Chess
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Your support makes all the difference.We end our coverage of the recent Smith & Williamson British Championship in Hove with two games won by single-minded attacking play.
The first game is remarkable for two reasons. White's 12.Bg5 is a most unusual idea, abandoning the centre to get on with the attack, but even more remarkable is 28.Ne2. When did you last see a game won by direct K-side attack with the winner's king's knight still undeveloped after 27 moves?
White: Adam Hunt
Black: Malcolm Pein
Pirc Defence
1 e4 d6 17 cxd4 Qxa2
2 d4 g6 18 Qb4 Bh8
3 Nc3 Bg7 19 h5 a5
4 Be3 Nf6 20 Qxd6 Ra6
5 Qd2 0-0 21 Qc7 Qa3+
6 f3 c6 22 Kd2 Nh7
7 h4 h5 23 hxg6 Nxg5
8 0-0-0 b5 24 g7 Re8
9 Bd3 Nbd7 25 Nh5 Rxh6
10 g4 e5 26 gxh8Q+ Kxh8
11 Nce2 exd4 27 Qf4 Qe7
12 Bg5 Qb6 28 Ne2 Nf8
13 Nf4 c5 29 Nf6 Kg7
14 gxh5 c4 30 Rxh6 Kxh6
15 h6 c3 31 Ng8+ resigns
16 bxc3 Qa5
The next game is a more conventional attack against the Najdorf Sicilian. In the currently fashionable 6.Bc4 line, White dispenses with the idea of storming Black's king with a rush of pawns, but marches his pieces directly into battle. 20.e5 is a particularly no-nonsense sort of move, to shift the rook from d4 to g4 or h4.
After 23.Rxg7+! Black must have decided that 23...Nxg7 24.Qxh6+ Kg8 25.Qh8+ Kf7 26.Rf3+ (when Nf5 is met by Rxf5+) would lead to a win for White, so he settled for a quicker way to lose.
White: Adam Hunt
Black: Richard Palliser
Sicilian Defence
1 e4 c5 14 Rad1 Kh8
2 Nf3 d6 15 Bg5 Bxg5
3 d4 Nf6 16 Qxg5 Nc6
4 Nc3 cxd4 17 Re3 h6
5 Nxd4 a6 18 Rh3 Nxd4
6 Bc4 e6 19 Rxd4 Kh7
7 Bb3 b5 20 e5 f6
8 0-0 Be7 21 Qh5 fxe5
9 Qf3 Qb6 22 Rg4 Qa7
10 Be3 Qb7 23 Rxg7+ Kxg7
11 Qg3 0-0 24 Qxh6+ Kf7
12 Bh6 Ne8 25 Rf3+ resigns
13 Rfe1 Bd7
The winner of both those games is the brother of Harriet Hunt, who last month won the World Girls' Under-20 Championship in Poland. Clearly a talented family.
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