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CHESS COLUMN BY GRANDMASTER RAY KEENE OBE

The 2020 Gibraltar Masters held at the Caleta Hotel in Catalan Bay over January resulted in yet another huge success for the visionary triumvirate of Organisers: Brian Callaghan OBE, Franco Ostuni and tournament Director Grandmaster Stuart Conquest.

The winner was the young Russian David Paravyan , who won £30,000 and who will be seen in action in this month’s puzzle. The sensation of the tournament was however the fourteen year old Indian prodigy Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa who wins this Month’s game against the strong Bulgarian Grandmaster and former World Chess Federation champion Vesselin Topalov. Qc7 when Black has some counterplay.

11.Nxd4 Nxd4 12.Bxd4 Nb8 13.Bf2 Ba6 14.Bxa6 Nxa6 15.f5 exf5 Again the former champion errs. By capturing on f5 Black weakens his central defences . Instead the experienced Grandmaster should fight back with the more complicated variation: 15...Nc7 16.g4 f6 17.exf6 Bxf6 18.Bg3 Rc8 19.Rae1 Bh4

16.Nxd5 Nb4 17.c4 Rc8 18.a3 Also good is 18.b3 Re8 19.Rae1 g6 20.h3 b5 21.e6 Nxd5 22.cxd5 fxe6 with advantage to White . The more active text sets a long range trap.

18...Nc6 19.Rfe1 Bc5 20.b4 Bxf2+ 21.Qxf2 Qd7 22.Qh4 Qd8 23.Nf6+ A beautiful sacrifice which devastates the black defences.

The Gibraltar Masters is also celebrated for its promotion of female chess and this year the women’s laurels went to Tan Zhongyi of China who picked up a munificent £20,000 in prize money.

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 The French Defence came as a surprise to the young prodigy who , as he admitted after the game, was very much on his own in the opening.

3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.Nf3 Be7 7.Be3 b6 8.Qd2 Nc6 9.Be2 O-O 10.O-O cxd4 The text mistakenly permits White to establish a central blockade. Better is 10...Bb7 11.Nd1 cxd4 12.Nxd4 Nc5 13.Nxc6 Bxc6 14.c3

23...gxf6 Topalov had probably overlooked White’s coming intermezzo.

24.Rad1 Nxe5 If Black moves his queen then white will continue with exf6 and a rook lift to the third rank after which Black has no way to ward off White’s Kingside onslaught.

25.Rxd8 Rfxd8 26.Qxf6 Ng6 27.h4 h5 28.Rf1 f4 29.g4 Rd3 30.gxh5 Rg3+ 31.Kf2 Nxh4 32.Qxh4 Rxc4 33.Re1 and faced with an enormous material disparity, Black resigned.

PUZZLE White to play and win

A position by the winner. How does White score the knockout blow?

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