From 18th to 20th of November I took part in the 3rd Waling Dijkstra Weekend Tournament in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. Tournament was very well organized (special thanks to Mr. Eddie Scholl). I began a tournament with the miraculous win against local player Jouke Algra (2126): arriving to the tournament hall few minutes after the beginning of the round directly from Ukraine (35 hours trip!) I naturally was very tired and after 3,5 hours of play suddenly blundered a piece for no reason. But I was able to organise some kind of resistance in hopeless endgame and in mutual time trouble luckily benefited from my opponent’s mistakes!
After good sleep I returned to a good form on the next day: wins against Lars Ootes (2318) and GM Alexandre Danin (2537) and draw with GM Nikita Maiorov (2558) allowed me to share 1st-4th places before the final day. In penultimate round I made a draw with Black against bulgarian GM Krasimir Rusev (2521) and everything depended from the results of the last round: I should win with White against GM Petar Genov (2458) and hope that leader GM Namig Guliyev will not win. All has turned out! I shared 1st-3rd places with Guliyev and Rusev being 1st by tiebreak. With 2714 performance I am very satisfied with my result.
And finally I wish to show one of the most amazing moves I made ever.
Danin A. – Solodovnichenko Y., Leeuwarden, 2011:
4…Nxe4!!? Shocking move as for grandmaster’s game with classical time control! I made it without any preparation only knowing that Halloween Gambit Reversed is better than original Halloween Gambit. After a long thinking Danin decided not to get involved in complications and transfered our game into the normal course by 5.Nxe4 d5 6.Nc3 d4 7.Bg2 dxc3 8.bxc3 but later was outplayed in long positional struggle.

Tournament table

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