European Championship 2012 - 8th round

Today I played against IM Leon Lederman from Israel. He plays the Nc3 French and after Nf6 he continues with Bg5 the Alekhine-Chatard attack. To avoid playing his favourite line I prepared 3... h6 which should be good enough for a draw and it might annoy a player who likes this Bg5 idea. In the game I realised that I had a hole in my preparation and I suffered in the opening but somehow I managed to simplify to an equal looking endgame. Then in my effort to destroy the opponent's connected passed pawns I ran into a forced line where I had to sacrifice a rook for a knight and a pawn. The endgame was an easy loss but overall I played OK with 2-3 mistakes so I wasn't upset very much... :)

Later we went to see the Old Town

Watchdog

Old town, old car

Konstantin, Jozsef and me having dinner

Old town

Roman theater from the 2nd century in Plovdiv