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Volume 47, Number 1 January 2020 COLORADO STATE CHESS ASSOCIATION
COLORADO CHESS INFORMANT
Chess Landscaping
®
The Colorado State Chess Association, Incorporated, is a
Section 501(C)(3) tax exempt, non-profit educational corpora-
tion formed to promote chess in Colorado. Contributions are
tax deductible.
Dues are $15 a year. Youth (under 20) and Senior (65 or older)
memberships are $10. Family memberships are available to
additional family members for $3 off the regular dues. Scholas-
tic tournament membership is available for $3.
● Send address changes to Ann Davies.
● Send pay renewals & memberships to Dean Brown.
● See back cover for EZ renewal form.
The Colorado Chess Informant (CCI) is the official publication
of the CSCA, published four times a year in January, April,
July and October.
Articles in the CCI do not necessarily reflect the views of the
CSCA Board of Directors or its membership.
In This Issue
3. The 2019 Class Championship Report
4. Letter to CSCA Members
CSCA President Paul Covington
6. 2nd CSCA Board Meeting
8. Pawn Garden - Chess Landscaping for the Yard
NM Todd Bardwick
14. The Life of Senior Master Imre Barlay
DuWayne Langseth, et al.
18. Winter Springs Open
Richard “Buck” Buchanan
22. Denver Chess Club Fall Classic
J.C. MacNeil
24. Watson - Carlson 1975
Curtis Carlson
34. 2019 London Chess Classic Report
John Brezina
36. Games From the 2019 Colorado Open (Part II)
Richard “Buck” Buchanan
41. Colorado Chess Club Directory
42. The Chess Detective
NM Todd Bardwick
44. Tactics Time!
Tim Brennan
46. Upcoming Colorado Tournaments
From the Editor
With the New Year comes new ideas and resolutions from the
Board. The first few pages of this issue lists all the recent hap-
penings - so be sure to give them at least, an interested glance.
Among the many fine articles you will find is NM Todd Bard-
wick’s rather unique way of landscaping his property - the time
and effort he put into such an endeavor is amazing.
Sadly, 2019 saw the passing of Colorado’s own Imre Barlay. His
was an interesting life and the story is told by DuWayne
Langseth and others. He will be sorely missed.
Many other fine stories inside, so don’t hesitate - jump right in!
May Caissa be with you.
Fred Eric Spell
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Informant Article Submission Deadlines:
January issue - December 21 / April issue - March 21
July issue - June 21 / October issue - September 21
(Email articles to spellfe@hotmail.com)
© 2020 Colorado State Chess Association
CSCA Board of Directors
President:
Paul Covington Paul@CovingtonComputers.com
Vice President:
Kevin McConnell
McConnellk2@yahoo.com
Secretary:
Ann Davies
A.Davies@Bajabb.com
Treasurer:
Dean Brown Mandumandu1983@gmail.com
Junior Representative:
Griffin McConnell
McConnellk2@yahoo.com
Members at Large:
Lior Lapid
Lior@PalsChess.com
Gracie Salazar
GraceRSalazar@gmail.com
CSCA Appointees
USCF Delegates:
Richard “Buck” Buchanan
BuckPeace@pcisys.net
Paul Covington Paul@CovingtonComputers.com
CCI Editor:
Fred Eric Spell
spellfe@hotmail.com
Correspondence Chess:
Klaus Johnson
cscaemailcc@gmail.com
Scholastic Chess:
Lior Lapid
Lior@PalsChess.com
Webmaster & Tournament
Clearinghouse:
Dean Clow
DeanRClow@gmail.com
CSCA Historian:
Todd Bardwick
TBardwick@yahoo.com
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On the cover:
NM Todd Bardwick’s
Pawn Garden
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The 2019 Class Championship Report
42 players registered and 31 fought through the snow storm and bitter cold weather to the
finish. Overall, a quality event. Prize winners and prize fund listed below.
Thank you to all who attended.
We collected $1,750 in entries: The prize fund was $1,225 (70% of the entries).
The tournament costs were:
Site cost $416, TD fee $0, Rating fee $18.50, Two packs of scoresheets: ~$16.00.
Other related items:
Ent Federal Credit Union donated ink pens.
Ann Davies bought me a hamburger on Saturday.
I donated the usual TD fees and hotel / food costs to the CSCA as a gift in kind.
I think what about wraps it up.
2019 Class Championships were a success. The main distractor was the weather! Snow and
cold (Colorado staples) resulted in some withdrawals and unusual pairings.
Congrats to all the winners (all those who played)
and to the Champions (those who finished in 1st place!):
Master/Expert: 1st Daniel Herman - $130.00
Master/Expert: 2nd Rhett Langseth - $70.00
Class A/Unrated: 1st Brad Lundstrom & Joshua Samuel - $92.50 each.
Class B: 1st Wesley Woo - $170.00
Class B: 2nd Luke Namesnik - $85.00
Class C: 1st Nicholas Miller - $130.00
Class C: 2nd Norbert Martinez - $65.00
Class D: 1st Charles Zhang - $130.00
Class D: 2nd Kenneth Scott & Nathan Woo - $32.50 each.
Class E/Unrated: 1st Daniel Smith - $130.00
Class E/Unrated: 2nd Randy Richter & Shirley Herman - $32.50 each.
The next CSCA event is the Senior Championship and the under 50 tournament at the same
location: The Ranch in Loveland, March 14 & 15, 2020. See you there!
Paul Covington
Chief Tournament Director
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Letter to CSCA Members
CSCA President Paul Covington
What does the CSCA Board do? Here is an update since the Membership meeting in September.
First, a giant thank you to all members for your support of our board. As board members, we have a responsibility to
provide a quality chess experience to our members. We take that responsibility seriously.
After a rocky start, we really came together in our first board meeting. A time of sharing produced a number of ideas of
things the board could do to promote Colorado chess. Everyone got involved with discussing what we could do and how
we could make those ideas happen.
One thing we decided right away was to conduct the 2019 Class Championships which had been canceled during the
summer. Forty-two players entered in spite of a snow storm and cold weather.
Ann Davies, Kevin McConnell and Dean Brown put in stellar efforts to increase the CSCA memberships and update the
membership records. Members support is vital if we are to make Colorado chess better.
We have all the “regular” events scheduled and are preparing for a great chess season: Scholastic State Championships
will be a festive event-Feb 14, 15 & 16; Senior and Under 50 Championship in Loveland-Mar 14 & 15; All Girls
Scholastic tournament-Mar 28; Colorado Closed Championships in Denver Apr 3, 4 & 5; Colorado Class
Championships in Manitou Springs Art Center-May 16 & 17; CSCA Quick & Blitz Warmup-Jun 13 and Championship
Jul 18; AND then the Colorado State Championship Open Festival-Sep 4, 5 & 6. Details for this events are on the
ColoradoChess.com website.
We are supporting the Denver Open by bringing in GMs/IMs to enrich the CSCA members’ chess experience. Our
agreement with DCC includes the FIDE section WILL have space for members to see the games this year.
The board has committed to raising funds to meet the $2,500 pledge for the DO-2020 event. Our first Facebook
Fundraiser brought in $520. Shirley Herman organized that fundraiser and pledged to match the funds. An additional $25
was pledged. I am thrilled to report that I received the check from those pledges. $545 will be put into the account to
support the CSCA pledge.
Ann was inspired but wasn’t on Facebook and wrote a check to CSCA for $100 to support the Board’s commitment to
the Denver Open. Everyone on the Board has donated in some form: Time, Treasure, and Talent. That is how things get
done!
Ann attended a seminar on Grant Writing, then wrote the first CSCA Grant request. Kevin assisted, checking details,
supporting her effort. We are hoping for an approval. She gifted the seminar fees to the CSCA as a “gift in kind” ($113)
which does not show up in our financial reports.
We are assisting in bringing the 4th Annual FIDE World Youth Chess Championship for the Disabled to Denver. The
teams and staff will be in town around June 28 through July 7. This will be an opportunity to see young chess players
from all over the world. I have been told some of the organizations wear very colorful uniforms!
CSCA has a special fund set aside from donations to support our youth who are officially invited to represent the United
States in overseas chess tournaments. Griffin McConnell was the only US representative on Team Americas which
played in Turkey in early December. We supported him with $500 from that fund. Special thanks to Lior Lapid for
accompanying him on the trip and served as the Team Americas’ coach.
We have reinstituted the Colorado Chess Hall of Fame. Randy Canney has agreed to lead the committee that will make
the selections.
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We have ordered four DGT Bluetooth chess boards and sets to replace the aging ones we presently use. This was a big
decision which should support Colorado chess for years.
We reorganized the Scholastic Chess program. The CSCA Treasurer has responsibility for all accounts. He works
closely with the Scholastic Chess Director regarding financial matters. The Scholastic Director is still appointed by the
Board and manages the Scholastic program.
The Denver Scholastic Chess League is being brought back under the Board (It was started by a previous Scholastic
Director years ago) starting with the 2020 school year. Our Non-Profit status is important to helping spread this program
statewide. We are looking for a volunteer to manage this program.
We started two new programs. Ann Davies headed up two All Girls chess programs in Title 1 schools and purchased
chess sets for those programs. She is actively working to expand these All Girl programs. She also established “The
Templeton Fund”, in honor of her parents, designated to purchasing chess sets for Title 1 girls chess programs. Her
starter donation of $300 will supply chess sets for these children. The second program, Griffin McConnell is teaching
chess at two schools for the disabled. Both have volunteered their time for these activities.
Another startup, CWCWC (Colorado Women’s Chess and Wine Club) is operated by Gracie Salazar, our new Member
at Large. We hope this program will expand to other cities and the ladies will become tournament chess players.
Additionally, Gracie has taken on the task of assisting in CSCA communications via Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Your Board has spent countless hours working together to make this “chess year” a great one for all CSCA members.
Some Boards say things were very smooth with minimal time required. This hasn’t been the case with our board. To date
over 470 emails have filled my CSCA email box with many others coming into my Paul email account. To all of our
dedicated board members, I give a shout out: Your hard work, donations, and support have made this a great year to be
President and I thank you!
Colorado Chess Hall of Fame
This will be the second induction class to the Colorado Chess Hall of Fame. The ceremony will be held on September
4th at 5:30 PM. Send supporting information such as games, articles, photos, stories, etc. to help the committee with
their selection process. Send your nominations to Randy Canney. His email is: rcanney@hotmail.com.
The cutoff for nominations this year is March 31.
Request for Donations
CSCA requests donations from its membership and friends to support ongoing initiatives in Title 1 and other schools.
These are schools which can’t fund after school chess programs. They are on federal assistance programs for lunches -
more clearly stated: these are poor neighborhoods whose children could benefit from the training that chess programs
provide.
Your donations will be applied to activities that you choose. The donations qualify for tax deductions (verify with your
tax accountant) because the CSCA is a 501(c)3 Charitable organization.
The CSCA Board is pushing to fulfill our charter with the State of Colorado. Your support and donations will help
achieve those goals. As you already know, all Board members are volunteers.
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2nd
CSCA Board Meeting
September 29, 2019
We held our meeting in the Castle Rock Food Court.
After “roll call” we established there was a quorum.
At 12:00 noon the meeting was called to order.
Attendance:
Paul Covington (President), Kevin McConnell (Vice President), Dean Brown (Treasurer), Ann Davies
(Secretary), Griffin McConnell (Junior Representative), Lior Lapid (Member at Large / Scholastic Director),
Gracie Salazar (Member at Large)
Guests: Shirley Herman arrived shortly after beginning of meeting.
Board approved the following motions (at various times during the meeting):
Acceptance of 1st meeting’s minutes.
Agreed to post US Chess document, Safe Play Guidelines, at our tournaments and have the members vote
on implementing for CSCA.
Authorized Kevin McConnell to collect CSCA dues and deposit them at US Bank.
Eliminating length of tournament memberships except for Scholastic events (this will greatly simplify
bookkeeping).
Authorized researching Credit Card acceptance at tournaments.
Authorized ordering scoresheets and membership forms as needed.
Pledged $2,500 for bringing five Titled Players to Denver Open 2020.
Dean and Ann will determine if refunds are due for any who should have only paid the family membership
rate.
Authorized $540.00 to start the Colorado Women’s Chess and Wine Club.
Established the selection criteria for the Colorado Closed invitational championships.
Finances:
Dean Brown gave a full accounting of all the finances. He plans to produce an actual CSCA budget once the
contracts for tournament sites are signed. All CSCA accounts are consolidated at US Bank. Three accounts:
Primary/Main (the general account) $12,273.36; Invitational (set-a-side for invitational events-primarily
overseas) $978.19; and the Scholastic (reserved for Scholastic events and expenses) $20,468.41.
STRIPE – There are no standard operating procedures regarding STRIPE. He noted two additions to the
account for $14.28 (two $15 memberships). He does not know how STRIPE memberships get inputted.
Routine Expenses are non-tournament related $648 (stamps, secretary of state payment, US Chess affiliation,
insurance, Chess Journalists of America entry fees, domain name). He will budget $750 to cover these routine
yearly expenses.
Line Item Budget Expenses will vary year by year and administration by administration. These are primarily
site costs. Currently, we only have three tournaments that have site costs associated with them unless we have
a tournament in another part of the state. (Colorado Open, Class 2019, Senior/Under 50).
There are five checks still outstanding which have not been cashed. Sheridan check for blitz night has not been
cashed.
Outstanding debt - the only outstanding debt is the second half of Loveland for 2019 Class and 2020 Senior/
Under 50.
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Standard Operating Procedures:
Paul wants to develop a book for Standard Operating Procedures so future boards will have guidelines of
things that need to be done. These include -
Operating Expenses: insurance, affiliate fees, domain name fees, State of Colorado fees, and variable expenses
(printing costs for membership forms, renaissance festival flyers, awards, bank fees, check fees, credit card/
STRIPE fees).
Tournament Expenses: TD fees, stipends for travel, meals, reasonable expenses for those working
tournaments, TLAs, paper for printing standings and prize fund listings, site costs, rating fees, STRIPES usage
fees, score sheets and others I may have missed.
Tournaments:
Scheduling and contracts in progress. Follow up and details in next meeting minutes. Hotel prices have
increased and will affect future entry fees.
CSCA - DCC Committee report:
Kevin and Ann met with DCC representatives to discuss whether or not the CSCA would have a part in the
Denver Open 2020. After discussion, the CSCA decided to support the Denver Open. We pledged $2,500.00 to
support bringing titled players (5 x $500) to the DO2020. Board members will raise funds to support this
effort.
(Added note: Shirley Herman has conducted a fund raiser to support this effort: $1,020 to date has been
pledged. Thank you Shirley!).
Ann is volunteer teaching an All Girls program at two Title 1 schools. Griffin is also volunteer teaching at a
school which only works children with autism, dyslexia and ADHD. We hope to raise funds to support these
schools next semester.
Colorado Women’s Chess and Wine Club:
Is an effort to bring women into chess through chess classes with a social flavor. We did allocate funds to
support this effort. (Attendees will purchase their own wine.)
DGT equipment:
Lior will expand this research and report his finding.
Colorado Closed Championships:
Set the selection criteria as -
Top six rated players that apply to play.
US Chess registration must be listed as CO (Colorado).
February Rating Supplement will be used for player’s ratings.
(This applies to the Colorado Championship and the Colorado Scholastic Championship.)
The entry fees will be $40.00. First place prize is $150. Second place prize is $90.
Other initiatives:
We are looking into forming Scholastic leagues throughout Colorado schools, restarting the school chess
teams’ championship program, and developing a way to serve the underserved areas in Colorado.
Meeting was adjourned at 3:00pm.
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Pawn Garden - Chess Landscaping for the Yard
by NM and Civil Structural Engineer, Todd Bardwick
Have you ever thought about chess landscaping for your yard? Here is a couple of ideas...
When planning a garden for the back yard, I decided on a raised garden (with the idea that it would keep the critters out - it really
didn’t work - squirrels and rabbits are good jumpers and pretty determined to get the food they want to eat!), but didn’t want to build
a boring rectangular one... so why not go with a chess theme?
Sounds simple enough, but being a structural engineer by trade, I knew that proper engineering would need to be incorporated into
the design. Here is the step by step process on how to build one.
Think of the planning stage as the opening, the building stage as the middlegame, and enjoying the fruits of your labor as the
endgame.
First of all, you need to decide what materials to use. I decided to go with concrete stacking pavestone blocks that can be bought at a
home improvement or landscape store. Concrete blocks will last much longer than treated wood, which discolors and deteriorates
over time.
I chose the 23.75# blocks. Larger sizes are available, but would be more difficult to work with because of the weight.
Originally, my garden was going to be a king. After laying out the blocks to outline the shape, I went upstairs to take a look from
above. The cross on the king’s head was much too small. I measured the height of the king’s cross from a couple different chess sets
and discovered it to be about to be about 1/7 the height of piece. By increasing the size of the cross to scale, the length of the garden
(height of the king) would increase significantly.
The invisible part of the planning process is determining where the sprinkler lines run underground... you don’t want to build the
structure on a sprinkler line in case it leaked and needed repair sometime in the future. In my yard, the sprinkler lines run a few feet
below the right-hand base of the pawn and just above its head, off to the right. To make a king with the proper dimensions and avoid
the sprinkler line buried below the surface, the king would have to shrink quite a bit in height. The cross would be wasted planting
space. Considering these challenges, my king idea turned into a pawn.
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Outline of Base
Long pieces of wood (like 2x4s) are good measuring tools when laying out the blocks for straightness and symmetry from the center
line of the pawn. The circular head of the pawn can be done accurately by hammering a stake at the center and tying a piece of string
that can be used to measure an exact radius.
Make sure to check the general shape and dimensions by looking out an upstairs window to get a birds-eye view before starting
construction. (In carpenter terms - measure twice, cut once. In chess terms - apply Blumenfeld’s Rule to check for blunders before
making your move.)
You will need to calculate the number of blocks to buy as well the volume of the dirt to order. hπr2 gives the volume of the dirt
required in the head of the pawn with h = height or depth of the dirt and r = inner radius of the pawn’s head. Calculating the
approximate building material required for the rest of the structure is a bit less exact.
Dig Out Base Outline
Dig out the dirt from under the outline where the base layer of blocks will be placed. Add crushed granite for a foundation. The
crushed granite allows water to drain from the structure after watering in the summer and for snow melt in the winter.
Besides allowing water drainage, the crushed granite is used to level the bottom layer of blocks. After laying out the correct shape,
each block needs to be carefully leveled on the crushed granite. Tap the blocks with a rubber mallet until each block is level in both
directions. Some of the blocks fell almost perfectly into level in my first attempt, while others required over half an hour of tapping,
checking the level, and adding or subtracting crushed granite below the block. It took hours to level all 89 blocks in the base layer.
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Shovel crushed granite under the dugout base to replace the dirt and provide a solid foundation.
Level the bottom layer of blocks both directions with a rubber mallet.
The fun part is building up the higher block layers... which is much quicker than leveling the base and makes the structure look like a
giant cookie cutter. I built the pawn six layers of blocks high. If you go much higher, your upper layers may become unstable and
more advanced engineering similar to that for building retaining walls is needed for the structure and may be required by the city.
Each block has a lip on the back side that helps line up the blocks.
As long as the bottom layer is level, the upper layers should also be level.
Build up higher layers.
Add crushed granite three layers high about six inches wide inside the block structure. This will give the water an easy path to the
crushed granite below for drainage so the walls won’t swell and push the blocks out.
In the bottom three layers, add 6” crushed granite inside the blocks for drainage.
Next, I dug out a couple feet around the pawn and put down metal edging as a barrier between the pawn and the grass line. This
makes mowing easy without having to use an edger.
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Dig out the dirt around outer edge a couple feet and put in edging.
Place weed fabric between the edging and the structure. I chose red breeze to cover the weed fabric.
Once raked level, lightly water the breeze and tamp down hard with a hand tamper.
Weed fabric with red breeze on top of it.
Fill in the garden with a good planter’s mix of dirt to grow vegetables in.
Top off with planter’s mix dirt for vegetables to grow in.
Just like in a real chess game, if you play the opening and middlegame well, the endgame will be enjoyable!
Finished garden with kids visiting for a chess tournament and growing vegetables.
Note the pawn garden is on a slight hill, with the right-hand side of the pawn on higher ground. The bottom layer of blocks on this
side is underground. The bottom layer must be perfectly level all the way around, if you hope for the garden to last over time and not
tip over. (Plan for the endgame!)
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Like the Great Pyramid of Giza and Great Wall of China,
the Pawn Garden can be seen on Google Earth!
View from Google Earth
Specifications and Dimensions:
Height – 26 feet
Outside diameter of the head – 9.5 feet
Base width – 13.5 feet
Total number of 23.75# blocks – 506 – weighing about 12,000 pounds
Two foot pathway around the pawn – 4,000 pounds of red breeze
Dirt – 15,000 pounds
Crushed granite for base and drainage – 9,000 pounds
Flagstone on top of dirt – 600 pounds
Total weight – Just over 40,000 pounds, or 20 tons!
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Tree Stump Rook
Normally when a tree dies and has to be taken out, you have to hire a company to grind the stump…which can run around $300.
Searching the internet for other ideas (originally I was thinking of making it a base for a chess table), I discovered tree stump houses
are a popular choice. Search “tree stump house” online and you find pictures of some incredible tree stump house designs peop le
have done. After looking at the tree stump houses, I came up with the idea of turning my stump into a chess piece.
A rook seemed the most logical choice. (If you are a really good at woodworking, perhaps you could carve the tree trunk into a
knight!?)
I built the Tree Stump Rook for about $125. I purchased two 18” and two 24” diameter rounds from Home Depot and Lowes (one
size had to be special ordered). Also required is a waterproof wood stain, part of a 4x4 for the top of the rook (battlement) , screws,
waterproof wood glue, wood filler, and clear caulking.
Level and sand off the top of the tree stump. Cut the 4x4 pieces to size and stain them and the wood rounds…it is best to use a
couple coats of stain to insure longevity.
Glue and/or screw the 4x4 blocks of the battlement into the top-layer round. Be careful if using screws not to split the rounds. Glue
and screw the bottom round onto the top of the tree stump. Glue (or screw) the upper rounds on top of the base round. If gluing,
clamp the layers together or place something heavy the highest layer as you go to apply pressure while the glue sets.
Fill in the spaces between the bottom layer and tree stump with wood filler. Wood filler is thick, sticky and potentially toxic if you
touch it…it is nasty stuff and a pain to apply.
After it dries, stain the wood filler and seal all the gaps throughout with clear caulking to prevent water and bugs from getting in.
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IMRE BARLAY
1929 - 2019
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The Life of Senior Master
Imre Barlay
August 8, 1929 - October 13, 2019
by DuWayne Langseth, with contributions from Claire Silveri,
Peter Barlay, Earle Wikle, and Paul Covington
One of the most familiar faces at Colorado Springs chess
tournaments in the last twenty years was that of Imre Barlay. He
played a strong game even in his advanced years, but few of his
opponents knew they were sitting across from one of the most
accomplished and interesting chess players in Colorado history.
The United States Chess Federation awarded Imre the title of
Senior Master (rated at least 2400) in 1981 when he resided in
California, and his FIDE rating reached a high of 2285 then as
well. Seventeen years later, he moved to Colorado Springs with
his son, Peter. Imre’s rating remained over 2200 until 2003, and
was above 2000 as late as 2014. He won the first annual
California Intercollegiate title in 1959, with a perfect 5-0 score,
and at the time was well-known in Southern California chess. As
a youth, he was a friend and college chess teammate of
Grandmaster Pal Benko in their homeland of Hungary.
In Imre’s latter years, I was his most frequent and last opponent,
playing eleven four-game chess matches with him from 2015 to
2018 at G/90; +30. During that point in his life, we were similar
in ability, good competition for each other, and developed a
close friendship. He also played matches with Sam Bridle, Brian
Rountree, Larry Wutt, Aleksandr Bozhenov, and Alex Freeman
around the same time frame.
Biography
Imre Braun was born in Budapest, Hungary the youngest of four
children, to Ferdinand and Anna (Szekely) Braun. During the
Russian occupation of World War II, he changed his last name
to Barlai to avoid being mistaken as Jewish, since it was a
particularly hostile environment for Jews. He thought his new
name was safer.
When Imre was sixteen years old, his father died, a casualty of
the war. Imre told the story of his own escape to Austria after
being detained near the border by unfriendly Russians. They
released him when by chance a press vehicle drove up. He
immigrated to the United States in 1956 and was granted
citizenship in 1962, when he Americanized his name to Barlay.
Some of his games and results can be found online under the
previous spelling.
Imre graduated from San Diego State College in 1961 with a
bachelors degree in mathematics, and in 1982 he earned a
masters degree in psychology from Pepperdine University. He
told of being accepted to the Harvard psychology masters
program but he decided against it for family reasons. Imre spoke
five languages including English, Hungarian, Spanish, German
and French, which explains his credentials to work as a court
and diplomatic interpreter. He also had a career as a therapist
and counselor, giving sessions in stress management, relaxation,
self-esteem, family issues, and drug/alcohol dependence. In
addition to Imre’s love of chess, he played tennis, and enjoyed
listening to a variety of music including jazz, classical, and early
R & B. He told me that he may have been better at tennis than
chess.
A tournament was held at Club Chess!! in 2017 celebrating
Imre’s 88th birthday (August 8th). He leaves behind five
children: Claire, Monica, Stephen, Gregory, and Peter, as well as
seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren. He will be
missed and remembered dearly by his family and the Colorado
chess community.
Imre Barlay (1800)
DuWayne Langseth (1906)
Match 9, Game 1
January 20, 2018 / Imre’s Apartment
1.d4 d5 2.Bg5 Qd6
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(I devised this response to the Trompowsky Attack and beat
Brian Wall with it. I wonder if Imre had studied that, as the
result is much different here. He sometimes prepared for our
games.) 3.Qd2 Nf6 4.Nc3 Ne4 5.Nxe4 dxe4 6.e3 e6 7.Ne2 Nd7
8.Nc3 Qb6 9.Be2 Bb4 10.Bf4 O-O 11.a3 Bxc3 12.Qxc3 c6
13.b4 a6 14.O-O Nf6 15.Qb3 Bd7 16.c4
(White’s pawn storm is somewhat overwhelming. I feel like the
Imre of old was playing on this day.) 16...Rfc8 17.f3 a5
18.Rab1 a4 19.Qc2 exf3 20.Bxf3 Qd8 21.Bg5 Qf8 22.Be2 Ne8
23.e4 Qd6 24.Rbd1 f6 25.e5!
(Black is tossed around like a rag doll with no control of the
position.) 25...Qe7 26.Bh4 Qf7 27.Bd3? (Finally I get some
room to breathe. After 27.exf6 the Black king would have been
wide open.) 27...f5 28.Kh1 b5 29.c5 Qh5 30.Bf2 Nc7 31.Be2
Qg5 32.Bf3 Be8 33.Qe2 Rd8 34.Be3 Qh4 35.Qd2 h6 36.g3
Qe7 37.Rg1 Nd5 38.g4 Nxe3 39.Qxe3 Kh8 40.g5 hxg5
41.Rxg5 g6 42.Qf4 (Both 42.Rdg1! and 42.Bh5! were crushing.)
42...Rac8 43.Rg3 Rd7 44.Rh3+ Kg8 45.Rg1 Qg7 46.Qe3 Kf8
47.Rh4 Qg8 48.Rg3 Rh7 49.Rgh3 Rxh4 50.Rxh4 Rc7 51.Qg5
Rg7 52.Qf6+ Qf7 53.Qd8 Qd7 54.Rh8+ Rg8 55.Qxd7? (I feel
like Imre was being kind here. Maybe he was tired by now. On
55.Qf6+ Qf7 56.Rh7 Qxf6 57.exf6 Black can safely resign. He
completely pummeled me all game and then mercifully let me
keep half a point. I breathed a sigh of relief.) 55...Bxd7
56.Rxg8+ Kxg8 57. h4 Kg7 58.Kg2 g5 59.hxg5 Kg6 60.Kg3
Kxg5 61.Be2 ½-½
Imre Barlay (1876)
DuWayne Langseth (1885)
Match 1, Game 1
November 8, 2015 / Earle Wikle’s Apartment
1.d4 f5 2.e3 Nf6 3.Nf3 g6 4.Be2 Bg7 5.O-O O-O 6.b3 d6
7.Bb2 c6 8.c4 Re8 9.Qc2 Qc7 10.Nc3 Be6 11.Ng5 Bd7 12.e4
fxe4 13.Ncxe4 Na6 14.a3 Rad8 15.f4 Qc8 16.Bd3 Ng4
17.Nxh7!
(I knew I would be sacking the exchange, but my pieces are
aimed toward the vulnerable Black king.) 17...Ne3 (If 17...Kxh7
18.Ng5+ Kh8 19.Bxg6 and White has a very nice attack.)
18.Qf2 Nxf1 19.Qh4 Bf5 20.Nhg5 d5 21.Qh7+ Kf8 22.Rxf1
Rd6 (Imre wisely gives back the exchange to relieve the
pressure on his king. If 22...dxe4? then 23.d5!!) 23.Nxd6 exd6
24.Bxf5 Qxf5 25.Qh3?
(I could no longer see an attack and decided I better exchange
queens, but I underestimated the mess his rook would make on
my queenside. 25.cxd5 or 25.Nf3 would have been fine for
White.) 25...Qxh3 26.Nxh3 Re2 27.Bc3 Rc2 28.Rf3? (28.Ba1
was necessary.) 28...Rxc3! 29.Ng5 Rxf3 30.Nxf3 Bf6 31.cxd5
cxd5 32.Kf2 Nc7 33.a4 Ne6 34.Ke3 Nd8 35.g4 Nc6 36.Kd3
Bd8 37.h4 Ba5 38.Ng5 Ke7 39.Nf3 Kf6 40.Ng5 Nd8 41.Nf3
Ne6 42.Ke3 Bc3 43.Kd3 Bb2 44.h5 gxh5 0-1
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Imre Barlay (2285)
GM Pal Benko (2540)
New Hampshire Tournament
1968
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.bxa6 g6 6.Nc3 Bxa6 7.g3
d6 8.Bg2 Bg7 9.Qa4+ Nbd7 10.Qh4 h6 11.f4 Rb8 12.e3 Qa5
13.Nge2 Bd3 14.Kf2 g5 15.fxg5 hxg5 16.Qa4 Qxa4 17.Nxa4
Ng4+ 18.Ke1 Nxh2 19.Nac3 Ne5 20.Kd1 Nc4 21.a4 Nxb2+
22.Bxb2 Rxb2 23.Be4 Bxe2+ 24.Nxe2 Ng4 25.Rxh8+ Bxh8
26.Rb1 Nf2+ 27.Kc1 Rxe2 28.Rb8+ Kd7 29.Bf5+ e6 30.dxe6+
fxe6 31.Bxe6+ Kxe6 32.Rxh8 Nd3+ 0-1
Imre Barlay (1800)
Brian Rountree (1856)
8888 Birthday Celebration Tournament / Round 4
August 6, 2017
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 Bb7
7.c3 Be7 8.Re1 O-O 9.d4 d6 10.Nbd2 h6 11.Nf1 Re8 12.Ng3
Bf8 13.h3 Na5 14.Bc2 c5 15.d5 Bc8 16.Nh2 g5 17.Nh5 Nc4
18.Qf3 Bg7 19.a4 Nxh5 20.Qxh5 Bd7 21.b3 Nb6 22.h4 f6
23.Ng4 Bxg4 24.Qxg4 Qd7 25.Qg3 c4 26.bxc4 bxa4 27.c5
dxc5 28.Bd1 Bf8 29.Bg4 Qc7 30.Be6+ Kh8 31.Qg4 Qd6
32.Re3 Nc4 33.Rh3 Rxe6 34.dxe6 Kg8 35.Be3 Bg7 36.Rd1
Nxe3 37.Rxe3 Qb6 38.e7 Qc6 39.Red3 Re8 40.Rd6 Qb5
41.Qe6+ Kh7 42.Rd8 a3 43.Rxe8 Qxe8 44.Qd7 Qxd7 45.Rxd7
a2 46.Rd1 c4 47.e8Q g4 48.h5 a1Q 49.Rxa1 g3 50.Rd1 a5
51.Qg6+ 1-0
Imre Barlay (1874)
DuWayne Langseth (1923)
Match 3, Game 1
December 17, 2016
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.cxd5 exd5 6.e3 O-O
7.Bd3 b6 8.Nge2 Bb7 9.Ng3 Ne4 10.Bxe7 Qxe7 11.Qc2 f5
12.O-O-O Nd7 13.Rde1 c5 14.f3 cxd4 15.Bxe4 dxc3 16.Bxf5
cxb2+ 17.Kb1 Ne5 18.Bxh7+ Kh8 19.Bd3 Qa3 20.Rd1 Rfc8
21.Qxb2 Rc3 22.Qxa3 Rxa3 23.Bc2 Rxe3 24.Rhe1 Nc4
25.Rxe3 Nxe3 26.Rd2 Nc4 27.Re2 Ba6 28.Re7 Na3+ 29.Kb2
Nxc2 30.Kxc2 Bc4 31.a3 a5 32.Nf5 Rc8 33.Nd6 Rc6 34.Re8+
Kh7 35.Nxc4 dxc4 36.a4 c3 37.Re4 Rg6 38.g3 Rh6? 39.Rh4!
Rxh4 40.gxh4 Kg6 41.Kxc3 Kh5 42.Kc4 Kxh4 43.Kb5 ... 1-0
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Winter Springs
Open
by Richard “Buck” Buchanan
Chief Tournament Director
The 2019 Winter Springs Open came to
pass on a sunny December weekend in
Manitou Springs. Forty players
participated in the three sections. Some
were tourney regulars, including
Colorado’s two highest rated active
players; some were youngsters
sharpening their weapons; some were old
friends who I haven’t seen for quite a
while. Among this last group were Randy
Canney, former state champion, and Ed
Sedillo from New Mexico, who I knew
long ago when I lived down there. Both
these players did well and won prizes,
though Randy generously donated his
share to the other players who had tied
with him. Be sure to play over Ed’s game
with Mirza Peljto - it’s a cliffhanger, the
most exciting game in the tournament.
The Open (June) section was by far the
most crowded, and featured Josh Bloomer
and Gunnar Andersen in the top two
spots. Gunnar, however, tripped over
Rhett Langseth in the second round, and
so once again Josh played his students,
Daniel and Sara Herman, in the last
rounds. Josh took first alone with 4-0 (not
surprising for a 2412), and was followed
a point behind by Gunnar, Randy, Neil
Bhavikatti, Sami Al-Adsani, and the
Herman siblings. Other prize winners
were Ed Sedillo and Andrew Eskenazi.
Jeff Baffo dominated the U1800 (July)
section until he had to leave before the
last round. Ted Doykos and Robert
Carlson shared the top prize with him.
The U1500 prize was split between
William Wolf and Sravyasri Lankipalle,
and Shirley Herman won the U1400
prize. Sravyasri, 13 years old, was a top
scorer in the Girls Tournament at the
Denver Open last spring, and she scored a
hard fought draw against me in a Club
Chess!! tournament a week before our
event.
The U1400 (August) section had only 7
players, of whom we lost 2 in the course
of the tournament. Victor Papa-Simil took
first with 3.5 points, followed by unrated
Austin Cook with 2.5. One delightful
player was 7-year-old Iris Li, who I am
informed by a reliable source (Dean
Brown) is the second most active
tournament player in Colorado, exceeded
only by Mr. Brown himself.
During the Saturday afternoon round I
had to leave the tournament to perform
with other members of the Colorado
Springs Chorale in Cripple Creek (alert
players noted my tux shirt with studs and
cufflinks, and suspected something was
going on). They have an annual
December event there (usually not this
early) as a fundraiser for the Aspen Mine
Center. We sang in a church west of
downtown, more than 100 years old and
with acoustics that make it a joy to
perform there. The locals are always glad
to see us, and provide a warm welcome
with goodies and meal passes to the
various casinos! I very much appreciated
Earle Wikle and Dean Brown serving as
Tournament Directors during my
absence. Thanks so much guys, I couldn’t
have done it without you.
Mirza Peljto (1912)
Randy Canney (2222)
Round 1
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5
5.e4 Nb6 6.Nc3 Bg7 7.Be3 0-0 8.Qd2
Nc6 9.0-0-0 Na5 10.Bf2 Nac4 11.Bxc4
Nxc4 12.Qd3 Nd6 13.Nge2 b5 14.Kb1 a5
15.h4 a4 16.h5 b4 17.Nd5 Ba6 18.Qd2
Nc4 19.Qe1 b3 20.a3 Qd6 21.Nb4 Rfd8
22.hxg6 hxg6 23.Rc1 c5 24.Bg3 Qf6
25.Nd5 Rxd5 26.exd5 Qf5+ 27.Ka1 Nxa3
28.Be5 Qb1+!! 0-1
Eric Billaux (2102)
Charles Alexander (1800)
Round 1
1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.exd6 exd6
5.c4 Nf6 6.Nf3 Bg4 7.Be2 Be7 8.0-0 0-0
9.Qb3 Qc8 10.Re1 Nc6 11.Be3 Na5
12.Qc3 b6 13.Nbd2 d5 14.c5 Nb7 15.Ne5
Bxe2 16.Rxe2 bxc5 17.Nc6 Re8 18.dxc5
Bxc5 19.Rae1 Bxe3 20.Rxe3 Rxe3
21.Rxe3 Qg4 22.Ne7+ Kh8 23.Qxc7 Nd8
24.Nf3 d4 25.Re1 d3 26.Ne5 d2
27.Qxd8+! 1-0
Grayson Harris (1646)
Earle Wikle (2043)
Round 1
1.d4 e6 2.Bf4 f5 3.e3 Nf6 4.Be2 Be7
5.Nf3 0-0 6.h3 d6 7.0-0 Qe8 8.Bc4 Kh8
9.Ng5 Bd8 10.c3 h6 11.Nf3 g5 12.Bh2
Nc6 13.Bb5 g4 14.hxg4 Nxg4 15.d5 a6
16.Bxc6 bxc6 17.dxe6 Bxe6 18.Bf4 Qg6
19.Na3 Rg8 20.Bg3 Bf6 21.Nc2 Bc4
22.Nh4 Qh5 23.Re1 Bd5 24.Nf3 Nxf2!
25.Kxf2 Qg4 26.Rg1 Qxg3+ 27.Ke2
Bc4+ 28.Kd2 Qf2+ 29.Kc1 Rxg2
30.Rxg2 Qxg2 31.Qg1 Qxf3 32.Qg6 Bg5
0-1
Sara Herman (2018)
Andrew Eskenazi (1712)
Round 1
1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6
5.Qe2 Nxe4 6.Qxe4 Nd7 7.Bc4 g6 8.Ng5
e6 9.Nxf7 Nf6 10.Nxd8 Nxe4 11.Nxe6
Bxe6 12.Bxe6 Bc5 13.f3 Ng5 14.Bb3 h5
15.d4 Be7 16.h4 Nh7 17.Bf4 Rf8 18.Bg3
Kd7 19.0-0-0 Rad8 20.d5 Rf6 21.Rhe1
Bd6 22.dxc6+ Kxc6 23.Be5 Rff8
24.Ba4+ 1-0
Scott Williams (1216)
Max Higa (1490)
Round 1
1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 g6 3.d4 Bg7 4.e4 d6
5.Be2 0-0 6.Be3 e5 7.Nf3 Nc6 8.0-0 Ng4
9.Bg5 f6 10.Bc1 f5 11.d5 Ne7 12.exf5
gxf5 13.h3 Nf6 14.Bg5 f4 15.Bxf6 Rxf6
16.Ne4 Rg6 17.Bd3 Bxh3 18.Neg5 Bf5
19.Ne6 Qd7 20.Bxf5 Nxf5 21.Nfg5 h6
22.Nf3 Qf7 23.Kh2 Rg4 24.Rh1 Qg6
25.Ne1 Nh4 26.g3 Rxg3 27.Rg1 Rxg1
0-1
Isaac Langer (Unrated)
Jonathan Reinhard (998)
Round 1
1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 d6 4.Bc4 e6
5.0-0 Nf6 6.d3 a6 7.a4 d5 8.exd5 exd5
9.Bb3 Be6 10.d4 Ng4 11.h3 h5 12.Bg5
Be7 13.Qd2 cxd4 14.Ne2 Nce5 15.hxg4
Nxf3+ 16.gxf3 Bxg5 17.Qxd4 hxg4
18.Qxg7 Bf6 19.Qxh8+ Bxh8 20.Rfd1
gxf3 21.Nf4 Qg5+ 22.Kf1 Qxf4 23.a5
0-0-0 24.Rac1 Qh2 25.Ke1 Rg8 26.c4
Rg1+ 27.Kd2 Qf4+ 28.Kc2 Bf5+ 29.Rd3
Qxc1# 0-1
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Rhett Langseth (2122)
Gunnar Andersen (2303)
Round 2
1.d4 e6 2.e4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Nf3 Bd6
5.Bg5 f6 6.Bh4 Ne7 7.Bd3 Bf5 8.0-0 0-0
9.Re1 Qd7 10.Nc3 Bxd3 11.Qxd3 Nbc6
12.Bg3 Bb4 13.a3 Bxc3 14.Qxc3 Nf5
15.Bf4 Rae8 16.Qd3 g5 17.Bg3 g4
18.Nh4 Nfxd4 19.c3 Nb3 20.Rad1 Nc5
21.Qd2 d4 22.f3 gxf3 23.Nxf3 Rxe1+
24.Bxe1 Rd8 25.Qf4 Qd6 26.Qg4+ Kh8
27.Nxd4 Ne5 28.Qf5 Ncd7 29.Rd2 Rg8
30.Kh1 Qf8 31.Ne6 Qh6 32.Nxc7 Ng4
33.h3 Qe3 34.Rd1 Nge5 35.Bh4 Rg6
36.Nd5 Qe2 37.Rg1 Kg7 38.Nf4 Qxb2
39.Nxg6 hxg6 40.Bxf6+ Kf7 41.Qf4 Nd3
42.Qc4+ Kxf6 43.Qxd3 Nf8 44.Qd6+
Kg7 45.Qe7+ Kg8 46.Rf1 Nh7 47.Qf7+
Kh8 48.Re1 1-0
Randy Canney (2222)
Elliott Woo (2086)
Round 2
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.Nc3 Bg4
5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Nxc3 7.bxc3 g6 8.Bc4
e6 9.h3 Bxf3 10.Qxf3 Bg7 11.Ba3 Nd7
12.0-0 Qc7 13.e5 Nb6 14.Bd6 Qd7
15.Bd3 Bf8 16.Bxf8 Rxf8 17.Be4 0-0-0
18.a4 f5 19.exf6 Nd5 20.a5 Rxf6 21.Qg3
a6 22.Rfe1 Rdf8 23.Ra2 Qf7 24.c4 Nc7
25.Rb2 Rf4 26.Ree2 Ne8 27.Qb3 Qc7
28.d5 Nd6 29.Bd3 exd5 30.cxd5 c5
31.Rec2 Qxa5 32.g3 Rf3 33.Rxc5+ Qxc5
34.Rc2 Qxc2 35.Qxc2+ Kd7 36.Qe2
R8f6 37.g4 Rxf2 38.Bf5+ R2xf5 39.gxf5
Nxf5 40.Qb2 Rd6 41.Qxb7+ Ke8
42.Qxh7 Kd8 43.Qa7 Ne7 44.Kf2 Nxd5
45.Kf3 Ne7 46.Kf4 Ke8 47.Qb8+ Kd7
48.Qb7+ Ke8 49.Ke5 Rc6 50.Kf4 Kf7
51.Qb3+ Kg7 52.Qb2+ Kg8 53.Qb3+
Kg7 54.Qb2+ ½-½
Charles Alexander (1800)
DuWayne Langseth (1941)
Round 2
1.g3 d5 2.Bg2 e6 3.b3 Nf6 4.Bb2 Be7
5.Nf3 0-0 6.0-0 b6 7.c4 Bb7 8.cxd5 Nxd5
9.Nc3 Nxc3 10.Bxc3 c5 11.Rc1 Nd7
12.Rc2 Nf6 13.Qa1 g6 14.d3 Nd5 15.Bg7
Bf6 16.Bxf6 Qxf6 17.Ne5 Nb4 18.Rc4
Bxg2 19.Kxg2 Rfd8 20.Rf4 Qh8 21.Nxf7
Qxa1 22.Rxa1 Rd5 23.Nh6+ Kg7 24.Ng4
a5 25.Ne3 Re5 26.a3 Nd5 27.Nxd5 exd5
28.Kf1 g5 29.Rf3 d4 30.e4 b5 31.g4 a4
32.bxa4 Rxa4 33.Rb1 c4 34.dxc4 Rxc4
35.Rf5 Rxf5 36.exf5 d3 37.Rxb5? Rc1+
38.Kg2 d2 39.Rd5 d1Q 40.Rxd1 Rxd1
41.Kg3 Rd3+ 42.f3 Rxa3 0-1
Edward Sedillo (1712)
Mirza Peljto (1912)
Round 2
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Nxe4
5.Re1 Nd6 6.Nc3 Nxb5 7.Nxe5 Nxe5
8.Rxe5+ Be7 9.Nd5 Kf8 10.Nxe7 d6
11.Re1 Be6 12.a4 Nd4 13.c3 Qxe7
14.cxd4 Qf6 15.Qc2 c6 16.b3 Bd5
17.Qd3 h5 18.Ba3 Rd8 19.Re3 g6
20.Rae1 Rd7 21.Re8+ Kg7 22.Qe3 Rxe8
23.Qxe8 Be6 24.Bb2 Rd8 25.Qxd8 Qxd8
26.d5+ Kg8 27.dxe6 Qe7 28.Bf6!! Qe8
29.e7 Kh7 30.f4 g5 31.f5 Kh6 32.Kf2 a6
33.Re3 d5 34.Rg3 g4 35.h3 Qd7 36.hxg4
hxg4 37.e8Q!! Qxf5+ 38.Ke2 Kg6
39.Qe5 1-0
Max Higa (1490)
Jeffrey Baffo (1754)
Round 2
1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 e5 3.d5 Nce7 4.Nf3 Ng6
5.c4 Bc5 6.Bd3 Nf6 7.h3 0-0 8.a3 d6
9.Nc3 c6 10.b4 Bb6 11.0-0 cxd5 12.cxd5
Bd7 13.Qe2 Rc8 14.Bd2 Nh5 15.Rac1
Nhf4 16.Bxf4 Nxf4 17.Qd2 Qf6 18.Ne2
Nxh3+ 19.gxh3 Qxf3 20.Rxc8 Rxc8
21.Nc1 Qg3+ 22.Kh1 Qxh3+ 23.Kg1
Qg3+ 24.Kh1 Qf3+ 25.Kh2 Bg4 26.Be2
Qh3+ 27.Kg1 Qg3+ 28.Kh1 Bf3+
29.Bxf3 Qxf3+ 30.Kh2 Qxe4 31.Rg1
Bxf2 32.Qxf2 Rc2 0-1
Earle Wikle (2043)
Randy Canney (2222)
Round 3
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4 Nf6
5.e5 d5 6.Bb5 Ne4 7.Nxd4 Bd7 8.Bxc6
bxc6 9.0-0 Bc5 10.f3 Ng5 11.f4 Ne4
12.Be3 Bb6 13.Nc3 Nxc3 14.bxc3 Qe7
15.Qf3 0-0 16.Rae1 Rfe8 17.Qf2 c5
18.Nb3 Bb5 19.Bxc5 Bxc5 20.Nxc5 Bxf1
21.Kxf1 Rab8 22.Nd3 Rb6 23.f5 Qg5
24.Re3 Rb1+ 25.Ne1 c5 26.h3 h5 27.Rg3
Rxe1+ 0-1
Neil Bhavikatti (2102)
Elliott Woo (2086)
Round 3
1.e4 d5 2.Nc3 d4 3.Nce2 e5 4.d3 Bg4
5.h3 Bh5 6.g4 Bg6 7.Ng3 Nc6 8.Bd2 Bd6
9.Bg2 Qd7 10.Nf3 0-0-0 11.h4 f6 12.Nf5
Kb8 13.Bh3 Be8 14.Qe2 Qf7 15.a3 Bf8
16.g5 g6 17.Ng3 Bd6 18.h5 h6 19.hxg6
Qxg6 20.Nh4 Qf7 21.g6 Qf8 22.Ngf5
Rd7 23.Rg1 Rg7 24.Nxg7 Qxg7 25.Nf5
Qd7 26.Qf3 Bf8 27.g7 Bxg7 28.Nxg7
Qf7 29.Nxe8 Qxe8 30.0-0-0 Qf7 31.Kb1
Nge7 32.Qg4 Rg8 33.Qe6 Qf8 34.Rxg8
Nxg8 35.Rg1 Nge7 36.Bb4 Nxb4 37.axb4
a6 38.Rg3 Ka7 39.Qc4 Qd8 40.Rg7 Nc6
41.Qc5+ Kb8 42.Qd5 Qxd5 43.exd5
Nxb4 1-0
Gunnar Andersen (2303)
Henry Poston (1839)
Round 3
1.b3 Nc6 2.Bb2 d5 3.Nf3 f6 4.d4 g5 5.c4
e6 6.e3 Bb4+ 7.Nfd2 Nge7 8.Qh5+ Ng6
9.a3 Bxd2+ 10.Nxd2 f5 11.h3 Bd7
12.Nf3 g4 13.hxg4 Qf6 14.cxd5 exd5
15.Ne5 0-0-0 16.Nxd7 Kxd7 17.Qxf5+
Qxf5 18.gxf5 Nge7 19.g4 Rdg8 20.Rh5
Nd8 21.f6 Ng6 22.Rxd5+ Ke6 23.Rf5 1-0
Eric Billaux (2102)
Edward Sedillo (1712)
Round 3
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Bd3 dxe4 4.Bxe4 Nf6
5.Bf3 Nbd7 6.Nc3 c6 7.Bf4 Nd5 8.Bg3
Nxc3 9.bxc3 Nf6 10.Ne2 Bd6 11.0-0 0-0
12.Re1 Re8 13.Nc1 Bxg3 14.hxg3 Qc7
15.Nd3 b6 16.g4 Bb7 17.g5 Nd7 18.Be4
f5 19.gxf6 Nxf6 20.Ne5 Nxe4 21.Rxe4 c5
22.Rh4 g6 23.Qg4 Qg7 24.Rd1 Rad8
25.Rd3 Re7 26.Rdh3 Qf6 27.Nf3 Qf5
28.Qxf5 exf5 29.Ne5 Rd6 30.Re3 Be4
31.Nd3 cxd4 32.cxd4 Rc7 33.Ne1 Bd5
34.a3 g5 35.Rh5 h6 36.Re8+ Kg7 37.Rh3
Re6 38.Rxe6 Bxe6 39.Re3 Kf6 40.Kf1
Bc4+ 41.Kg1 Re7 42.Rxe7 Kxe7 43.f3
Kd6 44.Kf2 Kd5 45.c3 b5 46.g3 h5
47.Nc2 f4 48.gxf4 gxf4 49.Ne1 Ke6
50.Kg2 Kf6 51.Nc2 a5 52.Ne1 Be2
53.Kf2 Bc4 54.Kg2 ½-½
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Andrew Eskenazi (1656)
DuWayne Langseth (1941)
Round 3
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nd2 f5 4.Ngf3 c6 5.g3
Bd6 6.Bg2 Nd7 7.Qc2 Qf6 8.Nb3 Ne7
9.Bf4 Bxf4 10.gxf4 Ng6 11.e3 0-0
12.0-0-0 Nh4 13.Rhg1 Nxf3 14.Bxf3 b6
15.Rg5 Ba6 16.c5 Bc4 17.Nd2 Bb5
18.Nb3 Ba4 19.Rdg1 Rf7 20.h4 bxc5
21.dxc5 Rb8 22.Bh5 Re7 23.f3 Rb5
24.Qd2 Bxb3 25.axb3 Nxc5 26.Kd1 Rxb3
27.Qa5 Nb7 28.Qxa7 Rxb2 29.Qb8+ Qf8
30.Qe5 Rb1+ 31.Ke2 Rxg1 32.Rxg1 Nd8
33.e4 Ra7 34.Kf2 Qc5+ 35.Kg2 Ra2+
36.Kh1 Qe7 37.Rg5 h6 0-1
Robert Carlson (1552)
Ayush Vispute (1415)
Round 3
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.c3 e6 4.Bf4 Be7 5.e3
0-0 6.Bd3 d5 7.dxc5 Bxc5 8.0-0 Nbd7
9.Nbd2 Re8 10.Ne5 Nxe5 11.Bxe5 Nd7
12.Nf3 Nxe5 13.Nxe5 f6 14.Nf3 e5
15.Bb5 Rf8 16.Qb3 Kh8 17.Rad1 Be6
18.Qc2 Qb6 19.Ba4 Rac8 20.Bb3 Rfd8
21.h3 d4 22.Bxe6 Qxe6 23.exd4 exd4
24.Qb3 Qxb3 25.axb3 d3 26.Rd2 Rc7
27.Rfd1 Rcd7 28.Ne1 a5 29.Rxd3 Rxd3
30.Rxd3 Rxd3 31.Nxd3 Bd6 32.Kf1 Kg8
33.Ke2 Kf7 34.f3 Ke6 35.Ke3 Kd5
36.c4+ Kc6 37.Kd4 g6 38.Kc3 Be5+
39.Nxe5+ fxe5 40.b4 a4 41.Kd3 b5 42.c5
Kd5 43.h4 h6 44.g4 g5 45.h5 1-0
Sara Herman (2018)
Josh Bloomer (2412)
Round 4
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Nd7 4.c3 Ngf6
5.Qe2 a6 6.Ba4 e6 7.0-0 Be7 8.d4 b5
9.Bc2 Bb7 10.a4 0-0 11.Rd1 Qc7 12.Na3
b4 13.Nb1 cxd4 14.Nxd4 d5 15.exd5
Nxd5 16.Rd3 N7f6 17.Rh3 Rfd8 18.Bg5
Rac8 19.Bxf6 Bxf6 20.Bxh7+ Kf8
21.Nxe6+ fxe6 22.Bf5 Nf4 0-1
DuWayne Langseth (1941)
Gunnar Andersen (2303)
Round 4
1.d4 e6 2.e3 c5 3.f4 Nf6 4.Bd3 b6 5.Nf3
Ba6 6.Bxa6 Nxa6 7.0-0 Be7 8.Qe2 Nb8
9.e4 cxd4 10.Nxd4 0-0 11.Nc3 Nc6
12.Nxc6 dxc6 13.Be3 Qc7 14.Rad1 e5
15.fxe5 Qxe5 16.Bd4 Bc5 17.Qf2 Bxd4
18.Qxd4 Rfe8 19.Qxe5 Rxe5 20.Rd6 Rc8
21.Rfd1 Kf8 22.Rd8+ Re8 23.Rxc8 Rxc8
24.e5 Ng4 25.Rd7 a5 26.a4 Rb8 27.e6
fxe6 28.Rd6 b5 29.Rxc6 b4 30.Ne4 Rd8
31.Kf1 Ne3+ 32.Kf2 Nd1+ 33.Ke2 Nxb2
34.Nc5 Kf7 35.Nxe6 Re8 36.Rc7+ Kxe6
37.Rxg7 Kf6+ 0-1
Daniel Herman (2124)
Rhett Langseth (2122)
Round 4
1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e5 4.Nge2 Nbd7
5.g3 c6 6.Bg2 b5 7.0-0 Bb7 8.h3 a5
9.Be3 b4 10.Nb1 c5 11.d5 h5 12.Nd2 Ba6
13.c4 bxc3 14.bxc3 a4 15.c4 Qa5 16.Qc2
a3 17.Nc1 Rb8 18.Nd3 g6 19.f4 Bg7
20.fxe5 Nxe5 21.Nxe5 dxe5 22.Nb3 Qa4
23.Qf2 Bxc4 24.Nxc5 Qa5 25.Rab1 0-0
26.Rfc1 Rb5 27.Rxb5 Qxb5 28.Qc2 Be2
29.Rb1 Qc4 30.Qd2 Bh6 31.Bxh6 Qxc5+
32.Kh2 Qf2 33.Bxf8 Kxf8 34.Re1 Nxe4
35.Qxe2 Qxg3+ 36.Kg1 Ng5 37.Qe3 Qh4
38.Qxe5 Kg8 39.Rb1 f6 40.Qe8+ Kg7
41.Rb7+ Nf7 42.Rxf7+ Kh6 43.Qh8+
Kg5 44.Qxf6+ 1-0
Elliott Woo (2086)
Eric Billaux (2102)
Round 4
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bg5 Nbd7 4.e3 g6
5.c4 Bg7 6.Bd3 0-0 7.0-0 c6 8.Nc3 e5
9.dxe5 dxe5 10.Qc2 Qc7 11.e4 Nc5
12.Be2 Bg4 13.h3 Bxf3 14.Bxf3 Ne6
15.Bxf6 Bxf6 16.Ne2 Nd4 17.Nxd4 exd4
18.Qd3 c5 19.Rab1 a5 20.a3 a4 21.b3
axb3 22.Rxb3 Ra6 23.Rfb1 b6 24.g3 Bd8
25.Bg2 Qa7 26.Bf3 Re8 27.Kg2 Ra4
28.Bg4 Qe7 29.Bf3 Qg5 30.Ra1 Bc7
31.h4 Qe5 32.Rab1 Kg7 33.Ra1 Re7
34.Rab1 h6 35.R3b2 Qe6 36.Rc1 g5
37.hxg5 hxg5 38.Ra2 g4 39.Bd1 Ra8
40.Bc2 Rh8 41.Rh1 Rxh1 42.Kxh1 Qh6+
43.Kg2 Re8 44.Bd1 Qh3+ 45.Kg1 Rh8
46.Bf3 gxf3 47.Qxf3 Qh2+ 48.Kf1 Qh1+
49.Qxh1 Rxh1+ 50.Ke2 Rc1 51.Kd3
Rc3+ 52.Ke2 Rxc4 53.f4 Rc3 54.Kf2 f6
55.a4 Re3 56.Rb2 Ra3 0-1
Sravyasri Lankipalle (1371)
Ted Doykos (1791)
Round 4
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4 e6 4.Nbd2 Be7
5.e3 0-0 6.Bd3 Nbd7 7.c3 b6 8.Nf1 c5
9.Ng3 a5 10.Qe2 Bb7 11.Ne5 Ne4
12.Nxe4 dxe4 13.Bb5 Nxe5 14.Bxe5 Bd6
15.Bxd6 Qxd6 16.dxc5 Qxc5 17.Rd1
Rfd8 18.0-0 g6 19.h3 Kg7 20.Rfe1 h5
21.a3 Bd5 22.c4 Bc6 23.Bxc6 Qxc6
24.b3 a4 25.b4 Rac8 26.Qb2+ f6 27.Rxd8
Rxd8 28.Rc1 Rd3 29.c5 Rb3 30.Qd2 Rd3
½-½
William Wolf (1455)
Robert Carlson (1552)
Round 4
1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3 Bg4 4.h3 Bxf3
5.Qxf3 e6 6.b3 c6 7.Bb2 Nbd7 8.g4 Qa5
9.a3 0-0-0 10.b4 Qb6 11.Nc3 e5 12.Na4
Qc7 13.fxe5 Nxe5 14.Qf5+ Ned7
15.0-0-0 g6 16.Qxf6 Nxf6 17.Bxf6 Be7
18.Bxh8 Rxh8 19.Bd3 Qe5 20.Kb1 d4
21.exd4 Qxd4 22.Rhe1 Bf6 23.Nc3 Kd7
24.Re4 Qf2 25.Rf1 Qh4 26.Ref4 Bxc3
27.Rxf7+ Kc8 28.dxc3 Re8 29.R1f3 Re7
30.Rf8+ Kc7 31.a4 Qg5 32.R8f7 Kd7
33.Bc4 Qe5 34.Rxe7+ Kxe7 35.Rf7+ Ke8
36.Kb2 b5 37.axb5 cxb5 38.Bb3 h5
39.gxh5 Qxh5 40.Rxa7 Kf8 41.Rf7+
Ke8 ... ½-½
Austin Cook (Unrated)
Isaac Langer (Unrated)
Round 4
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.Bg5 Bb4
5.e4 d5 6.e5 h6 7.Be3 Ne4 8.Nge2 0-0
9.Rc1 dxc4 10.Ng3 Nxc3 11.bxc3 Be7
12.Bxc4 Bg5 13.Qg4 f5 14.exf6 gxf6
15.Bxe6+ Bxe6 16.Qxe6+ Kg7 17.Nh5+
Kg6 18.Qe4+ Kxh5 19.g4+ Kh4 20.f4
Kxg4 21.f5+ Kh5 22.Qf3+ Kh4 23.Bf2#
1-0
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JUNE (Open) RTG PTS RD1 RD2 RD3 RD4 1 JOSH BLOOMER 2412 4.0 W10 W8 W4 W6 2 GUNNAR ANDERSEN 2303 3.0 W7 L9 W15 W10 3 RANDY CANNEY 2222 3.0 W11 D13 W12 D5 4 DANIEL HERMAN 2124 3.0 W21 W20 L1 W9 5 NEIL BHAVIKATTI 2102 3.0 W15 D12 W13 D3 6 SARA HERMAN 2018 3.0 W17 W14 W9 L1 7 SAMI AL-ADSANI 1891 3.0 L2 W21 W20 W16 8 ERIC BILLAUX 2102 2.5 W18 L1 D16 W13 9 RHETT LANGSETH 2122 2.0 X W2 L6 L4 10 DuWAYNE LANGSETH 1941 2.0 L1 W18 W17 L2 11 MIRZA PELJTO 1912 2.0 L3 L16 W14 W19 12 EARLE WIKLE 2043 1.5 W19 D5 L3 U 13 ELLIOTT WOO 2086 1.5 W16 D3 L5 L8 14 BRIAN ROUNTREE 1946 1.5 D22 L6 L11 W20 15 HENRY POSTON 1839 1.5 L5 W19 L2 D17 16 EDWARD SEDILLO 1712 1.5 L13 W11 D8 L7 17 ANDREW ESKENAZI 1656 1.5 L6 B L10 D15 18 CHARLES ALEXANDER 1800 1.0 L8 L10 W22 U 19 GRAYSON HARRIS 1646 1.0 L12 L15 B L11 20 VEDANT MARGALE 1484 1.0 B L4 L7 L14 21 VEDANTH SAMPATH 1809 0.5 L4 L7 H U 22 VIBI VARGHESE 1608 0.5 D14 U L18 U
JULY (U1800) RTG PTS RD1 RD2 RD3 RD4 1 TED DOYKOS 1791 3.0 W4 D3 W6 D5 2 JEFFREY BAFFO 1754 3.0 W7 W6 W5 U 3 ROBERT CARLSON 1552 3.0 W10 D1 W7 D4 4 WILLIAM WOLF 1455 2.5 L1 W10 W8 D3 5 SRAVYASRI LANKIPALLE 1371 2.5 W8 W12 L2 D1 6 MAX HIGA 1490 2.0 W11 L2 L1 W10 7 AYUSH VISPUTE 1415 2.0 L2 W9 L3 W11 8 SHIRLEY HERMAN 1019 2.0 L5 W11 L4 W12 9 DEAN BROWN 1476 1.5 D12 L7 L10 B 10 NICHOLAS TORRES 1281 1.0 L3 L4 W9 L6 11 SCOTT WILLIAMS 1216 1.0 L6 L8 W12 L7 12 DR COLIN McALLISTER Unrated 0.5 D9 L5 L11 L8
AUGUST (U1400) RTG PTS RD1 RD2 RD3 RD4 1 VICTOR POPA-SIMIL 1364 3.5 W4 W5 W3 D2 2 JONATHAN REINHARD 998 3.0 W7 D3 W4 D1 3 AUSTIN COOK Unrated 2.5 W6 D2 L1 W7 4 IRIS LI 995 2.0 L1 B L2 X 5 BETTY BAFFO 673 2.0 B L1 W7 U 6 DONALD HILLMAN 1151 1.0 L3 L7 B F 7 ISAAC LANGER Unrated 1.0 L2 W6 L5 L3
Winter Springs Open
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Denver Chess Club Fall Classic
by J.C. MacNeil
(Reprinted with permission of the Denver Chess Club)
This year’s attendance was down slightly, but a 53 player
turnout was certainly not bad. To the credit of Meint Olthof, the
DCC Treasurer, he chose to pay out the entire as advertised
based on 60 players prize fund of $1400. In addition, the prize
money was divided equally between the 3 sections, which is
something I have always advocated. Weighing the prize money
slightly to the Open section is fine, but not by more than a few
percentage points. An equal share for each section is even better
in my opinion.
As might be expected in the Open section, Gunnar Andersen
was at the top of the standings after round 5 with 4 points. He
was joined there by Sullivan McConnell. Everybody knows
Sullivan is going have a permanent over 2200 rating before long.
Mr. Andersen was upset by Jesse Hester in round 2, and Jesse
ended up on board 1 against Sullivan for the last round. A win
would have meant clear 1st place for Mr. Hester, but alas it was
not to be. At one point Ben Gurka and I both thought he had
good chances; down the exchange but with a strong passed
pawn. The youngest McConnell brother prevailed and he and
Gunnar won $186 each. Mr. Hester ended up sharing the 3rd
place prize of $94 with Brian Wall, both finishing with 3.5
points.
Ted Doykos was the highest-rated player in the U1800 section
and he appropriately finished with 4 points, but only after being
upset by Meint Olthof in the 1st round. Also ending up with 4
points was Michael Igoe and Phil Brown. Like Ted, Mr. Igoe
started out with a loss then won four straight. Ending with a nice
last round upset win over Steve Kovach, a real strong
player... when he doesn’t leave a rook hanging. Mr. Brown was
just the opposite; winning four straight to start - which included
a sweet round 2 upset win over Roberto Popa - only to lose his
last round game against Mr. Doykos. Thus they all share the
combined 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes, with each winning
$156.
The youngster, Owen Vonne - who is like 8 years old - just
keeps winning money. He tied for 1st place in the U1400 section
with Daniel Smith. Again the top prize winners only lost one
game to end up with a final score of 4 points and win $186 each.
Owen’s only loss was to Mr. Smith and he in turn only lost to
the 3rd place winner, Jeff Manuel. Mr. Manuel won $94 for his
well earned 3.5 points.
It’s good for me to see that pretty near all the prize winners in
this tournament are regular DCC Tuesday night players. DCC
tournament prize money may not make a house payment, but
any 1st or 2nd place prize will generally cover USCF and CSCA
memberships, the entry fee, and leave plenty of money for
lunch. Of course, the next time you win a prize, after the entry
fee, it’s all lunch money.
Thanks to all the players that made the DCC Fall Classic a great
tournament!
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Gunnar Andersen awaiting Brian Wall’s
opening move.
Jesse Hester came so close to clear 1st place
but alas...
Meint Olthof with the Black pieces against
Phillip Brown.
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Brian Wall (2200)
Jeffrey Baffo (1801)
Round 1
1.g4 d5 2.Bg2 e6 3.d4 Bd6 4.c4 c6 5.Nc3 Ne7 6.e4 dxe4 7.Bxe4
Nd7 8.h4 e5 9.Nf3 exd4 10.Qxd4 Nf6 11.c5 Bc7 12.Qxd8+
Bxd8 13.g5 Nxe4 14.Nxe4 0–0 15.Nd6 Nf5 16.Bf4 Nxd6
17.cxd6 Be6 18.Nd4 Bb6 19.Nxe6 Rfe8 20.0–0 Rxe6 21.Rfe1
Rae8 22.Rxe6 fxe6 23.Kg2 Bd4 24.Be3 Bxe3 25.fxe3 Rd8
26.Rd1 Kf7 27.Kf3 e5 28.Ke4 Ke6 29.d7 g6 30.b4 Rxd7
31.Rxd7 Kxd7 32.Kxe5 Ke7 33.a3 b6 34.a4 a6 35.a5 b5 36.Kd4
Kd6 37.e4 c5+ 38.bxc5+ Kc6 39.e5 Kd7 40.Kd5 Kc7 41.e6 Kc8
42.c6 Kd8 43.Kd6 1-0
Coleman Hoyt (1469)
Owen Christ (1109)
Round 1
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Qc7 5.Nc3 e5 6.Nf5 Nge7
7.Nb5 Qa5+ 8.Bd2 Qb6 9.Nfd6+ Kd8 10.Nxf7+ Ke8 11.Nbd6#
1-0
Robert Cernich (1486
J.C. MacNeil (1690)
Round 2
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d5 3.cxd5 Nxd5 4.e4 Nf6 5.e5 Nd5 6.Nc3 e6
7.Nf3 Bb4 8.Bd2 c5 9.Nxd5 Bxd2+ 10.Qxd2 Qxd5 11.dxc5
Qe4+ 12.Be2 Nc6 13.0–0 Nxe5 14.Nxe5 Qxe5 15.Bb5+ Kf8
16.Qd8# 1-0
Phillip Brown (1550)
Meint Olthof (1441)
Round 4
1.c4 e5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 Bc5 4.e3 d6 5.Nc3 c6 6.Nge2 Nbd7 7.a3
Bb6 8.0–0 0–0 9.b4 Qe7 10.Qc2 Re8 11.d3 Nf8 12.Ne4 Bf5
13.Nxf6+ Qxf6 14.e4 Bg6 15.Be3 Rad8 16.a4 Bxe3 17.fxe3 Qe7
18.Nc3 Qc7 19.b5 Ne6 20.a5 cxb5 21.Nxb5 Qc5 22.Qf2 a6
23.Nc3 Qc6 24.Rfb1 Nc5 25.Qc2 Nd7 26.Nd5 Rb8 27.Bh3 f6
28.Bxd7 Qxd7 29.Qa4 Qc8 30.Rb6 Bf7 31.Rab1 Bxd5 32.exd5
Rd8 33.Qb4 Qc7 34.Rxb7 Rxb7 35.Qxb7 Qxa5 36.Qb6 Qxb6
37.Rxb6 a5 38.Ra6 Kf8 39.Rxa5 Ke7 40.Ra7+ Rd7 41.Rxd7+
Kxd7 42.Kf2 Kc7 43.Kf3 Kb6 44.d4 exd4 45.exd4 Kc7 46.Kf4
g6 47.h3 Kd7 48.g4 Ke7 49.h4 h6 50.h5 gxh5 51.gxh5 Kf8
52.Kf5 Kf7 53.c5 1-0
Andrew Eskenazi (1645)
Vendant Margale (1439)
Round 5
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 0–0 6.Bg5 Na6 7.Qd2
e5 8.Nge2 Qe8 9.Bh6 c6 10.Bxg7 Kxg7 11.0–0–0 b5 12.dxe5
dxe5 13.Ng3 b4 14.Na4 Rb8 15.b3 Qe7 16.h4 h5 17.Qg5 Ng8
18.Nxh5+ Kh7 19.Qxe7 Nxe7 20.Nf6+ Kg7 21.Nd7 Bxd7
22.Rxd7 Rbe8 23.c5 Nb8 24.Rxa7 Nc8 25.Rb7 Ne7 26.Rxb4
Nd7 27.Be2 Nf6 28.g4 Rh8 29.Rb7 Rh7 30.Nb6 Nc8 31.Bc4
Ne7 32.a4 Rhh8 33.a5 Rb8 34.Rxe7 Rhf8 35.a6 Rbe8 36.Rc7
Ng8 37.a7 Re7 38.Rxe7 Nxe7 39.a8R Rxa8 40.Nxa8 Ng8
41.Rd1 Nf6 42.Rd6 Nh7 43.Rd7 Kh6 44.Rxf7 g5 45.Rxh7+
Kxh7 46.h5 Kh6 47.b4 Kg7 48.b5 cxb5 49.c6 bxc4 50.c7 c3
51.c8Q c2 52.Qf5 Kg8 53.Qd7 Kh8 54.h6 Kg8 55.Qg7# 1-0
Coleman Hoyt (1469)
William O’Neil (1658)
Round 5
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4
Be7 8.Qf3 Qc7 9.0–0–0 Nc6 10.g4 Nxd4 11.Rxd4 e5 12.Rc4
Qd8 13.Bxf6 Bxf6 14.Nd5 0–0 15.g5 Be7 16.Rc7 Re8 17.h4 b5
18.f5 f6 19.gxf6 Bxf6 20.Qh5 Rf8 21.Rg1 Rb8 22.Qh6 Rf7
23.Rxf7 Kxf7 24.Qxh7 Bb7 25.Nxf6 Qxf6 26.Rg6 Bxe4
27.Rxf6+ Kxf6 28.Qg6+ Ke7 29.Qe6+ Kd8 30.Qxd6+ Kc8
31.Qe6+ Kb7 32.Qxe5 Bc6 33.Qxg7+ Ka8 34.f6 Bd5 35.Bg2
Bxg2 36.Qxg2+ Ka7 37.Qf2+ Kb7 38.Qf3+ Ka7 39.Qe3+ Kb7
40.Qe7+ Ka8 41.f7 a5 42.f8Q Rxf8 43.Qxf8+ Kb7 44.Qc5 b4
45.c4 1-0
J.C. MacNeil (1690)
George Peschke (1559)
Round 5
1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nc6 3.Nf3 g6 4.Bc4 Bg7 5.Be3 Bg4 6.c3 Nf6
7.Nbd2 0–0 8.Qc2 b6 9.0–0–0 Na5 10.Bd3 c5 11.h3 Be6 12.Ng5
c4 13.Be2 Bd7 14.Nxc4 Nxc4 15.Bxc4 b5 16.Bd3 a5 17.e5 Nd5
18.exd6 Rc8 19.Kb1 Nb4 20.dxe7 Qxe7 21.Qd2 Nxd3 22.Qxd3
Bf5 23.Qxf5 gxf5 ... 0-1
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The Final Standings for the Denver Chess Club
Fall Classic can be found here:
https://tinyurl.com/yevfl2xq
And pics of the event by John Brezina can be found here:
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Owen Vonne in full focus mode.
Maybe channeling the player on his shirt?
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Watson - Carlson 1975
by Curtis Carlson
“Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its
peculiar charm.” - GM Jonathan Rowson
“Most of the missteps made by professional economists in the
past century have been movements away from the analysis of
individual action and toward the analysis of aggregates and
averages.” - Robert Higgs
“I probably became a Libertarian through exposure to tough-
minded professors who encouraged me to think with my brain
instead of my heart.” - Walter E. Williams
“Never trust anything a fiction writer says about himself.” -
Stephen King
“...the modern player derives his perspective and intuition from
the detailed analysis of great numbers of positions.” -
IM John L. Watson
“The world is rich and complicated, and a civil society allows
for countless paths to human flourishing.” - Sarah Skwire
From 1972-76 I played IM John Watson twelve tournament
games. I won three, drew three, and lost six. Our 1972 games are
at http://www.coloradochess.com/informant/January_2019.pdf.
John has authored fine books on the French Defense, the English
Opening, and strategic play (among many others). He has yet to
write one about me, but I’m hopeful that will change sometime
soon.
“...Grandmasters tend to have a very deep knowledge of chess
that encompasses all sorts of different openings and positions.
It’s not sufficient anymore to be a one trick pony - you must be
universal.” - GM Danny Gormally
After we broke even in four 1972 games John and I had a
‘vacation’ from each other in 1973 when he was in Europe, but
met again in the 1974 Appreciation Open (May 27), and the
1975 Loveland Open (February 22). He won both easily, so my
lifetime even record against him was brief. The first thing he
asked after not seeing me for a year and a half was what my
current rating was. He seemed surprised when I said it was
something like 2100 (not much higher than before); evidently,
his expectations for my metoric rating rise were misplaced. I
finally made 2200 in 1976, but it was largely undeserved.
“Magic is everywhere if you don’t understand science.” -
Anonymous
“...the things that you do well and understand best have a
lasting value. Keep faith in them!” - GM Keith Arkell
Four of our 1975 games are examined here. I only managed two
draws, but could have done better in other two. We had a hard
fought 60 move draw in the 7th Las Cruces Open on March 22;
after making a 600 mile trip from Denver (with with Brian Wall,
Paul Nikitovich, and Alan Sebeckis) we got paired! My fourth
round game with Brian was a memorable miniature (see below).
It felt like another Colorado tournament, playing my friends.
John and I both won our other four games to tie for first with 4.5
-.5, although I was fortunate to win a bad position in the final
round. This was my last tournament before my 21st birthday on
April 13. I couldn’t believe I was actually 21, but now that I’m
on Social Security it no longer seems so old.
“In a broad sense, the ability to perform well in extremely
adverse situations is a mark of true greatness.” -
GM Alex Yermolinsky
John and I managed not to cross swords at the US Open in
Lincoln, Nebraska (August 10-22) where we each scored 8.5-3.5
(see crosstable at https://www.chessgames.com/perl/
chesscollection?cid=1019621). Our third 1975 game was in the
fifth round of the Colorado Open on September 1, where I
blundered a pawn in the opening, managed to equalize, then
blundered again and lost! Forty-five years later I still kick
myself. See my last article at http://coloradochess.com/
informant/October_2019.pdf, page 29 for more painful
memories.
A complex position can hardly be solved by the application of
just one positional principle. Unfortunately, that’s what people
are taught to do.” - GM Alex Yermolinsky
Our fourth 1975 game was a quick draw in the Mile High Open
on November 12, where we again tied for first by winning all
our other games. Our last was at the Showboat Open in Las
Vegas on December 8. Once again, after taking a long trip
together, we got paired! I was losing but missed a draw when he
played inaccurately. Oh how I wish I could change some of my
moves! Stewie Griffin won’t loan me his time machine so I have
to make peace with myself some other way.
“The solution to the problem only becomes apparent when you
understand the problem.” - Randall Carlson (No known
relation to me. His YouTube natural history videos are
excellent.)
My last two rated games with John were in 1976: I won the first
in the Appreciation Open (May 30), and drew the second in the
Colorado Open (September 6). Overall I only only managed half
a point (out of four) with White, but got four (out of in eight)
with Black. It’s too bad (for me) I didn’t have Black every time,
since our lifetime record might then be 6-6 instead of 7.5-4.5.
“I think that’s what they meant when they talked about
Botvinnik’s ‘iron logic’: a very disciplined approach to solving
the problem on the board, and not just basing a plan on your
natural instincts.” - GM Matthew Sadler
Annotations are mine with help from Houdini Chess engine 6.02
with four CPUs (HCE), whatever engines are online while I
analyze, and ChessBase 14. It’s not always easy to bare my soul
to a cold blooded silicon monster that mercilessly refutes my
mistakes, but hopefully it helps me improve. I try to learn
something from every game, but usually learn how badly I
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played.
“A human who strains every fiber to beat an unbeatable
computer is as smart as a human who tries to out-run a sports
car.” - Ronald Wieck
“In my opinion, any discoveries, even “intuitive” ones, are
founded on knowledge, on the basis of what has been
assimilated. But knowledge requires study, and study requires
time.” - GM Efim Geller
“I am not young enough to know everything.” - Oscar Wilde
7th Las Cruces Open / Round 2
March 22, 1975
John Watson (2251, age 24)
Curtis Carlson (2083, age 21)
A04: https://denverchess.com/games/view/19007
1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 Nf6 3.g3 e6 4.Bg2 d5 (This is HCE’s first choice,
but Black can also play the less commital 4...Be7 and 5...O-O
first. 5.d4 d5 6.cd ed 7.O-O O-O 8.b3 Nc6 = is Tal-Korchnoi
1984) 5.O-O Be7 6.cxd5 Nxd5 (This is OK but 6...ed keeping
knights on the board is probably stronger since Black’s f6 knight
seems better than White’s c3 knight) 7.Nc3 O-O 8.Nxd5 (HCE
seems to think White shouldn’t capture on d5 before Black
captures on d4, and prefers 8.d4 cd 9.Nd5 ed 10.Nd4 +=, or
8...Nc6 9.e4 Nc3 10.bc +=) 8...exd5 = (Also playable is 8...Qd5
9.d4 cd 10.Nd4 Qc4 +=) 9.d4 Nc6 (Now Black doesn’t have to
take on d4) 10.dxc5 Bxc5 11.b3 (Many moves have been tried
here. 11.Bg5 has been played by Tomashevsky, Anand,
Topalov, Korchnoi, Kramnik, and Polugaevsky {among others}.
11.Qc2 has been tried by Portisch, Huebner, Miles, and Smyslov
{among others}. Petrosian and Portisch have played 11.a3.
11.b3 emulates Ribli, Uhlmann, and Najdorf) 11...Bg4 (Most
popular and probably best is 11...Bf5 {Gurevich-Alburt 1983},
which intends ...Be4 since White no longer has a knight aiming
at e4. 11...Qf6 = is Najdorf-Karpov 1980. Also reasonable are
11...Re8 and 11...Be6. 11...Bg4 is rare but was played
successfully by Israeli GM Alon Greenfeld in 2012) 12.Bb2 d4
13.h3 Bh5 (13...Bf3 and 13...Bf5 were just as good) 14.a3 Bb6 =
(This is HCE’s and Komodo 9’s first choice, although I can’t
find it in ChessBase. There are three games with 14...a5 when
White has played 15.Qd3 and 15.b4, both with approximate
equality. 14...Rc8, 14...Qe7, and 14...Qd6 are also about even)
15.Rc1 Qd7 (It’s probably better to get the queen off the d file
with 15...Qe7 {15...Re8 is also strong}. If then 16.g4 {16.Nd4?
Nd4 17.Bd4 Rad8-+} 16...Bg6 17.Nd4 Rad8 18.e3 Nd4 19.Bd4
Qa3 = {also 19...f5 =} HCE) 16.Ne1?! (White wants his knight
on d3, but this is risky since Black’s h5 bishop now hits e2. HCE
gives 16.Rc2 Rad8 17.Rd2 =)
“It is not enough for something to be interesting and innovative.
Against strong opposition, it also has to be good and accurate.”
- IM Colin Crouch
16...Rad8 = (This perfunctory move continues the plan to
overprotect d4, but 16...Rfe8! is more consistant with 11...Bg4
and makes White regret his last. Black does well to intensify
pressure on e2 before White plays Nd3 so Nf4 isn’t possible.
16...Rfe8 17.Rc2 Qe6! {Aiming at two pawns} 18.g4 Bg6
19.Rd2 h5 is almost -+. If 19.Nd3 Qb3 -/+) 17.Nd3 = Rfe8
18.Rc2 (HCE prefers 18.Nf4 Bg6 19.Ng6 hg 20.b4 =, but John
was reluctant to trade his strong knight) 18...Bg6 =+ 19.Rd2 Be4
(11...Bf5 looks more reasonable now) 20.b4 Bxg2 21.Kxg2 a6 =
(More passive play. With light squared bishops gone 21...h5 =+
is logical, hoping to further weaken White’s castled position
with 22...h4. Also good was 21...Qd5 22.Kh2 h5 23.h4 Re4 =+.
My position was better than I realized) 22.Qb3 Qd5+ (Since
Black has a space advantage trading queens only helps White.
HCE suggests 22...Re4 or 22...Re6 planning to double rooks on
the e file, which gives White more to think about. HCE’s second
choice is 22...Qf5 23.Ne1 h5 =) 23.Qxd5 Rxd5 = 24.Rc1 f6
25.Nf4 Rdd8 (more consistent was 25...Rde5 =) 26.Rcd1 Kf7
27.Kf1 Ne5 (Black only wants a draw and aims for
simplification. 27...g5 28.Nd3 h5 was more dynamic and looks
like something Magnus Carlsen would play) 28.Bxd4 Nc4
29.Rd3 Bxd4 30.Rxd4 Rxd4 31.Rxd4 Nxa3 32.Rd7+ Re7
33.Rd8 Re8 34.Rd7+ Re7 35.Rd6 (It’s dead even but after I
collapsed in our last game John understandably plays on. We
were both moving quickly in time pressure.
“Fighting spirit trumphs over reason.” - David Bronstein
35...Nb5 36.Rb6 Nc3 37.Nd3 Nd5 (HCE prefers 37...Ke8
heading to the queenside, which I didn’t even consider. If
37...Ne2 38.Nc5 Nc3 39.Nb7 Nd5 40.Nd6 Ke6 41.Ra6 Nb4 =)
38.Rd6 Nc3 39.e3 Re6 40.Rd4 Nb5 41.Rd8 Rd6 42.Rxd6 Nxd6
43.Nc5 Ke7 44.Ke2 b6 45.Nxa6 Kd7 46.Kd3 Kc6 47.Kd4 Kb7
48.Kd5 Nb5 49.Nc5+ bxc5 50.bxc5 (The situation has cleared,
and now we chase pawns.) 50...Nc3+ 51.Ke6 Kc6 52.Kf7 Ne4
53.Kxg7 Nxf2 54.h4 Ne4 55.g4 Nf2 56.Kxh7 Nxg4 57.Kg6
Kxc5 58.h5 Kd5 59.Kf5 Nxe3+ 60.Kf4 Ke6 DRAW John finally
gave up the ghost. This was our seventh tournament game and
our first draw. It was adjourned around move 50, resumed at
7:00am the next day, and finished just before the fourth round
started. Brian Wall was my next opponent.
Question: “Who is your opponent tonight?”
Answer: “Tonight I am playing against the Black pieces!”
Akiba Rubinstein
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7th Las Cruces Open / Round 4
March 23, 1975
Curtis Carlson (2083, age 21)
Brian Wall (2036, age 20)
C41: https://denverchess.com/games/view/19013
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 (In 1974 Brian and I had a bunch of Sicilians
so he tries something different) 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Nbd7 5.Bc4 Be7
6.O-O O-O 7.h3 c6 8.a4 Nxe4 9.Nxe4 d5 10.Bb3 dxe4 11.Nxe5
Bd6 += (Three years later John Peters played 11...Nf6 against
me in the 1978 US Open in Phoenix - see the July 2019 CCI for
the complete game. 11...Bd6 is OK, but probably best is
11...Ne5 12.de Bc5 =, which is first choice of HCE and Komodo
13.02, while Stockfish 8 prefers 12...Be6 = and Deep Fritz 14
likes 12...Qb6 =. Black could also consider 11...c5 += and
11...a6 +=) 12.f4 (I played this quickly, but HCE also likes the
more solid 12.Re1. A cute trap is 12...Ne5 13.de Be5? 14.Bf7
Kf7 15.Qh5 Kg8 16.Qe5 +=, which of course I didn’t even
consider) 12...exf3? (It’s dangerous to open the f file. HCE likes
12...Qe7, 12...c5, or 12...Qc7 which are all +=)
“Chess is a deep creative process and will not tolerate
superficial positional judgement and normally punishes such
superficiality very harshly.” - GM Efim Geller
“...the reason we love chess so much is the beauty that lies in its
complexity and that the human mind cannot master the
game...we will never have a perfect calculating brain, mistakes
and oversights will always be made, but in a competitive sense,
it is only important to see more than your opponent, who is after
all faced with the same problems of complexity himself!” -
GM Danny Gormally
13.Nxf3? (White is already winning after 13.Nf7! Rf7 14.Qf3
Nf6 15.Bg5 Be7 16.Rae1 Bd7 17.Bf7 Kf7 18.Qe4 +-, where
Black’s minor pieces can hardly move.
“Timing is everything in chess.” - IM Cyrus Lakdawala
13...Qa5? (This is suicide. Development can’t always be
everything, or the only thing! Black has to meet the deadly
threat 14.Ng5 with 13...Be7, 13...h6, or 13...Nf6 14.Ng5 h6
which are all +=, according to HCE. Now with an extra tempo
the game is over since White’s pieces harmonize beautifully in a
crushing attack.) 14.Ng5 +- Nf6 15.Qd3! h6 16.Nxf7 Rxf7
17.Qg6 (HCE prefers 17.Rf6 Qe1 18.Rf1 but this was good
enough to force resignation) 1-0. Brian was my Tal and I was his
Korchnoi! He once said there’s no one he’d rather not face in an
important game than me, which is exactly how I felt about Paul
Nikitovich (who beat me like a beginner numerous times). I
almost felt guilty about winning so brutally, but it couldn’t
happen to a nicer guy than Brian! If we ever play again he’ll
likely try his Fishing Pole.
“Speak only of things you understand. If you are ignorant...
every opinion you express on this matter is groundless and
silly.” - Kozma Prutkov
“Hey Curt, sometimes pieces hang with check!” - Brian Wall
(After I lost to Bob Fordon in the 1981 Boulder Open, which
was my last Colorado tournament.)
Between games with Brian and John I had an unforgettable third
round...
7th Las Cruces Open / Round 3
March 22, 1975
Curtis Carlson (2083, age 21)
Zigmund Mayer (1802, age about 30)
B80: https://denverchess.com/games/view/19019
1.e4 e6 2.d4 c5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 cxd4 5.Nxd4 d6 6.Bg5 Be7
7.f4 h6 8.Bxf6 Bxf6 9.Qd2 a6 10.O-O-O Qc7 11.Kb1 O-O 12.g4
Rd8? (12...Nc6 +=) 13.h4 +/- Bxd4 14.Qxd4 Nc6 15.Qd2 b5
16.g5 b4 17.Ne2 h5 18.g6 (I didn’t want to allow 18...g6, but
18.Ng3 g6 19.Bh3 +/- was OK) 18...Rb8? (18...fg 19.Rg1 Ne7
+/- was a better try) 19.Rg1 a5 20.Bh3 a4 21.gxf7+ Qxf7 22.Rg5
b3 23.cxb3 axb3 24.a3 Ne7 25.Rdg1 e5 26.f5 d5 27.Qc3 (More
forcing was 27.Rg7 Qg7 28.Rg7 Kg7 29.Qg5 Kf7 30.Qh5 Kg7
31.Qg5 Kf7 32.Bg4, but the text wins easily) 27...Qf6 28.Rxg7+
Kf8 29.Qc7 (29.Nf4! was better) 29...Ba6
30.Rxe7 (I didn’t even consider HCE’s first choice of 30.R7g6,
which is devastating after 30...Ng6 31.Rg6 Qf7 32.Qc5 Ke8
33.Re6 Qe6 34.fe) 30...Bxe2 (30...Qe7 31.Rg8 Kg8 32.Qe7 is
also hopeless) 31.Rgg7 dxe4 32.Ref7+ 1-0
Not a great game, but it was enjoyable to get a horizontal
version of Alekhine’s Gun.
“The sole purpose of chess is thinking about chess.” -
David Bronstein
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After Las Cruces John and I had a six month ‘vacation’ from
each other, but finally played again in the fifth round of the
Colorado Open. On move 16 I blundered a pawn and nearly
resigned in disgust, but carried on. After the game John said it
was hard for him because I kept making good moves! I don’t
know if he was right, but at least he had to work for the full
point.
“When the weaker side assumes the role of aggressor, massive
retaliation is the inevitable consequence. If it’s not possible to
reconstruct a happy past, then the next step should be to insure a
tolerable present to avoid a misery filled future.” -
IM Cyrus Lakdawala
Colorado Open / Round 5
September 1, 1975
Curtis Carlson (2107, age 21)
John Watson (2313, age 24)
C06: https://denverchess.com/games/view/19020
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Bd3 (In the ‘90s I
successfully played 5.f4 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Ndf3 Qb6 8.g3 in postal
games, but this older line isn’t bad) 5...c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Ne2 Qb6
8.Nf3 cxd4 9.cxd4 f6 (This is most common, but 9...Bb4,
9...Be7, and 9...Qb4 have also been tried) 10.exf6 Nxf6
11.O-O += Bd6 12.Re1 (12.Nc3 12.b3, 12.a3, 12.Bd2, 12.Ng3,
12.Nf4, and almost everything else has been played here. HCE
and Stockfish 10 prefer 12.Bf4 Bf4 13.Nf4 O-O {13...Qb2
14.Re1 O-O 15.g3+= HCE, Komodo 13.01, Stockfish 10, Deep
Fritz 13} 14.Re1 g6 15.Bc2 Qb2 16.g3 += HCE. I probably
passed on this because I didn’t want to lose my b pawn)
12...O-O 13.Nc3 Bd7 14.Bg5 (14.a3, 14.Be3, and 14.h3 are also
played here. My primordial self was more worried about blind
development than positional needs) 14...Ng4 (14...Kh8 and
14...Rae8 are most common) 15.Bh4 += (White has a cheap
threat to take on h7. 15...Kh8 16.Bh7 += is Geller - Ulibin 1989)
15...Nh6 16.Qb3? (A ridiculous mistake. 16.Bg3 Be7 17.Na4
Qa5 18.a3 Rf3 19.gf Nd4 20.Nc3 Bf6 21.Kh1 {22.Kg2 =}
21...Qb6 22.b4 Be8 23.f4 a5 DRAW is Keres-Bronstein 1956,
although Black is better after 23...Qc6 or 23...Qd6. 17.Na4
seems too optimistic since the exchange sac gives Black at least
equality. HCE prefers guarding b2 indirectly with 17.a3 += or
17.Rc1 +=. During the game I had no idea Keres once had the
same position! But instead of playing his move I blundered after
thinking 20 minutes.)
“Success in chess depends not so much on knowledge as on
skills and the ability to make confident decisions in all sorts of
situations.” - IM Mark Dvoretsky
16...Nxd4 17.Qxb6 (I nearly resigned here) 17...Nxf3+ 18.gxf3
axb6 -/+ 19.Kg2 Nf5 20.Bg3 Bc5 21.a3 Rf6 22.Rad1 Rc8 (HCE
likes 22...Nd4 but this is also good) 23.Bb1 Nxg3?! (It’s hard to
understand why John made this exchange which reduced his
advantage. 23...Rcf8-/+ was obvious) 24.hxg3 =+ Rcf8!? =
(HCE now dislikes this natural move and says it’s now equal.
Better was 24...Rf7 25.f4 g6=+ when Black is a solid pawn up.)
25.f4 g5!? (John never lacked optimism! 25...Rh6 and 25...R6f7
were also equal. Now the game gets mixed up in mutual time
pressure. Time control was 40/2.)
“...a half dozen moves, in chess, can be a lifetime.” -
Bobby Fischer
26.Ne4 (My dream move! Bad was 26.f5? Bc6 -/+, but also
playable was 26.b4 Be7 27.f5 {27.Ne4? R6f7 -+ doesn’t work
with Black’s g pawn protected} 27...Bd6 {27...Bc6 is now bad
because of 28.b5, which was the point of 26.b4} 28.fe Rf2
29.Kg1 R2f3 =. This was hard to see with little time on the
clock ) 26...gxf4 (John always preferred ‘forward’ moves, even
if it meant losing material.)
“One of the basic principles of good defense is the willingness to
give back any material gained.” - GM Max Euwe
27.Nxf6+ (HCE gives the crazy 27.b4 R6f7 28.Ng5 f3 29.Kf1
Bb5 30.Bd3 Bd3 31.Rd3 Rf5 32.Ne6 Rh5 33.Kg1 Bf2 34.Kf2
Rh2 35.Kf1 Rh1 36.Kf2 Rh2 =, which even Tal would have
missed.) 27...Rxf6 28.gxf4!? =+ (Too submissive. Best was
28.Rd3 = HCE to answer 28...gf with 29.Rg3) 28...Rxf4 29.f3
(More passitivity! HCE gives 29.b4 Bf2 30.Rf1 Be3 31.Rf4 Bf4
32.Rf1 Bg5 33.Bh7 =+, which was hard for a blind materialist to
consider.) 29...Rf7 30.Rh1 Rg7+ 31.Kf1 Bb5!? (After this Black
has no advantage. John said he missed my response, which was
made instantly. 31...Be3 or 32...h6 give Black a small edge. John
briefly seemed unhappy but quickly regained his optimism.)
32.Bd3 Bd7 = (It’s amazing I could equalize after my 16th,
although I still thought I was lost.) 33.Rd2 Be3 34.Rg2 (It was
hard not to make a cheap threat on h7 in our time scramble. He
took about two seconds to respond. 34.Re2 = or 34.Rc2 = were
better.) 34...h6 35.Rxg7+ Kxg7 36.Ke2 Bf4 37.Rg1+ (This is
OK but White’s rook was probably better on h1. White should
try to trade light squared bishops with 37.b3, a4, and Bb5.)
37...Kf6 38.Rg6 (38.Rg8 and 38.Rg4 are also equal.) 38...Ke7
39.Rg7+ Kd6 40.b3 Bc6 41.Bg6 (Here I came up with the idea
to trade light squared bishops with Rg8 and Be8, which was
easier with 41.a4 and 42.Bb5. 41.Rf7 e5 42.Bf5 = was also
possible.) 41...Ke5 42.Kd3 Kf6 43.Rg8 (43.Rf7 Kg5 44.Rg7 Kf6
= was easier) 43...Bb5+ 44.Kc2 (44.Kd4 was slightly better.)
44...Be2
“Do you realize, Fischer almost never had any bad pieces. He
exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents.”
- GM Yuri Balashov
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45.Bh5? =+ (45.Rf8 Ke5 46.Bf5! Bf3 47.Be6 = HCE) 45...d4
46.Rd8? (A blunder. In two moves I adroitly turned a draw into
a loss! Correct was 46.Rf8+ Ke5 {46...Kg5 47.Bg6 Bf3 48.Kd3
=+ should hold} 47.Rd8 so Black can’t move his dark squared
bishop without allowing f4+.)
“If the answer you select is not correct, examine its opposite.” -
The LaCascia Corollary
46...e5 -+ (The game is over. 46...Be3 is also decisive.) 47.Bg4
Kg5 48.a4 h5 49.Rg8+ Kh4 50.Bf5 Bxf3 51.Kd3 Bd5 52.Rg7
Bxb3 53.Rxb7 Bxa4 54.Rxb6 Bd1 55.Rg6 Bg4 56.Be4 Kg3
57.Rg8 Kf2 58.Kc2 Ke3 59.Bh7 e4 60.Re8 d3+ 0-1
I should have resigned after 46...e5. This game shows how fast
‘natural’ moves (my 45th and 46th) can ruin a position. This was
played exactly six years after I lost the unforgettable rook
ending to Steve Yamamoto (see my previous article). I may have
to erase September 1 games from my memory.
“Respect your opponent if he’s a strong player...but not too
much.” - GM Matthew Sadler
John won the last round and became the new state champion. I
finished a full point behind him. I wasn’t destined to be
Colorado champion in 1975, but 1976 was right around the
corner.
“It can be very hard to keep things together when you’re just
looking at weaknesses in your position all the time, even if you
have a slight material advantage.” - GM Matthew Sadler
Our fourth game was a quick draw...
3rd Mile High Open / Round 5
November 9, 1975
Curtis Carlson (2107, age 21)
John Watson (2350, age 24)
B80: https://denverchess.com/games/view/19022
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 a6 6.g3 d6 7.Bg2
Bd7 8.O-O Nf6 9.b3 Qc7 10.Bb2 Rc8 11.Rc1 h5 (John was
always an optimist, but this is HCE’s first choice.) 12.Nce2 h4
13.c4 hxg3 14.hxg3 Qa5 15.Nxc6 Qh5 16.f3 Bxc6 17.Kf2 +=
(17.Qd2 is also +=) 17...Qg5 18.Bd4 Be7 19.Be3 (HCE gives
19.Qc2 Nd7 20.Rh1 += where White tries to use the h file Black
has conveniently opened.) 19...Qa5 20.Qd2 Qxd2 21.Bxd2 Bd8
DRAWN on Black’s offer. Evidently John wasn’t interested in
seeing what improvement I might have had against his French
Defense, and returned to the trusty Taimanov Sicilian he used
successfully many times. This was our only game I didn’t lose
with White. I have happy memories of the Mile High Open,
since I won or tied for first from 1973-76. I missed it in 1977
(when in California), and was knocked out of contention by Paul
Nikitovich (my nemesis) in 1978, but at least there are the first
four! I have an abundance of chess memories, and they’re not all
bad, even if some include Brian Wall.
“Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad
memory.” - Franklin Pierce Adams
Curt Carlson and John Watson in Lone Pine, California
(March 1977). I’m the handsome one on the left.
My fifth and last 1975 game with John was also memorable.
This was the second time we traveled out of state to a
tournament together and got paired! It was also the third time in
a row I had White, and the third time he played a different
opening...
Showboat Open
Las Vegas, Nevada / Round 5
December 11, 1975
Curtis Carlson (2127, age 21)
John Watson (2301, age 24)
B15: https://denverchess.com/games/view/19023
1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c6 4.f4 d5 5.e5 h5 (John played this
against me in blitz games so I should have been better prepared.)
6.Nf3 Nh6 7.Bd3 Bf5 8.Be3 Qb6 9.Qd2 e6 10.O-O Bf8 11.a3 a5
12.Na4 Qa7 13.h3 Nd7 14.b4?! (White does better to improve
his position gradually 14.b3 and c4. Also good was 14.Be2 +=
avoiding unfavorable trades. The text leads to a complicated
exchange of queen for two rooks.) 14...axb4 15.axb4 b5 = (HCE
wants to trade light squared bishops before making this push so
White can’t block a back rank check with Bf1, and gives
15...Bd3 16.Qd3 b5 17.Nc5 Qa1 18.Ra1 Ra1 =+) 16.Nc5 Qxa1
17.Rxa1 Rxa1+ 18.Kh2? (This is bad since in some lines Black
can play ...Ng4 with check. 18.Kf2 =+ was better, and best was
18.Bf1 = when HCE gives 18...Ra2 19.Qc3, and if 19...Rc2?
20.Qa3 is actually winning. White should avoid trading minor
pieces, especially light squared bishops.) 18...Ra7 (I don’t know
why John played this, maybe he disliked 19.Nb7 and 20.Nd6.
HCE gives 18...Ra2 19.Bf2 Bd3 20.Qd3 Nf5 -/+) 19.Bf2 Be7 =+
(Again, HCE gives 19...Bd3 20.Qd3 Nf5 -/+) 20.Bh4 (Also good
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was 20.Nb3 Bd3 21.cd! {not leaving a hole on c4} 21...Nf5
22.Na5 Nb8 23.g3 = when the a file is blocked and makes Black
regret 18...Ra7.) 20...Nxc5 21.dxc5? (According to HCE 21.Be7
Ke7 22.dc is equal, since White’s knight finds a good square on
d4.) 21...Bxd3? (HCE also dislikes this, and prefers 21...Bh4
22.Nh4 Ra2 22.Nf3 Bd3 23.Qd3 Nf5 -/+.) 22.Bxe7! Kxe7
23.Nd4! Kd7 24.Qxd3 = Rb8 25.Nb3? (A weak move which
allows Black’s next. White should have stirred things up on the
kingside with 25.Qg3 {25.Qe2 and 25.Qf3 are also equal
according to HCE.}, with ideas of Qg5 and / or a f4-f5
sacrifice.}
“When the old order changeth, make sure you’re the bugger
who changeth it.” - Anonymous English proverb
“The Queen is the most powerful piece, able to go in all
directions. It is not surprising that many quiet moves with
terrible force are Queen moves.” - IM Mark Dvoretsky
Black has to play carefully: after 25.Qg3 Ra4? 26.Qg5 White is
better! HCE likes the bizarre 25...Raa8 26.Qg5 Rh8 27.Qf6 Rh7
=+, or 26.Kg1 Nf5 27.Nf5 gf 28.Qg7 Rf8 29.Kf2 =. Also good
was 25.Qf3 Ra4 26.f5 Nf5 27.Nf5 gf 28.Qh5 Rf8 =, or 26...gf
27.Qh5 Rb4 28.Qh6 Rd4 =, but not 26...ef? 27.e6+ and 28.Qf4 +
-. These pawn sacrfices didn’t occur to me during the game, but
if I had been more familiar with Pillsbury - Lasker Nuremberg
1896 they might have;
see https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1109111.
My passive idea to block the a file and wait was met by a
powerful exchange sacrifice.) 25...Nf5 -/+ (Black is doing well
but HCE prefers 25...Ra4 or 25...Ra3 before White can play
26.Na5. The rest of the game was played quickly while we were
both low on time. Time control was 50/2.5) 26.Na5 h4 27.Qf3
Rh8 28.Qd1 Ne3 29.Qd4 Nf1+ 30.Kg1 Ng3 31.Kf2 Rha8
32.Kf3? (32.Qd1 better prepares for the sacrifice: 32...Ra5 33.ba
Ra5 34.Qg4 but it’s still bad for White.) 32...Rxa5! (This
surprised me, but shouldn’t have.
“Experienced players know that, in a cramped position, the
main trouble often happens to be the poorer activity of the
Rooks.” - Tigran Petrosian
I think Tigran would have liked Black’s active rook.) 33.bxa5
Rxa5 -+ 34.Kg4 Nf5 35.Qd2 Ra3 36.c3
36...b4? = (This is a serious mistake, since White can now
penetrate to the 7th rank via the b file. White must resign after
36...d4) 37.Kg5? -+ (37.Qb2 Rc3 38.Kg5 Ke7 39.g4 transposes
into the next move’s note.) 37...Ke7? = (After 37...bc 38.Qc1
Ra2 39.Qb1 Rb2 40.Qa1 Ng7! 41.Kf6 Ne8 42.Kf7 Nc7 -+ the
7th rank is blocked and White can resign.)
38.g4?? (The move that haunts me. HCE says it’s dead equal
after 38.Qb2 Rc3 39.g4 hg 40.Qb4 g2 41.Qb7 when White has a
perpetual.) 38...hxg3 39.Kg4 (39.Qb2 is now too slow since
38...Rc3 isn’t mandatory, and 38...g2 39.Qb4 g1 promotes with
check.) 39...g2 0-1 Defeat from the jaws of equality! It’s
important to be ever alert for opportunities provided by the
opponent’s inaccuracies. I shouldn’t have missed the obvious
38.Qb2, but of course John shouldn’t have missed the obvious
36...d4. This was poorly played by both of us, but justice
ultimately prevailed since he was better most of the game.
Nonetheless, I will forever kick myself for 38.g4 (and 25.Nb3).
“...behind each victory or defeat is invariably concealed a
history of searchings, findings, and disappointments.” -
GM Efim Geller
This was my last rated loss to John. I won our next game in the
fifth round of the 1976 Appreciation Open (after another six
month ‘vacation’), then we drew in the sixth round of the 1976
Colorado Open. It was finally my turn to be state champion! It
was the third time in two years we tied for first in a tournament
by drawing each other and winning the rest. If I remember
correctly John moved to Berkeley in early 1977 and played
actively there many years. He received his IM title in 1982,
which was (IMHO) several years too late. John lives in San
Diego with his wife Maura and still plays actively.
Friendly rivals! On January 2, 2019 GM Jim Tarjan and IM
John Watson played their second game at the San Francisco
International, 38 years after their first at the 1981 Lone Pine
Masters tournament; both were drawn.
JT beat me badly the one time we played in 1983.
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My other loss in LV was also interesting. My opponent was one
of California’s top players for many years and received his FM
title in 1983.
Showboat Open / Round 2
Las Vegas, Nevada
December 8, 1975
Tibor Weinberger (2368, age 43)
Curtis Carlson (2127, age 21)
E45: https://denverchess.com/games/view/19025
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 b6 5.Ne2 Ba6 6.a3 Bxc3+
7.Nxc3 d5 8.Qf3 (8.b3 is most common, but the text has been
played by Mamedyarov, Aronian, and Hort.) 8...O-O 9.b4 (9.g4
Bb7 10.g5 Ne4 11.Ne4 de 12.Qg3 = Mamedyarov-Istratescu
2004, also Aronian-Istratescu 2004. First choice of HCE,
Stockfish, and Komodo 9.02 is 9...c6, and after 10.b3 dc 11.bc
e5! = HCE. Also reasonable is the optimistic 9...c5 =) 9...Qd7
(The queen isn’t well placed here and makes d7 unavailable for
a knight. It’s not mentioned in ChessBase 14 but HCE says it’s
equal. I must have been thinking of Portisch-Fischer Santa
Moncia 1966 {Game 53 in MSMG}. HCE, Stockfish 5, and
Deep Fritz 14 all prefer 9...c5 = hoping to advantageously open
the c file. 9...Bb7, 9...Re8, and 9...c6 are also good. 9...Nbd7
10.g5 Ne4 11.Ne4 de 12.Qe4 Qg5 += is slightly better for
White. Black’s slight lead in development compensates for
White’s bishop pair.) 10.g4!? (Perhaps too optimistic. 10.Bb2 c6
= HCE) 10...c5 = (More consistent is 10...Bc4 =+, where
11.Bc4? Qc6 is bad for White. 11.g5 is well answered by
11...Ne4 12.Bc4 Nc3 13.Bd3 c5 14.dc Nc6 =+. Also on 10...dc
not 11.Qa8? Nc6-+, but 11.Bg2 =.) 11.g5 Ne4 12.Nxe4 dxe4
13.Qd1 =
13...cxd4 +/-? (This could almost be called the losing move.
During the game I was puzzled, since I’m castled and have two
pieces developed, while he has no development and has
weakened himself on both sides of the board; shouldn’t I open
up the game? But according to HCE, it’s equal! What would
Fred Reinfeld have said? White lost time securing a queenside
pawn majority and the bishop pair; to offset these advantages
Black should should keep developing {and aim at pawns} with
13...Rd8 14.Bb2 Qe7 = HCE.) 14.Qxd4 Qxd4 15.exd4 += Nc6?
(Another weak move. Black does better to restrain the c pawn
with 15...Rc8 16.b5 {If 16.c5 Bf1 17.Kf1 Nc6 18.Be3 Rd8
Black has a light squared blockade} 16...Bb7 17.a4 a6, although
White still stands well. It’s harder to play c4-c5 without a pawn
on b4) 16.Be3 +/- (Black could resign after 16.b5 Nd4 17.ba
Nc2 18.Kd2 Na1 19.Kc3, which is close to +-HCE.) 16...Ne7
17.Be2 e5!? (Too optimistic. Black’s position is bad but 17...Nf5
18.Kd2 Rfd8 offered more resistance when Black has some hope
of eliminating White’s bishop pair.) 18.dxe5 (Stronger was
18.d5) 18...Ng6 19.c5 (HCE prefers 19.b5 Bb7 20.a4+-, or
19...Bc8 20.c5 bxc5 21.Rc1! Ne5 22.Rc5 Nf3 23.Bf3 ef 24.Kd2
+/-. 19.e6 was also good) 19...Bxe2 20.Kxe2 bxc5 21.bxc5 Nxe5
22.Rhb1 Rfc8 23.Rb4 Nd3 24.Rc4 Rab8 25.Ra2 (HCE thinks
it’s best to simplify with 25.Re4 Nc5 26.Rb4 when White’s
superior minor piece is very difficult for Black.) 25...f5 (As
good as anything. This is HCE’s first choice.) 26.gxf6 gxf6
27.Rxe4 Nxc5 28.Re7 a5? (This pawn is now hard to defend.
Much stronger was 28...a6 +/- when a future ...Rc6 protects it.
We had less than half an hour each remaining. Time control was
50/2.5) 29.Ra1 (Better was 29.Rd2 Rc6 30.Rd5 and 31.Rh5 +-.)
29...Rb7 30.Rg1+ Kh8 (Better was 30...Kf8) 31.Rgg7 Rxe7
32.Rxe7 Kg8 33.Bh6 Rc6? (33...Nb3+/-, 33...Ra8+/-, and
33...a4+/- were all better tries. By now we each had less than
five minutes remaining.) 34.Rg7+ Kh8 35.Ra7 (35.Rf7! Rc8
36.Rf6 was overwhelming.) 35...Kg8 36.Rxa5 (Oh how I wish I
had played 28...a6!) 36...Kf7 37.Be3 Nd7 38.Ra7 Ke6 39.a4 h5?
(Another weak move. I wanted to move my knight without
losing my h7 pawn, but 39...Ne5 40.Rh7 Rc2 41.Kf1 Ra2
42.Rh4 f5 was much harder for White to win. Sometimes piece
activity is more important than material!)
“The most important feature of the chess position is the activity
of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the
game: opening, middlegame, and especially endgame. The
primary constraint on a piece’s activity is the pawn structure.” -
GM Michael Stean
40.a5 Nc5 (This loses quickly, but 40...Rc2 41.Kf1 Rc8
{preventing 42.Ra8} 42.Rb7 was also hopeless.) 41.Rh7 Rc8
42.Rxh5 f5 43.a6 Ke5 44.a7 Ne6 45.Rh7 f4 46.Bb6 Rc2+
47.Kd1 Ra2 48.Rh8 Ra6 49.a8Q Rxb6 50.Re8 1-0
White’s flag nearly fell, but he made time control so I finally
resigned (in the old days we used analog clocks).
I would have jumped at the chance to claim a win, but now that
I’m older and wiser I would have shook his hand no later than
move 42: winning a hopeless position by forfeit would feel like
theft. Resigning at the right time is, more than anything else, a
matter of courtesy and respect for you opponent (and yourself).
In my youth I didn’t always show good manners and very much
regret it now. Life, like chess, is one long regret. As David
McRaney said, “If you think you’re the same person now that
you were earlier in life, you are not so smart!” Hopefully this
applies favorably to me.
“How you make others feel says a lot about who you are.” -
A. A. Milne
“True Power is sitting back and observing things with logic.
True power is restraint.” - Warren Buffett
At the Showboat I won my other four and finished 4-2; at least it
took 2300 strength players to beat me! John also scored 4-2,
losing only to GM Larry Christiansen and tournament winner
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John Grefe. Another memory making tournament was history.
“...I encourage you to play the most complicated opening set-
ups, but on one condition: you should play them not for
fashion’s sake and not because somebody told you to, but
because of the resulting middlegame positions.” -
GM Alex Yermolinsky
While these losses were disheartening, 1975 was a good year for
me overall: I tied for first in two tournaments with John, I tied
for first in the Denver Open with Don Sutherland, I won an
experts’ prize at the US Open, I won a couple of minor
tournaments in Wyoming, I won the Denver Chess Club’s
Invitational, and in December I played for the team that won the
Pan Am (see below). I didn’t do so well in the Loveland Open,
the Al Wallace Memorial, the North American Open, and the
Colorado Open but you can’t win them all. 1976 was worse, so I
wish now I’d called it a chess career after the Pan Am so I could
have gone out with a bang. There’s a lot of hindsight in chess,
both on and off the board.
“...the combination is the summit of creative chess and that it
appeals equally to the intellect and the heart of man.” -
GM Yuri Averbakh
“Effort inequality reinforces rating inequality.” - Anonymous
In Memoriam:
Mike Chess (1954-2019)
I was saddened to hear my longtime friend Mike Chess from
Omaha, Nebraska, died in January 2019. At the 1975 Pan Am
(in Columbus, Ohio) we were teammates with his brother Rich
and Loren Schmidt. Our team (Nebraska) tied for first with
Harvard. In the ‘70s Mike, Rich, and I (and many others) played
in several North American Opens in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and
accumulated lots of memories. Mike was colorful fellow who
played practical jokes and intimided TV cameramen. At the
1977 US Open (also in Columbus) IM Bill Martz (1945-1983)
said Mike was the world’s most notorious simultaneous
exhibition kibitzer! He will be missed.
This is from the March 1976 Chess Life (page 133).
My mother said we looked like a bunch of hippies!
The Pan Am was one of the best times of my life.
December 1975: Mike Chess is happy after going
7-1 on board four in the Pan Am.
Martin Thomas Deschner (1950-2018)
I was also saddened to learn my longtime friend Martin ‘Tuna’
Deschner passed away in early 2018. I met him at a 30-30
tournament in May 1969, and we were friends nearly 50 years.
He was a solid expert most of his playing career and was always
a dangerous opponent. He sat on the stage for some of the 1971
Fischer-Larsen games, and one time while Larsen was thinking
Bobby whispered something in his ear. Unfortunately, when
asked about it shortly before his death, he forgot what it was!
We can only wonder. Martin scored 4-2 in the reserve section of
the Showboat Open and played in many national tournaments.
RIP Martin.
“Chess is a tragedy of a single tempo.” - Anonymous
Corrections:
In my last article I mistakenly said IM Mark Dvoretsky (1947-
2016) was a Grandmaster.
“During the 1970s, Mark was widely regarded by the strongest
IM in the world, due to a number of excellent results: he was
Moscow Champion in 1973, finished equal fifth in a strong
Soviet Championship in 1974, won the Wijk aan Zee Masters
tournament of 1975 by a clear point and a half, and a creditable
finish at the USSR Championship of 1975.” - Chessgames.com.
More than 40 years ago I read the RHM book on the 1974 USSR
championship and was impressed by his play and analysis. It
was very easy to think he was a GM, since there is no doubt he
was at GM strength. My thanks to IM Elliott Winslow for
alerting me to this error.
“...theory is necessary, but it is important to understand that it is
only an instrument for understanding, and certainly not a set of
absolute truths operative under any circumstances.” -
IM Mark Dvoretsky
Dvoretsky has a very nice win over the always dangerous GM
Oleg Romanishin at https://www.chessgames.com/perl/
chessgame?gid=1117938. It makes you want to play 4.Bc6
against the Ruy Lopez (which is also a way to avoid the
Marshall Gambit).
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“Studying abstract truths, both in chess and in life, enriches our
intuition.” - IM Mark Dvoretsky
On page 303 of For Friends & Colleagues Volume 1 Dvoretsky
analyses this position:
Yusupov - Dolmatov / 8th Match Game 1991
White to play
The game continued 39.Qb6 b2? +- (39...e3 = HCE) 40.Qb2 e3?
(40...Kh7 was tougher but still losing.) 41.Rcf6! Qc7 42.Qa2
Kh8 43.Rf5! Kh7 44.Re6 1-0, since 44...Re6 45.Qe6 is hopeless.
Back to the diagram: White has an unexpected win with 39.Rg7!
Qg7 (If 39...Kg7 40.Qd4 Kg8 41.Rh6 +-) 40.Qb3 Qf7 (40...Kf8
41.Qd5 +-; 40...Kh7 41.Qd1! Qf7 42.Qd6 +-) 41.Rg6 Kf8
42.Qa3 Re7 43.Rg5! and the threat of 44.Qc3 is crushing. It’s
surprising the attack is so deadly when Black’s queen and rook
are near their king. Black could hold if the weak h5 pawn was
back on h7 (where it should be), since White couldn’t threaten it
with Qd1, or threaten Rh6-h8 since h7 isn’t vacant. 39.Rg7!
looks like vintage Tal.
“The only thing chess players have in common is chess.” -
Lodewijk Prins
A fascinating Ivanchuk - Yusupov game is at https://
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1060180 . Even
HCE has a hard time with this one.
“What is the best approaching to finding balance...to creating
an awesome life? Adaptability!” - Shimi Kang
On page 28 of the October 2019 CCI the remark about the 1969
Colorado Open picture should have said Richard Misare (not
Ron Hosler) was a math professor at Metro State College. In
1976 I took two linear algebra classes from RM, who quickly
saw I cared little about academics. Chess is a great game, but
overrating its importance when I should have focused on my
education was a bad mistake.
“Chess is my life, but not all of my life is chess.” -
GM Anatoly Karpov
“Anatoly Karpov is a scary player. Why? His intuition is
flawless. Strategically he is so gifted... I thought this guy would
remain the world champion for 40 years!” -
GM Yasser Seirawan
“I cannot imagine Karpov beating Fischer. Hort thinks he can.
In a match to ten wins Fischer should win 10, lose 2, and draw
30.” - GM Bent Larsen (1974)
“Fear is a poor counselor.” - GM Max Euwe
250 interesting Alexander Zhukov endings are at https://
tinyurl.com/s2xykp2. Don’t look at this site unless you have
several hours to spare.
“I have always liked evaluation exercises, because we frequently
learn that we overemphasized certain factors in the position and
overlooked the importance of other, more relevant ones.” -
IM Erik Kislik
There are also 20 interesting interactive studies by Siyavush
Viliyev at https://tinyurl.com/vyfedme. The copious learning
resources online now could only be dreamed of 50 years ago.
“Not even the world’s biggest guns and armies can stop the
forces of supply and demand.” - Jeffrey Tucker
“Exerting effort for the sake of exerting effort, with no regard to
the results of that effort, is and ought to be a source, not of
dignity, but at best of embarrassment.” - Donald J. Boudreaux
Comments, corrections, and suggestions are appreciated.
Curt2309@comcast.net
k
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Time Control:
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2019 London Chess Classic
Report
by John Brezina / Parker Chess Club
The 2019 Grand Chess Tour wrapped up an exciting year in
London with the top four players of the tour. The number one
qualifier was the return of the World Champion Magnus Carlsen
to the tour with a commanding 67 GCT points. Joining him
would be Ding Liren, Levon Aronian, and finally Maxime
Vachier-Lagrave who would qualify by a slim 0.3 point margin
over Sergey Karjakin. These four players would not only be
playing for the London Chess Classic title but a share of
$350,000.
During the tournament many other side events took place
including the British Knockout Championship and the London
Chess Classic FIDE Open. Chess in Schools and Communities
has been organizing the London Chess Classic since 2009 led by
Malcolm Pein. Magnus Carlsen has won the event an amazing
four times.
The Classic returns again to the Olympia London building in
West Kensington. A great venue that can accommodate multiple
big events. Upon entering the third floor is an open area with a
large chess board and tables for casual chess. In the middle is a
cafe open during the tournament along with a side room with a
live feed from St. Louis for live commentary during the games.
The same room had Maurice Ashley interviewing the players
after each round. A great chance for fans to get near their
favorite player and a photo or autograph. A separate room for
VIP only had their own commentary team including Lawrence
Trent.
I arrived early before the second round and was able to catch
part of the Junior chess tournament that had local schools from
the London area compete. There were some serious players and
it was fun watching teams being photographed with their
trophies. Afterwards many of the kids played some casual chess
on the big board in the hallway. Some of the top kid players
were invited to make opening moves for the top boards at the
London Classic.
I was able to make it to the second classical game of the semi-
finals which paired Carlsen vs Vachier-Lagrave, and Aronian vs
Liren. They would play two classical games followed by two
rapid and four blitz games on the third day. Both classical games
were drawn by each and set up an exciting following day of
chess. First to score in the Rapids in game one was Ding Liren.
Levon Aronian was not playing up to his usual standards and it
showed as he also lost game two which would require winning
all four blitz games just to tie. And after drawing game one of
their blitz match Ding Liren secured a spot in the finals.
There was much talk and speculation of a Ding Liren and
Magnus Carlsen final as a possible prelude to next years World
Championship match. But the French number one Maxime
Vachier-Lagrave had something else in store. Their first two
rapid games ended in hard fought draws setting up an epic blitz
finale between two of the greatest blitz players. Game one ended
in a quiet draw but game two shocked the crowd as Magnus
Carlsen lost with the White pieces as he could not stop a pawn
from promoting. Game three seemed to be heading for a draw
when Maxime blundered and allowed Magnus to skewer his
knight and rook, surprising and pleasing the World Champion.
Back to a tie and game four would draw as no chances were
taken.
On to the two tie breaks which would then lead to an
armageddon game if still undecided. The chief arbiter had the
players draw colors and Magnus would start with White. It was
becoming late into the evening at this point and it was
announced to the audience that game one would start at 9:00pm.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave appeared at the board and the crowd
anxiously awaited the World Champion. As we all waited and
watched the clock tick past 9:00pm, an uneasy feeling came over
the arbiters and audience. After about five minutes even Maxime
appeared a bit concerned and it looked as though they may have
to start Magnus’ clock. After much scrambling and nervous
arbiters, it was discovered that the original agreed upon schedule
had the tie break games commencing at 9:30pm which team
Magnus obviously were quite aware of. So a twenty minute
break was announced, whew! Finally the time arrived.
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As like clock work, Magnus appears and moves quickly to the
board and shakes hands. It is quite something to be near him
onstage as his presence is quite commanding as he enters and
captures everyone's attention. After aggressive play by Magnus
and preventing Maxime from castling, it appeared to favor the
World Champion. But Maxime fought back and defended well
and went into an ending with a knight and pawn which became
unstoppable. After 82 moves Magnus would resign as his lone
knight could not stop a queen from reappearing. Game two was
a must win for Magnus. But Maxime was playing incredible
chess and holding his own with the World Champion. While all
three decided games thus far were with the Black pieces, this
one would not. Maxime played solid chess and after 44 moves
Magnus, knowing the inevitable, graciously resigned with a
smile and congratulated his opponent.
Thus setting up a final between Ding Liren and Maxime Vachier
-Lagrave for first and second place while Magnus Carlsen and
Levon Aronian played for third and fourth place. Ding Liren
who has had an incredible year won first place while Magnus
won his finals match for third place. A great end to the Grand
Chess Tour of 2019.
During all these games I would occasionally go over to the FIDE
Open hall to watch some of the other games. This is where the
British Knockout Championship was taking place with regulars
Michael Adams, Luke McShane, David Howell, and Gawain
Jones. Mickey and David would play in the finals after
dispatching their opponents.
David Howell has been having a great year but the veteran
Adams would take the top spot this year. Many of the other
players along with some surprise guests would kibitz their
games from time to time including the English GM John Nunn.
In the FIDE Open there were many new players that I have not
photographed before and my favorite was the fourteen year old
Indian prodigy Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa.
Very professional and extremely confident at the board for being
so young. His round seven victory over a top French
Grandmaster and friend of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Jules
Moussard, was quite exciting. GM Praggnanandhaa would go on
and tie for first place. Fellow Indian player GM Chithambaram
Aravindh was also a pleasure to photograph and finished tied for
third. Many great games to watch but I was disappointed to see
no American players this year.
There was something going on for any type of chess fan
including the annual simul by English GM Jon Speelman. While
he dispatched most players quite easily, one young man gave
him some trouble. As the last board standing he garnered quite
the attention including the mother of Indian GM
Praggnanandhaa.
And the nearly empty wine glass of Mr. Speelman would
indicate the struggle that ended in a draw. Meeting new people
at these events is something I enjoy most including Dylan Mize.
He is an American student at Slade School of Fine Art in
London, doing a Masters in painting.
He could be seen in the front row of each game doing color
sketches in soft pastel he calls “chess portraiture”. He kindly
allowed me to photograph him at work and was kind to share
some hi-res photos of his work. He hopes to perhaps sell these
and the originals someday. It was a short visit here for me this
year but quite enjoyable. The games started late in the afternoon
which allowed much sightseeing during the day. Thanks to the
organizers who do such a great job with this tournament and the
entire Grand Chess Tour. I cannot wait to see next years
locations and lineup of players. Another great year of chess
coming to a close. I will continue and try to grow the Parker
Chess Club tournaments next year with the next one on Sunday,
January 26, 2020. Until then, play on and share our wonderful
game and have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
k
You can find John Brezina’s pics of the
London Chess Clasic here:
https://tinyurl.com/yk5pqqmh
And of the London Classic FIDE Open
& British Knockout here:
https://tinyurl.com/yhctym9j
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Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa at the board.
Dylan Mize, an American artist
at work at the London Chess Classic.
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Games From the
2019 Colorado
Open (Part II)
by Chief Tournament Director
Richard “Buck” Buchanan
(You can find the first part of games here:
https://tinyurl.com/udqx6xb
& the Final Standings here:
https://tinyurl.com/vb53wqa)
Ryan Baten (1887)
Mitch Fishbein (2218)
Round 1
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Nf3 0-0
5.Qc2 c5 6.a3 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3 d5 8.Bg5 h6
9.Bh4 cxd4 10.cxd4 Nc6 11.e3 Bd7
12.cxd5 exd5 13.Bd3 Rc8 14.Qb2 Qa5+
15.Qd2 Ne4 16.Qxa5 Nxa5 17.0-0 f6
18.Rfc1 Nb3 19.Rxc8 Rxc8 20.Rb1 Rc3
21.Bxe4 dxe4 22.Ne1 Bc6 23.Bg3 Bd5
24.Bd6 a5 25.h4 h5 26.Kh2 Kf7 27.Kg3
Ke6 28.Bf8 Rc8 29.Bc5 Nxc5 30.dxc5
Rxc5 31.Kf4 g5+ 32.hxg5 fxg5+ 33.Kg3
b5 34.f4 Kf5 35.fxg5 Kxg5 36.Kf2 h4
37.Rb2 Bc4 38.Nc2 Rf5+ 39.Ke1 Rf1+
40.Kd2 Rf2+ 41.Kc3 Rxg2 42.Rb1 0-1
Alexander Freeman (1765)
Rhett Langseth (2135)
Round 1
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 Nbd7 4.e4 e5
5.d5 Be7 6.Be3 0-0 7.Bd3 Ne8 8.Qh5 g6
9.Qe2 Ng7 10.Nf3 f5 11.Bh6 Nf6
12.0-0-0 c6 13.Kb1 Qb6 14.h3 Bd7
15.exf5 gxf5 16.g4 e4 17.gxf5 cxd5
18.cxd5 exd3 19.Qxe7 Rf7 20.Qe1 Bxf5
21.Qd2 Rc8 22.Rhg1 Ne4 23.Nxe4 Rc2
24.Bxg7 Rxg7 25.Rxg7+ Kh8 26.Rg8+
Kxg8 27.Qg5+ Bg6 28.Qf6 Bxe4
29.Rg1+ Bg6 30.Nh4 Rxf2 31.Qc3
Rxb2+ 32.Qxb2 Qxg1+ 33.Qc1 d2+ 0-1
Wesley Woo (1758)
Alaa-Addin Moussa (2123)
Round 1
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6
5.Qc2 d5 6.Bg2 Bxc4 7.Ne5 Ba6 8.Bg5
Bb4+ 9.Nc3 0-0 10.0-0 c5 11.dxc5 Bxc5
12.Rfd1 h6 13.Bf4 Nbd7 14.e4 Nxe5
15.Bxe5 d4 16.Qa4 Qc8 17.Bxd4 Bb7
18.Bxc5 Qxc5 19.Rac1 Ng4 20.Rc2 Rfc8
21.Rdc1 Qh5 22.h3 Ne5 23.Nb5 Rxc2
24.Rxc2 Rd8 25.Rc7 Rd1+ 26.Bf1 Qe2
27.Qxd1 Nf3+ 28.Kg2 Qxd1 29.Rxb7
Nd2 0-1
Vedanth Sampath (1681)
Neil Bhavikatti (2115)
Round 1
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 Bb4+
5.Bd2 Be7 6.Bg2 0-0 7.0-0 b6 8.Nc3 Bb7
9.Ne5 Nbd7 10.Qc2 c5 11.e3 Qc8
12.cxd5 exd5 13.Qa4 Rd8 14.Rac1 Nxe5
15.dxe5 Ne8 16.e4 dxe4 17.Be3 Bc6
18.Qc2 Nc7 19.Bxe4 Bxe4 20.Qxe4 f5
21.Qc4+ Qe6 22.Qxe6+ Nxe6 23.Rfd1
Kf7 24.Nb5 a6 25.Nd6+ Bxd6 26.exd6 a5
27.a3 a4 28.Rb1 Rd7 29.b4 axb3 30.Rxb3
Ra6 31.Kg2 Nd8 32.Bf4 h6 33.h4 Kf6
34.h5 Ne6 35.Be3 Ke5 0-1
Dean Clow (2050)
Richard Pugh III (1606)
Round 1
1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 d5 3.Nf3 e6 4.c4 Be7
5.e3 0-0 6.Nc3 c6 7.c5 Nbd7 8.b4 Ne4
9.Nxe4 dxe4 10.Bxe7 Qxe7 11.Nd2 e5
12.Nxe4 exd4 13.Qxd4 Ne5 14.Qd6 Re8
15.Rd1 Bg4 16.Be2 Rad8 17.Qxe7
Rxd1+ 18.Bxd1 Rxe7 19.Bxg4 Nxg4
20.Nd6 g6 21.h3 Ne5 22.Ke2 Kg7
23.Rd1 f6 24.f4 Nf7 25.Kf3 h6 26.e4 Kf8
27.Nxf7 Kxf7 28.g4 Kg7 29.h4 Kf7 30.a4
Kg7 31.Rd6 Kf7 32.Ke3 Kg7 33.Kd4 Kf7
34.b5 cxb5 35.axb5 Kg7 36.Kd5 Kf7
37.e5 fxe5 38.fxe5 Kg7 39.h5 gxh5
40.gxh5 Kh7 41.c6 bxc6+ 42.bxc6 a5
43.Rd7 1-0
Luke Namesnik (1546)
Mirza Peljto (1799)
Round 1
1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 Ne4 3.Bf4 d5 4.f3 Nf6
5.Nc3 c6 6.e4 e6 7.Qd3 Bb4 8.Nge2 b6
9.0-0-0 Ba6 10.Qe3 Nbd7 11.e5 Ng8
12.Bg5 Be7 13.f4 Qc7 14.Ng3 Qb7 15.f5
0-0-0 16.fxe6 fxe6 17.Nh5 g6 18.Ng7
Nf8 19.Bxa6 Qxa6 20.Rhf1 h6 21.Bxe7
Nxe7 22.Rf7 Rd7 23.Qf3 Nf5 24.Nxf5
gxf5 25.Qh5 Qb7 26.Rf6 Re7 27.Rxh6
Rxh6 28.Qxh6 Nd7 29.h4 b5 30.Kb1 b4
31.Ne2 c5 32.Nf4 Qc6 33.h5 c4 34.Qg5
Re8 35.h6 c3 36.h7 Kb7 37.Qg7 Qc8
38.Rh1 Rh8 39.Ng6 cxb2 40.Nxh8 1-0
William Wolf (1314)
Ryan Snodgrass (1726)
Round 1
1.e4 e6 2.b3 d5 3.Bb2 dxe4 4.Nc3 Nf6
5.Qe2 Bb4 6.0-0-0 Bxc3 7.Bxc3 0-0 8.g4
b6 9.d3 Nd5 10.Bb2 exd3 11.Rxd3 Nf4
12.Qe5 Nxd3+ 13.Bxd3 Qf6 14.Qe4
Qh6+ 15.Kb1 c6 16.g5 Qg6 17.Qh4 f5
18.gxf6 Qh6 19.Qg3 Rxf6 20.Bxf6 Qxf6
21.Nf3 Nd7 22.Rg1 Nc5 23.Bxh7+ Kxh7
24.Qh3+ Qh6 25.Ng5+ Kg8 26.Qf3 Qf6
27.Qh5 Bb7 28.Nh7 Qf5 29.Ng5 Ne4 0-1
Joseph Morrison (1010)
Ilan Sebba (975)
Round 1
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d3 Be7
5.Nc3 d6 6.0-0 Na5 7.Bb3 Nxb3 8.axb3
0-0 9.Be3 b6 10.d4 exd4 11.Nxd4 Bb7
12.f3 Qd7 13.Bg5 h6 14.Bh4 Nh7
15.Bxe7 Qxe7 16.Nd5 Bxd5 17.exd5
Rfe8 18.Re1 Qf6 19.Rxe8+ Rxe8
20.Rxa7 Re5 21.Nc6 Re8 22.Rxc7 Qxb2
23.Rb7 Nf6 24.Rxb6 Qc3 25.Rb8 Rxb8
26.Nxb8 Nxd5 27.h3 Qe5 28.Nc6 Qe6
29.Qxd5 Qxd5 30.Ne7+ Kf8 31.Nxd5 f5
32.b4 1-0
Ben Gurka (1915)
Wesley Woo (1758)
Round 2
(A young player springs an old trap, then
scores after tough resistance.) 1.d4 d5
2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.cxd5
exd5 6.Nxd5 Nxd5 7.Bxd8 Bb4+ 8.Qd2
Bxd2+ 9.Kxd2 Kxd8 10.e4 N5f6 11.Bd3
Re8 12.f3 c6 13.Ne2 Nb6 14.a4 a5
15.Rhb1 Be6 16.b4 axb4 17.Rxb4 Nfd7
18.f4 g6 19.Nc3 f5 20.e5 Kc7 21.Rc1
Kb8 22.Ke3 Nd5+ 23.Nxd5 Bxd5
24.Rcb1 Ra7 25.g3 Kc7 26.a5 Rb8
27.Ra1 Rba8 28.Rab1 Nf8 29.Kd2 Ne6
30.Kc3 Nd8 31.Bc4 Rxa5 32.Bxd5 Rxd5
33.Re1 Ne6 34.Reb1 Ra3+ 35.Kb2 Raa5
36.Kc3 Rab5 37.Rxb5 Rxb5 38.Ra1 Kb8
39.h3 h5 40.g4 Nxf4 41.gxf5 gxf5 42.Rf1
Nd5+ 43.Kd2 f4 44.Rg1 Rb3 45.Rg5
Rxh3 46.Rf5 h4 47.Rf8+ Kc7 48.Rf7+
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Kb6 49.Rf5 Rg3 50.Rh5 h3 51.Ke2 Kb5
52.e6 Kc4 53.Kf2 b5 54.Re5 Re3
55.Rxe3 fxe3+ 0-1
Rithvik Ijju (1490)
Jose Llacza (1752)
Round 2
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 e6 4.Bc4 Na5
5.Be2 Nf6 6.0-0 Be7 7.d4 cxd4 8.Nxd4
0-0 9.Be3 Nc6 10.a3 d5 11.exd5 Nxd5
12.Nxd5 exd5 13.Qd2 Nxd4 14.Bxd4 Be6
15.f4 Qc8 16.b4 a5 17.Rab1 axb4
18.axb4 Ra2 19.Rb2 Ra8 20.Bd3 Bf5
21.Rb3 Bxd3 22.Rxd3 Ra2 23.Rg3 g6
24.f5 Qxc2 25.Qh6 f6 26.fxg6 hxg6
27.Rxg6+ Kf7 28.Rgxf6+ Ke8 29.Rxf8+
Kd7 30.Qh3+ Kd6 31.Bc5+ Kc6 32.Rc8+
Kb5 33.Qd7+ 1-0
Mark Brown (1463)
Andrew Roerty (1726)
Round 2
1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 Nf6 3.e3 e6 4.Nf3 c5
5.Nbd2 Nc6 6.c3 Be7 7.h3 0-0 8.Bd3 b6
9.Ne5 Bb7 10.Qe2 Nxe5 11.dxe5 Nd7
12.Qh5 g6 13.Qg4 Re8 14.h4 h5 15.Qg3
Kg7 16.Nf3 c4 17.Bc2 b5 18.Nd4 b4
19.Nxe6+! 1-0
Cory Foster (1793)
Gregory Bain (1013)
Round 2
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 Bc5 4.d4 Bb6
5.Bxf4 Nc6 6.c3 d6 7.Bc4 Bg4 8.0-0 Nf6
9.Nbd2 Ne5 10.Bxe5 dxe5 11.Bxf7+ Kf8
12.Qb3 Qe7 13.Nxe5 Qxe5 14.Kh1 Qg5
15.Nf3 Bxf3 16.Rxf3 h5 17.e5 1-0
Phillip Brown (1556)
William Wolf (1314)
Round 2
1.c4 b5?! 2.cxb5 Nf6 3.Nc3 a6 4.e3 g6
5.Nf3 Bg7 6.Be2 0-0 7.0-0 axb5 8.Bxb5
c5 9.d4 cxd4 10.exd4 d6 11.Bg5 Ba6
12.Qd2 Bxb5 13.Nxb5 Ne4 14.Qe3 Nxg5
15.Qxg5 Qb6 16.a4 Nc6 17.Qd2 Na5
18.Qd3 e5 19.dxe5 dxe5 20.Qd6 Qxd6
21.Nxd6 e4 22.Nxe4 Bxb2 23.Ra2 Rfb8
24.Rd1 Nc4 25.g3 Rb4 26.Nc5 Ra5
27.Nd3 Rbxa4 28.Rxb2 Nxb2 29.Nxb2
Ra2 30.Nc4 Rf5 31.Kg2 Re2 ½-½
Amitai Sebba (1349)
Tyler Thieszen (1444)
Round 2
1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 Nf6 4.e5 Nd5
5.Nf3 e6 6.cxd4 Nc6 7.Bc4 Nb6 8.Be2 d5
9.Nc3 Be7 10.0-0 0-0 11.a3 f5 12.exf6
Bxf6 13.Be3 Na5 14.Rc1 Nac4 15.Qc2 e5
16.dxe5 Bxe5 17.Bxb6 axb6 18.Bxc4
Bxc3 19.Qxc3 dxc4 20.Qxc4+ Kh8
21.Rfd1 Qf6 22.Qb4 b5 23.Qd6 Be6
24.Re1 Ra6 25.Qe5 Bg4 26.Qxf6 Raxf6
27.Ne5 Be6 28.Rf1 Rf5 29.Nf3 Bc4
30.Rfe1 Bd5 31.Rc5 h6 32.Rxb5 Bxf3
33.Rxf5 Rxf5 34.gxf3 Rxf3 35.Re3 Rf5
36.b4 Kg8 37.Kg2 Kf7 38.Kg3 Kf6 39.f4
Rh5 40.h4 g5 41.hxg5+ hxg5 42.fxg5+
Rxg5+ 43.Kf2 b5 44.Rf3+ Ke5 45.Ke3
½-½
Brad Lundstrom (1974)
Rhett Langseth (2135)
Round 3
1.d4 d6 2.e4 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nbd7 4.Bc4 e5
5.Nf3 Be7 6.Ng5 0-0 7.Bxf7+ Rxf7
8.Ne6 Qe8 9.Nxc7 Qd8 10.Nxa8 b5
11.dxe5 Nxe5 12.0-0 Bb7 13.Nxb5 Bxa8
14.Bf4 Qb6 15.a4 a6 16.Be3 Qc6 17.Nc3
Nxe4 18.f3 Nxc3 19.bxc3 Qxc3 20.Bd4
Qc4 21.a5 Bxf3 22.gxf3 Nxf3+ 23.Rxf3
Rxf3 24.Rb1 Rf4 25.Bf2 Rg4+ 26.Bg3 h5
27.Rb8+ Kh7 28.Qf3 Qxc2 29.Qf7 Qc5+
30.Kg2 Qe5 31.Re8 Qe2+ 32.Kg1 Qe1+
33.Kg2 Qe4+ 34.Kg1 Qe1+ 35.Kg2 Qe2+
½-½
Ben Gurka (1915)
Davin Yin (1818)
Round 3
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f4
0-0 6.Nf3 Bg4 7.Be2 Nbd7 8.0-0 Bxf3
9.Rxf3 e5 10.d5 exf4 11.Bxf4 Re8
12.Qc2 Nc5 13.Bg5 h6 14.Bxf6 Bxf6
15.Raf1 Bd4+ 16.Kh1 Re7 17.Qd2 Bg7
18.b4 Nd7 19.Nb5 a6 20.Nd4 Ne5
21.Rg3 Nd7 22.Nf5 Rxe4 23.Nxh6+
Bxh6 24.Qxh6 Qh4 25.Qd2 Qh7 26.Bd3
Rh4 27.h3 Ne5 28.Qe2 Qh5 29.Qf2 Qh7
30.Be2 Nxc4 31.Rc1 Nd2 32.Bd3 Ne4
33.Bxe4 Rxe4 34.Rxc7 Rxb4 35.Qf6 Qg7
36.Qxd6 Rb1+ 37.Kh2 Re8 38.Rf3 Qa1
39.Rcxf7 Rh1+ 40.Kg3 Qe1+ 41.Kg4
Re4+ 42.R7f4 Rxf4+ 43.Qxf4 Qe7 44.d6
Qd7+ 45.Kg3 Qg7 46.d7 Rd1 47.Qb8+
Kh7 48.d8Q Rxd8 49.Qxd8 Qe5+ 50.Kf2
Qc5+ 51.Kf1 Qc1+ 52.Ke2 Qc2+ 53.Qd2
Qc4+ 54.Kf2 Qc5+ 55.Kf1 Qb5+ 56.Kg1
Qc5+ 57.Rf2 Qc7 58.Qf4 Qc5 59.Qf7+
Kh6 60.Qf8+ 1-0
Robert Carlson (1595)
Francisco Baltier Jr (1730)
Round 3
1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 d5 3.Nf3 Bf5 4.e3 e6
5.Bd3 Bg6 6.0-0 Nbd7 7.c4 dxc4 8.Bxc4
Nb6 9.Bb3 Bd6 10.Bg5 Be7 11.Nc3 0-0
12.Rc1 c6 13.Bc2 Bh5 14.Ne4 Nbd5
15.Nxf6+ Bxf6 16.Bxf6 Qxf6 17.Qd3
Bg6 18.Qd2 Bh5 19.Qd3 Bg6 20.Qd2
Nb6 21.Bxg6 hxg6 22.Ne5 Rfd8 23.Qe2
Nd7 24.Nxd7 Rxd7 25.Rc3 Rad8 26.Qf3
Qe7 27.g3 e5 28.dxe5 Qxe5 29.Qf4 Qd5
30.Qc4 Qd6 31.Rfc1 Qf6 32.R3c2 Rd5
33.Qc3 Qf3 34.h4 g5 35.e4 Rd3 36.Qe5
Rd1+ 37.Kh2 Rxc1 38.Rxc1 Qxf2+
39.Kh3 gxh4 40.Kxh4 Qd4 41.Qe7 Rd7
42.Qe8+ Kh7 43.Rh1 Kg6 44.Kg4 Qd6
45.e5 Qb4+ 46.Kh3 Re7 47.Qb8 Qe4
48.Rd1 Qf5+ 49.Kg2 0-1
Kary Fang (1282)
Jack Nauman (1461)
Round 3
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Bc5
5.Nc3 d6 6.h3 a6 7.Bxc6+ bxc6 8.Re1
0-0 9.d3 h6 10.b3 Bb4 11.Bb2 Nd7 12.a3
Ba5 13.b4 Bb6 14.Ne2 c5 15.Ng3 a5
16.bxc5 Nxc5 17.c4 f5 18.d4 Nxe4
19.Nxe4 fxe4 20.dxe5 Bxh3 21.Qd5+
Kh8 22.Qxe4 Bf5 23.Qd5 dxe5 24.Qxe5
Rf7 25.Rad1 Qf6 26.Qd5 c6 27.Qd2 Qd8
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28.Ne5 Re7 29.Qc3 Qc7 30.Nxc6 Rf7
31.Ne5 Rf6 32.Rd5 Be6 33.Rd4 Bxd4
34.Qxd4 Raf8 35.c5 Rd8 36.Qe3 Rd5
37.Ng4 Bxg4 38.Bxf6 Rh5 39.Qe8+ Kh7
40.Qe4+ Bf5 41.Qe5 Qf7 42.Bd8 Bg4
43.Qe4+ Bf5 44.Qe7 Qg6 45.Bxa5 Rg5
46.Qb7 Bh3 47.g3 Rxg3+ 48.fxg3 Qxg3+
49.Kh1 Qxa3 50.Qb1+ Kg8 51.Qg6 Qf3+
52.Kg1 Bd7 ½-½
Donald Hillman (1263)
David Grover (1502)
Round 3
1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 d5 4.exd5 Nxd5
5.Bg2 Nxc3 6.bxc3 c6 7.d3 Be7 8.Bd2
0-0 9.h3 Be6 10.Nf3 e4 11.dxe4 Bc4
12.Ne5 Ba6 13.Qf3 f6 14.Nd3 Nd7
15.0-0 Ne5 16.Qe3 Nxd3 17.cxd3 Qxd3
18.Qf4 Bd6 19.Qg4 Qxd2 20.Rfd1 Qxc3
21.Qe6+ Kh8 22.Qxd6 Qe5 23.Qa3 Rad8
24.Kh2 h6 25.f4 Qe8 26.Bf1 Rxd1
27.Rxd1 Bxf1 28.Rxf1 Rf7 29.Qxa7
Qxe4 30.Qg1 Re7 31.f5 Qc2+ 32.Rf2
Re2 33.Rxe2 Qxe2+ 34.Qg2 Qxg2+
35.Kxg2 Kg8 36.Kf3 Kf8 37.Ke4 Ke7
38.Kd4 Kd6 39.a4 b6 40.Kc4 Ke5 41.g4
Kf4 0-1
Griffin McConnell (1999)
Brad Lundstrom (1974)
Round 4
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 exd4
5.Nxd4 Bb4 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.Bd3 d5 8.Bd2
0-0 9.0-0 Re8 10.Re1 Rb8 11.Rb1 Bc5
12.Bg5 h6 13.Bh4 g5 14.Bg3 dxe4
15.Bc4 Qxd1 16.Nxd1 Bd6 17.Re3 Bg4
18.Nc3 Bf4 19.Bxf4 gxf4 20.Ree1 Rbd8
21.Be2 Rd4 22.Bxg4 Nxg4 23.f3 Nf6
24.fxe4 Rd2 ½-½
Richard Shtivelband (2273)
Alexander Freeman (1765)
Round 4
1.e4 d5 2.d4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Bf5
5.d5 g6 6.Bxf6 exf6 7.Qd4 Bh6 8.Bb5+
c6 9.Bc4 0-0 10.d6 Re8 11.Nge2 e3
12.0-0-0 exf2+ 13.Kb1 Nd7 14.Qxf2 Ne5
15.Bb3 Kg7 16.h3 b5 17.Nd4 Bd7
18.Rhf1 a5 19.a3 a4 20.Ba2 Rb8 21.Ka1
c5 22.Nf3 b4 23.Nxe5 Rxe5 24.Nd5 f5
25.Qxc5 Be6 26.Qc7 bxa3 27.Qc3 f6
28.Ne3 axb2+ 29.Kb1 Bc8 30.Nc4 Re4
31.Rd4 Rb5 32.Rxe4 fxe4 ½-½
Ryan Baten (1887)
Davin Yin (1818)
Round 4
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6
5.Be2 Nbd7 6.Be3 e5 7.Qd2 0-0 8.d5 b6
9.Bg5 a5 10.Nf3 Nc5 11.Qc2 h6 12.Be3
Bd7 13.0-0 Ng4 14.Bxc5 bxc5 15.h3 Nf6
16.a4 Nh5 17.Rfd1 Nf4 18.Bf1 f5 19.Nd2
Qg5 20.Kh2 Nh5 21.Nb5 Rac8 22.Ra3 f4
23.Be2 Qh4 24.Bxh5 Qxh5 25.f3 g5
26.Qc3 g4 27.fxg4 Bxg4 28.Rf1 Bf6
29.Nf3 Bh4 30.hxg4 Bg3+ 31.Kg1 Qxg4
32.Qxa5 Kh8 33.Qd2 h5 34.Rf2 Rg8
35.Nh2 Qg6 36.Nc3 Rg7 37.Nf3 Rcg8
38.Re2 h4 39.Kf1 h3 40.gxh3 Qh5 41.Rf2
Qxh3+ 42.Ke2 Bxf2 43.Nd1 Be3
44.Nxe3 fxe3 45.Qxe3 Rg2+ 46.Kd1
Rxb2 47.Ne1 Qxe3 48.Rxe3 Ra2
49.Rh3+ Kg7 50.Nc2 Kf7 51.Rh7+ Rg7
52.Rxg7+ Kxg7 53.Kd2 Rxa4 54.Kd3
Kf6 55.Ne3 Ra3+ 56.Ke2 Rxe3+!
57.Kxe3 Kg5 58.Kf3 Kh4 59.Kf2 Kg4
60.Ke3 Kg3 0-1
Ted Doykos (1749)
Vedant Margale (1472)
Round 4
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.e3 Bg7 4.Bd3 0-0
5.0-0 d5 6.Nbd2 c5 7.c3 Nbd7 8.Re1 c4
9.Bc2 b5 10.e4 dxe4 11.Nxe4 Bb7
12.Nxf6+ Nxf6 13.h3 Re8 14.Bf4 Rc8
15.Bh2 e6 16.Qe2 Nd5 17.Ne5 Qg5
18.Be4 a6 19.Nd7 Qe7 20.Nc5 Red8
21.a4 Rxc5 22.dxc5 Qxc5 23.Bf3 b4
24.cxb4 Qxb4 25.Be5 c3 26.Bxg7 Kxg7
27.Qe5+ Kg8 28.bxc3 Qe7 29.a5 Ba8
30.c4 Nb4 31.Bxa8 Rxa8 32.Red1 Nc6
33.Qd6 Qe8 34.Rdb1 Rd8 35.Qc5 Qd7
36.Rb6 Nb8 37.Rab1 Qa7 38.Qb4 Nd7
39.Qe7 Qc7 40.Rd6 h5 41.Rbd1 h4
42.Rxd7 Rxd7 43.Rxd7 Qf4 44.Qd8+
Kg7 45.Rd4 Qc1+ 46.Kh2 Qh6
47.Rxh4 ... 1-0
John Krue (1566)
Gregory Bain (1013)
Round 4
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nf3 d6 4.g3 Bg7
5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg2 0-0 7.0-0 Bf5 8.Re1
Ne4 9.e3 Nxc3 10.bxc3 Be4 11.Nd2
Bxg2 12.Kxg2 e5 13.Bb2 Qd7 14.d5 Na5
15.e4 b5 16.cxb5 Qxb5 17.Rb1 Rab8
18.Ba1 Qa6 19.Qa4 Rb6 20.Rxb6 axb6
21.Bb2 b5 22.Qb4 Nc4 23.Nxc4 bxc4
24.Ra1 f5 25.f3 fxe4 26.fxe4 Qa7 27.Rf1
Qxa2 28.Ra1 Qb3 29.Qxb3 cxb3 30.Ra7
Rc8 31.Rb7 Bf8 32.Rxb3 c6 33.c4 c5
34.Bc1 Ra8 35.h3 Kg7 36.Rb7+ Kg8
½-½
David Grover (1502)
Kary Fang (1282)
Round 4
1.d4 e6 2.c4 d5 3.Nf3 c5 4.e3 Nf6 5.Nc3
Nc6 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 cxd4 8.Nxd4
Nxd4 9.exd4 Be7 10.0-0 0-0 11.Be3 a6
12.Bb3 b5 13.Bc2 Bb7 14.Qd3 h6 15.h4
b4 16.Bg5 hxg5 17.hxg5 bxc3 18.gxf6 g6
19.fxe7 Qxe7 20.bxc3 Kg7 21.f3 Qh4
22.Qe2 Qg3 23.c4 Rac8 24.Bb3 Qh4
25.Qe5+ f6 26.Qe3 Rh8 27.c5 Rce8
28.Rad1 a5 29.Bc4 Qg3 30.Bb5 Rh2
31.Qf2 Rh1+! 32.Kxh1 Rh8+ 0-1
Alexander Zhang (1325)
Alayne Wilinsky (1278)
Round 4
1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 Nf6 4.e5 Nd5
5.cxd4 e6 6.a3 Be7 7.Nf3 d6 8.Be3 Nxe3
9.fxe3 dxe5 10.Nxe5 Nd7 11.Nxd7 Bxd7
12.Nc3 a6 13.Bd3 0-0 14.0-0 Rc8 15.Rc1
Bc6 16.Be4 Bxe4 17.Nxe4 Qd5 18.Nc3
Qg5 19.Qf3 b5 20.Qf4 Qxf4 21.Rxf4 Bg5
22.Rf3 a5 23.Rb1 b4 24.axb4 axb4
25.Ne4 Bh6 26.Nc5 g6 27.Rbf1 Rfd8
28.Kf2 Bg7 29.Rc1 e5 30.Nb3 Rxc1
31.Nxc1 exd4 32.Nd3 dxe3+ 33.Kxe3 b3
34.Ke4 Rd4+ 35.Ke3 Rc4 36.Rf1 Rc2
37.Rf2 Bh6+ 38.Kd4 Rxf2 39.Nxf2 Bg7+
40.Kc4 Bxb2 41.Kxb3 Be5 42.h3 Bf4 ...
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Charles Zhang (1196)
Murlin Varner Jr (1500)
Round 4
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.c4 Bb4+
5.Bd2 Bxd2+ 6.Qxd2 Nf6 7.Nc3 0-0
8.Nf3 Re8+ 9.Be2 dxc4 10.0-0 b5 11.a4
b4 12.Na2 a5 13.Bxc4 Ba6 14.Bxa6 Rxa6
15.Nc1 Ne4 16.Qd3 c5 17.Re1 Rae6
18.d5 c4 19.Qxc4 Nd2 20.dxe6 Nxc4
21.e7 Rxe7 22.Nd3 Rxe1+ 23.Rxe1 g6
24.Nde5 Nxe5 25.Nxe5 Qd2 26.Nf3
Qxb2 27.g4 Nc6 28.Ng5 Qd2 29.Re8+
Kg7 30.Ne4 Qd1+ 31.Kg2 Qxg4+ ... 0-1
George Lombardi (1299)
Michael McNamara (1181)
Round 4
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 h5
9.h4 b5 10.Bg5 Nbd7 11.Nd5 Bxd5
12.exd5 Be7 13.Qd2 Rc8 14.Rc1 Qc7
15.0-0 Nh7 16.Bxe7 Kxe7 17.Qa5 g5
18.Qxc7 Rxc7 19.hxg5 Nxg5 20.Kh2 h4
21.Rh1 f5 22.Kg1 f4 23.Bd3 Nc5
24.Nxc5 Rxc5 25.Be4 Rcc8 26.Kf2
Nxe4+ 27.fxe4 Rcg8 28.Rh3 Rg3
29.Rch1 Rhg8 30.R3h2 R8g4 31.Rd1 Kf6
32.Rd3 Rxd3 33.cxd3 Kg5 34.Kf3 Rg3+
35.Ke2 Kg4 36.Kd2 f3 37.gxf3+ Rxf3
38.Ke2 h3 39.Rf2 Rf4 40.Kf1 Kg3
41.Rxf4 exf4 0-1
Aleksandr Bozhenov (1990)
Brian Wall (2200)
Round 5
1.e4 Nh6 2.d4 Na6 (Yep, it's a Brian Wall
game.) 3.Nf3 g6 4.Bc4 c6 5.0-0 d5 6.exd5
cxd5 7.Bb5+ Bd7 8.Bxd7+ Qxd7 9.Ne5
Qd8 10.c4 Bg7 11.Qa4+ Kf8 12.cxd5
Qxd5 13.Nc3 Qd8 14.Bxh6 Bxh6 15.Qb3
Qe8 16.Qxb7 Qc8 17.Qd5 Qe8 18.Qc4
Nb8 19.Qd5 Na6 20.Qc4 Nb8 21.Qd5
Na6 22.Qc4 ½-½
Adam Markos (2282)
Sami Al-Adsani (1830)
Round 5
1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 d5 3.e3 Nf6 4.Nf3 c5
5.cxd5 exd5 6.d4 Nc6 7.Be2 c4 8.Ne5
Be6 9.f4 Nxe5 10.fxe5 Nd7 11.0-0 Bb4
12.e4 Qa5 13.exd5 Bxd5 14.Nxd5 Qxd5
15.Bf3 Qb5 16.Qe2 0-0 17.Qe4 Qb6
18.Kh1 c3 19.bxc3 Bxc3 20.Rb1 Qa6
21.Be2 Qg6 22.Qxg6 hxg6 23.Rxb7 Rad8
24.Bc4 Bxd4 25.Ba3 Nxe5 26.Bxf8 Nxc4
27.Be7 Re8 28.Rf4 Nd6 29.Rd7 Nf5
30.g4 Be3 31.Re4 Rxe7 32.Rdxe7 Nxe7
33.Rxe3 Nc6 34.Ra3 a5 35.Rc3 Nb4
36.a3 Na6 37.Rc6 Nb8 38.Rc8+ 1-0
Wesley Woo (1758)
Aiden Sirotkine (1572)
Round 5
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 f5 4.Bf4 c6 5.Nf3
Nf6 6.e3 Bd6 7.Ne5 0-0 8.Be2 Bc7
9.cxd5 exd5 10.b4 Nbd7 11.Nxd7 Bxd7
12.Bxc7 Qxc7 13.Rc1 Qb6 14.Qb3 Ne4
15.Bf3 Rae8 16.Bxe4 fxe4 17.0-0 Rf6
18.Na4 Qd8 19.Nc5 Rh6 20.Nxb7 Qh4
21.f4 exf3 22.Rxf3 Qxh2+ 23.Kf2 Qh4+
24.Ke2 Bg4 25.Rxc6 Bxf3+ 26.gxf3
Qxd4 27.Rxh6 gxh6 28.Nd6 Re6 29.Ne4
Qc4+ 30.Qxc4 dxc4 31.Kd2 Rxe4
32.fxe4 h5 0-1
Craig Moffitt (1790)
Mirza Peljto (1799)
Round 5
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.Ngf3 Nc6
5.exd5 exd5 6.dxc5 Bxc5 7.Nb3 Bd6
8.Be2 Nge7 9.0-0 0-0 10.h3 a6 11.Nfd4
Be5 12.c3 Nf5 13.Nxf5 Bxf5 14.Be3 Re8
15.Bg4 Bg6 16.Qd2 f5 17.Bf3 Bf7
18.Bd4 Nxd4 19.Nxd4 Qf6 20.Rfd1 Rad8
21.Qc2 g6 22.a4 Re7 23.Qb3 g5 24.g3 h5
25.Qc2 Bg6 26.Qd2 g4 27.Bg2 f4 28.b4
Kh7 29.Bf1 fxg3 30.fxg3 Bxg3 31.Qg2
Bf4 32.Bd3 Be3+ 33.Kh1 Re4 34.Rf1
Qe5 35.hxg4 hxg4 36.Qh2+ Kg7
37.Qxe5+ Rxe5 38.Bxg6 Kxg6 39.Ra2 g3
40.Kg2 Bf2 41.Ne2 Re3 42.Rd2 Kg5
43.Rfd1 Re5 44.Nxg3 Be1 45.Rd3 Kf6
46.b5 Ke6 47.c4 Rg8 48.cxd5+ Kd6
49.Rc1 Ba5 50.bxa6 bxa6 51.Rc6+ Kd7
52.Rxa6 Be1 53.d6 Reg5 54.Ra7+ Kc6
55.Rc7+ Kb6 56.Rb3+ Ka6 57.d7 Bxg3
58.Rc8 Bb8+ 59.Kf1 Rg1+ 60.Ke2
R8g2+ 61.Kd3 Rd1+ 62.Ke4 Rxd7
63.Rcxb8 Rg4+ 64.Kf3 Rgg7 65.Ra8+
Ra7 66.Rxa7+ Rxa7 67.Ke4 Rd7 68.Rb5
Rd1 69.Ke3 Ra1 70.Rb4 Ka5 ½-½
Jose Llacza (1752)
Roberto Bolivar (1709)
Round 5
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Nc3 a6
5.a4 Nc6 6.h3 e6 7.0-0 Be7 8.d4 cxd4
9.Nxd4 e5 10.Nf3 h6 11.Be3 Be6
12.Bxe6 fxe6 13.Qd2 d5 14.exd5 exd5
15.Qc1 d4 16.Rd1 Qc7 17.Nxd4 exd4
18.Bxd4 Nxd4 19.Rxd4 0-0 20.Qd1 Rad8
21.Rxd8 Rxd8 22.Qe2 Qc6 23.Qxe7 Rd2
24.Rc1 Nd5 25.Qe1 Nf4 26.Qf1 b5
27.axb5 axb5 28.g3 Rxf2 29.Kxf2 Qc5+
30.Ke1 Qe3+ 31.Ne2 Nxe2 32.Qxe2
Qxc1+ 33.Kf2 Qxb2 34.Qe6+ Kf8
35.Qc8+ Kf7 36.Qf5+ Qf6 37.Qxf6+
Kxf6 38.Ke3 Ke5 39.Kd3 Kd5 40.Kc3
Kc5 41.Kd3 b4 42.g4 g5 43.Kd2 Kd4
44.Ke2 Kc3 45.Kd1 Kd4 46.Ke2 Ke4
47.Kf2 Kf4 48.Ke2 Kg3 49.Kd3 Kxh3
50.Kc4 Kxg4 51.Kxb4 h5 52.c4 h4 53.c5
h3 54.c6 h2 55.c7 h1Q 56.c8Q+ Kg3
57.Qc7+ Kg2 58.Qc2+ Kg3 59.Qc7+ Kg4
60.Qc8+ Kf4 61.Qc7+ Kf5 62.Qc8+ Kf6
63.Qf8+ Ke6 ... ½-½
Rithvik Ijju (1490)
Ted Doykos (1749)
Round 5
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 e6 5.c4
Nd7 6.cxd5 cxd5 7.Nc3 Ne7 8.Bg5 f6
9.Nb5 Nc6 10.Be3 Bb4+ 11.Bd2 Bxd2+
12.Qxd2 0-0 13.exf6 Nxf6 14.Bd3 Ne4
15.Bxe4 Bxe4 16.Qe3 Nb4 17.Na3 Nd3+
18.Ke2 Nxb2 19.Ng5 Bd3+ 20.Ke1 Qa5+
21.Qd2 Qxa3 22.f3 Nc4 23.Qd1 Ne3 0-1
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Robert Cernich II (1483)
Ryan Snodgrass (1726)
Round 5
1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.Nf3 d5 4.cxd5 exd5
5.Nc3 Nf6 6.Bg5 c6 7.e3 Be7 8.Bd3 0-0
9.0-0 Ne4 10.Bxe7 Qxe7 11.Ne5 Nd7
12.Nxd7 Bxd7 13.Qe2 Rf6 14.f3 Nd6
15.Rae1 Re8 16.Qc2 Re6 17.Nd1 Qh4
18.Qf2 Qg5 19.Re2 R6e7 20.Rfe1 Be6
21.b3 Bf7 22.Kh1 Bg6 23.Qg3 Qf6 24.f4
Bh5 25.Rd2 Qxd4 26.h3 Qb4 27.Qf2 Ne4
28.Bxe4 Rxe4 29.a3 Qe7 30.Nc3 Rxe3
31.Rxe3 Qxe3 32.Qxe3 Rxe3 33.Rc2 d4
34.Na4 d3 35.Rd2 Re1+ 36.Kh2 Rd1
37.Rb2 Rc1 38.Rd2 Be2 39.Nb2 Rc2
40.Rxd3 Rxb2 41.Rd8+ Kf7 42.Rd7+
Kf6 43.Rxb7 Bf3 44.Kg3 Bd5 45.b4
Rxg2+ 46.Kh4 h6 47.Rd7 Bf7 48.Rxf7+
Kxf7 49.a4 Rb2 50.b5 cxb5 51.axb5
Rxb5 52.Kh5 g6+ 53.Kxh6 Kf6 54.h4
Rb8 55.Kh7 a5 56.h5 gxh5 57.Kh6 Rh8#
0-1
Gregory Bain (1013)
George Peschke (1554)
Round 5
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Be7 4.c3 Nf6
5.d3 0-0 6.Be3 d5 7.exd5 Nxd5 8.Qe2
Re8 9.0-0 Bf6 10.Nbd2 Na5 11.Bb3 Nf4
12.Bxf4 exf4 13.Ne4 Kf8 14.Rfd1 Bg4
15.h3 Bh5 16.Ba4 c6 17.Qd2 Bxf3
18.gxf3 Be5 19.d4 Bc7 20.b4 b5 21.Bb3
Nc4 22.Bxc4 bxc4 23.a4 Qh4 24.Kh2
Re6 25.Rg1 Rh6 0-1
Coleman Hoyt (1511)
Ayush Vispute (1414)
Round 5
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6
5.c4 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Nc3 0-0 8.f3 Qc7
9.Qd2 a6 10.0-0-0 Rd8 11.g4 e6 12.h4 d5
13.Nxc6 bxc6 14.e5! Ne8 15.f4 Bb7
16.c5 f6 17.Bd4 fxe5 18.fxe5 Bxe5
19.Qe2 Bf4+ 20.Kb1 e5 21.Be3 Bxe3
22.Qxe3 d4 23.Bc4+ Kh8 24.Qf3 Qe7
25.Ne4 Ng7 26.Ng5 Rf8 27.Nf7+ Rxf7
28.Qxf7 Qxf7 29.Bxf7 Rf8 30.Rhf1 Bc8
31.Bxg6 Rxf1 32.Rxf1 Ne6 33.Bf5 Kg7
34.b4 h6 35.a4 Bd7 36.a5 Kf7 37.Bd3+
Nf4 38.Bxa6 Bxg4 39.Bc4+ Ke7 40.a6
Bc8 41.a7 Bb7 ... 1-0
Alayne Wilinsky (1278)
Murlin Varner Jr (1500)
Round 5
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Nf3 0-0
5.Bg2 d5 6.cxd5 Nxd5 7.e4 Nb6 8.0-0
Bg4 9.e5 Nc6 10.Be3 Nc4 11.Qb3 Nxe3
12.fxe3 Rb8 13.Ng5 e6 14.h3 Qxg5
15.hxg4 Qxg4 16.Rf3 Ne7 17.Qa3 Nf5
18.Kf2 Bh6 19.Nd2 a6 20.Qd3 Rbd8
21.Ne4 Bg7 22.Rf4 Qh5 23.Rh1 Qxh1
24.Bxh1 Bxe5 25.Rf3 c5 26.Nxc5 Nxe3
27.Nxb7 Ng4+ 28.Ke2 Rxd4 29.Qxa6
Rc8 30.Rc3 Rb8 31.Rd3 Rb4 32.b3 Bf6
33.a3 Rd4 34.Rxd4 Bxd4 35.Qc4 e5
36.Nd6 Rf8 37.a4 Ne3 38.Qb5 Rd8
39.Nc4 Nf5 40.g4 Ng3+ 41.Kf3 Nxh1
42.Kg2 Nf2 43.Nxe5 Nd1 44.Nc6 Nc3
45.Qc4 Nd1 46.Qb4 Bc3 47.Qb7 Rd2+
48.Kf3 Rf2+ 49.Ke4 Re2+ 50.Kd5 Rd2+
51.Kc5 Ne3 52.Kb6 Rb2 53.Qc8+ Kg7
54.Kc7 Rxb3 55.a5 Nd5+ 56.Kd6 Nb4
57.a6 Nxc6 58.Kxc6 Bd4 59.Kd5 Bg1
60.Qc4 Ra3 61.g5 Ra5+ 62.Ke4 Rxg5
63.Qc3+ f6 64.Qc7+ Kh6 65.a7 Bxa7
66.Qxa7 Re5+ 67.Kf4 g5+ 68.Kg3 Kg6
69.Qd4 h5 70.Qd3+ Rf5 71.Kh3 h4 1-0
Charles Zhang (1196)
Cayden Hetzel (1192)
Round 5
1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6 4.Nf3
Nc6 5.Bc4 Na5 6.Bd5 Nf6 7.Bb3 c5 8.a3
Nxb3 9.cxb3 Be6 10.0-0 Qb6 11.Na4
Qxb3 12.Qxb3 Bxb3 13.Nxc5 Bd5
14.Nd4 e5 15.Re1 Bxc5 16.Rxe5+ Be7
17.Nf5 Be6 18.Nxg7+ Kd7 19.Nxe6 fxe6
20.d4 Bd6 21.Rg5 Rhg8 22.Rxg8 Rxg8
23.b4 Ng4 24.h3 Nf6 25.Be3 Nd5 26.Rc1
Bf4 27.Re1 Nxe3 28.fxe3 Bg3 29.Rf1
Kd6 30.Rf7 Kd5 31.Rxb7 Ke4 32.Rxa7
Kxe3 33.Re7 Bf2+ 34.Kf1 Rg6 35.d5 Rf6
36.Rxe6+ Rxe6 37.dxe6 Bh4 38.g3 Be7
39.Kg2 Ke4 40.h4 Ke5 41.Kf3 Kxe6
42.Kg4 Kf7 43.Kf5 Bd6 44.g4 Bg3 45.h5
Be1 46.b5 Ba5 47.Kg5 Kg7 48.Kf5 Kh6
49.Kf6 Bc3+ 50.Kf5 Ba5 51.Kf6 Bc3+
52.Kf7 Kg5 53.Kg8 h6 54.Kh7 Bd2 55.b6
Bf4 56.b7 Bb8 57.a4 Ba7 58.a5 Bb8
59.a6 Ba7 ... 1-0
Joseph Morrison (1010)
Keith Glass (930)
Round 5
1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Bg5 0-0
5.e4 d5 6.e5 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3 h6 8.Bh4 g5
9.Nxg5 Ne4 10.Nxe4 Qxh4 11.Nf6+ Kh8
12.g3 Qg5 13.h4 Qg7 14.Qg4 Qxg4
15.Nxg4 Nd7 16.Nf6 Nxf6 17.exf6 Rg8
18.Bd3 Bd7 19.Rb1 b6 20.Ke2 Rge8
21.Rhg1 e5 22.dxe5 Rxe5+ 23.Kd2 Re6
24.Bf5 Rd6 25.Bxd7 Rxd7 26.g4 Kh7
27.g5 h5 28.f4 Kg6 29.Rbf1 Kf5 30.Kd3
c5 31.Re1 c4+ 32.Kd4 Kxf4 33.Re7 Rxe7
34.fxe7 Re8 35.Re1 Kg4 36.Kxd5 Kxh4
37.Kd6 Kxg5 38.Kd7 Rxe7+ 39.Kxe7 f5
40.Rg1+ Kf4 41.Ke6 h4 42.Rf1+ Kg3
43.Kxf5 Kg2 44.Re1 h3 45.Ke4 b5
46.Kd5 h2 47.Kc5 a6 48.Kb6 h1Q
49.Rxh1 Kxh1 50.Kxa6 Kg1 51.Kxb5
Kf1 52.a4 Ke2 53.a5 Kd2 54.a6 Kxc2
55.Kxc4 1-0
Michael Schmidt (Unrated)
Daniel Smith (1238)
Round 5
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Nf3 Ne4
5.Bd2 Nxd2 6.Nxd2 d5 7.e4 Bxc3 8.bxc3
dxe4 9.Nxe4 Nd7 10.Bd3 Nf6 11.Nc5 b6
12.Qa4+ Nd7 13.Be4 bxc5 14.Bxa8 Qf6
15.Bc6 cxd4 16.0-0 dxc3 17.Rac1 a6
18.Rfd1 Qe7 19.Rxc3 f6 20.Rcd3 Kf7
21.Bxd7 Bb7 22.Bc6 Bxc6 23.Qxc6 Qb4
24.Qxc7+ Kg6 25.Rd8 Qa4 26.R1d2 Qb4
27.h3 e5 28.R2d7 Qe1+ 29.Kh2 Rxd8
30.Qxd8 Qxf2 31.Qg8 Qf4+ 32.Kg1
Qe3+ 33.Kf1 Qc1+ 34.Ke2 Qc2+ 35.Rd2
Qe4+ 36.Kd1 Qb1+ 37.Ke2 Qe4+ 38.Kf1
Qf4+ 39.Ke1 Qe4+ 40.Kd1 Qb1+ 41.Ke2
Qe4+ 42.Kf1 Qf4+ ½-½
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COLORADO CHESS CLUB DIRECTORY
Boulder Chess Club: Meets Wednesdays at the University
Memorial Center (First Floor) on the CU Boulder campus, 6:30-
9:30pm. 1669 Euclid Avenue, 80309. www.BoulderChess.com.
Carbondale Chess Club: Meets every Tuesday from 6:00pm
until the wee hours at Kahhak Fine Arts & School, 411 Main
Street, Carbondale, 81623. All levels and ages are welcome and
chess coaching is available. Please contact Majid Kahhak at
(970) 704-0622 or email: Mkahhak@sopris.net.
Castle Rock Chess Club: Meets every Monday from 6:00-
9:00pm at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 South Wilcox Street,
Castle Rock, 80104.
Chess Knights: (Highlands Ranch) Meets on the 2nd & 4th
Wednesday evenings from 7:00-9:00pm. Highlands Ranch Li-
brary, 9292 Ridgeline Boulevard, 80129.
Information is also available on the Chess Knights' Web site at
HighlandsRanchLibraryChess.org.
Contact: Frank Atwood (720) 260-1493 or by email:
FrankAtwood@HighlandsRanchLibraryChess.org.
Chessmates Chess Club: (Fort Collins) 4825 South Lemay
Avenue, 80525. Mondays & Thursdays 5:00-6:30pm for Ad-
vanced players, Tuesdays for Beginners from 5:15-6:15pm. In-
structed by Zachary Bekkedahl. For more information contact
Zachary Bekkedahl by email at info@chessmatesfc.com or go to
www.chessmatesfc.com.
Colorado Springs Chess Club: Meets Tuesday evenings,
7:00-10:00pm, in the ballroom of the Acacia Apartments build-
ing, 104 East Platte Avenue. Scheduled activities every meeting
at 8:00pm (must show up by 8:00pm or you might be locked
out). For information see our website at www.SpringsChess.org
or email Richard “Buck” Buchanan at buckpeace@pcisys.net or
call (719) 685-1984.
Craig Chess Club: Call Rick or Mary Nelson, (970) 824-
4780 to schedule play.
Denver Chess Club: Meets on Tuesdays, 6:00-10:00pm at the
Third Christian Reformed Church, 2400 South Ash Street, Den-
ver. (303) 733-8940. www.DenverChess.com.
Denver Chess / Meetup.com: This group is run through the
social site Meetup.com, and our page is www.Meetup.com/
Learn-to-Play-Chess/. Players must join in order to receive in-
formation and sign up for events. Contact: David Costantino at
avs1cup@yahoo.com or through the group's Meetup.com page.
Durango Chess Club: Meets on Wednesdays from 6:00-
9:00pm at Durango Joe’s Coffee Shop, 732 East College Drive.
Fort Collins Chess Club: Currently meets Tuesdays,
7:00pm, in the food court of the Lory Student Center (2nd level),
Colorado State University. You can email Randy Reynolds at
randy_teyana@msn.com.
On the web - groups.yahoo.com/group/fort_collins_chess.
Fort Lewis College Chess Club: Meets Thursday nights in
the X-treme room which is located the College Union Building,
the club is sponsored by the school and is a USCF affiliate club.
For more info, contact Andrea Browne at (970) 247-6239.
Grand Junction Chess Club: Meets Mondays at 6:30pm in
the Safeway at Starbucks, 2901 Patterson Road. Call Rick Lova-
to at (970) 243-1073.
Grand Junction Junior Chess Club: Meets every 3rd Sat-
urday of the month at the Knights of Columbus Building, 2853
North Avenue. Call Rand Dodd at (970) 245-4015.
Greeley Chess Club: Meets Wednesdays, 6:00-9:00pm at
Your Place Coffee, 2308 West 17th Street, Greeley. Contact
Brad Lundstrom at ChessCoach2014@gmail.com. Or call him at
(970) 415-3855.
Lafayette Chess Club: Meets Mondays, from 6:00-9:00pm at
the Mojo Coffeehouse, 211 North Public Road in Lafayette. For
more information send an email to aerofirewp@yahoo.com or
contact Victor Creazzi at (303) 332-7039.
Longmont Chess Club: Meets Wednesdays from 6:30-
9:00pm. Check www.LongmontChess.com for current meeting
location. Email Todd Burge at Admin@LongmontChess.com or
call (720) 220-5240.
North Jeffco Chess Club: Meets Thursdays from 7:00-
10:00pm at the Grandview Tavern & Grill, 7427 Grandview
Avenue in Arvada. Email jax@well.com for more information.
Northeast Denver Chess Club: Meets Mondays and Thurs-
days from 4:00-8:00pm at 2575 Vine Street, Denver. Call (303)
320-6716 for more info.
Pagosa Springs Chess Club: Meets on Tuesdays (6:00-
9:00pm) and on Saturday mornings (9:00-Noon) at Nello’s Res-
taurant, 135 Country Center Drive, #A. For more information
contact Anthony Steventon by email at asteveton@centurytel.net
or at (970) 731-3029.
Parker Chess Club: Meets every Thursday from 7:00-
9:00pm at the new Parker library in Parker, CO. All levels and
ages welcome. Contact John Brezina at skibrezina@gmail.com.
Pueblo Chess Club: Meets at the Hanging Tree Café, 209
South Union, 81003 on Tuesdays and Thursdays after 6:30pm.
For more info contact Liz Nickovich at chessliz@comcast.net or
by phone at (719) 696-8389.
Rifle Chess Club: Meets Thursdays, 6:30-9:00pm, at City
Hall. For information email Dane Lyons at duilen@gmail.com.
Stonebridge Games Chess Club: (Longmont) Meets Tues-
days at 5:00pm. 449 Main Street, Longmont. Call (303) 776-
3796 for more info.
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Temporary Sacrifices by NM Todd Bardwick
(Reprinted with permission of the Author, the United States Chess Federation & Chess Life magazine.)
A sacrifice is when a player intentionally gives up material with the expectation of gaining some type of advantage in the future.
Types of advantages gained by sacrificing a piece can be to seize the initiative, win back more material than what was originally
sacrificed, force a mating attack on the king, open up lines of attack, ruin the opponent's pawn structure, or clear the path for a pawn
to promote, to name a few.
Remember when analyzing sacrifices, be thorough and look carefully at all the variations where your opponent accepts the sacrifice
and the also the ones where he declines it; you want to make sure in the end that you justify why the sacrifice is good.
Keep in mind that most sacrifices don't work, the ones that do are the ones that make it into chess books.
We will focus on temporary sacrifices where the player sacrifices material in a situation where he clearly sees how to recover the
material later.
Temporary sacrifices are sometimes referred to as sham-sacrifices, or more simply, a combination.
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The Chess Detective
This position is from the 1998 Colorado Closed.
Mikhail Ponomarev (2282)
Jerry Kearns (2335)
Position after 30...Be7
White to move
In this position, material is even. White has more active pieces
and a safer king. But how can he convert this to a victory?
White's best move is the surprising sacrifice, 31.Rf6! forking the
queen and the e-pawn. 31..Bxf6 If Black moves his queen, either
32.Rxe6 or 32.Qxe6 may be pleasant choices for White.
32.Qxe6+ Kf8 32...Kd8 33.Bxf6+ Kc7 34.Be5+ wins the queen.
33.Qxc8+ Kf7 34.Qxc6 Resigns White's temporary rook
sacrifice has netted him two pawns.
By planning ahead, you can set up sacrifices in a combination
that win material.
This position is from the 1995 Colorado Closed.
Todd Bardwick (2239)
Michael Mulyar (2450)
Position after 40.Qd2
Black to move
With less than a minute to make time control, Black played,
40...Rdg8 Preparing the sacrifice of the g7 rook on g3. 41.Bc5
Rxg3+! 42.hxg3 Rxg3+ 43.Kf2 Rg2+ Skewering the king and
queen and after capturing the queen, Black is ahead in material
with a winning endgame.
NM Todd Bardwick is the author of ‘Chess Strategy Workbook’,
‘Chess Tactics & Combinations Workbook’ & ‘Attacking the Chess King Workbook for Rated Players’.
He can be reached at www.ColoradoMasterChess.com
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1. Brian Rountree - Clint Eads
CSCC March Swiss / 2019
White to move
2. Dean Brown - Scott Williams
CSCC March Swiss / 2019
Black to move
3. J.C. MacNeil - Coleman Hoyt
DCC April / 2019
White to move
One of the best ways to improve your game is to study tactics, such as the following,
from games played by Colorado players. Answers are on the next page.
6. Sheena Zeng - Tatev Abrahamyan
Denver Open / 2019
Black to move
4. Rob Cernich - Aditya Krishna
DCC April / 2019
White to move
5. Alexandr Bozhenov - Jesse Williams
CSCC March Swiss / 2019
White to move
8. Neil Bhavikatti - Sara Herman
Denver Open / 2019
Black to move
9. Akshat Jain - Dean Ippolito
Denver Open / 2019
Black to move
Tactics Time! by Tim Brennan
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Denver Open / 2019
Black to move
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Tactics Time Answers:
1. 29.Rxh5! And Black cannot recapture because of 29...gxh5 30.Qxh7#.
2. 10...c4 Traps the White bishop.
3. J.C. was worried about the discovered check and played 41.Kd1 missing 41.Qd8+ Rg8 42.R
(or Q)xg8#. Luckily he got another shot on the next move and found the mate in two.
4. 26.Rxg7+!! Kxg7 27.Qh7#.
5. 11.Nxf7! Wins a pawn, and keeps the Black king from castling. 11...Kxf7 12.Qxf5 The e6
pawn is pinned.
6. 42...Rxc5! 43.Rxc5 Bd4+ Forks the king and rook.
7. 36...Qg4+ 37.Qg3 Qxd4 Wins a piece.
8. 18...Rxa4 Wins a piece. The b-pawn is pinned, and this move protects the queen which was
under attack.
9. 39...Qc8 Attacks the rook on a6 and threatens 40...Qc5+ forking the king and knight. White
cannot meet both threats.
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