Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Dato Arthur Tan Malaysian Open 2007

Dato Arthur Tan Malaysian Open 2007




The event took place from August 20 to 26 August 2007 at CitiTel Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It’s a 11 round open tournaments.


Players from countries such as Australia, New Zealand, England, United States, China, Philipines, Indonesia and the host country Malaysia took part in this annual events. Top GMs, IMs and others title player such as former Junior World Champion Dao Tien Hai (Vietnam), GM Utut Adianto (Indonesia), IM Gary Lane (Australia) GM Zhang, Zhong, WGM Zhang Jilin, IM Oliver Dimakiling , IM Richard B Bitoon (Philipines) , GM Ziaur Rahman (Bangladesh), GM Chandler Murray (New Zealand), IM Mas, Hafizulhelmi and IM Liew, Chee-Meng-Jimmy from Malaysia.



IM Mas Hafizul Helmi


Below are the game.

[Event "DATMO 2007"]
[Date "2007.08.20"]
[Round "2"]
[White "GM Dao Tien Hai"]
[Black "IM Mas Hafizulhelmi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A41"]
[WhiteElo "2537"]
[BlackElo "2372"]

Analyze by Fritz and Hairulov

1. d4 d6 {Mas used his favourites opening.He has used this move to beat GM Ian Rogers before so i think he's quite comfortable with this opening. The advantage of this move is black can avoid heavy theoritical analysis in the more famous opening such as King Indian
Defense, The Slav or the Queen Indians.} 2. c4 e5 3. Nf3 e4 4. Ng5 f5 5. g3 Be7
6. Nh3 Nf6 7. Nc3 c6 8. Bg2 O-O 9. O-O Na6 10. f3
{
This is all theory so far according to Fritz.} 10...Be6 11. d5 Qb6+ 12. Kh1 exf3 13.
exf3 Bd7 14. Nf4 Rfe8 15. b3 Nc5 16. Be3 Qc7 17. Qd2 a5 18. Rad1 Na6 19. h4
{
Dao should have play Na4 instantly to exploit the weakness on b6. He should
not afraid of Bxa4 later because it will left the e6 square for his knight.} (
19. Na4 c5) 19... g6 20. dxc6 bxc6 21. Bd4 Rf8 22. Rfe1 Qd8 23. Kh2 (23. h5)
23... Rf7 24. Na4 c5 25. Bxf6 (25. Bc3 Nb4 26. a3 Nc6 27. Bxf6 Rxf6 28. Nd5 Re6
29. Rxe6 Bxe6 30. Nxe7+ Qxe7 31. Qxd6) 25... Bxf6 26. Qxd6 {
White has won a pawn and probaly winning.} 26...Bxa4 27. bxa4 Qxd6 28. Rxd6 Nb4 29.
Ne6 Ra6 30. Rxa6 Nxa6 31. Rb1 f4 32. Rb6
?! {
Although he still winning, Dao missed} (32. Nxf4 Bxh4 33. Bh3 Kh8 34. Rb6 Nc7 (
34... Nb4 35. Ne6) 35. Rb7 Bg5 36. Ne6) 32... fxg3+ 33. Kxg3 Ra7 {
Mas position is hopeless but his carry on playing like a real fighter!} 34. f4
Kf7 35. Bd5 Ke7 36. a3 Bc3 37. Kg4 Nc7 38. Nxc5 Bd4 39. Rc6 Bb2 40. Bg8 Ne8 41.
Kf3 Kf8 42. Bd5 Bxa3 43. Ne6+ Ke7 44. Ng5 Kd8 45. Rb6 Nd6 46. Rb8+ Kc7 47. Rh8
Kb6 48. Ne6 Re7 49. Rd8 Nf5


50. Rc8 ?? {This was the turning point of the game.
Dao let Mas a combination that instantly give black a winning position.I'm not
sure what is the real reason of this mistake. Probabaly tine trouble or just
over confident.} 50..Rxe6 51. c5+ Bxc5 52. Bxe6 Nd4+ 53. Ke4 Nxe6 54. Kd5 (54. Ke5
142 Kb7 55. Rg8 ) 54... Nxf4+ 55. Ke5 Nd3+ (55... Ng2 56. Rb8+ Ka6 57.
h5 ) 56. Kd5 (56. Ke4 Nf2+ 57. Kf3 Bd4 ) 56... Nb4+ 57. Kc4 (57. Ke6 Bf2
58. Rb8+ Kc5 59. Rb5+ Kc6 ) 57... Nc6 58. Rh8 h5 59. Re8 Ne7 {
White rooks cleary no match to black two active pieces.} 60. Rf8 Bb4 (60...
Bb4 61. Rf6+ Kc7 {And the king will march to the kingside to assist the
knight to create passed pawn on the king side and finish white completely.
Well done Mas. Although some may said Mas did'nt deserve to win this game but
he probaly a real fighter and did'nt gave up untill the last blood-More in the
spirit of MERDEKA!!!}) 0-1


GM Dao Thien Hai

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