2005 Spielvogel Memorial - Round 3
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Round three saw the first heavy weight clash of the Tournamnet. Patrick Cook against Scott Stewart, Scott opted to use the Benko Gambit to meet Pat’s Queens pawn thrust, a step away from his recent routine Lenningrad Dutch. Pat despite early opportunities to restrict Scott’s compensation to less than the pawn he gave, played himself into trouble. Queen caught on the wrong side of a wall and forced to trade of Queens for an inferior game with 1 too many weaknesses despite the extra pawn to hold for long. |
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Scott
Stewart and Patrick Cook |
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Michael Schreenan was lucky to survive the opening against James, but emerged a full pizza(piece) up, Jimmie employing some of his finer chess arts to escape from Michaels stranglehold. Joel Beggs pressed hard against Jamie Brotheridge, Jamie He had to sacrifice a pawn after about 10 moves, just to get a little bit of space and fought the hard fight to hold the draw. Joel missing an easy endgame win, having the passed pawn and not fulfilling its rightful destiny, passed pawns are made to be pushed!! Rob Bailey said he was lucky against John Frangakis who had a nice combination to net a piece, Rob later finding a nice Queen sac to finish off the skirmish. Charlie Andrews displayed superior technique with the black side of a Spanish after winning a pawn early, trading quickly down to a won endgame. Peter Lumsdon executed a nice piece sacrifice against Mitchel Bailey at the end of a serious of exchanges, taking the can opener to Mitchels Kingside with serious conpensation. Mitchel shortly afterwards dropped his queen his mind not on his chess craft but apparently more focussed on the World of Warcraft. John Lavery made short work of John Abson, winnign a couple of pices and displaying fine technique to win from there.
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