Wednesday 13 April 2011

2011 ANU Masters - Round 9

As reported last week, IM elect Andrew Brown has won the 2011 ANU Masters with a very impressive 8/9. As he had played his final game a week in advance, the interest in tonight's games was about who would take the minor places.
Both Junta Ikeda and Andrey Bliznyuk had a chance for second place, with Ikeda starting half a point ahead of Bliznyuk. As it turned out, both players won (Ikeda over Ian Rout, Bliznyuk over Michael Reading) leaving Ikeda in second on 7.5/9 and Bliznyuk in third on 7/9. There was then a huge gap back to 4th placed Jeremy Reading, who beat Peter Pullicino to finish with 4.5/9. In the other game played, Adrian De Noskowski beat Miles Patterson to finish on 3 points.
Full results from this event are available from the ANU Chess Club Webpage. Click on Current events.

Ikeda,Junta (2262) - Rout,Ian (1983) [C90]
2011 ANU Masters (9), 13.04.2011

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.d3 d6 9.c3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.Nbd2 Qc7 12.Nf1 Re8 13.Bg5 Nc6 14.a4 b4 15.Ne3 Be6 16.Bb3 Na5 17.Bxe6 fxe6 18.cxb4 cxb4 19.d4 Nxe4 20.Bxe7 Qxe7 21.dxe5 Rad8 22.exd6 Nxd6 23.Qe2 Nb3 24.Rad1 Nc5 25.Ne5 Qc7 26.Rc1 Nde4 27.N3g4 Re7 28.Qc4 h5 29.Ng6 Red7 30.N4e5 Rd5 31.Qxe4 Nxe4 32.Rxc7 Rd2 33.Nf3 Rxf2 34.Rxe4 Rxb2 35.h4 1-0

1 comment:

Jeremy said...

Interesting to note on Ian Rout's web page the rating changes. Andrew Brown got outright first with an impressive 8/9 but is losing rating points. On the other hand, Peter Pullicino came outright last on 2/9 but is gaining rating points.