ANU Open 2007 - Round 1 Games

No huge upsets on the top boards in Round 1, although a couple of higher seeds were held to draws by their lower rated opponents, and one lower rated opponent cleaned up his opponent with a nice sacrifice.

Here are a couple of games from the first Round.

Rout,I - Antic,D [E70]
ANU Open Canberra (1), 28.07.2007

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Bd3 0-0 6.Nge2 a6 7.0-0 c6 8.a4 e5 9.d5 a5 10.Bg5 h6 11.Bh4 Na6 12.Qd2 Nc5 13.Bc2 (d)
Nfxe4 14.Bxe4 Qxh4 15.Bc2 Qxc4 16.dxc6 bxc6 17.Qxd6 Bg4 18.f3 Be6 19.Qxc6 Rfc8 20.Qb5 Rcb8 21.Qxc4 Bxc4 22.Rab1 Rb4 23.Rfd1 Rab8 24.Be4 Rxb2 25.Rd8+ Rxd8 26.Rxb2 f5 27.Bc6 e4 28.Rb6 Rd2 29.Bb5 Bxe2 30.Nxe2 Nd3 31.Rb8+ Kh7 32.Bxd3 exd3 33.Nf4 Bd4+ 34.Kf1 Rd1# 0-1



Yuan,Y - Ikeda,J [B14]
ANU Open Canberra (1), 28.07.2007

1.e4 c5 2.c3 g6 3.d4 cxd4 4.cxd4 d5 5.exd5 Nf6 6.Bb5+ Nbd7 7.Nc3 Bg7 8.Nge2 0-0 9.Bxd7 Qxd7 10.Nf4 b6 11.Be3 Bb7 12.0-0 Nxd5 13.Ncxd5 Bxd5 14.b3 Rfd8 15.Qd2 Bb7 16.Rfd1 Qf5 17.f3 Rac8 18.Rac1 e5 19.Ne2 Ba6 20.Ng3 Qe6 21.d5 Rxc1 22.Qxc1 Rxd5 23.Ne4 f5 24.Ng5 Qd7 25.Rxd5 Qxd5 26.Qc7 f4 27.Bd2 Qd4+ 28.Kh1 Qd5 29.Qb8+ Bf8 30.Qc7 Bg7 31.Qb8+ Bf8 32.Qc7 ½-½