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    This summary provides the essential information from the document in 3 sentences: The document reports on several chess games from recent tournaments in Sweden, France, Canada and Africa. It analyzes the key moves and decisions in each game that led one player to gain an advantage or win. The games demonstrate tactical traps that arose from seemingly normal opening moves, as well as strategic weaknesses that were exploited, such as dark square deficiencies in the Sicilian. The document concludes with a game from the Open in Condom, France where a queen was trapped on the kingside after some maneuvering of major pieces.

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    This summary provides the essential information from the document in 3 sentences: The document reports on several chess games from recent tournaments in Sweden, France, Canada and Africa. It analyzes the key moves and decisions in each game that led one player to gain an advantage or win. The games demonstrate tactical traps that arose from seemingly normal opening moves, as well as strategic weaknesses that were exploited, such as dark square deficiencies in the Sicilian. The document concludes with a game from the Open in Condom, France where a queen was trapped on the kingside after some maneuvering of major pieces.

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    Openshut No8

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    Open and Shut

    By Shaun Press
    A multicultural collection of games this month, with Swedes, Africans, some wacky Canadians before ending up in the French town of Condom. Olsson,A (2426) - Brynell,S (2459) [C08] ch-SWE Gothenburg SWE (5), 14.07.2004 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.Ngf3 a6 5.exd5 exd5 6.dxc5 Bxc5 7.Nb3 Bb6 8.Be2 [8.Bg5 Nf6 is a common sequence in this opening, but White waits to see where the bishop is best placed to go.] 8...Nf6 9.00 00 10.Nfd4 Nc6 11.c3 Re8 12.Re1 Qd6 13.g3?! It is not entirely clear what White is afraid of here. 13...Bh3 14.Be3 Ne5 15.Qc2 Nfg4 16.Bf4 Qf6 17.Bd3? Giving Black enough tempii to finish the attack. 17...Nxd3 18.Qxd3 g5 19.Be3 [19.f3 was the only way to hang on 19...gxf4 20.fxg4 Bxg4] Hamdouchi,H (2556) - Dimitrov,C (2230) [B45] GP CG de l'Heralt Montpellier FRA (1), 05.07.2004 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 e6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Qb6 6.Ndb5 Bc5 English IM Michael Basman tried to champion the e6/Bc5 Sicilian systems in the 70's but as this game shows, the dark square weaknesses are too much for Black to bear. 7.Qd2 a6

    8.Na4! Bxf2+? Black has only one shot in his locker and decides to fire it. [but 8...Qd8 9.Nxc5 axb5 10.Qc3 limited the damage to a single pawn.] 9.Kd1 Now too many things are en pris. 9...Qa5 10.Nd6+ Ke7 11.Qxf2 Kxd6 12.Nb6 A two level fork, with the rook and the c4 square attacked! 10 Nataf,I (2553) - Roussel Roozmon,T (2451) [B30] Canadian Open Kapuskasing CAN (2), 11.07.2004 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 Nd4 5.e5 Nxb5 6.Nxb5 Nd5 7.Ng5 Without realising it Black has walked into a trap. 7...h6 Like all good traps,

    19...Rxe3! 01

    the obvious moves are the fatal ones. [7...Qa5 8.Qh5 g6 9.Qf3 f6 10.exf6 Nxf6 11.Nd6+! exd6 12.Qxf6 is another deadly line]

    10.Bb3 Nb6 11.Ne5 c6 [11...Bxe5 12.dxe5 Qxd1 13.Rxd1 Nh5=] 12.Nc3 Bf5 13.Qf3 Bh7 14.Rfe1 a5 15.Ng4! Be7 Hoping to break the pin ...

    8.Nxf7! Kxf7 9.Qf3+ Ke6 Black decides to take the money and run. 10.c4! Nb6 11.d4 d5 12.dxc5 dxc4 13.Be3 At this stage it is all good for White. 13...Nd5 14.000 and Black has had enough. 10 Spears,N - Jung,W [D15] Western Canadian Open Richmond CAN (1), 09.07.2004 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.Nc3 Bf5 5.cxd5 cxd5 6.Qb3 Bc8 [6...Qb6 is better] 7.Bf4 a6 8.e3 e6? 9.Rc1 [9.Bxb8 Rxb8 10.Bxa6 wins a pawn but maybe White was following some advice from Spassky. "A small mistake is usually followed by a bigger one"] 9...Bd6?? 10.Bxd6 [10.Bxd6 Qxd6 11.Nb5 wins the house.] 10 Rouzaud,P (2258) - Deschamps,R (2098) [C01] Open Condom FRA (6), 14.07.2004 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 Considered by many to be the same as a draw offer. 3...exd5 4.Nf3 Bd6 5.c4 dxc4 6.Bxc4 Nf6 7.00 00 8.Bg5 h6 9.Bh4 Nbd7

    16.Rxe7!! [16.Rxe7 Qxe7 17.Nxf6+ Kh8 (17...gxf6 18.Bxf6 wins the queen or mates) 18.Nxh7 Qxh4 19.Nxf8+-] 10 Van Elst,A (2257) - Pucher,S (2135) [D06] Open Condom FRA (8), 16.07.2004 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Bf5 The Baltic Defence 3.cxd5 Bxb1 4.Rxb1 [4.Qa4+ c6 5.Rxb1 Qxd5 is the main line] 4...Qxd5 5.Nf3 [5.a3 protects the a pawn, but allows Black to get going. 5...Nc6 6.Nf3 Qe4 7.Ra1 e5 8.dxe5 Bb4+!] 5...Qxa2 6.Bd2 Qd5 7.e3 Nf6 8.Qa4+ Nbd7 9.Bc4 Qf5 10.00 e6 11.Ne5 c6 12.Bd3 Qh5 13.f4 Trying to corrall the Black queen. 13...Bd6 14.Rf3 Nb6 [14...Bxe5 15.fxe5 Ng4 16.Rh3 Qg5=] 15.Qc2 Bxe5 16.dxe5 Nfd7 17.Rh3 Qg4 18.Be1 f5 19.Be2 and Her Majesty is trapped. 10

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