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This event started november 2009 and I have now finished all my games.
My final result was excellent: 10.5 of 14 (+6 =7 -0) - crosstable

As one can read from the crosstable, I am currently leading but not yet sure of winning the event…

While the tournament is still in progress and important games will decide whether I will be champion or not I think it’s time to do a status on my games in the event.

I had a fairly good draw because I was given the white pieces against the 2 players I feared the most; Champion from the last 3 years, Søren Rud Ottesen (2360),  and a player I lost to in another event, Lars-Henrik Bech Hansen (2039).
I decided to play for quick draws in those two games. This tactic was successfully executed.
6.h3 against the Najdorf did the trick for me against Ottesen and against Hansen I played 3.Bb5 against a classical Sicilian and then exchanged on c6 and we agreed on a draw in only 21 moves.

In my other games I tried to play the Modern Defence as black and opened all white games 1.e4.
My main rival contender for the title now is the head of the danish CC organization, Søren Peschardt.
He played 1.d4 against me and in a Veresov Opening I had to defend accurately and exchange as many pieces as possible to get the draw.

This is the game:

Peschardt,Søren (2196) - Jensen,Claus (2126) [A45]

DM 2009 (Danish Championship) ICCF, 01.11.2009

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bg5 Nbd7 4.Nf3 h6 5.Bh4 e6 6.e3 c5 7.Be2 Be7 8.0–0 0–0 9.a4 a6 10.a5 cxd4 11.Qxd4 Nb8 12.Ne5 Nfd7 13.Bxe7 Qxe7 14.Na4 Nxe5 15.Qxe5 Nc6 16.Qc3 Bd7 17.Nb6 Rad8 18.Rfd1 Be8 19.f4 f6 20.Rd2 Bg6 21.g3 Qd6 22.Ra4 Rfe8 23.Bf3 Qe7 24.h3 Be4 25.Bg2 Bxg2 26.Kxg2 Na7 27.Qb4 Qf7 28.Rd3 Nc8 29.Nxc8 Rxc8 ½-½

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I have been working on an e-book on the Marshall Attack for almost a year now.
It’s really beginning to look very good!
Currently I am adding video highlights to the book and also updating with the newest games played by the top GM’s.

I enjoy it very much and I do believe that the book will be very useful for black players up to around 2200 ELO level who want to play and understand(!) the Marshall Attack against the Ruy Lopez.

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I have now been without internet connection for almost a month now and still is (this is written from another computer); What seemed to be a simple transfer from one ISP to another has turned into a nightmare for me and my two daughters aged 18 and 16. They don’t have access to their facebook and their MSN. But their problems are of course not to be compared to mine: I can’t move in my games and I can’t publish any chess videos!

I really hope my problems with my ISP are solved very soon!

Claus

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This game was played a long time ago when I was 17 years old and rated just around 1800.
My opponent didn’t defend too well, but I played some very beautiful tactics in the game.
Enjoy!

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This is my second game in which I tried the Gallagher Variation against the king’s Indian.
As opposed to my first game I had great difficulties in this game because my opponent played the opening very well and had some original ideas in the middle game.
Watch my youtube video analysis below:

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This is my most recent game from the 2009 Danish Correspondence Chess Championships.
It was one of my most interesting games so far as I tried the Gallagher Variation of the King’s Indian for the first time.
Watch my youtube analysis of the game below:

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Yesterday I did a little session on the Chess Tactics Server.
Earlier I played daily sessions of 20-25 problems but I had been away for a while so my RD was a little higher than normal. A high RD means that it is easier to make a quick rating climb, provided you solve the problems correctly and you will lose loads of points very quickly when you fail to solve them!

So yesterday I had a good session bringing me to a new all-time high rating of 1744, which is quite good considering that I spent A LOT of tries trying to get used to the speed required on the server.
In my early days on CTS I was having a high accuracy but only a rating in the 1450-1550 range.
Now my accuracy is down to 65% but my rating is consistently around 1700 and has been so for quite some time now.

The last step to complete to take me to the next level is to quit the red wine during CTS sessions

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Bernand Klein has challenged me to a game and we have agreed to play via e-mail and with NO outside assistance whatsoever. You can follow the game in this post.

Claus Jensen - Bernand Klein (delayed one half move) 
White to move

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Nf3 Be7 8.Rc1 0-0 9.Bd3 dxc4 10.Bxc4 a6 11.a3 b5 12.Ba2 Bb7 13.0-0 b4 14.axb4 Nxb4 15.Bb1 Nfd5 16.Bxe7 Qxe7 17.Re1 Rac8 18.Ne5 Nf4 19.Ne4 f5 20.Rxc8 Rxc8 21.Qd2 Nh3+ 22.gxh3+ fxe4 23.Bxe4 Bxe4 24.Rxe4 Rc2 25.Qd1 Rxb2 26.h4 h6 27.Rf4 Nd5 28.Ng6 Qb7

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Planning before attacking! - This is the title I’ve chosen for my latest video.
The video analyzes a game I played against David Trott on chess.com. He’s rated 1700 there and in the game I try to pinpoint where he goes wrong as a chess player.
If deduced, he has the answer to many questions, but he more often than not fails to ask the questions to himself!
If you’re a 1300-1600 ELO player I believeyou could learn something from this video.

You can also watch the video and the comments on it on chessvideos.tv

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Another win rolled in for me today.
Now I’m +3 =6 -0 for the tournament. Still placed 2nd but more and more dreaming of winning the event!
See crosstable.

[Event "DM 2009 (Danish Championship)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2009.11.1"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Jensen, Claus"]
[Black "Varberg, Kenneth"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2126"]
[BlackElo "2208"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6
6.h3 e6 7.g4 Be7 8.Bg2 Nfd7 9.Be3 Nc6 10.O-O O-O
11.a4 Nde5 12.Qe2 Bd7 13.f4 Nxd4 14.Bxd4 Nc6 15.Be3 Rc8
16.Qf2 Bh4 17.Qd2 Na5 18.b3 Qc7 19.Na2 Rfd8 20.Rac1 h6
21.Nb4 Nc6 22.c4 Be8 23.Nxc6 bxc6 24.b4 Qb8 25.f5 e5
26.Bxh6 d5 27.exd5 cxd5 28.Bxd5 gxh6 29.Qxh6 Rxd5 30.Qxh4 Qa7+
31.c5 f6 32.Qxf6 Rc6 33.Qg5+ Qg7 34.Qxg7+ Kxg7 35.Rcd1 Rxd1
36.Rxd1 a5 37.b5 Rxc5 38.Rd8 Bxb5 39.axb5 Rxb5 40.g5 e4
41.f6+ Kf7 42.h4 e3 43.Kf1 a4 44.Ra8 Rb4 45.h5 Rb5
46.Ra7+ Kf8 47.h6 Rxg5 48.h7 1-0

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