From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct  1 09:19:16 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu,  1 Oct 2009 09:19:16 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Rev. Tom Stuart on Bonecrusher-a1
	abottleofsmoke thousand birds
Message-ID: <1254410356.4ac4c87402983@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Brian Wall <brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com> -----
    Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:11:58 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Brian Wall <brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com>
 Subject: [BrianWallChess] Rev. Tom Stuart on  Bonecrusher-a1  abottleofsmoke 
thousand birds
      To: BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com



--- On Wed, 9/30/09, TomCatRev <TomCatRev at Comcast.net> wrote:


From: TomCatRev <TomCatRev at Comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Bonecrusher-a1 abottleofsmoke thousand birds
To: "Brian Wall" <brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 9:48 AM



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Hi Brian; This is all I have?.
?
"Love's Sorrowful Mystery"
?
She looks down as a thousand birds arise
And flying sing the beauty of her face
And flying sing the sorrow of her eyes
And slow, disappear, leaving but a trace
?
Of sorrow and beauty that is the sky.
?
***
The bay of the hound, brought her from deep sleep;
By morning light all her tears were gone and there wasn't a peep.
Gone was her?love taken to flight, in the wind with the birds
Of the morning light.
?
Lost?in the moment as the pain took her?heart;
A heart that beat for a moment and vanished in the night.
Nothing left but sadness, what reason could it be.
Such bitter loneliness and loss?on that day vanished like? a kite.
?
?Listen?close and listen clear for those?who follow these words.
?A message of sadness, how close we are to the same as she,
?When you hear the?call of the black birds.
?
For the loss, I pray for those who?these words touch.
For I and God Love you very very much.
Rev. Tom Stuart
?

-------Original Message-------
?

From: Brian Wall
Date: 9/30/2009 4:37:58 AM
To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BrianWallChess] Bonecrusher-a1 abottleofsmoke thousand birds
??












3 years ago ICC Bonecrusher- a1, now abottleofsmoke,
sent me a few lines of poetry I really liked.
I found?a perfect image for it and wanted to send it out. Bonecrusher stopped me
but recently gave me permission again after 3 years.
?
I used to send images out but got too many complaints about taking up too much
space -
then I had webmasters but then I write so much ...
What I really should do is learn HTML -
anyway here is a 3 year old email.


Brian Wall <brianwallchess@ hotmail.com> wrote:
From: "Brian Wall" <brianwallchess@ hotmail.com>
To: brianwallchess4@ yahoo.com, brianwallchess3@ taom.com
Subject: bonecrusher abottleofsmoke thousand birds
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:03:45 -0600








From: "Brian Wall" <chubby0326 at hotmail. com>
To: RickGTC at cox. net, Brianwallchess@ Hotmail.com, chubby0326 at Hotmail. com
Subject: email address removed from email
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 20:54:33 -0600




I will give a free Chess lesson to anyone who can finish this poem in iambic
pentameter started by ICC Bonecrusher- a1.


?

?

She looks down as a thousand birds arise

and flying, sing the sorrow of her eyes.
- Bonecrusher- a1
Brian - Just for clarity, the birds are doing the singing and flying in some
sort of communion with the girl. I formed this mental image of many black birds
rising in flight and found an image close to the one in my head.
------------ --------- --------- ----
?
and this is from today, 2006-------- --------- ----
"Love's Sorrowful Mystery"
?
She looks down as a thousand birds arise
And flying sing the beauty of her face
And flying sing the sorrow of her eyes
And slow, disappear, leaving but a trace
?
Of sorrow and beauty that is the sky.
?
?
............. ......... ......... ......... ........
?
I told you the sonnet was finished, but reading it now I can't bring myself to
type out the rest of it.? If you want, you can have a contest to finish the
poem.? I promise not to retract it again.? Indeed, I may hunker down and enter
the contest myself.? I would prefer that the winning entry be a sonnet, but
after my weird hagglings of the past, I'll accept anything.



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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct  1 09:34:46 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu,  1 Oct 2009 09:34:46 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] All Colorado players attending Western States
	Open in Reno contact Brian Wall and Lee Lahti for team prize
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----- Forwarded message from Lee Lahti <lee.lahti at comcast.net> -----
    Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:14:43 -0600
    From: Lee Lahti <lee.lahti at comcast.net>
Reply-To: Lee Lahti <lee.lahti at comcast.net>
 Subject: RE: [BrianWallChess] My plans for the next three weeks in case anyone
wants to see me.
      To: 'Brian Wall' <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

Any idea on other players from Colorado going to the Western States Open?
With you going, that is 5 that I know of.  I'm wondering if we will have
enough players to participate for the team prize?  We need 10 players from
the state to qualify as a free team.  The highest overall team score splits
a prize between all members.  That's nothing to sneeze at - when it could be
free money.

Lee
  _____

From: BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com [mailto:BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Brian Wall
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 12:34 AM
To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BrianWallChess] My plans for the next three weeks in case anyone
wants to see me.







Trick or Treat, October 17, 2009

4 round Swiss system tournament.
Time Control: G/60 t/d5
Site: Blue Sky Collective, 9635 West Colfax Avenue, Lakewood, CO 80215. We
will be in the large downstairs room. The Collective is home to a variety of
shops (Skull Gate Games, a bookstore, Hootenanny Candy-they serve coffee and
tea, a dance studio, artists' lo
Directions: Go to http://www.skullgat <http://www.skullgate.com/> e.com/ and
use the driving direction tool for directions. Parking: Located in the rear
of the building off of Iris St. Look for a white parking sign and a blue
parking sign on your right. Once in the lot, go up the steps and thru the
back entrance under the blue awning into the Blue Sky Collective and walk
down the hall.
Open: One open section
Entry fee: $30; Sr., Jr., Unr. $25; USCF required. Pre-registration entry
fee: $25; Sr, Jr, Unr. $20 which must be paid at the time of
pre-registration. Pre-registrations must be received by Thursday October 15.
Make checks payable to Jerry Maier.
Prizes: Cash prizes based on entry fees will be distributed at the
conclusion of the event.
Registration: 9:30-10:00 AM, Rounds: 10 AM, 1:00 PM, 3:00 PM, 5:00 PM.
Entries: Jerry Maier 229 Hargrove Court, Colorado Springs CO 80919-2213
Phone:               719-660-5531         719-660-5531
E-mail: pmjer77 at aim. <mailto:pmjer77 at aim.com> com
Final round byes must be requested before the start of Round 2, and are
irrevocable.
TD: Jerry Maier,               719-660-5531         719-660-5531 (or
pmjer77 at aim.com before the day of event).
USCF membership required: See the TD if you need to renew or join.
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October 23-25

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2009 Reno Western States Open - October 23-25, 2009
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct  1 09:50:58 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu,  1 Oct 2009 09:50:58 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Mystery solved by Hal Terrie - info sought on
	short chess story [1 Attachment]
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----- Forwarded message from Hal Terrie <halterrie at yahoo.com> -----
    Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:08:40 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Hal Terrie <halterrie at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Hal Terrie <halterrie at yahoo.com>
 Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] info sought on short chess story [1 Attachment]
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>

The story you are thinking of is "Last Round", by Kester Svendsen. You can read
it here:

http://www.wtharvey.com/lastrd.html

-- Hal Terrie




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From: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>
To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com;
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Subject: [BrianWallChess] info sought on short chess story [1 Attachment]

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Reply-To: Chess_Library@ yahoogroups. com
Subject: [Chess_Library] info sought on short chess story
To: Chess_Library@ yahoogroups. com

Hi all,

I don't normally post here but I'm looking for a story which I read about 30
years ago in a collection of short fictional stories about chess. It's about
a grandmaster who has spent his whole career trying to play a game which is
aesthetically perfect, often at the expense of winning. In the story he
finally plays a game in which he applies a perfect checkmate, and the
gamescore is incorporated in the narrative.

If anyone can help, please drop a line to johnpaines at blueyonder.co. uk

Many thanks,
John


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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct  1 10:05:12 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu,  1 Oct 2009 10:05:12 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Children are wonderful
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I forget how wonderful children are but when I spend time with them, I always
ponder what happens to their magical qualities when they grow up.
?
If I ask an adult to invent a Chess Opening I get bizarre stares but children
immediately warm to the task and their imagination knows no bounds.
?
In order to get the Rogers children interesting in Chess notation I told them
their Chess inventions would instantly go to 5,000 Chessplayers. Instant fame
is quite an incentive for children. I thought their inventions were very
clever.
?
First Coulter Rogers wants it known that it was he who invented the Frog(gy)
Opening not his older brother Kai -
?
Pawns -? c3, f3???? Back legs of the frog
Pawns - ?e5-d5???? Front? legs of the frog
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Coulter invented the Basketball Chess Opening today.
?


[Event "Chess Lesson"]
[Site "Residence Inn"]
[Date "2009.09.30"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Coulter Rogers - age 8"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "1-0*"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "UNR"]
[BlackElo "2200"]
[Opening "Basketball Opening"]
[ECO "B02"]
[NIC "AL.10"]
[Time "11 AM"]
[TimeControl "2 hours"]
?
1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Ng8 3. d4 Nf6 4. d5 Ng8 5. c4 Nf6
6. f4 Ng8 7. Be3 Nf6 8. Bd3 Ng8
Coulter created a basketball in the center of the Chessboard which protects
itself and control many squares, somewhat similar to the
Picture Frame Opening created in Nebraska this summer
( Board cluttered with pieces but leaving? d4, e4, d5,e5 squares
open for? a photo. )
?
Basketball Opening -
?
1 e4
2 d4
3 f4
4 c4
5 Be3
6 Bd3
7 e5
8 d5
?
A perfect circle
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Clark Coulter is younger (7 ) and invented the Bow and Arrow -
the idea is to keep shooting the enemy King with arrows ( checks )
and hope something good happens.
?


[Event "Chess Lesson"]
[Site "Residence Inn"]
[Date "2009.09.30"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Clark Rogersr"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "UNR"]
[BlackElo "2200"]
[Opening "Bow and Arrow"]
[ECO "B02"]
[NIC "AL.10"]
[Time "10 AM"]
[TimeControl "2 hours"]
?
1. e4 Nf6 2. d4 Nxe4 3. f4 Nf6 4. g3 Ng8 5. h3 Nc6 6. c3 Nf6 7. b3 Ng8
8. a4 Nf6 9. Ra2 Nb8 10. Rd2 Ng8 11. Rf2 Nf6 12. Qe2 Ng8 13. Qxe7+ Kxe7
14. Ba3+ d6 15. Re2+
?
?
1. e4 Nf6 2. d4 Nxe4
?
This is part of the plan -
push the e-pawn until it disappears
?
?
?
3. f4 Nf6 4. g3 Ng8 5. h3 Nc6 6. c3 Nf6 7. b3 Ng8
8. a4 Nf6 9. Ra2 Nb8 10. Rd2 Ng8 11. Rf2 Nf6 12. Qe2 Ng8
?
Everything is lined up now -
The White Queen, the f2-Rook, the c1-Bishop are in the
quiver ready to?fly through the air at the the enemy King.
?
?
13. Qxe7+
?
?
?
Sproing!!!!!!!!!!!
The first arrow takes aim at the King -
will it pierce the heart?
Clark has better aim than Duwayne Langseth.
?
13 .... Kxe7
?
Hmmm,
the first arrow bounces off the armor,
that's OK, we have more arrows.
?
?
14. Ba3+
?
Sproing!!!!!!!!!!!
The second arrow whizzes through the air.
?
?
14 ... d6
?
Hmmmm - this arrow is blocked too.
?
?
?
15. Re2+
?
Sproing!!!!!!!!!!!
The?third arrow whizzes through the air.
?
?
?
?
?
?
You get the idea. Clark also drew pictures of bows and arrows.
He thinks visually.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
?


[Event "Ches Lesson"]
[Site "Residence Inn"]
[Date "2009.09.30"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Kai Rogers"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "UNR"]
[BlackElo "2200"]
[Opening "Catfish Opening"]
[ECO "A00"]
[NIC "VO.09"]
[Time "11 AM"]
[TimeControl "2 hours"]
?
1. g3 Nf6 2. f4 Nc6 3. e4 Ng8 4. d4 Nb8 5. b3 Nc6 6. c4 Nb8 7. d5 Nf6
8. e5 Ng8 9. Nf3 Nc6 10. Nc3 Nb8 11. Be3 Nf6 12. Bd3 Ng8
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
?
?
?
The oldest boy Kai Rogers invented the Catfish Opening
?
1. g3 Nf6 2. f4 Nc6 3. e4 Ng8 4. d4 Nb8 5. b3 Nc6 6. c4 Nb8 7. d5 Nf6
8. e5 Ng8 9. Nf3 Nc6 10. Nc3 Nb8 11. Be3 Nf6 12. Bd3 Ng8
?
The abc pawns are whiskers
The fgh pawns are whiskers
?
The Catfish mouth is composed of the minor pieces plus the e5,d5 pawns
?
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
?
One more by Kai, the Watchtower or Guardian Tower
?


[Event "Ches Lesson"]
[Site "Residence Inn"]
[Date "2009.09.30"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Kai Rogers"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "UNR"]
[BlackElo "2200"]
[Opening "Watchtower or Guardian Tower"]
[ECO "A00"]
[NIC "VO.09"]
[Time "11 AM"]
[TimeControl "2 hours"]
?
?
1. g3 Nf6 2. f4 Nc6 3. e4 Ng8 4. d4 Nb8 5. b3 Nc6 6. c4 Nb8
7. d5 Nf6 8. e5 Ng8 9. Bh3 Nc6 10. Ba3 Nb8
?
The white pawns are castle stones.
At first Kai liked the idea of the rook3-Bishops being soldiers watching over
the castle but then he liked the ideas of the Bishops being castle turrets,
spires or towers better.
?
Very inventive, imaginative and gifted children to come up with all that at the
spur of the moment. They eagerly learned Chess notation so they could show
their Dad Craig their new inventions. Chess notation is the key to Chess
improvement, opening every door.
?
?
?
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct  1 10:12:08 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu,  1 Oct 2009 10:12:08 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Arizona Scorpions vs Dallas Destiny
Message-ID: <1254413528.4ac4d4d8cbdeb@www.taom.com>

Dallas will lose to the Arizona Scorpions and the Denver Broncos -
BW

----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson <valleychess at hotmail.com> -----
    Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:25:42 -0700
    From: Joel Johnson <valleychess at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Joel Johnson <valleychess at hotmail.com>
 Subject: Arizona Scorpions vs Dallas Destiny


All-

The Arizona Scorpions will face off tonight against the Dallas Destiny in the
U.S. Chess League (with all games live on ICC). The Scorpions, competing live
from the Abstrax, Inc. offices in Mesa, Arizona, will have T-Shirts for sale in
support of the team. All proceeds go directly to funding the Scorpion's efforts
to bring a U.S. Chess League championship title to Arizona! The shirts are
tax-deductible for all who buy them as well...

Scorpion's member, FM Daniel Rensch, is now IM-Elect Daniel Rensch, with the
title expected to become official over the next couple months!

GM Alejandro Ramirez will be instructing many of Arizona's brightest young chess
players this weekend at ASU! To register for ACE Chess's Strategy Session
Intensive, click here! If you weren't invited, but would like to be given the
code for entry, please contact Info at AmericanChess.net, subject line: Strategy
Session Code.

Thanks to all!


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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct  1 10:44:49 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu,  1 Oct 2009 10:44:49 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Jezzur on on God's Pharmacy
Message-ID: <1254415489.4ac4dc81806ec@www.taom.com>




--- On Tue, 9/29/09, jezzur <jezzur at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: jezzur <jezzur at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Greg Steele on God's Pharmacy
To: "Brian Wall" <brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 5:12 AM


After reading the post below I'm thinking maybe I need to eat lots of bananas.
?
From: jezzur jezzur at yahoo.com

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> It's been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made
dry land, planted a garden, made animals and?fish... all before making a
human.? He made and provided what we'd need before we were born. These are best
& more powerful when eaten raw.??We're such slow?learners....
>
> God left us a great clue as to what foods?help what part of our?body!
> A ?sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The ?pupil, iris and radiating
lines look just like the human eye... And YES, science now shows carrots
?greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the?eyes.
> A ?Tomato has four chambers and is red. The ?heart has four chambers and is
red. All of the research shows tomatoes ?are loaded with lycopine and are
indeed pure heart ?and blood food.
> Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks
like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound
?heart and blood vitalizing food.
> A ?Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper
cerebrums and lower cerebellums. ?Even the wrinkles or folds on ?the nut are
just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3)
dozen ?neuron-transmitters for brain function.
> Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they
look exactly like the human kidneys.
> Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods
specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23%
sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the
bones, thus making them weak. ?These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the
body.
> Avocadoes, ?Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and
cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows
that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted
birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? ?It
takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit.
There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one
of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).
> Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. ?Figs increase the
mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome
male sterility.
> Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index
of diabetics.
> Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries
>? Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary
glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the
movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.
> Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear
waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash
the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps
eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.
>
> ?
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct  1 11:06:56 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu,  1 Oct 2009 11:06:56 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fish, ants,
	termites and bees cannot bear to lose their Queen
Message-ID: <1254416816.4ac4e1b0782b1@www.taom.com>

Fish, ants, termites and bees cannot bear to lose their Queen

Typical example -
White has more than enough for my Queen but cannot bear the shock of losing her.

That's why I love those two minor pieces versus Queen positions:
They think Queen=Chess.

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.01"]
[Round "-"]
[White "sardpl"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "1817"]
[BlackElo "2034"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense"]
[ECO "A40"]
[NIC "QO.17"]
[Time "13:00:42"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. d4 Nc6 2. c4 e5 3. d5 Nce7 4. e4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Ng6 6. Bd3 Bc5 7. Nge2 a6 8.
a3 d6 9. b4 Ba7 10. h3 c6 11. Bg5 h6 12. Bd2 O-O 13. Qc1 Kh7 14. Be3 Bxe3
15. Qxe3 Nh5 16. g3 f5 17. exf5 Bxf5 18. Bxf5 Rxf5 19. g4 Nhf4 20. gxf5 Ng2+
{White resigns}
0-1


From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct  1 23:11:49 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu,  1 Oct 2009 23:11:49 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The New Bobbies
Message-ID: <1254460309.4ac58b9599336@www.taom.com>



There are two players in the world that remind me of the spirit of the young
Bobby Fischer, brilliant and uncompromising. IM Ray Robson of the USA and GM
Magnus Carlsen of Norway. Magnus is garnering huge, worldwide attention with
his sparkling, crystal clear play in Nanjing, coached by Kasparov.

On ICC Carlsen's games are Game of the Day every day.
Small wonder, ALL the decisive games so far are from Magnus.
His only draw is when he messed up a win against Wang Yue
because he only had three minutes to make his final moves.
He should have 4-0 with a 3100 performance rating.

[Event "ICC 90 30 u"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.09.28"]
[Round "-"]
[White "*GM_Carlsen"]
[Black "*GM_Leko"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2772"]
[BlackElo "2762"]
[Opening "Scotch game"]
[ECO "C45"]
[NIC "SO.05"]
[Time "06:19:27"]
[TimeControl "5400+30"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Be3 Qf6 6. c3 Nge7 7. Bc4 Ne5
8. Be2 Qg6 9. O-O d6 10. f4 Qxe4 11. Bf2 Bxd4 12. cxd4 N5g6 13. g3 O-O 14.
Nc3 Qf5 15. d5 a6 16. Re1 Kh8 17. Rc1 Bd7 18. Bf3 Rac8 19. Qb3 b5 20. Ne2
Qh3 21. Nd4 Bg4 22. Bg2 Qh5 23. h4 Ng8 24. Rc6 Nf6 25. Rxa6 Bd7 26. Nxb5 Rb8
27. a4 Ng4 28. Bf3 Qh6 29. Qc4 Nxh4 30. Bxg4 Bxg4 31. gxh4 Bf3 32. f5 Qh5
33. Qf4 Bxd5 34. Nxc7 Bb7 35. Rb6 f6 36. Bd4 Qf7 37. Ne6 Rg8 38. Kf2 Rbc8
39. Bc3 Bd5 40. a5 Rc4 41. Nd4 Ba8 42. Qxd6 Qh5 43. Qf4 Rcc8 44. Rbe6
{White wins}
1-0
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[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2009.09.29"]
[Round "?"]
[White "GM_Carlsen"]
[Black "GM_Topalov"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2772"]
[BlackElo "2813"]
[Opening "King's Indian: 5.Nf3"]
[ECO "E90"]
[NIC "KI.20"]
[Time "02:38:46"]
[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. h3 Na6 7. Be3 e5 8. d5
c6 9. g4 Nc5 10. Nd2 a5 11. a3 Nfd7 12. Rg1 a4 13. Qc2 Nb6 14. O-O-O Bd7 15.
Kb1 cxd5 16. cxd5 Rc8 17. Bb5 Bxb5 18. Nxb5 Qd7 19. Nc3 Bf6 20. g5 Bd8 21.
h4 Na8 22. Bxc5 Rxc5 23. Qxa4 Qc8 24. Rc1 Nb6 25. Qd1 Qh3 26. Qf3 Qd7 27.
Qd3 Kg7 28. Rc2 f6 29. gxf6+ Rxf6 30. h5 Rxf2 31. hxg6 h6 32. Nd1 Rxc2 33.
Nxf2 Rc8 34. Ng4 Bg5 35. Nf3 Nc4 36. Nxg5 hxg5 37. Ne3 Nxe3 38. Qxe3 Qa4 39.
Qxg5 Qxe4+ 40. Ka1 Re8 41. Rc1 {White wins} 1-0
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[Event "ICC 90 0 u"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.09.30"]
[Round "?"]
[White "GM_Wang"]
[Black "GM_Carlsen"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2736"]
[BlackElo "2772"]
[Opening "Gr?nfeld: Gr?nfeld gambit, Capablanca variation"]
[ECO "D83"]
[NIC "GI.03"]
[Time "02:42:13"]
[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bf4 Bg7 5. e3 O-O 6. Rc1 Be6 7. c5 c6 8. Bd3
Bg4 9. Qc2 Nfd7 10. Bxb8 Nxb8 11. h3 Bc8 12. f4 b6 13. Na4 e5 14. dxe5 f6
15. exf6 Qxf6 16. Nf3 Qe7 17. Kf2 b5 18. Nc3 Na6 19. Qd2 Nxc5 20. Bb1 Kh8
21. b4 Nb7 22. Ne2 Nd6 23. Ned4 Nc4 24. Qd3 Bd7 25. h4 Rae8 26. Rce1 Qxb4
27. h5 Nd6 28. hxg6 Ne4+ 29. Kg1 h6 30. Rc1 Qb2 31. Qc2 Qa3 32. Nb3 c5 33.
Re1 Bf5 34. Nh4 c4 35. Nxf5 Rxf5 36. Nd2 Rxf4 37. Qd1 Rf6 38. Nxe4 dxe4 39.
Qd7 Qe7 40. Qxb5 Qe6 41. Rh4 Rf5 42. Qa4 Ref8 43. Rxe4 Qxg6 44. Re8 Rxe8 45.
Bxf5 Qf7 46. Qd7 Qxd7 47. Bxd7 Rd8 48. Rd1 c3 49. Ba4 Rxd1+ 50. Bxd1 Be5 51.
Kf1 Kg7 52. Ke2 h5 53. Kd3 h4 54. Bf3 Kf6 55. Kc2 Ke6 56. Kd3 Kf6 57. Kc2
Ke6 58. Kd3 {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2
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[Event "ICC 90 0 u"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.01"]
[Round "-"]
[White "*GM_Jakovenko"]
[Black "*GM_Carlsen"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2742"]
[BlackElo "2772"]
[Opening "Sicilian: Najdorf, Opocensky variation"]
[ECO "B92"]
[NIC "SI.11"]
[Time "07:52:47"]
[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3 Be7 8.
O-O O-O 9. Be3 Be6 10. Qd2 Nbd7 11. a4 Nb6 12. a5 Nc4 13. Bxc4 Bxc4 14. Rfd1
Rc8 15. f3 Rc6 16. Kh1 Qc8 17. Rac1 Rd8 18. Nd5 Bxd5 19. exd5 Rc4 20. Qd3 e4
21. fxe4 Rxe4 22. c4 Re8 23. Bg1 Bf8 24. Nd4 g6 25. Rf1 Bh6 26. Qf3 Rf4 27.
Qd3 Ng4 28. Nf3 Rfe4 29. Rc3 Ne3 30. Re1 Qg4 31. Re2 Qh5 32. Bxe3 Rxe3 33.
Rxe3 Bxe3 34. Qe2 Qh6 35. c5 dxc5 36. d6 Re6 37. d7 Bg5 38. Qd1 Bd8 39. Rxc5
Qf8 40. Rd5 Qb4 41. b3 Re3 42. Nd2 Qc3 43. Nf3 Qb4 44. Nd2 Qf4 45. Nf3 Rc3
46. Qe2 Qe3 47. Qxe3 Rxe3 48. Rd4 Kf8 49. Rb4 Rd3 50. Rxb7 Rd1+ 51. Ng1 Bxa5
52. g4 Ke7 53. Kg2 Rxd7 54. Rxd7+ Kxd7 55. Kf3 Kd6 56. Ke4 Kc5 57. Kd3 Kd5
58. Nf3 Bd8 59. h3 h6 60. h4 h5 61. gxh5 gxh5 62. Ke3 Kc5 63. Kd3 Kb4
{Black wins}
0-1
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct  1 23:15:37 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu,  1 Oct 2009 23:15:37 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Bishop em d6 - Fishing Pole
Message-ID: <1254460537.4ac58c79ec2b7@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from perego domingos <gbsalvio at yahoo.com> -----
    Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 18:10:30 -0700 (PDT)
    From: perego domingos <gbsalvio at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: perego domingos <gbsalvio at yahoo.com>
 Subject: The Bishop em d6 - Fishing Pole
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>

The bishop in d6 is good too....hehehehe
?
[Event "rated blitz match"]
[Site "Free Internet Chess Server"]
[Date "2009.10.01"]
[Round "?"]
[White "mok"]
[Black "gbsalvio"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2087"]
[BlackElo "1981"]
[ECO "C65"]
[TimeControl "180"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. Nc3 Bc5 7. Na4 Bd6 8.
d3 Nd4 9. Nxd4 exd4 10. Bc4 c6 11. hxg4 Bh2+ 12. Kh1 Qh4 13. Bg5 Qxg5 14. Qf3
hxg4 15. Qxf7+ Kd8 16. g3 Qh6 {mok resigns} 0-1

Best regards from Brasil...

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct  1 23:21:49 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu,  1 Oct 2009 23:21:49 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] William Shehan on Final Call on - I need a
	ruling
Message-ID: <1254460909.4ac58ded89dc9@www.taom.com>

Since this is happening all over the country there should be a clear ruling on
what to do when a player notices at the very end of the game that the delay is
just not working like it should. They should very clearly state -

yes, it is OK to put the delay in later in the game.
No, it is not Ok to put the delay in later in the game.

or

when is it OK.
I know it is OK to fix the clock if the clock is
clearly misset like half an hour is missing.

Brian Wall

----- Forwarded message from William Shehan <william at chessfolklore.org> -----
    Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:42:44 -0500
    From: William Shehan <william at chessfolklore.org>
Reply-To: Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com
 Subject: Re: [Chess Improvement] Final Call on - I need a ruling
      To: Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com

This happened to me this weekend. I was down in time but had a winning
position, I had 3 minutes and was playing fast. Time went down to 30 seconds
when I finally noticed that the delay was missing. When I pointed this out
my opponent, who set the clock, resigned. I felt that this was not fair as
by hitting the clock and starting the game I had accepted the clock. As the
main TD I could not rule on it, so I asked my Asst TD NM Vince Berry for a
ruling. He said that it should be a draw on a non-winning position. So, even
though my opponent had technically resigned I decided to take the 1/2 point
instead, out of fairness.

Lesson of this... Check the clock before you start or at least in the first
few moves and avoid this issue.

William
Www.midwaychessclub.org
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On 9/23/09 12:49 PM, "Brian Wall" <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com> wrote:







 If you are losing on time in a winning position and
 you just noticed you forgot to set the delay:

 Option 1 for the draw -

 Demand a draw if you have less than two
 minutes left in a Sudden Death time control.
Your opponent will agree once the TD explains that his option
 is to take half your time away and give you a 3( or 5 ) second delay.

 Option 2 for the win -
 Pray your TD is Duwayne Langseth, who will reset your clock with a delay
even if you only have 2 seconds left and not Harvey Lerman who will laugh
 at you or Damian Nash who will club you with his new bionic, robotic thumb,
courtesy of a motorcycle accident at 75 mph.

 Option 3 -
for a final ruling contact Tim Just

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct  1 23:26:12 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu,  1 Oct 2009 23:26:12 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Eric Schiller on Final Call on - I need a
	ruling
Message-ID: <1254461172.4ac58ef41ae42@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from fmeric64 <fmeric64 at yahoo.com> -----
    Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:22:54 -0000
    From: fmeric64 <fmeric64 at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [Chess Improvement] Re: Final Call on - I need a ruling
      To: Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com

The stupid USCF rules create such problems. In the real rules of chess it is
clearly the responsibility of the arbiters to check the clocks regularly. Any
arbiter who doesn't should be fired. I check clocks every hour.

But idiots in USCF make players act as referees, so this clumsy incident is
typical.

IA Eric Schiller

--- In Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com, William Shehan <william at ...> wrote:

 This happened to me this weekend. I was down in time but had a winning
 position, I had 3 minutes and was playing fast. Time went down to 30 seconds
 when I finally noticed that the delay was missing. When I pointed this out
my opponent, who set the clock, resigned. I felt that this was not fair as
 by hitting the clock and starting the game I had accepted the clock. As the
 main TD I could not rule on it, so I asked my Asst TD NM Vince Berry for a
ruling. He said that it should be a draw on a non-winning position. So, even
 though my opponent had technically resigned I decided to take the 1/2 point
 instead, out of fairness.

 Lesson of this... Check the clock before you start or at least in the first
 few moves and avoid this issue.

William
 Www.midwaychessclub.org


 On 9/23/09 12:49 PM, "Brian Wall" <BrianWallChess3 at ...> wrote:







 If you are losing on time in a winning position and
 you just noticed you forgot to set the delay:

 Option 1 for the draw -

 Demand a draw if you have less than two
 minutes left in a Sudden Death time control.
 Your opponent will agree once the TD explains that his option
 is to take half your time away and give you a 3( or 5 ) second delay.

 Option 2 for the win -
 Pray your TD is Duwayne Langseth, who will reset your clock with a delay
 even if you only have 2 seconds left and not Harvey Lerman who will laugh
 at you or Damian Nash who will club you with his new bionic, robotic thumb,
 courtesy of a motorcycle accident at 75 mph.

 Option 3 -
 for a final ruling contact Tim Just


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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct  1 23:30:22 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu,  1 Oct 2009 23:30:22 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] ALAIN ALEXANDRE FROM FRANCE on Final Call - I
	need a ruling
Message-ID: <1254461422.4ac58fee5d5a4@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Alain ALEXANDRE <alexandre.alain at free.fr> -----
    Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:15:23 +0200
    From: Alain ALEXANDRE <alexandre.alain at free.fr>
Reply-To: Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com
 Subject: Re: [Chess Improvement] Re: Final Call on - I need a ruling
      To: Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com

In France, we follows the Fide rules and It's the same.
The arbiters are responsible of the respect of the rules, the checking
of the clocks is in these.

fmeric64 wrote:


 The stupid USCF rules create such problems. In the real rules of chess
it is clearly the responsibility of the arbiters to check the clocks
 regularly. Any arbiter who doesn't should be fired. I check clocks every
 hour.

But idiots in USCF make players act as referees, so this clumsy incident
 is typical.

 IA Eric Schiller

--- In Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com
 <mailto:Chess_Improvement%40yahoogroups.com>, William Shehan
 <william at ...> wrote:

   This happened to me this weekend. I was down in time but had a winning
   position, I had 3 minutes and was playing fast. Time went down to 30
 seconds
  when I finally noticed that the delay was missing. When I pointed
 this out
  my opponent, who set the clock, resigned. I felt that this was not
 fair as
  by hitting the clock and starting the game I had accepted the clock.
 As the
  main TD I could not rule on it, so I asked my Asst TD NM Vince Berry
 for a
  ruling. He said that it should be a draw on a non-winning position.
 So, even
  though my opponent had technically resigned I decided to take the 1/2
point
  instead, out of fairness.

  Lesson of this... Check the clock before you start or at least in the
first
  few moves and avoid this issue.

  William
  Www.midwaychessclub.org


  On 9/23/09 12:49 PM, "Brian Wall" <BrianWallChess3 at ...> wrote:







  If you are losing on time in a winning position and
  you just noticed you forgot to set the delay:

  Option 1 for the draw -

  Demand a draw if you have less than two
  minutes left in a Sudden Death time control.
  Your opponent will agree once the TD explains that his option
  is to take half your time away and give you a 3( or 5 ) second delay.

  Option 2 for the win -
  Pray your TD is Duwayne Langseth, who will reset your clock with a
 delay
   even if you only have 2 seconds left and not Harvey Lerman who will
 laugh
   at you or Damian Nash who will club you with his new bionic,
 robotic thumb,
  courtesy of a motorcycle accident at 75 mph.

  Option 3 -
  for a final ruling contact Tim Just
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Fri Oct  2 15:17:41 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri,  2 Oct 2009 15:17:41 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Carlsen's amazing 3150 run
Message-ID: <1254518261.4ac66df570330@www.taom.com>


Magnus does it again.
No one but Magnus Carlsen has won a game in Nanjing!
Manus has 4.5/5 and he was even winning his drawn game with Wang Yue.

When I said yestersay that the two new Bobby Fischers are Ray Robson and Magnus
Carlsen I was thinking to myself, maybe I am not being fair, maybe Radjabov
belongs there too. Teimor was the main guy I was thinking of, young,
uncompromising, brilliant. As if to answer my question, Magnus took out
Radjabov in 25 moves today.

Some brief notes. The dishes are piling up to the ceiling today.

[Event "ICC 90 0 u"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.02"]
[Round "-"]
[White "*GM_Carlsen"]
[Black "*GM_Radjabov"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2772"]
[BlackElo "2757"]
[Opening "Sicilian: Nimzovich-Rossolimo attack (without ...d6)"]
[ECO "B30"]
[NIC "SI.31"]
[Time "06:00:09"]
[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 e6 4. O-O Nge7
5. c3 a6 6. Ba4 b5 7. Bc2 Bb7 8. Qe2

Everyone talks about Kasparov's notebook crammed with TNs but really,
Chess is Chess. You have to play. Magnus has nothing out of the opening.
8 ... Ng6!!  is perfectly OK, among others.

Kasparov estimates that Magnus is a Capablanca-Karpov
type positional player and Gary is trying to dynamize him.

Magnus and Teimor were both playing ultra-sharp Najdragons
( Dragdorj's, ... c5, ... g6, .. a6 ) but Magnus wants a
different type of struggle today.

8 ... d5 9. e5 d4 10. Be4!

To avoid getting locked out of play after d3

10 ... Qb6 11. d3!  Rd8


11 ... h6, 12 ... g5 is an interesting plan to isolate the e5 pawn
much like the Clarendon Court isolate the d5 pawn
( 1 d4  c5  2  d5  f5 )


12. a4!

Magnus has a microedge,
nothing much,
surely no hint of a miniature.


12 ...  Nd5 13. axb5!  axb5! 14. cxd4 cxd4 15. Nbd2!  Nf4!

Still roughly even, no hint of a debacle.
46 minutes left for Radjabov,
57 for Magnus,
All Quiet on the Western Front.


16. Qd1!  Nb4?

As often happens to me,
Radjabov thought for 14 minutes on 15 ... Nf4!
but then played 16 ... Nb4? immediately.
Botvinnik warned 70 years ago that a Chessplayer
should recheck his variations each move in the
middle of his combination.

It seems like the same position you have been anaylyzing from afar
but somehow it's often not the same.  16 ... Ng6! is perfectly fine.


17. Nb3!

Just guarding the d-pawn.


17 ...  Bxe4!  18. dxe4!

As I explained in the Zebra Chapter in
How To Play Chess Like an Animal,
the doubled e-pawns take all the good
outposts away from Radjabov's Knights.
Poor grazing turf.

Time-
40 minutes for Magnus,
32 for Teimor

40/90, Game/1 hour time control

18 ...  Nfd3! 19. Bg5!

Saving the Bishop,
19  Nfd4!! is also good


19 ... Rc8 20. Nfxd4!!  Nxb2!


Maintaining material equality but Radjabov's Knight
have an ethereal, floating Lost In Space feel to them.


21. Qe2 Nc4!

Finding an outpost.
Still no hint of a disaster.




22. Rfc1!

31 minutes for Radjabov
27 for Carlsen

Hard to believe Magnus only has to make 3 moves to win this.
It's a difficult position for time pressure. There are no
completely satisfactory moves and many lead to disaster.
Teimor can't get castled and 23 N:b5 is a threat.

Radjabov spent half his time on an inferior
move but there wasn't anything great to find.


22 ...  Bc5?  23. Nxb5!

23 N:c5!!  Q:c5!  24  Be3!!   or  23  Be3!
are also strong.

23 ...  O-O?

Continuing the collapse.
23 ... B:f2+!  24 Q:f2  Q:b5  25 Nc5  0-0  26 Be7  Rfe8  27 Bd6
with some positional advantage for
Magnus but the game would go on.


24. Nxc5!!  Nxe5?

Must be severe time pressure.
Like Magnus against Wang Yue,
his last 3 moves are awful.
Even superstars have to take
a deep breath and analzye.
The obviously sucky
24 ... R:c5  25 Be7!!
spearing two rooks was
the best Black had.


25. Be7!!

Radjabov is down a piece,
losing a further exchange
and no pawns are protecting any of his pieces.
He will come out a Rook down.

I haven't seen a run like this since Topalov won almost every game of the first
half of the San Luis, Argentina World Championship tournament in 2005.
Alekhine and Bobby Fischer used to win tournaments like this with a huge gap.
The Chess World is getting excited again. Magnus also overtook Anand in the Live
ratings as World Number 2. Who knows, by tournament's end, Magnus might already
be #1 at age 18.

People start talking hypnosis, pyschology, magic force fields when this happens.

" I don't believe in psychology.
I believe in good moves. "
Bobby Fischer


{White wins}   1-0

I feel a little bad for Radjabov.
His computer laptop with all his innovations was stolen a few
years ago in a hotel room and he was all scheduled to play
Topalov for 1 million dollars until Topalov barely lost to Kramnik.
------------------------------------------------------------
[Event "ICC 90 0 u"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.02"]
[Round "-"]
[White "*GM_Carlsen"]
[Black "*GM_Radjabov"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2772"]
[BlackElo "2757"]
[Opening "Sicilian: Nimzovich-Rossolimo attack (without ...d6)"]
[ECO "B30"]
[NIC "SI.31"]
[Time "06:00:09"]
[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 e6 4. O-O Nge7 5. c3 a6 6. Ba4 b5 7. Bc2 Bb7 8.
Qe2 d5 9. e5 d4 10. Be4 Qb6 11. d3 Rd8 12. a4 Nd5 13. axb5 axb5 14. cxd4
cxd4 15. Nbd2 Nf4 16. Qd1 Nb4 17. Nb3 Bxe4 18. dxe4 Nfd3 19. Bg5 Rc8 20.
Nfxd4 Nxb2 21. Qe2 Nc4 22. Rfc1 Bc5 23. Nxb5 O-O 24. Nxc5 Nxe5 25. Be7
{White wins}
1-0
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Quite a few Chessplayers have agreed to join Devon and I at Woody's Pizza,
7100 East Evans ( near Quebec ) from 1-5 Sunday for the Bronco game. I'll
tell you if anyone shows up. I can't root against Dallas too hard,
my daughter was born in Texas.
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Sat Oct  3 08:58:38 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sat,  3 Oct 2009 08:58:38 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Keep struggling because you never know God's
	true purpose for you
Message-ID: <1254581918.4ac7669e7b55e@www.taom.com>

http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-wheelchair-wal-mart-arrest-092909,0,4371546.story
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Westminster Wal-Mart
John Romero KDVR Denver
9:44 PM MDT, September 29, 2009


Cameron Aulner talks with FOX 31's John Romero. (September 29, 2009)
Related links
 Kevin Salyers Photo
WESTMINSTER, Colo. - It was anything but an ordinary Saturday at the Wal-Mart at
92nd and Sheridan.

Westminster Police confirm that on September 19th, a man "touched" a 10-year-old
girl while she pushed her 2-year-old cousin in the toy department. According to
the arrest affidavit, witnesses said the suspect then ran away after the little
girl screamed.

She told officers a man came toward her, she turned her back to the shelves, and
he reached around and then "squeezed her butt." She began to scream and ran
away, looking for another adult.

The affidavit says one witness, Chris Bevin, saw the suspect, 34-year-old Kevin
Salyers, run from the toy department. Bevin told investigating officers that he
began to run after Salyers, and shouted "stop that man!" But no one was able to
stop him.

That's when a man working at the Comcast table at the front of the store went
into action. Even more amazing, the Comcast employee, 22-year-old Cameron
Aulner was in a wheel chair. Aulner pulled in front of the suspect, and grabbed
his t-shirt. Aulner says he wound up out of his wheel chair, and on top of the
suspect who was on the ground.

The arrest affidavit says Aulner and others prevented Salyers from leaving until
police arrived.

"It was something that happened so fast, I didn't even think about it," Aulner
said Tuesday. "I'm not a hero. I just did what you're supposed to do."

Aulner lost the use of his legs when he fell off a roof installing Christmas
Lights. He said he played a little football before he got hurt and knew how to
tackle.

"He just had this look of astonishment, he didn't know what hit him," Aulner
said. Witnesses say Aulner helped hold Salyers down until police arrived.

Westminster Police charged Salyers with Sexual Assault on a Child. They are
considering giving Aulner an official commendation.

Comcast is also praising his efforts.

"As a parent, I'm thrilled that the child was ok and the person was
apprehended," Marketing and Sales director Matthew Moyer said. "I applaud
Cameron for getting involved and happy that the child wasn't injured."

Aulner said this was simply a matter of doing the right thing.

"When someone has an opportunity to help someone else, it doesn't matter who you
are, you have a responsibility to do that," Aulner said.
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I've seen many twists and turns in life, up and downs and surprise endings. We
prepare for one thing but God has another, completely different plan in mind.
Cameron Aulner's arms got strong pushing his wheelchair around but his true
purpose was to apprehend scum.
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Mon Oct  5 09:22:26 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon,  5 Oct 2009 09:22:26 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 2nd Annual Green Fields Open
Message-ID: <1254756146.4aca0f32885fe@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson <valleychess at hotmail.com> -----
    Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 00:04:56 -0700
    From: Joel Johnson <valleychess at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Joel Johnson <valleychess at hotmail.com>
 Subject: 2nd Annual Green Fields Open


2ND ANNUAL GREEN FIELDS FALL OPEN

OCTOBER 10, 2009

DO NOT MISS IT!

This is a short update about the upcoming USCF tournament at the Green Fields
Country Day School. USCF rated tournaments are rare in Tucson and I would
encourage everyone to cease the chance! Everyone who attended the school before
or participated in any of the events organized at the school, remembers the
beautiful and tranquil scenery where the event takes place. This is the 2nd
year we are running this event to help promote chess in Arizona, Tucson in
particular and at local communities. The tournament will be open to everyone,
and will consist of 3 main sections. However, this year those sections will
also have their own subsections for trophy purposes, divided by age group and
rating. Due to school space limitations, we might have to impose a cap: 80-90
players only.

This tournament is open for every age and strength group. Whether you are
looking for a strong tournament or are brand new to chess tournaments- this is
your perfect chance. If you know the chess basics- you can participate.

Update: Try your strength with the best players in Arizona:

FIDE Masters Warren Harper  ( 2008 Texas State Champion ) and Pedram Atoufi (
Unity Chess Club-Scottsdale ) are part of the tournament elite group!

If you are able to help- please let us know. Volunteers are always welcome and
needed!


SECTIONS: OPEN / UNDER 1600 / UNDER 1200 USCF

RATING: USCF RATED TOURNAMENT: USCF MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED ON SITE OR BEFORE.

ROUNDS: 4 ROUNDS. FINISHED AT APPROXIMATELY 4 PM. BYES AVAILABLE

TIME CONTROL: 45 MINUTES PER GAME WITH 5 SECOND INC.

PRIZES: SECTION, SUBSECTION AND SPECIAL PRIZES AVAILABLE.

PAIRINGS: COMPUTER AND BY HAND to ensure the best pairings possible.

SPECIAL: A CHESS EXPERT ANALYZING SOME OF THE GAMES

ORGANIZERS: GREENFIELDS CHESS CLUB AND ARIZONA CHESS FOR SCHOOLS.

THIS TOURNAMENT IS DESIGNED FOR: BRAND NEW PLAYERS, EXPERIENCED PLAYERS, ADULTS
AND HIGH RANKED EXPERTS.

SECTION DIVISION:

Under 1200 USCF Section: This is perfect for all those 800+ players as well as
brand new players: Prizes and trophies in sub sections available to encourage
new players to join the tournaments. If you know the moves- you can join!
Under 1600 USCF Section: Perfect for all the 1200+ players. Depending on
players, some will be able to move up in sections if deemed logical.
Open Section: We would also like to encourage the best players of Arizona to
participate and will do special pairings for the Open Section to make sure
players get the strongest possible pairings. We will try to pair similar to
popular Master Treks in Phoenix. Do not miss it if you are over 1600! I would
love to see some 2200+ play here.

WEBSITE:  To download the flier please visit: ArizonaChessForSchools.com or
SAZchess.org

I am also attaching the flier here as a Doc. file.

Feel free to pass this information at your chess club, to all your friends and
students,

For any questions, contact me anytime and do not forget to register early to
make sure you are in and don't pay late fees.

Thank You,

International Master Levon Altounian
Director: Arizona Chess For Schools
2010 Arizona State Champion

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From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon,  5 Oct 2009 11:39:34 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Updates
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All the wins at Nanjing so far. Topalov was losing but Jakovenko got confused.

[Event "ICC 90 30 u"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.09.28"]
[Round "-"]
[White "*GM_Carlsen"]
[Black "*GM_Leko"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2772"]
[BlackElo "2762"]
[Opening "Scotch game"]
[ECO "C45"]
[NIC "SO.05"]
[Time "06:19:27"]
[TimeControl "5400+30"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Be3 Qf6 6. c3 Nge7 7. Bc4 Ne5
8. Be2 Qg6 9. O-O d6 10. f4 Qxe4 11. Bf2 Bxd4 12. cxd4 N5g6 13. g3 O-O 14.
Nc3 Qf5 15. d5 a6 16. Re1 Kh8 17. Rc1 Bd7 18. Bf3 Rac8 19. Qb3 b5 20. Ne2
Qh3 21. Nd4 Bg4 22. Bg2 Qh5 23. h4 Ng8 24. Rc6 Nf6 25. Rxa6 Bd7 26. Nxb5 Rb8
27. a4 Ng4 28. Bf3 Qh6 29. Qc4 Nxh4 30. Bxg4 Bxg4 31. gxh4 Bf3 32. f5 Qh5
33. Qf4 Bxd5 34. Nxc7 Bb7 35. Rb6 f6 36. Bd4 Qf7 37. Ne6 Rg8 38. Kf2 Rbc8
39. Bc3 Bd5 40. a5 Rc4 41. Nd4 Ba8 42. Qxd6 Qh5 43. Qf4 Rcc8 44. Rbe6
{White wins}
1-0
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[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2009.09.29"]
[Round "?"]
[White "GM_Carlsen"]
[Black "GM_Topalov"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2772"]
[BlackElo "2813"]
[Opening "King's Indian: 5.Nf3"]
[ECO "E90"]
[NIC "KI.20"]
[Time "02:38:46"]
[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. h3 Na6 7. Be3 e5 8. d5
c6 9. g4 Nc5 10. Nd2 a5 11. a3 Nfd7 12. Rg1 a4 13. Qc2 Nb6 14. O-O-O Bd7 15.
Kb1 cxd5 16. cxd5 Rc8 17. Bb5 Bxb5 18. Nxb5 Qd7 19. Nc3 Bf6 20. g5 Bd8 21.
h4 Na8 22. Bxc5 Rxc5 23. Qxa4 Qc8 24. Rc1 Nb6 25. Qd1 Qh3 26. Qf3 Qd7 27.
Qd3 Kg7 28. Rc2 f6 29. gxf6+ Rxf6 30. h5 Rxf2 31. hxg6 h6 32. Nd1 Rxc2 33.
Nxf2 Rc8 34. Ng4 Bg5 35. Nf3 Nc4 36. Nxg5 hxg5 37. Ne3 Nxe3 38. Qxe3 Qa4 39.
Qxg5 Qxe4+ 40. Ka1 Re8 41. Rc1 {White wins} 1-0
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[Event "ICC 90 0 u"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.01"]
[Round "-"]
[White "*GM_Jakovenko"]
[Black "*GM_Carlsen"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2742"]
[BlackElo "2772"]
[Opening "Sicilian: Najdorf, Opocensky variation"]
[ECO "B92"]
[NIC "SI.11"]
[Time "07:52:47"]
[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3 Be7 8.
O-O O-O 9. Be3 Be6 10. Qd2 Nbd7 11. a4 Nb6 12. a5 Nc4 13. Bxc4 Bxc4 14. Rfd1
Rc8 15. f3 Rc6 16. Kh1 Qc8 17. Rac1 Rd8 18. Nd5 Bxd5 19. exd5 Rc4 20. Qd3 e4
21. fxe4 Rxe4 22. c4 Re8 23. Bg1 Bf8 24. Nd4 g6 25. Rf1 Bh6 26. Qf3 Rf4 27.
Qd3 Ng4 28. Nf3 Rfe4 29. Rc3 Ne3 30. Re1 Qg4 31. Re2 Qh5 32. Bxe3 Rxe3 33.
Rxe3 Bxe3 34. Qe2 Qh6 35. c5 dxc5 36. d6 Re6 37. d7 Bg5 38. Qd1 Bd8 39. Rxc5
Qf8 40. Rd5 Qb4 41. b3 Re3 42. Nd2 Qc3 43. Nf3 Qb4 44. Nd2 Qf4 45. Nf3 Rc3
46. Qe2 Qe3 47. Qxe3 Rxe3 48. Rd4 Kf8 49. Rb4 Rd3 50. Rxb7 Rd1+ 51. Ng1 Bxa5
52. g4 Ke7 53. Kg2 Rxd7 54. Rxd7+ Kxd7 55. Kf3 Kd6 56. Ke4 Kc5 57. Kd3 Kd5
58. Nf3 Bd8 59. h3 h6 60. h4 h5 61. gxh5 gxh5 62. Ke3 Kc5 63. Kd3 Kb4
{Black wins}
0-1
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[Event "ICC 90 0 u"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.02"]
[Round "-"]
[White "*GM_Carlsen"]
[Black "*GM_Radjabov"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2772"]
[BlackElo "2757"]
[Opening "Sicilian: Nimzovich-Rossolimo attack (without ...d6)"]
[ECO "B30"]
[NIC "SI.31"]
[Time "06:00:09"]
[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 e6 4. O-O Nge7 5. c3 a6 6. Ba4 b5 7. Bc2 Bb7 8.
Qe2 d5 9. e5 d4 10. Be4 Qb6 11. d3 Rd8 12. a4 Nd5 13. axb5 axb5 14. cxd4
cxd4 15. Nbd2 Nf4 16. Qd1 Nb4 17. Nb3 Bxe4 18. dxe4 Nfd3 19. Bg5 Rc8 20.
Nfxd4 Nxb2 21. Qe2 Nc4 22. Rfc1 Bc5 23. Nxb5 O-O 24. Nxc5 Nxe5 25. Be7
{White wins}
1-0
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[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2009.10.04"]
[Round "?"]
[White "GM_Jakovenko"]
[Black "GM_Topalov"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2742"]
[BlackElo "2813"]
[Opening "Gr?nfeld: Flohr variation"]
[ECO "D90"]
[NIC "GI.07"]
[Time "02:44:40"]
[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Qa4+ Bd7 6. Qb3 dxc4 7. Qxc4 O-O
8. Bf4 Na6 9. e4 c5 10. e5 Nh5 11. Be3 cxd4 12. Qxd4 Bc6 13. Be2 Qa5 14. O-O
Nb4 15. Qh4 Nc2 16. g4 Nxe3 17. fxe3 Bh6 18. Nd1 Kh8 19. gxh5 Rg8 20. Kf2
Rad8 21. hxg6 Bxf3 22. Kxf3 Rxg6 23. Qe4 f5 24. Qc4 Qd2 25. Rc1 Rc6 26. Qh4
Qxc1 27. Qxe7 Rg8 28. e6 Qd2 29. Kf2 f4 {Black wins} 0-1
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Magnus Carlsen's last two draws.

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2009.10.04"]
[Round "?"]
[White "GM_Leko"]
[Black "GM_Carlsen"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2762"]
[BlackElo "2772"]
[Opening "Neo-Gr?nfeld, 5.cd, main line"]
[ECO "D72"]
[NIC "KI.80"]
[Time "02:43:59"]
[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. e4 Nb6 7. Ne2 c5 8.
d5 e6 9. O-O O-O 10. Nbc3 Na6 11. Nf4 e5 12. Nd3 Nc4 13. Qe2 Qa5 14. a3 Bd7
15. Bg5 Rfc8 16. Be7 Qb6 17. d6 Be6 18. Nd5 Bxd5 19. d7 Be6 20. dxc8=Q+ Rxc8
21. b4 cxb4 22. axb4 Bf8 23. Bxf8 Rxf8 24. Rfc1 Rd8 25. Bf1 Rd4 26. Rd1 Nxb4
27. Nxb4 Rxd1 28. Qxd1 Qxb4 29. Qa4 Qxa4 30. Rxa4 Nd6 31. Rxa7 Nxe4 32. Rxb7
Kg7 33. Rb5 Kf6 34. f3 Nd6 35. Rb6 Ke7 36. Kf2 h5 37. Bd3 Nf5 38. Ra6 Nd6
39. Ke3 Nc4+ 40. Kf2 Nd6 41. Bb1 Nf5 42. Ba2 Bxa2 43. Rxa2 g5 44. Ra4 h4 45.
g4 Nd6 46. Ke3 Ke6 47. Ra6 Kd5 48. Kd3 f6 49. Ra5+ Ke6 50. h3 Nb7 51. Ra6+
Nd6 52. Kc3 Kd5 53. Ra5+ Ke6 54. Kb4 e4 55. fxe4 Nxe4 56. Rf5 Nd6 57. Rf1 f5
58. Kc3 fxg4 59. hxg4 Ne4+ 60. Kd4 Nf6 61. Re1+ Kf7 62. Rg1 h3 63. Rh1 Nxg4
64. Rxh3 Kg6 {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2
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[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2009.10.05"]
[Round "?"]
[White "GM_Topalov"]
[Black "GM_Carlsen"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2813"]
[BlackElo "2772"]
[Opening "Sicilian: Pelikan, Chelyabinsk variation"]
[ECO "B33"]
[NIC "SI.37"]
[Time "02:48:43"]
[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8.
Na3 b5 9. Bxf6 gxf6 10. Nd5 Bg7 11. Bd3 Ne7 12. Nxe7 Qxe7 13. O-O O-O 14. c4
f5 15. Qh5 Rb8 16. exf5 e4 17. Rae1 Bb7 18. Qg4 Rfe8 19. cxb5 d5 20. bxa6
Bc6 21. Rc1 exd3 22. Rxc6 Qe2 23. h3 Rxb2 24. f6 Qxg4 25. hxg4 Rxa2 26. Nb1
Bf8 27. Rc3 Rxa6 28. Rxd3 Rxf6 29. Rxd5 Bb4 30. g3 Re2 31. Kg2 Be1 32. Rf5
Rxf5 33. gxf5 Bb4 34. Rc1 h5 35. Rc4 Rb2 36. Nc3 Bxc3 37. Rxc3 Rb5 38. Rf3
Kg7 39. Kh3 Kh6 40. Kh4 Rb1 41. Kh3 Rb5 42. Kh4 Rb1 43. Kh3 {Game drawn}
1/2-1/2
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Update Bronco game -

Dennis Monokroussos is always going on about Notre Dame so I can forgive
myself a little Broncomania. Woody's Pizza Sunday was fun with my son Devon.
Then Paul Anderson plus mother, wife and son showed up. They showed Devon
"Redemption ", a Christian based card game, think Magic with Jesus. Robert
Ramirez showed up with his sister Danielle who somehow loved my sense of humor.
She couldn't stop laughing at what I was saying ( prob the beer ). After the
game I went with Robert and Danielle to Mike Mitsuyuki Ninomiya's apartment he
shares with his lovely softball Queen fiance Sachi. They plan a beautiful
Hawaiin wedding at the beach soon. Good luck, lovebirds. Then Danielle and I
hit the Light-rail and I waited for her to catch a bus. She was laughing all
the way up to the end. The Broncos-Cowboys game  was awesome, exciting to
literally the last second and Denver is 4-0 now. When Denver scored someone
would clang a cowbell and drunks would shout out - " Dallas sucks!"
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My favorite place to eat is

My Brother's Bar   (303) 455-9991

2376 15th St
Denver, CO 80202


http://denver.citysearch.com/profile/1822981/denver_co/my_brother_s_bar.html

I didn't have anyone to go with Friday so I invited a homeless bum from the 16th
Street mall tables. His name is John, he is a 64 year old Vietnam vet and he
does crossword puzzles all day. We had a great time talking and I ordered my
usual pitcher of beer ( or coke ), 2 Jalapeno Chesseburgers and large fries (
sometimes two ), my favorite meal. I actually met the inventor of the Jalapeno
chesseburger at the ex Mrs. Carl Brotsker's house in the summer. The inventor
was a beautiful black woman who was a longtime waitress at Brother's. She
brought her lovely daughter to the little Brotsker gathering as well. That was
fun.
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http://www.truecrimereport.com/2009/10/wheelchair-bound_hero_cameron.php

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,558181,00.html

I bought my glasses at Walmart at 92nd and Sheridan, Denver, CO.
Devon jumps on me a lot and I have to go in
there and have them adjusted all the time.

That's the Walmart where wheelchair bound Cameron Aulner jumped on a
fleeing pedophile last week and held him until the police arrived.

I saw a guy in a wheelcahir on the bus Saturday coming home. I told him the
story. Turns out the bus guy works security, showed me a badge, handcuffs. He
also told me he is a father with a second child on the way. The bus wheelchair
guy also said he loves working haunted houses and scaring peole. He turned out
to be a noble guy I never would have talked to without the Walmart incident.
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The Bukowski principle

Bukowski was a drunken German-American postal worker poet,
a cultural icon, an anti-hero.

One of his poems stated -

Every man must realize that he can lose his home, his wife, his dog, everything
from a completely unrelated incident like a Chinese waiter dropping a dish.

I guess that could also be called the Butterfly Principle, that a butterfly
flapping his wings differently can affect the universe due to the ripple
effect.

I saw a good example of that recently. A woman in Russia was being abused by her
stepfather. She read about Elisabeth Fritzl confronting her father in a
courtroom. The Russian woman thought about it, grabbed a rifle and shot her
tormentor to death.
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I had an awesome time with Annie Duke and the Rogers family. Annie Duke was not
the famous poker player but an accountant friend of Craig Rogers whose children
I teach Chess. We went to the Denver Art museum. I hadn't been there since dates
with my pre-wife Debbie. They handed out beautiful, glossy art books at the end
of the tour.
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http://www.walverine.com/index.php?id=173

1 A Woman with a Book 09 Feb 2003


Name Of Artwork: A Young Girl Reading
Artist's Name: Jean-Honor? Fragonard
Year Painted: 1776
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I have written before about how I fell in love with a painting,
A Woman reading a Book by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot,
when I was 21 during an Art Appreciation class. They showed it
briefly on a slide show and I've been looking for it ever since.
I am not even sure if it exists as I remember it.
One of the paintings in that Walverine email was on the cover
of that free Denver Art museum book Saturday.
The painting is

Name Of Artwork: A Young Girl Reading
Artist's Name: Jean-Honor? Fragonard
Year Painted: 1776

They gave away 4 free books but I just wanted the one.

We all took a wonderful Celestial Seasoning tour, the Boulder Tea Company that
was voted one of the " Top 100 places to work " in 1982. Every few feet in the
plant smelled differently and I was the last to leave the Mint room, which
smelled like candy canes.
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I was twittering before they invented it.

Paul Anderson was making fun of the Tournament I am going to Saturday.

The Socialist or Communist Open.
I think Paul should show the collective the Redemption game,
they might like it.

Trick or Treat, October 17, 2009
4 round Swiss system tournament.
Time Control: G/60 t/d5
Site: Blue Sky Collective, 9635 West Colfax Avenue, Lakewood, CO 80215. We will
be in the large downstairs room. The Collective is home to a variety of shops
(Skull Gate Games, a bookstore, Hootenanny Candy-they serve coffee and tea, a
dance studio, artists' lo
Directions: Go to http://www.skullgate.com/ and use the driving direction tool
for directions. Parking: Located in the rear of the building off of Iris St.
Look for a white parking sign and a blue parking sign on your right. Once in
the lot, go up the steps and thru the back entrance under the blue awning into
the Blue Sky Collective and walk down the hall.
Open: One open section
Entry fee: $30; Sr., Jr., Unr. $25; USCF required. Pre-registration entry fee:
$25; Sr, Jr, Unr. $20 which must be paid at the time of pre-registration.
Pre-registrations must be received by Thursday October 15. Make checks payable
to Jerry Maier.
Prizes: Cash prizes based on entry fees will be distributed at the conclusion of
the event.
Registration: 9:30-10:00 AM, Rounds: 10 AM, 1:00 PM, 3:00 PM, 5:00 PM.
Entries: Jerry Maier 229 Hargrove Court, Colorado Springs CO 80919-2213
Phone:               719-660-5531         719-660-5531
E-mail: pmjer77 at aim.com
Final round byes must be requested before the start of Round 2, and are
irrevocable.
TD: Jerry Maier,               719-660-5531         719-660-5531 (or
pmjer77 at aim.com before the day of event).
USCF membership required: See the TD if you need to renew or join.
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Mon Oct  5 14:26:59 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon,  5 Oct 2009 14:26:59 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] New private batphone to the Wallinator
Message-ID: <1254774419.4aca5693ded3d@www.taom.com>

New Magic Jack phone number for Brian Wall

720-641-9588

spam only please

From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Tue Oct  6 10:26:18 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue,  6 Oct 2009 10:26:18 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Arizona Scorpions KO New Jersey Knockouts
Message-ID: <1254846378.4acb6faa5d584@www.taom.com>

Date:  Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:15:17 -0700
From:  Joel Johnson <valleychess at hotmail.com>


Displaying stunning technical accuracy and clock management, the Arizona
Scorpions knocked out the undefeated New Jersey Knockouts 3-1 tonight!  GMs
Alejandro Ramirez and Rogelio Barcenilla were victorious on Boards 1 and 2 and
IM Daniel Rensch and Expert David Adelberg drew their games on Boards 3 and 4.

Don't miss your chance to make a suggested tax-deductible donation of $20 and
receive an Arizona Scorpions T-shirt!  Please contact Alan Anderson, Director
of Community Relations, Arizona Scorpions at Checkm8chess at aol.com before our
T-shirts are sold out!

Our next match will be on October 14, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. in Phoenix. For more
information, please contact Alan Anderson and visit the Arizona Scorpions at
http://www.uschessleague.com/Arizona.html
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From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue,  6 Oct 2009 11:34:53 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 2009 Pikes Peak Open Badger against Ivan
	Wijetunge
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Fred Spell, the new Colorado Informant magazine editor, included many of my
games for October 2009, Volume 36, Number 4. I have analyzed them all here
except for the heinous Wall-Baffo game, 2009 Colorado Open and this one.
Thankfully Jeff Baffo analyzed our game so I don't have to.



Periodically at Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com or
UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com someone will
complain about me dominating or annoying the group,
then 20 silent lurkers will rush to my defense and say,

" Brian is the best thing about this group,
I wouldn't be here without him. "

I have been banned from other groups.
I cannot post to
Chess_Library at Yahoogroups.com  or
FortCollinsChess at Yahoogroups.com

" because I have a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig mouth " -
Jackie Gleason, Honeymooners

LM Jack Young makes fun of me -
How to make enemies and attract detractors.

One critic was so consistent
UnorthdoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com
put both of us in a censor folder.
They read our emails, measure the vitriol and
then decide whether to print it or not.

Here's a sample when I posted an Anthea Carson Martinez
Chess Youtube video to UnorthdoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com


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From:  N Earl Roberts <earl.r at xtra.co.nz>
To:  UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com
Reply-to:  UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com
Subject:  Re: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] Free Youtube Chess videos

and we should care....because?
While I accept some of these videos discuss unorthodox openings, I am
wondering should this group be used as your own personal advertising avenue?
Earl
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Being half-Irish I like to turn adversity into some positive adventure.
I often have names without openings or moves without names,
like tunes without lyrics or lyrics without tunes.

I decided to immortalize Earl's anger.
I invented the ( Toxic ) Badger Opening against Jiri Kovats ( 1400 )
in Manitou Springs, CO but I didn't put a name to it
until a Roberts rant sparked my creative juices.
I felt it was appropiate to play a Badger in
its birthplace town 3 years after its inception.

Like me, Ivan Wijetunge has his own Chess website

www.Gettingto2000.blogspot.com

http://www.gettingto2000.blogspot.com/

You can find pictures of the Pikes Peak Open here plus
Ivan's take on playing Renard Anderson on Board 1 in
the final round. Picture of Renard Anderson on Board 1,
Round 1 and me on Board 2, Round 1.

Ivan played on a small wooden Chess set I hadn't seen since
my first Chess hero Robert Wendling was around 40 years ago.


[Event "Pikes Peak Open"]
[Site "Manitou Springs, CO City Hall on Main Street"]
[Date "2009.08.01"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Ivan Wijetunge"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ICCResult "Game drawn by mutual agreement"]
[WhiteElo "1852"]
[BlackElo "2215"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense"]
[ECO "A40"]
[NIC "QO.17"]
[Time "23:07:19"]
[TimeControl "40/90, Game/1 hour, 5 second delay"]

Pikes Peak Open

Manitou Springs City Hall

Round 3

Board 2

Opening - Badger

Pleasant weather

Wendling Chess set

August 1, 2009

40/90
Game/1 hour
5 second delay

Open section

White -
Ivan Wijetunge
http://www.gettingto2000.blogspot.com/

Black -
Brian Wall
www.Walverine.com
BrianWallChess.net

1. d4 Nc6 2. Nf3 f6

The first and last rated Badger was played in this building;
the idea is  3 Bf4 e5!? with a sick version of the Blackmar-Diemer
or  3 d5  Ne5 and possibly ... Nf7 later retreating to the Badger den.



3. c4 e5

I have no decent continuation here.
Watching Fritz 11 suffer here is amusing.
3 ... e6  with the idea of  ... Bb4+, ... Nge7, ... 0-0
3 ... e6 can also lead to  ... d5 or even a Fox defense with ... Kf7
3 ... b6 is very optimsitic
3 ... g6, the SpongeBob Squarepants Variation where two Knights
and a King might be positioning for the valuable f7-square
4 ... d6  I think it is Thailand that starts all
their pawns on the 3rd rank to start the game.



4. d5!  Nce7

Played automatically as in a Nimzovich or Two Knights Tango Opening.
I have tried the 4 ... e4! idea in
blitz but it's not much better.
4 ... Bb4+ makes sense to avoid trapping the Bishop.
Moving the Knight elsewhere is possible.
My scoresheet says 11 minutes spent but I don't remember any agonizing,
I must have been wandering.


5. e4 Ng6!  6. Nc3 Bc5!!


Some people ignore that Bishop,
others harrass it as soon as possible.
That's why Robert Ramirez plays ... a6
quickly in these positions to create a
Peekaboo post on a7.


7. Na4 Bb4+!

Ivan's Knights look stupid now.


8. Nd2!

Mr. Pre-expert is determined not to give me fair value for my Bishop.



8 ...  Nh6

Drunken SpongeBob.
The alternatives are 8 ... d6!, normal or
8 ... Kf7 Fox defense after the Old Russian
at Gates Rubber Company Chess Club, Joe Mirsky.


9. a3!

Ivan won't give my Bishop an easy life.

9 .   Be7!

That's OK because I am not trading a
Prelate for a Knight without good reason.


10. g3 f5

Sneaking in ... f5 before Bc1:h6
Normal moves are OK-
10 ... d6, ... 0-0


11. Bg2 O-O

11 ... f4!! shuts down Mr. Wijetunge's Bishops
Normal moves OK, 11 ... 0-0, ... d6



12. O-O

12 ef! is better with some edge

12 ... f4!!

Someone finally recognized the importance of this move.


13. Nf3!  d6!  14. Qd3 Bd7!!


Nudging Ivan to place his Knights correctly


15. Nc3!  Qc8

I was in that twilight Zone all game where I felt comfortable
but not enough for a win. Fritz 11 slightly prefers
15 ... a6, ... a5, ... Qb8  or ... Qe8



16. Ne2 Bh3!!  17. Bd2??

A flipper move.
Ivan finds the right idea next move:
Kh1!!, Ng1!!  like Petrosian



17 ...  Rf7??

The standard plan of doubling Rooks on the f-file is inadequate here.
17 ... Qg4!!  increases the pressure decisively -
the main idea is Fishing Pole:
17 ... Qg4!!  18  B:h3  Q:h3  19 Kh1  Ng4!!
The freeing idea  17 ... Qg4!!  18 Kh1?? is dealt with brutally -
17 ... Qg4!!  18 Kh1??  B:g2+  19  K:g2 fg!!
threatening ... R:f3!! and ... Nh4+

90% of the time tactical puzzles are solved by eliminating
any obstacles between the Attacking Queen and the Defending King.

I spent 5 minutes on my move and probably considered
the right one but missed the power of it. After  17 ... Qg4!!
the threat of   18 ... B:g2+!! is so strong Ivan should
allow my Queen into h3 or give up the exchange with 18 Bh1.
This was a good shot at winning.



18. Kh1!

Only 18 Ne1!!
intending shutting all the gates with 19 f3,
equalizes but Ivan's move is second best.

18 ... Qd7!!

I was very frustrated for 7 minutes because I couldn't break
Ivan's light square blockade after Ng1. I did select the best move,
trying to double Rooks. It is too late for 18 ... Qg4  19 Neg1!!=



19. Bxh3!  Qxh3! 20. Nfg1!

My postmortem suggestion of  20  Neg1! is about equivalent

20 ... Qd7!

20 ... Qg4 now is rather pointless,
just giving away tempi to pawn and Knight moves.


21. b4?

Taking his eye off the ball.
Something Kingsidey like
21 gf or f3 is in order.


21 ...  Raf8

Now I have attacking chances again.
I can also go Queenside with
21 ... Rc8  or  ... a6



22. gxf4

22 f3!
is a better way to hang on

22 ... exf4!!

Opening up the e5-square

Time remaining until move 40 -
Brian 48 minutes
Ivan  47 minutes
Often Chessplayers will maintain the same time as
their opponent regardless of what the position requires.
They avoid that "falling behind" feeling.


23. Qh3

Ever since 12 ... f4!!  it's been a battle for
Kingside light squares. 23 f3!!  is even better
for that purpose. 23 Nd4!  is interesting too.


23 ...  Qa4!!

It looks absurd, timewasting, decentralizing and wishful
but Fritz 11 agrees it's the best winning attempt -
took me 12 minutes.


24. Rac1  Bf6

6 minutes spent.
The right move is funny,
24 ... Re8!!
THREATENING ... BF6
24 ... Re8  25 Nd4  Bf6  26  Ne6  Bb2  27 Rce1 ( Rcd1 )  Qc2
micro-invasion with micro-edge.

I considered Ne6 to be instant equality at least for Ivan.
The computer carefully tiptoes around the Knight and keeps attacking.


25. Bc3?

Trade-trade-lose stuff.
It was time to put Ivan's head in the Lion's mouth with
25 N:f4!!  N:f4  26  B:f4!  Bb2  27 B:h6!  gh  28 Rb1!
with a micro-edge for me.
I am also a teensy bit better after
25 B:f4  N:f4  26 N:f4  Bb2  27 Ne6  B:c1  28 R:c1  R:f2  29 N:f8  R:f8  or
25 B:f4  Bb2  26  B:h6  gh  27 Rb1  Qc2


25 ...  Qxa3??

5 minutes spent.
This game was disappointing in that after a
deliberately shaky opening I was pushing all game
but I couldn't score against Ivan's goal line stand.
I feel like Tony Romo.
Even now my move looks like the most logical breakthrough.
Fritz 11 says
" Take aim at e4 with  25 ... Re8!!, ... Qe8!!, ... Re7!!
or increase the Queenside pressure with ... a5!! "
Do these computer lines make any sense to you?
25 ... Re8!!  26  B:f6  R:f6  27 c5  Nf7
25 ... Qe8!!  26  f3  Qa4!!  wasting 2 tempi to promote f3 - huh????
I think an hour wouldn't be enough to grasp that one.
25 ... Re7  26  B:f6  R:f6  27  c5  dc  28  R:c5  f3
25 ... a5  26  Nf3  Re7

Look, I admit I set out every game to deliberately confuse my opponents
but often I get just as mixed up in the process. I just have blind faith
that some past experience will trigger some good moves at some point.
My blunder just lets the fox into the henhouse, until now Ivan's Rooks
have been impotent.


26. Ra1!!

Only move


26 ...  Qb3!!

Only move


27. Bxf6!!

Only move


27 ...  Qxc4!!

Ivan is a piece up but everything is hanging,
exactly the type of situation where an
A-player goes wrong.

Time remaining until move 40-
Brian - 23 minutes
Ivan -  28 minutes

27 ... Q:h3  28  N:h3  R:f6  29 R:a7
Henhouse variation favors Mr. Wijetunge.


28. Bd4=

Moving the Bishop is the right idea -
28 Bg5!!  Q:e4+
I have three pawns for the Bishop
plus almost a Full Metal Jacket ( all 8 pawns )
but  29 Qf3  or f3
should slightly favor the piece.
28  Bb2 Q:e4+!  or  28 B:g7  K:g7!
slightly favor me.

28 ... f3!!

Only move,
removing the guard

29. Rfc1!!

Not allowing ... Q:d4


29 ...  Qxb4!!

Accepting the draw.
I have three pawns for the piece but they are targets not potential Queens.
They aren't going anywhere. If I don't win my piece back things will go downhill
fast. Fritz 11 says the only alternative to drawing or losing is
29 ... Qd3!  30  Rd1!!  Q:e4!!  31  Qe6!!  or  Ng3!
with some advantage to the peripatetic Mr. Wijetunge
I saw this line and was not impressed.
Everything else is much worse.

30. Rab1!!  Qa4!!

1/2-1/2

I felt a little unlucky not to win this,
on another day I might have. What was
required? - a deeper understanding of
the position. I might have appreciated
17 ... Qg4!!  more if I had spent more than 5 minutes.
Dancing around an e6 Knight with  24 ... Re8!!
still looks impossible.
On move 25 I might have seen  24 ... a5!!,
attacking the e-pawn there still makes no sense to me.
25 ... Q:a3?? is not so bad for a human.
I saw I could pretty much draw if he played perfectly.
On the positive side for Ivan Wijetunge, struggling class player,
he did figure out  18 Kh1, 19 B:h3!  and 20 Ng1!
halting my atack, he did figure out the draw at the end,
in general he played solid and made it hard to beat him,
I saw no obvious path. I believe Ivan should make it to
the hallowed halls of expertdom.
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[Event "Pikes Peak Open"]
[Site "Manitou Springs, CO City Hall on Main Street"]
[Date "2009.08.01"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Ivan Wijetunge"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ICCResult "Game drawn by mutual agreement"]
[WhiteElo "1852"]
[BlackElo "2215"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense"]
[ECO "A40"]
[NIC "QO.17"]
[Time "23:07:19"]
[TimeControl "40/90, Game/1 hour, 5 second delay"]

1. d4 Nc6 2. Nf3 f6 3. c4 e5 4. d5 Nce7 5. e4 Ng6 6. Nc3 Bc5 7. Na4 Bb4+ 8.
Nd2 Nh6 9. a3 Be7 10. g3 f5 11. Bg2 O-O 12. O-O f4 13. Nf3 d6 14. Qd3 Bd7
15. Nc3 Qc8 16. Ne2 Bh3 17. Bd2 Rf7 18. Kh1 Qd7 19. Bxh3 Qxh3 20. Nfg1 Qd7
21. b4 Raf8 22. gxf4 exf4 23. Qh3 Qa4 24. Rac1 Bf6 25. Bc3 Qxa3 26. Ra1 Qb3
27. Bxf6 Qxc4 28. Bd4 f3 29. Rfc1 Qxb4 30. Rab1 Qa4

1/2-1/2
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Wed Oct  7 08:34:56 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed,  7 Oct 2009 08:34:56 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Please help out Fred Spell
Message-ID: <1254926096.4acca7109517c@www.taom.com>



Fred Spell

SpellFE at Hotmail.com

Fred Spell is the new editor of the Colorado Informant.
The worst part about being both a shy Chessplayer and
an editor is begging people for articles.

If you live in Colorado, if you know someone in Colorado,
if you can spell the word M-O-U-N-T_A-I-N,
if you've ever been 4-move checkmated,
send something to Fred for his next Informant.

Thank you, Randy Reynolds, outgoing Informant Editor.
You were a pleasure to work with.

Thank You,
Brian Wall

From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Wed Oct  7 08:49:29 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed,  7 Oct 2009 08:49:29 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Curt Carlson asks about Randy Siebert
Message-ID: <1254926969.4accaa79191bb@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net> -----
    Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 07:39:38 -0700
    From: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
Reply-To: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
 Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Please help out Fred Spell
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

Whatever happened to Randy Siebert?

from Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>

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I would like to thank the United States Chess Federation Club Development
Committee, especially former Chairman Randy Siebert, for allowing us to use the
framework of The Guide to a Successful Chess Club (1985) as a basis for this
booklet.
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Should You Start a Scholastic Chess Club?
April 18, 2009 by Chess Press
Filed under Articles, Featured, Scholastic Chess
Leave a comment


With the amazing success of the 2009 SuperNationals, many schools, parents,
teachers, and school administrators may be wondering ? Should we start a
Scholastic Chess Club in our school?

For example, let?s take the Elementary Nationals in 2008 , New York was at # 1
with an amazing 99 schools participating, Pennsylvania was at # 2 with 62
schools participating , and Ohio was at # 3 with 48 schools participating.

Other states have a significantly lower amount of schools participating, but,
the benefits of chess are evident and have led to an increasing amount of
interest in scholastic chess across the country!

We can help you establish or continue your chess program!

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There are two components to the Chess-For-Youth program:

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member before (see definition of Title I under Free Membership Program
Criteria).
Members receive a catalog filled with hundreds of the most up-to-date products,
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For more info about our program:

CLICK HERE ? Chess-for-Youth Program
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Fill out the form, and send it in! Its that simple!

If you have additional questions, comments or concerns, just email us at
info at uschesstrust.org.

For additional reading, below is a Guide to Scholastic Chess.

A GUIDE TO SCHOLASTIC CHESS

This guide was created to help teachers and scholastic chess organizers who wish
to begin, improve, or strengthen their school chess program.

It covers how to organize a school chess club, run tournaments, keep interest
high, and generate parental and public support.

I would like to thank the United States Chess Federation Club Development
Committee, especially former Chairman Randy Siebert, for allowing us to use the
framework of The Guide to a Successful Chess Club (1985) as a basis for this
booklet.

In addition, I want to thank Tom Brownscombe, Scholastic Director of the U.S.
Chess Federation (USCF), and the USCF for their continuing help in the
preparation of this publication.

Scholastic chess, under the USCF?s guidance, has greatly expanded and made it
possible for the wide distribution of this guide.

I look forward to working with them on many projects in the future.

The following scholastic organizers reviewed this work and made many
suggestions, which have been included.

Thanks go to Jay Blem (CA), Leo Cotter (CA), Stephan Dann (MA), Bob Fischer
(IN), Doug Meux (NM), Andy Nowak (NM), Andrew Smith (CA), Robert Snyder (CA),
Brian Bugbee (NY), Beatriz Marinello (NY), Tom Brownscombe, and many others too
numerous to mention.

Finally, a special thanks to my wife, Susan, who has been patient and
understanding.

Dewain R. Barber
A.C.E.
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  Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 7:34 AM
  Subject: [BrianWallChess] Please help out Fred Spell




  Fred Spell

  SpellFE at Hotmail.com

  Fred Spell is the new editor of the Colorado Informant.
  The worst part about being both a shy Chessplayer and
  an editor is begging people for articles.

  If you live in Colorado, if you know someone in Colorado,
  if you can spell the word M-O-U-N-T_A-I-N,
  if you've ever been 4-move checkmated,
  send something to Fred for his next Informant.

  Thank you, Randy Reynolds, outgoing Informant Editor.
  You were a pleasure to work with.

  Thank You,
  Brian Wall

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From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu,  8 Oct 2009 09:37:00 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Nanjing 2009
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Nanjing 2009



Magnus Carlsen has clinched 1st place with a round to spare.

If Magnus wins his last game he will become the 5th player in history to reach
2800.

Not many people lose rating points by drawing Radjabov.

Leko has two losses to the #1 and #2 rated players in the world ( Topalov,
Magnus )

and the rest draws. Topalov is showing his usual relentlessness in the second
half.



Nanjing is an historic event heralding Magnus as possible the strongst

player in the world right now. Only 18 years old. Endless energy.



I watched the first time control live with Fritz running of Magnus Carlsen's
victory over Wang Yue plus I read the commentary of Dennis Monokroussos (
PlayChess, email) plus I listened to GM Kaidanov's ICC Game of the Day video of
Carlsen-Yue.



Basically they reeled off 19 moves of book, then Wang Yue innovated with 20 ...
h5. Wang Yue seemed better prepared but Carlsen whipped his practical chances
into a vicious attack. Like the last time they played, Magnus ruined a winning
position in time pressure ( which means he can get even stronger with proper
training - scary ). Magnus had a slghtly better ending when the dust cleared
and he squeezed that into a win. Very impressive performance showing great
energy, great desire, great endgame skill and great calculating skills. A
worthy fight to both protagonists.

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Prev (2009100601)
Rank  Name Track  Rating  Change  # games  # events  Born  @ FIDE
01  Topalov  off  2811,5  -1,5  8  1  1975  id-card
02  Carlsen  off  2796,4  +24,4  8  1  1990  id-card
03  Anand  off  2788,0  0  0  0  1969  id-card
04  Aronian  off  2784,9  +11,9  8  2  1982  id-card
05  Kramnik  off  2772,0  0  0  0  1975  id-card
06  Ivanchuk  off  2754,4  -1,6  2  1  1969  id-card
07  Gelfand  off  2753,1  -2,9  6  2  1968  id-card
08  Leko  off  2752,7  -9,3  8  1  1979  id-card
09  Morozevich  off  2750,0  0  0  0  1977  id-card
10  Gashimov  off  2749,9  +9,9  6  2  1986  id-card
11  Radjabov  off  2747,2  -9,8  8  1  1987  id-card
12  Jakovenko  off  2739,9  -2,1  8  1  1983  id-card
13  Svidler  off  2739,4  -1,6  12  2  1976  id-card
14  Ponomariov  off  2738,5  -2,5  5  1  1983  id-card
15  Wang Yue  off  2736,3  +0,3  27  5  1987  id-card

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[Event "ICC 90 30 u"]

[Site "Internet Chess Club"]

[Date "2009.09.28"]

[Round "-"]

[White "*GM_Carlsen"]

[Black "*GM_Leko"]

[Result "1-0"]

[WhiteElo "2772"]

[BlackElo "2762"]

[Opening "Scotch game"]

[ECO "C45"]

[NIC "SO.05"]

[Time "06:19:27"]

[TimeControl "5400+30"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Be3 Qf6 6. c3 Nge7 7. Bc4 Ne5

8. Be2 Qg6 9. O-O d6 10. f4 Qxe4 11. Bf2 Bxd4 12. cxd4 N5g6 13. g3 O-O 14.

Nc3 Qf5 15. d5 a6 16. Re1 Kh8 17. Rc1 Bd7 18. Bf3 Rac8 19. Qb3 b5 20. Ne2

Qh3 21. Nd4 Bg4 22. Bg2 Qh5 23. h4 Ng8 24. Rc6 Nf6 25. Rxa6 Bd7 26. Nxb5 Rb8

27. a4 Ng4 28. Bf3 Qh6 29. Qc4 Nxh4 30. Bxg4 Bxg4 31. gxh4 Bf3 32. f5 Qh5

33. Qf4 Bxd5 34. Nxc7 Bb7 35. Rb6 f6 36. Bd4 Qf7 37. Ne6 Rg8 38. Kf2 Rbc8

39. Bc3 Bd5 40. a5 Rc4 41. Nd4 Ba8 42. Qxd6 Qh5 43. Qf4 Rcc8 44. Rbe6

{White wins}

1-0

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[Event "?"]

[Site "?"]

[Date "2009.09.29"]

[Round "?"]

[White "GM_Carlsen"]

[Black "GM_Topalov"]

[Result "1-0"]

[WhiteElo "2772"]

[BlackElo "2813"]

[Opening "King's Indian: 5.Nf3"]

[ECO "E90"]

[NIC "KI.20"]

[Time "02:38:46"]

[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. h3 Na6 7. Be3 e5 8. d5

c6 9. g4 Nc5 10. Nd2 a5 11. a3 Nfd7 12. Rg1 a4 13. Qc2 Nb6 14. O-O-O Bd7 15.

Kb1 cxd5 16. cxd5 Rc8 17. Bb5 Bxb5 18. Nxb5 Qd7 19. Nc3 Bf6 20. g5 Bd8 21.

h4 Na8 22. Bxc5 Rxc5 23. Qxa4 Qc8 24. Rc1 Nb6 25. Qd1 Qh3 26. Qf3 Qd7 27.

Qd3 Kg7 28. Rc2 f6 29. gxf6+ Rxf6 30. h5 Rxf2 31. hxg6 h6 32. Nd1 Rxc2 33.

Nxf2 Rc8 34. Ng4 Bg5 35. Nf3 Nc4 36. Nxg5 hxg5 37. Ne3 Nxe3 38. Qxe3 Qa4 39.

Qxg5 Qxe4+ 40. Ka1 Re8 41. Rc1 {White wins} 1-0

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[Event "ICC 90 0 u"]

[Site "Internet Chess Club"]

[Date "2009.10.01"]

[Round "-"]

[White "*GM_Jakovenko"]

[Black "*GM_Carlsen"]

[Result "0-1"]

[WhiteElo "2742"]

[BlackElo "2772"]

[Opening "Sicilian: Najdorf, Opocensky variation"]

[ECO "B92"]

[NIC "SI.11"]

[Time "07:52:47"]

[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3 Be7 8.

O-O O-O 9. Be3 Be6 10. Qd2 Nbd7 11. a4 Nb6 12. a5 Nc4 13. Bxc4 Bxc4 14. Rfd1

Rc8 15. f3 Rc6 16. Kh1 Qc8 17. Rac1 Rd8 18. Nd5 Bxd5 19. exd5 Rc4 20. Qd3 e4

21. fxe4 Rxe4 22. c4 Re8 23. Bg1 Bf8 24. Nd4 g6 25. Rf1 Bh6 26. Qf3 Rf4 27.

Qd3 Ng4 28. Nf3 Rfe4 29. Rc3 Ne3 30. Re1 Qg4 31. Re2 Qh5 32. Bxe3 Rxe3 33.

Rxe3 Bxe3 34. Qe2 Qh6 35. c5 dxc5 36. d6 Re6 37. d7 Bg5 38. Qd1 Bd8 39. Rxc5

Qf8 40. Rd5 Qb4 41. b3 Re3 42. Nd2 Qc3 43. Nf3 Qb4 44. Nd2 Qf4 45. Nf3 Rc3

46. Qe2 Qe3 47. Qxe3 Rxe3 48. Rd4 Kf8 49. Rb4 Rd3 50. Rxb7 Rd1+ 51. Ng1 Bxa5

52. g4 Ke7 53. Kg2 Rxd7 54. Rxd7+ Kxd7 55. Kf3 Kd6 56. Ke4 Kc5 57. Kd3 Kd5

58. Nf3 Bd8 59. h3 h6 60. h4 h5 61. gxh5 gxh5 62. Ke3 Kc5 63. Kd3 Kb4

{Black wins}

0-1

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[Event "ICC 90 0 u"]

[Site "Internet Chess Club"]

[Date "2009.10.02"]

[Round "-"]

[White "*GM_Carlsen"]

[Black "*GM_Radjabov"]

[Result "1-0"]

[WhiteElo "2772"]

[BlackElo "2757"]

[Opening "Sicilian: Nimzovich-Rossolimo attack (without ...d6)"]

[ECO "B30"]

[NIC "SI.31"]

[Time "06:00:09"]

[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 e6 4. O-O Nge7 5. c3 a6 6. Ba4 b5 7. Bc2 Bb7 8.

Qe2 d5 9. e5 d4 10. Be4 Qb6 11. d3 Rd8 12. a4 Nd5 13. axb5 axb5 14. cxd4

cxd4 15. Nbd2 Nf4 16. Qd1 Nb4 17. Nb3 Bxe4 18. dxe4 Nfd3 19. Bg5 Rc8 20.

Nfxd4 Nxb2 21. Qe2 Nc4 22. Rfc1 Bc5 23. Nxb5 O-O 24. Nxc5 Nxe5 25. Be7

{White wins}

1-0

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[Event "?"]

[Site "?"]

[Date "2009.10.04"]

[Round "?"]

[White "GM_Jakovenko"]

[Black "GM_Topalov"]

[Result "0-1"]

[WhiteElo "2742"]

[BlackElo "2813"]

[Opening "Gr?nfeld: Flohr variation"]

[ECO "D90"]

[NIC "GI.07"]

[Time "02:44:40"]

[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Qa4+ Bd7 6. Qb3 dxc4 7. Qxc4 O-O

8. Bf4 Na6 9. e4 c5 10. e5 Nh5 11. Be3 cxd4 12. Qxd4 Bc6 13. Be2 Qa5 14. O-O

Nb4 15. Qh4 Nc2 16. g4 Nxe3 17. fxe3 Bh6 18. Nd1 Kh8 19. gxh5 Rg8 20. Kf2

Rad8 21. hxg6 Bxf3 22. Kxf3 Rxg6 23. Qe4 f5 24. Qc4 Qd2 25. Rc1 Rc6 26. Qh4

Qxc1 27. Qxe7 Rg8 28. e6 Qd2 29. Kf2 f4 {Black wins} 0-1

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Round 8 games - all decisive

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[Event "?"]

[Site "?"]

[Date "2009.10.06"]

[Round "?"]

[White "GM_Leko"]

[Black "GM_Topalov"]

[Result "0-1"]

[WhiteElo "2762"]

[BlackElo "2813"]

[Opening "Neo-Gr?nfeld, 5.cd, main line"]

[ECO "D72"]

[NIC "KI.80"]

[Time "02:42:07"]

[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. e4 Nb6 7. Ne2 c5 8.

d5 e6 9. O-O O-O 10. Nbc3 Na6 11. Nf4 e5 12. Nd3 c4 13. Ne1 Bd7 14. Qe2 Nc5

15. Be3 Rc8 16. Nf3 Qe8 17. Nd2 f5 18. exf5 gxf5 19. Nxc4 Nxc4 20. Qxc4 Ne4

21. Qb4 Nxc3 22. bxc3 f4 23. Bc5 f3 24. Bxf8 Bxf8 25. Qxb7 fxg2 26. Kxg2 Qf7

27. Rab1 e4 28. f4 Rxc3 29. Rb3 Rd3 30. f5 Rd2+ 31. Rf2 Rxf2+ 32. Kxf2 Qxf5+

33. Ke1 Bc5 34. Qb8+ Kf7 35. Qf4 Qxf4 36. gxf4 Ke7 37. Rg3 Kd6 38. Rg7 h5

39. Rg5 e3 40. Ke2 Bb5+ {Black wins} 0-1

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[Event "?"]

[Site "?"]

[Date "2009.10.06"]

[Round "?"]

[White "GM_Carlsen"]

[Black "GM_Wang_Yue"]

[Result "1-0"]

[WhiteElo "2772"]

[BlackElo "2736"]

[Opening "QGD Slav: Carlsbad variation"]

[ECO "D17"]

[NIC "SL.04"]

[Time "02:41:11"]

[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 Bf5 6. Ne5 Nbd7 7. Nxc4 Qc7

8. g3 e5 9. dxe5 Nxe5 10. Bf4 Nfd7 11. Bg2 g5 12. Ne3 gxf4 13. Nxf5 O-O-O

14. Qc2 Ng6 15. O-O Kb8 16. Rfc1 a5 17. b4 axb4 18. Nb5 Qe5 19. Nbd4 Bc5 20.

Nb3 h5 21. Rab1 Ba7 22. Bxc6 fxg3 23. hxg3 Rc8 24. Qd3 bxc6 25. Qxd7 Rc7 26.

Qd3 h4 27. Nbd4 hxg3 28. Rxb4+ Ka8 29. Nxg3 Rd8 30. e3 Nh4 31. Kf1 Qa5 32.

Rcb1 Nf3 33. Nb3 Qd5 34. Qxd5 cxd5 35. Rd1 Rc2 36. Rf4 Ne5 37. Nd4 Rc4 38.

Nde2 Rxf4 39. Nxf4 d4 40. Nge2 Nc6 41. e4 Rb8 42. Nd5 Rb2 43. Nef4 Kb7 44.

Nd3 Rb3 45. Ke2 Ra3 46. f4 Rxa4 47. Rb1+ Kc8 48. Rc1 Kb7 49. e5 Ra3 50. Rh1

Ra5 51. Nf6 Bb8 52. Rb1+ Kc8 53. Rc1 Kb7 54. Ne4 Ra3 55. Rh1 Bxe5 56. fxe5

Nxe5 57. Nd6+ Ka6 58. Nb4+ Kb6 59. Rc1 Re3+ 60. Kd1 Rb3 61. Nd5+ Ka7 62.

Ra1+ Kb8 63. Kc2 Rh3 64. Rb1+ Ka7 65. Rb7+ Ka6 66. Rb6+ Ka5 67. Rb5+ Ka4 68.

Nb6+ Ka3 69. Rxe5 {White wins} 1-0

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[Event "?"]

[Site "?"]

[Date "2009.10.06"]

[Round "?"]

[White "GM_Jakovenko"]

[Black "GM_Radjabov"]

[Result "1-0"]

[WhiteElo "2742"]

[BlackElo "2757"]

[Opening "Sicilian: dragon, Yugoslav attack, 10.O-O-O"]

[ECO "B78"]

[NIC "SI.18"]

[Time "02:42:59"]

[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 Nc6 8.

Qd2 O-O 9. Bc4 Bd7 10. O-O-O Rc8 11. Bb3 Nxd4 12. Bxd4 b5 13. h4 e6 14. a3

a5 15. h5 Qe7 16. hxg6 hxg6 17. g4 b4 18. axb4 axb4 19. Na2 Ra8 20. g5 Nh5

21. Bxg7 Kxg7 22. Qxd6 Qxd6 23. Rxd6 Ba4 24. Bc4 Rfc8 25. b3 Bb5 26. Bxb5

Rxa2 27. Rh2 Rc5 28. Kb1 Ra5 29. Bc4 Rxg5 30. Rb6 Nf4 31. Rxb4 Rg3 32. Rf2

Rh5 33. Rb7 Kf6 34. Kb2 g5 35. b4 Rh8 36. b5 Ke5 37. b6 Kd4 38. Rc7 Rb8 39.

b7 Rxb7+ 40. Rxb7 Kxc4 41. Rxf7 Kd4 42. Ra7 Ke3 43. Rf1 Ng6 44. e5 Kf4 45.

Ra4+ Kf5 46. c4 Nxe5 47. c5 Rh3 48. Rd4 Kf6 49. Rc1 Rh7 50. Rc3 Rc7 51. Kb3

Nc6 52. Rd6 Ke7 53. Re3 Nd8 54. Kb4 Rc8 55. Ra6 Nc6+ 56. Kb5 Nd4+ 57. Kc4

Nc6 58. Rb6 Kf6 59. Rc3 Ke5 60. Kb5 Nd4+ 61. Ka6 Kf4 62. Kb7 Rf8 63. c6 e5

64. c7 Nxf3 65. c8=Q Rxc8 66. Rxc8 g4 67. Rf8+ Kg3 68. Re6 Kg2 69. Rg8 Kh3

70. Kb6 Nd2 71. Rh6+ Kg3 72. Kc5 {White wins} 1-0

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Round 9 games - all drawn

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[Event "?"]

[Site "?"]

[Date "2009.10.08"]

[Round "?"]

[White "GM_Radjabov"]

[Black "GM_Carlsen"]

[Result "1/2-1/2"]

[WhiteElo "2757"]

[BlackElo "2772"]

[Opening "Gr?nfeld: exchange, classical variation"]

[ECO "D87"]

[NIC "GI.05"]

[Time "02:37:16"]

[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Bc4 c5

8. Ne2 Nc6 9. Be3 O-O 10. O-O Qc7 11. Rc1 Rd8 12. h3 a6 13. Bf4 Qa5 14. Qb3

e6 15. a4 cxd4 16. cxd4 Nxd4 17. Nxd4 Rxd4 18. Be3 Rd6 19. Rfd1 Rxd1+ 20.

Rxd1 b5 21. axb5 axb5 22. Qxb5 Qxb5 23. Rd8+ Bf8 24. Bxb5 Bb7 25. Rxa8 Bxa8

26. f3 f5 27. Bd3 fxe4 28. Bxe4 Bxe4 29. fxe4 Kf7 30. Kf1 h5 31. Kg1 Bd6 32.

Kf1 Bf8 33. Kg1 Bd6 34. Kf1 Bf8 {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2

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[Event "?"]

[Site "?"]

[Date "2009.10.08"]

[Round "?"]

[White "GM_Jakovenko"]

[Black "GM_Leko"]

[Result "1/2-1/2"]

[WhiteElo "2742"]

[BlackElo "2762"]

[Opening "QGD semi-Slav: Stoltz variation"]

[ECO "D45"]

[NIC "SL.08"]

[Time "02:39:00"]

[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Qc2 Bd6 7. g4 h6 8. h3

e5 9. Bd2 O-O 10. dxe5 Nxe5 11. Nxe5 Bxe5 12. O-O-O Qe7 13. Kb1 dxc4 14.

Bxc4 Bxc3 15. Bxc3 Be6 16. Bxe6 Qxe6 17. Bxf6 Qxf6 18. Rd7 Qf3 19. Rhd1 Qxh3

20. Qf5 b6 21. a3 a5 22. Rc7 b5 23. Rxc6 b4 24. a4 b3 25. Rc3 Rab8 26. Rdc1

g6 27. Qf4 h5 28. Rc4 Qxg4 29. Qxg4 hxg4 30. Rxg4 Rfd8 31. Rg5 Rd2 32. Rxa5

Rxf2 33. Rb5 Ra8 34. Rb4 Re2 35. e4 Kg7 36. Rc3 Re1+ 37. Rc1 Re3 38. Rc3

Re1+ 39. Rc1 Re3 40. Rc3 Re1+ {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2

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[Event "?"]

[Site "?"]

[Date "2009.10.08"]

[Round "?"]

[White "GM_Wang_Yue"]

[Black "GM_Topalov"]

[Result "1/2-1/2"]

[WhiteElo "2736"]

[BlackElo "2813"]

[Opening "King's Indian: Gligoric-Taimanov system"]

[ECO "E92"]

[NIC "KI.18"]

[Time "02:38:03"]

[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. Be3 c6 8.

dxe5 dxe5 9. Qxd8 Rxd8 10. h3 Nh5 11. g3 Na6 12. Nd2 Bf8 13. O-O-O Ng7 14.

a3 Ne6 15. Nf3 f6 16. Rxd8 Nxd8 17. b4 b6 18. Kb2 Ne6 19. Rd1 Kf7 20. h4 c5

21. b5 Nac7 22. Nd5 Ne8 23. Bd3 Nd6 24. Bd2 Bb7 25. g4 Bg7 26. Bc3 Bxd5 27.

exd5 Nf4 28. Bf1 e4 29. Bd2 g5 30. Ne1 f5+ 31. Kb3 fxg4 32. hxg5 Be5 33. Ng2

Nh3 34. Be3 Nf5 35. Be2 Nd4+ 36. Bxd4 cxd4 37. Rf1 Nxg5 38. Bxg4 Rf8 39. Nh4

Kg8 40. Rg1 Kh8 41. Bf5 Bf6 42. Rh1 Kg7 43. Bg4 Nf7 44. Nf5+ Kg6 45. Ng3 Nd6

46. Re1 e3 47. fxe3 Bh4 48. Rg1 dxe3 49. Be2 Kh6 50. Rh1 Rf4 51. Bd3 Kg5 52.

Ne2 Rg4 53. Rh3 h5 54. Rxe3 Bf2 55. Re5+ Kh4 56. Nc3 Bc5 57. a4 Rg5 58. Rxg5

Kxg5 59. Ne4+ Nxe4 60. Bxe4 Kf4 61. Bh1 h4 62. a5 bxa5 63. Ka4 Bb6 64. c5

Bxc5 65. Kxa5 Ke5 66. Ka6 h3 67. Bf3 Kd6 68. Be4 Ke5 69. Bf3 Kd6 70. Be4 Ke5

{Game drawn}

1/2-1/2

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct  8 09:50:07 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu,  8 Oct 2009 09:50:07 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Clyde Nakamura on The Polish Grob Attack
Message-ID: <1255017007.4ace0a2f28200@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from evilone <cjnakamura1 at msn.com> -----
    Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:18:43 -0000
    From: evilone <cjnakamura1 at msn.com>
Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] The Polish Grob Attack
      To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com

After looking at the recent messages on this newsgroup about the Polish Opening
(1.b4) and the Grob Attack (1.g4), I thought that you could play both moves
early in the opening. I remember long ago a player about 1800+ took down a
stronger player rated 2100+. The 2100 player got ambushed by a combination of
b4 & g4 early in the opening. I checked my databases and found 2 games where
Black won in 7 moves.
I do not believe that such a combination of moves is necessarily bad
in the opening. A lot of chess players believe that you should not
burn your bridges by weakening both flanks of the board at the same time. But in
this opening you need not castle at all and can attack
from either flank. We are trapped by our beliefs and prejudices about
chess which holds us back. There is still much to discover and we
have barely touched the surface.

There are 2 possible setups for a Polish Grob attack and they are:

1.b4 e5 2.g4

or

1.b4 d4 2.g4

Listed below is a test game where I had setup the position 1.b4 e5 2.g4 and
played the Polish Grob Attack. I had run an engine match with the Polish Grob
Attack between Aristarch and Pharaon with both chess engines about elo 2600+.
Four games were played and both having White 2 times and Black 2 times. Black
won 4 ? 0. After looking at the games while the games were in progress, I
realized that chess engines cannot play gambit positions because their
evaluation is too materialistic. Whomever played White botched the position. So
I decided to play a test game against Firefly (2330). That game was really
strange because Black played a horrendous error dropping its Q on move 17. I
did not understand why Firefly played such a bad move because chess engines do
not miss mate in 2, 3, 4, 5 or even 6 moves. Chess Engine Firefly does not seem
to know the rules of development and playing with open files. The program seems
to be so concerned about protecting its g pawn. It should have sacrificed the g
pawn to get the half open g file to the White kingside. There seems to be a
basic flaw in its programing.

[Event "Blitz:15'"]
[Site "Honolulu"]
[Date "2009.10.08"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Nakamura, Clyde"]
[Black "FireFly v2.2.2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[PlyCount "41"]

{A00: Irregular Openings} 1. b4 e5 2. g4 {this is like a gambit where the b pawn
is being sacrificed for development} Bxb4 3. Bg2 Nh6 (3... d5 4. c3 Bc5 5. d4
exd4 6. cxd4 {-+}) 4. h3 {have to protect my g pawn} Qf6 {trying to attack my
f2 square} (4... Nc6 5. c3 Bc5 6. d3 {-/+}) 5. Bb2 {developing the other B} Qe6
6. Nf3 Nc6 7. O-O {castle to a safe position and get out the pin on the d pawn}
f5 8. g5 {I did not want to open a file to my kingside.} (8. d4 exd4 9. Nxd4
Qg6 10. gxf5 Nxf5 11. Nxf5 Qxf5 {=/+}) 8... Nf7 {-/+} 9. h4 {have to protect
the g pawn} (9. d4 e4 10. d5 Qg6 {-/+}) 9... e4 10. Nd4 Nxd4 11. Bxd4 Bf8
{protecting the g pawn, probably because of its materialistic evaluation  which
is flawed} 12. d3 {putting the pressure on the e pawn} h6 13. g6 {forced because
I cannot play gxh6 because it would open the h file} Qxg6 14. dxe4 fxe4 15. Nc3
{White has achieved full development  whereas Black is still undeveloped and
without open lines.} d6 (15... Qh5 16. Nxe4 Qxh4 17. Qd3 {-/+}) 16. Nxe4 (16.
Nd5 {!? is an interesting alternative} Kd8 17. Qd2 {=}) 16... Bh3 (16... Be7
17. Qd3 Qg4 18. h5 {-/+}) 17. Ng3 {=/+ again forced to prevent checkmate} Qxg3
{??  ruins a clearly superior position, I did not understand why Firefly played
this lemon move. Chess engines do not normally miss mate in 2, 3, 4, 5 or even 6
moves.} ({better is} 17... Bxg2 {was necessary} 18. Kxg2 O-O-O {-/+}) 18. fxg3
{+-} Bxg2 19. Kxg2 Nd8 (19... d5 {cannot undo what has already been done} 20.
e4 O-O-O 21. Rxf7 {+-}) 20. Qd3 {Black cannot cover the g6 square because White
intends to play Qg6+} Nc6 21.
Qg6+ (21. Qg6+ Kd8 22. Bxg7 {+-}) 1-0

Listed below is the same game without notes.

[Event "Blitz:15'"]
[Site "Honolulu"]
[Date "2009.10.08"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Nakamura, Clyde"]
[Black "FireFly v2.2.2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[Annotator "Polish Grob Attack"]
[PlyCount "41"]

1. b4 e5 2. g4 Bxb4 3. Bg2 Nh6 4. h3 Qf6 5. Bb2 Qe6 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. O-O f5 8. g5
Nf7 9. h4 e4 10. Nd4 Nxd4 11. Bxd4 Bf8 12. d3 h6 13. g6 Qxg6 14. dxe4 fxe4 15.
Nc3 d6 16. Nxe4 Bh3 17. Ng3 Qxg3 18. fxg3 Bxg2 19. Kxg2 Nd8 20. Qd3 Nc6 21.
Qg6+ 1-0

Best Regards
Clyde Nakamura


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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct  8 10:09:57 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu,  8 Oct 2009 10:09:57 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Dan Tanner wins Wyoming Closed for the first
	time
Message-ID: <1255018197.4ace0ed543584@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Dan T <h2oh234 at hotmail.com> -----
    Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 09:56:31 -0600
    From: Dan T <h2oh234 at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Dan T <h2oh234 at hotmail.com>
 Subject: Wyoming chess
      To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com


Hey Brian. I managed to win the state closed Championship on the 27th Oct 09.

Guess I better retire from chess.

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Fri Oct  9 08:49:05 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri,  9 Oct 2009 08:49:05 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Magnus Carlsen becomes the 5th 2800 in Chess
	history
Message-ID: <1255099745.4acf4d614d9fc@www.taom.com>



Studying with Gary Kasparov put him over the top.
Magnus wins clear first, Nanjing Chess Tournament
in China with 5 other top 15 players.
The last round 10 went like most other rounds,
Magnus wins, everyone else draws.
Topalov tried for 95 moves to beat Radjabov.
Human backboards Wang Yue and Peter Leko had a Petroff's Defense draw.
Magnus is now a Chess supernova.

Magnus clear first by 2.5 points out of 10 rounds.
Topalov clear second with 5.5 points
Wang Yue clear third with 4.5 points

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This historic game will be analyzed by every Chess magazine and newspaper in the
world. Magnus steadily increased his advantage, mobilizing his Kingside
majority, winning a pawn, advancing his majority. At the end near the first
time control Magnus was +5.

Advantage Magnus  move 19
half a pawn     Rybka 3

Advantage Magnus  move 27
one pawn

Jakovenko got nowhere with his Queenside majority.

[Event "ICC 90 0 u"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.09"]
[Round "-"]
[White "*GM_Carlsen"]
[Black "*GM_Jakovenko"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2772"]
[BlackElo "2742"]
[Opening "QGD: Charousek (Petrosian) variation"]
[ECO "D31"]
[NIC "QO.05"]
[Time "01:00:13"]
[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Be7 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bf4 c6 6. Qc2 Bd6 7. Bxd6 Qxd6
8. e3 Ne7 9. Bd3 b6 10. Nf3 Ba6 11. O-O Bxd3 12. Qxd3 Nd7 13. e4 O-O 14. e5
Qe6 15. Rae1 Rfe8 16. Nh4 Ng6 17. Nxg6 Qxg6 18. Qd2 Nf8 19. f4 Qf5 20. Nd1
f6 21. Ne3 Qd7 22. Qd3 fxe5 23. dxe5 Ne6 24. f5 Nc5 25. Qd4 Ne4 26. Nxd5
Qxd5 27. Qxe4 Rad8 28. e6 Qxe4 29. Rxe4 Rd6 30. g4 Kf8 31. g5 Ke7 32. Kg2
Rd5 33. Kg3 Kd6 34. h4 c5 35. f6 gxf6 36. gxf6 Rd3+ 37. Kh2 Rd2+ 38. Kh1
{White wins}
1-0
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[Event "ICC 90 0 u"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.09"]
[Round "-"]
[White "*GM_Leko"]
[Black "*GM_Wang_Yue"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2762"]
[BlackElo "2736"]
[Opening "Petrov: Nimzovich attack"]
[ECO "C42"]
[NIC "RG.03"]
[Time "01:01:47"]
[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. Nc3 Nxc3 6. dxc3 Be7 7. Be3
Nc6 8. Qd2 Be6 9. O-O-O Qd7 10. Kb1 Bf6 11. h4 h6 12. Nd4 Nxd4 13. cxd4 c6
14. f3 d5 15. Bf4 Be7 16. Re1 Bd6 17. Bd3 O-O-O 18. Re2 Bxf4 19. Qxf4 Qd6
20. Qxd6 Rxd6 21. Kc1 Kd8 22. Kd2 Bd7 23. b3 Re8 24. g4 Rde6 25. Rxe6 Bxe6
26. Rg1 Kc7 27. f4 Kd6 28. h5 Rh8 29. Ke3 b6 30. b4 Bd7 31. Kf3 Ra8 32. Rb1
a5 33. bxa5 b5 34. a4 bxa4 35. a6 Bc8 36. Ra1 Bxa6 37. Rxa4 Bb7 38. Rxa8
Bxa8 39. g5 Bb7 40. c3 Bc8 41. Kg3 f6 42. gxh6 gxh6 43. Kf3 Bd7 44. Kg3 Bc8
45. Kf3 Bd7 46. Kg3 Bc8 {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2
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[Event "ICC 90 0 u"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.09"]
[Round "-"]
[White "*GM_Topalov"]
[Black "*GM_Radjabov"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2813"]
[BlackElo "2757"]
[Opening "King's Indian: orthodox, Aronin-Taimanov, 9.Ne1"]
[ECO "E98"]
[NIC "KI.03"]
[Time "03:00:03"]
[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. O-O Nc6 8. d5
Ne7 9. Ne1 Nd7 10. Be3 f5 11. f3 f4 12. Bf2 g5 13. Rc1 Ng6 14. c5 Nxc5 15.
b4 Na6 16. Nd3 Rf7 17. Nb5 b6 18. Be1 Bf6 19. Nf2 h5 20. h3 Bb7 21. Rc2 Qd7
22. Qd3 Bd8 23. Bd2 Nb8 24. Rfc1 Ba6 25. Rc3 Rg7 26. Ra3 Ne7 27. Be1 Nc8 28.
Rac3 Rh7 29. Nd1 Rg7 30. Bf2 Kh7 31. Nb2 Kh6 32. Kf1 Kh7 33. Ke1 Kh6 34.
R3c2 Rf7 35. Nd1 Rg7 36. Bf1 Kh7 37. Rc3 Kg8 38. R1c2 Kh7 39. Kd2 Kg8 40.
Kc1 Kh7 41. Kb2 Kg8 42. Rc1 Kh7 43. R3c2 Kg8 44. Ndc3 Qe8 45. Nb1 Bxb5 46.
Qxb5 Qf8 47. Na3 a6 48. Qa4 Ra7 49. Qb3 Ra8 50. Nb1 Qe8 51. Nc3 Ra7 52. Be2
Kf8 53. Rd1 Qd7 54. Ka1 Qe8 55. Rdc1 Qd7 56. Rb2 Qe8 57. Qd1 Rb7 58. Qf1 b5
59. a4 bxa4 60. Bxa6 Nxa6 61. Qxa6 Rb8 62. Nxa4 g4 63. hxg4 hxg4 64. Kb1 Qd7
65. Nc3 Ne7 66. b5 Qc8 67. Qa3 Ra8 68. Qb4 Qd7 69. b6 cxb6 70. Nb5 Rg6 71.
Be1 Kg8 72. Qb3 Kf8 73. Qd3 Kg8 74. Bb4 Rc8 75. Rbc2 Rxc2 76. Rxc2 Nc8 77.
Kb2 gxf3 78. gxf3 Na7 79. Nxa7 Qxa7 80. Qb5 Kf7 81. Rh2 Be7 82. Rc2 Rg8 83.
Kb3 Ra8 84. Qc6 b5 85. Qxb5 Rb8 86. Qc6 Qg1 87. Qc3 Qb1+ 88. Rb2 Qd1+ 89.
Ka2 Rh8 90. Ba3 Rh1 91. Qc8 Qa1+ 92. Kb3 Qd1+ 93. Ka2 Qa1+ 94. Kb3 Qd1+ 95.
Ka2 {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2
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After a stop of nearly 3 weeks, the updates were resumed on December 12th. I've
written a few comments regarding my protest against FIDE's handling of the
changes to the World Championship Qualification Cycle on a separate page.


Features All Players Rated above FIDE 2700 Right Now!
The Live Top List is an unofficial chess rating list that intends to cover all
players with a current, live rating above 2700 in the FIDE rating system. The
official FIDE list is published 4 times each year, while this list is updated
and published as games and tournaments are being played, typically with daily
updates during tournaments featuring top players.
Contact and 'Measure Up'
The list is maintained by Hans Arild Runde. Feedback can be sent to
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Norway bids for the right to organize the Chess Olympiad in 2014. Go to the
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[ table view | bar view ] - Last Update: October 6th 13:59 CEST
Prev (2009100601)
Rank  Name Track  Rating  Change  # games  # events  Born  @ FIDE
01  Topalov  off  2811,5  -1,5  8  1  1975  id-card
02  Carlsen  off  2796,4  +24,4  8  1  1990  id-card
03  Anand  off  2788,0  0  0  0  1969  id-card
04  Aronian  off  2784,9  +11,9  8  2  1982  id-card
05  Kramnik  off  2772,0  0  0  0  1975  id-card
06  Ivanchuk  off  2754,4  -1,6  2  1  1969  id-card
07  Gelfand  off  2753,1  -2,9  6  2  1968  id-card
08  Leko  off  2752,7  -9,3  8  1  1979  id-card
09  Morozevich  off  2750,0  0  0  0  1977  id-card
10  Gashimov  off  2749,9  +9,9  6  2  1986  id-card
11  Radjabov  off  2747,2  -9,8  8  1  1987  id-card
12  Jakovenko  off  2739,9  -2,1  8  1  1983  id-card
13  Svidler  off  2739,4  -1,6  12  2  1976  id-card
14  Ponomariov  off  2738,5  -2,5  5  1  1983  id-card
15  Wang Yue  off  2736,3  +0,3  27  5  1987  id-card
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: Standings after Round 10 (Final)
:   1  8.0  GM Magnus Carlsen    NOR 2772
:   2  5.5  GM Veselin Topalov   BUL 2813
:   3  4.5  GM Wang Yue          CHN 2736
: 4-6  4.0  GM Teimour Radjabov  AZE 2757
:           GM Peter Leko        HUN 2762
:           GM Dmitry Jakovenko  RUS 2742

From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Fri Oct  9 09:27:58 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri,  9 Oct 2009 09:27:58 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 2009 U.S. Women's Championship Standings
Message-ID: <1255102078.4acf567e8a59f@www.taom.com>

$15,000 for first place

2009 U.S. Women's Championship Standings


# Name USCF FIDE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Score
1 Anna Zatonskih 2492 2462   ? - 1 - - 1 1 1 - 4?
2 Camilla Baginskaite 2356 2317 ?   ? - ? - - - 1 1 3?
3 Alisa Melekhina 2253 2220 - ?   ? ? 1 - - 1 - 3?
4 Irina Krush 2490 2458 0 - ?   1 - - ? - ? 2?
5 Rusudan Goletiani 2437 2391 - ? ? 0   - 1 - ? - 2?
6 Sabina Foisor 2379 2320 - - 0 - -   0 1 ? 1 2?
7 Battsetseg Tsagaan 2265 2258 0 - - - 0 1   ? - 1 2?
8 Iryna Zenyuk 2271 2285 0 - - ? - 0 ?   - 1 2
9 Tatev Abrahamyan 2342 2275 0 0 0 - ? ? - -   - 1
10 Yun Fan 2134 1935 - 0 - ? - 0 0 0 -   ?
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Brand New GM Ben Finegold and former US Women's Champ Jennifer
Shahade give great live commentary on ICC every day.
Exquisitely beautiful 18 year old Alisa Melekhina ( who attends Kasparov
seminars with Ray Robson, Sam Shankland and Daniel Ludwig ) is surprising
everyone with tough defense, tied for second place. GM Daniel Fridman's wife (
with one kid ) Anna Zatonskih, is in top form. Camilla Baginskaite has two kids
with the Yerminator. I think Irina Krush is married to GM Pascal Charbonneau.
I have seen them all at big tournaments. Tatev Abrahamyan was Tyler Hughes'
roommate in the 2008 World Junior in Turkey ( but she had a different boyfriend
).

I saw -
Jennifer Shahade at a World Open
Alisa Melekhina 2009 World Open
Anna Zatonskih and Tatev Abrahamyan 2005 HB Minnesota Tournament
Irina Krush when she won the US Women's
Championship at 14 in Denver 8 years ago.
Camilla Baginskaite at various Vegas tournaments.
Iryna Zenyuk is a Facebook friend.

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http://saintlouischessclub.org/US-Womens-Championship-2009/replay-games/round04
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Fri Oct  9 14:00:59 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri,  9 Oct 2009 14:00:59 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] New chess videos and Fw: Results of September
	2009 East Coast Deli & cscc schedule
Message-ID: <1255118459.4acf967baddaa@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from CS Chess <cs.chess at att.net> -----
    Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 13:19:11 -0600
    From: CS Chess <cs.chess at att.net>
Reply-To: CS Chess <cs.chess at att.net>
 Subject: [CSCN] New chess videos and Fw: Results of September 2009 East Coast
Deli & cscc schedule


The Colorado Springs Chess News' Youtube channel
(http://www.youtube.com/user/cschessnews) has added a couple of humorous chess
videos:

Bob Newhart On Chess
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBydrUQUf18&feature=channel)

Michael J. Fox On Chess
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Uu5G_HTEY&feature=channel_page)

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 7:25 PM
Subject: Results of September 2009 East Coast Deli


Hi All,

Please disseminate via your usual channels. Thanks for your help!

      Event ID Sec State City Dates Plr Event Name
      200909305621     1     CO     COLORADO SPRING     2009-09-02 - 09-30    
18     2009 SEPT EAST COAST DELI



SwissSys Standings. 2009 September East Coast Deli: OPEN
      # Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
      1 Gordon Randall 1832 1862 W13 D2 W8 W7 W4 4.5
      2 David Meliti 1908 1917 W15 D1 X4 W5 D3 4.0
      3 Mitchell Anderson 2035 2011 L11 D7 W17 W15 D2 3.0
      4 Shaun T Macmillan 1834 1826 W6 D5 F2 W12 L1 2.5
      5 Larry Wutt 1798 1792 W14 D4 H--- L2 H--- 2.5
      6 Fred Eric Spell 1509 1496 L4 W14 H--- D17 D7 2.5
      7 James M Powers 1440 1513 D16 D3 W11 L1 D6 2.5
      8 M Paul Covington 1908 1901 H--- W11 L1 H--- U--- 2.0
      9 Timothy E Brennan 1757 1758 W17 H--- H--- U--- U--- 2.0
      10 Shannon Fox 1709 1710 W18 H--- H--- U--- U--- 2.0
      11 Anthea J Carson 1674 1673 W3 L8 L7 H--- H--- 2.0
      12 Andrew Stephenson 1245 1273 H--- H--- W15 L4 U--- 2.0
      13 Gerald J Maier 1244 1273 L1 H--- H--- U--- W15 2.0
      14 Tom Mullikin 1193 1197 L5 L6 H--- H--- W17 2.0
      15 Dean W Brown 1509 1457 L2 W17 L12 L3 L13 1.0
      16 Bill Weihmiller [WITHDREW] 1833 1825 D7 U--- U--- U--- U--- 0.5
      17 Alexander Freeman 1037 1039 L9 L15 L3 D6 L14 0.5
      18 Asher Macenulty III [WITHDREW] 951 950 L10 U--- U--- U--- U--- 0.0


Prizes:

1st    $40.00 Gordon Randall  (4.5 points)

4 way tie for U1900, U1800, U1700 & U 1500 -  $27.00 each Shaun Macmillan, Larry
Wutt, Fred Spell, James Powers (2.5 points)

U1200 $16.00 Tom Mullikin (2.0 points)



Jerry Maier
Mobile:    719.660.5531
Home/FAX:  719.268.6970
E-mail:    pmjer77 at aim.com

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 2:51 PM
Subject: cscc schedule


COLORADO SPRINGS CHESS CLUB

October - December 2009

                The Colorado Springs Chess Club meets Tuesday evenings in the
downstairs Game Room of the Acacia Apartments Building at 104 E. Platte, just
north of Acacia Park.  The building opens about 6:30 PM.  Most activities begin
registration about 7:30, with play starting at 8:00.  On most evenings, club
ladder games are also available, including USCF-rated G/90 games.  For more
information call Buck at 685-1984 or e-mail buckpeace at pcisys.net .



Players should arrive no later than 8:00 to get into the building.



In addition to Tuesday evenings, club members are gathering for chess at these
times:

Wednesdays: East Coast Deli, 24 S Tejon.  Rated tourney,  G/90, 1 game a night.,
games start 6:00 PM.

Thursdays: USAFA Chess, Rated G/90 tourney, Milazzo Center, Bldg 5226, games
start 6:00 PM.

3rd Saturday of month (10/17, 11/21, 12/19) Agia Sophia coffee house, 2902 W
Colorado, 8:00 PM.

Air Force Academy Quads, USCF rated.  10/31, 11/21, 12/19.  See Dean Brown or
websites for info.

**************************************************************************************

October

6                     Speed tournament

13                  Club Championship Tournament starts.  4/SS, G/90, $5 entry
fee.  Not rated.

20                  Club Championship continues.

27                  Club Championship continues.



November



3                     Club Championship concludes.  Playoffs next week if
needed.

10                  Quick chess tournament, 3-SS, G/20, rated if all players
USCF members

17              Bughouse!

24                  Quick chess tournament, 3-SS, G/20, rated if all players
USCF members



December



1                     Speed tournament

Dec. 5-6:  Winter Springs Open, Manitou Springs Masonic Lodge, 4-SS,  40/2 &
G/1.  Register with Buck

8                Quads, G/30 if rated, G/20 otherwise

15             Quick chess tournament, 3-SS, G/20, rated if all players USCF
members

22              Ladder games

29            Ladder games



**************************************************************************************



Club officers: Dean Brown, Richard Buchanan, Renae Delaware

Club website: www.springschess.org    CSCA website  www.colorado-chess.com

Paul Anderson's Colorado Springs Chess News website: 
http://cs.chess.home.att.net



UPCOMING!



Al Ufer Memorial Tournament, Jan. 2, 2010, Manitou Spgs Masonic Lodge.  See
Dean.



Jan. 12: Annual Club Membership Meeting.  PLEASE ATTEND.



Club Speed Chess Championship:  January 19, 26.  $5 entry fee.

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From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:29:24 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] New Fishing Pole video #7
Message-ID: <1255156164.4ad029c4d5e42@www.taom.com>



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Zg6h-d4Go


Opening Trap - Fishing Pole (Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense)



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From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:52:58 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Still Good
Message-ID: <1255222378.4ad12c6a6679b@www.taom.com>



Information about Tao-Warrior (Last disconnected Sat Oct 10 2009 20:11):

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Wild            2138  [6]     3     4     0     7
Bughouse        1078  [6]     2    22     0    24   1092 (31-Mar-2009)
Bullet          2046  [8]   833   710    67  1610   2251 (11-Jun-2003)
Blitz           2429       2289  2089   282  4660   2548 (07-Nov-2008)
Standard        2163  [6]   351   181    27   559   2328 (11-May-2003)
5-minute        2245       3141  2692   443  6276   2400 (05-Aug-2009)
1-minute        1960  [6]  5264  4876   400 10540   2368 (31-Jul-2009)
15-minute       2089  [4]    23     6     2    31   2120 (19-Jul-2008)

 1: Groups: San Diego Chess
 2: DoggyG(IM) tells you: i have no problems losing only to cheaters
 3: DoggyG(IM) tells you: you played ridiculously accurate to rybka
 4: mastro(GM) says: i can lose in smth like chess
 5: mastro(GM) says: from a weak player
 6: gluhesmihartuki(GM) says: better gamble than chess
 7: I suck.. right now.
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Even after 10 years, thousands of games, hundreds of published emails and
7 youtube Chess videos on the subject ( just search Youtube for Fishing
Pole Chess to see all 7 videos from 5 different authors ) no one seems to
have the slightest clue as to how to play the Fishing Pole, including me.

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.10"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Tao-Warrior"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2245"]
[BlackElo "2217"]
[Opening "Two knights defense"]
[ECO "C55"]
[NIC "IG.01"]
[Time "20:08:51"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!!

invented by Jack Young


10 years and White still has to figure it out for himself.

5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 h5

My favorite blitz position,
hoping for 7 Nc3 ( the most natural )  Bc5!!
with multiple deadly traps.



7. Nxc6 bxc6!!  8. h3!  Ne5!!

I usually refuse to retreat but I gain a tempo
here and get out of the way of ... Bc8:h3


9. Bb3 Bc5!!

Now I can feel OK about ... d6


10. Bf4 Qf6!!

Protecting e5 and gaining another tempo on f4


11. Qd2!  d6!!

... B:h3 become an issue.
I am better.



12. Be3??

Losing a tempo in the Fishing Pole against a guy who has trained
himself to computer refute any mistake for a decade - not a good idea.



12 ...  Bxh3??

Now White is better after
12 ... B:h3??  13 f4!!  ( Only Move )  B:g2!!  14 K:g2!   Qg6+!
15  Kh1!  ( Only Move )  Q:e4+  16 Q:g2  Only Move

f1 is unprotected after
12 ... Nf3+!!  13  gf B:h3    14  Kh2  B:f1 or
12 ... Nf3+!!  13  gf B:h3    14  Bf4  Rh6!!
( one of my favorite motifs ) 15 Kh2  B:f1



13. Bxc5??

On 13 f3?  Rh6!!!!
is a beautiful Fishing Pole finish


13 ...  Nf3+!!

Even stronger now

14. gxf3

The killer moves after  14  Kh1  are
14 ... Bg4!!!!, ... Rh6!!!, ... B:g2+!!  or ... N:d2!!

14 ... Qg6+

Mating



{White resigns} 0-1
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.10"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Tao-Warrior"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2245"]
[BlackElo "2217"]
[Opening "Two knights defense"]
[ECO "C55"]
[NIC "IG.01"]
[Time "20:08:51"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 h5 7. Nxc6 bxc6
8. h3 Ne5 9. Bb3 Bc5 10. Bf4 Qf6 11. Qd2 d6 12. Be3 Bxh3 13. Bxc5 Nf3+ 14.
gxf3 Qg6+ {White resigns} 0-1
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Slingblade
Godfather
An Officer and a Gentleman
Bruce Lee
Batman
X-men
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Devon is home sick with me.
Someone tell Gary Craig at the 16th Street Chess mall,
the 60 year old Vietnam vet ( helicopter pilot then, big fat guy now )
was going to pass attending the Bronco game
in the stadium just to sit with me and Devon.

My new Batphone -
720-641-9588
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Sun Oct 11 08:58:09 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:58:09 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] San Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried Chicken,
	Inc. First International Chess Tournament
Message-ID: <1255273089.4ad1f281e4bcd@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from samhsloan <samhsloan at gmail.com> -----
    Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:07:03 -0000
    From: samhsloan <samhsloan at gmail.com>
Reply-To: Chess_Library at yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [Chess_Library] San Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried Chicken, Inc. First
International Chess Tournament
      To: Chess_Library at yahoogroups.com

San Antonio 1972 was either the strongest chess tournament ever played in the
history of the United States or, if not the very strongest, then second only to
New York 1924.

The tournament was organized by Bill Church, who had a great deal of money at
that time. He had expanded a small fried-chicken chain of only four outlets
that he had inherited from his father into a giant operation with more than 400
restaurants.

He also established what are now called "Grand Prix Points" where grandmasters
can tour the country playing in small tournaments and win big prizes awarded to
those who collect the most points. These were known as "Chicken Points" and the
"King of the Chicken Circuit" became Igor Ivanov, who could be counted on to
show up at a tournament somewhere in the country almost every weekend. Ivanov
toured the country with an unlimited Greyhound Bus pass.

Bill Church is still around and the company is still in business. Bill Church
made a cash donation to the US Senior Open Championship held earlier this year.

The organizers of San Antonio 1972 put together a great collection of some of
the world's leading grandmasters (back then when the grandmaster title meant
something) and combined them with the most promising young players that North
America had to offer.

Four of the top ten rated players in the world participated, including
Petrosian, ranked number 3, Portisch, ranked number 6, Karpov ranked number 7
and Larsen, ranked number 10. The main ones in the top ten who did not play
were, of course, Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, who had just completed their
epic chess match for the World Championship two months earlier.

In addition, every player who came from outside North America was either a
former or a future World Chess Champion or had participated or would
participate in a candidates tournament of the top eight players in the world to
determine the challenger for the next world championship. Petrosian was a former
world champion. Karpov was a future world champion. Keres, Larsen and Gligoric
had all played in the Candidate's Tournaments. Mecking, Portisch, and Hort were
to play in future candidates matches.

Tigran Petrosian was World Champion from 1966 to 1969. Karpov was to become
World Champion from 1974 to 1984.

Keres had been the number two or number three player in the world (if not number
one) since 1938, although he had fallen down recently.

Combined with this was Walter Browne who was to win the US Championship eight
times, Julio Kaplan, who had been World Junior Champion and the exciting Duncan
Suttles who had invented his own openings which had become known as the Suttles
Systems.

I knew almost all of the players in the tournament. For example, I had traveled
around the country with Duncan Suttles in 1964 sharing rooms with him while
playing in chess tournaments, especially during the 1964 US Open in Boston. I
had sort of attached myself to him as I recognized early his great talent for
chess and his unusual and creative playing style. Unfortunately, although I had
often analyzed chess with him, I had never mastered his Suttles System and every
time I had tried to play it, I lost.

I also knew the one player nobody else knew, Mario Campos Lopez. I had spent one
college semester at the University of Mexico in Mexico City in the Fall of 1965.
Mario Campos Lopez was already regarded as the best player in Mexico. I played
him many five minute games. I did not win many of the games, although I am sure
I won at least one.

Mario Campos Lopez had been invited to play in recognition of the fact that the
tournament was being held in Texas near to Mexico. Similarly, Ken Smith was
invited for being the best player in Texas. I must say that Mario Campos Lopez
did a lot better in this tournament than anybody but me expected him to. He
later won the Championship of Mexico

I must add here that some of the players were later to become associated with
tragedies. Donald Byrne died in 1976 at the age of 45. The illness that caused
his death was never conclusively diagnosed but is believed to have been
possibly a form of lupus. Donald Byrne was the nicest man I ever knew who
played chess and his early death was a great loss.

Paul Keres also died in 1976 at the age of 59 and Tigran Petrosian died in 1984
at only 55. The poor quality of the health care system in the Soviet Union may
have contributed to their early deaths.

Henrique Mecking went on to win two Interzonal tournaments and was regarded as
one of the strongest players in the world. However, he then became ill and
dropped out of chess although he has come back and played some recently.

The great success of this tournament was Duncan Suttles, who earned the
grandmaster title (back when the grandmaster title meant something) in this
event by beating Evans, Kaplan, Campos, Saidy and Smith. As I had traveled with
Suttles a lot, I knew a lot about the way he played. For example, he often said
that the strongest place for the black king knight was at king's bishop two.
His Suttles System for black often involved playing an early f6, followed by
Nh6 and Nf7.

This really threw off his opponents, who were used to facing traditional style
moves. Suttles played his strange moves based on great strategic concepts he
had developed. As a result, Suttles just mopped up anybody rated less than
2300. Lower rated players faced a quick death when meeting Suttles.

His problem was that the higher rated players could see through his tactics.
Anybody rated over 2400 usually beat him. He got into the 1965-1966 US
Championship and was almost completely wiped out as he finished last with 2.5
out of 11.

However, eventually he perfected his Suttles' Systems and started beating
grandmasters with it. In San Antonio 1972 he demonstrated that he could hold
his own against the higher rated grandmasters while still wiping out the
relatively lower rated. This got him the Grandmaster title.

What makes this book especially great is not merely was it a great tournament
with great players, but that the players annotated some of their own games. In
this day and age, there are millions of games in the chess databases, but
annotated games are increasingly hard to find.

This book has games annotated by Karpov, Larsen, Hort, Suttles, Mecking, Donald
Byrne, Gligoric, Keres, Saidy, Portisch, Kaplan, Evans and Smith. Two games
were annotated by both Larsen and Petrosian. In addition, many of the games
were annotated by International Master David Levy.

This book also marks the beginning of a great series of books: the RHM Series.
San Antonio 1972 was the first of many high quality chess books published by
RHM.

This RHM Series of high quality chess books was the brain child of Sidney Fried
(born 22 June 1919 ? died 1 June 1991). Sidney Fried was not a strong player
but was an aficionado or big fan of chess.

Sidney Fried had a lot of money. He had made his fortune in common stock
purchase warrants. Then, he made more money writing books and two newsletters
about it. His stock market books are still available today, including such
works as "Investment and Speculation with Warrants - Options & Convertibles"
and "Fortune building in the 70's with common stock warrants and low-price
stocks" by Sidney Fried.

Fried had a number of unusual habits, one of which was that he owned nothing. He
put everything he owned into his corporations, R H M Press, a Division of RHM
Associates of Delaware, Inc.

Fried was a member of the Libertarian Party. Since Fried had no assets, this
enabled him to get away with not paying any taxes. However, upon his death it
was discovered that he had left no will and therefore nothing, including his
New York townhouse, his personal home on Long Island, his yacht and his
California estate that were owned by his corporations could be inherited.

This also affected the publication of this book. It appears that all of his RHM
books were "Work Made for Hire" books, in which he paid the authors in cash
rather than signing standard royalty agreements. This certainly simplified
matters. It enabled his books to have numerous authors, translators and
editors, and a chief editor, Burt Hochberg (1933-2006). Hochberg wrote,
"grandmasters were very well paid to write them." Imagine the difficulties of
dividing royalty payments among the many  contributors and the even bigger
problems of trying to negotiate royalty deals with different people. (For
example, "I demand to be paid as much as Petrosian!!!")

Eventually, Sidney Fried lost a lot of money the same way he had made it,
gambling on stock market purchase options and warrants. It is not clear whether
he died broke or nearly broke, but in any case he left behind a great series of
chess books that we can still read today and remember him by.

This book was originally published in Descriptive Chess Notation. Since that
time, Descriptive has become almost obsolete. For that reason, all 120 games in
this book have been converted into modern Algebraic Notation and are included in
an appendix in the back of the book.

The games in the back are grouped and sorted alphabetically according to the
player of the white pieces. Thus, all games in which Browne played White are
first, followed by the games by Byrne, Campos-Lopez, Evans, Gligoric, Hort,
Kaplan, Karpov, Keres, Larsen, Mecking, Petrosian, Portisch, Saidy and Smith in
that order.

					Sam Sloan
					October 11, 2009

ISBN  4-87187-814-7
978-4-87187-814-2

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/4871878147
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From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:43:47 -0600
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Subject: [Chess_Library] San Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried Chicken, Inc. First
International Chess Tournament
To: Chess_Library@ yahoogroups. com

San Antonio 1972 was either the strongest chess tournament ever played in the
history of the United States or, if not the very strongest, then second only to
New York 1924.

The tournament was organized by Bill Church, who had a great deal of money at
that time. He had expanded a small fried-chicken chain of only four outlets
that he had inherited from his father into a giant operation with more than 400
restaurants.

He also established what are now called "Grand Prix Points" where grandmasters
can tour the country playing in small tournaments and win big prizes awarded to
those who collect the most points. These were known as "Chicken Points" and the
"King of the Chicken Circuit" became Igor Ivanov, who could be counted on to
show up at a tournament somewhere in the country almost every weekend. Ivanov
toured the country with an unlimited Greyhound Bus pass.

Bill Church is still around and the company is still in business. Bill Church
made a cash donation to the US Senior Open Championship held earlier this year.

The organizers of San Antonio 1972 put together a great collection of some of
the world's leading grandmasters (back then when the grandmaster title meant
something) and combined them with the most promising young players that North
America had to offer.

Four of the top ten rated players in the world participated, including
Petrosian, ranked number 3, Portisch, ranked number 6, Karpov ranked number 7
and Larsen, ranked number 10. The main ones in the top ten who did not play
were, of course, Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, who had just completed their
epic chess match for the World Championship two months earlier.

In addition, every player who came from outside North America was either a
former or a future World Chess Champion or had participated or would
participate in a candidates tournament of the top eight players in the world to
determine the challenger for the next world championship. Petrosian was a former
world champion. Karpov was a future world champion. Keres, Larsen and Gligoric
had all played in the Candidate's Tournaments. Mecking, Portisch, and Hort were
to play in future candidates matches.

Tigran Petrosian was World Champion from 1966 to 1969. Karpov was to become
World Champion from 1974 to 1984.

Keres had been the number two or number three player in the world (if not number
one) since 1938, although he had fallen down recently.

Combined with this was Walter Browne who was to win the US Championship eight
times, Julio Kaplan, who had been World Junior Champion and the exciting Duncan
Suttles who had invented his own openings which had become known as the Suttles
Systems.

I knew almost all of the players in the tournament. For example, I had traveled
around the country with Duncan Suttles in 1964 sharing rooms with him while
playing in chess tournaments, especially during the 1964 US Open in Boston. I
had sort of attached myself to him as I recognized early his great talent for
chess and his unusual and creative playing style. Unfortunately, although I had
often analyzed chess with him, I had never mastered his Suttles System and every
time I had tried to play it, I lost.

I also knew the one player nobody else knew, Mario Campos Lopez. I had spent one
college semester at the University of Mexico in Mexico City in the Fall of 1965.
Mario Campos Lopez was already regarded as the best player in Mexico. I played
him many five minute games. I did not win many of the games, although I am sure
I won at least one.

Mario Campos Lopez had been invited to play in recognition of the fact that the
tournament was being held in Texas near to Mexico. Similarly, Ken Smith was
invited for being the best player in Texas. I must say that Mario Campos Lopez
did a lot better in this tournament than anybody but me expected him to. He
later won the Championship of Mexico

I must add here that some of the players were later to become associated with
tragedies. Donald Byrne died in 1976 at the age of 45. The illness that caused
his death was never conclusively diagnosed but is believed to have been
possibly a form of lupus. Donald Byrne was the nicest man I ever knew who
played chess and his early death was a great loss.

Paul Keres also died in 1976 at the age of 59 and Tigran Petrosian died in 1984
at only 55. The poor quality of the health care system in the Soviet Union may
have contributed to their early deaths.

Henrique Mecking went on to win two Interzonal tournaments and was regarded as
one of the strongest players in the world. However, he then became ill and
dropped out of chess although he has come back and played some recently.

The great success of this tournament was Duncan Suttles, who earned the
grandmaster title (back when the grandmaster title meant something) in this
event by beating Evans, Kaplan, Campos, Saidy and Smith. As I had traveled with
Suttles a lot, I knew a lot about the way he played. For example, he often said
that the strongest place for the black king knight was at king's bishop two..
His Suttles System for black often involved playing an early f6, followed by
Nh6 and Nf7.

This really threw off his opponents, who were used to facing traditional style
moves. Suttles played his strange moves based on great strategic concepts he
had developed. As a result, Suttles just mopped up anybody rated less than
2300. Lower rated players faced a quick death when meeting Suttles.

His problem was that the higher rated players could see through his tactics.
Anybody rated over 2400 usually beat him. He got into the 1965-1966 US
Championship and was almost completely wiped out as he finished last with 2.5
out of 11.

However, eventually he perfected his Suttles' Systems and started beating
grandmasters with it. In San Antonio 1972 he demonstrated that he could hold
his own against the higher rated grandmasters while still wiping out the
relatively lower rated. This got him the Grandmaster title.

What makes this book especially great is not merely was it a great tournament
with great players, but that the players annotated some of their own games. In
this day and age, there are millions of games in the chess databases, but
annotated games are increasingly hard to find.

This book has games annotated by Karpov, Larsen, Hort, Suttles, Mecking, Donald
Byrne, Gligoric, Keres, Saidy, Portisch, Kaplan, Evans and Smith. Two games
were annotated by both Larsen and Petrosian. In addition, many of the games
were annotated by International Master David Levy.

This book also marks the beginning of a great series of books: the RHM Series.
San Antonio 1972 was the first of many high quality chess books published by
RHM.

This RHM Series of high quality chess books was the brain child of Sidney Fried
(born 22 June 1919 ??? died 1 June 1991). Sidney Fried was not a strong player
but was an aficionado or big fan of chess.

Sidney Fried had a lot of money. He had made his fortune in common stock
purchase warrants. Then, he made more money writing books and two newsletters
about it. His stock market books are still available today, including such
works as "Investment and Speculation with Warrants - Options & Convertibles"
and "Fortune building in the 70's with common stock warrants and low-price
stocks" by Sidney Fried.

Fried had a number of unusual habits, one of which was that he owned nothing. He
put everything he owned into his corporations, R H M Press, a Division of RHM
Associates of Delaware, Inc.

Fried was a member of the Libertarian Party. Since Fried had no assets, this
enabled him to get away with not paying any taxes. However, upon his death it
was discovered that he had left no will and therefore nothing, including his
New York townhouse, his personal home on Long Island, his yacht and his
California estate that were owned by his corporations could be inherited..

This also affected the publication of this book. It appears that all of his RHM
books were "Work Made for Hire" books, in which he paid the authors in cash
rather than signing standard royalty agreements. This certainly simplified
matters. It enabled his books to have numerous authors, translators and
editors, and a chief editor, Burt Hochberg (1933-2006). Hochberg wrote,
"grandmasters were very well paid to write them." Imagine the difficulties of
dividing royalty payments among the many  contributors and the even bigger
problems of trying to negotiate royalty deals with different people. (For
example, "I demand to be paid as much as Petrosian!!! ")

Eventually, Sidney Fried lost a lot of money the same way he had made it,
gambling on stock market purchase options and warrants. It is not clear whether
he died broke or nearly broke, but in any case he left behind a great series of
chess books that we can still read today and remember him by.

This book was originally published in Descriptive Chess Notation. Since that
time, Descriptive has become almost obsolete. For that reason, all 120 games in
this book have been converted into modern Algebraic Notation and are included in
an appendix in the back of the book.

The games in the back are grouped and sorted alphabetically according to the
player of the white pieces. Thus, all games in which Browne played White are
first, followed by the games by Byrne, Campos-Lopez, Evans, Gligoric, Hort,
Kaplan, Karpov, Keres, Larsen, Mecking, Petrosian, Portisch, Saidy and Smith in
that order.

Sam Sloan
October 11, 2009

ISBN  4-87187-814- 7
978-4-87187- 814-2

http://www.amazon. com/exec/ obidos/ASIN/ 4871878147
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From bigbear12 at hotmail.com  Sun Oct 11 12:11:23 2009
From: bigbear12 at hotmail.com (Joel Johnson)
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:11:23 -0700
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] San Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried Chicken,
 Inc. First International Chess Tournament
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Hi,

 

Bill Church lives just North of Phoenix and I played him in the 1988 US Open in Boston.  He was rated around 1900 then.

 

Thanks, Joel
 
> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:58:09 -0600
> From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com
> To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com; brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com
> Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] San Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried Chicken, Inc. First International Chess Tournament
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from samhsloan <samhsloan at gmail.com> -----
> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:07:03 -0000
> From: samhsloan <samhsloan at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Chess_Library at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Chess_Library] San Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried Chicken, Inc. First
> International Chess Tournament
> To: Chess_Library at yahoogroups.com
> 
> San Antonio 1972 was either the strongest chess tournament ever played in the
> history of the United States or, if not the very strongest, then second only to
> New York 1924.
> 
> The tournament was organized by Bill Church, who had a great deal of money at
> that time. He had expanded a small fried-chicken chain of only four outlets
> that he had inherited from his father into a giant operation with more than 400
> restaurants.
> 
> He also established what are now called "Grand Prix Points" where grandmasters
> can tour the country playing in small tournaments and win big prizes awarded to
> those who collect the most points. These were known as "Chicken Points" and the
> "King of the Chicken Circuit" became Igor Ivanov, who could be counted on to
> show up at a tournament somewhere in the country almost every weekend. Ivanov
> toured the country with an unlimited Greyhound Bus pass.
> 
> Bill Church is still around and the company is still in business. Bill Church
> made a cash donation to the US Senior Open Championship held earlier this year.
> 
> The organizers of San Antonio 1972 put together a great collection of some of
> the world's leading grandmasters (back then when the grandmaster title meant
> something) and combined them with the most promising young players that North
> America had to offer.
> 
> Four of the top ten rated players in the world participated, including
> Petrosian, ranked number 3, Portisch, ranked number 6, Karpov ranked number 7
> and Larsen, ranked number 10. The main ones in the top ten who did not play
> were, of course, Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, who had just completed their
> epic chess match for the World Championship two months earlier.
> 
> In addition, every player who came from outside North America was either a
> former or a future World Chess Champion or had participated or would
> participate in a candidates tournament of the top eight players in the world to
> determine the challenger for the next world championship. Petrosian was a former
> world champion. Karpov was a future world champion. Keres, Larsen and Gligoric
> had all played in the Candidate's Tournaments. Mecking, Portisch, and Hort were
> to play in future candidates matches.
> 
> Tigran Petrosian was World Champion from 1966 to 1969. Karpov was to become
> World Champion from 1974 to 1984.
> 
> Keres had been the number two or number three player in the world (if not number
> one) since 1938, although he had fallen down recently.
> 
> Combined with this was Walter Browne who was to win the US Championship eight
> times, Julio Kaplan, who had been World Junior Champion and the exciting Duncan
> Suttles who had invented his own openings which had become known as the Suttles
> Systems.
> 
> I knew almost all of the players in the tournament. For example, I had traveled
> around the country with Duncan Suttles in 1964 sharing rooms with him while
> playing in chess tournaments, especially during the 1964 US Open in Boston. I
> had sort of attached myself to him as I recognized early his great talent for
> chess and his unusual and creative playing style. Unfortunately, although I had
> often analyzed chess with him, I had never mastered his Suttles System and every
> time I had tried to play it, I lost.
> 
> I also knew the one player nobody else knew, Mario Campos Lopez. I had spent one
> college semester at the University of Mexico in Mexico City in the Fall of 1965.
> Mario Campos Lopez was already regarded as the best player in Mexico. I played
> him many five minute games. I did not win many of the games, although I am sure
> I won at least one.
> 
> Mario Campos Lopez had been invited to play in recognition of the fact that the
> tournament was being held in Texas near to Mexico. Similarly, Ken Smith was
> invited for being the best player in Texas. I must say that Mario Campos Lopez
> did a lot better in this tournament than anybody but me expected him to. He
> later won the Championship of Mexico
> 
> I must add here that some of the players were later to become associated with
> tragedies. Donald Byrne died in 1976 at the age of 45. The illness that caused
> his death was never conclusively diagnosed but is believed to have been
> possibly a form of lupus. Donald Byrne was the nicest man I ever knew who
> played chess and his early death was a great loss.
> 
> Paul Keres also died in 1976 at the age of 59 and Tigran Petrosian died in 1984
> at only 55. The poor quality of the health care system in the Soviet Union may
> have contributed to their early deaths.
> 
> Henrique Mecking went on to win two Interzonal tournaments and was regarded as
> one of the strongest players in the world. However, he then became ill and
> dropped out of chess although he has come back and played some recently.
> 
> The great success of this tournament was Duncan Suttles, who earned the
> grandmaster title (back when the grandmaster title meant something) in this
> event by beating Evans, Kaplan, Campos, Saidy and Smith. As I had traveled with
> Suttles a lot, I knew a lot about the way he played. For example, he often said
> that the strongest place for the black king knight was at king's bishop two.
> His Suttles System for black often involved playing an early f6, followed by
> Nh6 and Nf7.
> 
> This really threw off his opponents, who were used to facing traditional style
> moves. Suttles played his strange moves based on great strategic concepts he
> had developed. As a result, Suttles just mopped up anybody rated less than
> 2300. Lower rated players faced a quick death when meeting Suttles.
> 
> His problem was that the higher rated players could see through his tactics.
> Anybody rated over 2400 usually beat him. He got into the 1965-1966 US
> Championship and was almost completely wiped out as he finished last with 2.5
> out of 11.
> 
> However, eventually he perfected his Suttles' Systems and started beating
> grandmasters with it. In San Antonio 1972 he demonstrated that he could hold
> his own against the higher rated grandmasters while still wiping out the
> relatively lower rated. This got him the Grandmaster title.
> 
> What makes this book especially great is not merely was it a great tournament
> with great players, but that the players annotated some of their own games. In
> this day and age, there are millions of games in the chess databases, but
> annotated games are increasingly hard to find.
> 
> This book has games annotated by Karpov, Larsen, Hort, Suttles, Mecking, Donald
> Byrne, Gligoric, Keres, Saidy, Portisch, Kaplan, Evans and Smith. Two games
> were annotated by both Larsen and Petrosian. In addition, many of the games
> were annotated by International Master David Levy.
> 
> This book also marks the beginning of a great series of books: the RHM Series.
> San Antonio 1972 was the first of many high quality chess books published by
> RHM.
> 
> This RHM Series of high quality chess books was the brain child of Sidney Fried
> (born 22 June 1919 ? died 1 June 1991). Sidney Fried was not a strong player
> but was an aficionado or big fan of chess.
> 
> Sidney Fried had a lot of money. He had made his fortune in common stock
> purchase warrants. Then, he made more money writing books and two newsletters
> about it. His stock market books are still available today, including such
> works as "Investment and Speculation with Warrants - Options & Convertibles"
> and "Fortune building in the 70's with common stock warrants and low-price
> stocks" by Sidney Fried.
> 
> Fried had a number of unusual habits, one of which was that he owned nothing. He
> put everything he owned into his corporations, R H M Press, a Division of RHM
> Associates of Delaware, Inc.
> 
> Fried was a member of the Libertarian Party. Since Fried had no assets, this
> enabled him to get away with not paying any taxes. However, upon his death it
> was discovered that he had left no will and therefore nothing, including his
> New York townhouse, his personal home on Long Island, his yacht and his
> California estate that were owned by his corporations could be inherited.
> 
> This also affected the publication of this book. It appears that all of his RHM
> books were "Work Made for Hire" books, in which he paid the authors in cash
> rather than signing standard royalty agreements. This certainly simplified
> matters. It enabled his books to have numerous authors, translators and
> editors, and a chief editor, Burt Hochberg (1933-2006). Hochberg wrote,
> "grandmasters were very well paid to write them." Imagine the difficulties of
> dividing royalty payments among the many contributors and the even bigger
> problems of trying to negotiate royalty deals with different people. (For
> example, "I demand to be paid as much as Petrosian!!!")
> 
> Eventually, Sidney Fried lost a lot of money the same way he had made it,
> gambling on stock market purchase options and warrants. It is not clear whether
> he died broke or nearly broke, but in any case he left behind a great series of
> chess books that we can still read today and remember him by.
> 
> This book was originally published in Descriptive Chess Notation. Since that
> time, Descriptive has become almost obsolete. For that reason, all 120 games in
> this book have been converted into modern Algebraic Notation and are included in
> an appendix in the back of the book.
> 
> The games in the back are grouped and sorted alphabetically according to the
> player of the white pieces. Thus, all games in which Browne played White are
> first, followed by the games by Byrne, Campos-Lopez, Evans, Gligoric, Hort,
> Kaplan, Karpov, Keres, Larsen, Mecking, Petrosian, Portisch, Saidy and Smith in
> that order.
> 
> Sam Sloan
> October 11, 2009
> 
> ISBN 4-87187-814-7
> 978-4-87187-814-2
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/4871878147
> http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?box=9784871878142&pos=-1&EAN=9784871878142
> 
 		 	   		  
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From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:27:36 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Update on Dr. Mikhail Ponomarev's recovery
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    Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:31:22 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Mikhail Ponomarev <ponomarev at yahoo.com>
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 Subject: Update on my dad's recovery (can you post on your e-mail?)
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

Update on my father Mikhail Ponomarev

After spending an entire month in intensive care with many ups and downs, my
father recovered enough to be moved to a health and rehabilitation center where
he began a course of intensive physical, occupational and speech therapy to
hopefully get him back to a healthy state. He worked very hard for more than a
month and is now projected to discharge back home at the end of October.
Considering his numerous serious and even life-threatening injuries, it is a
miracle he is doing so well at his age. At this stage, all of his fractures
have healed enough for him to walk with the aid of a walker and get up without
assistance. I have been playing chess with him regularly and can say that he is
returning to his master form. I am hoping that he will play in a tournament
before the year is out.

All of his recovery is a testament to the power of his will and faith. It is
also a testament to the power of prayer and well-wishing that came from his
family, friends and even strangers. The chess community had a big impact to
making my father feel appreciated and loved. Get well wishes, letters,
contributions and visitations from old chess friends and new lifted his spirits
and gave him the extra strength needed to make such an astonishing recovery.
Despite all of his successes in recovery, there is still a lot of work ahead.

I would like to thank all of the people who directly contributed to my
father???s spiritual recovery. A heartfelt thank you goes out to: Ian
MacLellan, Richard Buchanan, Brian Wall, Robert Rountree, Hans Morrow, Roderick
and Thao Santiago. Your contributions and visitations meant a lot to my father
and my entire family. We are all greatly indebted to you for your kindness and
generosity.

My father is grateful for every letter he receives. He expressed to me that he
would be happy to start correspondence chess games with his friends and
acquaintances in the chess community. Letters can be sent to: Mikhail Ponomarev
Recovery Fund, 11977 Claude Ct., Northglenn, CO 80233.

Philipp Ponomarev

From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Mon Oct 12 05:31:13 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:31:13 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Bobby Fischer at San Antonio,
	1972: Church's Fried Chicken,
	Inc. First International Chess Tournament
Message-ID: <1255347073.4ad31381e2130@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from John Woodbury <johnchinawood at yahoo.com.cn> -----
    Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:33:58 +0800 (CST)
    From: John Woodbury <johnchinawood at yahoo.com.cn>
Reply-To: Chess_Library at yahoogroups.com
 Subject: RE: [Chess_Library] San Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried Chicken, Inc.
First International Chess Tournament
      To: Chess_Library at yahoogroups.com

John he did come and watch, I sat next to him.? He had a multi-page mini board
and played with each of the games.? I did not know who he was at all I was only
22 and recovering from wounds sustained in Nam at Fort Sam.? John

--- , John Upham <john.upham at zen.co.uk>

: John Upham <john.upham at zen.co.uk>
: RE: [Chess_Library] San Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried Chicken, Inc. First
International Chess Tournament
: Chess_Library at yahoogroups.com


                  Sam,



Many thanks for this.



Can you shed any light on the reasons that Fischer did not play?



I'm told that he attended the tournament as a spectator.



John

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From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:34:45 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Ray Robson,
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 Subject: [chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Ray Robson, Grandmaster!
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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
Ray Robson, Grandmaster!
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1255317444.shtml


   Grandmaster-elect, technically, but that doesn't matter. He has now
   earned the title, winning the Panamerican Junior Championship with a
   round to go. He started 7/7 and drew in round 8 to clinch. Although it
   was a comparatively weak event with only one GM (whom Robson
   defeated), it's apparently the case that winning the tournament
   confers an automatic GM on the victor.
   Robson is already well over 2500, so with his third and final norm in
   the bag the title is his - he just has to pay FIDE its administrative
   bribe and have the USCF fill out the paperwork. Not only is he a
   grandmaster, he's the youngest grandmaster in U.S. history. The
   previous record-holder was Fabiano Caruana (send him back, Italy!),
   who achieved the title at the age of 14 years, 11 months and 20 days;
   Robson beat him by four days. That's a little over three months faster
   than Hikaru Nakamura did it, and six months and change faster than
   Bobby Fischer's old record. Look out, world! (Except for Carlsen,
   maybe.)
   Source: [1]Susan Polgar's blog.

References

   1. http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Mon Oct 12 14:43:36 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:43:36 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Steve Sabean on San Antonio,
	1972: Church's Fried Chicken,
	Inc. First International Chess Tournament [1 Attachment]
Message-ID: <1255380216.4ad394f8b2eeb@www.taom.com>

There was a Curch's on Colorado Blvd in Denver, CO. Jeff Maguire and I beat
Larry Christiansen in one of his Church's Chicken 10 board blindfold simuls
in Denver. I lived in Texas much later, 1983-186.

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

----- Forwarded message from Steve Sabean <swsabean at yahoo.com> -----
    Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:07:02 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Steve Sabean <swsabean at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Steve Sabean <swsabean at yahoo.com>
 Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] San Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried Chicken, Inc.
First International Chess Tournament [1 Attachment]
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>

I remember Church's.?? I lived in San Antonio, but it was just after the
tournament.?? I lived there from 1975 until 1978, if memory serves.

~S




________________________________
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: Sun, October 11, 2009 10:58:09 AM
Subject: [BrianWallChess] San Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried Chicken, Inc. First
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[Attachment(s) from Brian Wall included below]




----- Forwarded message from samhsloan <samhsloan at gmail. com> -----
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:07:03 -0000
From: samhsloan <samhsloan at gmail. com>
Reply-To: Chess_Library@ yahoogroups. com
Subject: [Chess_Library] San Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried Chicken, Inc. First
International Chess Tournament
To: Chess_Library@ yahoogroups. com

San Antonio 1972 was either the strongest chess tournament ever played in the
history of the United States or, if not the very strongest, then second only to
New York 1924.

The tournament was organized by Bill Church, who had a great deal of money at
that time. He had expanded a small fried-chicken chain of only four outlets
that he had inherited from his father into a giant operation with more than 400
restaurants.

He also established what are now called "Grand Prix Points" where grandmasters
can tour the country playing in small tournaments and win big prizes awarded to
those who collect the most points. These were known as "Chicken Points" and the
"King of the Chicken Circuit" became Igor Ivanov, who could be counted on to
show up at a tournament somewhere in the country almost every weekend. Ivanov
toured the country with an unlimited Greyhound Bus pass.

Bill Church is still around and the company is still in business. Bill Church
made a cash donation to the US Senior Open Championship held earlier this year.

The organizers of San Antonio 1972 put together a great collection of some of
the world's leading grandmasters (back then when the grandmaster title meant
something) and combined them with the most promising young players that North
America had to offer.

Four of the top ten rated players in the world participated, including
Petrosian, ranked number 3, Portisch, ranked number 6, Karpov ranked number 7
and Larsen, ranked number 10. The main ones in the top ten who did not play
were, of course, Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, who had just completed their
epic chess match for the World Championship two months earlier.

In addition, every player who came from outside North America was either a
former or a future World Chess Champion or had participated or would
participate in a candidates tournament of the top eight players in the world to
determine the challenger for the next world championship. Petrosian was a former
world champion. Karpov was a future world champion. Keres, Larsen and Gligoric
had all played in the Candidate's Tournaments. Mecking, Portisch, and Hort were
to play in future candidates matches.

Tigran Petrosian was World Champion from 1966 to 1969. Karpov was to become
World Champion from 1974 to 1984.

Keres had been the number two or number three player in the world (if not number
one) since 1938, although he had fallen down recently.

Combined with this was Walter Browne who was to win the US Championship eight
times, Julio Kaplan, who had been World Junior Champion and the exciting Duncan
Suttles who had invented his own openings which had become known as the Suttles
Systems.

I knew almost all of the players in the tournament. For example, I had traveled
around the country with Duncan Suttles in 1964 sharing rooms with him while
playing in chess tournaments, especially during the 1964 US Open in Boston. I
had sort of attached myself to him as I recognized early his great talent for
chess and his unusual and creative playing style. Unfortunately, although I had
often analyzed chess with him, I had never mastered his Suttles System and every
time I had tried to play it, I lost.

I also knew the one player nobody else knew, Mario Campos Lopez. I had spent one
college semester at the University of Mexico in Mexico City in the Fall of 1965.
Mario Campos Lopez was already regarded as the best player in Mexico. I played
him many five minute games. I did not win many of the games, although I am sure
I won at least one.

Mario Campos Lopez had been invited to play in recognition of the fact that the
tournament was being held in Texas near to Mexico. Similarly, Ken Smith was
invited for being the best player in Texas. I must say that Mario Campos Lopez
did a lot better in this tournament than anybody but me expected him to. He
later won the Championship of Mexico

I must add here that some of the players were later to become associated with
tragedies. Donald Byrne died in 1976 at the age of 45. The illness that caused
his death was never conclusively diagnosed but is believed to have been
possibly a form of lupus. Donald Byrne was the nicest man I ever knew who
played chess and his early death was a great loss.

Paul Keres also died in 1976 at the age of 59 and Tigran Petrosian died in 1984
at only 55. The poor quality of the health care system in the Soviet Union may
have contributed to their early deaths.

Henrique Mecking went on to win two Interzonal tournaments and was regarded as
one of the strongest players in the world. However, he then became ill and
dropped out of chess although he has come back and played some recently.

The great success of this tournament was Duncan Suttles, who earned the
grandmaster title (back when the grandmaster title meant something) in this
event by beating Evans, Kaplan, Campos, Saidy and Smith. As I had traveled with
Suttles a lot, I knew a lot about the way he played. For example, he often said
that the strongest place for the black king knight was at king's bishop two.
His Suttles System for black often involved playing an early f6, followed by
Nh6 and Nf7.

This really threw off his opponents, who were used to facing traditional style
moves. Suttles played his strange moves based on great strategic concepts he
had developed. As a result, Suttles just mopped up anybody rated less than
2300. Lower rated players faced a quick death when meeting Suttles.

His problem was that the higher rated players could see through his tactics.
Anybody rated over 2400 usually beat him. He got into the 1965-1966 US
Championship and was almost completely wiped out as he finished last with 2.5
out of 11.

However, eventually he perfected his Suttles' Systems and started beating
grandmasters with it. In San Antonio 1972 he demonstrated that he could hold
his own against the higher rated grandmasters while still wiping out the
relatively lower rated. This got him the Grandmaster title.

What makes this book especially great is not merely was it a great tournament
with great players, but that the players annotated some of their own games. In
this day and age, there are millions of games in the chess databases, but
annotated games are increasingly hard to find.

This book has games annotated by Karpov, Larsen, Hort, Suttles, Mecking, Donald
Byrne, Gligoric, Keres, Saidy, Portisch, Kaplan, Evans and Smith. Two games
were annotated by both Larsen and Petrosian. In addition, many of the games
were annotated by International Master David Levy.

This book also marks the beginning of a great series of books: the RHM Series.
San Antonio 1972 was the first of many high quality chess books published by
RHM.

This RHM Series of high quality chess books was the brain child of Sidney Fried
(born 22 June 1919 ??? died 1 June 1991). Sidney Fried was not a strong player
but was an aficionado or big fan of chess.

Sidney Fried had a lot of money. He had made his fortune in common stock
purchase warrants. Then, he made more money writing books and two newsletters
about it. His stock market books are still available today, including such
works as "Investment and Speculation with Warrants - Options & Convertibles"
and "Fortune building in the 70's with common stock warrants and low-price
stocks" by Sidney Fried.

Fried had a number of unusual habits, one of which was that he owned nothing. He
put everything he owned into his corporations, R H M Press, a Division of RHM
Associates of Delaware, Inc.

Fried was a member of the Libertarian Party. Since Fried had no assets, this
enabled him to get away with not paying any taxes. However, upon his death it
was discovered that he had left no will and therefore nothing, including his
New York townhouse, his personal home on Long Island, his yacht and his
California estate that were owned by his corporations could be inherited.

This also affected the publication of this book. It appears that all of his RHM
books were "Work Made for Hire" books, in which he paid the authors in cash
rather than signing standard royalty agreements. This certainly simplified
matters. It enabled his books to have numerous authors, translators and
editors, and a chief editor, Burt Hochberg (1933-2006). Hochberg wrote,
"grandmasters were very well paid to write them." Imagine the difficulties of
dividing royalty payments among the many contributors and the even bigger
problems of trying to negotiate royalty deals with different people. (For
example, "I demand to be paid as much as Petrosian!!! ")

Eventually, Sidney Fried lost a lot of money the same way he had made it,
gambling on stock market purchase options and warrants. It is not clear whether
he died broke or nearly broke, but in any case he left behind a great series of
chess books that we can still read today and remember him by.

This book was originally published in Descriptive Chess Notation. Since that
time, Descriptive has become almost obsolete. For that reason, all 120 games in
this book have been converted into modern Algebraic Notation and are included in
an appendix in the back of the book.

The games in the back are grouped and sorted alphabetically according to the
player of the white pieces. Thus, all games in which Browne played White are
first, followed by the games by Byrne, Campos-Lopez, Evans, Gligoric, Hort,
Kaplan, Karpov, Keres, Larsen, Mecking, Petrosian, Portisch, Saidy and Smith in
that order.

Sam Sloan
October 11, 2009

ISBN 4-87187-814- 7
978-4-87187- 814-2

http://www.amazon. com/exec/ obidos/ASIN/ 4871878147
http://search. barnesandnoble. com/booksearch/ isbninquiry. asp?box=97848718
78142&pos= -1&EAN=978487187 8142

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From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:57:37 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Curt Carlsen on Steve Sabean on San Antonio,
	1972: Church's Fried Chicken,
	Inc. First International Chess Tournament [1 Attachment]
In-Reply-To: <48FBC46D53EB4066BF9D568B24FF405B@Curt>
References: <1255380216.4ad394f8b2eeb@www.taom.com>
	<48FBC46D53EB4066BF9D568B24FF405B@Curt>
Message-ID: <1255381057.4ad398417560a@www.taom.com>

My 1977 Colorado Open Co-Champion David Jellsion hasn't talked to me in 20
years. He lived with Debbie and I in Texas, found his own wife there, had a
daughter, got a divorce, gave up Chess. Dave was on the original Steve Dykstra
funeral email list ( about 10 people then, over 1,000 now ) that started all my
spammy emails but he immediately asked to be removed.

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


Quoting Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>:

 Any recent communication from Dave Jellison?  I heard he moved from NH to
 Texas not long ago, but that may be wrong.

   ----- Original Message -----
   From: Brian Wall
  To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com ; Brian Wall Chesslist
   Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 1:43 PM
   Subject: [BrianWallChess] Steve Sabean on San Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried
Chicken, Inc. First International Chess Tournament [1 Attachment]


    [Attachment(s) from Brian Wall included below]


   There was a Curch's on Colorado Blvd in Denver, CO. Jeff Maguire and I beat
  Larry Christiansen in one of his Church's Chicken 10 board blindfold simuls
   in Denver. I lived in Texas much later, 1983-186.

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

  ----- Forwarded message from Steve Sabean <swsabean at yahoo.com> -----
   Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:07:02 -0700 (PDT)
   From: Steve Sabean <swsabean at yahoo.com>
   Reply-To: Steve Sabean <swsabean at yahoo.com>
  Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] San Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried Chicken,
 Inc.
   First International Chess Tournament [1 Attachment]
   To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>

   I remember Church's.  I lived in San Antonio, but it was just after the
  tournament.  I lived there from 1975 until 1978, if memory serves.

   ~S

   ________________________________


From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Mon Oct 12 15:29:57 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:29:57 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Curt Carlsen on Steve Sabean on San Antonio,
	1972: Church's Fried Chicken,
	Inc. First International Chess Tournament [1 Attachment]
Message-ID: <1255382997.4ad39fd55fc54@www.taom.com>

At my age everything happened yesterday, 20 years ago or both.
Was that his wedding we attended? I remembered you laughed at
me when I got Debbie a drink. I barely remmeber Dave's wife,
young pretty thing that had impressed Dave by losing 50 pounds.
Hell, I've done that 5 times now.

Brian Wall
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----- Forwarded message from Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net> -----
    Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:15:38 -0700
    From: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
Reply-To: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
 Subject: Re: Curt Carlsen on Steve Sabean on San Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried
Chicken, Inc. First International Chess Tournament [1 Attachment]
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

It hasn't been 20 years since his wedding that we attended in NH in 1992!
Only 17.  I haven't talked to him since Dykstra's demise in 2001.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Wall" <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>
To: "Curt Carlson" <curt2309 at comcast.net>; <BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com>;
"Brian Wall Chesslist" <brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com>
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 1:57 PM
Subject: Curt Carlsen on Steve Sabean on San Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried
Chicken, Inc. First International Chess Tournament [1 Attachment]


 My 1977 Colorado Open Co-Champion David Jellsion hasn't talked to me in 20
 years. He lived with Debbie and I in Texas, found his own wife there, had
 a
 daughter, got a divorce, gave up Chess. Dave was on the original Steve
 Dykstra
funeral email list ( about 10 people then, over 1,000 now ) that started
 all my
 spammy emails but he immediately asked to be removed.
> Brian Wall
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------


Quoting Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>:

 Any recent communication from Dave Jellison?  I heard he moved from NH to
 Texas not long ago, but that may be wrong.

   ----- Original Message -----
  From: Brian Wall
  To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com ; Brian Wall Chesslist
   Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 1:43 PM
   Subject: [BrianWallChess] Steve Sabean on San Antonio, 1972: Church's
 Fried
 Chicken, Inc. First International Chess Tournament [1 Attachment]
>
    [Attachment(s) from Brian Wall included below]


   There was a Curch's on Colorado Blvd in Denver, CO. Jeff Maguire and I
 beat
 Larry Christiansen in one of his Church's Chicken 10 board blindfold
 simuls
   in Denver. I lived in Texas much later, 1983-186.

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

 ----- Forwarded message from Steve Sabean <swsabean at yahoo.com> -----
   Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:07:02 -0700 (PDT)
   From: Steve Sabean <swsabean at yahoo.com>
   Reply-To: Steve Sabean <swsabean at yahoo.com>
  Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] San Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried Chicken,
 Inc.
   First International Chess Tournament [1 Attachment]
  To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>

   I remember Church's.  I lived in San Antonio, but it was just after the
  tournament.  I lived there from 1975 until 1978, if memory serves.

   ~S

   ________________________________


From Kicklighter.Milton at epamail.epa.gov  Mon Oct 12 15:27:49 2009
From: Kicklighter.Milton at epamail.epa.gov (Kicklighter.Milton at epamail.epa.gov)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:27:49 -0400
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Curt Carlsen on Steve Sabean on San
 Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried Chicken,
 Inc. First International Chess Tournament [1 Attachment]
In-Reply-To: <1255381057.4ad398417560a@www.taom.com>
Message-ID: <OFE7F916A6.96F40520-ON8525764D.00741B25-8525764D.00759F47@epamail.epa.gov>

Hrm.  Nice informative post by Sam.

As an FYI, it looks like the Amazon and Barnes&Noble links don't work.
I Googled for the book, but only found references to the original.
Perhaps someone else has found a link or has some information on where
to get the updated version?

Thanks

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                                      Chicken,    Inc. First            
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My 1977 Colorado Open Co-Champion David Jellsion hasn't talked to me in
20
years. He lived with Debbie and I in Texas, found his own wife there,
had a
daughter, got a divorce, gave up Chess. Dave was on the original Steve
Dykstra
funeral email list ( about 10 people then, over 1,000 now ) that started
all my
spammy emails but he immediately asked to be removed.

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



Quoting Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>:

 Any recent communication from Dave Jellison?  I heard he moved from NH
to
 Texas not long ago, but that may be wrong.

   ----- Original Message -----
   From: Brian Wall
  To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com ; Brian Wall Chesslist
   Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 1:43 PM
   Subject: [BrianWallChess] Steve Sabean on San Antonio, 1972: Church's
Fried
Chicken, Inc. First International Chess Tournament [1 Attachment]


    [Attachment(s) from Brian Wall included below]


   There was a Curch's on Colorado Blvd in Denver, CO. Jeff Maguire and
I beat
  Larry Christiansen in one of his Church's Chicken 10 board blindfold
simuls
   in Denver. I lived in Texas much later, 1983-186.

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

  ----- Forwarded message from Steve Sabean <swsabean at yahoo.com> -----
   Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:07:02 -0700 (PDT)
   From: Steve Sabean <swsabean at yahoo.com>
   Reply-To: Steve Sabean <swsabean at yahoo.com>
  Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] San Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried
Chicken,
 Inc.
   First International Chess Tournament [1 Attachment]
   To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>

   I remember Church's.  I lived in San Antonio, but it was just after
the
  tournament.  I lived there from 1975 until 1978, if memory serves.

   ~S

   ________________________________

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Mon Oct 12 18:32:41 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:32:41 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] I won't back down
Message-ID: <1255393961.4ad3caa9c90ca@www.taom.com>


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P93cI_u1mng

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
I won't back down
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Statistics for burritoloco         On for:   31     Idle:    0
burritoloco is currently involved in a match against danielaus.

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Blitz           2076  [8]     3     0     1     4
5-minute        2073  [3]  2212  2076   290  4578   2299 (10-May-2009)
1-minute        2138  [8]     1     0     0     1
15-minute        882  [4]     0     6     0     6

 Groups : Canada
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.12"]
[Round "-"]
[White "burritoloco"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White checkmated"]
[WhiteElo "2073"]
[BlackElo "2176"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "19:07:02"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

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

LM Jack Young's Fishing Pole

5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 h5 7. h3

My favorite blitz position

7 ... Bc5

One piece attacked but -

Well I won't back down
No I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down


8. c3 Nce5 9. f4 c6

Two pieces attacked but -

No I'll stand my ground, won't be turned around
And I'll keep this world from draggin me down
gonna stand my ground
... and I won't back down


10. Ba4 d6!!


Chorus:
(I won't back down...)
Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
(and I won't back down...)
hey I will stand my ground
and I won't back down


11. fxe5 dxe5!! 12. Qf3 Be6!

Only  12 ... f6!!
is better,
abandoning my Fishing Pole Knight to his fate.


13. Bb3!  Qe7!!


Well I know what's right, I got just one life
in a world that keeps on pushin me around
but I'll stand my ground
...and I won't back down


14. Kh1

now  hg hg+  is awful

14 ... exd4!!

winning


15. cxd4!  Bxd4! 16. Bxe6 fxe6!!   17. Nc3!  O-O-O!!

By not backing down I have an extra pawn and the better position.

18. Qe2 Rdf8

It's not often the wrong Rook loses half the advantage -
My move isn't bad but 18 ...  Rhf8!!! is the big killer.
Then  hg  Qh4 is checkmate and R:f8 isn't check.
18 ... Qh4!!! is another dinosaur.
I never play these attacks right in blitz but I enjoy seeing what I do
wrong in complicated positions. I found out at the 2009 World Open that
even with oodles of time it's hard to pluck the best move out of pure chaos.
18 ... g5!!  is fun too, to prevent Bf4 and threaten ... Qe7-c7-h2 checkmate
like the game


19. Bd2 Qh4

Again not a bad move but the killers now are
19 ... Rf2!!!, ... Nf2+!!!, ... Qc7!!, ... Qc5!!, ... g5!!
and others.
To be honest it's disconcerting to continually miss so many good
moves but I keep trying. Rybka always makes me feel like an idiot.
I just go by instinct in blitz for the most part.

20.  Be1!  Qg5

Rybka ranking of winning moves -
20 ... Bf2, ... R:f1+, ... Qg5, ... Rf2, ... Qd8, ... Nf2+



21. Bd2 Qe5!! ( +7 )

Got one right.

22. Rac1 Qh2#


{White checkmated} 0-1
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.12"]
[Round "-"]
[White "burritoloco"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White checkmated"]
[WhiteElo "2073"]
[BlackElo "2176"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "19:07:02"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 h5 7. h3 Bc5 8.
c3 Nce5 9. f4 c6 10. Ba4 d6 11. fxe5 dxe5 12. Qf3 Be6 13. Bb3 Qe7 14. Kh1
exd4 15. cxd4 Bxd4 16. Bxe6 fxe6 17. Nc3 O-O-O 18. Qe2 Rdf8 19. Bd2 Qh4 20.
Be1 Qg5 21. Bd2 Qe5 22. Rac1 Qh2# {White checkmated} 0-1
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Mon Oct 12 20:01:13 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:01:13 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Bitterenders
Message-ID: <1255399273.4ad3df691a10d@www.taom.com>


There are now 7 Youtube vidoes marked
Fishing Pole Chess



Statistics for mutualslump         On for:   10     Idle:    0
mutualslump is currently examining game 140: continuation.

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Wild            1619  [6]     3     2     1     6
Loser's         1581  [6]     1     1     0     2
Bughouse        1367  [6]     3    10     0    13
Crazyhouse      1407  [6]     2    16     0    18
Bullet          2041  [4]    44    39    10    93   2041 (21-Sep-2009)
Blitz           2189       2473  3018   333  5824   2275 (23-Jun-2009)
Standard        1964  [6]    57    82     4   143   2000 (02-Jul-2006)
5-minute        1988      11353 11209  1357 23919   2186 (25-Sep-2009)
1-minute        2014       2319  2282   274  4875   2058 (30-Sep-2008)
15-minute       1944  [3]   120    83    10   213   2002 (02-Aug-2008)

 1: I'm going on a hunger strike until a 3 min pool is created. When will that
  happen?
 2: Protocol(H) tells you: Don't worry.  You'll have starved to death LONG
  before that happens. ;)
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.12"]
[Round "-"]
[White "mutualslump"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "1988"]
[BlackElo "2189"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "21:09:12"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

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

Fishing Pole

5. d4 exd4! 6. Nxd4 h5!!

You will soon see why this is my favorite blitz position


7. Nc3 Bc5! 8. Nxc6

White has played correctly,
he did everything he was supposed to

8 ... Qh4!!

Which is why he is so lost now.


9. h3 Qg3!!  10. Qxg4

99% of players resign here.
I love bitterenders.



10 ... hxg4!!  11. Ne2 Qh4!!  12. Ne5 gxh3!!  13. g3 Qxe4!!


Only the pointless B:d7+  or Nf3 slows  down
... h2 checkmate or  ... Qg2  checkmate


{White resigns}          0-1
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.12"]
[Round "-"]
[White "mutualslump"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "1988"]
[BlackElo "2189"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "21:09:12"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. d4 exd4
6. Nxd4 h5 7. Nc3 Bc5 8. Nxc6 Qh4 9. h3 Qg3 10. Qxg4 hxg4
11. Ne2 Qh4 12. Ne5 gxh3 13. g3 Qxe4


{White resigns}         0-1
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Comments on the Fishing Pole from Youtube videos.
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TroubledHands (3 months ago)  Isn't it called the&#65279; "Ruy Lopez"?
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WisdomMasterStar (5 months ago) These are really&#65279; situational plays
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ChessTeacherJoe (7 months ago)  When black plays 4..Ng4? WHite should begin to
laugh loudly. He should assume that his opponent is a total idiot and play 5.
Ne1!!. This move lets the queen attack the Knight and perhaps the plan of g3
followed by Ng2 and Nf4. This will cause black to lose on time because he won't
understand why&#65279; the hell you're making random and stupid Knight moves.
Really, rather than trying to understand chess, just make stupid moves and hope
your opponent is stupid.
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ArtThroughtheAges (1 month ago)  I can't stop thinking of (Simpson's) Mr. Burns
rubbing his hands and saying in that cruel, taunting way, "excellent!"
Great trap! Gotta practice it&#65279; a bit, though.
My first impression is, let the knight at f3 fall (returning material) but,
until I check it out, WOW!
You and JRobi have "untouchable free" material as far as I'm concerned!
5 stars and a fishingpole award for "shark" behavior!

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robhustle (7 months ago)  Brian Wall Chess Videos on YouTube? Hell yeah! I've
been down with the fishing pole since I lived in&#65279; Hawaii.
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TheW0rldEndsWithMe (1 month ago) wow, what a&#65279; trap
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djjohnson89 (1 week ago)  haha&#65279; i just used it. wow how fast it made me
win. :)
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xavier2nikos (2 weeks ago)  i love&#65279; this trap. as black this is
definitely my first weapon.
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spinthepen (1 month ago)  Fantastic!&#65279; Great trap!
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thechesswebsite (1 week ago)  that's awesome! your opponent was probably real
confused.&#65279;
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cataras1 (4 weeks ago)  Thank you very much for this interesting lecture. I
can&#65279; actually see this working on FICS or in general in online matches.
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chipdouglas42 (1 day ago) this trap is the balls! well done again&#65279; j
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thekoolestguyaaa (1 week ago)  damn that one is&#65279; good.
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GetMeThere1 (1 week ago)  very&#65279; cool !
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runevidmaker (2 weeks ago)  I managed to take out some people with this&#65279;
=]
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ucanplay2 (1 month ago)  Thanks, very good little trap, I&#65279; never came
across this one before.
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leach275 (1 month ago)  i need help as a ruy lopez how can i stop the trap after
the knight moves to&#65279; g4
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shayeeX (4 months ago)  Hey Jrobi, I won a Bullet game with this opening
yesterday! LOL...I just tried it out&#65279; and my opponent wasted time
thinking. 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!
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bucketbot (4 months ago)  he said right in the vid that&#65279; 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 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!
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shayeeX (4 months ago)  First of all, the proponent of this game is a
grandmaster, that level of chess is way higher than mine. Secondly, ive learned
from experience that one tends to encounter (more often than not )
correct&#65279; responses in tournament play. Tricks and traps will not stand
up to solid chess. But I'm just saying...LOL
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ImmigrationL (4 months ago)  I just ran this on Yahoo. Ownage!! But to often
people play the queens pawn to row 4. I&#65279; guess I got lucky!
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Mrius86 (4 months ago)  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&#65279; around and make it MY game, not his/hers. It 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.
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Jahanam9994 (4 months ago)  My God.
This is the most beautiful trap I have ever seen. This trap is the number one
reason why I love chess.
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adi11235 (4 months ago)  I'll be using this line with black&#65279; for a while
:)
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topshonuff (4 months ago)  Great video, thanks for the post.. Does this trap
lower the&#65279; Ruy Lopez opening ??
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Rappster16 (4 months ago)  great video, but i'm confused.
whys it called&#65279; fishing pole?
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jackkniphe (4 months ago)  because your&#65279; knight is a worm. you are
fishing for easy tactics.
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thestew56 (4 months ago)  Another awsome video!! I learn every time&#65279; I
watch one! Thanks!
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TyrantRaveAB (4 months ago)  wow, thats&#65279; really good!
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RagnarokLifeless (4 months ago)  After 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 on a standard settings, 10 minutes / 15 seconds gain each move. It gives you
plenty of time to think and it&#65279; still worked! I'm most likely going to
try and use this trap as much as possible~! That's Jrobi!
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dwelit (4 months ago) This is&#65279; a very interesting trap I tried it and it
worked in blitz.
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frank124c (4 months ago)  Great vid! All 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 at chess!
My suggestion 2 u is to do more vids&#65279; on some of the other Ruy traps.
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Noyabronok (3 months ago)  I am definitely going to try&#65279; this on fics
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Websterchess (3 months ago) Love this trap. Just played it at my local club.
beat the highest rated player in 8 moves.&#65279; he was shocked alright. love
the videos keep up the good work!
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turbohorse1976 (3 months ago)  Fantastic trap this&#65279; jrobi I keep getting
my backside kicked by the Ruy Lopez and this is a fantastic take on a strong
white opening.
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biglou8237 (3 months ago)  This is definitely&#65279; the most successful trap
to checkmate your opponent quickly. The knight is probably taken 50% of the
time and if its not white is still in ok position. White can use this trap as
well in the queens pawn opening. Unlike most traps this can be applied many
ways. I've checkmated with it as white on my 17th move once.
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turbohorse1976 (3 months ago)  Fantasic video Jrobi these are helping my game
massively&#65279; as i am a very weak black player and always get done by the
ruy lopez
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teddster214 (2 months ago)  Very&#65279; good video! i loved it.
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TheVergile (2 months ago)  wow...that was just one...no - it&#65279; was the
most beautiful trap i have ever seen.
I cant wait to try this out.

Thanks for sharing this and the effort to make this video - i loved it.

best regards
Mm
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DaScrews360 (2 months ago) I've been using this trap when&#65279; I'm playing
blitz a lot since I watched this video..
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JeremyNasmith (2 months ago)  Wow, great line! It looks like it could work even
if white plays fried liver, (Bc4 instead of Bc5), as long as they castle right
after. I suppose this trap is a great example of why not to castle&#65279;
prematurely!
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goodayS444 (2 months ago)  I played this for the first time against a strong
player. He defended it well, but there's no way to stop the check mate. A
maximum of 8 moves are needed after white falls for the trap at 6. hxg4??.

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bb5 Nf6
4. O-O Ng4
5. h3 h5
6. hxg4&#65279; hxg4
7. Nh2 Qh4
8. f3 Bc5+
9. d4 Nxd4
10. Qxd4 Bxd4+
11. Be3 Bxe3+
12. Rf2 Qxf2+
13. Kh1 Qg1#
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boroxc1 (2 months ago)  played this&#65279; tonight at my chess club and won!
great trap and great video!
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SirVictory (1 month ago) I love the Ruy Lopez.&#65279; This is very interesting.
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CampbellCrazie (1 month ago)  this trap is ingenious, and truly&#65279; works,
even against skilled players that can't resist taking the knight
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ArtThroughtheAges (1 month ago) Well, I absolutely will&#65279; never eat up any
"free" material from you, sir!
WOW!
What an excellent trap!
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ucanplay2 (1 month ago)  Thanks, very good little trap, I never came across this
one&#65279; before.
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Mon Oct 12 20:55:31 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:55:31 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] He tried hard
Message-ID: <1255402531.4ad3ec23e3036@www.taom.com>



Statistics for cadman         On for:    4     Idle:    0

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Wild            1645  [6]     9     8     0    17
Blitz           1913  [8]     8     1     0     9
5-minute        2154        134   108    11   253   2169 (12-Oct-2009)

 1: Chuck Cadman of Bellevue, WA
 2: FIDE 2269
 3: www.charlescadman.com
 4: If you are an actuary, please let me know.
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{Game 702 (cadman vs. B-Wall) cadman resigns} 0-1
White resigns
5-minute rating adjustment: 2189 --> 2204
t cadman I am an actuary
(told cadman)
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.12"]
[Round "-"]
[White "cadman"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2154"]
[BlackElo "2204"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "22:24:34"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

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

Fishing Pole


5. h3 h5 6. d4 exd4 7. Nxd4 Bc5

Favorite blitz position


8. Nxc6 bxc6 9. Be2 d6

To activate my QB.
Rybka 3 prefers Queen moves,
9 ... Qf6!!, ... Qh4!!, ... Qe7!



10. Nd2 Qh4!!  11. Qe1!  Nxf2

11 ... Ne5!  is equal but I can't retreat.



12. Rxf2!  Bxh3!!  13. gxh3?  Qg3+!!
14. Kf1!  Qxh3+!!  15. Kg1!  Rh6!!

I love it when I can get this move in.
... h5 does not just support the Fishing Pole Knight on g4,
it allows Rook-lifts


16. Nf3!!

Only Move, anything else gets mated

16 ...    Rg6+!!  17. Ng5!!  f6

Many moves draw,
I try to keep the fight going.



18. Bf1?  Qg3+!!  19. Kh1?
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Making the win trivial.
The interesting "Pawn Wave Guy"
variation was
19 Bg2  fg  20 b4  Bd4  21 c3 ( fighting back )
and now I can cash in by taking on f2
and pushing ... h4
but  21 ... Bb6!! is even stronger,
demanding more concessions before releasing the bind.
19 Bg2  fg  20 b4  Bd4  21 c3 Bb6!!
22  e5 d5
22 c4  Rf6  23  c5 dc
22 a4  Rf6  23 Raa2  h4
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19 ...  Bxf2 ( +14 )

{White resigns}    0-1
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.12"]
[Round "-"]
[White "cadman"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2154"]
[BlackElo "2204"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "22:24:34"]
[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.
Nxc6 bxc6 9. Be2 d6 10. Nd2 Qh4 11. Qe1 Nxf2 12. Rxf2 Bxh3 13. gxh3 Qg3+ 14.
Kf1 Qxh3+ 15. Kg1 Rh6 16. Nf3 Rg6+ 17. Ng5 f6 18. Bf1 Qg3+ 19. Kh1 Bxf2
{White resigns}
0-1
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Tue Oct 13 01:18:46 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:18:46 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] [Chess_Library] Tigran Petrosian (1929-1984)
Message-ID: <1255418326.4ad429d619fb4@www.taom.com>



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    Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:09:07 -0000
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Reply-To: Chess_Library at yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [Chess_Library] Tigran Petrosian (1929-1984)
      To: Chess_Library at yahoogroups.com

Tigran Petrosian His Life and Games

Foreword by Sam Sloan

Tigran Petrosian (1929-1984) was World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969 and was
one of the strongest players in the world throughout his lengthy career.

His style of play was the opposite of what others said it was. Others
characterized his play as "dull" and "drawish". However, statistics prove that
while others considered his play to be dull by their standards, it was not
drawish.

Petrosian had the lowest percentage of draws of any top grandmaster in the
world. Whereas Tal is considered to have been the opposite of Petrosian, with
daring sacrificial attacks, in reality Tal drew more games than Petrosian did.
Similarly, Fischer whose play was characterized by direct assaults,
nevertheless drew more games than Petrosian did.

Petrosian represented the USSR in the World Chess Olympiad ten times. His result
was 78 wins, 50 draws and only one loss, for 79.8 per cent.

The most famous instance of this was at the 1966 Chess Olympiad in Havana, Cuba,
where he won the gold medal on top board with 88.46 percent vs. Bobby Fischer's
88.23 percent.

Petrosian was a Candidate for the World Championship on eight occasions (1953,
1956, 1959, 1962, 1971, 1974, 1977 and 1980). He won the world championship in
1963 by defeating Botvinnik, successfully defended it in 1966 against Spassky,
and lost it in 1969 to Spassky. Thus, he was the defending World Champion or a
World Champion Candidate in ten consecutive three-year cycles.

He won the Soviet Championship four times (1959, 1961, 1969, and 1975).

In spite of these impressive results, he is perhaps best known for breaking
Bobby Fischer's winning streak of 20 games by beating Bobby in game two of
their 1971 match.

Why is it then that, in the face of these amazing results, Petrosian is
considered to be a dull and drawish player?

It is because of the way that he achieved his results. He did not often launch a
direct, immediate attack. Instead, he maneuvered, seeming endlessly. He waited
for his opponent to make an error or to attack unsoundly. When the mistake
finally occurred, Petrosian exploited it ruthlessly.

In many ways, Petrosian played the way that modern computers seem to play,
sometimes making moves that seem pointless and yet winning the game in the end.

An example of this is the Petrosian System in the Queen's Indian Defense: 1. d4
Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. a3.

The purpose to a3 is obviously to stop Black from playing Bb4+. Yet, Bb4+ is not
really a threat or even a very good move. Why waste a valuable move in the
opening to stop a non-existent threat?

Petrosian felt that a3 would turn out to be a useful move later in the game and
thus was not wasted. Moreover, a3 was in accordance with his policy of
restricting his opponent, thereby causing his opponent to feel frustrated,
leading to his opponent making a rash decision which Petrosian could exploit.

Bobby Fischer said that Petrosian "will smell any kind of danger 20 moves
before!"

Tigran Petrosian was born in Tbilisi, Georgia on 17 June 1929. He died of
stomach cancer in Moscow on 13 August 1984. The poor quality of the Soviet
Health Care System may have contributed to his early death at age only 55.

Petrosian lived in Moscow most of his life. In spite of neither being born nor
living in Armenia, he has always been considered to be Armenian and he is a
national hero of the Republic of Armenia.

This book was originally published in Russian in Yerevan, Armenia as Zhizn
Shakhmatista ("The Life of a Chess Player") by Viktor Vasiliev.

It was translated into English by Michael Basman (who, it is not well known, is
an ethnic Armenian and who studied as a college student for several years at
the University in Yerevan).

Eventually, the rights to this book were acquired by Sidney Fried for his
company, RHM Press.

This RHM Series of high quality chess books was the brain child of Sidney Fried
(born 22 June 1919 ? died 1 June 1991). Sidney Fried was not a strong player
but was an aficionado or big fan of chess.

Sidney Fried had a lot of money. He had made his fortune in common stock
purchase warrants. Then, he made more money writing books and two newsletters
about it. His stock market books are still available today, including such
works as "Investment and Speculation with Warrants - Options & Convertibles"
and "Fortune building in the 70's with common stock warrants and low-price
stocks" by Sidney Fried.

Fried had a number of unusual habits, one of which was that he owned nothing. He
put everything he owned into his corporations, R H M Press, a Division of RHM
Associates of Delaware, Inc.

Fried was a member of the Libertarian Party. Since Fried had no assets, this
enabled him to get away with not paying any taxes. However, upon his death it
was discovered that he had left no will and therefore nothing, including his
New York townhouse, his personal home on Long Island, his yacht and his
California estate that were owned by his corporations could be inherited. All
of his property went to the state.

This also affected the publication of this book. It appears that all of his RHM
books were "Work Made for Hire" books, in which he paid the authors in cash
rather than signing standard royalty agreements. This certainly simplified
matters. It enabled his books to have numerous authors, translators and editors
and a chief editor, Burt Hochberg (1933-2006). Hochberg wrote, "grandmasters
were very well paid to write them." Imagine the difficulties of dividing
royalty payments among the many  contributors and the even bigger problems of
trying to negotiate royalty deals with different people. (For example, "I
demand to be paid as much as Petrosian!!!")

By paying everybody in cash, Fried was able to assemble teams to help him create
his works. For example, this book was originally written by Viktor Vasiliev. It
was translated into English by Michael Basman. Notes were provided by Alexei
Suetin, additional material was provided by Tigran Petrosian himself. Further
notes were by Liberzon, Boleslavsky and Holmov. Kevin J. O'Connell was a proof
reader. Burt Hochberg probably did some editing although his name is not
mentioned in the book. The whole thing was assembled by Sidney Fried. I have
probably left out somebody.

Eventually, Sidney Fried lost a lot of money the same way he had made it,
gambling on stock market purchase options and warrants. It is not clear whether
he died broke or nearly broke, but in any case he left behind a great series of
chess books that we can still read today and remember him by.

This book was originally published in Descriptive Chess Notation. Since that
time, Descriptive has become almost obsolete. For that reason, all 50 games in
this book have been converted into modern Algebraic Notation and are included
in an appendix in the back of the book.



					Sam Sloan
					October 13, 2009

ISBN  4-87187-813-9
978-4-87187-813-5


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/4871878139
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?box=9784871878135

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Tue Oct 13 10:06:40 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:06:40 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Trick or Treat Chess Tournament in Lakewood
Message-ID: <1255450000.4ad4a5905b252@www.taom.com>



http://www.skullgate.com/events1.html

USCF Trick or Treat Chess Tournament

                See event page for more details!

             Saturday, October 17th




Home

Store

Calendar

Forum

Events

Clubs

Skull Gate Games

Board games

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Miniature Games

Card games
  Trick or Treat Chess Tournament

                     Saturday, October 17th

                        Blue Sky Collective

    9635 W. Colfax Ave. Lakewood, CO 80215          Event center - downstairs -
parking in rear



One open section

Time control is Game 60 t/d5

USCF membership required: See the tournament director to renew or join.

On-site entry fee: $30 reg; $25 Jrs., Srs., Unrateds

Register on-site from 9:30am to 10am

4 rounds: 10am, 1pm, 3pm, and 5pm

Swiss system pairings (no eliminations)

Cash prizes based on entries.

Questions? Tournament director Jerry Maier  719-660-5531  719-660-5531  or
pmjer77 at aim.com

Pre-reg entry fee must be paid in full and received by October 15, 2009. Make
checks payable to Jerry Maier. Send pre-regs to:

                                Jerry Maier

                         229 Hargrove Court

         ?

From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Wed Oct 14 00:42:37 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:42:37 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Sept/Oct 2009 Newsletter Colorado
Message-ID: <1255502557.4ad572dd74582@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Lee Lahti <lee.lahti at comcast.net> -----
    Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:39:15 -0600
    From: Lee Lahti <lee.lahti at comcast.net>
Reply-To: Lee Lahti <lee.lahti at comcast.net>
 Subject: Sept/Oct 2009 Newsletter


Here is the latest email newsletter.  Sorry for the delay in getting it out.

Lee Lahti
CSCA President




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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Wed Oct 14 08:48:18 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:48:18 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] [CSCN] Club Championship Begins! and Fw:
	Crosstable of the SOCO Open II & Casual Chess night this Saturday!
Message-ID: <1255531698.4ad5e4b25e0c9@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net> -----
    Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:52:43 -0600
    From: CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net>
Reply-To: CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net>
 Subject: [CSCN] Club Championship Begins! and Fw: Crosstable of the SOCO Open
II & Casual Chess night this Saturday!


Four past champions and six hopefuls began the quest for the city crown tonight
(pictures: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=97792570473).  Reigning
champion Mitch Anderson survived almost certain death with the biggest chess
gift I have ever witnessed (see below).  Paul Covington scored the only first
round upset by knocking off 3-time champ Dan Avery.  I finished another
tournament game by announcing mate incorrectly.

The next 3 rounds will be played over the next three weeks, so there is still
time to get in and take your shot at the grand prize.

[Event "Club Championship"]
[Site "http://cs.chess.home.att.net/"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "1.4"]
[White "Anderson, Paul"]
[Black "Brown, Dean"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A30"]
[WhiteElo "1966"]
[BlackElo "1457"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "2009.10.13"]
[TimeControl "5400"]

1. c4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 Qb6 5. Nc3 Nf6 6.
O-O O-O 7. e4 d6 8. h3 Nc6 9. d3 e5 10. Rb1 Be6 11. Re1 h6 12. Nh2 Nd7 13. Be3
Nd4 14. Qd2 Kh7 15. Nd5 Bxd5 16. cxd5 f5 17. Kh1 Rf7 18. Rec1 a5 19. f4 Qa6 20.
Nf1 h5 21. Nh2 Raf8 22. Bxd4 cxd4 23. Nf3 Nc5 24. Ng5+ Kg8 25. Nxf7 Rxf7 26.
exf5 gxf5 27. fxe5 Bxe5 28. Qg5+ Rg7 29. Qd8+ Kh7 30. Qe8 Qxd3 31. Qxh5+ Kg8
32. Bf3 Rh7 33. Qe8+ Kg7 34. Qe7+ Kg8 35. Qe8+ Kg7 36. Bh5 Qe4+ 37. Kh2 Bxg3+
38. Kxg3 f4+ 39. Kh2 f3 40. Rg1+ Kf6 41. Qf8+ Ke5 42. Rg5+ 1-0

[Event "Club Championship"]
[Site "http://cs.chess.home.att.net/"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Barlay, Imre"]
[Black "Anderson, Mitch"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D32"]
[WhiteElo "1967"]
[BlackElo "1997"]
[PlyCount "42"]
[EventDate "2009.10.13"]
[TimeControl "5400"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c5 4. cxd5 cxd4 5. Qa4+ Bd7
6. Qxd4 exd5 7. Nxd5 Nc6 8. Qd1 Qa5+ 9. Nc3 O-O-O 10. Bd2 Qb6 11. Qc1 Nf6 12.
Nf3 Kb8 13. e3 Bf5 14. Be2 Nb4 15. O-O Nc2 16. e4 Nxe4 17. Bf4+ Bd6 18. Qxc2
Nxf2 19. Bxd6+ Rxd6 20. Qxf5 Nh3+ 21. Kh1 Qg1+ 0-1


----- Original Message -----
From: chessliz at comcast.net
Subject: Crosstable of the SOCO Open II



The SOCO OPEN, held on October 3rd in Pueblo,  hosted 15 players, and produced
some strange results:   a 5-way tie.  This tie resulted in a prize pool made up
from the prizes for 1st, 2nd, U1900, and U1650.   The  only class prize not
involved in the confusion of the 3.5's, the prize for U1200, was earned by
Kathy Schneider.



                                                     2009 SOCO OPEN II

                                                        CROSSTABLE



NAME                   RATING    SCORE/5                  PRIZES



Buck Buchanan      2000               3.5             1st, 2nd, U1900, U1650   
$35.40
Paul Covington       1900               3.5             1st, 2nd, U1900, U1650  
 $35.40
Tim Brennan           1757               3.5             1st, 2nd, U1900, U1650 
  $35.40
Anthea Carson       1675               3.5             1st, 2nd, U1900, U1650   
$35.40
Robert Roundtree   1610              3.0
Julian Evans            1986              3.0
Ted Doykos             1790              3.0
Shannon Fox           1709              3.0
Isaac Martinez         1335              2.5
Dean Brown             1465              2.0
Jerry Maier               1225              2.0
Kathy Schneider        989              2.0              U1200                  
              $20.00
Liz Wood                  1188              1.5
Alex Freeman          1094              1.5
Tara Martinez             155              1.0




----- Original Message -----
Subject: Casual Chess night this Saturday!


Hello Everyone!

Hope everyone is doing well!

Here are details:

When:  Saturday, October 17th at 8pm
Where: Agia Sofia Coffee Shop & Bookstore, 2902 W. Colorado Ave 80904. Located
on the NW corner of Colorado & 29th (directly west of the firestation) 
719-632-3322
Who: Anyone!  Just be sure to bring your own sets & clocks!

Please remember to support them if you're able to!  (Even if it's not at our
casual nights!)

~Renae


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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Wed Oct 14 08:59:24 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:59:24 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Typical fake email scam touches local Chess
	world
Message-ID: <1255532364.4ad5e74c969fc@www.taom.com>

I have heard of these before,
someone pretends to be a relative or friend in distress.
The wording is always weird bearing no
relation to how the person really speaks.

Brian Wall

----- Forwarded message from Julian Evans <boulderchessclub at yahoo.com> -----
    Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:27:11 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Julian Evans <boulderchessclub at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Julian Evans <boulderchessclub at yahoo.com>
 Subject: Urgent
      To: boulderchessclub at yahoo.com

I hope you receive my message?And is very urgent. I could bearly think straight
at this point. I had a trip here in? United Kingdom to see a friend. I am
presently in Sheffield and I am having some difficulties. I misplaced my bag on
my way to the hotel where other valuable things were kept along with my
passport. I feel so ashamed because i am so stranded and idle.? I will like you
to help me with a loan of 900pounds to pay my hotel bills and also return back
home. I will refund the money to you as soon as I get back,? I have spoken to
the embassy here but they are not responding to the matter effectively I
currently have limited access to emails for now.
??
?Best regard
?
?? Klaus

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Wed Oct 14 09:26:18 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:26:18 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Duwayne Langseth on Typical fake email scam
	touches local Chess world [1 Attachment]
Message-ID: <1255533978.4ad5ed9a7f5d5@www.taom.com>

No people have fallen for this.
I heard of one set of parents who "rescued " their daughter with cash.

Brian Wall

----- Forwarded message from DuWayne Langseth <duwaynelangseth at hotmail.com>
-----
    Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:16:15 -0600
    From: DuWayne Langseth <duwaynelangseth at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: DuWayne Langseth <duwaynelangseth at hotmail.com>
 Subject: RE: [BrianWallChess] Typical fake email scam touches local Chess world
[1 Attachment]
      To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>






Brian,



Strange that there doesn't appear to be a way to contact

this culprit to give him the money.  Either he's a really stupid

criminal or just trying to annoy people.



DuWayne





To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com;
UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com; brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com
From: BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:59:24 -0600
Subject: [BrianWallChess] Typical fake email scam touches local Chess world [1
Attachment]




[Attachment(s) from Brian Wall included below]


I have heard of these before,
someone pretends to be a relative or friend in distress.
The wording is always weird bearing no
relation to how the person really speaks.

Brian Wall

----- Forwarded message from Julian Evans <boulderchessclub at yahoo.com> -----
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:27:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Julian Evans <boulderchessclub at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Julian Evans <boulderchessclub at yahoo.com>
Subject: Urgent
To: boulderchessclub at yahoo.com

I hope you receive my message?And is very urgent. I could bearly think straight
at this point. I had a trip here in  United Kingdom to see a friend. I am
presently in Sheffield and I am having some difficulties. I misplaced my bag on
my way to the hotel where other valuable things were kept along with my
passport. I feel so ashamed because i am so stranded and idle.  I will like you
to help me with a loan of 900pounds to pay my hotel bills and also return back
home. I will refund the money to you as soon as I get back,  I have spoken to
the embassy here but they are not responding to the matter effectively I
currently have limited access to emails for now.

 Best regard

   Klaus


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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Wed Oct 14 15:16:34 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:16:34 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Mike Archer on Marvin Sills?
Message-ID: <1255554994.4ad63fb2aecff@www.taom.com>

I haven't heard a word about Marvin Sills since 1970

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

----- Forwarded message from Mike Archer <mikearcher4 at comcast.net> -----
    Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:14:09 -0600
    From: Mike Archer <mikearcher4 at comcast.net>
Reply-To: Mike Archer <mikearcher4 at comcast.net>
 Subject: [BrianWallChess] Sills?
      To: BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com

Hi, Brian -





Hope all goes well your way.



Hey - Do you know whatever happened to Marvin Sills? I was going through
some old papers, found a few pages of lessons he gave, probably around 1970
or so. Also found an article Wendling wrote on the Ponziani.you need a
magnifying glass to see his tiny handwriting.





Mike Archer


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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Wed Oct 14 17:17:03 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:17:03 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Joel Johnson on Typical fake email scam
	touches local Chess world [1 Attachment]
Message-ID: <1255562223.4ad65bef39499@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson <bigbear12 at hotmail.com> -----
    Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:11:11 -0700
    From: Joel Johnson <bigbear12 at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Joel Johnson <bigbear12 at hotmail.com>
 Subject: RE: [BrianWallChess] Duwayne Langseth on Typical fake email scam
touches local Chess world [1 Attachment]
      To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>, brianwallchess at yahoogroups.com,
brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com


This happened here in Arizona recently also.  Somebody hacked into Joe Peck's
email account with a similar story of being stranded in England.



Joel Johnson



To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com
From: BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:26:18 -0600
Subject: [BrianWallChess] Duwayne Langseth on Typical fake email scam touches
local Chess world [1 Attachment]




[Attachment(s) from Brian Wall included below]


No people have fallen for this.
I heard of one set of parents who "rescued " their daughter with cash.

Brian Wall

----- Forwarded message from DuWayne Langseth <duwaynelangseth at hotmail.com>
-----
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:16:15 -0600
From: DuWayne Langseth <duwaynelangseth at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: DuWayne Langseth <duwaynelangseth at hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [BrianWallChess] Typical fake email scam touches local Chess world
[1 Attachment]
To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>

Brian,

Strange that there doesn't appear to be a way to contact

this culprit to give him the money. Either he's a really stupid

criminal or just trying to annoy people.

DuWayne

To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com;
UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com; brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com
From: BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:59:24 -0600
Subject: [BrianWallChess] Typical fake email scam touches local Chess world [1
Attachment]

[Attachment(s) from Brian Wall included below]

I have heard of these before,
someone pretends to be a relative or friend in distress.
The wording is always weird bearing no
relation to how the person really speaks.

Brian Wall

----- Forwarded message from Julian Evans <boulderchessclub at yahoo.com> -----
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:27:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Julian Evans <boulderchessclub at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Julian Evans <boulderchessclub at yahoo.com>
Subject: Urgent
To: boulderchessclub at yahoo.com

I hope you receive my message?And is very urgent. I could bearly think straight
at this point. I had a trip here in United Kingdom to see a friend. I am
presently in Sheffield and I am having some difficulties. I misplaced my bag on
my way to the hotel where other valuable things were kept along with my
passport. I feel so ashamed because i am so stranded and idle. I will like you
to help me with a loan of 900pounds to pay my hotel bills and also return back
home. I will refund the money to you as soon as I get back, I have spoken to
the embassy here but they are not responding to the matter effectively I
currently have limited access to emails for now.

Best regard

Klaus

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Wed Oct 14 18:06:54 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:06:54 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The real Klaus Johnson on Hackers and scammers
Message-ID: <1255565214.4ad6679e68251@www.taom.com>

In order to ascertain your true identity I must ask you who beat Klaus
Johnson by less than one point in the 2008-2009 Colorado Grand Prix?

Brian Wall

----- Forwarded message from Klaus Johnson <klizzaus at gmail.com> -----
    Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:51:36 -0400
    From: Klaus Johnson <klizzaus at gmail.com>
Reply-To: Klaus Johnson <klizzaus at gmail.com>
 Subject: Hackers and scammers
      To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com

Brian:

It goes without saying that I am not in England, I have not lost my wallet
and passport, and I do not need any money.

The yahoo account was hacked into this morning. I managed to get control
back about a half hour ago, but they may try again so please don't trust any
emails from boulderchessclub, at least for a while.

Fortunately, the hacker is none too bright and was confused about the two
different names in the account (mine and Julian Evans), and so thought we
were one and the same person.  Anybody who inquired further about how
to send me money was asked to send it to Julian Evans at an address in
England.

I doubt anybody will be fooled by this email, but just in case, I want to
repeat Brian's, Joel's, and DuWayne's advice, DO NOT accept this person's
request to send any money, and be wary of anybody who asks over the
internet, even it's from an email address you know.

Klaus Johnson

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Wed Oct 14 22:43:33 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:43:33 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Curtis Carlsen on Marvin Sills?
Message-ID: <1255581813.4ad6a875884a3@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Curt Carlson <Curt2309 at comcast.net> -----
    Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:23:56 -0700
    From: Curt Carlson <Curt2309 at comcast.net>
Reply-To: Curt Carlson <Curt2309 at comcast.net>
 Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Sills?
      To: Mike Archer <mikearcher4 at comcast.net>

I last saw Marvin Sills in 1970, shortly after he lost to Joe Mirsky in the
Colorado Open that year.  He moved back to NJ shortly afterwards, or so I
recall.  Martin Deschner would probably remember more.  We used to call him
WeaSills!  I played him in the 4th round of the 1969 Colorado Open, the same
day I played you in the 3rd round.  Only 40+ years ago!  I remember Wendling
talking about the Ponziani.  He lamented that one of the early Chess Player
game collections didn't have any, or very many.  It's too bad he died so young.

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Mike Archer
  To: BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 2:14 PM
  Subject: [BrianWallChess] Sills?



  Hi, Brian -





  Hope all goes well your way.



  Hey - Do you know whatever happened to Marvin Sills? I was going through some
old papers, found a few pages of lessons he gave, probably around 1970 or so.
Also found an article Wendling wrote on the Ponziani.you need a magnifying
glass to see his tiny handwriting.





  Mike Archer

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct 15 03:00:03 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:00:03 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] It's amazing what you can save in a blitz game
Message-ID: <1255597203.4ad6e493bf988@www.taom.com>


Horribly lost, totally hopeless, utterly outplayed positions can turn around.
Here are some samples from my last 20 games.

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "jonel"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ICCResult "Game drawn because neither player has mating material"]
[WhiteElo "2031"]
[BlackElo "2148"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "03:56:48"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

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

Jack Young's Fishing Pole


5. h3 h5!!


Any of the 7 Youtube Fishing Pole Chess videos
can tell you why not to take this Knight.


6. d3 Bc5!!

An essential player in every Fishing Pole


7. Bg5?

The
ART OF ATTACK
by Vukovic
variation



7 ...  f6!!   8. Bh4!  g5!!  9. Bg3 h4!! 10. Bh2 Nxh2!!  11. Nxh2 d6

11 ... Nd4!
is more accurate.
I was doing OK but now White has an annoying edge hard to shake.


12. Ng4 Bd7 13. Nd2 Nd4 14. Bxd7+ Kxd7

Forced.
I am fighting for my life now.



15. c3!  Ne6!  16. Qf3 Nf4!!

Trying to plus all the light square holes before my King drowns


17. b4!  Bb6!  18. a4 a5 19. Nc4!


It's getting ugly



19 ...  Qe7 20. Nxb6+!  cxb6! 21. Ne3 Qe6 22. b5 Nxd3 23. Nd5!!  Nc5
24. Nxb6+ Ke7!  25. Nd5+ Kf7!  26. Nc7!  Qc4! 27. Nxa8  Rxa8!
28. Rfd1 Qxe4 29. Rxd6!  Qxf3!  30. gxf3!  Rc8! 31. Kf1 Kg6! 32. Ke2

Despite being down the exchange Jonel's pawns are fractured and
32 ... Nb3!!  33 Rb1  R:c3  34  Rb6  Nd4+  35 Kf1  Rc7
equalizes.

32 ... Kf5 33. Ke3 Nb3

33 ... Ne6 might work with ideas of
... Ne6-f4:h3 or ... Rc8:c3+  or ... Rc4




34. Rad1!  Rxc3+ 35. R1d3!  Rxd3+!  36. Rxd3 Nc5!!


My Knight threatens the Queenside,
my King threatens the Kingside.
Maybe I can hold.



37. Ra3 b6

37 ... Ke6-d5  and ... Nc5-e5-f4
looks impenetrable



38. Kd2 Kf4??

38 ... Ke6 to switch sides with the Knight might work



39. Re3??

39 Rc3!! wins with two ideas
39 Rc3  N:a4  40 Rc4+  or
39 Rc3:c5



39 ...  f5!!  40. Ra3!  e4!

Eliminating pawns


41. fxe4  Nxe4+  42. Ke2!  g4!


Eliminating pawns


43. Rd3!  gxh3

Eliminating pawns


44. Rxh3!  Kg4 45. Rd3!  Nc5 46. Rd4+ f4!  47. f3+ Kg3!


I am OK again



48. Rd8 Nxa4

Eliminating pawns


49. Rg8+!  Kh2!  50. Rg6 h3

50 ... Na4-c3+:b5 should work


51. Kf2!  Nc3!  52. Rxb6!  a4!  53. Ra6!  Nxb5!

Eliminating pawns



54. Rxa4!  Nc3!  55. Rxf4!  Nd1+!


I think I can draw this.
Jonel - 23 seconds
Brian - one minute, 27 seconds


56. Ke1 Kg3!!  57. Rd4??  Ne3??

57  ... h2!! wins


58. Ke2??  Ng2??

59 ... h2!!  wins


59. Rg4+!!

White wins now


59 ...  Kh2!  60. Kf2!  Kh1!  61. Rg3 Nf4!  62. Rg4 Ng2 63. Rg3 Kh2
64. Rg8 Nf4!  65. Rh8 Nd3+!  66. Ke3!  Ne5 67. Ke4 Ng6 68. Rxh3+

With 5 seconds left Jonel goes for the draw.


68 ... Kxh3 69. f4 Nxf4

{Game drawn because neither player has mating material}


1/2-1/2
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "jonel"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ICCResult "Game drawn because neither player has mating material"]
[WhiteElo "2031"]
[BlackElo "2148"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "03:56:48"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. d3 Bc5 7. Bg5 f6 8.
Bh4 g5 9. Bg3 h4 10. Bh2 Nxh2 11. Nxh2 d6 12. Ng4 Bd7 13. Nd2 Nd4 14. Bxd7+
Kxd7 15. c3 Ne6 16. Qf3 Nf4 17. b4 Bb6 18. a4 a5 19. Nc4 Qe7 20. Nxb6+ cxb6
21. Ne3 Qe6 22. b5 Nxd3 23. Nd5 Nc5 24. Nxb6+ Ke7 25. Nd5+ Kf7 26. Nc7 Qc4
27. Nxa8 Rxa8 28. Rfd1 Qxe4 29. Rxd6 Qxf3 30. gxf3 Rc8 31. Kf1 Kg6 32. Ke2
Kf5 33. Ke3 Nb3 34. Rad1 Rxc3+ 35. R1d3 Rxd3+ 36. Rxd3 Nc5 37. Ra3 b6 38.
Kd2 Kf4 39. Re3 f5 40. Ra3 e4 41. fxe4 Nxe4+ 42. Ke2 g4 43. Rd3 gxh3 44.
Rxh3 Kg4 45. Rd3 Nc5 46. Rd4+ f4 47. f3+ Kg3 48. Rd8 Nxa4 49. Rg8+ Kh2 50.
Rg6 h3 51. Kf2 Nc3 52. Rxb6 a4 53. Ra6 Nxb5 54. Rxa4 Nc3 55. Rxf4 Nd1+ 56.
Ke1 Kg3 57. Rd4 Ne3 58. Ke2 Ng2 59. Rg4+ Kh2 60. Kf2 Kh1 61. Rg3 Nf4 62. Rg4
Ng2 63. Rg3 Kh2 64. Rg8 Nf4 65. Rh8 Nd3+ 66. Ke3 Ne5 67. Ke4 Ng6 68. Rxh3+
Kxh3 69. f4 Nxf4 {Game drawn because neither player has mating material}
1/2-1/2
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http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/games/delawarewall10252003.htm

That's a game where I taught Renae Delaware the Fishing
Pole and two months later she beat me with it in a simul.
Here is another amusing game where I bled my own blood.

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Namrepus"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black checkmated"]
[WhiteElo "2065"]
[BlackElo "2127"]
[Opening "Two knights defense"]
[ECO "C55"]
[NIC "IG.01"]
[Time "04:06:21"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. Re1 Nd6?

I have played  5 ... d5!, the right move, many times


6. Bb3 Be7!  7. d4 exd4! 8. Ng5 O-O!!  9. Qh5 h6 10. h4

Amusing. I set out to set a Fishing Pole trap and now I am facing one.
I spent 40 seconds on my blunder. I have multiple good moves,
10  ... Na5!!, ... B:g5!!, ... a5!!, ... b5!!
even the ridiculous ... Nb8 is OK.
More than any man on earth I should know that

10 ... hxg5????

opening the Gates of Hell
is a big blunder. I spent
one second on my next blunder.


11. hxg5!!  Na5????   12. g6!!

I have no time to remove his Bishop.
It's mate in two.
I had to laugh.


12 ...  Re8 13. Qh7+ Kf8 14. Qh8#

{Black checkmated} 1-0

Now I know how y'all feel.
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Namrepus"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black checkmated"]
[WhiteElo "2065"]
[BlackElo "2127"]
[Opening "Two knights defense"]
[ECO "C55"]
[NIC "IG.01"]
[Time "04:06:21"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. Re1 Nd6 6. Bb3 Be7 7. d4 exd4
8. Ng5 O-O 9. Qh5 h6 10. h4 hxg5 11. hxg5 Na5 12. g6 Re8 13. Qh7+ Kf8 14.
Qh8# {Black checkmated} 1-0
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "fmkromos"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2263"]
[BlackElo "2159"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "04:18:10"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. Qe2 Bc5 5. c3 O-O 6. d3 d6
7. Be3 Bxe3 8. fxe3 Bd7 9. a4 Ne7 10. O-O c6 11. Bc4 Kh8 12. Nbd2 Ng6
13. Bb3 Qe7 14. Rae1 Ng8 15. d4 f5 16. exf5 Bxf5 17. Kh1 e4 18. Ng1 d5
19. Qh5 Nh6 20. h3 Be6 21. Ne2 Kg8

21 ... Nf5!! is good here


22. c4 Rf5?  23. Rxf5!  Nxf5!  24. cxd5!  cxd5 25. Bxd5!  Nxe3
26. Bxe4!  Bf7 27. Qf3 Nc4 28. Nxc4!  Bxc4!  29. Nc3 Qh4
30. Bd5+!  Bxd5 31. Qxd5+!  Kh8!  32. Qe4

A typical embarrassing result in my games.
I am down a clear center pawn but the time is -
FMKromos   one minute
Brian -    two minutes 43 seconds

I hang in there until he throws everything away in severe time pressure.

32 ... Qxe4 33. Rxe4 Rd8 34. d5 Kg8 35. Kg1 Kf7 36. Kf2 Ne7
37. Rf4+ Ke8 38. Rb4 b6 39. Rd4 Nf5 40. Re4+ Kd7 41. Rf4 Nd6
42. Kf3 Rc8 43. h4 Rc5 44. h5 h6 45. Rg4 Ne8 46. Rg6 Rc4
47. g4 Rb4 48. Ne4 Rxb2 49. g5 hxg5 50. Nxg5 Ra2 51. Kf4 Rxa4+
52. Ke5 Ra1 53. Ne6 Re1+ 54. Kf4 Rh1 55. Ke5 Rxh5+

{White resigns} 0-1
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "fmkromos"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2263"]
[BlackElo "2159"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "04:18:10"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. Qe2 Bc5 5. c3 O-O 6. d3 d6 7. Be3 Bxe3 8.
fxe3 Bd7 9. a4 Ne7 10. O-O c6 11. Bc4 Kh8 12. Nbd2 Ng6 13. Bb3 Qe7 14. Rae1
Ng8 15. d4 f5 16. exf5 Bxf5 17. Kh1 e4 18. Ng1 d5 19. Qh5 Nh6 20. h3 Be6 21.
Ne2 Kg8 22. c4 Rf5 23. Rxf5 Nxf5 24. cxd5 cxd5 25. Bxd5 Nxe3 26. Bxe4 Bf7
27. Qf3 Nc4 28. Nxc4 Bxc4 29. Nc3 Qh4 30. Bd5+ Bxd5 31. Qxd5+ Kh8 32. Qe4
Qxe4 33. Rxe4 Rd8 34. d5 Kg8 35. Kg1 Kf7 36. Kf2 Ne7 37. Rf4+ Ke8 38. Rb4 b6
39. Rd4 Nf5 40. Re4+ Kd7 41. Rf4 Nd6 42. Kf3 Rc8 43. h4 Rc5 44. h5 h6 45.
Rg4 Ne8 46. Rg6 Rc4 47. g4 Rb4 48. Ne4 Rxb2 49. g5 hxg5 50. Nxg5 Ra2 51. Kf4
Rxa4+ 52. Ke5 Ra1 53. Ne6 Re1+ 54. Kf4 Rh1 55. Ke5 Rxh5+ {White resigns} 0-1
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Information about Wilsonpalencia(IM) (Last disconnected Wed Oct 14 2009 04:47):

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Crazyhouse      1610  [6]     0     2     0     2
Bullet          1772  [8]     2     1     0     3
Blitz           2071  [8]    28    32     3    63   2177 (19-Mar-2009)
Standard        1404  [6]     1     0     0     1
5-minute        2046        592   543   132  1267   2392 (31-May-2009)
1-minute        1601        730   657    57  1444   2020 (02-Aug-2009)

 1: IM Wilson Palencia

 Name   : Wilson Palencia
 Groups : IMs
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Wilsonpalencia"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2074"]
[BlackElo "2160"]
[Opening "Bishop's opening/Petrov: Urusov gambit"]
[ECO "C21"]
[NIC "KP.04"]
[Time "04:32:48"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. Qxd4 Nf6 6. Bg5 Be7! 7. Nc3!

Joel Johnson and his elite army of Arizona clones have been playing this
gambit against me forever - I get a bad game a different way each game.


7 ... h6 8. Qh4 c6!  9. O-O-O!  d5!  10. Rhe1!  Kf8??

I suddenly got tired of decades of 10 ... Be6!!  11 Bd3  Nbd7  12 R:e6   or
10 ... Be6!!  11 Nd4  0-0!  12 N:e6   fe  and rebelled


11. Ne5??

11 B:d5!!  cd  12 N:d5!!
is a wipeout


11 ...  Bf5??

The consistent   11 ... Kg8!!  or ... Nbd7!!
are best


12. Bxf6??

The breakthrough sacrifice  12 B:d5!!  cd!  13  N:d5!  Qc8!  14 Nc4!
works again. Joel would have put that in his new book.


12 ...  Bxf6!  13. Qh5?  g6!!

Turning this miserable game around.



14. Qf3 Nd7

14 ... B:e5!!  15 R:e5  Qg5+!!
wins more material


15. Nxd7+ Qxd7!  16. Bd3 Kg7

16 ... Bg5+!!  17  Kb1  Bg4!!
wins more material


17. Bxf5!  Qxf5!  18. Qxf5!  gxf5! 19. Ne2! Rhe8! 20. Ng3 Kg6!  21. Kd2

I didn't want to activate IM Wilson Palencia's
Rook at the cost of another pawn after
21 ... B:b2!  22 R:e8  R:e8  23 Rb1  Bd4  24 R:b7  B:f2
I already have an extra pawn and superior minor piece.

21 ... Re6 22. c3 Rae8!  23. Rxe6 fxe6 24. f4!  e5!  25. Ne2!  e4 26.
h3 h5!!  27. Rg1!  c5 28. g4 hxg4!  29. hxg4!  fxg4!  30. Rxg4+!  Kf5!
31. Rh4??   Bxh4


{White resigns}  0-1

A shaky start.
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Wilsonpalencia"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2074"]
[BlackElo "2160"]
[Opening "Bishop's opening/Petrov: Urusov gambit"]
[ECO "C21"]
[NIC "KP.04"]
[Time "04:32:48"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. Qxd4 Nf6 6. Bg5 Be7 7. Nc3 h6
8. Qh4 c6 9. O-O-O d5 10. Rhe1 Kf8 11. Ne5 Bf5 12. Bxf6 Bxf6 13. Qh5 g6 14.
Qf3 Nd7 15. Nxd7+ Qxd7 16. Bd3 Kg7 17. Bxf5 Qxf5 18. Qxf5 gxf5 19. Ne2 Rhe8
20. Ng3 Kg6 21. Kd2 Re6 22. c3 Rae8 23. Rxe6 fxe6 24. f4 e5 25. Ne2 e4 26.
h3 h5 27. Rg1 c5 28. g4 hxg4 29. hxg4 fxg4 30. Rxg4+ Kf5 31. Rh4 Bxh4
{White resigns}
0-1
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Information about APetelin(IM) (Last disconnected Wed Oct 14 2009 09:20):

              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        2092       5492  4674   692 10858   2404 (15-May-2008)
1-minute        1833       7299  7151   407 14857   2251 (27-Dec-2007)
15-minute        854  [4]     0     1     0     1

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

 Groups : IMs
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IM Andrei Petelin offers a draw in a dead even opposite colored Bishop endgame.
Time  -  Brian                2 minutes  31 seconds
Time  -  IM Andrei Petelin               49 seconds

I win a game certain to endear me to the Russians
( where my maternal Grandmother was born ).

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "APetelin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black forfeits on time"]
[WhiteElo "2172"]
[BlackElo "2054"]
[Opening "King's pawn opening"]
[ECO "B07"]
[NIC "VO.17"]
[Time "04:38:49"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 g6 3. f3 Bg7 4. c4 c5 5. d5 b5 6. cxb5 a6 7. Nc3 Nf6
8. a4 O-O 9. Ra3 Nbd7 10. Nh3 c4 11. Nf2 axb5 12. Nxb5 Ne5 13. Be3 Bd7
14. Qd2 Qb8 15. Qb4!  Qb7 16. Be2 Rfb8 17. O-O Bxb5 18. axb5!  Rxa3!
19. bxa3!  Qxb5!  20. Rb1! Qxb4!  21. axb4!  c3!  22. b5!  Ned7
23. Kf1 Nb6 24. Ke1 Nfd7!  25. Kd1 Ra8!  26. Bd3 Ra2 27. Bc2 Nc4!
28. Bc1!!  Nb2+!  29. Bxb2  cxb2!  30. Nd3 Ra5 31. Nxb2!!

I finally get rid of this pawn which I could have taken so many times.

31 ... Rxb5!  32. Nd3 Rxb1+!  33. Bxb1!  Ne5 34. Nxe5 Bxe5!

The Russian IM offers a draw but he played very slowly and I played very fast.
Many players way down in time offers draws to me.
My feeling is - try to get those positions faster like I do.


 35. h3 h5 36. Ke2 h4 37. Kf1 Kg7 38. Bd3 Kf6 39. Ba6 Kg5 40. Bc8 Kf4
41. Bd7 f5 42. exf5 gxf5 43. Be6 Bf6 44. Bf7 Bd4 45. Ke2 Kg3 46. Kf1 Kf4
47. Bg6 Ke5 48. Bf7 Kf6 49. Be6 Ke5 50. Ke2 Kf4 51. Bc8 Bc5 52. Bd7 Ke5
53. Bc6 e6 54. dxe6 Kxe6 55. f4 d5 56. Kf3 d4 57. Bb5 Bb4 58. Bc4+ Kd6
59. g3 hxg3 60. Kxg3 Be1+ 61. Kf3 Bh4 62. Ke2 Kc5 63. Bd3 Kb4 64. Bxf5

I have an extra pawn in a dead even endgame.
Time  -  Brian                90 seconds
Time  -  IM Andrei Petelin    14 seconds

64 ... Kc3 65. Be4 Bf6 66. f5 Bh4 67. Bb1 Bd8 68. Be4 Bh4
69. Kf3 Bd8 70. Kg4 d3 71. Bf3 d2 72. h4 Kd4 73. h5 Ke3
74. h6 Bf6 75. h7 Kf2 76. Bd1 Ke1??

Finally the blunder comes in my favorite ending.
Time  -  Brian                55 ( the year I was born ) seconds
Time  -  IM Andrei Petelin    03 seconds



77. Ba4!!  Kf2 78. Kh5!!  Ke3 79. Kg6!!  Bh8 80. f6!!  Kf4 81. f7!!


{Black forfeits on time}  1-0
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "APetelin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black forfeits on time"]
[WhiteElo "2172"]
[BlackElo "2054"]
[Opening "King's pawn opening"]
[ECO "B07"]
[NIC "VO.17"]
[Time "04:38:49"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 g6 3. f3 Bg7 4. c4 c5 5. d5 b5 6. cxb5 a6 7. Nc3 Nf6 8. a4
O-O 9. Ra3 Nbd7 10. Nh3 c4 11. Nf2 axb5 12. Nxb5 Ne5 13. Be3 Bd7 14. Qd2 Qb8
15. Qb4 Qb7 16. Be2 Rfb8 17. O-O Bxb5 18. axb5 Rxa3 19. bxa3 Qxb5 20. Rb1
Qxb4 21. axb4 c3 22. b5 Ned7 23. Kf1 Nb6 24. Ke1 Nfd7 25. Kd1 Ra8 26. Bd3
Ra2 27. Bc2 Nc4 28. Bc1 Nb2+ 29. Bxb2 cxb2 30. Nd3 Ra5 31. Nxb2 Rxb5 32. Nd3
Rxb1+ 33. Bxb1 Ne5 34. Nxe5 Bxe5 35. h3 h5 36. Ke2 h4 37. Kf1 Kg7 38. Bd3
Kf6 39. Ba6 Kg5 40. Bc8 Kf4 41. Bd7 f5 42. exf5 gxf5 43. Be6 Bf6 44. Bf7 Bd4
45. Ke2 Kg3 46. Kf1 Kf4 47. Bg6 Ke5 48. Bf7 Kf6 49. Be6 Ke5 50. Ke2 Kf4 51.
Bc8 Bc5 52. Bd7 Ke5 53. Bc6 e6 54. dxe6 Kxe6 55. f4 d5 56. Kf3 d4 57. Bb5
Bb4 58. Bc4+ Kd6 59. g3 hxg3 60. Kxg3 Be1+ 61. Kf3 Bh4 62. Ke2 Kc5 63. Bd3
Kb4 64. Bxf5 Kc3 65. Be4 Bf6 66. f5 Bh4 67. Bb1 Bd8 68. Be4 Bh4 69. Kf3 Bd8
70. Kg4 d3 71. Bf3 d2 72. h4 Kd4 73. h5 Ke3 74. h6 Bf6 75. h7 Kf2 76. Bd1
Ke1 77. Ba4 Kf2 78. Kh5 Ke3 79. Kg6 Bh8 80. f6 Kf4 81. f7
{Black forfeits on time}
1-0
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Information about whitecrow (Last disconnected Wed Oct 14 2009 11:05):

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
5-minute        2047       1566  1422   240  3228   2350 (07-Jul-2008)
1-minute        2216  [8]     8    11     1    20   2216 (12-Jan-2009)
15-minute       2050  [4]     7     2     0     9
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This is the game that made me want to write this email.
The rest is just window dressing to showcase this game.

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "whitecrow"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2170"]
[BlackElo "2088"]
[Opening "QGA, 4.Nc3"]
[ECO "D24"]
[NIC "QG.05"]
[Time "05:04:22"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 a6 5. e3 e6 6. Bxc4 c5
7. O-O b5 8. Bb3 Nbd7 9. Qe2 Bb7 10. Rd1 Qc7 11. d5!  c4!
12. dxe6!  fxe6!  13. Bc2!  Bd6

This is a standard position reached by  Calvin Blocker ( both sides ),
Shamkovich, Bisguier, Acosta ( Black twice ), Crouch, Granda Zuniga,
Magem Badals, Horvath, Korneev, Piket, Wells, Lputian, Vallejo Pons,
Kotanjian  and many others.

Rybka likes  14   Ng5  or Qd2

14 Ng5!!  is similar to a Shabalov - Mulyar game in the 2002 Levy Memorial
( Reynolds variation ) that I studied for a year before springing the line
again on Shabalov and getting a simul draw. I wrote a big email on that one.

For some reason not one of the 18 strong players
in my database found 14 Ng5!! in this exact blitz position,
including me. I did consider it. Humans favored
14 e4  9 times, 14 h3  5 times
14 Qd2 once  ( GM Lputian )
14 Nd4 once  ( Frias Pablaza 2440 )
14 Rd4 once  ( GM Granda Zuniga )

In this fascinating posiiton that
confuses the best I went wrong.



14. a4?  TL

Theoretical Lemon by Brian Wall
( LM Jack Young's term )


14 ... b4!!  15. Ng5!?

It's already falling apart so I go for complications.
Even after my blunder  15 Qd2! or Ng5!?
are again the best moves.



15 ...  Nc5?  16. Qxc4!!

almost enough comp for my piece now


16 ...  bxc3!  17. Nxe6!  Nxe6?  18. Qxe6+!  Be7!  19. a5

This is what I call a Ponomarev move.
They always see the move you want to play
( 17 ... Qc6!!  was correct ) and stop it.
Very frustrating  -  if 19 a5  Qc6??  20  Ba4!
Rybka prefers  19  Bb3!!  Rf8  20 a5!!

19 ... Rd8

Counter-Ponomarevving me -
20 ... Qc6  21  Ba4  R:d1+
is the idea.


20. Rxd8+

Rybka likes  20 Ba4+   a little better

The position is reminiscent of

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1013330

Alexander Alekhine vs Eero Einar Book
Margate 1938  ?  Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense.
Steinitz Development Variation (D26)  ?  1-0

one of the most brilliant games ever played,
a Rook sacrifice that makes you believe you
can never be a good Chessplayer. I studied this
game with computers a lot and went over it
in a Joe Fromme lesson, among others.
Anthea Carson and Joe Fromme played
it out over a dozen times.


http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1013330

20 ... Qxd8 21. bxc3!

Alekhine was a Rook down when he played this move.
I have 3 pawns for a Knight.


21 ...  Qd5!  22. Ba4+?

I should have braved the endgame but I keep Queens
on and fall into a vicious counterattack.

22 ... Kf8!  23. Qh3?  h5 24. c4 Qe5!  25. Ra2 Ng4

I am getting Fishing Poled again


26. Qg3!  Qxg3 27. hxg3!  h4 28. gxh4!  Bxh4!  29. g3??  Bxg3!!

Opening the Gates of Hell.
I wanted to resign.
I have to lose a Rook just to prevent checkmate.
I forced myself to keep moving like a comedian
determined to finish his act with no one laughing.
The Fishing Pole joke is on me this time.

30. f3??  Bxf3!!   mating   31. Ba3+!  Kf7   mating
32. Rg2 Bxg2

An extra Rook should be good enough.
32 ... Bf2+!!  mates in 2


33. Kxg2!  Be1


Time - Brian       2 minutes  11 seconds
Time - WhiteCrow   One minute

34. Kf3 Ne5+!  35. Ke4 Nxc4??

Losing a Knight


36. Bb3 Rc8 37. Kd4 Bxa5!  38. Bxc4+!  Kf6!  39. Bxa6 Bb6+ 40. Kd3!  g5??

Dropping a Rook. Whew.

Time - Brian       One minutes  56 seconds
Time - WhiteCrow                36 seconds


{Black resigns} 1-0
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "whitecrow"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2170"]
[BlackElo "2088"]
[Opening "QGA, 4.Nc3"]
[ECO "D24"]
[NIC "QG.05"]
[Time "05:04:22"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 a6 5. e3 e6 6. Bxc4 c5 7. O-O b5 8.
Bb3 Nbd7 9. Qe2 Bb7 10. Rd1 Qc7 11. d5 c4 12. dxe6 fxe6 13. Bc2 Bd6 14. a4
b4 15. Ng5 Nc5 16. Qxc4 bxc3 17. Nxe6 Nxe6 18. Qxe6+ Be7 19. a5 Rd8 20.
Rxd8+ Qxd8 21. bxc3 Qd5 22. Ba4+ Kf8 23. Qh3 h5 24. c4 Qe5 25. Ra2 Ng4 26.
Qg3 Qxg3 27. hxg3 h4 28. gxh4 Bxh4 29. g3 Bxg3 30. f3 Bxf3 31. Ba3+ Kf7 32.
Rg2 Bxg2 33. Kxg2 Be1 34. Kf3 Ne5+ 35. Ke4 Nxc4 36. Bb3 Rc8 37. Kd4 Bxa5 38.
Bxc4+ Kf6 39. Bxa6 Bb6+ 40. Kd3 g5 {Black resigns} 1-0
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Shabalov - Mulyar
Levy Memorial 2002

1. d4 d5  2. c4 c6  3. Nf3 Nf6  4. e3 e6  5. Nc3 Nbd7
6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5  8. Bd3 Bb7  9. 0-0 a6  10. e4 c5
11. d5 Qc7  12. dxe6 fxe6 13. Bc2 Bd6  14. Ng5 Nf8
15. f4 0-0-0  16. Qe2 h6  17. Nf3 Bxf4  18. e5 Bxf3
19. Rxf3 Bxe5  20. a4 b4  21. Qxa6+ Qb7  22. Qe2 N8d7
23. Nb5 Nd5  24. a5 Kb8  25. Rf7 Ka8  26. a6 Qb6
27. Rxd7 Rxd7 28. Qxe5 Qxb5  29. Ba4 Qd3  30. Bf4 Rf7
31. a7 Qd4+  32. Qxd4 cxd4 33. Bc6+ Rb7  34. Bb8 Rhxb8
35. axb8=B+ Kxb8  36. Bxb7 Kxb7 37. Kf2 e5  38. Kf3 Kc6
39. Ke4 Kc5  40. Ra5+                  1-0
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Information about whitecrow (Last disconnected Wed Oct 14 2009 11:05):

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
5-minute        2047       1566  1422   240  3228   2350 (07-Jul-2008)
1-minute        2216  [8]     8    11     1    20   2216 (12-Jan-2009)
15-minute       2050  [4]     7     2     0     9
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Whitecrow racks his brains for revenge but runs into a rabid Raccoon.


[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "whitecrow"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2076"]
[BlackElo "2182"]
[Opening "King's gambit"]
[ECO "C30"]
[NIC "KG.05"]
[Time "05:13:31"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 h5!!

Jack Young's Raccoon,
the h5-pawn is a claw.


3. Nf3 exf4!  4. Bc4 h4 5. d4 g5!!

f4-g5-h4
Raccoon paw


6. O-O!   d6!!  7. Nxg5!?

Very common.
Much easier for Rybka to defend than me in a blitz game.


7 ...  Qxg5!  8. Bxf4!  Qg6

7 ... Qg7!!, ... Qg6!!, ... Qg4!  or ... Qe7!
should win.
A key idea is  ... Be6 forcing a piece
trade or inducing a center block with d5.



9. Nc3!  c6!

Rybka slightly prefers  9 ... Be6!!
or ... h3  10 g3  Be6.
We argue about ... h3 a lot in this opening.
I never see the point.
5 ... h3! is his second choice.


10. Bxd6!?

19th century attack.
10 B:f7+  Q:f7  11 B:d6  Q:f1+  12 Q:f1  B:d6  13 e5  Be7!  14  Ne4  Nh6!
is another one.
It is common in this Raccoon Variation
to give up the Queen for some pieces.


10 ...  Bxd6

19th century defense.
Whitecrow has a safer King, better development
and three pawns for my two pieces after  10 ... Q:d6!!
I wanted to reduce his attackers.


11. Bxf7+!   Qxf7! 12. Rxf7!  Kxf7! 13. Qf3+!  Ke8?


Running towards my biggest concentration of pawns and pieces made sense to me.
Rybka wants me to run in the other direction with
13 ... Kg7!!  14  Rf1  Rh6!!  15  e5  Be7!!  16  Ne2  Kh8!!  17  Nf4  Bf5!!
I'm a mere mortal not a pretzel.

14. Rf1!!  Ne7 15. e5!

15 Qf6!! or  Qf7+!!  kills

15 ...  Bc7!  16. Qf7+!

16  Ne4!!!  or   Qf6!!  or   e6!!
kill


16 ... Kd8!!

16 ... Kd7??  17  e6+!!   mates


17. Ne4!!

17 Qg7!!!  kills

17 ...  Bb6!!


Chris Peterson told me yesterday that I always weasel
out of positions that would break any other man.


18. c3!!  Na6 19. Qg7

19 Qf6!!!
is the Galactus move

19 ... Rg8 20. Qf7??

20  Qh6!!  or   Rf8+!!
are deadly this time.

20 ...  Nc7!!

Making best moves in dead lost positions is an art from.


21. Nd6??

Right square, wrong piece.
21 Rf1-f6-d6+!!
is the monster idea.

21 ...  Be6!!


Now my position looks like a jigsaw puzzle


22. Nxb7+ Kd7!!  23. Qh7 h3

My King is finally safe.
My turn. 23 ... Rg4!!!
is the most powerful.



24. g3!  Rh8  25. Qd3!   Evicted.   Rag8
26. Nd6 Rg4 27. Nf7 Rf8

The Super-Cool win is  27 ... Rhh4!!!
intending ... R:d4!!!



28. Nd6!  Rxf1+!!  29. Qxf1??   Rxd4!!!


The roof caves in.

An amazing number of missed opportunities for under 30 moves.
Hot Raccoon action. It's not for reptiles.


{White resigns} 0-1
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "whitecrow"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2076"]
[BlackElo "2182"]
[Opening "King's gambit"]
[ECO "C30"]
[NIC "KG.05"]
[Time "05:13:31"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 h5 3. Nf3 exf4 4. Bc4 h4 5. d4 g5 6. O-O d6 7. Nxg5 Qxg5 8.
Bxf4 Qg6 9. Nc3 c6 10. Bxd6 Bxd6 11. Bxf7+ Qxf7 12. Rxf7 Kxf7 13. Qf3+ Ke8
14. Rf1 Ne7 15. e5 Bc7 16. Qf7+ Kd8 17. Ne4 Bb6 18. c3 Na6 19. Qg7 Rg8 20.
Qf7 Nc7 21. Nd6 Be6 22. Nxb7+ Kd7 23. Qh7 h3 24. g3 Rh8 25. Qd3 Rag8 26. Nd6
Rg4 27. Nf7 Rf8 28. Nd6 Rxf1+ 29. Qxf1 Rxd4 {White resigns} 0-1
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I was dead lost and I didn't enjoy any part
of this game but somehow drew anyway.

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Karamasov"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ICCResult "Game drawn because neither player has mating material"]
[WhiteElo "2173"]
[BlackElo "1958"]
[Opening "QGA: 3.Nf3"]
[ECO "D21"]
[NIC "QG.05"]
[Time "05:26:04"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Bf5 4. e3 Bd3 5. Bxd3 cxd3 6. O-O Nf6
7. Nc3 c6 8. e4 e6 9. Bg5 Be7 10. Qxd3 O-O 11. Rad1 Nbd7 12. Rfe1 h6
13. Bf4 Qb6 14. b3 Bb4 15. Re2 Bxc3 16. Qxc3 Qa6 17. Qc4 Qxc4 18. bxc4 c5
19. Bd6 Rfc8 20. e5 Ne8 21. d5 exd5 22. Rxd5 Nb6!  23. Rxc5??  Nxc4??

One second for my blunder, 5 seconds for his.
I watched in horror as I knew 23 ... N:d6!!
won a piece.


24. Rxc8 Rxc8 25. Bb4!  Nc7!  26. g3 Ne6!  27. Kg2 b5 28. Nd2!  g5
29. Nxc4 Rxc4!  30. Be7 Kg7!  31. Bf6+ Kg6!  32. Rb2 a6 33. h3 h5
34. f3 g4 35. fxg4!  hxg4!  36. hxg4!  Rxg4!  37. Kf3 Ra4 38. Ke3 Kf5
39. Rd2 Ra3+!  40. Kf2 Kg4 41. Bh4!  Rf3+ 42. Kg2 Re3 43. Rf2!  Rxe5
44. Rxf7!  Re2+ 45. Rf2!!  Rxf2+ 46. Kxf2!  Nc5 47. Ke3!!  a5 48. Kd4 Na4=


Dead even now



49. Bd8!  b4!  50. Bxa5!  Nc3! 51. Bxb4!  Nxa2!  52. Bd6 Nc1!
53. Ke3!  Nb3!  54. Be5!  Nc5!  55. Bf4!  Ne6!  56. Bd6!  Ng7!
57. Kf2!  Nf5!  58. Bf4!  Nxg3!

{Game drawn because neither player has mating material}

1/2-1/2
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Karamasov"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ICCResult "Game drawn because neither player has mating material"]
[WhiteElo "2173"]
[BlackElo "1958"]
[Opening "QGA: 3.Nf3"]
[ECO "D21"]
[NIC "QG.05"]
[Time "05:26:04"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Bf5 4. e3 Bd3 5. Bxd3 cxd3 6. O-O Nf6 7. Nc3 c6
8. e4 e6 9. Bg5 Be7 10. Qxd3 O-O 11. Rad1 Nbd7 12. Rfe1 h6 13. Bf4 Qb6 14.
b3 Bb4 15. Re2 Bxc3 16. Qxc3 Qa6 17. Qc4 Qxc4 18. bxc4 c5 19. Bd6 Rfc8 20.
e5 Ne8 21. d5 exd5 22. Rxd5 Nb6 23. Rxc5 Nxc4 24. Rxc8 Rxc8 25. Bb4 Nc7 26.
g3 Ne6 27. Kg2 b5 28. Nd2 g5 29. Nxc4 Rxc4 30. Be7 Kg7 31. Bf6+ Kg6 32. Rb2
a6 33. h3 h5 34. f3 g4 35. fxg4 hxg4 36. hxg4 Rxg4 37. Kf3 Ra4 38. Ke3 Kf5
39. Rd2 Ra3+ 40. Kf2 Kg4 41. Bh4 Rf3+ 42. Kg2 Re3 43. Rf2 Rxe5 44. Rxf7 Re2+
45. Rf2 Rxf2+ 46. Kxf2 Nc5 47. Ke3 a5 48. Kd4 Na4 49. Bd8 b4 50. Bxa5 Nc3
51. Bxb4 Nxa2 52. Bd6 Nc1 53. Ke3 Nb3 54. Be5 Nc5 55. Bf4 Ne6 56. Bd6 Ng7
57. Kf2 Nf5 58. Bf4 Nxg3 {Game drawn because neither player has mating
material} 1/2-1/2
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Information about Skjerm (Last disconnected Wed Oct 14 2009 17:38):

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
5-minute        2050        782   735   118  1635   2229 (07-Oct-2009)
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I tried for 87 moves to beat
Skjerm in a Fishing Pole but
he hung onto the edge of the cliff,
even when I stomped on his toes.

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Skjerm"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ICCResult "Game drawn by repetition"]
[WhiteElo "2115"]
[BlackElo "2170"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "05:34:26"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

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

The Fishing Pole

5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 h5

My favorite blitz position


7. Bf4 Bc5!

Normal but  7 ... Qf6!!  or ... g5!!
are even better.
There' so much to remember.


8. Nf5!  g5!

Normal but  8 ... g6!!  or ... 0-0!!
are even better.


9. Bg3 d6!!  10. Nc3!  Kf8

That's home in the Fishing Pole


11. Bxc6 bxc6!

because ... dc!!
is impossible



12. Na4 Bb6!  13. Nxb6 axb6!!  14. Qd4 Qf6!!  15. Qxf6 Nxf6!
16. f3 Bxf5!!  17. exf5!  Ke7 18. Rfe1+ Kd7!

Very cozy den



19. a3 Rhe8 20. Kf1 Ra5!!

I should win with my extra pawn now



21. Rxe8!  Nxe8!  22. h4 gxh4 23. Bxh4!

Eliminating pawns


23 ...  Rxf5!

Collecting pawns


24. Kf2 Ng7!  25. Rh1 c5 26. Bg3 b5 27. Rh4 d5 28. Rf4 Rxf4!

Trading pieces. I should win this ending.


29. Bxf4! d4 30. Kg3 Nf5+ 31. Kf2!  c4!!
32. Be5 c5 33. g4 hxg4!!  34. fxg4 Ne7

Wise old Capablanca said one pawn up might not be enough in an ending,
try to win two pawns. 34 ... Ne3!!  would have made Jose Raoul proud.


35. Kf3 Ke6 36. Ke4!  Nd5!!  37. Bg7 c3??


I remember my hand wanted to play  37 ... Nf6+!!  38  Kf3  d3!!



38. b4!!

I felt it all slip away but I was mad and tried for 49 more moves.


38 ...  cxb4 39. axb4!!  Nxb4!  40. Kxd4 Nxc2+!
41. Kxc3!  Ne3!  42. Kb4!  Nxg4!

I keep my one extra pawn all game but it's an obvious draw.


43. Kxb5! Kd5 44. Kb4 Ke4 45. Kc3 f5 46. Kd2 f4 47. Ke1 Kf3 48. Bf8 Kg2
49. Bc5 f3 50. Bb6 Ne5 51. Ba7 Nc6 52. Bc5 Ne5 53. Kd2 Ng4 54. Ke1 Ne5
55. Kd2 Nc4+ 56. Kd3 Ne5+ 57. Kd2 Ng4 58. Ke1 Nf6 59. Bb6 Nd7 60. Ba7 Kg3
61. Kf1 Kf4 62. Kf2 Ke4 63. Kf1 Ne5 64. Bb6 Nc4 65. Ba7 Ne3+ 66. Bxe3 Kxe3
67. Ke1 Ke4 68. Kf2 Kf4 69. Kf1 Kf5 70. Kf2 Kg4 71. Kf1 Kg3 72. Kg1 Kh3
73. Kf2 Kg4 74. Kf1 Kf5 75. Kf2 Ke4 76. Kf1 Kd3 77. Kf2 Ke4 78. Kf1 Ke3
79. Ke1 Kf4 80. Kf2 Kg4 81. Kf1 Kg5 82. Kf2 Kf4 83. Kf1 Ke5 84. Kf2 Ke4
85. Kf1 Ke3 86. Ke1 Kf4 87. Kf2 Kg4


{Game drawn by repetition}      1/2-1/2

Time -  Skjerm   14 seconds
Time -  Brian    62 seconds


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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Skjerm"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ICCResult "Game drawn by repetition"]
[WhiteElo "2115"]
[BlackElo "2170"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "05:34:26"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 h5 7. Bf4 Bc5
8. Nf5 g5 9. Bg3 d6 10. Nc3 Kf8 11. Bxc6 bxc6 12. Na4 Bb6 13. Nxb6 axb6 14.
Qd4 Qf6 15. Qxf6 Nxf6 16. f3 Bxf5 17. exf5 Ke7 18. Rfe1+ Kd7 19. a3 Rhe8 20.
Kf1 Ra5 21. Rxe8 Nxe8 22. h4 gxh4 23. Bxh4 Rxf5 24. Kf2 Ng7 25. Rh1 c5 26.
Bg3 b5 27. Rh4 d5 28. Rf4 Rxf4 29. Bxf4 d4 30. Kg3 Nf5+ 31. Kf2 c4 32. Be5
c5 33. g4 hxg4 34. fxg4 Ne7 35. Kf3 Ke6 36. Ke4 Nd5 37. Bg7 c3 38. b4 cxb4
39. axb4 Nxb4 40. Kxd4 Nxc2+ 41. Kxc3 Ne3 42. Kb4 Nxg4 43. Kxb5 Kd5 44. Kb4
Ke4 45. Kc3 f5 46. Kd2 f4 47. Ke1 Kf3 48. Bf8 Kg2 49. Bc5 f3 50. Bb6 Ne5 51.
Ba7 Nc6 52. Bc5 Ne5 53. Kd2 Ng4 54. Ke1 Ne5 55. Kd2 Nc4+ 56. Kd3 Ne5+ 57.
Kd2 Ng4 58. Ke1 Nf6 59. Bb6 Nd7 60. Ba7 Kg3 61. Kf1 Kf4 62. Kf2 Ke4 63. Kf1
Ne5 64. Bb6 Nc4 65. Ba7 Ne3+ 66. Bxe3 Kxe3 67. Ke1 Ke4 68. Kf2 Kf4 69. Kf1
Kf5 70. Kf2 Kg4 71. Kf1 Kg3 72. Kg1 Kh3 73. Kf2 Kg4 74. Kf1 Kf5 75. Kf2 Ke4
76. Kf1 Kd3 77. Kf2 Ke4 78. Kf1 Ke3 79. Ke1 Kf4 80. Kf2 Kg4 81. Kf1 Kg5 82.
Kf2 Kf4 83. Kf1 Ke5 84. Kf2 Ke4 85. Kf1 Ke3 86. Ke1 Kf4 87. Kf2 Kg4
{Game drawn by repetition}
1/2-1/2
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Information about Goldin(GM) (Last disconnected Wed Oct 14 2009 11:54):

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Bullet          2090  [8]     3    22     2    27   2129 (18-Aug-2007)
Blitz           2404  [8]  2579  2825   401  5805   2647 (01-Feb-2009)
Standard        2004  [6]     2     2     1     5
5-minute        2228        241   204    31   476   2388 (09-Feb-2009)
1-minute        1192  [8]     0     1     0     1

 1: my e-mail goldin at highstream.net

 Name   : Alexander Goldin
 Groups : GMs
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I had seen Alexander Goldin win prize money in countless American Chess
tournaments all the while walking around socializing between moves. I had
a decent position with much more time and thought I had him. Then my house
of cards got blown away by a tsunami.

I had just played the Ulvestad myself in possibly my most exciting Chess game,
34 moves of nonstop action against talented teen phenom Tim Martinson at the
2009 Colorado Open. I had no clue in either game, that's the point of the
variation.

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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Goldin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2157"]
[BlackElo "2242"]
[Opening "two knights defense: Ulvestad variation"]
[ECO "C57"]
[NIC "KP.01"]
[Time "05:44:38"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 b5 6. Bxb5?

6 Bf1!!  is correct but I follow Timmy.


6 ...  Qxd5!!

Goldin follows me.


7. Bf1?

I should have followed Timmy with  7 B:c6+!!  here  or Be2!!


7 ...  h6

7 ... Bc5! is best.



8. Nc3!  Qd7 9. Nge4!!  Nxe4!  10. Nxe4!  Nd4 TL

Theoretical Lemon by GM Alexander Goldin.
Rybka likes 23 ... Be7  or ... Bb7 ( played 3 times )


11. c3!!  Ne6 12. Bc4!!  Bb7!  13. d3!!  O-O-O 14. Qf3!!  Nc5!

GM Goldin thought for 110 seconds on this move.


15. Nxc5!

I thought I might win the game at this point.
I have played 8 perfect moves and I have a
good game plus a 71 second time advantage.


15 ... Bxc5!  16. Qg3!

Only 16 Ba6!! is better


16 ... f5 17. O-O!!

My last 10 moves -
9 Rybka best
plus one Rybka second best

17 ...  f4!  18. Qh3??

In the one second I spent on this blunder I did not consider the right move,
18 Qg6!!

18 ... Qxh3!  19. gxh3!  Rhf8?  20. b4?

In the 15 seconds I spent on this move I did consider the better
20 Be6+!  but not the best  20  Re1!!  Bd6  Be6+!!
and I am safe.


20 ...  Rd6!


This was best last move but
20 ... Rf6!! is best now.
It took me a horrific half of my two
minutes to find a way out of checkmate
as my Grandmaster scalp floated away
like a summer balloon.


21. Re1!

21 Rf1-d1-d2!!  was better but losing,
giving me an escape route on d1.


21 ...  Rg6+!!  22. Kf1!  Bg2+!  23. Ke2!  f3+!  24. Kd1!  Bxf2!

The f3-pawn is too strong, it will cost me some hard wood.



25. Rxe5!  Bb6

25 ... Bd4!!  is cute,
preventing  d4, B:f1



26. d4 f2!  27. Bb2 f1=Q+!  28. Bxf1!  Rxf1+ 29. Ke2!  Rxa1
30. Bxa1!  Bxh3! 31. d5 Kd7 32. c4 Rg2+ 33. Kf3!  Rxa2!
34. c5 Rxa1!  35. cxb6 axb6!  36. Kg3 Ra3+!


Time -
Brian     -  23 seconds
GM Goldin -  29 seconds



37. Kh4

Being a piece down isn't enough,
I need to helpmate myself.

37 ... Rf3 38. Re4 Bf5!!

20 seconds wasn't enough for me to see
that only  38 Kh5!!  stalls the checkmate
at the small price of my last piece.



39. Re3 Rxe3

{White resigns} 0-1

Mate next move.

Final time :

Time -
Brian     -  14 seconds
GM Goldin -  21 seconds

Grandmasters!


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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Goldin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2157"]
[BlackElo "2242"]
[Opening "two knights defense: Ulvestad variation"]
[ECO "C57"]
[NIC "KP.01"]
[Time "05:44:38"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 b5 6. Bxb5 Qxd5 7. Bf1 h6
8. Nc3 Qd7 9. Nge4 Nxe4 10. Nxe4 Nd4 11. c3 Ne6 12. Bc4 Bb7 13. d3 O-O-O 14.
Qf3 Nc5 15. Nxc5 Bxc5 16. Qg3 f5 17. O-O f4 18. Qh3 Qxh3 19. gxh3 Rhf8 20.
b4 Rd6 21. Re1 Rg6+ 22. Kf1 Bg2+ 23. Ke2 f3+ 24. Kd1 Bxf2 25. Rxe5 Bb6 26.
d4 f2 27. Bb2 f1=Q+ 28. Bxf1 Rxf1+ 29. Ke2 Rxa1 30. Bxa1 Bxh3 31. d5 Kd7 32.
c4 Rg2+ 33. Kf3 Rxa2 34. c5 Rxa1 35. cxb6 axb6 36. Kg3 Ra3+ 37. Kh4 Rf3 38.
Re4 Bf5 39. Re3 Rxe3 {White resigns} 0-1
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[Event "2009 Colorado Open"]
[Site "Doubletree Inn, 7801 East Orchard, Denver, Colorado, Indigo ( the in case
of Storm like in you go) Room"]
[Date "2009.09.06"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Tim Martinson, age 14"]
[Black "Brian Wall, supposedly 40 years wiser"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ICCResult "Draw agreed"]
[WhiteElo "1760"]
[BlackElo "2200"]
[Opening "two knights defense: Ulvestad variation"]
[ECO "C57"]
[NIC "KP.01"]
[Time " 9:30 PM"]
[TimeControl "40/90, Game/55 minutes, 5 second delay second time control only"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 b5 6. Bxb5 Qxd5 7. Bxc6+
Qxc6 8. Qf3 e4 9. Qc3 Qd5 10. Qxc7 Bd6 11. Qc3 Qxg5 12. Qc6+ Ke7 13. Qxa8
Qxg2 14. Qxa7+ Bd7 15. Rf1 Ng4 16. Qa6 Nxh2 17. Nc3 Bh3 18. Nd5+ Kd7 19. Ne3
Qf3 20. Qb7+ Ke6 21. Qd5+ Ke7 22. Qg5+ Kd7 23. Rg1 g6 24. Qb5+ Ke7 25. Nd5+
Kf8 26. Qc6 Bb8 27. d4 h6 28. Nf6 Qf5 29. Rh1 Bg2 30. Rxh2 Bxh2 31. Be3 Kg7
32. Ne8+ Kh7 33. d5 Be5 34. O-O-O Bf3

Tim Martinson accepted Brian Wall's draw offer.
1/2-1/2
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[Event "RUS-ch (Women)"]
[Site "Elista"]
[Date "1994.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Solomonova, Lidia"]
[Black "Kulish, Irina"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C57"]
[BlackElo "2235"]
[PlyCount "31"]
[EventDate "1994.??.??"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1996.11.15"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 b5 6. Bxb5 Qxd5 7. Bf1 h6 8.
Nc3 Qd7 9. Nge4 Nxe4 10. Nxe4 Bb7 11. d3 O-O-O 12. Be3 f5 13. Nc5 Bxc5 14. Bxc5
Qd5 15. Be3 e4 16. d4 1/2-1/2

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[Event "AUT-chT2M 9900"]
[Site "Austria"]
[Date "1999.10.24"]
[Round "3.2"]
[White "Teufl, Siegfried"]
[Black "Hackbarth, Wolfgang"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C57"]
[WhiteElo "2258"]
[BlackElo "2157"]
[PlyCount "183"]
[EventDate "1999.??.??"]
[EventType "team"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "AUT"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2003.11.25"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 b5 6. Bxb5 Qxd5 7. Bf1 h6 8.
Nc3 Qd7 9. Nge4 Nxe4 10. Nxe4 Bb7 11. d3 f5 12. Qh5+ Qf7 13. Qxf7+ Kxf7 14. Ng3
Nd4 15. Kd1 g6 16. c3 Ne6 17. f3 Bg7 18. Kc2 c5 19. h4 h5 20. Bd2 a5 21. a4 Bd5
22. Ne2 Rhb8 23. c4 Bc6 24. Bc3 Nd4+ 25. Nxd4 cxd4 26. Bd2 e4 27. fxe4 fxe4 28.
Bf4 Rb7 29. Rg1 Kg8 30. g4 Rf8 31. Bg3 hxg4 32. Be2 Bd7 33. b3 Bf5 34. Rad1 Re8
35. Rge1 Bf8 36. dxe4 Rxe4 37. Bd3 Re3 38. Rxe3 dxe3 39. h5 e2 40. Rb1 Bb4 41.
hxg6 Bxd3+ 42. Kxd3 Re7 43. Be1 g3 44. Bxg3 e1=Q 45. Bxe1 Bxe1 46. c5 Bb4 47.
c6 Rc7 48. Rc1 Kg7 49. Ke4 Kxg6 50. Kd5 Kf6 51. Rh1 Rg7 52. Rc1 Rc7 53. Rc4 Ke7
54. Rh4 Rc8 55. Rh7+ Kd8 56. Ra7 Rc7 57. Ra8+ Rc8 58. Ra7 Rc7 59. Ra6 Re7 60.
Ra8+ Kc7 61. Ra6 Re3 62. Ra7+ Kb8 63. Rb7+ Kc8 64. Rh7 Rc3 65. Rh8+ Kc7 66.
Rh7+ Kb8 67. Rh8+ Ka7 68. Rh7+ Ka6 69. c7 Kb7 70. c8=Q+ Kxc8 71. Rh8+ Kb7 72.
Rh7+ Rc7 73. Rh1 Rc5+ 74. Kd4 Rc3 75. Rh7+ Kb6 76. Rh6+ Rc6 77. Rh5 Bc5+ 78.
Kc3 Bf2+ 79. Kb2 Bd4+ 80. Kb1 Bc5 81. Kc2 Bb4+ 82. Kb2 Rd6 83. Rh3 Rd2+ 84. Kc1
Kc5 85. Rh5+ Kd4 86. Rh4+ Kc3 87. Rc4+ Kxb3 88. Rxb4+ axb4 89. Kxd2 Kxa4 90.
Kc2 Ka3 91. Kb1 Kb3 92. Ka1 0-1

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[Event "RUS-Cup 300 years"]
[Site "St Petersburg"]
[Date "2003.10.22"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Shaginjan, Armen"]
[Black "Obukhov, Alexander"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C57"]
[WhiteElo "2319"]
[BlackElo "2467"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2003.10.18"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2003.11.25"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 b5 6. Bxb5 Qxd5 7. Bf1 h6 8.
Nc3 Qd7 9. Nge4 Nxe4 10. Nxe4 Bb7 11. d3 O-O-O 12. Be3 Nd4 13. c3 f5 14. cxd4
fxe4 15. Be2 Bb4+ 16. Bd2 Qxd4 17. O-O Bxd2 18. Bg4+ Kb8 19. Qxd2 exd3 20. Bd1
Rhf8 21. Rc1 Rd6 22. Rc3 Rg6 23. g3 Qd5 24. f3 e4 25. Qe3 exf3 26. Rxf3 Rxf3
27. Bxf3 Qxf3 28. Qe8+ Bc8 29. Qxg6 Qd1+ 30. Kg2 Qe2+ 31. Kg1 Bh3 0-1

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Information about UlTRaMate(IM) (Last disconnected Wed Oct 14 2009 06:13):

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Wild            1427  [6]     0     5     0     5
Loser's         1407  [6]     8    41     0    49   1500 (10-Sep-2004)
Crazyhouse      1581  [6]     6     7     0    13
Bullet          2153  [8]   120    95    14   229   2179 (16-Jan-2009)
Blitz           2685  [1]  2561  3098   362  6021   2913 (14-Dec-2007)
5-minute        2422        940   791   157  1888   2485 (10-Jan-2009)
1-minute        2258  [8]   272   213    25   510   2418 (31-Dec-2008)
15-minute       1688  [4]     1     1     0     2

 1: IM Emre Can

 Name   : emre can
 Groups : IMs
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This is the last ICC game I played ( all the games in this email are in my
history which saves my last 20 games ) and it fits nicely into the theme.
I am completely outplayed emotionally, spiritually, positionally and
materially by International Master Emre Can but miraculously hold the draw
anyway.
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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "UlTRaMate"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ICCResult "Game drawn by mutual agreement"]
[WhiteElo "2336"]
[BlackElo "2148"]
[Opening "Bogo-Indian defense, Gr?nfeld variation"]
[ECO "E11"]
[NIC "QI.01"]
[Time "12:21:22"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Bb4+ 4. Nbd2 O-O 5. e3 c5 6. a3 Bxd2+
7. Bxd2 cxd4 8. Nxd4 Nc6 9. Bd3 d5 10. Nxc6!  bxc6!  11. O-O e5
12. cxd5 cxd5 13. Rc1 Be6 14. Bc3!

Two Bishops

14 ... Nd7 15. f4 e4 16. Bb1 f6 17. Ba2 Nb6!  18. Qd4 Qd7!
19. Rfd1 Rad8 20. Ba5! Rfe8 21. Rd2 Qb5 22. Bxb6 axb6!
23. Rcd1 h6 24. h3 Kh8 25. Qb4 Qxb4!  26. axb4! Re7
27. Rd4 Red7!  28. Kf2 Kg8??

I knew that square was mined but forgot.
Despite 14 moves of IM Emre Can piling up on my weaknesses
I might hold with  28 ... g5!!  and  29 ... Kg7!


29. Rxe4!!

It looks very grim now
but 35 seconds later ...


29 ...  Bf7 30. Red4!  Kf8 31. e4!!  Ke7 32. Bxd5 Bxd5!  33. Rxd5

I don't have much to show for my two pawns down after  33 ed!!

33 ... Rxd5!!  34. Rxd5 Rxd5!!  35. exd5!  Kd6!
36. Ke3  Kxd5!  37. Kd3!  f5!!!!

Suddenly I have an impenetrable
fortress and IM Emre Can can't!


38. h4  h5!=


I was especially proud that I did not even need to
spend my ... g6 tempo, I could put him in the bank.


39. b5 Kc5!!  40. Kc3!  Kd5!!  41. Kd3!  Kc5!!


The 41  ... Ke4!  42 Kc4!
adventure also drew
and I had less time.



42. g3!  Kd5!!  43. Kc3!  Kc5!  44. b4+!  Kd5!

The 44 ... K:b5  45 Kb3  Kc6  46 Ka4  g6
47 Kb3 Kd5  48 Kc3  Ke4  49 Kc4  Kf3
adventure also drew and I had less time.



45. Kd3

{Game drawn by mutual agreement}   1/2-1/2

The 45 ... g6  46 Kc3 Ke4  47 Kc4  Kf3
adventure also drew and I had less time.

Final Time -
Brian -         49 seconds
IM Ultramate -  92 seconds

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[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Round "-"]
[White "UlTRaMate"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ICCResult "Game drawn by mutual agreement"]
[WhiteElo "2336"]
[BlackElo "2148"]
[Opening "Bogo-Indian defense, Gr?nfeld variation"]
[ECO "E11"]
[NIC "QI.01"]
[Time "12:21:22"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Bb4+ 4. Nbd2 O-O 5. e3 c5 6. a3 Bxd2+ 7. Bxd2 cxd4
8. Nxd4 Nc6 9. Bd3 d5 10. Nxc6 bxc6 11. O-O e5 12. cxd5 cxd5 13. Rc1 Be6 14.
Bc3 Nd7 15. f4 e4 16. Bb1 f6 17. Ba2 Nb6 18. Qd4 Qd7 19. Rfd1 Rad8 20. Ba5
Rfe8 21. Rd2 Qb5 22. Bxb6 axb6 23. Rcd1 h6 24. h3 Kh8 25. Qb4 Qxb4 26. axb4
Re7 27. Rd4 Red7 28. Kf2 Kg8 29. Rxe4 Bf7 30. Red4 Kf8 31. e4 Ke7 32. Bxd5
Bxd5 33. Rxd5 Rxd5 34. Rxd5 Rxd5 35. exd5 Kd6 36. Ke3 Kxd5 37. Kd3 f5 38. h4
h5 39. b5 Kc5 40. Kc3 Kd5 41. Kd3 Kc5 42. g3 Kd5 43. Kc3 Kc5 44. b4+ Kd5 45.
Kd3 {Game drawn by mutual agreement} 1/2-1/2
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BrianWallChess.net
www.Walverine.com

From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct 15 13:51:35 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:51:35 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] [UnorthodoxChessOpenings]Ty Kroll blitz games,
	elephant gambit, from's gambit
Message-ID: <1255636295.4ad77d47318e8@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Ty Kroll <tmkroll at hotmail.com> -----
    Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:09:18 -0500
    From: Ty Kroll <tmkroll at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] blitz games, elephant gambit, from's gambit
      To: unorthodoxchessopenings at yahoogroups.com


I was playing 3 minute Blitz last night and did venture a few elephants as well
one of the best From gambits I've ever played.  We did some talking about the
elephant recently, and I don't know how unorthodox one would consider From's
gambit to Bird's opening, but it's probably one of the best games I've ever
played, so I'm sharing....

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d5 3. Nxe5 dxe4 4. d4 Bd6 5. Nc4 (the annoying variation Brian
Wall used to nutralize "elephant man" Phil Corbin)

5... Be7 (Phil suggested this might be best... I don't know...

I have a hard time believing white is anything but a little worse after 5... Nf6
6. Nxd6 Qxd6 when he's (as Jensen, Purser, and Pape explain) traded a piece
which has moved 4 times for one which has only moved once.  Yes, white has the
bishop pair, and white has gotten rid of black's powerful bishop, a bishop
which black has a sacrificed a pawn to produce... oh wait, black doesn't
sacrifice a pawn in this variation... but look at white's pieces all on the
back rank... *white* is behind in development in this line!... you don't see
that every day... anyway Be7 doesn't seem bad either.  I tried Nf6 in an
earlier game and it was just annoying.  I had a hard time figuring out what
black's plan should be without that bishop.  5. Nc4 is certainly a way to
unsettle elephant gambit players... it made me play Be7, though I don't think
it's a good move apart from pschology.)

6. Be2 f5 (this is a bit much... Nf6 is the sensible choice) 7. Nc3 Nf6 8.
O-O O-O 9. Bf4 c6 (I certainly had better moves here) 10. Be5 Nfd7 11. Bd6 Nf6
12. Bxe7 (and the bishop gets traded anyway) Qxe7 13. f3 (this was a mistake,
white needs to secure e3 first) e3 14. Qd3 f4
15. Ne4 Bf5 16. Ne5 Nbd7 17. Nxf6+ Qxf6 18. Nxd7 Bxd7 19. Qb3+ Be6 20. Bc4 Rae8
21. Rae1 Re7 22. Bxe6+ Rxe6 23. Qxb7 Qxd4 24. c3 Qc5 25. Kh1 Rd8 26. Re2 Red6
27. Qb3+ Kh8 28. Qf7 Qb5 29. Ree1 (black is better here, before the blunderfest
that follows... I'd have rather won the game under better circumstances, but
it's 3 minute blitz... you get stuff like this sometimes.)

29. ...Rd1??

(here we had a sort of double chess blindness.  This can happen when timers are
under 10 seconds... a sort of Jedi mind trick where I was so focused on an
attack in the back rank I actually believed Rd1 was a good move.  My oppenent,
not assuming I'd have given a rook for nothing, didn't take the time to check
the line.  Instead he was so focused on his plan to undermine my advanced pawn
he blundered as well.)

30. Qxf4?? Qxf1+ 0-1 (white resigns... my play was sub-optimal... apart from the
terrible ending if white hadn't played "lucky" 13. f3 I'd have had nothing...
certainly not the most perfect game ever... but I'm still learning.)

(1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d5 3. Nxe5 dxe4 4. d4 Bd6 5. Nc4 Be7 6. Be2 f5 7. Nc3 Nf6 8.
O-O O-O 9. Bf4 c6 10. Be5 Nfd7 11. Bd6 Nf6 12. Bxe7 Qxe7 13. f3 e3 14. Qd3 f4
15. Ne4 Bf5 16. Ne5 Nbd7 17. Nxf6+ Qxf6 18. Nxd7 Bxd7 19. Qb3+ Be6 20. Bc4 Rae8
21. Rae1 Re7 22. Bxe6+ Rxe6 23. Qxb7 Qxd4 24. c3 Qc5 25. Kh1 Rd8 26. Re2 Red6
27. Qb3+ Kh8 28. Qf7 Qb5 29. Ree1 Rd1 30. Qxf4 Qxf1+)

*****

And now for something where my play is not so bad...

1. f4 e5 (I don't think the From's gambit is sound... if someone else has some
evidence otherwise I'd love to see it!)

2. fxe5 d6 3. exd6 Bxd6 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. g3? (but I don't think white can play this
move)

5 ...h5 6. Bg2 h4?!

(I'd like to know if this was the most accurate... Fritz thinks white
is ok here if he just takes the pawn... I think white should be worse
after 5. g3... I don't know if I'm wrong with that assessment or wrong
with 6... h4)

7. O-O hxg3 8. hxg3 Bxg3 9. d4 Nc6 10. c3 Bg4 11. Bg5 Bxf3 (Qd6 now! was much
better) 12. exf3 Qd6 13.
Qe2+ Kf8 14. f4 Re8 15. Qf3 Bh2+ (I'd like to have played 15. Nxd4 here) 16. Kf2
Nxd4 (but I played 16. Nxd4 instead... it's just as good) 17. cxd4 Qxd4+ 0-1
(white resigns)

My big mistake (if you don't count playing the From gambit as a big mistake)
appears to have been: 11... Bxf3 and I'd love to know if 6... h4 was a good
move or a bad move.  Still this is easily one of my best games.  Then again
white didn't play very well, so the quality of the game is not so great that
way.

(1. f4 e5 2. fxe5 d6 3. exd6 Bxd6 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. g3 h5 6. Bg2 h4
7. O-O hxg3 8. hxg3 Bxg3 9. d4 Nc6 10. c3 Bg4 11. Bg5 Bxf3 12. exf3 Qd6 13.
Qe2+ Kf8 14. f4 Re8 15. Qf3 Bh2+ 16. Kf2 Nxd4 17. cxd4 Qxd4+)

Comments?

Ty Kroll
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Brian Wall

I am going to add my own comments here. I think Ty is the guy that got kicked
out of Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com a few years ago for some silly reason
and started his own Yahoo group.


1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d5 3. Nxe5 dxe4 4. d4 Bd6 5. Nc4

Phil Corbin was the only player to try the
Elephant Gambit on me that I remember other
than a few blitz games. The ratio in my life
was probably a thousand games as Black to one
as White.

One of the advantages of playing a system repeatedly is you know
what you would hate to see on the other side. This was Karpov's
main training method, switching sides in critical positions.

The d6 Bishop is like the torch on the Statue of Liberty,
a symbol of Black Hope. Neutralizing the best running
back leaves Black scrambling for a plan.

I had seen and played enough Elephant Gambits to know that
the d6-Bishop was most often the star player.

A Chessmaster likes to have some hope of winning, something tangible
out of the opening, something he can bite on and point to.
Botvinnik put the advantage of the two Bishops best.

" Not much, maybe nothing, but Black better be careful
or those two Bishops will cost him the endgame. "
Botvinnnik

In my Corbin game I was in no danger and finally
squeezed a win from a Bishop versus Knight endgame.
It beats getting mated in a miniature.

I have no problem with any theoretician saying 5 Nc4 confers no advantage,
it's just that I wouldn't enjoy that position as Black. No fun.

The thing about the Two Bishops is that one subtle, undetectable
mistake and Black could be permanently disadvantaged.

Rybka says  5 ... Nf6  or ... Be7 are both equal and best.



5 ... Be7 6. Be2 f5

I read every note of Jonathan Rogers' short book on the Elephant Gambit twice
and one thing he emphasized is that ... Nf6 lines are better than ... f5 lines
although pyschologically starting the Kingside pawn roller felt good.


7. Nc3 Nf6!  8. O-O!  O-O!  9. Bf4! c6 10. Be5

RSM - Reserve Section Mystery.
10 f3! chips away at the dangerous Black center.
Perhaps  10 f3!!  Nh5??  bothered Blacked so he looked
for a safer home, a protected square. Loose Pieces Drop Off.
A clear waste of time when something like
Qd2, Rae1, f3 is begging to be played.


10 ... Nfd7

One of my saying is-
Retreating an active piece is often the postmortem mistake.
Just developing with  10 ... Nbd7 or  10 ... Be6, ... Nbd7
makes sense. Someday I will write a eulogy for class-player's Rooks.


11. Bd6

Restless Bishop.
11 Nd6!  is pretty obnoxious and 11 f3! is thematic

11 ... Nf6

Removing the first log from the Queenside jam.
The dark-squared Bishops seem to have a hypnotic
effect on both players.


12. Bxe7!  Qxe7!  13. f3!

It's even.


13 ...  e3!?


Hard for a human to deal with.
13 Qd2!  to prevent this mess
was an option.



14. Qd3

14 f4!! does everything,
prevents  ... f4, sets up  Ne5
and surely wins the e3-pawn.

14 ... f4!!


Now Ty's position is very vigorous, easy to improve.


15. Ne4 Bf5!

No hint of a stunted Queenside now.
15 ... Be6, ... Nbd7, ... Na6
all good, anything to unravel
and build on the e3-spearhead.

16. Ne5 Nbd7 17. Nxf6+ Qxf6!!

Attacking everything of White's past the first two ranks.


18. Nxd7!  Bxd7!  19. Qb3+!  Be6

19 ... Kh8!! is more flexible  20 Q:b7  Bf5!
White's Queenside is under seige.


20. Bc4 Rae8 21. Rae1!

Masters get developed in spite of hanging pawns,
Class players move their Rooks after everything
else is battened down. The protected passed e3-pawn
gives Ty a clear edge.

21 ... Re7 22. Bxe6+!  Rxe6! 23. Qxb7 Qxd4!  24. c3 Qc5

Ty is avoiding Queen trades


25. Kh1 Rd8  26. Re2 Red6 27. Qb3+ Kh8

Ty has no time to trade Queens and play an endgame but
27 ... Qd5!! with a hammerlock on d3-d2-d1  surely wins


28. Qf7 Mosquito Chess


28 ... Qb5

28 .... Rd1!!  wins on the
spot but Ty goes Adams -Torre.



29. Ree1!!  Rd1??

One move too late but if you move fast enough
30 R:d1!  e2??   looks deadly.



30. Qxf4??   Qxf1+!!

mating

I think it's a good game in that it demonstrates the corridors of power,
the f,e and d files in the Elephant Gambit.
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1. f4 e5 2. fxe5 d6 3. exd6 Bxd6 4. Nf3 Nf6

Everyone seems ready for ... g5 so I like this approach.


5. g3 h5

Direct and brutal


6. Bg2 h4!!

Lighting a trail of gasoline from d6 to h2.
White is collapsing after 6 moves. The only
moves that prevent the ruinous  7 ... hg!
are  7 gh  Ng4!!  with the threat of taking on h2 with either piece  or
7  e4   threatening e5  but
7 e4  Nc6!!!, ... Bg4!!, ... Qe7!!, ... Ng4!!, ... h3!  or ... N:e4
are all great for Ty.

I think I am going to adopt Ty's approach.
It looks like a Fishing Pole on steroids.



7. O-O hxg3!!

Massacre


8. hxg3!  Bxg3!  9. d4 Nc6!!

The top killers are
9 ... Qd6!!!, ... Nc6!!, ... Ng4!!
all increasing the dark square pressure.
It's a typical Fishing Pole puzzle,
too many wins.
Let's follow 9 ... Qd6!!! a while,
9 ... Qd6!!!  10 Qd3  Bh2+  11 Kh1!  Nc6!!  12 c3  Bf5!!
13  Q:f5!  Nh5!!  14 Qe4+  Kf8  15  N:h2  Ng3+  16 Kg1  N:e4
with a Queen for Two Bishops.
Dark-Square invasion in its purest form.
9 ... Qd6!!!  10 Qd3  Bh2+  11 Kf2  Qg3+  mates
12  Ke3  Qf4+  13 Kf2  Ng4+  14 Ke1 Q:c1+  15  Qd1  Bg3+
16  Rf2  B:f2+  17  Kf1  Q:d1+  18 Ne1  Q:e1 checkmate
total wipeout
9 ... Qd6!!!  10 Qd3  Bh2+  11 N:h2  Q:h2+  12 Kf2  Ng4+
13 Ke1  Q:g2  14 c3 or Nc3  Rh1  with an extra piece  or
9 ... Qd6!!!  10 Qd3  Bh2+  11 N:h2  Q:h2+  12 Kf2  Ng4+
13 Kf3  Rh3+!!  14  B:h3  Q:h3+  wins the Rook


10. c3 Bg4

Top killers -
10 ... Qd6!!, ... Ng4!!, ... Be6!!, ... Qe7!!, ... Bf5!!, ... Rh5!!, ... Qd5!!
It's always interesting to me to see which
moves are stronger than simple developing moves.


11. Bg5 Bxf3??


All the top moves this time are Queen moves,
11 ... Qd6!!, ... Qd7!!, ... Qe7!!  or  ... Qd5!
all intending ... 0-0-0!! with unbearable pressure
in the Danger Zone.
11 ... Bh3!!  is much better than 11 ... B:f3??


12. exf3?

White is almost out of the woods with  12 R:f3!!

12 ...  Qd6!!


Yess!!

13. Qe2+!  Kf8!!

Home in the Fishing Pole


14. f4?   Re8!!


It's a wireless router now

15. Qf3 Bh2+!!

15 ... N:d4!!!=Death


16. Kf2

16  Kh1  B:f4+!!
Put a cross on the highway

16 ...  Nxd4!!!

The two best moves are Knight to the 4th rank targetting King and Queen -
16 ... Ne4+!!  is also pure destruction


17. cxd4

Only two Rook moves avoid immediate Checkmate,
17  Re1  N:f3   winning Queen for Knight with a raging attack and
17  Rd1  Bg1+!!!  followed by  the devastating ... N:f3!!  next move.

17 ... Qxd4+

Ty will win the Queen and King next move.

A brutal power display on how to mall the Bird's Opening.
Is Keith Hayward going to stand for this?

Brian Wall
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From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:42:19 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Gambit September 2009 Nebraska State
	Chess Archives
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I didn't write anything for the Florida or Colorado State Chess
magazines last issue but Kent Nelson wrote some articles for the
Nebraska State Chess Magazine this month called

THE WONDERFUL MISTER WALL

with subtitles
Mr. Wall's Opening Chess Weapon
The Fishing Pole Rules
The Fishing Pole strikes again
Camp Comments about Drunken Penguins

combining Kent's thoughts with some of my email
details about my trip to Nebraska this summer.
I enjoyed the trip and the article very much.

I will try to rerelease my Nebraska emails,
including ones I have been saving for this moment.

From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct 15 14:46:12 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:46:12 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Seeing Double Drunken Penguin huge hit in
	Nebraska
Message-ID: <1255639572.4ad78a141ce0e@www.taom.com>



I thought I would send this to just a few key people

Noe Van Hulst  inventor  of the Camel and the Drunken Penguin

Jennifer Svoboda, mother of Weston ( SDCC ), Lincoln Chess camp survivor

IM John Watson, Lincoln Camp Coach

Kent Nelson, Editor of the State Nebraska magazine THE GAMBIT

AND IF NO ONE OBJECTED
publish this in the Gambit, the Colorado Informant
or just send it out as an email.

Your move, people.

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Just got back from The Lincoln Chess Foundation in Nebraska.
Chess Camp for kids with old buddy
IM John Watson
( needs no introduction )
and Keaton Kiewra
( Samford Scholarship, 7 time Nebraska Champion starting at age 14, 1 GM norm )

http://www.lincolnchessfoundation.org/

I showed all the regular stuff like endgames, middle games, normal openings,
also lots of original theories of Chess, the stuff your Mom never tells you.

I also had a blast with my unorthodox openings.
I refrained for 3 days as a matter of
self-discipline to bring my book to camp.

My favorite new Opening that a kid came up with was from the Outstanding student
for the Red Group, James Rehwaldt-Alexander. James has a great attitude and I am
glad he won, partly because I spent the 1st three days thinking he was a girl
( long hair ).

James came up with -

[Event "Lincoln Foundation Chess Camp"]
[Site "Lincoln Christian School"]
[Date "2009.06.23"]
[Round "No, Square"]
[White "James Rehwaldt-Alexander"]
[Black "James Rehwaldt-Alexander"]
[Result "Brand New Unorthodox Opening"]
[ICCResult "White hugs Black"]
[WhiteElo "660"]
[BlackElo "660"]
[Opening "The Picture Frame"]
[ECO "A02"]
[NIC "VO.07"]
[Time "03:23:28"]
[TimeControl "None"]

1. f4 f5 2. c4 c5 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nc6 5. e3 e6
6. d3 d6 7. Be2 Be7 8. Bd2 Bd7

The name of James' opening is

" The Picture Frame "

The pawns and pieces create a free square in the central squares.
I would put a wallet-sized picture of my daughter Phyllis in there
on the demo board.

James was very cooperative. His mother told me he loves Chess.

I took my own class vote for outstanding student with these results.

Red Group

Will Grossman - voted Outstanding Student by his classmates.
James Rehwaldt-Alexander - voted Outstanding Student, second place

Leo Lu - voted best class clown, unanimous decision.

Green Group -

Matt Savage - voted Outstanding Student by his classmates ( won two trophies )

I have never been to France or met Noe Van Hulst but I wish he was at the Camp.
I haven't laughed so hard in years. I had the children imitate animals and then
I would show them the appropiate animal opening. I was convulsed against the
blackboard with laughter when the kids imitated " Seeing Double Drunken Penguin
". They were waddling around bumping into walls and telling each other they saw
two of them. Some kids stumbled to the floor and couldn't seem to get up. The
Drunken penguin was a HUGE hit with the kids.

" They have tried to teach me the Sicilian until the cows come home
but I will never learn to play that opening right. You can learn the
Drunken Penguin in two moves! "
Alex Souliere

The other teachers were aghast. To fix my wagon John Watson had
" Picture Frame "  Inventor James Rehwaldt-Alexander claim he had invented
" Batty Brian's Bologne Bird ". The children played an interesting
game from this opening which was roughly equal.

[Event "Lincoln Foundation Chess Camp"]
[Site "Lincoln Christian School"]
[Date "2009.06.26"]
[Round "2"]
[White "International Openings Authority IM John Watson, James
Rehwaldt-Alexander"]
[Black "International Openings Authority IM John Watson, James
Rehwaldt-Alexander"]
[Result "*"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2500"]
[BlackElo "2500"]
[Opening "Batty Brian's Bologne Bird"]
[ECO "A00"]
[Time "03:23:28"]
[TimeControl "One week"]

1. a4 f5 2. b4 f4

Batty Brian's Bologne Bird
invented by
International Openings Authority IM John Watson,
presented by
James Rehwaldt-Alexander
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9 year old Alex Brotsker invented the Aardvark on the way to Camp
( We traveled together ) .

[Event "Car ride from Colorado to Nebraska's heat wave"]
[Site "Carl Brostsker's station wagon"]
[Date "2009.06.20"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Alex Brotsker, age 9"]
[Black "Brian Wall, age 54, acts 12"]
[Result "Alex hugged Brian"]
[ICCResult "Brian hugged Alex"]
[WhiteElo "329"]
[BlackElo "2202"]
[Opening "The Aardvark, the Anteater"]
[ECO "A00"]
[Time "03:23:28"]
[TimeControl "7 hours"]

1. h3 Nf6 2. c3 Ng8 3. b3

The Aardvark, the Anteater
by Alex Brotsker, age 9 and Brian Wall

The h3 pawn is the Aardvark snout or the Anteater
tongue licking up the black ants ( pawns )

c3,b3 is the body of the Aardvark Anteater
a2,d2 are the feet.

I fell asleep on the ride home:
Carl and Alex Brotsker compared
me to Pokemon character
Snorelax.

http://www.geocities.com/paulisakids/JustinsSnorelax.gif

http://maxpages.com/files/squrtlesquad/snorlax.gif

http://www.geocities.com/doomtower/tokemon/snorelax.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1112/1414476811_86a1f8cdd6.jpg?v=0

http://media.photobucket.com/image/snorelax/asianpunkrock232/snorelax.jpg

http://media.photobucket.com/image/snorelax/asianpunkrock232/snorelax.jpg
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Snorelax

How do you wake up Snorelax on pokemon gold?
In: Pokemon Silver Gold and Crystal

Answer
get the poke flute
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Snorelax characteristics -

weighs 1,014.1 pounds

height 6' 11"

sleeps all day

wakes up a few hours to eat

Surprisingly, Snorelax keeps gaining weight.
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John told me they haven't had a Lincoln, Nebraska Chess Club in 15 years.
Camp Director Tom Lombard donated the third floor of an office building downtown
to
start one. There was a guy there, Kent Nelson, who remember playing me in
Estes Park, Colorado  30 years ago. I was White against an Accelerated Dragon
( Keaton's GM weapon of choice ) and I ground him down in an endgame. Kent said
he was or is on my email list. Kent writes The Gambit, the Nebraska State Chess
Archives ( The Nebraska State Chess magazine ). Kent is almost done with a
tribute book on a top Nebraska player.

All the Nebraska men looked tough as nails with sunburned, muscular arms from
decades of brutal farm work. It was a heat wave all week, like 110 degrees.
There was some laconic, typical tough Nebraskan at the Chess Club. Nebraska is
one giant farm where everyone works three times as hard as the rest of the
United States. They work dawn to dusk to put meat, milk and corn on our dinner
tables, fighting drought, dirt storms, locusts, taxes, environmentalists, etc.

Lincoln Chess Club
June 25, 2009
Crowd, Tom Lombard( Camp Director ), John Watson, Kent Nelson,
Camp Counselor Nathan ( 6' 9")

Antagonists -

White -
Nebraskan Karl Feiste,
1800, about 60 years old

Black -
Life Master Brian Wall,
2202, about 54 1/2  years old

Opening -
Fishing Pole

Thursday Evening,
after a wonderful Indian meal at
the Oven with the Camp staff:
Casual game

The conversation opened like this:

Brian -
You want a beer?

Karl, animated already -
No, No, I don't drink beer!

Brian -
Crystal Meth?

Karl, apoplectic now -
What!? Drugs!?
No, I don't want drugs,
even my doctors can't give me drugs!

Brian -
Do you want to play Chess with a clock?

Karl, still excited -
No, no clock, no clock!

[Event "Lincoln Chess Club casual game"]
[Site "3rd floor, downtown Lincoln, NE"]
[Date "2009.06.25"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Karl Feiste"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "1800"]
[BlackElo "2202"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "07:23:28"]
[TimeControl "None"]

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

I already beat the 7 time State Champion in a slow game with the Fishing Pole,
surely no one else in Nebraska stood a ghost of a chance.

Brian -
I announce mate in 10.

Karl-
gritted his teeth,
determined not to allow that

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

Karl Feiste, feistily -
What's this nonsense?

Brian -
This is the Hyper-Pole.
You are playing its inventor.

Karl,
What, what, how do you spell all this?

Karl carefully writes down,
Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole, Brian Douglas Wall
on his scoresheet.


8. h3 h5!!

I am a scientist testing lab rats under stressful conditions.
My control group plays the London System.

9. Bg5?

very popular mistake.


9 ...  f6!!

They call me the Pawn Wave Guy in Colorado.

Brian announces -
I have fish to fry.


10. Bh4?

very popular mistake.


10 ...  g5!!

Fritz has taught me that  ... g5  can be started
without playing ... d6 first and Rybka 3 agrees.


11. Bxc6?

The ever popular Trade-Trade-Lose style of the unwashed masses.

11 ... dxc6!!

My Queen's Bishop wants to help out with tempo.
11 ... bc!  is OK
but  11 ... gh??  12 Bd5!!
is all wrong, killing my attack


12. Bg3 h4!!  13. Bh2 Nxh2!!  14. Nxh2

Just handing over an extra pawn and two bishops versus two knights
but my intended  14  K:h2  g4!!  is very strong.
14  K:h2  g4!!  15 Ng1  I have multiple wins -  15 ... gh, ... ed, ... Qd6
14  K:h2  g4!!  15 hg  B:g4  16  de?  h3!! killer
would follow almost any 16th move by Karl



14 ...exd4!

I didn't get my mate in 10 but I have an easy endgame to execute.
Having IM John Watson watching made me nervous.



15. cxd4 Qxd4  16. Nc3 Qxd1!  17. Raxd1!  Be6!  18. Rd2

Intending more Trade-Trade-Lose


18 ... Ke7! 19. Rfd1!  Rad8!  20. Rxd8 Rxd8!  21. Rxd8!  Kxd8!
22. b3 Ke7 23. Nf3 Bc5 24. Kf1!  Bb4 25. Nb1 c5!!

Trying to undouble my pawns and activate my 4-2 Queenside majority,
backed up by two bishops. Nathan would call this a slam dunk.


26. Nbd2 b5 27. Ke2!  a5 28. Kd3!  a4 29. Kc2 Bxd2

I thought my King could finally invade on the
dark squares if I removed one White Knight.


30. Nxd2!  Kd6 31. Kc3 Ke5

Multiple wins.
31 ... a3!!
is very difficut to cope with.


32. Kd3 axb3!!   33. axb3!  Bxb3!!

0-1  White resigns
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[Event "Lincoln Chess Club casual game"]
[Site "3rd floor, downtown Lincoln, NE"]
[Date "2009.06.25"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Karl Feiste"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "1800"]
[BlackElo "2202"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "07:23:28"]
[TimeControl "None"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. c3 a6 6. Ba4 Bc5 7. d4 Ba7 8.
h3 h5 9. Bg5 f6 10. Bh4 g5 11. Bxc6 dxc6 12. Bg3 h4 13. Bh2 Nxh2 14. Nxh2
exd4 15. cxd4 Qxd4 16. Nc3 Qxd1 17. Raxd1 Be6 18. Rd2 Ke7 19. Rfd1 Rad8 20.
Rxd8 Rxd8 21. Rxd8 Kxd8 22. b3 Ke7 23. Nf3 Bc5 24. Kf1 Bb4 25. Nb1 c5 26.
Nbd2 b5 27. Ke2 a5 28. Kd3 a4 29. Kc2 Bxd2 30. Nxd2 Kd6 31. Kc3 Ke5 32. Kd3
axb3 33. axb3 Bxb3

0-1  White resigns
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I told the kids IM John Watson was the world greatest authority on the English,
the French and many other openings. We went over the Najdorf, the Dragon, the
center. I had them compare the mobility of pieces in the corner versus the
center ( I think it was 47 moves versus 70 moves ). The kids played King of the
Hill for a minute to get the idea of fighting for central squares.

I used the Zebra Opening ( invented for my son Devon )
to explain Knight Outposts.

We went over the Raccoon, the Moose, the Orangutan,
the Hawk, the Crab, the Camel, the Crab.

I think Karpov once used one of my favorite setups against the Pirc.

[Event ""]
[Site ""]
[Date "2009.06.21"]
[Round ""]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black ""]
[Result "*"]
[ICCResult ""]
[WhiteElo "2202"]
[BlackElo ""]
[Opening "Pirc defense, The Mound, the Aztec Temple"]
[ECO "B07"]
[NIC "PU.08"]
[Time "03:23:28"]
[TimeControl ""]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. f3 g6 4. c3 Bg7
5. Be3 O-O 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. Ne2 Re8 8. Nd2

Old friend Bill Engels calls the White setup the Mound.
I call this the Aztec Temple with the pawns as stairs.
Watson's Chess kids preferred my name.
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Katie Sedlar did very well. She made me promise to only teach my Full Metal
Jacket to the Red Group. Katie won two trophies. Katie played very well in the
simul and held the deadly simul duo ( Tandem Simul, alternating moves )
of Keaton Kiewra and Brian Wall to a draw, our only blemish

Katie has a name for moving your knight back and forth to infinity,
something like " the Idiot's Grind ".
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In lunchtime basketball Keaton Kiewra( 6' 4"" ) and me ( 5' 8" )  were
paired against Carl Brostker ( roughly my height and age ) and Camp Counselor
Nathan ( 6' 9" ). Nathan used to be a student and now he is a teacher there,
mostly for the half-day entries. Nathan is awesome at basketball, the closest I
will ever come to playing in the NBA - of course at 6' 9", Nathan is awesome
near the basket but he can also make shots from half court. He has many Kobe
Bryant moves. nathan is the complete player. Nate/Carl beat us 13/11. I had to
make Kareem Abdul Jabbar skyhook shots over Nathan's head. I taunted Carl with
" Do you do more than pass, old man? " Carl Brotsker ( my ride )was learning
Russian to impress GM Miron Sher but the recession caused a drop in school
enrollment so Miron couldn't make it. Miron taught Keaton Kiewra, Fabiano
Caruana as well as being the only Chess coach of Supernova Robert Hess.

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Some of the Chess Moms were fun. Hungarian Chess Mom Mrs. Revesz, was very
excited there were 4 Hungarians at the Camp ( 3 were hers ). Mrs. Jennifer
Svoboda offered up her barn as a possible tournament site. That would be fun,
to play Chess with cows mooing and dogs barking and pigs squealing in the
background. Ee, i, Ee, i, O. Jennifer was also a flight controller at an
airport before running a modern day family ranch, close to ted Turner's huge
Buffalo ranch.

When I was 20 I custom harvested from Tribune, Kansas to Canada.
I could do 20 pullups.

Mine looked something like this -

http://tts-times.com/images/mf98951.jpg

It was not air conditioned but air cooled.

I remember the farm boys grew up fast, driving at 12 legally and illegally much
younger.

Jennifer's boy Weston gets up at 5 AM to ride out with his father on their
horses and tend to the ranch. Weston said his favorite moment at the Camp
was when John Watson would get mad that kids were playing the Drunken penguin.
Two Hungarians told me Penguin is Pinguin in Hungarian. Drunk is r?szeg, almost
an anagram for Mrs. Revesz, but you didn't hear that from me.

Weston absolutely loved the Drunken penguin. Being a healthy farm boy I could
ask Weston about any animal, like moose or wolverine and he could give me a
very good description. Weston was a delight and very knowledgeable for his
young age. In a segueway from searching for truth in Chess, Alex Souliere and
Weston Svoboda had a spirited high-level debate about methane gas, raising
cattle and global warming. Alex also seemed to know about farming and ranching.
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All the coaches were popular with the kids who
seemed to pick out a favorite teacher.

Leo Lu wore a Brian Wall badge under his shirt.

Leo - You're my favorite teacher, Brian

Brian - You're my favorite Leo.

Leo Lu's comedy twin, Owen Gong, wore a John Watson badge under his shirt.
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The Hungarian Revesz girls, Claire and Sophia were very sweet, they kept a close
watch on their little brother Gregory. Claire won a special prize for longest
maniacal laugh in the over 5 minutes category.
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Mrs. Crimmons used to be a nurse, now she is a Chess Mom to Sean and Brendon.
Mrs. Crimmons came in handy in the classroom and loved Anthea Carson's book,
How To Play Chess Like An Animal. Many of the parents and kids expressed an
interest. I think next time we should have some Watson/Wall books available for
the kids. John told me it takes him about 18 months to complete one volume of
MASTERING THE CHESS OPENINGS. I also love his fairly recent PLAY THE FRENCH
VOLUME 3, DANGEROUS WEAPONS IN THE FRENCH. I hadn't even heard of his THE
UNCONVENTIONAL KING'S INDIAN   or  HOW TO SUCCEED IN THE QUEEN PAWN OPENINGS,
the sequel to HOW TO SURVIVE ANNOYING OPENINGS.
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The biggest kid was Collin Victor and he won two trophies. You could win a
trophy for the blitz tournament, the slow tournament or be voted an outstanding
student by the coaches. I was particularly impressed that half or less knew how
to keep score at the beginning of camp and by our constant cajoling all of them
were keeping score by end of camp.
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The Drunken Penguin may have cost me a return ticket next year but I had an
absolute blast this year It was a perfect trip. John watson was the ultimate
host and it was great to catch up on old times. I've only seen him one other
time in the last 30 years and he is one of my favorite people on the planet.
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The Brotskers and I visited the Robert Henri Art Museum on the way out of town
in Cozad, Nebraska. Robert founded the Ashcan School of painting ( paint
everything because there is beauty everywhere ) and was considered one of the
three greatest living artists in the Chess world which corresponds roughly to
my approach and place in the world of Unorthododx Chess Openings.
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----- Forwarded message from van hulst noe <noevanhulst at yahoo.fr> -----
    Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:52:11 +0000 (GMT)
    From: van hulst noe <noevanhulst at yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: van hulst noe <noevanhulst at yahoo.fr>
 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>

Hey Brian,

Please show us your first game with the Camel opening...!

Many thanks in advance....

By the way,?I played a crazy blitz game on Yahoo chess with the Double Drunken
Penguin yesterday?against a much higher rated player. It went like this:

1.Nh3 d5 2.Rg1 e5 3.Na3 c5 4.Rb1 Nc6 5.g4 Bd6 6.Nb5 Bb8 7.c3 a6 8.Na3 Qh4 9.d4
cxd4?? 10.Bg5! and the black queen?found itself?trapped?by the Penguin, isn't
it funny? White should be winning of course, but sadly enough?I still managed
to lose this game?by a hilarious blunder (sand in my eyes I guess).?

Noe van Hulst (currently in the desert)


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From:  van hulst noe <noevanhulst at yahoo.fr>
To:  Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>, BrianWallChess3 at taom.com,
jlwatson at neb.rr.com, sdcc at nctc.net, KentNelson at Prodigy.net
Subject:  Re : Seeing Double Drunken Penguin huge hit in Nebraska
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Hi Brian,

Many thanks for your kind words and very enjoyable report on the Nebraska chess
camp! Sounds like I certainly missed something there...I wish I would have been
able to join you guys, who know maybe some other time. Glad to hear the Double
Drunken Penguin was such a? hit with the kids.? My apologies to John Watson (I
also admire his great books!) for encouraging you to take up this crazy new
opening, but then I am sure there is some educational value hidden in starting
(some would say recovering)? from such an awkard position (or? for the
opponent, how to 'benefit' from such a weird opening - which, as we now know,
is far from obvious!).?

By the way,? Penguin is not only Pinguin in Hungarian but? also in Dutch! You
may wonder how I know, well as you may have figured out from my last name, I am
originally a Dutchman (born in Amsterdam, where I have been a youth chess
champion of that wonderful city back in the 1970's when I still had talent,
lots of hair and no backpains? - pathetic isn't it?).

Haven't played any serious chess in the last 10 years or so (only blitz and
Internet chess) but have developed a love for unorthodox chess openings because
the orthodox ones are SO fricking boring and predictable.? I I left Holland for
work reasons in 2003, have lived in Paris for over 4 years and am now working
and living in the Middle East. There you go, more than you bargained for
probably! Anyway, I am one of your admirers and? will remain so. Hope to meet
you and your mates some time in the future, who knows? (will spend part of my
summer holidays in Isle of Palms, South Carolina near Charleston) - inchallah
as they say in this part of the world.

Take care and keep up the good spirit!

Noe van Hulst

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From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:50:05 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Ainsworth, Nebraska
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July 2006 Chess anecdote -
Anthea gave me 20 minutes to hop in a minivan with her kids and Mom and take a
trip to Ainsworth, Nebrasksa, the title of her latest novel.
I gave a blindfold simul to Anthea and her cousin, Keith Baker on
the site of her novel. These jeans I took with me were already ripped but right
after the game, they completely disintegrated from top to bottom,
maybe due to Marilyn's Baker's fine country cooking or Keith beating me in the
simul.
I tied my pants to a tree and told Keith -
If anyone asks about them, just say -
" Oh, yeah, those are a memento from when I beat the pants
off the 2006 Denver Open and Wyoming Open champion! "
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct 15 16:20:20 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:20:20 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Harvey Lerman on The Gambit September 2009
	Nebraska StateChess Archives
Message-ID: <1255645220.4ad7a024d03b1@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Harvey Lerman <harveylerman at embarqmail.com> -----
    Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:34:07 -0400
    From: Harvey Lerman <harveylerman at embarqmail.com>
Reply-To: Harvey Lerman <harveylerman at embarqmail.com>
 Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Gambit September 2009 Nebraska
StateChess Archives
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

Brian,

    Actually the issue of floridaCHESS coming out later this month uses as a
filler something you e-mailed. It's your Fishing Pole against Hegerman.

Harvey


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Wall" <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>
To: <BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com>; <Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com>;
<UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com>; "Brian Wall Chesslist"
<brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 4:42 PM
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Gambit September 2009 Nebraska StateChess
Archives




 I didn't write anything for the Florida or Colorado State Chess
 magazines last issue but Kent Nelson wrote some articles for the
 Nebraska State Chess Magazine this month called
> THE WONDERFUL MISTER WALL

 with subtitles
 Mr. Wall's Opening Chess Weapon
The Fishing Pole Rules
 The Fishing Pole strikes again
 Camp Comments about Drunken Penguins

 combining Kent's thoughts with some of my email
 details about my trip to Nebraska this summer.
 I enjoyed the trip and the article very much.
 I will try to rerelease my Nebraska emails,
 including ones I have been saving for this moment.
 _______________________________________________


From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Fri Oct 16 23:20:31 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:20:31 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Greg Steele on Seeing Double Drunken Penguin
	huge hit in Nebraska [1 Attachment]
Message-ID: <1255756831.4ad9541f4aa35@www.taom.com>

Loren Schmidt had a big influence on Jack Young who talks about him a lot.
I did a computer analysis of my long Accelerated Dragon game draw with Kent
Nelson 28 years ago but I just lent my laptop to Aiden so it's not handy. In
general I was grinding him down but he hung tough in a lost ending and drew.
Estes Park. Hangover.

Brian Wall

----- Forwarded message from Gregory Steele <gsteele62 at gmail.com> -----
    Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:57:38 -0500
    From: Gregory Steele <gsteele62 at gmail.com>
Reply-To: Gregory Steele <gsteele62 at gmail.com>
 Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Seeing Double Drunken Penguin huge hit in
	Nebraska [1 Attachment]
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

Brian,

I forgot about John Watson's connection to Lincoln, Nebraska.  I could never
figure out if he was from Nebraska or New England.  The next time you talk
to him you might ask if he remembers Loren Schmidt.  Loren was originally
from Lincoln.  He left in the mid-late 70s to study/teach at Purdue
University in Lafayette, Indiana.  He was mid-2300s in 1979 and eventually
climbed over 2500 by the mid 80s.  He's played very little since then.
Brilliant guy.  At Purdue he played a lot with Leonid Bass and someone you
might remember - Albert Chao.

I recall you grinding out a win in a marathon round 3 game against an
Accelerated Dragon - I think it was two minors vs. a rook.  Is this the same
game?

I didn't know you traveled to do farm work.  In high school I detasseled
corn every summer in southern Indiana for $2.00 an hour.  It sucked.  Great
way to learn the value of a dollar!

Greg
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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Fri Oct 16 23:23:59 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:23:59 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] How the West was Won by Dan Tanner - Wy
	Closed 2009
Message-ID: <1255757039.4ad954ef16325@www.taom.com>

Brian's new batphone direct to Brian
720-641-9985
free for me

Brian Wall

----- Forwarded message from Dan T <h2oh234 at hotmail.com> -----
    Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:21:31 -0600
    From: Dan T <h2oh234 at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Dan T <h2oh234 at hotmail.com>
 Subject: Wy Closed 2009
      To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com



Hi Brian here is the game from the 2009 Wy Closed. Rd 2.





(2) Bruce,Johnson (1899) - Dan,Tanner (1576) [D45]

Wy Closed (2), 26.09.2009

Got out of a game losing blunder. Big upset game. 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.c4 c6
4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Be7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 0?0 8.e4 Nbd7 9.e5 Nd5 10.Nxd5 exd5 11.Bd3
f5 12.Qc2 Nb6 13.h4 Be6 14.Ng5 Bb4+ Seen that the bishop can move back to e7.
Unless the Q is there. HELLO! 15.Ke2 Qe7? Forgot to say HELLO! 16.a3 c5 Hope
chess know. 17.Nxe6 [Should be game over. 17.dxc5 Bxc5 18.Nxe6 Qxe6 19.Qxc5]
17...Qxe6 18.axb4 c4 19.Bd2 cxd3+ 20.Qxd3 Nc4 21.Bc3 f4 22.b3 Nd6 23.f3 Nf5
24.Be1 Qg6 25.Bf2 Qb6 26.Rac1 Qxb4 27.Rc5 Rad8 28.Rhc1 Qa3 29.Qc3 Qa6+ 30.Qd3
Qh6 31.Rc7 Qb6 32.Qc3 a6 33.Qc5 Qxb3 34.Rc3 Qb1 35.e6 Rfe8 36.e7 Rd6 37.Kd2 Qf1
38.Rc8 Qxf2+ 39.Kc1 Qe1+ 40.Kb2 Qxe7 41.Rc7 Qe2+ 42.Ka3 b6 43.Qb4 a5 44.Qb1 Nxd4
0?1
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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Fri Oct 16 23:27:15 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:27:15 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Scott Massey on San Antonio,
	1972: Church's Fried Chicken, Inc. First In...
Message-ID: <1255757235.4ad955b3e61d9@www.taom.com>

Just say No

Brian Wall

----- Forwarded message from KnightMassey at aol.com -----
    Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:11:10 EDT
    From: KnightMassey at aol.com
Reply-To: KnightMassey at aol.com
 Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] San Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried Chicken, Inc.
First In...
      To: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com

I played Bill Church in Las Vegas at one of the national opens.  He  was a
real nice guy.  we were both about 1800 or 1900's.  I can't  remember the
result so he probably won, but I received no chicken.  There  was a Church's
fried chicken on Colfax across the street from the hotel that  always held
chess tournaments, the name (franchise) changed several times.   As I was
walking across Colfax I was propositioned to buy dope for the first  time.  I
was about 15 and had to decline but made it to the chicken place  okay.  No
muchies though.  Scott

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Fri Oct 16 23:30:57 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:30:57 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Scott Massey on It's amazing what you can
	save in a blitz game
Message-ID: <1255757457.4ad95691eda19@www.taom.com>

When I went up +40 on Harold Gene Linde at 5-1 odds I told him-
If I have a King left it's a draw, if I have a pawn left I win.
That session earned me the classic Linde nickname of Walverine
because I tore his positions apart at blinding speed.

Brian Wall
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----- Forwarded message from KnightMassey at aol.com -----
    Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:21:24 EDT
    From: KnightMassey at aol.com
Reply-To: KnightMassey at aol.com
 Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] It's amazing what you can save in a blitz game
      To: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com

Speaking of weasling out off lost or bad positions,  I have had many
comebacks with the knights. Tricky little pieces, so I came up with alternate
names for the pieces.  Knight= weasel Bishop= slasher Rook = rock queen=  old
lady king= oldman  pawns = little bald guys  Scott.  I almost  never resign
if I still have at least one knight.   Scott




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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Fri Oct 16 23:41:54 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:41:54 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Antonio on : Bitterenders
Message-ID: <1255758114.4ad959221f90e@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from xaddi70 <addivinola at gmail.com> -----
    Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:43:03 -0000
    From: xaddi70 <addivinola at gmail.com>
Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] Re: Bitterenders
      To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com


Thanks Mr. Wall! This is my first Fishing Pole win (!!!)

Best regards
Antonio

[Event "FICS rated blitz game"]
[Site "FICS, San Jose, California USA"]
[Date "2009.10.13"]
[Time "13:21:24"]
[Round "-"]
[White "qusmogio"]
[Black "xaddi"]
[WhiteElo "1308"]
[BlackElo "1188"]
[TimeControl "600+0"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[Result "0-1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Ng4 5. O-O h5 6. Nc3 Bc5 7. h3 a6 8. Bxc6
dxc6 9. hxg4 hxg4 10. Nxe5 Qh4
{White resigns} 0-1
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--- In UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com, Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at ...>
wrote:


 There are now 7 Youtube vidoes marked
 Fishing Pole Chess

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Sat Oct 17 00:48:41 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:48:41 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Curtis Carlson always was and always will be
	a big, fat, loudmouth, greedy, materialistic patzer
Message-ID: <1255762121.4ad968c973fd1@www.taom.com>


The proof.

I've been looking for this game for 32 years.
Steve Jared handed it to me today at the 16th Street mall
1977 was the year I went 10 tournaments with only one loss.
My Reti by Golombeck book brought me my first Denver Open,
Colorado Open victories. I won 4 tournaments in a row,
including those two.

Denver Chess Club Simul Jan 29, 1977 by Chessmaster Curtis Carlson, Black

Steve Jared - 1374 - White


Free Chess Database

http://www.chesslab.com/PositionSearch.html

1. e4   c5
2. Nf3  d6
3. d4   cxd4
4. Nxd4 Nf6
5. Nc3  a6
6. Bg5  e6
7. f4   b5
8. e5   dxe5
9. fxe5 Qc7
10. Qe2 Nfd7
11. O-O-O Bb7
12. Nxe6 fxe6
13. Qg4 Qb6
14. Rd6 Bxd6
15. Qxe6+ Kf8
16. Bc4 bxc4
17. Rf1+ Nf6
18. Rxf6+ gxf6
19. Bh6#

 Tal,Mikhail -NN *1-0*1963*USSR

Steve_J79 at Yahoo.com
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
In the Steve Jared - Curtis Carlson simul game Curt resigned after 16 Bc4.

Steve had learned the line from a Chess Life article by GM Efim Geller.
In the same simul, Martin "Tuna" Deschner's loss to Carlson's Polugaevsky
Variation was published in the Colorado Informant. Steve Jared's moves were
considered "too strange " by Colorado Informant Editor Haynes Hendee who
thought Jared's brilliancies were typos. After all White is down Two Rooks
and a Bishop for the final checkmate.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Steve Jared   1374 versus  Curtis Carlsen 1977


1. e4   c5
2. Nf3  d6
3. d4   cxd4
4. Nxd4 Nf6
5. Nc3  a6
6. Bg5  e6
7. f4   b5
8. e5   dxe5
9. fxe5 Qc7
10. Qe2 Nfd7
11. O-O-O Bb7
12. Nxe6 fxe6
13. Qg4 Qb6??

Rybka-3  says  13 ... Q:e5  or  ... Nc5 is necessary


14. Rd6!!

Devastating



14 ... Bxd6


Curt prefers giving up his King to his Queen.
There is no way to avoid both.


15. Qxe6+

checkmating

15 ...Kf8   16. Bc4

Curt Carlson, Chessmaster, resigns in 16 moves
to a 1374 in the face of certain checkmate.



From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Sat Oct 17 22:55:19 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:55:19 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] My Games - Mike Archer
Message-ID: <1255841719.4ada9fb7ef98b@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Mike Archer <mikearcher4 at comcast.net> -----
    Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:20:52 -0600
    From: Mike Archer <mikearcher4 at comcast.net>
Reply-To: Mike Archer <mikearcher4 at comcast.net>
 Subject: [BrianWallChess] My Games
      To: BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com

Hi, Brian -



I don't suppose any of the old-timers on the Board might have scores of any
of my games - wins, loses or draws? When I moved to Hawaii in 1979 I tossed
everything. At one point I could recall my draw against Vukevich but even
that has faded away. Other than a 15-Move miniature against Jim Bickford
I've forgotten all of them.



Wins I'd love to see/have: Archer-Burley (Archer-Lopez), Anderson-Archer
(Robatsch), Traibush-Archer (Robatsch), Archer-Pokoick (Closed Sicilian),
Archer-Wayman (Najdorf Sicilian).



Mike Archer


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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Sat Oct 17 23:13:08 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:13:08 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Jeffrey Baffo, Paul Nikitovich, Curt Carlson,
	Steve Jared on: Curtis Carlson always was and always will be a big,
	fat, loudmouth, greedy, materialistic patzer
Message-ID: <1255842788.4adaa3e4708a4@www.taom.com>

I have been studying Botvinnik's Half a century of Chess the last two days -
I used Botvinnik as a role model to go 4-0 at the Trick or Treat Open in
Lakewood. I realize I know two chessplayers who play " Correct Chess " like
Botvinnik - IM David Vigorito and Golden Knights Correspondence Champion Curtis
Calrson who always had my number, preventing me from reaching expert status for
half a decade.

Brian Wall



From: "Paul Nikitovich" <pnikitovich at hotmail.com> brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com

CURT NEVER WAS FAT...
------------------------------------------------------------------

----- Forwarded message from Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net> -----
    Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:31:39 -0700
    From: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
Reply-To: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
 Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Curtis Carlson always was and always will be a
big, fat, loudmouth, greedy, materialistic patzer
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

I don't remember this game, believe it or not.  I agree with everything else you
say about me except that I am 6-4 and weigh 200 pounds, which doesn't make me
big and fat!  Steve Jared took chess lessons from me for a while but quit when
he couldn't afford my $5 hour fee.  I probably should have been paying him!
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JEFFERY BAFFO <jbaffo2004 at msn.com>
To:  brianwallchess3 <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>
Subject:  RE: [BrianWall-ChessList] Curtis Carlson always was and always will be
a big, fat, loudmouth, greedy, materialistic patzer
 2 unnamed text/html 3.96 KB

Come on, Brian, don't mince words!   Tell us what you really thing about ol'
Curtis!

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steve_j79 <steve_j79 at yahoo.com>
To:  Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>
Subject:  Re: Curtis Carlson always was and always will be a big, fat,
loudmouth, greedy,
  Hi- Thanks so much for publishing- and your accurate presentation.


Steve Jared
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  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Brian Wall
  To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com ; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com ; Brian
Wall Chesslist
  Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 11:48 PM
  Subject: [BrianWallChess] Curtis Carlson always was and always will be a big,
fat, loudmouth, greedy, materialistic patzer



  The proof.

  I've been looking for this game for 32 years.
  Steve Jared handed it to me today at the 16th Street mall
  1977 was the year I went 10 tournaments with only one loss.
  My Reti by Golombeck book brought me my first Denver Open,
  Colorado Open victories. I won 4 tournaments in a row,
  including those two.

  Denver Chess Club Simul Jan 29, 1977 by Chessmaster Curtis Carlson, Black

  Steve Jared - 1374 - White

  Free Chess Database

  http://www.chesslab.com/PositionSearch.html

  1. e4 c5
  2. Nf3 d6
  3. d4 cxd4
  4. Nxd4 Nf6
  5. Nc3 a6
  6. Bg5 e6
  7. f4 b5
  8. e5 dxe5
  9. fxe5 Qc7
  10. Qe2 Nfd7
  11. O-O-O Bb7
  12. Nxe6 fxe6
  13. Qg4 Qb6
  14. Rd6 Bxd6
  15. Qxe6+ Kf8
  16. Bc4 bxc4
  17. Rf1+ Nf6
  18. Rxf6+ gxf6
  19. Bh6#

  Tal,Mikhail -NN *1-0*1963*USSR

  Steve_J79 at Yahoo.com
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  In the Steve Jared - Curtis Carlson simul game Curt resigned after 16 Bc4.

  Steve had learned the line from a Chess Life article by GM Efim Geller.
  In the same simul, Martin "Tuna" Deschner's loss to Carlson's Polugaevsky
  Variation was published in the Colorado Informant. Steve Jared's moves were
  considered "too strange " by Colorado Informant Editor Haynes Hendee who
  thought Jared's brilliancies were typos. After all White is down Two Rooks
  and a Bishop for the final checkmate.
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  Steve Jared 1374 versus Curtis Carlsen 1977

  1. e4 c5
  2. Nf3 d6
  3. d4 cxd4
  4. Nxd4 Nf6
  5. Nc3 a6
  6. Bg5 e6
  7. f4 b5
  8. e5 dxe5
  9. fxe5 Qc7
  10. Qe2 Nfd7
  11. O-O-O Bb7
  12. Nxe6 fxe6
  13. Qg4 Qb6??

  Rybka-3 says 13 ... Q:e5 or ... Nc5 is necessary

  14. Rd6!!

  Devastating

  14 ... Bxd6

  Curt prefers giving up his King to his Queen.
  There is no way to avoid both.

  15. Qxe6+

  checkmating

  15 ...Kf8 16. Bc4

  Curt Carlson, Chessmaster, resigns in 16 moves
  to a 1374 in the face of certain checkmate.

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Sat Oct 17 23:14:49 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:14:49 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Musil & Raskin Sweep!!
Message-ID: <1255842889.4adaa44951000@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson <valleychess at hotmail.com> -----
    Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:37:25 -0700
    From: Joel Johnson <valleychess at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Joel Johnson <valleychess at hotmail.com>
 Subject: Musil & Raskin Sweep!!


Hi All,

Valley Chess regular, Kevin Musil, won the Under 2000 Section at Unity Trek
today at the Unity Chess Club in Scottsdale, AZ with a perfect 4-0!!

Finishing second in the Under 2000 section was Noah Raskin with a 3-1 score.

Here are a few games from my new book, entitled, "Formation Attacks".  Enjoy,
Joel

(W) Hichem Hamdouchi (2533)
(B) Amon Simutowe (2462)
[B31] ch-Africa Cairo EGY (Round 6), 09/21/2001
1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nd4 4.Bc4 g6 5.Nf3 Bg7 6.0?0 e6 7.Nxd4 cxd4 8.Nb5 d6
9.c3 Nf6 10.cxd4 a6 11.e5 axb5 12.exf6 Bxf6 13.Bxb5+ Kf8 14.d5 exd5 15.d4 Qb6
16.Bh6+ Kg8 17.Qf3 Bxd4 18.Rae1 Be5 19.Qf6 1?0

(W) NN
(B) Joseph Henry Blackburne
[C50] Norwich, 1871
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.0?0 Nf6 5.d3 d6 6.h3 Ne7 7.Bg5 c6 8.Be3 Bb6 9.Nc3
Ng6 10.Qd2 Be6 11.Bb3 0?0 12.Rad1 Qd7 13.Nh2 Bxh3 14.Bxb6 Bxg2 15.Kxg2 Nf4+
16.Kh1 axb6 17.f3 N6h5 18.Rf2 Ng3+ 19.Kg1 Qh3 20.d4 Qg2+ 21.Rxg2 Nh3# 0?1

(W) Robert Fontaine (2567)
(B) Maxime V. Lagrave (2595)
[A89] French Championships Aix-les-Bains, France (Round 10), 08/23/2007
1.Nf3 f5 2.d4 Nf6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.0?0 0?0 6.c4 d6 7.Nc3 Nc6 8.b3 e5 9.dxe5
dxe5 10.Ba3 e4 11.Bxf8 Qxf8 12.Nd4 Nxd4 13.Qxd4 Be6 14.Qd2 h5 15.Rad1 h4 16.Qg5
Kf7 17.Qf4 Qc5 18.Nb5 hxg3 19.hxg3 Rc8 20.Nd4 Bd7 21.g4 Nxg4 22.Nxf5 Bxf5 23.Rd5
Qxd5 24.cxd5 Be5 25.Qc1 Bh2+ 26.Kh1 Rh8 27.Qc4 Bd6+ 28.Kg1 Bh2+ 29.Kh1 b5
30.Qxb5 e3 31.Bf3 Nxf2+ 32.Rxf2 exf2 33.Kg2 Bg1 34.Qc6 Rh2+ 35.Kg3 f1N+!!
36.Kf4 Rh4+ 37.Kg5 Be3+ 38.Kxh4 g5+ 39.Kh5 Ng3+ 0?1
Black checkmates White after 40. Kh6 g4#.

(W) FearNoEvil (2220)
(B) Muad-dib (2016)
[B23] ICC 3 0, 08/06/2006
1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.f4 Nf6 4.Bc4 e6 5.Nf3 a6 6.a4 Nc6 7.d3 Be7 8.0?0 Qc7 9.Qe1 b6
10.Qg3 Kf8 11.Kh1 Bb7 12.e5 dxe5 13.fxe5 Nh5 14.Qg4 g6 15.Bh6+ Kg8 16.Rae1 Rd8
17.Qxe6 Bf6 18.exf6 fxe6 19.Bxe6+ Qf7 20.Bxf7+ Kxf7 21.Ng5+ Black resigns 1?0


(W) Rusian Sveshnikov
(B) Sherbakov
[B30] Moscow ch-URS
(Round 6), 1991
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 e6 4.0?0 Nge7 5.c3 a6 6.Ba4 b5 7.Bc2 d5 8.e5 d4 9.Be4
Bb7 10.a4 Ng6 11.axb5 axb5 12.Rxa8 Bxa8 13.Na3 Na7 14.Bxa8 Qxa8 15.Qb3 Qb7
16.cxd4 cxd4 17.Nxd4 Bxa3 18.bxa3 Nxe5 19.Bb2 Nc4 20.Qg3 0?0 21.Bc3 g6 22.d3
Nb6 23.Qe5 Nd7 24.Qg7+ 1?0

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Sun Oct 18 03:20:10 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:20:10 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Gregory Steele on: Curtis Carlson always was
	and always will be a big, fat, loudmouth, greedy,
	materialistic patzer [1 Attachment]
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----- Forwarded message from Gregory Steele <gsteele62 at gmail.com> -----
    Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:58:44 -0500
    From: Gregory Steele <gsteele62 at gmail.com>
Reply-To: Gregory Steele <gsteele62 at gmail.com>
 Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Jeffrey Baffo, Paul Nikitovich, Curt Carlson,
	Steve Jared on: Curtis Carlson always was and always will be a big, fat,
	loudmouth, greedy, materialistic patzer [1 Attachment]
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

Brian,

I never met Curtis Carlsen but I encountered him once.  I had read his
writings in the Colorado state publication -  annotated games and endings,
sprinkled with Fischer references.  For those who might remember me, I was
active in Colorado in 1982-83 while stationed at Fort Carson, CO.  At the
1982 Boulder Open, tournament organizer Randy Siebert was giving a
stemwinder of a speech before Round 1 about organizational bureaucratic BS,
of which I recall nothing, and Carlsen was in the back catcalling,
haranguing and trying to make life miserable for ol' Randy, but Siebert was
having none of it, ignoring Curt, and on and on the speech went - 45 minutes
or so.  I think Brian read the whole Denver Post during the monologue.  At
the time I figured there must be a history or some back story I was unaware
of.  After all that Curtis didn't even play, so he must have made the trip
just for the heckling!  Looking back I realize that dedicated organizers are
worth their weight in gold, and giving one grief doesn't make a whole lot of
sense, unless of course one intends to abandon OTB chess for
correspondence...

Greg Steele

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Sun Oct 18 04:36:14 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:36:14 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 9 years old
Message-ID: <1255862174.4adaef9eb2178@www.taom.com>


Saturday
October 17, 2009

12:01  AM

I get a Magic Jack message saying my nieces
are inviting me to a birthday party at 6 P.M.
I hate missing birthday parties. After the tournament
my last round opponent Master Electrician Mark Krowczyk
gives me a lift to my brother Pat's house in Thornton.
Thanx Mark.

7 AM, I think.
I wake up except the clock is an hour off.
It's really 8 o'clock.

9:15

I run into an old friend of 40 years, good old Gary Crites,
at the Auraria Campus bus stop. That's where I made Robert
Ramirez's sister laugh for half an hour last week.
I get a taste of wheelchair life, the bus ramp freezes,
the bus driver is trying to lift a hydraulic ramp by hand,
the whole bus is delayed, stuck, undrivable.
We hop on another one and at each stop the
passengers ask us where the first bus is.

Gary seems bored, this has all happened to him before.
We have a great time catching up and he seems very
amused by my Curtis Carlson email. Gary signs up for
my email list.

Gary has cerebral palsy like Jerry Sunderland and Bill Chandler.
Gary Crites looks surprisingly healthy, he tells me he swims twice a week
at the National Jewish Hospital swimming pool where my son Devon has lessons
every Saturday. Combined with the Jack LaLayne book my brother Bill gave my
brother Pat for his birthday I am beginning to suspect I am physically lazy.

I get another taste of wheelchair life when we try to enter by the front door.
I cheerfully follow Gary's Go-Cart/motorized wheelchair around the block
so can use ramps in the back.

Gary and I have lunch together surrounded by Chessplayers in a sub shop nearby.

My first opponent in this charming coffee shop is a special 9 year old, Ryan
Swerdlin,  trained by Yaacov Norwitz(2 or 3 time winner of World Open blitz).
Yaacov would be an IM if they would accomodate his Jewish Sabbath like they
did with Fischer and Reshevsky. I remember Ryan won all his games in a
Scholastic tournament.



[Event "Trick or Treat Open"]
[Site "New site, Blue Sky Collective Coffee Shop, 9600 West Colfax and
Independence, ( near Kipling )Lakewood, Colorado"]
[Date "2009.10.17"]
[Round "1"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Ryan Swerdlin, Age 9"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2200"]
[BlackElo "2092"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann defense, Nymphomaniac Attack by Jack Young"]
[ECO "B10"]
[NIC "CK.01"]
[Time "10:30 AM"]
[TimeControl "Game/55, 5 second delay"]

Trick or Treat Open

Jerry Maier, Director

Blue Sky Collective,
Colfax and Independence,
Lakewood, Colorado

October 17, 2009
Saturday

weather so beautiful you don't notice it

Openings -
Nymphomaniac Attack by Jack Young, Fishing Pole by Jack Young,
Full Metal Jacket by Brian Wall

Game/55 minutes
5 second delay

The site had these nice big wooden tables and wooden chairs -
I loved the majesty of wood Chesspieces, wood table, wood chairs:
the problem - I doubted tiny Ryan, a head shorter than my
wonderful, handsome 10 year old boy sleeping behind me,
not knowing what a gorgeous creature he is, I doubted tiny Ryan
could reach the other side of the Chessboard.

Outgoing Informant Editor Randy Reynolds, a tad higher than Ryan,
had to stand up for his final 15 moves made in less than a minute
against me in the next round.

I moved a smaller table over for Ryan.
People seemed to be fighting for that
smaller table all tournament.



1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e5


Nymphomaniac Attack by Jack Young
named after a rambunctious office co-worker of Jack's

I showed Ryan all the traps after the game.


3 ... Bf5 4. Nh4 Bg6 5. Nxg6

No one found  5  e6??  Qd6!!
against Tyler Hughes and I before
we got the move order right.

5 ... hxg6 6. e6 f5

It suddenly dawns on me that I am in a highly complex position,
adrift at sea with no rudder.

I create a new Chess theory.
Despite writing 10,000 Chess emails ( literally ) I am just now beginning to
trust the intelligence of my audience. The Rennaisance Man,
Dan Heisman, is the only man I know creating new Chess theories.
I don't mean memorizing moves. That's what you do. I mean original
thought.

This idea was created and tested 32 years ago.
I read where Petrosian lost only one Olympiad game
( defective clock with Hubner that he didn't protest )
and roughly 3 games a year.

I pondered how that was possible.
I asked myself -
" How can I screw this position up "
and then I would avoid that.
I went 10 tournaments in 1977
with one loss imitating Petrosian.

When I analyzed this fascinating position it occurred
to me that I had a choice of what pawn to sacrifice,
the b-pawn, the d-pawn, the e-pawn or the h-pawn,
depending on how I played.

In effect I would force my opponent to beat
me for surely whatever I offered he would take.
b-pawn offer :  7 d4  Nf6  8  Bf4  Qb6  9 Nc3  Q:b2 10 Na4, Ne2 or Bd2
d-pawn offer :  7 d4  Nf6  8  Bf4  Qb6  9 Nd2  Q:d4  10 Qf3
e-pawn offer :  The game continuation is one example
h-pawn offer :  7 d4  Qd6  8 Qe2  R:h2  9  R:h2  Q:h2  10 Nf3 or g3

As my mind whirled with all these intricate ideas for 483 seconds,
it occurred to me I controlled my own fate but still the paradox:
since every line involved a sacrifice I was in effect forcing my
opponent to beat me.

Evaluating moves with a tenth of a pawn difference is inhuman.
I was under a delusion that
7 d4  Qd6  8  Qe2  Na6  9  g3  Nc7  10  Bf4  Q:e6??
won a pawn

OK here's what 3,000 rated Rybka-3 says.
Top 3 lines
7 Qe2  Nf6  8 d3  c5   9 d4  Nc7  10  Nd2                or
7 Qe2  Nf6  8 d3  c5   9 d4  Nc7  10  Be3
7 d4  Qc8  8 Qe2  Na6  9 Bf4  g5, ... Nf6  or ... Nc7
7 d4  Nf6  8 Bf4, Nc3, g3, Qe2, Bd3, c3, h4, h3
7 d4  Qd6  8 Qe2!!  Rh4!! ( unexpected )  9 Nd2!!  R:d4  10 c3 or a4
7 d4  Qd6  8 Qe2!!  R:h2  9 R:h2  Q:h2  10 Nd2, g3, Nc3, g3
7 g3  Qc8  8 Qe2  Na6  9 d4  Nc7  10  Bf4  N:e6  11 Be5  or

Anyway, I've tried some of these ideas in blitz games
but I never worked out what was the best approach.

Since I didn't play  Qe2 I lost my e6-pawn.
Since I didn't play d3 Ryan occupied e4 with his Knight.
Live and Learn.

The way I finally dragged myself out of my reverie and
forced myself to plant wood is I realized there was simply
too much to analyze - the game would be decided later and
I would have to take it move by move.

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7. d4  Nf6 8. Nd2 Qd6!!  9. Nf3 Qxe6+!!  10. Be2!  Ne4!!
11. O-O Nd7!!  12. Bf4!!  Qf6!!  13. h4!!  e6!!  14. c4!!

I watched in amazement as this little Reshevsky-like
9 year old instinctively found good move after good move,
using some primitive instinct. Can I lose to this little Angel?

I sacced a pawn hoping my Two Bishops and half-open e-file
might amount to something but as I waited for 14 ... Bd6!!
I realized my plan just wasn't working.

14 ... Be7?  15. c5?
---------------------------------------------------------------------

With simple human desire to stop ... Bd6,
the right plan was rather hard to see -
15  Qb3, 0-0-0  16  Rfc1  Bd6  17  Bg5

I started to wonder if I was going to get Full Metal Jacketed
( Mighty Ryan Swerdin has all 8 pawns still )and Fishing Poled
( mated down the h-file ) by a 9 year old. How would that look
on my resume?

I wondered where I went wrong pondering
15  c5?  g5!!   16  hg  Qg6!!   or
15  c5?  R:h4!                  or
15  c5   e5!    16  de  Qf7
all better for Astro Boy

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/news/astro-boy/astroboy2.jpg
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

15 ... Qf7?  16. Ng5?

I thought I could plug the breach.
It's best to counterattack with
16 Qb3!! or defend with  g3!


16 ...  Nxg5!!!

16 ... B:g5!!   or  Qg8!!
are also good for Ryan Swerdlin.
Remember that name.



17. Bxg5!!

Slightly better than 17 hg!
Playing kids has become my private
nightmare these last 2 years.
Have I become Mr. Mitchell
to their Dennis the Menace?


17 ...  Bxg5!!!

Everything works for the kid now -
17 ... e5!!,  ... Nf6!!, ... Rh7!!, ... 0-0-0!!, ... 0-0
and many others all make a mockery of my imaginary central bind.

18. hxg5!  Rh7!


Not bad, one good move among many such as
18 ... e5!!, ... Qg8!!, ... Qe7!!  or ... 0-0-0!

19. f4!!!

The plot thickens.
I started out trying to bury his f8-Bishop
and that plan blew up in my face.
I have a new concept -
his wild horse is running around the ranch looking for
an exit and I am closing all the gates as fast as I can.
I couldn't contain his Harry Potter Bishop but maybe I
can corral the Black Stallion.

19 ... Qg8

My brave little "Danger Boy " Devon  nobly tried to Fishing Pole checkmate
a higher rated Asian Chessplayer down the h-file in the 2009
Tivoli Center Colorado Scholastic Championship but his attack ran
out of gas and now it appears that young Ryan must face the same fate.



20. b4

The Black Stallion had a wild look in his eye
and was starting to panic. He loves to roam free.

20 ... Ke7 21. Kf2?

I was trying to safeguard my King
but Rybka-3 thinks I'm the little fish,
not her.


21 ...  Qf7?

Giving up his Fishing Pole dreams and taking all the pressure off me


22. Bf3

I knew my Bishop might be useful attacking from e2 but
I wanted to reassure my King that all was well. He
was still shaking.

Time -
Brian - 15 minutes left
Ryan  - 15 minutes left


22 ...  Rah8!!

Rybka likes it but I didn't see what he was accomplishing.
The position is even.


23. Qd2

I wanted to make every consolidating move I could before attacking.
I am still down my Nymph pawn.


23 ... Re8 24. Qe3

That's about as safe as I can make my King.
I am ready to burn his house down.

24 ... Kd8!!

Rybka-3 loves another move I hate


25. a4!!  Ke7

You can run but you can't hide


26. b5!!  Kf8 27. Rfb1

David Vigorito's favorite move.
I can invade already with
27  bc!! bc  28  Rab1!!
but I have learned to prepare
my surprises to the maximum.

27 ... Nb8!!  28. a5

Let me in, let me in.

28 ... cxb5!  29. Rxb5!  a6!  30. Rb6!  Nc6!  31. Rab1!!  Re7!

My father was once losing a fight badly as a young longshoreman.
After about 20 minutes he luckily got the better of it and made
the most of it. When you've been suffering for hours and you
finally have a chance to end it, you do your best.

Time -
Brian - 12 minutes left
Ryan  -  6 minutes left


32. Be2!!  Nxa5 33. Qc3!!  Nc6!  34. Bxa6!!

Crashing through


34 ...  Nd8!  35. Qa5  Rd7?

It's lost anyway but this allows
36  Bb5!!  with deep penetration.
36  Bb5!! Re7  37  Rd6!!   or
36  Bb5!! Re7  37  Qa8!!
are hopeless


36. Bxb7

Crashing through my own way

36 ... Nxb7 37. Rxb7!!!

It's over.


37 ...  Qe7 38. Rxd7!!  Qxd7!

Anything else gets checkmated


39. Qa8+


1-0   Ryan shook my hand with his little 9 year old hand

Time -
Brian -  9 minutes
 Ryan -  56 seconds

That's what it takes to win one rating point
from a single digit Chessplayer in Colorado.

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[Event "Trick or Treat Open"]
[Site "New site, Blue Sky Collective Coffee Shop, 9600 West Colfax and
Independence, ( near Kipling )Lakewood, Colorado"]
[Date "2009.10.17"]
[Round "1"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Ryan Swerdlin, Age 9"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2200"]
[BlackElo "2092"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann defense, Nymphomaniac Attack by Jack Young"]
[ECO "B10"]
[NIC "CK.01"]
[Time "10:30 AM"]
[TimeControl "Game/55, 5 second delay"]

1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nh4 Bg6 5. Nxg6 hxg6 6. e6 f5 7. d4 Nf6 8.
Nd2 Qd6 9. Nf3 Qxe6+ 10. Be2 Ne4 11. O-O Nd7 12. Bf4 Qf6 13. h4 e6 14. c4
Be7 15. c5 Qf7 16. Ng5 Nxg5 17. Bxg5 Bxg5 18. hxg5 Rh7 19. f4 Qg8 20. b4 Ke7
21. Kf2 Qf7 22. Bf3 Rah8 23. Qd2 Re8 24. Qe3 Kd8 25. a4 Ke7 26. b5 Kf8 27.
Rfb1 Nb8 28. a5 cxb5 29. Rxb5 a6 30. Rb6 Nc6 31. Rab1 Re7 32. Be2 Nxa5 33.
Qc3 Nc6 34. Bxa6 Nd8 35. Qa5 Rd7 36. Bxb7 Nxb7 37. Rxb7 Qe7 38. Rxd7 Qxd7
39. Qa8+

1-0   Ryan shook my hand with his little 9 year old hand
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enjoy even more of my writing at
www.Walverine.com
or
BrianWallChess.net
or
Chessville.com
or
How To Play Chess Like An Animal


From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Sun Oct 18 04:41:01 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:41:01 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] A Reverse Fishing Pole from the Trompowsky
Message-ID: <1255862461.4adaf0bd620d6@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Danielle <danielle4831 at yahoo.com> -----
    Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:15:49 -0000
    From: Danielle <danielle4831 at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Danielle <danielle4831 at yahoo.com>
 Subject: [BrianWallChess] A Reverse Fishing Pole from the Trompowsky
      To: BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com

[Event "ICC 1 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.18"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Danielle"]
[Black "fishorse"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black forfeits on time"]
[WhiteElo "1348"]
[BlackElo "1428"]
[Opening "Trompowsky attack (Ruth, Opocensk? opening)"]
[ECO "A45"]
[NIC "QP.07"]
[Time "06:11:19"]
[TimeControl "60+0"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 e6 3. e3 d5 4. Nf3 c5 5. c3 Nc6 6. Bd3 Be7 7. Bxf6 Bxf6 8.
Nbd2 e5 9. dxe5 Nxe5 10. Nxe5 Bxe5 11. Nf3 Bf6 12. h4 h6 13. Qc2 O-O 14.
O-O-O Rb8 15. g4 Bxg4 16. Be2 b5 17. Rdg1 h5 18. Ng5 Bxe2 19. Qxe2 b4 20.
Qxh5 Bxg5 21. hxg5 f6 22. g6 Re8 23. Qh7+ Kf8 24. Qh8+ Ke7 25. Qxg7+ Kd6 26.
Rh7 bxc3 27. bxc3 Re7 28. Qxf6+ Kc7 29. Rxe7+ Qd7 30. Rxd7+ Kxd7 31. g7 Kc7
32. g8=Q {Black forfeits on time} 1-0


------------------------------------------------------
Brian -
It's only a bullet game so we can forgive
Danielle for missing two checkmates in one move -
19 Q:h7  checkmate and  23 Qh8  checkmate
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Sun Oct 18 12:28:00 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:28:00 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] More Curt Carlson on: Curtis Carlson always
	was and always will be a big, fat, loudmouth, greedy,
	materialistic patzer
Message-ID: <1255890480.4adb5e30deb96@www.taom.com>

What is USCCC? United States Correspondence Chess Championship?

----- Forwarded message from Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net> -----
    Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:14:36 -0700
    From: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
Reply-To: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
 Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Jeffrey Baffo, Paul Nikitovich, Curt Carlson,
Steve Jared on: Curtis Carlson always was and always will be a big, fat,
loudmouth, greedy, materialistic patzer [1 Attachment]
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

I never won a Golden Knights.  I won the 4th USCCC which was a CCLA event until
sometime in the 80's.  I always did have your number, but not after our last
rated game in 1979.  You should have asked Steve Jared for advice on how to
play against me!


  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Brian Wall
  To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com ; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com ; Brian
Wall Chesslist
  Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 10:13 PM
  Subject: [BrianWallChess] Jeffrey Baffo, Paul Nikitovich, Curt Carlson, Steve
Jared on: Curtis Carlson always was and always will be a big, fat, loudmouth,
greedy, materialistic patzer [1 Attachment]


    [Attachment(s) from Brian Wall included below]


  I have been studying Botvinnik's Half a century of Chess the last two days -
  I used Botvinnik as a role model to go 4-0 at the Trick or Treat Open in
  Lakewood. I realize I know two chessplayers who play " Correct Chess " like
  Botvinnik - IM David Vigorito and Golden Knights Correspondence Champion
Curtis
  Calrson who always had my number, preventing me from reaching expert status
for
  half a decade.

  Brian Wall

  From: "Paul Nikitovich" <pnikitovich at hotmail.com> brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com

  CURT NEVER WAS FAT...
  ----------------------------------------------------------

  ----- Forwarded message from Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net> -----
  Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:31:39 -0700
  From: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
  Reply-To: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
  Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Curtis Carlson always was and always will be a
  big, fat, loudmouth, greedy, materialistic patzer
  To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

  I don't remember this game, believe it or not. I agree with everything else
you
  say about me except that I am 6-4 and weigh 200 pounds, which doesn't make me
  big and fat! Steve Jared took chess lessons from me for a while but quit when
  he couldn't afford my $5 hour fee. I probably should have been paying him!
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  JEFFERY BAFFO <jbaffo2004 at msn.com>
  To: brianwallchess3 <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>
  Subject: RE: [BrianWall-ChessList] Curtis Carlson always was and always will
be
  a big, fat, loudmouth, greedy, materialistic patzer
  2 unnamed text/html 3.96 KB

  Come on, Brian, don't mince words! Tell us what you really thing about ol'
  Curtis!

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

  steve_j79 <steve_j79 at yahoo.com>
  To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>
  Subject: Re: Curtis Carlson always was and always will be a big, fat,
  loudmouth, greedy,
  Hi- Thanks so much for publishing- and your accurate presentation.

  Steve Jared
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  ----------------------------------------------------------

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Brian Wall
  To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com ; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com ; Brian
  Wall Chesslist
  Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 11:48 PM
  Subject: [BrianWallChess] Curtis Carlson always was and always will be a big,
  fat, loudmouth, greedy, materialistic patzer

  The proof.

  I've been looking for this game for 32 years.
  Steve Jared handed it to me today at the 16th Street mall
  1977 was the year I went 10 tournaments with only one loss.
  My Reti by Golombeck book brought me my first Denver Open,
  Colorado Open victories. I won 4 tournaments in a row,
  including those two.

  Denver Chess Club Simul Jan 29, 1977 by Chessmaster Curtis Carlson, Black

  Steve Jared - 1374 - White

  Free Chess Database

  http://www.chesslab.com/PositionSearch.html

  1. e4 c5
  2. Nf3 d6
  3. d4 cxd4
  4. Nxd4 Nf6
  5. Nc3 a6
  6. Bg5 e6
  7. f4 b5
  8. e5 dxe5
  9. fxe5 Qc7
  10. Qe2 Nfd7
  11. O-O-O Bb7
  12. Nxe6 fxe6
  13. Qg4 Qb6
  14. Rd6 Bxd6
  15. Qxe6+ Kf8
  16. Bc4 bxc4
  17. Rf1+ Nf6
  18. Rxf6+ gxf6
  19. Bh6#

  Tal,Mikhail -NN *1-0*1963*USSR

  Steve_J79 at Yahoo.com
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  In the Steve Jared - Curtis Carlson simul game Curt resigned after 16 Bc4.

  Steve had learned the line from a Chess Life article by GM Efim Geller.
  In the same simul, Martin "Tuna" Deschner's loss to Carlson's Polugaevsky
  Variation was published in the Colorado Informant. Steve Jared's moves were
  considered "too strange " by Colorado Informant Editor Haynes Hendee who
  thought Jared's brilliancies were typos. After all White is down Two Rooks
  and a Bishop for the final checkmate.
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  Steve Jared 1374 versus Curtis Carlsen 1977

  1. e4 c5
  2. Nf3 d6
  3. d4 cxd4
  4. Nxd4 Nf6
  5. Nc3 a6
  6. Bg5 e6
  7. f4 b5
  8. e5 dxe5
  9. fxe5 Qc7
  10. Qe2 Nfd7
  11. O-O-O Bb7
  12. Nxe6 fxe6
  13. Qg4 Qb6??

  Rybka-3 says 13 ... Q:e5 or ... Nc5 is necessary

  14. Rd6!!

  Devastating

  14 ... Bxd6

  Curt prefers giving up his King to his Queen.
  There is no way to avoid both.

  15. Qxe6+

  checkmating

  15 ...Kf8 16. Bc4

  Curt Carlson, Chessmaster, resigns in 16 moves
  to a 1374 in the face of certain checkmate.

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Sun Oct 18 12:31:18 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:31:18 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Even more Curtis Carlson always was and
	always will be a big, fat, loudmouth, greedy,
	materialistic patzer [1 Attachment]
Message-ID: <1255890678.4adb5ef60fbb0@www.taom.com>

I am suggesting a motion to ban Curt Carlson from CSCA activities in 2009 for
past transgressions even thought he hasn't lived here in a quarter century,
just in case.

Brian Wall

----- Forwarded message from Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net> -----
    Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:28:52 -0700
    From: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
Reply-To: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
 Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Gregory Steele on: Curtis Carlson always was and
always will be a big, fat, loudmouth, greedy, materialistic patzer [1
Attachment]
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

I gave up serious tournament chess in 1980 after a series of terrible results,
but I still plagued the chess community when I lived in Boulder from 1980 - 82.
 I recall Randy telling me to leave the room during his talk (1982 Boulder
Open), but when I didn't nothing more happened, if I remember correctly.  I was
young and stupid.  I wish I knew how to contact Randy today so I could
apologize, assuming he would even speak to me.

It's much better to be unknown and forgotten than to be remembered for what I
actually did and how I actually behaved, although my buddy Brian keeps digging
up the past.  (Tell them about the 1974 Santa Fe tournament where you got coke
spilled all over you, for another good memory!)  28 years isn't yet enough time
to forget, unfortunately.  It's very embarrassing, more than anything else. 
Moving to California to start a new life in 1983 was the best decision I ever
made.


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From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:32:57 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Curtis Carlson in Wikipedia
Message-ID: <1255890777.4adb5f59a1b36@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net> -----
    Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:33:49 -0700
    From: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
Reply-To: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
 Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Gregory Steele on: Curtis Carlson always was and
always will be a big, fat, 	loudmouth, greedy, materialistic patzer [1
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      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

I'm in Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICCF_USA.  Be sure to send me a
lot of money because I'm famous now!

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Sun Oct 18 12:37:31 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:37:31 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Another blast from the past by Steve Jared
Message-ID: <1255891051.4adb606b01855@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Brian Wall <brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com> -----
    Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:19:35 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Brian Wall <brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com>
 Subject: [BrianWallChess] Another blast from the past by Steve Jared
      To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>, BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com







Hi- Thanks again for the promo.? Here's another one.? Carl Stahl had been
terrorizing the DCC with a line of Fischer's he took from a game at the Western
Open (1956).? This time it didn't work.? Wednesday tournament 22 Sep 1982

Stahl (1984)- Jared (1793)

1. Nf3??? Nf6
2. g3???? g6
3. Bg2?? Bg7
4. 0-0?? d6
5. d3??? 0-0
6. e4??? e5
7. Nbd2 Nbd7
8. a4??? Nc5
9. Nc4? Ne8
10. Nh4 f5
11. f4??? ef
12. ef??? Bd4+
13. Kh1 Bf5
14. Nf5? Rf5
15. c3?? Bg7
16. d4?? Ne6
17. Bh3 Rf6
18. d5?? Ng5
19. Bg2 Qd7
20. Bf4? Nh3
21. Be3 Bh8
22. g4?? Rf1+
23. Bf1? Qe7
24. Bh3 Qe4+
25. Kg1 Qc4+
26. g5??? Ng7
27. Bf1?? Qe4
28. Qd2? Nf5
29. Bf2?? Be5
30. Bg2? Qg4
31. h3??? Qc4
32. Bf1?? Qf4
33. Qf4?? Bf4
34. Bb5? Bg5
35. Re1? a6
36. Bd7? Kf7
37. Be6+ Kf6
38. Rf1?? Ke5
39. Re1+ Kf4
40. a5??? Rf8
41. Rf1?? Ke4
42. Re1+ Kf3
43. b3??? Ne3
44. c4??? h5
45. h4??? Bf4
46. Bh3? Bh2+
47. Kh2? Kf2
48. Rg1? Rf6? (f4)
49 .Bc8? Rf4
50. Bh3? Rh4
51. Rg6? Nf1+
37. White resigns



Dr. Stephen Jared,?N.D.

--- On Sat, 10/17/09, Brian Wall <brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Brian Wall <brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Curtis Carlson always was and always will be a big, fat, loudmouth,
greedy, materialistic patzer
To: steve_j79 at yahoo.com
Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 10:50 PM








Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 12:48 AM


?




The proof.

I've been looking for this game for 32 years.
Steve Jared handed it to me today at the 16th Street mall
1977 was the year I went 10 tournaments with only one loss.
My Reti by Golombeck book brought me my first Denver Open,
Colorado Open victories. I won 4 tournaments in a row,
including those two.

Denver Chess Club Simul Jan 29, 1977 by Chessmaster Curtis Carlson, Black

Steve Jared - 1374 - White

Free Chess Database

http://www.chesslab .com/PositionSea rch.html

1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 d6
3. d4 cxd4
4. Nxd4 Nf6
5. Nc3 a6
6. Bg5 e6
7. f4 b5
8. e5 dxe5
9. fxe5 Qc7
10. Qe2 Nfd7
11. O-O-O Bb7
12. Nxe6 fxe6
13. Qg4 Qb6
14. Rd6 Bxd6
15. Qxe6+ Kf8
16. Bc4 bxc4
17. Rf1+ Nf6
18. Rxf6+ gxf6
19. Bh6#

Tal,Mikhail -NN *1-0*1963*USSR

Steve_J79 at Yahoo. com
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
In the Steve Jared - Curtis Carlson simul game Curt resigned after 16 Bc4.

Steve had learned the line from a Chess Life article by GM Efim Geller.
In the same simul, Martin "Tuna" Deschner's loss to Carlson's Polugaevsky
Variation was published in the Colorado Informant. Steve Jared's moves were
considered "too strange " by Colorado Informant Editor Haynes Hendee who
thought Jared's brilliancies were typos. After all White is down Two Rooks
and a Bishop for the final checkmate.
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
Steve Jared 1374 versus Curtis Carlsen 1977

1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 d6
3. d4 cxd4
4. Nxd4 Nf6
5. Nc3 a6
6. Bg5 e6
7. f4 b5
8. e5 dxe5
9. fxe5 Qc7
10. Qe2 Nfd7
11. O-O-O Bb7
12. Nxe6 fxe6
13. Qg4 Qb6??

Rybka-3 says 13 ... Q:e5 or ... Nc5 is necessary

14. Rd6!!

Devastating

14 ... Bxd6

Curt prefers giving up his King to his Queen.
There is no way to avoid both.

15. Qxe6+

checkmating

15 ...Kf8 16. Bc4

Curt Carlson, Chessmaster, resigns in 16 moves
to a 1374 in the face of certain checkmate.

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Sun Oct 18 17:09:42 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:09:42 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Ed Stoddard on Curtis Carlson always was and
	always will be a big, fat, loudmouth, greedy,
	materialistic patzer [1 Attachment]
Message-ID: <1255907382.4adba036b54e6@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Ed Stoddard <mustangace at comcast.net> -----
    Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:01:13 -0700
    From: Ed Stoddard <mustangace at comcast.net>
Reply-To: Ed Stoddard <mustangace at comcast.net>
 Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] More Curt Carlson on: Curtis Carlson always was
and always will be a big, fat, loudmouth, greedy, materialistic patzer [1
Attachment]
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

I was one of Curt's victims in the 4th USCCC finals, but was fortunate enough to
finish 4th out of our group of 15.

Ed Stoddard

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From: Brian Wall
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 11:28 AM
To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com ; Brian Wall Chesslist
Subject: [BrianWallChess] More Curt Carlson on: Curtis Carlson always was and
always will be a big, fat, loudmouth, greedy, materialistic patzer [1
Attachment]


  [Attachment(s) from Brian Wall included below]


What is USCCC? United States Correspondence Chess Championship?

----- Forwarded message from Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net> -----
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:14:36 -0700
From: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
Reply-To: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Jeffrey Baffo, Paul Nikitovich, Curt Carlson,
Steve Jared on: Curtis Carlson always was and always will be a big, fat,
loudmouth, greedy, materialistic patzer [1 Attachment]
To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

I never won a Golden Knights. I won the 4th USCCC which was a CCLA event until
sometime in the 80's. I always did have your number, but not after our last
rated game in 1979. You should have asked Steve Jared for advice on how to
play against me!

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Wall
To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com ; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com ; Brian
Wall Chesslist
Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 10:13 PM
Subject: [BrianWallChess] Jeffrey Baffo, Paul Nikitovich, Curt Carlson, Steve
Jared on: Curtis Carlson always was and always will be a big, fat, loudmouth,
greedy, materialistic patzer [1 Attachment]

[Attachment(s) from Brian Wall included below]

I have been studying Botvinnik's Half a century of Chess the last two days -
I used Botvinnik as a role model to go 4-0 at the Trick or Treat Open in
Lakewood. I realize I know two chessplayers who play " Correct Chess " like
Botvinnik - IM David Vigorito and Golden Knights Correspondence Champion
Curtis
Calrson who always had my number, preventing me from reaching expert status
for
half a decade.

Brian Wall

From: "Paul Nikitovich" <pnikitovich at hotmail.com> brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com

CURT NEVER WAS FAT...
----------------------------------------------------------

----- Forwarded message from Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net> -----
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:31:39 -0700
From: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
Reply-To: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Curtis Carlson always was and always will be a
big, fat, loudmouth, greedy, materialistic patzer
To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

I don't remember this game, believe it or not. I agree with everything else
you
say about me except that I am 6-4 and weigh 200 pounds, which doesn't make me
big and fat! Steve Jared took chess lessons from me for a while but quit when
he couldn't afford my $5 hour fee. I probably should have been paying him!
----------------------------------------------------------
JEFFERY BAFFO <jbaffo2004 at msn.com>
To: brianwallchess3 <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>
Subject: RE: [BrianWall-ChessList] Curtis Carlson always was and always will
be
a big, fat, loudmouth, greedy, materialistic patzer
2 unnamed text/html 3.96 KB

Come on, Brian, don't mince words! Tell us what you really thing about ol'
Curtis!

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steve_j79 <steve_j79 at yahoo.com>
To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>
Subject: Re: Curtis Carlson always was and always will be a big, fat,
loudmouth, greedy,
Hi- Thanks so much for publishing- and your accurate presentation.

Steve Jared
----------------------------------------------------------
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----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Wall
To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com ; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com ; Brian
Wall Chesslist
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 11:48 PM
Subject: [BrianWallChess] Curtis Carlson always was and always will be a big,
fat, loudmouth, greedy, materialistic patzer

The proof.

I've been looking for this game for 32 years.
Steve Jared handed it to me today at the 16th Street mall
1977 was the year I went 10 tournaments with only one loss.
My Reti by Golombeck book brought me my first Denver Open,
Colorado Open victories. I won 4 tournaments in a row,
including those two.

Denver Chess Club Simul Jan 29, 1977 by Chessmaster Curtis Carlson, Black

Steve Jared - 1374 - White

Free Chess Database

http://www.chesslab.com/PositionSearch.html

1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 d6
3. d4 cxd4
4. Nxd4 Nf6
5. Nc3 a6
6. Bg5 e6
7. f4 b5
8. e5 dxe5
9. fxe5 Qc7
10. Qe2 Nfd7
11. O-O-O Bb7
12. Nxe6 fxe6
13. Qg4 Qb6
14. Rd6 Bxd6
15. Qxe6+ Kf8
16. Bc4 bxc4
17. Rf1+ Nf6
18. Rxf6+ gxf6
19. Bh6#

Tal,Mikhail -NN *1-0*1963*USSR

Steve_J79 at Yahoo.com
----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
In the Steve Jared - Curtis Carlson simul game Curt resigned after 16 Bc4.

Steve had learned the line from a Chess Life article by GM Efim Geller.
In the same simul, Martin "Tuna" Deschner's loss to Carlson's Polugaevsky
Variation was published in the Colorado Informant. Steve Jared's moves were
considered "too strange " by Colorado Informant Editor Haynes Hendee who
thought Jared's brilliancies were typos. After all White is down Two Rooks
and a Bishop for the final checkmate.
----------------------------------------------------------
Steve Jared 1374 versus Curtis Carlsen 1977

1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 d6
3. d4 cxd4
4. Nxd4 Nf6
5. Nc3 a6
6. Bg5 e6
7. f4 b5
8. e5 dxe5
9. fxe5 Qc7
10. Qe2 Nfd7
11. O-O-O Bb7
12. Nxe6 fxe6
13. Qg4 Qb6??

Rybka-3 says 13 ... Q:e5 or ... Nc5 is necessary

14. Rd6!!

Devastating

14 ... Bxd6

Curt prefers giving up his King to his Queen.
There is no way to avoid both.

15. Qxe6+

checkmating

15 ...Kf8 16. Bc4

Curt Carlson, Chessmaster, resigns in 16 moves
to a 1374 in the face of certain checkmate.

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Tue Oct 20 08:24:11 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:24:11 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Redemption
Message-ID: <1256048651.4addc80b0e04d@www.taom.com>

Redemption Tournament

Colorado Springs, CO--November 7, 2009

Local (Open) Tournament. Host: Linda Anderson, laanderson93 at hotmail.com.
Location: Chapel Hills Mall Food Court, 1710 Briargate Blvd., Colorado Springs,
CO 80920. Type: Type 1 - 2 Player (free) and Type 1 - Multi-player (free).
Starts: 11:00a.m.

Christian based "Magic" card game.
My son tried it and liked it.
The cards are beautiful and have Biblical sayings on them.
The object of the game is to save souls.
You arrange your decks in the best way possible,
but new cards later to strengthen your deck
and lay them down in order with your opponent.
Organized by Colorado Springs Chessplayer Paul Anderson.
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http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=97792570473#/group.php?gid=97792570473

Pictures of the 2009 Colorado Springs Chess Championship by Paul Anderson
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Tue Oct 20 11:13:33 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:13:33 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Craig Thomson on 9 years old
Message-ID: <1256058813.4addefbd2d224@www.taom.com>


9 years old

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:50 AM
From: "Craig.Thomson at bench.com" <Craig.Thomson at bench.com>

So, let me get this straight.  That kid was a 9 year old expert?!

Craig.Thomson at bench.com
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My bad. Ryan Swerdlin is 1627 now.
Danielle Rice told her good friend and Ryan's trainer, Yaacov Norwitz,
about the game. Yaacov was laughing and promised to show Ryan where he could
have beaten me. I ran into Morgan Robb ( and friend ) at the mall. Morgan
taught Ryan a little, Morgan told me 9 year old Ryan crushed Boulder Expert
David Bowers 2 weeks ago. The kid's a killer, he could have beaten me if he was
sac-happy like Tyler Hughes.

Ryan Swerdlin

2009-10-17
200910171331 ** 2009 TRICK OR TREAT (CO)
1: OPEN 1637 => 1627 1584 => 1570
2009-09-06
200909069171  COLORADO OPEN 2009 (CO)
1: OPEN 1587 => 1637
2009-07-11
200907113551  2009 COLORADO QUICK CHAMPIONSH (CO)
1: CHAMPIONSH   1618 => 1584
2009-06-07
200906071961  2009 NATIONAL OPEN BLITZ (NV)
2: U1800    1457 => 1618


[Event "Trick or Treat Open"]
[Site "New site, Blue Sky Collective Coffee Shop, 9600 West Colfax and
Independence, ( near Kipling )Lakewood, Colorado"]
[Date "2009.10.17" ]
[Round "1"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Ryan Swerdlin, Age 9"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2200"]
[BlackElo "1637"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann defense, Nymphomaniac Attack by Jack Young"]
[ECO "B10"]
[NIC "CK.01"]
[Time "10:30 AM"]
[TimeControl "Game/55, 5 second delay"]

1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nh4 Bg6 5. Nxg6 hxg6 6. e6 f5 7. d4 Nf6 8.
Nd2 Qd6 9. Nf3 Qxe6+ 10. Be2 Ne4 11. O-O Nd7 12. Bf4 Qf6 13. h4 e6 14. c4
Be7 15. c5 Qf7 16. Ng5 Nxg5 17. Bxg5 Bxg5 18. hxg5 Rh7 19. f4 Qg8 20. b4 Ke7
21. Kf2 Qf7 22. Bf3 Rah8 23. Qd2 Re8 24. Qe3 Kd8 25. a4 Ke7 26. b5 Kf8 27.
Rfb1 Nb8 28. a5 cxb5 29. Rxb5 a6 30. Rb6 Nc6 31. Rab1 Re7 32. Be2 Nxa5 33.
Qc3 Nc6 34. Bxa6 Nd8 35. Qa5 Rd7 36. Bxb7 Nxb7 37. Rxb7 Qe7 38. Rxd7 Qxd7
39. Qa8+

1-0 Ryan shook my hand with his little 9 year old hand
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Thanx, Craig, I corrected the pgn rating of Ryan.
Reno Chess tomorrow.

Brian Wall

From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Tue Oct 20 14:19:02 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:19:02 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Duwayne Langseth on Ryan Swerdlin
Message-ID: <1256069942.4ade1b36034bb@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from DuWayne Langseth <duwaynelangseth at hotmail.com>
-----
    Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:42:50 -0600
    From: DuWayne Langseth <duwaynelangseth at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: DuWayne Langseth <duwaynelangseth at hotmail.com>
 Subject: RE: [BrianWallChess] Craig Thomson on 9 years old
      To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>






Brian,



Taught him everything he knows.  Ok, maybe not.  I say

that about all Colorado kids who become champions!  I

know his dad (Scott) real well and he plays too, but I'm

sure Ryan is well beyond him now.



Rhett has played him a few times and I think they have

been about even.  Ryan was going to play up in this past

State Scholastic, but he was sick and barely able to play,

so they put him in with his age group.  It wasn't a challenge.

Just another big trophy for him.



We'll be hearing a lot about him in the future.



DuWayne

DuWayne Langseth <duwaynelangseth at hotmail.com>





To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com
From: BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:13:33 -0600
Subject: [BrianWallChess] Craig Thomson on 9 years old






9 years old

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:50 AM
From: "Craig.Thomson at bench.com" <Craig.Thomson at bench.com>

So, let me get this straight. That kid was a 9 year old expert?!

Craig.Thomson at bench.com
----------------------------------------------------------

My bad. Ryan Swerdlin is 1627 now.
Danielle Rice told her good friend and Ryan's trainer, Yaacov Norwitz,
about the game. Yaacov was laughing and promised to show Ryan where he could
have beaten me. I ran into Morgan Robb ( and friend ) at the mall. Morgan
taught Ryan a little, Morgan told me 9 year old Ryan crushed Boulder Expert
David Bowers 2 weeks ago. The kid's a killer, he could have beaten me if he was
sac-happy like Tyler Hughes.

Ryan Swerdlin

2009-10-17
200910171331 ** 2009 TRICK OR TREAT (CO)
1: OPEN 1637 => 1627 1584 => 1570
2009-09-06
200909069171 COLORADO OPEN 2009 (CO)
1: OPEN 1587 => 1637
2009-07-11
200907113551 2009 COLORADO QUICK CHAMPIONSH (CO)
1: CHAMPIONSH 1618 => 1584
2009-06-07
200906071961 2009 NATIONAL OPEN BLITZ (NV)
2: U1800 1457 => 1618

[Event "Trick or Treat Open"]
[Site "New site, Blue Sky Collective Coffee Shop, 9600 West Colfax and
Independence, ( near Kipling )Lakewood, Colorado"]
[Date "2009.10.17" ]
[Round "1"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Ryan Swerdlin, Age 9"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2200"]
[BlackElo "1637"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann defense, Nymphomaniac Attack by Jack Young"]
[ECO "B10"]
[NIC "CK.01"]
[Time "10:30 AM"]
[TimeControl "Game/55, 5 second delay"]

1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nh4 Bg6 5. Nxg6 hxg6 6. e6 f5 7. d4 Nf6 8.
Nd2 Qd6 9. Nf3 Qxe6+ 10. Be2 Ne4 11. O-O Nd7 12. Bf4 Qf6 13. h4 e6 14. c4
Be7 15. c5 Qf7 16. Ng5 Nxg5 17. Bxg5 Bxg5 18. hxg5 Rh7 19. f4 Qg8 20. b4 Ke7
21. Kf2 Qf7 22. Bf3 Rah8 23. Qd2 Re8 24. Qe3 Kd8 25. a4 Ke7 26. b5 Kf8 27.
Rfb1 Nb8 28. a5 cxb5 29. Rxb5 a6 30. Rb6 Nc6 31. Rab1 Re7 32. Be2 Nxa5 33.
Qc3 Nc6 34. Bxa6 Nd8 35. Qa5 Rd7 36. Bxb7 Nxb7 37. Rxb7 Qe7 38. Rxd7 Qxd7
39. Qa8+

1-0 Ryan shook my hand with his little 9 year old hand
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Thanx, Craig, I corrected the pgn rating of Ryan.
Reno Chess tomorrow.

Brian Wall

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Wed Oct 21 08:31:05 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:31:05 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] I am new in this group
Message-ID: <1256135465.4adf1b299a46b@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Ania Veillet <ania.thechessy at rocketmail.com> -----
    Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:48:44 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Ania Veillet <ania.thechessy at rocketmail.com>
Reply-To: Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [Chess Improvement] I am new in this group
      To: Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com

Hello everyone,

I am new in this group. I have learnd chess at the age seven and I am about 30
now. I need to discuss some openings and variations time by time. But, I first
want to say "Hello" to everyone and?I want to ask, do you arrange discussion
topics on openings? Or you just send notations and ask whatever your question
is??

And a news from a curious investigator, (me) ;)
I am bored sitting in front of the computer to play chess.?Yesterday I have
downloaded a chess clock application to my iphone. It is the best I've seen,
cause it has a powersave option.?It doesn't?make the phone run out of battery
quickly and?I can even finish a?60:60 game :) Playing in a?cafe while drinking
is nice if you have a clock like
this:)??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
[If you are interested, the name of the app is "The Chess Clock" You can check
it out from this site. This is not the official site, but you can understand
what I am trying to say from here: http://www.apptism. com/apps/ the-chess-
clock? ]

I'll be thankful if you?accept me as a?friend to discuss chess....?


Ania

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Wed Oct 21 08:34:51 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:34:51 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Ghost of Klaus Johnson on Ryan Swerdlin
Message-ID: <1256135691.4adf1c0b2fc48@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Klaus Johnson <klizzaus at gmail.com> -----
    Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:23:59 -0400
    From: Klaus Johnson <klizzaus at gmail.com>
Reply-To: Klaus Johnson <klizzaus at gmail.com>
 Subject: Ryan Swerdlin
      To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com

Brian:

Ryan just crushed the field at the state championships (K-3) this past
year. He was rated around 1500 at the time, and the second seed (out of
about 50 kids) was rated something like 850.  In pretty much every game Ryan
was up a rook or so fifteen moves in.

Next year he should have stronger competition in the 4-6 section, but with
Jackson and Daniel moving up to 7-9, I think he'll still be the favorite to
win.

Klaus




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From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:27:00 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Ryan Swerdlin's Dad Scott
Message-ID: <1256290020.4ae176e4a5edf@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Scott Swerdlin <swerdlin at starinst.org> -----
    Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:50:34 -0500
    From: Scott Swerdlin <swerdlin at starinst.org>
Reply-To: Scott Swerdlin <swerdlin at starinst.org>
 Subject: Your game with Ryan Swerdlin
      To: "BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com" <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>

Hi Brian,

I'm Scott Swerdlin, Ryan's dad. Just so happens that last Saturday's tournament
at the Lakewood venue was the first that I had missed since he started playing
in tournaments. A Boulder friend forwarded me your article on the game. I found
it insightful, entertaining, and informative - and of course consumed it with a
dash of pride. Love your comment about being Mr Wilson. It's all I can do to
try to keep up with him on the board these days.

Just wanted to mention that Yaacov Norowitz has been giving Ryan occasional
lessons based on a tip from a college friend that Ryan might find his style of
play interesting. Paul Szeligowski has really been his formative teacher over
the past few years. Also saw Klaus' email about Ryan's prospects in the State
4-6. Important correction: Jackson Chen is in 6th grade!

Best,
Scott
303-875-3471

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Fri Oct 23 03:52:18 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:52:18 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Kadas Opening:  The Rook Lift Gambit
Message-ID: <1256291538.4ae17cd2591b0@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Israel Silverman <corplawyer at earthlink.net> -----
    Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:05:55 -0400
    From: Israel Silverman <corplawyer at earthlink.net>
Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com
 Subject: Re: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] [A00] Kadas Opening:  The Rook Lift
Gambit
      To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com

That did it. I'm outa here.


  ----- Original Message -----
  From: bukowskigambit
  To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 5:45 PM
  Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] [A00] Kadas Opening: The Rook Lift Gambit


    Just a silly idea:

  ----- ---- --- -- -
  1.h4 e5 2.Rh3 d5 3.Rg3

  (Black would like to play Bd6 but is pinned to protecting g7. If 3...g6, then
4.d4 with the initiative. If Black accepts the gambit with)

  3.Qxh4

  (then black has)

  4.Nf3 and 5.Nxe5

  (with an unclear position.)
  - -- --- ---- -----

  Regards, Paul


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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Fri Oct 23 03:54:36 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:54:36 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Sara Powers on Typical fake email scam
	touches local Chess world [1 Attachment]
Message-ID: <1256291676.4ae17d5cdd100@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Sara Powers <jspowers08 at yahoo.com> -----
    Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:31:28 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Sara Powers <jspowers08 at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Sara Powers <jspowers08 at yahoo.com>
 Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] Joel Johnson on Typical fake email scam
touches local Chess world [1 Attachment]
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

It is funny that these scams have reached brian wall's email list. I do a lot of
selling on craigs list and e bay. they are all over those pages. the typical
signs: 1. they are alwyas from Europe away on buisness or fun in the us. 2.
they always ask you to send them money, or in case of e bay a money order,
craigs list western union transfer. 3. they always are willing to pay you much
much more. If your asking 300 they want to send you a check for 4,500 and have
you cash it at your bank then send them the diffence.

--- On Wed, 10/14/09, Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com> wrote:


From: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Joel Johnson on Typical fake email scam touches
local Chess world [1 Attachment]
To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com, "Brian
Wall Chesslist" <brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 11:17 PM




----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson <bigbear12 at hotmail.com> -----
? ? Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:11:11 -0700
? ? From: Joel Johnson <bigbear12 at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Joel Johnson <bigbear12 at hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [BrianWallChess] Duwayne Langseth on Typical fake email scam
touches local Chess world [1 Attachment]
? ? ? To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>, brianwallchess at yahoogroups.com,
brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com


This happened here in Arizona recently also.? Somebody hacked into Joe Peck's
email account with a similar story of being stranded in England.



Joel Johnson



To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com
From: BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:26:18 -0600
Subject: [BrianWallChess] Duwayne Langseth on Typical fake email scam touches
local Chess world [1 Attachment]




[Attachment(s) from Brian Wall included below]


No people have fallen for this.
I heard of one set of parents who "rescued " their daughter with cash.

Brian Wall

----- Forwarded message from DuWayne Langseth <duwaynelangseth at hotmail.com>
-----
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:16:15 -0600
From: DuWayne Langseth <duwaynelangseth at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: DuWayne Langseth <duwaynelangseth at hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [BrianWallChess] Typical fake email scam touches local Chess world
[1 Attachment]
To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>

Brian,

Strange that there doesn't appear to be a way to contact

this culprit to give him the money. Either he's a really stupid

criminal or just trying to annoy people.

DuWayne

To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com;
UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com; brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com
From: BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:59:24 -0600
Subject: [BrianWallChess] Typical fake email scam touches local Chess world [1
Attachment]

[Attachment(s) from Brian Wall included below]

I have heard of these before,
someone pretends to be a relative or friend in distress.
The wording is always weird bearing no
relation to how the person really speaks.

Brian Wall

----- Forwarded message from Julian Evans <boulderchessclub at yahoo.com> -----
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:27:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Julian Evans <boulderchessclub at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Julian Evans <boulderchessclub at yahoo.com>
Subject: Urgent
To: boulderchessclub at yahoo.com

I hope you receive my message?And is very urgent. I could bearly think straight
at this point. I had a trip here in United Kingdom to see a friend. I am
presently in Sheffield and I am having some difficulties. I misplaced my bag on
my way to the hotel where other valuable things were kept along with my
passport. I feel so ashamed because i am so stranded and idle. I will like you
to help me with a loan of 900pounds to pay my hotel bills and also return back
home. I will refund the money to you as soon as I get back, I have spoken to
the embassy here but they are not responding to the matter effectively I
currently have limited access to emails for now.

Best regard

Klaus


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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Fri Oct 23 05:32:39 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:32:39 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Grandmaster Ehlvest pounds Badger into the
	dirt in Reno, Nevada
Message-ID: <1256297559.4ae19457ab5d7@www.taom.com>


[Event "Reno Blitz"]
[Site "Sands Regency, Reno, Nevada"]
[Date "2009.10.22"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Grandmaster Jaan Ehlvest"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2600"]
[BlackElo "2200"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense, Toxic Badger"]
[ECO "A40"]
[NIC "QO.17"]
[Time "21:23:56"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. d4 Nc6 2. Nf3 f6!!


The Badger inspired by Earl Roberts' comments on UnorthodoxChessOpenings

3. d5!  Ne5!


The Badger is prepared to hide from the famous
Grandmaster in his Badger den at f7 if necessary.


4. e4! c6 5. Nc3!  Nxf3+ 6. Qxf3!  e6 7. dxe6 dxe6! 8. e5

Ehlvest instantly threw this move out like it was the
greatest move in the world and I knew nothing about Chess.


8 ... Qa5! 9. Bf4! Bb4 10. Bc4 Bxc3+ 11. bxc3!  f5!  12. O-O Ne7!!
13. Rad1 O-O 14. Rd6 Nd5 15. Bb3!  Nxc3 16. Bd2!  Qxe5!

It impressed me that my move shocked the Grandmaster but he
sat there and thought until he found the one refutation.

17. Rxe6!!  Bxe6!  18. Bxc3!!  Qd6!  19. Qg3!! Qxg3!
20. Bxe6+!!  Kh8!  21. fxg3!  Rae8!  22. Bxf5 Re3
23. Bd4 Ra3? 24. Bc5!


1-0   Brian Resigns

Brutal.
Ehlvest was leading with 9/10
going in the final 2 game mini-match with
my last round 2009 World Open opponent Steven Zierk ( 8/10) -
not sure who won.
I finished 7.5/12, drawing one game with GM Alexander Ivanov.
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[Event "Reno Blitz"]
[Site "Sands Regency, Reno, Nevada"]
[Date "2009.10.22"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Grandmaster Jaan Ehlvest"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2600"]
[BlackElo "2200"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense, Toxic Badger"]
[ECO "A40"]
[NIC "QO.17"]
[Time "21:23:56"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. d4 Nc6 2. Nf3 f6 3. d5 Ne5 4. e4 c6 5. Nc3 Nxf3+ 6. Qxf3 e6 7. dxe6 dxe6
8. e5 Qa5 9. Bf4 Bb4 10. Bc4 Bxc3+ 11. bxc3 f5 12. O-O Ne7 13. Rad1 O-O 14.
Rd6 Nd5 15. Bb3 Nxc3 16. Bd2 Qxe5 17. Rxe6 Bxe6 18. Bxc3 Qd6 19. Qg3 Qxg3
20. Bxe6+ Kh8 21. fxg3 Rae8 22. Bxf5 Re3 23. Bd4 Ra3 24. Bc5

1-0   Brian Resigns
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My Reno blitz draw with Grandmaster Alexander Ivanov went roughly like this.
All Game/5 minutes

[Event "Reno Blitz"]
[Site "Sands Regency, Reno, Nevada"]
[Date "2009.10.22"]
[Round "5"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Grandmaster Alexander Ivanov"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ICCResult "Draw agreed"]
[WhiteElo "2200"]
[BlackElo "2500"]
[Opening "Robatsch (modern) defense"]
[ECO "B06"]
[NIC "KF.05"]
[Time "22:23:56"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Be3 c6 4. c3 d6 5. f3 Nf6 6. h4 h5 7. Nd2 b5
8. Nh3 Bxh3 9. Rxh3 e5 10. Bd3 Bh6 11. Bxh6 Rxh6 12. Qe2 a6 13. Qe3 Rh8
14. Rh1 Nbd7 15. Kf2 c5 16. d5 c4 17. Bc2 Kf8 18. a4 Kg7 19. axb5 axb5
20. b4 cxb3 21. Nxb3 Rb8 22. Ra7 Ra8 23. Rha1 Rxa7 24. Rxa7 Qb6
25. Qxb6 Nxb6 26. Bd3 Rc8 27. Na5 Rxc3 28. Bxb5 Rc1 29. Nc6 Rb1 30. Nd8 Rxb5 31.
Rxf7+ Kh6 32. Rxf6 Nc4 33. g4 Rb2+ 34. Kg3 Ne3 35. g5+ Kh7 36. f4 Nf1+
37. Kf3 Nh2+ 38. Kg3 Nf1+ 39. Kf3 Nh2+ 40. Kg3
1/2/1/2
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I might have a move off. Grandmaster Ivanov ( the living one )
 told me I was winning with Bc6 at some point ( we had like a minute left )
but we both had to take the draw at the end.
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I played handsome young 1400 Justin Garvis for practice before the Reno blitz.
This victory over me in our first game together brought him luck -
he won the Under 1700 prize $132.

[Event "Reno Blitz"]
[Site "Sands Regency, Reno, Nevada"]
[Date "2009.10.22"]
[Round "pre-tournament fun"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Justin Garvin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2200"]
[BlackElo "1400"]
[Opening "Sicilian: Najdorf, Lipnitzky attack"]
[ECO "B86"]
[NIC "SI.13"]
[Time "19:23:56"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bc4 e6
7. Bg5 Be7!  8. Qf3 Qc7 9. Bb3 Nbd7 10. O-O-O b5!  11. e5!?

11  Rhe1, Kb1  or  B:f6  N:f6  12 a3
are all better

11 ... Bb7!  12. exd6!  Bxd6!

I've played  12 ...  B:f3!  13  dc  B:d1  14 R:d1
quite a few times in blitz lately as White


13. Qh3!?

13 Qe3!!  or Qe2!
are a little better


13 ...  Bf4+!

13 ... Nc5!!  is good in any Najdorf position


14. Bxf4!  Qxf4+!  15. Kb1!  Qxf2? 16. Nxe6!!!

This is good
" Shattering the Scheveningen " Youtube video material
as is  16 B:e6!!

16 ...  fxe6 17. Qxe6+!!

Crushing

17 ...  Kd8!  18. Rxd7+!!

18 Rh1-f1:f6!!!
is the killer
18  Qf7!  or Rhe1!
are also good


18 ... Nxd7!  19. Rd1! Bc8!


I had 4 minutes to Justin's  2 minutes.
I looked for a long time at many lines
including  20  Ne4!!  Qe2  21 Qb6+!!
winning but I played

20. Qb6+??   Qxb6

0-1  Brian Resigns
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[Event "Reno Blitz"]
[Site "Sands Regency, Reno, Nevada"]
[Date "2009.10.22"]
[Round "pre-tournament fun"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Justin Garvin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2200"]
[BlackElo "1400"]
[Opening "Sicilian: Najdorf, Lipnitzky attack"]
[ECO "B86"]
[NIC "SI.13"]
[Time "19:23:56"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bc4 e6 7. Bg5 Be7 8.
Qf3 Qc7 9. Bb3 Nbd7 10. O-O-O b5 11. e5 Bb7 12. exd6 Bxd6 13. Qh3 Bf4+ 14.
Bxf4 Qxf4+ 15. Kb1 Qxf2 16. Nxe6 fxe6 17. Qxe6+ Kd8 18. Rxd7+ Nxd7 19. Rd1
Bc8 20. Qb6+ Qxb6

0-1  Brian Resigns
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One of my Reno blitz opponents was another 9 year old 1600+ named Leo.
His Mom Moira, a lovely and charming woman, remembered Ryan Swerdlin
from Nationals. Leo's coach is Grandmaster Melikset Khachiyan. Leo
is one of those poor unfortunates told never to resign so I handed
over a small army of pieces to mate him with Bishop and Knight.
Mother and son were the most photogenic people I've met here in Reno
so far.
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I also listened to Larry Evans lecture on Bobby Fischer. Larry had great
stories to tell, he speaks precisely and beautifully. I introduced myself. On
the Question and Answer period I asked Larry if he ever tried to get Bobby to
play the French or Caro-Kann. Neither of us could remember a game where Bobby
played that. Larry Evans said he concentrated on getting Bobby to play
something other than 1 e4 so his opponents would have to work harder to
prepare. Larry felt it was his influence that helped Bobby play 1 b3 or 1 c4.

Larry had a position that he claimed Bobby failed twice at. First he bet Benko
he could solve the mate in 3 in half an hour, then he bet he could cook the
problem if given all night to study it. He failed both times.
Problem.  Black   Ke4
White   Bc1, Qd1, Ke1, Bf1

White to play and mate in 2
Solution available upon request.


Kartsen Muller has a new definitive Bobby Fischer book with all his games
analyzed and new pictures, including Bobby with his real Dad, Paul Nemyeni.
Larry said Bobby knew who his real Dad was from age 9 onwards. Larry Evans
wrote the foreword, Andrew Soltis did an opening survey. Price -$40.
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I also ran into USCF Vice-President Ruth Haring and her son.
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Team Colorado includes roommates Corey Foster and Lee Lahti.
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That's all I can think of for now.
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BrianWallChess.net
www.Walverine.com






From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Fri Oct 23 05:54:17 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:54:17 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Rating list
Message-ID: <1256298857.4ae19969923d3@www.taom.com>

I played #15 Leo Kamgar  Thursday Oct 22 2 games in Reno, NV blitz.
I played #27 Ryan David Swerdlin Saturday October 17, 2009
at the Lakewood, CO Trick or Treat tournament.

Top Age 9
October 2009
1 Lin, Dachey (13147854) 9 TX USA 2086
2 He, Tommy O (13354250) 9 TX USA 2065
3 Liu, Alex (13224528) 9 TX USA 1939
4 Graif, William (13346841) 9 NY USA 1927
5 Chiang, Jonathan (13091096) 9 TX USA 1904
6 Chen, Michael L (13405236) 9 MI USA 1893
7 Angermeier, Danny (13222062) 9 MA USA 1854
8 Li, Zhaozhi (13646954) 9 IL USA 1838
9 Bian, Alex (13257335) 9 IL USA 1798
10 Tang, Andrew (13215196) 9 MN USA 1785
11 Wheeler, Cameron (13473477) 9 CA USA 1758
12 Wei, James (13577813) 9 IL USA 1732
13 Rodriguez, Ethan (13787890) 9 TX USA 1717
14 Gandhi, Shyam S (13180382) 9 CA USA 1712
15 Kamgar, Leo (13278243) 9 CA USA 1683
16 Panchanatham, Vignesh (13439575) 9 CA USA 1680
17 Chow, Colin (13822210) 9 CA USA 1676
18 Moazami, Amir (13361544) 9 NY USA 1675
19 Oberhaus, Conrad (13600110) 9 IL USA 1672
20 Capocyan, Sam Lander Cabrera (13797958) 9 TX USA 1639
21 Hilby, Craig Lok (13744720) 9 CA USA 1637
22 Zhang, Tianye (13490931) 9 WI USA 1629
23 Kalyanpur, Armaan (13318407) 9 CA USA 1614
24 Kostovetsky, Daniel (13454854) 9 NY USA 1608
25 Curcio, Jack Thomas (13451367) 9 IL USA 1594
26 Chen, Qinhong (13716492) 9 CA USA 1590
27 Swerdlin, Ryan David (13878522) 9 CO USA 1587
28 Chen, Andy (13858335) 9 NJ USA 1575
29 Crump, Alexander J (13607663) 9 NY USA 1564
30 Wang, Patrick (13691951) 9 WA USA 1563
31 Adve, Anshul (13296020) 9 IL USA 1559
32 Uraz, Akerim (13994734) 9 VA USA 1554
33 Yi, Richard (13640892) 9 CA USA 1524
34 Singh, Reva Shree (13551611) 9 NY USA 1522
35 Ludwig, John Gabriel (13721287) 9 FL USA 1518
36 Baccay, Jonathan (13636015) 9 NY USA 1505
37 Li, Ethan (13539092) 9 AZ USA 1504
38 Wang, Warren (13280965) 9 NY USA 1489
39 Mathesh, Vivek (13735266) 9 TX USA 1484
40 Shi, Jason (14026495) 9 CT USA 1482
41 Scrivner, Joshua Nicholas (13429762) 9 CA USA 1474
42 Khambati, Ali K (13229641) 9 TX USA 1470
43 Huang, Bryan Lingfeng (13899136) 9 CA USA 1466
44 Zhao, Art (13464997) 9 CA USA 1459
45 Polichuk, Max David (13640975) 9 PA USA 1458
46 Iyengar, Udit (13795046) 9 CA USA 1454
47 Nagarajan, Pranav (13512712) 9 CA USA 1447
48 Goldstein, Ben (13509986) 9 NY USA 1444
49 Moody, Chad (13311170) 9 NC USA 1442
50 Fields, Noah Dennis (13474376) 9 WA USA 1441
51 Senft, Sean (13232026) 9 VA USA 1438
52 Gu, Bryan J (13275311) 9 NJ USA 1436
53 Mehta, Karan A (13867674) 9 KS USA 1431
 Banik, Siddharth Gautam (14090052) 9 CA USA 1431
55 Zhang, Andrew W (13564837) 9 OH USA 1428
56 Rychkov, Roman (12985662) 9 NJ USA 1417
 Cheng, Max Fu (13484278) 9 CA USA 1417
58 Yu, Haoyang (13764771) 9 IL USA 1414
59 Nguyen, Anthony Quan (13942425) 9 TX USA 1407
60 Han, Alex Y (13752893) 9 TX USA 1405
61 Veytsman, Isaac (13331188) 9 NY USA 1401
62 Shan, George (13666283) 9 CA USA 1400
63 Bik, Russell (13536436) 9 CA USA 1397
64 Wang, Mitchell (13895270) 9 CA USA 1395
65 Coudsi, John (13224493) 9 TX USA 1382
66 Kim, Tyler (13666021) 9 NY USA 1378
67 Kannan, Suganth (13713245) 9 FL USA 1377
68 Priore, Ashley (13918137) 9 PA USA 1374
69 Flanagan, Liam S (13448447) 9 NY USA 1359
 Sun, Maxwell Shiuyuan (13567905) 9 OR USA 1359
71 Yee, Nathaniel (13293014) 9 WA USA 1354
72 Ulrich, Rachel J (13384485) 9 IL USA 1351
73 Bikus, Jeffrey J (13600125) 9 IL USA 1348
74 Ram, Chirag (13442370) 9 PA USA 1345
75 Quach, Alexander (13555772) 9 TX USA 1344
76 Zlotchevsky, Nicole (13688407) 9 NY USA 1343
77 Lu, Andrew (13792670) 9 TX USA 1341
78 Neubauer, Oliver (13856151) 9 NY USA 1339
79 Sun, William (13739233) 9 VA USA 1334
80 Ramaswamy, Abhinav (13755673) 9 OH USA 1333
81 Huang, Alena (13713450) 9 WI USA 1320
82 Kong, Alvin (13318351) 9 CA USA 1318
83 Li, Kevin (13733474) 9 TX USA 1316
84 Miyasaka, Matthew Shoji (13941286) 9 NY USA 1315
85 Kriss, Spencer (13134025) 9 KY USA 1314
86 Liu, Michael J (13599855) 9 NY USA 1313
87 Ishikawa, Takayuki (13698838) 9 NY USA 1310
88 Qin, Alexander Charles (13298561) 9 TN USA 1307
89 Abella, Clarissa Louise (13528222) 9 TX USA 1300
90 Chan, Jonathan C (13852995) 9 NY USA 1299
91 Wagner, Connor H (13497756) 9 NY USA 1293
92 Moy, Chandler James (13339431) 9 WA USA 1289
93 Wang, Matthew (13808635) 9 NJ USA 1288
94 Haining, Kyle (13869267) 9 WA USA 1287
95 Lai, Victor Beyond (14006450) 9 TX USA 1282
96 Karp, Eli M (13703405) 9 LA USA 1281
97 Srihari, Pranav (13600455) 9 NY USA 1277
98 Wang, Kenneth (13721753) 9 TX USA 1276
99 Moy, Kevin (13737545) 9 CA USA 1272
100 Barbin, Lorenzo (13480845) 9 IL USA 1271
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Under 21 list
In the last 2 years I have lost to

#1  Robert Hess, #2  Ray Robson, #17, the Incredible Tyler Hughes,
#18, Darwin Yang  and #26, Steven Zierk

1 Hess, Robert L (12749774) 17 NY USA 2655
2 Robson, Ray (12847250) 14 FL USA 2614
3 Lenderman, Alex (12787646) 19 NY USA 2582
4 Shankland, Samuel L (12852765) 17 CA USA 2547
5 Ludwig, Daniel J (12717400) 19 FL USA 2543
6 Bercys, Salvijus (12909023) 19 NY USA 2521
7 Arnold, Marc Tyler (12770589) 16 NY USA 2477
8 Bryant, John Daniel (12796667) 17 TX USA 2440
9 Heimann, Mark (12802899) 16 PA USA 2422
10 Banawa, Joel (12922625) 19 CA USA 2419
11 Lee, Michael (12858009) 15 WA USA 2399
12 Zhao, Parker Bi Guang (12787319) 15 NY USA 2395
13 Foisor, Sabina-Francesca (14012260) 20 MD USA 2379
14 Naroditsky, Daniel A (12892910) 13 CA USA 2378
15 Yeager, Daniel A (12876648) 18 TX USA 2364
 Harper, Warren Thomas (12937291) 18 TX USA 2364
17 Hughes, Tyler B (12799460) 18 CO USA 2352
18 Yang, Darwin (12945617) 12 TX USA 2351
19 Heimann, Alexander C (12801477) 16 PA USA 2342
20 Critelli, James (12760801) 18 CT USA 2340
 Kahn, Aaron E (12814043) 20 MI USA 2340
22 Holt, Conrad (12937909) 16 KS USA 2339
23 Shen, Victor C (12809707) 16 NJ USA 2334
24 Liu, Elliott Joseph Likuang (12661521) 19 CA USA 2332
25 Thaler, Michael (12690413) 17 NY USA 2331
26 Zierk, Steven C (12796611) 16 CA USA 2324


From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Sat Oct 24 00:41:59 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:41:59 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] [CSCN] Club Championship - round 2 and Fw:
	Results of Trick or Treat
Message-ID: <1256366519.4ae2a1b79d5b7@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net> -----
    Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:20:14 -0600
    From: CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net>
Reply-To: CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net>
 Subject: [CSCN] Club Championship - round 2 and Fw: Results of Trick or Treat


Two more past champions suffered defeats, as Jeff Fox (club webjockey and 1999
champion) knocked off NM Buck Buchanan (1992 and 2003 champion), and I got the
win against Mitch Anderson (2008 champion).

Two rounds remain and anything can happen as the top 7 players are all within
one point.

[Event "Club Championship"]
[Site "http://cs.chess.home.att.net/"]
[Date "2009.10.20"]
[Round "2.1"]
[White "Anderson, Mitch"]
[Black "Anderson, Paul"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A42"]
[WhiteElo "1997"]
[BlackElo "1966"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2009.10.20"]
[TimeControl "5400"]

1. e4 c6 2. c4 g6 3. d4 d6 4. Nc3 Bg7 5. Be3 Nh6 6.
f3 f5 7. Qd2 Nf7 8. h4 h5 9. d5 c5 10. Nge2 Qa5 11. Nf4 Ne5 12. Bd3 Na6 13. O-O
Bf6 14. g3 Qb4 15. Nb5 Qxd2 16. Bxd2 Bd7 17. exf5 Nxd3 18. Nxd3 Bxf5 19. Nf4
Bxb2 20. Rae1 Kd7 21. Re2 Be5 22. Rfe1 Rhe8 23. a3 Nc7 24. Nxc7 Kxc7 25. Ne6+
Bxe6 26. Rxe5 dxe5 27. dxe6 Rad8 28. Bg5 Kd6 29. f4 exf4 30. Bxf4+ Kc6 31. Re5
Rd4 32. Rg5 Rg8 33. Kg2 Rxc4 34. Kf3 b6 35. g4 Rf8 0-1


----- Original Message -----

Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 9:09 PM
Subject: Results of Trick or Treat


Hi All,

Here are the results of the Trick or Treat tournament. Please pass along your
usual channels. Thanks!

      Event ID Sec State City Dates Plr Event Name
      200910171331     1     CO     LAKEWOOD     2009-10-17     31     2009
TRICK OR TREAT


Prize Schedule:
1st     $110  Brian Wall
2nd    $100  Julian Evans & Gordon Randall ($50 each)
U1800  $87  Randy Reynolds, Jackson Chen, Mark Krowczyk ($29 each)
U1725  $76
                  > $143  Anthea Carson, James Powers ($73 each)
U1600 $70

*U1600 $70  Ryan Swerdlin, Cory Foster, Dean Brown, Isaac Martinez, Edward
Cronin ($14 each)
*Incorrectly announced and paid out

U1300 $50 Frank Riley, Jerry Maier ($25 each)
U1000/Unr. $40  Dave Kennedy, Victor Creazzi, Tara Martinez, Saurabh Deshpande
($10 each)


Yes, if you look closely you'll see two prize amounts for the U1600 category. 
After a long day of chess, this playing TD's mind played some "tricks" on him
which caused him to announce the incorrect prize distribution, thus giving 5
players a "treat".  As it is the TD's responsibilty to make everyone whole, I
could have recalled the monies already paid out and redistributed them.  Since
many players had already left the tournament, the proper thing to do was pay
all prizes announced and corrected.  My heartfelt thanks to all who attended
and said they liked the venue and wished for more events to be held there.
Enjoy the holiday and happy chess!

Jerry Maier
Mobile:        719.660.5531
Home/FAX:  719.268.6970
E-mail:         pmjer77 at aim.com



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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Sat Oct 24 00:44:00 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:44:00 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Chess champ to be featured on 'Most Wanted'
Message-ID: <1256366640.4ae2a2300430d@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from "Thomas L. Mullikin" <tlm at orbdyn.com> -----
    Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:31:29 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
    From: "Thomas L. Mullikin" <tlm at orbdyn.com>
Reply-To: "Thomas L. Mullikin" <tlm at orbdyn.com>
 Subject: Chess champ to be featured on 'Most Wanted'
      To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>

http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20091022/NEWS01/910220338/Chess-champ-to-be-featured-on--Most-Wanted-

The airing will be at 7:00 pm on Saturday, at Fox.
An abbreviated version of this article is on Susan Polgar's Blog.


----- End forwarded message -----




From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Sat Oct 24 03:16:34 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:16:34 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Grandmaster Eugene Perelshteyn
Message-ID: <1256375794.4ae2c5f2df8f9@www.taom.com>


I played 5 GMs in 2 days, 4 in blitz ( 1 draw ), 1 slow game

My first 14 moves took me an hour but I did manage to play the
same White moves as GM Yehuda Gruenfeld played 33 years ago.

Basically I reached a drawn ending with two Rooks and opposite colored Bishops.
However:
1 - I was down 46 minutes on the clock
2 - I had no experience in this ending
3 - Eugene has been playing Dragon endings for two/thirds of his life

4 - Eugene has written on this opening in collaboration
with GM Roman Dzindzichashvili and GM Lev Alburt

http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Openings-Explained-Complete-Repertoire/dp/1889323128

Chess Openings for Black, Explained (A Complete Repertoire) (Paperback)
~ Lev Alburt (Author), Roman Dzindzhichhashvili (Author), Eugene Perelshteyn
(Author)

also second editions, also Chess Openings for White, Explained

5 - I might have drawn if I could get the Rooks off the board
but as it is I was afraid of Pawn storms on both sides of the
board. I was seeing ghosts everywhere. It's the kind of nightnare
ending where you have to respond to new concrete threats for 70
moves with no end in sight.
6 - With 9 minutes for 15 moves versus one hour 22 minutes
for Eugene I missed a cheap shot that cost me 2 pawns.
7 - " My Bishop controlled the whole board,
your Bishop was passive. "

Danielle Rice advised me to play
the game seriously and I tried to.
I couldn't get Larry Evans' words the night
before about Bobby Fischer out of my mind.

" Every move of mine is scrutinized worldwide,
sometimes the pressure is unbearable. "
Bobby Fischer to Larry Evans

No wonder he disappeared every now and then.
I felt more sympathy for Bobby than ever.

I remember the Father-Son Perelshteyn duo from
my Harvard Square days 15 years ago. Eugene was
probably about 15 then.

Eugene and I chatted pleasantly before the game.
Very nice guy. We did an ICC webcast together in 2006.
Eugene and I chatted a little more at the Sands Regency
Arby's after the game.



[Event "2009 Reno - Western States Open"]
[Site "Sands Regency, Reno, Nevada"]
[Date "2009.10.23"]
[Round "1"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Grandmaster Eugene Perelshteyn"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White loses on time"]
[WhiteElo "USCF 2204 FIDE"]
[BlackElo "2596"]
[Opening "Sicilian: accelerated fianchetto, modern variation with Bc4"]
[ECO "B35"]
[NIC "SI.33"]
[Time "19:00:00"]
[TimeControl "40/2, 20/1, G/30 minutes, 5 second delay"]

2009 Reno-Western States Open

October 23,2009

Round 1

Board 7

Open section

40/2, 20/1,
( Game/30 minutes   5 second delay )

White - Brian Wall
2204 in both
USCF and FIDE rating list

Black -
Grandmaster Eugene Perelshteyn
FIDE  2542
USCF  2596

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6
5. Nc3 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Bc4 Qa5 8. O-O!!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Played over 2,000 times including Spassky 1960, Bobby Fischer 1961, etc.

It took me 20 minutes to work out all the traps.
Eugene called this an only move.
I was determined to take an hour
if that's what it took.
8  0-0  Qb4  9  Bb3  N:e4  fails to
10 Nd5  Qa5  1 Qe1  or
10 N:c6  dc  11 a3  N:c3  12 Qf3  or
10 N:e4  N:d4  11 c3 ( that's the one I saw ).

8 f3  Qb4  9  N:c6  bc  10 Bb3  0-0  or  ... d6
fine for Black

8 Bd3  0-0, ... d6, ... d5, ... N:d4, ... a6 among others.
Black is fine.

8 Bd5   Nb4, ... 0-0, ... Ng4  among others.
Black is fine.

and it all gets worse from there.

The Grandmaster mentioned  8 Nb3?  Qb4!  9 Bd3 ( 9 Nd2  Q:b2 )  N:e4!
as a common error.


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8 ... O-O 9. Bb3

Played over 1330 times,
including Spassky - Gurgenidze  1960

This took me 8 minutes.
Of the many moves giving me a slight advantage,
Rybka likes 9 h3 best ( Played 117 times at least )

9 ... d6!  10. h3

Played 1265 times.
Rybka3 prefers
15 f3 ( played 180 times including Spassky - Gurgenidze  1960
or  15  Nd5 ( 50 times )

10 ... Bd7!  11. f4

Played 756 times.
Rybka3 prefers  11 Re1 ( 381 games )
or  11 Nd5 ( 12 games (

11 ... Nxd4 12. Bxd4!

Played 406 times

12 ...  Bc6!  13. Nd5

Played 100 times.
This took me 12 minutes.
13  d3  ( 216 times ) is an option

13 ... Rae8

Played 31 times, starting at 40 years ago.
Facebook friend GM Nigel Davies
played this 20 years ago.
13 ... Rfe8 played 23 times
13 ... B:d5 played 37 times



14. Bxf6?
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

14 Qe1!  played 5 times including
Fridrick Olafsson versus Eigil Pederson
1969

14  f5! played 5 times
14  Qd3! played 11 times

No one has tried  14 N:f6+  ef!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

14 ... Qc5+!!!   TN  Perelshteyn

7 minutes spent

Theoretical Novelty by Grandmaster Eugene Perelshteyn
14 ... B:f6!! ( 1 game ) or ... ef!  ( 1 game )
are also OK


15. Kh1!!

14  minutes spent to make sure
15 Kh1!!  or  Kh2!!
are better than the pointless 15 Rf2?

Time spent -
Brian - 70 minutes
GM    - 22 minutes


15 ... Bxf6!!

15 ... ef!  is also OK

16. c3!!  Bg7 17. f5!!

My feeling is my obnoxious d5-Knight
should be worth a Bishop.

17 ...  Bxd5 18. Qxd5!!

All d5 captures leas to an equal game.

18 ... Qxd5!

The Grandmaster spent 5 minutes on his first 13
opening moves and 10 minutes on the whole endgame.
I struggled like a man trapped in the Inquisition.


19. exd5

Rybka3 and Eugene felt
19 B:d5 was slightly more accurate
keeping my Bishop active.
I mentioned ... e6, ... Be5  and ... Ke7 -
the Grandmaster confirmed he intended that plan

19 ... Be5


I was more worried about a Queenside minority attack


20. fxg6!

I considered  20  g4!  and Kg2
The GM felt opening the h-file
might be a tad premature.
I didn't want to relegate my Rook to babysitter.

20 ... hxg6!   21. Kg1

Now I was torturing myself with fears of
Rook invasions and pawn storms.

" The Jewish League is the only Sports League
where a game can be called on account of fear."
Jewish comedian Richard Lewis

That's how I felt about this ending.
I felt paralyzed.
I try to centralize my King.
I wanted to organize my Queenside pawns
on White squares but I couldn't manage it.
I was afraid a4 would lead to ... Rb8  and ... b5

Time -
Brian - 21 minutes for 19 moves
GM    - one hour 23 minutes

21 ... Kg7 22. Kf2 Rh8! 23. Ke3 Rh4 24. a4 Rc8!!  25. Rf2??

8 minutes spent on esoteric strategy
missing a simple tactic.
Almsot any other move is better
with an equal but difficult game
with an endless struggle in sight.

Time left -
Brian - 9 minutes to reach move 40
GM    - one hour 22 minutes

25 ...  Bxc3!!


I tried to limit the damage to one pawn but failed.

26. Re2 Be5!  27. Rd1 Rb4!  28. Rd3!  Rc1!  29. Bd1

Time -
Brian -  46 seconds left to reach move 40
GM    -  one hour 18 minutes

29 ... Bxb2!

Two pawns up.

Here I said in amazement,
" My flag is down."

0-1   White's flag fell

No hard feelings.
An honest fight,
I was rather proud of how hard I tried
and how well I played except for my
bonehead blunder in time pressure.
I learned a lot playing and studying this game.
Thank you Grandmaster.
I wished him well in the tournament.
I hope he wins.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Event "2009 Reno - Western States Open"]
[Site "Sands Regency, Reno, Nevada"]
[Date "2009.10.23"]
[Round "1"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Grandmaster Eugene Perelshteyn"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White loses on time"]
[WhiteElo "USCF 2204 FIDE"]
[BlackElo "2596"]
[Opening "Sicilian: accelerated fianchetto, modern variation with Bc4"]
[ECO "B35"]
[NIC "SI.33"]
[Time "19:00:00"]
[TimeControl "40/2, 20/1, G/30 minutes, 5 second delay"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Bc4 Qa5
8. O-O O-O 9. Bb3 d6 10. h3 Bd7 11. f4 Nxd4 12. Bxd4 Bc6 13. Nd5 Rae8 14.
Bxf6 Qc5+ 15. Kh1 Bxf6 16. c3 Bg7 17. f5 Bxd5 18. Qxd5 Qxd5 19. exd5 Be5 20.
fxg6 hxg6 21. Kg1 Kg7 22. Kf2 Rh8 23. Ke3 Rh4 24. a4 Rc8 25. Rf2 Bxc3 26.
Re2 Be5 27. Rd1 Rb4 28. Rd3 Rc1 29. Bd1 Bxb2

0-1   White's flag fell
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Event "ISR-ch"]
[Site "Israel "]
[Date "1976.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Gruenfeld,Yehuda"]
[Black "Kagan,Shimon"]
[Result "1/2"]
[Eco "B35"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Bc4 Qa5
8.0-0 0-0 9.Bb3 d6 10.h3 Bd7 11.f4 Nxd4 12.Bxd4 Bc6 13.Nd5 Rae8 14.Bxf6 Bxf6
15.c3 Bg7 16.Qd3 Qc5+ 17.Kh1 Bb5 18.c4 Bc6 19.Rab1 e6 20.Nc3 Bxc3 21.bxc3 f5
22.exf5 exf5 23.Rbe1 Re4 24.Rxe4 fxe4 25.Qd4 e3 26.Re1 Qxd4 27.cxd4 Rxf4
28.d5 Bd7 29.Rxe3 Kf8 30.Kh2 h5 31.Bc2 g5 32.Ra3 a6 33.Rb3 Bc8 34.Rc3 b6
35.Bd1 h4 36.Rb3 Rxc4 37.Rxb6 Ke7 38.Be2 Ra4 39.Rc6 Bd7 40.Rxa6 Rd4
41.Ra7 Kd8 42.Bf3 Ra4 43.Rxa4 Bxa4 44.Kg1 Ke7 45.Kf2 Kf6 46.Ke3 Ke5
47.a3 Be8

1/2
------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Event "COL-ch"]
[Site "Bogota"]
[Date "1980.??.??"]
[Round "0"]
[White "Acosta,Alejandro"]
[Black "Garcia,L"]
[Result "1/2"]
[Eco "B35"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Bc4 Qa5
8.0-0 0-0 9.Bb3 d6 10.h3 Bd7 11.f4 Nxd4 12.Bxd4 Bc6 13.Nd5 Rae8 14.Bxf6 exf6
15.f5 Qc5+ 16.Kh1 Rxe4 17.fxg6 hxg6 18.Nxf6+ Bxf6 19.Rxf6 Qg5 20.Qf1 d5
21.Qf2 Qe3 22.Rf1 Qxf2 23.R1xf2 Kg7 24.c3 Re3 25.R6f4 Re5 26.R4f3 f5
27.Rd3 Rd8 28.Rfd2 Re1+ 29.Kh2 Rb1 30.a3 f4 31.Rd4 g5 32.Ba2 Rc1
33.c4 Re8

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BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com
BrianWallChess.net
Off the Wall column in
www.Chessville.com



From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Mon Oct 26 02:34:01 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:34:01 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Get busy
Message-ID: <1256546041.4ae55ef9cdf12@www.taom.com>

My publisher's daughter need 20 more votes

BW

----- Forwarded message from my2bits at earthlink.net -----
    Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:18:56 -0600
    From: my2bits at earthlink.net
Reply-To: my2bits at earthlink.net
 Subject: Fw: Hello Family and Friends...
      To: "Karen E (Mother's House)" <Karen at MothersHousePublishing.com>

Hello All! I am shamelessly forwarding my daughter's request for votes for my
granddaughter's photo to win in the Gazette's Faces of Autumn  photo contest! 
Please forgive me if I have intruded on your privacy for this non-business
event, but if you think it is the best photo, we sure could use your vote. 
Thank you!

Jackie
            + JMJ +
Mother's House Publishing
719-266-0437 / 800-266-0999
www.mothershousepublishing.com
info at mothershousepublishing.com

Earth's crammed with heaven
and every common bush afire with God;
but only he who sees takes off his shoes;
the rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
        - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
----- Original Message -----
From: Julie Ryder
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 4:47 PM
Subject: Hello Family and Friends...


Hello Family and Friends,



While I'm recovering from the H1N1 flu.  A friend of mine suggested I enter the
Gazette's Faces of Fall Photo Contest.  I am currently in 4th place, and need
20 more votes to take 1st place over the current leader.  I am emailing you to
ask you to please vote for my entry under the People's Choice award category. 
If you click on this link it will take you right to my entry where you can
place your vote:



 http://www.gazette.fallphotocontest.com/bin/Rate?image_id=1008300421



 It is one vote per email.  I attached the entry picture it is Emmy playing in
the leaves.  We had balloons leftover from a bridal shower we hosted, and she
was having a great time with both balloons and leaves.  I apologize if I have
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but thought I would step it up this weekend, and email.



Thanks so much everyone!



Love,

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From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Mon Oct 26 02:48:04 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:48:04 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Grandmaster Eugene Perelshteyn
In-Reply-To: <4d6017600910251102u4e0f6849od85c390dea865fc8@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1256375794.4ae2c5f2df8f9@www.taom.com>
	<4d6017600910251102u4e0f6849od85c390dea865fc8@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1256546884.4ae562441de84@www.taom.com>


To survive an Aceelerated Dragon against a GM who wrote a book on it is no easy
task.I don't regret the time I spent on the opening. I had an expert do the
same against me later in Reno-he moved slowly and carefully but finally
blundered near the end. Playing slowly means you tried your best. I played the
rest of the tournament more quickly and with more confidence.

I completely disgaree spending one hour on the opeining is a big mistake.
I do it all the time. I enjoy thinking.

ed or B:d5 is a close decision-
it should be difficult but drawn either way.

fg is also a slight mistake-I would have to keep my Rook guarding f5 forever to
avoid it and I can't

I saw Rf2 was a blunder the instant I played it-
I was distracted by variations and plans 10-20 moves long.

I was surprised that B:f6 was a mistake.

I was impressed how comfortable Eugene was in the opening and ending.
54 years old and still  alot to learn.

I appreciate you taking a serious look at my game,
despite our different conclusions.

The landscape is littered with Accelerated Gradon victims who never survived the
first 10 moves against D-players. I always try to figure out things for myself
first,then see what I missed.

Brian Wall


Quoting Antonio Torrecillas <atorreci at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> As I think the analysis of a game is the best way to learn and
> improve, I will try to help you and other people here.
>
> At the end you wrote: "I was rather proud of how hard I tried and how
> well I played except for my bonehead blunder in time pressure. I
> learned a lot playing and studying this game. Thank you Grandmaster"
> but I think you have not understand well where you lost the game.
>
> In first place to spend one hour in opening moves is a "big mistake"
> and very few stronger players do it. You can think many minutes about
> to be better Kh2 or Kh1 in 15th move (actually no difference) but if
> later if you have no time to avoid big blunders you have managed very
> badly your time
>
> In second place you started being worse after becoming your bishop a
> very bad one. With exd5?? you obtained a weak pawn and your Bb3
> becaiome bad. The GM was very polite saying inacurate but surely He
> did not consider that move which I consider an strategical mistake.
> You opened the h file for black and He activates his rook with
> Rh8-h4-b4: I also think fxg6 is a mistake.
>
> In third place you are proud of your opening play (after all, you
> obtained a worse ending with white) and you think the unfortunate
> blunders as accidental (at least I understand that from your words). I
> think the difference between stronger players and weak ones is that
> strongers players do many few mistakes. You did play Rf2?? allowing a
> simple tactic after spending 8 minutes. Here you have something to
> improve.
>
> You see my personal view: you managed time very badly, you made two
> strategical mistakes which seem you have not appreciate in you
> analysis (It seem the GM suggested that but you did not trust him) and
> you made a severe tactical blunder.
>
> I'm equally hard with my games, if we do not see the way to improve
> it's hard to do it.
>
> Antonio T.
>
> 2009/10/24 Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>
> > My first 14 moves took me an hour but I did manage to play the
> > same White moves as GM Yehuda Gruenfeld played 33 years ago.
> >
> > Basically I reached a drawn ending with two Rooks and opposite colored
> Bishops.
> > (...)
> > 14 minutes spent to make sure 15 Kh1!! or Kh2!! are better than the
> pointless 15 Rf2?
> > (...)
> > 19. exd5
> >
> > Rybka3 and Eugene felt 19 B:d5 was slightly more accurate keeping my Bishop
> active. I mentioned ... e6, ... Be5 and ... Ke7 - the Grandmaster confirmed
> he intended that plan
> > (...)
> > 20. fxg6!
> >
> > I considered 20 g4! and Kg2 The GM felt opening the h-file might be a tad
> premature. I didn't want to relegate my Rook to babysitter.
> > (...)
> > 25. Rf2??
> >
> > 8 minutes spent on esoteric strategy missing a simple tactic. Almsot any
> other move is better with an equal but difficult game with an endless
> struggle in sight.
> >
> > Time left - Brian - 9 minutes to reach move 40 -  GM - one hour 22 minutes
> > (...)
> > I was rather proud of how hard I tried and how well I played except for my
> bonehead blunder in time pressure.
> > I learned a lot playing and studying this game. Thank you Grandmaster.
> >
> > [Event "2009 Reno - Western States Open"]
> > [Site "Sands Regency, Reno, Nevada"]
> > [Date "2009.10.23"]
> > [Round "1"]
> > [White "B-Wall"]
> > [Black "Grandmaster Eugene Perelshteyn"]
> > [Result "0-1"]
> > [ICCResult "White loses on time"]
> > [WhiteElo "USCF 2204 FIDE"]
> > [BlackElo "2596"]
> > [Opening "Sicilian: accelerated fianchetto, modern variation with Bc4"]
> > [ECO "B35"]
> > [NIC "SI.33"]
> > [Time "19:00:00"]
> > [TimeControl "40/2, 20/1, G/30 minutes, 5 second delay"]
> >
> > 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Bc4 Qa5
> > 8. O-O O-O 9. Bb3 d6 10. h3 Bd7 11. f4 Nxd4 12. Bxd4 Bc6 13. Nd5 Rae8 14.
> > Bxf6 Qc5+ 15. Kh1 Bxf6 16. c3 Bg7 17. f5 Bxd5 18. Qxd5 Qxd5 19. exd5 Be5
> 20.
> > fxg6 hxg6 21. Kg1 Kg7 22. Kf2 Rh8 23. Ke3 Rh4 24. a4 Rc8 25. Rf2 Bxc3 26.
> > Re2 Be5 27. Rd1 Rb4 28. Rd3 Rc1 29. Bd1 Bxb2
> > 0-1 White's flag fell
> --
> un saludo,
> Antonio Torrecillas
>




From brianwallchess3 at taom.com  Mon Oct 26 02:55:50 2009
From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:55:50 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Bobby missed mate in 3
In-Reply-To: <SNT120-W73C52E5EA01179CF3D43086BB0@phx.gbl>
References: <1256297559.4ae19457ab5d7@www.taom.com>
	<SNT120-W73C52E5EA01179CF3D43086BB0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <1256547350.4ae56416dbb52@www.taom.com>

My bad -
mate in 3 with Bobby's favorite move-
1 Bc4!!


Quoting Tim Kohler <tim.kohler at hotmail.com>:


 Larry had a position that he claimed Bobby failed twice at. First he bet
 Benko
 he could solve the mate in 3 in half an hour, then he bet he could cook the
problem if given all night to study it. He failed both times.
 Problem.  Black   Ke4
 White   Bc1, Qd1, Ke1, Bf1

 White to play and mate in 2
 Solution available upon request.

Mate in 3 or 2? Either way, yes Brian. Reply with the solution..!
 timk


 > Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:32:39 -0600
 > From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com
> To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Chess_Improvement at Yahoogroups.com;
 UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com; brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com
 > Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Grandmaster Ehlvest pounds Badger into
 the	dirt in Reno, Nevada
 >
 >
 > [Event "Reno Blitz"]
 > [Site "Sands Regency, Reno, Nevada"]
> [Date "2009.10.22"]
 > [Round "6"]
 > [White "Grandmaster Jaan Ehlvest"]
 > [Black "B-Wall"]
 > [Result "1-0"]
> [ICCResult "Black resigns"]
 > [WhiteElo "2600"]
 > [BlackElo "2200"]
 > [Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense, Toxic Badger"]
 > [ECO "A40"]
 > [NIC "QO.17"]
 > [Time "21:23:56"]
 > [TimeControl "300+0"]
>
 > 1. d4 Nc6 2. Nf3 f6!!
 >
 >
 > The Badger inspired by Earl Roberts' comments on UnorthodoxChessOpenings
 >
 > 3. d5!  Ne5!
 >
 >
 > The Badger is prepared to hide from the famous
 > Grandmaster in his Badger den at f7 if necessary.
>
 >
 > 4. e4! c6 5. Nc3!  Nxf3+ 6. Qxf3!  e6 7. dxe6 dxe6! 8. e5
 >
 > Ehlvest instantly threw this move out like it was the
 > greatest move in the world and I knew nothing about Chess.
 >
 >
 > 8 ... Qa5! 9. Bf4! Bb4 10. Bc4 Bxc3+ 11. bxc3!  f5!  12. O-O Ne7!!
 > 13. Rad1 O-O 14. Rd6 Nd5 15. Bb3!  Nxc3 16. Bd2!  Qxe5!
 >
 > It impressed me that my move shocked the Grandmaster but he
 > sat there and thought until he found the one refutation.
 >
 > 17. Rxe6!!  Bxe6!  18. Bxc3!!  Qd6!  19. Qg3!! Qxg3!
 > 20. Bxe6+!!  Kh8!  21. fxg3!  Rae8!  22. Bxf5 Re3
 > 23. Bd4 Ra3? 24. Bc5!
 >
 >
 > 1-0   Brian Resigns
 >
 > Brutal.
 > Ehlvest was leading with 9/10
 > going in the final 2 game mini-match with
 > my last round 2009 World Open opponent Steven Zierk ( 8/10) -
 > not sure who won.
 > I finished 7.5/12, drawing one game with GM Alexander Ivanov.
 >
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > [Event "Reno Blitz"]
 > [Site "Sands Regency, Reno, Nevada"]
 > [Date "2009.10.22"]
 > [Round "6"]
> > [White "Grandmaster Jaan Ehlvest"]
> [Black "B-Wall"]
 > [Result "1-0"]
 > [ICCResult "Black resigns"]
 > [WhiteElo "2600"]
 > [BlackElo "2200"]
 > [Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense, Toxic Badger"]
 > [ECO "A40"]
 > [NIC "QO.17"]
 > [Time "21:23:56"]
 > [TimeControl "300+0"]
 >
 > 1. d4 Nc6 2. Nf3 f6 3. d5 Ne5 4. e4 c6 5. Nc3 Nxf3+ 6. Qxf3 e6 7. dxe6 dxe6
 > 8. e5 Qa5 9. Bf4 Bb4 10. Bc4 Bxc3+ 11. bxc3 f5 12. O-O Ne7 13. Rad1 O-O 14.
 > Rd6 Nd5 15. Bb3 Nxc3 16. Bd2 Qxe5 17. Rxe6 Bxe6 18. Bxc3 Qd6 19. Qg3 Qxg3
 > 20. Bxe6+ Kh8 21. fxg3 Rae8 22. Bxf5 Re3 23. Bd4 Ra3 24. Bc5
 >
 > 1-0   Brian Resigns
 >
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > My Reno blitz draw with Grandmaster Alexander Ivanov went roughly like
 this.
 > All Game/5 minutes
 >
 > [Event "Reno Blitz"]
 > [Site "Sands Regency, Reno, Nevada"]
 > [Date "2009.10.22"]
 > [Round "5"]
 > [White "B-Wall"]
 > [Black "Grandmaster Alexander Ivanov"]
 > [Result "1/2-1/2"]
 > [ICCResult "Draw agreed"]
 > [WhiteElo "2200"]
 > [BlackElo "2500"]
 > [Opening "Robatsch (modern) defense"]
 > [ECO "B06"]
 > [NIC "KF.05"]
 > [Time "22:23:56"]
 > [TimeControl "300+0"]
 >
 > 1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Be3 c6 4. c3 d6 5. f3 Nf6 6. h4 h5 7. Nd2 b5
 > 8. Nh3 Bxh3 9. Rxh3 e5 10. Bd3 Bh6 11. Bxh6 Rxh6 12. Qe2 a6 13. Qe3 Rh8
 > 14. Rh1 Nbd7 15. Kf2 c5 16. d5 c4 17. Bc2 Kf8 18. a4 Kg7 19. axb5 axb5
 > 20. b4 cxb3 21. Nxb3 Rb8 22. Ra7 Ra8 23. Rha1 Rxa7 24. Rxa7 Qb6
> > 25. Qxb6 Nxb6 26. Bd3 Rc8 27. Na5 Rxc3 28. Bxb5 Rc1 29. Nc6 Rb1 30. Nd8
 Rxb5 31.
 > Rxf7+ Kh6 32. Rxf6 Nc4 33. g4 Rb2+ 34. Kg3 Ne3 35. g5+ Kh7 36. f4 Nf1+
> 37. Kf3 Nh2+ 38. Kg3 Nf1+ 39. Kf3 Nh2+ 40. Kg3
 > 1/2/1/2
> >
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I might have a move off. Grandmaster Ivanov ( the living one )
> >  told me I was winning with Bc6 at some point ( we had like a minute left )
> but we both had to take the draw at the end.
> >
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > I played handsome young 1400 Justin Garvis for practice before the Reno
 blitz.
 > This victory over me in our first game together brought him luck -
> he won the Under 1700 prize $132.
> >
 > [Event "Reno Blitz"]
 > [Site "Sands Regency, Reno, Nevada"]
 > [Date "2009.10.22"]
> [Round "pre-tournament fun"]
 > [White "B-Wall"]
 > [Black "Justin Garvin"]
 > [Result "0-1"]
 > [ICCResult "White resigns"]
 > [WhiteElo "2200"]
> > [BlackElo "1400"]
 > [Opening "Sicilian: Najdorf, Lipnitzky attack"]
 > [ECO "B86"]
> [NIC "SI.13"]
 > [Time "19:23:56"]
> > [TimeControl "300+0"]
 >
> 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bc4 e6
 > 7. Bg5 Be7!  8. Qf3 Qc7 9. Bb3 Nbd7 10. O-O-O b5!  11. e5!?
 >
 > 11  Rhe1, Kb1  or  B:f6  N:f6  12 a3
 > are all better
 >
 > 11 ... Bb7!  12. exd6!  Bxd6!
 >
 > I've played  12 ...  B:f3!  13  dc  B:d1  14 R:d1
 > quite a few times in blitz lately as White
 >
 >
 > 13. Qh3!?
 >
 > 13 Qe3!!  or Qe2!
 > are a little better
> >
>
 > 13 ...  Bf4+!
 >
 > 13 ... Nc5!!  is good in any Najdorf position
 >
 >
> > 14. Bxf4!  Qxf4+!  15. Kb1!  Qxf2? 16. Nxe6!!!
>
 > This is good
> > " Shattering the Scheveningen " Youtube video material
> as is  16 B:e6!!
> >
 > 16 ...  fxe6 17. Qxe6+!!
 >
 > Crushing
 >
> 17 ...  Kd8!  18. Rxd7+!!
 >
 > 18 Rh1-f1:f6!!!
> > is the killer
 > 18  Qf7!  or Rhe1!
 > are also good
 >
 >
 > 18 ... Nxd7!  19. Rd1! Bc8!
 >
>
 > I had 4 minutes to Justin's  2 minutes.
 > I looked for a long time at many lines
 > including  20  Ne4!!  Qe2  21 Qb6+!!
 > winning but I played
 >
 > 20. Qb6+??   Qxb6
 >
 > 0-1  Brian Resigns
 >
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 >
 > [Event "Reno Blitz"]
 > [Site "Sands Regency, Reno, Nevada"]
 > [Date "2009.10.22"]
> > [Round "pre-tournament fun"]
> [White "B-Wall"]
 > [Black "Justin Garvin"]
> > [Result "0-1"]
> [ICCResult "White resigns"]
 > [WhiteElo "2200"]
 > [BlackElo "1400"]
 > [Opening "Sicilian: Najdorf, Lipnitzky attack"]
 > [ECO "B86"]
 > [NIC "SI.13"]
 > [Time "19:23:56"]
 > [TimeControl "300+0"]
 >
 > 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bc4 e6 7. Bg5 Be7 8.
 > Qf3 Qc7 9. Bb3 Nbd7 10. O-O-O b5 11. e5 Bb7 12. exd6 Bxd6 13. Qh3 Bf4+ 14.
 > Bxf4 Qxf4+ 15. Kb1 Qxf2 16. Nxe6 fxe6 17. Qxe6+ Kd8 18. Rxd7+ Nxd7 19. Rd1
 > Bc8 20. Qb6+ Qxb6
 >
 > 0-1  Brian Resigns
 >
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > One of my Reno blitz opponents was another 9 year old 1600+ named Leo.
 > His Mom Moira, a lovely and charming woman, remembered Ryan Swerdlin
 > from Nationals. Leo's coach is Grandmaster Melikset Khachiyan. Leo
 > is one of those poor unfortunates told never to resign so I handed
 > over a small army of pieces to mate him with Bishop and Knight.
 > Mother and son were the most photogenic people I've met here in Reno
 > so far.
 >
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > I also listened to Larry Evans lecture on Bobby Fischer. Larry had great
 > stories to tell, he speaks precisely and beautifully. I introduced myself.
 On
 > the Question and Answer period I asked Larry if he ever tried to get Bobby
 to
 > play the French or Caro-Kann. Neither of us could remember a game where
 Bobby
 > played that. Larry Evans said he concentrated on getting Bobby to play
 > something other than 1 e4 so his opponents would have to work harder to
 > prepare. Larry felt it was his influence that helped Bobby play 1 b3 or 1
 c4.
 >
 > Larry had a position that he claimed Bobby failed twice at. First he bet
> Benko
> he could solve the mate in 3 in half an hour, then he bet he could cook the
 > problem if given all night to study it. He failed both times.
 > Problem.  Black   Ke4
 > White   Bc1, Qd1, Ke1, Bf1
> >
 > White to play and mate in 2
 > Solution available upon request.
>
 >
 > Kartsen Muller has a new definitive Bobby Fischer book with all his games
 > analyzed and new pictures, including Bobby with his real Dad, Paul Nemyeni.
 > Larry said Bobby knew who his real Dad was from age 9 onwards. Larry Evans
 > wrote the foreword, Andrew Soltis did an opening survey. Price -$40.
 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > I also ran into USCF Vice-President Ruth Haring and her son.
 >
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Team Colorado includes roommates Corey Foster and Lee Lahti.
 >
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > That's all I can think of for now.
 >
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 >
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 > www.Walverine.com
 >
 >
> >
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 >
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Tue Oct 27 04:52:09 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:52:09 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Grandmaster Larry Evans
Message-ID: <1256640729.4ae6d0d964c6a@www.taom.com>



http://sites.google.com/site/renochessclub/gm-larry-evans

I very much enjoyed meeting Larry Evans and hearing his Bobby Fischer lecture.
IM John Donaldson has compiled a list of 750 Larry Evans games here.


http://sites.google.com/site/renochessclub/gm-larry-evans

From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Tue Oct 27 08:15:15 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:15:15 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] New pictures from 2009 Reno Western States
	Open
Message-ID: <1256652915.4ae70073675af@www.taom.com>



posted at

BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com

photos
album

2009 Western States Open
Alvin Pulley's camera phone


From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Tue Oct 27 10:42:35 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:42:35 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Life Master Brian Wall loses to 10 year old
	expert in Reno, Nevada
Message-ID: <1256661755.4ae722fb32b0d@www.taom.com>


Top 10 list -

The Top 10 scariest things in the world

10 - Friday the 13th

9 - My Bloody Valentine

8 - Obama's Heath Care Plan

7 - Splice

6 - Drag Me to Hell

5 - Magnus Carlsen's opening repertoire

4 - Jennifer's Body

3 - Final Destination: Death Trip 3D

2 - Saw 7

1 - a 9 year old boy trained by a Russian Jewish Grandmaster

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I wrote an email and a song after I lost
to 10 year old Zack Malone on March 15, 2002

http://www.walverine.com/index.php?id=140

www.Walverine.com
email Yesterday


Yesterday

by Yoko Ono and Brian Wall



Yesterday, all their bishops seemed so far away

Now it looks as if they're here to stay

Oh I believe in Yesterday



Suddenly, I've got half the men I used to see

There's a Queenpawn hanging over me

Oh yesterday came suddenly



Why Zach had to grow I don't know

He wouldn't say

I moved something wrong now I long for yesterday



Yesterday, Chess was such an easy game to play

Now my King tries to hide away

Oh I believe in yesterday



Yesterday, I enjoyed pouncing on their fatal flaw

Nowadays, C-players spurn my draw,

mate me alongside their beaming Paw



Suddenly, I'm not the Chesswhiz I used to be

He's sitting right in front of me

Oh my time elapsed suddenly



Zach pinned me to my rating floor,

He won the war,

Chessmen's saddest song, "thought too long", was sung once more



Yesterday, kids were such an easy bunch to play

Now Malone takes all my pawns away

When did all my hair turn grey?



Why Zach had to grow I don't know

He wouldn't say

I moved something wrong now I long for yesterday
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
My loss to Zack was an Action Game/30 where I played the Halloween Gambit,
somewhat understandable. I learned a very valuable lesson that has won me
hundreds of games - don't retreat active pieces without a very good reason.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
In Reno I managed to top that by losing a slow game to a 10 year old expert
named Luke Harmon-Vellotti trained by GM Gregory " The Lion of Kentucky "
Kaidanov. I also lost earlier to Kaidanov students Ray Robson ( 12 )  and
Darwin Yang (11 ) in 2008. I almost lost to Kaidanov student Mark Krowczyk
( grown electrician ) and to 10 year old Morgan Robb/Paul Szeligowski/Yaacov
Norwitz student Ryan Swedlin, both at the October 17, 2009 Trick or Treat Open
in the Blue Sky Collective, Lakewood, Colorado. I call Kaidanov students
" Children of the Corn ".

I have already reaped many rewards from my embarrassing debacle,
winning 3 consecutive games with lessons learned from losing to Luke.
That positioned me to play a GM on Board 8 in the final round for some decent
money but there my luck ran out. So I lost to 2 GMs and a GM-trained 10 year
old in Reno.

My big lesson from Luke is what I call the Velloti moment -
in every Chessgame you reach a position you don't like -
something doesn't appeal to you - it will take you half
an hour to reclimate yourself to the position. Against
Harmon-Vellotti I failed in my task - I told Danielle Rice
I actually hated Chess after pouring so much energy into
my Round 1 loss to GM Eugene Perelshteyn -

Danielle -
" C'mon Brian "

That night I couldn't speak so I poured my energy into
an email about the Perelshteyn game, very instructive.

Another mistake I made is you should always add 200-300 points to any kid.
I wasn't prepared for a Lemmiwinks game. I realized later Luke's approach
was just to play safely, he wrote his move down before playing it.
He didn't try to kill me, I killed myself. I do that countless times
on ICC against Lemmiwinks, I just publish my wins but I lose thousands
of games when I face boring systems.

In my games after Luke I handled Vellotti moments much better,
I spent the necessary time when I didn't know what was going on.
I also rushed my central pawns down my Round 3 opponent's throat
just the way that Luke did in Round 2.

I was numb that night from the shock and horror and trauma after my painful
defeat and could barely talk to my roommate but the next morning I decided the
best way to achieve 4 wins is to lose the first two games. I tried my damndest
to win the rest of my games and almost succeeded.

There was something very strange in the defeat in that I saw his winning
move many times in many variations for 6 minutes yet ignored it anyway.


Round 1 -
a painful blunder loss to GM Eugene Perelshteyn after
playing my heart out and reaching an equal ending.

Round 2 -
after barely surviving Ryan Swerdlin the week before,
I lose to Luke Harmon-Vellotti,
failing miserably in my Vellotti moment

Round 3 -
After encountering a Vellotti moment I found a good move and rolled my opponent.
I even rolled my pawns forward in the center like the brat did to me.

Round 4 -
Severe Velloti moment which is when you don't like or understand your position
and it takes you half an hour to reorient yourself. Often a Vellotti moment
occurs in an even position where you have no winning plan. In this case I went
from winning to even, I learned from the Luke Harmon-Vellotti game to calm down
and just do what is necessary before it gets worse. So I accepted my fate, made
my move and my opponent immediately blundered.

Round 5 -
My Vellotti moment - I hated my posiiton for 20 minutes. I went to the other
side of the board, immediately recognized the problem and knew what I had to
do. I won.

Round 6 -
I played an opening I always do poorly with against a Grandmaster and lost.
I felt uncomfortable all game. The GM played well. I was proud just to be
on stage for a shot at the money after losing my first two games, one to a
child.

I have not replayed or analyzed this game before this email except in my
nightmares. I have thought about the game a lot and tried to use it
constructively. I have succeeded in that.

Sometimes when I am losing I create new goals -
here I decided to try to last 40 moves, not an easy task.

I tried to give this game to Super TD Randall Hough for the USChess.Org
Chess Life online Reno report but he wasn't interested. I
guess 10 year olds beating Chessmasters is commonplace nowadays.
I gave Randall copies of my 3 victories and told him they were all
masterpieces. Let's see if he prints any.

Nikita Zanichkowsky told me she doesn't like playing kids. Danielle Rice told me
the same thing. I prefer playing kids to old people because I like to see how
good the kids get and I don't have to watch them die. The nice thing about old
people is they know what I'm talking about most of the time. I remember Les
Haynes didn't like giving rating points to young Wyoming Champion Andrew Smith,
now replaced by Dan Tanner.

I teased IM Joe Fang merilessly when he lost to 12 year old Jorge Sammour -
Hasbun 20 years ago. I always called him Hor-hay Zamorrah. I told Joe he should
have bribed him with a milk carton. My turn for the comedy rack.

Rising Stars will get rating points somewhere, why not from me?
I pride myself as the final examiner in Colorado, blocking
everyone from their next underserved rating class.

As far as personality goes I talked to both father and son
before the game and they were very pleasant and cheerful.
The kid wouldn't tell me who his trainer was, I found that
out on my own. If you keep enough secrets they award you with
a GM title.

Losing to Perelshteyn was sort of traumatic because I put so much time and
energy into the game but losing to a 10 year old is so horrific that you
actualy have to rewire your mind to get over the existential shock and keep
playing. Somehow the next morning I was as determined as ever and played
very well until I ran into a stone wall from Zambia in the final round.

Sixteen years ago I lived in a homeless shelter in Massachusetts and to get out
of there I worked moving rocks so heavy I had to sit on the ground and push
with both feet. I also worked in a cupcake factory with just a tiny skylight
100 feet high in a corner like some sort of Dickensian factory for orphans. My
most existential moment at that time was working in this godawful factory where
dump trucks of trash kept unloading in this massive warehouse from someone's
corner of Hell - our job was to ignore the overwhelming stench and separate
paper from plastic, the kind of thing the police do once a year to search for
murder clues at the town dump. There was certain joy in that I was saying to
the
universe, yes, I will do anything to live, anything to move forward, I will
endure hell to get to heaven. I remember one guy with Tourrette's Syndrome
would refuse to go there unless I went with him to cheer him up. I remember
bounding happily from compacted trash cube to compacted trash cube like a
mountain ( of rubbish ) goat.

Losing to the GM was painful and depressing but losing to a boy as old as my own
was SO embarrassing that it became like my existential debris sorting to get out
of a homeles shelter, I am saying to the universe, OK, I love this game SO much
I will endure anything. NOTHING can destroy my love of Chess. One of my theories
is that God does not "solve" our problems, He just gives
us  a bigger one to put the first problem in perspective. This game is my
divine punishment for saying I hated Chess right before it.

I have never won a prize or a Chess penny in Nevada or a World Open.
I have won in Kansas, Florida and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Eventually the energy of youth overcomes the
experience of age but this is ridiculous.

OK, let me swallow this bitter pill so I can move on.
I am ready to look at the game again. Arrggghhh.

I think Tyler Hughes probably beat me when he was 10 years old in blitz games,
I remember he was very happy the first time.

[Event "2009 Reno Western States Open"]
[Site "Sands Regency, Reno, Nevada"]
[Date "2009.10.25"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Luke Harmon-Vellotti, age 10"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2059"]
[BlackElo "2204 both FIDE and USCF"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "01:30:50"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

Chessmaster loses to 10 year old

October 22, 2009

Round 2

2009 Western States Open

40/2, 20/1, Game/30, 5 second delay.
Some people put the delay on the final time control,
some had it going all game.

Friday evening

Open section

Board 24
This game put me next to last board next round, Froggy Hollow

White -
Luke Harmon-Vellotti, just learned to skateboard

I had the Black pieces, Thank God, one more excuse.

I chatted with Father and son and we began.



1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. Qe2

It's funny how openings are linked with emotions,
The Fishing Pole or Beefeater make me ecstatic,
The Nimzo-Indian or Closed Lopez fill me with horror.
I don't know what demon book recommends this approach
but it is very common on ICC. It seems better than
facing a Berlin endgame. Yucchh from the White side.
I publish blitz victories over joy-sucking soul-destroying Death-Eater
Lemmiwinks openings like the d3 English, the d3-Guicco Piano,
the d3 Ruy Lopez, the Colle, the London System but I don't publish
the thousands of losses I suffer from sheer boredom and frustration.
I had a nice game as Black against this against Richard Wagner
in the 2008 North American Open, December, Las Vegas, Bally's Casino.
I played a wild attack, reached a +5 posiiton, messed it up, tried
to grind out an endgame win and ended up creating a beautiful mating
net with virtually no material. Against Richard I had worried about
my hanging e-pawn for 10 minutes per opening move and I finally
decided to just ignore that issue and develop my pieces. I copied
that approach this game and played my first 7 moves almost instantly.

4 ... Bc5!  5. O-O!  O-O!  6. c3

To promote d4 and to stop ... Nd4 I presume

6 ... d6

Fritz 11 recommends  6 ... d5  or  6 ... Re8  7 d3  d5
I kind of knew that but never handle the Closed
Ruy that way for some prejudiced reason.
The next worse move after mine is  6 ... h5!?
which is too Fishing pole even for me.


7. d3 h6 8. Be3 Bxe3!

Fritz approved but dreaded by humans.
My Knights have no central outposts now
and the f-file is opened for attack.
I was just tired of being further hassled
after  8 ... Bb6 with moves like
Nd2-c4  or  b4, a4



9. fxe3

Fritz likes 9 Q:e3
but I dreaded those doubled pawns.

9 ... Nh7

Steinitz once said those doubled central pawns are unexploitable
and the best strategy is to undouble them so I aim for that.


10. Nbd2 Kh8 11. Rad1

Luke wastes a lot of time with his Rooks before doubling on the f-file.

11 ... f5?

Fritz 11 hates this move.
I thought 11 .. Ng5!!  was pointless because of  12 Nh4-f5 but now I see
11 ... Ng5!!  12  Nh4??  Nh3+!!  or ... N:e4! easily.
My brain just wasn't working that day.


12. exf5?

I just don't understand these positions.
Fritz thinks Luke is already winning after
12 d4  ed  13  ed  a6  14 Bd3
World Champions Capablanca, Bobby Fischer and Vishy Anand
were deadly on the White side of the Ruy Lopez. GM Julio
Becerra seems to win every game with it.

12 ...  Bxf5!  13. e4 Bg4!  14. Qe3!!

My very first email 10 years ago talked about complementation,
Queen on dark squares, Bishop on light squares.
Good instincts for a 10 year old. 5 minutes spent on the move.

14 ... Qe7

Humans hate pins, computer seems to embrace them.
Fritz 11 prefers 14 ... Qe8 to my move.



15. Rde1!

Fritz approved.
This is kind of embarrassing.
I feared doubled Rooks on the f-file BEFORE
8 ... B:e3 which took me 13 minutes.
The embarrassing part is that even with two
extra tempi I came nowhere close to handling it.

15 ... Nd8

Fritz offers many suggestions but nothing
to assuage my permanent disadvantage.



16. d4!!

Winning - Fritz 11

Do not discconnect your Rooks without a very good reason -
Alekhine


16 ...  Nf7 17. Bc4!!

I have a rotten position against a 10 year old.

Swell -
Clint Eastwood



17 ...  a6

So I can move my QR without de and Q:a7


18. Rf2

The moment I've been dreading all game,
Luke thought 13 minutes on this, scary in itself.
That's an eternity at 10.
Most of them fall to the ground at bank lines.
Fritz likes 18 Qf2!  for some reason


18 ... Rae8 19. Ref1!!

This is what I now call the Vellotti moment.
Without doing very much Luke has a winning position.
All moves lose and I hate my position but still I
should think for half an hour and try to hang on.
That's what we do. I wanted to play   19 ... g5?
to lock out his knight but I saw that lost to B:f7 and N:e5.
My position sucks but 19 ... Bh5, ... Nf6, ... Be6, ... Nhg5,
... Nd8, ... B:f3  or  ed  at least all deal with the immediate threat.
After I made my move I asked myself what was wrong, I allowed
Luke to execute a threat I had already clearly seen and analyzed
many times in my head. It was like I was too tired to think.
It already seemed too late to grovel for
a draw so I just quietly took my lumps.

19 ...  c6??

Time to investigate nursing home facilities.


20. Bxf7! Qxf7!  21. Nxe5!  Qh5?

The sickest part is I told myself I should at least
decide which is better, 21  ... Qe6!  or ... Qh5?
and I couldn't even manage that.


22. Nf7+!!

I just stared at the knight like his move was illegal.
How is it possible not to see that?
Had Eugene Perelshteyn sucked every brain cell
out of my cerebellum with a Car Vac in Round 1?
It was an out of body, out of brain experience.
The rest was hell on earth. I couldn't look at anybody,
it felt like a public hanging or at least a flogging.
I don't remember anything outside of my 64 square death chamber.

22 ...  Kg8! 23. Nxd6!!

Kasparov says he was told as a child that a Knight on e6 or d6 is worth a rook.
Am I then down a Rook? I did have one funny ICC blitz game where my opponent
had Knights on e6 and d6 both protected by pawns. It still gives me chills.

23 ...  Rxf2!  24. Rxf2!  Re7 25. e5!  Be6 26. b3 a5

Shameless desperation.
There is a certain freedom to lost positions,
things can't get worse.


27. Rf1 a4 28. c4 axb3 29. axb3!  b5

Trying to abort future Queens from
appearing on stage like Chinese couples
mandated by the governement to have one child.


30. N2e4 bxc4 31. bxc4!  Ng5!  32. Nxg5 hxg5 33. Qe4!!  Ra7 34. d5

As I played the game I wondered when the computer
would give Luke the High +5 and that moment is now.

34 ... cxd5!  35. cxd5!

The Pawn Wave Kid killing the Pawn Wave Guy

35 ...  Bg4 36. e6!!

Can this be happening?
+8

36 ... Re7 37. Rc1

+15


37 ...  Bxe6 38. dxe6!

mates

38 ...  g6 39. Rc8+!  Kh7!

40 Qd4, Qd3, Qa4, Qe1  or Qc2
all checkmate



40. Qe5 Rg7


40 ... Qd1+  lasts longer but I just wanted to complete the first time control.
40  Qe5  Rg7  41  Ne4  or  Qa1  checkmates

1-0   I resign to the 10 year old

I wish Luke well. The higher his rating climbs, the less foolish I look.
Examples: latest ratings for GM Robert Hess, GM Ray Robson, Tyler Hughes,
FM Darwin Yang, Ryan Moon and Alexander Velikanov.
Everyone here is 11-18 years old.

Robert Hess            2655   beat me 2008  North American Open
Ray Robson             2616   beat me 2008  Florida Open
Tyler Hughes           2354   beat me several times
Darwin Yang            2316   beat me 2008  North American Open
Ryan Moon              2188   beat me 2008  North American Open
Alexander Velikanov    2092   drew me by puking, 2008  North American Open
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[Event "2009 Reno Western States Open"]
[Site "Sands Regency, Reno, Nevada"]
[Date "2009.10.25"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Luke Harmon-Vellotti, age 10"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2059"]
[BlackElo "2204 both FIDE and USCF"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "01:30:50"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. Qe2 Bc5 5. O-O O-O 6. c3 d6 7. d3 h6
8. Be3 Bxe3 9. fxe3 Nh7 10. Nbd2 Kh8 11. Rad1 f5 12. exf5 Bxf5 13. e4 Bg4
14. Qe3 Qe7 15. Rde1 Nd8 16. d4 Nf7 17. Bc4 a6 18. Rf2 Rae8 19. Ref1 c6
20. Bxf7 Qxf7 21. Nxe5 Qh5 22. Nf7+ Kg8 23. Nxd6 Rxf2 24. Rxf2 Re7
25. e5 Be6 26. b3 a5 27. Rf1 a4 28. c4 axb3 29. axb3 b5 30. N2e4 bxc4
31. bxc4 Ng5 32. Nxg5 hxg5 33. Qe4 Ra7 34. d5 cxd5 35. cxd5 Bg4
36. e6 Re7 37. Rc1 Bxe6 38. dxe6 g6 39. Rc8+ Kh7 40. Qe5 Rg7

1-0   I resign to the 10 year old
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Unorthodox Openings is the triumph of the joy of
something new over the possible pain of losing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D8POSR-kdo

Leona Lewis -
Happy

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http://main.uschess.org/content/view/9805/556/

Two GMs Lead While Upsets Reign in Reno
By Randy Hough
October 24, 2009

Midway report on Western States Open
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http://main.uschess.org/content/view/9803/556/

Help America's Most Wanted Find Robert Snyder
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[Date "2009.07.02" ]

What was wrong with me, playing a GM in the World Open after months of
preparation and you throw away your Queen like a child? I tossed and
turned all night.

Next morning, I took one look at a scared looking bespectacled
14 year old boy from Rhode Island, looking like a poster child
for a booked up fish and immediately thought,

" Fishing Pole,
I am going to do things to this boy that even Robert Snyder never imagined.
I hear the sounds of squealing pigs."

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[Event "World Open"]
[Site "Sheraton Hotel, 17th and Race, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania" ]
[Date "2009.07.02" ]
[Round "2"]
[White "Stuart Finney"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2100"]
[BlackElo "2202"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Hyper-Pole, Art of
Attack Vukovic Variation"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "11:00:00 AM"]
[TimeControl "5 second delay, 40/1:55, Game/55 minutes"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. c3 a6 6. Ba4 Bc5 7. d4 Ba7 8.
h3 h5 9. Bg5 f6 10. Bc1 d6 11. hxg4 hxg4 12. Ne1 f5 13. g3 f4 14. Ng2 Qg5
15. Bxc6+ bxc6 16. f3 Qh5 17. Kf2 gxf3 18. Qxf3 Bg4 19. Qd3 Qh2 20. Ke1 fxg3
21. Ne3 Bh3 22. Nd2 g2 23. Nxg2 Bxg2 24. Rf2 exd4 25. cxd4 Qg1+ 26. Nf1 Bxf1
27. Rxf1 Qxd4 28. Qxa6 Kd7 29. Bd2 Rh2 30. Bc3 Qxe4+ 31. Kd1 Qd5+ 32. Ke1
Re8+

0-1 Stuart Resigns

This game earned 22 year old Michael Pearson and me a free lunch in Reno.
Alvin Pulley has been on my email list for a year and a half. Alvin and
his wife laughed so hard at what I wrote about my Stuart Finney game he
drove an hour and a half to Reno from Roseville, CA with his 18 year old son
Steve just to buy me dinner - since I had just beaten Michael, Alvin
generously also bought him lunch too while Michael and I analyzed our game
for an hour. Alvin also took some pictures for me which I posted to my Yahoo
group. Thanx Alvin.
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I composed a beautiful endgame study Vegas 2008
when Richard Wagner played 4 Qe2 against me. One
of my finest Chess moments.

[Event "2008 North American Open"]
[Site "Bally's Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada"]
[Date "2009.12.28" ]
[Round "6"]
[White "Richard Wagner"]
[Black "Brian Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2060"]
[BlackElo "2229"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense"]
[ECO "C65"]
[NIC "RL.07"]
[Time "10 AM"]
[TimeControl "40/2, Game/1, 5 second delay"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. Qe2 Bc5 5. O-O O-O 6. c3 d6 7. Rd1 Bg4 8.
d3 Kh8 9. h3 Bh5 10. Nbd2 g5 11. g4 Nxg4 12. hxg4 Bxg4 13. Kg2 f5 14. Rh1
Qd7 15. b4 Bb6 16. Bb2 fxe4 17. Qxe4 Rf4 18. Nxg5 Rxe4 19. Ndxe4 Rf8 20.
Rxh7+ Qxh7 21. Nxh7 Kxh7 22. Kg3 Bf5 23. Rh1+ Kg6 24. f3 Ne7 25. c4 Be3 26.
Bc1 Bxc1 27. Rxc1 Be6 28. Rg1 Rg8 29. Kf2+ Kh6 30. Rh1+ Kg7 31. Rg1+ Kf8 32.
Rxg8+ Kxg8 33. Ng3 Kf7 34. Ke3 d5 35. f4 exf4+ 36. Kxf4 a6 37. Ba4 dxc4 38.
dxc4 Bxc4 39. a3 Ke6 40. Ke4 Bd5+ 41. Kd4 b6 42. Ne2 Nf5+ 43. Kc3 Ke5 44.
Bc2 Be4 45. Bd3 Bxd3 46. Kxd3 Kd5 47. Nc3+ Kc6 48. Kc4 Nd6+ 49. Kb3 Nb5 50.
Ne4 Kd5 51. Nf6+ Kd4 52. Nd7 Kd5 53. Nb8 Nd4+ 54. Ka4 Kc4

0-1
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Tue Oct 27 15:42:54 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:42:54 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 0-0-0
Message-ID: <1256679774.4ae7695ede7dd@www.taom.com>


Sometimes I repeat a mantra when I am playing a Chessgame. My mantra this game
was - who is going to 0-0-0?, meaning, which one of us will start this
tournament with three losses? Todd lost to GM Ehlvest and Super Kid Naroditsky.
I have already done an email where Ehlvest pounded my Badger into the dirt in
the Reno blitz tournament. Danielle Rice has a 2400 friend named Shevalev who
lost to Naroditsky.

" Danielle, how is it possible for a 10 year old to
have this much depth of positional understanding?
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A 10 YEAR OLD TO PLAY THIS MOVE? "
Screaming Shevalev  2400

Well, I just found out the previous round how much depth a 10 year old
can have. I am not sure how old Narditsky is now, maybe he is 12. I know
he spent most of the tournament up on the Top 10 stage.

In any case Todd Jacks and I had both lost to an
established GM and a future kid GM. Now what?

I was pretty determined to go 4-0 from here, even if I had to beat a 2400
and a 2600. I had made a choice, to go down in my burning Viking ship, to
erase the humiliation. I was drawing a line in the sand, no more losing!

Todd Jacks Trower was very pleasant after the game. His parents lived in Aurora,
Colorado when they were alive so Trower was very familiar with my town, Denver,
Colorado. I felt very comfortable with Jacks so I feel comfortable playing with
his name. Everyone in Reno was nice to me.

The Weikels have run this tournament for a quarter century, Jerry Weikel
won the first one. His wife Fran ran the entry desk, assisted by their
lovely daughter Dana plus her handsome boyfriend. They made a nice
looking couple, they might have been married. They acted like it anyway.

For those like me who have never played Chess in Reno, Nevada
( or if I did, I forgot ) here are some advantages.


1 - Everything is cheaper in Reno than Vegas.
Hotel rooms for $38. All you can eat steak buffet for $12.99.

2 - They put these adorable flags on your board,
I had a Colorado flag when I was on stage,
a US flag when I was off stage.
It makes you feel you are playing in the Olympiad.

3 - Everyone seems to behave nicely there,
I don't know why, no big city edginess.

4 - 250 players, $29,000 in prizes
In the Open section, 9 GMs, 5 IMs, I counted 27 people between 1800 and 2200
and 27 people 2200 and above. I might be wrong on this but I was basically in
the middle of my section so 3 wins, 3 losses has a perfect logic to it.

Ratings -

Ehlvest                   2689
Naroditsky                2378
Brian Wall                2204 both FIDE and USCF
Todd Jackson Trower       2136

A word about the opening. IM David Vigorito played the English a lot when
I knew him and his favorite maneuver was c4-c5, tearing down Black's pawn
structure. I was teased mericlessly for my hideous handling of the Classical
Dutch by LM Jack Young, both in person and in print. If I looked at this game
without knowing who played it I would say it looks like a Vigorito- White
versus Brian Wall-Black Chessgame from about 1992. My idea was to play the
Classical Dutch, master that, then the Leningrad Dutch, master that ( many
time Mass Champion John Curdo has played this successfully for over half a
century ) and finally the Stonewall Dutch because it has my last name in it.
Dutch artist Pia Sprong says I am a small wall because I weigh 20 stones.
My results with the Classical Dutch were so dismal I abandoned the project.
I decided the Classical Dutch was too fragile for my inaccurate style, one
blink and I would be dead lost. Fritz 11 hates Jackson's position all game.
There are just some openings computers can't warm to.


[Event "2009 Reno Western States Open"]
[Site "Sands Regency Hotel, Reno, Nevada"]
[Date "2009.10.24"]
[Round "3"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Todd Jacks Trower"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2204"]
[BlackElo "2130"]
[Opening "Dutch defense, Blackburne variation, Classical Dutch"]
[ECO "A81"]
[NIC "HD.12"]
[Time "01:30:50"]
[TimeControl "40/2, 20/1, G/30, 5 second delay throughout"]

2009 Reno - Western States Open

October 24, 2009

Round 3 after all losses for both of us

Board 26 out of 27- The penitent penultimate board, Froggy Hollow.
It felt like a cardboard table for the kids at Thanksgiving,
it felt more like a timeout than a Chessgame.

USCF Vice President Ruth Haring sat catty corner to me with half a point.
Todd and I were in the (26-27) Shame Square with dunce caps.

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[Event "2009 Reno Western States Open"]
[Site "Sands Regency Hotel, Reno, Nevada"]
[Date "2009.10.24"]
[Round "3"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Todd Jacks Trower"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2204"]
[BlackElo "2130"]
[Opening "Dutch defense, Blackburne variation, Classical Dutch"]
[ECO "A81"]
[NIC "HD.12"]
[Time "01:30:50"]
[TimeControl "40/2, 20/1, G/30, 5 second delay throughout"]

1. d4 f5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 e6 4. Nh3 Be7 5. c4 d6

I remembered my suffering with this opening.
Does Trower somehow makes the Classical Dutch work for him?

6. Nc3 e5

Not letting my Knight to f4.
We'll see about that.


7. b3

This is based on a Karpov-Yusupov game.
As far as I know Karpov has 11 wins and 5 draws against the Dutch.
It's like he was born to smash it.
In the game I remember but can't find Karpov
fianchettoed both Bishops and put his Queen on d2
and his rook on c1 vis-a-vis a Black Queen on c7.

My idea is OK, Todd has stopped my Knight from reaching f4
but where do his pawns go from there? ... e4 allows my Knight
back in the game and ... f4 is a pawn sac.

Karpov also beat Smyslov with 7 Qb3 here

7 ... O-O!  8. Bb2 Qe8

Probably intending ... Qh5 and ... f4
unleashing the Dutch Gates of Hell


9. O-O!!

Best.
Classical Dutch players loves to put Bishops on d8, e.g.,
9 de  de  10 Nd5 Bd8!

9 ...  c6 10. e3

A second tier move directed against ... Qh5.
10 e3 reminded me of IM David Vigorito's
Kathy(1) Connor system after an old girlfriend of his.
Dave would handle the Dutch like this -
1 d4  f5  2  Nf3  3 e3  4 Be2
and then attack with  c4, b4, a4, b5.
IM Joe Fang and I laughed that Dave could
turn any opening into a French defense.
Dave's record was better than Karpov's,
he only lost to Russian SM Raisin in the Sun
Fritz 11 is already raring to go with 10 c5!!,
another favorite move of Vigorito's but I hadn't
thought of that yet.

10 ... Qg6 11. c5!!   TN

Yet another Theoretical Novelty by Brian wall

This was my Vellotti moment.
Jackson's Queen was making me uncomfortable,
perhaps Trower had smashed a thousand fish
with Kingside attacks, a delicate brain surgeon
( or Brian sturgeon ) with ... f4 as his scalpel.
I better do something. I remembered how I had rushed
myself and refused to do any hard thinking against the 10 year old.
I must do better today, this rockslide cannot continue.
I thought for 7 minutes and got very excited.

How do ChessMasters beat experts?
Simple, we think 10 times deeper
or at least try to.

My mantras were -
Who's gonna 0-0-0?  and
10 times deeper.

I felt like I was winning already.
If I can budge the e5 pawn my
Knight can make a dramatic entrance
with Nf4.

Todd Jacks(on) Trower felt the heat and thought for 8 minutes.

I turned my Velotti moment into a priceless TN.
The incomparably weaker  11 f4 had been played before.


11 ...  Qh6

Jacks doesn't really have a good move,
whatever he does the center blows up in his
face and gives my minor pieces great range.
Trower was suffering his own Vellotti moment.
He almost looked defeated already like he
knew he was going to lose. Perhaps he played
the Dutch to avoid a draw.


12. cxd6!!   Bxd6!  13. Nb5!!

" The Brush of Picasso"
as Master James Hamblin would say laughing.
The idea is to uncover the pawn fork de

13 ...  Rd8

Pawn takes Knight is best but rather sad looking.
13 ... cb!  14  de!  B:e5!  15 B:e5!
should win.
Todd thought for 6 minutes,
everything looked bad, I'm sure.

14. dxe5!!  Be7!

The only other try is  14 ... cb!
but then I have  15 ef!!!, ed!!!, Rc1!!, Qe2!!, Qc2!, Qc1!
or many others.
Timewise Jackson has taken three moves to play the not so hot ... Qh6
and two moves to play ... e5 which leaves his Queenside pure.
I haven't really wasted any Chess time.


15. Qe2!!
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My hand cried out for 15 ef!!! and I told Todd it worked right after the game.
I spent 20 minutes making sure it was sound. The problem was I ended up with
a Knight in a remote corner. When I analyze positions like that at home
the computer is usually wrong for 10 moves. As much as I love Shirov Chess and
Queen sacs it didn't seem practical. It takes one minute to analyze my move
and 20 minutes to analyze  15 ef!!! - Fritz 11 says I gain a fifth of a pawn
if I accept all that risk! No wonder I couldn't decide. I decided that I had
unlimited analytical powers and could work it all out.

Sample lines
15  ef  B:f6  16  B:f6  R:d1   17 Rf:d1  Q:f6  18 Nc7
15  ef  B:f6  16  B:f6  R:d1   17 Ra:d1  Q:f6  18 Nc7
15  ef  R:d1  16  Ra:d1  B:d6  17  Nc7
15  ef  R:d1  16  fe  R:f1+    17  B:f1  K:f7  18  Nc7
15  ef  R:d1  16  fe  R:f1+    17  B:f1  Bd7   18  Nc7
15  ef  R:d1  16  fe  R:f1+    17  R:f1  Bd7  18  Nc7  Qd6  19  N:a8
and you can see Todd Trower is struggling here in a murky
battle to scoop up both the e7-pawn and the a8-knight.
It's hard to see way in advance what will happen there.
I should be OK but the move played is a simple win.
I had just read where Capablanca advised
Botvinnik to choose the simplest wins.
I ask forgiveness from my Latvian brothers
who relish these situations. The best way
to describe 15 ef!!! is that I am clearly
better in a clearly unclear posiiton.
I showed this position to my 5th round opponent,
22 year old Michael Pearson and also all the
two minor pieces for Queen positions I've been
having fun with lately. Michael seemed amused that
I have played all legal moves in rated games.

15 ...  Ne8

On 15  .... cb  16  ef
the b-pawn hangs


16. Nd4!!

Wherever my Knight goes I have an extra pawn and better development.
16 Ba3! is fine too.

16 ... Nc7 17. f4

That's what the little punk did to me last round,
rammed his extra pawns down the center for a touchdown.

17 ... Nba6!  18. Nf2

My Knight never made it to
f4 after all that struggle.

18 ... Bc5 19. Rad1!!  Be6!  20. Nxe6

Yum the two bishops too.
A banana split with a cherry on top.

20 ... Qxe6

Played instantly.
Todd used a half hour less than I did this game.
He was not having much fun the first half of the
Western States Open.


21. e4!!

Luke-like



21 ...  g6  22. Kh1

Getting out of the pin and making way
for Rg1 if that file opens.


22 ... Nb5 23. g4!!

The Pawn Wave Guy


23 ... fxg4 24. f5!!!   +7


I spent 4 minutes but I did not calculate anything.
When I could have beaten GM Robert Hess with f5!!!
in December 2008  I hesitated and lost. Ever since
I've been slapping down f5!!! with confidence.
I played f5!! against GM Eugene Perelshteyn
in Round 1 as well. It just felt right.

1-0   Todd and Jacks and Jackson and Trower all resign

When a spectator asked my why IM Donaldson
resigned to me at the Governor's Cup I said,

" I don't know, I can't wait to get home,
turn on an engine and find out. "

This is about the same situation. Here's a little headstart.
24 f5!!!    Qe8   25  N:g4!!
24 f5!!!   R:d1   25  fe!!
24 f5!!!     gf   25  ef!!

I am not sure what Todd saw but there was nothing good to see.

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[Event "2009 Reno Western States Open"]
[Site "Sands Regency Hotel, Reno, Nevada"]
[Date "2009.10.24"]
[Round "3"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "Todd Jacks Trower"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2204"]
[BlackElo "2130"]
[Opening "Dutch defense, Blackburne variation, Classical Dutch"]
[ECO "A81"]
[NIC "HD.12"]
[Time "01:30:50"]
[TimeControl "40/2, 20/1, G/30, 5 second delay throughout"]

1. d4 f5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 e6 4. Nh3 Be7 5. c4 d6 6. Nc3 e5 7. b3 O-O 8. Bb2
Qe8 9. O-O c6 10. e3 Qg6 11. c5 Qh6 12. cxd6 Bxd6 13. Nb5 Rd8 14. dxe5 Be7
15. Qe2 Ne8 16. Nd4 Nc7 17. f4 Nba6 18. Nf2 Bc5 19. Rad1 Be6 20. Nxe6 Qxe6
21. e4 g6 22. Kh1 Nb5 23. g4 fxg4 24. f5

1-0   Todd and Jacks and Jackson and Trower all resign
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[Event "Moscow blitz"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "1993.??.??"]
[Round "0"]
[White "Karpov,Anatoly"]
[Black "Smyslov,Vassily"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "A91"]

1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.g3 Be7 4.Bg2 Nf6 5.Nh3 0-0 6.0-0 d6 7.Qb3 Nc6
8.Rd1 Qe8 9.d5 Ne5 10.Nf4 exd5 11.cxd5 Ne4 12.Nc3 Nxc3 13.Qxc3 Bd8
14.Be3 Kh8 15.Bd4 Bd7 16.Ne6 Bxe6 17.dxe6 Qxe6 18.Bxb7 Rb8 19.Bg2 c5
20.Bxe5 dxe5 21.Qxc5 Bb6 22.Qa3 f4 23.gxf4 Rxf4 24.e3 Rg4 25.Kh1 Rg6
26.Rac1 Qg4 27.Rg1 Qh4 28.Qc3 Rf8 29.Qxe5 h6 30.f4 Rg3 31.Bd5 Rxg1+
32.Rxg1 Qf6 33.Qxf6 Rxf6 34.Re1 g5 35.fxg5 hxg5 36.Kg2 Kg7 1-0

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[Event "YUG-chT (Women)"]
[Site "Kragujevac"]
[Date "2000.12.14"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Zivkovic, Vesna"]
[Black "Stepovaia Dianchenko, Tatiana"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A91"]
[WhiteElo "2171"]
[BlackElo "2414"]
[PlyCount "110"]
[EventDate "2000.12.11"]
[EventType "team"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "YUG"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2001.01.11"]

1. d4 f5 2. g3 e6 3. Bg2 Nf6 4. Nh3 Be7 5. O-O O-O 6. c4 d6
7. Nc3 c6 8. b3 Qe8 9. Bb2 e5 10. e3 Qg6 11. f4 Ng4 12. Qd2 Qh6
13. Nd1 e4 14. Ndf2 d5 15. Nxg4 fxg4 16. Nf2 Be6 17. Rac1 Na6 18. a3 Rae8
19. b4 Bd6 20. b5 cxb5 21. cxd5 Bxd5 22. Nxg4 Qe6 23. Ne5 b4 24. axb4 Nxb4
25. Ba3 a5 26. Ra1 b6 27. Rfb1 Rc8 28. Bf1 Rc7 29. Bxb4 Bxb4 30. Rxb4 axb4
31. Qxb4 Rfc8 32. Rb1 b5 33. Qa5 Bc4 34. Bxc4 bxc4 35. d5 Qd6 36. Nc6 Rxc6
37. dxc6 Qxc6 38. Rb6 Qc5 39. Qxc5 Rxc5 40. Kf2 c3 41. Rb1 Rd5 42. Rb8+ Kf7
43. Rc8 Rd2+ 44. Ke1 Rd3 45. Ke2 Ke6 46. Re8+ Kf5 47. h3 Rd2+ 48. Ke1 Rh2
49. g4+ Kf6 50. Kd1 Rxh3 51. Rxe4 h5 52. gxh5 Rxh5 53. Rc4 g5
54. fxg5+ Rxg5 55. Rxc3 Rg2

1/2-1/2

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http://main.uschess.org/content/view/9811/556/

Khachiyan Tops Western States
By Randy Hough
October 27, 2009

final report
for USChess.org
Chess Life online
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BrianWallChess/photos/recent/list

or

http://tinyurl.com/yz33wbx


My Reno pics so far by Alvin Pulley
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www.Walverine.com
BrianWallChess.net



From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Wed Oct 28 20:22:12 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:22:12 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 2009 Reno Westeren States Open results
Message-ID: <1256782932.4ae8fc544b616@www.taom.com>

The 10 year old that beat me, Luke Harmon-Vellotti, also beat WIM Ruth Haring.

Lee Lahti, Corey Foster and Brian Wall made modest rating gains,
Danielle Rice lost 10 points but her rating may be at an all time high.
GM Ehlvest also lost 10 rating points for only taking third.
Steven Zierk, originally from Germany, gained 50 points.
His brilliancy against GM Loek Van Wely made Michael Aigner's blog, Randall
Hough's USChess.org report and GM Larry Christiansen's ICC Attacking video of
the week. The Incredible Tyler Hughes barely beat Zierk in the 2009 World Open.

http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?200910254331.9

From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Wed Oct 28 23:23:55 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:23:55 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Damian Nash on 2009 Reno Westeren States Open
	results
Message-ID: <1256793835.4ae926ebe65a2@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from chess at krusemer.com -----
    Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:00:38 -0700 (PDT)
    From: chess at krusemer.com
Reply-To: chess at krusemer.com
 Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] 2009 Reno Westeren States Open results
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

.... and eleven-year old Utah wunderkind, Kayden Troff, after defeating an IM in
the first round, tied with the famous life master Brian Wall.?? Kayden's FIDE
went up to 2234 (maintaining #1 in the world for kids born in 1998), but his
USCF didn't quite hit 2200.? want a chance to play him?? come to the Utah
Closed in SLC, Nov 20-21.?? www.utahchess.com? Damian

--- On Wed, 10/28/09, Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com> wrote:

From: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 2009 Reno Westeren States Open results
To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, "Brian Wall Chesslist"
<brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 8:22 PM

The 10 year old that beat me, Luke Harmon-Vellotti, also beat WIM Ruth Haring.

Lee Lahti, Corey Foster and Brian Wall made modest rating gains,
Danielle Rice lost 10 points but her rating may be at an all time high.
GM Ehlvest also lost 10 rating points for only taking third.
Steven Zierk, originally from Germany, gained 50 points.
His brilliancy against GM Loek Van Wely made Michael Aigner's blog, Randall
Hough's USChess.org report and GM Larry Christiansen's ICC Attacking video of
the week. The Incredible Tyler Hughes barely beat Zierk in the 2009 World Open.

http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?200910254331.9
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct 29 00:43:14 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:43:14 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Dana Mackensie at 2009 Reno Western States
	Open
Message-ID: <1256798594.4ae9398242b2b@www.taom.com>



http://www.danamackenzie.com/blog/

Dana Mackensie is this amazing expert who scored 4/6 in Reno.

From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct 29 01:03:30 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:03:30 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] after school chess
Message-ID: <1256799810.4ae93e429f769@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Brian Wall <brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com> -----
    Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:02:17 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Brian Wall <brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com>
 Subject: Fw: Re: after school chess
      To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>



--- On Wed, 10/28/09, joehaines at comcast.net <joehaines at comcast.net> wrote:


From: joehaines at comcast.net <joehaines at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: after school chess
To: "Leider Kim" <KLeider at lps.k12.co.us>
Cc: "Bardwick, Todd" <tbardwick at yahoo.com>, "Lahti, Lee"
<lee.lahti at comcast.net>, "Wall, Brian" <brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com>, "Bain,
Bruce " <yaxisx at aol.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 11:54 PM



#yiv202114818 p {margin:0;}

Hi Kim -

I have members that might be interested in teaching your students. I will pass
on the information to some of them. I have also copied a few individuals who
may also be able to pass on the information.

Joe Haines



----- Original Message -----
From: "Leider Kim" <KLeider at lps.k12.co.us>
To: joehaines at comcast.net
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 8:27:47 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: after school chess

Does your organization offer after school chess clubs? I have students who are
dying to play!

We're an IB school in Littleton and would appreciate any information or ideas
you can share. Thank you.

Kim Leider
GT/Building Facilitator
Eugene Field International Baccalaureate Elementary

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct 29 01:13:35 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:13:35 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Dana MacKensie's Queen sac
Message-ID: <1256800415.4ae9409fe0b93@www.taom.com>

Dana MacKensie's Queen sac

http://www.danamackenzie.com/game1.htm

I've actually been looking for this game,
discussed in Chess Life 2007.
I have a special fondness for two minors versus Queen positions.

From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct 29 02:29:32 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:29:32 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Ray Robson, youngest American GM ever
Message-ID: <1256804972.4ae9526c5a6a7@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Chris Peterson <garrensilverwing at yahoo.com> -----
    Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:15:52 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Chris Peterson <garrensilverwing at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Chris Peterson <garrensilverwing at yahoo.com>
 Subject: did you see this?
      To: Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>

http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/malcolmpein/ray-robson-gm

http://www.brianwallchess.net

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct 29 03:28:07 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:28:07 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] ADAM BARAZ
Message-ID: <1256808487.4ae96027c08b6@www.taom.com>



ADAM BARAZ from Colorado tied for first in the C-section at the
2009 Reno Western States Open - I don't think we added him to our Colorado team.
Adam gained 157 rating points with 5/6. I don't know what he looks like.

Jeffrey Csima was on our team and lost 15 rating points.
Frank Deming was on our team and lost 15 rating points.

From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct 29 10:47:47 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:47:47 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Alvin Pulley on Dana Mackensie at 2009 Reno
	Western States Open
Message-ID: <1256834867.4ae9c733bc9f6@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Alvin Pulley <pulleyaj at yahoo.com> -----
    Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:45:47 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Alvin Pulley <pulleyaj at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Alvin Pulley <pulleyaj at yahoo.com>
 Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Dana Mackensie at 2009 Reno Western States Open
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>

He is a former master who is also a featured
lecturer on chesslecture.com


Alvin

Sent from my iPhone

On Oct 28, 2009, at 11:43 PM, Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com> wrote:



http://www.danamackenzie.com/blog/

Dana Mackensie is this amazing expert who scored 4/6 in Reno.
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct 29 10:50:38 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:50:38 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Colorado Springs Club Championship - round 2
	and Fw: Results of Trick or Treat
Message-ID: <1256835038.4ae9c7deda45b@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from "Hollander, Jeanne M  CIV USAF 10 FSS 10 FSS/FSCP"
<jeanne.hollander at usafa.af.mil> -----
    Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:09:07 -0600
    From: "Hollander, Jeanne M  CIV USAF 10 FSS 10 FSS/FSCP"
<jeanne.hollander at usafa.af.mil>
Reply-To: "Hollander, Jeanne M  CIV USAF 10 FSS 10 FSS/FSCP"
<jeanne.hollander at usafa.af.mil>
 Subject: RE: [CSCN] Club Championship - round 2 and Fw: Results of Trick or
Treat
      To: CS Chess <cs.chess at worldnet.att.net>, Fred Eric Spell

October 29, 2009
Due to the weather the USAF Academy Milazzo Center will be closed today.
Please if you attend the USAF Chess on Thursdays don't come in.
Thank you
Jeanne Hollander
USAF Academy Community Center Programs
333-2928

-----Original Message-----
From: CS Chess [mailto:cs.chess at worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 1:20 PM
To: Fred Eric Spell; John Schultz; Glenn Leotaud; Martin Deschner;

Cc: Brian Wall; Matt Lasley
Subject: [CSCN] Club Championship - round 2 and Fw: Results of Trick or
Treat

Two more past champions suffered defeats, as Jeff Fox (club webjockey
and 1999
champion) knocked off NM Buck Buchanan (1992 and 2003 champion), and I
got the
win against Mitch Anderson (2008 champion).

Two rounds remain and anything can happen as the top 7 players are all
within
one point.

[Event "Club Championship"]
[Site "http://cs.chess.home.att.net/ <http://cs.chess.home.att.net/> "]
[Date "2009.10.20"]
[Round "2.1"]
[White "Anderson, Mitch"]
[Black "Anderson, Paul"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A42"]
[WhiteElo "1997"]
[BlackElo "1966"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2009.10.20"]
[TimeControl "5400"]

1. e4 c6 2. c4 g6 3. d4 d6 4. Nc3 Bg7 5. Be3 Nh6 6.
f3 f5 7. Qd2 Nf7 8. h4 h5 9. d5 c5 10. Nge2 Qa5 11. Nf4 Ne5 12. Bd3 Na6
13. O-O
Bf6 14. g3 Qb4 15. Nb5 Qxd2 16. Bxd2 Bd7 17. exf5 Nxd3 18. Nxd3 Bxf5 19.
Nf4
Bxb2 20. Rae1 Kd7 21. Re2 Be5 22. Rfe1 Rhe8 23. a3 Nc7 24. Nxc7 Kxc7 25.
Ne6+
Bxe6 26. Rxe5 dxe5 27. dxe6 Rad8 28. Bg5 Kd6 29. f4 exf4 30. Bxf4+ Kc6
31. Re5
Rd4 32. Rg5 Rg8 33. Kg2 Rxc4 34. Kf3 b6 35. g4 Rf8 0-1


----- Original Message -----

Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 9:09 PM
Subject: Results of Trick or Treat

Hi All,

Here are the results of the Trick or Treat tournament. Please pass along
your usual channels. Thanks!

Event ID	 Sec	 State	 City	 Dates	 Plr	 Event Name
200910171331    	 1    	 CO    	 LAKEWOOD    	 2009-10-17
31    	 2009 TRICK OR TREAT
<http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?200910171331>

Prize Schedule:
1st     $110  Brian Wall
2nd    $100  Julian Evans & Gordon Randall ($50 each)
U1800  $87  Randy Reynolds, Jackson Chen, Mark Krowczyk ($29 each)
U1725  $76
                  > $143  Anthea Carson, James Powers ($73 each)
U1600 $70

*U1600 $70  Ryan Swerdlin, Cory Foster, Dean Brown, Isaac Martinez,
Edward Cronin ($14 each)
*Incorrectly announced and paid out

U1300 $50 Frank Riley, Jerry Maier ($25 each)
U1000/Unr. $40  Dave Kennedy, Victor Creazzi, Tara Martinez, Saurabh
Deshpande ($10 each)


Yes, if you look closely you'll see two prize amounts for the U1600
category.  After a long day of chess, this playing TD's mind played some
"tricks" on him which caused him to announce the incorrect prize
distribution, thus giving 5 players a "treat".  As it is the TD's
responsibilty to make everyone whole, I could have recalled the monies
already paid out and redistributed them.  Since many players had already
left the tournament, the proper thing to do was pay all prizes announced
and corrected.  My heartfelt thanks to all who attended and said they
liked the venue and wished for more events to be held there. Enjoy the
holiday and happy chess!

Jerry Maier
Mobile:        719.660.5531
Home/FAX:  719.268.6970
E-mail:         pmjer77 at aim.com






From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Thu Oct 29 17:07:50 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:07:50 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Lest we forget, lest we forget
Message-ID: <1256857670.4aea2046c1638@www.taom.com>


I like to write when the battles are fresh on
my mind and the illusion of relevance is strong.

Botvinnik wrote that one Chess game got him so excited he felt heart
palpitations. That's about how I felt when I almost got a Full Metal Jacket
in Round 4 of the 2009 Reno Western States Open.

Even though the result fit into my plans of going 4-0 after my two losses,
I felt very bad for my opponent who could barely speak after the game. I
told him I played the same way against Grandmaster Eugene Perelshteyn,
slowly and carefull, reaching an equal position then blundered because
I had spent too much time. I forogt to tell the whole story, that GM Roman
Dzindzichashvilli had shown me World Championship class analysis of the
Accelerated Dragon that he had no doubt also shown Eugene. In short, I was
scared to death in the opening and took one hour for 14 moves. I felt very lucky
to survive that stage.
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[Event "2009 Reno Western States Open"]
[Site "Sands Regency Hotel"]
[Date "2009.10.24"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Dakota Elli Dixon"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "Black checkmated"]
[WhiteElo "2009"]
[BlackElo "2204"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense, Attempted Full Metal
Jacket"]
[ECO "A40"]
[NIC "QO.17"]
[Time "20:12:51"]
[TimeControl "40/2, 20/1, G/30 , 5 second delay"]

2009 Reno Western States Open

Board 20

Round 4

October 24, 2009

40/2 hours
20/1 hour
Game/30 minutes
5 second delay

Opening -
Almost a Full Metal Jacket

White - Dakota Elli Dixon
about 17 years old

Black -
Brian Wall
roughly 54 years old


1. d4 Nc6 2. d5!

I would estimate White plays this best move 3% of the time.
They're all scared to cross the Maginot line.


2 ...  Ne5!!  3. e4

Just one move away from Nirvana

3 ... e6!!


http://www.chessville.com/Wall/FullMetalJacket2.htm

I became so excited I had to leave the board.
Dakota thought for 9 minutes.

4. Be2

Hmm, instead of 4 f4  ed!!  Full Metal Jacket
Dakota Elli smells a rat and plays a safe move.

Master Michael Pearson at Reno -
That Full Metal Jacket doesn't look so good.

Brian Wall -
Yeah but it's new!

4 ... Bc5

I wanted to pay special attention now -
Rybka 3 and Fritz 11 had shown me many amazing tactical
possibilities in my Not-Quite-Full-Metal-Jacket
blitz games. A game I played yesterday on PlayChess went
1. d4 Nc6 2. d5 Ne5 3. f4  Ng6  4  e4  e5  5  f5  Qh4+  6  Ke2  Q:e4+
7  Kf2  Bc5+ ( mate in 4 )   0-1  White resigns

Fritz 11 likes the Renae Delaware Attack here -
4 ... ed!!  5  Q:d5  Bd6!!  and ... Nf6!!
Fritz also prefers  4 ... Nf6  or ... Bb4+ ( my son's suggestion )
to my move.


5. Nc3!  d6!!  6. Na4!!


A good move but I am used to trade-trade-lose in Colorado.
My first instinct was to play  6  Na4!!  Bb6 without thinking.
My second thought was, wait, there might be a better move.
Fritz doesn't reflexively move that Bishop just because it's attacked,
preferring  6 ... Qh4!!  or  ... Nf6!!
I chose my move based on

Hamppe-Meitner
The ancient weakness is etched more sharply then ever
Shaking up the trade-trade-loss set

At one point after I knew what I was going to play I even cursed
my imagination. The point is I can get a Full Metal Jacket type
position. The small drawback is that it loses and I knew it.

I decided a Chessmaster beats an expert by relentless computer like
move-selection. My plan was to get the expert in a murky situation and grind
him down while he gets upset and blunders. Dakota Elli Dixon showed great
concentration and focus,  he didn't get rattled until the very end. He has
great promise, being so young and so serious about his Chess.

Yes I wanted to go 4-0 but I wanted to do it my way.
This game was my most fun in Reno.


6 ... Bxf2+!?

In your face, trade-trade boy. The a4-Knight is caught flat-footed.


7. Kxf2!  Qh4+! 8. Kf1!

8 g3??  Q:e4!    forks  Rook and Knight
8 Ke3?    ed!!   with full compensation for the piece.
I have two pawns plus a safer King.



8 ...  Qxe4?

99.99% of the time if you have a chance to play ... Q:e4  after  ... Qh4+
you take it. I failed to use the Botvinnik method which is to carefully
recheck every move as you play your combination. I played what I intended
on Move 6 but I had better with  8 ... ed!!  9 Q:d5  Nf6!!
and then grab the e-pawn next move. I failed my mantra this game which
was " Relentless Master, relentless Master ".



9. Nc3!  Qf5+!  10. Nf3!

I knew this should lose but I have:
1 - A Full Metal jacket ( all 8 pawns )
2 - Two pawns for the piece
3 - A safer King

I could use a bit more development.

The main emotional point was Dixon tried to change the game from
Full Metal Jacket insanity to Trade-Trade-Lose security and I
changed it back. I was nervous but excited. I didn't like the
fact that he remained calm, thoughtful and confident. Sometimes
these experts forget their place and beat me.

10 ...  Nf6


Fritz likes 10 ... Bd7  to stop Nb5 a shade better
but I figured ... Nf6:d5 did the same thing.

11. Kg1

It felt like he had something better.
On  11 Nb5!! I have to castle because my plan fails miserably -
11 Nb5!!  N:d5??  12 c4!  a6  13  Nbd4!  Qe4  14 cd! up a piece for nothing


11 ... exd5!  12. Nxd5!  Nxd5!  13. Qxd5!  Nxf3+ 14. Qxf3! Qxc2!


I have zero development but I have 3 pawns for the piece.


15. Bd3!!

I thought for 7 minutes here and decided to
avoid  Qe2+, Bb5, Qe8 checkmate variations.


15 ... Qc5+!

Otherwise I would be forced to play
15 ... Qa4  16  Qe2+  Kf8  or
15 ... Qc6  16  Qe2+  Kf8.
My initial idea is that I can castle and Elli can't.
I don't want to give that up.

16. Be3!  Qe5

With a vague Polugaevsky Variation flavor.
maybe I can get 4 pawns for my piece.


17. Bc4?

Losing half his advantage.
NM Josh Bloomer and I have a definition of expert that goes like this:
An expert makes 9/10 Master moves and 1/10
" What the hell were they thinking? "  move.


17 ...  O-O


I haven't really recovered yet from my opening adventure but
encouraging me to castle and catch up in development helps.
I almost have a game now. Fritz prefers  17 ... Be6! for
obscure reasons.


18. Rd1?

There goes the last of Dixon's advantage,
the kind of thing I was hoping for.


18 ...  Bg4!!  19. Qxg4!  Qxe3+!  20. Kf1!  Rae8!!


I have almost a Full Metal Jacket still
( 7 pawns left ), Dakota's KR is still buried,
my King is still safer, I have three pawns for a Bishop.
I have good practical chances which will increase every
time I advance a pawn. I believe a pure three connected
passed pawns versus a Bishop ending usually favors the pawns.
My threat is ... Re4-f4+  although  ... Re6 got me more excited.


21. Qf3

Queen on dark squares, Bishop on light squares
complementation with 21 Qd4! is better.


21 ... Qh6

I had no way of knowing which Queen square is
best so I plumped for guarding my d6-pawn so
I could play ... c6-d5 and start the pawn wave.


22. h3 c6!!  23. Kg1!  d5!  24. Bd3!  Re3!!  25. Qf2! f5!!

The Pawn Wave Guy has a good idea.
Time - Brian - 63 minutes
       Dixon - 25 minutes



26. Kh2?  Qd6+!!  27. g3?

Even a gopher would have trouble playing
27 Kg1!  after tasting sunlight.

27 ...  f4!!

I was trying to remain calm and calculate but I had three
times as much time as Dakota and was having trouble. I am
notoriously bad in other people's time pressure, I get
overexcited easily. I felt the win but couldn't see it,
a very common phenomenon with me.

This is my Hess moment. Right before Robert Hess enjoyed his dream GM
norm summer I could have beaten Bob with Pawn-to-King's Bishop Five but
I outthought myself and played a cautious blunder. Four/six games in Reno
I played Pawn-to-King's Bishop Five with confidence and it was the right
move each time, even making Todd Jacks Trower resign immediately. I am
determined not to miss that move again.


28. g4 f3+!!

I saw
28  g4  f3+  29  Kg1  Re2!!  30 B:e2  fe
31 Q:e2  Qg3+ 32 Qg2  Qe3+  33 Kh2  Rf2
and two connected pawns and one Queen should beat two Rooks.
28  g4  f3+  29  Kg1  Re2!!  30 Qh4  Qc5+, ... Rg2+  or ... h6+   win


29. Qg3 Qf6?

I got very excited about the threat of
30 ... R:d3  31 R:d3  Q:b2+  32  Kg1  Qb1+  and  Q:R
The idea can be presented in better form with  29 ... Qc5!!!
and there is no defense. I did not want to take more
time and give Dixon a chance to see what I was up to.
It took me 2 minutes to move.


30. Rhf1

Also played in 2 minutes.
I am not sure if he meant
to but Dakota stopped my threat.

30 ... Qxb2+

4 pawns for the piece.


31. Rf2!  Qa3

I was distressed that Dakota Elli Dixon could
recover the f3 pawn for material equality.


32. Bc2!  Qe7 33. Rdf1!!

Time:
Brian - 54 minutes
Dixon - 17 minutes
We have one minute per years of our lives.

This was my Vellotti moment where I learn from losing to a 10 year old.
The pain was fresh, only one day old. A Vellotti moment is where the position is
uncomfortable and it takes some time to sort it out. Usually we are not winning
Vellotti moments and that is part of the problem, the game will drag on and we
are getting tired. In addition Luke Harmon-Vellotti also beat me with doubled
Rooks on f1-f2. I had to decide how to handle  Bc2-d1:f3:d5+  and R:f8.
I decided to just accept the inevitable f3-loss and get my King on a dark
square.

Another Vellotti moment difficulty is that usually at this point
we have missed moves that give us winning or better positions. I
didn't know about  29 ... Qc5!!  +4  yet  but I suspected I had
rushed my way past victory. I had gambled and came up short.
Something similar happened at the Blackjack tables, Danielle and
I had been ahead and ended up even.


33 ...  g6!!

Best but not winning.


34. Rxf3??

Dakota spent 4 minutes leaving 12 minutes for 7 moves before moving.
When I blundered against GM Perelshteyn I thought for
8 minutes leaving 9 minutes for 16 moves before moving .
To some extent it is fear of greater time pressure down the road
plus much deeper thoughts and variations that produced these blunders.
The pressure of a tournament game can produce moves unworthy and unlikely
in a blitz game. Eyes dart back and forth in a blitz game like Phil Ivey
or a drug dealer, the eyes ponder fixedly into the distance in a slow
game and we often miss what's right under our nose.

...  Rexf3!  35. Rxf3!  Qe2+!

1-0  Dakota Elli Dixon resigns

36  ... Q:R  will follow any move

Dakota Eli Dixon looked awful after ruining his perfectly good game
plus no doubt he knew my whole concept was bogus. I told him immediately
that Bd1:f3 equalized. He could barely do more than mumble "No" dejectedly
to every question so I let it go.
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[Event "2009 Reno Western States Open"]
[Site "Sands Regency Hotel"]
[Date "2009.10.24"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Dakota Elli Dixon"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "Black checkmated"]
[WhiteElo "2009"]
[BlackElo "2204"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense, Attempted Full Metal
Jacket"]
[ECO "A40"]
[NIC "QO.17"]
[Time "20:12:51"]
[TimeControl "40/2, 20/1, G/30 , 5 second delay"]

1. d4 Nc6 2. d5 Ne5 3. e4 e6 4. Be2 Bc5 5. Nc3 d6 6. Na4 Bxf2+ 7. Kxf2 Qh4+
8. Kf1 Qxe4 9. Nc3 Qf5+ 10. Nf3 Nf6 11. Kg1 exd5 12. Nxd5 Nxd5 13. Qxd5
Nxf3+ 14. Qxf3 Qxc2 15. Bd3 Qc5+ 16. Be3 Qe5 17. Bc4 O-O 18. Rd1 Bg4 19.
Qxg4 Qxe3+ 20. Kf1 Rae8 21. Qf3 Qh6 22. h3 c6 23. Kg1 d5 24. Bd3 Re3 25. Qf2
f5 26. Kh2 Qd6+ 27. g3 f4 28. g4 f3+ 29. Qg3 Qf6 30. Rhf1 Qxb2+ 31. Rf2 Qa3
32. Bc2 Qe7 33. Rdf1 g6 34. Rxf3 Rexf3 35. Rxf3 Qe2+

1-0  Dakota Elli Dixon resigns
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http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1250160&kpage=6

Hamppe - Meitner

The Immortal Draw

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna"]
[Date "1872.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Carl Hamppe"]
[Black "Philipp Meitner"]
[ECO "C25"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "36"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Bc5 3. Na4 Bxf2+ 4. Kxf2 Qh4+ 5. Ke3 Qf4+
6. Kd3 d5 7. Kc3 Qxe4 8. Kb3 Na6 9. a3 Qxa4+ 10. Kxa4 Nc5+
11. Kb4 a5+ 12. Kxc5 Ne7 13. Bb5+ Kd8 14. Bc6 b6+ 15. Kb5 Nxc6
16. Kxc6 Bb7+ 17. Kb5 Ba6+ 18. Kc6 Bb7+ 1/2-1/2


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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Fri Oct 30 10:14:58 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:14:58 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] ICC vs PlayChess
Message-ID: <1256919298.4aeb1102eb608@www.taom.com>



[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.27"]
[Round "-"]
[White "B-Wall"]
[Black "peonnegro"]
[Result "*"]
[ICCResult "Black checkmated"]
[WhiteElo "2083"]
[BlackElo "2183"]
[Opening "Dutch defense"]
[ECO "A81"]
[NIC "HD.12"]
[Time "20:12:51"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. d4 f5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 g6 4. Nh3 d6 5. d5 Bg7 6. c4 O-O 7. Nc3 Na6 8. Nf4
e5 9. dxe6 c6 10. h4 Nc5 11. h5 gxh5 12. Nxh5 Nxh5 13. Rxh5 Bxe6 14. Bf4 Be5
15. Qd2 Qa5 16. Bxe5 dxe5 17. Qg5+ Kh8 18. Rxh7+ Kxh7 19. O-O-O Rf6 20. Rh1+
Rh6 21. Rxh6#

This Leningrad Dutch game was played on PlayChess and recreated on ICC today.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Event "Rated game, 5m + 0s"]
[Site "Main Playing Hall"]
[Date "2009.10.27"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Formalhaut"]
[Black "BrianWall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C65"]
[WhiteElo "1973"]
[BlackElo "1981"]
[PlyCount "38"]
[EventDate "2009.10.28"]
[TimeControl "300"]

1. e4 {2} e5 {1} 2. Nf3 {1} Nc6 {1} 3. Bb5 {1} Nf6 {1} 4. O-O {2} Ng4 {1} 5. d4
{11} exd4 {3} 6. Nxd4 {5} h5 {1} 7. Nc3 {7} Bc5 {1} 8. Nf5 {11} d6 {2} 9. Nxg7+
{4} Kf8 {0} 10. Nf5 {2} Bxf5 {0} 11. exf5 {1} Qh4 {0} 12. Bf4 {15} Bxf2+ {2}
13. Kh1 {7} Nxh2 {1} 14. Rxf2 {9} Ng4+ {2} 15. Kg1 {1} Qxf2+ {2} 16. Kh1 {2}
Qxf4 {1} 17. Kg1 {12} Qh2+ {4} 18. Kf1 {1} Re8 {7} 19. Qf3 {4} Qh1# {(Lag:
Av=0.83s, max=2.2s) 2} 0-1

Fishing Pole Playchess

------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Event "Rated game, 3m + 0s"]
[Site "Main Playing Hall"]
[Date "2009.10.28"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Just joe king"]
[Black "BrianWall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C65"]
[WhiteElo "2047"]
[BlackElo "2037"]
[PlyCount "50"]
[EventDate "2009.10.28"]
[TimeControl "180"]

1. e4 {5} e5 {1} 2. Nf3 {1} Nc6 {1} 3. Bb5 {1} Nf6 {1} 4. O-O {2} Ng4 {1} 5. h3
{3} h5 {2} 6. d4 {9} exd4 {1} 7. Nxd4 {1} Bc5 {1} 8. Be3 {6} Nxe3 {2} 9. fxe3 {
0} Ne5 {1} 10. Nc3 {4} c6 {1} 11. Bd3 {1} d6 {2} 12. Nf5 {2} g6 {2} 13. Nd4 {2}
Qg5 {3} 14. Qe2 {2} Bxh3 {2} 15. Kh1 {2} Bg4 {3} 16. Qf2 {0} O-O-O {4} 17. Na4
{2} h4 {3} 18. Nxc5 {3} dxc5 {1} 19. Nf3 {0} Bxf3 {8} 20. gxf3 {0} Nxd3 {1} 21.
cxd3 {1} Rxd3 {1} 22. f4 {0} Qg3 {3} 23. Rae1 {5} Rhd8 {8} 24. Re2 {1} Rd1 {3}
25. Rxd1 {2} Rxd1+ {Just joe king gibt auf  (Lag: Av=0.30s, max=0.7s) 2} 0-1

Fishing Pole PlayChess
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[Event "Rated game, 3m + 0s"]
[Site "Main Playing Hall"]
[Date "2009.10.28"]
[Round "?"]
[White "BrianWall"]
[Black "Dosen?ffner"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C05"]
[WhiteElo "2039"]
[BlackElo "1901"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2009.10.28"]
[TimeControl "180"]

1. e4 {2} e6 {1} 2. d4 {1} d5 {0} 3. Nd2 {2} Nf6 {2} 4. e5 {1} Nfd7 {1} 5. f4 {
0} c5 {1} 6. c3 {0} Nc6 {1} 7. Ngf3 {0} f6 {1} 8. Bd3 {2} Be7 {2} 9. O-O {1}
O-O {1} 10. Kh1 {2} cxd4 {2} 11. cxd4 {1} Qb6 {1} 12. Nb3 {1} a5 {1} 13. a4 {2}
fxe5 {4} 14. fxe5 {1} Nb4 {4} 15. Bb1 {3} Qc7 {7} 16. Ng5 {3} Bxg5 {2} 17. Bxg5
{3} Rxf1+ {2} 18. Qxf1 {2} b6 {1} 19. Qf3 {3} h6 {7} 20. Bd2 {3} Ba6 {5} 21.
Bg6 {4} Rf8 {2} 22. Qh3 {1} Bd3 {13} 23. Qxe6+ {2} Kh8 {2} 24. h3 {14} Nc2 {7}
25. Rc1 {6} Nxd4 {2} 26. Nxd4 {3} Qxe5 {2} 27. Bxd3 {8} Qxd4 {3} 28. Qg6 {3}
Nf6 {3} 29. Bxh6 {4} gxh6 {1} 30. Rc7 {1} Nd7 {7} 31. Qh7# {(Lag: Av=0.47s,
max=1.0s) 3} 1-0

Weihmiller French - PlayChess
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[Event "Rated game, 5m + 0s"]
[Site "Main Playing Hall"]
[Date "2009.10.27"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Formalhaut"]
[Black "BrianWall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C65"]
[WhiteElo "1959"]
[BlackElo "1996"]
[PlyCount "18"]
[EventDate "2009.10.28"]
[TimeControl "300"]

1. e4 {1} e5 {1} 2. Nf3 {2} Nc6 {0} 3. Bb5 {1} Nf6 {1} 4. O-O {2} Ng4 {2} 5.
Bxc6 {2} dxc6 {3} 6. h3 {1} h5 {15} 7. hxg4 {1} hxg4 {3} 8. d4 {20} gxf3 {10}
9. Qxf3 {2} Qh4 {Formalhaut rinde  (Lag: Av=1.11s, max=2.7s) 2} 0-1

9 move Fishing Pole PlayChess
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Fri Oct 30 13:15:33 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:15:33 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Pat Ament
Message-ID: <1256930133.4aeb3b55d023e@www.taom.com>



http://climbing.about.com/b/2008/10/06/pat-ament-climbing-quote-of-the-week.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Ament

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=103565&tn=40

One amazing character in college was Pat Ament, Chessplayer, artist but most
importantly rock climber. Pat composed a mate in two where a piece could be
captured 7 ways. We also played countless Pelikan/Sveshnikov Sicilians in
college, now a big favorite with top 10 players.

Pat could do one finger pullups and climbed many rocks/moutnains for the first
time. Pat Ament wrote many books about all this and gave countless lectures all
over the world with rare climbing photgraphs.

After facing death on mountaintops countless times Pat has health problems now (
diabetes for one ) and faces surgery. Good luck old friend.

Pat had an artsitic approach to life, Chess and climbing.

Pat married late and has a child.

Some memorable quotes from Pat -

Chess friends don't compare to climbing friends,
you have to put your life in their hands.

from one of his books-
What you do in your darkest hour reaps
huge dividends when things are going better.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

We almost fought 3 times over Chess disputes. My loyal, brave brother Fred
said he would have jumped in if I got beat up too badly. Pat was 9 years older
with arms of steel, I just hated to back down. Pat thought I was insulting him
with my crazy openings like the Crab but that was just me.

I ran into Pat about 7 years ago at a Colorado Kinko's. He lives in Fruita, CO.

Good luck to the living legend.

From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Fri Oct 30 13:23:23 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:23:23 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Pat Ament, LSD, Flagstaff
Message-ID: <1256930603.4aeb3d2bd1ad4@www.taom.com>



A story I can't forget is that Pat was climbing Flagstaff Mountain with a young
friend who freaked out on a bad LSD trip. Pat tried to calm him down but
couldn't. Pat called the police to help. The police climbed on top of a rock
and the kid tried to jump off. A cop tackled him, risking his own life. When
they asked him why later, the cop said,
" I couldn't live with myself if I didn't try to help him. "

From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Fri Oct 30 15:30:16 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:30:16 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] David King on Pat Ament
Message-ID: <1256938216.4aeb5ae8006d7@www.taom.com>

David King was a CU Boulder student with me and we played tons of blitz
together. Later in Texas I took David King's father pyschological profile test
to become an insurance agent. They suggested teacher, accountant or soft sell
instead of hard selling.

Pat had a big ego and liked to test people's courage - he could have mopped the
floor with all of us. I think he felt godlike in the Climbing World and didn't
get enough respect in the Chessworld. His stories were amazing, climbing new
peaks with the best rock climbers in the world. Pat backed down because it
would have been too easy to kill us.

I see Bill Engels all the time, also a CU student.
His bughouse partner, Paul Sharpe, is a Facebook friend.
They were invincible.

Another CU blitz buddy Tom Tuck became a lawyer,
came out of the closet and sued himself.
My brother Charles Magnus Wall just passed the bar and went to work for the New
Orleans, LA prosectutor. Out grandfather was a judge in Sioux Falls, South
Dakota. Both Tom Tuck and my brother Charles found law school easy and would
make the teachers mad by missing ALL the classes and acing the tests. Before
passing out one final legal exam, Charlie's teacher made a HUGE deal out of
thanking everyone who had the courtesy to attend class while Charlie melted
into his chair. All's well that ends well.

Brian Wall

----- Forwarded message from David King <david_k33 at yahoo.com> -----
    Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:03:03 -0700 (PDT)
    From: David King <david_k33 at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: David King <david_k33 at yahoo.com>
 Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Pat Ament
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>

my most vivid memory was ament pouring a coke over josh samuels' head, probably
because josh beat him too many times (ament wasn't very good, and he was a
bully).
another time ament started talking trash to this big black guy, a professor at
CU, but when the guy started getting worked up to fight, pat backed down fast.

--- On Fri, 10/30/09, Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com> wrote:


From: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>
Subject: [BrianWallChess] Pat Ament
To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, "Brian Wall Chesslist"
<brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com>
Date: Friday, October 30, 2009, 12:15 PM


?





http://climbing. about.com/ b/2008/10/ 06/pat-ament- climbing- quote-of-
the-week. htm

http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Pat_Ament

http://www.supertop o.com/climbing/ thread.php? topic_id= 103565&tn= 40

One amazing character in college was Pat Ament, Chessplayer, artist but most
importantly rock climber. Pat composed a mate in two where a piece could be
captured 7 ways. We also played countless Pelikan/Sveshnikov Sicilians in
college, now a big favorite with top 10 players.

Pat could do one finger pullups and climbed many rocks/moutnains for the first
time. Pat Ament wrote many books about all this and gave countless lectures all
over the world with rare climbing photgraphs.

After facing death on mountaintops countless times Pat has health problems now (
diabetes for one ) and faces surgery. Good luck old friend.

Pat had an artsitic approach to life, Chess and climbing.

Pat married late and has a child.

Some memorable quotes from Pat -

Chess friends don't compare to climbing friends,
you have to put your life in their hands.

from one of his books-
What you do in your darkest hour reaps
huge dividends when things are going better.
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -

We almost fought 3 times over Chess disputes. My loyal, brave brother Fred
said he would have jumped in if I got beat up too badly. Pat was 9 years older
with arms of steel, I just hated to back down. Pat thought I was insulting him
with my crazy openings like the Crab but that was just me.

I ran into Pat about 7 years ago at a Colorado Kinko's. He lives in Fruita, CO.

Good luck to the living legend.

------------------------------------------------------------------
A story I can't forget is that Pat was climbing Flagstaff Mountain with a young
friend who freaked out on a bad LSD trip. Pat tried to calm him down but
couldn't. Pat called the police to help. The police climbed on top of a rock
and the kid tried to jump off. A cop tackled him, risking his own life. When
they asked him why later, the cop said,
" I couldn't live with myself if I didn't try to help him. "
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Fri Oct 30 23:28:24 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:28:24 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Michael Pearson versus Brian Wall,
	2009 Reno Western States Open, Round 5
Message-ID: <1256966904.4aebcaf8d9e3b@www.taom.com>


Michael Pearson has the best personality you can have in Chess. GM
Dzindzichashvili gave that compliment to Tal, I never met Tal, probably
the best I've seen is the young David Vigorito, friendly, honest, insightful,
intelligent, original thinker. Michael reminds me of Young Dave. Dave just
married, there's no telling what kind of twisted pretzel he is now.

Most Reno people called Michael " The Mohawk Guy with Earrings ". He may borrow
them from his two sisters. After the game Alvin Pulley bought lunch at Mel's
Diner ( think American Graffitti )for his son Steve, Michael and me. Michael
and Alvin knew each other from the Mechanic's Club in San Francisco. We
pleasantly postmortemed our game for an hour while eating burgers and banana
shakes. Michael had ice water which explains our diverging waistlines.

http://www.chessclub.org/

Mechanics'
Chess Club
57 Post Street
San Francisco, CA
94104

I was determined to go 4-0 after my first day 0-2 debacle. My mantra this game
was " Relentless Rybka " and I pretty much succeeded in winning a computer
game. Slowly hanging in there, grabbing a pawn and not giving it back.

Our thoughts during the game were very different and I enjoyed trading ideas.
22 year old Micheal was laidback, honest, open, friendly, at home with
Chessplayers of any age. I liked the guy a lot. We were about to play Bughouse
but Jerry Weikel put all the boards away. Michael is pretty skinny so I thought
he was even younger. Everyone looks 10, 18 or 30 to me now.


[Event "2009 Western States Open"]
[Site "Sands Regency Hotel"]
[Date "2009.10.25"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Michael Pearson"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2170 FIDE,2290USCF"]
[BlackElo "2204 FIDE, 2204 USCF"]
[Opening "Vienna game"]
[ECO "C28"]
[NIC "VG.04"]
[Time "12:24:05"]
[TimeControl "40/2, 20/1, G/30 , 5 second delay"]

2009 Reno Western States Open

Sands Regency Hotel and Casino, Reno, Vevada

October 25, 2009

Sunday morning
9:30 AM

Round 5

Open section, Board 13

40/2 hours
20/ 1 hour
Game/30 minutes
5 second delay

White -
Michael Pearson
FIDE  2170 , USCF  2290


Black -
LM Brian Wall
FIDE 2204 USCF 2204




1. e4

" Here we go! "
Michael Pearson

1 ... e5 2. Nc3 Nc6

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I was scared to play this because I lose so many ICC games when they
transpose to the King's Gambit, e.g., a game I lost today went

[Event "PlayChess 5 0"]
[Site "Chessbase"]
[Date "2009.10.30"]
[Round "?"]
[White "PlayChess 2100+"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C25"]
[WhiteElo "2129"]
[BlackElo "2116"]
[PlyCount "19"]
[EventDate "2009.10.30"]
[TimeControl "300"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. Nf3 g5 5. h4 g4 6. Ng5 h6 7. Nxf7 Kxf7 8.
Bc4+ Kg7 9. Qxg4+ Kh7 10. Qf5+  and I resigned due to 11 Qf7  checkmate

8  Bc4+  d5!  9  B:d5+  Kg7  10 d4  f3  11 gf  Be7
is a much better try

The point is I don't know these lines at all.
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3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. Bg5
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The only line I knew was the original Queen for a Tagalong
Knight sac I beat Leonardo Sotaridona with in Tagalog.
5. f4 d6 6. f5   g6 7. Bg5 gxf5 8. Nd5 Nxd5 9. Bxd8  Ne3  or even better
5. f4 d6 6. Nf3 Bg4 7. f5    g6 8. Bg5 gxf5 9. Nd5  Nxd5 10. Bxd8 Ne3
------------------------------------------------------------------------

I have blitz experience with

5. f4 d6  6. Nf3 Bg4 7. Na4 O-O 8. Nxc5 dxc5 9. O-O Qd6

Dave Vigorito likes 9 ... Qd6.
After that some possible ideas:
... B:f3, ... ef, ... Nh5, ... Nd4 and ... b5
harrassing the c4-Bishop.
Dave criticized ... Nh5
" I hate computer ideas. "

" I don't know why I didn't play that line. "
Michael Pearson.



5 ... h6!

" In my one analysis session with Bobby Fischer
he stressed breaking pins right away. "
GM Larry Christiansen


6. Be3

Played at least 32 times. World Champions Smyslov( 1942 ) and Spassky ( 1983
against Larsen )  played  6 ... Bb6  but as I explained in my Luke
Harmon-Vellotti game I was tired of the b6-Bishop being harrassed. Luke had
traumatized my ... B:e3 in a Ruy Lopez setting so that leaves

6 ... d6!!

Played 9 times, first by Panov against Kotov.

White hopes that the free tempo ... h6 proves to be a weakness.
I call it a hook because g4-g5 hooks into my Kingside protection.

7. Nge2

This position was reached once with White to move, twice with Black to move.
7 Qd2  Be6, 7  Nge2  Bb6  and 7 Nge2  B:e3
were all tried once.

7 ... Be6 TN

Another Theoretical Novelty,
one of many decent moves.
My position is solid but hard to play.



8. Bxc5  dxc5!

8 ... B:c4  9 Be3  Be6 was amusing
but I wasn't afraid of 4 doubled pawns.


9. Bb5

Wasting time to trade Bishop for Knight but on the other hand
that was the only piece I knew what to do with ( ... Nd4! )

9 ... Qd6

I have had some bad experience with tripled pawns in blitz games.
They stay with you forever, especially after  10 B:c6  bc  11 b3


10. Qd2!

Michael was struggling move by move through the opening -
12 minutes spent on this one and 45 minutes overall. I
had used 18 minutes.

10 ...  O-O!

Mainly because I didn't want to freeze all
my Queenside pawns by castling Queenside.

11. Bxc6!  Qxc6!  12. f4!!  exf4

No point in allowing f5 but now I am vulnerable to Ng3-f5 or R:f6  or
doubling Rooks on the f-file which 2/4 of my last opponents tried.
Fritz 11 thinks centralizing my QR is more important.


13. Qxf4!

My Vellotti moment. I felt uncomfortable and didn't know what to do.
My f6-Knight just seemed like a target and moving it to e5 or d4
seemed time consuming and pointless. 10 minutes of staring brought nothing.
One minute of looking at the board from Michael's side clarified everything
immediately. The problem is that ... dc abandoned the center and the e4-pawn is
a rock, a basis for attack. My mission is to make my Queenside pawns count for
something. I am using the Lion/Lioness theory. Instead of moving the f6-Knight
around like a desperate homeless fool I am going to bring the play to him by
attacking the c2-d3-e4 pawn chain. The Lion/Lioness theory also works in KQ vs
K endings. Bring the lone King to the King with the Queen. Lions are bigger and
stronger but the women do more hunting. I castled Kingside so I could activate
my Queenside pawns but I forgot that until I looked at my position from
Michael's eyes. Losing to a 10 year old was now 2 days old but I felt I was
still drawing strength from it, motivating me to win all my games and reminding
myself to spend an adequate amount of time in difficult, critical positions like
this one.

13 ... b5!!

The idea is ... b4, ... c4 and if  d4 then ... N:e4
and I have brought the play to my f6-Knight
instead of chasing butterflies over rainbows.




14. O-O!  c4

Michael has 55 minutes left,
I have 79.

I thought this was some kind of brilliancy but no one agrees with me.

Fritz 11 -  14 ... b4!!
Michael Pearson - " Driving my Knight to d1 with  14 ... b4! was depressing. "

My idea was not to drive his Knight to d1-e3-f5 but
14 ... c4  15  d4??  b4!  16  d5?  Qb6+  17 Kh1  bc  with advantage
...meanwhile maybe I can build up some pressure with ... Rad8
and keep ... b4 in reserve.


15. e5

Michael was disappointed that he panicked at the first sign of trouble.
I was happy to get rid of my awkward Knight on f6.
Fritz slightly prefers   11 Qg3, a3 or b4,
hard moves to find.


15 ... Nd5!

This was my plan to bring the play to my f6-Knight.
Fritz prefers  15 ... Nd7!!  intending ... f6!


16. Qg3

OK, Fritz slightly prefers 16 Qe4 or Nd4

16 ... Nxc3

I was happy to dispose of my useless outpostless Knight.
I don't know why Fritz prefers
16 ... cd  17  cd  Rad8  18 Rad1 and then ... N:c3
Fritz also prefers  16  ... Nb4  causing trouble  or
16 ... Rad8 maintaining the pressure or even
the insane inhuman 16 ... Ne7



17. Nxc3 cxd3

and here Fritz slightly prefers 17 ... Rad8!


18. cxd3!  Rad8!  19. Ne4

Michael Pearson felt this was the losing move.
What's happened is that I have distracted him from killing
me Kingside long enough to create some real threats.
I have the better minor piece, the better pawn structure
and twice the time ( one hour to half an hour ).
In short, the Vienna game scares me but I am playing reasonably well.
Michael can play defensively with 19 Rac1 or a3
but I still have all the advantages.


19 ...   Qc2!!

Michael confessed he felt lost after this. I kept making Queenside progress
and waiting for some vicious Kingside attack to materialize but it never did.


20. Nf6+!  Kh8!  21. Nh5!  Rg8!!

The only good move.
Avoiding any Kingside pawn concessions

22. Nf4!  Qxb2!!

Complementation -
Queen on Black,
Bishop on White.
I snatch a pawn and leave Pearson
wondering which one I will take next.
I considered  22 ... Bf5! which is good too.


23. Rae1 c5


An interesting strategy.
Of course a computer can just play  23 ... B:a2!! with impunity
but I decided to maintain ideal defensive posts for all my pieces,
advance my Queenside pawns and wait for an opportunity to take
another pawn. It doesn't look like Michael will do any defending,
he was getting low on time and searching desperately for a Kingside
knockout.

Time -
12 minutes spent leaving 37 minutes.
Pearson - 15 minutes.



24. h4?

Neither of us liked this move, it left Michael with 5 minutes until move 40 plus
it seemed to kill his piece play as well, taking h4 away from his major pieces.
Fritz says I am pretty much winning anyway but suggests 24 N:e6, Qe3 or Rb1

24 ...  a5

My plan seemed surreal but I went with it.
Fritz happily plays 24 ... B:a2!!


25. Rf2

Down to 4 minutes

25 ... Qc3 26. Re3!  b4

Michael thought my plan was good during the game.


27. Kh2!

Down to 2 minutes

27 ...  a4!!

I continue my weird plan of advancing my Queenside pawns
as far as possible before taking anything. When I do take
a pawn should be close to Queening. I didn't want to put
any piece out of play until I had to. Oddly, Fritz agrees
with my move although we use completely different logic.


28. Nxe6 fxe6!  29. Qg6?

49 seconds left

29 ...  Qd4!

Second best.
Attacking everything in sight.
Fritz likes only 29 ... b3!!! better.

30. Re4??

33 seconds left.

30 ...  Qxd3!

Second best.
I had already calculated that  30 Re4??
lost to ... Q:f2!!  but when he did it I
was so shocked I just grabbed the d-pawn.
I am notoriously bad in other's people's
time pressure. I used 2 minutes leaving me
25 minutes. It's very strange how people
can blunder in slow games with moves they
wouldn't make in blitz games.

31. Rf3 Qd5!!   32. Rg3

15 seconds to move 40

32 ... Rdf8

Even here Fritz laughs and plays  32 Rg3 Q:a2!!!
I just wanted to defend. Alvin Pulley at Mel's Diner
suggested 32 ... Rdf8  33 Rg5 and even here Fritz
wants  33 ... Q:a2!!!  34 Rh5  Qd2!!  defending everything.
I would probably have played something like
32 Rg2  Rdf8  33 Rg5  Qd5-d7-f7

33. Kh3

14 seconds left for MP
I have 21 minutes

0-1   Michael Pearson resigns

Michael was tired of getting nowhere.
Frizt says I have a +6 posititon, if
he can't generate any threats my
Queenside will roll eventually.
Top 7 moves-
33 ... Q:a2!!!, Qd1!!,  ... b3!!, ... Rf1, ... c4!!, ... Rf2!!  and ... Rf5!!
I think  33 ... Rf5!!  would have been my choice.

I had three wins and three losses.
For wins I am most proud of this game,
for losses I am most proud of my GM Perelshteyn game.

This win put me in position to re-eneter the top 10 stage with nicer Chess sets
and nicer flags for a shot at a few thousand bucks. By my calculations I should
have been paired with a 2300 . I had a shot at going 4-0 - instead they paired
me with a GM.

The highlight of this game was meeting Michael Pearson.
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[Event "2009 Western States Open"]
[Site "Sands Regency Hotel"]
[Date "2009.10.25"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Michael Pearson"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2170 FIDE,2290USCF"]
[BlackElo "2204 FIDE, 2204 USCF"]
[Opening "Vienna game"]
[ECO "C28"]
[NIC "VG.04"]
[Time "12:24:05"]
[TimeControl "40/2, 20/1, G/30 , 5 second delay"]


1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. Bg5 h6 6. Be3 d6 7. Nge2 Be6 8.
Bxc5 dxc5 9. Bb5 Qd6 10. Qd2 O-O 11. Bxc6 Qxc6 12. f4 exf4 13. Qxf4 b5 14.
O-O c4 15. e5 Nd5 16. Qg3 Nxc3 17. Nxc3 cxd3 18. cxd3 Rad8 19. Ne4 Qc2 20.
Nf6+ Kh8 21. Nh5 Rg8 22. Nf4 Qxb2 23. Rae1 c5 24. h4 a5 25. Rf2 Qc3 26. Re3
b4 27. Kh2 a4 28. Nxe6 fxe6 29. Qg6 Qd4 30. Re4 Qxd3 31. Rf3 Qd5 32. Rg3
Rdf8 33. Kh3

0-1
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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Sat Oct 31 10:19:38 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:19:38 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Curtis Carlsen on Pat Ament
Message-ID: <1257005978.4aec639aa35f2@www.taom.com>



----- Forwarded message from Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net> -----
    Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:09:34 -0700
    From: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
Reply-To: Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
 Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] David King on Pat Ament [1 Attachment]
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at taom.com>

Boy those are names I haven't heard in a long time.  I remember Pat playing a
Sveshnikov against Haynes Hendee (?) where he made a sacrifice on White's e4
pawn.  If I remembre correctly Tom Tuck worked only 4 hours a month for $200 an
hour and lived on the $800 until his next 4 hour session arrived.  You meet some
interesting people playing chess!  Pat had an album of his songs for sale
somewhere 30 years ago or so.  Some of his books are sold on ebay today.

Curt Carlson <curt2309 at comcast.net>
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  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Brian Wall
  To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com ; Brian Wall Chesslist
  Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 2:30 PM
  Subject: [BrianWallChess] David King on Pat Ament [1 Attachment]




  David King was a CU Boulder student with me and we played tons of blitz
  together. Later in Texas I took David King's father pyschological profile test
  to become an insurance agent. They suggested teacher, accountant or soft sell
  instead of hard selling.

  Pat had a big ego and liked to test people's courage - he could have mopped
the
  floor with all of us. I think he felt godlike in the Climbing World and didn't
  get enough respect in the Chessworld. His stories were amazing, climbing new
  peaks with the best rock climbers in the world. Pat backed down because it
  would have been too easy to kill us.

  I see Bill Engels all the time, also a CU student.
  His bughouse partner, Paul Sharpe, is a Facebook friend.
  They were invincible.

  Another CU blitz buddy Tom Tuck became a lawyer,
  came out of the closet and sued himself.
  My brother Charles Magnus Wall just passed the bar and went to work for the
New
  Orleans, LA prosectutor. Out grandfather was a judge in Sioux Falls, South
  Dakota. Both Tom Tuck and my brother Charles found law school easy and would
  make the teachers mad by missing ALL the classes and acing the tests. Before
  passing out one final legal exam, Charlie's teacher made a HUGE deal out of
  thanking everyone who had the courtesy to attend class while Charlie melted
  into his chair. All's well that ends well.

  Brian Wall

  ----- Forwarded message from David King <david_k33 at yahoo.com> -----
  Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:03:03 -0700 (PDT)
  From: David King <david_k33 at yahoo.com>
  Reply-To: David King <david_k33 at yahoo.com>
  Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Pat Ament
  To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>

  my most vivid memory was ament pouring a coke over josh samuels' head,
probably
  because josh beat him too many times (ament wasn't very good, and he was a
  bully).
  another time ament started talking trash to this big black guy, a professor at
  CU, but when the guy started getting worked up to fight, pat backed down fast.

  --- On Fri, 10/30/09, Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com> wrote:

  From: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>
  Subject: [BrianWallChess] Pat Ament
  To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, "Brian Wall Chesslist"
  <brianwall-chesslist at lists.taom.com>
  Date: Friday, October 30, 2009, 12:15 PM



  http://climbing. about.com/ b/2008/10/ 06/pat-ament- climbing- quote-of-
  the-week. htm

  http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Pat_Ament

  http://www.supertop o.com/climbing/ thread.php? topic_id= 103565&tn= 40

  One amazing character in college was Pat Ament, Chessplayer, artist but most
  importantly rock climber. Pat composed a mate in two where a piece could be
  captured 7 ways. We also played countless Pelikan/Sveshnikov Sicilians in
  college, now a big favorite with top 10 players.

  Pat could do one finger pullups and climbed many rocks/moutnains for the first
  time. Pat Ament wrote many books about all this and gave countless lectures
all
  over the world with rare climbing photgraphs.

  After facing death on mountaintops countless times Pat has health problems now
(
  diabetes for one ) and faces surgery. Good luck old friend.

  Pat had an artsitic approach to life, Chess and climbing.

  Pat married late and has a child.

  Some memorable quotes from Pat -

  Chess friends don't compare to climbing friends,
  you have to put your life in their hands.

  from one of his books-
  What you do in your darkest hour reaps
  huge dividends when things are going better.
  ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -

  We almost fought 3 times over Chess disputes. My loyal, brave brother Fred
  said he would have jumped in if I got beat up too badly. Pat was 9 years older
  with arms of steel, I just hated to back down. Pat thought I was insulting him
  with my crazy openings like the Crab but that was just me.

  I ran into Pat about 7 years ago at a Colorado Kinko's. He lives in Fruita,
CO.

  Good luck to the living legend.

  ----------------------------------------------------------
  A story I can't forget is that Pat was climbing Flagstaff Mountain with a
young
  friend who freaked out on a bad LSD trip. Pat tried to calm him down but
  couldn't. Pat called the police to help. The police climbed on top of a rock
  and the kid tried to jump off. A cop tackled him, risking his own life. When
  they asked him why later, the cop said,
  " I couldn't live with myself if I didn't try to help him. "

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Sat Oct 31 16:31:56 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:31:56 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Mayan King on Michael Pearson vs Brian Wall,
	Round 5, Reno 2009
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----- Forwarded message from MayanKing <MayanKing at yahoo.com> -----
    Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:09:05 -0000
    From: MayanKing <MayanKing at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: MayanKing <MayanKing at yahoo.com>
 Subject: Re: Lest we forget, lest we forget
      To: Brian Wall <BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com>

Brilliant! I sure did miss your games while I was moving from California to
Texas! I was without Internet for over a month. Now I am settled, found two
local chess clubs and can enjoy and learn from your great notes. It was not all
good happy news though. While I was in the process of packing moving getting new
phone numbers I lost contact with the world until recently. It was then I found
out two of my chess friends passed away while I was busy moving, Jerry Hanken
and Jay Blem. I knew them both since 1978.  So many games, memories and
stories. I missed both funerals for being 1400 miles away. On a good note I am
now a lot closer to Colorado and hope to visit you and maybe play in a
tournament as long as you promise not to play the dreaded Full Metal Jacket on
me. Everyone take care and I look forward to visiting you when time permits and
I'll have to visit my ex-wife in Boulder too!




From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Sat Oct 31 19:08:27 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:08:27 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] For better or worse
Message-ID: <1257037707.4aecdf8b5fc33@www.taom.com>


I am a victim of an arranged marriage at age 6 with the Goddess Caissa. I
am not sure who paid who a cow. I broke up with her for a year or two in
college but we have been together almost every day since. Our love is strong.

Sometimes I have to report on the seedier
side of our arrangement but I took a vow.

"To have and to hold from this day forward,
for better for worse, for richer for poorer,
in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish,
till death do us part."

This game fits into the worse part.

Last round - Game 6 - Sands Regency Casino, Reno Nevada
2009 Western States Open

I was #8 or #9 out of 11 players with 3/5. I was supposed to be paired
with the third highest 3/5 which was a 2300. Somehow I get a Grandmaster.
I don't like complaining in these circustances - I've spent half my life
bemoaning the fact that I don't have GM opposition in Denver. I basically
got outplayed all game, felt confused and disoriented and wanted to resign
way before I did.

I am not sure what I learned from this game. My rank was in the middle of the
Open section so an even score seems about right. I gained 5 rating points, a
minor miracle after my 0-2 start. Typically we make fake tragedies out of
circumstances that are fair.

Grandmaster Amon Sol Simutowe ( born 1982 ) is a fun guy -
Danielle Rice got him to smile when we took pictures.

Brian -
My daughter visited your neighboring country, Namibia.
How did you get so good in Zambia - computers?

Amon, smiling -
Oh, no, we had no computers there! I am just an addictive personality.

Brian -
Congratulations. You played well.

Winning the game would have put me in a tie for first
in both the Under 2400 prize and the Under 2300 prize.
I don't want to know what I would have won.

I watched Amon Sol Simutowe's intense eyes dart back and forth over the
Chessboard. They reminded me of one of the greatest living Poker players,
Phil Ivey, whose intimidating shifty stare has been compared to drug dealers
on the street looking for a sale. Restless. Opportunistic. Energetic.

Ratingwise GM Simutowe has had 3 peaks going over 2450 FIDE,
April 2001, October 2005 and January 2008.

I did not feel bad about the game. I never felt comfortable. I never had winning
chances. I played an opening I have very bad luck with, the White side of the
Nimzo-Indian. I felt numb. Losing to GM Perelshteyn felt emotionally draining, I
put a lot of effort into that game, losing to the 10 year old Luke
Harmon-Vellotti seemed unnecessary, I didn't try that hard, losing this game
just made me want to study mainline openings.
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Petrosian summed up my game best -
Game 5 - Nimzo-Indian, Spassky-Fischer 1972, Bobby's first win

" Why on earth did Spassky permit the Nimzo-Indian in Game 5? "
Petrosian wanted to know. The champion was hopeless in Nimzo-Indian-type
positions, both as white and black.

Bobby Fischer goes to War-
David Edmonds and John Eidinow,
both terrible Chessplayers
but not bad writers.
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The Nimzo-Indian was one of my earliest teen defenses
and I've never found any line I like as White. I did
manage to almost defeat Robert Hess in December 2008.

What bothered me most is it went the way everyone thought it would - just some
stupid 2200 getting rolled over by a GM. I am usually able to throw a monkey
wrench somewhere in that scenario. I didn't agonize over the game because I
didn't feel I missed any opportunities. Getting hurt in Love is all about
frustrated high expectations and I didn't have many here.

GM Simutowe attended the same college Tyler Hughes is at, UTD Dallas.
Amon Sol is the 6th grandmaster from Africa. GM Simutowe was champion of
Zambia at age 14 - IM since 1998. Simutowe tied for second in the 2000
World Junior Championship. African Junior Championship, 12/13 in 1999,
a Fischer-like 11-0 in 2000.

He earned his 3rd GM norm with great fanfare at the 2007 Euwe Stimulus
tournament in Arnhem, Netherlands becoming the 6th Grandmaster from the African
continent and the 1st from the sub-Saharan region. He has provided inspiration
to those who believe that attaining excellence in chess cannot be done without
a trainer.

I am not sure knowing any of this would have helped me.
All I knew was his title.

I can't think of anything else to add to this introduction so let's begin.
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[Event "2009 Reno -Western States Open
[Site "Sands Regency Casino and Hotel, Reno, Nevada"]
[Date "2009.10.25"]
[Round "6"]
[White "LM Brian Wall"]
[Black "Grandmaster Amon Sol Simutowe"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2204"]
[BlackElo "FIDE 2459, USCF 2474"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian: Leningrad variation"]
[ECO "E30"]
[NIC "NI.25"]
[Time "16:00:00"]
[TimeControl "40/2, 20/1, G/30, 5 second delay"]

1. d4

I had already lost to one GM in Reno with  1 e4 so
this move was the only thing I was sure of. If he
plays the wrong system he is in for a hard time.

1 ... Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4


Groan. I always lose this position on ICC.


4. Bg5 c5 5. dxc5!?

After beating GM Larry Christansen in a dicy ICC blitz game with 5 d5
I decided that move was too risky and switched to this rare sideline.
It's not very good but it takes them by surprise. Future GM Robert
Hess was down to 2 minutes and losing before he started saccing the
house on me. Somehow Amon found the best computer move in 3 minutes.
How does his self-trained mind work? His eyes dart all over the board
from side to side like a lizard's tongue.

5 ... Na6!!

3 minutes spent.
Not many people find this computer-best move.

6. f3?

5 confused minutes spent.
Seemed logical with both Black Knights headed for e4.
Fritz 11 thinks I need a remedial opening class and
says I am down a pawn already. The right move was
unplayable for a human - 6 Q:d4  B:c5  7 Qd2 -
does that look right to you?

6 ... Bxc5

10 minutes spent.
Losing an equal endgame in Round 1 and losing to a 10 year old in
Round 2 wasn't enough humiliation, now I am lost with White after
6 moves in one of the most important games in my life.

I saved the namecards from this game. Mine has a Colorado flag, Amon
( known as "pawn" when he started out because he was the smallest Chessplayer )
has a flag of Zambia.


7. Qd2!

11 unhappy minutes spent.
Fritz 11 only likes  7 Nh3!!  better

7 ...  h6!!

The GM keeps finding good moves I don't understand and can't respond to.
I had no way of judging whether 8 B:f6, Bf4, Bh4  or Be3  was best.
I am worse whatever I do and I chose the worst move. Fritz changes his
mind a lot ranking Choices 1-3  but not my 4th place move. I originally
intended  8 B:f6  Q:f6  9 Ne4  Qe7  10 N:c5  (NorQ):c5  11 e3  0-0
which isn't so bad for me.

8. Be3 Bxe3!  9. Qxe3!  O-O!  10. Qd4?

GMs make us feel like we don't know the basics.
I thought I was " controlling the center" but in reality I am just
getting buffeted by high winds I could have avoided with 10 Qd2!
Looking at a computer screen here is like looking at a map of Africa -
Black advantage everywhere.


10 ...  d5!

Fritz slightly prefers 10 ... Qa5!!  or  .. Nb4!!
I felt like I was being pried open like a tuna can
which is where Martin Deschner got his nickname.


11. e3?

Another bad move,
I clearly have no feel for this.
Despite my virgin Kingside I should play
11 cd!  N:d5  12 N:d5  ed  13  e3 Nb8  14 Qd2  Nc6  15 Ne2
and I am definitely worse


11 ...  Nb4!!

13 minutes spent

The Zambezi Shark strikes!
Twice as good as any other move.
It made no sense to me but neither
did the whole game.


12. O-O-O!!

Best but now I felt lost -
why does his King have a whole army
protecting him and mine is catching cold?

I have been studying Botvinnik's
HALF A DECADE OF CHESS lately
but I felt like I was on the wrong
side of a Keres-Botvinnik game.
Keres castled Queenside against Botvinnik's Nimzo-Indian
and got smoked in 22 moves. Game below.

12 ...  Qc7!

Fritz 11 slightly prefers 12 ... Qa5!!
but "Pawn" has opened up possibilities
against my Queen like ... e5  or ... Nc6  or ... Rd8.
I had a mental image of climbing a tree in Africa and
putting my head in a beehive. My Queen was too high.


13. a3

9 minutes spent.
I felt like resigning but then I was curious
to see what a computer would do in my position.
In a human versus human game the GM has a very easy
plan of just opening lines against my King. I am 3 tempi
down to launch any counterattack. I dreamt idly of g4
knowing it was too late. Fritz thinks my best try is the
ugly square-weakener timewaster  13 f4 - I did consider it
but 13 f4 looked as bad as everything else.
Will the GM Queenside Fishing Pole me with
13 a3  a5  14  ab ab
?



13 ... Nc6!!!

Eight times better than any other move


14. Qh4!!

Every choice looks and is bad.
I get hassled wherever I go
14  Qd3, Rd8!!, 14 Qd2  Na5!!, 14 Qf4  e5!!, 14 Qc5  Nd7!!

14 ...dxc4

One of innumerable good moves -
The Zambian prodigy has a safer King


15. Bxc4!

Making best moves in situations like this doesn't get you very far


15 ...  Ne5!!  16. Ba2!!

Another waste of a best move -
the damage is done

16 ...  b5

The Silver Surfer heralds the approach
of Galactus and my worlds tremble.
16 ... b5 looked like the bony hand of the Grim Reaper to me.
Macabre Fritz conjures up other bloody death scenarios -
16 ... b6!!, 17 ... Ba6!, 18 .... Nd3+!, 19 ... Rac8!   or
16 ... Bd7!, 17 ... Rac8!, 18 ... Bb5!, 19 ... Bc4!
working over my weak light squares


17. Kb1!!

It's better to have a best position than to play a best move

17 ...  Bd7!

Gruesome future with  ... a5-b4  or  Rooks gliding to
the Queenside like vultures in the hot African sun.

18. Rc1

My King is about to be overrun
and my Kingside pieces are still
sadly asleep.

18 ... Qb7!  19. Nge2!!

How many best moves do I get to play before I resign?


19 ...  a5!

Like creditors knocking on the front door,
I will soon have the steep bill shoved
in my face for my poor planning.
That last word freak Fritz prefers only 19 ... Rfc8!!



20. b4?

The Zambian playing 20 ... b4!, ripping open lines,
seemed completely unacceptable. I wondered what a
computer would play in such dire circumstances -
the answer is 20 Ne4  N:e4  21 Q:e4  Q:e4  22 fe
with a hideous looking ending against a GM
but at least it's an ending. I looked at that
and grimaced involuntarily.

20 ... axb4!  21. axb4!  Rfc8!!

We both have 41 minutes to reach move 40.
22 ... Nc4!!  23 B:c4  R:c4
is a horriffic threat

22. Rhd1!!  Qa6!

A prelude to ... Nc4!!  which is also strong now


23. Rd4

Pitifully trying to sac the exchange to stem the charging hordes.
I felt like Michael Caine in Zulu.


23 ... Qa3!

Again only 23 ... Nc4!!  is better but the
Zambezi Shark is preparing the fatal strike


24. Qe1

All hands on deck

24 ... Nc4!!

Finally I feel his hand on my throat,
my pistol is out of ammunition.


25. Rxc4 bxc4 26. Qd2  Qxb4+!  27. Ka1!  Nd5

Removing defenders


28. e4 Nxc3!  29. Nxc3!  Ba4!!   +8

0-1   Brian finally resigns

I am a bitterender in relationships but even I have to let go sometime.
Analyzing this game was like watching a video of my own traffic accident.
Grandmaster Amon Sol Simutowe did not go over the game with me but he
was pleasant and smiling like everyone else in Reno. I am still processing
the lesson.
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[Event "2009 Reno -Western States Open
[Site "Sands Regency Casino and Hotel, Reno, Nevada"]
[Date "2009.10.25"]
[Round "6"]
[White "LM Brian Wall"]
[Black "Grandmaster Amon Sol Simutowe"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2204"]
[BlackElo "FIDE 2459, USCF 2474"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian: Leningrad variation"]
[ECO "E30"]
[NIC "NI.25"]
[Time "16:00:00"]
[TimeControl "40/2, 20/1, G/30, 5 second delay"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Bg5 c5 5. dxc5 Na6 6. f3 Bxc5 7. Qd2 h6 8.
Be3 Bxe3 9. Qxe3 O-O 10. Qd4 d5 11. e3 Nb4 12. O-O-O Qc7 13. a3 Nc6 14. Qh4
dxc4 15. Bxc4 Ne5 16. Ba2 b5 17. Kb1 Bd7 18. Rc1 Qb7 19. Nge2 a5 20. b4 axb4
21. axb4 Rfc8 22. Rhd1 Qa6 23. Rd4 Qa3 24. Qe1 Nc4 25. Rxc4 bxc4 26. Qd2
Qxb4+ 27. Ka1 Nd5 28. e4 Nxc3 29. Nxc3 Ba4

0-1  Brian finally resigns
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[Event "Leningrad-Moscow -"]
[Site "22784"]
[Date "1941.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Paul Keres"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "E34"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "48"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Bg5 h6 7.Bh4
c5 8.O-O-O Bxc3 9.Qxc3 g5 10.Bg3 cxd4 11.Qxd4 Nc6 12.Qa4 Bf5
13.e3 Rc8 14.Bd3 Qd7 15.Kb1 Bxd3+ 16.Rxd3 Qf5 17.e4 Nxe4
18.Ka1 O-O 19.Rd1 b5 20.Qxb5 Nd4 21.Qd3 Nc2+ 22.Kb1 Nb4 0-1

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More on Simutowe -

http://www.thechessdrum.net/talkingdrum/TDsepoct01.html

http://www.thechessdrum.net/drummajors/A_Simutowe.html

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=49263

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amon_Simutowe

http://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?event=8700168

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From BrianWallChess3 at taom.com  Sat Oct 31 20:49:36 2009
From: BrianWallChess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall)
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:49:36 -0600
Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Joel Johnson on For better or Worse
Message-ID: <1257043776.4aecf74005da9@www.taom.com>



Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:40:35 -0700
From:  Joel Johnson <bigbear12 at hotmail.com>
To:  Brian Wall <brianwallchess3 at taom.com>
Subject:  RE: [BrianWall-ChessList] For better or worse
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"Typically we make fake tragedies
out of circumstances that are fair."

Brian, I love this quote and will use it.

Thanks, Joel
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Brian Wall

 I am not sure what I learned from this game. My rank was in the middle of the
 Open section so an even score seems about right. I gained 5 rating points, a
 minor miracle after my 0-2 start. Typically we make fake tragedies out of
 circumstances that are fair.

Brian Wall
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