2013 ANU Masters - Week 6

An interesting set of results in the 6th round of the 2013 ANU Masters has left IM Andrew Brown in a commanding position. The key game of the round, and probably the tournament was the much anticipated Brown v Ikeda match up. Both players took a large amount of time in the opening, but after found a nice tactical shot on move 18, the game came to a rapid conclusion.
The loss by Ikeda gave both Andrey Bliznyuk and Michael Wei a chance to move into clear second place, but they were only able muster half a point between them. A miscalculation by Bliznyuk saw him drop a piece to Kishore Sreetharan, while Wei decided a draw was a good result against Jeremy Reading. Stephen Sengstock and Adrian de Noskowski also drew, while Justin Chow scored his first win of the tournament with a sharp victory over Yijun Zhang.
After 6 rounds Andrew Brown is on 6 points, with Ikeda, Bliznyuk and Wei all on 4. However Ikeda has an extra point up his sleeve having player, and won an later round game against Justin Chow.


Brown,Andrew (2295) - Ikeda,Junta (2362)
2013 ANU Masters Canberra, Australia AUS (6), 20.03.2013

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. Nc3 Nbd7 4. Nf3 e5 5. e4 g6 6. dxe5 dxe5 7. Bg5 h6 8. Bh4 Be7 9. Bg3 Bd6 10. Qd2 Qe7 11. Bd3 a5 12. Bc2 Nc5 13. O-O-O Bg4 14. Bh4 g5 15. Bg3 Bd7 16. Rhe1 Nh5 17. Nd5 Qe6 18. Nd4 Qg6 19. Nf5 Nf4 20. Qc3 Nxd5 21. exd5 1-0