The 22nd annual Sigeman Chess Tournament took place in the classical Hipp
Theater in central Malmo. This year's event was a round robin with six participants,
who were an interesting mix of established players and rising stars, and
of familiar faces and new ones. The visiting team consisted of former world
championship candidate Jan Timman, French grandmaster Laurient Fressinet
and Norwegian grandmaster Jon Ludvig Hammer. The home team consists of Nils
Grandelius, who has become Sweden's strongest and most active chess player,
new grandmaster Erik Blomqvist and international master Axel Smith. The
time control was 100 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes for 20
moves, then 15 minutes for the remaining moves with 30 seconds cumulative
increment for each move starting from the first move.
IGM JLH vs IM AS was a Slav that ended after
42 moves in a relatively uneventful draw
Nils Grandelius had scored 0.5/3 so far, but
won his first game in round four
Timman played most of the game a pawn down
but defended successfully to a 93-move draw
Not exactly packed – the playing venue
in the Hipp Theater
The main sponsor Johan Sigeman with IM Björn
Ahlander in the commentary room
Swedish GM Tiger Hillarp Persson watching the
action
The final decisive game, in which Axel Smith
made one false king move
Allan Beardsworth sent us his comments on this game, as published on his
chess blog, where he writes:
I hadn't been following the current Siegman tournament until I saw this
article on ChessBase that Axel Smith was leading it. Axel is an IM
who wrote the excellent Pump
Up Your Rating, published by Quality Chess – one of those
rare, really well written instructional books where you feel the author
really wants to help his readers improve their chess. So, delighted for
Axel, I logged onto Playchess to see how he had fared today, to see that
he went down in flames against Nils Grandelius, one of the players he
profiled in his book.
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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 0-0 7.e3 b6 8.Be2 Nbd7 9.cxd5 exd5 10.0-0 Bb7 11.Rc1 Re8 12.Qa4 a6 13.Rfd1 Bd6 14.Ne1 Qb8 15.Bg3 Bxg3 16.hxg3 Nf8 17.Nd3 Ne6 18.b4 Qd8 19.Qb3 Qd6 20.a4 Rad8 21.Qb2 Ng5 22.Nf4 Re7 23.Nb1 Nge4 24.Nd2 Bc8 25.Nxe4 dxe4 26.b5 axb5 27.axb5 Bb7 28.Bc4 Kf8 29.Ra1 g5 30.Ne2 h5 31.Ra7 Bd5 32.Rc1 Rdd7 33.Bxd5 Qxd5 34.Rc6 Kg7 35.Nc3 Qf5 36.Qe2 h4 37.gxh4 gxh4 38.Kf1 Qg5 39.Qc4 Ng4 40.Ke2? 40.Ke1 Qf5 41.Qf1 41.Qe2 40...Qf5 41.Nd1 41.-- Qxf2+ 42.Kd1 Nxe3+ 43.Kc1 Qc2# 41...Ne5! 42.dxe5 h3‼ 43.e6 hxg2‼ 44.exd7 Rxd7! 45.Qc3+ f6 46.Rxf6 Qxb5+ 0–1
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| Smith,A | 2478 | Grandelius,N | 2587 | 0–1 | 2014 | D58 | 22nd Sigeman & Co 2014 | 5.3 |
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Final standings (after five rounds of play)
