 Bd6 11.c5 Bc7 12.b4 f5 {[#] I was not prepared to f5 and thought that 13.h4 would be good enough. The idea was protecting g5 advance, and after playing g3 and Kg2 creating a corridor to double my Rooks at the h-line. But I did not consider b5 advance at all, and played 14.Qc3 without thinking. From that moment on, engine output became negative for White. Attacking the center with 11.cxd5 now looks much better. And worse of it, I was so blind to think that h4 was protected by Nf3. As it is pinned, I lost a figure, and at that moment the game was already over.} 13.h4 h6 14.Qc3 g5 15.g3 Rg8 16.Kg2 gxh4 17.Nxh4 Qxh4 18.Rh1 Qg5 19.Nf3 Qg7 20.Rh3 Nf6 21.Ne5 Bxe5 22.dxe5 Ng4 23.Qd2 Qxe5 24.Rah1 Bd7 25.Be2 O-O-O 26.Bxg4 fxg4 27.Rxh6 Rh8 28.Qd4 Qxd4 29.exd4 Rxh6 30.Rxh6 Rg8 31.Rf6 Rg7 32.Rf4 Kd8 33.f3 gxf3+ 34.Rxf3 Ke7 35.Rf4 Be8 36.g4 Bg6 37.Kg3 Rh7 38.Rf1 Be4 39.a4 e5 40.dxe5 Ke6 41.Rf2 Kxe5 42.g5 Kd4 43.Kg4 Kc4 44.b5 Kxc5 45.bxc6 bxc6 46.Rf6 Rh1 47.g6 Rg1+ 48.Kh5 Bxg6+ 49.Rxg6 Rxg6 50.Kxg6 d4 0-1 You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.

[Event "GRENKE Chess Open"] [Site "Karlsruhe"] [Date "2018.04.01"] [Round "7"] [White "Unutmaz, Ergun 1401"] [Black "Burdot, Yves 1647"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "A84"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"] 1.d4 f5 2.c4 c6 3.Bf4 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.e3 d5 6.Bd3 h6 7.Nc3 g5 8.Bg3 Bd6 9.Bxd6 Qxd6 10.c5 Qc7 11.h3 Nbd7 12.O-O Ne4 13.Qe2 Ndf6 14.Ne5 Qg7 15.Nxe4 fxe4 16.Bc2 h5 {[#] At this point I planned an attack to the centre, that could even bring a pawn gain. Even though I found the right move of f3; unbelievably I didn’t follow that plan; and didn’t capture g4 with f3 pawn, but instead played the only loosing move.} 17.f3 g4 18.hxg4 hxg4 19.fxe4 g3 20.Qf3 Rh1+ 21.Kxh1 Qh6+ 0-1 You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.