Impressions from the RTU Open in Riga

by Marco Baldauf
8/22/2017 – The RTU Open took place in Riga from August 7th to 13th, and was won by Ukrainian Grandmaster Vladimir Onischuk with 7½/9. Local hero Alexei Shirov couldn't show his best chess and finished 35th. Strong impressions were made by some youth players, including the world's current female No. 1 in the Under-18 category, Zhansaya Abdumallik | Photos: rtuopen.lv

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Alexei Shirov shows on this DVD how White can develop pressure and seize the initiative with 5.Re1 against the Berlin Wall.

​RTU Open

The 7th RTU Open ended last Sunday, August 13th. It has grown into a huge chess festival which takes place at the Kipsala Exhibition Center in Riga. 319 participants in the A Tournament — including 42 Grandmasters and 55 International Masters — fought for the substantial prize pool of €15,100.

Playing hall and format

The Playing Hall is located on the Kipsala island, which is on the left side of the river Daugava. Although separated from the beautiful center of Riga, it is just a short walk over a bridge to enter the historical center with all its bars and restaurants. The playing hall itself was very large, providing enough space for five tournaments and more than 500 participants.

The spacious playing hall | Photo: rtuopen.lv

A huge topic — at least from my perspective — was the time control. The players had 90 minutes for the whole game, plus an increment of 30 seconds per move. However, there was no second time control, meaning that after move 40, no additional time is added to the clock. Therefore, once in time trouble, always in time trouble.

Already a major factor at regular time controls, time pressure often became decisive in any given game. On the one hand, a lot of winning positions were spoiled, while on the other hand, players were forced to make use of any practical chances. One drastic example:

 
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41.Qa3 the position after move 40 is completely winning for black. He is two pawns up, has the better light piece and the white rook on f5 is in danger of getting embarrassed by ...Nd4. In a "normal" time control, Lugovsky could consider of giving up, but consistently being under time pressure, the black position turns out to be hard to handle - even for such a strong grandmaster as Ovsejevitsch. Nd4 42.Rc1 b4 43.Qa2 b3? there is nothing wrong with 43...Nxf5 but who would give up such a strong knight against the poorly placed rook on f5? 44.gxf5 Rd6 and white could try to complicate matters by playing the strong 45.d4 although after the precise Qc6!-+ the game wouldn't last too long. 43...Qc6!-+ centralising the queen and vacating the c8-square for the rook would have been the easiest. I don't see a way for white to mudden the waters. 44.Qa3! The queen attacks the pawn on c5 and suddenly things turn out to be complicated Kf7? 44...Ne6 a sad choice to give up the b3 pawn, but that way, Ovsejevitsch stays in control 45.Qxb3 Qc6 46.Bxe5!? fxe5 47.Rxe5 Kd7 48.d4 and things are still not settled although the extra material should count 44...Rd6 45.Rxc5 Qd7 looks good as well. White needs to hurry by playing 46.Bxe5 and things are chaotic again fxe5?! 46...Nxf5 47.Bxf6+ Kxf6! 47...Rxf6 48.gxf5∞ 48.gxf5 Kg7 seems to be the easiest a line supported by the engine is 48...Qh7 but who would enter the complications after 49.Qb2+ Ke7 50.Rc7+ Rd7 51.Qe5+ Kd8 52.Rxd7+ Kxd7 53.Qe6+ Kc7 54.Qc4+ Kb7 55.Qxb3+ Ka7-+ 48...Rb8 49.e5+ Kxf5 50.exd6+ Kg6 49.Qb2+ Kh7 50.Qxb3 Rd8 and somehow the extra rook should finally make itself felt 47.Rfxe5+ Kf7 48.Rxg5 45.Rxc5 the white heavy pieces enter the black camp and the king on f7 starts to feel akward Qb7? 45...Qd7! is the only way to stay in the game as the queen is protected in d7 46.Rcxe5! 46.Bxe5?! doesn't work now Nxf5 47.Rc7? Nh4+ 48.Kf1 fxe5 49.Rxd7+ Rxd7-+ 46...Nxf5 47.Qxb3+! Kg7 48.Rxf5 46.Bxe5 46.Rxf6+! would have been even stronger Kxf6 47.Bxe5+ Kg6 48.Rc7 Qxc7 49.Bxc7+- 46...Nxf5 47.Rc7+ Qxc7 48.Qxb3+ Kg7 49.Bxc7 Nd4? However, after 49...Nh4+ 50.Kf1 Nf3! 51.Qc3 Rd7 and black can hang on, although his position looks suspicous. 50.Qb6! the game ends quickly Rd7 51.e5! Rf8 52.Bd6 1–0
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Onischuk on top

Ukrainian Grandmaster Vladimir Onischuk dominated the tournament from the very beginning, starting with six victories, before coasting to the finish with three draws. An all important game turned out to be the encounter between Onischuk and the Israeli Grandmaster Tamir Nabaty, who finished in third place.

 
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1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.c3 a quiet sideline which says: I have more space out of the opening and I'm not eager to refute your Caro. It has to be said that this line is the pet line of Onischuk. A perfect choice for the afternoon game of a double round, as Nabaty had very little time to prepare against it. Looking at the time consumption of black, one has to suspect that Nabaty didn't consider this little move in his prep. 6.h4 is of course the most ambitious main line 6...e6 7.Nh3 Bd6 7...c5 8.Qb3 Qb6 9.Qxb6 axb6 10.dxc5 bxc5 11.Nf4 Bc2 12.Bb5+ Nd7 12...Nc6= 13.a4 0-0-0 14.Kd2± 1-0 (50) Onischuk,V (2602)-Donchenko,A (2581) Bastia 2016 8.Nf4 Nf6 Black is happy to give up his light squared bishop as this would open up the h-file for his rook. The Ng3 would turn out to be a source of worry for White 9.h4 9.Nxg6 hxg6 10.Qf3 Qc7 11.Ne4 Nxe4 12.Qxe4 Nd7 and Black is ok 9...Qc7 9...Bxf4 is the "small solution" for black - he avoids complications but in return, he has to give up his strong black squared bishop 10.Bxf4 h6 11.h5 Bh7 12.Bc4 Nbd7 13.Qe2 0-0 and black is of course solid, but never more than that 14.0-0 Re8= 1/2-1/2 (45) Ponomariov,R (2706)-Grischuk,A (2747) Almaty 2016 10.Qf3 Nbd7 11.h5 Bc2 12.h6 g6 12...gxh6 gave Onischuk a nice position in 2016: 13.Ngh5 Nxh5 14.Rxh5 0-0-0 15.Bd3 Bxd3 16.Nxd3 e5 17.Kf1 f6 18.Be3 and the better pawn structure secures an positional advantage in 1-0 (46) Onischuk,V (2628)-Antal,G (2539) Gjakova 2016 13.Bd3 Bxd3 14.Nxd3 Onischuk has accomplished to push his h-pawn up the board. This will guarantee some positional threats, for example a knight on g5 or the vulnerabiltity of the f6-square. Not a nice position for Nabaty who decides to stabilise the king side castling short. A risky decision, as the king will come under attack sonn after 0-0 14...0-0-0 15.Bg5 Be7 16.0-0 and Onischuk has the easier game, as in most of the endgames, the constant threat of winning the h7 will make the black player suffer. 15.0-0 Qa5 16.c4 Bxg3 To give up the dark squared bishop is a decision one doesn't make lightheartedly - but Nabaty felt that he needed to win control over the f5 square. Otherwise his queen would be doomed to passivity 17.Qxg3 Qf5 18.Re1 a5 19.Ne5 Rfd8 19...Nxe5 20.dxe5 Nd7 21.Bg5± and the black rooks cannot oppose in the d-file 20.Qh4! putting up the worrisome threat of Bg5! Ne8 20...Qh5 21.Qxh5 Nxh5 22.g4 Nhf6 23.Bg5 Re8 24.Rad1± and Black is paralized. Would the h-pawn be on h2, the evaluation would be a completely different one 21.Qe7 Nxe5 21...Qf6! 22.Qa3 22.Qxf6?! Ndxf6! 23.Nf3 b5! typical motif in the Caro Kann: Black fights for the d5 square and can be confindent about his future prospects. 22...a4 23.Bd2± 22.dxe5 Qd3 23.Qxb7 Qxc4 24.Bg5 Rdb8 25.Qd7 Qg4 26.Be3 Qh5 26...Rxb2? 27.Qe7+- 27.Rad1 The white pieces dominate the board as the black rooks need to defend the weak backrank. Rc8 28.Qe7 Rc7 29.Qc5 f5? Nabaty desperately attempts to get some luft for his king 29...Qh4 instead passive defence was called for, but who could blame the black player to restrain from this strategy. 30.Rd4 Qe7 31.Qc3± 30.Rd3 30.Qc4 g5 31.Qxe6+ Qf7 32.Qxf7+ Kxf7 33.Bxg5+- White is two pawns up and should have a technically winning position 30...Qh4 31.Red1 simple chess: Onischuk invades on the 7th rank after which the black king can't survive f4 32.Qc4! employs the pin on the 4th rank and starts to set mating threats Rf7 33.Rd7 Qg4 34.R1d4 g5 34...Rxd7 35.Rxd7+- 35.Rxf7 Kxf7 36.Bxf4! c5 37.Rd7+ Kf8 38.Qxc5+ Kg8 39.Qc2 Kf8 40.Qxh7 1–0
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Vladimir Onischuk was the deserved winner

Young Talents

A huge amount of young and very talented players took part in the A Tournament. I for myself faced four youth players (out of nine games), including the female U16 player Olga Badelka, who is — in her rating category — No. 4 in the world. She is definitely a player to watch out for in the future. In round three she defeated the experienced Italian Grandmaster Michele Godena.

Belarusian U16 player Olga Badelka (2335 Elo)

Another very strong female talent is Zhansaya Abdumallik from Kazakhstan. She won the World Youth Chess Championship twice and came to Riga with a rating of 2423. Two draws against the Russian Grandmasters Evgeny Vorobiov and Kirill Alekseenko, 5.5/9 in the overall standing and the third prize for best woman was her impressive score.

Zhansaya Abdumallik

David Miedema, an International Master from the Netherlands who also participated at the RTU Open, captured his impressions in a short video, where he also interviewed Zhansaya (starting at 1:40):

RTU Impressions by the Chessnomad David Miedema

17 years old Russian Grandmaster Alexey Sarana came from the "Match of the Millenials", where he contributed to the smashing 30.5 to 17.5 victory of the "World Team" against the USA. In Riga, he retained his shape and took the 8th place.

US-talent Andrew Tang left quite a strong impression on me. Although he missed the grandmaster norm in round nine, his play showed very deep understanding. Here is one example, in which he completely outplayed a strong grandmaster:

 
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1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Be7 The Queens Gambit can be considered to be the most classical approach for black. 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bf4 c6 6.Qc2 Nf6 7.h3 7.e3 Nh5 8.Be5 Nd7 9.Be2 Nxe5 10.dxe5 g6 11.Bxh5 gxh5 12.0-0-0 f6! was fine for black in 0-1 (72) Grischuk,A (2747)-Aronian,L (2808) Kazan 2011 CBM 143 [Krasenkow,M] 7...Qa5! prepares the exchange of on pair of knights which is in general good news for black 8.Nf3 Ne4 9.Nd2 White has to waste a tempo, otherwise ...Bb4 or ...Bf5 would excert pressure on the constellation Qc2, Nc3, Ke1. 9.Bd2 Nxd2 10.Nxd2 g6 11.e3 Bf5 12.Bd3 Bxd3 13.Qxd3 Qd8 and black can't be worse: 1/2-1/2 (19) Lupulescu,C (2657)-Giri,A (2714) Porto Carras 2011 9...Nxd2 10.Qxd2 0-0 11.e3 Bf5!N 11...Be6?! there is no need to surrender the important diagonale b1-h7 that easily 12.Bd3 c5 13.dxc5 1-0 (65) Lupulescu,C (2616)-Goganov,A (2517) Plovdiv 2012 12.g4? a decision you definitely make with mixed feelings, as the white king will have to castle long afterwards. Maybe already a mistake, as Arik Braun told me after the game. He underestimated the black attacking potential while dreaming of getting an advantage on the king side. 12.Bd3 Bxd3 13.Qxd3= would give up all ambitions the reach an advantage out of the opening. Black is completely fine. 12...Be6 13.0-0-0 13.Bd3 is possibly more sensitive. Would black choose b5? White could exploit not having castled yet and bring the king towards the kingside. However, after 13...Nd7! it is not clear, how White will carry on his play without castling long. 14.0-0± 13...b5! the weakness on c6 does not count, as Tang will show in the game! In the next moves the game will continue as expected: Braun regropus his Nc3 while Tang pushes his pawns on the queenside 14.Kb1 b4 15.Ne2 Nd7 16.Nc1 Qb6 17.Nd3 a5 18.Rc1 Rfc8 19.Ne5 Nf6 20.f3 a4 21.Nd3 Nd7 22.h4 22.Ne5!? with a silent draw offer should have been chosen by Braun. After the text move, the white position becomes very dangerous. However, refusing the draw by playing c5! would have been strong. 22...c5 23.dxc5 Nxc5 24.Nxc5 Bxc5 25.Bd3 a3 26.b3 the problem for white is, that his Bishop on f4 can't join the defense as he has to protect the pawn on e3. d4 27.exd4 Bxd4 28.Be4 Bb2 Objectively the position is still ok, but who would choose to defend such a weak king? 29.Bxa8 Bxc1 30.Rxc1 Rxa8 31.Rd1 h5 32.Be5 f6 33.Bd4?! 33.Qd6! Qxd6 34.Bxd6 hxg4 35.fxg4 Bxg4 36.Re1 and White has chances to survive. 33...Qb5 34.gxh5 Qxh5 35.Qe3 Re8 36.Ka1 Bd5 37.Qd2 Bxf3 38.Rg1 Qxh4 39.Qxb4 Re2 40.Qc3 Bg4 41.b4? a last oversight after which Tang wins the game in style Be6! 42.Bxf6 Rxa2+ 43.Kb1 Qe4+ 44.Kc1 Qf4+ 45.Kb1 Qe4+ 46.Kc1 Ra1+! 47.Qxa1 Qe3+ 48.Kc2 Bb3+ and mate on g1 is coming 0–1
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On this DVD Grandmaster Daniel King offers you a repertoire for Black with the QGD. The repertoire is demonstrated in 10 stem games, covering all White's major systems: 5 Bg5, 5 Bf4, and the Exchange Variation.

In addition to that, Tang won the Blitz Tournament which took place after the closing ceremony.

(Above) Andrew Tang
(Below) Although drawing four Grandmasters, the Iranian U16 player Aryan Gholami missed the GM norm by half a point

Latvian Legend

Alexei Shirov is the Latvian No. 1 and needs no special introduction to any chess player. He was one of the world top players for many years and his ultra-aggressive style inspired tons of chess players. However, in the last years, his Elo went down and Shirov even dropped out of the 2700+ club, of which he was part of for decades. Riga wasn't a good tounament for him neither: with a score of 6.0/9 he finished in 35th place and missed the prize money.

Unfortunately, Alexei Shirov couldn't show all of his class | All photos: rtuopen.lv/en

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1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Be7 The Queens Gambit can be considered to be the most classical approach for black. 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bf4 c6 6.Qc2 Nf6 7.h3 7.e3 Nh5 8.Be5 Nd7 9.Be2 Nxe5 10.dxe5 g6 11.Bxh5 gxh5 12.0-0-0 f6! was fine for black in 0-1 (72) Grischuk,A (2747)-Aronian,L (2808) Kazan 2011 CBM 143 [Krasenkow,M] 7...Qa5! prepares the exchange of on pair of knights which is in general good news for black 8.Nf3 Ne4 9.Nd2 White has to waste a tempo, otherwise ...Bb4 or ...Bf5 would excert pressure on the constellation Qc2, Nc3, Ke1. 9.Bd2 Nxd2 10.Nxd2 g6 11.e3 Bf5 12.Bd3 Bxd3 13.Qxd3 Qd8 and black can't be worse: 1/2-1/2 (19) Lupulescu,C (2657)-Giri,A (2714) Porto Carras 2011 9...Nxd2 10.Qxd2 0-0 11.e3 Bf5!N 11...Be6?! there is no need to surrender the important diagonale b1-h7 that easily 12.Bd3 c5 13.dxc5 1-0 (65) Lupulescu,C (2616)-Goganov,A (2517) Plovdiv 2012 12.g4? a decision you definitely make with mixed feelings, as the white king will have to castle long afterwards. Maybe already a mistake, as Arik Braun told me after the game. He underestimated the black attacking potential while dreaming of getting an advantage on the king side. 12.Bd3 Bxd3 13.Qxd3= would give up all ambitions the reach an advantage out of the opening. Black is completely fine. 12...Be6 13.0-0-0 13.Bd3 is possibly more sensitive. Would black choose b5? White could exploit not having castled yet and bring the king towards the kingside. However, after 13...Nd7! it is not clear, how White will carry on his play without castling long. 14.0-0± 13...b5! the weakness on c6 does not count, as Tang will show in the game! In the next moves the game will continue as expected: Braun regropus his Nc3 while Tang pushes his pawns on the queenside 14.Kb1 b4 15.Ne2 Nd7 16.Nc1 Qb6 17.Nd3 a5 18.Rc1 Rfc8 19.Ne5 Nf6 20.f3 a4 21.Nd3 Nd7 22.h4 22.Ne5!? with a silent draw offer should have been chosen by Braun. After the text move, the white position becomes very dangerous. However, refusing the draw by playing c5! would have been strong. 22...c5 23.dxc5 Nxc5 24.Nxc5 Bxc5 25.Bd3 a3 26.b3 the problem for white is, that his Bishop on f4 can't join the defense as he has to protect the pawn on e3. d4 27.exd4 Bxd4 28.Be4 Bb2 Objectively the position is still ok, but who would choose to defend such a weak king? 29.Bxa8 Bxc1 30.Rxc1 Rxa8 31.Rd1 h5 32.Be5 f6 33.Bd4?! 33.Qd6! Qxd6 34.Bxd6 hxg4 35.fxg4 Bxg4 36.Re1 and White has chances to survive. 33...Qb5 34.gxh5 Qxh5 35.Qe3 Re8 36.Ka1 Bd5 37.Qd2 Bxf3 38.Rg1 Qxh4 39.Qxb4 Re2 40.Qc3 Bg4 41.b4? a last oversight after which Tang wins the game in style Be6! 42.Bxf6 Rxa2+ 43.Kb1 Qe4+ 44.Kc1 Qf4+ 45.Kb1 Qe4+ 46.Kc1 Ra1+! 47.Qxa1 Qe3+ 48.Kc2 Bb3+ and mate on g1 is coming 0–1
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Final standings (top 25):

Rk.   Name FED Elo Pts.  TB1   TB2   TB3  Rtg+/-
1 GM Onischuk Vladimir UKR 2610 7,5 45,0 57,0 2737 13,4
2 IM Pavlov Sergey UKR 2475 7,5 40,5 51,0 2717 27,2
3 GM Nabaty Tamir ISR 2654 7,0 43,0 55,0 2712 7,0
4 GM Schroeder Jan-Christian GER 2539 7,0 40,0 51,5 2640 11,5
5 GM Lugovskoy Maxim RUS 2440 7,0 39,0 49,5 2731 33,8
6 GM Kovchan Alexander UKR 2587 7,0 38,5 50,5 2644 7,1
7 GM Zeng Chongsheng CHN 2537 7,0 36,5 47,0 2609 8,8
8 GM Sarana Alexey RUS 2540 7,0 36,5 47,0 2532 0,6
9 GM Boruchovsky Avital ISR 2556 7,0 35,5 47,0 2627 8,8
10 IM Baldauf Marco GER 2460 7,0 34,5 44,0 2611 17,9
11 GM Smirin Ilia ISR 2634 6,5 42,0 54,5 2629 0,6
12 FM Gokerkan Cem Kaan TUR 2357 6,5 41,5 51,5 2639 68,4
13 GM Ladva Ottomar EST 2532 6,5 41,0 50,5 2617 11,2
14   Mu Ke CHN 2411 6,5 40,5 50,5 2625 26,6
15 GM Neiksans Arturs LAT 2582 6,5 40,0 51,0 2585 1,8
16 GM Vishnu Prasanna. V IND 2538 6,5 39,5 52,0 2574 5,1
17 GM Kulaots Kaido EST 2577 6,5 39,5 50,5 2600 3,6
18 GM Zakhartsov Viacheslav V. RUS 2539 6,5 39,0 49,0 2562 3,8
19 GM Bogner Sebastian SUI 2600 6,5 38,5 50,0 2577 -1,0
20 GM Alekseenko Kirill RUS 2575 6,5 38,5 49,5 2588 2,5
21 IM Tang Andrew USA 2475 6,5 38,0 49,0 2557 11,1
22 IM Bailet Pierre FRA 2536 6,5 37,0 48,0 2505 -2,3
23 GM Kryakvin Dmitry RUS 2583 6,5 35,5 45,5 2564 0,0
24 GM Tregubov Pavel V. RUS 2593 6,5 35,0 43,5 2539 -4,5
25 IM Valsecchi Alessio ITA 2493 6,5 34,5 44,0 2509 3,0

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Marco Baldauf, born 1990, has been playing since he was eight. In 2000 and 2002 he became German Junior Champion, in 2014 he became International Master. He plays for SF Berlin in the Bundesliga.

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