MT Sustarsic: Draw against Voiculescu, Costel

Draw against Voiculescu, Costel of Romania. He is 64 years old, and works as an Engineer at a dam on the river Arges.

15...cxd5 15...exd5 16.e4 dxe4 17.Qd6 Qxd6 18.Rxd6 f5 was 1/2-1/2, Lukacs Peter (HUN) - Wahls Matthias (GER), Budapest (Hungary), 1988 is given in http://www.chessok.com/?page_id=352

18...Nc5 Novelty? 18...f5 19.Rad1 Bd3 20.b4 Rf7 {1/2-1/2(38 ) Ernazarov,Nazar Yazdurdyevich (KAZ) (2501) - Mortarini, Marco (ITA) / EM/CL/Q15-1 (?), ICCF Email 2002.

White maintained a slight advantage to the end of the game, but I think it is not sufficient for a win in correspondence chess.

Finally, my opponent offered a draw along with 40.Nd6 which was accepted.

SIM Korze, Dr. Danilo continues to lead the tournament with 7 points, http://www.iccf-webchess.com/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=22830.

MT Sustarsic: Draw against SIM Sivic, Jernej

Draw against SIM Sivic, Jernej of Slovenia http://www.iccf-webchess.com/MakeAMove.aspx?id=297387. He is 26 years old, and works as a software developer for USB oscilloscopes.

7.g4 is the Shabalov / Shirov attack against the Slav, starting a premature flank attack disregarding classical middle-game theory.

18.Qc1 Novelty? 18.e4 is the move recommended by engine books, but it seemed to open up the position, so I tried a move new to me at least.

21.Be3 Here White has a number of alternatives, I think I have to look here to find a way to avoid the draw.

Since the last few moves repeated the position, I offered a draw along with my move 24.Rh1, which was accepted by my opponent.

SIM Korze, Dr. Danilo leads the tournament with 7 points, http://www.iccf-webchess.com/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=22830.