Round 2 v Malaysia, NZ lose 4.5-1.5
Anthony was outplayed in the opening and his exchange sacrifice was rather desperate and never worked out. John outplayed his opponent and almost converted, but allowed an annoying perpetual. Nicole and her opponent went into an early repetition, one of the very few quiet draws we were involved in. Isabelle's opponent chose the queenside castling and big attack plan in an h3 Kings Indian and won a nice attacking game. Daniel neutralised his opponents fireworks resourcefully and earned a draw. Anya seemed to be holding her own on the Black side of an Italian, but a sudden queen infiltration led to a collapse.
Ker, Anthony F - Wong, Yinn Long
2020 FIDE Online Olympiad
1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 g6 3.f4 Bg7 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.Bb5 Nd4 6.O-O e6 7.e5 a6 8.Bd3 Nxf3+ 9.Qxf3 d5 10.exd6 Qxd6 11.Be4 Rb8 12.Qe2 Ne7 13.d3 O-O 14.Be3 Nd5 15.Bd2 f5 16.Bxd5 exd5 17.Rae1 Bd4+ 18.Kh1 Bf6 19.Qf3 Be6
Moves are clickable
20.Rxe6 Qxe6 21.Re1 Qd6 22.Nxd5 Bg7 23.b3 Rbe8 24.c4 Rxe1+ 25.Bxe1 Re8 26.Bf2 Qe6 27.h3 Qe2 28.Qxe2 Rxe2 29.Bxc5 Rxa2 30.Ne7+ Kf7 31.Nc8 Rd2 32.Nd6+ Ke6 33.Nxb7 Rxd3 34.Bb6 Bf8 35.Na5 Bd6 36.Kg1 Kd7 37.Kf2 Bxf4 38.c5 Bc7 39.c6+ Kc8 40.Nc4 Rxb3 41.Be3 Rc3 42.Nb6+ Bxb6 43.Bxb6 Rxc6 44.Ba5 Kb7 45.Ke3 Rc5 46.Bb4 Rb5 47.Bf8 Kc6 48.g4 Kd5 49.gxf5 gxf5 50.Kf4 Ke6 51.h4 a5 52.Kg5 Kf7 53.Ba3 a4 54.Kh6 Kg8 55.h5 Rb3 56.Be7 f4 0-1
Looi, Xin Hao - Duneas, John
2020 FIDE Online Olympiad
1.d4 e6 2.Nc3 d5 3.e4 Nf6 4.Bg5 dxe4 5.Nxe4 Be7 6.Bxf6 gxf6 7.Nf3 a6 8.c3 f5 9.Ng3 h5 10.Ne5 Bf6 11.Bd3 h4 12.Nh5 Bxe5 13.dxe5 Nd7 14.Qe2 Qg5 15.Nf6+ Nxf6 16.exf6 Qxf6 17.O-O-O Bd7 18.Kb1 O-O-O
Moves are clickable
19.Bxa6 This looks flashy but GM Pruijssers in commentary rightly pointed out that after 19...Bc6! Black really threatens to take on a6, and so recovers the pawn with good control of the position 20.Bb5 Bxg2 21.Rhg1 Be4+ 22.Ka1 Rxd1+ 23.Rxd1 Rd8 24.f3 Rxd1+ 25.Qxd1 Bd5 26.c4 Bc6 27.Bxc6 bxc6 28.a4 Qe5 29.Qd2 f4 30.Ka2 Qe3 31.Qg2 Kb7 32.b3 e5 33.Qg4
Black's dominant queen position supporting a central majority means he is now totally winning, in fact he has a winning breakthrough on tap 33...c5? A shame, throwing away the win. White's queen gets access to the queenside and forces a perpetual (33...e4! Wins more or less instantaneously, Black can just insist on promoting one of his central duo! ) 34.Qd7 Qxf3 35.Qb5+ Kc8 36.Qe8+ Kb7 37.Qb5+ Ka8 38.Qe8+ Ka7 39.Qb5 Qb7 40.Qxc5+ Kb8 41.Qxe5 Qg2+ 42.Ka3 f3 43.Qb5+ Kc8 44.Qe8+ Kb7 45.Qb5+ Kc8 46.Qe8+ Kb7 47.Qb5+ Kc8 1/2-1/2
Qin, Nicole Shu Yu - Azhar, Puteri Munajjah Az-Zahraa
2020 FIDE Online Olympiad
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 Be7 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Qc2 b6 7.cxd5 exd5 8.g3 Bb7 9.Bg2 Nbd7 10.O-O c5 11.Rd1 c4 12.a4 Bb4 13.Bd2 a5 14.Na2 Bxd2 15.Nxd2 Qe7 16.Nc3 Rac8 17.Re1
Moves are clickable
17...Qb4 18.Na2 Qe7 19.Nc3 Qb4 20.Na2 Qe7 21.Nc3 1/2-1/2
Nithyalakshmi, Sivanesan - Ning, Isabelle Yixuan
2020 FIDE Online Olympiad
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.h3 O-O 6.Nf3 e5 7.d5 c6 8.g4 cxd5 9.cxd5 h6 10.Be3 Nbd7 11.Qd2 Kh7 12.g5 hxg5 13.Nxg5+ Kg8 14.Be2 Nc5 15.O-O-O Bd7 16.Kb1 a6 17.Rdg1 b5 18.Bxc5 dxc5 19.h4 b4 20.Nd1 a5 21.h5 b3 22.a3 Qc7 23.Nc3 c4
Moves are clickable
24.h6 Bh8 25.h7+ Kg7 26.Nf3 Ng4 27.Rxg4 Bxg4 28.Qh6+ Kf6 29.Qg5+ Kg7 30.Qxg4 f5 31.Qg5 fxe4 32.Qh6+ Kf7 33.Nxe4 Qd7 34.Nfg5+ Ke8 35.Qxg6+ Kd8 36.Bg4 Qxd5 37.Rd1 Qxd1+ 38.Bxd1 c3 39.Qd6+ Ke8 40.Bh5+ 1-0
Gong, Daniel Hanwen - Navaratnam, Rohan Shan Tze
2020 FIDE Online Olympiad
1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 b5 3.e3 a6 4.a4 b4 5.Nf3 e6 6.c4 Bb7 7.Bd3 Be7 8.h3 d6 9.a5 O-O 10.Nbd2 c5 11.O-O Nbd7 12.Bh2 Rc8 13.Re1 Rc7 14.Nb3 Qa8 15.dxc5 Nxc5 16.Nxc5 Rxc5 17.Be2 Rd8 18.Qb3 d5 19.Qxb4 dxc4 20.Qa4 Nd5 21.Bxc4
Moves are clickable
21...Nb4!? Very flashy 22.Qxb4 At this point in commentary the colour commentator demonstrated he was there mainly for his fun personality rather than his depth of chess knowledge by claiming Black's rook in front of a bishop on a diagonal was an example of Alekhine's gun. An amused GM Pruijssers pointed out that Alekhine's gun is actually both rooks in front of a queen on a file. 22...Bxf3 23.Bf1 ( obviously not 23.gxf3?? Rg5+ ) 23...Bxg2 24.Bxg2 Rg5 Threatening mate and the queen simultaneously. There was much excitement in the commentary until Daniel's resource was noticed 25.Qg4! Rxg4 26.hxg4 White is only marginally worse here 26...Qa7 27.Rec1 Bf8 28.Rc7 Forcing an immediate draw 28...Qb8 29.Rb7 Qc8 30.Rc7 Qb8 31.Rb7 Qc8 32.Rc7 Qb8 1/2-1/2
Chua, Jia-Tien - Thurner, Anya
2020 FIDE Online Olympiad
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d3 d6 6.Nbd2 O-O 7.Nf1 Be6 8.Bb5 h6 9.Ng3 a6 10.Ba4 Qe7 11.O-O b5 12.Bc2 Bd7 13.a3 Rfe8 14.h3 Rad8 15.Re1 Bb6 16.d4 Qf8 17.Be3 Na5 18.Nh4 Nc4 19.b3 Nxe3 20.fxe3 Bc8 21.Qf3 c6 22.Nhf5 Bxf5 23.Nxf5 Nh7 24.h4 g6 25.Ng3 Qg7 26.Rf1 Re6 27.b4 Rf6 28.Qe2 Re8 29.Bb3 Re7 30.Qg4
Moves are clickable
30...Rxf1+? 31.Rxf1 Nf6 32.Qc8+ Re8 33.Qxc6 Bd8 34.Qxd6 Re7 35.Qxd8+ Re8 36.Qxf6 1-0