4th Annual Ken Smith Memorial Open
4th annual Ken Smith Memorial Open was held
from Novenber 29 to December 1st 2002 in Dallas. There were over 100 players.
The winner is GM Kaminski with 4.5 out 5, second and third tied IMs Diesen and
Milovanovic. I am satisfied with my result, because I had to take a bye (again)
in round 2. Here is my game from last round against NM Dokotchuaev.
You can view this game with an interactive javascript board here. For more games, please see my full Games page!
Dokuchayev-Milovanovic
Semi-Tarasch
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 this is the second time, that Andrei has avoided the Nimzoindian against me 3...d5 4.Nc3 c5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 my favourite Semi-Tarasch 6.e4 Nxc3 7.bxc3 cxd4 8.cxd4 Bb4+ 9.Bd2 Bxd2+ 10.Qxd2 0–0 11.Bc4 Nd7 12.0–0 b6 13.Rfe1 Bb7 14.Rad1 Rc8 15.Bd3 16.Bb3 I saw more often. I played moves before very fast and after 10 minutes I played 15...Re8 16.Qf4 Qf6 17.Qg3 Nf8 18.h4 Rc3 19.Re3 Rec8 White trys to organize an attack, but black thinks that has enough resources for defense. 20.Ne5 I did not expect this move. 20...Rc1 21.Rxc1 Rxc1+ 22.Kh2 Qd8 23.Rf3 f6 23..Rc7 is more careful. 24.Ng4 Kh8 25.Rxf6??
(To play last round in Swiss is always pressure. Andrei played that move fast. Of course I did not see that possibility, but after 10 minutes I concluded (like many time before) that in chess very often we need luck. So I played 25...gxf6 and Andrei realized that 26.Nh6 doesn't work because of simple 26...Qc7) 26.e5 Qc7 (now I was sure that I will tied, at least for second, and take prize) 27.Qf4 f5 28.Nf6 Rd1 29.Be2 Qc1and white resigned.
One of the interesting things about chess is that every tournament will give you new experience; it doesn't matter how long you play chess. So, my new experience, was in round 1 against talented and promising young Alex Chua. After 48 moves this position arose:
(You can view this position with an interactive javascript board here.
White(Milovanovic)
Black (Chua)
I expected that black will resign now, but he played 48...Kg5 (OK, maybe idea is to trade black b pawn for white a pawn and than is draw-wrong colored bishop) 49.Bc2 Kf4 50.Kg2 b5 51.Kf2 b4 52.Bd3 f5 53.Bc2 Ke5 54.Kf3 f4 55.Bh7 Kd4 56.Kxf4 Kc3 57.Bg8 Kb2 (What is this? Looks like that is fun for black to play) 58.h4 Kc2 59.h5 Kb2 60.h6 Ka3 61.h7 Ka4 62.h8Q (I was thinking about 1 minute and had idea to take bishop or knight, than to play about 40 moves before trade pawns and than to checkmate in the next 50 moves, but it was almost midnight, so I decided do not accept this kind of fun) 62...Ka3 63.Bc4 Ka4 64.Qa8 checkmate, after that Alex said something like resign, which makes no sense because it is checkmate.
Final Position
UTD chess program has Chess in Education, the best college team in America, an active chess club, teaching in school's chess clubs, etc...and the most popular chess activity--Fide rated tournaments with the possibility to make IM norms. Due to my title, my rating and my UTD-coach position I qualified to participate in this tournament. In the first tournament in Fall 2001 I choose a tournament strategy more appropriate for an 18 years old freshman: playing every game for win. The result was that I made 3 wins and 3 draws from first 6 rounds, but also made 2 losses and 1 draw from last 3 rounds. The reason for that strategy maybe was the observation from my one member family that I am older at least 20 years from other players.
This year after drawing, when I saw that I am black against GMs Shulman and Kaminski, and candidates for IM norm Whatley and Rylander and listening (again) to observations about "tournament age structure" I decided to take a different tournament strategy which included: to avoid complications, to offer draws and also to accept a draw. So with that strategy I made 7 draws and 2 wins (with white against two lowest rated player) and shared second place. GM Shulman again won 8 out 9!!
Here are 2 of my games. You can view both games with an interactive javascript board here. For more games, please see my full Games page!
Milovanovic-Gardner
1.Nf3 f5 2.d4 Nf6 3.g3 g6 4.c3 Bg7 5.Qb3 (I saw this move "live'" in the game I. Sokolov-Malaniuk Moscow (OL) 1994 ) e6 6.Bg2 c6 7.0-0 0-0 8.Nbd2 d5 9.Ne5 Nfd7?! 10.Nd3 e5? (to open position is in white's favor) 11.dxe5 Nxe5 12.Nxe5 Bxe5 13.c4!
13...d4 14.c5+ Rf7 15.Nf3 Bf6 16.Bf4 Na6 17.Rac1 Qe7 18.Bd6 Qe6 19.Qa4 (Rfd1!?) Qxe2 20.Rce1(+-) Qxb2 ( 20...Qb5 21.Qxb5 cxb5 22.Re8+ Kg7 23.Ne5 Nc7 24.Rxc8 Rxc8 25.Nxf7 Kxf7 26.Bxb7 Rb8 27 Bd5+) 21.Re8+ Kg7 22.Ne5 Bd7?? (22...Nc7 23.Qc4) 23.Rxa8 Black resigned.
Final Position
Shulman-Milovanovic
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 (I expected 3.Nc3) d5 4.Nc3 c5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.g3 cxd4 7.Nxd5 Qxd5 8.Qxd4 (fortunately I had good experience in that variation) Qb5 9.e4 Qb4+ 10.Bd2 Nc6 11.Qxb4 Bxb4 12.a3 Bxd2 13.Kxd2 Ke7 14.Ke3 Bd7 (against WIM Shumiakina Ulcinj (Yugoslavia) 1997 I played 14...b6 than 15.Bb5 Bb716.Rac1 Rac8 17.Rc3 Nb8 18.Rhc1 Rxc3 19 Rxc3 Rc8 20.Rxc8 Bxc8 and I won in move 60!!! Of course, because white blundered later) 15.Bb5 Rhd8 16.Rac1 Rac8 (Here I offered a draw)
17.Rhd1 Nb8 18.Be2 Rxc1 19.Rxc1 Rc8 20.Rxc8 Bxc8 21.e5 Bd7 (I do not like 21..Nc6 22.Bb5 Bd7 23.Bxc6, later in ChessBase I saw that GM Graf won similiar position N vs.B) 22.Nd4 Nc6 23.f4 Nxd4 24.Kxd4 b6 25.Bd3 h6 26.g4 g5 27.f5 f6 28.fxe6 Bxe6 29.exf6 Kxf6 30.Be2 Bb3 31.Bf3 Ke6 and now was Yuri's turn to offer draw.
Final Position: Draw
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