MARK RUBERY CHESS

43rd Chess Olympiad, Batumi 2018

Round 7

South Africa 1-3 Turkey

IM D Cawdery (2416) 0-1 GM D Solak (2609)

IM W Kobese (2344) 0-1 GM E Can (2588)

FM C Classen (2262) 1-0 GM M Dastan (2569)

IM J Mabusela (2245) 0-1 GM V Sanal (2502)

In an even position Cawdery missed a tactic that cost him the exchange. Kobese had chances to hold in a very complex game before falling into a mating net. Claasen’s GM opponent played the opening somewhat loosely and was quickly crushed by the fast improving player from Cape Town. Mabusela sacrificed the exchange for good play yet after missing some opportunities was eventually ground down.

Klaasen,Calvin John (2262) Dastan,Muhammed Batuhan (2569) [A85]

43rd Olympiad 2018 Batumi GEO (7.3), 2018

1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 d6 4.Nf3 g6 5.Bf4 Bg7 6.e3 h6 7.c5! g5 8.Bg3 c6 9.Bc4 b5 10.Bb3 a5 11.a3 Na6 12.0–0 dxc5 13.Ne5 c4 14.Bc2 Nb8 15.Ng6 (Giving up a tempo to prevent Black

castling) …Rg8 16.Ne5 h5 17.h4 gxh4 18.Bxh4 Ng4 19.Qf3 Bxe5 20.dxe5 Qc7 21.Bg3 h4 22.Bf4 e6 23.e4! (Decisively

opening up the position) …Qg7 24.exf5 exf5 25.Nxb5 h3 26.Nd6+ Ke7 27.Nxc8+ Rxc8 28.Bxf5 hxg2 29.Bxc8 gxf1Q+ 30.Kxf1 Nd7 31.Bxd7 Kxd7 32.Rd1+ Kc7 33.e6+ Kb6 34.e7 c3 35.Rd6 Rc8

SEE DIAGRAM

36.e8=Q 1–0

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