[BrianWall-ChessList] Some Recent Games by Daniel Todd, Squirrel, Bryan Gambit, Wilkes Barre

[Brian Wall]

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
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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