Sunday, 13 May 2012

Even more castling with check

While looking through the Chess Today collection of games from April I came across yet another 'castling with check'  game. As with most games of this type, White was already on the rampage when castling took place, and Black only played 1 more move before resigning. I had though of making this the minature of the month for April btw, but then noticed it was played on the last day of March.
In other news, it is a rest day in the World Championship Match, and the draw I predicted part way through last nights game occurred soon after I drifted off to sleep. Based on the first two games I am tempted to modify my prediction concerning the result (but not the winner) down to Anand winning with +2 rather than +3. A few more draws and I may be forced to squeeze the margin even further.


Opl,Klaus (2287) - Bodrogi,Mihaly (2057) [B21]
28th Budapest Spring Festival Budapest HUN (6.17), 31.03.2012


Start positionPrevious MoveNext MoveEnd positionPlay movesStop playing
1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 Qa5 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bd3 d5 6. e5 dxc3 7. Nxc3 d4 8. Bb5+ Bd7 9. Nxd4 Ne4 10. e6 fxe6 11. Qh5+ Kd8 12. Nxe6+ Bxe6 13. Qe8+ Kc7 14. Bf4+ Nd6 15. Bxd6+ Kxd6 16. O-O-O+ Ke5 17. Qh5+ 1-0

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Shaun, in Article 9.5 in laws of chess,the Arbiter decided on one of my recent games this way: Once a player claims a draw, the claim stands for the entire game, meaning he can not win the game anymore after he makes the claim:Is the Arbiter right here?

Shaun Press said...

To be polite (but to not answer your question) - I only reply to posts that have a name attached to them. Part of the 'you can troll, but I will not feed you' system that makes this blog relatively conflict free.