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Topic: Canadian Open

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MikeDoherty

Jul 17 2005 04:58 PM

Just to let everyone know that we have a potential 2700 in Canada now, he goes by the name of Mark Bluvhstein. He is rated 2525 and crushed Alexei Shirov yesterday with a double piece sacrifice, making the 2700 resign in just 23 moves!!! The final round is today, mark needs a win to take first place in the Canadian Open, I have never met him, but I wish him great luck!!

fascinating game, not sure if I can post it, so I wont just in case.... I am sure you can find it out there people quite easily at chess.ca

Pepato

Jul 18 2005 08:41 AM

Shirov is my chess-star...
:^-(

Here it's the game, a beauty!!:

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Bd6 7. O-O O-O 8. c4
c6 9. Qc2 Na6 10. a3 Bg4 11. Ne5 Bf5 12. b4 f6 13. Nf3 Qe8 14. b5 Qh5 15. bxa6
Bg4 16. Re1 Bxf3 17. gxf3 Qxh2+ 18. Kf1 f5 19. cxd5 cxd5 20. fxe4 fxe4 21. Bxe4
dxe4 22. Be3 Bg3 23. Ra2 Rf3 0-1

refutor

Jul 18 2005 02:49 PM

bluvshtein is the youngest GM in north america...i don't know why we don't promote him more...if they could find the funds for a charbonneau-christiansen match a couple of years ago (for champion v. champion) i imagine they could set up a bluvshtein-nakamura match relatively easily.