What is the best move (1) ?

From time to time, I will be publishing the positions from my games and will ask readers to suggest the best move. Here is the first one from the recently completed MCA Fide Futurity event against Leon Ding.



Black mishandled the exchange Slav position and stands clearly worse. I was very excited to see the move g4-g5 to win a pawn. But later while analyzing at home, realized that this is not the best move. Suggest what do you think is the best move in this position.

FIDE Round Robin June 7-8

I saw in Chris' blog that the entry fee for this event is lowered to $50 for non-Fide players. Its a round robin where 2 non-Fide players play with 3 other Fide players. This means, if you can score 1 point from these three games, you will get a rating. I can't think of any better opportunity to get Fide rating. The only reason we won't get it will be, we didn't score 1 point and in that case I must say that we are not there yet !

I am surely playing in this !


http://mcafidetournaments.blogspot.com/2008/03/fide-round-robin-june-7-8-2008.html

FIDE Round Robin June 7 & 8, 2008
Format: 6-player round robin, 2 sections, 12 players total (Masters section & Experts/A/B players section) 3 games Saturday, 2 Sunday (The best part of a round robin is you will play everyone in your section and you will know what color you have against each opponent before the tournament begins)

Time Control: G/90 + 30 Sec increment
Players: 4 FIDE, 2 Non-FIDE per section
Entry: $30 FIDE players, $50 Non-FIDE players (+$25 deposit for all players)
Prizes: $150 each section, winner takes all

Analysis of Souvik v IM Mesgen Amanov Game

Following link will replay my game with IM Mesgen Amanov from MCA Fide Futurity event. Amanov has played in Olympiad for Turkmenistan and is 2405 rated in Fide. He recently won the Winter open and also jointly won the MCA Fide Futurity event with IM Angelo Young.

http://www.geocities.com/saubhikr/souvikamanov.htm

Back in winning form !!

Well, first thanks to all of you who gave me the support after my 32 point losing, 3 losses in 5 games performance in the team tournament. I almost thought of quitting ! I am happy that I didn't !

I scored 4/5 in the MCA Fide Futurity event on 8-9 March in Hales CCorner and gained back 17 points to reach 1961. The only loss was to IM Mesgen Amanov in a tough fought 45 move game where I lost my rook in a knight fork in a pawn down endgame while in time trouble.

None of the wins were a gift as I had to fight till 30-40 moves to earn it and though I missed moves but I also saw a lot of tactics - from both ends. I am happy that I continued to play...I really do love this this game of chess. Yes, I do !

Will put the games once done with the analysis.

If I can play Tromp against an IM and survive till 50 moves, it must be sound !

Yesterday I played Mesgen Amanov in round 3 of MCA Fide Futurity event. I had white and I played Trompowski after 1.d4 Nf6. While analysisng I found he was the one who made the first slight inaccuracy. I saw white's move but somehow couldn't calculate till the end and settled for safer option where I had to literally defend for a long time. At the end, I had around 5 mins, exhausted with long calculation and missed a knight fork to lose my rook at move 45 and resigned. Will publish the game tonight.

Anybody from WI is playing in St. Louis this weekend ?

Anybody from WI is playing in St. Louis this weekend ?

Feb. 29-Mar. 2 or Mar. 1-2 12th annual Mid-America Open GPP: 100

Didn's play in winter open, Will play in Fide tournament

I am following the advice of strong players and decided not to play tournaments back to back weekends. So skipped the winter open. Used this time to analyze the games (read losses) from team tournaments. I was extremely unhappy on me for losing 3 games but now I feel, I played good games except a few misses. All these games were very rich and I could get some important lessons. I'll play in the Fide tournament on 8-9 March in Milwaukee.