[BrianWall-ChessList] Professor of statistics versus the Fishing Pole

[Brian Wall]

Did you hear the one about the statistician who drowned in a river with an
average depth of 3 feet? It goes something like this?

Statistics for epena         On for:    8     Idle:    0

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Blitz           2064       4422  4167   570  9159   2228 (09-Dec-2006)
Standard        1847  [6]     1     0     0     1
1-minute        1162  [8]     0     1     0     1

 1: Edsel A Pena, I'm a Professor of Statistics at Univ of South Carolina, USA.
 2: E-Mail: pena at stat.sc.edu
 3: Sometimes I still join serious chess tournaments.
 4: Chess is my hobby, aside from squash, classical music, and mathematics.
 5: Advices which I don't always follow:
 6: DON'T get addicted to blitz chess!!
 7: DON'T take blitz chess seriously, else you'll be disappointed!!
 8: The brain is ... interesting: sometimes I could not lose, but sometimes I
  also lose so many in succession that I start doubting my brain!
 9: Learned chess when I was still in the Philippines, a great chess country!
10: I am Faculty Advisor to USC Chess Club, a budding one.
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2007.12.01"]
[Round "-"]
[White "epena"]
[Black "brianwall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2064"]
[BlackElo "2296"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "09:39:19"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4? e5 2. Nf3? Nc6 3. Bb5? Nf6 4. O-O??  Ng4!!

Fishing Pole, fishing for cheap tacics against fish-
LM Jack Young

5. d4

A wing attack must always be met by a central reaction.


5 ... exd4 6. c3

Bringing back painful memories of losing a won game
to WGM Batchimeg Tivshintugs in Minnesota HB 2005.

6 ... dxc3 7. Nxc3 Bc5

The d5 square is very sensitive to invasion in this line.

8. h3 h5!! 9. hxg4??

Unleashing the gates of Hell-
Ex Denver Open Champion Vance Aandahl


9 ...  hxg4!! 10. Bg5 f6

A piece down but two white pieces are hanging and I have an open h-file


11. Bxc6

3 white pieces are hanging -
which do I take-
I didn't like the idea of B:c6-d5
or  11 ... dc  12 Q:d8+


11 ... bxc6 12. Ne5

In the Fishing Pole the g4-pawn serves an important function
of keeping White's Queen away from the action - doesn't look
like that's going to happen this time.


12 ... fxg5 13. Ng6 Rh6 14. Qxg4 Rxg6 15. Qh5 Kf7 16. Kh1

This is the fun part - Chess Guidance Counselor Epena from the
Philippines tries to turn his f-pawn into a weapon of mass
destruction but that leaves his King vulnerable on the h-file.


16 ... d6 17. f4 Ba6 18. fxg5+ Bxf1 19. Rxf1+ Ke7

Suddenly  20 ... Qh8 is looming, my King
is safe and the rook on g6 seems irrelevant.
Beauty versus Logic.

{White resigns}
0-1
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2007.12.01"]
[Round "-"]
[White "epena"]
[Black "brianwall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2064"]
[BlackElo "2296"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "09:39:19"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. d4 exd4 6. c3 dxc3 7. Nxc3 Bc5
8. h3 h5 9. hxg4 hxg4 10. Bg5 f6 11. Bxc6 bxc6 12. Ne5 fxg5 13. Ng6 Rh6 14.
Qxg4 Rxg6 15. Qh5 Kf7 16. Kh1 d6 17. f4 Ba6 18. fxg5+ Bxf1 19. Rxf1+ Ke7

{White resigns} 0-1
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