Games from this weekend’s 4NCL & Bundesliga
Team Chess Back in Action
Germany’s Bundesliga and Britain’s 4NCL team championship saw lots of action this past weekend. I present a sample selection of what I consider to be the most interesting games. Enjoy!
gm Ragger vs gm Salgado Lopez Bundesliga 10.11.2018 (1-0)
Wild middlegame! Completely unsound attack by Salgado, but very entertaining!
gm Khenkin – gm Van Wely Bundesliga 10.11.2018 (0-1)
Black equalizes quickly and White soon finds himself in trouble.
gm McShane – gm Svidler Bundesliga 11.11.2018 (0-1)
The English grandmaster plays poker trying to erase Svidler from the board.
gm Naiditsch – im Vrolijk,L Bundesliga 10.11.2018 (1-0)
A typical Naiditsch wipe out starting from move four! Ouch!!
gm Adams – gm Hausrath,D Bundesliga 10.11.2018 (1-0)
When Adams is in form nobody can resist for long!
gm Saltaev – gm Vallejo Pons Bundesliga 11.11.2018 (0-1)
Crazy complications in the early middlegame and then suddenly Saltaev unwisely plays to avoid a forced draw.
gm Edouard,R – im Collins,S 4NCL 11.11.2018 (1-0)
Collins’ KingsIndian seems to be doing ok but then his position collapses and the end is gory.
gm Speelman,J – Stork,O 4NCL 10.11.2018 (1-0)
Always a pleasure to witness Speelman take apart his opponent limb by limb.
im Collins,S – im Cooper,J 4NCL 10.11.2018 (1-0)
Convincing positional grind by the Irishman!
gm Jones,G – Sreeves,C 4NCL 10.11.2018 (1-0)
Jones’ dynamic play on the Kingside leads to big positional gains.
Sygnowski – gm Arkell,K 4NCL 11.11.2018 (0-1)
Arkell’s CaroKann should be awarded a prize, he wins so often with it!
gm Gordon,S – gm Ris 4NCL 11.11.2018 (0-1)
Beautiful attack by Black!
To be continued…
