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Your support makes all the difference.FIDE HAS finally published the pairings for its knockout world championships in Las Vegas - though Willy Icklicki, who chairs the World Championship cycle committee, has stated they are only preliminary.
Thirty-six pairs will contest the first round, starting on 31 July, with the winners joining 28 seeds (making 100 in all) for the second. The final runs from 22-28 August with tie-breaks, if necessary, on 29 August.
The three seeded English players - Adams, Short and Sadler - are paired against the winners of De Firmian (USA) v Kobalija (Russia), Adianto (Indonesia) v Fridman (Latvia) and Asrian (Armenia) v Andres Rodriguez (Uruguay).
I'm playing the Argentine Pablo Ricardi, the winner facing Boris Gelfand, of Belarus. But most intriguing of all is Tony Miles's pairing. He plays the Swede Ralf Akesson, the winner playing Anatoly Karpov, the Fide world champion himself - if, that is, he turns up, as he currently says he will.
Karpov has a plus score against Tony: but, as this effort shows, it is not all one way.
White: Anatoly Karpov
Black: Tony Miles
European Team Championship, Skara 1980
St George Defence
Apologies for yesterday's slip: the rating conversion from BCF to ELO is to multiply by eight - not six - and add 600.
1 e4 a6!?
2 d4 b5
3 Nf3 Bb7
4 Bd3 Nf6
5 Qe2 e6
6 a4 c5
7 dxc5 Bxc5
8 Nbd2 b4
9 e5 Nd5
10 Ne4 Be7
11 0-0 Nc6
12 Bd2 Qc7
13 c4 bxc3
14 Nxc3 Nxc3
15 Bxc3 Nb4
16 Bxb4 Bxb4
17 Rac1 Qb6
18 Be4 0-0
19 Ng5 h6
20 Bh7+!? Kh8
21 Bb1 Be7
22 Ne4 Rac8
23 Qd3? Rxc1
24 Rxc1 Qxb2
25 Re1 Qxe5
26 Qxd7 Bb4
27 Re3 Qd5
28 Qxd5 Bxd5
29 Nc3 Rc8
30 Ne2 g5
31 h4 Kg7
32 hxg5 hxg5
33 Bd3 a5
34 Rg3 Kf6
35 Rg4 Bd6
36 Kf1 Be5
37 Ke1 Rh8
38 f4 gxf4
39 Nxf4 Bc6
40 Ne2 Rh1+
41 Kd2 Rh2
42 g3 Bf3
43 Rg8 Rg2
44 Ke1 Bxe2
45 Bxe2 Rxg3
46 Ra8 Bc7
White
resigns
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