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| Apr-08-08 | | ongyj: May the <Alexmagnus gambit> live on ^O^... I still think it looks interesting, being a pawn down for tempo right from the beginning. Hope to hear more analysis from you or anyone else in the future! |
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| Apr-08-08 | | Tomlinsky: <Riverbeast: There's a guy named AlexandarMagnus on FICS, one of the most obvious computer users there is, I was hoping it wasn't you.> This is, I believe, the same guy that uses the nick AlexanderMagnus on the Chessbase server. If so, it is... http://66.232.119.96/ratings/card.p... |
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Apr-08-08
 | | alexmagnus: hehe those who don't know me often mistake me for G.Meier because of a similar nickname:). But i'm much weaker, being rated around 1000 points below the GM . Btw it's my birthday today :) |
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| Apr-08-08 | | whiteshark: Many happy returns, <alexmagnus> ! |
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| Apr-08-08 | | Tomlinsky: Happy birthday to you alexmagnus. Have a good 'un. :) |
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| Apr-08-08 | | rogge: <hehe those who don't know me often mistake me for G.Meier because of a similar nickname> Me wondered too :) Happy birthday and best wishes :) |
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Apr-21-08
| | alexmagnus: Btw next week I play my first chess tournament (yeah, before I played only internet chess :)). |
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| Apr-21-08 | | rogge: That's great. Good luck :) |
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Apr-21-08
| | alexmagnus: <rogge> thx... It's funny that a tournament runs at the time when I don't study, despite starting in the middle of the week :) . Though I'll probably have some troubkes finding time for doing homeworks... But I hope it'll be OK, I want to know what it's like to play a real tournament :) |
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| Apr-21-08 | | rogge: I used to play some tournaments back in school. But when my chess teacher told me I had to study theory to make further progress I kind of never found the time to do it. Nowadays it's just the occasional game with old friends. Today I live a quiet suburbian family life in Bergen, Norway, with wife, two boys (5 and 1) and a stationwagon ( no dog yet) :) I work as a manager in a major Norwegian company (in a branch with 10 employees.) Please keep us posted on your tournament play :) |
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Apr-21-08
| | alexmagnus: <Please keep us posted on your tournament play :)> Well, I will though I can't guarantee I'll manage to show my full "strength" - this is my first tournament, and also the first time I'll play games on that time control... |
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Apr-28-08
| | alexmagnus: Hm, Wednesday the adventure "first OTB tournament in my life" begins... I hope I'll be not competely overrolled ;) |
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| Apr-29-08 | | whiteshark: May you do well! :D |
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Apr-30-08
| | alexmagnus: In the first round of my first tournament I lost... In 16 moves...To a 10-year-old boy... I have to say I played the worst chess of my life in this game. If I lost to the same kid by doing my best I wouldn't be very angry, but the way it happened...Judge for yourself. Szajbély, Zsigmond (1636/1478) - Kornijenko, Alexander (unrated) 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.a4 Bb7 9.d3 d6 10.Nbd2 Re8 11.Nf1 Bf8 12.Ne3 Nb8 13.Ng5 g6????? 14.Nxf7 Qe7 15.Nxd6+ Kg7?? 16.Nef5+ 1-0. I can't explain for myself how I "managed" to overlook the fork on f7. That was just a blackout at the wrong moment... Anyway, it cannot get worse :). I hope it gets (much) better - I can play much better for sure! |
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| Apr-30-08 | | rogge: I'm sure you were pretty nervous. You won't do that mistake again :) Go get them! |
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Apr-30-08
| | alexmagnus: Although that doesn't make my game better, still... I just looked up my opponent's "chess biography" - apparently he became 15th in the last (spring 2007) German U10 championship... So yeah, I badly lost to a kid, but to a strong kid :) |
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May-01-08
| | alexmagnus: Today it was a double round... And I lost both games... I'm steadily becoming the punching bag of the tournament... In the second round I again got miniatured in 16 moves: Kornijenko, Alexander (unrated) - Ivascu, Cosmin Alexandru (-/1304) 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e6 7.Be5 b5 8.e5? (miscalculation on my hand) dxe5 9.Bf3 exd4 10.Bxa8 (when I played 8.e5, I though of 10.Bxd4 here but noticed too late that it loses to 10...Nd5! So I had to cature the rook, leaving my opponent with a bishop pair and myself with a weak e3 pawn) dxe3 11.Qxd8+ Kxd8 12.0-0-0+ Kc7 13.fxe3 Bc5 14.e4 Nc6 15.Rhf1?? Ne5 (the bishop is trapped. I didn't see this Ne5 move...) 16.h3 Bd7 0-1. In the third round I played my longest lost so far (30 moves). I don't know exactly where the decisive mistake was, my opp just pinned me everywhere so that I lost control). Lutz, Oliver (-/1467) - Kornijenko, Alexander (unrated) 1.d4 f5 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bf4 d5 4.e3 Nf6 5.Be2 c6 6.0-0 Bd6 7.Ne5 0-0 8.c4 Ne4 9.Nd2 Qf6 10.Nxe4 fxe4 11.c5 Be7 12.b4 Nd7 13.Nxd7 Bxd7 14.a4 b6 15.Qd2 bxc5 16.bxc5 a5 17.Rb1 Bd8 18.Rb7 Bc8 19.Rb3 Ba6 20.Bxa6 Rxa6 21.Rfb1 Ra7 22.Rb7 Rxb7 23.Rxb7 Rf7 24.Rb8 Qe7 25.Qxa5 Rf8 26.Qa8 Qd7 27.Bg5 Qf7 (desperate try...) 28.Bf4 Qh5 29.h3 Qe8 30.Bd6 1-0. |
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| May-01-08 | | rogge: OTB chess is different from comp or internet chess, you just have to get used to it. Hang in there :) |
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May-02-08
| | alexmagnus: Today, in the 4th round, my first OTB win was finally a fact, though nothing to be proud of: Kornijenko, Alexander (unr.) - Windschügl, Martin (-/970) 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 c6 5.Bc4 Bf5 6.Nf3 Nf6 7.0-0 e6 8.Ne5 Bd6 9.Re1 Nbd7 10.Bf4 Nxe5 11.dxe5 Qc5 12. Bb3 Be7 13.exf6 Bxf6 14.Be3 Qa5 15.Bd2 Rd8 16.Ne4 Qe5 17.Nxf6+ Qxf6 18.Rb1 Qg6 19.Re3 Be4 20.Rg3 Qf6 21.Qe2 Bd5 22.Bg5 Qf5 23.Bxd8 Bxb3 24.axb3 Kxd8 25.Rxg7 Qf6 26.Qg4 Qh6 27.Rxf7 Kc8 28.Qd4 Rd8 29.Qxa7 Rd2 30.Qa8# 1-0. Today there was also a blitz tournament. It seems I'm better in OTB Blitz than in online blitz - I made 5/11 (no draws), beating one 2000 on a way and having to face an FM as late as in the 10th round (in the Swiss system)! The result was 34th place out of 48 participants (on Buchholz tiebreaks, by points only it was shared 28-35). |
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| May-02-08 | | rogge: congrats, kind of a milestone that one :) |
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May-03-08
| | alexmagnus: So, today it was a double round.
In the fifth round I lost... After the game I already though I'm incapable of beating moderate level amateurs OTB (despite nearly crushing players of this level in the blitz tournament the night before). Well, round 6 proved me wrong, but first here is the game from round 5:Peil, Benedikt (-/1431) - Kornijenko, Alexander (unr.) 1.c4 Nf6 2.e3 <oops, on move 2 I'm already out of book, I never saw 2.e3 before..> g6 3.Qc2 Bg7 4.b3 0-0 5.Bb2 c5 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.a3 d6 8.Be2 Bf5 9.d3 e5 10.Nc3 Re8 11.e4 Bd7 12.0-0 Bg4 13.Rae1 Nh5 14.Nd5 Ne7 15.Ne3 Bxf3 16.Bxf3 Nf4 17.g3 Nh3+ 18.Kg2 Ng5 19.Bd1 Qd7 20.Bg4 f5!? <on this risky move I spent more than half an hour, which lead to a heavy time trouble later> 21.exf5 gxf5 22.Bh5 Rf8 23.f4 Qc6+ 24.Bf3 e4 25.dxe4 Nxf3 26.Rxf3 fxe4 27.Rf2 Rad8 28.Bxg7 Kxg7 <huh, I attacked opponent's king and now it's my king which has to pray for life..> 29.Rd2 Kh8 30.Nd5 Nf5 <at this point I had only 2 minutes for 10 moves> 31.Rxe4 Nd4 32.Qb2 Kg8???? <time trouble blunder> 33.Ne7+ 1-0. In the sixth round I got to play Klaus Daweritz. A strange pairing. First, the pairing was set on table 93 - 3 tables higher than the hghest table I played before (I played on 96 in the first round agains Szajbély). Second, he was both nationally and internationally the highest rated opponent I got in this tournament (before it both "records" belonged to Szajbély, who was the up to that point the only internationally rated player I played). Third, somehow I think the program which draws pairings messed up - I think, Daweritz had 1.5 points and not 1 like the program showed...Anyway, I needed the second point - 1/6 would be disastrous... So why not against someone rated 1800? And - <I did it>. Admittedly, daweritz has a bad tournament (this game is not an exception) but still it shows I <can> win tournament games against players of this level :) Kornijenko, Alexander (unr.) - Daweritz, Klaus (1832/1672) 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Be3 Be7 8.f3 a6 9.Qd2 Qc7 10.Bb3 Bd7 11.0-0-0 Na5 12.g4 Nxb3+ 13.Nxb3 Bc6 14.h4 b5 15.g5 Nd7 16. Qd4 e5 17.Qd2 Rc8 18.Rh2 Nb6 19.Bxb6 Qxb6 20.Nd5 Bxd5 21.Qxd5 Qe3+ 22.Nd2 0-0 23.Kb1 Rc7 24.Qd3 Qf4 25.Rh3 Rfc8 26.Rc1 d5 27.exd5 Qb4 28.Rhh1 a5 29.Nd4 a4 30.a3 Qa5 31.Qe3 Bc5 32.Nxc5 Rxc5 33.Qxe5 b4 34.Rhe1 h6 35.gxh6 gxh6 36.Rg1+ Kf8 37.Qd6+ 1-0. Tomorrow is the final round, my opponent will be Dirk Hamar (-/1365). Before the tournament finishes, I also have to say something about an other player... My first round opponent, Zsigmond Szajbély, may be well a name to remember. Though rated relatively low, his actual playing strength is around 2000 (and about so is his current performance). Impressive at the age of 10. Far from Nazhnyk's magnitude, but well, last year Szajbély was rated only around 1300, so he progresses very fast, faster than a rating system can cover his progress... |
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| May-03-08 | | rogge: You're getting there! Beating a 1800+ player is great progress. I feel confident you'll nail that Dirk tomorrow :) |
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May-04-08
| | alexmagnus: < I feel confident you'll nail that Dirk tomorrow :)> Today I played him... Not sure if this one qualifies for nailing, but yes, I won. Here is the game: Hamar, Dirk (-/1365) - Kornjienko, Alexander (unr.)
1.c4 Nf6 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 c5 4.Nc3 Bg7 5.d3 0-0 6.Be3 d6 7.Qd2 Ng4 <not sure if the following bishop hunt is justified - I get his bishop and save my dark squared bishop from exchanging, but my bishop itself turns into a big pawn and I get a weakness on d5> 8.Bf4 e5 9.Bg5 f6 10.Bd5+ Kh8 11.Be3 Nxe3 12.Qxe3 Nc6 14.h4 h5 15.Qe4 <a double attack, which gets countered by...> Qe8 <a double defence!> 16.Nb5 <my opponent probably though he found a winning move, but...> d5 <oops:)! I guess my opp was shocked after this response as his play after it steadily worsened> 17.cxd5 cxb5 < I spent some time on deciding between this coninuation and 17...cxd5 18.Qxd5 Qxb5 19.Qxa8 Bb7> 18.d6 Bd7 19.Nf3 Kh7 <protecting g6, preparing Qe6> 20.Qb7 Qe6 21.Qc7 Rfc8 22.Qa5 Qxd6 23.Rc1 Bc6 24.e4 Qxd3 25.Rxc5 <25.Nd2 was a better try but it was lost anyway, only not as fast> 26.0-0 <and this shortens the game immensely> Bxe4 0-1. Resumée of the tournament: I got 3/7, placed 158 of 204 (the worst Buchholz of all of those with 3 points (the best 3-pointer came 121st)- apparently the opponents I lost to all finished either worse than myself or equal on points (with a better Buchholz score)). My FIDE performance is impossible to tell, as I played against only two FIDE rated opponents (loss to Szajbély and win against Däweritz), my national performance was 1333. It surely could be higher, but I guess that in the second and third round I was still under the shock of what happened in the first one. |
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| May-04-08 | | rogge: Let's call it shared 121st... You've gained experience, and ended in great style with 2/2 (I hope Magnus can copy you:) ). That's something to build on until next time. I'm sure you'll keep on improving. Thx for your updates :) |
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May-04-08
| | alexmagnus: BTW in the notation of my last game I accidentally left out my 25th move but I guess you understand it was 25..Qxf3 :) |
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