TWIC 969(HUN) INDEX-June 3 2013

Introduction
TWIC is the work of Mark Crowther

Salento Open 2013:Gallery
GM Horvath, Cs took clear first with 7.5/9. WGM Rudolf,Anna finished with 5.5/9.

'E’ il GM Csaba Horvath il vincitore del 2° Open internazionale del Salento che si è tenuto all’Ecoresort” Le Sirene” di Gallipoli, in Puglia.

GM Csaba Horvath

In avvio il GM di origini russe Oleg Korneev, favorito e top del tabellone, sembrava poter facilmente dominare il torneo, specie dopo aver sconftto il campione del Kuwati Bader Al Hajiri.

Kuwati Champion-Al Hajiri,Bader 

Ma nel giorno del faticoso doppio turno, il campione russo ha subìto una doppia patta, prima contro l’IM di casa Pierluigi Piscopo, poi contro la campionessa indiana WGM Tania Sachdev, così l’ungherese ne ha approfittato conquistando la testa della classifica che non ha più perduto fino alla fine.
Il campione, quindi, è lui.'

WGM Rudolf,Anna(r)

WGM Rudolf,Anna

Pos	Pts		NAME	Rtg
1	7.5	GM	Horvath Csaba	2516
2	7	GM	Korneev Oleg	2630
3	6.5	IM	Piscopo Pierluigi	2393
4	6.5	IM	Sachdev Tania	2408
5	6.5	GM	Naumkin Igor	2453
6	5.5	WGM	Rudolf Anna	2289
7	5.5	IM	Valsecchi Alessio	2429
8	5.5	FM	Ortega Ruiz Jose Miguel	2346
9	5.5	--	Quaranta Cristiano	2172
10	5.5	--	Caruso Augusto	2272
11	5.5	--	Schmitz Andreas Arnold	2059
12	5	--	Messina Roberta	1998
13	5	--	Callier Christophe	2102
14	5	--	Shehab Ibrahim	1987
15	5	--	Ranfagni Stefano	1994
16	5	--	Chernukhin Alexander	2091
17	5	--	De Giorgi Stefano	2102
18	4.5	--	Al-Hajiri Bader	2019
19	4.5	WFM	Vargas Gabriela	2057
20	4.5	WFM	Gutierrez Leonela	2090
21	4.5	--	Al-Hamlan Faisal	1968
22	4.5	--	Mastrolonardo Francesco	1912
23	4.5	--	Fasiello Andrea	1988
24	4.5	--	Agrifoglio Fabio	1965
25	4.5	--	Minerba Paolo	1874

French Top 12 2013
GM Rapport overpowered everyone, winning all five games. GM Szabo,K 2.5/5.

43rd Open A Bosna 2013
Papp,Ga 3.5/4
Erdos,V 3/4
Banusz,T 3/4

6th Mayors Cup 2013
Fodor,T jr 5/8
Hoang Thanh Trang 5/8

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1	GM	Mchedlishvili Mikheil	GEO	2645	6.5
2	GM	Pantsulaia Levan	GEO	2563	6.5
3	GM	Petrosian Davit G.	ARM	2436	6
4	GM	Babujian Levon	ARM	2488	6
5	GM	Zubarev Alexander	UKR	2559	6
6	GM	Andriasian Zaven	ARM	2608	6
7	GM	Papin Vasily	RUS	2552	6
8	GM	Amonatov Farrukh	TJK	2616	6
9		Kathmale Sameer	IND	2325	6
10	IM	Ravichandran Siddharth	IND	2361	6
11	IM	Karthikeyan Murali	IND	2435	5.5
12	GM	Malakhatko Vadim	BEL	2552	5.5
13	IM	Rajesh V A V	IND	2343	5.5
14	IM	Swayams Mishra	IND	2406	5.5
15	GM	Timoshenko Georgy	UKR	2522	5.5
16	GM	Gagunashvili Merab	GEO	2592	5.5
17	IM	Ankit R. Rajpara	IND	2428	5.5
18	GM	Akshayraj Kore	IND	2508	5.5
19	GM	Laxman R.R.	IND	2429	5.5
20	IM	Sangma Rahul	IND	2382	5
21	IM	Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R	IND	2352	5
22	IM	Udeshi Aditya	IND	2416	5
23	IM	Karthikeyan P.	IND	2415	5
24		Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan	IND	2396	5
25	GM	Vaibhav Suri	IND	2535	5
26	GM	Hossain Enamul	BAN	2487	5
27	GM	Fodor Tamas Jr.	HUN	2475	5
28	IM	Thejkumar M. S.	IND	2406	5
29	GM	Ziatdinov Raset	USA	2348	5
30	IM	Shivananda B.S.	IND	2382	5
31	IM	Prasanna Raghuram Rao	IND	2419	5
32	IM	Baghdasaryan Vahe	ARM	2387	5
33	GM	Hoang Thanh Trang	HUN	2476	5
34	GM	Harutjunyan Gevorg	ARM	2455	5
35	GM	Kunte Abhijit	IND	2507	5
36		Yohan J.	IND	2120	5
37		Vignesh Nr	IND	2229	5

Mitropa Cup 2013
Horvath,Ad
Horvath,Jo
Varga, Z
Czebe,A
Juhasz, Kr

Mitropa Cup 2013(w)
Varga,Kl
Juhasz Ba

Salento Open 2013 Rd1-GM Horvath Cs(HUN)

More on Salento
The feature game was played in the Salento Open. Here is more on Salento.

TWIC 968
GM Horvath kept improving his position as white lost control of the position early and kept losing time with poor piece placement.

Dedijer,S (2018) - Horvath,Cs (2516)
QP 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.g3 cxd4 4.Nxd4 [A46]
2nd Salento Open Gallipoli ITA (1), 25.05.2013

Position 1

The position looks innocuous but white wants to plan a knight on c5. What do you recommend for black?

Black to Play

12.Ne4

Italian Teams 2013 Bratto ITA (6) 2013-GM Horvath,CS(HUN)

More Bratto Chess
The feature game was won by Hungarian GM Csaba Horvath and was played in Bratto as part of the Italian TCh.



More about Horvath
Hungarian Grandmaster (1993). International Arbiter. 
Hungary Champion 1997. 

GM Horvath,Csaba

Winner of Budapest 1990, St Ingbert 1991, Budapest 1992, Forli Open 1997, Ambassador Open and Helsinki 2001, First Saturday 2002, Cvitanovic Memorial and Zalakaros Open (joint) in 2004, Val Thorens and Chamberry GM in 2005 and Capablanca Open in 2007. 
A participant in 2 Olympiads in 1990 and 1998.

TWIC 965
Here is the feature game. GM Horvath meticulously consolidated an extra P in a technical ending.

Djuric,S (2471) - Horvath,Cs (2515)
Sicilian 2…e6 3.Nc3 a6 4.g3 b5 [B40]
45th Italian Teams 2013 Bratto ITA (6), 30.04.2013

Position 1
Black has a P+ and in the process of consolidating the advantage. What do you recommend for black?

Black to Play

44.Nc4

Greatest 501 Puzzles-GM Horvath Csaba(HUN)

Greatest 501 Puzzles-GM Horvath Csaba(Chess Evolution 2012)
My tactical play has been suffering lately so I invested in this book.

The positions are divided by difficulty but not by theme making it good for training. Overall a nice effort by GM Horvath-see his nice website too.

GM Horvath Csaba

Horvath played on the Olympiad Team in Dresden 2008.



Here is #153 from the Medium level section.

White to Play and Win

Something Different From Chess Evolution

Adriatico Open 2013-GM Horvath, Cs(HUN)

TWIC 956
Black has a wide array of aggressive yet non-main line defences to choose from. The Blumenfeld Gambit is one of them. GM Horvath takes the offered pawn and calls the bluff after which black's position collapses quickly after choosing a faulty over aggressive plan.

Horvath,Cs1 (2514) - Lantini,M (2128) 
Blumenfeld Gambit 7.e3[E10]
2nd Adriatico Open A Montesilvano ITA (2.1), 02.03.2013

Position 1

Black's center is the compensation for the pawn while white has a passed-a-pawn and two menacing looking bishops. What do you suggest for white now?

White to Play

15...Nd7

This is the kind of routine GM vs non-GM win that will pass unnoticed, but has a mysterious effortless air to it. There are two major things to notice about this game.

(1)Black's formation against the London System is effective. The ..Nd7/Ne7!? development allow black to hunt Bf4 with a quick ...e5 and ..Nf5
(2)The endgame method used to exploit the bishop pair and compromised pawn structure.

Scipioni,G (2041) - Horvath,Cs (2514)
London System vs Averbakh[A40]
2nd Adriatico Open A Montesilvano ITA (1.1), 01.03.2013

Position 1

Black has many imbalances to work with in the ending.

• The strong Bd4
• The bishop pair
• Active rooks
• Better structure

What do you suggest for black now?

Black to Play

28.Kd2

Here is a recent attacking effort(TWIC 952) from the TCh-HUN.

Horvath,Cs1 (2526) - Konnyu,J (2328)

King’s Indian Averbakh 6…Na6[E73]

TCh-HUN 2012–13 Budapest HUN (6), 27.01.2013

Position 1
White is all set up to attack the kingside. What do you suggest for white?

White to Play

22..Qd7