Gawain Christopher B. Jones – 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán)
800th Anniversary Summit Chess Match UK–China; Liverpool, September 5, 2007
French Defence C03
800th Anniversary Summit Chess Match UK–China; Liverpool, September 5, 2007
French Defence C03
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Be7 4. Ngf3 Nf6 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bd3 c5
7. c3 b6 8. Qe2 a5 9. 0-0 Ba6 10. c4 Nc6 11. cxd5 Bxd3
12. Qxd3 Nb4. If 12. ... exd5 then 13. Re1 0–0 14. Qf5 cxd4 15. Nb3 Nc5 16. Nbxd4⩲ Jones – Grigoryan, 46th World Junior Chess Championship, Yerevan 2007 — “[...] White is slightly better although I overpressed and went on to lose”, Jones wrote on New Zealand Chess Magazine, Volume 36, No. 1, January 2009, p. 9. 13. Qe4 exd5 14. Qg4 0-0 15. Rd1 Kh8 16. Nf1 Nc2
17. Rb1 Nxd4 18. Nxd4 cxd4 19. Qxd4 Bc5 20. Qxd5 Nxe5 21. Be3
Qxd5 22. Rxd5 Bxe3 23. Nxe3
23. ... f6 (23. ... Rfe8!? 24. Rd6 b5 25. Rc1⩲) 24. f4. “[...] and I was left in a very favourable ending
due to more active pieces and the
weakness of Black’s Queenside Pawns”, Jones writes (ibidem). 24. ... Ng6 25. g3 Rab8 26. Rc1
Kg8 27. Rc7 Rfc8 28. Rdd7 Rxc7 29. Rxc7 Rd8 30. Rb7 Rd3
31. Nc4 Rd4 32. b3
32. ... Rd1+ 33. Kg2 Rc1 34. a4 Rc2+ 35. Kg1 Rc1+
36. Kf2 Rc2+ 37. Kf3 Rc3+ 38. Ke4 Rxb3 39. Rxb6 Rc3 40. Kd4
Rc1 41. Nxa5 Rc2 42. Nc4 Rxh2 43. Rb2 Rh1 44. Ra2 Ne7 45. a5
Nc6+ 46. Kc5 Nxa5 47. Rxa5 h5 48. Ne3 h4 49. gxh4 Rxh4 50. Nd5
Kf7 51. Kd6 Rh1 52. Ra7+ Kg6 53. Ne7+ Kh5 54. f5 Re1 55. Ra2
Re5 56. Rh2+ Kg5 57. Rh7 1 : 0.
