Final
Round 3
What a day!
My feet are so tired, my
brain is so wired...
I did explications today,
together with Hein Meijer. It was full house, very nice.
Frankly, the art of doing
explications for an audience is all about keep standing on your feet. You do
really a lot of standing at such times. When the job is done, your feet and
toes are pretty screwed up.
On saturday there was Dutch
team competition. It had been a very merry day for Hiltex. The club from Kees
Thijssen and this competition also from Chizhov and Getmanski, won with the
numbers 14-6 from Angarde/Tilburg.
Only Thijssen played, from
these three Grandmasters. He made a nice victory against Ad de Hoon.
Huissen (G.Jansen, Baljakin, Valneris) lost against Heijken.
At Sunday there was definitely
a difference in mood here. During the show I tried somehow to bring the subject
at my most interesting victory against Wollaert, from the saturday match, but
Meijer just kept on talking and talking about the Wch-games, which was such a
pity for the audience.
There was good sport in the
game Schwartzman-Huseynov. The + for Schwarzman was well earned.
Samb-Baljakin was a technical
game with = as result.
Georgiev-Getmanski was the
same thing, but Georgiev succeeded to make a difference and made a +. It was
far from easy to get this result and Getmanski surely did not give it away, but
the defending World Champion played very strong toward this outcome and made
lots of calculations for it. Like the game of
Schwarzman: Labour was rewarded here.
There was a strange suicide
from Nasevich. In equal position, perhaps even a little better for him, his
mind lost suddenly its clearness. The cause of this was fatigue.
A special chance for Chizhov,
who really apreciated this one and was not reluctant to take the profit from
it: Nasevich-Chizhov 0-2.
G.Jansen-Valneris was a
fantastic game.
Both players did not fear the
complications. Early in the game everything seemed to go toward a big explosion
and the balance appeared to be in the favour of Valneris. It was not so. Jansen
played secure and reached an equal position, but at that moment he placed a
very risky Ghestem-attack. Now there was serious trouble for the Dutch player.
With strong moves Valneris created a promising end game, But Jansen defended
superb. A + for Valneris.
For Buzinski, Kees Thijssen
is Mr.Terror himself. In their games Buzinski just can`t get a piece at a
proper place. This time it was the same.
Thijssen develloped his
position, trusting the touch of his hands. His opponent looked for unusual positions,
as usual.
Some idea brought him at square 17 (Buzinski white) and this
sucked all his energy and time, to prevent it from been eaten.
Buzinski-Thijssen
Its harvest time.
Piece 17 is isolated and now
it is attacked:
33. ... 7-11! 34. 50-44 11x22
35. 32-28 23x32 36.38x27 ...
White had pointed his hope at
this defence.
He planned to win back the
piece this way and therefore he calculated:
- (19-23?) 35-30!etc.
- (18-23?) 27x29 (19-23) 29x18 (24-30)
35x24(20x49) 31-27 !
- (2-7 ?)21-16 !(7-12)27-21, and
white wins back his piece.
Thijssen calculated:
...22-28!
Magnificent and overlooked by
the audience upstairs! After this little combination it is equal again,
materially spoken, but black will have a King in no time, while for white it is
a tormenting long way to the palace and
the piece at 40 is also a big pain to him.
37.27-22 37-41 38.22-17 41-46
39.17-12 46-23 40.12-8 23x45
The gate of his palace is
locked for white and ther is no key to it. The end:
41. 8-3 25-30! 42.3x34 45x29
White capitulated.
Paul Oudshoorn.