Missed chess tactic

At the Bratto International Chess Tournament I saw this position arising from a game played between two strong Class B players (Fide rating between 1700 - 1800). 
Black has just played Qf7.
Now White can win simply by playing 1.Qd8+  Kh7 2.Ng5.
But he played 1.Qg7 and the game ended in a draw. :-((

The right time to resign a game

At the Bratto International Chess Tournament I saw this position arising from a game played between two strong Class B players (Fide rating between 1700 - 1800). Black has just played 26...Qf1+ ...... and you know what happened..........

White  resigned (???) 
After 27.Kc2 Be4+ (if 28.Kb3 Qb5 draws by repetition) 28.Qxe4 Rxe4 29.Rxf1 Kh8 the game is still open.

IM Aleksic - Tagliaferri 0 - 1, Crema 2013

It is a pleasure to report that recently Valerio Tagliaferri (Fide rated 1862) has beaten IM Nenad Aleksic (Fide rated 2357)  in a Fide Rated Tournament Game
Source of the game http://www.cremascacchi.org/2013/08/memorial-ravaschietto-2013-giorno-2.html

There you can find a picture of Valerio Tagliaferri as well.

[Event "Open Crema"]

[Site "?"]

[Date "2013.??.??"]

[Round "?"]

[White "Aleksic, Nenad"]

[Black "Tagliaferri, Valerio"]

[Result "0-1"]

[ECO "B18"]

[WhiteElo "2357"]

[BlackElo "1862"]

[PlyCount "106"]

[EventDate "2013.08.31"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. Nf3 Nd7 7. Bc4 e6 8.

O-O Ngf6 9. Qe2 Qc7 10. Bb3 Be7 11. c3 O-O 12. Nh4 Nd5 13. Nxg6 hxg6 14. Ne4

Rfe8 15. Qf3 b5 16. a3 N7b6 17. Ng5 Bd6 18. g3 Nf6 19. Ne4 Nxe4 20. Qxe4 Nd5

21. Bd2 a6 22. Rfe1 Kf8 23. Rac1 Nb6 24. c4 bxc4 25. Bxc4 Qb7 26. Ba2 Nd5 27.

Rc2 Rec8 28. Rec1 a5 29. Bc4 a4 30. Qf3 Kg8 31. h4 Qd7 32. Bg5 Qe8 33. Kg2 Rab8

34. Rh1 Be7 35. Bd2 Bf6 36. Qe4 Qd8 37. h5 gxh5 38. Rxh5 g6 39. Rh1 Qb6 40. Be3

Qd8 41. Rhc1 Nxe3+ 42. fxe3 c5 43. Ba6 Rc7 44. Rxc5 Rxc5 45. Rxc5 Rxb2+ 46. Kf3

Kg7 47. Rc8 Qa5 48. Be2 Qh5+ 49. Qg4 Qh1+ 50. Kf2 Qh2+ 51. Ke1 Qg1+ 52. Bf1

Qxe3+ 53. Be2 Rb1+ 0-1 

Mike Surtees: contact request

I had Mike Surtees' e-mail address but I can't find it now.

If you know him please can you tell Mike if he can contact me privately at ricettario@fastwebnet.it ?

 Thank you.
DR

Appreciation

I want to thank IM Gerard Welling for being such a great source of chess inspiration for the blog.