[BrianWall-ChessList] Josh Bloomer - Arthur Glassman The perfect game

Fri Aug 11 14:02:43 MDT 2006

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I stayed with Josh Bloomer during the 2005 Winter Springs Open.
We were both surprised when we analyzed his game with Arthur Glassman -
practically every move was either played by a Grandmaster in the opening
or confirmed as best by Fritz 8.

[Event "Winter Springs Open"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2005.12.03"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Bloomer, Josh"]
[Black "Glassman, Art"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "2193"]
[BlackElo "1918"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2005.11.30"]
[SourceDate "2005.11.30"]

2005 Winter Springs Open

White - Josh Bloomer - 2193

Black - Arthur Glassman - 1910

The Perfect game

Opening - Center Counter, Scandinavian

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5

Chess confuses me. If the goal is ... c6 and ... Qc7,
a safe hideout, what makes 3 ... Qa5 any better than
3 ... Qd8, ... Qd6 or ... Qe5+?
Same tempi.

4. d4 c6 5. Nf3 Nf6 6. Bc4 Bf5 7. Bd2 e6 8. Nd5

as far as I can tell, first played in Denmark 1980
by Markus Trepp versus Morten Andersen
The idea is to force the Black Queen all the way back to d8.

8 ... Qd8 9. Nxf6+ gxf6

9 ... Q:f6 should be OK -
played 364 times by Westerinen, Patrick Wolff, Etienne Bacrot,
Cyrus Lakdawala,Vinay Bhat, Josh Waitzkin, Eva Repkova and others.

9 ... gf has been played 419 times by Fressinet, Stefanova, Horvath,
Nisipeanu, Pierre Munster and others.

Eric Prie has played 9 ... Q:f6 15 times since 1993.

10. Bb3 Nd7 11. Qe2 Be7 12. O-O-O Qc7 13. Rhe1 O-O-O

Reached twice before.

14. Nh4 TN
technically a Theoretical Novelty by Josh Bloomer
but you can see he is following the same plan as
Marijana Savic versus Irina Brandis Ionescu
in the 2004 Bucharest Women's tournament.

In that game Marijana played 8 Ne4 instead of 8 Nd5 so
Irina saved a tempo with 8 ... Qc7 instead of being forced
back to d8. Despite that glitch Josh was able to adapt, adopt
and improve Marijana's middle game plan. Game given below.

14 ... Bg6! 15. g3!

Protecting the h4-knight and supporting Bf4

15 ... f5

Creating a Swiss Cheese Factory.

16. Bf4! Bd6

Trading off the only night watchman
of the Swiss Cheese Factory.

17. Ng2!

Letting the g6 bishop rot in hell.

" Do not disturb stupid pieces. " - Najdorf

17 ... Rhe8 18. h4!

Throwing pebbles at the blind, caged bird on g6.

18 ... Bxf4+ 19. Nxf4!

It is hard to say which is more defenseless -
Glassman's dark squares, light squares or remaining bishop.

Arthur wore a T-shirt that said something like -
My best days were yesterday.

19 ... e5

Desperation time -
19 ... h6 or ... h5 are easily defeated by multiple approaches.
19 ... h5 20 c3, N:g6, N:h5 and B:e6 all win.
19 ... h6 20 B:e6, N:g6, Qd2 and Qe3 all win

20. dxe5! Rxe5! 21. Qf3! h5! 22. Nxh5!

Free pawn, solid position

22 ... Rxe1! 23. Rxe1! Ne5! 24. Qe2! Ng4 25. Nf4! Nf6 26. Nxg6!

26 h5! Nh7 27 Qe7! is another good approach,
among many others.

26 ... fxg6! 27. Qe6+! Qd7! 28. Rd1! Qxe6! 29. Bxe6+! Kc7 30. Rxd8!

30 Bf7! is good too.

30 ... Kxd8! 31. Bf7! 1-0

A near perfect game - only moves 26 and 30 were second
best by a hair when the game was completely won already.

I took a nap and had a dream while I was writing this
about a Chess book devoted to second best moves.

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[Event "Winter Springs Open"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2005.12.03"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Bloomer, Josh"]
[Black "Glassman, Art"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "2193"]
[BlackElo "1918"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2005.11.30"]
[SourceDate "2005.11.30"]

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. d4 c6 5. Nf3 Nf6 6. Bc4 Bf5 7. Bd2 e6 8.
Nd5 Qd8 9. Nxf6+ gxf6 10. Bb3 Nd7 11. Qe2 Be7 12. O-O-O Qc7 13. Rhe1 O-O-O
14.
Nh4 Bg6 15. g3 f5 16. Bf4 Bd6 17. Ng2 Rhe8 18. h4 Bxf4+ 19. Nxf4 e5 20. dxe5
Rxe5 21. Qf3 h5 22. Nxh5 Rxe1 23. Rxe1 Ne5 24. Qe2 Ng4 25. Nf4 Nf6 26. Nxg6
fxg6 27. Qe6+ Qd7 28. Rd1 Qxe6 29. Bxe6+ Kc7 30. Rxd8 Kxd8 31. Bf7 1-0

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I was visiting Camp Bayless last night and when I logged onto ICC
Josh said - Check out my last game, another brilliancy in the same line.

[Event "ICC 3 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2006.05.04"]
[Round "-"]
[White "JoshBloomer"]
[Black "BlueBishop"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black checkmated"]
[WhiteElo "2232"]
[BlackElo "2235"]
[Opening "Scandinavian defense"]
[ECO "B01"]
[NIC "SD.01"]
[Time "03:12:25"]
[TimeControl "180+0"]

3 minute game

White - Josh Bloomer 2232

Black - BlueBishop 2235

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 Bf5 6. Bc4 e6 7. Bd2 c6
8. Nd5 Qd8 9. Nxf6+ gxf6 10. Bb3 Qc7 11. Qe2 Be7 12. O-O-O Nd7 13. Rhe1 O-O-O
14. Nh4 Bg6 15. g3 Bd6!

Better than Glassman's 15 ... f5 but still better for Josh.
Josh took 15 seconds for 15 moves.

16. Kb1! a6 17. Ka1

To escape the glare of the g6-bishop

17 ... f5

Must be the Glassman/turtle/ostrich archetype
revealing itself.

18. c4

Fritz loves the old plan of 18 Ng2! and 19 Bf4

18 ... Be7! 19. Bf4

Going back to the idea of trading off the dark-square defender

19 ... Bd6 20. Bg5
Going away from the idea of trading off the dark-square defender

20 ... Rde8 21. c5! Be7! 22. Bf4!

Instead of going for the trade
Josh grabs the critical diagonal
leading to BlueBishop's King.

22 ... Qd8 23. Nf3

Fritz prefers the route 23 Ng2, 23 Be5 and 24 Nf4

23 ... Bh5!

That's why.

24. Bc4 Bxf3

BlueBishop attains the main goal of the Caro-Kann
structure - trading off the light-squared bishop.
His position is still much worse.

25. Qxf3! Nf6 26. Bxa6

9 seconds

based on 26 B:a6 ba 27 Q:c6+ Qc7 28 Q:c7 checkmate.
Only 26 R:e6!!! works better.

26 ... Nd5 27. Bxb7+!!!

26 seconds

27 ... Kxb7 28. Qb3+!!

1 second

28 ... Kc8

if 28 ... Ka6 29 Rd3 wins
if 28 ... Ka7-8 29 Qa3-4+ Kb7 30 Rd3 wins

29. Qb8+!

4 seconds

29 ... Kd7 30. Qb7+!

1 second

30 ... Nc7 31. d5!!!

5 seconds

Pure line opening

+17

31 ... exd5 32. Rxd5+!!

1 second

mate next

32 ... cxd5 33. c6#

{Black checkmated} 1-0

A brutal but aesthetic finale.
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[Event "ICC 3 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2006.05.04"]
[Round "-"]
[White "JoshBloomer"]
[Black "BlueBishop"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black checkmated"]
[WhiteElo "2232"]
[BlackElo "2235"]
[Opening "Scandinavian defense"]
[ECO "B01"]
[NIC "SD.01"]
[Time "03:12:25"]
[TimeControl "180+0"]

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 Bf5 6. Bc4 e6 7. Bd2 c6 8.
Nd5 Qd8 9. Nxf6+ gxf6 10. Bb3 Qc7 11. Qe2 Be7 12. O-O-O Nd7 13. Rhe1 O-O-O
14. Nh4 Bg6 15. g3 Bd6 16. Kb1 a6 17. Ka1 f5 18. c4 Be7 19. Bf4 Bd6 20. Bg5
Rde8 21. c5 Be7 22. Bf4 Qd8 23. Nf3 Bh5 24. Bc4 Bxf3 25. Qxf3 Nf6 26. Bxa6
Nd5 27. Bxb7+ Kxb7 28. Qb3+ Kc8 29. Qb8+ Kd7 30. Qb7+ Nc7 31. d5 exd5 32.
Rxd5+ cxd5 33. c6# {Black checkmated} 1-0

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[Event "Bucharest (Women)"]
[Site "Bucharest"]
[Date "2004.12.03"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Savic,Marijana"]
[Black "Ionescu Brandis,Irina"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco "B01"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 c6 6.Bc4 Bf5 7.Bd2 e6 8.Ne4 Qc7
9.Nxf6+ gxf6 10.Qe2 Be7 11.0-0-0 Nd7 12.Bb3 0-0-0 13.Rhe1 Kb8 14.Nh4 Bg6
15.g3 Rc8 16.Bf4 Bd6 17.Bxd6 Qxd6 18.f4 f5 19.c3 Qc7 20.Ng2 Nf6 21.Qe5 Ng4
22.Qxc7+ Kxc7 23.h3 Nf2 24.Rd2 Ne4 25.Rd3 Rcd8 26.Rde3 Rhg8 27.Bc2 Nf6
28.Nh4 Bh5 29.Bd3 Nd5 30.Kc2 Nxe3+ 31.Rxe3 Rg7 32.Bxf5 exf5 33.Nxf5 Bg6

0-1

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[Event "Kiel op-A 16th"]
[Site "Kiel"]
[Date "2003.07.??"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Chin,Karin"]
[Black "Springer,Ondrej"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco "B16"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ gxf6 6.Nf3 Bf5 7.Bc4 e6
8.Qe2 Nd7 9.Bf4 Be7 10.Bb3 Qa5+ 11.Bd2 Qc7 12.0-0-0 0-0-0 13.Rhe1 Nb6
14.Ba5 Qf4+ 15.Qe3 Bd6 16.Bd2 Qxe3 17.Rxe3 Rhg8 18.Nh4 Bg4 19.Rf1 Bf4
20.Re4 Bxd2+ 21.Kxd2 f5 22.Ree1 Rxd4+ 23.Kc1 Bh5 24.g3 Rgd8 25.c3 Rd2
26.Ng2 Be2 27.Rg1 Bf3 28.Nf4 Rxf2 29.h4 Be4 30.Re2 Rxe2 31.Nxe2 Rg8
32.Nf4 Bd5 33.Bd1 Nc4 34.Bh5 Nd6 35.g4 fxg4 36.Bxg4 f5

0-1
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[Event "Passau op 8th"]
[Site "Passau"]
[Date "2000.04.21"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Navara,David"]
[Black "Grimm,Sven"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "B01"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 c6 5.Nf3 Nf6 6.Bc4 Bf5 7.Bd2 e6 8.Nd5 Qd8
9.Nxf6+ gxf6 10.Bb3 Nd7 11.Qe2 Be7 12.0-0-0 Qc7 13.Nh4 Bg6 14.Nxg6 hxg6
15.h4 0-0-0 16.d5 cxd5 17.Bxd5 f5 18.g3 Bf6 19.Bf4 Be5 20.Bxe5 Nxe5
21.Rhe1 Nc6 22.Bxc6 Qxc6 23.Qe5 Qf3 24.Qc5+ Kb8 25.Qe7 Rxd1+ 26.Rxd1 Rc8
27.Rd8
Qh1+ 28.Kd2 Qc6 29.Rxc8+ Kxc8 30.Qf8+ Kd7 31.Qxf7+ Kd6 32.Qf8+ Kd7
33.Qg7+ Kc8 34.Qc3

1-0
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[Event "Passau op 8th"]
[Site "Passau"]
[Date "2000.04.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Loeffler,Markus"]
[Black "Koenig,Dietrich"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "B01"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 c6 5.Bc4 Bf5 6.Nf3 Nf6 7.Bd2 e6 8.Ne4 Qc7
9.Nxf6+ gxf6 10.Qe2 Be7 11.0-0-0 Nd7 12.Bb3 0-0-0 13.Nh4 Bg6 14.g3 Bd6
15.Rhe1 Kb8 16.Kb1 Rc8 17.Bc3 Rhd8 18.Qf3 f5 19.Bd2 Nf6 20.Nxg6 hxg6
21.Bg5 Be7 22.Bf4 Bd6 23.Bg5 Be7 24.Qe2 Nd5 25.Bd2 Ka8 26.h4 Bf6 27.c4 Ne7
28.Bf4 Qa5 29.Bg5 Bxg5 30.hxg5 f4 31.gxf4 Nf5 32.d5 exd5 33.cxd5 cxd5
34.Qe5 Qc5 35.Rc1 Qxf2 36.Bxd5 Nd4 37.Qe7 Nc6 38.Rxc6 bxc6 39.Bxc6+ Rxc6
40.Qxd8+ Kb7 41.Re7+ Ka6 42.Qd3+

1-0
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[Event "DEN-ch int U18"]
[Site "Denmark"]
[Date "1980.??.??"]
[Round "0"]
[White "Trepp,Markus"]
[Black "Andersen,Morten"]
[Result "1/2"]
[Eco "B01"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 Bf5 6.Bc4 e6 7.Bd2 c6 8.Nd5 Qd8
9.Nxf6+ gxf6 10.Bb3 Be7 11.Qe2 Nd7 12.0-0-0 a5 13.Nh4 Bg6 14.Nxg6 hxg6
15.c4 Qc7 16.h4 b5 17.cxb5 cxb5+ 18.Kb1 a4 19.Bc2 b4 20.Be4 Ra7 21.h5 Rxh5
22.Rxh5 gxh5 23.Rc1 Qa5 24.Rc8+ Bd8 25.Qc4 Rc7 26.Rxc7 Qxc7 27.Qxb4 Qa7
28.a3 Qc7 29.Be3 f5 30.Bb7 Qb6 31.Bd2 Bf6 32.Qxb6 Nxb6 33.Bc6+ Ke7 34.d5 Nxd5
35.Bxa4 h4 36.Bd1 Bd4 37.Bg5+ Bf6 38.Bd2 Kd7 39.Be2 Kd6 40.b4 Bd4 41.f3 f4
42.Bc4 Ne3 43.Bxe3

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Josh was actually paired with Glassman later and played another
perect game in the same opening but I don't have the scoresheet.

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