First Saturday 2012-12 FMA

Here is a nice positional game from Farkas,Richard from the recent First Saturday this month. Farkas shared first in the tournament with Bohus,Adam with 6.5/9.

Rk.		Name	Rtg	FED	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Pts.
1		Bohus Adam	1819	HUN	*	½	1	½	½	½	1	+	½	1	6.5
2		Farkas Richard	2115	HUN	½	*	½	½	1	1	½	½	1	1	6.5
3		Juracsik Jozsef	2145	HUN	0	½	*	½	1	1	1	½	1	½	6
4		Grimm Gyorgy	2043	HUN	½	½	½	*	½	½	½	1	1	1	6
5		Montolio Benedicto Cesar	1962	ESP	½	0	0	½	*	1	0	½	1	1	4.5
6		Lukacs Albert	1858	HUN	½	0	0	½	0	*	1	1	½	1	4.5
7	FM	Mayer Istvan	2058	HUN	0	½	0	½	1	0	*	1	½	½	4
8		Kuehn Matthias	1958	GER	-	½	½	0	½	0	0	*	1	1	3.5
9		Marcu Simon	1909	SVK	½	0	0	0	0	½	½	0	*	1	2.5
10		Brassoi Tarnovszki A	0	HUN	0	0	½	0	0	0	½	0	0	*	1

Farkas is a regular in the FMA group of First Saturday playing practically every month. Usually the FMA group has around 2/3 of the participants over 2000. Here are the rating distributions for the 2012 FMA tournaments. (See FS website for price info Firstsaturday Programme_2012_2013 Prices)

	UNR	U1800	1800-1999	2000-2199	2200+	Total
Feb			2	8		10
Feb			6	3	1	10
Mar	2	1	2	6		11
Apr	1		2	3		6
May			2	9		11
Jun			3	7		10
Jul	1		2	6	1	10
Jul			3	3		6
Aug			4	8		12
Sept		1	4	6	1	12
Oct			3	6	1	10
Oct			4	5	1	10
Nov				5	1	6
Dec	1		5	4		10
	5	2	42	79	6	134

Farkas,R (2115) - Montolio Benedicto,C (1962)
King’s Indian Classical 6.h3[E90]
FSFMA December 2012 Budapest HUN (5.3), 06.12.2012

Position 1
The king's are on opposite sides for a sharp game. What do you suggest for black?

Black to Play

12.0-0-0

Position 2
Black has just offered a queen trade with 24..Qb5. What do you suggest for white?
-Middlegame kill with queens on
-Endgame squeeze with a queen trade

White to Play

24...Qb5

First Saturday FM 2012 Rd10 Final Standings

FMB
Top rated Nemeth, Otto took clear first with 8/10. Engelbrecht, Imre Dr. was second with 7/10 while the remaining players finished in approximate order of rating.

Rk.		Name	Rtg	FED	1	2	3	4	5	6	Pts.
1		Nemeth Otto	1781	HUN	***	0 1	0 1	1 1	1 1	1 1	8
2		Engelbrecht Imre Dr.	1640	HUN	1 0	***	0 1	½ 1	1 1	½ 1	7
3		Mihajlova Diana	1479	ENG	1 0	1 0	***	½ 1	1 1	0 1	6.5
4		Bella Zsolt	1401	HUN	0 0	½ 0	½ 0	***	0 ½	1 +	3.5
5		Czipp Janos	1445	HUN	0 0	0 0	0 0	1 ½	***	1 1	3.5
6		Dickel Hans	0	GER	0 0	½ 0	1 0	0 -	0 0	***	1.5

Hurricane Diana

Here is another attacking game from First Saturday, November FM-C, played by Mihajlova,D(ENG).

Mihajlova,Diana(ENG)

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Enjoy the game and beware of nice ladies with rabbits.

Mihajlova,D (1445) - Szalay,T (1804)
Sicilian Classical[B68]
FSFMC Nov 2012 Budapest HUN (8.3), 11.11.2012
This is an old fashsioned king-hunt.

Critical Position 1
Black has just played ...Rc4. What's next?

White to Play

Critical Position 2
Black's king has found some temporary shelter. What should white do now?

White to Play

Mihajlova,D at FS FMC 2012-11

Here is a game by Diana Mihajlova(ENG) who currently makes her home in Budapest. The game was played in the just finished First Saturday November RRs

FS FMC 2012-11
Nemeth Otto took clear first with 7.5/10. Local favorite Mihajlova turned in a strong performance with 6/10.

Final Ranking crosstable after 10 Rounds
Rk. Name                      Rtg FED     1 2 3 4 5 6                         Pts.
1 Nemeth Otto             1790 HUN *** 0 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1     7.5
2 Mihajlova Diana        1445 ENG 1 0 *** 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1         6
3 Merk Andras            1498 HUN 1 0 1 1 *** 0 0 - ½ 1 1       5.5
4 Schmidt Wolfgang     1390 GER ½ 0 1 0 1 1 *** 0 1 ½ 0     5
5 Szalay Tibor             1804 HUN 0 0 0 0 - ½ 1 0 *** 1 1     3.5
6 Szabo Miklos Istvan 1342 HUN 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 0 ***     1.5


'Diana Mihajlova is a chess player and artist who has been exhibiting internationally (under the name Yana Mitra) since 1988. She was born in Macedonia (former Yugoslavia). A linguist by profession she started her working career as a university lecturer, which took her to extensive studying and working sojourns in various countries around the world.

In 1989 after finishing a three-year lecturing contract in Perth, Australia, she decided to abandon her academic career and to dedicate herself to a full-time painting while still free-lancing in the languages field. She first started exhibiting while still in Australia where after winning some important national art prizes her work received a quick recognition and was included in important exhibitions and collections.'
- Chessbase.com

Diana Mihajlova

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Mihajlova,D (1445) - Nemeth,O (1790) [B64]
FSFMC Nov 2012 Budapest HUN (5.3), 08.11.2012
White is trying a kingside attack. How should white continue? It's not so easy as Houdini2.0 proposes a counter-intuitive plan.

White to Play

Farkas,R(2112) in FSFMA 2012-10

Al Hajeri,B(KUW-1978) managed to beat both Koczo,K and Farkas,R in the same tournament so I had to see how as I have recently lost to both these strong local players.

Pic and info from Kuwaitchess.net

• Name: Bader Al Hajeri (currently the top player of Kuwait)
• Age: 39
• Favorite White Opening: 1. e4!
• Favorite Black Opening: Petrof Defence and the Slav defence 

Farkas,R had been taking some risks to get winning chances against a tough Petroff Defence. Black has just attacked the queen with  20..Nd4 and is taking over the game. What should white do with the queen?

 

White to play