Megaranto beat Nguyen Ah Dung in round3 Philipines Open 2008

Indonesian no.1 - GM Susanto Megaranto (left) beat former World Junior Champion- Vietnamese- GM Nguyen Ah Dung in the 3rd round of the Philipenes Open 2008 today. The game were broadcast life at http://www.ncfphilippines.org/scores/chess/

GM Susanto Megaranto – GM Nguyen Ah Dung [E15]
Philipines Open 2008 (3), 08.05.2008

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.b3 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Be7 7.Bg2 c6 8.Bc3 d5 9.Ne5 Nfd7 10.Nxd7 Nxd7 11.Nd2 0–0 12.0–0 Rc8 13.e4 c5 14.exd5 exd5 15.dxc5 dxc4 16.c6 cxb3 17.Nc4 Bxc4 18.Qg4 Bf6 19.Qxc4 b2 20.Rad1 Bxc3 21.Qxc3 Qf6 22.Qxf6 Nxf6 23.Rd2 Rfe8 24.Rxb2 Ne4 25.Rc2 Rc7 26.Re1 f5 27.f3 Nf6 28.Rec1 Kf7 29.Kf2 Re5 30.Bf1 Ke7 31.a4 Kd6 32.Bb5 Rd5 33.Re2 Rd4 34.Rce1 Kc5 35.Re7+- Rd2+ 36.Kf1 Nd5 37.Rd7 a6 38.Rc1+ Kb4 39.Ke1 Rd4 40.Bxa6 Megaranto has the better position after 40 moves but the result is still far from clear. Nguyen however blunder with 40... Rxd7?? 40...g6+- would give more resistant

41.Rc4+!! a powerful sacrifice which decides the game 41.cxd7?! is not good because black can still hold after 41...Nc3 42.Bc8 g6 41...Rxc4 now black rook is diverted from d file which is important to stop white passed pawn on d file! 42.cxd7 Rc1+ 43.Kd2 and black can stop white from queening 43... Rc5 44.d8Q+- 1–0