Final round 2

Nosevitch develloped himself as Catman: The man with seven lives.

Who gave something for him, to survive the wrath of Schwartzman?

What a game!

If Schwarzman plays classic, one should never expect an ordinary game. This time neither.

In the midgame Nosevitch was confronted with a Ghestem attack from his opponent and his position seemed to be crushed to pieces. After some changes, Nosevitch was left with something that looked like a ruin. Before the time control Schwarzman had to play quickly.

It led all miraculously to an end game with defensive possibillities for Nosevitch, with a +draw for Schwarzman as result and that only because Nosevitch was tired.

Thijssen played a crampy game against Valneris. The opening of the game led to advantage for Valneris. Thijssen was lucky that Valneris had to make lots of choises after that and all seemed to be attractive. Perhaps Valneris missed a chance, but after some changes the game was finished in equal position.

Allready the whole tounament Samb makes a strong impression. Buzinski, his opponent, was faced with a bad position in the midgame, but his defensive capabillities turned out to be sufficient.

Baljakin-G.Jansen started very interesting, but, not so long after the opening of the game, changes were inevitable. Draw.

Chizhov-Georgiev was the play board in flames. You could feel their brains working at full power and both players tried to win this game, but both of them did not meet any help at all from the opponent. Somehow I had an association with Cape Canaveral, the place where calculations are made, but I am also quite sure that only Hans Jansen would understand such a seemingly weird jump of the thoughts.

Well, it was a spacy game.

Hard times for Huseynov. In the fore round he was quite impressive tactically. Now he really has to improve his positional play, otherwise it will be a big time untill dawn is rising.

Getmansky build a healthy position and made proper use of the disbalance in the position from his opponent:

Getmansky-Huseynov

The end is near. Black to move has to defend his piece 28 and played:

32. ...9-13 33.39-33! 28x48 34.31-26 48x31 35.26x10 15x4 36.36x27 4-10 37.25x14 10x19

White+

Paul Oudshoorn.