Picture 1, Vågen - the docks, where a great naval battle happened in 1665
Picture 2, my wife, the photographer
Picture 3, Class 5 player during speed chess
GAME 8, the most unbalanced game
My opponent has won all his games. He wanted to play in Class 4, because I think he felt to good to play in Class 5. But the tournament organizers wanted it differently. He has beaten Niklas Savio which gave me my only defeat so far. And he beat Vidar Gjære in game 7. I have no expectation of winning this game. I have many games ago accepted the fact that this might very likely be a lost game. And I am thinking of everybody that might pass me, gaining a point in a win or a half point in a draw. But I am not going down without a fight. After some moves I am actually at a loss what to do. I do not want to go on the offensive, but I see no defensive developing moves either. He breaks the balance. He threatens my knight and walks away. Without moving my knight, I threaten his queen. He comes back, takes my knight and walks away again. I take his queen. Now, walking away like that could very well have been part of his strategy. Thinking he has left his queen for the taking. But it wasn`t. He told me during our analization that he wanted to make the game unbalanced, which he definately did. Afterwards he attacked relentlessly. I only had my queen while he had three pieces. And he was good. He never let me use my queen at all...until I finally got it into action in the end. That was all that was needed. We ended the game in a draw and I broke his winning streak. By making the game a draw, this half point was all he needed to actually win Class 5, no matter what the outcome of game 9 is. I felt good about my draw. (He ended up in 1st place).
0000 Henning Lohne, Bergen, White, 1/2
0000 Gaute Michel Ferstad, Black, 1/2
On the bottom right hand side, switch the colors so that black is in front of you.
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