Not Classed Peter Murphy - Ian Hosking ACT Major(1) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Bg5 c6 5.e3 Bb4 6.Nc3 Qa5 7.Bf6 Bc3 8.bc3 Qc3 9.Nd2 gf6 10.Be2 Rg8 11.O-O Na6 12.Rc1 Qa3 13.Qc2 Rg7 14.Nb3 Nb4 15.Qd1 Qa2 16.Ra1 Qc2 17.Qc2 Nc2 18.Ra4 dc4 19.Na5 b5 20.Ra2 Nb4 21.Rb2 Nd3 22.Bd3 cd3 23.Nc6 Bb7 24.Rc1 Rc8 0-1 Not Classed David Austin - Peter Pullicino ACT Major(1) 1993 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 de4 4.Ne4 Qd5 5.Bd3 f5 6.c4 Qd4 7.Nc3 Bb4 8.Ne2 Bc3 9.Nc3 Nf6 10.O-O O-O 11.Nb5 Qd8 12.Bf4 Na6 13.Re1 Ne8 14.Qe2 c6 15.Nc3 Nec7 16.a3 Bd7 17.b4 c5? 18.b5 Nb8 19.Qe3 b6 20.Qg3 Ne8 21.Be2 Rf6 22.Bh5 a6 23.Be5 1-0 Not Classed Bill Heiser - Stephen Bartlett ACT Major(1) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.b3 g6 5.Nc3 b4 6.Na4 d6 7.a3 Bg7 8.Bb2 O-O 9.e3 a5 10.Nf3 Bd7 11.ab4 ab4 12.Be2 Ba4 13.Ra4 Ra4 14.ba4 Nbd7 15.O-O Qa5 16.Qc2 Ra8 17.Ra1 Nb6 18.Bd1 Nfd7 19.Bg7 Kg7 20.h3 Qa6 21.Be2 Na4 22.Bd1 Ndb6 23.e4 Qc8 24.Nd2 Nc3 25.Qb2 f6 26.f4 Ra1 27.Qa1 Nd1 28.Qd1 Qa6 29.Qc2 Qa3 30.Kh2 Qc3 31.Qa2 Qa3 32.Qc2 Qe3 33.f5 Qc3 34.Qa2 Qa3 35.Qc2 Na4 36.Nb1 Qb2 37.Qb2 Nb2 38.Nd2 Kh6 39.g4 Kg7 40.Kg3 g5 41.Kf3 Kf8 42.Ke3 Ke8 43.Ke2 Kd8 44.Ke3 Kc7 45.Ke2 Kb6 46.Ke3 Ka5 47.Ke2 Ka4 48.Ke3 b3 49.Ke2 Kb4 50.Ke3 Nc4 51.Nc4 Kc4 52.Kd2 Kb4 53.Kc1 c4 0-1 Not Classed Oscar Hellman - Robert Green ACT Major(1) 1993 1.d4 d5 2.e4 de4 3.Nc3 e6 4.f3 Bb4 5.Be3 Nf6 6.a3 Bc3 7.bc3 Nd5 8.Qd2 Ne3 9.Qe3 ef3 10.Nf3 Nd7 11.Bd3 Nf6 12.O-O b6 13.Ne5 O-O 14.Qh3 h6 15.Rf3 Nh7? 16.Rg3 f5 17.Qh6 Qf6 18.Qh5 c5 19.Ng6 Rd8 20.Rh3 Ng5 21.Qh8 Kf7 22.Ne5 Qe5 23.de5 Rh8 24.Rh8 g6 25.h4 Kg7 26.Rc8 Rc8 27.hg5 Rh8 28.a4 Rh5 29.a5 Rg5 30.ab6 ab6 31.Ra7 Kh6 32.Re7 f4 33.Re6 Kg7 34.Kf2 Kf7 35.Rb6 Re5 36.Bg6 Kg7 37.Kf3 Re3 38.Kf4 Rc3 39.g4 Rc4 40.Be4 Rc3 41.Rc6 Rc4 42.g5 Rc3 43.Rc7 Kf8 44.Ke5 Rg3 45.g6 1-0 Not Classed Patrick Connell - Shaun Press ACT Major(1) 1993 1.Nf3 c5 2.Nc3 d5 3.e4 d4 4.Nd5 Nc6 5.d3 e6 6.Nf4 Bd6 7.Be2 Qc7 8.Nh5 g6 9.Ng3 Bf8 10.O-O Bg7 11.Ng5 h6 12.Nf3 Nge7 13.Nd2 e5 14.Nc4 b5 15.Nd2 O-O 16.Nf3 f5 17.ef5 Nf5 18.Ne4 Nce7 19.Nfd2 Be6 20.b3 Nd5 21.Bb2 Nf4 22.Bf3 Rac8 23.Ng3 Nh4 24.Be4 Qf7 25.c4 bc4 26.Nc4 Rcd8 27.Rc1 Nh3 28.gh3 Bh3 29.Qe2 Bf1 30.Rf1 Nf3 31.Kh1 Ng5 32.Bg2 Qe6 33.Ne4 Ne4 34.Be4 Rf4 35.f3 Rdf8 36.Bc1 Rh4 37.Rg1 g5 38.Qg2 Rf7 39.f4 ef4 40.Bd5 Qe7 41.Bf7 Qf7 42.Rf1 Qh5 43.Nd6 Be5 44.Qd5 Kh7 45.Qb7 Kg8 46.Qa8 Kh7 47.Qa7 Bg7 48.Qb7 Rh2 49.Kg1 Re2 50.Rf2 Re1 51.Rf1 1/2 Not Classed Henk Doel - Michael Cougar ACT Major(1) 1993 1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nc3 e6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.e3 Qe7 6.Bd3 a6 7.h3 b6 8.e4 d6 9.Bg5 h6 10.Bh4 g5 11.Bg3 Nc6 12.O-O Bb7 13.e5 Nh5 14.ed6 cd6 15.d5 Nb4 16.Qa4 b5 17.Qb4 Ng3 18.fg3 O-O 19.cb5 e5 20.Rae1 Qc7 21.Kh2 f5 22.Ng5 hg5 23.Bf5 Bc8 24.Bg6 Bf6 25.Ne4 Be7 26.Rf8 Kf8 27.b6 Rb8 28.Qa3 Rb6 29.Qf3 Bf6 30.Qf6 Kg8 31.Qg5 Qg7 32.Nf6 Kf8 33.Nh7 Kg8 34.Qd8 1-0 Not Classed Rory Obrien - Tony Salvage ACT Major(1) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bc6 dc6 5.O-O Bg4 6.h3 Bf3 7.Qf3 Bd6 8.d3 Qf6 9.Qf6 Nf6 10.Nd2 b5 11.Nb3 a5 12.a4 b4 13.Be3 Nd7 14.Rfd1 h5 15.g3 f6 16.Kg2 g6 17.g4 Kf7 18.Rg1 g5 19.Rad1 hg4 20.hg4 Rh4 21.f3 Rg8 22.Bf2 Rh7 23.Na5 f5 24.ef5 e4 25.Rh1 Rgh8 26.Rh7 Rh7 27.Bg3 Bg3 28.Kg3 ef3 29.Nc6 Kf6 30.Re1 Nc5 31.b3 f2 32.Rf1 Rh6 33.Rf2 Kg7 34.Nb4 Nd7 35.Re2 Kf7 36.Nd5 Kf8 37.Nc7 Rc6 38.Ne6 1-0 Not Classed Laura Moylan - Roger McCart ACT Major(1) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.ed5 Na5 6.Be2 Qd5 7.O-O h6 8.Nc3 Qd8 9.Nf3 Nc6 10.d3 Be7 11.Be3 O-O 12.Qd2 Ng4 13.h3 Ne3 14.fe3 Be6 15.Rad1 Bf6 16.e4 Nd4 17.a3 Qd7 18.Kh2 c6 19.Rf2 Rad8 20.Rdf1 Qe7 21.Qd1 b5 22.Nd4 ed4 23.Nb1 Be5 24.Kh1 Qg5 25.Rf3 f5 26.ef5 Bd5 0-1 Not Classed Robert Riggs - Ashley Oakes ACT Major(1) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 O-O 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2 Re8 13.Nf1 Bf8 14.Bg5 Nd7 15.Ne3 f6 16.Bh4 g6 17.de5 de5 18.Qd5 Kg7 19.Rad1 Nb6 20.Qd3 Be6 21.Nd5 Nd5 22.ed5 Rad8 23.Bg3 Bd5 24.Qe3 Nc4 25.Qc1 Bf3 26.gf3 Qc8 27.b3 Nd6 28.Kh2 Nf5 29.Qb1 Ng3 30.fg3 c4 31.b4 Qc7 32.h4 Bd6 33.h5 e4 34.Re4 Bg3 35.Kg2 Rd1 36.Qd1 Re4 37.Be4 gh5 38.Qh1 h4 39.Qh3 Qf4 40.Qf5 Qf5 41.Bf5 Be5 42.Bc8 Bc3 43.Ba6 Bb4 44.Bb5 c3 45.Bd3 h6 46.Kh3 h5 47.Kh4 Kh6 48.Be4 Be7 49.Bf5 Bd8 50.a4 Bc7 51.Bd3 Bd8 1/2 Not Classed Jeff Wood - Donald Darling ACT Major(1) 1993 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.Nf3 Be7 5.Bf4 a6 6.e3 Nf6 7.a3 Bd6 8.Bg5 O-O 9.Qc2 Ne7 10.c5 Nf5 11.cd6 Nd6 12.Bd3 Nde8 13.O-O Qd6 14.Bf4 Qe7 15.b4 c6 16.Rfb1 g6 17.a4 Bd7 18.b5 cb5 19.ab5 Rc8 20.Ne5 Bb5 21.Bb5 ab5 22.Qd3 Nd6 23.Nb5 Nb5 24.Qb5 Ra8 25.Ra8 Ra8 26.Bg5 Kg7 27.g3 Rb8 28.Bf6 Qf6 29.Nd7 Qd8 30.Nb8 Qb8 31.Qb7 Qd6 32.Qb8 Qa3 33.Qe5 Kh6 34.Kg2 Qd3 35.Rg1 Qe4 36.Qe4 de4 37.g4 Kg5 38.Kg3 h6 39.h4 Kf6 40.Kf4 g5 41.hg5 hg5 42.Ke4 Kg6 43.Ke5 Kg7 44.e4 Kg6 45.d5 ed5 46.ed5 f5 47.gf5 Kh5 1-0 Not Classed Rhys Thorpe - Andrew Moylan ACT Minor(1) 1993 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.ed5 cd5 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Bd3 Nc6 6.Nf3 Bg4 7.O-O Nd4 8.Be2 Ne2 9.Qe2 e6 10.h3 Bh5 11.Bg5 Be7 12.Qb5 Qd7 13.Ne5 Qb5 14.Nb5 O-O 15.Rfe1 a6 16.Nd4 h6 17.Bh4 g5 18.Bg3 Ne4 19.Nd7 Rfd8 20.Nb6 Rab8 21.Bb8 Bc5 22.g4 Bg6 23.Bc7 Bd4 24.Bd8 Bf2 25.Kf1 1-0 Not Classed Duncan Gilmour - Peter Hill ACT Minor(1) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 b5 5.Bb3 Nf6 6.O-O Ne4 7.Re1 Nd6 8.Ne5 Nf5 9.Nc6 Be7 10.Nd8 Kd8 11.Bf7 Rf8 12.Bd5 c6 13.Be4 Bb7 14.Bf5 Rf5 15.d4 c5 16.dc5 Rc5 17.Qe2 Bf6 18.Bf4 g5 19.Qe8 1-0 Not Classed Simon Ayling - Kylie Mayoh ACT Minor(1) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Nc3 d6 5.d3 Nc6 6.Bg5 O-O 7.Nd5 Na5 8.Nh4 h6 9.Nf6 gf6 10.Bh6 Re8 11.Nf5 Nc6 12.Qg4 Kh8 13.Qg7 1-0 Not Classed Peter Rodda - Tom Green ACT Minor(1) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Nb1 Qf6 5.c3 Bc5 6.d4 ed4 7.c4 d3 8.Bd3 Ne5 9.Be3 Nd3 10.Qd3 Be3 11.Qe3 Ne7 12.Nc3 O-O 13.e5 Qc6 14.Rd1 d6 15.Qf4 de5 16.Ne5 Qc5 17.Ne4 Qb4 18.Rd2 Ng6 19.Nf6 gf6 20.Qf6 Ne5 21.Qg5 Ng6 22.O-O Qc4 23.Re1 b6 24.Rde2 Ba6 25.Re7 Kh8 26.Qf6 Kg8 27.Qg5 Rae8 28.Re8 Re8 29.Re8 Kg7 30.Re1 Qc2 31.h4 Kf8 32.h5 Bd3 33.h6 Qb2 34.Qd8 1-0 Not Classed Leon Sadkowsky - Helena Sadkowsky ACT Minor(1) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 Nh5 5.Nf7 Qe7 6.Nh8 Nf6 7.Bf7 Kd8 8.d3 Ne8 9.Be8 Qe8 10.Bg5 Be7 11.Be7 Qe7 12.Nc3 Qe8 13.Nd5 Qh8 14.O-O Qe8 15.c3 Qg6 16.Qf3 Qe6 17.Qf8 Qe8 18.Qg7 d6 19.Qc7 1-0 Not Classed Paul Sutherland - Guy Jones ACT Minor(1) 1993 1.e3 e5 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.de5 Ne4 5.Ne4 de4 6.Qd8 Kd8 7.Bd2 Nc6 8.Bc3 Be6 9.f3 ef3 10.Nf3 Bc5 11.Nd4 Bd4 12.O-O-O Ke8 13.ed4 Bg4 14.Rd2 Ke7 15.Bc4 Rad8 16.Rf1 f6 17.ef6 gf6 18.d5 Ne5 19.Re1 Kd6 20.Bb4 c5 21.Ba3 Rhf8 22.Bb3 Bf3 23.Rf1 Bg2 24.Rg2 f5 25.Rg7 Ng4 26.Rh7 Ne3 27.Re1 Rde8 28.Ba4 Re5 29.Rb7 Rd5 30.Re3 f4 31.Rf3 Rdf5 32.Ra7 Ke5 33.Bc5 Ke4 34.Bc6 Ke5 35.Bf8 Rf8 36.h4 Rf6 37.Ra5 Kd6 38.Be4 Re6 39.Bf5 Re5 40.Re5 Ke5 41.Bd3 Kf6 42.Rf4 Ke5 43.Rf2 Kd4 44.h5 Ke3 45.Rf7 Kd4 46.h6 Ke5 47.h7 Ke6 48.Rf1 Kd5 49.h8Q Kc5 50.Rf5 Kc6 51.Qc3 1-0 Not Classed Ian Rout - Ken Telfer ACT Championship(1) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 d5 4.e3 e6 5.Nc3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.g4!? The usual choices include 7.b3, 7.Bb2, 7.Be2 and 7.e4. This move is a Shirov novelty, first played against Thorhalsson at Reykjavik in 1992 7...Ng4 8.Rg1 h5 The sterner test of the gambit is to be found in 8...Nxh2 9.Nxh2 Bxh2 10.Rxg7 9.h3 Qf6 In Shirov - Akopian (Oakham 92) 9.Nh6 was the move played. By bringing the queen out early Black leaves his pieces uncoordinated. 10.hg4 Qf3 11.Be2 Qf6 12.gh5 b6 13.Bd2 Bb7 14.O-O-O c5?! 15.Nb5 Bb8 16.Bc3 cd4 17.Nd4 dc4 18.Ne6!!# Black either missed or misjudged the strength of this move. 18...Qe6 19.Bg4 Qg4 20.Rg4 Bf3 21.Rgd4 Despite Blacks attempt to recover material for the queen, his disorganised pieces soon fall to whites army. 1-0 Not Classed Daniel Mayoh - Jenny Moylan ACT Minor(1) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 Be6 4.Be6 fe6 5.c3 Nc6 6.O-O d5 7.ed5 ed5 8.d4 e4 9.Re1 Qe7 10.Bg5 Nf6 11.Nfd2 O-O-O 12.f3 h6 13.fe4 hg5 14.ed5 Qd7 15.dc6 Qc6 16.Re5 Bd6 17.Qe1 Rde8 18.Re8 Ne8 19.g3 Nf6 20.Qe6 Kb8 21.Nc4 Bg3! 22.Qc6 bc6? 22...Bxh2+ 23.hg3 Ng4 24.Nbd2 Rh3 25.Re1 Rg3 26.Kf1 Nh2 27.Kf2 Rg4 28.Na5 Rf4 29.Kg3 a6 30.Nc6 Kb7 31.Re5 Kc6 32.Rg5 Rh4 33.Kh4 Kb6 34.Nc4 Kb7 35.Rg7 Nf3 1-0 Not Classed Allen Mengelkamp - Milan Ninchich ACT Major(1) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.O-O Nf6 5.Re1 d6 6.c3 Bg4 7.d3 Qd7 8.Bg5 O-O-O 9.Bf6? gf6 10.b4 Bb6 11.a4 a6 12.Nbd2 Rdg8 13.Qb3 Rg7 14.a5 Ba7 15.b5 ab5 16.Qb5 Rhg8 17.Nh4 Bh3 18.g3 Rg3!# 19.hg3 Rg3 20.Kh1 Bg2 21.Kg1 Bf3 22.Ng2 Rg2 23.Kf1 Rf2 0-1 Not Classed Truong Binh - Steve Georgeopoulos ACT Major(1) 1993 1.d4 e5 2.de5 d6 3.Nf3 Nd7 4.ed6 Bd6 5.g3 Ngf6 6.Bg2 O-O 7.O-O Re8 8.c4 Qe7 9.Nc3 c6 10.Qc2 Ne5 11.b3 Bg4 12.Ne5 Be5 13.f3 Bd4 14.Kh1 Qe5 15.Bb2 Qh5 16.Nd1 Bb2 17.Nb2 Bh3 18.e4 Rad8 19.Rad1 Nd7 20.Nd3 Bg2 21.Kg2 g5 22.g4 Qg6 23.Nf2 Qe6 24.Qc1 h6 25.Qe3 f6 26.Nh1 Ra8 27.Ng3 Ne5 28.Nf5 Kh7 29.Rd6 Qf7 30.h4 Rh8 31.hg5 hg5 32.Rh1 Kg6 33.Rdd1 b6 34.Ng3 Qe6 35.Nf5 Qf7 36.Qd4 Rag8 37.Qd6 Re8 38.Rh5 Rd8 39.Qd8 Rd8 40.Rd8 Qe7# 41.Rg8 Kf7 42.Rh7 1-0 Not Classed Geoff Butler - Ramakrishna ACT Championship(1) 1993 1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.g4 fg4 4.e4 Qh4 5.Bf4 Nf6 6.Bg2 Bd6 7.e5 Bb4 8.Nc3 Nh5 9.Be3 O-O 10.Qd2 h6 11.O-O-O Na6 12.f3 c5 13.d5 Rb8 14.fg4 Qg4 15.Bf3 Qg6 16.Be2 b5 17.Bd3 Qe8 18.Nge2? ed5 19.cd5 Qe5 20.Bh6!# 20...c4 21.Bb1 Bc5 22.Qc2 Be3 23.Be3 Qe3 24.Rd2 Qh6 25.Ne4 d6 26.Qc326.Nxd6 26...Bg4 27.Nd4 Rbe8 28.h3 Bf5?! With this move Black allows a tactical exchange which should end in whites favour. 29.Nf5 Rf5 30.Nd6 Re3 31.Qe3?!# Giving up the queen for two rooks is normally OK but as both players were in time trouble this is a risky idea. 31...Qe3 32.Nf5 Qg5 33.Re1?? Having achieved a favourable position white fails to push the d-pawn 33...Nb4 34.Kd1 Nf4 35.d6 Too late. 35...Qh5 36.Rde2 Nbd3 37.d7 Ne6 38.Rf1 Qh3 39.Re6 Qf1 40.Kd2 Qc1 41.Ke2 Nf4 0-1 Not Classed Jeff Suptut - Mos Ali ACT Championship(1) 1993 1.Nf3 e6 2.c4 b6 3.g3 Bb7 4.Bg2 f5 5.d4 Nf6 6.O-O Be7 7.Nc3 O-O 8.Re1 Qe8 9.d5 Na6 10.a3 Nc5 11.Nb5 Bd8 12.Bf4 d6 13.b4 Nce4 14.de6 Ng4 15.Rf1 Qe6 16.Qc2 a6 17.Nbd4 Qf7 18.h3 Ngf6 19.Bc1 Nd7 20.Bb2 Bf6 21.Rad1 g5 22.Nf5 Qg6 23.Bf6 Qf6 24.g4 Rae8 25.N3d4 Qe5 26.Rd3 c5 27.Nh6 Kg7 28.Ndf5 Kg6 29.Re3 Qf4 30.Qb2 Ndf6 31.bc5 Nc5 32.Re8 Re8 33.Qb6 Bg2 34.Kg2 Nce4 35.Qc7 Ng4# 36.Qf7 1-0 Not Classed Isaac Arsanis - Justin Marshall ACT Championship(1) 1993 1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.a3 Be7 5.Nc3 O-O 6.e3 b6 7.cd5 ed5 8.Bd3 Ba6 9.Ba6 Na6 10.Ne5 Re8 11.Qd3 Nb8 12.b4 Bd6 13.Nf3 a6 14.O-O Nbd7 15.Re1 Qe7 16.Ra2 Qe6 17.Ng5 Qg4 18.e4 de4 19.Nce4 Ne4 20.Ne4? f5# 21.Qc4 Kh8 22.f3 Qh4 23.g3 Qh5 24.g4 Qh4 25.Rae2 fe4 26.fe4 Bh2 27.Kg2 Qg3 28.Kh1 Nf6! 29.Rf1 Ng4 30.Rg2 Qh4 31.Qe2 Be5! 0-1 Not Classed Tristan Reeves - Brian Butler ACT Championship (1) 1993 1.Nf3 c5 2.g3 Nc6 3.Bg2 d5 4.O-O Nf6 5.d3 e6 6.Nbd2 Be7 7.e4 O-O 8.c3 Qc7 9.Qe2 de4 10.de4 e5 11.Nc4 Rd8 12.Bg5 h6 13.Bf6 Bf6 14.Ne3 Ne7 15.Rfd1 Be6 16.c4 Rd1 17.Rd1 Rd8 18.Nd5 Nd5 19.cd5 Bg4 20.Qc4 Qd6 21.Rc1 Rc8 22.Qb5 b6 23.Rc3 Bd7 24.Qa6 Rc7 25.Bf1 Bc8 26.Qa4 Bd7 27.Bb5 Bb5 28.Qb5 Qd7 29.Qd7 Rd7 30.Nd2 Kf8 31.Kf1 Ke8 32.Ke2 Kd8 33.Kd3 Be7 34.Nc4 f6 35.a4 Kc7 36.Ne3 Kb7 37.Kc4 a6 38.Nf5 Bf8 39.Rb3 Kc7 40.Ne3 Rd8 41.Nf5 Rd7 42.Kd3 Rd8 43.Kc4 Rd7 44.Nh4 Rd8 45.Ng6 Bd6 46.f4 Re8 47.f5 Rb8 48.g4 Re8 49.Nh4 Rb8 50.Nf3 Re8 51.Nd2 Rb8 52.Nb1 Be7 53.Na3 Rh8 54.Rg3 Rb8 55.Rd3 Bd6 56.Rb3 Be7 57.Nb1 Bd6 58.Na3 Be7 59.Rg3 Bd6 60.h4 Be7 61.Rg2 Kd6 62.Rg1 Kc7 63.Rg3 Kd6 64.Rg1 Kc7 65.Rg2 Kd6 66.Rg3 Kc7 67.Rb3 Bd6 68.Kd3 Be7 69.h5 Bd6 1/2 Not Classed Truong Binh - Henk Doel ACT Major(2) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4 c5 4.Nc3 cd4 5.Nd4 Nc6 6.e4 Bb4 7.Nc6 bc6 8.Bd3 Qa5 9.Bd2 Qc7 10.O-O a5 11.Re1 O-O 12.e5 Ne8 13.Ne4 Bd2 14.Qd2 f5 15.Ng5 h6 16.Nf3 c5 17.Rad1 Bb7 18.Bf1 Bc6 19.Qe3 Qb6 20.Rd2 Rf7 21.Red1 g5 22.Ne1 Ng7 23.Nd3 f4 24.Qc5 Qc5 25.Nc5 Ra7 26.a3 a4 27.Bd3 Ra5 28.Ne4 Re5 29.Nc3 Nf5 30.Bc2 Ra5 31.Be4 Be4 32.Ne4 Re5 33.Nc3 Re7 34.h3 d6 35.Na4 f3 36.g4 Nh4 37.Rd6 Re2 38.R1d2 Ra7 39.Nc3 Re5 40.Kh2 Rc5 41.b3 Ra3 42.Rd8 Kf7 43.R2d7 1-0 Not Classed Peter Pullicino - Alan Mengelkamp ACT Major(2) 1993 1.e4 c6 2.d3 e5 3.Nf3 Qc7 4.d4 ed4 5.Qd4 d6 6.Bc4 c5 7.Qd3 Nc6 8.O-O Nf6 9.Re1 Bg4 10.Nc3 Nb4 11.Bb5 Bd7 12.Bd7 Qd7 13.Qe2 Nc6 14.Nd5 Be7 15.Bf4 O-O 16.e5 Ne8 17.Rad1 Rd8 18.Ne7 Ne7 19.ed6 Nf5 20.Ne5 Qa4 21.Qc4 Qc4 22.Nc4 b5 23.d7 bc4 24.de8Q Rfe8 25.Kf1 Re1 26.Re1 g6 27.g4 Nd4 28.Rd1 Ne6 29.Rd8 Nd8 30.Ke2 Ne6 31.Bd6 a6 32.c3 Kg7 33.Ke3 f6 34.Ke4 Ng5 35.Kd5 Nf3 36.Kc5 Nh2 37.Bh2 h6 38.Kc4 h5 39.gh5 gh5 1-0 Not Classed Tony Salvage - Peter Murphy ACT Major(2) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.c4 Nc6 4.d3 g6 5.Bd2 Bg7 6.Bc3 Nf6 7.h3 e5 8.Be2 a6 9.Nbd2 b5 10.b3 Bd7 11.cb5 ab5 12.O-O b4 13.Bb2 Nh5 14.Nh2 Nf4 15.Bg4 Qg5 16.Bd7 Kd7 17.Qg4 Qg4 18.Ng4 Nd3 19.Nc4 h5 20.Nb6 Kc7 21.Na8 Ra8 22.Ne3 Nb2 23.Nd5 Kb7 24.g3 Nd4 25.f4 Nd3 26.Kg2 Nc2 27.Rad1 Nce1 28.Kg1 Ra2 29.Rfe1 Ne1 30.Re1 Rb2 31.Re3 ef4 32.Nf4 Bd4 33.Ng2 Rb3 34.Kf2 Be3 35.Ne3 Rb2 36.Kf3 b3 37.Nc4 Rc2 38.Nd6 Kc6 39.Nf7 b2 40.Ne5 Kb6 41.Ng6 b1Q 42.Kf4 Qf1 43.Kg5 Qh3 0-1 Not Classed Robert Green - Laura Moylan ACT Major(2) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Ne5 d6 4.Nf3 Ne4 5.Qe2 Qe7 6.g3 Nc6 7.Bg2 g6 8.c3 Bh6 9.O-O Bf5 10.Nh4 O-O-O 11.Nf5 gf5 12.Na3 Rde8 13.Nc4 d5 14.Ne3 d4 15.Nf5 Qe6 16.Nh6 Qh6 17.d3 Qd6 18.de4 dc3 19.bc3 f5 20.Bf4 Qc5 21.Qh5 Ne7 22.ef5 Nf5 23.Rab1 1-0 Not Classed Peter Rodda - Daniel Mayoh ACT Minor(2) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d3 h6 5.O-O Bc5 6.Bd2 d6 7.a3 Nd4 8.b4 Nf3 9.Qf3 Bg4 10.Qg3 Qd7 11.bc5 g5 12.f3 Be6 13.Be6 Qe6 14.cd6 Qd6 15.Bc3 Qc5 16.Rf2 Nd7 17.Nd2 Qc3 18.Ra2 O-O-O 19.Nc4 Qe1 20.Rf1 Qc3 21.Rb2 Rhe8 22.Rb3 Qc2 23.Rfb1 Nc5 24.R3b2 Qc3 25.Rc1 Qd3 26.Ne5 Qe3 27.Rf2 Qc1 28.Rf1 Rd1 29.Qg4 Kb8 30.Rd1 Qd1 31.Kf2 Re5 32.Qh5 Ne4 33.fe4 Re4 34.Qf7 a5 35.Qg8 Ka7 0-1 Not Classed Clare Moylan - Andrew Moylan ACT Minor(2) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Bc5 4.Bb5 a6 5.Bc6 bc6 6.Ne5 Qg5 7.O-O Qe5 8.Qe1 d5 9.ed5 Qe1 10.Re1 Kd7 11.dc6 Kc6 12.Rd1 Bg4 13.Ne2 Be2 14.Re1 Re8 0-1 Not Classed Peter Hill - Angus Webb ACT Minor(2) 1993 1.e4 c6 2.Qh5 Nf6 3.Qe5 d5 4.d3 Nbd7 5.Qg5 e5 6.Qd2 Bc5 7.Nf3 O-O 8.Qc3 Bd4 9.Nd4 ed4 10.Qd4 c5 11.Qe3 Ne5 12.Be2 Be6 13.Qg5 h6 14.Qe5 de4 15.de4 Re8 16.Qc5 Ne4 17.Qe5 Nf2 18.Kf2 Bd5 19.Bd3 Re5 20.Re1 Qf6 21.Kg1 Re1 22.Bf1 Qf1 0-1 Not Classed Andy Lee - Helena Sadkowsky ACT Minor(2) 1993 1.e3 e5 2.Qf3 Be7 3.d4 Nf6 4.de5 O-O 5.ef6 Bb4 6.c3 Bc5 7.fg7 Kg7 8.b4 Re8 9.bc5 Re6 10.c4 Rf6 11.Qg3 Rg6 12.Bb2 Kf8 13.Qh3 h5 14.Qh5 Rg8 15.Qh6 Rg7 16.Qg7 Ke7 17.Bf6 Ke6 18.Bd8 1-0 Not Classed Guy Jones - Kylie Mayoh ACT Minor(2) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 d6 5.O-O Be6 6.Be6 fe6 7.d4 Bb6 8.de5 de5 9.Qd8 Kd8 10.Bg5 Kc8 11.Rd1 Nh6 12.Na3 Nf7 13.Bh4 h6 14.Rd2 a5 15.Rad1 Rd8 16.Bd8 Nfd8 17.Nb5 g6 18.Rd7 Bc5 19.Nd6 cd6 20.R1d6 Bd6 21.Rd6 Ra6 22.Rd3 b5 23.Nh4 g5 24.Ng6 h5 25.Rd6 Kc7 26.Rd3 b4 27.cb4 Nb4 28.Ra3 Nbc6 29.g3 Rb6 30.b3 a4 31.ba4 Nb4 32.a5 Rb7 33.Ne5 Nc2 34.Ra4 Rb1 35.Kg2 Ne1 36.Kh3 Nd3 37.Nd3 Rd1 38.Nb2 Rd2 39.Nc4 Rf2 40.a6 Nc6 41.a7 Na7 42.Ra7 Kb8 43.Rd7 1-0 Not Classed Tom Green - Jenny Moylan ACT Minor(2) 1993 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e6 4.cd5 ed5 5.Bf4 Nc6 6.e3 Bb4 7.Ne2 O-O 8.g3 Bg4 9.a3 Ba5 10.b4 Bb6 11.Bg2 Re8 12.O-O Ne4 13.Ne4 de4 14.Re1 Qd5 15.Qc2 a5 16.Nc3 Qh5 17.Be4 Rad8 18.ba5 Ba5 19.d5 Ne5 20.Rab1 Nf3 21.Bf3 Bf3 22.h4 Qg4 23.Kh2 c6 24.dc6 bc6 25.a4 Re6 26.Qb3 g5 27.Bg5 Rd3 28.Qb8 Kg7 29.Rf1 Bc3 30.Rb3 Be2 31.Rc1 Bd2 32.Rc2 Bf1 33.Bh6 only move Kh6 34.Qf8 Kg6 35.Qg8 Kf6?? Time 36.Qg4 Ree3 37.Rd3 Rd3 38.Rc6 Ke5 39.Qg7 Kd5 40.Qf6 Bc3 1-0 Not Classed Dianne Oglesby - Paul Sutherland ACT Minor(2) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Nc3 Bg4 4.h3 Bh5 5.g4 Bg6 6.d4 c6 7.de5 Qa5 8.Bd2 Qb6 9.b3 Nd7 10.Qe2 de5 11.O-O-O Bd6 12.Nb1 Ngf6 13.g5 Ng8 14.h4 Bh5 15.Bg2 Ne7 16.Be3 Qc7 17.Bh3 O-O 18.Rhg1 Bb4? 19.Rd7 Qa5 20.a4? b5 21.Bd2 ba4 22.c3 ab3 23.cb4 Qa2 24.Qd1? 24.Qd3 Bxf3 25.Nc3 +/- 24...Bf3 25.Qb3 Qb3 26.Rb7 Be4 27.Nc3 Qc2 0-1 Not Classed Rhys Thorpe - Simon Ayling ACT Minor(2) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 d6 4.Bc4 Nc6 5.O-O Bg4 6.d3 Be7 7.Bg5 h6 8.Bf6 Bf6 9.Nd5 Nd4 10.c3 Nf3 11.gf3 Be6 12.d4 ed4 13.cd4 c6 14.Ne3 Bc4 15.Nc4 d5 16.ed5 Qd5 17.Re1 Be7 18.Ne3 Qg5 19.Kh1 O-O 20.Rg1 Qf6 21.d5? Rad8 22.Qb3? Qf3 23.Rg2 cd5 24.Rg1 d4 25.Nf5 Qf5 26.Rg7 Kh8 27.Qg3 Qd5 28.f3 Bg5!# 29.Rg2 Kg7 30.f4 Rc8 31.fg5 Rc1 0-1 Not Classed Nye Griffiths - Leon Sadkowsky ACT Minor(2) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.Bc6 bc6 5.f4 ef4 6.e5 Nd5 7.Nd5 cd5 8.d4 g5 9.Nf3 Qe7 10.Bd2 f6 11.Qe2 fe5 12.de5 d6 13.O-O-O de5 14.Ne5 a5?? 15.Qh5+/- Kd8 16.Nc6 Kd7 17.Ne7 Ke7 18.Qg5 Kd6 19.Qf6 Kd7 20.Qh8 Ba6 21.Qh7 Be7 22.Bf4 Be2 23.Rd5 Ke6 24.Qf5 1-0 Not Classed Chris Stevens - Duncan Gilmour ACT Minor(2) 1993 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.e3 Bg4 4.Bb5 a6 5.Bc6 bc6 6.O-O e6 7.Nc3 Nf6 8.b3 Bd6 9.d4 c5 10.Qe1 O-O 11.Ba3 cd4 12.Bd6 Qd6 13.Nd4 c5 14.Nde2 Rfe8 15.Ng3 e5 16.f5 d4 17.Rd1?? Bd1 18.Nd1 Rad8 19.Nf2 Nd5 20.Nfe4 Qc6 21.Nf2 Ne3 22.Nd3 Nf1 23.Kf1 e4 24.Nf4 Qb5 25.c4 dc3 26.Kg1 c2 27.h4 Rd1 0-1 Not Classed Donald Darling - Bill Heiser ACT Major(2) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Bb4 3.a3 Bc3 4.bc3 Nf6 5.d3 h6 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Be2 O-O 8.h3 d5 9.ed5 Nd5 10.Bd2 Bf5 11.Qc1 Qf6 12.g4 Bh7 13.g5! hg5 14.Bg5 Qd6 15.Rg1 Kh8 16.Bd2 b5 17.Ng5 Bg6 18.Bf3 Rae8 19.Ne4 Be4 20.Be4 Nf6 21.Bh6!# 21...Rg8 22.Bg7 Rg7 23.Qh6 Rh7 24.Bh7 1-0 Not Classed Patrick Connell - Robert Riggs ACT Major(2) 1993 1.e4 e6 2.f4 a6 3.Nf3 b5 4.Na3 Bb7 5.d3 Nf6 6.e5 Nd5 7.Be2 Bb4 8.Bd2 Ne3! 9.Qc1 Bd2 10.Qd2 Ng2 11.Kf2 Nh4 12.Rhf1 Nf3 13.Bf3 Qh4 14.Kg1 Bf3 15.Rf3 Nc6 16.Raf1 Nd4 17.Rg3 Nf5 18.Rg2 h6 19.d4 Qe7 20.c3 O-O 21.Nc2 d5 22.Ne3 c5 23.Nf5 ef5 24.Qf2 cd4 25.Qd4 Qa7 26.Rd1 Qd4 27.Rd4 Rfd8 28.Rgd2 Kf8 29.Rd5 Rd5 30.Rd5 Ke7 31.Rd6 f6 32.Kf2 fe5 33.fe5 Rd8 34.Ra6 Rd2 35.Ke3 Rb2 36.Kd4 Rd2 37.Kc5 f4 38.Kb5 f3 39.Ra4 f2 40.Rf4 Ra2 41.c4 Rb2 42.Kc6 Ke6 43.c5 Ke5 44.Rf3 Ke4 45.Rf8 Ke3 46.Kc7 Rb1 47.c6 f1Q 48.Rf1 Rf1 49.Kc8 Rc1 50.c7 Kf3 51.Kd8 Kg2 0-1 Not Classed Shaun Press - Ashley Oakes ACT Major(2) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 ed4 4.Bc4 Be7 5.O-O?! 5.Nxd4 5...d6 6.c3 Nf6 7.Re1 O-O 8.cd4 Bg4 9.Nc3 Qd7 10.Be3 Rae8 11.Qe2 Ne4! 12.Ne4 d5 13.Ned2 dc4 14.Qc4 Be6 15.Qe2 f6 16.a3 Bd8 17.Rac1 Ne7 18.Ne4 b6 19.Nc3 Nd5 20.h3 c6 21.Qd2 Bc7 22.Nd5?! Bd5 23.Bf4 Bf3 24.Bc7 Bg2 25.Kg2 Qc7 26.d5 Qd7 27.Re8 Re8 28.d6 Re5 29.Qd3 Rd5 30.Qc4 Qd6 31.Qc6 Qc6 1/2 Not Classed Roger McCart - Oscar Hellmann ACT Major(2) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 h6 3.d4 cd4 4.Nd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Na3 a6 8.Nc4 b5 9.Nd2?! 9.Ne3 intending d5 9...Bb7 10.Bd3 Nbd7 11.b4 Rc8 12.Bb2 Nb6 13.Qe2 Qc7 14.a4 Nc4 15.Bc4 bc4 16.O-O Be7 17.b5 O-O 18.Ba3 Rfe8 19.Rfb1 d5 20.Be7 Re7 21.ed5 Nd5 22.Nd5 Bd5 23.ba6 Qc6 24.Rb7 Rb7 25.ab7 Qb7 26.Qe5 Bg2 27.Nf1 Bf1 28.Kf1 c3 29.Re1 Qa6 30.Qb5 Qa8 31.Re7 Qh1 32.Ke2 Qh2 33.Re8 Re8 34.Qe8 Kh7 35.Qe4 g6 36.Ke3 Qd6 37.Qd4 Qa6 38.Qf4 Qe6 39.Kd3 1/2 Not Classed Stephen Bartlett - Jeff Wood ACT Major(2) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 ed4 4.c3 d5 5.ed5 Qd5 6.cd4 Bg4 7.Nc3 Bb47...Bxf3!? 8.Be2 Nf68...O-O-O, 8...Bxf3 9.Bxf3 Qc4! 9.O-O Qa5 10.Be3 O-O 11.Qb3 Be6 12.Qc2 Rfe8 13.a3 Bc3 14.bc3 Bf5 15.Qb3 Nd5 16.Bc4 Nce7 17.Bd2 c6 18.a4 Qc7 19.Rfe1 Rad8 20.Re5 Qd7 21.Rae1 h6 22.R5e2 Be6 23.Ne5 Qc7 24.Qc2 c5? 25.Bb5 Bf5 26.Qb3 Rf8 27.Bc4 Be6 28.Bd5 Nd5 29.c4 Nf6 30.d5 Bf5 31.Qg3 Bg6 32.Ng6!# 32...Qg3 33.Ne7 Kh7 34.hg3 1-0 Not Classed Ian Hosking - Rory OBrien ACT Major(2) 1993 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Bd3 Bd3 5.Qd3 e6 6.Nh3?! Qb6 7.O-O c5 8.Nc3?! cd4 9.Qb5 Nc6! 10.Qb6 ab6 11.Nb5 Rd8 12.Bf4 Bc5 13.a3 Nh6 14.Rad1 Nf5 15.Rd3 f6 16.Re1 Kd7 17.g4 Nh4 18.ef6 gf6 19.Bg3 Ng6 20.f4 e5 21.fe5 fe5 22.b4 Be7 23.Rf3 Rdf8 24.Rf5 Rf5 25.gf5 Nh4 26.Rf1 Rf8 27.Bh4 Bh4 28.Rf3 Ne7 29.c3? Rf5 30.Rd3 dc3 31.Rc3 Nc6 32.Kg2 e4 33.Re3?# 33...Re5 34.Nf2 Bf2 35.Kf2 d4 36.Rg3 Rb5 37.Rg7 Kd6 38.Rh7 Rf5 39.Ke2 d3 40.Kd2 Ke5 41.Rb7 Kd4 42.Rd7 Rd5 43.Rd5 Kd5 44.Kc3 Ke5 45.a4 Nb4 0-1 Not Classed Ramakrishna - Tristan Reeves ACT Championship(2) 1993 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nc6 4.Ngf3 Nf6 5.e5 Nd7 6.Nb3 b66...a5 7.c3 Ncb8 8.Be3 Ba6 9.Ba6 Na6 10.Qe2 Qc8 11.a311.c4! 11...c5 12.Rc1 c4 13.Nbd2 h6 14.O-O Be7 15.Ne1 Qb7 16.Qh5 b5 17.f4 g6 18.Qe2 Nab8 19.Nc2 Nc6 20.Rf3 a5 21.Rh3 b4 22.Rb1 Qa6 23.Rf3 Nb6 24.Rff1 Na4 25.ab4 ab4 26.cb4 Nb4 27.Nb4 Bb4 28.Ra1 Qb7 29.Nf3 Ke7 30.Qf2 Kd7 31.Rab1 Be7 32.Qc2 Rhb8 33.Rf2 Qb3! This move sets a diabolical trap that white falls into. 34.Qb3# 34...Rb3 35.Bc1 Nc3!! 36.Nd2 Nb1 37.Nb3 cb3 38.Re2 Ra1 39.Re1 Na3 40.ba3 b2 41.Bd2 Re1 0-1 Not Classed Mos Ali - Ken Telfer ACT Championship(2) 1993 1.f4 e5 2.d3 Nc6 3.Nf3 d6 4.e4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.Be2 Bg4 7.O-O Qd7 8.fe5 de5 9.Ng5 Be2 10.Qe2 Nd4 11.Qd1 Bc5 12.Kh1 O-O-O 13.Be3 c6 14.Na4 Bd6 15.Nf3 Ng4 16.Bg1 h5? 16...Kb8 17.c3 Ne6 18.Ba7+/- Qe7 19.Nb6 Kc7 20.Qa4 f6 21.b4 Qf7 22.Qa5 Nf4# 23.d4 Qg6 24.de5 fe5 25.Rad1 Qe4? 25...Nxh2! 26.Nc4 Kc8 27.Nd6 Rd6 28.Rd6 Nh2 29.Bb6! Kb8 30.Qa7 1-0 Not Classed Brian Butler - Isaac Arsanis ACT Championship(2) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cd4 4.Nd4 a6 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 g6 7.Be2 Bg7 8.Be3 Nbd7 9.f4 Nc5 10.Bf3 Qb6 11.Qd2 Bg4 12.O-O Bf3 13.gf3 Nh5?! 14.Nd5 Qd8 15.b4 Nd7 16.Rad1 Rc8 17.Qe2 e6 18.Nc3 Qf6 19.f5 Ne5 20.c5 dc5 21.bc5 O-O 22.f4 Nc6 23.fg6 Qg6 24.Kh1 Qh6 25.Rg1 Kh8 26.Rg5 Nd4 27.Rd4 Rc5!# 28.f5 Rc3 29.Rd7 Nf6 30.Rb7 Ne4 31.Rg7 Re3 0-1 Not Classed Justin Marshall - Ian Rout ACT Championship(2) 1993 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 c6 5.e3 5.e4 (Geller Gambit) is a contentious choice. 5.Ne5 is a Kortchnoi / Miles suggestion 5...b5 6.a4 Qb6?! 6...b4 7.Nb1 Ba6! poses more problems for white. 7.ab5 cb5 8.b3 Bf5 9.bc4 bc4 10.Bc4+= Qb4 11.Qa4 Qa4 12.Ra4 Nbd7 13.Bd2 e6 14.Nb5 Nb6 15.Nc7# 15...Kd8 16.Na8 Na4 17.Ba5 Kc8 18.Ba6 Kb8 19.Nc7 Bb4 20.Bb4 Kc7 21.Ba5 Nb6 22.O-O 22.Ke2 may be better as the endgame aproaches 22...Nd5 23.Rc1 Kb8 24.Ne5 f6 25.Nc6 Ka8 26.Bd2 Nc7 27.Be2 Be4 28.Na5?# 28.Nxa7+/- 28...Rc8 29.f3 Bb7 30.Nb7 Kb7 31.Bd3 h6 32.Ra1 Rd8 33.Bb4 Nbd5 34.Bc5 Ne3 35.Ra7 Kc6 36.Kf2 Ned5 37.Bc2 Kb5 38.Bd3 Kc6 39.Bc2 Kb5 40.Bd3 1/2 Not Classed Ashley Oakes - Milan Ninchich ACT Major(3) 1993 1.d4 e6 2.c4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 Nf6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Qc2 c5 7.a3 Bc3 8.bc3 Qa5 9.Bd3 Ne4 10.Bb2 f5 11.O-O Nd7 12.Nd2 Ndf6 13.f3 Nd2 14.Qd2 Rd8 15.Qc2 b5 16.cd5 c4 17.Be2 Nd5 18.Qc1 Nf6 19.Bd1 Bd7 20.Bc2 Bc6 21.Qb1 a6 22.e4 fe4 23.fe4 Nd7 24.e5 Nf8 25.Rf4 Rd7 26.Be4 Qc7 27.Qc2 Qb7 28.Bc6 Qc6 29.Raf1 Ng6 30.R4f3 Rf8 31.Rf8 Nf8 32.Qf2 Qa8 33.Bc1 Ng6 34.h4 Nh8 35.Qg3 Rf7 36.Rf7 Nf7 37.Qg4 Qd5 38.h5 h6 39.Qg6 1/2 Not Classed Donald Darling - Steve Georgopoulos ACT Major(3) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.Ne5 Qf6 4.d4 d6 5.Nc4 fe4 6.d5 Qg6 7.h3 Nf6 8.Ne3 Nbd7 9.Be2 Ne5 10.Nc3 Be7 11.Nb5 Bd8 12.Nd4 O-O 13.Ne6 Be6 14.de6 Re8 15.Bc4 Nc4 16.Nc4 Qg2 17.Rf1 Qh3 18.Be3 Qe6 19.Qd4 c5 20.Qc3 d5 21.Na3 d4 22.Bd4 cd4 23.Qd4 Ba5 24.c3 Rac8 25.O-O-O Qa2 26.Nb1 Bb6 27.Qb4 Bc5 28.Qb7 Rb8 29.Qb8 Rb8 30.Rd2 e3 31.fe3 Be3 32.Rd1 Qb2 0-1 Not Classed Jeff Wood - Robert Green ACT Major(3) 1993 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 g6 4.e5 Bg7 5.Nf3 f6 6.Bf4 Bg4 7.h3 Bf3 8.Qf3 fe5 9.Be5 Nf6 10.Qe3 O-O 11.Be2 Nbd7 12.f4 e6 13.g4 Ne5 14.fe5 Nd7 15.O-O-O c5 16.dc5 Be5 17.Kb1 Qa5 18.Bb5 d4 19.Qe2 dc3 20.Bd7 Bg7 21.Be6 Kh8 22.Qc4 cb2 23.Rhf1 Rf1 24.Rf1 Qd2 25.Qd3 Rd8 26.Qd2 Rd2 27.Re1 Bc3 28.Rf1 Bd4 29.Bc8 Bc5 30.Kb2 b6 31.Kc3 Rf2 32.Rf2 Bf2 33.Ba6 Kg7 34.Kd3 Kf6 35.Ke4 Be1 36.Bf1 g5 37.Bg2 a5 38.Bf1 h6 39.Bc4 Bf2 40.Bd3 Bc5 41.Bc4 1/2 Not Classed Bill Heiser - Patrick Connell ACT Major(3) 1993 1.d4 c5 2.d5 d6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.c4 e5 5.Nc3 Be7 6.e4 O-O 7.h3 Qa5 8.Bd2 Qb4 9.b3 Na6 10.Bd3 Qb6 11.O-O Nb4 12.Qe2 Qc7 13.Nh4 Nd3 14.Qd3 Nh5 15.Nf3 Nf4 16.Bf4 ef4 17.Ne2 f5 18.Nf4 fe4 19.Qe4 Bf5 20.Qe3 Bf6 21.Ne6 Be6 22.Qe6 Kh8 23.Rae1 h6 24.Re4 Rae8 25.Qe8 Re8 26.Re8 Kh7 27.Rfe1 Qa5 28.a4 Qb4 29.R1e3 Qa3 30.Ne1 Qa2 31.Kf1 Bd4 32.Rf3 Qb1 33.Re7 Be5 34.Rb7 Qc1 35.Ra7 Bc3 36.Re7 Kg6 37.Rfe3 Kh7 38.Rd7 Qb2 39.Rb7 Bd4 40.Re2 Qc1 41.Rb6 Qf4 42.Nf3 Qc1 43.Re1 Qc2 44.Re2 Qc1 1/2 Not Classed Angus Webb - Rhys Thorpe ACT Minor(3) 1993 1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nc6 3.c4 dc4 4.Nc3 e6 5.e4 Bb4 6.Bd2 f6 7.Bc4 e5 8.de5 fe5 9.O-O Bg4 10.Rc1 Qe7 11.Nd5 Qd6 12.Bb4 Nb4 13.Be2 Nd5 14.Qd5 Qd5 15.ed5 O-O-O 16.Rc4 Nf6 17.Re1 Rd5 18.Ng5 Bh5 19.Bh5 Nh5 20.Rec1 Rhd8 21.Rf1 h6 22.Ne6 R8d7 23.Nf8 Rf7 24.Rh4 Rf8 25.Rh5 Rfd8 26.g4 Rd1 27.g5 Rf1 28.Kf1 hg5 29.Rg5 Rd2 30.Rg7 e4 31.h4 Rd5 32.Rg4 Re5 33.Rg5 Rg5 34.hg5 Kd7 35.Ke2 a5 36.f4 ef3 37.Kf3 Ke8 38.Kg4 Kf7 39.Kh5 Kg7 40.a4 c5 1/2 Not Classed Milan Ninchich - David Austin ACT Major(2) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Bc5 6.c3 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.d4 Bb6 9.de5 de5 10.Qd8 Nd8 11.Ne5 Ne4 12.Bd5 Bb7 13.Bb7? 13.Bxe4! Bxe4 14.Re1 and white has advantage while relieving pressure on f2 13...Nb7 14.Nd2 Nbd6 15.Ne4 Ne4 16.a4 f6 17.Nc6 Kd7! The start of an amazing king march which decides the game. 18.ab5# 18...ab5 19.Ra8 Ra8 20.Nb4 Ke6 21.g3 Ra1 22.Nd3 Kd5 23.Kg2 Kc4 24.Nb4 Nf2? 24...g5 is better 25.Nc2 Ra5 26.Rf2 Bf2 27.Kf2 c5 28.Ke3 Kb3 29.Ne1 Ra7 30.Kf2 Re7 31.Be3 c4 32.Bc5 Rd7 33.Ke3? 33.Ba3 33...Kb2 34.Bb434.Bd4 34...Rd5 35.Nf3 Rd3 36.Ke2 Rc3! Black is winning 37.Bc3 Kc3 38.Kd1 b4 39.Kc1 h5 40.Nh4 g5 41.Nf5 b3 42.h4 b2 43.Kb1 Kb3 44.g4 hg4 45.h5 g3 46.h6 g2 47.Nd4 Ka3 48.Ne2 c3 49.h7 g1Q 0-1 Not Classed Ken Telfer - Justin Marshall ACT Championship(3) 1993 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.f3 de4 4.fe4 g6 This is better before the exchange of pawns. In this position 4...e5 striking at the centre should be played. 5.Nf3 Bg7 6.Bc4 Bg4?? An elementery blunder that brings about a rapid defeat. 6...Nd7 followed by Nb6 is preferable but white seems to have an advantage in any case 7.Bf7 Kf7# 8.Ng5 Ke8 9.Qg4 Nf6 10.Qe6+/-+/- Rf8 11.e5 Nd5 12.Nh7 Nc7 13.Qg6 1-0 Not Classed Isaac Arsanis - Ramakrishna ACT Championship(3) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d5 3.Nc3 c6 4.cd5 cd5 5.e3 Nc6 6.Nf3 Bg4 7.Bd3 e6 8.a3 a6 9.O-O Bd6 10.h3 Bh5 11.Re1 O-O 12.Bc2 Qc7 13.e4 de4 14.Ne4 Rad8 15.Bg5 Nd4! 16.Nd6 Rd6 17.g4 Nc2 18.Qc1 Bg6 19.Bf4 Qb6 20.Bd6 Qd6 21.Rd1 Nd5 22.Ra2 Qc7 23.b4 Qc3 24.Nh2 Rc8 25.Rd2 Rc6 26.Nf1 h6 27.Kh2 Qe5 28.Ng3 Kh7 29.Rac2 Bc2 30.Rc2 Rc3! 31.Qb2 Qc7 32.Rd2 g6 33.Re2 Nf4 34.Re4 Rc2 35.Qd4 Ne2 36.Qe5 Ng3 37.Qc7 Nf1 38.Kg1 Rc7 39.Kf1 Rc3 40.Re3 Re3 41.fe3 Kg7 42.Kf2 Kf6 43.Kf3 Ke5 44.h4 b5 45.e4 Kd4 0-1 Not Classed Ian Rout - Brian Butler ACT Championship(3) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Ne4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.de5 Be6 9.Nbd2 Nc5 10.c3 Nb3 11.Nb3 Be7 12.Nfd4! BCO2 gives this position as clearly better for white +/- 12...Nd4 13.cd4 O-O Whites strategy in this position should be to maintain control of c5 and attack the weak c-pawn. 14.f4 Qd7 15.Be3 Bf5 16.Nd2 f6 17.h3 fe5 18.fe5 Bd3 19.Rf3 Rf3 20.Qf3 Rf8 21.Qg3 Qe6 22.Rc1 c6 23.Rc3 Bg6 24.Nf3 Be8 25.Kh2 a5 26.Rc1 Qf5 27.Nd2 Qh5 28.Nb3? 28.Kg1 to guard f2 28...Bh4 29.Qg4 Qg4 30.hg4 a4 31.Na5 Bf2! 32.Bf2 Rf2 Now the black rook has reached the seventh rank blacks previously weak queenside pawns are more of an assett than a liability. 33.Nc6 Bc6 34.Rc6 Rb2 35.Rc5 b4 36.Rd5 Ra2 Now black is winning due to the further advanced passed pawns 37.e6 Kf8 38.Rd7 Re2 39.d5 b3 40.Rb7 b2 41.e7 Re7 42.Rb2 a3 43.Ra2 Ra7 44.Kg3 Ke7 45.Kf4 Kd6 46.Ke4 Ra4 47.Kd3 Rg4 48.Kc3 Kd5 49.Rd2 Kc5 50.Kb3 Rg3 51.Ka2 g5 52.Ka1 h5 53.Ka2 h4 54.Ka1 g4 55.Ka2 h3 56.gh3 gh3 57.Rd8 h2 58.Rh8 Rg2 59.Ka3 Kd4# and black brings his king to g1 to avoid any annoying checks 0-1 Not Classed Geoff Butler - Mos Ali ACT Championship(3) 1993 1.f4 g5?! An intersting attempt to confuse the game from move 1. Although it succeeded in making white use up a lot of time on his clock, it simply gives white a large plus. 2.d4 Bg7 3.fg5 c5 4.d5 d6 5.e4 Nd7 6.Nf3 b5 7.Nc3 7.Bxb5? Qa5+ 8.Nc3 Bxc3+ wins a piece 7...Rb8 8.Nh4 b4 9.Ne2 Qb6 For the pawn black has lots of space on the queenside. However, whites strong centre and blacks weak kingside means he still has trouble. 10.Nf5 White decides on a cavalry charge to attack the black king. 10...Be5 11.Nf4 Nf8 12.Bc4 Ng6 13.Nh5! h6 14.O-O Now white is poised to launch a terrific attack against Blacks king. 14...hg5# ? 14.Bxf5 is better. 15.Nfg7 Kf8 16.Ne6 Be6 17.de6 f6 18.Bg5 d5 Black sacrifices more pawns to bring his pieces into the game. This only opens up the position in whites favour. 19.ed5 Qd6 20.g3 Ke8 21.Ng7 Kd8 22.Nf5 Qc7 23.Be3 Nf8 24.Qg4!# Now black cannot avoid heavy material loss. The queen is heading for g7. 24...Qb7 25.Qg7 Rh7 26.Qg8 Kc7 27.Bc5 Rh3 28.Qg4 Rh7 29.Rad1 Nd7 In a completely lost position Black tries for a kingside attack. As both players were running short of time this might work but with the Queen on b7 I don't think so. 30.ed7 Rbh8 31.h4 Qb8 32.d6 ed6 33.Bd6 Bd6 34.Rd6 a5 35.Qe4 Qa7 36.Kg2 1-0 Not Classed David Austin - Truong Binh ACT Major(3) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 d6 4.Nf3 e6 5.Be2 More aggresive is Bc4 5...Nf6 6.O-O Be7 7.d3 Qc7 8.a3 a6 9.Qe1 O-O 10.Qg3 Nd4 11.Bd1 b5 12.Ng5?! 12.Nxd4 cxd4 13.Nd2 with the plan of attacking the kingside is consistent with whites opening. 12...h6 13.Nf3 Nf3 14.Bf3 Bb7 15.f5 Kh7 16.fe6 fe6 17.Qh3 e5 18.Qf5 g6 19.Qh3 Ng8 20.Nd5 Bd5 21.ed5 Bd8 22.Bd2 Qg7 23.g4 g5 24.b3?! A better try for advantage was 24.Be4+ Kh8 25.Rf5 24...Rf6 25.Rae1 Ne7 26.Kh1 Kg8 27.Be4 Ng6 28.Bf5 Be7 29.Rf2 Nf4= 30.Qf3 Kh8 31.Rg1 Bd8 32.Rff1 Ra7 33.Re1 1/2 Not Classed Robert Riggs - Roger McCart ACT Major(3) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cd4 4.Nd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Be2 Be7 8.Qd2 Nc6 9.f4 Qc7 10.O-O-O b5? This leads to a position where black has to give up material to stay on the game. Bd7 is more sensible 11.Nc6 Qc6 12.e5 b4 13.Bf3 d5 14.Ne2 a5 14...Ne4?? 15.Bxe4 Bxg5 16.exg5 dxe4 17.Qd8++ 15.ef6 gf6 16.Nd4 Qa4 17.Be2 Bd7 18.Bh6 Qa2# Despite having given up a piece Black still has some serious threats e.g. Qa1++ 19.Qd3 a4 20.Kd2 Qb2 21.Rb1 Qc3 22.Qc3 bc3 23.Kc3 Bd8 24.Bb5 Ba5 25.Kd3 e5 26.Bd7 Kd7 27.fe5 fe5 28.Nb5 Rhc8 29.Rhf1 Ke6 30.Rb2 a3! 31.Na3 Rc3 32.Ke2 Ra3 33.Bd2 Bd2 34.Kd2 R3a6 35.Rb7 R8a7 36.Rb8? 36.Rfxf7! +/- 36...f5 37.Re8 Re7 38.Re7 Ke7 39.Rf5 Ke6 40.Rh5 Ra7 41.Rh6 Kf5 42.Rh5 Ke4 43.Rh4 Kf5 44.Rh5 Ke4 45.Rh4 Kf5 46.Rh5 1/2 Not Classed Oscar Hellmann - Ian Hosking ACT Major(3) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 c6 5.cd5 ed5 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.g3 O-O 8.Bg2 Na6 9.Bg5 Nb4? This fishing expidition is the basic cause of blacks defeat. After moving his queen white gets an inititive that lasts for 20 moves. 10.Qd2 Bf5 11.O-O Re8 12.a3 Na6 13.b4 Nc7 14.Nh4 Bd7 15.e4 de4 16.Bf6 Qf6 17.Ne4 Qe7 18.Rfe1 Nd5 19.Nc5 Be6 20.Nf5! Qc7# 21.Nd6 Qd6 22.Nb7+/- Qc7 23.Nc5 Rad8 24.Ne6 Re6 25.Re6 fe6 26.Rc1 Qd6 27.Qc2 Ne7 28.Qc5 Nf5 29.Qd6 Rd6 30.Rc6 Rc6 31.Bc6 Nd4 32.b5 Kf7 33.f4?! Nc6 34.bc6 Ke7 35.Kf2 Kd6 36.c7 Kc7 37.Ke3 Kc6 38.Kd4 a5 39.Ke5 Kd7 40.a4 Ke7 Although material is even white is winning due to the better positioning of his king. 41.g4 h6 42.h4 g6 43.h5 gh5 44.gh5 Kf7 45.f5 ef5 46.Kf5 Kg7 47.Ke6 Kg8 48.Kd6 Kf7 49.Kc5 Kf6 50.Kb5 Kg5 51.Ka5 Kh5 52.Kb4 Kg4 53.a5 h5 54.a6 h4 55.a7 Kg3 56.a8Q h3 57.Kc4 1-0 Not Classed Peter Murphy - Shaun Press ACT Major(3) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.Nc3 c6 6.e3 Qa5 7.Qa4 Bb4 8.Qa5 Ba5 9.Nd2 h6 10.Bh4 O-O 11.a3 Bc7 12.Bd3 e5!? 13.cd5 ed4 14.ed4 Re8! 15.Ne2 Nd5 16.O-O N7f6 17.Nf3 Bg4+/- 18.Ne5!? Be5 19.de5 Re5 20.Nc3 Nf4?! This complicates the position unnecesarily. Taking on c3 was probably best. 21.Bc4 Rae8 22.f3 Bf5 23.Rfe1 Nd7 24.Bg3 Re1 25.Re1 Re1 26.Be1 Ne5 27.Bf1 Nfd3 28.Bg3 Nc4 29.Bd3 Bd3 30.Bb8! a5 31.b4 b5! 32.ba5 Na5 33.Bd6 f6 34.Kf2 Kf7 35.Bc5 Nb3 36.Bb6 Not 36.Bb4?? c5 36...Ke6 37.Ke3 Bg6 38.a4 Kd6 39.a5? 39.axb cxb 40.Nxb5 Kc6 41.Nd4!+ = 39...Nc5 40.Bc5 Kc5 41.a6 Kb6 42.a7 Ka7 43.Kd4 Kb6 0-1 Not Classed Henk Doel - Peter Pullicino ACT Major(3) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.e3 Bb4 4.Bd2 Qe7 5.Bb4 Qb4 6.Qd2 Nc6 7.d5 Qd2 8.Nd2 Nb4?! This leaves the knight out of play. 8...Ne7 makes more sense 9.Kd1 d6 10.a3 Na6 11.b4 Bf5 12.f3 e4?? A bad positional blunder. Black should be attacking the centre with c6! 13.f4 c6 14.dc6 bc6 15.h3 Nc7 16.Ne2 d5 17.Nd4 Bd7 18.N2b3 Ne6 19.g4 Nd4 20.Nd4 Rc8 21.c5 White has a completely won position based on his knight on d4. Black can never dislodge it (after f5 by white) and his own knight can't use d3 or f3 because of whites bishop. 21...O-O 22.Rh2 h5 23.g5 Ne8 24.f5 g6 25.f6 Nc7 26.h4 Ne6 27.Bh3 Rfd8 28.Nb3?! 28.Bxe6! 28...Nf8 29.Bf1 Bg4 30.Be2 Be2 31.Ke2 Ne6 32.Rd1 a6 33.Ke1 Nc7 34.Nd4 Nb5 35.a4 Nd4 36.Rd4 Rb8 37.Rb2 Rd7 38.Kd2 Rdb7 39.Kc3 Kf8 40.b5 ab5 41.Rdb4 Ke8 42.ab5 cb5 43.Kd4 Rd7 44.Rb5 Rb5 45.Rb5 Kd8 46.c6 Rd6 47.Rb7 Rc6 48.Rf7 Ra6 49.Kd5 Ra5 50.Kd6 Ra6 51.Ke5 Ra5 52.Kf4 Ra1 53.Ke4 Ra4 54.Ke5 Rh4 55.Kd6 Ke8 56.Re7 Kf8 57.e4 Rf4 58.e5 Ra4 59.Rd7 Ra6 60.Kd5 Ra5 61.Ke6 Ra6 62.Rd6 Ra8 63.f7 h4 64.Kf6 h3 65.e6 1-0 Not Classed Allen Mengelkamp - Tony Salvage ACT Major(3) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 d6 4.d3 Bg4 5.Be3 Bf3 6.Qf3 Qf6 7.Qe2 Nh6 8.Nc3 Qg6 9.f3 Na5 10.Nd5 Kd7 11.Qd2 Nc4 12.dc4 c6 13.Nc3 Be7 14.O-O-O f6 15.c5 Nf7 16.cd6 Bd6 17.Bc5 Qg5 18.Be3 Qg6 19.g3 Rhd8 20.Na4 Ke8 21.Qe2 f5 22.ef5 Qf5 23.Nc5 Qc8 24.f4 b6 25.Ne4 Qe6 26.Kb1 b5 27.Rhe1 Ke7 28.Nd6 Nd6 29.fe5 Qe5 30.Bg5# 1-0 Not Classed Duncan Gilmour - Simon Ayling ACT Minor(3) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cd4 4.Nd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.Bc4 O-O 8.Qd2 Qc7 9.Bb5?! 9.Bb3 9...a6 10.Ba4 b5 11.Bb3 Nc6 12.Nde2 Bb7 13.f3 Ne5 14.f4 Nc4 15.Bc4 Qc4 16.e5 de5 17.fe5 Ne4! 18.Qd3 Qd3 19.cd3 Nc3 20.Nc3 Be5 21.Ne4 Bb2 22.Rb1 Be4 23.de4 Be5 0-1 Not Classed Daniel Mayoh - Nye Griffiths ACT Minor(3) 1993 1.e4 d5 2.f3?! 2.exd Qxd5 3.Nc3 should be played 2...de4 3.fe4 Nc6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Bc4 Bc5 7.d3 Bg4 8.Bg5 h6 9.Bh4 Qd7 10.Bf6 Black is planning to castle queenside so this exchange works in his favour 10...gf6 11.h3 Bf3 12.gf3 O-O-O 13.Qd2 Nd4! 14.Qf2# 14...Nb3 0-1 Not Classed Paul Sutherland - Andrew Moylan ACT Minor(3) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.e3 Bg7 4.Bd3 O-O 5.O-O d6 6.h3 c5! Against the Colle this is the most agrresive attempt at counterplay. 7.c4 Bd7 8.Nbd2 h6 9.Re1 a6 10.Nb3 cd4 11.ed4 b5 12.d5 Re8 13.Nbd4 bc4 14.Bc4 Qc7 15.b3 a5 16.Bb2 Na6 17.Rc1 Qb7 18.Nc6 Bc6 19.dc6 Qb6 20.Nd4 Rac8 21.Bb5 Nc7 22.a4 e5! Despite white having a space advantage black solid position allows a strong counterattack 23.Nf3 Nb5 24.ab5 Red8 25.Ba3 Qb5 26.Bd6 Rc6 27.Re5 Qb6 28.Rc6 Qc6 29.Re3 Qd6 30.Rd3?? Due to severe time trouble White blows a rook. 30...Qd3 31.Qd3 Rd3 32.Ne5 Rb3 33.Nc6 a4 34.Ne5 Rb1 35.Kh2 a3 36.Nc4 a2 0-1 Not Classed Clare Moylan - Guy Jones ACT Minor(3) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.Qf3 Nc6 4.Bb5 e5 5.Bc6 bc6 6.b4 cb4 7.cb4 Bb4 8.Nc3 Bc3 9.dc3 Rb8 10.Ba3 Ba6 11.Ne2 Be2 12.Qe2 At this point Black played 12...O-O ??. Not only is this illegial it leaves the rook attacked. White did not pick this up (possibly planning to capture the rook). 0-1 Not Classed Andy Lee - Tom Green ACT Minor(3) 1993 1.d3 d5 2.e4 de4 3.de4 Qd1 4.Kd1 Nc6 5.Bb5 e6 6.Nf3 Bd6 7.Nd4 Ne7 8.Re1 e5 9.Nf5 Nf5 10.ef5 Bf5 11.b3 O-O 12.Nc3 Rad8 13.Nd5 Bb4 14.c3 Bc3 15.Rb1 Be1 16.Ke1 Bb1 17.Nc7 Ba2 18.Bc4 Na5 19.Bd5 Rc8 20.b4 Bd5 21.Nd5 Rc1 22.Kd2 Nb3 23.Kd3 Rd8 24.Ke4 Re1 25.Ne3 f6 26.Kf3 Nd4 27.Ke4 Re2 28.Kd3 Rf2 29.h3 Nf5 30.Ke4 Rf4 0-1 Not Classed Rory OBrien - Stephen Bartlett ACT Major(3) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.O-O d6 6.Nc3 Nf6 7.d3 O-O 8.Nh4 Although the idea of f4 is a common one in this system Whites refusal to return the knight to f3 later in the game severely damages his position. 8...e5 9.f4 ef4 10.Bf4 Be6 11.Qc1 Ng4 12.Bh1? From this move on white should play Nf3 if allowed. By knight challenging d4 he allows his opponent far more freedon than he should be allowed. 12...Bd4 13.Kg2 The ultimate fianchetto 13...Qd7# 14.Nb5 Be5 15.Kg1 Nd4 16.Nd4? 16.Nc3 16...Bd4 17.Kg2 Ne5! White realy has a miserable position and black proceeds to win material. 18.Be3 Bh3 19.Kg1 Bf1 20.Kf1 Qh3 21.Bg2 Qg4 The greedy 21...Qxh2 is also playable in this position. 22.Bh6 Rfe8 23.c3 Nd3? ( 23...Bf2! ) 24.Qd2 ( 24...Bf6 25.Qd3 Bh4 26.gh4 Qh4 27.Qd2 Qh2 Black could have played for this position instead of offering a draw. Maybe he was worried about weak dark squares and whites two bishops. ) 1/2 Not Classed Simon Ayling - Nye Griffiths ACT Minor(4) 1993 1.e4 d5 2.ed5 Nf6 3.d4 Nd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.h3 Bh5 7.Be2 e6 8.Be3 Nc6 9.O-O Qd7 10.Nbd2 O-O-O 11.Nb3 Be7 12.Ng5 Be2 13.Qe2 Rhf8 14.Rad1 h6 15.Nf3 Qe8 16.Rd2 1/2 Not Classed Andy Lee - Angus Webb ACT Minor(4) 1993 1.g3 e5 2.Bg2 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.O-O e4 6.Ng5 Bf5 7.d3 ed3 8.ed3 Nd4 9.g4 Bg4 10.Qd2 Qe7 11.Bd5 Nd5 12.Nd5 Qd6 13.c4 f6 14.Ne4 Qd8 15.Qf4 Ne2 16.Kg2 Nf4 17.Nf4 Bd6 18.Kg3 f5 19.Nd6 Qd6 20.Re1 Kf7 21.f3 g5 22.fg4 Kf6 23.h4 Rhe8 24.Re8 Re8 25.hg5 Ke5 26.Nd5 Kd4 27.Bf4 Qe6 28.Nc7 Qe7 29.Ne8 Qe8 30.Rd1 Qa4 31.Rd2 Qa2 32.gf5 Qa5 33.f6 Qd8 34.Re2 Kc5 35.Rf2 Qd3 36.Rf3 Qc4 37.Be3 Kb4 38.f7 Qc7 39.Rf4 Kb3 40.f8Q a5 41.Kf2 Qc2 42.Kf3 Qb2 43.Qf7 Kc2 44.Qc4 Qc3 45.Qe2 Kb3 46.Qb5 Qb4 47.Rb4 ab4 48.Qd3 Ka2 49.Bc1 1-0 Not Classed Helena Sadkowsky - Antonio Cavazzoni ACT Minor(4) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Bc5 5.Rf1 O-O 6.a3 d6 7.Ra2 a5 8.b4 ab4 9.ab4 Bb4 10.Bb5 Be6 11.Rb2 Bg4 12.Rb3 Bf3 13.Ra3 Bd1 14.Kd1 Ba3 15.Ba3 Ra3 16.Nb1 Ra1 17.Ke2 Nd4 18.Ke1 Rb1 0-1 Not Classed Jenny Moylan - Leon Sadkowsky ACT Minor(4) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Bc5 4.d4 ed4 5.Nd5 d6 6.Bg5 f6 7.Bh4 Be6 8.Bb5 Bd5 9.Qe2 Be6 10.O-O-O Ba2 11.b3 Ba3 12.Kd2 a6 13.Bc4 Nge7 14.Ra1 Bb4 15.Kd3 Bb3 16.cb3 Ng6 17.Bg3 b5 18.Bd5 Qd7 19.Rhc1 Nge7 20.Nd4 Nd4 21.Kd4 c6 22.Qh5 g6 23.Qh6 cd5 24.Qg7 Rf8 25.ed5 Nf5 26.Kd3 Ng7 27.Re1 Be1 28.Re1 Kd8 29.b4 Re8 30.Re3 Re3 31.Ke3 Qg4 32.f3 Qb4 33.Bh4 Qh4 0-1 Not Classed Kylie Mayoh - Peter Hill ACT Minor(4) 1993 1.e4 Nf6 2.d3 e5 3.Nc3 d5 4.f3 de4 5.fe4 Bg4 6.Be2 h5 7.h3 Bd7 8.Nf3 Bb4 9.a3 Ba5 10.b4 Bb6 11.Na4 Bd4 12.c3 Ba4 13.Qa4 Qd7 14.b5 Bc3 15.Nd2 Ba1 16.Nb3 Bc3 17.Kf2 Bd4 18.Nd4 ed4 19.Bb2 c5 20.Rc1 Qd6 21.h4 Qf4 22.Bf3 Qd2 23.Kf1 Qb2 24.Rc2 Qb1 25.Ke2 O-O 26.e5 Re8 27.Bb7 Re5 28.Be4 Ne4 29.de4 Re4 30.Kf2 Qe1 31.Kf3 Qe3 0-1 Not Classed Geoff Butler - Tristan Reeves ACT Championship(4) 1993 1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 g6 5.Nf3 Bg7 6.O-O O-O 7.d3 7.d4 is a more agressive attempt. 7.d3 shows that white is happy with a draw. 7...d6 8.e4 e5 9.h3 h6 10.Be3 Be6 11.Qd2 Kh7 12.Rac1 Qd7 The most likely continuation is 13.Kh2 Rac8 = 1/2 Not Classed Ramakrishna - Ian Rout ACT Championship(4) 1993 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 dc4 3.Nc3 ( 3.Na3 c5 4.Nc4 Nc6 5.b3 f6 6.Bb2 e5 7.g3 Nge7 8.Bg2 Nf5 9.O-O Be7 10.Ne1 Be6 11.f4 ef4 12.Rf4 Qd7 13.Nd3 O-O 14.Rc1+=/= ) 3...c5 4.e4 e6 5.Bc4 Nf6 6.O-O Be7 7.d3 O-O 8.Bf4 a6 9.a3 Nc6 10.Qd2 b5 11.Ba2 Bb7 12.Rfd1 At this point black imagined he was better but the with the next few moves he uncoordinates his pieces. 12...Nh5?! 13.Be3 Nd4 14.Ne1 b4? 15...Nf6 The key square for black in this position is d4 and by keeoing it under control he could lay claim to an advantage . By playing this move he gives up control of d4. 15.ab4 cb4 16.Ne2 e5 17.Bd4 ed4 18.Nf3 Bc5 19.Rac1 Qd6?? 19...Bb6 20.Qg5 1-0 Not Classed Jeff Suptut - Isaac Arsanis ACT Championship(4) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cd4 3.c3 d3 4.Bd3 Nc6 5.Nf3 d6 6.O-O Bg4 7.h3 Bh5 8.c4 Nf6 9.Nc3 Rc8 10.Be2 Bg6 11.Bd3 Nd7 12.Nh4? Not only does this move give up e5 but also leads white to open up the h file for black. 12...Nce5 13.Ng6 hg6 14.b3 Nd3 15.Qd3 Ne5 16.Qd5 Qd7 17.Bf4 Nf3!# 0-1 Not Classed Mos Ali - Justin Marshall ACT Championship(4) 1993 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3 c5 4.b3 g6 5.Bb2 Bg7 6.Be2 O-O 7.O-O Nc6 8.Ne5 Nd7 9.Nc6 bc6 10.Bg7 Kg7 11.d4 Qa5 12.dc5 Qc5 13.Qd4 Qd4 14.ed4 Nf6 15.Nc3 a5 16.Na4 Bf5 17.Bd3 Ne4 18.Rfe1 e6 19.Re3 Rfe8 20.h3 Nd6 21.Bf1 Nb5 22.c3 h5 23.Nc5 Ra7 24.Be2? ( 24.Bb5 cb5 25.b4 ab4 26.cb4 Rea8 27.a3= ) 24...Na3 25.Rc1 Rae7 26.g4 hg4 27.hg4 Bb1 28.Bd1 f5 29.Nd3 Bd3 30.Rd3 Nb5 31.b4 Ra8 32.a4 Nd6 33.g5 Rb7 34.Rd2 Nc4 35.Ra2 ab4 36.Rb1 Rab8 37.cb4 Rb4 38.Rba1 Na5 39.Rc2 Rb1 40.Rca2 Ra1 41.Ra1 Rb4 0-1 Not Classed Stephen Bartlett - David Austin ACT Major(4) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Bc5 6.c3 Ne4 7.d4 ed4?! 7...Bb6 8.cd4 Be7 9.d5 Nb8 10.Re1 f5 11.Nd4 O-O 12.Nf5 Bc5 13.Re4 Rf5 14.Be3 Be3 15.Re3 b5 16.Bc2 Rf8 17.Qh5! h6 18.Qg6 Qg5 19.Qh7 Kf7 20.Nc3 1-0 Not Classed Shaun Press - Rory OBrien ACT Major(4) 1993 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dc4 5.e4 Geller Gambit. 5.a4 is usual with 5.e3 and 5.Ne5 also playable 5...b5 6.e5 Nd5 7.Be2!? 7.a4 is book. The point of this move is to wait until black commits his light squared bishop before trying anything. 7...Bg4?! 7...Bf5 is probably a better choice 8.Ne4 Nd7 9.Nfg5! Although black has most of his pawns on white squares the exchange of this piece removes an important defender. 9...Be2 10.Qe2 h6? 10...e6 is better but black didn't see whites next move and figured that kicking the knight of g5 to be sensible. 11.e6!!# This piece sacrifice wins by force. 11...hg5 12.ef7 Kf7 13.Ng5 Just effective whites attack is is shown in the following variations 13...Ke8 ( 13...Kg8 14.Qe6 ;13...Kf6 14.Qe6 ;13...Kg6 14.Qe4 Kh5 15.Qf3 Kg6 ( 15...Kh4 16.g3 ) 16.Qf7 Kh6 17.Ne6 Kh7 18.Nd8 ) 14.Qe6! Qb6 15.Qf7 Kd8 16.Ne6 Kc8 17.Qe8 Kb7 18.Qd7 Ka6# ( 18...Kb8 19.Qe8 Kb7 20.Nc5 Kc7 ( 20...Qc5 21.Qd7 ) 21.Qa8 ) 19.Nc5 Ka5 With the king on a5 black should not expect to survive long. 20.Bd2 b4 21.a3 Kb5 22.ab4 Nb4 23.Bb4 Kb4 24.Ra4 Kb5 25.Ra625.Qe6! is also winning. 25...Qa6 26.Na6 Ka6 27.Qc6 Ka5 28.Qa8 1-0 Not Classed Roger McCart - Henk Doel ACT Major(4) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cd4 4.Nd4 g6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Be2 O-O 8.f4 Qb6 9.e5# ( 9.Qd2?! Ne4 10.Ne4 Bd4 11.Bd4 Qd4 12.Qd4 Nd4 ) 9...Qb2 10.Na4 Qa3 11.c3! Nd5 12.Bc1 Nc3 13.Nc6?? ( 13.Ba3 Nd1 14.Nc6+/-+/- ) 13...Qa4 14.Qa4 Na4 15.Ne7 Kh8 16.O-O? d6 17.Bb5 Nc3 18.Nc8 Nb5 19.Rb1 Nc3 20.Rb7 Rac8 21.Ba3 Ne4 22.Re1 Nc5 23.Ra7 Kg8 24.h3 Rfe8 25.Rc1 Ne6 26.Rc8 Rc8 27.ed6 Bd4 0-1 Not Classed Steve Georgopoulos - Robert Riggs ACT Major(4) 1993 1.e4 e6 2.c4 a6 3.d4 b5 4.cb5 ab5 5.Bb5 Bb7 6.Nc3 Nf6 7.Bg5 h6 8.Bf6 Qf6 9.Nf3 Qg6 10.O-O Be4 11.d5 c6 12.Ne4 Qe4 13.de6!# White now launches an attack aided by his lead in development 13...fe6 ( 13...cb5 14.ed7 Kd8 15.Re1+/-+/- ) 14.Bd3 Qd5 15.Qe2 Bd6 16.Bg6 Kd8 17.Rfd1 Qc5 18.Rac1 Qb4 19.Rc4 Qb5 20.Rd6 Ra2 21.g3 Rb2 22.Qe6 Qb6 23.Rcd4 Qa7 24.Ne5 Rb7 25.Bf5 Re8 26.Nf7 Kc7 27.Qe8 Qa1 28.Rd1 Qa7 29.Qd8 1-0 Not Classed Milan Ninchich - Jeff Wood ACT Major(4) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.Nf3 h6 5.O-O d6 6.d4 Bg4 7.d5 Nd4 8.Be2 Ne2 9.Qe2 a6 10.h3 Bh5 11.a4 Be7 12.Ra3 O-O 13.b4 Nh7 14.Qe3 f5 15.ef5 Bf3 ( 15...Rf5 16.g4 Bg5 17.Ng5 Rg5 18.Ne4+/- ) 16.Qf3 Ng5 17.Qg4 Rf7 intending17...Qd7 18.h4 Nh7 19.Ne4 Nf6 20.Nf6 Rf6 21.Rh3 ( 21.Bg5! hg5 22.hg5 Rf7 23.g6 Bg5 24.gf7 Kf7+/-+/- ) 21...Kh8 22.Bg5 Rf7 23.Bd2 Qd7 24.Rf3 Qa4 25.Qc4? 25.c4 25...Qd7 26.g4? 26.Qg4 26...Bh4 27.Kg2 Qe7 28.Rh1 Bg5 29.Bg5 Qg5 30.Rh5 Qd830...Qd2! is an interesting try. 31.g5 Qf8 32.g6 Re7 33.Qh4 e4! 34.Rf4 Re5 35.f6 Rh5 36.Qh5 Re8? ( 36...gf6 37.Re4 Kg8 38.Qf5 Rd8 39.Re6 Kg7=+ ) 37.fg7# Alas, this move only draws. ( 37.f7! Re5 38.Qh3!! Rg5 39.Kf1 Rg6 40.Qd7 Rf6 41.Qe8 Rf7 42.Qf8 Rf8 43.Rf8+/-+/- ) 37...Qg7 38.Rf7 Re5 39.Rg7 Rh5 40.Rc7 Rg5 41.Kh3 Rd5 42.Rb7 Rb5 43.Rb5 ab5 44.Kg4 d5 45.Kf5 Kg7 46.Ke5 Kg6 47.Kd5 Kf5 48.c4 bc4 49.Kc4 h5 50.b5 h4 51.b6 h3 1/2 Not Classed Robert Greem - Ashley Oakes ACT Major(4) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 d6 5.d4 Bb6 6.de5 Ne5 7.Ne5 de5 8.Bf7! Ke7 9.Bg5 Nf6 10.Bf6 gf6 11.Qd8 Rd8 12.Bh5 Be6 13.O-O Bf7 14.Bf7 Kf7 15.Na3 Rd2 16.Nc4 Re2 17.Rad1 Avoiding 17.Rae1 Bxf2! 17...Ke7 18.Rd2 Re4 19.b3 Rd8 20.Rd8 Kd8 21.Rd1 Ke7 22.Kf1 Rg4 23.Nb6 ab6 24.Rd3 b5 25.g3? 25.Rh3! White should keep his rook active. 25...Rg8 26.Ke2 Ra8 27.Rd2 Ke6 28.Kf3 f5 29.h3 h5 30.h4 c5 31.Ke3 c4 32.f4 e4 33.bc4 bc4 34.Rb2 Rd8 35.Rb6 Rd6 36.Rd6? The king and pawn ending is clearly winning for black because of the passed e pawn. 36...Kd6 37.Kd4 b5 38.a3 Kc6 39.Ke3 Kb6 40.g4! A good defensive attempt. 40...hxg 41.h5 and white gets a new queen. 40...fg4 41.Ke4 Kc6 42.f5 Kd6 43.Kd4 Ke7 44.Ke4 Kf6 45.Kf4 Ke7 46.Ke4 Kf7 47.Ke3 Ke7 48.Ke4 Here black allows a triple repetition. Black had an easy win with Kd6. 1/2 Not Classed Ian Hosking - Patrick Connell ACT Major(4) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 Nf63...e5!? 4.e5 Ne4?! 4...Nd5 5.d3 Nf2 6.Kf2 e6 7.Na3 d6 8.Bf4 Be7 9.ed6 Bd6 10.Bd6 Qd6 11.Nb5 Qd8 12.d4 cd4 13.Nbd4 Qb6 14.Qb3 Qc5 15.Qb5 1-0 Not Classed Peter Murphy - Alan Mengelkamp ACT Major(4) 1993 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dc4 3.Nf3 Bf5 4.Nc3 e6 5.e4 Bg4 6.Bc4 Bf3 7.gf3 Nc6 8.d5 Ne5 9.O-O Nc4 10.Qa4 c6 11.Qc4 Bd6 12.f4 ed5 13.ed5 Ne7 14.dc6 Nc6 15.Ne4 Be7 16.Bd2?? f5 17.Ng5 Bg5 18.fg5 Qd2 19.Rfe1 Ne7 20.Re3 Rf8 21.Rae1 Rf7 22.Rc1 Kf8 23.Rce1 Rd8 24.Qc5 Qd6 25.Qa7 Nc6 26.Qa4 Qd4 27.Qa3 Qb4 28.Qd3 White attempts to exploit blacks weak back rank with a series of queen and rook offers. 28...Kg8 29.Re8 Rf8 30.Rf8 Rf8 31.Qd5 Kh8 32.Re2 Qg4 33.Kf1 Qg5 34.Qf7! Qd8 35.Qb7 Qd1 36.Re1 Qd3 37.Kg1 Nd4 38.Re3 Ne2 39.Kg2 Nf4 40.Kf3 Qd1?! Black attempts to build a mating net. 41.Kf4 Qg4 42.Ke5 Re8 43.Kd5 Qg2 44.Kc5# Although with this cunning move white offers all his pieces to black 44.Kc4! draws. 44...Qf2! 45.Qf7 Qe3 46.Kc4 Qe6 47.Qe6 Re6 48.b4 f4 49.b5 f3 0-1 Not Classed Peter Pullicino - Donald Darling ACT Major(4) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 d6 5.d4 ed4 6.cd4 Bb4 7.Nc3 Bg4 8.Bf7?? Although this sacrifice looks attractive it simply loses a piece. 8...Kf8?? ( 8...Kf7 9.Ng5 Qg5 10.Bg5 Bd1 11.Rd1-/+-/+ Computers should store this away for future reference. ) 9.Bg8 Kg8 10.a3 Ba5 11.Qb3 Kf8 12.Ng5 Bc3 13.bc3 Qe8 14.h3 Nd4? 15.cd4 Bc8 16.O-O h6 17.Nf3 Qe4 18.Re1 Qg6 19.Qe3 Bh3 20.Nh4! Qg4 21.Qh3 Qh3 22.gh3 Kf7 23.Bb2 Rac8 24.Nf5 Rhf8 25.Ng7?? White forgot about the pawn on d4. 25...Kg7 26.Re7 Kf6 27.Rae1 Rg8 28.Kf1 Rg6 29.d5 Kf5 30.Rf7 Kg5 31.Re4 Kh5 32.h4 Rgg8 33.Rf5 Kg6 34.Rf6 Kh5 35.Bc1 Rh8 36.f3 Rcf8 37.Ree6 Rf6 38.Rf6 Kh4 39.Rh6 Rh6 40.Bh6 c5 41.Kf2 b5 42.Bf8 b4 43.ab4 cb4 44.Bd6 b3 45.Ba3 Kg5 46.f4 Kf6 47.Ke3 a5 48.Kd4 a4 49.Kc5 Ke7 50.Kc6 Kd8 51.d6 Kc8 52.d7 Kd8 53.Bb2 a3 54.Bf6 1-0 Not Classed Laura Moylan - Bill Hieser ACT Major(4) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cd4 3.c3 dc3 4.Nc3 e5 5.Bc4 Nf6 6.Nf3 Bb4 7.Qe2 O-O 8.O-O Nc6 9.Bg5 h6 10.Bh4 ( 10.Bf6 Qf6 11.Nd5 Qd6 12.Rad1+/- ) 10...Be7 11.Rad1 d6 12.Bf6 Unprovoked exchanges like this are usually a waste of time. Better to play it straight away (after h6) or not at all 12...Bf6 13.Nd5 Bg4 14.Rc1? 14.Ne3 14...Nd4 15.Qe3 Nf3 16.gf3 Bg5 17.Qc3 Bc1 18.fg4 Bg5 19.h3 Rc8 20.Qd3 Bh4 21.a3 Qa5 22.Rd1 Qc5 23.Qb3 b6 24.Bd3 Qf2 25.Kh1 Qf3 26.Kg1 Qg3 27.Kh1 Qh3 28.Kg1 Qg4 29.Kh1 Rce8 30.Qc2 Re6 31.Qe2 Qe2 32.Be2 Rc8 33.Bg4 Ree8 34.Bc8 Rc8 35.Kg2 Rc2 36.Kh3 g5 37.b3 Re2 38.Nc3 Re3 0-1 Not Classed Andrew Moylan - Peter Rodda ACT Minor(4) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Ne5 Ne4 4.Bc4 More common is 4.Qe2 4...d5 5.Be2 Bc5 6.d4 Bd6 7.Bf4 f6 8.Nd3 Qe7 9.Bg4?? Bd7?? Did both players miss 9...Nc3+ winning the queen? 10.O-O f5 11.Bh3 b6 12.Re1 c5 13.dc5 bc5 14.f3 c4 15.Bd6 Qd6 16.Nf2 O-O 17.fe4 fe4 18.Bd7 Nd7 19.Re4 Qc5 20.Re2 Rf7 Although down a piece black has enourmous pressure on f2. 21.Qe1 Raf8 22.Nc3 d4 23.Ncd123.Ne4 23...d3 24.cd3 cd3 25.Rd2 Ne5 26.Kh1 Qd6 Black now shifts the focus of the attack to h2. 27.h3 Rf3# 28.Qg1 R8f6 29.Qh2 Qd4 30.Rc1 Rg6 31.gf3 Nf3 Although white is on the brink of defeat it is his move and this is all he needs to escape 32.Rc8 Kf7 33.Qc7 Kf6 34.Rf8 Kg5 35.Qg3 Kh6 36.Qf3 Qh4 37.Qf4 Kh5 38.Rf5 Rg5 39.Rg5 Qg5 40.Qg5 Kg5 Without any pieces left black has very little to play for. 41.Rd3 h5 42.b4 Kh4 43.a4 g5 44.b5 g4 45.hg4 hg4 46.Ng4 Kg4 47.a5 Kf4 48.b6 ab6 49.ab6 Ke4 50.Ra3 Kf4 51.b7 Kg4 52.b8Q Kh4 53.Qg8 Kh5 54.Rh3 1-0 Not Classed Tom Green - Paul Sutherland ACT Minor(4) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.Bg5 Be7 4.e3 d5 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.Bb5 Bd7 7.Ne5 Ne5 8.de5 Bb5 9.ef6 gf6 10.Bf4 Bc4 11.b3 Ba6 12.a4?? 12.O-O 12...Bb4 13.Qd4 c5 14.Qd2 e5 15.Bg3 d4 16.ed4 cd4 17.Qc1 Bc3 18.Kd1 Ba1 19.Qa1 O-O 20.Ke1 Re8 21.Qc1 f5 22.Qh6 Re6 23.Qh5 Qf6 24.f4 e4 25.Qd1 Rd8 26.b4 b5 27.a5 d3 28.cd3 Qc3 29.Kf1 Rd3 30.Qe2 Red6 31.Kf2 Rd2 32.Qd2 Rd2 33.Kf1 Qc1 34.Be1 Rd1 35.Ke2 Rd4 36.Rf1 Qc2 37.Ke3 Rd3 0-1 Not Classed Guy Jones - Duncan Gilmour ACT Minor(4) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 d6 5.O-O Nf6 6.d4 ed4 7.e5? 7.cxd 7...de5 8.cd4 Nd4 9.Nd4 Bd4 10.Bg5 h6 11.Bh4 g5 12.Bg3 Bb2 13.Qa4 Bd7 14.Bb5 c6 15.Bc4 Ba1 16.Re1 b5 17.Qa6 bc4 18.Be5 Be5 19.Re5 Be6 20.Qc6 Nd7 21.Nc3 Rc8 22.Qd6 Ne5 23.Qe5 O-O 24.h3 Qd7 25.Ne4 Qe7 Despite giving away material from move 7 onwards white still has a few cheapos in this position. 26.Nf6 Kg7 27.Nh5 Kg6 28.Qg7 Kf5 29.Qh6 Rh8 30.Ng7 Ke5 31.f4 gf4 32.Nf5 Rh6 33.Nh6 Qf8 34.Ng4 Bg4 35.hg4 Qg7 36.a4 Qg4 37.a5 Rh8 38.Kf1 Qd1 39.Kf2 Qd2 40.Kf3 Qe3 41.Kg4 Qg3 0-1 Not Classed Dianne Oglesby - Rhys Thorpe ACT Minor(4) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4 cd4 4.Nd4 Bg7 5.c3 Nf6 6.Bc4 O-O 7.e5 Ne4 8.O-O Nc6 9.Re1 Nc5 10.Nd2 d6 11.f4 de5 12.fe5 Ne5 13.N2f3? Nf3 14.Qf3 Bd4 15.Be3 ( 15.cd4 Qd4 16.Be3 Qc4 17.Rac1 still leaves white down 2 pawns ) 15...Be3 16.Re3 Bf5 17.Rd1 Qc7 18.b4 Na4 19.Bb3 Nb6 20.a3 Rad8 21.g4 Rd1 22.Qd1 Qf4 23.Bf7? An inventive but unsucessful attempt to complicate matters. 23...Rf7 24.Qe2 Qg4 25.Kf1 Qe2 26.Ke2 Nc4 27.Rf3 Rf6 28.Rg3 Na3 29.Kd1 a5 30.c4 Nc4 31.Rc3 Be6 32.Rd3 Kf7 33.Rd4 b6 34.Kc2 Rf2 0-1 Not Classed Jeff Suptut - Geoff Butler ACT Championship(2) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bg5 Ne4 4.Bh4 g6 5.Nbd2 Bf5 6.c3 Bg7 7.Ne4 Be4 8.Ng5 Bc6 9.Qb3 d5 10.e3 O-O 11.Be2 Qd7 12.Bg3 b5 13.Nf3 f6 14.Qc2 a5 15.a3 Qc8 16.h4 Bd7 17.Bd3 c5 18.Qe2 c4 19.Bc2 Nc6 20.h5 g5 21.e4 de4 22.Be4 h6 23.Bg6 e6 24.O-O Ne7 25.Bc2 Nd5 26.Nd2 f5 27.Be5 Be5 28.Qe5 Nf4 29.g3 Nh5 30.a4 b4 31.cb4 ab4 32.Rac1 Nf6 33.Bd1 c3 34.Nb1 Ba4 35.Ba4 Ra4 36.bc3 b3 37.Qb5 Qc4 38.Qc4 Rc4 39.Nd2 Rc7 40.Nb3 Ne4 41.c4 Rb8 42.Na5 Ra8 43.Ra1 Nd2 44.Rfd1 Nc4 45.Rdc1 Rac8 46.Nc4 Rc4 47.Rc4 Rc4 48.Ra6 Kf7 49.d5 Rc1 50.Kg2 Re1 51.de6 Re6 52.Ra7 Kg6 53.Rb7 1/2 Not Classed Justin Marshall - Brian Butler ACT Championship(5) 1993 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cd5 ed5 5.Bg5 Be7 6.e3 O-O 7.Bd3 Nbd7 8.Qc2 c6 9.Nge2 Re8 10.O-O Nf8 11.f3 h6 12.Bh4 Ne6 13.Rad1 Bd7 14.e4 de4 15.fe4 Ng4 16.Be7 Qe7 17.Qd2 Qg5 18.Rf3 1/2 Not Classed Tristan Reeves - Mos Ali ACT Championship(5) 1993 1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.g3 d5 5.cd5 Nd5 6.Bg2 e6 7.O-O Be7 8.Nd5 ed5 9.d4 c4 10.Ne5 O-O 11.b3 cb3 12.Nc6 bc6 13.Qb3 Ba6 1/2 Not Classed Rhys Thorpe - Tom Green ACT Minor(5) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 f6 4.O-O Bd6 5.Nc3 Nge7 6.d3 Bc5 7.Be3 Be3 8.fe3 d6 9.d4 Bg4 10.Bb5 ed4 11.ed4 d5 12.Qd3 a6 13.Ba4 O-O 14.Bb3 Nb4 15.Qd2 Kh8 16.e5 fe5 17.Ne5 Rf1 18.Rf1 Be6 19.Rf7 Nbc6 20.Qg5 Ng6 21.Ng6 hg6 22.Qg6 Bf7 23.Qf7 Nd4 24.Bd5 Qh4 25.g3 Qd8 26.Qh5 1-0 Not Classed Antonio Cavazzoni - Guy Jones ACT Minor(5) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bc4 e6 5.O-O d5 6.Bb3 c4 7.Ba4 Bb4 8.ed5 ed5 9.a3 Bc3 10.bc3 Bg4 11.h3 Bf3 12.gf3 Qe7 13.Bc6 bc6 14.a4 O-O 15.Ba3 Qe5 16.Re1 Qg5 17.Kf1 Rfe8 18.Rb1 Re1 19.Qe1 Re8 20.Qc1 h6 21.Rb7 Qe5 22.Ra7 Qe2 23.Kg2 Nh5 24.d3 Nf4 25.Kg3 Nh5 0-1 Not Classed Tristan Reeves - Jeff Suptut ACT Championship(3) 1993 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 b5 3.Bg2 Bb7 4.O-O g6 5.c3 a6 6.a4 c5 7.ab5 ab5 8.Ra8 Ba8 9.Qb3 Qa5 10.Na3 Bd5 11.c4 Bf3 12.Qf3 b4 13.Qb7! Qd8 14.Nb5 Bh6# 15.d4 Bc1 16.Nc7 Kf8 17.Rc1 d6 18.Ra1 Kg7 19.Bh3 Ne8 20.Nd5 e5 21.Ra8 Nf6 22.Nc7 Kh6 23.Na6 Na6 24.Rd8 Rd8 25.Qa6 ed4 26.Qb6 Re8 27.Qd6 Ne4 28.Qf4 Kg7 29.Bg2 Nf6 1-0 Not Classed Ian Rout - Jeff Suptut ACT Championship(5) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Ne5 d6 4.Nf3 Ne4 5.Nc3 d5? 6.Qe2 Be7 7.Ne4 de4 8.Qe4 O-O 9.Bc4 Re8 10.Ne5# 10...Be6 11.Be6 fe6 12.Qb7 Bc5 13.Qa8 Bf2 14.Kf2 Qd4 15.Ke2 Qe5 16.Kd1 Rf8 17.c3 Nd7 18.Qc6 Nc5 19.b4 Nd3 20.Kc2 Qf5 21.Kb3 Rb8 22.a4 a5 23.g4 Nc5 24.Kb2 Nd3 25.Ka2 Qg6 26.b5 Nf2 27.Re1 Qc2 28.Ka3 e5 29.Re5 h6 30.Qe6 Kh8 31.g5 Nd3 32.gh6 Rb6 33.hg7 Kg7 34.Qe7 Kh6 35.Qg5 Kh7 36.Re7 Kh8 37.Qg7 1-0 Not Classed Ken Telfer - Ramakrishna ACT Championship(5) 1993 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Bc4 Bg7 5.Qe2 Nc6 6.e5 Nd4 ( 6...Ng4 ) 7.ef6 Ne2 8.fg7 Rg8 9.Nge2 Rg7 10.h4 ( 10.Bh6 Rg8 11.h4 ) 10...h5 11.Bh6 Rh7 12.Be3 c6 13.O-O-O Qa5 14.Ne4 f6 15.Rd6!# 15...Bf5 16.N2c3 b5 17.Bb3 b4 18.Re1 Kf8 19.Nf6! ed6 20.Nh7 Kg7 21.Bd4 Kh6 22.Ng5 bc3 23.Re7 cb2 24.Kb2 1-0 Not Classed Oscar Hellmann - Stephen Bartlett ACT Major(5) 1993 1.g3 e5 2.Bg2 d5 3.d3 c6 4.Nd2 Nf6 5.e3 Be7 6.Ne2 O-O 7.b3 Re8 8.Bb2 Nbd7 9.O-O a5 10.a3 Bd6 11.h3 Qe7 12.g4 Nf8 13.Ng3 Ng6?! 14.g5 Nd7 15.Nf5 Qg5 16.Nd6 Nf6! 17.Nf3 ( 17.Ne8 Nh4-/+-/+ ) 17...Qh6 18.Nc8 Rac8 19.Nh2 Nh4 20.Ng4 Ng4 21.hg4 f5 22.f4 ef4 23.ef4 Ng2 24.Kg2 fg4 25.Qg4 Re6 26.Rh1 Qg6 27.Qg6 Rg6 28.Kf3 Rf8 29.Rag1 Rg1 30.Rg1 g6 31.Rg5 Kf7 32.a4 Re8 33.Re5 Rd8 34.Ba3 Rd7 35.Bc5 h6 36.Kg4 Kf6 37.d4 b5 38.ab5 cb5 39.Bb6 a4 40.ba4 ba4 41.Bc5 Kf7 42.f5 Rb7 43.fg6 Kg6 44.Rd5 Rb2 45.Rd6 Kg7 46.c3 Rg2 47.Kf3?! 47.Ke4 47...Rc2 48.Bb4 a3 49.Ba3?? 49.Ra6 49...Rc3 1/2 Not Classed Henk Doel - Shaun Press ACT Major(5) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.e3 O-O 6.cd5 Nd5 7.Be2 c5 8.O-O Nc6 9.Bc4 Nb6 10.Bb3 cd4 11.Nd4 Nd4 12.ed4 Qd4 13.Qe2 Qh4 14.Be3 Bf5?! 15.Bb6 ab6 16.Nd5 e6 17.Nb6 Rad8 18.Rad1 Rd1 19.Rd1 Rd8 20.Rd8 Qd8 21.Na4 Qg5 22.Qe3 Qh4 23.Nc3 Bd4 24.Qe2 Qf4 25.Nd1 Bg4 26.Qe1 Qc1 27.Kf1 Bf5 28.Qe2 Qb1 29.Qd2 Qe4 30.Nc3 Qe5 31.h3 b5? 31..h5 32.Ne2 Bb2 33.f4! Qf6 34.g4 Bb1 35.g5 Qg7 36.Qd7 Bf5 37.Qb5 Bh3 38.Kf2 Bd4?? 38...Bf5 39.Kg3 Bf5 40.Qb8 1-0 Not Classed David Austin - Steve Georgopoulos ACT Major(5) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fe5 Ne4 5.d3 Nc3 6.bc3 d4 7.Bb2 Bc5 8.Nf3 Nc6 9.cd4 Nd4 10.c3 Nf3 11.Qf3 Qh4 12.g3 Qe7 13.d4 Bb6 14.a4 a6 15.a5 Ba7 16.Bg2 O-O 17.c4 Bg4 18.Qc3 Rad8 19.c5 c6 20.Rc1 f6 21.O-O Be6 22.Qe1 fe5 23.Qe5 Bb8 24.Qe3 Qd7 25.Qg5 Bd5 26.Rf8 Rf8 27.Bd5 Qd5 28.Qd5 cd5 29.Re1 Kf7 30.Rb1 Re8 31.Kf2 Re6 32.Bc1 Re7 33.c6# 33...Ke6 34.cb7 Kd7 35.Bf4 Re8 36.Bb8 Rb8 37.Kf3 Kd6 38.Kf4 Rf8 39.Kg5 Rb8 40.h4 Kc6 41.Rb6 Kc7 42.Kf5 Rb7 43.Rb7 Kb7 44.Ke6 Kc6 45.h5 g5 46.hg6 hg6 47.g4 g5 48.Ke5 1-0 Not Classed Rory OBrien - Milan Ninchich ACT Major(5) 1993 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bg5 Bf5 4.e3 h6 5.Bf4 e6 6.Bd3 Be4 7.Nbd2 Bd6 8.Be5 O-O 9.Bf6! Bf3 10.Bd8 Bd1 11.Bc7 Bc7 12.Rd1 Nc6 13.c4 Nb4 14.Bb1 Ba5 15.Ke2 Rac8 16.c5 Nc6 17.a3 Bd8 18.f4 f6 19.Ba2 Kf7 20.Nb1 f5 21.b4 g5 22.b5 Ne7 23.Nd2 Ng6 24.g3 Rg8 25.Kf2 Be7 26.Rc1 h5 27.a4 h4 28.Nf3 hg3 29.hg3 g4 30.Nd2 Rh8 31.Kg2 Rh1 32.Rh1 Rh8 33.Rh8 Nh8 34.Kf2 Bd8 35.Nb3 b6 36.c6 Ke7 37.Ke2 Kd6 38.Kd3 Ng6 39.Bb1 Nh8 40.Ke2 Nf7 41.Bc2 Nh6 42.Nc1 Ng8 43.Nd3 Nf6 44.Ne5 Bc7 1/2 Not Classed Jeff Wood - Ian Hosking ACT Major(5) 1993 1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.e5 Na5 5.c3 b6 6.Bd3 c5 7.O-O c4?! 8.Bc2 f5 9.ef6 Nf6 10.Bg5 Be7 11.Ne5 O-O 12.Nd2 Nd7 13.Be7 Qe7 14.f4 Qh4 15.Rf3 Ne5 16.fe5 Bd7 17.Rg3 Rf4 18.Nf3 Qe7 19.Ng5 h6 20.Nh3 Rh4 21.Qe2 Be8 22.Rf1 Bh5 23.Qe3 Rg4 24.Nf4 Rg3 25.Qg3 Bf7 26.Bg6 Rf8 27.Nh5 Bg6 28.Rf8 Qf8 29.Qg6 Qf7 30.Qf7 Kf7 31.Nf4 Nc6 32.Kf2 b5 33.h4 b4 34.g4 a5 35.g5 hg5 36.hg5 a4 37.g6 Ke7 38.Ke3 bc3 39.bc3 Na7 40.Kd2 Nb5 41.Nh5 Kf8 42.Nf4 Nc7 43.Kc2 a3 44.Ng2 Nb5 45.Nf4 Ke7 46.Nh5 Kf8 1/2 Not Classed Ashley Oakes - Roger McCart ACT Major(5) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 c5 7.O-O Nbd7 8.h3 e5 9.d5 Nh5 10.Bg5 f6 11.Be3 Nf4 12.Qd2 Bh6 13.Kh2 g5 14.g3 Ne2 15.Ne2 Rf7 16.h4 Nf8 17.hg5 Bg5 18.Ng5 fg5 19.Kg2 Qf6 20.f3 h6 21.Rf2 Ng6 22.Rh1 Rh7 23.f4 ef4 24.gf4 g4 25.Kg3 h5 26.f5 h4# 27.Kg2 h3 28.Kg3 Qh4 29.Kh2 Ne5 30.Bg5 Qf2 0-1 Not Classed Robert Riggs - Alan Mengelkamp ACT Major(5) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 Ne4 7.d4 ed4 8.Re1 d5 9.Nd4 ( 9.Bd5 Qd5 10.Nc3! ) 9...Nd4 10.Qd4 Be6 11.Nd2?11.c3 11...c5 12.Qe3 c4 13.Ne4 de4 14.Qe4 Be7 15.f4 cb3 16.cb3 Qd5 17.Bd2 Qe4 18.Re4 Bc5 19.Kf1 O-O 20.Rc1 Rac8 21.Be3 Be3 22.Rc8 Rc8 23.Re3 Rc1 24.Kf2 Rc2 25.Kg3 g6 26.Rd3 Rb2 27.Kh4 Rg2 28.h3 Kg7 29.a3 Rb2 30.b4 Rb3 31.Rb3 Bb3 32.Kg3 Kf6 33.Kf3 Kf5 34.Ke3 f6 0-1 Not Classed Patrick Connell - Robert Green ACT Major(5) 1993 1.Nf3 c6 2.d4 d5 3.c4 Bg4 4.Ne5 Bh5 5.g4 Bg6 6.Ng6 fg6? 6..hxg 7.Nc3 e6 8.Bf4 Nd7 9.Bh3 g5 10.Bg3 Ngf6 11.c5 Be7 12.O-O O-O 13.f4 gf4 14.Bf4 Nc5 15.dc5 Bc5 16.e3 d4 17.Na4 Be7 18.g5 Ne8 19.Be6 Kh8 20.Qh5 Bd6 21.g6 Nf6 22.Qh3 Bf4 23.Rf4 h6 24.Rh4 Qe7 25.Rf1 Rae8 26.Rf6# ! 1-0 Not Classed Tony Salvage - Laura Moylan ACT Major(10) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.Bb5 Bb4 5.Bc6 bc6 6.d3 d6 7.O-O O-O 8.Ne2 Bg4 9.Ng3 Qd7 10.h3 Be6 11.c3 Ba5 12.b4 Bb6 13.Nh2 d5 14.Bg5 Qe7 15.Bf6 Qf6 16.Qf3 Qg5 17.a4 c5 18.Qe2 cb4 19.cb4 Bd4?? 19...Qxg3 20.Nf3 Qf6 21.Nd4 ed4 22.Rfc1 de4 23.Ne4 Qe5 24.Rc5 Qf4 25.Qd2 Qd2 26.Nd2 a6 27.a5 Rab8 28.Re1 Rfd8 29.Nf3 Rest of scoresheet unreadable! 1-0 Not Classed Donald Darling - Peter Murphy ACT Major(5) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 a6 4.Ng5 e6 5.f4 Be7 6.O-O Bg5 7.fg5 Qg5 8.d4 Qe7 9.d5 b5 10.Be2 e5 11.Be3 Nf6 12.Bg5 Nbd7 13.Nd2 h6 14.Bf6 Nf6 15.c4 bc4 16.h3 Bd7 17.Nc4 Ne4 18.Rf3 Rb8 19.Bd3 Nf6 20.Rb1 O-O 21.Bf5 Bb5 22.Na5 Qc7 23.Qd2 Rbd8 24.Bc2 Qb6 25.Rf6!!# 25...e4 26.Be4 Rfe8 27.Rf4 Re5 28.Rg4 g5 29.Nc6 Bc6 30.dc6 Kg7 31.Bd5 Rde8 32.Qc3 Kg8 33.Rd1 R8e7 34.Kh2 Kf8 35.Rf1 Ke8 36.Re4 Qb5 37.Rfe1 f6 38.Re5 fe5 39.b3 Qb6 40.a3 a5 41.Re4 Ra7 42.h4 Qd8 43.h5 Qb6 44.a4 Rh7 45.Bc4 Kd8 46.Bb5 Rf7 47.Qd3 Qc7 48.Re5 g4 49.Rd5 Rf6 50.Qe4 Qg7 51.Rf5 Qh7 52.c7 Kc7 53.Qc6 Kd8 54.Rf6 1-0 Not Classed Nye Griffiths - Duncan Gilmour ACT Minor(5) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 ef4 4.e5 Ng8 5.Nf3 Bc5 6.d4 Bb6 7.Bf4 Ne7 8.Bd3 d5 9.ed6 Qd6?? 10.Bd6 cd6 11.Qe2 Nc6 12.O-O-O Bg4 13.Bb5 O-O 14.d5 Ne5 15.h3 Rac8 16.Na4 Bh5 17.g4 Bg6 18.Rhg1 a6 19.Bd7 Rc7 1-0 Not Classed Simon Ayling - Andrew Moylan ACT Minor(5) 1993 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 de4 4.Ne4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.Be2 e6 7.Bf4 Nf6 8.c4 Bd6 9.Qd2 Qc7 10.Bd6 Qd6 11.Nf3 Nbd7 12.O-O O-O 13.Rad1 Rfd8 14.Qc3 Qc7 15.Bd3 Bd3 16.Qd3 Nb6 17.Ne5 c5 18.Qe3 Rac8 19.dc5 Na4 20.b4 b6 21.cb6 Nb6 22.Rc1 Nfd7 23.Nd7 Rd7 24.c5 Nd5 25.Qb3 a5 26.b5 Qa7 27.b6 Qb7 28.Ne2 Ne7 29.Rfd1 Nf5 30.Rd7 Qd7 31.b7 Rb8 32.c6 Qc7 33.g4 Ne7 34.Nd4 Qf4 35.Ne2 Qg4 36.Ng3 Qf4 37.Rc4 Qc7 38.Ne4 Nc6 39.Qa4# 39...Qb7 40.Qc6 Qb1 41.Rc1 Qb7 42.Qb7 1-0 Not Classed Daniel Mayoh - Paul Sutherland ACT Minor(5) 1993 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d6 3.Nf3 g6 4.Bf4 Nd7 5.e5 d5 6.Bg5 f6 7.ef6 Ngf6 8.Bb5 Bg7 9.O-O c6 10.Bd3 O-O 11.Qe1 Re8 12.Nc3 Qc7 13.Ne2 e5 14.Ne5 Ne5 15.de5 Nd7 16.f4 Qb6 17.Kh1 Qb2 18.Ng3 h6 19.Bh6!# 19...Bh6 20.Bg6 Rf8 21.Nf5 Bg7 22.Ng7 Kg7 23.Qg3 Kh6 24.Qg5 Kg7 25.Bh5 Kh8 26.Bg4 b5 27.Qh6 Kg8 28.Be6 Rf7 29.Qg6 Kh8 30.Bf7 Ba6 31.Qh6 1-0 Not Classed Leon Sadkowsky - Andy Lee ACT Minor(5) 1993 1.e4 b6 2.Nf3 Bb7 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bd3 e6 5.O-O d5 6.Re1 Bc5 7.Kf1 de4 8.Ne4 Ne4 9.Be4 Ba6 10.d3 c6 11.Ne5 Qd4# 12.Re2 Qe5 13.Bc6 Nc6 14.Re5 Ne5 15.Bf4 Ng6 16.Qf3 O-O 17.Bd2 Ne5 18.Qg3 Bd6 19.Bc3 b5 20.Bd2 Nc4 21.Bf4 Nd2 22.Ke2 Bf4 23.Qf4 Nc4 24.dc4 bc4 25.Kd2 Rac8 26.Re1 Rb8 27.Re3 Rb2 28.Rg3 Rc8 29.Qh6 Kf8 30.Qg7 Ke7 31.Qb2 c3 32.Rc3 Rd8 33.Kc1 Be2 34.Qb7 Kf6 35.Qe4 Rd1 36.Kb2 Bf1 37.Qf3 1-0 Not Classed Tom Green - Clare Moylan ACT Minor(6) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 Qe7 5.O-O d6 6.Nf7 Rg8 7.Ng5 Rh8 8.Bf7 Kd8 9.Bb3 Nd4 10.Nf7 Kd7 11.Nh8 Nb3 12.ab3 g6 13.Nc3 Qg7 14.Ng6 hg6 15.Nd5 Nd5 16.ed5 Qf6 17.Qg4 Kd8 18.Qg3 Bf5 19.d3 Ke7 20.Bg5 Kf7 21.Bf6 Kf6 22.Qh4 Kf7 23.Qh7 Kf6 24.Qc7 b6 25.Qb7 Re8 26.Ra7 Re7 27.Qb6 Ra7 28.Qa7 Kg5 29.Qe3 Kf6 30.b4 g5 31.b5 Bh6 32.b6 Kg6 33.b7 g4 34.Qb6 Bg5 35.Qd6 Kh5 36.g3 Bh7 37.b8Q Bg6 38.Qh8 Bh6 39.Qhf6 Bg5 40.Qg6 1-0 Not Classed Ramakrishna - Justin Marshall ACT Championship(6) 1993 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 Nf6 3.g3 c5 4.Bg2 e6 5.O-O Nc6 6.b3 g6 7.Bb2 Bg7 8.Na3 d4 9.d3 O-O 10.Qd2 e5 11.e4 Bd7 12.Rab1 Ng4 13.h3 Nf6 14.Nc2 Re8 15.Ba3 Bf8 16.Kh2 a5 17.Nh4 Nb4 18.Ra1 Nh5 19.Bf3 Nf4! After an uneventful opening many spectators thought that this game would end in a quick draw. This moves adds a bit of excitement to proceedings. 20.Bb4 ab4 21.Bg4 Bg4 22.hg4 Qg5 23.f3 Qh6 24.gf4 Qh4 25.Kg2 ef4?! Black should have tried 25...Bh6. The logical 26.g5 lets Black generate a winning attack eg. ( 25...Bh6 26.g5 ef4! 27.gh6 Re5 28.Rg1 Rg5 29.Kf1 Qh3 and its all over ) 26.Qf4 Bh6 27.Qg3 Qg3 28.Kg3 Bd2 29.a4 ba3 30.Ra3 Bc3 31.Rb1 Kg7 1/2 Not Classed Mos Ali - Brian Butler ACT Championship(6) 1993 1.f4 e5 2.fe5 d6 3.ed6 Bd6 4.Nf3 g5 5.d4 g4 6.Ng5 f5 7.e4 h6 8.e5 Be7 9.Nh3 gh3 10.Qh5 Kf8 11.Bc4 Rh7 Typically this is all theory. Instead of 11...Rh7 Sandler played 11...Qe8 against Mos at the 1993 Mountain Open and lost . 12.Be3 However this is new. Taimanov gives instead ( 12.Qg6 Bb4! 13.Ke2 ( 13.c3 Rg7 14.Bh6 ( 14.Qh5 hg2 15.Rg1 Qd4 ) 14...Qh4 ) 13...Rg7 14.Bh6 Nh6 15.Qh6 Qg5 16.Qg5 Rg5 ) 12...Bg5 13.Bf2 Qe7 14.O-O hg2 15.Re1 Be6 16.d5 Bf7 17.Qh3 Bg6 18.Nc3 Bd2 19.Re2 Bc3 20.Qc3 Nd7 21.Bb5 a6 22.Ba4 b5 23.Bb3 Ngf6 24.Rae1 Ne4 25.Qc6! Despite being a piece down White still has a strong attack. This move takes advantage of Blacks uncoordinate pieces. 25...Qe8 26.Re4!# White removes Blacks only good piece in the position 26...fe4 27.Bd4 Re7 28.d6 Re5 Black attempts to return material to dull Whites attack. 29.dc7 Re7 30.Re2 Ne5 31.Qf6 Bf7 32.Qh8 1-0 Not Classed Stephen Bartlett - Henk Doel ACT Major(6) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cd4 4.Nd4 g6 5.Be3 Nf6 6.Nc3 Bg7 7.Nb3 d6 8.Be2 a6 9.a4 O-O 10.O-O Be6 11.Nd4 Nd4 12.Bd4 Nd7 13.Bg7 Kg7 14.a5 b5 15.f4 f6 16.Nd5 Bd5 17.Qd5 Qc7 18.Rfc1 Qc5 19.Kf1 Qd5 20.ed5 f5 21.b4 Nf6 22.c4 bc4 23.Bc4 Ne4 24.Ke2 Rfc8 25.Ke3 Kf6 26.Kd4 Rab8 27.Rab1 Nd2 28.Rb2 Nc4 29.Rc4 Rc4 30.Kc4 Rb5 The position is equal. White now attempts to generate some winning chances but this backfires on him. 31.Re2 Kf7 32.h4 Rb8 33.h5 Rc8 34.Kd4 Rc1 Now Blacks rook threatens to run amok. 35.Rb2 Rd1 36.Kc4 Rc1 37.Kb3 e6 38.Rc2 Rb1 39.Ka3 ed5 40.Rc7 Ke6 41.h6 d4 42.Rc2 Kd5 43.Rb2 Rb2 44.Kb2 Now black is clearly winning 44...Kc4 45.Kc2 Kb4 46.Kd3 Kc5 47.g3 Kd5 48.Kd2 Ke4 49.Ke2 d3 50.Kd2 Kd4 51.Kd1 Ke3 52.Ke1 d2 53.Kd1 d5 0-1 Not Classed David Austin - Oscar Hellmann ACT Major(6) 1993 1.e4 g6 2.Nc3 Bg7 3.f4 d6 4.Nf3 Nd7 5.Bc4 e6 6.O-O a6 7.a4 b6 8.f5 e5 9.d3 h6 10.Qe1 Ngf6 White has played a Anti- Sicilian against the Modern Defence and has built up a strong attack. 11.fg6 fg6 12.Qg3 Nf8 13.Nd5 Nh5 14.Qf2 Ne6 15.Ne3 Nef4 16.d4 Bh3 Black tries to confuse the issue. 17.Kh1 Bd7 18.de5 de5 19.Nd5 Nd5 20.Bd5 c6 21.Ne5!# Utilising the mate threat on f7 white now wins material. 21...Qf6 22.Bf7 Ke7 23.Ng6 Kf7 24.Nh8 Kg8 Black cannot grab the knight straight away as Qe2 leaves the Black queen pinned against the king. 25.Qf6 Nf6 26.e5 Nd5 27.Ng6 Be8 28.Nf4 Nb4 29.e6 Nc2 30.Rb1 c5 31.b3 Bc6 32.Bb2 Bf8 33.Ng6 Bd6 34.Rf7 Nd4 35.Re1 Ne6 36.Re6 Kf7 37.Rd6 Re8 38.Ne5 Kg8 39.Rc6 1-0 Not Classed Shaun Press - Roger McCart ACT Major(6) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cd4 4.Nd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Be7 8.Bd3 Book is 8.Qf3 8...Nc6 9.Nf3 Qc7 10.a3 Bd7 11.Qd2 h6 12.Bh4 O-O 13.O-O Rac8 14.Kh1 Ne8 15.Bg3 f5 Black correctly strikes at the centre. 16.Rae1 Na5? Moveing this knight to the edge of the board is a mistake. Exchanging in e4 is more consistent. 17.ef5 Nc4 18.Bc4 Qc4 19.fe6 Bc6?! 20.Bh4 Nf6 21.f5? At this point white goes astray . The next few moves almost throw the game away. 21...Bf3 22.Bf6 Bg2 23.Kg2 Qc6?! 23...Bxf6 24.Kg1 Bf6 25.Re3? This move drops material. The only benefit is in the fact that Blacks dark square bishop was helping stop whites pawns. 25...Bg5 26.e7 Be3 27.Qe3 Rf7 28.Qe6! Re8 29.Nd5 Qc2 30.f6# 30...Qg6 31.Kh1 Kh7 32.Rg1 Qh5 33.Qe4 Kh8 34.Nf4 Qc5? Right idea (planning Qc6) but the queen is on the wrong square. On b5 is also protects the rook on e8. 35.Rg7 Qc1 ( 35...Rg7 36.fg7 Kg8 ( 36...Kg7 37.Qg6 and the rook on e8 falls ) 37.Qe6 Kg7 38.Qg6 ) 36.Rg1 Qg1 Time trouble 37.Kg1 Rf6 38.Qd4 Rg8 39.Kf2 Rg6 40.e8Q A pair of queens beats a pair of rooks. Black folds. 1-0 Not Classed Steve Georgopoulos - Rory OBrien ACT Major(6) 1993 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.f3 de4 4.fe4 e5 5.Nf3 Be6 6.c3 Nf6 7.Bd3 Nbd7 8.O-O Qc7 9.a4 Bd6 10.Na3 Qb8 11.Nc4 Bc7 12.Ne3 Ng4 13.h3 Ne3 14.Be3 f6 15.Qe2 O-O 16.Bc4 Qe8 17.a5 Kh8 18.b3 ed4 19.cd4 Bc4 20.bc4 Qe4 21.Qd2 b6 22.d5 cd5 23.cd5 Rfe8 24.Rfe1 Bg3 25.Re2 Ne5 26.Ne5 Re5 27.ab6 Qd5 28.Qd5 Rd5 29.ba7 Kg8 30.Rea2 Kf7 31.Bf2 Bf2 32.Kf2 Rd7 33.Ra6 Ke7 34.R1a5 Kf7 35.Kf3 Re7 36.Kf4 Kg8 37.h4 Kf7 38.g4 Ke8 39.Kf5 Kf8 40.h5 h6 41.Kg6 Rb7 42.Rc6 Ke8 43.Rc8 Rc8 44.a8Q Ra8 45.Ra8 Ke7 46.Rg8 Rb4 47.Rg7 Kf8 48.Kh6 Rf4 49.Kh7 Ra4 50.h6 Rb4 51.Kh8 Ra4 52.h7 Rb4 53.g5 fg5 54.Rg5 Rf4 55.Rg8 Kf7 56.Rg7 Kf8 57.Rg8 Kf7 58.Rg7 Kf8 59.Rg8# White might have tried the more prosaic Rf7+ 1/2 Not Classed Allen Mengelkamp - Jeff Wood ACT Major(6) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.Nc3 b5 6.Bb3 Be7 7.d3 O-O 8.O-O d6 9.h3 Be6 10.Nd5 Bd5 11.Bd5 Nd5 12.ed5 Nb8 13.Re1 Nd7 14.d4 Bf6 15.de5 Ne5 16.Nd4 Re8 17.Bf4 Ng6 18.Re8 Qe8 19.Be3 Qe4! 20.Qf3 Qf3 Now white pawns fall like apples from a tree 21.gf3 Bd4 22.Bd4 Nf4 23.Be3 Nd5 24.c3 Re8 25.Re1 Ne3 26.Re3 Re3 27.fe3# Black now wins the king and pawn ending fairly easily. 27...f5 28.Kf2 Kf7 29.f4 h6 30.h4 Ke6 31.Ke2 c5 32.b3 Kd5 33.Kf3 h5 34.a3 a5 35.b4 ab4 36.ab4 Kc4 37.e4 fe4 38.Ke4 Kc3 39.bc5 dc5 40.Kf5 b4 41.Kg6 b3 42.Kg7 b2 43.f5 b1Q 44.f6 Qf1 45.f7 Kd4 46.f8Q Qf8 47.Kf8 Ke5 48.Kg7 Kf5 49.Kh6 Kg4 50.Kg6 c4 51.Kf6 c3 52.Ke5 c2 53.Ke4 c1Q 54.Kd5 Qc3 55.Ke4 Qf3 56.Kd4 Kf5 57.Kc4 Ke5 58.Kc5 Qc3 59.Kb5 Kd5 60.Kb6 Qc8 61.Ka7 Qc5 62.Kb7 Kd6 63.Kb8 Kc6 64.Ka8 Qa5 65.Kb8 Qb6 66.Ka8 Qb7 0-1 Not Classed Milan Ninchich - Robert Riggs ACT Major(6) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cd4 4.Nd4 a6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Bc4 Bg7 7.Be3 Nf6 8.Nc6 bc6 9.O-O O-O 10.e5 Ne8 11.f4 d5 12.Nd5! cd5 13.Bd5 Be6# 13...Bg4 saves the exchange. 14.Ba8 Qa8 15.Qd4 Bd5 16.Rf2 Nd6! 17.Rd1 e6 18.Qb4 Ne4 19.Re2 Rc8 20.g4 Bf8 21.Qe1 Qb7 22.Bd4 Nc5 23.Re3 Na4 24.c3 Qb2 25.Rd2 Qb7 26.Rh3 Bc5 27.Qh4 Bd4# Despite white looking threatening Black misses a much stronger move. ( 27...Qb1 28.Kf2 ) 28.cd4 Rc1 29.Kf2 f5 30.Qd8 White bails out with a perpetual check. 30...Kg7 31.Qf6 Kg8 32.Qd8 1/2 Not Classed Ian Hosking - Bill Hieser ACT Major(6) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cd4 4.Nd4 Nc6 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 g6 7.Be2 Bg7 8.Be3 O-O 9.O-O Qc7 10.f3 Ne8 11.Rb1 f5 12.Ncb5 Qb8 13.ef5 Bf5 14.Nf5 Rf5 15.Bd3 Rf8 16.Be4 a6 17.Bd5 Kh8 18.Nd4 Nd4 19.Bd4 Nf6 20.Re1 e5 21.Be3 Nd5 22.Qd5 Rf5 23.Rbd1 e4 24.Qe4 Rh5 25.Bf4 Be5 26.g4 Rh4 27.Be5 de5 28.Rd5 Kg7 29.Re5 Kf6# Does the king really belong out here? 30.Qf4 No! 30...Kg7 31.Re7 1-0 Not Classed Robert Green - Tony Salvage ACT Major(6) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 d6 4.d4 Bg4 5.Bf7? This move loses a piece. (See notes to the Pullicino - Darling game) 5...Kf7 6.Ng5 Ke8? 7.Qg4 Nd4 8.Na3 Nf6 9.Qd1 Ne4?? 10.Ne4 Qh4 11.Ng5 g6 12.c3 Nf5 13.g3 Qh6 14.Ne6 Qh3 15.Nc7 Kd7 16.Na8 Qg2 17.Rf1 Qe4 18.Qe2 Qe2 19.Ke2 d5 20.Be3 Ba3 21.ba3 Ra8 22.Rab1 Kc6 23.Rfd1 Rd8 24.Rb4 b5 25.Ba7 Ra8 26.Be3 Ra3 27.Ra1 Rc3 28.Bd2 Rc4 29.Rc4 bc4 30.a4 Nd4 31.Kd1 Nb3 32.Rb1 If white didn't have the a pawn black might be winning this position. The plan would be to exchange the knight for the bishop and attempt to swamp the rook with the pawns. 32...Kb6 However this plan fails to white running the a pawn to the end of the board. 33.a5 Ka6 34.h4 h5 35.Rb2 d4 36.Rb3 cb3 37.Kc1 e4 38.Kb2 e3 39.fe3 de3 40.Be3 Ka5 41.Kb3 1-0 Not Classed Laura Moylan - Donald Darling ACT Major(6) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bc4 h6 5.O-O Be7 6.d3 d6 7.h3 Bd7 8.Be3 Qc8 9.Kh2 a6 10.a3 g5 11.Rg1 h5 12.Bg5 Ng4! 13.hg4 hg4 14.Kg3 gf3 15.Be7 Rg8 16.Kh2 Ke7 17.Qf3?? White had to play 17.Nd5+ when black would have nothing better than drawing via rook checks. 17...Rh8 18.Kg3 Qg8 19.Qg4 Qg4 0-1 Not Classed Andrew Moylan - Guy Jones ACT Minor(6) 1993 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 d5 4.cd5 Nd5 5.Bg2 Nc3 6.bc3 Nc6 7.Nf3 Bc5 8.O-O Bg4 9.Qa4 Qd7 10.e3 O-O 11.d4 Bf3 More exciting was 11...Nxd4+. 12.Qxd7 Nxf3+ 13.Bxf3 Bxd7 12.Bf3 Bb6 13.de5 Rad8 14.Rd1 Qd1?? A complete miscalculation. 15.Bd1 Rd1 16.Qd1 1-0 Not Classed Paul Sutherland - Leon Sadkowsky ACT Minor(6) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.O-O Ne4 5.d3 Nf6 6.Bg5 Be7 7.Re1 d5 8.Bb5 O-O 9.Bc6 bc6 10.Ne5 Bg4 11.f3? ( 11.Ng4 Ng4 12.Be7 ) 11...Be6 12.Nc6 Bc5 13.d4 Qd6 14.Ne5 Bb4 15.c3 Ba5 16.Na3 Bb6 17.Nb5 Qd8 18.a4 a6 19.Na3 Qd6 20.Qd2 c5 21.Bf4 Qe7 22.Nc2 cd4 23.cd4 Qd8 24.a5 Bc7 25.Nb4 Nd7 26.Nbc6 Qc8?? 26...Qe8 27.Ne7 Kh8 28.Nc8 Rac8 29.Nd7 Rfd8 30.Nc5 Bf4 31.Qf4 Rb8 32.Rab1 g6 33.Na6 Rb5 34.b4 Bf5 35.Rb2 Ra8 36.Nc7 Rbb8 37.Na8 Ra8 38.Rbe2 Bd7 39.Re7 Bb5 40.Qf7 h5 41.Qh7 1-0 Not Classed Jenny Moylan - Antonio Cavazzoni ACT Minor(6) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 ed4 4.Nd4 Nd4 5.Qd4 b6 6.Bb5 Bc5 7.Qd3 Nf6 8.O-O O-O 9.Bg5 Qe7 10.Nd2 d6 11.Rae1 a6 12.Bc6 Ra7 13.Nb3 a5 14.Re2 Ba6 15.c4 Qe6 16.Nc5 bc5 17.b3 h6 18.Bh4 Rb8 19.Rd1 Rb6 20.Ba4 Bb5? 21.cb5 g5 22.Bg3 d5 23.e5 c4 24.bc4 dc4 25.Qd8! Kg7 26.ef6 Qf6 27.Be5 1-0 Not Classed Angus Webb - Dianne Oglesby ACT Minor(6) 1993 1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 e6 3.c4 Bb4 4.Bd2 Bd2 5.Qd2 Nf6 6.Nc3 O-O 7.cd5 ed5 8.O-O-O Be6 9.Ng5 Re8 10.Ne6 Re6 11.e3 Nbd7 12.Be2 Nb6 13.f4 Ne4 14.Ne4 de4 15.Bg4 Rc6 16.Kb1 Nc4 17.Qe2 Qd5 18.Rc1 b5 19.a4 Rb8 20.ab5 Rb5 21.Bc8# 21...Na3 22.Ka1 Ra5 23.Rc6 Nb5 24.Kb1 Qc6 25.Qc2 Qe8 26.Bb7 Nd6 27.Bc6 Qb8 28.Qc3 Qb6 29.Qc2 Nb5 30.Qe4? Nc3! 31.Kc2 Ne4 32.Be4 Ra2 33.Bd5 Qb2 0-1 Not Classed Jeff Suptut - Ken Telfer ACT Championship(5) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.e3 e6 4.c3 b6 5.Nbd2 Bb7 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.O-O Be7 8.Re1 Qc7 9.Qc2 d5 10.dc5 bc5 11.b3 h6 12.e4 O-O-O?! This attempt to unbalance the position works in whites favour 13.Bb2 Kb8 14.Rad1 g5 15.ed5 ed5 16.Bb5 Bd6 17.Qf5 Nh5 18.c4 Bc8 19.Qb1 d4 20.b4!# This move exploits the shaky location of the Black king. 20...Nb4 21.a3 g4 22.ab4 gf3 23.Nf3 a6 24.bc5 ab5 25.cd6 Qb7 26.Bd4 Rhg8 27.Qb5 Nf4 28.d7 Rg2 29.Kf1 Bd7 30.Be5 Kc8 31.Qb7 Kb7 32.Bf4 Rg4 33.Ne5 Rf4 34.Rd7 Rd7 35.Nd7 Rc4 36.Ne5 Rf4 37.Kg2 Kc7 38.Kg3 Rf5 39.f4 h5 40.Nf3 Rf6 41.Re5 Rg6 42.Rg5 1-0 Not Classed Ashley Oakes - Patrick Connell ACT Major(6) 1993 1.d4 c5 2.d5 d6 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Nf3 Be7 6.e4 O-O 7.Be2 Nbd7 8.O-O Nd5??! Typically adventurous Connell play. Completely unsound but interesting enough to cause problems. 9.ed5 e5 10.Qc2 f5 11.Bd2 e4 12.Ne1 Bf6 13.f3 Bd4 14.Kh1 e3 15.Bc1 f4 In return for the piece Black has developed a bind on whites position. 16.Bd3# 16...Qh4 17.Bf5 Ne5 18.Bc8 Rac8 19.Ne2 Rf6 Despite the threatening look of blacks position white seems to have the required defensive resources. 20.Qe4 Rcf8 21.Nd4 cd4 22.Qd4 Rh6 23.h3 Qg3 24.b3 e2 Black is planning to sacrifice the rook but chooses the wrong moment to do it. The sacrifice is much stronger straight away. ( 24...Rh3 25.gh3 Qh3 26.Kg1 Qg3 27.Ng2 ( 27.Kh1 Rf6 ) 27...e2! 28.Qf2 ( 28.Bd2 ef1Q 29.Kf1 Qf3 and black still maintains an attack for the piece. ) 28...Nf3 29.Qf3 e1Q with an unclear position ) 25.Rf2 Rh3 Now white can defend with the rook 26.gh3 Rf5 27.Bd2 Rh5 28.Rh2 Nf3 29.Qf2 Nd2 30.Qg3 fg3 31.Re2 Rh3 32.Kg1 Nb3 33.ab3 1-0 Not Classed Justin Marshall - Jeff Suptut ACT Championship(7) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.g3 c5 4.Bg2 Nc6 5.O-O d5 6.c3 Be7 7.Nbd2 O-O 8.Re1 cd4 9.cd4 Bd7 10.Nb3 Na5 11.Na5 Qa5 12.Bd2 Bb4 13.a3 Bd2 14.Qd2 Qd2 And in this roughly equal position the players agreed to a draw. 1/2 Not Classed Isaac Arsanis - Mos Ali ACT Championship(7) 1993 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bc3 6.bc3 Nc6 7.Nf3 Qc7 8.Be2 Nge7 9.O-O Bd7 10.a4 f6 11.Bf4 Ng6 12.Bg3 f5 Normally black wishes to capture on e5 but in this instance he chooses to ignore the pawn. Instead he embarks on an attack on whites king. 13.h3 O-O 14.Bb5 Nd8 15.Ng5 Nf7 16.Bd7 Qd7 17.Qh5 Ng5 18.Qg5 f4# 19.Bh2 Rf5 20.Qg4 cd4 21.cd4 Black takes the opportunity to open a second path of attack the c-file. 21...f3! 22.gf3 Qf7 23.Rab1 h5 24.Qg3 Rf3 25.Qg5 Rf5?! Black should probably been greedy and taken on h3. 26.Qe3 Nh4 27.f4! Now black will find it difficult to continue the attack. 27...Rc8 28.Rb2 Rf8 29.a5 g5 While white is looking for queenside counterplay black gets the attack back on the rails. 30.Qg3 Kh8 31.Rbb1 Ng6 32.Qb3 Nf4 33.Qf3 g4 34.hg4 hg4 35.Qg3 Ne2 0-1 Not Classed Tristan Reeves - Isaac Arsanis ACT Championship(6) 1993 1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 c5 3.Bg2 Nc6 4.O-O e5 5.d3 f5 6.c4 d4 7.e3 Be7 8.ed4 ed4 9.Re1 Nf6 10.Ng5?! White is fact playing a Kings Indian a move up. The usual idea in this position is to play Nh4 followed by f4. 10...O-O 11.Ne6 Be6 12.Re6 Qd7 All these exchanges have allowed black to catch up in development. 13.Re2 Bd6 14.Bg5 Kh8 15.Nd2 h6 16.Bf6 Rf6 17.a3 f4!# Black now takes the opportunity to play f4 and break open whites position. 18.g4 Ne5 19.h3 f3 20.Re5 Be5 21.Nf3 Bf4 22.b4 Rc8 23.Qb3 b6 24.Nh4 Qc7 25.Qc2 Rcf8 26.Be4 Qd6 27.Nf5 Qe5 28.Nh4 Qe6 29.Bf5 Qd6 30.Qe2 g6 31.bc5 bc5 32.Ng6 Rg6 33.Bg6 Qg6 34.Re1 White has defended well and has 2 pawns for the piece. 34...Qd6 35.Qe7 Tristan was probably in time trouble at this point. 35...Bh2 36.Kh1 Rf2 37.Qd6 Bd6 38.Re6 Bf4 39.Rf6 Kg7 40.Ra6 Bb8 41.Ra5 Rf3 42.Rc5 Rh3 43.Kg2 Rd3 44.Rb5 Bf4 45.Rd5 Rg3 46.Kf2 d3 47.c5 d2 48.c6 Rc3 49.Ke2 Rc6 50.a4 Rc1 51.Rd7 Kg6 52.g5 hg5 0-1 Not Classed Ian Rout - Tristan Reeves ACT Championship(7) 1993 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.e5 b6 5.a3 Bb7 6.f4 Nge7 7.Nf3 Nf5 8.Ne2 Be7 9.c3 h5 10.Ng3 Bh4 11.Nh4 Qh4 12.Qf3 O-O-O 13.Be3 Na5 14.Bf2 Ng3 15.Qg3 Qe7 16.Be2 Rdg8 17.Qf3 f6 18.O-O Nc4 19.Be1 g5 20.b3 Na5 21.Rb1 fe5 22.fe5 Rf8 23.Qe3 Rf1 24.Bf1 Qa3 25.Qg5 Nb3 26.Qf626.Qg6 is more exact 26...Re8 27.Qf7 Bc6 28.Qh5 Rf8 29.Qh6 Rf1?! This sacrifice is unsound. Although black has attacking chances white should be able to cash in his material advantage. 30.Kf1 Bb5 31.Kg1 Qa2 32.Qe6 Kb8 33.Qg8 Kb7?? This is an amazing stuff up in the position. 34.Qd5 Bc6# To stop the mate white loses a rook. 35.Qg8 Qb1 36.Qg3 Nc1 37.h4? This second mistake is just a continuation of the first blunder. 37...Ne2 0-1 Not Classed Henk Doel - David Austin ACT Major(7) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.de5 Ng4 4.e4 Ne5 5.f4 Ng6 6.Be3 Bb4 7.Nc3 Bc3 8.bc3 b6 9.Nf3 Nc6 10.Be2 Bb7 11.O-O d6 12.Ng5 Qe7 13.Bh5 O-O-O 14.Bf3 f6 15.Bg4 Kb8 16.Ne6 Rde8 17.a4 Nf8 18.Nf8 Rhf8 19.Bf3 f5 20.e5 de5 21.Bd5 Rd8 22.Qf3 e4 23.Qf2 Na5 24.Bb7 Nb7 25.a5 Na5 26.Ra5 ba5 27.Ba7 Kc8 28.Bc5 Qe6 29.Bf8 Rf8 30.Qc5 Qb6 The pin on the queen prevents white from picking up more pawns. 31.Qb6 cb6 32.Rb1 Kc7 33.c5 Rb8 34.Rb5 Kc6 35.c4 a4 36.Rb4 a3 37.Ra4 Kc5 38.Ra3 Kc4 39.Kf2 Rb7 40.Ke3 h5 41.Kd2 Rd7 42.Kc2 Rd6 43.Rc3 Kd4 44.Rg3 g6 45.Rc3 e3? 46.Rd3 Kc5 47.Re3 b5 48.Kb3 b4 49.Re5 Rd5 50.Re2 Rd3 51.Kc2 Kc4 52.Re6 b3 53.Kc1 Rd4 54.g3 Kc3 55.Rc6 Rc4 56.Rb6 1/2 Not Classed Shaun Press - Stephen Bartlett ACT Major(7) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 e6 3.f4 d5 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.e5 This move makes sense if followed by d4. Otherwise Bb5+ might be preferable. 5...Nfd7 6.Be2 Nc6 7.O-O Qb6 8.Kh1 Be7 9.Qe1 O-O 10.a3 a6 11.Qg3 f6 12.d3 Qc7! Whites king-side hack goes nowhere while black is about to liquidate whites pawn centre 13.f5!? Nde5 14.Ne5 Ne5 15.fe6 15.Bg4 might be sharper. 15...Be6 16.Bf4 Rad8 17.Rae1 Bd6 18.Bf3 Nf3 19.Rf3 Bf4 20.Rf4 Bf7 21.Qf3 Rfe8 22.Rf1 Qe5 Centralising the queen is good but doubling the rooks on the e-file might be better. 23.g4 b5 24.g5 Qg5 25.Rg1 Qe5 26.Rf6 Bg6 27.Rf4 Qe3?? Black was better in this position with white having to fight for a draw. Instead this move gives white the game on a plate. 28.Rf8 1-0 Not Classed Oscar Hellmann - Steve Georgopoulos ACT Major(7) 1993 1.d4 g6 2.e4 d6 3.f4 Bg7 4.Nf3 Na6 5.c3 Nf6 6.Qc2 O-O 7.h3 c5 8.d5 Bd7 9.Be3 b5 10.Nbd2 Nc7 11.Be2 e6 12.de6 fe6 13.O-O Nh5! 14.Nh2 Ng3 15.Rf2 Ne2 16.Re2 Bh6 17.Rf1 e5 18.Ref2 ef4 19.Bf4 Bf4 20.Rf4 Rf4 21.Rf4 Qg5 22.Rf3 Ne6 23.Ng4 Nf4 24.Nf1 Bg4 25.Rg3 Qe5 26.Rg4 Re8 27.Qd2 Rf8 28.Ng3 c4 29.Nf5 Nd3 30.Qh6 Qf6 31.Qe3 Kh8 32.Nd4 a6 33.b3 Qf2 34.Qf2 Rf2 35.bc4 bc4 36.Nf3 Ra2 37.e5 de5 38.Rc4 Kg7 39.Rc7 Kf6 40.Rh7 a5 41.Ra7 Nf4 42.Ra6 Kf5 43.Ne1 Ne2 44.Kh2 Nc3 45.Nf3 Ne2 46.Nh4 Kg5 47.Nf3 Kf5 48.Nh4 Ke4 49.Rg6 Nf4 50.Ra6 a4 51.Ra5 a3 52.Kg3 Ra1 53.Ra4 Kd3 54.Nf3 Ne2 55.Kg4 e4 56.Ne5 Kc2 57.Re4 Nc3 58.Rb4 a2 59.Nc4 Re1 60.Rb2 Kd3 61.Ra2 Na2 62.Nd6 Rg1 63.g3 Nc3 64.h4 Kd4 65.h5 Ke5 66.Nf5 Kf6 67.h6 Kg6 68.Nh4 Kh6 69.Nf5 Kh7 70.Kg5 Ne4 71.Kf4 Nf6 72.Kg5 Ne4 73.Kf4 Nf2 0-1 Not Classed Jeff Wood - Rory OBrien ACT Major(7) 1993 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 e6 5.Bd3 Bd3 6.Qd3 Qb6 7.Nbd2 c5 8.O-O Nc6 9.dc5 Bc5 10.Nb3 Nge7 11.Nc5 Qc5 12.Be3 Qa5 13.Bd2 Qc7 14.Rfe1 O-O 15.Bc3 a6 16.Ng5 Ng6 17.h4 h6 18.Ne6! fe6 19.Qg6 Rae8 20.Rad1 b5 21.Bd4 Nd4 22.Rd4 Qb6 23.c3 b4 24.Re3 bc3 25.bc3 Qb2 This excursion with the queen should result in a win for white. 26.Rf3 Qa2 27.Rg4?# White misses a clear win in this position. ( 27.Rdf4 Qa3 28.Rf7! ) 27...Re7 28.Rf8 Kf8 29.Qh7? And now misses win No. 2 ( 29.Rb4! Re8 30.Rb7 ) 29...Rf7 30.f3 Qa1 31.Kh2 Qc3 Now black has managed to avoid death his extra pawns are enough to win. 32.f4 Qd4 33.Qh8 Ke7 34.Qb8 Qc5 35.Qb7 Kf8 36.Qa6 Qe7 37.Qa8 Qe8 38.Qa3 Re7 39.Qd3 Qh5 40.Kh3 Kg8 41.Qb1 Rf7 42.Qb8 Kh7 43.Qb1 Qf5 44.Qf5 Rf5 45.Kg3 h5 46.Rg5 Rg5 47.hg5 Kg6 48.Kf3 h4 49.Kg4 d4 50.Kf3 Kf5 51.g4 hg3 52.Kg3 d3 53.Kf3 d2 54.Ke2 d1Q 55.Kd1 Kf4 0-1 Not Classed Roger McCart - Ian Hosking ACT Major(7) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.a3 Bc3 6.bc3 b6 7.Nf3 Bb7 8.Be2 d6 9.O-O Nbd7 10.a4 Ne4 11.Qc2 f5 12.Ba3 Qf6 13.Nd2 Qg6 14.f3 Ng5 15.Kh1 Nf6 16.Bd3 a5 17.Rae1 Rf7 18.Rf2 Raf8 19.d5 Bc8 20.e4 fe4# 21.Ne4 Nfe4 22.Be4 Ne4 23.Re4 ed5 24.Rd4 Qc2 25.Rc2 dc4 26.Re2 Rf6 27.Re7 Re6 28.Re6 Be6 29.Kg1 Rf5 30.Kf2 Rd5 31.Re4 Kf7 32.Ke2 Re5 33.Ke3 Bd5 34.Re5 de5 35.Bc1 Bc6 36.g3 Ba4 Despite being 3 pawns up, Black will find it difficult to win due to bishops of opposite colours. 37.f4 Ke6 38.Bd2 c5 39.Ke2 b5?? Moving the bishop to c2 and pushing the pawn to a4 kept the winning attempt going. This just blows the a pawn and with it half a point. 40.fe5 Ke5 41.Bf4 Kd5 42.Bc7 b4 43.Kd2 b3 44.Kc1 Ke4 45.Ba5 g5 46.h4 Kf3 47.Bc7 Kg4 48.hg5 Kg5 49.Kb2 Kg4 50.Bb8 Having played Ian when he has refused to resign a rook down it is somewhat satisfying to see the shoe on the other foot in this game! 1/2 Not Classed Donald Darling - Milan Ninchich ACT Major(7) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Bc5 5.d3 h6 6.Bd2 O-O 7.Qc1 Ng4 8.O-O Kh7 9.h3 Nf6 10.Nh4 d6 11.Kh1? 11.Nf3 11...Ne4 12.Ne4 Qh4 13.Kh2 Nd4 14.Qd1 b5 15.b4 bc4 16.bc5 d5 17.Nc3 c6 18.Be1 Qf4 19.g3 Qf5 20.Qg4 Qg4 21.hg4 Bg4 22.Rc1 f5 23.f4 e4 24.dc4 dc4 25.Bf2 Nf3 26.Kg2 Rfe8 27.Be3 Rab8 28.Rb1 g5 29.Rb8 Rb8 30.Rb1 Rb1 31.Nb1 Ne1 32.Kf2 Nc2 33.Nc3 Kg8 34.Nd5 Kf7 35.Nb6 Ne3 36.Ke3 c3 37.Nc4 gf4 38.gf4 Ke6 39.Ne5 Kd5 40.a4 h5 41.a5 h4 42.a6 h3 0-1 Not Classed Robert Riggs - Robert Green ACT Major(7) 1993 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bg5 Nd7 6.Bd3 a6 7.O-O Qc7 8.Qe2 e6 9.Nbd2 b5 10.b4 a5 11.c3 a4 12.h3 Ba6 13.Nh2?! Ne5 14.Bf4 f6 15.de5 fe5 16.Bg3 Nh6 17.Ndf3 Nf7 18.Ng4 O-O 19.Nge5 Ne5 20.Be5 Be5 21.Ne5 Rf6 22.Qe3 Re8 23.Rae1 Bc8 24.h4 Ref8 25.h5 gh5 26.Qg5 Kh8 27.Qh5 Rg8 28.Re3 Qe7 29.Nc6 Qc7 30.Rh3 h6 31.Qh6# !! 31...Rh6 32.Rh6 Kg7 33.Rh7 Kf6 34.Rc7 e5 35.f3 Bh3 36.Rf2 Bc8 37.Bb5 Ke6 38.Re7 Kf6 39.Re5 Bb7 40.Rfe2 1-0 Not Classed Alan Mengelkamp - Ashley Oakes ACT Major(7) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.O-O d6 5.c3 Qe7 6.d4 Bb6 7.Ng5 Nh6 8.Nf3 Bg4 9.Be3 ed4 10.cd4 Qe4 11.Bh6 Bf3 12.Re1 Bd1 13.Re4 Kf8 14.Rf4 gh6 15.Rf7 Ke8 16.Nc3 Bh5 17.Re1 Ne5 18.Rf4 Bd4 19.Rd4 Kd7 20.f4 Nc4 21.Rc4 Rae8 22.Re8 Re8 23.Nd5 Re1 24.Kf2 Re2 25.Kg325.Kf1 wins a piece 25...Bg6 26.Rc7 Kd8 27.Rb7 Rd2 28.Nf6 a5 29.Nh7 Bh7 30.Rh7 Rb2 31.Rh6 Ke7 32.Rh7 Ke6 33.a4 Ra2 34.f5 Kf5 35.Rh5 Ke4 36.Ra5 d5 37.h4 d4 38.Ra8 d3 39.a5 Ra3 40.Re8 Kd4 41.Kf3 Ra5 42.Rd8 Kc3 43.g4 d2 44.Rc8 Kd3 45.Rd8 Kc2 46.Rc8 1/2 Not Classed Peter Murphy - Bill Hieser ACT Major(7) 1993 1.d4 b6 2.c4 Bb7 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nf3 Be7 6.Bd3 O-O 7.e4 Bb4 8.e5 Ne8 9.Bh7# 9...Kh7 10.Ng5 Kg8 11.Qh5 f6 12.Qh7 1-0 Not Classed Tony Salvage - Patrick Connell ACT Major(7) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bd3 d4 5.Na4 Bg4 6.h3 Bf3 7.Qf3 Bd6 8.c3 dc3 9.Nc3 Nbd7 10.b3 Nc5 11.Ba3?? Nd3 12.Qd3 Ba3 13.Qd8 Rd8 14.f3 O-O 15.Nb5 Bb4 16.O-O c6 17.a3 Bd2 18.Na7 Be3 19.Kh1 Ba7 20.Ra2 Nh5 21.Kh2 Rd3 22.g4 Nf4 23.Kg3 Rb3 24.Rd1 Bd4 25.a4 g5 26.a5 Ra8 27.h4 h6 28.hg5 hg5 29.Rh1 Ng6 30.Rh5 f6 31.Rah2 Nh4 32.R5h4 gh4 33.Rh4 Ra5 34.g5 fg5 35.Rh5 Be3 36.Kg4 Ra1 37.Kf5 Rf1 38.Rh3 Bf4 39.Kg4 Kg7 40.Rh5 Kg6 41.Rh1 An interesting attempt to get stalemated. 41...Rbf3 42.Rh6 Kf7 43.Rf6 Kf6 0-1 Not Classed Simon Ayling - Paul Sutherland ACT Minor(7) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.ed5 Nd5 6.d4 f6 7.Qf3? 7.dxe is simplest 7...Nd4 8.Qe4? Bf5 9.Qd5 Qd5 10.Bd5 fg5 11.Bb3 Bc2 12.Kd2? Bb3 13.ab3 Nb3 14.Kc3 Na1 15.Bg5 b5 16.b4 a5 0-1 Not Classed Andrew Moylan - Nye Griffiths ACT Minor(7) 1993 1.c4 d5 2.cd5 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nd5 4.g3 Nc3 5.bc3 e5 6.Bg2 Bc5 7.e3 Nc6 8.Ne2 Bg4 9.O-O O-O 10.Re1 Re8 11.Bb2 Qd6 12.Qa4 Bd7 13.Qd1 Rad8 14.d4 ed4 15.cd4 Bb4 16.Bc3 Bc3 17.Nc3 Na5 18.e4 Needing a draw to keep the tournament lead Nye offered Andrew a draw wich was quickly accepted. 1/2 Not Classed Duncan Gilmour - Daniel Mayoh ACT Minor(7) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bc4 Bc5 5.O-O O-O 6.d3 d6 7.Bg5 h6 8.Bf6 Qf6 9.Nd5 Qg6 10.Nc7 Rb8 11.Nh4 Qg5 12.Nf5 g6 13.h4 Qf6 14.Nd5 Qd8 15.Nh6 Kh7 16.Ng4 Qh4 17.Ngf6 Kg7 18.Qf3 Nd4 19.Qg3# 19...Ne2 0-1 Not Classed Rhys Thorpe - Jenny Moylan ACT Minor(7) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.Bc4 Bc5 5.O-O O-O 6.d3 d6 7.Be3 Bg4 8.h3 Bh5 9.a3 Nd4 10.Bd4 Bd4 11.Rb1 c6 12.g4 d5 13.ed5 b5 14.Ba2 Ng4 15.hg4 Bg4 16.Kh1 Qf6 17.Kg2 Bf3? Havinf sacrificed a piece to expose the white king black should be trying to get her rooks into play as quickly as possible. Exchanges only help white. 18.Qf3 Qf3 19.Kf3 Rac8 20.dc6 a6 21.Nd5 Rc6 22.Ne7 Kh8 23.Nc6 f5 24.Rh1 Rf6 25.Ne7 h6 26.c3 e4 27.de4 fe4 28.Ke4 Bf2 29.Rhf1 Rf7 1-0 Not Classed Leon Sadkowsky - Tom Green ACT Minor(7) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d3 Bc5 5.Ng5 O-O 6.Nf7 Rf7 7.Bf7 Kf7 8.Qf3 d6 9.h3 Nd4 10.Qd1 Kg8 11.c3 Ne6 12.O-O Nf4 13.Bf4 ef4 14.d4 Bb6 15.e5 Qe7? 16.ef6 Qf6 17.Qb3 Kf8 18.g4 Qh4 19.c4 Qh3?? 20.Qh3 h6 21.Qf3 Kg8 22.Qf4 Be6 23.Nd2 Rf8 24.Qe4 Bf7 25.d5 Bg6 26.Qg6 Ba5 27.Rfe1 Bd2 28.Re7 Bc3 29.bc3 1-0 Not Classed Peter Rodda - Clare Moylan ACT Minor(7) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.b4 Bb4 4.Bb2 d6 5.c3 Ba5 6.Bd3 d5 7.Bc2 Nf6 8.d3 d4 9.O-O dc3 10.Nc3 Nb4 11.Ne5 Nc2 12.Qc2 Qd6 13.Nc4 Qa6 14.Qb3 O-O 15.f4 Bg4 16.f5 Be2? 17.Ne2 b5 18.Ne5 Rae8 19.Nf3 g6 20.fg6 hg6 21.Bf6 Qe6 22.e5 Qb3 23.ab3 Bc3 24.Ned4 Bd4 25.Nd4 c5 26.Nc6 a6 27.Rf3 Rc8 28.Rh3 Rc6 29.Rh8 1-0 Not Classed Peter Hill - Andy Lee ACT Minor(7) 1993 1.e4 b6 2.Bc4 Bb7 3.Qf3 Nf6 4.Qb3 e6 5.d4 Be4 6.f3 Bf5 7.g4 d5 8.Bb5 Nbd7 9.gf5 ef5 10.Bg5 Be7 11.Nc3 a6 12.Bc6 Rb8 13.Nd5 Nd5! 14.Bd5 Bg5 15.f4 Bf4 16.Nh3 Bd6 17.Qe3 Kf8 18.Qf3 g6 19.Ng5 Qg5 20.Bc6 Qh4 21.Qf2 Qd8 22.O-O-O Nf6 23.Rd3 Ng4 24.Qd2 g5 25.Re1 Bf4 26.Re8# Desperate times call for desperate mesures 26...Qe8 27.Be8 Re8 28.Re3 Ne3? Taking with the bishop ends the game. 29.Qb4 Bd6 30.Qd2 c5 31.dc5 Bc5 32.b4 Be7 33.Qe3 Bb4 34.Qg5 Re1 34.Bc3! 35.Kb2 Re5 36.Qf6 Rb5 37.Qh8 Ke7 38.Qh7 Bc5 39.Kc3 Bg1 40.Qh4 f6 41.Qg3 Bc5 42.a4 Ra5 43.Qc7 Kf8 44.Kd3 Ra4 45.Qc6 Rd4 46.Kc3 Rd6 47.Qa8 Kg7 48.Qa6 Bd4 49.Kb3 Bg1 50.Qf1 Be3 51.Qg2 Kf8 52.Qg3 Re6 1/2 Not Classed Isaac Arsanis - Geoff Butler ACT Championship(5) 1993 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 de4 4.Ne4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.h4 h6 7.Nf3 Nf6 8.Bd3 Bd3 9.Qd3 Nbd7 10.Ne4 Ne4 11.Qe4 Nf6 12.Qd3 Qd5 13.Be3 e6 14.a3 Be7 15.c4 Qe4 16.Rd1 O-O 17.Qe4 Ne4 18.O-O Rfd8 19.Rfe1 Nd6 20.Rc1 Nf5 21.g3 Bf6 22.Rcd1 Nd6 23.b3 Nf5 24.Kg2 a6 25.Rd3 Rd7 26.Red1 Rad8 27.R3d2 Kf8 28.Kh3 a5 29.g4 Ne3 30.fe3 g6 31.e4 Bg7 32.g5 hg5 33.hg5 Ke7 34.Kg4 b6 35.e5 b5 36.cb5 cb5 37.Rc2 Ke8 38.Rh1 Bf8 39.Rh8 Rb7 40.Rc6 Kd7 41.Ra6 Ba3 42.Rd8 Kd8 43.Ra5 Bb4 44.Ra8 Kd7 45.Kf4 Kc6 46.Ke4 Kb6 47.Rc8 Rd7 48.Rb8 Kc6 49.Rc8 Kb7 50.Rc1 Be7 51.Rd1 Kc6 52.Rc1 Kb6 53.Rc8 Ka5 54.Rc3 Kb4 55.Rd3 Rd5 56.Kf4 Bd8 57.Ke4 Ka3 58.Ke3 Kb2 59.Kd2 Ba5 60.Kd1 Bc3 61.Ke2 Kb3 62.Ke3 Kc2 63.Ng1 b4 64.Ne2 Be1 65.Nf4 b3 0-1 Not Classed Geoff Butler - Ian Rout ACT Championship(6) 1993 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.Ne5 Ne4 3.Nc4 Na6 4.Nba3 Nb4 5.Nb5 Nc5 6.Nd4 Nd5 7.Ne5 Nb6 8.Nf5 Ne6 9.Ng4 Na4 10.Nh4 Nd4 11.Ne5 Ne6 12.Ng4 Nec5 13.Nf3 Ne4 14.Nd4 Nd6 15.Ne5 Nc5 16.Nef3 Nce4 17.Nb3 Nc4 18.Nbd4 Na5 19.Nh4 Nc6 20.Nhf3 Nf6 21.Nf5 Ng8 22.Ne3 Nh6 23.Nd5 Nb8 24.Nc3 Na6 25.Ng1 Nf5 26.Nh3 Nc5 27.Nb1 Na4 28.Na3 Nh4 29.Nc4 Ng6 30.Ng1 Nf4 31.Na3 Nb6 32.Nb1 Nbd5 33.Nf3 Nf6 34.Nc3 Ne6 35.Nb1 Nf4 36.Nd4 Ne4 37.Nf3 Nc5 38.Nh4 Nh5 39.Nf3 Nf6 40.Ng1 Na6 41.Nf3 Nb8 42.Ng1 Ng8 43.d4 Nf6 44.Nf3 Nc6 45.Ng5 Nd5 46.Nh3 Nb6 47.Ng5 Nc4 48.Ne4 Nd6 49.Ned2 Nc4 50.Nf3 Nb4 51.Ng5 Nd5 52.Ne6 Nde3 53.Nc3 Nd6 54.Nb1 Ndc4 55.Ng5 Na5 56.Nf3 Ng4 57.Nh4 Nh6 58.Nf3 Nc6 59.Nfd2 Nb8 60.Nf3 Ng8 61.Ng1 d5 62.c4 dc4 63.Nf3 Nf6 64.e3 Bg4 65.Bc4 e6 66.O-O Bd6 67.Nc3 O-O 68.h3 Bh5 69.a3 Nc6 70.b4 e5 71.de5 Ne5 72.Be2 Nf3 73.Bf3 Bf3 74.Qf3 Be5 75.Rd1 Qe7 76.Bb2 c6 1/2 Not Classed Ken Telfer - Geoff Butler ACT Championship(7) 1993 1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 Bg4 The SideStep Variation 3.c4 Bf3 4.gf3 g6 5.Bg2 Bg7 6.O-O Nf6 7.Nc3 Nh5?! 8.f4 c6 9.e3 Nd7 10.f5 Qa5 11.fg6 hg6 Black must be happy about the oppening of the h-file. Its just a shame he did nothing with it. 12.Rb1 Nhf6 13.b4 Qc7? 13...Qg5 with an attack down the h-file 14.f4 Nb6 15.Qb3 e6 16.c5 Nbd5 17.Nd5 ed5 18.b5 dc5 19.dc5 O-O 20.Bb2 Qe7 21.bc6 bc6 22.Bd4 Rab8?! 23.Qb8 Rb8 24.Rb8 Ne8 25.f5! Bd4 26.ed4 Qe3 27.Kh1 g5 28.f6 Kh7 29.Rb7 Kg6 30.Re7 Qd4 31.Re8 Qc5 32.Rg8 Kh6 33.Bh3 White now builds a mating net. 33...d4 34.Bf5 Qd5 35.Kg1 g4 36.Rg4?! 36.Bxg4+/-+/- 36...d3 37.h4 d2 38.Rg8 Qc5 39.Kg2 Qd5 40.Kg3 Qe5 At this point the game was adjourned. Analysis showed that black had winning chances if white sealed Kh3 or Rf4 but only a draw after Kg2. 41.Kg2# 41...Qf5?? 41...Qd5+ The very first move after the adjournment and black completly forgets all his analysis. 42.Rh8 Kg6 43.h5 1-0 Not Classed Brian Butler - Ramakrishna ACT Championship(7) 1993 1.d4 e6 2.e3 f5 3.Bd3 Nf6 4.Nd2 c5 5.c3 Nc6 6.Ngf3 b6 7.a3 Bb7 8.b4 Rc8 9.Bb2 Be7 10.O-O d5 11.b5 Na5 12.Ne5 O-O 13.f3 Qe8 14.a4 Bd6 15.Qe2 Qh5 Ramakrishna as a penchant for long queen moves but runs the risk of cutting it out of play. 16.Rae1 Qh6 17.Bc1 Nd7 18.f4 Nf6 19.Rf3! Ne4 20.Be4 de4 21.Rh3 Qf6 22.Nd7 Qe7 23.Nf8 Qf8 24.Qh5 cd4 25.Qh7 Kf7 26.Qh5 g6 27.Qh7 Qg7 28.cd4 Rc2 29.Qh4 Be7 30.Qf2?! Self-pinning the knight 30...Nb3 31.Nb3 Rf2 32.Kf2 Ba8 33.Na1 Bb4 34.Re2 Kf6 35.Rc2 Qd7 36.d5 Bd6 37.Rh8 Bb7 38.de6 Ke6 39.Nb3 Bd5 40.Nd4 Ke7 41.Nc6 Bc6 42.bc6 Qc7 43.Bb2 Bc5 44.Be5 Bd6 45.Rh7 1-0 Not Classed Geoff Butler - Justin Marshall ACT Championship(8) 1993 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.ed5 cd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nf3 Be7 7.Be2 O-O 8.O-O Nc6 9.Re1 Re8 10.Ne5 dc4 11.Nc6 bc6 12.Bc4 Nd5 13.Ne4 g6 14.h4?! Bh4 15.g3 Be7 16.Kg2 Nb6 17.Bb3 f5 18.Nc3 Bf6 19.Rh1 Qd4 White has engaged in an artificial attempt to generate an attack along the h-file. With solid defence the attack shouldn't lead anywhere and black is just two pawns up. 20.Qf3 Qd7 21.Ne4 fe4 22.Qf6 Qf7? 22...Rf8 23.Qf7 Kf7 24.Rh7 Kf6 25.Bc2! Now white cleans up Blacks broken up pawns. 25...Bd7 26.Be4 Rh8 27.Rh8 Rh8 28.Be3 a5?? 29.Bb6 1-0 Not Classed Mos Ali - Ramakrishna ACT Championship(8) 1993 1.f4 d5 2.e3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Bg4 4.d4 e6 5.Bd3 Ne4 6.Nbd2 f5 7.c3 Nd7 8.h3 Qh4??# 9.Nh4 Bd1 10.Be4 This is what Black missed. He had expected 10.Kxd1 Nf2+ 10...de4 11.Kd1 c5 12.Nc4 b5 13.Ne5 Ne5 14.de5 Kf7 15.g4 Be7 16.Ng2 h6 17.b3 b4 18.Bb2 Rad8 19.Ke2 bc3 20.Bc3 Rd3 21.Rac1 Rhd8 22.Rhd1 c4 23.bc4 Ba3 24.Rb1 Bc5 25.Rd3 Rd3 26.Rb3 g5 27.Bd2 Rd7 28.Rb5 Be7 29.Bb4 a6 30.Rb6 fg4 31.hg4 Rc7 32.Be7 Ke7 33.Ra6 Rc4 34.Ne1 Rb4 35.Ra7 Ke8 36.Nc2 Rb1 37.Nd4 Rg1 38.Ne6 Rg4 39.Ng7 Kf8 40.f5 Rg2 41.Kf1 Rc2 42.e6 Rc8 43.f6 g4 44.e7 ( 44...Kg8 45.f7 Kf7 46.e8Q ) 1-0 Not Classed Isaac Arsanis - Ian Rout ACT Championship(8) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cd4 4.Nd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Be2 Be7 7.Be3 a6 8.a4 O-O 9.f4 Nc6 10.Bf3 Qc7 11.O-O Rb8 12.Qd2 Bd7 13.g4? Blacks position is too solid to be attacked in this manner. Whites king is the one more likely to be in trouble. 13...Nd4 Already Black exchanges off a queenside piece for one off Whites attacking pieces 14.Bd4 e5 Following up by countering a wing attack with a counter attack in the centre 15.Be3 Bg4 16.Qg2# 16...ef4 17.Bg4 fe3 18.Rf6?! White attempts to justify his attacking plan but Black has no problems defending. 18...Bf6 19.Nd5 Qd8 20.c3 Bh4 21.Ne3 Qb6 22.Qh3 Bg5 Black could have also played 22...Qxb2 or 22...Bf2+ followed by Qxb2+ but decided not to complicate the position. His advantage in material is enough to win. 23.Re1 Rbe8 24.Bf5 g6 25.Qg3 Be3 26.Re3 Re5 27.b4 Rfe8 28.Kf2 Kf8 29.a5 Qa7 30.h4 gf5 31.h5 R8e6 32.Qg5 Ke8 33.h6 Re4 34.Qg8 Ke7 35.Qg5 Kd7 0-1 Not Classed Tristan Reeves - Ken Telfer ACT Championship(8) 1993 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c6 3.b3 d5 4.g3 Bg4 5.Bg2 Nbd7 6.Bb2 e6 7.O-O Bd6 8.d3 O-O 9.Nbd2 Qe7 10.Qc2 Rac8 11.e4 de4 12.Ne4 Ne4 13.de4 e5?! 14.a3 a5 15.h3 Bh5 16.Qd2 Nc5 17.Qe3 f6 18.b4 ab4 19.ab4 Ne6 20.c5 Bb8 21.Nh4 Rfd8 22.Bf3 Bf3 23.Nf5 Qf8 24.Qf3 Ng5 25.Qg2 Rd2 26.Bc1 Rd3 27.Bg5 fg5 28.Rfd1 Rcd8 29.Qf1 R3d7 30.Qe2? Tristan though that this was a mistake. ( 30.Rd7 Rd7 31.Ra8 Tying Black up ) 30...g6 31.Qc4 Kh8 32.Ne3 Rd4 33.Qe6 Re4 34.Rd8 Qd8 35.Rd1 Rd4 36.Rd4 ed4 37.Ng4 d3 38.Nf6 d2 39.Qf7 d1Q 40.Kh2 Bg3# 41.Kg3?? ( 41.Kg2 Qh5 only move ( 41...Q1d5 42.Nd5 ) 42.Nh5 gh5 43.Kg3 ) 41...Qg1 0-1 Not Classed Steve Georgopoulos - Henk Doel ACT Major(8) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 g6 3.Bf6 ef6 4.e3 Bg7 5.Nf3 d6 6.Bc4 Be6 7.Qe2 d5 8.Bd3 O-O 9.O-O Nd7 10.Nbd2 c5 11.c3 f5 12.Rfe1 c4 13.Bc2 b5 14.Qf1 a5 15.a3 Qe7 16.Reb1 b4 17.ab4 ab4 18.Ra8 Ra8 19.Ra1 Ra1 20.Qa1 b3 21.Qa8 Bf8 22.Bd1 Georgopoulos has been playing with fire by not opposing the queenside pawn advance and now Black stands better 22...f6 23.Qa7 Qd6 24.h4 Qb6 25.Qa1 Qb7 26.Be2 Bd6 27.g3 Qb8 28.Nf1 Nb6 29.Kg2 Qe8 30.N3d2 Qa4 31.Qa4 Na4 32.f3 Nb2 33.e4 Na4? ( 33...de4 34.fe4 fe4 35.Ne4 Bd5 ) 34.ed5 Bd5 35.Ne3 Nc3 36.Bc4 Bc4 37.Nec4 b2 38.Nd6 b1Q 39.Nb1 Nb1 40.Kf2 Nc3 41.Ke3 Kf8 42.h5 Ke7 43.hg6 hg6 44.Nc8 If anything white now stands better. 44...Ke6 45.Nb6 Kd6 46.Kd3 Nb5 47.Nc4 Ke6 48.Ne3 Nd6 49.d5 Ke7 50.Kd4 Nf7 51.Kc5 Ng5 52.d6 Kd7 53.Kd5 Georgopoulos, playing for a win didn't like the look of ( 53.Nd5 Ne6 54.Kc4 Kd6 55.Nf6 ) 53...Nf3 54.Nc4 Ng5 55.Nb6 Kd8 56.Kc6 Ne4 57.Nd5 Ng5 58.Nf4 Still trying to win ( 58.Nf6 Ne4! ) 58...Nf7 59.Ne6 Ke8 60.d7 Ke7 61.Nc5 g5 62.Kc7 f4 63.gf4 gf4 64.Ne4 Nd8 The players stopped recording at this point. The position is objectively drawn but Georgopoulos blundered the d pawn in time pressure and lost. 0-1 Not Classed David Austin - Shaun Press ACT Major(8) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fe5 Ne4 5.d3 Bb4 5...Qh4+ is a blunder while 5...Nxc3 is normal. This move is tricky but hardly inferior. 6.Ne2 White refuses to accept the challenge and take the piece. Black had researched the following. ( 6.de4 Qh4 7.Ke2 Bc3 8.bc3 Qg4 ( 8...Bg4 9.Nf3 de4 10.Qd4! Bh5 ( 10...ef3 11.gf3 wins a piece. ) 11.Ke3 Bf3 12.gf3 Qe1 13.Kf4 Qh4= ) 9.Kd2 ( 9.Nf3 de4 and Black hopes to exploit Whites pawn structure. ) 9...Qf4 10.Ke2 Qg4= ) 6...Nc5 7.a3 Bc3 8.bc3 Bg4 9.d4?! allowing the knight into e4 9...Ne4 10.Qd3 O-O 11.Bb2 f6 12.Ng3 fe5 13.Ne4 Bf5 14.Qg3 Be4 15.O-O-O ed4 16.Rd4 c5 17.Rd1 Black just has to avoid tricks based on the b2 bishop to win the game. 17...Rf5 18.Be2 Qg5 19.Qg5 Rg5 20.Rhg1 Rg2 21.Rg2 Bg2 22.c4 d4 23.c3 Nc6! 24.cd4 Nd4 25.Bd4 cd4 26.Rd4 Bc6 27.Rf4 Rf8 28.Rf8 Kf8 29.Kd2 Ke7 30.Ke3 Ke6 31.h4 Ke5 32.Bd3 h6 33.h5 Be8 34.Be4 b6 35.Bf3 Bf7 36.Be2 Kf5 0-1 Not Classed Ian Hosking - Milan Ninchich ACT Major(8) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 Bc5 The Wilkes-Barre. A brilliant counter-attacking defence to the Two Knights Ng5 line that almost wins by force! 5.Bf7 This is the weasels move. The real blood and guts comes after Nxf7 5...Ke7 6.Bd5 Rf8 7.O-O h6 8.Nf3 d6 9.Nh4? The lure of the fork on g6 is to much for White. This, however, is probably the losing move. 9...Bg4 10.Ng6 Ke8 11.Qe1 Nd4 12.Bb3 Nf3!!# 13.gf3 Bf3 Now Black is going the bring his Queen to the g-file and there is nothing White can do about it. 14.d4 Qd7 15.Ba4 c6 16.Bf4 ef4 0-1 Not Classed Stephen Bartlett - Robert Riggs ACT Major(8) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cd4 3.c3 dc3 4.Nc3 e5 5.Nf3 Bb4 6.Bc4 d5?! 7.Bd5 Qe7 8.O-O Bc3 9.bc3 Nf6 10.Qb3 Nd5 11.ed5 O-O? 12.Ba3 Qf6 13.Bf8 Kf8 14.Qb4 Kg8 15.Ne5! Na6 16.Qd4 b6 17.Rad1 Bb7 18.c4 Nc5 19.Rfe1 Rd8 20.Nc6! Qd4 21.Nd8! Qd1 22.Rd1 Kf8 23.Nb7 Nb7 24.Kf1 Nd6 25.Rc1 Ne4 26.Ke2 Ke7 27.Ke3 Nc5 28.Kd4 f6 29.Re1 Kd7 30.Re3 Nb7 31.Rh3 h6 32.Ra3 a5 33.Rb3 Kc7 34.Rg3 Nd6 35.Rg7 Kd8 36.Rh7 Ke8 37.g4 Nf7 38.c5 bc5 39.Kc5 Kf8 40.Rf7 Kf7 41.Kc6 1-0 Not Classed Ashley Oakes - Oscar Hellmann ACT Major(8) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cd5 Nd5 5.e4 Nc3 6.bc3 Bg7 7.Bc4 O-O 8.Ne2 c5 9.O-O cd4 10.cd4 Nc6 11.Be3 Bg4 12.f3 Bd7?! 12...Na5 13.Rb1 b6 14.Qd2 Na5 15.Bd3 e6 16.Rfc1 Rc8 17.Ba6 Rc1 18.Rc1 Bc6 19.Qc2 Qd7 20.Kh1 Bb5 21.Bb5 Qb5 22.Ng3 h5 23.e5 Rd8 24.Ne4 Nb7 25.Bg5 Rf8 26.Qd2 Qd7 27.Bh6! After the exchange of his key kingside piece Black will have to defend carefully to avoid being massacred on the dark squares 27...Rd8 28.Rd1 Qa4! Attack is the best defence 29.Bg7 Kg7 30.h3 Nc5 31.Nd6 Na6 32.Rc1 Qd7 33.Qg5 Rf8 34.f4 Nb4 35.Rf1 Qd8 36.Qg3 Kh6 37.Rc1 Nd5 38.Rc8 Qe7 39.Qg5! Kg7! 40.Qe7 Ne7 41.Rc7 Nf5 42.Nf5 gf5 43.Ra7 Rd8 44.Ra4 Rd5 45.Rb4 b5 46.Kg1 f6 47.Kf2 h4! 48.a4 ba4 49.Ra4 fe5 50.fe5 Kg6 51.Ke3 Rb5 52.Ra6 Kf7 53.Ra7 Kg6 54.Re7 Rb6 55.Kf4 Ra6 56.Re8 Kf7 57.Rh8 Ra4 58.Rh4 Rd4 59.Kg5 Rd2 60.g4 Rf2 61.Rh6 fg4 62.Kg4 Rg2 63.Kf3 Rh2 64.Rf6 Ke7 65.Kg3 Re2 66.Kf4 Rf2 67.Kg5 Rg2 68.Kf4 Rf2 1/2 Not Classed Roger McCart - Jeff Wood ACT Major(8) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 O-O 8.c3 d5 9.d3 Bb7 10.Nbd2 b4 11.Bc2 Bc5 12.Ne5 Bf2 13.Kf2 Ne5 14.Kg1 d4 15.c4 Nfg4 16.Nf1 h6 17.Bd2 c5 18.h3 Nf6 19.Re2 Nh7 20.Rf2 Bc8 21.Qh5 Qe7 22.Ng3 Nf6 23.Nf5! Nh5 24.Ne7 Kh7 25.Nc8 Nc6 Otherwise 26.Rf5 26.Nd6 Ra7 27.Re1 g6 28.e5 Re7 29.g4 Ng7 30.Bf4 g5 31.Bg3 Kg8 32.Rf6 Re6 33.Ne4? 33.Rxe6 33...Ne5 34.Re6 Nf3 35.Kg2 Ne1 36.Be1 Ne6 37.Bg3 f5 38.gf5 Rf5 39.Bd1 Nf4 40.Bf4 gf4 41.Bg4 Rf8 42.Kf3 Kf7 43.Nc5 a5 44.Ne6 Re8 45.Bh5 1-0 Not Classed Robert Green - Alan Mengelkamp ACT Major(8) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 ed4 6.cd4 Bb4 7.Nc3 Bc3 8.bc3 Ne4 9.Ba3 d5 10.Bd3 Nd6 11.O-O O-O 12.Qc2 h6 13.Rfe1 Be6 14.Re3 Re8 15.Rae1 Qd7 16.Bc1 Bf5?? 17.Re8 Re8 18.Re8 Qe8 19.Bf5 Nf5 20.Qf5 Qe2 21.Bd2 Qd1 22.Be1 Ne7 23.Qe5 Ng6 24.Qe3 Kh7 25.g3 Nf8 26.Ne5 f6 27.Qd3 Qd3 28.Nd3 Ne6 29.Nc5 Ng5 30.Kg2 b6 31.Na6 c6 32.Nb8 c5 33.dc5 bc5 34.Na6 d4 35.Nc5 dc3 36.Bc3 Nf7 37.Na6 Nd6 38.Bd4 Nc8 39.a4 Kg6 40.Kf3 Kf5 41.a5 Ke6 42.Nc7 Kd7 43.Nb5 a6 44.Nc3 Kc6 45.Kf4 Nd6 46.h4 g5 47.hg5 fg5 48.Kg4 Nc4 49.Bg7 Na5 50.Bh6 Nc4 51.Kg5 Nd6 52.f4 a5 53.g4 Kd7 54.f5 Nf7 55.Kh5 Ke7 56.Na4 Kf6 57.Bf4 Nd8 58.Bg5 1-0 Not Classed Patrick Connell - Peter Pullicino ACT Major(8) 1993 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nf3?! A Connell Novelty 3...de4 4.Ne5 Nf6 5.Bg5 Be7 6.Nc3 Nbd7 7.Nd7 Bd7 8.Bf6 Bf6 9.Ne4 Bc6 10.Nf6 Qf6 11.Qg4? Having won back his pawn Connell gives another one away. 11...h5 12.Qg3 Qd4 13.Bd3 Qb2 14.O-O O-O-O 15.Qe3 Qd4 16.Qe1 Qd5 17.f3 Qg5 18.Qf2 b6 19.a4 Qc5 20.Qc5 bc5 21.Bb5 Bb5 22.ab5 Kb7 23.Ra6 Rd2 24.Rfa1 Ra8 25.Rc1 Rad8 26.Rca1 Rd1 27.Rd1 Rd1 28.Kf2 Rd2 29.Ke3 Rc2 30.g4 hg4 31.fg4 Rh2 32.Rc6 Rg2 33.Kf3 Rc2 34.Kf4 c4 35.g5 Rg2 36.Rc4 e5 37.Kf5 g6 38.Kf6 Rf2 39.Ke5 Rf5 40.Ke4 Rg5 41.Kf4 Rb5 42.Kg4 Rf5 43.Rc3 a5 44.Rh3 c6 45.Rc3 a4 46.Rc4 Ra5 47.Rf4 f5 48.Kg5 a3 49.Rf1 a2 50.Ra1 With the White rook trapped black just pushes his other pawns towards the goal line 0-1 Not Classed Donald Darling - Tony Salvage ACT Major(8) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bc4 h6 5.d3 Bb4 6.Be3 Bc3 7.bc3 d6 8.h3 a6 9.a4 d5 10.ed5 Nd5 11.Bd2 O-O 12.O-O Bf5 13.Qc1 e4? Adventurous but unsound 14.Bd5 Qd5 15.c4 Qd6 16.Bf4 Qe7 17.Re1 f6 18.de4 Be6 19.Nh4 Qf7 20.Nf5 Bf5 21.ef5 Ne5 22.Ra3 Qc4 23.Rg3 Qf4?? Failing to notice the queen 24.Qf4 g5 25.fg6 1-0 Not Classed Laura Moylan - Peter Murphy ACT Major(8) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cd4 3.c3 dc3 4.Nc3 Nc6 5.Bc4 e6 6.Nf3 Bc5 7.O-O Nge7 8.Qe2 O-O 9.Rd1 Qc7 10.Be3 Bb4 11.Rac1 a6 12.a3 Bd6 13.Rd3 Ne5 14.Ne5 Be5 15.h3? Qc4# 16.Nd5 Although this move wins the queen (Qb5 Nxe7+ nonwithstandin g) it is for bags off material. 16...Qc1 17.Bc1 ed5 18.ed5 d6 19.f4 Bf6 20.g4 Ng6 21.g5 Bd8 22.Qh2 Bd7 23.h4 Re8 24.Be3 Rc8 25.h5 Nf8 26.h6 Bf5 27.Rb3 Rc2 The trick when playing pieces against a queen is to have secure outposts for the pieces. Here the rook settles nicely on the seventh rank. 28.Qg3 Re2 29.Qf3 Rc2 30.Rb7 Be4 31.Qh3 Bd5 32.Ra7 Bb6! 0-1 Not Classed Rhys Thopre - Daniel Mayoh ACT Minor(8) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.O-O Nf6 5.Nc3 O-O 6.h3 d6 7.d3 h6 8.Nd5 Nd5 9.Bd5 Nd4 10.c3 Nf3 11.Qf3 Be6 12.Be3 Be3 13.fe3 Bd5 14.ed5 Qg5 15.d4 c6 16.c4 cd5 17.de5 Qe5 18.cd5 Qb2 19.Rab1 Qa2 20.Rb7 Qd2 21.Rf7 Rf7 22.Qf7 Kh7 23.Rf3 Qe1 24.Kh2 a5 25.Rg3 Qg3? Black panics and loses the game Qa1 defends g7 and helps support the advance of the a pawn 26.Kg3 a4 27.Qb7 Ra5 28.Qb4 Ra6 29.Qc3 a3 30.Qd3 1-0 Not Classed Tom Green - Duncan Gilmour ACT Minor(8) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.O-O d6 5.Ng5?? Qg5 6.d36.d4 at least makes sense 6...Qg6 7.Nc3 Bh3 8.Qf3 Bg4 9.Qg3 Nf6 10.h3 Bh5 11.Qh2 Nd4 12.Be3?? Nf3# 13.Kh1 Nh2 14.Kh2 Be3 15.fe3 O-O-O 16.g4 Bg4 17.hg4 Qg4 18.Bf7 Qh4 19.Kg2 Qg5 20.Kh2 Qe3 21.Rae1 Qd2 22.Re2 Qh6 23.Kg2 Qg5 24.Kh1 Kb8 25.Rg2 Qh6 26.Rh2 Qe3 27.Re2 Qb6 28.Rg2 Qb2 29.Nd5 Nd5 30.ed5 g6 31.Be6 Rhf8 32.Rgf2 Rf2 33.Rf2 Qc1 34.Kg2 Qg5 35.Kh1 h5 36.c4 h4 37.a4 h3 38.a5 Rh8 39.Kh2 Qh4 40.Rf3 Qe1 41.Bh3 Qe2 42.Kg1 Qf3 0-1 Not Classed Dianne Oglesby - Peter Hill ACT Minor(8) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Bd6? Untried, and for good reason 4.O-O Nf6 5.Nc3 Bc5 6.d3 d6 7.Be3 Be3 8.fe3 Bg4 9.d4 O-O 10.Be2 Re8 11.Qe1! Nb4 12.Rc1 Na2?? 13.Na2 d5 14.Ng5 de4 15.Bg4 ed4? 16.Rd1 c5 17.Nc1 Ng4 18.Qh4 Ne3# 19.Qh7 Kf8 20.Rf7 1-0 Not Classed Antonio Cavazzoni - Andy Lee ACT Minor(8) 1993 1.e4 b6 2.Nc3 Bb7 3.Nf3 e6 4.b3 Nf6 5.Bc4 Ne4 6.Nb1 d5 7.Bb5 c6 8.Bd3 Qf6 9.Nc3 Nc3 10.dc3 Qc3 11.Bd2 White now tries hard to trap the queen but doesn't quite succeed. 11...Qc5 12.Be3 Qa5 13.Bd2 Qa3 14.Bc1 Qd6 15.Nd2 Qe5 16.Be2 Qa1 17.h4 Qf6 18.a4 Bc5 19.Nf3 Qc3 20.Bd2 Qf6 21.Bg5 Qf5 22.Bd3 Qg4 23.Qe2 Qg2 24.Rg1 Qh3 25.Rg3 Qh1 26.Rg1 Bb4! 27.c3 Bc3 28.Kf1 Qh3 29.Rg2 h6 30.Ng1 Qh1 31.Bf4 Qh4 32.Nf3 Qe7 33.Nh4 Qh4 34.Rg7 Qf4 35.Rg4 Qc1 0-1 Not Classed Kylie Mayoh - Angus Webb ACT Minor(8) 1993 1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 Nc6 3.e3 Nf6 4.Nc3 Ne4 5.Bd3 Nc3 6.bc3 f6 7.c4 e5 8.c3 ef4 9.ef4 Ba3 10.Qf3 Bb2 11.Rb1 Bc3 12.Ke2 Bd4 13.cd5 Qe7 14.Be4 Qa3 15.dc6 Qa2 16.Kf1 b6 17.Qd1?? Qf2 0-1 Not Classed Jeff Suptut - Brian Butler ACT Championship(8) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cd4 4.Nd4 e5 5.Nb3 5.Nb5 is more testing 5...Nf6 6.Bg5 h6 7.Bf6 Qf6? 7...gxf 8.Bc4 d6 9.O-O9.Nc3 intending Nd5 9...Be6 10.Bd5 Rc8 11.Nc3 Be7 12.Qe2 a6 13.Rfd1 O-O 14.a3 Rfd8 15.Rd3 Bf8 16.Rad1 b5 17.Rf3 Qe7 18.h3 Qc7 19.Qe3 Ne7? 19...b4 20.Na1 Bd5 21.Nd5 Nd5 22.Rd5 Be7 23.Rd1 Qc5 24.c3 Qe3 25.Re3 g6 26.Nc2 f5 27.Nb4 a5 28.Nd5 Kf7 29.Ne7 Ke7 30.f3 Ke6 31.Kf2 b4 32.Red3 bc3 33.bc3 Rc4 34.ef5? gf5 35.g4 f4 36.Rd5 Rc3 37.Ra5 Rc2 38.Kg1 d5 39.Rb1 d4 40.Ra6 Rd6 0-1 Not Classed Ken Telfer - Isaac Arsanis ACT Championship(9) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cd4 4.Nd4 a6 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 g6 ?! Having played an early a6 the logical follow up for black is e5. 7.Be2 Bg7 8.h4 O-O ? The black king is drawn like a magnet to whites attack. 9.h5 Nbd7 10.hg6 hg6 11.Bh6 Bh6 12.Rh6 Kg7 13.Qd2 Rh8??# An absolute shocker. Black has landed in a losing position and this move is the icing on the cake. 14.Nf5 ( 14...gf5 15.Qg5 Kf8 16.Rh8 Ng8 17.Rg8 ;14...Kg8 15.Rh8 Kh8 16.Qh6 ;14...Kf8 15.Rh8 Ng8 16.Qh6 Ke8 17.Rg8 Nf8 18.Qf8 Kd7 19.Qd8 Kc6 20.Ne7 Kc5 21.Qc7 Kb4 ( 21...Kd4 22.Qd6 ) 22.Qb6 ) 1-0 Not Classed Ramakrishna - Jeff Suptut ACT Championship(9) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4 Bg7 4.c3 cd4 5.cd4 b6 6.Bc4 Ba6 7.Bf7 Chess is not such an easy game. 7...Kf7 8.Ng5 Ke8 9.e5 Nh6 10.Qa4? Whites lack of development leaves Black with an easy defensive task 10...Qc8! 11.Qd1 Nc6 12.Nc3 Nb4 13.Be3 Qc4 Blacks attack is aided by whites lack of a light square bishop. 14.Qd2 Qd3 15.O-O-O Ng4 16.a3 Qd2 17.Kd2 Nd3 18.Nge4 Rf8 19.f3 Ne3 ( 20.Ke3 Bh6-/+-/+ ) 0-1 Not Classed Justin Marshall - Tristan Reeves ACT Championship(9) 1993 1.d4 e6 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 d5 4.Nf3 Nbd7 5.O-O Be7 6.c4 c6 7.Nbd2 b6 8.b3 Bb7 9.Bb2 O-O 10.Qc2 Rc8 11.Rac1 Rc7 12.Qb1 Qa8! This is a suprisingly effective plan against the catalan. 13.Ne5 Rfc8 14.Ndf3 h6 15.Rc2 c5 16.e3 dc4 17.Rc4 b5 18.Rcc1 Ne5 19.de5 Nh7 20.Ne1 Bg2 21.Ng2 Ng5 Black has a clear advantage in this position due to his queen side pawns and whites weakened dark squares. 22.Qd3 c4 23.bc4 bc4 24.Qc2 c3 25.Ba1 Ba3 26.Rcd1 Qe4 27.Qb3 c2# 28.Qa3 cd1Q 29.Rd1 Nh3 0-1 Not Classed Ian Rout - Mos Ali ACT Championship(9) 1993 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Ne2 de4 5.a3 Ba5 Either taking on c3 or sliding back to e7 are better options 6.b4 Bb6 7.Ne4 e5 8.Bb2 Nf6 9.Nf6 Qf6 10.c4 c6 11.c5 Bc7 12.Ng3 O-O 13.Bd3 ed4 14.O-O Rd8 15.Re1 Be6 16.Qc2 h6 17.Nf5 Bf5 18.Bf5 Nd7 19.Rad1 g6 20.Bh3 Nf8 21.Re4 Be5 22.Qd2 Re8 23.f4 Bc7 24.Rd4 b6 25.f5 Time to open up the king side 25...Qe7 26.fg6 fg6 27.Qh6 Be5 Black needed a win to win the championship so attempts to bail out with Qe3+ weren't feasible 28.Re4 Rad8 29.Rde1 Bh2 A last desperate try 30.Kh2 Qc7 31.Kg1 Re4 32.Qh8! Kf7# 33.Qg7 and white mates after Ke8 1-0 Not Classed Milan Ninchich - Henk Doel ACT Major(9) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cd4 4.Nd4 g6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.f4 d5 8.Bb5 O-O 9.Nc6 bc6 10.Bc6 Rb8 11.O-O Ba6 12.Re1 Qc7 13.ed5 ( 13.Nd5 Nd5 ( 13...Qc6 14.Ne7 ) 14.ed5 Bb2+= ) 13...Rb2 14.Bd4? ( 14.Na4! Rbb8 15.Bd4 Rbc8 16.Qf3 Rfd8 17.Rad1+= ) 14...Qf4 15.Ne2? 15.g3! = 15...Be2 16.Re2 Ng4 17.Ba7 Qh2 18.Kf1 Qh1 19.Bg1 Rb4 20.d6 ed6# In this (winning) position black misses a mate in 8 eg. ( 20...Rf4 21.Bf3 Nh2 22.Ke1 Qg1 23.Kd2 Rd4 24.Kc3 Re4 25.Kd2 Bh6 26.Kc3 Qc5 27.Kb2 Rb8 ) 21.c3 Bc3 22.Re7 Rf4 23.Ke2 Ba1 24.Qd6 Rf6 25.Qd5 Qg1 0-1 Not Classed Shaun Press - Steve Georgopoulos ACT Major(9) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 e6 3.f4 Nc6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.e5 Nd5 6.Nd5 ed5 7.d4 d6 8.c3 Be7 9.Bd3 Bd7 10.O-O cd4 11.cd4 Nb4 12.Bb1 Bb5 13.Re1 This queenside feint by black doesn't amount to much. 13...de5 14.fe5 Qd7? 15.e6!# 15...fe6 16.Ne5 Qc7 17.Qh5 Kd8 18.Nf7 Kd7 19.Qg4! Although greed may win this continuation is stronger 19...Qb6 20.Re6! h5 only move 21.Rb6 hg4 22.Rb5 Kc6 23.Rb4 Bb4 24.Nh8 Rh8 25.Bf5 1-0 Not Classed Stephen Bartlett - Roger McCart ACT Major(9) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 Be7 7.Re1 O-O 8.c3 d6 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2 cd4 13.cd4 Re8 14.d5 Nb7 15.b3 Nc5 16.Bb2 Qb8 17.Rc1 Ra7 18.b4 Ncd7 19.Nb3 Bd8 20.Bd3 Nf8 21.Re2 Bd7 22.Rcc2 Ng6 23.Bc1 Nh5 24.Be3 Rb7 25.g3 Rf8 26.Kh2 Rc7 If black really wanted to go beserk he could try 26...f5 27.Rc7 Bc7 28.Rc2 Rc8 29.Ng5 Nf6 30.f4 Bb6 31.Rc8 Bc8 32.Bb6 Qb6 33.Qc2 Bd7 34.Qd2 ef4 35.gf4 h6 36.Nf3 Nh5 37.f5 Ngf4 38.Nfd4 Nd3 39.Qd3 Nf6 40.Kg2 Qc7 41.Kf3 g6 42.fg6 Bh3 43.Kg3 Bc8 44.gf7 Qf7 45.Nf5 Qg6 46.Kf2 Bf5 47.ef5 Ng4 48.Kf1 Qg5 49.Qe4 Ne3 50.Ke2 Nf5 51.Qe8 Kg7 52.Qc6 Qg4 53.Kd3 Qb4 54.Qd7 Kg6 55.Qe8 Kg5 The game continued with both players in time trouble. It ended when Roger played Qc5 and lost it to the knight on b3. 1-0 Not Classed Oscar Hellmann - Donald Darling ACT Major(9) 1993 1.d4 d5 2.e4 de4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 ef3 5.Nf3 If white wants to give up more pawns he can try ( 5.Qf3 Qd4 6.Be3 Qb4 7.O-O-O Bg4 8.Nb5! ) 5...Bg4 6.Be3 e6 7.Bb5 c6 8.Bd3 Bb4 9.O-O O-O 10.Qe1 Qc7 11.Ne5! White has a perfect Blackmar position. 11...Bd6 12.Qh4 Bf5 13.Bf5 ef5 14.Rf5 Be7 15.Bg5 Qd8 16.Raf1 Nbd7 17.Ne4 Nd5 18.Nf7 Bg5 19.Neg5 Qg5 20.Qg5 Rae8 21.Nh6 Kh8 22.Rf8 Nf8 23.Nf7 Kg8 24.Ne5 Ne6 25.Qf5 Nf6 26.c4 Nf8 27.g4 h6 28.g5 hg5 29.Qg5 Ne4 30.Qh5 Re7 31.Rf8 Kf8 32.Ng6 1-0 Not Classed Peter Pullicino - Ian Hosking ACT Major(9) 1993 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bg5 d5 4.e3 c6 5.Bd3 h6 6.Bh4 Be7 7.Nbd2 O-O 8.Ne5 Nbd7 9.f4 Ne5?! A mistake which allows the exchange of the good e7 bishop and leaves Black with an inferior position. 10.fe5 Ne4? 11.Be7 Qe7 12.Be4 de4 13.Ne4 Qb4 14.Qd2 Qb2 15.O-O b6? 16.a4! The black queen has no escape squares 16...f5 17.Nd6? Much better is exf6 e.p. after which the Queen falls for a single rook. 17...f4 Complicating for black is mandatory 18.ef4# ( 18.Rfb1 fe3 19.Qd3 Ba6 20.Qa6 Qc2 followed by Rf2 offers excellent play for black. ;18.Qd3 fe3 19.Rf8 Kf8 20.Rf1 Kg8 21.Qg6 Ba6! Is also good for black ) 18...c5 19.Nb5 Qb4 20.Qb4 cb4 21.Nd6 a5 White's advantage has dissapated due to inaccurate play. 22.g3 Bd7 23.c3 g5 24.cb4 ab4 25.Nc4?! ( 25.Rfb1! gf4 26.Rb4 fg3 27.hg3 Rfb8 28.a5! ba5 29.Ra5! ) 25...Ra4 26.Ra4!? 26.Nxb6 may be better 26...Ba4 27.Nb6 Bb5 27...Bc2 is also good. Black is probably winning now. The post- mortem suggested an earlier gambit of the f pawn the attain passed centre pawns. 28.Rb1 Rb8 29.Rb4 Rb6 30.fg5 hg5 31.h4 gh4 32.gh4 Swapping off pawns usually increases the chance of a draw. 32...Rb7 33.Rb2 Bc6 34.Rg2?? Bg2 0-1 Not Classed Robert Riggs - Peter Murphy ACT Major(9) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cd4 4.Nd4 Nf6 5.Bd3 a6 6.Bg5 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.Nc3 Nbd7 9.O-O Be7 10.Qd2 h6 11.Bh4 g5 12.Bg3 Nh5 13.Nd5 Ndf6 14.Nf6 Bf6 15.Qe2 Nf4 16.Bf4 gf4 17.Bc4 Qd7 18.Be6 Qe6 19.Rad1 Rg8 20.Qf3 Rc8 21.Rd2 Be7 22.Rfd1 Qg6 23.Qh3 Rc7 24.Nc1 Qe4 25.f3 Qg6 26.c3 h5 27.Nd3 h4 28.Nb4 Rd7 29.Nd5 Bd8 30.Re1 Kf8?? 31.Qd7 Bf6 32.Nf6 Qf6 33.Qd6 Qd6 34.Rd6 1-0 Not Classed Bill Heiser - Robert Green ACT Major(9) 1993 1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e4 O-O d6 before castling 5.e5 Ne8 6.Nf3 d6 7.Be2 Bg4 8.Bf4 a6 9.h4 Bf3 10.Bf3 c6 11.O-O Nc7 12.Bg4 f6 13.Re1 f5 14.Bf3 Ne6 15.Qd2 Nf4 16.Qf4 de5 17.de5 e6 18.Rad1 Qc7 19.Rd6 Re8 20.Red1 Bf8 21.R6d3 Be7 22.Ne2 Rd8 23.Qg3 Rd3 24.Rd3 Nd7 25.Bh5 If 25.h5 the g5 by black 25...Kf7 26.Nf4 gh5 27.Nh5 Rg8 28.Qh2 Nf8 29.Kf1 Ng6 30.Nf4 Qe5 31.g3 Nf4 32.gf4 Qb2 33.Rb3 Qa1 0-1 Not Classed Tony Salvage - Jeff Wood ACT Major(9) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bc6 dc6 5.O-O Bg4 6.h3 h5 7.d3 Qf6 8.Bg5? Looks good but loses a piece 8...Bf3 9.Bf6 Bd1 10.Rd1 Nf6 11.Nd2 O-O-O 12.Nc4 Bd6 13.a4 g5 14.c3 g4 15.h4 Nd7 16.b4 Be7 17.g3 f6 18.b5 Nb8 19.Rab1 Bc5 20.ba6 Na6 21.Na5 Bb6 22.Nc4 Nc5 23.a5 Ba7 24.Rd2 Rd3 25.Rdb2 Rhd8 26.Kg2 Rd1 27.Nb6 cb6 28.ab6 Bb8 29.Rb4 Rb1 30.Rb1 Rd3 31.Re1 Rc3 32.Re2 Rb3 33.Re1 Rb6 34.f4 Rb2 35.Kg1 Ba7 36.Ra1 Kb8 37.Kh1 Ne4 38.Rf1 Ng3# 0-1 Not Classed Alan Mengelkamp - Laura Moylan ACT Major(9) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 ed4 5.Nd4 Bc5 6.Nc6 bc6 7.Bg5 d6 8.e5 de5 9.Qd8 Kd8 10.Ne4 Be7 11.Bf6 gf6 12.Bc4 f5 13.Rd1 Ke8 14.Nd2 Rb8 15.Nb3 Rb4 16.Be2 Rg8 17.O-O f4 18.Kh1 c5 19.c3 Rb6 20.Rd5 Rbg6? 20...Bb7-/+-/+ 21.Bf3 Ba6 22.Re1 Bc4 23.Rde5 Be6 24.Nc5 Bc5 25.Rc5 Kd7 26.Rd1 Kc8 27.Ra5 Kb8 28.Rd4 Bc8 29.Rb5 Rb6 30.Rb6 cb6 31.Rf4 Re8 32.h3 Re1 33.Kh2 Be6 34.Bh5 Ba2 35.Bf7 Bf7 36.Rf7 Re2 37.b4 1-0 Not Classed Jenny Moylan - Nye Griffiths ACT Minor(9) 1993 1.e4 d5 2.d3 de4 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 White is playing the Blackmar a move down 4...Bg4 5.f3 ef3 6.gf3 Bf5 7.Bf4 e6 8.Nb5 Bd6 9.Qd2 Bf4 10.Qf4 Nd5 11.Qg3 Bg6 12.Bc4 Na6 13.Qe5 Qf6 14.Bd5 Qe5 15.de5 ed5 16.O-O-O Rd8 17.Ne2 O-O 18.Nf4 Rfe8 19.Rhe1 c6 20.Na7? Ra8 21.Nb5 cb5 22.Rd5 Nb4 23.Rb5 Nc2 24.Rd1 Ra2 25.Ng6 Ne3 26.Kb1 ( 26.Ne7 Kf8 27.Rd7 Re7 28.Re7 Ke7 29.Rb7 ) 26...Nd1 27.Ka2 fg6 28.f4 Re7 29.h4 Ne3 30.Rc5 Ng2 31.Rc4 Nh4 32.b4 Nf3 33.Re4 0-1 Not Classed Simon Ayling - Leon Sadkowski ACT Minor(9) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.b4 Bd6 6.d3 b6 7.a4 O-O 8.O-O a5 9.b5 Ne7 10.Bg5 Ng4 11.Bd5 Rb8 12.h3 Nf6 13.Bf6 gf6 14.Nh4 f5 15.ef5?? 15.Nxf5 15...Nd5 16.Qg4 Kh8 17.f4 Ne3 18.Qg5 Be7 19.Qh6 Bh4 20.Rf3 Nf5 21.Qh5 d6 22.g4 Bb7 23.gf5 Bf3 24.Qf3 Rg8 25.Kh1 Rg3 26.Qd5 Qe8 27.d4 ef4 28.Nd2 Qe2 29.Nf1# The end is near 29...f3 30.Ne3 Qe3 31.Qf7 Qf2 0-1 Not Classed Duncan Gilmour - Rhys Thorpe ACT Minor(9) 1993 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4 cd4 4.Nd4 Bg7 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Nc6 bc6 7.Bc4 d6 8.Be3 Be6 9.Be6 fe6 10.Qd2 Rb8 11.Ba7 Rb2 12.Rb1?? Bc3# 13.Rb2 Bd2 14.Kd2 Qa5 0-1 Not Classed Paul Sutherland - Peter Rodda ACT Minor(9) 1993 1.e4 d6 2.Nf3 Bg4 3.d4 Nd7 4.h3 Bf3 5.Qf3 e5 6.c3 c5 7.Bc4 Ngf6 8.d5 Rb8 9.Bb5 a6 10.Ba4 b5 11.Bc2 c4 12.Bg5 Be7 13.Nd2 b4 14.Nc4 Qc7 15.b3 bc3 16.Qc3 Ne4 17.Be4 Bg5 18.O-O Nf6 19.Bc2 Nd5 20.Qg3 Bf6 21.Rad1 Qc6 22.Be4 Rb5 23.Rd2 a5 24.a4 Rc5 25.f3 Qb6 26.Rd5 Can't white just take the queen? 26...Rc4 27.Qf2 Qf2 28.Kf2 Rc2 29.Bc2 Be7 30.Ra5 O-O 31.Rd1 g6 32.Ra7 Re8 33.Be4 f5 34.Bc6 Rc8 35.Re7 Rc6 36.Rd6?? Rd6 37.Re5 Rb6 38.Rb5 Ra6 39.a5 Rc6 40.a6 Ra6 41.b4 Kf7 42.Rb7 Kf6 43.Rh7 Rb6 44.Rh4 Kg5 45.Rc4 Ra6 46.f4 Kh4 47.Rc8 Ra2 48.Kf3 Ra3 49.Kf2 Ra2 50.Kg1 Kg3 51.Rc6 Ra1# 0-1 Not Classed Andy Lee - Dianne Oglesby ACT Minor(9) 1993 1.g3 d5 2.Bg2 Nf6 3.Nf3 c5 4.d4 e6 5.c3 c4 6.Bf4 Bd6 7.Bd6 Qd6 8.O-O Bd7 9.b3 b5 10.Nfd2 Bc6 11.f4 O-O 12.f5 Nbd7 13.Qc2 Rae8 14.Re1 ef5 15.Qf5 Re7 16.Bf3 g6 17.Qc2 Rfe8 18.b4 Qe6 Black has a bind along the e-file 19.Qd1 Qe3 20.Kg2 Ne5? 21.de5 Re5 22.Nf1 Qg5 23.Nbd2 h5 24.h4 Qf5 25.Nh2 Rd8 26.Qc1 Re6 27.Qa3 d4 28.Bc6 Rc6 29.Rac1 Qd5 30.e4 de3 31.Ndf3 a6 32.Nf1 Ng4 33.Qb2 Rf6 34.Qe2 Ne5 35.Nh2 Nd3 36.Qe3 Nc1 37.Rc1 Re6 38.Qf2 Rde8 39.Rc2 Re3 40.Rd2 Qe4 41.Nf1 Rc3 42.Rd4 Qc2 43.N1d2 Qd1 44.Nf1 Qc2 45.Rd2 Qe4 46.Nh2 Qe3 47.Qe3 Rce3 48.Nf1 R3e4 49.Ng5 f6?? 50.Ne4 Re4 51.Rd8 Kf7 52.Nd2 Re7 1/2 Not Classed Clare Moylan - Kylie Mayoh ACT Minor(9) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Bc5 4.Bc4 d6 5.Ng5 Bg4 6.f3 Bh5 7.d3 Nc6 8.Be6 fe6 9.Ne6 Qd7 10.Nb5! a6 11.Nbc7 Kf7 12.Ng5 Kg6 13.Na8 Qd8 1/2 Not Classed Helena Sadkowski - Tom Green ACT Minor(9) 1993 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Nh4? Qh4 5.g3 Qe4 6.Qe2 Qh1 7.Qf1 Qf1 8.Bf1 Nd4 9.a4 Nc2 10.Kd1 Na1 11.b3 Nb3 12.Bb2 d5 13.Bc3 d4 14.Bb2 e4 15.Be2 d3 16.Bf1 Bg4 17.f3 Bf3 18.Ke1 Nf6 19.Bf6 gf6 20.Nc3 O-O-O 21.Ne4 Be4 22.g4 Rhe8 23.g5 Bf3 24.Be2 Re2 25.Kd1 Rd2 26.Ke1 Re8 27.Kf1 Rd1 0-1