From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Feb 1 22:07:28 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 22:07:28 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Covington-Wall Message-ID: <1233551248.49867f905bcbc@www.taom.com> This was a very difficult game because - When I am tired my brain cannot calculate properly nor does it want to calculate properly. I must avoid trades and aim for complexity in each and every game to stay on top in Colorado. I want to win every game. So I had two opposite forces battling, an old habit of embracing the unknowable and a sleepy head that was missing everything. Another problem with being tired - your brain does not give you advance warning, you simply find yourself down a piece or two. Anyone who plays late night blitz knows what I mean. I was a little bit like a punch-drunk old fighter, woozy with swollen eyes but still throwing punches. Did you ever play a game where you didn't ever know what was going on? This game was like that, Paul constantly surprised me, I would shake my head, try to get my bearings and hold on until the next unexpected blow. In the end time pressure plus being tired plus being further exhausted by diffcult, murky calculations all game led to even worse play. I finally stumbled my way to a very unsatisfying victory. During the game I imitated the compulsive habit of Bill ( Why-Miller-Beer? ) by grabbing all the captured pieces and pawns of both colors and pairing them off like married couples. I wanted to see if Covington would do to me what others do to Bill like hiding the pieces or putting them further and further out of reach. An exasperated Paul Covington said after the game " Did Bill get that from you or did you get that from Bill? Either way, it is very distracting! " The ascending Mitch Anderson had already clinched first place and a spanking new expert's rating by continuous good play in 2008 and by demolishing me with perfect play in the Belgrade Gambit in Round 2. Mitch also wasted Weihmiller with a series of hammer blows in a Be2 Najdorf in the final money round 4. Mitch did it all with a courteous manner and a friendly smile. In our game he improved on all known theory and previous play with brilliant, totally correct sacrifices Paul Covington used to be stationed in England so he has personal stories about many famous English greats. Paul also used to be high expert in postal and OTB play. Paul plays almost exclusively at Poor Richard's tournaments and has dropped 100 rating points for his efforts. Paul is a very solid player that can beat 1800's convincingly but he lacks that imagnative, tactical flair that most 2400's have. I consider his dogmatic approach a huge handicap, he needs a healthy dose of Latvian Chess. That's where I come in. Paul told me during the game, " You make it different every time, Brian. " Tyler Hughes told me he has guessed wrong in the opening every time he played me. [Event "Poor Richard's Bookstore Wednesday Night Chess Tournament"] [Site "320-24 North Tejon Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado"] [Date "2009.01.28"] [Round "4"] [White "Paul Covington"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "1906"] [BlackElo "2200"] [Opening "English: symmetrical variation"] [ECO "A30"] [NIC "EO.64"] [Time "7 PM"] [TimeControl "Game/85 plus 5 second delay"] Poor Richard's Restaurant, Toystore & Bookstore Wednesday Night Chess Tournament 320-24 North Tejon Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado January 28, 2009 Last Money Round 4 7 PM Game/85 minutes plus 5 seconds delay White - Paul Covington 1906 Black- Brian Wall 2200 Pity Master 1. c4 Paul is like Dean Brown, hundreds, no thousands of Chess games, all with c4, Nf3, g3, Bg2, 0-0 They haven't been back rank mated since Kindergarten. 1 ... c5 My first sign of brain damage. I was trying to copy Jamie Sunye Neto versus Larry Christiansen. LarryC had just done a great " Attacking with LarryC " ICC video on that 27 year old game. Larry brought out knights to f6 and c6 in response to the English Opening. The only problem is, Larry brought his pawn out to ... e5, not ... c5, a completely different line. Old friend IM John Watson interviewed me for an hour Thursday on the Internet Chess Club. The show will air Tuesday night, February 3rd, 2009 on ICC. After a week it will go into the archives. I talked about my book, unorthodox openings like the Raccoon and three simple endgames, one being Fred Spell versus Dragan Plakalovic. 2. g3 Nc6 3. Bg2! Nf6! 4. b3? The double fianchetto. According to Soltis, Grandmaster Richard Reti did this 47 times in a row with both colors. Tal's buddy, the late, great Grandmaster Alexander Wojtkiewicz, also had a fondness for this. I remember my two favorite Chess geniuses, Fischer and Tal, both punished Smyslov heavily when he tries this against them. They both responded ... e6, ... d5. Tal continued with ... d4. Against Fischer, Smyslov stopped this with d4 as White but then Bobby got him on the light squares with ... b6 and ... Ba6. Both games are given below. I have played over both these games many, many times. 4 ... e6 Fritz 9 likes 4 ... d5!! 5 cd N:d5 6 Bb2 e5 but I am following the plan of my two favorite players. 5. Bb2! d5! Fischer and Tal had their bishop on g7 and their knight on e7 instead of f6 6. cxd5? exd5! 7. e3?? I was a little shocked Paul was playing the opening so poorly - he is very experienced with the English. 7 ... d4 Second sign of brain damage - I miss the immediate killer 7 ... Nb4!! 8 d3 Bf5!! 9 Bf1! c4!! and Paul's center is already imploding. In fact I have a ton of good moves - 7 ... Nb4!! 8 d3 Bf5!! 9 Bf1! Qa5!! or 7 ... Nb4!! 8 Bf1 Bf5!! 9 Na3 Be7!!, ... a6!! , ... Nd3+!! or ... Bd6!! In between 7 ... d4 and 7 ... Nb4!! lies 7 ... Bf5!, ... Be7!, ... Bg4! and ... Be6! I didn't really think or analyze, I just followed Tal's plan in under a minute. 8. Ne2? Nb4? after 6 minutes thought. Third sign of brain damage - 9 0-0 d3 10 Nf4 Nc2 11 Nc3!! N:a1 12 Q:a1 with great comp for the exchange after Ncd5 or 9 0-0 Nd3 10 Ba3 and I have nothing Instead of this foolish foray, I had many decent developing moves, for example 8 ... Be7!!, ... Bg4!! and also 8 ... d3! 9 Nf4 Be7 or ... Bf5 is OK. 9. Nc1? d3 4th sign of brain damage. I thought for 7 minutes and ignored 9 ... Bg4!! 10 f3 Be6 or 9 ... Be7!! or 9 ... Bd6!! or 9 ... de!! 10 f3 Be7 or 9 ... a5!! or 9 ... d3! or 9 ... h5! or 9 ... Rb8! or 9 ... Bf5! or 9 ... a6! My move was in the middle of the pack. I found the different alternatives impossible to judge. 10. Na3! Bg4?? 4 minutes 5th sign of brain damage - I didn't even look at 11 B:f6!, a trick I figured out when I was fifteen. 11 B:f6!! Q:f6 12 Q:g4 Q:a1 13 0-0! Qf6 14 B:b7 Rb8 15 Nc4 with at least adequate compensation for the exchange Back at the Reality Ranch, I had moves to keep my advantage - 10 ... Be7!!, ... Rb8!!, ... a5!, ... h5! 11. f3? Paul doesn't know what's going on either but we all expect that of him. That's why I complicate. 11 ... Bd7 A little too clever - I was right that my QB was a little out of play after 11 ... Bh5? or ... Bf5? but the natural 11 ... Be6!! was strongest. My move had two good ideas - ... b5 locking out the a3-knight and ... Bc6 challenging the long diagonal. 12. O-O!! Paul and I discussed the line 12 f4!! b5!! 13 B:a8? Q:a8!! 14 0-0!! Qe4!! 15 Qf3 Q:f3! 16 R:f3 Ne4!! or 12 f4!! b5!! 13 B:a8? Q:a8!! 14 0-0!! Qd5!!, ... Bg4!,... Be7! or ... Bh3! Paul - " I would never take that Rook, that would make your Queen Bishop reign supreme. " If we take Paul's line 12 f4!! b5!! 13 0-0 then I can move my rook with 13 ... Rb8! or 13 ... Rc8!! 14 e4 c4 or just leave it to be taken with 13 ... Be7! If 12 e4!! I could pretty much do as I please - 12 ... Be7!, ... b5!, ... Rc8!, ... h5!, ... Qc8! etc. I would have the advantage in all these lines but watch how bad I mess this up. 12 ... Bc6?? Brain damage move #6 I even get the True-False questions wrong tonight, not to mention the multiple choice. 12 ... b5!! locking down Paul's knights and entire position would make sense. I wanted to " challenge the long diagonal " first. It doesn't really matter much if I save my rook after 12 ... b5!! 13 f4 Rc8!! intending ... c4 or 12 ... b5!! 13 f4 Rb8! or just sac it after 12 ... b5!! 13 f4 Be7!! 13. Nc4!! Paul gets tired of being pushed around and fights back. I started to get that familiar sick feeling of losing control, of having messed up without knowing how or why. 13 ... Nd7!! I was appalled at my bad play and took 6 minutes to realize 14 Ne5! was too obnoxious to endure 14. a3!! This is the kind of irrational position I crave - whoever sacs the exchange first wins. 14 a4!, Bc3 or e4 are OK too If you revisit Reti's old masterpieces against World Champions and others in these types of positions, you will see the exchange sac was his constant companion. 14 ... Nc2! 15. Nxd3! Bishops are just as important as Rooks in this Theocracy. There is another idea of saving the rook and trading knights - 15 Rb1!! b5! 16 Na5 Q:a5 17 N:d3 N:a3 17 B:a3 with a pretty Queen trap after 17 ... Q:a3? 18 Ra1! Paul also gets his knight back after 15 Rb1!! b5! 16 N:d3 bc 17 Nc1! or even better 15 Rb1!! b5! 16 N:d3 bc 17 bc!! with two pawns and two crisscrossing bishops on the long diagonals and better development for a piece. All lines favor Covington now. 15 ... Nxa1! 16. Qxa1!! Reti would be so proud of Paul now. 16 ... f6! Trying to blunt that horrible diagonal pressure. 17. Nf4! Another, unsettling nasty surprise, the light squares are weak now, e6 in particular. 17 Bc3! is good too. The position is wild and roughly level, just what I aim for. 17 ... Kf7?? Brain Damage Move #7 I know I suck as a Chessplayer but I am not as bad as my moves this game. I moved in less than a minute, showing signs of frustration and lack of patience. 18. Bh3! This move made me want to throw something. Every move was coming as a shock now. My tired brain wanted to find moves naturally, intuitively, easily but the truth is that ever since move 7 the position has required a lot of work and subtle judgement with competing exchange sacs by both sides. I took 6 minutes to try and calm down and reorient myself. Luckily Paul was missing almost as much as I was - 18 b4!! intending 19 Qa2!! was very strong in either move order. other good moves - 18 a4! securing the c4-knight 18 Bh3! the move played 18 d4! prying it open 18 Qb1! aiming at light squares 18 Qc1! aiming at dark squares 18 e4! grabbing space 18 Bc3! inching closer to the King 18 ... Be7? The only better move was not that good - 18 ... b5! 19 Ne6!! or the cute 19 Qc1! bc?? 20 Q:c4+!! My position has gone completely haywire. " The solution to 90% of tactical problems is to eliminate the obstacles between the White Queen and the Black King. " - Brian Wall According to my own theories, 19 Qa2!!! or 19 b4!!! in either order, is devastating. The Sicilian type break 19 d4!! is also very powerful. Next comes Paul's moves and assorted sundries, all good for Covington. 19. Be6+! Ke8! just to avoid Ne6+ but I am not out of the woods yet. I was starting to covet Covington's position. 20. Qb1 I told Paul I thought this was a bad move. Paul thought it was a good move. The truth is, it is a good move but he had better. 20 d4!!! is a move any Sicilian player could appreciate 20 e4!! is a move any Ruy Lopez player could appreciate 20 Bc3!! is a move only a Mother could love 20 a4!! is an outpost move any Knight-lover could appreciate 20 Bf5!! or Bg4!! is too subtle for anyone to appreciate 20 Qb1! is Paul's move 20 b4! is a move anyone who loves my theories could appreciate 20 d3! is a move only a Hippo could love 20 Nh5! is irritating and 20 Qc1! is incomprehensible 20 ... b5?? Sign of Brain Damage #8 played in less than a minute again. He got his knight trapped, let's pray for the best. It seemed to shock him. If 20 ... Nf8! 21 Bc3!! saves his knight with a pawn and a thousand advantages for the exchange. 21. Ng6?? With the subtle idea of 22 N:h8 or 21 Ng6?? hg 22 Q:g6+ Kf8 23 Qf7 checkmate As usual, Class players play the right idea in the wrong order. Without a floor, I would be a class E player. Often Chessmaster James Hamblin used to describe strong moves as " the brush of Picasso " and laugh. The right brush stroke here is 21 Qf5!!! g5 22 Ng6!! Rf8!! 23 N:e7!! K:e7 24 B:d7!! B or Q:d7 25 Q:c5+!! Kf7 26 Nd6+!! winning or 21 Qf5!!! g5 22 Ng6!! Rf8!! 23 N:e7!! Q:e7 24 Na5!! and my position is a train wreck 21 Qf5!! Qc7 22 Qh5+!! g6 23 N:g6!! or 21 Qf5!! Qc7 22 Qh5+!! Kd8 23 Bd5!! is all over 21 Qf5!!! Nf8 22 Ne5!!! fe? 23 Qf7 checkmate We saw none of this before or after the game, a knife fight in the dark. Paul's Ng6 was the right idea, he just need some extra ooomph with 21 Qf5!!! first. That's hard to see, it's a weird move. 21 ... Rf8? Sign of Brain Damage #8 played in three minutes I even get the True-False questions wrong tonight, not to mention the multiple choice. I should have followed the rule, whoever sacs the exchange first wins. I have a pass out of hell with 21 ... Nf8!! 22 N:h8 N:e6! 23 Q:h7 bc ( remember that trapped knight? ) and my extra piece is good because Paul has lost all coordination 22. Nce5?? The right move was very hard to see by any normal rules of Chess. 22 Qf5 has lost most of its efficacy due to 22 ... Qc7! 23 N:f8 N:f8 24 Bg8 bc! and Paul has roughly enough for a piece 22 Rf2 bc 23 N:f8 or 22 Rf2 bc 23 Qf5 Bd6 24 N:f8 and Paul has roughly enough for a piece The best two moves are the odd 22 d4!! or Bc3!! which seem to have zero to do with what is going on. 22 ... Nxe5!! 10 minutes I had completely lost confidence in myself but sensed I had somehow stumbled onto a critical position that might decide the game right here. I couldn't see anything wrong with either 22 ... N:e5!! or ... fe!! 23. Bxe5!! fxe5! 24. Nxf8! Bxf8!! I didn't see anything wrong with 24 ... Kf8! or ... Qd6! either Time - 37 minutes left for Paul 25 minutes left for me 25. Qf5? 25 ... Qf6!! I finally put my Queen on ... f6 like Fischer and Tal did against Smyslov. Paul has nothing for his piece now. He was killing me with 19 Qa2!!, 20 d4!! or 21 Qf5!! but he didn't play any of those moves. We have to live with that. 26. Qg4 Rd8!! 27. d4? cxd4 28. f4? e4? Sign of Brain Damage #9 played in two minutes I could see he was desperately determined to pry open my King so I decided to keep lines closed and hold onto my extra piece. 28 f4? de!! 29 fe Bc5!!! 30 ef e2+ with mate in two would be a nice finish Time - 17 minutes left for Paul 20 minutes left for me 29. Rc1 Rd6 Sign of Brain Damage #10 played in three minutes 29 ... de!! 30 R:c6! Qa1+!! would be a nice finish I would swear on a stack of Bibles that I looked at both 28 ... de!! and 29 ... de!! and saw both wins but forgot them 30. Rxc6 Another shock 30 ... Rxc6! 31. Bd7+! Kf7? 32. Qh5+! Ke7??? Sign of Brain Damage #10 played in three minutes 32 Qh5+! g6!! 33 Qd5+! Re6! still wins 33. Bxc6??? Unbelievable, our final insult to Caissa, missing 33 Qe8+! Kd6 34 B:c6 and I am begging for the draw Time - 12 minutes left-Brian 10 minutes left - Paul 33 ... Qxc6! 34. Qe5+ Kf7! 35. Qxd4 Bc5! 36. Qd2 Bxa3! 37. Kf2! Bc5 38. Qe2 Qd5! 39. Qc2! a5! 40. Kg2 Kg6 41. g4 Bxe3! 42. Kg3! h6 43. h4 Kh7 44. g5! Qf5! 45. Qc7 Bxf4+ 45 ... h5!! mates the quickest but my move creates an easy win in a King and pawn ending 0-1 Covington quits ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Poor Richard's Bookstore Wednesday Night Chess Tournament"] [Site "320-24 North Tejon Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado"] [Date "2009.01.28"] [Round "4"] [White "Paul Covington"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "1906"] [BlackElo "2200"] [Opening "English: symmetrical variation"] [ECO "A30"] [NIC "EO.64"] [Time "7 PM"] [TimeControl "Game/85 plus 5 second delay"] 1. c4 c5 2. g3 Nc6 3. Bg2 Nf6 4. b3 e6 5. Bb2 d5 6. cxd5 exd5 7. e3 d4 8. Ne2 Nb4 9. Nc1 d3 10. Na3 Bg4 11. f3 Bd7 12. O-O Bc6 13. Nc4 Nd7 14. a3 Nc2 15. Nxd3 Nxa1 16. Qxa1 f6 17. Nf4 Kf7 18. Bh3 Be7 19. Be6+ Ke8 20. Qb1 b5 21. Ng6 Rf8 22. Nce5 Nxe5 23. Bxe5 fxe5 24. Nxf8 Bxf8 25. Qf5 Qf6 26. Qg4 Rd8 27. d4 cxd4 28. f4 e4 29. Rc1 Rd6 30. Rxc6 Rxc6 31. Bd7+ Kf7 32. Qh5+ Ke7 33. Bxc6 Qxc6 34. Qe5+ Kf7 35. Qxd4 Bc5 36. Qd2 Bxa3 37. Kf2 Bc5 38. Qe2 Qd5 39. Qc2 a5 40. Kg2 Kg6 41. g4 Bxe3 42. Kg3 h6 43. h4 Kh7 44. g5 Qf5 45. Qc7 Bxf4+ 0-1 Covington quits ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Palma de Mallorca izt"] [Site "Palma de Mallorca izt"] [Date "1970.??.??"] [EventDate "?"] [Round "?"] [Result "0-1"] [White "Vasily Smyslov"] [Black "Robert James Fischer"] [ECO "A36"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "?"] [PlyCount "87"] 1. c4 g6 2. Nc3 Bg7 3. g3 c5 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. b3 e6 6. Bb2 Nge7 7. Na4 Bxb2 8. Nxb2 O-O 9. e3 d5 10. cxd5 Nxd5 11. Ne2 b6 12. d4 Ba6 13. dxc5 Qf6 14. Nc4 Nc3 15. Nxc3 Qxc3+ 16. Kf1 Rfd8 17. Qc1 Bxc4+ 18. bxc4 Qd3+ 19. Kg1 Rac8 20. cxb6 axb6 21. Qb2 Na5 22. h4 Nxc4 23. Qf6 Qf5 24. Qxf5 gxf5 25. h5 Rd2 26. Rc1 Rc5 27. Rh4 Ne5 28. Rxc5 bxc5 29. Ra4 c4 30. h6 Kf8 31. Ra8+ Ke7 32. Rc8 Rxa2 33. Bf1 Rc2 34. Kg2 Ng4 35. Kg1 Rxf2 36. Bxc4 Rf3 37. Kg2 Rxe3 38. Rh8 Nxh6 39. Rxh7 Ng4 40. Bb5 Rb3 41. Bc6 Rb2+ 42. Kg1 Ne5 43. Ba8 Rb8 44. Bh1 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan-06-05 Alaric: 13...Qf6! is a pawn sacrifice that lets black have much more compensation for it than he needed Jan-08-05 Hesam7: Up to 9th move the game is exactly the same as: 'Smyslov-Tal USSR Team Championship 1964', which Tal won. Tal in the comments of his game: Nov-17-05 hayton3: Not one of Fischer's more spectacular games but still a highly instructive reminder that the concept of 'time' should never be overlooked, even in the English. After 7.Na4 Smyslov is forever trying to catch his breath as Fischer seizes the initiative and relentlessly pursues his developmental advantage. One can glimpse the spirit of Morphy as Fischer blasts the hypermodernism of Smyslov's opening with a cannonade of classical chess. Apr-10-06 zev22407: 22) h4 is a mistake.Better was Q:b6. 23)..Q-f5! forces queens exchange and a better ending for black. Jul-08-06 notyetagm: What a powerful game by Fischer. Jun-26-07 notyetagm: Every time I see this game I come away incredibly impressed. This is true power chess. Jun-26-07 Wolfgang01: hayton3: Your description of this game is damn pretty good. Games like this are what made Bobby world champion in the end. He allways fighted more and worked a lot more, to become perfect where many others prefered a quick drawn Maybe he knew the game between Smyslov and Tal which started with the same moves Feb-06-08 HOTDOG: according to Elie Agur(''Bobby Fischer his approach to chess'')23...Qxf5! is a typical move of Fischer's style;a tactical player like Tal would have played 23...Nxe3!?,while Capablanca would have played 23...h5! and Karpov 23...Na3! Jun-28-08 nimh: Rybka at 20 ply thinks thus: 1. (-0.47) 23...Qf5 3. (-0.45) 23...h5 5. (-0.38) 23...Na3 Tal's move is so bad that she initially didn't want to see it :) ?? (0.35) 23...Nxe3? Sep-21-08 ToTheDeath: Tal would not play such rubbish. Nor would Karpov miss 23...Qf5! Excellent game by Fischer. Initiative and superior development carried through to the endgame. Comments on Smyslov-Fischer from www.Chessgames.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Ol URS, URS"] [Site "Ol URS, URS"] [Date "1964.??.??"] [EventDate "?"] [Round "?"] [Result "0-1"] [White "Vasily Smyslov"] [Black "Mikhail Tal"] [ECO "A36"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "?"] [PlyCount "144"] 1. c4 g6 2. Nc3 Bg7 3. g3 c5 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. b3 e6 6. Bb2 Nge7 7. Na4 Bxb2 8. Nxb2 O-O 9. e3 d5 10. Nf3 Nf5 11. O-O b6 12. Na4 Bb7 13. cxd5 exd5 14. d3 Qf6 15. Qd2 Rad8 16. Rfd1 Rfe8 17. Rab1 Nd6 18. Ne1 d4 19. e4 Qe7 20. Nc2 f5 21. exf5 Ne5 22. f4 Nf3+ 23. Bxf3 Bxf3 24. Re1 Qe2 25. Rxe2 Rxe2 26. Qxe2 Bxe2 27. Nb2 gxf5 28. Re1 Bh5 29. Nc4 Nxc4 30. bxc4 Re8 31. Kf2 Rxe1 32. Kxe1 Kf8 33. Kd2 Ke7 34. Ne1 a6 35. a4 a5 36. Kc2 Be8 37. Kb3 Bc6 38. Ka3 Kf6 39. Kb3 Kg6 40. Ka3 Kh5 41. h3 Kg6 42. Kb3 Kg7 43. Ka3 Kf6 44. Kb3 Be8 45. Ng2 Bh5 46. Kc2 Be2 47. Ne1 Bf1 48. Nf3 Bxh3 49. Ng5 Bg2 50. Nxh7+ Kg7 51. Ng5 Kg6 52. Kd2 Bc6 53. Kc1 Bg2 54. Kd2 Kh5 55. Ne6 Kg4 56. Nc7 Bc6 57. Nd5 Kxg3 58. Ne7 Bd7 59. Nd5 Bxa4 60. Nxb6 Be8 61. Nd5 Kf3 62. Nc7 Bc6 63. Ne6 a4 64. Nxc5 a3 65. Nb3 a2 66. Kc1 Kxf4 67. Kb2 Ke3 68. Na5 Be8 69. c5 f4 70. c6 Bxc6 71. Nxc6 f3 72. Ne5 f2 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec-24-03 MoonlitKnight: The date here is wrong. This game is from the USSR Team Championship in Moscow, 1964. Dec-24-03 CapablancaRules: Nice... what about 26.Qc1? Dec-24-03 MoonlitKnight: In the case of 26.c1 then 26...g2+ 27.f1 xh2 28.e1 d5 29.b2 h1+ 30.f2 e8 according to Tal. Dec-24-03 MoonlitKnight: The point being that Smyslov's pieces then will be terribly placed. Dec-24-03 CapablancaRules: MoonlitKnight, you must be a very big fan of Tal?s games... Dec-24-03 MoonlitKnight: Yes, I have always been! Mar-23-04 seoulmama: This is a brilliant game. The queen sac is just gorgeus. Apr-30-04 Shadow 812: There can be no doubt that Tal was well known as a tactical genius, that it is easy to overlook that he was a good endgame player as well. Indeed, in Bernard Cafferty's 1973 book Tal's 100 best games, Tal himself rates this game as one of the best that he ever played!! This was Tal's only win against Smyslov with the black pieces, in fact at this stage Tal led Smyslov by 4-1 after 11 games, but he never managed to defeat Smyslov again during the remaining 20 games that they were to play over the next 24 years: Jan-08-05 LIFE Master AJ: Tal's combo is truly incredible. Does anyone out there know how many times this game has been annotated ... and in what books? Jan-08-05 Hesam7: I have read annotations of this incredible game from Tal himself in the following book: "Learn from grandmasters, Ed.Raymond Keene" If I have time I will post some of his notes and commentaries on this game. Jan-08-05 Hesam7: Dear please correct this game as mentioned by it is played in "USSR Team Championship" Jan-08-05 Hesam7: Tal on the game: Jan-08-05 ughaibu: Hesam7: thanks for that. His comment about the famous Larsen game is very interesting. Jan-18-05 LIFE Master AJ: Thanks! It can also be found in Tal's own book, and also the book: "Tal - The Magnificent," (1990) by GM Andrew Soltis and also FM Ken Smith. Mar-07-05 LIFE Master AJ: If you will e-mail me, I will send you my annotations of this game ... on the following conditions. # 1.) You cannot copy it, nor give it to anyone else. # 2.) You provide me some type of feedback. (Rate my annotations, comment on them, etc.) # 3.) You simply give me your word that you will not violate my copyright in any shape or form. Do you agree? Aug-31-05 Sergey Sorokhtin: 2 LIFE Master AJ I want yuors annotations too sorokhtin at yandex.ru Mar-16-07 Vollmer: An excellent positional game by Tal . The fireworks of Queen pseudo-sac punctuate a long term plan culminating with the Black Bishop dominating the hapless White Knight due to the favorable pawn structure . Good advice to players of all levels : Liquidate to a won endgame whenever possible . I am wondering if I will find a win by Smyslov over Tal involving a stunning combination (returning the favor) . Mar-17-07 themanfrommanila: The Magician from Riga is one of the strongest players when it comes to middlegame but no doubt of endgames as well. Apr-28-07 arifattar: What a beautiful endgame. Apr-28-07 notyetagm: Yes, this is the game that Tal fans always show the idiots who say that Tal could not play the endgame. There is no greater endgame accompishment than beating Smyslov in the endgame. Apr-28-07 notyetagm: 24 ... e7-e2!! Apr-28-07 Kwesi: Epic endgame. Apr-29-07 arifattar: This is a perfect illustration of the point that in an endgame where there are pawns on both sides of the board, the bishop is more powerful than the knight. May-04-07 PEANUTS: In the line 26. Qc1 Rg2+ 27. Kf1 Rxh2 28. Ne1 Bd5, White could play Nxc5 (maybe after g4 to prevent Nxf5). Play might go: 29. g4 gxf5 30. Nxc5 Rc8 (bxc5 allows the queen to activate and is hopeless) 31. Qa3 Nb5 32. Qa4 Rxc5. Black might still claim an advantage, but the queen has targets and all results are possible if he oversteps. At the very least, White does not have to defend a miserable ending as in the game. comments from www.Chessgames.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2007 Bowlder Attack against Paul Covington [Event "Poor Richard's Restaurant Wednesday Chess Tournament"] [Site "Colorado Springs, CO"] [Date "2007.09.19"] [Round "3"] [White "brianwall"] [Black "Paul Covington"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2200"] [BlackElo "2016"] [Opening "Sicilian defense, Bowlder Attack, Renae Defense"] [ECO "B20"] [NIC "SI.48"] [Time "20:05:16"] [TimeControl "Game/85 plus 5 second delay"] 1. e4 c5 2. Bc4 e6 3. Nc3 a6 4. a4 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bd6 6. d4 cxd4 7. Nxd4 Bc5 8. Nb3 Ba7 9. Bf4 Nge7 10. O-O O-O 11. a5 f5 12. Bd6 fxe4 13. Nxe4 Nf5 14. Bxf8 Qxf8 15. Ng3 d5 16. Be2 Nxg3 17. hxg3 Qd6 18. c4 Qxg3 19. cxd5 Ne5 20. Nd4 Qh4 21. Nf3 Nxf3+ 22. Bxf3 Bd7 23. dxe6 Bxe6 24. Bd5 Re8 25. Bxe6+ Rxe6 26. Qb3 Qe7 27. Rae1 Kf7 28. Re4 b5 29. Rfe1 1-0 Black Resigns ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "Wijk aan Zee"] [Site "Wijk aan Zee"] [Date "1982.??.??"] [EventDate "?"] [Round "?"] [Result "0-1"] [White "Jaime Sunye Neto"] [Black "Larry Christiansen"] [ECO "A28"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "?"] [PlyCount "58"] 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.d3 Bb4 5.Bd2 O-O 6.a3 Bxc3 7.Bxc3 Re8 8.e4 d6 9.Be2 a6 10.h3 b5 11.cxb5 axb5 12.b4 Ne7 13.O-O Rb8 14.Re1 Ng6 15.Bf1 Bb7 16.Rc1 c5 17.Nd2 Ba8 18.Nb3 c4 19.dxc4 Nxe4 20.cxb5 Nf4 21.Re3 Re6 22.Na5 Rxb5 23.Bxb5 Rg6 24.g4 Nxf2 25.Kxf2 Qh4+ 26.Kg1 Nxh3+ 27.Rxh3 Qxh3 28.Bc6 Qg3+ 29.Kf1 Rf6+ 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "Wuerttemberg-ch Seniors 9th"] [Site "Ellwangen"] [Date "1997.03.21"] [Round "0"] [White "Ruth,Walter"] [Black "Karnbach,Hubert"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "A01"] 1.b3 Nf6 2.Bb2 e6 3.e3 c5 4.g3 Nc6 5.c4 d5 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Bg2 Be7 8.Nf3 Qc7 9.0-0 b6 10.d3 Bb7 11.Nc3 a6 12.Rc1 Rc8 13.Nh4 Qd7 14.Na4 Qc7 15.Nf5 0-0 16.Bxd5 Nxd5 17.Qg4 Bg5 18.Qxg5 f6 19.Nh6+ Kh8 20.Qxd5 Nd4 21.Qh5 Bf3 22.exd4 Bxh5 23.dxc5 b5 24.Nb6 Bf3 25.Nf5 Rce8 26.Ne3 Qc6 27.d4 Qe6 28.d5 Qh3 29.Rc2 f5 30.Nd7 Be4 31.Rd2 f4 32.Nxf8 Rxf8 33.Rd4 Bf3 34.Rxf4 Rxf4 35.gxf4 Qh6 36.Rc1 Qxf4 37.c6 Qc7 38.Be5 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lessons from this game - 1 - Stop playing so many systems ( not gonna happen ) 2 - Stop embracing the complex ( when they pry my last pawn from my dead fingers ) 3 - Stop playing tired ( not gonna happen ) 4 - examine exchange sacs more thoroughly ( That I can do ) 5 - Try harder when I'm tired ( That I can do ) Mostly I am grateful to Paul for creating so much beauty and to Fritz 9 for recognizing it. A game chockful of wonderful ideas. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 2 18:38:05 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 18:38:05 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] I turn everything into a Fishing Pole Message-ID: <1233625085.49879ffd69f07@www.taom.com> I turn everything into a Fishing Pole I can't help it. Chess players aim for what they feel comfortable in. I like opposite colored bishops endings because they are so mathematical. I like Fishing Pole attacks. They both seem to pop up out of nowhere. My second game on ICC with my new handle ( still waiting for friends ) B-Wall - [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.01.29"] [Round "-"] [White "Batcat"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "1836"] [BlackElo "2091"] [Opening "Scotch game"] [ECO "C45"] [NIC "SO.04"] [Time "13:50:59"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bb4+ 5. c3 Be7 6. Bc4 Nf6 I explain this opening in my second most popular email on www.Walverine.com entitled " Bloomer ". My idea is 7 N:c6 bc 8 e5 Nd5 9 B:d5 cd 10 Q:d5 Rb8 11 0-0 Rb6 12 Nd2 Bb7 13 Qd3 Rg6 14 g3 h5 mit angriff I also covered this in my ICC John Watson interview airing tomorrow. 7. O-O O-O! 8. Re1! Nxe4?? 8 ... Ne5! 9 Bb3 d6! is the true path 9. Rxe4! d5! 10. Nxc6! bxc6! 11. Rd4! Bc5! 12. Rd2! Qh4! 13. Bf1! Bg4? 14. Qa4!! Rae8! 15. h3 h5 See what I mean? - an unexpected Bishing Pole from nowhere. 16. hxg4 hxg4?! The hellhounds have been released but 16 ... Re1!!! 17 Q:c6! Bd6!! 18 g3 Qh3! 19 Qb5 h4!! was already winning. Not to worry - Bishing Pole attacks depend on inability to defend. 17. Qxc6? Bxf2+! mate in 3 17 ... g3!! mates quicker 18. Rxf2 g3 19. Be2 Qh2+ {White resigns} 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.01.29"] [Round "-"] [White "Batcat"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "1836"] [BlackElo "2091"] [Opening "Scotch game"] [ECO "C45"] [NIC "SO.04"] [Time "13:50:59"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bb4+ 5. c3 Be7 6. Bc4 Nf6 7. O-O O-O 8. Re1 Nxe4 9. Rxe4 d5 10. Nxc6 bxc6 11. Rd4 Bc5 12. Rd2 Qh4 13. Bf1 Bg4 14. Qa4 Rae8 15. h3 h5 16. hxg4 hxg4 17. Qxc6 Bxf2+ 18. Rxf2 g3 19. Be2 Qh2+ {White resigns} 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 2 23:25:36 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 23:25:36 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Lemmiwinks mated Message-ID: <1233642336.4987e3606aefc@www.taom.com> One Lemmiwinks disposed of properly. [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.03"] [Round "-"] [White "JDF"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2052"] [BlackElo "2170"] [Opening "Giuoco Pianissimo"] [ECO "C55"] [NIC "IG.01"] [Time "00:54:32"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Grrrrr, Lemmiwinks 4 ... Bc5! Attack! 5. O-O! Climb in your coffin 5 ... d6! 6. h3 h6 Don't castle, attack 7. c3 Bb6 8. a4 a6 Prepare the Hyper-Pole 9. Na3 g5 Fortune favors the bold. 10. Nh2 Rg8 Unnecessary preparation - 10 ... g4! 11 hg Rg8!! 11. Nc2 g4! Now we're cooking with gas 12. Nxg4? Nxg4! 13. hxg4! Bxg4! 14. Qd2! Bf3 My move is almost met adequately by 15 Ne1! - I have interesting alternatives - a " Fishing Pole by hand " with 14 ... Rg5!!, 15 ... Rh5!! and ... Qh4!!-h1 checkmate Another good one is 14 ... Rg6!!!! to block 15 Q:h6 14 ... Qf6!!! is very powerful - if 15 Q:h6 Rg6!! wins 15. g3 Rxg3+ {White resigns} 0-1 Mate next move. That's how I handle 4 d3 guys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.03"] [Round "-"] [White "JDF"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2052"] [BlackElo "2170"] [Opening "Giuoco Pianissimo"] [ECO "C55"] [NIC "IG.01"] [Time "00:54:32"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. O-O d6 6. h3 h6 7. c3 Bb6 8. a4 a6 9. Na3 g5 10. Nh2 Rg8 11. Nc2 g4 12. Nxg4 Nxg4 13. hxg4 Bxg4 14. Qd2 Bf3 15. g3 Rxg3+ {White resigns} 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Aren't Ims supposed to know how to draw with Rook versus Rook and Bishop? [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.03"] [Round "-"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "SibTeam"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2154"] [BlackElo "2392"] [Opening "Sicilian: Kan, 5.Bd3"] [ECO "B42"] [NIC "SI.42"] [Time "00:45:57"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Bd3 Qc7 6. O-O Nf6 7. b3 b6 8. Bb2 Bb7 9. Nd2 h5 10. Qe2 Bc5 11. N2f3 Ng4 The Incredible Tyler Hughes likes these Kan Fishing Pole attacks. 12. h3 Nc6 13. Nf5?! An interesting defense to a Fishing Pole attack but 13 N:c6!! B:c6 14 B:g7! Rg8! 15 Bb2! was the right approach 13 ... exf5 14. exf5+ Kf8 15. hxg4 hxg4 16. Ne5 Re8 17. Rae1 Nxe5 18. Bxe5 Rxe5 19. Qxe5 Qxe5 20. Rxe5 g3 21. Rxc5 gxf2+ 22. Rxf2 bxc5 23. f6 gxf6 24. Rxf6 Ke7 25. Rb6 Bc6 26. Rxa6 Rg8 27. Bf1 Kd6 28. a3 Ke5 29. b4 cxb4 30. axb4 Kd4 31. b5 Be4 32. Rd6+ Kc5 33. Rxd7 Bxc2 34. Rxf7 Be4 35. Rf2 Kb6 36. Rf6+ Kc5 37. Rf2 Kb6 38. Ra2 Bd5 39. Ra6+ Kc5 40. Rf6 Bxg2 41. Bxg2 Kxb5 Rook and bishop versus rook - I can win two ways - pick off the rook somehow or drive the King to the bank rank and hope for the best. 42. Kf2 Kc5 43. Rf4 Kd6 44. Ke3 Rg5 45. Be4 Ke5 46. Rf3 Rh5 47. Bg6 Rg5 48. Bd3 Rh5 49. Rg3 Kd5 50. Rf3 Ke5 51. Rg3 Kd5 52. Be4+ Ke5 53. Rf3 Rg5 54. Bc2 Rh5 55. Kd2 Rh2+ 56. Kc3 Rh4 57. Re3+ Kd5 58. Re8 Rc4+ 59. Kd3 Rh4 60. Rd8+ Kc6 61. Bb3 Kc5 62. Rd5+ Kc6 63. Bc4 Rh3+ 64. Kd4 Rh4+ 65. Kc3 Kb6 66. Kb4 Kc6 67. Kc3 Rh3+ 68. Kb4 Rh4 69. Rg5 Rh1?? 70. Rg6+?? 70 Bd5+!! oops 70 ... Kd7 71. Kc5 Rd1 72. Rg7+ Ke8 73. Bd5 Kf8 74. Ra7 Rc1+ 75. Kd6 Rc8?? Only 75 ... Rf1!! or ... Re1!! draws. It's fun beating IMs in technical positions. 76. Rf7+ Ke8 77. Rh7 Rd8+ 78. Ke6 {Black resigns} 1-0 14 moves from the 50 move rule draw draw but it's mate in 7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.03"] [Round "-"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "SibTeam"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2154"] [BlackElo "2392"] [Opening "Sicilian: Kan, 5.Bd3"] [ECO "B42"] [NIC "SI.42"] [Time "00:45:57"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Bd3 Qc7 6. O-O Nf6 7. b3 b6 8. Bb2 Bb7 9. Nd2 h5 10. Qe2 Bc5 11. N2f3 Ng4 12. h3 Nc6 13. Nf5 exf5 14. exf5+ Kf8 15. hxg4 hxg4 16. Ne5 Re8 17. Rae1 Nxe5 18. Bxe5 Rxe5 19. Qxe5 Qxe5 20. Rxe5 g3 21. Rxc5 gxf2+ 22. Rxf2 bxc5 23. f6 gxf6 24. Rxf6 Ke7 25. Rb6 Bc6 26. Rxa6 Rg8 27. Bf1 Kd6 28. a3 Ke5 29. b4 cxb4 30. axb4 Kd4 31. b5 Be4 32. Rd6+ Kc5 33. Rxd7 Bxc2 34. Rxf7 Be4 35. Rf2 Kb6 36. Rf6+ Kc5 37. Rf2 Kb6 38. Ra2 Bd5 39. Ra6+ Kc5 40. Rf6 Bxg2 41. Bxg2 Kxb5 42. Kf2 Kc5 43. Rf4 Kd6 44. Ke3 Rg5 45. Be4 Ke5 46. Rf3 Rh5 47. Bg6 Rg5 48. Bd3 Rh5 49. Rg3 Kd5 50. Rf3 Ke5 51. Rg3 Kd5 52. Be4+ Ke5 53. Rf3 Rg5 54. Bc2 Rh5 55. Kd2 Rh2+ 56. Kc3 Rh4 57. Re3+ Kd5 58. Re8 Rc4+ 59. Kd3 Rh4 60. Rd8+ Kc6 61. Bb3 Kc5 62. Rd5+ Kc6 63. Bc4 Rh3+ 64. Kd4 Rh4+ 65. Kc3 Kb6 66. Kb4 Kc6 67. Kc3 Rh3+ 68. Kb4 Rh4 69. Rg5 Rh1 70. Rg6+ Kd7 71. Kc5 Rd1 72. Rg7+ Ke8 73. Bd5 Kf8 74. Ra7 Rc1+ 75. Kd6 Rc8 76. Rf7+ Ke8 77. Rh7 Rd8+ 78. Ke6 {Black resigns} 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 3 00:45:06 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 00:45:06 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Knight in the face variation Message-ID: <1233647106.4987f602b9562@www.taom.com> Knight in the face variation is usually a quick kill. [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.03"] [Round "-"] [White "kkkkk"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2059"] [BlackElo "2146"] [Opening "English opening"] [ECO "A10"] [NIC "EO.64"] [Time "01:47:59"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. c4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. e4 Nc6 4. Be3 e5 5. d5 Nd4 6. Ne2 c5 7. dxc6 dxc6 I am already better due to that obnoxious uber-knight 8. Nbc3 Ne7 9. Qd2! O-O! 10. O-O-O! c5! 11. Nd5 a6 What's nice about the knight is I can build up pawn breaks on ... f5 or ... b5 behind it. 12. Nec3 Nec6 13. f3 b5!! 14. cxb5 axb5! Pressure on a2 already gives me a clear win 15. Kb1 b4!! 16. Nb5 Qa5! I already win a piece effortlessly. Try it. 17. Nxd4 Qxa2+!! 18. Kc2 exd4!! 19. Bh6 c4? Crushing but passing up pedestrian checkmates after 19 ... b3+!! or 19 ... Qa4+! {White resigns} 0-1 Massive loss of material will follow after 20 ( Qc1 or Qg5 or Rb1 ) c3!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.03"] [Round "-"] [White "kkkkk"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2059"] [BlackElo "2146"] [Opening "English opening"] [ECO "A10"] [NIC "EO.64"] [Time "01:47:59"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. c4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. e4 Nc6 4. Be3 e5 5. d5 Nd4 6. Ne2 c5 7. dxc6 dxc6 8. Nbc3 Ne7 9. Qd2 O-O 10. O-O-O c5 11. Nd5 a6 12. Nec3 Nec6 13. f3 b5 14. cxb5 axb5 15. Kb1 b4 16. Nb5 Qa5 17. Nxd4 Qxa2+ 18. Kc2 exd4 19. Bh6 c4 {White resigns} 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Colle fared no better than kkkkk [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.03"] [Round "-"] [White "Colle"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "1974"] [BlackElo "2177"] [Opening "Modern defense"] [ECO "A40"] [NIC "QO.17"] [Time "02:23:14"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. d4 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3. e4 Nc6 4. Nf3 e5 5. d5 Nd4 6. Be3 c5 7. dxc6 dxc6 I am already better due to that obnoxious uber-knight 8. Nc3 Ne7 9. Bd3 O-O What's nice about the knight is I can build up pawn breaks on ... f5 or ... b5 behind it. 10. O-O f5 11. Ne2 Nxf3+! 12. gxf3! f4 13. Bd2 I already win a piece effortlessly with 13 ... Q:d3! 13 ... Bh3 14. Bc3 Bxf1 15. Kxf1! g5 16. c5! Ng6 17. Qb3+! Kh8! 18. Rd1! Qe7! 19. Qc4 Nh4 20. Ng1! h5 21. b4 g4! 22. fxg4 hxg4! It's over 23. Be1 Nf3 I have a wide array of winners like 23 ... g3!! 24. Kg2 Qh4!!! Best by a mile - The solution to 90% of tactical problems is to remove any obstacles between the Attacking Queen and the Defending King. - Brian Wall 25. Nxf3! gxf3+! 26. Kh1 26 Kf3 loses a rook and anything else gets mated. 26 ... Rad8 One of a half a dozen superkillers - 26 ... Qg4, ... Rf6, ... Rad8, ... Rg8, ... Bf6, ... b5 27. Bc2 Qh3 {White resigns} 0-1 Mate in 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.03"] [Round "-"] [White "Colle"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "1974"] [BlackElo "2177"] [Opening "Modern defense"] [ECO "A40"] [NIC "QO.17"] [Time "02:23:14"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. d4 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3. e4 Nc6 4. Nf3 e5 5. d5 Nd4 6. Be3 c5 7. dxc6 dxc6 8. Nc3 Ne7 9. Bd3 O-O 10. O-O f5 11. Ne2 Nxf3+ 12. gxf3 f4 13. Bd2 Bh3 14. Bc3 Bxf1 15. Kxf1 g5 16. c5 Ng6 17. Qb3+ Kh8 18. Rd1 Qe7 19. Qc4 Nh4 20. Ng1 h5 21. b4 g4 22. fxg4 hxg4 23. Be1 Nf3 24. Kg2 Qh4 25. Nxf3 gxf3+ 26. Kh1 Rad8 27. Bc2 Qh3 {White resigns} 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 3 14:07:14 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:07:14 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Quicker Euthanasia for Lemmiwinks Message-ID: <1233695234.4988b202250af@www.taom.com> I learn from myself and checkmate the Lemmiwinks ( frightened gerbil ) even more efficiently. Duwayne Langseth need have no more fear of d3 ever. [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.03"] [Round "-"] [White "nifty"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2103"] [BlackElo "2126"] [Opening "Giuoco Pianissimo"] [ECO "C55"] [NIC "IG.01"] [Time "15:49:51"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. a3 d6 6. Nc3 a6 7. h3 h6 8. O-O! g5 9. Nh2! g4 10. hxg4 Rg8!! This is my new anti-Lemmwinks trick - ... g4 before ... Rg8 11. Bxh6 Nxg4!! Already winning 12. Nxg4 Bxg4!! Already winning the King or Queen in only a dozen moves 13. Qd2 Bf3!! Already mating in only 13 moves 14. g3 Rxg3+ {White resigns} 0-1 Mate next move ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.03"] [Round "-"] [White "nifty"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2103"] [BlackElo "2126"] [Opening "Giuoco Pianissimo"] [ECO "C55"] [NIC "IG.01"] [Time "15:49:51"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. a3 d6 6. Nc3 a6 7. h3 h6 8. O-O g5 9. Nh2 g4 10. hxg4 Rg8 11. Bxh6 Nxg4 12. Nxg4 Bxg4 13. Qd2 Bf3 14. g3 Rxg3+ {White resigns} 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original email [BrianWallChess] Lemmiwinks mated Monday, February 2, 2009 11:25 PM From: "Brian Wall" View contact details To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, "Brian Wall Chesslist" One Lemmiwinks disposed of properly. [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.03" ] [Round "-"] [White "JDF"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2052"] [BlackElo "2170"] [Opening "Giuoco Pianissimo"] [ECO "C55"] [NIC "IG.01"] [Time "00:54:32"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Grrrrr, Lemmiwinks 4 ... Bc5! Attack! 5. O-O! Climb in your coffin 5 ... d6! 6. h3 h6 Don't castle, attack 7. c3 Bb6 8. a4 a6 Prepare the Hyper-Pole 9. Na3 g5 Fortune favors the bold. 10. Nh2 Rg8 Unnecessary preparation - 10 ... g4! 11 hg Rg8!! 11. Nc2 g4! Now we're cooking with gas 12. Nxg4? Nxg4! 13. hxg4! Bxg4! 14. Qd2! Bf3 My move is almost met adequately by 15 Ne1! - I have interesting alternatives - a " Fishing Pole by hand " with 14 ... Rg5!!, 15 ... Rh5!! and ... Qh4!!-h1 checkmate Another good one is 14 ... Rg6!!!! to block 15 Q:h6 14 ... Qf6!!! is very powerful - if 15 Q:h6 Rg6!! wins 15. g3 Rxg3+ {White resigns} 0-1 Mate next move. That's how I handle 4 d3 guys. ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.03" ] [Round "-"] [White "JDF"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2052"] [BlackElo "2170"] [Opening "Giuoco Pianissimo"] [ECO "C55"] [NIC "IG.01"] [Time "00:54:32"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. O-O d6 6. h3 h6 7. c3 Bb6 8. a4 a6 9. Na3 g5 10. Nh2 Rg8 11. Nc2 g4 12. Nxg4 Nxg4 13. hxg4 Bxg4 14. Qd2 Bf3 15. g3 Rxg3+ {White resigns} 0-1 ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ----- End forwarded message ----- ----- End forwarded message ----- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 3 14:20:30 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:20:30 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] New lessons from Covington - Wall Message-ID: <1233696030.4988b51ec7a76@www.taom.com> [Event "Poor Richard's Bookstore Wednesday Night Chess Tournament"] [Site "320-24 North Tejon Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado"] [Date "2009.01.28"] [Round "4"] [White "Paul Covington"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "1906"] [BlackElo "2200"] [Opening "English: symmetrical variation"] [ECO "A30"] [NIC "EO.64"] [Time "7 PM"] [TimeControl "Game/85 plus 5 second delay"] 1. c4 c5 2. g3 Nc6 3. Bg2 Nf6 4. b3 e6 5. Bb2 d5 6. cxd5 exd5 7. e3 d4 8. Ne2 Nb4 9. Nc1 d3 10. Na3 Bg4 11. f3 Bd7 12. O-O Bc6 13. Nc4 Nd7 14. a3 Nc2 15. Nxd3 Nxa1 16. Qxa1 f6 17. Nf4 Kf7 18. Bh3 Be7 19. Be6+ Ke8 20. Qb1 b5 21. Ng6 Rf8 22. Nce5 Nxe5 23. Bxe5 fxe5 24. Nxf8 Bxf8 25. Qf5 Qf6 26. Qg4 Rd8 27. d4 cxd4 28. f4 e4 29. Rc1 Rd6 30. Rxc6 Rxc6 31. Bd7+ Kf7 32. Qh5+ Ke7 33. Bxc6 Qxc6 34. Qe5+ Kf7 35. Qxd4 Bc5 36. Qd2 Bxa3 37. Kf2 Bc5 38. Qe2 Qd5 39. Qc2 a5 40. Kg2 Kg6 41. g4 Bxe3 42. Kg3 h6 43. h4 Kh7 44. g5 Qf5 45. Qc7 Bxf4+ 0-1 Covington quits ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New lessons I learned from Covington - Wall 1 - A winning position isn't a win unless A - You are willing to concentrate hard to work out all the messy details. B - The position has devolved into something very simple. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 - A - The reason so many exchange sacs worked for both sides was the pawn structures were very long and backwards so that the rooks had no way in. B - Kasparov said the 4th element of Chess after Space, Time and Force was Quality of Position. In this case both sides had high quality pawn structures. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 - It's a good idea to determine the nature of the position A - If plans and tactics suggest themselves easily then the play should be smooth. B - If the tactics, plans and evaluations seem murky you should work 10 times harder until things start coming into focus again. This may take many moves to resolve. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am hoping IM John Watson's interview of B-Wall ( me ) airs tonight. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 3 16:10:48 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 16:10:48 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Marvin Lee - Wall 2007 Kansas Open revisited with brutal endgame magic Message-ID: <1233702648.4988cef86b341@www.taom.com> 2007 Kansas Open Round 1 - My opponent used up all but three minutes of his two hours only to lose in 15 moves. I spent maybe 15 minutes for the whole Fishing Pole. Lee - Wall made it to www.Chesssgames.com - Two people added it to their favorite games list - comments below. Today someone played like Marvin Lee , making the same moves roughly 1 hour 55 minutes faster. That when I unleashed my endgame skills. [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.03"] [Round "-"] [White "dougp"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2079"] [BlackElo "2162"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "17:00:33"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole, yada, yada, yada. 5. h3 h5!! 6. c3 a6 7. Ba4 Bc5 8. d4 Ba7!! Hyper-Pole 9. Bxc6 dxc6 10. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. dxe5 Qe7!! In the Marvin game it took me a long time to refrain from 11 ... Qh4! which won many blitz games in order to play the best move. 12. Bf4 g5! 13. Bg3 Marvin Lee played 13. Bh2 g4! 14. hxg4 hxg4! 15. Qd3 Rxh2!! 0-1 13 ... h4!! The sharpest way is to get in ... g4 quickly - I had a decent alternatives in 13 ... Be6! 14. Bh2 g4!! Very common - the h3-pawn tries to drive the Fishing Pole knight away and ends up as a fatal contact point. I had good alternatives with 14 ... Rg8!! or ... Be6! 15. hxg4! Qg5 I had good alternatives with 15 ... Rg8!!!, ... Qg5!!, ... Be6!, ... h3!, ... Bd7!, ... Bb6! 16. Qf3 Bxg4!! 17. Qf6! Qxf6 The Queen looked very disruptive on f6 so I chopped it off. Avoiding the trade with 17 ... Qh5!!! is better but Avoiding the trade with 17 ... Qg8! is worse than what I did. All three lines favor me. 18. exf6! O-O-O!! Slowing down DougP's Queenside development by preventing Nd2. I had decent alternatives with 18 ... h3!!, ... Rg8! and ... Kd7! 19. Na3 h3!! My two bishops pressure everywhere. I felt I had to win to honor the Marvin Lee game. Decent alternatives - 19 ... Rdg8!!, ... Rh5!, ... Rhg8!, ... Rh7!, ... Rh6!, ... Rhe8!, ... Rd2! and many other 20. Nc4 Be2!! One of four super-killers - 20 ... Rdg8!!!, ... hg!!!, ... Be2!!, ... Rhg8!! 21. Ne3 Bxf1!! As good as this is, 2 moves were better - 21 ... B:e3!!! and ... hg!!! 22. Nxf1! hxg2 As good as this is ( up an easy exchange ) there are 7 better moves : 22 ... Rd3, ... Rhg8, ... Rh4, ... Rhe8, ... Rde8, ... Rh6, Rdg8 23. Ng3 Bxf2+ Very nice but 23 ... Rd2!! is twice as crushing 24. Kxg2! Rd2! 25. Nf1! Rxb2! 26. Rd1 Rxa2 27. Kf3! a5 28. Bf4 a4 29. e5 Bc5! 30. Ng3 Rf2+! 31. Ke4! a3 32. Nf5 a2 33. Ne7+ Kb8! 34. Be3 Rh4+ 35. Kd3! Rh3! {White resigns} 0-1 DougP didn't get to have much fun. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.03"] [Round "-"] [White "dougp"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2079"] [BlackElo "2162"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "17:00:33"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. c3 a6 7. Ba4 Bc5 8. d4 Ba7 9. Bxc6 dxc6 10. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. dxe5 Qe7 12. Bf4 g5 13. Bg3 h4 14. Bh2 g4 15. hxg4 Qg5 16. Qf3 Bxg4 17. Qf6 Qxf6 18. exf6 O-O-O 19. Na3 h3 20. Nc4 Be2 21. Ne3 Bxf1 22. Nxf1 hxg2 23. Ng3 Bxf2+ 24. Kxg2 Rd2 25. Nf1 Rxb2 26. Rd1 Rxa2 27. Kf3 a5 28. Bf4 a4 29. e5 Bc5 30. Ng3 Rf2+ 31. Ke4 a3 32. Nf5 a2 33. Ne7+ Kb8 34. Be3 Rh4+ 35. Kd3 Rh3 {White resigns} 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1472993 [Event "2007 Kansas Open"] [Site "Bethany Library, Lindsborg, Kansas"] [Date "2007.07.14"] [EventDate "?"] [Round "1"] [Result "0-1"] [White "Marvin Lee"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [ECO "C65"] [WhiteElo "1861"] [BlackElo "2204"] [PlyCount "30"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. c3 a6 6. Ba4 Bc5 7. d4 Ba7 8. h3 h5 9. Bxc6 dxc6 10. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. dxe5 Qe7 12. Bf4 g5 13. Bh2 g4 14. hxg4 hxg4 15. Qd3 Rxh2 0-1 Marvin Lee vs Brian Wall Kansas Open 2007 ? Spanish Game: Berlin Defense. Fishing Pole Variation (C65) ? 0-1 Oct-24-07 The Chess Express: 9. hxg4 hxg4 10. Ng5 should win easily for white. 10. ... f6 10. Qxg4 fxg5 11. Bxg5 or 10. ... d6 11. Be3 f6 12. dxe5 (d5) Bxe3 13. fxe3 f5 (best) 14. Nf7 Kxf7 15. exd6 and white is winning. Oct-25-07 Resignation Trap: According to Brian Wall on http://www.taom.com/mailman/listinf... , 9.hxg4 hxg4 10.Ng5 g3! 11.fxg3 exd4! 12.Nxf7 dxc3+! is crushing. Oct-25-07 The Chess Express: 9. hxg4 hxg4 10. Ng5 g3 11. Qf3 (Qg4) f6 (gxf2+ doesn't help) 12. Qxg3 fxg5 13. Bxg5 Ne7 14. Qxe5 and black can safely resign. Oct-26-07 Resignation Trap: Brian absolutely >>loves<< to trap unsuspecting opponents with this line, both in tournaments and especially on line (I think it's part of his religion). So if you ever have to face him, try Lee's line and then boldly try 9.hxg4. There are good reasons why Kramnik plays 4...Nxe4 instead of 4...Ng4. Oct-26-07 WannaBe: Is that Marvin Lee, or Lee Marvin?! Oct-26-07 Resignation Trap: According to Brian Wall , "Marvin Lee looks nothing like the actor Lee Marvin. Marvin Lee is the biggest Asian dude I've ever seen. Imagine Lorne Greene marrying Hopsing and Hoss on the Ponderosa - their offspring will give you some idea of what Marvin Lee looks like." Brian Wall has a new chess book for children titled "How To Play Chess Like An Animal". It is being printed even as we speak. Oct-26-07 The Chess Express: A simpler line is 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 Nxd4 7. Qxd4 when white has a nice positional advantage. 6. ... Qh4 can be met with 7. h3 Nge5 (h5?, Nf5) 8. Nc3 Nov-20-07 dougrhess: Where did fxg3 come from? Nov-20-07 Resignation Trap: This was analysis by Brian Wall and I was simply repeating it. If you click on the link I gave, you may be able to eventually find the source. He has a lot of material. Nov-20-07 goldenbear: Marvin Lee's father is Wellington Lee, an excellent bridge player as well as a former OK chess champion. Nov-21-07 The Chess Express: chess champions are OK ;) Nov-21-07 goldenbear: OK as in Oklahoma. I guess you knew that though. Dec-07-07 DanielBryant: I was at this tournament, and I remember that Lee had only two seconds left when he resigned. Only got 15 moves in in two hours. Jan-30-08 An Englishman: Good Evening: the database has two games with 4...Ng4!?!?!?, which must be the Fishing Pole, and they're both wins for Black! No matter how sound or unsound, it's remarkable that we can still find theoretical novelties on the 4th move of an opening as old as the Ruy. Jan-30-08 whiteshark: Thx for the link! :D Feb-27-08 whiteshark: Received 39 Brian Wall chesslist emails within the last 14 days... Apr-11-08 The Chess Express: Here's another one. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Ng5 ;) Secrets of Opening Surprises -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Featured in the Following Game Collections [what is this?] Fishing Pole from Frank124c's Favorite Games--Themes by frank124c Vintage Brian Wall from DanielBryant's favorite games by DanielBryant --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 3 17:28:55 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 17:28:55 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fkimberry on Marvin Lee Message-ID: <1233707335.4988e1479e180@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from fkimberry at aol.com ----- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:20:07 -0500 From: fkimberry at aol.com Reply-To: fkimberry at aol.com Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] Marvin Lee To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com Marvin Lee - the chess player from Norman Okla - dropped out of Norman HS in the 10th grade. Then grad from Univ of Okla in 2 yrs in time??to return to grad with his original??HS class at Norman HS.?? He's a genius. Now retired from active chess.???? ========================== -----Original Message----- From: Brian Wall To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com; Brian Wall Chesslist Sent: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 5:10 pm Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Marvin Lee - Wall 2007 Kansas Open revisited with brutal endgame magic 007 Kansas Open Round 1 - y opponent used up all but three minutes of his two hours nly to lose in 15 moves. I spent maybe 15 minutes for the whole Fishing Pole. ee - Wall made it to www.Chesssgames.com - wo people added it to their favorite games list - omments below. Today someone played like Marvin Lee , making the same moves roughly hour 55 minutes faster. That when I unleashed my endgame skills. Event "ICC 5 0"] Site "Internet Chess Club"] Date "2009.02.03"] Round "-"] White "dougp"] Black "B-Wall"] Result "0-1"] ICCResult "White resigns"] WhiteElo "2079"] BlackElo "2162"] Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"] ECO "C65"] NIC "RL.07"] Time "17:00:33"] TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole, yada, yada, yada. . h3 h5!! 6. c3 a6 7. Ba4 Bc5 8. d4 Ba7!! Hyper-Pole . Bxc6 dxc6 1 0. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. dxe5 Qe7!! In the Marvin game it took me a long time to refrain from 1 ... Qh4! which won many blitz games in order to play the best move. 2. Bf4 g5! 13. Bg3 Marvin Lee played 13. Bh2 g4! 14. hxg4 hxg4! 15. Qd3 Rxh2!! 0-1 13 ... h4!! The sharpest way is to get in ... g4 quickly - had a decent alternatives in 13 ... Be6! 14. Bh2 g4!! Very common - the h3-pawn tries to drive the Fishing ole knight away and ends up as a fatal contact point. had good alternatives with 14 ... Rg8!! or ... Be6! 5. hxg4! Qg5 I had good alternatives with 5 ... Rg8!!!, ... Qg5!!, ... Be6!, ... h3!, ... Bd7!, ... Bb6! 6. Qf3 Bxg4!! 17. Qf6! Qxf6 The Queen looked very disruptive on f6 so I chopped it off. voiding the trade with 17 ... Qh5!!! is better but voiding the trade with 17 ... Qg8! is worse than what I did. ll three lines favor me. 8. exf6! O-O-O!! Slowing down DougP's Queenside development by preventing Nd2. had decent alternatives with 18 ... h3!!, ... Rg8! and ... Kd7! 9. Na3 h3!! My two bishops pressure everywhere. I felt I had to win to honor the arvin Lee game. Decent alternatives - 9 ... Rdg8!!, ... Rh5!, ... Rhg8!, ... Rh7!, ... Rh6!, .. Rhe8!, ... Rd2! and many other 20. Nc4 Be2!! One of four super-killers - 0 ... Rdg8!!!, ... hg!!!, ... Be2!!, ... Rhg8!! 21. Ne3 Bxf1!! s good as this is, 2 moves were better - 1 ... B:e3!!! and ... hg!!! 22. Nxf1! hxg2 As good as this is up an easy exchange ) here are 7 better moves : 2 ... Rd3, ... Rhg8, ... Rh4, ... Rhe8, ... Rde8, ... Rh6, Rdg8 23. Ng3 Bxf2+ Very nice but 23 ... Rd2!! s twice as crushing 24. Kxg2! Rd2! 25. Nf1! Rxb2! 26. Rd1 Rxa2 27. Kf3! a5 8. Bf4 a4 29. e5 Bc5! 30. Ng3 Rf2+! 31. Ke4! a3 32. Nf5 a2 3. Ne7+ Kb8! 34. Be3 Rh4+ 35. Kd3! Rh3! {White resigns} 0-1 DougP didn't get to have much fun. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Event "ICC 5 0"] Site "Internet Chess Club"] Date "2009.02.03"] Round "-"] White "dougp"] Black "B-Wall"] Result "0-1"] ICCResult "White resigns"] WhiteElo "2079"] BlackElo "2162"] Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"] ECO "C65"] NIC "RL.07"] Time "17:00:33"] TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. c3 a6 7. Ba4 Bc5 8. d4 a7 9. Bxc6 dxc6 10. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. dxe5 Qe7 12. Bf4 g5 13. Bg3 h4 14. Bh2 g4 5. hxg4 Qg5 16. Qf3 Bxg4 17. Qf6 Qxf6 18. exf6 O-O-O 19. Na3 h3 20. Nc4 Be2 1. Ne3 Bxf1 22. Nxf1 hxg2 23. Ng3 Bxf2+ 24. Kxg2 Rd2 25. Nf1 Rxb2 26. Rd1 xa2 27. Kf3 a5 28. Bf4 a4 29. e5 Bc5 30. Ng3 Rf2+ 31. Ke4 a3 32. Nf5 a2 33. e7+ Kb8 34. Be3 Rh4+ 35. Kd3 Rh3 {White resigns} 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ttp://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1472993 [Event "2007 Kansas Open"] Site "Bethany Library, Lindsborg, Kansas"] Date "2007.07.14"] EventDate "?"] Round "1"] Result "0-1"] White "Marvin=2 0Lee"] Black "Brian Wall"] ECO "C65"] WhiteElo "1861"] BlackElo "2204"] PlyCount "30"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. c3 a6 6. Ba4 Bc5 . d4 Ba7 8. h3 h5 9. Bxc6 dxc6 10. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. dxe5 Qe7 2. Bf4 g5 13. Bh2 g4 14. hxg4 hxg4 15. Qd3 Rxh2 0-1 arvin Lee vs Brian Wall ansas Open 2007 ?? Spanish Game: Berlin Defense. Fishing Pole Variation (C65) 0-1 ct-24-07 The Chess Express: 9. hxg4 hxg4 10. Ng5 should win easily for hite. 10. ... f6 10. Qxg4 fxg5 11. Bxg5 or 10. ... d6 11. Be3 f6 12. dxe5 (d5) xe3 13. fxe3 f5 (best) 14. Nf7 Kxf7 15. exd6 and white is winning. Oct-25-07 Resignation Trap: According to Brian Wall on ttp://www.taom.com/mailman/listinf... , 9.hxg4 hxg4 10.Ng5 g3! 11.fxg3 exd4! 2.Nxf7 dxc3+! is crushing. Oct-25-07 The Chess Express: 9. hxg4 hxg4 10. Ng5 g3 11. Qf3 (Qg4) f6 (gxf2+ oesn't help) 12. Qxg3 fxg5 13. Bxg5 Ne7 14. Qxe5 and black can safely resign. Oct-26-07 Resignation Trap: Brian absolutely >>loves<< to trap nsuspecting opponents with this line, both in tournaments and especially on ine (I think it's part of his religion). So if you ever have to face him, try ee's line and then boldly try 9.hxg4. here are good reasons why Kramnik plays 4...Nxe4 instead of 4...Ng4. ct-26-07 WannaBe: Is that Marvin Lee, or Lee Marvin?! Oct-26-07 Resignation Trap: According to Brian Wall , "Marvin Lee looks othing like the actor Lee Marvin. Marvin Lee is the biggest Asian=2 0dude I've ver seen. Imagine Lorne Greene marrying Hopsing and Hoss on the Ponderosa - heir offspring will give you some idea of what Marvin Lee looks like." rian Wall has a new chess book for children titled "How To Play Chess Like An nimal". It is being printed even as we speak. ct-26-07 The Chess Express: A simpler line is 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 Nxd4 7. xd4 when white has a nice positional advantage. 6. ... Qh4 can be met with 7. 3 Nge5 (h5?, Nf5) 8. Nc3 Nov-20-07 dougrhess: Where did fxg3 come from? Nov-20-07 Resignation Trap: This was analysis by Brian Wall and I was imply repeating it. If you click on the link I gave, you may be able to ventually find the source. He has a lot of material. Nov-20-07 goldenbear: Marvin Lee's father is Wellington Lee, an excellent ridge player as well as a former OK chess champion. Nov-21-07 The Chess Express: chess champions are OK ;) Nov-21-07 goldenbear: OK as in Oklahoma. I guess you knew that though. Dec-07-07 DanielBryant: I was at this tournament, and I remember that Lee had nly two seconds left when he resigned. Only got 15 moves in in two hours. Jan-30-08 An Englishman: Good Evening: the database has two games with 4...Ng4!?!?!?, hich must be the Fishing Pole, and they're both wins for Black! No matter how ound or unsound, it's remarkable that we can still find theoretical novelties n the 4th move20of an opening as old as the Ruy. Jan-30-08 whiteshark: Thx for the link! :D Feb-27-08 whiteshark: Received 39 Brian Wall chesslist emails within the last 4 days... Apr-11-08 The Chess Express: ere's another one. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Ng5 ;) ecrets of Opening Surprises -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Featured in the Following Game Collections [what is this?] ishing Pole rom Frank124c's Favorite Games--Themes by frank124c intage Brian Wall rom DanielBryant's favorite games by DanielBryant -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090203/9e1450cd/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 4 07:58:10 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 07:58:10 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Duwayne Langseth on ICC Chess Talk with IM John Watson Message-ID: <1233759490.4989ad0210e39@www.taom.com> Brian - there was some kind of mixup at the end where the board didn't show my last 3 endgame positions - other than that it went well. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Duwayne ----- Forwarded message from DuWayne Langseth ----- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 22:34:52 -0700 From: DuWayne Langseth Reply-To: DuWayne Langseth Subject: RE: [BrianWallChess] ICC Chess Talk with IM John Watson To: Brian Wall Brian, Great interview!!!!! I tried to play on ICC while I listened and I lost every game! I couldn't focus! It was very instructive. I'm impressed at the way you are respected by our American top chess players (Watson, Lakdawala, etc.). What a source of chess knowledge you are. You are entertaining too. DuWayne John's interview with me on the Internet Chess Club is now available -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090204/69c8bb23/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Feb 5 17:29:03 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:29:03 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Ed Stoddard on ICC Chess Talk with IM John Watson Message-ID: <1233880143.498b844f06e23@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Ed Stoddard ----- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:05:37 -0000 From: Ed Stoddard Reply-To: Ed Stoddard Subject: Re: Duwayne Langseth on ICC Chess Talk with IM John Watson To: Brian Wall --- In BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com, Brian Wall wrote: Brian - there was some kind of mixup at the end where the board didn't show my last 3 endgame positions - other than that it went well. Yes, I experienced the same thing during the endgames on ICC. In the beginning there was a flicker where it appeared the proper endgame would show but very quickly reverted back to the prior game diagram. Brian was very interesting, informative and entertaining! He had much more to say than there was time available. Watson should have him on again! Ed Stoddard From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Feb 6 15:28:51 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 15:28:51 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] ACE Chess Update Message-ID: <1233959331.498cb9a3ac5ff@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 00:31:18 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: ACE Chess Update Dear Trekkers,The Copper State International will be the strongest chess tournament Arizona has ever seen. If you are rated over 2000 FIDE, email Danny Rensch (Danny at AmericanChess.net) to register today! Check out the 4 GMs who are registered so far!!!The Master Trek Grand Prix Cup will take place on Saturday. Register today to avoid LATE FEES! 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Team Prizes have also been added to both the K-3 and K-6 Sections.CHESS WORLD UPDATE:ChessPark.com offers College Chess League!Pocket Fritz 3 now available!Search for your favorite chess player anytime! ACE Chess American Chess Events, LLC602.618.2045 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090206/c52e6381/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 10 10:29:35 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:29:35 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Orlando Team member needed for Radek Laburda Message-ID: <1234286975.4991b97f7bfed@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from radek laburda ----- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 14:39:51 -0800 (PST) From: radek laburda Reply-To: eli33618 at yahoo.com To: brianwall at walverine.com hi brian its rADEK FROM FLORIDA? YOUR BLITZ BUDDY i WAS WONDERING IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO PLAY ON OUR TEAM , SO FAR IS 3 OF US? NEED ONE MORE , FOR? 14 - 15? TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP IN ORLANDO , SOMEONE? AT LEAST 1700??? THANKS? CZECHMASTER -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090210/f12d165c/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 10 11:27:44 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:27:44 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Team Joel at ASU Message-ID: <1234290464.4991c72050a76@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 07:16:39 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: Team Joel at ASU Hi All, Team Joel had a huge day at the Master Trek tourney at ASU today! It was great to see so many students and Valley Chess players at the tournament. And, we should have at least three students that will hit all-time high ratings! In the Open Section, Josh Zhu decided to spot the rest of us a half point bye in round one, then proceeded to beat in succession: Dipro Chakraborty (2026), Daniel Pecherski (1831), and John Williams (2007). Winning first place with a 3 1/2 - 1/2 score!! Already at his all-time high USCF rating of 2048, and ranked 12th in the United States for 13-year-olds. His USCF rating should jump to 2074, which will move him up to 8th place in the United States!! I managed to come back from losing my first round game to David Adelberg to finish second with a score of 3-1. In the 1600-1900 section, Alec Andersen had a monster day. As one of the lowest rated players in the section with a rating of 1607, Alec was not expecting that he would do very well. But, he has been working really hard at improving and the results were spectacular!! In the first round he beat one of the best players in the section (1800+) and the highest rated player that Alec has ever beaten. He followed that victory up with two more victories and found himself on board one up against the tough Lyle Engle in the last round. Lyle, despite living in Flagstaff has played at Valley Chess on several ocassions in the past. Despite that loss, Alec finished an amzing second place!! Alec is currently ranked 55th in the United States for 11-year-olds. With today's result, I expect that he will move up many, many spots in the rankings. In the 1000-1300 section, Nick Desmarais was also one of the lowest rated players in his section at 1082. Nick went undefeated with 2 wins and 2 draws for a 3-1 score, which was good enough for second place!! Congrats! to all of you!! All of these players should set all-time high ratings when the tournament results are rated. Keough, Robert (2005) - Johnson, Joel (2207) [B00] Master Trek (ASU), Tempe, AZ (Round 2), 02/07/2009 1.e4 a6 2.d4 b5 3.c4 bxc4 4.Bxc4 e6 5.Nc3 Bb7 6.d5 Nf6 7.dxe6 fxe6 8.Bg5 Be7 9.Bxf6 Bxf6 10.Qb3 Qc8 11.Nge2 Nc6 12.Qa3 Ne5 13.Bb3 c5 14.Na4 Qc6 15.Nxc5?? Qxc5! (Invisible Defender!) 16.Qa4 Bc6 17.Qa3 Qxa3 18.bxa3 Nd3+ 19.Kd2 Nxf2 20.Rac1 Nxh1 21.Rxh1 Bxe4 (and Black won) 0?1 Johnson, Joel (2207) - Gurczak, John (2033) [B42] Master Trek (ASU), Tempe, AZ, (Round 4), 02/07/2009 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bd3 e6 7.0?0 g6 8.Kh1 Bg7 9.f4 0?0 10.Qe1 Nfd7 11.Nf3 Nc5 12.Be3 Nxd3 13.cxd3 f5 14.Bd4 Nc6 15.Bxg7 Kxg7 16.Qe3 b5 17.exf5 exf5 18.Rae1 Bb7 19.Ng5 Bc8 20.Qf3 Bd7 21.Qd5 Rf6 22.Ne6+ Rxe6 23.Rxe6 Bxe6 24.Qxe6 Ra7 25.Nd5 Ne7 26.Qf6+ Kg8 27.Re1 Nc6 28.Qxd8+ Nxd8 29.Re8+ Kf7 30.Rxd8 Ke6 31.Nc3 Rc7 32.Re8+ Kd7 33.Re1 b4 34.Nd5 Rc2 35.Rb1 a5 36.Ne3 Rd2 37.Nc4 1?0 Thanks, Joel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090210/18d9953b/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 11 09:57:48 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:57:48 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] The Black Lion Message-ID: <1234371468.4993038c5905a@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Leopold ----- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:59:51 -0700 From: Leopold Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] The Black Lion To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Carlos, Check out my article on chess.com http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-lion Leopold Lacrimosa Chess Coach Martial Arts Sensei Scottsdale, Arizona http://AmChessCoaching.com http://SonoranDesertKnives.com http://leothelip.WordPress.com -----Original Message----- From: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com [mailto:UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of CADufour at aol.com Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 10:45 AM To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] The Black Lion Dear Group, has anybody experience with the "Black Lion"? It is a rather universal system against 1.e4 or 1.d4 with 1...d6, 2...Nf6 and 3...Nd7, often without castling . See: _http://www.vanrekom .nl/thelion/indexgb.htm_ (http://www.vanrekom .nl/thelion/indexgb.htm) Best regards Carlos Dufour Munich -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090211/ffd82d20/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 11 11:11:11 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:11:11 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Valentine's Day Colorado Tournaments Message-ID: <1234375871.499314bf88f63@www.taom.com> A Valentine Tournament, February 14, 2009 5 round Swiss system tournament. Time Control: G/30 TD 5 Site: The Daily Grind, 209 S. Union, Pueblo Directions: Take 1st Street exit, three blocks to Union; Union & D Street Sections: Open Entry fee: $20; Sr, Jr, Unr $15; CSCA & USCF required, OSA. Pre-registration entry fee: $15, which must be paid at the time of pre-registration. Prizes: Cash prizes based on entry fees will be distributed at the conclusion of the event. Registration: 9:00-9:45, Rounds: 10, 11:15, 12:30, 2:30, 3:45. Entries: Jerry Meier 229 Hargrove Court, Colorado Springs CO 80919-2213 Phone: 719-660-5531 E-mail: pmjer77 at aim.com Final round byes must be requested before the start of Round 2, and are irrevocable. COLORADO TOUR EVENT DCC Valentine's Day Massacre, February 14, 2009 5 round Swiss system tournament. Time Control: GAME/30 Site: Tabor Center 3rd Floor Food Court 16th Street Mall Open: Open to all USCF rated and unrated members. Reserve: Open to all USCF members rated 1599 and below and unrated. Entry fee: $20 on-site, $15 in advance (by 2/10). $3 for DCC members Prizes: Based on Entries Registration: 8 - 8:45 a.m., Rounds: 9:15, 10:30, 12:15, 1:30, 2:45. Entries: Joe Haines 6871 Knox Ct., Denver, CO 80221 Phone: 720-339-7233 E-mail: joehaines at comcast.net A DCC Club Event. No Pre-registration accepted without payment. A DCC Grand-Prix event. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- My son Devon James Wall turns double digit ( 10 ) on Sunday the 15th. Most likely the weekend after his birthday he will play in the Denver, CO Tivoli Center Scholastic Championship Feb 21-22 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Little known historical facts - James W. Denver : Governor of the Kansas Territory from 1857-8, the namesake of Denver, Colorado would be very proud of me for winning the 2007 Denver Open ( with Mitesh Shridhar, my 6th time for at least a tie, finally breaking retired Chessmaster Todd Bardwick's record ) and the 2007 Kansas Open ( Kansas Champion title went to highest resident Tom Brownscombe who was the Lindsborg, KS TD for Tyler Hughes winning the 2008 U.S. Junior which led to Tyler playing in the 2008 World Junior in Turkey and the 2009 US Closed. ) From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 11 11:17:03 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:17:03 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Anyone have Randy Schine's email address? Message-ID: <1234376223.4993161f12718@www.taom.com> From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 11 12:06:56 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:06:56 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Destiny is Real Message-ID: <1234379216.499321d00daeb@www.taom.com> I have been rereading my Dad's book this weekend. Destiny is Real, 1999, Garden District Press by Lucius John Wall II ( Philosophy Qotient Wall or P.Q. Wall for short. ) 2008's Top Ten Stock Market Forecasters 1. Crawford Perspectives +42.4% 2. Peter Eliades Stockmarket Cycles 20.8% 3. Elliott Wave Financial Forecast 18.9% 4. Doug Fabian's ETF Trader 13.2% 5. Yamamoto Forecast 7.7% 6. Lowry On-Demand Investor 7.6% 7. Investment Models Newsletter 5.6% 8. P.Q. Wall Forecast 5.4% 9. Stealth Stocks Daily Alert 5.3% 10. On the Money 2.1% The guy at the top of the list, David Knox Crawford, wrote the sterling introduction to Destiny is Real. #2 on the list is Peter Eliades, who convinced my Dad to restart his financial newsletter after he went legally blind at my age. After 6 eye operations, he got enough eyesight back to relaunch the P.Q.Wall forecast. #3 on the list is also a big friend of my Dad's. My Dad's first PQ Wall newsletter predicted the biggest bull market in history. I think it was January 1982. The stock market at that time always stayed under 1,000. My Dad predicted it would go to 3400. He called the precise top within one point 10 YEARS IN ADVANCE . He also predicted oil would go from $36 a barrel ( 1983 ) to $9 a barrel in 1986. ( It did ). He also has thousands of subscribers buying his 4 times a day realtime market telephone calls where he summarizes all the markets. My dad has given many lectures, key note speeches, TV interviews, newspaper interviews, etc. I believe he was in the top 10 forecasters for 1997 as well. How does he do it? He studied the ancient philosophers, he reads constantly. He's been called a genius as long as I can remember. The premise of Destiny is Real is that - Worldwide Emotions are a field, like gravity, that can be measured. The purpose of Universal Emotions is to create strife which creates superior or more sensitive beings. This tendency fights entropy, the contraction of the universe. My Dad studies these ancient mysteries and follows both long term and short term cycles and wraps it all up in a neat package for his readers. When he's hot, business booms. Sometimes these forecasters miss something, like a Grandmaster having a bad tournament but in the long run, after they adjust, the same guys keep rising to the top. They speak the same lingo and use every tool available to forecast accurately. The way my Dad made his best forecast sounds simple. He saw that in the 1920's the real, bedrock stock market floor price rose to 6 times it's value at the peak. He made his best guess at what the 1980 bedrock, stock market floor price bottom was and multiplied by 6, coming up with 34xx. 10 years later it came true. Anyway, I can't explain all this has as well as he can so check out the P.Q. Wall Forecast. I didn't want you all thinking I got all my Chess talent from my Jewish Mom. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 11 16:43:14 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:43:14 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] IMs no better at fighting off Fishing Pole Message-ID: <1234395794.499362920a2d3@www.taom.com> I took a one year break from ICC but no one improved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information about Iandmyself(IM) (Last disconnected Wed Feb 11 2009 18:01): rating [need] win loss draw total best Bullet 2117 [8] 49 20 5 74 2196 (11-Mar-2007) Blitz 2564 [8] 260 251 31 542 2805 (04-Jan-2008) 5-minute 2206 2932 2229 573 5734 2442 (29-Sep-2008) 1-minute 1780 [8] 13 3 0 16 15-minute 2035 [4] 1 0 0 1 Name : Diego Rafael Di Berardino Groups : IMs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.11"] [Round "-"] [White "Iandmyself"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White disconnected and forfeits"] [WhiteElo "2206"] [BlackElo "2232"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "17:58:23"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole videos - Brian's - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgqVkqrNH_4 Anthea's - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCk6zdtSLk 5. h3 h5!! 6. c3 a6 7. Ba4 Bc5 8. d4 Ba7!! Hyper-Pole 9. d5 Ne7 10. Qe2 Ng6! 11. c4 IM Rafael Di Berardino Diego starts trying to shut down my Peekaboo bishop. 11 ... Kf8 I was getting tired of ... d6 being ilegal 12. Nc3 d6! Finally 13. Bg5 f6 14. Bd2 Nf4!! 15. Bxf4! exf4! 16. b4 Still trying to shut down my Peekaboo bishop. 16 ... g5!! 17. Rad1 Ne5!! I usually don't retreat but I have to get out of the way of my own pawns. 6,7,8,13,14,15 or 17 hg?? all lost. I have a winning Kingside attack now without having to scarifice. 18. Nxe5 fxe5!! 19. c5! g4!!! The International Master finally eclipses my Peekaboo Hyper-Pole Bishop but I am rolling too fast on the other side now. 19 ... dc! is possible but 20 b5 is annoying. 20. Qc4 It took 4 moves but Diego finally entombed my Hyper-Bishop. 20 ... gxh3!! Ripping into his King with a vengeance. 21. gxh3 Bxh3! Devastating, not to mention 21 ... Rg8+!! 22 Kh2 B:h3!! is even stronger while 21 ... f3!!! just checkmates 22. f3 Qh4!!! mating {White disconnected and forfeits} 0-1 22 ... Rg8+!!! mates just as fast. Even if the IM didn't "disconnect" the longest he could have lasted against the Fishing Pole is 22 ... Qh4 23 Rf2 Rg8+ 24 Rg2 R:g2+ 25 Kh1 Qg3 or ... Qf2 mates next move -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.11"] [Round "-"] [White "Iandmyself"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White disconnected and forfeits"] [WhiteElo "2206"] [BlackElo "2232"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "17:58:23"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. c3 a6 7. Ba4 Bc5 8. d4 Ba7 9. d5 Ne7 10. Qe2 Ng6 11. c4 Kf8 12. Nc3 d6 13. Bg5 f6 14. Bd2 Nf4 15. Bxf4 exf4 16. b4 g5 17. Rad1 Ne5 18. Nxe5 fxe5 19. c5 g4 20. Qc4 gxh3 21. gxh3 Bxh3 22. f3 Qh4 {White disconnected and forfeits} 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:53:39 -0600 From: PQ Wall To: Brian Wall Reply-to: pqw at bellsouth.net Subject: RE: [BrianWall-ChessList] Destiny is Real Brian, Thanks for the praise. But note Crawford is an astrologer. Intro was by David Knox Barker. Dad ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: brianwall-chesslist-bounces at lists.taom.com [mailto:brianwall-chesslist-bounces at lists.taom.com]On Behalf Of Brian Wall Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 13:07 To: brianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Brian Wall Chesslist Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Destiny is Real I have been rereading my Dad's book this weekend. Destiny is Real, 1999, Garden District Press by Lucius John Wall II ( Philosophy Qotient Wall or P.Q. Wall for short. ) 2008's Top Ten Stock Market Forecasters 1. Crawford Perspectives +42.4% 2. Peter Eliades Stockmarket Cycles 20.8% 3. Elliott Wave Financial Forecast 18.9% 4. Doug Fabian's ETF Trader 13.2% 5. Yamamoto Forecast 7.7% 6. Lowry On-Demand Investor 7.6% 7. Investment Models Newsletter 5.6% 8. P.Q. Wall Forecast 5.4% 9. Stealth Stocks Daily Alert 5.3% 10. On the Money 2.1% The guy at the top of the list, David Knox Crawford, wrote the sterling introduction to Destiny is Real. #2 on the list is Peter Eliades, who convinced my Dad to restart his financial newsletter after he went legally blind at my age. After 6 eye operations, he got enough eyesight back to relaunch the P.Q.Wall forecast. #3 on the list is also a big friend of my Dad's. My Dad's first PQ Wall newsletter predicted the biggest bull market in history. I think it was January 1982. The stock market at that time always stayed under 1,000. My Dad predicted it would go to 3400. He called the precise top within one point 10 YEARS IN ADVANCE . He also predicted oil would go from $36 a barrel ( 1983 ) to $9 a barrel in 1986. ( It did ). He also has thousands of subscribers buying his 4 times a day realtime market telephone calls where he summarizes all the markets. My dad has given many lectures, key note speeches, TV interviews, newspaper interviews, etc. I believe he was in the top 10 forecasters for 1997 as well. How does he do it? He studied the ancient philosophers, he reads constantly. He's been called a genius as long as I can remember. The premise of Destiny is Real is that - Worldwide Emotions are a field, like gravity, that can be measured. The purpose of Universal Emotions is to create strife which creates superior or more sensitive beings. This tendency fights entropy, the contraction of the universe. My Dad studies these ancient mysteries and follows both long term and short term cycles and wraps it all up in a neat package for his readers. When he's hot, business booms. Sometimes these forecasters miss something, like a Grandmaster having a bad tournament but in the long run, after they adjust, the same guys keep rising to the top. They speak the same lingo and use every tool available to forecast accurately. The way my Dad made his best forecast sounds simple. He saw that in the 1920's the real, bedrock stock market floor price rose to 6 times it's value at the peak. He made his best guess at what the 1980 bedrock, stock market floor price bottom was and multiplied by 6, coming up with 34xx. 10 years later it came true. Anyway, I can't explain all this has as well as he can so check out the P.Q. Wall Forecast. I didn't want you all thinking I got all my Chess talent from my Jewish Mom. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 11 17:19:57 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:19:57 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] February 2009 CSCA Newsletter Message-ID: <1234397997.49936b2db3292@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Klaus Johnson ----- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 22:24:29 -0800 (PST) From: Klaus Johnson Reply-To: Klaus Johnson Subject: February 2009 CSCA Newsletter Here is the February 2009 CSCA newsletter ? 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You would think that OTB rating points or money were at stake!> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:43:14 -0700> 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] IMs no better at fighting off Fishing Pole> > > I took a one year break from ICC but no one improved.> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------> > Information about Iandmyself(IM) (Last disconnected Wed Feb 11 2009 18:01):> > rating [need] win loss draw total best> Bullet 2117 [8] 49 20 5 74 2196 (11-Mar-2007)> Blitz 2564 [8] 260 251 31 542 2805 (04-Jan-2008)> 5-minute 2206 2932 2229 573 5734 2442 (29-Sep-2008)> 1-minute 1780 [8] 13 3 0 16> 15-minute 2035 [4] 1 0 0 1> > Name : Diego Rafael Di Berardino> Groups : IMs> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------> [Event "ICC 5 0"]> [Site "Internet Chess Club"]> [Date "2009.02.11"]> [Round "-"]> [White "Iandmyself"]> [Black "B-Wall"]> [Result "0-1"]> [ICCResult "White disconnected and forfeits"]> [WhiteElo "2206"]> [BlackElo "2232"]> [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"]> [ECO "C65"]> [NIC "RL.07"]> [Time "17:58:23"]> [TimeControl "300+0"]> > 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!!> > Fishing Pole videos -> > Brian's -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgqVkqrNH_4> > Anthea's -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCk6zdtSLk> > > 5. h3 h5!! 6. c3 a6 7. Ba4 Bc5 8. d4 Ba7!!> > Hyper-Pole> > > 9. d5 Ne7 10. Qe2 Ng6! 11. c4> > IM Rafael Di Berardino Diego> starts trying to shut> down my Peekaboo bishop.> > > > 11 ... Kf8> > I was getting tired> of ... d6 being ilegal> > > 12. Nc3 d6!> > Finally> > > 13. Bg5 f6 14. Bd2 Nf4!! 15. Bxf4! exf4! 16. b4> > Still trying to shut down my Peekaboo bishop.> > > 16 ... g5!! 17. Rad1 Ne5!!> > I usually don't retreat but I have to get out of the way of my own pawns.> 6,7,8,13,14,15 or 17 hg?? all lost.> > I have a winning Kingside attack now without having to scarifice.> > > 18. Nxe5 fxe5!! 19. c5! g4!!!> > The International Master finally eclipses my Peekaboo> Hyper-Pole Bishop but I am rolling too fast on the> other side now. 19 ... dc! is possible but> 20 b5 is annoying.> > > 20. Qc4> > It took 4 moves but Diego finally entombed my Hyper-Bishop.> > > 20 ... gxh3!!> > Ripping into his King with a vengeance.> > > 21. gxh3 Bxh3!> > Devastating, not to mention> 21 ... Rg8+!! 22 Kh2 B:h3!!> is even stronger while> 21 ... f3!!! just checkmates> > 22. f3 Qh4!!!> > mating> > {White disconnected and forfeits} 0-1> > 22 ... Rg8+!!! mates just as fast.> > Even if the IM didn't "disconnect"> the longest he could have lasted> against the Fishing Pole is> 22 ... Qh4 23 Rf2 Rg8+ 24 Rg2 R:g2+ 25 Kh1 Qg3 or ... Qf2> mates next move> --------------------------------------------------------------------------> --------------------------------------------------------------------------> [Event "ICC 5 0"]> [Site "Internet Chess Club"]> [Date "2009.02.11"]> [Round "-"]> [White "Iandmyself"]> [Black "B-Wall"]> [Result "0-1"]> [ICCResult "White disconnected and forfeits"]> [WhiteElo "2206"]> [BlackElo "2232"]> [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"]> [ECO "C65"]> [NIC "RL.07"]> [Time "17:58:23"]> [TimeControl "300+0"]> > 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. c3 a6 7. Ba4 Bc5 8. d4> Ba7 9. d5 Ne7 10. Qe2 Ng6 11. c4 Kf8 12. Nc3 d6 13. Bg5 f6 14. Bd2 Nf4 15.> Bxf4 exf4 16. b4 g5 17. Rad1 Ne5 18. Nxe5 fxe5 19. c5 g4 20. Qc4 gxh3 21.> gxh3 Bxh3 22. f3 Qh4 {White disconnected and forfeits} 0-1> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------> > Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:53:39 -0600> From: PQ Wall > To: Brian Wall > Reply-to: pqw at bellsouth.net> Subject: RE: [BrianWall-ChessList]> > Destiny is Real> Brian,> > Thanks for the praise.> But note Crawford is an astrologer. Intro was by> David Knox Barker.> > > Dad> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------> -----Original Message-----> From: brianwall-chesslist-bounces at lists.taom.com> [mailto:brianwall-chesslist-bounces at lists.taom.com]On Behalf Of Brian> Wall> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 13:07> To: brianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Brian Wall Chesslist> Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Destiny is Real> > > > I have been rereading my Dad's book this weekend.> Destiny is Real, 1999, Garden District Press> by Lucius John Wall II> ( Philosophy Qotient Wall or P.Q. Wall for short. )> > > > > 2008's Top Ten Stock Market Forecasters> > 1. Crawford Perspectives +42.4%> 2. Peter Eliades Stockmarket Cycles 20.8%> 3. Elliott Wave Financial Forecast 18.9%> 4. Doug Fabian's ETF Trader 13.2%> 5. Yamamoto Forecast 7.7%> 6. Lowry On-Demand Investor 7.6%> 7. Investment Models Newsletter 5.6%> 8. P.Q. Wall Forecast 5.4%> 9. Stealth Stocks Daily Alert 5.3%> 10. On the Money 2.1%> > The guy at the top of the list, David Knox Crawford, wrote the sterling> introduction to> Destiny is Real.> > #2 on the list is Peter Eliades, who convinced my Dad to restart his> financial> newsletter after he went legally blind at my age. After 6 eye operations, he> got enough eyesight back to relaunch the P.Q.Wall forecast.> > #3 on the list is also a big friend of my Dad's.> > My Dad's first PQ Wall newsletter predicted the biggest bull market in> history.> I think it was January 1982. The stock market at that time always stayed> under> 1,000. My Dad predicted it would go to 3400. He called the precise top> within> one point 10 YEARS IN ADVANCE .> > He also predicted oil would go from $36 a barrel ( 1983 ) to $9 a barrel> in> 1986. ( It did ).> > He also has thousands of subscribers buying his 4 times a day realtime> market> telephone calls where he summarizes all the markets.> > My dad has given many lectures, key note speeches, TV interviews, newspaper> interviews, etc.> > I believe he was in the top 10 forecasters for 1997 as well.> > How does he do it? He studied the ancient philosophers, he reads constantly.> He's been called a genius as long as I can remember.> > The premise of Destiny is Real is that -> Worldwide Emotions are a field, like gravity, that can be measured.> > The purpose of Universal Emotions is to create strife which creates superior> or> more sensitive beings. This tendency fights entropy, the contraction of the> universe.> > My Dad studies these ancient mysteries and follows both long term and short> term> cycles and wraps it all up in a neat package for his readers.> > When he's hot, business booms. Sometimes these forecasters miss something,> like> a Grandmaster having a bad tournament but in the long run, after they> adjust,> the same guys keep rising to the top. They speak the same lingo and use> every> tool available to forecast accurately.> > The way my Dad made his best forecast sounds simple. He saw that in the> 1920's> the real, bedrock stock market floor price rose to 6 times it's value at the> peak. He made his best guess at what the 1980 bedrock, stock market floor> price> bottom was and multiplied by 6, coming up with 34xx. 10 years later it came> true.> > Anyway, I can't explain all this has as well as he can so check out the P.Q.> Wall Forecast. 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URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090211/b6c23c03/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 11 22:45:41 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:45:41 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Stalker Defense Message-ID: <1234417541.4993b7852d1cb@www.taom.com> Co-author Anthea's first Benko Gambit game was in the last round of the 2007 Kansas Open Under 1800 Section for $400. Later that year she knocked Josh Bloomer below Master with the same opening. Here she upsets a 1928 named Gerry Morris at the Denver Chess Club Tuesday Night tournament Feb 3, 2008. Gerry Morris ( 1928 ) - Anthea Carson Martinez ( 1621 ) [A57] Feb 3, 2009 DCC Tuesday DenverChessClub , CO Game/85 , 1.d4 c5 2.d5 d6 3.c4 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.b6 Nf6 6.Nc3 Nbd7 It is the height of Benko sophistication to take the b6-pawn with just the right piece. 7.e4! g6 8.Nf3 Bg7! 9.Be2! Qxb6! 10.Nd2 The whole idea of this line for White is Nc4 and e5. Anthea tries to stop Gerry. 10 ... Ne5 11.h3 TL Theoretical Lemon by Gerry All four previous humans played 11 f4! - Then two played 11 ... Ned7 and two played 11 ... Neg4 but either way, White gets his key idea in of Nc4! and e5! 11 ... g5!! This is the artificial outpost idea Anthea often uses in the Sicilian Defense, Najdorf, Gothernborg Variation, for example. Whenever Anthea gets a knight outpost on e5, I quote the King James Bible - "And I say to thee. thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18 Anthea also could have used the 1972 Game 3 Spassky-Fischer idea that so shocked the world in 1972 - 11 ... Nh5! 12 B:h5 Nd3+ 13 Kf1 N:c1 14 R:c1 gh with the two bishops as compensation for the doubled rookpawns - GM Larry Christiansen would say - " I evaluate this as roughly equal. " 12.Nf3 Trying to budge the rock 12 ... Nxf3+!! The other opton was 12 ... Qb4! pressurizing e4. Renard Anderson once beat me with this move. 13.Bxf3! h6! Guarding the g-pawn. Another way is 13 ... h5!! intending ... g4 and if 14 B:g5 Q:b2 14.0-0! Nd7 Anthea wheels another rock into place 15.Bg4 Ne5 It was easier just to castle first but Anthea did not want to take any chances on a knight not reaching e5. 16.Qa4+ Mildly discombobulating 16 ... Kf8 Anthea doesn't want her proud knight pinned after 16 ... Bd7! 17 B:d7+ N:d7 so she castles by hand 17.Be2 Bd7! Shoo! 18.Qc2! Bb5 Anthea plays like a Benko Queen. A Fishing Pole man like myself might try 18 ... g4! 19 hg N:g4 19.a4 Bxe2! 20.Nxe2! This Benko Declined Line works fine if White plays Nc4 and e5 but here Anthea has control of e5 with the normal pressure on b2 so Gerry has nothing. 20 ... Rb8! 21.Ng3 e6 Anthea could already start what she calls the " Stalker Defense " with 21 ... Qb3!! 22 Qe2 Qc4! or 21 ... Qb3!! 22 Qd2 Qb4! ( or ... Nc4!! ) The idea is that Anthea's King magically turns from a liability to an asset once Queens are gone. 22.Nh5 Qb3! The Stalker Defense would be a litle more forcing after 22 ... ed!! 23 ed Qb3! because the d-pawn would be loose 23.Qe2 Qd3!! Very agressive stalking, completely ignoring the restraining order. 24.Qxd3! Nxd3! Benko is still an endgame God with world class technique so he reveled in positions like this. 25.Nxg7! Kxg7! Losing her beautiful Benko Bishop but improving everybody left on the board. 26.Rb1 One of those sick Benko moves as White that lets you know your game is about to get a lot worse. Anthea's scoresheet is the usual heiroglyphics/lane changing challenge but I think I have it right. 26 ... exd5! Anthea has dozens of great moves, the top being 26 ... f5!!!, ... Rb4!!, ... ed!!, ... Rhe8!!, ... e5!! , ... c4!! all Benko classics 27.exd5! Rhe8!! Gerry's position looks like Anthea is shaking him loose for eating dessert before dinner. 28.Bd2 f6 Anthea won't fall for 28 ... R:b2?? 29 Bc3+! 29.Bc3! Re2 30.b3 Kg6!! 31.Ba5 Rb7 To stop 32 Bc7 32.Rfd1! Nf4!! About as good as 32 ... N:f2!! 33 Re1! 33.Bd2 Kf5 33 ... N:d5! is better but I am not 100% sure of the scoresheet 34.Kf1! Re5 35.Ba5 Rxd5 36.Rxd5+ Nxd5! Anthea is up a protected passed pawn but can she convert? 37.Bd2 Ke6 38.Ke2 f5 39.Kd3!! f4 40.Re1+ Kf5! 41.Kc4 Nb6+! 42.Kc3! d5! 43.Re8! Nd7! 44.Kc2 Ne5 45.Rc8! Nd7 46.Kd1 Kf6 47.Ra8 Rb6 48.Ba5 Re6 49.Kd2 Ke5 50.Bc7+ Kf5! 51.Ba5 Ke4 52.Rc8 d4 53.Rd8! Nf6 53 ... Ne5! 54 f3+ N:f3+! would be a powerful sacrifice 54.Rc8 Kd5 55.Rd8+ Rd6! 56.Rxd6+ Kxd6! Knight and Pawn versus Bishop 57.Kd3 Kd5! 58.f3 Nd7! 59.Bd8 Ne5+! 60.Kd2 c4! Like clockwork now 61.bxc4+! Nxc4+! 62.Ke2! Nb2 62 ... Ne3!! is easy but Anthea is focussed on Queening her unstoppable d-pawn 63.a5! Kc4 64.Bf6 Kc3! 65.Bg7! h5 66.Bf6! Nc4! 67.Bxg5 Gerry Morris doesn't want to lose his a5-pawn or g2-pawn without a fight. 67 ... d3+!! 68.Kf2! d2!! 69.Ke2 0-1 Anthea forces promotion and then checkmate after 69 ... Ne3!!!, ... Kc2!! or ... Nb2! A rather convincing 300 point upset. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gerry Morris ( 1928 ) - Anthea Carson Martinez ( 1621 ) [A57] Feb 3, 2009 DCC Tuesday DenverChessClub , CO Game/85 , 1.d4 c5 2.d5 d6 3.c4 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.b6 Nf6 6.Nc3 Nbd7 7.e4 g6 8.Nf3 Bg7 9.Be2 Qxb6 10.Nd2 Ne5 11.h3 g5 12.Nf3 Nxf3+ 13.Bxf3 h6 14.0-0 Nd7 15.Bg4 Ne5 16.Qa4+ Kf8 17.Be2 Bd7 18.Qc2 Bb5 19.a4 Bxe2 20.Nxe2 Rb8 21.Ng3 e6 22.Nh5 Qb3 23.Qe2 Qd3 24.Qxd3 Nxd3 25.Nxg7 Kxg7 26.Rb1 exd5 27.exd5 Rhe8 28.Bd2 f6 29.Bc3 Re2 30.b3 Kg6 31.Ba5 Rb7 32.Rfd1 Nf4 33.Bd2 Kf5 34.Kf1 Re5 35.Ba5 Rxd5 36.Rxd5+ Nxd5 37.Bd2 Ke6 38.Ke2 f5 39.Kd3 f4 40.Re1+ Kf5 41.Kc4 Nb6+ 42.Kc3 d5 43.Re8 Nd7 44.Kc2 Ne5 45.Rc8 Nd7 46.Kd1 Kf6 47.Ra8 Rb6 48.Ba5 Re6 49.Kd2 Ke5 50.Bc7+ Kf5 51.Ba5 Ke4 52.Rc8 d4 53.Rd8 Nf6 54.Rc8 Kd5 55.Rd8+ Rd6 56.Rxd6+ Kxd6 57.Kd3 Kd5 58.f3 Nd7 59.Bd8 Ne5+ 60.Kd2 c4 61.bxc4+ Nxc4+ 62.Ke2 Nb2 63.a5 Kc4 64.Bf6 Kc3 65.Bg7 h5 66.Bf6 Nc4 67.Bxg5 d3+ 68.Kf2 d2 69.Ke2 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benko Goddess beats Chessmaster, 2007 [Event "Poor Richard's Restaurant Chess Tournament"] [Site "320 N. Tejon St., Colorado Springs, CO"] [Date "2007.09.12"] [Round "2"] [White "Josh Bloomer"] [Black "Anthea Carson"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2185"] [BlackElo "1738"] [Opening "Benk? gambit half accepted, Dzindi/Shirov/Yermolinsky line "] [ECO "A57"] [NIC "BI.45"] [Time "16:38:47"] [TimeControl "Game 85/ 5 second delay"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. b6 Qxb6 6. Nc3 d6 7. Nf3 g6 8. Nd2 Bg7 9. Nc4 Qb4 10. e4 Nxe4 11. Qa4+ Qxa4 12. Nxa4 Nd7 13. Ncb6 Nxb6 14. Nxb6 Rb8 15. Nxc8 Rxc8 16. Bxa6 Rb8 17. O-O Bd4 18. a4 O-O 19. Bb5 Rfc8 20. Ra2 c4 21. Be3 Bxe3 22. fxe3 f5 23. Bc6 Rb3 24. a5 Rc7 25. a6 Ra7 26. Bb7 Nc5 27. Bc8 Rxe3 28. h3 Re2 29. Rc1 Re4 30. Rc3 Nb3 31. Ra4 Nc5 32. Rcxc4 Nxa4 33. Rxe4 fxe4 34. b4 Kg7 35. b5 Kf6 36. Kf2 Ke5 37. Bb7 Kd4 38. Bc6 Nb6 39. Ke2 h5 40. h4 Ke5 41. Ke3 Kf5 42. g3 Kg4 43. Kxe4 Kxg3 44. Kd4 Kxh4 45. Kc3 g5 46. Kb4 g4 47. Ka5 Nc4+ 48. Kb4 Ne5 49. Ka5 g3 50. b6 Nc4+ 51. Kb5 Nxb6 52. Kxb6 Rxa6+ 53. Kxa6 g2 54. Kb6 g1=Q+ 55. Kc7 Qg7 56. Kd7 e5+ 57. Kxd6 e4 58. Kc5 e3 59. Bb5 Qc3+ 60. Kd6 Qc2 61. Kd7 e2 62. Bxe2 Qxe2 63. d6 Qd3 64. Kc7 Qxd6+ 65. Kxd6 Kg3 66. Ke5 h4 67. Ke4 Kg2 0-1 Josh Bloomer resigns ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benko Specialist wins $400 in Kansas, 2007 [Event "Kansas Open"] [Site "Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas"] [Date "2007.07.15" ] [Round "5"] [White "Mike Van Deeb"] [Black "Anthea Carson Martinez"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "1700"] [BlackElo "1700"] [Opening "Benk? gambit accepted"] [ECO "A58"] [NIC "BI.45"] [Time "01:57:49"] [TimeControl "Game/115 minutes 5 second delay"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. bxa6 Bxa6 6. f3 g6 7. Nh3 Bg7 8. e4 Bxf1 9. Rxf1 d6 10. Kf2 Qb6 11. Kg1 Nbd7 12. Qe2 Ne5 13. Nc3 O-O 14. Nf2 Rfb8 15. f4 Ned7 16. e5 Ne8 17. e6 Ndf6 18. exf7+ Kxf7 19. Qe6+ Kf8 20. Re1 Qd8 21. Nfe4 Nc7 22. Qh3 Nxe4 23. Rxe4 Kg8 24. f5 Bd4+ 25. Kh1 Qf8 26. Rf4 g5 27. Rg4 h6 28. Bxg5 hxg5 29. Rxg5+ Bg7 30. Rf1 Rxb2 31. Qd3 Ne8 32. h4 Ra3 33. h5 Qf6 Mike resigns 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... Ne5 Sicilian game - "And I say to thee. thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18 [Event "2009 Boulder, Colorado Grand Prix"] [Site "UMC, Room 415, CU, Boulder"] [Date "2009.01.24" ] [Round "3"] [White "Jerry Keker"] [Black "Anthea Carson"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White Resigns"] [WhiteElo "1405"] [BlackElo "1659"] [Opening "Armada Sicilian "] [ECO "C"] [NIC "C"] [Time "6 PM"] [TimeControl "Game/90 5 second delay"] 1.e4 c5 2.f4 e6 3.Nf3 d6 4.c3 Nc6 5.d4 cxd4 6.cxd4 a6 7.Nc3 g6 8.Bc4 b5 9.Bb3 Bb7 10.0-0 Nge7 11.f5 gxf5 12.exf5 Nxf5 13.Ng5 Qf6 14.Nce4 Qxd4+ 15.Qxd4 Ncxd4 16.Nf6+ Ke7 17.Ngxh7 Ne2+ 18.Kh1 Nxc1 19.Raxc1 Rc8 20.Rce1 Rc5 21.Nxf8 Rxf8 22.Ne4 Bxe4 23.Rxe4 Rfc8 24.Ree1 Nd4 25.Bd1 Nc2 26.Re2 Nb4 27.a3 Nd3 28.Kg1 Ne5 29.Ref2 Rc1 30.Bh5 Rxf1+ 31.Rxf1 Rc2 32.Rf2 Rxf2 33.Kxf2 Nd3+ 34.Ke3 Nxb2 35.Kd2 Nc4+ 36.Kc3 Nxa3 37.h4 Nc4 38.g4 Ne3 39.g5 Nf5 40.g6 fxg6 0-1 Jerry resigns ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Flint-ch MI class-C"] [Site "Flint"] [Date "1993.??.??"] [Round "4"] [White "Golingai,P"] [Black "Vaka,F"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "A57"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.b6 Qxb6 6.Nc3 d6 7.e4 Nbd7 8.Nf3 g6 9.Be2 Bg7 10.Nd2 Ne5 11.f4 Neg4 12.Nc4 Qc7 13.0-0 Bd7 14.a4 a5 15.Bd2 0-0 16.h3 Nh6 17.g4 Ne8 18.g5 Bxh3 19.gxh6 Bd4+ 20.Kh2 Bxf1 21.Qxf1 Bh8 22.Nb5 Qd8 23.Bc3 Bxc3 24.bxc3 Nc7 25.Ne3 Nxb5 26.Bxb5 e6 27.Qh3 Qf6 28.Ng2 exd5 29.exd5 Ra7 30.Re1 Re7 31.Rxe7 Qxe7 32.Qe3 Qf6 33.Kg1 Rd8 34.Kf1 Rb8 35.Kf2 Kf8 36.Kg3 Qf5 37.Nh4 Qxd5 38.Nf3 f6 1/2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Sofia Baharov op"] [Site "Sofia"] [Date "1995.??.??"] [Round "2"] [White "Jordanov,Yuri"] [Black "Anev,Asen"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "A57"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.b6 Qxb6 6.Nc3 d6 7.e4 g6 8.Be2 Bg7 9.Nf3 Nbd7 10.Nd2 Ne5 11.f4 Ned7 12.Nc4 Qc7 13.0-0 0-0 14.Kh1 Bb7 15.a4 Rad8 16.a5 Rfe8 17.Bf3 Nf8 18.Qe1 e6 19.Qg3 exd5 20.exd5 Bc8 21.f5 Bxf5 22.Bf4 Qd7 23.Nxd6 Re7 24.Nxf5 Qxf5 25.d6 Re6 26.Rad1 N8d7 27.Nd5 Nxd5 28.Bxd5 Rf6 29.Bc4 h6 30.Bxa6 g5 31.Bd2 Qd5 32.Bc3 Rxf1+ 33.Rxf1 Bxc3 34.bxc3 Nb8 35.c4 Qxd6 36.Qxd6 Rxd6 37.Bb7 Kg7 38.h4 Kg6 39.h5+ Kxh5 40.Rxf7 Kh4 41.Kh2 g4 42.g3+ Kg5 43.Rg7+ Kf5 44.Bc8+ Kf6 45.Rxg4 Rd2+ 46.Kh3 Ra2 47.Rf4+ Kg7 48.a6 Nxa6 49.Rf5 Ra5 50.Bxa6 Rxa6 51.Rxc5 Rg6 52.Rc7+ Kf8 53.g4 Kg8 54.Kh4 Rg5 55.Rd7 Rc5 56.Rd4 Kg7 57.Kg3 h5 58.gxh5 Rxh5 59.Rf4 Rh8 60.Kf2 Kg6 61.Ke3 Kg5 62.Rf2 Rd8 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Politiken Cup 26th"] [Site "Copenhagen"] [Date "2004.07.24"] [Round "10"] [White "Holm,Sejer"] [Black "Asberg,Anders"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "A57"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.b6 Qxb6 6.Nc3 d6 7.e4 g6 8.Nf3 Nbd7 9.Be2 Bg7 10.Nd2 Ne5 11.f4 Ned7 12.0-0 0-0 13.Kh1 Ne8 14.Nc4 Qb8 15.Be3 Nc7 16.a4 a5 17.Ra3 Ba6 18.Rb3 Qa7 19.Na3 Bxe2 20.Qxe2 Nb6 21.Ra1 Na6 22.Ncb5 Qd7 23.Nc4 Nxc4 24.Qxc4 Nb4 25.h3 Rac8 26.Rf1 Kh8 27.f5 gxf5 28.exf5 Be5 29.Bh6 Rg8 30.Bd2 Qb7 31.Rf2 Qa8 32.Nc3 f6 33.Ne2 Nxd5 34.Rb5 Nb4 35.Qf7 Rg7 36.Qe6 Rcg8 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "Canadian op"] [Site "Edmonton"] [Date "2005.07.09"] [Round "7"] [White "Breel,Kevin"] [Black "Smith,Maurice"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "A57"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.b6 Qxb6 6.Nc3 d6 7.e4 g6 8.Nf3 Nbd7 9.Be2 Bg7 10.Nd2 Ne5 11.f4 Neg4 12.Nc4 Qd8 13.h3 Nh6 14.a4 a5 15.0-0 Ba6 16.Qc2 Nd7 17.Nb5 Nb6 18.Bd2 Nxc4 19.Bxc4 0-0 20.Rfe1 Bc8 21.Rad1 Bd7 22.Bc3 Bxc3 23.Qxc3 f6 24.e5 Bxb5 25.Bxb5 Nf5 26.exd6 exd6 27.Re4 Nd4 28.Rde1 1/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "World Championship 28th"] [Site "Reykjavik"] [Date "1972.07.11"] [Round "3"] [White "Spassky,Boris V"] [Black "Fischer,Robert James"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "A77"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 4.d5 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Nc3 g6 7.Nd2 Nbd7 8.e4 Bg7 9.Be2 0-0 10.0-0 Re8 11.Qc2 Nh5 12.Bxh5 gxh5 13.Nc4 Ne5 14.Ne3 Qh4 15.Bd2 Ng4 16.Nxg4 hxg4 17.Bf4 Qf6 18.g3 Bd7 19.a4 b6 20.Rfe1 a6 21.Re2 b5 22.Rae1 Qg6 23.b3 Re7 24.Qd3 Rb8 25.axb5 axb5 26.b4 c4 27.Qd2 Rbe8 28.Re3 h5 29.R3e2 Kh7 30.Re3 Kg8 31.R3e2 Bxc3 32.Qxc3 Rxe4 33.Rxe4 Rxe4 34.Rxe4 Qxe4 35.Bh6 Qg6 36.Bc1 Qb1 37.Kf1 Bf5 38.Ke2 Qe4+ 39.Qe3 Qc2+ 40.Qd2 Qb3 41.Qd4 Bd3+ 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our most popular Youtube Videos - 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[Event "ICC 3 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.12"] [Round "-"] [White "Daniels3000"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "1808"] [BlackElo "2085"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "02:22:24"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole 5. h3 h5!! 6. d4 exd4! 7. Nxd4 Bc5 I mentioned my favorite Fishing Pole line in the glossary of How To Play Chess Like An Animal and also in my ICC Chess Talk interview with IM John Watson 8.Nf5 d6 9.Nxg7+ Kf8 10.Nf5 Bxf5 11.exf5 Qh4 12.Qf3 Nd4 13.Qxb7 Re8 14.Bxe8 Ne2+ 15.Kh1 Qxf2 16.Rxf2 Ng3+ 17.Kg1 Bxf2# checkmate 8. Nxc6 bxc6 9. Bc4 Qh4!! 10. Qf3 Ne5!! 11. Qe2 d6!! 12. Nc3 Bxh3 I've had this position may times and I can never remember if 12 ... Bg4!!! or 12 ... B:h3!! is the most crushing. 12 ... Bg4!!! simply wins the Queen because 13 Qd2(e1) Nf3+ 14 gf Qg3+ mates or 13 hg hg 14 B:f7+ N:f7 15 Bh6 R:h6 mate next 13. Na4 Bg4! {White resigns} 0-1 winning the Queen although 13 ... Qg3!! 14 Qg4 N:g4! ( double Fishing Pole ) mates in 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "ICC 3 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.12"] [Round "-"] [White "Daniels3000"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "1808"] [BlackElo "2085"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "02:22:24"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. d4 exd4 7. Nxd4 Bc5 8. Nxc6 bxc6 9. Bc4 Qh4 10. Qf3 Ne5 11. Qe2 d6 12. Nc3 Bxh3 13. Na4 Bg4 {White resigns} 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Feb 12 11:01:21 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:01:21 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Savio Perego of Brazil - 9 games with new Fishing Pole line Message-ID: <1234461681.499463f18f40a@www.taom.com> savio at perego.com.br yep in Brasil S?o Paulo, interiror - Ara?atuba, near from Mato Grosso Savio Perego says: you win nice game against Brasilian MI in ICC with Fishing Pole, very nice game hehehehe] Savio Perego says: Diego is my friend!! Savio knows FM Paul Nikitovich from Brazilian Chess tournaments. Savio likes to retreat the Fishing Pole Knight and somehow wins anyways. Horrors! ts__ (1882) - gbsalvio (2285) [C65] 35th GK tournament http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?, 09.08.2008 [,06.05.08] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Ng4 5.h3 Nf6 6.d4 exd4 7.e5 Ne4 8.Re1 Nc5 9.Nxd4 a6 10.Nxc6 dxc6 11.Qxd8+ Kxd8 12.Bc4 Ke8 13.Nd2 Bf5 14.b4 Na4 15.a3 Bxc2 16.e6 f6 17.Ra2 Bg6 18.Nb3 Bd6 19.Na5 Rb8 20.Bb3 Nc3 21.Rd2 Bf4 22.Rdd1 Bd6 23.Rd4 Nb5 24.Rd2 Ke7 25.Bc4 Rhd8 26.Rdd1 Be8 time out! 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- gbsalvio (2255) - avalanche (2090) [C65] gbsalvio's mini-tournament http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?, 17.04.2008 [,08.08.04] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Ng4 5.h3 Nf6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.Nxe5 Nxe4 8.Re1 Qd4 9.Nf3 Qxf2+ 10.Kh1 Bxh3 11.Rxe4+ Be6 12.d4 0-0-0 13.Bf4 Bd5 14.Nbd2 Bd6 15.Re2 Qxe2 16.Qxe2 Bxf4 17.Re1 Bg3 18.Rf1 Rhe8 19.Qd3 f6 20.c4 Be6 21.Ne4 Bxc4 22.Qxc4 Rxe4 23.Qf7 g6 24.Qxh7 Rg4 25.Kg1 b6 26.Rc1 Kb7 27.Qf7 f5 28.b4 a6 29.a4 Bf4 30.Rc3 Bd6 31.Qe6 Rg3 32.Rc1 b5 33.axb5 cxb5 34.Ne5 Re3 35.Qd5+ Kb8 36.Ra1 Rxe5 37.dxe5 Be7 38.Qc6 Bg5 39.Qxa6 Be3+ 40.Kf1 c6 41.Qxc6 Ba7 42.Qxb5+ Ka8 43.Qa6 Kb8 44.Qxa7+ 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ gbsalvio (2267) - lippyone (2028) [C65] gbsalvio's mini-tournament http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?, 06.05.2008 [,08.08.04] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Ng4 5.h3 Nf6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.Nxe5 Bd6 8.Nf3 Be7 9.Nc3 0-0 10.d4 a5 11.Re1 a4 12.a3 Nd7 13.d5 cxd5 14.Nxd5 Bc5 15.Bf4 c6 16.Bc7 Qe8 17.Nf4 Qe7 18.e5 Nb6 19.Bd6 Bxd6 20.exd6 Qf6 21.Nh5 Qh6 22.Ng3 Be6 23.Ne5 Rad8 24.Qd4 Nd7 25.Rad1 f5 26.f4 Nxe5 27.Rxe5 b5 28.Qc3 Bd7 29.Ne2 Qf6 30.Qc5 Kh8 31.Nd4 g5 32.fxg5 Qxg5 33.Nf3 Qf6 34.Re7 Be8 35.Qa7 Kg8 36.Ne5 f4 37.Ng4 Qg5 38.Rxh7 Rf7 39.Nh6+ Qxh6 40.Qxf7+ Bxf7 41.Rxh6 Bd5 42.Rf6 Kg7 43.Rxf4 Rxd6 44.c4 bxc4 45.Rxc4 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ gbsalvio (2259) - wthoward (2136) [C65] gbsalvio's mini-tournament http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?, 07.05.2008 [,08.08.04] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Ng4 5.h3 Nf6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.Nxe5 Be6 8.d3 g5 9.Bxg5 Rg8 10.h4 h6 11.Bf4 Bd6 12.Qf3 Ng4 13.Nxg4 Rxg4 14.Bxd6 cxd6 15.Nc3 Qxh4 16.g3 Rg7 17.Rfe1 0-0-0 18.Re3 Qg5 19.d4 f5 20.exf5 Bxf5 21.d5 c5 22.Ne4 Qg6 23.Qf4 Rf7 24.Qh4 Rdf8 25.Rf1 Kc7 26.c4 Bd7 27.Nc3 a6 28.Re4 Qg7 29.Kg2 h5 30.f4 Rg8 31.f5 Rgf8 32.f6 Rxf6 33.Rxf6 Rxf6 34.Qxh5 Rf8 35.Rh4 Rg8 36.Qf3 Rf8 37.Qe3 Rf7 38.Qh6 Qe5 39.Qh5 Qg7 40.a3 b6 41.Qe2 Qg5 42.Ne4 Qe5 43.Qd2 a5 44.Qc3 Qf5 45.Qd3 Qe5 46.Nc3 Qg7 47.Qe3 Qg6 48.Qe4 Qg7 49.Rf4 Re7 50.Qc2 Qg5 51.Qf2 Qg6 52.Rh4 Qd3 53.Rf4 Qg6 54.Kg1 ?-? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- gbsalvio (2261) - boki (2023) [C65] gbsalvio's mini-tournament http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?, 09.05.2008 [,08.08.04] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Ng4 5.h3 Nf6 6.d4 exd4 7.e5 Ne4 8.Re1 Nc5 9.Nxd4 Nxd4 10.Qxd4 c6 11.Bd3 Be7 12.Nd2 Nxd3 13.Qxd3 0-0 14.Ne4 a5 15.Bd2 a4 16.Nd6 b5 17.Qg3 Bh4 18.Qg4 f5 19.Qd4 Ba6 20.Re3 Be7 21.Rg3 Rb8 22.Bh6 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- gbsalvio (2285) - supercriticality (2102) [C65] gbsalvio's mini-tournament http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?, 30.07.2008 [,06.05.08] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Ng4 5.h3 Nf6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.Nxe5 Be6 8.Nc3 Bb4 9.d3 Qe7 10.Nf3 0-0-0 11.Qe2 h6 12.a3 Bxc3 13.bxc3 g5 14.Nd4 Bd7 15.a4 c5 16.Nb3 c4 17.Ba3 Qe8 18.Na5 cxd3 19.cxd3 Qe6 20.Rfb1 b6 21.Nb3 g4 22.h4 g3 23.Nd4 Qg4 24.Be7 Qxe2 25.Nxe2 gxf2+ 26.Kf1 Ng4 27.Bxd8 Rxd8 28.a5 b5 29.Nf4 c5 30.Ra2 Bc6 31.Re2 Rd6 32.e5 Rd8 33.e6 fxe6 34.Rxe6 Bd7 35.Rg6 c4 36.dxc4 Bf5 37.Rxg4 Bxb1 38.cxb5 Rd2 39.c4 Rb2 40.a6 Kc7 41.Rg7+ Kc8 42.Rg3 Ba2 43.Rc3 Rb4 44.Kxf2 Rxc4 45.Nd5 Kb8 46.Rxc4 Bxc4 47.Nc3 h5 48.g4 hxg4 49.h5 Kc8 50.h6 Bd3 51.Kg3 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- gbsalvio (2266) - esmet (2210) gbsalvio's mini-tournament http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?, 26.05.2008 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Ng4 5.h3 Nf6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.Nxe5 Be6 8.Nc3 Nxe4 9.Nxe4 Qd5 10.Nxf7 Bxf7 11.d3 0-0-0 12.Qg4+ Kb8 13.Re1 h5 14.Qg5 Qd7 15.Bf4 Rh6 16.Re3 Rg6 17.Qh4 Rc8 18.Rae1 Re6 19.Ng5 Rxe3 20.Bxe3 Re8 21.Nxf7 Qxf7 22.Qc4 Qd7 23.Bd2 a6 24.Rxe8+ Qxe8 25.Qg8 Qe7 26.a3 Ka7 27.Bb4 c5 28.Ba5 c6 29.Bc3 Kb8 30.a4 Kc7 31.a5 Kd7 32.g3 Kc7 33.Qh7 Qf7 34.b3 Kd7 35.f4 Kd6 36.Qe4 Qe6 37.f5 Qe7 38.Qxe7+ Kxe7 39.Kf2 Kf7 40.Kf3 Bd6 41.g4 g6 42.fxg6+ Kxg6 43.gxh5+ Kxh5 44.Ke4 Kg5 45.Bd2+ 1-0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- pensalo (2104) - gbsalvio (2130) [C65] Team Game, 19.12.2008 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Ng4 5.h3 Nf6 6.d4 exd4 7.Nxd4 Bc5 8.Nxc6 bxc6 9.Bd3 d6 10.Bg5 h6 11.Bh4 Rb8 12.Nc3 g5 13.Bg3 Nd7 14.Bc4 Nb6 15.Bb3 0-0 16.Qh5 Kg7 17.Rad1 Qe7 18.a3 f6 19.Rfe1 a5 20.Ne2 a4 21.Ba2 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Feb 12 11:44:01 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:44:01 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fishing Pole database Message-ID: <1234464241.49946df1abdc9@www.taom.com> for 10 years now people have been begging me for a Fishing Pole database. Savio Perego from Brazil just added 558 of my Fishing Pole games that he collected to BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com go to files then click on Fishing Pole.cbv It probably helps to own Chessbase or Chessbase Light. if anyone else has more games to add, feel free. Someone asked me just this week for that. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Feb 12 21:49:23 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:49:23 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Nominee for the 2009 Francisco V. Baltier Award from Paul Anderson Message-ID: <1234500563.4994fbd36ed7d@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Paul Anderson ----- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:11:20 -0000 From: Paul Anderson Reply-To: Paul Anderson Subject: Re: Nominee for the 2009 Francisco V. Baltier Award To: Brian Wall --------------------------------------------------------------- Every time I drop my queen, I play on hoping to win Brian's annual april fools contest with the golden trophy of a beheaded queen and large cash prize. Here is my entry for this year. It is quite a bloody mess and a far cry from my best victory, which is now in video form: http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/videos/upset.htm [Event "Off With Their Heads, 5m + 0s"] [Site "http://cs.chess.home.att.net/"] [Date "2009.02.12"] [Round "?"] [White "Paul 'who needs a queen?' Anderson"] [Black "Henry VIII"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D30"] [PlyCount "87"] [TimeControl "300"] 1. d4 {[%emt 0:00:01]} e6 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 2. c4 {[%emt 0:00:01]} d5 { [%emt 0:00:04]} 3. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:02]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:00:04]} 4. e3 { [%emt 0:00:09]} g6 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 5. Nc3 {[%emt 0:00:02]} Bg7 {[% emt 0:00:02] } 6. Qb3 {[%emt 0:00:05]} dxc4 {[%emt 0:00:11]} 7. Bxc4 {[%emt 0:00:02]} Na5 { [%emt 0:00:03]} 8. Qa4+ {[%emt 0:00:01]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:00:04]} 9. O-O { [%emt 0:00:05]} Bd7 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 10. Bb5 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Nge7 { [%emt 0:00:09]} 11. a3 {[%emt 0:00:10]} a6 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 12. Bxc6 { [%emt 0:00:01]} Bxc6 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 13. Ne5 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Bxa4 { [%emt 0:00:04]} 14. Nxa4 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Bxe5 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 15. dxe5 { [%emt 0:00:01]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:00:04]} 16. f4 {[%emt 0:00:02]} f6 {[% emt 0:00:03] } 17. exf6 {[%emt 0:00:02]} Qxf6 {[%emt 0:00:04]} 18. Nc5 {[%emt 0:00:02]} O-O-O {[%emt 0:00:07]} 19. Ne4 {[%emt 0:00:10]} Qf5 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 20. Nc3 { [%emt 0:00:08]} h5 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 21. e4 {[%emt 0:00:02]} Qf7 {[% emt 0:00:08] } 22. Be3 {[%emt 0:00:03]} e5 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 23. f5 {[%emt 0:00:03]} Qc4 { [%emt 0:00:04]} 24. fxg6 {[%emt 0:00:10]} Rhg8 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 25. Rf6 { [%emt 0:00:02]} Rd3 {[%emt 0:00:09]} 26. Bg5 {[%emt 0:00:08]} Rxc3 { [%emt 0:00:03]} 27. bxc3 {[%emt 0:00:03]} Qxc3 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 28. Raf1 { [%emt 0:00:02]} Qd4+ {[%emt 0:00:04]} 29. Kh1 {[%emt 0:00:03]} Qxe4 { [%emt 0:00:01]} 30. h4 {[%emt 0:00:05]} Nd4 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 31. Rf8+ { [%emt 0:00:14]} Rxf8 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 32. Rxf8+ {[%emt 0:00:01]} Kd7 { [%emt 0:00:03]} 33. g7 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Qe1+ {[%emt 0:00:21]} 34. Kh2 { [%emt 0:00:02]} Ne6 {[%emt 0:00:09]} 35. g8=3DQ {[%emt 0:00:02]} Nxf8 { [%emt 0:00:03]} 36. Qxf8 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Kc6 {[%emt 0:00:13]} 37. Qf3+ { [%emt 0:00:05]} Kb6 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 38. Be3+ {[%emt 0:00:06]} Kb5 { [%emt 0:00:03]} 39. Qxb7+ {[%emt 0:00:02]} Ka5 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 40. Qd5+ { [%emt 0:00:02]} Ka4 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 41. Qc4+ {[%emt 0:00:06]} Kxa3 { [%emt 0:00:02]} 42. Bc5+ {[%emt 0:00:09]} Kb2 {[%emt 0:00:04]} 43. Bb4 { [%emt 0:00:51]} e4 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 44. Bxe1 { Henry VIII resigns (Lag: Av=3D2.12s, max=3D16.3s) [%emt 0:00:03]} 1-0 ps - I am about to start my newsletter for 2009 and you can vote on the first game to be published by joining my yahoo group: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/cs_chess/ game choices: Help choose the Game Of The Week (Offseason events, * I am black) o Club Championship: Anderson,Paul 1960 - Torres,Hector 1750 *1-0 o Winter Springs: Anderson,Paul 1962 - Weihmiller,Bill 1851 1-0 o Al Ufer: Anderson,Paul 1952 - Fox,Shannon 1738 *1-0 o Cabin Fever: Anderson,Paul 1960 - Nichols,Tikila 1332 1-0 --- In BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com, Brian Wall wrote: > > > The origin of the Francisco V. Baltier Award is given in my Youtube video- > > Fishing Pole First Blood > -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > > ----- Forwarded message from Pete Short ----- > Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:33:09 -0800 (PST) > From: Pete Short > Reply-To: redwoodpete at ... > Subject: Nominee for the 2009 Francisco V. Baltier Award > To: brianwallchess3 at ... > > Brian, > ? > I respectfully nominate the following game for the Francisco V. Baltier Award > for playing like a complete moron and losing my queen and then buckling down > for a sweet mate. > ? > I will leave the post mortem to you - it was a rated Red Hot Pawn correspondence > game against a much lower rated player. > > The Temptress - RedwoodPete > Challenge http://www.redhotpawn.com, 11.01.2009 > < div> > 1.e4 d5 2.Nc3 d4 3.Nd5 e5 4.Nf3 c6 5.Nxe5 cxd5 6.Qf3 Be6 7.Bb5+ Ke7 8.b3 a6 > 9.Ba3+ Qd6 10.Bxd6+ Kxd6 11.Qf4 Ke7 12.Ba4 b5 13.exd5 Bxd5 14.Qxd4 Ke6 15.0-0 > f6 16.Nd3 Nc6 17.Rae1+ Ne5 18.Qb6+ Bd6 19.Nf4+ Kd7 20.Nxd5 Ne7 21.d4 Rhb8 > 22.Qa5 N5c6 23.Qc3 Nxd5 24.Qh3+ Kc7 25.Qxh7 Rg8 26.Qh5 Nde7 27.d5 Ne5 28.c4 > bxa4 29.bxa4 Rh8 30.Qe2 Rxh2 31.Kxh2 Nf3+ 32.Kh3 Rh8+ 33.Kg4 Nh2# * > ? > "Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or > small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good > sense" Winston Churchill > From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Feb 12 22:17:08 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:17:08 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Frontporchdenver.com (calender) - Here's the Plan Message-ID: <1234502228.49950254d19cf@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Brian Wall ----- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:08:13 -0700 From: Brian Wall Reply-To: Brian Wall Subject: Frontporchdenver.com (calender) - Here's the Plan To: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com OK, here's the plan - Thursday, Feb 12, 2009 President Obama mentioned a school in Carolina that was built in 1850 and shakes every time a train passes by. They have nothing on us - Devon's school is 100 years old, the boiler blew up and water dripped into the cafeteria. The fire alarm went off and CCC ( Chess Coach Carl ) organized the kids outside into living Chess pieces. I was Black, Devon was my rook, we got as far as 4 moves ( the Fishing Pole, of course ) when we were allowed back in the building. Friday - Feb 13, 2009 If Devon's school is open, I will be back there. After that, maybe keep Danielle Rice company for her Jewish Sabbath ( she can't use electricity for 24 hours ) Saturday Feb 14, 2009 Tabor Center Valentine's Day Chess Tournament - saw an hysterical article in the Onion by Saint Valentine blasting us for celebrating his beheading by taking loved ones to fancy French restaurants. Sunday - Daytime Devon's 10th birthday Nighttime - This small bar, The Front Porch, located at 15th and Lawrence, one block west of the Tabor Center ( 16th and Lawrence ), Downtown Denver has a calendar where every night you drink for free if your name is mentioned. As luck would have it, the 15th of Febraury is Brian and Max night, so I get to drink for free. After Devon is done having birthday fun, I am going to head over to the Front Porch. The Front Porch is across the street from Comedy Works and a restaurant bar called 5 degrees ( Amuse by Michelle ) The Front Porch is in Writer's Square. The Front Porch is in between Zaidy's Deli and the Tryst ( another bar ) http://zaidysdeli.com/ http://calendar.denverpost.com/denver-co/venues/show/1008057-tryst-lounge http://denver.mixliving.com/clubs/details.asp?PlaceID=10483 http://www.frontporchdenver.com/ http://www.google.com/search?q=denver+The+Front+Porch+15th+and+Lawrence&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7ADBS ------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------- I talked to the bartender ( Isaac Leon with an afro ) tonight and warned him of the Chessplayer invasion. Let me know if you're up for booze and blitz 8 PM -2 AM at The Front Porch Feb 15, 2009 15th and Lawrence, Downtown Denver ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Forwarded message from Isaac Leon ----- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:55:46 -0800 (PST) From: Isaac Leon Reply-To: Isaac Leon Subject: Frontporchdenver.com (calender) To: "brianwallchess3 at taom.com" In the first westword and onion newspaper of every month there will be a calender. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: photo.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 186100 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090212/487f65a7/attachment.jpg From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Feb 13 01:38:37 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:38:37 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] David Strauss, IM at 50 Message-ID: <1234514317.4995318d2a525@www.taom.com> Some of you may remember the touching story in Chess Life of how David Strauss got his IM title late in life. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Statistics for igor(IM) On for: 22 Idle: 0 igor is currently involved in a match against gitis. rating [need] win loss draw total best Wild 1821 [6] 130 135 16 281 2060 (05-Nov-1997) Loser's 1988 [6] 0 1 0 1 Bughouse 1747 [6] 73 74 0 147 1865 (01-Jan-2000) Crazyhouse 1712 [6] 88 92 0 180 1956 (29-Aug-2004) Bullet 2081 [8] 526 329 45 900 2407 (19-Jan-1998) Blitz 2336 [5] 14225 8837 1742 24804 2660 (24-Sep-2000) Standard 2333 [6] 36 58 12 106 2440 (06-Oct-1997) 5-minute 2138 13099 9519 2256 24874 2397 (06-Feb-2009) 1: hello. I'm igor. Moved to California some time ago. Please speak to me in English [or French] -- - I must learn 2: I've learned to play faster, but still prefer at least a 1 sec. increment, just to avoid those silly situations when someone loses on time in an unlosable endgame. Also to stop folk from trying to win dead drawn endings on time. 3: ICC is great, but horribly addictive. Name : David Strauss Groups : STC IMs -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.13"] [Round "-"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "igor"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2266"] [BlackElo "2138"] [Opening "Kevitz-Trajkovich defense, Two Knights Tango"] [ECO "A50"] [NIC "QP.07"] [Time "01:28:31"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. d4 Nf6! 2. c4 Nc6 In Denver, Robert Ramirez and his minions love the Two Knights Tango. 3. Nf3! e6! 4. Nc3! Bb4! 5. a3! Bxc3+! 6. bxc3! d6 7. Bg5 h6! 8. Bh4! g5 9. Bg3! Ne4! 10. Qc2? 10 Nd2!! N:c3?? 11 Qc2! traps the knight 10 ... f5!! 11. e3! Qf6 11 ... h5 12 h4 N:g3 13 fg gh! 14 gh! Everyone's pawns are messed up and I am OK Here is where new author/Chessmaster Andy Rea comes into the picture. A - Andy played in the 7th 2005 Dubai Open when he worked in Kuwait defusing mailbombs. B - In the 8th Dubai Open 2006 this position was reached - AR Saleh Salem played 12 Nd2 against Srdjan Sale C - When I moaned that I didn't understand this ... h6, ... g5, ... Ne4, ... f5 nonsense that Black gets away with in the Nimzo-Indian only Andy Rea responded with help. Later Andy's sage advice helped me get a winning position in a similar structure against High School teen phenom IM Robert Hess 2544 in the 2008 North American Open, Bally's Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, December D - Andy just published his magnus opus, Chess on the Ledge, Thinker's Press 2008 Fritz 9 thinks I am better after 12 c5!!, Bd3!!, Rd1!, Nd2!, Rb1! or Be2! 12. Bd3!! Nxg3! 13. hxg3! Bd7 14. Rb1!! It's rarely wrong to put a rook on an open file - Grandmaster John Nunn 14 ... b6! I was looking forward to some brilliant Tal-Hecht action with c5!, I was just waiting for the right time - Fritz 9 thinks c5! led to some advantage on moves 12!!, 14, 15, 17!! and 22!! 15. e4!! Of many good moves Fritz 9 only likes 15 g4!! better but Black moving his King is standard in these types of positions anyway, Karpov did it all the time - 15 g4!! fg 16 Bg6+ Ke7 17 Nh2 h5 didn't seem worth the pawn to me - 15 ... O-O!! This is what bugs me about these positions - my rook glaring at h6 doesn't discourage him from castling. 16. O-O I figured - if you can't beat them, join them. If no one but Fritz cares about my h-file pressure, why bother maintaining it? Fritz likes 16 Kf1!! but what good is my h1-rook here? 16 ... e5! 17. exf5 The right time for the Tal-ish 17 c5!!! 17 ... Bxf5 The d-pawn is more valuable 18. Bxf5! Qxf5! 19. Qa4! I have the safer King so I avoid the Queen trade with tempo 19 ... Na5 20. c5?! Not the right moment - 20 Rbe1!! or de! were best here 20 ... e4! The only good move 21. Nd2! dxc5 It was easy to see on my side of the board that 21 ... e3!! was the only move to make me feel uncomfortable 22. dxc5! Rae8? 22 ... e3!! was not quite as powerful but still the only good move 23. cxb6! axb6! 24. Rb5 Overfinessing - I have some advantage after the two good moves 24 Rbe1! e3! 24 ... Qe6? The Queen belongs near the King - Kasparov ( 24 ... Qg6! ) 25. Re1! The only good move 25 ... Qc6?? 26. Rxa5!! Qf6 I thought I just won a piece but the double-threats of 27 ... ba! or ... Q:f2+! confused me - plus IM John Watson used to tell me how good Strauss is so I was nervous. I have 4 good ideas - A - 27 Kh2 ba 28 N:e4! B - 27 N:e4! R:e4 28 Q:e4! ba with an extra pawn and safer King for me C - 27 What I did D - 27 R:e4!!! ( threatening 28 R:e8! ) Q:f2+ 28 Kh2 Rd8 29 Qc4+ Qf7 30 Q:f7+ R:f7 31 Rd4!! R:d4 32 Ra8+! keeps an extra knight. Tricky computer stuff. 27. Qc4+ Kh8 I still keep the advantage after 27 ... Kg7! 28 N:e4! ( only good move ) R:e4 29 R:e4! Q:f2+ 30 Kh2 ba 31 Q:c7+! or 27 ... Kg7! 28 N:e4! ba 29 N:f6 R:e1+ 30 Kh2 Black:f6 31 Q:c7(+) 28. Ra7!!! A great idea, much clearer than 28 N:e4! R:e4 29 R:e4 Q:f2+ 30 Kh2 ba 31 Q:c7! like we've seen before My concept takes the game to a whole new level - While David tries to regain material I will be busy playing Q:c7 and 30 Qh7 checkmate 28 ... Qxf2+! 29. Kh2! {Black resigns} 1-0 The International Master gets mated after 29 ... Q:d2 or ... Q:e1 so there's nothing left to try. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.13"] [Round "-"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "igor"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2266"] [BlackElo "2138"] [Opening "Kevitz-Trajkovich defense"] [ECO "A50"] [NIC "QP.07"] [Time "01:28:31"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nf3 e6 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 d6 7. Bg5 h6 8. Bh4 g5 9. Bg3 Ne4 10. Qc2 f5 11. e3 Qf6 12. Bd3 Nxg3 13. hxg3 Bd7 14. Rb1 b6 15. e4 O-O 16. O-O e5 17. exf5 Bxf5 18. Bxf5 Qxf5 19. Qa4 Na5 20. c5 e4 21. Nd2 dxc5 22. dxc5 Rae8 23. cxb6 axb6 24. Rb5 Qe6 25. Re1 Qc6 26. Rxa5 Qf6 27. Qc4+ Kh8 28. Ra7 Qxf2+ 29. Kh2 {Black resigns} 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Dubai op 8th"] [Site "Dubai"] [Date "2006.04.23"] [Round "4"] [White "Salem,AR Saleh"] [Black "Sale,Srdjan"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "E30"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nf3 e6 4.Bg5 h6 5.Bh4 Bb4+ 6.Nc3 g5 7.Bg3 Ne4 8.Qc2 f5 9.a3 Bxc3+ 10.bxc3 d6 11.e3 Qf6 12.Nd2 Nxd2 13.Qxd2 0-0 14.h4 g4 15.f3 Na5 16.Rb1 b6 17.Bd3 Ba6 18.Qe2 e5 19.0-0 gxf3 20.Rxf3 Qe6 21.Rxf5 Bxc4 22.Qg4+ Kh8 23.Be4 exd4 24.exd4 Rxf5 25.Bxf5 Qf6 26.Bc2 Rg8 27.Qe4 Qg7 28.Re1 Bb3 29.Bd3 Nc4 30.Bf4 a5 31.Re2 b5 32.Rf2 a4 33.Bxh6 Qxh6 34.Rf7 Rg7 35.Qe8+ Rg8 36.Qe7 Qe3+ 37.Qxe3 Rxg2+ 38.Kxg2 Nxe3+ 39.Kf3 Bxf7 40.Kxe3 c6 41.Be4 c5 42.dxc5 dxc5 43.Bd3 1/2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Varna ol (Men) fin-A"] [Site "Varna"] [Date "1962.09.16"] [Round "9"] [White "Tal,Mihail"] [Black "Hecht,Hans Joachim"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "E13"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.Bg5 Bb7 6.e3 h6 7.Bh4 Bxc3+ 8.bxc3 d6 9.Nd2 e5 10.f3 Qe7 11.e4 Nbd7 12.Bd3 Nf8 13.c5 dxc5 14.dxe5 Qxe5 15.Qa4+ c6 16.0-0 Ng6 17.Nc4 Qe6 18.e5 b5 19.exf6 bxa4 20.fxg7 Rg8 21.Bf5 Nxh4 22.Bxe6 Ba6 23.Nd6+ Ke7 24.Bc4 Rxg7 25.g3 Kxd6 26.Bxa6 Nf5 27.Rab1 f6 28.Rfd1+ Ke7 29.Re1+ Kd6 30.Kf2 c4 31.g4 Ne7 32.Rb7 Rag8 33.Bxc4 Nd5 34.Bxd5 cxd5 35.Rb4 Rc8 36.Rxa4 Rxc3 37.Ra6+ Kc5 38.Rxf6 h5 39.h3 hxg4 40.hxg4 Rh7 41.g5 Rh5 42.Rf5 Rc2+ 43.Kg3 Kc4 44.Ree5 d4 45.g6 Rh1 46.Rc5+ Kd3 47.Rxc2 Kxc2 48.Kf4 Rg1 49.Rg5 1-0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Earlier correspondence with Andy Rea - Sun, 3 Dec 2006 03:37:44 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Rea To: Brian Wall Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] How do they do it? Black gains a lot of territory and often negates the power of Whites QB with this expansion Black usually has decent placement for his pieces, so White doesnt get to attack for free It is similar to when White gets in g2-g4 in the Ruy Lopez back to the Nimzo, once g5 has passed the instant sac-test, to wit, Bh4 usually has to back off to g3 Black is then able to concentrate on piling on f4, and if, say, a Ktf4 is captured, there is Black hitting the g-file actually the riskiest part of the structure is ... f7-f5- that takes f6 blocking the long diagonal out of consideration while also cheeseing up light squares and e6 One of Whites problems is that usually he has to 0-0, it is even less safe to stay in the center or run Qside obviously there are exceptions, and my record with Black is sure to be offset by folks who make a living pounding out White wins (playing 1.d4 often, I will mention that I consider 4.Bg5 to be substandard, Spassky and Wall notwithstanding- just that there more challenging lines from Capablanca and Rubinstein) Hope this is helpful! Andy Rea --------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Wall Brian Wall wrote: [Event "ICC 3 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] I play my own line against the Nimzo a lot - 4 Bg5 c5 5 dc Not too many masters play this way. It began when I got a terrible game with 5 d5 in an ICC blitz game against fellow webcaster Larry Christianesn. I won the game but got sick of getting a bad game with 5 d5 so I switched to 5 dc. Paul Nikitovich beat me anyway in a tournament game with 5 dc but I beat Eric Billaux and some others. What gets me in the Nimzo is I don't understand how Black always seems to get away with the positionally catastrophic ... h6, ... g5, ... f5, ... 0-0. I crushed it this game but I have lost many, many games against that pawn structure. I just don't see how Black can get away with it but he does. Any Nimzo players want to step up and explain it to the rest of us? [Date "2006.12.02"] [Round "-"] [White "brianwall"] [Black "hierro"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2224"] [BlackElo "2273"] [Opening "Nimzo-Indian: Leningrad variation"] [ECO "E30"] [NIC "NI.25"] [Time "23:26:40"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Bg5 c5 5. dxc5 O-O 6. e3 h6 7. Bh4 g5 8. Bg3 Ne4 9. Ne2 Qa5 10. Qc2 f5 11. f3 Bxc3+ 12. Nxc3 Nxg3 13. hxg3 Qxc5 14. Kf2 Kg7 15. Bd3 Nc6 16. Rae1 d6 17. a3 a5 18. Na4 Qa7 19. c5 d5 20. Nb6 Rb8 21. f4 g4 22. Qc3+ Kg6 23. Rh4 d4 24. exd4 Rd8 25. d5 e5 26. fxe5 Kh7 27. Reh1 Ne7 28. Rxh6+ Kg7 29. e6+ {Black resigns} 1-0 Brian Wall From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Feb 14 23:14:43 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:14:43 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] I just played Radjabov, #6 player in the world Message-ID: <1234678483.4997b2d3624d3@www.taom.com> It did not go well. [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.15"] [Round "-"] [White "Ubiyca"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2716"] [BlackElo "2253"] [Opening "Giuoco Pianissimo"] [ECO "C55"] [NIC "IG.01"] [Time "01:03:09"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. c3 d6 6. Bb3 Bb6 7. Nbd2 Bg4 8. h3 Bh5 9. Nc4 Ne7 10. Nxb6 axb6 11. Bg5 Qd7 12. g4 Nxg4 13. hxg4 Qxg4 14. Bxe7 Kxe7 15. Qd2 h6 16. Bd1 g6 17. Nh4 Qg5 18. Bxh5 gxh5 19. Nf5+ Kf6 20. Qe2 h4 21. Qf3 Ke6 22. Qh3 Kd7 23. Ne3+ Kc6 24. a4 Qe7 25. b4 Qe6 26. Qxe6 fxe6 27. Rxh4 b5 28. Rxh6 bxa4 29. Rxh8 Rxh8 30. Rxa4 {Black resigns} 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Statistics for Ubiyca(GM) On for: 9 Idle: 0 rating [need] win loss draw total best Wild 2425 [6] 7 2 1 10 Loser's 1394 [6] 0 2 0 2 Bughouse 1501 [6] 4 11 1 16 Crazyhouse 2232 [6] 2 2 0 4 Bullet 2357 [8] 5 3 1 9 Blitz 3535 4943 2884 814 8641 3622 (10-Jul-2007) Standard 2431 [6] 42 81 16 139 2454 (18-Jul-2000) 5-minute 2716 1035 207 77 1319 2786 (30-Aug-2008) 1: Radjabov Groups : GMs Azerbaijan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13400924 Radjabov, Teimour Federation Azerbaijan FIDE title Grand Master Rating: 2761 B-Year 1987 Sex Male From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Feb 15 01:04:00 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:04:00 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Watson - Sherbring 1972 exposed Message-ID: <1234685040.4997cc7008b7f@www.taom.com> IM John Watson just hired me for a Chess camp in Nebraska June 22-26. John told me once almost all his games were sparkling with exciting tactics. Before computers, John spent 35 years thinking he had created a brilliancy against Mark Sherbring. He recently reviewed the game and was horrifed to discover the truth. Watson, John L Sherbring, M. Event: USA op Site: USA Round: 11 Date: ??/??/1972 ECO: B89 Score: 1-0 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3! d6 3.d4 cxd4! 4.Nxd4 Nf6! 5.Nc3! Nc6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Be3 Be7! 8.Qe2 The mighty and feared Velemirovic Attack 8 ... a6 9.O-O-O Qc7! 10.Bb3! Na5 11.g4 Nxb3+! 12.axb3 John was the 7th of 93 people to play this in my database. 12 ... b5 13.g5! Nd7! 14.h4 John was the 14th of 268 players to play this in my database 14 ... Bb7 15.f3 Nc5 Mark was the third of 7 people to play this in my database 16.Kb1 b4! 17.Na4! John was the first of 14 people to play this in my database 17 ... Qa5 18.h5!! Nxa4! 19.bxa4! Qxa4 20.g6!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 games got this far - Platonov - Polugaevsky 35th USSR Championship, Kharkov 1967 Watson - Sherbring 1972 GM John Nunn - GM Van der Wiel Wijk Aan Zee 1982 Jose Antonio Castillo Gutierrez versus Nelson Gamboa Columbian Championship, Barrannquilla 1995 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 ... Bf6 TN Theoretical Novelty by Mark Sherbring -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew 20:16 King James Bible So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Isaiah 11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. Isaiah 65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD. Both of these passages deal with the kingdom age on the earth after the Lord Jesus Christ returns to reign on the earth as King of kings. The ferocious beasts (like the lion) will live peaceably with the gentle animals (like the lamb). Certainly, this will be a literal reality on the earth. However, this picture is also symbolic of the peace that will pervade the entire earth. When preachers speak of the lion and the lamb lying down together, they are referring to the time of peace when Jesus will reign as King over the earth. Till He comes, Pastor David Reagan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The weakest player played the best move and the strongest players played the worst move so the last shall be first, and the first last and the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb. #1 - 20 ... Qd7!! played by Nelson Gamboa 1995 #2 - 20 ... Kf8 #3 - 20 ... b3 #4 - 20 ... Bf6 played by Mark Sherbring 1972 #5 - 20 ... Qa5 #6 - 20 ... Rc8? played by GMs Polugaevsky ( 1967 ) and Van Der Wiel ( 1982 ) The Oracle at Fritz hath spoken. The best moves after 20 ... Qd7!! are 21 Qd3, Qd2, Qc4, Nb3, Qe1 with a slight advantage The best continuation after 20 ... Rc8? is the winning 21 h6!! hg! 22 hg! Rg8! 23 Rh8!! Kd7! 24 Nb3! Kc7! 25 Qc4+! Bc6! 26 Nd4!!!, Rdh1!!!, e5!!, Rg8!, Qd3!, Qd4! ( played by Nunn ) Grandmaster Nunn gave extensive notes to this game in one of his books. Platonov - Polugaevsky 21 h6!! Rc8? 22 Qg2? only led to equality but they both deserve credit for carrying us this far 42 years ago. 21.Qc4!! 21 Nb3! would give John a slight advantage 21 ... O-O!! 22.h6? 22 Qb3!! or Rd2! would give John a slight advantage 22 ... hxg6!! 23.e5?? IM John Watson also beat me with an e5 sacrifice in the Velimirovic Attack around the same time period. If I ever find that scoresheet I can prove that was unsound too ( maybe ). I was 17 years old and they were 2 or 3 years older. John starts playing like a young attacking genius when he should be groveling for the perpetual with 23 Qc7!! either rook to c8 24 h7+ Kh8 25 Q:f7 B:d4 26 B:d4 Q:c2+ 27 Ka1 Qa4+= 23 ... Bd5?? John was laughing tonight at how unsound his sacrifice was after 23 ... B:e5!! 24 Qc7! Rab8, ... Bd5, ... b3, ... B:f3 or ... Rfb8 Mark also wins after 23 ... de 24 N:e6 B:f3!! I remember how scary it was to play John Watson in those days. One time I was so paralyzed with fear I could barely move the pieces. 5 years later I beat John to win my first Colorado Open ( 1977 tiebreaks over David Jellison ) " I can't even win in Colorado any more. " John Watson to Christine Hendrickson 24.exf6!! Bxc4?? Suicide - two bad moves have ruined Mark's game. 24 ... gf! 25 h7+! Kh8 26 Qc7! Qa2+ 27 Kc1 Rae8 28 Q:d6 Qa1+ 29 Kd2 Q:b2 30 Ke1, Ke2, Qf4 or Rb1 should all win for John but anything else is much, much worse. At least Mark has three pawns for a piece for the moment here. 25.hxg7 1-0 All Mark can give here is spite checks before mate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Watson, John L Sherbring, M. Event: USA op Site: USA Round: 11 Date: ??/??/1972 ECO: B89 Score: 1-0 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Be3 Be7 8.Qe2 a6 9.O-O-O Qc7 10.Bb3 Na5 11.g4 Nxb3+ 12.axb3 b5 13.g5 Nd7 14.h4 Bb7 15.f3 Nc5 16.Kb1 b4 17.Na4 Qa5 18.h5 Nxa4 19.bxa4 Qxa4 20.g6 Bf6 21.Qc4 O-O 22.h6 hxg6 23.e5 Bd5 24.exf6 Bxc4 25.hxg7 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "URS-ch35"] [Site "Kharkov"] [Date "1967.12.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Platonov,Igor V"] [Black "Polugaevsky,Lev"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "B89"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bc4 Nf6 7.Bb3 Be7 8.Be3 a6 9.Qe2 Qc7 10.0-0-0 Na5 11.g4 b5 12.g5 Nxb3+ 13.axb3 Nd7 14.h4 b4 15.Na4 Bb7 16.f3 Qa5 17.Kb1 Nc5 18.h5 Nxa4 19.bxa4 Qxa4 20.g6 Rc8 21.Qg2 Bf6 22.Bg5 Be5 23.f4 Bxd4 24.gxf7+ Kxf7 25.Rxd4 Qb5 1/2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Hoogovens"] [Site "Wijk aan Zee"] [Date "1982.01.15"] [Round "12"] [White "Nunn,John DM"] [Black "Van der Wiel,John TH"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B89"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Be3 Be7 8.Qe2 a6 9.0-0-0 Qc7 10.Bb3 Na5 11.g4 b5 12.g5 Nxb3+ 13.axb3 Nd7 14.h4 Bb7 15.f3 b4 16.Na4 Nc5 17.h5 Qa5 18.Kb1 Nxa4 19.bxa4 Qxa4 20.g6 Rc8 21.h6 hxg6 22.hxg7 Rg8 23.Rh8 Kd7 24.Nb3 Kc7 25.Qc4+ Bc6 26.Qd4 Qb5 27.Qa7+ Bb7 28.Nd4 Qa4 29.e5 Rxh8 30.exd6+ Bxd6 31.gxh8=Q Rxh8 32.Nxe6+ fxe6 33.Qb6+ Kc8 34.Qxd6 Qc6 35.Qe5 Rd8 36.Rxd8+ Kxd8 37.Bg5+ Kd7 38.Qg7+ Kd6 39.Qf8+ Kd5 40.Qxb4 e5 41.Qe4+ Kd6 42.Qxg6+ Kd5 43.Qf7+ Kd4 44.Qb3 e4 45.Be3+ Ke5 46.f4+ Kf6 47.Qg8 Qd5 48.Bd4+ Ke7 49.Qg7+ Kd6 50.b3 Kc6 51.Be5 Qd7 52.Qh6+ Kd5 53.Qb6 Qc6 54.Qd8+ Ke6 55.Qf6+ Kd7 56.Qf7+ Kc8 57.Qg8+ Kd7 58.Qg7+ Ke6 59.Qg4+ Kf7 60.f5 Qh6 61.f6 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "COL-ch sf"] [Site "Barranquilla"] [Date "1995.??.??"] [Round "4"] [White "Gutierrez Castillo,Jose Antonio"] [Black "Gamboa,Nelson"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B89"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Bb3 a6 8.Be3 Qc7 9.Qe2 Na5 10.0-0-0 b5 11.f3 Be7 12.g4 Nxb3+ 13.axb3 Bb7 14.g5 Nd7 15.h4 b4 16.Na4 Nc5 17.Kb1 Qa5 18.h5 Nxa4 19.bxa4 Qxa4 20.g6 Qd7 21.h6 gxh6 22.gxf7+ Kxf7 23.Rxh6 Bf6 24.Qh2 Qe7 25.Qh5+ Kf8 26.Rxf6+ Qxf6 27.Bh6+ 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chess games of John L Watson http://www.chessgames.com/player/john_l_watson.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.365chess.com/players/John_L_Watson another John L Watson game collection ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Feb 15 09:17:50 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:17:50 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Paul Smith on - I just played Radjabov, #6 player in the world Message-ID: <1234714670.4998402ef40b8@www.taom.com> I analyzed the Linares 2003 Kasparov-Radjabov brilliancy heavily ( Kasparov's first loss in Linares in 6 years ) and Radjabov went much deeper in NEW IN CHESS magazine. I also analzyzed a Radjabov-Vigorito blitz game. Radjabov made me feel silly but at least I went down fighting. LM Brian Wall ------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Smith ----- Forwarded message from "Paul K. Smith" ----- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:48:40 +0800 (CST) From: "Paul K. Smith" Reply-To: "Paul K. Smith" Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] I just played Radjabov, #6 player in the world To: Brian Wall Teimour Radjabov has been my favorite player since his victory over Alexander Grischuk playing a Queen's Indian at the Corsica Rapide 2003, a nerves of steel battle every second. What an experience to have played him, Brian! "Paul K. Smith" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Brian Wall wrote: I just played Radjabov and it did not go well. [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.15"] [Round "-"] [White "Ubiyca"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2716"] [BlackElo "2253"] [Opening "Giuoco Pianissimo"] [ECO "C55"] [NIC "IG.01"] [Time "01:03:09"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. c3 d6 6. Bb3 Bb6 7. Nbd2 Bg4 8. h3 Bh5 9. Nc4 Ne7 10. Nxb6 axb6 11. Bg5 Qd7 12. g4 Nxg4 13. hxg4 Qxg4 14. Bxe7 Kxe7 15. Qd2 h6 16. Bd1 g6 17. Nh4 Qg5 18. Bxh5 gxh5 19. Nf5+ Kf6 20. Qe2 h4 21. Qf3 Ke6 22. Qh3 Kd7 23. Ne3+ Kc6 24. a4 Qe7 25. b4 Qe6 26. Qxe6 fxe6 27. Rxh4 b5 28. Rxh6 bxa4 29. Rxh8 Rxh8 30. Rxa4 {Black resigns} 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Statistics for Ubiyca(GM) On for: 9 Idle: 0 rating [need] win loss draw total best Wild 2425 [6] 7 2 1 10 Loser's 1394 [6] 0 2 0 2 Bughouse 1501 [6] 4 11 1 16 Crazyhouse 2232 [6] 2 2 0 4 Bullet 2357 [8] 5 3 1 9 Blitz 3535 4943 2884 814 8641 3622 (10-Jul-2007) Standard 2431 [6] 42 81 16 139 2454 (18-Jul-2000) 5-minute 2716 1035 207 77 1319 2786 (30-Aug-2008) 1: Radjabov Groups : GMs Azerbaijan ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13400924 Radjabov, Teimour Federation Azerbaijan FIDE title Grand Master Rating: 2761 B-Year 1987 Sex Male [Event "7th Corsica Open"] [Site "Bastia FRA"] [Date "2003.11.01"] [EventDate "2003.11.01"] [Round "1.2"] [Result "1-0"] [White "Teimour Radjabov"] [Black "Alexander Grischuk"] [ECO "E12"] [WhiteElo "2650"] [BlackElo "2732"] [PlyCount "129"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. a3 Bb7 5. Nc3 d5 6. cxd5 Nxd5 7. Qc2 Nxc3 8. bxc3 c5 9. e4 Nc6 10. Bb2 Rc8 11. Rd1 cxd4 12. cxd4 Bd6 13. Qb1 Qe7 14. Qa2 Na5 15. Bd3 f5 16. exf5 Bd5 17. Qb1 exf5+ 18. Kf1 O-O 19. Bxf5 Rxf5 20. Qxf5 Bc4+ 21. Kg1 Rf8 22. Qg5 Qe2 23. Rb1 Bf4 24. Qg4 Be3 25. Qh4 g5 26. Qg3 Bf4 27. Qg4 Be3 28. Qg3 Bf4 29. Re1 Bxg3 30. Rxe2 Bxe2 31. hxg3 Bxf3 32. gxf3 Rxf3 33. Bc1 Rf5 34. Kg2 Nc6 35. Be3 g4 36. Rc1 Rf6 37. d5 Ne7 38. Bg5 Rf7 39. d6 Nf5 40. Bf4 Rd7 41. Rh1 Kg7 42. f3 gxf3+ 43. Kxf3 Kf6 44. Kg4 Rg7+ 45. Kf3 Rd7 46. g4 Nxd6 47. Rh6+ Ke7 48. Rxh7+ Nf7 49. g5 Kf8 50. g6 Kg8 51. gxf7+ Rxf7 52. Rh1 Kf8 53. Ke4 Ke8 54. Rc1 Kd8 55. Be5 Rd7 56. Kf5 Rf7+ 57. Ke6 Re7+ 58. Kd5 Rh7 59. Kc6 Rh3 60. Bd6 Rd3 61. Rg1 Rc3+ 62. Kb7 Kd7 63. Rd1 Rb3 64. Bb4+ Ke6 65. Kxa7 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "XX SuperGM"] [Site "XX Ciudad de Linares"] [Date "2003.02.23"] [EventDate "2003.02.22"] [Round "2"] [Result "0-1"] [White "Garry Kasparov"] [Black "Teimour Radjabov"] [ECO "C11"] [WhiteElo "2847"] [BlackElo "2624"] [PlyCount "78"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Be3 a6 8. Qd2 b5 9. a3 Qb6 10. Ne2 c4 11. g4 h5 12. gxh5 Rxh5 13. Ng3 Rh8 14. f5 exf5 15. Nxf5 Nf6 16. Ng3 Ng4 17. Bf4 Be6 18. c3 Be7 19. Ng5 O-O-O 20. Nxe6 fxe6 21. Be2 Ngxe5 22. Qe3 Nd7 23. Qxe6 Bh4 24. Qg4 g5 25. Bd2 Rde8 26. O-O-O Na5 27. Rdf1 Nb3+ 28. Kd1 Bxg3 29. Rf7 Rd8 30. Bxg5 Qg6 31. Qf5 Qxf5 32. Rxf5 Rdf8 33. Rxf8+ Nxf8 34. Bf3 Bh4 35. Be3 Nd7 36. Bxd5 Re8 37. Bh6 Ndc5 38. Bf7 Re7 39. Bh5 Nd3 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICC Handle velimirovich = Radjabov fluffy = Vigorito [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2005.07.28"] [Round "-"] [White "velimirovich"] [Black "fluffy"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2650"] [BlackElo "2279"] [Opening "Sicilian: dragon, Yugoslav attack, 10.O-O-O"] [ECO "B78"] [NIC "SI.18"] [Time "13:14:34"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. f3 Nc6 6. Nc3 g6 7. Be3 Bg7 8. Qd2 O-O 9. Bc4 Bd7 10. O-O-O Rc8 11. Bb3 Ne5 12. h4 h5 13. Kb1 Nc4 14. Bxc4 Rxc4 15. Bg5 Nxe4 16. Nxe4 Rxd4 17. Qe3 Rxd1+ 18. Rxd1 Re8 19. Nxd6 exd6 20. Qxa7 Qc8 21. Qf2 Qc6 22. Qd2 Bf5 23. Rc1 Qb6 24. b3 Ra8 25. Bh6 Bh8 {White resigns} 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Feb 15 09:39:32 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:39:32 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Front Porch tonight confirmees Message-ID: <1234715972.4998454465b24@www.taom.com> People so far - LaMoyne Splichal,Colorado TD, Jesse Burnette, a young tall, handsome man from California who learned the Colle from Daoud, and Danielle Rice, a friend for 40 years Jesse is actually familiar with many Denver bars, including this one. Tonight Feb 15, 2009 10 -2 PM This small bar, The Front Porch, located at 15th and Lawrence, one block west of the Tabor Center ( 16th and Lawrence ), Downtown Denver has a calendar where every night you drink for free if your name is mentioned. As luck would have it, the 15th of Febraury is Brian and Max night, so I get to drink for free. After Devon is done having birthday fun, I am going to head over to the Front Porch. The Front Porch is across the street from Comedy Works and a restaurant bar called 5 degrees ( Amuse by Michelle ) The Front Porch is in Writer's Square. The Front Porch is in between Zaudry's Deli and the Tryst ( another bar ) From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Feb 15 09:47:53 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:47:53 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Front Porch tonight confirmees Message-ID: <1234716473.49984739dda12@www.taom.com> Oops - I meant 8 PM tonight to 2 AM People so far - LaMoyne Splichal,Colorado TD, Jesse Burnette, a young tall, handsome man from California who learned the Colle from Daoud, and Danielle Rice, a friend for 40 years Jesse is actually familiar with many Denver bars, including this one. Tonight Feb 15, 2009 8 PM -2 AM This small bar, The Front Porch, located at 15th and Lawrence, one block west of the Tabor Center ( 16th and Lawrence ), Downtown Denver has a calendar where every night you drink for free if your name is mentioned. As luck would have it, the 15th of Febraury is Brian and Max night, so I get to drink for free. After Devon is done having birthday fun, I am going to head over to the Front Porch. The Front Porch is across the street from Comedy Works and a restaurant bar called 5 degrees ( Amuse by Michelle ) The Front Porch is in Writer's Square. The Front Porch is in between Zaudry's Deli and the Tryst ( another bar ) _______________________________________________ BrianWall-ChessList mailing list BrianWall-ChessList at lists.taom.com http://www.taom.com/mailman/listinfo/brianwall-chesslist ----- End forwarded message ----- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 16 01:46:38 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:46:38 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Reactions Message-ID: <1234773998.499927eea1366@www.taom.com> Ann Davies once told me she enjoys reactions to my emails more than my emails. Here's a few from the last 2 days. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IM John Watson on Watson - Sherbring Great...humiliate me!! Seriously, thanks for the effort. It's incredible that so many people followed this exact line, when the theory back then probably stopped around g5 (is this really a good move? - I'll have to put it on a board). Does this go out on an email group and/or the web? Sounds like the kind of mailing/article I've seen you do a million times. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chris Peterson on our Youtube videos - we are over 14k views now ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Hornor on my Radjabov loss - Nice to see a rare posting of a game you did not win. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Hilyard, whose wife is 9 months pregnant and who I just met yesterday, was the only person to show up at the Front Porch bar - Luckily he left before my last bus did - :). Mark Hilyard is in thanks for the invite Brian - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Ed Stoddard Curt Carlson said I should ask you about... the time you spilt coke all over yourself in the back seat of a car during a tournament in New Mexico 1974. Can you elaborate on this? If not, that's okay. Curt told me it was funny. :) Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Dalesio threw the hatchback seat back during a Chess tournament road trip, spilling a chili cheese dog ( which my Dad still likes at age 77 ) and coke all over me. I cursed at Mike and Curt's been laughing at this for 35 years. Curt was sitting right next to me in the back and was as shocked as I was. At least it distracted Curt from my pocket monkey. Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Parker To: Brian Wall Subject: Chess Like an Animal 2 unnamed text/html 1.38 KB --> Brian, My wife bought your book 'Play Chess Like An Animal' (on Amazon, I think). I was supprised to discover it is for kids. No problem, I have two grand kids who are showing interest in the game. At what age is the book aimed? I am on your mailing list I am not sure how I got there, maybe Joel Johnson gave you my email address. Also, with all the off-beat openings you like how come no 'Fried Liver'? or 1.e4 e5, 2. Qh5 g6?? 3. Qxe5+, never have see a name for it. Bill Parker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Would you be able to help me with a current email address for Zupa? I would like to return a laptop power adaptor to his old neighbor from Cherokee Street. But I have no idea on how to find him. Zupa would know and would be happy to help i think. MarkSherbring at Yahoo.com needs Daoud Zupa's email address. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Curt Carlson on New Friends From: Curt Carlson Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] New friends To: brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com Date: Sunday, February 15, 2009, 6:40 PM You're more famous than you realize. I've played 4...Ng4 vs. players in Russia and China and they ask where I learned about the Fishing Pole! You should write a book about it, and have John Watson write the forward! Curt ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 16 10:28:55 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:28:55 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Give us this day our daily Brazilian Fishing Pole Message-ID: <1234805335.4999a257276fc@www.taom.com> Savio Perego says: [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Site "chat.chesscube.com"] [Round "?"] [White "tomicas78 at chesscube.com"] [Black "gbsalvio at chesscube.com"] [Date "2009.02.16"] [Result "0-1"] [Variant "chess 960"][SetUp "1"] [FEN ""] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bc5 5. Bxc6 dxc6 6. O-O Ng4 7. d3 a6 8. a3 Ba7 9. Bg5 f6 10. Bd2 Qe7 11. Na4 g5 12. h3 h5 13. hxg4 hxg4 14. Ne1 Qh7 0-1 From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 16 12:11:00 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:11:00 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Tim Kohler, Front Porch confirmee In-Reply-To: References: <1234715972.4998454465b24@www.taom.com> Message-ID: <1234811460.4999ba4489c40@www.taom.com> did you go to Chess Club at Gates Rubber Company or Watson's Chess House at 5th and Bannock? I usually rely on Curtis Carlson's amazing memory for facts, dates and faces from the past. Bill Engels and David Vigorito also has this capacity. There will be a massive meetings of the minds next weekend at the State Scholastic Championship at the Tivoli Center. Brian Wall ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Quoting Tim Kohler : Hi Brian! Although I've played in a few tournaments you've been in (in the last couple of months), I actually talked to you for the first time @the DCC event @the Tabor Center last Sat. For what it's worth, I've been chess idle for more than 30 years, getting back into things about a year ago due ot my son's interest. When last active, I met/knew you, Curtis Carlsen, John Watson, and many others back when we were all still just...er...'kids' in the early 70's. It's very interesting to me seeing that you guys are still at it! Anyway, thanx so much for the invite to the Front Porch. I meant to attend but excuses prevented it (my b-day...would have been rude to abandon my own party!). Please keep me informed of other things of this nature..! Cheers, timk From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 16 12:43:06 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:43:06 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] More Tim Kohler, Front Porch confirmee Message-ID: <1234813386.4999c1cae140f@www.taom.com> Although I have an international Chess audience I really write for the oldtimers that remember my Chess Youth. It's the only way I get to feel young again. IM John Watson and his late, great girlfriend Christine Hendrickson wrote the Chessman Comic book, a classic. Scott Lett had long, straight blonde hair, a nice guy, gentle, softspoken. I lived at a condo at 80th and Federal for a long time in my 40's, near Ranum High School. I won the 1977 Denver Open and no doubt played in the 1975 Denver Open. Life Master Brian Wall ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Forwarded message from Tim Kohler ----- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:26:42 -0700 From: Tim Kohler Reply-To: Tim Kohler Subject: RE: Tim Kohler, Front Porch confirmee To: Brian Wall Unfortunately neither. I was lowly chess champion of my Jr and Sr high schools (Clear Lake and Ranum, Westminster), and was introduced to the Denver/Boulder tournament scene by a co-student named Tristian Hemphill. I played in both the Boulder and Denver Opens approx 1975...actually getting a write up in the CSCA monthly for a game I played against Scott Lett (again, someone who may not mean anything to you). One of you guys...Curtis maybe?...wrote up a the funniest comic, "Chessman" that I treasured for years. Again, I met all of you, but was never on your level. Today I aspire to better my play and get back to a higher rating. current goal, 2000. Unachievable? Of course not...but a serious effort will be needed! timk --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:11:00 -0700 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com To: tim.kohler at hotmail.com; BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com Subject: Tim Kohler, Front Porch confirmee did you go to Chess Club at Gates Rubber Company or Watson's Chess House at 5th and Bannock? I usually rely on Curtis Carlson's amazing memory for facts, dates and faces from the past. Bill Engels and David Vigorito also has this capacity. There will be a massive meetings of the minds next weekend at the State Scholastic Championship at the Tivoli Center. Brian Wall ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Quoting Tim Kohler : Hi Brian! Although I've played in a few tournaments you've been in (in the last couple of months), I actually talked to you for the first time @the DCC event @the Tabor Center last Sat. For what it's worth, I've been chess idle for more than 30 years, getting back into things about a year ago due ot my son's interest. When last active, I met/knew you, Curtis Carlsen, John Watson, and many others back when we were all still just...er...'kids' in the early 70's. It's very interesting to me seeing that you guys are still at it! Anyway, thanx so much for the invite to the Front Porch. I meant to attend but excuses prevented it (my b-day...would have been rude to abandon my own party!). Please keep me informed of other things of this nature..! Cheers, timk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090216/66cbd637/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 16 14:20:53 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:20:53 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Wall - Herbst Lowenthal Sicilian Message-ID: <1234819253.4999d8b5e4ad6@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Brian Wall ----- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:17:36 -0700 From: Brian Wall Reply-To: Brian Wall Subject: Wall - Herbst Lowenthal Sicilian To: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com I have a tough time against young ( 16) Richard Herbst, he has beaten and drawn me before. I noticed his long time chess friend Tyler Hughes seems to expect victory when he plays Richard - maybe Tyler knows some hidden weakness. I felt from the beginning that Richard has the talent to become a Chessmaster. He is almost there. Richard is hoping to attend the World Open this year. A 25 minute game is the maximum risk I can put on my rating, not quite a Chess game, not quite a lottery. Pretty hard to keep control when punches are flying everywhere at a million miles an hour ( Larry Holmes' description of a boxing match ). I managed a decent effort this game. Richard felt he was struggling from a worse position all game long. Richard played the Lowenthal Variation of the Sicilian, probably like me, without really studying it, just for surprise value. I do the same for Black occasionally but I never got a feel for it, Black or White. I remember Armed Forces Champion Donald Sutherland drew Colorado Chessmaster Robert Wendling, my first local hero, in a fairly convincing game 35 years ago. I believe ... Nge7 and ... d5 were played that game. Ray Robson beat me every time I played him with different time controls in Florida 2008 at age 13. At 12 Ray beat IM David Vigorito in a decisive tournmanent game. Ray had studied the Lowenthal video presentation Dave had just recorded at www.ChessLectures.com ( Tony Rook ) and came quite prepared. All I remembered is that Ray played 8 Qc7 so I played that against Richard. I remember Kramnik got crushed on the White side of a Lowenthal in a blindfold game with Vallejo Pons. I avoided his h4-h5 idea. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- My drinking buddy last night, Mark Hilyard, recovering from head bumps from flying baby bottles, pots and pans thrown by his 9 months pregnant wife, told me he is from New Jersey and the KenilWorthChess Club is a New Jersey outfit. They did a nice job of analyzing Ray's Victory over David's Lowenthal. http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2007/robson-vigorito.htm Ray Robson - Vigorito analyzed, complete game, by Michael Goeller ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.masschess.org/Chess_Horizons/Articles/2007-04_sample.pdf The middle game/ending of Robson - Vigorito analyzed by Vigorito who only analyzes losses in this article! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Valentine's Day Massacare"] [Site "Tabor Center, 16th and Lawrence, Downtown Denver, one block east of the Front Porch bar"] [Date "2009.02.14"] [Round "4"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "Richard Edward Herbst V"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2200"] [BlackElo "2019"] [Opening "Sicilian: Labourdonnais-L?wenthal variation"] [ECO "B32"] [NIC "SI.32"] [Time "03:34:01"] [TimeControl "Game/25, 5 second delay"] Valentine's Day Massacare Tabor Center, 16th and Lawrence Downtown Denver Round 4 Board 2 Daoud Zupa had already knocked me down to Pity Master for the third time in a month ( Mitch Anderson, Kevin Seidler ) in Round 2. I could not afford the luxury of another loss or draw if I wanted a penny. My German Shepherd Shawn once tried to bully my Siamese cat from her food. The cat stuck all her claws in the dog's face to teach him a lesson. Siamese cats have strong nerves. The dog whimpered and backed off. Game/25 minutes plus 5 seconds delay - rated in both Slow and Quick Chess lists. White - Brian Wall, Pity Master Black - Richard Edward Herbst the Fifth, age 16, 2019 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6! 3. d4 cxd4! 4. Nxd4! e5 A good choice but my Chess comfort zone is minimal anyway. 5. Nb5! a6! 6. Nd6+! Bxd6! 7. Qxd6! Qf6! 8. Qc7 Qg6 Robson - Vigorito went 8.Qc7 Nge7 9.Nc3 Nb4 10.Bd3 d5 11.0-0 9. Nc3! Nge7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fritz agrees with Richard that 9 ... Nf6 10 Qd6! is good for White, although it's been tried 27 times. Fritx also agrees with me that 9 ... Nb4 10 Q:e5+ Ne7 11 Nd5! ( tried once ) is better for me. Next time Richard will try 9 ... d5!! - Fritz likes this best and Black's record is one win, no losses, 4 draws. The ideas are - 9 ... d5!! ( 1995 ) 10 Be2,d3 Q:g2 10 h4 d4 10 f3 fe 11 N:e4 Nge7 12 Bg5! ( 12 Nd6+ Kf8 ) f6 13 Bd3! Kf8 14 Be3 Q:g2 15 0-0-0 If this is the best Black has, he's in trouble 9 ... d5! 10 ed Nb4! 11 Bd3 Q:g2 12 Q:e5+ Ne7 13 Qe4 Q:e4 14 N:e4 looks about equal to me. 10 ed Nb4! 11 Q:e5+ Ne7 12 d6 Be6 13 Rb1 N:c2+ 14 Kd2 Nc6 10 ed Nb4! 11 Q:e5+ Ne7 12 d6 Be6 13 Bd3 Q:d3!! 14 cd N:d3+ 10 ed Nb4! 11 Q:e5+ Ne7 12 d6 Be6 13 Qg5!! N:c2+ 14 Kd1 Q:g5 15 B:g5 N:a1 16 B:e7 9 ... d5 10 N:d5 Q:e4+ 11 Ne3 Nge7 or ... Nf6 where I don't have much. An interesting sideline. 9 ... d5 10 ed Nb4 11 Q:e5+ Ne7 12 d6 Be6 13 Qg5! N:c2+ 14 Kd1 or 9 ... d5 10 f3 fe 11 N:e4 Nge7 12 Bg5! f6 13 Bd3! Kf8 14 Be3! look like good tries for White. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. Be3!! played 17 times before, at least. The most aggressive although I considered 10 Bd2! to prepare Queenside castling while avoiding knight hits on my QB. 10 Qb6! has been played once. 10 ... O-O 11. O-O-O! played 15 times in my meager database 11 ... f5 played once but it was the only move I was expecting. 11 ... b5 played a dozen times 11 ... d5 played thrice 11 ... Rd8 played once 12. Bc5!!! TN Wall Theoretical Novelty, the best move. It is hard not to win this position, I have so many good choices. Top Guns - 12 Bc5!!!, Bd3!!, Bc4+!!, h4! ( played once ), Kb1! 12 ... fxe4! 13. Bc4+ 13 B:e7 N:e7 14 Q:e5 seems clearly winning. Everything seems to win, 13 Kb1, h4, Be2, Bd6 and many others 13 ... Kh8! 14. Bxe7 Again, more wins with 14 Nd5!!, Kb1!, Bb3!, Rhe1!, h3!, Rhg1!, h4! 14 ... Nxe7! 15. Qxe5! d5! 16. Qxe7 Taking on d5 is stronger but I am aiming for a comfortable position 16 ... Re8! 17. Qh4! dxc4 18. Qg3! With 13 minutes left I aim for a comfortable, controllable position. Richard's pawn structure looks retarded - his pawns are targets, his development is backwards, his dark squares are weak and his bishop is bumping into his own men everywhere. I could have reached much better positions but in time pressure, this looked easy to play and hard to defend. 18 ... Qxg3 19. hxg3! Bf5! 20. Rd4 Ganging up on the e4-pawn - 20 Rhe1 might have been more accurate 20 ... e3! 21. f3! I felt I should be able to hogtie and round up the e-pawn calf. The way my pawns harass his bishop is reminiscent of a famous Tarrasch French Karpov-Uhlman victory. This move is the equivalent of Siamese cat claws in Richard's face. " Get away from my cat food! " 21 ... b5 22. Re1! 12 minutes for me, 9 for Richard 22 ... Kg8 23. g4 Karpovian but the geometric 23 Nd5 Rad8 24 Ne7+! is simpler 23 ... Bg6! 24. Nd5! Rad8! 25. c3 Richard looked green in the gills because I also have 25 Ne7+!!, Rdd1! or g3! 25 ... Rxd5?! Rather than go down a clear pawn, Richard spices it up with an exchange sac. The kid's still thinking. I have twice Richard's 5 minutes left. 26. Rxd5! Re6! 27. f4!! Bd3! 28. Re5 Rxe5! 29. fxe5! e2! 30. Kd2! Rather than win the e-pawn I will guard the Queening square with my King and unleash my rook. 30 ... Kf7! 31. a4 Changing my plan from terrorizing the Kingside with 31 Rh1 to terrorizing the Queenside. 31 ... Ke6! 32. axb5! axb5! 33. Ra1! Kxe5! 34. Ra5 Kf4! 35. Rxb5! Kxg4 36. Re5!! The idea of all this is to create a passed pawn with b4! 36 ... Kf4! 37. Re7! g5! 38. b4!! My idea is 38 b4!! cb 39 K:d3 b2 40 Kc2 and the black pawns are contained 38 ... h5 A minute and a half left for Richard in a hopeless position - I have 5 minutes left. 38 ... Be4 39 g3+ Kf3 40 b5 should wrap it up 39. b5! Queening 39 ... Bf5 40. Rf7! Ke5 41. Rxf5+! 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Valentine's Day Massacare"] [Site "Tabor Center, 16th and Lawrence, Downtown Denver, one block east of the Front Porch bar"] [Date "2009.02.14"] [Round "4"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "Richard Edward Herbst V"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2200"] [BlackElo "2019"] [Opening "Sicilian: Labourdonnais-L?wenthal variation"] [ECO "B32"] [NIC "SI.32"] [Time "03:34:01"] [TimeControl "Game/25, 5 second delay"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5 5. Nb5 a6 6. Nd6+ Bxd6 7. Qxd6 Qf6 8. Qc7 Qg6 9. Nc3 Nge7 10. Be3 O-O 11. O-O-O f5 12. Bc5 fxe4 13. Bc4+ Kh8 14. Bxe7 Nxe7 15. Qxe5 d5 16. Qxe7 Re8 17. Qh4 dxc4 18. Qg3 Qxg3 19. hxg3 Bf5 20. Rd4 e3 21. f3 b5 22. Re1 Kg8 23. g4 Bg6 24. Nd5 Rad8 25. c3 Rxd5 26. Rxd5 Re6 27. f4 Bd3 28. Re5 Rxe5 29. fxe5 e2 30. Kd2 Kf7 31. a4 Ke6 32. axb5 axb5 33. Ra1 Kxe5 34. Ra5 Kf4 35. Rxb5 Kxg4 36. Re5 Kf4 37. Re7 g5 38. b4 h5 39. b5 Bf5 40. Rf7 Ke5 41. Rxf5+ 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Zalakaros op 27th"] [Site "Zalakaros"] [Date "2008.05.22"] [Round "2"] [White "Feher,Adam"] [Black "Bubits,Bence"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B32"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb5 a6 6.Nd6+ Bxd6 7.Qxd6 Qf6 8.Qc7 Qg6 9.Nc3 Nge7 10.Be3 0-0 11.0-0-0 f5 12.h4 fxe4 13.h5 Qf7 14.Bc5 b5 15.Kb1 Rd8 16.Nxe4 d5 17.Bxe7 Qxe7 18.Qxc6 Bb7 19.Qc5 dxe4 20.Bc4+ Kf8 21.Qxe7+ Kxe7 22.Be2 h6 23.Kc1 Rd4 24.c3 Rc8 25.Bg4 Rc7 26.Kb1 Rxd1+ 27.Rxd1 Bc8 28.Be2 Bf5 29.Kc1 Be6 30.Kd2 Rd7+ 31.Ke3 Rxd1 32.Bxd1 Bxa2 33.Kxe4 Kd6 34.Bc2 Bg8 35.Ke3 Bf7 36.Bd1 Bd5 37.g3 Be6 38.b4 Bd5 39.Bg4 Bg8 40.Bc8 Bd5 41.Bxa6 Bc4 42.Ke4 Ke6 43.Bc8+ Kd6 44.Bg4 Bd5+ 45.Ke3 Bc6 46.Be2 Be8 47.Ke4 Bc6+ 48.Kf5 Be8 49.g4 Kd5 50.Bd3 Kd6 51.c4 bxc4 52.Bxc4 Bd7+ 53.Kg6 Bxg4 54.Bf7 Kc6 55.Kxg7 Kb5 56.Kxh6 Kxb4 57.Kg5 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Amber-blind 14th"] [Site "Monte Carlo"] [Date "2005.03.19"] [Round "5"] [White "Kramnik,Vladimir"] [Black "Vallejo Pons,Francisco"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "B32"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb5 a6 6.Nd6+ Bxd6 7.Qxd6 Qf6 8.Qd1 Qg6 9.Nc3 Nge7 10.h4 h5 11.Rh3 d5 12.Rg3 Bg4 13.f3 dxe4 14.fxg4 Rd8 15.Bd2 f5 16.Re3 hxg4 17.Kf2 Rxh4 18.Rc1 Qd6 19.Ke1 Rh1 20.Qe2 Nd4 21.Qf2 f4 22.Nxe4 Qg6 23.Ng3 fxg3 24.Rxg3 Qe4+ 25.Kd1 Nef5 26.Rd3 g3 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "Torneo Agostino"] [Site "San Salvador"] [Date "2001.??.??"] [Round "6"] [White "Segura,Javier"] [Black "Burgos Figueroa,Carlos Ernesto"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "B32"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb5 a6 6.Nd6+ Bxd6 7.Qxd6 Qf6 8.Qc7 Qg6 9.Nc3 Nb4 10.Qxe5+ Ne7 11.Nd5 Nbxd5 12.exd5 d6 13.Qe2 Bf5 14.c4 0-0 15.Be3 b5 16.Qf3 bxc4 17.Bxc4 Rfc8 18.b3 Be4 19.Qg3 Bxg2 20.Qxg6 hxg6 21.Rg1 Bxd5 22.Bxd5 Nxd5 23.Rd1 Nxe3 24.fxe3 Rc2 25.Rd2 Rxd2 26.Kxd2 Kf8 27.Rc1 Ke7 28.Kd3 Kd7 29.b4 Rh8 30.Rc2 Rh4 31.Rb2 g5 32.e4 f6 33.a4 Rh3+ 34.Kc4 Ra3 35.a5 Kc6 36.Rc2 Rh3 37.Kd4+ Kb5 38.Rb2 g4 39.Rg2 Rh4 40.Kd5 Kxb4 41.Kxd6 Kxa5 42.Ke6 g3 43.Rxg3 Rxe4+ 44.Kf7 f5 45.Rg5 Rf4 46.Kxg7 Kb4 47.Kf6 a5 48.Ke5 Rc4 49.Rg8 f4 50.Rf8 a4 51.h4 a3 52.h5 a2 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Luzern ol (Women)"] [Site "Luzern"] [Date "1982.10.??"] [Round "13"] [White "Belle,Erika"] [Black "Travers,Catherine"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B32"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb5 a6 6.Nd6+ Bxd6 7.Qxd6 Qf6 8.Qc7 Qg6 9.Nc3 Nge7 10.Qb6 0-0 11.Be3 d6 12.0-0-0 Kh8 13.h3 f5 14.f3 f4 15.Bf2 Qh6 16.Bc4 Rf6 17.Nd5 Nxd5 18.Bxd5 g5 19.Bxc6 d5 20.Qd8+ Rf8 21.Qxd5 bxc6 22.Qxe5+ Qg7 23.Qc5 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Madrid"] [Site "Madrid"] [Date "1973.11.26"] [Round "12"] [White "Karpov,Anatoly"] [Black "Uhlmann,Wolfgang"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "C09"] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.exd5 exd5 5.Ngf3 Nc6 6.Bb5 Bd6 7.dxc5 Bxc5 8.0-0 Nge7 9.Nb3 Bd6 10.Bg5 0-0 11.Bh4 Bg4 12.Be2 Bh5 13.Re1 Qb6 14.Nfd4 Bg6 15.c3 Rfe8 16.Bf1 Be4 17.Bg3 Bxg3 18.hxg3 a5 19.a4 Nxd4 20.Nxd4 Nc6 21.Bb5 Red8 22.g4 Nxd4 23.Qxd4 Qxd4 24.cxd4 Rac8 25.f3 Bg6 26.Re7 b6 27.Rae1 h6 28.Rb7 Rd6 29.Ree7 h5 30.gxh5 Bxh5 31.g4 Bg6 32.f4 Rc1+ 33.Kf2 Rc2+ 34.Ke3 Be4 35.Rxf7 Rg6 36.g5 Kh7 37.Rfe7 Rxb2 38.Be8 Rb3+ 39.Ke2 Rb2+ 40.Ke1 Rd6 41.Rxg7+ Kh8 42.Rge7 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.Walverine.com From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 16 14:24:45 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:24:45 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Colorado Closed so far Message-ID: <1234819485.4999d99d95244@www.taom.com> Do I get a babysitting fee? Brian Wall ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Forwarded message from Klaus Johnson ----- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:38:19 -0800 (PST) From: Klaus Johnson Reply-To: Klaus Johnson Subject: Re: how about a fundraiser To: Brian Wall For the Closed, so far I have Tyler, you, Mitesh, and Mitch Anderson. I sent out the letters to other people in the top 12 for those I haven't heard from.?The only one that has declined so far is Randy Canney. ? For the Scholastic Closed, Jackson Chen, Derek Fish, and Rhett Langseth have accepted so far. ? Klaus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090216/23efdb17/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 16 14:46:01 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:46:01 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Stephan Buecker on .... e5 Sicilians, June 2007 Message-ID: <1234820761.4999de99ca0a4@www.taom.com> http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kaiss22.pdf Stephan Buecker on .... e5 Sicilians From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 17 09:50:13 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:50:13 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Topalov - Kamsky first game draw Message-ID: <1234889413.499aeac582c2d@www.taom.com> Match for $250,000 Fairly solid effort - Kamsky's Grunfeld holds comfortably. Topalaov was ahead on the clock but Kamsky kept good board control. 18 N:d4! seems better than 18 ef+? Q:f6 after which Gata was at least equal all game. Winner plays Anand for the World Championship. [Event "ICC 120 0 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.17"] [Round "-"] [White "*GM_Topalov"] [Black "*GM_Kamsky"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2796"] [BlackElo "2725"] [Opening "Gr?nfeld: exchange, classical variation"] [ECO "D87"] [NIC "GI.05"] [Time "11:36:25"] [TimeControl "7200+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Bc4 c5 8. Ne2 Nc6 9. Be3 O-O 10. O-O Na5 11. Bd3 b6 12. Qd2 e5 13. Bh6 cxd4 14. Bxg7 Kxg7 15. cxd4 exd4 16. f4 f6 17. e5 Bd7 18. exf6+ Qxf6 19. Ng3 Kh8 20. f5 gxf5 21. Bxf5 Bxf5 22. Rxf5 Qd6 23. Raf1 Nc6 24. Ne4 Qe7 25. Qh6 Rxf5 26. Rxf5 Ne5 27. h3 Ng6 28. Rh5 Rg8 29. Nf6 Rg7 30. Nxh7 Rxh7 31. Qxg6 Qe3+ 32. Kf1 Qc1+ 33. Kf2 Qd2+ 34. Kg3 Qe3+ 35. Kh2 Qf4+ 36. Kg1 Qc1+ {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "Nabokov mem 6th"] [Site "Kiev"] [Date "2008.04.04"] [Round "7"] [White "Golichenko,Ilja"] [Black "Shishkin,Vadim"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "D87"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bc4 c5 8.Ne2 0-0 9.0-0 Nc6 10.Be3 Na5 11.Bd3 b6 12.Qd2 e5 13.Bh6 cxd4 14.cxd4 exd4 15.Bxg7 Kxg7 16.f4 f6 17.Rac1 Bg4 18.Ng3 Bd7 19.Ne2 Bg4 20.Ng3 Bd7 21.h4 Rc8 22.h5 Qe7 23.Ba6 Rxc1 24.Rxc1 Nc6 25.Bb5 Qd6 26.h6+ Kxh6 27.e5 Qd5 28.f5+ Kg7 29.exf6+ Rxf6 30.Qg5 Rd6 31.f6+ Kf8 32.Qh6+ Ke8 33.Bc4 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 17 11:06:51 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:06:51 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter Message-ID: <1234894011.499afcbb8cb95@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from CS Chess ----- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:43:49 -0700 From: CS Chess Reply-To: CS Chess Subject: Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter http://cs.chess.home.att.net Changes Tuesday February 17, 2009 "Changes, time's making changes in my life. Rearranging, can't seem to stop the hands of time" (F. Hannon, J. Keith, T. Luccketta, T. Skeoch, B. Wheat). I know "changes" may seem like an unoriginal theme for the start of a new year of newsletters and a blatant theft from the past political campaign. But such is not the case. In my defense, I would like to point out that for the past two years I was the clear originator and owner of this theme as I started my 2007 and 2008 newsletters with quotes from the Scorpions' Wind of Change and Jimi Hendrix's The Wind Cries Mary. Oh, wait. It looks like wind is the common theme there. I guess I lost control of that change theme with that Hendrix quote. Well, in any case, I am taking the change theme back with this year's Tesla quote, as there are many changes going on at the Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter. Ok, actually just one change. During the off-season, I added the Colorado Springs Chess News Youtube Channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/cschessnews). Hopefully, this new feature will be the start of many new improvements that demonstrate my use of this theme is not just empty rhetoric. Footprints In The Sand Chess has opened up a lot of doors for me. Who knew, when I started playing chess, it would lead me into the realms of web publishing, art design, online retailing, and now chess video critic? When I started playing chess, I was just trying to get some email to my alumni account at UCCS. I have been following in the footsteps of LM Brian Wall. He once told me, "Each chess game is like a footprint in the sand. By examining them, you can see where a Master is going and where he has been" (Wisdom of Brian 1:1). Brian has left behind a lot of tracks since May 21, 2001. I have played over a lot of them, and they have definitely had an impact on my chess. I started leaving my own tracks March 1, 2004 (http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/newsletter/Mon_Mar_01_v1.html). I noticed several times our tracks crossed and became only one set of footprints. This bothered me because it was usually when I was suffering defeat (0-6). So, I said to Brian, "The last time I saw only one set of footprints, I got a draw (http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/newsletter/Tue_Aug_05_2008.html). What happen?" Brian replied, "It is because I carried you." Of course, Brian would cringe to hear me say, "I am following in his footsteps," especially after looking over some of my recent games. He would probably say, "I don't play garbage like that!" However, what I mean is that, as Brian has taken his chess into new frontiers, I have been inspired to use chess as a vehicle to explore new avenues. He was publishing games online long before I was and it was his style that reassured me that someone in this class world of chess could write about chess and have it enjoyed, if not for its cutting edge theory, at least for its humor and entertainment value. Now he has started publishing analysis through chess videos on Youtube. I am not one to jump right into the latest fads and follow all the sheep onto Myspace and Facebook just because everyone is doing it. I have to see the practical value. Even when Brian started his Yahoo group, I waited about 2 years before following along when I realized it offered more spam protection than my online guest book. But when Tim Brennan put out his classic Halloween parody video, I just couldn't resist signing up for Youtube anymore. I have been watching and reviewing chess videos for several days now and feel qualified to act as the authority on chess videos. With that in mind, I would like to announce my awards for the best of 2008: The award for best screenplay in a chess video goes to... LM Brian Wall for his life story and commentary in Shattering The Scheveningen, Part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV3rjuo0UiY). The award for best actress in a chess video goes to... Anthea Carson for her dance moves in The Crab Chess Opening (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJYWk2CMYpw). The award for best actor in a chess video goes to... Tim Brennan for his impression of the giggling grim reaper in the Halloween Gambit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzALeHw_rUU). The award for best director in a chess video goes to... Chris Peterson for his production, direction, and editing of Fork Trick, Part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oT6QcOHj-M), which includes the famous Juliet vs. Friar Tuck game (http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/newsletter/Tue_Jun_29_v1.html). And the award for best chess video goes to... Chess For Girls (http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/videos/chess_for_girls.htm), mostly for inspiring this amazing piece of literature (http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/newsletter/Tue_Apr_19_v1.html). This Week In Chess On February 10th, the CSCC had 8 members in attendance. Most of the group played in the first half of the USCF-rated Cabin Fever Reliever (4SS, G30). Since this event last 2 weeks, there is still time to join in for the conclusion. Here are the current standings: Score Player 2.0 Paul Anderson 2.0 Mitch Anderson 1.0 Tikila Nichols 1.0 Buck Buchanan 0.0 Dean Brown 0.0 Kathy Schneider In January, the CSCC held the 2009 Poor Richard's Bookstore January Open. Here are the prize winners: 1st Place : Mitch Anderson- $60.00 2nd Place Tie+U1860 Section: Brian Wall, Anthea Carson- $27.50 each U1500 Section 3 way tie: Jerry Maier, Danielle Rice, Fred Spell - $7.00 each POINTLESS REMINDER By Liz Wood [who sent the announcement before the event, but I failed to publish the newsletter in time] February 14, 2009 A Valentine Tournament --- An Open One-Day Rated Chess Tournament 5SS, G/30 TD 5 Location: at the Daily Grind, 209 S. Union, Pueblo (take 1st Street exit, three blocks to Union; Union & D Street) Registration 9:00-9:45, Rounds 10, 11:15, 12:30, 2:30, 3:45. Entry fee: $20; Sr, Jr, Unr $15; CSCA & USCF required, OSA. Pre-registration entry fee: $15, which must be paid at the time of pre-registration. Cash prizes based on entry fees will be distributed at the conclusion of the event. Final round byes must be requested before the start of Round 2, and are irrevocable. For further information, contact Liz Wood, chessliz at comcast.net ( 719-566-6929) or Jerry Meier, (719-660-5531) Send pre-registrations to: Jerry Maier at 229 Hargrove Court, Colorado Springs CO 80919-2213 or pmjer77 at aim.com by February 12th. 2009 Pikes Peak Open Tournament Announcement By Jerry Maier Tournament Announcement August 1-2, Manitou Springs: PIKES PEAK OPEN 5-SS, Rds: 1-3 40/90 and G/1; Rds: 4-5 40/2 and G/1. Manitou Springs City Hall, 606 Manitou Ave. One open section. EF: $30 if rec'd by July 30, $35 at site. $8 EF discount for juniors, seniors, unrated. CSCA required, ($15, jrs & srs 10), OSA. Cash prizes per entries. Registration: 8:30 - 9:30 AM. Rds: 10:00 AM, 2:30 PM, 7:00 PM; 9:00 AM, 3:00 PM. Entries to: Jerry Maier, 229 Hargrove Court, Colorado Springs CO 80919. Phone (719) 660-5531 or e-mail pmjer77 at aim.com . COLORADO TOUR EVENT. Game Of The Week "Without consultation, plans are frustrated, But with many counselors they succeed" (Proverbs 15:22, NASB). This week's game has set the record for the most consultation I have ever done for one newsletter. Of course, with a chess newsletter, you would think the consultation would be about the game but not in this case. It all started after I wrote a newsletter and created a poll to find a nickname for Bill Weihmiller (http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/newsletter/Tue_Jul_29_2008.html). As is typical, the only response I got was from LM Brian Wall and the people who participated in the poll, which was anonymous. That is until Bill started whining. They say that it is the squeaky wheel that gets the oil, and I think Bill relies on that unfortunate fact. For the first time in five years of publishing chess games someone asked me not to publish losses from one particular person even though I was a participant in the game or received the game from a participant. I thought perhaps some good could come from this situation, so I made the offer to be relayed back to Bill that I would delete the poll in exchange for an effort to avoid certain offensive behaviors. The number of people I consulted was in the double digits and the majority had experienced an offensive behavior. It reminded me of the Cheers episode where Sam was asked if he would lose customers when he fired Diane. Sam replied, "No, I would probably get a few back." Well, I thought if I go ahead with this poll, we could get a few chess players back, but if I stop writing about Bill, I know a wheel and an oil can who will be happy. Also, what about the other suggestions my counselors provided? Whose advice should I take? I don't know if my plan improved with many advisors, but it sure did make it harder to decide what to do. What did I decide? Well, I decided to try and please everyone. Most people thought I should make up my own mind, and to them, I give you my hearty thanks for not complicating my plan any further with actual advice. Someone said I should consider it a direct hit and enjoy it. I liked that advice and have tried to enjoy this entire process even when it seemed like a couple of people were unhappy with me. A couple of people thought the offer was a good idea, and I would have been glad to honor it, but I never heard back. For the one who asked for a legal disclaimer from Bill's threats of a lawsuit, I added one below. For the one who asked me to stop writing, I offer you six months of the year free of Bill stories (August to January). For the one who suggested I keep expressing my first amendment rights unabridged, I give to you six months as well (February to July, when appropriate) and this tale of our last encounter: I had been hoping not to have to face Bill over the board until this nickname issue was resolved. After all, what would I put in the name box on the score sheet? In the last round of the Winter Springs Open, I was paired with Paul Covington and happy to have made it though another Bill-free tournament. However, there was a line through Paul's name and an arrow pointing to the bye line. Paul decided to forfeit his last game, and I had to play the person with the bye: Bill. My heart sank as I realized I was in for up to 6 hours of awkwardness and Jedi mind tricks. My counselors had regaled me with stories of slamming pieces and whining about the cleanliness of opponents' sets to force a change. Fortunately, I was the one who was late and entertained the thought of filing a complaint about his disgusting set. However, that would leave me open to the slamming tactic so I just grabbed a pair of latex gloves from my car to wear during the game. The next battle focused on my captured pieces. I was playing white so the location of the black pieces was a source of great concern for Bill. I noticed that after he dropped his first pawn, the prisoner of war camp I established next to the clock had been raided. In a couple more moves, a pawn exchange allowed me to test the security features of Stalag Luft III again. This time I moved the camp behind the clock and further away from the battlefield. Another escape! The kommandant will be furious. Another dropped pawn allowed me to relocate the prison camp even further behind the clock. ESCAPE AGAIN!!! Now the escapee will have to be sent to the cooler. Finally, a captured bishop found itself in the corner farthest from the battlefield. If this escapes, we will have to make a full-scale recovery effort as soon as the enemy leaves the table. However, the surrender came, and the prisoner was returned to his homeland. The only thing left to decide was what name to use on the score sheet. The poll ended in a tie. So, after all the off-season antics, I changed my vote to break the tie. Hopefully, Bill will see his new nickname as a commentary on how his behavior comes across to others and provide incentive to better himself. After all, it wasn't as one-sided as I originally thought. My counselors did provide some positive examples as well. So, there just may be some good in him after all. Whinemiller (Click this link to view the game on your web browser) (132) Anderson,Paul (1962) - Whinemiller,Bill (1851) [A22] Winter Springs Colorado Springs (4.4), 07.12.2008 [Fritz 8 (60s)] A22: English Opening: 1...e5 2 Nc3 Nf6 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e5 3.e3 c6 4.Nf3 last book move 4...d6 5.Qc2 Bg4 6.b3 Na6 7.a3 Prevents intrusion on b4 7...Be7 8.Bb2 0-0 9.b4 Nd7 10.h3 Bh5 11.Bd3 Nf6 12.Ng5 h7 draws heavy fire 12...h6 13.Nh7 e4? [>=13...Nxh7 and Black can hope to live 14.Bxh7+ Kh8+/= ] 14.Nxf6+ Bxf6 15.Bxe4 d5 16.cxd5 cxd5 17.Bxd5 Qe7?? a blunder in a bad position [17...Nc7 18.Bxb7 Bg6+- ] 18.Bb3 [18.g4 keeps an even firmer grip 18...Nc7 19.gxh5 a5+- ] 18...Rac8 [18...Bxc3 a last effort to resist the inevitable 19.Qxc3 Qg5+- ] 19.g4 Nc7 20.gxh5 [20.gxh5 Rfd8 21.Rg1+- ] 1-0 DEANSCLAIMER You agree by reading any part or all of this web site that under no circumstances or any theories of liability under international or civil, common or statutory law including but not limited to strict liability, negligence or other tort theories or contract, patent or copyright laws, will any or all persons named "Dean" be liable for damages of any kind occurring from the use of any or all Colorado Springs Chess News web sites or any information, goods or services obtained on said web sites including direct, indirect, consequential, incidental, or punitive damages (even if Colorado Springs Chess News has been advised of the possibility of such damages), to the fullest extent permitted by law. 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However slapping a GM title on someone does not make them Bobby Fischer. [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.17"] [Round "-"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "H-Danielsen"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2243"] [BlackElo "2414"] [Opening "Caro-Kann defense, Nypmhomaniac Attack"] [ECO "B10"] [NIC "CK.01"] [Time "13:46:20"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e5 Rooommate and fellow Life Master Jack Young named this Opening after a co-worker who over-dated. 3 ... Bg4 4. d4 e6 5. c3 c5 6. dxc5 Nc6 Eluding the first trap, 6 ... B:c5 7 Qa4+ as GM Eric Lobron and may others have fallen for. 7. Bb5 Bxc5 8. Bxc6+ A TN I invented a while back - 7 Qa4?? ( previously played ) fails to 7 ... B:f3 8 B:c6+ Kf8!! 8 ... bxc6 9. Qa4 Bxf3 10. Qxc6+ Now I grab a piece with check and then recapture on f3 10 ... Qd7 11. Qxa8+ Ke7 12. gxf3 {Black resigns} 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.17"] [Round "-"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "H-Danielsen"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2243"] [BlackElo "2414"] [Opening "Caro-Kann defense, Nypmhomaniac Attack"] [ECO "B10"] [NIC "CK.01"] [Time "13:46:20"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e5 Bg4 4. d4 e6 5. c3 c5 6. dxc5 Nc6 7. Bb5 Bxc5 8. Bxc6+ bxc6 9. Qa4 Bxf3 10. Qxc6+ Qd7 11. Qxa8+ Ke7 12. gxf3 { GM Henrik Danielsen resigns} 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Statistics for H-Danielsen(GM) On for: 1 Idle: 0 rating [need] win loss draw total best Wild 2124 [6] 8 0 0 8 Crazyhouse 1838 [6] 89 46 1 136 1879 (22-Jan-2002) Bullet 1964 [8] 476 237 38 751 2442 (07-Feb-2002) Blitz 2414 7804 2790 527 11121 3000 (22-Dec-2001) Standard 1690 [6] 0 1 0 1 5-minute 2234 [7] 11 7 1 19 1-minute 1991 [8] 1529 1482 65 3076 2149 (28-Jun-2008) 15-minute 886 [4] 0 2 0 2 Name : Henrik Danielsen Groups : Denmark GMs Iceland ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.walverine.com/index.php?id=149 The Seven Deadly Snares of Anu The Nymphomaniac Attack fully explained. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 17 12:09:50 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:09:50 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Walrus tusk gores Rafles Message-ID: <1234897790.499b0b7e929b3@www.taom.com> [Event "ICC 3 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.17"] [Round "-"] [White "rafles"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2090"] [BlackElo "2253"] [Opening "R?ti opening, Walrus"] [ECO "A04"] [NIC "QP.11"] [Time "14:05:04"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. Nf3 e5 The Wall are us or Wall-R-Us or Walrus so named by Colin James I have since found out Emanuel Lasker played it in a simul and it also already has a name - I think Clyde Nakamura has tried it as well. 2. Nxe5 Nc6 3. Nxc6 dxc6 4. e4 c5 5. Bc4 Bd6 6. O-O Ne7 7. d4 cxd4 8. Qxd4 Bxh2+ {White resigns} 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 3 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.17"] [Round "-"] [White "rafles"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2090"] [BlackElo "2253"] [Opening "R?ti opening,Walrus"] [ECO "A04"] [NIC "QP.11"] [Time "14:05:04"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. Nf3 e5 2. Nxe5 Nc6 3. Nxc6 dxc6 4. e4 c5 5. Bc4 Bd6 6. O-O Ne7 7. d4 cxd4 8. Qxd4 Bxh2+ {White resigns} 0-1 From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 18 17:08:47 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:08:47 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Morning After Message-ID: <1235002127.499ca30f816c4@www.taom.com> I lost to Daoud Zupa in a Game/25 at the Valentine's Day Massacare and three days later I had to play him again. I played at full strength. Daoud's rating was 1999 so I didn't want him to reach expert on my watch. I thought I played really, really well but Daoud has a habit of maximum resistance in losing poitions - he almost saved our game in the 2007 Colorado Closed. Daoud whipped up an attack from nowhere and with one minute on my clock I was doing a Kasparov impression, shaking my head and raising my hands wondering how to get a draw. Anthea said I sounded like a wounded walrus. Somehow a miracle occurred. I will analyze it more fully later - the first 43 moves are correct, the rest is a re-creation to arrive at certain positions that I know occurred. Before looking at it with a computer I can say I know I missed many wins. [Event "Denver Chess Club"] [Site "First Presbyterian Church, 1st and Acoma, Denver, Colorado, Basement"] [Date "2009.02.17, Tuesday"] [Round "2"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "Daoud Zupa"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2200"] [BlackElo "1999"] [Opening "R?ti opening"] [ECO "A11"] [NIC "RE.07"] [Time "14:05:04"] [TimeControl "Game/85"] 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 c6 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 Nbd7 5. cxd5 cxd5 6. d4 Nb6 7. O-O Bf5 8. Nc3 h6 9. a4 Rc8 10. Qb3 e6 11. a5 Nc4 12. Qxb7 Rc7 13. Qb5+ Qd7 14. b3 Nd6 15. Qxd7+ Nxd7 16. Bd2 Nf6 17. Rfc1 Rb7 18. Na4 Be7 19. Nc5 Rb5 20. Bf1 O-O 21. e3 Rbb8 22. b4 Nde4 23. Be1 Rfe8 24. b5 Bd6 25. Na6 Rb7 26. Rc6 Bg4 27. Ne5 Bxe5 28. dxe5 Nd7 29. f4 f6 30. Rac1 fxe5 31. Rc7 Rxc7 32. Rxc7 exf4 33. gxf4 e5 34. Rxa7 d4 35. exd4 exf4 36. b6 Ng5 37. Bb4 Nf6 38. Re7 Nf3+ 39. Kg2 Nh4+ 40. Kf2 Rxe7 41. Bxe7 Ne4+ 42. Ke1 Nf3+ 43. Kd1 Nxd4+ 44. Kc1 Nb3+ 45. Kb2 Nxa5 46. Nc5 Nd2 47. Bb5 Ndc4+ 48. Kc3 Nxb6 49. Bd8 Nbc4 50. Bxc4+ Nxc4 51. Kxc4 g5 52. Kd4 Kf7 53. Nd3 Bd1 54. Ne1 Kg6 55. Be7 Bb3 56. Ke4 Bc4 57. Bd8 h5 58. Nf3 g4 59. Nh4+ Kf7 60. Kxf4 Ke8 61. Bc7 Kd7 62. Bb8 Bf7 63. Kg5 Ke6 64. Bg3 Kd5 65. Ng2 Ke4 66. Nf4 Kf3 67. Nxh5 Be6 68. Nf4 Bd7 69. Nd3 Bc8 70. Nb2 Ke2 71. Na4 Ke3 72. Nb2 Bd7 73. Nc4+ Kf3 74. Ne5+ 1-0 Daoud deserts ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Denver Chess Club"] [Site "First Presbyterian Church, 1st and Acoma, Denver, Colorado, Basement"] [Date "2009.02.17"] [Round "2"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "Daoud Zupa"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2200"] [BlackElo "1999"] [Opening "R?ti opening"] [ECO "A11"] [NIC "RE.07"] [Time "14:05:04"] [TimeControl "Game/85"] 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 c6 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 Nbd7 5. cxd5 cxd5 6. d4 Nb6 7. O-O Bf5 8. Nc3 h6 9. a4 Rc8 10. Qb3 e6 11. a5 Nc4 12. Qxb7 Rc7 13. Qb5+ Qd7 14. b3 Nd6 15. Qxd7+ Nxd7 16. Bd2 Nf6 17. Rfc1 Rb7 18. Na4 Be7 19. Nc5 Rb5 20. Bf1 O-O 21. e3 Rbb8 22. b4 Nde4 23. Be1 Rfe8 24. b5 Bd6 25. Na6 Rb7 26. Rc6 Bg4 27. Ne5 Bxe5 28. dxe5 Nd7 29. f4 f6 30. Rac1 fxe5 31. Rc7 Rxc7 32. Rxc7 exf4 33. gxf4 e5 34. Rxa7 d4 35. exd4 exf4 36. b6 Ng5 37. Bb4 Nf6 38. Re7 Nf3+ 39. Kg2 Nh4+ 40. Kf2 Rxe7 41. Bxe7 Ne4+ 42. Ke1 Nf3+ 43. Kd1 Nxd4+ 44. Kc1 Nb3+ 45. Kb2 Nxa5 46. Nc5 Nd2 47. Bb5 Ndc4+ 48. Kc3 Nxb6 49. Bd8 Nbc4 50. Bxc4+ Nxc4 51. Kxc4 g5 52. Kd4 Kf7 53. Nd3 Bd1 54. Ne1 Kg6 55. Be7 Bb3 56. Ke4 Bc4 57. Bd8 h5 58. Nf3 g4 59. Nh4+ Kf7 60. Kxf4 Ke8 61. Bc7 Kd7 62. Bb8 Bf7 63. Kg5 Ke6 64. Bg3 Kd5 65. Ng2 Ke4 66. Nf4 Kf3 67. Nxh5 Be6 68. Nf4 Bd7 69. Nd3 Bc8 70. Nb2 Ke2 71. Na4 Ke3 72. Nb2 Bd7 73. Nc4+ Kf3 74. Ne5+ 1-0 Daoud deserts --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Feb 19 08:15:37 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:15:37 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Tim Kohler on The Morning After In-Reply-To: References: <1235002127.499ca30f816c4@www.taom.com> Message-ID: <1235056537.499d77995350d@www.taom.com> important Jon Fortune lesson - Fritz is much easier to use in Chessbase form - buy Chessbase or download for free Chessbase Light then copy pgn of game then go to chessbase file new board paste game into board Quoting Tim Kohler : I'd like to look @this game. I have Fritz 11, which I use all the time. Still, I've never created a game file like the one below so I can view it there. It's got to be simple. How is it done..? timk Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:08:47 -0700 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com; brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Morning After I lost to Daoud Zupa in a Game/25 at the Valentine's Day Massacare and three days later I had to play him again. I played at full strength. Daoud's rating was 1999 so I didn't want him to reach expert on my watch. I thought I played really, really well but Daoud has a habit of maximum resistance in losing poitions - he almost saved our game in the 2007 Colorado Closed. Daoud whipped up an attack from nowhere and with one minute on my clock I was doing a Kasparov impression, shaking my head and raising my hands wondering how to get a draw. Anthea said I sounded like a wounded walrus. Somehow a miracle occurred. I will analyze it more fully later - the first 43 moves are correct, the rest is a re-creation to arrive at certain positions that I know occurred. Before looking at it with a computer I can say I know I missed many wins. [Event "Denver Chess Club"] [Site "First Presbyterian Church, 1st and Acoma, Denver, Colorado, Basement"] [Date "2009.02.17, Tuesday"] [Round "2"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "Daoud Zupa"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2200"] [BlackElo "1999"] [Opening "R?ti opening"] [ECO "A11"] [NIC "RE.07"] [Time "14:05:04"] [TimeControl "Game/85"] 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 c6 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 Nbd7 5. cxd5 cxd5 6. d4 Nb6 7. O-O Bf5 8. Nc3 h6 9. a4 Rc8 10. Qb3 e6 11. a5 Nc4 12. Qxb7 Rc7 13. Qb5+ Qd7 14. b3 Nd6 15. Qxd7+ Nxd7 16. Bd2 Nf6 17. Rfc1 Rb7 18. Na4 Be7 19. Nc5 Rb5 20. Bf1 O-O 21. e3 Rbb8 22. b4 Nde4 23. Be1 Rfe8 24. b5 Bd6 25. Na6 Rb7 26. Rc6 Bg4 27. Ne5 Bxe5 28. dxe5 Nd7 29. f4 f6 30. Rac1 fxe5 31. Rc7 Rxc7 32. Rxc7 exf4 33. gxf4 e5 34. Rxa7 d4 35. exd4 exf4 36. b6 Ng5 37. Bb4 Nf6 38. Re7 Nf3+ 39. Kg2 Nh4+ 40. Kf2 Rxe7 41. Bxe7 Ne4+ 42. Ke1 Nf3+ 43. Kd1 Nxd4+ 44. Kc1 Nb3+ 45. Kb2 Nxa5 46. Nc5 Nd2 47. Bb5 Ndc4+ 48. Kc3 Nxb6 49. Bd8 Nbc4 50. Bxc4+ Nxc4 51. Kxc4 g5 52. Kd4 Kf7 53. Nd3 Bd1 54. Ne1 Kg6 55. Be7 Bb3 56. Ke4 Bc4 57. Bd8 h5 58. Nf3 g4 59. Nh4+ Kf7 60. Kxf4 Ke8 61. Bc7 Kd7 62. Bb8 Bf7 63. Kg5 Ke6 64. Bg3 Kd5 65. Ng2 Ke4 66. Nf4 Kf3 67. Nxh5 Be6 68. Nf4 Bd7 69. Nd3 Bc8 70. Nb2 Ke2 71. Na4 Ke3 72. Nb2 Bd7 73. Nc4+ Kf3 74. Ne5+ 1-0 Daoud deserts From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Feb 20 09:23:46 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:23:46 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] MarkGravityGood on Tim Kohler on The Morning After Message-ID: <1235147026.499ed912359f4@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from markgravitygood ----- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:25:38 -0000 From: markgravitygood Reply-To: Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com Subject: [Chess Improvement] Re: Tim Kohler on The Morning After To: Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com It's even easier than that, and you don't need chessbase at all. Open Fritz, click "New Game", then cut and paste the entire pgn into the game score area. Voila! Then you can do File...Save Game As....pgn or .cbh (Chessbase Format). Simple. --- In Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com, Brian Wall BrianWallChess3 at ...> wrote: important Jon Fortune lesson - Fritz is much easier to use in Chessbase form - buy Chessbase or download for free Chessbase Light then copy pgn of game then go to chessbase file new board paste game into board Quoting Tim Kohler : I'd like to look @this game. I have Fritz 11, which I use all the ime. Still, I've never created a game file like the one below so I can iew it there. It's got to be simple. How is it done..? timk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090220/c2ae99df/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Feb 21 01:52:42 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:52:42 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Morning After, annotated Message-ID: <1235206362.499fc0da0281c@www.taom.com> I lost to Daoud Zupa in a Game/25 at the Valentine's Day Massacare and three days later I had to play him again. I played at full strength. Daoud's rating was 1999 so I didn't want him to reach expert on my watch. I thought I played really, really well but Daoud has a habit of maximum resistance in losing poitions - he almost saved our game in the 2007 Colorado Closed. Daoud whipped up an attack from nowhere and with one minute on my clock I was doing a Kasparov impression, shaking my head and raising my hands wondering how to get a draw. Anthea said I sounded like a wounded walrus. Somehow a miracle occurred. I will analyze it more fully later - the first 43 moves are correct, the rest is a re-creation to arrive at certain positions that I know occurred. Before looking at it with a computer I can say I know I missed many wins. [Event "Denver Chess Club"] [Site "First Presbyterian Church, 1st and Acoma, Denver, Colorado, Basement"] [Date "2009.02.17, Tuesday"] [Round "2"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "Daoud Zupa"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2200"] [BlackElo "1999"] [Opening "R?ti opening"] [ECO "A11"] [NIC "RE.07"] [Time "14:05:04"] [TimeControl "Game/85"] Denver Chess Club February 17, 2009 Round 2 Reti Opening White - Brian Wall, Pity Master Black - Daoud Zupa, one point from expert 1. Nf3 A lot of my openings are burnout impatient openings but when I really want to win, I settle in for the long haul. Daoud is excellent on the White side of the Reti Opening, he understands subtle pawn play. My plan was to beat Daoud using Daoud Chess, slow, patient, nontactical. 1 ... d5 2. c4 c6 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 Nbd7 I had been reading GM Nigel Davies' Reti Opening blindfold on the bus. He said that he had trouble getting his pawn back after 4 Bg2 dc 5 0-0 Nbd7! 6 Qc2! Nb6 7 Na3? Qd5! He featured a game Dzindzichashvili-Bagirov USSR Championship 1972 4 Bg2 dc 5 Qc2 b5 6 b3 cb 7 ab Bb7 8 Ba3 with good pressure for the pawn. I was all ready to play like Roman but Daoud's move threw me off. 4 ... Nbd7 seems very good to support ... e5 or to take and protect with ... dc and ... Nb6. I decided to go against my instincts ( maintaining the tension against a lower rated player ) and knock off the nonsense. 5. cxd5! cxd5! 6. d4! My d-pawn dominates his d7-knight so he has to reroute. 6 ... Nb6! Fritz 9 likes it but I didn't. I thought Daoud should keep his knights in the center with ... Ne4 and .. Ndf6. Roman Dzindzichashvili once asked me after I played a move like 6 ... Nb6 - " Where are you going? " I actually thought the move was an insult to the position. 7. O-O! Bf5! Again Fritz 9 likes Daoud's move but I didn't. First of all I wanted to round up the two bishops after 8 ... e6 9 Nh4 and secondly his Bishop didn't look developed to me, just cut off from defending his Queenside. " I never willingly trap my bishop behind a pawn chain. " - IM Danny Kopeck 8. Nc3 I was saving 8 Ne5! for just the right moment 8 ... h6 Preserving his bishop and reading my mind but his Kingside looks undeveloped now. Can I exploit this? 9. a4!! Gaining time and space, attacking the awkward knight 9 ... Rc8! Another move that Fritz likes and I didn't. I felt that Daoud's play was dogmatic and not delicate enough and that he was in trouble. He seemed to be following simple development rules but his b7 pawn is hard to guard because of ideas like ... Rc7 Bf4 or ... Qd7 Ne5 10. Qb3 Winning already. Pressuring b7 - Fritz slightly prefers 10 a5 Nc4 11 a6 but I am not here to trade pawns, I am here to collect them. The threat is 11 a5 and 12 Q:b7 and if 10 Qb3 a5 11 Qb5+ wins a pawn 10 ... e6! Guarding the pawn is hopeless so Zupa just develops. 10 ... Rc7 11 Bf4 Rd7 12 Ne5 Rc7 13 a5 Nc4 14 Nb5 Rc8 15 N:a7 highlights the absurdity of trying to protect the pawns. 11. a5! Nc4! 12. Qxb7! " They drew first blood. They drew first blood. " Rambo 12 ... Rc7! 13. Qb5+! I have an alternate strategy of just keeping Queens on and pressuring the Queenside with 13 Qb3!! but trading Queens and pushing my b-pawn looked like progress to me. 13 ... Qd7! 14. b3 Nd6! 15. Qxd7+! Nxd7! 16. Bd2 Zupa's QB deserted his b7-pawn but he is making it hard to guard my extra b-pawn with Rb1. Fritz says I should be more patient about pushing my pawn and just try to protect it with 16 Bb2 Rb7 17 Nd2. I wanted to play smoothly not awkwardly - I was prepared to hand over the backward b-pawn just to develop and overrrun his Queenside. 16 ... Nf6 17. Rfc1!!! Not just the best move objectively - Daoud as White had picked off a Queenside pawn a few days ago and beat me with Rfc1 - I was giving Zupa a taste of his own medicine. Both games followed the same script - after Black managed to equalize with massive effort late in the game, time pressure took the point away a second time. 17 ... Rb7 18. Na4! I was very proud of this fluid move but the best way to exploit his weak bank rank is 18 Bf4!! R:b3 19 B:d6! B:d6 20 Nb5!! attacking everything in sight ( Rc8+ ) One idea is 20 Nb5!! Kd7 21 N:d6 K:d6 22 Ne5!! attacking everything in sight sgain. 18 ... Be7 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dude sees that 18 ... R:b3 19 Rc7!! Rb7 20 Rac1!! is miserable - 20 Rac1 Kd8 21 R:b7 N:b7 22 a6 Nd6 23 Ba5+!! Ke8 24 Rc7!! is a line I saw during the game. I didn't see as far as 24 Rc7!! Nc4 25 R:a7!! N:a5 26 Ra8+! Ke7 27 Rc8! 18 ... R:b3 19 Rc7!! Nb5 20 Rc8+ Ke7 21 Nc5 Rb2 22 Bc1, Rb8, Na6 or Bf1 all win with my theme of saccing the b-pawn to overrrun his undeveloped position. My idea was to smoothly put my pieces on good squares and let the pawns take care of themselves. I felt this was Master versus Expert Chess - they want pawns, I want squares. Daoud abandons the idea of material equality and just tries to get castled alive. I gave him only bleak choices so far. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19. Nc5 I should be completely winning now - just push the b-pawn. 19 ... Rb5 20. Bf1 I was very satisfied with this move - my bishops escort my b-pawn forward. I was saving 20 Ne5!! for a rainy day. 20 ... O-O 21. e3! Rbb8! 22. b4!! It was hard choosing between this and 22 Ne5!! They are both very strong. 22 ... Nde4! 23. Be1! My silly bishops are better than his because they advance my extra pawn. 23 ... Rfe8 Some kind of defense to Ne5-c6 I imagine 24. b5!! Again a powerful choice between 24 Ne5!! and advancing my b-pawn 24 ... Bd6!! He seems to read my mind sometimes - hindering the effect of Ne5 25. Na6!! Endless invasion 25 ... Rb7! 26. Rc6 The wins are stacking up like corkwood now. 26 Nh4!! intending f3 or 26 Bb4!! are also good 26 ... Bg4 I knew I was winning and spent 10 minutes on the many ways to deal with the threat of ... B:f3. 27. Ne5!! Bxe5! 28. dxe5! Nd7! 29. f4 f6 The move I expected - Daoud knows he is dead busted on the Queenside so he throws sand in my eyes on the Kingside. 30. Rac1!!! Ignoring everything to go after the a7-pawn and score two connected passed pawns on the 6th rank ( worth 7 points, according to 1959 Colorado Champion Hans Berliner ) 30 ... fxe5! Might as well 31. Rc7!! Rxc7! 32. Rxc7! exf4 33. gxf4 I can take the free knight on d7 but what I really want is pawn-a7 33 ... e5! more desperate nonsense 34. Rxa7!! Finally. 34 ... d4 more smoke 35. exd4!! exf4! 36. b6!! The game should be over but Daoud managed to bamboozle me. 36 ... Ng5!! Double threatening my e1-bishop 37. Bb4!! Nf6 38. Re7 Daoud had 4 minutes and I had about 6. It was a nervy situation and I feared some nightmarish last minute unfair mating net. There was nothing to fear and just 38 b7!!, among many others, won easily. My idea was to sac my rook on an e4-Black-Knight and then Queen my pawns. I was losing the ability to think rationally. 38 ...Nf3+! 39. Kg2! Any legal move wins easily. 39 ... Nh4+ 40. Kf2!! Rxe7! 41. Bxe7! Ne4+! 42. Ke1???????? >From the Kingside frying pawn in the lower lefthand corner to the fire raging on the whole board. I fell for Daoud's bluff, there was no mate after 42 Kg1!!, I just Queen my pawn. I was happy to escape the corner and sac my f1-bishop to get my pawns rolling. 42 ... Nf3+! 43. Kd1! Nxd4+!! Sickening - Daoud is not after my bishop, he is after my pawns! 44. Kc1! I shuddered when I saw 44 Ke1?? Nc2! checkmate 44 ... Nb3+!! 45. Kb2! Nxa5! 46. Nc5? I could have held onto a shred of dignity and advantage with 46 Bb4 Nb7 47 Bc4+ Kh7 48 Bd5 Ned6 49 Nc5 Bc8 50 Kc3! but how am I supposed to find weird computer lines like this with a minute on my clock? 46 ... Nd2 I have nothing after 46 ... Kf7!, ... N:c5! or ... Nd2! My beautiful sand castle washed away. Here is where I went a little nuts with little time left, wondering how I am going to draw this and how completely unfair this position is compared to what I had. It was an impossible situation but I came through somehow. 47. Bb5!! Ndc4+ 48. Kc3!! Nxb6 49. Bd8!!! Amazingly from nowhere I win a piece but I only have one h-pawn left, the right color for my e7-bishop. 49 ... Nbc4! 50. Bxc4+! Nxc4! 51. Kxc4! g5! I stopped recording moves on move 44 but this is the first move I am not sure of - my score does reflect actual game positions, it just does not accurately record the precise way we got there anymore. 52. Kd4 Kf7! 53. Nd3 Bd1 54. Ne1 Kg6 55. Be7 Bb3 56. Ke4 Bc4 57. Bd8 h5???? 58. Nf3!! Awesome - I win a key pawn - I think I am winning again. 58 ... g4 59. Nh4+!! Ignore the knight fork on e5 - I don't think that was there. Daoud played the illegal 59 ... Kg5!? and I demanded TD Joe Haines add two minutes to my 45 seconds. I don't think that matters much - I have a 5 second delay and I will gobble up all his pawns. 59 ... Kf7 60. Kxf4! Ke8 61. Bc7 Kd7! 62. Bb8! Bf7 63. Kg5! Methodically eliminating Zupa's infrantry like so many kitchen mice. 63 ... Ke6 64. Bg3 Kd5! 65. Ng2 Ke4! 66. Nf4! Kf3! 67. Nxh5! I can mate with Bishop and Knight in about 30 seconds. 67 ... Be6 68. Nf4! Bd7! 69. Nd3! Bc8 70. Nb2 Ignore Ne5+ - It took me a lot longer to get there than I am showing. 70 ... Ke2 71. Na4 Ke3 72. Nb2 Bd7 73. Nc4+ This happened - trying to save his last pawn Daoud Zupa lost his bishop. 73 ... Kf3 74. Ne5+! 1-0 Daoud deserts I have to give Daoud Zupa great credit for his mating net bluff - it should have worked. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Denver Chess Club"] [Site "First Presbyterian Church, 1st and Acoma, Denver, Colorado, Basement"] [Date "2009.02.17"] [Round "2"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "Daoud Zupa"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2200"] [BlackElo "1999"] [Opening "R?ti opening"] [ECO "A11"] [NIC "RE.07"] [Time "14:05:04"] [TimeControl "Game/85"] 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 c6 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 Nbd7 5. cxd5 cxd5 6. d4 Nb6 7. O-O Bf5 8. Nc3 h6 9. a4 Rc8 10. Qb3 e6 11. a5 Nc4 12. Qxb7 Rc7 13. Qb5+ Qd7 14. b3 Nd6 15. Qxd7+ Nxd7 16. Bd2 Nf6 17. Rfc1 Rb7 18. Na4 Be7 19. Nc5 Rb5 20. Bf1 O-O 21. e3 Rbb8 22. b4 Nde4 23. Be1 Rfe8 24. b5 Bd6 25. Na6 Rb7 26. Rc6 Bg4 27. Ne5 Bxe5 28. dxe5 Nd7 29. f4 f6 30. Rac1 fxe5 31. Rc7 Rxc7 32. Rxc7 exf4 33. gxf4 e5 34. Rxa7 d4 35. exd4 exf4 36. b6 Ng5 37. Bb4 Nf6 38. Re7 Nf3+ 39. Kg2 Nh4+ 40. Kf2 Rxe7 41. Bxe7 Ne4+ 42. Ke1 Nf3+ 43. Kd1 Nxd4+ 44. Kc1 Nb3+ 45. Kb2 Nxa5 46. Nc5 Nd2 47. Bb5 Ndc4+ 48. Kc3 Nxb6 49. Bd8 Nbc4 50. Bxc4+ Nxc4 51. Kxc4 g5 52. Kd4 Kf7 53. Nd3 Bd1 54. Ne1 Kg6 55. Be7 Bb3 56. Ke4 Bc4 57. Bd8 h5 58. Nf3 g4 59. Nh4+ Kf7 60. Kxf4 Ke8 61. Bc7 Kd7 62. Bb8 Bf7 63. Kg5 Ke6 64. Bg3 Kd5 65. Ng2 Ke4 66. Nf4 Kf3 67. Nxh5 Be6 68. Nf4 Bd7 69. Nd3 Bc8 70. Nb2 Ke2 71. Na4 Ke3 72. Nb2 Bd7 73. Nc4+ Kf3 74. Ne5+ 1-0 Daoud deserts --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roman could have won with 41 Kh2 [Event "URS-ch40 Baku ,URS-c"] [Site "URS-ch40 Baku ,URS-c"] [Date "1972.??.??"] [EventDate "?"] [Round "?"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [White "Roman Dzindzichashvili"] [Black "Vladimir Bagirov"] [ECO "A15"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "?"] [PlyCount "95"] 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 dxc4 5.Qc2 b5 6.b3 cxb3 7.axb3 Bb7 8.Ba3 a6 9.O-O g6 10.d4 Bg7 11.Nbd2 O-O 12.e4 a5 13.e5 Nd5 14.Ne4 b4 15.Bb2 Ba6 16.Rfe1 Bb5 17.e6 f6 18.Nc5 Ra7 19.h4 Bh6 20.Bh3 Nc7 21.Bg2 Nd5 22.Nh2 Bg7 23.Ng4 Kh8 24.Bf3 Nc3 25.Qd2 Rg8 26.Bxc3 bxc3 27.Qxc3 h5 28.Ne3 f5 29.Rad1 Na6 30.Nxa6 Rxa6 31.Ng2 a4 32.Nf4 Bf6 33.Qe3 Qf8 34.d5 a3 35.d6 a2 36.d7 Qg7 37.d8=Q Rxd8 38.Rxd8+ Kh7 39.Nh3 a1=Q 40.Rxa1 Rxa1+ 41.Kg2 Bf1+ 42.Kh2 Bxh3 43.Kxh3 Qh6 44.Qxh6+ Kxh6 45.Bxc6 Rb1 46.Rd3 Kg7 47.Kg2 Be5 48.f4 1/2-1/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ www.Walverine.com From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Feb 21 20:53:59 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:53:59 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Great Idea Message-ID: <1235274839.49a0cc5725137@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:44:07 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: FW: Great Idea From: bowltax2 at cox.net To: scothall at cox.net; pjmtv at earth-comm.com; lew700eldoar at suddenlink.net; bigbear12 at hotmail.com; jdees511 at cox.net; joelyork at earthlink.net; majorsmom0 at yahoo.com; azdrred at hotmail.com; dbbolio at yahoo.com; chumphreys at cox.net Subject: Fw: Fw: Great Idea Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:55:02 -0700 ----- Original Message ----- From: SusieQ To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 4:16 PM Subject: Fw: Fw: Great Idea Canadian kid, great idea ! A young inventor has created a motorbike with a twist -- it uses two wheels but they are positioned right next to each other, giving it the illusion of being a powered unicycle. And even better, it might help save the planet. Ben Gulak has spent several years building the electric Uno that uses gyroscopic technology -- like the infamous Segway commuter device -- to stay upright. The bizarre-looking contraption has only one switch -- on or off -- and is controlled entirely by body movement. The rider leans forwards to accelerate to speeds of 25 mph and back to slow down. It has two wheels side-by-side and has been turning heads wherever it has been ridden. Scroll down for more... Ben Gulak designed the Uno himself with the help of a simple 3D program. The green machine is so small and light it can be taken indoors and carried into lifts -- and is recharged by being plugged into the mains. The wheels are completely independent, allowing the bike to turn on a sixpence and the technology takes the balance and guesswork out of riding a unicycle. Its 18-year-old creator is now looking for investors to get the Uno into production and onto the streets. Ben, from Ontario , Canada , said: 'I was inspired to make the bike after visiting China a few years ago and seeing all the smog.. 'They all drive little bikes that are really polluting and I wanted to make something to combat that. 'I started with the concept because if something doesn't look cool people just won't be interested. Scroll down for more... The Uno works like a Segway - just tilt your body forward to start moving Ben Gulak turns heads from onlookers as he rides past them. After coming up with the concept I started to build it and now have the first prototype and the reaction has been amazing. 'It has two wheels side by side and that means it is easier to turn as they are completely independent and have their own suspension. 'The bike has a 'neutral point' and when you lean forward it accelerates to keep the neutral point in the right place.'It has a couple of gyros and is basically self-balancing -- it takes the guesswork out of riding a unicycle. 'The bike takes a bit of getting used to because you have to learn to trust it. But it doesn't take long. 'It takes any weight and weighs 120 lbs and can fit into a lift so you can take it indoors to charge it up. 'Currently it has a top speed of 25 mph, but that will be increased greatly with bigger motors. 'It has a range of about 2.5 hours and it is designed for the commute to work through busy towns. I believe this could be electrical alternative to the car. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... 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Name: ATT00114.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 45686 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090221/c50c2a0e/attachment-0002.jpg From wayne_thompso1 at hotmail.com Sat Feb 21 08:58:31 2009 From: wayne_thompso1 at hotmail.com (Wayne Thompson) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:58:31 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] [BrianWallChess] Fishing Pole database In-Reply-To: <1234464241.49946df1abdc9@www.taom.com> References: <1234464241.49946df1abdc9@www.taom.com> Message-ID: i have been spending my spare time playing around with the fishing pole and ruy lopez in general and the game gashimov grishuk inspired me to recommend a similar theme to answer the fishing pole. what are your thoughts on this line? tx wayne 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0?0 Ng4 5.h3 h5 6.c3 Bc5 7.d4 Bb6 8.hxg4 hxg4 9.Ng5 f6 [9...exd4 10.Qxg4 f6 11.Nf3 Kf8] 10.Qxg4 fxg5 11.Bxg5 d5 12.Qg3 Qd6 13.Nd2 (3) Gashimov,V (2679) - Grischuk,A (2716) [C72] FIDE GP Baku AZE (12), 04.05.2008 [Mikhail Golubev (www.chesstoday.net)] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 d6 5.0?0 Diagram XABCDEFGHY 8r+lwqkvlntr( 7+pzp-+pzpp' 6p+nzp-+-+& 5+-+-zp-+-% 4L+-+P+-+$ 3+-+-+N+-# 2PzPPzP-zPPzP" 1tRNvLQ+RmK-! xabcdefghy 5...Bg4 [This is GM Yandemirov's pet line. More common is 5...Bd7 , which has often been used by Mamedyarov] 6.h3 h5 7.d4 [In the eighth round Svidler against Grischuk played the less principled 7.c3 ] 7...b5 8.Bb3 Nxd4 9.hxg4 Nxb3 10.axb3 hxg4 11.Ng5 Qd7 Diagram XABCDEFGHY 8r+-+kvlntr( 7+-zpq+pzp-' 6p+-zp-+-+& 5+p+-zp-sN-% 4-+-+P+p+$ 3+P+-+-+-# 2-zPP+-zPP+" 1tRNvLQ+RmK-! xabcdefghy Black has two pawns for a knight and the white g5 knight is trapped. But things are not simple for Black, indeed. 12.Qd3!?N [This is a prepared novelty, which Gashimov revealed at the press conference. Instead, 12.c4 has usually been played. Grischuk may have known how Black may have improved upon the game Smirnov-Yandemirov, Fuegen ECC 2006, which continued: 12...Rb8 13.Rxa6 f6 14.Nc3 fxg5 15.Nxb5 Nf6 16.Ra7 Rc8 17.Re1 Qf7 18.Be3 Qh5 19.Kf1 Kd7 20.Qa1N (deviating from the previous game between the same players!) 20...Qh1+ 21.Ke2 Qxg2 22.Nxc7 Rxc7 23.Qa4+ Kd8 24.Qa5 Ne8 25.Kd2 Kd7 26.Qb5+ Ke7 27.Rxc7+ Nxc7 28.Qb7 Kd7 (possibly Black can try 28...Kf7!? 29.Qxc7+ Kg8 - MG) 29.Bb6 Be7 30.Qxc7+ Ke6 31.Ra1 Qxe4 32.Ra7 Re8 33.Qd7+ Kf7 34.Qxd6 g3 35.fxg3 Qg2+ 36.Kc1? and later White won.] 12...Rb8 [After 12...f6 White plays 13.Qd5! with the idea of 13...c6 14.Qe6+ Qe7 15.Rxa6!+- (Gashimov).; If 12...c6 , then 13.c4 with the idea of 13...f6 14.cxb5? seems to be strong; Another option is 12...Ne7!? where White has many attractive possibilities. For example, 13.f4 exf4 14.Bxf4 f6 15.Nc3 fxg5 16.Bg3!? and the black king feels not so good in the centre.; Finally, there was 12...Rc8 which is similar to the text (Black prepares f6), but leaves the b5-pawn not well protected after 13.Rxa6] 13.Rxa6 f6 14.Nc3 fxg5 15.Bxg5 Be7 16.f4 Diagram XABCDEFGHY 8-tr-+k+ntr( 7+-zpqvl-zp-' 6R+-zp-+-+& 5+p+-zp-vL-% 4-+-+PzPp+$ 3+PsNQ+-+-# 2-zPP+-+P+" 1+-+-+RmK-! xabcdefghy Here Gashimov's preparation ended with favourable assessment for White . The material is balanced while the initiative is on his side. 16...gxf3? [After 16...Bxg5 17.fxg5 c6 (GM Shipov, baku2008.fide.com) 18.Nd1 Ne7 19.Ne3 Black's position is quite difficult, but he should have chances to survive.] 17.Qxf3!? [The inferior 17.Bxe7?! fxg2 18.Rf8+ Kxe7 19.Qf3! (19.Rxb8?? Qg4?+ Gashimov) 19...Nf6! (19...Rxf8? 20.Nd5+ and wins) 20.Rxf6 gxf6 21.Nd5+ Kd8 22.Qxf6+ Kc8 23.Nb6+! (23.Qxh8+? Kb7 and White loses material) 23...cxb6 24.Qxh8+= with the idea of 24...Kb7 25.Rxb6+ leads only to equality] 17...Nf6 Diagram XABCDEFGHY 8-tr-+k+-tr( 7+-zpqvl-zp-' 6R+-zp-sn-+& 5+p+-zp-vL-% 4-+-+P+-+$ 3+PsN-+Q+-# 2-zPP+-+P+" 1+-+-+RmK-! xabcdefghy 18.Nd5 [18.Bxf6 was also possible] 18...Nxd5!? [Black is strategically dead after 18...0?0 19.Bxf6 (or 19.Qf5 Rbd8 20.Qxd7 Rxd7 21.Bxf6 Bxf6 22.Rc6 Gashimov) 19...Bxf6 20.Ra7 Bh4 21.Rxc7 Rxf3 22.Rxd7 Rxf1+ 23.Kxf1 Rf8+ 24.Kg1+- Grischuk] 19.Qf7+ Kd8 20.Qxg7 Diagram XABCDEFGHY 8-tr-mk-+-tr( 7+-zpqvl-wQ-' 6R+-zp-+-+& 5+p+nzp-vL-% 4-+-+P+-+$ 3+P+-+-+-# 2-zPP+-+P+" 1+-+-+RmK-! xabcdefghy 20...Kc8!? [20...Re8 21.exd5 Bxg5 22.Qxg5+ Kc8? could have prolonged the game: White should be able to convert his extra pawn, but good technical work is needed.] 21.Qxh8+ Kb7 22.Qh7!+- [An important move. 22.Qg7? would have been wrong because of 22...Qg4 with the idea of 23.exd5 Qd4+! 24.Kh1? Bxg5 25.Rfa1 Qh4+ (Gashimov).] 22...Qg4 23.exd5 Diagram XABCDEFGHY 8-tr-+-+-+( 7+kzp-vl-+Q' 6R+-zp-+-+& 5+p+Pzp-vL-% 4-+-+-+q+$ 3+P+-+-+-# 2-zPP+-+P+" 1+-+-+RmK-! xabcdefghy 23...Qd4+ [After 23...Bxg5 24.Ra7+! Kxa7 25.Qxc7+ wins quickly.] 24.Kh1 Bxg5 Starting from here White could have won in different ways; what occurred in the game was quite nice. 25.Rfa1 Be3 26.Ra7+ Qxa7 27.Rxa7+ Bxa7 28.g4 Rf8 29.g5 Rf2 30.Qe4 Rf1+ 31.Kh2 Rf4 Diagram XABCDEFGHY 8-+-+-+-+( 7vlkzp-+-+-' 6-+-zp-+-+& 5+p+Pzp-zP-% 4-+-+Qtr-+$ 3+P+-+-+-# 2-zPP+-+-mK" 1+-+-+-+-! xabcdefghy [A more banal win for White is 31...Rg1 32.g6 Rg5 33.Kh3 (planning Kh4) 33...Bf2 34.Qf3+- (Gashimov).] 32.Qxf4! exf4 33.c3! And Black is unable to stop the g5 pawn. 1?0 To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com; brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com From: BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:44:01 -0700 Subject: [BrianWallChess] Fishing Pole database for 10 years now people have been begging me for a Fishing Pole database. Savio Perego from Brazil just added 558 of my Fishing Pole games that he collected to BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com go to files then click on Fishing Pole.cbv It probably helps to own Chessbase or Chessbase Light. if anyone else has more games to add, feel free. Someone asked me just this week for that. __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar MARKETPLACE >From kitchen basics to easy recipes - join the Group from Kraft Foods Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! 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URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090221/57ebc888/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Feb 21 23:30:25 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:30:25 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Daoud Zupa Message-ID: <1235284225.49a0f101ed0ce@www.taom.com> I played the Czech Benoni against 11 year old Darwin Yang ( 2313 ). I was doing great until the asinine concept " Trade everything, offer a draw and go home" sent my game into an immediate tailspin. [Event "North American Open"] [Site "Bally's Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada"] [Date "2009.12.28"] [Round "7"] [White "FM Darwin Yang"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [Result "7"] [ICCResult "Black Resigns"] [WhiteElo "2299"] [BlackElo "2229"] [Opening "Old Benoni defense"] [ECO "A44"] [NIC "OI.05"] [Time "6 PM"] [TimeControl "40/2, Game/1,5 second delay"] 1. d4 c5 2. d5 e5 3. c4 d6 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. e4 Nbd7 6. Bd3 a6 7. a4 b6 8. Nge2 h5 9. O-O Rb8 10. Qc2 Be7 11. Bd2 h4 12. Rae1 Nh5 13. f4 exf4 14. Nxf4 Ne5 15. Nxh5 Rxh5 16. Ne2 Bd7 17. Nf4 Rh6 18. Be2 Bg5 19. b3 Ng6 20. Nxg6 Rxg6 21. Bh5 Rf6 22. e5 Rxf1+ 23. Rxf1 Bxd2 24. Bxf7+ Ke7 25. Qxd2 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- My recent Denver Chess Club victory over Daoud, brilliantly annotated as usual under " The Morning After " [Event "Denver Chess Club"] [Site "First Presbyterian Church, 1st and Acoma, Denver, Colorado, Basement"] [Date "2009.02.17"] [Round "2"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "Daoud Zupa"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2200"] [BlackElo "1999"] [Opening "R?ti opening"] [ECO "A11"] [NIC "RE.07"] [Time "14:05:04"] [TimeControl "Game/85"] 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 c6 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 Nbd7 5. cxd5 cxd5 6. d4 Nb6 7. O-O Bf5 8. Nc3 h6 9. a4 Rc8 10. Qb3 e6 11. a5 Nc4 12. Qxb7 Rc7 13. Qb5+ Qd7 14. b3 Nd6 15. Qxd7+ Nxd7 16. Bd2 Nf6 17. Rfc1 Rb7 18. Na4 Be7 19. Nc5 Rb5 20. Bf1 O-O 21. e3 Rbb8 22. b4 Nde4 23. Be1 Rfe8 24. b5 Bd6 25. Na6 Rb7 26. Rc6 Bg4 27. Ne5 Bxe5 28. dxe5 Nd7 29. f4 f6 30. Rac1 fxe5 31. Rc7 Rxc7 32. Rxc7 exf4 33. gxf4 e5 34. Rxa7 d4 35. exd4 exf4 36. b6 Ng5 37. Bb4 Nf6 38. Re7 Nf3+ 39. Kg2 Nh4+ 40. Kf2 Rxe7 41. Bxe7 Ne4+ 42. Ke1 Nf3+ 43. Kd1 Nxd4+ 44. Kc1 Nb3+ 45. Kb2 Nxa5 46. Nc5 Nd2 47. Bb5 Ndc4+ 48. Kc3 Nxb6 49. Bd8 Nbc4 50. Bxc4+ Nxc4 51. Kxc4 g5 52. Kd4 Kf7 53. Nd3 Bd1 54. Ne1 Kg6 55. Be7 Bb3 56. Ke4 Bc4 57. Bd8 h5 58. Nf3 g4 59. Nh4+ Kf7 60. Kxf4 Ke8 61. Bc7 Kd7 62. Bb8 Bf7 63. Kg5 Ke6 64. Bg3 Kd5 65. Ng2 Ke4 66. Nf4 Kf3 67. Nxh5 Be6 68. Nf4 Bd7 69. Nd3 Bc8 70. Nb2 Ke2 71. Na4 Ke3 72. Nb2 Bd7 73. Nc4+ Kf3 74. Ne5+ 1-0 Daoud deserts ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daoud's victory over me, very similar in style and plot to the above game (played 3 days later). [Event "2009 Valentine's Day Massacare"] [Site "Tabor Center, Denver, Colorado"] [Date "2009.02.14"] [Round "2"] [White "Daoud Zupa"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "1993"] [BlackElo "2200"] [Opening "Old Benoni defense"] [ECO "A44"] [NIC "OI.05"] [Time "01:51:53"] [TimeControl "Game/ 25 minutes plus 5 second delay"] Valentine's Day Massacre Two lonely hearts battle it out for no one in particular. Board 1 Round 2 Game/25 minutes 5 second delay 2-14-09 White - Daoud Zupa, 1993 Black - Brian Wall, 2200 1. d4 c5 2. d5 e5 3. c4 d6 If I play a line I win all the time, I call that " giving a lesson ". Great for your rating, bad for your understanding of Chess. If I play a line I lose all the time, I call that " learning something ". Bad for your rating, great for your understanding of Chess. In my praxis ( what does that actually mean? ) the Czech Benoni almost always loses, no matter what side of the board I am on. Against Darwin Yang, I used some ideas of IM Andrew Martin on Danielle Rice's Czech Benoni video and got a great game. I played alert, dynamic, interesting, creative Chess - the only problem was, I was so inexperienced I didn't know I had a great game! I got everything a Czech Benoni guy could ask for. I can't say as much in my game with Daoud. The Czech Benoni is basically a tease, you invite White to overextend himself. I have not developed the proper grinder mentality to play it well yet. I am rather an impatient sort of man. The game is all about the pawn breaks b4, ... b5, f4, ... f5 4. Nc3! Nf6 5. e4! Nbd7 Andrew Martin recommends delaying ... Be7 in case you need to play ... g6 in response to Ng1-e2-g3-f5 6. Nf3 a6 7. Bd3 Be7! Played at least 15 times, including Andrew Martin ( see below ) 8. Rb1 TN Theoretical Novelty by Daoud Zupa, supporting the key pawn break b4 8 ... O-O! 9. a3 b5!? A real Czech Benoni guy would calmly play ... b6 and wait but I decided to Benko-ize it. The rest of the game I just suffered. 10. cxb5! Three days later I won Daoud's b-pawn. 10 ... axb5! 11. Bxb5! Ba6 I'm playing the Benko, what are you playing? 12. Bxa6! Rxa6! 13. O-O! c4 14. Qe2! Qc7 15. Be3 Rc8 16. Nd2!! It helps to play poker. Part of the agony of being a Chessmaster is you can see how many different ways your opponent can beat you. It was no fun analyzing 16 b4!! with two connected passed pawns for Zupa. 16 ... Nb6? I considered 16 ... Ra5 to stop b4 or Nb5 but time was short and I wanted to get my other knight working. 17. Rfc1 Three days later I played this move against Daoud. Daoud has a gazillion wins every move - 17 b3!!! exploits the Ra6-pin and threatens 18 B:b6 and 19 N:c4 17 ... Nfd7!! I'm playing the Benko, what are you playing? 18. Nb5 Qb7!! 19. Nxc4!! Nxd5!! It's a fair trade, I am making the brillant moves, Daoud is winning the game. 20. Ncxd6!! Rxc1+ 21. Rxc1! Bxd6!! 22. exd5!! f5 Trying to make something of my pawn majority before Daoud strangles me with his two connected Queenside passers. 23. Qc4 Since when does Daoud make great moves every time on a holiday? 23 ... Kf7 24. a4 f4 25. Nxd6+ Missing the downright awesome 25 Qc6!!! R:c6 26 dc!!! totally kicking my Queen's ass because of N:d6 and c7 25 ... Rxd6! 7 minutes for me, 4 for Daoud 26. Bc5!! What's with all the double exclams today, Dude? 26 ... Rxd5 27. Rd1! Ke6!! 28. Ba3!! Being a Master sucks - I saw what looked like a clear win to me - 28.b4 Nxc5 29.bxc5 Qc6 30.Rxd5 Qxd5 31.Qxd5+ Kxd5 32.f3 Kxc5 33.Kf2 Kb4 34.Ke2 Kxa4 35.Kd3 Kb5 36.Ke4 Kc5 37.Kxe5 28 ... Nb6 29. Qb3!! The munchkin is inspired today, he has only lost to me in the past, no draws. 29 ... Qa6 30. Qh3+ Kf6!! 31. Rxd5!! Nxd5! 32. Qxh7? Qxa4! It looks hard to win now. We are down to 1 minute and change. I offered Daoud a draw but he had blooddust in his nostrils. 33. Qh4+ Ke6 34. Qg4+! Kf6 35. h4!! Must be high on PCP 35 ... Qe4 35 ... Kf7 is better but we are flying now. 36. h5? 36 Bf8!! would keep it real for DZ. I think I should be able to hold 36 h5? Qb1+ 37 Kh2 Qf5 38 Q:f5+ K:f5 36 ... Kf7 37. Qd7+!! Daoud's drinking moon juice, I have never seen this many Daoud exclams in one game. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE AGE OF AQUARIUS When the Moon is in the Seventh House, And Jupiter aligns with Mars, Then peace will guide the planets, And love will steer the stars. This is the dawning of The Age of Aquarius, The Age of Aquarius, Aquarius, Aquarius. Aquarius >From the Broadway Musical Hair, ?1968. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 37 ... Kg8!! 38. Qe6+ Kh7! 39. Bf8 This is the part that hurts - after all this suffering I equalize with ... Nf6!! this move or next and I told Daoud this after the game. The problem is that I didn't equalize until I had 36 seconds left on my clock. As my inner voice screamed at me to play ... Nf6!! this move or next ( I can still hear it ) I panicked and went for the perpetual one move too soon. I begged myself to at least take a second look next move but primitive blitz instincts took over and overruled my brain. 39 ... Qe1+? 39 .... Nf6!!! 40 B:g7 Qe1+!! 41 Kh2 Q:f2!! and the infinite check idea works now. 39 .... Nf6!!! 40 Kh2 f3!! ensures another perpetual 40. Kh2 Qxf2?? Sick. 40 ... Nf6!!=. I saw my mistkae after I moved and before he moved, the familiar Zen moment of Enlightenment. 41. Qg6+ 1-0 Mate next so the long reign of terror finally came to an end. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "2009 Valentine's Day Massacare"] [Site "Tabor Center, Denver, Colorado"] [Date "2009.02.14"] [Round "2"] [White "Daoud Zupa"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "1993"] [BlackElo "2200"] [Opening "Old Benoni defense"] [ECO "A44"] [NIC "OI.05"] [Time "01:51:53"] [TimeControl "Game/ 25 minutes plus 5 second delay"] 1. d4 c5 2. d5 e5 3. c4 d6 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. e4 Nbd7 6. Nf3 a6 7. Bd3 Be7 8. Rb1 O-O 9. a3 b5 10. cxb5 axb5 11. Bxb5 Ba6 12. Bxa6 Rxa6 13. O-O c4 14. Qe2 Qc7 15. Be3 Rc8 16. Nd2 Nb6 17. Rfc1 Nfd7 18. Nb5 Qb7 19. Nxc4 Nxd5 20. Ncxd6 Rxc1+ 21. Rxc1 Bxd6 22. exd5 f5 23. Qc4 Kf7 24. a4 f4 25. Nxd6+ Rxd6 26. Bc5 Rxd5 27. Rd1 Ke6 28. Ba3 Nb6 29. Qb3 Qa6 30. Qh3+ Kf6 31. Rxd5 Nxd5 32. Qxh7 Qxa4 33. Qh4+ Ke6 34. Qg4+ Kf6 35. h4 Qe4 36. h5 Kf7 37. Qd7+ Kg8 38. Qe6+ Kh7 39. Bf8 Qe1+ 40. Kh2 Qxf2 41. Qg6+ 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Martin loses a Czech Benoni, then convinces me somehow to play it. [Event "BCF-ch"] [Site "Southampton"] [Date "1986.07.28"] [Round "4"] [White "Flear,Glenn C"] [Black "Martin,Andrew D"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "A56"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e5 4.Nc3 d6 5.e4 Nbd7 6.Bd3 a6 7.Nf3 Be7 8.h3 h5 9.Be3 Nf8 10.Rb1 Ng6 11.Qd2 h4 12.b4 b6 13.Na4 Nh5 14.bxc5 bxc5 15.Nb6 Rb8 16.Nxc8 Rxb1+ 17.Bxb1 Qxc8 18.0-0 Ngf4 19.Nh2 0-0 20.Bc2 g6 21.Rb1 Bd8 22.Rb3 f5 23.exf5 gxf5 24.Bd1 Rf7 25.Qb2 Rg7 26.Bxh5 Nxh5 27.Rb8 Qc7 28.Nf3 Kh7 29.Bg5 Be7 30.Rb7 Qd8 31.Bxe7 Rxe7 32.Nxh4 Ng7 33.Rb8 Qa5 34.Qc1 f4 35.Qb1+ e4 36.Rf8 Qb4 37.Qd1 f3 38.Nxf3 Qxc4 39.Ng5+ Kg6 40.Ne6 Nxe6 41.Qg4+ Ng5 42.Qf5+ Kg7 43.Qf6+ 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Feb 22 08:06:35 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:06:35 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Colorado Scholastic Report Message-ID: <1235315195.49a169fb76da7@www.taom.com> It's never happened before that the openings I discuss before a tournament actually occur on the board but my 10 year old Devon used everything I gave him. It was his idea to use the "rook trick - he found from experience that this is the quickest way to crush kids. We discussed all the alternative defences but he was right. 1 e4 e5 2 Qh5 g6 3 Q:e5+ Ne7 4 Q:h8 d6 5 Bc4 followed quickly by Q:h7 and Q:f7 checkmate Round 3 versus Bronson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWpWin-ZjeI&feature=related Fork Trick vidoe by Brian Wall Devon and I reviewed the Fork Trick and that came to pass 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Bc4 N:e4 5 N:e4 d5 6 B:d5 Q:d5 7 d3 Bb4+ 8 c3 Ba5 9 0-0 0-0 10 Bh6 gh? 11 Nf6+ Devon lost his Queen instead of winning a piece with 10 ... f5! Round 4 versus Nathan Thieren ( 1002 ) " You would be proud of my opening, Daddy, but he used a Poisoned Piece on me ". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was most proud when Devon got his first rated Fishing Pole against one of the 4-0 leaders Alex Hu Ni 1320 ( half of the top 8 performers in the 4-6th grade are Chinese so far ) 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 Nf6 4 0-0 Ng4 "I got some Fishing Pole action" Devon after the game 5 d4 ed 6 N:d4 N:d4! I showed Devon some 6 N:d4 h5 7 Nc3 Bc5 traps after the game Ironically Devon's move is Fritz best 7 Q:d4 Qh4 8 h3 h5 My little boy is going Fishing! 9 Nd2 c6 Devon mentioned the ... b6, ... Bc5 idea after the game which I thought was clever 10 Nf3 Qf6 11 Q:f6 gf!! My boy refuses to retreat his Fishing Pole knight - what a thoroughbred! 12 hg hg 13 Nd4 B:c1 14 Ra:c1 d5 Coming out blazing with both pistols like Yosemite Sam 15 ed b5 Still making threats in a losing effort like a Noble Fishing Poler 16 Rfe1+ Kd7 17 dc+! Kc7! 18 B:b5 Bf5 19 Nf5 Rh7!!!! Still trying to checkmate down the open h-file with his last two pieces!!! 20 Re7+! Kb6 21 Rb7 Ka5 22 Bc4 22 c3, a3, Nd4 or Rb1 all lead to checkmate 22 ... Rah8!!! just one move from Checkmate 23 Ng3 f5!!! Trying to deflect the one defender 23 R:f7 and Devon soon went down in flames, all his Fishing Pole tricks exhausted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other tidbits - Tyler Hughes sits at a table analyzing everyone's games. My 2007 Denver Open Co-Champion Mitesh Shridhar had the microphone - he analyzed well with big college words like proximate, eschew and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Poor Chess Mom Karen Herbst had to sit and listen To Duwayne ( microphone ) Langseth and me trash son Richard's ( 2050 ) play for an hour as he barely scraped a draw from 1400 Cory ( Fineman?) Isaac Matinez has a rough tournament last year ( 3/6 ) but this year he scored 3-0 and finally went down to one of Team China's superstars in Round 4 in a tough game. Bruce Galler messed up Todd Bardwick's presentation by switching the names on Boards 1 and 2. We all sat around wondering how Jackson Chen ( 1700 ) and Ben Reilly ( 1700 )were getting their butts kicked by 500 players. The top 4 games are projected onto giant screens. When the names were straightened out at the very end Todd called the top two players Ben Chen. That was amusing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's all for now, folks. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Feb 22 08:33:26 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:33:26 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Danny Stegner on Brian Wall interview with John Watson ( ICC ) In-Reply-To: <387781E2-5AFA-4DF2-9DA1-A89A27608E0D@tds.net> References: <387781E2-5AFA-4DF2-9DA1-A89A27608E0D@tds.net> Message-ID: <1235316806.49a17046872aa@www.taom.com> Thank you for the kind words. I sent you a Yahoo invite. The interview is archived at the Internet Chess Club for anyone who wants to hear ir. Brian Wall -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quoting Danny Stegner : I used to take my chess study very seriously and my losses even more so. Then I listened to your interview on the John Watson show and my approach to chess has shifted to just having fun. THANK-YOU VERY MUCH! Now I find myself playing some of those hair-brained openings you've talked about along with a slew of other openings called "unorthodox". The result is that I'm having a lot more fun, and winning or losing is not as important as it once was. Damn you. I even played some opening called the Zaire which can be played from either the white side or black. It goes like this: 1. Nf3 anymove 2. Nc3 anymove 3. Nb1 anymove (the opponent usually hesitates a bit here) 4. Ng1 (Now here the opponent sometimes goes into a long think...) Sure I know I'm essentially giving my opponent a four move advantage, but I enjoy seeing their reactions. The game then gets very tactical as the opponent begins to throw everything at me but the kitchen sink. Although I've lost a lot of games this way, I have gotten a lot of good tactical practice and even won one game when my opponent got into time trouble. Your interview was like a breath of fresh air. Some folks, myself included, take this game far too seriously. They become grumpy, rude and depressed. They start drinking more, experience ulcers, migraines and premature hair loss. Thanks for reminding the chess community that chess can be fun. stillday From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 23 13:17:53 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:17:53 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Colorado State Scholastic Tournament Message-ID: <1235420273.49a30471ed677@www.taom.com> http://www.coloradochess.com/scholast/events/2009_State_Scholastic.shtml Results of the Colorado State Scholastic Tournament -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kindergarten through third grade # Name Rtng Team Grd Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Tot TBrk[M] TBrk[S] TBrk[C] TBrk[O] 1 Ryan Swerdlin 1460 EHIPE 3 W37 W9 W20 W8 W2 W3 6.0 21 23 21 87 2 Luke Thurman 831 EFOO 3 W34 W5 W14 W13 L1 W8 5.0 21.5 23.5 19 89.5 3 Andrew Richardson 651 EACIN 3 W27 W42 W15 W7 W10 L1 5.0 20.5 21 20 74.5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4-6 # Name Rtng Team Grd Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Tot TBrk[M] TBrk[S] TBrk[C] TBrk[O] 1 Jackson Chen 1701 EHIPE 5 W79 W19 W48 W3 W4 D7 5.5 22 24 20.5 91.5 2 Daniel Y Zhou 1546 MCAM 6 W58 W33 W12 D6 D7 W10 5.0 22.5 25.5 18.5 93 3 Amrita Nag 1253 ETRA 5 W52 W34 W14 L1 W33 W25 5.0 21 24 18 87 4 Alex Hu Li 1351 MCAM 6 W44 W47 W22 W15 L1 W16 5.0 20.5 23 19 90.5 5 Kurt Kondracki 1455 MTIM 6 W51 W40 L16 W11 W22 W20 5.0 19.5 22.5 17 83.5 6 Brady Barkemeyer 1306 ENORW 5 W86 W55 W45 D2 D9 W15 5.0 19.5 22 18.5 81.5 7 Peter P Cannici 1316 ZKNLI 6 W80 W73 W23 W42 D2 D1 5.0 19.5 21.5 19.5 83 8 Anthony Williams 1099 ENEE 6 W54 W24 L15 W40 W19 W18 5.0 19 22 17 77 9 Alexander Yu 1225 EZAC 5 W88 W36 W26 D17 D6 D12 4.5 21 22.5 18 83.5 10 Dennis Bolshakov 1224 ELICO 6 D63 W32 W43 W16 W17 L2 4.5 19.5 22 17 81 11 Luke Stephens 1053 FAMSTE 6 W60 D43 W13 L5 W32 W42 4.5 19 22 15.5 73.5 12 Nathan Therien 1002 ESPRA 5 W99 W35 L2 W47 W31 D9 4.5 19 21 16.5 73.5 13 Webb Harrington 1317 AARR 5 D32 W63 L11 W83 W34 W35 4.5 17.5 19.5 14 68.5 14 Samuel Jose Cohen 852 ECHV 4 W64 W62 L3 W70 W42 D17 4.5 17 19 16.5 76.5 15 Nathan Biesterfeld unr. EEIS 4 W67 W38 W8 L4 W21 L6 4.0 22.5 25 17 87.5 16 Robert Richardson 986 EACIN 5 W82 W39 W5 L10 W41 L4 4.0 20.5 22.5 17 84 17 Frank Riley 1320 ZKNLI 6 W91 W50 W21 D9 L10 D14 4.0 20.5 22 17 82.5 18 Anatoly Makarevich 1376 EHIPE 6 L43 W60 W59 W27 W23 L8 4.0 19 22 14 69.5 19 Kyler J Kirk 786 ESTM 6 W97 L1 W52 W69 L8 W41 4.0 18.5 18.5 14 69.5 20 Jake W Watkins 1101 ECHV 5 L53 W65 W58 W50 W49 L5 4.0 17 19.5 14 64 21 Archik S Raje 980 MLIB 6 W46 W71 L17 W51 L15 W50 4.0 17 19 15 75 22 William Goodreid 898 ECOR 6 W78 W69 L4 W75 L5 W49 4.0 17 19 15 72 23 Jacob Schafer 882 MWACL 6 W87 W72 L7 W44 L18 W55 4.0 17 19 15 67.5 24 David D Kowal 591 ECHA 5 W76 L8 W61 L25 W84 W40 4.0 16.5 18.5 13 70 25 Javier R Hollines 1041 MWES 6 W77 L70 W79 W24 W39 L3 4.0 16 18 15 69 26 Matthew Lasley Jr 813 ZELPA 6 W92 W61 L9 L41 W51 W47 4.0 15.5 16.5 14 65.5 27 Jinu Shin 771 ECHV 5 L70 W77 W46 L18 W44 W39 4.0 15 17 12 63 28 Tom M Puhr 812 AAME 4 U--- W54 W88 L31 W52 W56 4.0 14 14 12 44.5 29 Zoe Leroux 672 ZKNLI 4 L71 L46 W64 W54 W72 W45 4.0 13.5 15.5 10 53.5 30 Seth Vanderryn 728 EPAR 4 L69 W78 L39 W53 W74 W48 4.0 13 15 11 58 31 Sherry Langseth unr. DCC 6 L36 W86 W56 W28 L12 D33 3.5 19 21.5 12.5 67.5 32 Luke K Kuettel 526 EDEN 5 D13 L10 W63 W43 L11 W84 3.5 19 21 11 72.5 33 Rohan Ajay Balan 810 ALIT 6 W96 L2 W57 W71 L3 D31 3.5 18.5 19.5 13.5 68 34 Anudari Sharavdorj 583 EEAS 4 W90 L3 W62 D37 L13 W66 3.5 18 19 12.5 65 35 Zachary Nastri unr. EMPB 6 W49 L12 W73 H--- W37 L13 3.5 17.5 17.5 13 62 36 Eric Strom 657 ECOR 6 W31 L9 L41 W78 W69 D38 3.5 16.5 18.5 11.5 70 37 Benjamin Wilking 870 ECOR 5 L39 W82 W80 D34 L35 W62 3.5 14.5 16.5 11.5 60 38 Matthew Lomas 823 MHOR 6 W81 L15 L44 W77 W79 D36 3.5 14.5 16.5 11.5 58.5 39 Kelly Hone 282 ESTM 5 W37 L16 W30 W45 L25 L27 3.0 15.5 22.5 13 79.5 40 Steven Palmer 756 ECHA 6 W93 L5 W53 L8 W46 L24 3.0 15 21 12 69 41 Austin Amos unr. MBOO 6 W56 L45 W36 W26 L16 L19 3.0 14.5 21.5 13 79.5 42 Isaac Martinez 1164 ACSC 6 W57 W83 W70 L7 L14 L11 3.0 14 21 15 79.5 43 Benjamin Welton 537 ECOR 6 W18 D11 L10 L32 D83 W71 3.0 14 20.5 10.5 76.5 44 Michael Thuis 534 ESPRA 4 L4 W95 W38 L23 L27 W74 3.0 13.5 19.5 10 67.5 45 Torin Hopkins-Arnold 844 ACOVI 4 W89 W41 L6 L39 W59 L29 3.0 13 19.5 13 68 46 Austin C Johnson 385 ECOR 4 L21 W29 L27 W73 L40 W79 3.0 13 19 9 65 47 Devon Wall 623 EPOEB 4 B--- L4 W76 L12 W61 L26 3.0 13 18 11 67 48 Leo Freder Bruell 1027 ENEE 4 W65 W53 L1 L49 W75 L30 3.0 12.5 20 13 67.5 49 Bryce English 727 ECHV 5 L35 W99 W74 W48 L20 L22 3.0 12.5 18.5 12 63.5 50 Jack Norbu Glaser 732 MMOR 6 W74 L17 W81 L20 W70 L21 3.0 12 18 12 71 51 Budimir Stanisic 549 ERORA 6 L5 W93 W84 L21 L26 W69 3.0 12 18 10 68.5 52 Peter Chen 505 EBEL 4 L3 W90 L19 W94 L28 W72 3.0 12 18 9 59.5 53 Zachary Zalesne 468 EZAC 4 W20 L48 L40 L30 W94 W73 3.0 12 17.5 9 62 54 Joshua L Goldwire 440 ESTM 5 L8 L28 W97 L29 W89 W75 3.0 12 17 7 52.5 55 Rebecca A Isacoff 708 ESPRA 6 W95 L6 L69 W65 W71 L23 3.0 10.5 16.5 11 61.5 56 Asepha Shaeffer 628 FAMSHA 4 L41 W89 L31 W92 W76 L28 3.0 10 15.5 10 54 57 Joshua Garzaniti 484 ESPRA 4 L42 W94 L33 L61 W78 W76 3.0 9.5 14.5 8 55 58 Anthony Bradley 557 MSKY 6 L2 W96 L20 L74 W98 W70 3.0 9 14 8 52.5 59 Philip Garcia 581 MSKY 6 L61 W92 L18 W93 L45 W77 3.0 8.5 13.5 9 50.5 60 Kevin R Ling 408 ECHA 5 L11 L18 L93 W98 W92 W83 3.0 8 12.5 6 46.5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7-9 # Name Rtng Team Grd Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Tot TBrk[M] TBrk[S] TBrk[C] TBrk[O] 1 Evan James Taylor 1206 DCC 8 W37 W40 W12 W7 D8 W6 5.5 20.5 23.5 20 90.5 2 Rhett Langseth 1467 DCC 9 W55 W44 W11 W14 D6 W8 5.5 20 22 20 86 3 Dave A Bitzko 1410 HHER 9 L18 W66 W45 W12 W11 W13 5.0 19 20 15 71.5 4 Benjamin Twerskoi 1258 MLAR 8 W39 W35 W32 L6 W20 W15 5.0 18.5 21.5 18 82 5 Gabriel Sanders 983 ADAT 8 W48 L7 W39 W53 W16 W17 5.0 18 20 16 72 6 Ben D Reilly 1785 HGEWA 9 W25 W20 W19 W4 D2 L1 4.5 24 27.5 19 96.5 7 Alex Chen 1558 HLAK 9 W47 W5 W22 L1 W14 D10 4.5 23 25.5 17.5 91.5 8 Joshua Zen Higa 1589 MLIB 7 W42 W29 W28 W13 D1 L2 4.5 21 24 19 93 9 Losol Amarbayasgalan 1523 MMAN 7 W36 W15 L14 D10 W21 W24 4.5 20 23 15.5 86.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10-12 # Name Rtng Team Grd Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Tot TBrk[M] TBrk[S] TBrk[C] TBrk[O] 1 Richard Herbst 2019 HCHCR 11 W30 W19 D7 W2 W4 W6 5.5 20.5 22.5 19 90 2 Alexa E Lasley 1287 ZELPA 8 W34 W28 W10 L1 W9 W14 5.0 19 21 18 77.5 3 Gurpreet Nanda 1178 HREG 12 W29 W9 L8 W11 W28 W7 5.0 18.5 20.5 17 76 4 Dylan Lehti 1751 FAMLEH 11 W33 W12 W14 W6 L1 D5 4.5 21.5 24 18.5 88 5 Robert Herbst 1335 HCHCR 9 W38 L6 W32 W21 W8 D4 4.5 17.5 19 15.5 75.5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Congratulations to our Colorado Denker representative, Richard Herbst, who I just played the previous weekend. Congratulations to our Colorado Polgar representative, Alexa Lasley. Her brother Matt Lasley Jr. beat my son with the Scandinavian Defense in the last round. 1 e4 d5 2 e5 In the morning round Devon won with his "rook trick" again - 1 e4 e5 2 Qh5 g6 3 Q:e5+ Be7 4 Q:h8 Kf8 5 d3 Nc6 6 Bh6+ Ke8 7 Q:g8+ Bf8 8 Q:f8 checkmate which he has discovered is the quickest way to dispose of beginners. Devon finished with 3 out of 6 and is eager to play in his next Chess tournament. The most fun I had was scaring Mrs. Karen Herbst as she was texting her husband in the Phillipines and listening to Richard's first Chess teacher, Todd Bardwick handle the analysis with a microphone. When Richard blundered the exchange away, I blamed poor rest and insufficient nutrition at home. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Letterman's - TOP TEN Moments when you should sense danger in chess: #10. There has been a change in the pawn structure. Your opponent has eight and you don?t have any. #9. Your opponent begins to throw pawns at your eyes. #8. You have a won position, but your opponent has a gun. #7. The Director tells you not to bother turning in your score sheet after the game. #6. Before the game begins you notice your opponent?s first initials are ?GM?. #5. After completing your development you sense your opponent is playing the endgame. #4. Just as you make your opening move your opponent announces mate in 11. #3. You don?t control any squares at all. #2. Your draw offer sends all the people watching your game into uncontrollable laughter. And the number one moment when you should sense danger in chess - #1. Your opponent has three bishops. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the final 10-12 game, Richard jammed up David Twerskoi's Queenside development with ... f4. David made his first threat on move 30 to win the exchange, which worked. I suggested if David wanted to win, he should make a second threat. When David made the final first move of all his pieces ( 35 Ra3 ) late in the game, I recalled Letterman's Top 10 Rule #5 #5. After completing your development you sense your opponent is playing the endgame. David's Russian Jewish Dentist Dad Mr. Twerskoi was conducting a spirited Defense of his son's play in the analysis room - " Napoleon found out how foolish it was to invade Russia, now it is Richard's turn to find that out! " Even after blundering the exchange Richard Herbst still had two pawns and a lot more time and he was playing well too. In the end Richard got his shot at the Denker Chess College Scholarship. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In a critical 7-9 game, Ben Reilly and his mother got up two hours early like they do every morning to tease their hair and perfect that matching Afro look. Ben took Rhett Langseth down to a rook ending with 4 pawns versus three on the Kingside. I was blown away by Rhett's perfect defense, first he set up the formation f7-g6-h5 to maximize pawn trades, then he kept an eye out on the e6-pawn break, then he played the rook and pawn versus rook ending perfectly. The Top boards and clocks were electronically attached to computer screens in the analysis room. I was trying to keep a low profile and not be the 800 pound Chessmaster gorilla in the room but when Rhett played ... Ra7?? I couldn't help involuntarily shouting out - "That loses!!" - miraculously Rhett hadn't taken his hand off the piece and corrrected his move to ... Re8!! which still drew. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last year the kids called K-3 the " Jackson Chen section " and this year was no different, he played rock solid even when he got in trouble. He finished with 4.5/5 in the 4-6 section. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Zhou scared the hell out of me in the Valentine's Day Massacare the previous weekend and I presented our game to both of Devon's Elementary School Chess Classes as well as to the Langseth and Lasley families. Daniel ended up second behind Jackson Chen in the 4-6 ceremony. Every Asian kid received a trophy twice his size at the awards ceremony. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I was very impressed with 4 Alex Hu Li 1351 who tied with Daniel Zhou ( 2-8 in the 4-6 section ). Alex beat my son's Fishing Pole and also played perfectly against Jackson Chen for a long time with flawless positional play. Jackson eventually swindled Queen for rook out of Alex by tripling on the f-file. Alex only lost by trying too hard to win. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Samuel Jose Cohen beat Isaac Isiah Martinez in the battle of Latino Jews. Isaac ended up with 3/6 like last year but I felt he played much better Chess. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I rode the light rail in from Danielle Rice's house to the Scholastic Tournament with the Mongolian Grandmaster's sister, Mitra and her daughter Anudari Sharavdorj who finished with 3.5 out of 6 in the 4-6 section. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter P Cannici 1316 deserves a mention as he played very well against Richard Herbst 2019 , almost costing Richard his shot at the Denker. Duwayne Langseth and I explaining Peter's many advantages was probably the most painful hour in Karen Herbst's entire Chess Mom career. I compared Richard's play to Alexander Jensen (1038 ) at age 5 who would only bring out his Queen and capture as many of his pieces as he could before developing another one. A very effective stategy in Kindergarten but it doesn't work as well in High School, Richard. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1316 Cannici - Herbst 2019 1.d4 Nf6! 2.Bf4 c5 3.c3 Qb6 4.Qb3 Qa5? 5.e3! Nc6? 6.Nf3 cxd4! 7.exd4! Qf5! 8.Bg3! Nh5! 9.Nbd2 Nxg3! 10.hxg3! e6 11.Nc4! Na5 12.Nxa5! Qxa5! The Alex Jensen strategy has led to a position after 12 moves where the only piece past the first rank is Richard's Queen. He has not picked off any pieces but he has lost lots of development time. Richard explained his play this way - " 4 Qb3 Q:b3 5 ab cd 6 B:b8 R:b8 7 R:a7 looked dead as far as winning chances and I played 7 ... Qf5! to grab the two bishops. " 5 e3 Nc6 6 d5! was strong because the c6-knight has to retreat to the first rank. Also in Richard's line 4 Qb3 Q:b3 5 ab cd 6 B:b8 R:b8 7 R:a7 7 ... e5! Richard has the two bishops and the better center and developemt and would probably win. In the game Richard struggled mightily for the draw even though they both turned down each other's draw offers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I analyzed some Chess with young Losol Amarbayasgalan at the Valentine's Day Massacre the previous weekend. He seems like a nice fellow and I added him to my Email group. It takes me less time to checkmate a Fort Collins expert than to spell Losol's 14 letter name. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dylan Lehti played well against Richard Herbst as well - I enjoyed their game, very solid. Dylan is my Raccoon hero. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alexa Lasley was the youngest person in the 10-12 section ( I think she played up a grade ) so her Polgar result was even more impressive. The Lasley's and the Twerskoi's grow like sunflowers, straight up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2008 U.S. Junior Champion Tyler Hughes continued to give his time generously by analyzing all the kid games at his own private table. The children who asked Tyler for help seeemed to do better than those who didn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ That's all I can think of for now. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 23 14:05:49 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:05:49 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Duwayne Langseth on Colorado State Scholastic Tournament Message-ID: <1235423149.49a30fadeeb9f@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from DuWayne Langseth ----- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:53:54 -0700 From: DuWayne Langseth Reply-To: DuWayne Langseth Subject: RE: [BrianWallChess] Colorado State Scholastic Tournament To: Brian Wall Brian, Great commentary! What fun that tournament was. Having Rhett and his teammate Evan finish so well was amazing. Also, doing the commentary and listening to it was a blast. Not to mention the always enjoyable TDing in the K-3 section. I got to spend some time with Lee, Todd, Tom and Buck in there. I think that game where Richard was nearly lost and pulled out a draw was against Corey Fineman rather than Peter Cannici. Peter played in the 4th-6th section. Karen Herbst told me that game with Corey was the most nervous she'd ever been watching Richard play. That's saying something since he's been at the top of these tournaments for ages. The performance by Alexa was indeed an incredible accomplishment. Attached is that picture of you with us. DuWayne To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com From: BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:17:53 -0700 Subject: [BrianWallChess] Colorado State Scholastic Tournament http://www.coloradochess.com/scholast/events/2009_State_Scholastic.shtml Results of the Colorado State Scholastic Tournament ---------------------------------------------------------- Kindergarten through third grade # Name Rtng Team Grd Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Tot TBrk[M] TBrk[S] TBrk[C] TBrk[O] 1 Ryan Swerdlin 1460 EHIPE 3 W37 W9 W20 W8 W2 W3 6.0 21 23 21 87 2 Luke Thurman 831 EFOO 3 W34 W5 W14 W13 L1 W8 5.0 21.5 23.5 19 89.5 3 Andrew Richardson 651 EACIN 3 W27 W42 W15 W7 W10 L1 5.0 20.5 21 20 74.5 ---------------------------------------------------------- 4-6 # Name Rtng Team Grd Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Tot TBrk[M] TBrk[S] TBrk[C] TBrk[O] 1 Jackson Chen 1701 EHIPE 5 W79 W19 W48 W3 W4 D7 5.5 22 24 20.5 91.5 2 Daniel Y Zhou 1546 MCAM 6 W58 W33 W12 D6 D7 W10 5.0 22.5 25.5 18.5 93 3 Amrita Nag 1253 ETRA 5 W52 W34 W14 L1 W33 W25 5.0 21 24 18 87 4 Alex Hu Li 1351 MCAM 6 W44 W47 W22 W15 L1 W16 5.0 20.5 23 19 90.5 5 Kurt Kondracki 1455 MTIM 6 W51 W40 L16 W11 W22 W20 5.0 19.5 22.5 17 83.5 6 Brady Barkemeyer 1306 ENORW 5 W86 W55 W45 D2 D9 W15 5.0 19.5 22 18.5 81.5 7 Peter P Cannici 1316 ZKNLI 6 W80 W73 W23 W42 D2 D1 5.0 19.5 21.5 19.5 83 8 Anthony Williams 1099 ENEE 6 W54 W24 L15 W40 W19 W18 5.0 19 22 17 77 9 Alexander Yu 1225 EZAC 5 W88 W36 W26 D17 D6 D12 4.5 21 22.5 18 83.5 10 Dennis Bolshakov 1224 ELICO 6 D63 W32 W43 W16 W17 L2 4.5 19.5 22 17 81 11 Luke Stephens 1053 FAMSTE 6 W60 D43 W13 L5 W32 W42 4.5 19 22 15.5 73.5 12 Nathan Therien 1002 ESPRA 5 W99 W35 L2 W47 W31 D9 4.5 19 21 16.5 73.5 13 Webb Harrington 1317 AARR 5 D32 W63 L11 W83 W34 W35 4.5 17.5 19.5 14 68.5 14 Samuel Jose Cohen 852 ECHV 4 W64 W62 L3 W70 W42 D17 4.5 17 19 16.5 76.5 15 Nathan Biesterfeld unr. EEIS 4 W67 W38 W8 L4 W21 L6 4.0 22.5 25 17 87.5 16 Robert Richardson 986 EACIN 5 W82 W39 W5 L10 W41 L4 4.0 20.5 22.5 17 84 17 Frank Riley 1320 ZKNLI 6 W91 W50 W21 D9 L10 D14 4.0 20.5 22 17 82.5 18 Anatoly Makarevich 1376 EHIPE 6 L43 W60 W59 W27 W23 L8 4.0 19 22 14 69.5 19 Kyler J Kirk 786 ESTM 6 W97 L1 W52 W69 L8 W41 4.0 18.5 18.5 14 69.5 20 Jake W Watkins 1101 ECHV 5 L53 W65 W58 W50 W49 L5 4.0 17 19.5 14 64 21 Archik S Raje 980 MLIB 6 W46 W71 L17 W51 L15 W50 4.0 17 19 15 75 22 William Goodreid 898 ECOR 6 W78 W69 L4 W75 L5 W49 4.0 17 19 15 72 23 Jacob Schafer 882 MWACL 6 W87 W72 L7 W44 L18 W55 4.0 17 19 15 67.5 24 David D Kowal 591 ECHA 5 W76 L8 W61 L25 W84 W40 4.0 16.5 18.5 13 70 25 Javier R Hollines 1041 MWES 6 W77 L70 W79 W24 W39 L3 4.0 16 18 15 69 26 Matthew Lasley Jr 813 ZELPA 6 W92 W61 L9 L41 W51 W47 4.0 15.5 16.5 14 65.5 27 Jinu Shin 771 ECHV 5 L70 W77 W46 L18 W44 W39 4.0 15 17 12 63 28 Tom M Puhr 812 AAME 4 U--- W54 W88 L31 W52 W56 4.0 14 14 12 44.5 29 Zoe Leroux 672 ZKNLI 4 L71 L46 W64 W54 W72 W45 4.0 13.5 15.5 10 53.5 30 Seth Vanderryn 728 EPAR 4 L69 W78 L39 W53 W74 W48 4.0 13 15 11 58 31 Sherry Langseth unr. DCC 6 L36 W86 W56 W28 L12 D33 3.5 19 21.5 12.5 67.5 32 Luke K Kuettel 526 EDEN 5 D13 L10 W63 W43 L11 W84 3.5 19 21 11 72.5 33 Rohan Ajay Balan 810 ALIT 6 W96 L2 W57 W71 L3 D31 3.5 18.5 19.5 13.5 68 34 Anudari Sharavdorj 583 EEAS 4 W90 L3 W62 D37 L13 W66 3.5 18 19 12.5 65 35 Zachary Nastri unr. EMPB 6 W49 L12 W73 H--- W37 L13 3.5 17.5 17.5 13 62 36 Eric Strom 657 ECOR 6 W31 L9 L41 W78 W69 D38 3.5 16.5 18.5 11.5 70 37 Benjamin Wilking 870 ECOR 5 L39 W82 W80 D34 L35 W62 3.5 14.5 16.5 11.5 60 38 Matthew Lomas 823 MHOR 6 W81 L15 L44 W77 W79 D36 3.5 14.5 16.5 11.5 58.5 39 Kelly Hone 282 ESTM 5 W37 L16 W30 W45 L25 L27 3.0 15.5 22.5 13 79.5 40 Steven Palmer 756 ECHA 6 W93 L5 W53 L8 W46 L24 3.0 15 21 12 69 41 Austin Amos unr. MBOO 6 W56 L45 W36 W26 L16 L19 3.0 14.5 21.5 13 79.5 42 Isaac Martinez 1164 ACSC 6 W57 W83 W70 L7 L14 L11 3.0 14 21 15 79.5 43 Benjamin Welton 537 ECOR 6 W18 D11 L10 L32 D83 W71 3.0 14 20.5 10.5 76.5 44 Michael Thuis 534 ESPRA 4 L4 W95 W38 L23 L27 W74 3.0 13.5 19.5 10 67.5 45 Torin Hopkins-Arnold 844 ACOVI 4 W89 W41 L6 L39 W59 L29 3.0 13 19.5 13 68 46 Austin C Johnson 385 ECOR 4 L21 W29 L27 W73 L40 W79 3.0 13 19 9 65 47 Devon Wall 623 EPOEB 4 B--- L4 W76 L12 W61 L26 3.0 13 18 11 67 48 Leo Freder Bruell 1027 ENEE 4 W65 W53 L1 L49 W75 L30 3.0 12.5 20 13 67.5 49 Bryce English 727 ECHV 5 L35 W99 W74 W48 L20 L22 3.0 12.5 18.5 12 63.5 50 Jack Norbu Glaser 732 MMOR 6 W74 L17 W81 L20 W70 L21 3.0 12 18 12 71 51 Budimir Stanisic 549 ERORA 6 L5 W93 W84 L21 L26 W69 3.0 12 18 10 68.5 52 Peter Chen 505 EBEL 4 L3 W90 L19 W94 L28 W72 3.0 12 18 9 59.5 53 Zachary Zalesne 468 EZAC 4 W20 L48 L40 L30 W94 W73 3.0 12 17.5 9 62 54 Joshua L Goldwire 440 ESTM 5 L8 L28 W97 L29 W89 W75 3.0 12 17 7 52.5 55 Rebecca A Isacoff 708 ESPRA 6 W95 L6 L69 W65 W71 L23 3.0 10.5 16.5 11 61.5 56 Asepha Shaeffer 628 FAMSHA 4 L41 W89 L31 W92 W76 L28 3.0 10 15.5 10 54 57 Joshua Garzaniti 484 ESPRA 4 L42 W94 L33 L61 W78 W76 3.0 9.5 14.5 8 55 58 Anthony Bradley 557 MSKY 6 L2 W96 L20 L74 W98 W70 3.0 9 14 8 52.5 59 Philip Garcia 581 MSKY 6 L61 W92 L18 W93 L45 W77 3.0 8.5 13.5 9 50.5 60 Kevin R Ling 408 ECHA 5 L11 L18 L93 W98 W92 W83 3.0 8 12.5 6 46.5 ---------------------------------------------------------- 7-9 # Name Rtng Team Grd Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Tot TBrk[M] TBrk[S] TBrk[C] TBrk[O] 1 Evan James Taylor 1206 DCC 8 W37 W40 W12 W7 D8 W6 5.5 20.5 23.5 20 90.5 2 Rhett Langseth 1467 DCC 9 W55 W44 W11 W14 D6 W8 5.5 20 22 20 86 3 Dave A Bitzko 1410 HHER 9 L18 W66 W45 W12 W11 W13 5.0 19 20 15 71.5 4 Benjamin Twerskoi 1258 MLAR 8 W39 W35 W32 L6 W20 W15 5.0 18.5 21.5 18 82 5 Gabriel Sanders 983 ADAT 8 W48 L7 W39 W53 W16 W17 5.0 18 20 16 72 6 Ben D Reilly 1785 HGEWA 9 W25 W20 W19 W4 D2 L1 4.5 24 27.5 19 96.5 7 Alex Chen 1558 HLAK 9 W47 W5 W22 L1 W14 D10 4.5 23 25.5 17.5 91.5 8 Joshua Zen Higa 1589 MLIB 7 W42 W29 W28 W13 D1 L2 4.5 21 24 19 93 9 Losol Amarbayasgalan 1523 MMAN 7 W36 W15 L14 D10 W21 W24 4.5 20 23 15.5 86.5 ---------------------------------------------------------- 10-12 # Name Rtng Team Grd Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Tot TBrk[M] TBrk[S] TBrk[C] TBrk[O] 1 Richard Herbst 2019 HCHCR 11 W30 W19 D7 W2 W4 W6 5.5 20.5 22.5 19 90 2 Alexa E Lasley 1287 ZELPA 8 W34 W28 W10 L1 W9 W14 5.0 19 21 18 77.5 3 Gurpreet Nanda 1178 HREG 12 W29 W9 L8 W11 W28 W7 5.0 18.5 20.5 17 76 4 Dylan Lehti 1751 FAMLEH 11 W33 W12 W14 W6 L1 D5 4.5 21.5 24 18.5 88 5 Robert Herbst 1335 HCHCR 9 W38 L6 W32 W21 W8 D4 4.5 17.5 19 15.5 75.5 ---------------------------------------------------------- Congratulations to our Colorado Denker representative, Richard Herbst, who I just played the previous weekend. Congratulations to our Colorado Polgar representative, Alexa Lasley. Her brother Matt Lasley Jr. beat my son with the Scandinavian Defense in the last round. 1 e4 d5 2 e5 In the morning round Devon won with his "rook trick" again - 1 e4 e5 2 Qh5 g6 3 Q:e5+ Be7 4 Q:h8 Kf8 5 d3 Nc6 6 Bh6+ Ke8 7 Q:g8+ Bf8 8 Q:f8 checkmate which he has discovered is the quickest way to dispose of beginners. Devon finished with 3 out of 6 and is eager to play in his next Chess tournament. The most fun I had was scaring Mrs. Karen Herbst as she was texting her husband in the Phillipines and listening to Richard's first Chess teacher, Todd Bardwick handle the analysis with a microphone. When Richard blundered the exchange away, I blamed poor rest and insufficient nutrition at home. ---------------------------------------------------------- David Letterman's - TOP TEN Moments when you should sense danger in chess: #10. There has been a change in the pawn structure. Your opponent has eight and you don?t have any. #9. Your opponent begins to throw pawns at your eyes. #8. You have a won position, but your opponent has a gun. #7. The Director tells you not to bother turning in your score sheet after the game. #6. Before the game begins you notice your opponent?s first initials are ?GM?. #5. After completing your development you sense your opponent is playing the endgame. #4. Just as you make your opening move your opponent announces mate in 11. #3. You don?t control any squares at all. #2. Your draw offer sends all the people watching your game into uncontrollable laughter. And the number one moment when you should sense danger in chess - #1. Your opponent has three bishops. ---------------------------------------------------------- In the final 10-12 game, Richard jammed up David Twerskoi's Queenside development with ... f4. David made his first threat on move 30 to win the exchange, which worked. I suggested if David wanted to win, he should make a second threat. When David made the final first move of all his pieces ( 35 Ra3 ) late in the game, I recalled Letterman's Top 10 Rule #5 #5. After completing your development you sense your opponent is playing the endgame. David's Russian Jewish Dentist Dad Mr. Twerskoi was conducting a spirited Defense of his son's play in the analysis room - " Napoleon found out how foolish it was to invade Russia, now it is Richard's turn to find that out! " Even after blundering the exchange Richard Herbst still had two pawns and a lot more time and he was playing well too. In the end Richard got his shot at the Denker Chess College Scholarship. ---------------------------------------------------------- In a critical 7-9 game, Ben Reilly and his mother got up two hours early like they do every morning to tease their hair and perfect that matching Afro look. Ben took Rhett Langseth down to a rook ending with 4 pawns versus three on the Kingside. I was blown away by Rhett's perfect defense, first he set up the formation f7-g6-h5 to maximize pawn trades, then he kept an eye out on the e6-pawn break, then he played the rook and pawn versus rook ending perfectly. The Top boards and clocks were electronically attached to computer screens in the analysis room. I was trying to keep a low profile and not be the 800 pound Chessmaster gorilla in the room but when Rhett played ... Ra7?? I couldn't help involuntarily shouting out - "That loses!!" - miraculously Rhett hadn't taken his hand off the piece and corrrected his move to ... Re8!! which still drew. ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- Last year the kids called K-3 the " Jackson Chen section " and this year was no different, he played rock solid even when he got in trouble. He finished with 4.5/5 in the 4-6 section. ---------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Zhou scared the hell out of me in the Valentine's Day Massacare the previous weekend and I presented our game to both of Devon's Elementary School Chess Classes as well as to the Langseth and Lasley families. Daniel ended up second behind Jackson Chen in the 4-6 ceremony. Every Asian kid received a trophy twice his size at the awards ceremony. ---------------------------------------------------------- I was very impressed with 4 Alex Hu Li 1351 who tied with Daniel Zhou ( 2-8 in the 4-6 section ). Alex beat my son's Fishing Pole and also played perfectly against Jackson Chen for a long time with flawless positional play. Jackson eventually swindled Queen for rook out of Alex by tripling on the f-file. Alex only lost by trying too hard to win. ---------------------------------------------------------- Samuel Jose Cohen beat Isaac Isiah Martinez in the battle of Latino Jews. Isaac ended up with 3/6 like last year but I felt he played much better Chess. ---------------------------------------------------------- I rode the light rail in from Danielle Rice's house to the Scholastic Tournament with the Mongolian Grandmaster's sister, Mitra and her daughter Anudari Sharavdorj who finished with 3.5 out of 6 in the 4-6 section. ---------------------------------------------------------- Peter P Cannici 1316 deserves a mention as he played very well against Richard Herbst 2019 , almost costing Richard his shot at the Denker. Duwayne Langseth and I explaining Peter's many advantages was probably the most painful hour in Karen Herbst's entire Chess Mom career. I compared Richard's play to Alexander Jensen (1038 ) at age 5 who would only bring out his Queen and capture as many of his pieces as he could before developing another one. A very effective stategy in Kindergarten but it doesn't work as well in High School, Richard. ---------------------------------------------------------- 1316 Cannici - Herbst 2019 1.d4 Nf6! 2.Bf4 c5 3.c3 Qb6 4.Qb3 Qa5? 5.e3! Nc6? 6.Nf3 cxd4! 7.exd4! Qf5! 8.Bg3! Nh5! 9.Nbd2 Nxg3! 10.hxg3! e6 11.Nc4! Na5 12.Nxa5! Qxa5! The Alex Jensen strategy has led to a position after 12 moves where the only piece past the first rank is Richard's Queen. He has not picked off any pieces but he has lost lots of development time. Richard explained his play this way - " 4 Qb3 Q:b3 5 ab cd 6 B:b8 R:b8 7 R:a7 looked dead as far as winning chances and I played 7 ... Qf5! to grab the two bishops. " 5 e3 Nc6 6 d5! was strong because the c6-knight has to retreat to the first rank. Also in Richard's line 4 Qb3 Q:b3 5 ab cd 6 B:b8 R:b8 7 R:a7 7 ... e5! Richard has the two bishops and the better center and developemt and would probably win. In the game Richard struggled mightily for the draw even though they both turned down each other's draw offers. ---------------------------------------------------------- I analyzed some Chess with young Losol Amarbayasgalan at the Valentine's Day Massacre the previous weekend. He seems like a nice fellow and I added him to my Email group. It takes me less time to checkmate a Fort Collins expert than to spell Losol's 14 letter name. ---------------------------------------------------------- Dylan Lehti played well against Richard Herbst as well - I enjoyed their game, very solid. Dylan is my Raccoon hero. ---------------------------------------------------------- Alexa Lasley was the youngest person in the 10-12 section ( I think she played up a grade ) so her Polgar result was even more impressive. The Lasley's and the Twerskoi's grow like sunflowers, straight up. ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- 2008 U.S. Junior Champion Tyler Hughes continued to give his time generously by analyzing all the kid games at his own private table. The children who asked Tyler for help seeemed to do better than those who didn't. ---------------------------------------------------------- That's all I can think of for now. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: unnamed Url: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090223/576371f2/attachment.pl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090223/576371f2/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Much to my surprise, my (admittedly weak) opponent was thoroughly bamboozled and lost quickly. It does seem like an absurd opening but I don't have a set line against Owen's Defence so who knows, I may try it again. [Event "Yahoo Blitz"] [Site "Yahoo"] [Date "2009.02.23"] [Round "?"] [White "david kane"] [Black "vcas30"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B00"] 1. e4 b6 2. d4 Bb7 3. Bg5 f6 4. Bh4 Bxe4 5. d5 c6 6. Nc3 Bg6 7. Qf3 Bf7 8. O-O-O cxd5 9. Nxd5 Bxd5 10. Qxd5 Nc6 11. Bc4 e6 12. Qh5+ Ke7 13. Qf3 Qc7 14. Bg3 Ne5 15. Bxe5 fxe5 16. Qxa8 Qxc4 17. Qxa7 Qc6 18. Nf3 e4 19. Ne5 Kf6 20. Nxc6 dxc6 black resigns. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090223/6a257a87/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 23 22:36:41 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:36:41 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Kiril Georgiev plays 360 board simul Message-ID: <1235453801.49a38769d4100@www.taom.com> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090223/od_afp/bulgariachessrecord From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 24 11:24:25 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:24:25 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter Message-ID: <1235499865.49a43b5916fb9@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from CS Chess ----- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:43:31 -0700 From: CS Chess Reply-To: CS Chess Subject: Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter http://cs.chess.home.att.net This Week In Chess On February 17th, the CSCC had 11 members in attendance. Most of the group played in the conclusion of the Cabin Fever Reliever (4SS, G30). I survived a battle with Mitch Anderson to take home 1st place. Here are the results: Score Prize Player 4.0 $15.00 1st Paul Anderson 3.0 $8.00 2nd Mitch Anderson 2.5 Buck Buchanan 1.0 $3.50 U1900 Dean Brown 1.0 $3.50 U1900 Tikila Nichols 0.0 Kathy Schneider Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the 3rd round of the Cabin Fever Reliever. Mitch Anderson has been on a roll since coming back from a 5-year hiatus. He hasn't lost a game in G90 or longer (beating expert Markus Petters), he has owned the Poor Richards tournament placing 1st in November, December, and January (beating NM Josh Bloomer and LM Brian Wall in the process), and he won the Colorado Springs Chess Club championship. He has also faired well in the faster time controls. He won a couple quads (including a victory over NM Buck Buchanan) and the CSCC speed championship. He passed into expert rating briefly. Of course, he dropped back into the class world in time to keep me from beating another expert, but I was still a little bit intimidated. We had a week to prepare for our match. I have 80 published games online for my opponent to study. The only thing I knew about Mitch was his growing reputation and his win over LM Brian Wall. However, I always do well in the Cabin Fever Reliever. Last year, I recorded my highest rated victory there (http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/newsletter/Tue_Feb_26_2008.html), which I haven't tired of telling people about yet. And this year, I recorded my 46th and 47th USCF-rated upsets while posting my 13th undefeated tournament and 4th tournament with all wins. Wins Draws USCF-rated, Swiss Tournaments without a loss 4 0 Cabin Fever Reliever 09 3 1 Pikes Peak Open 08 4 0 June Mating 07 3 1 Pikes Peak Open 06 3 1 Springs Fundraiser 06 4 0 June Mating 06 4 0 Cabin Fever Reliever 05 2 1 Winter Springs Open (U1800) 04 3 1 Pike Peak Open 04 3 1 Cabin Fever Reliever 04 3 1 Winter Springs Open (U1800) 01 3 1 June Borborgyms 00 2 2 Pueblo 98 Why have my results improved so much over the past 5 years? Well, it is because I have learned the secret of thinking like a master. And now, for a limited time only, I am offering that secret to the public so that you too can think like a master*. What would you pay to replace a puny brain with a gargantuan one? Similar systems have sold for hundreds of dollars. Here are some actual examples from my game with Mitch Anderson and how they compare with LM Brian Wall's game against Daoud Zupa. Brian wanted to play his opponent in a way that was "slow, patient, nontactical," and so did I. I was able to keep the game even as I traded off pieces, but I started thinking, "It was a nervy situation, and I feared some nightmarish last minute unfair mating net." That was the exact same thing Brian thought about his game. As my time advantage dwindled away and we were both left with just a minute apiece, I thought, "I was losing the ability to think rationally." Another identical thought as Brian. When I moved 35. Qf6, I was looking for some line that could force a perpetual check, but I stumbled into certain death. I thought, "But how am I supposed to find weird computer lines like this with a minute on my clock?" and "My beautiful sand castle washed away." Both of which occurred to Brian in his game. Fortunately, Mitch missed the killer move 36.Nxe4, and I began to think, "It was an impossible situation but I came through somehow," and "Amazingly from nowhere I win a piece!" Two more examples of being on the same wavelength with a master. With a knight disadvantage and seconds left, Mitch even made an illegal move (43.Kd7) and gave me 2 minutes. I didn't think I would need it though, as "I have a 5 second delay, and I will gobble up all his pawns." That makes 8 examples of master-type thinking from one game. It is clear that I have tapped into the secret of how to think like a master. Now I am offering you that secret for just a one time gift of any amount, so that you too can think like a master*. Just return to the homepage and use the newly installed donation button to access our secure PayPal account (the PayPal account can also be used by wealthy chess benefactors looking to help underwrite this endeavor). If I had to close this game with a master-level final thought, I would probably say, "I have to give [Mitch Anderson] great credit for his mating net bluff - it should have worked." * your chess results may vary and your brain size will most likely stay the same How To Think Like A Master (Click this link to view the game on your web browser) (133) Anderson,Paul (1960) - Anderson,Mitch (1991) [D13] Cabin Fever Reliever Colorado Springs (3.1), 17.02.2009 [Fritz 8 (60s)] D13: Slav Defence: Exchange variation without ...Bf5 1.c4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.cxd5 cxd5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.e3 last book move 6...Bg4 7.Be2 [7.Qb3 Qc7+/= ] 7...e6= 8.0-0 Bd6 9.h3 Bh5 10.Nd2 Bxe2 11.Qxe2 0-0 12.a3 Covers b4 12...Rc8 13.f4 Na5 14.Qd3 a6 Secures b5 15.b4 Nc4 16.Nxc4 Rxc4 Here comes the goal-getter 17.Bd2 b5 18.Rac1 Qb6 19.g4 Ra8 20.g5 This push gains space 20...Nh5 21.Kg2 a5 22.Na2 axb4 23.Bxb4 Bxb4 24.Nxb4 The knight is not easily driven from b4 24...Rac8 25.Rxc4 Rxc4 26.Rf2 g6 27.Rc2 Ng7 28.Kf3 Qc7 29.Qb3 Ne8 30.Rxc4 dxc4 31.Qc3 Nd6 32.e4 White plans d5 32...Qb7 33.d5 White wins space 33...Qa8 34.Nc6 Qa4 35.Qf6?? [35.Ne7+ Kf8 36.Nc6-+ ] 35...Qxa3+ [>=35...Qd1+ keeps an even firmer grip 36.Kg2 Qe2+ 37.Kg1 Nxe4 38.Qd8+ Kg7-+ ] 36.Kg4 [36.Ke2 Qd3+ 37.Ke1 Nxe4 38.Qd8+ Kg7 39.dxe6 Qe3+ 40.Kd1 Nf2+ 41.Kc2 Qb3+ 42.Kd2 c3+ 43.Ke1 Qxe6+ 44.Kxf2 Qxc6 45.Qd4+ f6 46.Qa7+ Kg8 47.Qb8+ Kf7 48.Qa7+ Ke6 49.Qe3+ Kf5 50.Qd4-+ ] 36...Qg3+ [36...Nxe4 37.Ne7+ Kf8 38.Nxg6+ hxg6 39.Qh8+ Ke7 40.Qf6+ Nxf6+ 41.gxf6+ Kxf6 42.dxe6 Kxe6 43.f5+ gxf5+ 44.Kh4 b4 45.Kg5 Qg3+ 46.Kh5 b3 47.h4 Qg6# ] 37.Kxg3+- Nxe4+ 38.Kf3 Nxf6 39.gxf6 exd5 40.Ke3 [40.Ne7+ Kf8 41.Nxd5 Ke8 42.Nc7+ Kd7 43.Nxb5 Ke6+- ] 40...c3? [>=40...h6+- ] 41.Kd3 Kf8 42.Kxc3 Ke8 43.Ne5 Kd8 44.Nxf7+ Kd7 45.Ne5+ Ke6 46.f7 Ke7 47.h4 h6 48.Kd4 b4 49.Nc6+ [49.h5 g5 50.fxg5 hxg5 51.h6 b3 52.h7 Kd8 53.f8Q+ Kc7 54.h8Q Kb7 55.Qa8+ Kb6 56.Qhb8# ] 49...Kxf7+- 50.Nxb4 Kf6 [50...g5 does not help much 51.Nxd5 (51.fxg5?! hxg5 52.hxg5 Kg6+/- ; 51.hxg5?! hxg5 52.Nd3 Kf6+/- ) 51...gxh4 52.Ke4+- ] 51.Nxd5+ Kf5 52.Ke3 Kg4 53.Ne7 Kxh4 54.Nxg6+ Kg4 55.Ke4 Kh5 56.f5 Kg5 57.Ke5 h5 58.Ke6 h4 59.Nxh4! Boing! 59...Kh6 60.Ke7 Kg7 61.f6+ Kg8 62.f7+ Kh7 63.Nf5 [63.f8B Kg8 64.Nf3 Kh7 65.Kf7 Kh8 66.Bg7+ Kh7 67.Ng5# ] 63...Kg6 64.f8Q Kh7 65.Qg7# 1-0 Upcoming Events 2/24 Fischer - Random tournament, CSCC 2/28 USAFA Quads #7, CSCC 3/3 Speed Tournament, CSCC 3/4,11,18,25 Poor Richard's Bookstore March Open, CSCC 3/7-8 Colorado Springs Open, CSCA 3/10 Team tournament - 2-player teams, CSCC For event details and additional events, see the following websites: Colorado Springs Chess Club: CSCC (http://springschess.org/) Boulder Chess Club: BCC (http://www.geocities.com/boulderchessclub/) Colorado State Chess Association: CSCA (http://colorado-chess.com/) Wyoming Chess Association: WCA (http://www.wyomingchess.com/) Kansas Chess Association: KCA (http://www.kansaschess.org/) Colorado Springs Chess News Home - http://cs.chess.home.att.net/ Store - http://www.cafepress.com/cs_chess Group - http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/cs_chess/ Visit the website to search past newsletters or see the collection of images. Visit the store to view a variety of products with the logo. All articles written by Paul Anderson unless otherwise noted. To unsubscribe, reply to this message with the subject heading "Unsubscribe". -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: unnamed Url: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090224/4152f4e3/attachment.pl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090224/4152f4e3/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: counter.php?sc_project=2194035&java=0&security=807e001e&invisible=1 Type: application/octet-stream Size: 49 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090224/4152f4e3/attachment.obj From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 24 15:48:33 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:48:33 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Marvin Lee - Brian Wall Fishing Pole line again Message-ID: <1235515713.49a47941326ee@www.taom.com> http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1472993 kibitzer comments, including two people who made this game a favorite The Famous Marvin Lee - Brian Wall Fishing Pole game - Round 1 in the 2007 Kansas Open which I won - I took 10 minutes, my opponent took 2 hours and resigned. [Event "2007 Kansas Open"] [Site "Bethany Library, Lindsborg, Kansas"] [Date "2007.07.14"] [EventDate "?"] [Round "1"] [Result "0-1"] [White "Marvin Lee"] [Black "Brian Wall"] [ECO "C65"] [WhiteElo "1861"] [BlackElo "2204"] [PlyCount "30"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. c3 a6 6. Ba4 Bc5 7. d4 Ba7 8. h3 h5 9. Bxc6 dxc6 10. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. dxe5 Qe7 12. Bf4 g5 13. Bh2 g4 14. hxg4 hxg4 15. Qd3 Rxh2 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A blitz game Feb 3, 2009 that followed the Marvin Lee game, previously annotated in an email [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.03"] [Round "-"] [White "dougp"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2079"] [BlackElo "2162"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "17:00:33"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. c3 a6 7. Ba4 Bc5 8. d4 Ba7 9. Bxc6 dxc6 10. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. dxe5 Qe7 12. Bf4 g5 13. Bg3 h4 14. Bh2 g4 15. hxg4 Qg5 16. Qf3 Bxg4 17. Qf6 Qxf6 18. exf6 O-O-O 19. Na3 h3 20. Nc4 Be2 21. Ne3 Bxf1 22. Nxf1 hxg2 23. Ng3 Bxf2+ 24. Kxg2 Rd2 25. Nf1 Rxb2 26. Rd1 Rxa2 27. Kf3 a5 28. Bf4 a4 29. e5 Bc5 30. Ng3 Rf2+ 31. Ke4 a3 32. Nf5 a2 33. Ne7+ Kb8 34. Be3 Rh4+ 35. Kd3 Rh3 {White resigns} 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- and another miniature today in the same line Statistics for ChDarwin On for: 37 Idle: 0 ChDarwin is currently involved in a match against ilus. rating [need] win loss draw total best 5-minute 2233 64 46 11 121 2274 (20-Feb-2009) 15-minute 2271 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.24"] [Round "-"] [White "ChDarwin"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2233"] [BlackElo "2248"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "16:52:38"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole by Jack Young 5. c3 a6 6. Ba4 Bc5 7. d4 Ba7 Hyper-Pole to answer ( move x ) ... d6 ( move x +1 ) d5 with .. b5 8. h3 h5 9. Bxc6 dxc6 10. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. dxe5 Qe7 This was my first think in the Lee game because I usually had good results with 11 ... Qh4 in blitz 12. Bf4 g5 Same as the other two games 13. Bg3! same as the DougP blitz game, Lee played 13 Bh2 13 ... h4!! 14. Bh2! g4!!! Even stronger than 14 ... Bd7!! or ... Be6!! and just as good as 14 ... Rg8!!! 15. hxg4! Qg5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ same as the DougP game - I couldn't remember whether 15 ... Rg8!!!, ... Bd7!!, ... Qg5!! or h3!! was best After my move White can gain a little defensive time with 15 hg Qg5 16 Qd2/c1 Q:g4 17 Qf4 even though I am still much better after 17 Qf4 h3!! and 15 hg Rg8!!! 16 Kh1 B:g4 is even better for me ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16. e6 TN Theoretical Novelty by ChDarwin 16 ... Bxe6! 17. Bxc7 Absurdly materialstic or ChDarwin just didn't want his bishop locked out of play after ... h3 g3 17 ... h3!! 18. g3! 18 Qf3 B:g4 19 Qf4 Q:f4 20 B:f4 hg wins material 18 ... Bxg4!! 19. Qd3 Wherever ChDarwin moves his Queen, 19 ... h2+!! is going to make my QB a monster 19 f3 is ilegal 19 ... h2+!!! 20. Kh1 I have superkiller after 20 Kg2 - 20 ... Qf6!!! or ... Qc5!!! hit the dark squares and 20 ... Qh5!! hits the light squares. 20 ... Qh5 I have even better ideas - 20 ... Qb5!!!!, ... Rc8!!! or ... Qe7!! 21. Nd2 CHDarwin cannot move the rook after 21 f3 Bh3 because of ... Bg2+! 21 ... Be2!! 22. Qd6? The Charles Darwin Award 22 ... Qf3+ {White resigns} 0-1 mate next As usual my only problem in the Fishing Pole is what to do with so many wins - 15 ... Rg8!!!, 20 ... Qb5!!!, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.24"] [Round "-"] [White "ChDarwin"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2233"] [BlackElo "2248"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "16:52:38"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. c3 a6 6. Ba4 Bc5 7. d4 Ba7 8. h3 h5 9. Bxc6 dxc6 10. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. dxe5 Qe7 12. Bf4 g5 13. Bg3 h4 14. Bh2 g4 15. hxg4 Qg5 16. e6 Bxe6 17. Bxc7 h3 18. g3 Bxg4 19. Qd3 h2+ 20. Kh1 Qh5 21. Nd2 Be2 22. Qd6 Qf3+ {White resigns} 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 25 13:04:00 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:04:00 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] ThatsRidiculous versus the Raccoon Message-ID: <1235592240.49a5a430573f2@www.taom.com> [Event "ICC 3 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.25"] [Round "-"] [White "thatsridiculous"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White checkmated"] [WhiteElo "2196"] [BlackElo "2206"] [Opening "King's gambit"] [ECO "C30"] [NIC "KG.05"] [Time "14:52:45"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 h5 Raccoon 3. fxe5?? Qh4+ 4. Ke2 Qxe4+ 5. Kf2 Bc5+ 6. Kg3 h4+ 7. Kh3 d6+ 8. g4 hxg3+ 9. Kxg3 Qh4+ 10. Kg2 Qf2# {White checkmated} 0-1 My son was ready with this for the State Scholastic Tournament but no one tried the King's Gambit. He did nail two kids with the "Rook Trick" 1 e4 e5 2 Qh5 g6 3 Q:e5+ similar to the Raccoon "Rook Trick " 1 e4 e5 2 f4 h5 3 fe? Qh4+ 4 g3 Q:e4+ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Statistics for thatsridiculous On for: 1:09 Idle: 0 thatsridiculous is currently involved in a match against SoerenBerg. rating [need] win loss draw total best Wild 1658 [6] 1 0 0 1 Loser's 1034 [6] 0 1 0 1 Bullet 1869 [8] 228 75 19 322 1942 (25-Mar-2008) Blitz 2196 3042 2842 377 6261 2358 (22-Feb-2009) Standard 1404 [6] 0 1 0 1 5-minute 2047 [7] 1 0 0 1 1-minute 1809 17 12 3 32 1854 (25-Feb-2009) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 3 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.25"] [Round "-"] [White "thatsridiculous"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White checkmated"] [WhiteElo "2196"] [BlackElo "2206"] [Opening "King's gambit"] [ECO "C30"] [NIC "KG.05"] [Time "14:52:45"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 h5 3. fxe5 Qh4+ 4. Ke2 Qxe4+ 5. Kf2 Bc5+ 6. Kg3 h4+ 7. Kh3 d6+ 8. g4 hxg3+ 9. Kxg3 Qh4+ 10. Kg2 Qf2# {White checkmated} 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKMRPeBcooQ appropiate Raccoon Chess videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYalfJJpPLw ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 25 15:57:41 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:57:41 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Crushing Grandmaster Igualator Message-ID: <1235602661.49a5cce593769@www.taom.com> Statistics for igualator(GM) On for: 41 Idle: 0 rating [need] win loss draw total best Bullet 2220 [8] 16 10 2 28 2234 (11-Aug-2004) Blitz 2844 [1] 207 159 29 395 2924 (16-Aug-2004) 5-minute 2368 148 80 23 251 2488 (23-Feb-2009) 1-minute 2047 [8] 915 713 97 1725 2419 (31-Mar-2005) 1: Groups : GMs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.25"] [Round "-"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "igualator"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2203"] [BlackElo "2368"] [Opening "Nimzo-Indian: Leningrad variation"] [ECO "E30"] [NIC "NI.25"] [Time "17:25:13"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Bg5 My favorite line against te Nimzo 4 ... h6 5. Bh4 c5 6. dxc5 Bxc3+ Very common reaction 7. bxc3 Qa5 8. Bxf6 gxf6! 9. Qd4! e5! 10. Qd2 I believe I had this position against Paul Nikitovich in a Colorado tournament. I never knew until today 10 Qe3 was best. 10 ... Na6! 11. Rd1! I have to watch out for ... Nb8-a6-:c5-b3:a1 11 ... Nxc5! 12. f3! Qc7 13. e4! b6! 14. Nh3! Ba6 15. Nf2! Rc8? 16. Ng4!! The knight gets very frisky now 16 ... Ke7 17. Qf2 I am spoilt for choice - I could just lop off the h6-pawn 17 ... Ne6 18. Qh4!! Ng5! 19. Ne3!! Protecting everything, attacking everything 19 ... Qc6 20. Bd3 Everything wins but it's nice to get developed 20 ... Rcg8 21. O-O Bc8 22. Kh1!! What I have is mine, what you have is negotiable - Russian bargaining position 22 ... Kf8! 23. f4!! My rooks want to join the party 23 ... exf4! 24. Rxf4 Qe6 25. Nd5!! Knights are drawn to outposts like magnets 25 ... Rg6 26. Rdf1!! Unbearable pressure, safer King 26 ... Qe5 27. Rf5!! Qe6 28. Rxf6 Crushing and thematic - More crushing but unthematic is Nf4:g6 followed by R:g5 winning a clear rook 28 ... Rxf6! 29. Rxf6! Qe5! 30. Rxh6 Crushing - 30 Rf5!!! Qg7 31 Qg3!! is a nice invasion 30 ... Rxh6! 31. Qxh6+! Qg7 32. Qd6+!! Kg8! 33. Qb8 Qf8 34. Qxc8! Qxc8 35. Ne7+ {Black resigns} 1-0 I will be a piece and three pawns up with more to follow. All he has is a knight to fight me with. It's hard to fork knights. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.25"] [Round "-"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "igualator"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2203"] [BlackElo "2368"] [Opening "Nimzo-Indian: Leningrad variation"] [ECO "E30"] [NIC "NI.25"] [Time "17:25:13"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Bg5 h6 5. Bh4 c5 6. dxc5 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 Qa5 8. Bxf6 gxf6 9. Qd4 e5 10. Qd2 Na6 11. Rd1 Nxc5 12. f3 Qc7 13. e4 b6 14. Nh3 Ba6 15. Nf2 Rc8 16. Ng4 Ke7 17. Qf2 Ne6 18. Qh4 Ng5 19. Ne3 Qc6 20. Bd3 Rcg8 21. O-O Bc8 22. Kh1 Kf8 23. f4 exf4 24. Rxf4 Qe6 25. Nd5 Rg6 26. Rdf1 Qe5 27. Rf5 Qe6 28. Rxf6 Rxf6 29. Rxf6 Qe5 30. Rxh6 Rxh6 31. Qxh6+ Qg7 32. Qd6+ Kg8 33. Qb8 Qf8 34. Qxc8 Qxc8 35. Ne7+ {Black resigns} 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 25 16:25:25 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:25:25 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Hyper-Pole shreds Shred Message-ID: <1235604325.49a5d36509363@www.taom.com> It's hard to believe but there are still people out there that haven't heard of the Fishing Pole. [Event "ICC 3 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.25"] [Round "-"] [White "shred"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2208"] [BlackElo "2157"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "18:00:08"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole by LM Jack Young 5. h3 h5 6. c3 a6 7. Be2 Very rare, 99% go to a4 immediately 7 ... Bc5 8. d4 Ba7 Hyper-Pole 9. hxg4 hxg4 Unleashing the gates of Hell - Denver Champion Vance Aandahl 10. Ng5 f6! His knight is trapped 11. Bxg4 fxg5! 12. Bh5+ Kf8! A good square in the Fishing Pole 13. Qf3+ Qf6! 14. d5 Ne7 15. Bxg5 Qxf3! 16. Bxf3 d6! 17. Nd2 Ng6 18. g3 Bh3! 19. Bg2! Kf7 20. Bxh3 Rxh3! 21. Nf3?? As I mentioned in my Internet Chess Club Chess Talk with IM John Watson interview they often forget about my peekaboo Hyper-Pole bishop. 21 ... Rxg3+! 22. Kh2! Rxf3! 23. Kg2! Rd3! 24. f3 Nf4+ 25. Bxf4! exf4! 26. Rab1 Rh8 {White resigns} 0-1 Very strong, forcing a rook trade but 26 ... Rd2+!! mates in 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "ICC 3 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.25"] [Round "-"] [White "shred"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2208"] [BlackElo "2157"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "18:00:08"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. c3 a6 7. Be2 Bc5 8. d4 Ba7 9. hxg4 hxg4 10. Ng5 f6 11. Bxg4 fxg5 12. Bh5+ Kf8 13. Qf3+ Qf6 14. d5 Ne7 15. Bxg5 Qxf3 16. Bxf3 d6 17. Nd2 Ng6 18. g3 Bh3 19. Bg2 Kf7 20. Bxh3 Rxh3 21. Nf3 Rxg3+ 22. Kh2 Rxf3 23. Kg2 Rd3 24. f3 Nf4+ 25. Bxf4 exf4 26. Rab1 Rh8 {White resigns} 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- appropiate Fishing Pole Youtube Chess videos --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exGSXjvKej0&feature=related 897 views -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnN9mqed3l0&feature=related 1481 views --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCk6zdtSLk&feature=related 2551 views --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 25 17:14:18 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:14:18 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Chess Cartoon Message-ID: <1235607258.49a5deda601ad@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from fkimberry at aol.com ----- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:44:22 -0500 From: fkimberry at aol.com Reply-To: fkimberry at aol.com Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Hyper-Pole shreds Shred To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com I wondered why my dates' parents always liked me so much. http://news.yahoo.com/comics/baldo ============================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090225/157e21e3/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Feb 26 11:06:41 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:06:41 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Heartache for Kamsky Message-ID: <1235671601.49a6da3126ca7@www.taom.com> Topalov wins 4.5-2.5 I have often remarked how hard it is to play clamly in your opponent's time pressure. Rather than take the probable draw with 28 R:a3 Bb3 and drag the match out one more game Topalov blundered/gambled with 28 Rec1? Bc2! 29 Qd7 a2! 30 d6 b5! 31 Qb7 Now 31 ... b4! 32 d7 Reb8 33 d8(Q) R:d8 34 B:d8 R:d8 35 Qe7 Ra8 36 Qe5 b3 looks winning for Kamsky but he was in bad time pressure. he played 31 Qb7 Reb8 32 Qc7 with no time left Kamsky didn't see 32 Qc7 Bd3!! 33 R:c4 bc with the threat of ... Rb1+ was good for him. 32 ... Be4 with the same idea of 33 major piece takes Queen bc and ... Rb1+ was OK too Even 32 Qc7 Ba4 33 Q:a4 bc 34 R:a2 Bd7 looks drawn Instead 32 Qc7 Rc8? removes the ... Rb1 threat 33 Q:c4! R:c4! 34 d7 Bb1 35 Rd1 Kg8 36 d8(Q)+ R:d8 37 B:d8 Bc2 38 Rdc1 b4 39 R:a2 b3 40 Ra8 Kf7 41 Rb8 Ke6 42 Re1+ Kd5 43 Be7 Ra4 44 Bf8 Ra7 45 h4 Kamsky resigns 1-0 Kamsky started shaking his head after move 40, very upset that he threw away a million dollars on silly time pressure blunders. Topalov did not look happy either, he was quiet and shellshocked that he almost let a million dollars slip through his fingers again like he did in the Kramnik match. The official Bulgarian match site had a webcam. Watching Kamsky try to remain clam and control his emotions with less than five minutes on his clock was fascinating. Enormous Bulgarian celebrating will follow. The opening was the same I lost on the Balck side to GM Alexander Ivanov and just recently drew the White side against GM Dashzeveg Sharavdorj, a ... Q:d5 Tarrasch. Topalov had 40 minutes left after 25 Qd6 Kamsky went from 30 minutes to 10 minutes to play the slightly inferior 25 ... Ba4 when 25 ... Bc8! was better but very tricky. 25 ... Kf7! and ... Bb5! were playable too The play was roughly equal until 28 Rec1? and then the move quality went down. Topalov went under 10 minutes, Kamsky went under one minute and the position was still crazy with hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line. Final game 7 of Topalov-Kamsky Bulgaria match 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.exd5 Qxd5 5.Ngf3 cxd4 6.Bc4 Qd6 7.0-0 Nf6 8.Re1 Nc6 9.Nb3 Be7 10.Nbxd4 Nxd4 11.Nxd4 0-0 12.c3 Bd7 13.Qf3 Qb6 14.Bb3 a5 15.Be3 Bc5 16.Rad1 a4 17.Bc2 Qxb2 18.Bg5 Nd5 19.c4 Bxd4 20 Qd3 f5 21.Qxd4 Qxc2 22.cxd5 Qxa2 23.Qb6 a3 24.Be7 Rfe8 25.Qd6 Ba4 26.Qxe6+ Kh8 27.Ra1 Qc4 28.Rec1 Bc2 29.Qd7 a2 30.d6 b5 31.Qb7 Reb8 32.Qc7 Rc8 33.Qxc4 Rxc4 34.d7 Bb1 35.Rd1 Kg8 36.d8Q+ Rxd8 37.Bxd8 Bc2 38.Rdc1 b4 39.Rxa2 b3 40.Ra8 Kf7 41.Rb8 Ke6 42.Re1+ Kd5 43.Be7 Ra4 44.Bf8 Ra7 45.h4 1-0 Very exciting and for the first time in my life, I felt bad for Kamsky. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Feb 26 13:23:19 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:23:19 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Brian, for everyone, regarding THE CHESS MIND by Gerald Abrahams Message-ID: <1235679799.49a6fa37a31b4@www.taom.com> I've read it too and I liked it - Brian Wall ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Forwarded message from "Paul K. Smith" ----- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:15:30 +0800 (CST) From: "Paul K. Smith" Reply-To: "Paul K. Smith" Subject: Brian, for everyone, regarding THE CHESS MIND by Gerald Abrahams To: Brian Wall Luis, I have thoroughly read at least two hundred chess books. About two hundred books ago, I read a book by Liverpool barrister Gerald Abrahams, one of the few English masters able to beat Sultan Khan. The book by Abrahams is entitled THE CHESS MIND. It remains the best most insightful, most useful, most inspiring, most analytic (in a creative sense) , most instructive, most empowering chess book I have ever experienced. THE CHESS MIND IS THE BEST. And if you don't like your copy, sell it to me. I buy every copy I see. "Paul K. Smith" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- lumecas wrote: Hello friends: Does someone know the book " The chess mind "? I need to know that it treats topics. I need to know if it is a good book. Best regards fron Spain. Luis MC From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Feb 26 13:29:02 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:29:02 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Dradster Message-ID: <1235680142.49a6fb8e1a09a@www.taom.com> Statistics for dradster On for: 16 Idle: 0 dradster is currently involved in a match against Vilaliv. rating [need] win loss draw total best Bullet 1201 [8] 0 2 0 2 Blitz 1754 [5] 194 127 3 324 1987 (03-Aug-2008) 5-minute 1933 543 536 30 1109 2097 (13-Nov-2008) 1-minute 1806 [8] 206 195 17 418 1943 (15-Nov-2008) 15-minute 1916 [3] 48 18 2 68 1965 (01-Oct-2008) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.26"] [Round "-"] [White "dradster"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "1933"] [BlackElo "2116"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "14:23:20"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole invented by Life Master Jack Young 5. h3 h5!! Rod and reel set 6. d4 exd4 7. Bg5 f6! Initiating the pawn wave 8. Bh4 Bc5 I had a feeling I should start the pawn wave right away with 8 Bh4 g5!! 9 Bg3 h4!! 10 Bh2 N:h2!! 11 N:h2 Bc5!! but a Master trick is to carefully prepare my pawn breaks while my opponent blunders some more. The Renae Delaware attack 8 Bh4 Bd6!! intending ... g5 or ... Qe7 or ... a6 is another thought. Even since I told Renae not to develop her bishop that way in her first Chess lesson God has beem mocking me with endless .. Bd6 possibilities. 9. c3 The Fishing Pole is based on a closed center so I hate it when they open lines there. It also brings back painful memories of WGM Batchimeg Tuvshintugs ( Facebook buddy ) beating me in the HB Minnesota 2005 tournament, a game I shouldn't have lost. 9 ... dxc3! 10. bxc3? Very strange, I never met anyone who prefers bc to Nb1:c3-d5. I believe Tuvshintugs played N:c3 and Qd5 10 ... d6 The immediate pawn storm 10 ... g5!!! 11 Bg3 h4! 12 Bh2 N:h2! 13 N:h2 Ne5! 14 Nd2 c6! was good and I had other ideas - 10 ... Nge5! but I can't retreat, 10 ... Bd6! the Renae Attack, 10 ... Ne7! shifting to the Queenside 10 ... Qe7! preparing ... 0-0-0 10 ... Be7 I can't retreat 11. Bg3 Prophylaxis but I follow him anyway. 11 Bg3 Nge5 would be a sane response. 11 ... g5 12. hxg4 Opening the gates of Hell- Vance Aandahl 12 ... hxg4 I can't resist an open h-file but 12 ... B:g4! or ... h4! is a sane response 13. Nd4 Bd7 I could head for the h-file already with 13 ... Qe7! 14 Nd2 Qh7 but it's not mate yet because of 15 f4! 14. Nf5 Ne5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trying desperately to hang onto my g4-pawn - there is an interesting draw here with 14 ... B:f5!! 15 ef Qd7 16 Q:g4 Qh7 17 Qh3 Qg7 18 Qg4 Qh7= B:c6+ bc or Re1+ Kf8 have no effect on the draw ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15. Qb3? c6!! to prevent the nasty Qe6+ 16. Be2? Bxf5!! 17. exf5! Qd7!! 18. Nd2? I expected 18 Qe6+! Q:e6! 19 fe f5!!! and my pawn wave more than makes up for my missing Fishing Pole knight. Once again my attack outlives the endgame. 18 B:e5 fe only makes it worse - 19 Qe6+ Q:e6 20 fe g3! or 19 B:g4 Qh7!! 20 Bh3 g4!! 21 Qe6+ Kd8!! 18 ... Qh7!! Now Dradster has to throw his Queen away to delay mate 19. Qe6+ Kd8!! 20. Qxf6+! Kc7!! {White resigns} 0-1 White is out of tricks and has to give away the house - another Fishing Pole miniature - what did I learn? move 8 - immediate pawn storm or Renae Attack move 10 - immediate pawn storm or retreat with ... Nge5 - even the Berlin endgame after 10 ... a6 11 B:c6 dc 12 Q:d8+ K:d8 is OK move 11 - retreating with ... Nge5 is fine or attacking with ... h4 is all right move 12 - I don't have to play ... hg every time move 13 - often I delay the best ideas like going for mate with 13 .. Qe7 right away move 14 - again I delayed when ... B:f5!! and ... Qd7!! already drew I don't like to wound my prey, I like to pull the trigger when I know it will be fatal. the rest of the game I played perfectly. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.26"] [Round "-"] [White "dradster"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "1933"] [BlackElo "2116"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "14:23:20"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. d4 exd4 7. Bg5 f6 8. Bh4 Bc5 9. c3 dxc3 10. bxc3 d6 11. Bg3 g5 12. hxg4 hxg4 13. Nd4 Bd7 14. Nf5 Ne5 15. Qb3 c6 16. Be2 Bxf5 17. exf5 Qd7 18. Nd2 Qh7 19. Qe6+ Kd8 20. Qxf6+ Kc7 {White resigns} 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- appropiate Fishing Pole Youtube Chess videos --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exGSXjvKej0&feature=related 900 views -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnN9mqed3l0&feature=related 1500 views --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCk6zdtSLk&feature=related 2500 views --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Feb 26 23:52:20 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:52:20 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Thanks Shirov Message-ID: <1235717540.49a78da4444f7@www.taom.com> IM John Watson laughed in our interview when I said Shirov changed my life but I was serious. Reading Fire on Board changed the way I looked at Chess. This game is an example. [Event "ICC 3 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.27"] [Round "-"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "PREVAIL"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "2282"] [BlackElo "2293"] [Opening "French: Tarrasch, closed variation"] [ECO "C05"] [NIC "FR.16"] [Time "00:55:11"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Ngf3 a6 8. Bd3 b5 9. O-O g6 Prevail had already demonstrated his penchant for handling the Weihmiller French in a strange way, by putting all his pawns on light squares. I had a new idea how to handle it. 10. Qe2 Qb6 11. Kh1!! I had already played 11 dc!! and I didn't like the game I got so this time I sacced the d-pawn like the Milner-Barry Gambit. Fritz 9 likes both moves equally. 11 ... cxd4! 12. cxd4 Nxd4 13. Nxd4! Qxd4! 14. Nf3 Fritz agrees with the pawn sac but slightly prefers 14 Nb3!! here to help fight for control of c5 after Be3. I can live with that. 14 ... Qb6! 15. Be3! Bc5! 16. Bxc5! Qxc5! 17. Rac1! Qb6! 18. f5!? This is the Shirov part, the post traumatic FIRE ON BOARD syndrome. Like Colorado Springs expert Shaun MacMillan I have a glitch, every 10 positional moves must be followed by an unsound sac. Fritz assures me I need nothing so dramatic - I have 18 Ng5, Qe1, Qd2, b4, h4, a4, Rfd1, Bc2, a3 you know, yucchy normal moves, half of which I considered. 18 ... gxf5! 19. Ng5 Fritz wants me to grab dark squares with 19 Qd2 or Qe1 but I want to sac on f7 like an impatient Latvian. 19 ... Qd4 20. Bxf5! Fritz sees the light and jumps on the bandwagon. Fritz likes my move as winning, bested only by 20 Qh5!!! even more winning. Fritz sees perpetuals after 20 N:e6 fe 21 Qh5+ or 20 B:b5 ab 21 N:e6 or 20 N:f7 K:f7 21 Qh5+ or 20 N:f7 K:f7 21 R:f5+ or 20 N:f7 K:f7 21 B:f5 20 ... Qxe5 21. Qh5!! Crushing 21 ... Nf6 22. Qxf7+!! Even more crushing 22 ... Kd8 23. Nxe6+!! Best by a mile. 23 ... Bxe6! 24. Bxe6!! Best by a mile. 24 ... Ra7 Leads to immediate mate but so does everything else. 25. Rc8# {Black checkmated} 1-0 Without Shirov I would still be trying to grind out a better ending against Prevail. Once you accept one simple fact, that a pawn near a King is worth a piece, your Chess is instantly liberated and elevated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 3 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.27"] [Round "-"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "PREVAIL"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "2282"] [BlackElo "2293"] [Opening "French: Tarrasch, closed variation"] [ECO "C05"] [NIC "FR.16"] [Time "00:55:11"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Ngf3 a6 8. Bd3 b5 9. O-O g6 10. Qe2 Qb6 11. Kh1 cxd4 12. cxd4 Nxd4 13. Nxd4 Qxd4 14. Nf3 Qb6 15. Be3 Bc5 16. Bxc5 Qxc5 17. Rac1 Qb6 18. f5 gxf5 19. Ng5 Qd4 20. Bxf5 Qxe5 21. Qh5 Nf6 22. Qxf7+ Kd8 23. Nxe6+ Bxe6 24. Bxe6 Ra7 25. Rc8# {Black checkmated} 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Feb 27 00:55:07 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:55:07 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Cor Zero Message-ID: <1235721307.49a79c5bc2b1a@www.taom.com> Dr. Menghy, please report to the green room. apparently Doctor Mengy has not seen my Intro to Fishing Pole video on www.ChessTelevision.com where this line is thoroughly covered. Statistics for DrMenghy On for: 56 Idle: 0 DrMenghy is currently involved in a match against romor64. rating [need] win loss draw total best Crazyhouse 1637 [6] 0 1 0 1 Bullet 1829 [7] 28 16 1 45 1829 (03-Apr-2007) Blitz 2120 8525 9507 738 18770 2475 (20-Feb-2007) Standard 1229 [6] 0 2 0 2 1-minute 1604 [8] 263 246 8 517 1720 (08-Dec-2005) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "ICC 3 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2007.04.17"] [Round "-"] [White "DrMenghy"] [Black "brianwall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White checkmated"] [WhiteElo "2137"] [BlackElo "2210"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "03:03:21"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 h5 Fishing rod 7. Nc3 Bc5 8. Nf5 d6 9. Nxg7+ Kf8 10. Nf5 Bxf5 11. exf5 Qh4! Oops 12. h3 Qg3 Most resign here 13. hxg4 hxg4 14. Bf4 Qxf4 15. g3 Qxg3# {White checkmated} 0-1 at least Dr. Menghy is used to the sight of blood. ------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 3 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2007.04.17"] [Round "-"] [White "DrMenghy"] [Black "brianwall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White checkmated"] [WhiteElo "2137"] [BlackElo "2210"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "03:03:21"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 h5 7. Nc3 Bc5 8. Nf5 d6 9. Nxg7+ Kf8 10. Nf5 Bxf5 11. exf5 Qh4 12. h3 Qg3 13. hxg4 hxg4 14. Bf4 Qxf4 15. g3 Qxg3# {White checkmated} 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I wrote the above email a year ago - this year Dr. Menghy tried to improve. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Statistics for DrMenghy On for: 43 Idle: 0 DrMenghy is currently involved in a match against Pason. rating [need] win loss draw total best Crazyhouse 1637 [6] 0 1 0 1 Bullet 1817 [8] 194 146 9 349 1937 (27-Apr-2007) Blitz 2206 15367 17750 1276 34393 2475 (20-Feb-2007) Standard 1229 [6] 0 2 0 2 1-minute 1526 [8] 275 263 8 546 1720 (08-Dec-2005) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 3 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.27"] [Round "-"] [White "DrMenghy"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2206"] [BlackElo "2275"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "02:14:10"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 h5 My favorite blitz position because there are so many ways to go wrong. 7. Nc3 Bc5 8. Nf5 d6 so far same as last year 9. Bc4? TL Theoretical Lemon by Dr. Menghy, the big improvement 9 ... Bxf5!!! It's interesting that 9 ... Nce5!! throwing another piece into the fray with tempo on the c4-bishop is also good. 9 ... B:f2+!! and 9 ... g6! are sweet too. 10. exf5! Qh4!! 11. Qe2+ 11 Bf4 B:f2+!! 12 Kh1 0-0!! is best. My usual refutation doesn't work here - 11 Bf4 B:f2+!! 12 Kh1 N:h2? 13 Qe2+! Ne5 14 Q:f2! messes up my checkmate 11 ... Kf8 Jesse Cohen was the first man to point out that this is a good square for me in the Fishing Pole. I have an awesome move here, 11 ... Be3!!!!!, blocking Bf4 and then 12 h3 Nd4!! 13 Qd3 Ne5!!!, ... 0-0!!, ... Qg3!!, ... 0-0-0!!, all the usual suspects, are good for me plus others too. Very visual is how they say it in England. 12. h3? Losing the same way as last year. 12 Bf4! N:f2!! 13 g3 Ng4+!! ( double Fishing Pole ) 14 Kh1 Qh3!! with an extra pawn plus ... h4 on the horizon. 12 ... Qg3!! The Killer Fishing Pole move. Cor Zero is nurse code in hosptials for heart attacks announced on the loudspeakers to avoid alarming nonmedical people. Cor = heart in Latin. 13. Rd1 Qh2+ mate next. The only way to avoid it is giving up the Queen after 13 Q:g4 hg 14 Ne4 or 13 Bf4 Q:f4 14 Q:g4 {White resigns} 0-1 Take two aspirin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 3 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.27"] [Round "-"] [White "DrMenghy"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2206"] [BlackElo "2275"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "02:14:10"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 h5 7. Nc3 Bc5 8. Nf5 d6 9. Bc4 Bxf5 10. exf5 Qh4 11. Qe2+ Kf8 12. h3 Qg3 13. Rd1 Qh2+ {White resigns} 0-1 From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Feb 27 11:07:40 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:07:40 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Joel Johnson on - Thanks Shirov Message-ID: <1235758060.49a82bec62d08@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:45:26 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: RE: [BrianWall-ChessList] Thanks Shirov To: Brian Wall And, one of my games versus PREVAIL, Joel PREVAIL (2213) - FearNoEvil (2276) [A40] ICC 3 0 Internet Chess Club, 18.07.2007 1.d4 b5 2.e4 Bb7 3.Bd3 a6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Qe2 e6 6.c3 d6 7.Bg5 Be7 8.Nbd2 Nbd7 9.Rd1 h6 10.Bh4 g5 11.Bg3 g4 12.Ng1 h5 13.f3 h4 14.Bf4 Nh5 15.Be3 g3 16.h3 e5 17.dxe5 dxe5 18.a3 Bg5 19.Nb3 Nf4 20.Bxf4 Bxf4 21.Qc2 Qe7 22.Ne2 Be3 23.c4 Bf2+ 24.Kf1 Nc5 25.cxb5 Nxd3 26.Rxd3 axb5 27.Nc3 b4 28.axb4 Qxb4 29.Ke2 Ba6 30.Nd2 Rd8 31.Nd5 Rxd5 32.exd5 0?0 33.Ne4 Qd4 34.Qd2 f6 35.Rd1 Rb8 36.Qh6 Rxb2+ 37.R1d2 Qxd3+ 38.Kd1 Rb1# White checkmated 0?1 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:52:20 -0700 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com; brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Thanks Shirov IM John Watson laughed in our interview when I said Shirov changed my life but I was serious. Reading Fire on Board changed the way I looked at Chess. This game is an example. [Event "ICC 3 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.27"] [Round "-"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "PREVAIL"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "2282"] [BlackElo "2293"] [Opening "French: Tarrasch, closed variation"] [ECO "C05"] [NIC "FR.16"] [Time "00:55:11"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Ngf3 a6 8. Bd3 b5 9. O-O g6 Prevail had already demonstrated his penchant for handling the Weihmiller French in a strange way, by putting all his pawns on light squares. I had a new idea how to handle it. 10. Qe2 Qb6 11. Kh1!! I had already played 11 dc!! and I didn't like the game I got so this time I sacced the d-pawn like the Milner-Barry Gambit. Fritz 9 likes both moves equally. 11 ... cxd4! 12. cxd4 Nxd4 13. Nxd4! Qxd4! 14. Nf3 Fritz agrees with the pawn sac but slightly prefers 14 Nb3!! here to help fight for control of c5 after Be3. I can live with that. 14 ... Qb6! 15. Be3! Bc5! 16. Bxc5! Qxc5! 17. Rac1! Qb6! 18. f5!? This is the Shirov part, the post traumatic FIRE ON BOARD syndrome. Like Colorado Springs expert Shaun MacMillan I have a glitch, every 10 positional moves must be followed by an unsound sac. Fritz assures me I need nothing so dramatic - I have 18 Ng5, Qe1, Qd2, b4, h4, a4, Rfd1, Bc2, a3 you know, yucchy normal moves, half of which I considered. 18 ... gxf5! 19. Ng5 Fritz wants me to grab dark squares with 19 Qd2 or Qe1 but I want to sac on f7 like an impatient Latvian. 19 ... Qd4 20. Bxf5! Fritz sees the light and jumps on the bandwagon. Fritz likes my move as winning, bested only by 20 Qh5!!! even more winning. Fritz sees perpetuals after 20 N:e6 fe 21 Qh5+ or 20 B:b5 ab 21 N:e6 or 20 N:f7 K:f7 21 Qh5+ or 20 N:f7 K:f7 21 R:f5+ or 20 N:f7 K:f7 21 B:f5 20 ... Qxe5 21. Qh5!! Crushing 21 ... Nf6 22. Qxf7+!! Even more crushing 22 ... Kd8 23. Nxe6+!! Best by a mile. 23 ... Bxe6! 24. Bxe6!! Best by a mile. 24 ... Ra7 Leads to immediate mate but so does everything else. 25. Rc8# {Black checkmated} 1-0 Without Shirov I would still be trying to grind out a better ending against Prevail. Once you accept one simple fact, that a pawn near a King is worth a piece, your Chess is instantly liberated and elevated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 3 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.27"] [Round "-"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "PREVAIL"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "2282"] [BlackElo "2293"] [Opening "French: Tarrasch, closed variation"] [ECO "C05"] [NIC "FR.16"] [Time "00:55:11"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Ngf3 a6 8. Bd3 b5 9. O-O g6 10. Qe2 Qb6 11. Kh1 cxd4 12. cxd4 Nxd4 13. Nxd4 Qxd4 14. Nf3 Qb6 15. Be3 Bc5 16. Bxc5 Qxc5 17. Rac1 Qb6 18. f5 gxf5 19. Ng5 Qd4 20. Bxf5 Qxe5 21. Qh5 Nf6 22. Qxf7+ Kd8 23. Nxe6+ Bxe6 24. Bxe6 Ra7 25. Rc8# {Black checkmated} 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090227/25fac0ae/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Feb 27 14:52:17 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:52:17 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] State of Valley Chess Message-ID: <1235771537.49a86091bc107@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:51:16 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: State of Valley Chess State of Valley Chess (Sorry, no bailouts) Attendance A year ago, I wrote to you about the state of Valley Chess and as I look back, it seems so long ago. Much has changed at Valley Chess. The club has sustained continuous growth since our inception in November of 2005 and we broke all of our attendance records over the past week, as both Valley Chess ? Paradise Valley and Valley Chess ? Glendale set records. We had over 60 players at the clubs this past week. The worse problems a chess club can have is nobody coming to the club or no place to play. We do not have either of these issues. The future looks bright! Expansion Our problems are related to our growth. Our meeting places are now crowded and we need to thin the herd. The best way of accomplishing this is to expand. With more places and times when players can get together, we hope that some players will switch to the less crowded days. As part of this goal, I am pleased to announce that Valley Chess will now have a second meeting night in Glendale! Starting in April, we will be meeting in Glendale on Mondays and Thursdays, from 6 pm till 10 pm. Another change is the earlier closing time, as Borders is closing the cafe at 10 pm nightly, effective March 1st. The Thursday meeting time will still be run by Chief TD Dave Small and Monday night will be run by Chief TD Mike Oldehoff. We still need to open a club at the Avondale Borders, so that our regulars from the western part of the city do not have to travel so far to play chess. As of this moment, we have people willing to help out at that site, but no Chief TD. Hopefully, that will change in the near future and we can announce that location. One of my top priorities for this year will be the addition of several more Valley Chess clubs, with the focus on areas where there are no chess clubs. In particular, there are no chess clubs in Central Phoenix. This needs to change as ?not all chess players live in the East Valley?. This is being proved daily with all the chess activity these days in Glendale. Someone said, ?Build it and they will come!? That's our goal and hope for the future. Ahwatukee In the past, we have tried to organize clubs in Chandler and Ahwatukee. These clubs have never taken off completely. Both have suffered from attendance problems. We finally closed the Chandler location and have for the present, shut down the Ahwatukee location. We wanted to run an event there in April, but there does not seem to be enough support for an event at this location, at this time. We will continue to look into the possibility of running events in Ahwatukee at the Coffee Buzz from time to time. However, the success of Bookman's Chess Club in the area will likely prevent this club from ever taking off. So, it seems more prudent to hold events in areas of the city where there is no chess activity. If you live in the area, you should support the Coffee Buzz, as the owners, Dimitri and Carol Lazarescu, have been extremely supportive to the arts, including chess. And, besides, they were recently voted, ?Best 2008 Breakfast in Ahwatukee!? So, if you did not have enough reason to stop by, perhaps, you will let your stomach be your guide. 2009 Arizona State Chess Championship The Arizona Chess Federation, Inc. (ACFI) has accepted our proposal to run the 2009 Arizona State Chess Championship. The event will be a 12 player closed event held over Labor Day weekend. More information will come available in the near future. 2009 Valley Chess Championship The 2009 Arizona Chess Championship will be a qualifying event for the 2009 Arizona State Chess Championship. And, because of our growth, we will need to have some limitations on who can enter this event, based on the number of games played at Valley Chess this year. The exact cutoff still needs to be determined. More information will come available in the near future. Valley Chess Invitationals We will continue to run various chess events throughout the year. This past year, we ran two Invitational chess tournaments to provide younger players with a chance to play against people that they would not other have a chance to play against. We expect to run some more of these in the future. American Chess Events (ACE) ACE (www.americanchess.net) continues to be one of our biggest supporters. We share many of the same ideals and goals, promoting chess in the Greater Phoenix area. Many Valley Chess players also frequently play at the Master Trek tournaments put on by ACE. The experience that younger players get by playing against tough competition at Valley Chess events, ACE tournaments, and training by superior local chess coaches at the Summer Chess Academy, is a huge reason why Arizona players have been so successful in national chess tournaments. We fully expect this to continue well into the future. Summer Chess Academy As many of you know, every year I teach at the Summer Chess Academy in Tempe, which is organized by Alan Andersen. And, I have been handing out folders for the Summer Chess Academy at Valley Chess. Every summer two of the best players in the United States come out to Phoenix to join all the top local chess instructors at the Summer Chess Academy. One of the players is Grandmaster Gregory Kaidenov, who was just pictured on the cover of a recent Chess Life and International Master Ben Finegold, who is a national treasure. His outgoing and entertaining personality are always key to the camp atmosphere. If you have any interest in attending the Summer Chess Academy, you can ask me for a folder or contact Alan Andersen directly. The Summer Chess Academy information follows: When & Where:July 6 - July 17, 2009 Connolly Middle School and ILP Classrooms 2228 S. Country Club Way Tempe, AZ 85282 Registration:Contact Alan Anderson Phone: (480) 966-9542 Email: Checkm8chess at aol.com http://www.americanchess.net/newsletters/summerChessAcademy.asp Bookmans Chess Club Rick Smouse, one of the founding members of Valley Chess, has taken over the running of this chess club and we fully support his efforts to promote chess in the East Valley. He has many new and exciting plans for the Bookmans Chess Club in the near future. For more information about the chess club, you can contact Rick directly at Rick_Smouse at yahoo.com or by phone at (480) 390-9528. Contributions Valley Chess operates at a loss. The chess clubs are run by volunteers that love and support chess. We are always happy when people donate funds or supplies to the chess club. Many of you regularly contribute to Valley Chess. We thank you. Many of you help out with the club in various ways (TDs, website development, photography, etc.). We thank you. Your support enables us to continue to grow and promote chess throughout Phoenix. Valley Chess is no longer Joel Johnson, it is what I envisioned, a family oriented organization made up of caring, hard-working individuals that form a large chess community. As for contributions, right now, our biggest need is chess equipment, boards, sets, and clocks. In order to open new Valley Chess locations, we need more chess equipment. Any assistance in this area would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for all your support, Joel Johnson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20090227/4853e940/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Feb 27 15:43:29 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:43:29 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Some 14 year old kid named Brian Wall died Message-ID: <1235774609.49a86c91bcc25@www.taom.com> http://www.geocities.com/dadtochris8/brianwall1.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Feb 27 22:35:53 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:35:53 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Casper the Friendly Ghost Chess Opening Message-ID: <1235799353.49a8cd394697b@www.taom.com> I am naming a new opening tonight Casper the Friendly Ghost based on the following facts. 1 - My son, Devon and I watched the movie Casper ( the friendly ghost ) meets Wendy ( the Witch ) twice in February. 2 - Stephan Burns wants me to take him to the Casper, Wyoming Chess Club. 3 - At the Downtown Denver Barnes and Noble, Stephan Burns played 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 N:e5 against me tonight which is similar to the Halloween Gambit 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 N:e5 but less scary, just like Casper is a less scary ghost than his uncles. Stephan Burns is a photographer who often captures Chessplayers in Colorado and Wyoming. Stephan studied several martial arts. Stephan belongs to the Church of Latter Day Saints and is extremely knowledgable on all things biblical and historical. Religiously erudite. Stephan doesn't use computers much but he does own Chessmaster 11 and uses that for hours to sharpen his tactics, endgames, etc. He also tried 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Nf6 4 B:f7+ which I guess is half a Jerome Gambit. Then he started playing more solid. He says he sacs pieces to shake them up and make his coffeehouse oppnents uncomfortable. Stephan is often seen on the 16th street mall playing at the Chess tables. If someone knows a different name for the Casper the Friendly Ghost Chess Opening, please let me know. Other than ?? or blunder, of course. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Feb 27 23:00:51 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:00:51 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fishing Pole: A line for White by Jack Young Message-ID: <1235800851.49a8d31319cc9@www.taom.com> Jack is a very private person and does not like his email address exposed but he does stay in touch from time to time. I lived with Chessmasters Jack Young, Joel Johnson and David Vigorito in a house in Lowell, Mass. Jack used to identify my wife Debbie and himself as " Brian Wall relationship survivors". I call him every 5th Full Moon. Jack invented dozens of unorthodox openings, played them and and wrote about them. His philosophy was an opening has to be bad enough to embarrass someone when they lose but good enough to contain hidden ideas. Bozo T. Clown was Jack's moniker when he wrote for Chess Horizons. I confused Jack Armstrong with Jack Young before I met him so I expected a musclebound moron, not an Asian Chessmaster. Brian Wall ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Young So much has been written on the Fishing Pole that one might think that black wins by force after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Ng4!!!. However, International C-Player Casper Quimby has discovered a new idea for white. After 4.0-0 Ng4, he recommends: 5.d3!?, a rather passive move which seemingly plays right into Black's hands. Now, 5...Bc5 6.h3 h5 7.Nc3 d6 8.Bc4!!! and by tempo loss, White has transposed into a position usually reached via the TRA (tomb raider attack). To wit: 1 .e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d3 Nf6 5.Ng5!!! 0-0 6.Nc3 h6 7.h4 and d6 is the same position with reversed colors. Continuing after 8.Bc4!!!, White actually threatens 9.hxg4 hxg4 10.Ng5 when black has no useful way to dislodge the N on g5. And Q manauvers such as 10...Qf6 are answered by 11.Nd5. In blitz and against computers I've usually tried 8.Bc4 f6!? and if 9.hxg4 hxg4 10.N moves, f5 11.g3 f4 with the usual fishing pole type attack. Instead, White should play 9.Nd5 and this piece is a thorn as Black can't get the Q to the h file without extensive preparation. If 9...g5 then 10.hxg4 is good. Even 10.c3 intending d4 is good. There are other black tries on move 8 such as 8...Nd4 but they are all a bit fishy and probably suitable only for blitz. Of course the chances of white finding this line are pretty remote Bozo T. Clown ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- My personal profile on ICC Statistics for B-Wall On for: 12 Idle: 0 rating [need] win loss draw total best Bullet 674 [7] 0 1 0 1 Blitz 2274 116 58 15 189 2367 (26-Feb-2009) 5-minute 2139 98 88 27 213 2278 (14-Feb-2009) 1: Life Master Brian Wall 30 years 2: How to Play Chess Like An Animal - Amazon.com, Borders, over 2,000 sold 3: www.Walverine.com over a quarter million hits 4: Youtube videos - Fishing Pole First Blood 1,000 views 5: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com free Chess email list ( 650 ) with pictures 6: http://www.taom.com/mailman/listinfo/brianwall-chesslist free email list ( 350 ) 7: http://chessville.com/Wall/index.htm Off the Wall Chess column for www.Chessville.com 8: ICC interview with IM John Watson Feb 3, 2009 archived 9: I don't give or receive takebacks. 10: I don't give pity draws. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Feb 27 23:48:19 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:48:19 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Denver Elementary School Championship Message-ID: <1235803699.49a8de33518f7@www.taom.com> http://home.comcast.net/~bgaller//chess/DCL/DCL.html Denver Chess League The following schools will hold a Championship final tournament at my son's school where I coach Chess, Polaris at Ebert, two Thursdays from now. Elementary Schools Saint Thomas Moore ( who beat Polaris on tiebreaks ) Coronado ( who seems to win every year ) Kyffin ( rhymes with Griffin ) Polaris at Ebert ( 22nd and Tremont, Denver, CO ) Middle Schools Denver Academy of Torah ( Jewish School, shocker ) Challenge School, Cherry Creek, Daton and Mississippi, where I taught many years with Steve Towbin and the Herbst family Ken Caryl Deer Creek Middle School I will be there as some sort of host or analyst. Let me know if you'll be there. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Feb 28 01:24:25 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:24:25 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Darnoc Message-ID: <1235809465.49a8f4b90647e@www.taom.com> Conrad Holt Wins 2008 Cadet http://www.anatolykarpovchessschool.org/2008jrcadetchamps.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Statistics for Darnoc On for: 2:38 Idle: 0 Darnoc is currently involved in a match against kunifax(FM). rating [need] win loss draw total best Wild 1974 4199 3230 333 7762 2153 (16-Aug-2006) Loser's 1842 [5] 1445 1404 49 2898 2041 (03-May-2007) Bughouse 2199 [6] 1492 943 0 2435 2204 (18-Dec-2008) Crazyhouse 2084 [3] 4392 3843 24 8259 2386 (25-Jun-2008) Bullet 2171 [8] 3747 2858 475 7080 2386 (20-Feb-2007) Blitz 2693 4952 4499 661 10112 2943 (09-Sep-2008) Standard 2447 [1] 755 594 143 1492 2583 (23-Oct-2008) 5-minute 2352 2820 2126 386 5332 2507 (06-Oct-2008) 1-minute 2092 [7] 4955 4741 535 10231 2439 (11-Mar-2008) 15-minute 2285 [2] 335 68 22 425 2376 (17-Aug-2008) Correspondence 1667 [2] 10 4 4 18 1: 2008 National K-12 Blitz champion; 2008 Cadet champion 2: {Game 683 (Darnoc vs. CrazedMonkey) Game drawn because both players ran out of time} 1/2-1/2 Huh? 3: Rank Rat. 15-minute 1 2338 Darnoc<---------- 2 2337 Smallville Thu Jul 17 19:54:52 EDT 4: King as an offensive checkmating piece! (with queens and rooks still on the board) vs. GM in 12-player simul "examine Darnoc %99" 5: guest2130(U)(1): can the king ride the horse? guest7219(U)(1): Philodor said that pawns are " soul " of the game. Do pawns really have souls and if so will they go to heaven ? 6: nice attacking game against GM "examine #1415650850" 7: Peter-Patzer(223): TEAM Darnoc! Congratulations for winning. Thanks to all who played Groups : BronzeMedal SilverMedal GoldMedal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Darnoc is Conrad backwards. Conrad Holt. Brian Wall ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.28"] [Round "-"] [White "Darnoc"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "2352"] [BlackElo "2155"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "01:55:03"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 h5!! My favorite blitz position 7. h3 Bc5 8. Nf5 d6 8 ... g6! is better but I was hoping to transpose into my favorite Fishing Pole fantasy with 9 N:g7+ Kf8 10 Nf5 B:f5 11 ef Qh4 12 Qf3 Nd4 13 Q:b7 Re8 14 B:e8 Ne2+ 15 Kh1 Q:f2! 16 R:f2 Ng3+ 17 Kg1 B:f2 checkmate - I enjoy whipping this whole line out on unsuspecting blitz players using 30 seconds or less on my clock. 9. hxg4 g6! 10. Nh6 Strange, not bad but strange, no one has ever put a knight there before in the Fishing Pole. 10 ... hxg4! 11. Qd5 Darnoc has used over a minute, I have used 14 seconds. 11 ... Be6!! 12. Bxc6+ bxc6! 13. Qxc6+ Kf8 13 ... Bd7! is better but my King likes f8. I consider it home. 14. g3! Darn, he plays g3 before I can. 14 ... Kg7!! I liked connecting all my major pieces. My King feels cozy now. 14 ... Rb8!! is also a good move. 15. Nc3! Conrad has used over two minutes, I have used 30 seconds. 15 ... g5 Premature - setting it up with 15 ... Qf6!! was right 16. Nf5+! Bxf5! 17. exf5! Qf6! 18. Be3! Qxf5! A tough move to find, it took me 1:02 19. Bxc5! dxc5! 20. Kg2 Holt has used over three minutes, I have used less than 2. 20 ... Rh6!!! Another tough move to find, it took me 4 long seconds. The idea is 21.Qxa8 c6 22.f4 Qxc2+ 23.Rf2 Rh2+ 24.Kxh2 Qxf2+ 25.Kh1 Qf3+ 26.Kg1 Qxg3+ 27.Kf1 Qf3+ 28.Ke1 Qh1+ 29.Kd2 Qxa1 with three pawns for a piece and a big mess. 21. Qe4 Rah8!!! This awesome Queen sac took me 2 seconds - the idea is 22 Q:f5 Rh2+ 23 Kg1 Rh1+ 24 Kg2 R8h2 checkmate As usual the f2-pawn and f1-rook act as nails in the coffin. 22. f3? this took Conrad 34 seconds, 22 f4! was better. Despite many brilliant moves the game has not been going my way until now. Tyler Hughes said he has played Conrad blitz many times on ICC so maybe Darnoc was ready for the Fishing Pole. Conrad won the 2008 Cadet Championship in Lindsborg, Kansas while Tyler was winning the 2008 U.S. Junior. 22 ... Rh2+!!! This great winning only move took me 52 seconds 23. Kg1 gxf3!!! Another great Queen sac that took me one second - the idea is 24 Q:f5 Rg2 checkmate Taking on f3 with Rook or Queen is forced for Holt to avoid mate but then he drops the rook on a1. It took Darnoc 51 seconds to accept his loss emotionally after which he had 22 seconds to my 2:09. Then it was just a matter of making decent moves in a winning position until his flag mercifully fell. 24. Qxf3! Qxf3! 25. Rxf3! Rh1+! 26. Kf2! R8h2+! 27. Ke3! Rxa1! 28. Rf5! Rxc2 29. Rxg5+! Kf8 My Fishing Pole throne 30. Rxc5! Rxb2 31. Rxc7! a5 32. Ne4 Raxa2! 33. Kf4 Rb6 Trying to nip any last minute endgame mating nets in the bud, especially since he had 5 seconds left to my 1:38 34. Ke5 a4 35. g4 a3 36. g5 Re2 {White forfeits on time trying to play 37 Kf5} 0-1 Darnoc flags ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.28"] [Round "-"] [White "Darnoc"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "2352"] [BlackElo "2155"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "01:55:03"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 h5 7. h3 Bc5 8. Nf5 d6 9. hxg4 g6 10. Nh6 hxg4 11. Qd5 Be6 12. Bxc6+ bxc6 13. Qxc6+ Kf8 14. g3 Kg7 15. Nc3 g5 16. Nf5+ Bxf5 17. exf5 Qf6 18. Be3 Qxf5 19. Bxc5 dxc5 20. Kg2 Rh6 21. Qe4 Rah8 22. f3 Rh2+ 23. Kg1 gxf3 24. Qxf3 Qxf3 25. Rxf3 Rh1+ 26. Kf2 R8h2+ 27. Ke3 Rxa1 28. Rf5 Rxc2 29. Rxg5+ Kf8 30. Rxc5 Rxb2 31. Rxc7 a5 32. Ne4 Raxa2 33. Kf4 Rb6 34. Ke5 a4 35. g4 a3 36. g5 Re2 {White forfeits on time} 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Right before that game Grandmaster Alexandr Fier beat me in a funny way. Anyone have a name for 1 ... d6 and 2 ... Bd7? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Information about Fier(GM) (Last disconnected Sat Feb 28 2009 02:59): rating [need] win loss draw total best Wild 1445 [6] 0 2 0 2 Crazyhouse 1924 [6] 2 1 0 3 Bullet 2250 194 190 23 407 2358 (19-Sep-2005) Blitz 3151 1901 2221 409 4531 3307 (13-Feb-2008) 5-minute 2363 594 399 83 1076 2515 (14-Oct-2008) 1-minute 2409 [1] 1948 1344 213 3505 2559 (25-Jul-2008) 1: GM 2590 2: 20 years old 3: Brasil Name : Alexandr Fier Email : alexandrfier at yahoo.com.br Groups : Brasil GMs IBCO DosHermanas FBICC --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 Qb3! would have won me a piece [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2009.02.28"] [Round "-"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "Fier"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2129"] [BlackElo "2289"] [Opening "King's pawn opening"] [ECO "B07"] [NIC "VO.17"] [Time "01:51:04"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Bd7 3. f4 c5 4. d5 Na6 5. c4 Nc7 6. a4 a6 7. Nc3 b5 8. axb5 axb5 9. Rxa8 Qxa8 10. cxb5 Qb7 11. Nf3 Nxb5 12. Be2 Nxc3 13. bxc3 Nf6 14. Qc2 g6 15. c4 Bg7 16. Bb2 O-O 17. O-O Rb8 18. Bc3 Qb3 19. Bd3 Ba4 20. Qxb3 Rxb3 21. Rc1 Nxe4 22. Bxg7 Rxd3 23. Bh6 Rd1+ 24. Rxd1 Bxd1 25. f5 Bxf3 26. gxf3 Nf6 27. fxg6 hxg6 28. Kf2 Nd7 {White resigns} 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Feb 28 08:44:33 2009 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:44:33 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Full Strength Message-ID: <1235835873.49a95be10af04@www.taom.com> I wrote this 6 months ago for publication in the Colorado Informant. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I haven't tried this hard in a game of Chess since the Colorado Closed 2007 - details available upon request. Still, trying my best, I missed plenty of ideas - let's compare my thinking with the computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Poor Richard's 4th and Tejon, Colorado Springs, CO 7 PM Round 2 Board 1 Wednesday Night Tournament Opening - Grob, Romford Gambit White, Tim Brennan, 1707 Black - Brian Wall 2200 2-9-08 Game/85 5 second delay Tim was 1833 2 years ago- Dairy Queen froze my rating 30 years ago 1.g4 d5! 2.Bg2! Bxg4 I spent 10 minutes on this - since our first game 6 years ago, also a Grob Attack, Romford Gambit, Timmy has played dozens of rated and unrated Grobs. He should be fully prepared for this. I tried to think of another line but I didn't like h3 and c4 - here's some idea of what I looked at - 2 Bg2 e5! 3 c4 c6 4 cd! cd! 5 Qb3! Nc6 6 Nc3? Be6 7 N:d5? Nd4? 8 Q:b7 Nc2+ 9 Kd1 N:a1?? 10 Nc7+ winning Here is another line - 2 Bg2 h5? 3 h3? hg! 4 hg! R:h1! 5 B:h1! B:g4! 6 c4 and I couldn't tell if I had helped myself or not - 6 ... Qd6!! is strong here After 10 minutes of going in circles I felt like I was at Elitch's getting dizzy tortured by my 9 year old son Devon. I went back to what I normally play. Because Black is semi-lost to begin with I have to play very carefully in the beginning to minimize trades and maximize attacking chances. I have tons of compensation - monster ( unopposed ) light square bishop and traffic jam on White's Kingside. "Exchange Sacrifices occur relatively rarely after move 30. When a player gives up a rook for a piece he usually expects to make his compensation count well before a trade of Queens " Rethinking the Chess Pieces GM Andrew Soltis Here is what Fritz 9 likes against the Grob - 1 g4 d5 2 Bg2 c6, ... e5, ... B:g4, ... e6, ... Na6, ... Nc6, ... h6 3.c4! dxc4!? Brian always attacks- Doctor Mikhail Ponomarev 4.Bxb7! Nd7! 5.Bxa8! I don't have the proper database for this opening but three people have declined the Gambit with 5 Qa4 5 ... Qxa8! 6.f3! 6 Nf3? Ne5!! wins, a common blitz error 6 ... e5! My simple human plan is to get castled as soon as possible but this took a while. 7.Nc3! Who's afraid of the Romford Gambit? - IM Basman Timmy deviates from 7 Qa4 Be6 8 Nc3 Ngf6 9 Nb5 from 6 years ago which I should have answered with 9 ... Nd5!!! or... Qd8!! A key line - 9 Nb5 Nd5 10 e4?? c6!! winning 11 ed! cb! 12 Q:b5! B:d5! and I am winning because Timmy's development is a sick joke. 11 Q:a7 Q:a7 12 N:a7 Nb4 and I am winning due to the difference in strength between our knights 10 ... c6!! creates one of my favorite Chess situations- White is up 3 points in material but down three points in position So after 7 Qa4 Be6 8 Nc3 Ngf6 9 Nb5 Nd5 forget about 10 e4 and play 10 Nc3 c6 or 10 Q:c4 Qd8 but I am better in all lines The Ponomarevs usually play 7 Qa4 Be6 8 b3 and then one possible line is 8 b3 cb 9 ab Bc5 10 Ba3 Bb6 and then maybe ... c5 and ... 0-0 After 7 Qa4 I usually play 7 ... Be6 to hang onto the c-pawn for a while since my g4-bishop is usually forced to move at some point anyway. It is also possible to forget the c4-pawn and just move my KB somewhere and castle quickly. 7 ... Ngf6! 7 ... Bc5! is another way No one has tried 7 ... Bc5 that I know of - probably the smart folks at UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com know where I can find hundreds of examples. 8.d3 TN Five minutes each for this Theoretical Novelty by Brennan and my reply. I think a specialty database would show a game or two. I don't like the move. The Ponomarevs always won the c4-pawn or traded it cheaper for the b2-pawn after 8 Qa4 Be6 8 ... cxd3!! One pawn is good enough for the exchange- World Champion Petrosian, revolutionary exchange sacrificer 9.Qxd3! Nc5 In blitz games I am always trying to break down the e4-pawn with ... f5, ... Nf6:e4 or ... Nc5:e4 therefore 9 ... Nc5 seemed like a clear tempo gain to me but Fritz 9 doesn't respect it much, preferring 9 ... Be6!!, ... Bb4!!, ... Be7! and ... Bc5! 10.Qc2! Bd6 Still exhibiting an erroneous attraction to this square. I did consider more modest moves 10 ... Be6!! , ...Be7! or ... Bd7! but I couldn't resist have two lonely entities joining forces for mutual protection plus preparing the favorite human move, ... 0-0 It's really a form of mental laziness - now I don't have to keep track every move of my unprotected c-pawn and King-bishop 11.Bg5! Nfd7!! 14 minutes each for this move and my next. I thought a long time here because 11 ... 0-0? 12 B:f6 sucks the joy out of the position and 11 ... Ne6?? 12 Qa4+! wins a piece. I liked keeping a knight on c5 plus I had the flexible option of Knight or Bishop to e6 Being the exchange down I want to avoid trades. The g5-bishop looks confused now - how did I end up here? 12.0-0-0! I wasn't happy that Timmy was making strong, logical moves and I hoped that trend would end after the opening. 12 ... Qb7?? My hand wanted to play 12 ... 0-0!! a hundred times but 13 Nb5 annoyed me - 12 ... 0-0 13 Nb5 Fritz 9 thinks 12 ... 0-0 13 Nb5? is stupid and I get the advantage with 13 ... Rb8!!, ... Bh5!!, ... Ne6!!, ... Be6!!, ... Qb7!, ... Na6! or ... h6! Let us see what I have after 12 ... 0-0! 13 Nb5? Rb8! 14 N:d6 cd 15 R:d6 I am a clear exchange down but my King is much safer after the switchback 15 ... Rc8!! Rooks should always aim at the King and Queen no matter how many pieces are in between - GM Suba Tim's King has to start running and things get bad for him. His pieces look like a dysfunctional family where no one communicates with each other. I lacked faith in my resources and made the ridiculous tempo-loss 12 ... Qb7. It is clear to me now that the only one of my pieces who knows where he belongs is my King. General Patton to sleeping soldier in hallway - "Well, get back down there son, you're the only SOB in this whole place that knows what he's doing." My poorly thought out move loses to 12 ... Qb7?? 13 fg!! Q:h1 14 Nf3 Qg2 15 Rg1 Qh3 16 Rg3!! Qf1+ 17 Nd1!! and in most lines I lose my Queen after Rg1 and Nf2 - I can wiggle but there's no great way out - the key point is obscure - 17 Nd1 e4 18 Rg1 Nd3+ 19 Q:d3!! threatening 20 Q:e4+ works for White after 12 ... Qb7?? but fails for White after 12 ... 0-0!! 13 fg Q:h1 14 Nf3 Qg2 15 Rg1 Qh3 16 Rg3 Qf1+ 17 Nd1 e4 18 Rg1 Nd3+ 19 Q:d3 Q:g1 because 20 Q:e4 is not check now The whole position revolves around this hidden subtlety. Timmy called 12 ... Qb7 a quiet move. I deserve to lose after such a foolish decision. I was proud that the move stopped b4 or Nb5 and that my Queen surely has no better square and that I found a better move than the "routine" castles. The late Eugene Salome of Boulder, CO, the Baron Von Munchausen of Chess, once told me that a bunch of Chessplayers were suggesting extravagant moves and Bobby waved them aside - " Just castle!" I should have listened. 13.h4 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 minutes. The Queen trap line is best but messy, Timmy's move is second best and promotes development with Nh3. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 ... 0-0 14.Nh3! 14 fg doesn't work so well now due to 14 fg Q:h1 15 Nf3 Qh3 16 Rg1 Ne6!! 17 Nd1 Bc5! or even 16 ... h6! or ... f5! 14 b4 is interesting, exploiting the hanging bishop 14 b4 Ne6 15 Qe4 trying to trade Queens but I sac a piece 14 b4 Ne6 15 Qe4 Qa6 16 fg Qa3+ 17 Kc2 B:b4 18 Rh3 B:c3 19 R:c3 Nd4+ 20 R:d4 Q:a2+ 21 Kd1 ed 22 Q:d4 Qa1+ 23 Kd2 Nb6 can be slightly improved with 14 b4 Ne6 15 Qe4 Qa6 16 fg Qa3+ 17 Kc2 Nd4+ 18 R:d4 ed 19 Q:d4 Be5 where my safer King makes up for Timmy's extra piece - Timmy might try 20 Qc4 Q:a2+ 21 Kc1! a5!, ... c5! or ... Rb8! gives me good chances - Timmy might also try an endgame with 20 Bc1 Q:c1+ 21 K:c1 B:d4 with a micro-edge for me 14 ... Be6 Timmy and Fritz both liked the defensive 14 ... Bh5! but I am trying to whip up an attack on a2 15.Nf2 This is delicate - with a knight on h3 Fritz prefers 15 Rdg1 but next move, with the knight more passively placed, Fritz prefers 16 Rhg1 The reason for this is - at f2 the knight will probably hop to d3 and needs rook support. At h3 the knight can hop to g5 or f4 if the e5-pawn or g5-bishop move 15 ... f5 My f8-rook reminded me of my raven-haired Mom running around trying to take care of her five sons. My one overworked rook is needed on the a, b, c, e and f-files. Even so, Fritz prefers 15 ... h6, ... Na6, ... f6, ... Kh8, ... Qb6, ... Rb8 and a host of other moves before picking mine. 15 ... f5 seemed very natural to me to fight for e4, the key square in the Romford Gambit 16.Rdg1 Opposite side castling attacks - All out war - A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. Bible - King James version- Proverbs 18:19 I prefer the rook on d1 but Timmy shows his aggressive intentions 16 ... Kh8 Logical to me because I did not want to tie up my rook on f7 when she is needed on all those other files. Fritz wants me to start attacking with my knights - 16 ... Na6-b4 or 16 ... Nb6 17.h5! Timmy is still making logical, forceful moves for the win 17 ... a5!! The only good move. Our rook pawns seem like crying, screaming children running from ducks or dogs without rhyme or reason. It seems normal to me to pry open some Queenside files. 18.h6!! Pawns near a King are worth a piece- Brian Wall and/or Kasparov I remember Renae Delaware beating the late Al Ufer with such a pawn despite her three pawn deficit and gaining 250 rating points in that tournament. Kasparov calls these pawns " The Alien" 18 ... g6! 19.Rh4? A turning point. 4 minutes each for this move and my reply. This move reminded me of Kasparov's famous 17 Rh5!! against Karpov Linares 1992 in a Caro-Kann. It also reminded me of ... Grandmasters uses their rooks much more actively than weaker players - GM Larry Christiansen Timmy seems to be playing at 5 times his normal strength so I had to raise my game 10 levels. The move itself is not very good but it does show creativity, desire, hope, energy, originality, etc. 19 ... a4!! ?Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.? General Patton I very much wanted to block out Timmy's rook with 19 ... f4 but then those stupid knights are transformed into e4-monsters. My move is based on 19 ... a4!! 20 N:a4? B:a2! ruining Timmy's King protection My move was the only good one. 20.Nd3 7 minutes Trying to reduce my attackers 20 ... f4!!! Timeout for Timmy. You can play again after you simmer down. Best. 5 minutes each for my move, his reply and my next I wanted to isolate all of Brennan's Kingside pieces before I started my attack - 20 ... f4 is a lot more reasonable now that both knights aren't aimed at e4. Calculating b3-sacs was hurting my head all game - Fritz 9 says I can already start that if I like - 20 ... a3!! 21 b3! N:b3+!! 22 ab B:b3!! 23 Qb1! and I have a dozen wins - 23 ... a2, ... Ra8, ... Qa7, ... f4, ... c5, ... Qb6, ... Nc5, ... Rb8, ... c6, ... Qb8, ... Rc8 or ... Nf6. I was intending a b3-sac, I just figured A-players can't defend too well and all the lines would be stronger after 20 ... f4!!!. My move cuts the board in half and 20 ... Rb8!!, Qb6!! or ... Nd3+!! are good too 21.Nf2 Logically heading for e4. Trading looked scary because of 21 N:c5! B:c5! 22 Rd1 Rb8, ... Bf5, ... Be3+, ... a3 and many other good choices or 21 N:c5 N:c5!! is also sweet for me, planning 22 ... a3 or ... Bf5 21 ... a3!! Predator versus Alien All the conditions are ideal now - lost, lockdown Kingside pieces for Timmy, lost time with Ng1-h3-f2-d3-f2 and only two King defenders west of the f-file. I couldn't decide if I wanted a knight or bishop to end up on b3 so I was going to let Brennan decide after 22 b3 N:b3+ 23 ab Nc5 which wins after 24 Kd2 N:b3+ 25 Ke1 Nd4 and my a3-pawn is stronger than that useless melted extra piece of superfluous plastic on h4. Of course Fritz wouldn't be Fritz if he couldn't find better wins - 22 b3 N:b3+ 23 ab Bc5!!! is a monster move where one bishop threatens Timmy's entire army. 22 b3 N:b3+ 23 ab B:b3!! ... Qb6!!, ... Qa7!!, ... Nc5!! and others are convincing as well but not as great as 23 ... Bc5!!!, the one man wrecking crew, e.g., 22 b3 N:b3+ 23 ab Bc5!!! 24 Rd1 B:f2 25 R:d7 B:d7 26 e4 B:h4 or 22 b3 N:b3+ 23 ab Bc5!!! 24 Nfe4 B:g1 25 Nd2 Be3 Tim has not created any threats against my King while his own is on life support - the end is near. 22.Nfd1 Not more lost time with this homeless knight!? There is no good defense. Recanting 19 Rh4? with 22 Rhh1 would be about the best but too little too late after 22 Rhh1 Qa7!, ... ab+!, ... Bf5!, ... Qb6!, ... Ra8! or ... Rb8! 22 ... Bf5 Finally winning the battle over the e4-square. I have a position where anyone can make up their own punch line. I am giving the h4-rook a chance to justify his miserable existence after 23 e4!! fe 24 Re4!! helping out at long last My entire army is involved in attacking the fortress and half of Timmy's army is trapped behind enemy lines. The wins are endless - 22 ... Qa7, ... Rb8, ... ab+, ... Bf5, ... Ra8, ... Qb6, ... Na6 and many more - it's just a matter of physical force in the critical area. How did things get so bad? - It was mostly a little at a time - Two critical moments - 13 fg!! put my Queen in trouble and 19 Nd3! instead of 19 Rh4? would have held the fort better - after 19 Rh4? it got bad and just went south from there. The whole Romford Gambit is a difficult line to play for both sides. It gives good practical chances but you have to stay very alert both positionally and tactically. It does create the type of chaos where a Chessmaster can confuse a class player. " A fun way to beat the Grob" GM Joel Benjamin in Unorthodox Chess Openings by Eric Schiller, 1st Edition 23.Qd2 Rb8? Adding another shrimp to the barbie. 2 minutes spent. Tim has 16 minutes. I had 14 minutes left and felt anything wins - true but I have never seen the motif 23 ... Nb3+!!! 24 ab Nc5!!! outside of Bughouse. I have so many other wins - 23 ... Qa7 is reminiscent of the last game of the 2008 US Junior Championship where Tyler beat Young 23... ab+ 24 Q:b2 Qa7 is sweet 23 ... Qb6 is powerful I did see the cute idea 23 ... Qb3:a2 during the game where my Queen is immune twice due to Nb3 checkmate. The best defense to 23 ... Qb3 is to create an escape square with 24 Nf2 or Ne3, bad as they are. My move is fine as far as winning goes but how many 23 ... Nb3+ chances do we get in life? 24.Bxf4 Tim finally wakes up from his 1 Bf6+ Kg8 2 R:g6+ hg 3 h7+ dream and tries to help out his King. As pointless as it looks, only the more absurd looking 24 b4! is better. " The desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy" 6th November 1605, Guy Fawkes "extremis malis extrema remedia". 24 ... exf4!!! The only move stronger than the 24 ... Nb3+!! 24 ab Nc5!! idea 25.Ne4 Pulling the plug 25 ... Nxe4!! 26.fxe4 The best defense is the hopeless defective-h4-rook recall with 26 Qc2 Ng3 27 e4 fe e.p. 28 Re4 26 ... Qxe4! 1-0 Timmy resigns Mate in 11 The longest mate would be 27 Qc3+ Be5 28 Qd2 ab+ 29 N:b2 B:b2+ 30 Kd1 Qa4+ 31 Ke1 B:d3 32 R:g6 Qe4 33 Re6 Be3+ 34 Kf2 Bd4+ 35 Ke1 Rb1+ 36 Kd2 Be3+ 37 Kc3 Qd4 checkmate I missed a lot but I did find some key moves, 11 ... Nfd7!!, 20 ... f4!! and all my a-pawn moves were best at the time. Maybe I even learned a little how to play the Romford better next time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brennan-Wall 2-9-08 Game/85 5 second delay 1.g4 d5 2.Bg2 Bxg4 3.c4 dxc4 4.Bxb7 Nd7 5.Bxa8 Qxa8 6.f3 e5 7.Nc3 Ngf6 8.d3 cxd3 9.Qxd3 Nc5 10.Qc2 Bd6 11.Bg5 Nfd7 12.0-0-0 Qb7 13.h4 0-0 14.Nh3 Be6 15.Nf2 f5 16.Rdg1 Kh8 17.h5 a5 18.h6 g6 19.Rh4 a4 20.Nd3 f4 21.Nf2 a3 22.Nfd1 Bf5 23.Qd2 Rb8 24.Bxf4 exf4 25.Ne4 Nxe4 26.fxe4 Qxe4 1-0 Timmy resigns -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Brennan on our game 6 years ago Here is the game that Brian is referring to that he played the Romford against me. I still remember this game well. It was during the "Membership Meeting Open" tournament which is held at the same time as the Colorado Open. It is held for people who want to attend the meeting, but not play in the 3 day, 6 round, Colorado Open. There are always a few people who play in both. Brian was one of these people. So he was actually playing two rated games at one time when this was played. Our game was a G/30 I think. After the game Brian was really curious as to why I played the Grob against him. I wasn't sure if he was going to tell me that it was a stupid opening, and that 1400s should be playing 1.e4 or something, but he seemed quite happy that I had played it. It was the first time I had really talked to him, although I knew who he was. He was really cool about it, and went over the game with me. [Event "2002 Colorado Open - Membership Meeting Open"] [Site "VFW Post 1 Denver CO"] [Date "2002.08.31"] [Round "3"] [White "Brennan, Tim"] [Black "Wall, Brian"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "A00"] [WhiteElo "1416"] [BlackElo "2225"] [PlyCount "60"] [EventDate "2002.08.31"] 1. g4 d5 2. Bg2 Bxg4 3. c4 dxc4 4. Bxb7 Nd7 5. Bxa8 Qxa8 6. f3 e5 7. Qa4 Be6 8. Nc3 Ngf6 9. Nb5 Bd6 10. Qxa7 Qc6 11. Nxd6+ cxd6 12. b3 O-O 13. bxc4 Ra8 14. Qe3 Bxc4 15. a3 Nd5 16. Qg5 Nf4 17. d3 h6 18. Qg3 Bxd3 19. Bxf4 exf4 20. Qxf4 Qc3+ 21. Kf2 Qxa1 22. exd3 Ne5 23. Qe4 Rxa3 24. d4 Nxf3 25. Qe8+ Kh7 26. Qe4+ g6 27. Nxf3 Ra2+ 28. Kg3 Qb2 29. Rg1 Qf2+ 30. Kg4 f5+ 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "Leuven op"] [Site "Leuven"] [Date "1994.11.??"] [Round "1"] [White "Cuypers,Dries"] [Black "Winants,Henri"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "A00"] 1.g4 d5 2.Bg2 Bxg4 3.c4 dxc4 4.Bxb7 Nd7 5.Bxa8 Qxa8 6.f3 Ngf6 7.Nc3 e5 8.h3 Be6 9.e3 Nc5 10.h4 Be7 11.Nh3 Nd3+ 12.Ke2 Nh5 13.Rg1 Bxh3 14.Qa4+ Bd7 15.Qxc4 Nxc1+ 16.Raxc1 Bc6 17.Rcf1 0-0 18.Qg4 Qb7 19.Qxh5 f5 20.e4 Qa6+ 21.Kd1 Be8 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Linares 10th"] [Site "Linares"] [Date "1992.02.??"] [Round "2"] [White "Kasparov,Garry"] [Black "Karpov,Anatoly"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B17"] 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Ng5 Ngf6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Qe2 Nb6 8.Bb3 h6 9.N5f3 c5 10.Bf4 Bd6 11.Bg3 Qe7 12.dxc5 Bxc5 13.Ne5 Bd7 14.Ngf3 Nh5 15.0-0-0 Nxg3 16.hxg3 0-0-0 17.Rh5 Be8 18.Rxd8+ Kxd8 19.Qd2+ Bd6 20.Nd3 Qc7 21.g4 Kc8 22.g5 Bf8 23.Rh4 Kb8 24.a4 Be7 25.a5 Nd5 26.Kb1 Bd8 27.a6 Qa5 28.Qe2 Nb6 29.axb7 Bxg5 30.Nxg5 Qxg5 31.Rh5 Qf6 32.Ra5 Bc6 33.Nc5 Bxb7 34.Nxb7 Kxb7 35.Qa6+ Kc6 36.Ba4+ Kd6 37.Qd3+ Nd5 38.Qg3+ Qe5 39.Qa3+ Kc7 40.Qc5+ Kd8 41.Rxa7 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------