Round 7

Montaut

Hopefully I can distract you from my game today with a lot of pictures 😅 I did win, but cannot say I am particularly proud of this game. More on that later. I finished quite early, too early to go back to the house, and hanging around the venue was not the most exciting option, so we decided to go for a little drive just to see something new.

Not far from the town of Hourtin, on the other side of the lake is a place called Montaut. We are in the lakes region of the Medoc, just a few kilometres from nice beaches, yet the water is fresh. Camping places are scattered over the whole area and water sports, food and wine are the main activities. I definitely recommend a visit if that's your thing.

It was about 8.30pm, the sun was still shining and a few people were still swimming.

There is a long Channel leading into the lake with boats all along the shoreline.

 

Opening into a bay.

The trees are perfectly placed all along the lakeside. Montaut has the nicest landscaping I have seen so far in the lakes region, but I'll keep looking.

Round 7

Ok, now that you have seen the photo's, just play through this game quickly, admire my brilliant sacrifice and don't look at it with an engine 😏

I had only looked at the line 24...Re8 25.Bc4 Nde5 26.Re5!! which I thought was good for white. It is in reality 0.00

Unfortunately 25...Ndf8 just makes whites sac look stupid. My opponent instead found 24...Bg7 which loses on the spot.

 [Event "26th Wine Open"]

[Site "Hourtin"]

[Date "2024.07.04"]

[Round 7]

[White "Wohl, Aleksandar"]

[Black "Maric, Boris"]

[Result "1-0"]

[WhiteElo "2332"]

[BlackElo "2070"]

[ECO "B50u"]

[EventDate "2024.06.29"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Be2 Nf6 4.c3 Nbd7 5.Qc2 Qc7 6.O-O g6 7.d3 Bg7 8.

Nbd2 b6 9.a4 a6 10.Re1 Bb7 11.Bf1 O-O 12.Qb3 e5 13.Nc4 d5 14.exd5 

Bxd5 15.Nfd2 Rab8 16.Qc2 h6 17.Ne3 Ba8 18.Ne4 Nh5 19.Ng3 Nf4 20.d4 

exd4 21.cxd4 Bxd4 22.Nef5 gxf5 23.Qxf5 Ng6 24.Bxh6 Bg7 25.Bxg7 Kxg7 

26.Nh5+ Kh6 27.Ra3 Nde5 28.Rh3 Rg8 29.Qf6 Nf3+ 30.gxf3 1-0

Well, now we are at the business end of the event. I am playing my co-leader, Colin Vincent today. I'll try to play more solidly today, but that was also my intention before this game. What's the saying about Leopards and spots?