Snowdrops and Oldhands – Czech Coal Chess Match 2012

Snowdrops increasing the difference

[11.12.2012 00:00:00] - In snowy Poděbrady, the Snowdrops are staying in flower, after the third round their lead against Oldhands have grown already to 5 points. In the game Tania Sachdev – Oleg Romanišin the black obtained a slight advantage, but finally it wasn´t enough to win and the adversaries divided the point. Kristýna Havlíková fighted one point for Snowdrops. She gained two pawns by a wonderful tactical stroke in the duel with Wolfgangem Uhlmannem. Kristýna didn´t left her chance escape in the endgame of strong figures and she forced her adversary to capitulations. Vlastimil Hort obtained by a beutiful game a great position, playing againt Valentina Gunina, but unfortunately he made a mistake before the decisive move, and so he couldn´t refuse the offer of a draw made by Valentina. In the last game, Fridrik Olafsson showed to Alina Kašlinskaja, how Oldhands play the rook endgames and he kept the worse position in a safety barriers of a draw.

State of the match after the 3rd round: Snowdrops - Oldhands 8,5 : 3,5


GM Vlastimil Hort


GM Fridrik Olafsson

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