Two Barcza Systems and two wins for White! Maybe I should go back to my old repetoire

Yeah, both russkies lost, hehe. And Timman plays like he was 30 years younger! Already a full point ahead of everyone else. Impressive. Today it's another top encounter Timman-Atalik, 1-0 here and the tm may be decided already.

**Nope, a 14 move draw, maybe Lilla Torg was beckoning for them... 

Whether beating one of the many swedes or not, the two dutchmen are at least trying to fulfill the spectators' expectations. While the turk and especially the two russkies haven't shown much.

Tomorrow's Khenkin - Timman, a quick draw again perhaps? 

HgMan wrote on 04/29/06 at 17:05:38:


Well, back then they stole Delaware from us too, so nothin is new these days. And yesterday they even beat J-O et Co at table tennis. - Our only consolation is that they must live like Gollums in the swampy marshes by the Atlantic. 

Hector seems a little out of form, and Timman doesn't seem to be having too many worries.  Stellwagen looked good today, too.  Swedes may not have needed 17th century rain in the Netherlands, but the Dutch don't seem to mind plundering 21st century Swedes at the chessboard... 

"sen is a marker for danish/norwegian"

This is severely incomplete. I dare to bet, that there live more people in The Netherlands called ***-sen (Jansen, Janssen, Pietersen, Petersen, Klaassen, Goossen, Flipsen etc etc) than in Danmark and Norway together.

Hopefully the live games will work again tomorrow. 

Those who were there had one really interesting game to follow, Berg gave up a piece for an inconvenient bishop keeping white's king in the middle. Timman went for a perpetual, but amazingly Berg found a way to avoid a draw - most lower rated GMs would probably have been happy with a draw with black against Timman, especially in the 1st round... 

Unfortunately, bravery was not not to be rewarded this day and with 32.Qxb5! (spurning the 'obvious' Qg5+ Kf7 Qxb5 as the game choice allowed white to trade queens) the game turned into a better ending for white, which probably was saveable for black but not in practice against an endgame artist like Timman...

Timman,Jan (2616) - Berg,Emanuel (2539) [E15]
Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament (1), 28.04.2006

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.d4 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.b3 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Be7 7.Nc3 c6 8.e4 d5 9.e5 Ne4 10.Bd3 Nxc3 11.Bxc3 c5 12.dxc5 Bxc5 13.Qe2 dxc4 14.Be4 cxb3 15.Qd2 Nd7 16.axb3 Bb5 17.b4 0-0 18.bxc5 Nxc5 19.Bc2 Qc7 20.Bd4 Rfd8 21.Qe3 Rd5 22.Bxc5 Rxc5 23.Qe4 Rc8 24.Qxh7+ Kf8 25.Qh8+ Ke7 26.Qh4+ Ke8 27.Qh8+ Ke7 28.Qh4+ f6 29.exf6+ Kf7 30.Rd1 Rxc2 31.Qh5+ Kxf6 32.Qxb5 Qc3+ 33.Nd2 Rd8 34.Qb3 Qxb3 35.Nxb3 Rxd1+ 36.Kxd1 Rxf2 37.Nd2 Ke5 38.Re1+ Kf5 39.h3 Rh2 40.g4+ Kf4 41.Re4+ Kg3 42.Nf1+ Kf3 43.Re3+ Kf4 44.Ra3 Rf2 45.Ke1 Rf3 46.Ra4+ Ke5 47.Rxa7 Rxh3 48.Rxg7 Kf4 49.Kf2 b5 50.Kg2 Rc3 51.Nh2 Rg3+ 52.Kf2 Rb3 53.Rf7+ Kg5 54.Re7 Rh3 55.Kg2 Re3 56.Rb7 Rb3 57.Rb6 e5 58.Re6 Kf4 59.Rf6+ Ke4 60.g5 Ra3 61.g6 Ra7 62.Ng4 Rg7 63.Nh6 b4 64.Nf5 Rg8 65.Ne7 Rg7 66.Rf7 b3 67.Rxg7 b2 68.Nd5 1-0