World Youth Championship 2003

Calum Leitch annotates 2 of his games in the Boys Under 14

[Event "World Youth Ch Boys U14"]
[Site "Halkidiki"]
[Date "2003.10.23"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Rojicek, Vojtech"]
[Black "Leitch, Calum"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B00"]
[WhiteElo "2135"]
[BlackElo "1649"]
[Annotator "Leitch"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2003.10.23"]

1. e4 b6 {Another tournament, another b6} 2. d4 Bb7 3. Nc3 e6 4. Bd3 Nf6 5. Nf3
d6 {White spent loads of time on these moves and they were all theoretical. I
decided to play d6 slightly more defensive than usual, I didn't want to be
crushed so I played the defensive line.} 6. O-O Be7 7. h3 h6 8. Qe2 O-O 9. Be3
(9. Re1) 9... Re8 10. Rad1 a6 11. a4 a5 12. Nh2 Nbd7 13. Bc1 e5 14. d5 Qc8 (
14... Nc5) 15. Rfe1 Nf8 16. Bb5 c6 17. dxc6 Bxc6 18. Nf1 Ne6 19. Be3 Qb7 {
Diagram #} 20. Ng3 Rad8 (20... Rab8) 21. Qc4 Bxb5 (21... Nc5 {was another idea}
) 22. Qxb5 Rb8 23. Nf5 Bf8 (23... Nxe4 {is too dangerous.}) 24. Nd5 Nxd5 25.
Rxd5 $2 Nc7 26. Qc4 Nxd5 27. exd5 Rbc8 $2 ({Much better was} 27... b5 {
but I was in time trouble and I just wanted to create space but I missed 28.
Qg4.}) 28. Qg4 Kh7 29. c4 f6 {
Awful , my plan was to play Qg6 but this just makes it easy for white to draw.}
30. b3 Rb8 (30... g6) 31. Bc1 Qf7 32. Qh4 g5 (32... Qg6) 33. Qe4 Qg6 34. g4
Red8 1/2-1/2

[Event "World Youth Ch Boys U14"]
[Site "Halkidiki"]
[Date "2003.10.24"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Leitch, Calum"]
[Black "Pacheco, Garri"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "1649"]
[BlackElo "2307"]
[Annotator "Leitch"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2003.10.23"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Bb5 d6 {5...Nd4 can also be played
here , I chose 5.Bb5 instead of 5.Bc4 because it is sharper and more in use
these days.} 6. O-O e6 7. Bxc6+ bxc6 8. d3 Ne7 9. Qe1 O-O 10. Qh4 f5 {
Darn, he got f5 in before me.} 11. e5 Nd5 12. Qf2 {12.exd6 was also possible.}
12... Ba6 13. Be3 Nxc3 14. bxc3 c4 15. d4 d5 16. Rfb1 Qa5 $1 {Diagram # Hmm
nice move, both players have played the game perfectly according to Fritz
white was +0.5 up until this which makes it equal.} 17. Bd2 Rfb8 18. Qe1 Qa4
19. Qd1 Rb6 20. Rxb6 axb6 {I was in time trouble, it looked good at the time,
his pawn structure is doing fine now and c5 becomes that little bit easier for
black to play.} 21. Qb1 b5 22. Ne1 Bc8 23. h3 Qa7 24. Nf3 Qb7 25. Nh2 Ra4 26.
a3 {I was right down in time. I had to make a move and it was a poor one in
the long term.} 26... Qa7 27. Qb2 Bf8 28. Bc1 Bd7 29. g4 c5 $1 {I missed he
could play this now, quite annoying actually because I tried to stop him
playing it for the whole game.} 30. Nf3 b4 31. Kf2 cxd4 32. Nxd4 Bc5 33. Ke3
bxc3 34. Qxc3 Bb4 {Game over, black knew what he was doing for most of that
game, he played it very well.} 0-1






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