15-03-2013, 11:39 AM
Thanks, Calum. Regards passed on to Jan Rooze, who returns best wishes!
I still have a sniff of some sort of result but the winner will certainly have to score a 2600 plus performance to win this event. However, I've just managed to despatch Yuri Balashov, one of the great Russians of my generation, and a player for whom I have always had the greatest respect, with Black in 22 moves ... he got the tactics wrong trying to avoid going into a slightly worse endgame and fell to what appears to be a sound combination.
Four rounds to go, however and the top players in this event can still play a very good game or two! I'll just keep trying to play the little wooden things as best I can and just try to enjoy things!
The others are still playing (Rd 5). All seem OK to possibly better. Glad to have missed the snow!
I still have a sniff of some sort of result but the winner will certainly have to score a 2600 plus performance to win this event. However, I've just managed to despatch Yuri Balashov, one of the great Russians of my generation, and a player for whom I have always had the greatest respect, with Black in 22 moves ... he got the tactics wrong trying to avoid going into a slightly worse endgame and fell to what appears to be a sound combination.
Four rounds to go, however and the top players in this event can still play a very good game or two! I'll just keep trying to play the little wooden things as best I can and just try to enjoy things!
The others are still playing (Rd 5). All seem OK to possibly better. Glad to have missed the snow!