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Saturday, March 9, 2013

French Winawer 6..Qc7 7.Qg4-TWIC 956

TWIC 956
Moskalenko draws attention to the 6...Qc7 Winawer in The Flexible French(New in Chess 2009).

In the feature game, GM Short took big risks in the opening but eventually the game was decided in an even ending. The game was played at the Bunratty Masters(IRL) where Short came second with 5/6, behind GM Adams who won with 5.5/6.

Bunratty Masters 2013 Bunrattychess
Organizers are already preparing for the 2014 edition of the tournament.

ChessDom Report
'Super-GM Michael Adams won the Masters Section of the Bunratty Festival 2013. With this edition, the tournament celebrated 20 years of chess. As in every year the tournament was divided into four sections, Minor (for beginners), Major (intermediate), Challengers (advanced) and Masters (for the top national and international players).

GM Adams at Bunratty
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To win the Masters, Adams got 5 straight wins and a draw in the last round. GM Nigel Short and IM Richard Bates tied on second place with 5/6; Short took the second place on tie-breaks.(more)'-Adams-wins-bunratty-masters-2013


RankNameScoreRatingTPR
1GM Adams, Michael5.527252784
2GM Short, Nigel526902651
3IM Bates, Richard523752657
4McPhillips, Joseph4.521322494
5GM Wells, Peter4.524912409
6IM Wall, Gavin423402296
7IM Rendle, Thomas3.523822321
8FM Aguera Naredo, Javier3.524172376
9IM Pein, Malcolm3.523762317
10GM Baburin, Alexander3.525342352
11FM Short, Philip3.522112349
12IM Trent, Lawrence3.524292264
13O'Connor, Jonathan3.520882294
14Wolferink, Frans3.521072196
15Bourached, Anthony3.519032129
16Van Der Zwet, Bart3.520842290
17IM Orr, Mark3.522402235
18IM Cooper, Lawrence3.523172236
19Gonzalez Gonzalez, Alfonso3.521422128

O'Connor,Jon (2124) - Short,N (2697) 

French Winawer 6..Qc7 7.Qg4[C18]
20th Bunratty Masters, IRL (1.2), 01.03.2013


Position 1
Black has hopes based on the passed a-pawn but the opposite color bishops give white hope for a defence. How should black proceed?

Black to Play

32.Nd2

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