33rd Open Andorra (2)

In the first round of 33^rd Andorra Open , I played Smyslov’s variaton in Grunfeld’s defense and everything went well – I was hoping to reach a draw comfortably and peacefully.

I saw that he couldn’t write my name on score-sheet properly: instead Crnkovic, he wrote “xxxCNTcccc”. I thought it was fucking vane and  cocky for a man who is wearing Olimpiakos shirt and has a name “Jerez Perez etc, something”, like Prezzos in Serbian Pereca Zeka Peka. Next to him there was sitting an old man, Pampliage was his name, and this player was expelling strange voices through his larynx, like sqeaking old dog who is about to die. In between those sqeaking sounds, he talked to himself like a netriloquist. Probably an obstructive bronchitis, which will bring him death in a few years, in nice state hospital with well paid nurses who won’t hate their patients too much.

I missed several opportunities for a draw in this first Round and I lost. After the game Jerez Perez and I analyzed the game. He turned out to be sympatico and cool guy. Which isn’t ofen the case with chess players. They are usually freaks, even when they win let alone when they are sore losers. He told me that he was terriffied by the noise that sqeaking man next to him had expelled all the time. We agreed that I missed a draw with Bc2…

 Jerez Perez

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. Bd2 O-O 7. Rc1 Nb6 8. e3 Nc6 9. Bb5 

I wanted to play Karpov's move 9. Bg5 from his blitz games but I simply forgot my preparations.

9. ...Bd7 10. O-O a6 11. Be2 Bf5 

Not so god novelty. 12. ...e5 is more challenging, and Gaponenko won one important game in this variation.

12. h3 e5 13. e4 exd4 14. exf5 dxc3 15. Bxc3 Bxc3 16. Rxc3 Qxd1 17. Rxd1 Rfe8

Not the best move.

  18. Bd3 

Neither is this.

18....Rad8 19. fxg6 hxg6 20. Re1? Rxe1+ 21. Nxe1 Na4 22. Rc1 Nb4 23. Bc2 

Blunder

23...Nxb2 24. Rb1 Nxc2 25. Nxc2 Rd1+ 

I missed this.

26. Rxd1 Nxd1 27. Kf1 Kf8 28. Ke1 Nc3 29. a3 Kc5 30. Kd2 Nd5 31. g3 c5 321. Kd3 b5 33. Ke4 Ke6 34. g4 g5 35. h4 gxh4 36. f4 a5 37. g5 h3 38. f5+ Kd6 39. Kf3 Ke5 40. g6 fxg6 41. fxg6 Ne7 42.g7 b4 43. Ne3 b3 44. Nc4+ Kd5 45. Ne3+ Ke6 46. Kf4 b2 47. Nf5 

A-ha, did I get away?

47...Ng8 Nop. 0:1