March 19, 2009
Wednesday
Premeirship Game
ZM Ben 'Karpov' 6 IM V.Ricnesh 1
Despite the heavy humilation, arch-rival Ricnesh seems to have a change of heart about deciding the fate of the title. Said the 18 superstar after the game yesterday : "It is still mathematically possible for me to catch up and slowly close in the gap".
Is Ricnesh for real or is he out for publicity ? Ben has been on the high-end of improvement ever since the start of the year - staying up virtually every night to study different opening, middle-game and endgame stradegy, traps and psychological attacks.
Does Ricnesh still thinks his arch-rival is still the naive 17 years old little boy he was - a year (in fact a few months ago) ? If he thinks he can do something about his title quest then he is doing nothing to show it. Apart from the fact that each time they plays the score's gap widen, Ricnesh also allowed Ben 'Karpov' to inflict the heaviest defeat on him since the unforgettable 7-1 routing last year at November - a cheeky 6-1 whipping.
Or is he having cold feet in the presence of his master opponent ? Failure to concentrate on the game, busy wiping away the sweat collected on his forehead. The title chase suddenly looks very one-sided and one 'little boy' is about to get way with the title - before his opponent can even mutter "resign".
Overall Score
Ben 'Karpov' 31 IM Ricnesh 11 (with 4 draws)
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
Congrates Ben :)
16th March 2009
Monday
National School Individual Champion 2009
5.5 point out of 8 games
Yesterday at Civil Service Club Ben fought all out to clinch his third NSI medal in 4 years, even defying the odds to trash an opponent who has a rating almost 400 more than him. (which would be posted sometime later), it was a close fight with 198 participants present for the annual national competition, Ben later achieved a respectable 23rd position out of 198 (top 11.61%).
Said after the game : "True to be said, I might have played like a true Grandmaster in the 3rd round, was narrowly beaten by the 4th best player in the tournament, after that I seems to lost steam and blundered horribly in the 5th round and practically threw away a win in the 6th round. It looks to me that the medal is starting to run away from me, I told myself to buck up or never to see it again - then I went on to win the 7th and 8th round in considerable ease to clinch 23rd position".
Psychology boost
Ben 'Karpov' has been said to be a dedicated follower of psychological practises.
Said the boy himself : "I have designed a neat psychological tactics and it goes like this - I would delay the start of the game to frustrate my opponent and destory his mental preparation. For example, in the 3rd and 7th round I spent more than 5 minutes of my time thinking of the first move, whether pushing the routine e-pawn (which would lead to a more certain, relatively safer but more dull position for me) or the d-pawn (which I would strive for uncertainty and confuse my opponent with numerous classy manoevering but at a passive positional risk) or even playing the English (1. c4 - which lead to a more solid position for both side, but can be also be pretty dull when both side defends 'perfectly').
My opponent tried to hurried me into play my first move - clearly my plan is working, he (or she) is losing his (or her) patience, this would be good news for me. In my mind I am planning my moves, at the same time (very) accurately anticipating my opponent's next move and this goes on until I began to plan the middle game ! (like what kind of pawn structure I would like to have and what should I do to achieve it ?
After three minutes, my opponent started to grow restless and began to lose his concentration, I know the longer I delay, the higher "his (or her) desire to play would escalate".
When after 6 minutes when I finally played my first move my opponent was relieved (no doubt he is ! - the board beside me is almost in the endgame !) I delibrately played fast - and according to plan, my opponent played fast too, but the difference is that he played fast without a plan ! and I easily had the psychology upper-hand, due to his (or her) lost in patience and concentration, both of them slummed to horrible defeat in the most humilating fashion - and not to mention one of them is a very highly rated player !
Monday
National School Individual Champion 2009
5.5 point out of 8 games
Yesterday at Civil Service Club Ben fought all out to clinch his third NSI medal in 4 years, even defying the odds to trash an opponent who has a rating almost 400 more than him. (which would be posted sometime later), it was a close fight with 198 participants present for the annual national competition, Ben later achieved a respectable 23rd position out of 198 (top 11.61%).
Said after the game : "True to be said, I might have played like a true Grandmaster in the 3rd round, was narrowly beaten by the 4th best player in the tournament, after that I seems to lost steam and blundered horribly in the 5th round and practically threw away a win in the 6th round. It looks to me that the medal is starting to run away from me, I told myself to buck up or never to see it again - then I went on to win the 7th and 8th round in considerable ease to clinch 23rd position".
Psychology boost
Ben 'Karpov' has been said to be a dedicated follower of psychological practises.
Said the boy himself : "I have designed a neat psychological tactics and it goes like this - I would delay the start of the game to frustrate my opponent and destory his mental preparation. For example, in the 3rd and 7th round I spent more than 5 minutes of my time thinking of the first move, whether pushing the routine e-pawn (which would lead to a more certain, relatively safer but more dull position for me) or the d-pawn (which I would strive for uncertainty and confuse my opponent with numerous classy manoevering but at a passive positional risk) or even playing the English (1. c4 - which lead to a more solid position for both side, but can be also be pretty dull when both side defends 'perfectly').
My opponent tried to hurried me into play my first move - clearly my plan is working, he (or she) is losing his (or her) patience, this would be good news for me. In my mind I am planning my moves, at the same time (very) accurately anticipating my opponent's next move and this goes on until I began to plan the middle game ! (like what kind of pawn structure I would like to have and what should I do to achieve it ?
After three minutes, my opponent started to grow restless and began to lose his concentration, I know the longer I delay, the higher "his (or her) desire to play would escalate".
When after 6 minutes when I finally played my first move my opponent was relieved (no doubt he is ! - the board beside me is almost in the endgame !) I delibrately played fast - and according to plan, my opponent played fast too, but the difference is that he played fast without a plan ! and I easily had the psychology upper-hand, due to his (or her) lost in patience and concentration, both of them slummed to horrible defeat in the most humilating fashion - and not to mention one of them is a very highly rated player !
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Ben's clip
Credit
Lead Actor - Benjamin Tan (2009 - Academy Award Winner)
Supporting Actor/Actress - Joey Chin
- MH Khalil Bin MHM
Director - ???
Producer - ???
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Ben - I must stay focus !
9th March, 2009
Monday
Premeirship Match
Ben 2 Ricnesh 0
Two world-class games by local favourite Ben 'Karpov' Tan sealed the fate of his opposite number.
Game number 1, Ben demostrated minority pieces power. He trade a rook for a pawn and two bishops (which his opponent wrongly accepted). With his speciality in manoevering Ben has no problem forcing his opponent to his grave with his double knight, 7th rank rook and a powerful pawn (that promoting seems imminent) !
Game number 2 strongly highlighted Ben's prowness in restraining. He successfully prevented his opponent from developing his knights, bishops, rooks and even (later in the game) succeeded in smashing up his pawn structure (beyond recognition). With a bad pawn structure and a knight and a bishop literally shut out of the game, Ricnesh is in no match for his super-master opponent.
Overall Score
Ben Karpov 24 Ricnesh 10 (with 4 draws)
Monday
Premeirship Match
Ben 2 Ricnesh 0
Two world-class games by local favourite Ben 'Karpov' Tan sealed the fate of his opposite number.
Game number 1, Ben demostrated minority pieces power. He trade a rook for a pawn and two bishops (which his opponent wrongly accepted). With his speciality in manoevering Ben has no problem forcing his opponent to his grave with his double knight, 7th rank rook and a powerful pawn (that promoting seems imminent) !
Game number 2 strongly highlighted Ben's prowness in restraining. He successfully prevented his opponent from developing his knights, bishops, rooks and even (later in the game) succeeded in smashing up his pawn structure (beyond recognition). With a bad pawn structure and a knight and a bishop literally shut out of the game, Ricnesh is in no match for his super-master opponent.
Overall Score
Ben Karpov 24 Ricnesh 10 (with 4 draws)
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Ricnesh - Title may be OUT of my grasp already
Thursday, March 5, 2009
5th March, 2009
Thursday
Premeirship Game
ZM Ben 'Karpov' 4 IM V.Ricnesh 0
Another great performance by our local star, Ben has once again manage to outclass, outshine and outwit his opponent to a hard-fought match, where he humilated him 4 to 0.
Clearly not at his best, IM Ricnesh has to admit defeat to his much stronger counterpart. Said Ben after the match : "It was a great match played with great determination, at the end of the day the stronger man win".
Overall Score
ZM Ben 'Karpov' 20 IM Ricnesh 9 (with three hard-fought draws)
5th March, 2009
Thursday
Premeirship Game
ZM Ben 'Karpov' 4 IM V.Ricnesh 0
Another great performance by our local star, Ben has once again manage to outclass, outshine and outwit his opponent to a hard-fought match, where he humilated him 4 to 0.
Clearly not at his best, IM Ricnesh has to admit defeat to his much stronger counterpart. Said Ben after the match : "It was a great match played with great determination, at the end of the day the stronger man win".
Overall Score
ZM Ben 'Karpov' 20 IM Ricnesh 9 (with three hard-fought draws)
Monday, March 2, 2009
ZM Ben 'Karpov' widens gap
2nd March, 2009
Monday
Premeirship League Game
ZM Ben Karpov 3 IM V Ricnesh 1
Ben once again is at the winning end, but the local-based master is more concerned about his opponent's rise in form than the win itself.
Said Ben at a post-game interview, "Ric had made things really tough for me, he defended well and made some very interesting move, but I had patience and soon caught up that's what seperate the victor from the unfortunate today".
Ben lead by two game to zero before slumming to an unexpected "failed-to-calculate-properly-defeat" at the third game. The colorful master than pounced on a "death-error" by his opponent on the fourth game to claim the game 3-1.
After this game Ben widens the gap to a 7 game lead. (This match would consist of 100 games)
Overall score
Ben 'Karpov' 16 IM V Ricnesh 9 (with three draws) - 28 games
Monday
Premeirship League Game
ZM Ben Karpov 3 IM V Ricnesh 1
Ben once again is at the winning end, but the local-based master is more concerned about his opponent's rise in form than the win itself.
Said Ben at a post-game interview, "Ric had made things really tough for me, he defended well and made some very interesting move, but I had patience and soon caught up that's what seperate the victor from the unfortunate today".
Ben lead by two game to zero before slumming to an unexpected "failed-to-calculate-properly-defeat" at the third game. The colorful master than pounced on a "death-error" by his opponent on the fourth game to claim the game 3-1.
After this game Ben widens the gap to a 7 game lead. (This match would consist of 100 games)
Overall score
Ben 'Karpov' 16 IM V Ricnesh 9 (with three draws) - 28 games
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