From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Dec 1 15:11:09 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:11:09 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fork Trick video Message-ID: <1228169469.493460fda0640@www.taom.com> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-abXbOctfA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Peterson and I created a Youtube Chess video on the Fork Trick yesterday - 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Bc4 N:e4. It will be posted tomorrow. In the meantime I discovered another Fork Trick video on Youtube today by GreenCastleBlock listed above. It was pretty good. It was interesting for me to compare the two. They compliment each other. He completes me. It is a popular opening in schoolyards and prison yards - study up and you will be able to start Elementary School Food Fights and prison riots. For any of my videos just search Youtube for Brian Wall Chess ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Dec 1 15:39:03 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:39:03 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Average number of BrianWallChess@Yahoogroups.com messages per month since May 2004 Message-ID: <1228171143.49346787da2e2@www.taom.com> Average number of BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com messages per month since May 2004 68.5 ------------------------------------------------- months close to the average - April 2008 - 66 June 2007 - 69 April 2005 - 68 ------------------------------------------------- repeating months - 43 messages May 2004 July 2008 47 Aug 2005 Sep 2005 Oct 2006 71 July 2005 Nov 2008 77 Nov 2007 Feb 2008 83 Aug 2004 Aug 2007 87 Nov 2004 Sep 2008 91 July 2004 May 2005 From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Dec 1 17:16:31 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:16:31 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Pete Tamburro on Fork Trick video In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1228176991.49347e5f0726e@www.taom.com> No I know Pandolfini analzyed it for 2 months 5 years ago in Chess Life. What is CL4K? I googled Fork Trick Chess after I made my video and found many references. Lots of forks and toothpicks too. Brian Wall ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quoting PTamburro at aol.com: Did you see my article in CL4K on it? Quoting PTamburro at aol.com: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- In a message dated 12/1/2008 5:08:50 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com writes: _http://www.youtube.http://wwwhttp://www.yo_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-abXbOctfA) ---------------------------------------------------------- Chris Peterson and I created a Youtube Chess video on the Fork Trick yesterday - 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Bc4 N:e4. It will be posted tomorrow. In the meantime I discovered another Fork Trick video on Youtube today by GreenCastleBlock listed above. It was pretty good. It was interesting for me to compare the two. They compliment each other. He completes me. It is a popular opening in schoolyards and prison yards - study up and you will be able to start Elementary School Food Fights and prison riots. For any of my videos just search Youtube for Brian Wall Chess ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Dec 1 17:39:09 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:39:09 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Pete Tamburro Chess Life For Kids article on Fork Trick and other typical bad moves Message-ID: <1228178349.493483ad00821@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from PTamburro at aol.com ----- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 19:17:08 EST From: PTamburro at aol.com Reply-To: PTamburro at aol.com Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Pete Tamburro on Fork Trick video To: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com I've attached it. It was part of a longer article on "bad moves." I thought the ol' Bxf7+ trick was worth warning the kids about. In a message dated 12/1/2008 7:14:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com writes: No I know Pandolfini analzyed it for 2 months 5 years ago in Chess Life. What is CL4K? I googled Fork Trick Chess after I made my video and found many references. Lots of forks and toothpicks too. Brian Wall ---------------------------------------------------------- Quoting _PTamburro at aol.PTa_ (mailto:PTamburro at aol.com) : Did you see my article in CL4K on it? Quoting _PTamburro at aol.PTa_ (mailto:PTamburro at aol.com) : ---------------------------------------------------------- In a message dated 12/1/2008 5:08:50 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, _BrianWallChess3 at BrianWal_ (mailto:BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com) writes: __http://www.youtube.http://www.youthttp://ww_ (http://www.youtube.http//wwwhttp://www.yo_) (_http://www.youtube.http://wwwhttp://www.yo_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-abXbOctfA) ) ---------------------------------------------------------- Chris Peterson and I created a Youtube Chess video on the Fork Trick yesterday - 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Bc4 N:e4. It will be posted tomorrow. In the meantime I discovered another Fork Trick video on Youtube today by GreenCastleBlock listed above. It was pretty good. It was interesting for me to compare the two. They compliment each other. He completes me. It is a popular opening in schoolyards and prison yards - study up and you will be able to start Elementary School Food Fights and prison riots. 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The cost for the book is $50. It is 157 pages and contains roughly 170 annotated games. A CD containing Chessbase files for the games. I will bring one by Valley Chess, if anyone wants to see it first. Thanks, Joel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081201/3e061d70/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Dec 1 22:34:05 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 22:34:05 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Let the people rejoice! My new video is at hand. Message-ID: <1228196045.4934c8cd12bc0@www.taom.com> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oT6QcOHj-M Search Youtube Fork Trick Pt 1 Brian Wall Brand new ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWpWin-ZjeI Fork Trick Pt 2 Brian Wall Brand new ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ How to BURST the Worst (Openings) ! By Pete Tamburro September 27, 2008 http://main.uschess.org/content/view/8755/469/ US Chess Life for Kids online article by Pete Tamburro covering the Fork Trick and others ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 17,000+ views 1 year old GreenCastleBlock another Fork Trick Chess video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-abXbOctfA Youtube Search Fork Trick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Youtube Chess videos Youtube.com Search TimmyBx Brian Wall Chess Shattering the Scheveningen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV3rjuo0UiY The Larimar of Laramie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfONfrGcS3o From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Dec 2 11:20:08 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:20:08 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Halloween Attack video Message-ID: <1228242008.49357c5894bcd@www.taom.com> Answers - 1 - Halloween Gambit My alternate ending co-author Anthea Carson Martinez created two comprehensive Halloween Attack Youtube videos - www.Youtube.com Search Halloween Attack Timmybx Anthea Carson How To Play Chess Like An Animal Brian Wall Chess They all work Halloween Gambit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzALeHw_rUU&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMgKZIgEsO0 Halloween attack 2 I also have numerous Halloween Gambit emails at www.Walverine.com or BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com just type Halloween in the Search Box The Incredible Tyler Hughes played hundreds of them. 10 year old Zack Malone defeated me when I tried it. Answer 2 - Book review from my latest hardback sale Jamesa Reese of Oklahoma How To Play Chess Like An Animal Jamesa Reese L O V E D it !! Very creative, very informative in a silly, FUN way, very appealing with color and images. I am very impressed with it and I can't wait to give it to Nathan. THANK YOU ALL for writing such a neat book ! It's just SO cool ! Jamesa Reese ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The way Anthea and I wrote the book is- I just produced masses of Chess analysis - Anthea had creative control - I used to laugh when she would delicately say - "That really sucks. No charm at all. What were you on that day?" Visualize crumpled wad of paper hitting the wastebasket. 2 points. In general Anthea fought to make it a charming book for children and I fought to include interesting stuff for the parents. I remember dour-faced old lady bookstore owners and one in charge of the Boulder,CO library selection grimly grilling me- " It's too compliacted for kids. Who did you write this book for? " My answer is the book takes the kids halfway, piques their interest and then the Chess coach takes it from there. I would say it's evenly divided saleswide between gifts for kids and adults enjoying the artwork and original openings. I wrote the book because I knew I couldn't resist the title myself and others might feel the same way. After writing for Chessmasters for decades I wanted a book with the greatest mass appeal possible. I give credit to Anthea for any kids that like the book and credit to me for any adults that like the book. It was deliberately designed as a kid's book where the artwork ( Linn Trochim with help from Anthea ) takes center stage. No one has returned the book or complained. Most are very impressed. Even when children are 1 years old ( my son Devon and now my nephew Liam ), they like to grab Chess pieces. I can entertain a child a long time just by handing Chess pieces back and forth between us. The Chess piece is meant to be held. Children's creativity always amazes me - many times at kid's Chess clubs there will be a small group in the corner that make up their own rules and play that way. Children are willing to do what adults aren't - spend years losing awkwardly as they polish their craft. Brian Wall -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Forwarded message from Shawn ----- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 07:21:54 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn Reply-To: zebano at yahoo.com Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Fork Trick video To: Brian Wall Brian, Do you have any games with the Halloween gambit? 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe4 d6 4. Nxf7 Kxf7; I'm looking for a blitz weapon against the Petrov and the way you annotate games could probably make the ultra-symmetric english exciting. On a similar note, for whom is your book targeted? and do you have any advice on teaching young kids (4, 5, 7 y.o) the game without making it too boring? I'm thinking about starting with pawn only mini-games (4z4 board, win via queening, pawn odds) then adding in the king and normal board. Last time I tried my daughter was 3 and she insisted that the "black pieces go on the black squares" so I just showed her how the pieces move and let her play with the pieces reckoning that enjoying playing with the chess pieces may eventually result in enjoying chess while forcing the game on her may just make her dislike my hobby. Thanks for your time and emails, while I won't usually respond, they are enjoyable (I never watch the youtube stuff because it's blocked at work). Shawn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oT6QcOHj-M Fork Trick pt 1 Another great video chocked full of valuable info. I'll put a link to it on my site soon. Are you playing this weekend? DuWayne Langseth http://www.coloradochessgames.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Winter Springs Open, December 6 - 7, 2008 4 round Swiss system tournament. Time Control: 40/2 and G/1 Site: Masonic Lodge, 455 El Paso Blvd, Manitou Springs June: open to all July: U1800 August: U1400 Entry fee: $30 if rec?d by 12/4, $35 at site. $8 off EF for Juniors, Seniors, Unrated Prizes: Cash prizes per entries Registration: 8:30 - 9:30, Rounds: 10, 4; 9, 3. Entries: Richard Buchanan 844 B Prospect Place, Manitou Springs CO 80829 Phone: (719) 685-1984 E-mail: buckpeace at pcisys.net CSCA membership required ($15, 10 for juniors/seniors), OSA. Colorado Tour Event. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081202/157e0569/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Dec 3 12:16:34 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 12:16:34 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Cochrane Gambit Message-ID: <1228331794.4936db12093e0@www.taom.com> I love the Cochrane Gambit and it is in fact my main defence to the Petroff. I played the line a few years ago as a lark after reading an article by Mark Ginsburg but after I drew my first game with a 1700 player (I was 1200 at the time) I adopted it and have won many games since. Avoid the tempting Bc4+ in the opening and aim for a pawn storm plan and you'll be good. Dave ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- In UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com, Brian Wall wrote: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nxf7 Kxf7 is the Cochrane Gambit - I played it against Richard Cohen of Wyoming maybe 6 years ago after getting all hyped up on Shirov Chess. Topalov drew Kramnik with it. My instincts still say it's unsound but familiarity would probably lead to many White victories. Black would be uncomfortable a long time. Brian Wall -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081203/e1262dcd/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Dec 3 12:45:32 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 12:45:32 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Curt Carlsen on the Cochrane Gambit Message-ID: <1228333532.4936e1dc77a65@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Curt Carlson ----- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 11:32:37 -0800 From: Curt Carlson Reply-To: Curt Carlson Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Cochrane Gambit To: Brian Wall This opening has surprise value in blitz games too! Some players grab white's e Pawn in response and lose their Queen! Ha ha ha, it's like the Jude Acers Bishop drop in the Caro Kann. ----- Forwarded message from Curt Carlson --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Wall To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com ; Brian Wall Chesslist Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:16 AM Subject: [BrianWallChess] Cochrane Gambit I love the Cochrane Gambit and it is in fact my main defense to the Petroff. I played the line a few years ago as a lark after reading an article by Mark Ginsburg but after I drew my first game with a 1700 player (I was 1200 at the time) I adopted it and have won many games since. Avoid the tempting Bc4+ in the opening and aim for a pawn storm plan and you'll be good. Dave ---------------------------------------------------------- --- In UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com, Brian Wall wrote: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nxf7 Kxf7 is the Cochrane Gambit - I played it against Richard Cohen of Wyoming maybe 6 years ago after getting all hyped up on Shirov Chess. Topalov drew Kramnik with it. My instincts still say it's unsound but familiarity would probably lead to many White victories. Black would be uncomfortable a long time. Brian Wall -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081203/a768745c/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Dec 3 12:49:52 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 12:49:52 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Lev Polugaevsky - Rashid Nezhmetdinov 1958 Youtube video by Chris Peterson Message-ID: <1228333792.4936e2e06491a@www.taom.com> Chris Peterson and I stayed up all night creating a Youtube video of a famous game Polugaevsky-Nezhmetdinov 1958 [Event "Sochi 28th RSFSR ch"] [Site "Sochi 28th RSFSR ch"] [Date "1958.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Lev Polugaevsky"] [Black "Nezhmetdinov"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "A54"] [PlyCount "66"] [EventDate "1958.??.??"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. Nc3 e5 4. e4 exd4 5. Qxd4 Nc6 6. Qd2 g6 7. b3 Bg7 8. Bb2 O-O 9. Bd3 Ng4 10. Nge2 Qh4 11. Ng3 Nge5 12. O-O f5 13. f3 Bh6 14. Qd1 f4 15. Nge2 g5 16. Nd5 g4 17. g3 fxg3 18. hxg3 Qh3 19. f4 Be6 20. Bc2 Rf7 21. Kf2 Qh2+ 22. Ke3 Bxd5 23. cxd5 Nb4 24. Rh1 Rxf4 25. Rxh2 Rf3+ 26. Kd4 Bg7 27. a4 c5+ 28. dxc6 bxc6 29. Bd3 Nexd3+ 30. Kc4 d5+ 31. exd5 cxd5+ 32. Kb5 Rb8+ 33. Ka5 Nc6+ 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think Youtube videos are one thousand times better than Chess emails. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1111459 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.Youtube.com Search Nezhmetdinov Sagacious00004 Rashid Rashid Rashid Rashid pt 1 Rashid Rashid pt 2 Rashid Chess links Rashid Rashid pt 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJzXOpqcJdg -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rashid Rashid pt 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOuz1bYdo3M -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- another youtube video on the same game from KingCrusher with a British accent 2,000+ views http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIjDvqCVftw Youtube search Nezhmetdinov Kingscrusher --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You cannot mention urls or websites when posting comments on Youtube.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- new Brian Wall website by Chris Peterson http://brianwallchess.x10hosting.com/index.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- my other website 260,000+ views www.Walverine.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- books How To Play Chess Like An Animal Horse Laffs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- other Brian Wall Youtube videos Shattering the Scheveningen pt 1, pt 2 Larimar of Laramie pt 1, pt 2 Fork Trick pt 1, pt 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Dec 3 18:31:18 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 18:31:18 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] An Astonishing CC Miniature Message-ID: <1228354278.493732e6aae0d@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Daniel Todd ----- Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:54:11 -0000 From: Daniel Todd Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] An Astonishing CC Miniature To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com I simply have to shake my head that the following can take place in CC these days...especially in higher levels. With access to your library and database you shouldn't have any excuse to be caught in a position that you can't take some time and get oriented. Perhaps that is the problem. Players just don't take the time to think and then things like this happen... [Event "AUTO-MASTER-678"] [Site "http://www.queenalice.com/game.php?id=501755"] [Date "2008.12.2"] [Round "1"] [White "Lucascg"] [Black "danthebugman"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2105"] [BlackElo "2055"] [ECO "C57"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 Bc5 The Traxler or Wilkes-Barre Variation is my favorite in this situation. If White knows what he's doing he can perhaps gain a small advantage, but often the complications are so emense that a player not aquainted with them will go astray. 5.Nxf7 Greedy and leaves Black well placed. Granted some lines will lead to a draw at best but in an event such as this an easy draw with Black is acceptable. Especially since there are ample opportunities for White to get masacred. The more popular and exact move is perhaps 5.Bxf7+ although I have had success with 5.d4. 5...Bxf2+ The variation is definitly not for the fearless! 6.Kxf2 White does not have to accept, but he must still be careful. For example: 6.Kf1 Qe7 7.Nxh8 d5 8.exd5 Nd4 9.c3 Bg4 10.Qa4+ Nd7 11.Kxf2 Qh4+ 12.Kf1 0-00 13.Nf7 Rf8 14.d6 Rxf7+ 0-1 Sandhu-Petek, Stockerau 1992 6...Nxe4+ 7.Kg1 White has three other moves at this point, only one is any good. Here are some examples: 7.Ke3 Qh4 8.g3 Nxg3 9.hxg3 Qd4+ 10.Kf3 d5 11.Rh4 e4+ 12.Kg2 0-0 13.Qh5 Rxf7 14.Bxd5 1/2-1/2 Johnstone-Finegold, Dearborn 1992 7.Ke1 Qh4+ 8.g3 Nxg3 and White can now lose in any number of ways. 7.Kf1 Qh4 8.Qf3 Nd4 9.g3 Qh3+ 10.Qg2 Qf5+ 11.Kg1 Nf3+ 0-1 Bozsik- Lija, Eger 1994 7...Qh4 8.Qf1 Not as common as 8.g3 which is pretty drawish. For instance: 8...Nxg3 9.hxg3 Qxg3+ 10.Kf1 Rf8 11.Qh5 d6 12.Nc3 Bg4 was agreed drawn on move 19 in Foltys-Rossolimo, Amsterdam 1950. However 12...Qf4+ is more accurate as White has chances to win after 12...Bg4. 8...Rf8 9.d3 Nd6 And now White is amazingly lost! 10.Nxd6+ cxd6 11.Nc3 A HORRIBLE blunder, but the game was over anyway. 11...Qd4+ 0-1 So there it is. Hope you enjoyed and learned a thing or two. Regards, Dan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Ng5 N f6 Nf7 check K g8 Q g7 check Kf8Bh6 mates ? took me 20 seconds? lol? hope I get published in your journal post some more Great webside? ? czechmaster --- On Wed, 12/3/08, Brian Wall wrote: From: Brian Wall Subject: [BrianWallChess] Lev Polugaevsky - Rashid Nezhmetdinov 1958 Youtube video by Chris Peterson To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com, UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yah1oogroups.com, Ju1ditPolgar at Yahoogroups.com, "Brian Wall Chesslist" , "Brian Wall Chesslist" Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 2:49 PM Chris Peterson and I stayed up all night creating a Youtube video of a famous game Polugaevsky- Nezhmetdinov 1958 [Event "Sochi 28th RSFSR ch"] [Site "Sochi 28th RSFSR ch"] [Date "1958.??.??" ] [Round "?"] [White "Lev Polugaevsky" ] [Black "Nezhmetdinov" ] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "A54"] [PlyCount "66"] [EventDate "1958.??.??" ] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. Nc3 e5 4. e4 exd4 5. Qxd4 Nc6 6. Qd2 g6 7. b3 Bg7 8. Bb2 O-O 9. Bd3 Ng4 10. Nge2 Qh4 11. Ng3 Nge5 12. O-O f5 13. f3 Bh6 14. Qd1 f4 15. Nge2 g5 16. Nd5 g4 17. g3 fxg3 18. hxg3 Qh3 19. f4 Be6 20. Bc2 Rf7 21. Kf2 Qh2+ 22. Ke3 Bxd5 23. cxd5 Nb4 24. Rh1 Rxf4 25. Rxh2 Rf3+ 26. Kd4 Bg7 27. a4 c5+ 28. dxc6 bxc6 29. Bd3 Nexd3+ 30. Kc4 d5+ 31. exd5 cxd5+ 32. Kb5 Rb8+ 33. Ka5 Nc6+ 0-1 ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - I think Youtube videos are one thousand times better than Chess emails. ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - http://www.chessgam es.com/perl/ chessgame? gid=1111459 ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - www.Youtube. com Search Nezhmetdinov Sagacious00004 Rashid Rashid Rashid Rashid pt 1 Rashid Rashid pt 2 Rashid Chess links Rashid Rashid pt 1 http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=xJzXOpqcJdg ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - Rashid Rashid pt 2 http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=BOuz1bYdo3M ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - another youtube video on the same game from KingCrusher with a British accent 2,000+ views http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=OIjDvqCVftw Youtube search Nezhmetdinov Kingscrusher ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - You cannot mention urls or websites when posting comments on Youtube.com ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - new Brian Wall website by Chris Peterson http://brianwallche ss.x10hosting. com/index. htm ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - my other website 260,000+ views www.Walverine. com ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - books How To Play Chess Like An Animal Horse Laffs ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - other Brian Wall Youtube videos Shattering the Scheveningen pt 1, pt 2 Larimar of Laramie pt 1, pt 2 Fork Trick pt 1, pt 2 ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081203/12ed3bc1/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Dec 3 18:42:49 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 18:42:49 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Jeff Baffo on the Cochrane Gambit Message-ID: <1228354969.4937359990d12@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from JEFFERY BAFFO ----- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:47:50 -0700 From: JEFFERY BAFFO Reply-To: JEFFERY BAFFO Subject: RE: [BrianWall-ChessList] Curt Carlsen on the Cochrane Gambit To: brianwallchess3 Howdy Brian, I can attest to the power of the CG. Only Joe Bihlmeyer specifically prepared against it and even that didn't help him. Also, I had non-master CC Game of the Year (runner up) in 1994 or thereabouts. Alec Dunne, Check is in the mail thought it was pretty cool. Yes, I dared to play it in CC and it was one of my best games ever. It was vs long time Colorado veteran Dick Barber. Jeff -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081203/202dbc82/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Dec 4 11:30:19 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:30:19 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] =?iso-8859-1?q?Today=92s_Elephant_Gambit_mi?= =?iso-8859-1?q?niature_at_high-level?= Message-ID: <1228415419.493821bb1558c@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Nikolay Kostov ----- Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:03:45 -0000 From: Nikolay Kostov Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] Today?s Elephant Gambit miniature at high-level To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com [Event "ChessPlanet.ru"] [Site "ChessPlanet. ru"] [Date "2008.12.04"] [Round "?"] [White "Nahapetyan_Pogos"] [Black "Kalinichev_Andrey"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "3047"] [BlackElo "3088"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d5 3. Nxe5 Bd6 4. d4 dxe4 5. Nc4 Nf6 6. Nxd6+ cxd6 7. d5 Nbd7 8. c4 O-O 9. Be2 Ne5 10. O-O Bg4 11. Nc3 Qc8 12. b3 Qf5 13. Bxg4 Nexg4 14. f3 Nxh2 15. Kxh2 Qe5+ 16. Kh1 Qxc3 17. Bd2 Qe5 18. fxe4 Nxe4 19. Bf4 Qf6 20. Qd3 Qxa1 0-1 PS. It was a 3 min game played between two very strong blitz players on the Chess Assistant Club server (#1 free blitz chess server in my ranking which could be reached via http://www.chessok.com or http://chessplanet.ru). Best Regards, Nick -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081204/44c6c99e/attachment.html From zebano at yahoo.com Thu Dec 4 08:57:00 2008 From: zebano at yahoo.com (Shawn) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 07:57:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] [BrianWallChess] An Astonishing CC Miniature In-Reply-To: <1228354278.493732e6aae0d@www.taom.com> Message-ID: <967365.64098.qm@web35606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Daniel, I agree with your assessment of ChessDBs and opening prep but some of us play non-DB CC because our lives don't have time for chess games that can't wait a day for us to move and we're not quite serious enough to do all that research (aka I can't decide if chess is a hobby or an all-consuming obsession). Regarding the Traxler / Wilkes-Barre after 5. Bxf7+ Ke7 (better than Kf8 since it allows Rf8) 6. Bd5 or 6. Bb3 are both better for white. I am currently? + 4 -1 =1 when playing 6. Bd5 (I've never played Bb3 but my database likes it and I can't find anything wrong with it). Shawn --- On Wed, 12/3/08, Brian Wall wrote: From: Brian Wall Subject: [BrianWallChess] An Astonishing CC Miniature To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, "Brian Wall Chesslist" Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 7:31 PM ----- Forwarded message from Daniel Todd ----- Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:54:11 -0000 From: Daniel Todd Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpen ings at yahoogroups .com Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpe nings] An Astonishing CC Miniature To: UnorthodoxChessOpen ings at yahoogroups .com I simply have to shake my head that the following can take place in CC these days...especially in higher levels. With access to your library and database you shouldn't have any excuse to be caught in a position that you can't take some time and get oriented. Perhaps that is the problem. Players just don't take the time to think and then things like this happen... [Event "AUTO-MASTER- 678"] [Site "http://www.queenali ce.com/game. php?id=501755"] [Date "2008.12.2"] [Round "1"] [White "Lucascg"] [Black "danthebugman" ] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2105"] [BlackElo "2055"] [ECO "C57"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 Bc5 The Traxler or Wilkes-Barre Variation is my favorite in this situation. If White knows what he's doing he can perhaps gain a small advantage, but often the complications are so emense that a player not aquainted with them will go astray. 5.Nxf7 Greedy and leaves Black well placed. Granted some lines will lead to a draw at best but in an event such as this an easy draw with Black is acceptable. Especially since there are ample opportunities for White to get masacred. The more popular and exact move is perhaps 5.Bxf7+ although I have had success with 5.d4. 5...Bxf2+ The variation is definitly not for the fearless! 6.Kxf2 White does not have to accept, but he must still be careful. For example: 6.Kf1 Qe7 7.Nxh8 d5 8.exd5 Nd4 9.c3 Bg4 10.Qa4+ Nd7 11.Kxf2 Qh4+ 12.Kf1 0-00 13.Nf7 Rf8 14.d6 Rxf7+ 0-1 Sandhu-Petek, Stockerau 1992 6...Nxe4+ 7.Kg1 White has three other moves at this point, only one is any good. Here are some examples: 7.Ke3 Qh4 8.g3 Nxg3 9.hxg3 Qd4+ 10.Kf3 d5 11.Rh4 e4+ 12.Kg2 0-0 13.Qh5 Rxf7 14.Bxd5 1/2-1/2 Johnstone-Finegold, Dearborn 1992 7.Ke1 Qh4+ 8.g3 Nxg3 and White can now lose in any number of ways. 7.Kf1 Qh4 8.Qf3 Nd4 9.g3 Qh3+ 10.Qg2 Qf5+ 11.Kg1 Nf3+ 0-1 Bozsik- Lija, Eger 1994 7...Qh4 8.Qf1 Not as common as 8.g3 which is pretty drawish. For instance: 8...Nxg3 9.hxg3 Qxg3+ 10.Kf1 Rf8 11.Qh5 d6 12.Nc3 Bg4 was agreed drawn on move 19 in Foltys-Rossolimo, Amsterdam 1950. However 12...Qf4+ is more accurate as White has chances to win after 12...Bg4. 8...Rf8 9.d3 Nd6 And now White is amazingly lost! 10.Nxd6+ cxd6 11.Nc3 A HORRIBLE blunder, but the game was over anyway. 11...Qd4+ 0-1 So there it is. Hope you enjoyed and learned a thing or two. 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Name: _AVG certification_.txt Url: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081204/2ae64cab/attachment-0001.txt From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Dec 5 02:30:29 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 02:30:29 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Kansas Open Marvin Lee update www.Chessgames.com Message-ID: <1228469429.4938f4b57d30e@www.taom.com> Update http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1001654 This game was chosen as a favorite game of Daniel Bryant's ------------------------------------------------------------------------ also chosen as a favorite of Frank124C http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1011322 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lee - Wall also generated many amusing comments on http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1472993 -------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "2007 Kansas Open"] [Site "Bethany Library, Lindsborg, Kansas"] [Date "2007.07.14"] [Round "1"] [White "Marvin Lee"] [Black "brianwall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "1861"] [BlackElo "2204"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper Pole"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "14:15:08"] [TimeControl "Game/ 115 minutes, 5 second delay"] 2007 Kansas Open Round 1 Saturday, 7/14/2007 Bethany Library Lindsborg, Kansas Game 115 minutes, 5 second delay Opening- Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole White - Marvin Lee 1861 Black - Brian Wall 2224 This was an amazing game. Marvin Lee looks nothing like the actor Lee Marvin. Marvin Lee is the biggest Asian dude I've ever seen. Imagine Lorne Greene marrying Hopsing and Hoss on the Ponderosa- their offspring will give you some idea of what Marvin Lee looks like. Marvin is from Oklahoma where Braunlich just published a Fishing Pole article in the OK State Chess magazine. I had been told about the article the night before by Santa Claus at the blitz tourney. You might think this would give Marvin confidence but instead it terrified him - he took 20 minutes on each move - by move 9 he was down from 2 hours to 8 minutes already! He knew just enough to be very, very scared. I played this way against IM John Watson once- I was paralyzed, seeing ghosts everywhere, I just couldn't move. The next time I played John I beat him to win the 1977 Colorado Open with David Jellsion. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole - invented by LM Jack Young to prove fish cannot defend. 5. c3 Marvin spent 26 minutes deciding between 5 c3 and 5 d4 5 ... a6 6. Ba4 21 minutes on this one 6 ... Bc5 7. d4 Ba7 The Hyper-Pole, to answer ... d6 d5 with ... b5 A bishop on b6 would have to sac on f2 to free the b-pawn. 8. h3 h5!! 9. Bxc6 29 minutes on this move, leaving Marvin with only 8 minutes left. Marvin explained he didn't take the knight due to the horrors of 9 hg hg 10 Ng5 g3 11 fg ed! 12 N:f7 dc+! crushing 9 ... dxc6! to connect the c8-bishop with a possible pawn on g4 10. Nxe5 10 hg hg 11 Ng5 f6! is better for me 10 hg hg 11 Bg5 f6 12 N:e5 Qd6 or ... fg is messy 10 ... Nxe5! I have 90 minutes left, Marvin has 7. When he got down to 22 minutes, I wanted to call the game on account of fear. I didn't want to see Lee have a heart attack. Most of my time was spent wandering around waiting for Marvin to move. 11. dxe5! Qe7 I pondered my moral dilemma for 10 minutes. I knew Fritz preferred my move but 11 ... Qh4 followed by ... Bg4 or ... B:h3 wins against most responses other than 12 Qf3. I have won countless blitz games with this. 12. Bf4? 6 minutes left for Lee It is better to let the e5-pawn go and just develop. In general, the weaker the player the more materialistic their thinking. The bishop just encourages pawn stabs. The Fishing Pole is based on normal chessplayers being unable to deal with irrational positions. 12 ... g5! 13. Bh2! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 minutes left for Lee 13 Bg3 g4 14 h4! keeps it closed but 13 Bg3 h4! 14 Bh2 g4!! 15 hg Rg8!! or ... Qg5! are very strong. 13 Be3 B:e3 14 fe g4!! looks good for me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 ... g4!! 14. hxg4 Opening the gates of Hell - Vance Aandahl 14 ... hxg4! It's over plus Marvin only has three minutes left to my 86 minutes. There is no way to stop both 15 ... R:h2 or ... Qh4 15. Qd3! Rxh2!! Marvin resigns because 16 K:h2 Qh4+ 17 Kg1 g3 mates 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "2007 Kansas Open"] [Site "Bethany Library, Lindsborg, Kansas"] [Date "2007.07.14"] [Round "1"] [White "Marvin Lee"] [Black "brianwall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "1861"] [BlackElo "2204"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper Pole"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "14:15:08"] [TimeControl "Game/ 115 minutes, 5 second delay"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. c3 a6 6. Ba4 Bc5 7. d4 Ba7 8. h3 h5 9. Bxc6 dxc6 10. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. dxe5 Qe7 12. Bf4 g5 13. Bh2 g4 14. hxg4 hxg4 15. Qd3 Rxh2 Marvin resigns 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081205/8f66f823/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Dec 6 04:28:19 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 04:28:19 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Old People Use A Computer: The Game Show Message-ID: <1228562899.493a61d365d58@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Chris Peterson ----- Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 12:49:16 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Peterson Reply-To: garrensilverwing at yahoo.com Subject: oh brian... To: Brian Wall Oh Brian you shold try to get on this game show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khhC5UkiNd4&feature=channel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best regards from Gij?n - Asturias - Spain Luis M?ndez Castedo Pedro M?ndez Castedo ----- End forwarded message ----- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081206/3c52a836/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Dec 8 10:51:33 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:51:33 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Langseth vs Anderson, Winter Springs 2008 annotated by DuWayne Langseth Message-ID: <1228758693.493d5ea505be6@www.taom.com> I know both players very well. I used to think of Paul Anderson as a super-solid 1600 player and Duwayne as a super-solid 1800 player. Duwayne is accustomed to super correct postal play because there was no one good to play where he grew up ( South Dakota, I think). Duwayne is logical and loves the endgame. His move technique when he is not in time pressure is flawless, almost no stupid blunders. Duwayne has a fear of irrational positions but he has been working hard on that. My idea was to create a super amalgam alloy of reckless attacking Chess backed up with iron logic in the endgame. Paul Anderson was solid 1600 until he started writing the Colorado Springs Chess newsletter. Being exposed to so many new Chess ideas streched his poor 1600 brain to the breaking point until he has almost burst/bloomed into an expert. Paul and Duwayne have never played but have kept an eye on each other for years. Duwayne always marveled at how Paul Anderson escapes drawn or lost positions over and over again as his opponents mysteriously hang piece after piece. It is amusing to me after Duwayne saying for years - " That will never happen to me if we ever play!! " their actual game turns into a highly entertaining blunderfest. In the end, Duwayne was saved by his solid endgame knowledge. I used to say Colorado Chess tournaments don't really exist unless I am there to chronicle them. I am glad to be proven wrong. Brian Wall ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DuWayne Langseth ----- Forwarded message from DuWayne Langseth ----- Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:30:51 -0000 From: DuWayne Langseth Reply-To: DuWayne Langseth Subject: [BrianWallChess] Langseth vs Anderson, Winter Springs 2008 To: BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com Paul and I are friends and rivals. We're pretty even in quick and speed games, but had never played a rated game. This one was a long time in the waiting. 1. d4 c6 2. f4 d5 3. e3 Nf6 4. Nf3 Regressing back to the favorite opening of my youth. The Stonewall has worked very well for me lately transposing to a fishing pole attack against high players on ICC. 4... Bg4 5. h3 Bxf3 6. Qxf3 e6 7. Bd3 Nbd7 8. Nd2 Qb6 9. O-O Be7 10. c3 c5 11. a3 a5 12. Qg3 g6 13.b3 Nh5 14. Qf2 f5 15. Rb1 I've patiently waited to see where his king would end up, so I know where to focus my attention. 15... O-O I considered g4 here looking for Brian Wall/Tyler Hughes style attacking moves. 16. Nf3 Ng7 17. c4 Nf6 18. dxc5 Qxc5 19. b4 I'm looking to be aggressive whenever possible. Here I'm planning to advance the pawns on the queenside and also gain space for my pieces there. 19... axb4 20. axb4 Qc7 21. c5 Ne4 22. Bxe4 Rybka preferred Qc2, but that knight bothered me. 22... dxe4 23. Ne5 Rfd8 24. Bb2 Ra2 I wanted to eventually control the a-file, so I anticipated this move and worried about him doubling rooks there. As it turns out, this move was a mistake allowing me to gain a tempo when I attack the rook with my queen. The a-file does nothing for him and is a waste of time. 25. Qc2 Rd5 26. Qb3 Rybka prefers Rbd1, which does look great after Rxd1 Rxd1. 26...Ra8 27. Bd4 My plan was to seal up the d-file and take over the a-file. The flaw in my strategy would have been 27...Nh5!, when Black's dormant knight throws a wrench into things. 27... Bf6 28. Ra1 Rad8 29. Qc4 The computer prefers Nc6 here trading my knight for his bishop. Both of us were oblivious to the continuing threat of Nh5!. 29... Bxe5 30. fxe5 Now I can see that Bxe5 was clearly better, but I think that by now I was already running low on time. And I was stubborn about keeping that d-file closed. 30... b6? I knew this had to be a mistake, giving me the advanced c-pawn and a rook on a7. 31. c6 b5 32. Qc3 Rc8 33. Rfc1 Nh5 Finally played, but a day late and dollar short. 34.Ra7 Qd8 35. c7 Qd7 36. Qc6 Kf7 37. Rb7 Ke8 Qxc6 was his best chance to survive here. I was thrilled with my play to this point, but with just a few moves to reach time control, I was in severe time trouble now. 38. Rb8? I had many different ways of winning here, but there were at least a dozen better than this. I couldn't see how to keep his king from coming to the rescue. And with less than a minute left, as I often do, I threw it away. 38.Qa6! would have been crushing. 38... Qxc6 39. Rxc6 Kd7 I have to give credit to Paul. He played very well to survive in this part, while keeping the time pressure on me. 40. Rc2? What a shame to blow it on move 40. Simply taking on c8 or on e6 would have kept a big advantage. 40... Rxc7 He had a chance to bring his knight into the game here with 40...Nf4! 41.Rxc7+? Flustered, I reached time control without realizing it and continued to rush. Ra2 was best here followed by Rh8. 41... Kxc7 42. Ra8 The smoke has cleared and we're about even. 42...Nf4! is again best here giving him a small advantage. 42... Rd7 43. Ra6 Ng7 44. Ra5 Kc6 45. Bc5? I couldn't see that after 45.Ra6+, I could repeat because his king can't go to d5 since Rd6+! is strong for me. I looked at it, but didn't see far enough. 45... Ne8 46. Ra6+ Kd5 47. Rb6 Nc7? Simply taking on e5 is probably best for Black. Here, without any excuse, we both again missed Rd6+!! , which now wins for White. After 48...Rxd6 49.exd6 Kc6 50.dxc7, I would have been very comfortable cleaning up his pawns. Paul saw it after he played this move and sweated for a while. It's one of those "How could I have missed that?" moments for me. 48. Bd6? As a consolation, this move was second best. 48... g5 49. Bxc7 Rxc7 50. Rxb5+ I've won a pawn and brought the material back to even, but it's tough for me with my disconnected pawns and his active king. 50... Kc4 51. Rb6 Kd3 52. b5 Just taking on e6 was probably my best choice. I wasn't sure if an advancing e-pawn or b-pawn would give me the best chances. I had visions of playing Rc6 and then b6. 52... Rc5 53. Rxe6 Rxb5 54. Rd6+ Kxe3 55. e6 Re5! This is probably best. 56. Ra6 h5 57. Ra3+ Kd4 58. Ra4+ Kd5 59. Ra6 f4 60. e7 Rxe7 61. Ra5+ Kd4 62. Rxg5 I knew I had to trade off pawns to have any chance. He is winning, but I'm real comfortable with rook and pawn, so I wasn't giving up. 62... Re5 63. Rg8 Ke3 64. Ra8 Rd5 65. Ra1 Rd3 Ke2! was best here. Now I can drive his king back. 66. Re1+ Kd4 67. Ra1 e3 68. Kf1 Ke4 69. Ra4+ Rd4 70. Ra2 Ra8 was better. We both missed that he could now play f3!, which is crushing. 70... Rd2? Now it was his turn to throw it away. This was the chance I had been hoping for. 71. Rxd2 exd2 72. Ke2 The position is a dead draw now. 72... h4 73. Kxd2 f3 74. gxf3+ 1/2-1/2d2 f3 74. gxf3+ 1/2-1/2 [Event "Winter Springs Open"] [Site "Manitou Masonic Lodge aka The Dungeon"] [Date "2008.12.06"] [Round "2"] [White "Langseth, DuWayne"] [Black "Anderson, Paul"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "A40"] [WhiteElo "1824"] [BlackElo "1956"] [Annotator ",DuWayne"] 1. d4 c6 2. f4 d5 3. e3 Nf6 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. h3 Bxf3 6. Qxf3 e6 7. Bd3 Nbd7 8. Nd2 Qb6 9. O-O Be7 10. c3 c5 11. a3 a5 12. Qg3 g6 13. b3 Nh5 14.Qf2 f5 15. Rb1 O-O 16. Nf3 Ng7 17. c4 Nf6 18. dxc5 Qxc5 19. b4 axb4 20. axb4 Qc7 21. c5 Ne4 22. Bxe4 dxe4 23. Ne5 Rfd8 24. Bb2 Ra2 25. Qc2 Rd5 26. Qb3 Ra8 27. Bd4 Bf6 28. Ra1 Rad8 29. Qc4 Bxe5 30. fxe5 b6 31. c6 b5 32. Qc3 Rc8 33. Rfc1 Nh5 34. Ra7 Qd8 35. c7 Qd7 36. Qc6 Kf7 37. Rb7 Ke8 38. Rb8 Qxc6 39. Rxc6 Kd7 40. Rc2 Rxc7 41. Rxc7+ Kxc7 42. Ra8 Rd7 43. Ra6 Ng7 44. Ra5 Kc6 45. Bc5 Ne8 46. Ra6+ Kd5 47. Rb6 Nc7 48. Bd6 g5 49. Bxc7 Rxc7 50. Rxb5+ Kc4 51. Rb6 Kd3 52. b5 Rc5 53. Rxe6 Rxb5 54. Rd6+ Kxe3 55. e6 Re5 56. Ra6 h5 57. Ra3+ Kd4 58. Ra4+ Kd5 59. Ra6 f4 60. e7 Rxe7 61. Ra5+ Kd4 62. Rxg5 Re5 63. Rg8 Ke3 64. Ra8 Rd5 65. Ra1 Rd3 66. Re1+ Kd4 67. Ra1 e3 68. Kf1 Ke4 69. Ra4+ Rd4 70. Ra2 Rd2 71. Rxd2 exd2 72. Ke2 h4 73. Kxd2 f3 74. gxf3+ 1/2-1/2 DuWayne Langseth -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Kannan, Nithin (1230) - Cowan, Richard Justin (1432) [B00] Valley Chess (G/30), Phoenix, AZ (Round 2), 12/07/2008 1.e4 a6 2.Nf3 b5 3.d4 Bb7 4.Bd3 Nf6 5.Nbd2 e6 6.e5 Nd5 7.0?0 d6 8.exd6 cxd6 9.b3 Nc3 10.Qe1 Nd7 11.Bb2 Nd5 12.Be4 N7f6 13.Bxd5 Nxd5 14.c4 bxc4 15.bxc4 Nc7 16.d5 Be7 17.Bxg7? (This is a really bad idea. Opening the g-file for Black's Rook.) Rg8 18.Bb2 exd5 19.Bf6 Ne6 20.Bxe7 Qxe7 21.cxd5 Bxd5 22.Ne4 Kd7 23.Rb1 f5 24.Ned2 Rxg2+! 25.Kxg2 Qg5+! 26.Kh1 Qxd2!! (What a stunning move!!) 27.Rg1 (If 27. Qd2 Bf3 28. Kg1 Rg8 29. Qg5 Rg5#. White best line is 27. Rb3 Qa2 28. Re3 Bf3 29. Rf3 Qd5 30. Qd1 Nd4 31. Rg1 Qf3 which easily wins for Black.) 27...Bxf3+ 28.Rg2 Bxg2+ 29.Kxg2 Rg8+ (There is no way for White to avoid checkmate.) 30.Kh1 Qd5+ (What a great game and finish!! Congrats to Richard for this gem!!) 0?1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: ATT00045.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 63268 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081208/52839a6e/attachment-0008.jpg From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Tue Dec 9 10:58:40 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 10:58:40 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] A dark-squared Owen with a light-squared finish!? Message-ID: <1228845520.493eb1d0d5fae@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Nikolay Kostov ----- Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:41:41 -0000 From: Nikolay Kostov Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] A dark-squared Owen with a light-squared finish!? To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Below is annotated one of my best current Owen defence games starting out 1. d4 b6 2. e4 Bb7 3. Bd3 Nc6!? [Event "ChessPlanet.ru"] [Site "ChessPlanet.ru"] [Date "2008.11.26"] [Round "?"] [White "Anaksimandr"] [Black "hippochess"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B00"] [WhiteElo "2115"] [BlackElo "2403"] [Annotator "Nick"] 1. d4 b6 2. e4 Bb7 3. Bd3 Nc6!? {This is my current pet line in the Owen defence! Is it playable?! Yes, it is! I spent more than a month in analyzing the arising positions after 1. d4 b6 2. e4 Bb7 3. Bd3 Nc6!? with the help of some of the strongest chess engines! My conclusion is that after Black's 3 Nc6!? White could hardly get more from the opening than in the line 1. d4 b6 2. e4 Bb7 3. Bd3 Nf6!? 4.Qe2 Nc6! 5.c3 e5 etc. which is played by many GMs: GM E. Bakro, GM A. Ivanov, GM Blatny, GM Kunin etc. So, the line 1. d4 b6 2. e4 Bb7 3. Bd3 Nc6!? should be playable for Black! In addition, there is a great advantage of playing 3 Nc6!? instead of 3 Nf6!? In the later case after 1. d4 b6 2. e4 Bb7 3. Bd3 Nf6!? after 4.Nd2! {instead of 4.Qe2} it's very likely for Black to be tricked into a bored and slightly worsened version of the French defence, e.g. 4 e6 5.Nf3 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.a3 d5 8.e5 etc. So, lets White be tricked a move earlier with 3 Nc6!? Finally, don't look at your chess databases: there are no good sample games starting out 1. d4 b6 2. e4 Bb7 3. Bd3 Nc6!? but the matters are much more complex } 4. c3! e5! 5. d5! {5.Ne2!? d5! or 5.Nf3!? d6 is playable for Black too!} 5 Nce7 6. Ne2 {After 6.Nf3 Ng6 etc. the arising positions are very similar to the `3 Nf6!?' Owen defence line! Just one example: A. Bennett (2309) ? A. Ivanov (2630), New Hampshire Open 50th, 2000: 1. e4 b6 2. d4 Bb7 3. Bd3 Nf6!? 4. Qe2 Nc6! 5. c3 e5 6. d5 Ne7 7. Nf3 Ng6 8. g3 c6! 9. c4 Bc5 10. Nbd2 a5 11. Nf1 O-O 12. Ne3 b5! (23) 0-1} 6 c6! {An absolutely key move in this type of pawn structure!} 7. c4 Ng6 8. O-O h5! {Black's second key (pawn) move aiming for a quick h5-h4-h3! } 9. f4!? {A typical `strong amateur player' move which could be seen up to the master level! Better was 9.Nc3 followed by Be3, f3 etc.} 9 exf4 10. Nxf4 Ne5! {What a knight! Black's dark-squared play begins!} 11. Nc3 {And not 11. Nxh5? Nxd3 12. Qxd3 Rxh5 wining a piece!} 11... Nf6 12. b3!? {Aiming to adding some pressure along the long a1-h8 diagonal!} 12 Bd6!? {12... Bc5+!? 13. Kh1 Nfg4 14. Nh3 Bd4! might be even stronger! However even after the more quiet 12 Bd6!? Black has a perfect dark- squared play!} 13. Bc2 Qc7! 14. Qd2 h4! 15. Bb2 {Or 15. h3!? O-O-O 16. a4 a5 17. Bb2 g5!? 18. Nd3 Nh5 19. Ne2 Nxd3 20. Qxd3 f6 21. Rad1 g4! and Black has all the chances to win the game on the kingside!} 15... h3! 16. g3 Nfg4 17. Nce2 O-O-O 18. Nd4 g6 19. Nf3 Rhe8 {The quiet 19... f6 20. a4 Nxf3+ 21. Rxf3 Ne5 22. Rff1 a5 = leads to an equality but stronger was 19... Rde8! 20. Nxe5 Nxe5 21. a4 f5!? 22. exf5 g5! 23. dxc6! gxf4! 24. cxb7+ Qxb7 25. Qd5 Ng4!! 26. Qxb7+ Kxb7 and now the `obvious' 27. Bxh8? leads to mate after 27 Bc5+! 28. Kh1 Re2!! etc. } 20. Rae1 f5!? {Once again the quiet 20... f6 was possible.} 21. Nxe5 Nxe5 22. exf5 g5! 23. Nd3?! {White is aiming for simplifications: logical but both wrong and insufficient!} 23 Nxd3 24. Qxd3 Bc5+! {This check was in the air for a long time but here it's decisive!} 25. Kh1 {Also insufficient is 25. Bd4 cxd5 26. Rxe8 Rxe8 27. cxd5 (or 27. f6 dxc4 28. f7 Rf8 29. Qe3 Qc6-+) 27... Bxd4+ 28. Qxd4 Qxc2-+} 25... cxd5 26. cxd5 Qd6! 27. Rd1 Re3! 28. Qd2 Rde8! {White has a big light-squared problem along the long h1-a8 diagonal + some other big problems over the first/second rank! The game is over!} 29. Rf2 Bb4 {A more direct approach will be 29... Qxd5+!! 30. Qxd5 Re1+!! 31. Rf1 Bxd5+ 32. Rxd5 Rxf1#} 30. Qd4 Re1+! 31. Rf1 Bxd5+! 32. Qxd5 {Or 32. Kg1 Rxf1+ 33. Kxf1 Bg2+ 34. Kf2 Bc5-+} 32... Qxd5+ 33. Be4 Qxe4+ 34. Kg1 Qg2# 0-1 PS. A nice dark-squared Owen defence (I'm not sure it was a defence: attack is more to the point!?) ended with a powerful light-squared attack! Best regards, Nick [Event "ChessPlanet.ru"] [Site "ChessPlanet.ru"] [Date "2008.11.26"] [Round "?"] [White "Anaksimandr"] [Black "hippochess"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B00"] [WhiteElo "2115"] [BlackElo "2403"] [Annotator "Nick"] 1. d4 b6 2. e4 Bb7 3. Bd3 Nc6 4. c3 e5 5. d5 (5. Ne2 d5) (5. Nf3 d6) 5... Nce7 6. Ne2 c6 7. c4 Ng6 8. O-O h5 9. f4 exf4 10. Nxf4 Ne5 11. Nc3 (11. Nxh5 Nxd3 12. Qxd3 Rxh5) 11... Nf6 12. b3 Bd6 (12... Bc5+ 13. Kh1 Nfg4 14. Nh3 Bd4) 13. Bc2 Qc7 14. Qd2 h4 15. Bb2 (15. h3 O-O- O 16. a4 a5 17. Bb2 g5 18. Nd3 Nh5 19. Ne2 Nxd3 20. Qxd3 f6 21. Rad1 g4) 15... h3 16. g3 Nfg4 (16... Bc5+ 17. Kh1 Nfg4 18. Na4 Bd6 19. Nd3 Nxd3 20. Bxd3 Ne5) 17. Nce2 O-O-O 18. Nd4 g6 19. Nf3 Rhe8 (19... f6 20. a4 Nxf3+ 21. Rxf3 Ne5 22. Rff1 a5) (19... Rde8 20. Nxe5 Nxe5 21. a4 f5 22. exf5 g5 23. dxc6 gxf4 24. cxb7+ Qxb7 25. Qd5 Ng4 26. Qxb7+ Kxb7 27. Bxh8 Bc5+ 28. Kh1 Re2 29. Be4+ Ka6) 20. Rae1 f5 (20... f6 21. Nxh3 Nxf3+ 22. Rxf3 Rh8 23. Kg2 Rdf8) 21. Nxe5 Nxe5 22. exf5 g5 23. Nd3 Nxd3 24. Qxd3 Bc5+ 25. Kh1 (25. Bd4 cxd5 26. Rxe8 Rxe8 27. cxd5 (27. f6 dxc4 28. f7 Rf8 29. Qe3 Qc6) 27... Bxd4+ 28. Qxd4 Qxc2) 25... cxd5 26. cxd5 Qd6 27. Rd1 Re3 28. Qd2 Rde8 29. Rf2 Bb4 (29... Qxd5+ 30. Qxd5 Re1+ 31. Rf1 Bxd5+ 32. Rxd5 Rxf1#) 30. Qd4 Re1+ 31. Rf1 Bxd5+ 32. Qxd5 (32. Kg1 Rxf1+ 33. Kxf1 Bg2+ 34. Kf2 Bc5) 32... Qxd5+ 33. Be4 Qxe4+ 34. Kg1 Qg2# 0-1 [Event "New Hampshire Open 50th"] [Site "New Hampshire"] [Date "2000.??.??"] [Round "1"] [White "Bennett, Allan"] [Black "Ivanov, Alexander"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B00"] [WhiteElo "2309"] [BlackElo "2630"] 1. e4 b6 2. d4 Bb7 3. Bd3 Nf6 4. Qe2 Nc6 5. c3 e5 6. d5 Ne7 7. Nf3 Ng6 8. g3 c6 9. c4 Bc5 10. Nbd2 a5 11. Nf1 O-O 12. Ne3 b5 13. dxc6 Bxc6 14. cxb5 Bxe4 15. Bxe4 Nxe4 16. O-O d5 17. Qd3 Nf6 18. Qf5 e4 19. Ng5 Ne7 20. Qe5 h6 21. Nh3 Qd7 22. Kg2 Rac8 23. Rd1 Qxb5 0-1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081209/fb36def7/attachment.htm From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Tue Dec 9 12:05:34 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:05:34 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Which is the best chess game? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1228849534.493ec17e48915@www.taom.com> Best Chess Game - Maybe Polugaevsky - Nezmetdinov youtube video Rashid Rashid Pt 1, Pt 2 or Kasparov - Topalov or Reti-Alekhine There is a Bisguier-Fischer game with a 30 move knight tour I did an email on that is pretty amazing Rybka games are amazing Quoting zev22407 : And who is the greatest player? Fischer beat 20 GMs in a row Kasparov was #1 rating for 20 years Morphy beat everyone around him Capablanca was the most accurate Kramnik was second most accurate Capa went 60+ games without a loss - Wang Yue went 70+ games without a loss Tal went 80+ games without a loss Kramnik went 90+ games without a loss Steinitz, Alekhine, Botvinnik and Lasker had long reigns as World Champion Shirov creates beauty every game Tal, Marshall and Nezmetdinov could see combinations in a flash Korchnoi has been beating everyone for 60 years Karpov and John Curdo won over 500 tournaments Alekhine said Euwe has never started an unsound attack Petrosian and Fischer and Kasparov would lose maybe 3 games a year in their primes Smyslov taught the world how to play Chess Botvinnik's and Tal's students still rule the Chess World Tyler Hughes made 20 move combo's at age 9 I would say Kasparov was the most knowledgeable but Bobby was the greatest for his time period. Fischer created Karpov and Kasparov. Bobby showed them how far they had to go. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Dec 10 00:58:01 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:58:01 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] winter springs open standings, Upcoming Pueblo Tournaments and new chess video! Message-ID: <1228895881.493f7689a6605@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from CS Chess ----- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 21:39:10 -0700 From: CS Chess Reply-To: CS Chess Subject: [CSCN] Fw: winter springs open standings, Upcoming Pueblo Tournaments and new chess video! Tim's videos got me to sign up for Youtube (even though I don't need yet another username to remember) and my son showed me how to upload my first chess related video (since I am pushing 40 and it is computer related): Chess For Girls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=430_7GLyEkM). Paul Anderson Colorado Springs Chess News Home - http://cs.chess.home.att.net/ Store - http://www.cafepress.com/cs_chess Group - http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/cs_chess/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Buchanan Subject: winter springs open standings Hi, guys. Here are the standings for the 2008 Winter Springs Open, which I directed Dec. 6-7 in Manitou Springs. Buck ************************************************************************************************ SwissSys Standings. WSO 08: June # Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot Prize 1 David Meliti 12600651 1886 W5 W7 W4 D3 3.5 2 DuWayne Langseth 11197175 1824 D8 D6 W10 W4 3.0 3 Mitch Anderson 12788878 1896 W10 H--- W7 D1 3.0 4 Jeff Baffo 10340195 1826 W6 W8 L1 L2 2.0 5 Joe Fromme 12532662 1696 L1 B--- D9 D7 2.0 6 Paul Anderson 12728345 1962 L4 D2 H--- W10 2.0 7 Markus Petters 12845198 2037 W9 L1 L3 D5 1.5 8 Paul Covington 12044640 1918 D2 L4 H--- U--- 1.0 9 Larry Wutt 12745430 1873 L7 D10 D5 U--- 1.0 10 Bill Weihmiller 12515063 1821 L3 D9 L2 L6 0.5 SwissSys Standings. WSO 08: July # Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot Prize 1 Cory Foster 12928613 1635 W13 W6 D3 W7 3.5 2 Stephen Kovach 12687854 1696 W8 W11 W9 D3 3.5 3 Dan Hoffacker 12229160 1699 W10 W5 D1 D2 3.0 4 Gerald Maier 12510521 1251 B--- L9 W11 W5 3.0 5 Robert Rountree 12937640 1452 W12 L3 W6 L4 2.0 6 Klaus Johnson 12728798 1774 W7 L1 L5 W9 2.0 7 Rhett Langseth 13392987 1472 L6 W14 W12 L1 2.0 8 Jiri Kovats 12475183 1459 L2 L12 W10 X11 2.0 9 Dan St. John 12621782 1588 H--- W4 L2 L6 1.5 10 Dean Brown 10224098 1461 L3 D13 L8 W14 1.5 11 Ken Dail 12623126 1628 W14 L2 L4 F8 1.0 12 Anthea Carson 12614322 1650 L5 W8 L7 U--- 1.0 13 Dan Kloepfer 12659438 1423 L1 D10 D14 U--- 1.0 14 Fred Eric Spell 12835115 1406 L11 L7 D13 L10 0.5 SwissSys Standings. 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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Dec 10 02:07:47 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:07:47 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Albert Alberts on my Chessville column Bronstein-Petrosian 1978 Message-ID: <1228900067.493f86e3bce26@www.taom.com> http://www.chessville.com/Wall/BronsteinPetrosian1978.htm My latest Off the Wall column for Chessville Bronstein-Petrosian 1978 lots of pretty quotes and pictures - originated from a comment by Mark Sherbring Are you the Chess Coach in California that ordered 10 copies of How To PLay Chess Like An Animal for your Chess students? 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URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081210/64d0d7f9/attachment.htm From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Wed Dec 10 13:55:08 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:55:08 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Silver medals, Fox Defense Message-ID: <1228942508.49402cacbdcc0@www.taom.com> Daniel Saint John took the silver 10 years ago wrestling in the Olympics. His wife was some martial arts superstar. They both trained and taught at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO. They have two lovely children now. You might think from Daniel's physique and cauliflower ears he was some kind of brute but he is actually brilliant, well versed in physics, mathematics and programming. Daniel also took the silver 5 years ago in a nasty parking lot brawl with Anthea Carson Martinez. Anthea and I later visited Daniel in his Castle Rock home and laughed about it. Tonight Daniel Saint John took the silver against the Fox Defense. After Anthea and I wrote the book How To Play Chess Like An Animal we started alternating between Chess and Animal Chess. When Anthea starts using a silly opening, I feel honor bound to follow suit. In the last year we have teamed up to play The Crab, The Lemming and now the Fox Defense in rated games. Being a Chessmaster in Colorado I am like an 800 pound gorilla and usually don't have to take much flack over my opening choices. They understand Anthea and I are bored with playing the same people year after grueling year. Anthea is a pretty woman who fluctuates between 1500 and 1800 so she is much more prone to enduring paternal advice about the folly of her ways. It started a week ago - Anthea told me she beat Gerald Maier with the Fox Defense Reversed at Poor Richard's Wednesday. Then she called me up frantically for Fox advice at the Manitou Springs Open last weekend. Anthea - How do I win with the Fox? Brian - Win!? The object of the Fox isn't to win. The object is to barely scrape out a draw and humiliate your opponent who couldn't crush such an absurd opening. Keep lines closed, curl up into a ball like an armadillo and pray. Anthea, insistent - But I want to WIN with the Fox! Brian - You can if they go hyper-aggressive on you and start throwing pieces freely at your King. That's the idea, to goad them to the point of madness. The Fox started when I was a 13 year old teenager at the Gates Rubber Company Chess Club at I-25 and Broadway, Denver, CO. A funny old Russian about my age now named Joe Mirsky loved the Fox and called it The Opening of the Future. Many very young Chessplayers like myself adopted it for blitz, simuls and occasionally rated games. I just wished Martin Deschner Happy Birthday on Facebook a few days ago. He was a big Fox Fan. So were Tom Barber, Curtis Carlsen, Mark Sherbring, and Tom Bourie. Tom Bourie just spent the night at my house 2 nights ago. The old Fox Defense Fan Club is still kicking 4 decades later. The Fox - 1 e4 f6 2 d4 Kf7 The Modifried Fox - so named By Robert Ascher or Curt Carlsen or Martin Deschner or some other Denver teen 40 years ago. 1 e4 f6 2 d4 Kf7 3 Nf3 g6 4 Nc3 Kg7 I had zero intention to play the Fox tonight but Anthea showed up. Daniel Saint John picked up our book and instead of saying - "Wow, Anthea, you did a great job coloring that Fox! " he made the mistake of saying - " Wow, what a dumb opening, who would ever play like that!?" Since Anthea was now playing the Fox exclusively and is generally more sensitive than butterfly antennae on a breezy, summer day she took umbrage at this - " Oh, yeah, play me or Brian in blitz and we'll show you how silly the Fox is!" Daniel and Anthea are usually equally matched in WWE ( World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ) aggression and USCF rating. I tried the Fox defense against Daniel in 5 minute blitz and the game very roughly went like this: Daniel Saint John/ Brian Wall blitz game - December 9, 2008 DCC Fox Defense Anthea watching Game/ 5 minutes 1.e4 f6 2.d4 Kf7 3.f4 e6 4.Nf3 d5 5.e5 c5 6.Bb5 Nc6 7.0-0 cxd4 8.b3 Bc5 9.Kh1 Nge7 10.Bb2 Nf5 11.Na3 h5 12.Be2 h4 13.Nb5 Bd7 14.Nbxd4 Ncxd4 15.Nxd4 Bxd4 16.exf6 Bb6 17.Bd3 Ng3+ 18.hxg3 hxg3+ 0-1 We played a few more blitz games and as fate would have it, I was paired in the rated Game/85 against the wrestler. Daniel plays aggressive Chess like the Arkhangelsk Variation of the Ruy Lopez against normal Chessplayers but against Masters he tends to clam up. Josh Bloomer and I have mused how incongruent it feels to have this muscular bruiser whose first move should be( " g1-Knight captures e8-King and dares you to do anything about it" ) playing slowly and cautiously against us. That's about as well as I can set this game up. Let's starting pushing some wood. [Event "Denver Chess Club Tuesday Night Tournament"] [Site "1st Presbyterian Church, Denver, CO 1st and Acoma"] [Date "2008.12.09"] [Round "2"] [White "Daniel Saint John"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "A00, Fox Defense"] [WhiteElo "1700"] [BlackElo "2200"] [Annotator "Brian, Fritz 9"] December 9, 2008 Denver Chess Club Cold night Snow on the ground First Presbyterian Church 1st and Acoma, Denver, CO Tuesday Night Tournament Round 2 Anthea bought us some byes for Round 1 I used a beautiful wood Chess set on a cheap plastic board. Game/85 minutes 5 second delay Fox Defense White - Daniel Saint John, world class wrestler and trainer now operating a software company, 1700+ Brian Wall, now lifting 15 pound weights to build muscle mass, 2200+ 1.c4 f6 can't let Anthea down 2.b3 Kf7 must promote the book 3.Bb2 e6 I could have blunted his Larsen Bishop with 3 ... e5 but didn't want loads of weak light squares near my King. His bishop discouraged me from the Modifried Fox with ... g6 and Kg7. 4.Nf3 d5 5.e3 c6 6.Be2 Bd6 I am curled up in a ball to protect my King and Daniel Saint John is curled up in a ball to protect himself from a Chessmaster. We are like two armadillos glaring at each other on opposite sides of the highway and daring each other to volunteer for road kill duty. Many guys go ballistic when they see the Fox Defense and start raining pieces on my head but Daniel had already been burned in blitz by my moves and Anthea's passionate defense. 7.cxd5 exd5! It's almost a dead even choice between freeing my QB and keeping an extra pawn near my King, bughouse style. 8.a3 I am playing the Larsen Opening/Najdorf, I don't care what you're playing. I'm closing my eyes so you can't seduce me into attacking. 8 ... Ne7 9.d4 Re8! I get to artificially castle with only a one tempo loss, quite an achievement in the Fox. 10.Bd3! Attacking h7 before my King gets there 10 ... Nd7!? Daring the wrestler to take it with 11 B:h7? g6! Mousetrap theme 11.Nc3 Nf8! Now I can defend h7 without creating pawn weaknesses 12.Ne2 My d6-bishop appears to discourage Daniel from castling. Off the board he is fearless. 12 ... Bf5! Masters don't like to trade much but I wanted to get rid of my bad bishop before Ng3 13.Ng3 Bxd3! 14.Qxd3! Qd7 Complementation which I mentioned in my very first Chess email from Wyoming 8 years ago. My Queen covers light squares to accent my dark squared bishop. I have what I call a micro-edge, a good bishop. I was calculating e4 almost every move and it finally arrived as a blunder 18 moves later. 15.Rc1 Still delaying castling. A queenside minority attack would be a normal plan for White but Daniel seemed to ignore that all game. 15 ... Kg8! My King is safe but now I have Anthea's problem. How do I WIN with the Fox? Danielle Rice have me a Chanukah present last night, Dvoretsky's incredible Analytical Manual, a collection of mind numbing ultra deep Chess positions analyzed in meticlous detail incorporating the notes of many GMs. You can get a taste at ChessCafe.com. One of Dvoretsky's themes was World Champion Emmanuel Lasker's amazing endurance, tenacity, energy and will to win. It helped me with my usual Denver frustration of how am I supposed to win this non-winning position with 16 to 1 rating odds. I spent a day in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass, USA with Dvoretsky 14 years ago. We went over my many composed opposite colored bishops endings. Mark was a specialist. He was staying at my friend Bill Kelleher's house writing his first book. At one point a woman at Au Bon Pain screamed and I rushed over there. I think a dog scared her. Dvoretsky observed like the Watcher in Fantastic Four. 16.0-0! Big 10 minute think here like a vampire agonizing if he should end the night of frivolity and crawl into his coffin and sleep. 16 ... Nfg6!! 14 minute think for me. I have a pawn structure/better bishop edge but how do I make it count? I was thinking ... Nf4 might discourage e4 and ... Nh4 trading the f3 knight might be useful 17.Rc2 I had formed a White plan - Ra1, Rfb1, Bc3, b4, a4, b5 17 ... f5 Fritz is like a loving German mother here, thinking her little Hans can do no wrong. Top choices - 17 ... Qe6,... a5, ... Qg4, ... B:g3, ... a6 and many others. My move is near the bottom of the good move list. I thought I had to try something to counter a possible minority attack. 18.Bc1 in the post-mortem Chris ( Quad Aces ) Peterson picked up the bishop like it was diseased and kept moving it back and forth like a pendulum between b2 and c1 with a disgusted look on his face. 18 ... f4 Near the bottom of the good move list again - Fritz 9 prefers 18 ... Qe6, ... a5, ... Rf8, ... b6, ... a6 I wanted to ignore the Queenside and pray Daniel would too. 19.Ne2? Worse than giving up his bishop after 19 ef N:f4 20 B:f4 B:f4. Chris reprised his disgusted post-mortem pendulum analysis by picking up the kight and moving it back and forth between e2 and g3 with a look that said - " What's wrong with these people? I would never do that! " A-players pick up tempo sensitivity before they become experts. 19 ... fxe3!! 20.fxe3! There's no good way to recapture here. I have a clear edge but can't find a winning plan. 20 B:e3 hangs the a-pawn and 20 Q:e3 weakens the d-pawn. 20 fe looks like I have the superior White side of a Tarrasch French after trading off his good bishop. Josh Bloomer and I studied those positions one fine afternoon. 20 ... Rf8 Fritz 9 only likes 20 ... Qf5! better here but Fritz didn't grow up watching Korchnoi defend Tarrasch French ending after Tarrasch French ending successfully against Karpov in a World Championshiop match. I was afraid it wouldn't be enough. 21.Nc3!! A nice move to help support e4 and lateral c2-rook movement Chris traced the lost 4 tempi of the knight - b1-c3-e2-g3-e2-c3 - in abstract horror. 21 ... Rae8 Again Fritz only prefers 21 ... ... Rf7 or ... Rf5!! which I was afraid would lead to rook trades on the f-file. The Swiss system is a well known cause of artificial Chess. 22.Rcf2!! Nice defensive move and seeming to abandon any aggressive Queenside plans. My plan of distracting Daniel's minority attack is working so far. 22 ... Qg4 Maybe I can create a pawn weakness after ... Qh5 pressuring h2. We both had 40 minutes left plus a 5 second delay. 23.Ne1? going for trades after a 10 minute think. Daniel would be OK after 23 e4! 23 ... Qh5 24.Rxf8+ Nxf8 For the umpteenth time I make an inferior move to avoid trades. 25.Nf3! Avoiding pawn weaknesses. Daniel Saint John is doing a good job so far of hanging with me on position and time. 25 ... Ne6!! The best way to deal with e4 with one knight controlling f4 and one knight controlling d5 26.g3? Maybe Daniel thought he was preparing e4 by controlling f4 but the immediate e4 was better. He is going to have to activate his QB sometime despite weakening his d-pawn 26 ... Bc7!! I thought for 10 minutes wondering what to do with my good position. It's hard just waiting around for e4. One thing I didn't like about my move is that I might wake the sleeping tiger on the Queenside with ideas of Na4-c5 or a4, b5. My idea is ... Nc8-d6 controlling everything 27.b4 Uh oh, he's awake. Fritz 9 and I keep urging Saint John to play e4! and free his pieces. 27 ... a6 To slow down b5 but now I'm playing his game. Other ideas - 27 ... Nf5!!, Bb6, ... Rf8, ... Qg4 The idea of 27 ... Nf5!! is ... Nh6-g4 Fishing Pole 28.Kg2! Shoring up the light squares and getting away from my bishop since Daniel can't bring himself to play 28 e4!! 28 ... Nc8 Look, I'll be honest here - we both had 20 minutes left, we're running out of time, I see no winning plan. Fritz 9 can micro-judge which move gives me greater mobility but all the moves and variations tend to blur together at this point. Fritz gives 21 moves with half a pawn's difference between them with 28 ... Qg4!! and ... Ng6!! at the top of the list. My move is consistent with 26 ... Bc7! 29.Ne2 Daniel's refusal to play 29 e4!! for the umpteenth time reminds me of a man who can't appreciate the true value of someone in his life so he ends up doing and saying everything wrong. When the basic premise is wrong ( e4 weakens my d-pawn ) all actions taken must be incorrect. 29 ... Nd6!! That felt good, one knight is finally on a coherent square 30.Nc3!! Despite Peterson's silent sneers about taking 7 moves to arrive at a square Daniel can reach in 1 this move is correct, fighting for e4 30 ... Ng5 The only better move is 30 ... Ne4!! 31 N:e4?? de 32 Q:e4 Nf4+!! winning the Queen. We were getting low on time so I kind of set Daniel up for what happened in the game. 31.Nxg5! Qxg5! 32.e4? Bad luck - when he finally braces himself for e4 it's a mistake. I couldn't decide if 32 e4? de! was better but it looked hard to win after 33 B:g5 ed 34 Bf4 so I used the cardinal rule of playing lower rated players and avoided trades yet again 32 ... Qg6!! Pinning and winning the e-pawn 33.Bf4!! dxe4! 34.Qe2! I am a pawn up but I see a lot of problems with A - Re1, B:d6 and something takes e4 B - d5 messing up my structure C - Qc4+ in some lines It seemed like a critical position so I spent 6 of my last 11 minutes to sort it out. When you have 5 minutes left everything is a critical position so you might as well move. Daniel has 14. I examined all the moves Fritz 9 likes better except 34 ... Bd8 - 34 ... Bb6!! to presure d4 ... e3!! I almost played a dozen times. Chris liked it too. ... h6 to avoid bank rank mate ... Re7 to unpin my knight ... Qe6 I almost played this too to prevent Qc4+ or d5 ... Bb8 to unpin my knight ... Bd8 to unpin my knight ... Nb5 forcing the issue is tempting in time pressure 34 ... Nb5 35.Qc4+!! I was hoping he wouldn't see the best line but the bastarrd ( try to pronounce with French accent ) was thinking on my time. Is that legal? 35 ... Kh8 yet another second best, avoidng trades moves. I didn't know if 35 ... Qe6 36 Q:e6+ R:e6 37 N:b5 B:f4 38 R:f4 ab 39 Kf2 was enough for me to win and I was afraid of annoying d5 ideas too 36.Bxc7! Nxc7! 37.Qf7!!! Darn it. Daniel looked nervous, 11 minutes to my 5. It took me another two to make the best move. I lost track of how many times Chris fell for 38 Qf8+!! in the postmortem. 37 ... Ne6!!! Avoiding Qf8+, pressuring d4 and at least if White trades Queens I have luft. 38.Qxg6! hxg6! Make luft, not war 39.Nxe4! Nxd4! My King isn't dying but he has asthma. This is one of those common Chess situations with no clear win and no clear draw. I tried to remember Yuri Shulman's words ( Our record is one draw in the Levy Memorial ) when he won the final game in the 2008 Olympiad to bring the bronze home to America - " I only had 2 minutes left to convert a rook ending so I just tried to totally focus on the position and forget everything else. " Go USA. 40.Ng5 Another way to entomb my King is 40 Nd6! Re7 41 Rf8+ Kh7 I might do better trying 40 Nd6 Re3 41 N:b7 R:a3 but my pawns are a mess 40 ... Kg8!! I might do better trying to wipe out his Queenside with 40 ... Nc2 I ran to the bathroom with 3 minutes left on my clock hoping to return to the cheapo 41 Rf7 Re5 42 h4 R:g5 Daniel has 7 minutes left. I might do better trying to wipe out his Queenside with 40 ... Nc2 I caught a lucky break here. Four!! cheap blue DCC pens didn't work so I was forced to focus. The rest is a rough re-creation of the game. The final position is correct. 41.Rd1!! Re5 42.Rxd4 42 h4!! hems in my King but I want to free myself with ... Rd5, ... Nc2 and ... Kf8 Chris and I both preferred 42 h4!! 42 ... Rxg5! 43.Rd7! Rb5! I am up a pawn but Saint John's King is free while mine is not. 44.Kf3 Now 44 ... a5 45 ba R:a5 46 R:b7 R:a3 is check which somehow encouraged Daniel to retreat and liberate my Monarch. 44 ... a5 45.Rd4 Kf7 Taking in air in big gulps 46.Ke4 Ke6 How did I get here? Hi guys. My idea is 47 Kd3 ab 48 ab Rd5 trading rooks for a win 47.h4 axb4!! 48.axb4! 48 R:b4 is a lost King and pawn ending - outside passed pawn 48 ... c5 Frits likes 48 ... g5 but I was hoping to assimilate his Kingside not trade it off. I made my last 20 moves with 48 seconds on my clock, living off the 5 second delay. I tried to emulate the Iceman, Tyler Hughes. 49.bxc5! Rxc5! 50.Rd8! getting behind my passed pawn. Daniel is fighting hard for the draw. It seemed doubtful I should win. My plan is to decoy Saint John with my b-pawn and eat his Kingside. 50 ... Rc4+ 51.Kf3 b5! 52.Ke3 This part of the game is very murky with no score sheet 52 ... b4 53.Rb8! Rc3+ 54.Kd2! Rc4 55.Kd3 Rg4! 56.Rb6+ Kd5! 57.Rb8 Rxg3+! I should be winning now 58.Kc2 b3+ There was a part of the game I am skipping with my King on c4, Move x ( Rc8+ Rc5 ) Move x + 1 ( Rb8 ) 59.Kb2! Ke5! Heading for h4-happiness. One idea is to trade all pawns except one g-pawn and then cut off his King with a move like ... Rd4 and then usher my g-pawn to coronation with my King. Many times I will play on too long without hope just to express my disgust to both players at losing this particular game. The way Daniel resigned showed he didn't think he deserved to lose this one. 60.Rb6 Kf5! 61.Rb5+ Kg4! 62.Rb7 Kxh4! Grabbing his h-pawn was not as easy as I am showing it here. My brother Jeff in college started complaining about the cafeteria food. When he got his buddies to agree with him he changed his tack and started praising the food. They agreed with him again. Then Jeff started complaining about the food again. I did something similar to Chris Peterson here - I kept switching sides trying to prove a win or draw. Colorado's only GM Mongolian Dashzeveg Sharavdorj came by to pick up his father Samdan at the club. I quickly asked him to appraise the ending. After fooling around with it for a minute and demonstrating some powerful ideas he declared it a win for me. My favorite part of analyzing endings with Sharavdorj is when he reaches a clearly winning position and other players keep moving the pieces, he doesn't say anything, he just cocks his head like a rooster and stares at you like you're insane. That is much more effective than proper English. That usually induces the ignorant offender to drop whatever is in his hand and stare at the floor in deep shame. 63.Rxg7! g5 64.Re7 Kh5 65.Re1 Rd3 66.Kb1 Rd8 67.Kb2 Rb8 68.Re7 g4 We reached something like this and Daniel kept playing because I have under a minute left. 69.Rh7+ Kg5! 70.Rg7+! Kf4! 71.Rf7+! Kg3! 72.Rg7! Kf3! Walking the dog 73.Rf7+! Kg2! 74.Rg7! g3! 75.Rg6! Kf2! 76.Rf6+! Kg1! 77.Rg6! g2! People think building a bridge is the only way to win the Lucena position but there are many ways. 78.Rf6 Rh8 79.Kxb3! Kh1! Daniel resigns, 0-1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Denver Chess Club Tuesday Night Tournament"] [Site "1st Presbyterian Church, Denver, CO 1st and Acoma"] [Date "2008.12.09"] [Round "2"] [White "Daniel Saint John"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "A00, Fox Defense"] [WhiteElo "1700"] [BlackElo "2200"] [Annotator "Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.c4 f6 2.b3 Kf7 3.Bb2 e6 4.Nf3 d5 5.e3 c6 6.Be2 Bd6 7.cxd5 exd5 8.a3 Ne7 9.d4 Re8 10.Bd3 Nd7 11.Nc3 Nf8 12.Ne2 Bf5 13.Ng3 Bxd3 14.Qxd3 Qd7 15.Rc1 Kg8 16.0-0 Nfg6 17.Rc2 f5 18.Bc1 f4 19.Ne2 fxe3 20.fxe3 Rf8 21.Nc3 Rae8 22.Rcf2 Qg4 23.Ne1 Qh5 24.Rxf8+ Nxf8 25.Nf3 Ne6 26.g3 Bc7 27.b4 a6 28.Kg2 Nc8 29.Ne2 Nd6 30.Nc3 Ng5 31.Nxg5 Qxg5 32.e4 Qg6 33.Bf4 dxe4 34.Qe2 Nb5 35.Qc4+ Kh8 36.Bxc7 Nxc7 37.Qf7 Ne6 38.Qxg6 hxg6 39.Nxe4 Nxd4 40.Ng5 Kg8 41.Rd1 Re5 42.Rxd4 Rxg5 43.Rd7 Rb5 44.Kf3 a5 45.Rd4 Kf7 46.Ke4 Ke6 47.h4 axb4 48.axb4 c5 49.bxc5 Rxc5 50.Rd8 Rc4+ 51.Kf3 b5 52.Ke3 b4 53.Rb8 Rc3+ 54.Kd2 Rc4 55.Kd3 Rg4 56.Rb6+ Kd5 57.Rb8 Rxg3+ 58.Kc2 b3+ 59.Kb2 Ke5 60.Rb6 Kf5 61.Rb5+ Kg4 62.Rb7 Kxh4 63.Rxg7 g5 64.Re7 Kh5 65.Re1 Rd3 66.Kb1 Rd8 67.Kb2 Rb8 68.Re7 g4 69.Rh7+ Kg5 70.Rg7+ Kf4 71.Rf7+ Kg3 72.Rg7 Kf3 73.Rf7+ Kg2 74.Rg7 g3 75.Rg6 Kf2 76.Rf6+ Kg1 77.Rg6 g2 78.Rf6 Rh8 79.Kxb3 Kh1 Daniel resigns, 0-1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------- - - insert Brian Wall - infomercial of your choice - - --------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Dec 11 07:30:19 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:30:19 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Albert Alberts, Dutch research chemist, on my Chessville column Bronstein-Petrosian 1978 Message-ID: <1229005819.494123fb07806@www.taom.com> Pleased to meet you Albert, I'd love to go to Holland some day. You can find tons of my Chessville.com type writing on www.Walverine.com or BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com. I sent you an invite. Brian Wall -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Albert Alberts ----- Forwarded message from Albert Alberts ----- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:45:15 +0100 From: Albert Alberts Reply-To: Albert Alberts Subject: RE: Albert Alberts on my Chessville column Bronstein-Petrosian 1978 To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com BRIAN WALL: NO I am alas not a chess coach in California. I am residing in Amsterdam The Netherlands, Active research chemist Un. of Amsterdam, and author of How To Fool Fritz, january 2007 How to Fool Fritz II.november 2008. Regards, Albert Alberts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Wall Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:07:47 -0700 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; alberthappyalberts at hotmail.com; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com; UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com; JuditPolgar at Yahoogroups.com; brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com Subject: Albert Alberts on my Chessville column Bronstein-Petrosian 1978 http://www.chessville.com/Wall/BronsteinPetrosian1978.htm My latest Off the Wall column for Chessville Bronstein-Petrosian 1978 lots of pretty quotes and pictures - originated from a comment by Mark Sherbring Are you the Chess Coach in California that ordered 10 copies of How To PLay Chess Like An Animal for your Chess students? Brian Wall ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Albert Alberts ----- Forwarded message from Albert Alberts ----- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:40:59 +0100 From: Albert Alberts Reply-To: Albert Alberts Subject: ChessvilleW column To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com NM Brian Wall: The column you wrote in Chessville Weekly about Bronstein-Petrosian -with the African Proverbs- was one of the most entertaining pieces of chess literature I ever read. Greetz, Albert H. Alberts, www.howtofoolfritz.com http://www.chessville.com/Wall/BronsteinPetrosian1978.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Wall Free Youtube Chess vidoes search TimmyBx Brian Wall Chess Sagacious00004 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081211/b837fb6a/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Dec 11 12:11:26 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:11:26 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Randy Reynolds still doubts the efficacy of the Fox defense Message-ID: <1229022686.494165debde85@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Randy Reynolds ----- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:10:30 -0000 From: Randy Reynolds Reply-To: Randy Reynolds Subject: Fox defense comment To: Brian Wall What timing! Last week, my son was leafing through our copy of "How to Play Chess Like an Animal" and asked me a question about the Fox Defense: "How is this good?" was his "St. John"-ish question. We talked a little bit about the weaknesses of playing like that and why it's generally not good. I wanted to find some more Brian material on the Fox defense, maybe a game, but all I could find was the story about the Russian guy that called it the opening of the future and the hyper-fox that somehow plays Kg6 for an extra slap in the face should you actually draw/win with it. It's nice to see an actual game we can play through, though I still stand by the fact that you win/draw with the Fox not BECAUSE of anything the opening does, but IN SPITE of it (superior middlegame tactics, whatever). The opening's still dreadfully bad and no matter how many times you beat Dan, the Fox will never lure you away from your Danish's, your Sicilians, and even your fishing poles.... From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Dec 11 15:14:29 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:14:29 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Chris Peterson adds Fox picture to Fox defense email Message-ID: <1229033669.494190c511cda@www.taom.com> http://brianwallchess.x10hosting.com/News/Emails/SilverMedalFoxDefense.htm new website From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Dec 12 21:32:22 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:32:22 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 20 million for Nano art Message-ID: <1229142742.49433ad607f80@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Ann Davies ----- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:22:25 -0700 From: Ann Davies Reply-To: Ann Davies Subject: Fw: Nano art To: Brian Wall UNBELIEVABLE. And very interesting. You may of already seen this guy on the world news.....he does sculptures in the eye of a sewing needle. http://www.guzer.com/videos/needle-art.php -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081212/2ff9e7c7/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Dec 13 00:49:20 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:49:20 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Chess Set designed to honor my namesake Irish King Brian Boru Message-ID: <1229154560.49436900daf65@www.taom.com> My Father named me after an Irish King Brian Boru. It would be awesome to own a Chess set dedicated to him. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.chessbaron.co.uk/chess-TH2044.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TH2044 Celtic Chess Set Heavy Weighted in Crushed Stone. King Size 4.25 inches This product from Chess Baron: The Celtics were inhabitants of Western Europe (Ireland, Wales, Brittany and the Highlands of Scotland). They were subjected to raids by Vikings and Norsemen and our chess set is the story of a battle between the Irish King Brian Boru, and the Viking invaders at Clontarf - Dublin. Though the Celts managed to defeat the Viking invaders, Boru was slain. This chess set features the principal characters involved in the battle and depicts Celtic designs and artefacts of the period. The chess set portrays many of the characteristics of the era with authentic and historically correct artefacts shown in splendid detail. The skill and workmanship of the Celtic tribes was demonstrated by their artistic and unique designs, recognised throughout the world and reproduced here in this magnificent chess set. Chess Baron Chess Sets: Because we know you care - we care. Buy Quality - Buy Chess Baron. Chess Board Picture TB2011 ...MORE... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.chessbaron.co.uk/chess-TH2044.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Sat Dec 13 10:43:07 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:43:07 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fox defense In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1229190187.4943f42b09623@www.taom.com> Quoting KnightMassey at aol.com: Someone asked about published fox games. Brad Lundstrom played it at the 1992 Warren Barter Appreciation open 1992. It was published in the Colorado chess informant Jan 1993 Vol xx no. 1. It was listed as the Jack Young defense however. Page 10 George Lombardi v Lundstrom From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Sat Dec 13 10:46:01 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:46:01 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Penguin Attack, Owen's defense Reversed - A powerful unorthodox idea in Nimzo-Larsen/Reti Message-ID: <1229190361.4943f4d9468f7@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Nikolay Kostov ----- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:46:05 -0000 From: Nikolay Kostov Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] A powerful unorthodox idea in Nimzo-Larsen/Reti To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com White's idea of playing an early Qe2 flowed by Rg1!? + g4, h4 etc. works surprisingly well for me and it might works well even at ... GM level as demonstrated by GM Conquest in the game below. In the considered game Black was able to caste long!? Imagine what could be happened in case of short castling! [Event "Hastings 9596"] [Site "Hastings ENG"] [Date "1996.??.??"] [Round "1"] [White "Conquest, Stuart"] [Black "Luther, Thomas"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A01"] [WhiteElo "2540"] [BlackElo "2535"] 1. b3 d5 2. e3 Nf6 3. Bb2 Bf5 4. Nf3 Nbd7 5. d3 h6 6. Nbd2 e6 7. Qe2 Bh7 8. Rg1 a5 9. a4 Bb4 10. g4 Qe7 11. h4 O-O-O 12. Nd4 Ne8 13. h5 Nd6 14. Bg2 c6 15. c3 Bc5 16. e4 dxe4 17. dxe4 e5 18. Nf5 Bxf5 19. gxf5 Qh4 20. Bf3 Nf6 21. Rh1 Qg5 22. Bc1 Nd7 23. Nc4 Qf6 24. Nxa5 Nxf5 25. Nxc6 bxc6 26. exf5 e4 27. Qa6+ Kb8 28. Bf4+ Bd6 29. Bxd6+ Qxd6 30. Be2 Nc5 31. Qb6+ Kc8 32. Rd1 Nd3+ 33. Kf1 Rd7 34. Rh4 Re8 35. Qa6+ Kb8 36. Bxd3 Qf6 37. Rf4 Qg5 38. Qb6+ Rb7 39. Qxc6 1-0 Best regards, Nick -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081213/28989a27/attachment.htm From fkimberry at aol.com Sat Dec 13 12:05:03 2008 From: fkimberry at aol.com (fkimberry at aol.com) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:05:03 -0500 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] [SPAM] 2 book reviews by IM John Donaldson In-Reply-To: <1229190361.4943f4d9468f7@www.taom.com> References: <1229190361.4943f4d9468f7@www.taom.com> Message-ID: <8CB2B6CD699FE1F-C5C-6A2@WEBMAIL-MY07.sysops.aol.com> St. Petersburg 1909 Republished in algebraic notation A year after St. Petersburg 1909 Emanuel Lasker published a?book in English on this famous event annotating?the 175 games played there. Recently a new edition?has appeared, the first time in algebraic notation. St. Petersburg 1909?(Russell Enterprises 2008, www.chesscafe.com?, 190 pages, paperback, figurine algebraic,?$19.95) differs from the original in the following ways:? it is in algebraic instead of?descriptive notation,?more diagrams (all new)?have been added, it features a two-page introduction by Tim Harding and an easier to use index of games. While it does reproduce the group photograph of the tournament participants it does not include ?the seven other photographs in the original - otherwise it is faithful to the first edition. ? A first edition? of St. Petersburg 1909?will set you back over $100 and the 1971 Dover reprint ( English Descriptive) has long been out of print, so Russell Enterprises has done the chess world a service in producing this new edition.? Play over the games and watch Lasker and Rubinstein run away from the field and generate interest in a match between them that was never to be. =================?? The Berlin Wall: The Variation That Brought Down Kasparov By: IM John Cox?????????? Book Review by:? IM John Donaldson The publishing house Quality Chess is aptly named and its latest offering, The Berlin Wall: The Variation That Brought Down Kasparov ( www.qualitychessbooks.com, 2008, figurine algebraic, 328 pages, pareback, $29.95) by IM John Cox will only add to its reputation. This is the first book?devoted entirely to the sequence 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Nxe4 5.d4 Nd6, the line Kramnik used to shut down Kasparov in their 2000 title match. Kramnik's success has spawned many imitators and?this book is chock full of examples of its successful use by GMs rated 2700. ? Due to the Berlin's emphasis on understanding rather than memorization the model game treatment works especially here. Cox offers the reader 65 well annotated games to explain this opening that?can be played for a lifetime once the fundamentals are mastered. To introduce the?Berlin the author uses over 1/3(!) of the book to explain the very basics,?typical endings and positional themes which are systemically examined. Cox writes?effectively and has a knack for clearly explaining things.??Chapters 4-9 cover the Berlin proper, Chapter 10?4.d3 and Chapter 11 other tries?- 4.Qe2 and more importantly 4.0-0 Nxe4 5.Re1 and 4.0-0 Nxe4 5.d4 Nd6 6.dxe5 Nxb5 7.a4. Cox, who is very objective in his evaluations, points out that while Black has no problems after 7.a4 Nbd4 8.Nxd4 Nxd4 9.Qxd4 d5 10.exd6 Qxd6 11.Qe4+ Qe6 12.Qd4 when 12...Qd6?is best and lead to a draw by repetition as?in Barrientos-Balogh, Dresden (olym)?2008, theoretically?it is?hard to avoid splitting the point without tak! ing on undue risk. To his credit?Cox does?offer some original suggestions on how to do so. This very small caveat aside the Berlin is that rare opening that can be played by players with a wide span of playing strength. 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URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081213/ef3fe55f/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Dec 14 01:10:48 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:10:48 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Lived it Message-ID: <1229242248.4944bf88b9840@www.taom.com> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfZK0k4yDbI Chess and Girls Short silent film released this year in the style of Buster Keaton movies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfZK0k4yDbI From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Dec 14 20:40:14 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:40:14 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Dennis Monokroussos: Garry Kasparov talks about Mikhail Tal and Soviet chess history Message-ID: <1229312414.4945d19e8dbb1@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Email subscription to blog articles ----- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:59:45 -0500 From: Email subscription to blog articles Reply-To: historicchess at comcast.net, chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Subject: [chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Garry Kasparov talks about Mikhail Tal and Soviet chess history To: chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Posted by Dennis Monokroussos: Garry Kasparov talks about Mikhail Tal and Soviet chess history http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1229309981.shtml [1]This is definitely worth your time. (A Stetson-sized hat tip to Brian Karen for this one.) References 1. http://www.chess.com/news/garry-kasparov-talks-about-mikhail-tal-and-soviet-chess-history-1340 _______________________________________________ chessmind mailing list chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chessmind From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Mon Dec 15 02:56:10 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:56:10 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 2008 US Grade Championships Message-ID: <1229334970.494629ba25eb2@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:35:15 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: 2008 US Grade Championships Hi All, The 2008 National Scholastic K-12 Grade Championships was held in Orlando, Florida over the past three days. And, Valley Chess was well represented in the events. Below is a list of notable players: In Grade 2, Winston Ching-Tze from California, who played recently at Valley Chess ? Paradise Valley, took first place on tiebreaks over Richard Qi (who got 3rd place). Both players finished 6-1. In Grade 4, four Valley Chess regulars did very well. Yash Pershad took 5th place with a score of 5 ? - 1 ?. Finishing with 5-2 scores were Cortez Schenck (15th place) and Kendrick Nguyen (29th place). While Rachel Eng scored 4-3 and placed 46th place. Zhang,Andy - Schenck,Cortez 2008 National K?12 Scholastic Chess Championships, Orlando, Florida (Round 5), 12/13/2008 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 g6 4.g3 Bg7 5.Bg2 e6 6.d3 Nge7 7.Be3 b6 8.Qd2 Bb7 9.Bh6 0?0 10.0?0 d5 11.Rfe1 d4 12.Ne2 Re8 13.Bxg7 Kxg7 14.Rad1 Qc7 15.c3 Rad8 16.cxd4 cxd4 17.Rc1 Qb8 18.Rc4 Ba6 19.Rc2 Bb7 20.Bh3 a5 21.e5 Nxe5 22.Nxe5 Qxe5 23.Nf4 Qb8 24.Bxe6 Nd5 25.Nxd5 Bxd5 26.Bxd5 Rxe1+ 27.Qxe1 Rxd5 28.Qe4 Qe5 29.Qxe5+ Rxe5 30.Kf1 h5 31.Rc6 Rb5 32.b3 Kh6 33.Rf6 Kg7 34.Rd6 Rb4 35.Ke2 Kh6 36.Rf6 Kg7 37.Rd6 Kf8 38.Kf3 Ke7 39.Rd5 Ke6 40.Ke4 f5+ 41.Kf4 Kxd5 42.Kg5 a4 0?1 In Grade 5, one of my students, Alec Andersen went undefeated and captured 11th place with a 5 ? - 1 ? score. In Grade 6, chess superstar David Adelberg won the blitz tourney and tied for second in the main event, while earning 6th place on tiebreaks. Luc Lalonde scored 5-2 which resulted in a 22nd place finish. And, my other chess student at the event, Nick Desmarais finished 82nd place with a score of 3 ? - 3 ?. Gabovich,Gregory - Adelberg,David 2008 National K?12 Scholastic Chess Championships, Orlando, Florida (Round 7), 12/14/2008 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c6 3.d4 d5 4.g3 a6 5.cxd5 cxd5 6.Bg2 Nc6 7.e3 e6 8.Nf3 Bd6 9.0?0 b5 10.a3 Bb7 11.Re1 0?0 12.Nd2 Qb6 13.f4 Rac8 14.Na2 Rc7 15.b4 Nxd4 16.Bb2 Nc2 17.Bd4 Nxd4 18.exd4 Qxd4+ 19.Kh1 Rfc8 20.Nb3 Qb2 21.Nac1 Qc2 22.Nd3 Qxd1 23.Raxd1 Nd7 24.Rc1 Rc3 25.Ndc5 Rxc1 26.Rxc1 Nxc5 27.bxc5 Be7 28.Na5 Ba8 29.c6 Bd8 30.c7 Rxc7 0?1 Desmarais, Nick - Blackmon, Madison [B07] 2008 National Scholastic Grade Championships, Orlando, Florida, Round 2, 12/13/2008 1.e4 e5 2.d4 d6 3.Bc4 d5 4.Bxd5 exd4 5.Qxd4 Nc6 6.Qd2 Bb4 7.Nc3 Nf6 8.Bxc6+ Nd7 9.Bxd7+ Bxd7 10.Qd4 c5 11.Qxg7 Bxc3+ 12.bxc3 Qe7 13.Qxh8+ Qf8 14.Qxf8+ Kxf8 15.Nf3 Bb5 16.Be3 b6 17.0?0?0 Be2 18.Rd7 Re8 19.Ng5 Kg8 20.Rxf7 a5 21.Rxh7 a4 22.a3 Rd8 23.Bd2 Bg4 24.Rh8+ Kxh8 25.Nf7+ Kg8 26.Nxd8 b5 27.Kb2 b4 28.cxb4 cxb4 29.Bxb4 Be2 30.h4 Kg7 31.f3 Kg6 32.g4 Bxf3 33.Rh2 Bxg4 34.Rg2 Kh5 35.Rxg4 Kxg4 36.c4 Kxh4 37.c5 Kg5 38.c6 Kf6 39.c7 Ke5 40.c8Q Kd4 41.Qc5+ 1?0 In Grade 7, two Valley Chess players were in the thick of things from the start of the event till the end. Peter Fenger finished 5th place and 2008 Valley Chess Co-Champion, Dipro Chakraborty finished right behind in 6th place. Both players had 5 ? points out of 7. In Grade 8, Eric Qi finished in 12th place with a score of 5-2. While Richard Ding got 18th place with a score of 4 ? - 2 ?. In Grade 9, one of the most active Valley Chess players ever, the wonderful Randel Eng tied for 3rd place and earned 8th place on tiebreaks. Bazak, Andrew C - Eng, Randel [B70] 2008 National K?12 Scholastic Chess Championships, Orlando, Florida (Round 3), 12/13/2008 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Bg5 Bg7 7.Bb5+ Bd7 8.Bxd7+ Qxd7 9.h3 Nc6 10.0?0 Nxe4 11.Nxc6 Nxc3 12.bxc3 Qxc6 13.Qe2 e6 14.Rab1 Bxc3 15.Rb3 Bg7 16.Rf3 0?0 17.Qd2 f6 18.Bf4 e5 19.Rc3 Qd7 20.Bg3 d5 21.f4 e4 22.f5 Rac8 23.Rxc8 Rxc8 24.fxg6 hxg6 25.Rd1 b6 26.a3 Bf8 27.Qe3 Bc5 28.Bf2 Bxe3 29.Bxe3 Rxc2 30.Bd4 Qa4 31.Bxf6 Rxg2+ 32.Kxg2 Qxd1 0?1 In Grade 10, Nick Thompson captured 3rd place and Kevin Zhang of Tuscon earned 4th place. Both had scores of 5-2. Gilbert High School captured first place team. John Williams went 4 ? - 2 ? to finish in 8th place. While another Valley Chess regular, John Gurczak took 16th place with a score of 4-3. Modlin,Trey - Gurczak,John [A29] 2008 National K?12 Scholastic Chess Championships, Orlando, Florida (Round 4), 12/13/2008 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 Bc5 5.Bg2 a6 6.0?0 0?0 7.Nxe5 Bxf2+ 8.Rxf2 Nxe5 9.d3 h6 10.Bf4 Ng6 11.Qd2 d6 12.e4 Rb8 13.Raf1 Ng4 14.Rf3 N6e5 15.Bxe5 Nxe5 16.Rf4 b5 17.cxb5 axb5 18.d4 Ng6 19.R4f2 Be6 20.d5 Bd7 21.Ne2 Ne5 22.Nd4 c5 23.Ne6 Bxe6 24.dxe6 f6 25.Bh3 Qe7 26.Qd1 Kh8 27.Qh5 Kh7 28.Rf4 g6 29.Qe2 Nc6 30.Qf2 Kg7 31.Rd1 Nd4 32.b4 g5 33.Rxd4 cxd4 34.Rf3 h5 35.Bf5 Rfc8 36.Qxd4 Rc4 37.Qf2 Rbc8 38.Qb6 Rxb4 39.Ra3 Ra4 40.Rf3 Rxa2 41.Rf2 Rxf2 42.Kxf2 Rc5 43.Qb8 Qc7 44.Qe8 Rc2+ 45.Kg1 Qa7+ 0?1 Congratulations to all!! A great showing was had by all our players. Thanks, Joel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Move Raph Gnnight ---- --------------------- --------------------- 1. e4 (0:00.000) e5 (0:00.000) 2. Nf3 (0:01.001) Nc6 (0:03.657) 3. Bb5 (0:01.279) Nf6 (0:00.719) 4. O-O (0:05.049) Ng4 (0:00.906) 5. d3 (0:02.777) Bc5 (0:01.781) 6. a3 (0:05.513) a6 (0:02.047) 7. Ba4 (0:01.704) Ba7 (0:01.969) 8. h3 (0:02.347) h5 (0:01.578) 9. hxg4 (0:03.531) hxg4 (0:02.094) 10. Ng5 (0:10.570) d6 (0:05.672) 11. Nc3 (0:07.242) Qf6 (0:04.360) 12. Nd5 (0:12.509) Qh6 (0:01.813) 13. Nh3 (0:02.501) gxh3 (0:02.766) 14. Bxh6 (0:01.972) Rxh6 (0:04.531) 15. g3 (0:03.388) Rg6 (0:07.391) 16. Nxc7+ (0:01.991) Kd8 (0:01.266) 17. Nxa8 (0:01.084) Rxg3+ (0:02.109) 18. Kh2 (0:01.035) Rg2+ (0:02.266) 19. Kh1 (0:03.424) Bg4 (0:04.625) 20. Qd2 (0:19.230) Bf3 (0:03.922) 21. Qe3 (0:01.738) Bxe3 (0:14.703) 22. fxe3 (0:02.932) Rxc2+ (0:04.266) 23. Rxf3 (0:02.562) {Black resigns} 1-0 Dan Tanner _________________________________________________________________ Brian Wall Dan Tanner, Gnight,h2oh234 at hotmail.com, 1526 is Black in the Fishing Pole White = Raph - 1723 December 8, 2008 Game/5 minutes 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Ng4!! Jack Young's Fishing Pole 5.d3 Bc5!! An integral part of the Fishing Pole package 6.a3 White never tires of finding new ways to lose 6 ... a6 The signature move of the Hyper-Pole, preparing a feathered nest on a7 7.Ba4 Ba7 The purpose of the Hyper-Pole is to provide better protection to the a7-Peekaboo Bishop and allow the defensive ... b5 if the Ruy Lopez pin gets too hot. Larry Christiansen said that the one thing that stood out from his one analysis session with Bobby Fischer was that Bobby was a big fan of breaking pins as soon as possible. 8.h3 h5!! The signature Fishing Pole smackdown move 9.hxg4?? " Unleashing the Gates of Hell " - Denver Open Champion Vance Aandahl 9 ... hxg4!! 10.Ng5! d6? My Chessmaster certificate is dated August 19, 1981 but I more often than not mess up the tactics. In this situation Black normally has to evaluate the different strengths of A - 10 ... g3!! winning the exchange on f2 but losing the Peekaboo B - 10 ... f6! winning back the piece on g5 C - 10 ... f5 trying to sneak in .. f4 and ... Qh4 D - 10 ... d6 guarding the g4-bone The right answer depends on the specifics of the position. I've put in 7 years and it's still tough. The good news is that The Fishing Pole gods are very forgiving. They realize the Fishing Pole is a noble jihadic suicide mission and forgetting to tighten the bomb strapped to your back isn't what counts in Allah's eyes - God is proud that you are willing to die for a cause greater than yourself. 11.Nc3?? Black's errors are quarks compared to the mass discomfort and confusion of the White pieces. 11 ... Qf6? Wrong but definitely in the correct, crazy, contagious, courageous Fishing Pole spirit. 11 .... f6!! or ... g3! would get Dan back on the horse 12.Nd5! Qh6 Going for checkmate like a true Fishing Poler 13.Nh3?? 13 N:c7+ Kd7 14 Nh3!! or 13 B:c6+ bc 14 N:c7+ Kd7 15 Nh3!! should win for White but the gentle Fishing Pole gods allow Dan a reprieve now with 13 Nh3?? Qg6!! 14 Ng5! Qh5!! 15 Nh3 Kd7!! and Dan has the better chances in all lines now. 13 ... gxh3?!? Over the top, even for me, throwing his Queen away for almost nothing and yet the Fishing Pole gods STILL forgive him. 14.Bxh6! Rxh6 15.g3? The Fishing Pole mystique - nothing wrong with grabbing a free rook 15 ... Rg6 The Fishing Pole addicition is akin to the mad, drooling aggression of rabies. Dan thinks only of checkmate and ignores all the helicopter rifle shots from above. 16.Nxc7+! Kd8 17.Nxa8! Rxg3+! I hope this check works out for Dan, he gave up a Queen and Rook for it 18.Kh2 Rg2+! 19.Kh1! Bg4 20.Qd2?? Bf3!! 21.Qe3?? Unbelievable - after shucking massive amounts of material Dan still has a draw. Only 21 Qd1!! won, the last move a 1700 would consider 21 ... Bxe3!! 22.fxe3!! 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Rf2+!!!= or ... Nd4!!!!!= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 23.Rxf3 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Tanner, Gnight, 1526 is Black in the Fishing Pole White = Raph - 1723 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Ng4 5.d3 Bc5 6.a3 a6 7.Ba4 Ba7 8.h3 h5 9.hxg4 hxg4 10.Ng5 d6 11.Nc3 Qf6 12.Nd5 Qh6 13.Nh3 gxh3 14.Bxh6 Rxh6 15.g3 Rg6 16.Nxc7+ Kd8 17.Nxa8 Rxg3+ 18.Kh2 Rg2+ 19.Kh1 Bg4 20.Qd2 Bf3 21.Qe3 Bxe3 22.fxe3 Rxc2+ 23.Rxf3 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stay tuned for the latest Youtube Chess video from Chris Peterson and I - Fishing Pole, First Blood, now in its final editing stages --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081215/0289ee48/attachment.htm From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Mon Dec 15 12:28:38 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:28:38 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Arizona, USA Valley Chess Invitationals - with schedule info by Joel Johnson Message-ID: <1229369318.4946afe6c6094@www.taom.com> How much? - Brian ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:21:44 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: Valley Chess Invitationals - with schedule info Valley Chess Invitationals #001) Saturday, December 20, 2008 #002) Sunday, December 21, 2008 5-SS, G/60, Check In: 8:45 am, Rounds: 9-11-2-4-6 (worse case) With only a small number of games, I am fully expecting that we will be able to start rounds much earlier than this. I will start rounds as early as is possible, five minutes after the last game has ended, with a guaranteed hour break for lunch between rounds 2 and 3. Invitation process: Automatic IN: Organizer: Joel Johnson Site #1 Host: Randel Eng Site #2 Host: Joshua Zhu All entries are NON-REFUNDABLE. Once you have PAID, your spot is being reserved for you. If you decide later that you cannot play or you do not show, the house player will play in your place and your entry will remain in the prize fund. I will NOT reserve a spot for anyone that has not paid. Once we have the maximum of 12 paid entries, the tournament will be closed. Invitations: priority given to Valley Chess regulars and players that Joshua Zhu has not played. If you were not invited, this is why. Joel Johnson 1106 W. Bell Road #2023 Phoenix, AZ 85023 Any questions? Email Joel Johnson at bigbear12 at hotmail.com Sites: #001) Saturday, December 20, 2008 Raymond Eng home 4811 E. Daley Lane (near Rt. 101 & Desert Ridge Mall) Phoenix, AZ 85054 480-629-8698 gewgaw at cox.net #002) Sunday, December 21, 2008 Yuanqing Zhu home 1104 W. Mesquite Street (near Cooper Road and Elliot Road) Gilbert, AZ 85233 480-522-0562 yuanqing at maxim-ic.com _________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081215/e2199b6c/attachment.htm From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Mon Dec 15 14:23:06 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:23:06 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Topalov-Svidler 1-0 Hot off the Press China December 15, 2008 Message-ID: <1229376186.4946cabaeeb2f@www.taom.com> Topalov stuck a rook in Svidler's face but taking it was a big mistake. Topalov,V (2791) - Svidler,P (2727) [D86] Pearl Spring Nanjing CHN (5), 15.12.2008 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bc4 c5 8.Ne2 Nc6 9.Be3 0-0 10.0-0 Bd7 11.Rb1 Qc7 12.Bd3 Rfd8 played 6 times before by heavyweights like Sutovsky, Tomczak and Timofeev 13.h3 TN Theoretical Novelty by Topalov 13 f4 played once 13 Qb3 never tried 13 Bf4 tried once 13 a3 never tried 13 Qc2 never tried 13 Re1 never tried 13 Qd2 tried twice 13 Kh1 never tried 13 f3 never tried 13 h3 never tried before today 13 Rb2 never tried 13 Qc1 played once 13 a4 never tried 13 d5 played once 13 ... Be8 reasonable, unleashing the d8-rook 14.d5 a concession 14 ... Ne5! occupying the fresh wound 15.c4 Go ahead, take my worthless bishop 15 ... e6 Chipping away at the center 16.Nf4 One of several good ways to pressure the center, more sophisticated than the primitive 16 f4!! N:d3 17 Q:d3 and 18 Nc3 16 ... Rab8 A reasonable move in a reasonable position - nothing to suggest a route yet 17.Be2 Avoiding trades since everyone is lower rated than Topalov. One of several moves conferring a slight advantage. 17 ... Rd6 17 ... Nc6! heading for d4 is another good move 18.Qc2 Maintaining the tension - releasing it with 18 Nd3 N:c4 19 B:c5 Rdd8 20 Qc1 was also OK 18 ... Ra6! The rook is not staring idly at the d5-bulwark anymore 19.Rb5 in your face, a completely sound exchange sac 19 ... Bf8!! Taking the rook unleashes the bishops - Topalov is world famous for his aggressive exchange sacs as opposed to Petrosian's more defensive exchange sacs. 20.a4 another in your face move - my rook is not leaving! 20 ... Bxb5?? No Petar, bad. You are fine as long as you make your unwelcome guest comfortable with 20 ... Rc8!!, ... h6, ... Kh8, ... Qc8, ... Be7 You get the idea? 21.cxb5!! Now it becomes nightmarish as the a6-rook and the c5-a7 pawns start feeling the squeeze 21 ... Rd6! 22.Qc3 More sophisticated than the immediate 22 Q:c5!! or de! 23 ... Bg7! 23.Qxc5! a7 will fall and then only the b7-pawn slows down the Queenside armada 23 ... Rc8 24.Qxa7!! It's starting to get ugly 24 ... b6 25.Qxc7! Rxc7! 26.Rd1! Bf6? It's totally over after this 27.dxe6!! Time to cash in 27 ... Rxd1+! 28.Bxd1! fxe6 29.Bb3!! Three pawns for the exchange plus the two bishops plus the World's Highest FIDE rating is too much for the 4 times Russian Champion Svidler to fight against. 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topalov,V (2791) - Svidler,P (2727) [D86] Pearl Spring Nanjing CHN (5), 15.12.2008 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bc4 c5 8.Ne2 Nc6 9.Be3 0-0 10.0-0 Bd7 11.Rb1 Qc7 12.Bd3 Rfd8 13.h3 Be8 14.d5 Ne5 15.c4 e6 16.Nf4 Rab8 17.Be2 Rd6 18.Qc2 Ra6 19.Rb5 Bf8 20.a4 Bxb5 21.cxb5 Rd6 22.Qc3 Bg7 23.Qxc5 Rc8 24.Qxa7 b6 25.Qxc7 Rxc7 26.Rd1 Bf6 27.dxe6 Rxd1+ 28.Bxd1 fxe6 29.Bb3 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Mon Dec 15 18:16:08 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:16:08 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fishing Pole: First Blood Brian Wall's latest Youtube video Browne-Baltier 2007 Message-ID: <1229390168.49470158b0433@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Chris Peterson ----- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:04:29 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Peterson Reply-To: garrensilverwing at yahoo.com Subject: Fishing Pole: First Blood To: Brian Wall its live ? part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exGSXjvKej0 ? part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgqVkqrNH_4 Brian Wall and Chris Peterson explain how Francisco Baltier, 1500, beat 6 time US Champion Walter Browne, 2500 with Jack Young's Fishing Pole -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com; UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com; JuditPolgar at Yahoogroups.com; brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.comFrom: BrianWallChess3 at Taom.comDate: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:16:08 -0700Subject: [BrianWallChess] Fishing Pole: First Blood Brian Wall's latest Youtube video Browne-Baltier 2007 ----- Forwarded message from Chris Peterson -----Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:04:29 -0800 (PST)From: Chris Peterson Reply-To: garrensilverwing at yahoo.comSubject: Fishing Pole: First BloodTo: Brian Wall its live part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exGSXjvKej0 part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgqVkqrNH_4Brian Wall and Chris Peterson explain how Francisco Baltier, 1500, beat 6 timeUS Champion Walter Browne, 2500 with Jack Young's Fishing Pole__._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar MARKETPLACE >From kitchen basics to easy recipes - join the Group from Kraft Foods Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! 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I will start commenting more when my rating is a bit more respectable. ? Jimmy Hersh --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- On Tue, 12/16/08, Brian Wall wrote: From: Brian Wall Subject: [BrianWallChess] Fishing Pole: First Blood Brian Wall's latest Youtube video Browne-Baltier 2007 To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com, UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com, JuditPolgar at Yahoogroups.com, "Brian Wall Chesslist" Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 1:16 AM ----- Forwarded message from Chris Peterson ----- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:04:29 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Peterson Reply-To: garrensilverwing@ yahoo.com Subject: Fishing Pole: First Blood To: Brian Wall its live ? part 1: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=exGSXjvKej0 ? part 2: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=RgqVkqrNH_ 4 Brian Wall and Chris Peterson explain how Francisco Baltier, 1500, beat 6 time US Champion Walter Browne, 2500 with Jack Young's Fishing Pole__._,_.___ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081215/c98d874c/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Dec 15 23:27:16 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:27:16 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Chessville, Clyde Nakamura, The Elephant Gambit and Brian Wall Message-ID: <1229408836.49474a44c7084@www.taom.com> Chessville, Clyde Nakamura, The Elephant Gambit and Brian Wall all converged when Clyde wrote a nice article on Elephant Gambit miniatures in this week's www.Chessville.com email Chessmagazine. Clyde analyzed Buchanan - Wall better than I did in How To Play Chess Like An Animal. ( I at least provided nice elephant cartoons by Linn Trochim ) Clyde has other articles in the Chessville archives, as do I. ( Off the Wall column ) I still regret that I forgot to put a Clyde Nakamura quote in my book. I intended to but once something goes to the publisher and gets an ISBN number, it's hard to change. Clyde mentions an impressive, massive list of further Elephant Gambit resources at the end. Brian Wall -------------------------------------------------------------- Notes by Clyde Nakamura from his Chessville article on The Elephant Gambit Buck Buchanan (2001)-Brian Wall (2201) CSCC Game/12 with 2 sec delay 3/3/04 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d5 3. exd5 Bd6 4. Nc3 f5? { Nakamura: not sure why Deep Shredder marked this as questionable. In fact I believe that this is the best move in the position.} (4... Nf6 5. Bb5+ c6 6. dxc6 bxc6 7. Be2 +/-) 5. d3 ({better is} 5. d4!? e4 6. Ng5 +-) 5... Nf6 +/- 6. Bg5 O-O 7. Be2 Qe8 8. Bxf6 Rxf6 9. O-O e4 10. dxe4 fxe4 11. Nd4 (11. Bb5 Qg6 12. Nh4 Qh6 +/-) 11... Rh6 ({better is} 11...Qe5 12. g3 Bh3 =/+) 12. h3?? {throwing away the advantage} ({better is} 12. g3 Bh3 13. Bb5 +/-) 12... Bxh3 -+ 13. gxh3 Qe5 ({better is} 13... Rxh3!? 14. Re1 Qe5-+) 14. f4 =/+ exf3 {Black has a mate threat} 15. Nxf3?? ({better is} 15. Rxf3 {this is the best bet to save the position} Rg6+ 16. Kf1 =/+) 15... Qg3+ 16. Kh1 Rxh3+ 17. Nh2 Rxh2# 0-1 Notes by Clyde Nakamura reprinted without permission From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Dec 15 23:31:07 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:31:07 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Second Reaction to Fishing Pole: First Blood from Tim Brennan Message-ID: <1229409067.49474b2b36147@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Chris Peterson ----- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:02:31 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Peterson Reply-To: garrensilverwing at yahoo.com Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] First Reaction to Fishing Pole: First Blood from Jimmy Hersh To: Brian Wall TimmyBx at Aol.com has made a comment on Fishing Pole: First Blood pt 2: To say these fishing pole videos are merely brilliant would be the chess understatement of the century!! These were the best chess *anything* I have ever seen!! BRAVO guys!! Just called Francisco and told him to run not walk and get his butt online to watch these!! Outstanding job!!!! NOTHING IS OVER!! NOTHING!!!! TimmyBx at Aol.com You can reply to this comment by visiting the comments page. --- On Mon, 12/15/08, Brian Wall wrote: From: Brian Wall Subject: [BrianWallChess] First Reaction to Fishing Pole: First Blood from Jimmy Hersh To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com, UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com, brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com Date: Monday, December 15, 2008, 8:27 PM I don't need your analysis - I just need your emotions. Brian Wall ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - Jimmy Hersh ----- Forwarded message from Jimmy Hersh ----- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:15:10 -0800 (PST) From: Jimmy Hersh Reply-To: jimmyhersh at yahoo. com Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Fishing Pole: First Blood Brian Wall's latest Youtube video Browne-Baltier 2007 To: Brian Wall Brian, ? I just want to thank you for that AWESOME piece. That was beyond cool! I have been playing this from just casual observations and have increased about 500 pts online. Anyway thanks!! I will start commenting more when my rating is a bit more respectable. ? Jimmy Hersh ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - --- On Tue, 12/16/08, Brian Wall wrote: From: Brian Wall Subject: [BrianWallChess] Fishing Pole: First Blood Brian Wall's latest Youtube video Browne-Baltier 2007 To: BrianWallChess@ Yahoogroups. com, Chess_Improvement@ Yahoogroups. com, UnorthodoxChessOpen ings at Yahoogroups .com, JuditPolgar@ Yahoogroups. com, "Brian Wall Chesslist" Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 1:16 AM ----- Forwarded message from Chris Peterson ----- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:04:29 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Peterson Reply-To: garrensilverwing@ yahoo.com Subject: Fishing Pole: First Blood To: Brian Wall its live ? part 1: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=exGSXjvKej0 ? part 2: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=RgqVkqrNH_ 4 Brian Wall and Chris Peterson explain how Francisco Baltier, 1500, beat 6 time US Champion Walter Browne, 2500 with Jack Young's Fishing Pole -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081215/b3c264df/attachment.htm From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Tue Dec 16 00:35:19 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:35:19 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Third Reaction to Fishing Pole: First Blood from Curt Carlsen In-Reply-To: References: <1229409067.49474b2b36147@www.taom.com> Message-ID: <1229412919.49475a37dbc08@www.taom.com> Brian Wall That is truly pyschic, Curt. It pays to have old friends around who understand me. First of all, I actually intended to make the O' Donnell - Wall game Youtube video when I walked into Chris Peterson's apartment Sunday night and told him so. Chris reminded me that we had watched the entire Rambo movie the last time I was there in preparation for the Browne-Baltier game. After I did my bit, Chris said he was having some editing difficulties. " I don't care how long you take as long as you create the best Chess video ever made. That's all I'm asking " - Brian I think Chris succeeded. Secondly, Bob O' Donnell of Michigan must have been visiting his family last month in Boulder, CO because he won a Chess tournament there. I was real sorry I missed it when I saw the scoretable. I did run into Bob at some non-Colorado tournament several years ago. I also rode a Denver bus his brother drove 10 years ago. The O'Donnell - Wall game is featured in Java script on my new website. http://brianwallchess.x10hosting.com/Games/Games.htm new website --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Event Summary Event 2008 BOULDER FALL CLASSIC (200811093821) Location BOULDER, CO 80305 Event Date(s) 2008-11-08 thru 2008-11-09 Sponsoring Affiliate BOULDER CHESS CLUB (A6009453) Chief TD KLAUS R JOHNSON (12728798) Processed Received: 2008-11-11 Entered: 2008-11-11 Rated: 2008-11-11 Stats 3 Section(s), 33 Players Show ALL Sections Section 1 OPEN Section 2 RESERVE Section 3 SECTION 3 Section 1 - OPEN Section Date(s) 2008-11-08 thru 2008-11-09 Processed Received: 2008-11-11 Entered: 2008-11-11 Rated: 2008-11-11 Re-Rated: 2008-11-25 Stats 5 Rounds, 27 Players; K Factor: F Rating Sys: R Tnmt Type: S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pair | Player Name |Total|Round|Round|Round|Round|Round| Num | USCF ID / Rtg (Pre->Post) | Pts | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ROBERT E O'DONNELL |4.5 |W 18|W 8|W 4|D 2|W 6| MI | 10409233 / R: 2113 ->2123 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 | MITESH SHRIDHAR |4.0 |W 12|W 3|W 6|D 1|D 4| CO | 12720455 / R: 2058 ->2065 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 | JULIAN S EVANS |4.0 |W 20|L 2|W 19|W 17|W 7| MD | 12895237 / R: 1635 ->1685 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 | MARKUS D PETTERS |3.5 |W 19|W 9|L 1|W 14|D 2| CO | 12845198 / R: 2037 ->2035 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 | KENNETH P W DOYKOS |3.5 |D 17|W 16|W 10|H |H | CO | 10358086 / R: 1833 ->1829 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 | JEFFREY BAFFO |3.0 |W 21|W 11|L 2|W 9|L 1| CO | 10340195 / R: 1826 ->1829 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 | TED K DOYKOS |3.0 |W 13|D 10|D 17|W 11|L 3| CO | 12724380 / R: 1760 ->1740 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 | JACKSON CHEN |3.0 |W 25|L 1|D 15|W 16|H | CO | 13383565 / R: 1745 ->1738 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 | CORY EDWARD FOSTER |3.0 |W 22|L 4|W 24|L 6|W 20| CO | 12928613 / R: 1635 ->1636 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 | DEREK AUSTIN FISH |3.0 |W 23|D 7|L 5|W 15|D 13| CO | 13999820 / R: 1554P10->1577P15 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 | LEE LAHTI |3.0 |W 26|L 6|W 20|L 7|W 17| CO | 12914550 / R: 1550 ->1555 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 | DEAN W BROWN |3.0 |L 2|L 20|W 25|W 24|W 21| CO | 10224098 / R: 1461 ->1467 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 | RYAN DAVID SWERDLIN |3.0 |L 7|D 23|W 22|W 18|D 10| CO | 13878522 / R: 1436 ->1443 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 | ROBERT P COCHRAN |2.5 |W 24|W 15|H |L 4|U | CA | 12466730 / R: 1748 ->1751 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 | BRENDON CHARLES BARELA |2.5 |W 27|L 14|D 8|L 10|W 22| CO | 13984660 / R: 1472P23->1468 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 | JERRY KEKER |2.5 |H |L 5|W 27|L 8|W 23| CO | 12549399 / R: 1412 ->1407 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 | ALAN AUGUST |2.0 |D 5|W 18|D 7|L 3|L 11| CO | 20002496 / R: 1376 ->1430 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 | CHAITANYA NEUHAUS |2.0 |L 1|L 17|W 23|L 13|W 24| CO | 12611637 / R: 1435 ->1416 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19 | DAN T KLOEPFER |2.0 |L 4|W 25|L 3|L 20|W 26| CO | 12659438 / R: 1423 ->1403 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 | FRANK PATRICK RILEY |2.0 |L 3|W 12|L 11|W 19|L 9| CO | 12914295 / R: 1269 ->1338 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21 | EIRIK OGILVIE |2.0 |L 6|D 22|H |W 27|L 12| CO | 12922560 / R: 1360 ->1332 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 | ARTEM TIMOFEEVICH BOLSHAKOV |1.5 |L 9|D 21|L 13|W 26|L 15| CO | 13002978 / R: 1046 ->1060 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23 | KATHY A SCHNEIDER |1.5 |L 10|D 13|L 18|W 25|L 16| CO | 12545281 / R: 894 -> 997 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 | ANATOLY S MAKAREVICH |1.0 |L 14|W 26|L 9|L 12|L 18| CO | 13636173 / R: 1402 ->1361 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25 | DENNIS TIMOFEEVICH BOLSHAKOV |1.0 |L 8|L 19|L 12|L 23|W 27| CO | 13035517 / R: 1280 ->1224 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26 | GINNY GAIGE |1.0 |L 11|L 24|B |L 22|L 19| CO | 13750064 / R: 784 -> 770 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 | VICTOR JOSEPH CREAZZI |1.0 |L 15|B |L 16|L 21|L 25| CO | 13956247 / R: 607P10-> 603P14 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Wall ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quoting Curt Carlson : Awesome video! You should make one of your game with O'Donnell from 1977, or whenever it was. Just don't make any of mine! Curt Carlson : ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Wall To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com ; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com ; UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com ; Brian Wall Chesslist Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 10:31 PM Subject: [BrianWallChess] Second Reaction to Fishing Pole: First Blood from Tim Brennan ----- Forwarded message from Chris Peterson ----- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:02:31 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Peterson Reply-To: garrensilverwing at yahoo.com Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] First Reaction to Fishing Pole: First Blood from Jimmy Hersh To: Brian Wall TimmyBx at Aol.com has made a comment on Fishing Pole: First Blood pt 2: To say these fishing pole videos are merely brilliant would be the chess understatement of the century!! These were the best chess *anything* I have ever seen!! BRAVO guys!! Just called Francisco and told him to run not walk and get his butt online to watch these!! Outstanding job!!!! NOTHING IS OVER!! NOTHING!!!! TimmyBx at Aol.com You can reply to this comment by visiting the comments page. --- On Mon, 12/15/08, Brian Wall wrote: From: Brian Wall Subject: [BrianWallChess] First Reaction to Fishing Pole: First Blood from Jimmy Hersh To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com, UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com, brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com Date: Monday, December 15, 2008, 8:27 PM I don't need your analysis - I just need your emotions. Brian Wall ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - Jimmy Hersh ----- Forwarded message from Jimmy Hersh ----- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:15:10 -0800 (PST) From: Jimmy Hersh Reply-To: jimmyhersh at yahoo. com Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Fishing Pole: First Blood Brian Wall's latest Youtube video Browne-Baltier 2007 To: Brian Wall Brian, I just want to thank you for that AWESOME piece. That was beyond cool! I have been playing this from just casual observations and have increased about 500 pts online. Anyway thanks!! I will start commenting more when my rating is a bit more respectable. Jimmy Hersh ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - --- On Tue, 12/16/08, Brian Wall wrote: From: Brian Wall Subject: [BrianWallChess] Fishing Pole: First Blood Brian Wall's latest Youtube video Browne-Baltier 2007 To: BrianWallChess@ Yahoogroups. com, Chess_Improvement@ Yahoogroups. com, UnorthodoxChessOpen ings at Yahoogroups .com, JuditPolgar@ Yahoogroups. com, "Brian Wall Chesslist" Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 1:16 AM ----- Forwarded message from Chris Peterson ----- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:04:29 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Peterson Reply-To: garrensilverwing@ yahoo.com Subject: Fishing Pole: First Blood To: Brian Wall its live part 1: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=exGSXjvKej0 part 2: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=RgqVkqrNH_ 4 Brian Wall and Chris Peterson explain how Francisco Baltier, 1500, beat 6 time US Champion Walter Browne, 2500 with Jack Young's Fishing Pole From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Tue Dec 16 09:47:34 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:47:34 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Any thoughts on this Basman/Sale/Paulsen Sicilian hybrid? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1229446054.4947dba6abbdb@www.taom.com> I have been playing 1 ... a6 for decades but I tend to prefer ... c5 ideas to ... b5 ideas. Any time I managed .. c5:d4 I felt like I had gotten away with murder and justified ... a6. I will play the Tiger Modern - 1 .... a6, ... d6, ... g6, ... Bg7 and as GM Tiger Hillarp Persson recommends I will play ... b5 in response to Nc3. I also spent some time analyzing 1 e4 a6 2 d4 d5 3 e5 c5 4 c3 Bb5 with GM Jesse Krai. The problem with the line is that SM Randy Canney proved he had a better game after 5 Nf3 Bb5 ( The whole idea, trading off the bad bishop ) 6 B:b5! ab 7 dc! and my doubled b-pawns look a little silly. I understand Clive's desire to play creatively and avoid old theory type common positions but I was more humble. If I achieved anything resembling a sound position, I was thrilled and pleased with myself Brian Wall Quoting clivebeard1999 : Technically speaking, 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. c4 Bc5 would seem to be an offbeat orthodox opening, rather than a true UCO, but please hear me out. :-) I have never had any faith in Basman's ... b5 gambit in the 3 pawns Saint George (1. e4 e6 2. d4 a6 3. c4 b5!?) so I would prefer to play 3... c5. My reasoning is that after 4. d5, I can go unorthodox by posting my knight on e7 (rather than f6) at the relevant point in time, thereby avoiding most Modern Benoni theory. The problem is the transition to an Open Sicilian which seems inevitable, after 1. e4 a6 2. d4 a6 3. c4 c5 4. Nf3. During my first career (1972 to 1988) 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. c4 Nf6 6. Nc3 Bb4 was almost compulsory, but now it seems people are inventing alternatives. I found this game at chesslab (see end of post), but it seems that Black drew because she was Pia, rather than because of any merit in her position in the early stages. Any suggestions for improvements/alternatives? Best wishes, Clive PS. I don't like defending Hedgehogs, so even though it is a bit like the Scandinavian - there is theory, but you can work it out at the board if you have to - that isn't really an option for me. [Event "WCh-Women"] [Site "Nalchik RUS"] [Date "2008.??.??"] [White "Ruan Lufei"] [Black "Cramling,P"] [Round "3.2"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2499"] [BlackElo "2544"] [ECO "B28"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 a6 3. c4 e6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Bc5 6. Nb3 Ba7 7. Bf4 Qf6 8. Qd2 e5 9. Bg5 Qg6 10. Nc3 Nf6 11. Bxf6 Qxf6 12. c5 O-O 13. Bc4 b5 14. cxb6 Qxb6 15. Nd5 Qd8 16. O-O Nc6 17. Ne3 Qg5 18. Rad1 a5 19. Nf5 Qxd2 20. Nxd2 Rb8 21. b3 d6 22. Bd5 Bxf5 23. Bxc6 Bg4 24. Rc1 Be2 25. Rfe1 Ba6 26. Nc4 Bxc4 27. Rxc4 f5 28. Re2 fxe4 29. Bxe4 Rbc8 30. Bd5+ Kh8 31. g3 Rxc4 32. bxc4 Rb8 33. Kg2 Bd4 34. Kf3 Rb2 35. Rxb2 Bxb2 36. Ke4 g6 37. f3 Kg7 38. Bc6 1/2-1/2 From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Tue Dec 16 19:23:21 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:23:21 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Greg "Tourney" Steele brilliancy - [chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Attacking chess in Indiana Message-ID: <1229480601.494862996bbd8@www.taom.com> http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/files/steele_kosteris_2008.htm ----- Forwarded message from Email subscription to blog articles ----- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:45:19 -0500 From: Email subscription to blog articles Reply-To: historicchess at comcast.net, chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Subject: [chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Attacking chess in Indiana To: chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Posted by Dennis Monokroussos: Attacking chess in Indiana http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1229474712.shtml A week and a half ago, there was a tournament open to players rated from 1400-1999. You might think any game I'd show from such an event would happen only so I could criticize it, but you'd be mistaken. In the game from which the following position arises, there were some inaccuracies in the opening, but White's winning combination is one any player could feel good about. [steele_kosteris_2008_move13.jpg] It's White to move here from the game Steele(1836)-Kosteris(1651), and the simple 14.Kf1! is probably winning: 14...Rxg5 15.Bxg5 N7c6 16.Re1 and Black's compensation for the exchange is insufficient. Steele had a different and very interesting idea in mind: 14.Be3!?. Black replied with the plausible (but unforced) 14...Qxc3+, and after 15.Kf1 didn't take on a1 but retreated the rook: 15...Rg4. [steele_kosteris_2008_move15.jpg] Now what? The answer is [1]here. References 1. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/files/steele_kosteris_2008.htm _______________________________________________ chessmind mailing list chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chessmind From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Dec 17 16:46:12 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:46:12 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Snappy Finish, Bacrot - Leko Message-ID: <1229557572.49498f44c017b@www.taom.com> Leko used to be the World's youngest Grandmaster. Early on, he was harangued for non-aggression and loving draws too much. " If he plays like this at 15, how will he play at 50?" - Korchnoi Leko came within a hair's breadth of winning the World Championship when he was leading a match against Kramnik. When IM Paschall and I were ICC webcasters we were amazed that Leko could turn ANY posiiton, even winning attacking positions, into a barely holdable endgame. That seemed to be his favorite situation, for example, his beloved Marshall Attack often leads to Black hanging on with the two bishops versus White's Bishop, Knight and pawn. Leko also loved the Sveshnikov when he was young - the Grunfeld too. He studies his endgames and opening systems very deeply. Kasparov called the Leko " the human backboard ", i.e., someone who won't attack you but can handle any hard shot in tennis. I believe Leko once drew every game in an early Chess tournament when he was a teenager. There was a joke book contest for Leko's best games and the winner was: Warmth on the Board, a combination of a friendly draw handshake and Shirov's Fire on Board Leko also studied briefly with Fischer when Bobby was hanging out a lot in Hungary near the end of his life. Leko married a beautiful Armenian woman, Sophie Petrosian, daughter of GM Arshak Petrosian. You can hear Leko talk and analyze a lot at www.Chessvibes.com. He always seems intelligent and sensible. Somehow with Leko I just wish he would go crazy and play Latvian Chess for a year, even if he drops 200 FIDE rating points. I believe he would come back a more well rounded Chessplayer. I don't mind Kramnik's draws or Tigran Petrosian's draws but for Leko, I think he needs some pyschological breakthrough. It reminds me of the early X-Factor appearances of Leona Lewis where all the judges kept advising her to have more confidence in herself. There is something emotionally satisfying about Leko trying to play it safe with a Caro-Kann and getting destroyed anyway. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bacrot got lucky in the sense that his early teenage trainer GM Dorfman was only in Paris because he made some hasty comments about the lousy conditions in some cheap Soviet Chess tournament. That led to censure which led to emigration. At one point 3 of Dorfman's student were top 10 GMs. Paschall and I covered many Super GM tournaments and although Etienne was generally the Super GM whipping post the fact that he was there at all shows his class. Bacrot has a nice website. If you want to know how Bacrot thinks read " The Method in Chess" by Iossif Dorfman. I loved the book and got a lot out of it, IM John Watson thought it was too general. John is an old friend and I love hearing his voice on his ICC interviews. In his latest interview, GM Yuri Shulman, 2008 US Champion, also said he enjoyed Dorfman's book. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This tournament is the third Grand Prix. The latest FIDE scandals include - 1 - trying to ban Ivanchuk for 2 years for refusing a doping test after USA beat his team 3.5-.5 in the 2008 Dresden Olympiad 2- Changing all the Grand Prix rules to include Kramink after the cycle was halfway completed. Super GMs Magnus Carlsen and Michael Adams withdrew in protest, Aronian expressed his displeasure in an open letter. 3- Reneging on a guarantee for a million dollar match in the Ukraine for Topalov-Kamsky. The new match will be in Bulgaria for a quarter million. [Event "3rd Grand Prix"] [Site "Elista, Russia"] [Date "2008.12.17"] [Round "4"] [White "GM_Bacrot"] [Black "GM_Leko"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2705"] [BlackElo "2747"] [Opening "Caro-Kann: classical, Spassky variation"] [ECO "B19"] [NIC "CK.12"] [Time "06:32:01"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6 7. Nf3 Nd7 8. h5 Bh7 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 e6 11. Bf4 Qa5+ 12. Bd2 Bb4 All moves played at bltz speed so far 13. c3 Be7 14. c4 Qc7 15. O-O-O Ngf6 16. Ne4 14 minute think for Bacrot 16 ... O-O 9 minute think by Leko 17. g4 14 minute think by Bacrot 17 ... Nxg4!! TN 10 minute think by Leko Theoretical Novelty by Leko, Fritz approved but super dangerous for humans. Black also lost in an open tournament with 17 ... N:e4? in Martin Pesoa - Jorge Romero 2002, given below 18. Qe2?? 8 minute funk by Bacrot This shows that Bacrot is winging it or he would play the more accurate 18 Rhg1! f5 19 Qe2! Bacrot's lackadaisical move allows Leko to avoid further weaknesses with 18 Qe2? Kh8! or ... Ngf6! The simple point is that 18 Rhg1!! Ngf6?? 19 B:h6!!, N:f6+! or Qe3 are obviously good for White. Super GMs aren't what they used to be. 18 ... f5?? 14 minute funk by Leko Unnecessary weakness, the first thing to avoid when defending. Maybe Leko thought he could clog the g-file artery. 19. Rdg1!? 21 minutes spent contemplating this ultra-aggressive move. Emotionally satisfying, aiming every heavy piece at Leko's King. Fritz prefers more modest methods - 19 Ng3 hitting e6 19 Nh4 preparing f3 19 Rhg1 keeping one rook for central control 19 ... Rae8!! 14 minutes spent on this fine defensive move 20. Ne1 7 minutes spent Deciding he can't make progress without f3. Leko was threatening good, sold moves like ... e5, ... c5, ... Bf6 or ... b6 20 ... e5! 34 minutes Now was a good time to hit the Queenside where Bacrot's King is only guarded by a flipper bishop. Other good moves - 20 ... b5!!, ... Ndf6!!, ... c5!!, ... Qb6!! 21. Ng3!! 5 minutes spent, hitting all the tender Kingside light squares 21 ... exd4? 2 minutes spent - Leko has 33 minutes left, Bacrot 41 21 ... Bg5!! 22 N:f5! R:f5! B:d2+!! or ... R:f5!! works out well for Peter 22. Nxf5!! Rxf5? 12 minutes spent, 22 ... Bg5! 23 Q:g4! Ne5! 24 N:h6+! B:h6! 25 Qd1! Qd6!! or ... Kh8! is only a slight disadvantage for the Hungarian who moved to Armenia for romantic reasons 23. Qxg4!! The Frenchman is about to make a delicious three course meal of Leko, complete with bagettes. Etienne took 14 minutes to consider 23 Qe6+! Rf7 24 Rg4, almost as strong 23 ... Rf7? 6 minutes A true Armenian would hold with the standard defensive exchange sac 23 ... Rg5!! 24 B:g5 B:g5+ Peter should ask his father-in-law for lessons. 24. Bxh6! Only one bodyguard left for Peter 24 ... Bf6! Leko 12 minutes left Bacrot 27 minutes left 25. Bd2!! Preparing the h6-battering ram 25 ... Ne5! 26. Qe2! d3! Very tense situation - They are both finding good moves but the time - Leko - 8 minutes left Bacrot - 15 Etienne is not moving quickly hoping for a time pressure error, he is using the correct strategy, finding best moves. 27. Qe4!! Qb6! 28. b3! Qc5 2 minutes left Leko is losing - 28 ... Q:f2! 29 h6!! is thematic and strong 29. h6!! Qa3+ 30. Kd1!! 30 Kb1! is also good but Bacrot sets up a nice time pressure trap 30 ... Qxa2? Bacrot has so many threats and Leko has run out of time and position. In addition to 31 N:d3 or hg, the French GM also waits for 30 ... g6 31 R:g6+!! Kh8 32 Rg7!! B:g7 33 hg+ K:g7 and Bacrot has mutliple wins. If 30 ... Qe7 The top 9 wins are 31 Rh5!!!, Rh3!!, c5!!, Rg2!!, Bc3!!, hg!!, f3!!, Rg3!! and Be3!! 31. Qh7+!!!! Oops, I forgot to mention that threat, mate in 4 {White wins} 1-0 31 Qh7+!!! K:h7 32 hg+ mates on h8 or 31 Qh7+!!! Kf8 32 Bb4+ c5 33 B:c5+ Rfe7 34 hg+ Kf7 35 g8(Q) is an embarrassing checkmate. This shows the dangers of allowing an open file against a castled King, an old story. Leko was not wrong in allowing it since he had his chances with 18 ... Kh8, 18 ... Nfg6, 20 ... b5, 20 ... Ndf6, 20 ... c5, 20 ... Qb6, 21 ... Bg5, 22 ... Bg5, 23... Rg5 but then the game would have been lost on the scrap heap of time. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "3rd Grand Prix"] [Site "Elista, Russia"] [Date "2008.12.17"] [Round "4"] [White "GM_Bacrot"] [Black "GM_Leko"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2705"] [BlackElo "2747"] [Opening "Caro-Kann: classical, Spassky variation"] [ECO "B19"] [NIC "CK.12"] [Time "06:32:01"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6 7. Nf3 Nd7 8. h5 Bh7 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 e6 11. Bf4 Qa5+ 12. Bd2 Bb4 13. c3 Be7 14. c4 Qc7 15. O-O-O Ngf6 16. Ne4 O-O 17. g4 Nxg4 18. Qe2 f5 19. Rdg1 Rae8 20. Ne1 e5 21. Ng3 exd4 22. Nxf5 Rxf5 23. Qxg4 Rf7 24. Bxh6 Bf6 25. Bd2 Ne5 26. Qe2 d3 27. Qe4 Qb6 28. b3 Qc5 29. h6 Qa3+ 30. Kd1 Qxa2 31. Qh7+ {White wins} 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Villa Ballester op 52nd"] [Site "Villa Ballester"] [Date "2002.01.02"] [Round "9"] [White "Pesoa,Martin"] [Black "Romero,Jorge"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B19"] 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.Nf3 e6 7.h4 h6 8.h5 Bh7 9.Bd3 Bxd3 10.Qxd3 Nd7 11.Bd2 Ngf6 12.0-0-0 Be7 13.c4 0-0 14.Ne4 Qc7 15.g4 Nxe4 16.Qxe4 Nf6 17.Qe2 Nh7 18.Ne5 Bf6 19.Bf4 Qe7 20.Kb1 Rfd8 21.c5 a5 22.Rh3 Bxe5 23.Bxe5 f6 24.Bd6 Rxd6 25.cxd6 Qxd6 26.Re3 Nf8 27.Rb3 Rb8 28.Qe3 Qd5 29.Rc3 Nd7 30.Re1 Kf7 31.f4 Qd6 32.Rd3 Nb6 33.Qe4 Nd5 34.Qg6+ Kg8 35.Rf3 Ne7 36.Qe4 Re8 37.Qxe6+ Qxe6 38.Rxe6 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1: 3rd Grand Prix Tournament : December 14-28th Elista, Russia : http://elista2008.fide.com/ : LIVE COVERAGE on ICC 2: 13 Rounds - Round Robin : Rest days: Dec 19 and 24th : Games start at 7:00 AM ICC Time : Last round at 6:00 AM 3: : Standings after Round 4 4: 1 3.0 GM Teimour Radjabov AZE 2751 : 2-4 2.5 GM Dmitry Jakovenko RUS 2737 : GM Alexander Grischuk RUS 2719 5: GM Vugar Gashimov AZE 2703 : 5-10 2.0 GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov AZE 2731 : GM Evgeny Alekseev RUS 2715 6: GM Wang Yue CHN 2736 : GM Etienne Bacrot FRA 2705 : GM Ernesto Inarkiev RUS 2669 7: GM Vladimir Akopian ARM 2679 : 11-13 1.5 GM Peter Leko HUN 2747 : GM Pavel Eljanov UKR 2720 8: GM Ivan Cheparinov BUL 2696 : 14 1.0 GM Ruslan Kasimdzhanov UZB 2672 : 9: Time Control: 120 minutes for the first 40 moves : add 60 minutes after move 40 : add 15 minutes plus 30 seconds inc after move 60 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Wit and Wisdom of Wall Immoral - Something I haven't done yet - Brian Wall The reason there are so many starving people in the world is because God hates inflexible adults. Brian Wall december 2008 The main worth of a man is how well he treated women and children in his lifetime. Brian Wall December 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I helped my Dad, Stock Market Guru PQ ( Philosophy Quotient ) Wall, view my latest Youtube video yesterday. It occurred to me that 50-60% of people don't know how to get there or maybe don't have access to any computers. Before my Dad could view Youtube we had to download Adobe Reader 9. If the few that have computers and know how to work Google reach Youtube, another 15% don't know how to use the search box to reach Part 2. As a help to my readers, here are some clues - 1 - Go To Google 2 - Type in Youtube.com anywhere 3 - in the Youtube search box, type in or cut and paste ( Control C, Control V) Shattering the Scheveningen Larimar of Laramie Fork Trick pt 1 Rashid Rashid pt 1 Fishing Pole: First Blood pt 1 when you finish pt 1 type in or cut and paste in the Youtube Search box ( white rectangle ) Shattering the Scheveningen pt 2 Larimar of Laramie pt 2 Fork Trick pt 2 Rashid Rashid pt 2 Fishing Pole: First Blood pt 2 and watch the second half. Of course only Super Elite Grandmasters could be expected to rate the video or leave a comment. If all that is way out of your league you can find direct link shortcuts at - www.ColoradoChessGames.com Duwayne Langseth http://www.coloradochessgames.com/ which was added to the Campbell Report links http://www.correspondencechess.com/campbell/clinks.htm Colorado Chess Games [added 25-September-2008] A small chess site by DuWayne Langseth presenting some chess games (in replay format) by Colorado chess players. There are also some links to youtube chess-related videos. Youtube just search Timmyx Sagacious00004 Brian Wall Chess Anthea Carson or my new website at http://brianwallchess.x10hosting.com/News/NewsArticles/FishingPoleFirstBlood.htm Good Luck From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Dec 17 19:51:23 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:51:23 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Another Wyoming's Dan Tanner Fishing Pole game Message-ID: <1229568683.4949baabc72d6@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Brian Wall ----- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:50:09 -0700 From: Brian Wall Reply-To: Brian Wall Subject: Another Wyoming's Dan Tanner Fishing Pole game To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com ----- Forwarded message from Dan T ----- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:41:43 -0700 From: Dan T Reply-To: Dan T Subject: Pole game To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com Ocean still filled with Fish. - Dan Tanner Dan Tanner, Gnnight, h2oh234 at hotmail.com played this one pretty well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Site "FICS, San Jose, California USA"] [Date "2008.12.17"][Time "17:31:31"] [Round "-"][White "Vancechess"] [Black "Gnnight"] [WhiteElo "1498"] [BlackElo "1443"] [TimeControl "180+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "0-1"] Fishing Pole White - VanceChess 1498 Black - Dan Tanner 1443 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. Nc3 Bc5 5. O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole 6. Bxc6 A common White panic reaction trying to trade off attackers 6 ... dxc6! Freeing the QB, almost always the correct Fishing Pole recapture 7. d3 h5 What does a Fishing Poler do when White refuses to play grabass with our knight? Well, we kind of get confused and do what Dan does - first we play ... h5 just in case VanceChess gets frisky later. Secondly we get castled Queenside and wait. 8. h3 Ah, White is starting to play out his role of the aggressor. 8 ... Bd7 Dan prepares the classic Plan B Fishing Pole plan, ... 0-0-0 9. Bg5? The classic White error, "shutting out our Queen" while actually provoking a pawn hurricane 9 ... f6!! and so it begins 10. Bd2 g5!! Creating the vicious threat of ... Nf2 and ... g4. Dan is doing great, very impressive Pole play There is an additional threat which I don't employ very often which is ... Nh6 and ... g4 11. Qe2! Calm play- taking the knight wouldn't be prudent at this juncture. 11 hg hg 12 Nh2 g3 13 Ng4 Kf7!!, ... gf or ... Qe7 good for Black 11 hg hg 12 Be3 Qe7!! wins 11 ... Qe7! Best with options like ... Nh6, ... Be6, ... Bb6 12. hxg4?? Unleashing the gates of Hell - Vance Aandahl, Denver Open Champion and the first guy on every rating list, also well known as a personal friend of Gary Bagstad 12 ... hxg4!! Death Star, the big threat is ... Qh7 which often comes as a surprise to White who foolishly believed clogging up the d8-h4 artery kept Dan's Queen out of play. 13. Ne1 Qh7 Mate next move 14. Be3 Qh2# {White checkmated} 0-1 Good job, Danny boy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Site "FICS, San Jose, California USA"] [Date "2008.12.17"][Time "17:31:31"] [Round "-"][White "Vancechess"] [Black "Gnnight"] [WhiteElo "1498"] [BlackElo "1443"] [TimeControl "180+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. Nc3 Bc5 5. O-O Ng4 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. d3 h5 8. h3 Bd7 9. Bg5 f6 10. Bd2 g5 11. Qe2 Qe7 12. hxg4 hxg4 13. Ne1 Qh7 14. Be3 Qh2# {White checkmated} 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- When I started there was no Fishing Pole material available but now Books--------------------- Unorthodox Chess Openings - Schiller Horse Laffs - Tykoldi and GM Gufeld How to PLay Chess Like An Animal - Anthea Carson and Linn Trochim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Youtube videos --------------------------------------- Fishing Pole: First Blood pt 1 Walter Browne chess simul Reno Chess Openings: Fishing Pole - Play chess like an Animal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- websites---------------------------------- www.Walverine.com my new one http://brianwallchess.x10hosting.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emails---------------------------------------------------- BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fishing Pole songs and poems and DVDs and movies and TV shows and floral arrangements and three-legged races and balloons-------- not yet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- End forwarded message ----- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081217/8ad64b44/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Dec 18 00:09:25 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:09:25 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Beat Zueger - Judit Polgar 1987 Message-ID: <1229584165.4949f72569c43@www.taom.com> Since I belong to JuditPolgar at Yahoogroups.com and Susan Polgar is a Facebook friend, I decided to look at some Polgar games at www.Chessgames.com Many games were onesided crushes. Here's one that seemed interesting to me from start to finish. It is well known that Pal Benko generously helped out the Polgar sisters when they were very young so the Benko Gambit from Judit is no surprise. I played a lot of Benko Gambits in my life. In the beginning it was easy to win but then it seemed that every Chessplayer had his own pet system against it. The Benko wasn't an automatic win anymore. Judit runs into a well prepared anti-Benko guy. [Event "Biel-A"] [Site "Biel-A"] [Date "1987.??.??"] [EventDate "?"] [Round "?"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [White "Beat Zueger"] [Black "Judit Polgar"] [ECO "A57"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "?"] [PlyCount "81"] 21 years ago, Judit isn't even a teenager yet Switzerland Biel-A group 1987 Benko Gambit - White - Beat Zueger born 1961 current rating 2401, Swiss IM Black - Pre-teen Judit Polgar born 1976 current rating - 2711, Super GM 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 Benko Gambit 4.cxb5 a6 5.b6 I think they call this the Shirov system now although I did an email on a very old Dzindi-Alburt game with it and I know Yermolinsky liked this system a lot. I saw Josh Bloomer beat Jason Caldwell about 20 games in a row with b6 in a blitz match. The idea is to shut down the Queenside files and prepare Nc4, f4, e4-e5 5 ... a5 In my database only Alburt had played this move before Judit but now at least 227 others have followed them. Maybe Benko was already filling their young heads with cutting edge Benko theory. 6.Nc3! Ba6 To slow down Ng1-f3-d2-c4 or and e4 B:f1 K:f1 would displace White's King as compensation for the pawn played 12 years earlier by Alburt before Judit at the time, since followed by at least 200 men. 7.f4 Siniavsky played 7 Nf3 against Alburt so this was a TN by Beat Zueger at the time, since followed by at least 50 Chessplayers. The plan is a pawn roller with f4, e4,e5 and to recapture on f1 with the rook not the King 7 ... d6 Part of the anti-b6 strategy is to keep White guessing about what Black piece will recapture the advanced b-pawn 8.Nf3! Qxb6! The cat and mouse game is over 9.e4! Bxf1! 10.Rxf1! g6 Zueger is going to play e5 no matter Judit tries. 11.e5!! Nfd7! Jeroen Claesen tried 11 ... de? 12 fe Nfd7 against GM Ian Rogers 5 years later but 13 e6!! fe 14 Ng5!! was even stronger 12.e6!!! Judit is in big trouble and Zueger had lots of juicy alternatives like 12 Qe2!! and many others. The opening has been a bust for Polgar. 12 ... fxe6! 13.dxe6 It's better to put a knight on e6 rather than a pawn so 13 Ng5!! is a positional killer. It's hard to go wrong here - 13 de, Qe2, Qc2, h3, h4, g3 and several other moves are all strong. Judit caught a small break here but it's still tough on her. 13 ... Nf6! 14.f5!! The best of many good moves, ripping lines open and expanding the range of Zueger's QB. The whole position is a siege on Judit's light squares 14 ... gxf5 15.Ng5!! not as good as Ng5-e6 earlier but f7 is a nice consolation square - there were other good approaches too - 15 Nd5!! is strong and also 15 Qd3 or Qc2 or 15 Nh4 hitting f5 are all good for Zueger. Judit was only 11 or 12 and Beat was already 25-26 years old. 15 ... h6! 16.Nf7! Every move gives White good options - here 16 Nd5!, Qf3! or Nh3! are all comfortably better 16 ... Rg8! 17.Rxf5!! The idea is not to win a pawn but to destroy the sacred guardian of the light squares. Judit is dead here - Zueger also has other light square threats like 18 Qf3 or 18 Qa4+ followed by N:d6+ ed R:f6 17 ... Rxg2! 18.Rxf6!! Every move there are alternative wins - this time 18 Nd5! or Qf3! are also pwerful 18 ... exf6! 19.Qh5!! Rg1+! 20.Kd2!! Any move wins but this is the best 20 ... Qb4! Little Judit is fighting hard, playing the best defensive moves time and agaun 21.Kc2!! 21 N:d6+!! is good too but Beat Zueger saves the threat 21 ... Qg4! Hanging in there as best she can 22.Nxd6+!! Ke7 22 ... Kd8 23 Qe8+ Kc7 23 Q:f8 free piece 23.Qxc5!! I winced when I played this over the first time: totally crushing - Zueger also has a nice attack after 23 Qf7+/e8+ K:d8 24 Q:f8+ 23 ... Rg2+ 24.Bd2??? Falling into Polgar's trap, at first glance this developing move looks much better than burying the King with 24 Kb1!!! just one nudge from Checkmate. 24 ... Rxd2+!! Killing the attack 25.Kxd2! Qf4+! 26.Kc2 26 Ke2 is about the same A lucky escape for Judit. She hung in there best she could until something good happened. A lesson for all of us. 26 ... Qxh2+! 27.Kb3! Qxd6! 28.Nd5+! Kd8 28 ... K:e6 29 Nc7+ Kd7 30 Q:d6+ B:d6 31 N:a8 Kc6 32 Rh1 Kb7 33 R:h6 Be5 34 Ka4 K:a8 35 K:a5 looks drawish to me 29.Qxd6+! Bxd6! 30.Rg1! Nd7! Judit cannot hold onto her extra piece 30 ... Kc8 31 e7! 31.exd7! Rb8+! 32.Kc4 The game is winding down to a draw 32 ... Kxd7 33.Nxf6+ Ke6 34.Ne4 Bf4 35.Nc5+ Kf5 36.Nd3 Be3 37.Rf1+ Ke4 38.Nc5+ Bxc5 39.Kxc5 Rxb2 40.Rh1 Rxa2 41.Rxh6 1/2-1/2 Dead draw now but a very exciting opening/early middle game ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Biel-A"] [Site "Biel-A"] [Date "1987.??.??"] [EventDate "?"] [Round "?"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [White "Beat Zueger"] [Black "Judit Polgar"] [ECO "A57"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "?"] [PlyCount "81"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.b6 a5 6.Nc3 Ba6 7.f4 d6 8.Nf3 Qxb6 9.e4 Bxf1 10.Rxf1 g6 11.e5 Nfd7 12.e6 fxe6 13.dxe6 Nf6 14.f5 gxf5 15.Ng5 h6 16.Nf7 Rg8 17.Rxf5 Rxg2 18.Rxf6 exf6 19.Qh5 Rg1+ 20.Kd2 Qb4 21.Kc2 Qg4 22.Nxd6+ Ke7 23.Qxc5 Rg2+ 24.Bd2 Rxd2+ 25.Kxd2 Qf4+ 26.Kc2 Qxh2+ 27.Kb3 Qxd6 28.Nd5+ Kd8 29.Qxd6+ Bxd6 30.Rg1 Nd7 31.exd7 Rb8+ 32.Kc4 Kxd7 33.Nxf6+ Ke6 34.Ne4 Bf4 35.Nc5+ Kf5 36.Nd3 Be3 37.Rf1+ Ke4 38.Nc5+ Bxc5 39.Kxc5 Rxb2 40.Rh1 Rxa2 41.Rxh6 1/2-1/2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Ostend op"] [Site "Ostend"] [Date "1992.09.??"] [Round "2"] [White "Rogers,Ian"] [Black "Claesen,Jeroen"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "A57"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.b6 a5 6.Nc3 Ba6 7.f4 d6 8.Nf3 g6 9.e4 Bxf1 10.Rxf1 Qxb6 11.e5 dxe5 12.fxe5 Nfd7 13.e6 fxe6 14.Ng5 Bg7 15.Nxe6 Bf6 16.d6 Na6 17.Nd5 Qxd6 18.Nxf6+ Nxf6 19.Qxd6 exd6 20.Ng7+ Ke7 21.Bg5 Rhf8 22.0-0-0 Rf7 23.Rde1+ Kd7 24.Rxf6 Rxg7 25.Rd1 Kc8 26.Rfxd6 Rf7 27.Bh4 Kb7 28.Rd7+ Rxd7 29.Rxd7+ Kc6 30.Rxh7 Re8 31.Ra7 Kb6 32.Rg7 Re6 33.Bd8+ Kb5 34.Rb7+ Kc4 35.b3+ Kd3 36.Bxa5 Ke2 37.Rb6 Rxb6 38.Bxb6 Kf1 39.g4 Kg2 40.h4 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Buenos Aires Najdorf op"] [Site "Buenos Aires"] [Date "1993.04.??"] [Round "1"] [White "Mellano,Santiago"] [Black "Szmetan,Jorge"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "A57"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.b6 a5 6.Nc3 Ba6 7.f4 Qxb6 8.Nf3 d6 9.e4 Bxf1 10.Rxf1 g6 11.e5 Nfd7 12.e6 fxe6 13.Ng5 Bg7 14.Nxe6 Bf6 15.Nb5 Na6 16.a4 Nf8 17.f5 Nxe6 18.fxe6 Nb4 19.Ra3 0-0-0 20.Raf3 Qb7 21.Rxf6 exf6 22.Nc3 c4 23.Rf3 Kb8 24.Kf1 Rc8 25.Bf4 Ka8 26.Kg1 Rhd8 27.Bg3 Rc5 28.Rxf6 Nxd5 29.Rf7 Nxc3 30.bxc3 Rc7 31.Rf1 Re7 32.Bh4 Qb6+ 33.Kh1 Rde8 34.Bxe7 Rxe7 35.Qd5+ Qb7 36.Qxa5+ Qa7 37.Qd8+ 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "RUS-ch U16"] [Site "Dagomys"] [Date "2004.04.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Magomedov,Murad"] [Black "Glotov,Mikhail"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "A57"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.b6 a5 6.Nc3 Ba6 7.f4 d6 8.Nf3 Qxb6 9.e4 Bxf1 10.Rxf1 g6 11.e5 Nfd7 12.e6 fxe6 13.dxe6 Nf6 14.g4 Qb4 15.g5 Ne4 16.Qd5 Bg7 17.Qxa8 0-0 18.Nd2 Nxc3 19.Rf3 Nb5 20.a3 Qd4 21.Qb7 Qg1+ 22.Nf1 Nd4 23.Rf2 Nbc6 24.h3 Qh1 25.Be3 Qe4 26.Rc1 Qxe6 27.Qa6 Kh8 28.Qd3 Rb8 29.h4 Nf5 30.Qc4 d5 31.Qxc5 Ncd4 32.Rc3 Rf8 33.Kd1 a4 34.Rd2 Nb3 35.Qxd5 Qa6 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.Walverine.com ----- End forwarded message ----- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Dec 18 12:21:21 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:21:21 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] My conversation with Jack Young Message-ID: <1229628081.494aa2b14a7e0@www.taom.com> I called up my ex-roommate Life Master Jack Young to show him my youtube Fishing Pole: First Blood pt 1 video. I heard him laugh at all the right places. Jack invented the Fishing Pole. Jack hasn't played a rated game in 14 years. Jack said "Chess is dying. I visited a Massachusetts Chess tournament and there was about one third of the number of people attending that I was used to." I felt good when he said that because we have the same situation in Denver, CO. Jack agreed with me that the Internet is competing heavily for the people that used to go to Chess tournaments and Chess clubs. Whenever I say that I hear, " Oh, so and so Chess Club is thriving ( Seattle, for instance ), it must be the organizers. " Locally, yes, good organizers and a good supply of wealth or an existing building dedicated to Chess help a lot. Scholastic Chess seems to be booming but adult Chess seems to be suffering. ICC commentator and old friend IM John Watson interviewed US Champion Yuri Shulman who obviously loves Chess. He pointed out a very long list of what this country does NOT do for Chess. " I live in Chicago. I called up the Chicago Tribune to tell them that the US won the bronze in the Olympiad. They were not interested in the story. In contrast, the welcome that the Armenians received in their country for winning the gold was as if they had won a war. " Yuri Shulman Jack still plays his computers and tries out new ideas. We laughed at all the Tom Schiel book titles we invented in Lowell, Mass 15 years ago. ( story at www.Walverine.com ) I told Jack the more he turned himself into a recluse the more determined I was to make him famous. Sometimes we don't relate to what a person is today, we react to the memory of what he was. We talked and laughed until 1 AM, his time. It was good to hear his voice. I showed my video to Pia Sprong of Holland; in her broken English she said - "Life Master Brian Wall, you be funny. " From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Thu Dec 18 14:37:14 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:37:14 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Dr. Lawrence Coker of Kansas on the state of Chess in America Message-ID: <1229636234.494ac28a0964c@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Laurence Coker ----- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:26:12 -0600 From: Laurence Coker Reply-To: Laurence Coker Subject: chess To: Brian Wall Dear Brian, Related to your recent article about chess in Denver area: It would be interesting to have ICC find out how many active ICC members live in the USA. Also, a distribution would be interesting, both demographics (state by state) and by age. I myself play ICC. It costs money, but when I do a seek I rarely have to ever have to wait for a game. I admit it is sometimes it is easier to stay home and play than go to the club. Back to ICC: New is chess.fm- when chess.fm jumped aboard, I was thrilled. I get to go over games with commentary by GMs. Then, there are lectures on your favorite variations (no fishing poles yet-I think if it were a gambit they would have it). One does not necessarily have to be playing chess to appreciate all the nuances of the game. Attendence at clubs does not necesarily reflect general interest. I will admit the Chicago Tribune not being interested in the US's bronze metal is discouraging. Heh! Didn't the Chicago Tribune recently declare for bankruptcy? Must be due to a lack of interest in chess!!!! Sincerely, Laurence Coker -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081218/5b79c59a/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Dec 18 19:10:41 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:10:41 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Duwayne Langseth on American Chess decline Message-ID: <1229652641.494b02a15f3ef@www.taom.com> I think some of these Super National Chess tournaments are setting records. Yuri Shulman said in his ICC Watson interview they have 5,000 kids. Computers should make it much easier to get good at Chess. Duwayne has talked to me about his Chess childhood in South Dakota - there was no one to play so he turned to postal Brian Wall ------------------------------------------------------ Duwayne Langseth From: DuWayne Langseth To: Brian Wall Subject: RE: [BrianWallChess] My conversation with Jack Young Brian, I've seen a decline in scholastic chess clubs too and I know that isn't because of the internet. Very few of the kids play online. Maybe it's the economy or something related to society in general. DuWayne From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Dec 18 19:38:07 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:38:07 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The longest mate Rook + Knight vs Bishop + Knight Message-ID: <1229654287.494b090f244ff@www.taom.com> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5UiEvGkg3c The longest mate Rook + Knight vs Bishop + Knight Youtube video not mine From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Dec 19 00:53:06 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:53:06 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Hippo Chess - Comments at chess.com about the game Blauert-Lau Message-ID: <1229673186.494b52e28bf0a@www.taom.com> http://hippopotamuschess.hit.bg/ Hippo Chess ----- Forwarded message from Nikolay Kostov ----- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:41:46 -0000 From: Nikolay Kostov Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] Comments at chess.com about the game Blauert-Lau To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Below are given some comments from the chess community at chess.com forum about the Hippo game Blauert- Lau, Bad Neuenahr, 1989. [Event "FRG-ch 20th"] [Site "Bad Neuenahr"] [Date "1989.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Blauert, Joerg"] [Black "Lau, Ralf"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B06"] [WhiteElo "2275"] [BlackElo "2475"] 1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nf3 d6 4. Nc3 a6 5. a4 b6 6. Bc4 e6 7. O-O Nd7 8. Re1 Ne7 9. Bf4 h6 10. h4 Bb7 11. Qd2 Qb8 12. Rad1 Qa7 13. Ra1 Rc8 14. Rad1 Qa8 15. Bb3 Kf8 16. Qe2 Kg8 17. Nb1 Kh7 18. c3 Rhf8 19. Nbd2 Rce8 20. Bh2 Nc6 21. Qf1 e5 22. Nc4 Qb8 23. dxe5 Ndxe5 24. Nfxe5 Nxe5 25. Nxe5 Bxe5 26. Bxe5 Rxe5 27. Bd5 a5 28. Bxb7 Qxb7 29. f3 Rfe8 30. Re3 f5 31. Red3 fxe4 32. fxe4 R8e7 33. Rf3 Rg7 34. Rd4 Rxe4 35. Rf7 Re7 36. Rxe7 Rxe7 37. Rf4 Qd5 38. Rf8 Qe6 39. Rf6 Qe3+ 40. Kh1 Kg7 41. Rf8 Qe5 42. Rf4 d5 43. g3 c5 44. Qf2 Qe1+ 45. Kg2 Qxf2+ 46. Rxf2 h5 47. Rd2 Re5 48. Rf2 Rf5 49. Re2 Kf7 50. Re3 Rf6 51. Re5 Rf5 52. Re3 Kf6 53. Re8 Re5 54. Rd8 Ke7 55. Rg8 Re6 56. Kf3 d4 57. cxd4 cxd4 58. Rc8 Kd6 59. g4 hxg4+ 60. Kxg4 Kd5 61. Kf3 Re3+ 62. Kf4 Re4+ 63. Kg5 d3 0-1 18th December 2008, 03:49am#2 by Sconsc Romania Member Since: Oct 2008 Member Points: 151 And what does this prove besides he can beat weaker players with crap openings? 18th December 2008, 03:55am#3 by EmTom Lodz Poland Member Since: Dec 2007 Member Points: 72 This doesnt have to prove anything. It might be just for fun... I hope you know what FUN means. :P 18th December 2008, 04:02am#4 by Sconsc Romania Member Since: Oct 2008 Member Points: 151 With a name like hippochess I think he's here to promote this wonderful opening and show us how good it is. 18th December 2008, 04:06am#5 by KillaBeez Denver, CO United States Member Since: Jan 2008 Member Points: 2042 I liked the game. Black played ridiculously and still won. 18th December 2008, 04:08am#6 by Amnesiac Devon United Kingdom Member Since: Oct 2007 Member Points: 767 It proves that openings don't matter until you are well over 2400 and that you should learn how to play chess and not how to play openings. Anyway I seem to remember Kramnik playing it before, its not a bad opening if you know what you are doing, but if your opponent does too then you aren't going to get a brilliant position, but it gets players out of their books into positions where they have to think for themselves and solve unusual positions. Very few games are won or lost because of the opening, usually it is due to a latter error, the hippo is good in that it gets to positions where a player can out play their opposition if they are better at chess. 18th December 2008, 04:41am#7 by Dutchie22 Alphen aan den Rijn Netherlands Member Since: Oct 2008 Member Points: 10 The opening is quite solid, but a bit cramped in my opinion. What suprised me the most in this game is that White didn't have a clue how to play against this system. He just developped his pieces very actively, but from move 10 onwards he played 10-15 useless moves, seemingly without a plan. That's the point of chess though isn't it, you have a plan or you develop a plan during a game. All white did was wait what black was going to do. I expected more from a high rated player like that. 18th December 2008, 09:44am#8 by linksspringer Scotland, UK Netherlands Member Since: Aug 2007 Member Points: 2663 The author has a very nice hippo page here: http://hippopotamuschess.hit.bg/ Once you've looked at enough high-level hippo games, you start to recognize certain patterns in the madness Black's play was very systematic and thematic. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Finally second part appeared. http://www.ajedreznd.com/visor/leton1.htm http://www.ajedreznd.com/visor/leton2.htm And also an appendix http://www.ajedreznd.com/2008/Apend.doc I hope that Latvian defenders have their own opinions about that subject and we will see here some interesting analysis or opinions. -- un saludo, Antonio Torrecillas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081219/0e3548b2/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Dec 19 09:59:11 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:59:11 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Jesse Turner, Shawn, Pete Tamburo, Eric Olsen on American Chess decline Message-ID: <1229705951.494bd2dff0198@www.taom.com> Eric Olsen Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:47:33 -0700 From: EOMJ To: Brian Wall Subject: Chess decline The city of Louisville has created "The Steinbaugh Pavilion" downtown which is equipped with about 6 to 8 tables with chess boards of different colors printed on them. It seems like an ideal place to have some kind of a blitz tournament on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. As far as I know it is basically unused except for Friday night concerts in the summer. If anyone out there would be interested in organizing a blitz tournament with me, I think it would be a fun thing to do. Be it known that I have no experience in such endeavors, but am willing to try. -E- -- Eric Olson, President Eric Olson Master Jeweler, inc. 303-604-0240 http://www.master-jeweler.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pete Tamburro Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:00:28 EST From: PTamburro at aol.com To: zebano at yahoo.com, BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com, BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Joel Johnson on American Chess decline 2 unnamed text/html 2.76 KB Here in New Jersey we just had 400 kids, K-12, in a one day scholastic individual and team championship. The factors that lead to success seem to be: 1. Periodic contact with school programs, chess leagues. 2. It takes about ten people to run the tournament 3. The site we use (a community college) has a cafeteria and lounge adjoining the playing room so parents and coaches can hang out and the kids can dump their stuff and set up their own little team areas. 4. We do G/30, use the pairing programs and get five rounds done in one day. The awards ceremony (tons of trophies and pix for internet) is done by 615. The Sunday aspect can't be underestimated because not only is it only one day, but it's a day everyone finds convenient, especially our orthodox Jewish players. 5. Good advertising; eg our state paper's chess column (mine!) not only puts the announcement in but puts games the kids play in the following weeks. One thing we haven't managed to be successful in as much as we like is to give workshops for parents and coaches. It's also an opportunity to recruit parent and coach volunteers for our state organization. We get some, but need to do that better, too. We also have a lot of kid prizes at the US Team East, which has over 1200 people, so it's a great opportunity to bring kids into "older" chess and we get teenagers...not as many as we'd like, but all this coordination has improved the situation. Chess success is not only about organization, but about organizers...people who are creative, anticipate needs and even cheerleaders. I've been on this end for over 30 years in a supporting role and am truly grateful for the great organizers in NJ chess. Pete Tamburro ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shawn Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:21:06 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, Brian Wall Chesslist , Brian Wall Reply-to: zebano at yahoo.com Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Joel Johnson on American Chess decline 2 unnamed text/html 14.40 KB Iowa is identical. We lose money on any guaranteed $$ events (Iowa Open). The smaller tournaments typically get about 20 people while 80+ show up to scholastic events (the higher the grade level the fewer kids show up; the last one I directed there were about 70 kids K-8 and 8 kids in grades 9-12). Shawn -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesse Turner ----- Forwarded message from Jesse Turner ----- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:24:54 -0800 (PST) From: Jesse Turner Reply-To: Jesse Turner Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] Joel Johnson on American Chess decline To: Brian Wall Hello Brian, I do not know if I will get through, but here it goes. I have lived in a lot of areas, including Denver and Phoenix. While it is true Phoenix does have a point that the facilities matter, the fact remains that even easily accessible places to play have decline in adult chess. Here in Fresno, the average player will play like a wild heart all through scholastic years then stop after they hit adult hood. When I lived in Phoenix they had a very nice facility called the Chess Emporium. I believe it is still there. The site is/was dedicated to chess and playing. I do believe in order to have chess boom again you need similar to this, as well as a little help from media. The problem here in Fresno is we have the membership to run nice tournaments just our support within the club to run such events are not stable yet. The REASON for the uplift in the last two years (15 members to 260+) is the media. We offer to do things for the media (Like charity events on a certain channel I believe) and in return they give us time to tell the viewers about our chess club. Last time I was in Denver, (august 2008), They had a very nice facility to play. They have a church with a nice dual room. I don't know what their restrictions are, but I am willing to bet a lot of it is advertisement. I believe they have moved 3 or 4 times since I lived there, and it took me 3 days to find them. I only found them after I made some phone calls to old chess buddies. Most of the people here in Fresno, don't even know what tournament chess is, just that they like to play twice a week. The two main problems we have is we are stuck in Carls Jr, and I as the only main TD in Fresno, are new to the game of being a TD. I will be attempting to run monthlys after the first of the year and hopefully I can get close to what Phoenix had when I lived there in 1999-2000. Again if this works out, I have to say that the media helped Frenso out a lot in this. Thank you, Jesse Turner ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ---- From: Brian Wall To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Brian Wall Chesslist Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 2:49:08 AM Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Joel Johnson on American Chess decline In Denver our scholastic Chess semms to be booming and our adult Chess declining. Brian Wall --------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:39:08 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: RE: [BrianWall-ChessList] Duwayne Langseth on American Chess decline To: Brian Wall Hi Brian, This is not true. There are many areas, like here in Phoenix, where many children play chess. If you have the organizations in place, they will play. Joel From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Fri Dec 19 10:30:52 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:30:52 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fischer, Tal, Baltic defense, QGD, Texas Hold'em and Bishop Faceoff Message-ID: <1229707852.494bda4cc4549@www.taom.com> Search Youtube.com Chess Lesson - Texas Opening- Fischer vs Tal Silly Youtube video not mine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODOW9sXwi_o Fischer, Tal, Baltic defense, QGD, Texas Hold'em Poker and Bishop Faceoff all in one video From bigbear12 at hotmail.com Fri Dec 19 11:05:03 2008 From: bigbear12 at hotmail.com (Joel Johnson) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:05:03 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] [BrianWallChess] Joel Johnson on American Chess decline In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The key to adult chess striving is chess clubs. Without active chess clubs, adult chess dies. Without active chess clubs, the kids have no place to make the jump to adult chess, which is a treacherous road in itself, and eventually quit chess. Chess clubs make chess social, which is the one negative aspect of internet chess. There is nothing quite like sitting directly across from your opponent at a chess board, shaking his/her hand. Or, perhaps going out for coffee or food after the game. And, weekend adult chess tournaments are driven by the number of active chess players at these clubs. Chess clubs do not pop up on their own. They are created and run by organizers. It is a lot of work and cost (both time and money) associated with running a good chess club. Most people are unwilling to do it. These days I make all my income from chess. As someone that wanted to make a living teaching chess, I found it absolutely necessary to start my own chess clubs, so that I would have a direct source for acquiring students. This model works and I am doing it. The Phoenix adult chess scene was completely dead when I got here from Boston in 2001. Today, things are much, much better. We have loads of strong playing chess kids that now have a place to graduate to for adult chess. In addition, some of the older generation that has not played tournament chess in over ten years are coming out too. And who runs chess clubs and chess tournaments? Organizers, that's who. Without them chess dies. So, when somebody says that chess is dieing in their area, I say get off your butt and be proactive. Start organizing!! If you really love chess and want tournaments to play in, and want to teach chess, start a chess club. Everybody else wants one too, but is waiting for you to start IT! Cya, Joel Johnson __,_._,___ _________________________________________________________________ It?s the same Hotmail?. If by ?same? you mean up to 70% faster. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_broad1_122008 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081219/cee8d612/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Dec 19 12:28:46 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:28:46 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Mark Sherbring on Leton (Latvian) refuted by Melchor Message-ID: <1229714926.494bf5eed58c7@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Mark Sherbring ----- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:20:30 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Sherbring Reply-To: marksherbring at yahoo.com Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] Leton (Latvian) refuted by Melchor To: Brian Wall Oh NO!!! Not the beloved Latvian refuted. The moral equivalent of Condie Rice admitting to false intellegence used by lame duck president to waste billions in Iraq. ? Congress must have a hearing.? And the Colorado Springs chess club must have a thematic tourney. --- On Fri, 12/19/08, Brian Wall wrote: From: Brian Wall Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Leton (Latvian) refuted by Melchor To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com, "Brian Wall Chesslist" Date: Friday, December 19, 2008, 9:49 AM For James Hamblin and Josh Bloomer ----- Forwarded message from Antonio Torrecillas ----- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:27:12 +0100 From: Antonio Torrecillas Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] Leton (Latvian) refuted by Melchor To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Hello, Long ago Melchor,A wrote that Latvian was refuted but only first part was published. Finally second part appeared. http://www.ajedreznd.com/visor/leton1.htm http://www.ajedreznd.com/visor/leton2.htm And also an appendix http://www.ajedreznd.com/2008/Apend.doc I hope that Latvian defenders have their own opinions about that subject and we will see here some interesting analysis or opinions. -- un saludo, Antonio Torrecillas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081219/b063de33/attachment.htm From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Fri Dec 19 14:13:07 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:13:07 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Dave on American Chess decline Message-ID: <1229721187.494c0e6313658@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Dave ----- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:46:30 -0000 From: Dave Reply-To: Dave Subject: Re: Jesse Turner, Shawn, Pete Tamburo, Eric Olsen on American Chess decline To: Brian Wall I, along with Vaughn Bennett am trying to start a Chess Club here in Silver Spring (a MD suburb of DC). I have absolutely no experience at organizing but I have energy and a sense of commitment as both my young daughters (4 and 6) have displayed genuine talent for the game. I have assistant TD status and will have our USCF affiliate status soon. Vaughn is giving free lessons at our local library and we have have a small turnout of kids and adults every week but we are hoping to expand from this nucleus. We hope to offer rated games and regular tournaments soon. I would be grateful if anyone has any advice (aside from some useful stuff already posted here). Also, if you happen to live in the area and want to attend/help etc. please contact me. Our vision is to have a healthy club that caters to both kids and adults- I hope it's not a pipe dream. TIA. Dave Hi Brian, This is not true. There are many areas, like here in Phoenix, where many children play chess. If you have the organizations in place, they will play. Joel From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Dec 20 13:36:45 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:36:45 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Channel 9 Story about Keith Oxman Message-ID: <1229805405.494d575d81a14@www.taom.com> I have known Keith Oxman since he was a teenager. Keith's big passion is music but he plays Chess too. Good luck on your comeback. Keith is a great guy. Brian Wall ----- Forwarded message from Martin Deschner ----- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:27:49 -0800 (PST) From: Martin Deschner Reply-To: deschner at yahoo.com Subject: Channel 9 Story about Keith Oxman To: Brian D Wall , LaMoyne Splichal --- On Sat, 12/20/08, deschner at yahoo.com wrote: From: deschner at yahoo.com Subject: Message from your friend To: deschner at yahoo.com Date: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 12:13 PM Hi, martinYour friend martin thought you might be interested in this article.http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=106281&catid=188&provider=emailKeith Oxman From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Sun Dec 21 10:25:03 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:25:03 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Andy Rea's Holiday Gift, Rd3 DC Chess League Friday evening 19Dec Message-ID: <1229880303.494e7bef1b0f3@www.taom.com> Andy Rea has left the safe confines of the Middle East for the more exotic climes of Washington, DC, leaving behing a string of broken hearted veiled beauties. Andy is the star of Youtube Fork Trick pt 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oT6QcOHj-M Andy told me how to pronounce his name once but I still pronounce it three different ways, depending on the lunar eclipse. Andy retired my Elephant Gambit, so far. Andy plays his favorite lines against his computer so he feels very comfortable in them. He's not just tossing out a few random moves like me. Andy is also the World Champion of Queen sacs, almost never losing if he has any two pieces for her. Andy is dashingly handsome and frugal as well. Must be the Scotch whiskey in his fuel line. Andy also loves wearing mismatched colored socks for reasons known only to his interior designer. Brian Wall --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- annotated by Andy Rea --- On Sun, 12/21/08, Andrew Rea wrote: From: Andrew Rea Subject: Holiday Gift, Rd3 DC Chess League Friday evening 19Dec To: brianwallchess at taom.com Cc: andrerea2 at yahoo.com Date: Sunday, December 21, 2008, 10:47 AM ??? Brian, I have a gift for you, a holiday treat from round 3 of the DC Chess League.? I am playing Board 3 for the Arlington Chess Club, we are now 3-0? but with 6 rounds to go its very early.? Nonetheless, our defeat of the two-time defending champions, 5-1 while outrated on all but Board1, is promising- if for no other reason than the display of fortitude of our lower Boards, who were outrated by 170pts or more but scored 2 wins and a draw!??? ????? This is my contribution to Arlington CC's defeat of DC Metro High, that all-star team that has been winning the DC League past 2 years- but maybe not this?season ??? ???????????????????????? ????? Andy Rea (2133) - Scott Low (2178)? 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.e3? Alright, Brian's favorite!?? ? Oh, wait, maybe not- but then, we aren't all fans of the Elephant either... I can say that ?? with the Colle, when sprinkled with some knowledge and an opponent who isnt entrenched in the Master ranks, White will get to attack, Black will have to show they can??defend their Kingside?? 3...c5 4.c3 Nc6???? 4..c4 is premature as 5.b3 either adds to White's central influence or costs time for Black?????? 5.Bd3 Bg4 6.h3 Bh5?? Black does not ?just chop- 6...Bxf3 7.Qxf3 e5 8.de Nxe5 9.Bb5+ Ned7 10.Qg3 lands White the Bishop?Pair in a reasonably open position.? Black would be unable to generate significant ?counterplay - Black needs more than this to make the trade- but, vacating d7 is not bad?news for White...?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????? 7.Nbd2 e6? 7...e5 8.de Nxe5 9.Qa4+ Ned7 10.Ne5 is highly promising for White????? ??? ?? 8.Qa4 c4 9.Bb1?? Ra1 is unhappy, but the fight for e4 NOW is more important; in other ?? interesting news, Whites Bishops are well positioned if Black castles Kside.?Also,?its true that Black can lash out with ...g5, but this is not guaranteed to succeed, with?one consideration among many being what if it is ignored- White will have gained time for attacking the Black King....????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????? 9...Nd7?!??? Black tries for too much, here looking to contest the Kside with a Queen? ? raid while also being ready to slam the routine 10.0-0? with 10...f5!, when indeed Black has killed Whites attack and then some.? All the same, banking on your opponents? errors is unreliable.? Bf8 does nothing, it needs to move out to e7 or d6, ready to castle- ? but, ...g7-g5 would still be on the agenda as f8 is now available for the King.?? Is it me,? or is it a matter that there aren't boring openings, just boring players!?? While on that?topic, is being sound a crime?? Why attack when your defenses are?pregnable, ready to collapse on contact?? Unless your attack wins by force and your opponent never gets a ??chance for counterplay, its reasonably good chess to have your defenses ready.... but, also be aware of what needs to happen to?go on the attack!? OK, thats enough, back to the game-??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 10.e4 Rb8 11.ed ed??? Guess we'll not find out today whether White would have?gone ?for 11...b5 12.dc ba 13.cd+?? 12.0-0 b5 13.Qd1 Qf6 14.Re1+? I have to know now if ?Black is serious about ...Kd8?? 14...Be7 15.g4?? No '!', what is White to do, sit there and suffer this pin forever?? Black struggles for counterplay, so I can take?some liberties with?my King exposure.? 15...Bg6 16.Nf1 0-0 17.Ng3 Rfe8 18.Bf5??? 18.Nf5 is perfectly fine,?but I wanted to unblock?Ra1.? More important is that f4 is now ready for action, Black can trade on f5 but this?is not?very helpful.? As played, Nd7 has to be defended, which weakens other squares- or, if it moves, White wins the battle of e5?????? ???????????????????????? 18...Qd6? 19.Bd2?? Brainlock!? I am so focused on the Kside that I miss- as did Black- the impact of that revolting development, 19.Bf4, winning an Exchange.? If I could ? I would now crank out a line proving Black would then have a crushing attack with his ? Bishop?Pair, but I dont see it.? Just plain missed it, darn- but I still have Black on the defensive....?? 19...Bf8 20.b4 Nf6 21.a4?? Ra1 is alive after all!? 21...Rxe1+ 22.Qxe1 a5? ?? Darn, Black isnt caving in with 22...a6??? and he finds that 22...Re8 23.Qc1 doesnt help his cause either.?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 23.ab Rxb5 24.ba Rxa5 25.Rxa5 Nxa5?26.Ne5?? All the same I am now hitting a lot of light squares and the?back rank as Black is still hitting air.? The?terribly ugly 26...Nb7?? might be the best chance for Blacks survival, but he chafes at the prospect of finally being able to do something?? 26...Qa3 27.Bxg6!? I call that obvious bluff, and raise a Kingside attack!?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 27...hg 28.g5 Nh7?? Doubling up on Paul Grimm, who usually settles for only one Kt ? on the rim.(more often, none)...? 29.h4 Be7?? White?doesnt get to play h5 for free, but doesnt need to....???? ?? 30.Qe2?? With the ever so subtle threat of 31.Qf3???? 30...Qd6 31.Qf3? And still Black is unable to defend- 31...f6 32.Nxg6 fg 33.Nf5 hits hard; 31...f5 32.Nxg6 Qxg6 33.Qxd5+ clips Na5 with a decisive advantage??? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 31...Qe6 32.Ne2 Nc6 33.Nxc6 Qxc6 34.Nf4? The ending is hideous for Black, thus the drastic measures...? 34...Nxg5??? Often you'll see a '?' attached here.? Fine, what is Black to do that improves his lousy position, that results in draw?or win instead of loss? ? Objectively '?' is correct, but realistically all other moves are doomed as well????????????????? ????? 35.hg Bxg5 36.Nxd5?? White wins another piece- some pins are more equal than?others??? 36...Bxd2 37.Ne7+? 1-0????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????? Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays/Seasons Greetings/Happy Festivus to all, and?cheers to a glorious new year!? Andy Rea ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andy Rea - Scott Low 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.e3 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Bd3 Bg4 6.h3 Bh5 7.Nbd2 e6 8.Qa4 c4 9.Bb1 Nd7 10.e4 Rb8 11.exd5 exd5 12.0-0 b5 13.Qd1 Qf6 14.Re1+ Be7 15.g4 Bg6 16.Nf1 0-0 17.Ng3 Rfe8 18.Bf5 Qd6 19.Bd2 Bf8 20.b4 Nf6 21.a4 Rxe1+ 22.Qxe1 a5 23.axb5 Rxb5 24.bxa5 Rxa5 25.Rxa5 Nxa5 26.Ne5 Qa3 27.Bxg6 hxg6 28.g5 Nh7 29.h4 Be7 30.Qe2 Qd6 31.Qf3 Qe6 32.Ne2 Nc6 33.Nxc6 Qxc6 34.Nf4 Nxg5 35.hxg5 Bxg5 36.Nxd5 Bxd2 37.Ne7+ 1-0 Low resigns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081221/a8a05131/attachment.htm From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Sun Dec 21 10:40:57 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:40:57 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Christmas /Chanukah Message-ID: <1229881257.494e7fa975a09@www.taom.com> I was raised Catholic but Danielle Rice is trying to teach me some Jewish culture. We are going to Vegas on Christmas Day for a Chess tournament. This one came from Ann "Soccer Mom" Davies. Brian Wall ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sam Blumner Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 8:36 PM To: Sam Blumner Subject: christmas/chanukkah Subject: Fwd: Christmas /Chanukah Now, if anyone asks you what the difference is between Christmas and Chanukah you will know what and how to answer 1. Christmas is one day, same day every year, December 25. Jews also love December 25th. It's another paid day off work. We go to the movies and out for Chinese food and Israeli dancing. Chanukah is 8 days. It starts the evening of the 24th of Kislev, whenever that falls. No one is ever sure. Jews never know until a non-Jewish friend asks when Chanukah starts forcing us to consult a calendar so we don't look like idiots. We all have the same calendar, provided free with a donation from the World Jewish Congress, the kosher butcher or the local Sinai Memorial Chapel (especially in Florida ) or other Jewish funeral homes. 2. Christmas is a major holiday. Chanukah is a minor holiday with the same theme as most Jewish holidays. They tried to kill us, we survived, let's eat. 3. Christians get wonderful presents such as jewelry, perfume, stereos, etc. Jews get practical presents such as underwear, socks or the collected works of the Rambam, which looks impressive on the bookshelf. 4. There is only one way to spell Christmas. No one can decide how to spell Chanukah, Chanukkah, Chanukka, Channukah, Hanukah, Hannukah, etc. 5. Christmas is a time of great pressure for husbands and boyfriends. Their partners expect special gifts. Jewish men are relieved of that burden. No one expects a diamond ring on Hanukah. 6. Christmas brings enormous electric bills. Candles are used for Chanukah. Not only are we spared enormous electric bills, but we get to feel good about not contributing to the energy crisis. 7. Christmas carols are beautiful...Silent Night, Come All Ye Faithful. Chanu kah songs are about dreidels made from clay or having a party and dancing the hora. Of course, we are secretly pleased that many of the beautiful carols were composed and written by our tribal brethren. And don't Barbara Streisand and Neil Diamond sing them beautifully? 8. A home preparing for Christmas smells wonderful like the sweet smell of cookies and cakes baking. Happy people are gathered around in festive moods. A home preparing for Chanukah smells of oil, potatoes and onions. The home, as always, is full of loud people all talking at once. 9. Christian women have fun baking Christmas cookies. Jewish women burn their eyes and cut their hands grating potatoes and onions for latkes on Chanukah. Another reminder of our suffering through the ages. 10. Parents deliver presents to their children during Christmas. Jewish parents have no qualms about withholding a gift on any of the eight nights. 11. The players in the Christmas story have easy to pronounce names such as Mary, Joseph and Jesus. The players in the Chanukah story are Ant iochus , Judah Maccabee and Matta whatever. No one can spell it or pronounce it. On the plus side, we can tell our friends anything and they believe we are wonderfully versed in our history. 12. Many Christians believe in the virgin birth. Jews think, "Yossela, Bubela, snap out of it. Your woman is pregnant, you didn't sleep with her, and now you want to blame G-d? Here's the number of my shrink". 13. In recent years, Christmas has become more and more commercialized. The same holds true for Chanukah, even though it is a minor holiday. It makes sense. How could we market a major holiday such as Yom Kippur? Forget about celebrating. Think observing. Come to synagogue, starve yourself for 27 hours, become one with your dehydrated soul, beat your chest, confess your sins, a guaranteed good time for you and your family. Tickets a mere $200 per person. Better stick with Chanukah This explains a lot. Happy holidays. From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Sun Dec 21 10:59:39 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:59:39 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Christmas Week Message-ID: <1229882379.494e840ba9804@www.taom.com> I just read a Christmas book given to me by my brother Patrick Shut Up, Stop Whining and Get a Life by Larry Winget Larry is the star of A&E's reality show BIG SPENDER where he yells at couples who overspend their credit cards. The funniest part is where he counts the shoes and handbags of crying shopaholics who "love their family". eating Christmas peanut brittle by my brother Charlie My son is off school until January - I will watch him all this week until I leave for Vegas with Danielle Christmas night. Anthea Carson and Joel Johnson won't be there like last year. Seeing David Zimbeck, Jerry Hanken, Elizabeth Vicary, Hikaru Nakamura again would be fun. If Dennis Monokroussos is there again I will introduce myself this time. Anyone from Colorado or Wyoming going? Last year I didn't play, just promoted my book. This year I am shooting for the under 2300 prize. I will probably have to crush a few GMs to claim it. 18th annual NORTH AMERICAN OPEN Ballys Las Vegas $150,000 projected prizes, $100,000 minimum guaranteed! An American Classic December 26-29 or 27-29, Nevada World Chess Live Grand Prix Points: 200 (enhanced) 18th annual North American Open. 7SS, 40/2, SD/1 (3-day option, rds 1-4 G/75), Bally's Casino Resort, 3645 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas NV 89103. $$ 150,000 based on 750 paid entries (seniors count as 3/4 entries, re-entries & GMs as half entries, U1000/Unr Section rated players as 1/5, unrateds in U1000 not counted), else in proportion; $100,000 minimum (2/3 each prize) guaranteed. Unrated must enter U1000/Unr or Open Section. NOTE CORRECTION! No unrated player may win over $1500 in the Under 1300 Section. There is no Under 1200 Section, so no U1200 prize limit. In 7 sections. Open Section: Open to all, but EF is $200 more if Under 1900 or unrated. $12000-6000-3500-2500-1400-1000-800-700-600-500, clear winner or 1st on tiebreak bonus $200, 2300-2499 $3000-1500, U2300/Unr $3000-1500. FIDE rated. Under 2100 Section: $10000-5000-3000-2000-1000-800-700-600-500-400. Under 1900 Section: $10000-5000-3000-2000-1000-800-700-600-500-400. Under 1700 Section: $10000-5000-3000-2000-1000-800-700-600-500-400. Under 1500 Section: $8000-4000-2000-1500-1000-800-700-600-500-400. Under 1300 Section: $8000-4000-2000-1500-1000-800-700-600-500-400. Under 1000/Unr Section: $400-200-120-80, trophies to top 10, no unrated may win over $100. Prize limits: 1) Players with under 26 games played as of 12/08 list may not win over $1500 U1300 (not U1200, there is no U1200 Section), $2500 U1500 through U2100. Games rated too late for 12/08 list not counted. 2) If more than 30 pts over section maximum on any list 12/07-11/08, prize limit $1500. 3) Balance of any limited prize goes to next player(s) in line. Mailed entry fee: 4-day $244, 3-day $243 mailed by 10/15, 4-day $274, 3-day $273 mailed by 12/12. ONLINE entry fee: $245 at chesstour.com by 10/15, $275 by 12/19, $300 12/20 until two hours before round 1. Phoned entry fee: $250 phoned to 406-896-2038 by 10/15 (no questions), $280 by 12/19. No phone entry after 12/19. Entry fee at site: $300. Open Section entry fee surcharge: Open Section EF $200 more if under 1900 or unrated; 90% of surcharges added to prize fund. Special entry fee: Seniors over 65 in Under 1300 or above, $70 less. Re-entry $120; not available in Open Section. GMs $150 from prize. Under 1000/Unr Section entry fee: 4-day $44, 3-day $43 if mailed by 12/12, $45 ONLINE at chesstour.com by 12/19, $50 phoned by 12/19 (406-896-2038, entry only, no questions), $60 at site. FREE ENTRY TO UNRATED in U1000/Unr Section. All: No checks at site, credit cards OK. Special 1 year USCF dues with Chess Life if paid with entry- online at chesstour.com, unrated $20, rated $30. If mailed, phoned or paid at site, unrated $30, rated $40. Cost of reduced dues borne by Continental Chess. 4-day schedule reg. ends 12/26 5 pm, rds 12/26 6 pm, 12/27 10 & 5, 12/28 10 & 5, 12/29 10 & 4:30. 3-day schedule reg. ends 12/27 4 pm, rds 12/27 5-8:30, 12/28 10-1:30-5, 12/29 10-4:30. Half point byes (note change): OK all rounds, limit 2, must commit before rd 3 and have under 2 pts. Hotel rates: $96-96, 800-833-3308, 702-739-4111, rate may increase if not reserved by 11/22, all rooms in chess block may sell out about 11/1. Free parking (garage at adjacent Paris Las Vegas Hotel is most convenient). Car rental: Avis, 800-331-1600, use AWD #D657633, or reserve car online through chesstour.com. Ratings: December official USCF rating list used. Unofficial uschess.org ratings based on 4 or more games are usually used if otherwise unrated. Unofficial ratings are not used if you have an official rating. Foreign player rating info. Unofficial uschess.org ratings based on 4 or more games are usually used if otherwise unrated. Unofficial ratings are not used if you have an official rating. Special rules: In round 3 or after, players with scores of 80% or more and their opponents may not use headphones, earphones, or cellphones or go to a different floor of the hotel without Director permission, and must submit to a search for electronic devices if requested by Director. Entry: Continental Chess, Box 249, Salisbury Mills NY 12577. Questions: www.chesstour.com, 845-496-9658. Advance entries posted at chesstour.com. WCL JGP. From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Sun Dec 21 11:59:04 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:59:04 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] My Youtube videos so far Message-ID: <1229885944.494e91f83a775@www.taom.com> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV3rjuo0UiY Shattering the Scheveningen pt 1 most views for me so far Chris Peterson channel on youtube GM Nisipeannu idea beats Robert Ramirez sagacious00004 Shattering the Scheveningen pt 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9AzWkqrePI&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfONfrGcS3o Larimar of Laramie pt 1 Wyoming brilliancy Larimar of Laramie pt 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ViffhZM7Rk&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oT6QcOHj-M Fork Trick pt 1 Trix are for Kids Fork Trick pt 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWpWin-ZjeI&feature=related another Fork Trick Youtube Chess video Chess Opening: Four Knights' Game 4.Bc4 Nxe4 18,000 views GreenCastle Block http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-abXbOctfA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJzXOpqcJdg&feature=related Rashid Rashid pt 1 maybe the greaest game ever played Polugaevsky-Nehzmetdinov Queen sac with King in the middle Rashid Rashid pt 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOuz1bYdo3M&feature=related another Youtube video of Polugaevsky-Nehzmetdinov Letsplaychess.com presents Instructive game: King Hunt! kingscrusher http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIjDvqCVftw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exGSXjvKej0&feature=related Fishing Pole: First Blood pt 1 Francisco Baltier 1500 crushes GM Walter Browne 2500 and Rambo too Fishing Pole: First Blood pt 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgqVkqrNH_4&feature=related The most popular companion video Chess Openings: Fishing Pole - Play chess like an Animal Anthea Carson on the Fishing Pole http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCk6zdtSLk&feature=related companion video Tim Brennan filming Walter Browne losing to Francisco after Re1 Walter Browne chess simul Reno http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnN9mqed3l0&feature=related ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- There are also links on MySpace, Facebook, www.ColoradoChessgames.com From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Dec 21 18:08:39 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:08:39 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] One move does it all Message-ID: <1229908119.494ee8975a8fa@www.taom.com> DariusX9 - 1787 [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "dariusx9 at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.12.21"] [Result "0-1"] 1. c4 f5 2. e3 g6 3. a3 Bg7 4. Nc3 c5 5. Be2 Nc6 6. b3 Nh6 7. Bb2 O-O 8. h3 Nf7 9. h4 h6 10. Qc2 d6 11. Nf3 e5 12. Nd5 e4 13. Bxg7 Kxg7 14. Nh2 Nfe5 15. g3 Be6 16. Nf1 Bxd5 17. cxd5 Ne7 18. Bc4 a6 19. Qc3 b5 20. Be2 Nxd5 21. Qb2 Nf6 22. f4 exf3 23. Bd1 Nd3# 0-1 From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Dec 22 22:37:11 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:37:11 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] An old Fischer idea Message-ID: <1230010631.49507907153aa@www.taom.com> Momce - 2054 www.Chesscube.com An old idea I learned from Bobby - to sac a piece for three connected passed pawns. [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Black "momce at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.12.18"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Qd2 a6 8. O-O-O Qc7 9. Kb1 Be7 10. f4 b5 11. Bxb5 Bobby's idea 11 ... axb5 12. Ndxb5 Qb8 13. Bxf6 gxf6 14. Nxd6+ Bxd6 15. Qxd6 Qxd6 16. Rxd6 I have good practical chances as I roll my pawns up the board. The evaluation may be even but if I can carefully advance Black is quickly in trouble. 16 ... Ne7 17. Rhd1! O-O 18. Rd8 I wanted to simplify - 18 a4! is good - it's hard work to delicately advance your pawns in a blitz game. Do I advance my g-pawn one square or two? - my a-pawn one square or two? - my b-pawn one square or two? Half of Brian's wins involve a pawn wave - NM Josh Bloomer 18 ... Ba6 19. Rxf8+ Kxf8 The trade is double-edged - my pawns are easier to advance but Momce's King is closer 20. b4 Rc8 21. Kb2! Bc4 22. Rd7 e5 23. f5 Nc6 24. b5! Nd4! 25. a4! I seem to be making progress 25 ... Rb8 26. Nd5 26 Rc7!! discourages ... N:b5 27 ab B:b5 hitting the d7-rook, ... Bd3 discovered check, ... B:e4 while 26 Nd5 encourages the idea 26 ... Kg7 26 ... N:b5! is best but Momce doesn't want to return the piece 27. Ne3 27 Nc7!! restricting ... N:b5 ideas is best 27 ... Be2 Take the escape route - 27 ... N:b5 28 ab B:b5= hitting my rook followed by ... Bd3+:e4 27 ... N:b5 28 N:c4? Nd6+ 29 Kc3? N:e4+ followed by ... Nc5+:d7 28. c3? Giving Black a way out with 28 c3 N:b5 29 ab B:b5 hitting my rook followed by ... Bd3+:e4. 28 Ra7!! is correct. 28 ... Nc6? 29. Kb3 One of many wins, 29 c4!! being best. It doesn't take very much before Black is lost. 29 ... h5 30. h4 Fixing Momce's King and h-pawn 30 Nc4!! was best 30 ... Bxb5! Getting desperate to stop my pawn armada. He refused to return the piece when it equalized, now he has to just to slow me down a little. 31. axb5! Rxb5+! 32. Kc2 extra pawn, active pieces 32 ... Rc5 33. Kd3 Ra5 34. Rd6 Ne7 35. Nd5 Nxd5 A hopeless rook ending but I already had an extra passed pawn and a dominating position 36. exd5 Ra2! 37. c4! Rxg2! 38. c5!! It's over 38 ... Rg3+! 39. Kc4!! Rg4+! 40. Kb5! Rxh4 41. Rd8 41 c6!! is faster 41 ... Rh1! 42. c6 Rb1+! 43. Ka6! Ra1+! 44. Kb7! Rb1+! 45. Kc7! h4! 46. Ra8!! I get an ending like this once a week. I sac my rook for his passed pawn and beat his rook with my two pawns. 46 ... h3! 47. Ra2!! Rh1 48. d6!! h2 49. d7!! 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Black "momce at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.12.18"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Qd2 a6 8. O-O-O Qc7 9. Kb1 Be7 10. f4 b5 11. Bxb5 axb5 12. Ndxb5 Qb8 13. Bxf6 gxf6 14. Nxd6+ Bxd6 15. Qxd6 Qxd6 16. Rxd6 Ne7 17. Rhd1 O-O 18. Rd8 Ba6 19. Rxf8+ Kxf8 20. b4 Rc8 21. Kb2 Bc4 22. Rd7 e5 23. f5 Nc6 24. b5 Nd4 25. a4 Rb8 26. Nd5 Kg7 27. Ne3 Be2 28. c3 Nc6 29. Kb3 h5 30. h4 Bxb5 31. axb5 Rxb5+ 32. Kc2 Rc5 33. Kd3 Ra5 34. Rd6 Ne7 35. Nd5 Nxd5 36. exd5 Ra2 37. c4 Rxg2 38. c5 Rg3+ 39. Kc4 Rg4+ 40. Kb5 Rxh4 41. Rd8 Rh1 42. c6 Rb1+ 43. Ka6 Ra1+ 44. Kb7 Rb1+ 45. Kc7 h4 46. Ra8 h3 47. Ra2 Rh1 48. d6 h2 49. d7 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Leipzig ol (Men) fin-A"] [Site "Leipzig"] [Date "1960.10.16"] [Round "8"] [White "Fischer,Robert James"] [Black "Najdorf,Miguel"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "B81"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.g4 a6 7.g5 Nfd7 8.Be3 b5 9.a3 Bb7 10.Qd2 Be7 11.h4 Nc5 12.f3 Qc7 13.0-0-0 Nbd7 14.Bxb5 axb5 15.Ndxb5 Qc6 16.Nxd6+ Bxd6 17.Qxd6 0-0-0 18.Qxc6+ Bxc6 19.b4 Na4 20.Rd6 Kc7 21.Rxc6+ Kxc6 22.Nxa4 Ra8 23.Nc3 Rxa3 24.Kb2 Rha8 25.f4 Nb6 26.Bxb6 Kxb6 27.Rd1 R3a7 28.Rd6+ Kb7 29.h5 h6 30.gxh6 gxh6 31.f5 Re8 32.Nb5 Ra4 33.c3 exf5 34.Rf6 Re7 35.Nd6+ Kb8 36.exf5 Ra6 37.Rxh6 Kc7 38.Nb5+ Kb7 39.Nd6+ Kc7 40.Nb5+ Kb7 41.Rh7 Rf6 42.Nd4 Re4 43.Kc2 Re3 44.Kb3 Re4 45.Rh8 Rh4 46.Re8 Rxh5 47.Re7+ Kc8 48.Kc4 Rh3 49.b5 Rg3 50.Nc6 Rxf5 51.Na7+ Kd8 52.Nc6+ Kc8 53.Re4 Kc7 54.Nd4 Rf1 55.Re7+ Kb6 56.Rd7 Rc1 57.Rd6+ Kb7 58.Ne2 Rg4+ 59.Nd4 Rg3 1/2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Leipzig ol (Men) fin-A"] [Site "Leipzig"] [Date "1960.10.16"] [Round "8"] [White "Fischer,Robert James"] [Black "Najdorf,Miguel"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "B81"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.g4 a6 7.g5 Nfd7 8.Be3 b5 9.a3 Bb7 10.Qd2 Be7 11.h4 Nc5 12.f3 Qc7 13.0-0-0 Nbd7 14.Bxb5 axb5 15.Ndxb5 Qc6 16.Nxd6+ Bxd6 17.Qxd6 0-0-0 18.Qxc6+ Bxc6 19.b4 Na4 20.Rd6 Kc7 21.Rxc6+ Kxc6 22.Nxa4 Ra8 23.Nc3 Rxa3 24.Kb2 Rha8 25.f4 Nb6 26.Bxb6 Kxb6 27.Rd1 R3a7 28.Rd6+ Kb7 29.h5 h6 30.gxh6 gxh6 31.f5 Re8 32.Nb5 Ra4 33.c3 exf5 34.Rf6 Re7 35.Nd6+ Kb8 36.exf5 Ra6 37.Rxh6 Kc7 38.Nb5+ Kb7 39.Nd6+ Kc7 40.Nb5+ Kb7 41.Rh7 Rf6 42.Nd4 Re4 43.Kc2 Re3 44.Kb3 Re4 45.Rh8 Rh4 46.Re8 Rxh5 47.Re7+ Kc8 48.Kc4 Rh3 49.b5 Rg3 50.Nc6 Rxf5 51.Na7+ Kd8 52.Nc6+ Kc8 53.Re4 Kc7 54.Nd4 Rf1 55.Re7+ Kb6 56.Rd7 Rc1 57.Rd6+ Kb7 58.Ne2 Rg4+ 59.Nd4 Rg3 1/2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Tue Dec 23 15:45:28 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:45:28 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Nothing is over. Nothing. You just don't turn it off. Message-ID: <1230072328.49516a082716f@www.taom.com> My son is learning from Francisco Baltier/Larry Christiansen/ Rambo. In an elementary league match, he was down a Queen and a rook and won anyway. In a blitz game Devon was down a rook but he watched Chris Peterson's Rambo video. After the game he was quoting Rambo - Rambo: Nothing is over! Nothing! [Event "ICC 2 12"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.12.23"] [Round "-"] [White "DevonWall"] [Black "fuzbuz"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "784"] [BlackElo "829"] [Opening "Four knights: Spanish variation"] [ECO "C48"] [NIC "KP.03"] [Time "16:41:15"] [TimeControl "120+12"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 d6 5. Bxc6+ bxc6 6. Qe2 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. Qc4 d5 9. Qxc6 Bg4 10. exd5 Bxf3 11. gxf3 Bb4 12. d6 Bxc3 13. dxc3 cxd6 14. Bg5 h6 15. Bxf6 Qxf6 16. Rad1 Rad8 17. Rd2 Qg5+ Oops 18. Kh1 Qxd2 19. Qc7 Qe2 20. Kg2 Qxc2 21. c4 Qg6+ 22. Kh1 Qd3 23. Rg1 Qxf3+ 24. Rg2 d5 25. Kg1 dxc4 26. Qxe5 Rd2?? Possible mouseslip 27. Qxg7# {Black checkmated} 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 2 12"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.12.23"] [Round "-"] [White "DJW215"] [Black "fuzbuz"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "784"] [BlackElo "829"] [Opening "Four knights: Spanish variation"] [ECO "C48"] [NIC "KP.03"] [Time "16:41:15"] [TimeControl "120+12"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 d6 5. Bxc6+ bxc6 6. Qe2 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. Qc4 d5 9. Qxc6 Bg4 10. exd5 Bxf3 11. gxf3 Bb4 12. d6 Bxc3 13. dxc3 cxd6 14. Bg5 h6 15. Bxf6 Qxf6 16. Rad1 Rad8 17. Rd2 Qg5+ 18. Kh1 Qxd2 19. Qc7 Qe2 20. Kg2 Qxc2 21. c4 Qg6+ 22. Kh1 Qd3 23. Rg1 Qxf3+ 24. Rg2 d5 25. Kg1 dxc4 26. Qxe5 Rd2 27. Qxg7# {Black checkmated} 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exGSXjvKej0 Fishing Pole:First Blood pt 1 From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Dec 24 11:51:58 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:51:58 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] anyone driving to vegas? Message-ID: <1230144718.495284ce7e9cf@www.taom.com> Chris Peterson and Daoud Zupa need a ride out to Vegas - I will be in first class dining on pheasant and champagne. - Brian Wall ----- Forwarded message from Daoud Zupa ----- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:48:24 -0700 From: Daoud Zupa Reply-To: Daoud Zupa Subject: anyone driving to vegas? To: brianwall at walverine.com hey, I'm here in Denver and was thinking of playing in the 3 day N. Am Open...anyone driving out there...late thursday or friday? I can help w/ driving and gas money. happy holidays, Daoud -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081224/b5b2b026/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Dec 24 11:55:23 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:55:23 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Hugh Myers R.I.P. Message-ID: <1230144923.4952859b69a35@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from MicMoc ----- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:01:02 +0100 From: MicMoc Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] Hugh Myers R.I.P. To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com A trusted chessfriend wrote me that Hugh Myers died today in Davenport, Iowa, USA. The UCO world will always remember Hugh and "The Myers Openings Bulletin" a real mine of ideas. Davide Rozzoni -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081225/1b98c5dc/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Dec 25 09:24:53 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:24:53 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] A Christmas Gift for DuWayne Langseth Message-ID: <1230222293.4953b3d5c054d@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Paul Anderson ----- Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:08:51 -0000 From: Paul Anderson Reply-To: Paul Anderson Subject: [BrianWallChess] A Christmas Gift for DuWayne Langseth To: BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com DuWayne wanted a win of mine for his website: (http://www.coloradochessgames.com/) So, I thought about what would DuWayne like. I was talking with my mom last night, and she reminded me that I inherited my dad's ability to pick out the exact wrong gift. Who knew, when I bought my mom a large nightgown from Lane Bryant, that it was a store exclusively geard towards obese women. It was more like a tarp than a nightgown. However, I may have just now finally gotten the perfect gift for someone this year. Here is why: DuWayne asked for a win of mine: "I would really like to add one of your games, and despite how interesting our game was, I don't want to add another one of mine! And I want to put one on there that you won, so the Baffo game is out." (DuWayne) DuWayne loved playing postal chess as a kid, and this one is an email game played with my dad from 8/4/98 to 2/8/99 when DuWayne was actually higher rater than me. He was a class A player (1804), and I was a class C player (1565). DuWayne likes Colorado games for his website, and this one finished up at the Glenwood Hot Springs Lodge as we played out the ending on the hotel bed after I confessed to my dad I had checked with the Reuben Fine's Basic Chess Endings he had gotten me for Christmas. For being so resourceful, I had felt like shouting from the turret of my tank in the voice of General Patton, "Dad, you magnificent bastard, *I read your book*!" After all, the saying goes, "All is fair in chess and war." But best of all, DuWayne really enjoys putting endgame positions into the many databases he has collected. Since this was the longest recorded win I have and came down to a pawn and bishop, it had the right characteristics to work in these databases. After all, you can only have 3 or 4 pieces on the board (besides the kings): http://www.lokasoft.nl/uk/tbweb.htm Here is the 5 piece FEN input: 8/8/4k3/8/p3K3/8/P6B/8 b - - 0 66 As I understand it, the position is in the database and is mate in 57! http://www.shredderchess.com/online-chess/online-databases/endgame- database.html Here is the 6 piece FEN input: 8/8/8/8/p3pB1k/8/P4K2/8 b - - 0 63 Of course, this is mate in 61 and the furthest back the database can go, despite the fact that the mate in 62 line is now completely obvious to even a novice player. I opted not to announce mate in 62 here out of respect for my dad. So, DuWayne's family can return his gifts and will have to put together their doll houses and bicycles by themselves as DuWayne will be playing with my present all day this Christmas! Merry Christmas! [Event "6-4-2"] [Site "Glenwood Springs"] [Date "1999.02.08"] [Round "?"] [White "Anderson, Paul"] [Black "Anderson, Douglas"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D20"] [PlyCount "209"] [EventDate "1998.08.04"] [TimeControl "0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 c5 4. d5 e6 5. Bxc4 e5 6. Nf3 Bd6 7. Nc3 a6 8. O-O h6 9. Be3 Bg4 10. Qa4+ Nd7 11. Be2 Ngf6 12. Qc2 O-O 13. Nh4 Bxe2 14. Qxe2 Nxd5 15. Nxd5 Qxh4 16. Rad1 Bb8 17. g3 Qh3 18. Ne7+ Kh7 19. Nf5 Nf6 20. Bxc5 Re8 21. f3 b5 22. Qe3 g6 23. Qb3 Kg8 24. Nd6 Bxd6 25. Rxd6 Kg7 26. Rfd1 Qc8 27. Be3 Ng8 28. Qd5 Re7 29. Rc1 Qb7 30. Rcc6 f6 31. Rb6 Qc8 32. Rdc6 Qh3 33. Rxf6 Nxf6 34. Qxa8 Rd7 35. Rb7 Qe6 36. Rxd7+ Nxd7 37. Bxh6+ Kf7 38. Qb7 Kf6 39. b3 Qd6 40. Qa7 Qc6 41. Be3 Qd6 42. Bf2 Qc6 43. Qe3 Qe6 44. h4 Ke7 45. Qg5+ Kf7 46. g4 Nf6 47. Kg2 a5 48. Qd2 a4 49. bxa4 bxa4 50. Bc5 Nxe4 51. fxe4 Qxg4+ 52. Kf1 Qxe4 53. Qd7+ Kg8 54. Qe8+ Kh7 55. Qf7+ Kh6 56. Be7 Kh5 57. Bg5 Qf5+ 58. Qxf5 gxf5 59. Kf2 Kg4 60. Bf6 f4 61. Bd8 e4 62. Bc7 Kxh4 63. Bxf4 Kg4 64. Ke3 Kf5 65. Bh2 Ke6 66. Kxe4 Kd7 67. Kd5 Kc8 68. Kc6 Kd8 69. Bd6 Ke8 70. Kc7 Kf7 71. Kd7 Kf6 72. Be7+ Ke5 73. Bd8 Kd5 74. Bb6 Ke5 75. Bc7+ Kf6 76. Kd6 Kf7 77. Bd8 Ke8 78. Be7 Kf7 79. Kd7 Kg6 80. Ke6 Kg7 81. Bd6 Kg6 82. Bf8 Kg5 83. Bg7 Kg6 84. Bf6 Kh6 85. Kf7 Kh5 86. Be7 Kg4 87. Kf6 Kf4 88. Ke6 Ke4 89. Bf6 Kf4 90. Bh4 Kg4 91. Be7 Kh5 92. Kf5 Kh6 93. Bf8+ Kh5 94. Bg7 Kh4 95. Bh6 Kg3 96. Bg5 Kf3 97. Bf4 Kf2 98. Ke4 Kg2 99. Kd4 Kf3 100. Bh2 Kg4 101. Kc4 Kf5 102. Kb4 Ke6 103. Kxa4 Kd7 104. Ka5 Kc8 105. Ka6 1-0 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I always imagined Philipp Ponomarev winning the competition because he seems at ease in both worlds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwQxeVI4UVE&feature=rec-HM-rn Josh Waitzkin Hip Hop Chess video From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Dec 25 11:37:50 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:37:50 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] youtube video - Bobby Fischer, Anything to win Message-ID: <1230230270.4953d2fe76e5a@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Curt Carlson ----- Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:35:31 -0800 From: Curt Carlson Reply-To: Curt Carlson Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Searching for Bobby Fischer, Hip Hop Chess To: Brian Wall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o2o3In3g3U, if you haven' seen it already. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Wall To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com ; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com ; Brian Wall Chesslist Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 8:57 AM Subject: [BrianWallChess] Searching for Bobby Fischer, Hip Hop Chess Many people are hypersensitive to noise and distraction especially when they are playing Chess. I had an idea to go in the opposite direction and have a Chess tournament with maximum distraction to be held at a night club, discotech type place with loud music. There would be writhing hip hop dancers to distract the players and prizes would be given for best Chess result and best distraction. I always imagined Philipp Ponomarev winning the competition because he seems at ease in both worlds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwQxeVI4UVE&feature=rec-HM-rn Josh Waitzkin Hip Hop Chess video -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081229/03ad4530/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Dec 30 20:46:58 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:46:58 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] My Dad's Stock Market newsletter was the fifth highest in the nation Message-ID: <1230695218.495aeb32bd4fb@www.taom.com> While everyone else averaged minus 36% PQ Wall stock's earned 10% http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/philosopher-editor-bucks-worst-all/story.aspx?guid=%7B63B32026%2DAD5F%2D4805%2DAA41%2DABCED3F7B2AB%7D&siteid=nwhfriend From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Dec 30 21:15:37 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:15:37 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] North American Open - Flying Message-ID: <1230696937.495af1e930611@www.taom.com> Flying sucks now. When I was a kid commercial flying was expensive and dangerous but it was a fairly new venture so you felt honored to be there. I was 10 years old my first plane flight ( to Denver ) and I wasn't scared. I looked out the window and found the takeoff interesting. To make up for being in a sardine can for 2 hours the airlines tried to create the impression you were at Hugh Hefner's Playboy mansion. Supermodels with super smiles brought you meals, snacks, pillows and drinks. Everything was free. We felt sure that "Charlie's Angels" could handle any terrorist team with flashy, stylish sidekicks. Nowadays they charge you for your suitcase and any snacks or drinks. The stewardesses are hideously old and ugly and there is always a male stewardess on board so old ladies feel safer fighting terrorists. I fly the heavens to escape my life on land, not relive it. The whole experience reeks of a politically correct experiment gone hideously wrong. I was a little nervous flying because a Denver plane had simply skidded off the runway into a ditch, catching fire, two days earlier. Arriving in Vegas, Inexpedia forgot to book our hotel despite taking money months in advance. We had to schlep at midnight our bags from Balley's to the Flamingo, the first Vegas casino with a fascinating history if you are a Mafia afficiando. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Dec 31 00:16:50 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:16:50 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] North American Open stories Message-ID: <1230707810.495b1c6288051@www.taom.com> I have always done badly Chesswise in Las Vegas but I think I understand why now. Training in Colorado for Vegas Chess is like training on the moon for the high jump and attending the event on Earth. Chess suddenly seems 50 times harder and gravity seems 10 times more powerful. In Denver I can get away with anything because everyone blunders so often. In Vegas it's like playing myself, they see everything I see. Everthing seems to go wrong in Nevada, luck seems to desert me. I will show you the games later. I scored 2/5, gave up hope of winning a prize. With 3/6 I was so tired that I didn't check the scores of the other under/2300's. After the tournament I found out a last round 7 draw earned $1,000, a win earned $3,000. Instead, exhausted and discouraged, thining the game had no meaning, I ruined a fine position with a feeble move and begged for a draw, resigning 3 moves later. When I got home, Chess Life had an article on my young oponent. Poor Robert Ramirez had even more of a heartache. In the penultimate round the opening went very well for him. His opponent had some weird digital clock. The time control was the standard 40/2, Game/1 hour, 5 second delay. At the start of the game his clock showed 3 hours. Robert tried to get a clarification. Robert made 20 moves, mostly calculating winning variations. His clock now showed one hour left. His opponent said "Flag!" Robert's protests went unheeded. Robert thought it was Game/3 hours. That cost him $7,000. David Lucky nee Gliksman showed me a nice brilliancy he played. David Zimbeck was awesome as usual, smashing titled players with brilliant play. I played and met WIM Ruth Haring who was on the cover of Chess Life twice. Jerry Hanken might write an article about the year in 1982 that Bobby Fischer lived with Ruth and her ex-husband of 28 years, Canadian GM Peter Biyassis. Aaron Suseras and I had a punching bag contest. Many things went wrong in my Chess games but I think I learned a lot too. I feel positive I can do much, much better. I was sick and coughing the whole time which led to many nosebleeds. At one point my hotel bathroom looked like a murder scene before I wiped up all the blood. In one game I made a good move and has to lie down on my back in another room with 15 minutes left, wondering if my flag was going to fall. When I got back to the board, my opponent resigned. In my game with Ruth Haring I moved to the side of the room and tried to think by staring at the ceiling like Shirov and Ivanchuk do. Ruth came up all concerned asking if I was OK. I smiled feebly and told her I was trying not to cough in her face. I would like to have some Chess seminars for any Coloradans going to the Chicago Open in May. I think if we prepare well we can improve our national results. Last year I attended but I didn't play, just pushed my book. This year, I sold out all my copies of How To Play Chess Like An Animal in about 5 minutes, waiting in line to register. Brenda Goichberg buys them for her nieces and nephews. Danny Ong and family of California's Chess Palace liked the two samples I gave them last year and bought the remaining copies. I occasionally dragged Chessplayers to show off my book, which they then bought from Chess Palace, stationed near the tournament registration desk at Balley's Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. I attended the blitz tournament afterwards. In one 2 game match I helpmated myself twice from winning positions, once when my opponent had 13 seconds left. In the past against Joe Fang and Larry Tapper, I have smashed my fist down on the table, knocking all the pieces off the board for such results. This time I was too tired to get myself further upset. The Chess was interesting but grueling. Despite everything I had a great time. I found some awesome moves which I'll show you later. Who's going to Chicago with me? From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Dec 31 00:21:20 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:21:20 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Duwayne Langseth on - A Christmas Gift for DuWayne Langseth Message-ID: <1230708080.495b1d70def2b@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from DuWayne Langseth ----- Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:04:18 -0000 From: DuWayne Langseth Reply-To: DuWayne Langseth Subject: [BrianWallChess] RE: A Christmas Gift for DuWayne Langseth To: BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com Paul, Merry Christmas to you too! Hey, what a game! That's my kind of chess. Your opponent actually didn't just give away their pieces. I know I'm consistently badgering you about how your opponents seem to fall into a trance and give their pieces to you as you casually take them and win. Well, I was very impressed with your father. Now I know how you jumped ahead of me in rating so quickly. You had a dad who was a real chess player. My dad knew how to play, but I could probably beat him blindfolded. He was (and still is) an expert hunter though! And I'm proud of him too. One out of two isn't bad. Now, your endgame play was truly outstanding. Winning that game was no easy feat even if you were playing correspondence most of the time. You had to find the strategy of pushing the opponent's king completely around the board, gaining you the extra tempo you needed to win it. My compliments! My guess is that he likely had a forced 50-move-rule draw at some point, but it's tough to prove. Pat him on the back for me! That one's definitely headed for the web site. Lastly, break a leg Brian, in the North American Open! DuWayne DuWayne wanted a win of mine for his website: (http://www.coloradochessgames.com/) So, I thought about what would DuWayne like. I was talking with my mom last night, and she reminded me that I inherited my dad's ability to pick out the exact wrong gift. Who knew, when I bought my mom a large nightgown from Lane Bryant, that it was a store exclusively geard towards obese women. It was more like a tarp than a nightgown. However, I may have just now finally gotten the perfect gift for someone this year. Here is why: DuWayne asked for a win of mine: "I would really like to add one of your games, and despite how interesting our game was, I don't want to add another one of mine! And I want to put one on there that you won, so the Baffo game is out." (DuWayne) DuWayne loved playing postal chess as a kid, and this one is an email game played with my dad from 8/4/98 to 2/8/99 when DuWayne was actually higher rater than me. He was a class A player (1804), and I was a class C player (1565). DuWayne likes Colorado games for his website, and this one finished up at the Glenwood Hot Springs Lodge as we played out the ending on the hotel bed after I confessed to my dad I had checked with the Reuben Fine's Basic Chess Endings he had gotten me for Christmas. For being so resourceful, I had felt like shouting from the turret of my tank in the voice of General Patton, "Dad, you magnificent bastard, *I read your book*!" After all, the saying goes, "All is fair in chess and war." But best of all, DuWayne really enjoys putting endgame positions into the many databases he has collected. Since this was the longest recorded win I have and came down to a pawn and bishop, it had the right characteristics to work in these databases. After all, you can only have 3 or 4 pieces on the board (besides the kings): http://www.lokasoft.nl/uk/tbweb.htm Here is the 5 piece FEN input: 8/8/4k3/8/p3K3/8/P6B/8 b - - 0 66 As I understand it, the position is in the database and is mate in 57! http://www.shredderchess.com/online-chess/online-databases/endgame- database.html Here is the 6 piece FEN input: 8/8/8/8/p3pB1k/8/P4K2/8 b - - 0 63 Of course, this is mate in 61 and the furthest back the database can go, despite the fact that the mate in 62 line is now completely obvious to even a novice player. I opted not to announce mate in 62 here out of respect for my dad. So, DuWayne's family can return his gifts and will have to put together their doll houses and bicycles by themselves as DuWayne will be playing with my present all day this Christmas! Merry Christmas! [Event "6-4-2"] [Site "Glenwood Springs"] [Date "1999.02.08"] [Round "?"] [White "Anderson, Paul"] [Black "Anderson, Douglas"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D20"] [PlyCount "209"] [EventDate "1998.08.04"] [TimeControl "0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 c5 4. d5 e6 5. Bxc4 e5 6. Nf3 Bd6 7. Nc3 a6 8. O-O h6 9. Be3 Bg4 10. Qa4+ Nd7 11. Be2 Ngf6 12. Qc2 O-O 13. Nh4 Bxe2 14. Qxe2 Nxd5 15. Nxd5 Qxh4 16. Rad1 Bb8 17. g3 Qh3 18. Ne7+ Kh7 19. Nf5 Nf6 20. Bxc5 Re8 21. f3 b5 22. Qe3 g6 23. Qb3 Kg8 24. Nd6 Bxd6 25. Rxd6 Kg7 26. Rfd1 Qc8 27. Be3 Ng8 28. Qd5 Re7 29. Rc1 Qb7 30. Rcc6 f6 31. Rb6 Qc8 32. Rdc6 Qh3 33. Rxf6 Nxf6 34. Qxa8 Rd7 35. Rb7 Qe6 36. Rxd7+ Nxd7 37. Bxh6+ Kf7 38. Qb7 Kf6 39. b3 Qd6 40. Qa7 Qc6 41. Be3 Qd6 42. Bf2 Qc6 43. Qe3 Qe6 44. h4 Ke7 45. Qg5+ Kf7 46. g4 Nf6 47. Kg2 a5 48. Qd2 a4 49. bxa4 bxa4 50. Bc5 Nxe4 51. fxe4 Qxg4+ 52. Kf1 Qxe4 53. Qd7+ Kg8 54. Qe8+ Kh7 55. Qf7+ Kh6 56. Be7 Kh5 57. Bg5 Qf5+ 58. Qxf5 gxf5 59. Kf2 Kg4 60. Bf6 f4 61. Bd8 e4 62. Bc7 Kxh4 63. Bxf4 Kg4 64. Ke3 Kf5 65. 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URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081231/ff0e16f2/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Dec 31 00:41:31 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:41:31 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] First FP from Dave Message-ID: <1230709291.495b222b3d886@www.taom.com> Vaughn Bennet walked up to me and bought How To Play Chess Like An Animal while I was waiting in line to register. I inscribed one book for his son and one for his wife. Vaughn is a Washington, DC Chess organizer that coaches hundreds of Chess kids. Nice guy. Dave and Vaughn Bennet are good buddies. Brian Wall ------------------------------------------------------- ----- Forwarded message from Dave ----- Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:03:39 -0000 From: Dave Reply-To: Dave Subject: [BrianWallChess] First FP To: BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com Well I finally tried the FP on the ICCafter reading Brian's posts for the last year. OK, the opposition was weak (1400) but it's still nice to deliver mate on move 12- something that hasn't been happening with my other openings. He of course made the mistake of "unleashing the gates of Hell". Thanks Brian! BTW, if you run into my friend and fellow chess organizer Vaughn Bennett in Vegas, I told him you were the FP guru and that he should get a lesson from you. Good luck! -Dave [Event "5 min blitz"] [Site "ICC"] [Date "2008.12.27"] [Round "?"] [White "Some dude 1400"] [Black "Dave"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C78"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Ng4 6. h3 h5 7. Nc3 Bc5 8. hxg4 hxg4 9. Bxc6 dxc6 10. Nxe5 Qh4 11. Qxg4 Bxg4 12. Re1 Qh1# 0-1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081231/5598a182/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Dec 31 12:53:16 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:53:16 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Who needs a booth? Message-ID: <1230753196.495bcdac3753e@www.taom.com> David Gliksman was big in Colorado for a while. Top rating - 2480 He changed his name to David Lucky. David is successful at renting and selling booth for exhibits in Las Vegas, Nevada now. Lucky Exhibits David Lucky 6628 Sky Pointe Drive, Suite 120 Las Vegas, Nevada 89131 Toll free 866 -775- 4764 Fax 702-914-9444 David at LuckyExhibits.com www.LuckyExhibits.com We buy and sell used trade show booths Best Lucky story - David beat Walter Browne in Chess. Walter tried to get revenge in tennis and lost even worse on the same day. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Dec 31 15:31:48 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:31:48 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] North American Stories - David Lucky Message-ID: <1230762708.495bf2d4eaafb@www.taom.com> David Lucky ----- Forwarded message from david ----- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:42:42 -0800 From: david Reply-To: david Subject: RE: Who needs a booth? To: 'Brian Wall' Hi Brian, Good seeing you at the tournament, and I enjoyed your interesting stories! Your points are all correct. However, on a side note, I'm not sure if Anthea told you or not, but here's a small incidental, and trivial story: The original name Gliksman was originally spelled Glucksmann by my grandfather in Germany. The family left in the 1930's because of health reasons (it was a bit dangerous to hang around the Nazi's that wanted to kill them at the time. Anyhow, getting back to the main point, in German the word "Glucks" is directly translated as Lucky. Therefore, many years ago I decided simply to do an American translation, or update from the original name. Also, it's worked out very well for me in business, because I used to lose valuable tempos having to constantly spell names for people. With the name update, I have actually been much more lucky in business! Poor Dzindichashvilli! Now that would be very rough name for somebody that has to make a lot of business calls. Anyhow, as promised, here is my round (2) game: White: David Lucky Black: Vadim Kudryavtsev 2232 * post tournament 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4 Qc2 c5 5. dxc5 Na6 6. a3 Bxc5 7. Nf3 0-0 8. Nf3 0-0 9. e4 d6 10. Bb2 Bd7 11. Rd1 Qc7 12. Be2 Rac8 13. 0-0 Rfd8 14. Nd4 Be8 15. f4! A natural move, but white is slowly taking more space, and more control. 15... Qb8 16. Qd3! Coming over to attack blacks kingside. White now has threats such as: 17. Q-g3, with the threat of 18. N-d5 exd5, and then 19. N-f5! Winning. 16... Bd7 Black now decides that the bishop is needed on d7, in order to protect the f5 square, in case of various attacks, or sacrifices by white. 17. Qg3 Nc7 * Trying to regroup 18. e5 Coming for blacks king. 18... Nfe8 19. Ne4 * Threatening things like N-f6+ at the right moment. 19... g6 * trying to batten down the hatches, but it's too late. 20. f5!! dxe5 * If 20...exf5, then 21. exd6! Wins a piece, since fxe4, loses then to dxe7! winning blacks rook! 21. fxg6 hxg6 22. Qxe5 * With dominating positing, and lots of threats. 22... Na6 * The only other try was 22...f6, but then 23. Nxf6+ Nxf6, 24. Rxf6 leaves blacks king in a hopeless position. 23. Nc6! Qxe5 24. Nxe7+! * There are also other ways to win, but this line leaves black devastated at the end. 24... Kg7 * If 24..Kf7, then simply 25. Nxc8! Leaves white up a whole rook. 25. Nxf6 Qxe5 26. Bxe5 Resigns * Black is already down a piece, but cannot avoid further losses of material as well. 1-0 Cheers, David David Lucky (702) 38-BOOTH www.luckyexhibits.com David Lucky ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Brian Wall -----Original Message----- From: Brian Wall [mailto:brianwallchess3 at taom.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 11:53 AM To: David at LuckyExhibits.com; BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Brian Wall Chesslist Subject: Who needs a booth? David Gliksman was big in Colorado for a while. Top rating - 2480 He changed his name to David Lucky. David is successful at renting and selling booth for exhibits in Las Vegas, Nevada now. Lucky Exhibits David Lucky 6628 Sky Pointe Drive, Suite 120 Las Vegas, Nevada 89131 Toll free 866 -775- 4764 Fax 702-914-9444 David at LuckyExhibits.com www.LuckyExhibits.com We buy and sell used trade show booths Best Lucky story - David beat Walter Browne in Chess. Walter tried to get revenge in tennis and lost even worse on the same day. Brian Wall From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Dec 31 17:35:18 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:35:18 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Owl guy on TV Message-ID: <1230770118.495c0fc6f22c2@www.taom.com> My favorite new comdedian Matt Braunger made it to David Letterman and MAD TV http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=42570601&blogID=459460173&Mytoken=C12B7C2E-8B49-4198-955A60051C6C0EDA105697519