28 April 2013

The following amusing annotations are taken from the Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog  ( ECF Website of the Year 2007 )

http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.com/2000/07/theyre-off.html

Round One -  A  Tragedy for IM Jack Rudd as he's first the finish on day one.

GM Simon Williams v IM Jack Rudd was a truly bizarre game. 

IM Jack Rudd

GM SimonWilliams

Assuming the clocks on the Championship Live Game page were accurate, Jack blitzed out his first 11 moves

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nf3 b5 5.Bg5 exd5 6.cxd5 h6 7.Bxf6 Qxf6 8.Qc2 d6 9.e4 a6 10.a4 b4 11.Nbd2 Bg4 12.e5

then took only a couple of minutes to play his twelfth, ... Qe7, to reach this position.



The Ginger GM, aka Psycho-Cowboy, was about 25 minutes behind on the clock at this stage having spent well over quarter of an hour on 12. e5.

I don't know how much time they then took over 12. Ne4 and ... Bxf3 but however long it was the battle was already effectively over. Rudd eventually threw in the towel on move 22,

13.Ne4 Bxf3 14.Nxd6+ Kd8 15.Qf5 Bg4 16.Nxf7+ Ke8 17.Qxg4 Kxf7 18.Qf5+ Ke8 19.d6 Qb7 20.Be2 Nc6 21.Bf3 Ra7 22.0-0-0

possibly on aesthetic grounds as much as anything else.

A tragedy for Jack who, EJH tells me, took barely a quarter of an hour for the whole game.

 

IM Jack Rudd after round one