From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 1 08:24:23 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 08:24:23 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Predictions Message-ID: <1265037863.4b66f227a3798@www.taom.com> Haiti's national geological survey offices collapsed in the quake, killing some 30 people inside, including the institute's director. This complicates future research in a country that has no seismic network, except for Calais' GPS monitors. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Ng6!! 6. Nf3! Bc5!! 7. c4 d6 7 ... Nf6!! is best 7 ... Nf6!! 8 Qe2+ is met comfortably by 8 ... Ne7!! 8. Nc3! Nf6! 9. Bd3 O-O!! I am better because 4 f4 looks pointless now 10. Ne4? Losing a piece already but his game sucks 10 ... Nxe4! 11. Bxe4! Re8! 12. Ng5 f5 12 ... Bf5!!!, ... h6!!!, ... Qf6!!! win easier 13. Qh5! h6!!! 13 ... R:e4+!! 14 N:e4 fe! is also convincing 14. Qxg6 hxg5! AlonzoMosely still has his e4 problem 15. fxg5 Rxe4+! 16. Kd1 Bd7 17. Qh5 Kf8 18. g6 Qh4 19. Qxh4! Rxh4! Up a piece with no more complications 20. b3 Re8 21. Bg5 Rg4! 22. h4! Rxg2! 23. Rc1 f4!! mating 24. Rc2! Bg4+! 25. Kc1! Ba3+! 26. Kb1! Bf5! mating soon {White resigns} 0-1 Declining the Full Metal Jacket 9 4 f4 ed 5 fe Qh4+ ) often gets White in just as big an unfamiliar mess. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 1 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.02"] [Round "-"] [White "AlonzoMosely"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "2145"] [BlackElo "2106"] [Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense"] [ECO "A40"] [NIC "QO.17"] [Time "12:28:11"] [TimeControl "60+0"] 1. d4 Nc6 2. d5 Ne5 3. e4 e6 4. f4 exd5 5. exd5 Ng6 6. Nf3 Bc5 7. c4 d6 8. Nc3 Nf6 9. Bd3 O-O 10. Ne4 Nxe4 11. Bxe4 Re8 12. Ng5 f5 13. Qh5 h6 14. Qxg6 hxg5 15. fxg5 Rxe4+ 16. Kd1 Bd7 17. Qh5 Kf8 18. g6 Qh4 19. Qxh4 Rxh4 20. b3 Re8 21. Bg5 Rg4 22. h4 Rxg2 23. Rc1 f4 24. Rc2 Bg4+ 25. Kc1 Ba3+ 26. Kb1 Bf5 {White resigns} 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.DenverChess.com www.Walverine.com BrianWallChess.net Colorado-Chess.com From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 2 11:20:39 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 11:20:39 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Super Bowl Trivia and Fwd: Upcoming Slow Road to Perfection Pueblo Tournament Message-ID: <1265134839.4b686cf79c37b@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from CS Chess ----- Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:08:26 -0700 From: CS Chess Reply-To: CS Chess Subject: [CSCN] Super Bowl Trivia and Fwd: Upcoming Slow Road to Perfection Pueblo Tournament I picked the Saints in the Super Bowl because they were 1 of 5 teams to have never made it, which is some of the useless trivia that has stuck with me. Can you name the other 4? I have included some other Super Bowl trivia in my chess video which combines my favorite Super Bowl upset and my favorite chess upset: http://home.att.net/~cs.chess/videos/upset.htm ----- Original Message ----- Subject: Upcoming Slow Road to Perfection Pueblo Tournament The first tournament this year in Pueblo: everyone is welcome, and the site is cozy! February 6, 2010 The Slow Road to Perfection On e Day Rated Chess Tournament 5 round Swiss system tournament. Time Control: G/30 TD 5 Site: The Daily Grind, 209 S. Union, Pueblo Directions: Take 1st Street exit, three blocks to Union; Union & D Street Sections: Open Entry fee: Entry fee: $20; Sr, Jr, Unr $15; CSCA & USCF required, OSA. Pre-registration entry fee: $15, which must be paid at the time of pre-registratio n. Pri zes: Cash prizes based on entry fees will be distributed at the conclusion of the event. Final round byes must be requested before the start of Round 2, and are irrevocable. Registration: 9:00-9:45, Rounds: 10, 11:15, 12:30, 2:30, 3:45. 9:00-9:45, Rounds: 10, 11:15, 12:30, 2:30, 3:45. For further information , contact Liz Wood, chessliz at comcast.net ( 719-566-6929) or Jerry Maier, (719-660-5531) Send pre-registrations to: Jerry Maier at 229 Hargrove Court, Colorado Springs CO 80919-2213 or pmjer77 at aim.com by February 4th . , contact Liz Wood, chessliz at comcast.net ( 719-566-6929) or Jerry Maier, (719-660-5531) Send pre-registrations to: Jerry Maier at 229 Hargrove Court, Colorado Springs CO 80919-2213 or pmjer77 at aim.com by February 18th . COLORADO TOUR EVENT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100202/17e78abb/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 2 15:32:57 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 15:32:57 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fishing Pole..! by Tim Kohler Message-ID: <1265149977.4b68a819093e3@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Tim Kohler ----- Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:04:15 -0700 From: Tim Kohler Reply-To: Tim Kohler Subject: Fishing Pole..! To: Brian Wall Brian, Try as I might, most players shy away from my Fishing Poles, and I've sort of learned to steer clear of of it when my opponents rating is 1700 or higher. Of course, ratings below that are fair game, for the power of the 'pole' is just too much fun to resist. Anyway, if white's black square bishop cannot interfere with the King side (pawn still on d2 or it's moved elsewhere), my success rate goes way up. Here's just such a case... [Event "ICC"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.02"] [White "wolfja"] [Black "timk"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1469"] [BlackElo "1583"] [ECO "C65"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez"] [Variation "Berlin defense, 4.O-O"] [TimeControl "900+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. a3 Bc5 6. b4 Bb6 7. Bb2 a6 8. Ba4 Ba7 9. Bb3 d6 10. h3 h5 11. Nh2 Qh4 12. Nxg4 hxg4 13. Nc3 gxh3 14. Qf3 hxg2 15. Qxf7+ Kd8 16. Kxg2 Qg4# 0-1 peices, timk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100202/e94008a3/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 3 11:30:36 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 11:30:36 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 78 year old Gene Lacey from Waco, Texas uses Fishing Pole for birthday present. Message-ID: <1265221836.4b69c0cc6d782@www.taom.com> Dane Lacey After much thinking about what to do for my birthday, I decided to go fishing! First a Ham & Eggs breakfast. I guess fishing for mud cats is the order of the day, using stinkbait.(rotting dead minnows). 1.e4 e5,2.Nf3 Nf6, 3.d3 Nc6, 4.c3 d5, 5.exd5 Nxd5, 6.Be2 Nf4, 7.Bxf4 exf4 8.Qd2 Bc5 9.d4 Bd6 10.h4 0-0 11.Ng5 Qf6, 12....Qd3 Bf5, 13.Qf3 Qh6, 14.Bd3 Rfe8+, 15.Kf1 Bxd3+, 16.Qxd3 f6 17.Qc4+ Kf8 18.Qf7# ran out of stink bait & used a grappling hook. It was a very small fish.~Gene From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 3 15:58:17 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 15:58:17 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Denver Chess Club February games Message-ID: <1265237897.4b69ff8921397@www.taom.com> www.DenverChess.com Round 1 February Tuesday DCC IHOP games posted by Chris Peterson in click and move format - refreshments were served From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Feb 4 15:10:04 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 15:10:04 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Fishing Pole virgin Message-ID: <1265321404.4b6b45bc21ff3@www.taom.com> Statistics for Troparion On for: 21 Idle: 2 rating [need] win loss draw total best Wild 1326 [6] 2 1 0 3 Crazyhouse 1396 [6] 1 3 0 4 Bullet 1330 754 394 37 1185 1577 (03-Jul-2009) Blitz 1432 2930 1583 150 4663 1832 (30-Oct-2009) Standard 1764 12 7 1 20 1764 (26-Jan-2010) 5-minute 1389 1160 1135 96 2391 1704 (02-Feb-2010) 1-minute 1251 766 808 37 1611 1589 (31-Jul-2009) 15-minute 1794 7 7 0 14 Correspondence 1419 1 5 0 6 1: I'm from Louisiana and I've prayed at Paul Morphy's grave. Now living in Colorado. 2: Ph.D., Cognitive Science, 2007. 3: Tomato blitz on 8 October 2008--Tomato You won!!! Congratulations! This is your 1 1st place finish 4: I bought a Drueke pocket set which quickly fell apart. They wouldn't replace it. Don't buy anything from them. 5: My wife and I are in the background of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIpdvk5VYxE . We had a great time there. Viva the St. Louis Chess Club! 6: WHO DAT, BABY! BLACK AND GOLD SUPERBOWL! GEAUX NEW ORLEANS SAINTS! 7: I neither give nor ask for takebacks, and you shouldn't either. Go whine to someone else. We all lose. I lose from mouseslips all the time. Grow up! 8: My one-minute masterpiece: 'examine Troparion %18' . B-Wall sent this game to over 3,000 subscribers of his listserv! 'finger B-Wall' 9: Comments after my wins: Rangifer (00:27 17-Nov-08 EST): you have no honor you should have resigned . sicilian77 says: lol, merry xmas I missed that, you are lamer than myself 10: Need an emetic? 'finger Whiskers57' and read his notes. I must say though, that I beat him last time.... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Troparion tells you: Just played my first Fishin Pole! Troparion tells you: I won, but it was a very poor game on both sides. Troparion tells you: I tried it just for fun. I always play the Chigorin Defense defense to the Lopez. [Event "ICC 5 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.04"] [Round "-"] [White "motivmotion"] [Black "Troparion"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White checkmated"] [WhiteElo "1368"] [BlackElo "1389"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "15:39:35"] [TimeControl "300+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! 5. h3 h5!! 6. hxg4 hxg4!! 7. g3? gxf3!! 8. Qxf3 Nd4!! 9. Qd3 Bc5 So far Troparion is playing the Fishing Pole like a pro. 9 ... Bc5 is very natural but Motivmotion's King and Bishops are so weakly placed that 9 ... Qg5!!! or ... Qf6!! win massive material already. 10. c3 Ne6 same idea - 10 ... N:b5!! 11 Q:b5 Qg5!!! or ... Qf6!! attack plus two Bishops 11. Qe2 Qg5?? Bad timing, 11 ... Qf6!! is very strong, among others 12. d4!! double trouble for Troparion- c5-Bishop in under attack and all the h-file squares are covered for his Queen. Motivmotion is back in the game. 12 ... Nf4! 12 ... Qg6!! also saves the situation 13. Bxf4! exf4! 14. dxc5? fxg3!! Winning again 15. fxg3! c6??= ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Missing a great combo with 15 ... Q:g3+!! 16 Qg2 Qe3+ 17 Qf2 Qg5+ 18 Qg2 Q:c5+!! 19 Qf2 Qg5+ 12 Qg2 Q:b5 Why did Motivmotion have to allow the perpetual motion checks to pick two pawns a Bishop for free? The problem is if White lines up his King and Queen on the g-file for long Troparion introduces his Rook into the attack. 15 ... Q:g3+!! 16 Qg2 Qe3+ 17 Rf2 Rh3-g3!! will win the Queen 15 ... Q:g3+!! 16 Qg2 Qe3+ 17 Qf2 Qg5+ 18 Qg2 Q:c5+!! 19 Rf2 Rh6!!! or ... Rh5!! or ... Q:b5! all win That's hard to see. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16. Bc4 Qxg3+!= 17. Qg2! Qe3+! 18. Qf2 Qg5+! 19. Qg2! Qe3+!= 19 ... Q:c5+! 20 Rf2 Q:c4 21 Q:g7 is also dead equal 20. Rf2?? d5?? 20 ... Rg3!! wins the Queen 21. cxd6??= 21 Q:g7!! wins 21 ... Be6?? 21 ... Rh3!!= or ... Bh3!!= draw 22. d7+ Kxd7! 23. Bxe6+! Kxe6! 24. Qg4+ Ke7! 25. Na3?? Rad8?? 25 ... Rh3!! is better for Troparion again. I know, it's hard not to develop. 26. Rf1!! Rd6?? 27. Qxg7??? 27 Nc4!! ends it 27 ... Rg6+!! Finally winning the Queen 28. Qxg6! fxg6! 29. Kg2?? Allowing mate in 2 29 ... Qxe4+ 30. Kg3?? Allowing mate again 30 ... Rh5 31. Rf7+! Kd6! 32. R1f6+ Kc5!! Safe 33. b4+! Kb6! 34. Nc4+! Qxc4! 35. Rxg6 Qxc3+ 36. Kg4! Rh1 37. Rgf6 Rg1+!! quickest mate 38. Kh4 Qg3+!! 39. Kh5! Qg5# {White checkmated} 0-1 Typical Fishing Pole, a non stop ride on the tactics train plunging White into complete chaos. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Statistics for motivmotion On for: 3:10 Idle: 0 motivmotion is currently involved in a match against Kartal. rating [need] win loss draw total best Blitz 1345 [1] 3 4 0 7 5-minute 1399 46 42 2 90 1440 (04-Feb-2010) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.DenverChess.com www.Walverine.com www.BrianWallChess.net www.Colorado-Chess.com www.Chessville.com Off the Wall From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Feb 4 21:46:44 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 21:46:44 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Andres Hortillosa Message-ID: <1265345204.4b6ba2b43c17c@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Andres Hortillosa ----- Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:01:26 -0600 From: Andres Hortillosa Reply-To: Andres Hortillosa Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Fishing Pole virgin To: Brian Wall Hi Brian, My book now is number 20 among the top 100 bestsellers in the chess category. Please pass this excerpt to your Yahoo group. Best regards, Andy -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: unnamed Url: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100204/c108f061/attachment.pl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100204/c108f061/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Improve Your Chess at Any Age Excerpt.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 172038 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100204/c108f061/attachment.pdf From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Feb 6 10:01:34 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:01:34 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Important Tip - Read this! Message-ID: <1265475694.4b6da06e2d45c@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from TomCatRev ----- Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 09:25:48 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) From: TomCatRev Reply-To: TomCatRev Subject: Important Tip - Read this! To: TomCatRev Read This! -------Original Message------- From: tennisjim Date: 2/6/2010 8:39:28 AM Subject: Driving in the rain . .This may save your life I've heard about the cruise control but not the sunglasses-makes sense re: glare. FYI, good advice I got this from a friend and had not heard about the first part before. I don't know for sure that it works but, I am certainly going to give it a try. GOOD VISION IN A DOWNPOUR How to achieve good vision while driving during a heavy downpour. We are not sure why it is so effective; just try this method when it rains heavily. This method was told by a Police friend who had experienced and confirmed it. It is useful...even driving at night. most of the motorists would turn on HIGH or FASTEST SPEED of the wipers during heavy downpour, yet the visibility in front of the windshield is still bad...... In the event you face such a situation, just try your SUN GLASSES (any model will do), and miracle! All of a sudden, your visibility in front of your windshield is perfectly clear, as if there is no rain. Make sure you always have a pair of SUN GLASSES in your car, as you are not only helping yourself to drive safely with good vision, but also might save your friend's life by giving him this idea.. Try it yourself and share it with your friends!??? Amazing, you still see the drops on the windshield, but not the sheet of rain falling. You can see where the rain bounces off the road.? It works to eliminate the "blindness" from passing semi's spraying you too.? Or the "kickup" if you are following a semi or car in the rain.? They ought to teach that little tip in driver's training.. It really does work. This warning is a good one! I wonder how many people know about this NEVER USETHE CRUISE CONTROL WHEN THE PAVEMENT IS WET OR ICY A 36 year old female had an accident several weeks ago and totaled her car. A resident of Kilgore, Texas she was traveling between Gladewater & Kilgore. It was raining, though not excessively, when her car suddenly began to hydro-plane and literally flew through the air. She was not seriously injured but very stunned at the sudden occurrence! When she explained to the highway patrolman what had happened he told her something that every driver should know - NEVER DRIVE IN THE RAIN WITH YOUR CRUISE CONTROL ON. She thought she was being cautious by setting the cruise control and maintaining a safe consistent speed in therain.. But the highway patrolman told her that if the cruise control is on when your car begins to hydro-plane and your tires lose contact with the pavement, your car will accelerate to a higher rate of speed making you take off like an airplane. She told the patrolman that was exactly what had occurred. The patrolman said this warning should be listed, on the driver's seat sun-visor - NEVER USETHE CRUISE CONTROL WHEN THE PAVEMENT IS WET OR ICY, along with the airbag warning. We tell our teenagers to set the cruise control and drive a safe speed - but we don't tell them to use the cruise control only when the pavement is dry. The only person the accident victim found, who knew this (besides the patrolman), was a man who had a similar accident, totaled his car and sustained severe injuries. NOTE: Some vehicles (like the Toyota Sienna Limited XLE) will not allow you to set the cruise control when the windshield wipers are on. 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The best part is the honesty, even though he is touting a system, he doesn't shy away from painful blunders on both sides. I tried to delude myself reading the book that I wouldn't make the errors he did but I remember he showed me the second to last game in the book at the 2009 World Open and I did not find the key moves in C.Boor-A Hortillosa. I studied or played or befriended or talked to many of his opponents - Studied - Aronian, Svidler, Ivanchuk, Radjabov, Gelfand, Van Wely Talked to - D Hartsook, Van Wely played at least one blitz game - Radjabov, C. Boor, Macintyre, Lugo played slow Chess - Ginat, Karklins, Nakamura, Shulman Andy also mentions two books by my friend David Vigorito, The Nimzo and the Slav Knowing a lot of the characters in the book gave it a friendly feel to me. I have also met two of Andy's coaches, IM Mark Ginsburg and GM Dmirty Gurevich. Andy is not afraid to speak the truth, with his first hand Phillipine background he mentions that solving a Chess puzzle by starting at the end with the desired checkmate is a pervasive solving method in the Oriental culture. Andy mentions many common methods of improving, ICC, Chessbase, coaching, studying your game with Chess engines. I belong to Dana MacKenzie's Chess blog and he mentioned yesterday the book title was his idea. The book basically goes like this - Andy mentions his frustration at his Chess rust due to his time in the army. After retiring, he has more time for Chess and wants to make FIDE 2300 for the FM title. He invents a system for Chess improvement and annotates 37 games, describing how his method worked. Sometimes the method failed, sometimes Andy failed his own system and sometimes he didn't have enough time to apply the system. In general it worked very well, most of the outright blunders belonged to his opponents, most of Andy's errors were due to the position being too deep. He basically found a method to get the most out of himself. The book made me laugh too due to our different styles. I play every opening and will sac just about anything, unclear or not. Andy is one of those guys that spends lots of money on Chess books and lets many of them collect dust. Others I've met come to mind here. Andy tends to play very solid Chess and constantly offers draws to his higher rated opponents in the book. Sometimes they refuse and force Andy to play out winning positions. Andy has never played the King's Indian, Benko or Grunfeld, not to mention the insane stuff I play. He admits an aversion to unclear play. I like to gamble, Andy likes to play the percentages. Think of us as the Colts versus the Saints. I read the book pretty much nonstop upon arrivial, it reads like an exciting novel. You will squirm when you see how hard Andy is trying and how he twists in the wind with each painful oversight. You will rejoice as he takes down or draws a multitude of higher rated players. You will wonder what you would have done in the same circumstances. The book is chockful of original insight on every page, for example, the reason we can see our mistake right AFTER we move is the mind has a clear delineation between reality and fantasy, before we move, it's a fantasy, we have to make our next move in our mind to trick ourselves into believing it's REAL, then the mind will do the necessary work. Andy doesn't just talk the talk, he walks the walk, facing 2200-2500 players in every chapter. The chapters are divided mostly by recent strong tournaments he played in. He also gives a few games from 10 years ago so you can see how his Chess was when he left off. Andy thinks out loud as he climbs the Olympian heights in a way that GMs can't or won't somehow. I think you will recognize a friend as he struggles to go higher. I like how he berates himself for missing any move a Chessmaster would see instantly, even if it looks like it loses a piece. It's a fun book, very re-readable and a serious book for those trying to improve. His wisdom seeps into you on every page. Highly recommended. Brian Wall ----- End forwarded message ----- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 9 17:49:34 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:49:34 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Liwen Gu, Liwen Gu, Liwen Gu Message-ID: <1265762974.4b72029e56fbd@www.taom.com> trying to get her name right Liwen Gu, Liwen Gu, Liwen Gu From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 9 17:54:55 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:54:55 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Review of "Improve Your Chess at any age" by Andres D. Hortillosa Message-ID: <1265763295.4b7203df8b7a2@www.taom.com> I didn't send my review to Andy before posting it so I am glad he liked it. Brian Wall ----- Forwarded message from Andres Hortillosa ----- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:12:05 -0600 From: Andres Hortillosa Reply-To: Andres Hortillosa Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Review of "Improve Your Chess at any age" by Andres D. Hortillosa To: Brian Wall Brian, Your review is amazing. I have never seen it done like that before. It communicates. It entices. It seduces. You should consider submitting this to Chess Life, Chess Life Online and other outlets for its own sake. The review style in itself makes it very enjoyable to read. It could do justice to any well-meaning book. But having a mind like yours judge this book the way you did is exhilarating and most satisfying. Somehow all the anguish and the pains in birthing this book were all worth it. I just hope it will make better players out of the lost multitudes. Because there is so much to enjoy in this game. Your friend, Andy Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:23:49 -0600 From: Andres Hortillosa To: Brian Wall Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] Review of "Improve Your Chess at any age" by Andres D. Hortillosa 2 unnamed text/html 11.58 KB Hi Brian, If it is not too much to ask, please post this review on Amazon.com. Two reviews were unfairly biased against me than against the book because of my non-master credentials. Your review will lend some balance to this lopsided debate. I forwarded your review to Everyman Chess. Thanks, Andy Very Respectfully, Andres D. Hortillosa, MBA, MS, FACHE Author: Improve Your Chess at Any Age Publisher: Everyman Chess -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100209/e765abfd/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 9 20:51:33 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:51:33 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Full Metal Jacket victory Message-ID: <1265773893.4b722d455c82f@www.taom.com> Statistics for suspense On for: 3 Idle: 0 suspense is currently examining game 1213: continuation. rating [need] win loss draw total best Bullet 1877 882 1200 77 2159 2221 (22-Jun-2009) Blitz 2270 [3] 314 332 40 686 2551 (02-Jun-2009) 5-minute 1475 [3] 2 22 0 24 1531 (02-Feb-2010) 1-minute 1997 5462 5239 413 11114 2184 (31-Jan-2010) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 1 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.09"] [Round "-"] [White "suspense"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "1997"] [BlackElo "1994"] [Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense, Full Metal Jacket"] [ECO "A40"] [NIC "QO.17"] [Time "22:17:37"] [TimeControl "60+0"] 1. d4 Nc6 2. d5 Ne5 3. e4 e6 4. f4 exd5 Full Metal Jacket meaning I keep all my pawns in many lines. 5. fxe5 Qh4+ once 6. Kd2 Qh6+ once. Other moves are possible. 7. Kd3 Qa6+ once. Other moves are possible. 8. Ke3? Qh6+ once. Other moves are possible. 8 ... Bc5+!! 9 Kd2! Qh6+!! 10 Kc3! Qb6!! is stronger 9. Kd3 Qa6+ twice 10. Kc3 Qc6+ 11. Kd2 Qh6+ twice 12. Ke1 Qh4+ twice 13. Ke2 Qxe4+ once 14. Kf2?? 14 Be3! Bc5! 15 Qd3 Q:e5! 16 Nf3! Q:e3+ 17 Q:e3 B:e3 18 K:e3 d6! is the main line where I have 3 pawns for a Knight. 14 ... Bc5+ {White resigns} 0-1 Most blitz players will do anything to avoid a draw. 15 Kg3! Nh6!! 16 B:h6 ( to stop 17 ... Nf5+ ) gh! 17 Qg4 ( to stop 18 ... Rg8+ ) Q:e5+!! kills 15 Kg3! Nh6!! 16 B:h6 gh! 17 Kh3 Rg8!!!, ... h5!!! or ... d6!! are homicidal 15 Kg3! Nh6!! 16 Bg5 Q:e5+!!! attacks everything in sight 15 Kg3 Ne7 16 Qf3 ( or Nf3 or Bf4 ) Nf5+ or 15 Kg3 Ne7 16 Bg5 Q:e5+!! also work. I was intending the modest 15 Kg3 d6 and didn't understand why Suspense ended it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 1 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.09"] [Round "-"] [White "suspense"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "1997"] [BlackElo "1994"] [Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense, Full Metal Jacket"] [ECO "A40"] [NIC "QO.17"] [Time "22:17:37"] [TimeControl "60+0"] 1. d4 Nc6 2. d5 Ne5 3. e4 e6 4. f4 exd5 5. fxe5 Qh4+ 6. Kd2 Qh6+ 7. Kd3 Qa6+ 8. Ke3 Qh6+ 9. Kd3 Qa6+ 10. Kc3 Qc6+ 11. Kd2 Qh6+ 12. Ke1 Qh4+ 13. Ke2 Qxe4+ 14. Kf2 Bc5+ {White resigns} 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 9 23:17:41 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:17:41 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] http://www.myspace.com/joanclifford Message-ID: <1265782661.4b724f85b4e42@www.taom.com> http://www.myspace.com/joanclifford original songs From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 10 01:56:21 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:56:21 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Rakhmanov - Nepomniachtchi Aeroflot Open 2010 Message-ID: <1265792181.4b7274b5bcaf8@www.taom.com> I love Nepomniachtchi's style, a very daring, young, imaginative attacker. Chess is a tough game these days, you end up playing Rybka the first 20 moves. I remember when the Benko Gambit was a romantic opening with all new theory. Nepomniachtchi plays 17 moves of Benko theory, Rakhmanov makes a mild improvement on move 18 and Nepomniachtchi quickly goes down in flames. [Event "9th Aeroflot Open A"] [Site "Moscow RUS"] [Date "2010.02.09"] [Round "1"] [White "Rakhmanov, Ale"] [Black "Nepomniachtchi, I."] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A57"] [WhiteElo "2591"] [BlackElo "2658"] [PlyCount "55"] [EventDate "2010.02.09"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. b6 http://www.walverine.com/index.php?id=18 an old Walverine email about Dzindi beating Alburt with this move back in 1972. I once saw Josh Bloomer beating Jason Caldwell about 20 times in a row in blitz with this idea, Jason couldn't deal with Bloomer's Nc4. Yermolinsky played this a lot too. Nowadays they call this the Shirov variation. I think Alexei said he got tired of it eventually in Fire on Board 2. 5 ... e6 6. Nc3 exd5 7. Nxd5 Nxd5 8. Qxd5 Nc6 9. e4 Be7 10. Bc4 O-O 11. Nf3 Rb8 12. Bd2 Rxb6 13. Bc3 Nb4 14. Qd2 Bb7 15. O-O-O Bxe4 16. Qxd7 Bg5+ 17. Nxg5 Qxg5+ 18. Rd2!! TN Rakhmanov Theoretical Novelty by Ale Rakhmanov ( GM I assume ) 7 Chessplayers tried 18 Qd2 in the past, both moves give White a micro-edge. Rakhmanov's protected Danish Gambit Bishops leave a good impression, Nepomniachtchi's isolated pawns and goofy Knight are unsettling. Black can probably hold with sheer activity but if he blinks once, those Bishops will eat him alive. 18 ... Bg6? Ale's Queen is obnoxiously and ideally placed so nudging her a little with 18 ... Bf5!! or ... Bc6! or ... Rb6-b8-d8! is better. In making a snug little cardboard box for the g6-Bishop Nepomniachtchi conceded a 5 star hotel suite to Rakhmanov's Queen. 19. Re1!! It already looks like a dream position for White, his pieces look like runway models. a3 to drive way the Queenside Fishing Pole Knight is an idea, g3-f4 to consolidate the Kingside is an idea and there are also back rank issues after Re8 or Qe7. 19 ... Rbb8! Necessary now but it was much better last move when g3?? could be met by ... B:h1 20. g3!! To break the annoying Queen pin with f4. 20 ... Qh5? Ian overprotects f7 but he is drifting uncomfortably. Nepomniachtchi probably felt like he stumbled into a spider's web. There are really only bad choices here already like a pawn down endgame after 20 ... Rbd8 21 Q:d8 Q:d8 22 R:d8 R:d8 23 B:b4 cb 24 B:a6 - 20 ... Rbd8 21 Q:d8 R:d8?? 22 f4!! Nd3+ 23 B:d3 Qh6 24 B:g6!! is a bank rank disconnect. 21. a3!! Not everyone is down with Fishing Pole Knight sacs. 21 ... Rbc8! 22. f4 Taking the Fishing Pole Knight with 22 ab?? cb!! ruins Rakhmanov's ruminations but ignoring the hanging Knight with 22 b3, h3, f4 or many others is very strong because Ian's problems are serious, inferior minor piece, weaker pawns, less active Rooks. The only true Knight outpost is d4 but it takes time to get there. 22 ... Qf3? Stranger in a strange land 23. Qd6!! Powerhouse move, making the Fishing Pole Knight miserable by threatening to take twice on b4, 23 ... Nc6 is met by 24 Bd5!! and 23 ... a5 to reinforce the Knight is met by some Kaila Smith - Rhett Langseth action 24 Qe5!! threatening checkmate on g7 and 24 ... f6 is illegal. I knew those Bishops looked familiar. 23 ... Rce8 Grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi has to abandon his Knight to avoid worse. 24. Rxe8!! Rxe8! 25. axb4!! cxb4 26. Qe5!! Going Kaila 26 ... Qh1+! 27. Rd1! only move Rxe5! 28. Bxe5! 1-0 28 ... Qa8 29 Bc7 and 30 Rd8+ will win the Queen back. I greatly admire Nepomniachtchi's courage but in this day and age super sharp lines get bashed with computer prep all the time. It's a different world. I hate to see Ian go down without a fight but it was hard to see at move 18 that driving Ale's Queen away from d7 was the key to a successful defense. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "9th Aeroflot Open A"] [Site "Moscow RUS"] [Date "2010.02.09"] [Round "1"] [White "Rakhmanov, Ale"] [Black "Nepomniachtchi, I."] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A57"] [WhiteElo "2591"] [BlackElo "2658"] [PlyCount "55"] [EventDate "2010.02.09"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. b6 e6 6. Nc3 exd5 7. Nxd5 Nxd5 8. Qxd5 Nc6 9. e4 Be7 10. Bc4 O-O 11. Nf3 Rb8 12. Bd2 Rxb6 13. Bc3 Nb4 14. Qd2 Bb7 15. O-O-O Bxe4 16. Qxd7 Bg5+ 17. Nxg5 Qxg5+ 18. Rd2 Bg6 19. Re1 Rbb8 20. g3 Qh5 21. a3 Rbc8 22. f4 Qf3 23. Qd6 Rce8 24. Rxe8 Rxe8 25. axb4 cxb4 26. Qe5 Qh1+ 27. Rd1 Rxe5 28. Bxe5 1-0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lee Simmons tournament #7 Colorado Springs Elks Lodge 3400 North Nevada Avenue Kaila Smith 1230 White Rhett Langseth 1215 Black Danish Gambit accepted and regretted April 7, 2007 1 e4 e5 2 d4 ed 3 c3 dc 4 Bc4 cb 5 B:b2 Bb4+ 6 Nd2 Nf6 7 Nf3 N:e4 8 0-0 N:d2 9 N:d2 0-0 10 Qg4! g6 11 Qd4 Bc3 12 B:c3 Qf6 13 Q:f6 d6 14 Qg7 checkmate ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Colorado-Chess.com www.DenverChess.com BrianWallChess.net www.Walverine.com From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 10 02:25:11 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:25:11 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] DCC february 2010 round 2 Message-ID: <1265793911.4b727b772cfa3@www.taom.com> I will post these announcements in February, everyone should have the basic idea by then. ----- Forwarded message from Chris Peterson ----- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:07:39 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Peterson Reply-To: Chris Peterson Subject: dcc february 2010 round 2 To: Brian Wall round 2 games are available on denverchess.com/games -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100210/427f8f6e/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Feb 13 02:16:30 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:16:30 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Complete Hedgehog by GM Sergey Shipov Message-ID: <1266052590.4b766deed69cd@www.taom.com> My brother Jack gave me a bunch of Martial Arts DVDs, I watched an old Jackie Chan movie "Wooden Men" with my son. At one point, a student of the Buddhist monks goes bad and uses his Kung Fu for evil purposes. The bad man is captured and punished but the Master feels he should also atone for teaching him in the first place. The head of the monastery plucks out his eyes for not seeing that he was enabling evil. Eventually the bad man escapes and the old blind man hands Jackie Chan a " final answer ", a Kung Fu book written earlier that contains the ultimate solution for martial arts success. After losing in the final round of the DCC Championship to Robert Ramirez with my Hedgehog I felt the need to atone. I considered plucking out my eyes but it's been done already. I eventually decided on The Complete Hedgehog by GM Sergey Shipov. You have to like this book. The forward by Kasparov - Gary says he realized you can reach the Hedgehog against any opening and you can defeat anybody with it. Garik also reveals he played thousands of Hedgehog blitz training games in the 5+ years he worked with Shipov ( something like 1996-2000 ). Shipov includes a very cute picture of a hedgehog plus some hedgehog poems, fairy tales and anecdotes. I've only just started my punishment but so far it's been very enyoyable. My son turns 11 on Monday - I want to buy him a size 12 Broncos jersey with John Elway, Champ Bailey, Elvis Dumervil or Eddie Royal numbers. The Dumervil bus stop ( #92 ) is half a block from my house, the Elway bus stop ( #7 ) is 1 mile away. I better stop before I end up sounding like Paul Motwani. Next weekend I will be at the Tivoli Center for the State Scholastic tournament. Devon loves playing with all those kids. I will be reveling in the future of Colorado Chess, swimming in a sea of efflorescent luminaries. Robert Snyder and Tyler Hughes will not be in attendance this year. [Event "Denver Chess Club Championship" ] [Site "Last time at the First Presbyterian Church, 1st and Acoma, Denver, CO"] [Date "2010.01.26" ] [Round "4"] [White "Robert Ramirez"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2034"] [BlackElo "2207"] [Opening "Sicilian: Kan, Mar?czy bind (R?ti variation), Hedgehog"] [ECO "B00"] [NIC "VO.17"] [Time "19:30:00"] [TimeControl "Game/85 + 5 second delay"] 1. e4 a6 2. d4 e6 3. c4 c5 4. Nf3 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nc6 6. Nc3 d6 7. Be3 Be7 8. Be2 Nf6 9. O-O O-O 10. Qd2 Bd7 11. Rac1 Qc7 12. f4 Rac8 13. b3 Rfd8 14. Bf3 Bf8 15. Nde2 Be8 16. g4 Nd7 17. Ng3 Qb8 18. Qe2 Rc7 19. Rcd1 Rdc8 20. a4 b6 21. g5 Na7 22. Na2 b5 23. Nb4 bxc4 24. Nxa6 Qxb3 25. Nxc7 Rxc7 26. Rb1 Qa3 27. Rfc1 c3 28. Qc2 Nc8 29. Rb3 Qxa4 30. Rxc3 Qxc2 31. R1xc2 Rxc3 32. Rxc3 Ne7 33. Ra3 f6 34. Ra8 Kf7 35. h4 fxg5 36. hxg5 g6 37. Bg4 e5 38. f5 Nc5 39. f6 Nc6 40. Bxc5 dxc5 41. Be2 Bd6 42. Bc4+ Kf8 43. f7 Nb8 44. fxe8=Q+ Kxe8 45. Ra7 1-0 Brian resigns -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Feb 13 02:49:16 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:49:16 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] A Bush Message-ID: <1266054556.4b76759ce3813@www.taom.com> http://www.chessblog.com/ A Bush A Candle's Dream teenage Kosteniuk poetry From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Feb 13 03:03:14 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:03:14 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] David King on The Complete Hedgehog by GM Sergey Shipov Message-ID: <1266055394.4b7678e28949d@www.taom.com> I forgot to mention a cute Youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oB8sl-fGec Chess openings: The Hedgehog by Anthea Carson Martinez 1363 views I also forgot to mention I've also played thousands of Hedgehog blitz games but I don't remember aiming for that opening, they just sort of "happen". Shipov starts out the book with a dozen plausible Hedgehog move orders but there are innumerable more. I lost patience and overlooked a threat, that's why I lost to Robert. Shipov explains that White never considers doing nothing, Black deliberately waits forever for White to do something and that "something" means ruining his own position. I often pretend to want a draw in order to win and the Hedgehog takes that principle to another level. BW ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Forwarded message from David King ----- Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:35:23 -0800 (PST) From: David King Reply-To: David King Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] The Complete Hedgehog by GM Sergey Shipov To: Brian Wall this sounds like an interesting book. i have forsworn buying any more chess books till i start studying all the ones gathering dust on my bookshelves, but every once in awhile i slip. ----- Forwarded message from David King ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ________________________________ From: Brian Wall To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; Brian Wall Chesslist Sent: Sat, February 13, 2010 3:16:30 AM Subject: [BrianWallChess] The Complete Hedgehog by GM Sergey Shipov My brother Jack gave me a bunch of Martial Arts DVDs, I watched an old Jackie Chan movie "Wooden Men" with my son. At one point, a student of the Buddhist monks goes bad and uses his Kung Fu for evil purposes. The bad man is captured and punished but the Master feels he should also atone for teaching him in the first place. The head of the monastery plucks out his eyes for not seeing that he was enabling evil. Eventually the bad man escapes and the old blind man hands Jackie Chan a " final answer ", a Kung Fu book written earlier that contains the ultimate solution for martial arts success. After losing in the final round of the DCC Championship to Robert Ramirez with my Hedgehog I felt the need to atone. I considered plucking out my eyes but it's been done already. I eventually decided on The Complete Hedgehog by GM Sergey Shipov. You have to like this book. The forward by Kasparov - Gary says he realized you can reach the Hedgehog against any opening and you can defeat anybody with it. Garik also reveals he played thousands of Hedgehog blitz training games in the 5+ years he worked with Shipov ( something like 1996-2000 ). Shipov includes a very cute picture of a hedgehog plus some hedgehog poems, fairy tales and anecdotes. I've only just started my punishment but so far it's been very enyoyable. My son turns 11 on Monday - I want to buy him a size 12 Broncos jersey with John Elway, Champ Bailey, Elvis Dumervil or Eddie Royal numbers. The Dumervil bus stop ( #92 ) is half a block from my house, the Elway bus stop ( #7 ) is 1 mile away. I better stop before I end up sounding like Paul Motwani. Next weekend I will be at the Tivoli Center for the State Scholastic tournament. Devon loves playing with all those kids. I will be reveling in the future of Colorado Chess, swimming in a sea of efflorescent luminaries. Robert Snyder and Tyler Hughes will not be in attendance this year. [Event "Denver Chess Club Championship" ] [Site "Last time at the First Presbyterian Church, 1st and Acoma, Denver, CO"] [Date "2010.01.26" ] [Round "4"] [White "Robert Ramirez"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2034"] [BlackElo "2207"] [Opening "Sicilian: Kan, Mar??czy bind (R??ti variation), Hedgehog"] [ECO "B00"] [NIC "VO.17"] [Time "19:30:00"] [TimeControl "Game/85 + 5 second delay"] 1. e4 a6 2. d4 e6 3. c4 c5 4. Nf3 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nc6 6. Nc3 d6 7. Be3 Be7 8. Be2 Nf6 9. O-O O-O 10. Qd2 Bd7 11. Rac1 Qc7 12. f4 Rac8 13. b3 Rfd8 14. Bf3 Bf8 15. Nde2 Be8 16. g4 Nd7 17. Ng3 Qb8 18. Qe2 Rc7 19. Rcd1 Rdc8 20. a4 b6 21. g5 Na7 22. Na2 b5 23. Nb4 bxc4 24. Nxa6 Qxb3 25. Nxc7 Rxc7 26. Rb1 Qa3 27. Rfc1 c3 28. Qc2 Nc8 29. Rb3 Qxa4 30. Rxc3 Qxc2 31. R1xc2 Rxc3 32. Rxc3 Ne7 33. Ra3 f6 34. Ra8 Kf7 35. h4 fxg5 36. hxg5 g6 37. Bg4 e5 38. f5 Nc5 39. f6 Nc6 40. Bxc5 dxc5 41. Be2 Bd6 42. Bc4+ Kf8 43. f7 Nb8 44. fxe8=Q+ Kxe8 45. Ra7 1-0 Brian resigns ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100213/d8b814be/attachment.html From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 15 14:16:06 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:16:06 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Death came a knockin' Message-ID: <1266268566.4b79b996e97c6@www.taom.com> Death came a knockin' I politely asked him to please come back until my son was raised. I am home from Porter's Hospital. 720-641-9588 I thank everyone for their well wishes. The funniest was Joel Johnson offering a fatty steak after a heart attack. I am just getting around to reading them all now. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 15 14:19:32 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:19:32 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Clyde Nakamura - The Polish Grob Attack Message-ID: <1266268772.4b79ba64b3338@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from evilone ----- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:27:28 -0000 From: evilone Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] Re: The Polish Grob Attack To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com I had played the Polish Opening many years ago and did win with it in tournament. However, the recent experiment on the Polish Grob Attack was not good because I discovered that if you play both b4 & g4 then you cannot really castle either side because too many pawn moves around the kingside weakens the kingside position. I did win one test game against Firefly (2300) but got destroyed against chess engine Drunken Master (2200+) who demonstrated why playing both b4 and g4 together were bad. Some of my experiments in the opening do work but sometimes I get a lemon. And it gives me a deeper undertanding on why some moves should not be played in the opening. A lot of players play the opening thru memorization without really understanding the moves they play. I still enjoy playing some of my gambits such as the Medusa Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g5) because I get interesting tactics in the opening and middlegame which you would not find by playing a regular opening. Many years ago I did play standard chess openings but did not win the Hawaii State Chess Championship til I had developed the Gibbins-Weidenhagen Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.g4). A lot of players in Hawaii were simply afraid of the Gibbins-Weidenhagen Gambit after I had taken down Reynolds Takata (2200+) and Victor Tsoy (2200+) in tournament games. They would avoid playing the move Nf6 against 1.d4. I actually would have given up chess a long time ago if I had just played standard chess openings where you would have to keep up with current chess opening theory and memorize reams of analysis just to play a decent game of chess. it actually became more like work. I still have some standard chess openings in my repertoire such as the Marshall Gambit of the Ruy Lopez. Budapest Defense, Blumenfeld Counter Gambit, Latvian Gambit, French Defense, Caro-Kann Defense, English Opening - Bottvinik System, Closed Sicilian, Sicilian Dragon, Sicilian Kan, Sicilian Pelikan, King's Gambit 2...Bc5 line, and etc. Smith-Morra Gambit, Petroff Defense, Two Knights Defense, Max Lange Attack, Stonewall Attack, Sicilian Maroczy Bind and many other openings. And have played 1.b4, 1.g4, Blackmar-Diemer Gambit and other unorthodox chess openings but this was a long time ago and I got bored playing these openings. Winning was not everything. It was actually time to move on. I still enjoy playing some of the exotic gambits that I had created because of the excitement of the game when you are down one or two pawns and have to come back to win the game. I have to push the envelop to improve my chess tactics. Tactics is a very large part of chess and separates the various classes of players. GMs have better tactics than IMs and it is what separates each class of players. Surprisingly my best games have come when I played some of my exotic gambits in tournament or blitz games. To improve you have to change what you believe in. Tony Robbins that guru of self improvement had said this. Best Regards Clyde Nakamura --- In UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com, the rafflesian the.rafflesian at ...> wrote: 1.b4 gives objectively equal positions with interesting play for both sides. I don't mind discussing any of these. They are interesting without any weird gambit moves. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100215/f6b7a121/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 15 14:33:52 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:33:52 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Clyde Nakamura outdoes Raccoon - King's Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.f4 g5 Line Message-ID: <1266269632.4b79bdc08db4c@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from evilone ----- Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:30:28 -0000 From: evilone Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] King's Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.f4 g5 Line To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Recently I was looking at the King's Gambit Line 1.e4 e5 2.f4 g5 and wanted to explore this further because of my curiosity. I have for years been playing the move g4 or g5 in different opening settings such as: 1.d4 N6 2. g4 Gibbins-Weidenhagen Gambit 1.c4 Nf6 2.g4 English-Weidenhagen Gambit 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g5 Medusa Gambit And also explored the Omega Gambits. Now I am onto my second generation of Omega Gambits (e pawn sac in the opening). See lines below: 1. d4 Nf6 2.e4 Omega Gambit 1. d4 d5 2.Nf3 e5 Omega-Osiris Gambit 1. Nf3 d5 2.g3 e5 Omega-Delta Gambit 1. c4 Nf6 2.e4 Omega-Achilles Gambit And is it possible to play g5 against the King's Gambit ? At first glance it seems unsound but I have to now put away my preconceptions and prejudices and take a further look to see if it is playable. I therefore downloaded some games from my chess databases and found 8 games and discovered that I did played this line of the King's Gambit many years ago against Black Dragon (2400+) and lost that game. Out of 8 games Black won 2 times and drew once. One game was won by a master and another by an expert. See sample games below: [Event "W-ch GT267 corr"] [Site "ICCF corr"] [Date "1989.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Foenander, Philip A2"] [Black "Voloskov, Vasily Yakinovich"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C30"] [WhiteElo "2110"] [BlackElo "2280"] [PlyCount "42"] [EventDate "1989.??.??"] [EventType "tourn (corr)"] [EventRounds "14"] [Source "ChessBase"] [SourceDate "2002.05.23"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 g5 3. fxe5 d5 4. exd6 Bxd6 5. d4 h5 6. e5 Be7 7. Bc4 Bg4 8. Nf3 Nc6 9. O-O Bxf3 10. Qxf3 Qxd4+ 11. Be3 Qxc4 12. Nd2 Qe6 13. Qf5 Nh6 14. Qxe6 fxe6 15. Ne4 Nf7 16. Nf6+ Bxf6 17. Rxf6 Ke7 18. Raf1 Ncxe5 19. Bc5+ Nd6 20. Bd4 Nd7 21. Rg6 Rag8 0-1 [Event "ICC r 15 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "1997.12.20"] [Round "?"] [White "BlackDragon"] [Black "Evilone"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C30"] [WhiteElo "2432"] [BlackElo "2072"] [PlyCount "127"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 g5 3. fxe5 Bg7 4. d4 c5 5. dxc5 Nc6 6. Be2 h6 7. c3 Nxe5 8. Nf3 Ne7 9. O-O O-O 10. Qd6 N7g6 11. Nd4 Qe7 12. Qxe7 Nxe7 13. Be3 b6 14. Nb5 Bb7 15. Nd6 Bc6 16. cxb6 axb6 17. Na3 Rab8 18. Nac4 b5 19. Nb6 N7g6 20. Rad1 Nf4 21. Bxb5 Bxb5 22. Nxb5 Ng4 23. Bc5 Rfe8 24. Nd6 Re6 25. Rd2 Be5 26. Nbc4 Bg7 27. g3 Ng6 28. Rxf7 N4e5 29. Nxe5 Nxe5 30. Rff2 Ng4 31. Rf1 Nf6 32. Re1 Ng4 33. Nf5 Bf8 34. Bxf8 Kxf8 35. b4 Rb7 36. Rf1 Kg8 37. Rfd1 Ne5 38. Rd6 g4 39. Nxh6+ Kh8 40. a4 Rc7 41. Rxe6 dxe6 42. Rd6 Nf3+ 43. Kg2 Rxc3 44. Nxg4 Ng5 45. Rd8+ Kg7 46. Rd7+ Kf8 47. Nf2 Rc4 48. h4 Nf7 49. Rb7 Nd6 50. Rb8+ Kf7 51. e5 Nf5 52. h5 Rc3 53. Ne4 Re3 54. Ng5+ Kg7 55. Nxe6+ Kf7 56. Ng5+ Kg7 57. Nf3 Ra3 58. a5 Ne3+ 59. Kh3 Ra1 60. e6 Rh1+ 61. Nh2 Nf1 62. e7 Rxh2+ 63. Kg4 Re2 64. e8=Q 1-0 [Event "Brisbane"] [Site "Brisbane"] [Date "2001.08.28"] [Round "3.1"] [White "Kalokerinos, Paul"] [Black "Edwards, Jacob"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C30"] [WhiteElo "1794"] [BlackElo "2093"] [PlyCount "46"] [EventDate "2000.??.??"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 g5 3. fxg5 Bc5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Bc4 d6 6. b4 Bb6 7. h3 Be6 8. Bxe6 fxe6 9. b5 Nd4 10. Nxd4 Qxg5 11. Qf3 Bxd4 12. c3 Bc5 13. h4 Qg6 14. Rf1 O-O-O 15. h5 Qg7 16. Qh3 Nh6 17. d4 exd4 18. Qxe6+ Kb8 19. Qxh6 Qg3+ 20. Kd1 Qd3+ 21. Nd2 dxc3 22. Rf3 c2+ 23. Ke1 Qd4 0-1 It seems those who were successful with this line were very strong chess players who had decided to use it as a surprise weapon against the King's Gambit. There were so few games on this line so, I ran 3 chess engine tournaments with 4 participants in each engine tournament to explore this further. See the 3 chess engine tournament cross tables below: The games were played with the following conditions: Acer Athlon 4400 Dual Core Processor Operating System ? Window Vista Home Premium Time control ? 5 min/game 2 gig ram Hash table ? 512 meg All engines played the following starting position: 1.e4 e5 2.f4 g5 Note: recently the chess engine Twisted Logic had improved from 2500+ to 2600+ in rating strength, so I decided to place Twisted Logic in one of my engine tournaments. Also note that the new chess engines FireBird, Ivanhoe, Komodo and Deep Shredder 12 were added to my engine tournaments. King's Gambit 2 g5 Engine Tournament #1 2010 1 2 3 4 Total 1 Fritz 12 ** 10 11 11 5.0/6 2 FireBird 1.0 Beta w32 01 ** 10 11 4.0/6 3 Zappa Mexico 00 01 ** 01 2.0/6 4 Glaurung 2.0.1 00 00 10 ** 1.0/6 (12 games) King's Gambit 2 g5 Engine Tournament #2 2010 1 2 3 4 Total 1 Komodo32 1.0 JA ** ?0 11 11 4.5/6 2 IvanHoe v73 ?1 ** 10 10 3.5/6 3 Deep Junior 10 00 01 ** 10 2.0/6 4 Twisted Logic 20100131x 00 01 01 ** 2.0/6 (12 games) King's Gambit 2 g5 Engine Tournament #3 2010 1 2 3 4 Total 1 Deep Shredder 12 ** 1? 11 11 5.5/6 2 Strelka 2.0 B 0? ** 1? 1? 3.5/6 3 Rocket v 1.2 uci 00 0? ** 11 2.5/6 4 Bright ? 0.3a 00 0? 00 ** 0.5/6 (12 games) I have posted those 44 games in a pgn file called kgg51.pgn in our files section. Best Regards Clyde Nakamura ----- End forwarded message ----- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Nge4 Bb7 14. Rg1 f5 15. Be2 c5 16. Nxc5 Bxc5 17. dxc5 Nxf2 18. Nxb5 axb5 19. c6 Rc8 20. Bxb5 Ng4 21. cxb7 Qh4+ 22. Rg3 Nxe3 1-0 ----- Forwarded message from Pete Karagianis ----- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:55:39 -0600 From: Pete Karagianis Reply-To: Pete Karagianis Subject: regarding my icc message To: Brian Wall Hey man, Well, I was going to try to get you to come to Iowa, but with your heart attack kind of a moot point. We have our major tournament this weekend (state scholastic team) and I could put you in front of 75 kids friday and 120 more saturday and get you a lecture with local club members. If you were interested I would also be able to give you something for travel expenses and a free place to stay... but health first! That sucks with the timing! I hope you're feeling a lot better. While you recuperate, check out this ridiculous game I played. Last round of the Midwest Amateur team, board one. We had the whole room watching us. The position after white's 18th move is absolutely hilarious and really the whole reason I play chess. I have tons of notes and ideas on the game already (played Sunday night) but I won't share any of my analysis with you yet because I know you like to review them on your own and I'd really like to see Wall analysis of this one. I played this wild nonsensical attacking game right after defending and suffering against Yermo for 3 hours to reach a won ending, only to offer a draw with the team in mind (he took it, then our board two wasn't as winning as I thought he was... match drawn). White: Karagianis, Pete Black: McLanahan, Gavin *1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Be7 7.g4 h6 8.Bd2 * *8...dxc4 9.Bxc4 b5 10.Bd3N **10...a6 11.g5 hxg5 12.Nxg5 Ng4 13.Nge4 Bb7 **14.Rg1 f5! 15.Be2 c5* * 16.Nxc5* *16...Bxc5! 17.dxc5 Nxf2!* *18.Nxb5!! **18...axb5 19.c6! Rc8 20.Bxb5 **21.Bc3 Ng4 22.cxb7 Qh4+ 23.Rg3 Nxe3* *24.Qf2 Rxc3 25.bxc3 f4 26.Rxe3+- 1?0* ** *Enjoy!!!! * On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Brian Wall wrote: Death came a knockin' I politely asked him to please come back until my son was raised. I am home from Porter's Hospital. 720-641-9588 I thank everyone for their well wishes. The funniest was Joel Johnson offering a fatty steak after a heart attack. I am just getting around to reading them all now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100215/483cf5ea/attachment.htm From karagianis at gmail.com Mon Feb 15 19:11:18 2010 From: karagianis at gmail.com (Pete Karagianis) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:11:18 -0600 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] [BrianWallChess] Pete Karagianis [1 Attachment] In-Reply-To: <1266283889.4b79f571cd049@www.taom.com> References: <1266283889.4b79f571cd049@www.taom.com> Message-ID: <495c4caf1002151811q6a8bc673h8567d0a0d7b86e75@mail.gmail.com> Hey Brian, and all, Obviously the notation is incorrect, let me make the game make more sense! Sorry, I copied and pasted pretty poorly. This happens when you're taking painkillers for a bad ankle. Should be: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Qc2 Be7 7. g4 h6 8. Bd2 dxc4 9. Bxc4 b5 10. Bd3 a6 11. g5 hxg5 12. Nxg5 Ng4 13. Nge4 Bb7 14. Rg1 f5 15. Be2 c5 16. Nxc5 Bxc5 17. dxc5 Nxf2 18. Nxb5 axb5 19. c6 Rc8 20. Bxb5 O-O 21. Bc3 Ng4 22. cxb7 Qh4+ 23. Rg3 Nxe3 24. Qf2 Rxc3 25. bxc3 f4 26. Rxe3 Sorry! and thanks! On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Brian Wall wrote: > > [Attachment(s) <#126d466fc3d0c6d5_TopText> from Brian Wall included > below] > > for 19 movesthe game was fairly even then either because of time pressure > or > inability to handle complications, ?? blunders appeared. > > 20 B:b5?? instead of cd+= > > 20 ... Ng4?? instead of 20 ... B:c6 winning > > 21 cb?? instead of 21 cd+!! or R:g4! winning > > 21 ... Qh4+?? instead of 21 ... R:c2!! winning > > 22 Rg3? instead of 22 Kd1!!= > > 22 ... N:e3?? instead of 22 ... R:c2 winning > > It must be time pressure to make two people play that bad. > > Pete is checkmating in the final position. > > White: Karagianis, Pete > Black: McLanahan, Gavin > > 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Qc2 Be7 7. g4 h6 8. > Bd2 dxc4 9. Bxc4 b5 10. Bd3 a6 11. g5 hxg5 12. Nxg5 Ng4 13. Nge4 Bb7 14. > Rg1 f5 > 15. Be2 c5 16. Nxc5 Bxc5 17. dxc5 Nxf2 18. Nxb5 axb5 19. c6 Rc8 20. Bxb5 > Ng4 > 21. cxb7 Qh4+ 22. Rg3 Nxe3 > > 1-0 > > ----- Forwarded message from Pete Karagianis > > ----- > Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:55:39 -0600 > From: Pete Karagianis > > Reply-To: Pete Karagianis > > Subject: regarding my icc message > To: Brian Wall > > > Hey man, > > Well, I was going to try to get you to come to Iowa, but with your heart > attack kind of a moot point. We have our major tournament this weekend > (state scholastic team) and I could put you in front of 75 kids friday and > 120 more saturday and get you a lecture with local club members. If you > were > interested I would also be able to give you something for travel expenses > and a free place to stay... but health first! That sucks with the timing! > > I hope you're feeling a lot better. While you recuperate, check out this > ridiculous game I played. Last round of the Midwest Amateur team, board > one. > We had the whole room watching us. The position after white's 18th move is > absolutely hilarious and really the whole reason I play chess. I have tons > of notes and ideas on the game already (played Sunday night) but I won't > share any of my analysis with you yet because I know you like to review > them > on your own and I'd really like to see Wall analysis of this one. I played > this wild nonsensical attacking game right after defending and suffering > against Yermo for 3 hours to reach a won ending, only to offer a draw with > the team in mind (he took it, then our board two wasn't as winning as I > thought he was... match drawn). > > White: Karagianis, Pete > Black: McLanahan, Gavin > > *1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Be7 7.g4 h6 8.Bd2 > * *8...dxc4 > 9.Bxc4 b5 10.Bd3N **10...a6 11.g5 hxg5 12.Nxg5 Ng4 13.Nge4 Bb7 **14.Rg1 f5! > 15.Be2 c5* * 16.Nxc5* *16...Bxc5! 17.dxc5 Nxf2!* *18.Nxb5!! **18...axb5 > 19.c6! Rc8 20.Bxb5 **21.Bc3 Ng4 22.cxb7 Qh4+ 23.Rg3 Nxe3* *24.Qf2 Rxc3 > 25.bxc3 f4 26.Rxe3+- 1?0* > > ** > > *Enjoy!!!! > * > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Brian Wall > >wrote: > > Death came a knockin' > > I politely asked him to please come back until my son was raised. > > I am home from Porter's Hospital. > 720-641-9588 > > I thank everyone for their well wishes. > The funniest was Joel Johnson offering > a fatty steak after a heart attack. > > I am just getting around to reading them all now. > __._,_.___ > > Attachment(s) from Brian Wall > > 1 of 1 File(s) > unnamed > Reply to sender | Reply > to group > Messages in this topic( > 1) > Recent Activity: > > - New Members > 2 > > Visit Your Group Start > a New Topic > [image: Yahoo! Groups] > Switch to: Text-Only, > Daily Digest? > Unsubscribe? Terms > of Use > . > > __,_._,___ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100215/bb0c1bd1/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 16 08:13:30 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:13:30 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] What I learned from my heart attack Message-ID: <1266333210.4b7ab61ac1f8f@www.taom.com> 1 - the masculine approach to everything, stubbornly ignoring pain and irrational fears to achieve the goal, is fatal during a heart attack. It works with 99% of everything else, tho. I resisted Danielle's initial pleas to go to a hospital and I resisted her insistence on an ambulance. The paramedics/doctors/nurses told me if I waited an hour it would have been much worse, if I didn't come in at all, I would be dead. The heart was necromizing ( dying ) while I procrastinated. That was the cause of the pain. My main artery was 90% blocked. My uncle and three brothers had heart problems. 2- I am grateful for everything that made me resentful before. 3- my children and my emails were my main consolation when I thought I was dying. 4- It snowed the next day and I thought - I almost missed that. 5 When anyone aggravated me in the hospital, ie phone call, I would say - I can see my heart pressure going up on the monitor or you are interfering with my recuperation. BW ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: "Craig.Thomson at bench.com" To: brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com Sent: Mon, February 15, 2010 9:16:32 PM Subject: RE: Death came a knockin' LOL! Yeah but just don't start saccing material willy nilly against that opponent! Please! :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Wall [mailto:brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com] Sent: Mon 2/15/2010 7:28 PM To: Thomson, Craig Subject: Re: Death came a knockin' Death failed to refute my Elephant Gambit. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Craig.Thomson at bench.com" To: brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com Sent: Mon, February 15, 2010 4:33:37 PM Subject: RE: Death came a knockin' Thank God you?re ok. I?m so relieved for you and Devon. Please don?t scare people like that again. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 16 08:52:43 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:52:43 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Frank Chargualaf Message-ID: <1266335563.4b7abf4bd88c8@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Joel Johnson ----- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:10:02 -0700 From: Joel Johnson Reply-To: Joel Johnson Subject: Frank Chargualaf Hi All, I am sad to report to you that Frank Chargualaf had a heart attack yesterday and will be having heart surgery on Tuesday morning at Arrowhead Hospital. Please have him in your prayers. Thanks, Joel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100216/ffb23a6c/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 16 21:18:24 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:18:24 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter Message-ID: <1266380304.4b7b6e102ea31@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from CS Chess ----- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:43:22 -0700 From: CS Chess Reply-To: CS Chess Subject: Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter http://cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/ Change The World Tuesday February 16, 2010 "If I could be king, even for a day, I'd take you as my queen. I'd have it no other way, and our love would rule this kingdom we had made. Til then I'd be a fool, wishing for the day that I can change the world" (G. Kennedy, W. Kirkpatrick, T. Sims). If I could change the world, I would go back to when putting out a newsletter was a quick and simple process. However, everything has changed. I had to switch to a whole new website (http://cschess.webs.com/) with new features and new processes to learn. So, I will try to keep this newsletter short and simple (yeah, right) until I figure everything out. Since it is a new website, I thought an introduction was in order. Here is one I did with Paul Grimm back in 2005 for the Colorado Chess Informant (http://www.timmybx.com/Informants/Jan2005Informant.pdf#page=19). CO Chess Survey: Paul Anderson, Part 1 Interviewed via email by Paul Grimm from January 2005 1. How long have you been playing chess and what got you started? It all started back on October 23rd of 1995. I was still using my college email account but not receiving much email after graduation. So, I decided to play email chess as a way to get email on a regular basis. I challenged my dad and sister to games. I beat my dad for the first time and crushed my sister. She was so devastated by the loss we have never played since. My dad enjoyed it, and we still play over email to this day. I have won 14, lost 12, and drawn 11 in the ten years we played. While we were playing, I joined the FICS (11-30-95) as a way to sharpen my skills. However, it didn't help much. After the first win, I lost the next 4 games to my dad. It was about this time I met Paul Refalo at the University while playing chess online (telnet). He told me about the CSCC, and I thought it might be a way to improve. I played my first game at the club on May 27, 1997 against Clark Stroh with an initial rating of 1500. I won both the ladder games we played and went on to finish the year at 1735 with prize winnings in excess of $13. Dean Brown suggested I could make more on the national level. So, on February 2nd, 1998 I played in my first USCF-rated game against John Brunn. I earned the unrated prize of $5 and my professional chess career was in full swing. 2. Why do you like to play chess? I enjoy playing chess because of all the fame and fortune it brings me. Who knew when I started playing chess that the media would be contacting me for an interview? Of course, I could have expected it since my games are now getting international attention. Not only are people from across the globe viewing my games on my website, but also I noticed my games showing up in a foreign database (http://www.chesslive.de/). If you go to the site and type in "Anderson,Paul" as white, you will see a come-from-behind win of mine over Michael Kass. You can put my name in as black (2 games) too, but the games are not near as interesting. 3. Everyone likes to win, but how do you deal with losing? I bang on the keyboard. 4. What is your favorite opening and why do you like it? Caro-Kann is the most common opening I play (74 of out 315 USCF games) as black. I started playing it during my FICS days when I had no idea what openings were and had a lot of success with it. Now I have played so many games with it that I can whip out the moves in blitz games and not get myself in trouble. As white, I play the Queen's Gambit most (56 out of 315 USCF games). My current favorite line is from one of Brian Wall's emails called the "Bishing Pole." I have played it 3 times and have won all 3 games with one of the games being the subject of my game of the year newsletter. 5. Do you consider yourself to be a positional player or tactical player? I consider myself tactically-challenged. 6. Do you like long time controls or short time controls? I prefer the long time controls. It has been more of a challenge for me to play well in the slower games, so I find the wins more rewarding. I was better at the quick games early on and got a rating of 1670, but I quickly dropped to 1496 when I started playing the longer time controls. I had to learn to be more patient. This Week In Chess On February 9th, the CSCC had 6 members in attendance. Most of the group played in the first half of the USCF-rated Cabin Fever Reliever (RR, G30). Since this event last 2 weeks, there is still time to join in for the conclusion. Here are the current standings: Score Player 2.0 Paul Anderson 1.0 Jeff Fox 1.0 Buck Buchanan 0.0 Dean Brown Results Of Slow Road To Perfection Event By Jerry Maier 1st & U1900- $49 each to Gordon Randall and David Meliti U1800 - $30 to Scott Massey U1700 - $26 to Jerry Maier U1400 - $22 to Alexander Freeman U1200/Unr. - $20 to Sain Gomez Casual Chess Night This Saturday! By Renae Delaware Hello Everyone! Here are details: When: Saturday, February 20th 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 Game Of The Week This week's game was a tough one to choose, as I spent most of my time trying to figure out how to display and annotate games for the new website. Also, I thought it was a little unfair to publish a loss from Paul Grimm as a thank you for his 2005 interview of me and inspiring me to reach for 1800 way back when. However, I already had published his only draw to me, and he hasn't beat me yet. So, I just picked our most recent contest and decided to try out a video blog. Hope you enjoy the new format! Grimm's Unfair-y Tale [Event "Colorado Springs Open"] [Site "http://cschess.webs.com/"] [Date "2008.03.09"] [Round "5.5"] [White "Grimm, Paul"] [Black "Anderson, Paul"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B12"] [WhiteElo "1603"] [BlackElo "1912"] [PlyCount "56"] [EventDate "2008.03.08"] [TimeControl "40/7200:0/0:3600"] 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nc3 e6 5. f4 Nd7 6. Be3 Bb4 7. Bd3 Ne7 8. g4 Be4 9. Nf3 Bxc3+ 10. bxc3 b5 11. O-O f6 12. Bxe4 dxe4 13. Nd2 Nd5 14. Nxe4 Nxe3 15. Nd6+ Kf8 16. Qf3 Nxf1 17. Rxf1 Qb6 18. g5 Ke7 19. Qh5 Raf8 20. Qe2 fxe5 21. fxe5 Rxf1+ 22. Kxf1 Rf8+ 23. Ke1 Qa5 24. Qd3 Qxa2 25. Qxh7 Qb1+ 26. Ke2 Qf1+ 27. Ke3 Qf2+ 28. Kd3 Rf3+ 0-1 Upcoming Events 2/16 Cabin Fever Reliever continues, CSCC 2/17, 24 February East Coast Deli final rounds, CSCC 2/17 February 2010 G/29 Grand Prix Event, BCC 2/20 Casual chess at Agia Sophia coffee house, 2902 W Colorado, 8:00 PM, CSCC 2/23 "Ladder Games", CSCC 3/2 Speed Tournament, CSCC For event details and additional events, see the following websites: Colorado Springs Chess Club: CSCC (http://springschess.org/) Boulder Chess Club: BCC (http://www.geocities.com/boulderchessclub/) Colorado State Chess Association: CSCA (http://colorado-chess.com/) Wyoming Chess Association: WCA (http://www.wyomingchess.com/) Kansas Chess Association: KCA (http://www.kansaschess.org/) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100216/3ee8b6f3/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 16 23:58:36 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:58:36 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Clyde Nakamura Raccoon Message-ID: <1266389916.4b7b939c9ac48@www.taom.com> Maybe I can combine my idea with Clyde's and create a hideous King's Gambit hybrid with - 1 e4 e5 2 f4 g5 3 fe h5 4 d4 Nc6 The idea would be to combine ... d6 with ... g4 to desperately chip away at e5. LM Brian Wall From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 17 00:32:37 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:32:37 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] My first Full Metal Jacket since I died Message-ID: <1266391957.4b7b9b951314b@www.taom.com> [Event "ICC 1 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.17"] [Round "-"] [White "abscissa73"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White resigns"] [WhiteElo "1971"] [BlackElo "1910"] [Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense, Full Metal Jacket"] [ECO "A40"] [NIC "QO.17"] [Time "02:19:39"] [TimeControl "60+0"] 1. d4 Nc6 2. d5 Ne5 3. e4 e6 4. f4 exd5 5. fxe5 Qh4+ 6. g3 Qxe4+ 7. Qe2 Qxh1 8. Qg2 Qxg2 9. Bxg2 c6 10. c4 dxc4 11. Nd2 d5 12. exd6 Bxd6 13. Nxc4 Bb4+ 14. Bd2 Bxd2+ 15. Kxd2 Be6 16. Rf1 O-O-O+ 17. Kc3 Nf6 18. Re1 Bxc4 19. Kxc4 Rhe8 20. Rd1 Rxd1 {White resigns} 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ My brother Jack advised me not to walk around the block. David King advised me not to play bullet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- My girlfriend back in 1993 had an old man, Leonard Malling, 80+, that took care of her. One night we woke up and he had died. We wondered how long he had been dead. Joan wrote a song/poem about it shorty after. My heart attack brought it back. Silt by Joan Marie Clifford This is the first beer I've drank since I found you dead. It's the first song I've sang since I found you in your bed. You were in the middle of a sentence; no one heard what you said.It's the first time I've cried since you dies. (RESPONSE:) "Give away all of my belongings. Throw away what you can't use. I don't know where I'll be going but I won't care whose is whose. Change the course of a river, and bury me in the silt." http://www.myspace.com/joanclifford You can hear Joanie singing Silt here. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joanie was Irish and later shaved her head so she looked and sounded like Sinead O' Connor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeIHZvZTJTg ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 17 01:35:32 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:35:32 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] The Other Side Message-ID: <1266395732.4b7baa5427cd0@www.taom.com> The Other Side I feel a fraud, I've been to the other side. I can't care about what you do. I don't want to pretend what's not important is. What bothers you makes me grateful, it's all part of living. So few things matter once you've been there and back. You complain about living and fear dying but Death is a dirty little secret to me. The food is great when you're just happy to be at the party. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 17 02:48:18 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:48:18 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Dana Mackenzie tries the Full Metal Jacket Message-ID: <1266400098.4b7bbb6213bbc@www.taom.com> http://www.danamackenzie.com/blog/?p=782 check out Dana's latest blog entry - he tries 1 d4 Nc6!! in my honor Of course it takes roughly 500 games to reach a Full Metal Jacket ( 2 d5 Ne5 3 e4 e6 4 f4 ed!! ) so the game goes 2 e4 e5 with a Nimzovich Defense and Dana goes on from there to analyze a very deep Rook ending. I wonder if he would try a Badger or a Exxon Valdez after 1 d4 Nc6!! 2 Nf3 f6!! ( Badger - f7 is the Badger den ) 3 Bf4 d6!! ( Exxon Valdez because Black's ship looks leaky, 3 ... e5!? was my original idea ) to be followed with 4 ... e5 or ... Ne5 next. Something is going to e5, come hell or high water From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 17 03:13:37 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:13:37 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] First sample - the Clyde Nakamura Raccoon Message-ID: <1266401617.4b7bc15153159@www.taom.com> This is just an awful bullet game where I try to combine Clyde Nakamura's 1 e4 e5 2 f4 g5 with Jack Young's Raccoon 1 e4 e5 2 f4 h5 Hopefully Clyde can think of a better name for handling the King's Gambit with ... g5 and ... h5 [Event "ICC 1 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.17"] [Round "-"] [White "EinHellesBitte"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "2018"] [BlackElo "1918"] [Opening "King's gambit"] [ECO "C30"] [NIC "KG.05"] [Time "04:48:40"] [TimeControl "60+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 g5 Clyde 3. fxg5 I was expecting 3 fe 3 ... h5 Raccoonish 4. h4 Locking in g5 4 ... d5 Trying to break out of the hammerlock 5. exd5! Bg4 One of the main functions of ... h5 6. Be2! f5 honoring EinHellesBitte by also trying to establish a presence on King's Knight Five 7. Nc3 Bc5 8. d4 to free up his pieces, I guess 8 ... Bxd4 9. Nf3! c5 Consistent formula - stick a Bishop out there, support with pawns and pray 10. dxc6 Nxc6 11. Nb5 Nge7 12. c3 I still have a wretched game with a 5 second time disadvantage 12 ... Bc5! 13. Qxd8+? Rxd8! 14. g6? Nxg6! Suddenly OK again 15. Bg5 Rd7! 16. Rd1! Rxd1+ 17. Kxd1! O-O? Not a very good move in the endgame but it seemed a miracle 18. Kc2 e4! 19. Ng1 Nce5 20. Bxg4 Nxg4 20 ... fg!! is much stronger to activate my Rook 21. Nh3 Ne3+ 22. Bxe3! Bxe3! 23. Rf1 f4 Brian - 12 seconds EinHellesBitte - 8 seconds Time for mindless checks 24. Nd6! Nxh4! 25. Nxe4! Nxg2! Brian - 11 seconds EinHellesBitte - 5 seconds Time for mindless checks 26. Neg5 h4 27. Nf3 Rc8 28. Kd3 Ne1+ 29. Ke2 Rxc3 {White forfeits on time} 0-1 That was wild - we'll see how many brave souls want to follow me into hell. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 1 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.17"] [Round "-"] [White "EinHellesBitte"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "2018"] [BlackElo "1918"] [Opening "King's gambit"] [ECO "C30"] [NIC "KG.05"] [Time "04:48:40"] [TimeControl "60+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 g5 3. fxg5 h5 4. h4 d5 5. exd5 Bg4 6. Be2 f5 7. Nc3 Bc5 8. d4 Bxd4 9. Nf3 c5 10. dxc6 Nxc6 11. Nb5 Nge7 12. c3 Bc5 13. Qxd8+ Rxd8 14. g6 Nxg6 15. Bg5 Rd7 16. Rd1 Rxd1+ 17. Kxd1 O-O 18. Kc2 e4 19. Ng1 Nce5 20. Bxg4 Nxg4 21. Nh3 Ne3+ 22. Bxe3 Bxe3 23. Rf1 f4 24. Nd6 Nxh4 25. Nxe4 Nxg2 26. Neg5 h4 27. Nf3 Rc8 28. Kd3 Ne1+ 29. Ke2 Rxc3 {White forfeits on time} 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 17 11:20:00 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:20:00 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] David King on First sample - the Clyde Nakamura Raccoon Message-ID: <1266430800.4b7c335005ca4@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from David King ----- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:08:30 -0800 (PST) From: David King Reply-To: David King Subject: Re: [BrianWallChess] First sample - the Clyde Nakamura Raccoon To: Brian Wall he was einhellsbitten by a raccoon ________________________________ From: Brian Wall To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com; UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com; Brian Wall Chesslist Sent: Wed, February 17, 2010 4:13:37 AM Subject: [BrianWallChess] First sample - the Clyde Nakamura Raccoon ?? This is just an awful bullet game where I try to combine Clyde Nakamura's 1 e4 e5 2 f4 g5 with Jack Young's Raccoon 1 e4 e5 2 f4 h5 Hopefully Clyde can think of a better name for handling the King's Gambit with ... g5 and ... h5 [Event "ICC 1 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.17" ] [Round "-"] [White "EinHellesBitte" ] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "2018"] [BlackElo "1918"] [Opening "King's gambit"] [ECO "C30"] [NIC "KG.05"] [Time "04:48:40"] [TimeControl "60+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 g5 Clyde 3. fxg5 I was expecting 3 fe 3 ... h5 Raccoonish 4. h4 Locking in g5 4 ... d5 Trying to break out of the hammerlock 5. exd5! Bg4 One of the main functions of ... h5 6. Be2! f5 honoring EinHellesBitte by also trying to establish a presence on King's Knight Five 7. Nc3 Bc5 8. d4 to free up his pieces, I guess 8 ... Bxd4 9. Nf3! c5 Consistent formula - stick a Bishop out there, support with pawns and pray 10. dxc6 Nxc6 11. Nb5 Nge7 12. c3 I still have a wretched game with a 5 second time disadvantage 12 ... Bc5! 13. Qxd8+? Rxd8! 14. g6? Nxg6! Suddenly OK again 15. Bg5 Rd7! 16. Rd1! Rxd1+ 17. Kxd1! O-O? Not a very good move in the endgame but it seemed a miracle 18. Kc2 e4! 19. Ng1 Nce5 20. Bxg4 Nxg4 20 ... fg!! is much stronger to activate my Rook 21. Nh3 Ne3+ 22. Bxe3! Bxe3! 23. Rf1 f4 Brian - 12 seconds EinHellesBitte - 8 seconds Time for mindless checks 24. Nd6! Nxh4! 25. Nxe4! Nxg2! Brian - 11 seconds EinHellesBitte - 5 seconds Time for mindless checks 26. Neg5 h4 27. Nf3 Rc8 28. Kd3 Ne1+ 29. Ke2 Rxc3 {White forfeits on time} 0-1 That was wild - we'll see how many brave souls want to follow me into hell. ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - [Event "ICC 1 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.17" ] [Round "-"] [White "EinHellesBitte" ] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "2018"] [BlackElo "1918"] [Opening "King's gambit"] [ECO "C30"] [NIC "KG.05"] [Time "04:48:40"] [TimeControl "60+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 g5 3. fxg5 h5 4. h4 d5 5. exd5 Bg4 6. Be2 f5 7. Nc3 Bc5 8. d4 Bxd4 9. Nf3 c5 10. dxc6 Nxc6 11. Nb5 Nge7 12. c3 Bc5 13. Qxd8+ Rxd8 14. g6 Nxg6 15. Bg5 Rd7 16. Rd1 Rxd1+ 17. Kxd1 O-O 18. Kc2 e4 19. Ng1 Nce5 20. Bxg4 Nxg4 21. Nh3 Ne3+ 22. Bxe3 Bxe3 23. Rf1 f4 24. Nd6 Nxh4 25. Nxe4 Nxg2 26. Neg5 h4 27. Nf3 Rc8 28. Kd3 Ne1+ 29. Ke2 Rxc3 {White forfeits on time} 0-1 ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If you are a parent, or the coach/teacher or the chess prodigy yourself (6-12 yrs of age, 12-16 yrs of age and 16 yrs over), and is interested to be financed by FACM, please send the tournament results (sort of a chess resume of wins and losses) to us , either here at Facebook or via an email to filipinoamericanchess @gmail.com. Once we received them, we will answer back immediately and send in to you further requirements or to meet you in person. If you consider yourself an aspiring chess player for further norms, please send in your career tournament results/resume of wins and lossess. Once we received them, we will meet with you personally and determine how we can further improve your chess career, by way of providing new financial support. If you are a chess blogger, or web designers and school coaches/teachers (those who does not caddy and personally train particular chess players), please tell us how we can help you, in terms of providing financing in your blogs (ads and professional fees). Web bloggers and designers for our chess prodigies would be needed immediately and thus FACM can contract for your professional services. As coaches/teachers, we may assign to you chess prodigies and FACM would pay you professional fees for your services. Should you have further questions/clarifications, please do not hesitate to write us at FB (facebook) or to email filipinoamericanchess at gmail.com. For quick communications, please email also your cellphone no and land line nos. Very truly yours, Ed T Pascual Chairman and Founder Filipino American Chess Movement. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 17 15:25:07 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:25:07 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Brooklyn Chess Championship Message-ID: <1266445507.4b7c6cc3eded7@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Jenna Weinberg ----- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:22:10 -0500 From: Jenna Weinberg Reply-To: Jenna Weinberg Subject: Brooklyn Chess Championship Hi there, ** The Brooklyn Lyceum, a landmarked arts/athletic venue in Park Slope, Brooklyn is teaming up with Maurice Ashley in organizing a unique chess tournament in Brooklyn at the end of February. We are doing one day of scholastic play and one day of open chess play and are currently spreading the word among local organizations about the upcoming event. Please let me know if you can be of help in spreading the good word. If you're in the area, we hope you'll want to come down and participate. Below is the press release for the event with more information. If you have any questions or requests, please let me know! Thanks for your time, Jenna Weinberg For Immediate Release Media Contact: Deb Klein deb at brooklynlyceum.com 917.405.9909 CALLING ALL KNIGHTS! Forget the Round Table; Brooklyn Lyceum brings to the Borough of Kings - along with Rooks and Bishops - the Inaugural BROOKLYN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP. release and updates. *BROOKLYN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP Brooklyn Lyceum February 27 and 28, 2010 USCF Sanctioned, up to $2000 in total prize monies. Ranked both Open and Scholastic. UPDATE *FEB 2: Int'l Grandmaster Maurice Ashley co-producing event; Ashley to challenge 12 lucky opponents to a 12 game simultaneous round! [image: yelpcrop.jpg picture by jlweinbe] * Brooklyn, NY. - * The Lyceum, 100 year old former NYC Public Bath turned event space, steps up to help render unto Kings County what rightfully belongs here.... a Brooklyn Chess Championship to beat all others. This inaugural event will take place February 27th and 28th, 2010, with both open and scholastic competition. THREE CLASSIFICATIONS ON SUNDAY: <1600 rankings, <2000 rankings and OPEN. We invite players of all ages into our fold for a weekend of tournament play as well as related activities - like exhibitions, retail sales, and more TBA - to inspire and interest those who may or may not be in the know! Be you a hopeful student with chess in your genes, a ranked player from Rockville, or a geek with a penchant for strategy, we want YOU. One right move and a check mate, and you could be on your way. Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain aside from World Champion, and has been earned by prodigies as young as age 12. REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: BrooklynChessChamp.com UPDATES: Grandmaster Maurice Ashley, a Park Slope resident, is co-producing this competition. Ashley, the first African American to attain the title of International Grandmaster, is an ardent supporter of young people and has received multiple community service awards from city governments, universities, and non-profit groups for his work. His book, *Chess for Success* (2005), crystallizes his vision of using chess to help at-risk youth. Ashley is the world's premier and live chess commentator for ESPN and has appeared on The Charlie Rose Show, CBS News This Morning, National Public Radio, Today New York (W-NBC), CNN, Bloomberg Radio, and a number of radio shows around the U.S. Saturday Feb 27: Ashley will challenge twelve lucky players to a round of 12 games at one time! Play against the best. TIME AND DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED. Top games to be simulcast on our giant screen in the activities room via DGT boards. Chess isn't just for retired gentlemen on boardwalks, or lining tree-lined paths of parks everywhere, although we could all learn a thing or two from them. It is a very popular sport - recognized by the International Olympic Committee - and remains an active presence in schools, homes, bars, clubs and colleges. Chess' fashionable beginnings are traced to 6th century India. Through the centuries, the game has made its way to North America via routes through Russia and Southern and Western Europe, morphing gradually into the game we know and love today. Building on a string of high traffic conventions and festivals over the last few years, including KingCon, NYC Zine Fest, and our notable Craft Marketseries, the Brooklyn Lyceum steps up yet again to bring people of all ages and inclinations together in our cavernous space. A tournament like no other in New York, in a space like no other... so roll up your sleeves and tussle with some other Bishops of Brooklyn *About the Brooklyn Lyceum * The Brooklyn Lyceum, known formerly as NYC Public Bath No. 7, is a performing arts and cultural center in Park Slope. Originally opened in 1910 as an indoor bathing facility, it once housed the largest indoor public pool in the country. Reopened in 1994 as the Brooklyn Lyceum, the old bathhouse now plays host to a range of performance events, festivals and other cultural activities. The Lyceum Cafe is open to the public daily and offers free wireless access. LOCATION: Brooklyn Lyceum 227 4th Avenue in Park Slope Brooklyn, NY 11215 R train at Union Street 718-857-4816 *Quick Links* Brooklyn Lyceum Brooklyn Chess Champ Lyceum Event/Room Pics Lyceum Event Posters *Brooklyn Lyceum* Deb Klein, marketing coordinator. Email Deb with all press inquiries or call her: 917-405-9909 Jenna Weinberg Programming Assistant Brooklyn Lyceum www.brooklynlyceum.com jenna at brooklynlyceum.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: Walking Stick.jpg Type: image/pjpeg Size: 36560 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100217/d5c67a53/attachment.bin From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Feb 18 02:32:33 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:32:33 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] dana blogs chess - Improve your Chess at any age - review Message-ID: <1266485553.4b7d09314bd76@www.taom.com> A third review of Hortillosa's book here - http://www.nachess.org/naca/component/wordpress/archives/509 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Forwarded message from dana blogs chess ----- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:16:35 +0000 From: dana blogs chess Reply-To: dana blogs chess Subject: dana blogs chess To: BrianWallChess3 at Taom.com dana blogs chess /////////////////////////////////////////// Review of Andres Hortillosas book Posted: 17 Feb 2010 09:48 AM PST http://www.danamackenzie.com/blog/?p=776 Last week I received an autographed copy of Andres Hortillosas new book, Improve Your Chess At Any Age, which he generously mailed to me. Ever since then, Ive been debating whether to post a review of it. I greatly admire what Andres has done and I also consider him a personal friend (and want to remain that way!). However, there are certain problems with his book that, in my opinion, keep it from living up to its full potential. I hope he will take this review as a candid, professional critique, and also perhaps use it as a guideline for avoiding some of these problems when he writes his next book. For those of you who like quantitative evaluations, let me say that I would rate this book somewhere between three and four stars (out of five). At the end I will provide links to some more positive reviews that you can read for balance. First, let me talk about the books strengths. I completely believe in the title. You can improve at any age. And I love the fact that Andres signs himself, Improving Player, in lieu of a title such as FIDE Master. More importantly, I think that Andres outlines a good system for improving your play by eliminating gross blunders. The system is outlined on pages 53-54 of his book, and I would suggest to readers in a hurry that they should skip as quickly as possible to that part. In particular, I like his advice to do a reconnaissance of the position before formulating any candidate moves, and I also like his advice to prioritize the threats against you and identify what is the worst possible thing that could happen to you in the position. Its amazing how frequently we chess players conspire in our own demises by allowing the worst possible thing to become a reality often because we are not even conscious of it. I would also suggest doing the converse: look for the worst thing that you could do to your opponent, and see if there is a way to make it happen. For Andres target audience, which is players under 2000, I think his emphasis is very well placed. I have long had the opinion that you can reach class A (1800+) simply by eliminating outright blunders. So, in my opinion, if you are an under-1800 player and you apply Andres system conscientiously, you should be able to reach your goal of 1800. I am not as sure whether it will suffice to get you to 2000. I believe that getting to expert requires a little more than just avoiding blunders. But obviously, opinions can differ on this, so its not really a criticism of Andres book. Besides his system, the book also contains many little tips and ideas that are worthy of thought and discussion. Some of them I disagree with, but again that is not a criticism, merely an indication that Andres has raised an important and provocative issue. For example, he discusses the use of psychological tells observing your opponent to see his reactions. Of course, this is a huge part of success in poker. However, it is my strong belief that actively looking for tells in chess is a waste of your time, and a bad shortcut. I agree with Jeremy Silman and many other chess teachers, who say that you should always assume that your opponent will make the best move. If you start getting into the game of trying to predict his move based on non-chess factors, you are courting trouble. Sometimes you may get a passive tell without looking for it; the opponents response will be too obvious not to notice. For example, that happened in my game with Daniel Naroditsky in Reno last fall; he made a blunder and immediately reacted to it. Should you use that information? I would say, do so only with extreme caution. In the Naroditsky game, his body language gave me confidence that there was no hidden trap behind his move but nevertheless, I did check to make sure. Anyway, lets now return to the book. I have three main complaints about Improve Your Chess At Any Age. First, the language is unnecessarily convoluted in many places. For example, Andres writes: My chess thinking process is making a bold claim that it will help any player improve regardless of age. By extension, it will capacitate the disciplined practitioner of the process secure [sic] lasting chess improvement. Andres needed an editor here. In the first sentence, its not the process that is making the claim, its Andres himself. In the second sentence, the word capacitate is a disaster. It sounds as if Andy originally wrote the word help (a nice, solid, one-syllable Anglo-Saxon word), thought it didnt sound erudite enough, and did a thesaurus search for synonyms. This led to a grammatical mistake it should be to secure. Im sure this sounds like nitpicking, but the book is full of head-scratchers like this. On the very next page: With regards to the plurality of methods we employ in the acquisition and sharpening of tactical skills, the list abounds in proportion to differing philosophies found in literature to date. Huh? Well, this is why writers need editors. Unfortunately, I doubt that Everyman Press did any serious editing of Andys book. Second, I have some problems with the organization. As I commented before, Andres does not clue us into his system until page 53. There are several references to it earlier, which Im sure will be frustrating to readers who dont know the system he is referring to. It needed to go much earlier in the book. Also, the chapter lengths suggest another structural problem. Chapter 1: 17 pages. Chapter 2: 38 pages. (Thats a bit long, but okay, this is an important chapter it is where he introduces his system.) Chapter 3: 60 pages. (Whoa!! SIXTY pages on what is basically a report on ONE tournament?) Chapter 4: 8 pages. (Too light!) Chapter 5: 7 pages. (Too light.) Chapter 6: 24 pages. (Okay.) Now I dont ordinarily go through a book and count the lengths of the chapters, but I did so in this case just because I felt something was seriously out of whack here. The problem is this. Andres has advertised his own performance as the central proof of his thesis, that you can improve at any age and that his system is the way to do it. First of all, on its merits this is a rather dubious methodology; its too much reminiscent of the mad scientist who experiments on himself because no one will believe him otherwise. Secondly, this puts him in a bind. He doesnt have very many data points, only four tournaments, and the one that he really thinks will convince us is his result in the 2008 New England Masters. So this one tournament becomes the central episode of the whole book. But how well does his result really stand up to scrutiny? Andy started out that tournament 3-2 against strong opponents but then went 0-4 the rest of the way. The games may be great games (I havent played them through yet), but as a potential user of Andres system I would be really worried about what happened in those last four games and what went wrong with the system. Andy himself acknowledges that he didnt do very well in his next two tournaments, and I think thats why those two chapters are so short, at 8 and 7 pages. But I dont think the reader should or will cut him any slack. Our ratings are, unfortunately, a record of both our good and our bad performances. We cant take a mulligan and say, Oh, I dont want this tournament to count because I wasnt prepared or This game doesnt count because I didnt follow the system. By setting up his own performance as the proof his system works, Andy has left himself on very shaky ground. He needed more positive and consistent results to make his case solid and there should be no excuses. What I think the book needed was a little bit more time and patience. Instead of rushing into print with only four tournaments of examples (including two tournaments that were disappointing), I think that Andy would have done better to give it another couple years, play more games, collect more examples, maybe refine his system as he learns about its pluses and minuses, and maybe also reach beyond his own personal experience. He promises at the end that he will write another book when he reaches the FIDE Master title. When that happens, I think that his second book will live up to what this book promises but doesnt quite deliver. P.S. By the way, there is a completely different way of reading Andress book, and that is simply to read it as a chronicle of the ups and downs of a player very much like us. In other words, just forget about reading this book to get your rating over 2000. (I think that ratings are overrated anyway.) Just read it for the sake of the journey. If you do that, I think you will find it very entertaining. I think that is the spirit with which Brian Wall read the book, and he posted a much more positive review of it on his mailing list. In order to balance out my somewhat negative review, let me copy here what Brian wrote: Review of Improve Your Chess at any age by Andres D. Hortillosa What I hated about this book - I didnt write it What I loved about this book - Everything else What I liked - I know Andy, we were Denver Open co-Champions in 2000 with Senior Master James McCarty. Most the games are very recent, 30 played during 2008-2009 with 7 games before that. Fresh games allow for fresh emotions in the retelling. Andy uses his education to invent a system to play better Chess and he shares it with you. He call his readers improvers. The best part is the honesty, even though he is touting a system, he doesnt shy away from painful blunders on both sides. I tried to delude myself reading the book that I wouldnt make the errors he did but I remember he showed me the second to last game in the book at the 2009 World Open and I did not find the key moves in C.Boor-A Hortillosa. I studied or played or befriended or talked to many of his opponents - Studied - Aronian, Svidler, Ivanchuk, Radjabov, Gelfand, Van Wely Talked to - D Hartsook, Van Wely played at least one blitz game - Radjabov, C. Boor, Macintyre, Lugo played slow Chess - Ginat, Karklins, Nakamura, Shulman Andy also mentions two books by my friend David Vigorito, The Nimzo and the Slav. Knowing a lot of the characters in the book gave it a friendly feel to me. I have also met two of Andys coaches, IM Mark Ginsburg and GM Dmirty Gurevich. Andy is not afraid to speak the truth, with his first hand Phillipine background he mentions that solving a Chess puzzle by starting at the end with the desired checkmate is a pervasive solving method in the Oriental culture. Andy mentions many common methods of improving, ICC, Chessbase, coaching, studying your game with Chess engines. I belong to Dana Mackenzies Chess blog and he mentioned yesterday the book title was his idea. The book basically goes like this - Andy mentions his frustration at his Chess rust due to his time in the army. After retiring, he has more time for Chess and wants to make FIDE 2300 for the FM title. He invents a system for Chess improvement and annotates 37 games, describing how his method worked. Sometimes the method failed, sometimes Andy failed his own system and sometimes he didnt have enough time to apply the system. In general it worked very well, most of the outright blunders belonged to his opponents, most of Andys errors were due to the position being too deep. He basically found a method to get the most out of himself. The book made me laugh too due to our different styles. I play every opening and will sac just about anything, unclear or not. Andy is one of those guys that spends lots of money on Chess books and lets many of them collect dust. Others Ive met come to mind here. Andy tends to play very solid Chess and constantly offers draws to his higher rated opponents in the book. Sometimes they refuse and force Andy to play out winning positions. Andy has never played the Kings Indian, Benko or Grunfeld, not to mention the insane stuff I play. He admits an aversion to unclear play. I like to gamble, Andy likes to play the percentages. Think of us as the Colts versus the Saints. I read the book pretty much nonstop upon arrival, it reads like an exciting novel. You will squirm when you see how hard Andy is trying and how he twists in the wind with each painful oversight. You will rejoice as he takes down or draws a multitude of higher rated players. You will wonder what you would have done in the same circumstances. The book is chock full of original insight on every page, for example, the reason we can see our mistake right AFTER we move is the mind has a clear delineation between reality and fantasy, before we move, its a fantasy, we have to make our next move in our mind to trick ourselves into believing its REAL, then the mind will do the necessary work. Andy doesnt just talk the talk, he walks the walk, facing 2200-2500 players in every chapter. The chapters are divided mostly by recent strong tournaments he played in. He also gives a few games from 10 years ago so you can see how his Chess was when he left off. Andy thinks out loud as he climbs the Olympian heights in a way that GMs cant or wont somehow. I think you will recognize a friend as he struggles to go higher. I like how he berates himself for missing any move a Chess master would see instantly, even if it looks like it loses a piece. Its a fun book, very re-readable and a serious book for those trying to improve. His wisdom seeps into you on every page. Highly recommended. Brian Wall Also, let me note that another positive review of Andys book by Frank K. Berry can be found here on the North American Chess Association website. Share This -- You are subscribed to email updates from "dana blogs chess." To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now: http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=vjsOe_-uSg3AyoS2TdNYy-nDraY -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100218/83c4b51d/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Feb 19 10:07:17 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:07:17 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Topalov - Grischuk Linares 2010 Round 5 Message-ID: <1266599237.4b7ec545dbcaf@www.taom.com> http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6140 Chessbase report on this round - analysis by Anish Giri Current standings after this game Topalov - 3.5/5 Aronian, Gashimov, Grischuk - 2.5/5 Gelfand, Vallejo Pons - 2/5 5 more rounds to go ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I was watching this game live so I have a few questions. [Event "ICC 120 30 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.18"] [Round "-"] [White "*GM_Topalov"] [Black "*GM_Grischuk"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2805"] [BlackElo "2736"] [Opening "Sicilian: Najdorf, Adams attack"] [ECO "B90"] [NIC "SI.14"] [Time "15:51:47"] [TimeControl "7200+30"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 Ng4 7. Bc1 Nf6 Back to move 6 8. h3 Bobby Fischer has 3 games with this in My 60 Memorable Games. I've played it. 8 ... Nc6 9. g4 Qb6 played 5 times before, twice by Grischuk 10. Nde2 TN Topalov Theoretical Novelty by #2 rated Chessplayer Topalov took 6 minutes on it - I doubt this is prep 10 Nb3 was played all 5 times before but Nd4-e2-g3-f5 is a common idea with h3-g4. I played this way against Paul Nikitovich 35 years ago. We almost had 4 Queens on the board after g4-g5:f6:g7 and ... b5-b4:c3:b2 10 ... e6 11. Bg2 Be7 12. b3 Topalov took 6 minutes on this too. 12 Be3! Q:b2? 13 a3! N:g4 14 hg Bf6 15 e5 B:e5 16 0-0!! B:c3! 17 Q:d6!! wins easily hunting both King and Queen, Alexander's position is a big mess. 16 0-0!! d5 loses to 17 Qd3, Qd2 or Ra2 here There are other lines but basically 12 Be3! Q:b2? traps the Queen after 13 a3! threatening 14 Ra2 12 Be3 Q-somewhere else would be a normal Sicilian. Russian/Massachusetts GM Alexander Ivanov plays a lot of these double fianchetto positions for White against the Sicilian. 12 ... h6 I call these positions the Rock, Black sets up an artificial strong point on e5 for his Knight. Gothenberg, Sweden Variation etc., etc. 13. Qd2 g5 14. Ba3! Someone finally decided to punish that backward pawn on d6 14 ... Ne5 15. O-O-O! Qxf2! 16. Bxd6! Bxd6! 17. Qxd6! Nfd7! 18. Nd4! Qf6! Topalov has an extra 69 rating points, an extra half hour on the clock and a slight edge. Veselin makes a practical decision to avoid all slightly favorable endings and keep Queens on. 18 ... Q:g2?? 19 N:e6!! is a smackdown 19. Qa3!? Qe7! 20. Qb2! The fianchettoed Queen looks creative 20 ... O-O! Topalov - 72 minutes Grischuk - 27 minutes http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3334 Grischuk 2006 World Blitz Champion 21. Nf5!? Topalov only took 3 minutes on this bold sac, opening up squares for his c3-Knight and g2-Bishop. Rybka calls it the 24th best move with some but not quite enough compensation. The world held its breath waiting to see how the 2006 World Blitz Champion would defend against the daring Bulgarian/Spanish World #2 rated player. 21 ... exf5! 22. Nd5! Qc5! 23. exf5! a5 Activating the QR. Grischuk was moving quickly now. There are other ideas - 23 ... f6 or ... Re8 support the Rock on e5 23 ... Qf2 stirs up trouble 23 ... Kh7 supports the h6-pawn 24. h4! Topalov considered how to most upset Grischuk for 10 minutes. Despite the missing piece the board position is about equal. The tension is very high. There are different approaches Grishchuk can take here - 24 ... f6 bolstering or 24 ... N:g4 15 hg Nde5 improving the Knights or 24 ... Ra6 Calvary to the rescue or 24 ... a4 counterattack. Alexander took one minute for his reply. 24 ... gxh4 25. Rxh4 Topalov took 8 minutes here. 25 Kb1!! is slightly more flexible. 25 Kb1 Qf2 looks disturbing but can be met by 26 Be4 or 26 Qc1 Ra6 27 Rd2 25 Kb1 is roughly equal - 25 Kb1 a4 26 R:h4 Ra6 27 f6! R:f6 28 N:f6+ N:f6 29 R:h6 is about even but rather impossible to assess in time trouble 25 ... Ra6! Grischuk - 19 minutes Topalov - 45 minutes 26. Kb1? Best one move ago but now not so good. 7 minutes spent. The right move is completely counter-intuitive 26 Rh3!! then 26 ... Qf2 is met by 27 Ne7+ Kg7 28 Bh1 and other moves can be met by 27 g5! or Rc3! or Kb1! It's a big, complicated mess and for a while Grischuk in time pressure does better than Topalov who started the whole thing. 26 ... Qf2!! 7 minutes spent leaving 12 minutes to reach move 40. The main reason for 26 Rh3!! is so that ... Qf2 does not attack both Rook and Bishop. 27. Ne7+! Kg7? Humans hate pins. 27 ... Kh8?? walks into a Queen-Rook crossfire after 28 Rdh1!!. It turns out 27 ... Kh7!! pins the h6-pawn to the King but frees the e5-knight which can now take on g4 or d7, depending on circumstances. This was Grischuk's biggest winning chance all game. He took 5 minutes on his choice, leaving 7 minutes left. Topalov had an extra half hour. All the 1400s with engines turned on collectively groaned. 28. Rh2! Guarding both attacked pieces. 28 ... f6? 4 minutes spent, leaving 3 left. Very exciting. The game is turning in favor of the 2800 player. The right moves look wrong - 28 ... Rd6!! 29 R:d6 Qg1+ regains the Rook 28 ... Re8! encourages 29 N:c8 R:c8 but then 30 R:d7?? Qg1+!! 31 Qc1 Q:h2 wins Alexander's move unguards h6 so the computer driven crowd was screaming for the logical 29 Qc1!! If GM Grischuk uses the Rook to guard h6 then who guards c8? 29 Qc1 Rh8 30 N:c8! If Grissy guards h6 with his Knight then who guards d7? 29 Qc1 Nf7 30 N:c8! R:c8? 31 R:d7 If Alexander pushes his h-pawn then 29 Qc1 h5 30 Rdh1!! connects all the dots or 30 g5!!! disconnects all the dots If Grischuk counterattacks 29 Qc1 N:g4 30 N:c8 threatens 31 R:d7+ or B:b7 29 Qc1 N:g4 30 N:c8 Nc5 31 Rf1 or Rd2 is about the best Grischuk can get but this favors Topalov. 29. g5!? fxg5! 30. Nxc8! Raf6! This wild game has swung back Grischuk's way who only has 2 minutes to make 10 moves 31. Ne7 R8f7! Second best - 31 ... Qg3!! 32 Rdh1 Ng4!! wins material safely - another good winning chance for Grischuk. 32. Nd5! Topalov still has half an hour left 32 ... Nf3 Grischuk keeps some advantage with 32 ... Ng4!!, still preying on that awkward h2-Rook and g2-Bishop. In time pressure against a dangerous 2800 Alexander goes for trades. 33. Bxf3! Qxh2! 34. Nxf6 34 Qe5! is a micro-improvement - it's about equal either way 34 ... Nxf6! 35. a4! Qf4 36. Bd5! GMs Atalik and Yermolinsky were in the ICC audience. One of them preferred this to 36 Bh5 36 ... Rd7! 37. Re1! Qxf5! 37 ... g4! or .. h5! are also good for equality. Grischuk somehow never manages to roll his Kingside passers. 37 ... R:d5?? 38 Re7+!! mates 38. Bc4 38 Be6 fork Qf2 counterattack 39 Qe5 defending everything Re7 pin is equal. 38 ... Qf2 Despite being down to his last minute, Grischuk's pawns are easier to push so if anyone has the micro-edge, he does. 38 ... Qc5, ... Qf4 or ... Qg4 would leave Topalov struggling to draw after the time control. 39. Qe5!! Centralizing equalizer 39 ... Qd4!! Centralizing equalizer 40. Qf5!! Deal with Bd3 40 ... Qg4 Pushing the passed pawn is another way - 40 ... Qc3 41 Rf1 g4! and Bd3 can be met by R:d3 40 ... Qf4 is also OK. We thought it would be drawn now since both players get another hour to reach move 60. Grischuk infuriated the audience by getting in time pressure again and refusing to push his passed pawns. I said at the time - White pushes his pawns and makes them passed, Black pushes his pawns and exposes his King, unfair. That's about what happened. 41. Qxa5! Even material, minor miracle after all that. 41 ... Rd1+! 42. Rxd1! Qxd1+! 43. Kb2! Qd6 43 ... Qd4+! and ... Qd7 are also OK but Topalov has an extra 40 minutes. Grischuk already used half of his extra hour given to him at move 40 44. Qa7! targetting the b7-pawn 44 ... Qe5+! 45. Ka2 Qe4 45 ... Qc7! 46 a5 Ne4! is equal 46. Bd3! Qc6! 47. a5! Nd5! The delicate scales are tipping in Topalov's favor. Grischuk has to deal with a6:b7-b8(Q) 48. Qd4+! Complementation - Queen on dark squares, Bishop on light squares 48 ... Nf6! 49. Qe5! Squeezing the position and the clock. The audience was writhing. Grischuk - 8 minutes to move 60 Topalov - 53 minutes 49 ... Kf8 50. c4? 50 Kb2!! was a more patient way to free the Bishop by guarding the c-pawn 50 ... g4! 50 ... Kf7!! is also still good enough to draw 51. Bf5! Kf7! 52. Qb8 The GMs and computer owners explained how 52 B:g4 drew. Topalov keeps squeezing like a demonic 2800. The audience was practically begging Grischuk to draw with 52 ... h5!!, it was bad enough enough he threw away so many wins. Here's a very cool draw - 52 Qb8 h5!! 53 Bc8!! h4 54 B:b7 Qc5!! and it turns out to be hard to simultaneously guard the a5-pawn while blocking a Kingside touchdown. 55 a6 Qa5+ is a perpetual. If 55 Qa8 or Qd8 h3 Grischuk will probably get his own Queen. Sadly he had no time to verify any of this and awkwardly went into defensive mode. 52 Qb8 h5!! 53 Bc8!! h4 54 Q:b7+!! Q:b7 55 B:b7 h3 56 Bc8!! would refute this defense anyway. A long ago I formed an endgame theory that you can't do two things at once, many times you just have to go with your strengths, form a coordinated, cohesive fighting unit and hope for the best. This position is a good example of that theory. 52 ... Ne8 53. Qf4!! Since Grishchuk is feebly defending his b7-pawn, Topalov switches gears and eats a kingside pawn. 53 ... Qc5 54. Bxg4+ Grischuk is down to 3 minutes, Topalov has 37 minutes plus an extra pawn. We all watched helplessly as Grischuk twisted in the wind. 54 ... Nf6 55. Qf5!! Guarding a5 55 ... Qd4! 56. Bf3! Alexander's h-pawn isn't going anywhere, meanwhile, Topalov can slowly advance his whole Queenside armada. 56 ... Qf2+ 57. Ka3! Kg7! 58. Ka4 b6! 59. axb6!! All the patzer kibitzers without computers tried to hang their Queen with 59 a6? Qa2+ 60 Kb5? Qa5+ 61 Kc6 Q:f5 59 ... Qxb6! 60. c5! Qa7+! Grischuk gets another 15 minutes but it's too late. 61. Kb5! Qb8+! 62. Kc4! Qg8+ 63. Kc3! Qe8! 64. b4! Qe1+ 65. Kc4 Qf1+! 66. Kb3! Qb5! 67. Bd1 Qc6 68. Bc2! Kf7! 69. Bd3! With 8 minutes left, his third time pressure, Grischuk finally admits he can't stop those pawns. b5-b6 is coming soon enough. After saccing/blundering so much material, Topalov ends up nursing an extra pawn to victory. {White wins} 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 120 30 u"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.18"] [Round "-"] [White "*GM_Topalov"] [Black "*GM_Grischuk"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2805"] [BlackElo "2736"] [Opening "Sicilian: Najdorf, Adams attack"] [ECO "B90"] [NIC "SI.14"] [Time "15:51:47"] [TimeControl "7200+30"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 Ng4 7. Bc1 Nf6 8. h3 Nc6 9. g4 Qb6 10. Nde2 e6 11. Bg2 Be7 12. b3 h6 13. Qd2 g5 14. Ba3 Ne5 15. O-O-O Qxf2 16. Bxd6 Bxd6 17. Qxd6 Nfd7 18. Nd4 Qf6 19. Qa3 Qe7 20. Qb2 O-O 21. Nf5 exf5 22. Nd5 Qc5 23. exf5 a5 24. h4 gxh4 25. Rxh4 Ra6 26. Kb1 Qf2 27. Ne7+ Kg7 28. Rh2 f6 29. g5 fxg5 30. Nxc8 Raf6 31. Ne7 R8f7 32. Nd5 Nf3 33. Bxf3 Qxh2 34. Nxf6 Nxf6 35. a4 Qf4 36. Bd5 Rd7 37. Re1 Qxf5 38. Bc4 Qf2 39. Qe5 Qd4 40. Qf5 Qg4 41. Qxa5 Rd1+ 42. Rxd1 Qxd1+ 43. Kb2 Qd6 44. Qa7 Qe5+ 45. Ka2 Qe4 46. Bd3 Qc6 47. a5 Nd5 48. Qd4+ Nf6 49. Qe5 Kf8 50. c4 g4 51. Bf5 Kf7 52. Qb8 Ne8 53. Qf4 Qc5 54. Bxg4+ Nf6 55. Qf5 Qd4 56. Bf3 Qf2+ 57. Ka3 Kg7 58. Ka4 b6 59. axb6 Qxb6 60. c5 Qa7+ 61. Kb5 Qb8+ 62. Kc4 Qg8+ 63. Kc3 Qe8 64. b4 Qe1+ 65. Kc4 Qf1+ 66. Kb3 Qb5 67. Bd1 Qc6 68. Bc2 Kf7 69. Bd3 {White wins} 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "World Blitz Campionship 2009"] [Site "Moscow"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "8.6"] [White "Naiditsch, Arkadij"] [Black "Grischuk, Alexander"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [Annotator "Joe Eversole Variation of the English Opening"] [PlyCount "94"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 Ng4 7. Bc1 Nf6 8. h3 Nc6 9. g4 Qb6 10. Nb3 e6 11. Bg2 Be7 12. Be3 Qc7 13. g5 Nd7 14. f4 b5 15. Qd2 Bb7 16. O-O-O Nb6 17. Bxb6 Qxb6 18. h4 b4 19. Ne2 a5 20. Nbd4 a4 21. Kb1 Qc5 22. h5 Nxd4 23. Nxd4 a3 24. b3 Rc8 25. Rh3 O-O 26. g6 Bf6 27. gxf7+ Kxf7 28. Rd3 Rfd8 29. e5 Bxg2 30. exf6 Be4 31. Re3 d5 32. fxg7 Rd7 33. Rg1 Kg8 34. Nxe6 Qxc2+ 35. Qxc2 Rxc2 36. Ka1 Re7 37. Nd4 Rd2 38. Nf5 Re6 39. Rxe4 dxe4 40. Rc1 Rc6 41. Ne7+ Kxg7 42. Nxc6 e3 43. Nxb4 e2 44. Kb1 Rb2+ 45. Ka1 Rd2 46. Kb1 Rb2+ 47. Ka1 Rd2 1/2-1/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "World Blitz Campionship 2009"] [Site "Moscow"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "26.10"] [White "Dominguez Perez, Leinier"] [Black "Grischuk, Alexander"] [Result "0-1"] [Annotator "Joe Eversole Variation of the English Opening"] [PlyCount "83"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. h3 Nc6 7. g4 Qb6 8. Nb3 e6 9. Be3 Qc7 10. Qe2 b5 11. f4 Bb7 12. Bg2 Be7 13. O-O-O Nd7 14. Qf2 Na5 15. Nxa5 Qxa5 16. Kb1 Rc8 17. Bd4 O-O 18. e5 Bxg2 19. Qxg2 dxe5 20. fxe5 Nc5 21. Ne4 Nxe4 22. Qxe4 Qc7 23. Rh2 Rfd8 24. Rhd2 Bg5 25. Be3 Rxd2 26. Rxd2 h6 27. b3 a5 28. Bxg5 hxg5 29. Qe3 a4 30. Qxg5 axb3 31. axb3 Qa5 32. Qe3 Ra8 33. Qd4 Qa2+ 34. Kc1 Rc8 35. Qb2 Qa8 36. Qd4 Qh1+ 37. Kb2 Qxh3 38. Rf2 Qg3 39. Qd2 Qxe5+ 40. c3 b4 41. Rf3 Ra8 42. Re3 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.Walverine.com BrianWalChess.net www.DenverChess.com Colorado-Chess.com From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Feb 19 16:25:54 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:25:54 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] 2010 Jim Burden - Francisco Baltier Award Contest Message-ID: <1266621954.4b7f1e022859d@www.taom.com> The Final position is about even after 26 Nd3 Bd4 27 a6 What's the time control, 3 minutes? BW ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Forwarded message from CS Chess ----- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:06:38 -0700 From: CS Chess Reply-To: CS Chess Subject: [BrianWallChess] 2010 Jim Burden - Francisco Baltier Award Contest To: BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com 2010 Jim Burden - Francisco Baltier Award Contest If it wasn't for this contest, I probably would have resigned in disgust like this guy did. [Event "2010 Jim Burden - Francisco Baltier Award Contest"] [Site "http://cschess.webs.com/"] [Date "2010.02.19"] [Round "?"] [White "Ton?ek 1"] [Black "Anderson, Paul"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B06"] [WhiteElo "1621"] [PlyCount "50"] 1. d4 c6 2. e4 g6 3. Nf3 d6 4. Bf4 Bg7 5. Bd3 Bg4 6. Nbd2 Bxd4 7. c3 Bg7 8. O-O e5 9. Be3 Nd7 10. Qb3 Qb6?? 11. Bxb6 Nxb6 12. a4 Be6 13. Qc2 Ne7 14. b4 O-O 15. c4 Rad8 16. a5 Nbc8 17. Ng5 Bd7 18. Rad1 h6 19. Nh3 Kh7 20. Nf3 f5 21. c5 fxe4 22. Bxe4 d5 23. Bxg6+ Nxg6 24. Rfe1 Bxh3 25. Nxe5 Bf5 0-1 Jim Burden - Francisco Baltier Award Winners: 2010 ? 2009 Francisco Baltier 2008 Tim Fisher? 2007 Chris Peterson? 2006 Tobias Lingaard 2005 Josh Smith -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100219/0ef11e75/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Feb 21 18:19:53 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:19:53 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Omega-Racoon Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 h5 Message-ID: <1266801593.4b81dbb9dc042@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from evilone ----- Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:13:41 -0000 From: evilone Reply-To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] Omega-Racoon Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 h5 To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings at yahoogroups.com Last night me and my chess friend Daniel Roffman (2 times Hawaii State Chess Champion) were analyzing the the chess opening called the Racoon (1.e4 e5 2.f4 h5) and were fascinated with this opening invented by NM Jack Young. There were some lines favoring White and Black also had some very good lines. I believe that the Racoon is playable. Last night a thought had occurred to me, is it possible to use the Racoon type of setup in a different opening. I thought about 2 possible openings using the Racoon idea: 1.e4 c5 2.h4 the Wolverine 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 h5 the Omega-Racoon Gambit This morning I played the chess engine called Firefly (2330) at game 15 minutes using the Omega-Racoon Gambit. See game below which I won: [Event "Blitz:15'"] [Site "Hawaii"] [Date "2010.02.20"] [Round "?"] [White "FireFly v2.4.1"] [Black "Nakamura, Clyde"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C40"] [WhiteElo "2330"] [BlackElo "2100"] [Annotator "Omega-Racoon Gambit"] [PlyCount "50"] [EventDate "2010.??.??"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 h5 {Omega Racoon Gambit} 3. Nxe5 Nc6 4. d4 Nf6 5. Bg5 d6 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. Nc3 Rb8 {attacking the weak pawn on b2} 8. Qc1 Be7 9. Bd3 O-O 10. O-O Ng4 11. Bxe7 Qxe7 12. h3 Nh6 13. Rb1 Qh4 14. Qe3 f5 15. d5 f4 16. Qxa7 {best was Qf3, taking the pawn at a7 loses} Bxh3 17. gxh3 Qxh3 18. Rfc1 f3 {played to creating a mating net around the White King} 19. Bf1 Qg4+ 20. Kh1 Qh4+ 21. Kg1 Ng4 22. Bg2 fxg2 {c5 was also playable because it blocks out the Black Q from defending the f2 pawn} 23. Kxg2 Rxf2+ 24. Qxf2 Qxf2+ 25. Kh3 Qh2# 0-1 Best Regards Clyde Nakamura -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100221/0dfd0a12/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Feb 21 21:04:35 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:04:35 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] My son beat his mother with the Fishing Pole tonight Message-ID: <1266811475.4b820253d14e4@www.taom.com> " I've never see that before" - Aiden, 1400 " You should watch Daddy's videos. " Devon, 641 From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sun Feb 21 22:45:23 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:45:23 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Devon Wall - Rebecca Round 3 Colorado State Scholastic Championship Message-ID: <1266817523.4b8219f303477@www.taom.com> After one win each, my son played a girl. 4th-6th grade section. Devon is an 11 yr old 5th grader. [Event "Colorado State Scholastic Championship"] [Site "Tivoli Center, Downtown Denver, Colorado"] [Date "2010.02.20"] [Round "3"] [White "Devon Wall"] [Black "Rebecca"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "641"] [BlackElo "200"] [Opening "Three knights game"] [ECO "C46"] [NIC "KP.06"] [Time "1 PM"] [TimeControl "Game/55, 5 second delay"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nd4 I've never seen him do that before, I wonder if seeing a girl somehow made him want to pounce. 3 Bc4 Nd4 4 N:e5 Qg5! is an old Sherbring trick from my youth. Commentator Mitesh Shridhar called it the " Oh My God " Defense. The position is still even after 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Nd4 4 N:e5 Qg5! 5 B:f7+ Ke7 6 0-0 Q:e5 7 c3 but very few White players get that far. 4. Nxd4 exd4! 5. Nd5 Qh4?? 6. g3?? Qxe4+! Devon calls this the " Poisoned Pawn Variation. " or " Rook Trick ". 7. Be2?? Qxh1+! 8. Bf1! d6? Devon is accustomed to playing very fast. After winning a Rook with the Poisoned Pawn Variation, he is accustomed to winning more material, even mating, with Bishop-to-King's-Rook-six, therefore he ignores the hanging d5-knight to carry out the usual execution phase. 9. Qe2+? Be6 9 ... Kd8! would protect the Rook in the corner they are ignoring. 10. Nxc7+! Kd7! 11. Nxa8! Bh3 Devon is used to kids who allow ... Q:f1 checkmate but Rebecca is one tough cookie and doesn't take her eye off the ball. 12. Qb5+! Ke7 13. Qe2+ Kd8! 14. c4 d3 Devon is still trying to make Rebecca forget about ... Q:f1 checkmate 15. Qxd3! ( Only move to avoid checkmate ) f6 16. g4 f5?!? Trying to tempt Eve with another apple 17. Qxh3! Oops 17 ... fxg4 18. Qh4+ Be7 19. Qg3 Nf6! 20. Qh4 I have to guess at some of Devon's moves on the scoresheet, skills I honed from years hanging out with grown Chess women. 20 ... b6 Devon missed picking up the free Knight on d5 but now he is less distracted since he has lost a Rook and Bishop in the meantime. 21. d4 Qxa8 Finally removing the Knight. As so often, multiple blunders has resulted in miraculous equality for the nonce. 22. d5! Ng8 Devon values one move threats far more than any fancy schmancy development schemes. 23. Qxg4! Nf6 24. Qe6 Here's the part that touched my heart. " I tricked her, Dad, but then I felt bad about it. " 24 ... Rg8!! The double exclams are for clutching a shaking head. Devon made his bid for a Golden Globe by acting like he dropped something. Rebecca ecstatically swooped in to capitalize on Devon's "blunder", having read Hortillosa's book on picking up tells from your opponent. 25. Qxg8+?? Handing Devon a Queen and an Oscar. 25 ... Nxg8!! 26. Bh3 Bh4 Devon is an avid fan of ... Q:f2+. When he can't take something he sets up mates. 27. Bf4 Ke8 This move I'm not sure about but the rest of the scoresheet now makes sense. 28. Ke2 Qd8! 29. c5 Rebecca wants a new Queen to replace the one Devon stole. 29 ... Qe7+ 30. Be6 or at least a Knight 30 ... Qf6 31. Bxg8 Qxf4 They grab what they can like pizza slices, ignoring the salad bar Rook with 31 ... Q:b2+!! 32. Bxh7 Qxf2+ munch, munch 33. Kd1? Qf1+ Checkmate with 33 ... Bg5! is nothing compared to a free Rook. 34. Kd2 Qxa1! 35. c6 still pining for her lost Lenore 35 ... Qxb2+! There's nothing left to take so Devon aims for checkmate. 36. Kd3 Qb5+ 37. Kc3 Bf6+! 38. Kc2 Qc4+ 39. Kd2! Bc3+ 40. Kd1 Qxa2!! 41. c7 Qd2# Devon was quite happy to score 3/4 the first day. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Colorado State Scholastic Championship"] [Site "Tivoli Center, Downtown Denver, Colorado"] [Date "2010.02.20"] [Round "3"] [White "Devon Wall"] [Black "Rebecca"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "641"] [BlackElo "200"] [Opening "Three knights game"] [ECO "C46"] [NIC "KP.06"] [Time "1 PM"] [TimeControl "Game/55, 5 second delay"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nd4 4. Nxd4 exd4 5. Nd5 Qh4 6. g3 Qxe4+ 7. Be2 Qxh1+ 8. Bf1 d6 9. Qe2+ Be6 10. Nxc7+ Kd7 11. Nxa8 Bh3 12. Qb5+ Ke7 13. Qe2+ Kd8 14. c4 d3 15. Qxd3 f6 16. g4 f5 17. Qxh3 fxg4 18. Qh4+ Be7 19. Qg3 Nf6 20. Qh4 b6 21. d4 Qxa8 22. d5 Ng8 23. Qxg4 Nf6 24. Qe6 Rg8 25. Qxg8+ Nxg8 26. Bh3 Bh4 27. Bf4 Ke8 28. Ke2 Qd8 29. c5 Qe7+ 30. Be6 Qf6 31. Bxg8 Qxf4 32. Bxh7 Qxf2+ 33. Kd1 Qf1+ 34. Kd2 Qxa1 35. c6 Qxb2+ 36. Kd3 Qb5+ 37. Kc3 Bf6+ 38. Kc2 Qc4+ 39. Kd2 Bc3+ 40. Kd1 Qxa2 41. c7 Qd2# -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 22 00:04:46 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:04:46 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Devon Wall - David Round 4 Colorado State Scholastic Championship Message-ID: <1266822286.4b822c8eeb628@www.taom.com> Both my son and his opponent try to Fishing Pole each other. [Event "Colorado State Scholastic Championship" ] [Site "Tivoli Center, Downtown Denver, Colorado"] [Date "2010.02.20" ] [Round "4"] [White "Devon Wall"] [Black "David"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "641"] [BlackElo "?"] [Opening "Robatsch (modern) defense"] [ECO "B06"] [NIC "KF.06"] [Time "4 PM"] [TimeControl "Game/55, 5 second delay"] 1. e4 g6 2. Bc4 e6 3. Qf3 It's hard to convince my son to abandon the 4 move checkmate whilst he has so many other interests and his school chums keep falling for it. He generally prefers that I teach him "indirectly". 3 ... Bg7 4. Nh3 d6 5. d3 Qe7 6. Bg5 Nf6! 7. Bb5+ Pointless checks is another thing I can't cure him of so far. 7 ... c6 8. Ba4 b5 9. Bb3 O-O 10. Be3 Bd7 11. Ng5 h6 12. h4!! " The Fishing Pole wins under any circumstances " is one concept that transferred at birth with his square jaw. 12 ... e5 13. Nd2 Bg4 14. Qg3! d5 15. f3 Fishing Pole versus Bishing Pole, what has Colorado come to? 15 ... Bh5 16. O-O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole versus Fishing Pole, oh my. 17. Rhe1? Devon tends to see their threats before his own. He saw 17 fg!! right after he moved. 17 ... Nxe3! 18. Rxe3! d4 19. Ree1 Nd7 David ignores Devon's Fishing Pole Knight with an even game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCk6zdtSLk Chess Openings: Fishing Pole - Play chess like an Animal 5342 views " The waters here are all Fished out " - Anthea Carson 20. Rh1 Nc5 Somebody must have warned David because he passed on accepting Devon's g5-Fishing Pole Knight 9 times in a row, even offering his own Bishop and Knight on g4. I've never seen a game where the Fishing Pole was so highly respected. The game takes a new direction now. 21. Bxf7+! " He trapped my Bishop so I figured I better get something for it. " - Devon 21 ... Rxf7! Devon was right about that trapped Bishop - 21 ... Kh8!! 22 Bb3 a5! gives Devon more trouble 22. Nxf7! Qxf7! " Now material is even. " - Devon 23. Nb3 Nxb3+! 24. axb3! c5 25. Rde1 g5? 26. hxg5! hxg5! 27. Qxg5! c4 28. bxc4 bxc4 29. Rxh5!! Fishing Pole attacks down the h-file are part of Devon's DNA. Chris Peterson, Kurt Kondracki and Devon Wall hate trading Queens so 29 Q:h5!! is not an option for them. 29 ... Kf8 First David tried 29 ... Bf6 but Devon instantly chirped, " Illegal! " 30. Reh1!! Proud Papa wasn't allowed in the room to see his son double Rooks down the h-file for a mating attack. Devon's gene pool and Rybka dovetailed this time. 30 ... Bf6!! Best and legal now 31. Rh8+ 31 Qf5!!! is most deadly but we get carried away. 31 ... Bxh8? 31 ... Ke7!! 32 Q:f6+!! K:f6! 33 R:a8 and Devon's two Rooks and two pawns are stronger than David's Queen but the game would roll on. 31 ... Ke7!! 32 Qd2! R:h8 33 Qb4+ Ke6 34 Q:c4+ with three pawns for a Bishop already is also better for Devon. 32. Rxh8+!! ( mating ) Qg8 ( only legal move ) 33. Rxg8+!! ( winning the Queen and mating most efficiently) Kf7 ( only legal move ) 34. Qg6+ ( mating a little slower ) Ke7 ( only legal move ) 35. Rxa8!! Taking the last piece and mating the quickest. " I wasn't going to let him have anything. " Devon 35 ... Kd7! 36. Rxa7+!! fastest mate again Kc8! 37. Qe8# A Bishop on g5, a Knight on g5, a Bishop on g4, a Knight on g4. I feel like Socrates. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Colorado State Scholastic Championship" ] [Site "Tivoli Center, Downtown Denver, Colorado"] [Date "2010.02.20" ] [Round "4"] [White "Devon Wall"] [Black "David"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "641"] [BlackElo "?"] [Opening "Robatsch (modern) defense"] [ECO "B06"] [NIC "KF.06"] [Time "4 PM"] [TimeControl "Game/55, 5 second delay"] 1. e4 g6 2. Bc4 e6 3. Qf3 Bg7 4. Nh3 d6 5. d3 Qe7 6. Bg5 Nf6 7. Bb5+ c6 8. Ba4 b5 9. Bb3 O-O 10. Be3 Bd7 11. Ng5 h6 12. h4 e5 13. Nd2 Bg4 14. Qg3 d5 15. f3 Bh5 16. O-O-O Ng4 17. Rhe1 Nxe3 18. Rxe3 d4 19. Ree1 Nd7 20. Rh1 Nc5 21. Bxf7+ Rxf7 22. Nxf7 Qxf7 23. Nb3 Nxb3+ 24. axb3 c5 25. Rde1 g5 26. hxg5 hxg5 27. Qxg5 c4 28. bxc4 bxc4 29. Rxh5 Kf8 30. Reh1 Bf6 31. Rh8+ Bxh8 32. Rxh8+ Qg8 33. Rxg8+ Kf7 34. Qg6+ Ke7 35. Rxa8 Kd7 36. Rxa7+ Kc8 37. Qe8# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 22 01:13:20 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:13:20 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Ben - Devon Wall Round 5 Colorado State Scholastic Championship Message-ID: <1266826400.4b823ca01b243@www.taom.com> Day 2 Sunday, February 21, 2010 8:30 AM Food Court Subway opens at Noon, huge line Tivoli Center My son Devon is trying to improve on his permanent score of 3 wins and 3 losses three years in a row, having already scored 3/4. The time control increased from Game/55 Day 1 to Game/82 Day 2 " Why would anyone spend an hour on a Chess game? " - Devon plus other kids, parents and coaches. " but your game took an hour to play!? " - Daddy, guilty at his wasted life, Devon's question echoing in his soul " First of all, Ben took 50 minutes, I took 10 minutes. Secondly, Ben took a 10 minute bathroom break. " Devon " You can't complain about losing if your opponent took 5 times longer to play his moves. " Daddy [Event "Colorado State Scholastic Championship" ] [Site "Tivoli Center, Downtown Denver, Colorado"] [Date "2010.02.21"] [Round "5"] [White "Ben"] [Black "Devon Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "Unrated"] [BlackElo "641"] [Opening "Four knights: Italian variation, Fork Trick"] [ECO "C55"] [NIC "IG.01"] [Time "8:30 AM"] [TimeControl "Game/82, 5 second delay"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nxe4 5. Nxe4 d5! 6. Bb5? Andy Rea lost with this blunder against me in Colorado Springs 6 ... dxe4! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oT6QcOHj-M Fork Trick pt 1 2720 views I high-fived my son after the game for playing all the right moves in my Fork Trick video so far. 7. Bxc6+? Confusing my son with a bad move. In the fourth grade in a Polaris at Ebert Chess Class, Devon raised his hand after 7 N:e5! to suggest the best move 7 ... Qg5!! seeing clearly 8 N:c6! Q:b5! 7 ... bxc6! 8. Nxe5 Qd6? Without the added incentive of ... Q:b5 Devon forgets about the 8 ... Qg5!!:g2 idea and plays the logical 8 ... Qd6, attacking the Knight and guarding c6. 9. Nc4 Qd5 Protecting the Queen and attacking the Knight again 10. b3 Qd4 Ben came back from his 10 minute bathroom break to find his Rook en prise 11. Rb1 " What about 11 Bb2? " - Daddy " I'll just take it, oh, 11 Bb2 Q:b2 12 N:b2, OK, I will set up another check with 11 Bb2 Qb6 12 d3 Bc5, oh, 12 N:b6. I'm sure glad he didn't play that move! " - Devon with a big smile 11 ... Bc5!! Devon develops with a one move checkmate threat. 12. O-O! " I totally didn't see that defense! " - Devon 12 ... Qf6 13. Bb2 Bd4 " I was intending 13 ... Qg6! , 14 ... Bh3, 15 ... Q:g2! checkmate but then for some reason made this stupid move. " - Devon It's not really a bad move, it just breaks Devon's " set-up-checkmates" policy. 14. Bxd4 Qxd4! 15. Qe2 Qd5 " trying again for 16 ... Qg5, 17 ... Bh3, 18 ... Q:g2 checkmate " - Devon 16. d3! O-O!! " He was trying to trade Queens but I stopped him. " - Devon Peterson 17. Qxe4! Qg5 " Going for checkmate again. " - Devon Wall 18. Qe3 Qg6 19. Ne5 " I expected 19 Qg3 offering another Queen trade and I would say, No, No, No! " - Devon Peterson 19 ... Qf6 20. Rfe1!! Re8? 21. Ng4!! Bxg4? " He tricked me, Daddy, I thought I was winning a piece. " - Devon " You're lost anyway after 21 ... R:e3 22 N:f6+ gf 23 R:e3 Be6. " - Daddy " Oh no, you can win a position like this in a scholastic tournament. You shouldn't give up. " Denver Center for International Studies Chess Coach Jana Glovinsky 22. Qxe8+! Rxe8! 23. Rxe8# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Colorado State Scholastic Championship" ] [Site "Tivoli Center, Downtown Denver, Colorado"] [Date "2010.02.21"] [Round "5"] [White "Ben"] [Black "Devon Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "Unrated"] [BlackElo "641"] [Opening "Four knights: Italian variation, Fork Trick"] [ECO "C55"] [NIC "IG.01"] [Time "8:30 AM"] [TimeControl "Game/82, 5 second delay"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nxe4 5. Nxe4 d5 6. Bb5 dxe4 7. Bxc6+ bxc6 8. Nxe5 Qd6 9. Nc4 Qd5 10. b3 Qd4 11. Rb1 Bc5 12. O-O Qf6 13. Bb2 Bd4 14. Bxd4 Qxd4 15. Qe2 Qd5 16. d3 O-O 17. Qxe4 Qg5 18. Qe3 Qg6 19. Ne5 Qf6 20. Rfe1 Re8 21. Ng4 Bxg4 22. Qxe8+ Rxe8 23. Rxe8# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 22 01:40:29 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:40:29 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Problems with Prybils Message-ID: <1266828029.4b8242fda2f69@www.taom.com> Hort also played the Prybil or Czech-Pirc, I think. Commentator Mitesh Shridhar didn't know what to call this when Richard Herbst played it once Saturday Feb 20, 2010 to go 6-0 at the Tivoli Center and win Colorado Denker qualification Sunday. For some reason the Colorado Polgar candidate will be chosen in a separate Girl's Only tournmaent later on. I get the impression that the Czech-Pirc is much more popular in Europe since hordes of ICC players employ it, some even with both colors compulsively. I was intending to play this against Robert Ramirez in the final decisive game of the 2010 Denver Chess Club Championship in January but I either forgot or figured it wouldn't be a surpise since I had beaten Shannon Fox with it in Round 2. I ended up with a decent game in a 1 ... a6 Hedgehog but then for some inexplicable reason, I underestimated Robert after he thought for a long time. I was shocked to see you play the Czech-Pirc in the 2010 DCC Championship since I was intending it as a secret Colorado weapon, I don't remember a single American ever playing or analyzing it. I was doubly shocked to see Richard Herbst trying it in the 2010 Colorado State Scholastic Championship and I was triply shocked to hear you've been playing it for a long time. I somehow never noticed that. When you told me you tried the Prybil against Richard Herbst earlier, the pieces of the puzzle started to fit. I will have to look at your Prybil with Robert when I am not so exhausted from the weekend. As for the unique pancake restrictions, since my heart attack 10 days ago I have created more doctors than the CU Medical Center. Brian Wall ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daoud Zupa hi Brian, First let me say that it is free pancakes night at the Denver Chess Club / IHOP - this Tuesday February 23rd! See the dcc website at denverchess.comfor details! This is for all the other Denver area Walverine email readers. This offer is not available to you Brian - I'm sorry, it's for your own good. If you would like to get a salad, that's alright, but we can't permit you to order anything else off the menu while attending the club (Liability Issues). It was nice to see you up and at 'em, and likewise great to chat with you about the Czech Pirc- also known as the Prybil (naturally a Czech player). You noted Vlastimil Jansa as another Czech advocate of the variation. Jansa can be considered as carrying on the tradition of Czech coaches and instructors (as Coach of David Navarra - not to be confused with the former guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dave Navarro) in the line of Ludek Pachman. It might be said that Pachman enjoyed many of the advantages of chess behind the Iron Curtain while suffering personal political pressure from the Soviet powers that orbited and monitored the chess world as the jewel in the Soviet Propaghanda Crown. Just trying to start up a Prybil thread here. I have several games of interest, so I'll send some more. This one is against Robert Ramirez last year. As noted in this column several times previously, I can make positional moves quite naturally, but get lost when it gets tactical. Robert is perhaps in an overzealous tactical mood here, but if you could assist in assessing the game overall in the tactical light (as I can not), then we might understand the strengths and limits of the "Desperado rich" attacking game. I don't have a good fritz to feed it too either, so if Fritz were to assist, I'm sure your commentary would still be more elucidating for us human players. Daoud Zupa [Event "DCC March Madness"] [Site "?"] [Date "2009.03.21"] [Round "3"] [White "Robert Ramirez"] [Black "Daoud Zupa"] [Result "*"] [Result 0-1] [Opening "Czech Prybil Pirc"] [ECO "B07"] [NIC "VO.17"] [Time "02:33:34"] 1. e4 d6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 c6 4. d4 Bg4 5. Bd3 Nbd7 6. h3 Bh5 7. g4 Bg6 8. h4 d5 9. e5 Ne4 10. e6 fxe6 11. h5 Nxc3 12. hxg6 Nxd1 13. gxh7 Qb6 14. Bg6+ Kd8 15. Ng5 Nxf2 16. Rf1 Nf6 17. Nxe6+ Kc8 18. Rxf2 c5 19. Nxc5 e6 20. g5 Ng4 21. Rf7 Bxc5 22. Rxg7 Bxd4 23. Re7 Qb4+ 24. c3 Qxe7 25. cxd4 Qf8 26. Bd3 Qf2+ 27. Kd1 Qxd4 28. Ke2 Rf8 29. g6 Qe5+ 30. Kd1 Nf2+ 31. Kc2 Nxd3 32. Bh6 Qe2+ 33. Kc3 Qxb2+ 34. Kxd3 Rf3+ White Resigns -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daoud Zupa -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100222/2d57eb30/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 22 13:49:04 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:49:04 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Daniel Zhou - Zachary J Umana Colorado State Scholastic Championship Saturday Message-ID: <1266871744.4b82edc058124@www.taom.com> There are 3 Colorado Chessplaying Zhous, Xu ( a good scrabble word ) Zhou, 1028, Allen Zhou, 389 and Daniel Y Zhou, 1683. I don't know if they are related. There are 198 Chessplaying Zhous in the USA. I have played Daniel twice and written up both games. He is one of our most talented Colorado juniors. I think Daniel Zhou and Kurt Kondracki are the same age, 12. Kurt had a great tournament, went 5-0 and then in the last game, played the Fishing Pole twice as White but his Indian opponent Suhaas Narayanan 1321 defended very well. It got down to a 2 minute bullet game with Queens, Rooks and opposite-colored Bishops where Kurt was a pawn down. Kurt avoided trading Queens which made things worse and ended up getting pushed off the board, 5 pawns down. It was very exciting to hear Bardwick's commentary who called it a lottery. The game here is a Daniel Zhou game in Round 3 commentated on by Bardwick, also very exciting because Daniel's opponent was underrated and played many strong, creative moves before blundering. I told Daniel he was very lucky this game. " Oh No, I expected him to do what he did. " - Daniel, smiling The previous Zhou game was painful as Daniel blocked a mate in one threat and then forgot about it the very next move, similar to the oft-repeated tale of how I lost to Todd Bardwick when I was a 22 year old expert rated 2130, often re-crafted as, " How I beat my first 33 year old Chessmaster. " [Event "Colorado State Scholastic Championship" ] [Site "Tivoli Center, Downtown Denver, Colorado"] [Date "2010.02.20" ] [Round "4"] [White "Daniel Zhou"] [Black "Zachary J Umana"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "1683"] [BlackElo "1095"] [Opening "Two knights defense"] [ECO "C57"] [NIC "KP.01"] [Time "23:24:14"] [TimeControl "Game/55, 5 second delay"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. Qf3? Played 216 times before. A kid could win half the scholastic tournaments just by knowing the Two Knights defense. 6 N:f7!!! is the famous Fried Liver Attack that I and a billion kids learned. A recent engine freak in Chess Life claims this wins. Next comes 6 d4!! mentioned by Bobby as winning in My 60 Memorable Games. I think this might be one of 3 Lolli variations. I was considering putting in an illustrated Lolli-pop cartoon in How To Play Chess Like An Animal. Next Rybka likes 6 d3, 0-0, Nc3, Nf3 or h4 which I've never seen mentioned or played anywhere in half a century of Chess. Daniel's move is not good but it goes back to at least 1837. 6 ... Qxg5! 7. Bxd5! Nd4!! played 6 times before starting in 1988 Very impressive, I was busy spouting off in the analysis room about no worries after 7 ... Qg6! ( played 35 times ) or ... Qf6! ( played 20 times ) when this 1095 kid slaps down the best move. 8. Qe4? TL Second best but very bad as often happens in open positions. Theoretical Lemon by Daniel Zhou, better than the White response in the original 7 ... Nd4 game, 8 Qd1?. The best move 8 Q:f7+! was played 5 times before. My live analysis room suggestion 8 Q:f7+! Kd8 9 Be4? is a no go because of 9 ... Be6!! trapping the Queen. 8 Q:f7+! Kd8 9 0-0!! N:c2! 10 Be4!! TN Rybka N:a1 11 d4!! almost gives White enough for a Rook based on the bad placement of ALL of Black's pieces. It's very messy. Nobody who faced this as White got it right. It would be fun to play out after 11 d4!! Qe7!! 12 Qh5!! avoiding a Queen trade, Peterson style. White will probably win the cornered Knight back and then try to prove he has some attack left for the exchange. This would make an excellent Topalov-Judit Polgar theme match. The reason 8 Q:f7+! Kd8 9 0-0!! N:c2! 10 Be4!! TN Rybka is better than 10 d4? is that Black can hold off taking the Rook with 10 ... Qf5!!, an option that 10 Be4!! takes away. So the kids unearthed a fascinating gold nugget buried deep in Chess history, like Tom Sawyer and Becky exploring the caves. 8 ... Bf5!!! Best again from this "World's Strongest 1,000 player ", Zachary J Umana. 6 Qf3? combined with 8 Qe4? is so bad that Zach has many winning moves, 8 ... c6!!, ... Be7!!, ... Bd6!! ( suggested by me at the time ), ... f6!!, ... Qf5!, ... Bc5!, ... Qf6! or ... Qg4! all good for Zachary. 9. Qxe5+! Qe7! 10. Qxe7+! Bxe7! 11. Bb3! Bxc2! 12. O-O! So far young Master Umana is playing at a 3,000 Super GM level, much better than anyone watching his game suggesting moves. He was in the zone. Daniel is behind in development and structure. After playing a series of only moves, Zach gets spoilt for choice and starts fooling around and wasting time. 12 ... a6!!! is very good so he can capture on b3 and castle Queenside without worrying about the a-pawn. 12 ... a5!!! is also very good, harassing the b3-Bishop At the time, I liked 12 ... B:b3!! 13 ab a6 because the b3-pawn cannot be defended. Zazhary has a whole host of winning moves here. 12 ... Ne2+? a bizarre waste of time. Up until now if I had seen this opening played in a top level tournament I would accuse Black of Grandmaster preparation. 13. Kh1! Bxb3! 14. axb3! Nd4! 15. Nc3! Nxb3 16. Ra4! O-O-O 17. Rxa7! Nxd2?? The whole room gasped in horror as Uman's performance rating spiraled downwards in a 2,000 point free fall. It was like watching a window washer's cable snap. Young Zach was still much better after 17 ... Kb8!! which we all expected or any normal move like 17 ... Bc5! or ... Rhe8!. Only Daniel expected ZJU to blunder, responding instantly. Possible Zachary was under half an hour now and tried to rush. When he took his time, he played like Apollo. 18. Ra8+! 18 B:d2!! also works so Zachary must have really hit the snooze button. Maybe he got caught up in Daniel' blitz rhythm, a kid's trick that adults often use. 18 ... Kd7! 19. Rxd8+! Rxd8! 20. Bxd2! Kc8 and Daniel's extra piece eventually won 1-0 A great game to watch and as much as I like Daniel, a real heartbreaker for Zachary J. Umana --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Colorado State Scholastic Championship" ] [Site "Tivoli Center, Downtown Denver, Colorado"] [Date "2010.02.20" ] [Round "3"] [White "Daniel Zhou"] [Black "Zachary J Umana"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "1683"] [BlackElo "1095"] [Opening "Two knights defense"] [ECO "C57"] [NIC "KP.01"] [Time "23:24:14"] [TimeControl "Game/55, 5 second delay"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. Qf3 Qxg5 7. Bxd5 Nd4 8. Qe4 Bf5 9. Qxe5+ Qe7 10. Qxe7+ Bxe7 11. Bb3 Bxc2 12. O-O Ne2+ 13. Kh1 Bxb3 14. axb3 Nd4 15. Nc3 Nxb3 16. Ra4 O-O-O 17. Rxa7 Nxd2 18. Ra8+ Kd7 19. Rxd8+ Rxd8 20. Bxd2 Kc8 and Daniel's extra piece eventually won 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Berlin m13"] [Site "Berlin"] [Date "1837.08.20"] [Round "?"] [White "Von Heydebrand und der L, Tassilo"] [Black "Seligo"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C57"] [Annotator "Joe Eversole Variation of the English Opening"] [PlyCount "53"] [EventDate "1837.??.??"] [EventType "match"] [EventRounds "23"] [EventCountry "GER"] [Source "ChessBase"] [SourceDate "2004.11.15"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. Qf3 Be6 7. Nxe6 fxe6 8. c3 Be7 9. O-O Bf6 10. Qh5+ g6 11. Qg4 Qd6 12. d3 O-O-O 13. Nd2 Rdf8 14. Ne4 Qd7 15. Nc5 Qd6 16. Nxe6 Kb8 17. Nxf8 Rxf8 18. Be3 Na5 19. b4 Nxc4 20. Bc5 Qc6 21. Bxf8 Nd2 22. Rfd1 Qxc3 23. Rac1 Qa3 24. Qd7 Nb6 25. Qxc7+ Ka8 26. Qc8+ Nxc8 27. Rxc8# 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Lansing-ch MI op"] [Site "Lansing"] [Date "1988.??.??"] [Round "5"] [White "Triplett, Thomas"] [Black "Thurman, John"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C57"] [Annotator "Joe Eversole Variation of the English Opening"] [PlyCount "49"] [EventDate "1988.??.??"] [EventType "swiss"] [EventRounds "7"] [EventCountry "USA"] [Source "ChessBase"] [SourceDate "1999.11.16"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. Qf3 Qxg5 7. Bxd5 Nd4 8. Qd1 c6 9. d3 Qg6 10. Be4 Bf5 11. Bxf5 Qxf5 12. c3 Ne6 13. Be3 Rd8 14. d4 exd4 15. cxd4 Bb4+ 16. Nc3 O-O 17. O-O Bxc3 18. bxc3 Rd7 19. Qc1 c5 20. dxc5 Nxc5 21. Bd4 b6 22. Re1 Nd3 23. Qc2 Rxd4 24. cxd4 Rc8 25. Re5 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Devon's opponents that I reported on were Rebecca Kirby Round 3 and Daniel Blair Round 4. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- results Day 1 Saturday Feb 20,2010 Colorado State Scholastic Championship http://www.coloradochess.com/scholast/events/2010_State_Scholastic.shtml ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- www.Walverine.com ( third of a million hits ) www.BrianWallChess.net www.DenverChess.net www.Colorado-Chess.com http://www.coloradomasterchess.com/ Todd Bardwick's site ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 22 18:43:09 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:43:09 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Dave Chesster from England on Problems with Prybils [1 Attachment] Message-ID: <1266889389.4b8332ad919bd@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from dave at jaundy.fsnet.co.uk ----- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:06:46 +0100 (CET) From: dave at jaundy.fsnet.co.uk Reply-To: dave at jaundy.fsnet.co.uk Subject: FW: RE: [BrianWallChess] Problems with Prybils [1 Attachment] To: Brian Wall Hi everyone Vlastimil Jansa collaborated on a book with Josef Pribyl called "How To Play The Pirc; A New System For Black - Jansa & Pribyl (Monster International, 1988)" which I have. I play the "Jansa/Pribyl Pirc" quite often at my club with a mixed-bag of results. Chesster > Message Received: Feb 22 2010, 08:40 AM > From: "Brian Wall" > To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, "Brian Wall Chesslist" > Cc: > Subject: [BrianWallChess] Problems with Prybils [1 Attachment] > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100222/a123f63b/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Mon Feb 22 18:47:59 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:47:59 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Janice Kondracki on Kurt Kondracki - Nabil Spann last round Colorado State Scholastic Championship Message-ID: <1266889679.4b8333cf5c87d@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from koncrew at comcast.net ----- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:26:13 +0000 (UTC) From: koncrew at comcast.net Reply-To: koncrew at comcast.net Subject: Re: [BrianWall-ChessList] Daniel Zhou - Zachary J Umana Colorado State Scholastic Championship Saturday To: Brian Wall Hi Brian, ? Kurt's opponent in the last round was Indian, but it was Nabil Spann - 1490. Take-care of yourself, Janice Kondracki ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Wall" To: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com, UnorthodoxChessOpenings at Yahoogroups.com, "Chess Improvement" , "Brian Wall Chesslist" Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 1:49:04 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Daniel Zhou - Zachary J Umana Colorado State Scholastic Championship Saturday There are 3 Colorado Chessplaying Zhous, Xu ( a good scrabble word ) Zhou, 1028, Allen Zhou, 389 and Daniel Y Zhou, 1683. I don't know if they are related. There are 198 Chessplaying Zhous in the USA. I have played Daniel twice and written up both games. He is one of our most talented Colorado juniors. I think Daniel Zhou and Kurt Kondracki are the same age, 12. Kurt had a great tournament, went 5-0 and then in the last game, played the Fishing Pole twice as White but his Indian opponent Suhaas Narayanan 1321 defended very well. It got down to a 2 minute bullet game with Queens, Rooks and opposite-colored Bishops where Kurt was a pawn down. Kurt avoided trading Queens which made things worse and ended up getting pushed off the board, 5 pawns down. It was very exciting to hear Bardwick's commentary who called it a lottery. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100222/2742e206/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 23 01:58:45 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:58:45 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Problems with Prybils Message-ID: <1266915525.4b8398c5d19d0@www.taom.com> This is sort of a one move game - 12 B:g6+ or bc is equal but Robert had some hallucination, hung his Queen to no good purpose and the rest was a mopup. Brian Wall --------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Forwarded message from Daoud Zupa ----- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:12:23 -0500 From: Daoud Zupa Reply-To: Daoud Zupa Subject: Problems with Prybils To: brianwallchess3 at taom.com hi Brian, First let me say that it is free pancakes night at the Denver Chess Club / IHOP - this Tuesday February 23rd! See the dcc website at denverchess.comfor details! This is for all the other Denver area Walverine email readers. This offer is not available to you Brian - I'm sorry, it's for your own good. If you would like to get a salad, that's alright, but we can't permit you to order anything else off the menu while attending the club (Liability Issues). It was nice to see you up and at 'em, and likewise great to chat with you about the Czech Pirc- also known as the Prybil (naturally a Czech player). You noted Vlastimil Jansa as another Czech advocate of the variation. Jansa can be considered as carrying on the tradition of Czech coaches and instructors (as Coach of David Navarra - not to be confused with the former guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dave Navarro) in the line of Ludek Pachman. It might be said that Pachman enjoyed many of the advantages of chess behind the Iron Curtain while suffering personal political pressure from the Soviet powers that orbited and monitored the chess world as the jewel in the Soviet Propaghanda Crown. Just trying to start up a Prybil thread here. I have several games of interest, so I'll send some more. This one is against Robert Ramirez last year. As noted in this column several times previously, I can make positional moves quite naturally, but get lost when it gets tactical. Robert is perhaps in an overzealous tactical mood here, but if you could assist in assessing the game overall in the tactical light (as I can not), then we might understand the strengths and limits of the "Desperado rich" attacking game. I don't have a good fritz to feed it too either, so if Fritz were to assist, I'm sure your commentary would still be more elucidating for us human players. [Event "DCC March Madness"] [Site "?"] [Date "2009.03.21"] [Round "3"] [White "Robert Ramirez"] [Black "Daoud Zupa"] [Result "*"] [Result 0-1] [Opening "Czech Prybil Pirc"] [ECO "B07"] [NIC "VO.17"] [Time "02:33:34"] 1. e4 d6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 c6 4. d4 Bg4 5. Bd3 Nbd7 6. h3 Bh5 7. g4 Bg6 8. h4 d5 9. e5 Ne4 10. e6 fxe6 11. h5 Nxc3 12. hxg6 Nxd1 13. gxh7 Qb6 14. Bg6+ Kd8 15. Ng5 Nxf2 16. Rf1 Nf6 17. Nxe6+ Kc8 18. Rxf2 c5 19. Nxc5 e6 20. g5 Ng4 21. Rf7 Bxc5 22. Rxg7 Bxd4 23. Re7 Qb4+ 24. c3 Qxe7 25. cxd4 Qf8 26. Bd3 Qf2+ 27. Kd1 Qxd4 28. Ke2 Rf8 29. g6 Qe5+ 30. Kd1 Nf2+ 31. Kc2 Nxd3 32. Bh6 Qe2+ 33. Kc3 Qxb2+ 34. Kxd3 Rf3+ White Resigns ----- End forwarded message ----- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100223/b4697240/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 23 20:27:25 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:27:25 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] upcoming scholastic chess tournament in Ft Collins [2 Attachments] Message-ID: <1266982045.4b849c9d7e5e7@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Scott Swerdlin ----- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:36:22 -0600 From: Scott Swerdlin Reply-To: Scott Swerdlin Subject: [BrianWallChess] upcoming scholastic chess tournament in Ft Collins [2 Attachments] To: "BrianWallChess at yahoogroups.com" Hi Brian, If you would, please post to the group that Ft Collins' Zach Bekkedahl is hosting a K-9 scholastic tournament on March 13th, in Ft Collins. It's a 4-round SS G/30 TD/0. Fliers attached. Discounted registration available up to March 8th. Questions should be addressed to Zach at Info at chessmatesfc.com. Thanks! Scott Swerdlin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100223/ea727127/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Tue Feb 23 20:29:02 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:29:02 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter Message-ID: <1266982142.4b849cfec1dac@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from CS Chess ----- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:43:16 -0700 From: CS Chess Reply-To: CS Chess Subject: Colorado Springs Chess Newsletter Greetings, I thought I would try out a new format with the newsletters: Keep it short and simple, just to remind folks of news and upcoming events and let them check out the details online as needed. Hope you like it. Feel free to let me know your thoughts. Paul Anderson The Newsletter (http://cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/) 1. Cabin Fever Reliever Results 2. CO Chess Survey: Paul Anderson, Part 2 3. 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All articles written by Paul Anderson unless otherwise noted. To unsubscribe, reply to this message with the subject heading "Unsubscribe". -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100223/83332193/attachment.htm From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Wed Feb 24 20:15:47 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:15:47 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] IM Can Emre - GM_Sargissian revisited Message-ID: <1267067747.4b85eb634f0ee@www.taom.com> I analyzed this Emre Can - Sargissian game, it's the one that started the virulent God thread. Hans Ree just analyzed the game at Chess cafe. http://www.chesscafe.com/hans/hans.htm " The extent to which the Rosentreter Gambit has passed into oblivion can be judged by the fact that a prominent Internet journalist who commented on Can's game, called it the Muzio Gambit, which is a related piece sacrifice with far different consequences. " - Hans Ree wasn't me, whew! ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - [Event "2010 World Team Championship" ] [Site "Turkey"] [Date "2010.01.07" ] [Round "?"] [White "IM_Can_Emre" ] [Black "GM_Sargissian" ] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2442"] [BlackElo "2680"] [Opening "KGA: Rosentreter gambit"] [ECO "C37"] [NIC "KG.01"] [Time "07:46:58"] [TimeControl "5400+30"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. d4 g4 5. Bxf4 gxf3 6. Qxf3 d6 7. Nc3 Nc6 8. O-O-O h5 9. Qf2 Bg4 10. Rd2 Bh6 11. h3 Bd7 12. e5 Bf5 13. Bc4 Nge7 14. exd6 Bxf4 15. Qxf4 Qxd6 16. Qf2 a6 17. Re1 O-O-O 18. d5 Ne5 19. Rde2 f6 20. g4 hxg4 21. hxg4 Bxg4 {Black wins} 0-1 ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Feb 25 15:15:08 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:15:08 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] name changes at Colorado State Scholastic Championship Saturday Message-ID: <1267136108.4b86f66cced5a@www.taom.com> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:44:35 -0700 From: DuWayne Langseth To: Brian Wall Subject: RE: [BrianWallChess] Daniel Zhou - Zachary J Umana Colorado State Scholastic Championship Saturday 2 unnamed text/html 20.06 KB Brian, I think Black was Gabriel Sanders, rated 1155 in this game. I was doing commentary then in round 2. It's games like this one, and the Tyler Hughes variation, that caused me to quit playing 1. e4. I'd rather keep my blood pressure at a safe level! DuWayne ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian I think it was Day one - Day 2 isn't up yet 14 Daniel Y Zhou 13435195 1683 MCAM 7 W47 W38 L7 W32 3.0 7 4 9 6 Round 1 Daniel beat 47 Tessa Lasley, a one-sided crush Round 2 Daniel beat 38 Gabriel Sanders, Sanders brilliancy Round 3 Daniel lost to 7 Frank Riley, blind spot, 1 ... Ne4 blocking Q:h7 checkmate and then next move 2 ... N:d2?? allowing Q:h7 checmate Round 4 Daniel beat 32 Zachary J Umana, don't remember -------------------------------------------------------------------- I think you're right that the Two Knights Defense game was against Gabriel Sanders because I remember I told Daniel Zhou he got lucky and then he fell into a mate in one against Frank Riley the next game and I thought the luck evens out. I got all the names wrong or partially wrong in my State Scholastic reports. So for the record - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Brian, Kurt's opponent in the last round was Indian, but it was Nabil Spann - 1490. Take-care of yourself, Janice Kondracki This was the game after Kurt score 5-0 - another opposite colored Bishop game like Richard Herbst's final game. erroneously reported by me as Suhaas Narayanan playing Black in Round 6 versus Kurt Kondracki. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Colorado State Scholastic Championship" ] [Site "Tivoli Center, Downtown Denver, Colorado"] [Date "2010.02.20" ] [Round "2] [White "Daniel Zhou"] [Black "Gabriel Sanders"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "1683"] [BlackElo "1155"] [Opening "Two knights defense"] [ECO "C57"] [NIC "KP.01"] [Time "23:24:14"] [TimeControl "Game/55, 5 second delay"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. Qf3 Qxg5 7. Bxd5 Nd4 8. Qe4 Bf5 9. Qxe5+ Qe7 10. Qxe7+ Bxe7 11. Bb3 Bxc2 12. O-O Ne2+ 13. Kh1 Bxb3 14. axb3 Nd4 15. Nc3 Nxb3 16. Ra4 O-O-O 17. Rxa7 Nxd2 18. Ra8+ Kd7 19. Rxd8+ Rxd8 20. Bxd2 Kc8 and Daniel's extra piece eventually won 1-0 This was the game where Gabriel started off playing 11 difficult perfect moves much better than those suggested by Bardwick, Wall or anyone else watching. The correct line was 6 N:f7!!, 6 d4! or a beautiful rook sac, 8 Q:f7+!! Kd8 9 0-0!! N:c2 10 Be4!! N:a1 11 d4!! and Daniel almost has enough. erroneously reported by me as a Round 4 game with Zachary J Umana playing Black. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21 Devon J Wall 13595522 641 ECAR 5 W68 L5 W72 W39 3.0 6.5 3 7.5 4 Round 1 Devon beat 68 Johnny Mathieu, unrated Devon quickly took everything, first game done in the room Round 2 Devon lost to 5 Alexander Yu, 1422 Devon maybe lost to Yu last year, those Asian kids are brutal. Alexander tied for 5th 4-6 grade. We smile when any Asian gets a trophy, it seems so natural. Round 3 Devon beat 72 Rebecca Kirby, 278 Rebecca was losing, then winning, then he tricked her. Round 4, Devon beat 39 David Blair unr. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Devon Wall games Tue, February 23, 2010 4:51:22 PMFrom: "Craig.Thomson at bench.com" View Contact To: brianwallchess4 at yahoo.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hilarious! I can picture conversations like that with my son when he gets older! You must?ve been so proud of that fishing pole game. Good stuff. I like the comment about the other game where his opponent spent the same amount of time in the bathroom as Devon did on all of his moves! Classic J ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Round 5 [Event "Colorado State Scholastic Championship" ] [Site "Tivoli Center, Downtown Denver, Colorado"] [Date "2010.02.21" ] [Round "5"] [White "Ben"] [Black "Devon Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "Unrated"] [BlackElo "641"] [Opening "Four knights: Italian variation, Fork Trick"] [ECO "C55"] [NIC "IG.01"] [Time "8:30 AM"] [TimeControl "Game/82, 5 second delay"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nxe4 5. Nxe4 d5 6. Bb5 dxe4 7. Bxc6+ bxc6 8. Nxe5 Qd6 9. Nc4 Qd5 10. b3 Qd4 11. Rb1 Bc5 12. O-O Qf6 13. Bb2 Bd4 14. Bxd4 Qxd4 15. Qe2 Qd5 16. d3 O-O 17. Qxe4 Qg5 18. Qe3 Qg6 19. Ne5 Qf6 20. Rfe1 Re8 21. Ng4 Bxg4 22. Qxe8+ Rxe8 23. Rxe8# Devon's round 5 opponent was one of these -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin Wilking 1006 Ben Gurka 14371343 unr. Benjamin Stephens 483 Benjamin Gascon unrated ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think it was Benjamin Wilking, I think he had glasses. This was the game where Benjamin spent as much time in the bathroom as Devon did thinking. Andy Rea called me up for the first time in my life and I told him Devon faced the first 6 moves I did against Andy in this game. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Round 3 This was the game where Devon pretended he was hanging a Rook on g8 and Rebecca took the bait. They probably both moved very fast. [Event "Colorado State Scholastic Championship" ] [Site "Tivoli Center, Downtown Denver, Colorado"] [Date "2010.02.20" ] [Round "3"] [White "Devon Wall"] [Black "Rebecca Kirby"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "641"] [BlackElo "278"] [Opening "Three knights game"] [ECO "C46"] [NIC "KP.06"] [Time "1 PM"] [TimeControl "Game/55, 5 second delay"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nd4 4. Nxd4 exd4 5. Nd5 Qh4 6. g3 Qxe4+ 7. Be2 Qxh1+ 8. Bf1 d6 9. Qe2+ Be6 10. Nxc7+ Kd7 11. Nxa8 Bh3 12. Qb5+ Ke7 13. Qe2+ Kd8 14. c4 d3 15. Qxd3 f6 16. g4 f5 17. Qxh3 fxg4 18. Qh4+ Be7 19. Qg3 Nf6 20. Qh4 b6 21. d4 Qxa8 22. d5 Ng8 23. Qxg4 Nf6 24. Qe6 Rg8 25. Qxg8+ Nxg8 26. Bh3 Bh4 27. Bf4 Ke8 28. Ke2 Qd8 29. c5 Qe7+ 30. Be6 Qf6 31. Bxg8 Qxf4 32. Bxh7 Qxf2+ 33. Kd1 Qf1+ 34. Kd2 Qxa1 35. c6 Qxb2+ 36. Kd3 Qb5+ 37. Kc3 Bf6+ 38. Kc2 Qc4+ 39. Kd2 Bc3+ 40. Kd1 Qxa2 41. c7 Qd2# -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Devon Wall - David Round 4 Colorado State Scholastic Championship Both my son and his opponent try to Fishing Pole each other. [Event "Colorado State Scholastic Championship" ] [Site "Tivoli Center, Downtown Denver, Colorado"] [Date "2010.02.20" ] [Round "4"] [White "Devon Wall"] [Black "David"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "641"] [BlackElo "?"] [Opening "Robatsch (modern) defense"] [ECO "B06"] [NIC "KF.06"] [Time "4 PM"] [TimeControl "Game/55, 5 second delay"] 1. e4 g6 2. Bc4 e6 3. Qf3 It's hard to convince my son to abandon the 4 move checkmate whilst he has so many other interests and his school chums keep falling for it. He generally prefers that I teach him "indirectly". 3 ... Bg7 4. Nh3 d6 5. d3 Qe7 6. Bg5 Nf6! 7. Bb5+ Pointless checks is another thing I can't cure him of so far. 7 ... c6 8. Ba4 b5 9. Bb3 O-O 10. Be3 Bd7 11. Ng5 h6 12. h4!! " The Fishing Pole wins under any circumstances " is one concept that transferred at birth with his square jaw. 12 ... e5 13. Nd2 Bg4 14. Qg3! d5 15. f3 Fishing Pole versus Bishing Pole, what has Colorado come to? 15 ... Bh5 16. O-O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole versus Fishing Pole, oh my. 17. Rhe1? Devon tends to see their threats before his own. He saw 17 fg!! right after he moved. 17 ... Nxe3! 18. Rxe3! d4 19. Ree1 Nd7 David ignores Devon's Fishing Pole Knight with an even game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCk6zdtSLk Chess Openings: Fishing Pole - Play chess like an Animal 5342 views " The waters here are all Fished out " - Anthea Carson 20. Rh1 Nc5 Somebody must have warned David because he passed on accepting Devon's g5-Fishing Pole Knight 9 times in a row, even offering his own Bishop and Knight on g4. I've never seen a game where the Fishing Pole was so highly respected. The game takes a new direction now. 21. Bxf7+! " He trapped my Bishop so I figured I better get something for it. " - Devon 21 ... Rxf7! Devon was right about that trapped Bishop - 21 ... Kh8!! 22 Bb3 a5! gives Devon more trouble 22. Nxf7! Qxf7! " Now material is even. " - Devon 23. Nb3 Nxb3+! 24. axb3! c5 25. Rde1 g5? 26. hxg5! hxg5! 27. Qxg5! c4 28. bxc4 bxc4 29. Rxh5!! Fishing Pole attacks down the h-file are part of Devon's DNA. Chris Peterson, Kurt Kondracki and Devon Wall hate trading Queens so 29 Q:h5!! is not an option for them. 29 ... Kf8 First David tried 29 ... Bf6 but Devon instantly chirped, " Illegal! " 30. Reh1!! Proud Papa wasn't allowed in the room to see his son double Rooks down the h-file for a mating attack. Devon's gene pool and Rybka dovetailed this time. 30 ... Bf6!! Best and legal now 31. Rh8+ 31 Qf5!!! is most deadly but we get carried away. 31 ... Bxh8? 31 ... Ke7!! 32 Q:f6+!! K:f6! 33 R:a8 and Devon's two Rooks and two pawns are stronger than David's Queen but the game would roll on. 31 ... Ke7!! 32 Qd2! R:h8 33 Qb4+ Ke6 34 Q:c4+ with three pawns for a Bishop already is also better for Devon. 32. Rxh8+!! ( mating ) Qg8 ( only legal move ) 33. Rxg8+!! ( winning the Queen and mating most efficiently) Kf7 ( only legal move ) 34. Qg6+ ( mating a little slower ) Ke7 ( only legal move ) 35. Rxa8!! Taking the last piece and mating the quickest. " I wasn't going to let him have anything. " Devon 35 ... Kd7! 36. Rxa7+!! fastest mate again Kc8! 37. Qe8# A Bishop on g5, a Knight on g5, a Bishop on g4, a Knight on g4. I feel like Socrates. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Round 4 This was the game where both players Fishing Poled and Bishing Pole each other. [Event "Colorado State Scholastic Championship" ] [Site "Tivoli Center, Downtown Denver, Colorado"] [Date "2010.02.20" ] [Round "4"] [White "Devon Wall"] [Black "David Blair"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "641"] [BlackElo "unrated"] [Opening "Robatsch (modern) defense"] [ECO "B06"] [NIC "KF.06"] [Time "4 PM"] [TimeControl "Game/55, 5 second delay"] 1. e4 g6 2. Bc4 e6 3. Qf3 Bg7 4. Nh3 d6 5. d3 Qe7 6. Bg5 Nf6 7. Bb5+ c6 8. Ba4 b5 9. Bb3 O-O 10. Be3 Bd7 11. Ng5 h6 12. h4 e5 13. Nd2 Bg4 14. Qg3 d5 15. f3 Bh5 16. O-O-O Ng4 17. Rhe1 Nxe3 18. Rxe3 d4 19. Ree1 Nd7 20. Rh1 Nc5 21. Bxf7+ Rxf7 22. Nxf7 Qxf7 23. Nb3 Nxb3+ 24. axb3 c5 25. Rde1 g5 26. hxg5 hxg5 27. Qxg5 c4 28. bxc4 bxc4 29. Rxh5 Kf8 30. Reh1 Bf6 31. Rh8+ Bxh8 32. Rxh8+ Qg8 33. Rxg8+ Kf7 34. Qg6+ Ke7 35. Rxa8 Kd7 36. Rxa7+ Kc8 37. Qe8# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Day 1 results http://www.coloradochess.com/scholast/events/2010_State_Scholastic.shtml ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think I have all the names right now From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Feb 25 21:03:45 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:03:45 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] My Scotch recipe Message-ID: <1267157025.4b87482142674@www.taom.com> http://www.walverine.com/index.php?id=179 4622 hits Here's how that Bloomer game should have gone ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 1 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.25"] [Round "-"] [White "yenc"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White checkmated"] [WhiteElo "2011"] [BlackElo "1921"] [Opening "Scotch game"] [ECO "C45"] [NIC "SO.04"] [Time "22:43:07"] [TimeControl "60+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bb4+ 5. c3 Be7 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. Bc4 Nf6 8. e5 Nd5 9. Bxd5 cxd5 10. Qxd5 Rb8 11. O-O Rb6 12. b3 Bb7 13. Qd1 Rg6 14. g3 h5!! If White gets this far he almost always plays 14 f3 0-0 like Josh did in the first game with my new system in 2003. 15. Be3 h4!! 16. c4 hxg3!! I am already killing Yenc 17. fxg3! d6?? I couldn't see how to get my Bishop out of the way of my Queen. The answer is to throw it away - 17 ... Bc5!!, ... Bb4!, ... Ba3!, ... Bg5! all win 17 ... Bc5!! 18 B:c5 Qh4 19 Rf2 R:g3+!! or 19 Kf2 Qe4!! are wipeouts. Ironically I missed the same maneuver against Josh - 17 ... Bc5+ 18 Bd4 Qg5!! was winning aginst Bloomer 18. exd6?? Bxd6! Now my Queen is free again and my position is twice as good as before 17 ... d6?? 19. Nc3 Qh4!! My hand wanted to play 19 ... R:h2!!! 20. Qe2 Rxg3+!! mate in 2 21. Kf2 Rg2# ahead of schedule {White checkmated} 0-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 1 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.25"] [Round "-"] [White "yenc"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White checkmated"] [WhiteElo "2011"] [BlackElo "1921"] [Opening "Scotch game"] [ECO "C45"] [NIC "SO.04"] [Time "22:43:07"] [TimeControl "60+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bb4+ 5. c3 Be7 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. Bc4 Nf6 8. e5 Nd5 9. Bxd5 cxd5 10. Qxd5 Rb8 11. O-O Rb6 12. b3 Bb7 13. Qd1 Rg6 14. g3 h5 15. Be3 h4 16. c4 hxg3 17. fxg3 d6 18. exd6 Bxd6 19. Nc3 Qh4 20. Qe2 Rxg3+ 21. Kf2 Rg2# {White checkmated} 0-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Thu Feb 25 23:25:02 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:25:02 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] For Craig Message-ID: <1267165502.4b87693ee5f11@www.taom.com> Craig Thomson of NH studies all my quick kill mate-in-20 systems [Event "ICC 1 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "-"] [White "Dose"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White checkmated"] [WhiteElo "1911"] [BlackElo "1959"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "01:17:03"] [TimeControl "60+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. O-O d6 6. Bg5 h6 7. Bxf6 Qxf6 8. c3 a6 9. Ba4 Ba7 10. h3 g5 11. Nh2 h5 12. d4 g4 13. dxe5 dxe5 14. Qd5 gxh3 15. g3 h4 16. g4 Rg8 17. Kh1 Bxg4 18. Rg1 Bf3+ 19. Nxf3 Qxf3+ 20. Kh2 Qxf2+ 21. Kxh3 Rg3+ 22. Kxh4 Qh2# {White checkmated} 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "ICC 1 0"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "-"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "SmallBishop"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "1972"] [BlackElo "1880"] [Opening "Gr?nfeld: exchange, Spassky variation"] [ECO "D87"] [NIC "GI.05"] [Time "01:18:32"] [TimeControl "60+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Bc4 O-O 8. Ne2 c5 9. Be3 Nc6 10. h4 cxd4 11. cxd4 h5 12. e5 Na5 13. Bd3 a6 14. Nf4 b5 15. Nxg6 fxg6 16. Bxg6 Bb7 17. Qxh5 Re8 18. Qh7+ Kf8 19. Bh6 Bxh6 20. Qf7# {Black checkmated} 1-0------------------------------------------------------------------------ From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Feb 26 17:41:39 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:41:39 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Richard Herbst, 2010 Colorado Denker rep, analyzes 5th round game Message-ID: <1267231299.4b886a4354b51@www.taom.com> Facebook notes by Richard Herbst - This is my round 5 game from the Scholastic State Championships. It's very short, but I think it's my most interesting game thematically. Herbst (2103) - Scudder, K (1585) Board 1, Round 5, G/90 1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nc3 d6 4. Nge2--maybe slightly inaccurate. f3 is very weak in between white's playing g3 and Bg2, especially if black plays Nc6-d4. 4 ...e5--bold, maybe a little premature. Black must tread carefully if he chooses to open the center so early 5. g3 f5--overly ambitious. Black tries to hack at the center, but much to the convenience of white. Black remains very under-developed, and white will attempt to capitalize on the center--the same area black is willingly opening. Better is ...Nc6 6. de--White is okay with the queen trade on d8 with Bg5+ and 0-0-0+, posing many more developmental issues for black 6...Be5 7. Bg2-- I had prepared f4, but I realized that the tempo on the e5B is mine whenever I want it. I don't want to cut of my c1B's diagonal quite yet. 7...c6--a seemingly adequate defensive move, but Black remains drastically behind in development. Also, the d6 pawn is now a target 8. Bf4--trying to trade bishops which will allow white to assault black's kingside dark squares. Once again, the d6 pawn is loose 8...Qe7--another lost chance at development. White now eyes Re1 and a deadly pin. 9. 0-0--No hurry. The rook needs to come to e1 in order to continue the attack. 9...Be6--Finally, a developing move. But... 10.ef--Now, black must face losing another tempo (Bf5) or isolating a pawn (gf) and exposing the h5-e8 mini-diagonal. 10...gf 11. Nd4--overtly threatening Qh5+, among others 11...Nf6 12. Re1--The end is near. Black must succomb to one of many pressure points 12...Bd4 13. Qd4 Kd7--...d5 is met with Bh3 14. Bd6--after Qd6, Qf6 and white threatens Rad1, Qh8 and pressures e6 1-0 From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Feb 26 17:48:08 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:48:08 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Subscribe to my Examiner page Message-ID: <1267231688.4b886bc8372dd@www.taom.com> http://www.examiner.com/x-40125-Denver-Chess-Examiner The Examiner is an online magazine that hires local writers all over the USA on various topics. They hired me as a Denver Chess writer. If you become an Examiner writer then mention me and I get $50. If you just want to read my articles, then I think I get paid depending on how many views I get. They have to review my first article to see if they like it. From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Fri Feb 26 19:10:22 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:10:22 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] New Anthea Chess videos Message-ID: <1267236622.4b887f0edf029@www.taom.com> New Anthea videos not really new but I haven't seen them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm3bv5b9JnY Secrets of the Four move checkmate revealed -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNuUr1Ej0sg Fried Liver Attack - Queen trap variation starring Isaac Martinez -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- most popular by far Anthea Chess video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCk6zdtSLk Chess Openings: Fishing Pole - Play chess like an Animal 5386 views ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Feb 27 07:47:19 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:47:19 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Bosna2010 Qualifier Message-ID: <1267282039.4b89307782dd8@www.taom.com> Bosna2010 Qualifiers I played in two 9 round 3 minute ICC blitz tourneys. 18 games total. I would like to take a quick look at the highlights of the 18 blitz games with your indulgence. There are certain openings perfect for blitz, mostly highly tactical rather unpopular openings. Even though it's been almost 20 years since NM Ed Boudrot and IM Joe Fang introduced me to the secrets of their gambit and NM Pete Karagianis is still afraid to play it ( taunt ) the Fang-Boudrot Gambit against the Benko Gambit still applies. [Event "Q2"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "7"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "spand42"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2036"] [BlackElo "1771"] [Opening "Benk? gambit: Zaitsev system, Fang-Boudrot Gambit"] [ECO "A57"] [NIC "BI.44"] [Time "19:05:51"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. Nc3 axb5 6. e4 b4 7. Nb5 Ba6? everyone else plays 7 ... d6! 8. e5!! Ng8 On 8 ... Ne4 I support my attacking Knight with 9 a4!! and laugh at Span42's Mkole Membe Knight. ( 1 e4 Nf6 2 e5 Ne4!? Stefan Buecker ) See Clyde Nakamura's great Chessville article for more Mkole Membe info. http://www.chessville.com/UCO/CN/MokeleMbembe.htm On 8 ... Qa5 counterattack 9 a4!! supporting my Knight again ba+ 9 Nc3 Ne4, ... Qb4, ... Ng8, ... Qb6 or ... B:f1 10 R:a3!! Other 9th Black moves can be met by 10 ef or B:a6. Every line is advantage Me. My openings are so creative, dynamic and original even I don't know what's going on half the time. However 1771's don't even bother counterattacking Chessmasters, they just run at the first sign of danger like a rabbit smelling a lion downwind ... unless they are playing a Dragon - then anyone beats me. 9. d6 I must have smelled fear. I thought this was a smackdown but 9 Nh3!! or a4!! are the real moves. Secure the Knight and the rest of the position is all white advantages. 9 Be3!, Nf3!, Be2, h3!, Qb3!, Bd2!, h4!, Qf3! are also all good in the sense that it is difficult to mess my posiiton up. I like the weird never before seen Fang-Boudrot tactics after 9 e6! - 9 e6 ! g6 10 Bf4, Qb3, Bc4, a4, Nf3, ef+, Qf3, Be3 9 e6! Qb6 10 Qh5!! Devon would love this move, even better than 10 a4! or ef+ 9 e6! Qb6 10 Qh5!! and it's best to allow 11 Q:f7 with 10 ... Nf6 or ... Kd8 because 10 ... g6?? allows 11 Qe5!! Double Rook trick 9 e6 Qa5 and this time 10 a4!! is better than 10 ef+!, Qh5! or Qe2! 9 e6 Qa5 10 a4!! ba+ 11 Bd2!! only move Qb6 12 R:a3! Bb7 13 R:a8!! B:a8 14 ed+!! and Black is in terrible shape That was fun and I could go on like this all night. " and that's just one side of me. " Susan Boyle 9 ... exd6! 10. exd6! Qb6? 10 ... B:b5! 11 B:b5 Qf6 12 Qe2+ Qe6 13 Bf4 Nc6 14 Q:e6+ or Nf3 gives me a better ending 11. Nc7+! {Black resigns} 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information about spand42 (Last disconnected Fri Feb 26 2010 19:33): rating [need] win loss draw total best Wild 1536 [6] 26 36 4 66 1728 (11-Dec-2009) Loser's 1182 [6] 0 2 0 2 Crazyhouse 1584 [6] 8 6 0 14 Bullet 1556 98 109 15 222 1709 (10-Dec-2009) Blitz 1785 212 142 29 383 1927 (28-Nov-2009) Standard 1947 [6] 28 14 3 45 2052 (23-Nov-2009) 5-minute 1784 [8] 9 16 2 27 1858 (08-Nov-2009) 1-minute 1508 [8] 10 16 2 28 1538 (08-Nov-2009) 15-minute 2034 [4] 1 0 0 1 1: Andrew Bak - Bradford, England 2: Standard - 166 ECF Rapid - 166 ECF 3: 4: My computer has a tendency to crash occasionally, so if I disconnect during a game... 5: ...I will be back online within a couple of minutes 6: Idiots list: jazz-discharge, wolfmaster, verticalmotion, tonytristani 7: 8: I will always offer one rematch only to any opponents that I play. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Q2"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "7"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "spand42"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2036"] [BlackElo "1771"] [Opening "Benk? gambit: Zaitsev system, Fang-Boudrot Gambit"] [ECO "A57"] [NIC "BI.44"] [Time "19:05:51"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. Nc3 axb5 6. e4 b4 7. Nb5 Ba6 8. e5 Ng8 9. d6 exd6 10. exd6 Qb6 11. Nc7+ {Black resigns} 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This 1688 got further down the main line of the Fang-Boudrot Gambit [Event "Q1"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "5"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "pablo12290"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2045"] [BlackElo "1688"] [Opening "Benk? gambit: Nescaf? Frapp? attack, Fang-Boudrot Gambit"] [ECO "A57"] [NIC "BI.44"] [Time "15:45:59"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. Nc3 axb5 6. e4 b4 7. Nb5 d6 8. Bc4 g6 9. e5 dxe5 10. d6 exd6 11. Bg5 Nc6? 12. Bxf6! I took 22 seconds to decide if this was stronger than 12 Qf3!! but got it wrong. 12 ... Qxf6! 13. Nc7+! Kd8! 14. Nxa8! Nd4 15. Nb6! I didn't see 15 Qa4!! or Ne2!!, I was worried about my stranded Knight and g2. 15 ... Bb7 16. Nd5 Qg5 17. Kf1! Bg7 18. Nf3 Nxf3 19. Qxf3! f5 20. Rd1 e4! 21. Qg3 Qh6? 22. Qxd6+ Mate next. That was pretty easy, Pablo12290 from Argentina didn't get enough for his Rook. {Black resigns} 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Q1"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "5"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "pablo12290"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2045"] [BlackElo "1688"] [Opening "Benk? gambit: Nescaf? Frapp? attack, Fang-Boudrot Gambit"] [ECO "A57"] [NIC "BI.44"] [Time "15:45:59"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. Nc3 axb5 6. e4 b4 7. Nb5 d6 8. Bc4 g6 9. e5 dxe5 10. d6 exd6 11. Bg5 Nc6 12. Bxf6 Qxf6 13. Nc7+ Kd8 14. Nxa8 Nd4 15. Nb6 Bb7 16. Nd5 Qg5 17. Kf1 Bg7 18. Nf3 Nxf3 19. Qxf3 f5 20. Rd1 e4 21. Qg3 Qh6 22. Qxd6+ {Black resigns} 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I sac my c4-pawn a lot in Slavs but can never tell if I have enough comp. It's just that I feel sick to my stomach if I play the exchange Slav even though IM Cyrus Lakdawala thrives on this with about a 90% score. [Event "Q2"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "9"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "PalaciosLl"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "2068"] [BlackElo "2300"] [Opening "QGD Slav: 4.Nc3"] [ECO "D15"] [NIC "SL.03"] [Time "19:26:07"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 a6 5. Bg5 dxc4 6. e4 b5! 7. Bxf6 gxf6! 8. Be2 Bb7 9. O-O! Nd7! 10. b3 cxb3? 10 ... b4! would demand some unsound piece sac in the future. 11. axb3! I have enough for a pawn now because Francisco made so many d7-pawn captures. 11 ... Rg8 IM Bill Paschall told me half his openings involved doubled f-pawns 12. d5? Overambitious c5? 13. Qd2 Qc7 14. g3 Ne5 15. Nh4! Ng6 16. Nf5 It's about even in position and clock 16 ... Rd8? 17. Nxb5!! channeling Morphy 17 ... axb5! 18. Bxb5+! Rd7! 19. Ra7!! Increasing the tension 19 ... Qb8? 20. Rfa1!! 20 Qa5!!!, Rfa1!!, B:d7+!! or Qa2! are all killers 20 ... Ne5? driving my Queen where he wants to go with the threat of 21 ... Nf3+ 21. Qa5!!! Palacios freaked out here, leaving himself with 9 seconds ( enough for 90 more moves if your name is Josh Smith in an opposite colored Bishop ending ). I didn't see my threats, I was just inviting everyone to the party ( Seirawan ). 21 ... Bc8 22. Ra8!! 22 B:d7+!! B:d7 23 Ra8! is stronger but I wanted to just keep tightening the screws without releasing the tension. " Why would you capture a pinned piece? " - GM Alex Yermolinsky 12 ... Qb7! 23. f4 23 Qb6!!! mates and 23 B:d7+!! wins the house but I didn't want any of Llera's pieces to feel safe 23 ... e6 His KB has a last request 24. fxe5!! Josh Bloomer Chess - crossing the second rank is not permitted 24 ... exf5 25. Bc6!! I don't see the threats, I grope my way around the board like a blind man, feeling by instinct. {Black forfeits on time} 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information about PalaciosLl(FM) (Last disconnected Fri Feb 26 2010 19:31): rating [need] win loss draw total best Wild 1807 [6] 13 7 1 21 1821 (25-Jun-2009) Bullet 2045 3242 2849 351 6442 2293 (15-Sep-2007) Blitz 2300 5529 3892 663 10084 2850 (08-Feb-2008) Standard 2513 [6] 283 42 31 356 2588 (18-Sep-2008) 5-minute 2196 5852 4364 989 11205 2491 (13-Apr-2009) 1-minute 2008 5656 5375 401 11432 2257 (03-Jun-2009) 1: MF Francisco Palacios Llera 2: Former National Champion Sub-26 1993, Play with Olympic team in Moscow 94 3: 2320 ELO Name : Francisco Palacios Llera Groups : FMs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "Q2"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "9"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "PalaciosLl"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "2068"] [BlackElo "2300"] [Opening "QGD Slav: 4.Nc3"] [ECO "D15"] [NIC "SL.03"] [Time "19:26:07"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 a6 5. Bg5 dxc4 6. e4 b5 7. Bxf6 gxf6 8. Be2 Bb7 9. O-O Nd7 10. b3 cxb3 11. axb3 Rg8 12. d5 c5 13. Qd2 Qc7 14. g3 Ne5 15. Nh4 Ng6 16. Nf5 Rd8 17. Nxb5 axb5 18. Bxb5+ Rd7 19. Ra7 Qb8 20. Rfa1 Ne5 21. Qa5 Bc8 22. Ra8 Qb7 23. f4 e6 24. fxe5 exf5 25. Bc6 {Black forfeits on time} 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This was my favorite win because I began attacking like Spassky, Polugaevsky, Hans Berliner, Shirov but I ended up playing the ending like Kramnik, Karpov, Petrosian demonstrating the incredible versatility of an " all around genuis " ( Bobby Fischer ) [Event "Q2"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "2"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "YuriVannis"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "2058"] [BlackElo "2558"] [Opening "Gr?nfeld: exchange, Spassky variation"] [ECO "D87"] [NIC "GI.05"] [Time "18:10:32"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Bc4 c5 8. Ne2 O-O 9. Be3 Nc6 10. h4 I thought this was the Polugaevsky Variation which Ed Boudrot and I prepared for IM David Vigorito 20 years ago but I guess Spassky also played this way 60 years ago. 10 ... Na5 11. Bd3 cxd4 12. cxd4 h5 13. Rc1 b6 14. f3 TN Theoretical Novelty by Brian Wall Rybka prefers the move order 14 Qd2 ( played twice ), 0-0 ( the human idea of 10 h4 is NOT to castle ), Qa4, e5 ( played 4 times ), f3 ( Wall ), Qc2 The pitiful human move 14 Bb1 was played once 14 ... e5 15. d5! clear edge but hard to play 15 ... Nb7 16. Qd2! Nd6 17. Bh6 Men will be executing this maneuver until the sun burns out. It's OK to castle because 17 0-0 Q:h4?? 18 Bg5! traps the Queen 17 ... Bd7 18. Bxg7 Kxg7! 19. Kf2 f5 20. Ng3 Trying to keep lines closed 20 ... fxe4? 21. Nxe4! Qe7 22. Qg5! I was hoping Rybka would give me a pat on the head for this move, she only likes 22 Rc7!! better. I will take approval where I can get it. 22 ... Nxe4+ 23. Bxe4! My King is safe and my d-pawn is getting scary, very Kramnikian. 23 ... Qxg5! 24. hxg5! Rac8! 25. Ke3 Bf5 26. Rhd1 Rfd8 27. f4? Insidious central pressure when the direct 27 R:c8!! R:c8 28 B:f5! gf 29 d6! Rd8 30 f4! is called for 27 ... exf4+ 28. Kxf4! Rf8 29. Rxc8!! Only move. Josh Bloomer Chess, crossing the second rank is unacceptable behavior prompting modification. 29 ... Bxc8+! 30. Ke3! Re8 31. Kd4! This is what Kramnik does to the Grunfeld defense 31 ... Rd8 32. Rc1!! with a crushing endgame advantage again, all my pieces and pawns are better 32 ... Bd7 33. Rc7!! a5! 34. Rb7!! b5 35. d6 Kf7! 36. Bd5+!! Ke8! 37. Ke5!! Rc8! 38. Be6!! Brute force applied to tender areas, Cheney-like 38 ... Rd8 Time left Brian - one minute YuriVannis - half that 39. Kf6 b4 40. Bf7+ Greedy, 40 Kg7!! with aesthetic mating threats wins the Bishop 40 ... Kf8 Wandering around the sheep pen 41. Bxg6! a4 42. Rxb4 Greedy, 40 Bf7!! with aesthetic mating threats or even better 42 Bh7!!! walking the g-dog 42 ... Bc6! 43. Ke5! a3 44. Bxh5! Bxg2 45. Ra4 Rc8 46. Rxa3! Rc5+ 47. Kf6! Rc6? There was a kid in Devon's Chess Class last year that wasn't satisfied with checkmate, he had to take all your pieces first for total humiliation. He was insulted when I called him the Stalemate King. I have 48 Ra8+ Rc8 49 R:c8 checkmate 48. Rd3? Rc8 49. Bf7 49 g6!! or d7!! mates 49 ... Be4 50. Rd4 50 Rh3!!!, d7!!, g6!! or Rb3!! mate sooner 50 ... Bc2 51. g6 51 Rh4!!! or d7!! mate quicker 51 ... Bxg6! 52. Bxg6 52 d7!!!, Be6!!, K:g6!! mate 52 ... Rc1 53. d7 53 Rh4!! mates quicker 53 ... Rf1+ 54. Bf5!! Rxf5+! 55. Kxf5! Kg7 56. d8=Q! Kh7! 57. Qh4+ There are 7 quicker mates but I was trying to avoid the endemic bullet stalemates by checking each move. He was down to 6 seconds which often makes me play like I have 6 seconds. 57 ... Kg8! 58. Rd8+ 4 quicker checkmates Kg7! 59. Qe7+! Kh6! 60. Rh8# {Black checkmated} 1-0 I missed 1,000 checkmates but I still like the game. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information about YuriVannis (Last disconnected Fri Feb 26 2010 22:35): rating [need] win loss draw total best Bullet 2361 123 115 19 257 2491 (08-Jan-2010) Blitz 2603 46 48 9 103 2817 (04-Sep-2009) 5-minute 2307 331 292 54 677 2434 (16-Feb-2010) 1-minute 2407 [6] 744 584 86 1414 2477 (24-Dec-2009) 15-minute 1968 [4] 9 7 0 16 1: God bless you. 2: Deus te aben?oe. 3: Name: Ivan Mesquita Vasconcelos Gon?alves 4: SP - Brasil ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Q2"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "2"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "YuriVannis"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black checkmated"] [WhiteElo "2058"] [BlackElo "2558"] [Opening "Gr?nfeld: exchange, Spassky variation"] [ECO "D87"] [NIC "GI.05"] [Time "18:10:32"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Bc4 c5 8. Ne2 O-O 9. Be3 Nc6 10. h4 Na5 11. Bd3 cxd4 12. cxd4 h5 13. Rc1 b6 14. f3 e5 15. d5 Nb7 16. Qd2 Nd6 17. Bh6 Bd7 18. Bxg7 Kxg7 19. Kf2 f5 20. Ng3 fxe4 21. Nxe4 Qe7 22. Qg5 Nxe4+ 23. Bxe4 Qxg5 24. hxg5 Rac8 25. Ke3 Bf5 26. Rhd1 Rfd8 27. f4 exf4+ 28. Kxf4 Rf8 29. Rxc8 Bxc8+ 30. Ke3 Re8 31. Kd4 Rd8 32. Rc1 Bd7 33. Rc7 a5 34. Rb7 b5 35. d6 Kf7 36. Bd5+ Ke8 37. Ke5 Rc8 38. Be6 Rd8 39. Kf6 b4 40. Bf7+ Kf8 41. Bxg6 a4 42. Rxb4 Bc6 43. Ke5 a3 44. Bxh5 Bxg2 45. Ra4 Rc8 46. Rxa3 Rc5+ 47. Kf6 Rc6 48. Rd3 Rc8 49. Bf7 Be4 50. Rd4 Bc2 51. g6 Bxg6 52. Bxg6 Rc1 53. d7 Rf1+ 54. Bf5 Rxf5+ 55. Kxf5 Kg7 56. d8=Q Kh7 57. Qh4+ Kg8 58. Rd8+ Kg7 59. Qe7+ Kh6 60. Rh8# {Black checkmated} 1-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sancho86 acted like he had never seen a Raccoon before. I tried to give away 5 Queens so I could mate with Bishop and Knight but the poor guy lost on time. [Event "Q2"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "6"] [White "Sancho86"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "1511"] [BlackElo "2030"] [Opening "King's gambit, Raccoon Defense"] [ECO "C30"] [NIC "KG.05"] [Time "18:54:43"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 h5 3. Bc4 exf4 4. Nf3 h4 5. d4 g5 6. Bd2 d6 7. Qe2 Bg4 8. Nc3 Nc6 9. h3 Nxd4 10. Qd3 Nxf3+ 11. gxf3 Be6 12. O-O-O Bg7 13. Bxe6 fxe6 14. Rhg1 e5 15. Nd5 c6 16. Nc3 Bf6 17. Rdf1 Ne7 18. b3 Qd7 19. Rg2 O-O-O 20. Rfg1 Rhg8 21. Be1 Kb8 22. Bxh4 gxh4 23. Rxg8 Rxg8 24. Rxg8+ Nxg8 25. Kb2 Kc7 26. Qc4 Nh6 27. Nb5+ Kb8 28. c3 cxb5 29. Qd5 a6 30. c4 bxc4 31. Qxc4 Bd8 32. a3 Qxh3 33. Qd5 Qd7 34. a4 h3 35. Qd2 Ng8 36. Qe2 Qh7 37. Qc4 h2 38. Qf1 h1=Q 39. Qxh1 Qxh1 40. Ka3 Qxf3 41. a5 Qxe4 42. b4 Qc6 43. Kb3 d5 44. b5 Qxb5+ 45. Kc2 Qxa5 46. Kb3 d4 47. Kc2 e4 48. Kb2 f3 49. Kc2 b5 50. Kb2 b4 51. Kc2 b3+ 52. Kxb3 Qb4+ 53. Kc2 a5 54. Kc1 a4 55. Kd1 a3 56. Kc2 f2 57. Kd1 f1=Q+ 58. Kc2 Qc1+ 59. Kxc1 a2 60. Kc2 Qb2+ 61. Kd1 d3 62. Ke1 Qf2+ {White forfeits on time} 0-1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brutal Wing Gambit against the French [Event "Q1"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "1"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "kabubi"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2045"] [BlackElo "1249"] [Opening "French: Wing gambit"] [ECO "C00"] [NIC "FR.01"] [Time "15:02:29"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e5 c5 4. b4 b6 5. c3 Qc7 6. b5 Ne7 7. d4 Ng6 8. h4 Be7 9. h5 Nf8 10. h6 g6 11. Bg5 Nfd7 12. Bxe7 Kxe7 13. Qd2 Re8 14. Ng5 f6 15. Nxh7 Rh8 16. Nxf6 Nxf6 17. exf6+ Kxf6 18. Bd3 Qf7 19. Qf4+ Ke7 20. Qg5+ Ke8 21. Bxg6 Qxg6 22. Qxg6+ {Black resigns} 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Q1"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "8"] [White "JustineHenin"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "1602"] [BlackElo "2021"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Vukovic Art of Attack Variation"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "16:30:24"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4!! Fishing Pole 5. h3 h5!! 6. d3 versus Lemmiwinks 6 ... Bc5 7. Qe2 d6 8. Bg5? Fish can't seem to stay away from these troubled waters Vukovic warned against 60 years ago. 8 ... f6 9. Bh4? Few Fish can resist losing 4 tempi to include the QB in the defense 9 ... g5! 10. Bg3! h4! 11. Bh2! Nxh2! 12. Nxh2! Bd7! 13. Nc3 Nd4! 14. Bxd7+! Qxd7! 15. Qg4 c6 I saw 15 ... N:c2!! but I wanted to keep Justine away from f6 first 16. Qxd7+ Kxd7! 17. Rae1? Nxc2! 18. Rc1! Nd4! 19. Ng4! Rhf8! 20. Ne3 b5 21. a3 a5! 22. Rfe1 a4 23. Ne2 Nxe2+ 24. Rxe2! Bd4 25. Nf5! c5 26. Kf1 Rab8 27. Ne3 Bxe3!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJMxtvm-O5s&feature=fvw " Get off my plane! " Harrison Ford, Airforce One 28. fxe3 b4!! 29. d4 cxd4! 30. exd4! bxa3 31. bxa3! Rb3 32. dxe5 dxe5 33. Rd2+ Ke6! 34. Rc6+ Kf7! 35. Rd7+! Kg6! 36. Rcc7 Rg8!! At first I thought maybe I was getting checkmated like Dana MacKensie's double Rook ending in a recent blog entry but then I realized it take two moves for Henin to threaten mate and two moves to threaten my f6-pawn and it only takes one move for me to defend so all Justine achieves is total frustration. 37. Kf2 Rxa3! 38. Rd6 Ra2+ 39. Kf3 Ra3+ 40. Kf2! Ra2+! 41. Kf3! Ra1 41 ... Rb8!! switching to the attack is terribly strong but Henin only had 8 seconds left. 42. Rcc6! Rf8 {White forfeits on time} 0-1 The Fishing Pole is solid. "Magnificent! Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so!" -- George S. Patton --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Q1"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "8"] [White "JustineHenin"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "1602"] [BlackElo "2021"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin defense, 4.O-O, Fishing Pole, Vukovic Art of Attack Variation"] [ECO "C65"] [NIC "RL.07"] [Time "16:30:24"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3 h5 6. d3 Bc5 7. Qe2 d6 8. Bg5 f6 9. Bh4 g5 10. Bg3 h4 11. Bh2 Nxh2 12. Nxh2 Bd7 13. Nc3 Nd4 14. Bxd7+ Qxd7 15. Qg4 c6 16. Qxd7+ Kxd7 17. Rae1 Nxc2 18. Rc1 Nd4 19. Ng4 Rhf8 20. Ne3 b5 21. a3 a5 22. Rfe1 a4 23. Ne2 Nxe2+ 24. Rxe2 Bd4 25. Nf5 c5 26. Kf1 Rab8 27. Ne3 Bxe3 28. fxe3 b4 29. d4 cxd4 30. exd4 bxa3 31. bxa3 Rb3 32. dxe5 dxe5 33. Rd2+ Ke6 34. Rc6+ Kf7 35. Rd7+ Kg6 36. Rcc7 Rg8 37. Kf2 Rxa3 38. Rd6 Ra2+ 39. Kf3 Ra3+ 40. Kf2 Ra2+ 41. Kf3 Ra1 42. Rcc6 Rf8 {White forfeits on time} 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a funny game in that Droid586's extra Knight obligated him to try and win but it was very hard to make progress - by the time he figured out he should sac the Knight somewhere he had 11 seconds left and lost all his pawns. [Event "Q2"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "8"] [White "droid586"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "1754"] [BlackElo "2041"] [Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense"] [ECO "A40"] [NIC "QO.17"] [Time "19:15:25"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. d4 Nc6 2. c4 e5 3. d5 Nce7 4. e4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Ng6 6. Bd3 Bc5 7. Nge2? d6? 7 ... Ng4!! Fishing Pole already wins 8. a3? a6? 8 ... Ng4!! 9. b3? h5? 9 ... Ng4!! embarrassing for a Fishing Pole guy 10. b4! Ba7 11. h3! h4 12. Bg5! awkward 12 ... Qd7 13. Qd2 Nh5 14. Be3 Bxe3! 15. Qxe3! Ngf4 16. Nxf4! Nxf4! 17. Rg1 g5? 17 ... f5!! is better 18. O-O-O! f6 19. Be2 Nxe2+ 20. Qxe2! a5 21. b5! f5 22. Kb2 b6 killing all Queenside play 23. g3 hxg3 24. Rxg3! targetting g5 24 ... Qg7? 24 ... f4! with a lockdown 25. Rdg1! g4 26. hxg4 f4 27. R3g2! Qg5 28. f3! Bd7! 29. Rh2! O-O-O! 30. Rgh1! Rxh2 31. Qxh2! Rg8! 32. Qh5 Qxh5 33. Rxh5! Bxg4!! The brushstroke of Picasso - NM James " Humble" Hamblin Rather then waiting for Droid586 to bring his pieces aroung to support his protected passed g-pawn I sac my Bishop for two pawns. My rock solid Queenside plus my protected passed f-pawn plus threats on his base camp pawns plus perpetual check threats make it virtually impossible for White to wn in one minute's time which is what we both had now. The clever part is I saw the difficulty early while Droid was wasting time floundering. 34. fxg4 Rxg4 35. Rf5 Rg2+ 36. Kc1 Rg3 37. Kd2 Re3 Pretending like my f-pawn might go somewhere but in reality just marking time. 38. a4 Rh3! 39. Rg5! Rh2+! 40. Kd3! Rh3+! 41. Kc2! Rh2+! 42. Kd3 Rh3+! Pretending you want a draw is often the best way to win 43. Kc2! Rh2+! 44. Kb3! Rh3! 45. Rf5 Kd7! Trying to make my King as active as possible for more illusory threats 46. Kc2 Ke7! 47. Ne2 Ra3 Droid586's extra piece is useless, 47 ... Re3!! or ... Rh2!! is equal 48. Nc3! Ra1! 49. Rh5! Rg1 50. Rh7+! Kd8! 51. Rf7 Rg2+ 52. Kd1 Rg3 Nb5 or Nd5 is physically impossible so my base pawn at c7 is very safe 53. Ne2 Ra3 54. Nxf4?? After spinning his wheels down blind alleys and dead ends for 20 moves Droid finally decides to sac his last minor like I did. Time - Brian - 14 seconds Droid586's - 11 seconds 54 ... exf4! 55. Rxf4 Rxa4! 56. Kc2 Rxc4+! Droid is moving without thinking now and I grab everything in sight. 57. Kb3! Rb4+! 58. Ka3! Rxb5! 59. Rf7 Rc5 60. Rh7 Rc4! 61. Rh8+ Kd7 62. Rh7+! Kc8! 63. Rh8+ Kb7! 64. Rg8 Rxe4! 65. Kb3 Rd4 66. Kc3 Rxd5! >From a pointless Knight down to 4 connected passed pawns up 67. Kc4 Rc5+ 68. Kb3! b5! 69. Kb2 Kc6 70. Kb3 a4+! 71. Ka3 Rc4 72. Kb2 Kc5 73. Ka2 b4 74. Kb2 a3+! 75. Ka1 Rc2 {White forfeits on time} 0-1 It was amusing to see Droid's utter failure to find a winning plan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Event "Q2"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "8"] [White "droid586"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "1754"] [BlackElo "2041"] [Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense"] [ECO "A40"] [NIC "QO.17"] [Time "19:15:25"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. d4 Nc6 2. c4 e5 3. d5 Nce7 4. e4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Ng6 6. Bd3 Bc5 7. Nge2 d6 8. a3 a6 9. b3 h5 10. b4 Ba7 11. h3 h4 12. Bg5 Qd7 13. Qd2 Nh5 14. Be3 Bxe3 15. Qxe3 Ngf4 16. Nxf4 Nxf4 17. Rg1 g5 18. O-O-O f6 19. Be2 Nxe2+ 20. Qxe2 a5 21. b5 f5 22. Kb2 b6 23. g3 hxg3 24. Rxg3 Qg7 25. Rdg1 g4 26. hxg4 f4 27. R3g2 Qg5 28. f3 Bd7 29. Rh2 O-O-O 30. Rgh1 Rxh2 31. Qxh2 Rg8 32. Qh5 Qxh5 33. Rxh5 Bxg4 34. fxg4 Rxg4 35. Rf5 Rg2+ 36. Kc1 Rg3 37. Kd2 Re3 38. a4 Rh3 39. Rg5 Rh2+ 40. Kd3 Rh3+ 41. Kc2 Rh2+ 42. Kd3 Rh3+ 43. Kc2 Rh2+ 44. Kb3 Rh3 45. Rf5 Kd7 46. Kc2 Ke7 47. Ne2 Ra3 48. Nc3 Ra1 49. Rh5 Rg1 50. Rh7+ Kd8 51. Rf7 Rg2+ 52. Kd1 Rg3 53. Ne2 Ra3 54. Nxf4 exf4 55. Rxf4 Rxa4 56. Kc2 Rxc4+ 57. Kb3 Rb4+ 58. Ka3 Rxb5 59. Rf7 Rc5 60. Rh7 Rc4 61. Rh8+ Kd7 62. Rh7+ Kc8 63. Rh8+ Kb7 64. Rg8 Rxe4 65. Kb3 Rd4 66. Kc3 Rxd5 67. Kc4 Rc5+ 68. Kb3 b5 69. Kb2 Kc6 70. Kb3 a4+ 71. Ka3 Rc4 72. Kb2 Kc5 73. Ka2 b4 74. Kb2 a3+ 75. Ka1 Rc2 {White forfeits on time} 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ I had no draws, the object of the Augustin Rios Defense is to lose. Augustin was Robert Snyder's Belize alias before he was re-captured, the Augustin Rios Defense is a thinly disguised Snyder Sicilian ( 1 e4 c5 2 b3 ) in Reverse. Richard Herbst won with the Snyder Sicilian last weekend to win the Colorado Denker qualification. [Event "Q1"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "2"] [White "SuperJEM"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2570"] [BlackElo "2043"] [Opening "English opening, Augustin Rios Defense"] [ECO "A20"] [NIC "EO.24"] [Time "15:12:43"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. c4 e5 2. g3 b6 3. Bg2 Nc6 4. Nc3 Bb7 5. Nf3 d6 6. Qa4 Qd7 7. O-O Nd4 8. Qxd7+ Kxd7 9. Nxe5+ dxe5 10. Bxb7 Rb8 11. Bg2 c6 12. e3 Ne6 13. b3 f6 14. Bb2 Ne7 15. d4 exd4 16. exd4 Nxd4 17. Rad1 c5 18. Nb5 Nc6 19. Bxc6+ Kxc6 20. Bxd4 cxd4 21. Nxd4+ Kb7 22. Ne6 g6 23. Rd7+ Ka6 24. Nc7+ Ka5 25. a3 Bxa3 26. Ra1 Kb4 27. Na6+ Kxb3 28. Nxb8 Rxb8 29. Rd3+ Kxc4 30. Rdxa3 a5 31. Ra4+ Kb5 32. Kg2 Rc8 33. Kf3 Rc4 34. Rxc4 Kxc4 35. Rc1+ Kb4 36. Rb1+ Kc5 37. Ke4 b5 38. Kd3 b4 39. Rc1+ Kb5 40. Rc7 a4 41. Rxh7 a3 42. Kc2 Kc4 43. Rc7+ Kd4 44. Kb3 {Black resigns} 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Q1"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "4"] [White "cruzravina"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2547"] [BlackElo "2041"] [Opening "Two knights defense"] [ECO "C55"] [NIC "IG.01"] [Time "15:36:43"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d4 Nxd4 One of my many trick openings in the Two Knights Defense 5. Nxe5 Ne6 6. Nc3 d6 7. Nf3 Be7 8. O-O O-O 9. Re1 c6 10. e5 dxe5 11. Nxe5 Qxd1 12. Rxd1 Rd8 13. Be3 Bd7 14. Nxd7 Rxd7 15. Rxd7 Nxd7 16. Bxe6 fxe6 17. Ne4 Nf6 18. f3 Nxe4 19. fxe4 a6 20. Rd1 Rd8 21. Rxd8+ Bxd8 22. Bd4 Bf6 23. Bxf6 gxf6 24. e5! Confusing me - see if you can draw this tricky pawn ending. Cruzravina's idea is to create an outside passed pawn. 24 ... Kf7 25. Kf2! fxe5 26. Kf3! Ke7 27. g4 Kf6! 28. h4! Kf7 29. a4 a5 30. c3 Kg6!! A key drawing move but I didn't know it - the main idea is to KEEP MY PAWN ON h7 SO THAT 1 ... Kf6 2 g5+ Kg6 THREATENS Kh5:h4:g5 AND RUNNING WITH MY H-PAWN. That idea keeps Cruzravina humble. 31. c4 c5!! Queenside lockdown - now all I have to do is hide my pawn on h7 and Cruzravina will be afraid to advance a Kingside pawn. 32. b3! h6?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Ruining everything - now Cruzravina's 24 e5!! looks like genius play 33. Ke3 Kf6! 34. Ke4!!! b6 35. g5+!!! hxg5! 36. hxg5+! Kxg5! I am two pawns up in a King ending but Cruzravina is closer to the action 37. Kxe5! Kg4! 38. Kxe6! Kf4! 39. Kd5! Ke3 40. Kc6! Kd4! 41. Kxb6! Kc3! 42. Kxc5 Kxb3! 43. Kb5! {Black resigns} 1-0 A sick way to lose but very instructive because I had no idea how to defend during the game. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information about cruzravina(FM) (Last disconnected Fri Feb 26 2010 18:59): rating [need] win loss draw total best Bullet 1935 [8] 0 1 0 1 Blitz 2550 708 475 120 1303 2634 (22-Nov-2009) Standard 2323 [6] 6 0 0 6 1-minute 1405 [7] 0 1 0 1 Groups : FMs Team4545League ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Q1"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "4"] [White "cruzravina"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2547"] [BlackElo "2041"] [Opening "Two knights defense"] [ECO "C55"] [NIC "IG.01"] [Time "15:36:43"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d4 Nxd4 5. Nxe5 Ne6 6. Nc3 d6 7. Nf3 Be7 8. O-O O-O 9. Re1 c6 10. e5 dxe5 11. Nxe5 Qxd1 12. Rxd1 Rd8 13. Be3 Bd7 14. Nxd7 Rxd7 15. Rxd7 Nxd7 16. Bxe6 fxe6 17. Ne4 Nf6 18. f3 Nxe4 19. fxe4 a6 20. Rd1 Rd8 21. Rxd8+ Bxd8 22. Bd4 Bf6 23. Bxf6 gxf6 24. e5 Kf7 25. Kf2 fxe5 26. Kf3 Ke7 27. g4 Kf6 28. h4 Kf7 29. a4 a5 30. c3 Kg6 31. c4 c5 32. b3 h6 33. Ke3 Kf6 34. Ke4 b6 35. g5+ hxg5 36. hxg5+ Kxg5 37. Kxe5 Kg4 38. Kxe6 Kf4 39. Kd5 Ke3 40. Kc6 Kd4 41. Kxb6 Kc3 42. Kxc5 Kxb3 43. Kb5 {Black resigns} 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- An even sicker loss - I finally trap a 3253 Georgian GM in my Full Metal Jacket, a situation that has taken me over half a decade to engineer. I get so nervous I go into a complete panic and ruin everything immediately. [Event "Q1"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "6"] [White "DoctorWatson"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2974"] [BlackElo "2045"] [Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense, Brian Wall's Full Metal Jacket"] [ECO "A40"] [NIC "QO.17"] [Time "16:00:32"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. d4 Nc6 2. d5 Ne5 3. e4 e6 4. f4 exd5 5. fxe5 Qh4+ 6. Kd2 Qh6+ 7. Ke2 Qh5+ 8. Kd2 Qh6+ 9. Kd3 This confused me, it seems that most people don't go here. 9 ... Qa6+!! I took 17 seconds here I also have pretty good comp for my piece after 9 ... de+! or ... Qg6! 10. Ke3? This bad move confused me further and I offered a draw. 10 ... Qh6+! 2 seconds spent Missing the big moment, 10 ...Bc5+!! gives me the advantage over GM Merab Gagunashvili. Part of FMJ culture is to let White run away from a draw into my waiting rifle ranges with live ammo. 10 ...Bc5+!! 11 Kf3? de+ is very bad, Merab's King is in a crossfire. 10 ...Bc5+!! 11 Kf4 Qg6!! or ... Qb6! is also very good for me. 10 ...Bc5+!! 11 Kd2! Qh6+!! 12 Kc3! is the best try but 12 ... Qb6!! targets the King and the g1-Knight. GM Gagunashvili would have his hands full. Play might continue 13 b3! B:g1! 14 ed! Bf2!!, ... Nf6!!, ... Bc5!! or ... Ne7!! - 14 ed! Nf6!! 15 ef? doesn't work because of 15 ... Q:f6+! 16 Kb4 Q:a1 My move 10 ... Qh6+! or ... Qb6+! are Ok but not great like 10 ... Bc5+ If I don't know this stuff, who does? 11. Kf2! I was utterly disheartened and confused, he's not supposed to be able to just walk away from my perpetual like this. Something has gone horribly wrong. 11 ... Qg6?? 20 seconds spent. I still have a decent game after 11 ... Bc5+!! or 11 ... Qb6+! but for some reason I didn't once consider 10 ... or 11 ... Bc5+!!, all I thought was where to put my attacked Queen. Very disappointing. 12. Qxd5!! Now I have nothing. How did I get outplayed in my own opening? 12 ... Ne7 13. Qd3 Nc6! 14. Nf3! d6 15. Nc3 Bg4 16. Be3 O-O-O! A series of second best moves has led to a position where I have very little for my Full Metal Jacket Knight. It's one thing to smugly stare at a computer screen, it's quite another thing to make the moves yourself with understanding. 17. Nd5 dxe5! 18. Be2 Bd6 19. Rad1 f5 That was the best try last move. 20. Nh4!! Qh5 21. Nxf5!! Bxe2 22. Qxe2! I have less than nothing for my piece and that damn Georgian King on f2 keeps laughing at me. 22 ... Qf7 23. Qf3!! Rhf8 24. Nxd6+!! Rxd6! 25. Qxf7! Rxf7+! 26. Kg3 b6 27. Rhf1!! Rfd7! 28. Rf8+! Kb7! 29. Rdf1!! a5 30. R1f7!! Nb4 31. Rxd7! Rxd7! 32. Nxb4! axb4! 33. Kf3 c5 34. Ke2 h6 35. Re8 Kc6! 36. Rxe5!! Ra7 37. b3 Rxa2! 38. Kd3! Ra1 39. Re6+!! Kb5! 40. Rg6! Rh1 41. Rxg7 Rxh2! 42. Rg6 h5 43. e5!! Rh1! 44. e6!! Rd1+! 45. Bd2 Ra1 46. e7! Ra8! The only move that delays checkmate 47. Re6 Re8! 48. Bg5!! h4 49. Rd6!! h3 50. gxh3!! {Black resigns} 1-0 I didn't play that badly, I just can't afford to make a mistake in such a sharp position against such a sharp opponent that finds more best moves than I do. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information about DoctorWatson(GM) (Last disconnected Fri Feb 26 2010 19:38): rating [need] win loss draw total best Wild 1404 [6] 1 8 0 9 Bullet 2179 [8] 27 31 5 63 2277 (09-May-2008) Blitz 2959 963 874 367 2204 3253 (27-Feb-2009) Standard 2628 [6] 1 0 0 1 5-minute 2259 [8] 3 0 0 3 1-minute 2305 [8] 108 79 8 195 2328 (13-Nov-2008) 15-minute 1224 [4] 0 2 0 2 1: gmgaguna at yahoo.com Name : Merab Gagunashvili Groups : GMs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Q1"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "6"] [White "DoctorWatson"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2974"] [BlackElo "2045"] [Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense, Brian Wall's Full Metal Jacket"] [ECO "A40"] [NIC "QO.17"] [Time "16:00:32"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. d4 Nc6 2. d5 Ne5 3. e4 e6 4. f4 exd5 5. fxe5 Qh4+ 6. Kd2 Qh6+ 7. Ke2 Qh5+ 8. Kd2 Qh6+ 9. Kd3 Qa6+ 10. Ke3 Qh6+ 11. Kf2 Qg6 12. Qxd5 Ne7 13. Qd3 Nc6 14. Nf3 d6 15. Nc3 Bg4 16. Be3 O-O-O 17. Nd5 dxe5 18. Be2 Bd6 19. Rad1 f5 20. Nh4 Qh5 21. Nxf5 Bxe2 22. Qxe2 Qf7 23. Qf3 Rhf8 24. Nxd6+ Rxd6 25. Qxf7 Rxf7+ 26. Kg3 b6 27. Rhf1 Rfd7 28. Rf8+ Kb7 29. Rdf1 a5 30. R1f7 Nb4 31. Rxd7 Rxd7 32. Nxb4 axb4 33. Kf3 c5 34. Ke2 h6 35. Re8 Kc6 36. Rxe5 Ra7 37. b3 Rxa2 38. Kd3 Ra1 39. Re6+ Kb5 40. Rg6 Rh1 41. Rxg7 Rxh2 42. Rg6 h5 43. e5 Rh1 44. e6 Rd1+ 45. Bd2 Ra1 46. e7 Ra8 47. Re6 Re8 48. Bg5 h4 49. Rd6 h3 50. gxh3 {Black resigns} 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- An even sicker loss, I am sitting there with a winning position plus more time so I can win either way, instead I battle senility until I am getting mated and flagged. This was from the first tournament where everything went wrong, in the second tournament I settled down a bit and scored 6/9. [Event "Q1"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "7"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "metamorfose"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "2018"] [BlackElo "1789"] [Opening "French: Wing gambit"] [ECO "C00"] [NIC "FR.01"] [Time "16:14:50"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e5 c5 4. b4 Bd7 5. bxc5 So now I have a Wing Attack without the Gambit. 5 ... Bxc5! 6. d4! Bb6! 7. c3! They should call this a Central Attack 7 ... Ne7! 8. Bd3! Nbc6 9. h4 h6 Every French player knows that 9 ... 0-0?? 10 B:h7+!! is a disaster here. 10. Rh3 the other point of 9 h4 " Our old friend the Rook lift. " - GM Larry Christiansen 10 ... Rc8 11. Rg3! Kf8 12. Ba3 Na5 13. Kf1 Not bad but best is retreat to victory 13 Nfd2!! Kg8 14 Qg4 I wanted to put that Knight on h4 to be closer to Black's King 13 ... Nc4! 14. Bxc4! Rxc4! 15. Qd2 Ba5 Annoying me with legitimate counterplay 16. Kg1 Qc7 17. Nh2! Defending when I should be attacking with 17 B:e7+!! K:e7 18 R:h7 17 ... Rg8 18. h5 Again not bad but 18 Ng4!! is most assertive 18 ..b5 19. Ng4 and here 19 Bd6!! keeps my Bishop out of trouble 19 ... b4! 20. cxb4! Rc2? Metamorfose is all right after 20 ... Bb6!! 21. Qf4!! Metamorfose pushed my Queen closer to his King with a dagger in her hand. I have 200 rating points, an extra minute and a winning attack. 21 ... Bb6! 22. b5!! Qc4 23. Nf6?? The right idea AFTER 23 Rf3!!! Be8 24 Nf6!! 23 N:h6!! is another shot as well as 23 B:e7+! K:e7 24 Na3! I have to work at it not to win this game. 23 ... gxf6?? 23 ... Q:d4!! turns the tables 24. exf6 Time Brian - 43 seconds Metamorfose - 23 seconds My move is good but 24 Q:h6+!!! mates in 2 and 24 B:e7+!! mates in 6 and 24 Nd2! wins the Queen 24 ... Rxg3! 25. Bxe7+!! I have 3 good moves here 25 B:e7+!!, Q:g3!!, and Qb8+! the problem is I had a senior moment and stared at the board for 30 seconds until I had 13 seconds left. 25 ... Ke8! 26. Qxg3!! Bxb5 27. Qg8+?? I had 7 seconds to find the one good move here, 27 Na3!! 27 ... Kd7! Winning with an extra 5 seconds to boot 28. Qxf7! Qf1+! 29. Kh2! Rxf2! 30. Bc5+ Kc6! mating 31. Qxe6+! Kb7! 32. Qg4 Rxg2+! 32 ... Bc7+ mates quicker {White forfeits on time} 0-1 I knew I had something there. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Q1"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "7"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "metamorfose"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "2018"] [BlackElo "1789"] [Opening "French: Wing gambit"] [ECO "C00"] [NIC "FR.01"] [Time "16:14:50"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. e4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e5 c5 4. b4 Bd7 5. bxc5 Bxc5 6. d4 Bb6 7. c3 Ne7 8. Bd3 Nbc6 9. h4 h6 10. Rh3 Rc8 11. Rg3 Kf8 12. Ba3 Na5 13. Kf1 Nc4 14. Bxc4 Rxc4 15. Qd2 Ba5 16. Kg1 Qc7 17. Nh2 Rg8 18. h5 b5 19. Ng4 b4 20. cxb4 Rc2 21. Qf4 Bb6 22. b5 Qc4 23. Nf6 gxf6 24. exf6 Rxg3 25. Bxe7+ Ke8 26. Qxg3 Bxb5 27. Qg8+ Kd7 28. Qxf7 Qf1+ 29. Kh2 Rxf2 30. Bc5+ Kc6 31. Qxe6+ Kb7 32. Qg4 Rxg2+ {White forfeits on time} 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- An even sicker loss because I build up a crushing attack, I feel the win, I stare and stare for half of my 3 minutes until I have 22 seconds left and I still can't find the win that I know is there. GDW is threatening mate in 2 so I know I have to operate only with checks. Even with that huge clue I completely miss the winning solution. [Event "Q2"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "5"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "GDW"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "2029"] [BlackElo "1750"] [Opening "QGD: Tarrasch defense"] [ECO "D32"] [NIC "TD.10"] [Time "18:44:24"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c5 4. e3 Nf6 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 cxd4 8. exd4 Be7 9. O-O b6 10. Re1 oblivious to 10 Ne5!, Qa4!, Bb5! or d5! 10 ... O-O! 11. Bg5 Bb7! 12. Qe2 Rc8 I did see 12 ... N:d4! 13. Rad1! Nb4! 14. a3 Kramnik would never miss 14 d5!! 14 ... Nbd5? 15. Bxd5? Nxd5! 16. Bxe7 Qxe7 17. Ne4! Rc7! 18. Ne5 Rfc8 A 1750 is not going to find 18 ... f5!! ever 19. Qh5 Nf4 20. Qf3 Ng6 21. Qg3 Rc2 22. Nxg6! hxg6 23. Ng5!! You can't usually get any attack with an isolated pawn position after you trade off too many minor pieces but I remembered an Alekhine note where he said Ng5!! is very dangerous against Black's pawn structure. 23 ... Rxb2? 24. Qh4!! that's why 24 ... Qf6! 25. d5!! Rc4!? 26. f4?? here's where I thought for 1:12 missing 26 Qh7+!!! Kf8 27 N:e6+!! ( +9 ) and everything comes with a dinner check 26 ... Qxf4?? 26 ... Rcc2!! or ... R:f4! wins for GDW now 27. dxe6?? I spent 18 of my 22 seconds but couldn't see 27 R:e6!! winning 27 ... Rxg2+!! mating 28. Kh1! Rg4+ 28 ... R:g5+ mates quicker 29. Ne4 Bxe4+ 29 ... Qf3 is checkmate {White forfeits on time} 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Q2"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "5"] [White "B-Wall"] [Black "GDW"] [Result "0-1"] [ICCResult "White forfeits on time"] [WhiteElo "2029"] [BlackElo "1750"] [Opening "QGD: Tarrasch defense"] [ECO "D32"] [NIC "TD.10"] [Time "18:44:24"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c5 4. e3 Nf6 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 cxd4 8. exd4 Be7 9. O-O b6 10. Re1 O-O 11. Bg5 Bb7 12. Qe2 Rc8 13. Rad1 Nb4 14. a3 Nbd5 15. Bxd5 Nxd5 16. Bxe7 Qxe7 17. Ne4 Rc7 18. Ne5 Rfc8 19. Qh5 Nf4 20. Qf3 Ng6 21. Qg3 Rc2 22. Nxg6 hxg6 23. Ng5 Rxb2 24. Qh4 Qf6 25. d5 Rc4 26. f4 Qxf4 27. dxe6 Rxg2+ 28. Kh1 Rg4+ 29. Ne4 Bxe4+ {White forfeits on time} 0-1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's all I got, Thanx for letting me vent. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.Walverine.com www.BrianWallChess.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to my Examiner page http://www.examiner.com/x-40125-Denver-Chess-Examiner The Examiner is an online magazine that hires local writers all over the USA on various topics. They hired me as a Denver Chess writer. If you become an Examiner writer then mention me and I get $50. If you just want to read my articles, then I think I get paid depending on how many views I get. They have to review my first article to see if they like it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brianwallchess3 at taom.com Sat Feb 27 12:22:33 2010 From: brianwallchess3 at taom.com (Brian Wall) Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:22:33 -0700 Subject: [BrianWall-ChessList] Grandmaster Merab Gagunashvili on Bosna2010 Qualifier Message-ID: <1267298553.4b8970f923dad@www.taom.com> ----- Forwarded message from Merab Gagunashvili ----- Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:24:32 -0800 (PST) From: Merab Gagunashvili Reply-To: Merab Gagunashvili Subject: Re: Bosna2010 Qualifier To: Brian Wall hello! games r not bad -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information about DoctorWatson(GM) (Last disconnected Fri Feb 26 2010 19:38): rating [need] win loss draw total best Wild 1404 [6] 1 8 0 9 Bullet 2179 [8] 27 31 5 63 2277 (09-May-2008) Blitz 2959 963 874 367 2204 3253 (27-Feb-2009) Standard 2628 [6] 1 0 0 1 5-minute 2259 [8] 3 0 0 3 1-minute 2305 [8] 108 79 8 195 2328 (13-Nov-2008) 15-minute 1224 [4] 0 2 0 2 1: gmgaguna at yahoo.com Name : Merab Gagunashvili Groups : GMs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Event "Q1"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2010.02.26"] [Round "6"] [White "DoctorWatson"] [Black "B-Wall"] [Result "1-0"] [ICCResult "Black resigns"] [WhiteElo "2974"] [BlackElo "2045"] [Opening "Queen's pawn: Lundin (Kevitz-Mikenas) defense, Brian Wall's Full Metal Jacket"] [ECO "A40"] [NIC "QO.17"] [Time "16:00:32"] [TimeControl "180+0"] 1. d4 Nc6 2. d5 Ne5 3. e4 e6 4. f4 exd5 5. fxe5 Qh4+ 6. Kd2 Qh6+ 7. Ke2 Qh5+ 8. Kd2 Qh6+ 9. Kd3 Qa6+ 10. Ke3 Qh6+ 11. Kf2 Qg6 12. Qxd5 Ne7 13. Qd3 Nc6 14. Nf3 d6 15. Nc3 Bg4 16. Be3 O-O-O 17. Nd5 dxe5 18. Be2 Bd6 19. Rad1 f5 20. Nh4 Qh5 21. Nxf5 Bxe2 22. Qxe2 Qf7 23. Qf3 Rhf8 24. Nxd6+ Rxd6 25. Qxf7 Rxf7+ 26. Kg3 b6 27. Rhf1 Rfd7 28. Rf8+ Kb7 29. Rdf1 a5 30. R1f7 Nb4 31. Rxd7 Rxd7 32. Nxb4 axb4 33. Kf3 c5 34. Ke2 h6 35. Re8 Kc6 36. Rxe5 Ra7 37. b3 Rxa2 38. Kd3 Ra1 39. Re6+ Kb5 40. Rg6 Rh1 41. Rxg7 Rxh2 42. Rg6 h5 43. e5 Rh1 44. e6 Rd1+ 45. Bd2 Ra1 46. e7 Ra8 47. Re6 Re8 48. Bg5 h4 49. Rd6 h3 50. gxh3 {Black resigns} 1-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brianwall-chesslist/attachments/20100227/3f075571/attachment.htm