[BrianWall-ChessList] Professor of statistics responds to the
Fishing Pole
Brian Wall
brianwallchess3 at taom.com
Sun Dec 2 17:04:49 MST 2007
----- Forwarded message from "Edsel A. Pena" <pena at stat.sc.edu> -----
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:57:53 -0500
From: "Edsel A. Pena" <pena at stat.sc.edu>
Reply-To: pena at stat.sc.edu
Subject: Re: Professor of statistics versus the Fishing Pole
To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>
Brian,
Thanks. I always have trouble with that Berlin Defense of Ruy Lopez ...
though this is blitz hence more apt to experiment. I should study this
further ... now all my friends at ICC will use this against me!
Cheers,
Edsel
Thanks Brian,
You certainly have an entertaining commentary in your analysis and I had
a good laugh at it. I did recall the game and thought it was interesting
(we played that at 9AM when I was still sleepy, but that must be 6AM in
Colorado!). When I took at g4 to open the h-file, I actually said to
myself "Let me see where this will go ..." (kinda of similar of course
in some lines in Smith Morra gambit) and sure enough I did get stuck in
3 feet of water and no fishing pole could get me out of it, so
resignation was the only honorable thing to do. It was interesting
though ... I have to be careful next time.
Cheers,
Edsel
Brian Wall wrote:
Plenty of Fishing Pole info at
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Thanx for being a good sport
Quoting "Edsel A. Pena" <pena at stat.sc.edu>:
Brian,
Thanks. I always have trouble with that Berlin Defense of Ruy Lopez ...
though this is blitz hence more apt to experiment. I should study this
further ... now all my friends at ICC will use this against me!
Cheers,
Edsel
Brian Wall wrote:
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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Edsel A. Pena
Professor
Department of Statistics
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803)-576-5813 (O); (803)-206-9401 (M); (803)-777-7800 (Dept)
Fax: (803)-777-4048
E-Mail: pena at stat.sc.edu
Website: http://www.stat.sc.edu/~pena/
************************************************************
"The greatest accolade a (Statistics) Professor could have is
to be complete and sufficient!"
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Edsel A. Pena
Professor
Department of Statistics
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803)-576-5813 (O); (803)-206-9401 (M); (803)-777-7800 (Dept)
Fax: (803)-777-4048
E-Mail: pena at stat.sc.edu
Website: http://www.stat.sc.edu/~pena/
************************************************************
"The greatest accolade a (Statistics) Professor could have is
to be complete and sufficient!"
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