While I was engaging in some long over due rook and pawn endgame practice (including demonstrating one of the many drawing ideas in KR+KRrP towards the end of my game), I was also watching over a re-arranged game from the 2013 ANU Masters. Nominally the Masters is only up to round 6 (in part because last weeks round was postponed), but there have been a few extra games played ahead of schedule. FM Junta Ikeda has actually finished all his games (due to his departure to Japan for university) and currently leads with 7/9. However IM Andrew Brown is still sitting on 6/6, giving him 3 more games to score at least 1 point to catch Ikeda.
Also Kishore Sreetharan and Jeremy Reading played their last round last night. At first it looked as though Kishore was on top, especially after his f5-f5-f6 plan, but Jeremy held on, and by around move 28 was clearly better. He then missed the strength of 30.e5, which should have lead to a draw by perpetual, but having 'fallen in love with his position', kept playing for a win, only to see his attack falter. After that, the ending was lost for him.
Sreetharan,Kishore - Reading,Jeremy (1888)
2013 ANU Masters Canberra, Australia AUS (9), 09.04.2013
1. d4 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3. Nc3 c5 4. Nf3 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nc6 6. Nc2 Nf6 7. e4 d6 8. Be2 O-O 9. O-O Be6 10. Be3 Nd7 11. Nd4 Nxd4 12. Bxd4 Ne5 13. f4 Nc6 14. Bxg7 Kxg7 15. Kh1 Qb6 16. f5 Bd7 17. f6+ exf6 18. Qxd6 Qd4 19. Qc7 Rfc8 20. Qxb7 Rab8 21. Qa6 Rxb2 22. Rad1 Qxc3 23. Rxd7 Rd8 24. Rxd8 Nxd8 25. Bg4 Qd4 26. h3 h5 27. Rd1 Qf2 28. Bf3 Ne6 29. Qd6 Ng5 30. e5 Nh7 31. c5 Rc2 32. c6 Qc5 33. Qxc5 Rxc5 34. e6 fxe6 35. Rd7+ Kh6 36. c7 f5 37. Bb7 Rc1+ 38. Kh2 Nf6 39. Rf7 Ng4+ 40. hxg4 fxg4 41. c8Q Rb1 42. Qh8+ Kg5 43. Qf6+ Kh6 44. Qf4+ 1-0
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