Server24 Chess Festival Ortisei(ITA) 2013 Rd4 Standings-IM Hambleton(CAN)

Standings-Official Site(photos from site gallery)
GM Hansen is at 3.5/4 while IM Hambleton has 2.5/4. GM Nisipeanu leads with a perfect 4/4.

'Not sure how many Canadians know, but GM Nisipeanu dropped out of school when he was a junior to attend a Russian chess school full time! That was the time when he decided to become a professional chess player. I think he did some homeschooling to finish high school which was very rare back there and then...'-Eugene Valere Demian

GM Nisipeanu front left

Action packed game in progress

Standings

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1	GM	Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter	ROU	2667	4
2	GM	Khenkin Igor	GER	2601	3.5
3	GM	Burmakin Vladimir	RUS	2575	3.5
4	GM	Volkov Sergey	RUS	2613	3.5
5	GM	Hansen Eric	CAN	2577	3.5
6	IM	Warakomski Tomasz	POL	2488	3
7	IM	Codenotti Marco	ITA	2390	3
8	WGM	Szczepkowska-Horowska Karina	POL	2375	3
9	IM	Saravanan V.	IND	2371	3
10	GM	Levin Felix	GER	2497	3
11	IM	Collutiis Duilio	ITA	2465	3
12	GM	Kveinys Aloyzas	LTU	2479	3
13	FM	Bertagnolli Alexander	ITA	2329	3
14		Curien Nicolas	SUI	2204	3
15	CM	Herbold Manfred	GER	2091	2.5
16	GM	Sundararajan Kidambi	IND	2428	2.5
17	IM	Hambleton Aman	CAN	2461	2.5
18		Spornberger Maximilian	ITA	2257	2.5
19	IM	Solomon Kenny	RSA	2414	2.5
20	FM	De Santis Alessio	ITA	2276	2.5
21	FM	Cocchi Andrea	ITA	2304	2.5
22	IM	Vezzosi Paolo	ITA	2274	2.5
23	GM	Popilski Gil	ISR	2515	2.5
24	FM	Friedrich Norbert	GER	2312	2.5

Here is Hambleton's rd 3 game.

IM Hambleton took the play to GM Nisipeanu with bold aggressive play in the opening and had a good game going before black struck back with a counterattack.

Hambleton,A (2461) - Nisipeanu,LD (2667)
NI 4.Qc2 0–0 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.Qxc3 d6 7.f3 [E32]
2nd Server24 Open Ortisei ITA (3.1), 03.06.2013

Position 1

White has been caught uncastled and the queen is out play on the queenside. What do you recommend for black?

Black to Play

20.Be3

TWIC 969(CAN) INDEX-June3 2013

Introduction
TWIC is the work of Mark Crowther

2nd Server23 Open 2013(ITA)-Tournament site
After three rounds:
GM Hansen,E 2.5; IM Hambleton,A 2 and Ousssedik 1.5

IM Hambleton(right-2nd player from front in black shirt)

GM Nisipeanu(front left)

Rk.		Name	FIDE	FED	Pts.
1	GM	Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter	2667	ROU	3
2	GM	Volkov Sergey	2613	RUS	3
3	GM	Khenkin Igor	2601	GER	3
4	IM	Warakomski Tomasz	2488	POL	3
5	GM	Hansen Eric	2577	CAN	2.5
6	GM	Sundararajan Kidambi	2428	IND	2.5
7	GM	Burmakin Vladimir	2575	RUS	2.5
8	CM	Herbold Manfred	2091	GER	2.5
9	IM	Codenotti Marco	2390	ITA	2.5
10	GM	Levin Felix	2497	GER	2.5
11	IM	Solomon Kenny	2414	RSA	2
12	IM	Stella Andrea	2463	ITA	2
13	IM	Hambleton Aman	2461	CAN	2
14		Spornberger Maximilian	2257	ITA	2
15	IM	Collutiis Duilio	2465	ITA	2
16	WGM	Szczepkowska-Horowska Karina	2375	POL	2
17	WGM	Fierro Baquero Martha	2365	ECU	2
18	IM	Vezzosi Paolo	2274	ITA	2
19	IM	Saravanan V.	2371	IND	2
20		Paltrinieri Nicholas	2174	ITA	2
21	FM	Herzog Adolf	2401	AUT	2
22	FM	Boscolo Federico	2314	ITA	2
23	GM	Kveinys Aloyzas	2479	LTU	2
24		Schaefer Michael	2176	GER	2
25	CM	Krulich Roman	2229	MNC	2
26		Curien Nicolas	2204	SUI	2
27	FM	Bertagnolli Alexander	2329	ITA	2

Here is Hansen's rd2 game.

Boscolo,F (2314) - Hansen,Eric (2577)
SI 2.c3 Nf6[B22]
2nd Server24 Open Ortisei ITA (2.4), 02.06.2013

Position 1
Black is clearly better despite the symmetrical structure and opposite color bishops. What do you recommend for black?

Black to Play

23.Qc3

Chicago Open 2013
IM Porper 6.5/9

Guelph Summer Pro-Am June 2013 Final Standings-GM Sambuev(CAN)

Report-Hal Bond from ChessTalk
Guelph finished up with some surprises. 

Open
GM Bator Sambuev shared first place with Razvan Preotu and Matthew Nicholson with 4 points. 

Under 2000
The U2000 was won by Michael von Keitz and Hongyi Li with 4.5 each. 

Under 1600
The U1600 was swept by 3 girls(!) who were undefeated. Jeannie Zhang posted the only perfect score of the tournament. Mathanhe Kaneshalingam and Kylie Tan scored 4 points each.

It was great to see FM Doug Bailey in action again. He decided to give his hockey skates a rest for the weekend and was playing for prize money in the final round. Thanks to all the players and parents who made the event a success.

More about Guelph



Open
GM Bator Sambuev shared first place with Razvan Preotu and Matthew Nicholson with 4 points. 

#	Name	CFC	Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5	Total
1	GM Bator Sambuev	2691	W4 W11 D5 D2 W6	4
2	Razvan Preotu	2484	D10 W15 W8 D1 W5	4
3	Matthew Nicholson	2244	W12 L5 W7 W11 W8	4
4	David Filipovich	2228	L1 W16 H--- W10 W11	3.5
5	IM Nikolay Noritsyn	2612	W14 W3 D1 D6 L2	3
6	FM Shiyam Thavandiran	2514	W7 D8 W9 D5 L1	3
7	Guannan Terry Song	2156	L6 W13 L3 W14 W12	3
8	FM Doug Bailey	2249	W13 D6 L2 W9 L3	2.5
9	Jonathan Yu	2136	H--- W10 L6 L8 W13	2.5
10	Wenlu Yu	2045	D2 L9 W15 L4 W14	2.5
11	Adam Cormier	2278	W16 L1 W14 L3 L4	2
12	Sergey Noritsyn	2013	L3 L14 B--- W16 L7	2
13	Allan Monro	2013	L8 L7 D16 W15 L9	1.5
14	Gordon Olheiser	2188	L5 W12 L11 L7 L10	1
15	Yuetong [Davy] Zhao	1954	H--- L2 L10 L13 D16	1
16	Peter Baxted	2029	L11 L4 D13 L12 D15	1

Under 2000
Michael von Keitz and Hongyi Li shared first with 4.5 each. 

#	Name	CFC	Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5	Total
1	Michael von Keitz	1840	W9 W12 D2 W19 W8	4.5
2	Hongyi Li	1883	W29 W22 D1 W3 W6	4.5
3	Richard Chen	1880	W25 W5 W13 L2 D7	3.5
4	Daniel Liu	1593	D7 L6 W21 W17 W12	3.5
5	Nicholas Jackson	1776	W26 L3 W24 D10 W15	3.5
6	Eugene Hua	1712	H--- W4 D19 W13 L2	3
7	Wenyang Ming	1773	D4 D18 W23 D12 D3	3
8	Erik Malmsten	1892	W27 L13 W15 W14 L1	3
9	Robert Gillanders	1670	L1 D21 W26 W16 D10	3
10	Corin Schneider	1687	D17 D14 W20 D5 D9	3
11	Constance Wang	1559	L28 W29 L12 W20 W21	3
12	Richard Glew	1729	W21 L1 W11 D7 L4	2.5
13	Jason Cai	1785	W23 W8 L3 L6 D14	2.5
14	Ralph Deline	1745	D16 D10 W18 L8 D13	2.5
15	Harmony Zhu	1631	H--- W17 L8 W22 L5	2.5
16	Thomas Guo	1557	D14 L20 W25 L9 W27	2.5
17	Alexandre Michelashvili	1854	D10 L15 W30 L4 W24	2.5
18	Nathan Farrant-Diaz	1613	H--- D7 L14 D27 W25	2.5
19	Alexander Friedman	1894	H--- W24 D6 L1 U---	2
20	Mario Piccinin	1804	L24 W16 L10 L11 W30	2
21	Jeffrey Xu	1947	L12 D9 L4 W26 L11	1.5
22	Louay Sakka	1686	W30 L2 H--- L15 U---	1.5
23	Lily Zhou	1629	L13 W27 L7 D24 U---	1.5
24	Patrick L. Huang	1651	W20 L19 L5 D23 L17	1.5
25	Rebecca Giblon	1692	L3 D26 L16 W30 L18	1.5
26	Shafkat Ali	1602	L5 D25 L9 L21 B---	1.5
27	Rachel Tao	1721	L8 L23 W29 D18 L16	1.5
28	Hal Bond	1800	W11 U--- U--- U--- U---	1
29	Tim Knechtel	1699	L2 L11 L27 B--- U---	1
30	Immanuel Huang	1547	L22 B--- L17 L25 L20	1

Under 1600
3 girls swept this section going undefeated. Jeannie Zhang posted the only perfect score of the tournament. Mathanhe Kaneshalingam and Kylie Tan scored 4 points each.

#	Name	CFC	Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5	Total
1	Jeannie Zhang	1275	W25 W8 W5 W4 W6	5
2	Mathanhe Kaneshalingam	1492	W11 W14 W9 D6 D4	4
3	Kylie Tan	1187	H--- H--- W25 W9 W11	4
4	Rod Nault	1526	W20 W10 W7 L1 D2	3.5
5	Andrew Giblon	1372	W29 W17 L1 D7 W13	3.5
6	Robin Johnston	1214	W32 W12 W8 D2 L1	3.5
7	Diego Rosales	1353	W13 W16 L4 D5 D10	3
8	Richard Feng	1416	W15 L1 L6 W22 W21	3
9	Nicholas Vettese	1362	W21 W28 L2 L3 W20	3
10	Volodymyr Vivchariuk	1323	W27 L4 W22 H--- D7	3
11	James Williamson	1084	L2 W23 W28 W12 L3	3
12	Graeme Knight	1369	W22 L6 W16 L11 W15	3
13	Jack Li	939	L7 W20 W17 W18 L5	3
14	Kai Gauer	1278	W23 L2 D15 D21 D17	2.5
15	Luke Di Pietro	1029	L8 W26 D14 W19 L12	2.5
16	Nicholas Wu	1016	W18 L7 L12 D27 W30	2.5
17	Peter Downie	1186	W31 L5 L13 W26 D14	2.5
18	Radu Lupan	1405	L16 D19 W27 L13 W28	2.5
19	Catherine Li	1048	H--- D18 D21 L15 W29	2.5
20	Ellen Tao	1097	L4 L13 W32 W25 L9	2
21	Manojh Sivapathasungram	974	L9 W31 D19 D14 L8	2
22	Robert Girard	977	L12 W32 L10 L8 W27	2
23	Victor Yao	unr.	L14 L11 L30 W32 B---	2
24	Bruce Hurst	1320	W26 H--- H--- U--- U---	2
25	Dean Yu	unr.	L1 W29 L3 L20 W31	2
26	Bill Xu	819	L24 L15 B--- L17 W32	2
27	Ryan Liu	932	L10 W30 L18 D16 L22	1.5
28	Christian Ujeyli	unr.	W30 L9 L11 H--- L18	1.5
29	Haotong Hazel Guo	978	L5 L25 W31 D30 L19	1.5
30	Dee Wu	1139	L28 L27 W23 D29 L16	1.5
31	Stephen Bisson	unr.	L17 L21 L29 B--- L25	1
32	Kevin Wu	unr.	L6 L22 L20 L23 L26	0

Toronto Chess News 2013-06 Issue 1-19

Toronto Chess News
The latest issue is ready for download. Bob Armstrong presents the world of Toronto chess. Available in pdf and Chessbase formats twice a month. See the website to subscribe.

More about Toronto

Below the streets of Toronto is a marvel of engineering called PATH - a network of underground shopping malls, subway stations and pathways that provide shelter from harsh winter weather.

Toronto moves south into the Lake and Union Station is built becoming the busiest transportation hub in Canada. The waterfront is developed and as more land is reclaimed, Redpath Sugar opens a refinery taking advantage of the newly opened St. Lawrence Seaway and the larger ships that can now reach Toronto's port lands. The CN Tower is built and Toronto the Mega City is born.



Issue # 1-19, June 1, 2013- 86 pages

CONTENTS

Articles
FIDE July 1, 2013 Regular Rating List ( Open/Women ) 14
Canadian Olympiad Selection Rating List 24
Canadian Olympiad Selection Rating List – Women 25
FIDE July 1, 2013 Regular Rating List – Canadian Rankings ( Open/Women ) 26
The “Games of the Centuries” Series – The Evergreen Game 66
Malmsten on Chess – Chess Crossword 69
Teaching Classic Games of Chess - Use the King to Get the King 71 

Ken’s Chess Trivia 76
TCN Readers’ Lead Article 79
TCN Readers’ Chess “Sightings” 79
TCN Readers Have Questions 79
TCN Readers’ Feedback 79 

TCN’s “Readers’ Opinion” Column 80

Tournament Reports
Supreme Masters (Norway GM Tournament) 4
European Individual Championship 11
Sunningdale Open, England 13
Chicago Open, USA 13
CMA Chess Challenge Championship 22
Ontario Open, Ottawa 33
Toronto Closed 37
Keres Memorial, Vancouver 55
Calgary International 56

Organizations with News Reports
Chess Federation of Canada ( CFC ) 22 

Greater Toronto Chess League ( GTCL ) 40
Scarborough Chess Club ( SCC ) 41
Annex Chess Club ( ACC ) 45 

Aurora Chess Club 47
Ajax Chess Club 50
Hamilton City Chess Club 51
Kitchener-Waterloo Chess Club 51
British Columbia Chess Federation (BCCF) 56

Tournament NoticesGuelph Pre-summer Pro-Am 80
K-W Team Tournament 81
Aurora Summer Open 81
Canadian Youth Chess Championships 82
Canadian Open 83

Community Bulletin Board 84

Hart House Summer Open 2009(Video)

I stumbled on this today.

Hart House Open
Video documents the round by round action in the 2009 Hart House Summer Open played in Toronto Canada on July 3,4,5, 2009. The tournament broke the targeted 120 participants, resulting to a successful fund raising campaign.



The winner of the tournament is FM Igor Divljan 2384 scoring 4.5 points in 5 games. This is a FIDE rated event. DOP is B. Lamb.

Chicago Open 2013 Rd5-IM Porper(CAN)

More on Chicago

This video features the beginnings of both Chess Records and Vee Jay Records.

Record Row was where the Chicago music industry developed into a world class institutions of great impact and influenced the careers of the the Rolling Stones, The Who, The Beatles and Eric Clapton.

TWIC 968

The feature game is from the Chicago Open where IM Porper shared 2nd with 6.5.9.

#	Name	Rtng	St	Total
1	GM Ray Robson	2620	MO	7
2	GM Joshua E Friedel	2485	WI	7
3	GM Nikola Mitkov	2484	MKD	7
4	IM Edward Porper	2423	CAN	6.5
5	GM Alexander Shabalov	2544	PA	6.5
6	GM Aleksandr Lenderman	2585	NY	6
7	GM Varuzhan Akobian	2616	KS	6
8	GM Victor Mikhalevski	2551	ISR	6
9	GM Fidel Corrales	2604	CUB	6
10	GM Alex Yermolinsky	2497	SD	6
11	GM Mikheil Kekelidze	2509	GEO	6
12	GM Alexander Fishbein	2506	NJ	6

Finegold,B (2505) - Porper,E (2423) 
Nimzo-Indian 4.Qc2 Nc6[E33]
Chicago Open 2013 Wheeling USA (5.7), 25.05.2013

Position 1

The position looks chaotic. What do you recommend for black?

Black to Play

50.g4

Guelph 2013-06 Rd3 Standings

From Hal Bond on Chesstalk
'We have over 75 players and had a great first day.'

Open Standings
GM Bator Sambuev shares the lead with three others at 2.5/3.

#		Name	CFC	Total
1	GM	Bator Sambuev	2691	2.5
2	IM	Nikolay Noritsyn	2612	2.5
3	FM	Shiyam Thavandiran	2514	2.5
4		Razvan Preotu	2484	2.5
5		Adam Cormier	2278	2
6		Matthew Nicholson	2244	2
7		Jonathan Yu	2136	1.5
8		David Filipovich	2228	1.5
9	FM	Doug Bailey	2249	1.5
10		Wenlu Yu	2045	1.5
11		Gordon Olheiser	2188	1
12		Guannan Terry Song	2156	1
13		Sergey Noritsyn	2013	1
14		Yuetong [Davy] Zhao	1954	0.5
15		Peter Baxted	2029	0.5
16		Allan Monro	2013	0.5

Under 2000
Richard Chen is in clear first with 3/3.

#	Name	CFC	Total
1	Richard Chen	1880	3
2	Michael von Keitz	1840	2.5
3	Hongyi Li	1883	2.5
4	Jason Cai	1785	2
5	Eugene Hua	1712	2
6	Alexander Friedman	1894	2
7	Nicholas Jackson	1776	2
8	Ralph Deline	1745	2
9	Richard Glew	1729	2
10	Wenyang Ming	1773	2
11	Corin Schneider	1687	2
12	Erik Malmsten	1892	2
13	Harmony Zhu	1631	1.5
14	Daniel Liu	1593	1.5
15	Louay Sakka	1686	1.5
16	Robert Gillanders	1670	1.5
17	Thomas Guo	1557	1.5
18	Alexandre Michelashvili	1854	1.5
19	Lily Zhou	1629	1
20	Nathan Farrant-Diaz	1613	1
21	Patrick L. Huang	1651	1
22	Immanuel Huang	1547	1
23	Hal Bond	1800	1
24	Mario Piccinin	1804	1
25	Constance Wang	1559	1
26	Rachel Tao	1721	1
27	Jeffrey Xu	1947	0.5
28	Rebecca Giblon	1692	0.5
29	Shafkat Ali	1602	0.5
30	Eric Zechen Wang	1886	0.5
31	Tim Knechtel	1699	0

French Advance Review 2013-06

e2e4ChessNews FR Advance Review June 2013
Here is a summary of recent and potential white ideas that defenders must be aware of. I also surveyed a 3...b6 which can be used as a backup to the main line 3..c5. 

My favorite game is game 2 where Toth completely dominated GM Gonda in the TCh-HUN 2010–11.

• Games 1-3 3...b6(Backup)
• Games 4-6 3...c5(Main Line)

Example Background Video
All games come with a background video.




Game 1
This is a key game showing black's potential in the 3...b6 line. White got a bit behind in development which allowed Short to favorably open up the position.

Khalifman,Alexander (2690) - Short,Nigel D (2676)
FR Advance 3…b6 [C02]
Moscow Fide.com Cup Moscow (3), 26.03.2001

Black to Play

Game 2
A really fantastic example of play over the whole board and positional domination.

Toth,E (2414) - Gonda,L (2550)
FR Advance 3…b6 4.c3 Qd7 5.Nf3 [C02]
TCh-HUN 2010–11 Decs HUN (6), 20.02.2011

White to Play

Game 3
This is an update to the Khalifman-Short Moscow 2001 game. Black was fine but allowed white to start a dangerous attack.

Feygin,M (2538) - Jochens,A (2298)
FR Advance 3…b6 4..c3 Qd7 5.Nd2 [C02]
Bundesliga 2012–13 Norderstedt GER (3), 10.11.2012

White to Play

Game 4
Black had an excellent position from the opening but allowed white too much counterplay. GM Williams recommends 6..f6 against 6.a3 but other moves are possible.

Strange,M (2335) - Pavlovic,Milos (2509)

FR Advance 5.Nf3 Bd7 6.a3 Nh6[C02]
Admiral Niels Juel Cup 2013 Koge DEN (5.8), 23.04.2013

Black to Play

Game 5
The usual plan for black is ...b6 followed by ...Ba6 to trade light bishops. Black tried a new way to engineer the bishop trade(5...a6/..Bb5) and got an equal game. Later black lost an exiting back and forth battle.

Cubas,Jo (2550) - Gutierrez,Ca (2253)
FR Advance 4.c3 Bd7 5.Nf3 a6 [C02]
VIII American Continental 2013 Cochabamba BOL (3.12), 09.05.2013

Black to Play

Game 6

Black was fine in the opening using the 6...c4 line which adds to black's options as Vitiugov recommends 6...Nh6 in The French Defence Reloaded (Chess Stars 2012).

Motylev,A (2669) - Fodor,T jr (2475)
FR Advance 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.a3 c4 [C02]
14th Euro Indiv 2013 Legnica POL (8.66), 13.05.2013

Black to Play

Endgame Lesson-FM Michael Kleinman(CAN)

CFC Newsfeed

Submitted by Felix Dumont 05/31/2013

  

Endgame Lesson by FM Michael Kleinman

Hello!

 

My name is Michael Kleinman, and I decided to make this column focus on the practical applications of theoretical rook endgames.

 

To start off, I will show you, with analysis two theoretical endgame positions, and then I will pose a difficult problem (which occurred in one of my recent games) that applies the knowledge of both theoretical positions.

 

I hope you enjoy this column!

 

White to Play

Lesson and Solution

 

GM Spraggett Blog Comes Back(!)

GM Spraggett Blog-Has a New Home

Warning-Excellent Chess Content

Hi!  WordPress will now become Spraggett on Chess new home for the present. I intend to also have a parallel blog on Tumblr set up before the end of the month.  

The next week will be a learning process for me as I try to understand all of the new features here that are different from how Blogger does things.  

In particular, the Caissa pgn-view does not seem to work very well in Wordpress (as some might have already noticed), and so top on the list is to find a pgn-viewer that will serve as well here in wordpress.   

I have uploaded about 3/4 of my blog archives so far, the rest to be folow sometime in the next week.

As well, I will have to customize this homepage, gadgets, links, favourite sites, downloads, etc. 

French Defence Tarrasch Review 2013-06

French Defence Tarrasch Review June 2013-e4ChessNews
A review of 9 interesting recent games that should be of interest to French Defense and 1.e4 players. My favorite games were

• Game 4-Kamsky's strategic suffocation of Shabalov in the US Ch(1) 
• Game 9-Fedorchuk's technical R-R ending in the Agzamov Memorial(3) 

Material usually has background video(s) for example-Tashkent,Uzbekistan.

 

Game 1
GM Volkov kept pushing his IQP to dominate the position. The ending was not perfect but the French Defence earned a valuable victory.

Petenyi,T (2455) - Volkov,Sergey (2610)
FR Tarrasch 3…a6[C03]
14th Euro Indiv 2013 Legnica POL (8.69), 13.05.2013

Black to play

Game 2
GM Arizmendi Martinez defended with the ambitious 3...Be7 line and grabbed a pawn but allowed GM Sjugirov fantastic piece play.

Sjugirov,S (2654) - Arizmendi Martinez,J (2571)
FR Tarrasch 3…Be7[C03]
14th Euro Indiv 2013 Legnica POL (7.23), 11.05.2013

White to play

Game 3
GM Howell got nothing special from the opening but GM Williams slowly lost control of the position.

Howell,D (2634) - Williams,Si (2511)
Tarrasch 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Ngf3 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Bd3 Be7 [C05]
4NCL 2012–13 Hinckley ENG (8.111), 24.03.2013

White to play

Game 4
GM Kamsky played a model squeeze using a good knight vs ineffective bishop to suffocate GM Shabalov.

Kamsky,G (2741) - Shabalov,A (2544)
FR Tarrasch 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 [C05]
ch-USA 2013 Saint Louis USA (1), 03.05.2013

White to play

Game 5
Amanov got nowhere against IM Sevillano's defensive wall on the kingside.

Amanov,Z (2375) - Sevillano,E (2500)
FR Tarrasch 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Bd3 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Ne2 [C06]
27th Metropolitan GM Los Angeles USA (3), 16.05.2013

Black to play

Game 6
5.dc is gaining some popularity but white got nothing special in the game. GM Firman massaged down GM Rustemov's IQP in a nice ending.

Firman,N (2531) - Rustemov,A (2544)
FR Tarrasch 3.Nd2 c5 4.exd5 Qxd5 5.dxc5 [C07]
Bundesliga 2012–13 Schwetzingen GER (14), 06.04.2013

White to play

Game 7
GM Pavasovic sacrificed a pawn for tremendous compensation and prevailed when Schroll chose an over active defense with a tactical flaw.

Pavasovic,D (2555) - Schroll,G (2403)
FR Tarrasch 3.Nd2 c5
4.Ngf3 cxd4 5.exd5 Qxd5 6.Bc4 Qd6-10…Be7 [C07]
TCh-AUT 2012–13 St.Veit AUT (10.4), 23.03.2013

White to Play

Game 8
GM Akopian used an original plan to gain kingside space and earned a victory when GM Meier opened up his kingside.

Akopian,Vl (2687) - Meier,Geo (2648)
FR Tarrasch 3.Nd2 c5 4.exd5 Qxd5 5.Ngf3 cxd4 6.Bc4 Qd6
7.0–0 Nf6 8.Nb3 Nc6 9.Nbxd4 Nxd4 10.Nxd4 a6 11.Re1 [C07]
40th Olympiad Open Istanbul TUR (9.3), 06.09.2012

White to play

Game 9
GM Fedorchuk played a model R-R ending to capitalize on an isolated pawn.

Fedorchuk,S (2652) - Aitbayev,A (2434)
FR Tarrasch 3.Nd2 c5 4.Ngf3 Nc6 5.exd5 exd5 [C09]
7th Agzamov Memorial Tashkent UZB (3), 16.04.2013

White to play