TWIC 971(CAN) INDEX-June 18 2013

Introduction
TWIC is the work of Mark Crowther

4th Forni di Sopra  2013
Hambleton,A(CAN)  shares the lead in a group of four players with 3/3.

Pos		Nome	FED	Elo	Pts.
1	IM	Dvirnyy Danyyil	ITA	2540	3
	IM	Hambleton Aman	CAN	2461	3
	GM	Sundararajan Kidambi	IND	2428	3
	IM	Tania Sachdev	IND	2408	3
5	GM	Horvath Csaba	HUN	2516	2.5
	IM	D'amore Carlo	ITA	2485	2.5
	GM	Lazic Miroljub	SRB	2467	2.5
	GM	Naumkin Igor	RUS	2457	2.5
	IM	Valsecchi Alessio	ITA	2422	2.5
	IM	Borgo Giulio	ITA	2378	2.5
	FM	Boscolo Federico	ITA	2314	2.5
12	GM	Moskalenko Viktor	ESP	2536	2
	IM	Pancevski Filip	MKD	2513	2
	GM	Levin Felix	GER	2497	2
	GM	Garcia Palermo Carlos	ITA	2468	2
	IM	Bruno Fabio	ITA	2422	2
	IM	Laketic Gojko	SRB	2410	2
	IM	Codenotti Marco	ITA	2390	2
	IM	Saravanan V.	IND	2371	2
	FM	Altini Nicola	ITA	2323	2
	FM	Cocchi Andrea	ITA	2304	2
		Albano Marco	ITA	2256	2
		Formento Paolo	ITA	2249	2
	IM	Medancic Rikard	CRO	2238	2
	FM	Ceschia Ivano	ITA	2235	2
		Basso Pier Luigi	ITA	2231	2
		Sardo Gabriele	ITA	2208	2
		Rothebarth Ana Vitoria De Pau	BRA	2006	2
		Dobboletta Alex	ITA	1978	2

Here is Hambleton's rd1 game where he got an early bind and won a pawn. There are no spectacular tactical blows but the result was never in doubt after Hambleton went up a P.

White(Hambleton) to Play
White has an extra pawn and the bishop pair. Now the question is how to convert the advantage while allowing the least counterplay possible. What do you recommend for white?

18..Rb6