From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Mon Jun  1 11:04:22 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon,  1 Jun 2009 11:04:22 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Your May Edition of Chess Check!
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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Mon Jun  1 17:51:55 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon,  1 Jun 2009 17:51:55 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Colorado Springs,
	CO: New Location for Wednesday Night Chess
Message-ID: <1243900315.4a24699b1ba14@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Fred Eric Spell <spellfe at hotmail.com> -----
    Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 17:06:08 -0600
    From: Fred Eric Spell <spellfe at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Fred Eric Spell <spellfe at hotmail.com>
 Subject: New Location for Wednesday Night Chess
      To: Anthea Carson <nth_carson at yahoo.com>, Bill Weimiller
<throgmodon at yahoo.com>, Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>, Dragan
Plakalovic <dragan.plakalovic at lmco.com>, Jerry Maier <pmjer77 at aim.com>, Joe
Fromme <joeychess08 at yahoo.com>, Mike Wokurka <mikewokurka at msn.com>, Richard
Buchanan <buckpeace at pcisys.net>, Tim Brennan <timmybx at aol.com>, Tom Mullikin
<tlm at orbdyn.com>


Hello All,



As of this Wednesday, June 3rd, the Wednesday night chess location has changed
from 'Poor Richards' to 'East Coast' restaurant & deli. The new location has a
much larger room in back with proper tables that can be used for chess playing
with wood floors and with room to add tables if needed. Plus it is much
quieter! The address is 24 South Tejon. It is on the same side of the street as
'Poor Richards' and just North of Colorado Blvd.



As you enter the restaurant go past the counter to your right and follow the
hallway down until you get to the room. I think everyone will be pleasantly
suprised. The owner is even going to assign a single waitress to the room if
anyone wants to order from their menu.



If anyone has questions, don't hesitate to contact me.



Thanks,

Fred Spell

719-491-1040



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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Mon Jun  1 18:15:23 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon,  1 Jun 2009 18:15:23 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] fishing pole gone bad
In-Reply-To: <BAY116-W463BA16EBF5EA35B53EEB8B74C0@phx.gbl>
References: <1243833523.4a2364b3ede74@www.taom.com>
	<BAY116-W463BA16EBF5EA35B53EEB8B74C0@phx.gbl>
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8 ... capture on f2 was a better try
Even 8  ... Bd6 was better,
8 .. Bb6 lost although's that prob the move I would have tried -

23 ... Rh6  wins the Queen

Brian Wall


Quoting Wayne Thompson <wayne_thompso1 at hotmail.com>:



 Brian,



i clearly mangled this fishing pole. can you help ?



 tx

 wayne



 (2) ildebrando (1986) - numbercrunch (1938) [C65]
ICC Internet Chess Club, 01.06.2009
> 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0?0 Ng4 5.d4 exd4 6.h3 h5 7.Nxd4 Bc5 8.Nb3 Bb6
 9.hxg4 hxg4 10.Qxg4 d6 11.Qg3 a6 12.Bxc6+ bxc6 13.Nc3 Bd7 14.Bg5 f6 15.Be3
 Qe7 16.Bxb6 cxb6 17.Rad1 Qf7 18.Rxd6 Qh5 19.f4 0?0?0 20.Rfd1 Rh6 21.a4 Rg6
22.Qh2 Qg4 23.Nd4 c5 24.Ne6 Re8 25.f5 Rh6 26.Qf4 Qh5 27.Rxd7 1?0




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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Mon Jun  1 18:30:07 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon,  1 Jun 2009 18:30:07 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] New computer
Message-ID: <1243902607.4a24728fe7827@www.taom.com>


Tom Bourie installed

Chessbase 10
Rybka 3
new Dell computer
Fritz 11
new 23" monitor diagonal
working dvd


From wayne_thompso1 at hotmail.com  Mon Jun  1 18:53:22 2009
From: wayne_thompso1 at hotmail.com (Wayne Thompson)
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 19:53:22 -0500
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] [BrianWallChess] fishing pole gone bad
In-Reply-To: <1243901723.4a246f1b68cc8@www.taom.com>
References: <1243833523.4a2364b3ede74@www.taom.com>
	<BAY116-W463BA16EBF5EA35B53EEB8B74C0@phx.gbl>
	<1243901723.4a246f1b68cc8@www.taom.com>
Message-ID: <BAY116-W2754B0F4A9375DCB4CAB11B74D0@phx.gbl>


tx. shredder shows bxf2 as best try, but still white is up +.7. black maybe has perpetual check
 


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From: BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 18:15:23 -0600
Subject: [BrianWallChess] fishing pole gone bad







8 ... capture on f2 was a better try
Even 8 ... Bd6 was better,
8 .. Bb6 lost although's that prob the move I would have tried -

23 ... Rh6 wins the Queen

Brian Wall

Quoting Wayne Thompson <wayne_thompso1 at hotmail.com>:

Brian,

i clearly mangled this fishing pole. can you help ?

tx

wayne

(2) ildebrando (1986) - numbercrunch (1938) [C65]
ICC Internet Chess Club, 01.06.2009
> 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0?0 Ng4 5.d4 exd4 6.h3 h5 7.Nxd4 Bc5 8.Nb3 Bb6
9.hxg4 hxg4 10.Qxg4 d6 11.Qg3 a6 12.Bxc6+ bxc6 13.Nc3 Bd7 14.Bg5 f6 15.Be3
Qe7 16.Bxb6 cxb6 17.Rad1 Qf7 18.Rxd6 Qh5 19.f4 0?0?0 20.Rfd1 Rh6 21.a4 Rg6
22.Qh2 Qg4 23.Nd4 c5 24.Ne6 Re8 25.f5 Rh6 26.Qf4 Qh5 27.Rxd7 1?0

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Mon Jun  1 20:30:31 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon,  1 Jun 2009 20:30:31 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Slow and easy
Message-ID: <1243909831.4a248ec740887@www.taom.com>


Using Rybka 3 to analyze the Fishing Pole is
like using an atom bomb to blow up a bird.

My natural inclination is to play blitz moves instantly on instinct.
Josh Bloomer used to laugh at me for this.
Knowing my new Rybka 3 or Fritz 11 will laugh even harder than Fritz 9 or Josh,
I try to play a little slower in the critical moments.

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.01"]
[Round "-"]
[White "garparov1"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2119"]
[BlackElo "2061"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "21:28:03"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!!

Fishing Pole

5. h3 h5!!  6. c3 a6 7. Bxc6

Preventing the Hyper-Pole
and heading for Marvin Lee territory

7 ... dxc6 8. d4 Bd6 9. Bg5 f6 10. Bc1 g5 11. hxg4

Unleashing the gates of Hell-
Vance Aandahl

11 ... hxg4!!  12. dxe5 gxf3!

6 seconds spent

The general Fishing Pole philosophy is to remove bodyguards at
every opportunity until the King is naked as Brittainy Spears.
I don't think I've ever gotten this position right - I take the quick
piece rather than increase the pressure with 12 ... Qe7!!!  or ... Qd7!!

13. exd6 fxg2!

Even chanting my new mantra-
" Rybka 3 will laugh at you "
for 40 seconds
I still don't play
13 ... Qd7!!!!  14  Qf3   Qh7
winning the Queen  or
13 ... Qd7!!!!  14  dc ( anything else gets mated )  Q:c7!!!
15  Q:d8+  ( anything else gets mated )  Q:d8   winning the Queen
and mating as well

Bottom line -
13 ... Qd7!!!  wins the Queen after 14 Qf3   Qh7  15  Qh5+  Q:h5  16  f3  or
13 ... Qd7!!!   14  dc  Q:c7  15  Qd8+  Q:d8 wins the Queen and then checkmates
Any other 14th move after  13 ... Qd7!!!  gets checkmated quicker.
My move 13 ... fg!  is equal
Any other 13th move loses for me


14. Re1!!  cxd6!!

For the third time
14 ... Qd7!!  is good


15. Qd4?

Missing the threat


15 ...  Rh1+!

For the 4th time in a row,
15 ... Qd7!!!
is better than my move and my move picks off a free Rook!

16. Kxg2 Rxe1 17. Nd2 Qe7

Even here,
17 ... Qd7!!  is better


18. f3 Be6

18 ... Qh7!!!  is best,
I can't seem to get with the program

19. Kf2 Rh1 20.
Nf1 O-O-O  21. Be3 Rdh8


22. Rd1!  Bh3 23. Ng3!  Rxd1!  24. Qxd1!  Be6!
25. f4 Rh2+!!  26. Kg1 Rxb2


... Qh7!!  is best on
the 18th and 26th moves



27. fxg5 Qh7!!  28. Bf2!  Qh3

28 ... fg!
is best


29. Qxd6 Rb1+!!

A typical sloppy Fishing Pole victory.
How long would White last if I was accurate.



{White resigns} 0-1
----------------------------------------------------------------------
[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.01"]
[Round "-"]
[White "garparov1"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2119"]
[BlackElo "2061"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "21:28:03"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. c3 a6 7. Bxc6 dxc6 8.
d4 Bd6 9. Bg5 f6 10. Bc1 g5 11. hxg4 hxg4 12. dxe5 gxf3 13. exd6 fxg2 14.
Re1 cxd6 15. Qd4 Rh1+ 16. Kxg2 Rxe1 17. Nd2 Qe7 18. f3 Be6 19. Kf2 Rh1 20.
Nf1 O-O-O 21. Be3 Rdh8 22. Rd1 Bh3 23. Ng3 Rxd1 24. Qxd1 Be6 25. f4 Rh2+ 26.
Kg1 Rxb2 27. fxg5 Qh7 28. Bf2 Qh3 29. Qxd6 Rb1+ {White resigns} 0-1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------


From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Mon Jun  1 21:59:58 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon,  1 Jun 2009 21:59:58 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Angry Elephant
Message-ID: <1243915198.4a24a3beafb10@www.taom.com>



[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.01"]
[Round "-"]
[White "DrGris"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "1884"]
[BlackElo "2118"]
[Opening "Vienna game"]
[ECO "C25"]
[NIC "VG.04"]
[Time "23:33:17"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 d5

I was suddenly angry I had to play an 1891
after I was recently playing titled players.

3. exd5 Nf6 4. d4 e4 5. Bg5 Bd6 6. Bb5+ Nbd7
Oh an Elephant Gambit,
I can live with that.


7. Nge2  O-O 8. O-O Bxh2+!?

8 ... h6!  is  a little better because
8 ... Bxh2+   isn't that effective
after 9 Kh1!

9. Kxh2?  Ng4+!  10. Kg1!  Qxg5!  11. Nxe4?

11 Qc1!!  or B:d7!
aren't too bad


11 ...  Qh4!  12. Re1 Only move to avoid checkmate     f5!!

I saw 12 ... Qh2+!  13 Kf1  Qh1+  14 Ng1  Nh2+  15  Ke2  Q:g2  was strong
but 12 ... f5!!  is much better and more reminiscent of a charging bull
elephant.


13. N4g3 f4!!

This fits in well with the 100 year old
K. Wygodchikoff-Alekhine game I just analyzed.

14. Nf1 f3!

The enraged elephant keeps charging even though
14 ... Q:f2+!!  was more brutal


15. Neg3!  fxg2!!   Only winning move
16. Kxg2 Rxf2+!!   17. Kg1 Qh3!!


{White resigns} 0-1

18  Re8+  Nf8
won't help
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.01"]
[Round "-"]
[White "DrGris"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "1884"]
[BlackElo "2118"]
[Opening "Vienna game"]
[ECO "C25"]
[NIC "VG.04"]
[Time "23:33:17"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 d5 3. exd5 Nf6 4. d4 e4 5. Bg5 Bd6 6. Bb5+ Nbd7 7. Nge2 O-O
8. O-O Bxh2+ 9. Kxh2 Ng4+ 10. Kg1 Qxg5 11. Nxe4 Qh4 12. Re1 f5 13. N4g3 f4
14. Nf1 f3 15. Neg3 fxg2 16. Kxg2 Rxf2+ 17. Kg1 Qh3 {White resigns} 0-1
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Mon Jun  1 23:49:56 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon,  1 Jun 2009 23:49:56 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Badger Pole
Message-ID: <1243921796.4a24bd849d129@www.taom.com>



Information about chessman1337 (Last disconnected Tue Jun 02 2009 00:33):

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Wild            1069  [6]     3     9     0    12
Loser's         1398  [6]     2     9     0    11
Bughouse        1371  [6]     3     2     0     5
Crazyhouse      1675  [3]    15    18     0    33   1704 (16-May-2009)
Bullet          1929  [8]   180   210    12   402   2008 (31-Dec-2007)
Blitz           1842        371   486    54   911   2150 (31-Dec-2007)
Standard        1786  [6]     2     3     0     5
5-minute        1917       1035   977   100  2112   2096 (27-May-2009)
1-minute        1684  [8]  6507  6310   430 13247   2034 (26-Mar-2009)
15-minute       1941  [4]     8     8     0    16

 1: excerpted from omko's note 8:
 2: I cannot understand why people call their opponents "patzer" after losing.
  Do they feel better that they lost to a patzer???
 3: THINGS YOU'D LOVE TO SAY OUT LOUD AT WORK.....
 4: I can see your point, but I still think you're full of shit.
 5:  How about never? Is never good for you?
 6:  I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.
 7: I don't work here. I'm a consultant.
 8:  This isn't an office. It's Hell with fluorescent lighting.
 9:  If I throw a stick, will you leave?
10: I'm trying to imagine you with a personality.

 Groups : Trophy ajedrez21
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I played a Drunken Penguin against chessman1337 and he identified himself as
Josh, a student of Joel Johnson. I won a piece in about 10 moves.

" I will never understand how you get away with your openings. "
chessman1337  - Josh

It's easy - here's a Badger I turned into a Fishing Pole somehow,
crushing an IM in 23 moves.

Information about Procyon(IM) (Last disconnected Tue Jun 02 2009 01:22):

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
5-minute        2310         85    68    20   173   2414 (24-May-2009)

 Groups : IMs
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.02"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Procyon"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2310"]
[BlackElo "2153"]
[Opening "R?ti opening, Badger Defense, Fishing Pole Variation"]
[ECO "A04"]
[NIC "QP.11"]
[Time "01:16:47"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. Nf3 Nc6 2. d4 f6


I play a lot of these -
the idea is I can't stand these boring QP games.


3. e4 e5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Bc4

I console my inability to castle with a rock solid center

5 ... d6!  6. h3 Nge7 7. O-O Bxc3!  8. bxc3 Bd7 9. Rb1 Qc8

not trying to hurt anyone ,
just guarding my pawn


10. Nh4 Bxh3!?

Oops, how did that happen?
Must be a mouseslip.

11. gxh3!  Qxh3!  12. Ng2 O-O-O!!

Just trying to guard my pawn,
not trying to hurt anyone.


13. Be3 b6 14. a4 Na5 15. Ba6+ Kd7

Unnecessary but that's why I build solid centers,
to make moves like this.


16. d5 h5

Starting to look Fishing Poley

17. c4!   Rdg8!

There is a Fishing Pole idea of
17 ... Rh6  18  B:h6  gh  19  f3  Rg8  20 Rf2
The idea must be strengthened!!
Of course the mere IM has no clue a
house of bricks is about to fall.


18. Bd2 Rh6!!

Right out of the Fishing Pole playbook,
Rybka 3 approved


19. Qe2!

Taking my Rook is suicide which means he gets to g6


19 ...  Ng6

I decide to empty the bench and send in the Knight.

20. Bxa5??

Badger dens are too sturdy for titled players.


20 ... Nf4!!

Death


21. Nxf4  exf4!

The Two Bishops give a clear advantage in the opening, middle game or endgame -
IM Lawrence Kaufman, Rybka programmer

Corollary :
Unless you're playing Brian Wall



22. Rb3!

Best if that word has any meaning against the Badger Pole



22 ...  Rg6+!  23. Rg3!  fxg3!


{White resigns} 0-1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.02"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Procyon"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2310"]
[BlackElo "2153"]
[Opening "R?ti opening, Badger Defense, Fishing Pole Variation"]
[ECO "A04"]
[NIC "QP.11"]
[Time "01:16:47"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. Nf3 Nc6 2. d4 f6 3. e4 e5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Bc4 d6 6. h3 Nge7 7. O-O Bxc3 8.
bxc3 Bd7 9. Rb1 Qc8 10. Nh4 Bxh3 11. gxh3 Qxh3 12. Ng2 O-O-O 13. Be3 b6 14.
a4 Na5 15. Ba6+ Kd7 16. d5 h5 17. c4 Rdg8 18. Bd2 Rh6 19. Qe2 Ng6 20. Bxa5
Nf4 21. Nxf4 exf4 22. Rb3 Rg6+ 23. Rg3 fxg3 {White resigns} 0-1
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------



From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun  2 03:42:42 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue,  2 Jun 2009 03:42:42 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Greartinge
Message-ID: <1243935762.4a24f412347e5@www.taom.com>


[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.02"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Greartinge"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2045"]
[BlackElo "2123"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "05:25:13"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!!

Fishing Pole


5. c3 a6 6. Ba4 Bc5 7. d4 Ba7!!

Hyper-Pole

8. Bxc6 dxc6 9. Qe2 Be6

9 ... ed=



10. dxe5 Qe7 11. h3 h5!!   12. Bg5 f6!!  13. exf6 gxf6!
14. Bf4 O-O-O!!  15. hxg4 hxg4!!  16. Nd4 Qh7!!!  mating

while  16 ... R:d4!  is merely crushing



17. f3 Rxd4!!

17 ... g3!!
also checkmates


18. cxd4 Bxd4+!! 19. Be3 g3!!


{White resigns}  0-1

mate next move
--------------------------------------------------------------------

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.02"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Greartinge"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2045"]
[BlackElo "2123"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "05:25:13"]
[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.
Bxc6 dxc6 9. Qe2 Be6 10. dxe5 Qe7 11. h3 h5 12. Bg5 f6 13. exf6 gxf6 14. Bf4
O-O-O 15. hxg4 hxg4 16. Nd4 Qh7 17. f3 Rxd4 18. cxd4 Bxd4+ 19. Be3 g3
{White resigns}
0-1
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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun  2 03:59:51 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue,  2 Jun 2009 03:59:51 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Raccoon mauling
Message-ID: <1243936791.4a24f81756f15@www.taom.com>



[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.02"]
[Round "-"]
[White "adamcu"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "1968"]
[BlackElo "2145"]
[Opening "King's gambit, Raccoon Defense"]
[ECO "C30"]
[NIC "KG.05"]
[Time "05:55:08"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 h5 3. Nf3 exf4 4. d4 g5 5. Bc4 h4 6. Ne5 Nh6 7. Qh5 Rh7 8.
O-O d6 9. Ng4 Bxg4 10. Bxf7+ Rxf7 11. Qg6 Nc6 12. e5 Nxd4 13. Nc3 dxe5 14.
Re1 Bg7 15. Ne4 Bf5 16. Qh5 Bxe4 17. Rxe4 Nxc2 {White resigns} 0-1


From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun  2 13:01:19 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue,  2 Jun 2009 13:01:19 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Spanish speaking Chessplayers - Chess
	comments (Comentarios de ajedrez)
Message-ID: <1243969279.4a2576ffbe37f@www.taom.com>



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    Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:50:52 -0000
    From: lumecas <lumecas at yahoo.es>
Reply-To: lumecas <lumecas at yahoo.es>
 Subject: [BrianWallChess] Chess comments (Comentarios de ajedrez)
      To: BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com

Hello to all the chess players:

We invite them to visit our blog

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We recommend the new articles on:

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The GM D. Bronstein wrote four commentaries in different books on his game with
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From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue,  2 Jun 2009 16:13:38 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Nakamura showed me the way
Message-ID: <1243980818.4a25a41230991@www.taom.com>



[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.02"]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Tocak"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2187"]
[BlackElo "2298"]
[Opening "Two knights defense"]
[ECO "C58"]
[NIC "KP.01"]
[Time "18:08:32"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6
8. Bd3 Bd6 9. Nc3 O-O 10. O-O Qc7 11. h3 c5 12. b3 Bb7 13. Nge4 c4 14. Nxf6+
gxf6 15. bxc4 Kh8 16. Qh5 f5 17. Bxf5 f6 18. d3 Rg8 19. f3 Bc5+ 20. Kh1 Bd4
21. Bd2 Rg3 22. Nb5 Nc6 23. Nxc7 {Black resigns} 1-0
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Information about Tocak(IM) (Last disconnected Tue Jun 02 2009 18:11):

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Bullet          1962  [8]     1     6     1     8
Blitz           2374       2542  1882   267  4691   2700 (21-Jul-2006)
Standard        1699  [6]     0     1     1     2
5-minute        2298  [7]   205   144    26   375   2414 (06-Sep-2006)

 1: IM Zoran Mijailovic

 Name   : Zoran Mijailovic
 Groups : IMs
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.02"]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Tocak"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2187"]
[BlackElo "2298"]
[Opening "Two knights defense"]
[ECO "C58"]
[NIC "KP.01"]
[Time "18:08:32"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6
8. Bd3 Bd6 9. Nc3 O-O 10. O-O Qc7 11. h3 c5 12. b3 Bb7 13. Nge4 c4 14. Nxf6+
gxf6 15. bxc4 Kh8 16. Qh5 f5 17. Bxf5 f6 18. d3 Rg8 19. f3 Bc5+ 20. Kh1 Bd4
21. Bd2 Rg3 22. Nb5 Nc6 23. Nxc7 {Black resigns} 1-0
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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun  2 16:21:52 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue,  2 Jun 2009 16:21:52 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Some Recent Games by Daniel Todd, Squirrel,
	Bryan Gambit, Wilkes Barre
In-Reply-To: <h047su+c35p@eGroups.com>
References: <h047su+c35p@eGroups.com>
Message-ID: <1243981312.4a25a60042dc7@www.taom.com>

The Ponomarevs ( 2200, 2300 ) have played hundreds of blitz games against me
with

 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.c4 Nf4 4.d4 Ng6

I go  5 h4 here.
I did draw an ex-2400 Renard Anderson with
the Squirrrel as Black a couple of years ago.

I think Mikhail Ponomarev ( 82 ) has been playing it for decades.

IM David Vigorito nicknamed this the Squirrel about 20 years ago.
I am jealous you are playing the Bryan Gambit and also
my mother was born in Wilkes Barre, Penn so I am jealous there too.

Brian Wall
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Quoting Daniel Todd <danthebugman at gmail.com>:

 It's been a while since I've posted so I though I'd post some recent
 tournament and online games.


 The following 3rd round game was a very intense enounter to say the least (as
 I'm sure you'll see for yourself).  The Traxler is one of my most favorite
 openings, though I usually play it in correspondence where I have ample time
 to take in the complexities of the position.  Robert is one of those
 opponents who likes to win some material and grind you down in the endgame.
 I wanted to keep things complicated and the Traxler is just that.  When the
 chance came to plop my bishop down on c5, I could not resist and I'll never
 forget the look as he peered across the board at me!

 [Event "Memorial Day Open"]
 [Site "Galena, KS"]
 [Date "2009.05.23"]
 [Round "3"]
 [White "Talbot, Robert"]
 [Black "Todd, Daniel"]
 [Result "0-1"]

 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 Bc5 5.Nxf7 Bxf2+ 6.Kf1 Qe7 7.Nxh8 d5 8.Qf3
 Bg4 9.Qxf2 O-O-O 10.h3 Nxe4 11.Qe3 Qh4 12.Kg1 Ng3 13.Rh2 Bh5 14.d4 dxc4
 15.Nc3 Ne2+ 16.Nxe2 Qe1#
{White checkmated} 1-0


 This is an interesting, though most likely dubious variation of the Alekhine.

[Event "Memorial Day Open"]
 [Site "Galena, KS"]
 [Date "2009.05.23"]
 [Round "4"]
 [White "Todd, Daniel"]
 [Black "Stebbins, Joel"]
 [Result "1-0"]

 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.c4 Nf4 4.d4 Ng6 5.f4 f5 6.exf6 exf6 7.f5 Ne7 8.Qh5+ g6
 9.fxg6 Nxg6 10.Bd3 Qe7+ 11.Ne2 Qf7 12.O-O Bg7 13.Nbc3 O-O 14.Nd5 Na6 15.Nef4
 c6 16.Nxg6 hxg6 17.Bxg6 Qxg6 18.Qxg6 cxd5 19.Bh6
 {Black resigns} 1-0


 The following were played not long ago on FICS.  I am quickly building a
 large plus score with the Bryan Countergambit!

 [Event "FICS rated standard game"]
 [Site "FICS, San Jose, California USA"]
[Date "2009.06.02"]
 [Time "14:00:23"]
 [Round "-"]
 [White "MiamiAl"]
 [Black "Pawns"]
 [WhiteElo "1902"]
 [BlackElo "2075"]
 [TimeControl "900+5"]
 [Mode "ICS"]
 [Result "0-1"]

 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 Qh4+ 4.Kf1 b5 5.Nf3 Qh5 6.Bb3 a5 7.a4 b4 8.d3 g5 9.h4
Nc6 10.Qe1 h6 11.Kg1 Bc5+ 12.Kf1 Nf6 13.e5 Ng4 14.d4 Ba6+ 15.Kg1 Nxd4
 {White resigns} 0-1

 [Event "FICS rated standard game"]
 [Site "FICS, San Jose, California USA"]
[Date "2009.06.02"]
 [Time "14:29:26"]
 [Round "-"]
 [White "MiamiAl"]
 [Black "Pawns"]
 [WhiteElo "1910"]
 [BlackElo "2061"]
[TimeControl "900+5"]
 [Mode "ICS"]
 [Result "0-1"]

 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 Qh4+ 4.Kf1 b5 5.Nf3 Qh5 6.Bb3 a5 7.a4 b4 8.d4 Nc6
 9.Bxf4 Ba6+ 10.Kg1 Nxd4 11.Be3 Ne2+ 12.Kf2 Nf6
 {White resigns} 0-1


 Hope you enjoyed the games!  As always comments/suggestions/critiques are
 welcome.

 Dan





From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun  2 17:27:10 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue,  2 Jun 2009 17:27:10 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] New Location for Colorao Springs Wednesday
	Night Chess
Message-ID: <1243985230.4a25b54e3fc40@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Renae Delaware <rdelaware at hotmail.com> -----
    Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:08:08 -0600
    From: Renae Delaware <rdelaware at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Renae Delaware <rdelaware at hotmail.com>
 Subject: FW: New Location for Colorao Springs Wednesday Night Chess



 FYI


To: rdelaware at hotmail.com
Subject: Fwd: New Location for Colorao Springs Wednesday Night Chess
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 08:12:11 -0400
From: pmjer77 at aim.com
CC: JeffreyRFox at msn.com; pdanderson at hotmail.com; paul at covingtoncomputers.com;
cs.chess at worldnet.att.net; cs_chess-owner at yahoogroups.com;
bobbersstaten at yahoo.com; joshbloomer at yahoo.com

Hi All,

Change in venue from Poor Richards to the East Coast Deli.  Please pass along
this information!  It is effective immediately.



As of this Wednesday, June 3rd, the Wednesday night chess location has changed
from 'Poor Richards' to 'East Coast' restaurant & deli. The new location has a
much larger room in back with proper tables that can be used for chess playing
with wood floors and with room to add tables if needed. Plus it is much
quieter! The address is 24 South Tejon. It is on the same side of the street as
'Poor Richards' and just North of Colorado Blvd. (almost directly across from
Jack Quinn's Irish Pub).  Parking is still available on the street but may be
tricky to figure out the first few times so please come early if at all
possible.  If you get lost please call Jerry or Fred at the numbers listed
below. Thanks!

As you enter the restaurant go past the counter to your right and follow the
hallway down until you get to the room. I think everyone will be pleasantly
suprised. The owner is even going to assign a single waitress to the room if
anyone wants to order from their menu.

If anyone has questions, don't hesitate to contact me.

Thanks,
Fred Spell
719-491-1040

Jerry Maier
719.660.5531

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun  2 21:35:32 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue,  2 Jun 2009 21:35:32 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter
Message-ID: <1244000132.4a25ef8447b51@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net> -----
    Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 18:58:14 -0600
    From: CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net>
Reply-To: CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net>
 Subject: Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter


Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter


http://cs.chess.home.att.net
            This Week In Chess

            On May 26th, the CSCC had 9 members in attendance. The participants
played in a 4-round, Swiss tournament (G15). I pulled off the unintentional
Swiss gambit to tie with Jeff Fox, who drew his last 2 games, for a share of
1st place. Here are the results:



Score	Player
3.0	Paul Anderson
3.0	Jeff Fox
2.5	Mitch Anderson
2.5	Anthea Carson
2.0	Dean Brown
2.0	Mike Makinney
1.0	Chris Berg
0.0	Isaac Martinez


            In May, the CSCC held the Poor Richard's Bookstore May Open. Here
are the final results:
Score	Place	Prize	Player
4.0	1st	$55.00	Mitchell Anderson
3.0			Josh S Bloomer
3.0			Bill Weihmiller
2.5			David Meliti
2.5	U1800	$36.00	James M Powers
2.0			Anthea J Carson
2.0			Fred Eric Spell
2.0	U1500	$10.67	Robert Harper Staten
2.0		$10.67	Gerald J Maier
2.0		$10.67	Dragan Plakalovic
1.5			Joseph T Fromme
1.5	U1300	$26.00	Alexander Freeman
1.0			Dean W Brown
1.0			Thomas L Mullikin
0.5			Isaac Martinez
0.0			Kathy A Schneider

            Comments From Email

            Martin Deschner, Monday, June 01, 2009 2:50 PM

            Notice how the recent 30-move Dean Brown game had a Fishing Pole
Theme? Brian Wall take note! Regards.....Martin Deschner in Denver

            [Comment is about this newsletter:
(http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/newsletter/Tue_May_26_2009.html)]

            New Location for Colorao Springs Wednesday Night Chess
            By Jerry Maier

            Hi All,

            Change in venue from Poor Richards to the East Coast Deli. Please
pass along this information! It is effective immediately.

            As of this Wednesday, June 3rd, the Wednesday night chess location
has changed from 'Poor Richards' to 'East Coast' restaurant & deli. The new
location has a much larger room in back with proper tables that can be used for
chess playing with wood floors and with room to add tables if needed. Plus it is
much quieter! The address is 24 South Tejon. It is on the same side of the
street as 'Poor Richards' and just North of Colorado Blvd. (almost directly
across from Jack Quinn's Irish Pub). Parking is still available on the street
but may be tricky to figure out the first few times so please come early if at
all possible. If you get lost please call Jerry or Fred at the numbers listed
below. Thanks!

            As you enter the restaurant go past the counter to your right and
follow the hallway down until you get to the room. I think everyone will be
pleasantly suprised. The owner is even going to assign a single waitress to the
room if anyone wants to order from their menu.

            If anyone has questions, don't hesitate to contact me.

            Thanks,

            Fred Spell 719-491-1040

            Jerry Maier 719.660.5531

            Game Of The Week

            This week's game comes from the Swiss tournament event at the club
on Tuesday. I was in what felt like a losing slump. I had stopped by the chess
booth at Territory Days on Monday. The last guy I played there was Mike
Makinney, who finally beat me. We met again in the first round on Tuesday, and
the result was the same. I had gotten a good position and was looking for a
killer move when the clock began to click louder and louder. I was falling
behind in time in a fast time control. It was such a distraction that I forgot
what I trying to do. I began looking for a quick, safe move (otherwise known as
the worst possible move). It was like one of those chess puzzles where you find
the mate in 1, but this time it was find the helpmate in 1. Well, I found it.
The next round I struggled to beat Chris Berg until he missed a fork in his
time pressure. By the third round, it was after 9 pm so Dean Brown had turned
back into a chess pumpkin giving me an easy win. So, now I was facing Mitch
Anderson with a shot a first place. I wanted to stay ahead on the clock and
avoid my first round mistake. Also, Mitch doesn't make many blunders until he
has a minute left on the clock. Then he will trade off both rooks giving me a
passed pawn with his king out of play. Of course, after the game, he quickly
saw the saving move (38.bxc4). We played on as time was still a factor, and I
have the uncanney ability to find the wrong move at just the right time. For
example, I didn't realize until the post mortem that I miscounted and could
have taken the b pawn. Also, my gut reaction was to grab the closest pawns and
move down the files alphabetically. However, when I saw his king heading for my
last two pawns, I reconsidered and came back to the Fritz line. After the game,
I told Mitch about my Makinney mistake. He asked why I didn't publish that one.
I paused. I put my hand over the microphone as I leaned in to listen to my
lawyer. I nodded several times to the whispers of my counsel as the silence
filled the room. I leaned back to the microphone, "I don't recall.the moves."

            Black's Triumph (Click this link to view the game on your web
browser)

            (147) Anderson,Mitch (2035) - Anderson,Paul (1954) [A42]
            CSCC Swiss Colorado Springs (4.1), 26.05.2009
            [Fritz 8 (60s)]

            A42: Modern Defence: Averbakh Variation
            1.d4 c6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be3 last book move
6...Qb6 7.Qd2 Bxf3 8.gxf3 Nd7 9.Bh3 e6 10.d5 White wins space 10...Qb4 11.dxe6
Ne5 12.exf7+ Kxf7 13.Qe2 [13.0-0-0 Nxc4 14.a3 Nxd2 15.axb4 Nc4= ] 13...Qxc4
[13...Nxc4!? 14.Rc1 b5-/+ ] 14.Qxc4+ Nxc4 15.0-0-0 Nxe3 16.fxe3 Rd8 17.Rd3 Nh6
18.Rhd1 Ke7 19.Kd2 Nf7 20.f4 Rhe8 21.Ke2 b5 22.b3 h5 23.Kf3 [23.e5 dxe5 24.Bd7
exf4 25.exf4 Rf8 26.Bxc6 Bxc3 27.Re3+ Ne5 28.Rxd8 Kxd8 29.fxe5 b4= ] 23...a5
24.Bg2 Nh6 25.h3 Covers g4 25...Nf7 26.Rc1 Rc8 27.Ne2 c5 28.Nc3 Bxc3 29.Rdxc3
Rc7 30.e5 White gains space 30...Rec8 31.exd6+ Kxd6 [31...Nxd6 32.Bf1+/= ]
32.Kg3 [32.Bf1 b4 33.Rd3+ Ke6+/- ] 32...Ke6 33.e4 Nd6 Black intends c4 34.Kf3
b4 This push gains space 35.R3c2 c4 [>=35...Nb5 36.Rf2 c4= ] 36.e5??
overlooking an easy win [>=36.h4!? Rb8 37.Bh3+ Ke7 38.e5+/- ] 36...Nf5
[>=36...cxb3 and the result of the game is clear: Black will win 37.Rxc7 Rxc7-+
] 37.Rxc4= Rxc4 38.Rxc4?? ruins a clearly superior position [>=38.bxc4 would
save the game 38...Nh4+ 39.Kg3 Nxg2 40.Kxg2= ] 38...Rxc4-+ 39.bxc4 Nh4+ 40.Kf2
Nxg2 41.Kxg2 a4 42.c5 Kd7 43.Kf3 b3 44.axb3 a3 45.Ke4 a2 46.Kd5 a1Q 47.e6+ Kc7
48.b4 Qd1+ [>=48...Qf6 and Black has triumphed 49.b5 Qf5+ 50.Kc4 Qxf4+ 51.Kd3
Qf5+ 52.Kd4 Qxe6 53.b6+ Kb7 54.h4-+ ] 49.Ke5 Qa1+ 50.Kd5 Qf6 51.b5 Qf5+ 52.Kd4
Qxf4+ 53.Kd5 Qf5+ 54.Kd4 Qxe6 0-1

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Wed Jun  3 01:46:44 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed,  3 Jun 2009 01:46:44 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 500 Master Games of Chess,
	Duras-Spielmann   1907
Message-ID: <1244015204.4a262a645f500@www.taom.com>


Before Alekhine died he was scheduled to play Botvinnik for
the World Championship. Alekhine asked if he could play a
practice match with Doctor Savielly Tartakower first.

When asked what one book IM Bill Paschall would take to a desert island,
he responded,
500 Master games of Chess
by Dr. Tartakower and J. Dumont,
first published 1952.

" Before computers, we had to invent fairy tales. "
Kasparov

I have always wanted to take all these old classics and run them through
a computer so we can compare the best Grandmaster minds of the past.
Tartakower writes in a very poetic style. I chose a game at random to
see how the tactics hold up.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1039798

Duras-Spielmann   1907

with comments by kibitzers
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Duras-Spielmann   1907

analyzed in 500 Master games of Chess
Page  401
Game 319
Center Counter

" Most impressive, in the following game, is the fact that White
coolly carries on his attack while his own King is threatened with
disaster. A duel with rapiers on the edge of a cliff! "
- Tartakower and Dumont

[Event "Vienna (Austria)"]
[Site "It"]
[Date "1907.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Oldrich Duras"]
[Black "Rudolf Spielmann"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "51"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5! Qxd5!  3.Nc3!  Qa5 4.d4 Nf6!
5.Nf3!  Bg4 6.Be2 Nc6!  7.Be3 O-O-O!

Played the same year in Chigorin - Tarrasch 1907
and 87 times later


8.Nd2!

8 a3!  is the other option ( played 4 times )
8 h3 ( played 11 times ) or 0-0 ( played 180 times ) not as good.
Despite being played 180 times  8  Nd2  e5!
gives Black what he wants.

Tartakower mentions
Cohn - Tartakower, Ostend 1907
7  0-0  0-0-0  8  Be3  e5!  which transposes -
" Black's pressure on the Q file affords him an ideal attacking formation. "
- Tartakower and Dumont



8 ... Bxe2!  9.Qxe2!  Qf5!

Tarrasch lost with  9 ... e6! in 1907.
Both moves are good.
Tartakower points out that
9 ... N:d4 ( tried once ) 10  B:d4  R:d4  11 Nb3!
wins the exchange although
11 ... Q:c3+  12  bc  Re4
does not look cut and dried to me.



10.Nb3!

Humans prefer forward movement, progress,
but Karpov ( no memory ) or a computer
might prefer  10  Nf3!

10 ...  e6!  11.a3!  Bd6

75 years later Antonio Fernandes tried
11 ... Rd7 in the 1982 Lucerne Olympiad.
The position is fairly stable now with
about 2 dozen black moves leading to
near equality.



12.O-O-O!

" The games are more or less even,
but White has massed more troops opposite the castled King. "
- Tartakower and Dumont

12 ... Nd5

Rudolph Spielmann has a comfortable game after many
moves so I am curious to see how the author of
" The Art of Sacrifice in Chess "
loses in 14 more moves.



13.Na4 e5!!

Rudolph, the red-nosed Chessplayer,
is still doing fine.
Tartakower mentions
13  ... b6  14  Nac5  bc?  15  Q:c6
as favorable to White but neglects
13  ... b6  14  Nac5  B:c5  15  N:c5  Na5!
as fine for Black,
Savielly says  13 ... Nb6
is more prudent.
Spielmann has a good game after many choices -
13 ...  e5, ... a6, ... h5, ... Kb8, ... Be7, ... Qg6, .. Rhe8, ... h6
and others



14.dxe5 Bxe5

14 ... Q:e5!!, ... N:e3!!  or  ... Nf4!
are a little stronger


15.Nac5!!

Tartakower mentions the threat of  16  N:b7


15 ... Nb6

One of a dozen roughly even moves.
Nothing bad going on yet.


16.a4!?

Rather wild when there were solid moves like
16  Kb1, h3  or Rhe1 available



16 ...  a5!

16 ... Bd6, ... Nb4, ... Qf6, ... R:d1+  or ... Bf4
were also decent responses.
Nobody's lost the game yet.


17.g4!

Tartakower mentions  17  N:b7 does not quite work yet -
17  N:b7  K:b7  18  Nc5+  Kb8  19  Qa6  Qc8

17 ... Qf6! 18.c3!  Rhe8??

Developing the last piece and pointing his Rook at
Oldrich's Queen but the move has nothing to do with
reality which is the b7-sac.
18 ... Bd6!!, ... R:d1+!, ... Rd6!  or ... B:c3!
are the relevant moves in the position.


19.Nxb7!!

A killer sac.

" An uncommon sacrifice in view of the dangers besetting the white King. "
- Tartakower and Dumont

19 ...  Rxd1+!  20.Rxd1!   Bxc3

Might as well,
taking the Knight leads to immediate checkmate
and Duras has too many good moves if you don't
pressure Oldrich:
21 g5, Qa6, Qb5 or N7c5
to name a few


21.N7c5!

This game is basically a sucker punch,
21  Nd6+!!   and/or  Qa6+!!
are even more vicious and
21  N3c5!  is about as equally
destructive as the chosen move.



21 ... Nb4!

" Preventing not only the deadly 22 Qa6+,
but also the capture of the exposed bishop. "
- Tartakower and Dumont



22.g5!!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

The only winning move.

"Vacating the square KKt4,
because if 22  N:a5  Bd4 "
- Tartakower and Dumont

That note is messed up,
the candle must have been dying -
22  N:a5?   Bd4?   23  Qb5!!,
threatening  24  Q:e8+   and/or   R:d4,
wins for Duras.
22  Na5?  N6d5!!  is a miracle perpetual check save for Spielmann  after
23  R:d5  N:d5  24  Qb5  B:b2+  25 Kc2  Qc3+  26  Kb1  Qe1+
27  K:b2  Qc3+  28  Kb1  Qe1+  29 Kb2  Qc3+=

Possible attempts to escape the perpetual:
30  Ka2 loses  to ... Nb4+
27  Kc2 is equal after  ... N:e3+  or ... Qc3+
26  Kd1?  N:e3+  mates
25  Q:b2  Q:b2+   26  K:b2+  Re5!!  to make the Knights co-dependent
27 N-either to b3 or b7   R:e3!!
and it might be easier for Rudolph to attack the
Kingside pawns than it is for Duras to Queen his a-pawn.
A similar endgame arises after 24  g5  B:b2+  25  Q:b2

23 Nab7  is a real dynamically equal mess after
...  Na2+!, ... Qg6!, ... Bd4!  or ... Be5!
Rudolph is a happy reindeer after
23  Nab3  Qg6!!, ... Na2+!!  or ... Be5!
Spielmann  turns the tables after
23  bc  R:e3!!  24  fe  Q:c3+  25  Kb1  Q:c5!
with a Royal Family Fork on c3 looming.

Bottom line,
22 g5!!  wins,
anything else is equal or worse

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22 ...  Qe5!!

Trying to maintain the  23  bc  Q:c3+  possibility.
23 ... Bb2+!  24  Q:b2!  does not give Spielmann much
for his sacrifice and anything else is much worse.


23.Nxa5!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

23  Qg4+!!   Kb8
24  Qf3!! ( threatening  25  Qb7 checkmate )  N4d5
25  Nd7+!!  N:d7  26  R:d5!
is even material for the nonce but attacking everything in sight.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

23 ...  h5
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

The best Spielmann can do is
23 ... N:a4  24  N:a4  B:b2+  25  Q:b2  Q:a5  26 Nc3, Qb3  or Qa3
and RS does not have enough attack for his missing bishop.
23 ... Na4  24  Qg4+  also wins.

Spielmann's move is to prevent
Qg4+  in many lines.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

24.bxc3!!

24  gh e.p.!!
is equally powerful


24 ...  Qxc3+ 25.Kb1!  Qxc5

Trying to get some pawns for his piece after
26  B:c5   R:e2  27  B:b4  R:f2  but ...



26.Rd8+!!!

Duras will have Initiative plus Queen for Rook after
26  ... R:d8  27  B:c5  or
26  ... K:d8  27  Nb7+

1-0  Spielmann resigns

It was said that Spielmann could not go backwards or defend,
a fault Robert Ramirez laughingly accuses me of. This emotional
glitch was evident on move 18  when Spielmann refused to take
measures against 19 N:b7  and instead pursued his own inadequate
attack after  18 ... Rhe8?. Perhaps out of fear and respect,
Oldrich played very forcefully after that and brought the point home.
One slip and Rudolph was itching to get back in the fight.
Duras didn't give him the chance.

An interesting game which could have veered into even wilder pastures.

Tartakower and Dumont did a reasonable job analyzing the game
and I enjoyed their lively descriptions more than my own.

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[Event "Vienna (Austria)"]
[Site "It"]
[Date "1907.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Oldrich Duras"]
[Black "Rudolf Spielmann"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "51"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be2 Nc6
7.Be3 O-O-O 8.Nd2 Bxe2 9.Qxe2 Qf5 10.Nb3 e6 11.a3 Bd6 12.O-O-O
Nd5 13.Na4 e5 14.dxe5 Bxe5 15.Nac5 Nb6 16.a4 a5 17.g4 Qf6
18.c3 Rhe8 19.Nxb7 Rxd1+ 20.Rxd1 Bxc3 21.N7c5 Nb4 22.g5 Qe5
23.Nxa5 h5 24.bxc3 Qxc3+ 25.Kb1 Qxc5 26.Rd8+

1-0

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna"]
[Date "1907.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Duras,Oldrich"]
[Black "Spielmann,Rudolf"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "B01"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be2 Nc6 7.Be3 0-0-0
8.Nd2 Bxe2 9.Qxe2 Qf5 10.Nb3 e6 11.a3 Bd6 12.0-0-0 Nd5 13.Na4 e5
14.dxe5 Bxe5 15.Nac5 Nb6 16.a4 a5 17.g4 Qf6 18.c3 Rhe8 19.Nxb7 Rxd1+
20.Rxd1 Bxc3 21.N7c5 Nb4 22.g5 Qe5 23.Nxa5 h5 24.bxc3 Qxc3+ 25.Kb1 Qxc5 26.Rd8+

1-0
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Event "Luzern ol (Men)"]
[Site "Luzern"]
[Date "1982.10.29"]
[Round "10"]
[White "El Ghazali,Youssef M"]
[Black "Fernandes,Antonio"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "B01"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.d4 Bg4 6.Be2 Nc6 7.Be3 0-0-0
8.Nd2 Bxe2 9.Qxe2 e6 10.Nb3 Qf5 11.a3 Rd7 12.f3 h5 13.0-0-0 Na5 14.Nxa5 Qxa5
15.Rd3 Be7 16.Bd2 Rhd8 17.Ne4 Qa6 18.Qf2 e5 19.Be3 exd4 20.Rxd4 Rxd4
21.Bxd4 Nxe4 22.fxe4 Qc4 23.Rd1 b6 24.Qf5+ Kb7 25.Bc3 g6 26.Qe5 Bd6
27.Qf6 Re8 28.e5 Be7 29.Qf3+ Kb8 30.Kb1 Qe6 31.Rf1 Rd8 32.b3 Bxa3
33.Qxf7 Rd1+ 34.Ka2 Qxf7 35.Rxf7 Bc5 36.e6 Kc8 37.Rf6 Rd8 38.Rxg6 Rf8
39.Rg5 Rf2 40.Kb2

1-0
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------

[Event "Ostend"]
[Site "Ostend"]
[Date "1907.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Chigorin,Mikhail"]
[Black "Tarrasch,Siegbert"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "B01"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.d4 Bg4 6.Be2 Nc6 7.Be3 0-0-0
8.Nd2 Bxe2 9.Qxe2 e6 10.Nb3 Qf5 11.0-0-0 Bd6 12.h3 Na5 13.g4 Nxb3+
14.axb3 Qa5 15.Kb1 Nd5 16.Na4 Nxe3 17.fxe3 h5 18.Rhf1 Rdf8 19.e4 f6
20.d5 Re8 21.gxh5 exd5 22.Qg4+ Kb8 23.Rxd5 Qb4 24.Nc3 Be5
25.Na2 Qf8 26.Rfd1 Bd6 27.Nc3 a6 28.Ne2 Qe7 29.R1d4 Be5 30.Rd2 Bd6
31.Nc3 Qf7 32.Rf2 Re5 33.Rf5 Rxf5 34.Rxf5 Be5 35.Nd5 Qd7 36.Nb4 Qd2
37.Nd3 Rd8 38.Rf2 Qa5 39.Qe2 Qb5 40.Rg2 Rd7 41.Qf2 Bd4 42.Qf3 Re7
43.Rg6 Qe8 44.Qg3 Qb5 45.Rxg7 Rxg7 46.Qxg7 Qxh5 47.Qg4 Qh6 48.h4 Qd2
49.h5 Be3 50.Qf3 Bg5 51.b4 b6 52.Qg4 Kb7 53.e5 fxe5 54.Qe4+ Kb8
55.Nxe5 Qd1+ 56.Ka2 Qxh5 57.Nc6+ Kb7 58.Na5+ Kc8 59.Qf5+ Kd8 60.Nc6+ Ke8 61.Qc8+
Kf7 62.Qxc7+ Kg8 63.Qxb6 Qf7+ 64.Ka3 Qf3+ 65.c3 Qf1 66.Qd4 Bf6
67.Qd5+ Kf8 68.Kb3 Qe2 69.Nb8 Kg7 70.Nd7 Qf1 71.Qd6 Bg5 72.Ne5 Bf6
73.Qd7+ Kh6 74.Qd3 Qg1 75.Qh3+ Kg7 76.Qg4+ Qxg4 77.Nxg4

1-0
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Event "Ostend-B"]
[Site "Ostend"]
[Date "1907.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Cohn,Wilhelm"]
[Black "Tartakower,Saviely"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco "B01"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.d4 Qxd5 4.Nc3 Qa5 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be2 Nc6 7.0-0 0-0-0
8.Be3 e5 9.d5 Nxd5 10.Nxe5 Nxe3 11.Bxg4+ f5 12.Nxc6 bxc6 13.Qf3 Nxg4
14.Qxc6 Bd6 15.g3 Ne5 16.Qa8+ Kd7 17.Qg2 h5 18.Rad1 h4 19.Rfe1 h3
20.Qb7 Rb8 21.Qh1 Rxb2 22.Nd5 Re8 23.Re3 Qd2 24.Nc3 Qxc2 25.Rf1 Qd2
26.Nd1 Rb1 27.Ree1 Qxe1

0-1
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http://www.chessville.com/reviews/RudolfSpielmannMasterofInvention.htm

Chessville.com review of
Rudolf Spielmann, Master of Invention
by Neil McDonald
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Spielmann

Wikipedia,
Rudolph Spielmann
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Sacrifice-Chess-Rudolf-Spielmann/dp/0486284492

The Art of Sacrifice in Chess
Rudolph Spielmann
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wikipedia  Duras

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldrich_Duras
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chess.com has 47 games with  1  e4  f5
which they call the Duras Gambit





From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Wed Jun  3 11:41:27 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed,  3 Jun 2009 11:41:27 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Steve Sabean on 500 Master Games of Chess
Message-ID: <1244050887.4a26b5c754674@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Steve Sabean <swsabean at yahoo.com> -----
    Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 09:21:55 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Steve Sabean <swsabean at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Steve Sabean <swsabean at yahoo.com>
 Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] 500 Master Games of Chess, Duras-Spielmann   1907
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>

Hi Brian,

I love that book.? I have done computer analyses of several of the games in it.?
Here is what I have learned:

First, Tartakower and Dumont missed a lot.? This is natural.? Chess engines have
dramatically changed how chess analysis is done.? The moral of the story is that
one should be suspicious of any analysis printed before the mid-90's.? That
being said, they do get it right most of the time, and you're right, the prose
style is awesome.

Second, I found that there is nothing substantially wrong with many old lines.?
A lot of the time, it is a matter of fashion.? People at all levels tend to
copy what the World Champion or other strong players are doing.? On the other
hand, there are many old lines that have fallen out of favor for no good
reason, in many cases due to a single top-level game which was itself flawed.

~Steve Sabean
<swsabean at yahoo.com>



________________________________
From: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>
To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com; Brian
Wall Chesslist <brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 3:46:44 AM
Subject: [BrianWallChess] 500 Master Games of Chess, Duras-Spielmann 1907



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Brian Wall


Before Alekhine died he was scheduled to play Botvinnik for
the World Championship. Alekhine asked if he could play a
practice match with Doctor Savielly Tartakower first.

When asked what one book IM Bill Paschall would take to a desert island,
he responded,
500 Master games of Chess
by Dr. Tartakower and J. Dumont,
first published 1952.

" Before computers, we had to invent fairy tales. "
Kasparov

I have always wanted to take all these old classics and run them through
a computer so we can compare the best Grandmaster minds of the past.
Tartakower writes in a very poetic style. I chose a game at random to
see how the tactics hold up.
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -

http://www.chessgam es.com/perl/ chessgame? gid=1039798

Duras-Spielmann 1907

with comments by kibitzers
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
Duras-Spielmann 1907

analyzed in 500 Master games of Chess
Page 401
Game 319
Center Counter

" Most impressive, in the following game, is the fact that White
coolly carries on his attack while his own King is threatened with
disaster. A duel with rapiers on the edge of a cliff! "
- Tartakower and Dumont

[Event "Vienna (Austria)"]
[Site "It"]
[Date "1907.??.??" ]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Oldrich Duras"]
[Black "Rudolf Spielmann"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "51"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5! Qxd5! 3.Nc3! Qa5 4.d4 Nf6!
5.Nf3! Bg4 6.Be2 Nc6! 7.Be3 O-O-O!

Played the same year in Chigorin - Tarrasch 1907
and 87 times later

8.Nd2!

8 a3! is the other option ( played 4 times )
8 h3 ( played 11 times ) or 0-0 ( played 180 times ) not as good.
Despite being played 180 times 8 Nd2 e5!
gives Black what he wants.

Tartakower mentions
Cohn - Tartakower, Ostend 1907
7 0-0 0-0-0 8 Be3 e5! which transposes -
" Black's pressure on the Q file affords him an ideal attacking formation. "
- Tartakower and Dumont

8 ... Bxe2! 9.Qxe2! Qf5!

Tarrasch lost with 9 ... e6! in 1907.
Both moves are good.
Tartakower points out that
9 ... N:d4 ( tried once ) 10 B:d4 R:d4 11 Nb3!
wins the exchange although
11 ... Q:c3+ 12 bc Re4
does not look cut and dried to me.

10.Nb3!

Humans prefer forward movement, progress,
but Karpov ( no memory ) or a computer
might prefer 10 Nf3!

10 ... e6! 11.a3! Bd6

75 years later Antonio Fernandes tried
11 ... Rd7 in the 1982 Lucerne Olympiad.
The position is fairly stable now with
about 2 dozen black moves leading to
near equality.

12.O-O-O!

" The games are more or less even,
but White has massed more troops opposite the castled King. "
- Tartakower and Dumont

12 ... Nd5

Rudolph Spielmann has a comfortable game after many
moves so I am curious to see how the author of
" The Art of Sacrifice in Chess "
loses in 14 more moves.

13.Na4 e5!!

Rudolph, the red-nosed Chessplayer,
is still doing fine.
Tartakower mentions
13 ... b6 14 Nac5 bc? 15 Q:c6
as favorable to White but neglects
13 ... b6 14 Nac5 B:c5 15 N:c5 Na5!
as fine for Black,
Savielly says 13 ... Nb6
is more prudent.
Spielmann has a good game after many choices -
13 ... e5, ... a6, ... h5, ... Kb8, ... Be7, ... Qg6, .. Rhe8, ... h6
and others

14.dxe5 Bxe5

14 ... Q:e5!!, ... N:e3!! or ... Nf4!
are a little stronger

15.Nac5!!

Tartakower mentions the threat of 16 N:b7

15 ... Nb6

One of a dozen roughly even moves.
Nothing bad going on yet.

16.a4!?

Rather wild when there were solid moves like
16 Kb1, h3 or Rhe1 available

16 ... a5!

16 ... Bd6, ... Nb4, ... Qf6, ... R:d1+ or ... Bf4
were also decent responses.
Nobody's lost the game yet.

17.g4!

Tartakower mentions 17 N:b7 does not quite work yet -
17 N:b7 K:b7 18 Nc5+ Kb8 19 Qa6 Qc8

17 ... Qf6! 18.c3! Rhe8??

Developing the last piece and pointing his Rook at
Oldrich's Queen but the move has nothing to do with
reality which is the b7-sac.
18 ... Bd6!!, ... R:d1+!, ... Rd6! or ... B:c3!
are the relevant moves in the position.

19.Nxb7!!

A killer sac.

" An uncommon sacrifice in view of the dangers besetting the white King. "
- Tartakower and Dumont

19 ... Rxd1+! 20.Rxd1! Bxc3

Might as well,
taking the Knight leads to immediate checkmate
and Duras has too many good moves if you don't
pressure Oldrich:
21 g5, Qa6, Qb5 or N7c5
to name a few

21.N7c5!

This game is basically a sucker punch,
21 Nd6+!! and/or Qa6+!!
are even more vicious and
21 N3c5! is about as equally
destructive as the chosen move.

21 ... Nb4!

" Preventing not only the deadly 22 Qa6+,
but also the capture of the exposed bishop. "
- Tartakower and Dumont

22.g5!!
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -

The only winning move.

"Vacating the square KKt4,
because if 22 N:a5 Bd4 "
- Tartakower and Dumont

That note is messed up,
the candle must have been dying -
22 N:a5? Bd4? 23 Qb5!!,
threatening 24 Q:e8+ and/or R:d4,
wins for Duras.
22 Na5? N6d5!! is a miracle perpetual check save for Spielmann after
23 R:d5 N:d5 24 Qb5 B:b2+ 25 Kc2 Qc3+ 26 Kb1 Qe1+
27 K:b2 Qc3+ 28 Kb1 Qe1+ 29 Kb2 Qc3+=

Possible attempts to escape the perpetual:
30 Ka2 loses to ... Nb4+
27 Kc2 is equal after ... N:e3+ or ... Qc3+
26 Kd1? N:e3+ mates
25 Q:b2 Q:b2+ 26 K:b2+ Re5!! to make the Knights co-dependent
27 N-either to b3 or b7 R:e3!!
and it might be easier for Rudolph to attack the
Kingside pawns than it is for Duras to Queen his a-pawn.
A similar endgame arises after 24 g5 B:b2+ 25 Q:b2

23 Nab7 is a real dynamically equal mess after
... Na2+!, ... Qg6!, ... Bd4! or ... Be5!
Rudolph is a happy reindeer after
23 Nab3 Qg6!!, ... Na2+!! or ... Be5!
Spielmann turns the tables after
23 bc R:e3!! 24 fe Q:c3+ 25 Kb1 Q:c5!
with a Royal Family Fork on c3 looming.

Bottom line,
22 g5!! wins,
anything else is equal or worse

------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
22 ... Qe5!!

Trying to maintain the 23 bc Q:c3+ possibility.
23 ... Bb2+! 24 Q:b2! does not give Spielmann much
for his sacrifice and anything else is much worse.

23.Nxa5!
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -

23 Qg4+!! Kb8
24 Qf3!! ( threatening 25 Qb7 checkmate ) N4d5
25 Nd7+!! N:d7 26 R:d5!
is even material for the nonce but attacking everything in sight.
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -

23 ... h5
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -

The best Spielmann can do is
23 ... N:a4 24 N:a4 B:b2+ 25 Q:b2 Q:a5 26 Nc3, Qb3 or Qa3
and RS does not have enough attack for his missing bishop.
23 ... Na4 24 Qg4+ also wins.

Spielmann's move is to prevent
Qg4+ in many lines.

------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -

24.bxc3!!

24 gh e.p.!!
is equally powerful

24 ... Qxc3+ 25.Kb1! Qxc5

Trying to get some pawns for his piece after
26 B:c5 R:e2 27 B:b4 R:f2 but ...

26.Rd8+!!!

Duras will have Initiative plus Queen for Rook after
26 ... R:d8 27 B:c5 or
26 ... K:d8 27 Nb7+

1-0 Spielmann resigns

It was said that Spielmann could not go backwards or defend,
a fault Robert Ramirez laughingly accuses me of. This emotional
glitch was evident on move 18 when Spielmann refused to take
measures against 19 N:b7 and instead pursued his own inadequate
attack after 18 ... Rhe8?. Perhaps out of fear and respect,
Oldrich played very forcefully after that and brought the point home.
One slip and Rudolph was itching to get back in the fight.
Duras didn't give him the chance.

An interesting game which could have veered into even wilder pastures.

Tartakower and Dumont did a reasonable job analyzing the game
and I enjoyed their lively descriptions more than my own.

------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
[Event "Vienna (Austria)"]
[Site "It"]
[Date "1907.??.??" ]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Oldrich Duras"]
[Black "Rudolf Spielmann"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "51"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be2 Nc6
7.Be3 O-O-O 8.Nd2 Bxe2 9.Qxe2 Qf5 10.Nb3 e6 11.a3 Bd6 12.O-O-O
Nd5 13.Na4 e5 14.dxe5 Bxe5 15.Nac5 Nb6 16.a4 a5 17.g4 Qf6
18.c3 Rhe8 19.Nxb7 Rxd1+ 20.Rxd1 Bxc3 21.N7c5 Nb4 22.g5 Qe5
23.Nxa5 h5 24.bxc3 Qxc3+ 25.Kb1 Qxc5 26.Rd8+

1-0

------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna"]
[Date "1907.??.??" ]
[Round "8"]
[White "Duras,Oldrich" ]
[Black "Spielmann,Rudolf" ]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "B01"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be2 Nc6 7.Be3 0-0-0
8.Nd2 Bxe2 9.Qxe2 Qf5 10.Nb3 e6 11.a3 Bd6 12.0-0-0 Nd5 13.Na4 e5
14.dxe5 Bxe5 15.Nac5 Nb6 16.a4 a5 17.g4 Qf6 18.c3 Rhe8 19.Nxb7 Rxd1+
20.Rxd1 Bxc3 21.N7c5 Nb4 22.g5 Qe5 23.Nxa5 h5 24.bxc3 Qxc3+ 25.Kb1 Qxc5 26.Rd8+

1-0
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
[Event "Luzern ol (Men)"]
[Site "Luzern"]
[Date "1982.10.29" ]
[Round "10"]
[White "El Ghazali,Youssef M"]
[Black "Fernandes,Antonio" ]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "B01"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.d4 Bg4 6.Be2 Nc6 7.Be3 0-0-0
8.Nd2 Bxe2 9.Qxe2 e6 10.Nb3 Qf5 11.a3 Rd7 12.f3 h5 13.0-0-0 Na5 14.Nxa5 Qxa5
15.Rd3 Be7 16.Bd2 Rhd8 17.Ne4 Qa6 18.Qf2 e5 19.Be3 exd4 20.Rxd4 Rxd4
21.Bxd4 Nxe4 22.fxe4 Qc4 23.Rd1 b6 24.Qf5+ Kb7 25.Bc3 g6 26.Qe5 Bd6
27.Qf6 Re8 28.e5 Be7 29.Qf3+ Kb8 30.Kb1 Qe6 31.Rf1 Rd8 32.b3 Bxa3
33.Qxf7 Rd1+ 34.Ka2 Qxf7 35.Rxf7 Bc5 36.e6 Kc8 37.Rf6 Rd8 38.Rxg6 Rf8
39.Rg5 Rf2 40.Kb2

1-0
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------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -

[Event "Ostend"]
[Site "Ostend"]
[Date "1907.??.??" ]
[Round "3"]
[White "Chigorin,Mikhail" ]
[Black "Tarrasch,Siegbert" ]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "B01"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.d4 Bg4 6.Be2 Nc6 7.Be3 0-0-0
8.Nd2 Bxe2 9.Qxe2 e6 10.Nb3 Qf5 11.0-0-0 Bd6 12.h3 Na5 13.g4 Nxb3+
14.axb3 Qa5 15.Kb1 Nd5 16.Na4 Nxe3 17.fxe3 h5 18.Rhf1 Rdf8 19.e4 f6
20.d5 Re8 21.gxh5 exd5 22.Qg4+ Kb8 23.Rxd5 Qb4 24.Nc3 Be5
25.Na2 Qf8 26.Rfd1 Bd6 27.Nc3 a6 28.Ne2 Qe7 29.R1d4 Be5 30.Rd2 Bd6
31.Nc3 Qf7 32.Rf2 Re5 33.Rf5 Rxf5 34.Rxf5 Be5 35.Nd5 Qd7 36.Nb4 Qd2
37.Nd3 Rd8 38.Rf2 Qa5 39.Qe2 Qb5 40.Rg2 Rd7 41.Qf2 Bd4 42.Qf3 Re7
43.Rg6 Qe8 44.Qg3 Qb5 45.Rxg7 Rxg7 46.Qxg7 Qxh5 47.Qg4 Qh6 48.h4 Qd2
49.h5 Be3 50.Qf3 Bg5 51.b4 b6 52.Qg4 Kb7 53.e5 fxe5 54.Qe4+ Kb8
55.Nxe5 Qd1+ 56.Ka2 Qxh5 57.Nc6+ Kb7 58.Na5+ Kc8 59.Qf5+ Kd8 60.Nc6+ Ke8 61.Qc8+
Kf7 62.Qxc7+ Kg8 63.Qxb6 Qf7+ 64.Ka3 Qf3+ 65.c3 Qf1 66.Qd4 Bf6
67.Qd5+ Kf8 68.Kb3 Qe2 69.Nb8 Kg7 70.Nd7 Qf1 71.Qd6 Bg5 72.Ne5 Bf6
73.Qd7+ Kh6 74.Qd3 Qg1 75.Qh3+ Kg7 76.Qg4+ Qxg4 77.Nxg4

1-0
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------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -

[Event "Ostend-B"]
[Site "Ostend"]
[Date "1907.??.??" ]
[Round "9"]
[White "Cohn,Wilhelm" ]
[Black "Tartakower, Saviely"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco "B01"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.d4 Qxd5 4.Nc3 Qa5 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be2 Nc6 7.0-0 0-0-0
8.Be3 e5 9.d5 Nxd5 10.Nxe5 Nxe3 11.Bxg4+ f5 12.Nxc6 bxc6 13.Qf3 Nxg4
14.Qxc6 Bd6 15.g3 Ne5 16.Qa8+ Kd7 17.Qg2 h5 18.Rad1 h4 19.Rfe1 h3
20.Qb7 Rb8 21.Qh1 Rxb2 22.Nd5 Re8 23.Re3 Qd2 24.Nc3 Qxc2 25.Rf1 Qd2
26.Nd1 Rb1 27.Ree1 Qxe1

0-1
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------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
http://www.chessvil le.com/reviews/ RudolfSpielmannM asterofInvention .htm

Chessville.com review of
Rudolf Spielmann, Master of Invention
by Neil McDonald
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http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Rudolf_Spielmann

Wikipedia,
Rudolph Spielmann
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -

http://www.amazon. com/Art-Sacrific e-Chess-Rudolf- Spielmann/ dp/0486284492

The Art of Sacrifice in Chess
Rudolph Spielmann
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
Wikipedia Duras

http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Oldrich_Duras
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Chess.com has 47 games with 1 e4 f5
which they call the Duras Gambit

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Thu Jun  4 16:07:29 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu,  4 Jun 2009 16:07:29 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Dennis Monokroussos: Shirov Interview & More
Message-ID: <1244153249.4a2845a1cea72@www.taom.com>



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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
Shirov Interview & More
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1244138217.shtml


   Conducted by [1]ChessVibes shortly after his success at MTel.


References

   1.
http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/alexei-shirov-somewhere-deep-inside-i-felt-that-i-could-win-the-tournament/

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Thu Jun  4 16:39:26 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu,  4 Jun 2009 16:39:26 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Eric Olsen wins Penguin in 12
Message-ID: <1244155166.4a284d1e33e52@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from EOMJ <eomj at indra.com> -----
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 Subject: Penguin wins in 12
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>

[Event "rated blitz match"]

[Site "Free Internet Chess Server"]

[Date "2009.06.04"]

[Round "?"]

[White "jooler"]

[Black "Beb"]

[Result "1-0"]

[WhiteElo "1214"]

[BlackElo "1115"]

[ECO "A06"]

[TimeControl "300"]



1. Nf3 d5 2. Rg1 e6 3. b3 Nf6 4. Bb2 Be7 5. g4 O-O 6. g5 Ne4 7. d3 Nxg5 8.

Nxg5 Bxg5 9. h4 Bxh4 10. Rxg7+ Kh8 11. Rxf7+ Bf6 12. Bxf6+ {Beb resigns} 1-0

--
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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Thu Jun  4 18:27:52 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu,  4 Jun 2009 18:27:52 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Hmmm,
	The Penguin isnt that bad == Fwd: ICC game: Dr-Checkmate vs Raydan50
Message-ID: <1244161672.4a286688df741@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from William Chandler <kinguniquex at gmail.com> -----
    Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 18:12:51 -0600
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 Subject: Hmmm, The Penguin isnt that bad == Fwd: ICC game: Dr-Checkmate vs
	Raydan50
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------


[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.04"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Dr-Checkmate"]
[Black "Raydan50"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "1113"]
[BlackElo "1091"]
[Opening "R?ti opening"]
[ECO "A04"]
[NIC "QP.10"]
[Time "19:59:15"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. Nf3 c5 2. Rg1 e6 3. g4 Qc7 4. b3 h6 5. Bb2 Nc6 6. Nc3 a6 7. g5 b5 8. gxh6
Nxh6 9. Ne4 Nf5 10. Nfg5 Qxh2 11. Rg2 Qh1 12. Rg1 Qh4 13. e3 Bb7 14. Qf3 f6
15. Nxf6+ gxf6 16. Bxf6 Rh5 17. Ne4 Nb4 18. Bxh4 Rxh4 19. Nf6+ Kd8 20. Qxb7
{Black resigns}
1-0


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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Thu Jun  4 19:40:14 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu,  4 Jun 2009 19:40:14 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Eric Beckman
Message-ID: <1244166014.4a28777ecb12f@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Eric Beckman <e.e.becks at gmail.com> -----
    Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:49:11 -0600
    From: Eric Beckman <e.e.becks at gmail.com>
Reply-To: Eric Beckman <e.e.becks at gmail.com>
 Subject: Re: Eric Beckman
      To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>

I was also trying to remember the moves to a game I played as Black - an Old
Indian with an imaginative Rook lift where I sacrificed first on g4, then
you sacrificed on d5 (the best and only path I think). I couldn't figure out
the move order, but the position looked something like the attached.

Eric Beckman <e.e.becks at gmail.com>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Brian Wall


2001 Denver Open Champion Andy Rea is into postal and he told me 2008
US Champion GM ?nischuk had a Denver address about 10 years ago.
Except nobody ever saw him.
I used to imagine he was holed up with other Russian/Ukranian GMs
in an apartment somewhere in the same city that J.C. MacNeil was
saccing unsoundly every night.
The mystery was finally cleared up, someone told me this year that ?nischuk
just had a Denver mailing adress for citizenship purposes, he never really
lived here, sort of like the Obama birth certificate confusion.

Something similar happened yesterday. Eric Beckman is an
ex-Chessmaster, according to Bardwick's Denver History page

http://www.colorado-chess.com/History/denver_open.shtml

and also the 1989 Denver Open Champion 20 years ago. Due to global warming and
the Sam Sloan/Susan Polgar's USCF lawsuits, the Denver Open has been
discontinued the last 2 years. What's the point of holding the tournament
anyway, I won it the last 4 times in a row and already broke 5-timer Todd's
record. We get it, Brian, you're the best.

Just like a secret Ukranian GM visiting Onischuk's imaginary Denver lair for
world-shattering TNs, Eric Beckman arranged a secret blitz match with me
yesterday. Due to my exalted position as a City Champion, I got to spend time
with another secretly visiting Champion, complete with the sacred Freemason
handshake, free from the rabble sucking us into their rating vortex in the Cone
of Insincerity.

Eric has a wife and son in Atlanta, Georgia and a 12 year old son. They were all
visiting Eric's Denver parents. Eric didn't see any familiar faces at the Denver
Chess Club Tuesday night so he arranged to meet me for blitz at the Chess tables
downtown. After it started raining, we adjourned to Barnes and Noble with one of
the 3 Homeless Mikes in tow.

After about 60-80 5 minute to 3 minute blitz games, one game struck me
as so funny I had to write it down to record this historic occasion.

Eric pursued a policy of taking advantage of every check and every capture,
the most forcing moves in Chess. At first he was a Queen up and everything
looked hunky-dory but he continued the same policy until he remarked in
amazement, " You're a Rook up! ".

In general, Eric played rather dogmatically with standard ideas. IM John Watson

http://www.lincolnchessfoundation.org/

told me 35 years ago when I was an expert that I needed something special to be
a Chessmaster. Although I had been a Chessmaster for a quarter century already,
it wasn't until Shirov opened my eyes that I knew what Watson meant. You have to
be ready to embrace the fantastic, to risk loss in search of the amazing in
Chess. Yes, I sac unsoundly but sometimes I touch the sky. Eric's play was
completely lacking in this. You can do all right that way, IM Cyrus Lakdawala
is 2500 taking byes, just playing the Slav and the Colle and avoiding all risk.
I would recommend an emergency blood transfusion of FIRE ON BOARD 1 & 2 for
anyone suffering from this problem. This is why I love 2377 Tyler Hughes' play,
he gets it and now the whole Chess world gets him.

Writing the game down broke the flow, it reminded Eric of how hungry he was and
he excused himself to reconnect with his family. I played in the rain with the
Croatian Dean Samsarovich after that. I ended up -2 at 2 minute Chess. I caught
the last bus to Thornton home.

Eric looks exactly like the kind of kid that would be a
Dungeons and Dragons Goth teenager but he denied this.

Analysis without computer.

[Event "Downtown Denver Barnes and Noble, rainy night, 5-3 odds blitz game with
"Homeless" Mike watching from the 16th Street mall"]
[Site "Barnes and Noble, 16th Street downtown, upstairs, Denver, CO"]
[Date "2009.06.03"]
[Round "roughly 64"]
[White "B-Wall, Denver Open Champion 1977, 2004-2007, tied for 1st 2000 with
James McCarty and Andres Hortillosa, lost on tiebreak, tied for first 2007, won
on tiebreak over Mitesh Shridhar, also won on tiebreak over Andy Rea some year
between 2004-2006"]
[Black "1989 Denver Open Champion Eric E. Beckman"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2202, highest 2335"]
[BlackElo "2094, ex-Master"]
[Opening "KGA: Fischer defense"]
[ECO "C34"]
[NIC "KG.02"]
[Time "18:45:00"]
[TimeControl "White - Game/3 , Black - Game/5"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 d6


Fischer defense


4. d4 g5 5. h4 g4 6. Ng1

I play both sides here.

6 ... Be7 7. Bxf4 Bxh4+ 8. g3 Bf6 9. c3 Ne7 10. Nd2

I regretted during the game not playing  10 Bd3  Ng6  11 Ne2

10 ... Ng6 11. Bd3 Nxf4 12. gxf4 Bh4+ 13. Kf1 Nd7 14. Qxg4 Bf6

I have a good game but I get carried away.

15. Rxh7??  Nf8!!


Oops.


16. Rxh8!

Help, Baltier!


16 ...  Bxg4! 17. Rg8 Qd7 18. Ngf3 Bh3+

Freeing my Rook seems pointless but Eric
never met a check or capture he didn't like.


19. Ke2 O-O-O 20. Rh1 Ng6 21. Rxd8+ Bxd8
22. f5 Nf4+ 23. Ke3 Nxd3 24. Rxh3 Nxb2 25. Rh8

Of course down a Queen for a Rook my attack is a joke but I win many lost
blitz games due to greed. Eric continues his automatic check-capture policy.

25 ... Qb5 26. e5 Qd3+ 27. Kf4 Qxc3 28. e6 fxe6 29. fxe6 Nd3+ 30. Kg3

Eric has been taking everything in sight but suddenly I saw no defense for him.

30 ... Nc5 31. e7 Ne6 32. e8=Q Qe3 33. Qf7

This is where Eric said in amazement, " You're up a Rook! ".

33 ... d5 34. Re8

1-0    Black, Beckman resigns

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Help Rybka!

[Event "Downtown Denver Barnes and Noble, rainy night, 5-3 odds blitz game with
"Homeless" Mike watching from the 16th Street mall"]
[Site "Barnes and Noble, 16th Street downtown, upstairs, Denver, CO"]
[Date "2009.06.03"]
[Round "roughly 64"]
[White "B-Wall, Denver Open Champion 1977, 2004-2007, tied for 1st 2000 with
James McCarty and Andres Hortillosa, lost on tiebreak, tied for first 2007, won
on tiebreak over Mitesh Shridhar, also won on tiebreak over Andy Rea some year
between 2004-2006"]
[Black "1989 Denver Open Champion Eric E. Beckman"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2202, highest 2335"]
[BlackElo "2094, ex-Master"]
[Opening "KGA: Fischer defense"]
[ECO "C34"]
[NIC "KG.02"]
[Time "18:45:00"]
[TimeControl "White - Game/3 , Black - Game/5"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 d6 4. d4 g5 5. h4 g4 6. Ng1 Be7
7. Bxf4!  Bxh4+ 8. g3!  Bf6!  9. c3 Ne7 10. Nd2!  Ng6 11. Bd3

I had one of those blitz guilt twinges when you want to make a
move you know is bad just because it brings out the pieces fast,
11 Bh6!  is right.
I wished I had played  10  Bd3  Ng6  11 Ne2  during the game
but Rybka thinks 11 Bd3 is bad because of 10 ... h5!
- humans don't think that way.
2 ... h5!! is Jack Young's Raccoon.
3 ... h5!!  is something like the Wiegenbach Gambit.
9 or 10 ... h5! is best according to Rybka
Rybka wants me to play  the Anti-Raccoon 11  Bh6!
to prevent the mighty  ... h5!


11 ... Nxf4!  12. gxf4!  Bh4+!  13. Kf1 Nd7??  14. Qxg4! Bf6 15. Rxh7??

The whole concept is groundless,
15  R:h7??   R:h7!  16  Qg8+   Nf8
guards the Rook


15 ... Nf8!!

Attacking Queen and Rook with pesky minor pieces


16. Rxh8

When nothing works,
keep it murky like an embezzler during an audit.


16 ... Bxg4!  17. Rg8!

A rather lame Jim Burden-Larry Christiansen entry


17 ... Qd7!  18. Ngf3 Bh3+?

Only helps me

19. Ke2?

I get hassled less on f2


19 ...  O-O-O!  20. Rh1 Ng6! 21. Rxd8+!  Bxd8!

Eric was funny after the game ,
searching for the cause of his inexplicable loss -
" I think 21 ... B:d8 is a mistake. "
- Beckman


22. f5!  Nf4+!  23. Ke3!  Nxd3!  24. Rxh3

24 K:d3!  Bg2  trading everything
off seemed utterly hopeless.

24 ... Nxb2!  25. Rh8

Like an Al Queida terrorist plotting vague
bank rank mischief at the American Embassy
in his secret cell.


25 ... Qb5

http://content8.flixster.com/photo/95/91/57/9591574_gal.jpg

Lady Guinevere ( the Black Queen ) had a cozy, comfortable life with King Arthur
( the Black King )  with over 15 easy wins but she cannot resist dallying with
Sir Lancelot ( the Black Knight ). She could have gotten away with it after
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
26. e5 Qd3+ 27. Kf4 Qxc3 28. e6 fxe6!!    Only move
29. fxe6! Nd1!!  or  ... Nc4!!            Only moves
30. e7  Qe3+!!                            Only move
and Eric ends my silly, little reindeer games
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
but the path of treachery is narrow, she fainted from the pressure, stumbled,
fell, the tryst was discovered and Camelot was lost.


26. e5

Win or lose,
a Chessmaster knows which side his bread is buttered on.

26 ... Qd3+

Guinevere was the legendary queen consort of King Arthur. She was most famous
for her love affair with Arthur's chief knight Sir Lancelot. Their betrayal of
Arthur leads to the downfall of the kingdom.


27. Kf4!  Qxc3

" That's a terrible move! "
- Eric Beckman

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti-_Arthur%27s_Tomb_-_The_Last_Meeting_of_Lancelot_and_Guinevere.JPG


28. e6!   fxe6!!

Only move

http://www.worldtapestries.com/images/medieval/thumbnails/lady_guinevere.jpg

29. fxe6!  Nd3+??

Losing.

More quick-check-capture compulsion

http://mediatonic.com.au/images/castles.jpg

This is the culprit,
Only the non-checking, non-capturing
29 ... Nd1!!  or ... Nc4!!  30  e7  Qe3+!
saves Eric now but it was  25 ... Qb5 that
set him on the Only Move Road to Success.



30. Kg3!!

Only move

30 ... Nc5

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PTI2N19lGXs/R1ISW9zDhoI/AAAAAAAAABI/mKdWBkZHM2Q/s1600-R/first_knight.jpg


31. e7!!

Only move

31 ... Ne6! 32. e8=Q!!  Qe3 33. Qf7 +4

33 d5!!!  is +14
33 Qe7!!  is also much stronger than my move.


33 ...  d5

Eric would be down a pair of horsies after
33 ... N:d4!!  34  Qf6!!  Nc6  35 Qf5+  Kb8
36  Qd7  a6  37 R:d8+  N:d8  38  Q:d8+  Ka7
39  Q:c7



34. Re8!!   +7

1-0    Black, Beckman resigns

Time left -
Brian  30 seconds
Eric   1 minute, 10 seconds

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[Event "Downtown Denver Barnes and Noble, rainy night, 5-3 odds blitz game with
"Homeless" Mike watching from the 16th Street mall"]
[Site "Barnes and Noble, 16th Street downtown, upstairs, Denver, CO"]
[Date "2009.06.03"]
[Round "roughly 64"]
[White "B-Wall, Denver Open Champion 1977, 2004-2007, tied for 1st 2000 with
James McCarty and Andres Hortillosa, lost on tiebreak, tied for first 2007, won
on tiebreak over Mitesh Shridhar, also won on tiebreak over Andy Rea some year
between 2004-2006"]
[Black "1989 Denver Open Champion Eric E. Beckman"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2202, highest 2335"]
[BlackElo "2094, ex-Master"]
[Opening "KGA: Fischer defense"]
[ECO "C34"]
[NIC "KG.02"]
[Time "18:45:00"]
[TimeControl "White - Game/3 , Black - Game/5"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 d6 4. d4 g5 5. h4 g4 6. Ng1 Be7 7. Bxf4 Bxh4+
8. g3 Bf6 9. c3 Ne7 10. Nd2 Ng6 11. Bd3 Nxf4 12. gxf4 Bh4+ 13. Kf1 Nd7
14. Qxg4 Bf6 15. Rxh7 Nf8 16. Rxh8 Bxg4 17. Rg8 Qd7 18. Ngf3 Bh3+
19. Ke2 O-O-O 20. Rh1 Ng6 21. Rxd8+ Bxd8 22. f5 Nf4+ 23. Ke3 Nxd3
24. Rxh3 Nxb2 25. Rh8 Qb5 26. e5 Qd3+ 27. Kf4 Qxc3 28. e6 fxe6
29. fxe6 Nd3+ 30. Kg3 Nc5 31. e7 Ne6 32. e8=Q Qe3 33. Qf7 d5 34. Re8

1-0    Black, Beckman resigns

Eric did not take this abuse lying down and sent me several replies.

Brian Wall
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date:  Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:09:21 -0600
From:  Eric Beckman <e.e.becks at gmail.com>
To:  brianwallchess3 at taom.com
Subject:  Fancy some blitz?
Hi Brian,
I am in Denver until next Wednesday and I'd love to play some blitz.
I'm at the DCC now and there are few familiar faces.
Would you like to meet up sometime?
Best regards,
Eric Beckman
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
:  Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:36:47 -0600
From:  Eric Beckman <e.e.becks at gmail.com>
To:  Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>
Subject:  Re: Eric Beckman


Hi Brian,

This is nice, but, while I agree my play lacked imagination in the game you're
posting, do you really think "in general" I lacked imagination and daring? I
humbly disagree, although I do admire those qualities in your play. Here's one
of our later games (I think I have the move order right) where I sac a Pawn and
then offer a Bishop (which can't be taken). I know the Bishop sac is not
original, and maybe it wasn't imaginative, but I liked it ;-) if you want to
post it as an example of my willingness to part with material, I wouldn't
object.

1 d4 Nc6 2 d5 Ne5 3 f4 Ng6 4 e4 e5 5 Nf3 ef4 6 g3 fg3 7 hg3 Bc5 8 Nc3 d6 9 Bg5
N8e7 10 Qd2 O-O 11 Bf6 +- Nf5 (desperation I assume) 12 Bg7?? (lacking the
imagination to take the Queen, I follow the wrong path and lose quickly, but
fearlessly) 12... Ng3 -+ and Black won

Maybe you'll give me another chance to show my imagination before I leave.
I enjoyed losing a large percentage of the games against you yesterday :-)

Cheers
Eric

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Date:  Thu, 4 Jun 2009 16:59:31 -0600
From:  Eric Beckman <e.e.becks at gmail.com>
To:  Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>
Subject:  Re: Eric Beckman


Thanks - I probably could use a bit more magic. I confess that two of my
favorite players are Smyslov and Karpov, not to say I don't like Tal, Shirov,
et al. I also made my master rating not by seeking the fantastic, but by
avoiding losses, an effective strategy at the time (I had a long undefeated
streak), but one that meant less risk and more draws. I realize I need a new
approach to get my rating back above 2200, so your advice is certainly welcome.
Not sure yet as to tomorrow morning, but will let you know as soon as I do.
Here's one of my games which I enjoyed that has a positional sacrifice of three
pawns. Feel free to share it if you like.

Eric Beckman vs. Someone in Germany (I only know the online user id) online
correspondence, Spring 2007, 3 days per move
1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 Bb4 4 e3 c5 5 Bd3 Nc6 6 Ne2 Bc3 7 bc3 b6 8 O-O Qc7 9 f4
Bb7 10 e4 cd4 11 cd4 Nb4 12 e5 Qc6 13 Rf3 Nd3 14 Qd3 Ne4 15 Ba3 (Black's King
now remains stuck in the center) Rc8 16 Rc1 Ba6 17 Ng3 Ng3 18 Rg3 g6 19 d5 ed5
20 Qd4 Bc4 21 e6 Rg8 22 f5 de6 23 fe6 fe6 (White has sacrificed three pawns to
open lines along the black squares) 24 Qf6 Qd7 (watching e6 and e7) 25 Rf3
(hitting the f8 square) Rc5 (what else?) 26 Bc5 bc5 27 Rb1 (Black is in
trouble) Qe7 28 Rb8 Kd7 29 Rb7 1-0

e.e.becks at gmail.com
Eric Beckman

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Brian replies to Eric replies.

You have the move order wrong to the Full Metal Jacket game -

[Event "Casual  3 to 5  game, Downtown Denver,"]
[Site "Barnes and Noble, 16th Street"]
[Date "2009.06.03"]
[Round "52"]
[White "Eric Beckman"]
[Black "Brian Wall"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C34"]
[WhiteElo "2094"]
[BlackElo "2202"]
[EventDate "2009.06.03"]
[EventType "match (blitz odds)"]
[EventRounds "64"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
[TimeControl "White Game/5 minutes  Black  Game/3 minutes"]

{"Homeless" Mike watching from the Street mall"] [Site "Barnes and Noble,
Street downtown, upstairs, Denver, CO"] [Date "2009. 06. 03"] [Round "roughly
[Black "B-Wall, Denver Open Champion tied for with James McCarty and Andres
Hortillosa, lost on tiebreak, tied for first won on tiebreak over Mitesh
Shridhar, also won on tiebreak over Andy Rea some year between [White "1989
Denver Open Champion Eric E. Beckman"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black
resigns"] [BlackElo "2202, highest [WhiteElo "2094, ex-Master"] [Opening "
Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense, Attempted Full Metal Jacket"]
[ECO "A40"] [NIC "Q0. 17"] [Time "18:15:00"] [TimeControl
"White Game/3 , Black Game/5"]}

1. d4 {Brian - at least tied for first in 6
Denver Opens- 5 minutes  Highest USCF 2335    Eric Beckman  1989 Denver Open
Champion  ex-Master  visiting his Denver parents from Atlanta, Georgia}

1. ... Nc6 2. d5 Ne5 3. f4 Ng6 4. e4 e5 5. Nf3 exf4 6. g3 fxg3 7. hxg3 Bc5
8. Nc3 d6 9. Bg5 N8e7 10. Qd2 O-O 11. Bf6 Re8
(11... Nf5?  12. Bxg7?  Nxg3   false Eric move order)
12. Bxg7 Nf5 13. Bh6 Nxg3 14. Rh3 Nxf1
and you're down a Rook

Brian Wall
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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Fri Jun  5 00:37:52 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri,  5 Jun 2009 00:37:52 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fiebster
Message-ID: <1244183872.4a28bd4085af2@www.taom.com>


[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.05"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Fiebster"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "1811"]
[BlackElo "2134"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "01:02:09"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5

The Ruy Lopezzers,
you've got to feel sorry for them

3 ... Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!!

Fishing Pole, the bait

5. h3 h5!!

Fishing Pole, the Pole



6. d4 exd4!  7. c3 dxc3 8. Nxc3

Grr, Polers hate central play.



8 ... Bc5!!

Fishing Pole, the Bishop


9. Bg5 f6!!  10. Bf4 g5!!

but we love chasing Bishops with pawns


11. Bxc6 gxf4

Fishing Pole, the Pawn Wave

I had a nice choice here of roughly equal moves -
11 ... bc, ... gf, ... dc, ... N:f2, ... B:f2+
I chose my move because I hate Knights on d5
and this way I can play ... c6




12. Bd5 c6!  13. Bc4  Ne5

I normally don't retreat but I have a target
on h3 and an open g-file  to cause trouble with
and I gain a tempo on Bc4.
I have a healthy choice of about a dozen moves.

14. Nxe5?  fxe5!

I have a healthy center to start an attack from again


15. Nd5?

Fiebster wants to show he can sacrifice too
but he doesn't have a clue how to go about it.
I guess he doesn't want to wait around for
... d6, .... Qh4, ... B:h3, ... 0-0-0, ... Rag8


15 ... cxd5!

I could have played  15 ... d6!
and laughed at him too


16. Qxd5!  Qe7! 17. b4 Bd4

I don't need more material,
just development
.
Rybka wants the b-pawn

18. Rad1! d6

Again I just want to catch up
but Rybka wants me to attack with
18 ... f3!!   or ... h4!!
Humans hate backward development,
computer can see it's safe to wait
until the pawn wars are over.
I have other good moves too.


19. Bb5+  Kf8

Driving a Fishing Poler's King to f8
is like chasing a walrus into the sea.


20. Rxd4

Still proving his manhood at the cost of a Rook.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
Backing off with his Queen a
piece down would appeal to no one.


20 ... exd4!  21. Qxd4  Rg8!!!

Fishing Pole, the Rook

21 ... Qe5!!
is very cozy but Fishing Polers always aim for checkmate

22. Re1 Bxh3!!

Fishing Pole, the Other Bishop



23. e5

Apparently Fiebster is also an attacking maniac.



23 ...  Bxg2

I looked at  23 ... R:g2+!!!  24  Kh1  Qh4!!
but I didn't want to allow  25 Q:d6+
23 ... Rg4!!  and  ... de!!  are great as well



24. Qxf4+!  Qf7!  25. Qh6+!  Rg7! 26. exd6 Bc6+

26 ... Bh3+!! mates faster
but I wanted his Bishop off
the board with check first



27. Kh2 Qxf2+!


Fishing Pole, the Queen


28. Kh3 Bg2+

I have mate in 1 but I wanted
28 ... Bg2+  29  Kh2  Bf1+  30  Kh1  Qh4  checkmate


{White resigns} 0-1
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.05"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Fiebster"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "1811"]
[BlackElo "2134"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "01:02:09"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. d4 exd4 7. c3 dxc3 8.
Nxc3 Bc5 9. Bg5 f6 10. Bf4 g5 11. Bxc6 gxf4 12. Bd5 c6 13. Bc4 Ne5 14. Nxe5
fxe5 15. Nd5 cxd5 16. Qxd5 Qe7 17. b4 Bd4 18. Rad1 d6 19. Bb5+ Kf8 20. Rxd4
exd4 21. Qxd4 Rg8 22. Re1 Bxh3 23. e5 Bxg2 24. Qxf4+ Qf7 25. Qh6+ Rg7 26.
exd6 Bc6+ 27. Kh2 Qxf2+ 28. Kh3 Bg2+ {White resigns} 0-1
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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Fri Jun  5 02:30:55 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri,  5 Jun 2009 02:30:55 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 289,945
Message-ID: <1244190655.4a28d7bf18b85@www.taom.com>

www.Walverine.com mysteriously disappeared 2 months ago.
Paul Covington and I even spent time trying to rebuy
the site name from whoever stole/bought it. Whoever got it
back online, Pete Cascio or Paul Covington, Thank You.
I missed it. I found out I had saved 129 of the 189 emails
on my old Hotmail account so I could have restored part of
www.Walverine.com ( 289,945 hits so far from all around the world )
if I had to.

meanwhile my other website is doing well too.
My Youtube videos are on Chris Peterson's
Sagacious00004  account
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    Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 00:40:53 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Chris Peterson <garrensilverwing at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Chris Peterson <garrensilverwing at yahoo.com>
 Subject: youtube
      To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>

Sagacious00004
up to 80 subscribers and almost 18k views now on youtube,
we will have to make another video soon

http://www.brianwallchess.x10hosting.com
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From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri,  5 Jun 2009 16:38:14 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Someone tell JC -Brand new 1.b4 book!
Message-ID: <1244241494.4a299e56ba0b7@www.taom.com>



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    Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 00:25:23 +0200 (CEST)
    From: ricettario at fastwebnet.it
Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] Brand new 1.b4 book!
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http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1244186436.shtml

Ciao
Davide

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Mon Jun  8 20:05:26 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon,  8 Jun 2009 20:05:26 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 2009 National Open Fishing Pole Crush by
	Francisco Baltier
Message-ID: <1244513126.4a2dc366f2e87@www.taom.com>


Forwarded message from Francisco Baltier Jr <baltier at yahoo.com>


Hi Brian,

Below is a "Fishing Pole Crush" I acheived at this?weekend's National Open in
Las Vegas.? After the game, Milton (the victim) asked me, "What was that?"?
"I've never had the Ruy Lopez attacked like that."

The time control was 40 moves in 2 hours + SD in 1 Hr.?
The game lasted under an
hour and I only ended up using about 20 minutes from my clock..

? - Francisco.
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[Event "2009 National Open"]
[Site "Las Vegas, NV"]
[Date "2009.06.06"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Ellenbogen, Milton"]
[Black "Baltier Jr, Francisco"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C65"]
[WhiteElo "1427"]
[BlackElo "1549"]
[Annotator "Fritz 9 (7s)"]
[PlyCount "48"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6.Nh2 Nxh2
7. Kxh2 Bc5 8. Bxc6 dxc6 9. d3 Be6 10. Qf3 Qd7 11. Nc3 O-O-O
12. Be3 Bd6 13. a3 Rdf8 14. b4 f6 15. Rfb1 g5 16. Kg1 g4
17. Qd1 gxh3 18. Ne2 hxg2 19. Ng3 h4 20. Nf5 Bxf5
21. exf5 h3 22. Qf3 Rfg8 23. Kh2 e4+ 24. Bf4 exf3

0-1
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Forwarded message from Francisco Baltier Jr <baltier at yahoo.com>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgqVkqrNH_4
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Notes by Brian


[Event "2009 National Open"]
[Site "Las Vegas, NV"]
[Date "2009.06.06"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Ellenbogen, Milton"]
[Black "Baltier Jr, Francisco"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C65"]
[WhiteElo "1427"]
[BlackElo "1549"]
[Annotator "Fritz 9 (7s)"]
[PlyCount "48"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!!

Fishing Pole


5. h3 h5!!  6.Nh2

A rare Defense

6 ... Nxh2!!  7. Kxh2 Bc5 8. Bxc6 dxc6!!

Both Black Baltier Bishops bound for the blanched boss.


9. d3 Be6!!  10. Qf3 Qd7


10 ... g5!!!  prepares the ... g4!! smackdown and
10 ...  Qe7!!  guards  the c5-bishop in case of Be3 for White,
also ... Qe7!!  supports  ... g5!!-g4!!  as well as  ... 0-0-0


11. Nc3 O-O-O  12. Be3 Bd6

12 ... Be7!!  supports  ... g5!-g4!


13. a3 Rdf8

Here's a fun line
13 a3  f5!!  14  Bg4  f4  15  B:d8   Bg4!!
trapping the Queen
Milton Ellenbogen can improve this line with 1 d4



14. b4 f6!!

Francsico has been overpreparing
7 ... g5!!,  9 ... g5!!, 10 ... g5!!
and I think he's almost ready for the big moment.
14 ... f5!!   is also promising.


15. Rfb1 g5!!

15 ... f5!!!  or ... Bg4!!!   or ... Kb8!!
are all good attacking schemes according to 3,000+
rated Rybka 3.


16. Kg1 g4!!

Despite Baltier's bogged down blitzkrieg and belated bombardment,
his exertions are much more efficient than Ellenbogen's encroachment.




17. Qd1   gxh3!!   18. Ne2 hxg2!!

The standouts among the random Raytheon rebukes are:
18 ... h4!!, ... hg!!, ... Rfg8!!, ... f5!!, ... Kb8!!, ... Rhg8!!
and many more



19. Ng3 h4!!   20. Nf5 Bxf5! 21. exf5 h3!!
22. Qf3 Rfg8!!  23. Kh2  e4+!!

Milton lasted longer than GM Walter Browne did
against Francisco's Las Vegas Fishing Pole.


24. Bf4 exf3!!


mate in 4

0-1

Bravissimo Baltier!


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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun  9 02:51:05 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue,  9 Jun 2009 02:51:05 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Once in a blue moon
Message-ID: <1244537465.4a2e227992bbf@www.taom.com>


Most Chess themes are repetitive, in my 48 years of Chess study I see the same
things reoccur thousands of times. Once in a while you bump into an idea you
can't use again, it seems to be unique, you can't really make a principle out
of what you've learned. Here are two recent examples.
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[Event "ICC 120 0 u"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.05.14"]
[Round "-"]
[White "*IM_Shankland"]
[Black "*Hughes"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2464"]
[BlackElo "2293"]
[Opening "Sicilian: Kan, 5.Nc3"]
[ECO "B43"]
[NIC "SI.41"]
[Time "19:36:36"]
[TimeControl "7200+0"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 b5 6. Bd3 Qb6 7. Nb3 Qc7 8.
Qe2 Bb7 9. Bd2 b4 10. Nd1 Nc6 11. O-O Nf6 12. f4 a5 13. e5 Nd5 14. Ne3 Nxe3
15. Bxe3 g6 16. Rfd1 Ne7 17. Qf2 Nd5 18. Bc5 Rc8 19. Bxf8 Kxf8 20. a3 Kg7
21. Be4 Nc3 22. bxc3 Bxe4 23. cxb4 axb4 24. axb4 Qxc2 25. Nc5 Qxf2+ 26. Kxf2
Bd5 27. Rdc1 Rb8 28. Rab1 Bc6 29. Rb2 Rb6 30. Ke3 Rhb8 31. Rcb1 h5 32. g3
Kf8 33. Kd4 Ke7 34. Nd3 d6 35. exd6+ Kxd6 36. Ne5 Ke7 37. Rc1 Be8 38. Rc4
Rb5 39. Kc3 Ra8 40. Nf3 Ra3+ 41. Rb3 Ra2 42. Nd4 Rb7 43. Rb2 Ra3+ 44. Kd2
Ra4 45. Kd3 Bb5 46. Nxb5 Rxb5 47. Kc3 Kd6 48. Kb3 Ra1 49. Rc8 Kd7 50. Rc3
Rd5 51. Ra2 Rxa2 52. Kxa2 Rd2+ 53. Ka3 Rxh2 54. b5 h4 55. b6 hxg3 56. Rc7+
Kd6 57. Rc8 Rh1 58. b7 Rb1 59. b8=Q+ Rxb8 60. Rxb8 e5 61. Rb4 f5 62. Rb6+
Kc5 63. Rxg6 exf4 64. Kb3 Kd4 65. Kc2 Ke3 66. Re6+ Kf2 67. Kd2 f3 {Black
wins} 0-1
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This is a game between two 18 year olds in the 2009 US Championship.
The other youngsters playing were IM Ray Robson and almost GM Robert Hess.

Sam Shankland had a clear advantage in the middlegame but
the last 40 moves of the game played out an even endgame.

The problem pops up on move 66.
Even though White only has two pieces,
a King and a Rook and I tell everyone,
" White to play and draw ", they all give up.
Tyler said he and Sam had no clue in the
postmortem there was a draw there.
Those two are roughly 2400 strength.
So far only two people have solved it,
Joe Ford, who loves endgames and some guy
at the 16th street mall who just tried absolutely
everything until he stumbled onto the solution.
I have had much stronger players give up.

Part of the problem is every line except the solution
loses badly so it's easy to get discouraged.

We have all heard,
Rook belong behind passed pawns
because their mobility increases
as the passed pawn is pushed.

I don't remember,
The King belongs behind passed pawns,
maybe once in a while in a minor piece ending.
Well, come to think of it, I see that idea a lot.
For some reason, no one seems to get it here.

66 Kc3!!   Kf2  67  Kd4!!  g2  68  Ke5!!  f3  69  Kf4!!  Ke2  70  Rg3=

Anything besides  66 Kc3!!
loses instantly.

A little unlucky for Sam who had equality
for 40 moves but didn't know it.
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The next example is even rarer -
Move the Queen away from the battle area and pursue
the enemy King from the edges of the board.

This is a 15 minute ICC blitz game I was watching Danielle Rice play.

[Event "ICC 15 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.07"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Danielle"]
[Black "Terlizzi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A48"]
[WhiteElo "1977"]
[BlackElo "1893"]
[Annotator "Microsoft"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[EventDate "2009.??.??"]
[TimeControl "900"]

1. d4 g6 2. Bf4 Nf6 3. e3 d6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. c3 O-O 6. Nbd2 c6 7. Be2 b5
8. h3 a6 9. O-O Nbd7 10. Bh2 c5 11. a4 b4 12. Nc4 a5 13. Nxd6!?

An attempt at a Full Metal Jacket ( all 8 pawns ).

http://www.chessville.com/Wall/FullMetalJacket.htm

Terlizzi is a USCF 1500 trying to improve but he played
some parts so strongly I thought maybe he was a computer.


13 ...  exd6!  14. Bxd6  Re8!  15. dxc5 bxc3!
16. bxc3 Ne4! 17. Qd5!  Ba6!  18. Bxa6!  Rxa6!

Terlizzi has played 6 best moves since the last note.
However in answer to a very bad move
(  19  Nd4??  Nd:c5!!   wins easily )
Terlizzi responds with a worse one.

Question -
How do weak players make a string of good moves?

Answer -
They recognize obvious patterns.



19. Nd4??  Bxd4?? 20. cxd4!!

Now Danielle and I have something close to a Full Metal Jacket position
we were aiming for in the first place. We have almost all our pawns left,
3 pawns and a Bishop for Two Knights.


20 ...  Ndf6?   21. Qb7!!

It's about equal now like before we started this faulty combo.


21 ... Ra8 22. Bh2!!

Peekaboo Bishops often win blitz games although
I recently found out they create bank rank issues.



22 ...  Nd5!  23. f3

This was Danielle's idea,
to march the pawn chain forward a color
off the backs of the Knights.



23 ... Re7

The problem with marching a pawn chain forward
is the enemy always wants to sac back on it.
Terlizzi has tricky Knight fork sequences like
23  ... Nec3!!  24  e4  Ne3!!  25  d5!!  N:f1  26  R:f1
and now it's a fun fight between a Terlizzi Rook
and two connected passed pawns for Danielle.



24. Qb2!

Danielle found that one


24 ...  Nef6?

Here the dreaded countersac is in order -
24 ... N:e3  25  fe  N:f1  26  R:f1  R:e4   27  Bd6
with a pawn for the exchange looks roughly equal


25. e4!!   Nb4! 26. Bd6 Rd7!  27. e5

It was my idea to create a Super-Bishop in the center of the board,
not as strong as Danielle's plan, 26  d5!!



27 ... Nfd5!  28. Qe2

The battering ram pawn wave  28  f4!!  is best while
28 Qd2!! to support the center while staying away from Knight forks
is also good


28 ... Qg5

I was getting frustrated,
Terlizzi kept answering my crushing
ideas with good ideas of his own.



29. e6 Re8 30. f4 Qf6!   31. f5!!

A good move in a wild position

31 ...  Qxd4+ 32. Kh1!

Now  32 ... fe!!
is about equal

32 ... Ne3??  33. exf7+??  Kxf7 34. fxg6+!  Kxg6!  35. Rae1!!

Somehow all the insanity and blunders have evened out.



35 ... Nbd5!  36. Rf3!  Nc3??
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This is the part that's a weird once in a blue moon possibility.
With everything going on right where the White Queen is,
the killer move is to run away from all that and stalk the King
with  37  Qa6!!  where nothing is happening. I've never seen that
idea before and would have a hard time creating a second example.
Despite an extra piece and an active disposition of his forces,
Terlizzi is completely helpless to the power of the Mighty Decentralizer,
37  Qa6!!!!!!!
Example
37  Qa6!!    Re6   38  Qc8!!
Danielle continues to stalk the Black King along
the edge of the board like a homicidal cockroach.
38 ...  Ree7  39  Qg8+
The murderous Cockroach Attack continues
39 ...  Rg7  40  Qe6+  mates
I've never seen a Queen slither around the board
like this with so many other things going on.
After  36 ... Nc3??  37  Rg3+!!  or  37  Qf2!
are not nearly as effective as the odd  37  Qa6!!!!!!!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

37. Qf2!   Ncd5

I suggested  37 ... Ng4!!  38   Q:d4  R:e1+
to Danielle as a better try for Black



38. Qg3+

Even stronger when prefaced with
38  c6!!!    R:d6  39  Qg3+!!
and  38  Bf4!!  is another killer


38 ... Kh6??
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
A very strange game.
Terlizzi's King is safe on  h5!
After  38 ... Kh6??  39   Rf:e3!!!
is a total wipeout. The main idea is a switchback
38 ... Kh6??  39   Rf:e3!!!   R:e3  39  R:e3  Q:e3
seemingly covering f4 and everything else but
40  Bf8+!!   mates quickly
After  38 ... Kh6??  39  Rf4!!  or  Ree3!!
are not nearly as effective as the impossible looking
39  Rf:e3!!!!!!!

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

39. Bf4+!!   Nxf4!!   40. Rxf4!! Nf5!!
41. Rxf5!!  Rxe1+!!   42. Qxe1!!  Qxa4?  43. Qe6+!!

Mating


43 ...  Kg7!   44. Qf6+!!   Kg8! 45. Qf8#

{Black checkmated}  1-0

There was much mutual praise in the
postmortem between Danielle and Terlizzi.

There were many best moves played and
some even more fantastic moves missed.

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[Event "ICC 15 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.07"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Danielle"]
[Black "Terlizzi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A48"]
[WhiteElo "1977"]
[BlackElo "1893"]
[Annotator "Microsoft"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[EventDate "2009.??.??"]
[TimeControl "900"]

1. d4 g6 2. Bf4 Nf6 3. e3 d6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. c3 O-O 6. Nbd2 c6 7. Be2 b5 8. h3 a6
9. O-O Nbd7 10. Bh2 c5 11. a4 b4 12. Nc4 a5 13. Nxd6 exd6 14. Bxd6 Re8 15. dxc5
bxc3 16. bxc3 Ne4 17. Qd5 Ba6 18. Bxa6 Rxa6 19. Nd4 Bxd4 20. cxd4 Ndf6 21. Qb7
Ra8 22. Bh2 Nd5 23. f3 Re7 24. Qb2 Nef6 25. e4 Nb4 26. Bd6 Rd7 27. e5 Nfd5 28.
Qe2 Qg5 29. e6 Re8 30. f4 Qf6 31. f5 Qxd4+ 32. Kh1 Ne3 33. exf7+ Kxf7 34. fxg6+
Kxg6 35. Rae1 Nbd5 36. Rf3 Nc3 37. Qf2 Ncd5 38. Qg3+ Kh6 39. Bf4+ Nxf4 40. Rxf4
Nf5 41. Rxf5 Rxe1+ 42. Qxe1 Qxa4 43. Qe6+ Kg7 44. Qf6+ Kg8 45. Qf8# {Black
checkmated} 1-0
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------


From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun  9 11:28:40 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue,  9 Jun 2009 11:28:40 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter
Message-ID: <1244568520.4a2e9bc824474@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net> -----
    Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 09:54:03 -0600
    From: CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net>
Reply-To: CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net>
 Subject: Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter
      To: Fred Eric Spell <spellfe at hotmail.com>, John Schultz


Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter


http://cs.chess.home.att.net
            This Week In Chess

            On June 2nd, the CSCC had 10 members in attendance. The evening's
event was a 7-round, double-Round Robin, blitz tournament (G5). I lost one to
Mitch Anderson and was stalemated by Isaac Martinez just as my flag fell to
claim first place. Here are the results:



Score	Player
12.5	Paul Anderson
11.0	Mitch Anderson
10.0	Josh Divine
7.5	Buck Buchanan
5.5	Anthea Carson
5.5	Isaac Martinez
4.0	Ken Dail
0.0	Mitchell Pjontek

            Local Chessplayer Passes Away

            "A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's
life. Somewhere a queen is weeping, somewhere a king has no wife, and the wind,
it cries Mary" (J. Hendrix). I just received news about the death of a local
chessplayer. The note read, "This is to inform you that William Garcia passed
away on March 31, 2009." I remember playing him twice, once in Pueblo and once
in Colorado Springs. I wanted to pass along my sympathies to any of his friends
and family who read this and share one of our games together.

            [Event "Pikes Peak Open"]
            [Site "Colorado Springs"]
            [Date "2001.08.04"]
            [Round "3.10"]
            [White "Garcia, William"]
            [Black "Anderson, Paul"]
            [Result "0-1"]
            [ECO "B10"]
            [WhiteElo "1303"]
            [BlackElo "1684"]
            [PlyCount "94"]
            [EventDate "2001.08.04"]
            [TimeControl "40/5400:25/3600:25/3600"]

            1. e4 c6 2. Bc4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Bb3 e5 5. d3 h6 6. Qf3 Nf6 7. h3
Nc6 8. c3 Bc5 9. Ne2 O-O 10. O-O e4 11. dxe4 dxe4 12. Qg3 Nh5 13. Qh2 Bd6 14.
g3 Qd7 15. Rd1 Ne5 16. Kh1 Qf5 17. Rxd6 Qf3+ 18. Qg2 Qxe2 19. Be3 Qe1+ 20. Qg1
Qxg1+ 21. Kxg1 Bxh3 22. Nd2 Rad8 23. Rxd8 Rxd8 24. Nxe4 Nf3+ 25. Kh1 b6 26. Rd1
Re8 27. Nd6 Nxg3+ 28. fxg3 Rxe3 29. Bxf7+ Kf8 30. Bh5 Ne5 31. Kh2 Bg4 32. Bxg4
Nxg4+ 33. Kg2 Re6 34. Rd2 a5 35. a4 h5 36. Nf5 Ne3+ 37. Nxe3 Rxe3 38. Kf2 Re6
39. b4 Rc6 40. Rd3 Ke7 41. Ke3 Rc4 42. Kd2 axb4 43. Kc2 Rxc3+ 44. Rxc3 bxc3 45.
Kxc3 Kd6 46. Kc4 Kc6 47. Kb4 g5 0-1

            Game Of The Week

            I was trying to write an article for the upcoming Colorado Chess
Informant, and I was having a hard time coming up with an idea. I didn't have
any major triumphs this year about which to write an inspiring piece. I didn't
have any humorous stories to weave into a comedy. So, I went with one of those
tear-jerking chess narratives that just tears your heart in two. My preview
audience had this to say, "Aww.... such a tragic article..." (R. Reynolds).
Well, in the process of writing the great chess tragedy, I came upon some
enlightening statistics. I noticed that I didn't have very many upset wins in a
slow time control. I consider a slow time control to be a game where the players
get a certain amount of time for their first 40 moves and additional time to
complete the game. In those types of game, I have recorded 6 upset victories.
That seems awfully low to me, especially compared to the 28 upsets I have at
30-minute games. However, it was possible that I have just played 4 times as
many games in the faster time control. So, I crunched some numbers, a trait
that was passed on to me by my mother the CPA. I found that at game 30, I
scored upsets 13% of the time, at game 60, it was 8%, and at game 90, it was
11%. Those numbers all seemed fairly consistent, but when I looked at the slow
time control numbers, it appeared markedly lower. I scored upsets only 4% of
the time! Clearly, I was doing something wrong. The stronger rated opponents
were making better use of the extra time than I was. It wasn't until I started
writing this newsletter that I broke out of my upset drought. Here is one of
those upsets where I slowed down enough to outlast my opponent.



DATE	EVENT	TIME CNTRL	RT CH	RATING	OPPONENT

3/7/98	CS OPEN	40/90, 25/1	21	1753	DEBRA	JOHNSON
12/5/99	WS OPEN	40/2, 20/1	21	1671	MICHAEL	KASS
12/3/00	WS OPEN	40/2, 20/1	18	1587	ROBERT	ANDERSON
8/8/04	PP OPEN	40/2, G60 	16	1770	MARK	KROWCZYK
8/5/06	PP OPEN	40/90, G60	18	1912	ARTHUR	GLASSMAN
12/2/07	WS OPEN	40/2, G60 	17	1905	LARRY	WUTT



            The Glassman Cracketh (Click this link to view the game on your web
browser)
            (148) Glassman,Arthur (1912) - Anderson,Paul (1838) [B10]
            Pikes Peak Open Colorado Springs (2.1), 05.08.2006
            [Fritz 8 (60s)]

            B10: Caro-Kann: 2 d3 and 2 c4
            1.e4 c6 2.f4 last book move 2...d6 3.Nf3 g6 4.c3 Bg7 5.Na3 Nh6 6.d3
b5 7.Nc2 Bb7 8.a4 a6 9.g3 Nd7 10.Bg2 Nc5 11.axb5 axb5 12.Rxa8 Qxa8 13.0-0 0-0
14.Be3 [14.f5 gxf5 15.Nfd4 fxe4+- ] 14...Nb3 [14...Qa2 15.b4 Na4 16.e5= ]
15.Ncd4 Nxd4 [15...Ng4!? 16.Bd2 Nxd2 17.Qxd2 Qa6= ] 16.Bxd4 Bxd4+ 17.Nxd4 Qa2
18.Qe2 e5 19.fxe5 dxe5 20.Nf3 f6 Prevents intrusion on e5+g5 21.Qe3 Kg7?
[21...Nf7 22.b4+/= ] 22.b4 [>=22.Nxe5!? fxe5 23.Rxf8 Kxf8 24.Qxh6+ Kg8 25.Qg5
Qa7+ 26.d4 exd4 27.Qd8+ Kg7 28.Qxd4+ Qxd4+ 29.cxd4+- ] 22...Ra8 23.h3 Secures
g4 23...Qa7 24.Qxa7 [>=24.d4!?+/- ] 24...Rxa7= 25.d4 Nf7 26.dxe5 Nxe5 27.Nxe5
fxe5 28.Rd1 Bc8 29.Rd6 Bd7 30.Bf1 Kf7 31.Kf2 Ke7 32.Rd3 Ra2+ 33.Ke3 Be6 34.Rd2
Ra1 35.Kf2? [>=35.Rf2=/+ would keep White in the game] 35...Rc1-+ 36.Rb2 Rxc3
37.g4 Kf6 38.Kg2 Kg5 39.Kh2 Bb3 40.Rd2 Rc2 0-1

            Upcoming Events

            6/9 June Mating Game: 4-SS, G/30, USCF rated, $5 entry fee, CSCC
            6/10,17,24 East Coast Deli's June Open final rounds, CSCC
            6/13-14 11th Annual Southern Colorado Open, CSCA
            6/16 June Mating Game continues, CSCC
            6/18 June 2009 G/29 Series Event, WCA
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            For event details and additional events, see the following websites:

            Colorado Springs Chess Club: CSCC (http://springschess.org/)
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      Colorado Springs Chess News
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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun  9 11:44:28 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue,  9 Jun 2009 11:44:28 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] R.I.P William Garcia
Message-ID: <1244569468.4a2e9f7ced2f6@www.taom.com>

R.I.P William Garcia

------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -

William Garcia (1431) - Brian Wall (2225) [C54]
Pikes Peak Open 40/90 25/1 25/1 25/1 Manitou Springs, CO (1), 10.08.2002

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d3 Bc5 5.c3 Bb6 6.0-0 d6 7.Bg5 h6 8.Bh4 g5 9.Bg3
Bg4 10.Nbd2 h5 11.h3 h4 12.hxg4 hxg3 13.d4 Nxg4 14.fxg3 exd4 15.Bxf7+ Kxf7
16.Ne5+ Kg7 17.Nxg4 dxc3+ 18.Nf2 cxd2 19.Qxd2 Qf6 20.Qc3 Ne5 21.Rad1 Qh6 0-1

------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -

William Garcia (1431) - Brian Wall (2225) [C54]

analyzed Chessbase style at my strobe light website

http://www.brianwallchess.x10hosting.com/
---------------------------------------------------------------
I played William Garcia once last year but I never had
a discussion with him or about him outside of a quick
post-mortem so I will let others speak on his behalf.
God rest his soul.
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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun  9 20:12:30 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue,  9 Jun 2009 20:12:30 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Raccoon mauls IM HouDima
Message-ID: <1244599950.4a2f168e85a58@www.taom.com>



[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.09"]
[Round "-"]
[White "HouDima"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2241"]
[BlackElo "2137"]
[Opening "King's gambit"]
[ECO "C30"]
[NIC "KG.05"]
[Time "21:03:57"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 h5

The Raccoon by Jack Young pretty much startles anyone.
Rybka 3 doesn't think it's so bad.


3. Nf3 exf4!  4. d4 g5!  5. h4 gxh4?

I hate my move but I thought Fritz told me a long time ago it was best.
Rybka 3 prefers  5  h4  g4  6  Ne5  d6  7  Nd3  f3  8  gf  Be7
9  c3  B:h4+  10  Kd2  g3  or  ... Bg5+
I much prefer this to what I play.
I suppose many blitz players would choose
 5  h4  g4  6  Ne5  d6  7  N:f7  K:f7  8  B:f4
and I have many defensive resources to choose from.
It was always my Raccoonish ambition to
become an expert at unsound White attacks.


6. Bxf4!  Be7 7. Bc4 d6 8. Nc3!  c6 9. Qe2 Bg4 10. O-O-O!  Nd7 11. Rdf1

IM HouDima's  Rooks are on open files,
mine cannot see the light of day.

11 ... b5!  12. Bb3!  a5!  13. a4!  bxa4

One bodyguard removed,
I'll be back for more


14. Nxa4 Ngf6 15. Qc4??  O-O??

15 ... Be6!!   would kill Dima's chances
but no one ever taught me how to retreat.


16. Ng5!  d5!  17. Qxc6!  Rc8!  18. Qb5!  dxe4 19. Be5?

Very lame substitute for  19  R:h4!  or
19  N:f7!!   R:f7  20 Qg5+!!


19 ...  e3!

19 ... N:e5!!  20  de  Bd7!!
is an even better defense


20. Qd3??

It's hard to backpedal in a blitz game
with  20  Bf4!  e2  21 Re1!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gASY7Lj5GPQ

The Tao of Kung Fu #6- "The wise always remain humble."

Master Kan to Grasshopper-
" Remember always, the wise man walks with his head bowed,
humble, like the dust. "

20 ... Nxe5!!

I believe it was Znowsky-Borovky who said that many Chessplayers
like the free Rook to Queen one tempo of Queenside castling but
they forget to pay for it with King to Queen's Knight one
21  de?  Q:d3!  picks off a whole Queen


21. Qxe3!  Nc4   22. Qd3!  Ne5

22 ... Qd5!!  does everything



23. Qe3 Ng6

23 ... Nd5!  24  Q:e5  B:g5+!
is strong

24. Re1 Nd5!!   25. Qe4 Bxg5+!!

Two pieces up now so all I have to do is hang on.


26. Kb1!  Ndf4 27. Nc5 Qd6 28. Ref1 Rce8 29. Qb7!  Qxd4!
30. Na4!  Qb4 31. Qa6 Bf5 32. Ka2 Re2 33. g3 Bxc2!!

My turn to attack


34. Bxc2!  Rxc2!

{White resigns} 0-1
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.09"]
[Round "-"]
[White "HouDima"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2241"]
[BlackElo "2137"]
[Opening "King's gambit"]
[ECO "C30"]
[NIC "KG.05"]
[Time "21:03:57"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 h5 3. Nf3 exf4 4. d4 g5 5. h4 gxh4 6. Bxf4 Be7 7. Bc4 d6 8.
Nc3 c6 9. Qe2 Bg4 10. O-O-O Nd7 11. Rdf1 b5 12. Bb3 a5 13. a4 bxa4 14. Nxa4
Ngf6 15. Qc4 O-O 16. Ng5 d5 17. Qxc6 Rc8 18. Qb5 dxe4 19. Be5 e3 20. Qd3
Nxe5 21. Qxe3 Nc4 22. Qd3 Ne5 23. Qe3 Ng6 24. Re1 Nd5 25. Qe4 Bxg5+ 26. Kb1
Ndf4 27. Nc5 Qd6 28. Ref1 Rce8 29. Qb7 Qxd4 30. Na4 Qb4 31. Qa6 Bf5 32. Ka2
Re2 33. g3 Bxc2 34. Bxc2 Rxc2 {White resigns} 0-1
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Statistics for HouDima(IM)         On for:    0     Idle:    0
HouDima is currently involved in a match against B-Wall.

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Bullet          2358  [8]     2     2     0     4
Blitz           2837  [8]   738   756   126  1620   3075 (14-Nov-2004)
Standard        2215  [6]     1     1     1     3
5-minute        2264  [8]    68    37    13   118   2349 (10-Jan-2004)
1-minute        2064  [8]     4     3     0     7

 1: trying to get better (trying to think during blitz) crazy, yes.
 2: Play me!
 3: as one GM has in his notes- real chess players never take back moves
 4: I will never ask for a takeback, however if you feel like you deserved one,
  I may at my whim grant you one.
 5: However, please don't get offended if you don't get one, even for obvious
  mouse slips.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------



From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun  9 23:50:24 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue,  9 Jun 2009 23:50:24 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Chris Peterson adds 108 blitz games to our
	site
Message-ID: <1244613024.4a2f49a031848@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Chris Peterson <garrensilverwing at yahoo.com> -----
    Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 22:38:24 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Chris Peterson <garrensilverwing at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Chris Peterson <garrensilverwing at yahoo.com>
 Subject: Re: blitz games
      To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>

they are up on the site, if you search for nothing you should get 217 results
instead of 109 now, so 108 games have been added

http://www.brianwallchess.x10hosting.com

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From garrensilverwing at yahoo.com  Tue Jun  9 23:41:54 2009
From: garrensilverwing at yahoo.com (Chris Peterson)
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 22:41:54 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Chess Games on Brian's Website
Message-ID: <716004.43930.qm@web32603.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I added a new string of code that will allow me to upload thousands of games at a time to the website. If you would like to contribute games to the website please email me your PGN's in standard pgn format in an attached .pgn file, it does not matter if they are annotated or not as long as they are only in PGN format i can upload them with the annotations!

http://www.brianwallchess.x10hosting.com


      
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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Wed Jun 10 01:57:58 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:57:58 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Alekhine's Defense, 4 Pawns Attack,
	Grischuk - Svidler Odessa Rapid May 22, 2009
Message-ID: <1244620678.4a2f67865a016@www.taom.com>


[Event "3rd ACP World Rapid Cup"]
[Site "Odessa UKR"]
[Date "2009.05.23"]
[Round "3.1"]
[White "Grischuk, A."]
[Black "Svidler, P."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B03"]
[WhiteElo "2748"]
[BlackElo "2726"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2009.05.22"]

1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. c4 Nb6 5. f4 dxe5 6. fxe5 Nc6 7. Be3 Bf5 8. Nc3
e6 9. Nf3 Be7 10. d5 exd5 11. cxd5 Nb4 12. Nd4 Bd7 13. e6 fxe6 14. dxe6 Bc6 15.
Qg4 Bh4+ 16. g3 O-O 17. O-O-O Bxh1 18. gxh4 Qf6 19. Bb5 c6 20. Bg5 Qe5 21. e7
Rfe8 22. Rxh1 cxb5 23. Nf3 Nd3+ 24. Kc2 Qd6 25. Rd1 Nf2 26. Rxd6 Nxg4 27. Rd4
Nf6 28. h5 Rxe7 29. h6 Rd7 30. Bxf6 gxf6 31. Rg4+ Kf7 32. Nxb5 Rc8+ 33. Nc3 Rg8
34. Rf4 Nd5 0-1
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Grischuk-Svidler May 22, 2009
3rd ACP World Rapid Cup
( won by Gelfand )

was chosen by GM Joel Benjamin as ICC  Game of the Week.

http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5461

Chessbase report of the Rapid Tournament with pgns on all games.

Back in 1981, when I was 26 years old, an article by IM Vincent McCambridge and
Bill Wall in the now defunct Chess newspaper  PLAYERS CHESS NEWS   caught my
eye. I don't meet many Walls in Chess. They claimed that after


1. e4  Nf6  2. e5 Nd5  3. d4 d6 4. c4 Nb6 5. f4 dxe5 6. fxe5 Nc6
7. Be3 Bf5 8. Nc3 e6 9. Nf3 Be7 10. d5 exd5 11. cxd5 Nb4 12. Nd4 Bd7
13. e6 fxe6 14. dxe6 Bc6 15. Qg4 Bh4+ 16. g3 O-O 17. O-O-O Bxh1
18. gxh4 Qf6 19. Bb5

White had an advantage. Before computers I would simply move my wooden pieces on
my wooden board in the apartment I shared with my future wife Debbie and her cat
Omar at 1560 Ogden, Denver, Colorado. Our daughter Phyllis will be visiting me
on a post-graduation road trip tomorrow. My reply claiming  19 ... c5! was
adequate was published with a response by Vincent. I had a response to their
response and I finally caught up with Vincent at some tournament and told him
so. Players Chess News took my yearly subscription rate and shut down but
that's OK. I know how hard it is to keep Chess writing going. I sort of forgot
about the line, I don't remember it even coming up in blitz games, let alone
tournament games.

" Of course nowadays you just let Rybka run for 3 days "
Renard Anderson

I would like to take this opportunity to revisit the line, try to remember what
I came up with 28 years ago and see what Rybka 3 has to say about all this.
I remember the moves
... Q:h2, ... a5, ... c5, ... cd, ... dc, ... cb+, ... N:a2+, ... h6, ... a6
all came up at various times in my old analysis so maybe I can recreate it.

I think 19 Bb5 was a new move in 1981 so
let's see what's been played since then.

19 ... c6    25 times          slight advantage Black
19 ... Qe5   28 times          slight advantage Black
19 ... Bd5   never tried       slighter advantage Black
19 ... h5    never tried       slighter advantage Black
19 ... a6    never tried       even slighter advantage Black
19 ... N6d5  never tried       roughly equal
19 ... c5    22 times, first played by Huebner in 1982,
             first suggsted by me in 1981
                               roughly equal


Rybka believes all these Black moves are at least equal for
Black so my instinct that 19 Bb5 gave no advantage was correct.


19 ... Bc6    4 times, including a correspondence game
by Tim Sawyer who wrote a good book on the Alekhine's
( different move order ).
Slight advantage White


Svidler played the approved move 19 ... c6!!

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[Event "3rd ACP World Rapid Cup"]
[Site "Odessa UKR"]
[Date "2009.05.23"]
[Round "3.1"]
[White "Grischuk, A."]
[Black "Svidler, P."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B03"]
[WhiteElo "2748"]
[BlackElo "2726"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2009.05.22"]

1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. c4 Nb6 5. f4 dxe5 6. fxe5 Nc6
7. Be3 Bf5 8. Nc3 e6 9. Nf3 Be7 10. d5 exd5 11. cxd5 Nb4 12. Nd4 Bd7
13. e6 fxe6 14. dxe6 Bc6 15. Qg4 Bh4+ 16. g3 O-O 17. O-O-O Bxh1
18. gxh4 Qf6 19. Bb5 c6!!   20. Bg5 Qe5!! 21. e7 Rfe8!

played twice before

21 ... Rf2!!   22 Qe6+  Q:e6  23 N:e6  N4d5 ( played twice )
looks like a slightly better endgame for Black

21 ... Rf7??  22 Nf5!!   played once, wins for White


22. Rxh1?  TL  Grischuk
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Theoretical Lemon by Grandmaster Alexander Grischuk

22 Nf5!!   N:a2+!!  23 N:a2!  h5!! 24 Qf4!  Q:f4+
25  B:f4  ( played once )  cb  26  R:h1  Rac8+
27  Kb1  Rc5!
I think Black can eliminate that e7-pawn and hold, e.g.,
28  Ng3  Nd5  29  Bd6  Rc6  30  Nf5  g6  31 Rd1  Nb6
32  Ne3  Nc8  and e7 should fall next move
------------------------------------------------------------------------

22 ... cxb5!

Now Svidler is better


23. Nf3 Nd3+?

23 ... Qd6!!  or ... Qc5!
leaves Petar up an exchange


24. Kc2?

24  Kb1!  safeguarding the King is only a teensy bit better for Svidler


24 ...  Qd6!!

Only good move


25. Rd1 Nf2!!  26. Rxd6!  Nxg4!  27. Rd4 Nf6!!   28. h5 Rxe7

There goes all hope for White


29. h6!  Rd7 30. Bxf6 gxf6!  31. Rg4+!   Kf7!
32. Nxb5!  Rc8+!  33. Nc3!  Rg8  34. Rf4!  Nd5!!

More trades highlights Svidler's 2700 Rook
for Knight advantage so Grischuk resigns.


0-1

19  ... c6 has been known since 1980
19 ... Rfe8  has been known since 1990
so why Grischuk aimed for this is a mystery.
Perhaps he was hiding his slow tournament analysis or
perhaps he had no time to check anything during the game.

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Now let's look at 19  Bb5 Bill Wall ( not my brother ) 1981
19 ... c5  Brian Wall 1981

20   Nf5?  Q:f5
20   Rd2?  cd, ... Qe5
20   Re1?  a6, ... cd, ... h5, ... Bd5
20   Be2?  cd, ... Qe5, ... Bd5, ... h5
20    a3?  cd
20  Nde2?  Bf3, ... a6
20   Qg3?  cd, ... Rac8
20   Rg1?  Ngd5, ... a6, ... h5
20    e7?  Q:e7

All those lines lose for White,
that leaves us

20  R:h1  or  Bg5

20  Bg5!   Qe5!!

20  Bg5!   h5, ... Qg6  or ... Qf2  are OK  too

20  Bg5!   Qe5!!  21 e7!   cd!  22 ef(Q)+!   R:f8!
23  Q:d4!  N:a2+!  24  N:a2!  Q:b5!  25  Nc3!  Qc6!
and Black is a pawn up without much happening

Trying to improve for White now -
20  Bg5!   Qe5!!  21 e7!   cd!  22 ef(Q)+!   R:f8!
23  R:h1  a6!!  mentioned by Rybka 3 and Joel Benjamin
as clear advantage Black
20  Bg5!   Qe5!!  21 e7!   cd!  22 ef(Q)+!   R:f8!
23  R:h1  h6!  24  B:h6  dc  25  Q:b4  cb+   26  Kb1  forced   Nd5!
( 26 ... Qf5+  or ... Qd5  are OK ) 27 Qc4  forced  Rf2!
28  Qc8+  forced  Kh7  ( 28 ... Rf8  is OK )  29  Bd3+  forced  g6  forced
30  Bd2  forced  R:d2  forced  31 B:g6+  forced  Kh6!
(  31 ... Kg7  or ... K:g6  are OK )  32 Qf8+  forced   Qg7!
( 32 ... K:g6  is OK ) 33 Q:g7+!  forced   K:g7  forced
34 Bc2  forced  and this is probably a drawn ending
20  Bg5!   Qe5!!  21 e7!   cd!  22 ef(Q)+!   R:f8!
23  R:h1  h6!  24  B:h6  dc  25  Q:b4  cb+   26  Kb1  forced
in my old analysis I was probably ready to call  26 ... Qf5+
27  K:b2  Qf6+  28  Kb1  Q:h6  a draw
20  Bg5!   Qe5!!  21 e7!   cd!  22 ef(Q)+!   R:f8!
23  R:h1  h6!  24  B:h6  dc  25  Q:b4  Nd5  26  Bc4  Rf7
also looks like a familiar drawing line
23  R:h1  h6!  24  B:h6  dc  25  Rg1  Rf7!
is good for me too
23  R:h1  h6!  24  Rd1  hg!!  or .. dc!!  are good
23  R:h1  h6!  24  Rd1  Rc8!  is OK
23  R:h1  h6!  24  Rd1  Q:h2!
practically forces a draw which is all I was trying to prove at the time
20  Bg5!   Qe5!!  21 e7!   cd!  22 ef(Q)+!   R:f8!
23  R:h1  dc  24  Q:b4!  h6  or ... cb+  are fine for me
23  R:h1  Qf5, ... Qc5, ... N:a2+  or  ... Rc8
are not as clear but may be OK for me

Going back let's look at
19  Bb5  c5  20  R:h1  Qe5, ... a6, ... cd, ... h5
Joel discusses some of this
19  Bb5  c5  20  R:h1  a6  looks fine
Joel considers
19  Bb5  c5  20  R:h1  Qe5  21  Qg3  Q:g3  22 hg  cd  23  B:d4  Rf5  24  a4
roughly equal
24 ... N6d5  or ... a6 or ... Nc6  should be OK  here
GM Joel Benjamin mentions
19  Bb5  c5  20  R:h1  cd  21  B:d4  Qf4+  22 Q:f4  R:f4
23  B:b6  ab  24  e7  Nc6  25  Nd5  Re4  26  Nc7
as better for White due to the superiority of the Bishop over the Knight after
26 ... Rc8 27  e8(Q)+   Re:e8  28  N:e8  R:e8  29  Bc4+  Kh8  30  h5
although you might need GM technique to call this point home
------------------------------------------------------------------------
That's all about I want to cover on this game.
You can listen to Joel's lecture if you want to know more.
It seemed clear to me  28 years ago that  19 Bb5  offered nothing
for White so I am not surprised that Grischuk got less than nothing
against Svidler. Perhaps someone can explain why 21 ... Rfe8  is better
than 21 ... Rf2  or maybe Svidler forgot the line too.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanx Joel for taking me down Memory lane.

Bottom line -
19  Bb5  c5  20  R:h1!  Qe5  or  ... a6
should be OK for Black
19  Bb5  c5  20  Bg5  Qe5  21 e7   cd!  22 ef(Q)+   R:f8 23  R:h1  a6!!
and White is the one struggling

19  Bb5  c6, ... Qe5, ... Bd5, ... h5, ... a6 or  ... N6d5
are even better than my move so White should avoid the whole mess.

I feel blessed to live through both the
computer and the pre-computer Ages of Chess.

I predicted in a public lecture in Boulder, Colorado about
32 years ago that computers would never equal man in Chess.
I was wrong but we still play some positions better.

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websites -

www.Walverne.com


Chris Peterson's Brian Wall website
with 108 blitz games added today

http://www.brianwallchess.x10hosting.com/games/




From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Wed Jun 10 04:02:25 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:02:25 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Easy Recipe for beating GMs
Message-ID: <1244628145.4a2f84b1c8638@www.taom.com>



[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.10"]
[Round "-"]
Get them in an endgame. Any endgame.

[White "Botvitrosian"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2263"]
[BlackElo "2134"]
[Opening "Scotch game"]
[ECO "C45"]
[NIC "SO.04"]
[Time "05:52:48"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bb4+ 5. c3 Be7 6. Bc4 Nf6 7. Qf3 Ne5
8. Qe2 Nxc4 9. Qxc4 d5 10. exd5 Qxd5 11. Qxd5 Nxd5 12. O-O O-O 13. Re1 Bf6
14. Nf3 Bf5 15. Bg5 Rfe8 16. Nbd2 Kf8 17. Bxf6 Nxf6 18. Nd4 Bd3 19. f3 Rxe1+
20. Rxe1 Re8 21. Rxe8+ Kxe8 22. Kf2 c5 23. N4b3 b6 24. Nc1 Bc2 25. Nc4 Ke7
26. Na3 Bf5 27. Nb5 a6 28. Nc7 Bc8 29. Na8 Nd7 30. Nc7 Bb7 31. c4 Nf6 32.
Nd3 Kd6 33. Nd5 Nxd5 34. cxd5 Bxd5 35. a3 a5 36. g3 f6 37. f4 b5 38. Ke3 c4
39. Ne1 Kc5 40. Nc2 b4 41. Kd2 Be4 42. axb4+ axb4 43. Ne3 Kd4 44. Nd1 Bf3
45. Nf2 c3+ {White resigns} 0-1

From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Wed Jun 10 04:52:01 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:52:01 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fishing Pole meltdown
Message-ID: <1244631121.4a2f90515bcb6@www.taom.com>


[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.10"]
[Round "-"]
[White "mellow"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2036"]
[BlackElo "2146"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "06:19:55"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!!

Fishing Pole

 5. c3 a6 6. Be2 Bc5 7. d4 Ba7!!

Hyper-Pole


8. Bg5 f6!  9. Bh4 h5 10. Bg3 g5!!

pawn wave



11. Nxg5 fxg5!!   12. d5 Ne7


Rybka changes her mind a lot on this move -
12 ... h4, ... Nf6, ... Ne7, ... Na5, ... Nb8,
... Qe7, ... Qf6, ... d6, ... 0-0 or ... Rb8
are more examples of the infinite variety
of Fishing Pole attacking ideas.


13. Bxg4!  hxg4!  14. Bxe5! Rh4

Also fun -
14 ... Rh7, ... Rh6, ... Rg8, ... 0-0, ... Rh4, ... 0-0


15. g3 Ng6


I can move my Rook but my idea is
16  gh  N:e5!!
with a great attack.

White is so bewildered by my constant barrage
he suffers a nervous breakdown before the
game is over.



16. Qd4??  Bxd4!!

{White resigns} 0-1

The equivalent in the animal Kingdom to this game is the following story.

An Indian was tracking a mountain lion. Every trick failed.
Finally the mountain lion gave up trying to escape and just
stood still while the Indian walked up to the beast and knifed
him. That story always makes me sad but the animal just gave
up due to a relentless pusuit.
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.10"]
[Round "-"]
[White "mellow"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2036"]
[BlackElo "2146"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "06:19:55"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. c3 a6 6. Be2 Bc5 7. d4 Ba7 8.
Bg5 f6 9. Bh4 h5 10. Bg3 g5 11. Nxg5 fxg5 12. d5 Ne7 13. Bxg4 hxg4 14. Bxe5
Rh4 15. g3 Ng6 16. Qd4 Bxd4 {White resigns} 0-1
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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Fri Jun 12 00:02:32 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:02:32 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Super GM Bishing Pole + Full Metal Jacket?
Message-ID: <1244786552.4a31ef7894993@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from "Lasley, Matthew CTR USAF AFSPC SLG/MCSW/SATAF"
<Matthew.Lasley.ctr at schriever.af.mil> -----
    Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:07:50 -0600
    From: "Lasley, Matthew CTR USAF AFSPC SLG/MCSW/SATAF"
<Matthew.Lasley.ctr at schriever.af.mil>
Reply-To: "Lasley, Matthew CTR USAF AFSPC SLG/MCSW/SATAF"
<Matthew.Lasley.ctr at schriever.af.mil>
 Subject: Super GM Bishing Pole + Full Metal Jacket?
      To: BrianWall at walverine.com

Hey Brian,



Yasser annotates Shirov-Topalov Madrid '97 in a recent ChessCafe
article.



http://www.chesscafe.com/yaz/yaz.htm



It looked very fishing-polish with the bishop, and all 8 pawns remain on
for some time in a FMJ sort of way.



--Matt


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From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:24:04 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] June 2009 CSCA Newsletter
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----- Forwarded message from Klaus Johnson <boulderchessclub at yahoo.com> -----
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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Fri Jun 12 09:05:18 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:05:18 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] I just saw Gulko vs Hughes on WCL - Mayan King
Message-ID: <1244819118.4a326eae3d798@www.taom.com>

I saw Tyler Hughes making 15 move combos when he was 9 years old -
the rest of the world has finally caught up with him.

Brian Wall
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----- Forwarded message from MayanKing <MayanKing at yahoo.com> -----
    Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:38:18 -0000
    From: MayanKing <MayanKing at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: MayanKing <MayanKing at yahoo.com>
 Subject: [BrianWallChess] I just saw on WCL Gulko vs Hughes
      To: BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com

Brian Wall
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MayanKing <MayanKing at yahoo.com>

Since I have been keeping up with Master Brian Wall's Rambo chess style and his
influence on Tyler you could see this in how he handled the Black side of this
game in an exciting Benoni type position from a KID. Tyler will be US Champion
soon. He has had great results since the US Championship as he did in Chicago
and I wish him and Brian my own chess hero who has made me play 100 times more
aggressive and crazy than I use too when I was a lemmewink. My style is now
more like the Mayan's in Apocaliptico (Mel Gibson's movie) and I recently
played a match against a player in my local club where I always played Fishin'
Pole Defence (or should it be called Attack) and my poor opponent kept getting
crushed no matter what he tried and he was perplexed how my crazy opening was
so successful against his beloved Ruy Lopez! Take care everybody in Colorado
and I hope to surprise you guys and play in one of your tournaments one of
these days.

MayanKing <MayanKing at yahoo.com>
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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Sat Jun 13 01:53:02 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:53:02 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Rating Tracker
Message-ID: <1244879582.4a335adecbdff@www.taom.com>



http://www.ratingtracker.com/

From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Sun Jun 14 08:51:28 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:51:28 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Smith Morra Strikes
Message-ID: <1244991088.4a350e70a6777@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Daniel Todd <danthebugman at gmail.com> -----
    Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:08:17 -0000
    From: Daniel Todd <danthebugman at gmail.com>
Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] The Smith Morra Strikes
      To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com

FICS Team League's 39th tournament kicked off this week and here's my first
round win using the Smith-Morra!  I love some of the comments spectators were
making while the game was being played, like isn't the Smith-Morra refuted?

[Event "FICS Team League, T39"]
[Site "FICS, San Jose, California USA"]
[Date "2009.06.13"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Pawns"]
[Black "jaberwock"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2101"]
[BlackElo "2050"]
[ECO "B21y"]
[Time "08:51:14"]
[TimeControl "2700+45"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[WhiteTeam "Poisoned Pawns U2000"]
[BlackTeam "The Hot Rocks"]

1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Nxc3 Nc6 5.Nf3

I had figured Black would play a system with g6 if he had prepared anything at
all.  He has in the past played the Accelerated Dragon.

5...d6 6.Bc4 a6 7.O-O

One of white's standard tactics in the Smith-Morra (namely the e5 push) doesn't
quite do anything for white here or on the next move.

7...Nf6 8.Bf4 Bg4 9.h3 Bxf3

Black will miss his light squared bishop later in the game.

10.Qxf3 e6 11.Rfd1 Qb8 12.Be2

The point of this move is that black must develop his dark squared bishop at
some point (or else that extra pawn isn't going to do much good) and I would
like to then play Qg3 with threats to both d6 and g6.  But if white is not
careful black has Nh5, Be2 prevents this.

12...e5

If black wanted to play this he should have played it on move 10.  Instead he
has just used two moves to accomplish it.

13.Be3 b5 14.Rac1 Nd8 15.a4 b4 16.Nd5 Nxd5 17.Rxd5 Be7 18.Ra5 Nb7 19.Rxa6 O-O
20.Rb6 Bd8 21.Rxb4  {Black resigns} 1-0

White has connected passed queenside pawns which should win.  It's interesting
that in much of the game black essentially played without this dark squared
bishop and king's rook.  It is not necessary for white to win every game by a
thrilling piece sacrifice or punishing e5 push with the Smith-Morra.  In fact I
think some of the more beautiful games (for any gambit, not just the Morra) are
the ones where white (or black) uses his extra tempo to corral his opponent
into a positionally lost game.

Hope you enjoyed,
Dan

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Sun Jun 14 14:00:11 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:00:11 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] My favorite place to eat in the whole world
Message-ID: <1245009611.4a3556cb7f449@www.taom.com>


http://www.yelp.com/biz/my-brothers-bar-denver

My Brother's Bar ( not literally )

15th and Platte, Denver, CO

down the street from my friend Jeff Maguire's
Paris on the Platte
Coffeeshop

http://www.yelp.com/biz/paris-on-the-platte-denver

I missed their Jalapeno Cheeseburgers so much my wife learned to make a
facsimile when I was out of Denver for 15 years.

Personal rule-
I only take people I love there.

I usually order 2 Jalapeno Cheeseburgers,
two fries and a pitcher of beer or Cocal Cola.

There was a TV show
Best places to eat in the whole world
and
My Brother's Bar came out #78 one year.

They have a wooden piano type bench booth I like to sit in.

They also own another favorite,
the Wazee Supper Club.
Some of the homeless Chessplayers on the 16th Street Mall say
The Wazee Supper Clubs gives out free pizzas to them sometimes.

http://www.wazeesupperclub.com/


From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Mon Jun 15 03:06:44 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:06:44 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] World Exclusive - Drunken Penguin roaring
	success by its inventor van hulst noe <noevanhulst@yahoo.fr>
Message-ID: <1245056804.4a360f2494cb6@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from van hulst noe <noevanhulst at yahoo.fr> -----
    Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:32:24 +0000 (GMT)
    From: van hulst noe <noevanhulst at yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com
 Subject: Re : [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] World Exclusive - Drunken Penguin 
roaring success
      To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com

Brian,

I am impressed by the great number of games in which you tried out the Drunken
Penguin and?even dared to attempt the Double Drunken Penguin.?Your games
against IM Ekstroem and GM Khachiyan were great! By the way, did you know that
the Drunken Penguins is also the name of a young UK rock band...? Try and
Google them!

Although I can't match the level of your games, I also tried it out a bit on the
Yahoo?Internet blitz chess site and playing my chess computer. Sometimes
opponents try to directly refute the Penguin, e.g. 1.Nh3 d5 2.Rg1 Qd6!? 3.g3
(what else...3.f4!?) Bxh3 4.Bxh3 Qh6?! 5. Bc8! (probably 5. Bg2 Qxh2 6.Kf1 is
also good for White) seems fine for White. In another game the Black Horse went
after the h2 pawn:.1.Nh3 d5 2.Rg1 e5 3.g4 Nf6?! 4.g5 Ng4 5.f3 Nxh2 6.Bg2 h5 7.d3
Nc6 8.Rh1 Nxf3 9.Bxf3?and White is on top it seems.

Finally a? 5 minutes blitz game played tonight: Retihippo-Marcel Baptiste, 14
June 2009, Yahoo chess: 1.Nh3 d5 2.Rg1 e5 3.Na3 (following Brian's example!) c5
4.Rb1 Nc6 5.c3 f5 6.Nc2 Be7 7.d4 cxd4 8.cxd4 e4 9.Nf4 Bf6 10.b4 a6 11.e3 (maybe
11.b5! is better...) Ne7 12.Be2 g6 13.g4! fxg4? 14.Bxg4 Bxg4 15.Qxg4 Nf5?
15.Nxg6! and White should have won but due to time trouble let Black escape
with a draw.

Any other volunteers to try out the Drunken Penguin(s)??

Cheers!

Noe van Hulst????



________________________________
De : Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>
? : UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com; BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com;
Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com; Brian Wall Chesslist
<brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com>
Envoy? le : Lundi, 1 Juin 2009, 1h46mn 14s
Objet?: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] World Exclusive - Drunken Penguin roaring
success





Quoting van hulst noe <noevanhulst@ yahoo.fr>:

Brian,

You truly surprise me. You didn't shy away from this experiment and tried
out?the Drunken Penguin in practice. Bravo! You are my favourite candidate for
Unorthodox Chess Master of the Year 2009!

Noe van Hulst,
Inventor
Drunken Penguin

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------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
The Holy Grail for me is to beat a GM with the
Seeing Double Drunken Penguin -
So far I have only beaten IM's with the Drunken Penguin
and the Seeing Double Drunken Penguin.
Armenian GM Melikset Khachian was very lost and should have
suffered the complete wrath of the slurring, stumbling, slipping,
sliding, flipper-slapping, webbed-feet- stomping Ice Fowl.
The other hope is that others will join me in my Quest and set the
World on fire from North to South Pole, from shrinking ice cap to
melting ice floes before it's too late.

Brian

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.05.26" ]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "lhc"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black forfeits on time"]
[WhiteElo "2298"]
[BlackElo "2217"]
[Opening "Amar (Paris) opening, Drunken Penguin"]
[ECO "A00"]
[NIC "VO.16"]
[Time "19:12:19"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. Nh3 c6 2. Rg1 d5 3. g4 e5 4. c3 h5 5. g5 Ne7 6. d4 Ng6 7. Nd2 Bd6 8. dxe5
Nxe5 9. Nb3 Nbd7 10. Nf4 Nc5 11. Be3 Ne4 12. f3 Nxg5 13. Nxd5 Ngxf3+ 14.
exf3 cxd5 15. Qxd5 Be6 16. Bb5+ Kf8 17. Qe4 f5 18. Qa4 Nxf3+ 19. Ke2 Nxg1+
20. Rxg1 Qc7 21. Nd4 Bc8 22. Bd3 Bd7 23. Qb3 Re8 24. Kd2 Bf4 25. Qb4+ Kg8
26. Qc4+ Kh7 27. Qxc7 Bxc7 28. Nxf5 Bxf5 29. Bxf5+ Kg8 30. Bxa7 Rh6 31. Bd4
Be5 32. Be3 Rd6+ 33. Kc2 Bxc3 34. Bg5 Bf6 35. Bg6 Re2+ 36. Kb3 Rxb2+ 37. Kc4
Rc6+ 38. Kd5 Rb5+ 39. Ke4 Rxg5 40. Rd1 Rxg6 41. Rd7 Kh7 42. Rxb7 Rg4+ 43.
Kd5 Rc2 44. a4 Rxh2 45. a5 Ra2 46. Ra7 Rga4 47. Ke6 Rxa5 48. Rb7 Rc2 49. Kd6
Rca2 50. Rb1 Ra6+ 51. Kc5 Rb2 52. Rh1 Ra5+ 53. Kd6 Re2 54. Kc6 Rb2 55. Kd6
Bd4 56. Ke6 Rb6+ 57. Kd7 Ra7+ 58. Kc8 Rf7 59. Rxh5+ Kg6 60. Rd5 Rf8+ 61. Kc7
Rbf6 62. Rxd4 {Black forfeits on time} 1-0
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.05.27" ]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "gilsh"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2185"]
[BlackElo "1919"]
[Opening "Amar (Paris) opening, Drunken Penguin"]
[ECO "A00"]
[NIC "VO.16"]
[Time "00:38:55"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. Nh3 d5 2. Rg1 e5 3. d3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nc6 5. f4 Bg4 6. fxe5 Nxe5 7. Nf2 Bh5
8. Bf4 c6 9. Bxe5 {Black resigns} 1-0
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.05.27" ]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "escacmat"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2174"]
[BlackElo "2005"]
[Opening "Amar (Paris) opening, Drunken Penguin"]
[ECO "A00"]
[NIC "VO.16"]
[Time "04:19:23"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. Nh3 b6 2. Rg1 Bb7 3. d4 g6 4. Nf4 Bg7 5. Nc3 d6 6. e4 Nd7 7. Be3 e6 8.
Qd2 Ne7 9. O-O-O c5 10. d5 e5 11. Nd3 f5 12. f4 fxe4 13. Nxe4 Qc7 14. fxe5
Nxe5 15. Nxe5 Bxe5 16. Bb5+ Kd8 17. Bf4 Bxf4 18. Qxf4 a6 19. Bc6 Bxc6 20.
dxc6 d5 21. Nd6 Nf5 22. Rxd5 Ke7 23. Nxf5+ {Black resigns} 1-0
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.05.27" ]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "ChessIPO1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2172"]
[BlackElo "1961"]
[Opening "Amar (Paris) opening, Drunken Penguin"]
[ECO "A00"]
[NIC "VO.16"]
[Time "05:24:36"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. Nh3 e5 2. Rg1 Nf6 3. c3 d5 4. d4 Nc6 5. dxe5 Nxe5 6. Nf4 Be7 7. Na3 c6 8.
Nc2 O-O 9. h3 Ne4 10. Nd3 Ng6 11. Be3 Re8 12. Qc1 Bd6 13. g4 Ne5 14. Bg2
Nxd3+ 15. exd3 Nc5 16. Qd2 Ne6 17. O-O-O Qc7 18. Kb1 Nf4 19. Bf1 Bd7 20. d4
Re7 21. Ne1 Rae8 22. Nd3 Nxd3 23. Bxd3 b5 24. Qc2 g6 25. h4 Bf4 26. h5 Bxe3
27. fxe3 Qd6 28. hxg6 fxg6 29. a3 Rxe3 30. Ka2 a5 31. g5 a4 32. Rdf1 Rf8 33.
Rxf8+ Kxf8 34. Qf2+ {Black resigns} 1-0
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.05.27" ]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Bananahead" ]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2118"]
[BlackElo "1815"]
[Opening "Amar (Paris) opening, Drunken Penguin"]
[ECO "A00"]
[NIC "VO.16"]
[Time "13:59:33"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. Nh3 e5 2. Rg1 d5 3. f3 Bxh3 4. gxh3 Qh4+ 5. Rg3 Bd6 6. e4 dxe4 7. fxe4
Qxe4+ 8. Qe2 Qxc2 9. Nc3 Nf6 10. Rxg7 Nc6 11. d3 Nd4 12. Qf2 Qxf2+ 13. Kxf2
Bf8 14. Rg5 O-O-O 15. Be3 Nc2 16. Rd1 Nxe3 17. Kxe3 Bh6 18. h4 Nd5+ 19. Nxd5
Bxg5+ 20. hxg5 Rxd5 21. Bg2 Rb5 22. Rd2 Rg8 23. h4 Rg6 24. Be4 Rgb6 25. b3
h6 26. Rf2 hxg5 27. hxg5 Ra5 28. Rxf7 Rxa2 29. g6 a5 30. g7 {Black resigns}
1-0
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.05.27" ]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "expatriot"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black forfeits on time"]
[WhiteElo "2198"]
[BlackElo "2150"]
[Opening "Amar (Paris) opening, Drunken Penguin"]
[ECO "A00"]
[NIC "VO.16"]
[Time "18:29:15"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. Nh3 b5 2. Rg1 Bb7 3. d4 e6 4. f3 c5 5. c3 Nc6 6. e4 Qb6 7. Be3 Nf6 8. Nf2
d5 9. e5 Nd7 10. f4 b4 11. Qd2 Ba6 12. Bxa6 Qxa6 13. Qe2 Qxe2+ 14. Kxe2 Rb8
15. Nd2 Be7 16. g4 bxc3 17. bxc3 cxd4 18. cxd4 O-O 19. f5 Rfc8 20. Rgc1 Nb4
21. Nd3 Nxd3 22. Kxd3 Ba3 23. Rxc8+ Rxc8 24. Rb1 Rb8 25. Rxb8+ Nxb8 26. Nb3
Nc6 27. Bd2 Kf8 28. h4 g6 29. fxe6 fxe6 30. h5 Ke8 31. hxg6 hxg6 32. Ke3 Kf7
33. Bc3 Be7 34. Nc5 Bxc5 35. dxc5 a6 36. a4 Kg7 37. Kf4 Kf7 38. Bd2 Kg7 39.
Be1 Kf7 40. Bh4 Kg7 41. Bf6+ Kf7 42. Ke3 Kg8 43. Kd3 Kf7 44. Kc3 Kg8 45. Kb3
Kf7 46. Ka2 Kg8 47. Kb2 Kf7 48. Kc2 Kg8 49. Kd2 Kf7 50. Ke2 Kg8 51. Kf2 Kf7
52. Kg2 Kg8 53. Kf1 Kf7 54. Ke1 Nxe5 55. Bxe5 {Black forfeits on time} 1-0
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.05.28" ]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "theblackcrow" ]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ICCResult "Black ran out of time and White has no material to mate"]
[WhiteElo "2130"]
[BlackElo "2120"]
[Opening "Amar (Paris) opening, Drunken Penguin"]
[ECO "A00"]
[NIC "VO.16"]
[Time "01:39:35"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. Nh3 d5 2. Rg1 e5 3. d4 exd4 4. Qxd4 Nc6 5. Qa4 Nf6 6. Nf4 Bd6 7. Nc3 d4
8. Nb5 Bb4+ 9. c3 dxc3 10. bxc3 Bc5 11. Ba3 Bxa3 12. Qxa3 a6 13. Rd1 Bd7 14.
Nd4 Qe7 15. Qxe7+ Kxe7 16. f3 Ne5 17. e4 Rhd8 18. Kf2 c5 19. Nb3 b6 20. Be2
Bc6 21. Rxd8 Rxd8 22. Rd1 Rxd1 23. Bxd1 g5 24. Nh3 h6 25. Be2 a5 26. Ke3 Bd7
27. Nf2 Be6 28. g3 Nc4+ 29. Bxc4 Bxc4 30. f4 gxf4+ 31. gxf4 a4 32. Nc1 a3
33. h4 b5 34. Nfd3 Nd7 35. e5 Ke6 36. Ke4 f5+ 37. Ke3 Kd5 38. Kf3 Nf8 39.
Ke3 Ne6 40. Kf3 Bxd3 41. Nxd3 Kc4 42. Ne1 Kxc3 43. Ke3 Kb2 44. Nf3 Kxa2 45.
Ng5 hxg5 46. fxg5 Kb2 47. g6 a2 48. h5 a1=Q 49. g7 Qe1+ 50. Kf3 Qg1 51. h6
Nxg7 52. hxg7 Qxg7 53. Kf4 Qxe5+ 54. Kxe5 c4 55. Kxf5 c3 56. Ke4 c2 57. Kd3
{Black ran out of time and White has no material to mate}
1/2-1/2
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Information about theblackcrow( IM) (Last disconnected Sat May 30 2009 03:26):

rating [need] win loss draw total best
Bullet 2254 [8] 12 11 2 25 2277 (18-May-2005)
Blitz 2293 [8] 2109 2300 412 4821 2875 (26-Apr-2004)
Standard 1287 [6] 0 2 0 2
5-minute 2095 2461 1788 521 4770 2381 (18-Jan-2006)
1-minute 934 [8] 139 167 10 316 1452 (21-Apr-2008)
15-minute 817 [4] 0 1 0 1

Groups : IMs
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.05.28" ]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "KingsCrusher, Drunken Penguin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2151"]
[BlackElo "2218"]
[Opening "Amar (Paris) opening"]
[ECO "A00"]
[NIC "VO.16"]
[Time "01:48:49"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. Nh3 d5 2. Rg1 Bxh3 3. gxh3 c5 4. c4 d4 5. Bg2 Nc6 6. d3 Nf6 7. Bf4 g6 8.
Nd2 Bg7 9. Qa4 O-O 10. O-O-O a5 11. Nb3 Nd7 12. e3 e5 13. Bg3 Nb4 14. a3
dxe3 15. fxe3 Nb6 16. Qb5 Rc8 17. axb4 cxb4 18. Nxa5 f5 19. Bxb7 f4 20. Bf2
Rb8 21. exf4 Nd7 22. Nc6 Qf6 23. Nxb8 Qxf4+ 24. Rd2 Nxb8 25. Be4 Bh6 26. Be1
Qe3 27. Qxe5 Rd8 28. Rf1 Bg7 29. Bd5+ Kh8 30. Qxe3 Nd7 31. Qe7 {Black
resigns} 1-0
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.05.28" ]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Blackjackadder, Drunken Penguin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2203"]
[BlackElo "2140"]
[Opening "Amar (Paris) opening"]
[ECO "A00"]
[NIC "VO.16"]
[Time "03:43:21"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. Nh3 d5 2. Rg1 e5 3. Na3 f5 4. Rb1 Nf6 5. c3 c5 6. Nc2 a5 7. d4 e4 8. dxc5
Bxc5 9. Be3 b6 10. Nf4 g5 11. Nh3 h6 12. f4 Ng4 13. Bd4 O-O 14. e3 Be6 15.
Bb5 Nd7 16. Nf2 Nxf2 17. Kxf2 Nf6 18. h3 Kh7 19. g3 a4 20. Be2 Rg8 21. Rh1
gxf4 22. exf4 Ra7 23. Ne3 Rag7 24. g4 fxg4 25. f5 g3+ 26. Kg2 Bf7 27. Qd2
Qd6 28. Rbf1 Bxd4 29. Qxd4 Qc5 30. Ng4 Qxd4 31. cxd4 Nxg4 32. hxg4 h5 33.
Kxg3 Rc8 34. Kf4 Rc2 35. Bd1 Rxb2 36. g5 Rxa2 37. Bxh5 Bxh5 38. Rxh5+ Kg8
39. g6 Rd2 40. Rfh1 Kf8 41. Ke5 Rf2 42. Rh8+ Rg8 43. f6 e3 44. g7+ Kf7 45.
Rxg8 Rxf6 46. Rf8+ Kxg7 47. Rxf6 e2 48. Rg1+ {Black resigns} 1-0
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Information about Blackjackadder( IM) (Last disconnected Thu May 28 2009 05:39):

rating [need] win loss draw total best
Wild 1778 [6] 29 21 5 55 1886 (19-Oct-2004)
Loser's 1529 [6] 3 10 1 14
Crazyhouse 1751 [6] 580 479 5 1064 2182 (17-Jun-2004)
Bullet 1817 [8] 383 314 27 724 2086 (18-Jul-2007)
Blitz 1961 [8] 3301 1875 537 5713 2852 (27-Mar-2006)
Standard 2202 [6] 12 4 0 16
5-minute 2146 2343 1811 619 4773 2489 (31-Jan-2005)
1-minute 1362 759 737 79 1575 2103 (03-Oct-2006)
15-minute 2137 [3] 4 0 3 7

1: HP http://www.roleks. ch
2: Dont ask me for lessons, I am not giving them!
3: If you want to flag in dead draw, I am not an opponent for you
4: No takebacks
5: Fiderating http://www.fide. com/ratings/ id.phtml? event=1302302

Name : Roland Ekstroem
Groups : IMs
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.05.29" ]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "dragon-70"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2215"]
[BlackElo "2493"]
[Opening "Amar (Paris) opening, Drunken Penguin"]
[ECO "A00"]
[NIC "VO.16"]
[Time "00:55:06"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. Nh3 d5 2. Rg1 Bxh3 3. gxh3 Qd6 4. Rg3 Nh6 5. d4 Nf5 6. Rb3 Qxh2 7. Rxb7
Nc6 8. c3 O-O-O 9. Rb5 e5 10. e3 exd4 11. cxd4 Bb4+ 12. Nc3 Rhe8 13. Bd2
Nfxd4 14. Qa4 Nf3+ 15. Kd1 Qxf2 16. Qa6+ Kd7 17. Rxd5+ Bd6 18. Bb5 Ke7 19.
Qxc6 Kf8 20. Kc2 Rxe3 21. Rf1 Qg2 22. Rxd6 cxd6 23. Rxf3 Rxf3 24. Qd5 Rxc3+
{White resigns}
0-1
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Information about dragon-70(GM) (Last disconnected Sun May 31 2009 11:47):

rating [need] win loss draw total best
Wild 1876 [6] 1 2 0 3
Loser's 1709 [6] 0 3 0 3
Bullet 2216 [8] 73 57 6 136 2416 (26-Jul-2001)
Blitz 2900 4990 5322 1358 11670 3237 (23-Sep-2004)
Standard 2300 [6] 10 11 5 26 2306 (23-Sep-2006)
5-minute 2508 6618 3214 1259 11091 2619 (10-Sep-2008)
1-minute 2281 1105 889 167 2161 2406 (22-Jan-2009)
1: Hi, I'm Melik Khachiyan from Armenia,current resident of Los
Angeles,California.
2: To get more information check my new website: www.gmmelik. com. The best
way to contact to me is via e-mail: chessgame64@ yahoo.com if you looking for
the lessons.I'm also available for lessons via { SKYPE}.
3: Winner of several tournaments in US,including 4 times American Open in
01,04,06,08.
4: Professional coach since 1991.Honored coach of Armenia for training Levon
Aronian ( 1991-1997),my best student.Another my favor student is Tigran L
Petrosian ( 1997-2000).. .
5: Here in US I also have a lot of students.Most of them already became
masters,or would be masters soon.R.Akopian, J.Gutman, E.Yanayt, and many ,many
others.
6: Happy with my Family my 2 sons and beautiful wife.
7: R.I.P. Karen Asrian our good friend who passed away.Terrible loss for
us,all of us.Moi glubochaishie soboleznovaniya semie i blizkim Karena.
8: Missing all my good friends in Armenia.
9: USCF 2628,FIDE 2519
10: Check this out : http://www.chess. com/video/ library.html? author=GMMelik

Name : Melikset Khachian
Groups : Armenia SouthCA GMs
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.05.29" ]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "ByX"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2249"]
[BlackElo "2068"]
[Opening "Amar (Paris) opening, Drunken Penguin"]
[ECO "A00"]
[NIC "VO.16"]
[Time "03:41:04"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. Nh3 d5 2. Rg1 Bxh3 3. gxh3 Qd6 4. Rg3 Nf6 5. d4 Ne4 6. Bg2 Nxg3 7. hxg3
c6 8. Nc3 Nd7 9. Bf4 Qb4 10. Qd2 e6 11. O-O-O Be7 12. Kb1 a5 13. e4 a4 14.
a3 Qb6 15. Ka1 O-O 16. h4 Bf6 17. e5 Be7 18. h5 c5 19. Bxd5 exd5 20. Nxd5
Qd8 21. h6 cxd4 22. hxg7 Re8 23. Qxd4 Ra6 24. Nxe7+ Rxe7 25. Bg5 f6 26. exf6
Rf7 27. Qd5 Qe8 28. Qxb7 Rb6 29. Qd5 Nxf6 30. Qc4 Kxg7 31. Rh1 Qe5 32. Bh6+
Kg6 33. Bc1 Ne4 34. Rh6+ Kg7 35. Rxb6 Rxf2 36. Bh6+ {Black resigns} 1-0
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.05.29" ]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "lourecelH"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black checkmated"]
[WhiteElo "2266"]
[BlackElo "2179"]
[Opening "Amar (Paris) opening, Seeing Double Drunken Penguin"]
[ECO "A00"]
[NIC "VO.16"]
[Time "04:50:06"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. Nh3 e5 2. Rg1 d5 3. Na3 f5 4. Rb1 Bxa3 5. bxa3 Nf6 6. e3 O-O 7. d4 Nc6 8.
dxe5 Nxe5 9. Nf4 Re8 10. Bb2 Qd6 11. Be2 b6 12. h3 Bb7 13. g4 fxg4 14. hxg4
Rad8 15. g5 Ne4 16. Kf1 Nc4 17. Qd4 Nxb2 18. Rxb2 c5 19. Qa4 Nd2+ 20. Ke1 d4
21. Kxd2 dxe3+ 22. Kc1 exf2 23. Rf1 Qd2+ 24. Kb1 Rxe2 25. Qc4+ Bd5 26. Qxe2
Qxe2 27. Nxe2 Bc4 28. c3 Rf8 29. Kc1 h5 30. Kd1 h4 31. Rd2 Kh7 32. Rd6 Rf3
33. Kd2 h3 34. g6+ Kh6 35. Rd8 Kxg6 36. Rh8 Rd3+ 37. Kc2 Re3 38. Nf4+ Kf5
39. Rxf2 Bxa2 40. Nd5+ Ke4 41. Nxe3 Kxe3 42. Rh2 Be6 43. R8xh3+ Kf4 44. Rh7
Bf5+ 45. Kd2 g5 46. Rxa7 g4 47. Rg7 Be4 48. Rh6 g3 49. Rf6+ Ke5 50. Rxb6 g2
51. Ke3 Bd5 52. Rg5# {Black checkmated} 1-0
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.05.29" ]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Marblerevealer" ]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2286"]
[BlackElo "2015"]
[Opening "Amar (Paris) opening, Seeing Double Drunken Penguin"]
[ECO "A00"]
[NIC "VO.16"]
[Time "05:05:09"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. Nh3 d5 2. Rg1 c6 3. Na3 Nf6 4. Rb1 Bf5 5. d4 e6 6. Nf4 h5 7. e3 h4 8. Bd3
g6 9. Bxf5 gxf5 10. c4 Qa5+ 11. Bd2 Bb4 12. f3 Nbd7 13. Nd3 Bxd2+ 14. Qxd2
Qc7 15. b4 Qxh2 16. Qf2 Qg3 17. Qxg3 hxg3 18. Nf4 Ke7 19. Kd2 Rh2 20. b5 Rb8
21. Ne2 Nh5 22. Rb2 dxc4 23. Nxc4 cxb5 24. Rxb5 a6 25. Rbb1 b5 26. Na5 Rc8
27. Rbc1 Rxc1 28. Nxc1 Nb6 29. Nd3 f6 30. Nb4 f4 31. e4 e5 32. d5 Kd6 33.
Nxa6 Ng7 34. Nb7+ Kd7 35. Nbc5+ Kd6 36. Nb7+ Kd7 37. Kc3 f5 38. Nac5+ Ke7
39. d6+ Ke8 40. Kb4 fxe4 41. Nxe4 Nf5 42. Kxb5 Nd7 43. a4 Nd4+ 44. Kc4 Ne2
45. Ra1 Rxg2 46. a5 Nb8 47. Nf6+ Kf7 48. d7 Nd4 49. d8=Q Rc2+ 50. Kd3 Na6
51. Qxd4 exd4 52. Kxc2 Kxf6 53. Kd3 Ke5 54. Kc4 g2 55. Nc5 Nc7 56. a6 g1=Q
57. Rxg1 Nxa6 58. Nxa6 d3 59. Kxd3 Kf5 60. Nc5 {Black resigns} 1-0
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.05.29" ]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Ashkeef"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2272"]
[BlackElo "2104"]
[Opening "Amar (Paris) opening, Seeing Double Drunken Penguin"]
[ECO "A00"]
[NIC "VO.16"]
[Time "06:00:40"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. Nh3 d5 2. Rg1 Bxh3 3. gxh3 e5 4. c3 Nc6 5. d4 exd4 6. cxd4 Qf6 7. Nc3
O-O-O 8. Bg5 Qxd4 9. Bxd8 Kxd8 10. Qxd4 Nxd4 11. O-O-O Bc5 12. Nxd5 Kc8 13.
Rxg7 c6 14. Nc3 Nh6 15. Na4 Ne6 16. Rg2 Be7 17. e3 Rf8 18. Bc4 Nc7 19. Nc3
b5 20. Bd3 f5 21. Rg7 Bf6 22. Rxh7 {Black resigns} 1-0
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
Information about Ashkeef(IM) (Last disconnected Sat May 30 2009 11:07):

rating [need] win loss draw total best
Bullet 2554 [8] 1 0 0 1
Blitz 2156 [7] 159 143 14 316 2377 (01-Apr-2008)
5-minute 2096 753 713 97 1563 2211 (05-Aug-2007)

1: IM Saeed, Nasser A

Name : Saeed, Nasser A
Groups : IMs
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.05.30" ]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Sorge"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2179"]
[BlackElo "2090"]
[Opening "Amar (Paris) opening"]
[ECO "A00"]
[NIC "VO.16"]
[Time "17:56:14"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. Nh3 e5 2. Rg1 d5 3. c3 Nc6 4. d4 exd4 5. cxd4 Bxh3 6. gxh3 Nge7 7. Nc3 a6
8. Bf4 Ng6 9. Qd2 Bd6 10. Bxd6 Qxd6 11. Rg3 O-O-O 12. O-O-O h5 13. h4 Nxh4
14. Rxg7 Nf5 15. Rxf7 Nfxd4 16. e3 Ne6 17. Qxd5 Qxd5 18. Rxd5 Rhg8 19. Bh3
Rg1+ 20. Kc2 Nb4+ 21. Kb3 Nxd5 22. Bxe6+ Kb8 23. Bxd5 c6 24. Be4 Rd2 25. Na4
Rf1 26. Nc5 Rfxf2 27. Rxb7+ Kc8 28. Kc3 Rxh2 29. Bf5+ Kd8 30. Ne6+ Kc8 31.
Nc5+ Kd8 32. Nxa6 Rde2 33. Nc5 Rxe3+ 34. Kd4 Ree2 35. b4 Rd2+ 36. Ke5 Rd5+
37. Ke6 Re2+ 38. Be4 Rxc5 39. bxc5 Rxe4+ 40. Kd6 Rd4+ 41. Kxc6 Ra4 42. Rh7
Rxa2 43. Rxh5 Ra1 44. Rh8+ Ke7 45. Kc7 Ra7+ 46. Kb6 Ra1 47. c6 Rb1+ 48. Kc7
Rb2 49. Rh3 Rb1 50. Re3+ Kf6 51. Kd8 Re1 52. Rxe1 {Black resigns} 1-0
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Eversole turned me on to  his my Brothers bar.  Drank some beers  with
Hamblin, Ray Haskins maybe Eric Anderson.  Many others I am  sure.  Its all
kinda fuzzy.  Had to rush down there in between rounds  when Jeff was holding
tournaments at the Paris.  Good times Good bar.  Scott
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:11:13 -0600
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:33:24 -0600
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http://www.jrobichess.com/

Nice Chess site

Free Youtube Chess videos

Grandmaster Game Collections


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqq2OAU3JQk

Fishing Pole video
not by Brian Wall or Anthea Carson or Chris Peterson

with 99 comments from subscribers to
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:52:13 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fun comments to Youtube Fishing Pole video by
	JRobiChess
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     Chess Traps #5: Ruy Lopez Berlin Defence Trap (Fishing Pole)
9:03
Added: 1 week ago
From: jrobichess
Views: 8,498

All Comments (99 total)   Options  Post a new comment

Loading...chessmastor (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam
Long&#65279; time no video! I've miss your videos.
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks&#65279;
Chessmastor!
brainzizizi (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam
excellent,&#65279; thank you
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks for
checking&#65279; it out Brain!
geekorthodox9 (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam
insidious&#65279;
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Laying&#65279; traps is
always fun. =)
dastrman2 (1 week ago) Show Hide +2   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Dude
that's&#65279; genius!
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks D - Jack Young
definitely was onto something here. I am curious if he came up with it or if
it's&#65279; been around for awhile. It's a beauty!
smashinsomething (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Wow, i
love this trap!&#65279; Thanks a ton!
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Glad to hear that&#65279;
Smash - thanks for checking out the vid!
MaskedAssailant08 (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam
nice&#65279;
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks&#65279; for
checking it out masked!
pik4lif (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam You are the
best&#65279; ......Jrobi
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks pik4lif - I
appreciate the comment!&#65279;
VincentVega44 (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam
Good&#65279; vid
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks!&#65279;
farkar78 (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Your videos are
very helpful! Easier to follow&#65279; than notation in a book.
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks farkar78 - it's
fun to make them (and it helps me a lot in&#65279; my own study).
EebstertheGreat (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam
Definitely the best trap yet, as the Ruy Lopez comes up much more often than
the&#65279; Queen's Gambit, and the Mortimer Trap might not be such a good
idea.
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply It's definitely a solid
one for sure - it creates a wild position but definitely playable even
if&#65279; the bait isn't taken.
DarbysBored (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Thats
fantastic! thank you&#65279; for posting this!
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks&#65279; Darby!
DriftStallion (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Muahaha
That was Awesome!!!!&#65279; Lol thanks!!!
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks Drift.&#65279; =)
Zyrog (1 week ago) Show Hide  -3   Marked as spam Reply | Spam fuck ya&#65279;
jrobiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
ebrn01 (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam good stuff, now
I'm gonna try this on some&#65279; blitz game
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Let&#65279; me know how
it goes ebrn!
yamizain (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam i saw this vid
and said to my self. wow. this is like a work of genius. i have to&#65279; try
this on some one.

like always nice vids man . keep on coming.
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply It's a beautiful trapping
line. Not sure if Jack Young created it or was passing it along when he told
master Brian Wall, but regardless it's a gem of a trap, even if the bait
isn't&#65279; taken. Thanks for checking out the vid!
F2L4Life (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Heh, I know
this one. One must be careful when playing this though. Engine analysis shows a
quick victory for black if white enters any of the trap&#65279; lines, but a
slow and painful death for black when white ignores the knight and plays for
the center. Also, what do you think of the move c3 or an early push to d4
rather than h3?
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Engines are a mute
point&#65279; so early in? the opening. C3 and D4 would definitely be playable
options for white. D4 looks like it will create a pretty wild and sharp game
right at the onset - definitely not similar to the standard Ruy Lopez book
lines, which should make it a bit uncomfortable for white if they're used to
the common lines. Computers would grind out that advantage but with people
pushing the pieces it wouldn't be very easy - game would still be an
interesting fight.
caeonosphere (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam I've
got&#65279; an idea for you, jrobi -- I really enjoy your blitz videos, and in
one you used an opening that you had just done a video about. It would be
really instructive if you made supplemental videos for these opening and trap
videos, of you testing them out on people.
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply I will try to&#65279;
snag something caeonosphere - thanks for checking out the vid and commenting!
mhd112211 (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam we
could&#65279; use the bishop!
F2L4Life (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam If white
moves&#65279; the rook instead of h3 and black responds Bc5, Re1-e2 seems to be
the only good response and it fails positionally after.....

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bb5 Nf6
4. O-O Ng4
5. Re1 Bc5
6. Re2 Nd4
7. Nxd4 Bxd4
8. h3 Nxf2
9. Rxf2 Bxf2+
10. Kxf2 Qf6+
11. Ke2 O-O

(Ke2 because other responses loose material.)
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Good&#65279; line
F2L4Life - thanks for posting!
dan112358 (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Funnily enough
I actually&#65279; fell into this very trap less than a week ago. Not a bad
line, good way of challenging the Lopez grip. Didn't know it was called the
fishing pole trap... nice one.
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply It definitely has&#65279;
some possibilities, even if the bait isn't taken. Thanks for checking it out
Dan!
MichaelSedrak (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Wow i just
realized that i use the Ruy lopez on most openings, and also using that trap u
just explained a lot:) i thought it wasn't "known&#65279; much" but apparently
it's a video posted on youtube by a very awesome commentor:)

Thanks for the video, it definately improved my ideas of the Ruy Lopez
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks Michael.
=)&#65279;
Zyrog (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam great video jrobi,
make more trap videos please, i&#65279; find them the most fun
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Definitely plan on it
Zyrog&#65279; - thanks for checking it out!
mickolofto (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam very good as
ulual no wait this&#65279; was exellent
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks
mickolofto!&#65279;
PIFbg (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Nice Video
dude&#65279; :)
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks!&#65279;
flex567 (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam interesting
video,&#65279; do you have elo rating?
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Not yet - but hopefully
will have an official rating sometime this summer/fall. Unfortunately I don't
live by a large chess club. The closest one is a bit of a drive away, but I am
hoping this&#65279; summer I can make a tourny trip or two. Thanks for checking
out the vid!
flex567 (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam dont need a
chees club&#65279; to have high elo rating
whikor (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam smother mate with
knight checkmate is popular in bughouse&#65279; and crazyhouse .. nice vid
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks whikor - I haven't
tried those variants before. What&#65279; do you like about them?
TimeFreeze1 (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam
awesome!&#65279;
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks!&#65279;
numbcore (1 week ago) Show Hide  -1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Cool but ive
seen this&#65279; one before on youtube, maybe by someone else.
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Check the link in the
description Numb - might have been that one that I talk&#65279; about in the
video.
shayeeX (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Very
interesting, definitely a&#65279; useful blitz tool.
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Agreed!&#65279;
shayeeX (1 week ago) Show Hide +3   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Hey Jrobi, I won
a Bullet game with this opening yesterday! LOL...I just tried it out and my
opponent wasted time thinking.&#65279; I like it but I'm not sure about using
it in a standard 1.5 hr game. I wonder if u could help, im looking for an
opening for white against the sicilian but I dont want something that's been
over-analyzed by theorists. Thanks again and keep up the good work!
bucketbot (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam he said right
in the vid that the proponent of this position has used it in standard games.

just like any position or trap...it is not fool-proof. it all depend on what
your&#65279; opt does. But if your opt does not respond correctly (which is
possible even in a standard game) this trap could (and can) easily work!
shayeeX (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam First of all,
the proponent of this game is a grandmaster,&#65279; that level of chess is way
higher than mine. Secondly, ive learned from experience that one tends to
encounter (more often than not ) correct responses in tournament play. Tricks
and traps will not stand up to solid chess. But I'm just saying...LOL
karibola (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Tried&#65279;
playing a closed sicilian.
wakingchild (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam I can't wait
to use it!&#65279;
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks for checking out
the vid waking - I am&#65279; going to try and capture one on vid.
krillansavillan (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam
fantastic!&#65279;
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks
krillansavillan!&#65279;
kenenth84 (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam white pawn to
d4 right away will defeat the fishing pole&#65279; :-) and threaten Black's 2nd
Knight. (do this right when Black move his knight to g4
twoemptypockets (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam maybe if
the knight was pinned on c6, but d4 just trades material and gains no positional
advantage that i can see other than developing the queen in&#65279; the center
lines..
kenenth84 (1 week ago) Show Hide  -1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam The fishing
pole tactic will be breaken down into&#65279; a disadvantage
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply No move will defeat it or
debunk it without a battle taking place between the&#65279; players.
thechesswebsite (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam This
seems like a pretty nice trap that you can&#65279; use often unlike other traps
that all the stars have to align correctly to use. Thanks for posting this.
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply I agree - it is more like
a variation in some ways.&#65279; There isn't a huge weakness created if the
bait isn't taken, and there will be a good tactical struggle.
cobol528 (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Ahhh....I think
I have played&#65279; this before. Thanks for the memories.
jacktheknife100 (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam
I've&#65279; played a game very thematic of this trap, a knight sacrifice on
the g file whilst the rook can gain an open file on a castled king, I love that
kind of tactic, takes people completely by surprise!!!!
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Sacrifice lines are
always the best to unleash on the&#65279; opponent for sure. =)
midasfan8888 (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam I have
encountered this trap once before (playing White) and the best move I saw was a
Pawn push to g3 not allowing that Queen to align&#65279; with the Rook for a
mate. I actually found a way to win that game eventually.
geekorthodox9 (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam You know,
I have seen this trap in opening study where it is proposed against the
kingside building up from a bishop-pin. So, when threatened with a pan, the
bishop is merely reinforced with a rook's pawn, the idea being to swing the
queen in after the pawn drives the knight away.
I was looking for the source citation, but could not find&#65279; it--it is
merely a parenthetical sideline as I recall it.
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply If you come across it
definitely let&#65279; me know - I would be interested to read it over!
Phirelord77 (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam I don't
really see how bishop to c5 is that good at 7:48. How would the play continue?
And thanks for this video, it's my&#65279; favorite I guess. This could really
work at the level I'm playing at!
LittleChessElf (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Bc5 is
only a solid move. There is no perfect trap, only taking advantage of
opponent's mistakes. With d3 or Nc3, white didn't make a mistake,&#65279; and
now black is simply playing chess.
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Great comment&#65279;
LittleChessElf.
charleshiggie (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam The
opening database I use suggests 5. Nc3. If Bc5 then 6.Na4 led to a win for
white in 99 moves in Shulga, Jury (2309) vs. Panchenko,&#65279; Fedor (2174)
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply 99 moves - sounds like a
good game. There is a number of wins&#65279; for black also. Brian Wall has
some posted online.
bibcath (1 week ago) Show Hide +3   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Thank you for
posting these videos, since I started following your channel the quality my
game has improved exponentially, I still lose far more often than I would like
but I now know how to learn from my mistakes. I am pretty sure I have
lost&#65279; to this trap more than once before.
smashinsomething (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam +1,
only...5 times&#65279; :p.
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply That's great bibcath - I
am glad to hear that! Thanks for checking out the vid and for&#65279; the
feedback!
tremennnnnnda (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam i think
there?s a similar trap on the exchange variation, the diference, is&#65279;
that into the place of the knight it?s the bishop.
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply That sounds pretty cool -
if you find&#65279; something on it send me the details either here or from the
email on my website. Thanks for checking out the vid!
fezzjr (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam very very nice
jrobi&#65279; once again
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks&#65279; Fezz!
darkling9109 (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Haven't
seen&#65279; that one before. I'm playing in a simul in a few weeks so I'm
studying lots of openings for black. Thanks for the great vids as always.
Sasuke149 (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Hi
jrobi&#65279; i was wondering what are you rated?
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Unrated officially, but
for online I generally go by my last posted video. Hoping to start exploring
the tournament scene sometime this summer/fall. Thanks for checking out the
vid!&#65279;
x8swift8x (1 week ago) Show Hide +2   Marked as spam Reply | Spam this is crazy.
I play&#65279; 1 or 2 min speed in homeroom at school, and one of the kids there
solely uses the ruy lopez. Thank you so much jrobi!
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Lemme know how it goes
when you&#65279; introduce him to this line. =)
ArtThroughtheAges (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam I like
it.
Maybe if White just gives up his own Knight after pxn, pxp.
I dunno, but nice bit of surprise there!
Wow!&#65279;
ImmigrationL (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam I just ran
this on Yahoo. Ownage!! But to often &#65279; people play the queens pawn to
row 4. I guess I got lucky!
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Awesome! Thanks for
checking&#65279; out the vid!
Mrius86 (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Great video as
usual, Jrobi! 5 stars :)

Wow, this was just a brutal trap!

I try to play some crazy moves in the opening, like a piece sacrifice, just to
push my opponent around and make it MY game, not his/hers. It&#65279; works
more often than not since the ones I play against are mostly weak players (sub
1000 rating) and will usually just try to take material right away. I love
playing attacking chess and this trap suits my style perfectly. Thank you.
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks Mrius! Piece sacs
are always fun when they are tactically sound. I have had my fair share of
"tunnel vision" though sacrificing a&#65279; piece only to find a reply that I
hadn't thought of. Getting much better at avoiding that though, so that's a
good thing. =)
methatiax2 (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Awesome,
are&#65279; you using Rybka?
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply You bet -
Aquarium&#65279; with Rybka 3. Thanks for checking out the vid!
Jahanam9994 (1 week ago) Show Hide +2   Marked as spam Reply | Spam My God. This
is the most beautiful trap I have ever seen. This trap&#65279; is the number one
reason why I love chess.
kedyncrow (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Good video,
two question.
Take a look&#65279; at 6:30, couldnt white simply move pawn to H3? and next
question, what program do you use to view that chess board?
totempoll27 (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam
smothered&#65279; checkmate
mtalbot015 (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam You need to
put up some more of your matches with analysis, those are the best to&#65279;
learn from, for me at least.
charleshiggie (1 week ago) Show Hide  -5   Marked as spam Reply | Spam I still
think that Ng4 is basically a beginner's move. I challenge&#65279; anyone to
try it against me on the Gameknot Internet site.
bucketbot (1 week ago) Show Hide +4   Marked as spam Reply | Spam great video

i just found your channel early in the week and i&#65279; love it!

very informative! Keep up the great work
cadrizzay (1 week ago) Show Hide +4   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Great video as
usual! you chess vids have really helped me improve my game&#65279;
hardoutlonka (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Cheers for
the vid.
I've been using this in my some blitz games and its worked great against lower
rated players.
CANADA FUCK YEA!&#65279;
adi11235 (1 week ago) Show Hide +3   Marked as spam Reply | Spam I'll be using
this line with black for a while&#65279; :)
mikramuddin (1 week ago) Show Hide +4   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Thanks
Jrobi. &#65279; Just delivered a checkmate in 9th move. Game Over.
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mikramuddin! Here's to many more!&#65279;
topshonuff (1 week ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Great video,
thanks for the post.. Does this&#65279; trap lowers the Ruy Lopez opening ??
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks Tops - I don't
think so. It just gives black an option to take things out of book and have a
good fighting game. Brian Wall has said he believes future chess books will
need to investigate this line in further detail, and I agree. I think&#65279;
it's great that new lines are surfacing in openings that have been studied for
many many years.
Rappster16 (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam great video,
but i'm confused.
whys it called&#65279; fishing pole?
jackkniphe (1 week ago) Show Hide +5   Marked as spam Reply | Spam because your
knight is a worm. you are fishing&#65279; for easy tactics.
jrobichess (6 days ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Well&#65279; said. =)
alachabre (1 week ago) Show Hide  -6 Marked as spam Reply | Spam You picked a
horrible 5th move for white as an illustration. Re1 voluntarily removes a
defender from a square that's just been attacked. A player would have to be
blind to play Re1. You ignored white's best responses - continuing with the
spirit of the opening with either 5. c3 or 5. d4. What do you do after 5. c3?
There are no good&#65279; answers, which is probably why you didn't address it.
"Gee, after c3, black gets pushed around and loses, so let's not go there."
jrobichess (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply I showed Re1 due to the
other possible trapping line that's available if someone plays it. As
for&#65279; 5. C3, it's by no means a guaranteed win for white. If you're using
an engine to base that statement on, it's not going to be accurate with real
people pushing the pieces.
alachabre (6 days ago) Show Hide  -6 Marked as spam Reply | Spam I'm basing my
comment on the opening - the Ruy Lopez. 5. c3 is the standard preparation for
building the characteristic strong center. Black's fourth move is a waste of
time, and white gets total freedom in THE CENTER. This cheap trick only works
if white panics, and totally throws his game plan to the wind out of irrational
fear. Please, all you "thumbs&#65279; down" responders, play this against me!
Give me complete control of the center, easy development, and open lines
against your king! Sweet!
SrbijaDavidp (6 days ago) Show Hide +2   Marked as spam Reply | Spam It's easy
to talk now when you know the lines.&#65279;
Icrokis187 (1 week ago) Show Hide +4   Marked as spam Reply | Spam hey
jrobichess i just&#65279; whated to sey that i enjoy the blitz extended video
and i would like for you to explore diferent openings on your live blitz games
and thanks for your videos i have learn much from them.
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feedback&#65279; and idea Icrokis187!
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Thanks.&#65279; :-) :-) :-)
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checking it out LukasDibloT!
colorfire (1 week ago) Show Hide +1   Marked as spam Reply | Spam haha the video
you have in the sidebar is the corniest thing ive ever seen.&#65279; great trap
though.
jrobichess (6 days ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply It's definitely
unique.&#65279; =)
cataphracts123 (6 days ago) Show Hide +3   Marked as spam Reply | Spam I'm
always impressed by just how great people can focus on positions during games.
I think the RTS games I play force me to multitask too much to concentrate on
something like high end chess gaming. Thanks for helping folks like me,
Jrobi&#65279; :)
jrobichess (5 days ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply The things you mention I
am working on a lot too - so you're not alone! I take it you're excited about
SC2 if you're&#65279; a RTS fan? I am going to pick that up - SC1 has many good
university memories for me. Thanks for checking out the vid!
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My clan is going to do some shoutcasts for it.
bassplayer142 (6 days ago) Show Hide +4   Marked as spam Reply | Spam i would
love to pull this on someone :)&#65279;
jrobichess (5 days ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply It's definitely a fun
line to play! Thanks for checking out&#65279; the vid!
lukeanatr (6 days ago) Show Hide +2   Marked as spam Reply | Spam another great
tac&#65279; tic
jrobichess (5 days ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thnaks&#65279; Luke!
kerver73 (5 days ago) Show Hide +2   Marked as spam Reply | Spam very nice
video..thanks&#65279; a lot!
jrobichess (5 days ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Thanks!&#65279;
thestew56 (5 days ago) Show Hide +3   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Another awsome
video!! I learn&#65279; every time I watch one! Thanks!
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out and for the feedback thestew56!&#65279;
Kewper2412 (5 days ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Sorry at
6:24, instead of having the horse move back from d4 to f3, you have the white
pawn push up to h3. While pushing the queen, black would most likely take
the&#65279; pawn at f2. Pawn at h3, takes knight. AND the King now has a way of
killing the queen, with the rook, and escaping!
jrobichess (5 days ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Hi Kewper - unfortunately
the knight couldn't be taken there because the king is in check. The king has to
go to H1 and then black can either move the queen to G3 or just take the knight
on D4. White would be in a lost position either way.&#65279;
Kewper2412 (5 days ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam Okay, I think
I see. Even though the pawn has moved to h3, the&#65279; knight still holds
check.

Yeah...doh! Why didn't I see that. Thanks, I would have made a fool of myself.
=P And besides I'm still a beginner.
jrobichess (5 days ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply No worries - that's how
people get better. My subscribers when I first started helped me see tons of
things I missed and still do. Thanks for checking out the&#65279; vid!
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thx, jrobic !! put some videos onto the alekines&#65279; defense with modern
defense i guess bg4.
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Yeapy!!!!&#65279;
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watching this I went online Yahoo and tried to do the trap. After trying my
best to lead into the trap, it worked! It was&#65279; on a standard settings,
10 minutes / 15 seconds gain each move. It gives you plenty of time to think
and it still worked! I'm most likely going to try and use this trap as much as
possible~! That's Jrobi!
jupppitter (4 days ago) Show Hide  -5   Marked as spam Reply | Spam A lot is
posted here. One new point:

If you have learned something basically about open games, then three things are
well known: - Fighting for the center with d4 as white or d5 with black. -
Keeping care of f2/f7 and moving the h-pawn only and only if you have a plan
for this move. - Opening the e-file if the enemies king stays in the center.

So the move h3 is far from natural. It's&#65279; a positional and tactical
patzer. Re1 is a patzer too, ...
123abc456def780 (4 days ago) Show Hide  0   Marked as spam Reply | Spam I have a
question...what if after hxg4 hxg4 the white knight doesn't retreat? Will black
still have&#65279; the advantage?
jrobichess (3 days ago) Show Hide Marked as spam Reply Yes, black will&#65279;
stand better by a pawn early in the opening. For example, 7. BxC6 GxF3 8. G3,
QF6. Thanks for checking out the vid!
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very&#65279; interesting trap I tried it and it worked in blitz.
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ur ids r good but this is the best one! I've used this trap in the past, it
works not only with the Ruy--pronounced roo-ee by the way--but with other
openings as well, the 4 N's Game for ex. All of the traps in the Ruy are
interesting. When I was 11 years old I used a trap in the Ruy that I figured
out myself to beat the US Checkers Champion&#65279; at chess! My suggestion 2 u
is to do more vids on some of the other Ruy traps.
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Youtube videos

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Mon Jun 15 15:38:07 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:38:07 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 2009 Valley Chess Championship
Message-ID: <1245101887.4a36bf3fa3071@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson <valleychess at hotmail.com> -----
    Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:18:47 -0700
    From: Joel Johnson <valleychess at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Joel Johnson <valleychess at hotmail.com>
 Subject: 2009 Valley Chess Championship


Hi All,



The 2009 Valley Chess Championship was won by Joel Johnson with a score of 5 1/2
- 1/2.  Finishing in second was Dipro Chakraborty with 4 1/2 - 1 1/2.  Dipro has
qualified to be the Valley Chess representative in the upcoming Arizona State
Chess Championship.  Here is the between last year's co-Champions.



Thanks, Joel



Johnson, Joel (2203) - Chakraborty, Dipro (2030) [B20]

2009 Valley Chess Championship, Phoenix, AZ (Round 3), 06/14/2009
1.e4 c5 2.g3 Nc6 3.Bg2 g6 4.d3 Bg7 5.f4 e6 6.Nf3 Nge7 7.0?0 d6 8.Nbd2 0?0 9.Kh1
Rb8 10.g4 f5 11.gxf5 exf5 12.e5 dxe5 13.fxe5 Qc7 14.Re1 b5 15.Qe2 Nd8 16.Nb3
Ne6 17.c3 Bb7 18.d4 c4 19.Nc5 Nxc5 20.dxc5 Nd5 21.Nd4 Qxc5 22.Ne6 Qe7 23.Nxf8
Rxf8 24.Qf2 f4 25.Be4 Qxe5 26.Bd2 Qc7 27.Qf3 Rd8 28.Rad1 g5 29.Bc1 Qd7 30.Qh5
Bf6 31.Qh6 Qg7 32.Qh5 Ne3 33.Rxd8+ Bxd8 34.Qe8+ Qf8 35.Qxf8+ Kxf8 36.Bxb7 Bb6
37.Bxe3 Bxe3 38.Rxe3 fxe3 39.Kg2 1?0

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Mon Jun 15 15:50:53 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:50:53 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Shredder Chess Game
Message-ID: <1245102653.4a36c23d57a4e@www.taom.com>

Danielle and I went to an Asian restaurant for lunch. She challenged me to play
her Blackberry phone Shredder Chess program during lunch. I was shocked when
the computer fell for the Raccoon trap, what my son Devon calls " the Rook
Trick ".

The fortune cookie presented " ancient Chinese wisdom "
by Sir Winston Churhill( also attributed to others ) -

Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts.

----- Forwarded message from "Rice, Danielle (US - Denver)" <drice at deloitte.com>
-----
    Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:00:54 -0500
    From: "Rice, Danielle (US - Denver)" <drice at deloitte.com>
Reply-To: "Rice, Danielle (US - Denver)" <drice at deloitte.com>
 Subject: Shredder Chess Game
      To: "brianwallchess3 at taom.com" <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>

[Event "2:53 PM"]
[Site "Shredder for iPhone / iPod touch"]
[Date "2009.06.15"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Shredder"]
[Black "Danielle"]
[WhiteElo "1447"]
[BlackElo "-"]
[Result "0-1"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 h5 3. fxe5 Qh4 4. g3 Qxe4 5. Ne2 Qxh1 6. c3 Qxh2 7. d4
h4 8. Bf4
hxg3 9. Kd2 c6 10. Bxg3 Qh5 11. Kc2 d5 12. exd6 Bxd6 13. Bxd6 Qg6 14.
Qd3 Qxd6
15. Qe3 Ne7 16. Nd2 Bf5 17. Ne4 Bxe4 18. Qxe4 Nd7 19. c4 Nf6 20. Qe3 O-
O-O 21. Bh3
Kb8 22. a3 Ng6 23. Rh1 Rh4 24. Kb1 Rxd4 25. c5 Qxc5 26. Nxd4 Qxd4 27.
Qg3 0-1




From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Mon Jun 15 20:33:00 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:33:00 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Shredder Chess Game
Message-ID: <1245119580.4a37045c36aeb@www.taom.com>

http://www.coloradochessgames.com/wallvslangseth080308/wallvslangseth080308.htm

DuWayne Langseth analyzes a Penguin loss on his website -
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----- Forwarded message from DuWayne Langseth <duwaynelangseth at hotmail.com>
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    Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:39:55 -0600
    From: DuWayne Langseth <duwaynelangseth at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: DuWayne Langseth <duwaynelangseth at hotmail.com>
 Subject: RE: [BrianWallChess] Shredder Chess Game
      To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>






Brian,



That was interesting.  I especially was amused by 14. Qd3.

You automatically took on d6 instead of Bf5.  I wonder what

the rating is of the program executing on that contraption.

Is there a squirrel running on a wheel inside it?  I need to try

more of this wild stuff myself.  Maybe I'll learn something.

I still haven't even learned the drunken penguin or really even

the sober one.



DuWayne



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: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:50:53 -0600
Subject: [BrianWallChess] Shredder Chess Game







Danielle and I went to an Asian restaurant for lunch. She challenged me to play
her Blackberry phone Shredder Chess program during lunch. I was shocked when
the computer fell for the Raccoon trap, what my son Devon calls " the Rook
Trick ".

The fortune cookie presented " ancient Chinese wisdom "
by Sir Winston Churhill( also attributed to others ) -

Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts.

----- Forwarded message from "Rice, Danielle (US - Denver)" <drice at deloitte.com>
-----
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:00:54 -0500
From: "Rice, Danielle (US - Denver)" <drice at deloitte.com>
Reply-To: "Rice, Danielle (US - Denver)" <drice at deloitte.com>
Subject: Shredder Chess Game
To: "brianwallchess3 at taom.com" <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>

[Event "2:53 PM"]
[Site "Shredder for iPhone / iPod touch"]
[Date "2009.06.15"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Shredder"]
[Black "Danielle"]
[WhiteElo "1447"]
[BlackElo "-"]
[Result "0-1"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 h5 3. fxe5 Qh4 4. g3 Qxe4 5. Ne2 Qxh1 6. c3 Qxh2 7. d4
h4 8. Bf4
hxg3 9. Kd2 c6 10. Bxg3 Qh5 11. Kc2 d5 12. exd6 Bxd6 13. Bxd6 Qg6 14.
Qd3 Qxd6
15. Qe3 Ne7 16. Nd2 Bf5 17. Ne4 Bxe4 18. Qxe4 Nd7 19. c4 Nf6 20. Qe3 O-
O-O 21. Bh3
Kb8 22. a3 Ng6 23. Rh1 Rh4 24. Kb1 Rxd4 25. c5 Qxc5 26. Nxd4 Qxd4 27.
Qg3 0-1



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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Mon Jun 15 23:54:20 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:54:20 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Hyper-Pole for Omegaalfa
Message-ID: <1245131660.4a37338c85383@www.taom.com>


Someday there will be thousands of Youtube Fishing Pole videos but in the first
10 years, later known as the Golden Age of the Fishing Pole, there are only 5.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCk6zdtSLk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqq2OAU3JQk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exGSXjvKej0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgqVkqrNH_4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnN9mqed3l0&feature=channel_page

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Omegaalfa"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2073"]
[BlackElo "2171"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "01:15:27"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!!

Jack Young's Fishing Pole

5. c3 a6 6. Ba4 Bc5 7. d4 Ba7

Brian Wall's Hyper-Pole
to break the pin at will


8. Bg5 f6!!   9. Bh4 g5!!   10. Bg3 h5!!   11. h4

Stopping my usual fun with ... h4 -
That's why I normally play ...h5!!  before  ... g5!!


11 ...d6!!   12. hxg5??  b5??

I was afraid of
12  ... fg!!  13  B:c6+  bc  14  de
which is demolished  by
14  ... h4!!  15  Bh2  N:f2!!!  16 R:f2  g4!!!
I am a piece down but it is all flowing back to me.

13. Bb3 fxg5!!   14. Bd5?   Bd7!!  15. Nh2 Nxh2


15 ... ed!!!  or  Nf6!!
are better for me


16. Bxh2!

Only move due to
16  K:h2  h4!

16 ...exd4??


Bad due to  17  Qf3!!  with  18  e5!!  intentions
16 ... h4!!  was right, holding onto e5

17. cxd4 Nxd4!! 18. Bxa8!  Qxa8!  19. Nc3!  Be6
20. Nd5 Bxd5!  21. exd5!  Qxd5!

The game is even now in a wild Fishing Pole kind of way.
We both had about 3.5 minutes left.


22. Qd3 Kd7 23. a4 g4


I had other ideas too -
23 ... h4-h3!! is one,
moving my Bishop with
23 ... Bb6  or ... Bc5
is another.


24. Qg6

Avoiding ... Nf3+

24 ... Rg8

24 ... Nf5!!
has some nice geometrical motifs -
25 ... Q:g2+  or preventing  Qg7+,
also enouraging ... g3  or ... Rh6


25. Qh7+!   Kc8 26. Bf4??

Missing the shot  26  B:d6!!


26 ... Ne2+!

{White resigns} 0-1

Tough Game
----------------------------------------------------------------------
[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Omegaalfa"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2073"]
[BlackElo "2171"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "01:15:27"]
[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.
Bg5 f6 9. Bh4 g5 10. Bg3 h5 11. h4 d6 12. hxg5 b5 13. Bb3 fxg5 14. Bd5 Bd7
15. Nh2 Nxh2 16. Bxh2 exd4 17. cxd4 Nxd4 18. Bxa8 Qxa8 19. Nc3 Be6 20. Nd5
Bxd5 21. exd5 Qxd5 22. Qd3 Kd7 23. a4 g4 24. Qg6 Rg8 25. Qh7+ Kc8 26. Bf4
Ne2+ {White resigns} 0-1
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Statistics for Omegaalfa         On for:   54     Idle:    8

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Blitz           2241  [8]   114    79    20   213   2287 (01-Aug-2008)
5-minute        2086       6448  6064  1044 13556   2285 (11-Sep-2008)
1-minute        1337  [8]     0     1     0     1
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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun 16 02:37:33 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:37:33 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Genuine Full Metal Jacket Game
Message-ID: <1245141453.4a3759cd42d8d@www.taom.com>



http://www.chessville.com/Wall/FullMetalJacket.htm

As everyone knows or should know or will know,
I invented an Opening called the Full Metal
Jacket in NM Josh Bloomer's basement, Colorado Springs, CO.

http://www.chessville.com/Wall/FullMetalJacket.htm

Actual Full Metal Jacket games are rare as hen's teeth because no one has
ordered White to throw his pawns at me, unlike the mirror image Four Pawns
Attack in the Alekhine's defense.

I was so desperate for Full Metal Jacket games I resorted to calling any game
where anybody keeps 7 or 8 pawns for a long time a Full Metal Jacket game.

Here is one of the very few real Full Metal Jacket games.
I loved and lost and learned.
Hell, it could have been Colorado Springs.

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "VictorJ"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "*"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2467"]
[BlackElo "2212"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense, Full Metal Jacket"]
[ECO "A40"]
[NIC "QO.17"]
[Time "02:20:03"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. d4 Nc6 2. d5 Ne5 3. e4 e6 4. f4 exd5 5. fxe5 Qh4+

The true Full Metal Jacket,
invented by yours truly.


6. Kd2 Qh6+ 7. Ke2 Qh5+ 8. Kd2 Qh6+ 9. Ke1 Qh4+

Now normally I am playing for a win so I would be thinking how to avoid
the draw but since VictorJ is higher rated, I let him worry about it.


10. g3??

Rather than admit his entire opening repertoire is only 4 moves deep,
VictorJ  decides to sac a Rook to trap my Queen. A gorgeous redhead
named ICC Scordatura ( Italian musical term ) tried this over and over one
afternoon. It is very easy to mess this up for Black. This is a superior
version for me over 6 g3??  since White can't castle. It took VictorJ
over a minute to get this far.


10 ...  Qxe4+!  11. Qe2 Qxh1 12. Nf3 b6!!

So far all covered in
Full Metal Jacket, Part 1
my Off the Wall column at
www.Chessville.com

The idea is  13  ... Ba6  14  Q:a6  Q:f3
freeing the Queen.
I have many winning moves besides  12 ... b6!!!
but this looks simplest, most direct and best,
according to any computer.


13. c4

Trying to block  ... Ba6.
13  Nc3  Ba6  14  Q:a6  Q:f3  14 Qb7  Rd8  15  N:d5
loses most of my advantage so I should take a timeout with 13 Nc3 c6!!
with ideas of 14 ... a5  or  ... Ba6  or ... Bc5
On most other White 13th moves,
... a5  or  ... Ba6  or ... Bc5  or ... Bb7
should win.


13 ... dxc4??????????


Wow, one move out of my own published theory and I've ruined my game already!
After  13 ... dc??????????   14  Kd2!!  Only move
VictorJ is better due to the threat of 15 Bg2
I can wiggle and wriggle but I am worse whatever I try.
Unbelievable.  I wasn't sure what to do after
13 ... Ba6!!  14  b3  dc  15  bc  but  ... B:c4!!
is the simplest of the many wins. It was a late night
blitz game and I forgot White couldn't 0-0-0.

14. Qe4??   c6!

Even more forcing is
14 ... Rb8!!!
insisting on  ... Bb7
against most White schemes.



15. Nc3 Bb4

15 ... Bb7!!
is the best of the many wins.


16. Bg5 Ne7!!


Everything is under control again
after my hideous  13 ... dc??  slip


17. Kf2 Bxc3??????????


Unreal,
throwing the win away again.
Two howlers in 5 moves.
17 ... f6!!, ... Bc5+!!, ... f5!!  or ... Rf8!!
are the creme de la creme


18. bxc3!

Incredibly, VictorJ is better again.

18 ... Nd5!!  19. Rc1!

19  Re1!!, Bd2!, Rc1! and Qc2
are all good for White

19 ... Ba6?

19 ... b5!!
is best and I will most likely end up with
Two Rooks and Three pawns against Queen and Knight


20. Bh3!

Might as well pick off the c4-pawn AND the Queen with  20  B:c4!!

20 ... Qxc1!  21. Bxc1!

This wasn't supposed to happen.


21 ...  Nxc3!


Time left -
VictorJ - 59 seconds
B-Wall  - 1:39  minutes


22. Qd4!!  Nd5!!      Only Move
23. e6??   fxe6!!     Only Move
24. Qxg7!!  O-O-O!!   Only Move

Time left -
VictorJ -    47  seconds
B-Wall  -  1:18  minutes

25. Bf4 Rhf8=

25 ... Rhg8!!
is a safer square as I will soon discover.
Material Balance:
Two Rooks and 4 pawns versus
Queen and Bishop



26. Bd6!!   Rf6 27. Bf1 Kb7


27 ... c5!!, ... b5!!  or ... Re8!!
are best



28. Be7

Time left -
VictorJ -    20  seconds
B-Wall  -    49  seconds

At this point I stopped thinking and just rattled off
hideous bullet moves until I had help-mated myself.
I am fine after  28  Be7  Rg6!!
but I was brain dead at this point.


28 ... Nxe7??????????   29. Qxf6!!  Re8
30. Qf7!!  Rc8!  31. Qxe7!!  Rc7!  32. Qd6

I just have to avoid checkmate for 17 seconds to claim a cheesy
victory with 7 Full Metal Jacket bullets remaining but ........

32 ... c3??  33. Bxa6+!!  Kb8??????????

34. Qf8+

{Black resigns}   1-0

I played horribly but I think I learned a few key concepts
about this variation of the Full Metal Jacket. There are
only a handful of games I know about so far. Not much chance
to get in some practice. I am always surprised my extra Rook
is so hard to convert.
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "VictorJ"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "*"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2467"]
[BlackElo "2212"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense, Full Metal Jacket"]
[ECO "A40"]
[NIC "QO.17"]
[Time "02:20:03"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. d4 Nc6 2. d5 Ne5 3. e4 e6 4. f4 exd5 5. fxe5 Qh4+ 6. Kd2 Qh6+ 7. Ke2 Qh5+
8. Kd2 Qh6+ 9. Ke1 Qh4+ 10. g3 Qxe4+ 11. Qe2 Qxh1 12. Nf3 b6 13. c4 dxc4 14.
Qe4 c6 15. Nc3 Bb4 16. Bg5 Ne7 17. Kf2 Bxc3 18. bxc3 Nd5 19. Rc1 Ba6 20. Bh3
Qxc1 21. Bxc1 Nxc3 22. Qd4 Nd5 23. e6 fxe6 24. Qxg7 O-O-O 25. Bf4 Rhf8 26.
Bd6 Rf6 27. Bf1 Kb7 28. Be7 Nxe7 29. Qxf6 Re8 30. Qf7 Rc8 31. Qxe7 Rc7 32.
Qd6 c3 33. Bxa6+ Kb8 34. Qf8+ {Black resigns} 1-0
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Statistics for VictorJ         On for: 1:15     Idle:    0
VictorJ is currently involved in a match against chopotin.

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Blitz           2837  [7]    39    17     2    58   2837 (07-Jun-2009)
5-minute        2444        105    45     5   155   2540 (30-Apr-2009)
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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun 16 04:41:23 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:41:23 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fishing Pole for Nanuk,
	Hyper-Pole for Patroclus-80
Message-ID: <1245148883.4a3776d36c7b7@www.taom.com>



The only five Youtube Fishing Pole videos


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCk6zdtSLk

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Chess Traps #5: Ruy Lopez Berlin Defence Trap (Fishing Pole)
8,888 views  and over 100 comments in one week!
How does JRobiChess do it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exGSXjvKej0

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The only five Youtube Fishing Pole videos

Learn them well, comment, subscribe, memorize
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Nanuk"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2066"]
[BlackElo "2251"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "04:54:33"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. d4 exd4
7. Nxd4 Bc5 8. Nf5 d6 9. Nxg7+ Kf8 10. Nf5 Bxf5 11. exf5 Qh4 12. Qf3 Nd4

Heading for the most beautiful Fishing Pole variation of all,
13  Q:b7  Re8!!  14  B:e8  Ne2+!!   15  Kh1  Q:f2!!
16  R:f2  Ng3+!!  17  Kg1  B:f2  checkmate
given in the glossary of
How To Play Chess Like An Animal


13. Qd3 Nxb5!


The strongest is  13 ... Ne2+!!  14  Q:e2  Qg3!!
the thematic Fishing Pole crusher,
winning the White Queen for starters.


14. Qxb5?

Nanuk of the North should accept being a piece down.


14 ... Qg3!!

14 ... B:f2+!!!
mates one move quicker


15. Bf4 Qxf4!!


15 ... B:f2+!!
mates just as fast


{White resigns}   0-1
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Information about Nanuk (Last disconnected Tue Jun 16 2009 04:57):

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Blitz           2126  [1]   337   403    31   771   2448 (25-Feb-2009)
5-minute        2066        169   141    15   325   2221 (30-May-2009)
1-minute        1531  [7]   430   394    16   840   1800 (14-Oct-2008)
15-minute       1803  [4]     0     1     0     1
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Nanuk"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2066"]
[BlackElo "2251"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "04:54:33"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. d4 exd4
7. Nxd4 Bc5 8. Nf5 d6 9. Nxg7+ Kf8 10. Nf5 Bxf5 11. exf5 Qh4
12. Qf3 Nd4 13. Qd3 Nxb5 14. Qxb5 Qg3 15. Bf4 Qxf4

{White resigns} 0-1
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Information about APetelin(IM) (Last disconnected Tue Jun 16 2009 04:54):

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Wild            1818  [6]     1     6     1     8
Loser's         1807  [6]     0     2     0     2
Bughouse        1765  [6]     1     7     0     8
Crazyhouse      1765  [6]     1     3     0     4
Bullet          2105  [8]  2976  2961   256  6193   2415 (25-Oct-2000)
Blitz           2347  [8]  4205  4569   564  9338   2705 (14-Jul-2000)
Standard        2292  [6]     1     1     1     3
5-minute        2179       5250  4444   669 10363   2404 (15-May-2008)
1-minute        1933  [7]  7005  6870   390 14265   2251 (27-Dec-2007)
15-minute        854  [3]     0     1     0     1

 1: Andrei Petelin, IM, Russia(St.Petersburg)

 Groups : IMs
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

The International Master from Saint Petersburg tries
to avoid Fishing Pole theory but loses quickly anyway.

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "APetelin"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2179"]
[BlackElo "2242"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, The Luzhin Defense to the Fishing Pole"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "04:47:36"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. O-O d6 6. Bxc6+ bxc6
7. c3 Bb6 8. Nbd2 Bg4 9. Nc4 Nh5 10. h3 Bxf3 11. Qxf3 Qh4 12. a4 a5
13. d4 f6 14. g4 Nf4 15. Bxf4 exf4 16. Kg2 g5 17. e5 d5 18. exf6 O-O
19. Nxb6 cxb6 20. Rfe1 Rxf6 21. Re5 Qh6 22. Rxd5 Raf8 23. Re5 Qg7
24. Rae1 h6 25. Re7 R8f7 26. Re8+ Rf8 27. R1e7 Qg6 28. Qe2 f3+

{White resigns} 0-1
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Information about Patroclus-80 (Last disconnected Tue Jun 16 2009 02:56):

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Bullet          1621  [8]     2     5     0     7
Blitz           2151       1424  1270   261  2955   2414 (18-Oct-2007)
Standard        1872  [6]     2     1     0     3
5-minute        2222       1865  1739   351  3955   2267 (25-Apr-2009)
1-minute        1681  [8]    11    23     2    36   1791 (27-May-2009)
15-minute       2131  [4]     3     0     0     3

 1: Greetings from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I speak French, German, and some
  Russian
 2: A lot of music is just noise compared to Mozart and Beethoven, but variety
  is the spice of life.
 3: Arthur Rimbaud was the greatest French poet. If he were alive today he
  would make a fine rapper.
 4: "Chess is absolutely science." -Eduard Gufeld
 5: "Le drapeau va au paysage immonde, et notre patois etouffe le tambour."
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

This was an odd Hyper-Pole in that Patroclus-80
forced me to beat him with normal Chess.

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Patroclus-80"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2176"]
[BlackElo "2218"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "02:12:39"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4


Life Master Jack Young invented the Fishing Pole but
the basic concept goes back to Greco and beyond.


5. c3 a6 6. Ba4 Bc5 7. d4 Ba7

I named this the Hyper-Pole with 3 ideas -
A -  Allowing a ... b5 pin-breaker if necessary
B -  7 ... Ba7 always creates a
PREGNANT HYPER-POLE PAUSE
because White is out of stock ideas
C - Creating a powerful peekaboo Bishop on a7



8. d5 Ne7

I am usually happy for the
... Nc6-e7-g6-f4  re-route


9. d6 Ng6!


Close call between
9 ... cd!!, ... Ng6!   or   ...  Nc6

10. dxc7 Qxc7!  11. Nbd2 b5!!  12. Bb3!

Normally  12 ... Nf6!!, ... 0-0!!  or ... h6!!
are the last moves I would play in a Fishing Pole
but they all give me the advantage here.



12 ...  d6!  13. Bd5!  Bb7!  14. Nb3! O-O!!


A rare opportunity in the Fishing Pole

15. h3 Nf6!!

Another rare opportunity for me in the Fishing Pole,
I almost never retreat the knight but it's the best
move and gives me the better play.
15 ... B:d5!!  is good too.


16. Bxb7!  Qxb7!  17. Qxd6!  Nxe4! 18. Qd1!  Rad8 19. Qe2!  f5

19 ... Ng3!!
wins the exchange


20. Be3!  Bxe3!  21. fxe3?

21  Q:e3!  Nf4!!  22 N:e5  N:c3!!
threatening mate on g2

21 ... Ng3!  22. Qf2!  Nxf1!  23. Rxf1!  Qd5 24. Ng5 h6
25. Nf3!  Only Move  f4!!   26. exf4 Nxf4! 27. Qe3!  Nd3
28. Rd1 e4! 29. Nbd4 exf3!

Only  29 ... N:b2!!  is better


30. Qxd3 fxg2 31. Re1 Rde8

31 ... Qf7!!
is another closer




32. Qd2 Rxe1+

There is often a choice between
winning the King
( 32 ... Rf1+!!  mates )
or
winning the Queen
( 32... R:e1+  33 Q:e1  Rf1+!! )


{White resigns} 0-1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Patroclus-80"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2176"]
[BlackElo "2218"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "02:12:39"]
[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.
d5 Ne7 9. d6 Ng6 10. dxc7 Qxc7 11. Nbd2 b5 12. Bb3 d6 13. Bd5 Bb7 14. Nb3
O-O 15. h3 Nf6 16. Bxb7 Qxb7 17. Qxd6 Nxe4 18. Qd1 Rad8 19. Qe2 f5 20. Be3
Bxe3 21. fxe3 Ng3 22. Qf2 Nxf1 23. Rxf1 Qd5 24. Ng5 h6 25. Nf3 f4 26. exf4
Nxf4 27. Qe3 Nd3 28. Rd1 e4 29. Nbd4 exf3 30. Qxd3 fxg2 31. Re1 Rde8 32. Qd2
Rxe1+ {White resigns} 0-1
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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun 16 14:24:12 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:24:12 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] ICC newbie
Message-ID: <1245183852.4a37ff6cf1d1f@www.taom.com>



[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "jl21"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2157"]
[BlackElo "2250"]
[Opening "French: Steinitz, Boleslavsky variation"]
[ECO "C11"]
[NIC "FR.04"]
[Time "16:07:56"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6
7. Be3 f6 8. exf6 Nxf6 9. dxc5 Qa5 10. Qd2 Bxc5 11. Bb5 Bxe3
12. Qxe3 O-O 13. a3 a6 14. Bxc6 bxc6 15. b4 Qc7 16. Ne5 a5
17. O-O Ba6 18. Rfe1 axb4 19. axb4 Rfb8 20. Na4 Ne4 21. c3 Bc8 22. Nc5

jl21 says: i am dominating now


22 ... Rxa1 23. Rxa1 Qb6 24. Ra5??  Qxa5!!

25  ba  Rb1+  mates so I just picked up a Rook.


jl21 says: good move
Your opponent requests takeback 2.


25. Nxe4 Qa1+

jl21 says: haha
jl21 says: cheeky
jl21 says: are you related to gavin wall


26. Kf2 dxe4 27. Qd4 Ba6 28. Nxc6 Rf8 29. Qd6 Qb2+
30. Kg3 Qxc3+ 31. Kh4 Qf6+ 32. Kg3 Kh8 33. Qe5 Qxe5 34. Nxe5

{White resigns} 0-1
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "jl21"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2157"]
[BlackElo "2250"]
[Opening "French: Steinitz, Boleslavsky variation"]
[ECO "C11"]
[NIC "FR.04"]
[Time "16:07:56"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Be3 f6 8.
exf6 Nxf6 9. dxc5 Qa5 10. Qd2 Bxc5 11. Bb5 Bxe3 12. Qxe3 O-O 13. a3 a6 14.
Bxc6 bxc6 15. b4 Qc7 16. Ne5 a5 17. O-O Ba6 18. Rfe1 axb4 19. axb4 Rfb8 20.
Na4 Ne4 21. c3 Bc8 22. Nc5 Rxa1 23. Rxa1 Qb6 24. Ra5 Qxa5 25. Nxe4 Qa1+ 26.
Kf2 dxe4 27. Qd4 Ba6 28. Nxc6 Rf8 29. Qd6 Qb2+ 30. Kg3 Qxc3+ 31. Kh4 Qf6+
32. Kg3 Kh8 33. Qe5 Qxe5 34. Nxe5 {White resigns} 0-1

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun 16 14:59:46 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:59:46 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Irishman on ICC newbie
Message-ID: <1245185986.4a3807c2218b1@www.taom.com>

I know. Joel Benjamin, Gavin Wall and Alexander Baburin are living my dream.

Brian Wall
------------------------------------------------------------------------

----- Forwarded message from Jonathan O'Connor <ninkibah at eircom.net> -----
    Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:46:33 +0100
    From: Jonathan O'Connor <ninkibah at eircom.net>
Reply-To: Jonathan O'Connor <ninkibah at eircom.net>
 Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] ICC newbie
      To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>

Brian,
in case you are wondering, Gavin Wall comes from London, of Irish
parents, and has played a few times for the Irish olympiad team. I think
his current FIDE rating is around 2350.
Ciao,
Jonathan

On 16/06/2009 21:24, Brian Wall wrote:
> [Event "ICC 5 0"]
> [Site "Internet Chess Club"]
> [Date "2009.06.16"]
> [Round "-"]
> [White "jl21"]
> [Black "B-Wall"]
> [Result "0-1"]
> [ICCResult "White resigns"]
> [WhiteElo "2157"]
> [BlackElo "2250"]
> [Opening "French: Steinitz, Boleslavsky variation"]
> [ECO "C11"]
> [NIC "FR.04"]
> [Time "16:07:56"]
> [TimeControl "300+0"]
>
> 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6
> 7. Be3 f6 8. exf6 Nxf6 9. dxc5 Qa5 10. Qd2 Bxc5 11. Bb5 Bxe3
> 12. Qxe3 O-O 13. a3 a6 14. Bxc6 bxc6 15. b4 Qc7 16. Ne5 a5
> 17. O-O Ba6 18. Rfe1 axb4 19. axb4 Rfb8 20. Na4 Ne4 21. c3 Bc8 22. Nc5
>
> jl21 says: i am dominating now
>
>
> 22 ... Rxa1 23. Rxa1 Qb6 24. Ra5??  Qxa5!!
>
> 25  ba  Rb1+  mates so I just picked up a Rook.
>
>
> jl21 says: good move
> Your opponent requests takeback 2.
>
>
> 25. Nxe4 Qa1+
>
> jl21 says: haha
> jl21 says: cheeky
> jl21 says: are you related to gavin wall
>
>
> 26. Kf2 dxe4 27. Qd4 Ba6 28. Nxc6 Rf8 29. Qd6 Qb2+
> 30. Kg3 Qxc3+ 31. Kh4 Qf6+ 32. Kg3 Kh8 33. Qe5 Qxe5 34. Nxe5
>
> {White resigns} 0-1
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> [Event "ICC 5 0"]
> [Site "Internet Chess Club"]
> [Date "2009.06.16"]
> [Round "-"]
> [White "jl21"]
> [Black "B-Wall"]
> [Result "0-1"]
> [ICCResult "White resigns"]
> [WhiteElo "2157"]
> [BlackElo "2250"]
> [Opening "French: Steinitz, Boleslavsky variation"]
> [ECO "C11"]
> [NIC "FR.04"]
> [Time "16:07:56"]
> [TimeControl "300+0"]
>
> 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Be3 f6 8.
> exf6 Nxf6 9. dxc5 Qa5 10. Qd2 Bxc5 11. Bb5 Bxe3 12. Qxe3 O-O 13. a3 a6 14.
> Bxc6 bxc6 15. b4 Qc7 16. Ne5 a5 17. O-O Ba6 18. Rfe1 axb4 19. axb4 Rfb8 20.
> Na4 Ne4 21. c3 Bc8 22. Nc5 Rxa1 23. Rxa1 Qb6 24. Ra5 Qxa5 25. Nxe4 Qa1+ 26.
> Kf2 dxe4 27. Qd4 Ba6 28. Nxc6 Rf8 29. Qd6 Qb2+ 30. Kg3 Qxc3+ 31. Kh4 Qf6+
> 32. Kg3 Kh8 33. Qe5 Qxe5 34. Nxe5 {White resigns} 0-1
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------


From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun 16 15:45:54 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:45:54 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 2009 Boulder Invitational
Message-ID: <1245188754.4a381292e6844@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Klaus Johnson <boulderchessclub at yahoo.com> -----
    Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:54:44 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Klaus Johnson <boulderchessclub at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Klaus Johnson <boulderchessclub at yahoo.com>
 Subject: 2009 Boulder Invitational
      To: Philipp Mikhailovich Ponomarev <philipp.ponomarev at colorado.edu>,
Renard Anderson <renard777 at msn.com>, Randy Reynolds <randy_teyana at msn.com>,
Mitesh Shridhar <mitesh.shridhar at gmail.com>, Ted Doykos <doykos at colorado.edu>,
Pierre Du Charme <ducharmep at yahoo.com>

July 24th-26th: Boulder Invitational 8RR (7 rounds) G/115 TD/5
?
Rounds: July 24th 2:30, 7:30. July 25th: 9:30, 2:30, 7:30, July 26th 9:30, 2:30
EF: $45
Prizes: $250 for 1st, $100 for 2nd.
?
List of Invited Players:
?
2008 Boulder Invitational Champion: Philipp Ponomarev ($0 EF for defending
champion)
2009 Colorado Closed Champion: Dashzegve Sharavdorj
2008-09 Boulder Club Champion: Mitesh Shridhar ($0 EF for club champion)
2008 Boulder Chess Festival Open Champion: Randy Reynolds
2008 Boulder Invitational T-2nd Place: Renard Anderson
2008 Boulder Invitational T-2nd Place: Mikhail Ponomarev
2008 Boulder Invitational T-2nd Place: Pierre DuCharme
2008 Boulder Invitational T-2nd Place: Ted Doykos
?
Alternates for Randy Reynolds's spot
?
1st Alternate: Lee Lahti
2nd Alternate: Ryan Crisp
?
If any of the players besides Randy Reynolds decline the invitation, then their
spot will be taken by the highest rated (July 2009 supplement) players who
apply.
?
All players must let me know by July 11th if they are playing.? I will send out
pairings at the conclusion of the Colorado Quick on that date.
?
USCF must be current through 7/31/09 by?July 11th.?CSCA membership is not
required, not a CO tour event.
?
Thank you,
?
Klaus Johnson
Director of Boulder Chess Club






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From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:49:45 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Drunken Penguin inventor has an Idea for a
	new chess opening: The Camel!?
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----- Forwarded message from van hulst noe <noevanhulst at yahoo.fr> -----
    Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:26:40 +0000 (GMT)
    From: van hulst noe <noevanhulst at yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: van hulst noe <noevanhulst at yahoo.fr>
 Subject: [BrianWallChess] Idea for a new chess opening: The Camel!?
      To: BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com


Brian,

Since I am spending lots of time working?in the Middle East since last year, and
having read your great book How to Play Chess Like an Animal, I?have started to
wonder how to define?an opening that can be called 'the?Camel'. The more I
observe these special animals, the more differences I discover between
them?though. So I need?your help and the help of others in the group. Let's
invent?The Camel! My preliminary idea is as follows:?The White Camel
could?build up a position like pawns on b3-d3-e3 (the rest of the pawns stay
where they are at least in the beginning) with?bishops on b2 and e2 and knights
landing on d2 and f3. In my view, that more or less looks like a Camel??walking
West. If the Camel walks East it could look like?pawns on d3-e3-g3 (rest of the
pawns staying behind) with bishops on d2 and g2 and knights on c3 and e2.
Obviously, the pawns d3-e3 (and if you wish including the knight on either c3
or f3) sort of mimick the camel's
 solid hump. Of course, the same position could be played as black as well (the
Black Camel)?and in reality we do encounter camels in all colours....

Ok, I admit, this is all a bit crazy to start with the Animal and then construct
the opening but why not think out of the box from time to time? Maybe you have a
much better proposal to compose the camel...My preliminary idea looks somewhat
like the Hippo of course, but it doesn't have two bishops in fianchetto but
just one. I am sure it is quite playable, certainly for you Brian!

Happy?to see any reactions...

Noe van Hulst ?????

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From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:13:32 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter
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----- Forwarded message from CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net> -----
    Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:26:08 -0600
    From: CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net>
Reply-To: CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net>
 Subject: Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter
      To: Fred Eric Spell <spellfe at hotmail.com>, John Schultz


Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter


http://cs.chess.home.att.net
            This Week In Chess

            On June 9th, the CSCC had 10 members in attendance. The main event
for the evening was the first round of the June Mating Game. This USCF-rated
event (G30) is a 4 round, Swiss tournament played over 2 weeks. There is still
time to join, get a couple of wins, and collect some prize money (it has been
done before). Here are the results after the first 2 rounds:



Score	Player
2.0	Paul Anderson
1.5	Mitch Anderson
1.5	Josh Divine
1.0	Jeff Fox
1.0	Dean Brown
1.0	Bob Staten
0.0	Buck Buchanan
0.0	Mitchell Pjontek

            Comments From Email

            Ray Fourzan, Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:48 AM

            I don't know about the 500 games, but I have been playing in rated
tournaments since December 1971 (pre-Bobby Fischer), so I probably have played
about 3000 rated games. Can anyone beat that?

            Ann Davies, Friday, June 12, 2009 7:32 AM

            I was just thinking about the word 'upset' and although I've heard
the term often and have my own understanding of what it means, I was wondering
what is your definition? Is there an official definition, someone beating
someone who is 'blank ____" points above them? Do different chess players have
different notions of upsets? Just curious . . .. . Please comment if you have
the time.

            [Ann asks an excellent question. The short answer to my definition
of an upset is any win where my opponent is within 25 rating points of me or
higher. Also, I would highly doubt there is an official definition so chess
players are free to create their own definitions. The only official use of
upset in chess I have seen is when Dean Brown offers an upset prize at a
tournament. Then the lower rated player, with a victory over a higher rated
player with the largest difference in their ratings, claims the cash prize.
Here is an example:
http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/newsletter/Tue_Jun_15_v1.html]

            Martin Deschner, Monday, June 15, 2009 6:57 PM

            I might have been napping, but are Paul Anderson and Mitch Anderson
related? Just wondering....Martin in Denver.

            [Comments are about this newsletter:
(http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/newsletter/Tue_Jun_09_2009.html)]

            Fuchs, Mike, Monday, June 15, 2009 2:04 PM

           
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

            [Comment is about this game:
(http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/cs_chess/message/325)]

            USAFA Quads #10
            By Jerry Maier

            Here are the results of the USAFA Quads #10.



Quad Alpha
Score	Place	Prize	Player
2.0	1st	$20.00	Julian S Evans
2.0	1st	$20.00	Josh Divine
1.5			Anthea J Carson
0.5			Alex Cacas

Quad Bravo
Score	Place	Prize	Player
2.5	1st	$40.00	Brendon Ch Barela
1.5			Gerardo Fern Neri
1.0			Howard Notgarnie
1.0			Derek Austin Fish

Quad Charlie
Score	Place	Prize	Player
2.0	1st	$20.00	Kurt Kondracki
2.0	1st	$20.00	Alexa E Lasley
1.0			Donald P Binnix
1.0			Matthew Lasley Sr

Quad Delta
Score	Place	Prize	Player
2.5	1st	$40.00	James M Powers
2.0			Thomas L Mullikin
1.5			Isaac Martinez
0.0			Gerald J Maier


Quad Echo
Score	Place	Prize	Player
3.0	1st	$40.00	Matthew Lasley Jr
1.5			Alexander Freeman
1.0			Gary G Frenzel
0.5			Robert Mitchell

            USAFA Chess #1 new tournament announcement
            By Jerry Maier

            2009 July USAFA Chess, Thursdays July 2-30

            5 round Swiss system tournament.
            Time Control: Game/90, t/d5
            Site: The Milazzo Center, Building 5226, US Air Force Academy, CO
            Directions: From I-25, take Exit #150 (Academy Blvd/the South
Entrance to the Academy), turn west toward the mountains. The road becomes
Stadium Drive. Take Stadium Drive, over the railroad bridge, about 5 miles.
Turn left up Community Center Drive about 2 miles. Near the hill crest on the
left is the fitness center. Turn left onto Aspen Drive (before Falcon and Eagle
Drives). Continue straight to the next stop sign and turn left. Proceed straight
for 100 yards (the fitness center is now on your left). The Milazzo Center and
its parking lot will be on your right (opposite the baseball field).
            Sections: Open (open to all).
            Entry fee: $10 covers the entire month of Thursdays.
            Prizes: Cash prizes per entries paid on final Thursday of event,
usually 85%-90% of entry fees, for 1st place and Under sections based on number
of players.
            Registration: 5:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m. every Thursday.
            Rounds: 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. July 2, July 9, July 16, July 23, July
30. 1 game per evening. TD assumes you are playing all rounds unless notified
in advance. Two ? point byes are allowed this month.
            Entries/TD: Jerry Maier 229 Hargrove Court, Colorado Springs CO
80919
            Phone: (719) 660-5531
            E-mail: pmjer77 at aim.com
            USCF membership required. See the TD if you need to renew or join.
Sponsored by the USAFA Community Center with Southern Colorado Chess direction.
Please note that this tournament runs while a casual, non-USCF section also
meets. There is no cost for the non-USCF games, nor for attending the casual
chess. Please be careful of the road construction on base. Be prepared to show
photo ID to get onto the base.

            Winter Springs Open Announcement
            By Buck Buchanan

            Here is a tournament announcement for the Winter Springs Open.

           
***************************************************************************************

            TOURNAMENT ANNOUNCEMENT

            December 5-6, Manitou Springs: Winter Springs Open

            4-SS, 40/2 and G/1, Masonic Lodge, 455 El Paso Blvd, Manitou
Springs. 3 Sections: June (open to all), July (U1800), August (U1400). Entry
fee $30 if rec'd by 12/3, $35 at site. $8 off EF for Juniors, Seniors, Unrated.
Cash prizes per entries. Register 8:30 - 9:30, rds schedule 10, 4; 9, 3. Entries
to Richard Buchanan, 1 Sutherland Rd, Manitou Springs CO 80829. Phone (719)
685-1984 or e-mail buckpeace at pcisys.net . CSCA membership required ($15, 10 for
juniors/seniors), OSA. Colorado Tour Event.

            Game Of The Week

            After playing two USCF-rated games in Tuesday's June Mating Game, I
noticed that I was going to reach 500 games at the Southern Colorado Open. It
seemed like such a milestone that I couldn't see publishing anything else this
week. But what kind of game was it going to be? It was going to be the final
round of the tournament that was for sure. However, a bad tournament could have
meant a lower rated opponent while a good tournament would have meant a tougher
opponent. It could have even been a battle for 1st place and the top prize.
Well, after my usual 3rd round defeat to FM Renard Anderson and my customary
4th round bye, the top spot was out of the picture. I had dropped to board 4
and had to struggle to win against Julian Evans and the clock, in a drawn rook
and bishop versus rook endgame, to even make it back to the top table for the
Anderson family reunion. Since I had already played "Papa" Anderson (not an
actual relation), it was time for the patriarch of the Anderson clan to school
my sibling, Mitch Anderson (not an actual relation), on board 1 while my
milestone played out on board 2.

            I was hoping my 500th game would have been a memorable triumph
rather than an embarrassing defeat. However, if it was going to be a defeat, I
wanted to go out in a blaze of glory. I didn't know much about my opponent,
Jeffrey Csima. We hadn't played before this game. He was listed as 2083, but he
was coming off a long break. Since he told me he was new to Colorado, I pondered
the idea of winning with the bishing pole. The idea grew on me as we started our
game. "This would be memorable win or lose," I thought to myself. Of course, we
had started with the English, so I really was in uncharted territory if I
ventured down that route. It looked similar to a fishing pole, but I was on the
white side with a bishop on a different diagonal. It was closer to the bishing
poles I've played, but the knight was the bait instead of the bishop. I had no
idea if this would work. If he had seen this before, I would have been in big
trouble. If this was new to him, I had a shot. I was terrified. I decided to
offer my first grandmaster draw just to hedge my bet, as I played h4. However,
I gained no relief from the terror. I still had to wait for his answer. It was
the most stressed I had felt all weekend, as the whole tournament seemed to
hang on this one decision. The game seemed irrelevant now. If he declined, he
was on to me and would crush my folly. If he accepted, he was under my spell
and would have fallen into a mating line. The next word from him would
determine the entire future destiny of my life. The game became so monumental
in my mind that I knew I need a word to describe its epic proportions, like the
Bicentennial. Of course, I play more than one game a year, so I would have to
remove the yearly reference in my term. Yet, I still wanted something to
inspire the chess world to celebrate with loud anthems and fireworks all across
this great nation of ours from sea to shining sea.

            The Quincenchessial (Click this link to view the game on your web
browser)

            (149) Anderson,Paul (1986) - Csima,Jeffrey (2018) [A35]
            Southern Colorado Open Colorado Springs (6.2), 14.06.2009
            [Fritz 8 (60s)]

            A35: Symmetrical English: 2 Nc3 Nc6 3 Nf3
            1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.e3 e6 5.a3 d5 last book move 6.Qc2 Be7
7.b3 0-0 8.Bb2 Re8 [8...d4 9.Na4=/+ ] 9.Ng5 h6 10.h4 [10.Nf3!?=/+ ] 1/2-1/2

            Upcoming Events

            6/16 June Mating Game continues, CSCC
            6/17,24 East Coast Deli's June Open final rounds, CSCC
            6/18 June 2009 G/29 Series Event, WCA
            6/19-20 Chess and Chess Variants, CSCA
            6/20 DCC June Swoon, CSCA
            6/20 casual chess at Agia Sophia coffee house, 2902 W Colorado, 8:00
PM., 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
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            Visit the website to search past newsletters or see the collection
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reply to this message with the subject heading "Unsubscribe".

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun 16 17:16:57 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:16:57 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Josh Smith looking for Lost Loves
Message-ID: <1245194217.4a3827e977e07@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from "Josh \"JD\" Smith" <jds at pclaptops.com> -----
    Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:56:46 -0600
    From: "Josh \"JD\" Smith" <jds at pclaptops.com>
Reply-To: "Josh \"JD\" Smith" <jds at pclaptops.com>
 Subject: RE: Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter
      To: CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net>, Fred Eric Spell

Was that a Mike Fuchs response that I saw in there? Roommate from way back! It's
fun to read the names on your email list and remember old friends. Fromme,
Splichal, Schultz just to name a few... You guys should stop by Utah sometime.
I have all of the top rated players in the state playing a tournament in my
basement this weekend! Anybody know how to get a hold of Randall Moore?

Josh Smith

From: CS Chess [mailto:cs.chess at worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:26 PM
To: Fred Eric Spell; John Schultz; Glenn Leotaud; Martin Deschner; Max Proffitt;
Dennis Leong; Terry Likens; Lee Vaughn; Chris Church; Torsten Lindestroem; Ron
Arms; Nate Ola; La Moyne Splichal; Matt Tucker; Andrew Grochowski; vinay joshi;
Liz Wood; John Kurtice; Ken Johnson; ed taman; Andrew Stolzmann; Eric Saulnier;
ange enrique; CS Chess Yahoo Group; victor gonzalez; Gary Ware; Bruce Downs;
Lauri Tiilikainen; ryan mccardell; Dan Southard; Tim Fisher; Johnny Owens;
Brian Gloria; Matthew blea; Steve Archuleta; Koji Del Conte; myles browning;
Richard Neely; Edwin Brown; Arnold Hendrick; Michael Wokurka; Justin Howells;
Kathleen O'Brien; Michael Wheelon; Glenn Knight; Joe Fromme; AKINPELU STEPHEN
DAMILARE; Robert Moore; Jim Heitz
Cc: Brian Wall; Matt Lasley
Subject: Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter


Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter
http://cs.chess.home.att.net<http://cs.chess.home.att.net/>
This Week In Chess

On June 9th, the CSCC had 10 members in attendance. The main event for the
evening was the first round of the June Mating Game. This USCF-rated event
(G30) is a 4 round, Swiss tournament played over 2 weeks. There is still time
to join, get a couple of wins, and collect some prize money (it has been done
before). Here are the results after the first 2 rounds:

Score   Player

2.0     Paul Anderson

1.5     Mitch Anderson

1.5     Josh Divine

1.0     Jeff Fox

1.0     Dean Brown

1.0     Bob Staten

0.0     Buck Buchanan

0.0     Mitchell Pjontek

Comments From Email

Ray Fourzan, Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:48 AM

I don't know about the 500 games, but I have been playing in rated tournaments
since December 1971 (pre-Bobby Fischer), so I probably have played about 3000
rated games. Can anyone beat that?

Ann Davies, Friday, June 12, 2009 7:32 AM

I was just thinking about the word 'upset' and although I've heard the term
often and have my own understanding of what it means, I was wondering what is
your definition? Is there an official definition, someone beating someone who
is 'blank ____" points above them? Do different chess players have different
notions of upsets? Just curious . . .. . Please comment if you have the time.

[Ann asks an excellent question. The short answer to my definition of an upset
is any win where my opponent is within 25 rating points of me or higher. Also,
I would highly doubt there is an official definition so chess players are free
to create their own definitions. The only official use of upset in chess I have
seen is when Dean Brown offers an upset prize at a tournament. Then the lower
rated player, with a victory over a higher rated player with the largest
difference in their ratings, claims the cash prize. Here is an example:
http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/newsletter/Tue_Jun_15_v1.html]

Martin Deschner, Monday, June 15, 2009 6:57 PM

I might have been napping, but are Paul Anderson and Mitch Anderson related?
Just wondering....Martin in Denver.

[Comments are about this newsletter:
(http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/newsletter/Tue_Jun_09_2009.html)]

Fuchs, Mike, Monday, June 15, 2009 2:04 PM

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Comment is about this game:
(http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/cs_chess/message/325)]

USAFA Quads #10
By Jerry Maier

Here are the results of the USAFA Quads #10.

Quad Alpha

Score   Place   Prize   Player

2.0     1st     $20.00  Julian S Evans

2.0     1st     $20.00  Josh Divine

1.5                    Anthea J Carson

0.5                    Alex Cacas



Quad Bravo

Score   Place   Prize   Player

2.5     1st     $40.00  Brendon Ch Barela

1.5                    Gerardo Fern Neri

1.0                    Howard Notgarnie

1.0                    Derek Austin Fish



Quad Charlie

Score   Place   Prize   Player

2.0     1st     $20.00  Kurt Kondracki

2.0     1st     $20.00  Alexa E Lasley

1.0                    Donald P Binnix

1.0                    Matthew Lasley Sr



Quad Delta

Score   Place   Prize   Player

2.5     1st     $40.00  James M Powers

2.0                    Thomas L Mullikin

1.5                    Isaac Martinez

0.0                    Gerald J Maier





Quad Echo

Score   Place   Prize   Player

3.0     1st     $40.00  Matthew Lasley Jr

1.5                    Alexander Freeman

1.0                    Gary G Frenzel

0.5                    Robert Mitchell

USAFA Chess #1 new tournament announcement
By Jerry Maier

2009 July USAFA Chess, Thursdays July 2-30

5 round Swiss system tournament.
Time Control: Game/90, t/d5
Site: The Milazzo Center, Building 5226, US Air Force Academy, CO
Directions: From I-25, take Exit #150 (Academy Blvd/the South Entrance to the
Academy), turn west toward the mountains. The road becomes Stadium Drive. Take
Stadium Drive, over the railroad bridge, about 5 miles. Turn left up Community
Center Drive about 2 miles. Near the hill crest on the left is the fitness
center. Turn left onto Aspen Drive (before Falcon and Eagle Drives). Continue
straight to the next stop sign and turn left. Proceed straight for 100 yards
(the fitness center is now on your left). The Milazzo Center and its parking
lot will be on your right (opposite the baseball field).
Sections: Open (open to all).
Entry fee: $10 covers the entire month of Thursdays.
Prizes: Cash prizes per entries paid on final Thursday of event, usually 85%-90%
of entry fees, for 1st place and Under sections based on number of players.
Registration: 5:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m. every Thursday.
Rounds: 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. July 2, July 9, July 16, July 23, July 30. 1 game
per evening. TD assumes you are playing all rounds unless notified in advance.
Two ? point byes are allowed this month.
Entries/TD: Jerry Maier 229 Hargrove Court, Colorado Springs CO 80919
Phone: (719) 660-5531
E-mail: pmjer77 at aim.com
USCF membership required. See the TD if you need to renew or join. Sponsored by
the USAFA Community Center with Southern Colorado Chess direction. Please note
that this tournament runs while a casual, non-USCF section also meets. There is
no cost for the non-USCF games, nor for attending the casual chess. Please be
careful of the road construction on base. Be prepared to show photo ID to get
onto the base.

Winter Springs Open Announcement
By Buck Buchanan

Here is a tournament announcement for the Winter Springs Open.

***************************************************************************************

TOURNAMENT ANNOUNCEMENT

December 5-6, Manitou Springs: Winter Springs Open

4-SS, 40/2 and G/1, Masonic Lodge, 455 El Paso Blvd, Manitou Springs. 3
Sections: June (open to all), July (U1800), August (U1400). Entry fee $30 if
rec'd by 12/3, $35 at site. $8 off EF for Juniors, Seniors, Unrated. Cash
prizes per entries. Register 8:30 - 9:30, rds schedule 10, 4; 9, 3. Entries to
Richard Buchanan, 1 Sutherland Rd, Manitou Springs CO 80829. Phone (719)
685-1984 or e-mail buckpeace at pcisys.net . CSCA membership required ($15, 10 for
juniors/seniors), OSA. Colorado Tour Event.

Game Of The Week

After playing two USCF-rated games in Tuesday's June Mating Game, I noticed that
I was going to reach 500 games at the Southern Colorado Open. It seemed like
such a milestone that I couldn't see publishing anything else this week. But
what kind of game was it going to be? It was going to be the final round of the
tournament that was for sure. However, a bad tournament could have meant a lower
rated opponent while a good tournament would have meant a tougher opponent. It
could have even been a battle for 1st place and the top prize. Well, after my
usual 3rd round defeat to FM Renard Anderson and my customary 4th round bye,
the top spot was out of the picture. I had dropped to board 4 and had to
struggle to win against Julian Evans and the clock, in a drawn rook and bishop
versus rook endgame, to even make it back to the top table for the Anderson
family reunion. Since I had already played "Papa" Anderson (not an actual
relation), it was time for the patriarch of the Anderson clan to school my
sibling, Mitch Anderson (not an actual relation), on board 1 while my milestone
played out on board 2.

I was hoping my 500th game would have been a memorable triumph rather than an
embarrassing defeat. However, if it was going to be a defeat, I wanted to go
out in a blaze of glory. I didn't know much about my opponent, Jeffrey Csima.
We hadn't played before this game. He was listed as 2083, but he was coming off
a long break. Since he told me he was new to Colorado, I pondered the idea of
winning with the bishing pole. The idea grew on me as we started our game.
"This would be memorable win or lose," I thought to myself. Of course, we had
started with the English, so I really was in uncharted territory if I ventured
down that route. It looked similar to a fishing pole, but I was on the white
side with a bishop on a different diagonal. It was closer to the bishing poles
I've played, but the knight was the bait instead of the bishop. I had no idea
if this would work. If he had seen this before, I would have been in big
trouble. If this was new to him, I had a shot. I was terrified. I decided to
offer my first grandmaster draw just to hedge my bet, as I played h4. However,
I gained no relief from the terror. I still had to wait for his answer. It was
the most stressed I had felt all weekend, as the whole tournament seemed to
hang on this one decision. The game seemed irrelevant now. If he declined, he
was on to me and would crush my folly. If he accepted, he was under my spell
and would have fallen into a mating line. The next word from him would
determine the entire future destiny of my life. The game became so monumental
in my mind that I knew I need a word to describe its epic proportions, like the
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remove the yearly reference in my term. Yet, I still wanted something to
inspire the chess world to celebrate with loud anthems and fireworks all across
this great nation of ours from sea to shining sea.

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(149) Anderson,Paul (1986) - Csima,Jeffrey (2018) [A35]
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[Fritz 8 (60s)]

A35: Symmetrical English: 2 Nc3 Nc6 3 Nf3
1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.e3 e6 5.a3 d5 last book move 6.Qc2 Be7 7.b3 0-0
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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun 16 18:40:05 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:40:05 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] New Camel Opening can spit 30 feet
Message-ID: <1245199205.4a383b6561822@www.taom.com>


----- Forwarded message from van hulst noe <noevanhulst at yahoo.fr> -----
    Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:26:40 +0000 (GMT)
    From: van hulst noe <noevanhulst at yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: van hulst noe <noevanhulst at yahoo.fr>
Subject: [BrianWallChess] Idea for a new chess opening: The Camel!?
      To: BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com


Brian,

Since I am spending lots of time working in the Middle East since last year, and
having read your great book How to Play Chess Like an Animal, I have started to
wonder how to define an opening that can be called 'the Camel'. The more I
observe these special animals, the more differences I discover between
them though. So I need your help and the help of others in the group. Let's
invent The Camel! My preliminary idea is as follows: The White Camel
could build up a position like pawns on b3-d3-e3 (the rest of the pawns stay
where they are at least in the beginning) with bishops on b2 and e2 and knights
landing on d2 and f3. In my view, that more or less looks like a Camel  walking
West. If the Camel walks East it could look like pawns on d3-e3-g3 (rest of the
pawns staying behind) with bishops on d2 and g2 and knights on c3 and e2.
Obviously, the pawns d3-e3 (and if you wish including the knight on either c3
or f3) sort of mimick the camel's
solid hump. Of course, the same position could be played as black as well (the
Black Camel) and in reality we do encounter camels in all colours....

Ok, I admit, this is all a bit crazy to start with the Animal and then construct
the opening but why not think out of the box from time to time? Maybe you have a
much better proposal to compose the camel...My preliminary idea looks somewhat
like the Hippo of course, but it doesn't have two bishops in fianchetto but
just one. I am sure it is quite playable, certainly for you Brian!

Happy to see any reactions...

Noe van Hulst
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Brian Wall

First Recorded Camel Opening.
Within minutes of Noe van Hulst suggesting the White Camel Opening,
I went to work.

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Jotun"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White disconnected and forfeits"]
[WhiteElo "2188"]
[BlackElo "2281"]
[Opening "Mieses opening, The White Camel Opening by Noe Van Hulst"]
[ECO "A00"]
[NIC "VO.13"]
[Time "17:52:06"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. d3 e5 2. b3 Nc6 3. Bb2 f6 4. e3 d5 5. Nd2 Be6 6. Be2 Qd7 7. Ngf3

Let's invent The Camel! My preliminary idea is as follows: The White Camel
could build up a position like pawns on b3-d3-e3 (the rest of the pawns stay
where they are at least in the beginning) with bishops on b2 and e2 and knights
landing on d2 and f3. In my view, that more or less looks like a Camel  walking
West.

Noe van Hulst

7 ... Nge7 8. O-O!  h5 9. c4 h4 10. cxd5

Trying to turn the White Camel into a Reversed Najdorf


10 ... Nxd5!   11. Rc1 g5

It looks like a Najdorf versus a Yugoslav or English Attack

12. d4 g4

Jotun's Hammer of Thor arrives first


13. Ne1!  exd4!  14. exd4 Bd6 15. Ne4!!   g3 16. Nd3 gxh2+!  17. Kh1!

Trying to hide behind his pwns

17 ...  O-O-O!  18. Ndc5!  Qe7 19. Nxe6 Qxe6
20. Nc5 Qf7 21. Bf3 Rdg8 22. Qd3

The White Camel is about to trample the White Squares everywhere.
I was wondering how Jotun was going to deal with all the threats -
his only equalizer is  22 ... Nce7!!  but he never moved.
My computer went down and I forfeited the game.
After the game I found out Jotun had played  22 ... B:c5?
which loses material to  23 Qf5+!!
so I might have won my first Camel game.


22 ... Bxc5

{White disconnected and forfeits} 0-1

The White Camel is rather domesticated compared to the
feral events of the Seeing Double Drunken Penguin Opening.
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http://camelphotos.com/GraphicsP3/whitecamel5.jpg

Picture of White Camel
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Information about Jotun(FM) (Last disconnected Tue Jun 16 2009 18:18):

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Wild            1881  [1]  3065   660   165  3890   2271 (20-Aug-1999)
Bughouse        1972  [6]   205   129     0   334   2108 (11-Oct-1999)
Crazyhouse      1797  [6]   339   273     0   612   2133 (30-Jun-2003)
Bullet          2130      15958  7527  1750 25235   2458 (11-Aug-1999)
Blitz           2642  [8] 13421  6161  1697 21279   2649 (17-Jul-2003)
Standard        2413  [5]    16     5     4    25   2449 (23-May-2003)
5-minute        2302       2681  1938   607  5226   2410 (03-Mar-2009)
1-minute        2132  [8]   323   270    48   641   2266 (25-Oct-2008)
15-minute       2099  [4]     6     1     0     7


 1: KCL of Tucson. Chessplayer, teacher, writer.
 2: I grant takebacks for obvious mouseslips, draws for dead positions.
  Assuming you have more than a couple seconds left.
 3: Flying Spaghetti Monsterism!
 4: Name That Film: "People don't drink the sand because they're thirsty, they
  drink it because they don't know the difference" "If Eisenhower were here,
  he'd be dead by now" "Yes, I am a member of the ACLU, but the real question
  is Bob, why aren't you?"
 5: Name That Film: "I want to change their minds, not kill them for
  weaknessess we all possess" "I too am willing to die, but there is no cause
  for which I am willing to kill" "The only devils in the world are those
  running around in our own hearts, and that's where all our battles ought to
  be fought"
 6: Name That Film: "The mob doesn't like it when their gods turn out to be
  human" "When you're uncertain, that's the time to take fast action I always
  say" "Why do some people only find hate in the Bible?"
 7: Sweetest sound: Puccini, Wagner, Pink Floyd, Queen, Tchaikovsky, Verdi,
  Webber, R. Rodgers, Moody Blues, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Lennon, McCartney,
  and especially Mozart.
 8: Movies to see this month: Ikuru, Great Bank Robbery, Spartacus, Monty
  Python and the Holy Grail, Carousel
 9: 1.e4 e5, 2.Nf3 d6, 3.d4 exd4, 4.Nxd4 g6, 5.Bc4 Bg7, 6.Qf3 Qe7, 7.Bg5 Nf6,
  8.Nc3 c6, 9.0-0 Nbd7, 10.Qe2 Ne5, 11.f4 Bg4, 12.fxe5!?  What in Hell is going
  on in this position?! Craziest actual position I've ever come across.
10: One of my students (age 7): "When you lose the king, does the queen take
  over?"

 Groups : FMs

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First Recorded Camel Opening

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Jotun"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White disconnected and forfeits"]
[WhiteElo "2188"]
[BlackElo "2281"]
[Opening "Mieses opening, The White Camel Opening by Noe Van Hulst"]
[ECO "A00"]
[NIC "VO.13"]
[Time "17:52:06"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. d3 e5 2. b3 Nc6 3. Bb2 f6 4. e3 d5 5. Nd2 Be6 6. Be2 Qd7 7. Ngf3 Nge7 8.
O-O h5 9. c4 h4 10. cxd5 Nxd5 11. Rc1 g5 12. d4 g4 13. Ne1 exd4 14. exd4 Bd6
15. Ne4 g3 16. Nd3 gxh2+ 17. Kh1 O-O-O 18. Ndc5 Qe7 19. Nxe6 Qxe6 20. Nc5
Qf7 21. Bf3 Rdg8 22. Qd3 Bxc5 {White disconnected and forfeits} 0-1
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http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-6/256056/ro-2613.jpg

BIG DOT CAMEL WHITE TIE BIKINI

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First recorded Black Camel Opening

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Knightlife"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2196"]
[BlackElo "2205"]
[Opening "King's pawn opening, The Black Camel Opening by Noe Van Hulst"]
[ECO "B07"]
[NIC "VO.17"]
[Time "17:59:32"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 b6 3. Nc3 Bb7 4. Nf3 e6 5. Bd3 Be7 6. O-O Nd7 7. Re1 Ngf6

If the Camel walks East it could look like pawns on d3-e3-g3 (rest of the
pawns staying behind) with bishops on d2 and g2 and knights on c3 and e2.
Obviously, the pawns d3-e3 (and if you wish including the knight on either c3
or f3) sort of mimick the camel's
solid hump. Of course, the same position could be played as black as well (the
Black Camel) and in reality we do encounter camels in all colours....

Noe van Hulst


8. e5!  Nd5!

This has a Rat/Hippo/Scheveningen feel to it.

9. Ne4 O-O 10. c4 Nb4!!  11. Bb1 dxe5!  12. dxe5 Nc5!

My Black Camel is very comfortable in his own skin


13. Bd2

Flipper Move

13 ... Nbd3!!  14. Re3 Bxe4!!

Victory in my first Black Camel.
What a learning curve.
The center of the board looks
like a Black Camel Caravan.


15. b4

Confusing me a bit so I decided to settle
on an extra pawn and a solid position.



15 ... Nxb4?


15 ... B:f3!!, ... Nb2!!  or ... f5!!
retain more of my material


16. Bxe4!  Nxe4!  17. Rxe4!  Nd3??

The Camel slips on some bad sand.
18  Rd4!!  N:f2!
only gives me two pawns for a piece.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAuy-Jeb_sY&NR=1

Camel Spits at Transvestite



18. Rg4?  Kh8?  19. Qe2?  Nc5!!


Finally dealing with the threat we keep missing, Rd4!

20. Rd1! Qd3??

This Camel is unsteady,
Knightlife  has  21 Bh6!!!


21. Qe1??   Rad8??  22. h3??

Missing   Bh6!!!  again


22 ...  Rd7??  23. Rc1??

Both missing   Bh6!!!   3 times.
It's hard to see a Black Camel at night.

23 ... h5!!


Cyndi Lauper - Into The Nightlife

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTAIkWDrb6o


24. Rg3 Ne4!! 25. Kh2 Nxd2!!


{White resigns}   0-1

Camels give bump rides.
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http://linda77.com/kuwait%20for%20webpage/112%20black%20camel.jpg

Picture of Black Camel
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Statistics for Knightlife         On for: 3:42     Idle:   10

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
5-minute        2223        249   177    59   485   2463 (20-Apr-2009)
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First recorded Black Camel Opening

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Knightlife"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2196"]
[BlackElo "2205"]
[Opening "King's pawn opening, The Black Camel Opening by Noe Van Hulst"]
[ECO "B07"]
[NIC "VO.17"]
[Time "17:59:32"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 b6 3. Nc3 Bb7 4. Nf3 e6 5. Bd3 Be7 6. O-O Nd7 7. Re1 Ngf6 8.
e5 Nd5 9. Ne4 O-O 10. c4 Nb4 11. Bb1 dxe5 12. dxe5 Nc5 13. Bd2 Nbd3 14. Re3
Bxe4 15. b4 Nxb4 16. Bxe4 Nxe4 17. Rxe4 Nd3 18. Rg4 Kh8 19. Qe2 Nc5 20. Rd1
Qd3 21. Qe1 Rad8 22. h3 Rd7 23. Rc1 h5 24. Rg3 Ne4 25. Kh2 Nxd2 {White
resigns} 0-1
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Youtube Camel Opening videos -
None yet

From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Wed Jun 17 07:49:30 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:49:30 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] website progress
Message-ID: <1245246570.4a38f46a8a57e@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Chris Peterson <garrensilverwing at yahoo.com> -----
    Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:35:13 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Chris Peterson <garrensilverwing at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Chris Peterson <garrensilverwing at yahoo.com>
 Subject: website progress
      To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>

brianwallchess.x10hosting is now brianwallchess.net





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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Wed Jun 17 09:31:04 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:31:04 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] http://www.brianwallchess.com/
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http://www.brianwallchess.com/

It is interesting to me that some people use my love of Chess
and my name to promote their products, Chess or otherwise.

if you go to

http://www.brianwallchess.com/

you will find a site for Chess equipment.

Bobby Fischer used to complain about this all the time but I find it flattering.
It all started with Steve Dykstra's funeral so I am amazed it got this far.

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www.brianwallchess.x10hosting.com/

or

www.BrianWallChess.net

is supposed to be my new site with Chris Peterson

but it's a free site that seems to be down or hard to reach
half the time.
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http://vcchess.net/2008_05_01_archive.html

Valencia County Chess
has a link  to www.Walverine.com
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http://chess-improvement.com/chess-analysis/chess-analysis-alekhines-defense-modern-variation-robert-ramirez-vs-brian-wall/

This guy has a site called Chess_Improvement.com

and posts a lot of my stuff,
not to be confused with
Chess_Improvemen at Yahoogroups.com

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http://goddesschess.blogspot.com/2009/01/2008-north-american-open.html

I loved Jan "Xena" Newton's site so much I drove
out to see her 6 years ago on my big road trip.

She has some nice links.

The first one is called

http://sbchess.sinfree.net/archives.html

Bat Girl's (Sarah's) Chess Journal

and is a lot of fun, Chess from a woman's perspective.

Chris should add all those links to my site.

Xena also has a link to www.Chessville.com
and many others
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http://chess-improvement.com/chess-strategies/chess-strategies-tyler-hughes-full-metal-jackets-grandmaster-sharavdorj-dashzeveg/

This site

http://rss-feeds.info/tags/Brian-Wall/Chess-Stra2523.xml

Chess Strategy is linked to Chess_Improvement.com and a Chess store-
it's fun to see
Tyler Hughes versus GM Sharavdorj
Colorado Closed 2009
on some random Chess site
in click and move format
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http://www.idahochess.net/links.htm

a link to www.Walverine.com
in Idaho Chess
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http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/cheslink.htm

Bill Wall's Chess link
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http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1152869084

ChessPub.com
blogs about the Fishing Pole
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http://newyorkchess.net/links.htm

a link to www.Walverine.com

at New York Chess
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http://www.worldopen.com/worldopen2001/july_6th.htm

a 29th World Open 2001 bulletin
where I won an Action tournament in a controversial game with GM Michael Rhode.
4.5/5 ahead of GMs with the Brick!
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http://game.techchuck.com/topic/fishing-pole/

Some computer tech site promoting Fishing Pole Chess videos
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http://www.fav-man.de/search.php/all/celle

some German site likes my

Shattering the Scheveningen

Youtube video
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http://home.earthlink.net/~mothershouse/

Mother's House Publishing

still sells

How To Play Chess Like An Animal
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http://linkarena.com/tags/chess

I don't know to get massive google hits but somebody does -
this site mentions some of my Chess emails
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http://www.youtube.com/jrobichess?gl=CA&hl=en

JRobiChess


jrobichess
Style: Commentary
Joined: July 13, 2007
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To my knowledge I am the first person to begin playing chess and creating
YouTube videos at the same time. My overall chess journey (things I have
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from what I posted and from comments and feedback from my subscribers.

I started chess in July 2007, and I have created a video history of my progress
through YouTube! Follow along with my ups and downs as I work towards getting
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Technology has greatly helped my chess improve, and I hope you find that it can
benefit you in the same way. I not only appreciate but invite your text and
video comments to all my videos!

Chess is a lifelong journey - thanks for sharing it with me!
Age: 33

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Wed Jun 17 23:23:53 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:23:53 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Every Wednesday, a four-round Swiss tourney!
Message-ID: <1245302633.4a39cf69ba299@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson <valleychess at hotmail.com> -----
    Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:58:26 -0700
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 Subject: Every Wednesday, a four-round Swiss tourney!



Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:41:30 -0700
From: rick_smouse at yahoo.com
Subject: Every Wednesday, a four-round Swiss tourney!
To: rick_smouse at yahoo.com





Dear Bookman's Chess Club members and friends,

The Copper State International tournament in Mesa, in the Dobson
Ranch was quite successful!  Local FM Danny Rensch did an excellent
job!  Local IM Rogelio Barcenilla scored his final GM norm!

Also, IM Alex Lenderman (19 years old)  from Brooklyn, NY scored his
first GM norm!  I helped out by giving Alex a ride for lunch on two occasions.
Alex told me that he doesn't own a car, nor has a driver's license back in
Brooklyn.

While having lunch at the Native New Yorker restaurant on the final day of the
tournament, after knowing that he had scored his GM norm, Alex told me that
it would not be necessary for him to come back next year to score his remaining
two norms.  He said he felt confident that he would already have earned the
required, final two norms before then!

After lunch, Alex and I went back for the awards ceremony.
Here's a link to Alex's dance at the award ceremony celebrating his winning
his very first GM on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxX0DnFZkGc

I am sure that you will enjoy this video.  I certainly enjoyed watching him
live!

Alex helped make this a very successful tournament.  Also, he contributed to the
enjoyment with this dance at the awards ceremony!  If you had bought one of
the raffle tickets that I recommended earlier, just Alex's break dance alone
would have
made it well worth your while!

John LaLonde of Abstrax and Jon Haskel helped make this a very successful,
well run tournament, too.  I look forward to seeing you all next year at the
Copper State Internationa!  With this year's success I am sure that this will
become
an annual affair!  Please get your raffle tickets early!

Finally, here's a link to the cross table for the main event. GM Gareev came in
first with a score of 8 out of 10!  Alex tied for 2nd and 3rd with GM
Kacheishvili,
each with a score of 7.5 out of 10:

http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?200906030341.1


Getting back to our regular, weekly Mesa Bookman's tournaments ...

I went by to check on the status of the remodeling yesterday.
It turns out that the Mesa Bookman's bookstore has nearly completed their
remodeling of the store.  Our earlier community room where we used to hold
our regular club meetings has been completely remodeled!  The French doors
are gone and are replaced by two archways, a larger one for adults and a smaller
one for kids.  Also, the room contains numerous books for children.  It looks
very attractive with a pastels and purples color theme!

With this news, it's my assessment that there is no longer any convenient
space in the store for us to set up the tables, chairs, boards, and sets.

I would like to go by one final time and meet with the store manager, Sarah
McGovern to thank her for her support in the past.  She's been very supportive
of us and helped us overcome any obstacles whenever they arose.
Also, I would like to thank Laura, the assistant store manager, for all her help
over
the years in our relationship with Bookman's.  Laura was especially instrumental
in
making sure things went well for us.

During June and into the foreseeable future we will continue to meet at the
Mesa Fiesta Borders bookstore. This Wednesday and every Wednesday,
we will be having a four-round Swiss tourney, game in 20 minutes tournament
(4SS G/20).  Checkin and registration begins at 6 PM and lasts until 6:45 PM.
The first round will begin at 7 PM.

For newcomers, the street address and other info for the Borders site is:

Borders Books & Music
1361 South Alma School Road
Mesa, AZ 85210
Phone (480) 833-2244
Borders website: www.borders.com

Please see the attached brochure for the Borders site!

Congratulations to Lance Dmytrow who won clear 1st with a perfect score of 4-0.
Lance took home a $5 gift card from Borders!

Also, congratulations to Soren Aletheia-Zomlefer for winning the Best Under 1600
prize
with a score of 3 out of 4!  Again, the prize was a $5.00 Borders gift card!

This last week Wednesday, we had an excellent turnout with 18 players!

Here's a link to last Wednesday's tournament at the Mesa Fiesta Borders
bookstore:

http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?200906102481

We look forward to seeing you this evening and every Wednesday!

Also, since we have shifted our tournament schedule to be 15 minutes earlier,
I have received very positive feedback from the Borders store manager and staff
that
this works much better for them!  Actually, it works much better for me and the
players, as well.  It helps reduce our time pressure and we don't have to rush
as much
to leave the store on time after the last round.


Best regards,

Rick Smouse
(480) 390-9528

rick_smouse at yahoo.com

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Thu Jun 18 01:27:25 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:27:25 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] New opening - The English Elephant Gambit
Message-ID: <1245310045.4a39ec5d8ed8a@www.taom.com>



Statistics for DirkGently         On for:   28     Idle:    0
DirkGently is currently involved in a match against invalidovich.

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Bullet          1134  [8]     0     1     0     1
Blitz           2234  [7]   946   545   101  1592   2234 (17-Jun-2009)
5-minute        1933       1602  1553   235  3390   2288 (12-Dec-2008)
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New opening - The English Elephant

Before this it's been tried randomly, scoring 1 win our of 6 games.

My idea is this:
1 e4  e5  2 Nf3  d5
is the Elephant Gambit
3 ed  Bd6

We have all been programmed that the English is designed to control d5.
The English Elephant Gambit is a slap in White's face to this propaganda.
We simply play  1 c4  e5   2  Nc3  d5!!  3  cd  Bd6
like the Elephant Gambit and go from there.

My opponent was so horrified and outraged at my effrontery that he played super
slow and carefully as English players are wont to do. I hung in there as best
I could until his flag fell. I still had 1:31 left. DirkGently didn't care,
he just didn't want me to escape ON THE BOARD. DirkGently played very well.

And this a new opening was born. "Inventing" an opening is the
fastest way to learn all the other names that have gone before me.



[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.18"]
[Round "-"]
[White "DirkGently"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "1933"]
[BlackElo "2169"]
[Opening "English opening"]
[ECO "A21"]
[NIC "EO.23"]
[Time "03:02:49"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 d5 3. cxd5 Nf6 4. Nf3 Bd6 5. g3 e4 6. Nd4 O-O 7. Bg2 Re8 8.
O-O Nbd7 9. d3 exd3 10. Qxd3 Nc5 11. Qc2 Bg4 12. Re1 Qd7 13. b4 Na6 14. a3
Bh3 15. Bg5 Bxg2 16. Kxg2 Ng4 17. Qf5 Qxf5 18. Nxf5 Be5 19. Rac1 h6 20. Bf4
Bxf4 21. gxf4 Rad8 22. f3 Nf6 23. e4 Nh5 24. Ne2 Rd7 25. Kf2 Kh7 26. Rc2 g6
27. Ne3 Ng7 28. Rec1 Ree7 29. Ng4 Ne8 30. Ne5 Rd6 31. Nd4 f6 32. Ng4 f5 33.
Ne5 fxe4 34. fxe4 Nf6 35. Kf3 Nxd5 36. exd5 Rxd5 37. Rc4 c6 38. a4 Nxb4 39.
Rxb4 c5 40. Rb5 Rxd4 41. Rbxc5 g5 42. Rc7 Rxc7 43. Rxc7+ Kg8 44. f5 Rf4+ 45.
Ke3 Rxf5 46. Ke4 Rf4+ 47. Kd5 Rxa4 48. Rxb7 {White resigns} 0-1



[Event "GER-ch23 sf4 corr"]
[Site "Germany"]
[Date "1991.??.??"]
[Round "0"]
[White "Loeffler,Werner"]
[Black "John,Helmut"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco "D08"]
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d5 3.d4 exd4 4.Qxd4 Nc6 5.Qd2 Nf6 6.g3 Be6 7.Nxd5 Ne5 8.b3 Ne4
9.Qe3 c6 10.Qxe4 cxd5 11.cxd5 Qa5+ 12.Bd2 Bxd5 13.Bxa5 Bxe4 14.f3 Bc6 15.0-0-0
Ng4 16.Nh3 Be7
17.e4 Ne3 18.Rd4 b6 19.Bd2 Nxf1 20.Rxf1 Bf6 21.Rd6 Rc8 22.Kb1 Be5 23.Bf4 Bxd6
24.Bxd6 f6
25.Nf4 Kf7 26.Ng2 Rhd8 27.Bf4 g5 28.Be3 g4 29.Kb2 Rd3 30.Rf2 gxf3 31.Rxf3 Bxe4
32.Ne1 Rcd8
33.Nxd3 Rxd3 34.Rf4 Rxe3 35.Rf2 h5 36.Rd2 Ke6 37.Ka3 h4 38.gxh4 Rh3 39.Kb4 Rxh4
40.Kb5 Rh5+
41.Kc4 f5 0-1

[Event "Belconnen Spring Cup"]
[Site "Belconnen"]
[Date "1994.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Murphy,Benjamin"]
[Black "Walsh,Patrick"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "A21"]
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d5 3.cxd5 Nf6 4.Nf3 c6 5.Nxe5 cxd5 6.g3 Ne4 7.Bg2 Bd6 8.Nxd5 Bxe5
9.Bxe4 Be6 10.Nb4 f5 11.Bxb7 a5 12.Bxa8 axb4 13.Qa4+ Bd7 14.Qxb4 Kf7 1-0

[Event "SJR-ch U18 Girls"]
[Site "Bendorf"]
[Date "2001.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Uhl,Angelina"]
[Black "Moeller,Siwana"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "A21"]
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d5 3.cxd5 Nf6 4.Nf3 Nxd5 5.Nxe5 Nc6 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.g3 Bb7 8.Bg2 Be7
9.0-0 0-0 10.Qb3 Rb8 11.d3 Qd7 12.Rb1 Rfd8 13.Bd2 c5 14.Nxd5 Bxd5 15.Qxd5 Qxd5
16.Bxd5 Rxd5
17.Rfc1 Rbd8 18.b4 Re5 19.Kf1 Re8 20.Bf4 Re6 21.bxc5 Bd8 22.Rc2 g5 23.Bc1 h5
24.e3 f5
25.Rc4  1-0

[Event "IECC M email"]
[Site "IECC email"]
[Date "2003.??.??"]
[Round "0"]
[White "Tutuianu,Aurelian"]
[Black "Bennett,Terry"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "A21"]
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d5 3.cxd5 Nf6 4.e4 Bc5 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.d4 exd4 7.Nxd4 0-0 8.Be3 Re8
9.f3 g6 10.Qd2 Ne5 11.Be2 a6 12.Rc1 Bd7 13.Bg5 Be7 14.f4 c5 15.Nb3 Neg4 16.d6
Bf8
17.e5 h6 18.Bxf6 Nxf6 19.Nxc5 Bc6 20.0-0 b6 21.Nxa6 Rc8 22.Rfd1 Ne4 23.Nxe4 Bxe4
24.Nc7 Qh4
1-0

[Event "BRA CEAX op 2nd "]
[Site "Brazil"]
[Date "2003.07.??"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Carvalho,Welliton"]
[Black "Rogai,M"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "A21"]
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nxd5 Nf6 4.Nc3 Bd7 5.d3 Nc6 6.Bg5 Be7 7.g3 0-0 8.Bg2 Ng4
9.Bxe7 Qxe7 10.Nd5 Qc5 11.e3 Nb4 12.h3 Nxd5 13.hxg4 Qb4+ 14.Kf1 Nf6 15.g5 Bg4
16.f3 Nh5
17.fxg4 Nxg3+ 18.Kf2 Nxh1+ 19.Bxh1 f5 20.Bd5+ Kh8 21.gxf5 Rxf5+ 22.Nf3 Raf8
23.Kg3 Qb6 24.Qe2 c6
25.Be4 R5f7 26.g6 Rf6 27.Rh1 h6 28.Rh4 c5 29.Rg4 Qe6 30.Ng5 hxg5 31.Qh2+  1-0

[Event "Loire-ch op 0405"]
[Site "Loire"]
[Date "2004.10.16"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Doucet,Medhi"]
[Black "Veyrat,Gerard"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "A21"]
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d5 3.cxd5 Bd6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.e4 Bg4 6.Be2 c6 7.dxc6 Nxc6 8.Qb3 Nd4
9.Nxd4 exd4 10.Qa4+ Bd7 11.Qxd4 Be7 12.e5 Ng8 13.Nd5 Be6 14.Qa4+ Bd7 15.Bb5 Bxb5
16.Qxb5+ Kf8
17.Nxe7 Qxe7 18.0-0 Nh6 19.d4 Nf5 20.Rd1 a6 21.Qa4 b5 22.Qa5 Qe6 23.Bf4 f6 24.d5
Qc8
25.e6 Qc5 26.d6 g5 27.Rac1 Qa7 28.Qc3 Kg7 29.Bxg5 Rhf8 30.Qc7+ Qxc7 31.Rxc7+ Kg6
32.Bf4 Rae8
33.g4 Nxd6 34.Rxd6 f5 35.g5 Kh5 36.h3 b4 37.Rxh7+ Kg6 38.Rh6+ Kg7 39.Rd7+ Kg8
40.Be5
1-0




From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Thu Jun 18 03:50:47 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:50:47 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Sweet victory against German Grandmaster Eric
	Lobron
Message-ID: <1245318647.4a3a0df795642@www.taom.com>


alf a decade ago I beat Grandmaster Eric Lobron ( ICC Yardbird ) with
LM Jack Young's Nymphomaniac Attack. The game went something like this.

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.18"]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "YARDBIRD"]
[Result "Black Resigns"]
[ICCResult "Game drawn by repetition"]
[WhiteElo "2178"]
[BlackElo "2389"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann defense"]
[ECO "B10"]
[NIC "CK.01"]
[Time "03:27:53"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e5 Bg4 4. d4 e6 5. c3 c5 6. dxc5 Bxc5 7. Qa4+

1-0   Grandmaster Eric Lobron resigns in 7 moves

I like Eric for one reason - he is the only man I know that tried to
collect some games of GM Roman Dzindzichashvili and put them in a book.
Long overdue.

The problem arose when Eric naturally wanted a rematch to avenge the outrage.
It's not Good to play someone again after a Jack Young tweak, it ruins the
effect. I refused, he censored me.

The whole point is if
ANYONE EVER MAKES THE SLIGHTEST MENTION OF GERMAN GRANDMASTER ERIC LOBRON
OR EVEN SAYS GERMANIC OR GENERAL MOTORS OR I'M A LIBRA IT'S A PERFECT
SEGUEWAY TO LEAN BACK IN MY CHAIR, SPIT SOME TOBACCY JUICE INTO THE
SPITOON AND DRAWL:

OLD ERIC, YEAH, TOOK HIM OUT IN 7. HE REFUSED TO PLAY ME AFTER THAT.
TOTAL OWNAGE. CAN I EMAIL YOU THE SCORESHEET? MAYBE YOU CAN CATCH
YOUR FRIENDS IN THE SAME TRAP.

If you change the number from 7 to 8 then for a brief period
David Wallace could and did say the same thing about me.

So today we were paired automatically. Eric froze in horror and decided to
continue after a few shaky moments. Of course my goal was to prove that I
could beat Eric in ANY variation of his beloved Caro-Kann, to prove, as
Spassky once believed, there is just something wrong with that defense,
you don't get enough space.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Statistics for YARDBIRD(GM)         On for:   11     Idle:    0
YARDBIRD is currently involved in a match against Lamb.

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Bullet          2328  [8]    12    11     3    26   2379 (08-Nov-2005)
Blitz           2954  [8]   431   426    58   915   3112 (09-Jul-2003)
5-minute        2389      20834 10224  2425 33483   2604 (01-Jun-2009)
1-minute        2060       6256  4834   407 11497   2427 (18-Oct-2002)
15-minute       2016  [4]     1     0     0     1

 1: just here for some fun-no lessons, tips or alike...
 2: NO TAKEBACKS, real chessplayers never take moves back

 Name   : Eric Lobron
 Groups : Germany GMs Vendors
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.18"]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "YARDBIRD"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ICCResult "Game drawn by repetition"]
[WhiteElo "2178"]
[BlackElo "2389"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann: closed (Breyer) variation"]
[ECO "B10"]
[NIC "CK.01"]
[Time "03:27:53"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 c6 2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 e5 4. Ngf3 Bd6 5. g3 Nf6 6. Bg2 O-O 7. O-O Re8

When I became a man at 21, my first love was 1 ... c6 which took me all the way
to Chessmaster. I believe Gerald Georges played this way as White and I played
this way as Black about 32 years ago. The idea of overprotecting e5 as far
as I undersand it is to avoid Grandmaster Leonid Stein's ( Shtane ) b4 thrust
with which he was very successful.


8. c3 a5 9. a4 Na6!! TN

Theoretical Novelty by GM Eric Lobron.
As far as I know, which isn't much,
only  9  ... Qc7  or ... Nbd7
have been played here. The Black Knight is
going to c5 anyway so it should all transpose.


10. Qc2! h6 11. Nh4 Bf8 12. f4??

I like Black's position but I have no idea how to play White.
Things go downhill fast and stay that way for a long time.


12 ...  exf4!  13. gxf4 dxe4!  14. dxe4!

Now I see how I won all those Caro-Kann positions.
Black just holds back and plays safe while White
overextends and impales himself on his own ego.
I blow up the central balloon until it pops.

14 ... Nxe4!!

Winning a pawn and  14 ... Nc5!!!
is even stronger - my center implodes.


15. Nxe4!

Danielle's laptop phases in and out more then
www.BrianWallChess.net.

My screen went dead for a minute.



15 ...  Qxh4!  16. f5!   Nc5!  17. Rf4!  Qd8!  18. f6!?   g6!!

I'm dead.



19. Be3 Qd3!!


Killer GM move,
I am collapsing everywhere.
Eric is a very solid blitz player.

20. Qxd3! Nxd3!  21. Rh4


The more trouble I try to stir up,
the more trouble I'm in.
It's like Kindergarten.



21 ... Bf5!!


21 ... g5!!! ( -4)  is even stronger -
I lose material.


22. Rf1

Still trying to bamboozle

21 ... Rad8

In a blitz game we want every piece to participate:
meanwhile  21 ... Re6!!  prepares carnage down the e-file

23. Bb6!!

Freeing my knight  and attacking  a5 and d8


23 ... Rd5


Guarding a5 and d8 and activating the Rook
and cutting his advantage in half again.


24. Ng3!!

Attacking everything.


24 ... Bc5+

Zeno's paradox -
how many times can Lobron cut his advantage in half before he has none?



25. Bxc5!!   Rxc5!  26. Nxf5

26  R:h6!!  is best,
letting the Bishop decide his own fate.


26 ... Rxf5!  27. Rxf5!  gxf5!  28. Rxh6 Nxb2  29. Bh3!!   Re5 30. Rh5!!

The threat is Bh3:f5-h7+  and R:e5


30 ... Re1+  31. Kg2!  Nc4  32. Bxf5!!=

>From a wretched position,
I have finally achieved
full equality


32 ... Re5!  33. Rg5+!   Kf8 34. Rh5

Threatening mate in 1


34 ... Kg8!  35. Rg5+!   Kf8 36. Rh5

Threatening mate in 1


36 ... Kg8!  37. Rg5+  Kf8


{Game drawn by repetition}   1/2-1/2

To you, it's only a blitz draw.
To me, it's worth a thousand slow victories.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.18"]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "YARDBIRD"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ICCResult "Game drawn by repetition"]
[WhiteElo "2178"]
[BlackElo "2389"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann: closed (Breyer) variation"]
[ECO "B10"]
[NIC "CK.01"]
[Time "03:27:53"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 c6 2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 e5 4. Ngf3 Bd6 5. g3 Nf6 6. Bg2 O-O 7. O-O Re8 8.
c3 a5 9. a4 Na6 10. Qc2 h6 11. Nh4 Bf8 12. f4 exf4 13. gxf4 dxe4 14. dxe4
Nxe4 15. Nxe4 Qxh4 16. f5 Nc5 17. Rf4 Qd8 18. f6 g6 19. Be3 Qd3 20. Qxd3
Nxd3 21. Rh4 Bf5 22. Rf1 Rad8 23. Bb6 Rd5 24. Ng3 Bc5+ 25. Bxc5 Rxc5 26.
Nxf5 Rxf5 27. Rxf5 gxf5 28. Rxh6 Nxb2 29. Bh3 Re5 30. Rh5 Re1+ 31. Kg2 Nc4
32. Bxf5 Re5 33. Rg5+ Kf8 34. Rh5 Kg8 35. Rg5+ Kf8 36. Rh5 Kg8 37. Rg5+ Kf8
{Game drawn by repetition}
1/2-1/2
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Event "Tbilisi"]
[Site "Tbilisi"]
[Date "1988.09.??"]
[Round "0"]
[White "Ubilava,Elizbar"]
[Black "Lukov,Valentin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "B10"]
1.g3 d5 2.Bg2 Nf6 3.d3 e5 4.Nf3 Bd6 5.0-0 0-0 6.Nbd2 Re8 7.e4 c6 8.c3 a5
9.a4 Nbd7 10.Qc2 b6 11.Re1 Bb7 12.Nf1 dxe4 13.dxe4 b5 14.Nh4 Bf8 15.Rd1 Qc7
16.Nf5 bxa4
17.Bg5 a3 18.bxa3 a4 19.Nd2 h6 20.Bxf6 Nxf6 21.Nc4 Ba6 22.Bf1 Bxc4 23.Bxc4 Bc5
24.h3 Kh7
25.Kg2 g6 26.Nh4 Kg7 27.Nf3 Qe7 28.Nd2 Red8 29.Bd3 Bxa3 30.Nc4 Bc5 31.Rxa4 Ra7
32.Rda1 Rda8
33.Ra5 Nd7 34.R1a4 Rxa5 35.Rxa5 Rxa5 36.Nxa5 Qf6 37.Qa2 Bb6 38.Nc4 Bc5 39.Qb2 h5
40.h4 Ba7
41.Bb1 Qe7 42.Qb7 Bc5 43.Qxc6 Nf6 44.f3 Ba7 45.Ba2 Bb8 46.Qb6 Bc7 47.Qf2 Bb8
48.Nb6 Nd7
49.Nd5 Qa3 50.Qc2 Qc5 51.Qf2 Qa3 52.Qd2 Qc5 53.Ne3 Nf6 54.Nf5+ gxf5 55.Qg5+ Kf8
56.Qxf6 Qa7
57.Bd5 f4 58.gxf4 exf4 59.Qh8+ Ke7 60.Qxh5  1-0

[Event "CRI-chT"]
[Site "Costa Rica"]
[Date "1998.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Hernandez,Francisco"]
[Black "Valdes Romero,Leonardo"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco "B10"]
1.e4 c6 2.d3 d5 3.Nd2 e5 4.Ngf3 Bd6 5.g3 Nf6 6.Bg2 0-0 7.0-0 a5 8.a4 Re8
9.c3 Nbd7 10.Qc2 Qc7 11.Re1 Bf8 12.Nf1 dxe4 13.dxe4 Nc5 14.Bg5 Nfd7 15.b4 axb4
16.cxb4 Na6
17.b5 cxb5 18.Qxc7 Nxc7 19.Rac1 Nc5 20.Be3 Nd3 21.Rxc7 Nxe1 22.Nxe1 bxa4 23.Bc1
a3 24.Nc2 b5
25.Nd2 b4 26.Bf1 Be6 0-1

[Event "CZE-chT 0001"]
[Site "Czechia"]
[Date "2000.11.??"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Langner,Ladislav"]
[Black "Polak,Tomas"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco "B10"]
1.e4 c6 2.d3 d5 3.Nd2 e5 4.Ngf3 Bd6 5.g3 Nf6 6.Bg2 0-0 7.0-0 Re8 8.c3 Nbd7
9.a4 a5 10.Qc2 Qc7 11.h3 b6 12.Re1 Ba6 13.Nb3 Rad8 14.Bf1 Bf8 15.Be3 c5 16.Nbd2
h6
17.Rad1 Qb8 18.Nb1 Bb7 19.Bc1 c4 20.dxc4 dxe4 21.Nh4 Nc5 22.Nd2 Bc6 23.b3 Qc8
24.Kh2 Kh8
25.Re3 Bd7 26.Ba3 g5 27.Bxc5 bxc5 28.Nxe4 Nxe4 29.Qxe4 gxh4 30.Qxh4 Bf5 31.Rd5
Bg7 32.g4 Bg6
33.g5 Kh7 34.gxh6 Bxh6 35.Rexe5 Rxe5 36.Rxe5 Qc7 37.f4 Kg7 38.Kg1 f6 39.Re6 Qxf4
40.Re7+ Kf8
41.Qe1 Rd2 42.Bg2 Qg5 0-1

[Event "ROM-ch sf U18"]
[Site "Eforie Nord"]
[Date "2001.01.28"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Pachia,Mihai"]
[Black "Calotescu,Daniel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco "B10"]
1.e4 c6 2.d3 d5 3.Nd2 e5 4.Ngf3 Bd6 5.g3 Nf6 6.Bg2 0-0 7.0-0 Re8 8.c3 a5
9.a4 Nbd7 10.Qc2 Bf8 11.h3 h6 12.Re1 dxe4 13.dxe4 Qc7 14.Nh4 Rd8 15.Nb3 Nb6
16.f4 Nh5
17.fxe5 Qxe5 18.g4 Nf4 19.Be3 Nc4 20.Bf2 Nxg2 21.Kxg2 Bd6 22.Nf3 Qf4 23.Nc1 Bxg4
24.hxg4 Qxg4+
25.Kf1 Qxf3 26.Qd3 Qh1+ 27.Ke2 Qh5+ 28.Qf3 Qxf3+ 29.Kxf3 Re8 30.Re2 Re6 31.b3
Ne5+ 32.Kg2 Be7
33.Raa2 Rd8 34.b4 Rg6+ 35.Kf1 Nf3 36.Re3 Nh2+ 37.Ke2 Ng4 38.Rd3 Nxf2 39.Kxf2
Rxd3 40.Nxd3 Rg4
41.Re2 Rh4 42.Re1 g5 43.b5 Rh2+ 44.Kf3 Rc2 45.Rc1 Rxc1 46.Nxc1 cxb5 47.axb5 Kg7
48.Nd3 b6
49.e5 f5 50.Ke3 Kf7 51.Kd4 Ke6 52.c4 h5 53.c5 h4 54.Kc4 h3 55.cxb6  0-1

[Event "Dieren op 10th"]
[Site "Dieren"]
[Date "1979.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Carlier,Bruno"]
[Black "Borm,Franciscus WM"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco "B10"]
1.g3 d5 2.Bg2 c6 3.d3 Nf6 4.Nd2 e5 5.e4 Bd6 6.Ngf3 0-0 7.0-0 Re8 8.c3 a5
9.a4 Qc7 10.Re1 dxe4 11.dxe4 Nbd7 12.Nc4 Bf8 13.Nh4 Nb6 14.Ne3 Be6 15.Nef5 Rad8
16.Qf3 Nfd7
17.Bg5 f6 18.Be3 Nc4 19.Re2 Nxe3 20.Nxe3 Nc5 21.Nhf5 Kh8 22.Ree1 Rd2 23.b4 axb4
24.cxb4 Nd3
25.Re2 Rxe2 26.Qxe2 Nxb4 27.Bf1 Rd8 28.Qb2 g6 29.Nh4 Bc5 30.Nf3 Bxe3 31.fxe3 c5
32.Rc1 Qd6
33.Be2 Nd3 34.Bxd3 Qxd3 35.Kf2 Qxe4 36.Qb6 Qd5 37.Rxc5 Qa2+ 38.Ke1 Rd7 39.Rc8+
Kg7 40.Qc5 Qb1+
41.Kf2 Qb2+ 42.Ke1 Rf7 43.Rb8 Bg4 44.Qd5 Rd7 45.Qc5 Rd1+ 46.Kxd1 Bxf3+ 0-1



From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Fri Jun 19 04:10:55 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:10:55 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] North American Open - Round 3 - WIM Ruth
	Haring - Wall -
Message-ID: <1245406255.4a3b642f26d0c@www.taom.com>


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North American Open - Round 3 - WIM Ruth Haring - Wall -



Date:  Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:02:17 -0400
From:  riharing at aol.com
To:  brianwallchess3 at taom.com

Hi Brian,


My son and I are doing a two week training camp before the US Open,
Theo read a Karpov interview and wants to try the training system involving:

5 days out of 6 follow this schedule:

wake up and do 2 hours exercise
eat
do 2-3 hours of chess
do two more hours of exercise
eat
another 2-3 hours chess activity
another exercise session
eat
more chess until ready to sleep again


We will mix in the study of openings, our games,
tactics, endings, and training games with local players


fyi, Theo is over 1700 now....

Best,
Ruth


From:  riharing at aol.com
To:  brianwallchess3 at taom.com


Hi Brian,

Thanks for your quick reply! I'll keep trying to access the new url ...


Re the USCF elections, you can help by reminding people who haven't voted, to
vote for me and any other candidate you deem worthy of your support.


Re the game analysis in your second note, go for it, sounds good. You do a
great job with the analysis, and you were right with your comment that I was
playing for a win. I always play for a win no matter who my opponent is. In
fact, one of my problems (besides outdated and forgotten openings) is
converting a good position to a win.


Best regards,
Ruth

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North American Open - Round 3 - WIM Ruth Haring - Wall -



Jan "Xena"  Newton asked me to analyze my game with
Facebook buddy Ruth Haring for her site.

http://goddesschess.blogspot.com/


I think I analyzed it in Chessbase form at
BrianWallChess.net and forgot to send out an email.

Since then Ruth is running for USCF office and I hope she wins.
Great Lady. Ruth has been very successful in the corporate world
and everything I hear about her second hand is all good.

Since this tournament my first round opponent Robert Hess shocked the world
with outstanding results and my Round 2 opponent Ryan Moon also won some
National Scholastic Title at the Supernationals. I guess I am some sort of
rite of passage for Scholastic Superstars now.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2F_3BS6QSY&feature=related

Brian Reagan - I walked on the moon
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Brian Reagan does a skit where he wishes somebody would interrupt the monologue
of the party bore by saying - " I was astronaut. I walked on the moon. "

Normally in a group of people I am expected to do all the entertaining and make
all the decisions, maybe because I grew up the oldest of 9 boys. Once in a
while I meet a verbal Hercules who can take the world off my Atlas shoulders.

My third round opponent, Women's International Master Ruth I. Haring, was such a
person. Like an astronaut who can be the center of attention at any party, Ruth
has the Chess equivalent of , " I walked on the moon."

Ruth can honestly say ,
" In the middle of his 20 year exile, Bobby Fischer lived at my house."

If that were me I would be writing a book about it the minute Bobby died.
I believe Jerry Hanken intends to touch on the subject for Chess Life.

I told Ruth I would buy her dinner if she told me Bobby stories.
A few tidbits.

" I would get home from work and cook dinner and Bobby would talk to me and keep
me company until I went to bed. He liked to ask me questions and get me talking.
I studied psychology and computers and I have an open mind on many subjects like
witchcraft.

One day I went to work and Bobby examined all my games. His assessment was
that I played too pessimistically. I played like I was losing when I was
winning. I've thought a long time about what he said and now I try to play
optimistically.

Bobby had much more advice for my ex-husband, Greek-Canadian Grandmaster,
Peter Biyiasas.

I set a few limits with Bobby. I told him I couldn't take any hate rants,
they were too upsetting.

In general Bobby lived in our guest room and was no problem.

Eventully Peter and Bobby had a discussion when I wasn't around and Bobby left.
I never heard from him again.

The year was 1982."
-Ruth I Haring

We discussed Bobby Fischer's problems. My theory was a gradually increasing
mental illness. Her theory was that no one ever sets limits on his behavior
so emotionally, he was a teenager.


Ruth was very interesting to talk to,
full of Chess History
and corporate accomplishments.

Ruth went to Olympaids and Interzonals, then married Biyiasas and raised three
kids. Three or four years ago, depending on whether you are talking to her
accountant or lawyer, she divorced Peter who has since remarried. Ruth is
also a power seller on Ebay.

Ruth and her son Theo both played in the tournament. Theo brought a second, his
girlfriend Heidi who does not play tournament Chess. Ruth hadn't played
official Chess in 20 years and was understandably rusty. In the Nosh,
a little deli by the tournament hall, we analyzed her son's game and then
laughed at what Peter would say, like a kid bringing home a report card
full of C's. Her son is very handsome and looks like a rock star with long hair.

Ruth is very maternal. During our game, I wasn't felling well so I went to the
wall and tried to analyze in my head like Ivanchuk. Ruth came up to me and
asked if I was feeling all right. She looked very concerned, a look I haven't
seen in a long,long time. I told her I was fine, just trying not to cough in
her face.


[Event "North American Open"]
[Site "Bally's Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada"]
[Date "2008.12.27"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Brian Wall"]
[Black "WIM Ruth Haring"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2229"]
[BlackElo "1936"]
[Opening "Danish gambit: Sorensen defense"]
[ECO "C21"]
[NIC "KP.04"]
[Time "5 PM"]
[TimeControl "40/2, Game/1, 5 second delay"]

North American Open

Bally's Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

December 27, 2008

Round 3

We both have 0/2

40/2
Game/1 hour
5 second delay

Opening -
Danish Gambit Declined

White - LM Brian Wall    2229

Black - WIM Ruth Haring  1936

1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4!  3. c3

I like gambits and attacking play against WIMs, not sure why.
There is this one WGM on ICC from India that gives me a very hard time,
she answers all my nonsense with solid positional play.
Ruth handles me the same way.

3 ... d5 4. exd5 Qxd5!  5. cxd4 Nc6 6. Nf3!  Nf6!

95% of people go for 6 ... Bg4  7  Nc3  Bb4  8  Be2  B:f3  9  B:f3  Qc4
It's not their fault, they can't think and just do what the books tell them.
Kevin Y Cao, 1912, a 15 year old Asian kid, whipped this line out in no time
flat in the 2008 North American Open blitz tournament against me. That game
continued  10 Qb3  Q:b3  11 ab  N:d4  12 B:b7  Nc2+
13 Kd1  N:a1 14  B:a8  N:b3  15 Be3
and I won both games in our blitz match.

The fact that Ruth didn't go for this line made me feel she was a bit confused.
I had had no idea how rusty her tournament play was, 3 kids worth!

Ruth Haring -

Since my opening are so rusty, following the general principle to develop my
pieces. I wasn't sure I wanted to play ... Bg4 since I had decided to castle
king side and this doesn't help with the king side development.

- Ruth Haring


7. Nc3!  Bb4!  8. Be2

I was happy I was going to get castled in peace
although Fritz suggests I abandon that idea with
8 Bd3!  Qe6+  9  Kf1 or
8  Bd3  Bg4  9  0-0

Humans hate pins or moving their King before castling..
That wasn't going to happen.

8 ... O-O!  9. O-O!  Qd8

I wouldn't want to retreat all the way,
although I read somewhere that
1  e4  d5  2  ed  Q:d5  3  Nc3 Qd8
was played in the oldest game of Chess ever recorded.
I wouldn't want to walk into Bishop discoveries
with  9 ... Qh5  10 Ne5
I have some experience with
1  e4  d5  2  ed  Q:d5  3  Nc3 Qd6
against strong players so
9 ... Qd6  would be a good candidate for me.
9 ... Qa5 is a standard location.
9 ... Qf5 is where Robert Ramirez likes his Queen.
I believe my very first email 10 years ago was a game against the
1955 Wyoming Open Champion and featured ... Qf5 in a Scandinavian
setting.
9 ... B:c3  10  bc is what the overwhelming
number of blitz opponents play.
9 ... Qd7 is a weird move that would make me wonder if I had time for
... b6 and ... Bb7

As a human I would make an emotional decision based on associations.
I don't know how Rybka-3 chooses but here is what she thinks:
9 ... Qa5, ... Qd6, ... Qd8, ... Qh5, ... B:c3, ... Qf5, ... Qd7
no credit for other moves.
So Ruth played Rybka Choice #3

Ruth Haring -

I considered 9 ... Qd6 and ... Qa5 but thought those would be book and thus I
would be at a disadvantage since I don't remember too many book lines from 30
years ago, and even if I did there could be new theory that I am unaware of.  I
thought it likely Qd8 would get out of known book lines and give me a totally
playable position as black.

-  Ruth Haring


10. a3!!

Associations. Alekhine has some brilliancy where he encouraged
a3  B:c3  bc  Q:c3 in a Scandinavian type setting.

10 ... Bd6!

We both have three minor pieces developed.
I have a pawn on d4 and it's my move.
I should be OK here.

" Anyone afraid of an isolated pawn should give up Chess.
- Mark Sherbring.

Ruth Haring -

I was happy with my position here, as black, I have a playable position.
I need to develop my white squared bishop and rooks, and the plan of play
against the isolated pawn is clear.  What more can you ask for as black?

- Ruth Haring



11. h3!

Me hate pins plus
there doesn't seem to be much to do yet.

11 ...  h6

She hates pins plus there doesn't
seem to be much for her to do yet.
Computers ignore pins and Little Fish
likes 11 ... Bf5  or ... Re8 best


12. Bd3 TN

Thoeretical Novelty by Brian Wall.
#2 Rybka-3 choice at depth 17.
There is no need to be passive on e2 after h3 prevents ... Bg4.
Played to restrict her QB.
Rybka-3  prefers 12 Qc2 or Qb3
with the same idea. 12 Re1 is another good move.
#1 choice is 12 Qc2 but the Queen sort of sits there on her throne
purposelessly so that wouldn't attract me. I like to have some sort
of half-assed plan when I play.

Grandmaster Roman Dzindzichashvilli had a way of teaching Chess
that went like this. First he would ask why you made a move and
then build from there. Roman's way of teaching would go like this.

Grandmaster-
Brian, why did you play 12 Bd3?

Brian -
So Ruth couldn't hurt me with her Bishop on f5.

Grandmaster-
Brian, isn't it better to do two things at once?

Brian-
Yes, Grandmaster.

Grandmaster-
So why not restrict her Bishop AND bring
out another piece and free your QR?

Brian-
Yes, Grandmaster

Roman would not make fun of your move but
he would try to improve your thinking.


12 ... Ne7

The basic black strategy is to trade pieces until my IQP
( isolated Queen-pawn ) hurts. My strategy is the opposite.
I assume Ruth wants to trade Bishops on f5.

13. Qb3

Rybka likes 13  Qc2  preventing the trade
but I have a more dynamic plan in mind.


13 ...   c6

Rybka calls my bluff with
13 ... Be6!  14  Q:b7  Rb8  15 Q:a7  Ra8
with a perpetual on my Queen.
I would have avoided the draw with  13 ... Be6!  14  Qc2!
After two losses we are both fighting hard to win.

Ruth Haring -

with the idea of solid play against the isolated pawn

- Ruth Haring


14. Re1!  Qc7!  15. Bd2!

Sometimes flipper moves are all you have left.
Flipper moves are small one square Bishop moves
that don't improve your position much. The term
stems from the Ultimate Fighting Championship
where Ken Shamrock was reduced to barely swatting
the human python Royce Gracie with pathetic wrist flips
that did nothing. Royce tied everyone up in knots.

15 ... Be6?

Ruth Haring -

15 ... Be6?   How about ?! I have found that players, especially masters who
are playing down, avoid exchange sacs, exchanging queen for 3 pieces,etc.  This
is a good practical poker bluff move in a swiss, I am daring him to sac the
exchange,and I expected him to chicken out.

- Ruth Haring


16. Qc2?

I was cursed with lack of confidence at the 2008 North American Open.
I wanted to rip that Bishop off instantly like I had everything
calculated. 20 minutes later I talked myself out of a good move.
This happened constantly in almost every round.
The key idea is
16  R:e6!!  fe  17  Q:e6+  Kh8  18  Ne4!!  N:e4?  19  Q:e4!
and there's no good way to prevent  20  Qh7 checkmate
Since my Knight on e4 cannot really be taken that sets Ruth up
for shots like
16  R:e6!!  fe  17  Q:e6+  Kh8  18  Ne4!!  Rad8  19  B:h6!!
It's all clear as a bell for Vasik Railich's
Frankenstein but it was murky as hell for me.
Instead of penetrating deeper I backed off.

Even 6 months later I ask myself-
Why didn't I beat Robert Hess with f5
when he had two minutes left on his clock?
Why didn't I sac against Ruth?
Why did I self destruct against Ryan Moon
with 20 minutes to his 20 seconds.
Why did I allow a 2000 player a
perpetual with chances for more?
In another round I had to create a 20 minute endgame study
on move 70 when I had a crushing attack out of the opening.
Why did I ruin my strong position going
for a draw against 11 year old Darwin Yang.
Why did I play the Crab against a 12 year old expert?
I felt pretty much like a swayback nag that Caissa
had to constantly beat some good moves out of.
Maybe being sick all week had something to do with it.
I hope so. Possibly the change from a local Colorado tournament
to a big money Vegas tournament was causing me to choke up.
Possibly after two losses I had lost a little
faith in myself. Funny how we all forget a
million victories in favor of a recent defeat.

Ruth summed all this up eloquently in one word.

Ruth Haring -

16. Qc2?  Cluck, Cluck, Cluck

- Ruth Haring

16 ... Ned5

Now we have a normal equal type position


17. Ne5

trying to get some use out of
my IQP before she picks it off

17 ...  Rad8!!

Ruth Haring -

At this point I was happy to have
coordinated development of my pieces,
and though white has more space I can
work to play against the isolated pawn.

- Ruth Haring



18. f4

A do or die move quite in my uncompromising spirit
but actually much riskier than 16 R:e6!!
Rybka likes the plan of Nc3-a4-c5
making my IQP do double duty for two Knight outposts.
That make sense.
The trouble is that I like positions that flower, develop, grow.
Putting my Knights on outposts waiting for them to get traded off
reminds me of Rolling Stones songs where Mick is just hanging
around some street corner waiting for something to happen.
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Rolling Stones
lyrics

As Tears Go By

It is the evening of the day,
I sit and watch the children play.
Smiling faces I can see, but not for me,
I sit and watch as tears go by.

My riches can't buy ev'rything,
I want to hear the children sing.
All I hear is the sound of rain falling on the ground,
I sit and watch as tears go by.

It is the evening of the day,
I sit and watch the children play.
Doin' things I used to do they think are new.
I sit and watch as tears go by.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9w2hJIqUk

As Tears Go By

Marianne Faithfull
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHvkQUcE7xE&feature=PlayList&p=71F48645CAA39F52&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3

As Tears Go By

Rolling Stones

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Other plans -
18  Re2   doubling on the e-file
18  Rad1  classic IQP Rook deployment
18  N:d5  giving Ruth what she wants

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18 ... Nb6 19. Rad1 Rfe8!


100% employment for both sides,
now what?


20. Bc1

A Bishop is developed on the bank rank
if he is not obstructing the Rooks -
Tal

Organ Pipes -
Chess study theme -
Bc1, Rd1, Re1, Bf1

20 ... a6!

The lovely Ruth is preparing ... c5


21. Kh1

Safeguarding my King.
21 b4 stops ...c5
but looks loosening.


21 ... Qc8


Ruth Haring -

21 ... Qc8
I think that this is where I started to go wrong and would give
this move a ?! dubious. I don't remember how much time I had left, but I
should have used more for a think here. It is interesting to note that when
I fed this position into RYBKA, 21. ... Qc8 was not a candidate move.  Better
candidate moves are ...Nbd5, or Re7 , or Kh8, or Nbd7, or Be7 at least equal
chances.

- Ruth Haring



22. Qf2

Staying near my King in case Ruth gets sac-happy on h3


22 ... Bd5

It was right here that I remember being very frustrated.
First two losses and now some 1900 woman who plays like
a Chessmaster. She is not cracking, I have no attacking chances.
My game plan was as vague as my distant unclear memory of a Chess
Chess Life and Review picture of Ruth Haring with a Millie the
Model hairdo.



23. Kh2 Bb3! 24. Rd2!

Avoiding trades with 24 Bc2 due
to my IQp and rating difference.
My position looks like an afterthought,
like Campbell's Alphabet Soup.
My e5-Knight looks heroic but the rest
of my pieces look like 1930's
factory workers on a smoke break.



24 ... c5

This felt like the paint was peeling off my old building.



25. dxc5  Bxc5!   26. Qf3 Bd4

Like a dagger in my heart.
I think this is where Ruth loses the thread.
Her son Theo had the right idea after the game,
26 ...  or  27 ... Nd7!!  trading Knight for Knight.
Trading Bishop for Knight breaks up her two Bishops
and also gives new life to my Rip Van Bishop on c1.


27. Ne4!!  Bxe5 28. fxe5!  Nxe4!

Taking on e5 twice is an unmitigated disaster -
28 ... R:e5??  29  N:f6+!!  gf  30  R:e5!!  fe  31  Bf5!!
and I am a pawn down with a winning attack -
features:
All of Ruth's pieces are unprotected and
her King will soon be under assault.
Due to the faulty trade on e5,
my c1-bishop is very powerful
Haring's move is much better.


29. Bxe4!!

Tickling  b3 and b7


29 ...   Rxd2!!  30. Qxb3!

 I was very proud of this " avoid the obvious recapture "
move but that stinking little fish prefers the simple  30  B:d2!!
Computers are the perfect cure for hubris.
After  30  B:d2!!  I will pick up the pawn on b7
My idea is to win the Knight on b6 and have Two Bishops for a Rook.


30 ...  Rdd8?
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30 ... Rd7!!  31  Q:b6  R:e5!!
and I lose BOTH BISHOPS after
32 Bh7+??  K:h7  33 R:e5  Q:c1!

This idea gets short-circuited after
30 ... Rdd8?  because of
30 ... Rdd8?  31  Q:b6  R:e5?  32 B:b7!
and Ruth has too many hanging Rooks.
Ruth allows me to maintain my center
pawn and that makes all the difference.

I keep an extra pawn after
30 ... Rd4  31  Q:b6  R:e4  32 R:e4  Q:c1  33 Q:b7   or
30 ... Nc4  31  B:d2  N:d2  32 Q:b7


30 ... Rd7!!  31  Q:b6  R:e5!!
32  Bf4!  Re6!  33 Qb4!!  to guard my e1-Rook
leaves me with the slight advantage of
Two Bishops versus Rook and pawn.
Best play. This was Haring's last chance
considering my excellent technique.

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31. Qxb6!  Re7  32. Bf4!  Rde8! 33. Bb1

Humans hate pins.

33 ...  Qc4!  34. Re4!  Qf1 35. Qg1

More Cluck, Cluck, Cluck action.
35 Ba2!!  is more forceful.
I am just trying to hang onto
everything until the time control.

"Retreating an active piece is often the culprit in the Post-Mortem"
to quote myself.

35 ... Qb5 36. Qf2! Qd5! 37. Qg3 Re6 38. Qd3 Qxd3!

Things get worse for Ruth if she avoids the Queen trade -
38 ... Qa5  39  Rd4!!   g6  or ... Rg6  40  Ba2!!
and her position is starting to creak.


39. Bxd3!  Rd8 40. Bc4!  Rc6

I made it to the time control with a slow, sure win


41. e6!!   fxe6!  42. Bxe6+!  Kh8 43. Bg4

I was dreaming of protected
crisscrossing Bishops
on f3 and c3

43 ... Rc2  44. Re7!!  Rf8?  45. Be5!!   Rff2 46. Bxg7+!!

She can't stop  Bd4  discovered check and B:f2

1-0  Ruth resigns
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[Event "North American Open"]
[Site "Bally's Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada"]
[Date "2008.12.27"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Brian Wall"]
[Black "WIM Ruth Haring"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2229"]
[BlackElo "1936"]
[Opening "Danish gambit: Sorensen defense"]
[ECO "C21"]
[NIC "KP.04"]
[Time "5 PM"]
[TimeControl "40/2, Game/1, 5 second delay"]

1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. c3 d5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. cxd4 Nc6 6. Nf3 Nf6 7. Nc3 Bb4
8. Be2 O-O 9. O-O Qd8 10. a3 Bd6 11. h3 h6 12. Bd3 Ne7 13. Qb3 c6 14. Re1
Qc7 15. Bd2 Be6 16. Qc2 Ned5 17. Ne5 Rad8 18. f4 Nb6 19. Rad1 Rfe8 20. Bc1
a6 21. Kh1 Qc8 22. Qf2 Bd5 23. Kh2 Bb3 24. Rd2 c5 25. dxc5 Bxc5 26. Qf3 Bd4
27. Ne4 Bxe5 28. fxe5 Nxe4 29. Bxe4 Rxd2 30. Qxb3 Rdd8 31. Qxb6 Re7 32. Bf4
Rde8 33. Bb1 Qc4 34. Re4 Qf1 35. Qg1 Qb5 36. Qf2 Qd5 37. Qg3 Re6 38. Qd3
Qxd3 39. Bxd3 Rd8 40. Bc4 Rc6 41. e6 fxe6 42. Bxe6+ Kh8 43. Bg4 Rc2 44. Re7
Rf8 45. Be5 Rff2 46. Bxg7+

1-0  Ruth resigns
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[Event "Nice ol (Men) fin-B"]
[Site "Nice"]
[Date "1974.06.06"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Levy,David Neil Lawrence"]
[Black "Kraidman,Yair"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco "C44"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.c3 d5 5.exd5 Qxd5 6.cxd4 Nf6 7.Nc3 Bb4
8.Be2 0-0 9.0-0 Qd8 10.h3 h6 11.a3 Bd6 12.Qd3 Ne7 13.Nb5 Bf5 14.Qb3 Be6
15.Bc4 Bxc4 16.Qxc4 Ned5 17.Ne5 Be7 18.b4 a5 19.bxa5 c6 20.Nc3 Rxa5
21.Re1 Qa8 22.Qb3 Qa7 23.Ng6 Re8 24.Nxd5 Nxd5 25.Nxe7+ Rxe7 26.Rxe7 Nxe7
27.Qe3 Nf5 28.Qe8+ Kh7 29.Bb2 Nd6 30.Qe3 Qa6 31.Re1 Rg5 32.Qe7 Rg6
33.h4 Qb5 34.Bc3 Qd5 35.g3 Nf5 36.Qe4 Nxg3 37.Qxd5 cxd5 38.Kh2 Ne4
39.Bb4 Nxf2 40.Re7 Nd3 41.Rxb7 Rg4 42.a4 Rxh4+

0-1
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[Event "IGSP op-C"]
[Site "Sao Caetano do Sul"]
[Date "1999.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Cajal,Andre"]
[Black "Navarro,V"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "C44"]

1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3 d5 4.exd5 Qxd5 5.cxd4 Bb4+ 6.Nc3 Nc6 7.Nf3 Nf6
8.Be2 0-0 9.0-0 Qd8 10.h3 h6 11.a3 Be7 12.d5 Nb8 13.Qb3 Nbd7 14.Be3 Nc5
15.Qc4 b6 16.b4 Nb7 17.Nd4 Nd6 18.Qb3 Bd7 19.Rfd1 a6 20.Rac1 Qb8 21.Bd3 Qb7
22.Bb1 Rfb8 23.Bf4 Nfe8 24.Nc6 Bxc6 25.dxc6 Qc8 26.Nd5 Qd8 27.Qd3 f5
28.Re1 Bg5 29.Rcd1 Bxf4 30.Nxf4 Qf6 31.Nd5 Qf8 32.Nxc7 Nxc7 33.Qxd6 Nb5
34.Qg6 Qf7 35.Qxf7+ Kxf7 36.Bxf5 Ra7 37.Rd7+ Rxd7 38.cxd7 Rd8
39.Re8 Rxe8 40.Bg6+

1-0
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The Chessgames of Ruth Haring

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=83805
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------Robert
Ramirez tied for first in the Under 2200
blitz for the 2008 North American Open.
Prize $165

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http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2006/01/best-chess-couples.html

Tuesday, January 03, 2006
The best chess couples?

This afternoon a non-chess friend asked me if chess players date or marry each
other? The obvious answer is yes but it wasn't something I thought about until
I was asked this question. Which are some of the most formidable chess couples
in history?
(ex or current, married or committed dating)

Some pairs that come to my mind are:

GM Ivanchuk - IM Galliamova (x)
GM Shirov - IM Cmilyte
GM Lautier - IM Skripchenko (x)
GM Grischuk - IM Zhukova (GM when rating = 2500)
GM Gulko - WGM Anna Akhsharumova Gulko
GM Shaobin Wu - GM Jun Xie
GM Kosashvili - IM Sofia Polgar
GM Al-Modiahki - GM Zhu Chen
GM Sergei Movsesian - WGM Petra Krupkova-Movsesianova
GM Atalik - WGM Polovnikova
GM Bellon - GM Pia Cramling
GM Bobby Fischer - Zita Rajcsanyi
GM Bobby Fischer - WIM Watai
GM Yermolinsky - WGM Baginskaite
GM Keith Arkell - IM Susan Arkell
GM Lalic - IM Susan Lalic
GM Ribli - WIM Maria Grosch
GM Seirawan - WFM Yvette Nagel Seirawan
GM Rogers - WFM Cathy Rogers
IM Charbonneau - IM Krush
GM R.B.Ramesh - WGM Aarti Ramaswami
GM Peng Xiaomin -WGM Qin Kanying
GM Zhang Zhong - WGM Li Ruofan
IM Orlov - WGM Elena Donaldson
GM D. Barua - WIM Saheli Dhar Barua
GM Nunn - WFM Petra-Fink Nunn
GM Stripunsky - WFM Julia Shiber
GM Sagalchik - WIM Olga Sagalchik
GM Alex Ivanov - WIM Epstein
GM Sher - WGM Grinfeld
GM Christiansen - wc Natasha Christiansen
IM Foisor - IM Foisor
IM Sriram Jha - IM Vijayalaxmi S.
IM William Hartston - WGM Jana Hartston
GM Bellin - WGM Jana Bellin
GM Miles - WGM Jana Miles
GM Peter Biyiasas - WIM Ruth Haring
IM Root - WIM Alexey Root
IM Wu Xibin - WIM Lou Hongyu
IM LiWenling - WIM Gao Zhiqian
FM Tegshuren Enkhbat - WIM Tsagaan Battsetseg
GM Kosteniuk - Diego Garces

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Sat Jun 20 08:49:39 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:49:39 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Tyler Hughes will be interviewed on ICC
	Chess.FM's Chess Talk with IM John Watson!on Thursday
Message-ID: <1245509379.4a3cf70382fb4@www.taom.com>


Tyler Hughes will be interviewed on ICC Chess.FM's
Chess Talk with IM John Watson on Thursday.

I will be staying at John Watsons's house starting Sunday.
Carl Brotsker and son Alex ( classmate of my 10 year old son's Chess Class )
will be driving to Nebraska Sunday for a week long Chess Camp.

Then it's off to the World Open.

Neither John nor Tyler mentioned the possibility of an interview
so it came as a pleasant shock like running into a High School sweetheart
( theoretically speaking, if I had any ).

I spent the last two days at the 16th Street mall. The highlight was beating
Philipp Ponomarev with the Camel ( pawn wave like a swirling sandstorm. ).

Here's a Weihmiller French I remember against a random 5-1 opponent.

[Event "5-1 blitz"]
[Site "16th Street mall, Denver, CO"]
[Date "2009.06.19"]
[Round "?"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "NN"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C05"]
[WhiteElo "2200"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[EventDate "2009.06.19"]
[TimeControl "White  1 minute/Black 5 minutes"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Ngf3 Be7 8. Bd3
b6 9. Qe2 O-O 10. h4 Bb7 11. Bxh7+ Kxh7 12. Ng5+  Kg8  13.  Qh5  B:g5  14.  hg

1-0

12 ... Kg6  13  h5+  Kh6  14  Qd3  B:g5+  15 fg+  Q:g5  16  Nf3
wins the Queen
12 ... Kh6  13  Ndf3  with threats of
14  Qc2, Qd3 or f5
would give me more than enough for my Greek sacrifice.
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People at the mall -
Martsen, Robert Ramirez, Ian, Robert Stevens ( 5 minutes to 45 second versus the
Hippo for bus tokens ), Stephan Burns ( inventor Casper the Friendly Ghost
Opening ), Bill Engels ( winner 1989 Wyoming Open ).

Apparently Jim Allen ( age 83 ) has died. Jim and I played 40 years ago at the
Gates Rubber Company on Broadway. Jim always had entertaining puzzles for
everyone at the mall and was fun to talk to. RIP.

Typical 5-1 for $1 mall game

[Event "5-1 blitz"]
[Site "16th Street mall, Denver, CO"]
[Date "2009.06.19"]
[Round "?"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "NN"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C05"]
[WhiteElo "2200"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[EventDate "2009.06.19"]
[TimeControl "White  1 minute/Black 5 minutes"]

1. e4  e5 2. f4 f6 3. fxe5 fxe5 4. Qh5+ Ke7
5. Qxe5+ Kf7 6. Bc4+ Kg6 7. h4 Qe8 8. Qg5#



From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Sat Jun 20 12:46:48 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:46:48 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Tyler Hughes will be interviewed on ICC
	Chess.FM's Chess Talk with IM John Watson!on Thursday
Message-ID: <1245523608.4a3d2e98e43d0@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net> -----
    Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:54:18 -0700
    From: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
Reply-To: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
 Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Tyler Hughes will be interviewed on ICC
Chess.FM's Chess Talk with IM John Watson!on Thursday
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

I remember Jim Allen in the 1968 Junior Open.  I fell for a back rank mate a
queen up and was already feeling suicidal about chess at age 14.  Jim went over
the game with me and made me feel a little better.  Too bad he's gone.


  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Brian Wall
  To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com ; Chess-improvement at Yahoogroups.com ;
UnorthodoxChessOpening at Yahoogroups.com ; Brian Wall Chesslist
  Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 7:49 AM
  Subject: [BrianWallChess] Tyler Hughes will be interviewed on ICC Chess.FM's
Chess Talk with IM John Watson!on Thursday






  Tyler Hughes will be interviewed on ICC Chess.FM's
  Chess Talk with IM John Watson on Thursday.

  I will be staying at John Watsons's house starting Sunday.
  Carl Brotsker and son Alex ( classmate of my 10 year old son's Chess Class )
  will be driving to Nebraska Sunday for a week long Chess Camp.

  Then it's off to the World Open.

  Neither John nor Tyler mentioned the possibility of an interview
  so it came as a pleasant shock like running into a High School sweetheart
  ( theoretically speaking, if I had any ).

  I spent the last two days at the 16th Street mall. The highlight was beating
  Philipp Ponomarev with the Camel ( pawn wave like a swirling sandstorm. ).

  Here's a Weihmiller French I remember against a random 5-1 opponent.

  [Event "5-1 blitz"]
  [Site "16th Street mall, Denver, CO"]
  [Date "2009.06.19"]
  [Round "?"]
  [White "B-Wall"]
  [Black "NN"]
  [Result "1-0"]
  [ECO "C05"]
  [WhiteElo "2200"]
  [BlackElo "?"]
  [EventDate "2009.06.19"]
  [TimeControl "White 1 minute/Black 5 minutes"]

  1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Ngf3 Be7 8. Bd3
  b6 9. Qe2 O-O 10. h4 Bb7 11. Bxh7+ Kxh7 12. Ng5+ Kg8 13. Qh5 B:g5 14. hg

  1-0

  12 ... Kg6 13 h5+ Kh6 14 Qd3 B:g5+ 15 fg+ Q:g5 16 Nf3
  wins the Queen
  12 ... Kh6 13 Ndf3 with threats of
  14 Qc2, Qd3 or f5
  would give me more than enough for my Greek sacrifice.
  ----------------------------------------------------------

  People at the mall -
  Martsen, Robert Ramirez, Ian, Robert Stevens ( 5 minutes to 45 second versus
the
  Hippo for bus tokens ), Stephan Burns ( inventor Casper the Friendly Ghost
  Opening ), Bill Engels ( winner 1989 Wyoming Open ).

  Apparently Jim Allen ( age 83 ) has died. Jim and I played 40 years ago at the
  Gates Rubber Company on Broadway. Jim always had entertaining puzzles for
  everyone at the mall and was fun to talk to. RIP.

  Typical 5-1 for $1 mall game

  [Event "5-1 blitz"]
  [Site "16th Street mall, Denver, CO"]
  [Date "2009.06.19"]
  [Round "?"]
  [White "B-Wall"]
  [Black "NN"]
  [Result "1-0"]
  [ECO "C05"]
  [WhiteElo "2200"]
  [BlackElo "?"]
  [EventDate "2009.06.19"]
  [TimeControl "White 1 minute/Black 5 minutes"]

  1. e4 e5 2. f4 f6 3. fxe5 fxe5 4. Qh5+ Ke7
  5. Qxe5+ Kf7 6. Bc4+ Kg6 7. h4 Qe8 8. Qg5#

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Sat Jun 20 22:11:47 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:11:47 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Walrus takes out Londom system premover
Message-ID: <1245557507.4a3db303a372f@www.taom.com>



[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.21"]
[Round "-"]
[White "GUINEO"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2208"]
[BlackElo "2072"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn: Charlick (Englund) gambit, Walrus"]
[ECO "A40"]
[NIC "QO.17"]
[Time "00:09:24"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. d4 e5 2. Nf3 e4 3. Nfd2 e3 4. Nf3 exf2+ 5. Kxf2 Nf6 6. Nc3 d5 7. Bg5 c6
8. e4 dxe4 9. Nxe4 Nxe4+ {White resigns} 0-1


From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Sun Jun 21 09:19:37 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:19:37 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter
Message-ID: <1245597577.4a3e4f8928323@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net> -----
    Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:46:55 -0600
    From: CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net>
Reply-To: CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net>
 Subject: Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter


Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter


http://cs.chess.home.att.net
            This Week In Chess

            On June 16th, the CSCC had 9 members in attendance. The main event
was the conclusion of the two-week, USCF-rated June Mating Game Tournament
(4SS, G30). Paul Anderson, Dean Brown, and Bob Staten withdrew from the event
opening the door for Mitch Anderson to claim the top prize and James Powers to
jump in and snag the U1800 prize. Here are the final results:



Score	Prize	Place	Player
3.0	$18	1st	Mitch Anderson
2.5	$12	2nd	Josh Divine
2.0			Paul Anderson
2.0			Jeff Fox
1.5			Buck Buchanan
1.5	$12	U1800	James Powers
1.0			Dean Brown
1.0			Bob Staten
0.0			Mitchell Pjontek

            Comments From Email

            Josh "JD" Smith, Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:56 PM

            Was that a Mike Fuchs response that I saw in there? Roommate from
way back! It's fun to read the names on your email list and remember old
friends. Fromme, Splichal, Schultz just to name a few... You guys should stop
by Utah sometime. I have all of the top rated players in the state playing a
tournament in my basement this weekend! Anybody know how to get a hold of
Randall Moore?

            Brian Wall, Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:12 PM

            After 17 years of playing Chess I was about to become a Chessmaster.
I normally played 1 d4 d5 2 e4 (The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit). I was so scared my
unsound gambit would lose to Steven Henderson and I would never become a Master
I offered a draw after 1 d4 d5 which he accepted.

            My idea of a major upset is anyone 400 or more points above me lucky
enough to weasel out a draw.

            DuWayne Langseth, Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:51 AM

            Way to spook him into a draw with a fishing pole attack!

            Jeffrey Csima, Saturday, June 20, 2009 7:43 AM

            I was surprised to hear our game last Sunday was such an important
one for you, especially since a little bird told me you were going for a
grandmaster draw even before the game began! I normally play for a win and
don't mind taking it to 150 moves if need be, but you caught me in a fatigued
state after a fairly grueling tournament with 6 games in 2 days. My brain was
feeling a bit numb and indeed the NBA finals was looming as well. Having the
black pieces and not losing too many rating points helped the decision too. If
my glazed-over brain had seen the continuations stemming from 10 ... d4! I
probably would've declined the draw. Instead I was only looking for ways to win
the knight with little compensation for white, but I didn't see any so that was
a key reason for my acceptance. Next time we meet up you can look forward to a
proper fight!

            The question by Ann Davies is interesting I'd like to add my 2c on
it. I agree there is no official ratings difference that counts as an upset. I
suppose even a single rating point would qualify technically but most people
don't take it that far. Personally I use 200 rating points as the cutoff.
That's roughly where the higher rated player has about a 0.75 point expected
result, which can be thought of as a 50-50 chance to win or draw with no chance
to lose. In reality there is obviously some chance to lose but it's small enough
to deserve a special name like "upset" I'd say.

            As a newcomer to your mailing list I'd also like to compliment you
on your fine newsletter and hope you keep up the good work for years to come!

            [Comments are about this newsletter:
(http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/newsletter/Tue_Jun_16_2009.html)]

            Game Of The Week

            Last week I wrote about my 500th USCF-rated game. Since there was no
term to describe the occasion of playing 500 chess games, I had to create my
own: The Quincenchessial. I had remembered the big stink my hometown,
Naperville, had made back in 1981 when it celebrated its sesquicentennial of
the year it was founded. Apparently, some guy, Joe Naper, took two months to
sail across the Great Lakes and was too tired to cross the DuPage river so he
plopped his butt right there in 1831. The thought occurred to me that if 150
years had it own designation, surely 500 years would as well. So, I just
modified the term for my own purposes. And the first chess holiday was born.

            Well, I soon realized that I had more milestones to come. This
week's game marks the quinquennial of my father's day emails. I have been
forgetting my card to my dad the past couple of years, but I have been making
up for it by publishing his chess victories over me. Isn't that much better
than a tie anyway? And this year's game is especially memorable, as our email
match has now hit the semicenchessial mark. Even the Karpov vs. Kasparov World
Chess Championship match in 1984 only made it to 48 games before being
terminated. This was the game that put us past the two former World Champs and
was a long awaited, hard earned win for my dad after a drought of 6 games (4
loss, 2 draw) and 2.5 years. In addition, it turns out to be my 150th published
newsletter, just in time for my dad to now claim he has beaten Colorado's newest
expert (http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlTnmtHst.php?12728345). Happy Father's
Day!



Event		Paul Anderson's Lexicon Of Chess Holidays
5 years		Quinquennial
50 games		Semicenchessial
150 games		Sesquicenchessial
500 games		Quincenchessial



            The Sesquicenchessial (Click this link to view the game on your web
browser)
            (150) Anderson,Douglas - Anderson,Paul [B10]
            19-14-16 Email, 09.10.2008
            [Fritz 8 (60s)]

            B10: Caro-Kann: 2 d3 and 2 c4
            1.e4 c6 2.Nf3 g6 last book move 3.a3 Bg7 4.Bc4 d6 Prevents intrusion
on e5 5.d3 Nf6 6.c3 0-0 7.Be3 e5 8.Nbd2 Bg4 9.h3 Bxf3 10.Nxf3 Nbd7 11.Qd2 Re8
12.0-0-0 d5 13.exd5 cxd5 14.Ba2 Rc8 15.Kb1 [15.Bxa7? is a blank shot 15...b6-+
] 15...a5 16.c4 d4 Black gains space 17.Bg5 Qb6 18.Bxf6 Bxf6 19.Ng5 Nc5 20.Ne4
Nxe4 21.dxe4 a4 22.h4 Qc6 23.f3 Rc7 24.g4 White intends h5 24...Rec8 c4 seems
the pivot of the position 25.g5 White gets more space 25...Bg7 26.h5 Bf8
27.hxg6 hxg6 [>=27...fxg6!? must definitely be considered 28.Qh2 Qc5= ] 28.Rh3
b5?? [>=28...Bg7 would save the game 29.Rdh1 Kf8+/- ] 29.Rdh1 [29.Qh2 Bg7
30.Rh7 Kf8 31.Rxg7 bxc4 32.Qxe5 Re7 33.Qxd4 Rd7 34.Qxd7 Qxd7 35.Rxd7 Kxg7+- ]
29...Bg7 30.Qh2 Kf8 31.Rh7 f5 [31...bxc4 32.Rxg7! Annihilates a defender: g7
32...Qe6+- ] 32.Rxg7! Eliminates the defender g7 32...Rxg7 [32...Kxg7 Decoy
theme: g7 33.Qxe5+ ] 33.Qh8+ [33.c5 Re8 34.Qh8+ Ke7 35.Qxg7+ Kd8+- ] 33...Rg8
34.Qxg8+! it's all over 34...Kxg8 Decoy to g8 35.cxb5+ Theme: Double Attack
35...Kg7 36.bxc6 Rxc6 37.Rc1 Ra6 38.Bd5 Ra7 39.Rc4 Ra5 40.Bc6 Ra6 41.Bxa4 Kf7
42.Bd1 1-0

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            For event details and additional events, see the following websites:

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Sun Jun 21 11:15:02 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:15:02 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Shakespeare Sonnet-a-Day
Message-ID: <1245604502.4a3e6a96473ad@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from chineseboxer2 at comcast.net -----
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 Subject: Fwd: Shakespeare Sonnet-a-Day
      To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com


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Subject: Shakespeare Sonnet-a-Day


	Shakespeare Sonnet-a-Day




Sonnet #34

Posted:
XXXIV.

Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
And make me travel forth without my cloak,
To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,
Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?
'Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break,
To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face,
For no man well of such a salve can speak
That heals the wound and cures not the disgrace:
Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief;
Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss:
The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief
To him that bears the strong offence's cross.
Ah! but those tears are pearl which thy love sheds,
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun 23 21:30:21 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:30:21 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Loss of a Colorado Springs Chess player -
	Virgil McGuire
Message-ID: <1245814221.4a419dcd4a037@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Renae Delaware <rdelaware at hotmail.com> -----
    Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:38:29 -0600
    From: Renae Delaware <rdelaware at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Renae Delaware <rdelaware at hotmail.com>
 Subject: Loss of a Colorado Springs Chess player - Virgil McGuire


Hello everyone,

  It is with a very sadden heart that I report word of Virgil McGuire's passing.
 For many of us he was a beloved member of the CSCC & dear friend for many, many
years.  For those of you who did not know Virgil, he was a very modest man who
absolutely loved to play chess.  I first met Virgil when I started playing at
the chess club in 2003; though he was a member for several years before that. 
He was a very sweet man and his loss will be felt in the chess community.

  Virgil passed away on Wednesday, June 17th.  To read his obituary posted in
today's paper, The Gazette, please click (or copy/paste) this link: 
http://www.legacy.com/gazette/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=128683090

  Virgil will have a celebration of life memorial to be held at 2:00 p.m.
Monday, June 22, 2009 at the Shrine of Remembrance ?America the Beautiful?
Chapel



Best wishes,

~Renae




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From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:32:50 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Loss of a Colorado Springs Chess player -
	Virgil McGuire
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----- Forwarded message from DuWayne Langseth <duwaynelangseth at hotmail.com>
-----
    Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:17:41 -0600
    From: DuWayne Langseth <duwaynelangseth at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: DuWayne Langseth <duwaynelangseth at hotmail.com>
 Subject: RE: Loss of a Colorado Springs Chess player - Virgil McGuire
      To: Renae Delaware <rdelaware at hotmail.com>






Renae,



That's so sad.  Virgil was a great guy and a very good

chess player.  I remember losing to him.  He has been

noticeably absent whenever I've been at the club and

I wondered what happened to him.  He will be missed.



DuWayne



From: rdelaware at hotmail.com
Subject: Loss of a Colorado Springs Chess player - Virgil McGuire
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:38:29 -0600



Hello everyone,
  It is with a very sadden heart that I report word of Virgil McGuire's passing.
 For many of us he was a beloved member of the CSCC & dear friend for many, many
years.  For those of you who did not know Virgil, he was a very modest man who
absolutely loved to play chess.  I first met Virgil when I started playing at
the chess club in 2003; though he was a member for several years before that. 
He was a very sweet man and his loss will be felt in the chess community.
  Virgil passed away on Wednesday, June 17th.  To read his obituary posted in
today's paper, The Gazette, please click (or copy/paste) this link: 
http://www.legacy.com/gazette/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=128683090
  Virgil will have a celebration of life memorial to be held at 2:00 p.m.
Monday, June 22, 2009 at the Shrine of Remembrance ?America the Beautiful?
Chapel

Best wishes,
~Renae

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From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:52:52 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] William Weihmiller 1883 - Al Czerniecki 2296
	11-7-85
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Brian Wall -

William Weihmiller is a regular at the Colo Springs Chess Club, just like he was
30 years ago. Bill was gone for a long time from Colorado like me. Bill
remembers playing Chess with Jerry Sunderland and Virgil McGuire from 30 years
ago. Bill claims Jerry has never complained about anything in his life and
Virgil has been a pleasant man the whole time he has known him.

" Jerry and I were on the Mitchell High team, which took the 1972 Colorado High
School State Team Title. At the time they told us it was the first time it had
ever left Greater Denver in 80-some years." - Bill

Bill was nonplussed that Paul Anderson had published a loss in the Colorado
Springs Newsletter without asking him first or mentioning it later. Bill felt
blindsided when he typed his name into Google and up pops his loss in Click and
Move format!

I baited him with -

Brian - Then show me a win and I will post it.

Bill- I only have losses.

Brian - A lifetime of Chess and not one morsel to show the public. Sad.

Bill - Hold on. I have a good game in the trunk of my car.

This email is the result, one of my favorites. It reads like an Aesop's fable, a
morality play and David and Goliath all at once. Bill's notes remind me of
Botvinnik's notes when he had to play Tal - limit his options, restrict his
counterplay, don't unleash the tornado! This is how Rea plays against me, how
Kramnik plays against Kasparov, how anyone plays against Shirov. An ancient
Chess battle of Control vesus Chaos.


Bill's brother is a boxer that takes on men half his age at a local Colorado
Springs club. Bill shows the same fighting qualities this game.( My brother used
to fight at Tequila's but they ended them a month or so ago. - Bill )

This is Bill's most memorable game from his days on the Chicago
Industrial League. All the notes from here on in are Bill's.

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William Weihmiller? -


Top of Form


Chicago Industrial Chess League, Amoco - Sears, Board 1


Notes by Bill Weihmiller




Without question, this is the best game of my life.


It did a lot to motivate me for years when I was in Chicago.




A little background:


I'd played for the Amoco Knight Oilers for about five years on the lower boards,
but our first board, Marty Klein, had been playing me speed games in the
evenings to toughen me up. I gradually moved up to Board Two and then Marty
decided to retire.


For my very first game on Board One I was to face Al Czerniecki of the Sears
Alumni team. He was the strongest player in the East Division of the Chicago
Industrial League, had a 5-year unbeaten streak, and proudly wore a Double
Century pin on his lapel. They give you a Century pin when you play your
hundredth league game - Double Century at 200 games. Marty was a 2100 and had a
record against Al of 0-9-2. Two draws out of 11 games.


To put it mildly, I was terrified. Well, if I was going to the slaughter, he
might as well kill me and my ridiculous attempts at preparation at the same
time.


He'd published a few games -- only King's Indian, Pirc, King's Indian Reversed
-- in League Bulletins. His games were extremely sharp starting from the
openings. He was a fantastic counterpuncher. When the games got tactical anyone
mixing with him got ripped to pieces. I wanted to build continuously and make
HIM hit first.


I wanted something slow and solid to wipe out his advantage in King's Indian
Attack/King's Indian systems. I found a system by Geller and changed it a
little. ( Geller left his bishop on c1 longer - BW )


When we got to the match venue, Al was disappointed Marty was retired. He didn't
feel that he should have to play an 1800.




[Site "Standard Oil Building (Amoco)Chicago"]


[Date "1985.11.07"]


[Round "1"]


[White "WWeihmiller, Amoco Knight Oilers"]


[Black "ACzerniecki, Sears Alumni"]


[Result "1-0"]


[ICCResult "Black resigns"]


[WhiteElo "1883"]


[BlackElo "2296"]


[Opening "Robatsch (modern) defense"]


[ECO "B06"]


[NIC "KF.05"]


[Time "02:40:05"]


[TimeControl "50/2"]

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Chicago Industrial League

50/2

site - Standard Oil Building (Amoco), Chicago



White - William ( Bill ) Weihmiller, Amoco Knight Oilers? ???1883

Black -? K Al Czerniecki, Sears Alumni? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ???2296


Bill's first appearance on Board 1




1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. c3 d6 4. Be3 Nf6 5. Nd2 O-O 6. Ngf3 Nbd7

7. Bc4 c6 8. Bb3



No fork trick.



8 ... e5 9. O-O Qc7 10. dxe5 dxe5 11. Qe2 a5 12. a4 b5


If I grab it, of course, ... Ba6 wins back the exchange.

He was playing me at about two seconds a move until now. I'd been to a Petrosian
simul that year, and he gave EVERYONE about ten seconds a move.

In spite of my fear, I eventually got angry. "If a former World Champion, with
50 other boards to worry about, can give me ten seconds a move, who the hell
does this guy think he is?"

I eventually decided that if he was going to beat me, he was going to have to
pull stuff straight from Hell to do it. This was a game I poured an enormous
amount of effort into.


This was a 50/2 League - fifty moves in two hours. Al must have thought I was in
time trouble already because my habit was to spend the first hour on my first 20
moves and my second hour on the next 30. This wasn't because I was good in the
ending - just the opposite! I felt that if I got a good Middle Game edge, I
could pick an ending even I could win. I think against Al I was burning even
more time in the opening.



13. Rfc1 Ba6 14. Bg5 Nc5


... ba Bc4 is the problem. Black's pawns are all isolated but my b- and c-pawns
are one island.

I've got to rearrange a bit, but this is looking good. c6 is always backward, a-
is weak, and I can't think of a single useful thing for his bishops to do.


15. Qe3 Nxb3 16. Nxb3 Ng4 17. Qc5

This looked solid and slow enough to keep an eye on anything that was going to
happen.


17 ... Rfe8


Threatening Bf8, winning the Queen.


18. Be3


The a-pawn already hurts, but this threatens Qb6.


18 ... Nxe3 19. Qxe3

Now aiming for Nc5. The other Knight is looking for a way to link up, either
Nfd2-b3 or Ne1-d3. This will let me use the Knights as bricks and I can split
the game into major pieces against major pieces and Knights plugging up the
center while the Bishops pretend to be busy.


19 ... Bf8


... Bf8 loses the a-pawn. I don't know if he could save it anyway.


20.axb5 cxb5 21. Rxa5 Qc4

Now I know I'm in for some trouble. He started playing slower,and I knew he'd be
shoving my head toward the meat-grinder.


22. Nfd2 Qc6 23. Rca1


I can't really see what he's going to do, but I can knit things together and
make it harder, whatever it turns out to be.


23 ... Red8 24. Nf3 f6


And it struck me that to start out with g6 and Bg7 and then have to play f6 to
prop up the e-pawn must mean White's doing something right.


25. Ne1


and now I wanted to put a Knight on c5 PERMANENTLY.


25 ... Bd6 26. Nd3 Bc7 27. R5a3 Bb7 28. Rxa8 Bxa8 29. Nbc5


I like either Knight better than either Bishop. I had the feeling that once I
got a permanent Knight on c5, I'd be holding the whip for a long time to come.


29 ... Bb6 30. b4


I didn't want him to play b4 and isolate my b-pawns, even if they were doubled.
That's another reason for Nd3.

c3 would be weak except Nc5 shields it and there's no earthly way to get to it.
It's not a threat, either, but with enough exchanges it will become an extra
pawn again.


30 ...Bb7 31. Qe2 Bc8


Grabbing the file means he has to cover all the squares with the Bishops. I was
surprised that he wanted to keep one pair of Rooks a few moves ago, but now
there's one open file and I own it. Maybe he'll give me something else to
contest it.


32. Qa2+ Kg7 33. h3


Back rank mate luft, and f3?? allows Rxd3! 0-1. I was a bit worried that ...
Rxd3; Nxd3 Qxc3; would be a royal pain, but I couldn't see a way to stop it. It
would be up an Exhange but with his Bishops having lots of scope. I figured I'd
have to figure that out if the time came.


33 ... Bb7


That was an unexpected gift. He turned red and started looking for something. He
told me after the game it was his heart pills. His color changes worried me
-reddish to gray and back. He looked pretty annoyed.


34. Ne6+ Kh6 35. Nxd8 Bxd8 36. Nc5 Bb6 37. Qd2+ g5 38.Nxb7 Qxb7

39. Qd5 Qc8 40. Rc1


Some of this is really poor on his part. I think he was trying to keep enough
tension in the position that when I inevitably screwed up, he'd have enough
material left to win.


This isn't really wild or active play, but I can see things to do and not much
he can do to stop me.


40 ... Qa6 41. c4 bxc4 42. Qxc4 Qa7 43. Rc2 Qa1+ 44.Kh2 Qa7 45. Qe6 Bd8 46. Rd2


Just so he can't take on f2.




46 ...Be7 47. g3


Aiming for Rd7.


47 ...Kg6 48. Kg2

I would like to threaten Rd7 but f2 hangs and Qxf2 gives Qc1+ and Qf4+ as a
perpetual. I wanted to cover with Kg2, but Qf5 is actually just as good and
more direct. The tension here was enormous. If I blundered and lost it here,
this was going to be published so people could laugh at me for a long time. I
was determined not to let that happen.


48 ... Qb7 49. Qf5+ Kg7 50. Rb2 Qb6 51. Qd7 Kf8 52. b5 h5 53. Rc2

At the time I thought taking b4 would be fatal because of Qf3-b3. Probably time
trouble at this point. I can't remember caring whether he took the damned Pawn
or not, since I couldn't see a way to advance it.

But he's way too loose on the Kingside. All the threats are two-movers at the
longest, so it's easy to keep pushing and make progress without getting nailed
by an oversight.


53 ... Qa5 54. Rc8+


1-0


Either through e8 or f5, the Queen gets in. He's cooked. Didn't need that stupid
b-pawn after all.

This turned out to be a good start to the season. I went 9-2-1 against Experts,
Masters and Senior Masters my first year on Board One and took the trophy for
Most Improved Player in the whole CICL. The only IM I played in the League that
year burned my French down in 17 moves, but I think I dragged it out to 25 so
the other boards could focus.

William Weihmiller

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PGN of? Weihmiller -? Czerniecki

[Site "Standard Oil Building (Amoco)Chicago"]
[Date "1985.11.07"]
[Round "1"]
[White "WWeihmiller,? Amoco Knight Oilers"]
[Black "ACzerniecki, Sears Alumni"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "1883"]
[BlackElo "2296"]
[Opening "Robatsch (modern) defense"]
[ECO "B06"]
[NIC "KF.05"]
[Time "02:40:05"]
[TimeControl "50/2"]

1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. c3 d6 4. Be3 Nf6 5. Nd2 O-O 6. Ngf3 Nbd7 7. Bc4 c6 8.
Bb3 e5 9. O-O Qc7 10. dxe5 dxe5 11. Qe2 a5 12. a4 b5 13. Rfc1 Ba6 14. Bg5
Nc5 15. Qe3 Nxb3 16. Nxb3 Ng4 17. Qc5 Rfe8 18. Be3 Nxe3 19. Qxe3 Bf8 20.
axb5 cxb5 21. Rxa5 Qc4 22. Nfd2 Qc6 23. Rca1 Red8 24. Nf3 f6 25. Ne1 Bd6 26.
Nd3 Bc7 27. R5a3 Bb7 28. Rxa8 Bxa8 29. Nbc5 Bb6 30. b4 Bb7 31. Qe2 Bc8 32.
Qa2+ Kg7 33. h3 Bb7 34. Ne6+ Kh6 35. Nxd8 Bxd8 36. Nc5 Bb6 37. Qd2+ g5 38.
Nxb7 Qxb7 39. Qd5 Qc8 40. Rc1 Qa6 41. c4 bxc4 42. Qxc4 Qa7 43. Rc2 Qa1+ 44.
Kh2 Qa7 45. Qe6 Bd8 46. Rd2 Be7 47. g3 Kg6 48. Kg2 Qb7 49. Qf5+ Kg7 50. Rb2
Qb6 51. Qd7 Kf8 52. b5 h5 53. Rc2 Qa5 54. Rc8+




Rating History for
K A CZERNIECKI
USCF ID? 10351031???Expires? Life???State? ILLINOIS

Source? Regular
Rating? Quick
Rating
12-91 Annual List 2185

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Tue Jun 23 23:22:44 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:22:44 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter
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Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter


http://cs.chess.home.att.net







This Week In Chess
Tuesday May 18, 2004
On 5/11, the CSCC had 19 members in attendance on this particular night. For the
USCF-rated match play (G90), 3 games were formed: Alex Arustamyan continued his
winning streak by beating Andy Chow, Dan Southard got back on the right track
by scoring one point against Allan Ufer, and Tom Mullikin got a victory by
outlasting Gary Frenzel. Most of the other members played in the thematic
matches (G15). The players were paired off and had to play both sides of 2
different starting positions (see below). Score keeping was encouraged so that
Brian Wall would have some examples to add to his lecture. I made the mistake
of putting my name on my score sheets as I was trounced by Virgil McGuire
2.5-1.5 (I didn???t keep score in my one victory). Other winners were Gerry
Sunderland thrashing Charles Martin 4.0-0-0, Roy Roberts claiming victory over
Chris Wykoop 2.0-0-0, and Renae Delaware conducting a fine performance over
Larry Smith 2.0-0.0. Also, Mike Jozwiak and
 Chris McCarty tied with 2.0-2.0.

Thematic Positions
By Brian Wall

Position 1 ??? 1. b3 e5 2. Bb2 Nc6 3. e3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bd6!?

Position 2 - 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. d4 O-O 5. c4 d6 6. O-O a6 7. Nc3
Nc6 8. d5 Na5 9. Nd2 c5 10. Qc2 b5 11. b3 Rb8 12. Bb2

Game Of The Week

Last week I posed the question: Should a game lasting 9 moves be published? I
got several people to reply. The general response was that a short game should
be published, and I even received a couple of examples. The shortest example
was from Tim of Denver, CO who mentioned the 2-move classic fool???s mate: 1.
f3 e6 2. g4 Qh5#. I was going to publish that one (and I guess I just did) when
I realized that I had an even shorter game in my USCF database. I played a game
in 1999 at the Pikes Peak Open that almost tied the record for shortest game of
all time. Had I been black, I would have tied it. The game actually lasted an
hour, but as far as the fewest number of moves to win, it was my personal best.
It also was my game with the fewest errors, one. I played c4 (Fritz recommends
e4, with Nf3, Nc3 or d4 as less favorable) and my opponent never found an
answer (mostly because he wasn???t there). Well, I have already published 2
games, and I still have
 space. I guess that is why I love these short games; they take up so little
space and are easy to publish. Of course, there is the possibility that you
don???t have enough material to fill up the column???like now. Well, I guess I
will have to throw in a third dwarf game. This one comes from Paul Cornelison
who goes by the handle ???Sleepy??? on Playchess.com:

Sleepy


(12) Gluckspulz,Sven (1851) - Cornelison,Paul (1956) [A51]
Main Playing Hall Playchess.com, 21.04.2004
[Fritz 8 (60s) {Paul Cornelison}]

A51: Budapest Gambit, Fajarowicz Variation 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ne4 {I have
good results with the Budapest Fajarowitz. I sometimes play this OTB and even
managed to draw IM Cris Ramayrat with it during a tournament in 93.} 4.Nc3 Bb4
last book move 5.Qd3 d5 6.cxd5 Bf5 7.Qb5+ {!? This check seems a bit too
aggressive. But it does require Black to find a forced move. What is the only
move for Black???} 7...Nc6 {!! Just 7 moves in and we have a position rich in
tactics. What do you think is the best move for White???} 8.dxc6?? makes life
more difficult. [8.Qxc6+ bxc6 ] {?? Ouch! This loses at once, but it's hard to
see everything during a blitz game. Frits gives 8.Qc4 or 8.Bd2 as best with
White having only a small plus. All other White moves give Black a good game.}
8...Nxc3-+ A pinning theme 9.Qxb4 [9.Bd2 there is nothing else anyway 9...Nxb5
10.Nf3 Bxd2+ 11.Nxd2-+ ] 9...Qd1# 0-1

Misc

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5/25 Ladder Games, CSCC
6/12-6/13 Southern Colorado Open, CSCA
6/19-6/20 Chess Camp, Chess For Juniors

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