Faroese Beauty Game

One of my most loyal readers, Jaspur Gaard from Faroe Islands, who is with me since the very first post, has sent me a game that was played on the last year Faroese Championship. How can I not publish it? :-) I would also like to encourage other regular readers to send me their games and stuff. There is this "Email me" button on the right :-)

I am posting the original article. No changes have been made. Thanks J!



Faroese Championship 2005 - The Beauty Game

Besides winning the championship, which was held during Easter in Oyrabakka last year, his dream gets fulfilled, it's been decided that he too should take home the "beauty trophy".

The chosen game was between Carl Eli Nolsøe Samuelsen and Torkil Nielsen in the ninth and final round of the championship.

Torkil is a previous Faroese champion and he was majestic in club tournaments that year, even of his lack of international experience (compared to the other contestants), he was look at as a good bet on the next champion.

White: Carl Eli Nolsøe Samuelsen VT 2263

Black: Torkil Nielsen ST 2097

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 (Torkil is known for playing the same sort of openings in every game, this helped Carl Eli to properly choose a satisfying opening) 3. d4 (And he chose the Scottish) exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nxc6 bxc6 6. e5 Qe7 7. Qe2 Nd5 8. c4 Ba6 9. b3 Nb6 10. Bb2 Qe6 (He could possibly play something like d6, d5 or 0-0-0 instead) 11. a3 Be7 12. f4 O-O-O 13. Qc2 (This leaves the opportunity for 13...Qg4. But possible after that is 14. Qf2, which does look playable) ... Bb7 14. Bd3 Kb8 15. O-O (Now the king is safe and the attack can start develop) ... f6 16. Nd2 fxe5 17. Rae1 (Seems logical to get the rook in play like this) Rhf8 (Probably the first mistake by Torkil, looks like a very odd position to put the rook) 18. Bxe5 Qf7 19. Bxh7 (Well, why not ? :) .. Another possibility is c5 to try and tighten the bishops a bit more, but then again, his knight will be more mobile) ... Bxa3 20. Bg6 Bc5+ 21. Kh1 Qg8 22. Qc3 Bd6 (Now his mind went thinking, he probably took more time here than in any other game of the tournament, but then again the title was on the line and Martin Poulsen was actually in a very strong position against Rana Nolsøe) 23. Bxd6 cxd6 24. Ne4 d5 25. Qe5+ Ka8 26. Ra1 (The knight is screwed because of: 26...dxe4 27.Rxa7+ Kxa7 28.Ra1+ Ba6 29.Qc7+ Ka8 30.Rxa6++) ... a6 (Rc8 was probably best, but black's position looks hopeless now). 27. Qc7 (Now it's all done for black, to many treats and little to do) ... Nxc4 28.Rxa6+ (Black will be mated after 28. Bxa6 29.Ra1) 1-0



This was a very vital game, as it secured Carl Eli a rematch against Martin Poulsen (double reigning champion and looking for a hat trick - besides a very good friend of mine) as they both shared equal points after this game. Carl Eli eventually went on the clinch the title in an almost equally good 3 game session between the two.

I can mention that the "wonder boy" Helgi D. Ziska went up 179 rating points in this tournament on a shared 3rd position! His most recent tournament was in the Hastings Masters 05 - 06 where he finished with a very respectable 5½ / 10 putting him on a shared 25th position out of 50, but more importantly he broke through the 2200 mark this time.