Canadian Game of the Week

This week features a nice game by IM Aman Hambleton against Hong Rui Zhu at the Montreal Open. Aman played a nearly perfect game with the Black pieces, taking advantage of every innaccuracy of his opponent. It didn't take long before White got completely squeezed.

I came across an interesting game from Manitoba back in May. In it, the Black player missed a number of chances to put the game away, but, as so often happens, he was the last one to make a mistake and White seized his chance and won. There are some instructive positional inaccuracies to note as well.

The U2400 section at this year's Canadian Open ended with IM Jean Hebert taking the top spot with 7.5/9 followed closely by Nikita Kraiouchkine in a 3-way tie (with IM Michael Klenburg and Jeff Reeve) for second place with 7/9.

Although neither of the players in this week's game is Canadian, I figured I could get away with showing you this game since it was one of the most exciting games from this year's Canadian Open in Montreal.