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In the ELO-group, second seeded Johannes Kvisla (2096) for study reasons had requested a walk over draw today.
First seeded FM Daniel Jakobsen Kovachev (2289) failed to use his chance to run away from Kvisla, as he shared the point in a long,
closed and tight French game against solid Geir Moseng (1983). This first board game started with a comedy of errors, since both players
missed that black after 8.Bh4?? could win a piece with 8.--- g5! 9.Bg3 h5! – since 10.Qxg5? Bh6 would have trapped the white queen...
Kovachev again ran short of time but again played fast enough when he had to do, hence the game balanced all the way into a drawn queen endgame.
Kovachev, Kvisla and Moseng following this all stayed at their +3 with 4.0/5, and were passed by three other players winning their games today.
The first winner on the top boards today was third seeded Tarjei Svensen (2082), winning in just 17 moves against Mats Wahlstedt (1980).
This because the Swedish veteran forgot his childhood lessons and overlooked a classical (and killing) bishop sacrifice at f7.
The spectators’ favorite again was the virtually blind Kai-Roger Johansen (1995), again demonstrating his endgame strength as he patiently
outplayed 12 year old Daniel Nordquelle (1814) in an opposite-colored bishop endgame lasting until move 79. Even titleholders from the GM
group praised Johansen’s good play following this win.
The last player to reach 4.5/5 was another 12 year old talent, Andreas Garberg Tryggestad (2019), winning another patient game as
he realized his extra pawn in the rook and bishop endgame against Sonia Sirletti (1843).
Definitely out of the fight for top three now is fourth seeded Sigmund Reppen (2069), as he today failed to save a difficult queen and minor
piece endgame as black against 17 year old and strongly underrated Amir Keadana (1628).
Still the fight about the honor and Elo (and the money) hardened further as fifth seeded Fredrik Beer-Jacobsen (2046), sixth seeded Ole Smeby (2042)
and seventh seeded Eivind Risting (2032) all won their games tonight.
The three players at 4.5/5 following this are shadowed by six players at 4.0/5, and among these top nine players on the result list are seven out the eight first from the rating list.
Only eight draws among 37 games played in the ELO-group today, as it again was hard fought games almost all the way down the boards.
The final drama came after five hours and 59 minutes, on board 18, in another generation duel – as 60 year old Børge Waaktar Svanholm (1835)
lost on time while his 15 year old opponent Anders Nilsson Aure (1628) had only a few seconds left on his own clock. During the last shaky
minutes Svanholm had managed to transform a drawn bishop endgame with two versus one pawn into a won bishop endgame with two pawns versus zero,
but still lost it all as he even with two seconds left for the game did not want to offer or demand a draw… Aure of course did nothing wrong, and at 3.0/5 heads for further progress.
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