Round 1 Results

Glickman-Slive adjourned C02: French Advance - Euwe Variation

Mac Intyre-Cherniack 1-0 C19: French Winawer - Main Line 7. a4

Williams-Riordan 0-1 D79: Gruenfeld Fianchetto - Symmetrical Variation

Chase-Martirosov adjourned B30: Sicilian Rossolimo Variation

I was sitting next to the Williams-Riordan game playing "name that opening" as the first several moves were made...

1.Nf3 Reti? 1...d5 2.g3 King's Indian Attack? 2...Nf6 3.Bg2 g6 4.O-O Bg7 5.d4 Catalan? 5...O-O 6.c4 Gruenfeld? 6...c6 Slav-Gruenfeld? 7.cxd5 cxd5 Slav-Exchange Variation? 8.Nc3 Nc6

...and somewhere along here (between moves 7-8) Chris offered a draw which Charles politely refused. According to ECO this is the Gruenfeld Fianchetto - Symmetrical Variation and it is actually topical at the Super-GM level:

[Event "Dortmund-B"]

[Site "Dortmund"]

[Date "2004.07.22"]

[Round "4"]

[White "Bologan,Viktor"]

[Black "Leko,Peter"]

[Result "1/2"]

[Eco "D79"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.g3 c6 5.Bg2 d5 6.cxd5 cxd5 7.Nc3 0-0 8.Ne5 e6 9.0-0 Nfd7 10.f4 Nc6 11.Be3 f6 12.Nd3 Nb6 13.Bf2 f5 14.Ne5 Bd7 15.g4 Qe7 16.gxf5 gxf5 17.Kh1 Kh8 18.Qd3 Bf6 19.Qh3 Rg8 20.Rad1 Rg7 21.Rd3 Rag8 22.Rg3 Be8 23.Bf3 Qf8 24.Rfg1 Be7 25.Rxg7 1/2

[Event "Dortmund-B playoff"]

[Site "Dortmund"]

[Date "2004.07.27"]

[Round "5"]

[White "Bologan,Viktor"]

[Black "Leko,Peter"]

[Result "1/2"]

[Eco "D79"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.g3 c6 5.Bg2 d5 6.cxd5 cxd5 7.Nc3 0-0 8.Ne5 e6 9.0-0 Nfd7 10.f4 Nc6 11.Be3 f6 12.Nf3 Nb6 13.b3 Bd7 14.Bc1 f5 15.Ba3 Re8 16.Qd2 Bf8 17.Bc5 Nc8 18.Bxf8 Rxf8 19.Na4 Nd6 20.Nc5 Ne4 21.Qb2 b6 22.Nd3 Qe7 23.Nfe5 Nf6 24.Rfc1 Rac8 25.e3 Rc7 26.Bf1 Rfc8 27.Nxc6 Bxc6 28.Ne5 Nd7 29.Nf3 Nf6 30.Bd3 Be8 31.Ba6 Rxc1+ 32.Rxc1 Rc7 33.Bd3 Qd8 34.b4 Qc8 35.Rxc7 Qxc7 36.b5 Bd7 37.h3 Be8 38.Kf2 Kg7 39.Ne5 Nd7 40.Nf3 Nf6 41.Ke2 Bd7 42.Ne5 Be8 43.Qa3 Ng8 44.g4 Nh6 45.gxf5 gxf5 46.Kd2 Nf7 47.Nf3 Nd6 48.Qb4 h6 49.Ne5 Nf7 50.Nf3 Nd6 51.a4 Nf7 52.Qb1 Kf8 53.Qb2 Ke7 54.Ne1 Nd6 55.Qb4 Kd8 56.Nf3 Qe7 57.Kc2 Nf7 58.Qxe7+ Kxe7 59.Kc3 Nd6 60.Kb4 Kd8 61.Ne5 Nf7 62.a5 Nxe5 63.dxe5 Ke7 64.Be2 Kd8 65.axb6 axb6 66.Kc3 Ke7 67.Kd2 Kf8 68.Ke1 Kg7 1/2