1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 Nge7 From one game he played in round 1, I saw that Jayson, a talented 14 year old Trinidadian played the Taimanov. As everyone knows I am slowly weaning myself off the closed g3 Sicillian. Having just learnt how to put together an opening tree from chess base I discovered f4 with a 62% success rate for white a few minutes before the bus was about to leave our hotel for the start of round 6 on Sunday morning at 10am. 7. Bf4 Nxd4 8. Qxd4 Nc6 9. Qd2 Look at the position; all white's pieces are out and black is a minimum of four moves from getting developed and what is he going to do with the c8 bishop! Its what I teach my students; GET DEVELOPED... 9... b5 10. O-O Bb4 11. a3 Ba5 12. Bd6 b4 13. axb4 Bxb4 14. Rfd1 Bxd6 15. Qxd6 Had to castle, make me take the queen. 15... Qe7 16. Nb5 Qxd6 17. Nxd6+ Ke7 18. c3!! The best move I have played in a longtime. I could grab the pawn with NxB but the b2 and c2 pawns are weak, now after this watch what happens ! 18... a5 19. b4 a4 Ouch ! The knight is going to have few safe squares and become very passive. 20. b5 Nd8 21. Nxc8+ Rxc8 22. Rxa4 Rxc3 23. Ra7 Rc8 Almost zugzwang ! 24. e5 Kf8 25. Raxd7 Ke8 26. Bf3 Rb8 27. b6 f5 28. exf6 g6 29. b7 and resignation. This takes me to 5/6; though after letting Shamel Howell (a good chess name) off with a cowardly draw a piece up I deserve to be a half point behind him. Now its back to the pool and some lunch. Outside must be pushing 35 degrees. Living in Leeds as made me soft in the hot weather. 1-0 [RW Jones]