2016 ANU Masters Week 7

Although the final round of the 2016 ANU Masters has been played, one unplayed game could still affect the eventual winner. As it stands Miles Patterson is the winner of the tournament, with 4.5/7. However Alana Chibnall has a chance to tie for first if she can beat Andrey Bliznyuk on Monday.
The chances of this are a little better than usual as Bliznyuk both lost to Patterson in last nights round, and lost to Fred Litchfield the night before in his catch up game. As a result Bliznyuk's tournament chances went south, while Patterson reached 4.5/7, which is good enough for first place.
Litchfield's chance's of winning the tournament were undone by a resurgent Chibnall, who scored her third win in succession. She found a nice tactic to win a pawn in the middlegame, but some inexact endgame play by both players gave Litchfield a chance to salvage a draw. However he missed one final idea in the position and Chibnall won.
Harry Press ended his tournament with a draw against Dillon Hathiramani while Victor Braguine inflicted Adrian de Noskowski's first loss after finding mating attack with just a queen and rook on the board.


Bliznyuk,Andrey (2093) - Patterson,Miles (1953)
2016 ANU Masters Canberra, Australia AUS (7.3), 16.03.2016

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 d5 3. Bg2 e6 4. b3 Be7 5. Bb2 O-O 6. O-O c5 7. d3 Nc6 8. Nbd2 Qc7 9. e4 b6 10. Qe2 Bb7 11. e5 Nd7 12. Rfe1 Nb4 13. Nf1 d4 14. h4 a5 15. a4 Bc6 16. N1h2 Qb7 17. Bh3 Rad8 18. h5 Nxc2 19. Qxc2 Bxf3 20. Nxf3 Qxf3 21. h6 Qh5 22. hxg7 Kxg7 23. Bg2 Nxe5 24. Re4 Nf3+ 25. Kf1 Bg5 26. Bc1 h6 27. Qd1 Nh2+ 28. Ke1 Qxd1+ 29. Kxd1 f5 30. Rxe6 Ng4 31. f4 Bf6 32. Rxb6 Ne3+ 33. Bxe3 dxe3 34. Ra2 Rxd3+ 35. Ke2 Rfd8 36. Bf3 Rc3 37. Bh5 Rd7 38. Rb5 Bd4 39. Rxa5 Rxb3 40. Ra6 Bb2 41. Rg6+ Kh7 42. Re6 Rd2+ 43. Kf1 Rh2 44. Bg6+ Kg7 45. Bxf5 Rc3 46. Kg1 Rd2 47. Bd3 Rc1+ 48. Bf1 e2 0-1