2014 ANU Open - Day 2

After 7 tough rounds, the 2014 ANU Open ended in a tie between FM Endre Ambrus and IM Andrew Brown. Brown had lead the tournament with 4/4 after the first day, but a loss to CM Jonas Muller in round 5 suddenly opened up the tournament. However Ambrus almost knocked himself out of contention in the same round, dropping an exchange against Wenlin Yin in an ending. But in a still tricky position, Yin failed to find a clear path to victory and actually lost on time.
Ambrus then overcame Muller in round 6, before overcoming some determined resistance from Alana Chibnall in the final round to finish on 6/7. Brown reached the same score by beating Michael Kethro and Clive Ng. Muller finished in outright 3rd on 5/7.
Dillon Hathiramani continued his good run in Under 1600 events by finishing outright first in the Minor. He drew with joint leader Kayleigh Smith in round 5, beat Mitchell Jones in round 6, before a quick last round draw with Bazli Karattiyattil in the final round left him with 6/7. Karattiyattil shared second place with MV Shasthry on 5.5
Full standings and replayable games from the Open are here. Results from the Minor are here. (NB I am having difficulty with how Vega handles the links to pgn files, but if you want to download the games, chop one of the repeated ANUOpen2014 strings in your browsers address bar)


Muller,Jonas (2131) - Brown,Andrew (2336)
2014 ANU Open Canberra AUS (5.1), 27.07.2014

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 Na5 9. Bc2 O-O 10. h3 c5 11. d4 Nc6 12. dxe5 Nxe5 13. Nbd2 Bb7 14. Nf1 Nxf3+ 15. Qxf3 Re8 16. Ng3 g6 17. Bf4 Nd7 18. Rad1 Qb6 19. Bh6 Bf8 20. Qf4 Bxh6 21. Qxh6 Re6 22. Re3 Ne5 23. b3 Rae8 24. f4 Nd7 25. Kh2 c4 26. Rde1 d5 27. e5 f5 28. Nxf5 gxf5 29. Rg3+ Rg6 30. Bxf5 Rxg3 31. Qxh7+ Kf8 32. Kxg3 Re7 33. Qh8+ Kf7 34. e6+ 1-0