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May 1, 2005

Report 8
By Ian Wilkinson,
President, JCF

2005 PRESIDENT INVITATIONAL ROUND 8 Games and Presidents Report

WISDOM DELIVERS A DEADLY BLOW

Jamaica’s exciting former national junior champion and Candidate Master Daren Wisdom delivered a deadly body blow to NM John Powell’s fairy tale return to local chess after an absence of approximately eleven years. Entering round 8 action on Saturday 30th April, 2005, Powell was firmly in the lead with 6.5/7 with Wisdom breathing down his neck on 6/7. Armed with the white pieces, Powell fancied his chances and after 1.e4 Wisdom replied with 1…e5 and the parties entered the potentially treacherous waters of the Giuoco Piano where a tense struggle ensued until Powell blundered with 26.d5?? dropping the hanging knight on f3 after the riposte 26…Qg4! Post-game analysis revealed that 26.Bg3 or 26.Nd2 would have held the position. Powell’s clock gave up the ghost on move 37. Wisdom has now taken the lead with 7/8, relegating Powell to third behind the veteran Humphrey Gayle also on 7/8.

Charging into fourth position is the talented junior Mikhail Solomon who continued his sensational tournament by demolishing Sidley Matthews Jr. with the white pieces in a Queen’s pawn opening to record his sixth victory, taking his score to 6/8. It is fairly safe to say that the honours in the eleven-round event will be shared among the four top players. Matthews is in 9th position on 2.5/8.

Another sensational result was recorded in yesterday’s round when young Zachary Ramsay (after going 0/7!!) played wonderfully with the white pieces in a Queen’s Gambit Declined/Semi-Slav to checkmate the defending champion Gary Hew in 57 moves and record his first win of the tournament. Although Ramsay holds up the foot of the table with 1/8 his confidence must have been done a world of good by this sparkling victory and perhaps he can finish the tournament on a high.

Lurking in the wings is the experienced campaigner Mark Bowen who helped himself to a point after Camille Casserly uncorked yet another blunder to lose a Sicilian with White. Bowen is now in 5th position on 4.5/8 while Casserly remains in second to last position in the 12-player field on 1.5/8.

Young Phillip-George Pryce lost a Queen’s pawn opening with the black pieces to Humphrey Gayle (actually played on Thursday 28th April, 2005) but remains in 6th position on a respectable 4/8.

The first game to finish in the round on Saturday was Wilkinson-Griffith, an exciting Ruy Lopez (Steinitz) which saw Wilkinson unleashing several sacrifices en route to mating Griffith in 29 moves. FM Grantel Gibbs, visiting from out of town, particularly enjoyed the display. Wilkinson, trying to salvage his tournament, is now on 3/8 and shares 7th position with Hew also on 3/8. Griffith is in tenth on 2/8.
The ninth round to be played on Sunday 1st May, 2005, will see Hew-Powell, Pryce-Ramsay, Griffith-Gayle, Matthews-Wilkinson, Bowen-Solomon and Wisdom-Casserly. The players with the white pieces are named first.

1st May, 2005
Ian Wilkinson
President,
Jamaica Chess Federation

ROUND 8 GAMES

(1) Gayle,Humphrey (1949) - Pryce,Phillip (1624) [D00]
President's Invitational, NMLS (8.1), 28.04.2005
[Wilkinson, I]

1.d4 d5 2.e3 Bf5 3.Bd3 Bxd3 4.Qxd3 Nf6 5.Qb5+ Nbd7 6.Qxb7 e5 7.dxe5 Nxe5 8.Qb5+ Qd7 9.Qxd7+ Kxd7 10.Nf3 Nc6 11.c3 Bc5 12.Nbd2 Rhe8 13.Nb3 Bb6 14.0-0 Rad8 15.Nbd4 Ne4 16.Rd1 g6 17.Nxc6 Kxc6 18.Nd4+ Kb7 19.f3 Nf6 20.Kf2 c5 21.Nc2 Kc6 22.b4 c4 23.Nd4+ Kc7 24.a4 a5 25.Ba3 Ra8 26.b5 Bxd4 27.exd4 Re6 28.Re1 Rae8 29.Rxe6 Rxe6 30.Re1 Rxe1 31.Kxe1 Nh5 32.g3 Kb6 33.Be7 Kc7 34.Kf2 Ng7 35.g4 f5 36.Bf6 Ne6 37.Be5+ Kb6 38.gxf5 gxf5 39.f4 Nf8 40.Kg3 Kb7 41.Kh4 Kb6 42.Kg5 Ne6+ 43.Kxf5 Time. 1-0

(2) Wilkinson,Ian (1780) - Griffith,Germaine (1686) [C62]
President's Invitational, NMLS (8.2), 30.04.2005
[Wilkinson, I]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 d6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 Bd7 6.Nc3 g6 7.Be3 Bg7 8.Qd2 a6 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.Bc4 Nf6 11.0-0 0-0 12.Bg5 Qe8 13.Rae1 Be6 14.Bd3 Ng4 15.f4 Bd4+ 16.Kh1 Qd7 17.h3 Nf6 18.f5 gxf5 19.Bh6 Nxe4 20.Nxe4 fxe4 21.Bxe4 Be5 22.Bxc6 Qxc6 23.Rxe5 f6 24.Rxe6 Rf7 25.Rexf6 Rxf6 26.Rxf6 Qc5 27.Qf4 Qh5 28.Rf8+ Rxf8 29.Qxf8# 1-0

(3) Powell,John (2144) - Wisdom,Daren (2054) [C50]
President's Invitational, NMLS (8.3), 30.04.2005
[Wilkinson, I]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Nc3 d6 5.d3 h6 6.a3 Bg4 7.h3 Bh5 8.g4 Bg6 9.h4 h5 10.g5 Qd7 11.Nd5 Nge7 12.Ne3 Nd8 13.c3 Ne6 14.Qb3 0-0 15.Bd2 Nf4 16.0-0-0 c6 17.Qc2 b5 18.Ba2 a5 19.Kb1 Rfb8 20.d4 exd4 21.cxd4 Bb6 22.Nf5 Nxf5 23.Bxf4 Ne7 24.Rhe1 b4 25.a4 Bc7 26.d5 Qg4 27.Bg3 Qxf3 28.Re3 Qg4 29.dxc6 Nxc6 30.Bxd6 b3 31.Bxb3 Bxd6 32.Rxd6 Nb4 33.Qc4 Rc8 34.Qd4 Qg1+ 35.Bd1 Qxf2 36.Bb3 Qf1+ 37.Qd1 Qf4 38.Time. 0-1

(4) Ramsay,Zachary (1555) - Hew,Gary (1784) [D31]
President's Invitational, NMLS (8.4), 30.04.2005
[Wilkinson, I]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.e3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bd3 Bd6 6.e4 dxe4 7.Bxe4 Nxe4 8.Nxe4 Bb4+ 9.Nc3 e5 10.d5 cxd5 11.cxd5 0-0 12.a3 Be7 13.Nf3 Bg4 14.Qd3 Nc6 15.0-0 f5 16.Qe3 Bxf3 17.Qxf3 Nd4 18.Qd1 a5 19.Be3 Bc5 20.f4 Qd6 21.fxe5 Qxe5 22.Qd3 Ne2+ 23.Qxe2 Bxe3+ 24.Kh1 Bd4 25.Qxe5 Bxe5 26.Rad1 Rad8 27.Rfe1 Rfe8 28.Re3 Kf7 29.Red3 Bd6 30.Nb5 Re2 31.Rb3 b6 32.Nd4 Re5 33.Nc6 Rde8 34.Nxe5+ Rxe5 35.Rxb6 Ke7 36.Ra6 Bc7 37.d6+ Bxd6 38.Raxd6 a4 39.R6d4 Re2 40.Rxa4 Rxb2 41.h3 g5 42.Ra6 g4 43.hxg4 fxg4 44.Rh6 g3 45.Rxh7+ Kf6 46.a4 Ra2 47.Ra7 Ke5 48.Rb1 Kd4 49.a5 Ra4 50.Rf1 Ke3 51.Re7+ Kd2 52.Ra7 Ke2 53.Rb1 Kf2 54.Rf7+ Ke2 55.Rf3 Rxa5 56.Rb2+ Kd1 57.Rf1# 1-0

(5) Solomon,Mikhail (1677) - Matthews,Jnr (1704) [E20]
President's Invitational, NMLS (8.5), 30.04.2005
[Wilkinson, I]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 h6 4.e4 c5 5.d5 d6 6.Nge2 e5 7.Ng3 Be7 8.Be2 Nh7 9.0-0 Nd7 10.Nf5 Kf8 11.f4 Ndf6 12.fxe5 dxe5 13.d6 Bxf5 14.dxe7+ Qxe7 15.Rxf5 Rd8 16.Nd5 Nxd5 17.exd5 Nf6 18.b3 b6 19.Bb2 Nd7 20.Bh5 f6 21.Qf3 Kg8 22.Rd1 Kh7 23.Qe4 Kg8 24.Bg6 Qd6 25.Rdf1 Rc8 26.Qg4 Rd8 27.R1f3 Nf8 28.Rxf6 gxf6 29.Bh5+ 1-0

(6) Casserly,Camille (1435) - Bowen,Mark (1672) [B56]
President's Invitational, NMLS (8.6), 30.04.2005
[Wilkinson, I]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.f3 e5 7.Ndb5 a6 8.Na3 b5 9.Nd5 Be6 10.c4 b4 11.Nc2 a5 12.Nce3 Nd4 13.b3 Be7 14.Bb2 Nc6 15.Be2 0-0 16.0-0 Nd7 17.Qd2 Bg5 18.f4 exf4 19.Nxf4 Nc5 20.Bd3 Qb6 21.Kh1 a4 22.Nfd5 Qa7 23.Nxb4 Nxb4 0-1

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		2005 President's Invitational Back to President's Invitational Main Page - May 1, 2005 Report 8 By Ian Wilkinson, President, JCF 2005 PRESIDENT INVITATIONAL ROUND 8 Games and Presidents Report WISDOM DELIVERS A DEADLY BLOW Jamaica’s exciting former national junior champion and Candidate Master Daren Wisdom delivered a deadly body blow to NM John Powell’s fairy tale return to local chess after an absence of approximately eleven years. Entering round 8 action on Saturday 30th April, 2005, Powell was firmly in the lead with 6.5/7 with Wisdom breathing down his neck on 6/7. Armed with the white pieces, Powell fancied his chances and after 1.e4 Wisdom replied with 1…e5 and the parties entered the potentially treacherous waters of the Giuoco Piano where a tense struggle ensued until Powell blundered with 26.d5?? dropping the hanging knight on f3 after the riposte 26…Qg4! Post-game analysis revealed that 26.Bg3 or 26.Nd2 would have held the position. Powell’s clock gave up the ghost on move 37. Wisdom has now taken the lead with 7/8, relegating Powell to third behind the veteran Humphrey Gayle also on 7/8. Charging into fourth position is the talented junior Mikhail Solomon who continued his sensational tournament by demolishing Sidley Matthews Jr. with the white pieces in a Queen’s pawn opening to record his sixth victory, taking his score to 6/8. It is fairly safe to say that the honours in the eleven-round event will be shared among the four top players. Matthews is in 9th position on 2.5/8. Another sensational result was recorded in yesterday’s round when young Zachary Ramsay (after going 0/7!!) played wonderfully with the white pieces in a Queen’s Gambit Declined/Semi-Slav to checkmate the defending champion Gary Hew in 57 moves and record his first win of the tournament. Although Ramsay holds up the foot of the table with 1/8 his confidence must have been done a world of good by this sparkling victory and perhaps he can finish the tournament on a high. Lurking in the wings is the experienced campaigner Mark Bowen who helped himself to a point after Camille Casserly uncorked yet another blunder to lose a Sicilian with White. Bowen is now in 5th position on 4.5/8 while Casserly remains in second to last position in the 12-player field on 1.5/8. Young Phillip-George Pryce lost a Queen’s pawn opening with the black pieces to Humphrey Gayle (actually played on Thursday 28th April, 2005) but remains in 6th position on a respectable 4/8. The first game to finish in the round on Saturday was Wilkinson-Griffith, an exciting Ruy Lopez (Steinitz) which saw Wilkinson unleashing several sacrifices en route to mating Griffith in 29 moves. FM Grantel Gibbs, visiting from out of town, particularly enjoyed the display. Wilkinson, trying to salvage his tournament, is now on 3/8 and shares 7th position with Hew also on 3/8. Griffith is in tenth on 2/8. The ninth round to be played on Sunday 1st May, 2005, will see Hew-Powell, Pryce-Ramsay, Griffith-Gayle, Matthews-Wilkinson, Bowen-Solomon and Wisdom-Casserly. The players with the white pieces are named first. 1st May, 2005 Ian Wilkinson President, Jamaica Chess Federation ROUND 8 GAMES (1) Gayle,Humphrey (1949) - Pryce,Phillip (1624) [D00] President's Invitational, NMLS (8.1), 28.04.2005 [Wilkinson, I] 1.d4 d5 2.e3 Bf5 3.Bd3 Bxd3 4.Qxd3 Nf6 5.Qb5+ Nbd7 6.Qxb7 e5 7.dxe5 Nxe5 8.Qb5+ Qd7 9.Qxd7+ Kxd7 10.Nf3 Nc6 11.c3 Bc5 12.Nbd2 Rhe8 13.Nb3 Bb6 14.0-0 Rad8 15.Nbd4 Ne4 16.Rd1 g6 17.Nxc6 Kxc6 18.Nd4+ Kb7 19.f3 Nf6 20.Kf2 c5 21.Nc2 Kc6 22.b4 c4 23.Nd4+ Kc7 24.a4 a5 25.Ba3 Ra8 26.b5 Bxd4 27.exd4 Re6 28.Re1 Rae8 29.Rxe6 Rxe6 30.Re1 Rxe1 31.Kxe1 Nh5 32.g3 Kb6 33.Be7 Kc7 34.Kf2 Ng7 35.g4 f5 36.Bf6 Ne6 37.Be5+ Kb6 38.gxf5 gxf5 39.f4 Nf8 40.Kg3 Kb7 41.Kh4 Kb6 42.Kg5 Ne6+ 43.Kxf5 Time. 1-0 (2) Wilkinson,Ian (1780) - Griffith,Germaine (1686) [C62] President's Invitational, NMLS (8.2), 30.04.2005 [Wilkinson, I] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 d6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 Bd7 6.Nc3 g6 7.Be3 Bg7 8.Qd2 a6 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.Bc4 Nf6 11.0-0 0-0 12.Bg5 Qe8 13.Rae1 Be6 14.Bd3 Ng4 15.f4 Bd4+ 16.Kh1 Qd7 17.h3 Nf6 18.f5 gxf5 19.Bh6 Nxe4 20.Nxe4 fxe4 21.Bxe4 Be5 22.Bxc6 Qxc6 23.Rxe5 f6 24.Rxe6 Rf7 25.Rexf6 Rxf6 26.Rxf6 Qc5 27.Qf4 Qh5 28.Rf8+ Rxf8 29.Qxf8# 1-0 (3) Powell,John (2144) - Wisdom,Daren (2054) [C50] President's Invitational, NMLS (8.3), 30.04.2005 [Wilkinson, I] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Nc3 d6 5.d3 h6 6.a3 Bg4 7.h3 Bh5 8.g4 Bg6 9.h4 h5 10.g5 Qd7 11.Nd5 Nge7 12.Ne3 Nd8 13.c3 Ne6 14.Qb3 0-0 15.Bd2 Nf4 16.0-0-0 c6 17.Qc2 b5 18.Ba2 a5 19.Kb1 Rfb8 20.d4 exd4 21.cxd4 Bb6 22.Nf5 Nxf5 23.Bxf4 Ne7 24.Rhe1 b4 25.a4 Bc7 26.d5 Qg4 27.Bg3 Qxf3 28.Re3 Qg4 29.dxc6 Nxc6 30.Bxd6 b3 31.Bxb3 Bxd6 32.Rxd6 Nb4 33.Qc4 Rc8 34.Qd4 Qg1+ 35.Bd1 Qxf2 36.Bb3 Qf1+ 37.Qd1 Qf4 38.Time. 0-1 (4) Ramsay,Zachary (1555) - Hew,Gary (1784) [D31] President's Invitational, NMLS (8.4), 30.04.2005 [Wilkinson, I] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.e3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bd3 Bd6 6.e4 dxe4 7.Bxe4 Nxe4 8.Nxe4 Bb4+ 9.Nc3 e5 10.d5 cxd5 11.cxd5 0-0 12.a3 Be7 13.Nf3 Bg4 14.Qd3 Nc6 15.0-0 f5 16.Qe3 Bxf3 17.Qxf3 Nd4 18.Qd1 a5 19.Be3 Bc5 20.f4 Qd6 21.fxe5 Qxe5 22.Qd3 Ne2+ 23.Qxe2 Bxe3+ 24.Kh1 Bd4 25.Qxe5 Bxe5 26.Rad1 Rad8 27.Rfe1 Rfe8 28.Re3 Kf7 29.Red3 Bd6 30.Nb5 Re2 31.Rb3 b6 32.Nd4 Re5 33.Nc6 Rde8 34.Nxe5+ Rxe5 35.Rxb6 Ke7 36.Ra6 Bc7 37.d6+ Bxd6 38.Raxd6 a4 39.R6d4 Re2 40.Rxa4 Rxb2 41.h3 g5 42.Ra6 g4 43.hxg4 fxg4 44.Rh6 g3 45.Rxh7+ Kf6 46.a4 Ra2 47.Ra7 Ke5 48.Rb1 Kd4 49.a5 Ra4 50.Rf1 Ke3 51.Re7+ Kd2 52.Ra7 Ke2 53.Rb1 Kf2 54.Rf7+ Ke2 55.Rf3 Rxa5 56.Rb2+ Kd1 57.Rf1# 1-0 (5) Solomon,Mikhail (1677) - Matthews,Jnr (1704) [E20] President's Invitational, NMLS (8.5), 30.04.2005 [Wilkinson, I] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 h6 4.e4 c5 5.d5 d6 6.Nge2 e5 7.Ng3 Be7 8.Be2 Nh7 9.0-0 Nd7 10.Nf5 Kf8 11.f4 Ndf6 12.fxe5 dxe5 13.d6 Bxf5 14.dxe7+ Qxe7 15.Rxf5 Rd8 16.Nd5 Nxd5 17.exd5 Nf6 18.b3 b6 19.Bb2 Nd7 20.Bh5 f6 21.Qf3 Kg8 22.Rd1 Kh7 23.Qe4 Kg8 24.Bg6 Qd6 25.Rdf1 Rc8 26.Qg4 Rd8 27.R1f3 Nf8 28.Rxf6 gxf6 29.Bh5+ 1-0 (6) Casserly,Camille (1435) - Bowen,Mark (1672) [B56] President's Invitational, NMLS (8.6), 30.04.2005 [Wilkinson, I] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.f3 e5 7.Ndb5 a6 8.Na3 b5 9.Nd5 Be6 10.c4 b4 11.Nc2 a5 12.Nce3 Nd4 13.b3 Be7 14.Bb2 Nc6 15.Be2 0-0 16.0-0 Nd7 17.Qd2 Bg5 18.f4 exf4 19.Nxf4 Nc5 20.Bd3 Qb6 21.Kh1 a4 22.Nfd5 Qa7 23.Nxb4 Nxb4 0-1
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REPORT 8

(1) Gayle,Humphrey (1949) - Pryce,Phillip (1624) [D00] President's Invitational, NMLS (8.1), 28.04.2005 [Wilkinson, I]

(2) Wilkinson,Ian (1780) - Griffith,Germaine (1686) [C62] President's Invitational, NMLS (8.2), 30.04.2005 [Wilkinson, I]

(3) Powell,John (2144) - Wisdom,Daren (2054) [C50] President's Invitational, NMLS (8.3), 30.04.2005 [Wilkinson, I]

(4) Ramsay,Zachary (1555) - Hew,Gary (1784) [D31] President's Invitational, NMLS (8.4), 30.04.2005 [Wilkinson, I]