WCH round 4

Finally! The defending world champion won his first one in this tournament. But, ouff ..., he had to go really deep for that result.

This round was about consolidation and several players made a draw this day.

For Guseynov it seems to be almost impossible to play draws and he can therefore see forward lots of invitations for international tournaments. With his third victory in a row, he is a serious candidate for the top places. He took advantage of a special chance against Erdenebileg:

Erdenebileg- Guseynov

White played uncautiously:

42. 43-39? 20-24 43.30-25 24-29!

Black makes use of the possibillity 44.39-33? 17-22 45.28x8 3x12 46.33x24 19x30 47.25x34 23-28 48.32x23 18x49.

This is the reason why Erdenebileg played:

44.25-20 29-33 45.38x29 23x43 46.44-39 43x34 47.28-22 17x28 48.32x14 34-40 49.45x34 13-19

50.14x23 18x40

Now black has an end game with one piece more. After a long struggle he succeeded to cash this advantage. Tsjizjov and Thijssen didn`t win their games against respectively Da Silva and Nicault, so Guseynov did good business indeed.

Schwarzman played a nice game and got some important points for it:

Schwarzman-Maughn

Allready early in the game white created complications that worked very fruitfull for him.

Having a position with inproductive pawns against Schwarzman, is as waiting for your moment to be executed. In this position 6 and 16 are inproductive. We know what that means...

White forced the game with:

33.38-33 18-23 34.33-28! ...

These kind of manoeuvres are a speciallity from Schwarzman. He makes great profit with it.

34. ...23x32 35.42-37 6-11 36.37x28 22x33 37.39x28 8-12 38.31x22 9-13 39.45-40...

It is rather suprising that white doesn`t try to keep his piece advantage.The computer analysis from Jan ten Brink brought out: 39.41-37 12-18 40.43-38 18x27 41.37-31 2-8 42.31x22 8-12 43.36-31 12-18 44.31-27 3-8. I don`t see why this ordinary variant should not win. Schwarzman plays positional and lets go the piece on 22 again.

39. ...12-18 40.40-34 18x27 41.34-29 13-18

Black shall not overcome the weakness and total paralysis from his pieces placed at 16, 17 and especially 11.

42.44-39 2-8 43.29-24 18-22 44.39-33 16-21

Positionally black is overplayed.and the game has reached its final state.

45.24-29 11-16 46.19-14 8-13 47.43-39 13-18 48.39-34 27-32 49.28x37 21-27 50.34-29 ...

Again. Schwarzman doesn`t mind black winning his piece back with 27-31 etc and just goes to breach blacks long wing.

50. ...18-23 51.29x18 22x13 52.37-31 27-32 53.41-37 32x41 54.36x47 and after some un- important moves black abandoned the game.

Paul Oudshoorn.