Snowdrops and Oldhands – Czech Coal Chess Match 2012

Oldhands reducing the Snowdrop´s lead

[14.12.2012 00:00:00] - Fifth round of the match was evidently of Oldhands. They profited of the advantege of white pieces and they noted the winning score 3:1. Oleg Romanishin being in a better position, took advantage of Kristýna Havlíková´s small mistake to obtain a pawn. But he wasn´t satisfied just with one pawn and he continued reinforcing his position and he conducted Kristýna to resign, because of coverless menace of losing figure. Fridrik Olafsson added the second point. In an exact strategic game against Valentina Gunina, he profited of free column and forced his adversary to sacrifice the quality and soon after to capitulations. Tania Sachdev, playing against Wolfgang Uhlmann, reduced the score. The most interesting moments came in the rook endgame. How fifth round´s commentator IM Michal Konopka showed in his analysis, Wolfgang Uhlmann passed through the study´s winning, but instead of it, he permitted to his adversary wonderful pawn break after which he had to resign. Due to Vlastimil Hort, the point from last game belonged again to Oldhands. Playing against Alina Kašlinskaja, he sacrificed the pawn in Volga gambit. Then he showed his force in two-edges position, and by a beautiful sacrifice of quality he turned the development of the game on his side and Alina, being in a time distress, wasn´t able to resist successfully. So Oldhands won 3:1 in the fifth round.

State of the match after fifth round: Snowdrops - Oldhands 11 : 9

| Petr Herejk | visits(3453x)