Chess
Traditions
Raymond Keene
The Brighton International has succeeded in surviving into its fourth year, and the latest tournament in the series commences on Monday 13 December at the Brighton Conference Centre. We (I write as director of the organising committee) started in 1979 with an IM event of Fick Category 3, pro- gressed in 1980 to Category 5, and for the past two years we have been firmly in Category 8, a level which offers the possibility of Grandmaster norms to our promising young players. The contestants this time are: GMs Shamkovich, Westerinen and Sigurjonsson; IMs Watson, Short, Murei, Gurevich, Arnason and Tisdall and FMs Hodgson and Hjartarson. An interesting line-up, which promises to continue Brighton's tradition of fighting chess. Another tradition, that the tourna- ment be won by a random combination of Jon Speelman and/or Murray Chandler, cannot continue, • since both of them are currently absent in Sochi, but our most hallowed custom, that of dire shortage of funds, is certainly in no danger of being broken. In the absence of one main sponsor
for 1982, Brighton has only stayed afloat through the generous combined support of the BCF, the Friends of Chess and the Na- tional Westminster Bank. It is excellent news that NatWest, under the guidance of Bob Wade, are newly entering the field of sponsorship for junior players.
On the form of the past two events, Brighton has now established itself as the second strongest annual English all-play-all after Hastings, and here is a game from an earlier Brighton which supports my point about the aggressive nature of the chess produced.
David Goodman — Murray Chandler: Brighton 1979; King's Indian Defence. 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 d5 A rather unusual way to avoid Grtinfeld theory. The position can easily transpose to a main-line Benoni or King's In- dian, and the idea is merely to throw Black a lit- tle off course. 3 ... c6 3 ... b5 4 cxb5 a6 5 bxa6 c6 6 dxc6 Nxc6 was first played in Spassov-Ribli (Camaguey, 1974) and was won by Black. However, White played rather badly and I feel the extra pawn more than balances the active Black piece play. 4 Nc3 Bg7 5 e4 d6 6 N13 Nbd7 7 Nd4 Nc5 If 7 ... Qb6' then 8 Nc2 and White can gain time later by hitting the Q. 8 f3 0b6 9 Rbl a5 10 Be3 0-0 11 Be2 This is the kind of position White aims for in the 3 d5 line. He has a space advantage, Black has no tactical threats and if the c-file is opened then `b5' is weak. In the long run White builds up a K-side attack. 11 ... Qc7 To forestall a later Nb3. 12 0-0 e6 Rather typical of the Griinfeld player. A King's Indian player might prefer 12 e5. 13 Qd2 Re8 14 Kh 1 B47 15 dxe6 fxe6 15 ... Nxe6 is similarly answered by Rbdl. 16 Rbd1 b6 17 Nb3 Nb7 18 f4 Red8 Inten- ding ... Be8, . Bf7 and ... d5 to free his posi- tion. 19 Qel a4 20 Nd2 Be8 21 Bf3 Bf7 22 Qh4 ; thell Re8 23 e5 dxe5 24 fxe5 Nd7 If 24 ... 25 Bd4. 25 Nde4 Nxe5 26 Nf6 + Bx16 27 errol tending Bh6. 27. . Nxf3 28 Rxf3 e5 31 Bxc4 30 Qh4 Bd531 Nf6 + Kh8 (Diagra"'
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Nxe8. 32 Rh3 is far stronger, as Black is 3) to play the ghastly ... h5; if 32 Re7 0133 Bxb6 and Qxh7+ is mating. 32 • 14!„,33
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Qg7 34.Bh6 Qxf6 35 Rxf6 and Black car1;05
fight. 33 ... Kg8 34 Rxd5 so that if 34 • itfl then 35 Bh6 and mate at f8. 34 • • e4 "'Ka cxd5 36 Bd4 Black resigns. Notes based on t by the winner.
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