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In Round 1, Tim Rogers who is a v.solid player, faced Richard Rapport in the match-up of a lifetime. The game:

[Event "?"] [Site "Politiken Cup 2014"] [Date "2014.07.21"] [Round "1"] [White "Rapport, Richard"] [Black "Rogers, Tim"] [Result "1-0"] 1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Qe2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Nd6 1-0

Whoopsy do!

Ah, that old trick. Never understood why so many people fall into that trap. What time control was it played at?

EDIT: 90 min for 40 moves + 30 min for the rest of the game + 30 sec increment for every move played starting from the first move.

I have to admit that I have been caught with that one, in a 30 min game. I don't play the Caro these days though.

When white plays Qe2 he has to be trying to set up this mate, I can see no other possible justification for the move. If black is aware of the trap then he comes out of the opening with a very good game.

Christopher Kreuzer wrote: Never understood why so many people fall into that trap.

It's because Nd7 is such a normal move to Caro players, that it's played on auto-pilot.

The more "usual" version of this is 1 e4 c6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 de4 4 Ne4 Nd7 5 Qe2 Ngf6 6 Nd6 mate. At least one IM has fallen for it in "classical" chess IIRC.

Dharshan Kumaran fell for this once when he was already a very strong player. Pretty sure it was at the Lloyds Bank Masters, might have been a slightly different position.

IIRC he did that with White in the not dissimilar line of the Budapest where Black "hangs" his bishop?

Yeah that sounds right, I was there but my memory is not what it used to be and understandably he wasn't exactly boasting about it 1988/89, something like that.

Round 4 pairings:

6. 29. England IM Jovanka Houska - 6. Israel GM Maxim Rodshtein
7. 7. England GM Gawain C B Jones - 20. Sverige GM Jonny Hector

[Event "Politiken Cup"] [Date "2014.07.27"] [Round "8"] [White "Gawain Jones"] [Black "Georg Meier"] [Result "1-0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 d5 3. e3 e6 4. Nd2 c5 5. c3 Nbd7 6. Ngf3 Qc7 7. Bd3 Be7 8. O-O O-O 9. Qe2 b6 10. Rac1 Bb7 11. c4 Bd6 12. b4 Ne4 13. cxd5 exd5 14. dxc5 bxc5 15. bxc5 Ndxc5 16. Nb3 Rfc8 17. Nxc5 Bxc5 18. Bf4 Qa5 19. Ne5 Qd8 20. Nxf7 Kxf7 21. Bxe4 dxe4 22. Qh5+ Kg8 23. Rxc5 Rxc5 24. Qxc5 Qd5 25. Qe7 Qf7 26. Qa3 a6 27. Rd1 Bd5 28. Rd2 Bc4 29. Rd6 Bxa2 30. h3 Bc4 31. Rc6 Bb5 32. Rc7 Qf6 33. Qa2+ Kh8 34. Rf7 Qg6 35. Be5 Rg8 36. Rc7 h5 37. Qd5 Kh7 38. Bd4 Be2 39. Rc6 Rd8 40. Qe5 Re8 41. Qc5 Resigns

Very nice game; hopefully he will get the leader Bu Xianghzi with white in the next round..

That's a nice game by Gawain. Possibly taking inspiration from his second (Richard Palliser) who has written a book on the Torre.