Simutowe in play at Dutch Open
GM-elect Amon Simutowe is playing in the Dutch Open which has only five GMs including top-seeds Vyacheslav Ikonnikov of Russia and Sandipan Chanda of India. Simutowe has returned to the country of his final GM norm and hopes to put in a solid performance. More details coming.
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Simutowe is the MAN….Loving his aggression on the boards and his humility of speech.
Much respect,
Adisa
I never seen Amon getting self destructive as he did in this game, grabbing a hot pawn to my horror as I was watching live on playchess.com. Will he ever get to 2500 Elo? Time will tell!!
IM Hendriks,Willy(NED) (2425) – IM Simutowe,Amon(ZAM) (2459) [B14]
Dutch Open Dieren/Netherlands (3), 24.07.2008
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nf3 Bb4 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.Bd2 Nc6 9.Bd3 0-0 10.0-0 Be7 11.Qe2 Ndb4?
I do not agree with this move, the plan is to win the d pawn on next move.Malakhov played in same manner against Ghaemi in 2000 and lost in a similar manner to Simutowe ,no breathing space ,better looks to be 11… Nf6 or 11…Bf6 although black still has to fight for equality top GMs like Nisipeanu and Svetushkin have previously used 11… Nf6 with success.
12.Be4 Nxd4 13.Nxd4 Qxd4 14.Rfd1 Qf6 15.Be3 Nc6 16.Rd3 Qe5 17.Bd4 Qa5 18.Nd5
this move looks very promising but maybe leads only to a draw but defending is a tedious job and Simutowe goes wrong on next move
18…f5?
Best chance is 18.exd5 Bxh7 19. Kxh7 Qxh5 20.Kg8 Bxg7 21.Rg3 Kf6 with a likely draw
19.Bc3 Qa4 20.Rg3 Rf7 21.Bc2 Qa6 22.Bd3 Qa4 23.Nc7 Rb8 24.Nxe6 Bxe6 25.Qxe6 Nd4 26.Qc4 Qxc4 27.Bxc4 Rd8 28.Kf1 Bf6 29.Rd1 White wins 1-0
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nf3 Bb4 7.Bd3 dxc4 8.Bxc4 0-0 9.0-0 a6 10.Bg5 Nc6 This is where I see lack of adequate coaching on Simutowe part especially in the opening ,he sometimes plays openings by initution,quite risky if you want to be GM, why play a6 and not play b5??whats the point??Nc6 works well with a white pawn on a4 not a2 ,almost everyone plays b5 here with rapid development for black with Bb7 and Nbd7 check database. 11.Rc1 Be7 12.Bd3 h6 13.Bf4 Nb4 14.Bb1 b5 15.a3 Nbd5 16.Nxd5 Qxd5 17.Rc7 Bd6 18.Bxd6 Qxd6 19.Qc2 Rd8 20.Rc1 Bd7 21.h3 b4 22.a4 b3 23.Qxb3 Rab8 24.Qd3 Bxa4 25.Ne5 Qxd4 26.Qxd4 Rxd4 27.Nxf7 Nd7 28.Bg6 Rf8 29.Rc8 Nb6 30.Rxf8+ Kxf8 31.Ne5 Rd1+ 32.Rxd1 Bxd1 33.Kf1 Ba4 34.Ke2 Ke7 35.Bd3 a5 36.Ke3 Kd6 37.Kd4 Be8 38.f4 Nd5 39.g3 a4 40.Nc4+ Ke7 41.Be4 Nf6 42.Bf3 g5 43.Nb6 gxf4 44.gxf4 Kd6 45.Bd1 Nd5 46.Nxd5 exd5 47.Bf3 Bd7 48.Bg4 Be8 49.h4 Bb5 50.Bc8 Be2 51.Bb7 Bf3 52.f5 Bg4 53.f6 Be6 54.Ba6 Bd7 55.Be2 Be8 56.Bf3 Bf7 57.Bg2 Be6 58.Bh1 Bg8 59.Bg2 Be6 60.Bf1 Bd7 61.f7 Ke7 62.Kxd5 Kxf7 63.Kc5 Kg6 64.Bb5 Bc8 65.Bxa4 Kh5 66.b4 Kxh4 67.b5 Kg5 68.Kd6 Bb7 69.Kc7 Bf3 70.b6 h5 71.Bc6 Bxc6 72.Kxc6 h4 73.b7 h3 74.b8Q 1-0 (See game)
I totally agree ,Simutowe should not have lost this one ,on move 28,Nf8 looked better to me ,its hard to explain this loss