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Last series of videos
14 February 2007 14:17 PM
Hereby the last series of videos. There’s much to enjoy again, like artistic reporting, classical flagging, Smerdon who just drops a bishop in one game and murderously wins the next, Lammens’ energy and of course the tournament’s apotheosis: Vissertje-Van der Weide. Oh no, that was afterwards, of course I mean Peelen-Smerdon.
Round 10: Bosboom-Peelen & Reinderman-Smerdon
First board 2 and then board 1 of the tenth round.
Round 11: Reinderman-Bosboom
At attempt to report artistically, I must have thought during this game. All kinds of questionable close-ups of faces and trembling legs… Anyway, it’s funny when all the pieces that were captured by Reinderman, are suddenly in the way, and then he decides to put them on the floor!
Round 12: Van den Doel-Reinderman
Black somewhere grabs a piece, and White continues to fight till the bitter end, as is normal in blitz. By the way, does anybody know if it’s, stricktly speaking, allowed to take Van den Doel’s rook the way Reinderman did (with both hands)?
Round 12: Van der Weide-Peelen
A classical piece of flagging.
Round 14: Bosboom-Solleveld
A typical Bosboomian exchange sac on h5 but this time it doesn’t mean a typical Bosboomian win.
Round 15: Jonkman-Smerdon
Not the best game by the tournament winner. The way he drops his bishop, well, you and I wouldn’t have done it better! David is tough for a long while, until he goes for a self-mate.
Round 16: Smerdon-Clijssen
The full game. And a murderous one by the White player. Was it because Black was having a white beer during the game? Probably not.
Round 16: Lammens-Van Delft
At the end, White makes his moves while moving his whole body. He must have waisted some energy that day.
Round 17: Peelen-Smerdon
The decisive game. A draw was enough for Smerdon; Peelen had to win to allow Bosboom to become shared first. White plays an excellent game till he’s totally winning, but he uses a lot of time. In the rook ending with three pawns down, Smerdon is the quickest. A minor flaw of the tournament winner was when he hit Peelen’s rook, which was lying down for two more moves, and then he hit the clock with a gesture like ‘you should put that rook back up’. But even without this small intermezzo Peelen wouldn’t have made it, I think.
The aftermat(c)h
‘And the fun wasn’t over yet’. Henk-Jan Visser and Karel van der Weide would have continued even longer if they could.
Finally, I’d like to thank everybody once more. Thanks to you guys the tournament was wonderful and the videos are wonderful!
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Er waren meer smetjes bij de partij Peelen-Smerdon: hij houdt zich niet aan de aanraken=zetten regel (als hij de dame loslaat op f6 en als een schijnbeweging daarna ineens alsnog de witte dame slaat), en even later gebruikt hij twee handen bij het slaan van stukken.
Tenminste, zo lijkt het in elk geval.
In zijn vrolijke speech na afloop verontschuldigde David Smerdon zich voor die partij en complimenteerde all Dutch players voor hun uiterst sportieve gedrag.
Dat laatste beeld van Visser, met die lach, is natuurlijk het mooiste moment van de dag.
leuk toernooi
misschien kom ik nog es eens een keertje langs ofzo