Simultaneous Exhibition with Chris Ward – 14.5.14
The evening started at 19.45 and finished at 22.00. The event saw former British champion Grand Master Chris Ward play 15 of our members and guests. At the end of the evening, Chris finished up with 14 wins and 1 draw. The best result of the evening fittingly went to David Helps who organised the event and managed a very credible draw against Chris. Those playing were :-
- Lee Brockwell
- Don Chapman
- Chris Cheeseman
- Henry Cove
- Stan De Souza
- David Gilbert
- Ken Grist
- David Helps
- Jack Hollands
- Mark Lenette
- Bob Mitchell
- Andrew Parkin
- Stephen Parkin
- Gary Sharp
- Keith Thompson
The first to concede defeat was Jack at 21.00 then nine minutes later David Gilbert at 21.09; we all started to capitulate one by one at regular intervals, thereafter. The last three to finish were Keith Thompson at 21.52. David Helps an agreed draw at 21.55 and Lee Brockwell at 21.56. Those games are listed below.
Game 1
PGN Notation:
[pgn height=400 layout=horizontal autoplayMode=none] [Event "Simultaneous"] [Site "?"] [Date "2014.05.14"] [Round "?"] [White "Ward GM, Chris"] [Black "Brockwell, Lee"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C02"] [WhiteElo "236"] [Annotator "Brockwell,Lee"] [PlyCount "77"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. Be2 Bd7 7. O-O Nh6 8. Na3 cxd4 9. cxd4 Bxa3 10. bxa3 Nf5 11. Be3 Nxe3 12. fxe3 h6 13. Rb1 Qc7 14. Qe1 O-O 15. Qg3 Ne7 16. Rfc1 Bc6 17. Bd3 Qa5 18. Rb3 Rac8 19. h4 a6 20. Rc5 b5 21. Nh2 {I'm quite happy with my position here and took the view it was at least equal. Fritz tends to agree.} Nf5 {NG4 has always looked dangerous for white and was always the plan after he played QG3 and I felt compelled to play something which kept this at bay.} 22. Bxf5 exf5 23. Nf3 Bd7 24. Qe1 Qxe1+ 25. Nxe1 Rxc5 26. dxc5 Re8 27. Nf3 {This next move loses a fairly even game} Be6 28. Nd4 g5 29. hxg5 hxg5 30. a4 Bc8 $4 {This moves give white a passed pawn.} (30... bxa4 31. Rb4 f4 32. exf4 gxf4 33. Rxa4 Bc8 {and back is still in with a chance.}) 31. axb5 axb5 32. Rxb5 Rxe5 33. Rb8 Re8 34. Nxf5 Rf8 35. Rxc8 Rxc8 36. Ne7+ Kf8 37. Nxc8 Ke8 38. Nd6+ Ke7 39. a4 1-0 [/pgn]
Game 2
PGN Notation:
[pgn height=400 layout=horizontal autoplayMode=none] [Event "GM C Ward Simultaneous"] [Site "Sidcup"] [Date "2014.05.14"] [Round "?"] [White "Ward GM, Chris"] [Black "Helps, David"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "D90"] [Annotator "Thompson,Keith"] [PlyCount "86"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] {David tried a Gruenfeld defence but a spanner was thrown in the works early on as white advanced his pawn down the h file. Fortunately David managed to swap off queens and some of the minor pieces reducing the tempo of the attack. The end-game arrived with David a pawn down but with the bishops on opposite colour squares and the remaining pawns grid-locked there was no way for white to take advantage and the draw was inevitable.} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. h4 O-O 6. cxd5 Nxd5 7. h5 c5 8. hxg6 fxg6 9. Qb3 e6 10. Nxd5 Qxd5 11. e3 Qxb3 12. axb3 cxd4 13. Nxd4 Bxd4 14. exd4 Nc6 15. Be3 Nb4 16. Rc1 Nd5 17. Bc4 Rf7 18. Rh4 Bd7 19. Re4 b5 20. Bxd5 exd5 21. Re5 Rc8 22. Rxc8+ Bxc8 23. Rxd5 a6 24. Rd8+ Rf8 25. Rd6 Kf7 26. Kd2 Ke7 27. Rc6 Kd7 28. Rc5 Rf5 29. Rc1 h5 30. g3 Bb7 31. f4 Bd5 32. Kc3 Kc6 33. Kb4+ Kb6 34. Rc8 a5+ 35. Kc3 b4+ 36. Kc2 Be4+ 37. Kd2 Rf6 38. d5+ Kb7 39. Rc5 Rd6 40. Rxa5 Rxd5+ 41. Rxd5 Bxd5 42. Bc5 Bxb3 43. Bxb4 Kc6 1/2-1/2 [/pgn]
PGN Notation:
[pgn height=400 layout=horizontal autoplayMode=none]
[Event "Simultaneous"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2014.05.15"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Ward GM, Chris"]
[Black "Thompson, Keith"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D10"]
[Annotator "Thompson,Keith"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "2014.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.07.14"]
{Black got off to a very bad start playing an unknown to him Slav Defence and was
2 pawns down after move 10 but did have some compensation as it opened up files for
his rooks but was always trying to equalize and get his pawns back which is a tall
order against a Grand Master} 1. d4 c6 2. c4 d5 3. Nc3 Bf5 4. cxd5 cxd5 5. Qb3 Nc6
6. e3 Nf6 7. Qxb7 Na5 (7... Bd7 {was the correct move.}) 8. Bb5+ Bd7 9. Bxd7+ Nxd7
10. Qxd5 e6 11. Qe4 Be7 12. Nf3 O-O 13. O-O Nf6 14. Qc2 Rc8 15. Bd2 Nc4 16. Ne5 Nxe5
17. dxe5 Nd5 18. Qe4 {The queen controls the whole of the board from here} Bb4
19. Nxd5 Bxd2 20. Nf4 Qc7 21. Rfd1 Rfd8 22. Ne2 Qc4 $2 23. Qxc4 Rxc4 24. Ng3 Rc2
25. Rab1 Rdc8 26. Ne4 Ba5 27. b4 Bd8 28. a4 Kf8 29. g3 Ke7 30. Nc5 Rc7 31. a5 h6
32. Rdc1 Rd2 33. b5 g5 $4 (33... Rd5 { and black would have stood a chance to prolong the game.}
34. Nb3 Rxb5 35. Nd4 Rxc1+ {giving white a slight advantage} ({not} 35... Rxe5
36. Rxc7+ Bxc7 37. Nc6+)) 34. b6 axb6 35. axb6 Rc8 36. b7 Rb8 37. Na6 1-0
[/pgn]
Our thanks go to the organiser David for organising the event and Chris for playing us all and making it a most enjoyable evening.
Also our thanks go to Cliff Gregory who organised tea and coffee for us all during the evening. If anyone who played in the simultaneous would like to see their games on the site please e-mail to keith@ktcharnock.co.uk - a photo of the games sheet would do.
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Keith Thompson