From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Oct 1 01:18:53 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 01:18:53 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Sick Loss Message-ID: <1222845533.48e3245dbd2ad@www.taom.com> There are some losses that are so gutwrenching, so sickening that they are traumatic. Have you ever played a game that is so painful you never want to look at it again? Ever. From the moment you resign you just want to walk away and never revisit the scene of the crime. Jeff Maguire's daughter, Maureen had such a game. Some Russian father kept advising his son during the game, maybe because boys hate losing to girls. The experience turned her stomach so bad and outraged her sense of fairness so acutely she never played a tournament chess game again. Aiden's slow game at the Denver Chess Club was interfered with by a kibitzer. She never went back. I glanced at the scorsheet 11 years later and winced. I had forgotten how heartbreaking it was. After I missed one hundred wins my 2400 opponent refused to grant me a draw in a dead drawn rook ending. We finally got down to a One versus Two pawns Rook ending I was sure was drawn but it turned out to be harder than I thought. When Robert Rowley did the same thing to me 5 years later, the pain was exponential. Did I forget to mention that I lost both games in 1 vs 2 rook endings after achieving winning posiitons in pet systems? Chessmasters lose less than most and losing won games is fairly rare but, according to Sage Mo, that's what makes their losses so painful. I was going over some games with Danielle Rice last night ( Shana Tova 5760) from a new book by Steve Giddins, some FIDE master from England. In two of the games Keres was smoked in 30 moves or less, annilhilated, really. I wondered how it felt for someone who came in second in 4 consecutive Interzonals to get blown out of the water in the early middlegame. Do losses hurt GMs more than the rest of us? What percentage of won games does Tom Mullikin loses? 30%, I don't know, but he must be familiar with this kind of suffering. [Event "1997 National Open" ] [Site "Las Vegas, Nevada"] [Date "1997.04.12" ] [Round "4"] [White "Brian Wall"] [Black "Josh Manion"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2210"] [BlackElo "2427"] [Opening "KID, Laufer-g5"] [ Time "6 PM"] [TimeControl "40/2/20/1/SD/30"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1997 National Open 40/2 20/1 SD/30 4/12/97 Round 4 Board 29 White - Brian Wall age-42 2210, then 2227, now Black- Josh Manion age 21 born 1976 2427, then 2481, now FIDE 2400 Like my Cyrus Lakdawala loss in the same tournament, this game is also entered in the databases as a Bill Wall game. I have never done well in Vegas. I think one reason is they pair me way up or way down. 1.c4 g6 2.d4! Bg7! 3.e4 d6 4.Nc3 Nf6! 5.f3 0-0! 6.Bg5 The Laufer-g5 system. The way I play it is simple- hold the Kingside, attack the Queenside. 6 ... c5 7.d5 e6 8.Qd2! exd5! 9.cxd5 Na6 10.Bc4 Bd7 11.Nge2! Nc7! 12.a4! a6! 13.a5! TN Wall Theoretical Novelty by me but the most common Benoni concept in the world. Since played 3 times by others. 13 ... Re8 TN Manion Theoretical Novelty by Josh Manion 13 ... Bb5!! ( Hans Carl 2004 ) may be a better try, other moves for consideration - 13 ... Qe7, ... Re8, ... Qe8, ... Rb8 ( Walter Wittman 2006 ), ... Rc8,... Be8, ... Kh8 or ... Nb5 I think I am clearly better no matter what he tries. This is my Ruy Lopez. Fern Chiva Vega later tried Manion's 13 ... Re8 in a 2001 correspondence game 14.0-0! 21 minutes spent on this move 14 ... Nb5? It's all tough for Black - 13 ... Bb5, ... Qe7, ... Rc8, ... Rb8 ( Fern Chiva Vega 2001 ), ... Nb5 ( Manion ) 15.Na4!! Qc7! 16.Nb6! Rab8! These are all standard Benoni ideas and this whole variation can be reached via a Benoni move order. That's actually a small glitch for me because both King's Indian AND Benoni players generally can whip out 10-20 moves of theory on me, no problem. 17.Rac1 Fritz LOVES my position, mentioning dozens of wins, with 17 b4, Rac1, Rab1 or Be3 at the top of the list. My basic plan is working, hold the Kingside, rip open the Queenside. 17 ... Bc8! hideous but best to get in ... Nd7 and try to shake loose my winning bind 18.b4 8 minutes The top of the list among dozens of wins are 18 Qd3, Bf4, b4 and Be3 18 ... Nd7! I am definitely crushing him but let's give Manion some credit, his last 4 moves are best. It shouldn't make a difference. 19.Nxd7 Not bad but I had better. 19 Be3!!! is best, maintaining the tension and letting Josh sit in his mess. 19 Bf4!! is strong - 19 Bf4!! Nd4 20 Kh1!!, bc, N:d7, Na4, Rfd1 are all great 19 bc!! dc 20 B:b5 ab 21 d6 Qc6 22 Nd5! is obviously tremendous 19 bc!! N:c5 20 B:b5 ab 21 Qb4 Bd7 22 Be3 Bf8 23 Nd4 is overwhelming 19 B:b5 ab 20 bc N:c5 or de transposes into losing lines already discussed. I knew I was winning and thought about my decision for 7 minutes. My position was so great I couldn't tell if I should build up the pressure or cash in. Even now, I would swear my "hand" wanted to play 19 Be3!! - retreating this bishop is common in this system, often to challenge the fianchettoed bishop with Bd4 or counteract a Queen on b6 19 ... Bxd7! 20.Be3!! Bf8 Trying to guard c5 21.Bf4 The killer moves this time are 21 Bd3, Bf4, Ng3, Nf4, Bf2 and bc among many others 21 ... b6 22.Bxb5?? 3 minutes There was NO reason to give up bishop for knight and connect his pawns- simply 22 ab!! Q:b6 23 bc dc 24 B:b8 Q:b8 wins the exchange for zero compenation 22 ab!! Q:b6 23 bc Q:c5?? 24 Be3! Qa3 25 Ra1 traps the Queen 21 ... axb5! 23.axb6! Qxb6! 24.bxc5! dxc5! 25.Bxb8! Rxb8? Hoping to ram his connected passed pawns down my throat but abandoning his King. I knew I had let him have way more play than he deserved but I was hoping to win anyway. Given the rating difference I was very nervous. I have lots of interesting ideas here - 26 Ng3 with the idea of e5 and f5 26 Qe3 c4 26 Q:b6 trading Queens so my King can help out 26 Kh1 keeping my options open 26 Rfd1 to support Nd4 I was very nervous and played 7 quick moves in a row ( 21-27) 26.e5 c4+! 27.Kh1! Bc5? Another overzealous move - There are no Kingside pieces defending his King! I thought for 32 minutes to find a way to punish the Democratic candidate. 28.Ng3?? An interesting idea, giving the exchange back for Kingside attacking chances. It almost works. Fritz 9 likes 28 Qc3!! hanging onto my rook; I only left myself five minutes to reach move 40. I figured I had to try something before the pawns rolled. 28 ... Be3! 29.Qb4!! Bxc1! 30.Rxc1! Re8!!! Damn. Josh has an hour to figure things out compared to my 3 minutes. On any other move my Knight and/or Queen invade. 31.Qc3?? inferior - it's depressing to be fighting for equality after my opening success. 31 ... b4!!! Again the only saving move. I should have expected maximum resistance and found an easier win when I had the chance. 32.Qxc4 Rxe5?? My time pressure finally got on Manion's nerves. 32 ... Rc8!! 33 Q:c8+ B:c8 34 R:c8+ is nothing to worry about 32 ... Rc8!! 33 Qf1 R:c1 34 Q:c1 b3!!! and the pawn is too strong. Maybe he realized he missed a clear win here and that's why he couldn't accept the draw 33.Ne4!! Now I am coordinated and safe with 2 minutes for 7 moves 33 ... Bf5! 34.h3? A nervous back rank time pressure move. 34 Rb1! among others is fine 34 ... Bxe4 It was hard getting used to Josh playing so many good moves after watching him twist in the wind like a salted pretzel in the beginning. 34 ... Qe3, ... b3 or ... Kg7 are troublesome too but I should be all right if I can figure things out instantaneously. 35.fxe4! b3? missing forced draws with 35 ... Qe3 36 d6 R:e4 37 Q:e4!! Q:c1+= or ... Q:e4= 36.Rb1! I am outplaying him - my time pressure is messing with his young head 36 ... b2 37.Qc8+! Kg7! 38.Qc3! Qf6! 39.Rxb2 I can annex the b-pawn under better circumstances after 39 Qc2, Qd4 or Qb4 but I was happy to get this far by now 39 ...Rxe4! 40.Qxf6+! Kxf6! I had seconds left, Manion had 27 minutes. Can I hold onto my d-pawn? Does it matter? 41.Rb6+!! The right idea - active counterplay aimed at f7 41 ... Ke7 42.Rb7+! Kf8! 43.Kg1 pushing the d-pawn to d7 and trying to trade it for a Kingside pawn might work 43 ... Rd4! 44.Rb5! Rd2! 45.Kh2 h5 46.Kg3! Ke7! 47.Kf3! Kd6 48.Rb7! f6! 49.Rf7 Draws everywhere like 49 Rg7 or Rb6+ 49 ... Ke5! 50.Re7+! Kf5! 49 ... K:d5?? loses a rook 51.g4+! hxg4+ 52.hxg4+! Kg5! 53.Re4?? I had 11 minutes to reach move 60. My hand wanted to play 53 Rd7!! for 6 minutes but for some reason I thought it would be easier to just go into a 1 pawn versus two pawns rook ending - I thought we would reach rook and pawn versus rook with an easy draw. I felt like I was being hypnotized into losing somehow. The reason 53 Rd7!! is so easy to draw is I can guard my g-pawn or chase his rook away from the d-file and then start pushing my d-pawn forward as a weapon. Dead draw. 53 ... Rxd5! OK he has an extra pawn but isn't this a dead draw too? 54.Ra4 Rd3+ 55.Kg2 Rb3 56.Rc4 Kh4 57.Rf4 Rb2+ 58.Kf1???????? with 6 minutes for 3 moves I get lulled to sleep. 58 Kf3 is fine, Manion can't make any progress. What possessed me to cut off my own King? I "thought" for 2 minutes on this. 58 ... Kg5!! Totally sickening - I lose my last pawn. 59.Ra4 Rh2!! intending Rh4:g4 0-1 I resign in disgust Calmly analyzing the game takes some of the sting out. I learned how many wins I had, maybe even a principle of building up the maximum amount of pressure and tension before cashing in. Also I should have drawn that 1 versus two ending, I just had a teensy tiny slip that blew it. Also if you are lucky enough to have a powerful player on the hook, search for the simplest and clearest win before he confuses you. Also don't give up material unnecessarily. I didn't need to show off by giving up my penultimate pawn. I think the move I am most ashamed of is 19 N:d7 because it is the type of knee-jerk reflex action I hate - billiards Chess - he attacks my b6-knight so I trade it off when I had 5 better moves. In my heart that's where I lost concentration when I needed it most. I should have seen that 19 Be3 N:b6 20 B:b5 ab 21 ab Q:b6 21 bc dc 22 B:c5 is very good for me. 22 B:b5?? was quick and sick, 53 Re4?? was sick, 58 Kf1?? was sick but at least 22 B:b5?? won the exchange, 53 Re4?? should have drawn anyway and 58 Kf1?? was time presure nervousness. There just isn't any good enough excuse for 19 N:d7 except that it won easily. I feel strangely better about the whole experience now. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "1997 National Open" ] [Site "Las Vegas, Nevada"] [Date "1997.04.12" ] [Round "4"] [White "Brian Wall"] [Black "Josh Manion"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2210"] [BlackElo "2427"] [Opening "KID, Laufer-g5"] [ Time "6 PM"] [TimeControl "40/2/20/1/SD/30"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.c4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.e4 d6 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.f3 0-0 6.Bg5 c5 7.d5 e6 8.Qd2 exd5 9.cxd5 Na6 10.Bc4 Bd7 11.Nge2 Nc7 12.a4 a6 13.a5 Re8 14.0-0 Nb5 15.Na4 Qc7 16.Nb6 Rab8 17.Rac1 Bc8 18.b4 Nd7 19.Nxd7 Bxd7 20.Be3 Bf8 21.Bf4 b6 22.Bxb5 axb5 23.axb6 Qxb6 24.bxc5 dxc5 25.Bxb8 Rxb8 26.e5 c4+ 27.Kh1 Bc5 28.Ng3 Be3 29.Qb4 Bxc1 30.Rxc1 Re8 31.Qc3 b4 32.Qxc4 Rxe5 33.Ne4 Bf5 34.h3 Bxe4 35.fxe4 b3 36.Rb1 b2 37.Qc8+ Kg7 38.Qc3 Qf6 39.Rxb2 Rxe4 40.Qxf6+ Kxf6 41.Rb6+ Ke7 42.Rb7+ Kf8 43.Kg1 Rd4 44.Rb5 Rd2 45.Kh2 h5 46.Kg3 Ke7 47.Kf3 Kd6 48.Rb7 f6 49.Rf7 Ke5 50.Re7+ Kf5 51.g4+ hxg4+ 52.hxg4+ Kg5 53.Re4 Rxd5 54.Ra4 Rd3+ 55.Kg2 Rb3 56.Rc4 Kh4 57.Rf4 Rb2+ 58.Kf1 Kg5 59.Ra4 Rh2 0-1 I resign in disgust -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Keres got an easy draw with Gliga so he repeated the opening two days later and got smoked. [Event "URS-YUG"] [Site "Zagreb"] [Date "1958.??.??"] [Round "3"] [White "Gligoric,Svetozar"] [Black "Keres,Paul"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "E43"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 0-0 5.Nf3 c5 6.Bd3 b6 7.0-0 Bb7 8.Bd2 cxd4 9.exd4 d5 10.cxd5 Bxc3 11.bxc3 Qxd5 12.c4 Qd6 13.Re1 Nbd7 14.Bc3 Rfd8 15.h3 Rac8 16.Re3 h6 17.Qb3 Bxf3 18.Rxf3 e5 19.dxe5 Nxe5 20.Bxe5 Qxe5 21.Rb1 1/2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This must be one of Keres' ugliest losses ever. http://www.chessville.com/reviews/50EssentialChessLessons.htm Chessville review of Steve Giddins Fifty Essential Chess Lessons, a fun book. Steve is focussed on prose, not variations and he does a great job of explaining the salient points in English we can understand and appreciate. [Event "URS-YUG"] [Site "Zagreb"] [Date "1958.??.??"] [Round "2"] [White "Gligoric,Svetozar"] [Black "Keres,Paul"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "E43"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 c5 5.Bd3 b6 6.Nf3 Bb7 7.0-0 0-0 8.Bd2 cxd4 9.exd4 d5 10.cxd5 Bxc3 11.bxc3 Qxd5 12.c4 Qd6 13.Bc3 Nbd7 14.Re1 Rac8 15.h3? Steve didn't point out that this is a poor move due to 15 ... Nd5!! 16 Bb2 Nf4 and Keres is all right. I guess he didn't want to spoil the effect. 15 ... Rfd8! 16.Re3 Nh5?? Here's a fun line 17 g3 N:g3?? 18 Ng5!! Nf5 19 Qh5 Nh6 20 d5!! with a blistering attack 17.d5!! Nc5! 18.Ng5!! g6! 19.Be2! Ng7! 20.Qd4! Qf8! 21.Qh4! h5! 22.Bg4!! A great winning move. Danielle Rice and I looked at 22 N:e6!? ( Rice ) fe 23 Rg3! (Wall ) Qf7 and we missed that 24 B:g7?? Q:g7 25 B:h5?? fails because of the hanging with check a1-rook; instead 24 B:h5!! Nf5! 25 Qg4!! N:g3 26 B:g6 Ne2+ 27 Kh1 N:c3 28 B:f7+ K:f7 29 de+! wins back a piece with the better game 22 N:e6!? ( Rice ) fe 23 Rg3! (Wall ) Rc7 24 R:g6! 22 N:e6!? ( Rice ) fe 23 Rg3! (Wall ) Rd7 24 R:g6! ed 25 B:h5! 22 N:e6!? ( Rice ) fe 23 Rg3! (Wall ) ed! 24 R:g6 d4 25 B:d4 R:d4 26 Q:d4 looks tenable after 26 ... Nec6, Be4 or ... Qf7 I think it turned out that Danielle's sac was good for a small advantage in all lines but Gliga's move was devastating. Danielle was hot last night and beat me in a casual game as well. Somewhere in between Svetsovar's 22 Bg4!! and Danielle's 22 N:e6!? lies 22 de! We followed the GM Jesse Kraii method of examining a game without a computer first. 22 ... f5 Steve called this a blunder but everything loses 23.Nxe6!! 23 B:h5!!! is deadly too. 23 Bf3! or Rae1! win as well but are too tame for a bodyguard roast like this. 23 B:h5 N:h5 24 N:e6 N:e6 25 R:e6 Rd6 26 Qd4 Kh7 27 Bb4!!! or 27 R:d6!! Q:d6 28 Re1!! is more like it 23 ... Ngxe6? 24.dxe6! Re8 25.Bxh5 23 B:f5!!! or Qg5!!! are mega killers 25 ... Qh6! 26.Qf6! f4?? Time pressure 27.Qf7+ 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "URS-YUG"] [Site "Zagreb"] [Date "1958.??.??"] [Round "2"] [White "Gligoric,Svetozar"] [Black "Keres,Paul"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "E43"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 c5 5.Bd3 b6 6.Nf3 Bb7 7.0-0 0-0 8.Bd2 cxd4 9.exd4 d5 10.cxd5 Bxc3 11.bxc3 Qxd5 12.c4 Qd6 13.Bc3 Nbd7 14.Re1 Rac8 15.h3 Rfd8 16.Re3 Nh5 17.d5 Nc5 18.Ng5 g6 19.Be2 Ng7 20.Qd4 Qf8 21.Qh4 h5 22.Bg4 f5 23.Nxe6 Ngxe6 24.dxe6 Re8 25.Bxh5 Qh6 26.Qf6 f4 27.Qf7+ 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Another quick, painful loss by Keres. 22 ... c5?? 23 f5!! made a bad game worse 25 ... Ne6?? doubled his losses, just not Paul's day. [Event "Buenos Aires (13.10.39)"] [Site "08"] [Date "1939.??.??"] [EventDate "?"] [Round "?"] [Result "1-0"] [White "Miguel Najdorf"] [Black "Paul Keres"] [ECO "D11"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "?"] [PlyCount "51"] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.e3 Nf6 4.Nf3 g6 5.Bd3 Bg7 6.O-O O-O 7.Nc3 dxc4 8.Bxc4 Nbd7 9.Qe2 Ne8 10.Bb3 e5 11.Nxe5 Nxe5 12.dxe5 Bxe5 13.f4 Bg7 14.e4 Be6 15.Bxe6 fxe6 16.e5 Nc7 17.Be3 Nd5 18.Ne4 b6 19.Rad1 Qe7 20.g3 Rad8 21.a3 Nc7 22.Rd6 c5 23.f5 exf5 24.Bg5 Qxe5 25.Bxd8 Ne6 26.Bf6 1-0 There was another Giddins Keres crush by Najdorf but I can't find it. The key maneuver was Bb3-d1-h5-:f7+ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Computers make Grandmasters look stupid - Kramnik ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.emetrics.org/images/speakers/joshmanion_75.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.emetrics.org/waabasecamp/instructors.php&h=75&w=75&sz=2&hl=en&start=2&um=1&usg=__L6fPNmhYFoxXtjS2YKVjDksEheU=&tbnid=5fMwdmBPNz-D9M:&tbnh=71&tbnw=71&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djosh%2Bmanion%2Bchess%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-US%26sa%3DN Josh Manion, CEO, Stratigent Josh Manion runs a consulting firm that?s focused exclusively on web analytics. He has lead web analytics efforts for dozens of leading online firms and is the Membership Co-Chair of the Web Analytics Association. Josh has a Management Science degree from MIT where he researched website usability online trading optimization. Josh, an International Master, is currently ranked in the top 50 chess players in the US. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The kid's a genius --------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "National op"] [Site "Kissimmee"] [Date "1997.08.03"] [Round "4"] [White "Wall,Bill"] [Black "Manion,Josh"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "A65"] 1.c4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.e4 d6 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.f3 0-0 6.Bg5 c5 7.d5 e6 8.Qd2 exd5 9.cxd5 Na6 10.Bc4 Bd7 11.Nge2 Nc7 12.a4 a6 13.a5 Re8 14.0-0 Nb5 15.Na4 Qc7 16.Nb6 Rab8 17.Rac1 Bc8 18.b4 Nd7 19.Nxd7 Bxd7 20.Be3 Bf8 21.Bf4 b6 22.Bxb5 axb5 23.axb6 Qxb6 24.bxc5 dxc5 25.Bxb8 Rxb8 26.e5 c4+ 27.Kh1 Bc5 28.Ng3 Be3 29.Qb4 Bxc1 30.Rxc1 Re8 31.Qc3 b4 32.Qxc4 Rxe5 33.Ne4 Bf5 34.h3 Bxe4 35.fxe4 b3 36.Rb1 b2 37.Qc8+ Kg7 38.Qc3 Qf6 39.Rxb2 Rxe4 40.Qxf6+ Kxf6 41.Rb6+ Ke7 42.Rb7+ Kf8 43.Kg1 Rd4 44.Rb5 Rd2 45.Kh2 h5 46.Kg3 Ke7 47.Kf3 Kd6 48.Rb7 f6 49.Rf7 Ke5 50.Re7+ Kf5 51.g4+ hxg4+ 52.hxg4+ Kg5 53.Re4 Rxd5 54.Ra4 Rd3+ 55.Kg2 Rb3 56.Rc4 Kh4 57.Rf4 Rb2+ 58.Kf1 Kg5 59.Ra4 Rh2 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "NAtlantic tt5 B06 corr"] [Site "ICCF corr"] [Date "2001.03.25"] [Round "0"] [White "Eckert,Douglas D"] [Black "Chiva Vega,Fernando"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "A65"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.e4 g6 7.f3 Bg7 8.Bg5 0-0 9.Qd2 Bd7 10.Bc4 Na6 11.Nge2 Nc7 12.a4 a6 13.a5 Re8 14.0-0 Rb8 15.Na4 Bxa4 16.Rxa4 Qd7 17.Qc2 b5 18.axb6 Rxb6 19.Rb1 Reb8 20.Ra2 Qc8 21.Bd2 Nd7 22.Nc1 Ne5 23.Bf1 Nd7 24.Nd3 Bd4+ 25.Kh1 Rb3 26.Ba5 Ne5 27.Nc1 R3b7 28.Ne2 Be3 29.Bc3 Qd8 30.Ba5 Qc8 31.Bxc7 Qxc7 32.Rxa6 Qe7 33.Ra3 Qg5 34.Qc3 Bd2 35.Qc2 Rb6 36.Ng1 Qh6 37.g3 Be3 38.Be2 Bd4 39.b3 Bxg1 40.Kxg1 Qe3+ 41.Kg2 c4 42.Bd1 cxb3 43.Raxb3 Rxb3 44.Rxb3 Rxb3 45.Qxb3 Nd3 46.Qa2 Ne1+ 47.Kf1 Nxf3 48.Bxf3 Qxf3+ 49.Kg1 Qxe4 50.Qa8+ Kg7 51.Qa1+ Qe5 52.Qa8 g5 53.Kg2 h5 54.Kg1 Qe3+ 55.Kg2 Qe4+ 56.Kg1 h4 57.gxh4 Qxh4 58.Qa1+ Kg6 59.Qa2 Qe1+ 60.Kg2 Kf5 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Aosta op 12th"] [Site "Saint Vincent"] [Date "2004.02.08"] [Round "3"] [White "Zhukova,Natalia"] [Black "Karl,Hans"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "A65"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 0-0 6.Bg5 c5 7.d5 e6 8.Qd2 exd5 9.cxd5 Na6 10.Bc4 Bd7 11.Nge2 Nc7 12.a4 a6 13.a5 Bb5 14.b3 Qd7 15.0-0 Kh8 16.Bh6 Bxh6 17.Qxh6 Ng8 18.Qd2 Rae8 19.Nf4 Qe7 20.Nd3 f6 21.Rad1 Qg7 22.f4 Qh6 23.Qf2 Qg7 24.Qd2 Qh6 25.Qb2 Qg7 26.e5 fxe5 27.fxe5 Rxf1+ 28.Rxf1 dxe5 29.Ne4 Nh6 30.Nd6 Re7 31.Nxc5 Ne8 32.Nxe8 Rxe8 33.Ne6 Qd7 34.Qxe5+ Kg8 35.Qg5 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Budapest FS04 GM"] [Site "Budapest"] [Date "2006.04.01"] [Round "11"] [White "Seres,Lajos"] [Black "Wittmann,Walter"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "A65"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 0-0 6.Bg5 c5 7.d5 e6 8.Qd2 exd5 9.cxd5 Bd7 10.Bc4 Na6 11.Nge2 Nc7 12.a4 a6 13.a5 Rb8 14.0-0 b5 15.axb6 Rxb6 16.f4 Qb8 17.b3 Nb5 18.Rae1 Re8 19.Qd3 Ng4 20.Na4 Rb7 21.h3 Nh6 22.Kh1 f6 23.Bh4 Nf7 24.Bf2 Na3 25.Nac3 Nxc4 26.bxc4 Bc8 27.Bg3 Rb4 1/2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Oct 1 15:14:03 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:14:03 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Shawn on Sick Loss Message-ID: <1222895643.48e3e81b3d28d@www.taom.com> for the Caro-Kann try Jack Young's Nymphomaniac Attack - search www.walverine.com or BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com Brian Wall ----- Forwarded message from Shawn ----- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 08:11:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Shawn Reply-To: Shawn Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Sick Loss To: Brian Wall I have had a couple of games like that. 1999 Minnesota High School Championship, my senior year White: Shawn Kmetz 11xx then, 1671 now Black: Unknown from Stillwater, much better rating than me Round 4, both players +3 -0 =0 If I recall correctly Stillwater had won the high school championship 3 years in a row and was trying for four. They had a player name Sean Nagle who was a 21xx then and 2421 last I checked. They were so good that they refused to play any matches against us. Day two started with me tied for first at +3 -0 =0. I did some tactics puzzles, won a couple blitz games, grabbed a glass of water and sat down for my game. I no longer have my game score, but I had recently given up my beloved King's gambit for the ultra-solid (boring) Scotch game. Somehow, I won an exchange for a pawn and started simplifying toward the endgame. The game looked something like this 4r1k1/pp3ppp/n2np3/3p4/8/5N2/PPP2PPP/2KRR3 w - - 1 20 I played Rxd5 assuming that exd5, Rxe8+ and I've gained a pawn back while breaking up his center. Of course looking one half-move further would show me Rxd5??, exd5, Rxe8+, Nxe8 and black is clearly winning. I thought I saw this cleaver tactic to exchange rooks, so I picked up the d5 pawn slowly, saw Nxe8. Dread ran though me as I desperately looked for another piece with which to capture the pawn. Seeing nothing I set the pawn back down, resigned and was so miserable that I couldn't focus on my next game losing an active rook + 3 pawns vrs passive rook + 4 pawns game which I should have drawn. I can't even remember what happened in round 6 but I suspect I lost (I'm at work and can't access msa.uschess.org). I took 5 years off of chess after high school and when I returned in 2004 that loss was still fresh in my mind. It has finally faded to a point where I can now think of it without it being anything more than a painful lesson about touch-move and throughly thinking my moves through. A month or so later I traveled to South Dakota for the National high School open and in the first round, my opponent picked up his king on move 5 and realized he had no choice but to play Ke7. Aside #1 - When I took up chess again in 2004, I remember playing an Reserve (under 1600) section and winning my first two games. The third game that (k)night I was very tired and just simplified toward a draw. My opponent was 10 years old and gleefully bragged to his brother "I just drew a 1400!!" I now bring a 12 pack of Mt. Dew to any tournament where I have to play 3 games in one day. Aside #2 - How do you make a game against the Caro interesting (tactically sharp or gain a serious initiative)? I've been trying 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf4 4. Nc3 e6 5. g4 but I don't like the results. I'm now investigating lines where white plays an early c4. -Shawn ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ---- From: Brian Wall To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com; Brian Wall Chesslist Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 2:18:53 AM Subject: [BrianWallChess] Sick Loss There are some losses that are so gutwrenching, so sickening that they are traumatic. Have you ever played a game that is so painful you never want to look at it again? Ever. From the moment you resign you just want to walk away and never revisit the scene of the crime. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081001/f6e8c1f8/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Oct 1 16:17:48 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:17:48 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Lion Simul delayed Message-ID: <1222899468.48e3f70c071b1@www.taom.com> I need to lose 5 more pounds to fit into my Lion costume so we are rescheduling for one week later. Tour busses are available. for large groups. My 10th Lion simul Borders Park Meadows 303.708.1735 8557 Park Meadows Center Dr. Lone Tree, CO 80124 ask for Manager Marilyn Mewers at Bordersstores.com 303-708-1735 Lion Simul - New Date and time October 11th, 2008 2 PM From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Oct 2 10:33:54 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 10:33:54 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Debate Prep Message-ID: <1222965234.48e4f7f273755@www.taom.com> Red State Update http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPSzQJK86Wo ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrzXLYA_e6E Palin's greatest hits From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Oct 2 23:55:16 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 23:55:16 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Wall-McCarty 1998 Message-ID: <1223013316.48e5b3c46f510@www.taom.com> The following game is very funny to me. For 40 years I played very boring, conservative Chess, taking few risks. Nikitovich and Sherbring would ALWAYS finish their games before me. They had given up half their army to checkmate their opponents while I was just beginning to grind out an ending. I had no taste for sacrifices. Shirov changed all that. This game was very emotional in that Aiden was pregnant with my son Devon. Occasionally I get to play husband/wife type team Chess. Aiden won her Reserve section. Some teenage boy was outraged and started arguing about how women couldn't play Chess. Aiden brought up Judith Polgar and the boy, all worked up and emotional, practically screamed, "SHE'S NOT EVEN IN THE TOP 10!!! I JUST CHECKED!!!" Apparently his whole world was threatened by Aiden winning the 1998 Denver Open Reserve Section, kind of like gay mariage today. Aiden's pregnancy made me want to do well so we could both show off for our unborn son, like that would matter to him somehow someday. Some things aren't very logical, I just know it motivated me. If I remember correctly, Sage Mo beat Renard Anderson for first and I tied for second. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Devon didn't have any human rights yet but nowadays he loves Nascar, Football, Poker, Chess, Basketball, Ice Cream Trucks, Elitch's, the Zoo, Swimming, video games and God knows what else. He hates homework unless it's math and then he can stand it. "I'm good with numbers!" Devon OK, that's just the background. What makes this game funny was that at the time I played like maybe Dywayne Langseth, well, I would change my openings more often, but essentially I loved endgames and correct Chess and I hated sacrifical chaos. Duwayne just raised his online rating to 2100 because of Fishing Poles and other irrational nonsense. My own deep belief is that his slow rating should rise from this. I made what I would now consider to be a very boring, natural, obviously correct sacrifice requiring no courage at all, one I would expect to win. Back then, after my sac, I kept begging Jim, rated 150 points higher, for draws. I had absolutely no faith. I earnestly thought I should get the year's Colorado brilliancy prize for my daring breakthrough and was truly perplexed when that didn't happen. I was overexcited by my sacrifice, like I just discovered girls. I don't think we had computers back then, at least I didn't analyze the game with them. I had no email list either. I would just use my own brain. After reading FIRE ON BOARD, I would make 1,000 sacs like that a year. In the opening, the Benko, I tried to play like IM John Watson who beat me on the White side 20 years ago in Texas. He laughed when he played his first move 1 d4. "Brian, did you read my new book that just came out, 1 d4!! wins-?" IM John Watson. We go way back. Many of John's ideas over the years stuck with me and would be trotted out endlessly over the decades. So here's the game where I was practically forced by a 2364 to go for it. These days I make fun of English type players, 1 c4, Nf3, g3, Bg2, 0-0, d3, Nc3 who fall to pieces when I throw darts at them, they hate tactics and get instantly uncomfortable and frightened. Back then, I WAS that guy. God Bless the Latvian School of Chess for freeing my soul. Jim was one of the few Colorado Chessplayers that would turn down my draws, Josh Bloomer and Philipp Ponomarev routinely do the same. I respect that, it's healthy to know you're in a fight to the death. In this case I was half a point ahead of Jim in the last money round so he had to play for a win. He accepted my third offer, 26 moves after my second. I had beaten him badly the year before as Black in a French in the 1997 Colorado Closed, the subject of a recent email. I didn't consider him a better player per se but maybe I was afraid of him a bit, his best rating beat mine by 100 points. My rating after the tournament is 7 points different than my rating today a decade later. Can you say stuck? Jim's last rated tournament was the 2003 DCC Kinghunt Championship with a rating of 2245. He won by a clear point and retired, apparently. [Event "1998 Denver Open" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.12.07" ] [Round "4"] [White "Brian Wall"] [Black "James McCarty"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ICCResult "Game drawn by mutual agreement"] [WhiteElo "2200"] [BlackElo "2364"] [Opening "Benko Gambit"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2 hours, 20/1 hour"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1998 Denver Open The last money round 4 7-12-98 40/2 20/1 White - Brian Wall 2200 Black - ex- Senior Master James Mc Carty 2364 Old friends for 30 years, both Life Masters highest ratings- me 2335 Jim - 2400+ 1.d4 Nf6! 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5! a6! 5.Nc3 g6? I think letting me play e4 in one go is some kind of inaccuracy. 5 ... ab 6 e4 b4 7 Nb5 d6 8 Bc4 is the prelude to the Nescafe-Frappe Attack out of England - I learned it as the Fang-Boudrot Gambit out of New England. I lost my one chance to beat a member of the New Jersey Benko Gambit Club ( Valvo-Fedorowicz )with the Fang-Boudrot - Valvo beat me. I did beat Valvo's Goring Gambit ( www.Walverine.com ) later and I did a highly enjoyable 7 hour ICC webcast with GM John Fedorowicz. My favorite moments from that show. Brian- Why did you think for half an hour on your first move against Yassir Seirawan in the US Junior held in Colorado in 1974? I was there and I've been wondering that for 32 years. I sometimes think a long time in the opening based on that moment. I was impressed. You won the game. Maybe Seirawan was playing too much Backgammon with Curtis Carlson. GM J-Fed They screwed me on the pairings. I was supposed to be White. Brian What made you become a Grandmaster? GM J-Fed Bill Goichberg. He told me I was doomed to be a lifetime 2200 player. That really pissed me off and I studied like mad to prove him wrong. Brian- Bill was talking about me. 6.e4! d6! 7.a4 I aim for what Watson did to me, see below. 7 ... Bg7! 8.Ra3 0-0! 9.Nf3! axb5 10.Bxb5 Playing both e4 and B:b5 in one stroke made me feel two tempi up. Black still seems OK with a normal Benko position, difficult to play. 10 ... Na6 11.0-0! Nb4! 12.h3 Bb7 13.Bf4 Ne8 TN McCarty Theoretical Novelty by James McCarty Jerry Wheeler, a Tennessee Chessmaster who I met and is on my email list, played 13 ... Ba6 against Shabalov in the 1996 World Open, game below. It's a long game and I don't wish to debate Benko Gambit theory. I have played both sides for decades. An excellent weapon if you need a Black victory. Magnus Carlsen is a high level advocate these days. Just for the record Fritz 9 likes - 13 ... h6, ... Nh5, ... Ne8, ... Qb6, ... Ra5, ... Qc7, ... Qb8, ... Qc8, ... Qa5, ... Ra7, ... Ba6 One could say Jim improved theory with his first new move. In general the fractured Queenside makes it all but impossible to make use of the extra pawn. Local Master Renard Anderson is a very loyal devotee of the Benko, I think we are 1-1 against each other with me White and he Black Benko. 14.Qd2 26 minutes spent 14 ... Nc7 15 minutes spent 15.Bc4! 5 minutes 15 ... Ba6! 7 minutes 16.Bxa6! 6 minutes 16 ... Rxa6! 17.Bh6! Qa8 10 minutes on the Reti maneuver 18.Bxg7! I offered a draw to clinch some prize money. 18 ... Kxg7! 19.Raa1 7 minutes A strange looking retreat, my idea is Rfe1, Rad1, e5 19 ... Rb8 20.Rfe1 Rab6 21.Rad1!! 7 minutes Ready for e5, Jim tries to block it, but I insist 21 ... f6! 8 minutes 22.e5!? 6 minutes spent Forget my extra Queenside pawn, time for checkmate 22 ... dxe5! 23.Nxe5!! fxe5! 24.Rxe5! This standard piece sac should work, Jim doesn't have a Kingside defender east of the c-file 24 ... Re8! Like Josh Manion he finds ... Re8!!, the only move to defend. 25.Qe3!! Qd8!! Hanging onto e7 for dear life and lessening his b-file pressure. 26.Qxc5!! 1/2-1/2 ? Three pawns, a safer King and an attack for one piece - also McCarty's knights have trouble reaching outposts. They resemble shrapnel at the moment. I offered a draw because I wanted to clinch some prize money against a higher rated player and I had to be better here. Sometimes a refused draw motivates and purifies me. His tournament position demanded he play for a win. He had already drawn Baffo. 26 ... Nca6! 17 minutes 27.Qd4!! Kg8! 28.Ne4!! 8 minutes We've played best for 6 moves each, now we both flinch. 28 ... Rf8! was best for Jim, 28 ... Nc2? 29 Qc3!! won for me. 28 ... Nc2? 29.Qc4 1/2-1/2 ? 2 minutes. I spent more time considering my second draw offer than the correct move. 29 Qc3!! threatening Q:c2 and d6, should win. My move does the same but loses a tempo because my Queen is unprotected. 29 ... Qc7!! 30.Qxc7! Nxc7! 31.d6! exd6! 32.Nf6+! Kf7! 33.Nxe8! Nxe8! After another flurry of best moves I have a rook and three pawns for two knights and should be better but it's hard to get my pawns rolling. It's hard to see what I didn't like about 34 Rb5!! - I took 4 of my 12 minutes needed to reach move 40. Now we fool around in a roughly even ending. 34.Re2 Nb4! 35.Rd4 d5 36.g4 Nf6!! 37.h4! h5 38.g5! Ne4! 39.f3 Nd6! 40.Rf4+! Nf5! 41.Re5! d4! 42.Rexf5+! After reaching the time control I don't like his coordination and rolling d-pawn so I try to bail out with Rook and three pawns versus Rook and Knight 42 ... gxf5! 43.Rxd4! Ke6 44.Kf2 Nd5 45.b4 The idea is that after 45 b4 R:b4?? 46 R:b4 N:b4 47 a5 Jim doesn't have time for the winning setup ... Ka6, ... Ng6 45 ... Nxb4!! 46.Rd8! Going for pawn trades but I am in trouble now because McCarty can coordinate his remaining pieces against my King. I have definitely botched this up. 46 ... Nc6 47.Rh8! Ke5!! 48.Rxh5! He's down to one pawn 48 ... Kf4 Will I be mated? Will his f-pawn Queen? 49.g6?? Trying to distract his pieces. This game has Josh Manion analogies. 1 - I sacced material for an attack but they both found the only move to slow me down, ... Re8!! 2- I did not win efficiently when I had the chance. 3- They played well on defense, making many only moves 4 - I messed up a drawn ending by allowing their rook to cut off my King on f1, the kiss of death. I should have remembered Isaac's joke. Q - Why did the Lion cross the road? A - I don't care, RUNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!! My only hope was to flee with my King to e2 49 .... Rb2+!! 50.Kf1!! I get mated after 50 Ke1 Ke3!! 51 Kf1 Rf2+ 52 Kg1 Nd4 53 R:f5 N:f5 mate in 3 or 50 Kg1 Nd4!! 51 R:f5+ N:f5 52 g7 N:g7 mate in 5 50 ... Ne7?????????? 12 minutes for 10 moves to reach move 60 Missing mates after 50 ... Ne5!!! 51 g7 Ke3!! 52 g8(Q) Rf2+! 53 Kg1 N:f3+ 54 Kh1 Rh2 checkmate or 50 ... Ne5!!! 51 g7 Ke3!! 52 g8(Q) Rf2+! 53 Ke1 Nd3+ 54 Kd1 Rd2 checkmate Avoiding mate leaves me weak options like 50 ... Ne5!!! 51 g7 Ke3!! 52 R:f5 N:f3!! 53 R:f3+ K:f3 and ... Rg2 wins or 50 ... Ne5!!! 51 g7 Ke3!! 52 R:f5 N:f3!! 53 Re5+ N:e5 54 g8(Q) Rf2+ mates again in two or 50 ... Ne5!!! 51 Rh8 N:g6 wins or 50 ... Ne5!!! 51 Rg5 N:f3! 52 Rg2 R:g2 53 K:g2 N:h4+ 54 Kf2 N:g6 55 a5 Ne5 and his superknight even stops my last pawn or 50 ... Ne5!!! 51 Rg5 Ke3! 52 R:f5 Rf2+ 53 Kg1 N:f3+ 54 R:f3 K:f3 wins I admit I was lost and I admit that was a lot for Jim to process in twelve minutes! Many of my mistakes found later were made in under a minute which is how long Jim took here. That's why I record times after each move. 51.g7!= Jim can try different approaches but I have enough coordination and counterplay now. One threat is Rh8, g8(Q) or h5-6-7 51 ... Kxf3 52.Ke1!! Only move 52 ... Ke3! 53.Kf1! Kf3 54.Ke1! Ke3 55.Kf1! 1/2-1/2 Draw proposed by me, accepted by McCarty. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "1998 Denver Open" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.12.07" ] [Round "4"] [White "Brian Wall"] [Black "James McCarty"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ICCResult "Game drawn by mutual agreement"] [WhiteElo "2200"] [BlackElo "2364"] [Opening "Benko Gambit"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2 hours, 20/1 hour"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.Nc3 g6 6.e4 d6 7.a4 Bg7 8.Ra3 0-0 9.Nf3 axb5 10.Bxb5 Na6 11.0-0 Nb4 12.h3 Bb7 13.Bf4 Ne8 14.Qd2 Nc7 15.Bc4 Ba6 16.Bxa6 Rxa6 17.Bh6 Qa8 18.Bxg7 Kxg7 19.Raa1 Rb8 20.Rfe1 Rab6 21.Rad1 f6 22.e5 dxe5 23.Nxe5 fxe5 24.Rxe5 Re8 25.Qe3 Qd8 26.Qxc5 Nca6 27.Qd4 Kg8 28.Ne4 Nc2 29.Qc4 Qc7 30.Qxc7 Nxc7 31.d6 exd6 32.Nf6+ Kf7 33.Nxe8 Nxe8 34.Re2 Nb4 35.Rd4 d5 36.g4 Nf6 37.h4 h5 38.g5 Ne4 39.f3 Nd6 40.Rf4+ Nf5 41.Re5 d4 42.Rexf5+ gxf5 43.Rxd4 Ke6 44.Kf2 Nd5 45.b4 Nxb4 46.Rd8 Nc6 47.Rh8 Ke5 48.Rxh5 Kf4 49.g6 Rb2+ 50.Kf1 Ne7 51.g7 Kxf3 52.Ke1 Ke3 53.Kf1 Kf3 54.Ke1 Ke3 55.Kf1 1/2-1/2 Draw proposed by me, accepted by McCarty. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Section 1 - OPEN Section Date(s) 1998-07-11 thru 1998-07-12 Processed Received: 1998-07-20 Entered: 1998-07-23 Rated: 1998-07-28 Stats 4 Rounds, 41 Players; K Factor: F Rating Sys: R Tnmt Type: S ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pair | Player Name |Total|Round|Round|Round|Round| Num | USCF ID / Rtg (Pre->Post) | Pts | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | SAGE F MO |4.0 |W 16|W 14|W 10|W 6| NC | 12469057 / R: 2229 ->2260 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 | BRIAN D WALL |3.5 |W 32|W 15|W 8|D 5| CO | 10923344 / R: 2200 ->2221 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 | ANDREW B REA |3.5 |W 25|B 0|D 4|W 13| VA | 11052452 / R: 2183 ->2188 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 | DANIEL P AVERY |3.5 |W 33|W 37|D 3|W 11| CO | 12405387 / R: 2041 ->2073 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 | JAMES M MC CARTY |3.0 |D 27|W 28|W 12|D 2| CO | 12157520 / R: 2364 ->2352 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 | RENARD W ANDERSON |3.0 |W 31|W 9|W 7|L 1| CO | 10229391 / R: 2252 ->2255 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 | MARK SCHLAGENHAUF |3.0 |W 24|W 20|L 6|W 19| VA | 10038383 / R: 2121 ->2128 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 | BRAD LUNDSTROM |3.0 |W 26|W 19|L 2|W 23| CO | 10410347 / R: 2068 ->2082 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 | CRAIG D WILCOX |3.0 |W 35|L 6|W 21|W 31| CO | 12418845 / R: 2036 ->2051 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 | HERMAN B CHIU |2.5 |W 22|W 23|L 1|D 15| OR | 10066808 / R: 2179 ->2170 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 | MICHAEL E EMERSON |2.5 |H 0|W 22|W 17|L 4| CO | 12553162 / R: 2167 ->2156 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 | MARK P SCHEIDIES |2.5 |D 17|W 21|L 5|W 25| CO | 10375193 / R: 2032 ->2032 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 | MICHAEL P SHEDD |2.5 |W 29|H 0|W 30|L 3| CO | 11143113 / R: 2027 ->2023 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 | RICHARD R ROLOFF |2.5 |W 34|L 1|D 16|W 26| CO | 10357519 / R: 2012 ->2012 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 | JAMES HAMMERSMITH |2.5 |W 40|L 2|W 24|D 10| CO | 12498634 / R: 1981 ->1993 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 | RICHARD SHANE GASCHLER |2.5 |L 1|W 34|D 14|W 30| KS | 12450005 / R: 1888 ->1901 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 | DAVID LEE HELT |2.5 |D 12|W 38|L 11|W 27| CO | 10405602 / R: 1669 ->1726 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 | DAVID A COLE |2.0 |L 21|W 33|W 29|U 0| NJ | 11204031 / R: 2114 ->2099 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 19 | BELA A GECZY |2.0 |W 36|L 8|W 35|L 7| CO | 12509417 / R: 1946 ->1935 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 | ANDRES D HORTILLOSA |2.0 |W 41|L 7|L 22|W 37| TN | 12455466 / R: 1900 ->1900 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 21 | JOSH S BLOOMER |2.0 |W 18|L 12|L 9|W 33| CO | 12626102 / R: 1881 ->1896 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 | KENNETH P W DOYKOS |2.0 |L 10|L 11|W 20|W 34| CO | 10358086 / R: 1839 ->1860 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 23 | JOSHUA JEX |2.0 |W 39|L 10|W 36|L 8| CO | 12470164 / R: 1855 ->1853 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 | PHILIPP M PONOMAREV |2.0 |L 7|W 41|L 15|W 35| CO | 12685861 / R: 1827 ->1826 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 25 | MYRON COOK |1.5 |L 3|D 29|W 39|L 12| OR | 10431883 / R: 1830 ->1820 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 26 | DEBRA M JOHNSON |1.5 |L 8|D 39|B 0|L 14| WA | 10506107 / R: 1819 ->1797 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 | JEFFREY BAFFO |1.5 |D 5|L 30|W 28|L 17| CO | 10340195 / R: 1814 ->1794 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 28 | JOSEPH E BIHLMEYER |1.5 |H 0|L 5|L 27|W 32| CT | 12686352 / R: 1780 ->1782 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 29 | JANET GLOVINSKY-LEWIS |1.5 |L 13|D 25|L 18|W 40| CO | 12515314 / R: 1669 ->1679 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 30 | PAUL F MONTOYA |1.5 |D 38|W 27|L 13|L 16| AZ | 12566094 / R: 1510 ->1544 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 31 | VANCE S AANDAHL |1.0 |L 6|L 35|W 37|L 9| CO | 10407842 / R: 1863 ->1830 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 32 | LARRY ALAN DUKE |1.0 |L 2|W 40|L 33|L 28| TX | 11484743 / R: 1834 ->1796 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 33 | ERIC ABRAHAM |1.0 |L 4|L 18|W 32|L 21| OK | 12577798 / R: 1718 ->1721 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 34 | GARY L BAGSTAD |1.0 |L 14|L 16|W 40|L 22| CO | 10924031 / R: 1728 ->1710 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 35 | MICHAEL J PRESUTTI |1.0 |L 9|W 31|L 19|L 24| CO | 12407008 / R: 1692 ->1694 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 36 | DON WISDOM |1.0 |L 19|B 0|L 23|U 0| CO | 12631931 / R: 1462 ->1457 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 37 | JOSHUA RAYMOND SNAVELY |1.0 |B 0|L 4|L 31|L 20| NM | 12717039 / R: 1368 ->1364 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 38 | MATT COMPTON |0.5 |D 30|L 17|U 0|U 0| CO | 12457534 / R: 1900 ->1862 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 39 | THOMAS J HARRINGTON |0.5 |L 23|D 26|L 25|U 0| CO | 12702277 / R: 1717P3 ->1643P6 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 40 | IAN S MC KENZIE |0.0 |L 15|L 32|L 34|L 29| CO | 12723699 / R: 1565P12->1525P16 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 41 | MARCEL E COLE |0.0 |L 20|L 24|U 0|U 0| CO | 12566239 / R: 1431 ->1425 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pair | Player Name |Total|Round|Round|Round|Round| Num | USCF ID / Rtg (Pre->Post) | Pts | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | JOSH D SMITH |4.0 |W 34|W 3|W 17|W 6| UT | 12648573 / R: 1601 ->1656 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 | MICHAEL B KASS |4.0 |W 32|W 16|W 5|W 9| CO | 12685472 / R: 1489P15->1575P19 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 | BRADFORD C BLAKE |3.0 |W 29|L 1|W 20|W 10| CO | 11052533 / R: 1694 ->1702 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 | WOLFGANG KERN |3.0 |W 33|L 5|W 12|W 15| CO | 12685859 / R: 1691 ->1700 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 | JASON D CALDWELL |3.0 |W 30|W 4|L 2|W 19| CO | 12699967 / R: 1596 ->1617 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 | MARTIN J KELLY |3.0 |W 22|W 31|W 8|L 1| CO | 12483232 / R: 1603 ->1613 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 | ANAND M DESHPANDE |3.0 |W 21|L 8|W 31|W 17| CO | 12686716 / R: 1602 ->1609 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 | BRIAN HUGHES |3.0 |W 23|W 7|L 6|W 14| CO | 12651715 / R: 1519 ->1556 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 | DAVID PAUL BARBOUR |2.5 |H 0|W 18|W 24|L 2| CO | 12508891 / R: 1695 ->1690 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 | RICK NELSON |2.5 |W 20|D 12|W 13|L 3| CO | 12546409 / R: 1672 ->1667 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 | ALBERT D GARDNER |2.5 |U 0|D 25|W 32|W 23| CO | 11122043 / R: 1644 ->1641 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 | HENRY HALL JR |2.5 |W 36|D 10|L 4|W 27| CO | 12028100 / R: 1526 ->1539 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 | EMANUEL J WEISS |2.5 |D 19|W 27|L 10|W 24| CO | 12565225 / R: 1500 ->1515 | | | | | | 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---------------------------------------------------------------------- 37 | BRENT N TAYLOR |0.0 |L 27|L 29|L 31|L 34| IN | 12695915 / R: 552P3 -> 545P7 | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "USA op"] [Site "Fort Worth"] [Date "1984.??.??"] [Round "4"] [White "Watson,John L"] [Black "Wall,Brian D"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "A57"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.e3 d6 6.Nc3 g6 7.a4 Bg7 8.Nf3 0-0 9.Ra3 axb5 10.Bxb5 Ba6 11.0-0 Bxb5 12.axb5 Nbd7 13.Qb3 Nb6 14.e4 Nfd7 15.Be3 Qc7 16.Rfa1 Qb7 17.Ra6 f5 18.exf5 gxf5 19.Ng5 Bxc3 20.Qxc3 Qxd5 21.Nh3 e5 22.Bh6 Rf6 23.Rxa8+ Nxa8 24.Qd2 Nab6 25.Qg5+ Kf7 26.Qg7+ Ke8 27.Qh8+ Ke7 28.Bg5 Qf7 29.Ra7 Nd5 30.Qc8 N5b6 31.Qc6 Ke6 32.Bxf6 Qxf6 33.f4 h6 34.fxe5 Qxe5 35.Ra1 Qe4 36.Rd1 Qxc6 37.bxc6 Nb8 38.Re1+ Kd5 39.c7 Na6 40.Nf4+ Kc6 41.Re6 Nxc7 42.Rxh6 c4 43.Rf6 Na4 44.Rxf5 Nxb2 45.Ne2 Nb5 46.h4 Nd3 47.h5 Ne5 48.h6 Ng6 49.h7 Nc7 50.Rf6 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "World op"] [Site "Philadelphia"] [Date "1996.??.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Shabalov,Alexander"] [Black "Wheeler,Jerry"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "E90"] 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.d4 0-0 6.h3 c5 7.d5 b5 8.cxb5 a6 9.a4 Bb7 10.Ra3 axb5 11.Bxb5 Na6 12.0-0 Nb4 13.Bf4 Ba6 14.Qd2 Qb6 15.Bh6 Bxb5 16.axb5 Bxh6 17.Qxh6 Nc2 18.e5 dxe5 19.Rxa8 Rxa8 20.Nxe5 Nd4 21.Nc6 e6 22.dxe6 fxe6 23.Qf4 Kg7 24.Qd6 Re8 25.Ra1 Nxc6 26.bxc6 Qb8 27.Qxc5 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Tbilisi Ebralidze mem 1st"] [Site "Tbilisi"] [Date "2007.04.03"] [Round "9"] [White "Margvelashvili,Giorgi"] [Black "Harutjunyan,Gevorg"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "E90"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.h3 c5 6.d5 b5 7.cxb5 a6 8.Nf3 0-0 9.a4 Bb7 10.Ra3 axb5 11.Bxb5 Na6 12.0-0 Nb4 13.Bg5 h6 14.Bf4 Ne8 15.Bh2 Nc7 16.Bc4 Ba6 17.Bxa6 Rxa6 18.Qd2 Kh7 19.Rd1 f5 20.e5 e6 21.exd6 Ncxd5 22.Qe2 f4 23.Ne4 Ra5 24.h4 Rf5 25.Rc1 Nb6 26.g4 fxg3 27.Nxg3 Rd5 28.h5 gxh5 29.Qe4+ Kh8 30.Nh4 Qxd6 31.Ng6+ Kg8 32.Nf5 Qd7 33.Nfe7+ Kf7 34.Qf3+ Ke8 35.Qf4 Rg5+ 36.Kh1 Qd4 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Oct 4 00:47:02 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 00:47:02 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Shabalov-Dzindzichashvili 1998 Message-ID: <1223102822.48e7116671a01@www.taom.com> I am wading through an avalanche of Chess material in my room and it's torture to revisit so many wonderful letters, pictures, games, cards, photos, etc. For a writer this is Hell, sensory overload. Grandmaster Roman Dzindzichashvili played in the US Championship in 1998 in Denver and basically retired from tournament play 10 years ago. I spent a year with him afterwards but he never explained that. To prove his talent here is a victory over Shabalov in his last major Chess event. To honor this event the Colorado Informant was a massive 88 page tome chockful of GM games instead of the usual drivel from me and other locals. It was like Chess Life was magically transformed into New in Chess. Roman was born in 5-5-44 so let's look at how many teeth the old Lion had in his head at age 54. Roman drew all his games, he didn't seem interested but just to prove he could win if wanted to, he defeated the highest rated player. [Event "USA-ch Gr-A"] [Site "Denver"] [Date "1998.10.31"] [Round "6"] [White "Shabalov,Alexander"] [Black "Dzindzichashvili,Roman"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "E32"] 1998 Interplay US Closed Championship Denver, Colorado Round 6 Opening- NimzoIndian White - Shabalov, who studied as a boy with Tal Black - Living legend Dzindzichashvili, who knows, taught or beat all the legends of Chess like Korchnoi, Petrosian, Geller, Botvinnik, Bronstein, Karpov, Kasparov, Fischer, Tal, Stein and who knows wonderful anecdotes about all of them. Roman has come up with theoretical novelties in the NimzoIndian all his life - this process did not stop when he retired, he continued his research. He revealed some of his latest ideas in "A Repertoire for Black" with Alburt and Perlman. In essence, Shabalov is playing the Nimzoindian Professor. I remember Dzindi almost tore his hair out when an American he was coaching, DeFirmian, I think, wasted one of his innovations with a bad followup with Ivanchuk. Dzindi coached Kamsky through to victories in Candidate matches 15 years ago, I hope Kamsky can do it again even though I like Topalov's style a thousand percent more. The tournament format was whacked, maybe to squeeze in more new young players like Tal Shaked. They cut the field in half and the best two from each half then played matches. Dzindi missed second place by half a point 4/7 but in the other half 4/7 was good for a tie for first. Roman was squeezed out of the final and semi-finals. Shabalov did horribly, 2/7, maybe his worst tournament ever. 1.d4 Nf6! 2.c4 e6! 3.Nc3! Bb4 4.Qc2 0-0 5.e4 d5 5 ... e5!? was played 4 times 5 ... e5!? 6 de Ng4 7 Nf3 Nc6 resembles a Budapest Gambit 8 Bg5 Qe8 9 h3 Ng:e5 10 0-0-0 B:c3 11 Q:c3 d6 with maybe an edge for White with his two bishops 6.e5! Ne4! No one's tried the lousy 6 ... Nc6?! even in a blitz game. 6 ... Nc6?! 7 Nf3, a3, ef or Bg5 are all good for White A dirty dozen tried 6 ... Nfd7 and one lone ranger tried 6 ... Ne8 No one dared 6 ... Nh5 and four fools played 6 ... B:c3+ 7 bc with a great game for White 7.Bd3 played 193 times 7 a3! was played 106 times including by World Champion Max Euwe in the year I was born 7 Nf3 was played 9 times 7 a3! was played 106 times including by World Champion Max Euwe in the year I was born 7 cd and Be2 were never played 7 Be3 was tried once 7 ... c5! Played 172 times 7 ... f5 was tried 19 times 7 ... Nc6! was tried once 7 ... f6 was never tried 8.cxd5 played 102 times by Magnus Carlsen and others 8 dc played 12 times 8 a3 played 15 times 8 Kf1 played once 8 Nge2 played 15 times 8 Nf3 played twice 8 B:e4 played thrice 8 ...exd5! 9.Nge2 111 games 9 Nf3 thrice 9 dc never 9 a3 twice 9 ... Nc6 played 47 times but the line was almost new when Roman played it. 9 ... cd! played 68 times by Gelfand, Speelman and others 9 ... Bf5 was played once in 1995 9 ... B:c3+ was never played 9 ... f5 was tried 4 times 9 ... Qh4 was tried once in 2003 9 ... Kh8 was never tried 9 ... f5 was tried 4 times 10.0-0! cxd4! Played 18 times, Roman was the third 10 ... N:d4 was played 7 times including once by Gligorich in the year this game was played 10 ... B:c3 was played 7 times 10 ... Bf5 was played 10 times 11.Nxd5!! played 16 times, Shabalov was the second 1 N:e4 was played twice 11 ... Qxd5! 12.Bxe4! Qxe5 Played 14 times, Roman was second No one tried 12 ... Qc5 13 B:h7+ Kh8 14 a3 g6 15 B:g6 fg 16 Q:g6 Q:e5 17 Qh6+ Kg8 18 ab Q:e2 19 Ra3!! winning or 12 ... Qc5 13 B:h7+ Kh8 14 a3 Q:c2 15 B:c2 keeping his extra pawn or winning or 12 ... Qc5 13 B:h7+ Kh8 14 a3 Q:e5 15 ab g6 16 Bf4 It just doesn't work 13.Bxh7+ played 14 times, Shabba was the second 13 a3! or Bf4 have never been tried but 13 a3! Re8, ... Be7, ... Ba5, ... Bd6 or ... Bc5 might be a slight improvement for White, definitely better than the move order Shabalov employed 13 ... Kh8 14.Bf4 Played 11 times, once before by a fellow Soviet Georgian, Women's World Champion Chiburdanidze, whom my buddy IM Joe Fang beat when she attended a World Open. 14 a3! was played once. 14 Bd3 was never played 14 Be4 was played twice 14 ... Qc5!! TN Theoretical Novelty by Grandmaster Roman Dzindzichashvili 14 ... Qf6 was played 9 times. Four years later Otto Vedep won with Roman's move in a postal game. Trading Queens seems eminently logical since the only way Roman's h7-pawn could be equivalent to Shabalov's d-pawn is if a Kingside attack could be whipped up. I have seen similar Queen's Gambit middle games where Black's exposed King is a major problem but Black should be safe with Queens off. 15.a3?? The only bad time to play this move. 15 ... Qxc2?? 15 ... g6!! is a great opportunity - the idea is 16 B:g6 fg 17 Q:g6 Qf5!! and the threat of d3 and capturing on f4 wins material. Shabby had no way out. 15 ... g6!! 16 Qd3 Ba5!! or ... Qf5!! are good for GM RD. 15 ... g6!! 16 Qd1 Qf5!! or ... Ba5 are clearly better for Roman. 15 ... g6!! 16 Qe4 Qe7!!!, ... Ba5! or ... Qf5! are very strong Instead of 15 a3?? just trading Queens should be equal 15 Q:c5 B:c5 16 Be4 is best - 15 R-either-c1 might lead to 15 ... Q:c2, ... g6 or ... Bg4 With 15 Rac1 the order is 15 ... g6!, ... Q:c2 or ... Bg4 all close to equality with 15 Rfc1 the order is 15 ... Qc2!=, ... Bg4 or ... g6 slightly favoring Alexander I guess this means that Roman's TN was thought up at the board, not prepared beforehand. 16.Bxc2! Now Shaggy has a slight development edge. 16 ... Bc5 Looks automatic to a human or even a superhuman like Roman but the computer slightly prefers 4 better ideas - A - 16 ... Re8 17 Bd3 Be7 B - 16 ... Be7 17 Rfe1 Be6 C - 16 ... Bg4 17 Bd1 Bc5 This move is based on 16 ... Bg4 17 f3? Bc5 18 fg? d3+ 19 Kh1 de 20 Rf3!! Rfe8 21 Rh3! Kg8 22 Bh7+ Kf8 23 Re1 g6 24 Bh6+ Ke7 with a microedge for Roman - The missing h-pawn King safety is relevant in the endgame. After 16 ... Bg4 it is best to forget winning a piece and reply normally with 17 Bd1, Ng3, Bd3 or Nc1 with a teeny edge 16 ... Ba5 Roman's move looks normal to protect d4 from a safe perch 17.b4 Bb6! but 17 ... Bg4 is a possibility too 18.Bd3 Be6 19.Rfe1! Rfe8! 20.Bg3 a5 21.b5! Ne7! 22.Nf4! Nd5 23.Nxe6! Rxe6! 24.Rxe6!! fxe6! Roman has drifted into an inferior ending but Shabalov must have used up all his time to maintain his edge. Roman has phenomenal endgame skills. His ability to evaluate minor piece endings instantaneously as proved in his blitz games or Chess videos always astounded me. The two bishops give Alex the edge. Roman could have made subtle improvements with 15 ... g6!!, 16 ... Re8, 18 ... Re8 or 20 ... Bd7 It's tough to play perfectly in slightly inferior endings against the top guy. 25.Re1!! Considering what happens in the game perhaps 25 Rc1 was a safer way to keep an edge 25 ... Rc8! Roman defends actively, perhaps aiming for a passed a-pawn 26.Kf1! 26 h3 ended the back rank issues. Shabba aims to combine this with centralizing his King. At this point it's hard to imagine that Shabalov would lose 4 games out of 7 and Dzindi would go undefeated. 26 ... Rc3! 27.Bg6! d3! They both use bank rank mate as a springboard to good moves. One thing I learned from observing firsthand thousands of Dzindi blitz endgames is that GMs use mate threats in the endgame a lot more that I did. 28.Rd1! Rxa3! I tend to think that the passed a5-pawn gives Roman sufficient play no matter what. An easy pawn to underestimate. 29.Bxd3 Kg8 Humans hate nebulous threats hanging over them. Roman tries to free his King but pushing his pawn from a5 to a4 would have qualized. I remember Karpov with a sigh claiming he would have beaten Kasparov 6-0 in the first match if he only would have played a4-a5. One thing that impressed me was that Roman felt free to call Karpov's cell phone any time he liked! The privilige of being an early teacher. It's hard to evaluate 30 Bc4 Bc5, ... Rc3 or ... Ra4 here. Grandmaster Alexander Shabalov is better but how much? How do you gauge the danger of Roman's a-pawn? 30.Bg6 I think Roman can hold now. He has some good moves - 30 ... a4 pushing his passed pawn 30 ... Bc5 to secure his Queenside with ... b6 30 ... Ra2 to restrict the enemy King and pressure f2 30 ... Nc3 using back rank mate threats again as well as hitting the rook and b-pawn One of my favorite comments Roman ever made was that a GM he knew ( not Shabalov ) was a good attacker but in simple endgames " he wasn't there". It kind of wowed me, GMs are all gods to me but to Zeus, even the gods have their hierarchy. 30 ... Bc5 31.Re1! Bb4! With the simple point that 32 R:e6?? loses to 32 ... Ra1+ 33 Ke2 Re1+ Roman might have tried an alternate method - 31 ... Nc3 with the idea of trading rooks after 32 R:e6 Ra1+ 33 Re1 R:e1+ 34 K:e1 N:b5 = I think 32.Rd1 Bc5! Shabalov has nothing but less time now 33.Bh5 Bb4 Maybe they both had no time - 33 ... Nc3 looks easy 34.Bf3 34 Be5 was a teensy bit better. 34 ... a4 Again 34 ... Nc3! is easy 35.Be5! Bc3 Other options 35 ... Kf7, ... Bc3, ... Rb3, ... Nc3 36.Bxd5! exd5! 37.Bxc3! Rxc3! 38.Rxd5! Alex is a pawn up in a room ending and should be OK and yet he plays 4 moves and resigns. Let's watch Dzindi do his magic. It turns out the a-pawn ties up Shabalov's pieces and frees Dzindi's King to do serious damage. Roman is the one playing for the win! 38 ... a3!! Despite the extra pawn Shabalov is now groveling for a draw which he may achieve with near perfect play. 39.Rd8+! On 39 Rd2 Rb3 Shabalov has to worry about ... Rb1+ and ... Rb2 39 ... Kf7! 40.Ke2? Time pressure, most likely. The ending is very subtle. I think the best idea for Shabalov is to try and eliminate the a-pawn and try to draw a pawn down. Head west, young man. Here's a sample of what he should do - 40 Ra8! Ke6 41 Ke2 Kd6 42 Kd2! Rb3! 43 Kc2 Rb2+ 44 Kc1! R:f2! 45 R:a3! R:g2 46 Rf3 and GM Shabalov can hold this. He has ideas of Rf7 or h3 or Rh3 The point is to take care of the problem on a3 ASAP. Instead in time pressure he tries an alternate plan of allowing Roman's a-pawn to live and trying to push his Kingside pawns forward for counterplay. This fails miserably. By not focussing immediately on a3 convergence with King and Rook Shabba allows a bind where his pieces don't coordinate and Roman's King is free to gobble. 40 ... a2!! This wins unless Alexander can create an edgame study out of it. 41.Ra8 41 Rd1 Rc2+ 42 Ke3 Ke6 is the same sort of position, only worse 41 ... Rc2+!! 42.Kf3?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 42 Kd3 R:f2 43 h4 R:g2 44 Kc3 Kg6 wins by targetting the h4-pawn 45 Kb3 Kh5 46 Ra4 b6 47 Kc3 Rh2 48 Kb3 g6 49 Kc3 Rh3+!! 50 Kb2 R:h4!! wins easily 42 Ke3!! Ke6 43 h4 Kd5 with the idea of ... Kc5-b4 and ... Rc3+-a3 or ... Kc4-c3-b2 so 42 Ke3 Ke6 43 h4 Kd5 44 Kd3! R:f2 45 g4 Kc5 46 Kc3! Rg2 47 Kb3 K:b5 48 g5! Rh2! 49 R:a2 Rh3+ 50 Kc2 R:h4 51 Kd3 Rg4 52 Rb2+ Kc6 53 Rc2+ Kd6 54 Rb2 Kc7 55 Rc2+ Kb8 56 Rc5 g6 57 Ke3 Ka7 58 Re5 Rg1 59 Rd5 Kb8 60 Rc5 Rd1 61 Ke4 Ka7 62 Rc7 Re1+ 63 Kd4 Rg1 64 Rc5 Rd1+ 65 Ke4 Ka6 66 Rc2 and I am not sure Black is making any progress. Perhaps this line draws. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 42 ... Ke6 1-0 Let's see why Shabalov resigned 43 Ke4 R:f2 44 g3 R:h2 45 Kd4 Kd6 46 Kc4 Rg2 47 Kc4 Kc7 48 Kc5 Rc2+ 49 Kb4 Kb6 50 Kb3 Rg2 51 Kc4 g5 52 Kb4 g4 53 Kc4 R:g3 54 R:a2 Rf3 55 Ra8 Rf4+ 56 Kd3 K:b5 and should win. The lesson is that Shabalov's only hope was to get rid of the a-pawn as soon as he could and take his chances a pawn down. Delaying doomed him. The most interesting part of the game was how 15 a3 g6!! worked so well for Roman and the ending where Roman's passed pawn crippled White's chances. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "USA-ch Gr-A"] [Site "Denver"] [Date "1998.10.31"] [Round "6"] [White "Shabalov,Alexander"] [Black "Dzindzichashvili,Roman"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "E32"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 0-0 5.e4 d5 6.e5 Ne4 7.Bd3 c5 8.cxd5 exd5 9.Nge2 Nc6 10.0-0 cxd4 11.Nxd5 Qxd5 12.Bxe4 Qxe5 13.Bxh7+ Kh8 14.Bf4 Qc5 15.a3 Qxc2 16.Bxc2 Bc5 17.b4 Bb6 18.Bd3 Be6 19.Rfe1 Rfe8 20.Bg3 a5 21.b5 Ne7 22.Nf4 Nd5 23.Nxe6 Rxe6 24.Rxe6 fxe6 25.Re1 Rc8 26.Kf1 Rc3 27.Bg6 d3 28.Rd1 Rxa3 29.Bxd3 Kg8 30.Bg6 Bc5 31.Re1 Bb4 32.Rd1 Bc5 33.Bh5 Bb4 34.Bf3 a4 35.Be5 Bc3 36.Bxd5 exd5 37.Bxc3 Rxc3 38.Rxd5 a3 39.Rd8+ Kf7 40.Ke2 a2 41.Ra8 Rc2+ 42.Kf3 Ke6 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "USA-ch Gr-A"] [Site "Denver"] [Date "1998.10.31"] [Round "6"] [White "Shabalov,Alexander"] [Black "Dzindzichashvili,Roman"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "E32"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 0-0 5.e4 d5 6.e5 Ne4 7.Bd3 c5 8.cxd5 exd5 9.Nge2 Nc6 10.0-0 cxd4 11.Nxd5 Qxd5 12.Bxe4 Qxe5 13.Bxh7+ Kh8 14.Bf4 Qc5 15.a3 Qxc2 16.Bxc2 Bc5 17.b4 Bb6 18.Bd3 Be6 19.Rfe1 Rfe8 20.Bg3 a5 21.b5 Ne7 22.Nf4 Nd5 23.Nxe6 Rxe6 24.Rxe6 fxe6 25.Re1 Rc8 26.Kf1 Rc3 27.Bg6 d3 28.Rd1 Rxa3 29.Bxd3 Kg8 30.Bg6 Bc5 31.Re1 Bb4 32.Rd1 Bc5 33.Bh5 Bb4 34.Bf3 a4 35.Be5 Bc3 36.Bxd5 exd5 37.Bxc3 Rxc3 38.Rxd5 a3 39.Rd8+ Kf7 40.Ke2 a2 41.Ra8 Rc2+ 42.Kf3 Ke6 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "EM/M/201 email"] [Site "ICCF Email"] [Date "2002.??.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Lamy,Loic"] [Black "Vodep,Otto"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "E32"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 0-0 5.e4 d5 6.e5 Ne4 7.Bd3 c5 8.cxd5 exd5 9.Nge2 Nc6 10.0-0 cxd4 11.Nxd5 Qxd5 12.Bxe4 Qxe5 13.Bxh7+ Kh8 14.Bf4 Qc5 15.Rac1 Qxc2 16.Bxc2 Be6 17.Bd3 Bxa2 18.Rxc6 bxc6 19.b3 a5 20.Nc1 Bxb3 21.Nxb3 a4 22.Nc1 Rfd8 23.Bc4 Bd6 24.Bxd6 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Child abuse - Occasionally Oprah has a show on about people that accidentally kill or hurt their children. One woman forgot to drop their baby off at the babysitter and when she got off work her dead baby was still in her car seat. Another kid was sitting on the washer dryer and fell in and burned himself. Other people back up their car over their children because kids suddenly panic and race towards the car when Mommy leaves. I can attest that even if you successfully raise children there are always close calls. My daughter dived head first into an empty bathtub thinking there was water in it. She fell down stairs learning to walk. My scariest moment with her, one that still gives me chills, was when I was about to turn the water on for a shower and I heard a weird cry from my baby daughter in her car seat perched on the living room rug. A parent gets to know cries like a separate language. Something sounded strange so I went to see her. I had forgotten the bottom strap and she had slid down with the top strap choking her. I would have come out of the shower to a DEAD BABY. I held my daughter and swore I would be extra careful not to let my Chess absentminded professor behavior kill my baby. My son Devon recently heard an ice cream truck which turns kids into pyschos. I gave him $4 and he raced out my front yard. The gates are strapped shut to prevent my female Shitzu from escaping. Not being able to open the gate ice cream crazed Devon tried to climb the small fence and ended up upside down with his foot caught. Turns out later he got a hairline fracture in the middle of his foot and had to wear a leg brace for a month to slow him down enough to heal properly. I have 8 younger brothers and wonder how we survived all those sibling fights. Every parent can tell you a story of how their kids scared them to death. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ww.Walverine.com just passed the quarter million hits mark today. Cigars and protein water for everyone. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Oct 4 10:54:54 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 10:54:54 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Jedi Mind tricks Message-ID: <1223139294.48e79fde39daa@www.taom.com> This game almost won me a separate State Championship. I was living in a homeless shelter one exit away when I beat future IM Joe Fang in the 1995 New Hampshire State Championship. In the last round GM Alexander Ivanov was playing my nearest rival but instead of trying to win he took the money draw. He could not win the title because he lived in nearby Massachusetts. I remember swimming in the hotel pool with my girlfriend at the time and getting in some ridiuclous fight. That was normal for us. She lives in Nashua, NH now. 1995 was such a rough year I ended up back in Colorado. The thing I always remember about this game is that I hypnotized my opponent and good friend Joe Fang. I spent about 8 years going over to Joe's house happily blitzing away. I was mostly concerned with raising my daughter back then so hanging at Joe's seemed harmless enough. One time my daughter, about 7 years old, said at Camp Fang, "Daddy, let's go home." I said, " Honey,we are home." That's how much time I spent there. This is what I did. I provoked a combo that had a flaw. I tried to feel and look idiotic. I remember the puppet Mortimer Snerd and how it's creator Edgar Bergen said the puppet was deliberately designed to look as stupid as possible. I tried to empty my mind, to look slackjawed and vacant like Mortimer. I tried to act like a cow that's doesn't see the sledgehammer. After sitting as moronically as possible Joe went for his "killer combo" that worked in every line but one. Here's the game - I've been looking for this one a long time. [Event "1995 New Hampshire Open" ] [Site "Holiday Inn, Nashua, NH"] [Date "1995.22.07" ] [Round "2"] [White "Joseph Fang"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2463"] [BlackElo "2255"] [Opening "French Defense, Alekhine-Chatard Attack"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/90, SD/1 hour"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1995 New Hampshire Open Holiday Inn, Nashua, NH July 22, 1995 40/90 minutes Sudden Death/ 1 hour Round 2 Board 2 White- Pairing #2 Joe Fang 2463 then 2369 now Black- Pairing #7 2255 then 2229 now Mortimer Snerd In the 2008 NH Championship Joe got 2/4, losing to GM Alexander Ivanov ( 2612 )and Igor Foygel ( 2483). Joe did win the State Championship at least once. In 1993 I was Massachusetts Blitz Champion, a tough title for me to get. The 2008 NH Champion is Dave Wallace's old pal, Braden Bournival ( 2377 ) with 3/4. Massachusetts players GM Alexander Ivanov had 3.5, SM Kelleher ( 2384 ) and IM Foygel had 3, but Braden was the highest NH resident. This is a normal result for this tournament. Other Harvard Square buddy ratings IM William Paschall FIDE 2351 USCF 2371 IM David Vigorito 2417 Dave, Joe and Bill all got their IM norms in Hungary's First Saturday tourneys although I think Joe got some in America too. Let's go back in time now. "Brian has no openings to speak of." Joe Fang "Brian, do you know when you will get to be an IM" Dave Vigorito "No, when?" Brian "Never" Dave "Joe, have you lost some weight recently?" Brian " ... uh .... No" Honest Joe "I didn't think so" Brian We knew each other's repertoires inside and out. Pre-Shirov I had zero respect for speculative attacks, considering all of them pure hogwash. I wanted the title so I figured allowing Joe's Alekhine-Chatard Attack was a great idea. I will just hang onto my extra pawn and convert an endgame. I was dead wrong. The opening was an utter nightmare. 1.d4 e6!! 2.e4! d5! I was crazy about the French Defense back then 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5! Nfd7! 6.h4!? Bxg5! 7.hxg5! Qxg5! Alekhine-Chatard Attack Accepted gleefully Wheeee, I'm a pawn up against a Senior Master! Nowadays I'd rather be White and look for something to sacrifice. 8.Nh3 Played 711 by guys like Reti, WC Lasker, WC Alekhine, Bogolubov, Tartakover, WC Euwe, Keres, Velimirovic, Sax, Timmerman ( Postal World Champion ), Alexander Ivanov, WC Khalifman, Bob Long ( Thinker's Press ), Zhang Zhong, Almira Skripchenko ( beautiful ), Hikaru Nakamura ( facebook buddy ) What do they know?, they were all bluffing!, I have a pawn with no weaknesses, I'm winning! 8 Nb5 played 15 times by guys like Dragen Velimirovic and Igor Nataf 8 Nf3 played 47 times by Albin et. al. 8 Qd3 is in vogue now, played 108 times by innocents like Johnny Hector, Gary Kasparov, Nataf, C Mueller, Velimirovic again and Onischuk 8 Qf3 never played 8 Rh5 played 7 times by, yes, Velimirovic again and half a dozen others. 8 ... Qe7? played 672 times, including ICC buddy GM Varuzhan Ahobian in 2007 8 ... Qh6!! played 15 times by personal favorites Emanuel Lasker, Makogonov et alia Emanuel Lasker published Alekhine-Chatard Accepted analysis by his brother Berthold in one of his Chess manuals. 8 ... Qh4 played twice 8 ... Qd8 played 9 times 8 ... Qg6 tried once and abandoned 9.Qg4! played 201 times 9 Qh5 played 12 times 9 Qd3 played by Jacek Stopa and two others 9 Qf3 never played 9 Qe2 played twice 9 a3 never played 9 Qd2 played by Lizar Martinez and 14 others 9 Nf4 played by 408 copycats probably because Alekhine played it, aiming for d5 9 Nb5 played by Emanuel Lasker and two other bluffers 9 ... g6! played by Brian Kerr and 103 others 9 ... Rg8 played twice 9 ... Qf8 played twice 9 ... Kf8 played thrice 9 ... f5 played 77 times by the great Cecil Purdy, Tabjbzada, Pfleger, Korchnoi and others One postal fool tried castling Kingside here. He lasted 7 whole moves. 10.Ng5 tried 13 times The best move, 10 Qg5 has never been tried here 10 0-0-0 tried 24 times 10 Qg3 never tried 10 Qf4 was tried once 10 Be2 never tried 10 Nb5 never tried 10 Nf4 played 69 times by Euwe and others 10 Rh2 never played 10 f4 tried twice 10 ... f5 tried once 10 .... h5! tried 8 times 10 ... h6 tried by Mathhieu Smith and Mikhail Ulibin 10 ... f6 tried once 11.exf6!! 11 Qh4 tried once 11 ... Nxf6! 12.Qg3!! 12 Qh4 never played 12 Qf4 never played 12 ... Nc6 13.0-0-0 Played once. 13 Nb5!! never played 13 Bd3 never played 13 Bb5 never played 13 ... Bd7?? I am not playing very well - Emanuel Lasker's 8 ... Qh6! may be better than the standard 8 ... Qe7 10 ... h5! was better than 10 ... f5? 12 ... Nh5! was better than 12 ... Nc6? 13 ... Nh5 is better than 13 ... Bd7 13 ... Bd7 is the only one tried. 13 ... Nh5, ... a6, ... 0-0, ... Rg8, ... Qd6, ... Rf8 and ... Rb8 are all poor but better than my move. 13 ... Nh5 14 Qe3 Bd7 is best but bad to the bone 14.Nb5!!! TN Theoretical Novelty by Joe Fang I can't believe some idiot played as poorly as me 20 years prior but early Jedi Master Bodo Schmidt also played 13 ... Bd7? and beat Klaus Lindoerfer's 14 Q:c7!! which is a good move too. 14 ... 0-0!! When things go horribly wrong just offer some material and hope they're satisfied with that - remain calm and do damage control is possible. To beat a beginner just offer him a poisoned apple. Put something en prise. He'll take it. To beat a good player, do the opposite. Let him sacrifice, pretend you don't even see what a genius he is. That's even more irresistable. He'll sac unsoundly. Joe gets confused by my nonchalant atitude towards my c-pawn and decided to checkmate me instead. 15.Bd3? He's still winning but he has been knocked off course. The consistent 15 N:c7! is twice as strong. My King mooning him on the h-file is more than Joe can stand. 15 ... Qg7!?! 15 ... Nb4!! gives me some play for the pawn, a lot more than I had two moves ago. My move is diabolical. It invites Joe to self-destruct. Doug Williams talk about the meta-game in Negreanu's 500 page Power Poker. 15 ... Qg7!?! is all about the meta-game. 16.Nxc7!! Nxd4!! Here we go - Try the Fun Slide, Joe! 17.Nxh7?? Again Joe is confused by my cavalier attitiude towards material and instead of just grabbing a paltry offside rook on a8, swoops in for the kill. My whole plan is based on my drooling retard expression that it's all hopeless and I have no idea what Joe is planning. I am going for the New Hampshire State Chess Championship and the Oscar all at the same time. Maybe they'll let me keep my trophies in the Homeless Shelter Office. 17 ... Nxh7!! C'mon, Joe, just one more step. You can do it. At this point I have to act quickly enough so Joe can "surprise" me but disoriented enough so that he does not suspect a thing. Slamming his h7-knight down hard on my side of the board and then slowly screwing my knight into h7 would ahve tipped my hand too soon. I am checking the hand down with quads. I have played so atrociously so far and I look so doelike and helpless that Joe has no body language cues that I hold a monster. It's also based on residual images. My d4-knight is a recent visitor. If you are calculating all this from afar and then you don't double-check your combo each move like Botvinnik told you to, then Joe's mistake is easy to make. I am almost even already with a center pawn for the exchange and well placed pieces if Joe wakes up and takes on a8. That would be inconsistent. 18.Bxg6??????? Crushing in all lines. 18 ... Ne2+!!!!!!!! Except one! Any move other than this and Joe's whole concept is justified - it would be his biggest advantage yet in the game and I would be utterly humiliated and deservedly wiped off the board. Butterfingers. It's hard to see my royal fork on move 15 because my knight is nowhere near e2 and the square is covered by the d3-bishop. Two pieces have to move to make it possible. The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. ? Henri Bergson Joe learned from this game, probably his biggest, most important lesson before bearing down and obtaining his IM title. Now would be the time to slam and screw but I am not the kind to rub it in. I did move fast enough for shock value. Joe's had the same expression for 15 years so I didn't get any fun that way. 19.Kb1! Don't tase me, bro. Joe is too shocked to resign. 19 ... Nxg3! 20.Bxh7+! Qxh7 20 ... Kf7!! is stronger but my move is simpler. I was probably too happy to even bother with 20 ... Kf7 21.Rxh7! Kxh7! 22.Nxa8! Ne4 I am one piece up already and on top of everything else, Joe's knight can't escape. I will be up two pieces up. 23.f3 Nf6! 0-1 Joe resigns This stunt was accomplished by a highly trained profesional. Amateurs should refrain from trying this in their own games. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "1995 New Hampshire Open" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1995.22.07" ] [Round "2"] [White "Joseph Fang"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2463"] [BlackElo "2255"] [Opening "French Defense, Alekhine-Chatard Attack"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/90, SD/1 hour"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.d4 e6 2.e4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5 Nfd7 6.h4 Bxg5 7.hxg5 Qxg5 8.Nh3 Qe7 9.Qg4 g6 10.Ng5 f5 11.exf6 Nxf6 12.Qg3 Nc6 13.0-0-0 Bd7 14.Nb5 0-0 15.Bd3 Qg7 16.Nxc7 Nxd4 17.Nxh7 Nxh7 18.Bxg6 Ne2+ 19.Kb1 Nxg3 20.Bxh7+ Qxh7 21.Rxh7 Kxh7 22.Nxa8 Ne4 23.f3 Nf6 0-1 Joe resigns ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "DSB-19.Kongress"] [Site "Mannheim"] [Date "1914.07.20"] [Round "11"] [White "Alekhine,Alexander"] [Black "Fahrni,Hans"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "C14"] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5 Nfd7 6.h4 Bxg5 7.hxg5 Qxg5 8.Nh3 Qe7 9.Nf4 Nf8 10.Qg4 f5 11.exf6 gxf6 12.0-0-0 c6 13.Re1 Kd8 14.Rh6 e5 15.Qh4 Nbd7 16.Bd3 e4 17.Qg3 Qf7 18.Bxe4 dxe4 19.Nxe4 Rg8 20.Qa3 Qg7 21.Nd6 Nb6 22.Ne8 Qf7 23.Qd6+ Qd7 24.Qxf6+ 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "FRG-chT"] [Site "Delmenhorst"] [Date "1975.12.??"] [Round "3"] [White "Lindoerfer,Klaus"] [Black "Schmidt,Bodo"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "C14"] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5 Nfd7 6.h4 Bxg5 7.hxg5 Qxg5 8.Nh3 Qe7 9.Qg4 g6 10.0-0-0 Nc6 11.Ng5 f5 12.exf6 Nxf6 13.Qg3 Bd7 14.Qxc7 0-0 15.Qg3 Rac8 16.Kb1 Qg7 17.Be2 h6 18.Nh3 g5 19.f4 g4 20.Nf2 h5 21.Qe3 Ne7 22.Qe5 Nf5 23.Bb5 Qf7 24.Bd3 a6 25.Bxf5 exf5 26.Rde1 Rc6 27.Qe7 Qxe7 28.Rxe7 Re8 29.Rxe8+ Bxe8 30.Nd3 Rc7 31.Kc1 Rh7 32.g3 Bc6 33.Nc5 Re7 34.Kd2 Kg7 35.Rh2 a5 36.a3 Re8 37.b4 axb4 38.axb4 b6 39.Nd3 Re7 40.Ne5 Be8 41.Kc1 Ra7 42.Kb2 Ra8 43.Rh1 Ra7 44.Kb3 Ra8 45.Re1 Rc8 46.Rg1 Rc7 47.Ra1 Rxc3+ 48.Kxc3 Ne4+ 49.Kd3 Nxg3 50.Ke3 h4 51.Nd3 Bb5 52.Kf2 Bxd3 53.cxd3 Nh5 54.Ra7+ Kg6 55.Rb7 Nxf4 56.Rxb6+ Kg5 57.b5 g3+ 58.Kg1 h3 59.Rb8 Ne2+ 60.Kf1 g2+ 61.Kxe2 h2 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This was only a blitz game but still awesome. The game is analyzed in an Everyman Chess book "Starting Out: the French" by Byron Jacobs, Game 42, Page 96 http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Out-French-Everyman-Chess/dp/1857442296 [Event "Zuerich Kortschnoj KO"] [Site "Zuerich"] [Date "2001.04.29"] [Round "1"] [White "Kasparov,Garry"] [Black "Kortschnoj,Viktor"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "C14"] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5 Nfd7 6.h4 Bxg5 7.hxg5 Qxg5 8.Qd3 Nc6 9.Nf3 Qg6 10.Qxg6 fxg6 11.Nb5 Ke7 12.Nxc7 Rb8 13.Nb5 Nb6 14.c3 Bd7 15.Bd3 Na5 16.b3 Bxb5 17.Bxb5 h6 18.Nh4 Rhc8 19.Rh3 g5 20.Ng6+ Kf7 21.Rf3+ Kxg6 22.Bd3+ Kh5 23.Rh3+ Kg4 24.f3+ Kf4 25.Kf2 g4 26.g3+ 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "SVE-chB G-782 corr9395"] [Site "Sweden"] [Date "1993.??.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Nykvist,Sven"] [Black "Holmberg,Gunnar"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "C14"] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5 Nfd7 6.h4 Bxg5 7.hxg5 Qxg5 8.Nh3 Qe7 9.Qg4 0-0 10.Nf4 Re8 11.Bd3 f5 12.Qh5 Nf8 13.g4 g6 14.Nxg6 Nxg6 15.gxf5 exf5 16.Nxd5 Qf7 17.Bc4 1-0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Fang pictures http://lh5.ggpht.com/_h91cbA_dNFc/RZnpFgo5FLI/AAAAAAAAB1Q/GYzQXmClm2E/david+glickman+and+joe+fang+1-1-2007+4-20-13+PM.jpg http://lh4.ggpht.com/_h91cbA_dNFc/RsH9HIDO1jI/AAAAAAAAEto/_pThbS2_GhM/1979_nm_joe_fang.jpg subliminal advertising http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.chessville.com/Wall/HowtoPlayChessLikeanAnimal.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.chessville.com/Wall/BobbyFischersEarlyBlunders2.htm&h=191&w=150&sz=13&hl=en&start=33&um=1&usg=__TTJ9kMa9UzJad-PWbjwHUXhZdyU=&tbnid=bhc-tPEoobMBOM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=81&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djoe%2Bfang%2Bchess%26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-US%26sa%3DN --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Oct 5 00:06:54 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 00:06:54 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Dennis Monokroussos: A short Shirov game from the Bundesliga Message-ID: <1223186814.48e8597ee3d83@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Email subscription to blog articles ----- Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 00:45:01 -0400 From: Email subscription to blog articles Reply-To: historicchess at comcast.net, chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Subject: [chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: A short Shirov game from the Bundesliga To: chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Posted by Dennis Monokroussos: A short Shirov game from the Bundesliga http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1223181897.shtml A very [1]attractive little game from the opening weekend of the [2]Bundesliga, with some theoretical significance, too. References 1. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/files/shirov_cyborowski_bundesliga2008.htm 2. http://www.schachbundesliga.de/index.aspx _______________________________________________ chessmind mailing list chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chessmind From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Oct 7 13:42:57 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:42:57 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] October 2008 Newsletter Message-ID: <1223408577.48ebbbc1368a9@www.taom.com> Here is the October 2008 newsletter.?You can expect every newsletter by the first Monday of each month. ? Thank you, ? Klaus Johnson Director of Boulder Chess Club President of the Colorado State Chess Association -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... 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Sorry if that clutters the file, I wasn't planning on sending it to you until I was one reviewing it with Alexa. Actually, it looks like I have both versions, I'll attach both. Some interesting things, almost too subtle for this age group, but I think they can be spotted. 5....Nf6 is a mistake, hanging the pawn6....Bd6 is correct, but it's left with an extra move with the pawn-fork threat. Difficult choice for Katie and F6 likes the retreat to e7 better than the advance to c5. A very interesting problem for development rules of the opening. I imagine F10 might even have a different opinion. 9.Bg5 is a pin that I've heard GM Polgar describe as premature, since the King hasn't committed to that corner. after 11....Bg4 here's where you've shown Alexa the Qd3 move, but she didn't think the pin was a big deal. F6 likes Qd3 too. 12....Qd7 is slow, e7 being the correct destination. Subtle but I think there's a simple reason if I could articulate it. 16....Bh5 is wrong, but it's not apparant why. Technically Alexa's next move makes it good by allowing the pawn-doubling that the Q on d1 has prevented for so long, but when Katie doesn't do it, it allows Alexa's ideas of attack move forward. 18.Na5 Not F6's favorite, but here the attacking idea gives Katie too many chances to go wrong. Sure, F6 likes taking the pawn best, but rather than being left with a difficult defense, the offense just feels better. So, though not technically BEST, the attack is EASIER on the brain for the attacker. A lesson worth driving home. 20.Qxb6 I love this idea! again, not precisely best, but oh so dangerous!20....Rhg8 it's amazing how much worse this is than the other rook! And because of the Bishop capture coming. This is subtle enough to get past kids, but it's obvious enough to teach. A very interesting position and necessary defense. Right idea, and wrong piece. 23.Bd6 ouch! F6 likes other moves better, but it's really dangerous now either way. 25.Bxd8 here's a lesson in forcing moves, maybe not a big deal, but one of those situations. 27....f5 drops the Knight. Pretty much done from here anyway. I didn't see these as they happened, so I was surprised. Some cool stuff in there. --Matt -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: unnamed Url: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081008/a15edbe0/attachment.ksh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081008/a15edbe0/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Alexa_Katie Wise_2008_10_7_19_20.pgn Type: application/octet-stream Size: 696 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081008/a15edbe0/attachment.obj -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Alexa_Katie Wise_2008_10_7_19_53.pgn Type: application/octet-stream Size: 1737 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081008/a15edbe0/attachment-0001.obj From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Oct 8 14:07:06 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 14:07:06 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Suicide Jumper Message-ID: <1223496426.48ed12ea32398@www.taom.com> http://anonymousbuyer.blogspot.com/ Here are the last blog entries of a friend of a friend who drank and pokered $100,000 away, then jumped off the same building in downtown Denver his brother did 10 years ago. I met the guy, he was intelligent, built like a bear and worked hard before he retired early from his job and went on self-destruct. Bad beat. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Oct 8 21:57:00 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 21:57:00 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Can you say that? Message-ID: <1223524620.48ed810c535bc@www.taom.com> I pride myself on being an honest writer. If I don't get a unsubscription and an angry response to every email I feel like I am not doing my job. I don't think I'd have the nerve to do this if my brother Bill didn't teach me the skills to sell door to door for 5 years. Rhino skin. That is why when I come across a more honest writer than myself, I stop and stare in awe like coming across a majestic waterfall in the middle of a peaceful glen. Four writers I can think of with this quality are my father, Lucius "PQ" Wall, Anthea Carson Martinez, Robert Ringer and GM Alex Yermolinsky. Knowing all the abuse I suffer for my truth, I am impressed they are willing to endure more. Since I am about to show you a game between the Grandmaster and myself, let me recall a few things the Yerminator said. I met his wife Camilla Baginskaite and told her how much I admired Alex's writing and she told me she is trying to get him to write more. Genna Sosonko wrote one of the best Chess articles I ever read in "New in Chess" about Tal's trainer Koblenc. He wrote two more like that, another one about Spassky's Russian trainer Zak. Yermo was incensed. He hated Zak and explained in detail why Zak was such a lousy coach and person in a long letter to New In Chess. Yermo also wrote an autobiographical blog. He named names in a cheating scandal. I used that as a role model for my Cubagate fiasco. He wrote in Chess Life that when he was very successful in tournaments at age 40, many interested women approached him, some close to his age but, " What am I going to do with a 40 year old woman?" Can you say that? I am convinced God enjoys proving us wrong more than giving us what we beg for. His ears perk up a lot faster if He hears the word "Never!" rather than "Please, God, deliver me a dishwasher. " As proof Yermo is now happily married to Camilla and their two children so I assume he found out what he was " going to do with a 40 year old woman." All Chessplayers are advised by friends and family to choose a more secure profession. Yermo's answer to this, which sounded like a drunken rant to me - " No one bothered to ask this of Morphy as he beat the Duke and Count in the Paris Opera Box because Chess is the Sport of Kings!!" In general Alex Yermolinsky wrote about who he liked and why. I think Yermo's Diary was deleted from the Internet which is a shame because it was the best thing around for honesty in Chess. I know at least Andy Rea met Yermo and read his diary. I believe there is a strong connection to mastering a subject and honesty. Rigorous discipline is required to be a Master carpenter, physicist, Chessmaster, swimmer, skiier, a master anything because in some respect it is all the same thing, discovering law and effect on the planet or beyond. Once you get honest, it's hard to go back. I asked GM Kaidanov during an ICC webcast if Russian ex-patriots are extra honest because their government originally suppressed them all with death threats. His answer was funny - " Even under KGB control we would be allowed to say that Brian Wall exaggerrates the truth." GM Gregory Kaidanov Most of us aren't lucky enough to play GMs that often so even if we lose, I think we should look at it. All of Life's lessons are disguised as losses. Winning and Losing are One, according to the Zen teachers Bruce Lee studied. I suppose we cannot get philosophical until we rise above our desires. I played my favorite system against the Yerminiator and came out of the opening with a superior position but then I didn't know how to play my own middle game and completely collapsed. This game is in the databases. The basic plan is to hold the Kingside and attack with b4 on the Queenside. I don't like to as much but sometimes I can play Rae1 and f4 attacking the Kingside too. Frankly I played like a scared rabbit who expected to lose. [Event "Eastern Class-ch 4th"] [Site "Woburn"] [Date "1995.03.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Wall,Brian D"] [Black "Yermolinsky,Alex"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "A65"] 1995 Eastern Class Championship Woburn, Massachusetts Round 1 Board 2 40/120 Sudden Death/1 hour White- Brian Wall 2267 Black- Grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky 2665 Opening- King's Indian Defense, Samish Variation, Laufer-g5 system 1.c4 g6 2.d4! Nf6 3.Nc3! Bg7 4.e4! d6! 5.f3 0-0! 6.Bg5 Laufer-g5 system as taught by Seirawan to Korchnoi and Vigorito to me. 6 ... c5 7.d5 e6 8.Qd2! exd5! 9.cxd5 a6 10.a4 h6 11.Be3 I haven't tried 11 B:h6 again since my latest facebook buddy Craig Wilcox beat a decade ago 11 ... Re8! 12.Nge2! h5 13.Nc1 Often the idea here is Na2 supporting b4 13 ... Nbd7! 14.Be2! Nh7 Played 15 times. Black isn't going to wait around and get crushed on the Queenside routinely like most random amateurs do or even Chessmasters if they aren't prepared for this system. This doesn't seem like a well thought out plan to me, more like an abused kid that lashes out wildly at his foster parents without much forethought. 15.Nd3! 7 minutes spent Played 14 times 15 ... Ne5! 8 minutes spent Played 9 times 16.Nf2! reached 19 times 16 ... f5!? Played 11 times including by GMs Cebalo & Gallagher 17.0-0! reached 14 times 17 ... Bd7 Played 6 times 17 ... h4 played 11 times by Judith Polgar, Kotronias ( twice ), Georgiev ( twice ) and others 16 ... b6 played once ( same position via Be3, ... h5 ) 17 ... Nf6 played thrice 17 ... Qf6 played twice 18.exf5? TL Theoretical Lemon by Brian Wall I have aboout 30 good moves, this is about halfway down the list. I don't know why this system is so popular, Josh Bloomer always plays it against me, it must be in some damn book. I guess KID players can't breathe if they don't get in ... f5 someway somehow, even at the cost of an absurd knight on h7. Personally I think there are much better systems like saccing a pawn on b5 ala Benko 18 a5 18 Rab1 18 Rae1 18 Rfe1 Ermenkov 2008 18 Bh6 18 Rac1 18 Kh1 Danilo Milanovic 2001 18 Ra3 Anna Maria Botsari 2006 18 Rfb1 18 Rfc1 18 Rfd1 18 Ra2 18 Qc1 18 Qc2 18 Rad1 18 Qd1 18 h3 Michael Hochstrasser 1999 18 Nfd1 18 Qe1 18 Bf4 18 Ncd1 18 ef Brian Wall 1995 18 b3 18 Bd3 18 Nh1 18 Nb1 18 f4 18 g3 18 Na2 18 Nh3 all favor me, it's almost impossible to go wrong. 18 Rae1 is what I would play in a blitz game, preparing f4 someday Michael Hochstrasser played 18 h3 after this game Danilo Milanovic played 17 Kh1 here ( They did Bg5-e3 and ... h6-h5 in one move and the white knight reached f2 via g1-e2-g3-h1-f2) Evgeny Ermenkov played 17 Rfe1 here It feels like I am winning on all sides of the board. I can do anything here. I can fly. Since I lost this, what would Fritz 9 do here? - 18 a5 Rb8 19 Rfe1 Nf7 20 Bd3 18 Rab1 Rc8 19 Rbe1 18 Rae1 Nf6 19 Bh6 It's not tactical yet, all positional. This is my apex, my star is highest in the sky right here. I was gaining ground until now but somehow, from here on, I just keep slipping down the greased pole. 18 ... gxf5 19.Kh1? Top 5 - Fritz 9 19 Rae1 19 a5 19 Rfe1 19 Bh6 19 Kh1 19 ... Qh4 7 minutes spent Top 4 19 ... Qf6 19 ... Qh4 19 ... Rb8 19 ... Qa5 20.Nh3? 7 minutes spent second best - my idea was Nf2-h3-f4-e6 slightly better was hanging onto my bishops with 20 Bf4 followed by 21 Rae1 20 ... Nc4! 21.Bxc4! Qxc4! 22.Rfe1? Apparently I don't understand my favorite system. I have nothing left after this move. Top 6 22 a5 22 Rfc1 22 Bh6 22 Rfe1 22 Bf2 Next time I will keep my eye on a5 and Rae1 22 ... b5!! 12 minutes spent The key Benoni move Fitting since I refused to play a5! on moves 18, 19 and 22 23.Bh6? 14 minutes spent Maybe 23 Rac1 Qb3 24 Bh6 Bf6 or ... Bd4 is about equal 23 ... Qd4!! 3 minutes spent Gaining some kind of critical tempo for an edge. Leave it to a GM to find the only move for advantage 24.Qxd4? 7 minutes spent. I can't stop blundering. It's like slowly sinking into quicksand. It wouldn't be as bad after 24 R:e8+ or ab. It felt like mind control or hypnosis or fear 24 ... Bxd4!! Yermo has all the Queenside pressure and I have nothing but pain. I could have retsrained his Queenside with a5 or started my own attack with Rae1 but instead I drifted like a headless chicken until he stole the two bishops and oozed into the Queenside. I was a little pysched out playing a GM in round 1, this had never happened before. I felt disoriented. 25.axb5! 9 minutes spent 25 ... axb5! 26.Rxa8! 8 minutes spent 26 ... Rxa8! 27.g3? Second best in a lost position. 27 Rb1 is slightly less bad 27 ... b4!! It looks like a Benoni from Hell 28.Re7! Ra7 Only 28 .. Be8! 29 Nd1 Bf7! is stronger but Yermo's move definitely wins 29.Bf4? 9 minutes spent Horrible and desperate but 29 Nd1 Bf6!!! or ... Ra1!! kills me My refusal to resign here killed my chances for a postmortem. GMs like a little respect. The following was played quickly in a few minutes. 29 ... bxc3!! multiple wins- 29 ... B:c3, ... Bf6, ... Nf6, ... c4 and more - My King and h3-knight look like rodeo clowns waiting on barrels for a bronco rider to be thrown. 30.bxc3! Bxc3! 31.Bxd6! Bd4 6 minutes spent Only 31 ... Ra1+!!! 32 Kg2 Bb5!! is more brutal 32.Nf4 Look who decided to wake up 32 ... Ng5!! 33.Nxh5? I can't remember if I blundered or committed hari-kari. It was completely hopeless. 33 ... Ra1+! mating 34.Kg2 Rg1# 0-1 Checkmate. I think I have a better idea of why I lost now. The system didn't fail me. I failed the system. I ran out of question marks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Eastern Class-ch 4th"] [Site "Woburn"] [Date "1995.03.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Wall,Brian D"] [Black "Yermolinsky,Alex"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "A65"] 1.c4 g6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 0-0 6.Bg5 c5 7.d5 e6 8.Qd2 exd5 9.cxd5 a6 10.a4 h6 11.Be3 Re8 12.Nge2 h5 13.Nc1 Nbd7 14.Be2 Nh7 15.Nd3 Ne5 16.Nf2 f5 17.0-0 Bd7 18.exf5 gxf5 19.Kh1 Qh4 20.Nh3 Nc4 21.Bxc4 Qxc4 22.Rfe1 b5 23.Bh6 Qd4 24.Qxd4 Bxd4 25.axb5 axb5 26.Rxa8 Rxa8 27.g3 b4 28.Re7 Ra7 29.Bf4 bxc3 30.bxc3 Bxc3 31.Bxd6 Bd4 32.Nf4 Ng5 33.Nxh5 Ra1+ 34.Kg2 Rg1+ 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "SUI-ch"] [Site "Graechen"] [Date "1999.07.??"] [Round "2"] [White "Hochstrasser,Michael"] [Black "Cebalo,Miso"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "A65"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 0-0 6.Bg5 c5 7.d5 e6 8.Qd2 exd5 9.cxd5 a6 10.a4 Re8 11.Nge2 Nbd7 12.Nc1 h6 13.Be3 h5 14.Nd3 Nh7 15.Be2 Ne5 16.Nf2 f5 17.0-0 Bd7 18.h3 h4 19.Rfe1 Rb8 20.a5 Qf6 21.Rac1 Rbc8 22.exf5 gxf5 23.f4 Nf7 24.Nfd1 Qh6 25.Bf3 Nf6 26.b3 Nh5 27.Bxh5 Qxh5 28.Kh1 Rb8 29.Na2 Re7 30.Nb2 Rbe8 31.Nc4 Bb5 32.Re2 Re4 33.Qd3 Rxf4 34.Bxf4 Qxe2 35.Qxe2 Rxe2 36.Nc3 Bxc3 37.Rxc3 Re4 38.g3 hxg3 39.Rxg3+ Kf8 40.Bxd6+ Nxd6 41.Nxd6 Re5 42.Nxb5 axb5 43.Rd3 Ke7 44.d6+ Kd7 45.Kg2 c4 46.bxc4 bxc4 47.Rc3 Rc5 48.Kf3 Kxd6 49.Kf4 Kd5 50.h4 Rxa5 51.h5 Ra1 52.Rh3 b5 53.h6 Ra8 54.h7 Rh8 55.Ke3 b4 56.Rh4 b3 57.Kd2 f4 58.Kc3 Ke4 59.Rh6 f3 60.Re6+ Kf5 61.Re7 Kg4 62.Rg7+ Kh3 63.Rf7 Kg2 64.Rg7+ Kf1 65.Rf7 f2 66.Rg7 Ke1 67.Re7+ Kd1 68.Rf7 Rxh7 69.Rxf2 Rh3+ 70.Kb2 c3+ 71.Ka1 Rh8 72.Rc2 bxc2 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Belgrade TS06 GM"] [Site "Belgrade"] [Date "2001.06.16"] [Round "3"] [White "Milanovic,Danilo"] [Black "Arsovic,Goran"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "A65"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 g6 4.e4 Bg7 5.f3 0-0 6.Be3 c5 7.Nge2 Nc6 8.d5 Ne5 9.Ng3 e6 10.Be2 exd5 11.cxd5 h5 12.0-0 Nh7 13.Qd2 Re8 14.Nh1 f5 15.Nf2 a6 16.a4 Bd7 17.Kh1 Nf6 18.exf5 gxf5 19.Nh3 Qe7 20.Bf2 Nh7 21.Rae1 Qf7 22.Be3 Re7 23.Ng5 Nxg5 24.Bxg5 Ree8 25.b3 Qg6 26.Bf4 Qf6 27.Bg5 Qg6 28.Bf4 Qf6 29.Bg5 1/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Chalkidiki op"] [Site "Chalkidiki"] [Date "2008.04.29"] [Round "2"] [White "Ermenkov,Evgenij"] [Black "Nikolaou,Georgios"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "A65"] 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 g6 3.e4 d6 4.d4 Bg7 5.f3 0-0 6.Be3 c5 7.Nge2 Nc6 8.d5 Ne5 9.Ng3 h5 10.Be2 e6 11.0-0 exd5 12.cxd5 a6 13.a4 Nh7 14.Qd2 Re8 15.Nh1 Bd7 16.Nf2 f5 17.Rfe1 Qe7 18.Bf1 Qf8 19.a5 Re7 20.f4 Ng4 21.Nxg4 fxg4 22.e5 Bf5 23.Na4 Rc7 24.Nb6 Rd8 25.Bf2 Bh6 26.Be3 Qf7 27.Rac1 Be4 28.e6 Qf5 29.b4 Nf6 30.bxc5 Bxd5 31.Nxd5 Nxd5 32.Bc4 dxc5 33.Rcd1 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Zuerich op"] [Site "Zuerich"] [Date "1984.09.??"] [Round "4"] [White "Kortschnoj,Viktor"] [Black "Hug,Werner"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "A65"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 0-0 6.Bg5 h6 7.Be3 c5 8.d5 e6 9.Qd2 exd5 10.cxd5 Re8 11.Nge2 h5 12.Nc1 Nbd7 13.Be2 a6 14.a4 Nh7 15.Nd3 Ne5 16.Nf2 Bd7 17.0-0 Rc8 18.h3 f5 19.f4 Nf7 20.exf5 Bxf5 21.g4 hxg4 22.hxg4 Bd7 23.g5 Bf5 24.Bf3 Rc7 25.Rae1 Rce7 26.Kg2 Qa5 27.Nh1 Bxc3 28.bxc3 Qxa4 29.Ng3 Nf8 30.Nxf5 gxf5 31.Bh5 Kg7 32.Rh1 Ng6 33.c4 Rxe3 34.Rxe3 Nxf4+ 35.Kg3 Nxh5+ 36.Rxh5 Rxe3+ 37.Qxe3 Qxc4 38.Qf3 Qc2 39.Rh2 Qc1 40.Qxf5 Qxg5+ 41.Qxg5+ Nxg5 42.Kf4 Nf7 1/2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Athens Kallidromio"] [Site "Athens"] [Date "1996.??.??"] [Round "1"] [White "Botsari,Anna Maria"] [Black "Banikas,Hristos"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "A65"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 0-0 6.Bg5 c5 7.d5 a6 8.a4 h6 9.Be3 e6 10.Qd2 exd5 11.cxd5 Re8 12.Nge2 Nbd7 13.Nd1 h5 14.Nec3 Nh7 15.Be2 Ne5 16.0-0 f5 17.Nf2 Bd7 18.Ra3 Qe7 19.Rb1 b5 20.axb5 axb5 21.Nxb5 Reb8 22.Rxa8 Rxa8 23.f4 Nf7 24.e5 dxe5 25.d6 Qf8 26.Bxc5 Ra4 27.b4 exf4 28.Qxf4 Qe8 29.Qc4 Kh8 30.Nc7 Qf8 31.Ne6 Bxe6 32.Qxe6 Nhg5 33.Qxg6 Qa8 34.h4 Ra3 35.hxg5 Rg3 36.Qxh5+ Kg8 37.Bf3 Qa2 38.Rd1 Rxg5 39.Qxg5 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "GRE-ch (Women) 29th"] [Site "Athens"] [Date "2006.11.27"] [Round "5"] [White "Botsari,Anna Maria"] [Black "Pavlogianni,Despina"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "A65"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 0-0 6.Bg5 c5 7.d5 e6 8.Qd2 exd5 9.cxd5 a6 10.a4 h6 11.Be3 h5 12.Nge2 Nbd7 13.Nd1 Ne5 14.Nec3 Re8 15.Be2 Nh7 16.0-0 f5 17.Nf2 Bd7 18.Ra3 Qf6 19.h3 g5 20.exf5 Bxf5 21.Nce4 Qg6 22.Nxg5 Nxg5 23.Bxg5 Nf7 24.Bf4 Bd4 25.Kh2 Kh7 26.g4 Rg8 27.Nd1 Ne5 28.Be3 Bxe3 29.Nxe3 hxg4 30.fxg4 Be4 31.Qe1 Qh6 32.Qg3 Raf8 33.Raa1 Nf3+ 34.Bxf3 Qxe3 35.Rae1 Qd2+ 36.Re2 Qd3 37.Bxe4+ 1-0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "SUI-chT"] [Site "Switzerland"] [Date "2007.02.25"] [Round "5"] [White "Hochstrasser,Michael"] [Black "Gallagher,Joseph G"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "A65"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 0-0 6.Bg5 c5 7.d5 e6 8.Qd2 exd5 9.cxd5 a6 10.a4 h6 11.Be3 Re8 12.Nge2 Nbd7 13.Nd1 Ne5 14.Nec3 Nh7 15.Be2 f5 16.0-0 h5 17.Nf2 Bd7 18.h3 Qh4 19.a5 Rac8 20.Rfe1 Nf7 21.Bf1 Nhg5 22.exf5 gxf5 23.f4 Nh7 24.Nd3 Rxe3 25.Rxe3 Bd4 26.Kh2 Bxe3 27.Qxe3 Re8 28.Qf3 Kg7 29.Be2 Qf6 30.Qxh5 Qd4 31.Qh4 Nf6 32.Rd1 Qe3 33.Bf3 Rh8 34.Qg3+ Kf8 35.Qf2 Qxf2 36.Nxf2 Kg7 37.Re1 Rb8 38.g4 b5 39.g5 Ng8 40.Ncd1 c4 41.Ne3 Nh8 42.Kg3 Ng6 43.h4 Rc8 44.h5 N6e7 45.Nc2 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lion simul Beat the Chessmaster and win How To Play Chess Like An Animal My 10th Lion simul Borders Park Meadows 303.708.1735 8557 Park Meadows Center Dr. Lone Tree, CO 80124 ask for Manager Marilyn Mewers at Bordersstore s.com 303-708-1735 Lion Simul - New Date and time October 11th, 2008 2 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ www.Walverine.com From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Oct 9 09:19:40 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 09:19:40 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Joey Message-ID: <1223565580.48ee210cf11d6@www.taom.com> I am clearing my mind, my room as Hercules cleaned the Aegean Stables. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drunken Master Ed Boudrot and I used to sing the Concrete Blonde lyrics to IM Joe Fang to drive him crazy all day. Joey by Concrete Blonde Joey, baby - dont get crazy Detours. fences... I get defensive I know you've heard it all before - So I dont say it anymore I just stand by and watch you Fight your secret war. Although I used to wonder why - I used to cry till I was dry. Still sometimes I get a strange pain Inside Oh, Joey, if you're hurting so am I. Joey, honey - I got some money All is forgiven. listen, listen And if I seem to be confused I didn't mean to be with you. And when you said I scared you, Well I guess you scared me too. But we got lucky once before And if you're somewhere out there Passed out on the floor. Oh Joey, Im not angry anymore. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "World op"] [Site "Philadelphia"] [Date "1989.06.??"] [Round "6"] [White "Fang,Joseph"] [Black "Chiburdanidze,Maia"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "D91"] This game was a big deal at the time. Our New England buddy Joe Fang crushed the Women's World Champion Maya Chiburdanidze in 19 moves. 1989 World Open Philadelphia, Pennsylvania June 1989 Opening : Grunfeld White- Joe Fang now FIDE 2321 born 1959 Black - Maya Chiburdanidze now FIDE 2489 born 1961 " Can I call you Joe?" - Sarah Palin to Joe Biden - Chiburdanidze to Fang 1.d4 Nf6! 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3! d5! Grunfeld Defense 4.Nf3 Bg7! 5.Bg5 Ne4! played thousands of times, including Lasker-Botvinnik Nottingham 1936 6.cxd5 Nxg5! 7.Nxg5! e6 8.Qd2 Played in 1960 by Taimanov and 1068 others. Taimanov played it 5 times. Fang played it 4 times, beating two women and losing to 2 men. Lasker and 1126 others played 8 Nf3 Petrosian played 8 Nf3 7 times himself GM Petr Kiriakov, Tyler Hughes' teacher, played 8 Nf3 8 times Shirov and 91 others tried 8 Qa4+ Simanjuntak and a dozen other good eggs tried 8 h4 8 ... exd5 played 672 times Mark Plum tried 8 ... Bh6! against Joe. It's been tried 21 times, including Smyslov-Gulko Hastings 1988 9.Qe3+! Kf8! 10.Qf4! Bf6! 11.h4 played 502 times including Spassky-Stein Leningrad 31st Russian Championship Round 5, 1963 Joey's had this 3 times, setting up a Fishing Pole Attack 11 Nf3 played 15 times No one has tried 11 Nh3 11 ... Kg7 played 117 times Yermolinsky and "Chess Bitch" Jennifer Shahade played 11 ... h6 here against Joe Fang. Kudrin beat Joe's brother Chris Fang with 11 ... h6 at the World Open 4 years later. Yermo also played 11 ... h6 against Igor Polovodin in the 1986 Russian Championship 11 ... h6 has been played 314 times 11 ... c6 has been played 69 times 11 ... Nc6 has never been tried 12.e4!! played 69 times, first by Duenhaupt in a 1961 postal game and later in Taimanov-Liberzon 1972 and Hort-Miles 1978 12 ... dxe4! 13.Bc4!? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe goes for the attack since 13 0-0-0!! Qd6 14 Q:d6 cd 15 Ng:e4 Be7 16 Nd5 Nc6! TN 17 f3! or N:e7! is just a better endgame and Fishing Polers prefer checkmate. Black has only scored one win and one draw from 15 games after 13 0-0-0!! Losers have included Liberzon, Gulko, Chandler and Tony Miles - it's a very tough ending to hold White has also won twice with 13 Ng:e4 The idea here is 13 Ng:e4 Q:d4?? 14 Q:f6+ Q:f6 15 N:f6 K:f6 16 Nd5+:c7:a8 or 13 Ng:e4 B:d4 14 0-0-0!! followed by h5 or Ne2 or Nb5 with a strong attack No one has tried 13 Rd1 Only one game had been played with 13 Bc4 before Joe Fang tried it - Niaz Murshed versus Stuart Conquest Blackpool, England 1988 Since then 15 more tried it including Niaz Murshed ( again ), Ian Rogers ( twice), Walter Browne and others --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 ... Rf8? TL --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Theoretical Lemon by Maya Chiburdanidze Since then 7 others have followed in her path - result ? - 0-8 for Black 7 have tried 13 ... Qd6 14 Q:d6 cd and White is way ahead after 15 N:f7!!! or Nc:e4!! results- 1 win and two draws from 7 games for Black 15 have tried the critical 13 ... Q:d4! including Azmaiparishvili scoring 4 wins and 6 draws. A better move with better results 13 ... Q:d4 14 Q:c7 tried 10 times, including Walter Browne, then 13 ... Q:d4 14 Q:c7 Qd7! tried 4 times with 2 wins and 2 draws from 4 games 13 ... Q:d4 14 Q:c7 Rf8 with 2 wins and one draw from 4 games No one tried 13 ... Q:d4 14 Q:c7 Nd7 Two people lost with Black after 13 ... Q:d4 14 Q:c7 Bd7? 15 Rd1! It seems clear that 13 ... Q:d4 14 Q:c7 Qd7 or Rf8 should be OK for Black White has 3 wins and three draw from 6 games with 13 ... Q:d4 14 h5!? Niaz Murshed had played this before Joey so maybe this is what he had in mind. There are tricky possibilities after 13 ... Q:d4 14 h5!? Nd7 13 ... Q:d4 14 h5!? Nc6 13 ... Q:d4 14 h5!? h6 tried 6 times 13 ... Q:d4 14 h5!? Bf5 13 ... Q:d4 14 h5!? e3 13 ... Q:d4 14 h5!? gh These possibilities have not been played out yet but probably exist in magazines and notebooks. 13 ... Q:d4 14 Ng:e4 had not been tried but Pierre Toulzac has drawn with 13 ... Q:d4 14 Nc:e4 13 ... Q:d4 14 Nd5? or Bb3? have not been blundered yet That was a lot for Maya to process with 3 minutes alloted for each move. 14.0-0-0!!! With a big, fat, safe advantage plus an easy attacking game plus 14 Nd5 B:d4 15 N:c7 Nc6 16 Na8 or 14 Nd5 B:d4 15 N:c7 B:b2 16 N:f7!! or 14 Nc:e4 or 14 Ng:e4 or 14 Rd1 are good too. Maya's in big trouble. Maya grew up part of the World Class Soviet Georgian women that dominated Chess for a long time. Joey is part of a huge super-intelligent Chinese-German family with at least 9 siblings and lots of Chinese dumplings for everyone to gobble up. Just don't take the last one. That's a family No-no. It's reserved for Claudia Schiffers or Xie Jun. 14 ... Nd7? Maya's in more trouble now 14 ... Qd6 15 Q:d6 cd 16 Ng:e4 Be7 17 Nd5 Bf5 is a bad ending but at least it's an ending 15.Ncxe4!!! Kingside feed- Jack Young Joey had other good moves - 15 Ng:e4, B:f7, Rhe1 and more 15 ... h6 Forcing the issue 16.g4!!! Throwing more wood on the fire, Fishing Pole style 16 N:f7 and others are strong too 16 ... Nb6? Maya is thrashing around like a fish on a hook. 16 ... Qe7! or ... Qe8! lent extra support to f7 but then 17 Nf3!! trying to pry open lines with 18 g5 is strong 17.Nxf7!! Joey was on fire that day. 17 Bb3! is good too 17 ... Nxc4? Maya is disoriented and making it worse almost every move. 17 ... R:f7! 18 B:f7 K:f7 19 g5 is hopeless for her anyway 18.Nxd8! Bg5? A final joke, hoping for 19 Q:g5?? hg 20 hg R:d8 = 19.Nxg5!! 19 hg wins but the best is the weird impossible looking 19 Ne6+!!! B:e6 20 N:g5!! R:f4 21 N:e6+ or 19 Ne6+!!! B:e6 20 N:g5!! hg 21 Q:g5 or 19 Ne6+!! B:e6 20 N:g5!! Bg8 21 Qh2 1-0 Chiburdanidze will be down a lot of material after 19 ... R:f4 20 N-either-e6+ for example 19 ... R:f4 20 Nde6+ Kg8 21 N:f4 hg 22 Nd5 gh 23 N:c7 Rb8 24 R:h4 and Joe is up the exchange and two pawns --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "World op"] [Site "Philadelphia"] [Date "1989.06.??"] [Round "6"] [White "Fang,Joseph"] [Black "Chiburdanidze,Maia"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "D91"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bg5 Ne4 6.cxd5 Nxg5 7.Nxg5 e6 8.Qd2 exd5 9.Qe3+ Kf8 10.Qf4 Bf6 11.h4 Kg7 12.e4 dxe4 13.Bc4 Rf8 14.0-0-0 Nd7 15.Ncxe4 h6 16.g4 Nb6 17.Nxf7 Nxc4 18.Nxd8 Bg5 19.Nxg5 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "World op"] [Site "Philadelphia"] [Date "1990.06.??"] [Round "2"] [White "Fang,Joseph"] [Black "Yermolinsky,Alex"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "D91"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bg5 Ne4 6.cxd5 Nxg5 7.Nxg5 e6 8.Qd2 exd5 9.Qe3+ Kf8 10.Qf4 Bf6 11.h4 h6 12.Nf3 Kg7 13.0-0-0 Be6 14.e3 Nd7 15.Bd3 c6 16.g4 Qb8 17.Rdg1 Be7 18.Qxb8 Raxb8 19.Ne2 Bd6 20.Nf4 c5 21.Bb5 Nf6 22.Ne5 cxd4 23.exd4 Bxe5 24.dxe5 Ne4 25.Rg2 Rbc8+ 26.Kb1 Nd2+ 27.Ka1 Nf3 28.a3 Rc5 29.Ba4 Rc4 30.Nxe6+ fxe6 31.Bb3 Re4 32.h5 g5 33.Rc1 Rf8 34.Rg3 Nxe5 35.Rc7+ Rf7 36.Rxf7+ Kxf7 37.Rc3 Nc6 38.f3 Re1+ 39.Ka2 Ke7 40.Ba4 Kd6 41.Rb3 Kc7 42.Rc3 e5 43.Rd3 d4 44.Bc2 Re2 45.Bb1 Ne7 46.Rb3 Nd5 47.Ka1 b6 48.Be4 Nf6 49.Ba8 Kd6 50.Bb7 Nd7 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe's brother Chris is also a Chessmaster and a fun guy. Kudrin missed his Tim Krabbe Zen moment - 23 ... Bh4!!! sticking his lowly bishop in between three major pieces returning to a square AFTER removing the h-pawn with 17 ... Bh4. Chris had his delusions too because he had full compensation for the piece after 25 Q:h6+!! Kf7 26 de B:e4 27 B:e4 gf 28 e6+ Ke8 29 Qh5+ Kd8 30 B:b7 Bg5+ 31 Kb1 Rb8 32 gf R:b7 33 Rg1 Nd5 34 R:g5 = [Event "World op 21st"] [Site "Philadelphia"] [Date "1993.??.??"] [Round "3"] [White "Fang,Christopher"] [Black "Kudrin,Sergey"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "D91"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bg5 Ne4 6.cxd5 Nxg5 7.Nxg5 e6 8.Qd2 exd5 9.Qe3+ Kf8 10.Qf4 Bf6 11.h4 h6 12.Nf3 Be6 13.0-0-0 Nd7 14.e4 dxe4 15.Ne5 Kg7 16.Nxe4 Nb6 17.g4 Bxh4 18.Qh2 Be7 19.f4 Bxa2 20.Rd3 Bd5 21.Bg2 f6 22.Rh3 fxe5 23.Rxh6 Qg8 24.f5 Rxh6 25.Qxe5+ Kf7 26.Rxh6 gxf5 27.Qxf5+ Ke8 28.Nf6+ Bxf6 29.Qxf6 Qf7 30.Qe5+ Kd7 31.Bh3 Re8 32.g5+ Kd8 33.Rh8 Bc6 34.Be6 Qf1+ 35.Kc2 Be4+ 36.Kb3 Qd1+ 37.Kb4 Qa4+ 38.Kc3 Qc2+ 39.Kb4 Qxb2+ 40.Bb3 a5+ 0-1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe was strategically winning after 31 a3! or g5! but botched it, maybe in time pressure. 31 a3 Q:b3? is bad due to 32 R:c6! or f5! [Event "New England op 55th"] [Site "Waterbury"] [Date "1995.09.??"] [Round "3"] [White "Fang,Joseph"] [Black "Plum,Mark"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "D91"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bg5 Ne4 6.cxd5 Nxg5 7.Nxg5 e6 8.Qd2 Bh6 9.f4 exd5 10.g3 c6 11.Bg2 f6 12.Nh3 Nd7 13.0-0 0-0 14.Nf2 Nb6 15.b3 a5 16.Nd3 Re8 17.Nc5 Bf8 18.Rfe1 Nd7 19.Nd3 Nb6 20.Bf3 Bf5 21.Nc5 Bxc5 22.dxc5 Nd7 23.g4 Be6 24.Na4 b5 25.cxb6 Nxb6 26.Nc5 Nd7 27.Rac1 Nxc5 28.Rxc5 Qb6 29.Qd4 Rab8 30.Rec1 Kf7 31.Qa4 Qb4 32.Qxb4 Rxb4 33.Rxa5 Rxf4 34.h3 Bd7 35.Kf2 Rd4 36.Ke1 Ke7 37.a3 Kd6 38.Rc3 f5 39.g5 Rh4 40.Bg2 h6 41.gxh6 Rxh6 42.Rg3 f4 43.Rc3 g5 44.Ra6 Rhe6 45.Bf3 Re3 46.Kd2 Rxc3 47.Kxc3 Bxh3 48.Kd4 Bd7 49.b4 g4 50.Bxd5 Rxe2 51.Be4 f3 52.Ra8 Ke7 53.Rg8 Rxe4+ 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This was an interesting game - Joe has learned to play the ... Qb8 ending much better than he did against Yermolinsky. He then lost any advantage with 24 R:g5? then Super-Jen had an edge with 29 ... gf! but chose to win the exchange with 29 ... K:h4 She should have drawn but it was tough - one mistake and Joey squeezed out a win [Event "World op"] [Site "Philadelphia"] [Date "1997.09.??"] [Round "1"] [White "Fang,Joseph"] [Black "Shahade,Jennifer"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "D91"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bg5 Ne4 6.cxd5 Nxg5 7.Nxg5 e6 8.Qd2 exd5 9.Qe3+ Kf8 10.Qf4 Bf6 11.h4 h6 12.Nf3 Kg7 13.0-0-0 c6 14.e3 Be6 15.Bd3 Nd7 16.g4 Qb8 17.Rdg1 c5 18.Ne2 cxd4 19.exd4 Qxf4+ 20.Nxf4 Rae8 21.Kb1 Nb6 22.g5 hxg5 23.Nxg5 Bxg5 24.Rxg5 Kf6 25.a4 Rxh4 26.Rxg6+ fxg6 27.Rxh4 Bf5 28.a5 Kg5 29.Bxf5 Kxh4 30.Bxg6 Rf8 31.axb6 Rxf4 32.bxa7 Rf8 33.Bf7 Ra8 34.Bxd5 Rxa7 35.Kc2 Kg4 36.Kd3 Kf4 37.Kc4 Ra4+ 38.b4 Ra2 39.f3 b6 40.Be4 Rd2 41.Bc6 Ke3 42.d5 Rd4+ 43.Kb5 Kf4 44.d6 Rxd6 45.Kxb6 Rd2 46.b5 Rb2 47.Be4 Rb3 48.Kc5 Ke5 49.b6 Rc3+ 50.Kb4 Rc8 51.b7 Rb8 52.Kc5 Rf8 53.Kc6 Rf6+ 54.Kc7 Rf7+ 55.Kb6 Rf8 56.Ka7 Rf7 57.Ka8 1-0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Oct 9 16:49:57 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:49:57 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Danish Gambit on Chesscube.com Message-ID: <1223592597.48ee8a9568c17@www.taom.com> Free Chess site my opponent was 1600+ [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Black "onyx234 at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.09"] [Result "1-0"] The secret of the Danish Gambit is simple - most folks learn 4 knights type development from their Dad and if you try that in the Danish you get sliced and diced. Kaila Smith loves the Danish. J C MacNeil used to. There is some guy in his 20's at the Colorado Chess Club now who likes it. 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Bc4 cxb2 5. Bxb2 Nf6 6. e5 Qe7? This confused me. I believe 6 ... Ng4 7 Q:g4 d5 is the Alapin defense. 6 ... Ng4 7 B:f7+ or e6 are interesting. I remember wanting to play 6 e5 Qe7? 7 Qe2! in order to defend against 7 ... Qb4+ but I forgot that 6 e5 Qe7? 7 Qe2! Ng4?? 8 Q:g4 d5?? is met by 9 Q:c8+ because his Queen moved. If you make that c8-bishop immune like I did, Black has a pretty decent game. After 6 e5 Qe7? 7 Qe2! Ng8 8 Nc3 or Nf3 Black is up two pawns but his pieces are still in the box 7. Nd2 So I did what onynx234 did, I developed a piece foolishly and prayed 7 ... d5!! 8. Bb3 8 Qe2 is best but very bad now 8 ... Nc6 8 ... c6!! is best, holding onto the critical d5-pawn 9. Ngf3!! Just close my eyes and develop a piece like Black 9 ... Bg4? Following the theme, don't think, just develop and pray. 9 ... Nb4! holding onto the critical d5-pawn still wins 10. O-O!! Develop and pray with an even game now 10 ... Nd7? 11. Bxd5! Thanx 11 ... Ndxe5? 12. Nxe5?? I didn't even look at the good moves like 12 Qb3!!, B:e5!! or Re1! I knew I wanted to sac my Queen, I was waiting for it! 12 ... Bxd1! 13. Nxc6 I expected Onyx to move his Queen somewhere and let me have fun with Re1+ - 13 N:c6 Qd6 14 Re1+ Kd7 15 B:f7 or Be4 and I almost have enough for my Queen 13 N:c6 Qc5 14 Re1+ Kd7 15 Ne5+ Kc8 16 Be4 or Bc4 and I almost have enough for my Queen After 13 N:c6 anything other than 13 ... Qd6 or ... Qc5 and I get more than enough for my Queen 13 ... bxc6? 14. Bxc6+! Kd8! 15. Rfxd1 15 Ra:d1 followed by 16 Rfe1 is a little better but I thought I might need a rook for the b-file 15 ... Rb8! 16. Nc4+!! Kc8! 17. Ba3?? Winning the Queen with 17 Re1 was too simple, I wanted flash 17 ... Qe2?? 17 ... Qe6!! attacking two bishops, wins. 17 ... Q:a3! leads to a pawn up rooks and opposite colored bishop ending, the so-called Browne-Vigorito ending 18. Bd7+! Kb7! 19. Rdb1+!! Only move 19 Rab1+?? Ka6 fails because his Queen is attacking my d1-rook. Now on 19 Rdb1+!! Ka6 20 R:b8! Q:c4 ( to stop Bb5 mate ) 21 B:f8 R:f8 22 R:f8 Qd4 23 Bc8+ Ka5 I should win 19 ... Ka8 20. Bc6+ I was too happy to see 20 R:b8+ K:b8 21 Rb1+ mates 20 ... Rb7 21. Na5 I was too happy to see 21 B:b7+ Kb8 22 Bf3+ I did see 21 Na5 Qa6! 22 B:b7+ Q:b7 23 R:b7 B:a3 24 R:c7 and felt I could win the ending 21 ... Bc5 22. Bxb7+ Kb8 23. Nc6# 1-0 Checkmate ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Black "onyx234 at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.09"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Bc4 cxb2 5. Bxb2 Nf6 6. e5 Qe7 7. Nd2 d5 8. Bb3 Nc6 9. Ngf3 Bg4 10. O-O Nd7 11. Bxd5 Ndxe5 12. Nxe5 Bxd1 13. Nxc6 bxc6 14. Bxc6+ Kd8 15. Rfxd1 Rb8 16. Nc4+ Kc8 17. Ba3 Qe2 18. Bd7+ Kb7 19. Rdb1+ Ka8 20. Bc6+ Rb7 21. Na5 Bc5 22. Bxb7+ Kb8 23. Nc6# 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Oct 9 17:35:29 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:35:29 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fishing Pole on www.Chesscube.com Message-ID: <1223595329.48ee9541d3efd@www.taom.com> A whole new site that never heard of the Fishing Pole. What more could I ask for? 5 minute game with a 1693 [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "astalavista9 at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.09"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O The fish always jump right into that pail, a-flippin' and a-floppin' 4 ... Ng4!! Dropping the Pole into a fresh pond 5. Nc3 Bc5 A critical factor of Fishing Pole success 6. d3 d6 7. Nd5 Annoying interference with all my plans 7 ... h5 The sky is blue, the clouds are White, the Fish are biting tonight 8. h3 f6 I didn't know what to do so I reverted to my basic plan of ... g7-g5, ... N:f2, ... B:f2+ and g4 9. Nh4 More annoying plan interference 9 ... g5 10. Nf5 He could have played the Termite Infestation Variation with 10 Ng6 Rh6 11 Nde7 Ewwwwwwwww 10 ... Bxf5! I finally saw a line I liked, I take a brightly colored lure out of the tackle box 11. exf5! Kf7!? 12. hxg4! hxg4! Opening the gates of Hell- Vance Aandahl 13. Qxg4?? Finally the fish swallows the bait - it was getting dark and cold and my thigh high river boots were starting to leak 13 ... Rh4!! What could be more natural than death on the h-file? 14. Qg3 Qh8!! 15. Qxh4 Anything else is a quick mate 15 ... Qxh4 16. Nxc7 Fish don't think much, they pretty much nibble anything in front of them. 16 ... Rh8!! Mate in 3 down the h-file 17. Bc4+ Ke7! 17 ... Kf8! also mates in two and so does the pretty interference theme 17 ... d5!!!! 18. Nd5+ Kd8!! Nicer than 18 ... Kf8! which also mates next move. 18 ... Kd8 is prettier because that's where the Queen was. 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "astalavista9 at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.09"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. Nc3 Bc5 6. d3 d6 7. Nd5 h5 8. h3 f6 9. Nh4 g5 10. Nf5 Bxf5 11. exf5 Kf7 12. hxg4 hxg4 13. Qxg4 Rh4 14. Qg3 Qh8 15. Qxh4 Qxh4 16. Nxc7 Rh8 17. Bc4+ Ke7 18. Nd5+ Kd8 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Oct 9 17:58:08 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:58:08 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 9 move Nymphomaniac Checkmate on www.Chesscube.com Message-ID: <1223596688.48ee9a9063c39@www.taom.com> Trying all my cheap trappy tricks in the fresh waters of Chesscube. This is the checkmate that got me kicked out of the Fort Collins Yahoo group and got me starting my own. My opponent was 1733, he is still rematching me. [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Black "bajeboy at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.09"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 Jack Young's Nmyphomaniac Attack named after co-worker Cheryl who always had fresh stories on Monday morning 2 ... d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nh4 Bg6 5. Nxg6!! Tyler Hughes and I have both played 5 e6?? which fails to 5 ... Qd6!! 6 N:g6 Q:e6+ or 6 ef+ B:f7 5 ... hxg6! 6. e6!! fxe6 7. d4!! Nf6? 8. Bd3!! Nbd7!! 9. Bxg6# 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Black "bajeboy at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.09"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nh4 Bg6 5. Nxg6 hxg6 6. e6 fxe6 7. d4 Nf6 8. Bd3 Nbd7 9. Bxg6# 1-0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Oct 10 00:51:54 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:51:54 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Hodgson-Zuniga 1996 Message-ID: <1223621514.48eefb8a2fa01@www.taom.com> For over 10 years Yasser Seirawan and his team produced Inside Chess a great magazine where they would report on the latest, most interesting games. Without using computers Yasser would combine great positional insight as well as try to work out the tactics. I think they post his old columns at www.Chesscafe.com "Before computers we all had to write fairy tales." Kasparov Let's take a look at a mega-tactical game from the October 14, 1996 issue of Inside Chess, analyzed by Seirawan. I was curious to see how a GM stacks up against a computer. [Event "Donner mem"] [Site "Amsterdam"] [Date "1996.08.17"] [Round "7"] [White "Hodgson,Julian M"] [Black "Granda Zuniga,Julio E"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "A45"] Donner Memorial Amsterdam August 17, 1996 Round Opening- Julian's favorite, the Trompowsky White - GM Julian Hodgson Black- GM Julio Granda Zuniga Brian Wall and Fritz 9 examining GM Yasser Seirawan's original analysis Inside Chess, Volume 9, Issue 20 October 14, 1996 just out of curiosity Julian claimed he would be the highest rated human on the planet if they only rated his 1 d4 Nf6 2 Bg5 games. Let's see why. 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 e6 3.e4 h6 4.Bxf6 Qxf6 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.Qd2 d6 7.a3 Ba5 8.f4 Seirawan gives this an exclam - Fritz 9 slightly prefers 8 Nf3!, 0-0-0 or Qe3 8 ... g5? Fritz 9 suggests 8 ... e5 or 8 ... B:c3 9 bc e5 or 8 ... Nc6 Yasser likes 8 ... B:c3 9 bc e5 They both agree 8 ... g5 is a mistake. Fritz gives Hodgson a slight edge after 8 ... g5 9 Nge2, Nh3 or fg 9. Nh3! gxf4! 10.Nxf4! c6 ?!-Sierawan Fritz prefers 10 ... Nc6 or .. Bd7 among others 11.Bc4! Fritz and Seirawan agree on the exclam. It looks like a tactical storm is about to break 11 ... d5 It's hard to find a good move 12.e5! Qg5! 13.Be2! c5 14.b4! Fritz and Seirawan agree on the exclam. 14 ... cxd4! 15.Nb5 Fritz slightly prefers 15 Nc:d5! 15 ... Bb6! 16.Nd6+ Fritz slightly prefers 16 a4! 16 ... Ke7! 17.Nxf7 Yasser argues over whether this deserves one exclam or two. Fritz thinks it's hogwash and prefers 17 Rf1 with a slight disadvantage. 17 ... Kxf7! 18.Bh5+ Fritz believes 18 Rf1 or 18 Qd3 Nc6 are just as lost for Julian 18 ... Kg8 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- At first Fritz believes 18 ... Kg7 or ... Kg8 are roughly equivalent and completely winning. Yasser analyzes 18 ... Kg7 19 0-0 Rf8 20 Rf3 R:f4 21 Rg3 Rf5 22 R:g5 R:g5 when instead 22 ... hg! intending 23 ... Nc6, ... Nd7 or ... R:e5 seems better for Zuniga for example 22 R:g5 hg 23 Re1 Nc6 23 g4 Rf4 24 Rf1 R:f1+ 25 K:f1 Bd8 26 h4 Be7 27 Be8 N:e5 28 Q:d4 Bd6 30 hg b6 31 Bc6 Ba6+ 32 b5 Rf8+ 33 Kg2 Bc8 34 c4 Kg6 35 cd ed 36 B:d5 K:g5 and even after all these fine black moves it may still be drawn. This is a scary line for humans because Black's Queenside pieces are out of play for so long. Possible improvements in this line - 33 ... Kg6 or much earlier 18 ... Kg7 19 0-0 d3+! 20 Kh1 Bd4! 21 Rae1 Rf8! 22 Q:d3 Nc6 or 22 Rf3 B:e5 23 Rg3 B:f4 24 R:g5+ hg 25 Q:d3 may be equal too It's a devil of a line to analyze, even with a computer Yasser was right that 18 ... Kg7 19 0-0 Rf8 20 Rf3 R:f4 21 Rg3 d3+ 22 Kh1 Q:g3 23 hg Rf5 24 g4 wins because of 24 ... Rg5! 25 Qf4! or 24 ... R:e5 25 Rf1!! YS, Qf4 or Q:d3 winning and 18 ... Kg7 19 0-0 Rf8 20 Rf3 R:f4 21 Rg3 d3+ 22 Kh1 Rf5 23 R:g5+ R:g5 24 g4 Nc6 25 Rf1 is good for Hodgson Yasser's line 18 ... Kg7 19 0-0 Rf8 20 Rf3 R:f4 21 Rg3 Rf5 22 R:g5 R:g5? 23 Qf4 Rf5 23 Qg4+ Rg5= or 18 ... Kg7 19 0-0 Rf8 20 Rf3 R:f4 21 Rg3 Rf5 22 R:g5 R:g5 23 g4! Nd7 24 Rf1 Nf8? YS loses to 25 h4 and I don't think Black has a good 24th move here. 24 Rf1 Kg8 25 Qf4 N:e5 26 Kh1 Bd7 27 h4 Rg7 28 Q:e5 Bd8 29 g5 hg 30 Bg4 winning is one example In general White's chances are better than Fritz believes at first, White may hold with best play and can easily win after many posible Black mistakes. Yasser made some mistakes but his general evaluation is helpful- White is trying to attack before Black finishes developing ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 19.0-0! Rh7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the kind of position the more you search the more you like White. Let's try 19 ... d3+ 20 Kh1 Rh7 21 Rf3 Rg7 22 Raf1 Nd7 23 Rg3 Qf5 24 Bg6 Q:e5 25 Q:d3 or Bf7+ both win for Julian - 25 Qd3 Kh8 26 Rh3 Qg5 27 Rh5 Ne5 28 Qh3 Kg8 29 R:h6 Q:h6 30 Q:h6 - 25 Bf7+ K:f7 26 Ng6+ Qf6 27 R:f6+ N:f6 28 Q:h6 d2 29 Ne5+ Ke8 30 Rd3 These lines are White kills Let's try 19 ... d3+ 20 Kh1 Rh7 21 Rf3 Rg7 22 Raf1 Nd7 23 Rg3 Qf5 24 Bg6 R:g6 25 R:g6+ Kf7 26 R:e6 or R:h6 wins Let's try 19 ... d3+ 20 Kh1 Rh7 21 Rf3 Rg7 22 Raf1 Nd7 23 Rg3 Qf5 24 Bg6 R:g6 25 R:g6+ Kh7 26 R:e6 wins Let's try 19 ... d3+ 20 Kh1 Rh7 21 Rf3 Rg7 22 Raf1 Kh7 23 Be8! Nc6 24 Rg3 Q:g3 25 hg N:e5 26 cd, b5 or Nh5 win among other Let's try 19 ... d3+ 20 Kh1 Rh7 21 Rf3 Nc6 22 Rg3 dc 23 Q:c2 Rg7 24 R:g5 R:g5 25 Rf1, h4, Re1, Rac1 and others all win Let's try 19 ... d3+ 20 Kh1 Rh7 21 Rf3 dc 22 Rg3 Q:g3 23 hg Nc6 24 Q:c2 Rg7 25 Ng6 Bd7 26 Rf1 Be3 27 Qe2 Bg5 and Julio has consolidated as much as he can but Julian's Queen should prove stronger than Rook and Bishop in the long run Let's try 19 ... d3+ 20 Kh1 Nc6 21 Rf3 Nd4 22 Rg3 Nf5 and Julio looks fine here. 23 R:g5+ hg 24 Ne2, Qd1 or g4 is nothing for Black to worry about 22 Rg3 Nf5 23 Rg4 Be3 24 Q:d3 or Qc3 looks about equal 22 Rg3 Nf5 23 Rg4 Be3 24 Qc3 Q:g4? 25 B:g4 B:f4 26 B:f5! ef 27 Q:d3!!! or Qd4!! wins for White 22 Rg3 Nf5 23 Rg4 Be3 24 Qc3 Q:g4? 25 B:g4 Bd4 26 Q:d3!! B:a1 27 B:f5!! B:e5 28 B:e6+ B:e6 29 N:e6 wins for White 22 Rg3 Nf5 23 Rg4 Be3 24 Qc3 B:f4! 25 Qc7 Rh7 26 Qd8+ Kg7 and White should be able to find one of the sixteen perpetual checks Julian can insist on keeping the game going with 22 Rg3 Nf5 23 Rg4 Be3 24 Qc3 B:f4! 25 g3 but Black is OK after 25 ... Be3, ... Ng7 or ... Kf8 Let's try 19 ... d3+ 20 Kh1 Nc6 21 Rf3 Ne7 22 Rg3 Nf5 transposes into the decent line for Black above Let's try 19 ... d3+ 20 Kh1 Bd4 21 Bf7+ Kg7 22 Q:d3 B:a1 23 N:e6+ B:e6 24 B:e6 h5!! 25 Rf7+ Kh6 25 Rf6+ with a perpetual Let's try 19 ... d3+ 20 Kh1 Bc7? 21 Bf7+! Kg7 22 Q:d3 Nc6 23 Nh3 or Nh5+ gets Black in trouble Conclusion: After reviewing 19 ... d3+ 20 Kh1 it looks like 20 ... Nc6 or ... Bd4 are playable. Let's take a break and go back to the game. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20.Rf3! Rg7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let's look at 20 Rf3 Q:e5 21 Raf1 Nd7 22 Rg3+ Rg7 23 Bf7+ K:f7 24 Ng6+ Qf6 25 R:f6+ N:f6 26 Q:h6 Rg8 27 Kh1 wins 20 Rf3 Q:e5 21 Raf1 Rg7 22 Ng6 Q:h5 23 Rf8+ Kh7 24 Rh8+ K:g6 25 R:h6+ Q:h6 26 Qd3+ with a perpetual on g3-h3 Upon review 20 Rf3 Q:e5 21 Raf1 Rg7 22 Ng6 draws and it looks dangerous for either side to stray from home 20 Rf3 Q:e5 21 Re1 Qd6 and White doesn't really have any great move - 22 Ng6, Bg4 or Ref1 and the game would go on 20 Rf3 Q:e5 21 Re1 Qd6 22 Ng6 Nd7 23 Rg3 wins and 20 Rf3 Q:e5 21 Re1 Qd6 22 Ng6 Nc6 23 Rg3 Q:g3 24 hg Bd7 25 Nf4, Kh1, Qd3 or Kh2 all give Julian an edge Upon further review 20 Rf3 Q:e5 21 Re1! is a problem for Black On with the game -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21.Raf1! Nd7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ what happens after 21 Raf1 Q:e5 22 Ng6 Q:h5 23 Rf8+ Kh7 24 Rh6+ Q:h6 25 Qd3+ with a perpetual we've seen before. There is also 21 Raf1 Q:e5 22 Ng6 Q:h5 23 Rf8+ Kh7 24 Qd3+! Qf5 25 R:f5 ef 26 R:c8 Kf6 27 Kf1 winning Yasser Seirawan discovered this line too ------------------------------------------------------------------------ What happens after 21 Raf1 d3+ 22 Kh1 I think we have already looked at this above from the move order 19 ... d3+ 20 Kh1 Rh7 21 Rf3 Rg7 22 Raf1 and concluded White wins ------------------------------------------------------------------------ What happens after 21 Raf1 Kh7 22 Qd3+ Qf5 23 Bg6+ R:g6 24 N:g6 Q:d3 25 cd! wins because 25 cd! K:g6 26 Rg3+ Kh5 27 Rf8 Bd8 28 R:d8 mates in one after 29 Rdg8 25 cd! K:g6 26 Rg3+ Kh7 27 Rf7+ Kh8 28 Rfg7 h5 29 R7g5 and 30 Rh5 checkmate sooooooooo 21 Raf1 Kh7 22 Qd3+ Qf5 23 Bg6+ R:g6 24 N:g6 Q:d3 25 cd! Nc6 26 Rg3 Bd8 27 b5, Rf7+, h4 or Nf8+ all win 21 Raf1 Kh7 22 Qd3+ Qf5 23 Bg6+ R:g6 24 N:g6 Q:d3 25 cd! Bd8 26 Nf8+ Kh8 27 h4!!!, N:e6!!, Rf7!! or Rg3!! all win ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let's revisit the game ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 22.Rg3! d3+ Transposing into something we've looked at under the move order 19 ... d3+ 20 Kh1 Rh7 21 Rf3 Rg7 22 Raf1 Nd7 23 Rg3 Qf5 24 Bg6 Q:e5 25 Q:d3 or Bf7+ win All the wires are crossed now - 22 Rg3! Q:g3 23 hg Rg5 24 g4! wins 22 Rg3! N:e5 23 R:g5 R:g5 24 h4! wins 22 Rg3! N:e5 23 R:g5 hg 24 Nd3! wins 22 Rg3! Qf5 23 Bg6 d3+ 24 Kh1 R:g6 25 R:g6+ and 26 R:e6 wins Back to the game -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23.Kh1! Qf5! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yasser Seirawan found 23 Kh1! Q:e5 24 Bf7+ K:f7 and now 25 Ng6+! Qf6 26 R:f6+ N:f6 27 Q:h6!! is stronger than Yasser's 25 Nd3+ Qf5! and Zuniga might survive 23 Kh1! Q:e5 24 Bf7+ K:f7 25 Ng6+ Qf5 26 R:f5+ ef fails to 26 Q:h6 25 Nd3+ Qf5! 26 R:f5+ ef 27 Q:h6 fails to 27 ... R:g3 28 hg Nf6! and Granda might live Back to the game -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24.Bg6!! Qf8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 Bg6 R:g6 25 R:g6+ Kf7 or Kh7 26 R:e6 wins as we've seen twice now Back to the game ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 25.Qxd3! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 25 Bh7+!! K:h7 26 Q:d3+ Kg8 27 N:e6 Q:f1+ 28 Q:f1 R:g3 29 hg wins easily because the Preuvian Grandmaster's Queenside is frozen 25 Bh7+!! K:h7 26 Q:d3+ Kh8 27 Ng6+ R:g6 28 R:g6 wins 25 Bh7+!! K:h7 26 Q:d3+ Qf5 27 N:e6! Q:d3 28 R:g7+ Kh8 29 cd wins 25 cd! is better for Hodgson too 25 B:d3 R:g3 26 hg is OK for White Back to the game -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25 ... Nxe5! 26.Bh7+! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26 Qe2! Bc7 27 Nh5 wins 26 Qe2! N:g6 27 N:g6 wins 26 Qe2! Bd4 27 c3 wins Back to the game ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26 ... Kh8! 27.Ng6+! Nxg6! 28.Bxg6! Qg8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 28 ... Bd7 29 R:f8+ R:f8 30 Bh5 R:g3 31 hg wins Back to the game ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 29.Rf6!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The threats of 30 Rh3 or Rgf3 or Qd2 or Qe3 are too much. 29 Rf6 Bc7 30 Qd2 B:g3 31 Q:h6+ Rh7 32 B:h7 Qg8 33 Rf8+ wins as Seirawan points out 29 Rf6 Qd8 30 Qf3 or Qf1 or Rgf3 all win handily Back to the game ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 29 ... Bd8 30.Qe3!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Alternate wins - 30 Qd2 or Rh3 Back to the game ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 30 ... Bxf6! 31.Qxh6+! Rh7! 32.Bxh7! Bg7! 33.Qh5!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Alternate wins - 33 Qh4!!!, Qg6! or Qg5! back to the game ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 33 ... Qf8! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The only move that prevents immediate mate, it loses many ways - 33 ... Qf8 34 Bg6+ Bh6 35 Bf7 Bd7 36 Rg6 Kh7 37 g4! is devastating Yasser points out 33 ... Q:h7 34 Qe8+ Qg8 35 Rh3+ mates in 3 Back to the game ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 34.Bd3+ 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 34 Bd3+ Kg8 there are a dozen wins - 35 Qh7+ Kf7 36 Rf3+ Ke7 37 R:f8 K:f8 38 h4 will do ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- That was like slogging through broken glass. In most cases Fritz 9 found a White win if you let it run long enough. Seirawan missed a few things but he saw a lot too. I knew this was a computer type game when I saw it. Yasser's pretty prose is more enjoyable than my computer download. Fairy tales have survived for centuries. It was almost impossible for the Grandmasters to understand what was going on before the game or after. GM Julio Granda Zuniga missed some clear draws and might have had more with perfect play but GM Julian Hodgson did unleash a dangerous, long term attack that was difficult to fathom. I have barely scratched the surface but I think that's enough for now. My favorite move of the game was 9 Nh3!! starting the whole mess in King's Gambit style ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "Donner mem"] [Site "Amsterdam"] [Date "1996.08.17"] [Round "7"] [White "Hodgson,Julian M"] [Black "Granda Zuniga,Julio E"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "A45"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 e6 3.e4 h6 4.Bxf6 Qxf6 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.Qd2 d6 7.a3 Ba5 8.f4 g5 9.Nh3 gxf4 10.Nxf4 c6 11.Bc4 d5 12.e5 Qg5 13.Be2 c5 14.b4 cxd4 15.Nb5 Bb6 16.Nd6+ Ke7 17.Nxf7 Kxf7 18.Bh5+ Kg8 19.0-0 Rh7 20.Rf3 Rg7 21.Raf1 Nd7 22.Rg3 d3+ 23.Kh1 Qf5 24.Bg6 Qf8 25.Qxd3 Nxe5 26.Bh7+ Kh8 27.Ng6+ Nxg6 28.Bxg6 Qg8 29.Rf6 Bd8 30.Qe3 Bxf6 31.Qxh6+ Rh7 32.Bxh7 Bg7 33.Qh5 Qf8 34.Bd3+ 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Oct 10 01:45:06 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:45:06 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fishing Pole #2 at Chesscube.com Message-ID: <1223624706.48ef0802e3085@www.taom.com> Normally I have to play people my own strength but once in a while I can play on someone else's handle or try a new site and then I have the fun of working my way up the ranks. Imagine the joy of playing a whole temple of Fishing Pole virgins. [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "mayelahaak at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.09"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole, fresh pond 5. h3 h5!! 6. d3 Bc5! This shouldn't take long 7. Qe2 d6 It's funny how so many decide to NEVER take my knight. 8. c3! Bd7!! Plan B is to try and ... 0-0-0 9. a4! Ignoring my attack and pawn-storming my Queenside 9 ... a6!! 10. Bc4 f6!! Fine, I'll storm the Kingside 11. b4! Bb6! 12. Nbd2 White follows her preset plan 12 ... g5!! I follow mine 13. Nb3 Qe7 Trying to strengthen my ... N:f2, ... g4 idea 14. Be3?? Impatient and worried about my buildup, she panics 14 ... Nxe3!! 15. fxe3! Qh7 I have a micro-edge with 15 ... g4! so I try to add brass knuckles to my one-punch pony 16. Kh2 She doesn't like the way my b6-bishop is ogling her. 16 ... h4 Still trying to set the ... g4 bomb for maximum impact 17. b5 Ne7 17 ... Na5! is better defensively but I want to land noisily on f4 18. Nfd2 Qg7!! Reinforcing f6 and g4 19. Rf2 g4!! I didn't want to release this pigeon until I knew she could make it back home 20. hxg4 Bxg4!! 21. Qf1 Rh6 Guarding f6 - I have 2 dozen wins, typical of the Pole. 21 ... B:e3!! 22 R:f6 Be2!! is the key move I missed 22. Re1 Guarding e3 22 ... a5!! Closing up the Queenside so I can finally castle there 23. d4 She sees ... 0-0-0, ... Rg8, ... h3 so she lashes out 23 ... O-O-O!!! 24. Bd5 f5 Trying to exploit the new d5-bishop with 25 ef? N:d5 25. c4 Oh, that's why she moved her bishop, she wants to roll pawns at me, she's also guarding d5 twice now 25 ... f4 Loosening up the dark squares where the White King lives 26. c5 Fire on Board 26 ... fxe3?? Thanx, Nimzovitch. Eliminating the base of the pawn chain but now that I finally have g3 covered it's the perfect time for 26 ... h3!!!! That was the whole purpose of ... f4 Other goodies - 26 ... dc!!!!, N:d5!!!, ... Ba7!! and ... ed 27. Rxe3?? 27 Rf7! Qg5! 28 Nf3 B:f3 29 Q:f3 Ba7 cuts me down to a smidgin of advantage 27 ... exd4!! Now the pipeline implodes 28. Rd3!! dxc5!! 29. Bc4 Qe5+ 30. Kh1 Ng6 31. Nf3 Qxe4 32. Re2 Qf4!! 33. Rf2! h3 been waiting a long time for this moment 34. g3! Qxg3 35. Nh2 Qh4!! 36. Rf7 Ne5 37. Rd1 Nxc4 0-1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "mayelahaak at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.09"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. d3 Bc5 7. Qe2 d6 8. c3 Bd7 9. a4 a6 10. Bc4 f6 11. b4 Bb6 12. Nbd2 g5 13. Nb3 Qe7 14. Be3 Nxe3 15. fxe3 Qh7 16. Kh2 h4 17. b5 Ne7 18. Nfd2 Qg7 19. Rf2 g4 20. hxg4 Bxg4 21. Qf1 Rh6 22. Re1 a5 23. d4 O-O-O 24. Bd5 f5 25. c4 f4 26. c5 fxe3 27. Rxe3 exd4 28. Rd3 dxc5 29. Bc4 Qe5+ 30. Kh1 Ng6 31. Nf3 Qxe4 32. Re2 Qf4 33. Rf2 h3 34. g3 Qxg3 35. Nh2 Qh4 36. Rf7 Ne5 37. Rd1 Nxc4 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Oct 10 20:06:59 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:06:59 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] My Son knows the 4 move checkmate Message-ID: <1223690819.48f00a434d92f@www.taom.com> [Event "ICC 5 12"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.10"] [Round "-"] [White "DevonWall"] [Black "atikin"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "731"] [BlackElo "626"] [Opening "Van't Kruijs opening"] [ECO "A00"] [Time "22:02:10"] [TimeControl "300+12"] 1. e3 e5 2. Qf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 d6 4. Qxf7# {Black checkmated} 1-0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- I was going to name this the Rhino Opening because in Africa it is considered a disgrace to be killed by a rhino because they are so easy to sidestep when charging. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Oct 10 21:55:53 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:55:53 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] forgotten pgn Message-ID: <1223697353.48f023c9ea17f@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Matt Lasley ----- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:17:44 -0600 From: Matt Lasley Reply-To: Matt Lasley Subject: forgotten pgn To: brian at walverine.com Brian, the PGNs didn't seem to get through. Here they were from teh Alexa Katie game. First Lee tournament tomorrow. [Event "rated untimed match"][Site "Borders"][Date "2008.10.06"][Round "?"][White "Alexa"][Black "Katie Wise"][Result "1-0"][WhiteElo "0"][BlackElo "0"][ECO "C69"][TimeControl "0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O Nf6 6. Nxe5 Bd6 7. Nf3 Bc5 8. d4 Bb6 9. Bg5 h6 10. Bh4 g5 11. Bg3 Bg4 12. c3 Qd7 13. Be5 Qe7 14. Nbd2 O-O-O 15. Nc4 {clocks on with 20 each} Ba7 16. h3 Bh5 17. Qb3 g4 18. Na5 Bb6 19. Nc4 gxf3 20. Qxb6 Rhg8 21. g3 Nxe4 22. Rfe1 Ng5 23. Bd6 Ne6 24. Bxe7 cxb6 25. Bxd8 Kxd8 26. Nxb6 Nf4 27. Kh2 f5 28. gxf4 Rg2+ 29. Kh1 Rxf2 30. Nc4 Rc2 31. Rac1 f2 32. Rf1 {stopped notation rest from memory} Be2 33. Rxc2 Bxc4 34. Rfxf2 Bxa2 1-0 [Event "rated untimed match"][Site "Borders"][Date "2008.10.06"][Round "?"][White "Alexa"][Black "Katie Wise"][Result "1-0"][WhiteElo "0"][BlackElo "0"][ECO "C69"][TimeControl "0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O Nf6 $6 6. Nxe5 $1 Bd6 7. Nf3 Bc5 8. d4 Bb6 9. Bg5 h6 10. Bh4 g5 11. Bg3 Bg4 12. c3 Qd7 13. Be5 Qe7 14. Nbd2 $1 O-O-O 15. Nc4 {clocks on with 20 each} Ba7 16. h3 Bh5 17. Qb3 {This is a mistake, it makes the bishop mistake a good move.} ({F6 says best, and it does make it hard for Black to find a good move. The pin, the jump.... possibilities} 17. Ne3 ) g4 (17. ... Bxf3 18. gxf3 {obvious, but this other sequence is worth thinking about.} (18. Qa3 Qe6 19. Qa5 Rd7 20. gxf3 Qxc4 21. Bxf6 ) ) 18. Na5 {simply taking okay, but I understand the discomfort with exposing K} Bb6 19. Nc4 {Fritz doesn't like this, dropping a 1.5 pawns of value on the position, but....I like the force behind it.} gxf3 20. Qxb6 Rhg8 {you gave her a narrow path, and this is the WRONG rook! which isn't apparant until the d rook falls.} 21. g3 Nxe4 {This is a full pawn worse than Fritz favorite. Putting the pressure on her has helped her crack} 22. Rfe1 Ng5 {3 mistakes in a row more than offsetting White imperfections. Dropping a piece according to Fritzh} 23. Bd6 {Bf4 and Qa7 both preferred by Fritz by over a pawn, but this still is crushing now.} Ne6 24. Bxe7 cxb6 25. Bxd8 {Nxb6+ is more forceful, heading to c4 after the B takes the rook after check} Kxd8 26. Nxb6 Nf4 27. Kh2 f5 $4 {Knight no longer protected by the pin!} 28. gxf4 Rg2+ 29. Kh1 Rxf2 30. Nc4 Rc2 31. Rac1 f2 32. Rf1 {stopped notation rest from memory} Be2 33. Rxc2 Bxc4 34. Rfxf2 Bxa2 1-0 ----- End forwarded message ----- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081010/ba089d3f/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Oct 12 10:54:13 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:54:13 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Suicide Jumper In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1223830453.48f22bb552475@www.taom.com> My 9 year old son loves things instantaneously with one exposure- Chess, Poker, World of Warcraft, Nacsar, Football, American Gladiator, video games, basketball I tried to explain that adults have trouble with passions and addictions too - his answer. " Daddy, my passion is poker. " He loves online poker, we study the odds. He can enter hands on poker stove and look up the odds. I used to make Blackjack runs to Vegas with Tom Bourie. I have a friend whose son is a poker millionaire at 18- it's insane. I just read Power Hold 'em by Negreanu. Some guy at the 16th street mall claimed he made $5,000 a week from bad slot machines but he said it's getting harder nowadays to do that. I've never done that well at poker but I know it's possible. What I've learned lately is to lay hands down and not consider folding some kind of macho humiliation. My son loves poker so much I had to ban online poker for a month just to gte him outside. The guy who committed suicide blamed my friend but all he did was drink and gamble and lose money and smash up the house and wouldn't listen to any kind of advice from anybody. Quoting callrps : --- In BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com, Brian Wall wrote: I know the feeling, I have been going to Las Vegas 3 or 4 times a year for over 32 years, and until this month had always done well or lost just a little. I went to an Indian Casino in Kansas, and put $200 into a $1 slot, and had only 1 $20 win. I went on to play Blackjack, and ran into the same bad luck. Having a math minor, and having experienced a similar streat in the Bahama's, I thought I could weather this storm, but alas, I lost 21 straight hands! I quit, so I did not go over the deep end, and I think this really cured me until yesterday, when my bet on Texas won! http://anonymousbuyer.blogspot.com/ Here are the last blog entries of a friend of a friend who drank and pokered $100,000 away, then jumped off the same building in downtown Denver his brother did 10 years ago. I met the guy, he was intelligent, built like a bear and worked hard before he retired early from his job and went on self- destruct. Bad beat. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Oct 12 12:49:58 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:49:58 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Suicide drinker/poker Jumper - http://anonymousbuyer.blogspot.com/ Message-ID: <1223837398.48f246d66a5f4@www.taom.com> His name was John. What intrigued me is how powerful ideas are. You can tell yourself- "I am a good person and good things are coming my way" and that might get you through the day but John was telling himself- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This could be it, he thought. Times up. Finally ran out of luck. Don't outlive your money or your luck! How much of our own money have we blown? Must approach 250K since fall of 2005. What would be the point of living beyond this day? Just more killing time. Too much stuff to sort out. Easier to just exit the picture and let others do it. We are a coward and we are lazy. And we have live a life with a certain freedom. We can't envision any other way. Our way worked for 47 years and a few days. Typing that age makes it seem like an awfully young age. We should have figured out a way to hold on with the City. Then, again, we got a kick out of throwing it all away. Set the final solution in motion. Oddly enough, we feel pretty good these days. What a day this has been/ What a rare mood I'm in/ Why it's almost like falling ten floors...... Now eight days in the car. It's actually not that bad. The money is, finally, approaching zero. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- John went from working hard with a quarter million in the bank to living in his car with no money, all from poker. It was too much and he talked himself into killing himself. Brian Wall ----- Forwarded message from Curt Carlson ----- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 21:40:48 -0700 From: Curt Carlson Reply-To: Curt Carlson Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Suicide Jumper To: Brian Wall Who the hell was this? Anyone I know? Just wondering. ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Wall To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com ; Brian Wall Chesslist Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 1:07 PM Subject: [BrianWallChess] Suicide Jumper ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://anonymousbuyer.blogspot.com/ Here are the last blog entries of a friend of a friend who drank and pokered $100,000 away, then jumped off the same building in downtown Denver his brother did 10 years ago. I met the guy, he was intelligent, built like a bear and worked hard before he retired early from his job and went on self-destruct. Bad beat. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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What Dave doesn't tell you is that when he was a teenager some adult guy angrily yelled at him- "DON'T ADJUST YOUR PIECES ON MY TIME!!!" and he never forgot it. Awesome writing job, Dave. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Oct 13 14:16:57 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:16:57 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Joel Johnson on Vigorito on Chess Message-ID: <1223929017.48f3acb97472d@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:51:06 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: FW: [BrianWall-ChessList] Vigorito on Chess Hi All, IM David Vigorito and I are the strongest chess players to come out of the Billerica (Massachusetts) Chess Club and we are good friends. For a year after my divorce, when I roomed with Life Masters Brian Wall and Jack Young, David Vigorito practically lived at our house. He was usually there in our chess library when I woke up in the morning, there in our chess library when I got home from work, and there in our chess library when I went to sleep. It's great to see all of his success. This is a very good chess article, written by David. http://www.masschess.org/Chess_Horizons/Articles/2007-10_sample.pdf Thanks, Joel> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:12:05 -0600> From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com> To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com; UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com; brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com> Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Vigorito on Chess> > I liked David Vigorito the minute I met him, always honest, witty, entertaining,> original and brilliant.> > http://www.masschess.org/Chess_Horizons/Articles/2007-10_sample.pdf> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081013/7657eb83/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Oct 13 15:48:13 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:48:13 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] You gotta love Billy Jack Message-ID: <1223934493.48f3c21d7d311@www.taom.com> because I have so many better things to do I am obsessed with getting 600 subscribers to BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com I am searching the planet for Chessplayers, 11 more to go. My newest subscriber, t-mckeen at comcast.net, is a Billy Jack fan and the unreleased movie Billj Jack goes to Washington would be a big hit now, I think. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- On Mon, 10/13/08, t-mckeen at comcast.net wrote: From: t-mckeen at comcast.net Subject: Re: You gotta love Billy Jack To: brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 3:31 PM He's even got a web site! www.billyjack.com ? -- Tim Mckeen ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081013/2677b4ba/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Oct 13 16:30:30 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:30:30 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Mental Illness and Art Message-ID: <1223937030.48f3cc060e27a@www.taom.com> http://www.findingoptimism.com/reviews/art-by-the-famous-mentally-ill/ I saw a news clip today about mental illness and Art. My unspecified mental illness takes the form of voluminous Chess emails, these guys produce awesome art. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Oct 13 17:49:47 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:49:47 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Pete Tamburo is busier with Chess than I am Message-ID: <1223941787.48f3de9b53170@www.taom.com> Pete Tamburo --- On Mon, 10/13/08, PTamburro at aol.com wrote: From: PTamburro at aol.com Subject: Re: Hey Pete To: brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 5:35 PM Hi Brian, ? Well, me, too; but, I got this invitation today and signed up. I have been getting your mail, but I didn't want to miss anything. BTW, do you ever come to my message board on the openings? I've got 1400 topics and 14,000 posts archived there...mostly on openings: http://njscf.proboards2.com/ ? Glad you liked the Watson interview. I've always, when allowed, tried to do something different with a book review. I liked doing that and then one other time when I did that three pager on Alburt and company's opening book. Lev ran into me at the Team and we had a nice chat about it. It certainly made and impression. I have got to get back to doing ICC stuff, but preparation time is short and I'm spending a lot on my chess puzzle column on www.arcamax.com and on my weekly newspaper column AND writing two articles for each issue of Chess Life for Kids. Oh, yeah, and my high school chess team...we've won the Metropolitan Area HS championship for Yeshivas now two years in a row. So, I keep busy, although I keep threatening to retire. ? I enjoy your mail immensely. I don't comment much because then I'd have to think on yet one more item! Keep up the good work! ? Pete Tamburo ------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Wall ? In a message dated 10/13/2008 4:24:34 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com writes: somehow I thought you were already a member of my Yahoo groups - ? My Tamburro moments so far - ? 1 - enjoyed your review on Watson's new opening books, I thought it was the best book review ever because you actually consulted the author, an old friend. ? 2- I enjoyed your ICC videos ? 3- I enjoyed your Fishing Pole comments in a blog ? 4 - Although I enjoyed doing an ICC webcast with Rennaissance Man?Dan Heisman I like your voice a whole lot more. ? Brian Wall -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081013/6775e712/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Oct 13 18:10:16 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:10:16 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] www.Walverine.com Message-ID: <1223943016.48f3e368b927c@www.taom.com> A surefire way to cheer myself up is to go to www.Walverine.com/popular.php and see what countries visited my website today. Mexico United Kingdom Canada France Australia Chris Peterson is working on a new website, using me for practice. He put three games of my games in a movable Chess-viewer for me today From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Oct 13 19:41:47 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:41:47 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fishing Pole www.chesscube.com Message-ID: <1223948507.48f3f8dbb49e8@www.taom.com> It takes about 300 invites ( 600 if I am pooling family and friends ) to land one poor victim willing to listen to my Chess rants. Each and every one of you is appreciated so feel free to comment even if you are halfway around the globe. Here is a special Fishing Pole welcome to all my new members this week. This is a 5 minute game on Chesscube, a smaller site than ICC but free and fun. Chris Peterson, Robert Ramirez and I combined as Black against some poor 1800. [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "ipinkskarpov at chesscube.com"] [Black "frostbitten at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.12"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole by Jack Young 5. h3 h5!! 6. d4 exd4 7. Nxd4 Bc5!! It's over 8. Bxc6? dxc6!! I had to bearcuff Robert for almost playing 8 ... bc, unthinkable in any Fishing Pole position. Robert and Chris were laughing as I explained I needed the c8-bishop to protect the pawn on g4. 9. c3! I hate it when they do that. 9 ... Bd7 Plan B- ... 0-0-0 10. b4! Darn, IpinksKarpov is playing well. This is better than 10 hg hg!! opening the gates of Hell ( Vance Aandahl ) 10 ... Bb6 11. a4! a6 Fritz and Chris prefer 11 ... a5! but I need a place to castle 12. Nd2 Qf6 Fritz is a pacifist, always recommending knight retreats. I have a no retreat, no surrender policy with my knight. 13. Nc4! IpinksKarpov just keeps ignoring me and making standard Queenside maneuvers. 13 ... O-O-O!! Plan B 14. Nxb6+! cxb6! 15. b5 cxb5?? 15 ... c5!! intending 16 Qe2 a5 or 16 Rb1 cd or 16 ba ba or 16 Qc2 cd is about even My move is as stupid as taking the Fishing Pole g4-knight. Why did I activate his rook against my King? 16. axb5!! a5 16 ... B:b5? seems good but without a bishop guarding my g4-pawn as Robert tried to do with 8 ... bc?? then now is a great time for 16 ... B:b5? 17 hg!! B:f1 g5!! keeping the h-file closed and winning two pieces for a rook. My 16 ... a5 tries to keep the a-file closed and material is even since 16 ... a5 17 hg?? hg!! is crushing. IpinksKarpov has a number of positional advantages now like the two bishops, the better pawn structure, a safer King and a cozy knight on d4. 17. Qf3?? The side with the safer King should strive to keep Queens on the Chessboard - Basic Chess strategy 17 ... Qxf3!! 18. Nxf3? Bxb5!! This works better than 16 ... B:b5? because I have no Queen for IpinksKarpov to gain a tempo against g5! 19. hxg4! Bxf1!! 20. Kxf1! hxg4! 21. Nd4! I have two pawns, the initiative and a rook for two pieces. I should be more then fine. 21 ... Rh1+! 22. Ke2! Rdh8 22 ... Rg1!! is simpler and better 23. Nf5! Rg1! 24. Ne3? The true purpose of 23 Nf5! is revealed but 24 Bb2! finally activating her rook is better 24 ... Rhh1!! Creating first rank issues 25. Kd2! Kd7? 25 ... a4!! throws a monkey wrench into IpinksKarpov's House of Lego 26. Nxg4! Rxg2! 27. Ne5+! Ke6 My Queenside needs their King - 27 ... Kc8! 28 N:f7+? R:f2+! 28. Ke2?? 28 Nd3!!! finally frees her rook My time advantage was starting to tell. 28 ... Kxe5! 29. Bf4+! Kxf4! 30. Rxh1! K:e4! Three pawns up. That's the Pole. She played a tough game up until now. 31. Rb1 Rg6!! The virtual board was unblemished with numbers or letters so there was a Keystone Cops pause as Robert and I had to explain with charades and sign languages what 31 ... Rg6 meant to Chris. The mime next door finally got through to Peterson. 32. Rb5 Rc6 33. Rg5 g6 34. Rg4+ Kd5 35. c4+ Rxc4! 0-1 I will think of something funny and instructive to place here later. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "ipinkskarpov at chesscube.com"] [Black "frostbitten at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.12"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. d4 exd4 7. Nxd4 Bc5 8. Bxc6 dxc6 9. c3 Bd7 10. b4 Bb6 11. a4 a6 12. Nd2 Qf6 13. Nc4 O-O-O 14. Nxb6+ cxb6 15. b5 cxb5 16. axb5 a5 17. Qf3 Qxf3 18. Nxf3 Bxb5 19. hxg4 Bxf1 20. Kxf1 hxg4 21. Nd4 Rh1+ 22. Ke2 Rdh8 23. Nf5 Rg1 24. Ne3 Rhh1 25. Kd2 Kd7 26. Nxg4 Rxg2 27. Ne5+ Ke6 28. Ke2 Kxe5 29. Bf4+ Kxf4 30. Rxh1 Kxe4 31. Rb1 Rg6 32. Rb5 Rc6 33. Rg5 g6 34. Rg4+ Kd5 35. c4+ Rxc4 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Oct 14 09:58:34 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:58:34 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Billy Jack hits the right side of Curt Carlsen's head with his right foot Message-ID: <1223999914.48f4c1aa29e7a@www.taom.com> I read where he suffered from this disease that doesn't process wheat and barley, also his Billy Jack goes to Washington looks like a fun movie that people would go wild for now. Brian Wall ----- Forwarded message from Curt Carlson ----- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:40:08 -0700 From: Curt Carlson Reply-To: Curt Carlson Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] You gotta love Billy Jack To: Brian Wall I took a class from Billy Jack (Tom Lauglin) in 1981! He taught psychology at CU. ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Wall To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com ; Brian Wall Chesslist Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 2:48 PM Subject: [BrianWallChess] You gotta love Billy Jack because I have so many better things to do I am obsessed with getting 600 subscribers to BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com I am searching the planet for Chessplayers, 11 more to go. My newest subscriber, t-mckeen at comcast.net, is a Billy Jack fan and the unreleased movie Billj Jack goes to Washington would be a big hit now, I think. ---------------------------------------------------------- --- On Mon, 10/13/08, t-mckeen at comcast.net wrote: From: t-mckeen at comcast.net Subject: Re: You gotta love Billy Jack To: brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 3:31 PM He's even got a web site! www.billyjack.com -- Tim Mckeen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081014/67fb0cc2/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Oct 14 10:10:28 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:10:28 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] http://dirty.ru/comments/241763 Message-ID: <1224000628.48f4c4745a619@www.taom.com> http://dirty.ru/comments/241763 Sage Mo and Niala made a baby girl and named her after Tal. I visted their Wake Forest home about 6 years ago. They both love Chess. Here is an amazing site that invents dozens of creative Chessboards like Alcoholic Chessboard, Football Chessboard, LSD Chessboard, etc. It's very cool even if you can't speak a word of Russian. Brian Wall ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Niala Brown Brian Wall OK, so it's Tuesday morning. I'm curled up with a cup of chai, kids are happy, everything's calm.. I start nosing around the net ... and find... this: http://dirty.ru/comments/241763 And promptly choke on my chai, which makes the dogs bark, which makes the kids come running, which makes everything chaotic. The kids laughed and laughed at some of these with me! - Niala PS - Brian - just click it - some are really funny!! From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Oct 14 10:20:34 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:20:34 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Cur Carlsen on Mental Illness and Art - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUzSZyB0z4s Message-ID: <1224001234.48f4c6d221f72@www.taom.com> Louis Wain - great cat painter with scizophrenia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUzSZyB0z4s ----- Forwarded message from Curt Carlson ----- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:43:34 -0700 From: Curt Carlson Reply-To: Curt Carlson Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Mental Illness and Art To: Brian Wall You forgot to include http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUzSZyB0z4s. I didn't know Jackson Pollack was mental too! ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Wall To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com ; Brian Wall Chesslist Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 3:30 PM Subject: [BrianWallChess] Mental Illness and Art http://www.findingoptimism.com/reviews/art-by-the-famous-mentally-ill/ I saw a news clip today about mental illness and Art. My unspecified mental illness takes the form of voluminous Chess emails, these guys produce awesome art. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081014/0a681ca0/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Oct 14 13:35:04 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:35:04 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Video interviews of IMs Message-ID: <1224012904.48f4f468ab94c@www.taom.com> http://westernchess.blogspot.com/2008/08/video-interview.html video interview - IM Cyrus Lakdawala --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/field/8184/ video interview - IM Jeremy Silman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/field/8184/ video interview IM John Donaldson From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Oct 14 14:06:29 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:06:29 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Shyness Message-ID: <1224014789.48f4fbc544055@www.taom.com> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDoIZSxl9g8 I started out terribly shy. I wanted to be a lawyer in High School but I didn't know if I would be comfortable in front of a jury. Walt Gerash was eager for me to be a lawyer. After college I became a bartender for a year and that cured it. I was in a computer room for a long time but then my brother Bill trained me to be a door-to-door salesman and you can't be shy for that. In this video Rod Stuart explains to Leona Lewis that he is not shy in front of 20,000 people at Madisen Square Garden but he is shy in front of 3 or 4 people. I have something similar, I feel no nervousness writing for thousands of Chessplayers because I am usually just trying to make one person smile and I block out the rest. In a Chess lesson for money with just one person I can get nervous because I do not know how much they are absorbing and what part of my vast knowledge is best to explain in a short time span. The best students are the ones that would have succeeded without you anyway, like Tyler Hughes. Their passion drives them inexorably forward. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Oct 14 16:17:53 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:17:53 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] President Brian Wall Message-ID: <1224022673.48f51a9100292@www.taom.com> In a desperate bid to be liked I am scouring the planet for 4 more Chessplayers to make 600 in my Yahoo group. I ran for President of Colorado Chess two Colorado Opens ago. Everyone thought I was joking because that's what I do. I do have two serious ideas up for consideration in Colorado or anywhere in the world. As I look at other Chess organizations I notice the following. 1 - Only Colorado and Wyoming, thanks to Dr. Jon Fortune, list their members' email addresses. 2 - Some places have a great old building, left by a millionaire, to run their Chess Club. 3 - Ireland has a Chessgame database going back to the 1800's! As President I would have made two proposals - 1- To create a Colorado database where every game from every Colorado tournament would be entered and maybe some attempt made to find games from the past. I believe volunteers could be found for this. 2- To create a super Colorado Chess fund with one purpose - to keep growing like a giant nest egg. The purpose would be to only spend the interest so that Colorado Chess would get better every year with no end in sight. When it got large enough the interest alone would run Colorado Chess and no dues would be required. The State magazine would improve every year. International tournaments could be held here. FIDE rated tournaments could be held here. A Grandmaster Super-trainer could be employed. Colorado Chessplayers could receive travel vouchers. Eventually a building could be purchased so that Chessplayer kids would always have teachers and clubs available. It could be a role model for any other Chess community. Instead of dues, Chessplayers could voluntarily donate to the Superfund. TDs could argue all year how to spend the money but as long as the principal was not touched, things would continue to get better. The only flaw I see is theft, perhaps 10 signatures and three officers should be required for each withdrawal, done annually. Perhaps 10 different banks should be used. People would be sceptical at first but as the money increased from year to year, the state Chess magazine improved with color and a paid editor, decent prize funds at tournaments, Grandmaster visitors, a Colorado Chess library created, a thriving scholastic community, authors paid to work on Chess books, no more state dues, I think the idea would catch on and people would give generously. Not all Chessplayers are poor. Have time work for us instead of against us. That's my platform and I'm sticking to it. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Oct 14 17:55:53 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:55:53 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Banished Chessplayers Message-ID: <1224028553.48f5318990d8b@www.taom.com> The Australian Chess federation has a cool policy of banning their players. Here's how it works. What did Frank Kresinger and Carl Art do to earn censure. Anyone know? Brian Wall ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Banned Players The ACF Council passed the following Motion: "That, effective 4 April 2006 ? 1. A person who is banned as a player by his or her State or Territory Association or by the Australian Chess Federation ("ACF") is not permitted to play in an ACF event. 2. If a tournament organiser or tournament arbiter knowingly permits a banned player to play in an ACF event, the event? (a) will not be ACF or FIDE rated; and (b) if it is a Grand Prix event, will not count towards Grand Prix points. 3. The ACF Secretary shall ensure that a list of banned players, to the best of his knowledge, is maintained on the ACF Website, stating the name of each banned player and the expiry date of the ban and each Council delegate shall keep the Secretary informed of those matters in respect of players banned by his State or Territory. 4. Despite paragraphs 1 and 2, the ACF Council may, if it thinks fit, permit a banned player to play in an ACF event or decide that paragraph 2 does not apply to an ACF event. 5. In this motion ? (a) "ACF event" means any event held by or on behalf of the ACF and includes an ACF Grand Prix event; (b) "banned player" means a person referred to in paragraph 1; (c) a reference to playing in an event includes entering, playing in, or continuing to play in, the event." List of banned players pursuant to clause 3 above Player Name Association banning the player Expiry date of the ban Frank Kresinger NSWCA 31 December 2007 Carl Art NSWCA 30 April 2008 From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Oct 14 22:17:34 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:17:34 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Sarah Palin teaches Chess - video Message-ID: <1224044254.48f56ede92723@www.taom.com> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLsb1rCiEMI Sarah can see the Russian Defense from her House From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Oct 15 14:54:27 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:54:27 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Eddie Briones loves my Queen sac against Gitis Message-ID: <1224104067.48f658831bceb@www.taom.com> Brian Wall PGN version of Wall-Gitis [Opening "Caro-Kann: Hillbilly attack"] [ECO "B10"] 1. e4 c6 2. Bc4 d5 3. Bb3 dxe4 4. Qh5 g6 5. Qh4 Nf6 6. Nc3 Bg7 7. f3 Nbd7 8. fxe4 Nc5 9. Nf3 Nxb3 10. axb3 Qc7 11. d3 h6 12. O-O e5 13. Kh1 Be6 14. Be3 b6 15. Ra6 g5 16. Qg3 Nd7 17. Nh4 Bf8 18. Nf5 Bxf5 19. Rxf5 f6 20. Ra1 O-O-O 21. Nd1 Kb7 22. Rf1 Qd6 23. Bg1 Qe6 24. Qf3 Be7 25. Ne3 Bc5 26. Nf5 Bxg1 27. Rxg1 h5 28. Ra3 Rh7 29. Rga1 Ra8 30. b4 Nf8 31. c3 Ng6 32. d4 Nf4 33. g3 g4 34. Qf1 Ng6 35. Qa6+ Kc7 36. Qxa7+ Rxa7 37. Rxa7+ Kd8 38. Rxh7 1-0 This one? www.Walverine.com Hillbilly Attack my most popular email Brian Wall ------------------------------------------------------------------------- eddiebriones ----- Forwarded message from eddiebriones at bellsouth.net ----- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:36:57 +0000 From: eddiebriones at bellsouth.net Reply-To: eddiebriones at bellsouth.net Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] www.Walverine.com To: Brian Wall I love it because you sacrificed your queen for an inevitable check mate ! A sacrificial attack !!! eddiebriones --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Wall Original message from Brian Wall : which one? and why did you like it? Brian Wall ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- eddiebriones Quoting eddiebriones at bellsouth.net: I love that game you played with Gitis ! eddiebriones ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Wall -------------- Original message from Brian Wall : --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A surefire way to cheer myself up is to go to www.Walverine.com/popular.php and see what countries visited my website today. Mexico United Kingdom Canada France Australia Chris Peterson is working on a new website, using me for practice. He put three games of my games in a movable Chess-viewer for me today Brian Wall -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081015/0e9096ce/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Oct 16 10:29:51 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:29:51 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Congrats to Rob Springett Message-ID: <1224174591.48f76bffcb853@www.taom.com> Congrats to Rob Springett, R.Springett at kent.ac.uk #601 at BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com Today I visit my son's Elementary SChool and help out with his Chess team. Tomorrow I give a lesson to Duwayne Langseth. Now I can get back to entertaining the masses. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Oct 16 14:03:50 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:03:50 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Kramnik-Anand 2 draws Message-ID: <1224187430.48f79e2668004@www.taom.com> 2008 World Championship. Many, like Jeremy Silman, consider this the first World Championship game since Kramink - Kasparov and Kramnik-Leko. Game 1 was a correctly played boring draw in an exchange Slav so let's skip it. Anand is scary as Black in the Moscow Variation so Kramnik sidestepped it. Kramnik Chess was not enough to push Anand off his perch this time. Game 2. Fischer shocked Spassky by playing 1 c4 and winning on the White side of a Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower Variation. Bobby had played 1 d4 once in a simul and 1 b3 a few times and 1 c4 a few times. Leko ( now Kramnik's second ) had shocked Kramnik by switching to 1 d4 in their World Championship match. Anand had played 1 d4 a few times before but essentially it was a surprise. The game turned into Tyler Hughes' favorite line, a 4. f3 Nimzo rtaher than a Vigorito favorite, the 4. Qc2 Nimzo. Both sides played poorly, making slight mistakes. Anand, untypically, got in time pressure and accepted a draw with about 3 minutes on his clock to Kramnik's 11. It was a weird game, a tough game with very difficult positions to understand. Anand seemed nervous and unsure of himself, Kramnik seemed more confident. They both seemed very confused. The position was highly sensitive and I got the feeling Anand should have blitzed this line out with his seconds for 6 more months. Let's take a look. I had the impression that the only player who could play this position well was Kasparov, if anybody. It seems beyond the scope of most mortals without intensive training. Kramnik has often discussed how many games he looks at each month, 10,000, at least before he was married. I somtimes wonder if these games are lodged in his subconcious and he reproduces them like a songwriter that inadvertantly steals a melody. I often make logical looking moves and find out later I have played 15-20 moves of theory. Kramnik said he trained by looking at a Chess study and trying to solve it while swimming. www.Chessvibes.com has the best coverage around, including immediate post-game video interviews of both participants. If only we had that for Morphy, Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Keres, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Bronstein, Tal, Korchnoi, etc. History grants the pre-computer World Champions extra respect. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Game 1 [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.14"] [Round "-"] [White "*GM_Kramnik"] [Black "*GM_Anand"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2772"] [BlackElo "2783"] [Opening "QGD Slav: exchange, Trifunovic variation"] [ECO "D10"] [NIC "SL.01"] [Time "12:03:12"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 cxd5 5. Bf4 Nc6 6. e3 Bf5 7. Nf3 e6 8. Qb3 Bb4 9. Bb5 O-O 10. Bxc6 Bxc3+ 11. Qxc3 Rc8 12. Ne5 Ng4 13. Nxg4 Bxg4 14. Qb4 Rxc6 15. Qxb7 Qc8 16. Qxc8 Rfxc8 17. O-O a5 18. f3 Bf5 19. Rfe1 Bg6 20. b3 f6 21. e4 dxe4 22. fxe4 Rd8 23. Rad1 Rc2 24. e5 fxe5 25. Bxe5 Rxa2 26. Ra1 Rxa1 27. Rxa1 Rd5 28. Rc1 Rd7 29. Rc5 Ra7 30. Rc7 Rxc7 31. Bxc7 Bc2 32. Bxa5 Bxb3 {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.15"] [Round "?"] [White "GM_Anand"] [Black "GM_Kramnik"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2783"] [BlackElo "2772"] [Opening "Nimzo-Indian: S?misch, Romanovsky variation"] [ECO "E25"] [NIC "NI.30"] [Time "09:06:52"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4!! For surprise value, ruining 80% of Kramink's preparation 1 ... Nf6! 2. c4 e6! 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3 Anand must have studied Tyler Hughes' victory at the 2008 US Junior in Lindsborg,Kansas. ( Karpov School ) 4 ... d5! 5. a3! Bxc3+! 6. bxc3! c5! Played thousands of times by Botvinnik, Smyslov and others, often from a 4 a3 move order The normal looking 6 ... 0-0 has been played 15 times but Vlad the Impaler may have been consciously looking for sidelines as quickly as possible. He manages the extremely rare ... 0-0-0 later on. Castling late was one of Karpov's standard weapons. 7. cxd5! Nxd5 8. dxc5! Played 1040 times by Tal, Korchnoi, Polugaevsky, Benko, Irina Krush and others 8 ... f5! Played 340 times by Tal, Petrosian, Lein and others 9. Qc2 Played 102 times by Tal, Bronstein, Portish, Vitolinish and others 9 ... Nd7 Played thrice by non-GMs. 9 ... 0-0 was played 51 times by Karpov and others. 10. e4! fxe4! 11. fxe4! N5f6! This has been reached 8 times previously 12. c6 Played by Portisch and 3 others No one has tried 12 Bc4! 12 Nf3! has been tried three times No one has played 12 Rb1 or Be2 12 Nh3 has been tried once I have the imoression that Anand is traumatized by studying Kramnik's endgame play and does not want to give him any weaknesses to chew on. 12 ... bxc6! reached three times 13. Nf3! The only move ever played here 13 ... Qa5! Played twice, 13 ... Qc7 once 14. Bd2 Played once. No one has tried 14 Be2! 14 ... Ba6 TN A resonable Theoretical Novelty by Kramnik - the danger is unprotecting e6 14 ... 0-0! has been tried in a 1966 correspondence game 15. c4! Computers love Fishing expeditions, humans hate them. Humans only trust developing and centralizing their pieces followed by ultra safe material grabs. Fritz 9 looks at 15 Nd4 B:f1 16 R:f1 0-0 17 N:e6 Rfe8 18 Rf5 Qb6 which looks absurd to a human, who wants to castle safely 15 ... Qc5! 16. Bd3? This was my automatic human choice watching the game but Fritz was shaking his head no vigorously, preferring 16 Be2, Qd3 or Bb4 16 .... Ng4 It's never too late to start a Fishing Pole attack as Kramnik's High School Chess teammate, Balandin knows very well ( on my email list ) Kramink explained in his video interview he was thinking of winning. Fritz 9 prefers 16 ... 0-0, ... e5, ... Rb8, ... Rc8, ... 0-0-0, ... Bb7, ... Rd8 or ... Nb6 17. Bb4! Qe3+! 18. Qe2! O-O-O? As I was watching live Fritz 9 preferred 18 ... Rd8! , ... Ndf6, ... Nb6 or ... e5 I can't evaluate the differences between GM and computer moves when they are this subtle. I thought 18 ... 0-0-0 was very interesting but Fritz worked himself up over 18 ... 0-0-0 19 Be7! Rde8 20 Bg5! Q:e2+ 21 B:e2 with the two bishops. I think the mutual 8 pawn islands tend to be drawish because of lack of pawn waves or breaks. Fritz 9 also evaluated several exchange sacs after 18 ... 0-0-0 19 Be7 Nde5, ... Nc5, ... Nb6 or ... Ndf6 These seem like the kind Kramnik might try. He sacs the exchange a lot in Sicilians as a standard Congressional bailout. 19. Qxe3? Nxe3! 20. Kf2! Ng4+!! The Double Fishing Pole 21. Kg3! Ndf6? 21 ... Nge5 hitting c4, d3 and f3 seems simpler 22. Bb1! Only move 22 ... h5!! The rode, reel and bait are connected 23. h3 Balandin should have forwarded the futility of h3 against the Fishing Pole to his old teammate. 23 e5 h4+! 24 Kf4 g5+! 25 Kf4! g5+! 26 N:g5 Rd4+! 27 Ne4 N:e4 28 B:e4 Nf2, ... Rh5 or ... h3, all typical Fishing Pole moves, look about equal 23 .... h4+! Anand is eating up the clock. 24. Nxh4! Ne5!! 25. Nf3!! Nh5+ The non-fluid pawn structure makes it hard for Anand's bishops to shine. Kramnik's knights gravitate to the baseball diamond e3-d4-e5-f4 26. Kf2!! Anand is up a pawn and the two bishops but down a little in time and endgame knowledge. 26 ... Nxf3! 27. Kxf3! This seems scary for Kramnik, he should feel lucky to escape 27 ... e5! Trying to jam up the bishops 28. Rc1 Nf4! 29. Ra2! Nd3 30. Rc3! Nf4! 31. Bc2 Ne6! 32. Kg3! Rd4 {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2 The extra pawn looks extremely difficult to convert against Kramnik, especially low on time. Conclusions - Kramnik's Exchange Slav in Game looks like a chicken decision. Anand's draw acceptance in Game 2 looks like a chicken decision. They are nervous, like boxers in the first round. They have put a lot of thought into surprising each other for each game. Kramnik disappears a lot but Anand doesn't mind like Topalov. They are friendly, they have played for the same Bundesliga team in the past. A dozen games seems a little short for a World Championship match. 16 seems acceptable to me. The tension is increasing. Kramnik seems a little more confident to me. Anything can happen. I like both players. It's just that .... I have this sort of sacred reverence for the Botvinnik School and I want it to continue as long as I live. The match promises to become more lively. Be patient. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.15"] [Round "?"] [White "GM_Anand"] [Black "GM_Kramnik"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2783"] [BlackElo "2772"] [Opening "Nimzo-Indian: S?misch, Romanovsky variation"] [ECO "E25"] [NIC "NI.30"] [Time "09:06:52"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3 d5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 c5 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. dxc5 f5 9. Qc2 Nd7 10. e4 fxe4 11. fxe4 N5f6 12. c6 bxc6 13. Nf3 Qa5 14. Bd2 Ba6 15. c4 Qc5 16. Bd3 Ng4 17. Bb4 Qe3+ 18. Qe2 O-O-O 19. Qxe3 Nxe3 20. Kf2 Ng4+ 21. Kg3 Ndf6 22. Bb1 h5 23. h3 h4+ 24. Nxh4 Ne5 25. Nf3 Nh5+ 26. Kf2 Nxf3 27. Kxf3 e5 28. Rc1 Nf4 29. Ra2 Nd3 30. Rc3 Nf4 31. Bc2 Ne6 32. Kg3 Rd4 {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Eberhardt Wilhelm Cup fin corr6671"] [Site "corr"] [Date "1966.??.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Gilman,AM"] [Black "Lepsenyi,Lorant"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "E25"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.a3 Bxc3+ 5.bxc3 c5 6.f3 d5 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.dxc5 f5 9.e4 fxe4 10.Qc2 Nd7 11.fxe4 N5f6 12.c6 bxc6 13.Nf3 Qa5 14.Bd2 0-0 15.Bd3 Ba6 16.c4 Qc7 17.Bc3 Ng4 18.e5 Ndxe5 19.Bxh7+ Kh8 20.Be4 Nxc4 21.Qe2 Nd6 22.Qxa6 Nxe4 23.Qc4 Qf4 24.Bd2 Ne3 25.Qe2 Nxd2 26.Qxd2 Rad8 27.Qe2 Nxg2+ 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "World Cup"] [Site "Reykjavik"] [Date "1991.09.??"] [Round "13"] [White "Timman,Jan H"] [Black "Karpov,Anatoly"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "E25"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.f3 d5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 c5 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.dxc5 f5 9.Qc2 0-0 10.e4 fxe4 11.fxe4 Nf4 12.Nf3 Qc7 13.Be3 Nd7 14.Bc4 Nxc5 15.0-0 Bd7 16.Rae1 b6 17.Bd4 Ba4 18.Qd2 Nb3 19.Bxb3 Bxb3 20.Ne5 Ng6 21.Qg5 Qe7 22.Qg3 Nxe5 1/2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLsb1rCiEMI Anthea's new Sarah Palin teaches Chess youtube video is her most popular yet in terms of hits per day, outstripping with more hits in two days her last one from two months ago, The Horsefly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN-iixuGhkA My 9 year old Devon prefers the Horsefly because the star, Tara Martinez, 8, is closer to his age and seems better prepared than her mother. In response to Sarah Palin sees the Russian defense from her house someone posted http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWG1gI2tx3k Hopelessly devoted to Palin, a take off on Olivia Newton John's Hopelessly devoted to you. Original song and lyrics Olivia Newton-John - Hopelessly Devoted to You Lyrics Guess mine is not the first heart broken, my eyes are not the first to cry I'm not the first to know, there's just no gettin' over you Hello, I'm just a fool who's willing to sit around and wait for you But baby can't you see, there's nothin' else for me to do I'm hopelessly devoted to you But now there's nowhere to hide, since you pushed my love aside I'm not in my head, hopelessly devoted to you Hopelessly devoted to you, hopelessly devoted to you My head is saying "fool, forget him", my heart is saying "don't let go" Hold on to the end, that's what I intend to do I'm hopelessly devoted to you But now there's nowhere to hide, since you pushed my love aside I'm not in my head, hopelessly devoted to you Hopelessly devoted to you, hopelessly devoted to you ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJpyG3PXoKw Original song by Olivia Newton John ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Oct 16 14:07:30 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:07:30 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Dennis Monokroussos: Kramnik-Anand, Game 2 with notes Message-ID: <1224187650.48f79f023adcf@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Email subscription to blog articles ----- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:45:40 -0400 From: Email subscription to blog articles Reply-To: historicchess at comcast.net, chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Subject: [chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Kramnik-Anand, Game 2 with notes To: chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Posted by Dennis Monokroussos: Kramnik-Anand, Game 2 with notes http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1224186336.shtml The game was covered live in [1]this post, but [2]here's the game with an expanded set of notes. References 1. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1224077683.shtml 2. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/files/anand_kramnik_2008_2.htm _______________________________________________ chessmind mailing list chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chessmind From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Oct 16 21:29:16 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:29:16 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Andy Rea on final position of Kramnik-Anand Game 2 Message-ID: <1224214156.48f8068c70bb9@www.taom.com> For the new guys - if you want to write to just me alone try BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com or BrianWallChess4 at Yahoo.com ----- Forwarded message from Andrew Rea ----- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:38:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrew Rea Reply-To: andrerea2 at yahoo.com Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] Kramnik-Anand 2 draws To: Brian Wall For whatever my opinion is worth?? I think that Black is better in final position, owns d4 and d-file, hitting some soft spots in the White position.?? I speculate that at this early stage of the match, Kramnik didnt want to land in a mess where the Bishops could cut loose- take his sure 1/2pt now, analyze the position further at home,? be ready for further testing?.???Bear in mind how well not taking a certain draw in Game1 of the Kasparov-Short match worked for Short.... [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.15"] [Round "?"] [White "GM_Anand"] [Black "GM_Kramnik"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2783"] [BlackElo "2772"] [Opening "Nimzo-Indian: S?misch, Romanovsky variation"] [ECO "E25"] [NIC "NI.30"] [Time "09:06:52"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3 d5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 c5 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. dxc5 f5 9. Qc2 Nd7 10. e4 fxe4 11. fxe4 N5f6 12. c6 bxc6 13. Nf3 Qa5 14. Bd2 Ba6 15. c4 Qc5 16. Bd3 Ng4 17. Bb4 Qe3+ 18. Qe2 O-O-O 19. Qxe3 Nxe3 20. Kf2 Ng4+ 21. Kg3 Ndf6 22. Bb1 h5 23. h3 h4+ 24. Nxh4 Ne5 25. Nf3 Nh5+ 26. Kf2 Nxf3 27. Kxf3 e5 28. Rc1 Nf4 29. Ra2 Nd3 30. Rc3 Nf4 31. Bc2 Ne6 32. Kg3 Rd4 {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081016/761e5768/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Oct 17 13:02:30 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:02:30 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Dennis Monokroussos: Kramnik-Anand, Game 3 with notes Message-ID: <1224270150.48f8e146ed9ea@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Email subscription to blog articles ----- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:46:10 -0400 From: Email subscription to blog articles Reply-To: historicchess at comcast.net, chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Subject: [chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Kramnik-Anand, Game 3 with notes To: chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Posted by Dennis Monokroussos: Kramnik-Anand, Game 3 with notes http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1224269167.shtml Pretty heavy notes, too, including one quite important line offered in the comments to my [1]live coverage post. Have a look at Anand's big win, [2]right here. References 1. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1224251620.shtml 2. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/files/kramnik_anand_2008_3.htm _______________________________________________ chessmind mailing list chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chessmind From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Oct 17 15:45:02 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:45:02 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 2008 World Championship Kramnik-Anand Game 3 Message-ID: <1224279902.48f9075ecaea6@www.taom.com> Blunderfest [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.17"] [Round "-"] [White "*GM_Kramnik"] [Black "*GM_Anand"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2772"] [BlackElo "2783"] [Opening "QGD semi-Slav: Meran, Blumenfeld variation"] [ECO "D49"] [NIC "SL.09"] [Time "13:01:34"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6! 5. e3! Nbd7! 6. Bd3! dxc4! 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3! a6 9. e4 c5! 10. e5 cxd4! 11. Nxb5 axb5! 12. exf6! I can't find the game but I think Wall-Griego 1993 went this way, a game that inspired a 4 month search into opposite-colored bishop endgames and 50 page articles for Chess Horizons ( Mass) and the Colorado Informant. 12 ... gxf6 13. O-O! Qb6! 14. Qe2! Bb7 Played 15 times dating back to 1946. Kramink stopped blitzing and took his first 10 minute think. He is on his own and Anand is loaded for bear. 15. Bxb5! Bd6 Played twice 15 ... Rg8! never played 15 ... Bc5 played once 15 ... Rd8? played three times 16. Rd1!! Played once before 22 minutes for Kramnik 16 a4!! never played 16 b4! never played 16 N:d4! played once 16 ... Rg8! Played once before 6 minutes for Anand 16 ... 0-0-0 is interesting 17. g3! Played once before. 12 minutes for Kramnik 17 a4! is good too 17 ... Rg4 TN 8 seconds for Anand Theoretical Novelty by Anand, although Dennis Monokroussos says Seirawan suggested it a long time ago. Only 17 ... Bc5? has been played. 18. Bf4?? 24 minutes equal now - better moves - 18 Nd2!!!, a4!, b4!, Rb1, Ne1, b3, a3, Nh4, Bd2, Bh6, Rd2, Qd3, g3 Anand must have researched these deeply so the real truth will be revealed later. By then, Vishy will be playing something else. 18 .... Bxf4! 4 minutes - Anand - 1:06:11 Kramnik - 46.10 19. Nxd4 19 R:d4 0-0-0 20 Rad1 Bd5 21 Bc4 Bc6 22 R:f4 R:f4 23 gf looks about even 19 ... h5!! Half an hour- Anand's on his own at last. 19 ... Rg8! or ... Rg6! are good too it looks like a Rooking Pole now 20. Nxe6!! 1 minute, pre-planned 20 ... fxe6! 21. Rxd7!! 7 seconds 21 ... Kf8! 22. Qd3!! Rg7! 23. Rxg7! Kxg7! 24. gxf4! Rd8! 25. Qe2! Kh6!! 31 minutes left each 26. Kf1! Rg8! 26 minutes left each 27. a4 Kramnik is up two pawns but all his pieces and pawns look stupid and his King is running for his life. 27 ... Bg2+! 28. Ke1! Bh3!! 29. Ra3? 17 minutes left for Kramnik now. 29 Rd1 or Kd2 are better tries 29 ... Rg1+!! 30. Kd2! Qd4+!! 17 minutes left for Kramnik, 9 for Anand 31. Kc2! Bg4 31 ... Bf5!! is even stronger so the ICC crowd was claiming Anand's move was a mouseslip. 32. f3 Giving up the exchange with 32 Rd3! may have been better or may have lost anyway, I am not sure 32 ... Bf5+!! 33. Bd3? 4 minutes spent I don't know if we were right but everyone with a computer on that liked Kramnik was begging for - 33 Kb3 Rc1 34 a5 Rc2 35 Q:c2+ B:c2+ 36 K:c2 Qc5+ 37 Kb1 Q:b5 38 a6 Qd5 39 a7 Qa8 40 b4 and I think this is drawn. However maybe Anand can improve with 33 Kb3 Rc1 34 a5 Qd5+ 35 Bc5 Qb7+ continuing the attack two pawns down. Kramnik had too many lines to work out and they all looked bad. 33 ... Bh3? Anand has less than 5 minutes and misses an immediate mate with 33 ... B:d3+!! 34 R:d3 Qc4+ 35 Rc3 Q:e2+ 36 Kb3 Rb1 37 Rc2 Qd3+ 38 Rc3 Qd5+ 39 Ka3 Qd2 40 Rc2 Q:c2 41 Kb4 R:b2+ 42 Ka5 Qc6 43 h4 Qb6 checkmate Anand wins anyway because 33 ... Bh3 34 any Rg2! is impossible to deal with 34. a5 Rg2!! 35. a6 Rxe2+! 36. Bxe2! Bf5+! 37. Kb3 Qe3+! 38. Ka2 Qxe2! 39. a7! Qc4+!! 40. Ka1! Qf1+ 41. Ka2! Bb1+ {Black wins} 0-1 Kramnik fell into a deep labyrinthe. 18 Nd2! h5 or .. f5 19 Nc4 Qc7 is probably a better line for White but the game as played was miserable for Vlad. His chances are better than McCain's so I hope he keeps fighting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.17"] [Round "-"] [White "*GM_Kramnik"] [Black "*GM_Anand"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2772"] [BlackElo "2783"] [Opening "QGD semi-Slav: Meran, Blumenfeld variation"] [ECO "D49"] [NIC "SL.09"] [Time "13:01:34"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3 a6 9. e4 c5 10. e5 cxd4 11. Nxb5 axb5 12. exf6 gxf6 13. O-O Qb6 14. Qe2 Bb7 15. Bxb5 Bd6 16. Rd1 Rg8 17. g3 Rg4 18. Bf4 Bxf4 19. Nxd4 h5 20. Nxe6 fxe6 21. Rxd7 Kf8 22. Qd3 Rg7 23. Rxg7 Kxg7 24. gxf4 Rd8 25. Qe2 Kh6 26. Kf1 Rg8 27. a4 Bg2+ 28. Ke1 Bh3 29. Ra3 Rg1+ 30. Kd2 Qd4+ 31. Kc2 Bg4 32. f3 Bf5+ 33. Bd3 Bh3 34. a5 Rg2 35. a6 Rxe2+ 36. Bxe2 Bf5+ 37. Kb3 Qe3+ 38. Ka2 Qxe2 39. a7 Qc4+ 40. Ka1 Qf1+ 41. Ka2 Bb1+ {Black wins} 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Paulisto-ch 5th Etapa"] [Site "Americana"] [Date "2000.08.04"] [Round "6"] [White "D'Israel,Davy Maurice"] [Black "Gerbelli Neto,Eduardo"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "D49"] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 a6 9.e4 c5 10.e5 cxd4 11.Nxb5 axb5 12.exf6 Qb6 13.0-0 Bb7 14.Qe2 gxf6 15.Bxb5 Bd6 16.Rd1 Rg8 17.g3 Bc5 18.b4 Bxb4 19.Nxd4 Bd5 20.Rb1 Qc5 21.Be3 Rxa2 22.Qd3 Ra3 23.Qxh7 Rf8 24.Nxe6 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.Walverine.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLsb1rCiEMI Sarah Palin teaches Chess - 3 days old --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYalfJJpPLw The Raccoon From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Oct 18 10:49:36 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:49:36 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Game 4- Anand Kramnik Message-ID: <1224348576.48fa13a0cbca9@www.taom.com> Game 4 - kind of a boring draw- OK with Kramnik because he had Black - OK with Anand because he is one game closer to winning the match. Kramnik has 8 more tries to win a game. Does Anand get draw odds too? [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.18"] [Round "-"] [White "*GM_Anand"] [Black "*GM_Kramnik"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2783"] [BlackElo "2772"] [Opening "QGD: classical variation (5.Bf4)"] [ECO "D37"] [NIC "QO.04"] [Time "11:32:43"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bf4 O-O 6. e3 Nbd7 7. a3 c5 8. cxd5 Nxd5 9. Nxd5 exd5 10. dxc5 Nxc5 11. Be5 Bf5 12. Be2 Bf6 13. Bxf6 Qxf6 14. Nd4 Ne6 15. Nxf5 Qxf5 16. O-O Rfd8 17. Bg4 Qe5 18. Qb3 Nc5 19. Qb5 b6 20. Rfd1 Rd6 21. Rd4 a6 22. Qb4 h5 23. Bh3 Rad8 24. g3 g5 25. Rad1 g4 26. Bg2 Ne6 27. R4d3 d4 28. exd4 Rxd4 29. Rxd4 Rxd4 {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- If Anand dares to play 1 e4 then Kramnik is ready with the Russian Defense, as explained in this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLsb1rCiEMI Sarah Palin thoroughly covers the Petroff's Defense, including the latest TNs I think being behind in the match Kramink might play some kind of Sicilian. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Oct 19 00:51:46 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:51:46 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Scary Halloween Gambit video Message-ID: <1224399106.48fad9022c487@www.taom.com> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzALeHw_rUU Anthea's latest From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Sun Oct 19 12:04:16 2008 From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:04:16 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fishing Pole slaughter Message-ID: <1224439456.48fb76a00a443@www.taom.com> I continue to ravage the www.Chesscube.com community with Fishing Poles. I am also playing my best friend, Steve Murray, on www.QueenAlice.com. Steve ( Handle Carver because he is a master wood carver currently sculpting a 4 knights Defense chess position as covered in Anthea's new video ) Murray is playing the Murray Gambit, an old Gambit played by Blackburne in the 1800's, 1 e4 d5 2 ed c6 3 dc I call openings whatever I want to but I also give the other names if I know them. I also observe ICC goings on from my son's handle. My Chesscube opponent here was 1700, I am up to expert now. [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "spinozamet at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.19"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Visiting the Chesscube site like the Black Death, Blackburne's old nicname. 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 h5!! My favorite blitz position because there are so many ways for White to go wrong after 7 Nc3 Bc5 7. Nxc6 bxc6 I almost assaulted Robert Ramirez a week ago when he tried to take on c6 the wrong way in a Fishing Pole 7 ... dc 8 Q:d8+ is bad but 7 ... Qh4 8 Bf4 dc is interesting 8. Bc4! Qh4 Usually ... Bc5! precedes ... Qh4 in the Fishing Pole for extra ooopmh 9. h3? Bc5!! I am better now 10. Qf3! Ne5!! Normally I won't retreat but this move hits f7, f3 and c4 and uncovers ... B:h3 shots later 10 ... Ne5!! 11 Qc3! d6!! protects my bishop and initiates an attack that can quickly become devastating. Rather than face my blistering attack, spinozamet at chesscube.com tries to trade Queens and loses a piece. 11. Qf4? Why does everyone trade-trade-lose me? 11 ... Qxf4! 12. Bxf4! Nxc4! 13. Bxc7 Nxb2 14. Be5 Nc4! 15. Bxg7! Rg8! 16. Bf6! d5! spinozamet at chesscube.com misses my ... B:h3 idea 17. exd5? Bxh3!! 18. Re1+! Kd7!! "My King likes to go for a stroll!" as Steinitz and Seirawan were fond of saying 19. dxc6+ Kxc6! 20. g3 Rxg3+!! 21. Kh2! Bxf2 One of the three super-killers 21 ... Rf3!!!, ... Rg6!! and ... B:f2!! I have an extra pawn, an extra piece and a vicious attack as well, in other words, a normal Fishing Pole. 22. Rf1 Bxf1!! 0-1 mate next --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "spinozamet at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.19"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 h5 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8. Bc4 Qh4 9. h3 Bc5 10. Qf3 Ne5 11. Qf4 Qxf4 12. Bxf4 Nxc4 13. Bxc7 Nxb2 14. Be5 Nc4 15. Bxg7 Rg8 16. Bf6 d5 17. exd5 Bxh3 18. Re1+ Kd7 19. dxc6+ Kxc6 20. g3 Rxg3+ 21. Kh2 Bxf2 22. Rf1 Bxf1 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.Walverine.com over a quarter million hits Youtube search Timmybx over 20 free Chess videos -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Oct 19 19:07:56 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:07:56 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Rigveda Message-ID: <1224464876.48fbd9ec43893@www.taom.com> I just played a 20 game match against Rivdega on www.Chesscube.com. Rigveda plays very tough, like an IM and/or computer. Some of his traits - 1- he knows many opening system well with a first preference for fianchettoing his KB like Dragons and KIDs. I was killing his King's Indian Defense so he switched. 2- seems to spot tactics instantly 3- plays very slowly but somehow always has time for checkmate 4- will not resign, must lose by his flag falling 5- very good at saving dead lost positions 6- usually moves slowly and carefully, seems to spot all blunders 7- also liked the Scotch game, the Moscow Gambit, the Schmidt Benoni I don't know who he is but he played very well and I had a real fight on my hands. The following game is unusual in that I played brilliant moves without calculating anything. Normally I miss something and talk my hand out of playing the right move. This time I trusted my instincts and just went with it. I don't know if Chesscube saves their games so this is the only score I have from the match. Right after a game Chesscube prompts you if you want to look at the PGN. The times are not recorded like ICC games. [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Black "rigveda at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.19"] [Result "1-0"] Site- www.ChessCube.com Opening- Moscow Gambit October 19, 2008 Game/5 minutes White- Brian Wall 2040 Black - Rigveda 2140 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 dxc4! 7. e4 g5 8. Bg3! b5 I once beat Chessmaster Josh Bloomer in a wild mutual blindfold game - I was White in a Moscow Gambit and we were training for Melody Amber. 9. a4 played 15 times by other subhumans -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 Ne5 played 6 times by Jobava, thrice by Bellon, twice by Sasikiran and 30 times by others Jobava is the guy that played a complicated 34 move White Caro-Kann victory over Bareev and it was all his computer analysis. 9 Be2 played by Spassky ( twice ), Kramnik (7), Kasimdzhanov (1), Tiger Hillarp-Persson, Shirov, Topalov (7), Radjabov (8), Irina Krush (5), Wang Hao, Grishchuk (5), Khalifman (5 ) and others 943 times including a Kasparov-Tal game. 9 Qc2 played by John Watson, Petrosian, Spassky and 45 others 9 a3 played by Dzindizchashvili and 30 others 9 h3 played once by Stephan Dolle 9 e5 played 144 times by Topalov, Harvard Square buddy Jorge Zamora, Radjabov, Tiger Hillarp Persson and others 9 Be5 played 14 times 9 Qe2 or Rb1 never tried 9 h4 played 64 by Ivan Sokolov and others 9 B:b8 played 4 times 9 d5 played once A very popular lines at all levels with much disagreement how to proceed ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 ... Bb4! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Played 11 times 9 ... b4 played 7 times 9 ... Bb7 never played 9 ... a6 played twice including a 2006 Ivanchuk-Topalov game --------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. Qc2! Played 9 times --------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 ... Bb7! Played 5 times -------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 ... Ba5 never played 10 ... Nh5 played once 10 ... 0-0 never played 10 ... a5 never played 10 ... a6 never played 10 ... g4 played once 10 ... Qa5 played once --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11. Be2 played twice 11 Rd1!! played thrice -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 ... a6 TN Theoretical Novelty by Rigveda 11 ... g4! played once 11 ... Nh5, 0-0 or .. c5 never played --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12. O-O reached twice before by transposition 12 Rd1! played once -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 ... Nbd7 reached half a dozen times by transposition 12 ... g4! never tried ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13. Rad1 played twice ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 Ne5! played once 13 Rfd1! played thrice 13 h3! played once 13 Rfb1 never played 14 e5 played 4 times White has a small edge after all these moves -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 ... Qa5 TN Theoretical Novelty by Rigveda --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Bordi played 13 ... 0-0 14 Rfe1 Qb6 here. Meri Grigorian-Lyell played 13 ... Nb6 14 h4 Nh5 Meri Grigorian was born in Armenia, then married a Scottish Chessmaster names Mark Lyell, then moved to England, is now playing in China in the Women's Braingames and will represent England in the upcoming Olympiad. Meri occasionally does photo essays for Chessbase and she owns How To Play Chess Like An Animal. When Meri isn't playing or traveling, she teaches children. Fritz 9 likes 13 ... Nh5!, ... Qe7, ... B:c3, ... Qa5 ( Rivdega - today ), ... Be7, ... 0-0 ( Kevin Bordi 1998 ), ... Nb6 ( Meri 2007), We are finally on our own. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14. axb5?? Releasing the tension - bad- I thought there was a B:c3 and ... Q:a4 threat but that just hangs the c4-pawn 14 Ne5!!, Nd2! or e5 are best ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 ... cxb5? Capturing towards the center with 14 ... ab! is pretty basic but Rigveda wants to resurrect his buried bishop -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15. d5!? The whole Moscow Gambit seems completely irrational to me so I go pyscho. 15 Nd2, e5, Ra1 or Ne5 are better I am trying to smash open lines against his centralized King ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 ... Nc5?? Soltis says Bishop takes Knight is common in the opening because the Knight can control key central squares very quickly. 15 ... B:c3!! 16 bc ed!! 17 ed 0-0!! is the only refutation of my plan if 15 ...ed? 16 N:d5! my knight escapes the b4-bishop like a good Goring Gambit ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16. Be5!! Oops 16 ... Ncd7! Forced loss of two tempi 17. Bxf6?? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 Bd4!! preserving my Killer Bee is best. 17 de! is good too ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 ... Nxf6! 18. dxe6 18 Ne5 is a teensy bit better but Rigveda is ahead now. Time for Mjolnir, the Hammer of Thor -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 ... Bxc3!! 19. exf7+!! Kxf7!! 20. bxc3!! Bxe4!! 21. Ne5+!! This is the part of the game that impresses me - somehow, without seeing clearly into the future, I just kept making great moves until Rivdega resigns. 21 ... Kg7? 21 ... Kg8! 22 Qd2! or 21 ... Kf8 22 Qc1 heading for e3 are microscopically better for Rigveda 22. Rd7+!! How did I know this would work? 22 ... Nxd7?? 22 ... Kg8! 23 Qd2! or Qd1 are a little better for me. We are both dancing on the edge of the volcano but Rigveda just fell in. 23. Qxe4! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Suddenly everything is working for me- Rigveda's King and knight are vulnerable, all his majors are out of play and I am threatening 24 Qg6+ too. If 23 Q:e4 N:e5 24 Q:e5+ I weave into his King with Queen checks followed by Bh5 for example 23 Q:e4 N:e5 24 Q:e5+ Kh7 25 Qe7+ Kg8 26 Qe6+ Kg7 27 Qd7+ Kg8 28 Bh5 with no defense or 23 Q:e4 N:e5 24 Q:e5+ Kh7 25 Qe7+ Kg8 26 Qe6+ Kg7 27 Qd7+ Kg6 28 Bh5+!! K:h5 29 Qf7+ Kh4 30 g3+ Kg4 31 Kg2!! followed by a humiliating pawn checkmate if 23 Qe4! Qb6! 24 N:d7!!! taking the free knight or 24 Rd1!! are both strong Rigveda will do anything to avoid losing so he just sat there stunned. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23 ... Nf8? 24. Qb7+!! I could just take the rook but I sensed a mate 24 ... Kf6! 25. Qf7+!!!! Instead of taking a rook I throw away a knight 25 f4!!!!, Ng4+!!! or Bh5!! also mate. 25 ... Kxe5! 26. f4+! 1-0 I felt that connecting my Queen and rook with 26 f4+!! should mate and I was right. 26 f4+ gf 27 Q:f4+ Kd5 28 Bf3+ Ke6 29 Re1+ Kd7 30 Qf7+ Kc8 31 Re8+ Qd8 32 Qb7 checkmate or 26 f4+ Kd6 27 Rd1+ Kc6 28 Bf3+ Kc5 29 Qd5+ Kb6 30 Qc6+ Ka7 31 Qb7 checkmate --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Black "rigveda at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.19"] [Result "1-0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 dxc4 7. e4 g5 8. Bg3 b5 9. a4 Bb4 10. Qc2 Bb7 11. Be2 a6 12. O-O Nbd7 13. Rad1 Qa5 14. axb5 cxb5 15. d5 Nc5 16. Be5 Ncd7 17. Bxf6 Nxf6 18. dxe6 Bxc3 19. exf7+ Kxf7 20. bxc3 Bxe4 21. Ne5+ Kg7 22. Rd7+ Nxd7 23. Qxe4 Nf8 24. Qb7+ Kf6 25. Qf7+ Kxe5 26. f4+ 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "FRA-chT U18 9899"] [Site "France"] [Date "1998.??.??"] [Round "1"] [White "Deumier,Maxime"] [Black "Bordi,Kevin"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "D43"] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 9.a4 Bb4 10.Qc2 Bb7 11.Rd1 Nbd7 12.Be2 a6 13.0-0 0-0 14.Rfe1 Qb6 15.Ne5 Rfd8 16.h4 Nxe5 17.dxe5 Nh7 18.Bg4 Rxd1 19.Rxd1 Rd8 20.axb5 cxb5 21.Ne2 Bc5 22.Kf1 Bxe4 23.Qc1 Bd3 24.hxg5 hxg5 25.Qd2 a5 26.Kg1 b4 27.Rc1 Bf5 28.Qe1 Bxg4 29.Rxc4 Bxe2 30.Qxe2 Rd4 31.Rc1 a4 32.Qc2 a3 33.bxa3 bxa3 34.Ra1 Qb2 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "BCF-chT 0708 (4NCL)"] [Site "Sunningdale"] [Date "2007.09.15"] [Round "6"] [White "Duncan,Christopher R"] [Black "Lyell,Meri"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "D31"] 1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 d5 3.d4 c6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.e4 b5 6.a4 Bb4 7.Be2 Nf6 8.Qc2 Bb7 9.0-0 a6 10.Bg5 h6 11.Bh4 g5 12.Bg3 Nbd7 13.Rad1 Nb6 14.h4 Nh5 15.Ne5 Ng7 16.b3 cxb3 17.Qxb3 Bxc3 18.Qxc3 Nxa4 19.Qc2 gxh4 20.Bh2 Rc8 21.Nc4 0-0 22.Nd6 Rc7 23.Qd2 Qf6 24.Bd3 Qg5 25.f4 Qg4 26.Be2 Qg6 27.f5 exf5 28.exf5 Qg5 29.Bf4 Qe7 30.Bd3 Bc8 31.Rde1 Qd8 32.Be5 1-0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "World Championship"] [Site "Mexico City"] [Date "2007.09.13"] [Round "10"] [White "Kramnik,Vladimir"] [Black "Anand,Viswanathan"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "D43"] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 9.Be2 Bb7 10.0-0 Nbd7 11.Ne5 Bg7 12.Nxd7 Nxd7 13.Bd6 a6 14.Bh5 Bf8 15.Bxf8 Rxf8 16.e5 Qb6 17.b3 0-0-0 18.bxc4 Nxe5 19.c5 Qa5 20.Ne4 Qb4 21.Nd6+ Rxd6 22.cxd6 Nd7 23.a4 Qxd6 24.Bf3 Nb6 25.axb5 cxb5 26.Bxb7+ Kxb7 27.Qh5 Nd5 28.Qxh6 Nf4 29.Kh1 Qd5 30.f3 Rd8 31.Qg7 Rd7 32.Qf8 Ne2 33.Rfe1 Nxd4 34.Red1 e5 35.Rac1 Qd6 36.Qg8 f6 37.Rc8 a5 38.h3 a4 39.Qe8 Kb6 40.Rb8+ Ka5 41.Ra8+ 1/2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Wch Blitz"] [Site "Moscow"] [Date "2007.11.21"] [Round "7"] [White "Kramnik,Vladimir"] [Black "Shirov,Alexei"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "D43"] 1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 h6 5.Bg5 c6 6.Bh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 9.Be2 Bb7 10.0-0 Nbd7 11.Ne5 Bg7 12.Nxd7 Nxd7 13.Bd6 a6 14.a4 e5 15.Re1 Qf6 16.Ba3 Bf8 17.Bg4 Rd8 18.Nd5 1/2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Moscow Interzonal"] [Site "Moscow"] [Date "1982.09.??"] [Round "5"] [White "Kasparov,Garry"] [Black "Tal,Mihail"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "D43"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 c6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 9.Be2 Bb7 10.e5 Nd5 11.h4 Qa5 12.Rc1 g4 13.Nd2 c5 14.Nce4 cxd4 15.0-0 h5 16.a4 a6 17.b4 Qd8 18.Bxc4 bxc4 19.Nxc4 Nc3 20.Nxc3 dxc3 21.Nd6+ Bxd6 22.exd6 Qf6 23.Qd3 0-0 24.Rxc3 Bd5 1/2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "RUS-ch 57th"] [Site "Moscow"] [Date "2004.11.15"] [Round "6"] [White "Kasparov,Garry"] [Black "Dreev,Alexey"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "D43"] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 9.Be2 Bb7 10.h4 g4 11.Ne5 h5 12.f3 Nbd7 13.fxg4 hxg4 14.0-0 Nxe5 15.Bxe5 Nd7 16.Bxh8 Qxh4 17.Bxg4 Qxh8 18.e5 Nxe5 19.dxe5 Bc5+ 20.Rf2 Qxe5 21.Qe2 Qxe2 22.Bxe2 Rd8 23.Kf1 Bxf2 24.Kxf2 Ke7 25.Ke3 a6 26.Rd1 Rxd1 27.Bxd1 f5 28.g4 fxg4 29.Bxg4 Kd6 30.Ne4+ Kd5 31.Bf3 Bc8 32.Bh5 a5 33.Bf3 e5 34.Ng5+ Kc5 35.Ne4+ Kd5 36.a3 Ba6 37.Bh5 Bc8 38.Bf3 Ba6 39.Ng5+ Kc5 40.Be2 Bc8 41.Nf7 b4 42.Nxe5 Be6 43.a4 c3 44.Nd3+ Kb6 45.bxc3 Bb3 46.c4 Bxa4 47.Kd4 Bc2 48.c5+ Kc7 49.Bf3 Bb3 50.Be4 Ba4 51.Kc4 Bc2 52.Bf3 Ba4 53.Ne5 Kb7 54.Be4 Kc7 55.Nf3 Bd1 56.Nd4 Ba4 57.Bc2 Bxc2 58.Nxc2 Kd8 59.Nd4 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Corus"] [Site "Wijk aan Zee"] [Date "2008.01.12"] [Round "9"] [White "Topalov,Veselin"] [Black "Kramnik,Vladimir"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "D43"] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 9.Be2 Bb7 10.0-0 Nbd7 11.Ne5 Bg7 12.Nxf7 Kxf7 13.e5 Nd5 14.Ne4 Ke7 15.Nd6 Qb6 16.Bg4 Raf8 17.Qc2 Qxd4 18.Qg6 Qxg4 19.Qxg7+ Kd8 20.Nxb7+ Kc8 21.a4 b4 22.Rac1 c3 23.bxc3 b3 24.c4 Rfg8 25.Nd6+ Kc7 26.Qf7 Rf8 27.cxd5 Rxf7 28.Rxc6+ Kb8 29.Nxf7 Re8 30.Nd6 Rh8 31.Rc4 Qe2 32.dxe6 Nb6 33.Rb4 Ka8 34.e7 Nd5 35.Rxb3 Nxe7 36.Rfb1 Nd5 37.h3 h5 38.Nf7 Rc8 39.e6 a6 40.Nxg5 h4 41.Bd6 Rg8 42.R3b2 Qd3 43.e7 Nf6 44.Be5 Nd7 45.Ne6 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Montreal-B 5th"] [Site "Montreal"] [Date "2004.08.04"] [Round "2"] [White "Krush,Irina"] [Black "Stripunsky,Alexander"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "D43"] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 9.Be2 Bb7 10.h4 g4 11.Ne5 Rg8 12.Nxg4 Nxg4 13.Bxg4 Nd7 14.Bf3 Qb6 15.Qd2 Rd8 16.0-0-0 b4 17.Na4 Qa5 18.d5 Nc5 19.Nxc5 Bxc5 20.Kb1 cxd5 21.exd5 Bxd5 22.Bxd5 Rxd5 23.Qf4 b3 24.axb3 cxb3 25.Qb8+ Ke7 26.Qb7+ Kf6 27.Qxb3 Rgd8 28.h5 Kg7 29.Bf4 Bxf2 30.Rdf1 Rb5 31.Bc7 Rxb3 32.Bxa5 Bb6 33.Bc3+ Bd4 34.Rd1 Bxc3 35.Rxd8 Rxb2+ 36.Kc1 Rxg2 37.Rd7 a5 38.Ra7 Rf2 39.Rg1+ Kf6 40.Rd1 Rf5 41.Rdd7 Kg7 42.Kc2 Be1 43.Kb3 Rf3+ 44.Kc4 Rf4+ 45.Kb3 Bb4 46.Kc2 Rf3 47.Rdc7 e5 48.Rc6 e4 49.Re6 e3 50.Kd3 Bc5 51.Rc7 Rf5 52.Rg6+ Kf8 53.Rxh6 Rd5+ 54.Kc4 Re5 55.Rh7 e2 56.h6 Ke8 57.Rh8+ Bf8 58.h7 Kd8 59.Rxf8+ Kxc7 60.Rxf7+ Kb6 61.h8=Q Re4+ 62.Kd5 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "La Roche sur Yon 2nd"] [Site "La Roche sur Yon"] [Date "2007.02.26"] [Round "6"] [White "Krush,Irina"] [Black "Stefanova,Antoaneta"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "D43"] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 9.Be2 Bb7 10.h4 g4 11.Ne5 Nbd7 12.Nxd7 Qxd7 13.Be5 Qe7 14.b3 Rg8 15.bxc4 b4 16.Na4 Nxe4 17.Bxg4 c5 18.Bf3 0-0-0 19.Qe2 f5 20.Bxe4 Bxe4 21.f3 Qd7 22.fxe4 Qxa4 23.0-0 cxd4 24.exf5 Qc6 25.fxe6 d3 26.Qf3 Qc5+ 27.Kh1 Qxe5 28.Qa8+ Qb8 29.Qc6+ Qc7 30.Qa8+ 1/2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "USA-ch"] [Site "Stillwater"] [Date "2007.05.15"] [Round "3"] [White "Krush,Irina"] [Black "Mulyar,Michael A"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "D43"] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 9.Be2 Bb7 10.Ne5 Nbd7 11.Qc2 Bg7 12.Rd1 Qb6 13.h4 g4 14.0-0 Nxe5 15.Bxe5 0-0 16.Qc1 c5 17.Qf4 Ne8 18.Qxg4 Kh7 19.Bxg7 Nxg7 20.d5 Rad8 21.h5 b4 22.Na4 Qa5 23.dxe6 Rxd1 24.Rxd1 Qxa4 25.exf7 Qa6 26.Bxc4 Qf6 27.e5 Qg5 28.Qxg5 hxg5 29.e6 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "EU-Cup 19th"] [Site "Rethymnon"] [Date "2003.09.28"] [Round "7"] [White "Jobava,Baadur"] [Black "Bareev,Evgeny"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B19"] 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.h4 h6 7.Nf3 Nd7 8.h5 Bh7 9.Bd3 Bxd3 10.Qxd3 Ngf6 11.Bd2 e6 12.0-0-0 Be7 13.Qe2 0-0 14.Kb1 c5 15.d5 exd5 16.Bxh6 gxh6 17.Nf5 Re8 18.Nxh6+ Kf8 19.Ng5 Qb6 20.Qf3 Ne5 21.Qg3 Bd6 22.Nf5 Qxb2+ 23.Kxb2 Nc4+ 24.Kb3 Bxg3 25.h6 Na5+ 26.Ka4 b5+ 27.Kxa5 Bc7+ 28.Kxb5 Rab8+ 29.Ka4 Ne4 30.Rxd5 Nc3+ 31.Ka3 Nb5+ 32.Kb2 Nd4+ 33.Kc3 Nb5+ 34.Kd3 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Amber-blind 15th"] [Site "Monte Carlo"] [Date "2006.03.18"] [Round "1"] [White "Ivanchuk,Vassily"] [Black "Topalov,Veselin"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "D15"] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 a6 5.a4 e6 6.Bg5 h6 7.Bh4 dxc4 8.e4 g5 9.Bg3 b5 10.axb5 cxb5 11.Nxb5 axb5 12.Rxa8 Bb4+ 13.Ke2 Nc6 14.Ne5 Na5 15.Rb8 Nxe4 16.f3 Nd6 17.h4 f6 18.hxg5 Nf5 19.Be1 Bxe1 20.Qxe1 fxe5 21.Rxc8 Qxc8 22.Qxa5 0-0 23.Rxh6 Qd7 24.Rh3 exd4 25.Kd2 Ne3 26.Be2 Nxg2 27.Qa3 Qg7 28.Rg3 Nf4 29.Bd1 c3+ 30.Kc1 b4 31.Qa5 d3 32.Qxb4 c2 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Oct 19 21:57:10 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:57:10 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Dicy Bishing Pole at www.Chesscube.com Message-ID: <1224475030.48fc019619192@www.taom.com> I am Black against a 1700 Chesscuber [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "alyeneth at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.19"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 Nf6 4. Bd3 Renae? 4 ... Bc5 5. O-O d6 6. a4 a5 7. Bc2 Bg4 8. h3 h5!? Bishing Pole 9. Na3 Qd7!! Maybe I can ... B:h3 him 10. hxg4?? hxg4!! Unleashing the Gates of Hell- Vance Aandahl 11. Ng5 Rh5? A little slow, but the Bishing Pole gods have never demanded prefection from Black to win 11 ... g3!! is crushing or 11 ... 0-0-0! is good. My idea was mate on the h-file 12. d4!! exd4!! 13. Bb3!! Where does he get those wonderful toys? - The Joker 13 ... dxc3? Another over-aggressive blunder- 13 ... 0-0-0!! 14 B:f7! R:g5!! or 13 ... 0-0-0!! 14 N:f7? Rf8!! are fine for me 14. Bxf7+! Ke7! 15. Bxh5! Nxh5! 16. Re1? cxb2!! I should be dead - time for Ninja sand in eyes trick 17. Bxb2! Rf8!! I couldn't handle 17 ... g3 18 Q:h5 so I waited 18. Re2??? Nf4?? Ping pong. I missed 18 ... Ng3!! 19 Rd2? Rh8 mating or 18 ... g3! is strong because Q:h5 is off the table My hand wanted to play ... Ng3 but I stopped him. 19. Rd2 g3!! 20. e5?? More ping ping 20 ... gxf2+!! 21. Kf1? Qf5?? The difference between third best ( my move ) and best ( 21 ... Rh8!!!! ) is 8 points Even 21 ... N:e5? 22 B:e5 Rh8!!!! wins I missed the ... Rh8 idea thrice this game 22. exd6+! cxd6! 23. Nf3?? It's hard to find the only good move, 23 Qb3!!= counterattacking, anything else loses immediately 23 ... Nxg2 Destroying the last bodyguard - My move clearly wins but I have 5 supercrushers - 23 ... Qh5!!, ... Qh7!!, ... Qg4!!, ... Rh8!! and ... Qg6!! 24. Rxf2 Dropping the Queen but ... Ne3+ or ... Qh3 were going to be strong whatever he did 24 ... Ne3+! 25. Ke2 Nxd1! 26. Rxd1 Bxf2! 27. Nh2 Qh5+ Picking up the free knight - 27 ... Qe4+!!!!, ... Nb4!!!, ... Qe6+!!, ... Ne5!! or ... Bg3! also mate 28. Kd2! Qxh2 28 ... Qd5+!! mates 29. Kc1 Bc5 29 ... Be3+!! mates 30. Nb5 Rf2 30 ... Be3+!!!, ... Nb4!!! or ... Qf4+!! also mate 31. Re1+!! Kd7!! 32. Bxg7 Ra2 32 ... Qf4+!!! mates one move faster but I don't mind picking up free material on the road to checkmate. 33. Kb1 Qc2# 0-1 Let's see what I could have done better - 11 ... g3!!, 13 ... 0-0-0!!, 18 ... Ng3!!, 21 ... Rh8!!, 23 ... Qh5!! are the main improvements. Got it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "alyeneth at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.19"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 Nf6 4. Bd3 Bc5 5. O-O d6 6. a4 a5 7. Bc2 Bg4 8. h3 h5 9. Na3 Qd7 10. hxg4 hxg4 11. Ng5 Rh5 12. d4 exd4 13. Bb3 dxc3 14. Bxf7+ Ke7 15. Bxh5 Nxh5 16. Re1 cxb2 17. Bxb2 Rf8 18. Re2 Nf4 19. Rd2 g3 20. e5 gxf2+ 21. Kf1 Qf5 22. exd6+ cxd6 23. Nf3 Nxg2 24. Rxf2 Ne3+ 25. Ke2 Nxd1 26. Rxd1 Bxf2 27. Nh2 Qh5+ 28. Kd2 Qxh2 29. Kc1 Bc5 30. Nb5 Rf2 31. Re1+ Kd7 32. Bxg7 Ra2 33. Kb1 Qc2# 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Oct 20 03:49:42 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:49:42 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Refining Kramnik - Anand with Aldrincaraig - Wall, www.Chesscube.com Message-ID: <1224496182.48fc543692541@www.taom.com> I analyzed Anand's Game 3 win over Kramnik myself but I didn't understand the idea - it looked like Anand's idea was a big bluff. I read other commentaries and ran into this comment by GM Ian Rogers at USChess.org, US Chess online http://main.uschess.org/content/view/8803/477/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- By GM Ian Rogers October 17, 2008 18.Bf4!! Another half an hour disappeared on this inspired move, leaving Kramnik an hour behind on the clock. All the online kibitzers were crying out for 18.Nd2, their computer masters missing at first that Black can reply 18 Ke7!! 19.Bxd7 (19.Qxg4 Qxb5 gives Black excellent light-squared play for the exchange.) 19...Rag8! and a sacrifice on g3 is coming, e.g. 20.Bb5 d3! 21.Qxd3 (21.Bxd3 Bxg3!) 21...Rxg3+ 22.hxg3 Rxg3+ 23.Kf1 Rxd3 24.Bxd3 Qd4 and Black?s queen runs rings around Black?s uncoordinated pieces. ?I couldn?t find any refutation of [Anand?s novelty] and the way I played looked entertaining,? Kramnik said. ?I liked my position.? 18...Bxf4 ?I spent a long time on 18...Rxf4 19.gxf4 Ke7 but after 20.Nh4 I think I am better,? Kramnik explained. By GM Ian Rogers October 17, 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I played about an even 20 game match with Aldrincaraig on Chesscube.com and then somehow we entered Ian Roger's note. I had played 3 or 4 Raccoons ( 1 e4 e5 2 f4 h5!! Jack Young ) but I like to mix it up, unorthodox openings one game, then cutting edge theory the next. In poker changing styles is critical, tight then bluffy, tight then bluffy so they never know what you're doing. [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "aldrincaraig at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.20"] [Result "0-1"] 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 d5 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3 a6 9. e4 c5 10. e5 cxd4 11. Nxb5 axb5 12. exf6 gxf6 13. O-O Qb6 14. Qe2 Bb7 This had been played 15 times before by non GMs but Kramnik said in the press conference - " It was an innovation as far as I was concerned. " 15. Bxb5 Bd6 16. Rd1 Rg8 17. g3 Rg4 18. Nd2 Kramnik lost with the "entertaining" 18 Bf4?? but every computer screamed for 18 Nd2!!, the shot heard 'round the world 18 ... Ke7!! 19. Bxd7 Rag8!! 20. Bb5! Fritz 9 is still happy 20 ... d3!! 21. Qxd3! Forced 21 ... Rxg3+! 22. hxg3! Rxg3+! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aldrincaraig must have been following Kramnik-Anand too and been wondering the same thing I was - Couldn't Kramnik have won with 18 Nd2 like our computers told us? So far everything has gone the way Ian Rogers said. This was just a 5 minute blitz game. 18 Nd2 Ke7 19 Q:g4 Q:b5 with an unopposed monster light-squared bishop as compensation for the exchange plus White/Kramnik/Aldrincaraig are undeveloped and the f3-square has already been weakened by 17 g3. 18 Nd2 Ke7 19 a4 is another move Fritz 9 likes at first for White/Kramnik/Aldrincaraig but then 19 ... Ne5!! seems OK because 20 f4?? d3+! 21 Qf2 Bc5! backfires for White so 18 Nd2 Ke7 19 a4 Ne5!! 20 Nc4 N:c4 21 Q:g4? Ne5!! again 22 Qe2! Nf3+! or even stronger 22 ... Qc5-d5!! is an example of what Kasparov was referring to as Kramnik's nightmare. So now try 18 Nd2 Ke7 19 a4 Ne5!! 20 Nc4 N:c4 21 Q:c4 giving up the idea of winning the exchange - Material is even and I have no idea how to play this position but I assume Team Anand had all that worked out. 18 Nd2 Ke7!! 19 B:d7 is what Fritz 9 thinks is best, at least in the beginning. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23. Kf1! forced because 23 Q:g3? B:g3! leaves f2 and b5 hanging - 23 Q:g3 B:g3 24 Ne4! B:e4 25 Rd7+ Kf8 26 Bh6+ Kg8 27 Rd2 with Queen and pawn versus two rooks and Anand probably had this worked out to a win somehow with maybe 27 ... Qc7, ... B:f2+, ... Qb8, ... Bc7 or ... f5 - Vishy had months to tweak this. 23 ... Bg2+ TN Wall Theoretical Novelty by Brian Wall I couldn't tell if Aldrincaraig's King was more vulnerable on f1 or e2 - GM Ian Rogers gave 23 ... R:d3 24 B:d3 Qd4 "and Black?s queen runs rings around Black?s uncoordinated pieces." but Fritz 9 just gives perpetuals after 25 Nc4 Bb4 26 a3 Bg2+ 27 K:g2 Qg4+ 28 Kh2 Q:d1 ( turning down the perp ) 29 ab Q:d3 30 Ra7+ and this looks too unclear for me or 25 Nb3 Qd5 26 Be3=, Ke2=, Ke1= or 25 Ke2 and like all these lines, I see no clear win or draw I don't like my innovation much, probably just 23 ... R:d3! is better. I think I improved his King position and unimproved my bishop position. 24. Ke2! Rxd3! 25. Bxd3! f5? I should play 25 ... Qc5! or ... Qa5! in order to play ... Qh5+-h2 to support my wayward son on g2 26. Rg1!! Driving me out - Aldrincaraig played slowly and carefully, losing many games on time. 26 ... Qb7? Getting myself in more trouble, I should just leave 27. f3!! Bh3! I have really messed this up compared to Roger's 23 ... R:d3! 24 B:d3 Qd4! 28. Rh1 28 Nc4!! is stronger, essentially a piece up 28 ... Bg4 Aldrincaraig is almost out of time so I have no interest in repeating with 28 ... Bg2! 29 Rg1 and 28 ... B:g2! 29 R:h7! probably wins for White anyway 29. Rxh7!! e5 30. Nc4?? Nothing wrong with 30 fg!! except White has no time left 30 ... Qxf3+!! mating 31. Kd2? e4 31 ... Bb4+!! 32 Kc2 Qd1+! 33 Kb1 Q:d3!++ checkmate 32. Kc3! Qxd3# 0-1 Oh, I get to checkmate anyway. I didn't play too well but I won and I learned a lot about Anand's prep. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "aldrincaraig at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.20"] [Result "0-1"] 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 d5 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3 a6 9. e4 c5 10. e5 cxd4 11. Nxb5 axb5 12. exf6 gxf6 13. O-O Qb6 14. Qe2 Bb7 15. Bxb5 Bd6 16. Rd1 Rg8 17. g3 Rg4 18. Nd2 Ke7 19. Bxd7 Rag8 20. Bb5 d3 21. Qxd3 Rxg3+ 22. hxg3 Rxg3+ 23. Kf1 Bg2+ 24. Ke2 Rxd3 25. Bxd3 f5 26. Rg1 Qb7 27. f3 Bh3 28. Rh1 Bg4 29. Rxh7 e5 30. Nc4 Qxf3+ 31. Kd2 e4 32. Kc3 Qxd3# 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- My original comments - Blunderfest [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.17"] [Round "-"] [White "*GM_Kramnik"] [Black "*GM_Anand"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2772"] [BlackElo "2783"] [Opening "QGD semi-Slav: Meran, Blumenfeld variation"] [ECO "D49"] [NIC "SL.09"] [Time "13:01:34"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6! 5. e3! Nbd7! 6. Bd3! dxc4! 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3! a6 9. e4 c5! 10. e5 cxd4! 11. Nxb5 axb5! 12. exf6! I can't find the game but I think Wall-Griego 1993 went this way, a game that inspired a 4 month search into opposite-colored bishop endgames and 50 page articles for Chess Horizons ( Mass) and the Colorado Informant. 12 ... gxf6 13. O-O! Qb6! 14. Qe2! Bb7 Played 15 times dating back to 1946. Kramink stopped blitzing and took his first 10 minute think. He is on his own and Anand is loaded for bear. 15. Bxb5! Bd6 Played twice 15 ... Rg8! never played 15 ... Bc5 played once 15 ... Rd8? played three times 16. Rd1!! Played once before 22 minutes for Kramnik 16 a4!! never played 16 b4! never played 16 N:d4! played once 16 ... Rg8! Played once before 6 minutes for Anand 16 ... 0-0-0 is interesting 17. g3! Played once before. 12 minutes for Kramnik 17 a4! is good too 17 ... Rg4 TN 8 seconds for Anand Theoretical Novelty by Anand, although Dennis Monokroussos says Seirawan suggested it a long time ago. Only 17 ... Bc5? has been played. 18. Bf4?? 24 minutes equal now - better moves - 18 Nd2!!!, a4!, b4!, Rb1, Ne1, b3, a3, Nh4, Bd2, Bh6, Rd2, Qd3, g3 Anand must have researched these deeply so the real truth will be revealed later. By then, Vishy will be playing something else. 18 .... Bxf4! 4 minutes - Anand - 1:06:11 Kramnik - 46.10 19. Nxd4 19 R:d4 0-0-0 20 Rad1 Bd5 21 Bc4 Bc6 22 R:f4 R:f4 23 gf looks about even 19 ... h5!! Half an hour- Anand's on his own at last. 19 ... Rg8! or ... Rg6! are good too it looks like a Rooking Pole now 20. Nxe6!! 1 minute, pre-planned 20 ... fxe6! 21. Rxd7!! 7 seconds 21 ... Kf8! 22. Qd3!! Rg7! 23. Rxg7! Kxg7! 24. gxf4! Rd8! 25. Qe2! Kh6!! 31 minutes left each 26. Kf1! Rg8! 26 minutes left each 27. a4 Kramnik is up two pawns but all his pieces and pawns look stupid and his King is running for his life. 27 ... Bg2+! 28. Ke1! Bh3!! 29. Ra3? 17 minutes left for Kramnik now. 29 Rd1 or Kd2 are better tries 29 ... Rg1+!! 30. Kd2! Qd4+!! 17 minutes left for Kramnik, 9 for Anand 31. Kc2! Bg4 31 ... Bf5!! is even stronger so the ICC crowd was claiming Anand's move was a mouseslip. 32. f3 Giving up the exchange with 32 Rd3! may have been better or may have lost anyway, I am not sure 32 ... Bf5+!! 33. Bd3? 4 minutes spent I don't know if we were right but everyone with a computer on that liked Kramnik was begging for - 33 Kb3 Rc1 34 a5 Rc2 35 Q:c2+ B:c2+ 36 K:c2 Qc5+ 37 Kb1 Q:b5 38 a6 Qd5 39 a7 Qa8 40 b4 and I think this is drawn. However maybe Anand can improve with 33 Kb3 Rc1 34 a5 Qd5+ 35 Bc5 Qb7+ continuing the attack two pawns down. Kramnik had too many lines to work out and they all looked bad. 33 ... Bh3? Anand has less than 5 minutes and misses an immediate mate with 33 ... B:d3+!! 34 R:d3 Qc4+ 35 Rc3 Q:e2+ 36 Kb3 Rb1 37 Rc2 Qd3+ 38 Rc3 Qd5+ 39 Ka3 Qd2 40 Rc2 Q:c2 41 Kb4 R:b2+ 42 Ka5 Qc6 43 h4 Qb6 checkmate Anand wins anyway because 33 ... Bh3 34 any Rg2! is impossible to deal with 34. a5 Rg2!! 35. a6 Rxe2+! 36. Bxe2! Bf5+! 37. Kb3 Qe3+! 38. Ka2 Qxe2! 39. a7! Qc4+!! 40. Ka1! Qf1+ 41. Ka2! Bb1+ {Black wins} 0-1 Kramnik fell into a deep labyrinthe. 18 Nd2! h5 or .. f5 19 Nc4 Qc7 is probably a better line for White but the game as played was miserable for Vlad. His chances are better than McCain's so I hope he keeps fighting. My original comments - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.17"] [Round "-"] [White "*GM_Kramnik"] [Black "*GM_Anand"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2772"] [BlackElo "2783"] [Opening "QGD semi-Slav: Meran, Blumenfeld variation"] [ECO "D49"] [NIC "SL.09"] [Time "13:01:34"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3 a6 9. e4 c5 10. e5 cxd4 11. Nxb5 axb5 12. exf6 gxf6 13. O-O Qb6 14. Qe2 Bb7 15. Bxb5 Bd6 16. Rd1 Rg8 17. g3 Rg4 18. Bf4 Bxf4 19. Nxd4 h5 20. Nxe6 fxe6 21. Rxd7 Kf8 22. Qd3 Rg7 23. Rxg7 Kxg7 24. gxf4 Rd8 25. Qe2 Kh6 26. Kf1 Rg8 27. a4 Bg2+ 28. Ke1 Bh3 29. Ra3 Rg1+ 30. Kd2 Qd4+ 31. Kc2 Bg4 32. f3 Bf5+ 33. Bd3 Bh3 34. a5 Rg2 35. a6 Rxe2+ 36. Bxe2 Bf5+ 37. Kb3 Qe3+ 38. Ka2 Qxe2 39. a7 Qc4+ 40. Ka1 Qf1+ 41. Ka2 Bb1+ {Black wins} 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.Walverine.com 180 free Chess emails, over a quarter million hits youtube search TimmyBx over 20 free fun Chess videos -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Oct 20 15:01:39 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:01:39 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Anand wins with Black again! Game 5 Message-ID: <1224536499.48fcf1b3041d1@www.taom.com> In 1985 Kasparov shocked Karpov with 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nb5 d6 6.c4 Nf6 7.N1c3 a6 8.Na3 d5!? Karpov reacted cautiously and drew. The next match game Karpov had White he tried to refute it and Kasparov played one of his greatest games ever, the Octopus game with a dominating knight on d3. Anand outdid Kasparov. In game 3 he surprised Kramnik with 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3 a6 9. e4 c5 10. e5 cxd4 11. Nxb5 axb5 12. exf6 gxf6 13. O-O Qb6 14. Qe2 Bb7 15. Bxb5 Bd6 16 Rd1 Rg8 17 g3 Rg4 and won and the next time Kramnik has White, he tried to refute it but Anand varied with 15 ... Rg8 instead of ... Bd6 and won again. The match is over. Anand can go half a year without losing, let alone 7 games. Plus wouldn't Anand have draw odds as the World Champion already? So Kramnik would need +3 in 7 games, ridiculous. Even Bobby in his prime couldn't do that against Anand. Maybe Rybka could, the relentless harpie. This time Fritz 9 was even more vocal in supporting Kramnik, giving him a huge lead all game until 29 N:d4?? missing a vicious trick 7 moves later. Time situation - Anand had 43 minutes, Kramnik spent 7 of his 23 minutes on the disastrous 29 N:d4?? [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.20"] [Round "5"] [White "*GM_Kramnik"] [Black "*GM_Anand"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2772"] [BlackElo "2783"] [Opening "QGD semi-Slav: Meran, Blumenfeld variation"] [ECO "D49"] [NIC "SL.09"] [Time "12:04:21"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6! 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4! b5 8. Bd3! a6 9. e4 c5! 10. e5 cxd4! 11. Nxb5 axb5! 12. exf6! gxf6 13. O-O! Qb6! 14. Qe2! Bb7 15. Bxb5! Rg8!! TN Theoretical Novelty by Anand but similar to Game 3 These moves were whipped out almost instantly by both players. 16. Bf4! +.64 Kramnik 16 ... Bd6! 16 ... Bd6, ... e5, .. Be7, .. Bc6, ... Bd5 all seem to give Kramnik an edge he keeps for a dozen moves. 17. Bg3!! Kramnik's on his own again, thnking for 14 minutes. Anand is moving instantaneously like a blitz game. 17 ... f5 Does a 4 minute think count? Fritz doesn't like this move much. Kramnik hopes to contain Anand's counterplay long enough to pawn roll. It's tough to do the Queenside pawn wave as long as Vishy controls b4 and the b5-bishop is in the way. It's very interesting that the Indian Grandmaster doesn't mind his King in the center after B:d7+ and interesting that the Russian Grandmaster would rather have a bishop on h4 than trade it off. It's a mind boggling mess where being White or Black doesn't seem to mean very much. Botvinnik said something like - To create counterplay for Black is equivalwnt to negating the value of the first move. The problem is - Anand's pawn majority looks alive, ready to roll or at least create minor piece outposts. Kramnik's majority looks like a consolation prize. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *GM_Kramnik - *GM_Anand Analysis by Fritz 9: 1. ? (0.95): 18.a4 f4 19.Bh4 Bc6 20.Bg5 Bxb5 21.axb5 Qb7 22.Rfc1 2. ? (0.84): 18.Rfd1 Bxg3 19.hxg3 Bxf3 20.Qxf3 Rd8 21.a4 Kf8 22.Qh5 Rg6 3. ? (0.83): 18.Ne5 Bxe5 19.Qxe5 Rd8 20.a4 Ba6 21.Bxd7+ Rxd7 4. ? (0.75): 18.Kh1 f4 19.Bh4 Bc6 20.Bxc6 Qxc6 21.Qd3 e5 22.Qxh7 5. ? (0.71): 18.Bxd7+ Kxd7 19.Ne5+ Bxe5 20.Qxe5 Ke7 21.Qf4 d3 22.Qh6 Qxb2 6. ? (0.58): 18.Rfe1 f4 19.Bh4 Bc6 20.a4 e5 21.Qd3 Rg6 22.Bxc6 7. ? (0.50): 18.b3 f4 19.Bh4 Bc6 20.a4 Bxb5 21.axb5 Rxa1 22.Rxa1 Kf8 8. ? (0.46): 18.Bxd6 Qxd6 19.Rfd1 9. ? (0.46): 18.Rac1 f4 19.Bh4 10. ? (0.40): 18.Rfc1 f4 19.Bh4 Bd5 20.Rc2 Kf8 21.Bxd7 Qb7 22.Bg5 11. ? (0.28): 18.Qd3 0-0-0 19.b4 Bxg3 20.hxg3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18. Rfc1 44 minutes on this so-so move. Poor Kramnik, this match is just not playing into his strengths, simple technical positions. 18 ... f4! 10 minute think for Anand, 38 minute time advantage 19. Bh4! Be7 only 2 minutes spent by Anand. His old weakness of playing too fast may be rearing its ugly head. Seems strange to me to trade the offside bishop off - Fritz likes 19 ... Bd5 20. a4!! 6 minutes spent, down to 54 for Kramnik Fritz is giving Kramnik a +1.36 but it's not easy to march those pawns through rough terrian. Also Anand probably played at least 100 prematch blitz games in this situation if he trained like Karpov and Tal used to. 20 ... Bxh4! 17 minutes spent for Vishy, down to 83 21. Nxh4! Ke7 4 minutes spent by Anand, his designated perch. Fritz perfers the maenuver 22 ... Qd6-d5 lining up on the long diagonal 22 b4 +1.96 Kramnik 22. Ra3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vlad is determined to press his advantage, spending 19 minutes here. GMs Kramnik and Alexander Goldin have both talked about the difficulties of choosing between good lines. Here's an idea of what he had to sort through. He seems to have good chances to equalize the match. *GM_Kramnik - *GM_Anand Analysis by Fritz 9: 1. +- (1.96): 22.b4 Rg5 23.Bxd7 Kxd7 2. +- (1.87): 22.Bxd7 Kxd7 23.Qh5 Ke8 24.a5 Qd8 3. ? (1.21): 22.Kh1 Nf6 23.Qe5 Nd5 24.Nf3 Kf8 25.Nxd4 Ne7 26.f3 Rd8 27.Ne2 Ng6 4. ? (1.14): 22.Qh5 Nf6 23.Qe5 Nd5 24.Nf5+ Kf8 5. ? (1.09): 22.Ra3 Rg5 23.Qd2 Rag8 24.f3 Ne5 25.b4 6. ? (1.09): 22.Nf3 Nf6 23.b4 Kf8 24.a5 Qd6 25.a6 Bd5 7. ? (1.04): 22.Rd1 Nf6 23.b4 Kf8 24.Qe5 Nd5 25.Qxd4 Qxd4 26.Rxd4 Rg4 8. ? (1.04): 22.Kf1 Kf8 23.a5 Qd6 24.a6 Bd5 25.Qh5 Rg7 26.Qh6 9. ? (1.01): 22.Re1 Bc6 23.Bxc6 Qxc6 24.Qd3 Kf8 25.Qxd4 e5 26.Qd3 Kg7 27.a5 Kh8 10. ? (1.00): 22.Rab1 Ba6 23.Bxa6 Qxa6 24.Qd2 Qxa4 25.b3 Qb5 26.Qxd4 Kf8 11. ? (0.96): 22.g3 Ba6 23.Bxa6 Qxa6 24.Nf5+ Kf6 25.Qe4 fxg3 26.hxg3 Ne5 27.Nxd4 Nd3 12. ? (0.96): 22.Rc2 Nf6 23.Bc6 Bxc6 It's a little ominous that Vlad played both Bf4 and Ra3 in Game 5 when those moves cost him game 3. They were good moves in this game though. Sometimes it seems the longer Kramnik thinks the worse the move. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 ... Rac8 10 minutes for Anand, trying to preserve his match lead and time lead ( twice Kramnik's time ) 23. Rxc8! Rxc8! 24. Ra1!! 6 minutes spent, leaving half an hour for 16 moves. 4 Qd2 is OK too, hitting the f-pawn but Kramnik doesn't want to turn his Queen into a bank rank babysitter 24 ... Qc5 8 minutes spent. Fritz prefers 24 ... Bc6 but Anand wants to keep it as complex as possible hoping for a time pressure error. Several commentators exhorted Anand to " kick Kramnik while he's down" before the game. I wonder of Vlad ever regretted not giving Kasparov a rematch or whether Kasparov ever regretted not playing Shirov as promised. Like Anteas, Kramnik is stronger the closer the position is " to the ground". With this win I think Anand equalizes their classical score. If you think about World Championship matches there is usually one technician and one tactician, like Schlecter-Lasker, Capablanca-Alekhine, Botvinnik-Tal, Petrosian-Spassky, Karpov-Kasparov, Kramnik-Kasparov and either side can prevail. It seems unfair that Kramnik is losing but I give credit to Anand's match stratgey of "throwing sand in Kramnik's eyes " - Kasparov's comment after Match Game 3 25. Qg4!! +1.50 Kramnik So far Vladimir is doing great, keeping an edge. The problem is, like McCain, the situation is a mess and he is running out of time. 25 ... Qe5 Anand spent 11 minutes rejecting a Kramnik ending after 25 ... Qc1+ 26 R:c1 R:c1+ 27 Bf1 Ba6 28 h3 R:f1+ 29 Kh2 where VK would probably shine. 26. Nf3!! Kramnik is doing great with half an hour left, Anand has 50 minutes. 26 ... Qf6 played immediately Anand seems to be on the ropes, where's his counterplay coming from after 27 b4!! especially with his King in the center or 27 B:d7 K:d7 28 Rd1 or 27 a5 - it all just looks great for White. perhaps Anand was preparing his excuses for his loss at this point. 27. Re1 27 b4 +1.55 Kramnik 27 ... Rc5!! 28. b4 Rc3 Again Fritz 9 prefers trading with 28 ... Ne5 29 N:e5 R:e5 30 R:e5 Q:e5 31 Qh4+ Kf8 but again Anand gambles on keeping it as messy as possible with a 2 to 1 time advantage. 29. Nxd4???? Rerouting the knight to e4 with 29 Nd2 or 29 Nh4-f5+-d6-e4 keeps some advantage. Kramnik tries to cut the Gordian knot and ends up kicking the pail out and hanging himself with his tie. 29 ... Qxd4!! 3 minutes spent by Anand, winning, a nightmare for Kramnik 29 ... Q:d4 30 B:d7 K:d7 31 Rd1 fails to 31 ... Rd3 30. Rd1! 2 minutes spent, 16 minutes left 30 ... Nf6!! 31. Rxd4! Nxg4! 32. Rd7+! Kf6! Kramnik forgot what his mentor Botvinnik told him - always recheck every move of a long variation each time you move. Botvinnik almost never blundered. 33. Rxb7 Kramnik played quickly - I don't think he saw what was coming - 33 h3 Bc6 34 hg B:d7 35 B:d7 Rc4 curtains 33 ... Rc1+!! 34. Bf1! Ne3!!!! Like an assassin's bullet or Robin Hood's arrow, played instantly 35. fxe3! fxe3! {Black wins} 0-1 Anand will hoover everything after 36 Rc7 R:c7 37 g4 Rc1 38 Kg2 Rc2+ folllowed by ... Rf2 or .. e2 A tragedy for Kramink and 92% match victory for Anand. Kramink's only hope is that Anand keeps playing this line! Before the world embarrasses me with everything I missed, I wanted to have a shot at understanding the game myself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.20"] [Round "5"] [White "*GM_Kramnik"] [Black "*GM_Anand"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2772"] [BlackElo "2783"] [Opening "QGD semi-Slav: Meran, Blumenfeld variation"] [ECO "D49"] [NIC "SL.09"] [Time "12:04:21"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3 a6 9. e4 c5 10. e5 cxd4 11. Nxb5 axb5 12. exf6 gxf6 13. O-O Qb6 14. Qe2 Bb7 15. Bxb5 Rg8 16. Bf4 Bd6 17. Bg3 f5 18. Rfc1 f4 19. Bh4 Be7 20. a4 Bxh4 21. Nxh4 Ke7 22. Ra3 Rac8 23. Rxc8 Rxc8 24. Ra1 Qc5 25. Qg4 Qe5 26. Nf3 Qf6 27. Re1 Rc5 28. b4 Rc3 29. Nxd4 Qxd4 30. Rd1 Nf6 31. Rxd4 Nxg4 32. Rd7+ Kf6 33. Rxb7 Rc1+ 34. Bf1 Ne3 35. fxe3 fxe3 {Black wins} 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "World Championship 32th-KK2"] [Site "Moscow"] [Date "1985.09.03"] [Round "12"] [White "Karpov,Anatoly"] [Black "Kasparov,Garry"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "B44"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nb5 d6 6.c4 Nf6 7.N1c3 a6 8.Na3 d5 9.exd5 exd5 10.cxd5 Nb4 11.Bc4 Bg4 12.Be2 Bxe2 13.Qxe2+ Qe7 14.Be3 Nbxd5 15.Nc2 Nxe3 16.Nxe3 Qe6 17.0-0 Bc5 18.Rfe1 0-0 1/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "World Championship 32th-KK2"] [Site "Moscow"] [Date "1985.09.03"] [Round "16"] [White "Karpov,Anatoly"] [Black "Kasparov,Garry"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "B44"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nb5 d6 6.c4 Nf6 7.N1c3 a6 8.Na3 d5 9.cxd5 exd5 10.exd5 Nb4 11.Be2 Bc5 12.0-0 0-0 13.Bf3 Bf5 14.Bg5 Re8 15.Qd2 b5 16.Rad1 Nd3 17.Nab1 h6 18.Bh4 b4 19.Na4 Bd6 20.Bg3 Rc8 21.b3 g5 22.Bxd6 Qxd6 23.g3 Nd7 24.Bg2 Qf6 25.a3 a5 26.axb4 axb4 27.Qa2 Bg6 28.d6 g4 29.Qd2 Kg7 30.f3 Qxd6 31.fxg4 Qd4+ 32.Kh1 Nf6 33.Rf4 Ne4 34.Qxd3 Nf2+ 35.Rxf2 Bxd3 36.Rfd2 Qe3 37.Rxd3 Rc1 38.Nb2 Qf2 39.Nd2 Rxd1+ 40.Nxd1 Re1+ 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube. com"] [Round "?"] [White "aldrincaraig@ chesscube. com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube .com"] [Date "2008.10.20" ] [Result "0-1"] 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 d5 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3 a6 9. e4 c5 10. e5 cxd4 11. Nxb5 axb5 12. exf6 gxf6 13. O-O Qb6 14. Qe2 Bb7 15. Bxb5 Bd6 16. Rd1 Rg8 17. g3 Rg4 18. Nd2 Ke7 19. Bxd7 Rag8 20. Bb5 d3 21. Qxd3 Rxg3+ 22. hxg3 Rxg3+ 23. Kf1 Bg2+ 24. Ke2 Rxd3 25. Bxd3 f5 26. Rg1 Qb7 27. f3 Bh3 28. Rh1 Bg4 29. Rxh7 e5 30. Nc4 Qxf3+ 31. Kd2 e4 32. Kc3 Qxd3# 0-1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.17" ] [Round "3"] [White "*GM_Kramnik" ] [Black "*GM_Anand"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2772"] [BlackElo "2783"] [Opening "QGD semi-Slav: Meran, Blumenfeld variation"] [ECO "D49"] [NIC "SL.09"] [Time "13:01:34"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3 a6 9. e4 c5 10. e5 cxd4 11. Nxb5 axb5 12. exf6 gxf6 13. O-O Qb6 14. Qe2 Bb7 15. Bxb5 Bd6 16. Rd1 Rg8 17. g3 Rg4 18. Bf4 Bxf4 19. Nxd4 h5 20. Nxe6 fxe6 21. Rxd7 Kf8 22. Qd3 Rg7 23. Rxg7 Kxg7 24. gxf4 Rd8 25. Qe2 Kh6 26. Kf1 Rg8 27. a4 Bg2+ 28. Ke1 Bh3 29. Ra3 Rg1+ 30. Kd2 Qd4+ 31. Kc2 Bg4 32. f3 Bf5+ 33. Bd3 Bh3 34. a5 Rg2 35. a6 Rxe2+ 36. Bxe2 Bf5+ 37. Kb3 Qe3+ 38. Ka2 Qxe2 39. a7 Qc4+ 40. Ka1 Qf1+ 41. Ka2 Bb1+ {Black wins} 0-1 From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Oct 20 15:06:14 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:06:14 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] [chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Kramnik-Anand, game 5 with notes Message-ID: <1224536774.48fcf2c6cbc1c@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Email subscription to blog articles ----- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:22:15 -0400 From: Email subscription to blog articles Reply-To: historicchess at comcast.net, chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Subject: [chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Kramnik-Anand, game 5 with notes To: chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Posted by Dennis Monokroussos: Kramnik-Anand, game 5 with notes http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1224534128.shtml Earlier today, Anand won his second game to take a big 3.5-1.5 lead in his world championship match against Kramnik. It was another great game in the Meran Semi-Slav, but it came to a screeching halt when Kramnik fell for a very neat trap - but one within his pay grade to figure out and sidestep. Kramnik is now in biiiiig trouble, and if he loses tomorrow he can just about book a plane for Moscow (or Paris) for this weekend. If only for the sake of excitement, let's hope Kramnik overcomes his chess version of "[1]the yips". Meanwhile, [2]here's today's game, with my notes. (On a replayable board, with deeper commentary than in the [3]live blog post.) References 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yips 2. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/files/kramnik_anand_2008_5.htm 3. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1224509271.shtml _______________________________________________ chessmind mailing list chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chessmind From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Oct 20 15:06:47 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:06:47 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] [chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Game 5: Kramnik-Anand: Live blogging with regular updates Message-ID: <1224536807.48fcf2e7b4a6d@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Email subscription to blog articles ----- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:27:56 -0400 From: Email subscription to blog articles Reply-To: historicchess at comcast.net, chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Subject: [chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Game 5: Kramnik-Anand: Live blogging with regular updates To: chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Posted by Dennis Monokroussos: Game 5: Kramnik-Anand: Live blogging with regular updates http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1224509271.shtml It's speed chess so far - in the first five minutes, the players repeated the first 15 moves from game 3. Or rather, the first 14 and a half moves: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 a6 9.e4 c5 10.e5 cxd4 11.Nxb5 axb5 12.exf6 gxf6 13.O-O Qb6 14.Qe2 Bb7 15.Bxb5. Last time Anand played 15...Bd6, but he varied before allowing Kramnik to show whatever improvement he had in mind; this time, he played 15...Rg8. [kramnik_anand_2008_5_move15.jpg] As mentioned when covering game 3, the "old" move 15...Bd6 prevented Bf4, when the bishop performs double duty. It can be active there, and it can also drop back to g3 to neutralize Black's pressure along the g-file. So after a minute's thought, Kramnik indeed chose 16.Bf4, after a minute's thought in reply, Anand played 16...Bd6, and now Kramnik has started to think. His body language hasn't exactly exuded confidence, that Anand's choice was something he and his team had investigated over the past three days. Anand, on the other hand, looks reasonably relaxed, though the more I look at him the more antsy he seems to be. Kramnik took about 14 minutes here, perhaps considering variations starting from 17.Bxd6 Qxd6 18.Rfd1, but finally chose the obvious, safe (or at least safe-looking) 17.Bg3. Perhaps at some point Black will try to prise open the g-file with ...f6-f5-f4 or h5-h4, but for now White has bought his king a little time for other projects. Sure enough, Anand has played 17...f5, and now it's time to upload this post. _______________________________________________ chessmind mailing list chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chessmind From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Oct 21 02:58:26 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:58:26 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Power of the Kiddie Counter Gambit Message-ID: <1224579506.48fd99b236bd9@www.taom.com> I don't know who named this antidote to the Hikaru Nakamura Opening but I wish someone would tell me. I may be wrong but one of the first posts I ever read from Dennis Monokroussos was him beating Nakamura in a blitz game with the Kiddie Counter Gambit. This was a 5 minute game at www.Chesscube.com with a 1334. I told my son's Elementary School Chess Teacher Thursday - " How can I get my son to quit playing the Rhino ( 4 move checkmate, Scholar's mate ) if all your students fall into it? " I went over the 5 pawn Gambit, Damiano's Defense, Sam Sloan's Folly, with one kid for 15 minutes. He had long hair and a twin and for 15 minutes I thought I was talking to a girl. [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "unedhelp at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.21"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Qh5 The Nakamura Attack 2 ... Nf6 The Kiddie Counter Gambit. There will be no 4 move checkmate on my watch. I have seen too many good children cry that way. Hell Is For Children And you shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh - Pat Benitar 3. Qxe5+! Be7! You can have your pawn but no King and no development 4. Bc4 O-O! 5. Nh3?? as much as I like Jack Young's Brick or Anchor Punch ( 1 e4 c5 2 Nh3 ) this makes my ... d5 more powerful 5 ... Nc6!! 6. Qf4! d5!! 7. e5? makes things worse 7 ... dxc4 7 ... Nh5 8 Qf3 Nd4 9 Q:h5 N:c2+10 Kd1 N:a1 is another approach but I'm not greedy 8. exf6! Bxf6! 9. c3? The situation is becoming intolerable 9 ... Re8+! 10. Kf1? Qd3+ 11. Kg1 Re1# 0-1 You never have to cry again, children. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "unedhelp at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.21"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Qh5 Nf6 3. Qxe5+ Be7 4. Bc4 O-O 5. Nh3 Nc6 6. Qf4 d5 7. e5 dxc4 8. exf6 Bxf6 9. c3 Re8+ 10. Kf1 Qd3+ 11. Kg1 Re1# 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bS0ow3mmAM Cute Claymation Chess ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Oct 21 03:08:24 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:08:24 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Gerard Snitselaar and Duwayne Langseth react to Anand- Kramnik game Message-ID: <1224580104.48fd9c087eac8@www.taom.com> That was nice of Anand to agree to that, no Russian ever did. Brian Wall ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Forwarded message from Gerard Snitselaar> ----- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:42:41 -0700 From: Gerard Snitselaar Reply-To: snitschess at gmail.com Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] Anand wins with Black again! Game 5 To: Brian Wall Unfortunately for Anand, he doesn't get draw odds. If they are tied at the end of 12 games they go into a tiebreak situation like the Kramnik - Topalov match. They draw colors, then play 4 G/25+10' If still tied, they draw colors again and play 2 G/5+10' Gerard Snitselaar --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DuWayne Langseth Brian, Rybka was clueless. It thought Nxd4 was winning for Kramnik. I guess I can't fault Vladimir too much. DuWayne Langseth --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.20"] [Round "5"] [White "*GM_Kramnik"] [Black "*GM_Anand"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2772"] [BlackElo "2783"] [Opening "QGD semi-Slav: Meran, Blumenfeld variation"] [ECO "D49"] [NIC "SL.09"] [Time "12:04:21"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3 a6 9. e4 c5 10. e5 cxd4 11. Nxb5 axb5 12. exf6 gxf6 13. O-O Qb6 14. Qe2 Bb7 15. Bxb5 Rg8 16. Bf4 Bd6 17. Bg3 f5 18. Rfc1 f4 19. Bh4 Be7 20. a4 Bxh4 21. Nxh4 Ke7 22. Ra3 Rac8 23. Rxc8 Rxc8 24. Ra1 Qc5 25. Qg4 Qe5 26. Nf3 Qf6 27. Re1 Rc5 28. b4 Rc3 29. Nxd4 Qxd4 30. Rd1 Nf6 31. Rxd4 Nxg4 32. Rd7+ Kf6 33. Rxb7 Rc1+ 34. Bf1 Ne3 35. fxe3 fxe3 {Black wins} 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.chessvibes.com/rapid-chess/kramnik-anand-live/#more-3397 live video of Kramnik-Anand Game 5 press conference ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Oct 21 18:41:42 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:41:42 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Anand wins again with Penguin - Game 6, 3 wins, 3 draws Message-ID: <1224636102.48fe76c69f38b@www.taom.com> Maybe Kramnik made Anand mad when he spoke of "lending Anand the title in Mexcico" and " Annad has trouble beating me with Black". Anand seems quietly determined to prove he is a worthy World Champion a third time. Anand needs 2 out of 6 to clinch it. Anand was told in his youth he could never become World Champion because he did not attend the Russian School of Chess as a child. In Game 2 Anand played 1 d4 instead of his usual 1 e4. Kramnik said when Leko tried 1 d4 in their World Championship match he just sat there in total shock and didn't know what to do. " This time I am ready for 1 d4 or 1 c4 or 1 b4 or any first move. " - Kramnik Game 2 - Anand won a pawn in an 4 f3 Nimzo but took a draw in time pressure. Today, Game 6, Anand won a pawn in a 4 Qc2 Nimzo and hung on to win [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.21"] [Round "6"] [White "*GM_Anand"] [Black "*GM_Kramnik"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2783"] [BlackElo "2772"] [Opening "Nimzo-Indian: classical, Noa variation"] [ECO "E34"] [NIC "NI.23"] [Time "13:21:36"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6! 3. Nc3! Bb4 4. Qc2 http://www.caissa-chess.com/shop/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=320 Obviously Anand and Kramnik have read IM David Vigorito's Challenging the Nimzo-Indian cover to cover 4 ... d5! 5. cxd5 Qxd5 6. Nf3 Qf5 Played 383 times, first by Romanishin 1993 ( 5 times ), Anand ( 6 times ), Beliavsky ( 3 times ), Yudasin ( 5 times ) Kramnik ( twice against Kasparov ),Tiviakov ( 5 times) Vassily " I never met a variation I didn't like " Ivanchuk ( once ) A high quality variation played frequently at the highest levels. Kramnik played 7 Q:f5 against Anand in 1998 Kasparov played 7 Q:f5 against Kramnik twice in 1998 King Loek Van Wely played 7 Q:f5 against Anand in 2004 Topalov played 7 Q:f5 against Anand in 2005 Gagunashvili played 7 Q:f5 against Anand in 2006 Ivanchuk played 7 Qb3 against Anand in 1996 Pavel Eljanov played 7 Qb3 against Anand in 2008 7. Qb3 Played 73 times, first by Jo Pallise Oms in 1994 Other fans - Facebook buddy Hikaru Nakamura ( twice ), Azmaiparashvili ( 3 times ), Chernin ( twice ), Suat Atalik ( twice ) 7 ... Nc6! Played 15 times, twice by Romanishin, the originator of the system, once by Anand, Korchnoi, Nigel Short and Bareev 8. Bd2! Played 7 times, once by Ivanchuk against Anand 8 ... O-O! Played 7 times, once by Anand, Romanishin, Korchnoi and Sadvakasov 9. h3 TN TN by Anand with the idea of g4 harrassing the Black Queen- other ideas for White, 0-0-0, e3 9 e3 had been played 10 times 9 ... b6 8 minutes spent Logical to a human to avoid the flipper move ... Bd7 and support ... c5 someday like a Grunfeld 10. g4!! 10 minutes 10 ... Qa5 one minute It's a close call between 10 ... Qa5 or ... Qg6 10 ... Qg6 11 Nh4 N:d4 12 Qc4 Qc2 13 Bg2 Nd5 14 B:d5 Q:b2 15 Rc1 Ne2 or or 15 Rb1 ed is OK for Kramnik but impossible to calculate accurately over the board 10 ... Qg6 11 Nh4 N:d4 12 Qc4 Qc2 13 Q:b4 c5 14 Qa3 Bb7 Kramnik is OK 10 ... Qg6 11 Nh4 N:d4 12 N:g6 N:b3 Kramnik is OK so 10 ... Qg6 11 Nh4 is nothing to worry about but Kramnik may have avoided the unclear complications anyway. 10 ... Qg6 11 Bg2!, g5, Qa4 or Rc1 are somewhat better for Anand 11. Rc1 18 minutes 11 g5 Nd7 12 0-0-0 is a wild approach 11 0-0-0 or a3 are interesting 11 ... Bb7 12. a3!! 12 minutes for move 12 12 ... Bxc3! 12 ... N:d4 13 ab N:b3 14 ba N:c1 15 B:c1 or 12 ... N:d4 13 ab Qe5 14 N:e5 N:b3 15 f3 N:c1 16 B:c1 are better for Anand but 12 ... N:d4 13 N:d4 Qe5 14 Rg1 ( Penguin ) is nothing 13. Bxc3! Anand has the two bishops with a nice solid long lasting advantage like a good Nimzo player. 13 ... Qd5! Kramnik hustles to and fro like a restless spirit between losses and draws. 14. Qxd5! Anand ends up trading Queens on d5 instead of f5 14 ... Nxd5 Gaining a tempo on the c3-bishop and keeping the long diagonal open for the b7-bishop - even so, 14 ... ed! looks solid 15. Bd2 Fritz likes the central grab 15 e4 but humans remember the joys of two bishop endings and aim for them from afar 15 ... Nf6 16. Rg1 Anand goes Penguin ( 1 Nf3, 2 Rg1 ) because 16 Bg2 N:d4 17 R:c7 leads nowhere after 17 .. Bd5, ... Be4, ... N:f3+, .. B:f3 or ... Bc6 16 g5 was interesting Why would anyone play Nf3 and Rg1, immobilizing their rook? That reminds me of the question - Q Sir, Why are you hitting yourself on the head with a hammer? A because it feels so good when it stops! We trap our rook because it feels so great when it is free again. 16 ... Rac8! 9 minutes Aiming for ... c5, the liberator 17. Bg2! 9 minutes 17 ... Ne7 to avoid the pin and prepare the thematic ... c5 break The hypermodern 17 ... Nd5 provoking e4 is good 18. Bb4 5 minutes 18 ... c5!! 9 minutes 19. dxc5! Rfd8!! 19 well spent minutes The White side looks like a Penguin Opening and the Black side looks like a typical Grunfeld pawn sac. Kramnik's perfect piece placement should compensate for Vishy's extra pawn and incubating Penguin egg on g1 20. Ne5 Trying to find a use for the Penguin on g1 20 ...Bxg2 21. Rxg2 The penguin hatched 21 ... bxc5?? 17 minutes poorly spent, leaving 51 for Kramnik Anand - 56 minutes What's wrong with Kramnik this match? I know he is 3 points down but if had do-overs in a few spots everything would be fine. 21 ... a5!! 22 Bd2 Ne4!! or 21 ... a5!! 22 Bc3 R:c5!! are not that hard to spot - Maybe Vlad didn't care for 21 ... a5!! 22 g5!! Ne4 23 f3 ab 24 fe R:c5, ... Rd4, ... ba or ... bc and he is fine 22. Rxc5 Kramnik was hoping Vishy's buried Penguin egg on g2 was sufficient comp for his lost c-pawn. 22 B:c5 Ne4 24 b4 was also possible 22 ... Ne4! 23. Rxc8! Rxc8! 24. Nd3!! It is not going to be easy to untangle. This game will remind everyone of the carefully studied Brian Wall - Eric Rodriguez 2008 Florida Open last money round game where somehow my g2-bishop and untouched King and rooks miraculously outperformed Eric's castled King and Galaga rooks on e8 and d8. Something similar happens this game. 24 ... Nd5! 25. Bd2 The World laughed out loud when I played 1 Nf3 2 Rg1 but Isacc's logic was impeccable - " The Penguin is a big favorite of many of my classmates. " Isaac Martinez, age 10 I well understand Anand's dilemma here as his Penguin rook longs to feel the deep blue sea. Full justification. 25 ... Rc2 5 minutes Looks very active but just like my Rodriguez game my undeveloped King kept his rooks out of my position. 26.Bc1! f5 7 minutes - Kramink appears to be losing control of his time, his position and the match - maybe he felt desperate and frustrated because nothing seems to be going right. 18 minutes left for 14 moves. Anand has a 33 minute time advantage. 27. Kd1 Anand serves an eviction notice - get off my property and away from my title. An Anand-Topalov match would be a dream and Anand-Kamsky would be a fascinating revenge match. 27 gf activating the Penguin and other moves are good too Maybe Kramink is trying to trade as many pawns as possible, the correct drawing strategy 27 ... Rc8 28. f3 second eviction notice - the sleepy Penguin again declines gf - Anand has a semi-centralized King, an extra pawn, a superior minor piece and a rook about to awaken. Everything wins - 28 b4, gf, Rg1, h4, Bd2, b3, f3, a4 Kramnik already got away with being a pawn down in a Nimzo in Game 2 and Anand is making up for letting Kramnik escape that time. 28 ... Nd6! 29. Ke1 Maybe to escape Nc4-e3+ 29 ... a5 Like Anand in Game 1 to restrain the Queenside majority 30. e3 to give his Penguin lateral mobility 30 ... e5 to stir up trouble or trade more pawns 31. gxf5!! Anand avoided this move because it weakened his h3-pawn but now it's really, really strong 31 ... e4! 32. fxe4! Nxe4! 33. Bd2 Anand is going to flipper-move Kramink to death 33 ... a4! Anand - 20 minutes left Kramnik - 16 34. Nf2!! Third eviction notice 34 ... Nd6! 35. Rg4 Nc4 2 minutes spent. Kramnik is now losing 25 ... N:f5 26 Ke2, Nd1, R:a4, Re4 looks like they also win 36. e4!! Anand is finally free and rolling, the car is out of the mud, the penguin is sliding down the icy slopes into the fish filled ocean 36 ... Nf6! 37. Rg3! Nxb2 38. e5! Nd5 Seven minutes and 11 seconds each left for Anand and Kramnik until move 40 39. f6 The Penguin scores another g-file victory 39 ... Kf7 40. Ne4 Winning in all directions - " Banking off the cheap shots into a good game. " Sherbring 40 ... Nc4! Defending against Nd6+ 41. fxg7 Kg8! The first time control is passed and Anand has winning choices each move for a while now 42. Rd3! Ndb6! 43. Bh6 I am not going to present every wining option but this one is cute - 43 e6!! K:g7 44 Rg3+! Kf8 45 Bb4+ Rc5 46 B:c5+ Nd6 47 B:d6+ Ke8 48 Rg8 checkmate total Penguin g-file bliss 43 e6!! N:d2 44 e7!! N:e4 45 Rd8+ K:g7 46 e8(Q) wins 43 ... Nxe5! 44. Nf6+! Kf7! 45. Rc3!! Rxc3 46. g8=Q+! Kxf6! 47. Bg7+! {White wins} 1-0 Anand will pick up a knight and be up a Queen for a rook. Kramnik had full compensation for his lost pawn with 21 ... a5!! but he let it all slide away. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.21"] [Round "6"] [White "*GM_Anand"] [Black "*GM_Kramnik"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2783"] [BlackElo "2772"] [Opening "Nimzo-Indian: classical, Noa variation"] [ECO "E34"] [NIC "NI.23"] [Time "13:21:36"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 d5 5. cxd5 Qxd5 6. Nf3 Qf5 7. Qb3 Nc6 8. Bd2 O-O 9. h3 b6 10. g4 Qa5 11. Rc1 Bb7 12. a3 Bxc3 13. Bxc3 Qd5 14. Qxd5 Nxd5 15. Bd2 Nf6 16. Rg1 Rac8 17. Bg2 Ne7 18. Bb4 c5 19. dxc5 Rfd8 20. Ne5 Bxg2 21. Rxg2 bxc5 22. Rxc5 Ne4 23. Rxc8 Rxc8 24. Nd3 Nd5 25. Bd2 Rc2 26. Bc1 f5 27. Kd1 Rc8 28. f3 Nd6 29. Ke1 a5 30. e3 e5 31. gxf5 e4 32. fxe4 Nxe4 33. Bd2 a4 34. Nf2 Nd6 35. Rg4 Nc4 36. e4 Nf6 37. Rg3 Nxb2 38. e5 Nd5 39. f6 Kf7 40. Ne4 Nc4 41. fxg7 Kg8 42. Rd3 Ndb6 43. Bh6 Nxe5 44. Nf6+ Kf7 45. Rc3 Rxc3 46. g8=Q+ Kxf6 47. Bg7+ {White wins} 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Chess Classics Giants"] [Site "Frankfurt"] [Date "1998.06.17"] [Round "3"] [White "Kramnik,Vladimir"] [Black "Anand,Viswanathan"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "E34"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.cxd5 Qxd5 6.Nf3 Qf5 7.Qxf5 exf5 8.a3 Bd6 9.Nb5 Be6 10.e3 Nc6 11.Bd2 Ne4 12.Bd3 a6 13.Nxd6+ cxd6 14.Ke2 Kd7 15.Rhc1 Rhc8 16.Be1 Ne7 17.Ng1 b5 18.f3 Nf6 19.Bh4 Nfd5 20.Bxe7 1/2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Kosmos m 5'"] [Site "Moscow"] [Date "1998.11.27"] [Round "18"] [White "Kasparov,Garry"] [Black "Kramnik,Vladimir"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "E34"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.cxd5 Qxd5 6.Nf3 Qf5 7.Qxf5 exf5 8.a3 Bd6 9.Bg5 Nbd7 10.e3 c6 11.Bd3 h6 12.Bh4 g6 13.Nd2 Be7 14.f3 Nd5 15.Nxd5 Bxh4+ 16.g3 Bxg3+ 17.hxg3 cxd5 18.Rc1 Kd8 19.e4 fxe4 20.fxe4 dxe4 21.Nxe4 f5 22.Nd6 Ke7 23.Nb5 a6 24.Nc7 Rb8 25.Nd5+ Kd6 26.Nf4 g5 27.Ng6 Re8+ 28.Kd2 Nf6 29.Rxh6 Ng4 30.Rh5 Rg8 31.Rxg5 Be6 32.Re1 Nh6 33.Nf4 Bd7 34.Rh5 Ng4 35.Bxf5 Nf6 36.Rh6 Rbf8 37.Bxd7 Kxd7 38.Ng6 Re8 39.Ne5+ Ke6 40.Ng4+ Kf5 41.Nxf6 1-0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Linares 16th"] [Site "Linares"] [Date "1999.02.21"] [Round "4"] [White "Kasparov,Garry"] [Black "Kramnik,Vladimir"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "E34"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.cxd5 Qxd5 6.Nf3 Qf5 7.Qxf5 exf5 8.a3 Be7 9.Bg5 Be6 10.e3 c6 11.Bd3 Nbd7 12.0-0 h6 13.Bh4 a5 14.Rac1 0-0 15.Ne2 g5 16.Bg3 Ne4 17.Nc3 Nxc3 18.Rxc3 Nf6 19.Rcc1 Rfd8 20.Rfd1 Rac8 1/2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Amber-blind 5th"] [Site "Monte Carlo"] [Date "1996.04.??"] [Round "3"] [White "Ivanchuk,Vassily"] [Black "Anand,Viswanathan"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "E34"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.cxd5 Qxd5 6.Nf3 Qf5 7.Qb3 Nc6 8.Bd2 0-0 9.e3 Rd8 10.Be2 e5 11.Nxe5 Be6 12.g4 Qxe5 13.dxe5 Bxb3 14.exf6 Be6 15.f4 gxf6 16.0-0-0 Kg7 17.Rhg1 Na5 18.b3 Nxb3+ 19.axb3 Bxb3 20.Nb5 Bxd1 21.Rxd1 Bxd2+ 22.Rxd2 Rxd2 23.Kxd2 c6 24.Nd4 a5 25.Kc3 a4 26.Kb2 c5 27.Nf5+ Kf8 28.Ka3 b6 29.Bc4 Ra5 30.Nd6 Ra8 31.h4 h6 32.h5 Ra5 33.e4 Ra8 34.Bd5 Ra7 35.Nf5 b5 36.Nxh6 c4 37.Nf5 b4+ 38.Kxb4 a3 39.Bxc4 a2 40.Bxa2 Rxa2 41.g5 Rf2 42.h6 Kg8 43.Ne7+ Kh7 44.Nd5 fxg5 45.fxg5 Kg6 46.Kc5 Kxg5 47.h7 Rh2 48.Kd6 Rxh7 49.e5 Kf5 50.Ne7+ Ke4 51.Ng8 Rg7 52.Nf6+ Kf5 53.Nd7 Rh7 54.Nf8 Rg7 55.Nd7 Rg1 56.Ke7 Kg6 57.Nf8+ Kg7 58.Nd7 Re1 59.Kd6 Kg6 60.Nf8+ Kf5 61.Ke7 Ra1 62.Kxf7 Ra7+ 63.Ke8 Kxe5 64.Nd7+ Kd6 65.Nf8 Rg7 66.Kd8 Re7 67.Ng6 Re1 68.Nf8 Re2 69.Ng6 Re6 70.Nf8 Re2 71.Ng6 Re1 72.Nf8 Re3 73.Ng6 Ke6 74.Nf8+ Kf7 75.Nd7 Rc3 76.Nb6 1/2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Corus"] [Site "Wijk aan Zee"] [Date "2004.01.10"] [Round "3"] [White "Van Wely,Loek"] [Black "Anand,Viswanathan"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "E34"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.cxd5 Qxd5 6.Nf3 Qf5 7.Qxf5 exf5 8.a3 Bd6 9.g3 Be6 10.Bg2 c6 11.Bf4 Bxf4 12.gxf4 Nbd7 13.0-0 Ke7 14.e3 a5 15.Rfd1 a4 16.Ne1 Bb3 17.Rd2 Rhe8 18.Nd3 Kf8 19.Ne5 Red8 20.Ne2 Ne4 21.Bxe4 1/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Amber-blind 14th"] [Site "Monte Carlo"] [Date "2005.03.19"] [Round "2"] [White "Topalov,Veselin"] [Black "Anand,Viswanathan"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "E34"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.cxd5 Qxd5 6.Nf3 Qf5 7.Qxf5 exf5 8.a3 Be7 9.Bf4 c6 10.e3 Nbd7 11.Bc4 Nb6 12.Ba2 Nfd5 13.Nxd5 Nxd5 14.Bxd5 cxd5 15.Rc1 f6 16.Kd2 Bd7 17.Rc7 g5 18.Bg3 Bc6 19.Rc1 Kd8 20.R1xc6 bxc6 21.Rxc6 Kd7 22.Ra6 Rhc8 23.Ne1 Rc6 24.Ra5 Bd8 25.Rxd5+ Ke6 26.Rb5 Rb6 27.Rxb6+ Bxb6 28.Nc2 Rg8 29.f3 f4 30.Bf2 g4 31.exf4 gxf3 32.g3 Kf5 33.Kd3 Kg4 34.Ne3+ Kh3 35.Ke4 Rd8 36.d5 Bxe3 37.Bxe3 Kg2 38.Bxa7 Ra8 39.Bd4 h5 40.d6 f2 41.Bxf2 Kxf2 42.b4 Kg2 43.b5 Kxh2 44.b6 Kxg3 45.b7 Rh8 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Wch Blitz"] [Site "Rishon Le Ziyyon"] [Date "2006.09.07"] [Round "14"] [White "Gagunashvili,Merab"] [Black "Anand,Viswanathan"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "E34"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.cxd5 Qxd5 6.Nf3 Qf5 7.Qxf5 exf5 8.a3 Be7 9.Bf4 c6 10.e3 Nbd7 11.Bd3 Nb6 12.0-0 Be6 13.Bg3 0-0 14.Rfc1 g6 15.Ne5 Rfc8 16.Be2 Ne4 17.Nxe4 fxe4 18.Nc4 Nxc4 19.Bxc4 Bxc4 20.Rxc4 Rd8 21.Rac1 f6 22.Kf1 Kf7 23.Ke2 Rd5 24.R4c3 Rb5 25.R1c2 a5 26.f3 exf3+ 27.gxf3 g5 28.e4 h5 29.h3 Rd8 30.Bf2 f5 31.Rd3 Bf6 32.Be3 a4 33.Rdd2 Re8 34.e5 Be7 35.Rc4 Ra8 36.Kd3 Rb3+ 37.Rc3 Rxc3+ 38.Kxc3 Ke6 39.Rg2 Rg8 40.Kc4 b5+ 41.Kd3 Kd5 42.Rg1 g4 43.hxg4 fxg4 44.fxg4 hxg4 45.Bf4 c5 46.dxc5 Bxc5 47.Rg2 Bb6 48.e6 Kxe6 49.Ke4 Bd8 50.Rc2 g3 51.Rg2 Bf6 52.Kf3 Bh4 53.Bd2 Rf8+ 54.Kg4 Bf6 55.Bf4 Be5 56.Bxe5 Kxe5 57.Re2+ Kd4 58.Kxg3 Kd3 59.Rh2 Re8 60.Rh5 b4 61.axb4 Re3+ 62.Kf2 Re2+ 63.Kf1 Rxb2 64.Ra5 Rxb4 65.Ke1 Rb1+ 66.Kf2 Ra1 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "Corus"] [Site "Wijk aan Zee"] [Date "2008.01.12"] [Round "3"] [White "Eljanov,Pavel"] [Black "Anand,Viswanathan"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "E34"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.cxd5 Qxd5 6.Nf3 Qf5 7.Qb3 c5 8.a3 Ba5 9.Qc4 Bxc3+ 10.Qxc3 Nbd7 11.g4 Qxg4 12.dxc5 Nd5 13.Qc2 Qf5 14.Qc4 Ne5 15.Nxe5 Qxe5 16.Bg2 Bd7 17.Bxd5 1/2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.15"] [Round "2"] [White "GM_Anand"] [Black "GM_Kramnik"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2783"] [BlackElo "2772"] [Opening "Nimzo-Indian: S?misch, Romanovsky variation"] [ECO "E25"] [NIC "NI.30"] [Time "09:06:52"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3 d5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 c5 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. dxc5 f5 9. Qc2 Nd7 10. e4 fxe4 11. fxe4 N5f6 12. c6 bxc6 13. Nf3 Qa5 14. Bd2 Ba6 15. c4 Qc5 16. Bd3 Ng4 17. Bb4 Qe3+ 18. Qe2 O-O-O 19. Qxe3 Nxe3 20. Kf2 Ng4+ 21. Kg3 Ndf6 22. Bb1 h5 23. h3 h4+ 24. Nxh4 Ne5 25. Nf3 Nh5+ 26. Kf2 Nxf3 27. Kxf3 e5 28. Rc1 Nf4 29. Ra2 Nd3 30. Rc3 Nf4 31. Bc2 Ne6 32. Kg3 Rd4 {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "2008 Florida Open"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.09.01"] [Round "6"] [White "Brian Wall"] [Black "Eric Rodriguez"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2203"] [BlackElo "2242"] [Opening "Slav Defense, Accepted Variation"] [Time "2 PM"] [TimeControl "Game, 155 minutes, 5 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.Ne5 Nbd7 6.Nxc4 b5 7.Nd2 e5 8.dxe5 Nxe5 9.g3 Bc5 10.Nb3 Qxd1+ 11.Nxd1 Bb4+ 12.Bd2 Bxd2+ 13.Nxd2 Bb7 14.Bg2 0-0-0 15.a4 Rhe8 16.Ne3 Rd4 17.Nf5 Rdd8 18.Nxg7 Rg8 19.Nf5 Rge8 20.Ne3 Kb8 21.Nb3 Nfg4 22.Nxg4 Nxg4 23.Na5 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I scored an A on an Oprah Winfrey rudeness test. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I saw Body of Lies ( Russell Crowe, DiCaprio ) with Chris Peterson- they went to elaborate lengths to make the movie seem authentic but somehow it still felt super hokey - one example- Dicaprio and a buddy drive out in the desert to a terrorist base camp with no one around for a thousand miles, claim " their truck broke down" and get close enough to kill everyone. Hellooooooooooooooooooo, script check. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I had a weird dream that the world was the African plains and everyone was in elephant groups all trying to get to different versions of paradise, like oases or meadows or rivers and in trying to reach their destination they sometimes collided and injured or killed each other inadvertantly. I decided everyone is going for a different dream and the secret is to focus on your own dream and not take the collisions personally. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bonus feauture - A few notes on Game 5 I missed the first time around. Kramnik messed up with 29 N:d4?? ?He should just worry about surviving after such a blunder in game five, then decide on a game plan for the final six games? Kasparov Everyone wanted to know why Kramnik didn't play N:d4 earlier if he missed what is wrong with it on move 29 - 28 N:d4?? loses to ... Rg5 or ... h5 29 Qd1 Rd5 if 28 N:d4 Rg5! 29 Qe2 R:g2+ checkmates if 28 N:d4 h5 29 Qe2 Re5! wins if 27 N:d4?? Q:d4 28 Rd1 Nf6 29 R:d4 N:g4 30 Rd7+ Kf6 31 R:b7 Rc1+ 32 Bf1 Ne3!! as in the game. Everyone thought Kramnik saw the ... Ne3 trick since he avoided 27 N:d4?? I turns out Kramnik missed the Ne3 trick twice because he rejected 27 N:d4 because of the second best move 27 ... Rc5 and things looked complicated to Vladimir. Kramnik was asked why he didn't play b4 earlier like Fritz recommended and he mentioned ... R:g2+ - 22 b4 R:g2+ 23 N:g2 Rg8 seems to work out OK for Anand because of 23 f3? d3+ 24 Qf2 B:f3!! 25 Q:b6 R:g2+ 26 Kf1 N:b6 27 B:d3 Nd5!! or ... R:h2! good for Anand 27 b4 instead of Re1 seems OK - 27 b4 h5 28 Q:h5 Rh8 29 Qg4 Qh6 30 Rd1 B:f3 31 Q:f3 Q:h2+ 32 Kf1 Ne5 33 Qe4 f3 34 gf Rh4 35 Qa8 Qf4 is one messy possibility [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.20"] [Round "5"] [White "*GM_Kramnik"] [Black "*GM_Anand"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2772"] [BlackElo "2783"] [Opening "QGD semi-Slav: Meran, Blumenfeld variation"] [ECO "D49"] [NIC "SL.09"] [Time "12:04:21"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3 a6 9. e4 c5 10. e5 cxd4 11. Nxb5 axb5 12. exf6 gxf6 13. O-O Qb6 14. Qe2 Bb7 15. Bxb5 Rg8 16. Bf4 Bd6 17. Bg3 f5 18. Rfc1 f4 19. Bh4 Be7 20. a4 Bxh4 21. Nxh4 Ke7 22. Ra3 Rac8 23. Rxc8 Rxc8 24. Ra1 Qc5 25. Qg4 Qe5 26. Nf3 Qf6 27. Re1 Rc5 28. b4 Rc3 29. Nxd4 Qxd4 30. Rd1 Nf6 31. Rxd4 Nxg4 32. Rd7+ Kf6 33. Rxb7 Rc1+ 34. Bf1 Ne3 35. fxe3 fxe3 {Black wins} 0-1 From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Oct 21 19:36:19 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:36:19 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Kramnik protests: "Anand's overexuberant use of the g-file constitutes an unfair advantage." Message-ID: <1224639379.48fe83933a99f@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Andrew Rea ----- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:13:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrew Rea Reply-To: andrerea2 at yahoo.com Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] Anand wins again with Penguin - Game 6, 3 wins, 3 draws ? Apparently Kramnik has consulted with Team Topalov?and plans to file a protest.? No, not ?to gain increased access to the WC: instead, since there has been so many problems for Kramnik on the g-file this match- just look at the current match statistics, as can be?verified by Fritz, among others -?? Kramnik is considering a protest of Anand's much too?frequent and successful use of the g-file...........? oh, wait, that was inside information from The Onion's coverage of the match, my bad - lets wait for someone more reliable, perhaps the Colbert Report, before we can consider this story to be valid?????????????????? ?? Andrew Rea -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081021/e703842f/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Oct 21 21:26:20 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:26:20 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Brutal Nymphomaniac Attack Message-ID: <1224645980.48fe9d5c879a4@www.taom.com> Black - Playdeep -1799 - www.Chesscube.com White - me [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Black "playdeep at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.21"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 Jack Young's Nymphomaniac Attack, named after his coworker 2 ... d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nh4 Bg6?? A common blunder 5. Nxg6!! 5 e6?? first as played by Tyler Hughes and myself, fails to 5 ... Qd6!! 6 N:g6 Q:e6+! 5 ... hxg6 6. e6!! fxe6 7. d4!! I reach this position often: Observe PlayDeep's buried bishop and double doubled pawns 7 ... Nf6 8. Bd3!! Qc7 Attacking h2, better than the Fort Collins favorite 8 ... Nbd7!! 9. Bxg6+!! Kd7 10. g3 10 h4!!! is a great way to deal with h2 as is 10 f4!!, h3! or Qe2 My idea with 10 g3 is Bf4 10 ... Na6 11. O-O Other good ideas - 11 Qe2, c3, h4, Bf4 or f4 11 ... Rd8 12. Nd2!! Kc8! 13. Nf3!! This knight is ready to dance, Black's bishop is ready for the morgue 13 ... Ng4 14. Bf4 To box in the Black King - 14 Ng5!!! or Nf7!!! win material 14 Qe2!, Re1! or h4! are crushing 14 ... Qb6 15. h4 I didn't have to hang onto my h-pawn 15 Ng5!! N:h2 16 Nf7 N:f1 17 N:h8 his knight is trapped, not mine 15 ... Nc7 16. Ng5!! Nh6! 17. Re1 17 B:c7!! wins an exchange with Ne6 but my move just leaves him sitting in a big mess 17 ... Qxb2 18. Bxc7!! Kxc7!! 19. Nxe6+!! Kc8! 20. Nxd8 Kxd8! 21. Rb1!! Qc3 22. Rxb7 Ng4?? 23. Qxg4!! Saccing a rook with check for a mate in 6 23 ... Qxe1+ 24. Kg2 e6 My g6-bishop punishes ... Qe4+ so PlayDeep is helpless against a Queen invasion. 25. Qf4!! 1-0 mate in 4 --------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Black "playdeep at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.21"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nh4 Bg6 5. Nxg6 hxg6 6. e6 fxe6 7. d4 Nf6 8. Bd3 Qc7 9. Bxg6+ Kd7 10. g3 Na6 11. O-O Rd8 12. Nd2 Kc8 13. Nf3 Ng4 14. Bf4 Qb6 15. h4 Nc7 16. Ng5 Nh6 17. Re1 Qxb2 18. Bxc7 Kxc7 19. Nxe6+ Kc8 20. Nxd8 Kxd8 21. Rb1 Qc3 22. Rxb7 Ng4 23. Qxg4 Qxe1+ 24. Kg2 e6 25. Qf4 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------ From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Oct 21 22:21:05 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:21:05 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] [chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Anand-Kramnik, game 6 with notes Message-ID: <1224649265.48feaa31e851f@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Email subscription to blog articles ----- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:58:35 -0400 From: Email subscription to blog articles Reply-To: historicchess at comcast.net, chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Subject: [chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Anand-Kramnik, game 6 with notes To: chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Posted by Dennis Monokroussos: Anand-Kramnik, game 6 with notes http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1224647911.shtml [1]Here it is, Anand's third win in four games. References 1. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/files/anand_kramnik_2008_6.htm _______________________________________________ chessmind mailing list chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chessmind From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Oct 21 23:29:23 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:29:23 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Minor discrepancies in Anand - Kramink Game 6 Message-ID: <1224653363.48feba3320ae3@www.taom.com> Gregory Steele To: Brian Wall Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] [chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Anand-Kramnik, game 6 with notes Brian, Monokroussos mentions 21 ... a5, giving 22 Bd2 Ne4 23 cb6! and a sequence leading to White being a pawn up for nothing. Instead of the Penguin 16 Rg1, Mono says Karpov gave commentary recommending 16 g5 followed by Bf4 with a slight edge. Gregory Steele ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Wall Anand-Kramnik Game 6 I wrote that Kramnik could have saved himself with 21 ... a5 22 Bd2 Ne4 but Dennis Monokroussos says this bad due to 23 cb N:d2 24 R:c8 N:c8 25 b7 Ne7 26 Rg3 Rb8 27 K:d2 R:b7 28 b3 with an extra pawn and better King Looking for improvements: 21 ... a5 22 Bd2 Rd5 23 Nd3 cb 24 Rc4 still looks much better for Anand I don't really see any clear defense after 18 ... Ne7 19 Bb4! anymore. I guess we have to go back to my 18 ... Nd5! suggestion. 18 ... Nd5 19 e3, g5 , Rc4, b4, Kd1, Kf1 all with a small edge for Vishy If we go back further then perhaps Kramnik's first move after the novelty, 9 h3 TN b6? ( 10 minutes ) was a mistake - maybe 9 ... a5!!, ... Qg6! or ... Rd8! were better --------------------------------------------------------------------- On move 16 Fritz 9, Karpov and Greg "Tourney" Steele all prefer 16 g5: 16 g5 Ne8 17 Rg1 16 g5 Nd7 17 Rg1 16 g5 Ne4 17 Bg2 16 g5 Nd5 17 e4 all with a micro-edge for World Champion Vishy Anand On move 17 Kramnik preferred the Rybka suggestion of 17 ... Ba8 instead of 17 ... Ne7 but Anand would still have the two bishops and a somewhat superior position. It's all a litle refined for my taste but I do my best to understand what's going on. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.21" ] [Round "6"] [White "*GM_Anand"] [Black "*GM_Kramnik" ] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2783"] [BlackElo "2772"] [Opening "Nimzo-Indian: classical, Noa variation"] [ECO "E34"] [NIC "NI.23"] [Time "13:21:36"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 d5 5. cxd5 Qxd5 6. Nf3 Qf5 7. Qb3 Nc6 8. Bd2 O-O 9. h3 b6 10. g4 Qa5 11. Rc1 Bb7 12. a3 Bxc3 13. Bxc3 Qd5 14. Qxd5 Nxd5 15. Bd2 Nf6 16. Rg1 Rac8 17. Bg2 Ne7 18. Bb4 c5 19. dxc5 Rfd8 20. Ne5 Bxg2 21. Rxg2 bxc5 22. Rxc5 Ne4 23. Rxc8 Rxc8 24. Nd3 Nd5 25. Bd2 Rc2 26. Bc1 f5 27. Kd1 Rc8 28. f3 Nd6 29. Ke1 a5 30. e3 e5 31. gxf5 e4 32. fxe4 Nxe4 33. Bd2 a4 34. Nf2 Nd6 35. Rg4 Nc4 36. e4 Nf6 37. Rg3 Nxb2 38. e5 Nd5 39. f6 Kf7 40. Ne4 Nc4 41. fxg7 Kg8 42. Rd3 Ndb6 43. Bh6 Nxe5 44. Nf6+ Kf7 45. Rc3 Rxc3 46. g8=Q+ Kxf6 47. Bg7+ {White wins} 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Wall From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Oct 22 21:47:54 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:47:54 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] When a Fishing Pole/Greek sacrifice goes really well Message-ID: <1224733674.48fff3ea7cfc6@www.taom.com> White- Brian Black - Leana 1900 www.ChessCube.com 5 minute game -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Black "leana at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.22"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. c3 c6 4. cxd4 d6 5. f4 Nf6 6. Nc3 Be7 7. Nf3 O-O 8. Bd3! a6 9. h4 Setting up the knockout punch 9 ... Bg4 10. e5 dxe5! 11. dxe5! Nd5 12. Bxh7+!! A sound version of the Greek Sacrifice 12 ... Kxh7! 13. Ng5+!! Every variation of a Fishing Pole is sound on my watch. The purpose of 9 h4 is to be able to answer ... B:g5 with hg+! 13 ... Kg8! 14. Qxg4! An attack plus a pawn 14 ... Nxc3 15. bxc3!! Qd3 16. Bd2 16 Rh3!! Qc2 17 Rg3!!, e6!! or h5!! were quicker: I saw Rh3 next move, another point of 9 h4 16 ... Bc5 17. Rh3!! Qc2! 18. Rc1 Driving the Black Queen off h7 because 18 Rc1 Qg6 19 f5 Qh6 20 Ne4 is horrid 18 ... Bf2+! Jus makes things worse 19. Ke2!! Qxa2! 20. Qh5!! Qc4+? 21. Kxf2 21 Rd3!! is twice as strong because of 21 Rd3 Rd8 22 Qh7+ Kf8 23 Qh8+ Ke7 24 Q:d8+ or 21 Rd3 Re8 22 K:f2 Q:d3 23 Q:f7+ Kh8 24 Q:e8 checkmate or 21 Rd3 Rc8 22 Qh7+ Kf8 23 Qh8+ Ke7 24 Q:c8 21 Rd3!! leaves Leana's rook with nowhere to go 21 ... Qc5+? 22. Be3!! 1-0 Mate in 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Black "leana at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.22"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. c3 c6 4. cxd4 d6 5. f4 Nf6 6. Nc3 Be7 7. Nf3 O-O 8. Bd3 a6 9. h4 Bg4 10. e5 dxe5 11. dxe5 Nd5 12. Bxh7+ Kxh7 13. Ng5+ Kg8 14. Qxg4 Nxc3 15. bxc3 Qd3 16. Bd2 Bc5 17. Rh3 Qc2 18. Rc1 Bf2+ 19. Ke2 Qxa2 20. Qh5 Qc4+ 21. Kxf2 Qc5+ 22. Be3 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Oct 22 23:31:04 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:31:04 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] River Bluff Message-ID: <1224739864.49000c18bd437@www.taom.com> In Hold 'em Poker, after all the cards have been dealt, you often have very little - your hand didn't improve, your flush didn't come home. You can give up or throw out another bet on the river ( last card ). That's how I play Chess too. 5 minute game on www.Chesscube.com [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Black "fyotsi at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.22"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3! Nc6! 3. d4 cxd4! 4. Nxd4! d6 5. Bc4 e6 6. O-O! Nf6! 7. Nc3! Be7! 8. Be3! a6 9. Bb3 O-O! 10. f4! Nxd4 11. Qxd4 Spassky as Black almost beat Bobby in their World Championship match when he tried 11 B:d4!. Since then 394 others have tried to improve Bobby's play. My inferior move has been tried 5 times. 11 ... b5 12. Rad1 TN Theoretical Novelty by Wall 12 f5!! never tried 12 Rf3 never tried 12 a4 tried once 12 Bf2 never tried 12 Kh1 played once 12 ... Qc7 13. e5 Wrong break - 13 f5!! or a3!! are correct 13 ... dxe5! 14. fxe5 14 Q:e5! is better but that's not me 14 ... Nd7! My attack is dead - I could give up on the attack and go for equality with 15 Rf2, Ne4, Qf4, a4, Kh1, Qg4, Qd3, Qd2 but that all looked lifeless to me. I throw out a river bluff. 15. Rxf7!? Someone did that to me in a similar position. I was stunned. My move loses but it generates many beautiful ideas and exposes my opponent as a poor defender 15 ... Rxf7!! 15 ... K:f7? 16 B:e6+!! K:e6 17 Qd5+ Kf5 18 Rf1+ Kg4 19 Qd1+ Kh4 20 g3+ Kh3 21 Qh5+ Bh4 22 Q:h4 checkmate just in case you thought I was all bluff. I would say I was semi-bluffing but in poker that is a specific term for putting in a big bet when you have 4 to a straight or flush, an unmade hand. 15 ... K:f7? 16 B:e6+!! K:e8! 17 Nd5!! Qc6!! I have more than enough for my missing rook after 18 Bg4!!!, Qe4!!, c3!!, N:e7!!, Bh3! or even a3! 15 ... K:f7? 16 B:e6+!! K:e8! 17 Nd5!! Qc6!! 18 Bg4!!! Bd8! 19 e6!! Nf6! 20 Bf3!!! or e7!! and my attack is still rolling 16. Bxe6!! Bc5?? My attack doesn't quite have enough fuel after 16 ... Q:e5!! or N:e5! 17. Bxf7+!! Kxf7! 18. Qd5+!! Ke8! 19. Qxa8?? I was ecstatic to get my rook back: 19 Ne4!!! B:e3+ 20 Kh1 and my attack is worth more than two bishops- that would require a lot of faith. 19 Ne4!!! B:e3+ 20 Kh1 Bc5 21 e6!! ( 21 Nd6+! or N:c5! also work ) Ne5 22 N:c5! with two pawns and a killer attack for a bishop 19 Kh1!!, Bd4! or Qe6+! are better than my lame, materialistic inactive rook grab but not as strong as the evangelical 19 Ne4!!! 19 ... Bxe3+! 20. Kh1! I liked having my King in a safe spot in the middlegame but that's just the point; after 20 ... Qb7!! the middlegame is over. Anything else loses. 20 ... Kf7?? 21. Qd5+!! Ke8 22. Qe6+ Only 22 Ne4!!! is better 22 ... Kd8 If 22 ... Kf8! 23 Nd5!! attacks everything in sight 23. Qg8+ 1-0 mate next ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Black "fyotsi at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.22"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 d6 5. Bc4 e6 6. O-O Nf6 7. Nc3 Be7 8. Be3 a6 9. Bb3 O-O 10. f4 Nxd4 11. Qxd4 b5 12. Rad1 Qc7 13. e5 dxe5 14. fxe5 Nd7 15. Rxf7 Rxf7 16. Bxe6 Bc5 17. Bxf7+ Kxf7 18. Qd5+ Ke8 19. Qxa8 Bxe3+ 20. Kh1 Kf7 21. Qd5+ Ke8 22. Qe6+ Kd8 23. Qg8+ 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Mar del Plata"] [Site "Mar del Plata"] [Date "1976.??.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Van Riemsdijk,Herman C"] [Black "Grinberg,Ricardo"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "B88"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bc4 Be7 7.0-0 0-0 8.Bb3 Nc6 9.Be3 a6 10.f4 Nxd4 11.Qxd4 b5 12.a4 Rb8 13.axb5 axb5 14.Rfd1 b4 15.Na4 Ng4 16.Bc1 Qa5 17.h3 e5 18.Qd2 Qa7+ 19.Kh1 Nf2+ 20.Kh2 Nxd1 21.Qxd1 Qf2 22.f5 Ba6 23.Qf3 Qxf3 24.gxf3 Be2 25.Kg3 Ra8 26.Rb1 Rfb8 27.Be3 Bd8 0-1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Syre mem op 19th"] [Site "Issy les Moulineaux"] [Date "1996.05.??"] [Round "3"] [White "De Botton,J"] [Black "Chinchilla,Eugenio"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "B88"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bc4 Nc6 7.Bb3 Be7 8.Be3 0-0 9.0-0 a6 10.f4 Nxd4 11.Qxd4 b5 12.Kh1 Bb7 13.f5 e5 14.Qd3 Qc7 15.Rad1 b4 16.Nd5 Bxd5 17.Bxd5 Nxd5 18.exd5 Rac8 19.Rf2 Qc4 20.Qxc4 Rxc4 21.Kg1 Rfc8 22.Rdd2 h6 23.h3 Bg5 24.Bxg5 hxg5 25.g4 f6 26.Kg2 R8c5 27.a3 bxa3 28.bxa3 Rc3 29.Rf3 Rxc2 30.Rxc2 Rxc2+ 31.Kg3 Rd2 32.h4 gxh4+ 33.Kxh4 Rxd5 34.g5 Rd4+ 35.Kh5 Rf4 36.Rd3 Rxf5 37.Rxd6 Rxg5+ 38.Kh4 a5 39.Rd5 e4 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "World Championship 28th"] [Site "Reykjavik"] [Date "1972.07.11"] [Round "4"] [White "Fischer,Robert James"] [Black "Spassky,Boris V"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "B88"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Bb3 Be7 8.Be3 0-0 9.0-0 a6 10.f4 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 b5 12.a3 Bb7 13.Qd3 a5 14.e5 dxe5 15.fxe5 Nd7 16.Nxb5 Nc5 17.Bxc5 Bxc5+ 18.Kh1 Qg5 19.Qe2 Rad8 20.Rad1 Rxd1 21.Rxd1 h5 22.Nd6 Ba8 23.Bc4 h4 24.h3 Be3 25.Qg4 Qxe5 26.Qxh4 g5 27.Qg4 Bc5 28.Nb5 Kg7 29.Nd4 Rh8 30.Nf3 Bxf3 31.Qxf3 Bd6 32.Qc3 Qxc3 33.bxc3 Be5 34.Rd7 Kf6 35.Kg1 Bxc3 36.Be2 Be5 37.Kf1 Rc8 38.Bh5 Rc7 39.Rxc7 Bxc7 40.a4 Ke7 41.Ke2 f5 42.Kd3 Be5 43.c4 Kd6 44.Bf7 Bg3 45.c5+ 1/2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Oct 23 00:49:20 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:49:20 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Red Bull Message-ID: <1224744560.49001e7042f3e@www.taom.com> 5 minute www.Chesscube.com game They also have a free Cinema with Chess lectures by IM Andrew Martin I think they also keep a record of your games It's a friendly free site with over 300 people online usually [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "jorge135 at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.22"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Be2 This Lemmiwinks moved enraged me 3 ... Nf6! 4. Nc3 d5? I charged the toreador 5. exd5! Nxd5! 6. O-O! Bc5 7. Bb5!! We've both seen this before - I've weakened my e5-pawn and must pay the piper. This just made the bull madder. 7 ... O-O!? 8. Bxc6! bxc6! 9. Nxe5! Qh4! 10. Nxc6?? I am too reckless and Jorge135 is too greedy 10 ... Bg4!! 11 f3 is illegal 11. Qe1! Rae8!! 12. Ne5! Nf4 I thought for a while and charged ahead, enraged. My ears were too red for subtle moves like 12 ... Nf6!!! ... Qh5!! or ... N:c3! The idea of 12 ... Qh5 is clever - 12 ... Qh5 13 N:d5 R:e5 14 Ne3 Be2 picking up an exchange 12 ... Nf6 is even better - 12 ... Nf6!!! 13 d3 Bd4 14 Bf4 Bc8, ... Nd7 or ... Bf5 all win I at least looked at 12 ... N:c3! 13 bc! f6! 14 d4! Bb6! and now 15 Ba3 or f3 almost kills my attack 13. d4?? 13 Qe4!! R:e5 14 Q:f4 Rf5 15 Qg3 Q:g3 16 hg Re8 17 d4 B:d4 18 Bf4 g5 19 B:c7 Be2, ... Re7, ... h5, ... a6, ... B:c3, ... Re6, ... Kg7, ... h6 or ... Bh5 should be good for rough equality 13 ... Nh3+?? I was close to the right idea - 13 ... N:g2!! 14 K:g2 B:d4!!!, ... R:e5!!, ... Qh3+!!, ... Qh5! or ... f6! and 13 ... N:g2!! 14 Qd2 R:e5!!! is a killer because of 15 de Qh3!!! and 16 ... Nh4 or 13 ... N:g2!! 14 Qe4! R:e5!! and Jorge135 is just lost, not crushed after 15 Q:g2 B:d4!!, ... Re5!, ... Bh3! or 15 de Ne1!! 16 Bg5! Qh3!! or ... Q:g5 My move was completely caveman cowboy territory - I had better with 13 ... R:e5, ... Bd4, ... f6, ... Ng6, ... Bh3, ... Nd3, ... Ne2+ or ... Qh5 13 .... N:g2!! best, ... R:e5! second best 14. Kh1?? I thought 14 gh!! B:h3 was going to be good for me but 15 dc B:f1 16 K:f1, Bd2, Q:f1 or Be3 is only good for White 14 ... Bxd4!! I get a third chance at life and take it. 15. f4! Nf2+!! I saw the other win too- 15 ... Q:e1!! 16 R:e1 Nf2+ 17 Kg1 Nd3+ and 18 ... N:e1 16. Rxf2! Bxf2! 17. Qf1! Bg3 Lots of wins now - I have a rook plus an attack for pawn and knight 18. h3! f6! With the idea of ... Re1 19. Bd2? Some people will guard their Queen a lot more vigorously than their King. 19 ... fxe5!! 20. Ne4 exf4!! 21. Nxg3! fxg3 Thematic and wining but much better is 21 ... B:h3!! 22. Qc4+! Ooops Kh8 23. Qxg4! Qxg4! 24. hxg4! Re2 25. Rd1 Rff2 0-1 Missing 25 ... R:d2!! An up and down game but very interesting to analyze ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "jorge135 at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.22"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Be2 Nf6 4. Nc3 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. O-O Bc5 7. Bb5 O-O 8. Bxc6 bxc6 9. Nxe5 Qh4 10. Nxc6 Bg4 11. Qe1 Rae8 12. Ne5 Nf4 13. d4 Nh3+ 14. Kh1 Bxd4 15. f4 Nf2+ 16. Rxf2 Bxf2 17. Qf1 Bg3 18. h3 f6 19. Bd2 fxe5 20. Ne4 exf4 21. Nxg3 fxg3 22. Qc4+ Kh8 23. Qxg4 Qxg4 24. hxg4 Re2 25. Rd1 Rff2 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Oct 23 09:23:25 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:23:25 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Joel Johnson - My Second USCL Match Message-ID: <1224775405.490096edc9df8@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:58:07 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: My Second USCL Match My Second USCL Match In this week?s match against the Chicago Blaze, I find out that my opponent is scholastic chess star Ilan Meerovich. And, as in my last match, I start digging for information about my opponent. The first bit of information comes from an old blog at: http://chesslodge.blogspot.com/2005/12/ilan-meerovich.html Tuesday, December 06, 2005 Ilan Meerovich Ilan is 14 years old and highest rated player in Illinois for his age group, which also makes him one of the hot prospects for the future of US chess (USCF rating - 1972). He was the winner of numerous junior events and has also participated in The Internet Scholastic Chess Championship. At this point, I know he is a very highly rated high school senior. Then, I check out his past games played in the U.S. Chess League. I notice that he won the two games that he played against higher rated opponents, which means that he is likely stronger than his posted rating. In both of his games, he played fairly wide open and aggressive. Below are the two games. Meerovich,Ilan (2131) - Harper, Warren (2301) [E25] US Chess League 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.a3 Bxc3+ 5.bxc3 c5 6.f3 d5 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.Qd3 f5 9.e4 fxe4 10.fxe4 Ne7 11.Nf3 0?0 12.Be2 Nec6 13.0?0 Nd7 14.Be3 Qe7 15.e5 h6 16.Qg6 Qf7 17.Qg3 Qh5 18.Nh4 Qxe2 19.Bxh6 Rf7 20.Rxf7 Kxf7 21.Qxg7+ Ke8 22.Qg8+ Nf8 23.Qxf8+ Kd7 24.Qd6+ Ke8 25.Rf1 1?0 Meerovich,Ilan (2131) - Wheeler (FM), Jerry (2204) [E94] US Chess League, 10/20/2008 1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.e4 0?0 6.Be2 e5 7.0?0 Nbd7 8.d5 Nc5 9.Qc2 a5 10.Ne1 Ne8 11.f3 f5 12.Be3 b6 13.Nd3 Nf6 14.Nxc5 bxc5 15.a3 f4 16.Bf2 g5 17.b4 Nd7 18.bxc5 Nxc5 19.Na4 Nxa4 20.Qxa4 h5 21.c5 Bd7 22.c6 Bc8 23.Qd1 Rf6 24.Rb1 Rg6 25.h3 Bf6 26.Rb5 Qf8 27.Be1 Qg7 28.Rxa5 Rxa5 29.Bxa5 g4 30.fxg4 hxg4 31.Bxg4 Bxg4 32.hxg4 Rxg4 33.Qe2 Rh4 34.Qf3 Rg4 35.Rb1 Kf7 36.Rb7 1?0 Next step is to scan the internet for more games, and just like that I find this ?youtube? video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgs9Q-08Yv0 This game tells me that he has a rough time dealing with cramped positions. He loses to a weaker player because he is unable to deal with his opponent?s positional maneuvers. A very nice video put together by Matt Pullin. Meerovich, Ilan (2066) - Pullin, Matt (1895) [D09] 2007 Illinois Open Internet Chess Club (5), 2007 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 d4 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.g3 Bf5 6.Nh4 Be6 7.Qa4 g5 8.Nf3 h6 9.Bg2 Qd7 10.Qb5 0?0?0 11.Nfd2 Bh3 12.Bxc6 Qxc6 13.Qxc6 bxc6 14.f4 Be7 15.Nf3 g4 16.Nfd2 d3 17.exd3 Bc5 18.Ke2 Ne7 19.Nb3 Bg2 20.Re1 Bf3+ 21.Kd2 Bf2 22.Rf1 Bd4 23.Na3 Nf5 24.Nc2 c5 25.Re1 h5 26.Ncxd4 cxd4 27.Kc2 h4 28.Nd2 hxg3 29.hxg3 Nxg3 30.Rg1 Ne2 31.Rf1 Rh1 32.Rxh1 Bxh1 33.Nf1 g3 34.Nxg3 Nxg3 35.Bd2 Rh8 36.Rg1 Rh3 37.Be1 Nf5 38.Rg8+ Kd7 39.Rf8 Rh7 40.b4 Bf3 41.a4 Ke7 42.Rc8 Kd7 43.Rf8 Ne3+ 44.Kd2 Rh2+ 45.Kc1 Rc2+ 46.Kb1 Re2 47.Bh4 Nd1 48.Rxf7+ Kc8 49.Rf8+ Kb7 50.Rd8 Nc3+ 51.Kc1 Rh2 52.Bg5 Rh1+ 53.Kd2 Rd1+ 54.Kc2 a5 55.bxa5 c5 56.f5 Rg1 57.Bd2 Bd1+ 58.Kb2 Rg2 59.Kc1 Bxa4 60.a6+ Ka7 0?1 The next game provides me with information about how he handles the Grand Prix attack, my normal line against the Sicilian. My feeling is that I should avoid this line, mainly because this is what he will likely expect based on all of my games that are ?out there?. Velazquez, Kevin - Meerovich, Ilan (2100) [B23] ICA High School Invitational 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bb5 Nd4 6.Bd3 d6 7.Nxd4 cxd4 8.Ne2 e5 9.0?0 Ne7 10.c3 Nc6 11.cxd4 Qb6 12.Kh1 Nxd4 13.Nxd4 Qxd4 14.Bb5+ Ke7 15.Qf3 f6 16.fxe5 dxe5 17.b3 Be6 18.Ba3+ Kf7 19.Rac1 Rac8 20.d3 a6 21.Bc4 Qd7 22.Qh3 b5 23.Bxe6+ Qxe6 24.Qe3 Rhd8 25.Bb2 Kg8 26.d4 exd4 27.Bxd4 Rxc1 28.Rxc1 Bh6 29.Qxh6 Rxd4 30.Qf4 Rxe4 31.Qb8+ Qe8 32.Qg3 Qe5 33.Rc8+ Kg7 34.Rc7+ Kh6 35.Qh3+ Kg5 36.Qg3+ Qxg3 37.hxg3 Re2 38.a4 bxa4 39.bxa4 Re4 40.Rxh7 Rxa4 41.Ra7 Kg4 42.Kh2 Ra5 43.Rg7 Rh5+ 44.Kg1 Rg5 45.Rf7 Rf5 46.Rg7 g5 47.Ra7 a5 48.Kh2 Rb5 49.Ra6 f5 50.Ra8 Kh5 51.Ra6 g4 52.Kg1 Rb1+ 53.Kf2 Ra1 54.Ke3 Kg5 55.Ke2 a4 56.Kf2 Ra3 57.Kf1 Rxg3 58.Rxa4 Rb3 59.Ra8 Rb4 60.Rf8 Rb1+ 61.Ke2 0?1 And this game reaffirms that he plays the Sicilian Defense regularly with Black against e4. Menon, Gopal - Meerovich, Ilan (2100) [B78] ICA High School Invitational 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 g6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Bc4 0?0 8.Bb3 d6 9.f3 Bd7 10.Qd2 Ne5 11.0?0?0 Rb8 12.f4 Neg4 13.h3 Nxe3 14.Qxe3 Nh5 15.Rhf1 Nxf4 16.Rxf4 e5 17.Rxf7 Rxf7 18.Bxf7+ Kxf7 19.Ndb5 Bxb5 20.Nxb5 Bf8 21.Kb1 a6 22.Nc3 Kg7 23.Nd5 Be7 24.g3 Qd7 25.h4 h5 26.g4 hxg4 27.h5 gxh5 28.Qb3 Rf8 29.Ne3 Rf3 30.Nf5+ Qxf5 31.exf5 Rxb3 32.cxb3 Kf6 33.Kc2 Kxf5 34.Kd2 g3 35.Ke3 Kg4 36.Ke2 h4 37.Kf1 h3 0?1 Ok, so basically, I am dealing with an underrated young scholastic superstar looking to make a name for himself. He will likely play the Sicilian Defense and fully expects me to play the Grand Prix. And, like many young players, seems to have difficulty playing positionally. Based on this information, I decide that it is best to play a Closed Sicilian against him. The next step is to determine which line. I have played several types of lines in the past, as in the following games: Johnson, Joel (2220) - Donaldson (IM), John (2468) [B20] Joshua Tree Open Joshua Tree, CA (3), 02.06.2007 1.e4 c5 2.d3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.f4 d6 6.Nf3 Nf6 7.0?0 0?0 8.h3 b5 9.a4 b4 10.Nbd2 Bb7 11.Qe2 Nd7 12.Rb1 Rc8 13.b3 Nd4 14.Nxd4 cxd4 15.Nc4 Nb6 16.Bd2 Nxc4 17.dxc4 a5 18.f5 e6 19.fxe6 fxe6 20.Qg4 Qd7 21.h4 Rxf1+ 22.Rxf1 Rc5 23.Bh3 Re5 24.Bg2 Rc5 25.Bg5 Qe8 26.Bf6 h5 27.Qe2 Bxf6 28.Rxf6 Kg7 29.Rf2 Qe7 30.Qd2 e5 31.Qg5 Rc7 32.Kf1 Qxg5 33.hxg5 Rf7 34.Rxf7+ Kxf7 35.Ke2 Bc6 36.Kd3 Bb7 37.Bh3 Ke7 38.Bg2 Ba6 39.Bh3 ??? Johnson, Joel (2220) - Martinez, Leo (2200) [B25] Master Trek (ASU) Tempe, AZ (2), 16.06.2007 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.f4 d6 6.d3 e6 7.Nf3 Nge7 8.0?0 0?0 9.Kh1 Rb8 10.a4 a6 11.Qe1 Nd4 12.Qf2 Nec6 13.g4 (An aggressive move aimed at opening up Black's kingside.) 13...f5 14.gxf5 gxf5 15.Rg1 (The Rook belongs on the open g-file.) 15...Kh8 16.Be3 b5 17.axb5 axb5 18.Nd1 (The move is designed to relocate the Knight closer to the kingside, while chasing the Black Knight on d4 from its' outpost.) 18...Bd7 19.c3 Nxf3 20.Bxf3 Qf6 21.Qg2 (Increasing the pressure along the g-file and the h1?a8 diagonal.) 21...Ne7 22.Ra7 Rbd8 23.e5! (Black has major issues. The c-Pawn is a problem, as well as, the d4-h8 diagonal.) 23...dxe5 24.fxe5 Qxe5? (Black needed to try 24. ... Qf7 25. Bh5 Bc6 26. Bxf7 Bxg2+ 27. Rxg2 Rxf7 28. Bxc5 Bf8 29. d4 f4 30. Nf2, even though White is in full control of the game.) 25.Bxc5! (The Black Queen is tied down defending the checkmate on g7.) 25...Qf6 26.Qxg7+! Qxg7 27.Rxg7 1?0 Next, I look at other Closed Sicilian lines and I am drawn to the two following games. In this game, Robert Hess outplays a young Rob Robson in a line that was popular in the 80s. In particular, former World Champion Anatoly Karpov loved playing this line. Robert Hess (2412) - Ray Robson (2293) [B25] US Championships Stillwater USA (Round 3), 05/17/2007 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.d3 d6 6.f4 e6 7.Nf3 Nge7 8.0?0 0?0 9.Bd2 Rb8 10.Rb1 b5 11.a3 a5 12.a4 b4 13.Nb5 Nd4 14.c4 Nec6 15.Be3 Nxf3+ 16.Bxf3 Ba6 17.Re1 Qd7 18.Bg2 Rfe8 19.Kh1 Rbd8 20.Qf3 Bb7 21.Qf2 Qc8 22.Rbd1 Ba6 23.e5 dxe5 24.Bxc5 exf4 25.gxf4 Bxb5 26.axb5 Bd4 27.Bxd4 Nxd4 28.b6 Qc5 29.b7 f6 30.Re4 Nb3 31.Qe1 Kf7 32.d4 Qb6 33.c5 Qc7 34.Qe3 a4 35.f5 gxf5 36.Qh6 Kg8 37.Rg1 Kh8 38.Qxf6+ Qg7 39.Rxe6 Qxf6 40.Rxf6 Nxd4 41.c6 Re7 42.Rd6 1?0 In the next game, I really like this type of position that Fedorov gets against the former World Champ and decide that if I can refine White?s play, I believe that I can make this line work out well. And, with the help of student, Jerry Snitselaar, we tear apart this game and determine ways to improve upon White?s play. We conclude this preparation a half an hour before game time and after a couple of quick reviews and a ?head butt?, I am ready to conquer! Alexei Fedorov (2575) - Garry Kasparov (2849) [B20] Corus Wijk aan Zee NED (2), 14.01.2001 1.e4 c5 2.d3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.f4 d6 6.Nf3 Nf6 7.0?0 0?0 8.h3 b5 9.g4 a5 10.f5 b4 11.Qe1 Ba6 12.Qh4 c4 13.Bh6 cxd3 14.cxd3 Bxd3 15.Re1 Bxh6 16.Qxh6 Qb6+ 17.Kh1 Ne5 18.Nbd2 Rac8 19.Ng5 Rc2 20.Rf1 Bxf1 21.Rxf1 Rfc8 22.fxg6 hxg6 23.Nb3 Rxg2 24.Kxg2 Rc2+ 25.Kg3 Qe3+ 0?1 As for the match itself, we were on the verge of elimination, with our backs against the wall. We needed to trounce these guys to remain in contention and we did just that!! Here are the three favorable decisive games from the match: GM Nikola Mitkov - CHC (2601) ? IM Rogelio Barcenilla - ARZ (2560) [C28] ICC 60 30 u Internet Chess Club, 10/22/2008, Board 1 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d3 Nc6 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.Nge2 d5 6.exd5 Nxd5 7.0?0 Nxc3 8.Nxc3 0?0 9.f4 Na5 10.Bb3 Nxb3 11.axb3 exf4 12.Bxf4 Qd4+ 13.Kh1 Bxc3 14.bxc3 Qxc3 15.Ra4 b5 16.Re4 Qc6 17.Re7 Bh3 18.Qd2 Rac8 19.Be5 f6 20.Bd4 Rce8 21.Rfe1 Rxe7 22.Rxe7 Rd8 23.Bxa7 Ra8 24.Bg1 Ra2 25.Re2 Bg4 26.Rf2 h5 27.b4 Kf7 28.d4 Rb2 29.d5 Qd6 30.h3 Bd7 31.Qd1 Qxb4 32.Qxh5+ Kg8 33.Qe2 Rb1 34.Qe3 Rd1 35.c3 Qb1 36.Rd2 Re1 37.Re2 Rf1 38.Kh2 Qf5 39.Qd4 Rf4 40.Qa7 Rf3 41.Re3 Rxe3 42.Bxe3 Qe5+ 43.Kg1 Qxc3 44.Bf4 b4 45.d6 b3 46.Qa8+ Kh7 47.Qe4+ f5 48.Qe7 Qd4+ 49.Be3 Qa4 50.Bc1 Qd4+ 51.Kh2 Qxd6+ 52.Qxd6 cxd6 53.Kg3 g5 54.Kf2 Kg6 55.g3 f4 56.gxf4 gxf4 57.Kf3 Kf5 58.Bb2 Bc6+ 59.Kf2 Ke4 60.h4 Kd3 61.h5 Kc2 62.h6 Be4 White resigns 0?1 IM Mark Ginsburg - ARZ (2410) ? IM Jan van de Mortel - CHC (2460) [B76] ICC 60 30 u Internet Chess Club, 10/22/2008, Board 2 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 0?0 8.Qd2 Nc6 9.0?0?0 Nxd4 10.Bxd4 Be6 11.Kb1 Qc7 12.Nd5 Bxd5 13.exd5 Rfc8 14.Rc1 Qd7 15.g4 b5 16.c4 Qb7 17.h4 bxc4 18.Bxc4 Rc7 19.b3 Rac8 20.Qb2 h5 21.gxh5 Nxh5 22.Bxg7 Nxg7 23.h5 Rxc4 24.Rxc4 Rxc4 25.bxc4 Qxb2+ 26.Kxb2 gxh5 27.Kb3 Kh7 28.Kb4 Kg6 29.Kb5 Nf5 30.Ka6 Ne3 31.Kxa7 Nxc4 32.a4 e6 33.Ka6 Kg5 34.Kb5 exd5 35.a5 Nxa5 36.Kxa5 h4 37.Kb4 Kf4 38.Rxh4+ Kxf3 39.Kc3 f5 40.Kd2 f4 41.Rh6 Kg2 42.Rg6+ Kf3 43.Rxd6 Ke4 44.Ke2 f3+ 45.Kf2 d4 46.Rd8 d3 47.Rd7 Black resigns 1?0 NM Joel Johnson - ARZ (2211) ? Ilan Meerovich - CHC (2131) [B20] ICC 60 30 u Internet Chess Club, 10/22/2008, Board 3 1.e4 d6 (No need to panic. I am sure that he wants to play a Sicilian and this move does not change my opinion of that fact.) 2.d3 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 Nf6 5.f4 0?0 6.Nf3 c5 (Ah, yes, all is well now.) 7.0?0 Nc6 8.h3 d5 (Even though this is the best move in the position for Black, I felt comfortable playing against this line. The move that I spent the most time on here was 8. ... b5.) 9.e5 Nd7 10.c3 e6 (Even though this is a solid move, I was happy to see it. Practically speaking, it seemed better for him to counter with 10. ... Nb6 and 11. ... Bf5. Part of the problem with e6 is that Black has to play very precise to avoid having his Bishop on c8 becoming locked out of the game.) 11.Na3 a6 12.Nc2 b5 13.d4 c4 (Black continues to play moves that make it more and more difficult to fre his locked in light-squared Bishop on c8. And, even though it would appear that the situation is a wash because of my locked in dark-squared Bishop on c1, I plan on making kingside Pawn advances that will provide my Bishop with some real future value.) 14.Qe1 (My goal now is to secure the queenside, then turn my full attention to building up a kingside attack.) 14...a5 15.a3 Rb8 16.Kh1 Qe7 17.Bd2 Rb6 18.g4 Ndb8 19.Qg3 b4 20.axb4 axb4 21.Ne3 bxc3 22.bxc3 f5 23.exf6 Bxf6 24.Rae1 Qc7 25.Ne5 Nxe5 26.fxe5 Bg7 27.Rxf8+ Bxf8 28.Rf1 Rb2? (I had expected him to play 28. ... Bg7, after which I had planned on playing g5, followed by Ng4 and Nf6 with a growing advantage.) 29.Qf4 (My intention is to play Nd5! on the next move, but it is also very good here. One of the lines I was looking at here was 29. ... Bg7 30. Nd5! ed5 31. Bd5 Kh8 32. Qf8!! Bf8 33. Kg7 Rg8#.) 29...Qe7 30.Nxd5 exd5 31.Bxd5+ Black resigns (All moves lead to checkmate, for example: 31. ... Be6 32. Be6 Kh8 33. Qf8 Qf8 34. Rf8 Kg7 35. Rg8#; 31. ... Kh8 32. Qf8 Qf8 33. Rf8 Kg7 34. Rg8#; 31. ... Kg7 32. Qh6 Kh8 33. Rf8 Qf8 34. Qf8#) 1?0 And, one last time, my first US Chess League game: Joel Johnson - ARZ (2211) - FM John Bick - TEN (2249) [C30] ICC 75 30 u United States Chess League, 09/17/2008, Board 4 1.f4 e5 2.e4 Bc5 (At this point, I just sat and twiddled my thumbs for five or six minutes. Much like playing poker online, you need to create the illusion that you were somewhat taken aback by his bet (move), 2. ... Bc5 and needed time to come up with a response.) 3.Qh5! (The surprise move! From this point forward, Black's clock starts seriously ticking and ticking. It is obvious that I have blindsided him and now, everything related to this game is in my favor.) 3...Nc6 4.fxe5 g6 5.Qe2 (As in my key game, P Buecker - M Maier, I like placing the Queen here instead of Qf3, which happens in many of the other sample games.) 5...Nd4 (Here, John plays the move that I had just finished looking at, prior to the start of play. Not that it mattered because my preparation has resulted in a huge time advantage already and a great idea of how to proceed.) 6.Qd3 Qe7 7.c3 Nc6 8.Qg3 (I have reached the position that I wanted, when I decided to play this line.) 8...d6 (In several of the sample games, Black frequently employed the move, Bxg1 to avoid losing the tempo after White plays 9. d4 attacking the Black Bishop. The extra tempo is important to Black's defensive chances.) 9.d4 Bb6 10.Bb5 (At this point in the game, I really want to play Bg5, but I can see that Black will respond with f6, and the eventual capture of my e-Pawn on e4. So, by playing 10. Bb5 first, I am threatening to win his Knight on c6 with the move d5 and on the eventual Qxe4+, I will be able to get all my pieces developed without blocking in this Bishop, say after the move Ne2.) 10...Bd7 11.Bg5 f6 12.exf6 Qxe4+ 13.Ne2 Ne5? (This is a desperate attempt by Black to complicate the position. However, I routinely play complicated games and have no problems sifting through everything.) 14.Nd2 (This is the key move to refuting Black's 13. ... Ne5?. The point is Black has no place good to relocate his Queen. On 14. ... Qf5, White wins after 15. Rf1, 16. f7+, and 17. fxg8(Q)+. On 14. ... Qc2, White wins by playing 15. Rc1 Qxb2 16. Rb1 Qxa2 17. dxe5. And, on 14. ... Qd5:) 14...Qd5 15.c4! (Black wanted to capture my Bishop on b5 in response to me grabbing his Knight on e5 and should I decide to snatch the Bishop on d7, he would simply recapture with his Knight on e5. The move c4 foils Black's plan by protecting the White Bishop on b5 and leaving Black's Knight on e5 hanging.) 15...Nd3+ (Black is still trying to hold onto his piece.) 16.Qxd3 Qxg5 17.f7+! (This move wins the piece for good.) 17...Kxf7 18.Bxd7 Nf6 19.0?0 Rad8 20.Ne4 Black resigns 1?0 And, with one week to go, as I understand it, we can make the playoffs if we beat Seattle next week by at least a 3-1 score and Chicago loses to Dallas (a distinct possibility, as Dallas is one of the better teams). Lastly, I am an alternate on the team, and according to the rules, I am ineligible to play any more games for the team (see below). So, it looks like I will have a perfect 2-0 record for the team this year! Hopefully, I will be able to play a larger role on the team next year. Go Scorpions!! US Chess League E. Alternate Rules 1. Two players of any rating can be declared as alternates by each team before the season. 2. Each of these players may play at most two games, and a combined total of at most three games. 3. Alternates are not eligible to compete in the postseason (semi-exception in E6 though). 4. The main intent of the alternate spots is to give each team an extra degree of flexibility. As such, the alternates should really be local players who will generally fill in during extreme circumstances (though teams can use them whenever they see fit). For example, naming a GM from the other side of the country who is scheduled to be in your city for a tournament would not be considered in the spirit of the alternate system. In general, any GM or IM alternate will need to reside in reasonable locale to the team in question to be allowed as an alternate. The League has the right to declare ANY alternate who is felt not to be in the spirit of the system as ineligible. 5. Once the alternates are named, and your season begins, they can only be replaced by a player who lives approximately within 100 miles of your playing site. Once an alternate has played a game, they cannot be replaced on the alternate list under any circumstances. Any team replacing an alternate who hasn't played a game yet during in the season must comply with the same rules that are used to replace someone on the main roster, in that they must be either rated U2400 or within 50 points of the player they are replacing. 6. For teams wishing to switch players on the main roster with those who are alternates after the season begins, or simply wanting to switch an alternate to the main roster, this is how it works. Regardless of which of the three below scenarios this switch or replacement follows, this change must also fall under the rule of general replacing outlined in A7.(a) Assuming neither player has played a game, teams may switch a main player and alternate with no penalty (i.e. this does not require the use of one of their two allowed replacements).(b) If the alternate has already played a game, then when moving them to the main roster, the player they replace is removed from the roster entirely (i.e. cannot switch to an alternate spot). The team effectively loses that alternate spot, and this, unlike (a), does require the use of one of the teams' two replacements.(c) If the main player has already played a game and the alternate has not, then once again the main player is removed from the roster entirely, but in this situation, the team is permitted to replace that alternate (following the rule mentioned in E5, but again they cannot be replaced with the main player who's place they are taking). This also does use up one of the teams' two allowed replacements.Note that if a team switches an alternate to the main roster, any games that player has already played still count towards the three total allowed for alternates. Also, when an alternate moves to the main roster they must play at least two regular season games AFTER being added to the main roster (i.e. at least two games as a non-alternate) to be allowed to compete in the playoffs; this is done since we don't want teams putting an alternate on the main roster during the final week, realizing that player might be more useful than some other in the postseason. Anybody see a loophole? Robby, you are the lawyer! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081023/0044f375/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Oct 23 11:40:32 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:40:32 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Anand-Kramnik Game 7 Message-ID: <1224783632.4900b71059be2@www.taom.com> Anand got two Whites in a row, something I've never seen before in a World Championship match. The game looked like a solidly played draw. In the final position Fritz gives Anand +2 but a monkey could see that both Kings are boxed out. Anand needs 1.5 out of 5 to clinch the match. The World waits with bated breath for tomorrow to see if Kramnik can win a game with White. Anand seems to be in perfect physical, intellectual and pyschological condition. Perhaps being a game up against Kasparov and losing helped Vishy appreciate that one victory isn't enough, you have to pile on. Both sides whipped out the first 14 moves. Kramnik seems content to draw with Black but Anand isn't! [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.23"] [Round "-"] [White "*GM_Anand"] [Black "*GM_Kramnik"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2783"] [BlackElo "2772"] [Opening "QGD Slav: Dutch variation"] [ECO "D18"] [NIC "SL.05"] [Time "12:12:40"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 Bf5 6. e3 e6 7. Bxc4 Bb4 8. O-O Nbd7 9. Qe2 Bg6 10. e4 O-O 11. Bd3 Bh5 12. e5 Nd5 13. Nxd5 cxd5 14. Qe3 Re8 15. Ne1 Bg6 16. Bxg6 hxg6 17. Nd3 Qb6 18. Nxb4 Qxb4 19. b3 Rac8 20. Ba3 Qc3 21. Rac1 Qxe3 22. fxe3 f6 23. Bd6 g5 24. h3 Kf7 25. Kf2 Kg6 26. Ke2 fxe5 27. dxe5 b6 28. b4 Rc4 29. Rxc4 dxc4 30. Rc1 Rc8 31. g4 a5 32. b5 c3 33. Rc2 Kf7 34. Kd3 Nc5+ 35. Bxc5 Rxc5 36. Rxc3 Rxc3+ 37. Kxc3 {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Oct 23 12:15:26 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:15:26 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Andy Rea sets me straight from Kuwait on Anand-Kramnik Game 7 Message-ID: <1224785726.4900bf3ec53fe@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Andrew Rea ----- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:04:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrew Rea Reply-To: andrerea2 at yahoo.com Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] Anand-Kramnik Game 7 To: Brian Wall ?? The two Whites is a new deal, but implemented at the Kramnik-Topalov match?? this ?new element was overshadowed by other events in that match.....? anyway, the reversal ? lets the player who starts Game1 as White end the final game with White also? --- On Thu, 10/23/08, Brian Wall wrote: From: Brian Wall Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Anand-Kramnik Game 7 To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, "Brian Wall Chesslist" Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 1:40 PM Anand got two Whites in a row, something I've never seen before in a World Championship match. The game looked like a solidly played draw. In the final position Fritz gives Anand +2 but a monkey could see that both Kings are boxed out. Anand needs 1.5 out of 5 to clinch the match. The World waits with bated breath for tomorrow to see if Kramnik can win a game with White. Anand seems to be in perfect physical, intellectual and pyschological condition. Perhaps being a game up against Kasparov and losing helped Vishy appreciate that one victory isn't enough, you have to pile on. Both sides whipped out the first 14 moves. Kramnik seems content to draw with Black but Anand isn't! [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.23"] [Round "-"] [White "*GM_Anand"] [Black "*GM_Kramnik"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2783"] [BlackElo "2772"] [Opening "QGD Slav: Dutch variation"] [ECO "D18"] [NIC "SL.05"] [Time "12:12:40"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 Bf5 6. e3 e6 7. Bxc4 Bb4 8. O-O Nbd7 9. Qe2 Bg6 10. e4 O-O 11. Bd3 Bh5 12. e5 Nd5 13. Nxd5 cxd5 14. Qe3 Re8 15. Ne1 Bg6 16. Bxg6 hxg6 17. Nd3 Qb6 18. Nxb4 Qxb4 19. b3 Rac8 20. Ba3 Qc3 21. Rac1 Qxe3 22. fxe3 f6 23. Bd6 g5 24. h3 Kf7 25. Kf2 Kg6 26. Ke2 fxe5 27. dxe5 b6 28. b4 Rc4 29. Rxc4 dxc4 30. Rc1 Rc8 31. g4 a5 32. b5 c3 33. Rc2 Kf7 34. Kd3 Nc5+ 35. Bxc5 Rxc5 36. Rxc3 Rxc3+ 37. Kxc3 {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081023/7770c82c/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Oct 23 18:46:55 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:46:55 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Chris Peterson on chesscube Message-ID: <1224809215.49011aff6abfc@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Chris Peterson ----- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:27:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Peterson Reply-To: garrensilverwing at yahoo.com Subject: chesscube To: Brian Wall [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "litica at chesscube.com"] [Black "frostbitten at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.23"] [Result "0-1"] ? 1. d4? d5 2. c4? e5 3. e3? Nc6 4. cxd5? Qxd5 5. Nf3? exd4 6. exd4? Bb4+ 7. Nc3? Bg4 8. Bd2? Bxc3 9. bxc3? Nge7 10. Be2? O-O 11. O-O? Ng6 12. c4? Qh5 13. d5? Nce5 14. Bb4? Rfe8 15. Nd4? Nf4 16. Bxg4? Nxg4 17. h3? Nxh3+ 18. gxh3? Qxh3 19. Nf3? Re5 20. d6? Rh5? 0-1 ? white resigns ----- End forwarded message ----- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081023/4f3d0e71/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Oct 23 22:46:09 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:46:09 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Fishing Pole versus the Philosopher Message-ID: <1224823569.490153117311f@www.taom.com> Forfuncare3 is a 1766 on www.Chesscube.com that plays very slowly and accurately. He always loses on time but usually with a sound position. There are many blitz players like this. They will not or cannot let go of a position. Perhaps they are practicing for tournament Chess. I was curious how such a player would handle the Fishing Pole. [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "forfuncare3 at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.23"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Chesscubers have never seen Jack Young's Fishing Pole. 5. c3 a6 6. Bxc6 99% allow the Hyper-Pole with 6 Ba4 Bc5 7 d4 Ba7 but I had just beaten forfuncare3 so he was in a trading moood. 6 ... dxc6! Almost always the correct way to recapture in the Fishing Pole to free my QB 7. h3 h5!! The h-pawn is the rod, the g4-knight is the bait and the White pieces are the fish 8. d4 Bd6 A wing attack depends on a solid center 9. Bg5 Very macho and popular with humanoids 9 ... f6!! Beginning the Kingside pawn storm- my stoic knight is always prepared to die for a cause greater than himself. 10. Bc1 g5!! Boo! 11. hxg4?? hxg4!! Unleashing the gates of Hell- Vance Aandahl 12. dxe5 gxf3 I'm all about removing bodyguards. Part of the reason I move the g7-pawn is to clear a path for my Queen to the h-file. I can give forfuncare3 a Halloween scare before taking the knight. 12 ... Qe7!!-d7!! 13 Re1 Qh7!! 14 Kf1 gf!! 15 Q:f3 B:e5!! with a free attack Other good moves in this line- 14 ... Be6!, 13 ... gf! 13. exd6?? fxg2??? Again I miss 13 ... Qd7!! 14 Q:f3 Qh7 Game Over 14. Kxg2 I was finally going to play 14 ... Qd7!! after 14 Re1 but it's not as strong. 14 Re1 cd! is also good for me 14 ... Bh3+! 15. Kf3! cxd6?? Why do I love the Fishing Pole so much? It's because of positions like this, so wild, so insane, so irrational. It's also the idea of dragging innocent Chessplayers kicking and screaming into my torture chamber. I wanted to see if I could get away with being a piece down. I am only a little better now. 15 ... Qd7! is better for the third time. Of course I could just take the rook and win but where's the fun in that? Now we have a real fight! 16. Rg1 Qe7!! I have a pawn for my piece and I intend to castle and take potshots at the King. I am ahead in development because I have less pieces to bring out! 17. Qd4 O-O-O!! I am still winning but nowhere close to 13 ... Qd7!! Half the fun of the Fishing Pole is to find out where you went wrong. I like the process of thinking. Meanwhile the Unorthodox Openings babies are trying to get me to defend "refutations". 18. Be3 d5!! Pring open the can of tuna. One side holding on, one side letting go- Garth Brooks 19. Nd2! Rh4?? 19 ... de+!! 20 Q:e4 Qf7!!, ... Qc7 or ...Be6! might still win 20. Qa7!!!! dxe4+ 21. Ke2! I sat and stared - somehow White's e3-bishop holds the whole position together. White's wandering King doesn't matter any more 21 ... Qd6! 22. Nc4?? 22 Kd1!!, Bd4!! or Ke1! safe! 22 ... Qd3+ I can also ignore the free knight with 22 ... Bg4+!! 23 f3+ ef+! 24 Ke1 Qe6!!, ... Qd3!! or ... Qe7! 23. Ke1! Qxc4???? I saw 23 ... Bg4!! was strong but I did not want to allow a knight check 24. Qa8+???? it's unbelievable but Forfuncare3 has a freak perpetual after 24 Bb6!!! Rd5! 25 Qa8+ Kd7 26 Qd8+ Ke6 27 Qe8+ Kf5 28 Qc8+ Kg6 29 Qg8+ Kh5?? 30 Qh7 checkmate 24 ... Kc7! 25. Bb6+! Kxb6! 26. Qxd8+! Ka7! 27. Rd1?? 27 Q:f6!! or Qd4+ looks about even to me 27 ... Bg4?? 27 ... e3!! 28 fe Qe6!! or 27 ... Qf7! or .. c5! might win 28. Qd4+!! Qxd4! 29. Rxd4! I have chances but it looks roughly equal. Forfuncare3 was almost out of time. 29 ... Bf3! 30. Rd6! f5! 31. Rg6? g4 32. Rg5! Rh7 33. Rxf5! Rd7 0-1 Forfuncare3 resigns The mate threat messed him up - There's still a fight raging after 34 R:f3 ef 35 R:g4 Re7+ 36 Kf1 Re2 37 Rf4 R:b2 38 R:f3 R:a2 and my extra pawn might not hold up This game had more turnover than the Broncos Monday night. Let's review. Move 13 ... Qd7!! was fatal Move 15 ... B:f1!! was fatal Move 19 ... de+!! should win Move 22 ... or 23 ... Bg4!! was fatal Move 24 Bb6!!!! was equal After that the ending swung back and forth between win for me and equal, I think. Move 13 ... fg?? threw away a win 14 K:g2?? threw away a draw 15 ... cd!? threw away a win 19 ... Rh4? threw away a win 22 Nc4?? threw away a draw 23 ... Q:c4?? threw away a win 24 Qa8+?? threw away a draw and there were probably more fumbles in the ensuing endgame. Whew! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "forfuncare3 at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.23"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. c3 a6 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. h3 h5 8. d4 Bd6 9. Bg5 f6 10. Bc1 g5 11. hxg4 hxg4 12. dxe5 gxf3 13. exd6 fxg2 14. Kxg2 Bh3+ 15. Kf3 cxd6 16. Rg1 Qe7 17. Qd4 O-O-O 18. Be3 d5 19. Nd2 Rh4 20. Qa7 dxe4+ 21. Ke2 Qd6 22. Nc4 Qd3+ 23. Ke1 Qxc4 24. Qa8+ Kc7 25. Bb6+ Kxb6 26. Qxd8+ Ka7 27. Rd1 Bg4 28. Qd4+ Qxd4 29. Rxd4 Bf3 30. Rd6 f5 31. Rg6 g4 32. Rg5 Rh7 33. Rxf5 Rd7 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Oct 24 11:32:09 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:32:09 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Joel Johnson sac-sac-mate US Chess League Week 9 Recap Message-ID: <1224869529.490206990ecb3@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:56:17 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: US Chess League Week 9 Recap Hi All, Once again my game was featured in the weekly recap USCL video. Coverage of our match starts at 13:55 if you want to fast forward through the other matches. Da-Da-Dunt Da-Da-Dunt http://www.chessvideos.tv/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=4002 And, also featured on Elizabeth Vicary's blog at: http://lizzyknowsall.blogspot.com/2008/10/joel-johnson-annotates.html Enjoy, Joel _________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081024/f5a206fa/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Oct 24 12:15:37 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:15:37 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Anand as Black draws Kramnik Game 8, needs 1/4 to win "semi-final" match Message-ID: <1224872137.490210c9a80af@www.taom.com> 10 ... B:b5 had only been played in one postal game. When Kasparov couldn't crack Kramnik's Berlin Defense and couldn't win a game, Gary moaned - " I don't have any openings!" This seems to be Kramnik's problem, almost every game Anand is prepared for what happens and Kramnik is struggling. It seemed to me f5 was screaming to be played the whole middle game but Kramnik eventually played e5 instead. [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.24"] [Round "-"] [White "*GM_Kramnik"] [Black "*GM_Anand"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2772"] [BlackElo "2783"] [Opening "QGD: 4.Nf3"] [ECO "D37"] [NIC "QI.01"] [Time "12:41:41"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 dxc4 1933 5. e4 Bb4 6. Bg5 c5 7. Bxc4 cxd4 1934 8. Nxd4 Qa5 1939 9. Bb5+ 1988 9 ... Bd7 1990 10. Bxf6 Bxb5!! 2006 Postal game 11. Nxb5! gxf6! 12. O-O! Nc6! 13. a3! Bxc3! 14. Nxc3! Rg8! Not another Anand g-file attack! 15. f4 Rd8! 16. Qe1 Qb6+! 17. Rf2 Rd3 18. Qe2! Qd4 19. Re1 a6 20. Kh1 Kf8! 21. Ref1 Rg6 22. g3 Kg7 23. Rd1 Rxd1+! 24. Nxd1! Kh8 25. Nc3! Rg8 26. Kg2 Rd8 27. Qh5! Kg7! 28. Qg4+! Kh8! 29. Qh5 Kg7! 30. Qg4+ Kh8! 31. Qh4! Kg7 32. e5 f5 33. Qf6+! Kg8! 34. Qg5+ Kh8! 35. Qf6+ Kg8! 36. Re2! Qc4 37. Qg5+! Kh8! 38. Qf6+ Kg8! 39. Qg5+ Kh8! {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2 Time at the end- Anand 14 Kramnik 9 I haven't sorted out all the complications but in general I only saw winning chances for Kramnik, not Anand ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.24"] [Round "-"] [White "*GM_Kramnik"] [Black "*GM_Anand"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2772"] [BlackElo "2783"] [Opening "QGD: 4.Nf3"] [ECO "D37"] [NIC "QI.01"] [Time "12:41:41"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. e4 Bb4 6. Bg5 c5 7. Bxc4 cxd4 8. Nxd4 Qa5 9. Bb5+ Bd7 10. Bxf6 Bxb5 11. Nxb5 gxf6 12. O-O Nc6 13. a3 Bxc3 14. Nxc3 Rg8 15. f4 Rd8 16. Qe1 Qb6+ 17. Rf2 Rd3 18. Qe2 Qd4 19. Re1 a6 20. Kh1 Kf8 21. Ref1 Rg6 22. g3 Kg7 23. Rd1 Rxd1+ 24. Nxd1 Kh8 25. Nc3 Rg8 26. Kg2 Rd8 27. Qh5 Kg7 28. Qg4+ Kh8 29. Qh5 Kg7 30. Qg4+ Kh8 31. Qh4 Kg7 32. e5 f5 33. Qf6+ Kg8 34. Qg5+ Kh8 35. Qf6+ Kg8 36. Re2 Qc4 37. Qg5+ Kh8 38. Qf6+ Kg8 39. Qg5+ Kh8 {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Oct 24 18:20:09 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:20:09 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Dennis Monokroussos: Kramnik-Anand, game 8 with notes Message-ID: <1224894009.4902663904115@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Email subscription to blog articles ----- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:04:20 -0400 From: Email subscription to blog articles Reply-To: historicchess at comcast.net, chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Subject: [chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Kramnik-Anand, game 8 with notes To: chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Posted by Dennis Monokroussos: Kramnik-Anand, game 8 with notes http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1224893051.shtml Going into this game, Kramnik's chances to save the match were already very slim, and with the draw today slim has left the building. Anand leads 5.5-2.5, and needs just one point in his next four games to keep the title. He failed to cash in, but Kramnik did have some chances today, as you can see [1]here. References 1. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/files/kramnik_anand_2008_8.htm _______________________________________________ chessmind mailing list chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chessmind From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Oct 24 18:54:00 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:54:00 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] I learn from my mistakes! Message-ID: <1224896040.49026e2873844@www.taom.com> That's not easy when you're half-Irish. In my Chess email Fishing Pole against the Philosopher game with Forfuncare3 I continuously underestimated the idea - ... Qd7-h7-h1 checkmate In my game right before Playerg with Rako, given below, I got in a very tricky situation and slowed way down to find the right ideas - I did find moves I was proud of - 24 ... Ng5!, 25 ... N:f3+!!, 27 ... B:c4!!, 28 ... R:e3!, 29 ... Qe6!!, 30 ... Bb6!!, 31 ... Ref3!!, 32 ... R:g3+!!, 33 ... Rg8!, 34 ... Qb3+! even though I missed some better moves, 24 ... Nh4!! 26 ... dc?? 27 B:g7+!! K:g7?? 28 Nf5+!! 28 ... R:f3!! 33 ... R:g2+!!!!, ... Rf7!!!, ... Rh3+!! 34 ... Bc7+!! I didn't see everything but I did find some good ideas by taking my time which is not easy in a blitz game. So by analyzing my mistakes against ForfuneCare and getting serious with Rako, I was well prepared for Playerg, a 1900 on the free site www.Chescube.com with awesome free IM Andrew Martin vidoes, a log of all your games, chat rooms and many other feautures. I also occasionally play on QueenAlice.com or Gameknot.com with one week to move, although we play a lot faster. [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "playerg at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.24"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Supercharged Fishing Pole, I race through my moves until the critical moments, then I play like a GM. Meanwhile my opponents stumble uncertainly over new terrain, terrified, disoriented, concerned like a politician addressing a worldwide recession as covered in this Chess video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLsb1rCiEMI 5. h3 h5!! Fishing Pole, rod and reel, Jack Young, Brian Wall, fish in the pail, etc., as fully covered in Anthea's Chess video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCk6zdtSLk 6. d3 I felt sorry for my opponent already - trying to play safe against the Fishing Hook ( Barb Fortune ) is the quickest way to get mated in a hurry. 6 ... Bc5!! 7. Bg5?? f6!! Pawn wave, Kingside, yada, yada, yada 8. Bh4? g5!! One thing I picked up from my Forfuncare game is that ... g5!! is better than my prepatory ... d6 9. Bg3 h4!! 10. hxg4?? Fishfaces MUST snap at the dangled bait eventually 10 ... hxg3!! Deadly threats on f2 11. d4?? Sometimes d2-d4 frees the c1-bishop but here that bishop is gone and d4 was played in two moves so 11 d4?? is very unlikely to help 11 ... Nxd4!! with the idea 12 fg Ne2! double checkmate 12. b4 Nxf3+!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have other killer moves like 12 ... Bb6!!! or ... gf+!! or ... Bb4!! or ... d5! but the real super-killer again is 12 ... Qe7!!!!!! 13 bc Rh1+!! 14 K:h1 Qh7+ 15 Kg1 N:f3+!! 16 Q:f3 Qh2 checkmate so that only leaves White pitiful piece throwaways like 12 ... Qe7!!!!!! 13 Bg8 N:f3+ 14 gf B:f2+ 15 R:f2 gf+ 16 K:f2 R:g8 and that's just if I want immediate tons of material, I can keep going for mate by ignoring the silly bishop with 12 ... Qe7!!!!!! 13 Bg8 Qg7!!!!!! ( +26 ) Why grab material when you can make your opponent beg to give it away - 14 Q:d4, Re1 and B:f7+ are the only way to avoid immediate mate. As I have noted many times 90% of tactical puzzles can be solved by eliminating any obstacles between the Attacking Queen and the Enemy King. 12 ... Qe7!!!!!! 13 Bg8 Qg7!!!!!! 14 Bf7+ Q:f7 ( +46 - 5 Queens!) 15 Re1 ( only move ) Qh7!!!!!! 16 Kf1 ( only move ) Qh1+ mating 17 Ng1 Rh2 18 Qf3! N:f3 19 Ke2 Q:g2 20 Kd3 N:e1+ 21 Kc3 Q:e4 22 bc Q:c2+ 23 Kb4 Nd3+ 24 Ka3 Qb2+ 25 Ka4 Qb4 checkmate finally hunting that King down 14 moves later ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 ... Qe7!!!!!! 13 Bg8 Qg7!!!!!! 14 Re1 Qh6!!!!!! 15 Kf1 ( only move ) Qh1+ 16 Ng1 Rh2 17 Qf3 ( only move ) N:f3 18 Bf7+ Kd8!! ignoring the bishop again, making a mockery of Queenside development 19 Ke2 Q:g2 20 Kd3 N:e1+ 21 Kc3 Q:e4 22 Kb2 Q:c2+ 23 Ka3 Nd3 24 Bb3 B:b4+ 25 Ka4 Qc6 checkmate finally hunting that King down 14 moves later ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 ... Qe7!!!!!! 13 Bg8 Qg7!!!!!! 14 Q:d4 B:d4 15 Rd1 gf+ 16 Kf1 Rh1+ 17 Ke2 R:d1 18 Nbd2, K:d1, Nh2 12 ... Qe7!!!!!! 13 Bg8 Qg7!!!!!! 14 Q:d4 B:d4 15 Rd1 gf+ 16 Kf1 Rh1+ 17 Ke2 R:d1 18 Nh2 Re1+ 19 Kd3 ( Only move ) Q:g8 20 Nf1 ( Only move ) R:f1 mating 21 Nd2 R:a1 22 b5 Q:a2 23 b6 Qa5 24 bc Qc3+ 25 Ke2 Re1 checkmate finally hunting that King down 14 moves later 12 ... Qe7!!!!!! 13 Bg8 Qg7!!!!!! 14 Q:d4 B:d4 15 Rd1 gf+ 16 Kf1 Rh1+ 17 Ke2 R:d1 18 K:d1 f1(Q)+ 19 Ne1 ( only move ) d6!!!!!! mating 20 Be6 B:e6 21 c3 B:g4+ 22 Kc2 Q:e1 23 Kb2 Qg8 24 Kc2 Be3 25 b5 Qd1+ 26 Kb2 Bc1 checkmate finally hunting that King down 15 moves later 12 ... Qe7!!!!!! 13 Bg8 Qg7!!!!!! 14 Q:d4 B:d4 15 Rd1 gf+ 16 Kf1 Rh1+ 17 Ke2 R:d1 18 Nbd2 R:a1 ( +35 ) 12 ... Qe7!!!!!! 13 Bg8 Qg7!!!!!! 14 Q:d4 B:d4 15 Rc1 gf+ 16 Kf1 Rh1+ 17 Ke2 R:c1 18 Nbd2, Nh2 12 ... Qe7!!!!!! 13 Bg8 Qg7!!!!!! 14 Q:d4 B:d4 15 Rc1 gf+ 16 Kf1 Rh1+ 17 Ke2 R:c1 18 Nbd2 R:a1 ( +35 ) 12 ... Qe7!!!!!! 13 Bg8 Qg7!!!!!! 14 Q:d4 B:d4 15 Re1 gf+ 16 Kf1 Rh1+ 17 Ke2 fe(Q)+ 18 N:e1 Q:g8 ( +32) so 12 ... Qe7!!!!!! 13 Bg8 Qg7!!!!!! 14 Re1 Qh6!!!!!! leads to checkmate or a +30 material advantage for me The other two moves that avoid immediate mate after 12 ... Qe7 are 13 Q:d4 giving up the Queen or Re1 12 ... Qe7 13 Re1 Qh7 14 Kf1 ( only move ) Qh1+ 15 Ng1 Rh2 16 Qf3 ( Only move ) N:f3 17 Ke2 Q:g2 18 Kd3 gf 19 Bf7+ Kf8! 20 Kc4 fe(Q) 21 K:c5 Qe3+ 22 Kb5 a6+ 23 Ka5 b5 24 N:f3 Qb6 checkmate finally hunting that King down 12 moves later 12 ... Qe7 13 Q:d4 B:d4 14 Re1 gf+ ( +26 ) 15 Kf1 Rh1+ 16 Ke2 fe(Q)+ 17 N:e1 Qh7 ( +30) Ok so after all this I can stop and say that 12 ... Qe7!!!!!! 13 Q:d4 B:d4 is worth at least +30 for me and any other 13th White move leads right to mate if you follow it long enough. So once again I miss ... Qe7-h7 Back to the game -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13. gxf3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- on 13 Q:f3 I was going to swap everything on f2 and be up an exchange and a pawn 13 ... Qe7!!! Finally catching on that ... Qe7-h7 is more dangerous than an f2-swap 14. bxc5?? The best try is 14 Qd5 and I have multiple wins - 14 ... B:f2+!!, ... B:b4, ... Bb6!!, ... Bd4!! among others PlayerG's strategy or harrassing my Fishing Pole c5-bishop with d4, b4 and bc has been a disaster 14 ... Qh7 mating 15. Bf7+! Kxf7! 16. Qd5+! Kg7! 0-1 All Player G can do is throw away his Queen and wait to be mated next move on the familiar squares h1 or h2 He lasted a dozen moves with his precious Ruy Lopez against my maniacal Fishing Pole. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "playerg at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.24"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. d3 Bc5 7. Bg5 f6 8. Bh4 g5 9. Bg3 h4 10. hxg4 hxg3 11. d4 Nxd4 12. b4 Nxf3+ 13. gxf3 Qe7 14. bxc5 Qh7 15. Bf7+ Kxf7 16. Qd5+ Kg7 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "forfuncare3 at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.23"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. c3 a6 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. h3 h5 8. d4 Bd6 9. Bg5 f6 10. Bc1 g5 11. hxg4 hxg4 12. dxe5 gxf3 13. exd6 fxg2 14. Kxg2 Bh3+ 15. Kf3 cxd6 16. Rg1 Qe7 17. Qd4 O-O-O 18. Be3 d5 19. Nd2 Rh4 20. Qa7 dxe4+ 21. Ke2 Qd6 22. Nc4 Qd3+ 23. Ke1 Qxc4 24. Qa8+ Kc7 25. Bb6+ Kxb6 26. Qxd8+ Ka7 27. Rd1 Bg4 28. Qd4+ Qxd4 29. Rxd4 Bf3 30. Rd6 f5 31. Rg6 g4 32. Rg5 Rh7 33. Rxf5 Rd7 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "rako at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.24"] [Result "0-1"] 1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Nc6 3. Nf3 f6 4. Bf4 fxe5 5. Bxe5 Nf6 6. Bc3 Bc5 7. e3 O-O 8. Bd3 d5 9. O-O Bg4 10. Be2 Kh8 11. h3 Bh5 12. Nbd2 Qe7 13. Nd4 Bf7 14. Nf5 Qd7 15. Nd4 Ne5 16. b4 Bb6 17. a4 c6 18. N2f3 Ng6 19. Bd3 Ne4 20. Bb2 Rae8 21. b5 c5 22. Ne2 Bc7 23. c4 Qd6 24. Qc2 Ng5 25. Ng3 Nxf3+ 26. gxf3 dxc4 27. Bxc4 Bxc4 28. Qxc4 Rxe3 29. Rad1 Qe6 30. Qxc5 Bb6 31. Qh5 Rexf3 32. Qh6 Rxg3+ 33. Kh2 Rg8 34. Kxg3 Qb3+ 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Oct 25 09:57:27 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:57:27 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] One of my favorite lines Message-ID: <1224950247.490341e7c82ae@www.taom.com> Tyler Hughes beat me in a Halloween time Chess tournament about 4 years ago after I shared all the secrets with him. This game shows why it's fun - White reacts poorly 99% of the time. It was Tyler's first tournament victory over me but not the last. Some guy walked up to me 25 years ago outside the Denver Chess Club at the VFW, I think, I will have to check with James King to get the exact location. This guy said he had prepared a 3 page letter to Chess Life with his variations. No human has been able to play this correctly without computer assistance so it is an ideal blitz weapon and a fun surprise. https://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Gerash,%20Walter [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "rico1981 at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.25"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d4 Nxd4 A blunder in every opening book but they all stop short. 5. Bxf7+ Kxf7 6. Nxe5+ Ke6 7. Qxd4 c5 This was the secret move disclosed to me 8. Qc4+ Kxe5 9. f4+ Kd6 10. e5+ Kc6 11. exf6 d5 This is what 95% of humans "discover". 12. Qb3 c4 13. Qf3 Qxf6 14. O-O Bc5+ 15. Kh1 Bf5 16. Nc3 Rad8 It's going very well 17. Rd1 Qe6 18. b3 Bg4 19. Qf1 Bxd1 20. Qxd1 Rhe8 21. Bb2 d4 22. Na4 c3 23. Nxc5 Kxc5 24. Ba3+ Kc6 25. h3 Qe2 26. Qg1 Qxc2 27. Rd1 Qe4 28. Qf1 d3 29. b4 c2 30. Rc1 b5 31. Bb2 a6 32. Be5 Kb7 33. a4 Rxe5 34. fxe5 d2 35. Qf7+ Ka8 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Oct 25 11:29:13 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:29:13 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Long and Winding Road Message-ID: <1224955753.49035769c6b83@www.taom.com> Opening- Fishing Pole The Ed Schrieber refutation line Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "kote at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.25"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole explained - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCk6zdtSLk 5. h3 h5!! An ancient weapon 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. d4 exd4 8. Qxd4 Qxd4 9. Nxd4 Ne5!! Ed Schrieber and I discussed this all day at the 16th Street mall, Denver Chess tables, one fine summer day. Instead of a mating attack we have Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation or Ruy Lopez, Berlin defense issues 10. Bf4 f6? 10 ... Bd6!! is fine for me 11. Nd2 a6 12. Rad1 c5 13. Bxe5 fxe5 14. N4f3 Be6 I've botched this up so I go fishing for rook-pawns 15. Nxe5! Bd6 16. Ndc4! O-O-O 17. Nxd6+ cxd6 18. Ng6 Rhe8 I'm a pawn down but he probably didn't take my Fischer/Spassky Ivanchuk/Anand pawn grab seriously. I didn't notice it was a 5 minute/5 second increment game until it was almost over. 19. Nf4 Bxa2! 20. Nxh5 Rd7 19 .. R:e4 is better but too definitive 21. f3 Bg8 22. Nf4 Kc7 23. Nd5+ Kc6 24. Kf2 b5 25. b3 a5 26. c4 bxc4 27. bxc4! Rb8 28. Rb1 Rb4!? The kind of crazy Petrosian exchange sac that wins games - Alchemy, metamorphosis 29. Nxb4+! cxb4! 30. Rfc1! Kc5 31. Rb2 a4!! I have already transformed a dead lost endgame into a better one 32. Ke3! a3!! Pawn waves are my thing 33. Ra2 Bxc4?? Sigh - once again my hand begged me to play 33 ... Ra7!! Is it only my illusion that every time I play a bad move I could swear a voice was telling me the right move? 34. Rac2!! Shocker 34 ... Kb5 35. Rxc4 a2 36. R4c2 b3 37. Rb2 Ka4 38. Ra1 Ka3!! Miraculously a rook down I am better again! 39. Rd2!! Only move 39 ... b2!! 40. Rd3+!! Only move Kb4 only move 41. Rxa2 Unnecessary but interesting - Kote could keep checking me to c6 and play Rdd1 if he wants to - Maybe his immobilzed rook and my pawn deficit cancel each other out 41 ... b1=Q So a pawn finally Queens but Kote has a fortress - How in the world do I break this down? I couldn't really find a way. 42. Rad2 Qg1+ 43. Kf4! Qh2+ 44. Ke3 Qg1+ 45. Kf4 Qh2+ 46. Ke3 Kc5 This allows an immediate draw with 46 Rc2+ and I get mated with Anthea's favorite rook roller if I try to hide behind my rook - 46 Rc2+ Kb6 47 Rb3+ Ka7 48 Ra2 checkmate 47. Rd5+? Now it's a game again 47 ... Kc6 48. Rc2+! Kb7 49. Rb2+ Ka8 This was my original plan but 49 ... Kc7! heading for the Kingside makes much more sense - I didn't think he would allow it and I thought his flag would fall soon. 50. Rdb5 Qg1+! 51. Kf4! Qa1 Taking a breather until I can figure out what's going on 52. Kf5 The King rushes over like a teenager that's been texted where the party is. 52 ... Qa7 53. Ke6? Re7+!! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/22/easpider122.xml The Chestnut-breasted Mannikin is caught by the Golden Orb Weaver spider. 54. Kxd6 Qc7+!!! Mating. I can also win a rook with 54 ... Qd7+!! 55 Kc5 Re5+ 56 Kc4 Qc6+ 55. Kd5 Re5+?? Whoops - now I do neither 55 ... Rd7+!! 56 Ke6 Qd6+ 57 Kf5 Rf7+ 58 Kg4 Qf4+ 59 Kh5 g6+ 60 K:g6 Rf6+ 61 Kg7 Qg6+ 62 Kg8 Rf8 checkmate 56. Kd4! Rxb5! 57. Rxb5! Qc2 I was happy to get this far - this looked like progress - Kote tries to set up another blockade 58. Rg5?? Qd2+ 0-1 Whew. Interesting situations. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Oct 25 12:13:55 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:13:55 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Reverend Tom Stuart endorses Anthea's Fishing Pole video Message-ID: <1224958435.490361e3b8708@www.taom.com> If you begin a project with love and a clear purpose, God send Angels to help you. When I was putting together www.Walverine.com Chess emails artists from all over the world would simply offer their work out of sheer generosity. Reverend Tom Stuart is a brilliant artist often inspired by religious reasons. You can see one of his creations here - http://www.walverine.com/index.php?id=179 Email - Bloomer --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.holisticjunction.com/displayart.cfm?ID=234 -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.holisticjunction.com/displayart.cfm?ID=277 This one with Lions is awesome --------------------------------------------------------------------- You can tell Tom is a decent guy and soon he will retire and play more Chess. He certainly desrves a fine retirement but I don't think he can sit still. Brian Wall ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Rev. Tom Stuart RevTomCat777 at comcast.net ----- Forwarded message from RevTomCat777 ----- Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:50:09 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: RevTomCat777 Reply-To: RevTomCat777 Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] The Long and Winding Road To: Brian Wall Thanks Brian so much. This is a great Video and gives one lots to think about. All I need now is time. 4 more months to retirement and I may have time to enjoy one of my Loves, " Chess" I certainly appreciate the education. I need lots. Love and Light , Rev. Tom Stuart RevTomCat777 at comcast.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------Original Message------- From: Brian Wall Date: 10/25/2008 1:28:21 PM To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com; Brian Wall Chesslist Subject: [BrianWallChess] The Long and Winding Road Opening- Fishing Pole The Ed Schrieber refutation line Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "kote at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.25"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole explained - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCk6zdtSLk 5. h3 h5!! An ancient weapon 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. d4 exd4 8. Qxd4 Qxd4 9. Nxd4 Ne5!! Ed Schrieber and I discussed this all day at the 16th Street mall, Denver Chess tables, one fine summer day. Instead of a mating attack we have Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation or Ruy Lopez, Berlin defense issues 10. Bf4 f6? 10 ... Bd6!! is fine for me 11. Nd2 a6 12. Rad1 c5 13. Bxe5 fxe5 14. N4f3 Be6 I've botched this up so I go fishing for rook-pawns 15. Nxe5! Bd6 16. Ndc4! O-O-O 17. Nxd6+ cxd6 18. Ng6 Rhe8 I'm a pawn down but he probably didn't take my Fischer/Spassky Ivanchuk/Anand pawn grab seriously. I didn't notice it was a 5 minute/5 second increment game until it was almost over. 19. Nf4 Bxa2! 20. Nxh5 Rd7 19 .. R:e4 is better but too definitive 21. f3 Bg8 22. Nf4 Kc7 23. Nd5+ Kc6 24. Kf2 b5 25. b3 a5 26. c4 bxc4 27. bxc4! Rb8 28. Rb1 Rb4!? The kind of crazy Petrosian exchange sac that wins games - Alchemy, metamorphosis 29. Nxb4+! cxb4! 30. Rfc1! Kc5 31. Rb2 a4!! I have already transformed a dead lost endgame into a better one 32. Ke3! a3!! Pawn waves are my thing 33. Ra2 Bxc4?? Sigh - once again my hand begged me to play 33 ... Ra7!! Is it only my illusion that every time I play a bad move I could swear a voice was telling me the right move? 34. Rac2!! Shocker 34 ... Kb5 35. Rxc4 a2 36. R4c2 b3 37. Rb2 Ka4 38. Ra1 Ka3!! Miraculously a rook down I am better again! 39. Rd2!! Only move 39 ... b2!! 40. Rd3+!! Only move Kb4 only move 41. Rxa2 Unnecessary but interesting - Kote could keep checking me to c6 and play Rdd1 if he wants to - Maybe his immobilzed rook and my pawn deficit cancel each other out 41 ... b1=Q So a pawn finally Queens but Kote has a fortress - How in the world do I break this down? I couldn't really find a way. 42. Rad2 Qg1+ 43. Kf4! Qh2+ 44. Ke3 Qg1+ 45. Kf4 Qh2+ 46. Ke3 Kc5 This allows an immediate draw with 46 Rc2+ and I get mated with Anthea's favorite rook roller if I try to hide behind my rook - 46 Rc2+ Kb6 47 Rb3+ Ka7 48 Ra2 checkmate 47. Rd5+? Now it's a game again 47 ... Kc6 48. Rc2+! Kb7 49. Rb2+ Ka8 This was my original plan but 49 ... Kc7! heading for the Kingside makes much more sense - I didn't think he would allow it and I thought his flag would fall soon. 50. Rdb5 Qg1+! 51. Kf4! Qa1 Taking a breather until I can figure out what's going on 52. Kf5 The King rushes over like a teenager that's been texted where the party is. 52 ... Qa7 53. Ke6? Re7+!! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/22/easpider122.xml The Chestnut-breasted Mannikin is caught by the Golden Orb Weaver spider. 54. Kxd6 Qc7+!!! Mating. I can also win a rook with 54 ... Qd7+!! 55 Kc5 Re5+ 56 Kc4 Qc6+ 55. Kd5 Re5+?? Whoops - now I do neither 55 ... Rd7+!! 56 Ke6 Qd6+ 57 Kf5 Rf7+ 58 Kg4 Qf4+ 59 Kh5 g6+ 60 K:g6 Rf6+ 61 Kg7 Qg6+ 62 Kg8 Rf8 checkmate 56. Kd4! Rxb5! 57. Rxb5! Qc2 I was happy to get this far - this looked like progress - Kote tries to set up another blockade 58. Rg5?? Qd2+ 0-1 Whew. Interesting situations. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: unnamed Url: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081025/4183d5d4/attachment.ksh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I thought I would meet 5 Nf3 Bc5 with Bd3, Qe2 and Be3 5 ... h6?? Move your rooks, not your rookpawns, people 6. Nc3! c6?? Some kind of demented Kopeck system. I just noticed 7 Q:d6! I am usually writing and these QueenAlice games are a minor distraction. 7. Bd3 Bb4 8. O-O! Bxc3 Renae liked the Scotch and used to play the flipper move Bd2 to prevent these doubled pawns. I am thinking - Death on the Dark Squares. 9. bxc3! d6! So is Salsa Queen 10. c4 Waiting for e5 or Bb2-a3 opportunities 10 ... Nf6 11. e5!! dxe5! 12. fxe5! Nfd7 13. e6!!! My plan from afar was 13 Ba3!! but ... c5 will block it so I ripped the lines open first 13 ... fxe6 14. Ne5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I couldn't decide between 14 Bg6+, Nd4, Ne5, Ba3 ( Ne1, Qe1, Nd2) or Qe2 I almost played 14 Bg6+ many times - 14 Bg6+!!! Ke7 17 Ba3+!!! c5 18 Qd4!!! threatening 19 Q:g7+, Ne5, Ng5, Rad1 is a total bust. I almost played 14 Nd4!! which leaves the Salsa Queen spinning to the ground. Sample - 14 Nd4!! Qe7 15 Ba3 Q:a3 16 Bg6+ Kd8 17 N:e6+ Ke7 18 Qd4 death Nf6 only move 19 Rae1 mating 14 Qe2 0-0! 15 B:h6!! gh 16 Q:e6+ Rf7 only move 17 Ng5!! Ne5 only move 18 Bh7+ Kh8 19 Q:e5+ Rg7 only move 20 Nf7+ Kh7+! only legal move 21 N:d8 is good clean fun 14 Ba3 Nf8 15 Nd2 Qd4+ 16 Kh1 Nfd7 17 Ne4 and Nd6+ is going to be solid family entertainment -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 ... Nxe5? 15. Qh5+! Ke7 16. Ba3+ Kd7? 17. Rf7+ I thought I was ultra clever but the pedantic 17 Q:e5!! mates quicker 17 ... Nxf7 18. Qxf7+ Mate next - She hasn't moved or resigned yet. Game in progress. * -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Wall versus Salsa Queen 1. e4 e5 2. d4 Bd6 3. dxe5 Bxe5 4. f4 Bd6 5. Nf3 h6 6. Nc3 c6 7. Bd3 Bb4 8. O-O Bxc3 9. bxc3 d6 10. c4 Nf6 11. e5 dxe5 12. fxe5 Nfd7 13. e6 fxe6 14. Ne5 Nxe5 15. Qh5+ Ke7 16. Ba3+ Kd7 17. Rf7+ Nxf7 18. Qxf7+ * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- She just moved while I was writing this 1. e4 e5 2. d4 Bd6 3. dxe5 Bxe5 4. f4 Bd6 5. Nf3 h6 6. Nc3 c6 7. Bd3 Bb4 8. O-O Bxc3 9. bxc3 d6 10. c4 Nf6 11. e5 dxe5 12. fxe5 Nfd7 13. e6 fxe6 14. Ne5 Nxe5 15. Qh5+ Ke7 16. Ba3+ Kd7 17. Rf7+ Nxf7 18. Qxf7+ Qe7 19. Qxe7# 1-0 From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Oct 25 20:25:06 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:25:06 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 1-0, 7 moves Message-ID: <1224987906.4903d502d2429@www.taom.com> White - Brian Wall Black - Brian Dollings Danish Gambit Accepted www.QueenAlice.com 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Bc4 d6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. Qb3 cxb2 7. Bxf7+ 1-0 I am not sure why he resigned - After he moves his King I recapture on b2 and he has a pawn while I have a safer King. 7 B:f7+ Ke7 8 B:b2 Nh6 9 Bc4 or 7 B:f7+ Ke7 8 B:b2 Nf6 9 0-0 or 7 B:f7+ Kd7 8 B:b2 Na6 9 Bd4 or B:g8 all look great for me From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Oct 25 20:29:09 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:29:09 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Eddie Briones wins Florida Chess tournament armed only with the Fishing Pole Message-ID: <1224988149.4903d5f520a60@www.taom.com> I only met Eddie two months ago at the 2008 Florida Open - Brian Wall -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Forwarded message from eddiebriones at bellsouth.net ----- Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:22:57 +0000 From: eddiebriones at bellsouth.net Reply-To: eddiebriones at bellsouth.net Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Long and Winding Road To: Brian Wall Hi Brian , I just won a local tournament in Daytona , Florida today. Thanks to you and your Fishing Pole ! I used it twice against a 1200 something and a 1700 something ratings. Again , Thanks a lot ! eddiebriones at bellsouth.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081025/8b890f47/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Oct 26 02:30:45 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:30:45 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Goring Gambit, Wafia style Message-ID: <1225009845.49042ab548b97@www.taom.com> Levangog is an 1800 on www.Chesscube.com [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Black "levangog at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.26"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4! 3. c3 dxc3 4. Bc4 Nf6? 5. e5 d5! 6. exf6! dxc4! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- On 6 ... cb? I have 7 Bb5+!, Qe2+! or B:b2 6 ... cb 7 Bb5+!! c6 8 B:b2!! with an edge --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Qxd8+! Kxd8! 8. Bg5! g6? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once a decade I get 8 ... cb?? 9 fg+ Kd7 10 gh(Q) c3!! 11 Qd4+ Bd6 12 Qg4+ Kc6 13 Qf3+ Kb6 14 Q:c3 ba(B) 15 Q:a1 or 10 gh(Q) c3!! 11 Qd4+ Bd6 12 Qg4+ Kc6 13 Qf3+ Kd7 14 a4!! ba(Q) 15 Qf5+!! and mate next or 10 gh(Q) c3!! 11 Qd4+ Bd6 12 Qg4+ f5 13 Q:f5+ Kc6 14 Qf3+ Kb6 15 Q:c3 or 10 gh(Q) c3!! 11 Qd4+ Kc6 ( 11 ... Ke8 12 Qd8 mate or 11 ... Ke6 12 Ne2!! mates ) 12 Q:c3+ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. Nxc3! Bf5!! played thrice, at least --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 .... Bd6!! never played 9 ... Be6!! never played 9 ... Nc6!! never played 9 ... Nd7! never played 9 ... Bg4! played once 9 ... Bd7! never played 9 ... h6! never played 9 ... Na6! never played 9 ... b6 never played 9 ... Bb4 never played 9 ... c6 never played 9 ... h5 never played 9 ... a5 never played 9 .... Bc5 never played 9 ... a6 never played 9 ... c5 never played ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. O-O-O+ TN Wall It seems this move has been played in thousands of my own blitz games, let alone others but all I can find is 10 Nf3! played twice and 10 Rd1+? played once. The move has to be decades old. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 ... Nd7 10 ... Kc8!!, ... Nd7!, ... Bd6, ... Bd3 and ... Bd7 have all been played against me over the years -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11. Nf3! c6?? 12. Rhe1?? 12 Ne5!! Be6? 13 R:d7+!! B:d7 14 N:f7+! was the only true path ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 ... Kc7! 12 ... Bd3!! is stronger --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13. h3? 13 Bf4+! Kb6 14 Ng5!! or Nd2! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 ... h6? 13 ... Rd8!!, ... Bd6!!, ... Nc5!!, ... Bd3!! are all better -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14. Bf4+!! Kb6!! 15. g4?? 15 Nd2! is the only good move with the idea 15 Nd2! Bd3 16 N:c4+! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 ... Nc5?? 15 ... Bd3!! is the only winning move -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16. gxf5! Nd3+! 17. Rxd3! cxd3! 18. fxg6! fxg6! 19. Ne5!! Bd6?? 20. Nc4+! Ka6! 21. Bxd6! b5 22. Ne5!! Rad8 23. Ne4!!! Rhe8? 24. f7 1-0 24 Nc5+!!! Kb6 25 Ned7+!! Ka5 26 Bc7+ Kb4 27 N:d3+ Kc4 28 B:d8 was a sharper finish. A horribly but instructively played game. I missed 12 Ne5!! and 13 Bf4+!! and 15 Nd2!! but I was OK after all that ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Black "levangog at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.26"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. e5 d5 6. exf6 dxc4 7. Qxd8+ Kxd8 8. Bg5 g6 9. Nxc3 Bf5 10. O-O-O+ Nd7 11. Nf3 c6 12. Rhe1 Kc7 13. h3 h6 14. Bf4+ Kb6 15. g4 Nc5 16. gxf5 Nd3+ 17. Rxd3 cxd3 18. fxg6 fxg6 19. Ne5 Bd6 20. Nc4+ Ka6 21. Bxd6 b5 22. Ne5 Rad8 23. Ne4 Rhe8 24. f7 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Oct 26 13:25:09 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:25:09 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Anand draws Game 9, need 1/2 out of 3 to clinch title Message-ID: <1225049109.4904c415d9ac2@www.taom.com> Exciting Moscow Variation. Kramnik was a pawn up with chances but there weren't many pawns around plus opposite colored bishops made it tough to win. Kramnik tried very hard but couldn't convert. Anand is assured of at least a rapid playoff at this point if he loses the last three games in a row. [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.26"] [Round "-"] [White "*GM_Anand"] [Black "*GM_Kramnik"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2783"] [BlackElo "2772"] [Opening "QGD semi-Slav"] [ECO "D43"] [NIC "QP.08"] [Time "14:58:36"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 c6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 dxc4 7. e4 g5 8. Bg3 b5 9. Be2 Bb7 10. Qc2 Nbd7 11. Rd1 Bb4 12. Ne5 Qe7 13. O-O Nxe5 14. Bxe5 O-O 15. Bxf6 Qxf6 16. f4 Qg7 17. e5 c5 18. Nxb5 cxd4 19. Qxc4 a5 20. Kh1 Rac8 21. Qxd4 gxf4 22. Bf3 Ba6 23. a4 Rc5 24. Qxf4 Rxe5 25. b3 Bxb5 26. axb5 Rxb5 27. Be4 Bc3 28. Bc2 Be5 29. Qf2 Bb8 30. Qf3 Rc5 31. Bd3 Rc3 32. g3 Kh8 33. Qb7 f5 34. Qb6 Qe5 35. Qb7 Qc7 36. Qxc7 Bxc7 37. Bc4 Re8 38. Rd7 a4 39. Rxc7 axb3 40. Rf2 Rb8 41. Rb2 h5 42. Kg2 h4 43. Rc6 hxg3 44. hxg3 Rg8 45. Rxe6 Rxc4 {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.26"] [Round "-"] [White "*GM_Anand"] [Black "*GM_Kramnik"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2783"] [BlackElo "2772"] [Opening "QGD semi-Slav"] [ECO "D43"] [NIC "QP.08"] [Time "14:58:36"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 c6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 dxc4 7. e4 g5 8. Bg3 b5 9. Be2 Bb7 10. Qc2 Nbd7 11. Rd1 Bb4 12. Ne5 Qe7 13. O-O Nxe5 14. Bxe5 O-O 15. Bxf6 Qxf6 16. f4 Qg7 17. e5 c5 18. Nxb5 cxd4 19. Qxc4 a5 20. Kh1 Rac8 21. Qxd4 gxf4 22. Bf3 Ba6 23. a4 Rc5 24. Qxf4 Rxe5 25. b3 Bxb5 26. axb5 Rxb5 27. Be4 Bc3 28. Bc2 Be5 29. Qf2 Bb8 30. Qf3 Rc5 31. Bd3 Rc3 32. g3 Kh8 33. Qb7 f5 34. Qb6 Qe5 35. Qb7 Qc7 36. Qxc7 Bxc7 37. Bc4 Re8 38. Rd7 a4 39. Rxc7 axb3 40. Rf2 Rb8 41. Rb2 h5 42. Kg2 h4 43. Rc6 hxg3 44. hxg3 Rg8 45. Rxe6 Rxc4 {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Oct 26 16:34:18 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:34:18 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Josh Smith = 2008 Utah Open Chess Champion!!!! Message-ID: <1225060458.4904f06a92844@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from "Josh \"JD\" Smith" ----- Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:51:09 -0600 From: "Josh \"JD\" Smith" Reply-To: "Josh \"JD\" Smith" Subject: JD = 2008 Utah Open Chess Champion!!!! I was able to successfully defeat the highest rated player in Utah, National Master Jeff Phillips for the 2nd time, along with a hard fought win over US Armed Forces Chess Champion, the mesmerizing Elena Dulger. It looked like a 9 year old was going to win the Championship outright until he lost in the last round, allowing 4 of us to catch up and tie for first place. Even our friend Stan was having fun before his mind turned to mush. Chess tournaments are fun and exhausting Josh Smith jds at pclaptops.com (Little Kayden came within 1 game of being the youngest State Champion in history. I'm glad I didn't have to face him!) (I think my new mustache helped me beat Utah's only Maestro. He told me later that he went home and cried. Chess can be emotionally taxing.) (I do my best to focus on the photographer, my wife, and not the extremely talented and flirtatious Elena.) (Stan deep in thought playing in his 1st chess tournament. He learned a lot and I hope that he keeps at it. Chess can be very rewarding J.) Regards, ----- End forwarded message ----- -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: unnamed Url: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081026/3e338a87/attachment.ksh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: image025.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 24532 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081026/3e338a87/attachment-0008.jpg From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Oct 26 22:33:46 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:33:46 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] [chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Anand-Kramnik, game 9 with notes Message-ID: <1225082026.490544aade689@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Email subscription to blog articles ----- Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:52:58 -0400 From: Email subscription to blog articles Reply-To: historicchess at comcast.net, chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Subject: [chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Anand-Kramnik, game 9 with notes To: chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Posted by Dennis Monokroussos: Anand-Kramnik, game 9 with notes http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1225079575.shtml It was a close one, but Anand eked out a draw. With his 6-3 lead he is one draw (or win) away from retaining the world championship title. Today's game was a big hurdle, and you can see just how close it was by checking out the game, with my notes, [1]here. References 1. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/files/anand_kramnik_2008_9.htm _______________________________________________ chessmind mailing list chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chessmind From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Oct 27 00:21:48 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:21:48 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Two Weihmiller Frenches Message-ID: <1225088508.49055dfca9f89@www.taom.com> Two Weihmiller Frenches ----- Forwarded message from Chris Peterson ----- Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:10:43 -0700 (PDT) Chris asks: amidoinitrite? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first is an ICC game with Denver's Chris Peterson, age 21, as White . ? Pious (2221) - Pawntrader66 (2039) [C05] ICC tourney 334109 (16 6) Internet Chess Club (4), 26.10.2008 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.Ngf3 This is what I call the Weihmiller French, the subject of at least 20 emails. It's an ancient line. 6 ... Nc6 7.c3 Qb6 8.Nb3 cxd4 9.cxd4 Bb4+ 10.Kf2 Be7 11.Be3 TN Theoretical Novelty by Chris- 11 Bd3 has been played before. The common ideas for White are Be3, Bd3, h4 and B:h7+ or Rc1, Nc5 or Rf1, Kg1 11 ... g6? CL Conceptual Lemon by Pawntrader66 Most French players know ... f6!! is the critical equalizer. Common Black ideas are ... f6, ... g5, ... Be7, ... Qd8, ... 0-0, ... a5 Notice each good idea moves something to a Black Square 12.h4!? A natural attacking move which I love. Normal play is Rc1, Rf1, Kg1 12 ... h5 Trying to shut it down but now Ng5 and g4 are screaming to be played 13.Bd3 0?0 Looks like the Bataan Death March. He will soon be running the other direction. 14.Ng5!? Bxg5 Eliminating the Fishing Pole knight but opening the deadly h-file 15.hxg5! Ne7 16.g4!! Devastating. Chris also had a rook sac 16 R:h5!!! gh 17 Q:h5! Rd8 only move 18 Rh1 Kf8 only move 19 Qh8+ Ng8 only move and now 20 g6!!! is the most crushing of the two dozen wins 16 ... Kg7 17.gxh5! Nf5 18.hxg6 10 moves lose for Chris, 33 win 18 Qf3!! is best to pressure d5 after B:f5 and include the a-rook 18 ... fxg6 19.Rh3 Chris is focussed on the h-file 19 ... Nxe3 20.Qh1!! Good instincts - Another rook sac works - 20 Rh7+!!! K:h7 21 Qh5+ Kg7 22 Q:g6+ Kh8 23 Rh1 checkmate or 20 Rh7+!!! Kg8 21 Qh1!!! or K:e3!! 20 ... Ng4+! 21.Kg3! Kf7! Runnnn! Only move 22.Bxg6+!! One of the four killer moves - 22 K:g4!!!!, Rh8!!!, B:g6+!!! and Rh7+!! 22 ... Ke7! Runnnn! Only move Anything else gets mated - 22 ... K:g6 23 Rh7 Q:b3+ 24 ab Nd:e5 25 Qh5+ Kf5 26 Re1!! mates in 3 23.Rh7+!! You gotta love Peterson's attacking spirit with no regard for material - top 3 killers - Rh8, K:g4, Rh7+ 23 ... Kd8 Runnnn! Only move 24.Kxg4! Chris only grabs material when there's nothing left to sac 24 ... Kc7 25.Rc1+ Kb8 Three blind mice, Three blind mice See how they run, See how they run! They all ran after The farmer's wife She cut off their tails With a carving knife Did you ever see Such a sight in your life As three blind mice? 26.Qh6 Rd8 27.Qg7 Chris figures out quickly the key is Rh8 27 ... a6 28.Qe7 Ka7! 29.Rc2 Nf8! Chris is a little symied so Pawntrader66 starts fighting back 30.Rh8! Finally when 30 Rh6!! is the best idea now 30 ... Nxg6! Best but hopeless 31.Qxd8! Qxd8?? 31 ... N:h8! 32 Q:h8 Bd7 33 Qh7! with two solid extra pawns and an easy to improve position with Nc5:e6 or Qe7-c5 or g6-g7 32.Rxd8! Ne7! 33.g6 Nc6 34.Rxc6! bxc6! 35.Nc5 Rb8 36.b3 Rb4! not dead yet 37.Rxc8 Rxd4! 38.g7 Black resigns 1?0 Chris Peterson = = Pious Pious (2221) - Pawntrader66 (2039) [C05] ICC tourney 334109 (16 6) Internet Chess Club (4), 26.10.2008 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.Ngf3 Nc6 7.c3 Qb6 8.Nb3 cxd4 9.cxd4 Bb4+ 10.Kf2 Be7 11.Be3 g6 12.h4 h5 13.Bd3 0?0 14.Ng5 Bxg5 15.hxg5 Ne7 16.g4 Kg7 17.gxh5 Nf5 18.hxg6 fxg6 19.Rh3 Nxe3 20.Qh1 Ng4+ 21.Kg3 Kf7 22.Bxg6+ Ke7 23.Rh7+ Kd8 24.Kxg4 Kc7 25.Rc1+ Kb8 26.Qh6 Rd8 27.Qg7 a6 28.Qe7 Ka7 29.Rc2 Nf8 30.Rh8 Nxg6 31.Qxd8 Qxd8 32.Rxd8 Ne7 33.g6 Nc6 34.Rxc6 bxc6 35.Nc5 Rb8 36.b3 Rb4 37.Rxc8 Rxd4 38.g7 Black resigns 1?0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- closest database game to Chris [Event "BRA-ch"] [Site "Porto Alegre"] [Date "1947.06.??"] [Round "6"] [White "Adail Gondim,Jose"] [Black "Oliveira,Washington"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "C05"] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Ngf3 Qb6 8.Nb3 cxd4 9.cxd4 Bb4+ 10.Kf2 Be7 11.Bd3 Nb4 12.Bb1 Qc7 13.Be3 Nb6 14.a3 Nc6 15.Nc5 Nc4 16.Bc1 b6 17.Nd3 N4a5 18.Qc2 Bd7 19.Bd2 Rc8 20.Rc1 Qb7 21.Bc3 Nc4 22.Nb4 N4a5 23.Nxc6 Nxc6 24.g4 h5 25.g5 g6 26.Qd2 0-0 27.Bd3 Kg7 28.b4 Bd8 29.Qe2 Rc7 30.a4 Be7 31.b5 Na5 32.Bxa5 bxa5 33.f5 exf5 34.e6 Bxe6 35.Qe5+ f6 36.gxf6+ 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ? http://www.chessvibes.com/media/in-the-meantime-kasparov-gives-another-simul/ This next Weihmiller French is from a simul Gary Kasparov gave in Belgium the first day of the Anand-Kramnik match. 60 schoolchilren fought each other and then GM Nigel Short in a simul until the final 7 got to play Gary. Gary Kasparov also played 19 CEO's. I assume Vilaisarn is one of the 7 Angels but I could be wrong. [Event "?"] [Site "?"] [Date "2008.10.26"] [Round "?"] [White "GM_Kasparov"] [Black "Vilaisarn"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2812"] [BlackElo "2248"] [Opening "French: Steinitz variation"] [ECO "C11"] [NIC "FR.04"] [Time "09:53:27"] [TimeControl "2700+15"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 a6 7. Ne2 Nc6 8. c3 b5 9. a3 Be7 10. Ng3!! TN Theoretical Novelty by Kasparov and the best move, too! He's still got it! Only the vastly inferior 10 g3? has been played. The only problem is that his knight needs to be on b3 to make a true Weihmiller French. 10 ... cxd4 11. cxd4 I always ignore 11 N:d4!! as well - I want the big center and the wing attack. 11 ... Qb6 12. h4!? Kasparov was a consummate Fishing Poler already in his teens 12 ... f6 Thematic 13. Bd3!! Thematic 13 ... f5 CL Conceptual Lemon by Vilaisarn Blocking the best minor piece of the scariest Chessplayer ever is understandable but losing a tempo in the opening against Gary is not going to work out. 13 ... 0-0!! or ... Bb7! are OK. 14. Be3! Qa5+ 15. Kf2!! Qd8 A common Weihmiller French theme - take away White's castling rights, then return to the center 16. Ng5!? Fritz always goes Queenside with a4, Qc2, Rc1 but humans always go for mate with Ng5 16 ... Nb6! Guarding e6 17. b3 Gary plays the whole board like his hero Alekhine 17 ... Bd7? Vilaisarn makes a reasonable move if you don't ask yourself "What can I sacrifice? " every move like Gary. 17 ... Qd7! or ... Ra7! were OK. Gary misses 17 ... Bd7? 18 N:f5! ef 19 e6! Kf8 20 ed Q:d7 21 h5! the first time. 17 ... Bd7? 18 N:f5! ef 19 e6! 0-0? leads to a pawn up Browne ending - 17 ... Bd7? 18 N:f5! ef 19 e6! 0-0? 20 Qh5 h6 21 Nf7 Qe8 22 Q:f5 B:h4+ 23 R:h4 Q:e6 24 N:h6+ Q:h6 25 R:h6 B:f5 26 R:c6 B:d3 27 R:b6 This would be tough to win - The white pawn on e6 gives rise to a fresh Fishing Pole concept- Ng5-f7:h6+ as we will see. 18. Rc1 Rc8? Moving his Queen to the c-file would have prevented the following disaster. 19. Nxf5!! Gary doesn't miss it the second time even with 25 distractions. 19 ... exf5! 20. e6! O-O 21. Qh5!! Full Fishing Pole mode now 21 ... h6 22. Nf7!! Embracing the new theme 22 ... Qc7? I heard Kasparov say once- The Queen belongs near the King. 22 ... Qe8! 23 Q:f5 B:h4+ 24 R:h4 Q:e6 and Gary has an alternative to the afore-mentioned ending after 25 N:h6+ Q:h6 26 R:h6 B:f5 and that is 25 Q:e6 B:e6 26 Nd6 Rc7 27 f5 with the two bishops and a powerful grip 23. Qxf5!!! mating Gary looks ready to take on Kramnik and Anand now. There was an alternate win with the thematic 23 N:h6+!! gh 24 Qg6+ Kh8 25 Q:h6+ Kg8 26 Qg6+ Kh8 27 Rh3 B:e6 28 Qh6+ Kg8 29 Rg3+ Bg5 30 R:c6!! Qg7 31 R:g5 Rf7 and Gary is only two pawns up but he is about to reap a rich harvest. 23 ... Bxe6 The longest Vilaisarn can avoid mate is 23 ... B:h4+ 24 R:h4 B:e6 25 N:h6+ gh 26 Rg4+ Kh8 27 Q:e6 and Vilaisarn can only throw away pieces until Gary mates in 5 24. Nxh6+ {White wins} 1-0 Even in retirement with Putin breathing down his neck Kasparov keeps his Fishing Pole skills well honed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "?"] [Site "?"] [Date "2008.10.26"] [Round "?"] [White "GM_Kasparov"] [Black "Vilaisarn"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2812"] [BlackElo "2248"] [Opening "French: Steinitz variation"] [ECO "C11"] [NIC "FR.04"] [Time "09:53:27"] [TimeControl "2700+15"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 a6 7. Ne2 Nc6 8. c3 b5 9. a3 Be7 10. Ng3 cxd4 11. cxd4 Qb6 12. h4 f6 13. Bd3 f5 14. Be3 Qa5+ 15. Kf2 Qd8 16. Ng5 Nb6 17. b3 Bd7 18. Rc1 Rc8 19. Nxf5 exf5 20. e6 O-O 21. Qh5 h6 22. Nf7 Qc7 23. Qxf5 Bxe6 24. Nxh6+ {White wins} 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- closest database game to Kasparov [Event "TUR-ch U20"] [Site "Kocaeli"] [Date "2002.05.14"] [Round "4"] [White "Yarligan,Taylan"] [Black "Isik,Engin Yasar"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "C11"] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Nce2 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.f4 a6 8.Nf3 b5 9.a3 Be7 10.g3 cxd4 11.Nexd4 Nxd4 12.cxd4 Nb6 13.Bd3 Bd7 14.0-0 Rc8 15.Qe2 Rc6 16.h4 h5 17.Ng5 Nc4 18.f5 Bxg5 19.Bxg5 Qb6 20.Be3 exf5 21.Bxf5 Bxf5 22.Rxf5 Nxe3 23.Qxe3 Rc4 24.Rf4 0-0 25.Raf1 Qe6 26.Qf3 Rc2 27.Rf5 Rxb2 28.Qxh5 Rd2 29.Qg4 Rc8 30.Qf4 Rcc2 31.g4 Qh6 32.g5 Qh5 33.e6 fxe6 34.g6 Rg2+ 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- : s&i To: fmeric64 Reply-to: Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Chess Improvement] Re: Red Bull 2 unnamed text/html 17.93 KB I wonder why Brian like to analysis his blitz games. no use at all. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian - I might agree if I analyzed this silly game where Peterson's knight outshines a Queen. maskl (2055) - Pious (2212) [A50] ICC tourney 334109 (16 6) Internet Chess Club (3), 26.10.2008 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 e5 4.d5 Ne7 5.e4 Ng6 6.g3 Bc5 7.Bg2 a6 8.Nge2 0?0 9.0?0 d6 10.Rb1 Ne8 11.b4 Ba7 12.Qd3 f5 13.Be3 Bxe3 14.fxe3 Qg5 15.Rf2 f4 16.exf4 exf4 17.Rbf1 fxg3 18.Rxf8+ Nxf8 19.Nxg3 Nf6 20.Nd1 Ng6 21.Nf5 Bd7 22.Qe3 Qh5 23.Nf2 Bxf5 24.exf5 Qxf5 25.Ne4 Qe5 26.Nxf6+ gxf6 27.Qf2 Kg7 28.Bh3 Re8 29.Be6 c6 30.a4 b5 31.axb5 axb5 32.cxb5 cxd5 33.Bd7 Re7 34.Bc6 Qg5+ 35.Kh1 Ne5 36.Bxd5 Ng4 37.Qg2 Ne3 38.Qxg5+ fxg5 39.Rf7+ Rxf7 40.Bxf7 Kxf7 41.b6 (oops) Nc2 42.b7 Nxb4 43.b8Q Nc6 44.Qxd6 Ne7 45.Kg2 Nf5 46.Qc7+ Kg6 47.h3 h6 48.Kf3 Nd4+ 49.Ke4 Ne2 50.Qc6+ Kh5 51.Kf3 Nd4+ White resigns 0?1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081027/bc3d1085/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Oct 27 02:26:50 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:26:50 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 2050 needed for Arizona Invitational Message-ID: <1225096010.49057b4aef3e8@www.taom.com> My old Harvard Square buddy Joel Johnson has invited me to play in a 4 round weekend tournament. Dates are flexible. Any Colorado Expert/Master want to go? He has promised a free place to stay in Arizona. Brian Wall --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:52:09 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: RE: Invitational Chess Tournaments To: Brian Wall I have not decided yet. What dates would be good for you? Give me several dates. I now have about 20 players that are interested. You and I would be the highest rated players in the events. There are almost NO active experts and masters here from our generation. Only recently have I got a couple of the old timers to start playing again. A lot of our players are underrated, which is why I keep bouncing off my floor, despite playing really well, and crushing FMs in the USCL. I should have no problem getting 8-12 players for each invitational. Joel Johnson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081027/b0d75a37/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Oct 27 03:13:29 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:13:29 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Eddie Briones, Fishing Pole hero Message-ID: <1225098809.4905863987cb9@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from eddiebriones at bellsouth.net ----- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:06:07 +0000 From: eddiebriones at bellsouth.net Reply-To: eddiebriones at bellsouth.net Subject: Re: The Long and Winding Road To: Brian Wall Here are my games Brian. Hopefully you can teach me and give me pointers , like did I blunder, what other better moves should I have done , etc... eddiebriones at bellsouth.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Wall My new Florida hero, Eddie Briones, 1885, is winning tournaments with the Fishing Pole after only two months. Let's see how he does it. Game 1 Tatiana Raevsky -white Eddie Briones - black 1. e4? e5! 2. Nf3? Nc6! 3. Bb5? Nf6! 4. 00? Ng4!! 5. h3? h5!! The Fishing Pole as fully covered in Anthea's video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCk6zdtSLk She also added three new free Chess videos in the last two weeks to Youtube Search Timmybx or Pretty Anthea Carson Tatiana, White is 1358 and she has another family member ( brother, son, father? ) Alexei Raevsky, 716, playing as well. 6. Nh2 Very interesting and probably a novelty. Tatiana sees that 6 hg?? hg!! 7 Nh2? Qh4!! 8 f4 only move Bc5+!! or ... g3!! is a total disaster so she tries to drive away the scary knight without getting mated. Pretty clever. I like the way you think, Tatiana. Those Russians are great Chessplayers. 6 ... Qh4 Eddie insists on saccing. 6 ... N:h2 7 K:h2 g5-g4 is another approach. Let's see how Raevsky handles this new aggression. 7.Nf3!! Wow. Tatiana is a real deep thinker, she comes up with a Fishing Pole drawing line her first try. 7 ... Qd8!! A Queen on f6 just asks for trouble with d4, Bg5 or Nc3-d5 8. Nh2!! Will Eddie's first rated Fishing Pole be a positional draw? 8 ... Nxh2!! Eddie goes for the win. Bravo. 500 rating points is too much. 9.Kxh2 g5!! Eddie's playing this like a pro. I couldn't have done better. 10. d3 Tatiana humbly tries to develop. The best move, 10 f3!, does not inspire confidence after 10 ... Bc5!! 10 ... g4!!! Wow. A perfectly played Fishing Pole so far. Eddie already has an advantage and has made a complete mockery of the Ruy Lopez. How did he get up to speed so fast? I have scaredy cats on my email list for 10 years that still haven't tried it. 11. Kg1 Tatiana tries to flee like Snow White in the forest. 11 ... Qh4! The switchboard is starting to light up with winning moves like 11 ... gh!! and ... Nd4!! 12. Qd2 Be7 A funny move to prevent Qg5, meanwhile 12 ... Nd4!!!, ... Rg8!!, ... gh!!, ... Bc5!! or ... Bh6!! are lights out. People think I'm joking when I say the toughest part of playing the Fishing Pole is choosing between dozens of wins, but it's true! Ask not what your opponent can do to you, rather, ask what you can do to your opponent. 13. Qe3 Pitifully trying to guard h3 13 ... Nd4!! 14. Ba4! Only move. Saving the bishop and rook 14 ... b5! Eddie can't sort out so many wins- he is not used to the typical Fishing Pole embarrassment of riches. I know the feeling. 14 ... Bc5!! threatening 15 ... Nb3 or ... Nf3+ wins easily. 14 ... Rg8!! is another killer Also 14 ... gh!! 15 Q:h3 Q:h3 16 gh b5 17 Bb3 Rg8+ 18 Kh1 d6 wins the h3-pawn 15. Bb3! 15 c3? bc5!! 16 cd B:d4 17 Qg5 Q:g5 18 B:g5 ba!!, ... B:b2!!, ... gh! or ... Rg8! is another endgame debacle 15 ... d6! 15 ... Bc5!!, the natural Fishing Pole move, is still King. 15 ... gh! 16 Q:h3 Q:h3 17 gh Rg8+ 18 Kh1 d6! still wins the h3-pawn 16. Kh2! Tatiana Raevsky hangs in there with the best move. I can almost see her shaking. 16 ... gxh3!! Best. 16 ... Nf3+ is flashy - 16 ... Nf3+ 17 Kh1 Bg5 18 Qe2 B:c1 19 R:c1 Nd4 20 Qe3 and Eddie has to go back to taking on h3 after all that smoke and mirrors. 16 ... Nf3+!? 17 gf?? Q:h3+ 18 Kg1 gf mates 17. gxh3! Bxh3! Winning the Queen by force. Eddie has a kid in a candy store attitude to the Fishing Pole. Why looks for the twizzlers and laffy taffy when there's a lollipop right in front of him? Eddie could set this up better with 17 ... Rg8!!! 18 f4 only move Bf6!!! with the creepy crawler threat of ... ef!! OK, that's weird and hard to see, I admit. 18. Qxh3! Nf3+! 19. Kg2! Rg8+! 20. Qg3! Qh2+? One of the unique features of the Fishing Pole is that Black can miss a seemingly infinite list of better wins and still bring home the bacon. I do not know another opening with this quality. 20 ... 0-0-0!!! gaining a tempo for development 21 K:f3 R:g3+ 22 fg Qg4+ 23 Ke3-f2 h4!! is crushing 21. Kxf3! Rxg3+! 22. Ke2?? Awwww. 22 fg!! isn't so bad with Rook, bishop and knight for Queen and pawn. Poor Tatiana is worn out from making 8 only moves in a row. Now it's only two minor pieces for Queen, pawn and an attack. 22 ... Rg1 23. Rxg1 Qxg1 24. Be3 h4 25. f3 Qg2+! 26. Bf2! h3! 27. Nd2! Bh4 28. Nf1 Bxf2 still trying to show some mercy ! Eddie ( I guess Eddie must have seen 28 ... Q:f2+ checkmates ) 29. Kd2 Qxf3 and maybe he saw 29 ... Bb6+ or ... Bd4+ both mate 30. Kc3 c5 31. Bd5! 0-0-0 32. b3 Bd4+! mating 33. Kd2 Bxa1 5 less greedy moves mate quicker 34. Ke1 Bc3+! 35.Nd2! h2! 0-1 I must say Eddie really has the spirit of the Fishing Pole down including missing wins and torturing his poor opponent. Someday waterboarding and Fishing Poles will be outlawed. I felt bad for Tatiana but she found many strong or best moves. Eddie played well but missed 11 ... gh! or ... Nd4! 12 ... Nd4!!!, ... Rg8!!, ... gh!!, ... Bc5!! or ... Bh6!! 14 ... Bc5!!, ... Rg8!! or ... gh!! 15 ... Bc5!! or ... gh! 17 ... Rg8!!! 18 f4 Bf6!!! 20 ... 0-0-0!!! I would say an excellent start for Mister Briones. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Game 1 Tatiana Raevsky -white Eddie Briones - black 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Ng4 5.h3 h5 6.Nh2 Qh4 7. Nf3 Qd8 8.Nh2 Nxh2 9.Kxh2 g5 10.d3 g4 11.Kg1 Qh4 12.Qd2 Be7 13.Qe3 Nd4 14.Ba4 b5 15.Bb3 d6 16.Kh2 gxh3 17.gxh3 Bxh3 18.Qxh3 Nf3+ 19.Kg2 Rg8+ 20.Qg3 Qh2+ 21.Kxf3 Rxg3+ 22.Ke2 Rg1 23.Rxg1 Qxg1 24.Be3 h4 25.f3 Qg2+ 26.Bf2 h3 27.Nd2 Bh4 28.Nf1 Bxf2 29.Kd2 Qxf3 30.Kc3 c5 31.Bd5 0-0-0 32.b3 Bd4+ 33.Kd2 Bxa1 34.Ke1 Bc3+ 35.Nd2 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Game 1 Tatiana Raevsky -white Eddie Briones - black 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. 00 Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. Nh2 Qh4 7.Nf3 Qd8 8. Nh2 NxN 9.KxN g5 10. d3 g4 11. Kg1 Qh4 12. Qd2 Be7 13. Qe3 Nd4 14. Ba4 b5 15. Bb3 d6 16. Kh2 gxh 17. gxh Bxh 18. QxB Nf3+ 19. Kg2 Rg8+ 20. Qg3 Qh2+ 21. KxN RxQ+ 22. Ke2 Rg1 23. RxR QxR 24. Be3 h4 25. f3 Qg2+ 26. Bf2 h3 27. Nd2 Bh4 28. Nf1 BxB still trying to show some mercy ! 29. Kd2 Qxf 30. Kc3 c5 31. Bd5 000 32. b3 Bd4+ 33. Kd2 BxR 34. Ke1 Bc3+ 35.Nd2 h2 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Game 2 Eddie Briones -white Anthony Cipollina -black 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. b3 Nc6 3.Bb2 d5 4.e3 Bg4 5. Bb5 Nd7 6.BxN bxB 7. h3 Bh5 8. d3 e6 9. bNd2 Nf6 10. g4 Bg6 11. Ne5 Bd6 12. Nxc Qc8 13.Ne5 00 14. f4 c5 15. 00 Rb8 16. Qe2 Nd7 17. dNf3 f6 18. NxB gxN 19. e4 Bxf 20. Nh4 g5 21. Ng6 Re8 22. NxB gxN 23. Rxf e5 24. Rf5 g6 25. Rf3 d4 26. Qd2 Kg7 27. aRf1 Rh8 28. Qf2 Qc6 29. Bc1 g5 30. Rf5 Kg6 31. Bxg fxB 32. Qd2 Rg8 33. Qxg+ Kh7 34. Rf7+ Kh8 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Game 3 Paul Tomaino - white Eddie Briones - black 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. 00 Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. d4 exd 7. Nxd Bc5 8. c3 Qh4 9. Be3 Bd7 ? How can I move Bd7 without moving d6 first so I know I'm missing probably 2 moves here. ( Sorry ) 10. Nf5 NxB 11. exN Qxe 12. Nd4 Qxe+ 13. Kh1 000 14. Re1 Qg3 15. Ne2 Qh4 16. Nd4 Bxh3 17. gxB BxN 18. cxB Rxd 19. Qe2 Qxh3+ 20. Qh2 Qf3+ 21. Qg2 Rh4+ 22. Kg1 Rg4 23. QxR hxQ 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Game 4 Eddie Briones - white Bill Waite - black 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. b3 g6 3. Bb2 Bg7 4. e3 d6 5. Be2 00 6. 00 c5 7. c4 Nc6 8. d4 cxd 9. Nxd NxN 10. QxN Bf5 11. g4 Ne8 12. Qd2 Be4 13. f3 Bc6 14. Nc3 Qa5 15. aRd1 Nc7 16. Nd5 QxQ 17. Nxe+ Kh8 18. BxB+ KxB 19. RxQ fRe8 20. NxB bxN 21. Kf2 Re6 22. fRd1 d5 23. Bd3 aRe8 24. e4 d4 25. c5 a5 26. f4 g5 27. f5 Re5 28. Rc1 Rd8 29. Kf3 Rc8 30. Bf1 Rd8 31. Rc4 Na6 32. cRxd4 RxR 33. RxR Nxc 34. Rc4 Kf6 35. Ke3 Ke7 36. Bd3 NxB 37. KxN Kd6 38. Ra4 c5 39. Ke3 Kc6 40. Rxa Kb6 41. Ra8 resigned 1-0 Game 5 Dave Lamb - white Eddie Briones - black 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 b6 4. Bg2 Bb7 5. d3 Nf6 6. Nf3 Nd4 7. 00 NxN 8. exN Be7 9. Re1 d6 10. d4 exd 11. Qxd 00 12. Bg5 h6 13. Bd2 c5 14. Qd3 Nd7 15. Bf4 Nf6 16. aRd1 d5 17. cxd Bd6 18. BxB QxB 19. f4 a6 20. a4 aRd8 21. Qc4 Rd7 22. h3 fRd8 23. Re5 Qb8 24. dRe1 Qa8 25. g4 Nxd 26. NxN BxN 27. BxB RxB 28. Re7 Rf8 29. Qb3 Rd4 30. g5 Qc6 31. a5 b5 32. Qg3 c4 33. f5 hxg 34. Qxg Qf3 35. Ra7 Qxh 0-1 Time control is 45 minutes . -------------- Original message from Brian Wall : -------------- Brian You don't get off that easy, Eddie. I need those game scores with voluninous notes from the Briones family. Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quoting eddiebriones at bellsouth.net: Hi Brian , I just won a local tournament in Daytona , Florida today. Thanks to you and your Fishing Pole ! I used it twice against a 1200 something and a 1700 something ratings. Again , Thanks a lot ! eddiebriones at bellsouth.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pair | Player Name |Total|Round|Round|Round|Round|Round| Num | USCF ID / Rtg (Pre->Post) | Pts | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | EDDIE SUNICO BRIONES |5.0 |W 7|W 9|W 4|W 5|W 3| FL | 12888138 / R: 1823 ->1885 | | | | | | | | Q: 1857 ->1904 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 | ELDON C BAGEANT III |4.0 |W 16|L 8|W 12|W 4|W 5| FL | 12654473 / R: 1687 ->1732 | | | | | | | | Q: 1774 ->1793 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 | DAVID E LAMB |3.0 |L 12|W 13|W 11|W 9|L 1| FL | 10223423 / R: 1917 ->1900 | | | | | | | | Q: 1938 ->1916 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 | PAUL B TOMAINO |3.0 |W 14|W 10|L 1|L 2|W 8| FL | 10148065 / R: 1800 ->1800 | | | | | | | | Q: 1775 ->1776 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 | BILL WAITE |3.0 |W 13|W 12|W 8|L 1|L 2| FL | 10130361 / R: 1700 ->1706 | | | | | | | | Q: 1607 ->1645 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 | RICHARD F FISCHER |3.0 |L 10|W 14|L 7|W 13|W 12| FL | 13862641 / R: 1540P15->1508P20 | | | | | | | | Q: 1568P15->1542P20 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 | TATIANA RAEVSKY |3.0 |L 1|W 15|W 6|D 8|D 9| FL | 13032241 / R: 1239 ->1358 | | | | | | | | Q: 1324 ->1424 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 | WILLIAM G MANEKAS |2.5 |W 11|W 2|L 5|D 7|L 4| FL | 12456149 / R: 1876 ->1847 | | | | | | | | Q: 1870 ->1843 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 | ANTHONY A CIPOLLINA |2.5 |W 15|L 1|W 10|L 3|D 7| FL | 13713973 / R: 1680 ->1666 | | | | | | | | Q: 1619 ->1613 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 | DAVID THOMAS SINGLETON |2.5 |W 6|L 4|L 9|D 11|W 15| FL | 14042281 / R: Unrated->1510P5 | | | | | | | | Q: Unrated->1521P5 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 | RICHARD SENKO |2.5 |L 8|W 16|L 3|D 10|W 14| FL | 12911408 / R: 1496 ->1491 | | | | | | | | Q: 1581 ->1571 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 | STEPHEN F LAMPKIN |2.0 |W 3|L 5|L 2|W 14|L 6| FL | 12139080 / R: 1495 ->1496 | | | | | | | | Q: 1629 ->1614 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 | ALEXEI RAEVSKY |2.0 |L 5|L 3|W 15|L 6|W 16| FL | 13219308 / R: 667 -> 716 | | | | | | | | Q: 843 -> 877 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 | JUSTIN ADAMS |1.0 |L 4|L 6|W 16|L 12|L 11| FL | 13975300 / R: 857P9 -> 860P14 | | | | | | | | Q: 959P17-> 961P22 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 | JAMES LAUGHLIN III |0.5 |L 9|L 7|L 13|D 16|L 10| FL | 13840311 / R: 548P14-> 529P19 | | | | | | | | Q: 718 -> 694 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 | NOAH E DOVBERG |0.5 |L 2|L 11|L 14|D 15|L 13| FL | 13947045 / R: 537P17-> 514P22 | | | | | | | | Q: 625P21-> 612 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081027/2ff344e0/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Oct 27 14:28:18 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:28:18 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Wow! Kramink wins in 29 moves. Message-ID: <1225139298.4906246270696@www.taom.com> It's like a surprise ending just when you thought the movie was over. [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.27"] [Round "-"] [White "*GM_Kramnik"] [Black "*GM_Anand"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2772"] [BlackElo "2783"] [Opening "Nimzo-Indian: three knights variation"] [ECO "E21"] [NIC "NI.28"] [Time "13:13:39"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nf3 c5 5. g3 cxd4 6. Nxd4 O-O 7. Bg2 d5 8. cxd5 Nxd5 9. Qb3 Qa5 10. Bd2 Nc6 11. Nxc6 bxc6 12. O-O Bxc3 13. bxc3 Ba6 14. Rfd1 Qc5 15. e4 Bc4 16. Qa4 Nb6 17. Qb4 Qh5 18. Re1 TN Kramnik -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Theoretical Novelty by Kramnik 18 Be3 has been played 8 times, including Kasparov-Anand 2000 The last 4 times the line has been tried, 18 Bf4 was used ( Cheparinov ( Topalov's second ), Loek Van Wely, Sargissian ( Aronian's second ), Kazhgaleyev ( no one's second ) Queen trades have been tried in the past - 17 ... Q:b4, 17 ... Qb5 has been tried. The line has also been used as a Grandmaster drawing line in under 20 moves - Anand may have thought Kramnik was handing him the title but he was in for a rude shock - Wells, Gipslis, 1998 agreed to a draw after 17 ... Q:b4 Loek Van Wely-Nigel Short agreed to a draw after 17 ... Qh5 Volzhin-Horvath, 2000 agreed to a draw after 17 ... Qh5 Two women, Bosboom -Zatonskih agreed to a draw after 17 ... Qh5 18 Be3 >From this dry professional wasteland of 1 Black victory, 3 White wins and 11 draws Kramnik somehow fashioned a win when everyone had given up hope for him. A most unlikely result, finally justifying his share of the millions. Fritz 9 prefers Kasparov's 18 Be3 to Kramnik's 18 Re1 but knowing all the tricks to a slightly inferior move is the new way to win. As far as the position itself the drawish symmetrical pawn structure seems more relevant than White's two bishops. Of course Kramnik, like Karpov and Petrosian before him, is the ultmate squeezer. After both blitzing off the moves, Anand took a 14 minute huddle. 18 ... c5! 19. Qa5 Rfc8! Fritz is still giving Anand no problems, I don't see how he lost in 10 moves, maybe he was really nervous. 20. Be3! Kramnik is still blitzing. 20 ... Be2! Anand is playing perfectly but he did spend another 15 minutes here. Maybe he is regretting finally allowing Kramnik an opening surprise. 21. Bf4 Kramnik finally spends 10 minutes on a move - he has nothing- The World Championship is surely in Anand's hands. 21 ... e5! Another perfect move from Anand, another 16 minutes spent 22. Be3! 10 minutes on this nothing move in this nothing position. Anand is fine after 22 B:e5 Nc4 23 Qa6 Q:e5 23 R:e2 Q:c3 22 ... Bg4 16 minutes spent with 49 minutes left to move 40. Anand has no worries - harassing the bishop is one of many easy draws - 22 ... Nc4 23 Qa6 Bd3 is fine and it's hard to understand why Vishy wouldn't play 22 ... Nc4 23 Qa6 N:e3 24 Q:e2 Q:e2 25 R:e2 N:g2 26 K:g2 and offer a draw Also 22 ... f6 or ... h6 or ... Bd3 are fine and also why not 22 ... Bf3 going for trades. 23. Qa6 20 minutes on another nothing move. Nowhere Man- Beatles He's a real nowhere Man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his nowhere plans for nobody. Doesn't have a point of view, Knows not where he's going to, Isn't he a bit like you and me? Nowhere Man, please listen, You don't know what you're missin', Nowhere Man, the world is at your command. (lead guitar) He's as blind as he can be, Just sees what he wants to see, Nowhere Man can you see me at all? Nowhere Man, don't worry, Take your time, don't hurry, Leave it all 'till somebody else lends you a hand. Doesn't have a point of view, Knows not where he's going to, Isn't he a bit like you and me? Nowhere man please listen, you don't know what your missin' Nowhere Man, the world is at your command He's a real Nowhere Man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his nowhere plans for nobody. Making all his nowhere plans for nobody. Making all his nowhere plans for nobody. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Everything screams out draw, end of match ---------------------------------------------------------------- 23 ... f6? 7 minutes. The first slip. Maybe Anand felt like picking up the pace and was tired of staring into the void and listening for danger while no one was looking back or offering even an echo. Kramnik is trying to stir up trouble with a4-5 to ruin Vishy's piece coordination. Knights like outposts and Kramnik is about to take away the last one. Kramnik claimed he beat Topalov by making something out of nothing. Maybe he can do it again. When everyone thought Topalov was going to beat Kramnik, Kasparov merely replied. " Kramnik has a very deep understanding of Chess. " Fritz 9 sees no danger and recommends moves like 23 ... Be6, ... Kh8, ... Bd7, .. Rc7 After 23 ... f6 Kramnik suddenly has a slightly better position plus an extra half hour on the clock. 24. a4!! Eviction time for the homeless knight but nothing too serious yet. 24 ... Qf7! The point of ... f6 is revealed, the Queen retreats to lend the knight a hand. 25. Bf1!! More annoying 2 bishop pressure in a dead pawn zone. the bishop takes away f1 so where will the knight go? - .... Nb6-d7-f8 maybe 25 ... Be6! All of Anand's pieces are yelling encouragement to his frightened, whinnying horse. 26. Rab1! Fritz 9 slightly prefers 26 Reb1 ( Vigorito's favorite move ) but at least Vlad is on the right track. It's not just the knight, Anand's whole Queenside is falling apart. Fritz 9 recommends the desperate looking 28 ... f5 29 a5 f4 but Kramnik is clearly better after any reasonable response - 30 Bd2, gf, B:c5, ab, B:f4, Bc1 Somehow Anand drifted into an awkward setup from a dead even position. Karpov was famous even 30 years ago for trapping pieces. IM John Watson once gave a lecture on the subject. 28 ... c4 6 minutes. Like Obama's characterization of John McCain, out of ideas, out of touch and running out of time. 20 minutes left and the golden chalice is slipping deeper and deeper into the abyss. 27. a5!! Anand is having a much harder time since he allowed Kramnik to play the openings he prepared. 27 ... Na4 As I have said many times, knights without outposts resemble cockroaches scurrying along the edges, avoiding the light. If 27 ... Nd7 what can Anand do about 28 Rb7!! and then being quickly down a passed, well-heralded a-pawn? 28. Rb7!! It's like a Kramnik magic show, making a win appear out of an empty top hat. Now Anand's clock, knight, title and a-pawn are all in trouble. Kramnik won by sheer willpower with no tools at his disposal. 28 ... Qe8! Only move 29. Qd6!! 29 Rc1! is also strong Kramnik's move harasses two pieces, the knight with Qb4 and the bishop with Re7. Anand has no good answer and after 6 minutes he resigned. {White wins} 1-0 I haven't seen yet what anyone else's computer has to say. I haven't seen the www.Chessvibes.com live press conference yet either. These are just my thoughts on a bare game score. Who knows what will happen tomorrow but I am glad Kramnik was able to do what he does at least once in the match. As for Anand he will groan when he sees how many draws he missed. Anand not playing 22 ... Nc4 23 Qa6 N:e3 with an easy draw seems very strange to me. A weird way to lose. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.27"] [Round "-"] [White "*GM_Kramnik"] [Black "*GM_Anand"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2772"] [BlackElo "2783"] [Opening "Nimzo-Indian: three knights variation"] [ECO "E21"] [NIC "NI.28"] [Time "13:13:39"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nf3 c5 5. g3 cxd4 6. Nxd4 O-O 7. Bg2 d5 8. cxd5 Nxd5 9. Qb3 Qa5 10. Bd2 Nc6 11. Nxc6 bxc6 12. O-O Bxc3 13. bxc3 Ba6 14. Rfd1 Qc5 15. e4 Bc4 16. Qa4 Nb6 17. Qb4 Qh5 18. Re1 c5 19. Qa5 Rfc8 20. Be3 Be2 21. Bf4 e5 22. Be3 Bg4 23. Qa6 f6 24. a4 Qf7 25. Bf1 Be6 26. Rab1 c4 27. a5 Na4 28. Rb7 Qe8 29. Qd6 {White wins} 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Oct 27 16:11:17 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:11:17 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Eddie Brione's second Fishing Pole victory in Round 3 Message-ID: <1225145477.49063c85c130b@www.taom.com> Eddie Game 3 Paul Tomaino - white Eddie Briones - black 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. 00 Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. d4 exd 7. Nxd Bc5 8. c3 Qh4 9. Be3 Bd7 ? How can I move Bd7 without moving d6 first so I know I'm missing probably 2 moves here. ( Sorry ) 10. Nf5 NxB 11. exN Qxe 12. Nd4 Qxe+ 13. Kh1 000 14. Re1 Qg3 15. Ne2 Qh4 16. Nd4 Bxh3 17. gxB BxN 18. cxB Rxd 19. Qe2 Qxh3+ 20. Qh2 Qf3+ 21. Qg2 Rh4+ 22. Kg1 Rg4 23. QxR hxQ 0-1 ----- Forwarded message from eddiebriones at bellsouth.net ----- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:06:07 +0000 From: eddiebriones at bellsouth.net Reply-To: eddiebriones at bellsouth.net Subject: Re: The Long and Winding Road To: Brian Wall Here are my games Brian. Hopefully you can teach me and give me pointers , like did I blunder, what other better moves should I have done , etc... Eddie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Eddie only got two chances to play the Fishing Pole in this Daytona Beach 5 round tournament but it was enough to win the tournament. Let's see how it works against a fellow 1800. Game 3 Paul Tomaino - white, 1800 Eddie Briones - black, 1855 1.e4? e5! 2.Nf3? Nc6! 3.Bb5? Nf6! 4.0-0? Ng4! 5.h3? h5!! The Fishing Pole is explained beautifully in this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCk6zdtSLk 6.d4 exd4! 7.Nxd4 Bc5! 8.c3 Qh4!! Much better than my usual 8 ... Qf6 in blitz. 8 ... Qh4!! 9 Nf5 B:f2+ 10 Kh1 Qf6 11 Bf4 g6!! or 8 ... Qh4!! 9 Nf5 B:f2+ 10 Kh1 Qf6 11 g3 B:g3!! 12 N:g3 Qf2!!! or 8 ... Qh4!! 9 Nf5 B:f2+ 10 Kh1 Qf6 11 g3 B:g3!! 12 hg hg 13 Kg2 Be5 14 Q:g4 Rh2+ or d6 work out great for Black 9.Bxc6 Reducing the number of attackers but freeing Black's Queen Bishop 9 ... dxc6!! 10.Be3?? Bd7? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eddie has played a perfect Fishing Pole so far - he really seems to have a feel for it. Be3 is common to desperately distract that annoying Fishing Pole knight and it is usually correct to take because - A- We don't have to lose the knight for nothing B- White's doubled e-pawns are a static weakness. So 10 Be3 N:e3 11 fe looks scary to Eddie, opening up the f-file against his King but Black has many good moves here like 11 ... B:h3!!! 12 Qf3 Be6 13 N:e6 fe 14 Q:f7+ Kd8 is frightening but Eddie's King is a lot safer than Paul's and his pawns are a lot better too and his minor piece is a lot better too. If Tomaino accepts the sac then 10 Be3? N:e3!! 11 fe B:h3!! 12 gh Qg3+ 13 Kh1 Q:h3+ 14 Kg1 Q:e3+ 15 Kg2 0-0-0 and Paul's position is in shambles. Even without the fancy sac 10 Be3 N:e3 11 fe normal moves like 11 ... Q:e4 or ... Qg3 should win After 11 ... Bd7 we have a normal Fishing Pole position 11.Nf5? Seems logical because Eddie has wasted a tempo with 11 ... Bd7? but now we see some Briones magic. My father used to call me Breeeeoooone. 11 ... Nxe3!! Eddie wakes up from his coma and snaps off the bishop. Intermezzos are critical to understand the Pole. Eddie would have a pleasant version of the Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation two bishop ending after 12 N:h4 N:d1 13 R:d1 0-0-0 14 Nd2 Rhe8 12.fxe3? Qxe4!! Eddie has the two bishops and an extra pawn. 12 ... Q:e4!! 13 N:g7+ Ke7 connects Briones' rooks, strands Paul's knight and leaves Tomaino with all his old problems 13.Nd4 Qxe3+!! 14.Kh1! 0-0-0!! After 10 moves of Pole action, Eddie is completely, comfortably winning. Now Paul drives Eddie's Queen to a killer location and soon regrets it. 15.Re1? Mistakes come very easily in the Fishing Pole, that's what makes it so deadly if you are prefamilairized with the themes. 15 ... Qg3!! 16.Ne2? Qh4! Tal called this a favorable wind 17.Nd4? Don't these frenzied, back and forth, pointless white knight moves remind you of a hooked, netted fish flopping around the bottom of the fishing boat? 17 ... Bxh3!! It's getting sick, end it. 18.gxh3 Bxd4 19.cxd4! Rxd4 This is how I figured out Eddie's missing move pair, 9 B:c6 dc, 19 ... R:d4 was impossible without it. Some people get flustered after captures and mess up their scoresheet. 20.Qe2 Qxh3+!! mating 21.Qh2 Qf3+! 22.Qg2! Rh4+! 23.Kg1! Rg4! 24.Qxg4+! hxg4! 0-1 mate in 6 It's always great fishing in fresh ponds. I would say Eddie will do very well with the Fishing Pole. I can almost feel his excitement from the way he plays it. Congratulations. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Game 3 Paul Tomaino - white Eddie Briones - black 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Ng4 5.h3 h5 6.d4 exd4 7.Nxd4 Bc5 8.c3 Qh4 9.Bxc6 dxc6 10.Be3 Bd7 11.Nf5 Nxe3 12.fxe3 Qxe4 13.Nd4 Qxe3+ 14.Kh1 0-0-0 15.Re1 Qg3 16.Ne2 Qh4 17.Nd4 Bxh3 18.gxh3 Bxd4 19.cxd4 Rxd4 20.Qe2 Qxh3+ 21.Qh2 Qf3+ 22.Qg2 Rh4+ 23.Kg1 Rg4 24.Qxg4+ hxg4 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pair | Player Name |Total|Round|Round|Round|Round|Round| Num | USCF ID / Rtg (Pre->Post) | Pts | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | EDDIE SUNICO BRIONES |5.0 |W 7|W 9|W 4|W 5|W 3| FL | 12888138 / R: 1823 ->1885 | | | | | | | | Q: 1857 ->1904 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 | ELDON C BAGEANT III |4.0 |W 16|L 8|W 12|W 4|W 5| FL | 12654473 / R: 1687 ->1732 | | | | | | | | Q: 1774 ->1793 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 | DAVID E LAMB |3.0 |L 12|W 13|W 11|W 9|L 1| FL | 10223423 / R: 1917 ->1900 | | | | | | | | Q: 1938 ->1916 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 | PAUL B TOMAINO |3.0 |W 14|W 10|L 1|L 2|W 8| FL | 10148065 / R: 1800 ->1800 | | | | | | | | Q: 1775 ->1776 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 | BILL WAITE |3.0 |W 13|W 12|W 8|L 1|L 2| FL | 10130361 / R: 1700 ->1706 | | | | | | | | Q: 1607 ->1645 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 | RICHARD F FISCHER |3.0 |L 10|W 14|L 7|W 13|W 12| FL | 13862641 / R: 1540P15->1508P20 | | | | | | | | Q: 1568P15->1542P20 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 | TATIANA RAEVSKY |3.0 |L 1|W 15|W 6|D 8|D 9| FL | 13032241 / R: 1239 ->1358 | | | | | | | | Q: 1324 ->1424 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 | WILLIAM G MANEKAS |2.5 |W 11|W 2|L 5|D 7|L 4| FL | 12456149 / R: 1876 ->1847 | | | | | | | | Q: 1870 ->1843 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 | ANTHONY A CIPOLLINA |2.5 |W 15|L 1|W 10|L 3|D 7| FL | 13713973 / R: 1680 ->1666 | | | | | | | | Q: 1619 ->1613 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 | DAVID THOMAS SINGLETON |2.5 |W 6|L 4|L 9|D 11|W 15| FL | 14042281 / R: Unrated->1510P5 | | | | | | | | Q: Unrated->1521P5 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 | RICHARD SENKO |2.5 |L 8|W 16|L 3|D 10|W 14| FL | 12911408 / R: 1496 ->1491 | | | | | | | | Q: 1581 ->1571 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 | STEPHEN F LAMPKIN |2.0 |W 3|L 5|L 2|W 14|L 6| FL | 12139080 / R: 1495 ->1496 | | | | | | | | Q: 1629 ->1614 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 | ALEXEI RAEVSKY |2.0 |L 5|L 3|W 15|L 6|W 16| FL | 13219308 / R: 667 -> 716 | | | | | | | | Q: 843 -> 877 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 | JUSTIN ADAMS |1.0 |L 4|L 6|W 16|L 12|L 11| FL | 13975300 / R: 857P9 -> 860P14 | | | | | | | | Q: 959P17-> 961P22 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 | JAMES LAUGHLIN III |0.5 |L 9|L 7|L 13|D 16|L 10| FL | 13840311 / R: 548P14-> 529P19 | | | | | | | | Q: 718 -> 694 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 | NOAH E DOVBERG |0.5 |L 2|L 11|L 14|D 15|L 13| FL | 13947045 / R: 537P17-> 514P22 | | | | | | | | Q: 625P21-> 612 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DBCC CLUB CHAMPIONS (200810258651) Location DAYTONA BEACH , FL 32118 USA Event Date(s) 2008-10-25 Sponsoring Affiliate DAYTONA BEACH CHESS CLUB (A6005510) Chief TD PAUL B TOMAINO (10148065) Processed Received: 2008-10-25 Entered: 2008-10-25 Rated: 2008-10-25 Stats 1 Section(s), 16 Players From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Oct 27 22:05:22 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:05:22 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Accidental Penguin Message-ID: <1225166722.49068f82edb81@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Chris Peterson ----- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:19:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Peterson Reply-To: garrensilverwing at yahoo.com Subject: Accidental Penguin To: Brian Wall Tupelo (1948) - LilWayne (2037) [A50] ICC tourney 334180 (1 0) Internet Chess Club (5), 27.10.20081.d4 Nf6 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 e5 4.d5 Ne7 5.e4 Ng6 6.Bd3 Bc5 7.Nf3 a6 8.Qe2 d6 9.Be3 Ba7 10.Bxa7 Nf4 11.Qf1 Rxa7 12.0?0?0 ? Robert Ramirez went to castle Kingside here but his cruddy mouse made him mouseslip a penguin! ? 12...Rg8 13.g3 Ng6 14.h3 b5 15.cxb5 axb5 16.Bxb5+ Bd7 17.Bxd7+ Qxd7 18.Qe2 Ke7 19.Nd2 Rb8 20.Nc4 Rb4 21.a3 Rb3 22.Qc2 Rab7 23.Rd2 Rb8 24.Qd3 h5 25.Qe3 h4 26.f4 hxg3 27.fxe5 dxe5 28.Qxg3 Nf4 29.Nxe5 Qd6 30.Qxf4 Rxc3+ 31.bxc3 Qxa3+ 32.Kd1 Rb1+ 33.Ke2 Qa6+ 34.Kf2 Rxh1 35.Nc6+ Kf8 36.Qxc7 Qf1+ 37.Ke3 Qe1+ 38.Re2 Rxh3+ 39.Kd4 Qd1+ 40.Kc5 Qxe2 41.Qe7+ Kg8 42.Qd8+ Kh7 White forfeits on time 0?1 ----- End forwarded message ----- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: ATT000066.gif Type: image/gif Size: 19270 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081028/28078a58/attachment-0005.gif From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Oct 28 15:27:33 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:27:33 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 2008 World Youth Championships report by LM Joel Johnson Message-ID: <1225229253.490783c5c3559@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:15:51 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: 2008 World Youth Championships 2008 World Youth Championships, Vung Tau city, Vietnam David Adelberg had a draw in Round 9 and despite having the Black pieces in each of the last two rounds, he secured 1 ? out of 2. Now, with two rounds to go and armed with the White pieces, he should be able to move up in the standings some more. Standings after 9 rounds 1) Sayantan Das (India) 8 2-4) FM Darwin Yang (USA) 7 Khosla Shiven (India) 7 Dmitry Gordievskiy (Russia) 7 5-8) Minh Le Tuan (Vietnam) 6 ? David Adelberg (USA) 6 ? Cuong Nguyen Hung (Vietnam) 6 ? Shardul Gagare (India) 6 ? Gagare, Shardul (India) - Adelberg, David (USA) [A24] 2008 World Youth Chess Championships, Vung Tau city, Vietnam (Round 1), 10/20/2008 [Notes by Life Master Joel Johnson] 1.c4 c6 2.e4 e5 3.Nc3 d6 4.g3 Nf6 5.Bg2 Nbd7 6.Nge2 g6 7.0?0 Bg7 8.d3 0?0 9.h3 Qc7 10.Be3 a6 11.Rc1 Rb8 12.b4 Re8 13.a4 a5 14.b5 Nc5 15.bxc6? (This move just helps Black by opening the b-file for his Rook.) 15...bxc6 16.Bxc5? (This seems like a good idea, but minus of the doubled Pawns and messed up Pawn structure is compensated for by any real way for White to capitalize on the weaknesses. In fact, once Black plants a Knight in that huge hole on d4, everything will be just fine.) 16...dxc5 17.Rb1 Ba6 (The "Anchoring" move Rb4 is also very interesting here.) 18.Qc2 Nd7 (Heading for the d4 hole via f8 and e6.) 19.Rxb8 Rxb8 20.Rb1 Nf8 21.Rxb8 Qxb8 22.Na2 Ne6 23.Kf1 Nd4 24.Nxd4 cxd4 25.Bf3 Bf8 26.Bd1 Bb4 27.Qb1 c5 28.Bf3 Bc8 29.Kg2 Qb7 30.Qb3 Bd7 31.Kh2 f5 32.Qc2 Bc6 33.Kg2 Qd7 34.exf5 Bxf3+? (34. ... Ba4 35. Qe2 Qf5 with a solid advantage for Black because of the passed a-Pawn.) 35.Kxf3 gxf5 36.Kg2 e4 37.Nc1 Qc6 38.Kg1 Kh8? (Black should play Kg7 and h6 to block out all of White's entry points into the Black posiition. Then, play Ba3 to expose the overworked White Queen which is defending the a4, d3, and c1 squares.) 39.Ne2 exd3 40.Qxd3 Qe4 41.Nf4 Kg7 42.h4 Qe1+? (Black should continue to get better King position with Kf6 and Ke5, in preparation for the Bishop versus Knight ending, when the Queens come off.) 43.Kg2 Qe4+ 44.Kh2 Qe1 45.Qf3 Qe4 46.Qd3 Qe1 47.Qf3 Qe4 48.Qd1 Be1 49.Kg1 Bb4 50.Kh2 Be1 51.Nd3 Bb4 52.Nf4 Be1 53.Kg1 Bb4 54.Qd3 Qe1+ 55.Kg2 Qe4+ 56.f3 Qe5 57.Kh3 Kh6 58.Qb1 Kg7 59.Nd5 Kf7 60.Nf4 Kg7 61.Nd5 Kf7 62.Qc1 d3 63.Qh6 d2 64.Qxh7+ Kf8 65.Qh6+ Kf7 66.Qh7+ Kf8 67.Qh6+ Kf7 68.Qh7+ Kf8 69.Qh6+ Kf7 70.Qh5+ Kf8 71.f4 Qe6 72.Qh8+ Kf7 73.Qh7+ Kf8 74.Qh8+ Kf7 75.Qh5+ Kf8 76.Qh8+ Kf7 77.Qh7+ Kf8 ??? (Because many players under 12 years old do not have International ratings, the seeds and the pairings can ultimately look crazy at the end of the event. For example, both of these players are very strong and they are meeting in the first round. And yet, you will see both of them at the top of the standings in later rounds.) Adelberg, David (USA) - Akhmetov, Ayan (Kazakhstan) [A43] 2008 World Youth Chess Championships Vung Tau city, Vietnam, (Round 2) 10/21/2008 [Notes by Life Master Joel Johnson] 1.d4 e6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 exd5 4.cxd5 d6 5.Nc3 g6 6.e4 Bg7 7.Bd3 Ne7 8.h3 0?0 9.Nf3 a6 10.a4 Nd7 11.0?0 Re8 12.Bf4 Qb6 13.Qd2 Ne5? (This move is bad for several reasons. Right off the bat, White gets a passed d-Pawn. In addition, after White's move a5, the c-Pawn will be extremely weak.) 14.Nxe5 dxe5 15.a5 Qd6 16.Be3 (White starts to target all of Black's weaknesses, the c5 square, the c-file, the b6 hole, and the d-file.) 16...Bd7 17.Rfc1 Rac8 18.Na4! (Black is already in deep trouble.) 18...Bxa4 19.Rxa4 Rc7 20.Rac4 Rec8 21.Qc2 Qd7 22.Bxc5 (b4 is also strong here, working on the pin. But, Bc5 has the added value of exposing Black's poor piece placement. Neither the Rook on c7 or the Knight on e7 has any squares and because Bc5 protects the d6 square, the impending d6 forking the Knight and Rook is a very real issue, despite Black having a move to attempt to resolve the situation.) 22...Bh6 23.Rd1 Bf8 24.d6 Rxc5 25.Rxc5 Rxc5 26.Qxc5 Nc6 27.Bc4 Kg7 28.b4 f6 29.Qd5 Kh6 30.b5 Nd4 31.bxa6 bxa6 32.Bxa6 Bxd6 33.Bc4 Qa4 34.Rf1 Bc7 35.a6 Bb6 36.Rb1 Qc2 37.Rf1 Qa4 38.Kh2 Qc2 39.Qf7 Qxe4 40.Qxf6 Nf3+ 41.Qxf3 Qxc4 42.Ra1 Qd4 43.Qe3+ Qxe3 44.fxe3 Ba7 45.Rb1 1?0 Adelberg, David (USA) - Artemenko, Oleg (Uzbekistan) [A52] 2008 World Youth Chess Championships, Vung Tau city, Vietnam (Round 3), 10/22/2008 [Notes by Life Master Joel Johnson] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 (The Budapest Gambit) 3.dxe5 Ng4 4.Bf4 Nc6 5.Nf3 Bb4+ 6.Nbd2 Qe7 7.a3 (More common is 7. e3 as in the following game with former World Champion Smyslov: Vasily Smyslov - Lesly S F Blackstock1988 London Lloyds, Round 61. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 Ng4 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Bf4 Bb4+ 6. Nbd2Qe7 7. e3 Ngxe5 8. Nxe5 Nxe5 9. Be2 O-O 10. O-O Bxd2 11. Qxd2d6 12. b4 a5 13. a3 Rd8 14. Qc3 f6 15. Rfc1 Bf5 16. f3 axb417. axb4 b6 18. e4 Bg6 19. Rxa8 Rxa8 20. c5 bxc5 21. bxc5 Bf722. cxd6 cxd6 23. Qd4 h6 24. Rd1 Rd8 25. Qb6 Rd7 26. Qb4 Kh727. Bg3 Qe6 28. f4 Qb3 29. Qxb3 Bxb3 30. fxe5 Bxd1 31. e6 Re732. Bxd1 Rxe6 33. Bg4 Re8 34. Bxd6 g6 35. Bf3 Kg7 36. Kf2 Rd837. e5 fxe5 38. Bxe5+ Kh7 39. Ke3 Re8 40. Kd4 Rd8+ 41. Ke4 Rd242. Bd4 Ra2 43. Ke5 Ra6 44. Bb7 Ra4 45. Bc6 Rb4 46. Bd5 Ra447. Bc5 Ra5 48. Bd6 Kg7 49. Ke6 Ra6 50. Bb7 Rb6 51. Bc8 Kh752. Ke7 Rb2 53. g4 Rf2 54. Be6 Rf1 55. Be5 Rf2 56. Bf6 Rf457. Kf7 Ra4 58. Be5 Ra7+ 59. Kf6 Ra6 60. h4 Rb6 61. Kf7 Rb562. h5 1?0) 7...Ngxe5 8.Nxe5 Nxe5 9.e3 (Not 9. ab4??, as Black checkmates after 9. ... Nd3#.) 9...Bxd2+ 10.Qxd2 b6? (d6 is the correct move here.) 11.Qd5 Nc6 12.Bxc7 Qf6 13.Qe4+ (White chooses a path towards retreating his Queen and defending the b-Pawn, instead of continuing with the attack. The Pawn was poison, for example, 13. Rd1 Qb2 14. Qe4 Kf8 15. Bd6 Kg8 16. Qe8#.) 13...Kf8 14.Qc2? (Once again, Rd1 works here as the Black Queen must defend the d6 square.) 14...g6 15.Be2 Kg7 16.0?0 Re8 17.Rfd1 h5 18.Bf3 h4 19.h3 Qe7 20.Qc3+ Kh7 21.Rd2 (Rd6 really puts the clamps down on Black's position.) 21...Bb7 22.Rad1 Bc8 (What else can Black do? He is already down a Pawn and the isolated d-Pawn is extremely weak.) 23.b4 d5 24.cxd5 Qxc7 25.d6! (It is better to capture the Knight with the Bishop instead of the Pawn.) 1?0 Mirzaei, Saleh (Iran) - Adelberg, David (USA) [B52] 2008 World Youth Chess Championships, Vung Tau city, Vietnam (Round 4), 10/22/2008 [Notes by Life Master Joel Johnson] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Bd7 4.Bxd7+ Qxd7 5.0?0 Nf6 6.Re1 Nc6 7.c3 e6 8.d4 cxd4 9.cxd4 d5 10.e5 Ne4 11.Nbd2 Nxd2 12.Bxd2 Be7 13.a3 0?0 14.Rc1 Rac8 15.Rc3 Rfe8 16.Rd3 (A very unorthodox move aimed at freeing up his Knight from the defensive duties of the White Pawn on d4. The Rook was situated well on the open c-file, but White has visions of kingside attacking with moves like Ng5, Qh5, and Rh3.) 16...Bd8 17.Ng5 Bxg5 18.Bxg5 Ne7 19.Qg4 Qb5 20.Rg3? (Highly optimistic - White should defend with Qe2.) 20...Nf5 21.Bf6 g6 22.Rh3 Qxb2 23.Rxh7 Kxh7 24.Qh3+ Nh6 25.Bg5 Rh8 26.Bxh6 Qc3! (Kg8 also works, but Qc3 is much better.) 27.Bd2+ Qxh3 28.gxh3 Rc4 29.Rb1 b6 30.Rb3 Rxd4 31.Bg5 Rc8 32.Rf3 Kg8 33.Bf6 Kf8 34.h4 Rcc4 35.h3 Rc1+ 36.Kg2 Rcd1 37.Rc3 Rc4 38.Rg3 Rdc1 39.h5 R1c3 40.Rg5 gxh5 41.Rxh5 Ke8 42.Rh8+ Kd7 43.Rf8 Rc7 44.h4!! (Much better than capturing Black's f-Pawn on f7. This move says, "I am going to queen this Pawn and how are you going to stop me.") 44...R7c4 45.Rxf7+ Kc8? (Kc6 is more active.) 46.Rg7 Rf4 47.h5 Rcf3 48.h6 Rxf2+ 49.Kg3 R2f3+ 50.Kg2 Rf2+ 51.Kg3 R2f3+ (Black chose the forced perpetual check as his method for stopping White's passed h-Pawn.) ??? Adelberg, David (USA) - Harutyunian,Tigran K (Armenia) [D58] 2008 World Youth Chess Championships, Vung Tau city, Vietnam (Round 5), 10/23/2008 [Notes by Life Master Joel Johnson] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 h6 6.Bh4 0?0 7.Nf3 b6 8.Rc1 Bb7 9.Be2 Nbd7 10.cxd5 exd5 11.0?0 Ne4 12.Bxe7 Qxe7 13.Qc2 c5 14.dxc5 Nxc3 15.Qxc3 bxc5 16.Rc2 Rac8 17.Qa3 a6 18.Rfc1 Rc6? (White has only a slight edge after Rfe8.) 19.Nd4! Rd6? (Rb6 - open file) 20.Bd3? (There is nothing to fear here after 20. Nf5 Qf6 21. Nd6 Qd6, winning the exchange.) 20...Rf6 21.Nb3 d4 22.exd4 Re8 23.Nxc5 Nxc5 24.Qxc5 Qd7 25.h3 Rf4 26.Rd1 Rc8 27.Qe5 Rxc2 28.Bxc2 g5 29.d5 Qc8 30.Bb3 Qc5 31.Qe3 Qd6 32.Re1 Rf5 33.Qe4 Qf6 34.Qb4 Qxb2 (On 34. ... Bd5 35. Re8 Kh7 36. Bc2 wins.) 35.Qxb7 Qxf2+ 36.Kh2 Rf3 37.Qb4 Qg3+ 38.Kh1 Rf2 39.Qe4 Rxg2 40.Qe8+! Kg7 41.Qe5+ Kg6 42.Qxg3 Rxg3 43.d6 Kf6 44.Rd1 Rxh3+ 45.Kg2 1?0 _________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081028/aebdd5d2/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Oct 28 20:52:31 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:52:31 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Anindita versus Hyper-Pole Message-ID: <1225248751.4907cfef955b2@www.taom.com> Anindita = www.Chesscube.com 1900 Game/5 minutes [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "anindita at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.28"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole 5. h3 h5 6. c3 a6 7. Ba4 Bc5 8. d4 Ba7!! Hyper-Pole 9. Bg5? f6!! 10. Bd2 d6 The only move Fritz prefers is 10 ... Nh6 which ain't happening on my watch 11. Bb3 A bit strange 11 ... g5 Pawn wave 12. hxg4??? When will they learn? Unleashing the gates of Hell- Vance Aandahl 12 ... hxg4!! 13. Nh2 g3! When will I learn that 13 ... Qd7!!! 14 N:g4 Q:g4 15 Q:g4 B:g4 is a better endgame for me. 13 ... Qe7!! 14 N:g4 Rh4 15 Ne3! Qh7! 16 f3 ed!! or ... Rh2! or ... g4 is another method 14. fxg3? 14 Ng4 B:g4 15 Q:g4 Qe7!!, ... Ne5!!, ... d3!, ... Qd7 or ... dc? are better for me but better than what Anindita got in the game 14 ... exd4!! It's over, because of White's extra piece 15. Qe2 dxc3+ My posiiton is so good that funny moves work, from weakest win to strongest- 15 ... Rb8,... Bg4, ... Be6, ... Ne5, ... Bc5, ... a5, ... Rh6, ... Bb6, ... Rh7,... g4,... Bd7, and Murder's Row, ... dc+!!, ... Qd7!!!, ... d3+!!!!, ... Qe7!!!! For the umpteenth time 15 Qe7!!! and ... Qd7+!! are better than my approach, not to mention 15 ... d3+ winning the Queen 16. Be3! cxb2!! 17. Nc3! bxa1=Q!! My e7-pawn does not get this far normally 18. Rxa1! Bxe3+! 19. Qxe3! Ne5 20. Qf2 c6 To stop his threat of Nd5 but missing my own. I really must slow down. 21. Rd1 Rxh2!! There we go! 0-1 Does your opening do this for you? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "anindita at chesscube.com"] [Black "brianwall at chesscube.com"] [Date "2008.10.28"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. c3 a6 7. Ba4 Bc5 8. d4 Ba7 9. Bg5 f6 10. Bd2 d6 11. Bb3 g5 12. hxg4 hxg4 13. Nh2 g3 14. fxg3 exd4 15. Qe2 dxc3+ 16. Be3 cxb2 17. Nc3 bxa1=Q 18. Rxa1 Bxe3+ 19. Qxe3 Ne5 20. Qf2 c6 21. Rd1 Rxh2 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Oct 29 12:06:49 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:06:49 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Congratulations to Anand, World Champion Message-ID: <1225303609.4908a639b0e75@www.taom.com> Robert Ramirez of Denver has played thousands of blitz games with the ... Qc7 Najdorf. I tried everything I could think of but I never found a way to get an advantage as White. I laughed when I saw Kramnik try it as Black in his last World Championship game against Anand. Someone on ICC said Kramnik as Black has never beaten Anand. I don't know if that's true. Kramnik offered a draw in an inferior ending. Euwe told Alekhine the last game - " I am ready to accept a draw at any point in the game. " The match finished one game early. Congratulations Vishy! Let the celebrations begin. [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.29"] [Round "-"] [White "*GM_Anand"] [Black "*GM_Kramnik"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2783"] [BlackElo "2772"] [Opening "Sicilian: Najdorf, 7.f4"] [ECO "B96"] [NIC "SI.05"] [Time "13:54:22"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Qc7 8. Bxf6 gxf6 9. f5 Qc5 10. Qd3 Nc6 11. Nb3 Qe5 12. O-O-O exf5 13. Qe3 Bg7 14. Rd5 Qe7 15. Qg3 Rg8 16. Qf4 fxe4 17. Nxe4 f5 18. Nxd6+ Kf8 19. Nxc8 Rxc8 20. Kb1 Qe1+ 21. Nc1 Ne7 22. Qd2 Qxd2 23. Rxd2 Bh6 24. Rf2 Be3 {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.10.29"] [Round "-"] [White "*GM_Anand"] [Black "*GM_Kramnik"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2783"] [BlackElo "2772"] [Opening "Sicilian: Najdorf, 7.f4"] [ECO "B96"] [NIC "SI.05"] [Time "13:54:22"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Qc7 8. Bxf6 gxf6 9. f5 Qc5 10. Qd3 Nc6 11. Nb3 Qe5 12. O-O-O exf5 13. Qe3 Bg7 14. Rd5 Qe7 15. Qg3 Rg8 16. Qf4 fxe4 17. Nxe4 f5 18. Nxd6+ Kf8 19. Nxc8 Rxc8 20. Kb1 Qe1+ 21. Nc1 Ne7 22. Qd2 Qxd2 23. Rxd2 Bh6 24. Rf2 Be3 {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Oct 30 12:37:27 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:37:27 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Pueblo's Halloween Open Message-ID: <1225391847.4909fee747925@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from chessliz at comcast.net ----- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:18:30 +0000 (UTC) From: chessliz at comcast.net Reply-To: chessliz at comcast.net Subject: Pueblo's Halloween Open To: Brian Wall Brian, please get word out that the Pueblo tournament on 11/1/08 has been cancelled due to the unexpected rally for Obama at Union & D Street (which is where the Daily Grind is located). The owner of the Grind felt it would be better to cancel the tournament. Among other things, NO BAGS are allowed in the area...can you imagine what the Secret Service would think of chess bags with boards & pieces! Tx, Liz -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081030/3113075c/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Oct 31 02:45:34 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:45:34 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Chess Tourneys in AZ with Joel Johnson Message-ID: <1225442734.490ac5ae6f040@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:45:15 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: RE: Chess Tourneys To: austinmath at yahoo.com Hi Austin, Yes, the events will be in the Phoenix area. I will make sure that you and Kermit have a place to stay if you chose to play. I will be having these events from time to time. The first two events will be the weekend before Christmas. The details for the events so far are below and attached. I will give you the exact locations of the events, once I iron out the details. Please let me know soon if you guys will be coming, or if you know somebody else that may be interested in playing. Thanks, Joel Valley Chess Invitationals #1) Saturday, December 20, 2008 #2) Sunday, December 21, 2008 The details for both events are identical. Events will be limited to players invited by Joel Johnson and rated roughly between 1900 and 2250. The sole purpose of these events is to give local young players an opportunity to compete against a few older players that have been mostly inactive and a few out of state players. 5-SS, G/60, EF: $25, Rounds: 9-11-2-4-6, Rounds will start earlier whenever possible, ? point byes available in all rounds if requested before the start of round one. The events will have between 6 and 12 players. There will be a house player rated between 1600 and 1900, who will only play to avoid all byes. The house player does not pay an entry, does not count toward the prize fund and cannot win a prize. The results from his games will count in the tournament. Players need to check in by 8:30 am, otherwise you will not be paired for round 1. We do not want any forfeits. Round 1 will start on-time regardless of who is present. If you are late for round 1, you will get a half point bye for round 1. Prizes (Guaranteed): 1st -- 50%, 2nd ? 30%, 3rd ? 20% Where?: Sites will be determined in the near future. Information?: Email: Joel Johnson at bigbear12 at hotmail.com Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:17:16 -0700From: austinmath at yahoo.comSubject: Chess TourneysTo: bigbear12 at hotmail.com Hi Joel, Mark mentioned that you would run some invitational tournaments and that you would invite me and Kermit. I am interested in playing. Do you have any more information about the tournaments? However, there is one thing that really concerns me. Will they all be in Arizona? If so, I can not promise you I would go a lot. Maybe once in a while, but not frequently. Let me know as soon as possible. I look forward to possibly playing chess with you. Enjoy every move you make, Austin Cambon -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: unnamed Url: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081031/7c89f3e6/attachment.ksh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081031/7c89f3e6/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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To: Brian Wall Pious (2126) - IM?Drk (2129) [B32] ICC 5 0 Internet Chess Club, 31.10.2008 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb5 a6 6.Nd6+ Bxd6 7.Qxd6 Qf6 8.Qd3 Nge7 9.Nc3 Qg6 10.f4 f5 11.exf5 Nxf5 12.Bd2 Nb4 13.Qe4 0?0 14.0?0?0 Nd4 15.Bc4+ Kh8 16.Qxg6 hxg6 17.fxe5 Nbxc2 18.Bd3 Nb4 19.Bxg6 d5 20.a3 Nb3+ 21.Kb1 a5 22.axb4 d4 23.Ne4 Be6 24.bxa5 Nxa5 25.Bxa5 Rxa5 26.Rxd4 Rc8 27.Nc3 b5 28.Rhd1 b4 29.Rd8+ Rxd8 30.Rxd8+ Bg8 31.Ne4 Rxe5 32.Nd6 Re1+ 33.Kc2 Black resigns 1?0 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20081031/bd1f2b51/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Oct 31 11:47:22 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:47:22 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Chess Emporium in AZ with Robert Brown Message-ID: <1225475242.490b44aa3d760@www.taom.com> Hi again Robert. I think my book is ideal for teaching kids Chess - something to expand their minds until their teachers shut them down again. Brian Wall ----- Forwarded message from Brown Robert ----- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:57:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Brown Robert Reply-To: mysticgrunt at yahoo.com Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] Chess Tourneys in AZ with Joel Johnson To: Brian Wall Brian, Hello, long time no talk. This is Robert Brown, formerly from pueblo(I did the video tape thing a couple years ago and we played a couple times at the coffee house. I am now a Professional chess coach with the chess emporium here in Phoenix. If ever you need a place to stay just give me a holla, I don't live in the ritz, but i do have a pull out couch. If you don't already know we are holding Susan Polgars national championship scholastic tourney here in February and I thought it might be a good idea to sell some of your fantastic book! If you have interest pls let me know asap and I will get you and my boss Scott Freneau talking about what you can do. Also we teach over 2,000 kids every semester and we sell chess book at the store so you may wish to try to sell some through us. Get back to me if any of this is interesting to ya! Peace Luv, and Happiness Coach Bobby "MOOSE" Brown --- On Fri, 10/31/08, Brian Wall wrote: From: Brian Wall Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Chess Tourneys in AZ with Joel Johnson To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, "Brian Wall Chesslist" Date: Friday, October 31, 2008, 1:45 AM ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:45:15 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: RE: Chess Tourneys To: austinmath at yahoo.com Hi Austin, Yes, the events will be in the Phoenix area. I will make sure that you and Kermit have a place to stay if you chose to play. I will be having these events from time to time. The first two events will be the weekend before Christmas. The details for the events so far are below and attached. I will give you the exact locations of the events, once I iron out the details. Please let me know soon if you guys will be coming, or if you know somebody else that may be interested in playing. Thanks, Joel Valley Chess Invitationals #1) Saturday, December 20, 2008 #2) Sunday, December 21, 2008 The details for both events are identical. Events will be limited to players invited by Joel Johnson and rated roughly between 1900 and 2250. The sole purpose of these events is to give local young players an opportunity to compete against a few older players that have been mostly inactive and a few out of state players. 5-SS, G/60, EF: $25, Rounds: 9-11-2-4-6, Rounds will start earlier whenever possible, ?? point byes available in all rounds if requested before the start of round one. The events will have between 6 and 12 players. There will be a house player rated between 1600 and 1900, who will only play to avoid all byes. The house player does not pay an entry, does not count toward the prize fund and cannot win a prize. The results from his games will count in the tournament. Players need to check in by 8:30 am, otherwise you will not be paired for round 1. We do not want any forfeits. Round 1 will start on-time regardless of who is present. If you are late for round 1, you will get a half point bye for round 1. Prizes (Guaranteed): 1st -- 50%, 2nd ??? 30%, 3rd ??? 20% Where?: Sites will be determined in the near future. Information?: Email: Joel Johnson at bigbear12 at hotmail.com Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:17:16 -0700From: austinmath at yahoo.comSubject: Chess TourneysTo: bigbear12 at hotmail.com Hi Joel, Mark mentioned that you would run some invitational tournaments and that you would invite me and Kermit. I am interested in playing. Do you have any more information about the tournaments? However, there is one thing that really concerns me. Will they all be in Arizona? If so, I can not promise you I would go a lot. Maybe once in a while, but not frequently. Let me know as soon as possible. I look forward to possibly playing chess with you. Enjoy every move you make, Austin Cambon