Olympiad Expo Classic Round 4 against Candidate Master Bibek Thing | Spanish opening

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Today I played with the best player from Nepal, Candidate Master Bibek Thing.

He played the Spanish opening and I replied with the old steinitz defense, where black plays very solidly d6, Bd7. We both missed an opening trap where I could lose my e5 pawn. I advanced my queenside pawns, but that weakened them and gave him a possibility to win a pawn after the mass exchanges, but he missed it and we got a close to equal endgame. I started to improve my pieces and push my h-pawn to h4 to weaken his dark squares. We went both down to zero time, just playing with the increments. After finnaly moving forward my knight to e4 and rook to d2 to attack, I forgot about time and I had only 1 second left when I looked on the clock and made my move, but it was not quick enough. I will play quicker in the next games!

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Rank after Round 4





























Rk. SNo  

Name sex FED Rtg Pts.  TB1   TB2  K rtg+/-
1 1
CM Thing, Bibek

NEP 2282 4 5 9,5 20 19,4
2 5

La Barbera, Manfredi

ITA 2070 3,5 4,5 9 40 34
3 4
IM Meszaros, Andras

HUN 2119 3 4 9 10 6,1
4 8

Sztojka, Sandor

UKR 1977 3 4 8 20 11,6

10
CM Mohamed, Saeed Laily

UAE 1949 3 4 8 20 17,4
6 2
IM Turzo, Attila

HUN 2278 2,5 6,5 12,5 10 -5,6
7 9

Baki, Bence

HUN 1953 2,5 5 10 40 -10
8 3

Horvath, Kristof

HUN 2154 2,5 4,5 9,5 20 -11,2
9 14

Yue, Erfei

HUN 1859 2,5 4,5 9 20 16,2
10 20

Skytte, Robert

DEN 1730 2,5 4 8 40 30,4
11 6

Toth, Daniel

HUN 2068 2,5 2 7,5 20 0,8
12 7

Torok, Tamas Titusz

HUN 2001 2 5 10 20 -16,2
13 13

Kiss, Inez w HUN 1861 2 4 8,5 40 -13,2
14 17

Collado Arapa, Victor Hugo

PER 1833 2 3,5 7,5 20 3

19

Tolnai, Jozsef

HUN 1735 2 3,5 7,5 20 2,2
16 11

Biro, Zsolt

HUN 1927 2 3,5 7 20 -7,8

16

Marton-John, Almos Kiran

HUN 1836 2 3,5 7 40 -0,4
18 23

Debreci, Mark-Istvan

ROU 1462 1,5 4 8 40 6,8
19 21

Hortobagyi, Luca w HUN 1727 1,5 3,5 8 20 12,4
20 15

Hahn, Niklas

GER 1848 1,5 2 6,5 20 -23,2
21 25

Moldvan, Balazs

ROU 1426 1,5 1,5 4,5 40 12
22 12

Tornow, Michael

GER 1923 1 4 8,5 20 -30,6
23 22

Arko-Dadzie, George Kweku

GHA 1659 1 4 7,5 20 -11,2
24 26

Adegite, Adeolu

NGR 0 1 3,5 6,5


25 28

Szikszay, Zoltan

HUN 0 1 3 6,5


26 24

Vasarhelyi, Szurina w HUN 1437 0,5 3,5 7,5 40 -10,4
27 27

Pryor, Kevin

USA 0 0,5 3 5,5


28 18

Hegedus, Zsombor

HUN 1740 0,5 2 5,5 40 -16,8

Pairings/Results

Round 5 on 2024/09/16 at 10:00


















Bo. No.  

Name FED Rtg Pts. Result Pts.

Name FED Rtg   No.
1 5

La Barbera, Manfredi ITA 2070

4 CM Thing, Bibek NEP 2282
1
2 4
IM Meszaros, Andras HUN 2119 3

3

Sztojka, Sandor UKR 1977
8
3 3

Horvath, Kristof HUN 2154

3 CM Mohamed, Saeed Laily UAE 1949
10
4 2
IM Turzo, Attila HUN 2278

Baki, Bence HUN 1953
9
5 14

Yue, Erfei HUN 1859

Toth, Daniel HUN 2068
6
6 11

Biro, Zsolt HUN 1927 2

Skytte, Robert DEN 1730
20
7 7

Torok, Tamas Titusz HUN 2001 2

2

Tolnai, Jozsef HUN 1735
19
8 13

Kiss, Inez HUN 1861 2

2

Marton-John, Almos Kiran HUN 1836
16
9 17

Collado Arapa, Victor Hugo PER 1833 2

Hahn, Niklas GER 1848
15
10 21

Hortobagyi, Luca HUN 1727

Debreci, Mark-Istvan ROU 1462
23
11 25

Moldvan, Balazs ROU 1426

1

Arko-Dadzie, George Kweku GHA 1659
22
12 26

Adegite, Adeolu NGR 0 1

1

Tornow, Michael GER 1923
12
13 28

Szikszay, Zoltan HUN 0 1

½

Hegedus, Zsombor HUN 1740
18
14 24

Vasarhelyi, Szurina HUN 1437 ½

½

Pryor, Kevin USA 0
27

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