My tournament in Budapest has finished!

My tournament in Budapest has finished!

Let’s summarize the results. I scored 6 points of 9 what is a really good result and got the 2nd place.

I didn’t get an IM norm (7 of 9), but increased my rating by 26 points!

If not a stupid loss in the first game, I believe I could score 7 of 9 and get a norm.

But it’s ok, the norm wasn’t my goal, I played for rating mainly.

Thank you, Laszlo Nagy, for inviting me.

In my last game I outplayed the top player of this tournament - IM Nguyen Van Thanh. You know some chess players don’t play the last round, they just agree to a draw, but not IM Nguyen.

Before the game I offered a draw to him, hoping that it can give me 1 more day off before my next tournament (that actually starts this Saturday). But he rejected, he said he wanted to play.

Ok, no problem, I like to play chess too 😉 We played for almost 4 hours and then he got an inferior position and offered a draw to me. I rejected, I spent 4 hours trying to outplay him and at that moment I really wanted to win the game. It was close to a draw, but I had one chance that I could try and I did it. I sacrificed my pawn to get his knight distracted to be able to continue the attack on the enemy king. He decided not to take the pawn, but lost his pawn and finally we came to the queen endgame with 1 extra (but distant passed) pawn for me. Than I gained another pawn and he resigned!

It’s white to move, but he has no ways to save.

I’m black. What am I threatening with? #firstsaturday #chesstournament