[BrianWall-ChessList] Joel Johnson's 15 minutes of fame

[Brian Wall]

Joel

----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson <bigbear12 at hotmail.com> -----
    Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:28:28 -0700
    From: Joel Johnson <bigbear12 at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Joel Johnson <bigbear12 at hotmail.com>
 Subject: RE: Edwin Simanis versus Joel Johnson, 2007 Senior Open
      To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com

Hi Brian,

Yes, you are correct, it was a combination of low time and no moves that
caused him to resign.  I am doing a two part article in Chess Horizons and
my picture will be on the cover for the first time about the event.  Also,
Chess Life is doing an article on me, another first.

For some strange reason, almost all my games were positional in nature.  I
did not get one crushing attack as people must know me or my reputation
precedes itself.

FYI, I am in the process of writing an attack book like the world has never
seen before.  It is about half done.

Cya, Joel
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Brian Wall

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This was mostly a positional battle with few tactics in a narrow range of
plus 1 or minus one.


Edwin Simanis  1862  versus Joel Johnson  2254
2007 Senior Open
8-17-2007

1.d4 b5 2.Nf3 Bb7 3.e3 a6 4.Bd3 Nf6 5.Nbd2 e6 6.b3 d6 7.Bb2 Nbd7
8.O-O Be7 9.Qe2 h6 10.c4 b4 11.Rac1 c5 12.Rfd1 O-O 13.Bb1 Re8 14.Ne1

Up until this move White has been better.


14 ... Qc7 15.Nd3 e5 16.d5 Bf8 17.e4 g6 18.Rf1 Bg7 19.Rce1 Re7
20.f4 exf4 21.Rxf4 Nh5 22.Rh4 Bxb2 23.Nxb2 Kg7 24.Qf3

Up until this move White has been equal or better.


4 ... Ne5 25.Qh3 Rh8 26.Nd3 Bc8 27.Qe3 Nf6 28.Nxe5 Rxe5
29.Nf3 Ree8 30.Qd2 Nd7 31.Qf4 Ne5 32.g4??

I suspect time pressure here because of
32 ... g5!!  33 N:g5  Ng6!!  winning
and also because the resignation seems
too soon, smacking of missed moves or a
time loss.


32 ... Qe7?

Joel still has some positional advantage due to control of e5.


33.Nxe5 Qxe5 34.Qf3 Qg5 35.Rf1 Rhf8 36.Qg3 Re5!

with advantage but no forced win yet.

0-1
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Edwin Simanis versus Joel Johnson
2007 Senior Open
8-17-2007

1.d4 b5 2.Nf3 Bb7 3.e3 a6 4.Bd3 Nf6 5.Nbd2 e6 6.b3 d6 7.Bb2 Nbd7 8.O-O Be7
9.Qe2
h6 10.c4 b4 11.Rac1 c5 12.Rfd1 O-O 13.Bb1 Re8 14.Ne1 Qc7 15.Nd3 e5 16.d5
Bf8
17.e4 g6 18.Rf1 Bg7 19.Rce1 Re7 20.f4 exf4 21.Rxf4 Nh5 22.Rh4 Bxb2 23.Nxb2
Kg7
24.Qf3 Ne5 25.Qh3 Rh8 26.Nd3 Bc8 27.Qe3 Nf6 28.Nxe5 Rxe5 29.Nf3 Ree8 30.Qd2
Nd7
31.Qf4 Ne5 32.g4 Qe7 33.Nxe5 Qxe5 34.Qf3 Qg5 35.Rf1 Rhf8 36.Qg3 Re5 0-1


Brian Wall
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