From: Eiki Ito <eiki <at> HAL <dot> COM>
Date: 30 apr 2001
Subject: Re: Yoshiharu Habu plays a chess tournament in Paris

I just read in the online Asahi Shinbun that Habu came in the 7th
place in an international tournament held in France.  I'm not
familiar with the (western) chess world.  So how does it translate?
How well does he compare with chess pros/top amateurs?  Could someone
explain to chess novices?

I checked europe-echecs.com but it's all in French...

Thanks,
Eiki


From: Eric Cheymol <eric.cheymol <at> MAIL <dot> DOTCOM <dot> FR>
Subject: Yoshiharu Habu plays a chess tournament in Paris
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 01:27:53 +0200

> Hello,
>
> Yes, the title is right. It is not a late april fool !!
>
> The shogi champion Yoshiharu Habu is actually playing a chess tournament
> in Elancourt, a town in the suburb Paris.
>
> He played all this 5 games against FIDE rated players, this gives him a
> performance rating of about 2500 according to the pairing program. He
> plays his next game against a 2320 fide player. If he continues to play
> like this, Yoshiharu Habu should get a fide rating at the end of this
> tournament and then should appear in the 1st july 2001 fide elo list
>
> You can follow Habu's performances in the tournament at
> <http://www.europe-echecs.com/>
>
> Here are all his first games in pgn format.
>
> [Event "4eme Open de St Quentin"]
> [Date "2001.04.15"]
> [Round "1"]
> [White "Habu, Yoshiharu"]
> [Black "Drogou, Gerard"]
> [Result "1-0"]
> [ECO "B15"]
> [WhiteElo "1499"]
> [BlackElo "2072"]
> [PlyCount "61"]
>
> 1. e4 g6 2. d4 c6 3. Nc3 d5 4. e5 Nh6 5. f4 Bg7 6. Nf3 Bg4 7. Be3 e6 8.
> h3 Nf5
> 9. Bf2 Bxf3 10. Qxf3 Nd7 11. g4 Ne7 12. O-O-O Qa5 13. Kb1 b5 14. h4 h5
> 15. gxh5
> Rxh5 16. Bh3 Nb6 17. Be1 b4 18. Ne2 Qb5 19. Bg4 Rh8 20. h5 gxh5 21. Bxh5
> Nc4
> 22. Ng3 Bh6 23. Rd3 c5 24. dxc5 a5 25. Qg4 a4 26. Qxe6 Na3+ 27. Rxa3 bxa3
> 28.
> Bc3 Rg8 29. Nf5 Qd7 30. Nd6+ Kd8 31. Qxh6 1-0
>
> [Event "4eme Open de ST Quentin"]
> [Date "2001.04.16"]
> [Round "2.23"]
> [White "Barbini, Denis"]
> [Black "Habu, Yoshiharu"]
> [Result "0-1"]
> [ECO "B51"]
> [WhiteElo "2159"]
> [BlackElo "1499"]
> [PlyCount "84"]
>
> 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Nd7 4. d4 cxd4 5. Qxd4 e5 6. Qd3 Be7 7. Nc3
> Ngf6 8.
> Bg5 O-O 9. Bxd7 Bxd7 10. Bxf6 Bxf6 11. Qxd6 Bc6 12. Qxd8 Rfxd8 13. Ke2
> Kf8 14.
> Rhd1 Ke7 15. Nd5+ Bxd5 16. Rxd5 Rxd5 17. exd5 Rc8 18. c3 Kd6 19. Rd1 Bd8
> 20.
> Nd2 Kxd5 21. f3 Ke6 22. Ne4 Be7 23. g4 g6 24. g5 h6 25. h4 Rh8 26. Kd3
> hxg5 27.
> hxg5 Rd8+ 28. Ke2 Rxd1 29. Kxd1 Kf5 30. Ke2 b6 31. b4 Kf4 32. b5 Bxg5 33.
> Nd6
> f5 34. Nc8 e4 35. fxe4 Kxe4 36. Nxa7 f4 37. Nc6 f3+ 38. Kf1 Be3 39. Nb4
> g5 40.
> Nc2 g4 41. Nxe3 Kxe3 42. a4 f2 0-1
>
> [Event "4eme Open de ST Quentin"]
> [Date "2001.04.17"]
> [Round "3"]
> [White "Valuet, Bertrand"]
> [Black "Habu, Yoshiharu"]
> [Result "0-1"]
> [ECO "B97"]
> [WhiteElo "2233"]
> [BlackElo "1499"]
> [Annotator "Verat"]
> [PlyCount "76"]
>
> 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Qb6
> 8. Qd2
> Qxb2 9. Rb1 Qa3 10. f5 Nc6 11. fxe6 fxe6 12. Nxc6 bxc6 13. e5 dxe5 14.
> Bxf6
> gxf6 15. Ne4 Be7 16. Be2 h5 17. Rb3 17... Qxa2 $1 {Une nouveaute etonnante
> dans une position suranalysee depuis plusieurs decennies. Ici, tout le
> monde
> joue 17...Da4, gagnant un temps sur le Ce4 et se preparant a contrer le
> roque
> par un echec salvateur en d4. Mais visiblement, le champion du monde de
> Shogi
> a ses propres idees !} 18. O-O
> (18. Nd6+ $2 18... Bxd6 19. Qxd6 Qa5+ 20. Kf2 20... Qd5 $19) 18... Qa4 {
> Au prix d'un tempo, les noirs ont pris le pion a2, ce qui a deux effets.
> Les
> blancs n'ont plus la ressource c4 coupant l'acces de la Dame noire a la
> defense, puisque la Tb3 est en prise. D'autre part, en cas de finale, la
> presence du pion passe a6 pourrait changer toutes les donnees.} {
> C'est sans doute la position-cle pour tester l'idee nouvelle ...Dxa2.}
> 19. Bf3
> $2 (19. Nxf6+ $5 19... Bxf6 20. Rb4 (20. Rxf6 $2 20... Qd4+) 20... Qa5
> 21. Rxf6
> $13) (19. Nd6+ $2 19... Bxd6 20. Qxd6 Qd4+ 21. Qxd4 21... exd4 $19) 19...
> Qd4+
> 20. Qxd4 exd4 21. Nxf6+ Kd8 (21... Bxf6 22. Bxc6+ Ke7 23. Bxa8 23... Bg5
> $13)
> 22. Bxc6 Ra7 23. Be4 a5 24. Rb5 $2 {dans cette position deja tres
> delicate, le
> champion des Yvelines abrege ses souffrances...} 24... Rf8 $1 $19 25. Nxh5
> Rxf1+ 26. Kxf1 Ba6 27. Bd3 Bxb5 28. Bxb5 a4 29. Nf4 e5 (29... a3 30.
> Nxe6+ Kc8
> 31. Nxd4 a2 32. Nb3 Ra3 33. Na1 33... Bf6 {etait plus lineaire}) 30. Nd3
> Bd6
> 31. Ke2 a3 32. Nc1 a2 33. Nxa2 Rxa2 34. Bd3 Ke7 35. h4 Ra1 36. h5 Rh1 37.
> g4
> Rh3 38. Kf2 Kf6 0-1
>
> [Event "4eme Open de ST Quentin"]
> [Date "2001.04.17"]
> [Round "4"]
> [White "Habu, Yoshiharu"]
> [Black "Delchev, Aleksander"]
> [Result "0-1"]
> [ECO "B47"]
> [WhiteElo "1499"]
> [BlackElo "2587"]
> [PlyCount "94"]
>
> 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. g3 a6 7. Bg2 Nf6
> 8. O-O
> Nxd4 9. Qxd4 Bc5 10. Bf4 d6 11. Qd2 h6 12. Rad1 e5 13. Be3 Be6 14. Bxc5
> dxc5
> 15. Nd5 Bxd5 16. exd5 Qd6 17. c4 O-O 18. Rde1 Rfe8 19. Qd3 Re7 20. Re2
> Rae8 21.
> Rfe1 g6 22. b3 h5 23. a3 Ng4 24. Qc3 f5 25. h3 Nf6 26. b4 Nd7 27. g4 hxg4
> 28.
> hxg4 e4 29. gxf5 gxf5 30. Qg3+ Qxg3 31. fxg3 Rg7 32. Rf1 Re5 33. Re3 b5
> 34. Bh3
> Rg5 35. Bxf5 Rgxf5 36. Rxf5 Rxf5 37. Rxe4 bxc4 38. Rxc4 Rxd5 39. bxc5
> Nxc5 40.
> Kf2 Kf7 41. Ke3 Ke6 42. Rd4 Re5+ 43. Kf3 Re1 44. g4 Ra1 45. Kf4 Rxa3 46.
> Rd8
> Nd3+ 47. Kg5 Ra5+ 0-1
>
> [Event "4eme Open de ST Quentin"]
> [Date "2001.04.18"]
> [Round "5"]
> [White "Te-Lallemand, Roza"]
> [Black "Habu, Yoshiharu"]
> [Result "0-1"]
> [ECO "B92"]
> [WhiteElo "2291"]
> [BlackElo "1499"]
> [PlyCount "88"]
>
> 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3 Be7
> 8. O-O
> O-O 9. Kh1 Nc6 10. f4 b5 11. Bf3 Be6 12. Nd5 Rc8 13. c3 b4 14. f5 Bxd5
> 15. exd5
> Na5 16. cxb4 Nc4 17. Qe1 Re8 18. Qg3 e4 19. Bh6 Bf8 20. Be2 Qb6 21. a3 e3
> 22.
> Rf4 Nd2 23. Nd4 Nde4 24. Qxe3 Nxd5 25. Qg1 gxh6 26. Rg4+ Kh8 27. Bd3 Nef6
> 28.
> Rh4 h5 29. Nf3 Re3 30. Bc4 Rce8 31. Rd4 Qb7 32. Qf1 R3e4 33. Bxa6 Qa7 34.
> Rd2
> Bh6 35. Bb5 Bxd2 36. Bxe8 Rxe8 37. Nxd2 Ng4 38. h3 Nf2+ 39. Kh2 Qd4 40.
> Nf3
> Qf4+ 41. Kg1 Nxh3+ 42. gxh3 Rg8+ 43. Kh1 Ne3 44. Qe2 Rg3 0-1
>
> Eric
>
>
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