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GM Dr. Hans-Joachim Hofstetter
board 1
ICCF-ELO 2526
Fide-Elo best: 2340, born 1958, Physician
Break-through 22.e5 !!
Hofstetter - Miraglia (USA, Wicked Bishops)
White's development is clearly better, but how to proceed ? Sometimes the shortest way are the best, although a little bit complicated.
22.e5 Ne5 23.Ne5 de5 24.Rf6 Qxf6 25. Rxe5+ Kf7 26.Ne4 Qd8 27.d6 Bf5 28.Ng5+ Kg8
29.Rxf5 Qxd6 30.Rxf8+ Qxf8 31.Ne6 Qf6 32.Qxb8+ Kf7 33.Qb7+ Kxe6 34.Qxa6+ Kf7 35.Qxf6+ Kxf6 36.Bc3+ 1-0
The Wicked Bishops were the top ranking team in our group. This important win enabled successfully attacking the first position in group 18.
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IM Dipl. Ing. Wilfred Nyberg
board 2
ICCF-ELO 2414
born 1950, Informatic expert
Classical Center Attack
Nyberg - Bell (Danemark, Chess Mail Keres)
In this game white invested 1 pawn for active play. Next, the position was opened by a center attack resulting in dominance on d-line.
18.c4 dxc4 19.Qxc4 cxd4 20.Rxd4 a6 21.Bg2 b5 22.Qc3 Rc8 23.Bc6 Rc7 24.f5 a5 25.fxe6 fxe6 26.Rd6 b4
White's pieces are all active on open lines, while the position of black 's big pieces has not changed much since move 18. 27.Qc4 Qg5 28.Bxd7+ Rxd7 29.Rhd1 Rxd6 30.exd6 1-0
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Manfred Wallinger
board 3
ICCF-ELO 2469
Fide-Elo best: 2290, born 1957, Manager
Two Bishops
Wallinger - Morss (USA, Wicked Bishops)
Black decided to play the plan f4/Ne5 and to defend the f-pawn with Nd7,f6,h5, which turned out as too long-lasting operation.
14...fxe4 15.fxe4 Ne5 16.Nf3 Nbc6 was the faster (even better ?) way to establish a horse in center of the board. 14...Nd7 15.Nh3 Nf6 16.Nf2 f4 17.Bc1 Ne5 18.Nh3 Nh5 19.Be2 Nd7 20.c6 Qxc6 21.Bb5 Qc7 22.Qe7 Qxc3+ 23.Bd2 Qf6 24.Qxf6 Nhxf6 25.Nxf4 Re8 26.Bc3 a6 27.Bc4 Nf8 28.Rd6 Bd7 29.Bb3 Rec8 Now all pieces are developed, however, the position suffers on the strong pair of bishops and weakness of pawn e6.
30.Kd2 Kf7 31.e5 1-0 A surprisingly fast end of the game, but it is not too early as it can be seen by the following example: 31...Ne8 32.Rxd7 Nxd7 33.Bxe6+ Ke7 34.Lb4+ Kd8 35.Rd1 b6 36.Ke3 Tc7 37.Bf5 Kc8 38.Nd5 Rb7 39.Ne7+ Kd8 40.e6 +-
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Dr. Alexander Pauli
board 4
ICCF-ELO ---
Fide-Elo best: 2355, born 1958, Food chemist
A New Defensive Plan in Austrian Attack
In the Austrian attack of Pirc defense white scored a terribly good score of about 80 winning percent. This is possibly the reason, why this opening is played rarely by good players. Some years ago someone starts a new plan, which is Na6 followed by c5 in the position shown next:
Computers are amused about the move Na6, which was played serveral 1000 times by humans. Fritz & allies take it away: 7.Bxa6 ba6 and castle 8.0-0. Everyone of them likes it and probably the machines are ok. Humans who played the position with white scored well. This is why I was searching new ways and found a curious move in the old standard variation with 6...Nc6.
Stibal (Australia, Chess Allies) - Pauli
1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4 Bg7 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.0-0 Bg4 8.e5 dxe5 9.dxe5 Nd5 10.h3 Nxc3 11.bxc3 Bf5 12.Be3 all moves are recommended in theory books. The new plan is 12...Qc8 13.Qe2 followed by 13...Na5. White is allowed to play on d-line, but this causes no damage for black. 14.Rad1 I expected 14.Nd4 Bxd3 15.cd3 c5 16.Nb3 Nxb3 17.axb3 a5 with equal position. 14...c5
15.Bxf5 gxf5 16.Rd5 b6 17.Rfd1 Nc6 18.Qb5 Qe6 19.Ng5 Qg6 20.Rd7 Rac8 21.a4
21...Bh6 Black has active plans (Kh8, Rg8, Bh6 or sometimes f6) and is able to reduce the pressure in the d-line by Rd8 in time. The black knight is the hero throughout the entire game. 22.Kh1 Bxg5 23.fxg5 Qe6 24.Bf4 Kg7 25.R7d2 Rfd8 26.Qb3 c4 27.Qb5 Rxd2 28.Rxd2 Rd8 All endings are lost for white due to the destructed queen side. 29.Rxd8 Nxd8 30.Kg1 Qc8 31.h4 Qc6 32.Qxc6 Nxc6 33.Kf2 Kg6 34.Kf3 Kh5 35.g3 e6 36.Ke3 Kg4
All paws of white are weak. 37.Kf2 Ne7 38.Bc1 Ng6 39.Ba3 Nxe5 40.Bd6 Nd7 41.Ke3 e5 0-1
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