New Year Honours

Aberystwyth continued its good form in the first match of the New Year, away to Steynton A at the Emlyn Cafe, Tanygroes, on Wednesday 10 January. On top board Brendan-Budok Durand-Le Ludec quickly picked up a piece against Colin Denham's irregular defence to 1.d4, and trapped Black's queen soon afterwards. Rudy van Kemenade's win against David Pinch in a Three Knights Game was longer, but White's doubled pawns gave him a long-term disadvantage, and when Black acquired two passed pawns on the kingside the end soon followed. Julie van Kemenade's game was another irregular one, as John Miller didn't meet her King's Indian Attack with the expected ...d5. In the slow manoeuvring that followed, Black seemed to lose track of his vulnerable pawns, leading to a comfortable win for White. I have been playing the same system against Scott Hammett's Bird's Opening for some time now, with consistently mediocre results, and tonight's game was no exception, quickly fizzling out into another draw. Aberystwyth won the match 3½-½.

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Move	N	Result	Elo

1.e4	1,179,682	54%	2421
1.d4	956,075	55%	2434
1.Nf3	285,144	56%	2441
1.c4	184,108	56%	2442
1.g3	19,839	56%	2427
1.b3	14,560	54%	2428
1.f4	5,938	48%	2377
1.Nc3	3,888	50%	2384
1.b4	1,779	48%	2379
1.a3	1,246	54%	2406
1.e3	1,079	49%	2409
1.d3	965	50%	2378
1.g4	670	46%	2361
1.h4	465	54%	2381
1.c3	438	51%	2425
1.h3	289	56%	2420
1.a4	117	59%	2462
1.f3	100	47%	2427
1.Nh3	92	67%	2511
1.Na3	47	62%	2476

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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Be7 rather passive; more frequent are 3...b6 Queen's Indian 3...d5 Queen's Gambit 3...Bb4+ Bogoindian 3...c5 perhaps to Modern Benoni if 4.d5 4.Nc3 cxd4 5.Nxd4 English or Sicilian, Maroczy 4.Nc3 b6 4...d5 5.Bg5 Queen's Gambit 5.e4 d6 6.Bd3 Wh has a good centre grip c5 6...Bb7 6...Nbd7 are safer, but Wh still scores in the 70% bracket in these 7.e5+- Bl is in trouble on the wh diagonal ( though a few Wh players have missed this move cxd4 7...dxe5 8.dxe5 & Bl must still shed a piece, 3-0 7...Ng8 8.exd6! Qxd6 9.dxc5 9.Be4 Nc6 10.Bf4 Qd7 11.d5+- 9...Qxc5 10.Be3 10.Be4 Nc6 11.Be3 Qxc4 12.Nd2+- 10...Qc7 11.Be4 11.Nb5 Qc6 12.Bf4 Na6 13.Nbd4 Qb7 14.0-0± 11...Bb7 12.Nb5 Qc8 13.Bxb7 Qxb7 14.Nd6+ Bxd6 15.Qxd6= Stipancic(1809) -Hupe(2049), Niedersachsen ch, Verden 2014,1/2-1/2 8.exf6 Bxf6 9.Ne4 Bb7 10.Nxf6+ 10.Qa4+ Bc6 11.Qc2 Be5 12.Nxe5 dxe5 13.f3+- Soeder-Martin, Oberliga Bayern 1996,1-0 10.0-0 Komodo11 10...gxf6 11.0-0 11.Nxd4 11...e5 12.Re1 Nc6 13.Nh4 f5 13...Ne7 14.Qh5 Qd7 15.Bh6 Rg8 16.f3+- Komodo11 14.Nxf5 Qf6 15.Qh5 0-0-0 15...Kd7 16.Nh6 Rhf8 17.Bg5 Qg7 18.Qg4+ Ke8 19.f4+- Komodo11 16.Bg5 Qe6 16...Qg6 17.Ne7+ Nxe7 18.Bxg6 hxg6 is a little better , but not much 17.Ng7 The Q is lost 17.Ng7 Qd7 18.Bf5 1–0

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White	EloW	Black	EloB	Res

Durand Le Leduc,B	2183	Denham,C	1659	1–0
Pinch,D	1623	Van Kemenade,R	2015	0–1
Van Kemenade,J	1740	Miller,J	1648	1–0
Hammett,S	1504	Francis,M	1764	½–½

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