MT Sustarsic: Win against GM Pauwels, Christophe of Belgium

Win against GM Pauwels, Christophe of Belgium http://www.iccf-webchess.com/MakeAMove.aspx?id=297384. He is 38 years old, working as quality controller in an IT company in Brussels.

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 e6 5.Be2

The positional Short variation.

5...c5 6.Be3 Qb6

Entering very sharp waters.

( 6...cxd4 7.Nxd4 Ne7 8.c4 Nbc6 9.Nc3 Nxd4 10.Bxd4 dxc4 11.Qa4+ Nc6 12.Rd1 Bd3 13.Bxd3 cxd3 14.Rxd3 Bc5 15.Ne4 Bxd4 1/2-1/2(27) Topalov, Veselin (2796) - Anand, Viswanathan (2791) / 18. Amber Blindfold (9), Nice FRA 2009)

7.Nc3 Nc6 8.O-O Qxb2 9.Nb5 c4 10.Rb1 Qxa2 N

Novelty?

( 10...Qxc2 11.Qxc2 Bxc2 12.Rb2 Ba4 13.Nc7+ Kd7 14.Nxa8 b5 15.Bd1 Ba3 1-0(45) Gueci, Alberto (2257) - Santana Peٌate, Guillermo (2528) / WC15/SF06 (?), ICCF 2009 )

( 10...Qxc2 11.Qxc2 Bxc2 12.Rb2 Ba4 13.Nc7+ Kd7 14.Nxa8 b5 15.Rfb1 b4 1/2-1/2(64) Pommrich, Rainer (2280) - Morley, Paul (2198) / WS/M/263 (?), ICCF 2010 )

11.Nc7+ Kd8 12.Ra1

This seems to lose a tempo.

( 12.Nxa8 seems better )

12...Qxc2 13.Qxc2 Bxc2 14.Nxa8 Nge7 15.Ra2

Now slowly Black activates his pieces, after which White has nothing to show for compensation. 

...Be4 16.Ng5 Bg6 17.h4 h5 18.Bd1 Kc8 19.Bc2 Bxc2 20.Rxc2 Nd8 21.Rb2 f6 22.Nf3 Kb8 23.Nb6 axb6 24.Rxb6 Nc8 25.Rb2 b6 26.Rfb1 Kb7 27.Bf4 Nc6 28.Re2 f5 29.Be3 Bb4 30.Kf1 Ba5 31.Ra2 Re8 32.Ne1 f4 33.Bxf4 Bc3 34.Nf3

( 34.g3 may have been necessary )

34...Nxd4 35.Nxd4 Bxd4 36.Rd1 Bc5 37.Be3 Bxe3 38.fxe3 Ne7 39.Ke1 Rf8 40.Rb2 Rf5 41.Rdb1 Nc8 42.Rf2 Rxe5 43.g4?

White gets desperate.

43...Rxe3+ 44.Re2 Rh3 45.Kd2 c3+ 46.Kc2 Ne7 47.Rb3 Nc6 48.Rd2 d4 49.gxh5 Ka6 50.Rg2 Ka5 0-1

SIM Korze, Dr. Danilo, GM Voiculescu, Costel and GM Szczepanski, Zbigniew continue to jointly lead the tournament with 8.0 points,http://www.iccf-webchess.com/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=22830:

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MT Sustarsic: Win against SIM Karacsony, Zsolt of Romania

Win against SIM Karacsony, Zsolt of Romania http://www.iccf-webchess.com/MakeAMove.aspx?id=297385. He is only 32 years old, and works in University of Miskolc as Assistant Professor in Mathematics. The game started as a peaceful Catalan

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 Be7 5.Nf3 O-O 6.O-O dxc4 7.Qc2 a6 8.Qxc4 b5 9.Qc2 Bb7 10.Bf4 Nc6 11.Nc3 Nb4 12.Qd2 c5

The ChessOK opening tree http://www.chessok.com/?page_id=352 gives only 13.a3 and 13.Rfd1 

13.dxc5 Bxc5 14.Qxd8 Novelty?

( 14.Rad1 Qb6 15.Bd6 Bxd6 16.Qxd6 Nc6 17.Qf4 Rad8 18.Rxd8 Rxd8 19.Rd1 Rxd1+ 20.Nxd1 Qd8 1/2-1/2(25) Nierobisz, Jim (2371) - Myers, David R (2411) / 1st Webchess Open Tournament - Final (?), ICCF 2009 )

( 14.Rac1 Rc8 15.a3 Nbd5 16.Nxd5 Qxd5 17.b4 Bb6 18.Qxd5 Nxd5 19.Be5 Rfd8 20.Bd4 h6 1-0(66) Taksrud, Vidar (2157) - Johansson, Jan (Vنsterهs) (2075) / Sweden - Rest of the World (?), ICCF 2008 )

I decided to exchange queens, since nowadays that's the only way to outplay engines.

14...Rfxd8 15.a4 Ne4 16.Nxe4 Bxe4 17.Rfc1 Nc2 18.Nd2 Nxa1 19.Bxe4 Rac8 20.Rxa1 e5 21.Bf5 exf4 22.Bxc8 Rxc8 23.axb5 axb5 24.gxf4 Bf8

White is temporarily a pawn up, but he cannot retain it. However, Black misplays the ending

25.Nf3 Rc2 26.e3 Rxb2 27.Ra8 b4 28.Kg2 g6 29.Ne5 Rd2 30.Rb8 f5 31.h4 Rd1 32.Nf3 Rc1 33.Nd4 Kf7 34.Rb7+ Kg8 35.Rb8 Kf7

This move was accompanied by a draw offer, which was declined.

36.h5 gxh5 37.Rb5 h4 38.Rxf5+ Ke8 39.Rb5 Rd1?

Necessary was 39...Kd7. Now Black goes rapidly downhill.

40.Rb8+ Kf7 41.Rb7+ Ke8 42.f5 Bc5 43.Ne6 Be7 44.e4 Rd3 45.f4 Rd2+ 46.Kg1 Rd1+ 47.Kf2 h3 48.Kg3 Rd3+ 49.Kh2 Bh4 50.Ng7+ Kd8 51.Nh5 b3 52.f6 1-0

SIM Korze, Dr. Danilo, SIM Voiculescu, Costel and GM Szczepanski, Zbigniew jointly lead the tournament with 8.0 points each, see http://www.iccf-webchess.com/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=22830:

Curiously, all three of them have achieved GM norms and the first two achieve the GM title!