Timoshenko's has won the Sydney International Open and I figured that I might as well publish one of his games on my blog. It's kind of funny, but I actually have had a lot of trouble finding the typical "spectacular" victory of his in this event!

I'm not saying that his games were not interesting, but they were not very eye catching (don't we all wish we could play so efficently too?).

Anyway, I finally came accross the game that he played on round one against a player who was rated nearly 600 points below him. The game is OK, but something odd happens on move 34. Why did Georgy play 34.Re8+? when he could have played 34.Qf8# instead? surely it was not a blunder, but then, what was it, a little joke on his opponent, toying with his corpse?

[Event "Sydney International Open"]

[Date "April 2007"]

[Round "1"]

[White "Timoshenko, Georgy, Elo 2566"]

[black "Forster, William, Elo 1983"]

[Result "1-0"]

[pgn] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 d6 7.Be2 Nxd4 8.Qxd4 Bg7 9.O-O O-O 10.Bg5 Be6 11.Qd2 Qa5 12.Rac1 Rfc8 13.b3 a6 14.f4 b5 15.f5 gxf5 16.exf5 Bd7 17.Bd3 bxc4 18.bxc4 Bc6 19.Kh1 Rab8 20.Rfe1 Rc7 21.Re2 Kf8 22.Bh6 d5 23.Bxg7+ Kxg7 24.Qg5+ Kf8 25.Qh6+ Kg8 26.Rxe7 Rxe7 27.Qg5+ Kf8 28.Qxf6 Reb7 29.Re1 Kg8 30.Qg5+ Kh8 31.f6 Rg8 32.Qh6 Rg6 33.Bxg6 fxg6 34.Re8+ Bxe8 35.Qf8+ [/pgn]