Continental Chess Championship 2013 Rd5-IM Hambleton A(CAN)

Results
Hambleton lost in rd5 and drops to 3/5. Here are his results by round.

IM Hambleton(left)

Rd.	SNo		Name	FIDE	FED	Res.
1	65	WIM	Cordero Daniela	2074	BOL	w 1
2	49	FM	Saavedra Carlos	2179	BOL	s 1
3	27	FM	Cuellar Diego	2323	PER	w 1
4	22	IM	Cornejo Max	2380	PER	s 0
5	20	IM	Pacheco Marco	2384	PER	w 0

Overall Standings
Granda Zuniga leads with a perfect score 5/5. Hambleton is in a large group with 3 points.

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More on Tournament Leader Granda Zuniga-From Facebook
Julio Ernesto Granda Zúñiga (born February 25, 1967 in Camaná, Peru) is a Peruvian chess Grandmaster.

In his coastal town, he learned how to play chess at the very young age of five. By the age of 19, Granda had obtained the title of Grandmaster by the FIDE, the World Chess Federation, after surpassing the chess rating of 2500. He finished 1st with Bent Larsen at Mar del Plata 1993.

He is a five-time chess champion of Peru, winning in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, and 2002. Granda won the 4th American Continental Championship at Cali 2007 on tie-break between the five first place finishers at 8.0/11. This victory qualified him for the Chess World Cup 2007 where he lost his first round match to Arkadij Naiditsch 0.5–1.5.

In 2011 he tied for 2nd-7th with Aleksander Delchev, Ivan Šarić, Pablo Almagro Llamas, Maxim Turov and Mihail Marin the 31st Villa de Benasque Open.
Julio Granda played for Peru in the Chess Olympiads of 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2010.

Rk.		Name	FED	FIDE	Pts.
1	GM	Granda Zuniga Julio E	PER	2659	5
2	GM	Bruzon Batista Lazaro	CUB	2707	4.5
3	IM	Pacheco Marco	PER	2384	4.5
4	IM	Gonzalez Bernal	CRC	2461	4
5	GM	Ortiz Suarez Isan Reynaldo	CUB	2598	4
6	GM	Flores Diego	ARG	2586	4
7	IM	Sarkar Justin	USA	2437	4
8	GM	Bachmann Axel	PAR	2531	4
9	IM	Ruiz C Joshua D	COL	2370	4
10	GM	Iturrizaga Eduardo	VEN	2655	4
11	IM	Prasca Sosa Rafael	VEN	2426	4
12	GM	Mekhitarian Krikor Sevag	BRA	2551	4
13	IM	Cornejo Max	PER	2380	4
14	IM	Cueto Jonny	BOL	2263	4
15	IM	Leiva Giuseppe	PER	2388	3.5
16	FM	Martinez Alcantara Jose Eduar	PER	2208	3.5
17	FM	Latorre Matias	PAR	2254	3.5
18	GM	Zambrana Oswaldo	BOL	2478	3.5
19	GM	Cori Jorge	PER	2546	3.5
20		Lopez Diego	ARG	2171	3.5
21	FM	Campero Ronald	BOL	2211	3.5
22	IM	Hambleton Aman	CAN	2468	3

Here is Hambleton's round 4 game.

Cornejo,Max (2380) - Hambleton,Aman (2468)

French Advance 5…Nh6 [C02]

VIII CAMPEONATO CONTINENTAL DE LAS AMER

Hotel Casa Campestre - Cochab (4.4), 09.05.2013

 

Position 1

Black has initiated forcing play with 11...e4. What do you recommend for white?

 

White to Play

11...e4