JOHN
HENDERSON’S WORLD CHESS NEWS
October
1, 2003 12th MONARCH ASSURANCE: SHORT'S STAY
IS SHORT
"SO it's to be Short and it will be short," is
a famous jibe from Garry Kasparov, as he discovered
the name of his challenger for the 1993 world
title match. Now it can equally be used for Nigel
Short's brief appearance in the Monarch Assurance
Open!
An opening round dispute led to the former world
title challenger promptly packing his bags and
heading home from the Isle of Man after playing
just one move. Originally paired against Ukrainian
IM Alexander Nosenko, his opponent proved to
be a no-show, thus necessitating a new pairing
against another player whose opponent had also
not appeared -- Iceland's Oskar Bjarnarson.
However, Short, wrongly claiming that the FIDE
regulations do not expressly allow such a move,
unsuccessfully argued that instead he should
have had the full point. Rather than play the
game -- and to the obvious disappointment of
the organizers who had gone to great lengths
to secure his appearance -- Short instead took
the controversial decision to withdraw.
Following the self-imposed early departure of
the top seed, the tournament was further blown
wide-open with the opening round defeat of both
the second and third seeds.
F Handke - V Epishin
12th Monarch Assurance,
(1)
Sicilian Kan
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6
5.Bd3 Bc5 6.Nb3 Be7 7.Qg4 g6 8.Qe2 d6 9.0-0 Nd7
10.Nc3
Qc7 11.Bd2 b6 12.f4 Ngf6 13.Rae1 Bb7 14.e5 Nh5
15.exd6 Bxd6 16.Ne4 Bxe4 17.Bxe4 Ra7 18.g3 0-0
19.Bc3 Ng7 20.Rd1 Rc8 21.Rd2 Nc5 22.Nxc5 Bxc5+
23.Kh1 Qe7 24.Rfd1 h5 25.a3 a5 26.Bf3 Qf8 27.Qe5
Be7 28.Rd7 f6 29.Qe4 Rxd7 30.Rxd7 Rd8 31.Rxd8
Qxd8 32.Qxg6 b5 33.Qe4 Kf7 34.Qh7 Bf8 35.Bxh5+
Ke7 36.Bf3 Qb6 37.Qe4 Nf5 38.Qb7+ Qxb7 39.Bxb7
Ne3 40.Be4 f5 41.Bd3 b4 42.Bd4 Nd5 43.a4 Kf7
44.Bc4 Ne7 45.Bb6, 1-0.
Page 1 | Page 2 | Page
3 | Page 4 | Page
5 | Page 6 | Page
7 | Page 8 | Page
9 | Page 10
|
