Games from the Summerfest Open 2005
John Masterson - Gareth Annesley (Round 2)
Masterson now sacrificed his Rook with 32.Rxh6+ gxh6 32...Kg8 was better but after 33.Bc4+ Kf8 34.Rh8+ Ke7 35.Rxc8 Rxc8 36.Qxb4+ Kd7 it's an easy win for White. 33.Qxh6+ and Black resigned because after Kg8 34.Bc4+ leads to checkmate. 1-0
Danny Mallaghan - Michael Waters (Round 3)
White now tried to open up the position around the Black King with 20.f5. The game continued Rc4. 20...gxf5 leaves Black in a lot of trouble after 21.Rh4 when Black's best hope seems to be to give up the exchange with 21...Rxc3 22.Qxc3 (but not 22.bxc3 Qxc2 when 23.Rxh7 fails to 23...Qxg2+). 21.f6 Kh8. If 21...h5 22.Qe3 Kh7 23.Bd2 and mate in two. 22.Qh6 Rg8 23.Rd3 Rg4. The saving clause for Black is 23...g5 with 24...Rh4 to follow. Post-mortem analysis showed that best for White was now 24.Qh5, but that eventually Black will come out better. Now White sacrificed his queen with 24.Qxh7+ After Kxh7 25.Rh3 Rh4 25.Rxh4 checkmate so Black resigned. 1-0
Stephen Scannell - Damien Lavery (Round 3)
After 15.Qh5 Kg7 16.g4 f6 Scannell had a lucky escape when Lavery offered a draw because after 17.Bb3 the exchange of Bishops that Scannell had relied on can be avoided by 17...Bd7! (threatening 18...Be8) 18.Ba4 c6 (The best White can hope for is to escape with just the loss of a piece after 18.Bf7 Rxf7 19.Ne2 Rf8 20.Ng3 and now Black should play 20...Qe8 (because 20...Be8 21.Nf5+ Kg8 22.Qxh6 gives White some compensation). Draw agreed.
John Masterson - Danny Mallaghan (Round 4)
Mallaghan had just played Rd8-d6 with a double attack on the e-pawn. Masterson now played 26.Re1. After the game he showed what he had planned if the b-pawn had been captured - 26...Qxb2 27.Qxc5 Qxa2 28.Qxd6 exd6 29.e7. Mallaghan went instead 26...Bh6 27.b3 Bd2 28.Rd1 Bf4 29.Re1 Bd2 30.Rd1 and the players agreed a draw with a three-fold repetition looming. Draw agreed.
Nicholas Pilkiewicz - Stephen Scannell (Round 4)
Now things got complicated after 20...Bg4 21.f3 Qc7 22.Na4 Qc4. Here Pilkiewicz decided to counter-attack with a Knight sacrifice 23.Nxe5 dxe5 24.Qxe5 Re8 25.Qxf4 Bd7 26.Nc5 Nxc5 27.bxc5 Qxc5+ 28.Kh1
Scannell now had a good think and decided that the passed central pawns looked dangerous and returned the Knight for a better endgame. 28...Nxd5 29.exd5 Qxd5 30.h4 Bc6 31.Rc1 Rf8 32.Qc4. 32.Qe3 looks the best chance for White 32...Qxc4 33.Rxc4 Bxf3 34.Rb4 Bxg2+ 35.Kxg2 Rf7 and Black expertly converted his advantage into a win. 0-1
Stephen Scannell- Danny Mallaghan (Round 5)
Black has a strong Knight at e5 and immediate capture of it by 26.Bxe5 Rxe5 leaves the pawn on e4 under pressure so White played 26.Ne3 instead. When Black played 26...Kg8 the capture on e5 was now very much playable because if Black plays 26...Rxd5 27.Ng4 forks the Black Rooks. Play continued 27.Bxe5 dxe5 28.Ng4 Rf4 29.Re3 Kg7 30.Rb3 Rxe4 31.Rxb7+ Kg8 31...Kh8 had to be played but the White d-pawn is very strong 32.Nh6+ Kh8 33.Nf7+ with Nd6 forking the two Rooks to follow, so Black resigned. 1-0
