From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Sep 2 23:06:01 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 23:06:01 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Brian adds Florida to list of conquered Chess territory Message-ID: <1220418361.48be1b39a74bc@www.taom.com> Florida Open 2008 Saint Petersburg, Fla August 30, 31 September 1 blitz 7th place Game/29 second place $150 Game/15 second place $100 Florida Open second place $250 not bad with GMs, IMs and FMs floating around plus I sold $260 worth of How To Play Chess Like An Animal plus I made a lot of new friends and some people knew me somehow plus $100 seafood meal plus lots of room service, rain plus I blitzed all night till 3 AM after the tournament, Tal-style. plus Ukranian Bob Kushner made me a CD of animal songs! and the Chess Moms made me laugh in between moves and I could watch TV in thw weight room and the TD was super nice- youngest guy ever to play in the Olympiad for the Virgin Islands with Captain Bill Hook at age 11. I had a fantastic time in Florida. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.thefloridamap.com/images/MapRegions.jpg Map of Florida --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.mapsofworld.com/usa/states/kansas/maps/kansas-road-map.jpg Map of previously conquered Kansas --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/co.htm Map of permanently conquered Colorado --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Sep 3 16:45:25 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:45:25 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fischer reincarnated, final version Message-ID: <1220481925.48bf1385dafeb@www.taom.com> Comments from Ray Robson's first teacher, Andrew Scherman - Forwarded message from "elprez_spcc at netzero.net btw, I'm not only the youngest player ever in the World Chess Olympiad, but I'm also the 2003 and 2004 U.S. G/10 national champion and the president of the Florida Chess Association. and quite a modest guy. very nicely written. one quibble: Ray has always impressed me as the anti-Fischer or perhaps Fischer was the anti-Robson. Ray has all of the talent and none of the insanity. One thing I have always said about him is that he is unquestionably a world class chessplayer, but he is an even better person. Comments from Ray Robson's first teacher, Andrew Scherman - Forwarded message from "elprez_spcc at netzero.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Wall BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com It is not often a loss is my favorite game but you have to understand how special Ray Robson is. I had the eerie feeling Fischer had been reborn. Imagine a 13 year old 2468 player. Also very friendly, intelligent, determined, very kind, soft spoken and yet with confidence in his own powers, bravely fighting proven masters. I had the honor of losing 6 blitz games and then losing a slow game to Ray. Let's see how he crushed me brilliantly. He's kind of small, maybe one third the size of a full grown Bobby Fischer but already a living legend. It's nice to write about something clean and pure in Chess. Ray is very watchable, this noble kid figuring things out against his elders. Ray tied for first in the 2008 Florida Open with GM Julio Becerra but lost the title on tiebreaks. Ray beat me and drew another IM. I tied for third. I tried my best and made many #1 Fritz moves but his relentless pressure wore me down. I had barely survived hideous positions in the Scandinavian against Colorado ChessMasters Josh Bloomer and Renard Anderson but I tried it again anyway. I play it a little too riskily because I don't want to waste time moving pieces twice in the opening. I should just get my butt castled and wipe my fevered brow gratefully but I mess around in the center thinking then my pieces will know precisely where to go in one swoop. Well, it worked against Bill Weihmiller ( 1700 ) and others but it is disastrous against the killer sharks. Sometimes defending with perfect moves saves the game but not this time. Ray was very determined, using almost all his time to crush me efficiently. I had already learned from our 6 blitz games that Ray is a tactical buzz saw. His first Chess teacher was the friendly TD, Andrew Scherman, the youngest Olympian ever, if you don't count Chinese gymnasts. Later GM Gregory Kaidanov taught him a few tricks. I think Ray's latest coach is God the Father. [Event "2008 Florida Open"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.31"] [Round "3"] [White "IM Ray Robson"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2468"] [BlackElo "2203"] [Opening "Scandinavian, Center Counter"] [Time "1 PM"] [TimeControl "Game, 155 minutes, 5 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 2008 Florida Open Saint Petersburg, Florida Radisson Hotel, under renovation. I heard TD Andrew Scherman complain to hotel personnel about rising sawdust and buzz saw/drilling noises. They were trying to convert the Radisson into a Mariott in time to gouge the 2009 SuperBowl fanatics, much like our Denver hotels raped the 2008 Democratic Conventioneers. August 30, 2008 Saturday 1 PM Round 3 Board 3 Game/ 155 minutes plus 5 second delay White - Young Gun Ray Robson 2468 Black - Old water pistol Brian Wall 22 ought three 1.e4 d5 2.exd5! Qxd5! 3.Nf3 Bg4 4.Be2 Nf6! 5.d4 e6! Ray's development has been modest so far - roughly equal. 6.c4 Qd6? Chosen because I am used to 1.e4 d5 2.exd5! Qxd5! 3.Nc3 Qd6 but I think here 6 c4 Qd7! makes my Queen safer. I watched Robert Ramirez ( 2100 ) play the Scandinavian at the 16th Street mall in Denver for years and he always favored 6 c4 Qf5, he liked his Queen there and considered the position equal. Maybe a better way here is 6 c4 Bb4+ 7 Nc3 Qf5 I didn't like Ukranian Bob Kushner's suggestion 6 ... Qa5+ 7 Bd2 Bb4 8 Nc3 because I didn't want to take on c3 after a3. Black has a lot of choice here and I went with what I had been studying and playing. Playing anything other than 6 ... Qd6 would have been like playing a whole 'nother opening to me, not a very flexible approach. 7.0-0! c5? Played once before, a suicidal move, opening lines for my better developed opponent. My idea was I would have a clearer picture of where to move my King Bishop after Ray checkmated me. I was again betrayed by my inflexible attitude to the Scandinavian, emotionally stuck with ... Qd6 and ... 0-0 when better moves like 6 c4 Qd7! or 7 0-0 Nc6! 8 Nc3 0-0-0! were outside my comfort zone. My original intention, 7 0-0 Be7! 8 Nc3 0-0 was reasonable here. I asked Ray what my mistake was - " I don't know, maybe 7 ... c5?" IM Ray Robson " A Grandmaster makes three mistakes a game. The average Chessplayer makes three mistakes a move." World Champion Gary Kasparov 7 ... c5? probably violates at least three basic Chess principles such as Prepare your pawn breaks Safety first Castle, then open up the game Black should keep lines closed until he catches up in development, etc., etc. etc 8.Nc3!! cxd4!! TN Theoretical Novelty ( 5,897,876 times Pi ) by Brian Wall Best but I have already set my house on fire. Sasho Nikolov didn't last long with 8 ... a6? either 9.Nb5!! Qb6!! Best but I have already set my house on fire. The idea is to keep an eye on d6 10.Bf4 This move terrified me and better moves 10 Q:d4!!! or Nf:d4!! didn't 10 ... Na6!! Best but I have already set my house on fire. 11.Qa4!! Nd7!! Best but I have already set my house on fire. 11 ... 0-0-0 looks horrible but it's even worse than horrible after 11 ... 0-0-0? 12 c5!!! B:c5 13 b4!!! N or B takes on b4 14 Rfc1 1-0 12.Ne5!! Bxe2!! Best but I have already set my house on fire. 13.Nxd7!! Kxd7!! Best but I have already set my house on fire. 14.Nxd4+!! For some reason from far away I analyzed a lot of other moves, all winning for me and I missed this simple move picking off my e2-bishop and leaving my King looking like a deer in the headlights. Any other move by Ray loses. 14 ... Ke7!! Best but I have already set my house on fire. 15.Nxe2!! f6!! Best but I have already set my house on fire. 16.Rad1!! The 2005 HB Minnesota Foundation Chess tournament syndrome- every time I fear a move from my opponent, it shows up on the Chesboard, over and over again like a recurring nightmare. Games with Colorado Chessmaster Josh Bloomer are like this too. An endless series of Rybka perfect moves. 16 ... Nc5!! Best but I have already set my house on fire. Trying to keep Ray's blasted heavy pieces out of d7 17.Qa3!! a5!! Best but I have already set my house on fire. My last ten moves were the best available but what does it matter if a rabbit makes ten perfect turns on the run when a tiger is on his tail? The idea of 17 ... a5 is to avoid 18 b4 N-any 19 Qd7 checkmate 18.Be3 Of the 31/45 moves that gives Ray the advantage his choice is only third best after 18 Bd6+!!! and 18 Qf3!! but there is a good reason for that. The human computer was down to his last 13 minutes. I had 35. 18 ... Ke8 18 ... Kf7! 19 B:c5 Q or B takes on c5 20 Rd7+ Kg8 looked degrading and positionally hopeless so I tried a strange idea to keep my King on his original square to keep Ray out of d7 - my concept failed miserably but weirdly the same exact idea worked out beautifully in my last game against Alex Rodriguez ( 2242 ), enabling me to tie for third place for $250 19.Nf4!! Taking aim at my tender e6 19 ... Rc8 Lending emotional support to my beleaguered c5-knight but one glance at my wretched Kingside is enough to know that my arrogant 7 ... c5? has ruined my game 20.Bxc5!! Rxc5 There is no good way to recapture, e6 is a disaster area. 21.Qh3!! Kf7 It's pretty sad when the best move 21 ... Re5! allows 22 Ng6! 22.Rd7+ Be7 23.Re1!! I like and respect Ray a lot and wanted to resign here but he only had 8 minutes left plus when I looked at my score after almost 4 hours of play and calculating endless variations instead of showing 60 moves each we had only played 23 which seemed too short to me so I painfully forced myself to make a few more humiliating moves. 23 ... Re5 24.Rxe5! fxe5! 25.Qh5+!! Kf6 26. Qh4+ 4 minutes left for both of us 26 ... g5 27.Nd5+!! exd5! Losing my Queen but anything else is a quick checkmate 28.Qh6+! Kf7! 29.Qxb6! dxc4! 30.Qxb7 Re8! 31.Qd5+! Kf6! 32.Qxc4 Rc8!? Somewhere out there is a teenager that might play 33 Qe4???? Rc1+ mating but not this one. 33.Qxc8 mate in 5 1-0 I finally gave up This should give you some idea of the raw Chess power of IM Ray Robson, boy genius. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "2008 Florida Open"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.31"] [Round "3"] [White "IM Ray Robson"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2468"] [BlackElo "2203"] [Opening "Scandinavian, Center Counter"] [Time "1 PM"] [TimeControl "Game, 155 minutes, 5 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nf3 Bg4 4.Be2 Nf6 5.d4 e6 6.c4 Qd6 7.0-0 c5 8.Nc3 cxd4 9.Nb5 Qb6 10.Bf4 Na6 11.Qa4 Nd7 12.Ne5 Bxe2 13.Nxd7 Kxd7 14.Nxd4+ Ke7 15.Nxe2 f6 16.Rad1 Nc5 17.Qa3 a5 18.Be3 Ke8 19.Nf4 Rc8 20.Bxc5 Rxc5 21.Qh3 Kf7 22.Rd7+ Be7 23.Re1 Re5 24.Rxe5 fxe5 25.Qh5+ Kf6 26.Qh4+ g5 27.Nd5+ exd5 28.Qh6+ Kf7 29.Qxb6 dxc4 30.Qxb7 Re8 31.Qd5+ Kf6 32.Qxc4 Rc8 33.Qxc8 1-0 I finally give up ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "Baharov mem op"] [Site "Sofia"] [Date "2003.11.28"] [Round "5"] [White "Badev,Kiril"] [Black "Nikolov,Sasho"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B01"] 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Be2 Bg4 5.0-0 e6 6.c4 Qd6 7.d4 c5 8.Nc3 a6 9.Qa4+ Qd7 10.Qb3 Nc6 11.dxc5 Bxc5 12.Na4 Na5 13.Qc2 Bf5 14.Nxc5 Bxc2 15.Nxd7 Nxd7 16.Nd4 Be4 17.f3 Bg6 18.b4 Nc6 19.Nxc6 bxc6 20.Be3 0-0-0 21.Rfd1 Kb7 22.b5 cxb5 23.cxb5 axb5 24.Bxb5 Ne5 25.a4 Bd3 26.Bxd3 Nxd3 27.Rab1+ Ka8 28.Rb5 Rd6 29.Ra5+ Kb7 30.Rb1+ 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Wall BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com www.Walverine.com BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com 303-286-1936 From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Sep 3 22:05:49 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 22:05:49 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Latin Pride, Brian Wall - Eric Rodriguez, 2008 Florida Open Message-ID: <1220501149.48bf5e9d5208b@www.taom.com> This is one of the funniest games of Chess I've ever played. I may not be able to explain why - you have to be a Chess connoisseur to appreciate the joke. It's not my usual junk of playing a bad opening with a silly name. Ever since computers got good, humans have been comparing their moves and ours and making observations on the differences. FORCING CHESS MOVES by my old Harvard Square buddy Almost-IM Charlie Hertan is just one example. My own research had led to a few conclusion of my own. 1 - Humans are in love with developing moves in the opening. If a good move does not develop a new piece, they won't play it. 2 - Humans hate to retreat, to admit a mistake, to go back where they came from. 3 - Computers are more patient, they do not have a compulsive need to touch a virgin piece if they can get a permanent advantage some other way. 4- Computers have zero shame about moving a piece back to its original square if they deem it the best move. Karpov was famous for this too. " Karpov has no memory." 5 - Computers are more likely to resolve what I call the "pawn wars " and then decide what piece to put where. A human is so nervous about depleting his bank rank as soon as possible he will often move a piece before the best square reveals itself. Call it premature evacuation. When I was a college freshman 30 years ago at CU Boulder, CO, I played a lot of Chess with 40-something, now dead, former Colorado Chess Champion Jack Hursch. Jack told me he practiced games at the Colorado Open time control for months before the tournament so he was completely prepared for the rhythm of the game when his time came. I called Jack's style " active but stupid". He loved Tal like everybody else back then but he somehow got it wrong. In this game Eric Rodriuez, 2242, maybe 22 years old, played active but stupid moves and I beat Eric with weird looking but precise computer like moves. Amazingly my untouched King and Rooks somehow beat his hyper-active over-developed pieces. In the end, about to lose two pawns, he resigned. Eric is a handsome, macho young Latino, the kind of guy that would have an open shirt and gold chains around his neck in the disco craze 30 years ago. Latins are full of pride and hate to be disrespected. FM Mark Ritter asked, " Was resignation premature? ". I said, " Well, he will be two pawns down for nothing." The real reason Eric resigned is the same reason I got depressed in the opening. You want to play your best in the final money round but somehow I got an inferior position with White after 4! moves after 46 years years of playing Chess. I decided to just hang in there. He's good but he's not Karpov and not Rybka. What happened is I FORCED Eric to move both rooks back and forth, very humiliating. He became as disgusted with his own play as I was early on with mine. I think that's the real reason he quit. He felt emasculated. I think now you can enjoy the game. 2008 Florida Open Game/155 minutes 5 second delay September 1, 2008 Round 6 Board 4 White - Brian Wall 2203 Black - Eric Rodriguez 22242 I saw Eric sit down next to me with a young friend the previous round. They were laughing and joking. They instantaneously whipped out 20 moves of Najdorf English Attack theory. " What's going on?" , I thought, " a pre-arranged draw? " Then they started playing slowly and seriously. Then I understood - they were friends, study buddies or blitz partners. They had some tabiya they liked to fight out. " I better go with 1 d4! " [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 Played 195 times by guys like Mamedyarov ( 4 times ), Timman ( 4 times ), Romanishin ( 6 times ), Yermolinsky ( 3 times ) 5 e4 played 1,759 times 5 Qc2 played 6 times 5 e3 played 1,243 times 5 Bf4 played 30 times 5 a3 never played 5 Bd2 played once 5 Bg5 played 104 times 5 a4 played over 2,000 times 5 b3 played once I played g3 in a similar position against IM Dmitry Schneider in the 2005 HB Minnesota Foundation $50,000 Chess Tournament - We had a wild game petering out to a draw after the first time control. I let the c4-pawn ride and learned that I shouldn't play e4 to block my g2-bishop. 5 ... Nbd7! Played 58 times, once by my hero Shirov 6.Nxc4! b5! Played 38 times by guys like Topalov and Morozevich 7.Nd2 Played 16 times by guys like Timman and Ivan Sokolov 7 Ne3! played 19 times by guys like Piket, Romanishin, Timman, Yermolinsky and Mamedyarov 7 Ne5? played 3 times by the Three Esses Pozo ( the Bozo ) Serrano, Silva ( The Dirty ) Sanchez and William ( Simple ) Simoni 7 ... e5!! played 4 times by GM Ilescas Cordoba and 3 others 7 ... Qb6 never played 7 ... a6 played once 7 ... Qc7 never played 7 ... c5 never played 7 ... Bb7 played 10 times including my hero Shirov 7 ... Rb8 never played 7 ... Nb6 never played 7 ... e6 played once by Bareev 8.dxe5? TL Theoretical Lemon by Brian Wall GMs Timman and Romanishin plus Postal players Picchiottino and Raijmaekers all played 8 e3!!! No one played 8 Nb3!! - 8 Nde4! and 8 Nf3! are also better than my move When there is a problem with my body, car or Chess game NOT KNOWING what the problem makes it much worse because you have to add a negative energy-depleting answer-searching imagination algorithm to whatever the real problem is. When I got my first attack of gout, I thought I stubbed my toe. When my distributor went out, I thought it was my fuel pump. When I got a bad game here, I felt like I had already blundered on move 4 somehow. I knew something had gone wrong. I didn't know what. I didn't know when. I didn't know how. My TL is actually the worst move I've played so far, the rest weren't that bad. 8 ... Nxe5! 9.g3? 9 Qc2! was a little better. My idea with 9 g3 was that maybe ... b5 was a bad tempo, like time spent missing somebody. Maybe ... b5 just weakened his Queenside. That thought was not convincing but it comforted me. 9 ... Bc5? Forcing the Penguin Opening ( 1 Nf3, 2 pinky slide Rh1-g1 by Schiller ) with 9 ... b4!! 10 Na4 Qd5 11 Rg1 ( Penguin ) was even stronger. I don't hide my emotions very well at the Chessboard like Spassky. I am more like Kasparov with grimaces and groans. I became visibly disgusted when I noticed 9 ... Bc5 10 Bg2?? B:f2+!! 11 K:f2? Nfg4+ 12 Ke1 Ne3 13 Qb3 N:g2+!!! 14 Kf2 Bh3 or 13 Qb3 Be6! 14 Bc6+ N:c6 15 Q:b5 0-0 I had myself a solid 9 minute pity party about how I couldn't even develop my King-Bishop. I have a Josh Bloomer position, all my pieces are on the first two ranks. 10.Nb3!! Maybe if I traded Queens Eric wouldn't know he was better. 10 ... Qxd1+! 11.Nxd1! Bb4+! 12.Bd2! Bxd2+! 13.Nxd2! Bb7? 14.Bg2!! 0-0-0! Somehow, through miniscule errors of judgement, I am a little better again. 14 f4! Neg4 15 e4 was alright too. 15.a4 In poker there is something known as the blocking bet. If you think your opponent is better, you make a small bet hoping he will just call and not raise you ( come over the top ). 15 a4 is in the nature of a blocking bet. I want to freeze his Queenside, preventing ... c5 It is virtually impossible for most humans to judge tenths of a pawn. I cannot weigh the scales that finely. 15 f4!!, Nb3! and Ne3! are slightly better 15 ... Rhe8!! Eric has what I call Galaga Rooks, a video game where rocketships line up in the center of the screen and blast away. This part is interesting. In my slow tournamant game with IM Ray Robson I tried to keep my King on King one to prevent his Rook to Queen Seven. In that game Queens were on the board and my King got cremated. 16.Ne3!! Blocking the e-file. 16 ... Rd4?? The critical moment. I have been hanging on with an inferior game most of the way. I was basically unhappy but now a miracle occurs. 16 ... Rd4?? was what I call " active but stupid". I spent a long time analyzing 17 Nb3! ( What else? ) Rb4 or 17 Nb3! R:a4 which I think gives me a tiny edge. Just as a routine move-technique check I examined every legal move and was stunned to discover ... 17.Nf5!!!! Turning the game around. Attacking g7, d4 and in some cases, Nf5-d6+:f8 - 17 Nf5 Rd7 might run into Bh3 issues so the best Mr. Rodriguez can do is the embarrassing ... 17 ... Rdd8! The Beatles Get Back Get back, get back. Get back to where you once belonged Get back, get back. Get back to where you once belonged. Get back JoJo. go home Get back, get back. Back to where you once belonged Get back, get back. Back to where you once belonged. Get back Jo. The Beatles Get Back 18.Nxg7!! Hard to believe but now I force his OTHER rook to do the same degrading dance. 18 ... Rg8 18 ... Re7 19 Nf5 Ree8 amounts to the same thing. 19.Nf5!! Threatening 20 Ne7+:g8 The intermezzo 19 f4! was good too. 19 ... Rge8! The Beatles Get Back Get back, get back. Get back to where you once belonged Get back, get back. Get back to where you once belonged. Get back JoJo. go home Get back, get back. Back to where you once belonged Get back, get back. Back to where you once belonged. Get back Jo. The Beatles Get Back 20.Ne3!! Unbelievably we have the same exact position except his critical g-pawn has been assimilated. His moves were essentially forced. 20 ... Kb8 Even more incredible luck for me- his best move is 20 ... Rd4!! - after all I already grabbed his g-pawn, I can't punish him any more than that. I would just go back to my original plan of 20 Ne3 Rd4!! 21 Nb3!! Rb4 22 Nc5!!/Na5!! or 20 Ne3 Rd4!! 21 Nb3!! R:a4 22 R:a4 ba 23 Nc5!!/Na5!! which of course would be much better than 17 Nb3! now with an extra pawn under my belt. However the thought of more rook draw groveling after 20 ... Rd4!! 21 Nf5 probably made Eric sick to his stomach so he played a different move. Just like me in the beginning, Eric was visibly disgusted - He closed his eyes, put his head down and was clearly horrified, wondering how the big fish got away from him. 21.Nb3!! It's amazing that somehow my untouched King and Rooks work better than his "correctly" placed pieces. 21 ... Nfg4? 22.Nxg4!! Nxg4! 23.Na5!! 1-0 Eric quit, saying- " I overlooked Nd6+ " The Bermuda Triangle of Bb7, pawn-c6, Pawn-b5 are about to disappear. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [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 Eric quit, saying- " I overlooked Nd6+ " -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Minneapolis HB Global op"] [Site "Minneapolis"] [Date "2005.05.18"] [Round "1"] [White "Wall,Brian D"] [Black "Schneider,Dmitry"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "D31"] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.g3 b5 6.Bg2 Bb7 7.0-0 Nd7 8.a4 a6 9.e4 Ngf6 10.Bg5 h6 11.Bxf6 Nxf6 12.Qe2 Be7 13.Rad1 0-0 14.Ne5 Qc7 15.f4 Rad8 16.h4 c5 17.d5 exd5 18.Nxd5 Nxd5 19.exd5 Rfe8 20.axb5 axb5 21.Qh5 Bd6 22.Nc6 Ra8 23.Rfe1 b4 24.Be4 Bxc6 25.dxc6 Rad8 26.Qf5 g6 27.Qg4 h5 28.Qf3 Kg7 29.Bd5 Rxe1+ 30.Rxe1 Be7 31.Bxc4 1/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ www.Walverine.com BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com How To PLay Chess Like An Animal From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Sep 5 11:41:44 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 11:41:44 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The ADD Twins, first two rounds of the Florida Open Message-ID: <1220636504.48c16f58e4939@www.taom.com> The Attention Deficit Disorder Twins In the first round of the 2008 Florida Open I noticed if I moved rapidly, my opponent, Joseph Brightman, would try to keep pace. I spontaneously developed a strategy of moving very carefully, but quickly. The expected happened. Joe started dropping material at record speed. This had never happened to me before. That would have been the end of the story but I bled my own blood by getting my Queen trapped! I had to chew my arm off but I escaped the bear trap - took me 28 minutes but I found a way out. So much for quick moves. Unbelievably my next opponent, Serbian Goran Markovic, played even faster. He was ridiculous, 11 minutes for 40 moves when he had 2 hours! Even my 9 year old son Devon does better than that. I asked him why he moved with such alacrity - " All my moves were natural"- Goran Markovic -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phill Hellmuth Meltdown http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE05bdyVaGw&feature=related " COME on, you know, Hon, COME on. The guy's trying to catch a flight. " Phill Hellmuth talking to his wife after he lost a pot to a donkey ( poker for fish )when he had a 93% chance to win. Donkey - All in with KJ Phil - AK No Limit Hold 'em ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since there were three quick side events ( Game/5, Game/12 and a handicap blitz tourney ) I thought maybe my opponents had somehow got wrapped up in the blitz and had forgotten how to move responsibly. Then a few friendly Floridians clued me in. Goran always plays like that. One of Goran's opponents complained to the TD - " Goran won't sit down or think. He just walks over, moves instantaneously and storms off!" The TD told Goran he was disturbing his opponent - " He blow me!" Goran, all worked up TD- " What!?" " He blow me!" Wild-eyed Goran TD- " Now look, Goran, you can't talk like that... " "HE BLOW ME! Goran, insistent TD- "What do you mean, Goran?" " He is below me. I have a higher rating. I don't need to take my time to beat him!" Goran, satisfied ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I used the same strategy against Goran that I used on Brightman. I moved quickly but thoroughly and carefully. Here are the games. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "2008 Florida Open"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.30"] [Round "1"] [White "Brian Wall"] [Black "Joseph Brightman"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2203"] [BlackElo "1949"] [Opening "Slav Defense, Accepted Variation"] [Time "1 PM"] [TimeControl "Game, 155 minutes, 5 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 2008 Florida Open Round 1 8-30-08 Board 9 Opening - Bowlder Attack Game/155 minutes 5 second delay White - Brian Wall 2203 Black - Joseph Brightman 1949 1.e4 c5 2.Bc4 I discovered the Bowlder Attack while researching How To Play Chess Like An Animal. I sold and signed some books and the book store concession sold another 10. I felt like a celebrity when they interrupted my games to sign a book for a customer. Normally I socialize in between moves due to boredom and wanting my opponents to eat up their clock. This guy moved so fast I was glued to the table. 2 ... Nc6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Nf3! Bg7! 5.d3 d6 6.Bg5 I admit I make some moves just to shake 'em up, make them worry what the evil Chessmaster wants to do to them. 6 ... h6 7.Be3 Nf6! 8.h3 0-0 9.Qd2! Kh7! 10.g4!? Not a good move in any Chess sense but again the kind of move that terrorizes A-players. Joseph immediately crashes and burns. A-players cannot distinguish between real threats and shadow threats - it's all too murky for them They always give the Chessmaster the benefit of the doubt. Joseph instantly panics and initiates the primary weapon of the A-player, the trade-trade-lose combo. 10 ... Ne5?? 11.Nxe5! dxe5! 12.Bxc5! First Blood - a juicy center pawn 12 ... a6 13.Be3 b5! 14.Bb3! Bb7 15.f3 Jack Young invented some weird type of Sicilian involving e4, Bc4, a3, d3, f3 His buddy Alan Bennett used this setup to frustrate and draw 2450 Foigel They would like this position. 15 ... b4 16.Na4! a5 17.a3! bxa3! 18.Rxa3! e6 19.Bb6 Qc8 20.Bxa5 Second blood - second pawn 20 ...Bc6? 21.Nb6! Third blood- the exchange 21 ... Qb7! 22.Nxa8! Rxa8! 23.Bb4 Rd8 24.0-0! Qb6+ 25.Kh2! Rb8 26.Bc3! Nd7 27.Qf2 Qc7 28.Ra7 Qc8 29.Rfa1 Bf8! 30.d4 exd4 31.Bxd4 I was moving too fast - could have saved some time with 31 Q:d4!! e5 32 Qc4!:f7 31 ... e5 32.Be3! Kg8! This is where the story gets interesting - so far this has been the normal punishment of a self-destructive jackrabbit. In order to swoop in for the kill I trap my own Queen. 33.Qh4 g5! 34.Qh5!? Rxb3!! 35.cxb3! Bb7! -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cutting off my a7-rook from f7 so that anything I do is met by ... Nf6! trapping my Queen. Yikes, finally a Chess puzzle worthy of a Master. The position has become very fragile and delicate requiring good judgement. I hadn't really thought all game. Materially I am up two pawns and two exchanges but how do I save my Queen? The right approach is 36 B:g5!! Qc2+ 37 Kg3 Bc5!! threatening mate in one and my a7-rook. I have two ways out. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 38 Ra8+!! B:a8 39 R:a8+ Nf8 40 R:f8+!! giving back both exchanges ... B:f8 41 B:h6 and my Queen is free with an extra 4 pawns. 40 R:f8+ K:f8? 41 B:h6+!! is much worse for Mr. Brightman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 38 Rf1!!! B:a7! I stopped my calculations here, quite horrified 39 B:h6!! and I have 4 pawns and a rook for two minor pieces plus an attack on Joe's King, quite enough for a win although it looked unclear from afar ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I had another approach - 36 Rc1 Qb8 37 R:b7 Q:b7 38 B:g5 hg 39 Q:g5+ with a rook and 4 pawns for two minor pieces again but this looked unclear compared to what I had before this Kingside adventure began. I should have entered the complications of 36 B:g5!!! but I found a third line. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- One thing I noticed when I am looking for someplace is a common error - stopping and turning around when you are almost there because you suddenly don't recognize the road and feel you are getting yourself more lost. I was halfway to the truth but I lost faith and turned around. What can I say - quick play = shallow play but at least I spent 28 minutes on the critical position. The most Joseph Brightman thought on any move was 6 minutes. The worst part of moving quickly is you get out of the habit of thinking deeply. There is another sinister thought that makes it hard to concentrate and I know I'm not the only one. " Why should I have to figure this out at all when my computer can do this in a nanosecond?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 36.Rxb7???? Third best, throwing away almost all my advantage. 36 ... Qxb7! 37.Ra7 37 B:g5 Q:b3 38 Rg1 hg 39 Q:g5+ Bg7 looks hard to win to me 37 ... Qxa7?? Second best and completely hopeless. I hadn't expected the move at all and freaked out at first. The idea of my exchange sac is my a7-rook is back in contact with f7 so ... Nf6 does not trap my Queen any more. Joseph had one way to keep fighting. 37 Ra7 Qb5!! 38 Kg3! Bb4!! and Joe picks up my rook after 39 Bf2 Bc5 40 Q:h6+ B:f2+ 41 K:f2 Qc5+ or 39 Q:h6 Be1+ 40 Bf2 B:f2+ transposing. I would end up with 4 pawns for a knight and a very messy ending. 38.Bxa7! Nf6! For some strange reason, maybe late night hotel TV, I thought at first my Queen was trapped AND unprotected and I had to grab a pawn with 39 Q:h6??? or Q:g5+??? In reality I am two pawns up plus Brightman's pawn chain is on the wrong color 39.Kg2 Nxh5! 40.gxh5! Bb4 41.Kf2 Kf8 42.Ke3 Ke7 43.Kd3! Kd7! 44.Be3 f6 45.Kc4! Be7 46.Bc5!! 1-0 Lights out for Joseph Brightman I can see why Tal and his student Shabalov always lose the first round. It takes a while for the thinking cap to warm up. --------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "2008 Florida Open"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.30"] [Round "1"] [White "Brian Wall"] [Black "Joseph Brightman"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2203"] [BlackElo "1949"] [Opening "Slav Defense, Accepted Variation"] [Time "1 PM"] [TimeControl "Game, 155 minutes, 5 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 c5 2.Bc4 Nc6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.d3 d6 6.Bg5 h6 7.Be3 Nf6 8.h3 0-0 9.Qd2 Kh7 10.g4 Ne5 11.Nxe5 dxe5 12.Bxc5 a6 13.Be3 b5 14.Bb3 Bb7 15.f3 b4 16.Na4 a5 17.a3 bxa3 18.Rxa3 e6 19.Bb6 Qc8 20.Bxa5 Bc6 21.Nb6 Qb7 22.Nxa8 Rxa8 23.Bb4 Rd8 24.0-0 Qb6+ 25.Kh2 Rb8 26.Bc3 Nd7 27.Qf2 Qc7 28.Ra7 Qc8 29.Rfa1 Bf8 30.d4 exd4 31.Bxd4 e5 32.Be3 Kg8 33.Qh4 g5 34.Qh5 Rxb3 35.cxb3 Bb7 36.Rxb7 Qxb7 37.Ra7 Qxa7 38.Bxa7 Nf6 39.Kg2 Nxh5 40.gxh5 Bb4 41.Kf2 Kf8 42.Ke3 Ke7 43.Kd3 Kd7 44.Be3 f6 45.Kc4 Be7 46.Bc5 1-0 Lights out for Joseph Brightman Round 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Round 2 [Event "2008 Florida Open"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.30"] [Round "2"] [White "Goran Markovic"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "1971"] [BlackElo "2203"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense"] [Time "6 PM"] [TimeControl "Game, 155 minutes, 5 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 2008 Florida Open Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida August 30, 2008 6 PM Round 2 Time Control - Game, 155 minutes, 5 second delay Opening- Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense White - Goran Markovic 1971 Black - Brian Wall 2203 I had no time to socialize this game either - Round 3 against Ray Robson was different - he took forever to move. Joseph Brightman played like he had a plane to catch. Goran played like he had a taxi waiting outside to take him to a waiting plane. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It occurred to me that I consider 4 B:c6 so weak that I never developed any strategy against it. The Exchange Variation a tempo down? I had a silly blitz plan of ... dc, ... Nd7, ... c5, ... Bd6, ... f6,... Bg4, ... Nf8-e6-d4 that I liked. Fritz prefers me after 5 0-0 Nd7 6 d4 Bd6 7 de N:e5 8 N:e5 B:e5 9 Q:d8+ K:d8 10 f4 Bd4+ 11 Kh1 Ke7 This does not represent best play by White- just what I was afraid of. I had to take a fresh non-blitz look at the position. The Bishing Pole doesn't seem to work out too well here - 5 0-0 Bg4 6 h3 h5 7 hg hg 8 N:e5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 0-0 Bg4 6 h3 Bh5 7 g4 N:g4!! 8 hg B:g4 looks promising 9 d3 Qf6 10 Kg2 0-0-0, ... h5 or ... Bd6 all look good for me. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not counting millions of patzer games, 4 B:c6 has been played 573 times by guys like Winawer, Timoscenko, Korchnoi, Bronstein, Ivanchuk, and Ljubojevic Nobody has noticed 4 B:c6 dc 5 0-0 Be6!!! a TN waiting to happen 5 ... Bg4 played 23 times 5 ... Qd6 never played 5 ... Qe7 played once 5 ... Be7 played 11 times, once with Capablanca as White by transposition 5 ... Bd6 played 29 times 5 ... Bc5 played 168 times 5 ... Nd7, my personal favorite, played 3 times 5 ... N:e4 played 54 times 5 ... Bb4 played 4 times 5 ... Ng4, Fishing Pole, never played The ridiculous 5 ... a6, by transposition 339 times The even more ridiculous 5 ... a5, played once The not so ridiculous 5 ... c5 never played ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5.0-0 Nxe4 6.Nxe5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Played 20 times 6 Re1 Nd6 ( 290 games ) would transpose into the normal Berlin Defense 4 0-0 N:e4 5 Re1 Nd6 6 B:c6 dc first played in Bird-Steinitz 1866 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 ... Be7 played 6 times 6 ... Qf6! occurred twice 6 ... Be6 occurred 3 times 6 ... Nf6 occurred 34 times 6 ... Bc5 occurred 63 times 6 ... Nd6 occurred once 6 ... Qe7 never occurred 6 ... Qd5 occurred once 6 ... Qd6 never occurred 6 ... Ng5 never occurred 6 ... Nc5 never occurred 6 ... Bd6 occurred 4 times ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.d3 Played once 7 Qe2! never played 7 Re1 played once 7 d4 played 5 times 7 Qf3 never played 7 Qh5 played once 7 c3 played once 7 Nc3 never played -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 ... Nd6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- occurred 6 times Fritz 9 prefers 7 ... Nf6 ( 3 times ) or ... Nc5 but I am transposing into Berlin positions I have experience with. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.Nc3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- played 4 times 8 Bf4 never played 8 Re1 played 28 times ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8 ... 0-0! Played 5 times ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.Re1 occurred 32 times 9 Bf4 played twice 9 Bd2 never played 9 a3 never played 9 Be3 never played 9 Qh5 played once ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9 ... f6 played 6 times 9 ... Nf5! played 6 times 9 ... Re8 played 10 times 9 ... Bf6 played 4 times 9 ... Be6 played 7 times ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10.Nf3 played 4 times 10 Ng4! played twice 10 Nc4 never played -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 ...Bg4! the only move ever played here played 4 times -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.h3 played three times 11 Bf4! played once ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 ... Bh5! the only move ever played here played 3 times ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.Ne4? TL Theoretical Lemon by Goran Markovic 12 Bf4! played twice 12 b3?? played once 12 ... Re8 Fritz 9 slightly prefers trading knights and Queens. Now that we are finally on our own, I can talk about the position. About 35 years ago, I had an ending with two bishops versus two minor pieces. I probed on both sides for a long time until I made a breakthrough. The process takes about 30 moves. I feel very comfortable in this middle game and almost always win. My plan is just to hang onto my two bishops and quietly trade down until I reach an ending where I can torture White forever. It doesn't seem to me that White can pressure Black at all - his knights have no real outposts. White seems planless. My QB is a monster unopposed bishop. 13.Ng3! Bf7! 14.Nd4 Qd7! 15.Be3! c5! 16.Nf3 b6! 17.b3 Nb5 18.Qd2! Nd4! 19.Bxd4 Yums. Two Bishops versus Two Knights. The most enduring advatage in Chess, according to IM Lawrence Kaufman, Rybka improver. 19 ... cxd4! 20.Qf4 c5! 21.Nf5 Bf8! 22.Qg4 Kh8 Second best. I would normally examine 22 ... Be6!! thoroughly, winning material, but I was caught up in the blitz speed mode. Part of the problem is that I really like my position. 23.Ng3! Qxg4! 24.hxg4! Rxe1+ I finally get what I've wanted for 20 moves. Fritz prefers 24 ... h6! freezing Goran's g-pawn but I didn't know how to get rid of a Nf5 then 25.Rxe1! Re8! 26.Rxe8! Bxe8! Plan- Hang onto my bishops, probe, probe, breakthrough, Standard Berlin Defense fare 27.Kf1 Bc6 Fritz 9 still prefers 27 ... h6!, avoiding pawn trades. I can't disagree 28.Ke2 Kg8 Now he likes 28 ... g6! 29.Ne4! Kf7 30.g5! Ke6 Avoiding pawn trades with 30 ... f5?? loses a piece to 31 Ne5+ 31.gxf6! Every pawn trade helps Markovic Time spent - Brian - 40 minutes Goran - 5 minutes! 31 ... gxf6 32.Nfd2 h5 Again Fritz 9 prefers 32 ... h6! but who can say why? 33.Nf3! Bh6 34.Ng3 34 b4! trades another pawn 34 ... Be8! I was getting a little tired of not winning yet but I just reminded myself how Rybka never gets tired or frustrated, she just keeps trying her best relentlessly. My reward came quickly. 35.Ne4 Bg6 36.Nh4! Be8 37.Nf5?? A combination with a flaw. Game over. 37 ... Kxf5! 38.Nd6+! regaining the lost piece 38 ... Kg6!! 39.Nxe8! Bf4! Except now the Knight is trapped. 40.g3 Bb8 0-1 Goran gives up ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "2008 Florida Open"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.30"] [Round "2"] [White "Goran Markovic"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "1971"] [BlackElo "2203"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense"] [Time "6 PM"] [TimeControl "Game, 155 minutes, 5 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.0-0 Nxe4 6.Nxe5 Be7 7.d3 Nd6 8.Nc3 0-0 9.Re1 f6 10.Nf3 Bg4 11.h3 Bh5 12.Ne4 Re8 13.Ng3 Bf7 14.Nd4 Qd7 15.Be3 c5 16.Nf3 b6 17.b3 Nb5 18.Qd2 Nd4 19.Bxd4 cxd4 20.Qf4 c5 21.Nf5 Bf8 22.Qg4 Kh8 23.Ng3 Qxg4 24.hxg4 Rxe1+ 25.Rxe1 Re8 26.Rxe8 Bxe8 27.Kf1 Bc6 28.Ke2 Kg8 29.Ne4 Kf7 30.g5 Ke6 31.gxf6 gxf6 32.Nfd2 h5 33.Nf3 Bh6 34.Ng3 Be8 35.Ne4 Bg6 36.Nh4 Be8 37.Nf5 Kxf5 38.Nd6+ Kg6 39.Nxe8 Bf4 40.g3 Bb8 0-1 Goran gives up ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Velika Gorica op 2nd"] [Site "Velika Gorica"] [Date "2002.06.22"] [Round "5"] [White "Mihalinec,Damir"] [Black "Zecevic,Dean"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "C67"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Nxe4 5.Bxc6 dxc6 6.Nxe5 Be7 7.d3 Nd6 8.h3 0-0 9.Bf4 Nf5 10.Nd2 Qd4 11.Ne4 Qxb2 12.Nc4 Qd4 13.Bxc7 Be6 14.Be5 Qd5 15.a4 b5 16.Nc3 Qc5 17.Ne4 Qd5 18.Nc3 Qd7 19.Ne3 f6 20.Nxf5 Bxf5 21.Bf4 b4 22.Ne2 Rfd8 23.Ng3 Bg6 24.Re1 Bf8 25.Qb1 Bf7 26.Qb2 a5 27.Ne4 c5 28.Re3 Qd4 29.c3 bxc3 30.Qxc3 f5 31.Be5 fxe4 32.Bxd4 cxd4 33.Qe1 dxe3 34.dxe4 Bc5 35.fxe3 Rd3 36.Kh1 Rad8 37.Qxa5 Bxe3 38.g3 Bg6 39.Qb4 h6 40.Kg2 Kh7 41.e5 R8d4 42.Qf8 Be4+ 43.Kf1 Rd2 44.Ra3 Bg2+ 45.Ke1 Bf2+ 46.Qxf2 Rxf2 47.Kxf2 Bxh3 48.a5 Rd8 49.a6 Kg6 50.a7 Ra8 51.Ra6+ Kf5 52.e6 Kf6 53.Ke3 Bxe6 54.Ke4 h5 55.Kf4 g5+ 56.Ke4 h4 57.gxh4 gxh4 58.Kf4 h3 59.Kg3 Ke7 60.Kh2 Bc8 61.Rh6 Kd8 62.Rh7 Bd7 63.Rh8+ Be8 64.Kxh3 Rxa7 65.Kg4 Ke7 66.Kf4 Kd8 67.Ke5 Ke7 68.Rh7+ Bf7 69.Rh6 Ra5+ 70.Kd4 Be6 71.Rh7+ Kd6 72.Rh8 Ra4+ 73.Kd3 Ke5 74.Re8 Ra3+ 75.Kd2 Kd5 76.Rd8+ Kc5 77.Rh8 Bd5 78.Rh4 Ra2+ 79.Ke3 Ra3+ 80.Kd2 Bc4 81.Rh5+ Kb4 82.Rh8 Rd3+ 83.Ke1 Kc3 84.Kf2 Bd5 85.Rb8 Rf3+ 86.Ke2 Kd4 87.Rb4+ Ke5 88.Rh4 Rg3 89.Kf2 Rf3+ 90.Ke2 Ra3 91.Kd2 Be4 92.Rh8 Kd4 93.Rd8+ Bd5 94.Ke2 Ra2+ 95.Ke1 Ke3 1/2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com www.Walverine.com How To PLay Chess Like An Animal From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Sep 5 22:59:39 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 22:59:39 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Danger on the horizon Message-ID: <1220677179.48c20e3b6179d@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Sage Mo ----- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:09:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Sage Mo Reply-To: sagefmo at yahoo.com Subject: Danger on the horizon To: Brian Wall I fell in love with chess again. After years apart, swearing I'd never be back on the 64. This time it's different though. I changed and so did my relation to the game. I sat in the open air out front of finally a good coffee house in Wake Forest. I looked at endgame compositions taking in every nuance, imagining general cases, seeing the occluded world reflected in the secrets behind the crass placement of pieces. It was beautiful, more so than I ever experienced it as when I was young and predatory on the board. Sage plays chess again. Word to crazy Brian Wall and all the crazy Colorado chess players I still know or don't know: not soon, but sometime, when you least expect it, an unbelievably unsound idea is coming to get you. Danger on the horizon. Miss you people. See ya. Sage Mo From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Sep 6 13:12:57 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:12:57 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Kosher Sushi Message-ID: <1220728377.48c2d63904b6b@www.taom.com> Remembering Sage Mo, The Jewish Japanese ChessMaster ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Forwarded message from Arther Watts ----- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:01:03 -0600 From: Arther Watts Reply-To: Arther Watts Subject: RE: [BrianWallChess] Danger on the horizon To: Brian Wall Hi Brian I met Sage once. He came down to the old Greeley chess club, probably pre 2000. He and Brad played a 5 min match. I don't remember the score, but Brad narrowly won it. Most of his wins were time outs, with Brad having a terrible position. :S But a win is a win is a win, and losing is for patsers like me. :P Anyway I am glad he is back around, he was a nice guy and a damned strong player. Artie Arther Watts ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Josh \"JD\" Smith" To: Brian Wall Subject: RE: [BrianWall-ChessList] Danger on the horizon I remember fondly playing drunken speed chess with Sage in Denver. He is the person that made me stop and think about endings! He told me when you get to an ending, stop..... and figure the whole thing out. It would typically happen right after you hit time control on move 40, he would go into a deep think for 15-20 minutes and set up his entire game-plan, move for move. I guess that is how you outwork the likes of Renard Anderson and become a Master!! Josh "Josh \"JD\" Smith" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080906/c62f6577/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Sep 6 13:30:04 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:30:04 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Dennis Monokroussos: Bilbao, Round 4: White rolls; Carlsen (unofficially) takes over the #1 spot Message-ID: <1220729404.48c2da3c94e33@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Email subscription to blog articles ----- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 15:20:30 -0400 From: Email subscription to blog articles Reply-To: historicchess at comcast.net, chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Subject: [chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Bilbao, Round 4: White rolls; Carlsen (unofficially) takes over the #1 spot To: chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Posted by Dennis Monokroussos: Bilbao, Round 4: White rolls; Carlsen (unofficially) takes over the #1 spot http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1220728821.shtml The player with the white pieces managed to win each game in the fourth round of the [1]Grand Slam Final in Bilbao. The first game to finish was a short, painful defeat for Anand, who lost in just 25 moves to Topalov. Topalov found a decent new move in a trendy Queen's Indian line, but Anand's painful fate resulted from subsequent, serious errors. Topalov thus maintains his lead in the tournament, while Anand endangered his #1 status. If Carlsen could win against Radjabov, he'd take over the #1 spot on the rating list, and win he did. It was a completely crazy Chinese Dragon that started off fine for Radjabov, but when Radjabov failed to switch over from offense to defense, Carlsen was able to break through with his own attack. Not a perfect game, but a thriller. The last game to finish took an opposite course from the other two. Aronian long enjoyed a slight edge against Ivanchuk, but for a long time it seemed unlikely to give him anything more than the better half of a draw. Aronian's crafty play was reminiscent of his legendary countryman, the late world champion Tigran Petrosian, in that he alternated cat-and-mouse play with slow attempts at progress. Eventually Ivanchuk made the requisite errors, and Aronian converted the point. Standings after Round 4: 1. Topalov 8 (3 points on normal scoring) 2. Carlsen 7 (2.5) 3. Aronian 5 (2) 4-6. Radjabov, Ivanchuk, Anand 3 (1.5) And let's not forget the [2]Live Ratings: 1. Carlsen(!) 2791.3 2. Anand 2790.9 3. Morozevich 2787 4. Topalov 2786.2 5. Ivanchuk 2781.8 Games, with my comments, [3]here. References 1. http://www.bilbaofinalmasters.com/ 2. http://chess.liverating.org/ 3. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/files/bilbao2008_rd4.htm _______________________________________________ chessmind mailing list chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chessmind From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Sep 7 00:38:11 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 00:38:11 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Chocolate Rain Message-ID: <1220769491.48c376d3cf4c1@www.taom.com> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA Chocolate Rain Tay Zonday 28 million hits --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x2W12A8Qow Cherry Chocolate Rain 5 million hits -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-tHAwsPkHo&NR=1 Chocolate Rain The Simpsons Original Song - Tay Zonday Performed by Ryashon half a million hits ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbWBQNhJiIM&feature=related South Park Chocolate Rain a third of a million hits ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tay Zonday Chocolate Rain lyrics Some stay dry and others feel the pain Chocolate Rain A baby born will die before the sin Chocolate Rain The school books say it can't be here again Chocolate Rain The prisons make you wonder where it went Chocolate Rain Build a tent and say the world is dry Chocolate Rain Zoom the camera out and see the lie Chocolate Rain Forecast to be falling yesterday Chocolate Rain Only in the past is what they say Chocolate Rain Raised your neighborhood insurance rates Chocolate Rain Makes us happy 'livin in a gate Chocolate Rain Made me cross the street the other day Chocolate Rain Made you turn your head the other way (Chorus) Chocolate Rain History quickly crashing through your veins Chocolate Rain Using you to fall back down again [Repeat] Chocolate Rain Seldom mentioned on the radio Chocolate Rain Its the fear your leaders call control Chocolate Rain Worse than swearing worse than calling names Chocolate Rain Say it publicly and you're insane Chocolate Rain No one wants to hear about it now Chocolate Rain Wish real hard it goes away somehow Chocolate Rain Makes the best of friends begin to fight Chocolate Rain But did they know each other in the light? 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Chocolate Rain More than 'marchin more than passing law Chocolate Rain Remake how we got to where we are ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2008 Florida Open - Game/15 really Game/12 3 second delay Final Money Round 5 Opponent - Radek Laburda eli33618 at yahoo.com 1943 I saw this guy Radek Laburda ( 1943 ) play this kid Carl Scarpati ( 1971 ) in Round 3 of the 2008 Florida Open Game/29 Championship. This was a time odds tourney where they both prob had 13 minutes each. It was a dead even Knight ending but somehow Radek won. That impressed me. Next tournament, Game/15, last round, I had to play Radek. It was a Fishing Pole that ended up in a rook ending where I was groveling for a draw because of doubled pawns on g6 and g5. Radek had pawns on h3 and g4. When Radek "punished" my doubled pawn with R:g5 his rook was out of play and I was able to push my passed d-pawn and win. I had activated my King and cut off his. I think he had a useless passed b-pawn. After the main tournament Radek and Bob Kushner and I played blitz until my plane had to leave for Denver. Radek was very impressed with the Squirrel Opening that the Ponomarevs love. 1 e4 Nf6 2 e5 Nd5 3 c4 Nf4!! 4 d4 Ng6 I can't remember my first game with Radek very well but I think this is the position. Radek did a good job of always keeping even or ahead on the clock. We were probably down to our last two or three minutes. Opening- Fishing Pole 5r2/1R6/6p1/3pk1p1/6P1/7P/1P4K1/8 b - - 0 42 wKg2,Rb7,Pb2,g4,h3/bKe5,Rf8,Pd5,g5,g6 White - Radek - King - g2 Rook - b7 Pawns - h3,g4,b2 Black - Brian - King - e5 Rook - f8 Pawns - g6, g5, d5 Play continued - 1 ... d4! 2 Rb5+? Ke4! 3 R:g5? Rf6! 4 h4?? d3! 5 h5? d2 0-1 Radek Radsigns Later in our blitz sesion I teased him about being a good endgame player. I love the King's Gambit ( my Dad's favorite/only opening ) and pawn wave games. Radek's slow tournament game with Aldo Lopez ( 2036 ) featured two competing pawn waves. His black pawns coming down the board reminded me of the Internet song sensation - Chocolate Rain. [Event "2008 Florida Open"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.30"] [Round "?"] [White "Aldo Lopez"] [Black "Radek Laburda "] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ICCResult "Draw agreed"] [WhiteElo "2036"] [BlackElo "1943"] [Opening "King's Gambit Accepted, Bishop's Gambit"] [Starting Time "between 9 AM and 6 PM"] [TimeControl "Game, 155 minutes, 5 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 2008 Florida Open Date - Aug 30-Sept 1 Round-unknown Time control- Game/155 minutes 5 second delay Opening - King's Gambit White - Aldo Lopez 2036 Black - Radek Laburda 1943 1.e4 e5 Some stay dry and others feel the pain Chocolate Rain A baby born will die before the sin 2.f4 exf4! Chocolate Rain The school books say it can't be here again Chocolate Rain The prisons make you wonder where it went 3.Bc4 Nf6! 4.Nc3! d5 Chocolate Rain Build a tent and say the world is dry Chocolate Rain Zoom the camera out and see the lie 5.exd5! Bb4 6.Nf3! Qe7+? A bad idea - White has a superior ending like ... forever. 6 ... 0-0 7 0-0 Re8!! or c6! is about equal. Maybe Radek knew Aldo was equally horrible in endagmes and anything could and did happen. 7.Qe2! Qxe2+!! TN Theoretical Novelty by Radek Laburda Best move. 7 ... Bg4 played once before 8.Nxe2! Interesting endgame - Radek has 4 verus two on the Kingside. Aldo has 5 versus 3 on the Queenside. 8 ... Bd6 9.d4 9 d3! is better to stablize the center and leave d4 open for knights 9 ... Bg4 9 ... 0-0! 10 0-0 Nbd7 might be a bit better 10.0-0! Bxf3 Giving up the two bishops doesn't help 11.Rxf3! Nbd7 On 11 ... g5 12 Rb3 b6 13 g3! Rg8 14 gf gf+ 15 Kh1! Aldo has the two bishops and can pick on the doubled f-pawns with Rf3 if necessary. 11 ... g5 12 Rb3 b6 13 g3! fg 14 N:g3! Radek has material equality for the moment but Aldo has the superior minor pieces, development, pawn structure and central control. Radek's position looks like a bomb explosion. 12.Bb3? Taking on f4 is better. Hard to see but the f3-rook needed that square to avoid ... g5-g4-f3. Radek is almost OK after 12 Bb3? g5! It's confusing because sometimes Radek gets his pawn back with a horrible game - 12 N:f4 Nb6 13 Bb3 B:f4 14 B:f4 Nb:d5 15 Re1+ Kf8 16 Be5! or 12 B:f4 Nb6 13 Bb5+ Kf8 14 Bg5 Nb:d5 15 Re1 are both wretched for Radek but he keeps his pawn for the nonce. 12 ... g5!! Chocolate Rain Forecast to be falling yesterday Chocolate Rain Only in the past is what they say 13.c4! Which pawn mass will adavance? 13 ... b6 Chocolate Rain Raised your neighborhood insurance rates Chocolate Rain Makes us happy 'livin in a gate Fritz 9 prefers 13 ... 0-0-0! 14 Nc3 Bf8! 14.Bc2 Fritz prefers 14 Nc3! 14 ... 0-0 Fritz prefers the other side 15.Bd2! Rfe8! 16.Nc3! Re7! 17.Bf5 Bb4 18.Re1 A reasonable move but attacking the pawn chain with 18 h4!! or g3! is vicious. I feel bad for Radek who does nothing but suffer all game here. Chessmasters consider a pawn chain extending to our side of the board nothing short of an impudent outrage and will do anything to tear it down. Class players consider pawn chains to be made of titanium and endured forever. 18 ... Rxe1+! 19.Bxe1! Bxc3 Another unprovoked loss of the minor exchange. I showed Radek my two-bishop ending with his good buddy Goran "Jackrabbit" Markovic so maybe in the future they will show some respect to the prelates. 19 ... b5 might have been worth a try to shake up the pawn structure. 20.Bxc3 Nf8 20 ... b5 again might have been worth a try but then you would have to start up Chocolate Rain again 21.Rf1 Hard to play the King's Gambit if you never heard of the 21 g3!! idea 21 ... Re8 21 ... b5 again might have been worth a try. Your mission, when losing, is to trade off as many pawns ( potential Queens ) as possible 22.Re1! Rxe1+! 23.Bxe1! Chess study buddies Radek Laburda and Goran Markovic do not believe two bishop endings are anything to fear. 23 ... a5 Chocolate Rain Made me cross the street the other day Chocolate Rain Made you turn your head the other way Double edged - Insuring the maximum number of pawn trades but initiating pawn contact sooner. Personally I would slowly advance the Queenside pawns with maybe b3, a3, b4 24.Kf2 The Keeeeng ... is a Babeeeee. In the ending, the Keeeng becomes ... a MAN! - Emilio Martinez imitating GM Eduard Gufeld lesson 24 ... Ng6! Best but this ending looks hideous to me. 25.Ke2 Kf8 26.Kd3 Ne7! 27.Be4! Only move. Radek can trade on e4 but Aldo meets all three criteria I invented to win a Bishop versus Knight ending - 1 - You have the Bishop 2 - Your King beats Black to the center 3 - The pawns have enough imbalance to create passed pawns 27 ... h6 (Chorus) Chocolate Rain History quickly crashing through your veins Chocolate Rain Using you to fall back down again [Repeat] 28.a4 The idea is b4 and a5 28 ... Ke8 29.b4?? Forceful - 29 Bf3 preserves the bishops 29 ... axb4! Chocolate Rain Seldom mentioned on the radio Chocolate Rain Its the fear your leaders call control 30.Bxb4! Kd7?? It's never too late for a Fishing Pole attack - 30 ... Ng4!!= 31 h3?? Nf2+!! eliminates the two bishops the old fashioned way 31.Bd2?? 26 Kd3 has created awkward problems for Aldo's KB and h2-pawn. Aldo is oblivious to Fishing Pole themes, as is all of Florida. There were many ways to deal with 31 ... Ng4!! if Lopez was conscious - 31 Be1, h3, Bf3 or h4 are some 31 ... Ng4!! Yayy. Radek finds the equalizer, threatening h2 and f2 32.Ke2! Nxh2! Now Radek has an extra pawn to counteract the two bishops. Of course two sub-masters will inevitably mess up this delicate balance like a Republican with an endangered species ecosystem. 33.Bb4 Looks pointless - waiting moves might eventually fall to Kingside Chocolate Rain. 33 a5 chips away 33 ... h5!! Chocolate Rain Worse than swearing worse than calling names Chocolate Rain Say it publicly and you're insane Clueless play by White has led to chances for a Black advantage 34.c5 Weakens the d5-pawn 34 a5! chips away 34 ... Ng4 34 ... f5 starts the music again and eliminates the d-pawn. 34 ... f5 35 Bd3 N:d5 36 B:f5+ Kd8 would finally neutralize the central pawn mass but I doubt Radek could win, even with his extra pawn 34 ... f5 35 cb cb 36 B:e7 K:e7 37 B:f5 Ng4!! Double Fishing Pole might be enough to give Aldo the losss he's been craving all endgame. The d5-pawn is dead. 35.d6 In between the 6-piece tablesbases and the normal endgame are positions computers are bad at, especially when the number of pawns dwindle. I will pretend Fritz 9 still knows what he's talking about until I see somethin clear. Here's a long possible line - 35.c6+ Ke8 36.d6 cxd6 37.Bxd6 Nf6 38.c7 Kd7 39.Bxe7 Nxe4 40.Kf3 f5 41.Bd8 h4 42.d5 g4+ 43.Kxf4 h3 44.gxh3 gxh3 45.Kf3 Kc8 Zugswang 46.d6 Nxd6 47.Kg3 Nb7 48.Be7 Kxc7 49.Kxh3 Nc5 50.a5 Kd7 51.Bf8 Ne6 52.Bb4 b5 53.Kg3 Kc6 and even this far in I can't tell if it's a win for Radek or a draw for Aldo. My guess would be draw. 35 ... Nc6??? 35 ... Nf6!! 36 Bd3/c2/f3 Nfd5 35 ... Nf6!! 36 de N:e4 35 ... Nf6!! 36 Bb7 bc 37 dc cd 38 cd Nc6 or ... Ned5 would keep winning chances alive for Radek Radek went with what I call Billiards Chess - piece attacked, piece moved. Paraphrase - It is well known that Fischer tries to win with in between moves. Russian GM 36.Bxc6+!!! Kxc6! 37.d5+!!! Kd7! 38.c6+!!! Kd8! 38 ... Kc8? 39 d7+ Kd8 40 a5!! ba 41 Bc3!! would complete the tragedy because d6!!! cannot be prevented 39.a5!! bxa5! Chocolate Rain No one wants to hear about it now Chocolate Rain Wish real hard it goes away somehow 40.Bxa5! Ne5! 41.dxc7+??= 41 B:c7+!! Kc8 42 Ba5 f5 43 Bc3 Nd7 44 Be5 and Aldo should be able to eliminate all of Radek's pawns while keeping at least one of his own. Clear win. I can forgive Aldo not taking on f4 either way on move 12, I can forgive Aldo missing g3 a hundred times, I can forgive Aldo missing ... Ng4!! twice but 41 dc+?? - No, that I do not forgive. 41 ... Kc8! 42.d6 I think Radek can draw 42 Bc3 f6!! The pawns will keep each other's Kings at bay 42 ... Nxc6! 43.Bc3! Kd7! 44.Kf3 Na7! 45.Bb4 It looks like an easy positional draw. Aldo can go after Radek's Kingside pawns anytime he wants with Bc3-f6 as far as I can tell. Radek can sac a piece on d6 or c7 any time he wants. 45 ... Nc6 46.Bc5? Ne5+? 46 ... f5!! first and then 47 ... Ne5+!! might contain some winning chances for Laburda - Hold the Queenside with the King and try to create three connected passed pawns plus a knight on the Kingside. Forecast - Chocolate Rain. I thought this ending was idiot proof by now but I was wrong. 46 Bc3!= would have prevented this idea. The Queenside passers are distracting Aldo from the real work of destroying the Kingside armada. 47.Ke4!!! How do you catch a monkey? Attach a jar to a solid object, put a peanut in the jar. Monkey comes along, wraps his paw around the peanut, cannot fit his hand out of the jar anymore. He will stay that way until you get there, never letting go of the peanut. Don't believe me? Then why is Aldo's bishop still guarding d6? Aldo's bishop is stuck in a jar of his own making but Aldo's King has the right idea - wreak havoc on Radek's pawns. 47 ... f6! Chocolate Rain Makes the best of friends begin to fight Chocolate Rain But did they know each other in the light? 48.Kf5! f3? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chocolate Rain Every February washed away Chocolate Rain Stays behind as colors celebrate 48 ... Nc4 or ... g4 are easy draws. 48 ... f3 complicates matter again. 48 ... g4= 49 K:f4? Nd3+ picks up the bishop. 48 ... g4= 49 K:f6 Nc4 50 Kg5 f3= 48 ... g4= 49 K:f6 Nc4 50 c8(Q)+ Kc8 51 Ke6 N:d6 52 K:d6?? h4!! 53 Ke5 h3!! 54 Bg1 f3!! 54 Kf4 f2 or ... h2 win Chocolate Rain 48 ... g4= 49 K:f6 Nc4 50 c8(Q)+ Kc8 51 Ke6 N:d6 52 B:d6! f3! or ... h4! draw Chocolate Rain ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 49.gxf3! 49 K:f6 Nd3 or ... Ng4+ draw easily 49 ... Nxf3??? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Losing again. I think 49...h4!!! 50.Bf2 Nxf3 51.Kxf6 h3 52.Bg3 g4 53.Bf4 Nd4 54.Be5 Nc6 55.Bg3 Nd4 56.Kg5 Nf3+ 57.Kxg4 h2 58.Bxh2 Nxh2+ 59.Kf5 Nf3 is a miracle draw 49...h4!!! 50.Kxf6! h3! 51 c8(Q)+ K:c8 52 K:e5 h2 53 Ke6 h1(Q) 54 d7+ Kc7!! 55 Bd6+ Kb7! 56 d8(Q) Q:f3 57 Q:g5 is another miracle draw for Radek ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 50.Kxf6!! g4 Chocolate Rain The same crime has a higher price to pay Chocolate Rain The judge and jury swear it's not the face Laburda has no defense to the c8(Q)+, Ke6, d7+ idea now. His pawns are too far back to help. 49 ... h4!!! just barely held on. Passed pawns must be pushed. 51.c8Q+! Kxc8! 52.Ke7????= Sick, even for this bozo-fest. 52 Ke6!!!! Ng5+ 53 Ke7!!!! Nf7 54 K:f7???? Kd7 and run the h-pawn for a draw by distracting the bishop. 52 Ke6!!!! Ng5+ 53 Ke7!!!! Nf7 54 K:f7???? Kd7 55 Kf6 h4! Ke5???? trying to win by guarding the d6-pawn ... h3!! and Radek wins 52 Ke6!!!! Ng5+ 53 Ke7!!!! Nf7 54 d7+! Kc7! 55 Bd6+! Kc6! 56 Bg3!!!! Only move Zugswang Lopez wins. 52 ... Ne5!! 52 ... Kb7!! also draws 53.Bf2! Ng6+! Many draws now. One easy one in time pressure would be the circuit ... Nd7-b8-d7-b8 until I could move my King to d7 or my h-pawn safely to h4 54.Ke8! Any legal move draws and some illegal moves win 54 ... Ne5! 54 ... Nf8! 55 K:f8 Kd7! is a fancier draw 55.Bh4! Kb7!? Sigh. Still drawing by a miracle but letting Aldo's pawn arrive at d7 unnecessarily 56.Bg3!!! Nc6!! Only move. Custer's Last Stand. 57.d7! With a White King on d6 and a bishop on f2 Radek still has ... Nd8. With a White King on d6 and a bishop on h4 Radek still has ... Kb6 so there is no way to make progress. 57 ... Kb6! 58.Kf7! Kc5! Hoping for one last chance to mess up. 59.Kg6 h4!! Chocolate Rain The bell curve blames the baby's DNA Chocolate Rain But test scores are how much the parents make Finally eliminating the d-pawn because of 60 B:h4 Ne5+ 61 K-any N:d7 or 60 Bc7 g3 61 Kh5 g2 62 Bh2 g1(Q) 63 B:g1 Kd6 64 K:h4 K:d7 and here Radek would have a huge edge because only Aldo can legally helpmate himself. 1/2-1/2 Definitely one of the worst endgames ever played in the history of rated Chess but I am grateful - I have rarely annotated a more fascinating set of positions. I love pawn wave Chess. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "2008 Florida Open"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.30"] [Round "?"] [White "Aldo Lopez"] [Black "Radek Laburda "] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ICCResult "Draw agreed"] [WhiteElo "2036"] [BlackElo "1943"] [Opening "King's Gambit Accepted, Bishop's Gambit"] [Starting Time "between 9 AM and 6 PM"] [TimeControl "Game, 155 minutes, 5 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Nc3 d5 5.exd5 Bb4 6.Nf3 Qe7+ 7.Qe2 Qxe2+ 8.Nxe2 Bd6 9.d4 Bg4 10.0-0 Bxf3 11.Rxf3 Nbd7 12.Bb3 g5 13.c4 b6 14.Bc2 0-0 15.Bd2 Rfe8 16.Nc3 Re7 17.Bf5 Bb4 18.Re1 Rxe1+ 19.Bxe1 Bxc3 20.Bxc3 Nf8 21.Rf1 Re8 22.Re1 Rxe1+ 23.Bxe1 a5 24.Kf2 Ng6 25.Ke2 Kf8 26.Kd3 Ne7 27.Be4 h6 28.a4 Ke8 29.b4 axb4 30.Bxb4 Kd7 31.Bd2 Ng4 32.Ke2 Nxh2 33.Bb4 h5 34.c5 Ng4 35.d6 Nc6 36.Bxc6+ Kxc6 37.d5+ Kd7 38.c6+ Kd8 39.a5 bxa5 40.Bxa5 Ne5 41.dxc7+ Kc8 42.d6 Nxc6 43.Bc3 Kd7 44.Kf3 Na7 45.Bb4 Nc6 46.Bc5 Ne5+ 47.Ke4 f6 48.Kf5 f3 49.gxf3 Nxf3 50.Kxf6 g4 51.c8Q+ Kxc8 52.Ke7 Ne5 53.Bf2 Ng6+ 54.Ke8 Ne5 55.Bh4 Kb7 56.Bg3 Nc6 57.d7 Kb6 58.Kf7 Kc5 59.Kg6 h4 1/2-1/2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "GER-ch int U20"] [Site "Hamburg"] [Date "1993.07.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Kuehn,Peter"] [Black "Pedersen,Daniel Vesterbaek"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "C29"] 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Nc3 d5 5.exd5 Bb4 6.Qe2+ Qe7 7.Nf3 Bg4 8.Qxe7+ Kxe7 9.0-0 Rd8 10.d3 Bxc3 11.bxc3 Nxd5 12.Ne5 Be6 13.Ba3+ Kf6 14.Rae1 g6 15.Bxd5 Rxd5 16.Rxf4+ Kg7 17.c4 Ra5 18.Bb4 Rxa2 19.Nxf7 Bf5 20.Re7 Nc6 21.Bc3+ Kf8 22.Rxc7 Rxc2 23.Be5 Rc1+ 24.Kf2 Rc2+ 25.Kf3 Nxe5+ 26.Nxe5 Re8 27.d4 Re7 28.Rxe7 Kxe7 29.g4 Be6 30.d5 Bg8 31.Ke4 Kd6 32.Kd4 b5 33.Rf8 Rd2+ 34.Kc3 Rxh2 35.Rxg8 Kxe5 36.Re8+ Kd6 37.Re6+ Kd7 38.c5 Rg2 39.c6+ Kc7 40.Re7+ Kc8 41.d6 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Sep 7 02:33:20 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 02:33:20 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Joshua Zhu beats GM on ICC!! Message-ID: <1220776400.48c391d01e27b@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 01:10:58 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: Joshua Zhu beats GM on ICC!! Hi All, My best student, Joshua Zhu (age 13), beat his first Grandmaster this week on the Internet Chess Club and the game follows. This is a tremendous accomplishment!! GM Yuri Solodovnichenko is from the Ukraine. Congrats!, Joel [Event 'ICC 2 5 u'][Site 'Internet Chess Club'][Date '2008.08.24'][White 'engineer78' GM Yuri Solodovnichenko (ELO FIDE 2541)][Black 'chessman1337' Joshua Zhu ? 13 years old][Result '0-1'][ICCResult 'White resigns'][WhiteElo '2859'][BlackElo '2009'][Opening 'Alekhine's defense: modern, Keres variation'][ECO 'B04'][NIC 'AL.04'][Time '14:00:33'][TimeControl '120+5']1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. Nf3 g6 5. Bc4 Nb6 6. Bb3 Bg7 7. a4 a5 8. Qe2 O-O 9. h3 c5 10. dxc5 dxc5 11. O-O Nc6 12. c3 Qc7 13. Re1 Bf5 14. Na3 Rad8 15. Bc2 e6 16. Nb5 Qb8 17. Bg5 f6 18. exf6 Bxf6 19. Bb3 Nd5 20. g4 Bxg5 21. Nxg5 Nf4 22. Qe3 Rd3 23. Nxe6 Rxe3 24. Nxf4+ Kh8 25. fxe3 Be4 26. Rad1 Ne5 27. Nd6 Nf3+ 28. Kf2 Nxe1 29. Nxe4 Qe5 30. Nd6 g5 31. Rd5 Qe7 32. Nf5 Rxf5 33. gxf5 gxf4 34. exf4 Qh4+ 35. Ke2 Ng2 36. Rd8+ Qxd8 {White resigns} 0-1 _________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080907/772ea3d1/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Sep 7 12:59:56 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 12:59:56 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] September 2008 CSCA Newsletter Message-ID: <1220813996.48c424ac9d92f@www.taom.com> Did I miss something. Is Klaus Johnson the new CSCA President. Who won the elctions this year? GM Gallagher thinks Tal's autobiography is the best Chessbook ever. I think I agree. He then wrote his own followup book, the Magic of Tal, that took off where Talk stopped. Great book, with computers analyzing the complications. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Forwarded message from Klaus Johnson ----- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 11:50:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Klaus Johnson Reply-To: boulderchessclub at yahoo.com Subject: September 2008 CSCA Newsletter To: Lee Lahti , Randy Reynolds , Buck Buchanan , Tom Nelson , Dean Brown , Mitesh Shridhar , chessunc at yahoo.com, chessliz at comcast.net, adcdac at bresnan.net, Brian Wall September 2008 CSCA Newsletter ? Greetings Colorado chess players! This is the first of thirteen email newsletters that I will be sending out regarding Colorado Chess. You can expect each subsequent letter to be sent on or around the 1st of each month. In each letter there will be a report of the most recent CO tour events, a list of upcoming CO events, and any new general information about Colorado Chess. ? Results of Previous CO Tour Events ? The first CO Tour event this year was, as always, the Colorado Open. In the 2007 Colorado Open, there were 69 players combined in the Open, U1800, U1400, and membership sections. Despite not having a one-day membership section, the 2008 Colorado Open drew 72 players. Great credit has to be given to the tournament director Buck Buchanan, and the organizer, Joseph Haines. In the open section, NM Philipp Ponomarev won with a perfect 5.0/5, top seed IM Michael Mulyar, FM Renard Anderson, Mitesh Shridhar, and Morgan Robb followed in 2nd-5th place with 4.0/5.? In the reserve section, James MacNeil and Cory Foster tied for 1st-2nd place with 4.5/5, while Randolph Schine, Eric Barkmeyer, Richard Monroe, Joseph Haines, Lee Lahti, Christopher Hanagan, Timothy Martinson, Brendon Barela, Chaitanya Neuhaus, and Jiri Kovats tied for 3rd-12th place with 3.5/5. ? The second CO Tour event this year was the 2008 SOCO in Pueblo on September 6th. This was a new event that attracted 14 players. Igor Melnykov took clear 1st place with 4.5/5, Scott Massey took clear 2nd with 4.0/5, top seed Richard Buchanan and Klaus Johnson took 3rd-4th with 3.5/5. ? Upcoming CO Tour Events ? See http://www.colorado-chess.com/newtourn.shtml for more details. ? October 11th: DCC Columbus Discovery Special 4-SS G/45, Contact: Joe Haines joehaines at comcast.net. New Event ? November 1st: Halloween Open (Pueblo) 5-SS G/30, Contact: Liz Wood chessliz at comcast.net. New Event. ? November 8th-9th: 2008 Boulder Fall Classic. Open Section: 5-SS G/90, Reserve section 5-SS G/30. Contact: Klaus Johnson boulderchessclub at yahoo.com. 16 players last year. ? November 22nd: DCC Thanksgiving Turkey Hunt 4-SS G/60, Contact: Joe Haines joehaines at comcast.net. New Event. ? December 6th-7th: Winter Springs Open (Manitou Springs) 4-SS 40/2 G/1. Contact: Richard Buchanan buckpeace at pcisys.net. 33 players last year. ? January 3rd 2009: 4th Al Ufer Memorial (Manitou Springs) 4-SS G/60. Contact: Dean Brown browndw1 at mindspring.com. 32 players last year. ? Other Upcoming Events ? September 13th: CU Rapid IX: 4-SS G/45, Contact: Klaus Johnson boulderchessclub at yahoo.com ? September 16th: September G/29 (Fort Collins): 3-SS G/29, Contact: Lee Lahti lee.lahti at comcast.net ? September 20th: DCC Back to school Denker/Polgar Fundraiser: 5-SS G/30, Contact: Joe Haines joehaines at comcast.net ? September 27th: US Air Force Quads: 3-RR G/60, Contact: Dean Brown browndw1 at mindspring.com ? September 27th: All night Lock-in (Fort-Collins): 7-SS G/30, Contact: Lee Lahti lee.lahti at comcast.net ? October 4th: Boulder Blitz Championship: 6-DSS G/5, 6-DRR G/5, Contact: Klaus Johnson boulderchessclub at yahoo.com ? October 25th: US Air Force Academy Quads (CO Springs): 3-RR G/60, Contact: Dean Brown browndw1 at mindspring.com ? October 30th: October G/29 Event (Cheyenne, WY): 3-SS G/29, Contact: Allan Cunningham adcdac at bresnan.net ? There are also weekly rated games in Denver on Tuesday nights and in Boulder and Colorado Springs on Wednesday nights. Contact Joe Haines joehaines at comcast.net, Klaus Johnson boulderchessclub at yahoo.com or Jerry Maier pmjer77 at aim.com, respectively. ? General Information ? On August 31st, between the 4th and 5th rounds, the annual Colorado Membership meeting took place and new CSCA officers were elected. The board this year has changed dramatically from last year. Only two of the current seven on the board this year were on the board last year. I am very happy with the make-up of the board this year, and I know we will work to contribute positively to Colorado Chess. ? CSCA Officers for 2008-09 ? President: Klaus Johnson boulderchessclub at yahoo.com Vice-President: Lee Lahti lee.lahti at comcast.net Secretary: Randy Reynolds randy_teyana at msn.com Treasurer: Richard Buchanan buckpeace at pcisys.net Member-At-Large: Tom Nelson csca-scholastic-chess at comcast.net Member-At-Large: Dean Brown browndw1 at mindspring.com Junior Representative: Mitesh Shridhar mitesh.is at gmail.com ? ? If you would like to be included on the newsletter, or if you think something should be included, please email me at boulderchessclub at yahoo.com and I will be sure to add you to my list. Likewise, if you would like to be taken off the mailing list, please let me know. 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URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080907/7e48aa28/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Sep 7 19:10:48 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 19:10:48 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Sunglasses Message-ID: <1220836248.48c47b98eaed0@www.taom.com> I think I played Carl Scarpati twice in quick games, both Weihmiller Frenches. That's the nice thing about leaving town, no one knows what you play. Every GM game is in the databases but 2200's are under the radar. Carl is what I call a Baby Botvinnik, a serious looking kid with glasses, the kind you know is on the rise. Add 200 rating points in your mind and their moves won't surprise you. He looks about 16 years old. He played pretty fast. [Event "2008 Florida Game/15 Championship"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.30"] [Round "2"] [White "Brian Wall"] [Black "Carl Scarpati "] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black Resigned"] [WhiteElo "2227"] [BlackElo "1766"] [Opening "Weihmiller French"] [Time "10 AM"] [TimeControl "Game, 12 minutes, 3 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 2008 Florida ( National? ) Game 15 Championship Game/12 minutes plus 3 second delay Saint Petersburg, Florida Radisson Hotel, under construction Opening - Weihmiller French I have about a 95% success ratio with the opening and about a 50% chance of getting a totally lost game each time. I started on the Black side against Bill. White - Brian Wall Black - Carl Scarpati 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 f6 11.Be3 0-0 12.Bd3 a5 TL ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Theoretical Lemon by Carl Scarpati According to the databases 12 ... Be7 has occurred once. According to Fritz 9 Carl's move is about 13th best, although strangely 12 ... fe! 13 fe! a5! 14 a4! is given as best. 7 ... a5 is third best. 8 ... a5 is best 9 ... a5 is best 10 ... a5 is best 11 ... a5 is second best Carl has the right idea, just not the best timing. In fact, Carl played ... a5 at the worst time, the only time it wasn't good. Move 12 Fritz 9 wish list 12 ... fe 13 fe a5 14 a4 12 ... fe 13 de Bc5!! or ... d4! with White a little better 12 ... g5 12 ... Be7 12 ... Rf7 12 ... Qd8 12 ... g6 12 ... f5 My experience - as White against Josh Divine I played 12 Bd3 g5 13 g3 Be7 and now 14 h4! was best 7-18-07 In general ... g5 is better before castling, whether ... a5 a4 is in or not. My first Weihmiller French I was Black and played ... a5, ... 0-0 and ... g5!? against Bill Weihmiller 5-30-07 Denver Open 7-7-07, my Father's 30th anniversary of meeting his present wife Ellen, I was White against Safet Mehinagic - He played ... Be7, ... fe and ... 0-0, ... a5 without playing ... Bb4+ so I got to castle Kingside. Jacob Zax 6-9-08 We reached the same position as Scarpati and Jacob, Black, a good French player and Bardwick clone, played 12 ... fe and I played the ridiculous but exuberant 13 B:h7+?? K:h7 14 Ng5+?? and now 14 ... Kg6!! would leave me in a big mess because of 15 de R:f4+!! 16 Nf3 Bc5!!! or Nc5!! I get mated if I take on f4 7-21-200 Hummingbird Chess Camp Jemez Springs Kid simul I was White against Aaron who did what Carl should have - 12 Bd3! fe!!! TN Aaron 13 fe! a5! and now instead of 14 a4!! or a3! I plumped for the adventure 14 Qb1!? a4! 15 B:h7+!? Kh8! 16 Qg6!? and now Aaron's 16 ... Ne7?? lost miserably to 17 Qh5!! but 16 Qg6!! Rf5!! 17 Q:e6!! Nf6!! 18 Q:c8+! R:c8! 19 B:f5! Ne4+!! 20 B:e4 de 21 d5! Qc7!!, ... Qb5! or ... Qd8! would have refuted yet another of my unsound Weihmiller B:h7+ attacks. My Aaron attack was absurd - 14 a4! or a3 better than Qb1? 15 a3! better than B:h7+? 16 Qd3! better than Qg6? On August 15, 2007 I switched colors with Bill - as Black he skipped ... cd, ... Bb4+ or ... a5, he just played 7 .. f6, 8 ... Be7, 9 ... Qb6, 10 ... 0-0 and I got a crushing attack after 11 Qc2!! f5 12 g4!! My King never moved. On 9-11-07 Denver Chess Club I destroyed Bill Munroe in 14 moves with a Ndf3, Bd3, h4, B:h7+, Ng5+ attack - not quite a Weihmiller French but similar themes. The next day, 9-12-07 Bill Weihmiller had White - I played like Carl Scarpati except I threw in ... a5 a4 earlier, then I retreated from b4 and b6 with ... Be7 and ... Qd8 after which Bill threw in h4, B:h7+, Ng5+ which was unsound - I won but not before messing up the defense and allowing Bill a mate in three. This was the infamous Why-Miller-Biller game that spawned a thousand lawsuits. 9-28-07 Internet Chess Club Black- JGrimm There was no ... Bb4+ so I was allowed to castle Kingside followed by Ng5 and B:h7+ 1-0 in 31 10-05-07 Larimer Open, CO Black - Andrew Duran of Sarah Palin's Alaska followed Carl Scarpati exactly until 12 Bd3 Be7 13 h4 a5! and I won mega brilliantly with 14 Ng5!!! fg 15 hg Kf7! 16 g6+!! Ke8 17 gh 1-0 21 moves August 2007 Boulder Invitational Bill Weihmiller is White against Andrew Duran- Bill messes up his French and Andrew crashes through with ... Nd:e5!! 0-1 18 Jan 29, 2008 Internet Chess Club Black handle-Brazilian Brazilian plays like Scarpati except ... a5 a4 thrown in early,then 13. Bd3 Be7 14. h4 Nb4 15. Bxh7+ Kxh7 16. Ng5+ fxg5 17. hxg5+ Kg8 18. Qh5 Nd3+ and now 19 Kg1!! kills but 18 ... B:g5! would have drawn 1-0 21 Try Blue Bayou Next Time (http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/newsletter/Tue_Jul_27_v1.html). Nickname created: Blue Bayou Bill Loser's Privilege (http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/newsletter/Mon_May_22_v1.html). Nickname created: Loser The Most Controversial Game Ever Published! (http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/newsletter/Tue_May_22_2007.html). Nickname created: Mr. Bill Close Shave (http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/newsletter/Tue_May_29_2007.html). Nickname created: Monty What Good Luck! (http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/newsletter/Tue_Aug_14_2007.html). Nickname created: Bad Luck Bill Miracle Matthew (http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/newsletter/Tue_May_06_2008.html). Nickname created: Miss Rotten-miller Tim's Response (http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/newsletter/Tue_May_13_2008.html). Nickname created: Whinemiller Focaccia (http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/BrianWallChess/message/2251). Nickname created: Weighmiller Little Richard's - The Quiet Man (http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/BrianWallChess/message/2265). Nickname created: Tributarymiller Weihmiller mates Wily Wall with the Weihmiller French (http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/BrianWallChess/message/2642). Nickname created: Why Miller, Biller? (published in How To Play Chess Like An Animal!) Paul Anderson's vote for Bill's best nickname contest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- One might think with all that experience I might play correctly against a kid facing it for the first time, but no, I seem emotionally unwilling to let go of a Kingside Fishing Pole Weihmiller Attack, no matter how unsound and no matter how many times Fritz tells me to play on the Queenside. It's simply no fun and pointless to play the "System" if you can't sac, sac mate. 13.h4?? 13 Qc2!!! f5! 14 Nc5!!! is politically correct 13 ... a4!! 14.Bxh7+?? More thematic insanity. 14 Ng5?? and 14 B:h7+?? are tied for second place after the pitiful 14 Nc1! fe! 15 fe! N:d4! destroying my center, hopes and dreams --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 ... Kf7?? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The kid freaks out. After 14 B:h7+?? K:h7! 15 Ng5+!! anything wins except 15 ... Kh8?? Qh5+ the best being 14 B:h7+?? K:h7! 15 Ng5+!! Kg8!! 16 Qh5 fg 17 hg Nd:e5!!! the same move Andrew Duran beat Bill Weihmiller with, the same move that has won so many Black Frenches. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 15.Nbd2 I have a free attack now so I save my knight but I missed the prettiest line 15 a3!!! Be7??? 16 Ng5+!!! mate in four, I mean three, I mean four Ke8 17 Qh5+ g6 18 B:g6+ Rf7 19 B:f7+ K-any 20 N:e6 checkmate I have other ideas like 15 Qd3/b1 ab 16 a3 Ba5 17 Qg6+ Ke7 18 Q:g7+!! or g4!! with a comfortable attack. Even 15 ef gf 16 Ne5! or 15 Ng5!? are playable. My move is somewhere in the middle of this mayhem. The best try after my 15 Nbd2 is ... Rh8 and ... Nf8 15 ... fxe5? 16.fxe5! g6? Throwing a pebble at a tsunami 17.h5 Assassinating the last bodyguard and Scarpati has no time to hire more on the Queenside. 17 ... Kg7? We often meet our fate on the road to avoid it - The Old Turtle in King Fu Panda 18.hxg6!! Nxd4? 19.Bh6+!! Kh8! 20.g7+!! Kxh7! 21.gxf8N+ I thought I was being cute underpromoting to a knight with check but underpromoting to a rook is even stronger - 21 gf(R) B:f8 22 Qb1+ N-any 23 Be3+ any 24 B:b6 wining the Queen. Underpromoting to a bishop with 21 gf(B) is very strong too. Promoting to a Queen is crude, crass, materialistic, yucchy, unnecessary and no better than promoting to a rook. 21 ... Nxf8? 21 ... Kg8! 22 N:d7!! B:d7 23 Nc4!! dc 24 N:d4 leaves me a rook up with a safer King 22.Nxd4!! The point is 22 ... Q:d4+! 23 Be3+! picking up the Queen. Anything else gets mated. 22 ... Kg8? 23.Qg4+! mating Kf7! 24.N2f3? 24 B:f8!!, thematically removing the last bodyguard, mates faster. My move is very snug but is only the equivalent of Three Queens Up. 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "2008 Florida Game/15 Championship"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.30"] [Round "2"] [White "Brian Wall"] [Black "Carl Scarpati "] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black Resigned"] [WhiteElo "2227"] [BlackElo "1766"] [Opening "Weihmiller French"] [Time "10 AM"] [TimeControl "Game, 12 minutes, 3 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 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 f6 11.Be3 0-0 12.Bd3 a5 13.h4 a4 14.Bxh7+ Kf7 15.Nbd2 fxe5 16.fxe5 g6 17.h5 Kg7 18.hxg6 Nxd4 19.Bh6+ Kh8 20.g7+ Kxh7 21.gxf8N+ Nxf8 22.Nxd4 Kg8 23.Qg4+ Kf7 24.N2f3 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "HUN-chT2 Barcza 0607"] [Site "Hungary"] [Date "2006.11.12"] [Round "1"] [White "Sallai,Janos"] [Black "Kristof,Peter"] [Result "0-1"] [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 0-0 11.Be3 f6 12.Bd3 Be7 13.Rf1 a5 14.a4 Nb4 15.Bb5 Nb8 16.Re1 Bd7 17.Bf1 N8a6 18.Bxa6 Qxa6 19.Kg1 Rac8 20.Re2 b6 21.exf6 Bxf6 22.Ne5 Bxe5 23.dxe5 Nd3 24.g3 Nc5 25.Nd4 b5 26.axb5 Bxb5 27.Rc2 Nd3 28.Ra3 Nb4 29.Rcc3 Bd7 30.Qa1 Rxc3 31.bxc3 Nc6 32.Nxc6 Bxc6 33.Rxa5 Qd3 34.Bd4 Rb8 35.Kf2 Rb1 36.Ra8+ Bxa8 37.Qxa8+ Kf7 38.Qa7+ Kg6 39.f5+ Qxf5+ 40.Ke2 Qf1+ 41.Kd2 Qe1+ 42.Kd3 Qe4+ 0-1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------ From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Sep 7 20:52:20 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 20:52:20 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Grandmaster Julio Becerra versus Brian Wall, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole Message-ID: <1220842340.48c4936497ccb@www.taom.com> I only played one of the four titled players in the 2008 Florida Open a slow game but I got to blitz with all of them. As an Internet Chess Club webcaster in 2006 I sometimes covered Greg Shahade's US National Chess Leaugue. The games from different cities are actually played on ICC. Most players range from Chessmaster to Grandmaster. Becerra was very sucessful in the League playing for the Florida Sharks. His games were often brilliancies. Very tactical. Florida Chessmaster/TD Andrew Scherman invented a form of cutthroat Chess Tournaments that my Harvard Square buddy Joel Johnson ( 2007 US Senior Champion ) wants to copy. Everyone's time is different based on your rating. I got 7 minutes for each game the whole tournament, Becerra got 3. The Opening was the Hyper-Pole, I lost a rook somehow on a8 but had 4 connected passed pawns for it. I was happily pushing my pawn wave as usual. The pawns were getting close to Queening, Becerra was running out of time when, wham!, from nowhere I helpmated myself. I have a continuous problem of getting too nervous, not when I am low on time, but when my opponent is. I was stunned speechless, vaguely aware of some tragedy numbing my senses. [Event "2008 Florida Game/29 Championship"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.30"] [Round "3"] [White "Grandmaster Julio Becerra"] [Black "Brian Wall "] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black Checkmated"] [WhiteElo "2645"] [BlackElo "2227"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"] [Time "10 AM"] [TimeControl "Becerra-3 minutes, Brian-7 minutes, no delay, no increment"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Ng4!! Fishing Pole 5.h3 h5 6.c3 a6 7.Ba4 Bc5 8.d4 Ba7!! Hyper-Pole 9.Bg5 f6 10.Be3? Nxe3! 11.fxe3! g5! --------------------------------------------------------------------- I am not exactly sure how far my pawns had advanced so I don't know if I was winning or losing but here is a reasonable facsimile of the final position. Final posiiton, roughly 8/3kb2R/4b3/3pP3/1pp2N2/p3K3/4B3/8 w - - 0 62 wKe3,Nf4,Be2,Rh7,Pe5/bKd7,Be6,e7,Pa3,b4,c4,d5 White - Grandmaster Julio Becerra 2645 King- e3 Rook- h7 Bishop- e2 Knight- f4 Pawn - e5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Black - Brian Wall 2247 King - d7 Bishops - e6,e7 Pawns - d5, c4,b5,a3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Julio played 1 N:e6 and without thinking about how much time I had versus how much time he had or whether I should push a pawn, in short, without thinking about ANYTHING, I recaptured automatically 1 N:e6 K:e6???????????? 2 Bg4 checkmate I did kind of admire how he whipped up counterplay out of nowhere in seconds when a lesser man would have floundered helplessly against my pawns. That almost wiped out the sick feeling in my stomach that something absolutely horrible just happened. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Sep 8 10:35:42 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 10:35:42 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] CSCA Elections Message-ID: <1220891742.48c5545ebbbeb@www.taom.com> Last year I ran for every office and elayed the elections-:) Brian Wall ----- Forwarded message from Randy Reynolds ----- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:50:10 -0000 From: Randy Reynolds Reply-To: Randy Reynolds Subject: CSCA Elections To: Brian Wall Yeah, you missed the elections this year at the annual membership meeting.. Or, should I say, we missed you? So boring this year... only two candidates for any given office! :-P Anyway, the new board: President: Klaus Johnson Vice-Pres: Lee Lahti Secretary: Randy Reynolds Treasurer: Richard Buchanan Jr. Representative: Mitesh Shridhar Members-at-Large: Dean Brown Tom Nelson From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Sep 8 15:59:21 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 15:59:21 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Photo of 13 yr old Ray Robson versus Brian Wall 2008 Florida Open Round 3 Message-ID: <1220911161.48c5a039d1f37@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from "Harvey N. Lerman" ----- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 17:21:17 -0400 From: "Harvey N. Lerman" Reply-To: "Harvey N. Lerman" Subject: games To: BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com Brian, Thanks for sending two of your games written up for floridaCHESS. I plan to use them. In fact I think I took your picture playing one of the games. (See attached) If I knew who you were, I would have taken a better one of you. So If you also have a photo of yourself that I can use, please send it to me. Thanks, Harvey Lerman -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: P1010025 (Small).JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 55908 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080908/c7752c23/attachment.jpe From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Sep 8 17:27:04 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 17:27:04 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Carl Scarpati responds to Sunglasses Message-ID: <1220916424.48c5b4c808e2b@www.taom.com> I had a wonderful time in Florida. Everyone was very friendly. Some people acted like I was nuts to write down blitz games but I learn a lot by studying them. The TD even told me I didn't have to! Once you have a position in front of you to analyze, it makes no difference where it came from. Chess is Chess. Our first game went - [Event "2008 Florida Game/29 Championship"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.30"] [Round "2"] [White "Brian Wall"] [Black "Carl Scarpati "] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black Resigned"] [WhiteElo "2227"] [BlackElo "1766"] [Opening "Weihmiller French"] [Time "10 AM"] [TimeControl "Brian-7 minutes, Carl-13 minutes, no delay, no increment"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Ngf3 Qb6 8.Nb3 c4 ( In our Game/12 the next day you played 8 ... cd 9 cd Bb4+ 10 Kf2 f6 ) 9. Nbd2 Be7 10.g4 f6 11. ef N:f6 Then somehow we reached a rook versus Bishop ending. This game was much closer althought you did have me killed in our second game if you took my bishop. I am sure your Chessrating will skyrocket straight up for a long time. Good Luck. Brian Wall -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carl Scarpati Itscooltobesmart at aol.com ----- Forwarded message from Itscooltobesmart at aol.com ----- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 18:32:02 EDT From: Itscooltobesmart at aol.com Reply-To: Itscooltobesmart at aol.com Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] Sunglasses To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com Hi Brian Its Carl again, I would like to say nice annotations and comments on our game, also you were very close on the age, I just turned 15 less than a month ago, I would have to agree with you also that I did make a mistake with the timing of a5. I looked at it after and it was pretty horrible, and I remember why I played it, well at least why I didn't look close enough, because the board right next to us was Adam Miller vs Chavira, Miller who is my friend made a really good sac and won, so I was more interested with his game than my own :), I think the reason I played the French so bad is because I took a break from it to try other openings and I was trying actually to see how my French was in the side events before states, and it worked out ok except for in our two games. I actually thought my game in the minus 29 was better than the National game 15 one, as the rook and pawn vs bishop and three pawns was interesting, until you positioned your pieces well enough so I couldn't defend the last pawn making it a resignable game, well anyway keep up the great writing Regards Carl Carl Scarpati Itscooltobesmart at aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunglasses In a message dated 9/7/2008 9:16:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, brianwallchess3 at taom.com writes: I think I played Carl Scarpati twice in quick games, both Weihmiller Frenches. That's the nice thing about leaving town, no one knows what you play. Every GM game is in the databases but 2200's are under the radar. Carl is what I call a Baby Botvinnik, a serious looking kid with glasses, the kind you know is on the rise. Add 200 rating points in your mind and their moves won't surprise you. He looks about 16 years old. He played pretty fast. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080908/fa078b19/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Sep 8 22:37:49 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:37:49 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Second picture of Brian Wall in 2008 Florida Open Message-ID: <1220935069.48c5fd9dd122d@www.taom.com> Warning Flash - Handsome alert taken by Olympian Andrew Scherman and his devoted Diane ----- Forwarded message from "elprez_spcc at netzero.net" ----- photo of Brian Wall 2008 Florida Open Round 3 Editor Florida Magazine - Harvey Lerman harvey_lerman at juno.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: brian wall of colorado.JPG Type: image/pjpeg Size: 315072 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080908/c742d3e4/attachment.bin From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Sep 9 16:36:45 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:36:45 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fwd: Payback's a bitch, IM Blas Lugo loses to Renae defence Message-ID: <1220999805.48c6fa7d06092@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Brian Wall ----- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:33:57 -0600 From: Brian Wall Reply-To: Brian Wall Subject: Payback's a bitch, IM Blas Lugo loses to Renae defence To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com I have been resisting writing this but here goes. Running out of Florida material. IM Blas Lugo may be the best person on the planet, he may build orphanages with his bare hands when he is not studying the Ruy Lopez, he may be supporting a family of 12, maybe he swam from Cuba to America on an old Goodyear tire ducking gunfire, I know nothing about the man except one thing. Twenty Years ago, maybe the 1984 US Championship in Texas, I'm not sure, I had to play a two game blitz 5-minute mini-match with Blas Lugo. He didn't like losing to me so he went to the TD with some ridiculous claim. I was shocked when the TD made me play the game over. It was so absurd I can't even remember the pretext. I invented a theory that holds up pretty well. The Tournament Director is the shopkeeper. The higher rated players are the "preferred customers". If a preferred customer makes a complaint to the shopkeeper, rules will be bent or broken to accomodate. GM Michael Rhode did the same thing to me in the World Open 6 years ago. He claimed that me calling his flag a split second before his fell "distracted" him. Well, OK, maybe he was right but would Goichberg uphold that claim if some 1200 made it? I think he would be laughed out of the office. And who else in the history of Chess has ever made that claim? For example David Wallace claimed he won a game he lost to Danielle Rice. They upheld his claim. Some punk kid 1200 or so claimed Danielle Rice "made a piece wobble". The kid was hopelessly lost anyway. The TD ignored his claim. The general trend, not the absolute rule, is to give the higher rated player what they want. They spend more mony and time on Chess. The Squeaky Wheel gets the oil. I had to replay my game with Blas. I won again anyway and drew the second one, much to his dismay. That's blood under the bridge. Chessplayers are a vengeful lot. Tal So 20 years later we are paired again. I have no idea if he remembers me. I eagerly write down the moves of my Fishing Pole victory. At least that is what I thought might happen. Instead the game is a total nightmare. First of all he makes all his moves in less than a minute. Secondly my position is as horrible as it gets. I am reduced to passively moving my rook back and forth on the back rank. I am down to two minutes, Blas still has eleven. Against anyone else in the world, I resign. He finally comes in for the kill. Suddenly I see a ray of light in the tunnel. Maybe he won't see my threat. Like Royce Gracie I can win lying down. Bam! I miraculously turn the game around. Blas is fuming, just like long ago. He glares at the position for 8 minutes. Nothing to find, game over. Beautiful. He talks urgently and rapidly to his IM friend Dionisio Aldama. But that is another story. Let's finish this one. [Event "2008 Florida Game/15 Championship"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.30"] [Round "3"] [White "IM Blas Lugo"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2393"] [BlackElo "2227"] [Opening "King's Gambit Accepted, Bishop's Gambit"] [ Time "10 AM"] [TimeControl "Game/12 minutes, no delay, no increment"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 2008 Florida Game/15 Championship Game/12 with 3 second delay Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida August 30, 2008 10 AM Round 3 Opening - Four Knights Ruy Lopez, Renae defense White- IM Blas Lugo 2393 Black- Brian Wall 2227 rematch from Hell 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3! Nc6 3.Nc3 Darn - I gave his two titled buddies grief with the Fishing Pole. 3 ... Nf6! 4.Bb5 Bd6 Renae liked to do this when I first taught her Chess. This incarnation of the Renae defense has solid GM backing. Capablanca had to face this in a blindfold simul in 1911. Since then, 293 other games have been played with it by guys and gals like Rhatmir Kholmov, Paul Motwani ( I bought 3 of his books in Florida ), Jonny Hector ( 6 times ), Korneev, Malaniuk, Mikhalchishin ( a facebook buddy which means we are strangers ), Ivan Sokolov, Mihai Ionescu, Penteala Harikrishna, Harikrishna, Harikrishna ( played 3 times ), ( sorry, I spend too much time in airports ), Gregory ( The Lion of Lentucky ) Kaidanov ( fellow ICC webcaster ), Zong Yuan Zhao, Anthony Kosten, WGM Marina Makropoulou, and Marcel Casanova. Despite the heavy pedigree, when I explained to a little girl in the Jemez Springs, NM Summer Hummingbird Chess Camp that the idea was to play ... Bd6, ... 0-0, ... Re8, ... Bf8, ... g6, ... Bg7 she disdainfully replied - " Why not just fianchetto at once? " One of those " Emporer's New Clothes" moments kids are so good at. I had to admit I was at a loss to explain the squandering of two precious tempi in the opening. Maybe Jonny Hector can. Once in a blue moon White will play B:c6 dc and both bishops are active but that is very rare. Jonny Hector experiments with ... b6 or ... Ne7, ... c6, ... Bc7 or x ... Nd4 x+1 N:d4 ed x+2 ... Be5, x+3 ... c6, x+4 ... d5 his bishops come out differently almost each game, he enjoys the creativity. 5.0-0! 0-0! 6.d3! a6! Trying to provoke 7 B:c6 dc to free my QB but it almost never works. 7.Ba4! h6 Fritz 9 doesn't like the move much but I don't like the Bg5 pin much. 8.Ne2 Re8! 9.c3 Bf8!! Thematic Renae Defense move. A bishop on the back rank is developed if it isn't blocking the rooks - Tal 9 ... b5 has also been played here. 10.Ng3! d6 TN Theoretical Novelty by me 10 ... d5!! 11 Qe2 Qd6!! has been played once before By an Armenian goat hair, Fritz 9 prefers 10 ... d5!! 11 Qe2 Qd6!!! to ... Bd6!! but imagine how hard it is for a human to be on two squares twice in the opening. On 10 ... d5 11 Re1! de, ... b5 or ... Qd7 is possible. I have a lot of bad experiences with my e5-pawn after ... d5 in these types of positions - My 10 ... d6 is not too bad 11.h3 Bd7 12.a3 g6 13.Bb3 Be6 14. Bc2? The advantage very briefly switches to me after 14 ... d5!! but I do not like that move on principle. Also I was falling further and further behind on time by keeping score. Blas seemed incredulous and was moving instantly. 14 ... Qd7 15.Nh2? Again I miss 15 ... d5!! due to prejudice. 15 ... Bg7 Second best 16.f4!! Bxh3!? Crazy, I know, but I didn't want to die without a fight. For a long time now I am dead lost. 17.gxh3! Qxh3! 18.Qf3! Qd7 19.f5! My piece sac has completely boomeranged, only opening lines for Lugo's lashing out. 19 ... Rf8 20.Bb3 Kh7 My last recorded time- 7:19 My move is second best but my clock and board posiiton are uterly hopeless. 21.Ng4!! Lugo's last recorded log - 11 minutes still after he started with 12 - he was blazing, I was thinking and recording but I hated my position and didn't want to fall further behind on the clock. The rest is a reasonably rigorous reliable re-creation. Shabalov mentioned IM Lugo's buddy GM Becerra's prowess with the Ruy Lopez in the September 2008 Chess Life so I assume Blas has played 1 million Ruy Lopez blitz games. No wonder this part was easy and automatic for him. 21 ... g5! 22.Kg2 Nxg4 23.Qxg4! f6 24.Qh5 Qe8! 25.Rh1! Qxh5! 26.Nxh5! Rh8 27.Be3! Ne7! 28.Be6! c6 29.Kf2 I was already envisioning to my utter horror x. Rag1 ... x+1. B:g5 fg x+2. R:g5 hg x+3 N:f6 discovered checkmate 29 ... Raf8 30.b4 Ra8! Fritz agrees I am helpless and hopeless here, recommending 30 ... Ra8,... b8, ... e8, ... d8 31.a4! Raf8 Totally sick, Fritz 9 recommends 5 pointless back rank rook moves. If it was anyone but Lugo ... 32.a5! Grabbing every last ounce of space before murdering me. 32 ... Ra8 33.Rag1 Raf8 34.Rg2 I was waiting for the Sword of Damocles to fall on g5, I was waiting for my small blind to be raised but .... Blas just moved back and forth for a while 34 ... Ra8 35.Rh3? 35 B:g5!!!! fg 36 R:g5!!!! is +10 now, I couldn't stop it. 35 ... Rad8? 36.Rgh2? 36 B:g5!! fg 37 R:g5!! is +25 now 36 ... Rdf8 37.Ke2 Invading with 38 Be3-b6-c7 looks rather horrid. 37 ... Rb8 38.Rh1 Ra8 39.Bxg5 Finally - I had about 2 or 3 minutes left - Blas had 11 still - surely he will wrap this up quickly 39 ... fxg5! 40.f6!! Bxf6! I was moving fast but felt a slight ray of heat like a blind snake. 41.Nxf6+! Kg7! I saw that 41 Nh5+!! would foil my plan so I moved instantaneously, held my breath and prayed. With only two minutes left, I was very convincing. In poker, in order to pull off a bluff, you have to create a convincing story of cards you might have by your betting. My "story" is that I am just mindlessly rattling off moves, terrified of the impending flag. In reality I am setting a diabolical trap at the speed of light. 42.Ng4?????????????????? Ng6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Played in less than a nanosecond. Now the unstoppable family fork on f4 is pyschologically crushing. Lugo's edge has been reduced from +25 with 36 B:g5!! ( if we don't count the mate in 10 ) by 99%!! Blas could still win the game, there are at least a dozen moves which keep a slight edge on the board and a huge edge on the clock but Blas was in shock, he couldn't think straight, his emotions were washing over his face like Hurricane Ike smashing into Cuba. He writhed in his chair as his time ticked down close to mine, his first think of the game and the IM produced ... 43.Nxh6???????????????????????? Very sick because taking the pawn with the other piece 43 R:h6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nf4+ 44 Kf3! N:e6! 45 R:h8! R:h8! 46 R:h8! K:h8! looks lost from afar because of my outside passed g-pawn but 47 Nh6!!! targetting my d6-pawn keeps an edge Other 43rd moves are fine, e.g., any King move or 43 R3h2, Ne3, Bb3, Bf5, Rh5, or Bc4 should all keep a microedge. The problem is that is the position is zero fun for IM Blas Lugo to analyze - he has to answer the embarrassing question - how much material do I have to return due to one stupid quick move that ruined my game 42 Ng4?????????????????? After beating himself up for 8 solid minutes, he threw the draw away too. 43 ... Nf4+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 44.Ke3 Nxh3! Now 45 Nf5+ Kf6 attacks his bishop so I have gone from being mated in 10 moves to being up an exchange and a pawn for nothing. Another sick line is 45 Nf7 Nf4!! 46 N:h8 N:e6 and his h8-knight is trapped. He thought a while and realized defeat against Brian was inevitable again. Later in the last round of the Florida Open, IM Ray Robson beat Blas in slow Chess allowing Ray to tie for first with GM Julio Becerra. The amazing 13 year old IM had already drawn GM Becerra and IM Dionisio Aldama. This added to the Fischeresque scenario as the young teen phenom nobly battled one country playing as a team like young Bobby against the Russians. 45.Rxh3! Rxh6! 46.Rxh6! Kxh6! 47.d4 Still fighting and praying for a miracle. 47 ... Kh5! 48.d5! cxd5 I could have continued my plan of pushing my g-pawn with 48 ... Rf8!!, cutting off his King or 48 ... g4! or ... Kh4! but I got ascared he was planning some ingenious IM pawn wave breakthrough on the Queenside and started backtracking nervously. It was hard to think straight with two minutes each. 49.exd5 b6 I was paranoid the International Master had some secret winning plan so I abandoned my g-pawn and nipped his Queenside counterplay in the bud. Fritz 9 assures me there was nothing to wory about. I had lost countless blitz games by blindly pushing my passed pawn, ignoring everything else and that wasn't going to happen today. 50.axb6! Rb8! 51.c4! Rxb6! 52.c5! See? See what I mean? 52 ... Rxb4! 53.cxd6! Kg6 Never mind the g-pawn, gotta stop those d-pawns 54.Bc8! See? See? He's going for d7, watch out! 54 ... Rb6 Maybe my a-pawn can run for a touchdown 55.d7! Rd6! I'm winning but Blas has reduced me to one good move. 56.Ke4 Kf6! I stopped your pawns, can you stop mine? 57.Bxa6! Rxd7! 58.Be2 Rb7! Gotta get behind the pawn 59.d6 Rb4+! 60.Kd5 Rd4+! 61.Kc6! Ke6 It's finally a mindless win because my Rook picks off any Bishop checks. I probably had a minute and change left plus a delay. All I need now is the delay. There was still a chance to blow it with the logical plan of saccing my rook for his pawn and helping my passed pawns with my King. 61 Kc6 g4 62 d7 g3 63 Bf3 Kf5???? 64 Bd5 Queening. Yikes. 62.Kc5! Rxd6 63.Kc4 Rd4+ Locking out Lugo's King so my King and g-pawn can snag his last piece 64.Kc3 Everything is lightning speed now. 64 ... Kf5 65.Ba6! Kg4 66.Bb7! Kh3 67.Bc6! g4! 68.Bb7! g3! 69.Bc6 g2! 70.Bxg2+! Kxg2! 0-1 Blas submits again for the third time Digital Camera, where is thy sting? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "2008 Florida Game/15 Championship"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.30"] [Round "3"] [White "IM Blas Lugo"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2393"] [BlackElo "2227"] [Opening "King's Gambit Accepted, Bishop's Gambit"] [ Time "10 AM"] [TimeControl "Game/12 minutes with 3 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 Bd6 5.0-0 0-0 6.d3 a6 7.Ba4 h6 8.Ne2 Re8 9.c3 Bf8 10.Ng3 d6 11.h3 Bd7 12.a3 g6 13.Bb3 Be6 14.Bc2 Qd7 15.Nh2 Bg7 16.f4 Bxh3 17.gxh3 Qxh3 18.Qf3 Qd7 19.f5 Rf8 20.Bb3 Kh7 21.Ng4 g5 22.Kg2 Nxg4 23.Qxg4 f6 24.Qh5 Qe8 25.Rh1 Qxh5 26.Nxh5 Rh8 27.Be3 Ne7 28.Be6 c6 29.Kf2 Raf8 30.b4 Ra8 31.a4 Raf8 32.a5 Ra8 33.Rag1 Raf8 34.Rg2 Ra8 35.Rh3 Rad8 36.Rgh2 Rdf8 37.Ke2 Rb8 38.Rh1 Ra8 39.Bxg5 fxg5 40.f6 Bxf6 41.Nxf6+ Kg7 42.Ng4 Ng6 43.Nxh6 Nf4+ 44.Ke3 Nxh3 45.Rxh3 Rxh6 46.Rxh6 Kxh6 47.d4 Kh5 48.d5 cxd5 49.exd5 b6 50.axb6 Rb8 51.c4 Rxb6 52.c5 Rxb4 53.cxd6 Kg6 54.Bc8 Rb6 55.d7 Rd6 56.Ke4 Kf6 57.Bxa6 Rxd7 58.Be2 Rb7 59.d6 Rb4+ 60.Kd5 Rd4+ 61.Kc6 Ke6 62.Kc5 Rxd6 63.Kc4 Rd4+ 64.Kc3 Kf5 65.Ba6 Kg4 66.Bb7 Kh3 67.Bc6 g4 68.Bb7 g3 69.Bc6 g2 70.Bxg2+ Kxg2 0-1 Blas submits again for the third time ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Bled ol (Men)"] [Site "Bled"] [Date "2002.10.26"] [Round "5"] [White "Podlesnik,Bogdan"] [Black "Borisek,Jure"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "C48"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 Bd6 5.d3 h6 6.0-0 0-0 7.h3 a6 8.Ba4 Re8 9.a3 Bf8 10.Bb3 b5 11.Be3 Bb7 12.Qd2 d6 13.Rfe1 Nb8 14.a4 c6 15.Nh2 d5 16.exd5 cxd5 17.d4 b4 18.Na2 Nc6 19.dxe5 Nxe5 20.Bd4 Ne4 21.Qd1 Nc6 22.c3 bxc3 23.bxc3 Nxd4 24.cxd4 Bd6 25.Nf3 Qf6 26.Rb1 Rad8 27.Rb2 Ng5 28.Nxg5 Qxg5 29.Rxe8+ Rxe8 30.g3 Bxg3 31.fxg3 Qxg3+ 32.Kf1 Bc8 33.Bxd5 Bxh3+ 34.Bg2 Qh2 35.Bxh3 Qh1+ 36.Kf2 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Pyramiden Franken Cup 3rd"] [Site "Fuerth"] [Date "2000.08.19"] [Round "4"] [White "Bunzmann,Dimitrij"] [Black "Hector,Jonny"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "C48"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 Bd6 5.0-0 0-0 6.Re1 Re8 7.h3 Nd4 8.Bc4 c6 9.a3 Bc7 10.d3 Ne6 11.Ba2 d6 12.b4 a5 13.b5 a4 14.Rb1 Ba5 15.Bd2 h6 16.Ne2 Nh5 17.d4 Qf6 18.dxe5 dxe5 19.bxc6 bxc6 20.Bxa5 Rxa5 21.Qd6 Nd4 22.Qxf6 Nxe2+ 23.Rxe2 Nxf6 24.Ne1 Be6 25.Bxe6 Rxe6 26.Nd3 Rb5 27.Ree1 Rxb1 28.Rxb1 Nxe4 29.Rb4 Nc3 30.Rc4 Nb1 31.Rxa4 e4 32.Nc5 Re5 33.Ra8+ Kh7 34.Nd7 Rd5 35.Nf8+ Kg8 1/2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Bled ol (Men)"] [Site "Bled"] [Date "2002.10.26"] [Round "7"] [White "Sequera Paolini,Jose"] [Black "Hector,Jonny"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "C48"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 Bd6 5.0-0 0-0 6.d3 h6 7.h3 b6 8.Ne2 Bb7 9.c3 Re8 10.Ng3 Bf8 11.Re1 a6 12.Ba4 d5 13.Qe2 b5 14.Bc2 Qd7 15.Nh4 g6 16.Qf3 Nh7 17.exd5 Na5 18.Ne4 Bxd5 19.Qg3 Bg7 20.Nf3 Nb7 21.Ned2 Nd6 22.Nh2 Qc6 23.Nhf1 Nf5 24.Qh2 Rad8 25.Ne3 Nxe3 26.fxe3 e4 27.d4 Bf8 28.Qg3 Bd6 29.Qf2 Re6 30.Rf1 Rf6 31.Qh4 Be7 32.Rxf6 Bxf6 33.Qf2 Rd6 34.Nf1 Be7 35.Bd2 Rf6 36.Qe1 Qe6 37.b3 Bd6 38.Qe2 c5 39.Bd1 Bc7 40.Rc1 c4 41.b4 Qd6 42.Be1 Rf5 43.Rc2 Be6 44.Bf2 Nf6 45.Kh1 Nd5 46.Qe1 h5 47.g4 hxg4 48.hxg4 Rf6 49.Bg1 g5 50.Rf2 Qd7 51.Rg2 Rh6+ 52.Bh2 Rh3 53.Kg1 Bxh2+ 54.Rxh2 Bxg4 55.Rxh3 Bxh3 56.Ng3 Qe6 57.Bc2 f5 58.Bd1 f4 59.exf4 gxf4 60.Kh2 Bf5 61.Nh5 Qe7 62.Qf2 Qg5 63.Kh1 Bg4 64.Bxg4 Qxg4 65.Qg2 Qxg2+ 66.Kxg2 Kf7 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "LTU-ch"] [Site "Vilnius"] [Date "2004.04.23"] [Round "5"] [White "Slapikas,Vytautas"] [Black "Asauskas,Henrikas"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "C48"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.Bb5 Bd6 5.d3 h6 6.Ne2 0-0 7.c3 Re8 8.0-0 a6 9.Ba4 b5 10.Bc2 Bf8 11.Ng3 d5 12.h3 g6 13.a4 Bb7 14.Re1 Bg7 15.Qe2 Qd6 16.h4 h5 17.Ng5 Nd8 18.Nf1 Ne6 19.Nh2 c5 20.Nhf3 Ng4 21.Nxe6 Rxe6 22.c4 bxc4 23.dxc4 d4 24.a5 Rf8 25.Ra3 Rb8 26.Rd1 Ree8 27.Rb3 Bc6 28.Rdd3 Qc7 29.Qe1 Bh6 30.Ng5 Rxb3 31.Bxb3 f5 32.f3 Nf6 33.Rd1 fxe4 34.Nxe4 Bxe4 35.Bxh6 Bf5 36.Ba4 Rb8 37.Bg5 Nh7 38.Qd2 Nxg5 39.hxg5 Rb7 40.Re1 Qd6 41.Qe2 Re7 42.Qd2 d3 43.Qc3 Kf7 44.Bd1 h4 45.Re3 Qd4 46.Qxd4 cxd4 47.Re1 Ke6 48.b4 Rb7 49.b5 axb5 50.a6 Rb6 51.Bb3 Kd6 52.Ra1 Rb8 53.cxb5 Kc5 54.a7 Ra8 55.Kf2 Kb6 56.Ke1 Rxa7 57.Rxa7 Kxa7 58.Bd5 Kb6 59.Bc6 Kc7 60.Kd2 Kd6 61.Ke1 Bd7 62.Be4 Bxb5 63.Bxg6 Ke6 64.Kd2 Bc4 65.Be4 Kf7 66.Ke1 d2+ 67.Kxd2 Bf1 68.Ke1 Bxg2 69.Kf2 Bh3 70.f4 Ke6 71.fxe5 Kxe5 72.Bd3 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Moehnesee Cup-A"] [Site "Moehnesee"] [Date "2005.08.18"] [Round "7"] [White "Weiler,Wolfgang"] [Black "Schuh,Dirk"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "C48"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.Nc3 Bd6 5.0-0 0-0 6.d3 a6 7.Ba4 h6 8.Ne2 Re8 9.c3 Bf8 10.Ng3 d5 11.Qe2 Qd6 12.h3 b5 13.Bc2 Be6 14.Re1 Rad8 15.b3 d4 16.c4 Nd7 17.a4 bxc4 18.bxc4 Nc5 19.Ba3 Qd7 20.Qd2 Rb8 21.Reb1 Rxb1+ 22.Rxb1 Nxe4 23.Nxe4 Bxa3 24.a5 f5 25.Ba4 fxe4 26.Nxe5 Nxe5 27.Bxd7 Bxd7 28.dxe4 c5 29.Rb7 Bc6 30.Rc7 Bb4 31.Qd1 Bxe4 32.f4 Nf7 33.Qa4 Rf8 34.Rxf7 Kxf7 35.Qd7+ Kf6 36.Qd6+ Kf7 37.Qd7+ Kf6 38.Qd6+ Kf7 39.Qd7+ 1/2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Sep 10 00:35:37 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:35:37 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fishing Pole versus IM Dionisio Aldama Message-ID: <1221028537.48c76ab9ea198@www.taom.com> IM Dionisio Aldama is listed as living in Arizona, 2515 USCF, 2433 USCF Quick Rating,FIDE 2455 I never heard of Dionisio but that's the point of traveling, experiencing new people. I was getting used to the high life of airplanes, taxis, room service, expensive dinners, airport business lounges. Several people came up to me and mentioned they had lived in Colorado. I hadn't see Richard Spitzer in 36 years, he showed me the 1977 Colorado Informant with his picture in it, I knew that issue well, I had scanned a few pictures into my Yahoo group. I won 4 tournaments in a row that year, including the 1977 Denver Open and the 1977 Colorado Open ( tied with David Jellison ). I lost one game in 10 consecutive tournaments to IM William Martz, now deceased. Richard was in the Air Force in Colorado Springs, CO I think, then he went back to Florida where his parents live, got married and raised a 20 year old daughter. When you haven't seen someone in that long you tend to both laugh at how Father Time has taken his toll. Pete Short, who has dual citizenship in Colorado and Florida, seemed impressed with how I was doing. Pete told me a Chess tournament was never so close to his home in his whole lfe. Pete travels with Raytheon all over the country. My game was Dionisio was right after my intense game with IM Blas Lugo and those two had a fervent conversation in Spanish, probably something like - " I was totally killing this gordo puerco, he's non bueno, Asesinato, homicidio con premeditaci?n. " and least in my mind. I had already played all 4 players with GM or IM titles in the Tournamant hall. My game with IM Aldama followed my game with GM Becerra until Dionisio improved on Move 10. Aldama tried super hard to beat me, we reached a delicate ending and he played his last 40 moves with just 17 seconds plus a 5 second delay. We had never met but it felt like a grudge match. His will to win was impressive. [Event "2008 Florida Game/15 Championship" ] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.30" ] [Round "4"] [White "IM Dionisio Aldama"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2515"] [BlackElo "2227"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"] [ Time "10 AM"] [TimeControl "Game/12 minutes with 3 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 2008 Florida Game/15 Championship Round 4 Saint Petersburg, Florida Board 2 Game/12 5 second delay White - International Master Dionisio Aldama 2515 Black - Brian Wall 2227 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Ng4!! The Fishing Pole against an IM, I live for these moments 5.h3 h5!! 6.c3 a6 7.Ba4 Bc5 8.d4 Ba7!! The Hyper-Pole, creating a peekaboo bishop which tends to strike down the enemy like a hawk dropping on a mouse from the high cliffs. 9.Bg5? The most common move, blocking out my Queen but initiating a pawn wave. 9 ... f6!! 10.Bc1!! My first rated Fishing Pole, maybe 7 years ago, Membership Open, Denver, Colorado, some 1700 beat me with 10 Be3?? - I was playing two games at once. I learned a lot since then, mostly to play ... N:e3, ... g5-g4 and sometimes ... N:d4!! I used all those ideas on GM Becerra and I think I was winning at one point, if only briefly but I helpmated myself. Aldama improves on Becerra's 10 Be3?? with the best move. To be fair Dionisio had 4 times the time that Julio had. 10 ... g5 The best move if you eliminate the disgusting 10 ... Nh6 "Don't ever defend. Always attack" Scientology's attitude to criticism 11.hxg4 Unleashing the gates of Hell - Vance Aandahl, always first on rating lists 11 ... hxg4!! 12.Nh2! g3!! 13.Ng4! d6!! 14.fxg3? Bxg4!! 15.Qxg4! exd4!! 16.Bxc6+! bxc6! 17.Qe6+ The Fishing Pole has completely confused the IM as expected. In typical irrational Fishing Pole fashion the best move is to take the King for a walk WITHOUT trading Queens, 17 Kf2 is best but very scary looking in a blitz game. 17 ... Qe7! 18.Qxe7+! Kxe7! 19.Kf2! dxc3+! 20.Ke2 I didn't mind this ending so much - I am a piece down but - 1 - I have two pawns 2 - My King is ideally placed 3 - Aldama's Queenisde is frozen 4 - My peekaboo Bishop is active 5 - My Rooks are active 6 - His knight is a long way from his one outpost on f5 7 - It's a Fishing Pole, crazy, man, crazy 8 - His pieces look disoriented, homeless, dazed 9 - It's a blitz game 10 - I might be able to restrict his knight with my center pawns or trade them off. 20 ... Rh2! Fritz considers the moves 20 ... c2, ... cb or ... Rh2 all about the same, better for the IM 21.Nxc3 Rxg2+! Every pawn trade helps me draw 22.Kf3! Only good move. 23 ... Rc2 I liked being "in his face" like this 23.Nd1! Rh8! 24.Be3 Bxe3! 25.Kxe3! Rhh2! One of my very first rated games of Chess when I was 15 years old against Master Robert Wendling went like this - He sacced a piece to get two rooks on the 7th. I think I should have drawn but I lost. Bob told me he thought there was something radically wrong with his Chess to have such a tough fight with a 1500 player. When he saw me rise in the ranks and become Colorado Junior Champion 6-0 two years later, he said he felt much better about himself. " I was playing for a win" I said proudly "So was I" Wendling said humbly 26.Rb1 Dionisio was doing a good job holding onto his pawns but can he win with such passive pieces against my mobile pawn center? 26 ... Ke6 My King was already on the perfect square, 26 ... d5! was the way to improve 27.Kf3 d5!! 28.exd5+ Every pawn trade helps me draw. 28 ... cxd5! 29.Re1+! Kd6 29 ... Kf7!!= is better because f6 needs protection, my Queenside pawns are in no danger My King is safer on f7 and makes Aldama's King less safe. I wanted to roll up the board with my Queenside pawn wave. I thought my front line could protect me but I should have stayed in the pocket. 30.Kg4 d4!! Discouraging Ne3! 31.Kf5! After this I managed to pick up his g-pawn, advance my Queenside pawns and trade off all of his pawns plus a pair of rooks. After he won my last pawn we had Rook and Knight versus Rook. Aldama had 17 seconds plus a 5 second delay. After about 10 moves I asked if someone could count to 50 and someone started to. I played 25 safe moves. My one big mistake was I got caught up in his rhythm, I could have moved slowly and carefully, I had 2 or 3 minutes left. I never looked at my clock so I still don't know what I had. I continued in pyscho blitz mode as if I had no time too, then hung my rook. I inadvertently uttered the worst curse in the English language, then calmed down and shook hands because he played fairly well. I have very bad luck in those elementary endings likes Rook and Knight versus Rook, Rook and Bishop versus Rook, Rook versus Knight, Rook versus Bishop. I think I have lost them all at some point. 1-0 I resigned by cursing involuntarily and shaking his hand. I was happy with the game because I felt that I had earned a draw with my beloved Fishing Pole against a very strong player, I just made one stupid mistake and ruined everything. I got skewed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "2008 Florida Game/15 Championship" ] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.30" ] [Round "4"] [White "IM Dionisio Aldama"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2515"] [BlackElo "2227"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"] [ Time "10 AM"] [TimeControl "Game/12 minutes with 3 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Ng4 5.h3 h5 6.c3 a6 7.Ba4 Bc5 8.d4 Ba7 9.Bg5 f6 10.Bc1 g5 11.hxg4 hxg4 12.Nh2 g3 13.Ng4 d6 14.fxg3 Bxg4 15.Qxg4 exd4 16.Bxc6+ bxc6 17.Qe6+ Qe7 18.Qxe7+ Kxe7 19.Kf2 dxc3+ 20.Ke2 Rh2 21.Nxc3 Rxg2+ 22.Kf3 Rc2 23.Nd1 Rh8 24.Be3 Bxe3 25.Kxe3 Rhh2 26.Rb1 Ke6 27.Kf3 d5 28.exd5+ cxd5 29.Re1+ Kd6 30.Kg4 d4 31.Kf5 1-0 I resigned by cursing involuntarily and shaking his hand. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Section 1 - OPEN Section Date(s) 2008-08-30 thru 2008-09-01 Processed Received: 2008-09-02 Entered: 2008-09-02 Rated: 2008-09-02 Re-Rated: 2008-09-05 Stats 6 Rounds, 39 Players; K Factor: F Rating Sys: R Tnmt Type: S ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2008 Florida Open ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pair | Player Name |Total|Round|Round|Round|Round|Round|Round| Num | USCF ID / Rtg (Pre->Post) | Pts | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | JULIO J BECERRA |5.0 |W 28|W 9|D 7|W 5|D 2|W 6| FL | 12778049 / R: 2647 ->2645 | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 | RAY S ROBSON |5.0 |W 18|W 12|W 3|D 6|D 1|W 7| FL | 12847250 / R: 2467 ->2484 | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 | BRIAN D WALL |4.5 |W 34|W 14|L 2|W 16|D 8|W 11| CO | 10923344 / R: 2204 ->2227 | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 | ROBERTO SOCORREGUT |4.5 |W 29|L 6|W 14|D 24|W 22|W 10| FL | 12633000 / R: 2184 ->2203 | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 | LUCAS VAN BEUZEKOM |4.5 |W 27|W 36|W 10|L 1|W 24|D 8| FL | 12888503 / R: 1948 ->2060 | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 | DIONISIO ALDAMA |4.0 |W 33|W 4|W 8|D 2|D 7|L 1| AZ | 13557810 / R: 2517 ->2515 | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 | BLAS LUGO |4.0 |W 21|W 15|D 1|W 26|D 6|L 2| FL | 12647631 / R: 2367 ->2375 | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 | MARK RITTER |4.0 |W 37|W 16|L 6|W 9|D 3|D 5| FL | 10112044 / R: 2358 ->2353 | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 | TROY DALY |4.0 |W 23|L 1|W 38|L 8|W 16|W 12| FL | 12718783 / R: 2139 ->2159 | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 | JEFFREY HASKEL |3.5 |W 38|H 0|L 5|W 19|W 20|L 4| FL | 12744467 / R: 2238 ->2228 | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 | ERIC RODRIGUEZ |3.5 |L 20|W 25|W 33|D 12|W 17|L 3| FL | 12661900 / R: 2235 ->2224 | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 | GREGORY J KIMMEL |3.5 |W 35|L 2|W 37|D 11|W 26|L 9| FL | 12709076 / R: 2147 ->2149 | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 | CHARLES GREENE |3.5 |D 25|L 26|D 21|W 38|W 18|D 15| FL | 10703565 / R: 2096 ->2091 | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 | GORAN MARKOVIC |3.5 |B 0|L 3|L 4|W 33|D 15|W 26| FL | 12737367 / R: 1945 ->1962 | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Section 1 - US GAME 15 Section Date(s) 2008-08-31 Processed Received: 2008-08-31 Entered: 2008-08-31 Rated: 2008-08-31 Re-Rated: 2008-09-06 Stats 5 Rounds, 30 Players; K Factor: F Rating Sys: Q Tnmt Type: S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2008 Florida Game/15 Adam Miller is a kid that drew two Chessmasters, Wall and Ritter ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pair | Player Name |Total|Round|Round|Round|Round|Round| Num | USCF ID / Rtg (Pre->Post) | Pts | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | DIONISIO ALDAMA |4.5 |W 26|W 4|W 15|W 3|D 2| AZ | 13557810 / Q: 2425 ->2433 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 | JULIO J BECERRA |4.0 |W 12|W 11|D 8|W 5|D 1| FL | 12778049 / Q: 2526 ->2521 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 | BRIAN D WALL |4.0 |X 0|W 14|W 6|L 1|W 13| CO | 10923344 / Q: 2102 ->2118 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 | GORAN MARKOVIC |4.0 |W 22|L 1|W 28|W 10|W 8| FL | 12737367 / Q: 1935 ->1974 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 | ADAM R MILLER |4.0 |W 30|W 9|W 24|L 2|W 11| FL | 12825336 / Q: 1902 ->1937 | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2008 FLORIDA SPEED CHAMPIONSHI (200808293311) Location ST. PETERSBURG, FL 33716 USA Event Date(s) 2008-08-29 Sponsoring Affiliate ST PETERSBURG CHESS CLUB (A5006716) Chief TD JON HASKEL (12444802) Assist. TD ANDREW M SCHERMAN (12242070) Processed Received: 2008-09-02 Entered: 2008-09-02 Rated: 2008-09-02 Stats 1 Section(s), 31 Players The ratings shown on this page are not official published ratings and may change from time to time. Using them for pairing purposes in tournaments should only be done if this has been advertised in all advance publicity and is announced to all players at the tournament. Section 1 - ST08SPEED Section Date(s) 2008-08-29 Processed Received: 2008-09-02 Entered: 2008-09-02 Rated: 2008-09-02 Re-Rated: 2008-09-06 Stats 7 Rounds, 31 Players; K Factor: F Rating Sys: Q Tnmt Type: S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time handicap tournament, I got 7 minutes each game, others got more or less time depending on rating. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pair | Player Name |Total|Round|Round|Round|Round|Round|Round|Round| Num | USCF ID / Rtg (Pre->Post) | Pts | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | DIONISIO ALDAMA |6.5 |X 0|W 17|W 4|D 3|W 9|W 2|W 6| AZ | 13557810 / Q: 2409 ->2425 | | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 | RAY S ROBSON |6.0 |W 12|W 9|W 10|W 7|W 3|L 1|W 4| FL | 12847250 / Q: 2105 ->2160 | | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 | JULIO J BECERRA |5.5 |W 25|W 26|W 6|D 1|L 2|W 9|W 10| FL | 12778049 / Q: 2537 ->2526 | | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 | PERETZ MILLER |5.0 |W 22|W 31|L 1|W 19|W 14|W 10|L 2| FL | 10126142 / Q: 2155 ->2145 | | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 | ADAM R MILLER |5.0 |W 30|D 7|W 16|D 6|L 10|W 19|W 12| FL | 12825336 / Q: 1862 ->1902 | | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 | MARK RITTER |4.5 |W 13|W 18|L 3|D 5|W 15|W 7|L 1| FL | 10112044 / Q: 2339 ->2331 | | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 | BRIAN D WALL |4.5 |W 27|D 5|W 15|L 2|W 17|L 6|W 13| CO | 10923344 / Q: 2100 ->2102 | | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Sep 10 09:29:46 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:29:46 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] All Night Lock In Event - September 27th - Game/30 Laser Tag/Game 30 Message-ID: <1221060586.48c7e7ea345b6@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Lee Lahti ----- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:58:46 -0600 From: Lee Lahti Reply-To: Lee Lahti Subject: All Night Lock In Event - September 27th To: fort_collins_chess at yahoogroups.com We are trying to get enough participants to hold this event. Please consider playing in the most unique event on the Colorado/Wyoming chess calendar this year. It's not just a chess event - there is laser tag and video games as well! Some have already committed to play. Hopefully many others are planning to as well, but have just not sent in their entry fee yet. The early entry price for this all-night event is $40 and almost that entire amount is going to cover the cost to play and food. Any remaining money after the event costs are covered will be offered as prizes. This is more about having fun and getting together to do some things we don't normally do. We need 20 guarenteed players to hold the event. (Guarenteed means payment received in advance.) The number of players needs to be known in advance for the site to provide adequate staff and to order proper food levels for us. That is why there are no onsite entries. There is no danger in sending in advance registration. Full refunds will be given to all players if there are not enough entries received by 9/22 to hold the event. The early entry price has been extended to encourage participants to register. Please forward this to your local chess clubs, email lists, and anyone else who you think might be interested. For additional information about the All-Night Lock In, please contact me at lee.lahti at comcast.net or see the tournament listing at: http://www.colorado-chess.com/newtourn.shtml#415 I hope to see many of you on Saturday, September 27th! Thanks. Lee All Night Lock-In, September 27, 2008 7 round Swiss system tournament. Time Control: Game/30 Site: Fort Fun Entertainment Center, 1513 East Mulberry, Fort Collins, CO 80525. Directions: From I-25, take the Mulberry Exit (exit 269). Head West on Mulberry for approx. 3 miles. Fort Fun is on the left side. Turn into Fort Fun at the intersection of Link Lane & Mulberry. Open: Open to all players. Entry fee: $40 by 9/20, $50 by 9/25. Registration and payment in advance required. No on-site entry will be accepted. Prizes: Limited prizes, based on entries. Majority of the entry fee is going to food and facility costs. Round Times: Party room for chess tournament available begin at 5:00pm. Manditory player meeting at 5:45pm. First rounds starts at 6:00pm. Entries: Lee Lahti 2836 Sombrero Lane, Fort Collins, CO 80525 Phone: 970-372-8590 E-mail: lee.lahti at comcast.net Video Games and Laser Tag part of tournament as well. Schedule: First 4 Rounds of G/30 Chess Tournament beginning at 600pm. Players still needed for the event to happen! Video Games and Laser Tag rounds from 1030pm to 230am, followed by 3 more rounds of G/30 Chess Tournament. Event will be over about 600am. Snacks provided during early chess rounds. Pizza provided at midnight. Juice and donuts provided for breakfast during later chess rounds. Unlimited soda and water included in entry fee. No outside food or drink allowed. Concessions available until 230am for any other food or drinks players which to purchase on their own. A minimum of 20 players registered with paid entry by 9/22 is required for the All Night Lock-In to take place. A full refund will be given to players should the event be cancelled due to not enough participants. This is a Lock-In. Once Fort Fun closes for the night at 1000pm, players will be inside the building for the duration of the event. Anyone who leaves will not be allowed back in. Space for setting up sleeping bags is available. Due to the nature of this event, no players under 13 allowed. No players under 16 may participate without a parent/guardian also participating in the All-Night Lock-In. USCF Membership required. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080910/081c8d13/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Sep 10 11:26:00 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:26:00 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Joel Johnson responds to Fishing Pole versus IM Dionisio Aldama Message-ID: <1221067560.48c80328ce286@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:21:16 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: RE: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fishing Pole versus IM Dionisio Aldama To: Brian Wall Hi Brian, Dionisio plays at my club from time to time and lives in Phoenix. He and I play for the Arizona Scorpions also. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080910/88903d0d/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Sep 10 11:47:00 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:47:00 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Eddie Briones from Florida likes my emails Message-ID: <1221068820.48c80814e0303@www.taom.com> I may be the most prolific Chess writer in the world- check out 180 emails at www.Walverine.com or 4,000 messages at BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com I have no immediate plans to play in the IM Blas Lugo Miami Open. Brian Wall ------------------------------------------------------------- Eddie Briones eddiebriones at bellsouth.net ----- Forwarded message from eddiebriones at bellsouth.net ----- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:34:55 +0000 From: eddiebriones at bellsouth.net Reply-To: eddiebriones at bellsouth.net Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] Joel Johnson responds to Fishing Pole versusIM Dionisio Aldama To: Brian Wall Thanks a lot Brian for sending me these chess e mails ! I have played it on board and analyzed a few , hopefully I learn from them . Are you going to play in Miami ? I am so I'm kind of busy. Please keep sending me more games and once again , thanks. God bless you ! -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080910/6010d475/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Sep 10 16:33:21 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:33:21 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Andrew Scherman responds to Joel Johnson responds to Fishing Pole versus IM Dionisio Aldama Message-ID: <1221086001.48c84b310bbcd@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from "elprez_spcc at netzero.net" ----- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:25:22 GMT From: "elprez_spcc at netzero.net" Reply-To: "elprez_spcc at netzero.net" Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] Joel Johnson responds to Fishing Pole versus IM Dionisio Aldama To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com IM Aldama gave a Miami address and said he had recently moved to Florida. He played in the Southern Open and the Miami Masters prior to the state in Florida. both IM Blas Lugo (past pres. of the florida associaton) and GM Julio Becerra (defending and now current champion) vouched for him before it was certain that he would not take first. That was good enough for me. Andrew Scherman, FCA President 2008 Florida Championship chief organizer -- Brian Wall wrote: ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:21:16 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: RE: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fishing Pole versus IM Dionisio Aldama To: Brian Wall Hi Brian, Dionisio plays at my club from time to time and lives in Phoenix. He and I play for the Arizona Scorpions also. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Sep 10 23:07:37 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:07:37 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Chris Peterson - Two Knights Tango Message-ID: <1221109657.48c8a7994a304@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Chris Peterson ----- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:01:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Peterson Reply-To: garrensilverwing at yahoo.com Subject: tango To: Brian Wall a fun tango game with a nice rook sac ? [Event "ICC 10 10"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.09.11"] [Round "-"] [White "kokings"] [Black "Pious"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "2039"] [BlackElo "2112"] [Opening "Kevitz-Trajkovich defense"] [ECO "A50"] [NIC "QP.07"] [Time "00:27:01"] [TimeControl "600+10"] ? 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nc3 e5 4. d5 Ne7 5. e4 Ng6 6. h4 h5 7. Bg5 Bc5 8. Be2 d6 9. Bf3 a6 10. Nge2 Qe7 11. Ng3 Nf4 12. Qd2 Bd7 13. Bxf4 exf4 14. Qxf4 O-O-O 15. O-O Ng4 16. Nf5 Bxf5 17. Qxf5+ Kb8 18. Bxg4 hxg4 19. g3 Rxh4 20. gxh4 Qxh4 21. Rfe1 Qh3 22. Re3 Bxe3 23. fxe3 Qg3+ 24. Kf1 Rh8 25. Ke2 Rh2+ 26. Kd3 Qg2 27. c5 dxc5 28. Kc4 Qxb2 29. Rb1 b5+ {White forfeits on time} 0-1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080910/66a3304e/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Sep 10 23:09:40 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:09:40 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] New Northeast Denver Chess Club Message-ID: <1221109780.48c8a8141a477@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Chris Peterson ----- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:05:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Peterson Reply-To: garrensilverwing at yahoo.com Subject: Northeast Denver Chess Club To: Brian Wall brian here is some info on the new chess club thats opening on the 2nd of october, could use some celebrities such as yourself to come haha ? Northeast Denver Chess Club 3033206716 ? Mondays & Thursdays 2575 Vine Street, Denver CO, 80207 4pm-8pm ? Blitz Tournaments!!!! Advanced Chess Classes!!!! ? Moderated by J.C. McNeil ? Grand Opening Thursday October 2nd, 2008 with refreshments ? ? Sponsered by Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church & Chaturanga -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080910/702b6ff1/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Sep 11 00:20:53 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:20:53 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Lucas Van Beuzekom Message-ID: <1221114053.48c8b8c5d1d9a@www.taom.com> Lucas Van Beuzekom. I know. It sounds like Dracula's cousin. I am not very good at predicting ages but there is another kid in Florida who impressed me. After the IM tag team Blas Lugo, Dionisio Aldama in the Game/15 I was in no mood to fool around. I outplayed Lucas Van Beuzekom positonally, tactically and on the clock but there was something about him I liked. His father watched in a friendly way and I wanted to say after the game, "Your son has a tactical gift but he needs to be more thorough." The game lasted pretty long. In the slow event Lucas tied with Roberto Socorregut and I for third a half point behind GM Becerra and IM Robson and a half point ahead of Troy Daly, FM Mark Ritter, IM Blas Lugo and new Floridian IM Aldama. Mark Ritter was friendly, he seemed like Father Chess, many players were his students plus his wife is an avid player. Mark got my attention by beating me smoothly in the Game/29, then we had a solid draw in the slow event. I think both games went 1 e4 g6 2 d4 Bg7 First one went 3 Nc3 d5 4 e5 and then 2 days later I tried 3 Nf3 d6 Mark looked like he used to lift weights, sort of like Dean Ippolito will look 15 years from now plus a little Burl Ives thrown in for good measure. Mark told me he used to be on my email list. In the last round of the Florida Open, while I was outfoxing Eric Rodriguez, next to me Lucas Van Beuzekom (he became an expert for the first time in the last round of the Florida Open) and Mark Ritter ( ex 2460 ) fought a battle royal. Mark told me every time he was just about to equalize, Lucas found yet another creative ways to give him problems. I call this the HB Minnesota effect, where I was always half a tempo away from equality like an elusive butterfly. I felt that Lucas had somehow heard and applied my silent admonition. It's been 36 years since I rose 100 points in one Chess Tournament like Lucas did in the 2008 Florida Open. It's always a sad thing to me when a student hits a rating ceiling for a while. IM Martz mentioned "The Law of Diminishing Returns" sadly to me the year he died. Lucas looked 15 to me but he has already played in 133 rated events. [Event "2008 Florida Game/15"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.31"] [Round "5"] [White "Brian Wall"] [Black "Lucas Van Beuzekom"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2203"] [BlackElo "2060"] [Opening "Sicilian Defense, Bowlder Attack, Fischer Attack, Sozin Attack"] [Time "Noon"] [TimeControl "Game/12 minutes, 3 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 2008 Florida Game/15 Championship Game/12 plus 3 second delay Saint Petersburg, Florida Hotel- Half Radisson, half Mariott Board 3 Round 5 8-31-08 Opening- Bowlder Attack White - Brian Wall 2227 Black - Lucas Van Beuzekom 2060 and Father Unknown 1.e4 c5 2.Bc4 d6 3.Nc3 Nf6! 4.Nf3! e6! 5.d4! cxd4! 6.Nxd4! Be7! 7.Bb3 a6 8.f4! Nc6 9.Be3! Qc7! 10.0-0! 0-0! Popular position played 490 times, from Tal as Black in the year I was born, 1955 to Stellwagen as White, 2007 11.f5! 208 times. My old college age friend Robert O'Donell had this position as Black in 1994. His brother drives a Denver bus now - I got on it. Everything is connected- Belle's Theorem 11 ... e5 33 games, all before 1997 11 ... Kh8! played twice - the idea is 12 fe N:d4 13 ef?? ( not check ) N:b3 14 cb 11 ... N:d4 played 168 times 11 ... e5 tried 33 times 11 ... d5 tried twice 11 ... ef tried twice 11 ... Nd8 never tried 11 ... Na5 tried twice 11 ... Qb6 occurred 8 times by transposition but it was Black to move and he won 7/8 games 12.Nde2! 23 games 12 Nf3 played 5 times 12 N:c6? played 4 times 12 Ne6!? played once in a correspondence game, that takes courage. 12 Ne6!? fe 13 fe Qd8! 14 Rf5 Kh8 might be an improvement on the 13 ... Rb8 14 Nd5 played 12 ... b5 12 games 12 ... Na5 played 8 times, including Sharapov who sounds like he must be good 12 ... Bd7! played twice 12 ... b5 played 12 times 13.Bg5? TL Theoretical Lemon by Brian Wall This occurred once before but White played Bg5 in one move instead of two, it was his move and 13 B:f6 B:f6 14 Nd5 was crushing. The move is logical, take on f6 followed by Nd5. This move gave me nightmares. Literally. I fell asleep while writing this and when I woke up I couldn't figure out what to do on the Fishing Pole Attack 13 ... Ng4!!. I tossed and turned and the knight kept coming to f2 and e3. The best defense to 13 Bg5? Ng4!! is 14 Ng3! Qa7+ 15 Kh1 N:h2! I didn't see that square in my nightmares 16 K:h2 B:g5 17 Nd5! or Qh5! with good compensation for the pawn. Going back, instead of the time consuming 13 Bg5 I have better moves like 13 Nd5 played twice 13 Rf3 never played 13 Qe1 never played 13 a4 never played 13 Bf2 never played 13 a3 played twice 13 Ng3 played 8 times I was going for absolute control of d5. During the game I had the feeling that Ng3-h5 was a better way to get in Nd5 13 ... Qb6+? TL Theoretical Lemon by Lucas Van Beuzekom 13 ... Ng4!! 14 Ng3! or 13 ... b4!! 13 B:f6! bc! 14 B:e7! cb! 15 B:f8! ba(Q) 16 Q:a1 K:f8 are the two best ways to try and interfere with my plans but I still have the advantage 14.Kh1! Ng4? Ill-timed now - notice class players routinely play the right moves in the wrong order. It's like they have a special gift for that. They are better off spinning a Pat Sajak move wheel. 13 ... Ng4!! 14 Ng3 Qa7+ was correct 13 ... Qb6+? 14 Kh1 Ng4?? is disastrous It's game over now. I get two pieces for a rook. 15.Nd5!! Qa7 16.Nxe7+! Nxe7! 17.Qxd6 The only better idea is 17 Move the e2-knight to pressure the g4-knight while Beuzekom's Queen has to guard e7. 17 ... Nxf5! Unexpected but best. 18.exf5! Nf2+! 19.Rxf2! Qxf2! 20.Bd5 20 Ng3!! is righteous 20 ... Ra7 21.Qxe5 Rd7 22.Bf3 22 Nf4!! is Googleicious 22 ... f6! 23.Qe3 Forcing a winning ending. 23 Qe6+ Kh8 24 Be3 is great too 23 ... Qxe3! 24.Bxe3! Rc7 25.Nd4!! Controls everything 25 ... Re8! 26.Bf2 Rc4 27.c3? almost as good as 27 Bd5+!! which we both immediately saw 27 ... Re5 28.g4? Missing a second to win the exchange with 28 Bg3!! 28 ... a5 29.a3 Kf8 30.Bg3 Re3 31.Kg2? missing a third chance to win the exchange with 31 Bd5!! 31 ... Bd7 32.Bf4!! Rd3! 33.Bd6+ 33 Bd5+ is a fourth chance to win the exchange because 33 ... Rcc8 34 Re1!! doesn't help Black 33 ... Ke8 34.Re1+! Kd8! 35.Re7 I win easily after 35 Re7 R-either:d4 36 cd R:d4 37 Bc5 Rc4 38 b4 R:c5 39 R:d7+ K:d7 40 bc b4 41 ab ab 42 Bd5 35 ... b4 36.axb4! axb4! 37.Rxg7! bxc3! 38.bxc3! Rcxc3! 39.Rg8+ Winning an extra piece. 39 Be7+ Ke8 40 B:f6 is another smug, snug way to go 39 ... Be8! 40.Ne6+ Winning an extra piece. 40 Bb4!! is distressing for Van Beuzekom 40 ... Kd7! 41.Nc5+! Kxd6! 42.Nxd3! Bd7 43.Nf4 My extra piece heads for the next victim on f6 43 ... Ke5 44.Nh5 Rc2+! 45.Kg3! Rc3! 46.Kf2! The 46 .. Bc6! threat is annoying in a blitz game 46 ... Rc2+! 47.Ke1 Kd4 48.Rg7 Bb5! 49.Re7 Rxh2! 50.Nxf6! Ra2 51.Nxh7! Ra1+ 52.Kf2! Ra2+ 53.Kg3! f6, g5, Kf4 looks like real progress soosn. 1-0 Lucas lost Resigned with 11 seconds left to my 59 I usually don't like one sided crushes but I thought Lucas played pretty well. He obviously has a great future in Chess. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "2008 Florida Game/15"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.31"] [Round "5"] [White "Brian Wall"] [Black "Lucas Van Beuzekom"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2203"] [BlackElo "2060"] [Opening "Sicilian Defense, Bowlder Attack, Fischer Attack, Sozin Attack"] [Time "Noon"] [TimeControl "Game/12 minutes, 3 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 c5 2.Bc4 d6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.d4 cxd4 6.Nxd4 Be7 7.Bb3 a6 8.f4 Nc6 9.Be3 Qc7 10.0-0 0-0 11.f5 e5 12.Nde2 b5 13.Bg5 Qb6+ 14.Kh1 Ng4 15.Nd5 Qa7 16.Nxe7+ Nxe7 17.Qxd6 Nxf5 18.exf5 Nf2+ 19.Rxf2 Qxf2 20.Bd5 Ra7 21.Qxe5 Rd7 22.Bf3 f6 23.Qe3 Qxe3 24.Bxe3 Rc7 25.Nd4 Re8 26.Bf2 Rc4 27.c3 Re5 28.g4 a5 29.a3 Kf8 30.Bg3 Re3 31.Kg2 Bd7 32.Bf4 Rd3 33.Bd6+ Ke8 34.Re1+ Kd8 35.Re7 b4 36.axb4 axb4 37.Rxg7 bxc3 38.bxc3 Rcxc3 39.Rg8+ Be8 40.Ne6+ Kd7 41.Nc5+ Kxd6 42.Nxd3 Bd7 43.Nf4 Ke5 44.Nh5 Rc2+ 45.Kg3 Rc3 46.Kf2 Rc2+ 47.Ke1 Kd4 48.Rg7 Bb5 49.Re7 Rxh2 50.Nxf6 Ra2 51.Nxh7 Ra1+ 52.Kf2 Ra2+ 53.Kg3 1-0 Lucas lost Resigned with 11 seconds left to my 59 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Candidates Tournament"] [Site "Bled/Zagreb/Belgrade"] [Date "1959.09.07"] [Round "21"] [White "Fischer,Robert James"] [Black "Smyslov,Vassily"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "B87"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bc4 Be7 7.0-0 a6 8.Bb3 b5 9.f4 0-0 10.f5 b4 11.Nce2 e5 12.Nf3 Bb7 13.Ng3 Nxe4 14.Nxe4 Bxe4 15.Qe1 Bxf3 16.Rxf3 Nc6 17.Qe4 Nd4 18.Rh3 Bf6 19.Bd5 Rc8 20.c3 bxc3 21.bxc3 Nb5 22.Bd2 Rc5 23.Kh1 Qd7 24.Bb3 d5 25.Qf3 Nd6 26.Rf1 Ne4 27.Qh5 h6 28.Bxh6 gxh6 29.Bc2 Bg5 30.f6 Rb8 31.Bxe4 dxe4 32.Rg3 Qf5 33.Kg1 Qg6 34.Qe2 Rc6 35.h4 Rxf6 36.Rxf6 Qxf6 37.Qh5 Qf4 38.Kh2 Kg7 39.hxg5 hxg5 40.Qxg5+ Qxg5 41.Rxg5+ Kf6 42.Rh5 Rb1 43.Kg3 Rf1 44.Rh4 Kf5 45.Rh5+ Ke6 46.Rh6+ f6 47.Rh4 e3 48.Re4 f5 0-1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICCF-Cup6/7 sf17 corr"] [Site "ICCF corr"] [Date "1990.??.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Fomin,Vladimir Aleksander"] [Black "Slavik,Miroslav"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B86"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Bb3 Be7 8.0-0 Qc7 9.f4 0-0 10.f5 e5 11.Nde2 Nc6 12.Bg5 b5 13.Bxf6 Bxf6 14.Nd5 Qd8 15.Ng3 Nd4 16.Nxf6+ Qxf6 17.Bd5 Bd7 18.Bxa8 Rxa8 19.c3 Nc6 20.Nh5 Qh6 21.f6 g6 22.Qxd6 Qe3+ 23.Kh1 Rd8 24.Rae1 Qg5 25.Ng3 h5 26.Qc5 h4 27.Ne2 Rc8 28.Qf2 Be6 29.b3 a5 30.Ng1 a4 31.Qb2 axb3 32.axb3 Na5 33.Nf3 Qh5 34.Qe2 Nxb3 35.Qxb5 Bc4 36.Qb7 Be6 37.h3 Nc5 38.Qe7 Kh7 39.Kh2 Kh6 40.Rd1 Nxe4 41.Rd8 Rxd8 42.Qxd8 Kh7 43.Qc7 Ng3 44.Re1 e4 45.Nd4 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "RSFSR-LAT"] [Site "Riga"] [Date "1955.??.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Moiseev,Oleg"] [Black "Tal,Mihail"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "B88"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bc4 e6 7.0-0 Be7 8.Be3 0-0 9.Bb3 a6 10.f4 Qc7 11.Qf3 Bd7 12.h3 b5 13.a3 Nxd4 14.Bxd4 Bc6 15.f5 e5 16.Bf2 a5 17.Bh4 b4 18.Bxf6 Bxf6 19.Nd5 Bxd5 20.Bxd5 Rac8 21.axb4 Qb6+ 22.Kh1 Qxb4 1/2 ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Chicago Int 3rd"] [Site "Chicago"] [Date "1994.04.20"] [Round "3"] [White "Ash,Robert"] [Black "O'Donnell,Robert"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "B88"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Be3 Be7 8.Bb3 a6 9.0-0 0-0 10.f4 Qc7 11.f5 Nxd4 12.Bxd4 b5 13.fxe6 fxe6 14.Qe2 Kh8 15.e5 dxe5 16.Bxe5 Qc5+ 17.Kh1 b4 18.Na4 Qc6 19.c3 a5 20.Qf3 Qxf3 21.Rxf3 Bb7 22.Rff1 Ng4 23.Bd4 e5 24.Bc5 Bxc5 25.Nxc5 Bc6 26.Ne6 Rxf1+ 27.Rxf1 a4 28.Bd1 Ne3 29.Rg1 bxc3 30.bxc3 Nxg2 31.Rxg2 Rb8 32.Kg1 Bxg2 33.Kxg2 Rb2+ 34.Kg3 Rxa2 35.Nc5 a3 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Paks Atom Cup GM 4th"] [Site "Paks"] [Date "1999.09.21"] [Round "5"] [White "Rogic,Davor"] [Black "Videki,Sandor"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "B88"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Be3 a6 8.Bb3 Qc7 9.0-0 Be7 10.f4 0-0 11.f5 Nxd4 12.Bxd4 b5 13.fxe6 Bxe6 14.Nd5 Bxd5 15.exd5 Nd7 16.c3 Bf6 17.Be3 Rfe8 18.Qf3 Re7 19.Rae1 Rae8 20.Bf2 Rxe1 21.Rxe1 Rxe1+ 22.Bxe1 Ne5 23.Qe4 Bg5 24.Bd1 g6 25.Bf2 f5 26.Qd4 Bf6 27.Qd2 Qc4 28.b3 Qd3 29.Be3 Qb1 30.Qc2 Qa1 31.h3 Nd7 32.Bf4 Nc5 33.Bxd6 Ne4 34.Bb4 Bxc3 35.Bxc3 Qxc3 36.Qxc3 Nxc3 37.Bf3 Kf7 38.a3 Kf6 39.b4 Ke5 40.d6 Kxd6 41.Kf2 Nb1 42.Bb7 Nxa3 43.Bxa6 Kc6 44.Kf3 Nc2 45.g4 fxg4+ 46.Kxg4 h6 47.Kf4 Nxb4 48.Bxb5+ Kxb5 49.Ke5 Nd3+ 50.Kf6 Nf4 51.Kg7 h5 52.Kh6 Kc4 53.Kg5 Ng2 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "corr"] [Site "corr"] [Date "1998.??.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Kemmler,Michael"] [Black "Lukas,Maritta"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "B88"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Bb3 Nc6 8.Be3 Be7 9.f4 0-0 10.0-0 Qc7 11.f5 e5 12.Ne6 fxe6 13.fxe6 Rb8 14.g4 Na5 15.Nd5 Nxd5 16.Rxf8+ Kxf8 17.Bxd5 Kg8 18.Qf3 Qd8 19.Qf7+ Kh8 20.Rf1 Nc6 21.g5 Bxe6 1/2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - 2008 Florida Open ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - Pair | Player Name |Total|Round| Round|Round| Round|Round| Round| Num | USCF ID / Rtg (Pre->Post) | Pts | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - 1 | JULIO J BECERRA |5.0 |W 28|W 9|D 7|W 5|D 2|W 6| FL | 12778049 / R: 2647 ->2645 | | | | | | | | ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - 2 | RAY S ROBSON |5.0 |W 18|W 12|W 3|D 6|D 1|W 7| FL | 12847250 / R: 2467 ->2484 | | | | | | | | ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - 3 | BRIAN D WALL |4.5 |W 34|W 14|L 2|W 16|D 8|W 11| CO | 10923344 / R: 2204 ->2227 | | | | | | | | ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - 4 | ROBERTO SOCORREGUT |4.5 |W 29|L 6|W 14|D 24|W 22|W 10| FL | 12633000 / R: 2184 ->2203 | | | | | | | | ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - 5 | LUCAS VAN BEUZEKOM |4.5 |W 27|W 36|W 10|L 1|W 24|D 8| FL | 12888503 / R: 1948 ->2060 | | | | | | | | ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - 6 | DIONISIO ALDAMA |4.0 |W 33|W 4|W 8|D 2|D 7|L 1| AZ | 13557810 / R: 2517 ->2515 | | | | | | | | ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - 7 | BLAS LUGO |4.0 |W 21|W 15|D 1|W 26|D 6|L 2| FL | 12647631 / R: 2367 ->2375 | | | | | | | | ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - 8 | MARK RITTER |4.0 |W 37|W 16|L 6|W 9|D 3|D 5| FL | 10112044 / R: 2358 ->2353 | | | | | | | | ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - 9 | TROY DALY |4.0 |W 23|L 1|W 38|L 8|W 16|W 12| FL | 12718783 / R: 2139 ->2159 | | | | | | | From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Sep 11 17:54:03 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:54:03 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Hurricane Ike blows away 20% of IM Blas Lugo's prize fund -Dennis Monokroussos: The politics of "guaranteed" prize funds Message-ID: <1221177243.48c9af9bf1d11@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Email subscription to blog articles ----- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:25:49 -0400 From: Email subscription to blog articles Reply-To: historicchess at comcast.net, chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Subject: [chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: The politics of "guaranteed" prize funds To: chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com Posted by Dennis Monokroussos: The politics of "guaranteed" prize funds http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1221171946.shtml The organizers of the upcoming Miami Open decided to guarantee 70% of the prize fund when they only needed to guarantee 50%. Why? To draw in a bigger crowd, of course, and there's nothing wrong with that - so long as they organizers hold fast to that promise. What's the problem? Hurricane Ike, which isn't expected to blow the participants to Disney World but could very easily put a crimp in people's travel plans. The organizers are therefore backpedaling on their promise: "The possibility exist [sic] that we may only pay 50% of the Prize Fund instead of the guaranteed amount of 70%." You can read organizer (and IM) Blas Lugo's full statement [1]here, along with a number of comments. I'm inclined to think Lugo's request/statement is fine, as long as all the affected players are informed in advance and given the chance to withdraw without penalty (a point made by others on the linked site). I think Lugo's position is reasonable and that it's not much of a problem, given the rarity of hurricanes interfering with large chess tournaments, but if any of you disagree I'm sure you'll let me know! HT: Harris Nizel References 1. http://main.uschess.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7942&st=0&sk=t&sd=a _______________________________________________ chessmind mailing list chessmind at lists.powerblogs.com http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chessmind From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Sep 12 01:56:06 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:56:06 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Cubans have fixed Florida Chess Message-ID: <1221206166.48ca20968333c@www.taom.com> In the penultimate 5th round of the Florida Open the cream had risen to the top - I played FM Mark Ritter who was 20 points higher than my best ever rating - Mark was 2355 down from his best of about 2460 ( or 2480 I forget ). His rating plus his Game/29 victory over me scared me plus I was Black. The position started out lively but petered out to a kind of dead middle game with symmetrical 3 pawns each on the Kingside and Queenside, equal development and no center pawns or pawn breaks for either side. I proposed a draw and he accepted, laughing, saying if "they could do it, so could we". "They" meant IM buddies Dionisio Aldama and Blas Lugo who drew so quickly I did not even see them sit down. Brave little 13 year old IM Ray Robson ( 2484 ) drew a very hard fought game with GM Julio Becerra. In the final round Little Ray on Board 2 was surrounded by the Cuban Drug Cartel on Boards 1 and 2. IM Ray Robson's position looked roughly even against IM Blas Lugo but the position was fullbodied, Ray was thinking up a storm, Blas was in time pressure and I guess Super Ray got him somehow. Everyone on Board 1 and 2 had 4 points so now Ray had 5/6. A draw on Board 2 gives Ray clear first. The IM Aldama/ GM Becerra game was very strange - Aldama was completely killing Becerra for a long time. They seemed lackadaisical, as if the game was a joke somehow. After some strange moves by Aldama then Becerra was winning. Then the blunderfest resolved into a dead drawn ending. At that point they were not even moving, they were just waiting to see what the result of the Robson-Lugo game was so they could figure out what to do in their own. After Blas blew it, Aldama played one move in his dead drawn ending and resigned, the most blatant tossing of a game I've ever seen. I guess they were in a hurry to get their money before Hurricane Gustav hit. If you don't believe me, here's the signed scoresheet they left behind in mutual disgust. I suppose the challenge makes Ray stronger but Bobby Fischer in his day called them as he saw it and his death doesn't stop me from doing the same. I could be dead wrong. I will let you be the judge. Maybe someone can straighten me out on all this. [Event "2008 Florida Open"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.09.01"] [Round "6"] [White "IM Dionisio Aldama"] [Black "GM Julio Becerra"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2515"] [BlackElo "2645"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez, Open Defense"] [Time "2 PM"] [TimeControl "Game/155 minutes, 5 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3! Nc6 3.Bb5 a6! 4.Ba4! Nf6! 5.0-0! Nxe4 The Open Defense, one of my very first defenses 36 years ago. 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3! d5! 8.dxe5! I had a game with 8 N:e5 against Jesse Sutherland 36 years ago. 8 ... Be6! The great Cuban Capablanca scored 8 1/2 out of 11 as White here, including two wins against Corzo in 1913 and a draw against World Champion Lasker in 1914. Capa played 9 a4 the first time, Nbd2 twice and c3 every other time. 9.Be3 Be7! 10.Nbd2!! Nc5 11.c3 played 46 times 11 Ng5!! was played 4 times, including one game with GM Kaidanov as Black who was Ray Robson's teacher after Andrew Scherman, 2008 Florida Open TD. 11 Re1 played 4 times 11 Nd4 played 6 times 11 c3 played 46 times 11 B:c5 played 15 times 11 Qe2 played 8 times 11 Bd4 played 5 times 11 Rc1 played once 11 Nb1 never played 11 h3 played once 11 Qc1 never played 11 a4 played once 11 ... Nd7 Played once before 11 ... N:b3! played 3 times 11 ... Nd3 played 21 times, once by Anand in 1987 when he was in diapers 11 ... 0-0 played 76 times, including a 1946 game with Larry Evans, White against Edgar McCormick. Edgar played the most surprising move ever against me. 11 ... Qd7 played 16 times with Hort as Black and Horvath, Hulak, Grischuk, Kamsky and Dave Wallace's ex-protege, Braden Bournival, as White 11 ... Bg4 played 7 times 11 ... Rc8 never played 11 ... Bf5 played once 11 ... Rb8 never played 11 ... h6 played once 11 ... Na4 never played 11 ... h5 never played 11 ... Qc8 never played 11 ... Nd7 played once 12.Re1 TN Theoretical Novelty by IM Dionisio Aldama The Cubans seemed well versed in the Ruy Lopez, maybe because of Capablanca. They all play it. 12 Nd4!! never played 12 Bf4! played once 12 Re1! never played before today 12 Bc2 never played 12 Bd4 never played 12 a4 never played 12 12 ... Ncxe5!! A good move, GM Becerra has equalized. 13.Nxe5! Nxe5! 14.Bd4! Nc6??? A move unworthy of a 1645, let alone a 2645. 14 ... Nd3!! or ... Ng6! are about equal. The first sign that neither player is taking the game seriously. They are playing Game/12 moves, not Game/2 hour moves. 15.Bxg7!! Rg8! 16.Qh5!! Devastating. How is it possible for a 2515 player to lose this position without his cell phone ringing? I would suggest a one year refund of their USCF memberships, a time penalty each game henceforth equal to the entire duration of the Round 5 Blas Lugo-Dionisio Aldama draw ( 2 minutes ) and a scarlet C tattooed on their foreheads. I would like this game annulled and IM Ray Robson declared the true 2008 Florida Champion. Not convinced yet? Fine, just wait, I have lots more proof. Keep going. I was watching this part and wondered why Julio didn't look in the least concerned. Are GMs just supercool about their Kings in the center of the board? I envied his sangfroid. 16 ... Kd7!! 17.Bxd5!! Rxg7!! 18.Qf3!! Rb8 18 ... B:d5! 19 Q:d5! Bd6? is no good due to 20 Ne4!! or just 20 Qf5 checkmate 18 ... Nd4 19 cd B:d5 20 Q:d5+ Ke8 is another sick position only Becerra could save. 19.Bxc6+!! Kc8!! 20.Ne4 A good move for a blitz game. 20 Rad1!!, Nb3!!, Nf1!!, g3!! are crushing moves worthy of a slow tournament game in the last round for all the money. How White lost this is a mystery even greater than the success of the Conan O'Brien Show. 20 ... Bg4! 21.Qe3! Rb6! 22.Ng3! f5!? Guarding the e7-Bishop 23.Qe5 Another good move for a blitz dog and pony show. 23 Bf3!!, h3!! or Qh6!! are good tournament moves. One sample - 23 h3!! B:h3 24 Rad1 Bd6 25 Qe8!! or Nh5!! are very strong GM Becerra has the two bisops as compensation for his one pawn loss. 23 ... Qf8! I must admit the GM finds a lot of best moves in a difficult situation. 24.Bd5 24 a4!!! R:c6 25 ab!!! Rb6! 26 ba!! Kb8 27 a7+!! Ka8! 28 Q:c7!! removes all the Becerraguards 24 a4!!! f4 25 ab!! or 24 a4!!! b4 25 Qe6+!! or Bd5!! are all powerful for Dionisio. 24 ... f4!? This seemed to totally confuse Aldama in this simulated blitz game. 25.f3???????? Unworthy of a 1515 Class C player, let alone a 2515 IM 25 Nh5!! is a comfortable win 25 ... Bh3???????? The sick joke continues. They would have gotten away with this Latin fiasco if they had not made the mistake of leaving the evidence at the scene of the crime. This game is clearly unworthy to decide a state title. Now Becerra is losing again while against anyone else on any other day he would have crushed White with 25 ... Bc5+!! 26 Kh1 Re7!! 27 Qg5 Rg6!! 28 Qh4 fg!! 29 fg R:e1+!! 30 R:e1 Rf6!! 31 hg Rf1+!! 32 R:f1+ Q:f1+! 33 Kh2 Qg1+ 34 Kh3 Qh1 is a picturesque checkmate This is not the only variation, just the prettiest. This would be an excellent tactical quiz for Greg Shahade's Chess Life Online Chess League quiz if these two rascals are allowed to continue to represent Florida and Arizona's finest. Other lines - 25 ... Bc5+!! 26 Kh1 Re7!! 27 Qg5 Rg6!! 28 Qh4 fg!! 29 Q:g3 Bd7, for example, leaves Becerra up a piece with an attack 25 ... Bc5+!! 26 Kh1 Re7!! 27 Qg5 Rg6!! 28 Qh4 fg!! 29 R:e7 B:e7 30 Q:g3 Bd7, for example, leaves Becerra up a piece with an attack 25 ... Bc5+!! 26 Kh1 Re7!! 27 Qg5 Rg6!! 28 Qh4 R:e1+!! 29 R:e1 fg!! is an alternate win where 30 fg Rf6!! transposes into the pretty checkmate line 25 ... Bc5+!! 26 Kh1 Re7!! 27 B:b7+ K:b7 28 Q:c5???? R:e1+ 29 R:e1 Q:c5 So 25 ... Bc5+!! is much better than the Topalov-Shirovian 25 ... Bh3 and Julio had some in between moves, 25 ... Bd6!!, ... fg!, ... Rh6! and ... B:f3 Does look like GM/IM concentration level to you? 26.gxh3!! fxg3 Dionisio is winning but I admit it's murky after 26 ... Rh6!!!, ... fg!! or ... Bc5+! 27.Rad1?? They are not doing a convincing acting job of keeping it real. 27 hg!! straightens out the pawns unless Julio wants to risk trading Queens after 27 ... Bh4 28 Qe8+ 27 ... Bc5+!! 28.Kg2!! gxh2+!! 29.Kxh2???? Ray was too busy beating IM Blas Lugo to notice what was going on right next to him. 29 Kh1 ain't too hot but at least his bishop can help on defense after 29 ... Rh6+ 30 Be6+ Kb8 31 Bg4 29 ... Qd6????????? More insults to our intelligence, like little boys who want to be caught. 29 ... Bd6!! 30 Be6+ Kb7 31 R:d6 R:d6 wins a clean exchange. 30.Be6+ I need Dr. Mikhail Ponomarev at this point to run around crying "Shame, shame!! as is his wont. There was no need to lose the exchange after 30 f4!! or 30 Q:d6 30 ... Kb8 31. Qxd6!! Aldama is also up a pawn after 31 f4! 31 ... Bxd6+ 32.Rxd6?????? No reason at all to give up the exchange here unless Dionisio lost the pre-game coin flip. 32 Kh1!! leaves IM Aldama comfortably up a pawn in an opposite colored bishop ending 32 ... cxd6?? I take that back. Maybe they hadn't flipped that coin yet. 32 ... R:d6!! activates the Grandmaster's rook with an easy win. Maybe they just like the catbird's seat next to Blas too much to give it up just yet. Strangest Chess game I've ever seen, if that's what this is. 33.Bd5 33 f4-f5 seems equal although it looks sinisterly, eerily and sickeningly like the position I lost to Grandmaster Dashzeveg Sharavdorj in the second Denver, CO Levy Memorial Super-Tournament in a Laufer-g5 KID after being up two pawns for nothing. He laughed at my stranded f5-pawn and e6-bishop comic duo and attacked my King with two rooks versus one. Ouch. Painful memory. Population. Me. 33 ... b4 34.c4! I would expect Dionisio to hold this against Karpov normally. 34 ... Kc7! 35.f4! Rb8! 36.f5! Rf8! 37.Be6! Rf6 38.Re3!! A good move to start eliminating Queenside pawns. 38 ... Kc6! 39.a3!! The Hoovering Process begins. They cynically alternate between best moves and howlers to mock us. 39 ... a5! 40.Rd3! Re7 41.Kg3! Rfxe6 42.fxe6! Rxe6! 43.axb4! axb4! 44.b3! Re2 45.Kf3! Rc2! 46.Ke4! Rc1 At this point Grandmaster Julio Becerra and IM Dionisio Aldama had a dilemma. The position has been a dead draw for 9 moves now. A three digit player could draw Kasparov here. They were too ashamed to even move and just sat and watched in horror as their compatriot lost to the young genius. After that Dionisio simply played one more move and resigned! 47.h4 0-1 White "resigned" Then they held hands and skipped merrily to TD Andrew Scherman to rob his student, 13 year old IM Ray Robson of his hard won and honesty earned 2008 First Place Florida Open Trophy. They were so ecstatic their scheme worked they forgot to put their game in the trash. No wonder we issue scoresheets with carbons in Denver, CO. J'Accuse. This is what I get for choosing Pete Short as a role model. This is the harshest email I've ever written but seeing the purity of barely teenager Ray Robson surrounded by wolves like Pinocchio on his way to school makes me want to protect him. Someone took a picture of me playing Ray in Round 3 and I made it my screensaver. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "2008 Florida Open"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.09.01"] [Round "6"] [White "IM Dionisio Aldama"] [Black "GM Julio Becerra"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2515"] [BlackElo "2645"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez, Open Defense"] [Time "2 PM"] [TimeControl "Game/155 minutes, 5 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.Be3 Be7 10.Nbd2 Nc5 11.c3 Nd7 12.Re1 Ncxe5 13.Nxe5 Nxe5 14.Bd4 Nc6 15.Bxg7 Rg8 16.Qh5 Kd7 17.Bxd5 Rxg7 18.Qf3 Rb8 19.Bxc6+ Kc8 20.Ne4 Bg4 21.Qe3 Rb6 22.Ng3 f5 23.Qe5 Qf8 24.Bd5 f4 25.f3 Bh3 26.gxh3 fxg3 27.Rad1 Bc5+ 28.Kg2 gxh2+ 29.Kxh2 Qd6 30.Be6+ Kb8 31.Qxd6 Bxd6+ 32.Rxd6 cxd6 33.Bd5 b4 34.c4 Kc7 35.f4 Rb8 36.f5 Rf8 37.Be6 Rf6 38.Re3 Kc6 39.a3 a5 40.Rd3 Re7 41.Kg3 Rfxe6 42.fxe6 Rxe6 43.axb4 axb4 44.b3 Re2 45.Kf3 Rc2 46.Ke4 Rc1 47.h4 0-1 White "resigned" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the first election I've ever been undecided about this long. I think I could have made my choice two years before the event on any other Presidential election in my lifetime. 15% of Americans are having the same problem, still undecided. Here is Matt Damon comparing the possibility of Sarah Palin as President to a Disney movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anxkrm9uEJk -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "BCF-chT2 9899 (4NCL)"] [Site "England"] [Date "1998.10.??"] [Round "8"] [White "Toothill,John"] [Black "Jakubovics,Nicholas"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "C80"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.Be3 Be7 10.Nbd2 Nc5 11.c3 Nd7 12.Bf4 g5 13.Bg3 h5 14.h3 g4 15.hxg4 hxg4 16.Nd4 Ncxe5 17.f4 gxf3 18.N2xf3 Bd6 19.Nxe6 fxe6 20.Nxe5 Nxe5 21.Qe2 Qg5 22.Bf2 Nf3+ 23.Qxf3 Bh2+ 24.Kh1 Bg3+ 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Sep 12 11:24:48 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:24:48 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Reactions to - The Cubans have fixed Florida Chess Message-ID: <1221240288.48caa5e0c85b3@www.taom.com> Gregory Steele From: Gregory Steele To: Brian Wall Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] The Cubans have fixed Florida Chess 2 unnamed text/html 23.37 KB Hey Brian, This game is a shame. As for the election, did I read that right that you're undecided? I think if Obama wins, with large Dem majorities in Congress, this country will look like France or Sweden in four years. They'll pass every 60s hippie socialist utopian fantasy imaginable and gas will be at $8 gallon. I don't want to relive Jimmy Carter. I think a McCain presidency wouldn't accomplish much of an Reaganite agenda but it would be entertaining as hell if Mac hammers down on earmarks as promised. That would really shake things up! Greg Steele Gregory Steele ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I can't decide if I want the Republicans to throw my money away in pointless wars or the Deomocrats in ineffective social programs. Matt Damon called Sarah Palin's nomination a Disney movie but I like Disney movies. How can I, Captian Spam, vote for someone ( McCain) who doesn't use email. Hellllllllllllp. Brian Wall ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leopold Lacrimosa From: Leopold To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Reply-to: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] The Cubans have fixed Florida Chess 2 unnamed text/html 31.28 KB Just because you're a master or above, doesn't mean you are ethical or have any personal integrity. I really believe that this is because of what I refer to as "The poor chess player mentality" which causes even some of the nicest players to stoop to low levels in order to increase their personal wealth enough to be able to afford a can of beans for dinner. Leopold Lacrimosa Chess Coach Martial Arts Sensei Scottsdale, Arizona http://AmChessCoaching.Com http://leothelip.wordpress.com/ http://leoskitchen.blogspot.com/ Leopold Lacrimosa -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leopold uses How To PLay Chess Like An Animal to educate the children of Arizona. IM Dionisio Aldama just moved from Arizona so no doubt Leopold knows him. Brian Wall -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Milton Kicklighter Kicklighter.Milton at epamail.epa.gov From: Kicklighter.Milton at epamail.epa.gov To: Brian Wall Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Cubans have fixed Florida Chess Good on you, Brian, for calling it the way you see it. You are an even better gentleman than you are a chess player. ===================================== Milt J Kicklighter National Security Operations Center (NSOC) Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) 79 T.W. Alexander Drive, Bldg. 4201 Durham, NC 27709 Phone: 919-767-7322 Email: kicklighter.milton at epa.gov Milton Kicklighter Kicklighter.Milton at epamail.epa.gov -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I met Milton when I visited Chessmaster Sage Mo in South Carolina in 2003. Milton is a very enthusiastic Chessplayer. Brian Wall --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Sep 12 14:19:14 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:19:14 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Florida reacts to - The Cubans have fixed Florida Chess Message-ID: <1221250754.48cacec220409@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Brian Wall ----- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:49:03 -0600 From: Brian Wall Reply-To: Brian Wall Subject: Florida reacts to - The Cubans have fixed Florida Chess To: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com Harvey N. Lerman" From: "Harvey N. Lerman" To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] Reactions to - The Cubans have fixed Florida Chess Brian, How does this work? This message seems to be referencing something about "game is a sham" and also the subject "The Cubans have fixed Florida Chess". Where would I find that "story" and game mentioned? How do I access it? Harvey Harvey N. Lerman" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I think Harvey is the Editor of the Florida State Chess Magazine. Harvey, go to BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com or just check your spam folder. Brian Wall ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Troy Daly To: Brian Wall Reply-to: troydaly at bellsouth.net Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] Reactions to - The Cubans have fixed Florida Chess Hey Brian, There is only one choice in this election. Either we elect another Republican for 4 more years of the same failed policy of George W. Bush, or we vote for a change. John McCain, George W. Bush, and the Republicans have flushed this country down the toilet for the past 8 years. An endless war. A faltering economy. A broken healthcare system. A dying middle class. $4 a gallon for gas. $9 trillion dollar for national debt. Instead of more of the same, why don't we don't for somebody different. Yeah, he may not be everything he is cracked up to be, and he might not be all that everyone says that he is. But he is better than more of the same. A least, lets give this new guy a shot. Remember, the last time a Democrat got in, the economy boomed for 8 years. Lets try it again. Think about it. Don't rush to a decision. Watch the debates, and then make up your own mind. I am just telling you my opinion, but you should listen to a bunch of different opinions and the candidates before deciding. ---- Troy Daly ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanx, Troy. I really am torn this time. The election is very polarized, Young versus Old, Brown versus White, Rich versus Poor, Men versus Women. I always vote for what I think is best for the country, not me personally. Part of me wants to give Sarah Palin a chance. Her father and grandfather are the only Father/Son Admiral in the Navy Pair in History. Many say she is unqualified but I think she is humble enough to ask for help from the right people. I read Obama's books and that's what I like about him too. He seems humble enough to listen to good advice. I think McCain and Obama are sincere beyond the normal politician. I have a problem with Biden, I've been voting against him for 30 years. My preferences are - Sarah Palin, Obama, McCain, Biden. I love the idea of Sarah breastfeeding her Down's Syndrome baby while she gets a phone call that the Russians are up to more trouble. McCain's war stories give me chills. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Sep 12 16:15:36 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:15:36 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] More Floridians React to - The Cubans have fixed Florida Chess Message-ID: <1221257736.48caea086a44c@www.taom.com> radek laburda ----- Forwarded message from radek laburda ----- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:41:42 -0700 (PDT) From: radek laburda Reply-To: eli33618 at yahoo.com Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Reactions to - The Cubans have fixed Florida Chess To: Brian Wall hey brian this is your blitz buddy when you asked me about politics and my opinion on it , my answer is as follow .neither mccain nor obama nor any other character have any power? to change anything , the plan is already in place and politicians are picked to fit that plan and athmosphere . ?economy ?... likewise direction for that has long been established and there isnt much me and I can do about it , if you watch markets , you ll find? how easy it is for?our ,,?masters" to move it , you dont have to go far, look yesterday? stock market / right before closing .... if that is not manipulation then what is .... another example last friday late afternoon quiet announcment that caused havoc for the markets/ to do what they want with the economy?is as easy?for them as it is for you to blitz against? 1600??. if they want the gas to be 200 bbp? you better believe they will make it happen that is my take on politics ,thats why I dont care for it and only keep eye on it to know what is happening and what to expect , thats why I rather be loosing to you in much better positions /hehehehe/ playing chess than polute my mind and waste my already scarce and precious time the czechmaster radek laburda -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 people unsubscribed already - Andrew Scherman was the 2008 Florida Open TD. Brian Wall ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Scherman "elprez_spcc at netzero.net" To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] Reactions to - The Cubans have fixed Florida Chess This message was written in a character set other than your own. If it is not displayed correctly, click here to open it in a new window. if it wasn't correct, they wouldn't call it the "right" wing. Andrew Scherman Andrew Scherman ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Steele From: Gregory Steele To: Brian Wall Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] The Cubans have fixed Florida Chess 2 unnamed text/html 23.37 KB Hey Brian, This game is a shame. As for the election, did I read that right that you're undecided? I think if Obama wins, with large Dem majorities in Congress, this country will look like France or Sweden in four years. They'll pass every 60s hippie socialist utopian fantasy imaginable and gas will be at $8 gallon. I don't want to relive Jimmy Carter. I think a McCain presidency wouldn't accomplish much of an Reaganite agenda but it would be entertaining as hell if Mac hammers down on earmarks as promised. That would really shake things up! Greg Steele Gregory Steele ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - I can't decide if I want the Republicans to throw my money away in pointless wars or the Deomocrats in ineffective social programs. Matt Damon called Sarah Palin's nomination a Disney movie but I like Disney movies. How can I, Captian Spam, vote for someone ( McCain) who doesn't use email. Hellllllllllllp. Brian Wall ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - Leopold Lacrimosa From: Leopold To: UnorthodoxChessOpen ings at yahoogroups .com Reply-to: UnorthodoxChessOpen ings at yahoogroups .com Subject: RE: [UnorthodoxChessOpe nings] The Cubans have fixed Florida Chess 2 unnamed text/html 31.28 KB Just because you're a master or above, doesn't mean you are ethical or have any personal integrity. I really believe that this is because of what I refer to as "The poor chess player mentality" which causes even some of the nicest players to stoop to low levels in order to increase their personal wealth enough to be able to afford a can of beans for dinner. Leopold Lacrimosa Chess Coach Martial Arts Sensei Scottsdale, Arizona http://AmChessCoach ing.Com http://leothelip. wordpress. com/ http://leoskitchen. blogspot. com/ Leopold Lacrimosa ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - Leopold uses How To PLay Chess Like An Animal to educate the children of Arizona. IM Dionisio Aldama just moved from Arizona so no doubt Leopold knows him. Brian Wall ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - Milton Kicklighter Kicklighter. Milton at epamail. epa.gov From: Kicklighter. Milton at epamail. epa.gov To: Brian Wall Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessLis t] The Cubans have fixed Florida Chess Good on you, Brian, for calling it the way you see it. You are an even better gentleman than you are a chess player. ============ ========= ========= ======= Milt J Kicklighter National Security Operations Center (NSOC) Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) 79 T.W. Alexander Drive, Bldg. 4201 Durham, NC 27709 Phone: 919-767-7322 Email: kicklighter. milton at epa. gov Milton Kicklighter Kicklighter. Milton at epamail. epa.gov ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - I met Milton when I visited Chessmaster Sage Mo in South Carolina in 2003. Milton is a very enthusiastic Chessplayer. Brian Wall ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080912/6e05e1fa/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Sep 12 21:39:36 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:39:36 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] http://www.chesscafe.com/scholastic/scholastic.htm Message-ID: <1221277176.48cb35f89a297@www.taom.com> Tyler Hughes is featured in ChessCafe.com Scholastic Section by Steve Goldberg ----- Forwarded message from Tyler ----- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:16:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Tyler Reply-To: gmtbh at yahoo.com Subject: http://www.chesscafe.com/scholastic/scholastic.htm To: Brian Dougulas Wall Here's that link you asked for. http://www.chesscafe.com/scholastic/scholastic.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Sep 13 18:29:05 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:29:05 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] More Florida reacts to - The Cubans have fixed Florida Chess Message-ID: <1221352145.48cc5ad1602d1@www.taom.com> Dave ----- Forwarded message from Dave ----- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:40:48 -0000 From: Dave Reply-To: Dave Subject: Re: Florida reacts to - The Cubans have fixed Florida Chess To: Brian Wall As far the Floridian issue goes, this is an outrage and a clear violation of numerous rules, (USCF, FIDE) not to mention being a violation of basic ethics. These guys should be brought up on charges and a formal complaint lodged. Has anyone contacted the USCF about this? I would advise against opening up this forum for political discussion. We can see that the country is hopelessly divided as it is and the few existing comments here on the subject make it clear that a flame war is liable to break out, sullying the mood here. Save the political comments for the many forums available for such a purpose and let's keep the discussion on Chess (and animals). Dave Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are talking about Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com or some other Yahoo group I agree with you. If you are talking about BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com I get tired of talking to myself. I can separate the political from the Chess. Brian Wall ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Scherman elprez_spcc at netzero.net ----- Forwarded message from "elprez_spcc at netzero.net" ----- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:48:40 GMT From: "elprez_spcc at netzero.net" Reply-To: "elprez_spcc at netzero.net" Subject: Cubans have fixed Florida Chess To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com Brian: I was not the TD. I was the Chief Organizer. I wish you had let me photocopy that scoresheet at the event. The first I heard of this was from your email. I have relayed your allegations to National TD Jon Haskel who has indicated that he intends to do nothing about it. Can you scan that scoresheet and send it to me, please. Thank you. Andrew Scherman Andrew Scherman elprez_spcc at netzero.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I never scanned anything before. Do I fax this to you or mail it to you? What's the procedure? I had trouble with the scoresheet at first since C was used for Knight, A was used for Bishop, T was used for Rook, D was used for Queen. It took me about two weeks to actually play the game already through. Brian Wall ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Sep 14 17:04:57 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:04:57 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Thus made me laugh out loud Message-ID: <1221433497.48cd9899a3241@www.taom.com> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVNiR2lw16M&feature=user -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once a year a swimming pool outside my house allows dogs in - I took my son Devon and my Shitzu dog named Lao Tze. My dog freaked out and jumped into the lap of a pleasant teenage girl and stayed there. Devon had fun trying to coax dogs in the water with frisbees and tennis balls. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Sep 14 21:21:16 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:21:16 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] To Catch a Cuban Message-ID: <1221448876.48cdd4ac8f1c5@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Chris Peterson ----- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:18:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Peterson Reply-To: Chris Peterson Subject: To Catch a Cuban To: brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com, Brian Wall , brianwallchess at yahoogroups.com here is your proof ----- End forwarded message ----- -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: unnamed Url: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080914/696be732/attachment.ksh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Also ROTFLMAO at your email string from Cubagate! ? Best regards, Pete --- On Sun, 9/14/08, Brian Wall wrote: From: Brian Wall Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Thus made me laugh out loud To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, "Brian Wall Chesslist" Date: Sunday, September 14, 2008, 5:04 PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVNiR2lw16M&feature=user -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once a year a swimming pool outside my house allows dogs in - I took my son Devon and my Shitzu dog named Lao Tze. My dog freaked out and jumped into the lap of a pleasant teenage girl and stayed there. Devon had fun trying to coax dogs in the water with frisbees and tennis balls. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080914/75dfc45a/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Sep 14 23:04:56 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:04:56 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Sage Mo on Cubagate Message-ID: <1221455096.48cdecf869994@www.taom.com> Sage Mo ----- Forwarded message from Sage Mo ----- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:51:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Sage Mo Reply-To: sagefmo at yahoo.com Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Cubans have fixed Florida Chess To: Brian Wall Ripping off a 13 year old aint cool. Still, I object in essential principle to money in chess. It's crass. It's pointless. It's demeaning. We'd be better off dropping prize funds entirely, buying dedicated chess houses with the money instead, and bringing back the ethos of a "gentleman's" (or gentlewoman's) game. An improved social image will lead to other venues for funds - keep fights over chump change out of how we conduct our more serious competitions. We can be noble and high class intellectual entertainers, above such things as debasing ourselves to "get ahead". So you get what happened in Florida. The presumption was that money was needed and to be had from the competition. God bless those two clowns, maybe they made rent because of what they did and even if I were 13 years old I'd understand people have lives and suffer some. Yet the future of chess is waiting patiently outside the locked bathroom should such an ethos persist or should we tolerate it. Just my TN on the topic. Sage Mo Sage Mo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- My daughter asked me when she was 7- "Daddy, why do stores charge money? They should just give stuff away." There are lucky cities where millionaires set up beautiful Chess Clubs. I envy them. I wouldn't normally report obvious shenanigans but when a 13 yr old genius is denied a trophy and title, I feel obligated to report stealing candy from a baby. When people are alerted to the problem the situation demands better acting in the future or honest play, whichever is more lucrative. Brian Wall From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Sep 15 05:53:10 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:53:10 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] More reactions to Cubagate Message-ID: <1221479590.48ce4ca68ac3a@www.taom.com> Sebastian From: Sebastian To: BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com Subject: [BrianWallChess] Re: To Catch a Cuban 2 unnamed text/html 12.77 KB I am sorry Chris, but this proof is totally misleading, I was in the tournament and watched the game. The score sheet does not contain the whole game because Aldama was in time trouble and therefore stopped writing down the moves. There were plenty of people watching, and those can attest that Aldama played the ending until all the chances were gone (he resigned in a Lucena position after Becerra played the winning move). It is dangerous to draw these kind of conclusions from a score sheet without knowing how the game really ended. Regards, Sebastian Sebastian ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you play through the moves you will find many examples of 2500/2600s making -5 moves throughout the game. If they were in time trouble it was from watching Robson-Lugo, not studying their own farce. Brian Wall ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Wheeler Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:35:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Jerry Wheeler To: Brian Wall Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] Sage Mo on Cubagate Brian You were there in Florida and witnessed it with your own eyes. Rest assured, this is not the first time that this particular group of players have been accused of cheating. My Tn Tempo teammate FM Todd Andrews claims to have been cheated by this same group of players back in the last US Open that was held in Florida. I honestly believe you should file a complaint with the ethics commitee of the USCF. Its a shame that talented players have no more character or love for the game than to cheat and not even try to make it less obvious. Jerry Wheeler Jerry Wheeler -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I also got the impression they were used to getting away with murder. Whatever happens this time, people will now have their eyes open on this band of Chess thieves. Brian Wall From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Sep 15 11:56:15 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:56:15 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Hoppy on Sage MO, Eddie Briones on Cubagate Message-ID: <1221501375.48cea1bf05176@www.taom.com> Hoppy paul_greiner at comcast.net Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:51:19 +0000 From: paul_greiner at comcast.net To: Brian Wall Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Sage Mo on Cubagate Sure, Brian, let's eliminate prize money; you saw what happened at the tournament I sponsored last year at the Marriott! Look at how many people showed up just to play an "honorable" game of chess!! By the way, Brian, as a result of last year's tournament (at the Marriott), I was able to send $500 to CureSearch, in memory of my granddaughter, who died of cancer. I feel that is "honorable!" Hoppy Hoppy paul_greiner at comcast.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Wall Paul ( Hoppy), the ex-Vietnam drill instructor, was the sponsor of the 2007 Denver Open. I tied for first with Mitesh Shridhar for my 6th Denver Open tie(or clear win). Todd Bardwick has 5 titles. My son Devon took lessons at his Elementary School from Todd two years in a row and really enjoyed them. Devon saw Todd at Tyler's Hughes' last Scholastic Victory at the Tivoli Center ( State Scholastic ) and asked him if he was going to teach again this year. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Devon, yesterday, Sept 14, 2008 " Daddy, my gifted and talented school is going to play other schools Chess as an elective." Daddy - "Tell them your father is the most famous Chessplayer in the state and he will help with coaching if they want." Devon " What about Bardwick, Daddy?" Daddy, sigh, grrr " OK, tell them your Daddy is the SECOND most famous Chessplayer in the state." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ After the 2007 Denver Open I was fired up and won the 2007 Kansas Open the next weekend. I would have played in the 2008 Denver Open without prizes if they held it. Many people across this great land of Palin's are wanting access to the Cubagate emails, including Joel Johnson, Dionisio's Arizona Chess League teammate. If anyone can't figure out how to get into BrianWallChess at YahooGroups.com messages, which includes 99.9999999999999999999% of humanity, I will personally send them the emails. Brian Wall --------------------------------------------------------------------- Eddie Briones eddiebriones at bellsouth.net Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:37:08 +0000 From: eddiebriones at bellsouth.net To: Brian Wall Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] Reactions to - The Cubans have fixed FloridaChess If you call it the way you see it , that is being brave and a man of personal integrity !!! Eddie Briones eddiebriones at bellsouth.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Next Lion simul this Saturday at Borders in Longmont, Colorado Winner gets a free book. 2 PM Sept 20, 2008 Borders Manager Lois Longmont, CO 303.684.6446 Borders 1101 S. Hover St. Longmont, CO 80501 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Sep 15 12:13:37 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:13:37 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Special Event - World Cyclist/Scrabble Player Playing With us in Fort Collins Message-ID: <1221502417.48cea5d1db4eb@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Meetup Reminder ----- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:11:04 -0400 From: Meetup Reminder Reply-To: Meetup Reminder Subject: Reminder: 7 Scrabble Players meet tomorrow. To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com Just a quick reminder that The Northern Colorado Scrabble Meetup has a Meetup tomorrow. Please take a minute to RSVP now: http://scrabble.meetup.com/364/calendar/8745524/t/nr1p_rt What: Special Event - World Cyclist/Scrabble Player Playing With us in Fort Collins When: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 6:00 PM Who: At least 7 Scrabble Players. Where: Sheila's House 5828 Huntington Hills Dr Fort Collins CO 80525 952-548-2108 To RSVP "Yes", click here: http://scrabble.meetup.com/364/calendar/8745524/rsvp/t/nr1p_yes/?response=3 To RSVP "Maybe", click here: http://scrabble.meetup.com/364/calendar/8745524/rsvp/t/nr1p_myb/?response=1 To RSVP "No", click here: http://scrabble.meetup.com/364/calendar/8745524/rsvp/t/nr1p_no/?response=2 Your organizer has set an RSVP deadline for this event. You have until September 16, 2008 5:00 PM to RSVP. To see who's coming and to RSVP: http://scrabble.meetup.com/364/calendar/8745524/t/nr1p_rt One of our members, Sheila, plays Scrabble on line on a site called Pixie Pit. It is a world wide game and they use more dictionaries than our standard American ones. During one game a message came across the boards about a man traveling by bicycle across Scotland and then across America. He has tried to set up Scrabble games all along his route. Sheila agreed to play with him as he will be in Fort. Collins on Sept.. 16th. If you can make it, it will be fun to meet him and hear stories of his adventures on the road. And of course most of the night will be devoted to playing Scrabble! (We originally announced this happening on Thursday, but it is on Tuesday night!) -- Add *info at meetup.com* to your address book to receive all your Meetup emails. To unsubscribe or update your Meetup email preferences, visit your account page: http://www.meetup.com/account/comm/ Questions? 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We all miss you in Colorado, Joe. Brian Wall ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Bihlmeyer Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:37:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Joe Bihlmeyer To: Brian Wall Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Special Event - World Cyclist/Scrabble Player Playing With us in Fort Collins Hi Brian, I have heard of this Scrabble player - he posted on CGP (the Scrabble user group) about his plans. He would probably recognize my name, I post on CGP all the time. The company I am working for is reorganizing; I am getting a severance package and my last day is Oct 31. I am thinking of doing a long road trip across North America, where I can see all of my chess and Scrabble friends. I might go to yoga teacher training after that - maybe I will change my career. Yoga has transformed my life; I feel no anxiety about anything. The primary cause of anxiety is perception of reality. But it is much easier said than done to change your outlook on life. It is great to hear from people I haven't seen in years like Sage Mo... keep up the good work of your chess network. -Joe Joe Bihlmeyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 9/15/08, Brian Wall wrote: From: Brian Wall Subject: [BrianWallChess] Special Event - World Cyclist/Scrabble Player Playing With us in Fort Collins To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, "Brian Wall Chesslist" Date: Monday, September 15, 2008, 2:13 PM ----- Forwarded message from Meetup Reminder ----- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:11:04 -0400 From: Meetup Reminder Reply-To: Meetup Reminder Subject: Reminder: 7 Scrabble Players meet tomorrow. To: brianwallchess3@ taom.com Just a quick reminder that The Northern Colorado Scrabble Meetup has a Meetup tomorrow. Please take a minute to RSVP now: http://scrabble. meetup.com/ 364/calendar/ 8745524/t/ nr1p_rt What: Special Event - World Cyclist/Scrabble Player Playing With us in Fort Collins When: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 6:00 PM Who: At least 7 Scrabble Players. Where: Sheila's House 5828 Huntington Hills Dr Fort Collins CO 80525 952-548-2108 To RSVP "Yes", click here: http://scrabble. meetup.com/ 364/calendar/ 8745524/rsvp/ t/nr1p_yes/ ?response= 3 To RSVP "Maybe", click here: http://scrabble. meetup.com/ 364/calendar/ 8745524/rsvp/ t/nr1p_myb/ ?response= 1 To RSVP "No", click here: http://scrabble. meetup.com/ 364/calendar/ 8745524/rsvp/ t/nr1p_no/ ?response= 2 Your organizer has set an RSVP deadline for this event. You have until September 16, 2008 5:00 PM to RSVP. To see who's coming and to RSVP: http://scrabble. meetup.com/ 364/calendar/ 8745524/t/ nr1p_rt One of our members, Sheila, plays Scrabble on line on a site called Pixie Pit. It is a world wide game and they use more dictionaries than our standard American ones. During one game a message came across the boards about a man traveling by bicycle across Scotland and then across America. He has tried to set up Scrabble games all along his route. Sheila agreed to play with him as he will be in Fort. Collins on Sept.. 16th. If you can make it, it will be fun to meet him and hear stories of his adventures on the road. And of course most of the night will be devoted to playing Scrabble! (We originally announced this happening on Thursday, but it is on Tuesday night!) -- Add *info at meetup. com* to your address book to receive all your Meetup emails. To unsubscribe or update your Meetup email preferences, visit your account page: http://www.meetup. com/account/ comm/ Questions? You can email Meetup Support at: support at meetup. com Meetup Support, 632 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 USA From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Sep 15 14:02:54 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:02:54 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Joel Johnson, My USCL Debut Message-ID: <1221508974.48cebf6ec225b@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:45:03 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: My USCL Debut Hi All, I will be making my debut in the United States Chess League (USCL) on Wednesday. Here are the lineups for our match against the Tennessee Tempo. The games will be shown on the Internet Chess Club and you can view USCL games by typing in the command 'observe 1', 'observe 2', etc. More information about the league and the Arizona Scorpions can be found at the following websites: UNITED STATES CHESS LEAGUE http://www.uschessleague.com/index.html http://arizonascorpions.blogspot.com/ The Arizona Scorpions team will be playing at 2222 S. Dobson Road, Mesa, AZ 85202 starting at 6 pm. COME OUT AND SUPPORT THE TEAM! FM DANNY RENSCH will be providing FREE commentary about all the games!!! We hope to see you there! Cya, Joel Tennessee Tempo (0.5-2.5) vs Arizona Scorpions (1.0-2.0) All Time Series Record (this is their first match)Starts at 9:00 PM ET Time Control - Game 75 with 30 second increment Tennessee Tempo Arizona Scorpions GM Jaan Ehlvest: 2668 IM Rogelio Barcenilla: 2560 IM Ron Burnett: 2412 IM Mark Ginsburg: 2410 FM Todd Andrews: 2350 FM Robby Adamson: 2377 FM John Bick: 2249 NM Joel Johnson: 2211 Avg Rating: 2420 Avg Rating: 2390 Tennessee Total ------- 0.0 0.0 ------- Arizona Total Thanks, Joel _________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080915/486eaed9/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Sep 15 14:14:44 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:14:44 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Sebastian sheds mucho light on the Cubagate ending Message-ID: <1221509684.48cec23496f0c@www.taom.com> Sebastian I am sorry Chris, but this proof is totally misleading, I was in the tournament and watched the game. The score sheet does not contain the whole game because Aldama was in time trouble and therefore stop writing down the moves. There were plenty of people watching, and those can attest that Aldama played the ending until all the chances were gone (he resigned in a Lucena position after Becerra played the winning move). It is dangerous to draw these kind of conclusions from a score sheet without knowing how the game really ended. Regards, Sebastian Sebastian -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Wall Thank you, Sebastian, for telling me there was a time scramble at the end. I didn't know that. Check out the quality of play. [Event "2008 Florida Open"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.09.01"] [Round "6"] [White "IM Dionisio Aldama"] [Black "GM Julio Becerra"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2515"] [BlackElo "2645"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez, Open Defense"] [Time "2 PM"] [TimeControl "Game/155 minutes, 5 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.Be3 Be7 10.Nbd2 Nc5 11.c3 Nd7 12.Re1 Ncxe5 13.Nxe5 Nxe5 14.Bd4 Nc6? -1.51 15.Bxg7 Rg8 16.Qh5 Kd7 17.Bxd5 Rxg7 18.Qf3 Rb8 19.Bxc6+ Kc8 20.Ne4? -1.51 20 ... Bg4 21.Qe3 Rb6 22.Ng3 f5 23.Qe5 Qf8 24.Bd5 f4 25.f3?? -4.06 25 ... Bh3?? -3.57 26.gxh3 fxg3 27.Rad1? -1.42 27 ... Bc5+ 28.Kg2 gxh2+ 29.Kxh2? -1.61 29 ... Qd6??? -3.15 The play in this part is esp comically absurd enough so that 1200's would get the joke. Any three digit player could find 29 ... Bd6! winning the exchange for zero compensation after 30 Be6+ Kb7 31 R:d6 R:d6 30.Be6+ Kb8 31.Qxd6 Bxd6+ 32.Rxd6???? -2.22 What kind of sick joke is this move, Sebastian? Instead of simply being a solid pawn up after 32 Kh1 International Master Dionisio Aladma gives up the exchange for NO REASON WHATSOEVER, a move my 9 year old son would avoid. 32 ... cxd6? - 2.53 This may be the most insulting and offensive move of the game, creating an unnecessary pawn weakness and deactivating his rook in a very simplied and obvious position. There are plenty of other candidates to choose from. This move is 100% incomprehensible coming from Grandmaster Julio Becerra 2645. If there is an explanation, I'd love to hear it. I can accept dropping a Queen easier than this positional monstrosity. They are obviously laughing at all of us on the way to the bank. 33.Bd5 b4 34.c4 Kc7 35.f4 Rb8 36.f5 Rf8 37.Be6 Rf6 38.Re3 Kc6 39.a3 a5 40.Rd3 Re7 41.Kg3 Rfxe6 42.fxe6 Rxe6 43.axb4 axb4 44.b3 Re2 At this point it was obvious to me that the only winning try was ... Rc3 which could be simply foiled by keeping the White King close to e4. What else could Black try here with the inferior pawn structure? They were not even looking at this position, they were both watching the exciting tome scramble in Rabson-Lugo next door. Well, I thought, there's nothing to look at here anyway. 45.Kf3 Rc2 46.Ke4 Rc1 47.h4????? A solid blockade was already in place. There was no reason to throw away this pawn. 0-1 Dionisio played on and lost in an unrecorded time scramble to the Lucena position, according to Sebastian -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "2008 Florida Open"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.09.01"] [Round "6"] [White "IM Dionisio Aldama"] [Black "GM Julio Becerra"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2515"] [BlackElo "2645"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez, Open Defense"] [Time "2 PM"] [TimeControl "Game/155 minutes, 5 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.Be3 Be7 10.Nbd2 Nc5 11.c3 Nd7 12.Re1 Ncxe5 13.Nxe5 Nxe5 14.Bd4 Nc6 15.Bxg7 Rg8 16.Qh5 Kd7 17.Bxd5 Rxg7 18.Qf3 Rb8 19.Bxc6+ Kc8 20.Ne4 Bg4 21.Qe3 Rb6 22.Ng3 f5 23.Qe5 Qf8 24.Bd5 f4 25.f3 Bh3 26.gxh3 fxg3 27.Rad1 Bc5+ 28.Kg2 gxh2+ 29.Kxh2 Qd6 30.Be6+ Kb8 31.Qxd6 Bxd6+ 32.Rxd6 cxd6 33.Bd5 b4 34.c4 Kc7 35.f4 Rb8 36.f5 Rf8 37.Be6 Rf6 38.Re3 Kc6 39.a3 a5 40.Rd3 Re7 41.Kg3 Rfxe6 42.fxe6 Rxe6 43.axb4 axb4 44.b3 Re2 45.Kf3 Rc2 46.Ke4 Rc1 47.h4 0-1 Dionisio played on and lost in an unrecorded time scramble to the Lucena position, according to eye witness Sebastian -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- More from Sebastian Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:00:05 -0000 From: Sebastian To: Brian Wall Subject: Re: More reactions to Cubagate Part of the problem is that you have the score of the game wrong in your analysis. White played 24.Qd5, not 24.Bd5 and the moves 30.Be6 and 30...Kb8 that you included in the analysis were never played in the game. Are there mistakes in the game? Yes, of course, almost every game has them. Are there several -5 moves? I don't think so. Regards, Sebastian Sebastian --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hmmm, let's see how that works out. I appreciate you trying to set the record straight. Corrected scoresheet. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.Be3 Be7 10.Nbd2 Nc5 11.c3 Nd7 12.Re1 Ncxe5 13.Nxe5 Nxe5 14.Bd4 Nc6 15.Bxg7 Rg8 16.Qh5 Kd7 17.Bxd5 Rxg7 18.Qf3 Rb8 19.Bxc6+ Kc8 20.Ne4 Bg4 21.Qe3 Rb6 22.Ng3 f5 23.Qe5 Qf8 24.Qd5 -.78 The scoresheet does say Dd5 which means Queen d5. I was misled because Fritz gives 24 Bd5 as #1. My bad. Let's see how the game plays out from there. 24 ... f4!!! Hmm, now this is #1. The game starts making sense. 25.f3!!! It looks like Sebastian is right. 25 ... Bh3 now a reasonable -.73 26.gxh3!!! Now #1 26 ... fxg3!! 27.Rad1 now a reasonable - .52 27 ... Bc5+!! 28.Kg2? -.55 Dionisio would have adequate compensation for the exchange after 28 Rd4!! B:d4+ 29 cd! but that is an understandable mistake. 28 ... gxh2+!! 29.Kxh2!! All the moves make sense now. 29 ... Qd6!! (( 30.Be6+ Kb8 )) not played Sebastian is right, these moves are not on the scoresheet. I must have included them to make sense of my incorrect interpretation of the scoresheet, all stemming from my false 24 Bd5! instead of 24 Qd5?, the actual move. 30.Qxd6!! Bxd6+!! 31.Rxd6!! best now because the c6-bishop is hanging 31 ... cxd6!! Only move in the true reality 32.Bd5! b4 33.c4 Kc7 34.f4! Rb8! 35.f5! Rf8! 36.Be6! Rf6 37.Re3! Kc6! 38.a3! a5! 39.Rd3! Re7 What a difference one move makes! It actually does look like a GM/IM battle now. 40.Kg3! Rfxe6 41.fxe6! Rxe6! 42.axb4! axb4! 43.b3! Re2 I think staying near e4 with Aldama's King should draw but I suppose in time pressure against a determined GM in the money round it is possible to mess this up, especially since the whole game looks logical now. 44.Kf3! Rc2! 45.Ke4! Rc1 46.h4?? Losing a pawn for no reason, disturbing the balance of the position. It makes sense that IM Aldama would stop keeping score after this blunder and try to play fast and hold on a pawn down, which he failed to do. A time scramble ensued. 0-1 eventually -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prologue. Just when I thought my case was airtight and everything was wrapped up with a pretty red bow, Sebastian sent my hypothesis crumbling down. I feel like Obama after McCain picked Palin. Danielle Rice told me a Jewish folklore story about a woman who made false accusations against her rabbi. She found out she was dead wrong and asked what she could do to remedy the situation. The rabbi told the woman to gather a giant bag of leaves and come back. The woman did as told and the rabbi said, " Now go to the center of town and scatter the leaves to the winds and come back to me." The woman did as told and the rabbi said, "Now gather the leaves back in the bag". The woman said, " I can't, they are scattered too far" and the rabbi said, " Then how do you prpose to restore my reputation? " Thank you again, Sebastian, for deciphering the mystery. I am indebted to you, sir. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080915/04ffce87/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Sep 15 21:42:27 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:42:27 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Retraction of Cubagate Message-ID: <1221536547.48cf2b2361c82@www.taom.com> I have to retract everything, it was based on two false assumptions that Sebastian cleared up - 1 - a time scramble ensued at the end which ended in a close victory for GM Becerra, Lucena position 2- I misplayed Dd5 as Bd5 instead of Qd5 which made it look as if every other move was a major blunder. With 24 Qd5 it looks like a normal GM/IM game ? mea culpa? mea cupla mea culpa ? My apologies to all concerned. ? humbly, Brian Wall ? ? ? --- On Mon, 9/15/08, elprez_spcc at netzero.net wrote: From: elprez_spcc at netzero.net Subject: Re: Fw: [BrianWall-ChessList] Sebastian sheds mucho light on the Cubag ate ending To: harvey_lerman at juno.com, brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com Cc: DDillinger at chessjournalism.org, rsforman at mail.usf.edu, jon at bocachess.com, Chessinschools at aol.com, kledzian at mfi.net, Doctormate at aol.com, gilfca at gmail.com, baychess at tampabay.rr.com, elprez_spcc at netzero.net, ikefalcon at gmail.com, Bjtnwjt at aol.com, joedajew at yahoo.com, Chuck-FCA at centercounter.com Date: Monday, September 15, 2008, 4:31 PM Brian Wall is a master from Colorado. he finished very high in the pen and played well in the side events. he apparently is a very active blogger. his posts were forwarded by me to National TD jon, National TD harvey, and Senior TD gary, three extremely experienced and credentialed TDs. Their consensus is that there is no basis to proceed further on this topic. Wall has subsequently scanned and forwarded the scoresheet in his possession which contains nothing new. As the chief organizer, I am relying on the decision of my chief TD. As FCA president, I am relying on the decision of my three most experienced TD Board Members. Therefore, as both Chief organizer and as FCA President, I will take no official action. Should the Board make a successful motion for the FCA to take some action, then obviously i will. Meanwhile, under USCF rules any USCF member is free to make a complaint regarding an alleged ethical violation. Andrew Scherman -- "Harvey N. Lerman" wrote: So there is more to the story... the proof may not be as "accurate" as we thought. Harvey PS. Who is this Brian Wall, anyway? And how can he now put those leaves back in the bag? But still 46.h4?? He must have decided he needed to play for a win; which loses "right away". ------------------------------------------------------------- Sebastian I am sorry Chris, but this proof is totally misleading, I was in the tournament and watched the game. The score sheet does not contain the whole game because Aldama was in time trouble and therefore stop writing down the moves. There were plenty of people watching, and those can attest that Aldama played the ending until all the chances were gone (he resigned in a Lucena position after Becerra played the winning move). It is dangerous to draw these kind of conclusions from a score sheet without knowing how the game really ended. Regards, Sebastian Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Brian Wall Thank you, Sebastian, for telling me there was a time scramble at the end. I didn't know that. Check out the quality of play. [Event "2008 Florida Open"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.09.01"] [Round "6"] [White "IM Dionisio Aldama"] [Black "GM Julio Becerra"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2515"] [BlackElo "2645"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez, Open Defense"] [Time "2 PM"] [TimeControl "Game/155 minutes, 5 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.Be3 Be7 10.Nbd2 Nc5 11.c3 Nd7 12.Re1 Ncxe5 13.Nxe5 Nxe5 14.Bd4 Nc6? -1.51 15.Bxg7 Rg8 16.Qh5 Kd7 17.Bxd5 Rxg7 18.Qf3 Rb8 19.Bxc6+ Kc8 20.Ne4? -1.51 20 ... Bg4 21.Qe3 Rb6 22.Ng3 f5 23.Qe5 Qf8 24.Bd5 f4 25.f3?? -4.06 25 ... Bh3?? -3.57 26.gxh3 fxg3 27.Rad1? -1.42 27 ... Bc5+ 28.Kg2 gxh2+ 29.Kxh2? -1.61 29 ... Qd6??? -3.15 The play in this part is esp comically absurd enough so that 1200's would get the joke. Any three digit player could find 29 ... Bd6! winning the exchange for zero compensation after 30 Be6+ Kb7 31 R:d6 R:d6 30.Be6+ Kb8 31.Qxd6 Bxd6+ 32.Rxd6???? -2.22 What kind of sick joke is this move, Sebastian? Instead of simply being a solid pawn up after 32 Kh1 International Master Dionisio Aladma gives up the exchange for NO REASON WHATSOEVER, a move my 9 year old son would avoid. 32 ... cxd6? - 2.53 This may be the most insulting and offensive move of the game, creating an unnecessary pawn weakness and deactivating his rook in a very simplied and obvious position. There are plenty of other candidates to choose from. This move is 100% incomprehensible coming from Grandmaster Julio Becerra 2645. If there is an explanation, I'd love to hear it. I can accept dropping a Queen easier than this positional monstrosity. They are obviously laughing at all of us on the way to the bank. 33.Bd5 b4 34.c4 Kc7 35.f4 Rb8 36.f5 Rf8 37.Be6 Rf6 38.Re3 Kc6 39.a3 a5 40.Rd3 Re7 41.Kg3 Rfxe6 42.fxe6 Rxe6 43.axb4 axb4 44.b3 Re2 At this point it was obvious to me that the only winning try was ... Rc3 which could be simply foiled by keeping the White King close to e4. What else could Black try here with the inferior pawn structure? They were not even looking at this position, they were both watching the exciting tome scramble in Rabson-Lugo next door. Well, I thought, there's nothing to look at here anyway. 45.Kf3 Rc2 46.Ke4 Rc1 47.h4????? A solid blockade was already in place. There was no reason to throw away this pawn. 0-1 Dionisio played on and lost in an unrecorded time scramble to the Lucena position, according to Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- [Event "2008 Florida Open"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.09.01"] [Round "6"] [White "IM Dionisio Aldama"] [Black "GM Julio Becerra"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2515"] [BlackElo "2645"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez, Open Defense"] [Time "2 PM"] [TimeControl "Game/155 minutes, 5 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.Be3 Be7 10.Nbd2 Nc5 11.c3 Nd7 12.Re1 Ncxe5 13.Nxe5 Nxe5 14.Bd4 Nc6 15.Bxg7 Rg8 16.Qh5 Kd7 17.Bxd5 Rxg7 18.Qf3 Rb8 19.Bxc6+ Kc8 20.Ne4 Bg4 21.Qe3 Rb6 22.Ng3 f5 23.Qe5 Qf8 24.Bd5 f4 25.f3 Bh3 26.gxh3 fxg3 27.Rad1 Bc5+ 28.Kg2 gxh2+ 29.Kxh2 Qd6 30.Be6+ Kb8 31.Qxd6 Bxd6+ 32.Rxd6 cxd6 33.Bd5 b4 34.c4 Kc7 35.f4 Rb8 36.f5 Rf8 37.Be6 Rf6 38.Re3 Kc6 39.a3 a5 40.Rd3 Re7 41.Kg3 Rfxe6 42.fxe6 Rxe6 43.axb4 axb4 44.b3 Re2 45.Kf3 Rc2 46.Ke4 Rc1 47.h4 0-1 Dionisio played on and lost in an unrecorded time scramble to the Lucena position, according to eye witness Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - More from Sebastian Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:00:05 -0000 From: Sebastian To: Brian Wall Subject: Re: More reactions to Cubagate Part of the problem is that you have the score of the game wrong in your analysis. White played 24.Qd5, not 24.Bd5 and the moves 30.Be6 and 30...Kb8 that you included in the analysis were never played in the game. Are there mistakes in the game? Yes, of course, almost every game has them. Are there several -5 moves? I don't think so. Regards, Sebastian Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Hmmm, let's see how that works out. I appreciate you trying to set the record straight. Corrected scoresheet. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.Be3 Be7 10.Nbd2 Nc5 11.c3 Nd7 12.Re1 Ncxe5 13.Nxe5 Nxe5 14.Bd4 Nc6 15.Bxg7 Rg8 16.Qh5 Kd7 17.Bxd5 Rxg7 18.Qf3 Rb8 19.Bxc6+ Kc8 20.Ne4 Bg4 21.Qe3 Rb6 22.Ng3 f5 23.Qe5 Qf8 24.Qd5 -.78 The scoresheet does say Dd5 which means Queen d5. I was misled because Fritz gives 24 Bd5 as #1. My bad. Let's see how the game plays out from there. 24 ... f4!!! Hmm, now this is #1. The game starts making sense. 25.f3!!! It looks like Sebastian is right. 25 ... Bh3 now a reasonable -.73 26.gxh3!!! Now #1 26 ... fxg3!! 27.Rad1 now a reasonable - .52 27 ... Bc5+!! 28.Kg2? -.55 Dionisio would have adequate compensation for the exchange after 28 Rd4!! B:d4+ 29 cd! but that is an understandable mistake. 28 ... gxh2+!! 29.Kxh2!! All the moves make sense now. 29 ... Qd6!! (( 30.Be6+ Kb8 )) not played Sebastian is right, these moves are not on the scoresheet. I must have included them to make sense of my incorrect interpretation of the scoresheet, all stemming from my false 24 Bd5! instead of 24 Qd5?, the actual move. 30.Qxd6!! Bxd6+!! 31.Rxd6!! best now because the c6-bishop is hanging 31 ... cxd6!! Only move in the true reality 32.Bd5! b4 33.c4 Kc7 34.f4! Rb8! 35.f5! Rf8! 36.Be6! Rf6 37.Re3! Kc6! 38.a3! a5! 39.Rd3! Re7 What a difference one move makes! It actually does look like a GM/IM battle now. 40.Kg3! Rfxe6 41.fxe6! Rxe6! 42.axb4! axb4! 43.b3! Re2 I think staying near e4 with Aldama's King should draw but I suppose in time pressure against a determined GM in the money round it is possible to mess this up, especially since the whole game looks logical now. 44.Kf3! Rc2! 45.Ke4! Rc1 46.h4?? Losing a pawn for no reason, disturbing the balance of the position. It makes sense that IM Aldama would stop keeping score after this blunder and try to play fast and hold on a pawn down, which he failed to do. A time scramble ensued. 0-1 eventually ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Prologue. Just when I thought my case was airtight and everything was wrapped up with a pretty red bow, Sebastian sent my hypothesis crumbling down. I feel like Obama after McCain picked Palin. Danielle Rice told me a Jewish folklore story about a woman who made false accusations against her rabbi. She found out she was dead wrong and asked what she could do to remedy the situation. The rabbi told the woman to gather a giant bag of leaves and come back. The woman did as told and the rabbi said, " Now go to the center of town and scatter the leaves to the winds and come back to me." The woman did as told and the rabbi said, "Now gather the leaves back in the bag". The woman said, " I can't, they are scattered too far" and the rabbi said, " Then how do you prpose to restore my reputation? " Thank you again, Sebastian, for deciphering the mystery. I am indebted to you, sir. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:22:10 -0000 From: Sebastian To: Brian Wall Subject: Re: Sebastian sheds mucho light on the Cubagate ending Hi Brian, Thank you for your reply, I always enjoy your emails and I am glad I could help "straighten" out this issue. Best regards, Sebastian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080915/bc76234d/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Sep 17 12:53:03 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:53:03 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] All-Night Lock-In - Saturday, September 27th Message-ID: <1221677583.48d1520f1281a@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Lee Lahti ----- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:25:14 -0600 From: Lee Lahti Reply-To: Lee Lahti Subject: All-Night Lock-In - Saturday, September 27th To: fort_collins_chess at yahoogroups.com Come play in the most unique event on the Colorado/Wyoming chess calendar this year! It's not just Chess - there is laser tag and video games as part of the tournament as well! Do you have the stamina to play all night? Some players are already registered to play, but we still need about 10 more players to hold the event. This is about having fun and getting together to play games and do some things we don't normally do. The early entry price for this all-night event is $40 and is available through September 20th. This price basically covers the cost to play and food for the night. Any remaining money after the event costs are covered will be used for prizes. The more people we have, the more fun it will be and the larger the prize pool! Advanced entry with payment received is required to participate. The number of players needs to be known in advance for the site to provide adequate staff for the event and to order proper food levels for us. That is why there are no onsite entries. For the event to take place, we need to have a minimum of 20 players signed up and with payment received by September 22nd. There is no danger in sending in advance registration. Full refunds will be given to all players if there are not enough entries received to hold the event. For additional information about the All-Night Lock In, please contact me at lee.lahti at comcast.net or see the tournament listing at: http://www.colorado-chess.com/newtourn.shtml#415 If you are planning to participate, please email me so I can update my list of participants and know to look for your entry fee in the mail. I apologize to anyone who gets multiple copies of this email. I tried to pull email addresses from past emails and mailing lists and may have added you to my list multiple times Please forward this to your local chess clubs, email lists, and anyone else who you think might be interested. I hope to see many of you on Saturday, September 27th! Thanks. Lee ----- End forwarded message ----- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080917/dc4f9a43/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Sep 17 20:18:34 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:18:34 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] All-Night Lock-In - Saturday, September 27th Message-ID: <1221704314.48d1ba7aa6bf9@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Pete Short ----- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:12:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Pete Short Reply-To: redwoodpete at yahoo.com Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] All-Night Lock-In - Saturday, September 27th To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, Brian Wall Chesslist , Brian Wall Lee, ? Too bad I will not be in Colorado until the first week of October.? A night of chess AND laser tag!? Wow.? Maybe you can make the format a monthly event. ? Suggestions: October: Chess and Neon Bowling November: Chess and Paintball December: Chess and Caroling January: Chess and Ice Sculpting February: Chess and Groundhog shadow spotting March: Chess and Skiing April: Open (Everyone will need a break and some of the less dexterous ?players will need to heal) ? Take my sarcasm at face value.? If I was in Colorado, you could count me in! ? Best regards, Pete --- On Wed, 9/17/08, Brian Wall wrote: From: Brian Wall Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] All-Night Lock-In - Saturday, September 27th To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, "Brian Wall Chesslist" Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 12:53 PM ----- Forwarded message from Lee Lahti ----- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:25:14 -0600 From: Lee Lahti Reply-To: Lee Lahti Subject: All-Night Lock-In - Saturday, September 27th To: fort_collins_chess at yahoogroups.com Come play in the most unique event on the Colorado/Wyoming chess calendar this year! It's not just Chess - there is laser tag and video games as part of the tournament as well! Do you have the stamina to play all night? Some players are already registered to play, but we still need about 10 more players to hold the event. This is about having fun and getting together to play games and do some things we don't normally do. The early entry price for this all-night event is $40 and is available through September 20th. This price basically covers the cost to play and food for the night. Any remaining money after the event costs are covered will be used for prizes. The more people we have, the more fun it will be and the larger the prize pool! Advanced entry with payment received is required to participate. The number of players needs to be known in advance for the site to provide adequate staff for the event and to order proper food levels for us. That is why there are no onsite entries. For the event to take place, we need to have a minimum of 20 players signed up and with payment received by September 22nd. There is no danger in sending in advance registration. Full refunds will be given to all players if there are not enough entries received to hold the event. For additional information about the All-Night Lock In, please contact me at lee.lahti at comcast.net or see the tournament listing at: http://www.colorado-chess.com/newtourn.shtml#415 If you are planning to participate, please email me so I can update my list of participants and know to look for your entry fee in the mail. I apologize to anyone who gets multiple copies of this email. I tried to pull email addresses from past emails and mailing lists and may have added you to my list multiple times Please forward this to your local chess clubs, email lists, and anyone else who you think might be interested. I hope to see many of you on Saturday, September 27th! Thanks. Lee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080917/36119b35/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Sep 17 20:43:56 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:43:56 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Sherbring on All-Night Lock-In - Saturday, September 27th Message-ID: <1221705836.48d1c06cf3f4d@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Mark Sherbring ----- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:38:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Sherbring Reply-To: marksherbring at yahoo.com Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] All-Night Lock-In - Saturday, September 27th To: Brian Wall Wafia events 1971.... friday nights, Tom Marshall's family home. Always unlimited soda pop and green chile. ? Always a chess tourney, optional dealers choice poker, chess/Risk, chess/pool.? Chess/monopoly. Chess/mileborne? ..........??? Great fun for high school children. --- On Wed, 9/17/08, Brian Wall wrote: From: Brian Wall Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] All-Night Lock-In - Saturday, September 27th To: "Brian Wall Chesslist" Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 8:18 PM ----- Forwarded message from Pete Short ----- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:12:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Pete Short Reply-To: redwoodpete at yahoo.com Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] All-Night Lock-In - Saturday, September 27th To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, Brian Wall Chesslist , Brian Wall Lee, ? Too bad I will not be in Colorado until the first week of October.? A night of chess AND laser tag!? Wow.? Maybe you can make the format a monthly event. ? Suggestions: October: Chess and Neon Bowling November: Chess and Paintball December: Chess and Caroling January: Chess and Ice Sculpting February: Chess and Groundhog shadow spotting March: Chess and Skiing April: Open (Everyone will need a break and some of the less dexterous ?players will need to heal) ? Take my sarcasm at face value.? If I was in Colorado, you could count me in! ? Best regards, Pete -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080917/a72cc17e/attachment.html From sjfox at raytheon.com Thu Sep 18 09:05:46 2008 From: sjfox at raytheon.com (Shannon J Fox) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:05:46 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] All-Night Lock-In - Saturday, September 27th In-Reply-To: <255188.90516.qm@web34205.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: You're killing me Petie! Shannon J. Fox Finance Manager National Systems ? OSP Finance 720.858.4662 office 303.514.9897 cell 303.344.3118 fax 888.689.3028 pager mailto:sjfox at raytheon Pete Short 09/17/2008 08:12 PM Please respond to redwoodpete at yahoo.com To BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, Brian Wall Chesslist , Brian Wall cc Subject Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] All-Night Lock-In - Saturday, September 27th Lee, Too bad I will not be in Colorado until the first week of October. A night of chess AND laser tag! Wow. Maybe you can make the format a monthly event. Suggestions: October: Chess and Neon Bowling November: Chess and Paintball December: Chess and Caroling January: Chess and Ice Sculpting February: Chess and Groundhog shadow spotting March: Chess and Skiing April: Open (Everyone will need a break and some of the less dexterous players will need to heal) Take my sarcasm at face value. If I was in Colorado, you could count me in! Best regards, Pete --- On Wed, 9/17/08, Brian Wall wrote: From: Brian Wall Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] All-Night Lock-In - Saturday, September 27th To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, "Brian Wall Chesslist" Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 12:53 PM ----- Forwarded message from Lee Lahti ----- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:25:14 -0600 From: Lee Lahti Reply-To: Lee Lahti Subject: All-Night Lock-In - Saturday, September 27th To: fort_collins_chess at yahoogroups.com Come play in the most unique event on the Colorado/Wyoming chess calendar this year! It's not just Chess - there is laser tag and video games as part of the tournament as well! Do you have the stamina to play all night? Some players are already registered to play, but we still need about 10 more players to hold the event. This is about having fun and getting together to play games and do some things we don't normally do. The early entry price for this all-night event is $40 and is available through September 20th. This price basically covers the cost to play and food for the night. Any remaining money after the event costs are covered will be used for prizes. The more people we have, the more fun it will be and the larger the prize pool! Advanced entry with payment received is required to participate. The number of players needs to be known in advance for the site to provide adequate staff for the event and to order proper food levels for us. That is why there are no onsite entries. For the event to take place, we need to have a minimum of 20 players signed up and with payment received by September 22nd. There is no danger in sending in advance registration. Full refunds will be given to all players if there are not enough entries received to hold the event. For additional information about the All-Night Lock In, please contact me at lee.lahti at comcast.net or see the tournament listing at: http://www.colorado-chess.com/newtourn.shtml#415 If you are planning to participate, please email me so I can update my list of participants and know to look for your entry fee in the mail. I apologize to anyone who gets multiple copies of this email. I tried to pull email addresses from past emails and mailing lists and may have added you to my list multiple times Please forward this to your local chess clubs, email lists, and anyone else who you think might be interested. I hope to see many of you on Saturday, September 27th! Thanks. Lee ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ BrianWall-ChessList mailing list BrianWall-ChessList at lists.taom.com http://www.taom.com/mailman/listinfo/brianwall-chesslist -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Robson used Bloomer's favorite anti-Scandinavian weapon. http://www.chess.com/news/13-year-old-ray-robson-wins-miami-open From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Sep 18 12:26:32 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:26:32 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Curt Carlsen likes IM Ray Robson - IM Renier Gonzalez game Message-ID: <1221762392.48d29d5833596@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Curt Carlson ----- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:57:59 -0700 From: Curt Carlson Reply-To: Curt Carlson Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] IM Ray Robson wins Miami Open To: Brian Wall Boy that was a nice game. I hope I never have to play that kid! ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Wall To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com ; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups ; Brian Wall Chesslist Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 9:58 AM Subject: [BrianWallChess] IM Ray Robson wins Miami Open Ray decimated my Center Counter/Scandinavian quickly in the 2008 Florida Open. I did an email about it which will appear in the Florida State Chess Magazine. Ray also quickly crushed IM Renier Gonzalez in a Center Counter/Scandinavian brilliancy. It was nice to see someone else getting the Robson treatment. 10 Fritz best moves in the opening didn't help me. Robson used Bloomer's favorite anti-Scandinavian weapon. http://www.chess.com/news/13-year-old-ray-robson-wins-miami-open -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080918/9c7a0225/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Sep 18 20:03:46 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:03:46 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Joel Johnson - Preparing For "The Match" Message-ID: <1221789826.48d3088271eee@www.taom.com> This is one of the best games and game descriptions I have ever read. Joel has come a long way from our homless shelter days. Brian Wall ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:07:25 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: Preparing For "The Match" To: Brian Wall Preparing For ?The Match? by NM Joel Johnson 09/17/2008 When I was asked to play for the Arizona Scorpions of the United States Chess League (USCL), I was told that I would be an alternate, and thus, limited to playing in just two matches. This was actually good for me, as I already lead a very active chess life here in Phoenix, Arizona and I realize how much time and effort is required to compete successfully against top level chess masters. Nothing ever comes easy. My schedule these days is filled with teaching chess to many students like young, up and coming chess stars, Joshua Zhu, Tyler Sypherd, Mike Oldehoff, and Alec Andersen, running my chess club, Valley Chess (see www.valleychess.org), writing a new attack book, and playing more USCF rated games than anyone in the entire State of Arizona. It?s all part of promoting the royal game of chess and resurrecting the adult chess scene in Phoenix. But, surely I digress. So, at the beginning of the season, I was told by Team Manager, Leo Martinez that I would be making my USCL debut in the fourth match of the year against the Tennessee Tempo. On the Sunday preceding the match, the official lineups for each team became known and now, I have a serious chess game to prepare for. I cannot understate how important a match like this is to Arizona Chess. We have many young chess stars that will be heard from for years to come. Players like David Adelberg, Randel Eng, Joshua Zhu, John Williams, Ben Marmont, Amanda Mateer, and the list goes on and on. In addition, hundreds of chess players from all over the world are watching these games on the Internet Chess Club (ICC). For a chess professional like myself, this is an excellent opportunity to showcase my skills. Also, I am one of the few players in the league that also played in the National Chess League back in the 80s. I played several matches for the Boston team, but struggled to play well primarily because I had trouble focusing without an opponent sitting opposite me. The moves were transported via telephone and runners. All that commotion was distracting and it affected my play. The USCL games are played over the internet and your opponent is right there, just like when playing chess on the ICC, where I play thousands of games and feel very comfortable. One of the other differences between the two leagues is that in this information age, it is easier for teammates to pass information and thoughts among themselves via email. The Arizona Scorpions do this for every match. My opponent is revealed and his identity is FM John Bick and I have three days to prepare for this game. Because I have never played John, or even met him, I need to research my opponent. The first step is to gather information about my opponent. The best source for information is www.chessgames.com. Virtually every chess master in the world has games on this site, including yours truly. Other games of his came from Arizona players that have played him, his past games played in the league, and a few other sources. Sunday night, the first email comes from team manager, Leo Martinez, and it says: ?You are playing John Bick who is a strong master. He is a Petroff player. What do you play against that? And, against Sean Higgins, Bick played an Alekhine?s Defense.? On Monday morning after my research, I respond to the entire team. My email says: ?Yes, I have played through about 50 of his games. There is no way that I go down the Petroff's lines. I do not know any theory on this and I do know that there is a lot of new stuff in that area. Of course, I could just play my Center Game and avoid the Petroff completely like that. This is what he is likely expecting. The other thing that I have noticed is that he is very positional and avoids tactical frays, a brutal clash in styles. Here are the three games that I find the most interesting.? ?I frequently play the King's Gambit and could easily get him into that by either playing 1. e4 of 1. f4. I need to study and understand the following game. S Torok (2311) - John D Bick (2247) [C30] First Saturday September Budapest HUN (3), 09/04/2006 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Nf3 d6 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Bc4 c6 6.Na4 Bb4 7.a3 Ba5 8.b4 Bc7 9.fxe5 dxe5 10.Nc5 b6 11.Nd3 Nxe4 12.Qe2 Bf5 13.Bb2 Nd7 14.b5 0?0 15.bxc6 Nd6 16.Bb3 Bxd3 17.cxd3 Nc5 18.Ba2 Nf5 19.0?0 Nxd3 20.Bc3 Re8 21.Qe4 g6 22.Qc4 Re6 23.Bb1 e4 24.Bxd3 Qxd3 25.Qxd3 exd3 26.g4 Nh6 27.Nd4 Re4 28.h3 Be5 29.Nb5 Bxc3 30.Nxc3 Rc4 31.Nd5 Rc5 32.Nb4 a5 33.Nxd3 Rxc6 34.Rab1 f6 35.Rfc1 Rac8 36.Rxc6 Rxc6 37.Kf2 Kf7 38.Ke3 Ke6 39.Nf4+ Kd6 40.Kd4 f5 41.g5 Nf7 42.Nd5 Nxg5 43.Nxb6 Nxh3 44.Nc4+ Ke6 45.Re1+ Kf6 46.Kd5 Ra6 47.Kc5 g5 48.d4 Nf4 49.Ne5 Ne6+ 50.Kc4 Rd6 51.Rd1 Nxd4 52.Kc5 Kxe5 53.Re1+ Kf6 54.Kxd6 g4 55.Kd5 Nf3 56.Re2 h5 57.Kc4 h4 0?1 ?If he decides to play the Sicilian instead, I could go down this path, as I play a similar position after the following move order: 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 e6 4. Nf3 Nge7 5. d4 cd4 6. Nd4 Nd4 7. Qd4 Nc6 8. Qf2 a6 9. Bd3.? developer (1860) - JD (1935) [B82] ICC 5 0 Internet Chess Club, 08/02/2008 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.f4 Be7 7.Nf3 0?0 8.Bd3 a6 9.0?0 b5 10.a3 Bb7 11.Kh1 Nbd7 12.Qe1 Re8 13.Qg3 Rc8 14.e5 Nh5 15.Qg4 g6 16.Ne4 Bxe4 17.Bxe4 d5 18.Bd3 Ng7 19.Qh3 Qb6 20.Bd2 a5 21.Rae1 b4 22.axb4 axb4 23.b3 Nc5 24.Be3 Qb8 25.Bxc5 Rxc5 26.Nd4 Rec8 27.g4 Rc3 28.f5 Bg5 29.f6 Ne8 30.Qg3 Bh6 31.Nxe6 fxe6 32.f7+ Kf8 33.fxe8Q+ Kxe8 34.Qf3 R8c7 35.Qf6 Qc8 36.Bb5+ R7c6 37.Qh8+ Kd7 38.Qxh7+ Black resigns 1?0 ?The last game is something that I feel comfortable doing once I get the wedge position. If he changes up before this though, I could run into problems playing this position with White.? PrincessTornado (1638) - JD (1928) [A00] ICC 5 0 Internet Chess Club, 08/03/2008 1.g3 e5 2.Bg2 d5 3.d3 c6 4.Nc3 Bc5 5.Nf3 Qe7 6.0?0 Nf6 7.e4 d4 8.Ne2 Bd6 9.h3 c5 10.b3 Nc6 11.a3 Bd7 12.Nh2 0?0 13.f4 Ne8 14.f5 f6 15.g4 Bc7 16.h4 Nd6 17.g5 Kh8 18.Ng3 Rfc8 19.Qh5 Qf8 20.Ng4 Ne7 21.Kf2 Ng8 22.g6 h6 23.Rh1 b5 24.Nf1 c4 25.Nfh2 cxd3 26.cxd3 Bb6 27.Ra2 Rc3 28.Ke2 Rac8 29.Bd2 Rc2 30.Raa1 Nb7 31.Rac1 Na5 32.b4 Nb3 33.Rxc2 Rxc2 34.Rd1 a5 35.Nf3 Nxd2 36.Nxd2 axb4 37.axb4 Qxb4 38.Nf2 Ba5 39.Qf3 Rxd2+ 40.Rxd2 Qxd2+ 41.Kf1 Qe1# White checkmated 0?1 Later on Monday, my teammates respond. IM Mark Ginsburg says: ?In the Petroff, the early Nc3 line leads to kings on opposite wings and pawn storms.? 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. Nc3.In the King?s Gambit, his 2. ... Bc5 is inferior. If we knew he would do that, we should do the King?s Gambit. IM Lev Altounian says: ?Against the Petroff, how about playing a line Black really has trouble avoiding and if he has it 100% memorized, he gets a draw and if has not, he loses by force. Being a Petroff player myself, I just don?t think it is that easy to confuse theoreticians with side lines or Kings Gambit.? ?Here are some lines I would consider. ( the draw /win line ) 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Ne5 d6 4. Nf3 Ne4 5. d4 d5 6. Nd3 Nc6 7. 0-0 Be7 8. Re1 Bg4 9. c3 f5 10. Nd2 0-0 11. Qb3 Kh8 12. h3! Bh5 13. Qb7 Rf6 14. Qb3 Rb8 15. Qc2 Rg6 16. Be2 and now only Bd6! with a 4 piece sac secures a draw. all others almost lose.? ?If not, 3. d4 Ne4 4. Bd3 d5 5. de Be7 6. 0-0 0-0 7. Nc3 ( or Nd2 ) or 3. Ne5 d6 4. Nc4 Ne4 5. d4 d5 6. Ne3 with super interesting game where usually Black doesn't know it well.? ?I wouldn?t go into memorizing more exact lines as he can easily switch. If it turns to be a diff. opening like Sicilian, then he would have only 1 line he plays and will be easy to prep.? My response to IM Lev Altounian: ?This seems like a bad idea. I never play any Petroffs because I play the Center Game normally and know ZERO about this stuff. If he plays just a single move different, I will be at a severe disadvantage.? FM Robby Adamson says: ?I agree in your assessment of Bick. I know John pretty well because I have gone to a lot of the same tournaments. He is not super gifted tactically (who plays the Petroff and is??). If you catch him off guard, his strength goes down considerably. If you don't feel comfortable with the Petroff, the Kings Gambit might be a good choice. One thing for sure about John - he blunders and miscalculates quitefrequently. His nerves are not that good I don't think. You can also check out his last game in the USCL when he lost to Chicago's board 4 - he seemed to lose the thread of the game.? My response to FM Robby Adamson: ?Yes, I see what you mean:? Bick,John (2249) - Strunk,Adam (2113) [D85]1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bd2 Bg7 6.e4 Nb6 7.Be3 Nc6 8.Bb5 0-0 9.Nge2 Na5 10.b3 e5 11.d5 c6 12.dxc6 bxc6 13.Bd3 Qc7 14.Qc2 Be6 15.Ng3 Rfd8 16.0-0 c5 17.Nb5 Qb7 18.Bxc5 Rac8 19.b4 Bf8 20.Rfc1 Nd7 21.Qa4 Nxc5 22.bxc5 Rxd3 23.Qxa5 Bxc5 24.Rd1 Bc4 25.Rxd3 Bxd3 26.a4 a6 27.Qd2 Bxe4 28.Nd6 Bxd6 29.Qxd6 Bxg2 30.Qxe5 h5 31.Qg5 Bh3 32.Nxh5 Rb8 33.Nf6+ Kg7 34.Re1 Qf3 35.Ne4 Qxe4 White resigns 0-1 ?He basically overloaded in a wide open very tactical position. This is my strength.? IM Rogelio Barcenilla says: ?My advise is just play your normal opening which is you are very familiar with this is not the right time to prepare on something different because you might end up memorizing the whole variation which is not a good idea. If you can find some improvements on his past games as Black that you are familiar then check on it but if not then better just stick to your own variation.? At this point, I have digested all the experience and wisdom that my teammates have supplied. From my research and everything I now know about FM John Bick, I have decided that if he plays the Alekhine?s Defense, which I play regularly and know extremely well, I can just wing it during the game. If John plays the Sicilian, I can play the line that I stated previously. But, the most likely course for John is to play e5 and against the King?s Gambit, he is likely to play 2. Bc5, as in the aforementioned Torok ? Bick game. Later on Monday, I start dissecting the Torok - Bick game. The first step I took, was to completely review the game, move by move, and with the assistance of my chess computer, I try to understand what happened in the game and why. The next step was to return to www.chessgames.com and kick in the Opening Explorer feature on the site. I proceed down the game, move by move, looking for alternate moves that I can play against him. While doing this step, I stumble on the variation: 1. e4 e5 2. f4 Bc5 3. Qh5. As I play through the sample games, I feel that this is the move that I am looking for. A move that he has likely never seen before and will come as a complete surprise to him, and a move that will help me exploit my advantage as a tactical player. At this point, I tell the team about my research and my intention to play 3. Qh5 in the King?s Gambit. The Team Manager, Leo Martinez, responds with: ?Can you send me some of your analysis on the Qh5 stuff your looking at. Sounds interesting. Hopefully all this discussion helped.? In response, I email the following games: Dr. Julius Perlis - Georg Marco [C30] Vienna gt Vienna gt, 1904 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Qh5 d6 4.fxe5 g6 5.Qf3 dxe5 6.Bc4 Qh4+ 7.g3 Qf6 8.Nc3 Bxg1 9.Qxf6 Nxf6 10.Rxg1 Bh3 11.d4 [11.d3 c6 12.Bd2 Nbd7 13.Nd1 Ng4 14.Rh1 0?0 15.Nc3 ] 11...Nc6 12.Bg5 Ng4 13.Nd5 Nxd4 14.0?0?0 0?0 15.Bf1 Nf2 16.Bf6 Nc6 17.Rd2 Bxf1 18.Rxf2 Bc4 19.b3 Bxd5 20.exd5 Nb4 21.Be7 Nxd5 22.Bxf8 Kxf8 23.Rd1 Nb6 24.c4 c6 25.a4 a5 26.g4 Ke7 27.g5 Rf8 28.Rfd2 Rh8 29.Rd3 h6 30.Rh3 h5 31.Re3 Nd7 32.h4 Rf8 33.Rf1 Ke6 34.Kc2 f5 35.gxf6 Rxf6 36.Rxf6+ Nxf6 37.Kd3 c5 38.Rg3 Ng4 39.Ke4 Nf6+ 40.Ke3 Ng4+ ??? R Hewitt - B Copley [C30] corr, 1949 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Qh5 Nc6 4.Bc4 Qf6 5.Nc3 Nge7 6.Nf3 g6 7.fxe5 Qg7 8.Qg5 h6 9.Qf6 Qh7 10.Bxf7+ Qxf7 11.Qxh8+ Ng8 12.Nd5 Kd8 13.d4 Bf8 14.0?0 Qg7 15.Ng5 hxg5 16.Bxg5+ Nce7 17.Bxe7+ Nxe7 18.Rxf8+ 1?0 Gerard Welling - Mergits [C30] Gent open, 1985 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Qh5 Qe7 4.Qxe5 Qxe5 5.fxe5 Bd4 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.c3 Bxe5 8.Nxe5 Nxe5 9.d4 Ng6 10.Na3 a6 11.Bd3 N8e7 12.0?0 d6 13.Nc4 0?0 14.Ne3 Bd7 15.Bd2 Bc6 16.b4 b5 17.g3 Rae8 18.Rfe1 Nc8 19.Nf5 Nb6 20.Rad1 f6 21.h4 d5 22.exd5 Nxd5 23.h5 Nge7 24.h6 Nxf5 25.Bxf5 g6 26.Be6+ Kh8 27.a4 Nb6 28.a5 Nd5 29.Kf2 f5 30.Bf4 Nxf4 31.gxf4 Be4 32.Bb3 c6 33.Re3 Rd8 34.Rde1 Rd6 35.R3e2 Re8 36.Bc2 Rde6 37.Bxe4 fxe4 38.Ke3 Kg8 39.Rg1 Kf7 40.Rg5 Kf6 41.Reg2 Rd8 42.Rc5 Rd5 43.Rg5 Rf5 44.Re5 Rxg5 45.Rxg5 Kf7 46.Re5 Kf6 47.Kxe4 Rd6 48.Kf3 Rd5 49.Kg4 Rd6 50.Re8 Re6 51.Rc8 Kf7 52.Kg5 Re1 53.Rc7+ Ke6 54.Rxc6+ Kd5 55.Rc5+ Kd6 56.Kf6 Rh1 57.Kg7 Rh4 58.Kxh7 1?0 P Bucker - M Maier [C30] Dortmund op, 1987 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Qh5 Nc6 4.fxe5 g6 5.Qe2 Nxe5 6.c3 Bf8 7.d4 Nc6 8.Nf3 Bg7 9.Bf4 d6 10.Nbd2 Bd7 11.Qe3 Nf6 12.h3 0?0 13.Bd3 Re8 14.Bg5 Qc8 15.0?0 Nh5 16.Kh2 d5 17.Qf2 dxe4 18.Nxe4 f5 19.Nc5 h6 20.Bd2 b6 21.Bc4+ Kh7 22.Nd3 Be6 23.Bb5 Bd7 24.Rae1 Rxe1 25.Rxe1 Qf8 26.Nf4 Qd6 27.g3 Nf6 28.Bxc6 Qxc6 29.Ne5 Ne4 30.Rxe4 Qxe4 31.Nxd7 Re8 32.h4 Qe7 33.Ne5 Bxe5 34.dxe5 Qxe5 35.Qf3 Qe4 36.Kg2 g5 37.hxg5 hxg5 38.Nd5 Qe2+ 39.Qf2 Qxf2+ 40.Kxf2 Rd8 41.c4 c6 42.Bxg5 Rd6 43.Bf4 Re6 44.Ne3 Kg6 45.Ke2 Re7 46.Kd3 Rd7+ 47.Kc3 Kf6 48.Nc2 Rd8 49.Nd4 Rc8 50.c5 Kg6 51.Kc4 Kf6 52.a4 Kg6 53.b3 Kf6 54.b4 Kg6 55.cxb6 axb6 56.a5 c5 57.axb6 1?0 Frank Zeller (2455) - G Schwalbe (2150) [C30] Neckar Open Deizisau GER (2), 04/06/1998 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Qh5 d6 4.fxe5 g6 5.Qf3 dxe5 6.Bc4 Qe7 7.Nc3 c6 8.Nge2 Be6 9.Bxe6 Qxe6 10.d3 Nd7 11.Bd2 0?0?0 12.0?0?0 f6 13.g4 Ne7 14.Ng3 Rhf8 15.Rdf1 b5 16.Kb1 Nb6 17.h4 b4 18.Nce2 Rd7 19.Nc1 Nc4 20.dxc4 Rxd2 21.Nb3 Rfd8 22.Nxd2 Rxd2 23.Kc1 Rd6 24.b3 Qd7 25.Rd1 Bd4 26.Kb1 Qc7 27.g5 Ng8 28.Ne2 Qa5 29.h5 fxg5 30.Nxd4 exd4 31.hxg6 h6 32.Qf7 Qd8 33.Qxa7 Rxg6 34.Rxd4 Rd6 35.Rxd6 Qxd6 36.Qa8+ Qb8 37.Qxc6+ Qc7 38.Qe6+ 1?0 J Claesen (2248) - Hans Klip (2327) [C30] Belgian Interteam Antwerp BEL (6), 1999 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Qh5 Nf6 4.Qxe5+ Be7 5.Nc3 0?0 6.Qb5 Nc6 7.e5 Ng4 8.Nf3 d6 9.d4 dxe5 10.dxe5 Nb4 11.Bd3 b6 12.Be4 Ba6 13.Qa4 Bc5 14.Bd2 Nf2 15.a3 Nxh1 16.axb4 Bf2+ 17.Kd1 Bf1 18.Qc6 Rb8 19.g3 Bg2 20.Ke2 Bxg3 21.Rg1 Bxf3+ 22.Bxf3 Qh4 23.Rxh1 Bxf4 24.Qe4 Bg5 25.Be1 ??? Luis Ernesto Rodi - Monier Raul [C30] Najdorf mem Great fin Buenos Aires (1), 09/09/2000 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Qh5 d6 4.fxe5 g6 5.Qf3 dxe5 6.Bc4 Qh4+ 7.g3 Qe7 8.Nc3 c6 9.Nge2 Be6 10.Bb3 Nd7 11.d3 0?0?0 12.Bd2 h5 13.0?0?0 f5 14.h4 Rf8 15.Bg5 Qe8 16.d4 Bxb3 17.axb3 fxe4 18.Qg2 exd4 19.Nxe4 Nh6 20.Nxd4 Nf5 21.Rhe1 Qf7 22.Ne6 Qxe6 23.Nxc5 Nxc5 24.Rxe6 Nxe6 25.Bd2 Rd8 26.Re1 Rd6 27.Qf2 Rhd8 28.Bb4 c5 29.Bxc5 Rc6 30.b4 b6 31.Qg2 Kc7 32.b5 1?0 Luis Ernesto Rodi (2225) - Bernardo Roselli Mailhe (2400) [C30] 1st Masters Pinamar ARG (6), 3/13/2001 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Qh5 d6 4.fxe5 g6 5.Qf3 dxe5 6.Bc4 Be6 7.Bxe6 fxe6 8.Ne2 Nc6 9.d3 Qe7 10.h4 h6 11.Qg3 0?0?0 12.Rf1 Rf8 13.Rxf8+ Qxf8 14.Bd2 [14.Nd2 g5 15.Nf3 gxh4 16.Qxh4 Qf6 17.Qh5 Nge7 18.Bd2 Bb4 19.c3 Bd6 20.0?0?0 Qg6 21.Qxg6 Nxg6 22.g3 Rf8 23.Rf1 h5] 14...Nf6 15.Nbc3 Nh5 16.Qf3 Qxf3 17.gxf3 Be7 18.0?0?0 Bxh4 19.Rh1 g5 20.Nd1 Rf8 21.Rh3 Nd4 22.Ng1 Ng3 23.c3 Nde2+ 24.Nxe2 Nxe2+ 25.Kc2 Ng1 26.Rh1 Nxf3 27.Be3 h5 28.Bf2 Bxf2 29.Nxf2 g4 30.Rxh5 g3 31.Nh3 g2 32.a4 g1Q 33.Nxg1 Nxg1 34.Rxe5 Kd7 35.d4 Rf2+ 36.Kb3 Nf3 37.Rb5 Nd2+ 38.Ka2 b6 39.e5 a6 40.Rb4 a5 41.Rb5 Nc4 42.d5 Rd2 43.dxe6+ Kxe6 44.Kb1 c6 45.Rb3 Rd1+ 46.Ka2 Kxe5 0?1 FM Robby Adamson says: ?Two things:? ?1. John is pretty stubborn so I would guess he will play 1...e5. I was talking to Levon and he suggested that you make sure you look at 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Nc6 (since it can transpose after Black then plays Bc5), and this would avoid your Qh5 prep.? ?2. Since you are not an Open Sicilian player, he might prep for a Grand Prix but probably with e6 system of some sort. Just his style it seems to me.? ?Check this game out:? Shabalov, Alexander (2601) - Stamnov, A (2231) [C30] Philadelphia National Congress Philadelphia (Round 1), 11/26/2000 [Nigel Davies] This is a rather scrappy looking game, probably played at a fast time limit, but as Shabalov is a World Class Player his opening play will always be interesting. >From a theoretical point of view Black's 9...Qe7 does not look like an improvement on Alekhine - Tenner. 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Nf3 d6 4.Bc4 Nc6 5.d3 Nf6 6.Nc3 Bg4 7.Na4 exf4 8.Nxc5 dxc5 9.Bxf4 Qe7 10.h3 [A promising alternative is 10.Bb5 after which 10...0?0 11.Bxc6 bxc6 12.0?0 c4 13.Qd2 left White clearly better in Spielmann - Perlis, Vienna 1910] 10...Bxf3 11.Qxf3 Nd4 12.Qf2 b5 13.Bb3 0?0 14.0?0 Ne6 15.Be5 White's bishop pair are becoming very threatening, but Black's next manages to eliminate one of them at the cost of some pawn weaknesses. 15...Nxe4! 16.dxe4 c4 17.Bxc4 bxc4 18.Rae1 c5 19.Qe2 Rfe8 20.Qxc4 Rad8 21.Bc3 Qh4 22.Re3 Rd7 23.Qb5 Qe7 24.Ref3 Qd8 25.Rf5 h6 26.Rd5 Ree7 27.Qa4 Rxd5 28.exd5 Qxd5 29.Re1 Rd7 30.Qg4 Qg5 [It seems that Black could have played 30...Qxa2 as 31.Bxg7 is answered by 31...h5] 31.Qe2 Rd8 32.a4 Qg6 33.Rf1 Rd5 34.Qf3 Rd7 35.Qc6 Rd8 36.Qb7 Ng5 37.Qe7 Rd5 38.h4 Ne6 39.Qxa7 Rh5 40.Be1 Nd4 41.Qe7 f6 42.c3 Nc2 43.Bf2 Re5 44.Qd8+ Kh7 45.Qd2 Qe4 46.Rc1 Ne3 47.Bxe3 Qxe3+ 48.Qxe3 Rxe3 49.a5 c4 50.Ra1 Re7 51.a6 Ra7 52.Kf2 g5 53.hxg5 fxg5 54.Ke3 1?0 My response to FM Robby Adamson: ?Cool, I will look at Nc6, but it should just transpose into what I am used to. Most players react conservatively with either d6 or Nc6 and sometimes both which just leads to a good position for White. And, yes, I just send an email to Leo about my past games with those guys and think that a Sicilian is a possibility. I have a line that I can play that is similar to the Sicilian game that I sent you.? ?Yes, normally I do not play Qh5. I play Nf3 and Bc4, etc. What's weird is that Qh5 seems really aggressive but most of the time, the games end up in minor piece middlegames/endgames, as the queens are usually traded off. In games where Black does not force the trade, White has a huge plus.? Over the next couple of days, I reviewed the games over and over. When I arrived at the match site (Abstrax, 2222 S. Dobson Rd, Suite 500 (Building 5), Mesa AZ 85202), I was early and had time to review one last time. I had determined that the key game was the one that follows. So, I looked at it some more. After White?s fifth move, I analyzed what would happen if Black played the move 5. Nd4, instead of 5. Nxe5. This would turn out to be very important. P Buecker - M Maier [C30] 1987 Dortmund Open 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Qh5 Nc6 4.fxe5 g6 5.Qe2 Nxe5 6.c3 Bf8 7.d4 Nc6 8.Nf3 Bg7 9.Bf4 d6 10.Nbd2 Bd7 11.Qe3 Nf6 12.h3 0?0 13.Bd3 Re8 14.Bg5 Qc8 15.0?0 Nh5 16.Kh2 d5 17.Qf2 dxe4 18.Nxe4 f5 19.Nc5 h6 20.Bd2 b6 21.Bc4+ Kh7 22.Nd3 Be6 23.Bb5 Bd7 24.Rae1 Rxe1 25.Rxe1 Qf8 26.Nf4 Qd6 27.g3 Nf6 28.Bxc6 Qxc6 29.Ne5 Ne4 30.Rxe4 Qxe4 31.Nxd7 Re8 32.h4 Qe7 33.Ne5 Bxe5 34.dxe5 Qxe5 35.Qf3 Qe4 36.Kg2 g5 37.hxg5 hxg5 38.Nd5 Qe2+ 39.Qf2 Qxf2+ 40.Kxf2 Rd8 41.c4 c6 42.Bxg5 Rd6 43.Bf4 Re6 44.Ne3 Kg6 45.Ke2 Re7 46.Kd3 Rd7+ 47.Kc3 Kf6 48.Nc2 Rd8 49.Nd4 Rc8 50.c5 Kg6 51.Kc4 Kf6 52.a4 Kg6 53.b3 Kf6 54.b4 Kg6 55.cxb6 axb6 56.a5 c5 57.axb6 1?0 The last decision was to decide whether to play 1. e4 or 1. f4. Ultimately, I decided to play 1. f4 because I felt it gave him fewer options and because most ?old time? players really enjoy playing the From?s Gambit. Now, for the game: Joel Johnson - ARZ (2211) - FM John Bick - TEN (2249) [C30] ICC 75 30 u United States Chess League, 09/17/2008 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 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 As you can see, this game was a team effort and along with Robbie Adamson?s victory, propelled the team to victory in the match. What makes this victory special, besides the team effort, was that virtually all the bloggers did not give us much of a chance to win. But, I can tell you that everyone on our team thought that we would win the match and we did (2 ? - 1 ?)! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080918/334a8867/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Sep 18 20:15:37 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:15:37 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] http://www.chess.com/ Message-ID: <1221790537.48d30b49ed600@www.taom.com> You can read about Ray Robson in Miami or Joel Johnson in the Chess League at http://www.chess.com/ US Chess League, Week 4: Queens Maintain Perfection Alexandra Kosteniuk Wins 2008 Women's World Championship 13 Year-Old Ray Robson Wins Miami Open Kosteniuk Nearly Home http://www.chess.com/ From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Sep 18 20:53:49 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:53:49 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Matthew O'Hara has a story to tell about John Bick, Joel Johnson's USCL opponent Message-ID: <1221792829.48d3143df0a98@www.taom.com> Matthew OHara ----- Forwarded message from Matthew OHara ----- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:24:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew OHara Reply-To: Matthew OHara Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Joel Johnson - Preparing For "The Match" To: Brian Wall I have a John Bick story to tell. I attest that the following is true and can supply witnesses to this effect. In the final round of the 2002 Louisiana State Championship on Labor Day John Bick Jr. was playing an A player on the top board for the championship. They get into time trouble and have a mad scramble. The crowd is three deep with people standing on chairs craning their necks to catch the action. Seconds remain and pieces are flying. Suddenly a cell phone goes off. John Bick Sr. is right there and starts demanding, "Whose cell phone is that?" John Jr. says, "Dad that's your phone." John then wins a picce and the game. Matthew O'Hara Matthew OHara ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Wall ----- Original Message ---- From: Brian Wall To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com; UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com; Brian Wall Chesslist Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:03:46 PM Subject: [BrianWallChess] Joel Johnson - Preparing For "The Match" This is one of the best games and game descriptions I have ever read. Joel has come a long way from our homless shelter days. Brian Wall ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Johnson ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:07:25 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: Preparing For "The Match" To: Brian Wall Preparing For ?The Match? by NM Joel Johnson 09/17/2008 When I was asked to play for the Arizona Scorpions of the United States Chess League (USCL), I was told that I would be an alternate, and thus, limited to playing in just two matches. This was actually good for me, as I already lead a very active chess life here in Phoenix, Arizona and I realize how much time and effort is required to compete successfully against top level chess masters. Nothing ever comes easy. My schedule these days is filled with teaching chess to many students like young, up and coming chess stars, Joshua Zhu, Tyler Sypherd, Mike Oldehoff, and Alec Andersen, running my chess club, Valley Chess (see www.valleychess. org), writing a new attack book, and playing more USCF rated games than anyone in the entire State of Arizona. It?s all part of promoting the royal game of chess and resurrecting the adult chess scene in Phoenix. But, surely I digress. So, at the beginning of the season, I was told by Team Manager, Leo Martinez that I would be making my USCL debut in the fourth match of the year against the Tennessee Tempo. On the Sunday preceding the match, the official lineups for each team became known and now, I have a serious chess game to prepare for. I cannot understate how important a match like this is to Arizona Chess. We have many young chess stars that will be heard from for years to come. Players like David Adelberg, Randel Eng, Joshua Zhu, John Williams, Ben Marmont, Amanda Mateer, and the list goes on and on. In addition, hundreds of chess players from all over the world are watching these games on the Internet Chess Club (ICC). For a chess professional like myself, this is an excellent opportunity to showcase my skills. Also, I am one of the few players in the league that also played in the National Chess League back in the 80s. I played several matches for the Boston team, but struggled to play well primarily because I had trouble focusing without an opponent sitting opposite me. The moves were transported via telephone and runners. All that commotion was distracting and it affected my play. The USCL games are played over the internet and your opponent is right there, just like when playing chess on the ICC, where I play thousands of games and feel very comfortable. One of the other differences between the two leagues is that in this information age, it is easier for teammates to pass information and thoughts among themselves via email. The Arizona Scorpions do this for every match. My opponent is revealed and his identity is FM John Bick and I have three days to prepare for this game. Because I have never played John, or even met him, I need to research my opponent. The first step is to gather information about my opponent. The best source for information is www.chessgames. com. Virtually every chess master in the world has games on this site, including yours truly. Other games of his came from Arizona players that have played him, his past games played in the league, and a few other sources. Joel Johnson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080918/204adc76/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Sep 18 22:43:45 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:43:45 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Robson-Gonzalez 2008 Miami Open Message-ID: <1221799425.48d32e01055e7@www.taom.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robson crushed my Scandinavian in the 2008 Florida Open- I should have resigned much earlier. [Event "2008 Florida Open"] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.31"] [Round "3"] [White "IM Ray Robson"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2468"] [BlackElo "2203"] [Opening "Scandinavian, Center Counter"] [Time "1 PM"] [TimeControl "Game, 155 minutes, 5 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nf3 Bg4 4.Be2 Nf6 5.d4 e6 6.c4 Qd6 7.0-0 c5 8.Nc3 cxd4 9.Nb5 Qb6 10.Bf4 Na6 11.Qa4 Nd7 12.Ne5 Bxe2 13.Nxd7 Kxd7 14.Nxd4+ Ke7 15.Nxe2 f6 16.Rad1 Nc5 17.Qa3 a5 18.Be3 Ke8 19.Nf4 Rc8 20.Bxc5 Rxc5 21.Qh3 Kf7 22.Rd7+ Be7 23.Re1 Re5 24.Rxe5 fxe5 25.Qh5+ Kf6 26.Qh4+ g5 27.Nd5+ exd5 28.Qh6+ Kf7 29.Qxb6 dxc4 30.Qxb7 Re8 31.Qd5+ Kf6 32.Qxc4 Rc8 33.Qxc8 1-0 I finally give up ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I barely survive with my Scandinavian against Josh Bloomer. [Event "Poor Richard's Wednesday Tournament"] [Site "Colorado Springs, CO"] [Date "2007.08.22"] [Round "3"] [White "Josh Bloomer"] [Black "brianwall"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ICCResult "White forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "2225"] [BlackElo "2182"] [Opening "Scandinavian: Pytel-Wade variation"] [ECO "B01"] [NIC "SD.02"] [Time "15:34:11"] [TimeControl "Game/90 5 scond delay"] 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd6 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 a6 6. g3 Bg4 7. Bg2 e6 8. h3 Bh5 9. g4 Bg6 10. Ne5 Nc6 11. Bf4 Nxe5 12. dxe5 Qxd1+ 13. Rxd1 Nd5 14. Nxd5 exd5 15. Bxd5 O-O-O 16. O-O Be7 17. c3 h5 18. Bf3 Bd3 19. Rfe1 Bc4 20. b3 Be6 21. Kg2 hxg4 22. hxg4 a5 23. Rxd8+ Rxd8 24. Rd1 a4 25. Rxd8+ Kxd8 26. bxa4 c6 27. Be3 Bxa2 28. Be4 Bc4 29. f4 g6 30. Bb6+ Ke8 31. Kf3 Bh4 32. Ke3 Be1 33. Bd4 Kd7 34. Bd3 Bb3 35. a5 Bd1 36. g5 Bg4 1/2-1/2 after 30 more unrecorded moves ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - I barely survive with my Scandinavian against Renard Anderson. [Event "Pikes Peak"] [Site "City Hall, 606 Manitou Avenue, Manitou Springs, CO"] [Date "2007.08.12" ] [Round "5"] [White "Renard Anderson"] [Black "brianwall"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ICCResult "Game drawn by mutual agreement"] [WhiteElo "2237"] [BlackElo "2234"] [Opening "Scandinavian: Pytel-Wade variation"] [ECO "B01"] [NIC "SD.02"] [Time "00:31:54"] [TimeControl "40/2, Game/55 plus 5 second delay"] 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd6 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 a6 6. g3 b5 7. a3 Bb7 8. Bg2 e6 9. O-O c5 10. Re1 cxd4 11. Nxd4 Bxg2 12. Kxg2 Nc6 13. Qf3 Rc8 14. Nf5 Qb8 15. Bf4 Qa8 16. Rad1 g6 17. Nd6+ Bxd6 18. Bxd6 Na5 19. Qxa8 Rxa8 20. Be5 Ke7 21. Ne4 Nxe4 22. Bxh8 Nxf2 23. Kxf2 Rxh8 24. b3 Rc8 25. Rd2 h5 26. Re3 Rc6 27. Red3 e5 28. Ke1 Ke6 29. Kd1 Nb7 30. Re3 Nd6 31. Rde2 e4 32. Rxe4+ 1/2-1/2 ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I did a Chess video on this called- The Perfect Game- Bloomer's moves were almost 100% computer perfect. It's the same line that Robson used against Gonzalez. [Event "Winter Springs Open"] [Site "?"] [Date "2005.12.03" ] [Round "2"] [White "Bloomer, Josh"] [Black "Glassman, Art"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B01"] [WhiteElo "2193"] [BlackElo "1918"] [PlyCount "61"] [EventDate "2005.11.30" ] [SourceDate "2005.11.30" ] 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. d4 c6 5. Nf3 Nf6 6. Bc4 Bf5 7. Bd2 e6 8. Nd5 Qd8 9. Nxf6+ gxf6 10. Bb3 Nd7 11. Qe2 Be7 12. O-O-O Qc7 13. Rhe1 O-O-O 14.Nh4 Bg6 15. g3 f5 16. Bf4 Bd6 17. Ng2 Rhe8 18. h4 Bxf4+ 19. Nxf4 e5 20. dxe5 Rxe5 21. Qf3 h5 22. Nxh5 Rxe1 23. Rxe1 Ne5 24. Qe2 Ng4 25. Nf4 Nf6 26. Nxg6 fxg6 27. Qe6+ Qd7 28. Rd1 Qxe6 29. Bxe6+ Kc7 30. Rxd8 Kxd8 31. Bf7 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I beat Robert Ramirez with the Scandinavian. [Event "2006 Colorado Closed"] [Site "Ramada Inn, 2601 Zuni, Denver, Colorado"] [Date "2006.04.01"] [Round "6"] [White "Robert Ramirez"] [Black "brianwall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2050"] [BlackElo "2218"] [Opening "Scandinavian: Pytel-Wade variation"] [ECO "B01"] [NIC "SD.02"] [Time "19:04:54"] [TimeControl "40/2 Game/1 hour 5 second delay"] 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd6 4. d4 Nf6 5. h3 c6 6. Nf3 Bf5 7. Bc4 e6 8. Bg5 Nbd7 9. Qe2 b5 10. Bd3 Bxd3 11. Qxd3 Nd5 12. Nxd5 cxd5 13. O-O Rb8 14. Bh4 Qc7 15. Ng5 Nf6 16. Rae1 Bd6 17. Nxe6 fxe6 18. Bxf6 gxf6 19. Rxe6+ Kd7 20. Qf5 Kc6 21. Rfe1 Rbd8 22. R1e3 b4 23. a3 a5 24. axb4 axb4 25. b3 Qa5 26. Qxf6 Rhe8 27. g3 Rxe6 28. Rxe6 Rd7 29. Re8 Qa1+ 30. Kg2 Qd1 31. Rc8+ Kb7 32. Qh8 Rf7 33. f4 Re7 34. h4 h5 35. Re8 Qe2+ 0-1 Robert resigns ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ray's crush of IM Renier Gonzalez was mostly book. [Event "2008 Miami Open"] [Site "Hyatt Regency - Miami Convention Center, Florida"] [Date "2008.09.??"] [Round "?"] [White "IM Ray Robson"] [Black "IM Renier Gonzalez"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2468"] [BlackElo "2550"] [Opening "Scandinavian, Center Counter"] [Time "?"] [TimeControl "Game, 155 minutes, 5 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] http://www.chess.com/news/13-year-old-ray-robson-wins-miami-open http://www.themiamichessopen.com/ THE MIAMI CHESS OPEN 2008 September 10-14, 2008 Hyatt Regency - Miami Convention Center IM Ray Robson 2539( 13 years old ) versus IM Renier Gonzalez ( 2550 ) 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 c6 6.Bc4 Bf5 7.Bd2 e6 8.Nd5 Qd8 9.Nxf6+ Qxf6 10.Qe2 Nd7 11.0-0-0 Nb6 12.Bg5 Qg6 13.d5 Nxc4 14.Qxc4 exd5 15.Rhe1+ Be6 16.Rxd5 Be7 17.Bxe7 cxd5 18.Qb4 Rc8 19.Nd4 Qh6+ 20.Kb1 a5 21.Qxb7 Qd2 22.Bb4 axb4 23.Qxc8+ Ke7 24.Qc7+ Ke8 25.Nf3 Qxf2 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------- IM Ray Robson 2539( 13 years old ) versus IM Renier Gonzalez ( 2550 ) 1.e4 d5 2.exd5! Qxd5! 3.Nc3! Qa5 4.d4! Nf6! 5.Nf3! c6 6.Bc4 Bf5 7.Bd2 e6! 8.Nd5 Qd8! 9.Nxf6+! Qxf6! 10.Qe2! Nd7 11.0-0-0! Played 100 times before 11 ... Nb6! Played thrice by Eric Prie and 53 times by others 12.Bg5!!! Played 19 times. Fritz 9 also likes 12 h4!!, played once before 1-0, 46 moves 12 ... Qg6! 13.d5 White won all 6 times he played this before. Fritz 9 prefers 13 h4!!, played once by Fressinet and a dozen others 13 ... Nxc4! Black lost all 4 times he played this 14.Qxc4! exd5! Black lost all 3 times he played this 15.Rhe1+!! Ray has another option here - 15 R:d5! cd 16 Re1+ Be7 17 R:e7+ Kf8 18 Q:d5 with a pawn, a safer King and an attack for the exchange 15 ... Be6! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Forced. Black already lost with 15 ... B:e4? 16 R:d5! cd! 17 Q:d5! f5! 18 Q:b7! and the best Black can do is 18 ... Qe6 19 Q:a8+ B:a8 20 R:e6+ Ray is two pawns up with the more active game By playing Rhe1+ first and then R:d5, Black doesn't have the ... Be7 option open. 15 Rhe1+ Kd7 16 R:d5+!! kills ---------------------------------------------------------------- 16.Rxd5!!! Fritz 9 also likes 16 Qf4!!, played once by John Barlow 1-0, 48 moves 16 ... Be7! 17.Bxe7!! cxd5! 18.Qb4!! Rc8! 19.Nd4!! This has all been played before. 19 ... Qh6+?? TL Theoeretical Mega-Lemon by IM Renier Gonzalez. Looks like one 2500 didn't do their homework. Peter Kuehn lost to 19 ... Rc7 20 Bd6 6 1/2 years ago 19 ... Rc7 is well met by 20 Qd6!!!, Bd6!!! or Bc5! Unbeknownst to Renier, Black has actually been busted for quite some time. The last decent improvement is 13 d5 B:c2! 14 Rde1, Q:c2 or de all give Ray some edge. This line has never been tested. 20.Kb1!!! with overwhelming threats like Q:b7, Nf5, Qd6, N:e6 20 Re3!!! is also completely winning 20 ... a5? 21.Qxb7!! Qd2! 22.Bb4!!! guarding the e1-rook, attacking the Queen and threatening mate in one 22 ... axb4! 22 ... Q:b4 23 Q:c8+ Ke7 24 Qc7+ Ke8 25 c3 Qe7 26 N:e6 is one crushing line 23.Qxc8+! Ke7! 24.Qc7+!! Ke8 Renier is only a pawn down after 24 ... Kf6! 25 Qe5+ Ke7 26 f4 but he is getting wiped off the board. 25.Nf3!! Qxf2! 1-0 Ray will pick up a free rook with 26 Qc8+ Ke7 27 Q:h8. Ray may be only 13 but he makes his titled opponents feel 6 years old. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE MIAMI CHESS OPEN 2008 September 10-14, 2008 Hyatt Regency - Miami Convention Center IM Ray Robson 2539( 13 years old ) versus IM Renier Gonzalez ( 2550 ) 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 c6 6.Bc4 Bf5 7.Bd2 e6 8.Nd5 Qd8 9.Nxf6+ Qxf6 10.Qe2 Nd7 11.0-0-0 Nb6 12.Bg5 Qg6 13.d5 Nxc4 14.Qxc4 exd5 15.Rhe1+ Be6 16.Rxd5 Be7 17.Bxe7 cxd5 18.Qb4 Rc8 19.Nd4 Qh6+ 20.Kb1 a5 21.Qxb7 Qd2 22.Bb4 axb4 23.Qxc8+ Ke7 24.Qc7+ Ke8 25.Nf3 Qxf2 1-0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "SUI-chT"] [Site "Switzerland"] [Date "2002.03.03"] [Round "8"] [White "Maeser,Fabian"] [Black "Kuehn,Peter"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B01"] 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 c6 5.Bc4 Bf5 6.Nf3 Nf6 7.Bd2 e6 8.Nd5 Qd8 9.Nxf6+ Qxf6 10.Qe2 Nd7 11.0-0-0 Nb6 12.Bg5 Qg6 13.d5 Nxc4 14.Qxc4 exd5 15.Rhe1+ Be6 16.Rxd5 Be7 17.Bxe7 cxd5 18.Qb4 Rc8 19.Nd4 Rc7 20.Bd6 Rd7 21.f4 Kd8 22.Qa5+ Kc8 23.Qc5+ Kd8 24.Qa5+ Kc8 25.Qc5+ Kd8 26.f5 Qg5+ 27.Kb1 Bxf5 28.Qa5+ Kc8 29.Qc5+ Kd8 30.Qxa7 Rxd6 31.Qb8+ Kd7 32.Qxb7+ Kd8 33.Qb8+ Kd7 34.Qb7+ Kd8 35.Nb5 Bxc2+ 36.Ka1 Rc6 37.Qxc6 Qf4 38.Qa8+ Kd7 39.Qxd5+ 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICCF Jubilee P070 email"] [Site "ICCF Email"] [Date "2001.09.01"] [Round "0"] [White "Barlow,John A"] [Black "Wuerzebesser,Ray"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B01"] 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.d4 c6 6.Bc4 Bf5 7.Bd2 e6 8.Nd5 Qd8 9.Nxf6+ Qxf6 10.Qe2 Nd7 11.0-0-0 Nb6 12.Bg5 Qg6 13.d5 Nxc4 14.Qxc4 exd5 15.Rhe1+ Be6 16.Qf4 h6 17.Bh4 Rc8 18.Rd3 Bc5 19.Rc3 Bf8 20.Ne5 Qh5 21.Rh3 Bd6 22.g4 Qxg4 23.Qxg4 Bxg4 24.Nxg4+ Kd7 25.Ne5+ Bxe5 26.Rxe5 Rhe8 27.Rxe8 Rxe8 28.Rb3 b6 29.Kd2 g5 30.Bg3 f5 31.h4 f4 32.Bh2 Ke6 33.hxg5 hxg5 34.Rh3 Kf5 35.f3 Rg8 36.Bg1 g4 37.Rh5+ Rg5 38.fxg4+ Kxg4 39.Rxg5+ Kxg5 40.Ke2 Kg4 41.b4 f3+ 42.Kf2 Kf4 43.Bh2+ Ke4 44.Bb8 a6 45.Ba7 b5 46.c3 Kd3 47.Bd4 Ke4 48.Kg3 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "EU-ch U16"] [Site "Peniscola"] [Date "2002.09.29"] [Round "1"] [White "Alcazar Jimenez,Victor Manuel"] [Black "Dietmayer Kraeutler,Marco"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B01"] 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Bc4 c6 6.Nf3 Bf5 7.Bd2 e6 8.Nd5 Qd8 9.Nxf6+ Qxf6 10.Qe2 Nd7 11.0-0-0 Nb6 12.Bg5 Qg6 13.d5 Nxc4 14.Qxc4 exd5 15.Rhe1+ Be4 16.Rxd5 cxd5 17.Qxd5 f5 18.Qxb7 Rd8 19.Qb5+ Rd7 20.Qb8+ Kf7 21.Ne5+ Kg8 22.Nxg6 hxg6 23.f3 Bd5 24.Re8 Kf7 25.Rd8 Rxd8 26.Qxd8 Be6 27.c4 Rh5 28.h4 Rxg5 29.hxg5 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "NOR-chT qualifier"] [Site "Norway"] [Date "2001.11.??"] [Round "3"] [White "Kedyk,Dmitry"] [Black "Ingul,Tormod"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B01"] 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.Nf3 Qxd5 4.Nc3 Qa5 5.d4 c6 6.Bc4 Bf5 7.Bd2 e6 8.Nd5 Qd8 9.Nxf6+ Qxf6 10.Qe2 Nd7 11.0-0-0 Nb6 12.h4 Qe7 13.Bd3 Bxd3 14.Qxd3 Qc7 15.h5 0-0-0 16.h6 g6 17.Qe4 Bd6 18.Bg5 Be7 19.Bf4 Bd6 20.Bg5 Be7 21.Bf4 Bd6 22.Be5 Bxe5 23.dxe5 Rd5 24.c4 Ra5 25.Kb1 Nd7 26.Rhe1 Re8 27.g3 f6 28.exf6 Nxf6 29.Qd4 Rf5 30.Ne5 c5 31.Qe3 g5 32.f3 Re7 33.Nf7 Nd5 34.cxd5 Rexf7 35.dxe6 Re7 36.Qc3 Rf8 37.Rd5 b6 38.Rxg5 Qc6 39.Qe5 Qxf3 40.Rg7 Rfe8 41.a3 Qc6 42.Rxe7 Rxe7 43.g4 Qf3 44.g5 Qd3+ 45.Ka1 Qg6 46.Qd5 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "Bundesliga 0102"] [Site "Germany"] [Date "2001.10.06"] [Round "11"] [White "Fressinet,Laurent"] [Black "Hodgson,Julian M"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "B01"] 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 c6 6.Bd2 Bf5 7.Bc4 e6 8.Nd5 Qd8 9.Nxf6+ Qxf6 10.Qe2 Nd7 11.0-0-0 Nb6 12.Bg5 Qg6 13.h4 h6 14.Ne5 Qh7 15.Be3 Bd6 16.Bb3 h5 17.f3 a5 18.a4 Nd5 19.Bd2 Bxe5 20.Qxe5 0-0 21.Rhg1 Nb4 22.Bxb4 axb4 23.g4 hxg4 24.fxg4 Be4 25.h5 b5 26.axb5 cxb5 27.g5 Ra1+ 28.Kd2 Rxd1+ 29.Rxd1 Bf3 30.Rg1 Qxh5 31.Kc1 Rd8 32.Kb1 Bd5 33.Qc7 Rf8 34.Bxd5 exd5 35.b3 Qg6 36.Qh2 Qh7 37.Qc7 Qf5 1/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Sep 18 23:28:04 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:28:04 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Long, long ago in a land far, far away... Message-ID: <1221802084.48d338646a52f@www.taom.com> DuWayne Langseth ----- Forwarded message from DuWayne Langseth ----- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:03:08 -0000 From: DuWayne Langseth Reply-To: DuWayne Langseth Subject: [BrianWallChess] Long, long ago in a land far, far away... To: BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com Here is a game that I played as a teenager through the mail as most of my serious games were back then, growing up in the middle of the nicest "nowhere" that you could imagine. You can find this game on my web site www.coloradochessgames.com under "Archives" where you can click through each move. I was 15 years old and likely the most obsessed chess player you've ever met. Despite loving hunting and fishing and having a keen, but unrewarding interest in girls, anything having to do with chess sent chills down my spine. If you've ever played postal (or correspondence) chess, you are a serious chess player, ready to dedicate a good part of your life to one game. Well, when my opponent startled me on move one, I thought I had misready his move. Only once I located it in "Chess Openings: Theory and Practice" by I.A. Horowitz, did I realize that this guy was serious. This has to be an "easier than most" game, right? Well taking advantage of that huge gaping hole in the opponent's kingside isn't always a walk in the park, as I found out in my recent game with Master Wall in our famous Penguin encounter. 1. g4?? What a ridiculous decision to make against someone who has hours and even days to contemplate how to crush the slightest weakness! What a slap in the face! I remember being both gleeful and apprehensive about seeing this first move. 1... e5 I studied opening books and spent time going over variations to see what might come next after my response. It came down to whether to play d5 or e5. I decided that e5 gave me more options. 2. Bg2 d5 Who would disagree with my choice here? As anyone would, I'm grabbing the center and opening up to unleash my army. 3. h3 Nc6 I didn't find much literature on the "Spike", so I had to wing it somewhat. This seemed appealing to me. 4. c3 Bc5 5. e3 Ya, White wants to control d4! Ahhhhhhhh? No! 5... d4! 6. Bxc6+ bxc6 Thank you for leaving a gaping hole in your kingside after the departure of your beloved kingside bishop and my gratitude for my resulting bishop pair. 7. Qc2 I would have been bewildered too and stressed out as White trying to find a plan. 7... d3! Attack and dominate! 8. Qb3 Be6 Attack and develop! 9. c4 e4 I wouldn't want to be White's kingside knight! This powerful move puts White's king in a cocoon. 10. Qc3 Qf6 The longer Rybka thinks about this move, the more it likes it. Why not relieve White of his only developed piece?! 11. Qxf6 gxf6 Rybka doesn't like this at all and says I should have taken with the knight, which is probably true. I think that I wanted the extra f- pawn to help crack open that White king and reinforce e4. 12. b3 Possibly playing f3 here first would have been better, trying to free the kingside knight. 12... h5! Now the black rook will aim at White's h-pawn and control that file. 13.gxh5 Rxh5 14. Nc3 Playing f3 was probably still best here. Funny, but Rybka only gives Black a pawn advantage now despite White's paralysis. The only redeeming hope for White seems to be the fianchettoed bishop. 14... Rh4 f5 seemed natural here, but I liked the idea of doing two (or more) things at once. Protecting the e-pawn and preventing future movement of the h-pawn seemed a good approach. 15. Bb2 O-O-O This is way down on the list of Rybka's favorite moves, but I think the computer overestimates the value of Na4 hereafter. 16. Na4 Bd6 This is where I want my bishop, ready to go to e5 and rid myself of the only well-developed white piece. 17. Bd4 Be5 18. Bxe5 fxe5 Rybka actually calls this position even! That amazes me since White is stifled in so many ways. 19. Nc5 Re8 I remember agonizing over this move. Of course, I didn't want tripled pawns, but it took a while to really become comfortable with this decision. 20. Nxe6 Rxe6 21. f3 Finally, White tries to make way on the kingside. 21... f5 22. c5 This seemed pointless to me. Either castling queenside or bringing the rook to h2 and g2 seems like a reasonable approach. 22... Nf6 23. Kf2 Re8 Surprisingly, Rybka likes this subtle move and considers it once of the best here. 24. Rc1 I think the point is to bring the rook to c3 or c4, but there is little time for such doings. 24... f4 25. Rc4 fxe3+! My pawns are like a swarm of bees and this move is crushing. 26. Kxe3 Nd5+ 27. Kf2 Rf8 (27... e3+! 28. dxe3 d2 29. Ke2 Nxe3 30. Kxd2 Nxc4+ Seems even better.) 28. Kg3 This was probably what I was hoping for. 28...e3! 29. Rc1 Rd4 30. Rh2?? It was over anyway. (30. dxe3 d2 31. Rd1 Nxe3 32. Ne2 Rd3) 30... Rg8# Surprise! 0-1 [Event "1977 Golden Knights Postal"] [Site "?"] [Date "1977.08.31"] [Round "?"] [White "Filstrup"] [Black "Langseth"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "A00"] 1. g4 e5 2. Bg2 d5 3. h3 Nc6 4. c3 Bc5 5. e3 d4 6. Bxc6+ bxc6 7. Qc2 d3 8. Qb3 Be6 9. c4 e4 10. Qc3 Qf6 11. Qxf6 gxf6 12. b3 h5 13. gxh5 Rxh5 14. Nc3 Rh4 15. Bb2 O-O-O 16. Na4 Bd6 17. Bd4 Be5 18. Bxe5 fxe5 19. Nc5 Re8 20. Nxe6 Rxe6 21. f3 f5 22. c5 Nf6 23. Kf2 Re8 24. Rc1 f4 25.Rc4 fxe3+ 26. Kxe3 Nd5+ 27. Kf2 Rf8 28. Kg3 e3 29. Rc1 Rd4 30. Rh2 Rg8# 0-1 DuWayne Langseth -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080918/5f13ecd8/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Sep 19 00:49:09 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:49:09 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] http://www.chess.com/article/view/chessrules---1248-beats-a-2220 Message-ID: <1221806949.48d34b6560e1e@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Brian Wall ----- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:45:38 -0600 From: Brian Wall Reply-To: Brian Wall Subject: http://www.chess.com/article/view/chessrules---1248-beats-a-2220 To: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com http://www.chess.com/article/view/chessrules---1248-beats-a-2220 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This article intrigued me - How does a 1248 beat a Chessmaster? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- KanaPolak (1248) vs. Master (2220) Local Tourney Round 4 1-0 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Nb3 Bb4 7.f3 Nxe4 8.fxe4 Qh4+ 9.Ke2 Bxc3 10.bxc3 d5 11.h3 Qxe4+ 12.Kf2 0-0 13.Bd3 Qh4+ 14.g3 Qf6+ 15.Kg2 e4 16.Be2 Qxc3 17.Qxd5 Qxc2 18.Qc4 Qxc4 19.Bxc4 Ne5 20.Bd5 Bf5 21.Rf1 Bg6 22.Bxb7 Rab8 23.Nc5 e3 24.Bxe3 Rxb7 25.Nxb7 Be4+ 26.Kf2 Bxb7 27.Bxa7 Nd3+ 28.Ke3 Ba6 29.Bb6 Nb4 30.Rfc1 Nd5+ 31.Kf2 Nxb6 32.Rc6 Rb8 33.Rb1 Nd7 34.Rxb8+ Nxb8 35.Rb6 1-0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments: by 0-0-0 - 29 minutes ago FL United States Member Since: Aug 2008 Member Points: 7 congrats nice game by hardfighter - 44 minutes ago Virginia United States Member Since: Apr 2008 Member Points: 10 very nice game. close ending too. by KanaPolak - 4 hours ago Lethbridge Canada Member Since: Mar 2008 Member Points: 9 Yea, the Master could see the huge smile across my face and told me about the first time he beat a Master. Yes there was a three-way tie for first, both other winners we're rated 2000+. by michaelmcrobert - 4 hours ago Scotland Member Since: Jan 2008 Member Points: 371 wow that was a great game and it must have felt great after. so you won the tourny then? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- KanaPolak ChessRules - 1248 beats a 2220! ? Articles homeSubmitted by KanaPolak on Thu, 09/18/2008 at 2:05pm. KanaPolak (1248) vs. Master (2220) Local Tourney Round 4 1-0 I have always been told "you are under-rated", it is true, I lack consitency. On this day I arrived at the a local chess tournament with a CFC-rating of 1248, after defeating a 1600, drawing a 1700 and beating an 1800 I was faced with Mr. Master rated 2220. The final round... he may have underestimated me, but I played a near perfect game, and won! The Game Summary In the openning black sacrifices a knight for a crazy attack after white commits an inaccuracy in the Sicilian. White defends and manages to trade queens. A Beauty of a finale, blacks knight creates a triple threat and white finds the only move to save the day! (The position makes for a great chess puzzle, see if you can find whites move!) I'm glad to have a cool place like chess.com to share this, I get excited just typing about it! KanaPolak ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- OK, Brian here again. Let's see what happened. KanaPolak (1248) vs. Master (2220) Local Tourney Round 4 1-0 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Nb3?? Well known as an old patzer blunder, allowing immediate equalization, despite being played 1910 times, despite being played by GMs Gelfand and Ehlvest, despite being played by Carl Schlecter against World Champion Emanuel Lasker in 1910, despite being played by Frederick Yates against Sultan Khan in 1930. 6 ... Bb4!! Gaining control of e4-d5 7.f3?? Making things worse. 7 Bg5!! has been played 337 times 7 ... Nxe4?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's well known that 7 ... d5!! leaves White begging for equality. Black has other decent advantageous moves - 7 ... d6, ... 0-0, ... a6 or ... a5 for example. I give the Chessmaster credit for imagination. The ... Qh4+ theme is a familiar theme in two of my Openings - 1- Full Metal Jacket, invented by me 1 d4 Nc6 2 d5 Ne5 3 e4 e6 4 f4 ed!! 5 fe Qh4+ equalizing 2 - Raccoon, invented by Jack Young, named by me 1 e4 e5 2 f4 h5!! 3 fe?? Qh4+ winning --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.fxe4! Qh4+! 9.Ke2? better than 9 g3?? Q:e4+:h1 which also works in the Raccoon and Full Metal jacket 9 Kd2 Q:e4 10 Qf3 is a little easier for KanaPolak 9 ... Bxc3!!! better than 9 ... d5!! or ... d6! 10.bxc3! d5!! 3 moves later but still good. Threatening 11 ... Bg4+:d1 11.h3?? 11 Qe1!! Q:e4+ 12 Kf2 is about even 11 ... Qxe4+?? 11 ... de!!! gives Black a beautiful central steamroller worth more than a piece. Black understandably refuses the three perpetuals here - 11 ... Bg4+=, ... Qh5+= or 11 ... 0-0 12 ed!! Qh5+= 12.Kf2!! Now instead of "more than enough" or "enough" for the piece Black is down to "almost enough" 12 ... 0-0 13.Bd3!! Qh4+! 14.g3!! Qf6+ 15.Kg2!! KanaPolak's King is safe and the Chessmaster got pushed back by the threat of perpetuals and his own blunders. 15 ... e4! 16.Be2!! Qxc3! 17.Qxd5! Qxc2! 18.Qc4!! Qxc4! 19.Bxc4! The position has simplified to the point where both players are finding best moves. 19 ... Ne5?? 19 ... Re8! would avoid additional, immediate losses 20.Bd5!! The Chessmaster must be going nuts by now - all these Fritz best from a 1200- what's going on? 20 ... Bf5 21.Rf1 Bg6! 22.Bxb7!! Rab8! 23.Nc5 e3!? Setting a pathetic trap which the 1200 immediately succumbs into. 23 ... Nd3! is a betetr try 24.Bxe3 Rxb7! 25.Nxb7! Be4+! 26.Kf2! Bxb7! 27.Bxa7! KanaPolak fell into the trap but is still up the exchange 27 ... Nd3+ 28.Ke3 Ba6 29.Bb6 Nb4 30.Rfc1!!! I don't know how the 1200 stumbled into the only winning move 30 ... Nd5+ 31.Kf2!! Again the only winning move, avoiding all checks from all Black's pieces 31 ... Nxb6 32.Rc6!! Again the only winning move 32 ... Rb8 33.Rb1!! Nd7 34.Rxb8+ Again the only winning move 34 ... Nxb8! 35.Rb6!! 1-0 The Chessmaster's last remaining piece can't stop the a-pawn and rook combo. Every Chessmaster's worst nightmare. He missed big opportunities with 7 ... d5!!! or 11 ... de!! www.Walverine.com BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Sep 19 07:31:34 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:31:34 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Chess Scam -Private Chess Tutor Needed. Message-ID: <1221831094.48d3a9b65c745@www.taom.com> I believe this is the Chess scam IM Mark Ginsburg reported - this guy literally preys on Chessplayers. He arranges many future lessons, then send a fake money order which you cash and give him the change. He sent this to Anthea Carson, Jeff Baffo and many others. Buyer beware - if the offer sounds too good ... LM Brian Wall --- On Fri, 9/19/08, Duane Sanders wrote: From: Duane Sanders Subject: Re: Private Chess Tutor Needed. To: brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 3:06 AM Hello Brian, ?Thanks for your email and i'm delighted to know you are available to tutor my daughter with her chess lessons. We reside in London(kent),i'm into Real Estate and construction work. My daughter Tiffany will be relocating temporarily to my sister's house in CO(Thornton,Zip Code:80241)less than a week from this date and i'm hoping the lessons can hold there privately. How far is my sister's location from yours? I spoke with my husband and he also agrees your rates are reasonable and we are willing to cover any extra costs transportation may include. Thanks again for your email Brian,I would like the lessons to hold three times a week for 2hrs eachday of of the lessons for a total of three weeks in all..How much would that be? Thanks again for your email,do get back to me on this and hopefully we can work out an arrangement. Regards, Duane. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080919/d644813c/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Sep 19 09:33:46 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:33:46 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Randy Tipton on Joel Johnson - Preparing For "The Match" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1221838426.48d3c65a96cd3@www.taom.com> I had a dream year in 2006, where , by some miracle named Bill Chandler, I got to do ICC webcasts. I did an 8 hour show with Robby Adamson on the final USCL match. Greg Shahade's very ICC conversant and kept us posted on what's what. Joel Johnson is an ex-roommate and Harvard Square buddy, also the US 2006 Senior Champion. It was awesome working with GMs and Chess personalities. ICC had a management change and they put in Mig Greengard, Kasparov's friend. I did a show with Mig too. I wish him well. My dream was to throw a dart at a Chess dartboard and play whatever opening my dart hit. Theoreticaly I would like to play anything on any given day. Joel Johnson has always been an attacking player. Living in a house with LM Joel Johnson, LM Jack Young with frequent guest stars IM David Vigorito and IM Joe Fang was a blast. Joel was always well organized - he used to be a computer programmer, now he is a Chess coach in Phoenix. Joel colorcoded all our Chess books with dots. We also had a frequent 1600 guest named Tom Schiel - he got mad when Jack Young and I wrote a hilarious list of pretend Chess books by Tom Schiel. Andre Patin laughed so loud at our list he thought he would be kicked out of his apt. You can read about that at www.Walverine.com My daughter Phyllis was at a wonderful age, 8, and all the Chessplayers adopted her. She's about to graduate college as a civil engineer in May. My little boy Devon is in a gifted and talented school and has 10 times the homwork I had as a kid. I was surprised Joel was willing to give away so many preparation secrets. Brian Wall Quoting Randy Tipton : Thanks for posting this Brian! I saw the review of the best matches on Chess.com and two games really stuck out to me. Hikaru Nakamura's UCO and 1.f4 by Joel Johnson. Your post really let me 'see' into the mind and preparation of high level players before a match. Its amazing how studying your opponents old games can help you predict they're opening moves. Now I know why Clyde changes his repertoire every 6 months! Is it common practice to change your openings often? I look forward to seeing H. Nakamura's blog for his analysis on the round 4 games. The USCL is always fun to watch... if only they'd let me have ICC at work. *sigh* Thanks again Brian. Randy -- ---------------------------------- To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Sep 19 17:18:53 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:18:53 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Jeff Baffo confirms Chess Scam -Private Chess Tutor Needed. Message-ID: <1221866333.48d4335d498c3@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from JEFFERY BAFFO ----- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:57:14 -0600 From: JEFFERY BAFFO Reply-To: JEFFERY BAFFO Subject: RE: [BrianWall-ChessList] Chess Scam -Private Chess Tutor Needed. To: Brian Wall Almost the exact thing I got and if it's legit, then I'm anorexic > Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:31:34 -0600> brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com> Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Chess Scam -Private Chess Tutor Needed.> > I believe this is the Chess scam IM Mark Ginsburg reported - this guy literally> preys on Chessplayers. He arranges many future lessons, then send a fake money> order which you cash and give him the change. He sent this to Anthea Carson,> Jeff Baffo and many others. Buyer beware - if the offer sounds too good ...> > LM Brian Wall> > > > --- On Fri, 9/19/08, Duane Sanders wrote:> > From: Duane Sanders > Subject: Re: Private Chess Tutor Needed.> To: brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com> Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 3:06 AM> > > > > > > > Hello Brian,> Thanks for your email and i'm delighted to know you are available to tutor my> daughter with her chess lessons. We reside in London(kent),i'm into Real Estate> and construction work. My daughter Tiffany will be relocating temporarily to my> sister's house in CO(Thornton,Zip Code:80241)less than a week from this date> and i'm hoping the lessons can hold there privately. How far is my sister's> location from yours? I spoke with my husband and he also agrees your rates are> reasonable and we are willing to cover any extra costs transportation may> include.> Thanks again for your email Brian,I would like the lessons to hold three times a> week for 2hrs eachday of of the lessons for a total of three weeks in all..How> much would that be?> Thanks again for your email,do get back to me on this and hopefully we can work> out an arrangement.> Regards,> Duane.> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080919/311c9524/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Sep 20 09:40:49 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:40:49 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] More on the Tombraider Attack from LM Jack Young Message-ID: <1221925249.48d51981bc763@www.taom.com> Brian, ? I sent some stuff (computer games) awhile back but don't know if you got it..? ? So there I was a few weeks ago and the New England Open was playing down the street a few exits so I thought I'd visit.? I will say this...with the internet becoming worldwide, chess seems to be a dying game, at least for the weekend warrior.? There were only 85+ people there.? I? bumped into Hal Terrie, John Curdo and Viggy (Dave Vigorito) and it was like nothing had changed.? Land of the lost except everyone looked a bit older.? Anyway, I got invited to a little gathering to memorialize the passing of an old clubmate from the Framingham club and managed to actually play a few blitz games (my first since '03) Our old friend Al Ward was there (stilll looks good at age 72). ? TR Attack Blitz (5 minute) game in real time 9/17/08 White: Bozo? Black: Rob Huntington (1900)?? 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5? 4.d3 Nf6 5.Ng5 0-0 6.Nc3 h6 7.h4 d6 8.f3??! (I think this is dubious...see later notes) 8...hg5 9.hg5 Nh7 10.f4 g6 11.f5 Ng5: 12.Qg4 Nd4 (he didn't like 12...Nh7 13.Qg6+) 13.Bg5 Qd7 14.Qh4 and here White offered a draw but it was declined... 14...Nc2+ 15.Kd2 and 1-0. ? Sicilian Grand Prix (5 minute game) White: Bozo? Black: Donna Alarie (1750)?? 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 (believe it or not I picked up a book (2008) at the local store written by GM Gawain Jones about this very opening.)? 2...Nc6 3.Bc4 (looks a bit fishy but L Schmidt used to play this at Purdue.? 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 e6 3.Bc4!? is also interesting... 3...Nf6 4.e5!? d5 5.ed6 is one idea) 3...e6 4.d3 Nf6 5.Bb3 (I had analyzed a similar position almost 15 years ago after 1.e4 c5 2.a3 Nc6 3.Bc4 e6 4.f3 d5 5.Ba2 Nf6 6.d3 etc....now I was planning to answer 5...d5 with 6.f3 There was some Spassky game in the book with a similar pawn formation and the White B buried on b3.) 5....d6 6.f4 a5!!! (huh?!) 7.a4 Be7 8.Nf3 e5!!! 9.0-0 0-0 10.f5 (a sort of dream position from a king's gambit declined)? 10...Nd4 11.Nd4 cd4 12.Nd5 Nd5 13.Bd5 Qb6 14.Qh5 Bd7 15.Rf3 Bc6 (ok) 16.Rh3 h6 17.Bh6 Bd5 18.Bg7 f6 19.Qg6 and here White offered a draw but Black declined and resigned instead. 1-0? ? Ok, now back to the TR Attack.? There are a few interesting ideas but probably good only for blitz... The main line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5/Nf6 4.d3 Bc5/Nf6 5.Ng5!!! 0-0 6.Nc3 h6? ? (I also looked at 6...d6.? White can go into the main line with 7.h4 or try 7.f4??!.? A) 7...h6 is answered by 8.f5??! hg5 9.Bg5 White threatens 10.Nd5 and taking on f6 aiming for at least a draw by perp with Q checks on g4 and h5, more (h4, Rh3 etc.)?if black gets greedy.? The fly in the ointment is 9...d5! 10.Nd5 Be7 which probably defends.? In blitz, it is unlikely your opponent will find this.??? B) 7...Bg4 and if 8.Nf3 black is in the King's Gambit Declined a few tempos up.? Better is 8.Qd2!? and if 8...h6 9.f5??!? and if 9...hg5 10.h3!!! wins back the piece with interest) ? 7.h4!!! d6 (this threatens 8...hg5 9.hg5 Ng4 and Black is just winning.? There is no good way to get rid of the Ng4 and the Qf3-h3 manuever does not work) Now: ? A) 8.f3??!? (This was my original idea based on 8...hg5 9.hg5 Ne8/d7 10.f4 (next Qh5) g6 11 .f5 with a strong attack.? Unfortunately ...) 8...Nd4! 9.g4 (I also looked at 9.Ne2 and Nd5) 9...hg5 10.hg5 Ne8 11.Kf1 Be6 seems to defend. White can't get the Q to the h file fast enough. 12.Qe1 Nf3 13.Qg3 Ng5 and 14...f6.? Nor does 12.Kg2 work.? Oh well. Still might be good in blitz as who can resist taking the N after 8.f3 ? B) 8.Nd5!? and if b1) 8...hg5 9.Bg5!? (9.hg5? Ng4) again with ideas like Qd2 and taking on h6...also if white can castle long he has the idea Rh3 Bxh3 gh3 followed by Rdg1 check.? Use only in blitz. b2) 8...Ng4 9.Nh3!!! Qh4 10.g3 Qd8 11.f3 Nf6 12.g4 with interesting play for the pawn. Open h file and g4-g5 on tap.?? Or b3) 8...Nd5 9.ed5 Ne7 (9...Na5 10.Ne4 Nc4 11.dc4 Bb6 12.g4!? is also interesting) 10.Ne4 Bb6 11.g4!? with interesting play.? Compare this with the Bird Defense to the Lopez: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nd4 4.Nd4 ed4 5.0-0 c6 6.Bc4 d6 7.Re1 Nf6 8.c3 Ng4!!! 9.h3 Ne5 cheesy but is sometimes works and in some lines black gets in h5!!! and g5.? ? That's about it for now.? ? Bozo T. Clown -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080920/6c96855c/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Sep 20 11:03:52 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:03:52 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] My 4:18 Minutes of Fame, The Incredible Tyler Hughes on TV Message-ID: <1221930232.48d52cf8bd7fb@www.taom.com> I cleaned out my room for the first time in 10 years - among many hidden treasures I tested my son with the tactical puzzles you created at his age, 9. Brian Wall ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Forwarded message from Tyler ----- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:41:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Tyler Reply-To: gmtbh at yahoo.com Subject: My 4:18 Minutes of Fame To: Brian Dougulas Wall Hey Brian, That TV segment I mentioned on the phone aired yesterday. http://cbs4denver.com/local/tyler.hughes.chess.2.820613.html Tyler Hughes, 2008 US Junior CHampion From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Sep 20 19:15:32 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:15:32 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Lion Simul Spet 20, 2008 Message-ID: <1221959732.48d5a0348e5ed@www.taom.com> Borders Longmont, CO Devon and I won an online poker tournament with 360 players, then we headed up to Longmont. Devon beat me 1/4 with Qr,Q odds, then demanded a book. Levi Martinez, Emilio's brother, bought a book. Another lady bought a book for Paul and Evan, her husband and son. She plays Chess already. My brother Charlie from New Orleans showed up with his wie Jill. The weather was perfect. I beat two Borders employees with 1 e4 e5 2 d4 Nf6 3 de N:e4 4 Bc4 5 Qd5 6 Qf7 checkmate. Sherry, a Longmont Chess Club regular, wanted to know what the name of that opening was. After another employee Mike fell for the same mate, he then fell for 1 e4 Nc6 2 d4 Nf6 3 e5 Ne4 4 f3 trapping a knight. Borders has 8 books left. I asked them to split the books between the kid's section and the Chess section. Devon and I had strawberry smoothies. Charlie bought Devon Book 6 Harry Potter. Headed over to my brother Pat's now for LSU football. Charlie is going to the Broncos versus New Orleans game tomorrow live. Brian out From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Sep 22 00:01:07 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:01:07 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Queen ending from hell by Chris Peterson Message-ID: <1222063267.48d734a36d5bf@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Chris Peterson ----- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:57:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Peterson Reply-To: garrensilverwing at yahoo.com Subject: queen ending from hell To: Brian Wall [Event "ICC 15 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2008.09.22"] [Round "-"] [White "Mufasa"] [Black "Pious"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2070"] [BlackElo "2253"] [Opening "Caro-Kann: classical, 6.h4"] [ECO "B18"] [NIC "CK.12"] [Time "00:34:39"] [TimeControl "900+0"] ? 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6 7. h5 Bh7 8. Nf3 Nd7 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 Ngf6 11. Bd2 e6 12. O-O-O Qc7 13.Ne4 O-O-O 14. g3 Be7 15. c4 Kb8 16. Kb1 Ka8 17. Bf4 e5 18. Nxe5 Nxe5 19. Bxe5 Qa5 20. Nxf6 gxf6 21. Bf4 Bd6 22. Bd2 Qc7 23. Bc3 c5 24. d5 Be5 25. Rde1 Rhg8 26. Re4 Rge8 27. Rhe1 Re7 28. Qe3 Rde8 29. Qxh6 a6 30. Bxe5 Rxe5 31. Rxe5 Rxe5 32. Qf8+ Ka7 33. Rxe5 Qxe5 34. Qxc5+ Kb8 35. Qe3 Qxh5 36. b3 Qd1+ 37. Kb2 a5 38. Qf4+ Ka7 39. Qe3+ Ka6 40. Qf4 Qe2+ 41. Ka3 Qe1 42. Qxf6+ b6 43. Qf4 Qb4+ 44. Kb2 a4 45. Qe3 a3+ 46. Kc2 Qd6 47. Qd3 Qe5 48. c5+ b5 49. d6 Qb2+ 50. Kd1 Qxa2 51. d7 Qa1+ 52. Ke2 Qe5+ 53. Kf1 a2 54. d8=Q a1=Q+ 55. Qd1 Qxd1+ 56. Qxd1 Qxc5 57. Qf3 Qc7 58. Kg2 Ka5 59. Qe4 Qc3 60. Qa8+ Kb4 61. Qf8+ Kxb3 62. Qxf7+ Qc4 63. Qf3+ Kb2 64. g4 b4 65. g5 b3 66. Qf6+ Kc1 67. Qa1+ Kc2 68. Qf6 b2 69. Qf5+ Kc1 70. g6 b1=Q 71. Qg4 Qxg4+ ? {White resigns} 0-1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080922/67a8686e/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Sep 22 00:10:49 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:10:49 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Hidden Treasure Message-ID: <1222063849.48d736e94f873@www.taom.com> I am cleaning my room for the first time in 10 years and finding amazing stuff. I found an embarrassing letter to my future wife from 30 years ago complaining about my poker buddy Jeff Maguire. I sound like an idiot. Jeff says he created a Chess team based on my behavior in that Arkansas cabin called " The Hatebabies". ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I found aphorisms from Joan Marie Clifford. Growing up is a migration North. Language can't describe the heirarchy because it is the foundation of it. A limit is a springboard for growth. Memory has mass and is subject to inertia. The satisfaction of a neurotic need leaves something to be desired. An aphorism is a tree that grows into a seed. Survival of the fittest facts determines truth. Math is igneous, History is sedientary and Philosophy is metamorphic. We suffer what we celebrate. It's too bad our intentions aren't closed captioned. I am more than the sum of my parts. Soul is habit forming. I'd rather have a pregnant silence than barren speech. After a while, tickling hurts. Fortune shouldn't be balanced on fate. Life is a song embedded in a medley. Decadence drives poor people insane. Human beings are symbiotic with god. The moment a dream is realized something dies. Rhythm liberates soul. Spirit gets creamated and becomes matter. A genius is a misdiagnosed insane person. A duality is the summation of change. A sign - Please don't confuse insecurity with morality. Thank you. Joan Marie Clifford ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- My father-in-law Hank Perkins was a giant of a man who fought in World War II, came home and had two wives and 10 kids. He ran a restaurant and would thrust his giant arms into a vat of boiling water and pull out pot roasts. He believed a meal should look as good as it tastes. He always treated me great, even after Debbie and I split up. He looked like Paul Bunyan but some things made him cry like poetry. He was tough but surprisingly sensitive. I found a birthday card where he typed little pearls of wisdom on little scraps of paper glued on the blank left hand side. Rest in Peace, Big Guy. Believe in yourself and what others think won't matter. It's what we learn after we think we know it all, that counts - You are only young once. After that it takes another excuse. How a man turns out depends a great deal upon what kind of woman decides to marry him. Keep your words soft and sweet; You never know when you may have to eat them. When you help someone up a hill, you're that much nearer to the top yourself. You cannot do a kindness too soon because we never know when it will be too late. Let not the mind be like concrete --- all mixed up and permanently set. ----- End forwarded message ----- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Sep 22 10:55:13 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:55:13 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Esserman on Robson-Gonzalez, 2008 Miami Open Message-ID: <1222102513.48d7cdf10b274@www.taom.com> http://main.uschess.org/content/view/8739/473/ of course his analysis is vastly inferior to my own but the diagrams plus click and move features are nice. Brian Wall From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Sep 22 14:04:08 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:04:08 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Wall-Heung 2008 Florida Open Message-ID: <1222113848.48d7fa383eb81@www.taom.com> [Event "2008 Florida Open" ] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.31" ] [Round "4"] [White "Brian Wall"] [Black "Christopher Heung"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2227"] [BlackElo "2112"] [Opening "King's Indian, Samisch, Laufer-g5 system"] [ Time "6 PM"] [TimeControl "Game/155 minutes, 5 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] In the morning I beat IM Blas Lugo in the Game/15 Florida Championship, should have drawn IM Dionisio Aldama and tied for 2-5 with GM Becerra, Rabbit Goran Markovic and young rising star Adam Miller. In Round 3 of the slow tournament, 13 year old Ray Robson bitch-slapped my Scandinavian pretty hard. My jaw stills hurts; now I faced a 17 yr old ( I think ) 2112 Christopher Heung. During the game I made his Mom laugh by showing her my book and telling her Christopher was a nice boy who listens to his parents. I like to play crazy to fight Chess boredom which is fine as long as I keep winning but when I lose or I'm tired, I just revert to my automatic winning systems. I am not sure how old my opponent is. I just took a wild guess. I saw a Chinese rooftop.com comedian explain how Orientals look 12 or 72 and it all happens in one day. This kid still looked 12. 2008 Florida State Championship The last day of August Round 4 Board 9 Game/155 minutes 5 second delay White- Brian Wall, 53 2227 Black - Christopher Heung, 17 2112 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 0-0 6.Bg5 IM David Vigorito has a knack for completely explaining a system in 15 minutes. Now the whole world recognizes this talent from his opening books. He also makes Chess videos for Tony Rook. Dave calls this the Laufer-g5 system which means Bg5. 6 ... Nc6 7.Nge2 a6 8.Rb1 I got sick of Byrne system people ( ... c6, ... a6, ... b5, ... Nd7-b6-c4 ) so I invented this way to bypass all that. I can still remember a sunny Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA day where New Hampshire Champion Kevin Coutreau argued that my idea must suck and my old friend, living legend IM John Watson was arguing vociferously on my behalf. John loves to win arguments or at least expose the complete shallowness of his adversasry. That's what makes him such a great reviewer at TWIC and a great interviewer on ICC. You have to be pretty sharp to keep up with his genius plus his high integrity level. John once sent me $500 in a homeless shelter. Another time both our last round opponents in a big tournament offered to throw the games for a prize split. John and I laughed and said to each other, " The offers are nice, now let's go kick their asses!" 8 ... Nd7!!! is the only good move but only Bobby Fischer would play that as explained in the music video below. Humans have huge "progress" prejudices, they insist society and their Chess pieces must move forward, especially in the opening. No normal Chessplayer is capable of finding 8 ... Nd7!! It is important to know what is wrong with your ideas so you can punish your opponents for not finding those lines. Then sit back and laugh like smiling Buddha. 8 ... Rb8 Of course every human must be consistent and carry on with ... b5. 9.b4 TN Wall A theoretical Novelty but I've been playing this for 15 years. Why else play Rb1? 9 ... b5?? Bad but expected. This is how dozens of my blitz games go. Having said A(6), they must say B(5) 10.cxb5 Game over. 10 d5!!! Na7 11 Be3 Rb7 12 a4!!, Nd4!!, B:a7!! or cb!! are all very strong. 10 d5!! Ne5 11 cb ab 12 Nd4!! is powerful 10 d5!! Ne5 11 cb h6 12 Bh4!!!, Bc1!!, B:f6!, Be3! or Bf4! are all winning 10 ... axb5! 11.d5!! Na7!! TN The best move, a theoretical novelty by Christopher Heung. No one ever played this before. 11 ... Ne5? 12 Nd4!! Nc4?? 13 Nc6! Qe8 14 N:b8! picking up a free rook is very popular. 11 ... Ne5! 12 Nd4!! Bd7 13 B:b5!! B:b5 14 Nc:b5 Qd7 15 a4 is probably the most common continuation even though I am totally winning and ready to castle. I sat completely perplexed for 16 minutes as I switched from blitz to tournament mode. 12.Be3!! Tossing a pitchfork at the weirdly placed knight deep in a pit from Hell 12 ... c5?? Even though Chris was willing to backtrack with 11 ... Na7! TN Caissa is now demanding too much from her subject, another humiliating retreat with 12 ... Ra8!! On 12 ... Rb7!! I have many good moves, 13 Nd4!!! Bd7 14 Bd3 or 13 a4!! ( a move I played in a similar position againsy Brian Jarod in a Mass State Champ 15 years ago, I think ) or 13 Qd2!! ( I love my Queen here but this line is all about the White squares ) or 13 Ng3!! or 13 Kf2!! ( I am wary of putting my King here unless it is a Weihmiller French or a Fox Defense ) or 13 Rc1! or 13 B:a7! R:a7 14 Nd4 ( I am a little wary of relinquishing this bishop in a King's Indian ) on 12 ... Ra8!! 13 B:a7 R:a7 14 Nd4!! is probably my best line. Chris did not play ... a6, ... Rb8 and ... b5? in order to play ... Na7! and ... Ra8! so he lashes out. 13.bxc5!! Qa5? Getting active and in more trouble 14.cxd6 It's funny how often my or my opponent's hand reaches out instantly from the subconcious to play the right move and then talk themselves out of it. Mike, one of my Borders employee Longmont,CO Lion simul opponents on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008, reached out to win a piece with a pawn fork and somehow changed his mind and lost. I thought I might have to give a second book away for a moment. I can still remember how my hand immediately tried to play 14 c6!!! with a killer protected passed pawn in his face but then I got lost in all the other good moves. 14 ... exd6! 15.Qb3!! with the simple idea of Qb4 stifling any counterplay and on 15 Qb3 b4 16 a3!! or Qa4! are convincing because of the pin on the b8-rook 15 ... Nd7! 16.Qb4!! After this I can stop fooling around on the Queenside and untangle my Kingside with Nd4, KB-any, 0-0 16 ... Qa6? Avoiding a Queen trade into a pawn down endgame. All Heung's moves look reasonable, that's what makes this system so powerful. 17.Nd4!! Nc5! 18.a4 The beauty of my system is that it is designed against one move, ... b5?? but they all stubbornly insist on it anyway. No flexibility especially with little time to ponder. They all call my all in bluff but I have a straight flush. I have many good moves here, the retreat 18 Nb3!!!, the developing Be2, a4, h4 ( The Crab ) and plenty more 18 ... Bd7 19.axb5! Qb6! 20.Be2!! It's not often you are so busy beating up someone on the Queenside that you move your second Kingside piece on the 20th move. 20 ... f5 21.0-0!! f4 22.Bf2! g5? Anyone who insists on ... b5 on the Queenside will surely insist on ... g5 on the Kingside. I used to win blitz game after blitz game against Robert Ramirez by refusing to 0-0 and laughing at his ... f4, .. g5, ... g4 attacks. 23.Ne6 Unleashing my bishop on Heung's Queen and opening up d5 for my knight. I am swamped with great moves like 23 Na4!!!!!, Nc6!!!!! and Qc4!!!! to name a few 23 ... Bxe6! 24.dxe6! Qb7 25.Rfd1 I learned from losing many won blitz games that the best way to make sure you win a won game is to activate all your pieces - it's hard to mess that up. 25 Bc4, Na4 or Nd5 were a tad better. It's all good now. 25 ... Qe7 26.Rxd6 OK, I was trying to play like Tal and also simplify. I had more powerful moves like 26 Nd5, Bc4, B:c5 and Qc4 but rook sacs are fun 26 ... Qxd6! 27.Bxc5! Qd2! 28.e7!!!!! This surprised/impressed kibitzer/blitz buddy Radek Laburda who was admiring other wins like 28 B:a7!!!!, Qc4!!!!, Bc4!!!, Rd1!!! or Nd5!!! among others 28 ... Rfe8! 29.Bxa7!!!!! even better than checks on c4 or various other wins 29 ... Rbc8 30.Bc4+!! best by a factor of 2 30 ... Kh8! 31.Ne2 I didn't have time to sort out every win with 25 minutes left. Only 31 Nd5!! is better, holding onto the brave e7-pawn 31 ... Qc2 32.Rc1!! Qb2! 33.Qxb2 Only 33 Bc5!! is better but trading dwon into an easy endgame win is what I'm looking for 33 ... Bxb2! 34.Bd4+! Bxd4+! 35.Nxd4! Rxe7! 36.Nc6! I have two pieces and two pawns for a rook. I follow my policy of - It's hard to mess up a win if every piece is activated. A king on c5 looks like Game Over to me. 36 ... Rb7 37.Kf2 Kg7 38.Ke2 h5 39.Kd3 Kh6 40.h3 g4 A pitiful attempt at counterplay 41.hxg4 hxg4! 42.Kd4 Kg5! 43.Kc5! I should be able to just push pawns for a win now. 43 ... Rh8 Finding his only source energy at g2 44.e5 Rh2! 45.Rg1! Kh4 46.fxg4 Kxg4! 47.Bd5!! Killing all hope 47 ... Rhh7 48.b6!! Kf5 49.Nd4+ more simplification with 12 minutes left ( plus an extra hour plus a 5 second delay but you know how I hate to see my flag cross noon ) 49 ... Kxe5! 50.Nf3+ Kf6 51.Bxb7! Rxb7! 52.Kc6! winning his last piece soon 1-0 Heung resigns ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "2008 Florida Open" ] [Site "Radisson Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Florida"] [Date "2008.08.31" ] [Round "4"] [White "Brian Wall"] [Black "Christopher Heung"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2227"] [BlackElo "2112"] [Opening "King's Indian, Samisch, Laufer-g5 system"] [ Time "6 PM"] [TimeControl "Game/155 minutes, 5 second delay"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 0-0 6.Bg5 Nc6 7.Nge2 a6 8.Rb1 Rb8 9.b4 b5 10.cxb5 axb5 11.d5 Na7 12.Be3 c5 13.bxc5 Qa5 14.cxd6 exd6 15.Qb3 Nd7 16.Qb4 Qa6 17.Nd4 Nc5 18.a4 Bd7 19.axb5 Qb6 20.Be2 f5 21.0-0 f4 22.Bf2 g5 23.Ne6 Bxe6 24.dxe6 Qb7 25.Rfd1 Qe7 26.Rxd6 Qxd6 27.Bxc5 Qd2 28.e7 Rfe8 29.Bxa7 Rbc8 30.Bc4+ Kh8 31.Ne2 Qc2 32.Rc1 Qb2 33.Qxb2 Bxb2 34.Bd4+ Bxd4+ 35.Nxd4 Rxe7 36.Nc6 Rb7 37.Kf2 Kg7 38.Ke2 h5 39.Kd3 Kh6 40.h3 g4 41.hxg4 hxg4 42.Kd4 Kg5 43.Kc5 Rh8 44.e5 Rh2 45.Rg1 Kh4 46.fxg4 Kxg4 47.Bd5 Rhh7 48.b6 Kf5 49.Nd4+ Kxe5 50.Nf3+ Kf6 51.Bxb7 Rxb7 52.Kc6 1-0 Heung resigns ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7LQ9We7Tyc A Rook House for Bobby - by I Like Trains This game is embedded in the music video [Event "St Stefan/Belgrade m"] [Site "Belgrade"] [Date "1992.09.??"] [Round "30"] [White "Spassky,Boris V"] [Black "Fischer,Robert James"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "E83"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 0-0 6.Be3 Nc6 7.Nge2 a6 8.h4 h5 9.Nc1 Nd7 10.Nb3 a5 11.a4 Nb4 12.Be2 b6 13.g4 hxg4 14.fxg4 c5 15.h5 cxd4 16.Nxd4 Nc5 17.Nd5 Bb7 18.Nf5 gxf5 19.gxf5 Bxd5 20.exd5 Bxb2 21.Kf1 Qd7 22.Qb1 Bxa1 23.Rg1+ Kh8 24.Qxa1+ f6 25.Qb1 Rg8 26.Rg6 Rxg6 27.hxg6 Kg7 0-1 Spassky resigns ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Thessaloniki ol (Men)"] [Site "Thessaloniki"] [Date "1988.11.??"] [Round "14"] [White "Ionescu,Constantin"] [Black "Wittmann,Walter"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "E80"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 a6 6.Bg5 Nc6 7.Nge2 Rb8 8.Rb1 0-0 9.Qd2 Re8 10.d5 Ne5 11.Ng3 c5 12.Be2 Qa5 13.a4 Qb4 14.b3 h6 15.Na2 Qxd2+ 16.Bxd2 h5 17.0-0 Bd7 18.Nc3 Rec8 19.f4 Neg4 20.Bd3 Ne8 21.Nge2 Nc7 22.a5 b5 23.axb6 Rxb6 24.h3 Nh6 25.f5 Rcb8 26.Bc2 Kh7 27.Nd1 Be5 28.fxg6+ fxg6 29.Nf2 Nf7 30.Nd3 Bf6 31.Rf3 Be8 32.Rbf1 Kg7 33.Kh1 R6b7 34.Ba5 Ne5 35.Nxe5 Bxe5 36.Nf4 Bd7 37.Nd3 Bf6 38.e5 Bg5 39.exd6 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Monarch Assurance 08th"] [Site "Port Erin"] [Date "1999.11.06"] [Round "8"] [White "Fraser Mitchell,Jeremy M"] [Black "Coleman,David"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "E80"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 Nc6 6.Nge2 a6 7.Bg5 Rb8 8.Rb1 0-0 9.Qd2 e5 10.d5 Nd4 11.Nxd4 exd4 12.Ne2 h6 13.Bf4 g5 14.Bg3 Qe7 15.Rd1 Nh5 16.Bf2 f5 17.exf5 d3 18.Qxd3 Bxf5 19.Qb3 Rbe8 20.g4 Nf4 21.gxf5 Nxe2 22.Kd2 Nd4 23.Qd3 Nxf5 24.Bh3 Qe5 25.Bxf5 Qxb2+ 26.Qc2 Qb4+ 27.Kc1 Rxf5 28.Bd4 Rxf3 29.Qg6 Rc3+ 30.Bxc3 Qxc3+ 31.Qc2 Qa3+ 32.Kb1 Re3 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Dia De Internet op"] [Site "playchess.com INT"] [Date "2005.10.22"] [Round "4"] [White "Vedrickas,Tautvydas"] [Black "PazificDreams"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "E80"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 Nc6 6.Nge2 a6 7.Bg5 Rb8 8.Rb1 0-0 9.Qd2 Bd7 10.g3 Re8 11.Bg2 e6 12.0-0 Qc8 13.b4 e5 14.d5 Nd4 15.Be3 Nxe2+ 16.Nxe2 Nh5 17.c5 f5 18.Rfc1 Qd8 19.Qd3 Bb5 20.Qd1 Rf8 21.a4 Bd7 22.c6 bxc6 23.dxc6 Be6 24.Qd3 fxe4 25.fxe4 Nf6 26.h3 Qc8 27.Kh2 h5 28.b5 axb5 29.axb5 Kh7 30.Ra1 Bh6 31.Bxh6 Kxh6 32.Ra7 Ra8 33.Rca1 Rxa7 34.Rxa7 Rf7 35.Nc3 Kg7 36.Nd5 Bxd5 37.exd5 Qb8 38.Rb7 Qa8 39.b6 cxb6 40.Rxf7+ Kxf7 41.Qb5 Qa7 42.Bf1 Ne8 43.Qb4 Qa5 44.Qe4 Nc7 45.Bd3 Qd2+ 46.Kg1 Qd1+ 47.Kf2 Qd2+ 48.Kg1 Qg5 49.Kh2 Kg7 50.h4 Qd2+ 51.Kg1 Qh6 52.Qa4 Qc1+ 53.Kf2 Qd2+ 54.Be2 Qxd5 55.Qa1 Qd4+ 56.Kf1 Qxa1+ 0-1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- www.Walverine.com How To Play Chess Like An Animal From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Sep 22 17:47:36 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:47:36 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] This week's Chessville.com Message-ID: <1222127256.48d82e98c5380@www.taom.com> has an excellent article by Clyde Nakamura on the Colorado Gambit, 1 Nc3 e5 2 f4, a takeoff on Longmont, CO resident Paul Szeligowski's Colorado Counter Gambit 1 e4 Nc6 2 d4 f5 Clyde has many new ideas and a game by my ex-roommate Jack Young. More Colorado-named Openings, what more could you ask for? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Sep 23 09:11:05 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:11:05 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Recent Elephant Gambit Miniature on Playchess.com Message-ID: <1222182665.48d907099b631@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Clyde Nakamura ----- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:46:46 -0000 From: Clyde Nakamura Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] Recent Elephant Gambit Miniature on Playchess.com To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Listed below is a recent Elephant Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5) miniature game on playchess.com. It is not good to play 5.Nxf7 to steal the R on h8. [Event "Rated game, 3m + 0s"] [Site "Main Playing Hall"] [Date "2008.09.21"] [Round "?"] [White "BurninUp"] [Black "DarthMusashi"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C40"] [WhiteElo "1991"] [BlackElo "1901"] [Annotator "Elephant Gambit"] [PlyCount "22"] [EventDate "2008.09.21"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d5 3. Nxe5 dxe4 4. Bc4 Qg5 5. Nxf7 Qxg2 6. Qh5 Qxh1+ 7. Ke2 Nf6 8. Qe5+ Be7 9. Nxh8 Bg4+ 10. Ke3 Qf3+ 11. Kd4 Nc6# {2:22- 2:01} 0-1 Best Regards Clyde Nakamura ----- End forwarded message ----- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080923/502e96ad/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Sep 23 11:07:15 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:07:15 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Chess Scam continues Message-ID: <1222189635.48d922434795e@www.taom.com> Thank you Chessville for publicizing this scam artist. Here are more ongoing emails with scum. Can you imagaine a poorer segment of society to pick on than Chess coaches? Brian Wall ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: This sender is DomainKeys verified "Duane Sanders" Add sender to Contacts To: brianwallchess4 at yahoo.comHi Brian, Thanks for your email, I can arrange for payment Via Certified US Money Orders..Is that agreeable?What again is the total costs for the chess lessons? Regards, Duane. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------ From: This sender is DomainKeys verified "Duane Sanders" Add sender to Contacts To: brianwallchess4 at yahoo.comHi Brian, Thanks for your email, I can arrange for payment Via Certified US Money Orders..Is that agreeable?What again is the total costs for the chess lessons? Regards, Duane. -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian Wall" View contact details To: goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.ukHow do you intend to pay? --- On Mon, 9/22/08, Duane Sanders wrote: From: Duane Sanders Subject: Private Chess Tutor Needed. To: brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 3:04 PM Hello there Brian, How's it going? I havent gotten a response from you to my previous email..Kindly be in touch and we can proceed accordingly. Regards, Duane. ------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Fw: Re: Private Chess Tutor Needed.Friday, September 19, 2008 7:26 AM From: "Brian Wall" View contact details To: BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com --- On Fri, 9/19/08, Duane Sanders wrote: From: Duane Sanders Subject: Re: Private Chess Tutor Needed. To: brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 3:06 AM Hello Brian, Thanks for your email and i'm delighted to know you are available to tutor my daughter with her chess lessons. We reside in London(kent),i'm into Real Estate and construction work. My daughter Tiffany will be relocating temporarily to my sister's house in CO(Thornton,Zip Code:80241)less than a week from this date and i'm hoping the lessons can hold there privately. How far is my sister's location from yours? I spoke with my husband and he also agrees your rates are reasonable and we are willing to cover any extra costs transportation may include.Thanks again for your email Brian,I would like the lessons to hold three times a week for 2hrs eachday of of the lessons for a total of three weeks in all..How much would that be?Thanks again for your email,do get back to me on this and hopefully we can work out an arrangement.Regards,Duane. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Re: Private Chess Tutor Needed.Thursday, September 18, 2008 5:49 PM From: "Brian Wall" View contact details To: goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.ukI live in Thornton, CO $50 for 2 hours 303-286-1936 www.Walverine.com BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Re: Private Chess Tutor Needed.Friday, September 19, 2008 7:03 AM From: "Brian Wall" View contact details To: goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.ukis this the fake money order scam where I "cash" your money order and give you the change? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Re: Private Chess Tutor Needed.Monday, September 22, 2008 5:00 PM From: "Brian Wall" View contact details To: goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.ukHow do you intend to pay? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Re: Private Chess Tutor Needed.Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:05 AM From: "Brian Wall" View contact details To: goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.uk Unacceptable. --- On Tue, 9/23/08, Duane Sanders wrote: From: Duane Sanders Subject: Re: Private Chess Tutor Needed. To: brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 9:52 AM Hi Brian, Thanks for your email, I can arrange for payment Via Certified US Money Orders..Is that agreeable?What again is the total costs for the chess lessons? Regards, Duane. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Sep 23 18:25:15 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:25:15 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Joel Johnson escapes The Chess Scam Message-ID: <1222215915.48d988eb5f993@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:09:21 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: RE: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Chess Scam continues To: Brian Wall Somebody tried this with me also, but I am a city person and could smell a rat long before the rat really smelled. > Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:07:15 -0600> From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com> To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com; brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com> Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Chess Scam continues> > Thank you Chessville for publicizing this scam artist. Here are more ongoing> emails with scum. Can you imagaine a poorer segment of society to pick on than> Chess coaches?> > Brian Wall> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------> > From: This sender is DomainKeys verified "Duane Sanders"> Add sender to Contacts To:> brianwallchess4 at yahoo.comHi Brian,> Thanks for your email, I can arrange for payment Via Certified US Money> Orders..Is that agreeable?What again is the total costs for the chess lessons?> Regards,> Duane.> -------------------------------------------------------------------> ------------------------------------------------------------------> From: This sender is DomainKeys verified "Duane Sanders"> Add sender to Contacts To:> brianwallchess4 at yahoo.comHi Brian,> Thanks for your email, I can arrange for payment Via Certified US Money> Orders..Is that agreeable?What again is the total costs for the chess lessons?> Regards,> Duane.> --------------------------------------------------------------------> From: "Brian Wall" View contact details To:> goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.ukHow do you intend to pay?> > --- On Mon, 9/22/08, Duane Sanders wrote:> > From: Duane Sanders > Subject: Private Chess Tutor Needed.> To: brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com> Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 3:04 PM> > Hello there Brian,> How's it going? I havent gotten a response from you to my previous> email..Kindly be in touch and we can proceed accordingly.> Regards,> Duane.> > -------------------------------------------------------------------> --------------------------------------------------------------------> Fw: Re: Private Chess Tutor Needed.Friday, September 19, 2008 7:26 AM> From: "Brian Wall" View contact details To:> BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com> > --- On Fri, 9/19/08, Duane Sanders wrote:> > From: Duane Sanders > Subject: Re: Private Chess Tutor Needed.> To: brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com> Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 3:06 AM> > Hello Brian, Thanks for your email and i'm delighted to know you are available> to tutor my daughter with her chess lessons. We reside in London(kent),i'm into> Real Estate and construction work. My daughter Tiffany will be relocating> temporarily to my sister's house in CO(Thornton,Zip Code:80241)less than a week> from this date and i'm hoping the lessons can hold there privately. How far is> my sister's location from yours? I spoke with my husband and he also agrees> your rates are reasonable and we are willing to cover any extra costs> transportation may include.Thanks again for your email Brian,I would like the> lessons to hold three times a week for 2hrs eachday of of the lessons for a> total of three weeks in all..How much would that be?Thanks again for your> email,do get back to me on this and hopefully we can work out an> arrangement.Regards,Duane.> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------> Re: Private Chess Tutor Needed.Thursday, September 18, 2008 5:49 PM> From: "Brian Wall" View contact details To:> goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.ukI live in Thornton, CO $50 for 2 hours> 303-286-1936 www.Walverine.com BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------> Re: Private Chess Tutor Needed.Friday, September 19, 2008 7:03 AM> From: "Brian Wall" View contact details To:> goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.ukis this the fake money order scam where I> "cash" your money order and give you the change?> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------> Re: Private Chess Tutor Needed.Monday, September 22, 2008 5:00 PM> From: "Brian Wall" View contact details To:> goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.ukHow do you intend to pay?> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------> > Re: Private Chess Tutor Needed.Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:05 AM> From: "Brian Wall" View contact details To:> goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.uk> > Unacceptable.> > --- On Tue, 9/23/08, Duane Sanders wrote:> > From: Duane Sanders > Subject: Re: Private Chess Tutor Needed.> To: brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com> Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 9:52 AM> > Hi Brian,> Thanks for your email, I can arrange for payment Via Certified US Money> Orders..Is that agreeable?What again is the total costs for the chess lessons?> Regards,> Duane.> -----------------------------------------------------------------------> ----------------------------------------------------------------------> > > > _______________________________________________> BrianWall-ChessList mailing list> BrianWall-ChessList at lists.taom.com> http://www.taom.com/mailman/listinfo/brianwall-chesslist _________________________________________________________________ Get more out of the Web. Learn 10 hidden secrets of Windows Live. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008 ----- End forwarded message ----- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080923/cdf0b033/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Sep 25 11:33:45 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:33:45 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] About.com Today Message-ID: <1222364025.48dbcb79b42b0@www.taom.com> I get spam from about.com today and I am always amazed at how all their subject lines are singulalry uninteresting. I have never once been inclined at all to read anything they say. Today's was the topper- " What not to wear when you vote." Who would read that? Creating boring articles must be their art form. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Sep 26 12:25:58 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:25:58 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Wayne Thompson scams the scammer - Message-ID: <1222453558.48dd2936714f5@www.taom.com> I was thinking the best way to stop him would be have him send the money orders as proof and then turn his emails and money orders over to the FBI - Brian Wall ----- Forwarded message from Wayne Thompson ----- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:16:59 -0500 From: Wayne Thompson Reply-To: Wayne Thompson Subject: chess scam To: Brian Wall Brian, when I heard about this chess scammer I couldnt resist scamming the scammer! The following is my ongoing dialogue with this guy. start at the bottom and work up to most recent correspondence. regards, wayne RE: Payment Arrangements.? From: Wayne Thompson (wayne_thompso1 at hotmail.com) Sent: Fri 9/26/08 8:58 AM To: goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.uk well, i do need to speak with this other teacher in order to prepare a program that picks up where he or she left off. tx wayne From: Duane Sanders (goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.uk) Sent: Fri 9/26/08 8:01 AM Reply-to: goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.uk To: Wayne Thompson (wayne_thompso1 at hotmail.com) Hello Wayne, Thanks for your email,not to worry there isnt any issues with the tutor refunding my money as we have long agreed to have him forward my funds to any alternative teacher we hire for Tiffany's lessons.Thanks for your concern all the same Wayne,Ok i guess we are in the clear,kindlybget back to me with your contact details so i can make arrangements for the payment duly. Regards, Duane. RE: Payment Arrangements.? From: goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.uk (wayne_thompso1 at hotmail.com) Sent: Fri 9/26/08 7:19 AM To: goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.uk thanks a bunch and i look forward to meeting your daughter. I am very well connected in the chess teaching establishment and probably know of this other teacher. Perhaps the simplest thing to do is if you can give me that teachers name and contact information I will intervene on your behalf. regards, wayne Payment Arrangements.? From: Duane Sanders (goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.uk) Sent: Fri 9/26/08 6:15 AM To: Wayne Thompson (wayne_thompso1 at hotmail.com) Hello Wayne, Thanks for your email and i'm glad to see we are making a headway. I'm most delighted to know we have an agreement here. Well i spoke to my husband about your rates and he's just as excited as i am about having you tutor Tiffany with her chess lessons. Well at this point,i'm most happy to say we have a deal! I want you to know that my daughter initially had a teacher whom we hired for her lessons but the teacher apparently lost his wife and he decided to quit teaching to take proper care of his Family, after we had paid him upfront for 2 months, but he has long agreed to have the payment forwarded to any alternative teacher that will be handling Tiffany for the lessons. The payment you will be receiving will be in the amount of $5,450,i'll need you to have the total costs for the lessons deducted as agreed($3,000) and have what's left sent out to my travel agent via Money Gram as they will be handling my daughter's visa procurement/travel documents,BTA as this is also required as proof of funds by the American embassy upon her arrival at the airport. If this is ok Wayne,i'll need you to provide me with your full name as to be written on the payment,your contact address(where the payment will be sent to) and your phone number and i'll immediately have it forwarded so payment can be sent asap.Truthfully Wayne,Tiffany cant wait to meet her new tutor and she has been telling her friends here over the phone about her new tutor in the states! Have an enjoyable week and be in touch.Anyday of the week you choose for the lessons works just fine as Tiffany's schedule is fully open for now Let me know your thoughts and hopefully we can proceed. Regards, Duane. RE: chess lessons? From: goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.uk (wayne_thompso1 at hotmail.com) Sent: Thu 9/25/08 1:14 PM To: goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.uk comes to $3,000 for three weeks wayne Hello Wayne, Nice to read from you and i'm happy to know an arrangement can be made concerning Tiffany's lessons.I guess at this time we are in the clear,Ok so what will the total be if you tutor her twice a week for 2hrs eachday of the lessons for three weeks in all? Regards, Duane. RE: chess lessons? From: goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.uk (wayne_thompso1 at hotmail.com) Sent: Wed 9/24/08 1:00 PM To: goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.uk no, 90008 is los angeles , ca , but we can work it out because i fly to l.a. every other week!. $100 is fine with me. what is the next step? tx wayne Hello Wayne, Nice to read from you again,Ok sounds good my daughter will be staying in my sister's house in LA(Zip Code:90008)..How far is that from your location? I hadtalks with my husband and we are willing to pay you $100 per hour,is that acceptable? Thanks again for your response,do let me know your thoughts and hopefully we can work out an arrangement duly. Regards, Duane. RE: chess lessons? From: goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.uk (wayne_thompso1 at hotmail.com) Sent: Wed 9/24/08 8:55 AM To: goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.uk rates are 120 an hour. i live in new orleans, la. where is your sisters house? i do travel some for chess related events. wayne Hello Wayne, Thanks for your email and i'm delighted to know you are available to tutor my daughter. We reside in London(kent),i'm into Real Estate and construction work,My daughter Tiffany will be relocating temporarily to my sister's house in the states less than a week from this date and i'm hoping the lessons can hold there privately in my sister's home..Do you offer private home tuturing Wayne?What are your rates like? I would like the lessons to hold three times a week for 2hrs eachday of the lessons for a total of three weeks in all..How much would that cost us? Thanks again for your email,do get back to me on this and also let me know your exact state/city and hopefully we can work out an arrangement duly. Regards, D chess lessons? From: goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.uk (wayne_thompso1 at hotmail.com) Sent: Tue 9/23/08 12:14 PM To: goldielocks_blondie33 at yahoo.co.uk i am a chess master living in new orleans that understands you or a family member may be interested in internet based chess lessons. is this the case? best regards, Wayne uane. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080926/1602aaca/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Sep 27 13:53:12 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:53:12 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Eric Schiller, scam buster Message-ID: <1222545192.48de8f280e46f@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from fmeric64 ----- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:26:03 -0000 From: fmeric64 Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] Re: Wayne Thompson scams the scammer - To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com --- In UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com, Brian Wall wrote: > > I was thinking the best way to stop him would be have him send the money orders > as proof and then turn his emails and money orders over to the FBI - > > Brian Wall ------------------------------------------------------- Eric Schiller ----- Forwarded message from fmeric64 ----- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:26:03 -0000 From: fmeric64 Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] Re: Wayne Thompson scams the scammer - To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com> I handled it this way: I let them send me the check, but took it to my bank and talked to their fraud people. For the "travel" I told them Western Union had closed their local branch and got them to send me information for direct bank transfer. I gave the info to my bank, who called their bank and had their accounts shut down. I also informed the company whose account was hijacked to send me their check. Finally, I sent a nasty note to the people in Israel who pulled the scam (I located their IP address) and told them I was leaving the matter in the hands of some Russian friends in Israel. I didn't post the adventure at www.scamorama.com because I could not act anonymously since they knew who I was. Usually I do post there. Eric Schiller ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080927/c0adf765/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Sep 27 14:08:42 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:08:42 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Database game with Devon Wall Opening Message-ID: <1222546122.48de92ca3ac8a@www.taom.com> [Event "Eskisehir EU fest-F 3rd"] [Site "Eskisehir"] [Date "2004.04.19"] [Round "1"] [White "Cihan,Arli"] [Black "Krasnykh,Vladimir"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "A00"] 1.e3 e5 2.d3 d5 3.Be2 Nf6 4.Bd2 Nc6 5.Nf3 Bc5 6.0-0 0-0 7.Nc3 Re8 8.Na4 Bb4 9.Bxb4 Nxb4 10.c3 Nc6 11.e4 dxe4 12.dxe4 Nxe4 13.Qxd8 Rxd8 14.Rad1 Be6 15.Bd3 Nf6 16.Rfe1 Bxa2 17.Nxe5 Nxe5 18.Rxe5 Bb3 19.Ra1 Rxd3 20.Nc5 Rd1+ 21.Rxd1 Bxd1 22.g3 Bf3 23.Rf5 Bc6 24.h3 Rd8 25.Kh2 Rd1 26.g4 Rd2 27.Kg3 Rxb2 28.Nd3 Rb3 29.Rc5 Nd5 30.Ra5 Rxc3 31.Rxa7 Rxd3+ 32.Kh4 Kf8 33.Ra8+ Ke7 34.Rg8 g6 35.Rg7 Nf4 36.Kg5 Nxh3+ 37.Kh4 Nxf2 38.Rxh7 Rh3+ 0-1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Sep 27 14:15:22 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:15:22 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Elephant Gambit In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1222546522.48de945a6778d@www.taom.com> "Winning With The Elephant Gambit" by FM Jonathan Rogers is one of the few Chess books I have read cover to cover twice, every note. I have quite a few Elephant Gambits in BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com emails - I also have a game I won against Buck Buchanan ( ex 2200 ) and some cute cartoons on the Elephant Gambit in How To Play Chess Like An Animal. I also beat a guy who plays for Barbados in the Olympiad who has played the Elephant Gambit for 10 years. I beat him in a Bishop vs Knight ending. LM Brian Wall Quoting Clyde Nakamura : It seems the Elephant Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5) has been revitalized with the line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5 3.Nxe5 Bd6 by English GM Mark Hebden > who has had good results with the Elephant Gambit in tournament games. My friend Tim McGrew of Gambit Cartel at www.chesscafe.com also mentioned this line to me. I replied that I had never considered the move 3...Bd6 which develops a piece. My chess friend National Master Reynolds Takata said that the Elephant Gambit is more sound than the Latvian Gambit because the move 2...d5 opens up the center for piece development, whereas the move 2...f5 weakens the Black kingside. There is a book on the Elephant Gambit called "Winning With The Elephant Gambit" by FM Jonathan Rogers. It covers the 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5 3.exd5 Bd6 line. I believe this book which is very thin, is out of print. Maybe you can find it on ebay or amazon.com as a used book. Best Regards Clyde Nakamura --- In UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com, "Randy Tipton" wrote: Also... any sites or blogs dedicated to the elephant gambit would be awesome as well. Thanks UCO group! Randy From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Sep 27 17:42:51 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:42:51 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Duwayne Langseth, Scam Buster Message-ID: <1222558971.48dec4fb059f5@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from DuWayne Langseth ----- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:58:47 -0600 From: DuWayne Langseth Reply-To: DuWayne Langseth Subject: FW: NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT.... To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com Duwayne Langseth is a husband, father, elk hunter, Chessplayer and real estate investor. Brian Wall ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian, Listen to this guy. Ha! DuWayne > Hello DuWayne,> How you doing today...I want you to know that> the reason why i'm sending you this mail is to let you know that i> will not be paying you with a check anymore due tyo some> reason....That is i have some stuff to do right here in Nigeria which> is going to bring me alot of money okay and i will like to know if you> have a equity account or if you wil be able to open one so that i can> send you your money fort the HUNTING PROPERTY and i want you to know> that i will be paying you your full money okay so right now i want you> to know that i will be sending you an overdraft money okay so when you> received yours,you will send the remaining money to me so that i can> use for the stuff i told you about that is i want to sing a contract> here which i will be maiking alot of profit on it okay..So if you> really accept this offer pls get back to asap and i will also be> giving you extra $1000 for the business okay....> > Warms Regards:> Simon.... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20080927/d845ad75/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Sep 27 21:09:23 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:09:23 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Robert Ringer Message-ID: <1222571363.48def563ac5b1@www.taom.com> Robert Ringer?s 20 Life-Guiding Principles Never compromise your integrity, for anything or anybody. Don?t make promises you can?t keep. Learn to say no politely and pleasantly, but immediately and firmly. Whatever it is, do it now. Not next week, not tomorrow, not later today ? now. When you feel overwhelmed, don?t try to do everything ? just do something. Concentrate on doing what you do best, and let others do the rest. Don?t waste time talking about your plans to others. Learn to zip the lip. Avoid quick fixes. Take the time to work on long-term, permanent solutions. When the ball is on the one-yard line, never risk a fumble. Carry it over yourself. Avoid premature victory celebrations. You?re not through until you?ve dotted all the ?i?s? and crossed all the ?t?s? ? and the check has cleared the bank. Focus your efforts on the crux of every situation. Avoid expending energy on peripheral issues that cannot yield a payoff no matter what their outcome. The power of the understatement is enormous. Say what you have to say? quickly, succinctly, and simply ? then stop talking. Never fall into the trap of waiting for something to happen. Make it happen! Learn to love truth instead of trying to make true that which you love. Never base a decision on conventional wisdom alone. Question everything. Life is a distance run. Don?t come out of the starting gate too fast and be careful not to get winded too soon. The most efficient way to get ahead of the competition is not to fight your way through the pack, but to leapfrog over it. Make it a habit to concentrate on opportunities rather than problems. The only power anyone can have over you is the power you give him. Without your permission, the other person is powerless. Live every moment as though the whole world were watching. Free will is the greatest asset you have at your disposal. Use it! Copyright ? 2007 Tortoise Press, Inc. A Dealmaker's Dream "The difference between success and failure is much smaller than most people might suspect. And that small difference can often be traced to a subtle dealmaking nuance that can change the course of an entire industry." ? Robert Ringer From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Sep 28 00:53:47 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:53:47 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Hidden Treasure - McCarty-Wall 1997 Message-ID: <1222584827.48df29fb16cd0@www.taom.com> Cleaning my room for the first time in a decade has revealed many treasures. It is supposed to be a mundane task, not a voyage of personal discovery. Presidential journeys are not "voyages of personal discovery". Sarah Palin on Barrack Obama Todd Bardwick's site gives these facts about the 1997 Colorado Closed Winner 1997 Mikhail Ponomarev ( 70 years old at the time, I think ) (average rating at the 1997 Colorado Closed : 2281) It is not often I beat a 2368 in 30 moves in a slow game with Black. I had gone through a half a decade French phase in New Hampshire/Massachussets not long before this game. I felt extremely comfortable in French positions. When you play an opening for a long time you can sense when things are going your way and find many good moves naturally. When he played his usual systems Bobby Fischer was a fish in water - World Champion Petrosian My obsessive French began when John Curdo crushed me in a miniature - I studied hard for a year and crushed Curdo in a miniature a year later. About two thirds of my way through my McCarty game, Jim seemed to give up in disgust and played very fast as if he wanted to end the torture. About 6 years ago, J.C. MacNeil ran a great Chess Club at the VFW in Denver; I remember one night we had 18 expert/Masters playing blitz with guys like Renard Anderson, McCarty, Nikitovich, the Ponomarevs, Jesse Cohen, Dan Avery. It was loud, boisterous, competitive, lively. I haven't seen McCarty since those days, I wonder what happened to him. Jim is famous in Denver for his firm handshake and for reaching 2400. Debbie and I used to hold Chess parties at 1560 Ogden 30 years ago - Debbie would make these great burritos on Friday and all the blitz players would come over. Jim was one of those guys. Joe Eversole and his wife moved in briefly with us. Joe has been a card dealer for 12 years now, I think. Joe is about to give marriage a second chance in Washington State. I always hated White's system in this game, I was never tempted to try it myself. James McCarty may have been influenced by James Hamblin, who likes old systems. Humble Hamblin loves to play ancient weapons in modern times, mocking everyone's lack of Chess History. After the game Hamblin will laugh and say, " This was played in New York, 1924. " Few things are as comforting as people who knew you in your prime. [Event "1997 Colorado Closed" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.03.23" ] [Round "7"] [White "James McCarty"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2368"] [BlackElo "2210"] [Opening "French Defense"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2 hours, 20/1 hour"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1997 Colorado Closed 40/2 hours 20/1 hour March 23, 1997 Final Round 7 White - James McCarty 2368 Black - Brian Wall, 41 2210 1.e4 c5 2.c3 e6 3.Nf3! d5! 4.e5 Nc6! 5.d4! The Sicilian transposes into a French 5 ... Bd7 6.Be2! Hamblin is the kind of guy to tell you W. Paulsen played this in 1878, Louis Paulsen tried this in 1887, World Champion Tigran Petrosian tried it in 1965 against Gideon Stahlberg along with thousands of others. 6 Be2 is about 160 years old. 6 ... Nge7 I thought 9 minutes on this. Looks shaky but played 1,796 times by guys like Averbach, Larsen, Benko, Korchnoi, Gulko, Joel Benjamin, Larry Christiansen, Kramnik, Lein, Dreev and Big Joe Bradford from Texas who beat me and told me about his plan to fianchetto on the Kingside as Black in the Tarrasch French 3 .. c5 line If Jim grabs the pawn with 6 ... Nge7 7 dc Ng6 8 Be3 and now 8 ... Qc7!!! has been played once by Fabian Doettling, 8 ... Be7!! has been played 5 times by Mikhail Ulibin et. al., 8 ... Ng:e5 has been played 15 times, 8 ... Nc:e5 has been played 11 times by Kramnik and others It doesn't look like anything for me to worry about. 7.Na3 This move is at least as old as I am. 7 ... cxd4!! 7 ... Ng6!! or ... Nf5! are good too My rule of thumb in the French is: I don't trade on d4 until the b1-knight cannot get to c3, if I can help it. 8.cxd4! Played 693 times by Spassky, Shirov and others No one has tried 8 Bg5!? with the cute trap 8 ... dc???? 9 Nb5!! a great blitz weapon. Tarjan, Igor Zaitsev and 8 others tried 8 Nb5!? but no one fell for the one move checkmate. ( I checked ) No one tried 8 N:d4 either 8 ... Nf5! 9.Nc2! 9 0-0! has been tried 48 times, 9 Nc2! has been played 686 times 9 ... Be7!!! played 110 times 9 ... Qb6!! played 351 times 9 ... a5!! has been tried once 9 ... Qc7 has never been tried 9 ... a6 has been tried twice 9 ... Qa5+ has been played 65 times by interesting, thoughtful people like Neil McDonald, Holmes Romero, Daniel King, Lev Grigorian, Goran Dizdar, Peter Nielsen, Ivan Sokolov and Curt Hansen against Magnus Carlsen ( 2004 ) 9 ... Nh4 has been tried 4 times 9 ... Rc8 tried 50 times 9 ... Rb8 has never been tried 9 ... h6 was lost once by Baranov 9 ... Nb4 has been played 202 times starting in my birthyear, 1955 10.0-0!! Played 105 times 10 Bd3!! played 15 times Garbisu de Gor tried 10 Bd2 once ( I wouldn't make that up ) Alberto Pulito tried 10 Ne3 once 10 ... 0-0 Tried 40 times 10 ... Qb6!! played 237 times 10 ... Rc8 played 33 times 10 ... a5 played 3 times 10 .... a6 played 5 times 10 ... h6 tried once 11.Bd2 11 Bd3 was played 29 times 11 b3 was tried 7 times 11 a4 was never played 11 Bd2 was tried once 11 a3 was tried 3 times 11 Ne3 was tried once 11 Bf4 was tried once 11 Kh1 was tried 6 times 11 ... Rc8? This position has been reached 50 times - A micro-error : 11 ... Qb6!! puts more immediate pressure on the center, almost forcing 12 Bc3 White players - Ljubojevic, Sveshnikov Black players - Larry Christiansen, Paul Motwani ( I just bought two of his books in Florida ), Nigel Short ( who refuses along with Mark Hebden to be Facebook pals ), Marcin Kaminski ( who Josh Bloomer almost beat Round 1 of the Governor's Cup 6 years ago, I beat Keaton Kierwa with the Fishing Pole at that tournament and now he is a 5 time Nebraska Champion with IM Norms ), Suat Atalik ( IM Dave Vigorito says everyone praises Dave's memory but compared to Atalik he can't remember his phone number ) After that free association test I am ready to move on. 12.b4!! TN A Theoretical Novelty by James McCarty, gaining Queenside space. 12 Bc3! has been played twice, 12 Bd3! once 12 Rc1! is good too. We now have an original position but the a3-b4 idea has been tried many times. The game is about even. One idea of 12 b4!! is to keep my Queen in her rat cage and hassle her with a4-5 if I play the natural ... Qb6 12 ... Qb6!! I don't do anything original, just attack the center in standard French fashion. 13.Be1?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ruining his game. Everything is easy for me now. 13 Bd3!! is better positionally and tactically because ... Nc:d4 14 Nf:d4 N:d4 15 Be3 wins so 13 Bd3 f6 14 a4! fe 15 N:e5 or de is a micro-edge for Jim 13 Bd3!! a6! 14 a4! is awkward for me. 13 Kh1 Nf:d4? 14 N:d4 N:d4 15 Be3 winning is similar A human would have a very hard time after 13 Kh1 because Fritz 9 likes weird retreating plans - 13 Kh1 Rb8 14 a4 Rfc8 or 13 Kh1 a5 14 ba N:a5 or 13 Kh1 Ra8 14 a4 Rfc8 or 13 Kh1 a6 14 a4 Rc7 What I would have done is 13 Kh1 f6 14 b5 N-any maybe even 13 Kh1 f6 14 b5 Nc:d4? 15 Nc:d4 fe? which is similar to what I did to Curdo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 ... f6! The price of one wrong move on the White side of a French is the center. 14.g4? Trying to relieve the d4-pressure. The price of two wrong moves on the White side of a French is the game. 14 ... Nh6! Winning. Jim's position is like a leaky bucket now and the plug is lost on e1. 15.exf6! gxf6!! Keeping control of the center and opening the g-file for business. 15 ... B:f6 loses to 16 g5 but 15 ... R:f6! 16 g5 Rg6! is good for me too. 16.h3? There isn't much to do, the position is just depressing for McCarty. Each move Jim doubles his disadvantage. 16 ... Nf7!! Headed for outposts via d6 17.a3 Trying to shore up the temple pillars on b4 and g4 like Samson but I have already given Jim a haircut. 17 ... Kh8 The top of the heap among dozens of wins includes 17 ... Bd6, ... Nd6, ... Kh8, ... a6 and ... Ng5 Notice two moves intend ... Nf7-e4 and my move aims for g-file carnage 18.Rc1 The e1-bishop is the elephant in the room, blocking everything, that the White pieces try to ignore. 18 ... Rg8!! Jim is Galveston Bay and here comes Ike. 19.Ne3? after 2 minutes thought. Jim looked sad and was making quick errors which made resistance worse. It must have been a miserable position to analyze. 19 ... Nxd4!! Based on .. Nd4:e2:f3+ or ... R:c1 intermezzos I carefully checked everything for 16 minutes. 20.Nxd4! Rxc1!! Only move 21.Qxc1! Qxd4! 22.Bc3! Qf4 22 ... Qe4!!, ... Qf4!! or ... Qb6! are all very good 23.Rd1?? after 3 minutes thought. McCarty was having no fun. 23 ... Ng5!! I took 5 minutes to check the consequences of this devastating move. Once White French players lose the center, they lose heart because the rest of Black's position is always so solid. 24.Kg2? Bd6!! I took 17 minutes to confirm this crusher. Hurricane Brian is topping the Wall. My last two moves are in a league of their own. 25.Bc4? It feels like a bar fight between a teetotaler and a drunk. 25 ... Ne4 I was more positional then, I know now to assassinate bodyguards with 25 ... N:h3!!! but my move is near the top of the 3 dozen wins. 26.Qb2! Guarding f2 but ... 26 ... Ba4 Near the top of dozens of wins - Jim is in deep trouble all over the board. 27.Rd3 Grading Jim's moves now would be like grading the diving form of a suicide Wall Street investor after 8 years of George Bush. 27 ... dxc4 Near the top of the win pyramid. 27 ... N:c3 is the most brutal 28.Rxd6! Anything to remove an attacker. 28 ... Qxd6! 29.Bxf6+! Nxf6! 30.Qxf6+! Rg7! A rook down with no perpetual. Jim did not insult me by trying 31 N:c4 Qd5+ 32 Kg3 Q:c4?? 33 Qf8+= 0-1 Jim resigns That's the kind of game you never want to look at again if you're on the wrong side. I found the position around move 12 fascinating and subtle once I took a deeper look. The rest was painful. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "1997 Colorado Closed" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.03.23" ] [Round "7"] [White "James McCarty"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2368"] [BlackElo "2210"] [Opening "French Defense"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2 hours, 20/1 hour"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 c5 2.c3 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.e5 Nc6 5.d4 Bd7 6.Be2 Nge7 7.Na3 cxd4 8.cxd4 Nf5 9.Nc2 Be7 10.0-0 0-0 11.Bd2 Rc8 12.b4 Qb6 13.Be1 f6 14.g4 Nh6 15.exf6 gxf6 16.h3 Nf7 17.a3 Kh8 18.Rc1 Rg8 19.Ne3 Nxd4 20.Nxd4 Rxc1 21.Qxc1 Qxd4 22.Bc3 Qf4 23.Rd1 Ng5 24.Kg2 Bd6 25.Bc4 Ne4 26.Qb2 Ba4 27.Rd3 dxc4 28.Rxd6 Qxd6 29.Bxf6+ Nxf6 30.Qxf6+ Rg7 0-1 Jim resigns ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "OHRA-B"] [Site "Amsterdam"] [Date "1986.07.??"] [Round "5"] [White "Peelen,Piet"] [Black "Rivas Pastor,Manuel"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "C02"] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Nge7 6.Na3 cxd4 7.cxd4 Nf5 8.Nc2 Bd7 9.Be2 Be7 10.0-0 0-0 11.Bd2 Rc8 12.Bc3 b5 13.Qd2 Qb6 14.b4 Rc7 15.a4 a6 16.axb5 axb5 17.Ra3 Ra7 18.Rfa1 Rfa8 19.Rxa7 Rxa7 20.Rxa7 Nxa7 21.g4 Nh4 22.Nxh4 Bxh4 23.Ne1 Nc6 24.Kg2 Be7 25.f4 Qa7 26.Bxb5 Nxe5 27.dxe5 Bxb5 28.Nf3 Qa6 29.Bd4 Bd3 30.Bc5 Bxc5 31.bxc5 Be4 32.Kf2 Bxf3 33.Kxf3 Qa3+ 34.Qe3 Qxe3+ 35.Kxe3 Kf8 36.Kd4 Ke8 37.c6 Kd8 38.Kc5 Kc7 39.h4 g6 40.g5 1/2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Amber-rapid 2nd"] [Site "Monte Carlo"] [Date "1993.03.??"] [Round "2"] [White "Ljubojevic,Ljubomir"] [Black "Short,Nigel D"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "C02"] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Bd7 6.Be2 Nge7 7.Na3 cxd4 8.cxd4 Nf5 9.Nc2 Rc8 10.0-0 Be7 11.Bd2 0-0 12.Bc3 f6 13.Qd2 fxe5 14.dxe5 a6 15.a4 Be8 16.b4 Bh5 17.b5 Bxf3 18.Bxf3 Bg5 19.Qd3 Nce7 20.bxa6 bxa6 21.Be2 Rc4 22.Bd2 Ng6 23.Bb4 Nf4 24.Qd1 Rxc2 25.Qxc2 Nd4 26.Qd1 Ndxe2+ 27.Kh1 Be7 28.Bxe7 Qxe7 29.g3 Nc3 30.Qc2 Nfe2 31.Rae1 Qf7 32.f3 Qd7 33.Rxe2 Nxe2 34.Qxe2 Qxa4 35.Kg2 Rc8 36.Rf2 h6 37.h4 Rc1 38.h5 Rb1 39.Qc2 Qxc2 40.Rxc2 a5 41.Rc8+ Kf7 42.Rc7+ Kf8 43.Rc8+ Ke7 44.Rc7+ Kd8 45.Rxg7 Rb2+ 46.Kf1 a4 47.Ra7 Ra2 48.g4 a3 49.f4 d4 50.g5 hxg5 51.fxg5 Kc8 52.g6 Kb8 53.Ra4 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Leipzig VfB op 08th"] [Site "Leipzig"] [Date "2001.02.20"] [Round "8"] [White "Herfurth,Thomas"] [Black "Winnig,Bernd"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "C02"] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Bd7 6.Be2 Nge7 7.Na3 cxd4 8.cxd4 Nf5 9.Nc2 Rc8 10.Bd2 Be7 11.0-0 0-0 12.Bd3 1/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- End forwarded message ----- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Sep 28 11:14:22 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:14:22 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Wall-Lakdawala 1997 Message-ID: <1222622062.48dfbb6eb5bf6@www.taom.com> In 2006 I did ICC webcasts with various Chess commentators. GM Varuzhan Akobian and IM Cyrus Lakdawala did many shows with me but did not remember playing me. I suppose I treat random 1800's the same way. My games with Akobian and Lakdawala were a huge deal to me, I was nothing to them. I played Varuzhan in the first Levy Memorial ( 7 years ago ? ) in Denver, CO. I got nothing from the White side of a French, he tacked back and forth until I self-destructed. Varuzhan was awesome to work with. He trained as a child with Aronian and Sargissian, two of my Armenian Chess heroes, along with Meri Grigorian-Lyell, who now represents England on the Women's Olympic team. Meri shows my book to the English children. Sometimes, in the right positions, I got hot as a commentator and could predict scores of GM moves. Varuzhan teased me that I should be playing in Linares and Wijk aan Zee. Varuzhan was phenomenal tactically and positionally, his words were 2600 gold. He didn't go 25 tactical moves deep like Larry Christiansen but Akobian's positional evaluations were very nuanced. I think he did some kind of exercises on our breaks because our Chess piece mover Sandy kept laughing into my ear whenever she heard "heavy breathing". All kinds of funny stuff happens on live radio like inappropiate words, falling off Josh Bloomer's chair, Danny Kopeck falling asleep or ordering Chinese food, etc., etc. Cyrus might have been my favorite person to work with because our styles were so similar. We loved to tell stories and hated to analyze the live games. We would go on and on and on with our Chess stories for hours and Sandy would be fuming because she wouldn't have any pieces to move. One time Cyrus and I had to cover the Olympiad, hundreds of games with hard to pronounce names. With an international audience, Bill Paschall always urged and taught me to pronounce each name correctly, Cyrus just said the Americanized pronunciations of everything. With Bill I wanted to say - Aii-van-chuck, with Cyrus I wanted to say - Eee-van-choook. It was confusing. I started to introduce sounds like the old time radio shows and liked to surprise Bill with them. If he said something I didn't agree with, I would play cricket noise. If I saw Duwayne Langseth online I would play a moose call. I tried to get ICC users associated with sounds. I would play Beyonce music if I saw ICC handle Bootylicious online. Someone told me I had the right body for radio. Cyrus remembered working out in the same California gym with Duwayne Langseth of Colorado Springs, Co. Cyrus did many things differently from me. He was from India and had a guru living in his home, trying to set up a Buddhist center. This led to interesting live religious discussions which drove Sandy wild, herself some kind of Southern Baptist, I think. Cyrus also worked out in a sauna, some kind of exercising in extreme heat that sounded horrible. Cyrus loves to take byes in tournaments, I hate to. I walked 5 miles from Colorado Springs at 4 AM after drinking all night with Pete Karagianis so I wouldn't have to take a bye in Manitou Springs, CO. Cyrus is about 90% with the White side of the Exchange Slav, a line I despise for both sides. On our watch, Shirov made a Queenside Fishing Pole sac against Harikrishna. Cyrus tried to refute it while I was wildly enthusiastic. In general, I like crazy Chess and Cyrus likes sane, solid Chess. You can see our different tastes even 11 year ago. I spent 39 minutes trying to make an exchange sac work, Cyrus just ignored it completely and used his time advantage to outplay me. He praised my play highly after the game which made me feel so great that I tried to emulate him afterwards, if possible. It was such a big moment in my life and he didn't even remember it! Cyrus has done some kind of spiritual work because his presence calms and enlightens like the Dalai Lama. You have to be around him to understand. He draws water from deep spiritual wells. Several great Chessplayers, like Robert Ramirez and Kamsky, claim Chess is a mirror to the soul, you can tell how a man thinks about everything from his Chess. Robert claims my Chess proves I am a practical joker. Watch how Cyrus steers away from complexity and heads for clarity. I don't remember much about the 1997 National Open. It was probably at some big hotel. I think that is probably the tournament where I had blitz problems with IM Blas Lugo. It also might be where I had to play GM Yermolinsky in Round 1. The scoreshhets are the nicest ever, they have the time controls printed on them! My game is erroneously listed in the databases as White = Bill Wall and Date=August 3, 1997 The site is listed as Kissimmee I don't know what that means. Maybe it is like James Joyce naming his chapters KMA and KMRIA ( Kiss My Ass and Kiss my Royal Irish Ass) Event "1997 National Open" ] [Site "Las Vegas, Nevada"] [Date "1997.04.10" ] [Round "2"] [White "Brian Wall"] [Black "Cyrus Lakdawala"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2210"] [BlackElo "2560"] [Opening "English"] [ Time "6 PM"] [TimeControl "40/2/20/1/SD/30"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1997 National Open April 10, 2008 40 moves/2 hours 20 moves/1 hour Sudden Death/30 minutes Round 2 Board 27 White - Brian Wall 2210 Black - Cyrus Lakdawala 2560 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c6 3.e4 e5 Played by World Champion Euwe and 630 others 4.d4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- played by Tal, Pshakis and 83 others 4 Nf3!! played by Hort, Huebner, Korchnoi, Mamedyarov, Ibragimov, Georgiev and 527 others. 4 f4 played by Shirazi and 32 others 4 Nge2 played 11 times 4 Be2 played once by Gulya Zala 4 d3 played by Jennie Frenklakh and 34 others 4 Rb1 never played 4 a3 played 4 times 4 Qb3 tried once by Ingvald Nilsen 4 Bd3 tried 3 times 4 Qc2 never tried 4 h3 tried 4 times 4 Qa4 tried twice 4 ... Bb4! 5.dxe5! Nxe4! 6.Qd4 Played by Tal and 14 others 6 Qc2! never tried 6 Bd2 played twice 6 a3 never tried 6 Qc2 never tried 6 Nge2 played thrice 6 Qd3 tried once by Gschwendtner 6 Qg4 never tried 6 ... Qa5 tried 10 times but the move was only 3 years old when Cyrus played it. 6 ... f5!! played twice 6 ... d5! played once by Guillermo Gonzales Garcia against Tal 6 ... N:c3 played 3 times 6 ... B:c3+ or ... Nc5 never tried 7.Nge2! plyaed 10 times 7 ... Nc5!!! played in 3 other games, all in 1997-1998 and answered differently by White each time. It was possibly a novelty when Cyrus uncorked it 7 ... f5!! played twice 7 ... N:c3! played 4 times 7 ... d5 or ... B:c3+ never played 8.g3 TN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Theoretical Novelty by Brian Wall Yona Kosashvili played 8 Qd1!! the safest but still with a comfortable edge for Black. 8 a3 is second best. My move is third best and involves an exchange sac. Leo Armino played 8 Rb1, fourth best. Jiri Pacovsky played the ultra creative 8 Nf4!?, a move way down the list. after 8 Nf4!? Nb3! 9 ab! Q:a1! 10 Nd3! c5!! Black should have won but lost. My idea was similar but saner than Jiri's. 8 Qd1 Na4!! is slightly better for Cyrus. 8 Qd1 Na4! 9 Qc2 d6!! 10 ed Bf5! 11 Qd2 0-0! or 8 Qd1 Na4! 9 Qc2 0-0, ... N:c3 or even ... Nb6 also give Black some edge 8 Qd1 Na4 9 Qd4 0-0! is good for Cyrus 8 Qd1 Na4 9 a3 N:c3 10 ab Q:a1 11 N:c3 is another exchange sac that doesn't look too bad 8 Qd1 Na4!! 9 a3 B:c3+!! 10 bc 0-0!! is better for Black 8 Qd1 Ne6 9 a3!! B:c3+ 10 N:c3 Q:e5+ 11 Be2 with two bishops and sufficient comp for a pawn -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The immediate 8 a3 is interesting - 8 a3 B:c3+? 9 N:c3 Nb3? 10 Qd6! N:a1? 11 Bg5! is a killer but 8 a3 Nb3! 9 ab Q:a1 10 Qd1 N:c1 11 Q:c1 Q:c1+ 12 N:c1 with some compensation for the exchange ----------------------------------------------------------------------- With my move 8 g3 Nb3 9 ab Q:a1 10 Bg2 0-0 11 0-0 I have vague compensation for the exchange 8 g3 0-0 9 Bh3 or Bg2 Nb3 10 ab Q:a1 11 0-0 transposes 8 g3 d6 9 ed 0-0 10 Bg2 Nb3 11 ab Q:a1 12 0-0 Qa5 is another line where my compensation for the pawn looks cloudy, maybe dubious Cyrus chose to keep developing with 8 g3 Nba6 9 Bg2! and now instead of grabbing the exchange kept the game fairly even with 9 ... Ne6 I got away with murder On the immediate 8 g3 Ne6 9 Qe4! 0-0 10 Be3 I might survive by castling Queenside The whole opening made me a nervous wreck - Time spent on each move --------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 d4 10 minutes 5 de 17 minutes 6 Qd4 6 minutes 7 Ne2 6 minutes 8 g3 33 minutes 9 Bg2 6 minutes 10 Qe3 8 minutes 14 Be3 9 minutes moves 18-38 less than 2 minutes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You should have some flavor of the opening now - I did something wrong, maybe 4 d4, then the game became a swirl of sound, unsound and dubious exchange sacs and then somehow I came out OK again. 4 Nf3 would have saved me a lot of grief. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 ... Nba6? 9.Bg2! Ne6 Cyrus can still win the exchange with 9 ... Nb3 but not in the greatest version 10.Qe3!! I'm OK, I survived! Cyrus does have a 51 minute time advantage. I have 27 minutes to reach move 40, he has 78. 10 ... Bc5 11.Qe4 Qd3 is a teeny bit better to get out of the way of my minor pieces 11 ... d6 11 ... 0-0 or ... f6 is a teensy bit better 12.exd6! Bxd6! 13.0-0! 0-0! The position is even but all the pieces are on the board and I have a time and rating disadvantage. I was happy to get this far after calculating murky sacs for 45 minutes. 14.Be3 Ng5! 15.Bxg5 It's hard in time pressure to agree to the annoying tension of 15 Qh4! Be7! 16 Kh1! Re8! 17 Rad1 with a disturbing equality 15 ... Qxg5! Now Cyrus has something he can work with and understand, the two bishops and he slowly grinds me down. I have 7 minutes for 25 moves and I can barely hang on. 16.Rad1! Bc7 17.Qc2 Bg4! 18.Qc1 Qxc1! 19.Rxc1! Rad8 20.Rfd1 Be5 21.f3 Be6 22.b3! Fighting the two bishops in an ending is like slowly sinking in quicksand. 22 ... Nc5 23.Ne4 Nxe4! 24.fxe4! g5 25.Kf2! f6 26.Ke3! Bd6?? Cyrus has many better moves. It's hard to think clearly when your opponent is about to flag. 26 ... f5! exposes my King more but I was down to a minute and basic winning strategy is not to trade pawns. I am OK after 26 ... Bd6?? 27 Nd4!! Bc5 28 b4! 27.Kf2?? Rd7 28.Nc3 Rfd8!! 29.Kf1 Bg4 30.Rd3! He's torturing me. One minute for Brian, half an hour for Cyrus. 30 ... Be5 31.Rxd7! Rxd7! 32.Rc2 Rd3 33.Ne2! I am standing on deck saluting as my ship goes down. 33 ... Kf7 34.Ke1! Bc7! 35.Kf2 Ke7 36.Nc1 Rd8! 37.Ne2! Rd1 38.Nc3?? With seconds left I finally blunder into a checkmate. 38 ... Bb6+! 0-1 mate next move. Thank you Cyrus for being so gracious in the postmortem and so much fun as a guest on ICC. Thank you for being such a strong Chessplayer and not punishing my exchange sacs. The opening was very interesting and probably well developed in theoretical articles and GM laptops. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event "1997 National Open" ] [Site "Las Vegas, Nevada"] [Date "1997.04.10" ] [Round "2"] [White "Brian Wall"] [Black "Cyrus Lakdawala"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2210"] [BlackElo "2560"] [Opening "English"] [ Time "6 PM"] [TimeControl "40/2/20/1/SD/30"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c6 3.e4 e5 4.d4 Bb4 5.dxe5 Nxe4 6.Qd4 Qa5 7.Nge2 Nc5 8.g3 Nba6 9.Bg2 Ne6 10.Qe3 Bc5 11.Qe4 d6 12.exd6 Bxd6 13.0-0 0-0 14.Be3 Ng5 15.Bxg5 Qxg5 16.Rad1 Bc7 17.Qc2 Bg4 18.Qc1 Qxc1 19.Rxc1 Rad8 20.Rfd1 Be5 21.f3 Be6 22.b3 Nc5 23.Ne4 Nxe4 24.fxe4 g5 25.Kf2 f6 26.Ke3 Bd6 27.Kf2 Rd7 28.Nc3 Rfd8 29.Kf1 Bg4 30.Rd3 Be5 31.Rxd7 Rxd7 32.Rc2 Rd3 33.Ne2 Kf7 34.Ke1 Bc7 35.Kf2 Ke7 36.Nc1 Rd8 37.Ne2 Rd1 38.Nc3 Bb6+ 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This mislabeled game is in all the databases. [Event "National op"] [Site "Kissimmee"] [Date "1997.08.03"] [Round "2"] [White "Wall,Bill"] [Black "Lakdawala,Cyrus"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "A22"] 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c6 3.e4 e5 4.d4 Bb4 5.dxe5 Nxe4 6.Qd4 Qa5 7.Nge2 Nc5 8.g3 Nba6 9.Bg2 Ne6 10.Qe3 Bc5 11.Qe4 d6 12.exd6 Bxd6 13.0-0 0-0 14.Be3 Ng5 15.Bxg5 Qxg5 16.Rad1 Bc7 17.Qc2 Bg4 18.Qc1 Qxc1 19.Rxc1 Rad8 20.Rfd1 Be5 21.f3 Be6 22.b3 Nc5 23.Ne4 Nxe4 24.fxe4 g5 25.Kf2 f6 26.Ke3 Bd6 27.Kf2 Rd7 28.Nc3 Rfd8 29.Kf1 Bg4 30.Rd3 Be5 31.Rxd7 Rxd7 32.Rc2 Rd3 33.Ne2 Kf7 34.Ke1 Bc7 35.Kf2 Ke7 36.Nc1 Rd8 37.Ne2 Rd1 38.Nc3 Bb6+ 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I played the same way Tal did for 6 moves. [Event "Sochi"] [Site "Sochi"] [Date "1986.09.??"] [Round "6"] [White "Tal,Mihail"] [Black "Garcia Gonzales,Guillermo"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B10"] 1.e4 c6 2.c4 e5 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.dxe5 Nxe4 6.Qd4 d5 7.cxd5 Qa5 8.Qxe4 Bxc3+ 9.Kd1 cxd5 10.Qc2 d4 11.bxc3 dxc3 12.Ne2 0-0 13.Qxc3 Qa4+ 14.Ke1 Be6 15.Nd4 Rc8 16.Bb5 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tal's first rated game in America, analyzed at www.Walverine.com. Special thanks to Joe Eversole for achieving a winning position and my webmaster Pete Cascio for guiding the Walverine.com site through a quarter million hits. Tal,M (2630) - Eversole [B02] National op USA, 1988 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.Nc3 Nxc3 4.bxc3 d5 5.Ba3 Bf5 6.Nf3 Nd7 7.Nd4 e6 8.Bxf8 Nxf8 9.Rb1 Qc8 10.c4 Be4 11.Qg4 Rg8 12.cxd5 Bxd5 13.Bb5+ c6 14.c4 h5 15.Qh3 Be4 16.d3 Qd7 17.Qe3 0-0-0 18.Qxe4 Qxd4 19.Bxc6 Qc3+ 20.Ke2 Rd4 21.Bxb7+ Kb8 22.Qe3 Ng6 23.Rhc1 Nf4+ 24.Kf3 g5 25.Rxc3 g4+ 26.Kg3 h4+ 27.Kxh4 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "BEL-chT 9798"] [Site "Antwerp"] [Date "1997.??.??"] [Round "8"] [White "Armino,Leo"] [Black "Schalkx,Johnny"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "A22"] 1.e4 c6 2.c4 e5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.d4 Bb4 5.dxe5 Nxe4 6.Qd4 Qa5 7.Nge2 Nc5 8.Rb1 Ne6 9.Qe4 d5 10.exd6 0-0 11.Bd2 Re8 12.g3 Nd7 13.Bg2 Nf6 14.Qh4 g5 15.Qh6 Ng4 16.Qh5 Nd4 17.Be4 Nf6 18.Qxg5+ Qxg5 19.Bxg5 Nxe4 20.Nxd4 Nxc3+ 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "The Hague AEGON"] [Site "The Hague"] [Date "1997.??.??"] [Round "6"] [White "Kosashvili,Yona"] [Black "Comp Chessica"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "A22"] 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.e4 c6 4.d4 Bb4 5.dxe5 Nxe4 6.Qd4 Qa5 7.Nge2 Nc5 8.Qd1 d5 9.a3 d4 10.axb4 Qxa1 11.Nxd4 Ne6 12.Nb3 Qa6 13.c5 b5 14.Qd6 Bd7 15.f4 Nd8 16.f5 Nb7 17.Qd3 0-0 18.f6 Re8 19.Qg3 Bg4 20.Qxg4 g6 21.Bf4 Nd8 22.Bd3 Ne6 23.0-0 Nd7 24.Bg3 Qb7 25.Ne4 Red8 26.Nd6 Qc7 27.Rc1 Rab8 28.Nd4 Nxd4 29.Qxd4 Rb6 1-0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "CZE-chTV"] [Site "Czechia"] [Date "1998.??.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Pacovsky,Jiri"] [Black "Vavra,Jan"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "A22"] 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c6 3.e4 e5 4.d4 Bb4 5.dxe5 Nxe4 6.Qd4 Qa5 7.Nge2 Nc5 8.Nf4 Nb3 9.axb3 Qxa1 10.Nd3 c5 11.Qg4 0-0 12.Be2 d6 13.Qg3 Bxc3+ 14.bxc3 Qxc3+ 15.Bd2 Qa1+ 16.Bc1 Bf5 17.0-0 Bxd3 18.Bf4 Qd4 19.Bxd3 dxe5 20.Bxe5 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Sep 28 15:25:28 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:25:28 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Aiden's games, Happy Birthday Message-ID: <1222637128.48dff648daeb7@www.taom.com> [Event "1997 Colorado Open" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.09.01" ] [Round "5"] [White "Aiden Patterson"] [Black "Al Skarie"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo ""] [BlackElo ""] [Opening "Sicilian Defense"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2 hours, 20/1 hour"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Qc7 4.0-0 a6 5.Bc4 h6 6.c3 Ne5 7.Nxe5 Qxe5 8.Re1 Nf6 9.d4 cxd4 10.cxd4 Qc7 11.b3 d6 12.Nc3 e6 [ 12...b5 13.Nd5 Nxd5 14.Bxd5] 13.Qf3 Be7 [ 13...b5 14.Bd3 Qxc3 15.Bxb5+] 14.Bb2 Nh7 15.a4 Bf6 16.d5 e5 17.Rac1 0-0 18.Ne2 Qd7 19.Ng3 Qg4 20.Rc3 Bd7 21.h3 Qf4 22.Bc1 Qxf3 23.Rxf3 Bg5 24.Nf5 Bxf5 25.Rxf5 Bxc1 26.Rxc1 Rac8 27.Rf3 Nf6 28.Re3 a5 29.f3 Rc5 30.Kf2 Rfc8 31.Rec3 Ne8 32.Ke3 Nc7 33.Kd3 Kf8 34.Kd2 Ke7 35.g3 Na8 36.h4 Nb6 37.Ke2 Kd8 38.f4 f6 [ 38...exf4 39.gxf4 f5 40.Kd3 fxe4+ 41.Kxe4 Nxd5 42.Rd3 Nf6+ 43.Kf3; 38...f5 39.exf5 Nxd5] 39.Kd3 Nd7 40.Rb1 R5c7 41.Rbc1 Nb6 42.fxe5 Nxc4 43.bxc4 dxe5 44.Rf1 Ke7 45.Rb1 Rb8 46.c5 Kd8 47.d6 Rd7 48.Rb5 b6 49.Kc4 g5 50.Kd5 gxh4 51.gxh4 Rg7 52.c6 Rc8 53.Rxb6 Rg4 54.h5 f5 55.Kxe5 Rxe4+ 56.Kxf5 Rxa4 57.Re3 Rd4 58.c7+ 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Pablo's Coffee House" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.08.10" ] [Round ""] [White "Aiden Patterson"] [Black "Tomas Moniz"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo ""] [BlackElo ""] [Opening "Caro-Kann"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "Game/1 hour"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.f3 e6 6.Ne2 Bxe4 7.fxe4 Qh4+ 8.Ng3 Nf6 9.Bd3 h6 10.Qf3 c5 11.Be3 Nbd7 12.0-0-0 Qg4 13.e5 Qxf3 14.gxf3 Nd5 15.Bf2 Be7 16.Ne4 Rc8 17.Bb5 N5b6 18.dxc5 Nd5 19.Bxd7+ Kxd7 20.c4 Kc6 21.cxd5+ exd5 22.Nd6 Bg5+ 23.Kb1 Rc7 24.b4 a6 25.Bg3 Rd7 26.Rhe1 Re7 27.Nf5 Re6 28.Nxg7 Rg6 29.Nf5 1-0 Tomas Moniz resigns ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "Elk Hunt" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.10.04" ] [Round "2"] [Board "12"] [White "Mike Presutti"] [Black "Aiden Patterson"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo ""] [BlackElo ""] [Opening "Two Knights"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.e5 Ng4 6.Nxd4 Ngxe5 7.Nxc6 bxc6 8.Be2 Bc5 9.0-0 0-0 10.Nd2 Rb8 11.Ne4 Bb6 12.Bg5 f6 13.Bc1 d5 14.Nc3 a6 15.b3 Re8 16.Na4 Bb7 17.Ba3 Nd7 18.c4 Re5 19.Nxb6 Nxb6 20.f4 Re8 21.Bh5 Re4 22.Re1 Rxe1+ 23.Qxe1 dxc4 24.Rd1 Qc8 25.Qe7 cxb3 26.Qf7+ Kh8 27.axb3 Nd5 28.Re1 Nxf4 29.Re8+ Qxe8 30.Qxe8+ Rxe8 31.Bxe8 Kg8 32.Bd7 Kf7 33.Bf5 g6 34.Bc2 Ke6 35.Kf2 Kd5 36.Be7 Ke5 37.Bd8 c5 38.Bxc7+ Kd4 39.Bxf4 Kc3 40.Bd1 Bd5 41.Bd6 Bxb3 42.Bxb3 Kxb3 43.Bxc5 a5 44.Bd4 f5 45.Kf3 Kc4 46.Bf6 Kd5 47.Kf4 Ke6 48.Bb2 h6 49.h4 a4 50.Ba3 Kd5 51.h5 gxh5 52.Kxf5 h4 53.Be7 h5 54.Bxh4 Kd6 55.Kg6 Ke6 56.Kxh5 a3 57.Kg6 Ke5 58.g4 a2 59.Bf6+ Ke6 60.g5 a1Q 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Elk Hunt Alternative" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.10.04" ] [Round "1"] [Board "13"] [White "Aiden Patterson"] [Black "Shane Gaschler"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo ""] [BlackElo ""] [Opening "Center Counter, Scandinavian"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.Nf3 Bg4 4.Be2 Qxd5 5.0-0 e6 6.Nc3 Qh5 7.Nb5 Na6 8.b3 Bxf3 9.Bxf3 Qxb5 10.Bb2 Bd6 11.c4 Qb6 12.d4 c5 13.d5 0-0-0 14.g3 e5 15.Qc2 Qc7 16.a3 h5 17.h4 Rde8 18.Bg2 Ng4 19.Bh3 Kb8 20.Bc3 e4 21.Bxg4 hxg4 22.Bxg7 Rh7 23.Bf6 Be5 24.Qxe4 Rh6 25.Bg5 Rhh8 26.Rab1 Qd7 27.b4 Bxg3 28.Bf4+ Ka8 29.Qxe8+ Qxe8 30.fxg3 Qe4 31.b5 Nb8 32.Rbc1 Re8 33.Bd6 Qd4+ 34.Kh1 Re2 35.Rf4 Qd2 36.Kg1 Rg2+ 0-1 White resigns --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This game is goofy because Aiden allowed an illegal en passant capture on move 18 with 17 Bd3+ g6 18 c4 dc ep ( illegal) 19 bc Qd8 She still won [Event "Colorado Open" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "199?.08.30" ] [Round "1"] [Board "50"] [White "Aiden Patterson"] [Black "J. Evoniuk"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "69"] [BlackElo "34"] [Opening "Guicco Piano"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.Bc4 Bc5 5.0-0 d6 6.h3 0-0 7.d3 h6 8.Bd2 Be6 9.Nd5 Bxd5 10.exd5 Nd4 11.c3 Nxf3+ 12.Qxf3 Re8 13.Rae1 Qd7 14.Qg3 Kh7 15.Qh4 Ng8 16.d4 exd4 17.Bd3+ g6 18.Bc4 dxc3 19.bxc3 Qd8 20.Rxe8 Qxe8 21.Re1 Qd8 22.Qf4 Qf6 23.Qg3 Ne7 24.Bd3 Rb8 25.Be4 Qg7 26.Re2 f5 27.Bf3 Rf8 28.Qh4 Rf7 29.Bg5 Ng8 30.Re8 Nf6 31.Re6 Nh5 32.Bxh5 gxh5 33.Rxh6+ Kg8 34.Qxh5 Qxc3 35.Rg6+ Rg7 36.Bf6 Rxg6 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Colorado Open" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.08.31" ] [Round "4"] [Board "33"] [White "Aiden Patterson"] [Black "David Barbour"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "69"] [BlackElo "34"] [Opening "Exchange French"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 e6 2.Nc3 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 Bb4 6.a3 Ba5 7.b4 Bb6 8.Na4 0-0 9.Nxb6 axb6 10.Bd3 Bg4 11.h3 Bh5 12.0-0 Nc6 13.Bg5 Nxd4 14.Be2 Nxe2+ 15.Qxe2 h6 16.Be3 Re8 17.Rfe1 c5 18.c3 Qc7 19.Qd1 Rad8 20.Ra2 d4 21.Bxd4 Rxe1+ 22.Qxe1 cxd4 23.Nxd4 Re8 24.Qc1 Qe5 25.Ra1 Nd5 26.a4 Nf4 27.a5 Qxd4 28.cxd4 Ne2+ 29.Kf1 Nxc1 30.Rxc1 bxa5 31.bxa5 Be2+ 32.Ke1 Ba6+ 33.Kd1 Rd8 34.Kd2 Rxd4+ 35.Ke3 Rd5 36.Ra1 f5 37.Ra4 g5 38.f4 Bb5 39.Ra3 Bc6 40.g3 Kf7 41.a6 bxa6 42.Rxa6 Rd6 43.Ra5 Kf6 44.g4 Re6+ 45.Kd4 Be4 46.Re5 Rxe5 47.fxe5+ Ke6 48.gxf5+ Bxf5 49.Ke3 0-1 White resigns ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "Elk Hunt Alternative" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.10.05" ] [Round "4"] [Board "10"] [White "Aiden Patterson"] [Black "David Helt"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo ""] [BlackElo ""] [Opening "Philidor's"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 d6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 e5 4.Bc4 Be7 5.d4 exd4 6.Nxd4 0-0 7.0-0 Nbd7 8.Re1 Ne5 9.Bf1 Ng6 10.Qe2 c6 11.Nf5 Re8 12.Nxe7+ Qxe7 13.Bg5 Qe5 14.Bxf6 Qxf6 15.Rad1 d5 16.Qd2 Be6 17.exd5 Rad8 18.d6 Rd7 19.Qd4 Qxd4 20.Rxd4 Red8 21.Red1 f5 22.a3 Kf7 23.g3 Kf6 24.f4 Nh8 25.Na4 Nf7 26.Nc5 Rxd6 27.Rxd6 Rxd6 28.Re1 Nd8 29.Bg2 Rd2 30.Rc1 Bf7 31.b4 Ke7 32.Nd3 Kd6 33.Kf1 Bd5 34.Bh3 g6 35.Ne5 Rxh2 36.c4 Rh1+ 37.Kf2 Rxc1 38.cxd5 cxd5 39.Bf1 Rc3 40.a4 Nc6 41.Nf7+ Ke7 42.Ng5 h6 43.Nf3 Nxb4 44.Nd4 Ra3 45.Bb5 0-1 White resigns ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This game was hard to decode [Event "Colorado Open" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.08.30" ] [Round "2"] [Board "34"] [White "Salvador Rena-Amato"] [Black "Aiden Patterson"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo ""] [BlackElo ""] [Opening "Devon"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.Nf3 Nc6 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 d6 4.d3 e6 5.Nbd2 Be7 6.0-0 b6 7.e4 d5 8.Nb3 e5 9.Nh4 0-0 10.Nf5 Bb7 11.f4 Rb8 12.Nxe7+ Qxe7 13.f5 Qd6 14.Bg5 Ne7 15.Nd2 b5 16.Nf3 c5 17.Qd2 d4 18.a3 c4 19.Bh6 Nxe4 20.dxe4 Bxe4 21.Bg5 Nxf5 22.Nxe5 Bxg2 23.Kxg2 Qxe5 24.Rae1 Qd5+ 25.Kg1 f6 26.Bf4 Rbd8 27.Re2 Qc5 28.Kh1 d3 29.Ref2 Rf7 30.Re1 Rfd7 31.Rff1 Nd6 32.Re6 Qd5+ 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The problem this game was that SM John Hall filled Aiden's head with all kinds of sophisticated Modern Defense strategy where Black doesn't have to castle - the result was disaster. [Event "Colorado Open" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.08.31" ] [Round "3"] [Board "24"] [White "Joe Bihlmeyer"] [Black "Aiden Patterson"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo ""] [BlackElo ""] [Opening "Samish King's Indian"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 a6 6.Be3 Nc6 7.Qd2 h6 8.0-0-0 e5 9.d5 Na7 10.Bd3 Qd7 11.Nge2 c6 12.Bc2 Ke7 13.h3 h5 14.g4 b5 15.c5 cxd5 16.cxd6+ Qxd6 17.g5 d4 18.gxf6+ Bxf6 19.Nd5+ Ke8 20.Bg5 Bxg5 21.Qxg5 Be6 22.Nf6+ Kf8 23.Nc3 Nc6 24.Ncd5 b4 25.Kb1 Na5 26.Bd3 Rc8 27.Rc1 Kg7 28.Rxc8 Rxc8 29.Nxh5+ Kf8 30.Qh6+ Ke8 31.Nhf6+ Kd8 32.Qh8+ 1-0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Boulder Open" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.01.11" ] [Round "3"] [Board "32"] [White "Rod Kuchta"] [Black "Aiden Patterson"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo ""] [BlackElo ""] [Opening "Siberian"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bg5 e6 4.Qd3 c5 5.dxc5 Bxc5 6.Qb5+ Nbd7 7.e3 a6 8.Qd3 0-0 9.Nf3 b5 10.a3 Bb7 11.0-0-0 Nb6 12.Nd2 h6 13.Bh4 Qe7 14.Bxf6 Qxf6 15.Nb3 Bd6 16.f3 Rfc8 17.Qd4 Qd8 18.e4 Qg5+ 19.Kb1 Nc4 20.Bxc4 Rxc4 21.Qb6 Bc6 22.exd5 exd5 23.Nxd5 Qxg2 24.Ne3 Qf2 25.Nxc4 Qxb6 26.Nxb6 Bxf3 27.Rxd6 Bxh1 28.Nxa8 Bxa8 29.Rd8+ Kh7 1-0 Black resigns ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Sabean- White Aiden Patterson- Black 1-6-98 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d3 c6 4.Nf3 d5 5.exd5 Nxd5 6.Nxe5 b5 7.Bb3 Bd6 8.0-0 0-0 9.Nf3 Bg4 10.Nc3 Nf4 11.Be3 Qf6 12.Ne4 Nh3+ 13.gxh3 Qg6 14.hxg4 Qxg4+ 15.Kh1 Be7 16.Rg1 Qh3 17.Rg3 [ 17.Nd4 Qh4] 17...Qh5 18.Nd4 Qe5 19.Qg4 h5 20.Qxg7+ Qxg7 21.Rxg7+ Kxg7 22.Nf5+ Kh8 23.Nxe7 f5 24.Ng6+ Kg7 25.Nxf8 fxe4 26.Ne6+ Kf6 27.Nc7 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "1997 Boulder Open, Under 1700" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.01.11" ] [Round "4"] [Board "33"] [White "Fuller"] [Black "Aiden Patterson"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo ""] [BlackElo ""] [Opening "Two Knights"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Nxd5 6.Qf3 Qxg5 7.Bxd5 Bd7 8.Bxf7+ Kd8 9.d3 Qf5 10.Bd5 Nd4 11.Qxf5 Bxf5 12.Bb3 Nxb3 13.axb3 Bc5 14.0-0 Kd7 15.Nc3 h5 16.Ne4 Be7 17.f4 exf4 18.Bxf4 g6 19.Ra4 Rhg8 20.Rd4+ Ke8 21.Re1 Kf7 22.Bxc7 Bxe4 23.Rdxe4 Bf6 24.Rf1 Rae8 25.Ref4 Re6 26.Be5 Rxe5 27.Rxf6+ Ke8 28.Rf7 Rf5 29.R1xf5 gxf5 30.Rxb7 a5 31.Ra7 Rg4 32.Rxa5 Rf4 33.Ra4 Rxa4 34.bxa4 Kd7 35.Kf2 Kd6 36.Ke3 Kd5 37.c3 Kc5 38.Kf4 Kd5 39.Kxf5 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aiden's scoresheet was indecipherable but she had a good habit of copying her opponent's scoresheets after the game. I struggled quite a while with hers first. [Event "Premier" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.21.12" ] [Round "3"] [Board "7"] [White "Aiden Patterson"] [Black "J.C.McNeil"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo ""] [BlackElo ""] [Opening "Insane English Polish"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.c4 b5 2.b3 e5 3.g3 Bb7 4.e4 Nf6 5.Nf3 bxc4 6.Bxc4 Bxe4 7.Nc3 d5 8.Bb5+ c6 9.Nxe4 dxe4 10.Ba4 exf3 11.Qxf3 e4 12.Qc3 Qd5 13.0-0 Bc5 14.b4 Bd4 15.Qa3 Bxa1 16.Bb3 Qd7 17.b5 Be5 18.b6 Bd6 19.Qa5 0-0 20.Bb2 Qb7 21.Bxf6 gxf6 22.bxa7 Qxa7 23.Qf5 Qe7 24.Re1 Qe5 25.Qg4+ Qg5 26.Qe2 f5 27.d3 Re8 28.d4 Ra7 29.Qc4 Rae7 30.Kf1 Qf6 31.a4 f4 32.Re2 fxg3 33.hxg3 Bxg3 0-1 White resigns --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Good one, Aiden [Event "Premier" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.21.12" ] [Round "4"] [Board "9"] [White "Aiden Patterson"] [Black "Al Gardner"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo ""] [BlackElo ""] [Opening "Torre vs King Fianchetto"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Bg5 Bg7 4.Nbd2 d5 5.e3 Nc6 6.a3 Bf5 7.Bd3 Ne4 8.Bf4 0-0 9.h3 f6 10.0-0 e5 11.dxe5 fxe5 12.Bh2 Qf6 13.Nxe4 dxe4 14.Bc4+ Kh8 15.Nd2 Rad8 16.Qe2 Qg5 17.g4 h5 18.f4 exf4 19.Bxf4 Qh4 20.gxf5 Rxf5 21.Nxe4 Ne5 22.Ng5 Rxg5+ 23.Bxg5 Qxg5+ 24.Kh1 Nxc4 25.Qxc4 Qxe3 26.Qb3 Qe4+ 27.Rf3 Rd2 28.Raf1 Bd4 29.Qf7 Bc5 30.Qf4 Qxf4 31.Rxf4 Bd6 32.R4f2 Rd4 33.c3 Rd3 34.Rf3 Rd5 35.b4 b6 36.c4 Rd4 37.Rc1 c5 38.Rf6 Kg7 39.Rcf1 cxb4 40.axb4 Bxb4 41.Rf7+ Kh6 42.Rxa7 Rxc4 43.Rd7 b5 44.Rb7 Bd6 45.Rxb5 Rc2 46.Rf3 Re2 47.Kg1 Be5 48.Kf1 Re4 49.Rfb3 Kg7 50.Kg2 Kf6 51.Rf3+ Rf4 52.Rxf4+ Bxf4 53.Ra5 g5 54.Ra4 g4 55.Rxf4+ Kg5 56.Ra4 Kh4 57.hxg4 hxg4 58.Rb4 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Premier" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.20.12" ] [Round "2"] [Board "10"] [White "Aiden Patterson"] [Black "Phil Brown"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo ""] [BlackElo ""] [Opening "Ruy Lopez"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3 Bc5 5.Bxc6 bxc6 6.Nxe5 0-0 7.0-0 Bb7 8.Bg5 Bd4 9.Bxf6 Qxf6 10.Nxd7 Qd6 11.c3 Qxd7 12.cxd4 Qxd4 13.Qc2 c5 14.Rd1 Rad8 15.Nc3 Ba6 16.Ne2 Qe5 17.Rac1 h6 18.Qc3 Qd6 19.Qxc5 Qxc5 20.Rxc5 Bxd3 21.Ng3 Rd7 22.e5 Re8 23.f4 Red8 24.Rdc1 a5 25.Rxc7 Rxc7 26.Rxc7 Kf8 27.Rc3 Ba6 28.Kf2 Ke8 29.Ke3 Rd7 30.Ne2 Ke7 31.Rc1 Ke6 32.Nc3 Ke7 33.Na4 Bb5 34.Nb6 Rd3+ 35.Ke4 Rd8 36.f5 h5 37.Rc7+ Ke8 38.e6 Rd4+ 1-0 White resigns ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Nice one, Aiden [Event "Premier" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.20.12" ] [Round "1"] [Board "10"] [White "Aiden Patterson"] [Black "Louis Berman"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo ""] [BlackElo ""] [Opening "Ruy Lopez"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 Bc5 4.Bg2 Ng4 5.Ne4 Be7 6.Nf3 0-0 7.h3 f5 8.hxg4 fxe4 9.Nxe5 d5 10.cxd5 Qxd5 11.Qb3 c6 12.Bxe4 Qxb3 13.Bxh7+ 1-0 mate next move ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Denver Chess Club - December" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "199?.23.12" ] [Round "3"] [Board ""] [White "D. Hansen"] [Black "Aiden Patterson"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "1323"] [BlackElo ""] [Opening "Pirc"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 g6 2.Nf3 Bg7 3.d4 d6 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Be3 0-0 6.Bc4 Nbd7 7.Qd2 Re8 8.e5 dxe5 9.dxe5 Ng4 10.Bf4 Ngxe5 11.Be2 a6 12.Bh6 Bh8 13.0-0-0 c5 14.Rhe1 b5 15.Nd5 Nc4 16.Bxc4 bxc4 17.Be3 Nb6 18.Nc3 Qc7 19.Bf4 e5 20.Nxe5 Qb7 21.Nf3 Bg4 22.Re3 Bd4 23.Rxe8+ Rxe8 24.Re1 Rxe1+ 25.Nxe1 Be6 26.Nf3 Bh8 27.Qd8+ Kg7 28.Be5+ Kh6 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Good one Aiden [Event "" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.09.12" ] [Round ""] [Board ""] [White "Aiden Patterson"] [Black "Russ Robbins"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "1517"] [BlackElo "1244"] [Opening "English"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 Be7 4.Bg2 d6 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.0-0 Be6 7.b3 0-0 8.a3 Re8 9.Qc2 h6 10.Rd1 Rb8 11.Nh4 Qd7 12.Bh1 Nd4 13.Qb1 c6 14.Nf3 d5 15.Nxe5 Qc8 16.cxd5 cxd5 17.e3 Nc6 18.f4 Bf5 19.d3 Nxe5 20.fxe5 Nd7 21.Nxd5 Nxe5 22.e4 Bg4 23.Rf1 b6 24.Ra2 Bc5+ 25.Ne3 Rd8 26.b4 Bxe3+ 27.Bxe3 Nxd3 28.Qb3 Be6 29.Qb1 Bxa2 30.Qxa2 Qe6 31.Qa1 Rbc8 32.Bf3 Rc2 33.Bh5 Rc7 34.Bd4 Qxe4 35.Bxg7 Qe3+ 36.Kg2 Rc2+ 37.Kh3 Nf2+ 38.Rxf2 Qxf2 39.Bxh6 Qxh2+ 40.Kg4 Rc4+ 41.Bf4 Rdd4 42.Kg5 Qh3 43.Bg4 Rd5+ 44.Kf6 Rc6+ 45.Ke7 Qxg4 1-0 Black resigns --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Good one, Aiden [Event "Denver Open" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.11.07" ] [Round "2"] [Board "3"] [White "Aiden Patterson"] [Black "Mark Gurevich"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo ""] [BlackElo ""] [Opening "English"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.c4 e5 2.g3 Bc5 3.Nc3 b6 4.Bg2 c6 5.Nf3 d6 6.d3 Nf6 7.a3 Ng4 8.Ne4 b5 9.Nxc5 dxc5 10.cxb5 cxb5 11.Ng5 e4 12.Nxe4 Bb7 13.Qb3 Qb6 14.0-0 0-0 15.Bf4 Nd7 16.Rac1 Bxe4 17.Bxe4 Rae8 18.Qc2 Ngf6 19.Bf3 Ne5 20.Bg2 c4 21.Rfe1 Nfg4 22.Rf1 cxd3 23.exd3 Qd4 24.Rcd1 Rc8 25.Qd2 Rfd8 26.h3 Nf6 27.Be4 Nxe4 28.Bxe5 Qxe5 29.Qe3 Qxb2 30.dxe4 Rxd1 31.Rxd1 Qc2 32.Qd4 g6 33.Kg2 Re8 34.Kf3 Qb3+ 35.Rd3 Qe6 36.g4 h5 37.Kf4 hxg4 38.hxg4 Qe7 39.f3 Qc7+ 40.Ke3 a5 41.Rd1 Rc8 42.Qd6 Qxd6 43.Rxd6 Rc3+ 44.Rd3 Rxd3+ 45.Kxd3 Kg7 46.Kd4 Kf6 47.f4 g5 48.e5+ Ke6 49.f5+ Ke7 50.Kc5 b4 51.axb4 axb4 52.Kxb4 Kd7 53.Kc5 Ke7 54.Kd5 f6 55.e6 Kd8 56.Kd6 Ke8 57.e7 1-0 Black Resigns ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Probably a time pressure win a Queen down [Event "Denver Open" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.11.07" ] [Round "1"] [Board "1"] [White "Teddy Doykos"] [Black "Aiden Patterson and Devon Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo ""] [BlackElo ""] [Opening "King's Indian"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bg5 g6 4.e3 Bg7 5.Nbd2 Bd7 6.Bd3 h6 7.Bh4 Bc6 8.0-0 g5 9.Bg3 Nbd7 10.c3 Nh5 11.Qc2 Ndf6 12.e4 Nxg3 13.hxg3 e6 14.Rfe1 Qe7 15.d5 Bd7 16.Re2 g4 17.Nh2 h5 18.e5 Nxd5 19.Qb3 0-0-0 20.Nc4 b5 21.exd6 cxd6 22.Qa3 bxc4 23.Bxc4 Kb8 24.Bxd5 Bc8 25.Qb3+ Bb7 26.Rae1 Be5 27.f4 exd5 28.fxe5 dxe5 29.Rxe5 Qc5+ 30.Kh1 h4 31.Re7 Qc6 32.Rxf7 h3 33.Re6 hxg2+ 34.Kxg2 Rd7 35.Rxc6 Rxf7 36.Ra6 d4+ 37.Kg1 Rfh7 38.cxd4 Rxh2 39.Rg6 Rg2+ 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nice one Aiden [Event "Denver Open" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.12.07" ] [Round "3"] [Board "2"] [White "Jon Fortune"] [Black "Aiden Patterson and Devon Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo ""] [BlackElo ""] [Opening "Colle vs King's Indian"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.e3 d6 4.Nbd2 Nbd7 5.Bd3 c5 6.c3 a6 7.0-0 b5 8.b3 Bg7 9.Bb2 Qc7 10.e4 0-0 11.c4 b4 12.d5 Ng4 13.Qc1 Nde5 14.Nxe5 Bxe5 15.Nf3 Bxb2 16.Qxb2 e6 17.h3 Nh6 18.Qd2 Kg7 19.Rae1 e5 20.Nh2 Qd8 21.Qe3 f5 22.f4 exf4 23.Rxf4 g5 24.Qg3 Kf6 25.Ng4+ Kg6 26.Nxh6 Kxh6 27.Rf2 f4 28.Qf3 Qf6 29.Ref1 Ra7 30.h4 Raf7 31.g3 Qd4 32.hxg5+ Kxg5 33.gxf4+ Rxf4 34.Qe2 Bh3 35.Qd2 Kh4 36.Qe1 Bxf1 0-1 White Resigns ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Sep 28 23:58:17 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:58:17 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Marriage minded Message-ID: <1222667897.48e06e793ce1e@www.taom.com> I have decided to marry the first woman I meet who can keep an accurate scoresheet. Brian Wall From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Sep 29 15:40:32 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:40:32 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Grinder Message-ID: <1222724432.48e14b50abfea@www.taom.com> 35 is supposed to be the best age for Chess, your peak. My highest rating was 2335 but I feel much stronger now, much more of a vicious attacker. Petrosian gave a lecture on a game he had played 10 years previously. " Somehow my mind worked differently." Here's a game I played when I was 42. I get aggravated these days when I have to slowly grind out a win. Hurry up and blunder, damnit, I am thirsty for my prune juice. When I was teaching Tyler Hughes I wondered what would happen when he had to win every game like me just to stay even. I seemed to have infinite Karpovian patience this game, making something out of nothing like Kramink. This is a game devoid of tactics, just sheer will to win. This is the kind of game 1800's call Chess. I was amused when Cyrus Lakdawala remembered nothing from our game in this tournament 11 years ago. I have to admit, I remember nothing about my game with Keith Yamanaka. If you showed me this game I would not recognize it as mine. If Keith was standing in front of me I would say, " Who?" ; just another nameless, faceless expert I got well paid to beat up the last 30 years. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_DV54ddNHE I saw Billy Preston perform Nothing from Nothing live a thousand years ago. That song comes to mind anytime someone squeezes out a win from an even endgame. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher) Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin' You gotta have somethin' If you wanna be with me Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin' You gotta have somethin' If you wanna be with me I'm not tryin' to be your hero 'Cause that zero is too cold for me, Brrr I'm not tryin' to be your highness 'Cause that minus is too low to see, yeah Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin' And I'm not stuffin' Believe you me Don't you remember I told ya I'm a soldier in the war on poverty, yeah Yes, I am [Instrumental Interlude] Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin' You gotta have somethin' If you wanna be with me Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin' You gotta have somethin' If you wanna be with me You gotta have somethin' If you wanna be with me You gotta bring me somethin' girl If you wanna be with me --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.poker-babes.com/bio/michael-mizrachi/ Poker profile of Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "1997 National Open" ] [Site "Las Vegas, Nevada"] [Date "1997.04.13" ] [Round "6"] [White "Brian Wall"] [Black "Keith L. Yamanaka"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2210"] [BlackElo "2043"] [Opening "QGD"] [ Time "6 PM"] [TimeControl "40/2/20/1/SD/30"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1997 National Open Vegas, baby. Board 69 40/2 20/1 SD/30 April 13, 2008 the last day my brother Fred was 40 Round 6 White - Brian Wall 2210 then 2227 now Keith L. Yamanaka - 1997 National Open - 2010 1998 National Open - 2078 1999 National Open - 2089 2000 National Open - 2085 2002 National Open - 2018 2005 National Open - 1949 2006 National Open - 1923 2007 National Open - 1935 25TH SANDS REGENCY WSO (NV) - 1900 He seems to be dropping like a rock, good thing I played him then. His chart looks like a Charly movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062794/ Let's get the chips in the air. 1.c4 e6 2.Nc3! d5! 3.cxd5 exd5! 4.d4! c6 5.Bf4 Nf6! 6.e3! Bd6! 7.Bg3 Bf5! 8.Nf3! Ne4 Initiating the standard trade-trade-lose plan that is sooooooooo effective against Masters. Keith avoids the h-file terrors of 8 ... B:g3 9 hg 9.Bd3! If someone showed me this game I would say Danielle Rice must be White, not me. 9 ... 0-0 10.Bxe4! Bxe4! 11.Nxe4! dxe4! 12.Nd2 Bb4!! TN Theoretical Novelty by Keith Yama ..., Yama ..., Yama ... - naht-gonna-win-this-game-uh The equally good 12 ... Re8!! had already been played 12 ... f5 13 Qb3+ Rf7 14 0-0, B:d6 or f3 all look better for me 13.0-0! Bxd2 14.Qxd2! If you sac three pieces and then end up in a drawn ending then maybe a Master will accept your draw, like Dmitry Schneider did after 30 moves of our HB Minnesota game ( in the databases ). If you just make a few simple moves and trade some pieces, you haven't earned a draw, you have just tickled King Kong's toes. 14 ... Nd7 Nothing much going on in this game yet. I do have some pawn breaks with b5 or f3 to stir up trouble. I do have a superior minor piece. I do have a half tempo edge in development. 15.b4 Fritz is more patient than I am but how can I win if I don't throw pawns at people. 15 ... Nb6! 16.a4 a6? There we go, I've provoked some kind of weakness. 17.Qc2!! Qd5 18.Qc5 12 minutes spent on this move An interesting plan, maybe I can create a backward b7-pawn on an open file. I had other ideas like 18 a5, Bc7 or f3 18 ... Nc4! 19.a5 To prevent a light-square blockade with ... b5 19 ... Rfd8 It might be better to avoid a Queen trade with 19 ... Qe6 but experts don't avoid Queen trades with Masters, they pray to their gods for hours before each game for just that opportunity. 20.Rfb1 I am not sure what to call this move - choose one. a - bad b - overoptimistic c - a desperate attempt to win a drawn position d - a wing and a prayer e - prescient f - psychic g - fantasy h - patient cobra fighting style Kung Fu 20 ... Nd6 Headed for the blockading square b5 but allowing me to nudge his c-pawn 21.Qxd5 cxd5! 22.Bxd6! Rxd6! 23.Rc1!! Now I can put a rook on c5 and see how he reacts 23 ... Rc6 24.Rc5!! Rac8 25.f3 Invite everyone to the party- GM Seirawan 23 ... exf3! 26.gxf3! Rg6+ I have a big edge now with d5-pressure 26 ... R:c5 27 bc allows Ra1-b6, Kg1-d3 and e4 with a central initiative. 27.Kf2! Rcc6 It's hard to say what's best in these positions, you need exact, precise evaluations of different, murky endings 28.Rg1!! 28 e4 is another try 28 ... Rxg1 29.Kxg1! Kf8! 29 ... R:c5?? 30 dc!! creates a quick Queen with b5 and c6. I think 29 ... R:c5?? 30 bc f5 31 e4 de 32 fe Kf7 33 Kf2 Kf6 34 Ke3 wins too 30.Rxd5! Rc1+! 31.Kf2! Rb1! 32.b5!! Despite all the exclams for both sides I am winning and I am not exactly sure where Keith went wrong. 19 ... or 20 ... Qe6 should have held, for example 32 ... Rxb5 I would have kept it confusing with 32 ... ab 33 Rd8+ Ke7 34 Rb8 b4 34 R:b7+ Kf6 and I should be able to win by trading a-pawn for b-pawn and then slowly advancing my King and protected passed d-pawn 33.Rxb5! axb5! 34.Ke2! f5 35.Kd3! Ke7! 36.f4!!! An amazing looking winning move for a King ending, creating weaknesses and enemy King access squares everywhere. The idea is simple and elegant. Prevent Yamanaka from creating a Kingside passer with ... g5, advance my King to b4 and after ... Kc6, guarding b5, I play d5+ and win both b-pawns while keeping Keith at bay from my a-pawn 36 ... Kd6! 37.Kc3! h6! 38.h4!!!, not on my watch, not through the Iron Duke. 38 Kc2???, Kb3???, Kd3???, Kb2???, Kd2??? or h3??? all LOSE to 38 ... g5!! creating passed pawns quickly on both sides. 38 Kb4 g5!! allows KLY to Queen first, althought I might still win with my 2 extra pawns Keith thought for 5 minutes on 35 ... Ke7, that's when I must have calculated 36 f4!! and 38 h4!! because I played those great moves almost instantly. I thought 4 minutes on 32 b5!!, 15 minutes on 28 Rg1!!, 9 minutes on 29 K:g1!! because I had a 29 R:d5! option 38 ... Kd5 39.Kb4! Ke4! 40.Kxb5 I will have two Queens soon after 40 K:b5 K:e3 41 d5 1-0 Yamanaka resigns That's all folks ------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "1997 National Open" ] [Site "Las Vegas, Nevada"] [Date "1997.04.13" ] [Round "6"] [White "Brian Wall"] [Black "Keith L. Yamanaka"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2210"] [BlackElo "2043"] [Opening "QGD"] [ Time "6 PM"] [TimeControl "40/2/20/1/SD/30"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 d5 3.cxd5 exd5 4.d4 c6 5.Bf4 Nf6 6.e3 Bd6 7.Bg3 Bf5 8.Nf3 Ne4 9.Bd3 0-0 10.Bxe4 Bxe4 11.Nxe4 dxe4 12.Nd2 Bb4 13.0-0 Bxd2 14.Qxd2 Nd7 15.b4 Nb6 16.a4 a6 17.Qc2 Qd5 18.Qc5 Nc4 19.a5 Rfd8 20.Rfb1 Nd6 21.Qxd5 cxd5 22.Bxd6 Rxd6 23.Rc1 Rc6 24.Rc5 Rac8 25.f3 exf3 26.gxf3 Rg6+ 27.Kf2 Rcc6 28.Rg1 Rxg1 29.Kxg1 Kf8 30.Rxd5 Rc1+ 31.Kf2 Rb1 32.b5 Rxb5 33.Rxb5 axb5 34.Ke2 f5 35.Kd3 Ke7 36.f4 Kd6 37.Kc3 h6 38.h4 Kd5 39.Kb4 Ke4 40.Kxb5 1-0 Yamanaka resigns ------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "SVK-chT"] [Site "Slovakia"] [Date "1995.??.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Cervenka,Imrich"] [Black "Pcola,Pavol"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "D35"] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Bf4 Bf5 7.e3 Bd6 8.Bg3 Ne4 9.Bd3 0-0 10.Bxe4 Bxe4 11.Nxe4 dxe4 12.Nd2 Re8 13.Qc2 Bb4 14.Bxb8 Rxb8 15.0-0-0 Qd5 16.Kb1 a5 17.a3 Bd6 18.Rc1 Re6 19.Rhd1 Bf8 20.Nc4 Qd8 21.f3 exf3 22.gxf3 a4 23.e4 b5 24.Ne5 Rb6 25.f4 b4 26.axb4 Bxb4 27.Qxa4 Bf8 28.f5 Rh6 29.Rxc6 Qe8 30.Rdc1 Rxh2 31.Qa2 Rbxb2+ 32.Qxb2 Rxb2+ 33.Kxb2 f6 34.Nf3 Qxe4 35.R1c3 Qxf5 36.Rc8 h5 37.Rd8 Qb5+ 38.Kc2 Kf7 39.d5 Be7 40.Ra8 Qxd5 41.Ra7 Qe4+ 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Amazing stories. I was talking to a fat Chessplayer at the 16th street mall. I told him that everyone looks at fat people liked they just gorged themselves at KFC when actually they are usually dieting and exercising and trying to get healthy again. He told me, as fat as he is now, he had lost over a hundred pounds from his heaviest when he was over 400 and couldn't wipe his own butt. That's what scared him into changing, that was his tipping point. Elizabeth Scott, the Queen of Wyoming Chess, told me she was waiting for a red light when some suicidal druggie alkie whose girlfriend had "unfairly" broken up with him decided to end it by plowing headon into her car. Elizabeth was very strong from country living and riding horses; her station wagon was as ornery and steely as she is. She braced her muscular arms against the steering wheel, held her ground and survived the impact. The woman behind her came by later and showed Elizabeth pictures of the children she saved. Sometimes it seems your whole life is a preparation for one moment. Due to the wonders of our court system, the pyscho got 1 year for trying to kill a row of people and 5 years for damaging a vehicle. He admited at the scene he was trying to kill himself. He'll probably get 2 months in jail, an Obama button and some rehab. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jds at pclaptops.com Tue Sep 30 16:23:18 2008 From: jds at pclaptops.com (Josh "JD" Smith) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:23:18 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Hidden Treasure - McCarty-Wall 1997 In-Reply-To: <1222584827.48df29fb16cd0@www.taom.com> References: <1222584827.48df29fb16cd0@www.taom.com> Message-ID: Ahhh, James McCarty. For a long time I kept this list in my head of ratings that I should fear and would duly lose a game of chess to. I could win U1800 sections 10 tournaments in a row so I wasn't too afraid of class players. 1800 - 2000 offered a stubborn game but for the most part had no interest in doing the work it takes to hit 2000. Then you hit expert, and you had accomplished something, no longer defined by a letter, in the top 0% of the country, you can beat virtually anyone off the street, but you always have that uncomfortable feeling in your stomach that there are like 500 people in the country that can kick your ass. I can only formulate an educated guess as to what it's like to be a master. The rating difference between 2200 & 2000 is far greater than the difference between 1600 - 1800. No longer are draws with experts acceptable unless it is done 1/4 games. It is up to the master to be the wiser, more patient, then brave, risk it all, without allowing emotion to play inferior moves. Ahhh, to be a master. But I digress..... We were talking about James. To be a Senior Master in Colorado is a very difficult thing. In my day there were no GMs, IMs, and only a sporadic FM to speak of. FM Renard Anderson quickly went from 2400 land to 2200 range. That means that there is nobody to gain rating points from, only points to lose, leaving 2400+ level players to win every single game or suffer the consequences. That is what impresses me most about Ponomarev, Mulyar, and McCarty. I cherish the wins or draws I would scalp from them, albeit in a quicker time control, I felt like I had actually accomplished something. James was funny because he would kinda slouch around, had a quirky smile and a very interesting personality. His handshake of course, was anything but solid but he made up for that with a very strong chess game :) Where is McCarty now?? Josh -----Original Message----- From: brianwall-chesslist-bounces at lists.taom.com [mailto:brianwall-chesslist-bounces at lists.taom.com] On Behalf Of Brian Wall Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 12:54 AM To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com; Brian Wall Chesslist Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Hidden Treasure - McCarty-Wall 1997 Cleaning my room for the first time in a decade has revealed many treasures. It is supposed to be a mundane task, not a voyage of personal discovery. Presidential journeys are not "voyages of personal discovery". Sarah Palin on Barrack Obama Todd Bardwick's site gives these facts about the 1997 Colorado Closed Winner 1997 Mikhail Ponomarev ( 70 years old at the time, I think ) (average rating at the 1997 Colorado Closed : 2281) It is not often I beat a 2368 in 30 moves in a slow game with Black. I had gone through a half a decade French phase in New Hampshire/Massachusetts not long before this game. I felt extremely comfortable in French positions. When you play an opening for a long time you can sense when things are going your way and find many good moves naturally. When he played his usual systems Bobby Fischer was a fish in water - World Champion Petrosian My obsessive French began when John Curdo crushed me in a miniature - I studied hard for a year and crushed Curdo in a miniature a year later. About two thirds of my way through my McCarty game, Jim seemed to give up in disgust and played very fast as if he wanted to end the torture. About 6 years ago, J.C. MacNeil ran a great Chess Club at the VFW in Denver; I remember one night we had 18 expert/Masters playing blitz with guys like Renard Anderson, McCarty, Nikitovich, the Ponomarevs, Jesse Cohen, Dan Avery. It was loud, boisterous, competitive, lively. I haven't seen McCarty since those days, I wonder what happened to him. Jim is famous in Denver for his firm handshake and for reaching 2400. Debbie and I used to hold Chess parties at 1560 Ogden 30 years ago - Debbie would make these great burritos on Friday and all the blitz players would come over. Jim was one of those guys. Joe Eversole and his wife moved in briefly with us. Joe has been a card dealer for 12 years now, I think. Joe is about to give marriage a second chance in Washington State. I always hated White's system in this game, I was never tempted to try it myself. James McCarty may have been influenced by James Hamblin, who likes old systems. Humble Hamblin loves to play ancient weapons in modern times, mocking everyone's lack of Chess History. After the game Hamblin will laugh and say, " This was played in New York, 1924. " Few things are as comforting as people who knew you in your prime. [Event "1997 Colorado Closed" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.03.23" ] [Round "7"] [White "James McCarty"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2368"] [BlackElo "2210"] [Opening "French Defense"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2 hours, 20/1 hour"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1997 Colorado Closed 40/2 hours 20/1 hour March 23, 1997 Final Round 7 White - James McCarty 2368 Black - Brian Wall, 41 2210 1.e4 c5 2.c3 e6 3.Nf3! d5! 4.e5 Nc6! 5.d4! The Sicilian transposes into a French 5 ... Bd7 6.Be2! Hamblin is the kind of guy to tell you W. Paulsen played this in 1878, Louis Paulsen tried this in 1887, World Champion Tigran Petrosian tried it in 1965 against Gideon Stahlberg along with thousands of others. 6 Be2 is about 160 years old. 6 ... Nge7 I thought 9 minutes on this. Looks shaky but played 1,796 times by guys like Averbach, Larsen, Benko, Korchnoi, Gulko, Joel Benjamin, Larry Christiansen, Kramnik, Lein, Dreev and Big Joe Bradford from Texas who beat me and told me about his plan to fianchetto on the Kingside as Black in the Tarrasch French 3 .. c5 line If Jim grabs the pawn with 6 ... Nge7 7 dc Ng6 8 Be3 and now 8 ... Qc7!!! has been played once by Fabian Doettling, 8 ... Be7!! has been played 5 times by Mikhail Ulibin et. al., 8 ... Ng:e5 has been played 15 times, 8 ... Nc:e5 has been played 11 times by Kramnik and others It doesn't look like anything for me to worry about. 7.Na3 This move is at least as old as I am. 7 ... cxd4!! 7 ... Ng6!! or ... Nf5! are good too My rule of thumb in the French is: I don't trade on d4 until the b1-knight cannot get to c3, if I can help it. 8.cxd4! Played 693 times by Spassky, Shirov and others No one has tried 8 Bg5!? with the cute trap 8 ... dc???? 9 Nb5!! a great blitz weapon. Tarjan, Igor Zaitsev and 8 others tried 8 Nb5!? but no one fell for the one move checkmate. ( I checked ) No one tried 8 N:d4 either 8 ... Nf5! 9.Nc2! 9 0-0! has been tried 48 times, 9 Nc2! has been played 686 times 9 ... Be7!!! played 110 times 9 ... Qb6!! played 351 times 9 ... a5!! has been tried once 9 ... Qc7 has never been tried 9 ... a6 has been tried twice 9 ... Qa5+ has been played 65 times by interesting, thoughtful people like Neil McDonald, Holmes Romero, Daniel King, Lev Grigorian, Goran Dizdar, Peter Nielsen, Ivan Sokolov and Curt Hansen against Magnus Carlsen ( 2004 ) 9 ... Nh4 has been tried 4 times 9 ... Rc8 tried 50 times 9 ... Rb8 has never been tried 9 ... h6 was lost once by Baranov 9 ... Nb4 has been played 202 times starting in my birthyear, 1955 10.0-0!! Played 105 times 10 Bd3!! played 15 times Garbisu de Gor tried 10 Bd2 once ( I wouldn't make that up ) Alberto Pulito tried 10 Ne3 once 10 ... 0-0 Tried 40 times 10 ... Qb6!! played 237 times 10 ... Rc8 played 33 times 10 ... a5 played 3 times 10 .... a6 played 5 times 10 ... h6 tried once 11.Bd2 11 Bd3 was played 29 times 11 b3 was tried 7 times 11 a4 was never played 11 Bd2 was tried once 11 a3 was tried 3 times 11 Ne3 was tried once 11 Bf4 was tried once 11 Kh1 was tried 6 times 11 ... Rc8? This position has been reached 50 times - A micro-error : 11 ... Qb6!! puts more immediate pressure on the center, almost forcing 12 Bc3 White players - Ljubojevic, Sveshnikov Black players - Larry Christiansen, Paul Motwani ( I just bought two of his books in Florida ), Nigel Short ( who refuses along with Mark Hebden to be Facebook pals ), Marcin Kaminski ( who Josh Bloomer almost beat Round 1 of the Governor's Cup 6 years ago, I beat Keaton Kierwa with the Fishing Pole at that tournament and now he is a 5 time Nebraska Champion with IM Norms ), Suat Atalik ( IM Dave Vigorito says everyone praises Dave's memory but compared to Atalik he can't remember his phone number ) After that free association test I am ready to move on. 12.b4!! TN A Theoretical Novelty by James McCarty, gaining Queenside space. 12 Bc3! has been played twice, 12 Bd3! once 12 Rc1! is good too. We now have an original position but the a3-b4 idea has been tried many times. The game is about even. One idea of 12 b4!! is to keep my Queen in her rat cage and hassle her with a4-5 if I play the natural ... Qb6 12 ... Qb6!! I don't do anything original, just attack the center in standard French fashion. 13.Be1?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- Ruining his game. Everything is easy for me now. 13 Bd3!! is better positionally and tactically because ... Nc:d4 14 Nf:d4 N:d4 15 Be3 wins so 13 Bd3 f6 14 a4! fe 15 N:e5 or de is a micro-edge for Jim 13 Bd3!! a6! 14 a4! is awkward for me. 13 Kh1 Nf:d4? 14 N:d4 N:d4 15 Be3 winning is similar A human would have a very hard time after 13 Kh1 because Fritz 9 likes weird retreating plans - 13 Kh1 Rb8 14 a4 Rfc8 or 13 Kh1 a5 14 ba N:a5 or 13 Kh1 Ra8 14 a4 Rfc8 or 13 Kh1 a6 14 a4 Rc7 What I would have done is 13 Kh1 f6 14 b5 N-any maybe even 13 Kh1 f6 14 b5 Nc:d4? 15 Nc:d4 fe? which is similar to what I did to Curdo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - 13 ... f6! The price of one wrong move on the White side of a French is the center. 14.g4? Trying to relieve the d4-pressure. The price of two wrong moves on the White side of a French is the game. 14 ... Nh6! Winning. Jim's position is like a leaky bucket now and the plug is lost on e1. 15.exf6! gxf6!! Keeping control of the center and opening the g-file for business. 15 ... B:f6 loses to 16 g5 but 15 ... R:f6! 16 g5 Rg6! is good for me too. 16.h3? There isn't much to do, the position is just depressing for McCarty. Each move Jim doubles his disadvantage. 16 ... Nf7!! Headed for outposts via d6 17.a3 Trying to shore up the temple pillars on b4 and g4 like Samson but I have already given Jim a haircut. 17 ... Kh8 The top of the heap among dozens of wins includes 17 ... Bd6, ... Nd6, ... Kh8, ... a6 and ... Ng5 Notice two moves intend ... Nf7-e4 and my move aims for g-file carnage 18.Rc1 The e1-bishop is the elephant in the room, blocking everything, that the White pieces try to ignore. 18 ... Rg8!! Jim is Galveston Bay and here comes Ike. 19.Ne3? after 2 minutes thought. Jim looked sad and was making quick errors which made resistance worse. It must have been a miserable position to analyze. 19 ... Nxd4!! Based on .. Nd4:e2:f3+ or ... R:c1 intermezzos I carefully checked everything for 16 minutes. 20.Nxd4! Rxc1!! Only move 21.Qxc1! Qxd4! 22.Bc3! Qf4 22 ... Qe4!!, ... Qf4!! or ... Qb6! are all very good 23.Rd1?? after 3 minutes thought. McCarty was having no fun. 23 ... Ng5!! I took 5 minutes to check the consequences of this devastating move. Once White French players lose the center, they lose heart because the rest of Black's position is always so solid. 24.Kg2? Bd6!! I took 17 minutes to confirm this crusher. Hurricane Brian is topping the Wall. My last two moves are in a league of their own. 25.Bc4? It feels like a bar fight between a teetotaler and a drunk. 25 ... Ne4 I was more positional then, I know now to assassinate bodyguards with 25 ... N:h3!!! but my move is near the top of the 3 dozen wins. 26.Qb2! Guarding f2 but ... 26 ... Ba4 Near the top of dozens of wins - Jim is in deep trouble all over the board. 27.Rd3 Grading Jim's moves now would be like grading the diving form of a suicide Wall Street investor after 8 years of George Bush. 27 ... dxc4 Near the top of the win pyramid. 27 ... N:c3 is the most brutal 28.Rxd6! Anything to remove an attacker. 28 ... Qxd6! 29.Bxf6+! Nxf6! 30.Qxf6+! Rg7! A rook down with no perpetual. Jim did not insult me by trying 31 N:c4 Qd5+ 32 Kg3 Q:c4?? 33 Qf8+= 0-1 Jim resigns That's the kind of game you never want to look at again if you're on the wrong side. I found the position around move 12 fascinating and subtle once I took a deeper look. The rest was painful. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "1997 Colorado Closed" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.03.23" ] [Round "7"] [White "James McCarty"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2368"] [BlackElo "2210"] [Opening "French Defense"] [ Time "Daytime"] [TimeControl "40/2 hours, 20/1 hour"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 c5 2.c3 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.e5 Nc6 5.d4 Bd7 6.Be2 Nge7 7.Na3 cxd4 8.cxd4 Nf5 9.Nc2 Be7 10.0-0 0-0 11.Bd2 Rc8 12.b4 Qb6 13.Be1 f6 14.g4 Nh6 15.exf6 gxf6 16.h3 Nf7 17.a3 Kh8 18.Rc1 Rg8 19.Ne3 Nxd4 20.Nxd4 Rxc1 21.Qxc1 Qxd4 22.Bc3 Qf4 23.Rd1 Ng5 24.Kg2 Bd6 25.Bc4 Ne4 26.Qb2 Ba4 27.Rd3 dxc4 28.Rxd6 Qxd6 29.Bxf6+ Nxf6 30.Qxf6+ Rg7 0-1 Jim resigns ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "OHRA-B"] [Site "Amsterdam"] [Date "1986.07.??"] [Round "5"] [White "Peelen,Piet"] [Black "Rivas Pastor,Manuel"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "C02"] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Nge7 6.Na3 cxd4 7.cxd4 Nf5 8.Nc2 Bd7 9.Be2 Be7 10.0-0 0-0 11.Bd2 Rc8 12.Bc3 b5 13.Qd2 Qb6 14.b4 Rc7 15.a4 a6 16.axb5 axb5 17.Ra3 Ra7 18.Rfa1 Rfa8 19.Rxa7 Rxa7 20.Rxa7 Nxa7 21.g4 Nh4 22.Nxh4 Bxh4 23.Ne1 Nc6 24.Kg2 Be7 25.f4 Qa7 26.Bxb5 Nxe5 27.dxe5 Bxb5 28.Nf3 Qa6 29.Bd4 Bd3 30.Bc5 Bxc5 31.bxc5 Be4 32.Kf2 Bxf3 33.Kxf3 Qa3+ 34.Qe3 Qxe3+ 35.Kxe3 Kf8 36.Kd4 Ke8 37.c6 Kd8 38.Kc5 Kc7 39.h4 g6 40.g5 1/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- [Event "Amber-rapid 2nd"] [Site "Monte Carlo"] [Date "1993.03.??"] [Round "2"] [White "Ljubojevic,Ljubomir"] [Black "Short,Nigel D"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "C02"] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Bd7 6.Be2 Nge7 7.Na3 cxd4 8.cxd4 Nf5 9.Nc2 Rc8 10.0-0 Be7 11.Bd2 0-0 12.Bc3 f6 13.Qd2 fxe5 14.dxe5 a6 15.a4 Be8 16.b4 Bh5 17.b5 Bxf3 18.Bxf3 Bg5 19.Qd3 Nce7 20.bxa6 bxa6 21.Be2 Rc4 22.Bd2 Ng6 23.Bb4 Nf4 24.Qd1 Rxc2 25.Qxc2 Nd4 26.Qd1 Ndxe2+ 27.Kh1 Be7 28.Bxe7 Qxe7 29.g3 Nc3 30.Qc2 Nfe2 31.Rae1 Qf7 32.f3 Qd7 33.Rxe2 Nxe2 34.Qxe2 Qxa4 35.Kg2 Rc8 36.Rf2 h6 37.h4 Rc1 38.h5 Rb1 39.Qc2 Qxc2 40.Rxc2 a5 41.Rc8+ Kf7 42.Rc7+ Kf8 43.Rc8+ Ke7 44.Rc7+ Kd8 45.Rxg7 Rb2+ 46.Kf1 a4 47.Ra7 Ra2 48.g4 a3 49.f4 d4 50.g5 hxg5 51.fxg5 Kc8 52.g6 Kb8 53.Ra4 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Leipzig VfB op 08th"] [Site "Leipzig"] [Date "2001.02.20"] [Round "8"] [White "Herfurth,Thomas"] [Black "Winnig,Bernd"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "C02"] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Bd7 6.Be2 Nge7 7.Na3 cxd4 8.cxd4 Nf5 9.Nc2 Rc8 10.Bd2 Be7 11.0-0 0-0 12.Bd3 1/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ BrianWall-ChessList mailing list BrianWall-ChessList at lists.taom.com http://www.taom.com/mailman/listinfo/brianwall-chesslist From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Sep 30 18:08:50 2008 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:08:50 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Three pieces is a mate Message-ID: <1222819730.48e2bf92f3573@www.taom.com> Sometimes, when you are in a rush, just one general rule can save your butt. I will always remember this game as one rule - Three pieces is a mate. Renard Anderson kept attacking my King with two pieces. Confident in the rule I just ignored him and started collecting pawns. When the time pressure ended, he had a lot of checks but no mate and I had my pawns. I played my lucky Gurgenidze system in which I was virtually unbeatable 20 years before the game. I struggled miserably until the last 5 moves of the time control. Renard had two minutes and I had 46 seconds. Renard gets very nervous in time trouble and visibly shakes. Tyler Hughes, Robert Ramirez and Steve Towbin remain cool as cucumbers down to the last second. Philipp Ponomarev moves at light speed with pieces flying everywhere. At move 29 Renard had 10 minutes to my three. Renard went from clear advantage to slight advantage. Move 31 - Renard starts eating up the clock - I get down to my last minute and equalize. Move 35 - With Renard at 2 minutes and me having less than one minute he ignores the forced draws and goes for the loss. He is worse the rest of the game. It's been 11 years but I still remember the feeling of Renard going, check, check and me going run, snatch a pawn, run, snatch a pawn at lightning speed. So I won another Gurgenidze but I didn't prove I was the better player at all. I think we have come to some sort of mutual respect over the years, having both beaten and drawn each other many times. I get too nervous watching Renard Anderson and Tyler Hughes go at it, especially in time pressure. They have played some great games against each other. Tyler's record is pretty good, considering how young he was when they started going at it. [Event "1997 Colorado Closed" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.15.03" ] [Round "2"] [White "Renard Anderson"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2286"] [BlackElo "2210"] [Opening "Caro-Kann, Modern, Gurgenidze System"] [ Time "6 PM"] [TimeControl "40/2/20/1/"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1997 Colorado Closed I had been away from Colorado for 15 years. So had Paul Nikitovich. We returned about the same time. Paul was in Brazil. I was in Texas/New Hampshire. It felt a little weird being back, I think my heart was in Massachusetts for a long time. March 14, 1997 Round 2 40/2 20/1 White- Pairing #6 2286 Black Pairing #7 my lucky number 2210 1.e4 c6!! I went decades without losing to a Coloradn with this move. 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 g6 I think Gurgenidze died recently but his system lives on. My early record was almost 100% with zero losses. I read every note in Hort's Modern Defense, Gurgenidze chapter twice. Fritz isn't too kind with it. 4.h3 Bg7 5.Ngf3 dxe4 6.Nxe4 Nd7 7.Bd3 Ngf6 8.Nxf6+ Bxf6!? TN maybe The move has only been played twice, both in 1997, I am not sure who got to it first, me or Emir Dizdarevic. He lost to the tourist Movsesian. I did not want to give up on my d7-knight supporting pawn breaks. 9 ... B:f6 10 Bh6! looks scary and that's what Movsessian played. I would have tried something like 9 ... B:f6 10 Bh6! Qc7 11 Qe2 Nb6 12 0-0-0 Be6 13 Kb1 0-0-0 14 c4 Rhe8 The simple 8 ... N:f6 has been played 135 times by guys like Julian Hodgson, Robert Huebner, Horvath, Csom and Artashe Minasian, who cured IM Joe Fang of the 4 pawns attack against the King's Indian. No one has tried 8 ... ef?! maybe because 9 Qe2+ Qe7 10 Q:e7+ K:e7 11 Bf4 looks so bad Renard waited to play Bh6, allowing me to castle Kingside. I appreciate that. 9.0-0 0-0 reached thrice by transposition 10.Qe2 TN at the time The three best moves, 10 Re1, Bh6 and Qe2 have all been played once after this game. 10 ... c5 11.Bh6!! TN Theoretical Novelty by Renard Anderson 11 Be3! never tried 11 c3! has been played once two years later 11 ... Re8 We're on our own now. 12.c3! cxd4 12 ... e5 is interesting but I don't like my e8-rook where my knight belongs after 13 d5 Bg7 14 B:g7 K:g7 13.cxd4 White took with the knight in the similar game Zdravko Vukovic versus Muhamed Boric 13 ... Nb6 looks natural- 13 ... Nf8 or ... Nb8 are possible 14.Rfd1 Bf5!? I do that a lot in the Gurgenidze. 15.Bxf5! gxf5! 16.Ne5! Qd5! 17.Rd3 Prepping that with 17 Qh5! B:e5 18 de! Q:e5! 19 Rd3! Kh8 20 Q:f7! is stronger 17 ... Kh8! 18.Rad1 Rg8! 19.Qf3! Bxe5! 20.dxe5! Qxf3 I am worse in the middlegame or endgame so I chose the security of the endgmae. 20 ... Q:e5 21 Q:b7 Qf6 looks scarier but might be safer 21.Rxf3! e6 22.Rb3!! Nice move, Renard. I am bottled up - if I can get my knight to d5 I might draw this. 22 ... Rac8! 23.h4 27 minutes to get to move 40, I have 30 minutes. The idea of h4 is Bg5-f6+ Renard is clearly better but easy wins don't come to mind 23 ... Rc7 Clear defenses don't come to mind either. 23 ... Rg4 might be better 24.Bg5! h5! 25.Bd8 Rc6! Best but it took me down to 6 minutes. 26.Bg5 Renard is down to 14 minutes. It must be frustrating for him, so close to a win but running out of time and I won't fall down. Anderson had murky winning chances with 26 B:b6 ab 27 g3 or 26 Rd6 26 ... Kh7! 26 ... Rc7 repeats but Renard might improve. I don't play Russian roulette. 27.Ra3 a6 27 ... Ra8 is better but inhuman. I took 25 seconds on this move. 28.Rb3!! Pinning my knight down again with less protection. Nice move, Renard. 28 ... Rb8? 52 seconds spent Oh, so I am too proud to play 27 ... Ra8! but 28 ... Rb8? is OK. 29.Rd8?? 2 1/2 minutes spent, leaving him with 10. My time pressure might be getting to Renard because 29 Rd6!! R:d6 30 ed followed by Rc3-c7 is just miserable for me. 29 ... Rxd8! 30.Bxd8! Nc4 Renard feels it slipping away now. 30 ... Rc1+ or ... Nd7 should hold too 31.Bf6 The game is about even now but Renard has been better all game plus he has an 8 minute time advantage so he insists on chasing butterflies. 31 ... b5!= in the zone. Maximum intensity- Shirov 32.Rg3= Nxb2!= 33.Rg7+= Kh6!= 34.Rxf7= Nd3!= 35.Bg5+? Pointless. Renard - 2 minutes to move 40, me 46 seconds. 35 Rd7, Ra7 or f3 is equal Renard enters the "two pieces is not a mate" black hole. 35 ... Kg6! 36.Rf6+! Kg7! Renard has attack/checked himself into a stalemate corner achieving nothing while I can now feast on pawns unmolested. 37.f4?? Nb4! getting the munchies. I didn't know until a few seconds ago I could have won the exchange here with 37 ... Rc1+!! 38 Kh2 Nf2!! because 39 R:e6 gets mated after 39 ... Ng4+ 40 Kh3 Rc3+ 41 g3 Rc2 I had about 20 seconds left when I played 37 ... Nb4 but I could vaguely feel the inefficacy of Renard's setup 38.Bh6+? Renard had seconds left and this makes my h-pawn harder to get at. It's turning into a nightmare. I remember Renard wanted to put a higher percentage into the first place prize so this motivated me more to beat him. I liked the security of multiple prizes. 38 ... Kh7 38 ... Kg8!! is a little better, preventing Anderson's next move, which confused me 39.Bf8!! Nxa2?? Going after the wrong pawn - 39 ... Nd5!! 40 Rh6+ Kg8 41 Bd6! N:f4! hangs onto everything for the moment 40.Be7?? I think he had 5 seconds left. 40 Rh6+!! Kg8 41 Bd6!! and the protected passed e-pawn after R:e6 will save the day for Renard. A draw would not have been a big disappointment for me. 40 ... Nc3!! With 14 seconds left. The idea is ... Nd5 or Ne2+:f4 41.Rf8 Ne2+! 42.Kf2! Nxf4! 43.Bf6 Nd5! 44.Rh8+! Kg6! 45.Rg8+! Kf7! 46.Rg7+! Kf8! 47.Rh7! Nxf6! 48.exf6! e5 I am two pawns up so there are many wins. 49.Rxh5! Renard finally reaps a reward after his excursion 17 moves ago with 32 Rg3. Unfortunately the rest of his position absconded in his absence. 49 ... Rxf6! 50.Rh8+ Ke7 51.Rb8 Kd7 52.h5 Kc6 53.Rh8 Kc5 54.h6 Kb4! Maybe I can sac my rook on his h-pawn and let my King help my Queenside friends 55.h7 Rf7!! Now I can just push my a-pawn home but he doesn't let me 56.Ra8 Rxh7! 57.Rxa6! Rf7 58.Re6! e4! 59.Re5 Kc4 60.Ke3 b4! 61.Re8 Kc3! 62.Rc8+! Kb2! 63.Rh8 b3! 64.g3 Kb1 65.g4 f4+! 66.Kxe4! f3! 67.Rh1+! Ka2 68.g5 f2! 69.Rf1 b2! 70.g6! b1Q+! 71.Rxb1! Kxb1! 72.gxf7! f1Q! 0-1 Renard resigned ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "1997 Colorado Closed" ] [Site "Denver, CO"] [Date "1997.15.03" ] [Round "2"] [White "Renard Anderson"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2286"] [BlackElo "2210"] [Opening "Caro-Kann, Modern, Gurgenidze System"] [ Time "6 PM"] [TimeControl "40/2/20/1/"] [Annotator "Wall, Brian, Fritz 9"] 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 g6 4.h3 Bg7 5.Ngf3 dxe4 6.Nxe4 Nd7 7.Bd3 Ngf6 8.Nxf6+ Bxf6 9.0-0 0-0 10.Qe2 c5 11.Bh6 Re8 12.c3 cxd4 13.cxd4 Nb6 14.Rfd1 Bf5 15.Bxf5 gxf5 16.Ne5 Qd5 17.Rd3 Kh8 18.Rad1 Rg8 19.Qf3 Bxe5 20.dxe5 Qxf3 21.Rxf3 e6 22.Rb3 Rac8 23.h4 Rc7 24.Bg5 h5 25.Bd8 Rc6 26.Bg5 Kh7 27.Ra3 a6 28.Rb3 Rb8 29.Rd8 Rxd8 30.Bxd8 Nc4 31.Bf6 b5 32.Rg3 Nxb2 33.Rg7+ Kh6 34.Rxf7 Nd3 35.Bg5+ Kg6 36.Rf6+ Kg7 37.f4 Nb4 38.Bh6+ Kh7 39.Bf8 Nxa2 40.Be7 Nc3 41.Rf8 Ne2+ 42.Kf2 Nxf4 43.Bf6 Nd5 44.Rh8+ Kg6 45.Rg8+ Kf7 46.Rg7+ Kf8 47.Rh7 Nxf6 48.exf6 e5 49.Rxh5 Rxf6 50.Rh8+ Ke7 51.Rb8 Kd7 52.h5 Kc6 53.Rh8 Kc5 54.h6 Kb4 55.h7 Rf7 56.Ra8 Rxh7 57.Rxa6 Rf7 58.Re6 e4 59.Re5 Kc4 60.Ke3 b4 61.Re8 Kc3 62.Rc8+ Kb2 63.Rh8 b3 64.g3 Kb1 65.g4 f4+ 66.Kxe4 f3 67.Rh1+ Ka2 68.g5 f2 69.Rf1 b2 70.g6 b1Q+ 71.Rxb1 Kxb1 72.gxf7 f1Q 0-1 Renard resigned ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "EU-Cup Gr5"] [Site "Pula"] [Date "1999.10.08"] [Round "3"] [White "Vukovic,Zdravko"] [Black "Boric,Muhamed"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B15"] 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nf3 c6 4.h3 d5 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.Bd3 dxe4 7.Nxe4 Nbd7 8.0-0 0-0 9.Nxf6+ Bxf6 10.Qe2 c5 11.c3 cxd4 12.Nxd4 Nc5 13.Bc4 Bd7 14.Bh6 Re8 15.Rad1 Qc7 16.Nb5 Bxb5 17.Bxb5 Red8 18.Bc4 Rxd1 19.Rxd1 Rd8 20.Be3 Rxd1+ 21.Qxd1 e6 22.Be2 Be5 23.Bf3 Bh2+ 24.Kh1 Bf4 25.Bxf4 Qxf4 26.b4 Na6 27.Bxb7 Nc7 28.a4 Nd5 29.Bxd5 exd5 30.Qd4 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "CRO-chT"] [Site "Medulin"] [Date "1997.??.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Movsesian,Sergei"] [Black "Dizdarevic,Emir"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B15"] 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 g6 4.h3 Bg7 5.Ngf3 Nd7 6.Bd3 dxe4 7.Nxe4 Ngf6 8.Nxf6+ Bxf6 9.Bh6 Nb6 10.c3 Bf5 11.Be2 Be4 12.0-0 Bxf3 13.Bxf3 e6 14.Re1 Bg5 15.Bg7 Rg8 16.Be5 Bf6 17.Bg3 Kf8 18.a4 Nd5 19.a5 Kg7 20.Be4 Qd7 21.Qf3 Rgd8 22.Rad1 Rac8 23.Bb1 Re8 24.Re4 b5 25.axb6 axb6 26.c4 Ne7 27.Be5 Ng8 28.Rf4 Bxe5 29.dxe5 Qc7 30.Be4 Rf8 31.Rd6 Rcd8 32.Qc3 Ne7 33.Rf3 Nc8 34.Rfd3 c5 35.Rc6 Qe7 36.g3 Rxd3 37.Qxd3 Rd8 38.Qf3 Kg8 39.Qf6 Qd7 40.h4 Re8 41.h5 Qd1+ 42.Kg2 Qxh5 43.Rc7 Rf8 44.Bc6 Qg4 45.Be8 Qxc4 46.Bd7 Qa2 47.Kh2 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "EU-Cup Gr5"] [Site "Pula"] [Date "1999.10.08"] [Round "3"] [White "Vukovic,Zdravko"] [Black "Boric,Muhamed"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B15"] 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nf3 c6 4.h3 d5 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.Bd3 dxe4 7.Nxe4 Nbd7 8.0-0 0-0 9.Nxf6+ Bxf6 10.Qe2 c5 11.c3 cxd4 12.Nxd4 Nc5 13.Bc4 Bd7 14.Bh6 Re8 15.Rad1 Qc7 16.Nb5 Bxb5 17.Bxb5 Red8 18.Bc4 Rxd1 19.Rxd1 Rd8 20.Be3 Rxd1+ 21.Qxd1 e6 22.Be2 Be5 23.Bf3 Bh2+ 24.Kh1 Bf4 25.Bxf4 Qxf4 26.b4 Na6 27.Bxb7 Nc7 28.a4 Nd5 29.Bxd5 exd5 30.Qd4 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "HUN-chT2 0102"] [Site "Hungary"] [Date "2001.??.??"] [Round "9"] [White "Forgo,Eva"] [Black "Bodo,Norbert"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "B15"] 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nf3 c6 4.Nc3 d5 5.h3 Nf6 6.Bd3 dxe4 7.Nxe4 0-0 8.0-0 Nbd7 9.Nxf6+ Bxf6 10.Bh6 Re8 11.Bc4 Nf8 12.Ng5 Bxg5 13.Bxg5 Be6 14.Be2 Qb6 15.Qd2 Rad8 16.c3 c5 17.Be3 Qc6 18.Bf3 Bd5 19.Bxd5 Qxd5 20.Qe2 c4 21.Bf4 Qe6 22.Qf3 Qd5 23.Qe2 Qe6 1/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "RUS-ch 1/2 fin"] [Site "Krasnodar"] [Date "2002.??.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Kotenko,Pavel"] [Black "Khagurov,Nukh"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B15"] 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 d5 5.h3 Nf6 6.Bd3 dxe4 7.Nxe4 0-0 8.Nxf6+ Bxf6 9.0-0 Nd7 10.Re1 Re8 11.Bc4 e6 12.Bf4 b5 13.Bf1 Bb7 14.c3 Nb6 15.Nd2 Nd5 16.Bg3 Be7 17.Qf3 Qb6 18.Ne4 f5 19.Nc5 Bxc5 20.dxc5 Qxc5 21.Be5 Qe7 22.Qg3 Rad8 23.b4 a6 24.Bd4 Qf7 25.Qe5 Kf8 26.Bc5+ Kg8 27.Bd4 Kf8 28.Rad1 Bc8 29.Bc5+ Kg8 30.Bd4 Kf8 31.Be2 Rd7 32.Bf3 h5 33.Rd3 Qh7 34.g4 hxg4 35.hxg4 Qh4 36.Bxd5 cxd5 37.gxf5 Rh7 38.Kg2 gxf5 39.Rg3 Rd8 40.f4 Bd7 41.Rg1 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's a game that deeply impressed me and I tried to emulate it hundreds of times, given in Hort's Modern defense 30 years ago. The way Gurgenidze played his pieces and pawns on the Kingside is amazing. http://www.antiqbook.co.uk/boox/cla/016055.shtml [Event "URS-chT"] [Site "Riga"] [Date "1975.07.15"] [Round "0"] [White "Mukhin,Mikhail A"] [Black "Gurgenidze,Bukhuti"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "B15"] 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 g6 4.Bf4 Nf6 5.e5 Nh5 6.Be3 Ng7 7.Qd2 Nd7 8.f4 Nb6 9.b3 h5 10.Nf3 Bg4 11.Be2 e6 12.0-0 Nc8 13.Na4 Ne7 14.c4 Nef5 15.Bf2 h4 16.Rfe1 Be7 17.Rab1 Nh6 18.c5 Nh5 19.Be3 Nf5 20.Bf2 Nh6 21.Be3 Bf5 22.Rb2 Ng4 23.Qc1 Nxe3 24.Qxe3 Kf8 25.Nc3 Kg8 26.Bd1 Qf8 27.b4 Qh6 28.Ne2 b6 29.Bc2 Bg4 30.Bd3 Kg7 31.Reb1 a5 32.cxb6 axb4 33.Rc2 Rhb8 34.Rxc6 Rxa2 35.Bc2 Ra3 36.Rb3 Ra1+ 37.Kf2 Ra6 38.Rc7 Bd8 39.Rd7 Bxf3 40.Qxf3 Raxb6 41.g4 hxg3+ 42.hxg3 Ra6 43.Rb1 Rc8 44.Bb3 Ra3 45.Kg2 Bb6 46.Qg4 Rc6 47.Rb7 Qh8 48.Bxd5 Rxg3+ 49.Nxg3 Rc2+ 50.Kf1 Nxg3+ 51.Qxg3 exd5 52.Qf3 Rh2 53.Rxb6 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am enjoying the Robert "Winning through Intimidation" Ringer newsletter. 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