Wednesday, May 03, 2006

49th SCG Team Chess Festival

Competitions for the SCG National Cup will take place on May 1st-7th in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia. There are 19 teams in men's and 8 in women's group. Only few foreign players this time - GM Vasilios Kotronias and GM Julian Radulski (I remember watching Leko, Gelfand, Khalifman back in 1998). According to average rating, two main favorites are Novosadski Sah Klub and Partizan. Results and games in PGN can be found on the official website.

I have picked two interesting games for posting. GM Miodrag Savic delivered nice exchange sac to use light squares weakness for a deadly Nf3 check. FM Ivan Sredojevic sacrificed Bishop for attack but then got his Queen locked on g8 square.


GM Nikola Sedlak 2564 - GM Miodrag Savic 2524
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Qf6 5. Be3 Bc5 6. c3 Nge7 7. g3 d5 8. Bg2 Bxd4 9. cxd4 dxe4 10. Nc3 O-O 11. Nxe4 Qg6 12. O-O Bf5 13. Nc3 Rad8 14. Qa4 a6 15. d5 b5 16. Qh4 b4 17. Ne2 Nxd5 18. Bxd5 Rxd5 19. Nf4 Qd6 20. Nxd5 Qxd5 21. Rfd1 Bd3 22. Qg5 f5 23. Rxd3 Qxd3 24. Qf4 Qd5 25. Rc1 Ne5 26. Rc5 Nf3+ 27. Kh1 Qd1+ 28. Kg2 Ne1+ 29. Kh3 Qh5+ 30. Qh4 Qf3 31. Qc4+ Kh8 0-1


FM Ivan Sredojevic 2369 - IM Nikola Ostojic 2412
1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd8 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 c6 6. Bc4 b5 7. Bb3 e6 8. O-O Nbd7 9. Re1 Be7 10. Qe2 a5 11. a3 Ba6 12. Bxe6 fxe6 13. Qxe6 Bb7 14. Ng5 Rf8 15. Nce4 Nxe4 16. Nxe4 Rf6 17. Qg8+ Nf8 18. Bg5 Rf7 19. Nc5 Bc8 20. Re3 Ra7 21. Nd3 Qd5 22. Re5 Qc4 23. Rae1 Qxc2 24. R5e3 Be6 25. Rc1 Qxd3 26. Rxd3 Bxg5 27. Rxc6 Rfe7 28. Rxe6 Rxe6 29. f4 Bxf4 30. Rf3 Rf7 31. Kf1 Ree7 32. d5 Bxh2 33. Rxf7 Rxf7+ 34. Ke2 Bd6 35. Kd3 h6 36. a4 bxa4 37. Kc4 Rb7 38. Kd4 Rb4+ 39. Ke3 Rg4 40. Kf2 Ke7 41. Kf3 Rg3+ 42. Kf2 Kf6 0-1


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