[BrianWall-ChessList] Bowlder Attack versus Andy Rea

Thu Aug 16 08:57:14 MDT 2007

Brian,

Thanks for paying tribute to Andy.  I remember Andy
once gave me the benefit of his post-game analysis
after I sat across him on board one in Colorado
Springs in round one when he caused more damage to the
English than the Germans did at Dunkirk.

-It was very enlightening to hear how many ways he was
winning.
-It was also refreshing to understand how many
different times I made a move that was easily refuted.
-I thought it was beneficial to understand, that I, a
C Player, was losing after 1.c4, to him, a once master
strength Expert.
-It was also uplifting to realize that what at first
seemed like coaching advice for future games turned
into Andy reliving his victory by further
demonstrating variations and themes I did not play
would have resulted in his also winning round 1.
-This I am sure would have filled the remaining 2
hours between rounds had not Shannon Fox (the only
other Colorado player with GM level post-mortem
strength) not intervened and told me to blow off the
revisionist history lesson and go to lunch with him. 
Fortunately, Shannon was able to fill the slack time
at lunch with post-mortem analysis of his own game so
the time was not wasted.
--- Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Brian Wall
> <brianwallchess3 at taom.com> -----
>     Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:22:24 -0600
>     From: Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>
> Reply-To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>
>  Subject: Bowlder Attack versus Andy Rea
>       To: Brianwallchess3 at taom.com,
> RDelaware at Hotmail.com
> 
> 
> Andy Rea is a difficult opponent for me - we have
> cost each other the Colorado
> Closed title in the last round, we shared a Denver
> Open, Andy once refused
> Philipp Ponomarev a draw when Andy was down an
> exchange for nothing, eventually
> winning the game and costing Philipp an early title.
> 
> Andy is an ex-master, a former state champion of
> both Colorado and Pennsylvania.
> I believe Andy has played twice as many rated games
> as Botvinnik.
> 
> Andy likes flourescent socks - she showed me his New
> Age Lime Green socks before
> the game - he also wears bright orange.
> 
> At first I had a horrible score against Andy - I
> could not adjust to his style.
> I have trouble with Chess sceptics like Curt
> Carlsen. They don't fall for my
> nonsense. I finally started making observations
> about Andy's strengths -
> I don't know any weaknesses.
> 
> 1 - Andy is a Colle specialist like Anthea Carson.
> 
> 2 - Andy once beat me with the small advantage of
> bishop over knight ending.
> 
> 3 - Andy is awesome at winning or drawing when his
> opponent has a Queen and Andy
> has some weird compensation, like rook and bishop or
> two knights or rook and
> pawn.
> 
> 4 - Andy does not believe in gambits. Andy can play
> many orthodox openings.
> 
> 5 - Andys seems to have access to Chess literature
> the rest of us don't.
> 
> 6 - Andy is 2800 at postmortems.
> 
> 7 - Andy's Chess credo is - " Call the obvious
> bluff! " meaning don't believe
> your opponent's moves - I have the most trouble with
> guys like this. Most
> Chessplayers are too lazy to refute anybody.
> 
> 8 - Andy reads my emails and pays attention and
> often comments.
> 
> 9 - Andy is a man of principle who is often given
> leadership positions in
> Colorado Chess.
> 
> 10 - Andy is usually ahead on the clock.
> 
> 11 - Andy is very sexy if you're a bunny.
> 
> 
> [Event "Pikes Peak"]
> [Site "606 Manitou Avenue, City Hall, Manitou
> Springs, CO"]
> [Date "2007.08.12"]
> [Round "4"]
> [White "brianwall"]
> [Black "Andy Rea"]
> [Result "1-0"]
> [ICCResult "Black resigns"]
> [WhiteElo "2234"]
> [BlackElo "2130"]
> [Opening "Sicilian defense"]
> [ECO "B20"]
> [NIC "SI.48"]
> [Time "05:56:31"]
> [TimeControl "40/2  Game/55 plus 5 second delay
> second time control only"]
> 
> 1. e4 c5 2. Bc4
> 
> I noticed soemthing funny lately - people will play
> a bad opening if you give it
> a cute name. This is my third Bowlder Attack, an
> opening I would despise without
> a name. I have three victories from three lousy
> positions.
> 
> 2 ... Nc6 3. Nf3 e6 4. Nc3 a6 5. a4 Nf6
> 
> I am not going to hide behind a computer this game
> but as far as I can tell this
> completely refutes the Bowlder Attack.  Amazingly
> there are 180 games with this
> absurd position. 6 e5 sucks because of  6 ... d5
> Andy ( played once ) or
> 6 ... Ng4 Wall. ( played 10 times )
> 
> 
> 6. O-O ( 38 times )  d5 ( 21 times ) 7. exd5 exd5
> 8. Re1+ ( 12 times ) Be7 9. Bf1 ( 7 times ) Bg4 ( 5
> times )
> 10. h3 ( 4 times ) Bh5 ( 4 times ) 11. d3 TN
> 
> Theoretical Novelty 122,658 by Wall
> 
> 11 g4 was played three times,
> a move I was afraid to play while Andy
> could still castle Queenside and play ... h5
> 
> 
> 11 ...  Qd7 12. Bf4 O-O
> 
> I looked at my position in total disgust,
> wanting to play  13  Qd2  B:f3  14 gf
> but knowing how bad it must be.
> I finally swallowed my pride.
> I can't stand all these pointless
> KB moves.
> 
> 
> 13. Be2 Bxf3
> 
> Just when my self dusgust was at its apex,
> Andy goes into trade-trade-lose mode.
> 
> Everyone I play is a &%$#ing lumberjack, chop, chop,
> chop!
> Chessmaster Josh Bloomer
> followed by a rousing techno karaoke impression.
> 
> 
> 14. Bxf3 Nd4 15. Bxd5 Nxd5 16. Nxd5 Qxd5 17. Rxe7
> 
> Is my pawn worth Andy's development?
> I am not sure and I doubt I played the best.
> 
> 
> 17 ... Rae8 18. Rxe8
> 
> maybe 18 Re3
> 
> 
> 18 ... Rxe8 19. Be3 Nf5 20. Qd2 Nxe3
> 
> 20 ... Nh4  21 f3  N:f3+ is wild
> 
> 
> 21. fxe3 Qe5 22. d4 Qd5
> 
> Andy and I thought during the game that  22 ...
> Q:e3+  lost
> but it doesn't seem that way now -
> maybe he failed to call my obvious bluff here.
> 
> 
> 23. a5 Re6 24. c4
> 
> Matsers don't just roll their pawns forward,
> we look for vicious shots along the way.
> My idea is  24 ... Q:c4  25 Rc1:c5
> 
> 24 ... Qd7 25. Ra3 f5 26. b4 cxb4 27. Rb3 f4
> 
> I thought for 24 minutes analyzing Queen endings but
> they didn't seem to get
> anywhere, e.g., 28 c5  fe  29 R:e3  R:e3  30 Q:e3 
> Qb5
> and his Queen does everything from one location,
> a full service stop.
> 
> 28. exf4 Re4 29. Rd3 b3 30. Qc3 Rxf4 31. c5
> 
> Down to 4 minutes for me versus 27 for Andy -
> I also thought 31 d5  b2  32 Q:b2  R:c4  33 d6
> followed by Qe5 and h3-h4-h5-h6 or Qe7 should win.
> The d6-pawn dominates space.
> 
> 31 ... Kh8 32. Qxb3 Rxd4 33. c6!!
> 
> A vicious uppercut that kicks Andy's ass back to
> Ohio and then Kuwait.
> The idea is  33 ... bc  34  Qb8+  mates or
> 33 ... Q:c6  34 R:d4
> or 33 ... Qd8  34 cb  R:d3  35  Q:d3
> 
> one minute  26 seconds on my clock
> 21 minutes for Andy
> 
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