2013 ANU Masters - Week 5

IM Andrew Brown has extended his lead in the 2013 ANU Masters to a full point after fifth round results fell his way. A miscalculation towards the end of his game against Kishore Sreetharan left him down a piece, but this actually contributed to his win as the unbalanced position quickly turned in his favour with both players in time trouble. FM Junta Ikeda escaped with a draw against Steven Sengstock after the later built up a very strong position. However running short of time Sengstock decided that a safe half point was good enough, allowing a perpetual check.
Adrian De Noskowski was also able to slow one of the leaders, taking half a point from Michael Wei. At one stage Wei was a pawn up, but De Noskowski was able to hold the position. Jeremy Reading scored his second consecutive win, after beating Justin Chow. Chow sacrificed an exchange out of the opening, but a miscalculation allowed Reading to consolidate his material advantage, winning soon after. Yijun Zhnag tried to hold a blocked position against Andrey Bliznyuk, but seized control of the only open file and then slowly manoeuvred his pieces to their best squares before engineering the decisive breakthrough.
At the halfway point Brown lead with 5/5, followed by Ikeda on 4/5 and Wei on 3.5. Bliznyuk is on 3 but has one game in hand.


Ikeda,Junta (2362) - Sengstock,Steven
2013 ANU Masters Canberra, Australia AUS (5), 13.03.2013

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Qc7 4. O-O a6 5. Bxc6 dxc6 6. h3 e5 7. b3 f6 8. c3 Be6 9. d4 O-O-O 10. Be3 g5 11. Nbd2 h5 12. dxc5 Ne7 13. Qe2 Ng6 14. Nc4 g4 15. Nfd2 gxh3 16. gxh3 Bxh3 17. Qf3 Bxf1 18. Qf5+ Kb8 19. Kxf1 Nf4 20. Bxf4 exf4 21. b4 h4 22. Ke2 h3 23. Rh1 h2 24. Nf3 Qd7 25. Qxf4+ Ka7 26. Nd4 Rh3 27. Nb6 Qf7 28. Kf1 Rxc3 29. Rxh2 Rxd4 30. Nc8+ Ka8 31. Nb6+ Ka7 32. Nc8+ 1/2-1/2