Olomouc is today a university city, but was formerly a major medieval centre whose city fathers so distrusted piped water that they kept the city's fountains, which are now a major attraction.
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| Much of Olomouc's city wall, which withstood sieges from the Mongols and Frederick the Great, still stands |
In rounds three and four I drew against a 2099 and someone with my own 1946 rating.
Perhaps the most interesting of the four games was my round-two win.
My opponent had been focused on drawing from the get-go, and here he sought further simplification with 37.e4?
This allowed me to gain an endgame edge by 37...dxe4 38.Rxe4 Qd5 39.Rxe3 Qxf3
White faced an unenviable choice here, but after 40.gxf3 Kf7 he made matters worse by letting me make what at first glance might seem a surprising exchange: 41.f4? Rxe3!
This 'improves' White's pawn structure, or rather straightens it out - in fact the pawn ending is now a simple win for Black.
42.fxe3 f5 43.Kf2 Ke6 44.b4
Other moves are equally hopeless, eg 44.b3 Kd5 45.Ke2 Ke4, with a win similar to the game, or 44.Ke2 Kd5 45.Kd3 a4, and White's king will have to give way.
44...axb4 45.axb4 Kd5 46.Ke1 Ke4 47.Ke2 h5 48.h4 g6 49.Kd2 Kf3 0-1 (60 moves)
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| White to make his 37th move in Wiep Terpstra (1794) - Spanton (1946) |
This allowed me to gain an endgame edge by 37...dxe4 38.Rxe4 Qd5 39.Rxe3 Qxf3
White faced an unenviable choice here, but after 40.gxf3 Kf7 he made matters worse by letting me make what at first glance might seem a surprising exchange: 41.f4? Rxe3!
This 'improves' White's pawn structure, or rather straightens it out - in fact the pawn ending is now a simple win for Black.
42.fxe3 f5 43.Kf2 Ke6 44.b4
Other moves are equally hopeless, eg 44.b3 Kd5 45.Ke2 Ke4, with a win similar to the game, or 44.Ke2 Kd5 45.Kd3 a4, and White's king will have to give way.
44...axb4 45.axb4 Kd5 46.Ke1 Ke4 47.Ke2 h5 48.h4 g6 49.Kd2 Kf3 0-1 (60 moves)
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