[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.21"]
[Round "1.41"]
[White "Fraser, Chris A"]
[Black "Jones, Jonathan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B02"]
[WhiteElo "119"]
[BlackElo "101"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "156"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,156,32,32,32,37,44,40,48,-7,-7,-27,-12,-49,40,-2,23,8,29,29,29,16,49,
57,103,50,52,37,56,56,93,36,56,27,24,30,52,43,53,42,46,39,58,44,57,40,37,30,34,
32,36,24,34,31,42,33,36,30,35,-2,35,31,47,35,45,45,51,29,29,24,27,-7,9,21,9,12,
10,10,27,39,36,-4,-5,-13,32,23,17,16,23,26,31,11,56,38,18,8,62,41,61,57,41,45,
72,64,70,69,54,53,46,48,25,-19,96,89,104,101,175,193,208,211,219,247,243,238,
243,224,246,223,225,232,233,233,233,233,240,240,350,432,432,432,507,509,534,
508,545,605,631,659,728,1063,1291,1479,1607,1612,1800,1420,1459,1618,1618]} 1.
e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nxd5 4. Nxd5 (4. Bc4) 4... Qxd5 5. d4 Nc6 6. c3 (6.
Nf3) 6... a6 $146 (6... e5 $15 {Cloud Engines, main}) (6... Bf5) 7. Nf3 Bg4 (
7... e5 $11) 8. Be2 e6 9. O-O Be7 10. h3 Bh5 11. Bf4 $14 Qd8 (11... Qd7) 12.
Qd2 Bd6 13. Rfe1 Bxf4 14. Qxf4 Qd6 15. Qg5 (15. Ne5 $16) 15... Bg6 16. Nh4 (16.
Nd2 h6 17. Qe3 Ne7 18. Nc4 Qc6 19. Ne5 Qd6 20. Bf3 c6 $14 {Komodo13}) 16... Ne7
17. Rad1 O-O 18. Nxg6 Nxg6 19. Bf3 c6 20. g3 Qe7 21. Qe3 (21. Qh5) 21... Rfe8
22. Bg2 Qf6 23. Qc1 (23. d5 cxd5 24. Bxd5 exd5 25. Qxe8+ Rxe8 26. Rxe8+ Nf8 27.
Rxd5 g6 28. Rdd8 $16 {Komodo13}) 23... Ne7 24. Be4 g6 25. Qh6 Qg7 26. Qg5 Nd5
27. Re2 Qf6 28. Qd2 Rad8 29. Qc1 Ne7 (29... e5 $11) 30. Rde1 Nf5 31. Bg2 Qg7
32. Qf4 Rd7 33. g4 Ne7 34. h4 Nd5 $11 35. Qg5 Qf6 36. Qxf6 Nxf6 37. Bf3 Kg7 38.
Kg2 Rde7 39. Kg3 Nd7 40. d5 {Wh finally decides to do something with his
slight space advantage} cxd5 41. Bxd5 Rb8 $11 (41... Nc5 $11) 42. Bb3 Nc5 43.
Bc2 Ree8 44. Rd1 b5 45. Red2 Nb7 (45... Rec8 $11) 46. Rd7 Nc5 47. R7d4 Kf8 48.
b4 Nb7 49. c4 (49. Be4 Re7 50. Rd7 Rxd7 51. Rxd7 Nd8 52. Rc7 $16 {Komodo13})
49... bxc4 50. Rxc4 Rbc8 (50... Rec8) 51. Bb3 Rxc4 52. Bxc4 a5 53. Ba6 (53. b5
$14 {getting a passed pawn could be something, though the Bl N is well-placed
to barricade on the bl squares the B cannot reach}) 53... Re7 54. b5 {it would
have been better to have had the B behind the pawnrather than have stuck in
front with a limited number of moves} Nc5 $11 55. Rd8+ Kg7 (55... Re8 $11 56.
Rc8 (56. Rd1 Ra8 57. Rc1 Nxa6 58. a3 Ke7 59. bxa6 Rxa6 60. Rc7+ Kf6 61. Rc5 {
and, despite the pawn down, Wh will probably hold the draw}) 56... Rxc8 57.
Bxc8 Ke7 58. b6 Kd8 59. b7 Kc7 60. g5 Ne4+ (60... Nxb7 61. Bxb7 Kxb7 62. Kf4
Kc6 63. Ke5 Kd7 64. Kf6 Ke8 65. Kg7 Ke7 66. Kxh7 {neither side can now make
progress}) 61. Kf4 (61. Kf3 Nc3 62. a3 Nb1 63. a4 Nc3 64. Bd7 Kxb7 65. Be8 Kc7
66. Bxf7 Kd6 67. Bg8 Ke7 68. Bxh7 Kf7 69. h5 gxh5 70. Bc2 Kg7 (70... e5 71. Ke3
$16) 71. Kf4 Nd5+ 72. Kg3 (72. Ke5 h4 73. Ke4 Kg6 74. f4 h3 75. Kf3+ Kh5 76.
Kg3 h2 77. Bd1+ Kg6 78. Bc2+ Kh5 79. Bd1+ $11 {Komodo14})) 61... Nxf2 62. Ke3 (
62. Ke5 Nd3+ 63. Kf6 e5 64. Kxf7 e4 65. Kg7 e3 66. Bg4 Nf4 67. Kxh7 Kxb7 68. h5
gxh5 69. Bf3+ Kb6 70. g6 Nxg6 71. Kxg6 Kc5 72. Bxh5 Kb4 73. Kf5 Ka3 74. Ke4
Kxa2 75. Kxe3 $11 {Komodo13}) 62... Ng4+ 63. Kf4 h5 $11 {Komodo13}) 56. Ra8 (
56. Rc8 $1 Nxa6 (56... Nd7 57. Rc7 Kf8 58. Bc8 Nb6 59. Rc6 Re8 60. Rxb6 Rxc8
61. Ra6 Rc4 62. Rxa5 $18) 57. bxa6 Ra7 58. Rc6 Kf6 59. Kf4 g5+ 60. hxg5+ Kg6
61. a4 Ra8 62. Ke5 Kxg5 63. Kd6 Kxg4 64. Kc7 h5 65. Kb7 Rh8 66. a7 h4 67. Rc8
Rxc8 68. Kxc8 h3 69. a8=Q {Komodo13; Bl is too slow}) 56... Rd7 (56... e5 57.
Rc8 $18) 57. b6 Kf6 (57... a4 58. g5) 58. Bc8 $18 Rd8 59. b7 (59. g5+ Ke7 60.
b7 $18) 59... Nxb7 60. Bxb7 Rxa8 61. Bxa8 Ke5 62. a4 (62. g5 {condemns the Bl
pawns to the wh squares, where the B can pick them off}) 62... h6 63. Bc6 (63.
f4+) 63... g5 64. hxg5 (64. f4+ {Komodo13} gxf4+ 65. Kf3 Kd6 66. Be4 e5 67. Bb7
f6 68. Ke4 Ke6 69. Ba8 {Zugzwang- as long as Wh retains the a pawn, whose
queening square is controlled by the B , he will win}) 64... hxg5 65. Kf3 Kd4
66. Ke2 f6 67. f3 e5 68. Be4 Kc3 69. Ke3 Kc4 70. Bc6 Kc5 71. Bd7 (71. Be8)
71... Kd6 72. Be8 Ke7 73. Bb5 Kd6 74. Ke4 Ke7 75. Kf5 Kf7 76. Bc4+ Kg7 77. Ke6
(77. Bd5) 77... Kg6 78. Bd3+ Kg7 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.21"]
[Round "1.42"]
[White "Foy, Jeff"]
[Black "Walker, Kate"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A80"]
[WhiteElo "99"]
[BlackElo "119"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "112"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,112,19,31,19,14,90,73,66,66,100,111,90,81,93,44,84,62,48,38,28,27,53,
32,40,37,31,-15,27,-35,33,30,42,3,43,-12,21,12,12,18,20,-35,16,-14,-9,-12,-10,
-9,-15,-27,11,-34,-20,-29,-20,-45,26,22,39,4,15,-1,24,-1,-2,-15,-15,-8,2,-8,9,
6,-2,-19,30,33,9,11,46,46,146,144,131,-325,-301,-302,-253,-269,-254,-649,-651,
-793,-681,-700,-705,-735,-636,-698,-716,-792,-681,-735,-659,-710,-738,-751,
-539,-768,-761,-768,-809,-2194,-809,-29989,-1089]} 1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 f5 {
infrequent with the B already on f4, but soon transposes} 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 (4.
e3) 4... c6 (4... e6 5. Nb5 Na6 6. e3 c6 7. Nc3 Qa5 {3-0}) 5. e3 e6 6. Bd3 Bd6
(6... Be7) 7. Ne5 (7. Ne2 {main}) 7... O-O 8. O-O Qc7 9. Bg3 Nbd7 (9... Ne4 10.
Bxe4 fxe4 11. f3 exf3 12. Rxf3 Nd7 13. Rxf8+ Nxf8 14. Qh5 Bxe5 15. Bxe5 Qf7 16.
Qe2 Ng6 17. Rf1 Qe7 18. Bg3 e5 19. dxe5 Nxe5 20. e4 dxe4 (20... d4 $11) 21.
Nxe4 $16) 10. f4 b6 (10... Ne4 11. Bxe4 fxe4 12. Qg4 Nxe5 13. fxe5 Rxf1+ 14.
Rxf1 Bf8 15. Ne2 $16 {Boros-Katona,HUN ch tm 2004,0-1}) 11. Rc1 (11. Ne2 {
Stockfish10 & Komodo13}) 11... a6 12. Ne2 (12. Nb1 {both Engines}) 12... b5 13.
a3 (13. b3) 13... Nb6 (13... c5 14. c3 Nb6 $15 {Komodo13}) 14. c3 (14. Be1)
14... Bxe5 (14... Nc4 15. Bxc4 bxc4 $17 {both Engines}) 15. fxe5 Ne4 16. b3
Nxg3 17. Nxg3 (17. hxg3 $14 {both Engines}) 17... Qe7 (17... c5) 18. b4 Qg5 19.
Qe2 Bb7 (19... Bd7) 20. Rf4 (20. Nh5 Bc8 21. Nf4 Bd7 22. Kh1 $16 {Komodo13})
20... Rf7 21. Qh5 Qe7 22. Qe2 (22. Rf3) 22... g6 23. Qd2 h5 24. Rf2 (24. h4 $14
{but neither player looks to have a breakthrough}) 24... Rh7 (24... h4 25. Ne2
g5 $11 {looks worth a try}) 25. Qe2 Qg7 (25... Nc4 {both Engines}) 26. Qf3 h4
27. Nf1 Kf7 28. h3 (28. e4 Ke7 29. exf5 gxf5 30. Nd2 Kd7 31. Nb3 Na4 32. Bc2
Kc7 33. Rcf1 Bc8 34. Nc1 Nb6 35. Nd3 a5 36. Nf4 $14 {again nothing much either
way}) 28... Ke7 29. Nh2 Rah8 30. Qe2 Rh5 31. Qf1 g5 32. Be2 R5h6 33. Rc2 Bc8 {
at least Bl is getting the B back into the game} 34. Bd3 Bd7 35. Qe2 Be8 36.
Qf1 g4 (36... Bh5 $17 {Komodo13}) 37. hxg4 fxg4 38. Rf4 g3 (38... Bh5 $11 {
both Engines}) 39. Ng4 Rg6 $5 {gambling on the fact that Rs are bad defenders}
(39... Rh5 40. Nf6 Rg5 41. Nxe8 Kxe8 42. Rf6 Qg8 43. Qf4 Rg7 $11 {Komodo13})
40. Bxg6 Bxg6 41. Rcf2 $2 {time?} (41. Ra2 Na4 42. Nf6 Kd8 43. Ra1 Qh6 44. Qf3
Kc7 45. Re1 Nxc3 46. Rc1 Be4 47. Nxe4 Nxe4 48. Rxe4 {returning the exchange is
always an option to break any initiative gained by the other side} dxe4 49.
Qxe4 c5 50. Rxc5+ Kb8 51. Rc6 Qh7 52. Rb6+ (52. Qxh7 Rxh7 53. Rxe6 Rc7 54. Re8+
Kb7 55. Rf8 Rc3 56. e4 Re3 57. e6 Rxe4 58. d5 Kc7 $11 {Komodo13- but looks
very risky for Bl to a human eye}) 52... Ka7 53. Qxh7+ Rxh7 54. Rxe6 Rc7 55.
Rf6 $16 {Komodo13}) 41... gxf2+ $19 42. Qxf2 Nd7 (42... h3) (42... Bf5) 43. Nf6
Bf5 44. Ng4 $2 Bxg4 45. g3 h3 (45... hxg3) 46. Kh2 Bf5 47. Qf3 Be4 48. Qe2 Rg8
49. g4 Bg2 (49... Bf5) 50. Qf2 Rf8 51. Qh4+ Ke8 52. Qh5+ Rf7 53. Rxf7 Qxf7 54.
Qh8+ Nf8 55. Qh4 Ng6 56. Qh6 Bf1 (56... Be4) 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.21"]
[Round "1.43"]
[White "Jackson, Paul Robert"]
[Black "Cockerill, Martin K"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "116"]
[BlackElo "98"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "101"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,101,80,19,20,14,27,-4,13,13,48,38,21,5,22,11,20,21,40,48,48,39,67,56,
96,82,127,121,146,86,153,144,142,136,179,193,178,147,140,199,223,221,221,207,
273,195,263,267,335,328,435,373,365,356,352,305,304,313,369,356,355,343,381,
384,381,381,398,398,436,370,378,379,375,428,423,195,178,162,180,90,147,86,87,
98,123,42,59,22,47,0,18,5,17,0,12,0,21,21,6,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3.
c3 e6 4. Bf4 c5 5. e3 Nc6 6. Bd3 Be7 (6... Bd6) 7. Nbd2 Bd7 (7... O-O) (7...
Nh5) 8. h3 (8. Ne5) 8... cxd4 9. exd4 Qb6 (9... Rc8) 10. Qb3 Bd8 $146 (10...
Qxb3 {1.5-0.5}) 11. O-O $16 Qxb3 12. axb3 Ke7 13. b4 Bb6 14. Ra2 (14. b5) 14...
Kd8 15. Rfa1 $18 Ne7 16. Bd6 (16. Nb3) 16... Nc8 17. Bc5 Bxc5 18. bxc5 (18.
dxc5 $18) 18... h6 (18... a6 $16) 19. Ne5 Ke7 20. b4 Be8 21. b5 $18 g5 22. Kf1
(22. b6 $18 {Fritz16 & Komodo13}) 22... h5 23. b6 h4 24. bxa7 (24. c6 $1 {
Komodo13} Bxc6 (24... Nxb6 25. Rxa7 Rxa7 26. Rxa7 Bxc6 (26... Kd6 27. Rxb7 Na4
28. c7 Bd7 29. Nxf7+ Kc6 30. Ra7 Rc8 31. Rxa4 $18) 27. Nxc6+ $18) 25. Nxc6+
bxc6 26. b7 Rb8 27. bxc8=Q Rhxc8 28. Rxa7+ $18) (24. Ndf3 a6 25. c6 {Fritz16}
Nxb6 26. cxb7 Rb8 27. Rxa6 Rxb7 28. Rb1 Nfd7 29. Nxd7 Bxd7 30. Raxb6 $18 {
Komodo13}) 24... g4 25. Nxg4 (25. Rb2 Bc6 26. Bb5 $18 {both Engines} Rxa7 27.
Rxa7 Nxa7 28. Bxc6 Rb8 29. Bxb7 Nd7 30. Nxg4 Nc6 31. Rb1 $18 {Komodo13}) 25...
Nxg4 26. hxg4 h3 27. gxh3 (27. Kg1) 27... Rxh3 28. Ke2 Bc6 (28... f6 29. Nf1
Kd8 30. f3 Kc7 31. Kf2 Ne7 32. Kg2 Rh8 33. Ne3 $18 {Komodo13}) (28... Kd8 29.
g5 Kc7 30. Nf3 $18 {Fritz13}) 29. Nf3 (29. g5) 29... f6 30. g5 fxg5 31. Nxg5
Rh2 32. Nf3 Rh8 33. Ne5 Kf6 34. Nxc6 bxc6 35. Ra6 Ne7 36. Rb1 Rhc8 37. Rh1 (37.
Rb7 $18) 37... Rc7 38. Rh6+ Kf7 39. c4 (39. Ke3 {a King advance is Wh's last
winning opportunity} Rcxa7 40. Rxa7 Rxa7 41. Kf4 Ra3 42. Ke5 Rxc3 43. Rh7+ Kf8
44. Rh3 Kf7 45. Kd6 Kf6 46. Re3 $18 {Bl is in zugzwang}) 39... Raxa7 40. Rxa7
Rxa7 41. cxd5 cxd5 (41... Ra2+ 42. Kf3 cxd5 43. Rh4 Kf6 $11 {Komodo13}) 42. Ke3
(42. Rh4 Ra4 43. Rf4+ Kg7 44. Bb5 Ra2+ 45. Kd3 Ra3+ 46. Kc2 Nf5 47. Kb2 Ra5 48.
Bd3 Ne7 $14 {Komodo13; looks likeBl can hold on despite the protected passed
pawn, as Wh finds it difficult to get his K into the game.} 49. Kb3 Nc6 50. Be2
(50. Bc2 e5 51. dxe5 Nxe5 52. Rf5 Rb5+ 53. Kc3 Rxc5+ 54. Kd4 Rxc2 55. Kxe5 Rd2
$11) 50... Kg6 (50... e5 51. dxe5 Rxc5 (51... Nxe5 52. Rf5 Nc6 53. Rxd5 $18)
52. e6 {is dangerous}) 51. Kc3 Ra3+ 52. Kb2 Ra4 53. Kc3 Ra3+ {repetition})
42... Ra3 43. Ke2 Ra2+ 44. Kf1 Rd2 45. Rh3 Nc6 46. Ke1 Ra2 47. Rh7+ Kf6 48.
Rh6+ Ke7 49. Rh7+ Kf6 50. Rh6+ Ke7 51. Rh7+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.21"]
[Round "1.44"]
[White "Wilson, Jeff"]
[Black "Ryder, Arthur"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "97"]
[BlackElo "112"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "43"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,43,80,32,109,77,75,20,69,50,43,16,73,14,4,-9,-9,-27,-51,-39,-2,-5,-17,
-50,-54,-87,-64,-86,-69,-67,-15,-39,-43,-31,-28,-81,-33,-20,-25,-25,-5,2,-4,
-20,-9,-13]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 e6 3. f4 d6 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. a3 (5. Bb5) (5. Bc4)
5... g6 (5... a6) (5... Be7) 6. Bc4 Bg7 7. O-O Nge7 8. Qe1 (8. d3 {a little
more flexible, waiting for 0-0?}) 8... Nd4 9. Nxd4 Bxd4+ (9... cxd4 {
alternative}) 10. Kh1 O-O 11. Ne2 (11. d3 {5 Wh wins,3 draws,4 Bl wins}) 11...
Bg7 12. c3 (12. Ba2 {avoids an exchange of e4}) (12. Ng3 d5 13. Ba2 Bd7 14. c3
Bc6 15. f5 exf5 16. exf5 Nxf5 17. Nxf5 gxf5 18. Rxf5 Re8 $15 19. Qf2 Qe7 (19...
Qd7) 20. d3 Qe1+ 21. Qf1 (21. Qg1) 21... Qxf1+ 22. Rxf1 Re2 $19 {though
Merettig-Braun, Niedersachsen ch, Velden 2014,1-0 (bl lost an exchange
overpressing)}) 12... d5 $17 13. Bd3 c4 14. Bc2 b5 (14... dxe4 15. Bxe4 Rb8 16.
Rf3 Bd7 17. d4 b5 $17 {Komodo13}) 15. d4 (15. e5 $11) 15... dxe4 16. Bxe4 Rb8
17. Ng3 Bb7 18. Bxb7 Rxb7 19. Ne4 Rd7 (19... Qd5 $15 {Wh has a bad QB}) 20. Bd2
Nf5 21. Rd1 Nd6 22. Nxd6 (22. Nc5 Rc7 23. Qe2 $11) (22. Nxd6 Rxd6 23. Qe4 Rd5
$15 {Komodo13}) 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.21"]
[Round "1.45"]
[White "Harrington, Peter"]
[Black "Kirklys, Domantas"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E01"]
[WhiteElo "111"]
[BlackElo "92"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "93"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,93,19,25,26,-16,3,-10,-6,-17,3,-23,-9,-31,21,17,62,50,48,23,232,46,75,
84,119,93,155,94,124,67,67,52,70,70,68,-223,19,12,34,38,49,35,28,23,49,25,42,
34,36,27,38,40,35,22,52,33,31,35,68,2,45,14,41,19,84,95,93,103,103,40,37,40,34,
28,21,14,13,-16,-19,-13,-13,-12,-13,-46,-45,-46,-30,-39,-44,-45,-37,-26,-21,
-42,-26,-26]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 Nc6 {obstructs the c file} (
4... Be7) 5. Bg2 Be7 6. a3 (6. O-O) 6... b6 (6... O-O 7. O-O {4 Wh wins,2
draws,2 Bl wins}) 7. cxd5 Nxd5 {Wh should be able to genrate pressure on the C
file with the Rs} 8. O-O (8. e4 Nf6 9. O-O $16 {Komodo13}) 8... Bb7 9. b4 (9.
e4 Nf6 10. Nc3 $16 {Komodo13. Wh has a cntre, to drive back the Ns when it
suits him}) 9... Bd6 $2 {this should lose a piece} 10. Qc2 (10. e4 Ndxb4 (10...
Nde7 11. e5) 11. axb4 Nxb4 12. Nc3) (10. b5 Nce7 11. e4 Nf6 12. e5) 10... Nde7
11. Bb2 (11. e4 Ng6 12. Rd1 $18 {Komodo13}) 11... f6 12. Nbd2 Ng6 13. e4 $18 (
13. Nh4 Nge7 14. e4 $18 {Komodo13}) 13... O-O 14. e5 fxe5 15. Nxe5 (15. dxe5
Be7 16. h4 $18) 15... Bxe5 (15... Nxd4 16. Bxd4 Bxe5 17. Bxb7 Bxd4 18. Rad1 Rb8
19. Nb3 c5 20. Be4 Qf6 $11 {Komodo13}) 16. dxe5 Nd4 17. Qd3 $2 (17. Bxd4 Bxg2
18. Kxg2 Qxd4 $16) 17... Bxg2 (17... Nf3+ $19 {wins the Q}) 18. Kxg2 Qd5+ 19.
Qe4 Qxe4+ 20. Nxe4 Nf3 21. Rac1 Rac8 22. Rc6 Ngxe5 23. Bxe5 Nxe5 24. Rxe6 Rfe8
$11 25. Rxe8+ Rxe8 26. Nc3 Nc4 27. a4 a5 28. bxa5 Nxa5 29. Rd1 Rb8 30. Rd7 c6
31. Rc7 b5 32. axb5 cxb5 33. Rc5 b4 34. Rxa5 bxc3 35. Rc5 Rb3 $11 {even if Bl
loses the c pawn, the resulting R & 3 pawns vs R & 2 pawns all on one side is
a draw} 36. Kf3 c2+ 37. Ke2 Rb2 38. Ke1 Kf7 (38... Rb1+ 39. Kd2 Rf1 40. Rxc2
Rxf2+ 41. Kc3 Rxc2+ 42. Kxc2 $11) 39. Kd2 c1=Q+ 40. Kxc1 Rxf2 $11 41. Rh5 Kg6
42. g4 Rg2 43. h3 h6 44. Kd1 Kh7 45. Ke1 g6 46. Rh4 g5 47. Rh5 {at some point
h4 will release the R} 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.21"]
[Round "1.46"]
[White "Szwajkun, Steve"]
[Black "Allen, Timothy S"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C63"]
[WhiteElo "89"]
[BlackElo "110"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "37"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,37,18,18,28,33,11,15,68,41,24,42,71,68,48,-11,-21,-21,52,43,43,61,64,
42,52,-141,-21,-376,-151,-606,-148,-465,-164,-542,-469,-542,-312,-635,-357,
-516]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 f5 4. Nc3 fxe4 5. Nxe4 d5 6. Nxe5 dxe4 7.
Qh5+ (7. Nxc6 Qg5 {main}) 7... g6 8. Nxg6 Nf6 {11 games, 77% for Wh} (8... hxg6
{main, 52 games, 29% for Wh}) 9. Qe5+ Kf7 10. Nxh8+ Kg7 (10... Kg8 {4 Wh wins,
1 Bl win}) 11. Qg5+ (11. Bxc6 bxc6 {5 Wh wins, 1 draw} 12. b3) (11. Nf7 Nxe5 {
1-0} (11... Kxf7 $15)) 11... Kxh8 12. Bc4 (12. b3 Be7 (12... Nd4 $17) 13. c3 (
13. Bxc6 bxc6 14. Bb2 $16) 13... Be6 (13... Nd5 $19) 14. O-O Qd7 15. f4 Rg8 $19
{Gromsch-Budde,Buesom U20 op 1971,0-1}) 12... Be7 (12... Nd4 13. O-O h6 $19 {
Komodo13} (13... Be6 14. Bxe6 Nxe6 15. Qe3 Bc5 $17 {yet, Kuzmanovic-Molnar,
Belgrade ch 2017,1-0})) 13. Qe3 (13. O-O $11) 13... Nd4 $19 14. Qc3 b5 (14...
Bb4 $1 $19 15. Qxb4 Nxc2+) 15. Be2 Bg4 (15... Bb4) 16. Qg3 Nxc2+ (16... Bd6 17.
Qh4 Nxc2+ 18. Kd1 Bxe2+ 19. Kxc2 Be5 $19) 17. Kd1 Nxa1 18. b3 (18. Bxg4) 18...
a6 19. Bb2 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.21"]
[Round "1.47"]
[White "Kelly, Alan"]
[Black "Hilditch-Love, Daniel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D12"]
[WhiteElo "109"]
[BlackElo "85"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,54,52,25,25,15,15,2,16,19,29,8,17,-26,-10,-39,-5,-34,-12,-19,10,13,15,
12,1,-8,25,-26,-21,-34,-34,-38,-34,-63,-46,-44,-17,-23,-13,-90,-62,-181,-109,
-183,-56,-56,-66,-133,-79,-90,-89,-87,-87,-101,-64,-929,-938]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. e3
d5 3. Nf3 Bf5 4. c4 c6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Bd2 (6. Nh4) (6. Bd3) 6... Nbd7 7. cxd5
exd5 8. Be2 Be7 (8... Bd6 {main, 24 % for Wh.Bl has an easier game than Wh, as
his Bs are not enclosed}) 9. Nh4 (9. Rc1 O-O 10. O-O) 9... Bg6 10. Nxg6 (10. g3
Nb6 11. O-O Nc8 12. f3 Nd6 13. Rc1 (13. Be1 O-O 14. Nxg6 hxg6 15. Bf2 Qd7 {
Walter-Sieglen,BL2 Sued,2014,1/2-1/2})) 10... hxg6 11. Qc2 (11. Bf3 {1.5-0.5})
11... Qc7 (11... Bd6 12. O-O-O b5 13. Kb1 O-O 14. g3 {Dan-Edel,Niedersachsen
ch, Verden 2010, draw agreed}) (11... a5 12. f3 Nb6 13. O-O-O a4 14. Kb1 Nc4
15. e4 b5 16. e5 Nd7 17. e6 Nf8 18. exf7+ Kxf7 19. Bc1 Qa5 20. Rhe1 Bf6 {
Morozov-Svetushkin, MOL ch , Chisinau 2019,0-1}) 12. h3 a6 (12... Nb6 13. O-O-O
{0.5-1.5}) (12... O-O-O {1-0}) (12... Nf8 13. O-O Ne6 14. Rab1 Qd6 15. b4 g5
16. Qd1 Bd8 17. a3 Bc7 18. f4 gxf4 19. exf4 Nxd4 {Novikov-Shishkov,RUS PV14
Vet , ICCF 2014,0-1}) 13. e4 dxe4 14. Nxe4 Nxe4 15. Qxe4 Nf6 16. Qc2 (16. Qe5
$11) 16... Rd8 17. Bc3 O-O 18. O-O Nd5 19. Bd2 (19. Bf3 Nxc3 20. bxc3 c5 $11 {
Komodo13}) 19... Bf6 20. Be3 (20. Bc3 Nf4 $15) 20... Rfe8 $19 21. Qd2 Bxd4 (
21... c5 $19) 22. Bxd4 Nf4 23. Rfe1 (23. Bg4 c5 $17) 23... Rxd4 (23... Re4 $19)
24. Qxd4 Nxe2+ 25. Rxe2 Rxe2 26. b3 Qe5 27. Qg4 $2 (27. Qxe5 Rxe5 28. Rd1 Rd5
$17) 27... Qxa1+ 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.21"]
[Round "1.48"]
[White "Bohm, Richard D"]
[Black "Simmons, John A"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C40"]
[WhiteElo "83"]
[BlackElo "109"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,78,19,38,25,7,83,71,90,23,38,0,25,-3,5,-11,0,4,28,20,50,26,64,35,33,
36,127,6,235,235,251,251,243,122,145,169,242,128,143,190,384,100,80,77,19,16,
18,18,55,-78,0,-178,-162,-422,-191,-279,-281,-276,-285,-308,-215,-234,-198,
-209,-209,-313,-378,-551,-729,-1664,-2162,-29991,-29992,-29993,-29994,-29995,
-607,-29989,-29990,-29999,-30000]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Qe7 3. Bc4 (3. Nc3) 3... d6
4. c3 (4. O-O) (4. Nc3) 4... h6 5. Na3 $146 (5. O-O) (5. d3) 5... c6 6. h3 Nf6
7. Qe2 Nbd7 8. d3 Nb6 (8... g6 9. Be3 a6 10. Bb3 Bg7 11. Nc4 O-O 12. O-O Kh7
13. Nh2 g5 14. Bc2 Rg8 15. g4 Nf8 16. d4 $14 {Maissenbacher-Koch, Merano Gold
Cup 2009,1/2-1/2}) 9. Bb3 Bd7 10. Bd2 a5 11. c4 {blocks in Wh's B} (11. Nc4) (
11. Be3 Qd8 12. Bc2 Be7 13. O-O $16 {Komodo13}) 11... a4 12. Bc2 d5 $2 (12...
g6 {is more cautious}) 13. O-O (13. exd5 cxd5 14. Nxe5 $18 {a key pawn}) 13...
Rg8 (13... d4 {blocks the centre, then resumes the K side plan} 14. Bd1 g5) 14.
exd5 cxd5 15. Nxe5 $18 dxc4 16. Bb4 (16. dxc4 O-O-O 17. Rfe1 $18 {the Bl K is
in far more danger than Wh's}) 16... cxd3 17. Bxd3 Qe6 18. Bxf8 $18 (18. Nb5 $1
$18) (18. Qd2 $18) (18. Bc3 $18) 18... Kxf8 19. Rfe1 g6 20. Qe3 (20. Qd2 Kg7
21. Ng4 $18 {Komodo13}) 20... Kg7 21. Nb5 (21. Rad1 $16) 21... Bxb5 22. Bxb5
Rgd8 {Bl has escaped from the opening} 23. Qg3 Qd5 24. Nxg6 {an interesting
idea that nearly works} (24. Bd3 Nh5 25. Qe3 Re8 26. Rad1 Ra5 27. Qxb6 Rxe5 28.
Qb4 $11 {Komodo13}) 24... Qxb5 (24... fxg6 25. Re7+ Kh8 26. Qxg6 Qg5 27. Qxg5
hxg5 28. Rxb7 Rab8 $11 {Bl has only 2 pawns left, both of which are likely to
be exchanged early}) 25. Ne7+ (25. Ne5+ $1 Kh7 (25... Kf8 26. Qf4 Kg7 27. Re3
Nbd5 28. Rg3+ Kf8 29. Qxh6+ $18) 26. Qh4 Nbd5 27. Nxf7 Kg6 28. Nxd8 Rxd8 29.
Qd4 $16 {the Bl K is still in danger}) 25... Kh7 (25... Qg5 $19) 26. Ng6 Rd7 (
26... Nh5 27. Qe5 Rd5 28. Qc7 Kxg6 $19 {Komodo13}) 27. Nf4 Rg8 $19 (27... Qf5
$19) 28. Qc3 Qg5 29. Qf3 Nbd5 30. Nxd5 Rxd5 31. Re7 Rg7 32. g4 h5 33. Rxb7 hxg4
34. Qc3 gxh3+ 35. Kf1 Qg2+ 36. Ke2 Qe4+ 37. Qe3 Qxe3+ (37... Qc4+ 38. Kf3 Qg4#)
38. fxe3 Rg2+ 39. Kf3 (39. Kf1 Rf5+ 40. Ke1 h2 41. Rd1 h1=R#) 39... Rf5# 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.21"]
[Round "1.49"]
[White "Taylor, Paul A"]
[Black "McFadden, Wayne Philip"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "109"]
[BlackElo "83"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "28"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,28,80,21,21,21,23,-14,34,30,23,26,23,14,21,17,28,-9,5,15,298,310,581,
563,571,571,771,757,29997,29998,29999]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. Bf4 Bb4 4. e3
Bxc3+ (4... Nd5) 5. bxc3 d6 6. Bd3 (6. Nf3 {1 game each}) 6... O-O 7. Nf3 h6 8.
Qd2 (8. e4) 8... b6 9. e4 Kh7 $2 {guards against a Bxh6 sacrifice , which
isn't really dangerous & just losing a piece instead that is vital to the
defence of the K} (9... Bb7 10. Bxh6 $2 (10. Qe2 Nbd7 11. O-O e5 $11) 10...
Nxe4 (10... gxh6 11. e5 (11. Qxh6 Bxe4 12. Qg5+ Bg6) 11... dxe5 12. dxe5 Kg7
13. exf6+ Qxf6 $15)) 10. e5+ Kh8 (10... Kg8 {is a better square, as Bl soon
finds out} 11. exf6 Qxf6 12. h4 {though, wins quickly- that N on f6 is deeply
missed} Qe7 (12... Re8 13. Bg5 hxg5 14. hxg5 Qd8 15. Qf4 f5 16. Qh4 $18) 13.
Bxh6 gxh6 14. Qxh6 f5 15. Rh3 Rf7 16. Ng5 Rf6 17. Qh5 $18 {Komodo13}) 11. exf6
Qxf6 12. Be4 d5 (12... c6 13. Bxd6 {is perhaps a little better} Qd8 14. Bxf8
Qxf8 15. O-O) 13. Be5 Qe7 14. Qxh6+ Kg8 {Wh can choose his mate} 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.21"]
[Round "1.50"]
[White "Hall, Les"]
[Black "Gorman, Ken"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A03"]
[WhiteElo "80"]
[BlackElo "108"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "107"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,107,20,25,30,14,12,-7,4,-30,-11,-40,-21,-60,-6,-2,4,-4,233,12,21,6,33,
7,63,4,62,63,59,59,59,39,39,29,48,-52,-19,-26,30,7,37,-6,161,51,113,45,49,18,
49,6,17,17,28,29,60,26,14,-6,81,4,71,43,163,135,138,50,228,129,214,45,45,19,38,
-35,-42,-88,-35,-35,-27,-37,-34,-34,-17,-32,-21,-84,-54,-82,-76,-148,-148,-148,
-156,-154,-125,-125,-123,-123,-125,-125,-125,-124,-130,-123,-58,-83,-75,-123,
-123,-29995]} 1. d4 d5 2. e3 Nf6 3. Bd3 g6 4. f4 Bg7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Ne5 Nbd7 7.
O-O Nxe5 (7... c5) (7... Ne4) 8. fxe5 b6 $2 (8... Bg4) (8... Ne4) (8... Ne8) 9.
Nd2 $2 (9. exf6 $18) 9... Nd7 10. Nf3 e6 11. e4 c5 12. c3 c4 (12... Bb7 {
more flexible} 13. Bg5 Qe8 14. Qe2 Rc8 15. Rad1 Rc7 16. Nd2 cxd4 17. cxd4 Nb8
18. exd5 exd5 19. Nf3 Bc8 20. Rc1 {Berry-Stanford, Dake mem, McMinnville 2004,
1/2-1/2}) 13. Bc2 $16 Bb7 14. exd5 (14. Bg5) (14. Qe2) 14... Bxd5 15. b3 (15.
Qe2) 15... b5 16. Ba3 Re8 17. b4 {shutting out his B} Qb6 $15 (17... f6 $17)
18. Rf2 a5 (18... f6) 19. Qe2 axb4 20. Bxb4 Ra6 21. a3 $16 Qa7 22. Be4 (22. Ng5
$1 {the F file remains a threat to Bl, especially since most of his pieces are
away on the Q side} f5 23. exf6 Nxf6 24. Nxh7 Nxh7 (24... Kxh7 25. Rxf6 $18
Bxf6 26. Qh5+ Kg7 27. Qxg6+ Kh8 28. Qxe8+ Kg7 29. Qf8#) 25. Bxg6 Rb8 26. Qh5
Nf6 27. Qh4 Ba8 28. Raf1 $18 {Komodo13}) 22... Qa8 23. Bxd5 Qxd5 24. Bd6 Bf8 (
24... f5 $11) 25. Bxf8 Rxf8 $11 26. Qb2 Nb6 27. Qc2 (27. Raf1 Ra7 28. Qd2 Kg7
29. Ng5 h6 30. Nxe6+ Qxe6 31. Rf6 Qd7 32. Rxb6 $18 {Komodo13}) 27... Rfa8 28.
Qb2 (28. Qc1) 28... Na4 29. Qb4 {the Wh N gets in to f6} (29. Qd2 $1 {aiming
for the K again} R8a7 30. Ng5 Rd7 31. Raf1 Raa7 32. Qe3 $18) 29... Re8 30. Rb1
Kg7 31. Re1 (31. Ng5 Ra7 32. Rf4 Nb6 33. Rbf1 Ree7 34. Qb1 h6 35. Ne4 $18 {
Komodo13} Nd7 36. Nd6 (36. Nf6 Qa8 37. Qxb5 $18) 36... Nf8 37. R1f3 Kg8 38. Qf1
$18 {Komodo13}) 31... Nb6 32. h4 h5 33. Rb1 (33. Ng5 $18 {Komodo13}) 33... Qd7
34. Qxb5 (34. Ng5 $18) 34... Qxb5 35. Rxb5 Nd5 (35... Re7 $11) 36. Rc5 (36. Rb7
Re7 37. Rxe7 Nxe7 38. Ng5 Nf5 39. Ra2 Nxh4 40. a4 $16 {Komodo13}) 36... Rxa3
37. Rc2 (37. Ng5 Re7 38. Ne4) 37... Rxc3 (37... Ne3 38. Rb2 (38. Rc1 Ra2 39.
Ne1 Rb8 $19) 38... Rxc3 $19 {Komodo13}) 38. Rxc3 Nxc3 39. Rxc4 Nd5 $11 40. Kf2
Nf4 41. Kg3 Nd5 42. Nd2 Rb8 43. Nf3 Rb2 44. Ne1 (44. Ra4 Ne3 45. Ng5 Rb7 $11 {
Komodo13}) 44... Ne3 $17 45. Rc3 Nf5+ 46. Kh3 Nxd4 47. Nf3 Nf5 48. Rc7 Rb8 (
48... Rb3 49. Kh2 Nh6 50. Kg3 Ng4 51. Kf4 Ra3 52. Ng5 Ra4+ 53. Kg3 Nxe5 54.
Nxe6+ Kf6 55. Ng5 Ra2 $17 {probably not enough to win}) 49. Ng5 Rb3+ 50. Kh2
Nh6 51. Nxe6+ Kh7 52. Ng5+ Kg8 53. Rc8+ Kg7 54. Rc7 $2 (54. g3) (54. Rc7 Ng4+
55. Kg1 Rb1+ 56. Rc1 Rxc1#) 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.21"]
[Round "1.51"]
[White "Taylor, Geoffrey P"]
[Black "Hynes, Thomas F"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C02"]
[WhiteElo "106"]
[BlackElo "76"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,49,21,14,47,25,45,26,22,6,4,-8,10,-4,20,35,31,50,83,68,214,40,163,33,
160,4,18,-57,-5,-259,-253,-348,-362,-587,-753,-829,-610,-584,-680,-680,-680,
-680,-199,-193,-193,-193,342,342,342,350,342,351]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5
4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. a3 cxd4 (6... c4) (6... Nh6) (6... Bd7) (6... a5) 7.
cxd4 f6 (7... Nge7 8. b4 Nf5 9. Bb2) 8. Nc3 (8. Bd3) (8. exf6) 8... fxe5 9.
dxe5 Bc5 (9... Nge7) 10. Qd2 (10. Na4 {Cloud Engines} Bxf2+ 11. Ke2 Qc7 12.
Kxf2 Nxe5 13. Bf4 Nd3+ 14. Bxd3 Qxf4 15. Bb5+ Ke7 16. Re1 Nf6 17. g3 Ne4+ 18.
Kg2 Qf6 $18 {Van Nies-Peroutik, LSS 2007,0-1(time)}) 10... Nge7 (10... Be7) 11.
Bd3 (11. b4 Bd4 12. b5 Bxc3 13. Qxc3 Qa5 14. Bb2 Qxc3+ 15. Bxc3 Nd8 16. a4 $16
{Komodo13}) 11... Qc7 12. Qg5 (12. b4 $18 Bb6 (12... Bxf2+) 13. Nb5 Qd8 14.
Nd6+ Kf8 15. Qf4+ Nf5 16. g4 {Komodo13}) 12... O-O $11 13. Bf4 (13. O-O) 13...
Bd7 14. Bxh7+ $2 {the sacrifice doesn't always work; it depends on how exactly
the pieces are placed} (14. O-O $14) 14... Kxh7 $19 15. Qh5+ Kg8 16. Ng5 Bxf2+
(16... Rxf4 {is even stronger} 17. Qh7+ Kf8 18. Qh8+ Ng8 19. Nh7+ Kf7 20. Ng5+
Ke8 21. Qxg8+ Rf8 22. Qxg7 Qxe5+ 23. Qxe5 Bxf2+ 24. Ke2 Nxe5 $19 {Komodo13})
17. Kd1 Rxf4 18. Qh7+ Kf8 19. Qh8+ Ng8 20. Nh7+ Ke7 21. Qxg7+ Rf7 22. Qg5+ Ke8
(22... Nf6 {only move} 23. exf6+ Kd8 24. Qg8+ Be8 25. Ng5 Nd4 26. Nxf7+ Qxf7
27. Qxf7 Bxf7 28. g4 Kd7 29. a4 Bh4 $19 {Komodo13}) 23. Qxg8+ Ke7 24. Qg5+ Ke8
25. Qg8+ (25. Nf6+ $1 Rxf6 (25... Ke7 26. Nfxd5+) (25... Kf8 26. Qg8+ Ke7 27.
Ncxd5+ exd5 28. Nxd5+ Ke6 29. Nxc7+ $18) 26. exf6 Qd6 27. Nb5 Qf8 28. Rf1 $18 {
Komodo13} (28. f7+ Kxf7 (28... Qxf7 29. Nd6+) 29. Rf1 $18 {Komodo13})) 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.21"]
[Round "1.52"]
[White "Holyhead, James"]
[Black "Holmes, Nick D"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E90"]
[WhiteElo "64"]
[BlackElo "105"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,79,30,30,34,21,30,10,37,32,37,26,39,27,26,2,1,15,11,19,14,20,33,13,1,
1,16,13,44,40,50,47,50,2,0,-67,30,-2,4,-28,4,-1,73,68,83,22,28,28,22,12,12,17,
10,17,315,171,349,346,368,351,355,373,390,390,408,411,413,431,432,445,447,384,
676,801,811,919,1054,1449,1449,1622,2666,2846]} 1. d4 d6 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4.
e4 Bg7 5. Be3 O-O 6. Nf3 (6. f3 {main}) 6... b6 (6... e5) (6... Nbd7) 7. Qd2 (
7. Bd3 {main}) 7... Bb7 8. Bd3 c5 9. d5 Ng4 {Komodo13} (9... e5 {1/2-1/2}) (
9... e6 10. O-O {1.5-0.5}) 10. Bf4 Nd7 11. h3 Nge5 12. Nxe5 Nxe5 13. Be2 Re8
14. Bh6 Bh8 15. f4 Nd7 16. f5 e6 17. Bg5 Bf6 (17... Bxc3 18. bxc3 f6 19. Bf4
exf5 20. exf5 Qe7 21. Kf2 Ne5 $11 {Komodo13}) 18. Bxf6 Qxf6 19. O-O-O exf5 20.
exf5 gxf5 21. Rhf1 Ne5 22. Ne4 (22. g4 $18) 22... Qg6 23. Bh5 Nxc4 24. Bxg6
Nxd2 25. Bxf7+ Kxf7 26. Nxd6+ Kf8 (26... Ke7 27. Nxf5+ Kd7 28. Rxd2 Re5 29. Nh4
Rae8 $14) 27. Rxd2 $18 (27. Rxf5+ $1 $18) 27... Bc8 28. Nxe8 Kxe8 29. Re1+ Kf8
30. d6 Bd7 31. Re7 Rd8 32. Rxh7 Kg8 33. Re7 a6 34. h4 Kf8 35. Rde2 Re8 36. h5
Rxe7 37. Rxe7 Be8 38. h6 Bg6 39. Rb7 (39. h7) (39. Re1) 39... b5 40. Rb8+ 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.21"]
[Round "1.53"]
[White "Fraser, Roland"]
[Black "Hollyman, Mike"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "91"]
[BlackElo "48"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,83,5,16,32,-60,-42,-32,-8,-24,-42,-86,-99,-99,-11,-13,16,-22,-7,-19,
-14,-14,0,-16,21,12,5,12,42,19,46,39,40,40,98,92,92,94,113,128,131,131,142,139,
144,154,155,148,278,247,320,225,225,238,237,201,251,259,266,266,266,194,254,
247,628,640,642,649,649,666,670,670,672,674,675,676,674,674,674,709,728,672,
752,809,1199,1293]} 1. e4 d5 2. Nf3 {the Tennyson Gambit, an elder cousin of
the Budapest} dxe4 3. Ng5 Bf5 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Bc4 e6 6. d3 (6. f3 exf3 7. Qxf3 {
main} Nc6 (7... c6 8. Nxf7 {eg Keres-Faltweber, corr 1932,1-0}) 8. Nxf7 Nd4 9.
Qxf5 exf5 10. Nxd8 Rxd8 11. Kd1 c6 $11 {Medla-Short, Puhajarve rapid 2012,0-1})
6... h6 $146 (6... exd3 7. Qf3 Nc6 (7... dxc2 8. Nxf7 Bg4 9. Nxd8 Bxf3 10. Nxe6
Bc6 11. Nxc7+ Kd8 12. Nxa8 {Shvadchenko-Pishchalnikov, Tambov Pavlyutin mem,
2017,1-0}) 8. cxd3 (8. Nxf7 Qd4 $19 (8... Nd4 9. Nxd8 Nxf3+ 10. gxf3 Rxd8 11.
cxd3 Kf7 12. Ne4 {Koshelev-Kozhevnikov, Novosibirsk 2002,1/2-1/2}) 9. Nxh8 Qxc4
10. O-O {Koshelev-Beloshapkin,Sukharev mem, Novosibirsk 2012,1/2-1/2})) 7.
Ngxe4 Nxe4 8. Nxe4 Bxe4 9. dxe4 Qxd1+ 10. Kxd1 $14 {because of the 2 Bs} Nc6
11. Bb5 Bc5 12. Bxc6+ bxc6 {which translates to better pawn structure, but
difficult to exploit in the absence of Ns} 13. Ke2 O-O (13... O-O-O) 14. Rd1 e5
(14... f5 15. Be3 Bd6 16. c4 fxe4 17. Rd4 Rab8 18. Rb1 Rf5 19. Rxe4 Ra5 20.
Rxe6 Kf7 21. Re4 c5 22. Bd2 Rxa2 23. Bc3 $11 {Komodo13}) 15. Be3 Bxe3 16. Kxe3
f5 (16... Rfd8) 17. exf5 (17. Rd7 $18) 17... Rxf5 18. Rd7 Raf8 19. f3 $16 Rb8
20. b3 $18 Rf7 21. Rad1 Rbf8 22. Rxf7 Rxf7 23. Rd8+ Kh7 (23... Rf8 24. Rxf8+
Kxf8 25. Ke4 $18) 24. Ra8 Rd7 25. Ke2 (25. Rxa7) 25... Kg6 26. Rxa7 Kf5 27. Ra4
(27. a4) 27... g5 28. Rc4 Rd6 29. a4 Ke6 30. a5 Kd7 31. a6 Kc8 32. Rb4 c5 33.
a7 cxb4 34. a8=Q+ Kd7 35. Qa4+ Rc6 36. Kd3 Kd6 37. Qxb4+ Ke6 38. Qg4+ Kf6 39.
c4 Rd6+ 40. Kc2 Rd4 41. Qc8 e4 42. Qh8+ 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.21"]
[Round "1.54"]
[White "Leonard, Paul"]
[Black "De Santos, Andrew R"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B76"]
[BlackElo "103"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,63,19,29,40,40,86,72,72,39,39,30,74,65,57,49,28,30,39,20,35,21,28,40,
49,-2,28,-46,-43,-43,0,-4,0,0,0,0,40,42,67,42,34,36,67,38,67,67,67,23,67,39,39,
67,67,45,70,51,420,454,713,739,29989,1843,29995,29996,29999,-30000]} 1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. f3 Bg7 7. Be3 O-O 8. Qd2 Nc6 9.
O-O-O Bd7 (9... d5 {most active, main}) (9... Nxd4 10. Bxd4 Be6 {next}) 10. h4
(10. g4 Rc8 11. h4 {main}) (10. Kb1 {Cloud Engines}) 10... Nxd4 (10... h5) (
10... Rc8) 11. Bxd4 a6 {a bit slow} (11... Qa5 {5 Wh wins,5 draws}) (11... b5 {
2 Wh wins, 1 draw, 1 Bl win}) (11... h5 {Cloud Engines}) 12. Be3 (12. h5 $18 b5
13. g4 (13. Nd5 Nxd5 14. exd5 Bxd4 15. Qxd4 Qa5 16. Qh4 Qa4 17. Rd4 {
Baerwinkel-Schaefer,SJRPch U17, Sargenroth 1998,1-0}) 13... Bc6 14. Qh2 e5 15.
Be3 b4 16. Nd5 Bxd5 17. exd5 Nxd5 18. hxg6 (18. Rxd5 $18) 18... Qa5 19. Kb1 (
19. Qxh7#) 19... fxg6 20. Bc4 Rfc8 21. Rxd5 Qc7 22. Rc5+ Kf8 23. Rxc7 Rxc7 24.
Bd5 Rac8 25. Bb3 a5 {Strong-De Santos, British Chess Championships 2016,1-0})
12... Rc8 (12... b5 13. g4 h5 14. e5 Nxg4 15. fxg4 Bxg4 16. Re1 Bxe5 17. Bg5
Re8 18. Bh3 f5 19. Bh6 (19. Bxg4 fxg4 20. Nd5 $18) (19. Nd5 Bxh3 20. Rxh3 $18)
19... Kh7 {Jaksic-Sos, Adriatic U12 Split 2015,0-1}) 13. Bh6 (13. g4 Qa5 14.
Kb1 Rfe8 15. h5 Nxg4 16. fxg4 Bxc3 17. bxc3 Be6 18. c4 Qxd2 19. Rxd2 Bxg4 20.
hxg6 fxg6 21. Rh4 Rf8 22. Bd3 h5 23. e5 $18 {Calangi-Angles d'Auriac, Moscow
ol 1994,1-0}) (13. Kb1) 13... Bxh6 14. Qxh6 Rxc3 {a standard sacrifice in the
Yugoslav Dragon} 15. bxc3 Qa5 16. Bc4 Qxc3 17. Bb3 $11 Qa1+ (17... Rc8) 18. Kd2
Qd4+ (18... Qb2) 19. Kc1 (19. Ke2 Bb5+ 20. Ke1 Qb6 21. Qd2 $14) 19... Qa1+ 20.
Kd2 Qd4+ 21. Ke1 Qc3+ (21... Qc5 22. Qg5) 22. Qd2 Qe5 23. Qe3 Bc6 (23... Qg3+
$11) 24. Qg5 (24. Kf2) 24... Qc3+ 25. Qd2 (25. Kf2 $14) 25... Qe5 26. Qd4 Qa5+
(26... Qf4 27. Qd2 Qe5 $11) 27. Rd2 (27. Kf2) 27... e6 $2 (27... Rc8 28. Kf2
Nd7 29. h5 g5 30. h6 Ne5 31. a4 $14 {Komodo13}) 28. Qxf6 $18 e5 29. h5 Qc3 30.
h6 (30. hxg6 {mating}) 30... Qa1+ (30... Qe3+ 31. Kd1 Qxh6 {slows down the mate
}) 31. Kf2 Qxh1 32. Qg7# 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "2.41"]
[White "Hilditch-Love, Daniel"]
[Black "Fraser, Chris A"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A30"]
[WhiteElo "85"]
[BlackElo "119"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "128"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,128,28,28,49,30,43,20,15,10,18,-2,14,17,-17,-16,16,-18,6,-9,26,27,8,5,
11,11,21,-79,-75,-63,-63,-61,-40,-57,-41,-97,-84,-96,-88,-57,-28,-48,-41,-31,
-22,-68,-29,-31,-24,-24,-35,-32,-26,-28,4,-1,-1,-122,-75,-174,-147,-159,-154,
-152,-157,-287,-134,-208,-99,-102,-104,-99,-117,-127,-84,-80,-82,-79,-76,-8,-5,
0,34,42,18,54,56,-5,-15,-27,-3,-46,2,0,35,0,0,0,0,-68,-69,-69,-91,-216,-216,
-254,-206,-233,-213,-614,-614,-1014,-1226,-1269,-1269,-1269,-1279,-1299,-1299,
-2124,-468,-482,-520,-520,-1013,-1022,-1279,-1279,-1289,-1289,-28337]} 1. Nf3
c5 2. c4 g6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nxc6 {Strengthens Bl's centre & gives
him a useful b file , 39% for Wh} (5. e4) (5. Nc3) (5. g3) (5. Nc2 {all do
better for Wh}) 5... bxc6 6. g3 Bg7 7. Bg2 Rb8 8. Qc2 {56 games} d5 $146 (8...
Qa5+) (8... Qb6) (8... Qc7 {main lines}) 9. Nc3 (9. cxd5 cxd5 10. Qc6+ {
doesn't lead to much} Qd7 (10... Bd7 $1 {even stronger, forces Wh back to c2 as
} 11. Qxd5 Rxb2 $17 {Komodo13}) 11. Bxd5 Rxb2 12. Na3 Rb6 13. Qxd7+ Bxd7 $11)
9... e6 (9... Nf6) 10. cxd5 cxd5 11. O-O Bd7 12. Rd1 Ne7 13. e3 (13. Be3 {
more active}) 13... O-O 14. Bd2 Qc7 $17 15. Rac1 Rfc8 16. Qb1 Qb6 17. Rc2 Rc7 (
17... Nf5 18. b3 Nd6 $17 {Komodo13}) 18. Rdc1 Rbc8 19. Nd1 Nf5 20. Rxc7 Rxc7
21. Rxc7 Qxc7 {the exchanges have relieved the pressure on Wh's Q side} 22. Bc3
(22. e4 $11 {Komodo13}) 22... Nd6 (22... d4 23. exd4 Nxd4 $17 {Komodo13}) 23.
Bxg7 Kxg7 24. Nc3 (24. Qd3 $11) 24... Qc4 25. Qf1 Qc8 26. Qd3 $11 Qb7 27. Qd4+
Kg8 28. e4 (28. Qc5 Qb6 29. Qxb6 axb6 30. a4 $11 {Komodo13}) 28... Qxb2 $15 29.
Qxa7 Qc1+ (29... Qxc3 30. Qxd7 Qe1+ 31. Bf1 Nxe4 32. Qa7 Nd2 33. Qa6 Qxf1+ (
33... Kf8 34. Qa3+ Ke8 35. Qa8+ Kd7 36. Qa4+ Kd8 37. Qa8+ Ke7 38. Qa3+ Kf6 39.
Qd3 Qxf1+ 40. Qxf1 Nxf1 41. Kxf1 Ke5 $19 {is even better for Bl}) 34. Qxf1 Nxf1
35. Kxf1 Kf8 $19 {the a pawn willl be lost because Bl has the protected passed
d pawn}) 30. Bf1 Qxc3 31. Qxd7 Nxe4 $19 32. a4 Qe1 33. Qa7 {a tempo down from
the previous note} Qd2 (33... Nd2 {still best} 34. Qb8+ Kg7 35. Qb2+ e5 36. Qb5
Qa1 37. Kg2 Nxf1 38. Qxf1 Qxa4 $19 {Komodo13}) 34. Qe3 (34. a5 $11) 34... Qa5
35. Bb5 Qb4 (35... Nc3) 36. Qb6 d4 (36... Nd6 $17) 37. Qb8+ Kg7 38. Qe5+ Nf6
39. g4 h6 40. h4 $11 Qb1+ (40... d3 41. g5 hxg5 42. hxg5 Qg4+ 43. Kf1 Kh7 44.
gxf6 d2 45. Qh2+ Kg8 46. Qb8+ $11 {Komodo13}) 41. Kg2 Qe4+ 42. Qxe4 Nxe4 43.
Kf3 ({passed pawns must be pushed} 43. a5 $16 {Ns find R pawns difficult})
43... Nd6 44. Ke2 Nb7 45. f4 f6 46. Kd3 e5 47. fxe5 fxe5 48. Ke4 Kf6 (48...
Nd6+ 49. Kd3 $16) 49. g5+ {allows the Bl K into the game} (49. Kd5 Na5 50. Bd3
Nb3 (50... g5 51. h5 $18) 51. Be4 Na5 52. Kd6 Nb3 53. Kc6 Nd2 54. Bd5 e4 55. a5
e3 56. a6 e2 57. a7 e1=Q 58. a8=Q Qc1+ 59. Kd6 $18 {Komodo13, the Wh K is safe,
Bl's isn't}) 49... hxg5 50. hxg5+ Ke6 51. Bc6 (51. Bc4+ Kd6 52. Kf3 Nc5 53. a5
$11 {Komodo13}) 51... Nc5+ 52. Kf3 Kf5 $19 53. a5 e4+ 54. Bxe4+ Nxe4 55. a6
Nxg5+ 56. Ke2 Ne6 57. Kd3 Ke5 58. Kc4 Nc7 59. a7 Kd6 (59... g5) 60. Kxd4 Nb5+
61. Ke4 Nxa7 62. Kf4 Ke6 (62... Nc6 63. Kg5 Ne5) 63. Kg5 Kf7 64. Kf4 Kf6 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "2.42"]
[White "Walker, Kate"]
[Black "Taylor, Paul A"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A54"]
[WhiteElo "119"]
[BlackElo "109"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "45"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,45,28,28,28,33,66,32,44,37,17,-23,14,6,6,6,10,5,11,15,33,38,47,32,26,
19,65,34,76,68,65,40,38,15,24,7,8,-61,-84,-79,-41,-94,-101,-98,-98,-101,-85,
-76]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d6 3. c4 Nbd7 4. Nc3 e5 5. d5 a5 6. e4 Nc5 7. Qc2 Be7 8.
Be2 h6 (8... O-O) (8... Bg4) 9. O-O Nh7 10. Be3 b6 {Fritz15 & Komodo13} (10...
Ng5 11. Bxc5 Nxf3+ 12. Bxf3 dxc5 13. Nd1 Bg5 14. Qc3 Qd6 15. b3 O-O {
Topel-Comez,Izmir op 2003,0-1}) 11. Bxc5 (11. a3 $16) 11... bxc5 $11 12. Ne1 g5
$5 13. Nd3 Nf8 14. Bh5 Ng6 15. Bxg6 fxg6 16. Na4 Bd7 17. Rae1 O-O 18. Naxc5 $5
(18. f3 $11) 18... dxc5 19. Nxe5 Qe8 20. Nf3 (20. Nxd7 Qxd7 21. e5 Kg7 22. e6
Qd6 $17 {Komodo13}) 20... Rxf3 (20... g4 21. Ne5 Bg5 22. Nd3 Qe7 $17 {Komodo13}
) 21. gxf3 Bh3 22. e5 Qf7 23. Re3 (23. Re3 Bxf1 24. Kxf1 Qf5 25. Qxf5 gxf5 26.
Kg2 Kf7 27. Rb3 Ke8 $17 {but it will be a long haul}) 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "2.43"]
[White "Allen, Timothy S"]
[Black "Fraser, Roland"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C02"]
[WhiteElo "110"]
[BlackElo "91"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,63,28,5,52,53,43,10,0,-22,-2,-39,-54,-92,-62,-91,-97,-107,-68,-70,-89,
-150,-113,-147,-132,-121,-116,-149,-174,-152,-144,-160,-123,-114,-110,-143,
-134,-179,-103,-123,-97,-86,-55,-72,-78,-107,-79,-71,-88,-100,-107,-98,-70,
-128,-132,-127,-136,-154,-117,-113,-116,-124,-95,-156,-101,-145]} 1. e4 e6 2.
d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Qg4 Nge7 (5... cxd4) (5... Qb6) 6. dxc5 $146 {
one of Komodo13 choices} (6. Nf3) (6. Bd3 {played}) 6... Ng6 (6... Nxe5) 7. b4
Ncxe5 (7... a5 $19 {Komodo13}) 8. Qd4 Nc6 (8... Be7 $19) 9. Bb5 Bd7 (9... e5)
10. Qd1 Be7 11. Nf3 O-O 12. O-O a5 $19 13. Bd2 axb4 (13... e5) 14. cxb4 Bf6 15.
Bc3 Bxc3 (15... Nxb4 $19) 16. Nxc3 Nxb4 17. a3 Nc6 (17... Bxb5 18. Nxb5 Na6 $19
{Komodo13}) 18. Na4 Ra7 (18... Ra5) (18... Nce5) 19. Nb6 Nb8 (19... Nce5) 20.
a4 $17 Ne7 21. Ne5 Be8 22. Qf3 Nc8 23. Bxe8 Qxe8 24. Qb3 f6 25. Nd3 Nc6 26. f4
Na5 (26... Qe7) 27. Qb4 Nc6 28. Qb2 Qd8 29. Rfb1 Nxb6 30. cxb6 Ra8 31. Nc5 Qc8
(31... Qe7 32. Qf2 e5 $19 {Komodo13}) 32. Qd2 (32. Qd2 Na5 33. Qb4 e5 $17 {
Komodo13}) (32. f5 $1 exf5 (32... e5 33. Ne6 $11) 33. Qd2 Rd8 34. a5 $11 {
Komodo13}) 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "2.44"]
[White "Simmons, John A"]
[Black "Holyhead, James"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "109"]
[BlackElo "64"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,57,80,10,32,17,-42,-23,10,-7,4,4,24,-12,-12,-37,12,3,147,3,12,0,10,22,
-1,-5,36,54,38,24,45,-23,651,670,682,683,670,676,698,639,650,622,623,622,632,
629,632,611,605,565,710,733,733,743,813,844,1148,1175,2291,1807]} 1. Nc3 d5 2.
e4 d4 3. Nce2 c5 4. Nf3 (4. Ng3) (4. d3) 4... Nc6 5. Ng3 Bg4 6. h3 (6. Bc4)
6... Bd7 (6... Bxf3 7. Qxf3 {main}) 7. a3 (7. Bc4 {Cloud Engines} e6 8. d3 Bd6
9. a4 Qc7 10. Ne2 Nge7 11. Bg5 Ng6 12. Qd2 h6 13. Bh4 O-O 14. Bg3 {
Schmit-Pavon Cardenas,Le Port Marly Paribas blitz 2012,0-1}) 7... e5 8. Bc4 Nf6
9. d3 (9. Ng5 Be6 10. Nxe6 fxe6 11. Bxe6 $16 {Komodo13}) 9... b5 (9... Bd6) 10.
Ba2 (10. Bd5 Nxd5 11. exd5 Ne7 12. Nxe5 Nxd5 13. a4 b4 14. O-O $14 {Komodo13})
10... Be7 11. O-O O-O 12. Bg5 Ne8 13. Bxe7 Qxe7 14. Qd2 Nc7 15. Qg5 Qe8 $2 (
15... Qxg5 16. Nxg5 h6 17. Nf3 Be6 $11 {Komodo13}) 16. Nh5 g6 17. Nf6+ (17. Qh6
gxh5 18. Ng5 Qe7 19. Qxh7#) 17... Kg7 18. Nxe8+ Rfxe8 19. Rac1 (19. Nh2) 19...
Be6 20. Bxe6 Nxe6 21. Qh4 h6 22. Qg3 Nf4 23. Rce1 Rad8 24. Nxe5 Nxh3+ 25. Qxh3
Rxe5 26. f4 Rh5 27. Qf3 Rd6 28. g4 Ne5 29. fxe5 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "2.45"]
[White "Kirklys, Domantas"]
[Black "Jackson, Paul Robert"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B18"]
[WhiteElo "92"]
[BlackElo "116"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,57,31,25,104,69,76,36,46,40,53,7,15,-15,6,36,24,14,43,9,10,5,52,29,62,
-4,24,25,79,83,83,60,54,-55,-55,-54,53,41,47,6,57,13,10,-12,13,19,16,32,20,-17,
-17,-2,0,0,27,25,52,44,53,65]} 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. f3
(5. Ng3 {main}) 5... e6 6. Be3 Nd7 7. Bd3 Ngf6 8. Ne2 Nxe4 {Fritz16 & Komodo13}
(8... Nd5 {2 draws}) 9. Bxe4 Bxe4 10. fxe4 Nf6 (10... c5 $11) 11. Nc3 (11. Ng3
Qa5+ 12. c3) 11... Bb4 12. Qd3 (12. Qf3) 12... O-O 13. O-O Ba5 (13... e5) 14.
Bg5 $16 Bb6 15. Bxf6 (15. Ne2 e5 16. Kh1 Bxd4 17. Bxf6 gxf6 18. Qh3 Kh8 19. Ng3
Rg8 20. Nh5 Rg6 21. c3 Bb6 22. Rad1 $18 {Komodo13}) 15... gxf6 16. Qg3+ (16.
Ne2) 16... Kh8 $11 17. Kh1 Rg8 (17... Qxd4 $17) 18. Qf3 Rg6 (18... Qxd4 $11)
19. d5 (19. Ne2) (19. Rad1) 19... Bd4 20. dxe6 fxe6 21. Rad1 c5 22. Ne2 Qb6 23.
Nxd4 (23. Nf4 Rh6 24. c3 Be5 25. Rd7 Qxb2 26. Rfd1 $11 {Komodo13}) 23... cxd4
24. Qb3 (24. c3) 24... Qxb3 25. axb3 e5 26. c3 dxc3 27. bxc3 Rc8 28. c4 Rc7 29.
g3 (29. g3 Rg4 $11) 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "2.46"]
[White "Cockerill, Martin K"]
[Black "Coutts, Catriona"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D53"]
[WhiteElo "98"]
[BlackElo "112"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,88,26,31,23,-14,18,20,42,6,50,15,42,44,47,37,52,40,61,57,72,65,65,31,
33,-4,-15,-33,-4,-53,-7,-8,-4,2,-6,-26,-20,-41,-41,-46,-47,-119,-98,-103,-34,
-34,-14,-58,-47,-38,-34,-75,-65,-65,-74,-105,-48,-103,-35,-83,-90,-90,-63,-139,
-105,-105,-61,-186,-65,-422,-425,-427,-421,-426,-393,-426,-420,-443,-444,-449,
-449,-483,-435,-457,-449,-465,-440,-525,-621,-29987,-29988]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6
3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 e6 5. Bg5 Be7 (5... h6) (5... Nbd7) (5... dxc4) 6. e3 Nbd7 7.
Bd3 dxc4 8. Bxc4 b5 (8... Nd5 {alternative}) 9. Bd3 a6 10. O-O Bb7 (10... c5)
11. Qe2 O-O 12. a3 c5 13. Rfe1 {unless Wh will take bach on d4 with an e pawn,
or play e4, the R is not doing much here} (13. Rfd1 {4 Wh wins, I draw, 1 Bl
win}) 13... cxd4 14. Nxd4 (14. exd4 $11) 14... Ne5 $15 15. Bxf6 Bxf6 16. Bc2 g6
(16... Nc4) 17. Rad1 Qc7 18. Be4 Rac8 19. Bxb7 Qxb7 20. Rd2 Nc4 21. Rd3 b4 (
21... e5 22. Nb3 e4 23. Rdd1 Nxb2 $19 {Komodo13}) 22. axb4 Qxb4 23. Rb1 Rfd8
24. Ne4 $11 Bxd4 25. Rxd4 (25. exd4) 25... Rxd4 26. exd4 Rd8 $17 {the Bl
pieces are all betterplaced than the Wh ones} 27. Qd3 a5 (27... Nxb2 28. Qxa6
Qxd4 $17 {Komodo13}) 28. d5 Kg7 29. Qf3 Rxd5 30. Qf6+ Kg8 31. Ng5 Qb7 (31...
Rf5 $19) (31... Nd6 $19) 32. Rc1 Rd7 (32... Qd7 $17) 33. Qc3 {missing a tactic}
(33. Nxe6 fxe6 34. Qxe6+ Kg7 35. Qxc4 Qxb2 36. g3 $11 {Komodo13}) 33... Nxb2
34. Qxa5 $2 (34. Ne4 $1 Qxe4 35. Qc8+ Kg7 36. Qxd7 Nd3 37. Qc6 Qe2 38. Rf1 e5
$11 {Komodo13}) 34... Rd5 $19 35. Qc3 Rxg5 36. g3 Na4 37. Qa1 Nc5 38. Rb1 Qc7 (
38... Nb3 39. Qb2 Rb5 $19 {Komodo13}) 39. Qa8+ Kg7 40. Rb8 Rd5 (40... Nd3) 41.
Rg8+ Kf6 42. Qa1+ Qe5 43. Qc1 Nd3 44. Qh6 Qe1+ (44... Qe1+ 45. Kg2 Qxf2+ 46.
Kh3 Qf1+ 47. Kh4 (47. Kg4 Rd4+ 48. Qf4+ Nxf4 49. gxf4 Rxf4+ 50. Kg3 Qf3#) 47...
Rd4+ 48. g4 Qf2+ 49. Kh3 Qf3+ 50. Kh4 Rxg4#) 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "2.47"]
[White "Ryder, Arthur"]
[Black "Jones, Hefin"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E20"]
[WhiteElo "112"]
[BlackElo "86"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "85"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,85,26,23,31,5,42,42,50,5,42,10,66,45,51,47,73,82,67,64,120,120,234,-2,
2,-12,-12,-75,0,8,6,5,21,-20,-31,-47,-47,-54,-55,-58,-51,-53,-56,-55,-42,-59,
-64,-73,-57,-73,-44,-50,-52,-56,-56,-53,-67,-88,-66,-73,-75,-89,-89,-81,-83,
-80,-74,-68,-43,-45,-37,-42,-46,-46,-46,-46,-5,-46,-46,-46,0,-5,0,0,-46,-46,
-46,-74]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 e6 4. Bg5 (4. e4) 4... Be7 5. e4 d6 (5...
d5 {main}) 6. e5 $146 (6. Nf3 {main, 70% for Wh}) 6... dxe5 7. dxe5 Nfd7 (7...
Qxd1+ 8. Rxd1 Ng4 9. Bf4 $16) 8. Bxe7 Qxe7 9. Qd6 {better to aim to occupy
this square with a N} (9. Nf3 $16) 9... Qg5 (9... Qxd6 10. exd6 e5 $14 {
the d pawn will not get passed the barricades}) 10. Nf3 Qf4 11. Qd4 (11. Rd1
$18 {Bl will have great trouble getting his Q side developed}) 11... Qxd4 12.
Nxd4 Nxe5 $15 {a pawn is a pawn} 13. f4 Ng4 (13... Ng6 14. g3 O-O $17) 14. h3
Ne3 (14... e5 15. Ndb5 cxb5 16. hxg4 bxc4 17. Nb5 Na6 18. Bxc4 O-O $11 {
Komodo13}) 15. Kf2 Nf5 (15... Nxf1) 16. Nxf5 (16. Nf3 $11) 16... exf5 17. Re1+
Be6 (17... Kf8 $5) 18. b3 O-O $17 (18... Nd7 19. Be2 O-O-O $17 {Komodo13}) 19.
Rd1 Nd7 20. g3 Nf6 21. Bg2 Rfe8 22. Rd2 Rad8 23. Rhd1 Rxd2+ 24. Rxd2 Bc8 25.
Bf3 Ne4+ 26. Nxe4 fxe4 27. Bxe4 Bxh3 28. Re2 f5 29. Bf3 Rxe2+ 30. Kxe2 (30.
Bxe2) 30... Kf7 (30... Bg4 {swaps off the last piece to leave a won K & P
ending}) 31. Kd3 Kf6 32. b4 g5 33. Ke3 gxf4+ {results in split Bl pawns,making
the win more difficult} (33... Bg4 34. Bg2 Bd1 $17) 34. Kxf4 $11 h6 35. a4 Bf1
36. c5 Bc4 37. Bd1 Bd3 38. Bf3 Bc4 39. Bd1 Bd5 40. Be2 Be4 41. Bd1 Ke6 42. Bb3+
Bd5 43. Bc2 {the Wh B has enough space to keep on marking time} 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "2.48"]
[White "Knight, Pauly"]
[Black "Harrington, Peter"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "78"]
[BlackElo "111"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,90,80,31,44,6,38,23,49,39,34,28,29,13,25,13,13,-4,22,20,6,-6,-4,-280,
-280,-302,-308,-391,-385,-390,-319,-374,-369,-389,-360,-442,-391,-477,-414,
-895,-678,-685,-471,-461,-313,-339,-339,-374,-365,-364,-315,-892,-1096,-1335,
-873,-1116,-837,-874,-844,-903,-898,-1183,-1048,-1050,-931,-1001,-1046,-1212,
-1077,-1831,-1927,-2083,-2112,-29997,-2240,-29975,-2096,-29991,-29992,-29993,
-29988,-29989,-29224,-29993,-29986,-29989,-2028,-29991,-3082,-29991,-29986,
-29999,-30000]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 e6 3. e3 b6 4. Nf3 Bb7 5. Nbd2 Be7 6. Bd3 d5
7. c3 (7. Ne5) 7... O-O (7... Nbd7) (7... c5) 8. Qc2 (8. Ne5) 8... Nbd7 9. O-O
c5 10. c4 $146 (10. Ne5) (10. h3 {transposes to 46 games, preserving the B})
10... cxd4 (10... Rc8 $17) 11. Nxd4 {preserves the pawn structure, but loses a
piece} (11. exd4) 11... e5 $19 12. Nf5 exf4 13. Nxe7+ Qxe7 14. exf4 d4 (14...
Rac8) 15. Rfe1 Qd6 16. f5 Rfe8 17. a3 Qf4 18. a4 Nc5 19. b4 Nxd3 (19... Ng4 20.
Nf1 (20. Nf3 Bxf3 $19) 20... Nxd3 21. Qxd3 Qxf2+ 22. Kh1 Bxg2#) 20. Qxd3 Rxe1+
(20... Ng4) 21. Rxe1 Re8 (21... Ng4) 22. Rxe8+ Nxe8 23. Qe2 Kf8 24. Qd3 Nf6 25.
Qa3 $2 Qxd2 26. b5+ {a single check is not worth a piece} Ke8 27. Qa1 Qc3 (
27... Ng4 28. Qf1 Qf4 29. Qe2+ Be4 30. g3 d3 31. Qe1 d2 {mating soon; Komodo13}
) 28. Qd1 Qxc4 (28... d3) 29. Qe1+ Kd7 30. h3 Qd5 (30... d3) 31. f3 Qxf5 32.
Qd1 d3 33. Qd2 Qd5 34. Qd1 Qd4+ 35. Kf1 Nd5 36. Ke1 Qe3+ (36... Qg1+ 37. Kd2
Qe3#) 37. Kf1 Nc3 (37... d2 38. h4 Nc3) 38. Qxd3+ Qxd3+ 39. Kf2 Qe2+ 40. Kg3
Nxa4 41. Kg4 Qxb5 42. Kg3 Nc3 43. h4 a5 (43... Qe5+ {mate in 4}) 44. h5 Qxh5
45. f4 Ne4# 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "2.49"]
[White "Coleman, Patrick N"]
[Black "Wilson, Jeff"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D43"]
[WhiteElo "109"]
[BlackElo "97"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "120"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,120,26,18,23,24,28,4,35,15,49,8,-17,-27,-27,-41,-41,-43,-47,-48,-12,
-30,-42,-44,-51,-67,-49,-76,-79,-115,-99,-98,-103,-109,-113,-128,-125,-141,
-142,-194,-154,-143,-139,-146,-128,-122,-131,-117,-126,-131,-113,-113,-109,
-127,-123,-155,-169,-176,-128,-154,-152,-147,-75,-137,-128,-121,-121,-87,-73,
-593,-602,-695,-274,-272,0,-363,-369,-367,-370,-360,-389,-441,-465,-493,-561,
-656,-682,-720,-982,-1029,-322,-323,-321,-337,-337,-337,-399,-426,-459,-523,
-732,-852,-326,-332,-471,-538,-966,-581,-1262,-1262,-416,-417,-416,-416,-417,
-416,-412,-411,-411,-412,-412,-412,-412]} 1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3
e6 5. a3 (5. Bg5) (5. e3) (5. cxd5) (5. g3) 5... dxc4 (5... Nbd7) 6. e4 b5 {
Bl has a pawn, Wh a centre} 7. Bg5 Be7 8. Be2 Bb7 9. O-O a6 10. Qc2 Nbd7 11.
Rad1 (11. e5 Nd5 12. Ne4 O-O 13. Nd6 Bxg5 14. Nxb7 Qe7 15. g3 Bh6 16. Na5 Rac8
17. h4 c5 18. Qe4 Rc7 {Runarssson-Jessen, ECC op 2018,0-1}) 11... O-O 12. Rfe1
Re8 13. h3 (13. e5 {Cloud Engines}) (13. Bf1 Qc7 14. g3 c5 15. Bf4 Qb6 16. d5
exd5 17. exd5 Bd6 18. Bxd6 Qxd6 19. Bg2 $15 {Hindenes-Strand, NOR ch qual,
Oslo 2007,1-0}) 13... h6 14. Bc1 (14. Bxf6 Nxf6 15. e5 Nd5 16. Ne4 Qb6 $15)
14... Rc8 (14... c5 $19) 15. e5 Nd5 16. Nxd5 cxd5 {Bl has consolidated the
extra pawn & should now be winning; once the Q side rolls forward} 17. Bf4 a5
18. Nh2 b4 19. Bh5 Bg5 20. Bxg5 Qxg5 21. Be2 Nb6 $19 22. Nf3 Qe7 23. Ra1 Ra8 (
23... Bc6) 24. Reb1 b3 25. Qd2 Bc6 (25... Na4 {and a c3 prepared should do it.}
) 26. g4 a4 {well, the N can still get to b5 to look at c3, though, with a few
contortions, the Wh N can also get to c3} 27. g5 (27. h4 {preparing this, may
be better ; to distract Bl from Qside operations}) 27... hxg5 28. Nxg5 f6 (
28... c3 $1 {Komodo13; forces} 29. bxc3 {and now the b3 pawn will be the
linchpin of the winning plan.}) 29. Nf3 Nd7 30. Kh2 Kf7 (30... Rf8 {Bl van
also attack on the K side, drawing Wh pieces into the defence. Following which
there will be exchanges, when suddenlya Q side break with c3 wins in an ending}
) 31. Qf4 (31. Rg1 Rh8 32. Rg3 Nf8 33. Rag1 Rh7 34. Kg2 Ke8 35. Kf1 $11 {
the K will come to reinforce the q side}) 31... Kg8 32. Rg1 fxe5 33. Nxe5 Nxe5
34. Rxg7+ (34. Qxe5 Ra7 35. Rxg7+ Qxg7 36. Rg1 Qxg1+ 37. Kxg1 $11 {Komodo13})
34... Qxg7 $19 35. Rg1 Qxg1+ (35... Ng6 $19) 36. Kxg1 Nd3 (36... Ng6 $19) 37.
Bxd3 (37. Qg5+ {draws by perpetual} Kf7 $2 38. Bh5+ Kf8 39. Qf6+ Kg8 40. Bf7+
Kh7 41. Qg6+ Kh8 42. Qh6#) 37... cxd3 38. Qg3+ Kf7 39. Qxd3 Rg8+ $19 {too many
pieces for the Q} 40. Kh2 Rg7 41. Qc3 Rag8 42. Qf3+ Ke7 43. h4 Bb5 44. Qh3 Rg2+
(44... Rg1 45. h5 Bf1 46. Qh4+ Kd7 $19 {Komodo13}) 45. Qxg2 Rxg2+ 46. Kxg2 Be8
47. Kg3 Bh5 48. Kf4 Kf6 49. Ke3 Kf5 50. f3 e5 (50... Bg6 {zugzwang}) 51. dxe5
Kxe5 52. f4+ Kf5 53. Kd4 Kxf4 54. Kxd5 Kg4 55. Kc5 Kxh4 56. Kb4 Be8 57. Kc3 Kg3
58. Kd2 Kf3 59. Kc1 Bg6 60. Kd2 Bf5 {the Bl K wins the b2 pawn} 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "2.50"]
[White "Bramley, Douglas"]
[Black "Hall, Les"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A53"]
[WhiteElo "113"]
[BlackElo "80"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "110"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,110,80,23,76,13,47,23,34,28,37,33,45,38,38,36,36,17,31,36,50,57,67,43,
82,54,99,99,106,94,97,73,149,114,108,106,125,99,210,156,181,168,174,174,178,
157,156,146,146,90,90,90,85,87,79,75,100,99,102,99,103,104,108,106,143,148,152,
157,158,161,164,166,170,168,172,139,177,139,164,138,140,139,177,160,166,166,
166,131,166,131,166,166,166,166,166,166,166,166,166,107,109,109,109,109,109,
109,109,109,109,109,109,109,109]} 1. d4 d6 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 h6 4. Nf3 Nbd7 5.
e3 e6 (5... e5 {looks more active} 6. dxe5 dxe5 7. Qc2 Be7 8. Be2 O-O 9. O-O c6
10. b3 a6 11. Bb2 Qc7 12. Rac1 Re8 13. Rfd1 Bd6 14. h3 Nf8 15. a4 N6d7 {
with a good position for Bl; Johnson-Les all, GBR ch U1600, Llandudno 2017,0-1}
) 6. Bd3 Be7 7. Qc2 c5 8. O-O O-O 9. b3 Qc7 10. Bb2 Re8 11. dxc5 (11. d5 $14)
11... Qxc5 (11... Nxc5) 12. Rad1 Nf8 13. Ne4 Nxe4 14. Bxe4 f5 15. Bd3 $16 {
Wh has easier play than Bl} Qc7 16. Rd2 Bd7 17. Rfd1 Ng6 18. Be2 (18. e4 $16 {
Komodo13}) 18... Kf8 (18... Rad8) 19. Ba3 $18 (19. Nd4 $18) (19. e4 $18) 19...
Rad8 20. Bxd6 Bxd6 21. Rxd6 Bc8 22. Rxd8 (22. c5) 22... Rxd8 23. Rxd8+ Qxd8 24.
Qd3 (24. b4 $18) 24... Qxd3 25. Bxd3 Kf7 26. g3 Kf6 27. Kf1 Ne5 (27... e5) 28.
Nxe5 Kxe5 29. Ke2 g6 30. f4+ {the Wh B is far superior to the Bl one} Kf6 31.
e4 Bd7 32. e5+ (32. exf5 {perhaps some pawn exchanges are required to allow
the Wh K to enter in}) 32... Ke7 33. h4 h5 34. Ke3 Bc6 35. Kd4 b6 36. b4 a6 37.
c5 (37. b5 Bb7 38. bxa6 Bxa6 39. Bc2 Kd7 40. Bb3 Kc7 41. c5 {Bl has a lot of
vulnerable pawns on the K side} Bc8 42. Ba4 Bb7 43. Bb5 Bc8 44. cxb6+ Kxb6 45.
Be8 $18) 37... b5 {looking at the position from an angle up, there is no route
for the Wh K to get into eneny teritory- the c5 pawn is barriocaded} 38. Bc2
Kd7 39. a3 Bd5 40. a4 Bc6 41. axb5 axb5 42. Bd3 Kc7 43. Bc2 Kd7 44. Ke3 Ke7 45.
Bd1 Be8 46. Bf3 Kd7 47. Kd4 Kc7 48. Bg2 Bc6 49. Bxc6 Kxc6 50. Kc3 Kd7 51. Kd4
Kc7 52. Kc3 Kc6 53. Kb3 Kc7 54. Kc2 Kc6 55. Kd3 Kc7 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "2.51"]
[White "Gorman, Ken"]
[Black "Hamilton, Stuart"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "108"]
[BlackElo "73"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,91,19,19,25,-7,22,15,1,-12,11,-13,-20,8,22,21,23,-3,15,-11,-1,45,32,
32,113,123,150,156,197,212,212,255,200,207,214,151,151,127,127,79,138,112,368,
22,37,38,31,27,26,12,29,-42,-44,-175,170,146,97,102,102,71,62,63,69,80,80,81,
99,49,45,55,159,86,200,20,1,12,16,19,24,0,11,0,7,0,42,28,118,147,174,126,144,
176,165,149]} 1. d4 d5 2. g3 e6 3. Bg2 c5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. a3 (5. O-O {main}) 5...
Nf6 6. O-O Be7 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8. b4 Bd6 (8... Be7 {main}) 9. Bb2 O-O 10. Nbd2 Re8
11. c4 dxc4 (11... b6 12. Re1 Bb7 13. e4 Nxe4 14. Nxe4 dxe4 15. Rxe4 Qc7 16.
Qc2 h6 17. Rd1 Rad8 {Geroly-Bodor, HUN ch tm 2011,1-0}) 12. Nxc4 $18 Be7 13.
Qc2 g6 14. Rfd1 Qc7 15. Nfe5 Bd7 16. Nxd7 (16. Na5 $1) (16. Ne3) 16... Nxd7 17.
Qd2 (17. Qc3 f6 18. Qe3 e5 19. Rac1 a6 20. Na5 Ndb8 21. h4 $18 {Komodo13})
17... Rad8 18. Qh6 Bf8 19. Qg5 Be7 20. Qe3 Bf6 21. Rab1 Bxb2 22. Nxb2 $16 Nf6
23. Qc3 Nd5 24. Qc2 Qe5 25. Rbc1 Nd4 $11 26. Nd3 (26. Nc4 Nxc2 27. Nxe5 Nxa3
28. f4 Nb5 29. Bxd5 Rxd5 30. Rxd5 exd5 31. Rc5 a6 32. Rxd5 $11 {Komodo13})
26... Nxe2+ (26... Qxe2 $19) 27. Kf1 $16 Nd4 28. Nxe5 Nxc2 29. Rxc2 Ne3+ 30.
fxe3 Rxd1+ 31. Ke2 Ra1 32. Bxb7 (32. Rc7) 32... Rxa3 33. Bc6 Rd8 34. b5 Rb3 35.
h4 (35. Ra2 $18) 35... Rd6 36. Nc4 Rdd3 37. Be4 Rdc3 (37... Rd8) 38. Rxc3 Rxc3
39. Nd6 (39. Bd3 $14) 39... Rb3 (39... f5 40. Bd3 Kg7 $11) 40. Bb7 Kf8 41. Bc6
Ke7 $11 42. Nc8+ Kf6 (42... Kd8 43. Nxa7 Kc7 44. Bg2 Kb6 45. Nc8+ Kc7 46. Ne7
Rxb5 $11 {Komodo13}) 43. Nxa7 $18 Rb2+ 44. Kf3 Ke5 45. Nc8 f5 46. Nb6 $18 (46.
b6 $18) 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "4.52"]
[White "Kirilenkovs, Juris"]
[Black "Taylor, Geoffrey P"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B21"]
[WhiteElo "55"]
[BlackElo "106"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,78,28,28,109,22,23,35,35,-40,-44,-17,-1,-4,10,10,9,16,16,8,104,102,
104,52,42,22,22,40,63,79,58,44,103,123,187,188,170,126,138,146,223,124,235,106,
333,167,179,-117,238,132,202,141,230,280,280,280,326,316,316,278,371,355,381,
349,386,431,491,374,461,473,508,557,626,642,637,654,827,827,1201,1233,1783]} 1.
e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. Qxd4 (3. c3) 3... Nc6 4. Qc3 (4. Qd1) 4... e6 (4... e5) 5.
a3 (5. Nf3 Bb4 {0-13}) 5... d5 $146 (5... Nf6 {0-4}) 6. exd5 Qxd5 7. Nf3 Nf6 8.
Bc4 Qd6 (8... Qe4+ 9. Be3 Nd5 10. Qd3 Qxd3 11. Bxd3 Nxe3 12. fxe3 Be7 $11 {
Komodo13}) 9. Be3 Ng4 10. Nbd2 Nxe3 11. Qxe3 Be7 12. h4 Qc7 13. O-O-O $14 Na5 (
13... a6) 14. Bb5+ Nc6 15. Qc3 Bd7 (15... O-O $11) 16. Qxg7 Rf8 17. Qxh7 (17.
Ng5 $18) 17... O-O-O 18. Ne4 (18. Nc4) 18... Kb8 (18... Qf4+ 19. Ned2 a6 20.
Bc4 Nd4 21. g3 Qf6 22. Nxd4 Qxd4 23. Rhf1 $18 {Komodo13}) 19. Neg5 Be8 20. Qg7
(20. Rxd8+ Nxd8 21. Bxe8 Rxe8 22. Rd1 $18) 20... Bd6 21. h5 $18 (21. Nh7 $18)
21... Qe7 22. Bxc6 (22. Nh7) (22. h6) 22... Bxc6 23. g4 $2 (23. h6 $18) 23...
Rd7 (23... Rg8 $19 24. Qxf7 Qxf7 25. Nxf7 Bf4+ 26. Kb1 Rxd1+ 27. Rxd1 Bxf3 {
Komodo13}) 24. Rhe1 (24. Ne5 Bxe5 25. Qxe5+ Rc7 26. Rhe1 $18) 24... Bf4+ (24...
f6 25. Qxe7 Bf4+ 26. Kb1 Rxe7 27. Ne4 f5 28. gxf5 exf5 29. Nc5 Rxe1 30. Nxe1
Rh8 31. Ned3 Bh2 32. Nb4 Bf3 33. Rd3 Bg2 34. Nd7+ Ka8 35. Nf6 Be5 36. Nbd5 $16
{Komodo13}) 25. Kb1 Rc7 26. Rd4 Bd6 27. h6 Bxf3 28. Nxf3 Rcc8 29. g5 Rg8 30.
Qh7 Rh8 31. Qd3 Bc7 32. Rd7 Qf8 33. Qc3 Qg8 34. Qg7 Rf8 35. Ne5 Rh7 36. Qxg8
Rxg8 37. Rxf7 Rxf7 38. Nxf7 Bf4 39. h7 Rf8 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "2.53"]
[White "Hynes, Thomas F"]
[Black "Kelly, Alan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D31"]
[WhiteElo "76"]
[BlackElo "109"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,74,28,28,19,-16,35,8,50,59,105,62,107,107,96,52,89,49,62,51,81,72,89,
84,130,125,126,168,162,157,149,147,268,141,127,96,146,93,128,166,314,171,156,
187,187,187,237,249,280,377,855,768,996,1196,1273,276,300,404,446,440,414,459,
465,125,146,91,91,0,352,404,404,0,0,-78,-77,-482,-483]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3.
e4 c6 (3... e5) (3... Nf6) (3... Nc6 {main lines}) 4. Bxc4 e6 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. Nf3
Nbd7 7. Bg5 Be7 8. Qd2 $146 (8. O-O {main, 74% for Wh}) 8... b5 9. Bd3 Bb7 10.
e5 $16 Nd5 11. Bxe7 Nxe7 12. Ne4 $18 Nc8 13. Rc1 h6 14. O-O O-O 15. Qf4 Ndb6
16. Qg3 (16. Nf6+ Kh8 17. Nh7 Nd5 18. Qe4 g6 19. Nxf8 $18 {Komodo13}) (16. Nc5
Qe7 17. Qe4 g6 18. h4 $18 {Komodo13} (18. Nxb7 {is only a pawn} Qxb7 19. Qxc6
Qxc6 20. Rxc6 Ne7 21. Rc5 a6 $16) 18... Na4 19. h5 Nxc5 20. dxc5 Qe8 21. hxg6
fxg6 22. Nd4 Qf7 23. Qxg6+ Qxg6 24. Bxg6 Ne7 25. Be4 Kf7 26. Nxb5 $18 {and Bl
has a horrible position}) 16... Nd5 17. Nc5 Qe7 18. Rfe1 (18. Qg4 Ncb6 19. Qe4
g6 20. h4 h5 21. g4 hxg4 22. Qxg4 $18) 18... Rb8 19. Re4 Ncb6 20. Rh4 $18 (20.
Rg4 f5 21. Rg6 Bc8 22. Rxh6 $18) 20... Kh8 21. Qh3 f5 22. exf6 Rxf6 23. Ne5 Qe8
24. Ne4 $18 (24. Qg3 $1 $18) (24. Ng4 $18) 24... Rf4 25. Rxh6+ $1 gxh6 26.
Qxh6+ Kg8 27. Ng6 (27. Ng5 $1 Nf6 (27... Qe7 28. Bh7+ Qxh7 (28... Kh8 29. Ng6#)
29. Nxh7 Rg4 30. Nxg4 Kf7 31. Ng5+ Ke8 32. Qxe6+ Ne7 33. Nf6+ Kd8 34. Nf7+ Kc7
35. Qd6+ Kc8 36. Qd8#) 28. Bg6 Rh4 29. Qxh4 Qe7 30. Bf7+ Kg7 31. Nxe6+ Qxe6 32.
Bxe6 {mating soon, Komodo13}) 27... Rxe4 28. Bxe4 $18 {but no mate as yet} Nd7
29. Qh8+ Kf7 30. Qh7+ Kf6 31. Qh4+ (31. g4 $1 e5 32. Qh6 Ke6 33. Bxd5+ cxd5 34.
Nxe5+ Ke7 35. Qh7+ Kd6 36. Nf7+ Ke7 37. Re1+ Kf8 38. Ne5 $1 (38. Rxe8+ Kxe8 39.
Ne5 $18) 38... Nxe5 39. Rxe5 Qxe5 40. dxe5 Bc8 41. Qh8+ $18 {Komodo13}) 31...
Kg7 32. Qg5 (32. Nf4 Nxf4 33. Qxf4 Qf8 34. Qg5+ Kf7 35. Bg6+ Kg8 36. Bf5+ Qg7
37. Bxe6+ Kh8 38. Qh5+ Qh7 39. Qxh7+ Kxh7 40. Bxd7 $18 {Komodo13}) 32... Kf7
33. Rd1 (33. Re1 N7f6 34. Ne5+ Ke7 35. Bxd5 cxd5 36. Qg7+ Kd6 37. Qxf6 $18)
33... N7f6 34. Ne5+ Ke7 35. Qg7+ Kd8 36. Nf7+ Kc7 37. Nd6+ $2 (37. Bxd5 Nxd5
38. Ne5+ Qe7 39. Qg3 Qd6 40. h4 $15) 37... Kxd6 $19 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "2.54"]
[White "Holmes, Nick D"]
[Black "Szwajkun, Steve"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A40"]
[WhiteElo "105"]
[BlackElo "89"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "97"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,97,34,-31,30,4,22,31,39,10,21,20,2,18,122,121,176,121,121,115,119,41,
28,19,33,0,18,36,18,-12,-7,-25,-12,0,30,-31,86,78,178,103,103,60,125,128,541,
560,587,596,608,578,582,580,582,588,598,597,593,576,605,607,634,602,598,605,
637,601,609,612,933,682,672,638,638,638,659,640,651,644,658,658,737,755,1088,
1065,1547,1192,1627,1872,1769,2046,2696,29988,29989,29990,29993,29988,29993,
29994,29995,29996]} 1. c4 b6 2. Nc3 Bb7 3. d4 e6 4. Bf4 (4. e4) (4. a3) 4...
Bb4 5. e3 Bxc3+ (5... Nf6) 6. bxc3 Qf6 $2 $146 (6... Nf6) 7. Bxc7 $16 Qg5 8.
Bf4 (8. Nf3 $18) 8... Qa5 9. Qb3 Nf6 10. Qb4 {Wh is taking up tempi, & himself
& helping Bl to develop in the process.} (10. Nf3 {when one has won material,
it is often the case that some piece or pieces have become slightly displaced.
So extra care must be taken to preserve the initiative.}) 10... Nc6 11. Qxa5
Nxa5 12. Nh3 (12. c5 Rc8 $11) 12... Rc8 (12... Ba6 $11) 13. c5 bxc5 (13... Nd5)
14. f3 (14. Rb1 $14) 14... cxd4 (14... Nd5 $15) 15. cxd4 O-O (15... Nd5 $15)
16. Bd3 Rc3 17. Rd1 Bd5 (17... Nc4 $15) 18. Bd6 $16 Bxa2 (18... Bc4) 19. Bxf8 (
19. Bb4 $18) 19... Kxf8 20. Nf2 (20. Kf2) 20... Bb3 21. Ra1 $18 g6 $2 22. Rxa5
Rc1+ 23. Kd2 {the N protects the R} Rc7 24. Rb1 Bd5 25. Rba1 Rb7 26. e4 Bc6 27.
Rxa7 Rb2+ 28. Ke3 Rb8 29. Rb1 Rd8 30. Bb5 Rb8 31. Bd3 Re8 32. Ng4 Nxg4+ 33.
fxg4 d6 34. Rf1 Re7 35. Rxe7 Kxe7 36. g5 d5 37. e5 Kf8 38. h4 Be8 39. g4 Kg7
40. h5 gxh5 41. gxh5 Kg8 42. Rf6 Kg7 43. Rh6 Bd7 44. Rxh7+ Kg8 45. g6 Be8 46.
g7 Bb5 47. Bb1 Be8 48. h6 f5 49. Rh8+ 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "2.55"]
[White "De Santos, Andrew R"]
[Black "Bohm, Richard D"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A49"]
[WhiteElo "103"]
[BlackElo "83"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "55"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,55,30,28,28,33,49,16,25,9,23,-7,-4,-12,67,65,40,21,42,63,89,67,82,9,
19,-14,-11,-46,18,-56,82,76,143,85,128,125,199,109,254,0,631,194,247,194,208,
209,178,145,126,76,374,77,374,167,596,416,401,407]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. g3
Bg7 4. Bg2 d6 5. c3 O-O 6. Na3 (6. O-O) (6. Nbd2) 6... e5 $2 {this immediate
e5 only works if Wh has a pawn on e4, so that Bl can play Nxe4, disclosing the
B onto the N on e5.} (6... Nc6 7. O-O e5 {0.5-2.5}) 7. dxe5 dxe5 8. Qxd8 Rxd8
9. Nxe5 $16 {Bl is just a pawn down} Re8 10. Nec4 Nc6 11. Bxc6 (11. Bf4) 11...
bxc6 12. Bf4 Nd5 $11 13. Rd1 Bb7 (13... Nxf4 14. gxf4 Bh6 15. e3 Bxf4 $15 {
Komodo13}) 14. Ne3 Nf6 (14... Nxf4 15. gxf4 Ba6 $11) 15. Bxc7 c5 16. Rg1 (16.
O-O $18) 16... Bh6 17. Nac4 a6 18. Nd6 (18. Bf4 $18) 18... Bxe3 (18... Re7 $16)
19. Nxb7 $18 Bg5 20. f4 (20. Nxc5) 20... Bh6 21. Be5 Ng4 22. Bd6 Nxh2 23. Rh1
Ng4 24. Bxc5 (24. Nxc5) 24... Rab8 25. Nd6 Re6 26. b4 Ne3 $2 (26... Bg7 27. Rd3
$18) 27. Bxe3 Rxe3 28. Rxh6 $18 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "2.56"]
[White "Jones, Jonathan"]
[Black "McFadden, Wayne Philip"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D38"]
[WhiteElo "101"]
[BlackElo "83"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "81"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,81,19,31,25,27,27,-10,-6,6,26,15,38,40,21,21,31,18,43,42,102,39,107,
59,78,51,99,127,131,109,104,122,124,127,158,159,173,168,170,153,157,147,169,
149,138,135,146,135,148,115,155,149,196,142,94,110,156,173,170,116,218,221,247,
248,253,246,326,355,397,411,450,476,532,413,443,374,421,443,443,575,611,620,
790,570]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Bg5 Nc6 (5... h6) (5...
Nbd7) 6. e3 O-O 7. Bd3 h6 8. Bh4 Bxc3+ (8... dxc4) (8... Re8) 9. bxc3 Ne7 $146
(9... Re8) 10. Ne5 (10. Bxf6 gxf6 11. cxd5 Qxd5 12. O-O $16 {Komodo13}) 10...
Nf5 11. Bxf6 (11. Bxf5 exf5 12. Bxf6 Qxf6 13. cxd5 $16 {Komodo13}) 11... Qxf6
12. Qh5 (12. a4 $14) 12... Qg5 13. Qxg5 hxg5 14. Bxf5 exf5 15. cxd5 $16 Rd8 16.
c4 Rd6 17. Kd2 $18 {Wh is a clear pawn up & has a superior N to a B} Bd7 18.
Rab1 b6 19. Rhc1 (19. h4) 19... Be8 20. Nd3 c6 21. dxc6 Bxc6 22. d5 Bd7 23. Ne5
Be8 24. Nf3 f6 25. Nd4 Bd7 26. Nb5 (26. h3 $18) (26. Kd3 $18) 26... Bxb5 27.
Rxb5 Kf7 28. Kd3 (28. a4 $18) 28... Rad8 29. Rd1 R8d7 30. a4 Kg6 31. a5 bxa5
32. Rxa5 $18 Kh5 33. Rda1 Kg6 34. Rxa7 Rxa7 35. Rxa7 Rb6 36. Ra2 (36. c5 $18)
36... Kf7 37. Kd4 Ke7 38. Ra7+ Kf8 39. Kc5 (39. c5) 39... Rb8 40. d6 Rc8+ 41.
Kd5 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "2.57"]
[White "Hollyman, Mike"]
[Black "Foy, Jeff"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A48"]
[WhiteElo "48"]
[BlackElo "99"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,79,31,31,27,27,44,44,49,-1,32,28,24,10,29,-1,8,-5,-7,-31,-23,-22,0,
-17,-18,-61,-32,-23,-5,-63,-27,-27,-18,-18,-18,-69,22,-69,-59,-75,-91,-185,
-190,-475,203,178,217,191,473,435,553,598,598,502,814,208,205,201,224,216,198,
236,246,258,272,207,221,238,244,244,256,253,258,270,265,273,372,444,444,669,
897,474]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 g6 3. e3 Bg7 4. c3 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Bd3 Re8 (6...
Nbd7) (6... c5 {main lines}) 7. Nbd2 e5 (7... Nbd7 {transposes to main}) (7...
Nc6) 8. Bg5 exd4 (8... Nbd7 {0-2}) (8... h6 {0-1}) 9. Nxd4 (9. cxd4) 9... c5
$15 10. N4f3 Qb6 11. Qc2 Nc6 (11... d5 $15) 12. Nc4 Qc7 13. Bf4 Rd8 (13... Ne5
$15) 14. O-O-O b5 $17 {the Wh K is vunerable} 15. Nxd6 Rxd6 16. Bxd6 Qxd6 17.
Bxb5 Qe6 (17... Qc7 $17) 18. Bxc6 (18. Ng5 $17 {Komodo13}) 18... Qxc6 19. Rd8+
Ne8 (19... Bf8 $19 {Komodo13}) 20. Rhd1 Bf5 $19 21. Qb3 Qe4 (21... c4 $19 {
Komodo13}) 22. Rxa8 Qxa8 23. Ng5 $18 Be6 (23... c4 24. Qxc4 Qb7 25. g4 $18 {
not that easy to find}) 24. Nxe6 fxe6 25. Qxe6+ Kh8 26. Rd7 $18 Nf6 27. Rxg7 (
27. Rc7 $1 $18) (27. Re7 $18) 27... Kxg7 28. Qe7+ Kh6 29. Qxf6 Qxg2 30. Qf8+
Kh5 31. Qxc5+ Kh6 32. Qd4 (32. Qf8+ Kh5 33. Qf7 $18 {Komodo12}) 32... Qf1+ 33.
Kc2 Qxf2+ 34. Kb3 (34. Qd2) 34... Qf7+ 35. c4 Qb7+ 36. Kc3 a5 37. c5 Qf7 38.
Qf4+ Kg7 39. Qxf7+ Kxf7 40. Kc4 {Wh has too many pawns} 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "3.41"]
[White "Fraser, Chris A"]
[Black "Simmons, John A"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C10"]
[WhiteElo "119"]
[BlackElo "109"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "43"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,43,19,31,41,46,51,35,47,38,64,60,46,45,41,52,48,29,69,70,87,86,83,84,
74,56,76,70,78,56,74,69,77,45,55,37,55,-30,-27,-5,-29,-9,-27,-12,-12,-55]} 1.
e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bd7 5. Nf3 Bc6 6. Bd3 Be7 7. O-O Nf6 8. Ng3
(8. Nxf6+) (8. Qe2) 8... Bxf3 (8... Nbd7) 9. Qxf3 c6 (9... Qd5 {3-0}) 10. c3
O-O (10... Nbd7 11. Re1 {169 games, Wh scores far better than Bl}) 11. b3 $146
(11. Re1) 11... Nbd7 12. c4 $16 (12. Bb2 Qc7 13. Rad1 Rad8 14. c4 Nb6 (14...
Rfe8 {2 Wh wins, 4 Draws}) 15. Rfe1 Rfe8 16. Ne4 Nbd7 17. Ng5 Nf8 18. Qh3 $11 {
Anufrienko-Serebrennikov, Barnaul Lepikhin memorial 2014,1-0}) 12... Nb6 13.
Bb2 h6 14. Rad1 Qc7 15. Bc2 Rad8 16. Ne4 Nbd7 17. Ng3 Bd6 18. Ne4 (18. h3)
18... Bxh2+ 19. Kh1 Nxe4 20. Qxe4 Nf6 21. Qd3 Bd6 22. Bb1 (22. f4 $11) (22. Bb1
Rfe8 $17 {Komodo13}) 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "3.42"]
[White "Fraser, Roland"]
[Black "Walker, Kate"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B11"]
[WhiteElo "91"]
[BlackElo "119"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,84,58,14,82,67,60,45,37,36,39,62,79,97,93,88,102,157,170,114,99,80,
121,35,63,-7,52,21,13,-93,2,-73,40,35,21,13,104,-53,8,202,277,136,197,40,548,
-18,108,-403,-422,-416,-426,-444,-429,-457,-461,-485,-466,-464,-465,-481,-493,
-504,-504,-534,-558,-594,-557,-563,-562,-554,-554,-575,-585,-662,-609,-625,
-642,-666,-681,-712,-678,-757,-797,-806,-831,-1389,-1447]} 1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 d5
3. Nf3 dxe4 (3... Bg4 {main}) 4. Nxe4 Bf5 {a little dubious because of what
follows, known since Alekhine} (4... Bg4 {is safer}) 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6 7. Ne5
Bh7 8. Qh5 g6 9. Bc4 e6 {the B has been incarcerated} 10. Qf3 {23 games, 79%
for Wh} (10. Qe2 {main, with a threat on Nxf7; 242 games 85% for Wh}) 10... Qe7
(10... Nf6 {39 games, 71% for Wh}) (10... Qf6 {16 games, 72% for Wh}) 11. d3
$146 (11. b3 {Komodo13} Bg7 12. Ba3 Qf6 13. d4 Qxf3 14. Nxf3 Nd7 15. Ne4 Bf8
16. Nd6+ Bxd6 17. Bxd6 $16 {Morgaenko-Webb Liddle , Wld ch U16 girls, Kemer
2009,1-0}) (11. d4 {Komodo13} Nd7 12. Bd2 Nxe5 13. dxe5 $18 O-O-O 14. O-O-O Bg7
15. Ba5 {Gil Gil-Gonzalez Canovas, Barcelona Primavera La Lira op 2017,1-0})
11... Bg7 12. Ng4 (12. Bf4) (12. d4) 12... Qb4+ (12... Nd7 $11 {Komodo13}) 13.
Ke2 (13. Bd2 $16 {Komodo13} Qxb2 14. O-O $18) 13... Nd7 14. Re1 Qe7 15. Kf1
Qxh4 (15... O-O-O $14) 16. Ne4 $16 Qe7 17. Bf4 $18 e5 18. d4 $1 {not
Komodo13's initial top choice, but it gradually becomes so.Others are} (18.
Bxe5 Bxe5 19. Bxf7+ Kf8 (19... Qxf7 20. Nd6+) 20. Be6+ Kg7 21. Bxd7 Qxd7 22.
Nxe5 $18 (22. Nc5 Qd5 23. Qxd5 cxd5 24. Rxe5 $18)) (18. Bxf7+ Kd8 19. Bxe5) (
18. Nd6+ Qxd6 19. Nxe5 Bxe5 20. Bxe5 Nxe5 21. Qxf7+ Kd8 22. Rxe5 Qxe5 23. Re1
Qxe1+ 24. Kxe1 Ne7 25. Qf6 Kc7 26. Qxe7+ Kb6 27. Qe3+ Kc7 28. Qe5+ Kb6 29. a4
a5 30. Qd4+ Kc7 31. Qg7+ Kb6 32. Kd2 $18) 18... f5 19. Nxe5 Bxe5 20. Nc3 (20.
Nd6+ Qxd6 21. Rxe5+ Nxe5 22. Bxe5 Qf8 23. Bxh8 Ne7 24. Be5 $18 {Komodo13}) (20.
Nd2 O-O-O 21. Ba6 Nb8 22. Bxe5 Nxa6 23. Bxh8 $18 {Komodo13}) (20. Nc5 $1 {
Komodo13} Ngf6 (20... O-O-O 21. Rxe5 Nxe5 22. Bxe5 Rd6 (22... Nf6 $2 23. Qxc6+
$1 bxc6 24. Ba6+ Qb7 25. Bxb7#) 23. Qa3 $18 (23. Re1 $18 {Komodo13}))) 20...
Qb4 (20... O-O-O 21. Ba6 Qf6 22. Rxe5 $18 {Komodo13}) 21. Bxg8 (21. b3 $18) (
21. Bb3 $18) (21. Ba6 $18) 21... Qxd4 (21... Bxg8 22. Bxe5 Bc4+ 23. Kg1 O-O 24.
Bf4 $16) 22. Bb3 (22. Rad1 $1 $18 {the K & Q are caught in the middle}) (22.
Bxe5 Nxe5 23. Rad1 $18) (22. Nb5 cxb5 23. Rad1 $18) 22... O-O-O 23. Rad1 $2 (
23. Bxe5 Nxe5 24. Qg3 f4 25. Qh3+ Nd7 26. Ne4 Kc7 27. Rad1 Qg7 28. Qe6 Qf8 29.
Rd2 $16 {Komodo13}) 23... Qxf4 $19 {the B is no longer pinned} 24. Qxf4 Bxf4
25. Re7 Nc5 26. Rxd8+ Kxd8 27. Re1 Re8 28. Rd1+ Kc7 29. g3 Bg5 30. f4 Bf6 31.
Bf7 Re7 32. Bc4 Bxc3 33. bxc3 Ne4 34. Kg2 Nxc3 35. Rh1 h5 36. a3 a5 37. Rf1 b5
38. Bd3 Bg8 {and the B comes back to life} 39. Kh3 Kb6 40. Rf3 Bd5 41. Rf1 c5
42. Rh1 Bxh1 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "3.43"]
[White "Coutts, Catriona"]
[Black "Gorman, Ken"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "112"]
[BlackElo "108"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "112"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,112,36,12,30,20,45,28,47,58,51,23,94,97,130,70,70,28,84,7,39,-64,-69,
-75,-46,-51,-26,-58,61,80,69,47,44,19,3,0,3,9,34,13,44,1,-2,-37,-55,-59,-53,
-97,-91,-88,-77,-84,-72,-117,-126,-169,-70,-62,-73,-81,-91,-79,-108,-131,-49,
-56,-59,-71,-48,-69,-11,-129,-145,-146,-163,-183,-173,-200,-199,-215,-168,-168,
-175,-184,-166,-234,-160,-249,-303,-328,-317,-520,-378,-828,-565,-597,-615,
-642,-681,-738,-582,-937,-753,-861,-1383,-1518,-1518,-1946,-2333,-29971,-29972,
-29981,-29982,-29983,-29980]} 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 g6 3. Bg5 Bg7 4. e3 a6 (4... Nf6)
5. Nbd2 b5 $146 (5... Nf6 {main}) 6. c3 Bb7 {holding up e4 by Wh, but the B
might otherwise be on a sideline} 7. Bd3 (7. a4 c6 8. axb5 axb5 9. Rxa8 Bxa8
10. Bd3 $16 {Komodo13}) 7... Nd7 8. O-O Ngf6 (8... c5) 9. Qc2 (9. a4 $16) 9...
O-O 10. Ne5 (10. b4 Nb6 11. Nb3 Ne4 12. Bf4 $14) 10... Nxe5 11. dxe5 Nd7 $15
12. f4 Nc5 (12... c5) 13. Be2 (13. Nb3) 13... Ne4 (13... Bc8 14. Nb3 Bf5 15.
Qd1 Nxb3 16. axb3 f6 $11 {Komodo13}) 14. Nxe4 dxe4 $16 15. Rad1 (15. c4) 15...
Qe8 16. Rd2 f6 17. exf6 exf6 18. Bh4 Qc6 19. Rfd1 (19. Qb3+ Kh8 20. c4 $16 {
Komodo13}) 19... Qc5 20. Bf2 f5 21. b4 (21. Rd7 $11) 21... Qxc3 22. Qxc3 Bxc3
$15 23. Rd7 (23. Rc2 Bxb4 24. Rxc7 Bc8 25. a4 Rb8 26. axb5 axb5 27. h3 Rb6 $15
{Komodo13}) 23... Rac8 (23... Bxb4) 24. Be1 (24. Rc1 Bxb4 25. Bd1 Ba8 26. Bb3+
Kh8 27. Rcxc7 (27. Bh4) 27... Rxc7 28. Rxc7 Ba5 29. Ra7 Bb6 30. Rxa6 Bc5 31.
Kf1 $14 {Komodo13}) 24... Bf6 25. Rc1 Rf7 26. Rxf7 Kxf7 $17 27. Bc3 c5 (27...
Be7 28. a3 c5 $19 {Komodo13}) 28. Bxf6 Kxf6 29. bxc5 Ke6 30. Kf2 Kd5 31. Bd1
Rc7 (31... Rxc5 $19) 32. Bb3+ Kc6 33. Ke2 Rd7 34. Rc2 Kc7 35. h4 Bd5 36. Kf2
Kc6 $19 {regaing the extra pawn} 37. Ke2 Bxb3 38. axb3 a5 (38... Rd3 39. b4 Rb3
40. Ra2 Rxb4 41. Rxa6+ Kxc5 $19 {Komodo13}) 39. Ra2 Kxc5 (39... Ra7 40. b4 (40.
Rc2 a4 41. b4 a3 42. Ra2 Ra4 43. Kd1 Rxb4) 40... a4 41. Ke1 a3 42. Kd1 Rd7+ 43.
Ke2 Rd3 44. g3 Rb3 45. Kd2 Rxb4 46. Rxa3 Ra4) 40. Rxa5 Kb4 41. Ra1 Rd3 (41...
Kxb3) (41... Rc7) 42. Rc1 (42. h5 $5) 42... Rxb3 (42... Rc3 43. Rd1 Rc2+ 44.
Kf1 Kxb3 {Komodo13}) 43. Kf2 Rc3 44. Rb1+ Kc4 45. g3 b4 (45... Rc2+ 46. Kf1 b4)
46. Ke2 b3 47. Kd1 Rxe3 (47... Rc2) 48. Kd2 Rxg3 49. Rc1+ Kb4 (49... Kd4) 50.
Rc7 Rg2+ (50... Rd3+ 51. Ke2 b2) 51. Kc1 Rc2+ 52. Rxc2 bxc2 53. Kxc2 Kc4 54.
Kd2 Kd4 55. Ke2 e3 56. Ke1 Ke4 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "3.44"]
[White "Harrington, Peter"]
[Black "Kirilenkovs, Juris"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D30"]
[WhiteElo "111"]
[BlackElo "55"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "32"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,32,31,12,27,-21,-14,-4,17,-10,-16,-6,-2,-7,64,16,44,21,1,10,75,19,21,
0,54,30,121,100,131,123,131,84,95,-526,-540]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 h6 (3...
Nf6 {main}) 4. g3 (4. Nc3 {main}) 4... Nc6 (4... Nf6) 5. cxd5 $146 (5. Bg2)
5... exd5 6. a3 Qf6 7. Bg2 Nge7 8. Bf4 Bg4 9. Ne5 (9. Bxc7 Bxf3 10. Bxf3 Nxd4
11. O-O $16) 9... Be6 (9... Nxe5 10. Bxe5 Qb6 11. Nc3 $11) 10. Nxc6 Nxc6 11.
Be3 Bd6 12. Nc3 a6 (12... Ne7 $11) 13. Nxd5 $18 Qf5 14. Nc3 Na5 15. Qa4+ (15.
d5 Bd7 16. O-O $18) (15. Be4 Qh5 16. Bf3 Qf5 17. g4 Qg6 18. Qa4+ Nc6 19. d5 $18
) 15... Bd7 16. Qb4 $2 (16. Qd1) 16... Bxb4 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "3.45"]
[White "Wilson, Jeff"]
[Black "Allen, Timothy S"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C63"]
[WhiteElo "97"]
[BlackElo "110"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "150"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,150,19,38,25,7,30,29,52,32,57,41,57,64,46,54,54,50,60,-21,-21,-55,-41,
-50,-40,-30,-20,-8,16,-12,-8,-14,-14,-20,-23,-32,-3,-19,-36,-38,-2,0,9,-14,-2,
-10,32,14,25,29,51,-1,-1,7,11,17,56,31,78,50,103,93,99,97,108,118,126,126,126,
129,134,125,133,118,125,109,129,132,132,78,146,162,158,155,266,262,541,262,213,
133,213,149,197,-209,146,144,222,211,208,209,229,233,269,184,200,169,187,171,
178,205,193,166,238,174,183,90,10,0,0,-26,-14,-228,-252,-286,-293,-272,-281,
-287,-296,-292,-302,-412,-496,-547,-548,-506,-656,-767,-795,-632,-870,-1498,
-1467,-1506,-1774,-2215,-2523,-29983,-29984,-29993,-29994,-29997,-29998]} 1. e4
e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 f5 4. d3 (4. Nc3) 4... Nf6 (4... fxe4) 5. exf5 (5. O-O) (
5. Nc3) 5... d6 (5... Bc5) 6. O-O a6 (6... Bxf5 {main}) 7. Bxc6+ (7. Ba4) 7...
bxc6 8. Nc3 Bxf5 9. h3 (9. d4 {Cloud Engines} e4 10. Ng5 Be7 11. f3 e3 12. Nge4
O-O 13. Bxe3 Nd5 14. Bf2 Bh4 15. Qd2 Rb8 16. b3 {Kraft-Profitlich, GER ch V05
email, 2010,1-0}) 9... Be7 10. Ne2 O-O 11. Ng3 Bg6 (11... Bd7) 12. Nh4 Bf7 13.
Nhf5 d5 14. Nxe7+ Qxe7 15. Bg5 Bg6 $11 16. Qe2 Qd6 17. Rad1 a5 18. a3 Rab8 19.
Bc1 (19. b3 Rbe8 20. a4 Qb4 $11 {Komodo13}) 19... Nd7 (19... Rbe8) 20. b3 c5
21. Qd2 Ra8 (21... a4) 22. a4 Qb6 23. Bb2 d4 24. Rde1 $14 {the e pawn is now
backward} Qb4 25. Qxb4 cxb4 26. Bc1 Rae8 27. f4 (27. Re2) 27... Re7 28. fxe5
Rxf1+ (28... Nxe5 29. Re2 Nc6 30. Rxe7 Nxe7 31. Rxf8+ Kxf8 32. Ne2 c5 33. Bf4
Nc8 34. Bc7 $16 {leaves a;ll of Bl's Q side pawns weak & immediately cedes Wh
a protected pawws a pawn}) 29. Nxf1 Nf8 30. Bf4 Ne6 31. Bg3 $16 c5 32. Nd2 Kf8
33. Nc4 $18 Ra7 34. Bh4 (34. Nd6 Kg8 35. Rf1 Ra8 36. Bh4 $18 {Komodo13}) 34...
Ke8 35. Nd6+ Kd7 36. Nc4 (36. Rf1) 36... Be8 37. Kf2 g5 38. Bg3 h5 39. Kf3 Bg6
40. Rf1 Kc6 41. Ke2 Kd7 42. Rf6 Be8 (42... Ra6 43. h4 (43. Rxg6 Nf4+ 44. Bxf4
Rxg6 45. Bg3 $18) 43... gxh4 44. Bxh4 Be8 45. Kf2 Kc7 46. Rh6 $18 {Komodo13})
43. Nd6 (43. Nb6+ Kd8 (43... Ke7 44. Nc8+) 44. Rxe6 $18 {Komodo13}) 43... Ra8
44. Nb5 (44. h4 $18) 44... Ra6 (44... h4 {gives Bl a bit of possible
counterplay} 45. Bh2 Bh5+ 46. Kd2 Rg8 47. Nd6 g4 48. hxg4 Bxg4 49. Rf7+ Kd8 50.
Nb7+ Kc8 51. Nxa5 Bf5 52. Rxf5 Rxg2+ 53. Kd1 Rxh2 54. Rf6 Kd7 55. Rh6 h3 $11)
45. Kf3 Ke7 46. Nd6 $2 (46. Rh6) 46... Bc6+ (46... Rxd6 $19) 47. Kf2 Be8 48.
Nxe8 (48. Rxe6+ Kxe6 49. Nxe8 $18 {Komodo13}) 48... Kxe8 49. Kf3 Ke7 50. Ke4
Ra8 51. Kd5 (51. Kf5 Nf4 52. Bxf4 gxf4 53. e6 (53. Rg6 Rf8+ 54. Ke4 Rh8 55.
Kxf4 $18) 53... Rg8 54. Rf7+ Kd6 55. e7 Re8 56. Kxf4 $18 {Komodo13}) 51... Rd8+
52. Kc6 Rc8+ 53. Kd5 (53. Kb5 {forcing Bl into zugzwang to pick up another pawn
} h4 54. Bh2 Ra8 55. Kb6 Kd7 56. Rf7+ Ke8 57. Rh7 Nf8 58. Rg7 Ne6 59. Rg8+ Nf8
60. Rxg5 $18 {Komodo13}) 53... Rd8+ 54. Ke4 Rg8 55. Be1 (55. h4 gxh4 56. Bxh4
Rg4+ 57. Rf4+ Ke8 58. Rxg4 hxg4 59. g3 Ng7 60. Kf4 $18 {Komodo13}) 55... h4 (
55... Nf4 56. g3 Nxh3 57. Rh6 Ng1 58. Rxh5 g4 59. Rh7+ Ke6 60. Bd2 Ne2 61. Rh6+
Ke7 62. Bf4 Kd7 63. e6+ Kc6 64. Be5 Nc3+ 65. Kf5 $18 {Komodo13}) 56. Kf5 (56.
Bd2 {prevents N entry}) 56... Nf4 57. Bd2 (57. Rc6 $18) 57... Nxg2 $11 58. Bxg5
$2 Ne3+ 59. Kf4 Nd5+ 60. Ke4 (60. Kf5 {is a little better}) 60... Nxf6+ 61.
Bxf6+ Ke6 62. Bxh4 Rg2 63. Bd8 Rxc2 64. Bxa5 Re2+ (64... Rh2) 65. Kf3 Rxe5 (
65... Re3+) 66. h4 Re3+ 67. Kg4 Rxd3 68. Bb6 Kd5 69. a5 Rxb3 70. a6 Ra3 71. h5
b3 72. h6 b2 73. h7 b1=Q 74. h8=Q Qe4+ 75. Kg5 Rg3+ 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "3.46"]
[White "Taylor, Paul A"]
[Black "Leonard, Paul"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "109"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "98"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,98,27,38,58,5,25,18,66,54,62,122,163,170,170,118,116,83,85,101,94,109,
97,102,97,108,97,92,95,93,96,47,34,-187,-174,-384,-407,-409,-404,-465,-404,
-410,-411,-460,-452,-448,-448,-565,-478,-472,-481,-575,-720,-803,-896,-878,
-1006,-1093,-823,-820,-671,-671,-672,-689,0,-457,-457,-517,-543,-458,-474,-593,
-700,-724,-474,-1475,-1819,-1918,-1506,-1506,-1614,-2350,-2543,-2736,-1399,
-1838,-1911,-1969,-2241,-2264,-2323,-2692,-29986,-29989,-29982,-29983,-2458,
-2894,-2461,-2682,-2410]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Bf4 c5 {main} (3... e6) 4. e3
Nc6 (4... cxd4) (4... a6) 5. Nb5 Qa5+ 6. c3 e5 (6... Kd7 {10-0}) 7. dxe5 (7.
Bxe5 $1 $18 {Cloud Engines} Nxe5 8. dxe5 c4 (8... a6 9. Na3 Ng4 10. Qxd5 $18)
9. a4 a6 10. exf6 axb5 11. Qxd5 gxf6 12. Nf3 Be7 13. Nd4 bxa4 14. Qxc4 {
Lampon-Salaazar Moran, Spain-Ecuador m IECC 2009,1-0}) 7... c4 (7... a6 8. exf6
(8. Na7 Rxa7 9. exf6 {Komodo13 & other Cloud Engines}) 8... axb5 9. Nf3 (9.
Qxd5) 9... b4 (9... Be6 10. Be2 gxf6 11. O-O Bg7 12. Qc2 Ne5 13. Rfd1 h5 14. e4
$18 {Vann-Gogia, 4NCL congress, Coventry 2017,1-0}) 10. Qd2 (10. c4 b3+ 11. Nd2
bxa2 12. cxd5 $18) 10... bxc3 11. bxc3 Be6 12. Be2 gxf6 13. O-O $16 {
Pitkanen-Popovich, Chigorin memorial 2017,0-1}) 8. Nc7+ (8. Nxa7 $18 {Cloud
Engines}) (8. a4 a6 9. exf6 axb5 10. Qxd5 Be6 11. Qe4 gxf6 12. Rd1 f5 13. Qf3
Bg7 $11 {Cawley-Sajjadi, Gibraltar Masters 2015,1-0}) 8... Qxc7 9. exf6 Qd8 (
9... Qb6 {Cloud Engines} 10. Rc1 Qxb2 11. Rc2 Qb5 12. Rd2 Be6 13. Bg5 h6 14.
Bh4 g5 15. Bg3 O-O-O {Huber-Weishaeutel, GER ch U10, Oberhof 2013,1-0}) (9...
Qa5 10. Be2 Bf5 11. Nf3 gxf6 12. Nd4 Nxd4 13. Qxd4 Bg7 14. O-O $16 {Arroyo
Fernandez-Cuadrado Carmona, Chamartin op, Madrid 2018,1-0}) 10. fxg7 Bxg7 11.
Nf3 O-O 12. Qc2 Qf6 13. Be2 Bf5 14. Qd2 Be4 15. Rg1 (15. Rd1 $16 {Komodo13})
15... Rfe8 $11 16. g4 $2 Bxf3 $19 17. Rg3 (17. Bxf3 Qxf4) 17... Bxe2 18. Qxe2
d4 19. Kf1 d3 (19... dxc3) 20. Qf3 Rad8 21. g5 Qg6 22. h4 d2 23. Qe2 Qc2 24.
Rd1 Qxb2 (24... Ne7) (24... b5) 25. e4 Bxc3 (25... Qc2 26. Rxd2 Rxd2 27. Qxd2
Qxe4 $19 {Komodo13}) 26. Qxc4 Qc2 27. Qb3 (27. Rxd2 Qb1+) 27... Qxe4 28. Be3
Qd3+ (28... Qh1+ 29. Rg1 (29. Ke2 Nd4+) 29... Qh3+ 30. Rg2 Rxe3 31. fxe3 Qh1+
32. Kf2 Qe1+ 33. Kf3 Ne5+ 34. Kf4 Qxh4+ 35. Kf5 Qh3+ 36. Kf6 Nf3+ 37. Qxc3 Qe6#
{Komodo13}) 29. Kg2 Qe2 (29... Qe4+) 30. g6 hxg6 31. Rxg6+ Kf8 (31... Bg7 $19)
32. Bc5+ {missing a chance} (32. Bh6+ $1 Ke7 33. Qxb7+ Rd7 34. Bg5+ Kf8 (34...
f6 35. Rg7+ Kf8 36. Qxd7 Qe4+ 37. Kg1 Qe1+ 38. Kg2 Qe4+ $11 (38... Qe6 39. Bh6
$18 Qxd7 40. Rxd7+ Kg8 41. Bxd2)) 35. Bh6+ $11) 32... Ne7 33. Rg3 Qe4+ 34. Kg1
Be5 35. Re3 Qg4+ 36. Kf1 Bh2 (36... Bd6) 37. Qc3 $2 (37. Rxe7 Rxe7 38. Bxe7+
Kxe7 39. Rxd2 Qg1+ 40. Ke2 Rxd2+ 41. Kxd2 Qxf2+ $19 {Komodo13}) 37... Qxd1+ 38.
Kg2 Qg4+ 39. Kxh2 d1=Q 40. Rg3 Qxh4+ 41. Rh3 Qg5 (41... Qf4+) 42. Qh8+ Qg8 43.
Qh6+ Qg7 44. Qxg7+ Kxg7 45. Rg3+ Ng6 46. Be3 Qh5+ (46... Rh8+) 47. Rh3 Qd5 48.
Bh6+ Kg8 49. Be3 Qxa2 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "3.47"]
[White "Jackson, Paul Robert"]
[Black "Hilditch-Love, Daniel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "116"]
[BlackElo "85"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,82,19,31,25,21,51,50,36,-12,14,-12,-19,-20,9,1,15,-2,18,-3,74,56,73,
47,91,63,99,8,20,20,18,7,21,0,-1,-19,-17,-17,-17,-12,0,0,0,-10,-3,-21,-13,-25,
-18,-26,-22,-17,-9,-6,-6,-12,23,11,16,-19,14,9,-19,-37,-47,-47,-37,-88,-216,
-304,-314,-393,-278,-385,-819,-927,-1002,-1058,-1153,-1295,-1320,-1421,-1799,
-1964,-2016]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. e3 d5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Bd3 e6 (5... Bg4) 6.
Nbd2 h6 (6... Bd6) (6... Be7) 7. O-O Be7 8. dxc5 Bxc5 9. e4 dxe4 (9... O-O {
transposes to 86 games}) 10. Nxe4 Bb6 (10... Nxe4 11. Bxe4 Qxd1 12. Rxd1 O-O
$16 {Cloud Engines}) 11. Bf4 (11. Qe2) 11... Nxe4 12. Bxe4 Qxd1 13. Bxc6+ {
concedes the 2 Bs for only a very slight weakening of the Bl pawn structure} (
13. Raxd1 $16) 13... bxc6 14. Raxd1 O-O $11 15. Rd2 Rd8 (15... f6) 16. Rfd1 Bb7
17. Rxd8+ Rxd8 18. Rxd8+ Bxd8 19. Be3 Bb6 20. Bxb6 axb6 21. Nd2 (21. Ne5 f6 22.
Nc4 b5 23. Na5 Ba8 24. Nb3 Bb7 25. Nc5 Bc8 $11 {Komodo13, but Wh can get a
passed a pawn quickly, just 1 move short of a forced win} 26. b3 (26. f4 Kf8
27. Kf2 Ke7 28. Ne4 {may be better therefore}) 26... Kf7 27. a4 bxa4 28. bxa4
Ke7 29. f4 Kd6 30. Ne4+ Kd5 31. Nd2 e5 32. fxe5 Kxe5 33. Kf2) 21... Kf8 22. Kf1
Ke7 23. Ke1 c5 24. g3 (24. f3 {better to block the B}) 24... b5 25. Ke2 f5 26.
f4 g5 27. Ke3 Bd5 28. b3 Kd6 (28... Bc6) 29. Nf3 $2 (29. fxg5 hxg5 30. c4 bxc4
31. Nxc4+ Ke7 32. a4 $14 (32. h4 f4+ 33. gxf4 gxh4 34. Kf2 $11 {but the h pawn
is a nuisance})) 29... Bxf3 30. Kxf3 b4 31. cxb4 cxb4 {Bl is in practice a
pawn up, because Wh's Q side majority is tied down} 32. Ke3 gxf4+ 33. Kxf4 Kd5
34. Ke3 e5 35. h3 h5 36. Kd3 e4+ 37. Ke3 Ke5 38. h4 Kd5 39. Ke2 Kd4 40. Kd2 e3+
41. Ke2 Ke4 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "3.48"]
[White "Kirklys, Domantas"]
[Black "Ryder, Arthur"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B58"]
[WhiteElo "92"]
[BlackElo "112"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,80,27,28,109,56,82,61,60,29,29,29,35,30,33,27,24,11,1,-31,-16,-14,11,
-4,54,28,66,69,74,76,85,82,100,100,123,118,141,126,119,119,121,128,125,124,122,
125,127,128,124,129,127,102,127,101,100,99,101,100,100,107,105,93,110,112,123,
109,137,123,130,130,162,0,0,0,0,-11,-11,-641,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3.
d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 (5... a6 {Najdorf system, prepares e5}) 6. Nf3 (
6. Bb5+ Bd7 7. Bxd7+ Qxd7 8. Nf5 (8. Nde2 {gives Wh a firm hold on a d5 hole}))
6... Be6 7. Bg5 Be7 8. Bxf6 (8. Qd2) 8... Bxf6 9. Bd3 (9. Bb5+ {1 wh win, 2
draws}) 9... O-O 10. O-O Nc6 11. Nd5 Bg4 (11... Bxd5 12. exd5 Nb8) 12. Be2 Bxf3
13. Bxf3 Nd4 (13... Bg5) 14. c3 Nxf3+ (14... Ne6) 15. Qxf3 $16 {Bl has a bad B
& weak pawn on d6} Be7 16. Rad1 Qd7 17. Qf5 {Wh's control of the centre should
be able to lead to a K side attack, with Rs joining in via the 3rd rank. Wh
should therefore keep Qs onto make this more effective} (17. Rd3) 17... Rfd8 (
17... Qd8) 18. Qxd7 Rxd7 19. Nxe7+ Rxe7 20. Rxd6 {though winning a pawn with
central file control should be enough to win. owever R & p endings can be
tricky} f6 21. Rfd1 Kf7 22. f3 Rc8 23. Kf2 Rcc7 24. Ke3 Re6 25. Rd7+ Re7 26.
Rxe7+ (26. Rd8 $5) 26... Kxe7 27. g3 g6 28. Rd5 Ke6 29. f4 b6 30. Kd3 Rc6 31.
b3 a6 32. c4 h6 33. h4 (33. fxe5 {opening another file to ease R or, later, K
entry} fxe5 34. b4) 33... h5 34. b4 Rd6 $2 {swapping pieces should blead to an
easy K & p ending for Wh} 35. c5 $2 {gives up the extra pawn} (35. Rxd6+ Kxd6
36. fxe5+ Kxe5 37. c5 bxc5 38. bxc5 f5 39. exf5 Kxf5 40. Kc4 Ke5 41. a4 Ke6 42.
Kd4 a5 43. Kc4 Ke5 44. c6 Kd6 45. Kb5 $18) (35. f5+ {Komodo13} gxf5 36. exf5+
Ke7 37. Rxd6 Kxd6 38. Ke3 Kd7 (38... Kc6 39. g4 hxg4 40. h5 $18) 39. g4 hxg4
40. h5 Ke7 41. h6 Kf7 42. c5 $18 {and a K can't dance at two weddings}) 35...
bxc5 36. Kc4 (36. Rxd6+ Kxd6 37. fxe5+ fxe5 38. bxc5+ Kxc5 39. Kc3 a5 40. a4
Kd6 41. Kc4 Kc6 $11 {and Bl has the opposition}) 36... cxb4 37. Rxd6+ (37. Kc5
Rxd5+ 38. exd5+ Kd7 39. fxe5 fxe5 40. Kxb4 Kd6 41. Kc4 a5 42. a4 e4 43. Kd4 e3
44. Kxe3 Kxd5 45. Kd3 $11 {Wh has the opposition & holds the game}) 37... Kxd6
$19 38. Kxb4 Kc6 (38... exf4 $1 $19 {Komodo13} 39. gxf4 g5 40. hxg5 fxg5 41.
fxg5 h4 {and Wh is unable to catch the h pawn. Bl cannot capture either of the
Wh K side pawns, but then neither can they get through.}) 39. fxe5 fxe5 40. a4
Kb6 $11 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "3.49"]
[White "Jones, Hefin"]
[Black "Bramley, Douglas"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B40"]
[WhiteElo "86"]
[BlackElo "108"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,53,21,20,46,36,32,35,23,19,-14,-26,-42,-67,-59,-43,-39,-47,-21,-15,
-28,-62,-25,-1,-20,-35,29,34,26,16,33,42,42,-129,-13,-43,-23,0,95,-50,134,148,
124,76,160,194,220,236,302,298,298,298,675,753,1350,1598]} 1. e4 e6 2. Nf3 d5
3. e5 c5 4. c3 (4. b4 {is an interesting gambit to gain centre control}) (4. d4
) 4... Nc6 5. d3 (5. d4 {main}) 5... Nge7 6. Qb3 $146 Ng6 7. d4 cxd4 8. cxd4
Be7 (8... Nh4 9. Be3 Nxf3+ 10. gxf3 Bd7 $15 {Komodo13}) 9. Bd2 O-O (9... f6 $17
) 10. Bd3 Na5 (10... Nh4) 11. Qc2 Bd7 12. Nc3 Rc8 13. h4 Nc4 $11 14. h5 Nh4 (
14... Nxd2 15. Qxd2 Nh4 $11 {Komodo13}) 15. Bxh7+ (15. Nxh4) 15... Kh8 16.
O-O-O (16. Nxh4 Nxd2 17. Qxd2 Bg5 18. Qe2 Kxh7 19. g3 $16 {Komodo13}) 16...
Nxd2 (16... Nxf3 17. gxf3 b5 $19 (17... Nxd2 18. Kxd2 Bg5+ 19. Ke1 f6 $19)) 17.
Nxd2 Bg5 (17... b5 $19) (17... Nxg2 $19) 18. Kb1 Bh6 (18... b5 $17) 19. Qd3 (
19. g3 $14) 19... Nf5 (19... Nxg2 $17) 20. Bxf5 exf5 21. Nxd5 (21. Nb3 $18)
21... Be6 (21... Ba4 22. Nc3 Bxd1 23. Rxd1 $16 {Komodo13}) 22. Nc3 $18 Qa5 23.
d5 (23. Nb3) 23... Rfd8 (23... Rxc3 24. bxc3 Bxd5 25. Nb3 $18 {Komodo13}) 24.
Nc4 Qc5 25. Nd6 Bxd5 26. Nxd5 (26. Qxd5) 26... Rc6 27. Nxf7+ 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "3.50"]
[White "Hall, Les"]
[Black "Holmes, Nick D"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "80"]
[BlackElo "105"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "102"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,102,21,21,86,36,56,12,12,-13,-18,-31,12,-49,-31,-80,-71,-80,-41,-58,
-16,-23,-12,-2,66,-9,84,-10,-8,-43,-16,-7,-9,6,-14,-126,10,-123,9,-479,-37,
-409,-428,-428,-428,-428,-428,-428,-438,-440,-440,-878,-561,-662,-666,-832,
-696,-696,-605,-592,-620,-718,-814,-937,-573,-688,-682,-778,-537,-591,-528,
-542,-534,-849,-882,-882,-550,-693,-635,-945,-882,-882,-892,-996,-455,-467,
-463,-464,-480,-497,-465,-547,-550,-572,-679,-665,-718,-789,-1018,-1186,-858,
-858,-1043,-1441,-1479]} 1. d4 d6 2. e3 Nf6 3. Bd3 Nc6 (3... g6 {main}) 4. Nd2
e5 5. c3 Be6 $146 (5... d5) (5... g6 {main lines}) 6. Bb5 (6. Ngf3) 6... Bd7 7.
Bc4 (7. Ne2 $11) 7... d5 $17 8. Bb3 e4 (8... Bd6 $17) 9. f3 Qe7 (9... Bd6) 10.
Ne2 $14 O-O-O 11. O-O g5 12. Bc2 (12. Ng3 $16) (12. fxe4 dxe4 13. Ng3 $16)
12... Bh6 13. Nb3 (13. fxe4 $16) 13... exf3 14. Rxf3 $14 g4 15. Rf1 (15. Rf2
$14 Bxe3 16. Bxe3 Qxe3 17. Qd3 Qg5 18. Nc5 $14 {Komodo13}) 15... Bxe3+ 16. Bxe3
Qxe3+ 17. Rf2 (17. Kh1 $11) 17... h5 (17... g3 18. Nxg3 Ng4 $19 {Komod013}) 18.
Nc5 (18. Qc1 $11) 18... h4 (18... g3 19. Nxg3 Ng4 $19) 19. Nxd7 (19. Qd3 $11)
19... Nxd7 (19... g3 $19) 20. Bf5 (20. Qd3 $11) 20... g3 $19 21. hxg3 hxg3 22.
Nxg3 Qxg3 23. Rf3 Qh2+ 24. Kf2 Kb8 25. Qe2 Nf6 (25... Qh4+ 26. Rg3 Rdg8 $19)
26. Rg1 Rde8 27. Qf1 Ne4+ (27... Rh5) 28. Bxe4 dxe4 (28... Rxe4) 29. Re3 f5 30.
Qe1 Ne7 31. Ke2 Ng6 (31... Nd5) 32. Kd2 Nf4 33. Qf2 Rh4 (33... Nd5) 34. Rf1
Qxg2 (34... Rg8) (34... Nxg2) 35. Qxg2 Nxg2 36. Rg3 e3+ 37. Ke2 Nf4+ (37... Rh2
) 38. Ke1 b6 (38... e2) 39. Rgf3 Nd3+ 40. Ke2 Nxb2 41. Rxe3 Rxe3+ (41... Rh2+)
42. Kxe3 Nc4+ 43. Kd3 Nd6 44. Ke3 b5 45. Rf4 Rh3+ (45... Rxf4) 46. Rf3 Rxf3+
47. Kxf3 Ne4 (47... Kb7) 48. Kf4 Nxc3 49. a3 Nb1 50. Kxf5 Nxa3 51. Ke5 b4 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "3.51"]
[White "Hynes, Thomas F"]
[Black "De Santos, Andrew R"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D10"]
[WhiteElo "76"]
[BlackElo "103"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,54,69,21,48,2,25,31,24,44,57,29,14,25,25,6,8,13,20,20,24,5,13,3,3,-8,
52,50,44,11,40,-14,-14,-32,-20,-30,-8,0,21,17,18,27,25,41,38,28,44,-191,-173,
-194,-156,-182,-175,-525,-521,-891,-895]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. e3 Nf6 4. Nc3
Bg4 (4... e6 {main}) 5. Be2 (5. f3) (5. Qb3) (5. Nf3) 5... Bxe2 6. Qxe2 e6 7.
a3 (7. Nf3 {main}) 7... Be7 $146 (7... dxc4 8. Qxc4 {3 Wh wins, 1 draw, 1 Bl
win}) 8. Nf3 O-O 9. O-O Nbd7 10. Re1 (10. e4 $14) 10... dxc4 (10... Ne4 $11)
11. Qxc4 Nb6 12. Qd3 (12. Qe2) 12... Nbd5 (12... c5 $11) 13. e4 Nxc3 14. Qxc3
$14 (14. bxc3 $14) 14... Rc8 15. e5 (15. b4) 15... Nd5 16. Qd3 h6 17. Re4 Kh8
18. Bd2 (18. Rg4) 18... Qd7 19. Rae1 b6 20. Rg4 Qd8 21. Rg3 $16 Rg8 22. Re4 Qf8
23. Rh4 $2 {Wh is looking at his own threats against h6, not noticing that
Bl's position has its defences} (23. Reg4 h5 24. Rh3 g6 25. Ng5 $16) 23... Bxh4
$19 24. Nxh4 Rd8 (24... c5) 25. Rh3 c5 26. Ng6+ fxg6 27. Bxh6 gxh6 {Bl has a
lurking Q as well} 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "3.52"]
[White "Holyhead, James"]
[Black "Jones, Jonathan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "64"]
[BlackElo "101"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,66,69,5,23,-4,-5,-9,-13,-18,-9,-5,26,10,11,-1,6,-19,-5,-10,-9,-9,30,7,
48,39,107,5,-1,-175,-183,-242,-251,-254,-246,-266,-260,-320,-324,-346,-354,
-384,-353,-374,-385,-424,-439,-450,-450,-438,-438,-461,-458,-446,-463,-835,
-973,-1091,-1406,-1439,-1215,-1439,-1466,-1490,-1501,-1501,-1512,-1514,-1528]} 
1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 d5 3. Bxf6 exf6 4. Nf3 c6 5. e3 Qa5+ (5... Bd6) (5... Qb6) 6.
c3 (6. Nbd2 Be7 7. Bd3 O-O 8. O-O Bg4 9. Re1 Nd7 10. e4 {Genovese-Shepherd,
Sunningdale op 2010,1-0}) 6... Bg4 7. Be2 Bd6 8. Nh4 Bxe2 9. Qxe2 g6 10. Nd2
Qd8 11. e4 Be7 (11... O-O $11) 12. exd5 Qxd5 (12... cxd5 13. O-O-O O-O $11) 13.
Ne4 (13. O-O-O $16) 13... O-O 14. O-O (14. Nf3) 14... f5 $19 {loose pieces are
often in danger} 15. Nxg6 fxg6 16. Nd2 Bf6 17. Nb3 Nd7 18. c4 Qf7 19. Rad1 Rfe8
20. Qc2 Rad8 21. g3 Nb6 22. Na5 Rxd4 23. Rxd4 Bxd4 24. Rd1 c5 25. b4 f4 {
Wh has no compensation & Bl gets the attack} 26. bxc5 Bxc5 27. gxf4 Qxf4 28.
Nxb7 Qg4+ 29. Kf1 Bxf2 (29... Qf3) 30. Qxf2 (30. Kxf2 Rf8+ 31. Ke1 Nxc4 {
and the Wh K has no real protection}) 30... Qxd1+ 31. Kg2 Re2 (31... Nxc4 {
mating , Komodo13}) 32. c5 Qd5+ 33. Kg3 Rxf2 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "3.53"]
[White "Taylor, Geoffrey P"]
[Black "Hollyman, Mike"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "106"]
[BlackElo "48"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,73,21,42,44,42,32,44,81,71,70,35,95,50,227,204,234,265,395,312,494,
479,553,397,359,256,256,227,265,265,327,390,349,353,353,362,1080,1748,29985,
29986,29987,29990,29995,441,441,373,359,294,594,614,624,627,669,621,639,593,
647,638,637,622,619,631,751,847,1324,729,812,810,946,769,1075,736,1603,1710,
1721,29728]} 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 3. d4 Bg4 4. f3 Bf5 5. Nc3 (5. Bb5+ {main}) (
5. c4) (5. g4) 5... e6 (5... Nxd5) 6. dxe6 Bb4 (6... Bxe6 7. Be3 Nc6 8. Bb5 Bb4
9. Nge2 O-O 10. Bxc6 Bxc3+ 11. Nxc3 bxc6 12. Qd3 Rb8 13. O-O-O {Connor-Pachis,
Cserve email 1996,1/2-1/2}) 7. exf7+ $18 Kxf7 8. Bc4+ Kg6 9. Nge2 Re8 10. O-O (
10. g4) 10... h6 11. Ng3 Be6 12. Bd3+ (12. d5) 12... Kf7 13. Be3 (13. Nce2)
13... Bxc3 14. bxc3 Bxa2 15. Rxa2 (15. Bxh6) 15... Rxe3 16. Bc4+ Kf8 17. Ne4
Nxe4 18. fxe4+ Ke7 19. Rf7+ Ke8 20. Qh5 Qg5 21. Qxg5 (21. Rf8+ Kd7 22. Qe8+ Kd6
23. Qe6#) 21... hxg5 22. Rxg7 (22. Rxc7) 22... Rxc3 23. Bd3 (23. Bd5 c6 24. Be6
) 23... Nc6 24. Rg8+ Kd7 25. Rxa8 a6 26. Rg8 (26. d5) 26... Nb4 27. Rb2 Nxd3
28. cxd3 Rxd3 29. Rxg5 Rxd4 30. Rd5+ Rxd5 31. exd5 b5 32. Kf2 (32. h4) 32...
Kd6 33. Rd2 b4 34. Ke3 a5 35. Kd4 c5+ 36. dxc6 Kxc6 37. Kc4 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "3.54"]
[White "Hamilton, Stuart"]
[Black "Coleman, Patrick N"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E04"]
[WhiteElo "73"]
[BlackElo "109"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "120"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,120,19,27,26,27,54,25,20,-18,6,11,1,14,37,50,50,48,63,59,81,82,92,75,
63,79,76,96,96,66,123,133,126,25,26,10,59,15,65,61,52,45,49,35,58,20,26,-76,
-79,-94,-94,-90,-74,-119,-74,-87,-84,-98,-79,-86,-94,-161,-104,-258,-244,-273,
-289,-453,-310,-347,-342,-665,-665,-29993,-738,-738,-775,-775,-762,-866,-871,
-884,-526,-544,-551,-560,-597,-623,-592,-636,-576,-580,-617,-623,-636,-653,
-657,-724,-748,-791,-806,-861,-638,-647,-638,-649,-694,-765,-593,-592,-592,
-720,-722,-731,-675,-871,-1057,-1099,-1099,-1094,-1094,-1095,-1382]} 1. Nf3 d5
2. d4 c6 3. c4 Nf6 4. g3 (4. Nc3) (4. e3) 4... e6 (4... Bf5) (4... dxc4) 5. Bg2
dxc4 (5... Nbd7) 6. Ne5 (6. O-O) 6... Bb4+ 7. Nc3 (7. Bd2) 7... O-O (7... Nd5 {
main}) 8. Nxc4 (8. O-O) 8... Nbd7 9. O-O Qc7 (9... Nb6) 10. Bf4 Qd8 11. Ne4 (
11. e4 Nb6 12. Ne3 h6 13. h4 {Luong-Nurdin, Yogyakarta Japfa (women) 2019, 1-0}
) 11... Nxe4 12. Bxe4 $16 f5 13. Bg2 Nf6 14. Qa4 Nd5 15. Bxd5 exd5 16. Ne5 (16.
Qxb4 $16) 16... Bd6 $14 17. Nd3 Re8 18. Rae1 (18. Bxd6 Qxd6 19. e3 $16 {
Komodo13- the N is superior to the B}) 18... Re4 19. f3 Re8 20. Qc2 Be6 21. Qd2
a5 22. Bg5 (22. Bxd6 Qxd6 23. Rc1 $16 {Komodo13}) 22... Qb6 $11 23. Nc5 (23. e3
) 23... Bxc5 24. dxc5 Qxc5+ $17 25. Be3 Qe7 26. Bg5 Qf7 27. h4 h6 28. Bf4 b5
29. Rf2 c5 30. Rg2 d4 $19 31. g4 fxg4 32. fxg4 Bd5 33. Rf2 Qe6 (33... Qg6) 34.
Bg3 (34. e4 $5) 34... Qxg4 35. Kh2 Re3 36. Rg1 Be6 (36... Rxg3 37. Rxg3 Qxh4+
38. Kg1 Qh1# {Komodo13}) 37. Rgg2 Qh3+ 38. Kg1 Rxg3 39. Rxg3 Qxg3+ 40. Rg2 Qe3+
(40... Qxh4) 41. Qxe3 dxe3 42. a3 Rd8 (42... Bf7) (42... Re8) 43. Rg3 Rd1+ 44.
Kg2 Rd2 45. Rxe3 Bc4 46. Re8+ Kh7 (46... Kf7) 47. Kf3 Rxb2 48. e4 Rb3+ 49. Kf4
Rxa3 50. Rc8 Bd3 (50... Rd3) 51. e5 Ra4+ 52. Ke3 c4 53. e6 Bg6 (53... Ra2) 54.
e7 Ra1 (54... b4) 55. Kd4 Re1 56. Rc7 a4 (56... Re4+ 57. Kc5 b4) 57. Kc5 a3 58.
Kxb5 a2 59. Ra7 a1=Q (59... c3) 60. Rxa1 Rxa1 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "3.55"]
[White "Kelly, Alan"]
[Black "Knight, Pauly"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A48"]
[WhiteElo "109"]
[BlackElo "78"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,79,80,21,37,23,59,3,7,4,31,29,16,18,3,-16,-6,-49,-40,-40,-24,-34,-2,
-3,-3,18,36,119,132,87,86,99,107,89,101,46,47,43,185,150,137,46,59,40,87,94,89,
122,90,114,160,124,189,178,200,94,177,118,182,83,156,96,289,195,202,246,262,
195,205,222,513,758,851,1250,29989,29992,29995,29996,29997,29998,29999,-30000]
} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. e3 Bg7 4. Nc3 (4. Bd3 {main}) 4... d6 5. Bd2 (5. Bd3)
5... O-O 6. Be2 Nc6 (6... Nbd7 7. e4 e5 {Hefin Jones-Ben Brewer, Dyfed Major
2019,0-1}) 7. h4 (7. d5 Ne5 {Cloud Engines}) 7... Bg4 8. Ng5 Bxe2 9. Qxe2 h6
10. Nge4 h5 11. Nxf6+ Bxf6 12. g4 $16 Nb4 13. O-O-O $18 hxg4 14. Qxg4 (14. h5
$18) 14... Qc8 15. Qf4 (15. Qg2 $18) 15... Qe6 16. a3 (16. Kb1) 16... Na2+ 17.
Kb1 Nxc3+ 18. Bxc3 Qd7 (18... Qf5 19. Qg3 Kg7 20. f3 $16 {Komodo13}) 19. Qg3 (
19. e4) (19. h5) 19... Qf5 20. f4 (20. h5 $18) 20... Qh5 (20... d5 $14 {
Komodo13-blocks a lot of Wh's possible activity}) 21. Rdf1 Kg7 22. e4 $18 e6
23. e5 (23. d5 $18 {Komodo13}) 23... Be7 24. exd6 (24. d5) 24... Bxd6 25. d5+
Kg8 26. dxe6 fxe6 27. Be5 (27. Rhg1) 27... Kf7 (27... Bxe5 28. fxe5 Rxf1+ 29.
Rxf1 Rf8 30. Rg1 Kg7 $14 {a lot of the attacking force has gone}) 28. Qc3 Rfc8
29. Bf6 (29. Rfg1) 29... Qf5 (29... Qc5) 30. Bg5 Bf8 31. h5 (31. Rd1 $18) 31...
Bg7 32. hxg6+ Qxg6 33. Qc4 Qf5 34. Rd1 b6 35. Rd7+ Kf8 36. Bh6 Bxh6 37. Rxh6
Ke8 38. Qc6 Qf8 39. Rxc7+ (39. Qxe6+) 39... Kd8 40. Qd7# 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "3.56"]
[White "Foy, Jeff"]
[Black "Cockerill, Martin K"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A17"]
[WhiteElo "99"]
[BlackElo "98"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "135"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,135,21,21,20,-19,-11,3,0,-10,12,3,-6,-4,28,-1,0,-24,11,11,-2,-34,-3,
-10,10,1,-5,-3,-3,-11,-15,-15,28,9,6,3,19,31,2,7,36,-2,23,1,0,-8,-16,-10,-16,
-12,0,-9,12,11,12,17,53,44,48,20,8,17,0,12,3,-47,75,61,92,77,131,148,156,144,
138,142,272,125,126,105,182,188,202,172,237,257,282,287,361,359,501,496,496,
496,517,639,762,906,972,480,490,645,640,726,847,640,793,996,1014,1141,1207,
1243,1126,1505,1230,428,1016,451,511,396,399,267,958,386,399,263,300,213,300,
547,820,634,634,1016,1016,1948,29981,29982]} 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 e6 3. e3 Nf6 4.
Nc3 c5 (4... Be7) 5. cxd5 (5. d4) 5... exd5 6. d4 cxd4 (6... Nc6) 7. Qxd4 (7.
Nxd4) 7... Nc6 8. Bb5 a6 (8... Bd6) 9. Bxc6+ bxc6 10. Qa4 $146 (10. O-O) 10...
Qd6 11. e4 (11. O-O {Stockfish10 & Komodo13}) 11... Nxe4 12. Nxe4 dxe4 13.
Qxe4+ Qe6 14. Qxe6+ Bxe6 $15 15. O-O Bc5 16. Re1 O-O 17. Be3 Bxe3 18. Rxe3 Rfd8
19. b3 (19. h3 {both Engines}) 19... Rd6 20. Kf1 Rad8 21. Ke2 Bg4 22. h3 Rd2+
23. Ke1 Bxf3 24. gxf3 (24. Rxf3 {looks simpler}) 24... g6 (24... Kf8) 25. Re2
Rxe2+ 26. Kxe2 Kg7 27. Rc1 Rd6 28. Rc4 Kf6 29. Ke3 Kg5 $11 30. h4+ Kh5 31. Kf4
Rd2 32. Kg3 f5 (32... Rxa2 33. Rxc6 f5 $15 34. f4 Rb2 35. Rxa6 Rxb3+ 36. f3 Rb1
37. Ra7 h6 38. Ra6 Rg1+ 39. Kh2 Rc1 40. Kg3 {and, despite Wh's damaged pawn
structure, Wh can hold the game}) 33. Ra4 Rd1 (33... Rb2 34. Rxa6 c5 $11) 34.
Rxa6 Rh1 35. Rxc6 $16 Rxh4 36. Rc4 (36. a4 $18 {the connected passed pawns are
too strong}) 36... Rh1 37. a4 g5 38. Kg2 (38. a5 $18 Ra1 39. Ra4) 38... Ra1 39.
Rc5 f4 40. a5 Kh4 41. b4 g4 42. Rf5 gxf3+ 43. Kxf3 (43. Kh2 Kg4 $11) 43... Ra3+
44. Kxf4 Rb3 45. b5 Rb4+ 46. Kf3 Rb3+ 47. Kg2 Kg4 48. Rc5 h5 49. Rc4+ (49. a6)
49... Kg5 50. b6 Rb5 51. Ra4 Kf5 52. Rh4 (52. Kh3) (52. a6 Rxb6 53. a7 Rg6+ 54.
Kh3 Rg8 55. a8=Q Rxa8 56. Rxa8 $18) 52... Kg5 53. Ra4 Kf5 54. Kh3 Kg5 55. f4+ (
55. a6) 55... Kf6 56. Kh4 Ke6 57. Re4+ (57. a6) 57... Kd6 58. Re5 Rb4 59. Rxh5
(59. a6 Rxb6 60. Ra5) 59... Rxf4+ 60. Kg5 (60. Kg3) 60... Rb4 61. Kf6 (61. Rh6+
Kd7 62. a6) 61... Kc6 62. Re5 Kb7 63. Ke6 (63. Re7+) 63... Rc4 64. Kd5 Ra4 65.
Kd6 Rd4+ 66. Kc5 Rd8 67. Kb5 Rd7 68. a6+ 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.22"]
[Round "3.57"]
[White "Szwajkun, Steve"]
[Black "Bohm, Richard D"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C02"]
[WhiteElo "89"]
[BlackElo "83"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,92,80,8,46,25,46,11,11,0,3,3,-10,-78,11,-142,-183,-237,-220,-207,-216,
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-296,-323,-312,-340,-282,-351,-272,-292,-287,-324,-281,-288,-247,-477,-507,
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-1161,-1168,-1074,-1094,-422,-29983,-1016,-1058,-1084,-1112,-1096,-1191,-1105,
-1298,-1179,-1214,-1263,-29989,-29990,-29991,-29984,-29991,-29980,-29983,
-29984,-29985,-29984,-29985,-29986]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5.
Nf3 Qb6 6. b3 (6. a3) (6. Be2) (6. Bd3) 6... Nge7 (6... cxd4) 7. Nh4 $146 {
gives up a centre pawn} (7. Be3) (7. Bb2) 7... cxd4 8. cxd4 Nxd4 (8... Qxd4) 9.
Be3 Nec6 10. Nf3 Bc5 (10... Nxf3+ 11. Qxf3 Qc7 $19 {wins the e5 pawn as well})
11. Nbd2 Bd7 12. Be2 Nxf3+ (12... Nxe2 13. Qxe2 Nb4 {Komodo13}) 13. Bxf3 Bxe3
14. fxe3 Qxe3+ 15. Qe2 Qxe5 (15... Qd4 16. Rd1 Nxe5) 16. Qxe5 Nxe5 17. Rd1 Bb5
(17... Ke7) 18. Kf2 O-O 19. a4 Bc6 20. Nb1 f5 21. Nc3 g5 22. h3 Nxf3 23. gxf3
g4 (23... Kf7) 24. f4 d4 25. Rhg1 dxc3 26. hxg4 fxg4 (26... Rac8) 27. Rxg4+ Kh8
28. Ke3 Rad8 29. Rc1 e5 30. Rc2 exf4+ 31. Rxf4 Rde8+ 32. Kd4 Rxf4+ 33. Kxc3 Rc8
(33... Re3+ 34. Kb2 Rff3) 34. Kb2 Rb4 (34... Rg8) 35. Ka3 Rg4 36. Rc5 Rf8 37.
a5 a6 38. Rc2 Rf3 39. Kb2 Rgg3 40. Rd2 Rxb3+ 41. Kc2 Be4+ 42. Kd1 Rgd3 (42...
Rg1+ 43. Ke2 Bf3+ 44. Kf2 Rg2+ 45. Kf1 Rb1+ 46. Rd1 Rxd1#) 43. Kc2 Rbc3+ (43...
Re3+) 44. Kd1 Rxd2+ (44... h5) 45. Kxd2 Rg3 46. Ke2 h5 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "4.41"]
[White "Gorman, Ken"]
[Black "Fraser, Chris A"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "108"]
[BlackElo "119"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "93"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. g3 e6 3. Bg2 c5 (3... d5) 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. O-O b5 (5... d5) (5...
cxd4) 6. b3 (6. a4) 6... Bb7 7. Ne5 (7. Bb2 {has been played}) 7... Qc7 (7...
cxd4 8. Nxc6 Bxc6 9. Qxd4 Rc8 $11 {Komodo13}) 8. Nxc6 Bxc6 9. Bf4 Qb6 (9... Bd6
10. Bxd6 Qxd6 11. dxc5 Qxc5 $15 {Komodo13}) 10. Bxc6 Qxc6 (10... dxc6) 11. Qd3
Be7 (11... cxd4 $15) 12. c4 bxc4 13. Qxc4 d5 14. Qd3 O-O (14... c4 $15) 15. Nd2
cxd4 (15... Rac8) 16. Rac1 Qb6 17. Nf3 Rac8 18. Be5 Ne4 19. Bxd4 Qb7 20. Nd2
Nd6 (20... Nc5) 21. Nf3 Ne4 22. Nd2 Nxd2 23. Qxd2 $11 Ba3 24. Rb1 Qe7 (24...
Qb4) 25. Bb2 (25. b4 $16 {Komodo13}) 25... Rc7 26. Qd4 Bxb2 27. Qxb2 Rfc8 28.
Rbc1 e5 29. Rxc7 Rxc7 (29... Qxc7 {controls the c file}) 30. Rd1 (30. Rc1 $11)
30... d4 31. Qd2 f6 32. Qd3 Rc3 33. Qb5 h6 34. Qd5+ Kh7 (34... Qf7 $15) 35.
Qe4+ Kg8 (35... g6 36. Rxd4 f5 $19) 36. Rxd4 $18 Rc1+ 37. Kg2 Qc7 38. Qd5+ Kh7
39. Rc4 Rxc4 40. bxc4 f5 41. c5 f4 42. c6 fxg3 43. hxg3 h5 44. Qd7 Qa5 45. c7
Qb4 46. Qf5+ Kh6 47. c8=Q 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "4.42"]
[White "Walker, Kate"]
[Black "Kirilenkovs, Juris"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "119"]
[BlackElo "55"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,82,19,31,32,14,30,26,7,-16,6,-51,-21,-49,-15,-14,0,19,72,34,65,-14,-9,
-8,-16,-16,-4,-74,-51,-89,285,283,271,271,271,271,403,355,404,373,430,401,401,
385,403,403,403,402,412,413,450,453,469,472,489,453,452,428,481,478,474,465,
647,730,770,654,764,862,865,626,634,688,759,759,867,650,723,572,1704,712,1740,
773,1904,844,1766]} 1. d4 d5 2. e3 a6 3. Bd3 Nc6 {an unusaul setup, but should
be ok for Bl} 4. f4 Nh6 (4... Nf6 {main}) 5. Nd2 Bf5 (5... Nb4) 6. Qe2 Qd6 7.
Ngf3 e6 8. O-O Nb4 9. Bxf5 Nxf5 10. a3 (10. e4 $16) 10... Nxc2 $17 11. Nc4 dxc4
12. Qxc2 b5 $15 (12... Qd5 $15) 13. Qe4 Qd5 14. Qb1 {retreats often hide a bit
of poison} Bd6 $2 (14... Nd6 $17) 15. e4 $18 {now Nxd4 no longer attacks the
Wh Q as it would have before} Qb7 16. exf5 Qd5 17. fxe6 f6 18. Bd2 a5 19. Qe1 (
19. Re1) 19... O-O-O 20. Qe2 (20. Bxa5) 20... a4 21. Rfe1 Qf5 22. Qe4 Qxe4 23.
Rxe4 f5 24. Re2 Rde8 25. Ng5 (25. g3) 25... h6 (25... Re7) 26. Nf7 Rhf8 27.
Nxd6+ (27. Bb4) (27. d5) 27... cxd6 28. d5 Rf6 29. Bc3 Rg6 30. Bb4 h5 31. Bxd6
h4 32. h3 Rg3 33. Bb4 Rd3 34. Rd2 (34. d6 $18) 34... Rxd2 35. Bxd2 g6 36. Bc3
Kb7 37. Bf6 (37. Rd1) (37. Re1) 37... Kc7 38. Rd1 b4 39. axb4 (39. d6+ Kb7 40.
d7 Ra8 41. e7 $18) 39... a3 40. bxa3 c3 41. Bxc3 Kd6 (41... Kd6 42. Be5+ Ke7
43. Rc1 Kf8 44. Rc7 Kg8 45. d6 Rxe6 46. d7) 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "4.43"]
[White "Allen, Timothy S"]
[Black "Leonard, Paul"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C27"]
[WhiteElo "110"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,49,25,13,21,18,67,15,5,10,6,11,25,-4,-10,-7,-12,-17,-1,-8,-57,-30,8,
-16,-25,-61,-25,-60,-63,-93,-40,-63,51,45,562,602,614,586,586,622,810,614,809,
897,906,971,983,1026,1633,29990,29987,29992]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Bc5 3. Bc4 Nf6 4.
d3 c6 5. Nf3 d6 6. Bg5 (6. O-O) 6... h6 7. Be3 ({main} 7. Bh4) 7... Bxe3 8.
fxe3 Qb6 (8... O-O 9. Bb3 {2-0}) 9. Qd2 (9. Qc1 $11) 9... Qxb2 $15 {though Wh
should have compensation, because of Bl's delayed development. The general
princilpe is , a pawn is worth 3 developing moves} 10. O-O Qb6 11. Rab1 Qc7 12.
Nh4 O-O {here Wh has 6 pieces active to Bl's3} 13. Ng6 (13. Rxf6 gxf6 14. Rf1
Kh7 15. Rxf6 b5 16. Bb3 (16. Qf2 bxc4 17. Rxh6+ Kxh6 18. Qf6+ Kh7 19. Nf5 Bxf5
20. Qxf5+) 16... Nd7 17. Rxh6+ Kxh6 18. Nf5+ Kh7 19. Qf2 Qd8 20. Qg3 $18 {
Komodo13}) 13... Re8 14. Nh4 {retreating unneccessarily} (14. Rxf6 gxf6 15. Qf2
Kh7 16. Qxf6 fxg6 17. Bf7 Rg8 18. Bxg8+ Kxg8 19. Qxg6+ Qg7 20. Qe8+ Qf8 21.
Qg6+ $11 {Komodo13}) 14... Qd8 (14... b5 15. Bb3 Be6 16. Rxf6 {the Engine
keeps playing this sacrifice because it is possible & wrecks \Bl's \K side.
\It is not a real burden ,because Bl's QR is way out of the game} gxf6 17. Rf1
Nd7 18. d4 Qa5 19. d5 cxd5 20. exd5 Bg4 21. h3 Bh5 22. e4 Bg6 23. Qxh6 Qxc3 24.
Nxg6 fxg6 25. Qxg6+ Kf8 26. Rxf6+ Nxf6 27. Qxf6+ Kg8 28. Qg6+ $11 {Komodo13})
15. Qf2 Nbd7 (15... Rf8 {Wh is still fully mobilized, most of Bl's army is not.
}) 16. Qg3 Nh5 (16... Nb6 17. Rxf6 Nxc4 18. Rbf1 Nxe3 19. Qxe3 Kh7 20. Rxh6+
gxh6 21. Rxf7+ Kg8 22. Qxh6 Kxf7 23. Qh7+ $11 {Komodo13}) 17. Bxf7+ $18 Kh8 18.
Bxh5 Re6 19. Rf7 Qg8 20. Rbf1 Nf6 21. Ng6+ Kh7 22. Nf8+ Kh8 23. Qg6 Re8 24.
R1xf6 {all except one Wh piece are able to pile in.} Bf5 25. Qxf5 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "4.44"]
[White "Simmons, John A"]
[Black "Holmes, Nick D"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "109"]
[BlackElo "105"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "136"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,136,25,12,12,-43,-43,-16,-16,-12,-7,-20,-23,-12,-15,-11,-2,0,13,13,17,
9,10,18,58,-8,-12,-8,2,5,6,-43,58,67,59,61,65,35,49,40,83,22,39,9,36,-22,-22,
-29,39,35,75,18,89,-32,-40,-41,-50,-50,-12,-20,-27,-24,2,7,4,9,79,98,98,98,97,
81,89,102,96,0,131,120,129,131,321,155,298,102,171,160,155,158,155,158,348,232,
396,460,527,212,209,230,212,218,209,212,220,0,0,0,610,846,889,889,965,1002,
1002,1002,1015,862,1002,1002,1012,1022,1032,1032,1032,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0]} 1. Nc3 d5 2. e4 d4 3. Nce2 e5 4. Nf3 (4. Ng3) 4... Nc6 5. Ng3 Nf6 6.
Bc4 h6 7. a3 (7. O-O) (7. d3) 7... Bd7 (7... Bd6 {5 games}) 8. d3 Qe7 9. O-O
O-O-O 10. Re1 (10. b4 {launches an immediate attack on Bl's Q side. With
opposide castling, it becomes important to get one's own attack moving as soon
as possible}) 10... g5 11. b4 g4 12. Nd2 (12. Nh4 {enables a N to get to f5-
which is useful both as defence & attack.}) 12... h5 13. Nf5 Bxf5 14. exf5 Qd7
(14... Kb8) 15. Ne4 (15. b5 Na5 16. Ba2 Qxf5 17. Bxf7 $11 {Komodo13}) 15...
Nxe4 (15... Qxf5 16. b5 Na5 17. Ng3 Qh7 18. Ba2 Bd6 19. Bd2 b6 20. Bxa5 bxa5
21. Qe2 $11 {Komodo13}) 16. dxe4 $14 Kb8 17. Bg5 Re8 18. g3 (18. b5 $16) 18...
Rh7 19. Qd2 Ne7 20. a4 Ng8 21. Reb1 (21. c3) 21... Bh6 22. b5 (22. Bxh6 Rxh6
23. b5 $11 {both sides still have chances of opening up the others'K}) 22...
Bxg5 23. Qxg5 f6 24. Qd2 b6 25. Bd5 Qg7 26. Kg2 Ne7 27. Be6 h4 28. a5 hxg3 29.
hxg3 Reh8 30. Rh1 Rxh1 31. Rxh1 Rxh1 32. Kxh1 $11 c6 (32... Nc8) 33. axb6 axb6
34. bxc6 Nxc6 35. Kg1 Kc7 36. Qe2 Qg5 37. Bd5 (37. Kg2 $16) 37... Qc1+ 38. Kg2
Qa3 39. Qxg4 $18 Ne7 (39... Qf8) 40. Bc4 (40. Qg7 $18) 40... Qd6 41. Qf3 (41.
Qg7 $18) 41... Qc5 42. Qb3 Nc6 43. Ba6 (43. Bb5 $18 {Komodo13}) 43... Nb8 44.
Bb5 Nd7 45. Kf3 (45. Bxd7 Kxd7 46. Qe6+ Kc7 47. Qxf6 $18 {Komodo1`3- the Wh
pawns are much faster}) 45... Qc3+ 46. Qxc3+ dxc3 47. Ke3 (47. Bxd7 Kxd7 48.
Ke2 {is a much easier win, as Wh picks up the c3 pawn; leaving Bl helpless
against a later g4-g5.}) 47... Nc5 48. f4 Kd6 49. g4 exf4+ 50. Kxf4 Nb3 51. Ba4
(51. g5 $18) (51. e5+ fxe5+ 52. Ke4 $18) 51... Nd4 $11 52. Ke3 b5 (52... Ke5
53. Kd3 b5 54. Bb3 Nxb3 55. cxb3 b4 {and Bl \9 just\0 holds}) 53. Kxd4 bxa4 54.
Kxc3 $18 Ke5 55. Kb4 a3 56. Kxa3 Kxe4 57. Kb4 (57. c4 Kf4 58. c5 Kxg4 59. c6
$18) (57. c4 Ke5 58. Kb4 Kd6 59. Kb5 Kc7 60. Kc5 Kc8 61. Kd6 Kb7 62. c5 Kc8 63.
Ke6 Kc7 64. Kxf6 $18) 57... Kf4 58. c4 Kxg4 59. Kc5 (59. c5 Kxf5 60. c6 Ke6 61.
Kb5 f5 62. Kb6 Kd6 63. c7 Kd7 64. Kb7 $18) 59... Kxf5 60. Kd5 (60. Kd6 {
most accurate- Wh should have a comfortable win anyway}) 60... Kg6 61. Ke6 (61.
c5 {and Bl cannot catch the pawn} Kf7 62. Kd6 Ke8 63. Kc7 f5 64. c6 f4 65. Kb7
f3 66. c7 f2 67. c8=Q+ Ke7 68. Qf5 $18) 61... f5 {now its a draw} 62. c5 (62.
Ke5 Kg5 63. c5 f4 64. Ke4 Kg4 65. c6 f3 66. c7 f2 67. c8=Q+ Kg3 68. Qg8+ Kh2 {
and Bl draws because it's an f pawn}) 62... f4 63. c6 f3 64. c7 f2 65. c8=Q
f1=Q 66. Qg8+ Kh5 67. Qh7+ Kg5 68. Qg7+ Kh5 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "4.45"]
[White "De Santos, Andrew R"]
[Black "Jones, Hefin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "103"]
[BlackElo "86"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,83,19,31,14,30,28,-14,-12,-20,32,17,36,48,65,60,78,53,41,-21,32,37,26,
22,38,10,44,18,219,122,114,140,120,105,117,112,119,132,138,80,114,105,221,264,
292,285,338,347,329,294,460,282,276,266,266,174,189,177,174,177,204,204,203,93,
311,136,122,132,132,149,130,129,126,111,187,188,223,242,223,237,201,192,182,
191,29999,-30000]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c3 Nc6 (3... e6) (3... Bf5) 4. Bg5
Bd7 (4... e6) (4... Ne4) (4... h6) 5. Nbd2 Ne4 (5... e6 6. Qc2 Be7 7. e3 (7. e4
dxe4 8. Nxe4 h6 9. Nxf6+ Bxf6 10. Bxf6 Qxf6 11. Bd3 O-O-O {Menendez
Rubiera-Alvalez Perez, Infiesto op 1996,1'2-1/2}) 7... a6 8. Bd3 h6 9. Bh4 Qb8
10. O-O Qa7 11. Bg3 Bd6 12. Bxd6 cxd6 13. Rae1 O-O-O {Menendez
Rubiera-Rodriguez Lopez, Santa Clara 2000,1-0}) (5... e5 6. dxe5 Nxe5 $2 7.
Nxe5 $18 {Verlinden-Erkens, Brasschaat op 2001, 1-0.}) 6. Bh4 (6. Nxe4 dxe4 7.
Nd2 $16 {Bl will have trouble protecting the e4 pawn}) 6... Bg4 7. h3 (7. Nxe4)
7... Bh5 8. Qc2 Bg6 9. Qc1 Qd6 10. e3 e5 $11 (10... e6 $11) 11. Bb5 exd4 12.
Nxd4 Nc5 (12... a6) 13. O-O Bd3 $2 14. Bxd3 (14. b4 Bxf1 15. bxc5 Qxc5 16. Qxf1
$18 {the 2 pieces are much better than the R- both of which are still
undeveloped}) 14... Nxd3 15. Qc2 $18 {Bl has got behind in development &
openened up the game with his K still in the middle} Nde5 16. Bg3 (16. e4 $18 {
Komodo13} Nxd4 17. cxd4 Ng6 18. Bg3 Qd7 19. Qb3 dxe4 20. Qxb7 Rd8 21. Nxe4 Be7
22. Rac1 $18) 16... Qf6 17. Nxc6 $18 (17. c4 $18) (17. e4 $18) 17... bxc6 18.
Bxe5 Qxe5 19. Nf3 (19. Qa4 Qe6 20. Nb3 $18 {Komodo13}) (19. e4 $18) 19... Qf6 (
19... Qe4 $16 {Bl holds a bit longer}) 20. e4 (20. Qa4 $1 $18) 20... dxe4 (
20... Bc5 21. exd5 O-O 22. b4 Be7 23. dxc6 Qxc6 24. Ne5 Qe6 25. Rfe1 $16 {
Komodo13- shedding a pawn gets the K to safety}) 21. Qxe4+ $18 Be7 22. Rfe1 Rd8
23. Nd4 Rd6 (23... Rxd4 $5 {Komodo13}) 24. Re2 (24. Re3 c5 25. Nf5 Re6 26. Qa8+
Kd7 27. Qxh8 Qxf5 28. Rxe6 Qxe6 29. Qxg7 $18 {Komodo13}) 24... c5 25. Nf5 (25.
Nb5 $1 {Komodo13-is even stronger} O-O (25... Rd8 26. Nxc7+ Kf8 27. Rae1) 26.
Qxe7) 25... Re6 26. Qa8+ Bd8 27. Rxe6+ (27. Qc6+ Kf8 28. Qxc5+ Kg8 29. Rxe6
Qxe6 30. Rd1 Bf6 31. Qxc7 h6 32. Ne3 $18 {Wh has superiority in material &
position}) 27... fxe6 28. Qc6+ Kf7 29. Ng3 $18 {Bl is still in trouble- an
insecure K , bad B & bad pawn structure} Qe5 30. Rd1 Rf8 31. Qe4 (31. Ne4 Bf6
32. Rd7+ Kg6 33. Rxc7 $18) (31. Rd3 $18) 31... Qf6 (31... Qxe4 32. Nxe4 Be7 33.
Rd7 Rc8 34. Kf1 $16 {though all Wh has to do is just bring the K into the game}
) 32. Rd3 (32. Qxh7 $18) (32. Rd7+ Kg8 33. Qe2 e5 34. Ne4 $18) 32... Kg8 33.
Rf3 Qh6 34. Rxf8+ Kxf8 35. Qf3+ (35. Qa8 Ke8 36. Ne4 $18 {Komodo13- Bl's B is
a liabilty, while Wh's Q & N collaborate perfectly}) 35... Kg8 36. Qd1 (36. Qa8
Qd2 37. a4 Kf7 38. Nf1 Qd5 39. Qxa7 $18 {Komodo13}) 36... Bf6 (36... Be7) 37.
Qd7 Kf8 38. Qc8+ Kf7 39. Qxc7+ Kg6 40. Qxc5 Qc1+ 41. Kh2 Qxb2 {Bl can't go
maurauding in the same way as Wh can} 42. Qh5# 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "4.46"]
[White "Jones, Jonathan"]
[Black "Hilditch-Love, Daniel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A43"]
[WhiteElo "101"]
[BlackElo "85"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,78,26,19,29,27,36,38,38,19,63,22,23,-25,17,38,13,14,10,10,12,17,20,-5,
13,4,12,-9,11,-7,-4,-14,-11,-19,4,11,3,-3,10,-11,-10,-8,9,-5,2,0,-4,-4,0,-98,
-62,-57,-4,-117,14,-121,20,20,20,23,38,35,41,18,34,34,34,30,20,15,15,4,9,4,4,4,
4,5,4,4,3]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. d5 b5 4. Bf4 (4. Bg5) (4. c4) (4. a4) 4...
d6 5. e3 Qb6 (5... a6) 6. c3 (6. Na3 Bd7 7. Qd3 c4 8. Qd2 g6 9. Rd1 Bg7 10. Be2
Ne4 11. Qc1 Na6 {Scholz-Rudolph, Hessenliga 1996,0-1}) (6. Qd3 Ba6 7. Qd1 b4 8.
Bxa6 Qxa6 9. c3 Nbd7 10. cxb4 cxb4 11. Qd4 Nc5 12. e4 Nd3+ {Chalk-Turvey Cross,
Syringa 4NCL 1999,0-1}) 6... Bb7 7. a4 a6 8. a5 Qd8 9. c4 b4 10. Nbd2 g6 11. e4
e5 12. Bg5 Bg7 13. Bd3 Nbd7 14. O-O h6 15. Bxf6 Nxf6 {this position should
favout Bl, who has the normal King's Indian K side attacking chances. Omn the
other hand the Q side is blocked so that Wh does not have the usual
counterplay there} 16. Bc2 Bc8 (16... O-O) 17. Ba4+ Bd7 {Bl should keep on
this important K side attacker. Exchanging it for a close to useless B,
blocked by its own pawns is not a great idea. Even at c6 the Wh B would be
just looking silly on its own.} (17... Ke7 18. Bc6 Rb8 19. Qe2 Nh5 {and Bl
gets a dangerous attack}) 18. Bxd7+ Qxd7 (18... Nxd7 19. Ne1 O-O 20. Nd3 f5 {
should still give Bl good chances}) 19. Qa4 Qxa4 20. Rxa4 {with a blocked
centre, & several pieces exchanged, it now looks as if neither side will be
able to do much.} O-O $11 21. Nh4 Rab8 22. b3 Kh7 23. h3 h5 24. f4 $2 {this
should lose a pawn or an exchange} Nd7 $2 (24... exf4 25. Rxf4 (25. Ra2 Nd7 {
and the Bl pieces have e5 as a pivot}) 25... g5 (25... Rbe8 $17) 26. Rxf6 Bxf6
27. Nf5 Rbd8 $17 (27... Kg6 $17 {Wh has an excellent N on f5; but is an
exchange down & must keep an eye on a5- its loss would allow Bl in an endgame
to force the b4 pawn through.})) 25. f5 g5 26. Nhf3 (26. f6 Nxf6 27. Nf5 $11 {
the use of f5 is sufficient compensation for the pawn, as the f7 pawn is
cemented down}) 26... Bh6 (26... g4 $17 {Komodo13} 27. hxg4 hxg4 28. Nh4 Bh6
29. Ra2 Be3+ 30. Kh2 Nf6 {winning the e4 pawn} 31. Re1 $2 Bf2) 27. Ra2 h4 $6 {
looks like all Bl wants is a complete barricade.} (27... g4 $19 28. Ne1 gxh3
29. gxh3 Nf6 30. Rf3 Rg8+ 31. Ng2 Rg7 32. Kh2 Rbg8 33. Nf1 Nxe4 $19 {Komodo13})
28. Nh2 Nf6 29. Ng4 Nxg4 30. hxg4 f6 {not clear why either side played on in
this position} 31. Rf3 Kg7 32. Rh3 Rh8 33. Nf1 Kf7 34. Ne3 Rbg8 35. Nd1 Bf8 36.
Nb2 Be7 37. Ra1 Bd8 38. Kf2 Kg7 39. Rhh1 Bc7 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "4.47"]
[White "Coutts, Catriona"]
[Black "Taylor, Paul A"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "112"]
[BlackElo "109"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "45"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,45,19,31,54,64,52,46,47,43,30,9,18,-5,20,8,-8,-23,-19,-27,-27,-27,-24,
-47,-41,-43,-37,-46,-46,-52,-64,-60,-64,-31,-25,-67,-62,-66,-69,-98,-76,-91,
-41,-65,-34,-52,-42,-64]} 1. d4 d6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bg5 Nbd7 4. Nbd2 e5 (4... h6)
5. e3 (5. dxe5) 5... Be7 6. Bxf6 (6. Bd3 {main}) 6... Bxf6 7. Bd3 (7. c3 {
0.5-1.5}) 7... d5 8. dxe5 Nxe5 9. Nxe5 Bxe5 10. c3 c6 11. Qc2 (11. Nf3 Bd6 12.
h3 Be6 13. Qd2 O-O 14. Rd1 Qf6 $15 {Bluebaum-Ebner, NRW ch girls U18,
Bergneustadt 2000,0-1}) 11... g6 12. Nf3 Bg7 13. O-O O-O 14. e4 Bg4 15. Nd2 Be6
(15... Re8) 16. exd5 Bxd5 (16... Qxd5) 17. Be4 Be6 18. Rad1 Qc7 $17 19. h3 Rad8
20. Nf3 Rxd1 21. Rxd1 Rd8 22. Rxd8+ Qxd8 23. b3 $17 {Bl has 2 Bs , but with
the pawns balanced this probably not enough to win, though GMs would no doubt
continue.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "4.48"]
[White "Ryder, Arthur"]
[Black "Taylor, Geoffrey P"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D10"]
[WhiteElo "112"]
[BlackElo "106"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,80,31,21,17,0,40,24,24,-17,29,-17,39,51,51,25,29,-11,-16,-22,-18,-22,
-23,-15,-28,-29,-30,-40,-40,-61,-44,-144,-154,-156,-142,-136,-126,-224,-234,
-280,-208,-183,-206,-667,-769,-801,-808,-1396,-966,-969,-874,-889,-792,-823,
-762,-801,-778,-792,-785,-823,-801,-801,-765,-786,-778,-854,-694,-766,-778,
-787,-789,-871,-965,-1103,-1231,-1291,-793,-885,-685,-716,-747,-747,-729]} 1.
d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Nbd7 5. Nf3 h6 (5... e6 6. e3 Qa5 {Cambridge
Springs Defence, main}) 6. Bxf6 (6. Bh4 e6 {main}) 6... Nxf6 7. e3 e6 (7... Bg4
) 8. cxd5 exd5 9. Bd3 Bd6 10. h3 {5 draws,3 Bl wins} (10. O-O {1 Wh win, 6 Bl
wins}) 10... O-O 11. O-O Re8 12. Re1 Ne4 13. Qc2 f5 (13... Bf5 14. Nd2 Qg5 15.
Nf3 Qf6 16. Nd2 Qg6 17. f3 Bxh3 (17... Nxd2 18. Bxf5 Nxf3+ 19. Kf1 Nxe1 20.
Rxe1 Qg5 $19 {Komodo13}) 18. Nf1 f5 {Mokshatov-Vatutin, Cheliabinsk Postovalov
memorial 2011,1/2-1/2}) 14. Bf1 Qf6 15. Nxe4 fxe4 $19 {the Wh K side is
exposed to all of Bl's pieces} 16. Nh2 Bf5 (16... Rf8 $19) (16... h5 $19) 17.
Qe2 Qg6 18. g4 h5 19. Kh1 hxg4 20. Nxg4 Re6 (20... Qh7 {also}) 21. f4 exf3 22.
Qxf3 Be4 23. Be2 Rf8 (23... Qh5) 24. Rf1 Bxf3+ 25. Bxf3 Qg5 (25... Rxe3 26.
Nxe3 Qg3 $19 {Komodo13}) 26. Bg2 Qe7 (26... Rxf1+ 27. Rxf1 Rxe3) 27. Rxf8+ Qxf8
28. Rf1 Qe7 29. Rf3 Bc7 30. Kg1 Rg6 (30... Qb4) 31. a3 Qd6 (31... Qh4) 32. Kf2
a5 33. Kf1 a4 34. Kf2 b5 35. Kf1 b4 36. axb4 Qxb4 37. Rf2 Qb3 (37... Qc4+) (
37... Bg3) 38. Bf3 Rxg4 39. Bxg4 Qxe3 40. Re2 Qd3 (40... Qxd4) 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "4.49"]
[White "Wilson, Jeff"]
[Black "Harrington, Peter"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "97"]
[BlackElo "111"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "101"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,101,80,48,109,77,108,50,50,20,28,-14,5,-5,35,-4,34,34,30,18,13,-157,
-94,-99,-73,-71,-42,-147,-91,-116,-77,-82,-22,-105,-76,-73,-74,-114,103,89,70,
46,306,306,293,309,308,308,301,327,643,377,369,363,402,408,443,452,444,420,494,
532,569,566,576,576,702,705,705,419,463,473,463,473,506,483,492,455,496,450,
479,477,489,432,421,412,438,453,469,474,527,541,558,547,570,543,546,573,620,
656,715,704,1033,1050]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 d6 3. f4 Nf6 4. Bc4 a6 (4... Nc6) 5. a4
Nc6 6. Nf3 Bg4 (6... e6 {alternative}) 7. O-O (7. h3) 7... Nd4 (7... e6) 8. d3
(8. Be2) 8... e6 (8... Nxf3+ {1.5-0.5}) 9. Be3 Nxf3+ 10. Rxf3 (10. gxf3 Bh3 $11
11. Re1 Nh5 12. Qd2 h6 13. Kh1 Qh4 14. Rg1 Rg8 15. Rae1 Be7 16. Ne2 $11 {
Matveev-Maltsevskaya, Voronezh 2015,1-0}) 10... Be7 (10... d5 11. exd5 exd5 12.
Bb3 d4 $19 {Komodo13}) 11. Qf1 Bxf3 $17 12. Qxf3 Rb8 13. Ne2 h5 (13... d5 $19)
14. Rf1 Ng4 15. Bd2 Bf6 (15... b5 $17) 16. c3 g6 17. h3 Nh6 18. f5 $11 {
Wh has got compensation for the exchange- The Bl Rs are still inactive} Nxf5 $6
(18... gxf5 19. Bxh6 Rxh6 20. exf5 b5 21. axb5 axb5 22. Ba2 e5 23. Ng3 $11 {
Komodo13}) 19. exf5 $18 gxf5 20. Ng3 h4 21. Nxf5 $1 $18 {a neat echo of Bl's
losing move} exf5 22. Qxf5 b5 23. axb5 (23. Bg5 $1 $18) 23... axb5 24. Bd5 (24.
Bg5) 24... Rc8 25. Qxf6 (25. Bg5 {is even stronger}) 25... Qxf6 26. Rxf6 Rh7
27. Rxd6 Ke7 28. Rb6 b4 29. c4 (29. cxb4 cxb4 30. Bxb4+) 29... Rc7 30. Bf4 Ra7
31. Bd6+ Kd7 32. Bxc5 Rh5 33. Rd6+ Kc7 34. Bxa7 (34. Rc6+ Kb7 35. Bxa7) 34...
Kxd6 35. Bb8+ (35. Kf2) (35. Bxf7) 35... Ke7 36. Bf4 f6 37. Bd2 b3 38. Bc3 Rh8
39. Bf3 Rb8 40. Be1 Rh8 41. Bd1 Rd8 42. Be2 Rh8 43. Kf2 {the K supports the
weak pawns, allowing the Bs their full scope} Ke6 44. Ke3 f5 45. Bf3 Rh6 46.
Kd4 (46. Kf4) 46... Kd6 47. Bb4+ (47. Kc3) (47. c5+) 47... Ke6 48. Kc3 Ke5 49.
d4+ Kf4 50. d5 Rg6 51. d6 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "4.50"]
[White "Coleman, Patrick N"]
[Black "Kirklys, Domantas"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "109"]
[BlackElo "92"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,69,19,29,23,13,24,-12,21,14,14,14,6,-2,-7,5,7,-29,50,9,31,10,19,10,
114,60,110,124,74,30,226,200,225,212,206,183,212,89,86,48,49,48,45,30,25,-58,
-54,-46,-48,-56,-60,-70,-52,-55,-49,-52,-8,-15,-7,-35,-33,-24,0,-25,0,-34,139,
148,145,151,168,179]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 d5 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Nc6 (4... Be7 {main})
5. O-O Bd6 6. Nbd2 (6. c4) (6. b3) 6... O-O 7. c4 b6 8. cxd5 (8. b3) 8... Nxd5
(8... exd5 {1 game each}) 9. Ne4 (9. e4 Nde7 10. e5 Bb4 11. Ne4 Nd5 12. Neg5
$16 {Wh gains space in the centre & the K side}) 9... Bb7 10. Bg5 f6 11. Bd2 e5
{risky , because Bl has a lot of loose pieces on the wh squares} (11... Be7 $14
) 12. dxe5 (12. Nxd6 Qxd6 13. e4 Nde7 14. Qb3+ Kh8 15. d5 Nd8 16. Rac1 $16)
12... Nxe5 13. Qb3 Kh8 14. Rad1 (14. Nxd6 Qxd6 15. Rfd1 $18 {Komodo13}) 14...
c6 (14... a5) 15. Nxd6 Qxd6 16. e4 Ne7 17. Bf4 (17. Bb4 Nxf3+ 18. Bxf3 Qc7 19.
Qe6 c5 20. Rd7 $18 {Komodo13}) (17. Nxe5 Qxe5 18. Bf4 Qh5 19. Rd7 Ba6 20. Qa3
Bxf1 21. Qxe7 Qg6 22. Kxf1 $18 {Komodo13}) 17... Qc7 18. Nd4 (18. Bxe5 fxe5 19.
Ng5 $18 {Komodo13}) 18... Bc8 19. Ne6 Bxe6 20. Qxe6 $14 Rad8 21. Qb3 (21. b4
$14) 21... c5 $11 22. Bh3 N7c6 23. Bxe5 Qxe5 24. Bg2 (24. f4) 24... Nd4 $17 {
the entrenched N is superior to the B} 25. Qd3 g6 26. f4 Qh5 27. Kh1 g5 (27...
Rfe8) 28. fxg5 Qxg5 29. Qd2 Qxd2 30. Rxd2 Rd7 31. Rdf2 Rdf7 32. e5 Kg7 (32...
f5 $15) 33. Bd5 $16 Rd7 34. exf6+ Kh6 (34... Kh8) 35. Be4 $18 (35. Be4 Ne6 36.
h4 Rd4 37. Re2 Nd8 38. g4 Rg8 39. g5+ Kh5 40. Bf3+ Kg6 (40... Kxh4 41. Rg1 {
mating with Rh2}) 41. h5+ Kxg5 (41... Kf7 42. Bd5+ Rxd5 43. Re7+ Kf8 44. f7 $18
) 42. Rg2+ Kxf6 43. Bd5+ Ke7 44. Bxg8 $18 {Komodo13}) 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "4.51"]
[White "Fraser, Roland"]
[Black "Kelly, Alan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C00"]
[WhiteElo "91"]
[BlackElo "109"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,67,23,28,43,40,85,21,15,10,50,7,26,21,28,27,27,27,27,19,22,20,32,35,
70,71,171,179,187,39,89,124,288,280,365,379,333,300,316,174,190,200,288,190,
187,187,212,245,267,222,250,244,325,336,420,407,404,371,407,912,939,912,969,
540,546,550,912,641,1868,2792]} 1. e4 e6 2. Nc3 d6 (2... d5) 3. f4 (3. d4) 3...
Nc6 4. Nf3 (4. d4) 4... Bd7 (4... a6) (4... Be7 {have been played}) 5. Bb5 a6 (
5... Be7 6. d4 a6 7. Bxc6 Bxc6 8. O-O Nf6 9. e5 Nd5 10. Bd2 Nxc3 11. bxc3 Bxf3
12. Qxf3 d5 {Rasle-Bastien,Loire ch 2013,0-1}) 6. Bxc6 Bxc6 7. d3 Nf6 8. O-O
Be7 9. Qe1 Qd7 10. Bd2 O-O-O 11. a4 Ng4 12. b4 $18 {the Wh attack is faster} b5
13. axb5 axb5 14. d4 (14. Ra7) (14. Nd4) 14... d5 15. exd5 exd5 16. h3 Bd6 (
16... Nf6 17. Ne5 Qe8 18. Ra7 Bd6 19. Qa1 $18 {Komodo13}) 17. hxg4 Qxg4 18. Ne5
(18. Ra6 Bb7 19. Qa1 $18 {Komodo13}) 18... Bxe5 19. fxe5 (19. Qxe5 Rde8 20. Qg5
) 19... Qxd4+ 20. Kh1 (20. Qf2 $18) 20... Qg4 21. Qe2 (21. Rf4) 21... Qh4+ 22.
Kg1 Qd4+ 23. Rf2 Rde8 24. Re1 (24. Ra5 Rxe5 25. Nxb5 $18 {Komodo13}) 24... Re6
25. Nxb5 Bxb5 26. Qxb5 Rxe5 27. Rxe5 (27. Qa6+ Kd8 (27... Kb8 28. Ra1)) 27...
Qxe5 28. Qa6+ (28. Rxf7) 28... Kd7 29. Rxf7+ Ke8 30. Rf2 Kd7 31. Qb5+ (31. Qa4+
) 31... Kc8 32. Qa6+ Kd7 33. b5 Rb8 34. Qc6+ 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "4.52"]
[White "Hollyman, Mike"]
[Black "Jackson, Paul Robert"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "48"]
[BlackElo "116"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,84,16,13,19,13,46,43,39,20,30,-5,5,-3,-7,-15,9,8,5,21,12,-12,0,-43,-4,
1,0,-3,-2,-14,11,13,21,0,0,-48,-37,-72,-89,-106,-116,-79,-68,-64,-90,-99,-108,
-102,-104,-158,-132,-143,-49,-61,-63,-90,-55,-90,-116,-109,-127,-190,-146,-199,
-199,-228,-225,-274,-178,-227,-281,-281,-352,-374,-395,-412,-434,-494,-669,
-1226,-1315,-29991,-29992,-29993,-930,-1045,-1132]} 1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 Bf5 3. e3
e6 4. Bd3 (4. Nf3) 4... Bg6 (4... Bxd3 {main}) 5. c3 (5. Nf3 {main}) 5... Nf6 (
5... Nc6) (5... Bd6 {have been played}) 6. Qc2 (6. Nf3) 6... Bd6 7. Bg3 c6 (
7... c5 {Cloud Engines} 8. Nf3 c4 9. Bxg6 hxg6 10. Ne5 Qc7 11. Qa4+ Nbd7 12.
Nd2 {Biveynis-Vainauskas, LTU ch , Kaunas 2018,1-0}) 8. Nd2 Qc7 9. Ngf3 Nbd7
10. O-O-O (10. O-O) 10... Ng4 11. Nf1 Bxg3 12. Nxg3 Bxd3 13. Rxd3 Ngf6 $11 14.
Re1 Ne4 15. Rdd1 Nxg3 (15... Nd6) 16. fxg3 (16. hxg3) 16... Nf6 17. Ne5 O-O $15
18. g4 Ne4 19. h4 f6 20. Nf3 Qg3 21. g5 fxg5 22. hxg5 Nxg5 23. Nxg5 Qxg5 $17
24. Rh1 (24. Kb1) 24... Qxe3+ 25. Kb1 Qe4 (25... h6 $19 {Fritz16 & Komodo13})
26. Qxe4 dxe4 27. Rh4 Rf2 28. Rxe4 Rxg2 29. Rxe6 Rf8 (29... h5 $17) 30. Rde1 g5
(30... h5 $19) 31. Re7 Rf7 32. Re8+ Kg7 33. R8e7 Rgf2 (33... h5 $19) 34. Rxf7+
Kxf7 35. Rh1 Kg6 36. Kc1 h5 (36... g4) 37. Re1 g4 (37... h4) 38. c4 g3 39. Re6+
Kf7 (39... Kf5) 40. Rd6 g2 41. Rd7+ Ke6 42. Rg7 Rf1+ (42... h4) 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "4.53"]
[White "Bramley, Douglas"]
[Black "Hynes, Thomas F"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D53"]
[WhiteElo "113"]
[BlackElo "76"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "38"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,38,24,9,25,5,-11,-42,14,17,18,18,38,45,74,55,77,25,38,-13,5,3,2,-13,6,
-24,38,-25,-20,-34,-20,-23,0,-21,-24,-25,12,20,23,-151,-146]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4
e6 3. Bg5 Be7 4. Nc3 d5 5. e3 b6 6. Nf3 Ba6 {the QB is ofen a problem piece
for Bl in QP openings. However , exchanging it off early can leave behind
severe weaknesses on the Wh squares} (6... Bb7 {main}) 7. Qa4+ (7. Ne5 {
main,69% for Wh}) 7... Qd7 8. Qxd7+ Nbxd7 9. Nd2 (9. cxd5 Bxf1 {1 Wh win, 2 Bl
wins}) 9... h6 10. Bxf6 Nxf6 11. Rc1 O-O $11 12. Be2 Rac8 13. O-O dxc4 (13...
Bb7 $11) (13... c5 $11) 14. Bxc4 Bxc4 (14... Bb7) 15. Nxc4 a6 16. Ne5 c5 17.
dxc5 Bxc5 18. Na4 Rfd8 19. Rxc5 $2 {its unclear as to why Wh gives up the
exchange here for a lost position} (19. Nxc5 bxc5 20. Nc4 $14 {looks fine for
Wh, though Bl should not have any real problems despite the split Q side pawns}
) 19... bxc5 $19 {here Wh played the illegal move, Ne5-c3.Chessbase will not
allow illegal moves to be inputted, so the game is continued in another
setting.} 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "4.53"]
[White "Bramley, Douglas"]
[Black "Hynes, Thomas F"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "113"]
[BlackElo "76"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "2rr2k1/5pp1/p3pn1p/2p5/N7/2N1P3/PP3PPP/5RK1 b - - 0 20"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[#]} 20... Nd5 {The position in the diagram arose after Wh played an illegal
20. Ne5-c3} 21. Ne4 c4 $19 22. Nec3 Rc6 (22... Nxc3 23. bxc3 Rd2 $19) 23. Rd1
Rdc8 (23... Kh7 24. Kf1 Nxc3 25. Nxc3 Rxd1+ 26. Nxd1 Kg6 $19 {Komodo13}) 24. e4
(24. Nxd5 exd5 25. Rxd5 Rb8 26. Kf1 Rb4 27. Ra5 Rb5 28. Rxb5 axb5 29. Nc3 b4
30. Ne2 Ra6 $19 {Komodo13- the R is far suerior to the N in an endgame with
pawns on both sides of the board.}) 24... Nb6 (24... Nf4 25. Kf1 Nd3 26. Ke2
Rb8 27. Ke3 g5 28. Rd2 Kf8 $19 {Komodo13}) 25. Nxb6 Rxb6 26. Na4 (26. Rd2)
26... Rb4 27. Nc3 Rxb2 28. Kf1 Rc2 29. Na4 Rxa2 30. Nb6 Rc6 31. Nd7 c3 32. Ne5
c2 33. Rc1 Rd6 34. Ke2 Rb2 (34... Rd1 {Komodo13 wins quiclky} 35. Nd3 (35. Rxc2
Rxc2+ 36. Kxd1 Rxf2 {and Wh loses K side pawns while the a pawn is also a
longterm threat}) (35. Rxd1 c1=Q+ {mating soon}) 35... Ra3 36. f3 Rdxd3 37.
Rxc2 Rdc3 38. Rb2 a5 $19) 35. Nd3 Rb3 36. Ne1 Rc3 37. Rxc2 Rxc2+ 38. Nxc2 f5 (
38... a5 {the Wh K is cut off, & the R will just force the a pawn through}) 39.
e5 (39. exf5 {is marginally better, swapping pawns as much as possible}) 39...
Rd5 40. f4 Kf7 (40... a5) 41. Nb4 Ra5 42. h3 Ra3 (42... Ra4 43. Nc6 (43. Nd3
Ra2+ 44. Kf3 a5) 43... Rc4 44. Na5 Rxf4) 43. Nc6 Ke8 44. Nd4 Kd7 45. Kf2 a5 46.
g3 a4 47. g4 g6 (47... Rxh3 {also}) 48. Nf3 Rxf3+ 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "4.54"]
[White "McFadden, Wayne Philip"]
[Black "Foy, Jeff"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A16"]
[WhiteElo "83"]
[BlackElo "99"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,47,19,-12,-14,-22,44,15,19,7,17,-13,-2,-19,-16,-18,-5,-8,-2,-1,2,-10,
0,-11,30,27,29,25,53,37,48,-6,31,25,21,10,11,-3,-3,-32,-20,-45,-42,-46,-53,-38,
10,12,16,22]} 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. d3 (5. Nf3) (5. e4) (
5. d4 {more frequent}) 5... d6 6. e4 e5 (6... c5 {alternative}) 7. Nf3 (7. Nge2
{main, leaves the f pawn able to advance}) 7... Nc6 8. Be3 Re8 {the R is on a
doubly-blocked file here.} (8... Nh5) (8... Ng4 {both aim to use the f pawn to
attack the Wh K position}) 9. O-O Bd7 10. Qd2 Qc8 (10... Ng4 {Stockfish10 &
Komodo13}) 11. a3 Bh3 12. b4 Bxg2 13. Kxg2 Ng4 14. Rac1 Nxe3+ 15. Qxe3 Ne7 16.
Nd5 c6 17. Nxe7+ Rxe7 $11 {with so many minor pieces swapped, there is little
attacking prospect left for either player} 18. h3 Qd7 19. Nd2 b6 20. Nb3 f5 21.
exf5 Qxf5 (21... gxf5 $15) 22. Qe4 Qxe4+ 23. dxe4 Rf8 24. Rcd1 $11 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "4.55"]
[White "Bohm, Richard D"]
[Black "Hall, Les"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "83"]
[BlackElo "80"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "123"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,123,72,19,76,64,72,74,64,66,73,61,67,52,107,16,29,-3,56,46,68,18,91,
39,72,33,37,-9,2,25,18,-46,4,-12,95,79,219,133,149,92,115,115,272,142,139,189,
355,120,269,282,293,272,487,383,386,386,390,372,452,472,430,240,233,211,253,
164,141,113,322,144,242,138,221,137,133,96,262,111,131,82,119,66,102,89,96,38,
45,70,93,138,122,30,65,87,110,13,58,36,41,-22,41,-10,26,0,-12,-30,30,35,87,-35,
178,100,114,109,130,124,114,134,362,371,396,424,462,431,439,453]} 1. e4 d6 2.
d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nbd7 4. Nf3 h6 (4... e5 {is safer}) 5. Bc4 (5. e5 $1 {9 Wh wins,
1 Bl win eg} dxe5 6. dxe5 Nh7 (6... Ng4) 7. e6 fxe6 8. Bd2 (8. Bd3 {is killing
as the Cloud Engines agree} Kf7 {other moves even worse} 9. Bg6+ $1 Kxg6 10.
Ne5+ Nxe5 (10... Kf6 11. Qf3+ Kxe5 12. Qf4#) 11. Qxd8 $18) 8... g6 9. Nd4 Ndf6
10. Be3 Bd7 11. Bc4 e5 12. Ne6 {and Bl has escaped the worst, going on to win;
Esiri-L Hall, GBR ch U1450, Llandudno 2017,0-1} (12. Nf3 $18)) 5... e6 $146 {
a sort of Hippopotamous} (5... e5 {is quite safe, heading for a Philidor/Black
Lion}) 6. Bf4 (6. e5 $16) 6... Be7 7. Qd2 c6 8. a3 Qc7 9. O-O O-O 10. h3 (10.
e5 $14) 10... Ne8 (10... b5 11. Bd3 e5 $11 {is a decent Philidor setup for Bl})
11. Qe3 (11. e5 $16) 11... b5 12. Bb3 Bb7 13. Nh2 a5 (13... e5 $11) 14. Qg3 (
14. Rad1) 14... Kh7 (14... Ndf6 15. Qe3 (15. Bxh6 b4 16. axb4 axb4 17. Rxa8
Bxa8 18. Ne2 c5 $17 {Komodo13- the Wh centre is overextended & the Wh pieces
scattered}) 15... Nh5 16. Nf3 Nxf4 17. Qxf4 b4 18. axb4 axb4 19. Rxa8 Bxa8 20.
Nb1 c5 $19 {Komodo13}) 15. Ne2 (15. Ng4 $11) 15... Rg8 {Bl is being too
defensive. Now that Wh has not got very far with a K side attack, is the
moment to undermine the Wh centre} (15... c5 $17 {Komodo13}) 16. c3 Nf8 (16...
Kh8) 17. Bc2 $16 (17. e5 $16) 17... g6 18. Qe3 g5 19. e5+ Kh8 20. Bg3 d5 $2 $18
{closing the centre gives Wh a freehand on the K side} (20... Rg7 $16 21. h4 c5
) 21. h4 (21. Ng4 $1 {Komodo13} h5 22. Nh6 Rg7 23. Qf3 {and the K side caves in
} h4 24. Nxf7+ Rxf7 25. Qxf7 hxg3 26. fxg3 {and most of the Bl pieces are
huddled together on the Q sidewhen needed elsewhere.The Engines considers
giving up a B to get the Q in to somehow protect the K}) (21. f4 Rg7 22. f5 (
22. Ng4 {is another way in})) 21... Qd8 22. Ng4 Kg7 23. Qd3 (23. hxg5 hxg5 24.
f4 $18 {breaks everthing open}) 23... Rh8 (23... h5 24. Nf6 Nxf6 25. exf6+ Bxf6
26. hxg5 Bxg5 27. f4 Bh4 28. f5 Bxg3 29. Nxg3 $18 (29. f6+ $18) (29. Qxg3+ Kh8
30. Qe5+ f6 31. Qe3 $18 {Komodo13})) 24. h5 Bc8 25. f4 Bd7 26. Rf3 (26. Qf3)
26... Nc7 27. Raf1 Be8 28. f5 (28. fxg5 {seems even stronger} Bxg5 29. Nf6 Nd7
30. Nxe8+ Qxe8 31. Bf4 Bh4 32. Bd2 Nb6 33. Rxf7+ Qxf7 34. Rxf7+ Kxf7 35. Qg6+
Kf8 36. Bxh6+ {Komodo13}) 28... exf5 29. Rxf5 Nce6 30. Nf6 (30. Qf3 Kg8 31.
Rxf7 b4 32. axb4 axb4 33. Bg6 Nxg6 34. hxg6 Ra6 35. Nf6+ Bxf6 36. Rxf6 $18 {
Komodo13}) 30... Bxf6 31. Rxf6 (31. exf6+) 31... Qe7 32. Qf3 Nd7 33. Rf5 (33.
Bh2) (33. Nf4) (33. Qg4) 33... Rf8 34. Qg4 (34. Nf4) 34... Ra7 35. Nf4 Kh8 36.
Nxe6 (36. Rf6 Nxf6 37. exf6 Qxf6 38. Ng6+ fxg6 39. Rxf6 Rxf6 40. Be5 $18 {
Komodo13}) 36... fxe6 37. R5f3 (37. Rf6 $1 Nxf6 38. exf6 Qd7 39. Be5 Kg8 40.
Qf3 Rb7 41. Qd3 (41. Bg6 {Komodo13})) 37... Rg8 (37... Rxf3 38. Qxf3 Kg8 $16 {
Komodo13}) 38. Re3 (38. Rf6 Nxf6 39. Rxf6 Kg7 40. Rxe6 Qd8 41. Qf5 Rf7 42. Qh7+
Kf8 43. Qxh6+ Rgg7 44. Bg6 $18 {Komodo13}) 38... Rg7 (38... Rf8) 39. a4 (39.
Rf6 $1 {Komodo13}) 39... b4 40. cxb4 axb4 41. b3 (41. Ref3) 41... Bf7 42. Qd1
Ra8 43. Bd3 Rf8 44. Qc2 (44. Ref3 $18) 44... Rc8 (44... Bxh5 45. Qxc6 Bg6 46.
Bxg6 Rxg6 47. Rxf8+ Nxf8 48. Rf3 $18 {Komodo13}) 45. Bg6 (45. Rf6) (45. Ref3)
45... Bxg6 46. hxg6 Qe8 47. Ref3 (47. Qd1) 47... Rxg6 (47... Qxg6 48. Qe2 Kh7
$14 {though the a4 pawn is a definite plus for Wh in any endgame}) 48. Rf7 Rg7
49. Qf2 (49. Rxg7 Kxg7 50. Bf2 $14 {Komodo13}) 49... Rd8 (49... Rxf7 50. Qxf7
c5 51. Qxe8+ Rxe8 52. Rc1 c4 53. bxc4 dxc4 54. Rxc4 b3 55. Rc1 (55. Rb4 Rb8 $19
) 55... Ra8 56. Rb1 Rxa4 57. d5 Kg7 58. dxe6 Nc5 59. e7 Kf7 60. Bf2 Ne4 61. Be1
Kxe7 62. Rxb3 Ra1 63. Re3 Nc3 64. Rxc3 Rxe1+ 65. Kf2 Rxe5 {but the R &P ending
all on one side should be a draw}) 50. Rf3 Kg8 51. a5 (51. Rc1 Rc8 52. Qe3 $14)
51... Ra8 52. Qa2 $11 Qc8 (52... c5 $11) 53. Be1 Qb7 54. Qa4 Qb5 (54... c5 55.
dxc5 Nxe5 (55... g4 56. Rf4 Nxc5 57. Qxb4 Qxb4 58. Rxb4 Nd3 59. Rb5 Rc7 60. b4
$16) 56. Re3 Ng4 57. Rg3 Ne5 58. Qxb4 Qxb4 59. Bxb4 Nc6 60. Bd2 Nxa5 61. Rf6
$16 {Komodo13}) 55. Qxb4 (55. Qxb5 $1 cxb5 56. Bxb4 $18 {Komodo13}) 55... Qxb4
56. Bxb4 Ra7 57. Rc3 Ra6 58. Rfc1 $18 Rf7 (58... c5 59. dxc5 d4 60. Rh3 Nxe5
61. Bd2 $16 {Komodo13}) 59. Rxc6 Rxc6 60. Rxc6 Nf8 61. Bxf8 (61. Rc8 {and
after exchanges on f8, the a pawn walks through}) 61... Kxf8 62. Rxe6 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "4.56"]
[White "Cockerill, Martin K"]
[Black "Holyhead, James"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D35"]
[WhiteElo "98"]
[BlackElo "64"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,80,80,32,37,-16,34,3,32,20,35,15,17,29,29,15,15,16,32,25,19,15,5,-1,
129,91,92,83,81,86,85,-254,-206,-189,1,-45,-29,14,30,52,52,38,39,-21,-34,-61,
-53,-76,-64,-62,-63,-115,-101,-101,-42,-41,-6,-10,21,16,55,-36,-36,-66,-66,-64,
-64,-93,-64,-90,0,0,21,0,-1,-5,1,0,3,0,7,7,14]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4.
Nf3 e6 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. e3 Bd6 (6... Qa5 {main, Cambridge Springs Defence}) 7.
cxd5 exd5 8. Bd3 h6 9. Bh4 O-O 10. Qe2 {the Q may be a little vulnerable here}
(10. O-O) (10. Qc2) 10... Re8 11. O-O c5 $2 (11... Qc7 12. Rac1 a6 13. Rfe1 g5
14. Bg3 Bxg3 15. hxg3 Qd6 16. e4 dxe4 17. Bxe4 Kg7 {Dijoux-Baudson, FRA ch U10,
Hyeres 2002,1/2-1/2}) 12. dxc5 (12. Nxd5 $18) 12... Nxc5 13. Bxf6 Qxf6 14. Nxd5
$16 Qd8 (14... Qe6) 15. Nc3 $2 (15. Rad1) 15... Nxd3 $19 16. Rfd1 (16. Qxd3 $2
Bxh2+ 17. Kxh2 Qxd3) 16... Nf4 (16... Nc5 $19) 17. Qd2 {attacking 2 pieces}
Nh3+ 18. gxh3 Be7 (18... Re6 $15 {Komodo13}) 19. Qxd8 Rxd8 20. Rxd8+ Bxd8 21.
Rd1 (21. Kg2 $14) 21... Bxh3 $11 22. Nb5 Bb6 $15 (22... Bf6 $15 {the Bs are
powerful on an open board with targets}) 23. Rd2 a6 (23... Rc8) 24. Nc3 Ba5 25.
Rd6 Rc8 (25... Bxc3 26. bxc3 Rc8 $19 {Wh has backrank problems & weak pawns}
27. Rd3 Bf5 28. Rd2 Rxc3 29. Kg2 Ra3 $19) 26. Rd3 Bxc3 (26... Bf5 27. e4 Bxc3
28. exf5 Bxb2 29. Rb3 Bf6 30. Rxb7 Rc5 $17 {Komodo13}) 27. Rxc3 Rd8 (27... Rxc3
28. bxc3 Kf8 $17 {the B is superior to the N with pawns on both sides of the
board}) 28. Nd4 f5 29. f4 g5 (29... Rd6 30. Rc7 Rg6+ 31. Kf2 Rg2+ 32. Kf3 Rxb2
33. Kg3 Bg2 34. Nxf5 Be4 35. Nd6 Re2 36. f5 Bc6 37. Kf4 Rxa2 38. Nxb7 $11 {
Komodo13}) 30. Kf2 (30. fxg5 hxg5 31. Rc5 $14 {Komodo13- the N & R co-operate
better}) 30... gxf4 31. exf4 (31. Nb3 fxe3+ 32. Rxe3 Bg4 33. Re7 b5 34. Re6 $11
) 31... Rxd4 32. Rxh3 Rxf4+ $15 33. Ke3 Rb4 (33... Re4+ 34. Kf2 Kg7 $17) 34. b3
(34. Rxh6 Rxb2 35. Kf4 $11) 34... Rb6 (34... Kg7 $17) 35. Kf4 $11 {active K is
worth a pawn} Rf6 36. Rg3+ Kf7 37. Ke5 f4 38. Rf3 Re6+ 39. Kxf4 Rf6+ 40. Ke4
Rxf3 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "5.41"]
[White "Allen, Timothy S"]
[Black "Walker, Kate"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "110"]
[BlackElo "119"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "130"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 (4. dxc5 {main}) 4... Bf5 5. Nf3 e6 6. Bb5+
Nc6 7. O-O cxd4 $146 {though it could transpose} (7... Qb6) (7... a6) 8. Nxd4 {
Cloud Engines} (8. cxd4 Qb6 9. Nc3 (9. Bxc6+ bxc6 10. a3 Bg4 11. Nbd2 Ne7 12.
h3 Bh5 13. g4 Bg6 14. Qb3 Qc7 15. Qa4 h5 16. Kg2 Bd3 17. Rh1 Ng6 18. Nf1 Be4
19. Ng3 Nh4+ {Isin-Kucuk, Manavgat Turkey Cup 2016,0-1}) 9... a6 10. Bd3 Nge7
11. Bxf5 Nxf5 12. Ne2 {Nistri-Ellering, LSS email 2008,1-0}) 8... Nge7 9. Re1 (
9. Bg5 Qd7 10. Nd2 $14 {Komodo13} (10. Bxe7 Bxe7 11. Nxf5 exf5 12. Nd2 O-O 13.
Nf3 $14 {the Bl pawn structure has been weakened , though Bl may well hold}))
9... a6 10. Nxf5 Nxf5 11. Bd3 Nfe7 12. Nd2 $14 Qc7 (12... Ng6) 13. Nf3 $16 b5
$6 {Bl is falling behind in development, & this Q side expansion gives Wh
targets to open up the game} (13... g6 14. Bf4 Bg7 15. Qe2 $16 {Komodo13}) 14.
Bf4 (14. b4 g6 15. a4 Rb8 16. Bg5 Bg7 17. Qe2 Qb7 18. Be3 O-O (18... Nxe5 19.
Nxe5 Bxe5 20. axb5 axb5 21. Ra7 Qc6 22. Bc5 Bc7 23. Qf3 $18) 19. Bc5 Rfd8 20.
Qd2 $18 {Komodo13}) 14... Nc8 15. Rc1 (15. a4 b4 16. c4 Nb6 17. cxd5 Nxd5 18.
Rc1 $18 {Komodo13} Be7 (18... Nxf4 19. Be4 Nd5 20. Bxd5 exd5 21. e6 Qd6 22.
exf7+ Kd7 (22... Kxf7 23. Rxc6) 23. Qd3 g6 24. Nd4 Nxd4 25. Qxd4 Bh6 26. Rc5
$18) 19. Bd2 Qd7 20. Qc2 Na5 21. Nd4 $18 {Komodo13-Bl is running out of good
moves}) 15... Nb6 16. Nd4 Nc4 17. Nxc6 $6 {releases the tension, & should also
allow Bl a tactic} (17. Qe2 Rc8 18. b3 Na3 (18... Nb6 19. a4 $18 (19. Nxc6 Qxc6
20. a4 $18)) 19. h4 h5 (19... Be7 20. Qg4 g6 21. h5 {and the Bl position is
under severe pressure right across the board}) 20. Nf5 exf5 (20... Rd8 21. c4
$18) 21. Bxf5 Ne7 (21... Rd8 22. e6 $18) 22. Bxc8 Nxc8 23. Rcd1 $18 {
Komodo13-Wh plays consistently to open up the centre}) 17... Qxc6 (17... Nxb2
$1 18. Qc2 Nxd3 19. Qxd3 Qxc6 20. a4 bxa4 21. c4 Bb4 22. Red1 O-O $17 {Komodo13
}) 18. Qe2 Qc7 (18... Be7) 19. b3 Nb6 20. c4 dxc4 (20... bxc4 {Komodo13 closes
the centre by preference} 21. bxc4 d4 22. Rb1 Nd7 23. Qe4 Rc8 24. Qxd4 Be7 25.
Red1 Nc5 26. Bf1 O-O $16 {Bl is a pawn down, but it's blockaded & the K
escaped to safety}) 21. bxc4 b4 22. c5 (22. Qg4 g6 23. c5 Nd5 24. Be4 Rd8 25.
Bg5 Be7 26. Bh6 Bf8 27. Bxf8 Kxf8 28. Bxd5 Rxd5 29. Qxb4 $18 {Komodo13}) 22...
Nd5 23. Bd2 (23. Be3 Nxe3 24. Qxe3 Be7 25. Qe4 Rb8 26. c6 Rd8 27. Bxa6 (27. g3
a5 28. Rcd1 g6 29. Bb5 O-O 30. Rd7 Rxd7 31. cxd7 Rd8 32. Re2 Qc1+ 33. Kg2 Qa3
34. Qc2 Qc3 35. Qxc3 bxc3 36. Rc2 Rb8 37. a4 Bb4 38. Kf3 $16) 27... O-O 28.
Red1 $16 {Komodo13}) (23. Qe4 Rb8 24. c6 $16) 23... Bxc5 24. Bxa6 (24. Bb5+ $1
axb5 {otherwise the K has to stay in the middle} 25. Qxb5+ Qd7 26. Qxc5 Qb7 (
26... Rxa2 27. Qc8+ Qxc8 28. Rxc8+ Kd7 29. Rxh8 Rxd2 30. g3 h6 31. Ra1 $16 {
Bl certainly has some compensation , but the Wh Rs can inflict damage on Bl's
K sive}) 27. Rc2 $16 {Bl has a strong N, but his K is still vulnerable & for
the moment playing a R down} Rb8 28. Rb1 Qe7 29. Bxb4 Qxc5 30. Rxc5 Nxb4 31. a3
Kd7 32. Rxb4 Rxb4 33. axb4 Rb8 34. Rc4 Rb5 35. f4 $14 {but only Wh can play
for a win}) 24... O-O $17 {Bl has escaped} 25. Bc4 Qd7 (25... Nc3 $17 26. Bxc3
bxc3 27. Qd3 Qa5 28. Re4 Rfd8 29. Qxc3 Qxc3 30. Rxc3 Rxa2 31. h3 Rxf2 $19 {
the Bl Rs are more active, so the opposite colour Bs favours them as attackers
as well.}) 26. Bb3 $11 Qa7 27. Rc4 Nc3 28. Bxc3 (28. Qf3 $11) 28... bxc3 29.
Ra4 (29. Rd1 Rfd8 30. Rxd8+ Rxd8 31. Rxc3 Qa5 32. Rc1 g6 33. h4 $11 {Komodo13
considers that Bl has enough piece activity & that the extra pawn is too far
back. Probably tthe opposite colour Bs should allow Bl to hold}) 29... Qb6 30.
Rxa8 Rxa8 31. Rd1 Bd4 $17 {the Bl pieces are more active} 32. Kf1 Qc5 33. Qc4 (
33. Qe4 Rd8 34. g3 Qb6 35. Kg2 Bc5 36. Rxd8+ Qxd8 37. Qc4 Qa5 38. f4 $15 {
Komodo13}) 33... Qxc4+ (33... Bxf2 $17) 34. Bxc4 Bxe5 $17 {Bl now has good
winning chances based on mobilizing the K side pawn mass, while the c pawn
keeps the Wh pieces tied down} 35. g3 Rc8 36. Bb3 g6 37. Rc1 Rd8 38. Rc2 (38.
Rd1 $5 {a B ending might hold, as Bl's passed pawns on c & e are close together
}) 38... Kg7 39. f4 Bf6 40. Ke2 h6 41. a4 g5 42. fxg5 {unbalancing the pawn
structure can only help the already better placed Bl side} (42. Kf3) 42... hxg5
43. a5 Rc8 44. h3 Bd4 45. g4 {risks losing a backward h pawn} e5 46. a6 Rc7 (
46... Rh8 {Komodo13} 47. Ra2 Rxh3 48. Ra4 Rh8 (48... Rh2+ 49. Kd1 Rd2+ 50. Kc1
Rg2 51. Kd1 (51. a7 Be3+ 52. Kd1 Rd2+ 53. Ke1 Bf2+ 54. Kf1 c2 55. Bxc2 Bxa7 56.
Bf5 Bd4 57. Ke1 Rg2 58. Rc4 {still no easy win for Bl})) 49. Kd3 Rd8 50. Bc2
Rd7 51. Kc4 $15 {it will take Bl a while to lift the blockade}) 47. Kd3 $11 Kf8
(47... f5 48. gxf5 Kf6 49. Bd5 (49. Ke4 Rh7 50. Ra2 Ba7 51. Ra4 (51. Bc2 Rh4+
52. Kd3 Rxh3+ $17) 51... Rxh3 52. Rc4 Rh4+ 53. Kd5 Rxc4 54. Kxc4 Kxf5 55. Kxc3
Kf4 {and Lomonosov tablebases give this as a draw; but Wh has to be careful to
find the exact squares for the B at crucial points.})) 48. Ke4 Rd7 49. Kf5 Rd6
50. Ra2 Rd7 (50... Ba7 51. Kxe5 $11) 51. Kxg5 $14 {Wh now has another outside
passed pawn, while the Bl ones are close together} e4 52. Kf4 e3 53. Kf3 (53.
Bd1 Re7 54. Be2 Kg7 55. Kf3 $14 {Komodo13}) 53... f6 54. Ke2 (54. Bc4 Kg7 55.
Bd3 Ba7 56. Ke2 $14) 54... Ke7 55. Bc2 (55. h4 $16) 55... Kd6 56. h4 $18 Ke5
57. Kf3 (57. Bf5 $1 $18 {clearest win, the H pawn will win a R as the BlK & B
are cut off. Komodo sacrifices both the c pawn & the f pawn to let the B give
itself up for the h pawn}) (57. h5 $18) 57... Bb6 58. Bf5 Rd2 59. Rxd2 exd2 (
59... cxd2 60. Bc2 Kd6 61. h5 Ke7 62. Bb3 Kf8 63. h6 Bd4 64. Ke2 Bc5 {and it
looks like Bl can hold}) 60. Ke2 $18 (60. Bc2 $1 $18 Ke6 61. Bb3+ Ke7 62. h5
Bd4 63. h6 Kf8 64. Ke2 Bc5 65. Kd3 {and both Bl advanced pawns drop of,
leaving the Wh K free to push a pawn through}) 60... Kf4 61. Kd1 Bd4 62. Kc2
Ke3 63. Bd3 $2 (63. Kd1 Kf4 64. Bd7 Bc5 65. h5 Kg5 66. Bf5 Be3 67. Kc2 Bd4 68.
Bd3 Bc5 69. Be2 Bd4 70. Bd1 f5 71. gxf5 Kxf5 72. Kd3 Ba7 73. Kxc3 Kg5 74. Kxd2
{is just a draw-Wh can win the B for the a pawn, but then is left with the
wrong colour R pawn to win.Nalimov tablebases confirm}) (63. g5 $1 $18 fxg5 64.
hxg5 Kf4 65. g6 Kxf5 66. g7 Bxg7 67. a7 Kg6 68. a8=Q {and mate in 24- the Q
prevents the pawns moving, while the K moves up the board to put the Bl K into
a mating net Nalimov tablebases( available on the web).}) 63... d1=Q+ 64. Kxd1
Kxd3 65. h5 c2+ (65... c2+ 66. Kc1 Kc3 67. h6 Be3#) 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "5.42"]
[White "Simmons, John A"]
[Black "Gorman, Ken"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "108"]
[BlackElo "109"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "113"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,113,19,21,11,-29,11,-28,40,-20,-3,-36,15,3,26,9,18,1,63,63,72,73,49,
25,85,66,76,43,27,34,37,40,44,39,64,66,59,71,74,75,82,43,68,56,64,65,62,26,41,
38,32,22,25,33,23,25,33,35,43,-18,-10,0,0,-14,-18,-18,0,-49,-28,-65,-60,-82,
-28,-46,-30,-46,-43,-116,-79,-130,-147,-151,-97,-88,-88,-121,-68,-85,-85,-87,
-62,-110,-134,-128,-58,-137,-64,-88,-90,-107,-104,-88,-78,-179,-78,-299,-138,
-284,-295,-295,-298,-368,-246,-246,-268,-262]} 1. Nc3 d5 2. e4 dxe4 3. Nxe4 g6
(3... Bf5 {main}) 4. d3 {rather passive} (4. Bc4) (4. d4) 4... Bg7 5. Bd2 (5.
Nf3 {main}) 5... b6 (5... Bxb2 {Bl can just have a pawn for free}) 6. Bc3 f6 (
6... Nf6) (6... e5) 7. Qe2 (7. Qf3 c6 8. h4 $14 {Komodo13}) 7... Bb7 8. Ng5 Bd5
(8... Qd7 9. Ne6 Bh6 10. Nf3 Bd5 11. Neg5 Nc6 $17 {Komodo13}) 9. Ne6 Bxe6 10.
Qxe6 Qd6 (10... Qd7) 11. Qe4 (11. Qc8+ Kf7 12. Be2 Nh6 13. Qb7 Nc6 14. Bf3 Ne5
15. Bxe5 Qxe5+ 16. Ne2 e6 17. O-O $14 {Komodo13}) 11... Qc6 12. Qxc6+ (12.
O-O-O $16) 12... Nxc6 13. O-O-O (13. d4 O-O-O 14. Ba6+ Kb8 15. Nf3 e6 16. O-O-O
Nge7 17. Rhe1 Rd6 18. a3 $14 {Komodo13}) 13... e5 14. g3 O-O-O 15. Bg2 Nge7 (
15... Nd4) 16. Ne2 Nd4 (16... Bh6+ 17. Kb1 Nd4) 17. Nxd4 exd4 18. Bd2 h5 19.
Rde1 $16 Nf5 20. Bh3 Rd5 21. Re2 (21. Re6) 21... Kd8 22. Rhe1 Re5 23. Bxf5 Rxe2
(23... gxf5 24. Bf4 Rxe2 25. Rxe2) 24. Rxe2 gxf5 $14 {Bl has split pawns & a
worse B} 25. b3 Bh6 26. f4 (26. Re6 Bxd2+ 27. Kxd2 Rf8 28. Rc6 Kd7 29. Rc4 c5
30. b4 Kc6 31. c3 Kd5 32. bxc5 bxc5 33. Ra4 $16 Rf7 34. c4+ Kc6 35. Ra6+ Kb7
36. Re6 $18 {the Wh K threatens to come to f4} f4 37. gxf4 f5 38. Rh6 h4 39.
Rxh4 {and the h pawn will force the win of a pawn or 2 elsewhere}) 26... Kd7
27. Kb2 c5 (27... h4 $11) 28. c3 Bf8 29. a3 (29. Be1 Bd6 30. cxd4 (30. Bf2
dxc3+ 31. Kxc3 h4 32. Kc4 Kc6 33. d4 b5+ $11) 30... cxd4 31. Bf2 Bc5 32. b4
Bxb4 33. Bxd4 Be7 $11) 29... h4 30. cxd4 cxd4 31. b4 hxg3 32. hxg3 Rh3 33. Rg2
{putting the R in a passive position} (33. Be1 {simpler}) 33... Kd6 34. b5 Kd5
35. Kb3 Rh7 36. a4 (36. Re2) 36... Rg7 37. Rg1 (37. Be1) 37... Bd6 38. a5 (38.
Rg2 Rg4 39. Rg1 $11) 38... bxa5 39. Bxa5 Bxf4 $17 {exploiting the R position}
40. Be1 Be3 (40... Be5) 41. Rf1 Ke5 42. Rh1 (42. Ba5 f4 43. gxf4+ Bxf4 44. Re1+
Be3 45. Bd2 Rg1 46. Re2 Rd1 47. Bxe3 Rxd3+ 48. Kc2 Rxe3 $19 {Komodo13}) 42...
f4 $19 43. gxf4+ Bxf4 44. Rh8 Kd5 (44... Be3 {and the f pawn advances}) 45.
Rh5+ (45. Rd8+ Kc5 (45... Ke5 46. Bb4 Be3 47. Re8+ Kf4 48. Bc5 f5 49. Ra8 Ke5
50. Rxa7 Rxa7 51. Bxa7 Kd5 52. Kc2 f4 53. Kd1 f3 54. Ke1 Kd6 55. Kf1 Kd5 56.
Ke1 Kd6 $11) 46. Ka4 $11 {Komodo13}) 45... Be5 $17 46. Rh8 Ke6 (46... Rg1 47.
Bb4 Rb1+ 48. Ka4 Bc7 49. Rh7 Bb6 50. Rh2 f5 51. Rf2 Ke5 52. Bd2 Bc5 53. Bf4+
Kd5 54. Bd2 Ke6 $17 {though it looks like Wh can stop Bl making further
progress}) 47. Rh4 (47. Bb4 $11 {Komodo13}) 47... Kf5 (47... f5) 48. Rh8 Kf4
49. Rh3 (49. Kc4 Rc7+ 50. Kd5 Rb7 51. Kc4 Ke3 52. Ba5 Rb8 53. Rh3+ Ke2 54. Bb4
Rc8+ 55. Kd5 $15 {Komodo13- also seems to hold}) 49... Kg4 50. Rh4+ Kf3 51. Re4
(51. Kc4 Rc7+ 52. Kd5 Ke2 53. Ba5 Rc3 54. Rh7 Rxd3 55. Rxa7 Ra3 56. b6 d3 57.
Bb4 d2 58. Bxd2 Rd3+ 59. Kc6 Rd6+ $1 60. Kb5 Rxd2 61. b7 f5 {and Bl mates in
31- Lomonosov Tablebases}) 51... Rc7 (51... Rg4 {forces of Rs for an easy win})
52. Kb4 (52. Bb4) 52... Rc1 (52... Rc2 $19 53. Bh4 (53. Rh4 Re2 {and the Wh B
is lost} 54. Rh1 Kg2) 53... Rc3 $19 {a vital pawn}) 53. Bd2 (53. Kb3) 53... Rd1
54. Bh6 Rxd3 55. Rh4 Ke2 (55... Rc3) 56. Kc5 Rc3+ 57. Kd5 {Bl has several ways
to win} 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "5.43"]
[White "Fraser, Chris A"]
[Black "De Santos, Andrew R"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "119"]
[BlackElo "103"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "95"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,95,19,28,40,37,85,35,56,63,88,31,88,37,58,55,54,47,103,17,50,49,95,80,
124,76,115,106,175,175,188,177,253,232,476,474,471,312,647,656,652,524,763,777,
767,669,666,411,697,378,366,354,666,366,386,382,382,375,390,390,413,395,410,
330,563,407,407,398,554,509,527,515,565,565,562,511,615,622,646,586,691,631,
694,617,694,574,654,545,577,582,604,620,637,643,654,625,649,688]} 1. e4 c5 2.
Nc3 d6 3. f4 e6 4. Nf3 Be7 (4... Nc6) 5. Bb5+ Nc6 (5... Bd7) (5... Nd7) 6. O-O
a6 (6... Nf6 {main}) 7. Bxc6+ bxc6 8. d3 d5 {77% for Wh} (8... Nf6 {main, 81%
for Wh}) 9. e5 (9. Qe1 {main, 5 Wh wins, 3 Bl wins}) (9. Ne5 {3-0}) 9... Qc7 (
9... Nh6 {2-1}) (9... f6 {1-0}) 10. Qe2 (10. b3 {1 game each}) (10. Qe1 {3-0})
10... Bd8 (10... Nh6 11. Na4 c4 12. dxc4 $16 {Komodo13}) 11. b3 $18 Ne7 12. Kh1
(12. Na4 Ng6 13. g3 Be7 14. Qf2 O-O 15. Ba3 (15. Nxc5 f6 $16) 15... c4 16. Bxe7
Nxe7 17. bxc4 dxc4 18. dxc4 Qa5 19. Nc5 $18 {Komodo13}) 12... O-O 13. Ba3 Qa7
14. Na4 $18 c4 15. dxc4 dxc4 16. Qxc4 (16. Bc5 {Komodo13} Qb7 17. bxc4 $18 (17.
Ng5 Qb5 18. Qh5 h6 19. Ne4)) 16... Nd5 17. Bxf8 Kxf8 18. Rae1 (18. Qd3 g6 19.
c4 {wins a piece}) 18... Ne3 19. Qd3 Nd5 20. c4 (20. Qxh7 {even stronger})
20... Ba5 21. cxd5 Bxe1 22. Nxe1 (22. Qxh7 $1 cxd5 (22... Bb4 23. d6 (23. Qh8+
Ke7 24. d6+ Kd7 25. Nc5+ (25. Qf8 c5 26. Nd4 cxd4 27. Rc1 Bc3 28. Nxc3 Kc6 29.
Na4+ Kd5 30. Rxc8 $18) 25... Bxc5 26. Qf8 Bxd6 27. exd6) 23... f6 24. Qh8+ Kf7
25. Ng5+ fxg5 (25... Kg6 26. Qh7#) 26. fxg5+ Kg6 27. g4 {mating}) 23. Rxe1)
22... cxd5 23. Nf3 (23. Qxh7) 23... Bd7 24. Nc3 (24. Qxh7) 24... Rc8 25. Rc1
Bb5 26. Qd2 (26. Qxh7) 26... Qc7 27. Ne2 Qb7 28. Rxc8+ Qxc8 29. Ned4 Bd7 30. h3
h6 31. Qc2 Qb7 32. Qc5+ (32. Qh7) 32... Kg8 33. Ne1 g5 34. fxg5 hxg5 35. Qc1
Qb4 36. Qxg5+ Kf8 37. Nef3 Qc3 38. Qd8+ (38. h4 {queening threat}) 38... Be8
39. Qd6+ (39. Qf6) 39... Kg7 40. Qxa6 (40. Qe7 Qc8 41. h4) 40... Qc1+ 41. Ng1 (
41. Kh2 Qf4+ 42. g3 Qe3 43. h4 $18 {Komodo13}) 41... Qe3 42. Ndf3 d4 43. Qe2
Qxe2 44. Nxe2 d3 45. Ned4 (45. Nf4) 45... Bd7 46. Kg1 f6 47. Kf1 fxe5 48. Nxe5
1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "5.44"]
[White "Hilditch-Love, Daniel"]
[Black "Taylor, Geoffrey P"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "85"]
[BlackElo "106"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,91,28,12,58,19,56,26,25,-8,13,14,15,29,50,43,57,59,45,43,62,58,77,92,
94,53,39,31,30,18,18,-3,17,9,6,0,0,-123,-22,-33,-22,0,-34,-99,-105,-103,-180,
-196,-130,-105,-165,-165,0,-44,-62,-151,-162,-345,168,0,16,0,0,8,8,8,59,0,25,
14,11,11,47,27,13,10,15,15,15,14,18,0,0,0,34,56,76,0,0,38,33,0,0,0]} 1. Nf3 d5
2. d4 c6 3. c3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Nbd7 (4... Bf5 {main}) 5. Nbd2 h6 6. Bh4 e6 7. e4
$146 {Wh can get away with it, as there is compensation for the pawn after...g5
} (7. e3 {main}) (7. Qc2) 7... dxe4 (7... g5 8. Bg3 (8. e5 gxh4 9. exf6 Qxf6
$15) 8... Nxe4 9. Nxe4 dxe4 10. Ne5 h5 11. Nxd7 Bxd7 12. h4 Bg7 13. Qc2 f5 14.
O-O-O $11 {Komodo13}) 8. Nxe4 Be7 9. Nxf6+ Nxf6 10. Bd3 {curiously, this
position has also been reached via French and Caro-Kann Defences} Bd6 (10... b6
{Cloud Engines}) 11. O-O (11. Ne5 $16 Qc7 12. Nc4 Be7 13. Bg3 Qd8 14. Ne5 {
Komodo13}) 11... Qc7 12. Bxf6 {this gives Bl some chances down the g file} (12.
Re1 $16) (12. Qe2 $16) 12... gxf6 13. Re1 Bd7 14. h3 (14. b4 {Komodo13}) 14...
O-O-O (14... c5 $11) 15. b4 Kb8 (15... e5 $5) 16. Qb3 Rhg8 17. Kh1 Rg7 18. b5 (
18. c4 Rdg8 19. Bf1 $16 {Komodo13}) 18... c5 (18... cxb5 19. Bxb5 Bxb5 20. Qxb5
Qxc3 $15 21. Rab1 (21. Rec1 Qb4 22. Qe2 Qa4 $15) 21... Qc8 $15) 19. Rab1 Qb6 (
19... Bc8 20. a4 Rdg8 $15 {Komodo13}) 20. a4 Rdg8 21. a5 Qxa5 22. b6 Qxb6 (
22... a6 $19 23. Ra1 c4 24. Qb2 Qh5 $19 {Komodo13}) 23. Qa2 Qc7 (23... Qc6 24.
Be4 Rxg2 $17 {Komodo13} 25. Rxb7+ (25. Bxc6 Bxc6 $19) 25... Kxb7 26. Rb1+ Ka8
27. d5 exd5 28. Qxd5 Rc8 29. Kxg2 Qxd5 30. Bxd5+ Bc6 31. Bxc6+ Rxc6 $19 {
Komodo13}) 24. Rxb7+ Qxb7 (24... Kxb7 25. Qa6+ Kb8 26. Rb1+ $18) 25. Rb1 Qxb1+
26. Qxb1+ Kc7 27. Bh7 (27. Qa2 cxd4 28. Qa5+ Kb8 29. Qa6 Kc7 30. Qxa7+ Kd8 31.
Qxd4 Ke7 32. g3 $11 {Komodo13}) 27... Rb8 28. Qa2 {a complicated position} Rb7
(28... Rxh7 29. dxc5 (29. Qxa7+ Kd8 $19) 29... Be7 (29... Bxc5 30. Qc4 Rb1+ (
30... Kb6 31. Qb3+ Kc7 32. Qc4) 31. Kh2 Rb5 32. Nd4 Kb6 (32... Ra5 33. Nb3 $18)
33. Nxb5 Bxb5 34. Qb3 Kc6 35. c4 Ba6 36. Qf3+ Kd7 37. Qd3+ Bd6+ 38. g3 Rh8 39.
Qd4 Kc6 40. Qxf6 Rf8 41. Qxh6 Bxc4 $17) 30. Qxa7+ Rb7 31. Qa5+ Kb8 32. Nd4 e5
33. c6 Rb1+ 34. Kh2 exd4 35. cxd7 Rh8 36. Qa2 Rb7 37. Qxf7 Rxd7 38. Qe6 Rhd8 (
38... Rc7) (38... Kc7) 39. cxd4 Rb7 40. Qe4 Rd6 41. g3 f5 42. Qxf5 Rxd4 43. h4
Rd6 $17) (28... f5 29. dxc5 Bxc5 30. Qc4 Rb1+ 31. Kh2 Rb5 32. Nd4 Ra5 33. Nb3
Bc6 34. g3 Bd5 35. Qf4+ Bd6 36. Qxh6 Rxg3 37. fxg3 Bxb3 38. Kg1 Ra1+ 39. Kf2
Bc4 $19 {Komodo13}) 29. Be4 (29. Qa5+ $18 {Komodo13} Kc8 30. Be4 Rb5 31. Qa6+
Kc7 32. c4 Rb4 33. dxc5 Bxc5 34. Qa5+ Kd6 35. Qd8 Rxc4 36. Bd3 Rc1+ 37. Kh2
Bxf2 (37... Rg6 38. Bb5 $18) 38. Qf8+ Kc7 39. Qxg7 $18) 29... Bc6 30. Qa5+ Kd7
31. Bxc6+ Kxc6 32. Qa4+ Kb6 33. dxc5+ Bxc5 34. Nd4 $16 Bxd4 35. Qxd4+ Kc6 36.
Qxf6 (36. Qe4+ Kb6 37. Qe3+ Kc6 38. Qxh6 Rg6 39. Qf4 {creates the h pawn as a
runner}) 36... Rg6 37. Qf3+ Kb6 38. Qe3+ Kc6 39. Qe4+ Kc7 40. c4 (40. h4) 40...
Rg5 41. Qh4 Kb6 (41... Rf5 42. Qxh6 Rxf2) 42. Qxh6 Rc5 43. Qc1 (43. Qd2 Kc6 44.
h4 $16 {Komodo13}) 43... Rbc7 44. Qb2+ Kc6 45. Qb4 Kd7 46. Qa4+ $14 (46. g3 Ke8
47. h4 Rxc4 48. Qa3 $14 {Komodo13}) 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "5.45"]
[White "Holmes, Nick D"]
[Black "Fraser, Roland"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A27"]
[WhiteElo "105"]
[BlackElo "91"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,83,20,-30,-5,-9,-36,-12,50,-6,-11,-16,15,-22,-14,-49,-33,-34,-30,-44,
-12,2,23,-8,32,36,21,-4,14,-33,4,-52,-46,-160,-103,-126,-132,-126,-126,-163,
-163,-227,-156,-247,-156,-147,-140,-142,-131,-158,-133,-157,-151,-186,-168,
-162,-182,-172,-171,-199,-176,-197,-174,-206,-97,-80,-96,-160,-152,-173,0,-130,
-77,-111,-37,0,0,0,0,36,69,66,29995,29996,29999,-30000]} 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3.
Nf3 f5 4. d3 Nf6 5. e3 Bb4 6. Qc2 O-O 7. a3 Bxc3+ (7... e4 8. Nd2 Bxc3 9. Qxc3
d6 10. b4 {West-O Jackson,Manchester Benedictine 1981,0-1}) 8. Qxc3 d6 9. Be2
Qe8 10. O-O (10. b4 f4 (10... Bd7 11. Bb2 Qg6 12. O-O-O Qxg2 13. Rdf1 Qg6 14.
Rhg1 {Wengierov-Czarnecki,POL ch tm 2009,draw agreed}) 11. exf4 exf4 12. Bxf4
Ne4 13. dxe4 Rxf4 14. Nd2 Qg6 15. g3 Rf8 16. O-O {Chilingirova-Griffa, Genova
op 2000,1-0}) 10... Qh5 11. Qc2 Qe8 (11... Qh6) 12. b4 e4 13. dxe4 fxe4 14. Nd2
Qg6 (14... Bf5) 15. Bb2 (15. f4 $11) 15... Bh3 16. g3 (16. Bf3 Rae8 (16... exf3
17. Qxg6 hxg6 18. gxh3 Nd7 19. Rfd1 $11) 17. Kh1 Bf5 18. Be2 Ne5 $15) 16...
Bxf1 17. Rxf1 Rae8 $17 18. b5 Ne5 19. Bxe5 (19. c5 d5 20. c6 b6 21. Qa4 Nfg4
$19 {Komodo13}) 19... Rxe5 $19 20. Qb3 Kh8 $19 (20... Nd7 21. c5+ d5 22. Qb2 c6
23. Qd4 Re6 24. Kg2 Ne5 25. h3 Qf5 26. a4 Ref6 27. h4 Qe6 28. Kg1 Rf5 29. Qa1
g5 $19 {Komodo13- or a similar gradual buildup}) 21. f4 Ree8 {all Bl needs to
do it to continue advancing on the K side; forcing Wh to swap pieces , so then
the exchange wins in the endgame} (21... exf3 22. Nxf3 Ree8 23. Nd2 Ne4 24.
Nxe4 Qxe4 25. Rxf8+ Rxf8 26. Qd3 Qxd3 27. Bxd3 Rf3 28. Be4 Rxe3 29. Bxb7 Rxa3
$19) 22. Qc3 Nh5 23. g4 Nf6 24. h3 b6 25. Rf2 Nd7 (25... a6 26. bxa6 Ra8 $19 {
opens up a line for the Rs to get into the game}) 26. h4 Qf6 27. Qxf6 gxf6 (
27... Rxf6) 28. Bd1 Nc5 (28... a6) 29. Bc2 Rg8 30. g5 f5 (30... h6 {Bl needs
to open up lines, not close them down} 31. Rg2 hxg5 32. hxg5 fxg5 33. fxg5 Re5
34. Kf2 Rgxg5 35. Rxg5 Rxg5 36. Bxe4 Kg7 37. Bd5 Nd3+ 38. Kf3 Rg1 39. Ke2 Ne5
40. Nf1 Kf6 $19 {Bl will encroach slowly, & then threaten to return the
exchange at a suitable moment}) 31. Nf1 (31. Nb1 Kg7 32. Nc3 Kf7 33. Nd5 Rc8
34. Rd2 h6 35. Kf2 a6 36. Nf6 Rh8 37. Kg3 axb5 38. cxb5 Ra8 39. a4 Nxa4 40.
Bb3+ Kg7 41. Be6 Nc5 42. Bxf5 Ra3 43. Nh5+ Kf8 44. Kg4 hxg5 45. hxg5 Ke7 46.
Nf6 Rd3 47. Nxe4 Rxe3 48. Nf6 $11 {the N is very happy in closed positions})
31... a5 {closing down the Q side} (31... a6 32. a4 Ra8 33. Ng3 axb5 34. cxb5
Rgf8 35. h5 Nxa4 36. Bxa4 Rxa4 37. Rc2 Ra7 38. Kg2 Kg8 39. h6 Rf7 40. Ne2 Kf8
41. Nd4 Ke8 42. Ne6 Kd7 43. Nd4 Ra5 44. Rc1 Ra3 45. Kf2 Ra2+ 46. Kg3 Rb2 47.
Rh1 Rf8 48. Rc1 Ra8 49. Kh4 {still tricky, but for both sides Wh has a more
difficult task as he could lose} (49. Nxf5 Rxb5 $19)) 32. Ng3 Ref8 33. Nh5 (33.
Rd2 $11) 33... Nd7 (33... h6 $17) 34. Bb3 Nf6 (34... Nc5 35. Bd1 h6) 35. Ng3 (
35. Nxf6 Rxf6 36. c5 Rg7 37. cxb6 cxb6 38. Rc2 Rf8 39. Bd5 h6 40. Rc6 $11 {
Komodo13}) 35... Ng4 36. Re2 Nh6 (36... Rg7) 37. c5 Rg7 38. cxd6 cxd6 39. Rc2
Ng4 (39... d5 {a desperate try by Komodo13- Rs must have activity & are also
bad defenders} 40. Bxd5 Rd7 41. Be6 Rd1+ (41... Re7 42. Rc6 $14) 42. Kg2 Ng4
43. Nxf5 Rd3 44. h5 Nxe3+ 45. Nxe3 Rxe3 46. Rc7 Re2+ 47. Kf1 Re3 48. Kf2 Rf3+
49. Ke2 Rg3 (49... R3xf4 {unfortunately loses to} 50. g6) 50. Rb7 Rd8 51. h6
Rf3 52. Rxb6 Rxf4 53. Ra6 $18) 40. Nxf5 Rxf5 $2 (40... Rb7 41. Be6 $18 {
the Bl Rs remain passive}) 41. Rc8+ Rg8 42. Rxg8# 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "5.46"]
[White "Kirilenkovs, Juris"]
[Black "Jones, Jonathan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "55"]
[BlackElo "101"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,86,19,31,14,30,28,5,12,1,1,-5,-23,-11,-10,-35,-30,-35,-44,-44,-41,-34,
-24,-62,-62,-57,-65,-68,-63,-74,-43,-100,-144,-147,-112,-181,-111,-233,29,-96,
15,-312,-340,-575,-584,-29987,-1116,-1389,-995,-1644,-228,-309,-364,-328,-71,
-80,-81,-133,-93,-125,-55,-425,-436,-425,-425,-516,-540,-549,-566,-614,-623,
-778,-815,-923,-967,-29989,-29986,-29991,-444,-456,-451,-517,-665,-707,-744,
-773,-616,-1278,-1358]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. h3 (3. c4) (3. Bf4) 3... Bf5 4.
e3 (4. Bf4) 4... e6 5. Nc3 c6 (5... Bb4) (5... Nbd7) 6. Ne5 $146 (6. Bd3 {main}
) 6... Nbd7 7. Nxd7 Qxd7 $15 8. g4 Bg6 9. Bg2 Bd6 10. h4 h6 11. g5 hxg5 12.
hxg5 Rxh1+ 13. Bxh1 Nh7 $17 14. f4 (14. e4 O-O-O $17) 14... O-O-O $19 {Wh is
behind in development, with potential pawn weaknesses} 15. Ne2 f6 (15... Rh8
16. Bg2 Qd8 17. Ng1 f6 $19 {The Wh K has stayed too long in the centre}) 16.
gxf6 gxf6 (16... Nxf6 {also}) 17. c3 Rg8 (17... e5 {opens up the position,
while the K is still in the cetre}) 18. Qa4 Bb8 (18... Bh5 $19) (18... e5 $19)
(18... Ng5 19. fxg5 Qh7 $19 {Komodo13}) 19. c4 (19. Bd2 $5 {trying to get 0-0-0
}) 19... Bd3 (19... e5 $19) 20. cxd5 exd5 21. Bf3 Qh3 22. Qa3 Bxe2 (22... Bf5
$1 $19 {Komodo13}) 23. Bxe2 Qh1+ 24. Bf1 Rg1 25. Qd3 Qh4+ 26. Kd2 Qh1 27. Be2
Bd6 28. b3 Bb4+ (28... Ba3 29. Qc3 f5 30. b4 Bxc1+ 31. Rxc1 Nf6 $19 {Komodo13})
29. Kc2 Qh2 (29... Nf8) 30. Bb2 (30. a3 Bd6 31. Bb2 Rg3 32. Re1 Kb8 $17 {
Komodo13- Wh is in zugzwang, all moves leading to a worsening of his position})
30... Rg2 $19 31. Kd1 Qh4 32. Bc3 Bxc3 33. Qxc3 Qf2 34. Qd3 Rg1+ 35. Kd2 Rxa1
$19 36. Qf5+ Kd8 37. Qg4 Rxa2+ 38. Kd3 Qxe2+ (38... Qe1 39. Qg8+ Kc7 40. Qxh7+
Kb6 41. f5 Qd2#) 39. Qxe2 Rxe2 40. Kxe2 f5 41. Kf3 Nf6 42. b4 b6 43. Kg3 a5 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "5.47"]
[White "Leonard, Paul"]
[Black "Wilson, Jeff"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C50"]
[BlackElo "97"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,90,21,8,21,8,39,-4,13,-25,45,1,5,5,112,88,94,65,84,50,66,29,49,48,51,
51,53,50,100,115,89,100,89,69,108,85,87,9,44,43,26,18,18,37,25,-151,-126,-101,
-92,-142,-162,-209,-209,-191,-195,-238,-263,-231,-256,-399,-185,-215,-246,-251,
-210,-184,-201,-223,-236,-232,-208,-244,-235,-247,-247,-247,-253,-247,-268,
-307,-237,-248,-255,-271,-249,-256,-274,-420,-461,-577,-683,-642,-705]} 1. e4
e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 h6 (4... Nf6) (4... Bc5) (4... Be7) 5. O-O (5.
Nxd4) 5... Bc5 6. c3 d3 (6... dxc3 7. Bxf7+ {80% for Wh}) 7. Qxd3 d6 8. Rd1 (8.
b4) (8. Re1 {main}) 8... Bg4 9. Bf4 (9. b4 Bb6 10. Bf4 Qf6 11. g3 g5 12. e5
dxe5 13. b5 gxf4 14. bxc6 fxg3 15. cxb7 gxf2+ 16. Kf1 Bh3+ 17. Ke2 f1=Q+ 18.
Rxf1 Bxf1+ 19. Kxf1 Rb8 $19 {Laag-Zell, Willingen 2019,1/2-1/2} (19... Rd8))
9... Qf6 10. Bg3 Bxf3 11. Qxf3 Qxf3 12. gxf3 $14 Nge7 13. f4 f6 14. b4 Bb6 15.
a4 a6 16. Nd2 $16 g5 17. a5 (17. f5) 17... Ba7 18. b5 axb5 19. Bxb5 Kf7 20.
Bc4+ Kg7 21. Kg2 (21. Rdb1) 21... f5 22. e5 (22. exf5 Nxf5 23. Bd5 gxf4 24.
Bxf4 Rhf8 25. Bg3 $14 {Komodo13}) 22... dxe5 23. fxg5 hxg5 $17 24. f3 Rad8 (
24... f4 25. Be1 Nf5 26. Nf1 Nd6 27. Bd5 Ne7 28. Be4 Bc5 $17 {Komodo13}) 25.
Rab1 (25. Nf1) 25... f4 $19 26. Be1 Nxa5 27. Be6 Rd6 28. Bg4 Rhd8 29. Kf1 Be3 (
29... Nd5 $19 30. Rdc1 Ne3+ 31. Ke2 Nxg4 32. fxg4 Be3 33. Rd1 Bxd2 34. Rxd2
Rxd2+ 35. Bxd2 Kf6 $19 {Komodo13}) 30. Ke2 Bxd2 31. Rxd2 Rxd2+ 32. Bxd2 Nc4 (
32... b6) 33. Bc1 b6 {in the static pawn chain, the Ns are superior to the Bs.
plus Bl is 2 pawns up} 34. Be6 Na5 (34... Nd5) 35. Ba3 Kf6 36. Ba2 Nd5 (36...
Nf5) 37. Bb2 Ne7 38. Ba3 Nf5 39. Rg1 Nc6 (39... Rh8 40. Rg2 Ne3 41. Rf2 Rd8 {
Komodo13}) 40. Bb1 Nce7 41. Be4 Nd5 42. Bb2 Nde3 43. Ra1 Rh8 44. Ra8 (44. Rh1
Ng3+) 44... Rxh2+ 45. Kd3 Rxb2 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "5.48"]
[White "Jackson, Paul Robert"]
[Black "Bohm, Richard D"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "116"]
[BlackElo "83"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "135"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,135,19,27,26,18,15,3,14,-5,-16,-33,-16,-16,-1,-1,24,9,-8,-3,50,56,59,
60,72,-10,69,82,35,33,61,47,44,45,54,22,36,32,74,-179,-160,-165,-154,-147,-157,
-157,-136,-173,-197,-192,-192,-174,-200,-199,-175,-199,-180,-193,-203,-180,
-191,-333,-175,-180,-166,-232,-172,-179,-154,-146,-156,-170,-148,-251,-242,
-236,-236,-280,-277,-324,-243,-245,-262,-261,-265,-265,-265,-265,-200,-235,
-239,-256,-256,-287,-148,-316,-322,-328,-329,-356,-330,-332,-332,-366,-328,
-376,-309,-309,-235,-309,-235,-235,-45,-374,-380,-386,-388,-399,-400,-408,-411,
-427,-448,-453,-451,-509,-489,-496,-496,-797,-797,-797,-797,-805,-827,-827,
-827,-817]} 1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 e6 3. c3 c5 4. e3 (4. Bf4) 4... Nc6 5. Bd3 Nf6 6.
Nbd2 Bd7 (6... Bd6) 7. O-O Bd6 8. dxc5 Bxc5 9. e4 dxe4 10. Nxe4 Be7 {72% for Wh
} (10... Nxe4 {more frequent,60% for Wh}) 11. Bf4 (11. Qe2) 11... O-O 12. Ne5 (
12. Nxf6+ {Komodo13} Bxf6 13. Qc2 g6 14. Rad1 e5 15. Bg3 Rc8 16. Be4 Qe7 17.
Rfe1 Bg4 18. Qa4 Rfe8 19. Bxc6 {Janik-Grylewicz,POl ch tm 2007,1-0}) 12... Nxe4
(12... Nd5 $11) 13. Bxe4 (13. Nxd7 Qxd7 14. Bxe4 Qxd1 15. Raxd1 Rfd8 16. g4 $16
{Komodo13}) 13... Nxe5 14. Bxe5 Qc8 15. Qf3 Bc6 16. Bxc6 bxc6 17. Qg4 f6 18.
Bg3 f5 (18... e5 $11) 19. Qf3 (19. Qc4 $16) 19... f4 $19 20. Bxf4 e5 21. Qe4
Rxf4 22. Qxe5 Rf7 23. Rfe1 Qf8 24. Qe6 Kh8 (24... Bc5) 25. Re2 Bc5 26. Rf1 Rc8
(26... Re7 27. Qc4 Rxe2 28. Qxe2 Re8 $19 {Komodo13}) 27. b4 Rf6 28. Qe4 Bb6 29.
a4 a5 30. Qe7 Qxe7 (30... Rxf2) 31. Rxe7 Rcf8 32. Re2 h5 (32... Rf4) 33. g3 g5
34. Kg2 g4 (34... Kg7) 35. h4 gxh3+ (35... Kg7 $19 {keeps pawns on for an
ending}) 36. Kg1 (36. Kxh3 Rxf2 37. Rfxf2 Rxf2 38. Re6 Kg7 39. Rxc6 Bd8 $15 {
Bl is running low on pawns} 40. bxa5 Bxa5 41. Rc5 Bd8 42. Rxh5 {and now there
are none}) 36... Rf3 (36... h4 37. gxh4 Rf3 {Komodo13}) 37. bxa5 Bxa5 38. c4
Bb6 39. Rb2 Rxg3+ (39... Bd4 40. Rd2 Be3 41. Ra2 Rxg3+ {Komodo13}) 40. Kh2 Rg2+
41. Kxh3 Rgxf2 42. Rfxf2 Bxf2 43. a5 (43. Rb7) 43... h4 (43... Kg7) 44. Kg2 Bd4
45. Rd2 Bc3 (45... Rf4) 46. Rd6 Kg7 47. Rxc6 Bxa5 {Bl is down to the last pawn,
& it Queens on a square the B cannot cover} 48. Rc5 Bb6 49. Rb5 Bf2 50. c5 Bg3
51. c6 Kh6 (51... Rf2+ 52. Kh3 Rc2) 52. Kh3 Rc8 (52... Rf3 53. Kg4 Rf4+ 54. Kh3
Rc4 $19 {Komodo13}) 53. Rc5 Kg6 54. Kg4 Kf6 55. c7 (55. Rh5 Kg6 56. Rg5+ Kf6
57. Rh5) 55... Bxc7 (55... Ke6 56. Rc1 Rg8+ 57. Kh3 Kd7 $19 {Komodo13, yet Bl
cannot win this} 58. c8=Q+ Rxc8 59. Rxc8 Kxc8 60. Kg2 $11) 56. Rf5+ (56. Rc4
$11 {Komodo13 & Nalimov endgame tablebases}) 56... Ke6 57. Rc5 Kd6 58. Rh5 Bd8
{mate in 28, Nalimov} 59. Rh8 Rc4+ 60. Kh3 Bg5 61. Rh5 Bf6 62. Rh6 Ke6 (62...
Rc3+) (62... Ke5) 63. Rh5 Rc3+ 64. Kg4 Rg3+ 65. Kf4 Bg5+ 66. Ke4 h3 67. Rh8
Rg4+ (67... Bf6) 68. Kf3 {Rh4 wins!.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "5.49"]
[White "Kirklys, Domantas"]
[Black "Coutts, Catriona"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B18"]
[WhiteElo "92"]
[BlackElo "112"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,84,69,8,59,75,74,36,41,20,37,25,20,6,52,44,57,17,28,5,-13,-6,-12,-19,
1,0,-13,-3,9,22,46,45,44,29,31,35,36,16,30,24,15,25,9,-52,-57,-52,-64,-63,-64,
-64,-105,-155,-85,-203,-22,-22,-26,-32,-23,-50,19,-86,-86,-105,-108,-115,-112,
-110,-109,-115,-115,-104,-141,-143,-8,-143,-139,-145,-148,-172,-34,-13,0,0,0,0,
0]} 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. f3 (5. Ng3 {main}) 5... Nd7 (
5... e6) 6. Bd3 e6 (6... Bg6) 7. Ne2 (7. Bg5) (7. Qd2 {also played}) 7... Ngf6
8. N2g3 (8. c3) (8. O-O) 8... Bg6 9. Be3 Be7 10. O-O Nd5 11. Qd2 $11 Nxe3 12.
Qxe3 O-O 13. Nf2 Bxd3 14. Nxd3 Bd6 15. Ne4 Bc7 16. f4 Nf6 17. Nxf6+ Qxf6 18.
Ne5 $11 Rad8 19. c3 Rd5 20. Rad1 Rfd8 {both sides have chances to unbalance
the game} 21. Rf3 (21. b4 $11) 21... c5 $15 {Wh's last slightly weakened the
backrank} 22. Qe4 Qf5 23. Qxf5 exf5 24. Rfd3 cxd4 $17 25. Rxd4 $2 Rxd4 (25...
Bb6 $19 {wins exchange & enough to win the game}) 26. Rxd4 Rxd4 (26... Bb6 $19)
27. cxd4 f6 28. Nd3 Bb6 29. Nc5 a5 (29... Bxc5 30. dxc5 Kf7 $19 31. Kf2 Ke6 32.
Ke3 Kd5 $19 {Komodo13}) 30. a4 Bxc5 31. dxc5 Kf7 32. Kf2 Ke6 33. Ke3 Kd5 34. c6
(34. Kd3 {gives chances of holding}) 34... bxc6 $19 35. Kd3 Kc5 (35... c5 $19
36. b3 g5 37. h3 h5 {and Wh is running out of moves}) 36. Kc3 Kd5 (36... g5 $19
) 37. Kd3 g5 38. g3 Kc5 (38... g4 39. Kc3 Kc5 40. b3 h6 $19 {and the Wh K must
give away}) 39. Kc3 h6 (39... g4 {runs Wh out of moves}) 40. h4 $16 gxh4 (40...
h5 41. fxg5 fxg5 42. hxg5 Kd6 43. Kd3 Ke7 44. Kd2 Ke6 45. b4 axb4 46. a5 f4 47.
gxf4 h4 48. a6 h3 49. a7 h2 50. a8=Q h1=Q 51. Qe8+ $16 {but it's a tricky
endgame}) 41. gxh4 h5 42. b4+ (42. b3 $1 {forcing Wh to move- there are many
dangers lurking in seemingly easy K & Pawn endings} Kd6 (42... Kd5 43. b4 axb4+
44. Kxb4 Kd4 45. a5 c5+ 46. Ka3 Kd5 47. Kb3 Kc6 48. a6 Kb6 49. Kc4 Kc6 50. a7
Kb7 51. Kxc5 Kxa7 52. Kd6 $18) 43. b4 Kc7 44. bxa5 Kb7 45. Kc4 Ka6 46. Kc5 {
and again Wh gets through to the K side}) 42... axb4+ $11 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "5.50"]
[White "Jones, Hefin"]
[Black "Coleman, Patrick N"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "86"]
[BlackElo "109"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,59,19,31,72,49,78,23,11,12,16,18,32,8,11,-81,-74,-96,77,74,216,250,
327,321,365,382,476,438,456,415,664,516,518,550,550,552,612,550,1094,713,1066,
729,1006,937,1274,1751,1751,1924,1676,933,947,981,29991,29992,29993,2270,29999,
29988,29997,29994,29999,-30000]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 e6 3. d4 {uncommon, though it
hopes to gain from a potential weakness on d6} (3. g3) (3. f4) 3... cxd4 4.
Qxd4 Nc6 5. Qe3 (5. Qd1 {main}) 5... a6 (5... Nf6) 6. e5 $146 (6. Bd2) (6. Nf3
{transposes to 37 games}) 6... Nh6 (6... d5 7. exd6 Bxd6 $11 {Komodo13}) 7. Bd3
{loses a pawn} (7. Qe4 d5 8. exd6 f5 9. Qe2 Nf7 10. Be3 Bxd6 11. O-O-O O-O $11
{Komodo13}) 7... Ng4 8. Qg3 Ncxe5 {but this is the wrong way to capture} (8...
Ngxe5 $15) 9. Be2 Bd6 (9... h5 {Komodo13-only move} 10. h3 h4 11. Qf4 g5 12.
Qxg5 Qxg5 13. Bxg5 f6 14. Bd2 Nh6 $11 {as Bl has had to return the pawn to
save a piece}) 10. Bxg4 Nxg4 11. Qxd6 $18 (11. Qxg4 $18 {also, but text is
better}) 11... Qf6 12. Nf3 Qf5 13. h3 Nf6 14. O-O b5 15. Nd4 (15. Be3 {threat
Bc5} e5 16. Ng5 (16. Nxe5 {also}) 16... e4 17. Bc5 Ng8 (17... Qxc5 18. Qxc5)
18. Qf8#) 15... Qg6 16. Nc6 {there are lots of other ways, as Wh is a piece up
with the Bl K stuck in the middle} dxc6 (16... Ng8 17. Nd5 exd5 18. Re1+ {
wins the Q}) 17. Qxc6+ Ke7 18. Qxa8 Bd7 19. Qxa6 (19. Qxh8 {is quite safe})
19... h5 20. Bf4 (20. Qa3+ Kd8 (20... Ke8 21. Qa8+ Ke7 22. Qxh8) 21. Be3 {
and the Bl K is too exposed to last long}) 20... e5 21. Bxe5 (21. Qa3+) 21...
Bxh3 22. Qd6+ (22. Bd6+ {Komodo13-mate in 9} Kd7 23. Qb7+ Kxd6 24. Rad1+ Ke6
25. Rfe1+ Ne4 26. Qc6+ Kf5 27. Qxe4+ Kg5 28. Qe3+ Kg4 29. Rd5 Kh4 30. Qxh3#)
22... Ke8 23. Qb8+ Ke7 24. Bd6+ Ke6 25. Rfe1+ Kf5 26. Qxb5+ Kg4 27. Qc4+ (27.
Qe5 $1 {Komodo13} Nd5 28. Qg3+ Kf5 29. Re5+ Kf6 30. Nxd5#) 27... Kg5 28. Bf4+ (
28. Qf4#) 28... Kh4 29. Bd2+ (29. Bg3+ Kg5 30. Qf4#) 29... Ng4 30. g3# 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "5.51"]
[White "Hynes, Thomas F"]
[Black "Ryder, Arthur"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "76"]
[BlackElo "112"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "40"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,40,40,19,24,-32,-9,-19,13,21,27,12,29,36,62,63,40,25,25,4,45,-1,-20,
-21,-5,-15,-3,-27,-9,-14,-4,-164,-11,-14,-213,-234,-225,-626,-634,-2212,-2212,
-2392,-2454]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Bf4 Be7 4. e3 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 (5... O-O) (5...
c6) (5... Nbd7) 6. Nf3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bb3 (8. Bd3 {main, battles for e4})
8... Bb7 9. Qe2 $146 (9. O-O {3-1}) (9. Rc1 {1-2}) 9... Bd6 10. Bxd6 cxd6 11.
Bc2 Nbd7 12. O-O $11 Rc8 13. Rfe1 (13. a3) 13... d5 (13... b4) 14. Bd3 Ne4 15.
Qc2 $2 (15. a4 $14) 15... f5 (15... b4 $19) 16. Rec1 (16. Qb3 $14) 16... b4 $19
17. Qe2 bxc3 18. Bxa6 cxb2 19. Rxc8 bxa1=Q+ 20. Ne1 Qxc8 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "5.52"]
[White "McFadden, Wayne Philip"]
[Black "Harrington, Peter"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A14"]
[WhiteElo "83"]
[BlackElo "111"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,79,21,-34,-41,-12,6,-24,-24,-51,-23,-21,15,32,30,24,23,10,48,27,67,63,
197,57,61,12,12,12,63,55,79,27,32,17,40,22,35,21,23,17,44,18,45,0,-3,-106,17,
25,36,34,35,12,24,18,95,73,122,95,106,107,130,97,83,79,83,30,7,0,-8,0,48,56,
106,104,107,116,123,84,84,30,30,0]} 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. g3 d5 4. d3 (4. cxd5
) (4. Bg2) (4. d4) 4... c6 (4... d4) 5. Bg2 Be7 6. Nf3 O-O 7. O-O Nbd7 8. b3 (
8. e4) (8. Qc2) 8... Ng4 $146 {opposing on the long diagonal} (8... Re8) (8...
b6) 9. Qd2 (9. d4 $14) 9... Bf6 10. Bb2 Qa5 $2 {loose Q} 11. h3 (11. Nxd5 $18
Qxd2 12. Nxf6+ Ngxf6 13. Nxd2) 11... Nge5 12. d4 (12. Nxe5 Bxe5 13. d4 $16 {
Komodo13}) 12... Nxf3+ 13. Bxf3 Qd8 (13... dxc4 14. bxc4 e5 15. d5 Nb6 16. Qd3
Bxh3 17. Rfb1 Qc5 18. Kh2 Bd7 19. Ne4 Qxc4 20. Qxc4 Nxc4 21. Bc3 Rab8 $17 {
Komodo13}) 14. e3 $14 (14. Rad1 $14) 14... Nb6 15. cxd5 (15. Qe2) 15... exd5
16. Bg2 Be6 17. Ne2 Re8 18. Nf4 Bf5 $11 19. f3 h6 20. h4 Qd6 21. Kf2 Nd7 22.
Bh3 $6 (22. Rae1) 22... Bh7 {missing a tactic} (22... Bxh3 23. Nxh3 Bxh4 $17)
23. a4 Nf8 24. Ba3 Qc7 25. Rg1 g5 {rather loosening of the Bl K side} 26. hxg5
Bxg5 27. Bg2 f5 28. Rh1 $16 Ng6 (28... Bxf4 29. exf4 Re6 30. Rae1 Rae8 31. Re5
$16) 29. Rae1 (29. Rh3 Qg7 30. Rah1 Rad8 31. Bf1 Nh8 32. Bd3 $18 {Komodo13- Wh
just keeps piling on the pressure}) 29... Qf7 30. Qd3 (30. Bf1 Kg7 31. Bd3 Be7
32. Bxe7 Rxe7 33. Ng2 Rh8 34. Qc2 Nf8 35. Nh4 $18 {Komodo13-Bl loses K side
pawns}) 30... Kg7 31. Nh5+ (31. Bd6 Rad8 32. Nxg6 Bxg6 33. Be5+ Bf6 34. Qc3
Bxe5 35. dxe5 Qe6 36. f4 $16 {Komodo13}) 31... Kg8 32. f4 (32. Qd1) 32... Be7
33. Bxe7 Rxe7 34. Bf3 Nh8 (34... Re6) 35. Qf1 Re6 36. g4 (36. Qh3 Rf8 37. Reg1
Ng6 38. g4 $18 {Komodo13, after a buildup before the pawn break}) 36... fxg4
37. Bxg4 Bf5 38. Bxf5 Qxf5 39. Qg2+ (39. Qe2 Rae8 40. Rhg1+ Rg6 41. Rxg6+ Nxg6
42. Ng3 Qf6 43. Qh5 Rf8 44. Qxh6 $16 {Komodo13-but the extra protected passed
pawn should eventually win}) 39... Rg6 40. Qf3 $11 {Komodo13} 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "5.53"]
[White "Kelly, Alan"]
[Black "Holyhead, James"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D06"]
[WhiteElo "109"]
[BlackElo "64"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "119"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,119,26,28,23,16,29,29,25,-3,-1,-19,96,59,114,125,213,208,397,420,492,
182,173,146,143,143,510,425,398,183,162,174,171,150,225,230,233,225,231,234,
232,229,242,284,338,284,288,319,328,408,414,144,181,182,177,134,144,143,164,
166,166,166,196,187,189,197,195,171,192,154,163,140,150,125,126,122,124,122,
122,125,151,131,131,110,128,110,132,134,239,252,278,217,205,178,177,148,151,
187,224,190,160,177,485,541,562,529,962,1016,1016,1016,1016,680,982,992,1002,
1002,1002,1012,1012,1016,1016,1016]} 1. d4 d5 2. e3 Bf5 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. c4 e6 (
4... c6 {alternative}) 5. Nc3 c5 6. Qb3 Qc7 (6... b6) 7. cxd5 cxd4 (7... exd5
8. Nxd5 Nxd5 9. Qxd5 Be6 10. Qe4 Be7 11. Bd3 (11. d5 Bd7 12. Bd2 $18) 11... Nd7
12. d5 $2 Nf6 13. Bb5+ Bd7 14. Qc4 (14. Qa4 $11) 14... Qa5+ 15. Bd2 Qxb5 $19 {
Ratsavong-Marchandise,FRa ch du Nord France 2003,1-0!}) 8. Nxd4 $18 exd5 $2 9.
Nxf5 Nbd7 10. Nxd5 {giving back some material} (10. Bd2 $18) 10... Qa5+ 11. Nc3
(11. Bd2 Qxd5 12. Qxd5 Nxd5 13. e4 $18) 11... Qxf5 12. Qxb7 Nb6 (12... Rb8 13.
Qxa7 Bb4 14. Be2 O-O 15. O-O $16 {Bl has a lot of piece activity, though 3
pawns behind is quite a margin}) 13. Bb5+ Nfd7 14. Bxd7+ (14. e4 Qe6 15. Be3
$18 Rd8 (15... Bb4 16. Bxb6) 16. O-O-O $18 {Bl has trouble getting his pieces
into play}) 14... Qxd7 15. Qxd7+ Nxd7 16. Nb5 (16. b3) 16... Ke7 (16... Bb4+
17. Ke2 O-O {is a bit easier to defend, though 2 pawns down anyway}) 17. b3 Kf6
18. Bb2+ Kg6 19. O-O (19. Ke2) 19... Be7 20. Rac1 Nc5 21. Ba3 Rac8 (21... Rhc8
22. Rc4 Bf8 23. Rfc1 Rcb8 24. Rxc5 Bxc5 25. Rxc5 $18 {Komodo13}) 22. Rc4 (22.
Nxa7 Rc7 23. Nb5 Rcc8 24. Rc4 $18 {Komodo13}) 22... a6 23. Nd4 Rc7 24. Rfc1
Rhc8 25. b4 (25. Bb4 Bd6 26. Ba5 $18 {Komodo13}) 25... Ne6 {escaping the worst}
26. Rxc7 Rxc7 27. Rxc7 (27. Nxe6 Rxc1+ 28. Bxc1 fxe6 29. a3 {leaves Bl with an
extra damaged pawn structure}) 27... Nxc7 28. Nc6 Bd6 29. Bb2 (29. e4) 29...
Nd5 30. a3 Nb6 31. Be5 (31. Bd4) 31... Bxe5 32. Nxe5+ Kf6 33. Nc6 (33. Nd3)
33... Nd7 34. a4 {rather than commit pawns it maybe better to bring the K up
first, so that Bl doesn't get play against the advanced pawns. There is little
that Bl can do to prevent an advance on both sides of the board.} (34. Kf1) (
34. f4 {Komodo13} Kf5 35. Kf2 Ke4 {leads to Bl shedding pawns} 36. Nd8 f6 37.
Ne6) 34... Ke6 35. b5 (35. e4 Kd6 36. Nd8 Ke7 37. Nb7 Ke6 38. f4 {Komodo13})
35... axb5 36. axb5 Kd6 37. Nd4 g6 38. Kf1 Kc5 39. Ke2 Ne5 40. f4 (40. Nf3 Nc4
41. Ng5 Nd6 42. Kd3 Kxb5 43. Nxh7 Kc5 44. e4 $18 {Komodo13}) 40... Nc4 41. Kf3
(41. g4) 41... Nd6 42. Kg4 (42. f5 gxf5 43. Kf4 Nc4 44. h4 Nb6 45. Nxf5 Kxb5
46. Kg5 $18 {Komodo13}) 42... h5+ (42... Nc4 43. Kf3 Nd2+ 44. Ke2 Ne4 45. g4 f6
46. h4 Kb6 47. g5 fxg5 48. hxg5 Kc5 49. Ne6+ Kxb5 50. Nf8 Kc5 51. Nxh7 Ng3+ 52.
Kf3 Nf5 53. Nf8 Ne7 54. Ke4 (54. Nxg6 Nxg6 55. f5 $18) 54... Kd6 55. Kd4 Nc6+
56. Kd3 Ne7 57. e4 $18 {Komodo13}) 43. Kg5 Ne4+ 44. Kh6 Nd6 45. h3 (45. Kg7)
45... Nc4 46. Nc2 Kxb5 47. g4 (47. Kg7 Nd6 48. e4 Nxe4 49. Kxf7 g5 50. f5 $18 {
Komodo13- keeps more pawns on than the line Wh plays}) 47... hxg4 48. hxg4 Kc5
49. Kg7 Nd6 50. e4 (50. g5 {Komodo13- keeps more pawns on.} Kd5 51. Kf6 Ke4 52.
Ke7 Kd5 53. Nb4+ Kc5 54. Nd3+ Kd5 55. Ne5 Nf5+ 56. Kxf7 Nxe3 57. Nxg6) 50... f5
(50... Nxe4 $1 51. Kxf7 Nf2 {only draws , as Bl can give up the N for the last
pawn- Lomonosov Endgame tablebases} 52. f5 (52. g5 Nh3 53. Kxg6 Nxf4+ 54. Kf5
Ng2 $1 {surprisingly this is the only drawing move.} (54... Nh5 $2 55. Ne3 $1 {
only move to win} Kc6 (55... Kd6 56. Kg4 Ng7 57. Nf5+) 56. g6 Kd7 57. Nd5 $1
Kd6 58. Nf4 Ng3+ 59. Kf6 Ne4+ 60. Kg7 $1 Ng3 61. Kh8 Nf5 62. Nh5 Ke7 63. Ng3
Kf6 64. Kh7 Ne7 65. g7 Ke5 66. Kh8 Kf4 67. Nf1 Ke5 68. Ne3 Ke6 69. Nc4 Ng6+ 70.
Kg8 Ne7+ 71. Kf8 Ng6+ 72. Ke8 Ne7 73. Ne5 Kf6 74. Kf8 Ke6 75. Nc6 Ng6+ 76. Ke8
{and the pawn will Q. Try to avoid having to play endings like this by keeping
as many pawns on as possible.})) 52... Nxg4 53. Kxg6 Kd6 $11) 51. e5 $18 Ne8+
52. Kf7 fxg4 (52... Nc7 53. g5) 53. Kxe8 g3 54. Ne1 Kd4 55. Ng2 (55. e6) 55...
Ke4 (55... g5 56. fxg5 Kxe5 57. Kf7 $18) 56. e6 Kf3 57. Kf7 Kxg2 58. e7 Kh2 59.
e8=Q g2 60. Qe1 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "5.54"]
[White "Foy, Jeff"]
[Black "Knight, Pauly"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A48"]
[WhiteElo "99"]
[BlackElo "78"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,57,80,16,40,19,56,45,36,40,71,30,32,-17,56,96,93,29,22,10,10,-1,2,-39,
-22,-22,-12,-26,-12,-25,27,-42,-18,-43,25,14,57,51,132,142,341,341,388,405,
1207,1274,29987,29988,29989,29990,29991,2383,3406,1488,29995,29996,29997,29998,
29999,-30000]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Bf4 Bg7 4. Nc3 d6 5. Qd2 O-O 6. Bh6 {main
} (6. O-O-O) 6... Ng4 {rare} (6... c5) (6... Nbd7) 7. Bxg7 Kxg7 8. e3 (8. h3
Nh6 9. h4 Nc6 10. h5 Ng8 11. hxg6 fxg6 12. Ng5 h6 13. Nf3 e5 14. dxe5 dxe5 15.
O-O-O Qxd2+ 16. Rxd2 $11 {Kol-Linkevich, RUS ch girls U10, Sepukhov 2000,1-0,
the only example with Ng4.}) (8. e4 {Komodo13}) 8... Nf6 9. Bd3 Nc6 10. e4 Bg4
$11 (10... e5 $11 {also, Stockfish10 & Komodo13}) 11. Be2 (11. d5) 11... Bxf3
12. Bxf3 Re8 (12... e5 $15 {|Cloud Engines- the B on f3 is a big pawn}) 13. h4
h5 14. O-O-O a5 (14... e5 $11) 15. Rdg1 a4 (15... e5 $15) 16. a3 (16. g4 $14 {
both Engines}) 16... Qb8 {too slow} (16... e5) 17. g4 hxg4 (17... Qa7 {both
Engines} 18. gxh5 Qxd4 19. hxg6 Qxd2+ 20. Kxd2 fxg6 21. h5 $16) 18. Bxg4 (18.
e5 $1 $18 {Komodo13} dxe5 (18... gxf3 19. exf6+ exf6 20. h5 $18 g5 21. Rxg5+
fxg5 22. Qxg5+ Kf8 23. h6 $18) 19. Bxc6 bxc6 (19... exd4 20. Bxe8 dxc3 21. Qxc3
Qxe8 22. Rxg4 $18) 20. dxe5 Nh5 21. Rxg4 Qc8 22. Rhg1 Qe6 23. Rg5 Rh8 24. Kb1
Kf8 25. Ne2 $18) 18... Nxg4 (18... Qa7 $16 {both Engines}) 19. Rxg4 $18 Rg8 (
19... Rh8 $5) 20. h5 Kf8 21. hxg6 Ke8 (21... f6 22. Rgh4 Ra5 23. d5 $18 {
Komodo13}) 22. gxf7+ Kxf7 23. Qf4+ Ke8 24. Rxg8+ Kd7 25. Rxb8 (25. Qf5+ {
both Engines-mating} e6 26. Rh7+ Ne7 27. Rxe7+ Kxe7 28. Qh7+ Kf6 29. Rg6# (29.
Qg7#)) 25... Rxb8 26. d5 (26. Qg4+ e6 27. Rh7+ Ne7 28. d5 {mating soon}) 26...
Na7 27. Qf5+ e6 28. Qxe6+ Kd8 29. Rh8# 1-0

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "5.55"]
[White "Hall, Les"]
[Black "Cockerill, Martin K"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "80"]
[BlackElo "98"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,56,30,27,27,12,24,24,18,-3,-8,-8,-8,-10,-8,-13,-6,-20,-12,-8,-8,-24,
-32,-91,-61,-24,-21,-29,-130,-123,-105,-121,-121,-121,36,50,49,-29,-18,4,17,
-75,-35,-31,-42,-39,-49,-164,-173,-226,-97,-72,105,-15,29997,-289,-293,-29997,
-29998]} 1. d4 d5 2. e3 Bf5 3. Bd3 (3. c4) 3... Bg6 (3... Bxd3) 4. Bxg6 (4. f4)
(4. Nf3) 4... hxg6 5. Nc3 (5. Nf3) 5... Nf6 6. Bd2 (6. Nf3) 6... e6 7. Qe2 $15
{Komodo13} (7. a3 Nbd7 8. Qf3 c6 9. Na4 b5 10. Nc3 Qb6 11. Nge2 Bd6 12. h3 e5
13. Qg3 Qc7 14. dxe5 Nxe5 15. f4 Nc4 {Mehovic-Musovic, Boskoviv memorial,
Bijelo Polje 2004,0-1. only example with Bd2}) 7... c6 (7... c5) 8. O-O-O Qb6 (
8... b5 $17 {Komodo13- Bl can launch an attack against the K, while his own is
safe in the middle}) 9. Kb1 (9. g4 $5 {Komodo13}) 9... Nbd7 10. b3 {it's
usually best to refrain from unforced pawn moves in front of the K- it helps
the other side to a target} a5 11. Bc1 Qa7 (11... a4) 12. a4 Bb4 13. Bb2 (13.
Na2 b5 $19) 13... Bxc3 14. Bxc3 b5 $19 15. axb5 cxb5 16. Qxb5 Ke7 {the K could
feel the draught here} (16... a4 $19) (16... O-O $19) 17. Qa4 (17. Bb2 Rhb8 18.
Qa4 Kf8 $19 {Komodo13}) 17... Ne4 18. Qa3+ Kf6 19. Be1 a4 20. b4 Rhc8 21. f3
Nd6 22. Qd3 a3 $17 23. c3 (23. e4 Ke7 24. exd5 exd5 25. Ne2 Kf8 26. Ka2 Kg8 27.
h4 $15) 23... Nc4 (23... Nb6 24. Ka2 Nbc4 25. Rb1 Nb2 26. Qc2 Qb7 27. Ka1 Ke7
28. Bg3 Qxb4 $19 {Komodo13}) 24. Qc2 $2 (24. Qe2 a2+ 25. Ka1 Ke7 26. Nh3 Qa4
27. e4 Kf8 28. Bg3 Na3 $19 {Komodo13}) 24... a2+ (24... Nxe3 25. Qd2 Qa4 $19 {
Komodo13}) 25. Ka1 Nxe3 $2 (25... Ke7) 26. Qc1 (26. Qd2 $1 $18 {Komodo13} Nxd1
(26... Rxc3 27. Qxc3 Nxd1 28. Qd2 Ke7 29. Qxd1 $18) (26... Nxg2 27. Qxg2 $18)
27. Bh4+ g5 28. Qxg5#) 26... Nxd1 $2 (26... Qa4 $11 27. Bh4+ g5 28. Bxg5+ Kxg5
29. Qxe3+ Kg6 30. Rc1 $11) 27. Qxd1 $2 {missing the chance} (27. Bh4+ g5 28.
Qxg5#) 27... Qa3 28. Qd3 Qc1+ 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "5.57"]
[White "Hamilton, Stuart"]
[Black "Bramley, Douglas"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D30"]
[WhiteElo "73"]
[BlackElo "113"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "115"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,115,26,45,35,27,27,-19,-11,-42,-23,-45,-50,-46,-45,-120,-46,-103,-9,
-79,-1,-74,-63,-59,5,-114,-95,-106,-89,-89,-62,-157,-96,-120,-122,-110,-105,
-125,-128,-150,-122,-136,-138,-171,-56,-101,-117,-135,-65,-128,-61,-74,-65,
-128,-65,-80,-5,-5,2,-57,-59,-373,-80,-83,-103,-165,-147,-145,-130,-135,-135,
-144,-121,-144,-121,-182,-130,-143,-178,-178,-77,-180,-89,-92,-79,-73,-84,-83,
-41,-39,-45,-37,-42,-44,-29,-34,-31,-25,-23,-23,-19,-19,-16,-25,-25,-18,-18,
-17,0,0,-6,0,10,17,17,17,36,17]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 d5 3. c4 e6 4. c5 {rather
early} Nc6 (4... b6 5. b4 a5 {challenges the outpost at once}) 5. g3 {uncommon}
(5. e3) (5. Nc3) (5. Bg5) 5... Bd7 (5... g6) (5... e5) 6. Bg2 b6 {Cloud Engines
} (6... Be7 7. Bf4 h6 8. O-O g5 9. Bd2 Ne4 10. a3 f5 11. Ne5 Nxe5 12. dxe5 Bxc5
$17 {Valencia Gonzalez Lopez, Pan American ch U14, Cali 2011,1-0}) 7. Qc2 Be7 (
7... bxc5 8. dxc5 e5 $17 {Komodo13}) 8. O-O a5 (8... bxc5) 9. a3 (9. cxb6 cxb6
10. Nc3 $11) 9... O-O (9... bxc5 $15) 10. Nc3 bxc5 11. dxc5 Bxc5 (11... Rb8 $15
) 12. Na4 (12. Nxd5 Bxf2+ 13. Rxf2 exd5 14. Bg5 $11 {Komodo13}) 12... Bd6 $17
13. Nc5 Bxc5 (13... Be8) (13... h6) 14. Qxc5 Qe7 15. Qe3 Rab8 (15... e5 $19) (
15... a4 $19) 16. Nd4 (16. Ne5 Nxe5 17. Qxe5 c5 $17) 16... Nxd4 17. Qxd4 c5 18.
Qd2 a4 $19 19. Re1 Bc6 20. Rb1 Qb7 21. Qf4 c4 (21... d4 22. f3 Nd7 $19 {
Komodo13}) 22. Bd2 (22. Qd4 {barricades the centre pawns} Rfe8 23. Bf4 Qb6 24.
e3 Rb7 25. Qxb6 Rxb6 26. Bd6 Nd7 27. Bb4 Ne5 $17) 22... Rfe8 23. Bb4 (23. Bc3
Nd7) 23... Qd7 (23... e5 $19) 24. Red1 Qb7 (24... e5 $19) 25. Bd6 Rbc8 26. Be5
Qe7 (26... Nd7 $19) 27. Rd4 Ne4 $6 (27... Nd7) 28. Bxe4 dxe4 29. Qg4 (29. Rxc4
$11 {Komodo13}) 29... f5 (29... f6 30. Bd6 Qd7 31. Rd2 Bd5 32. Bb4 Rcd8 $17 {
but it will be difficult to organize a breakthough for Bl with the opposite
colour Bs}) 30. Qh3 (30. Qf4) 30... Red8 (30... Qc5 $19 {picks up a loose piece
}) 31. Rxc4 Bb5 32. Rd4 (32. Rxc8 Rxc8 33. Qf1 Rc2 34. Qd1 Rxe2 $15 {Komodo13})
32... Rxd4 (32... Bxe2 $19) 33. Bxd4 Bxe2 $19 {the Wh K is now in danger} 34.
Bc3 Bf3 (34... Rd8) 35. Qf1 Rd8 36. Bb4 Qe8 (36... Qd7) 37. h4 Rd5 (37... Rd3
38. Rc1 h6 39. Bc3 Qd7 40. Kh2 Qd8 41. Re1 Qb6 (41... g5 $5 {Rudy} 42. Re3 Rd6
(42... Rd7 43. Qa6) 43. Qb5 gxh4 44. Qe5 hxg3+ 45. fxg3 Rd2+ (45... Kf7 46.
Qg7+ Ke8 47. Bb4 Rd2+ 48. Kg1 Rg2+ 49. Kf1 Qd1+ 50. Be1 Rc2 $17 {Komodo13
looks a bit too wild for human calculation}) 46. Kg1 Rg2+ 47. Kf1 Qd1+ 48. Be1
Kf7 49. Qc7+ Kf6 50. Qc8 Rxg3 51. Qf8+ Kg5 52. Qg8+ Kf4 53. Rxe4+ fxe4 54. Qf8+
Ke5 (54... Ke3 55. Qc5+ Kf4 56. Qf8+ {repeats}) 55. Qc5+ Kf6 56. Qf8+ Kg5 57.
Qg8+ Kh5 58. Qxg3 Qe2+ 59. Kg1 Qxb2 $19 {but still not that simple}) 42. Rc1
Kh7 43. Kg1 Qb3 44. Re1 {and Bl is winning , according to Komodo13, which,
however, seems to be unable to find a way in for Bl. Perhaps Bl needs to find
a way to play g5, then open either the h file or the g file. With Bl's greater
piece mobility this should be a possible course of action without exposing his
own K.}) 38. Kh2 Qd7 39. Re1 Rd1 {giving up a lot of advantage.} (39... Rd3)
40. Bc3 (40. Rxd1 Qxd1 (40... Bxd1 41. Qc4 h6 42. Bc3 Bf3 43. Qd4 {gets Bl
nowhere}) 41. Qxd1 Bxd1 {will be difficult to win with the opposite colour Bs})
40... Rxe1 (40... Rd3 {preserves winning chances}) 41. Qxe1 Qd1 42. Qxd1 Bxd1
43. Kg1 Bf3 44. Kf1 h6 45. Ke1 Kf7 46. Kd2 g6 47. Ke3 Ke7 (47... g5 48. hxg5
hxg5 49. Be5 {and Bl can make no progress on either side}) 48. Kf4 $11 Bg4 49.
Bb4+ Kf6 50. Bc3+ Kf7 51. Be5 Bf3 52. Bd4 Bh5 53. Ke5 g5 54. hxg5 hxg5 55. Be3
Ke7 56. Bxg5+ Kd7 57. Bf4 Bf7 58. Be3 1/2-1/2

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "5.56"]
[White "Hollyman, Mike"]
[Black "Szwajkun, Steve"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A41"]
[WhiteElo "48"]
[BlackElo "89"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "64"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,64,19,31,54,37,91,76,53,33,21,11,4,16,13,7,58,35,35,10,23,11,4,5,80,
87,85,89,95,83,83,60,80,61,84,62,102,107,113,77,107,88,85,77,84,66,62,62,90,87,
95,95,102,-15,-15,-33,-30,-28,-69,-128,-120,-146,-141,-135,-108,-1370,-2055]} 
1. d4 d6 2. Bf4 b6 {uncommon this early, though it's a wellknown theme later}
3. e3 Bb7 4. c3 (4. Nf3 {34 games}) 4... Nd7 5. Nf3 h6 (5... Ngf6 {9 games}) 6.
Bd3 e6 7. Nbd2 d5 (7... g5 {Cloud Engines- continues in Hippopotamous style})
8. Qc2 Ngf6 9. O-O-O Bd6 10. Bxd6 cxd6 11. h3 (11. Kb1) 11... Ne4 $5 {
sacrificing a pawn, but Wh remains better developed} 12. Nxe4 dxe4 13. Bxe4
Bxe4 14. Qxe4 $16 O-O 15. g4 Nf6 16. Qd3 Nd5 17. Rdg1 g6 18. g5 (18. h4) 18...
h5 19. Nh4 (19. e4 Ne7 20. Kb1 $16 {Komodo13}) 19... Ne7 20. f4 (20. Kb1 a5 21.
d5 exd5 (21... Nxd5 22. Nxg6 $18) 22. Ng2 Qd7 23. Nf4 b5 24. Nxd5 Nxd5 25. Qxd5
$16 {Komodo13}) 20... Qd7 (20... d5) 21. e4 d5 22. Rf1 (22. Re1 dxe4 23. Rxe4
Rfd8 24. Re5 $16 {Komodo13}) 22... dxe4 23. Qxe4 Nf5 (23... b5 24. Kb1 $14) 24.
Nxf5 exf5 25. Qf3 Rac8 26. Re1 $2 (26. Kb1 {it's usually wise to remove the K
or Q from the glare of a distant R. All endgames should be excellent for Wh,
who is, in effect, 2 pawns up( the 4 Bl K side pawns are held by 3 Wh ones.})
26... Qxd4 $15 27. Rd1 (27. Kb1) 27... Qa4 28. a3 {loosens the K position
further} (28. Kb1) 28... Rc4 $17 29. Rd3 (29. Rhf1) 29... Rxf4 $19 30. Qg3 Re8
31. Rhd1 h4 (31... Re2 32. R3d2 Rxd2 33. Kxd2 Re4 $19) 32. Rd8 $2 {time
pressure?} hxg3 0-1

[Event "North Wales Congress Minor"]
[Site "Llandudno"]
[Date "2019.06.23"]
[Round "4.57"]
[White "Knight, Pauly"]
[Black "Hamilton, Stuart"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "78"]
[BlackElo "73"]
[Annotator "kemen"]
[PlyCount "100"]
[EventDate "2019.??.??"]

{[%evp 0,100,29,26,28,10,23,13,87,56,72,25,46,19,19,13,0,-37,-16,-59,-43,-69,
37,-97,-94,-113,-133,-114,-112,-231,-241,-205,-120,-108,-54,-185,-217,-318,
-213,-260,-251,-251,-258,-248,-226,-301,-292,-292,-191,-219,-125,-365,-149,
-133,-79,-130,-90,-155,16,-135,-15,10,18,56,86,81,76,81,90,90,162,109,97,58,
115,93,91,49,71,-115,61,25,47,36,506,552,591,591,591,330,327,330,349,352,446,
486,500,526,566,599,663,685,1564]} 1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5.
Nbd2 Nf6 6. Bb5 (6. c3 {main}) 6... Bd7 7. Bxc6 Bxc6 8. Ne5 Bb5 (8... cxd4 9.
exd4 Be7 10. Ndf3 O-O 11. h4 Rc8 12. Qd3 Ne4 13. Ng5 h6 14. Nxe4 dxe4 15. Qe3
Bxh4 16. Bxh6 gxh6 $2 17. Qxh6 Bxf2+ {Stoot-Koerbel, Steinfurt Bezirksklasse
2013, draw agreed; yet Wh has a forced win!} 18. Kxf2 Qxd4+ 19. Ke1 Qd2+ 20.
Kxd2 Rcd8+ 21. Ke1 Rd1+ 22. Rxd1 Rd8 23. Qh8#) 9. c4 dxc4 10. Ndxc4 Nd5 11. a4
Bxc4 12. Nxc4 Nxf4 13. exf4 cxd4 $17 (13... Qxd4 $15) (13... Qd5 14. Ne3 Qxd4
$17) 14. f5 (14. Qb3 Qd5 15. Qb5+ Qxb5 16. axb5 Bc5 $15 {Komodo13}) 14... Qd5 (
14... Bb4+ 15. Kf1 O-O $19 {Komodo13}) 15. Qb3 Qe4+ 16. Kf1 Be7 (16... Qxf5 17.
Qxb7 Rd8 $17 {Komodo13}) 17. f6 {optimistic} (17. Qb5+) 17... gxf6 $19 (17...
Bxf6 $2 18. Nd6+) 18. Qg3 e5 (18... d3 19. Ne3 Rc8 20. Qf3 f5 $19 {Komodo13}) (
18... Qc2 19. b3 d3 20. Qf3 Qxb3 21. Ne3 Bc5 22. Qxf6 Rg8 $19 {Komodo13}) 19.
Qb3 Rg8 (19... Rc8) 20. f3 Qd5 21. Qb5+ Qc6 (21... Qxb5 22. axb5 Kd7 $19) 22.
Na5 Qxb5+ 23. axb5 b6 (23... O-O-O $19) 24. Nc6 d3 (24... a5 $19 {Komodo13} 25.
bxa6 Bd6 26. b4 b5 27. Kf2 Kd7 {wins the N}) 25. Ke1 Bc5 (25... Rxg2 $19) 26.
g4 Kf8 (26... Kd7 {Bl needs activity for the Rs} 27. Kd2 a6 28. Kxd3 axb5 29.
Na7 Rgd8 30. Nxb5 Kc6+ 31. Kc4 Ra5 32. Nc3 Rxa1 33. Rxa1 Rd4+ 34. Kb3 Rf4 $19 {
Komodo13}) 27. b4 Bd6 (27... Be3 $19) 28. h3 (28. Kd2 f5 29. gxf5 Rg5 30. Ra3
Rxf5 31. Rxd3 Be7 32. Ra1 Rf4 $15 {Komodo13}) 28... Kg7 (28... f5 $19 29. gxf5
(29. Kd2 e4 30. gxf5 Bf4+ 31. Kc3 exf3 32. Kxd3 Rg3 $19) 29... Rg2 30. Kf1 Rb2
$19 {Komodo13}) 29. Rg1 (29. Kd2 $11) 29... Kh8 (29... Rgc8 30. Rg2 Rxc6 31.
bxc6 Bxb4+ 32. Kf1 a5 $19 {Komodo13}) 30. Kd2 $11 e4 (30... Rg6 31. Kxd3 Rh6
32. Rh1 f5 $11 {Komodo13}) 31. fxe4 Bf4+ (31... Rg5 32. Kxd3 Rxb5 33. Kc4 Rg5
$11 {Komodo13}) 32. Kxd3 Rge8 33. Rge1 $16 Be5 34. Ra2 Rac8 35. Rf1 (35. Rxa7
$18) 35... Rc7 36. Rd1 Rd7+ 37. Ke2 Rc7 (37... Rxd1 38. Kxd1 Bd6 39. Kc2 Rxe4
40. Rxa7 Kg7 41. Rb7 Bxb4 42. Nxb4 Rxb4 43. Rxb6 $16 {the b pawn is dangerous,
with the Wh K so near to help it forward}) 38. Kf1 Kg7 39. g5 $6 (39. Rc2 $14)
(39. Rxa7 Rxa7 40. Nxa7 Bc3 $11) 39... Bc3 (39... fxg5 $17) 40. gxf6+ Bxf6 41.
Rd6 Rd8 $2 (41... Be7 42. Rd5 Bf8 43. e5 $14) 42. Nxd8 $18 Rc1+ 43. Ke2 Be7 44.
Rd1 (44. Rd7 $1) (44. e5 $1) 44... Rxd1 45. Kxd1 Bxd8 46. Rxa7 h5 47. Rd7 Bf6
48. Rd6 Bc3 49. Rxb6 Bxb4 50. Rc6 Bc3 $2 1-0

