[BrianWall-ChessList] 9 years old
Brian Wall
BrianWallChess3 at taom.com
Sun Oct 18 04:36:14 MDT 2009
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?
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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
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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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