Here Be Hyper-Accelerated Dragons

An Aberystwyth team missing our Board 4 took on Cardiff in the second round of the second Welsh Chess Union Online League on Tuesday 30th March. The opening of Rudy van Kemenade's game against Tom Brown was the Hyper-Accelerated Dragon Variation of the Sicilian Defence, which has to be a contender for most exotic opening name in chess. The game itself was less interesting, though, as a wholesale exchange of pieces in a position with symmetrical pawns led to an early draw. Adam Watkin-Jones played a noteworthy opening variation, too, a line of the Scandinavian which was under a cloud for years after a devastating win by Fischer, but is now apparently rehabilitated. Certainly it led to a good position for Adam, whose strong fianchettoed bishop and pressure on the White centre gave him the early advantage. The pressure continued after there were just heavy pieces and pawns left, and Sam Jukes eventually blundered in time trouble. I found myself facing a fierce attack from Jake Hurley against my English opening, having castled too soon. I have never like to do too much thinking at the beginning of the game, and my defence soon fell apart. With the default on Board 4, Aber lost the match 2½-1½.

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Move	N	Result	Elo

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1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4 Nf6 5.Bb5 inaccurate- lichess 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Qa4 d6 7.e5 is played for Wh by both players 5...Nc6 main, Bl was relying on an old book by Donaldson mistake- lichess,this & preceding move, the only two comments it has on the game 5...a6 6.e5 Nh5 6...axb5 7.exf6 exf6 8.0-0 Ra6 9.Bf4 Nc6 10.Re1+ Be7 11.Qe3 0-0 12.Nc3 d6 13.Nxb5 Be6 14.Nbd4 Van Kemenade-Waterfield, S Wales op, Penarth 2012,0-1 7.Ba4 Nc6 8.Bxc6 dxc6 9.Qxd8+ Kxd8 10.Nc3 Bg4 11.Ng5 Ke8 12.h3 Bd7 13.g4 Ng7 14.Bf4= Van Kemenade-Brown,S Wales Spring blitz 2017,1-0 5...Qa5+ 6.Nc3 Nc6 7.Bxc6 dxc6 8.Bd2 Bg7 9.Nd5 Qd8 10.Nxf6+ Bxf6 11.Qxd8+ Kxd8 12.0-0-0 Bd7 13.Bf4 Kc8 14.e5 Van Kemenade-Thorpe, S Wales Open, Penarth 2012,1-0 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.Qxd8+ Kxd8 8.Nc3 main 8.e5 Nd5= yet results 4-4-1 8...Bg7 9.Bf4 Nh5 both main 9...Nd7 10.e5 10.0-0-0 Ke8 11.h3 e5 12.Be3 f6 13.Rd3 Bf8 14.Rhd1 Be7 15.a4 Kd8 16.Nd2 Kc7 Van Kemenade-Mavreas,EU Cup, Rhodes 2013,0-1 10...h6 11.0-0-0 g5 12.Bg3 Ke8 13.Rhe1 Nc5 14.Nd4 Be6 15.b4 Nd7 16.Nxe6 fxe6 17.b5 Van Kemenade-di-Vetta, S wales New Year 2019,1-0 10.0-0-0+ Ke8 11.Be5 11.Be3 Bxc3 11...e5 3 draws 12.bxc3= though 1.5-0.5 11...Bg4 11...f6 main, & expected by Wh, 1 Wh win 6 draws 12.Bxg7 Nxg7 13.Rd3 Bxf3 14.Rxf3 e5 14...Rd8 15.Rd1 Perez Garcia-Alonso Matinez, Villa de Allbox op 2002, draw agreed 15.Rd1 Ke7 16.Rfd3 Rhd8 17.Rxd8 Rxd8 18.Rxd8 Kxd8 19.Kd2 [draw?] Ne6 20.Ne2 20.Nd1 Ke7 21.Ne3= Stockfish13 in search of symmetry 20...Ke7 21.g3 f5 22.Ke3 Nc5 23.Nc3 23.exf5 gxf5 24.f4 e4 25.Kd4 Kd6 26.h3 h5 27.Ke3 still drawn- Stockfish13, as Kd5? 28.Nd4 loses a pawn & the game 23...Ne6 24.Ne2 Nc5 25.Nc3 Ne6 26.Ne2 Normal ½–½

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White	EloW	Black	EloB	Res

Van Kemenade,R	1999	Brown,T	2165	½–½
Jukes,S	1991	Watkin-Jones,A	1918	0–1
Francis,M	1648	Hurley,J	1829	0–1

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