Illingworth Defeats Gary Lane

Of course when I wrote my post earlier today, I had no idea of what was about to happen. But just a couple of hours later, Max Illingworth vanquished international master Gary Lane!

For your enjoyment.

Australian Chess Championships 2008
Illingworth, Max
Lane, Gary
E58

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 d5 6. Nf3 c5 7. O-O Nc6 8. a3 Bxc3 9. bxc3 Qc7 10. cxd5 exd5 11. Bb2 Bg4 12. Qe1 Rfe8 13. Nd2 Rad8 14. h3 Bc8 15. Rc1 h6 16. Qe2 Rd7 17. a4 b6 18. Ba3 c4 19. Bc2 Rdd8 20. Rfe1 Ne7 21. f3 Ng6 22. Qf2 Bb7 23. e4 dxe4 24. fxe4 Nf4 25. Re3 a6 26. Rce1 Ng6 27. e5 Nd5 28. Rg3 Ndf4 29. Ne4 Bxe4 30. Rxe4 Nd3 31. Qf5 Qc6 32. e6 Nh8 33. Rxg7+ Kxg7 34. Rg4+ Ng6 35. Qxf7+ Kh8 36. Qf6+ 1-0

And then in a further coincidence, that other player whose name I mentioned earlier today, Ascaro Pecori, then also scored an upset win over the more fancied giant-killer Junta Ikeda. For the Chilean-born Pecori, his performance here is nothing short of amazing especially considering his 7-month layoff until last week.

Other results in the main section at the time of this writing are:

Chow - Lazarus, 1-0
Wei - Charles, 0-1
Yu - Broekhuyse, draw
Hu - Booth, draw
Klein - Bjelobrk, 1-0
Morris, J - Atsmon-Simon, 0-1
Malik - Bird, 1-0
Morris, M - Canfell, 0-1
Suttor - Pyke, 0-1
Rej - Ly, 0-1

On board 4, Xie beat Sales. How often have we seen this? One player, victorious and happy; the other, defeated and morose, remaining seated long after the game's end, still contemplating over his errors. It's torture for the beaten player and for we who bear witness to this scene. That is exactly what transpired after Sales' resignation.

Way down the order on board 13, chess legend Douglas Hamilton posted only his third win in the event, this time against Dusan Stojic.

Australian Chess Championships 2008
Stojic, Dusan
Hamilton, Douglas
B33

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8. Na3 b5 9. Nd5 Be7 10. Bxf6 Bxf6 11. c3 O-O 12. Nc2 Rb8 13. Be2 Bg5 14. O-O Ne7 15. Ncb4 Nxd5 The first deviation according to my database. 16. Nxd5 Bb7 17. b4 Bxd5 18. Qxd5 Qc7 19. c4 bxc4 20. Bxc4 Rxb4 21. Bxa6 Qa7 22. Bb5 Rc8 23. Rad1 h6 24. a4 Rb2 25. Rd3 Rcc2 26. Rf3 Qc7 27. Be8 Bf6 28. g3 Rc5 29. Qd3 Qd8 30. Bb5 d5 31. Qa3 Rbc2 32. exd5 e4 33. Re3 Qxd5 34. Re2 Rxe2 35. Bxe2 Rc2 36. Qe3 Bg5 37. f4 Be7 38. Rd1 Qc6 39. Bb5 Bc5 40. Bxc6 Bxe3+ 41. Kf1 Rxc6 42. Rd8+ Kh7 43. f5 Ra6 44. Ke2 Bg1 0-1

Below are prelim results of the major.

Watson - Bolens, 1-0
Rose - Cohn, draw
Lee - Mandla, 1-0
Dizdarevic - Sheldrick, 1-0
Fry - Voon, 0-1
Kim - Viswanath, 1-0
Mendes da Costa - Guo-Yuthok, 1-0
Korenveski - Lilly, 0-1
Jule - Lau, 0-1
Eccles - Brockman, draw

Tonight is the Fischerandom event. That might be a little too late for me as it starts at 7PM. Note that tomorrow, TCG will not be covering the championships as I have another engagement. Normal business will resume on Wednesday.

UPDATE: The Illingworth - Lane game above has been slightly adjusted. I changed 2 moves, black's 30th (from 30...Nd5 to 30...Nd3) and white's last (from 36. Qxg6 to 36. Qf6+).