Farouqi’s Game, Kelantan Close 2011

9 February 2011, Kuala Lumpur – Nik Ahmad Farouqi, the new Kelantan Close 2011 Champion was kind enough to submit a copy of one of his games played during the said tournament in Kuala Krai, Kelantan played on 4-5 February 2011.

He has submitted most of his games to the organisers but kept one copy of his earlier rounds of the tournament. Here is the round 2 game he had with Wan Mohd Amirul, the Sicilian Taimanov transpired during the game, shown below:-

[Event "KC2011"]
[Site "chessinmalaysia.blogspot.com"]
[Date "2011.02.04"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Wan Mohd Amirul"]
[Black "Nik Ahmad Farouqi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B48"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2011.02.05"]
[SourceDate "2011.02.07"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Be3 a6 7. Qd2 Bb4 8. a3
Be7 9. f3 Nf6 10. O-O-O b5 11. Bf4 e5 12. Nxc6 dxc6 13. Be3 a5 14. Nb1 Be6 15.
Bd3 O-O 16. h4 Rfd8 17. Qf2 Rab8 18. g4 c5 19. h5 b4 20. a4 c4 21. Be2 Qc6 22.
g5 Ne8 23. g6 Qxa4 24. h6 fxg6 25. hxg7 h5 26. Rdg1 c3 27. b3 Qa1 28. Bd3 Qb2+
29. Kd1 Rxd3+ 30. cxd3 c2+ 31. Ke2 cxb1=Q+ 32. Bd2 Qxd3+ 33. Kxd3 Rd8+ 34. Ke2 Rxd2+ 35. Ke3 Bc5# 0-1

Congratulations to the new KC2011 champion!