You meet people everywhere. Interesting, boring, exciting,
unforgettable, or somebody like George Smiley – five minutes later you have no
idea that you have ever met him.
In Brighton International Chess Tournament you could meet many interesting people. But there was one person which is difficult to forget.
Akshaya Kalaiyalahan |
Much to my surprise, she is not a novice in this kind of
tournaments and if you take some time and do some research on the internet you can
find out that she has already participated on several FIDE rated tournaments
mainly organized by e2e4Chess.
She has quite interesting opening repertoire for a player of
her age. Would you think that 12-year-old player will use in competitions
opening like The English Opening – Botvinnik set-up for White and King’s Indian for Black? Or to be more
precise – I can imagine a player of her age playing King’s Indian for Black
easier than playing The English Opening for White. And I think that there are
not too many coaches who would encourage her to play such an opening for White.
(There is an article published by GM Nigel Davis on his website The Chess Improver
“How To Prepare An Opening” which tackles the problem of “flank openings” in
junior's category.) Nevertheless, she plays chess that way and she is happy with that so
what?
Her mother used to stand back or she was sitting in the
other room with some reading and she was looking forward to seeing some new
positive result. Such a support must be expensive as well as time consuming and I guess she deserves a recognition for what she has already done for her daughter.
Now back to Akshaya; I would like to present here one of her games which is not
without flaws; however, it is interesting game where Akshaya playing with White
gave rather hard time to battle-harden-few-decades-older player Brian O’Gorman.
Both players could have won, both could have lost so final draw seems to be a
fair result. However, watch carefully Akshaya's technique in rather complex
ending with quite non-standard material balance. She was very close to the victory.
Perhaps next time.
So it was rather interesting game, demanding for both players, and fight until the dead end. What do you think?
I am sure we will hear about this girl a lot in the future.
I know her! She is in my class at school
ReplyDeleteNonsuch Then. She went to my primary.
ReplyDeletesilly post. There are many better up and coming youngsters
Deleteha ha who is this last 'anonymous' idiot ? She's only British women's champion at 14
ReplyDeleteha ha who is this last 'anonymous' idiot ? She's only British women's champion at 14
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