Game Of The Week
This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Sunday night online events. We have been meeting online since April of last year when the pandemic closed our physical location. The registration starts at 6pm, and the first round starts at 7pm, mountain time.
The nice thing about these events is that they will run themselves. The computer will handle all the tournament director tasks from closing the registration right at 7pm to making the pairings with only players who are online at the start of the round. Also, it will hand out the prizes immediately. Of course, the prizes are only virtual medals, but I have been tracking them since we started last year.
Now that the Olympics have started, it seemed appropriate to remind everyone about our medal count. This chart is also on the home page of the Colorado Springs Chess News website.
The club found a secondary location for some over-the-board chess at COATI on 514 S Tejon St. We are currently meeting on Wednesdays at the end of the month for unrated, blitz chess. Of course, we are also looking into other locations that might be good for rated chess.
This week's game comes from Jeff Fox and Albert Gardner. Both players had a chance to win and get into medal contention, but both players failed to stick the landing. Jeff could have pulled into the lead on the total medal count and could have increased his stranglehold on the silvers if he had been just a touch more careful in this position.
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| White to move |
Silver Fox
[Event "King Hunt Online"]
[Site "https://cschessnews.blogspot.com/"]
[Date "2021.07.25"]
[Round "3.3"]
[White "Fox, Jeff"]
[Black "Gardner, Albert"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A16"]
[WhiteElo "1701"]
[BlackElo "1516"]
[PlyCount "106"]
[EventDate "2021.07.25"]
[TimeControl "600+10"]
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. g3 O-O 5. Bg2 b6 6. d4 Bb7 7. O-O Nc6 8. d5
Na5 9. Qd3 Ba6 10. Nd2 d6 11. b4 Nb7 12. b5 Nc5 13. Qc2 Bb7 14. e4 e6 15. Bb2
exd5 16. Nxd5 Nxd5 17. Bxg7 Kxg7 18. exd5 Re8 19. Rfe1 a6 20. bxa6 Bxa6 21. Ne4
Nxe4 22. Rxe4 Rxe4 23. Qxe4 Qe8 24. Qd4+ Qe5 25. Rd1 Re8 26. Qxe5+ Rxe5 27. Bf1
Re4 28. Rc1 f5 29. f3 Re3 30. Kf2 Ra3 31. Rc2 Kf6 32. f4 Ke7 33. h3 Kd7 34. g4
c6 35. Bg2 cxd5 36. cxd5 Bd3 37. Rd2 b5 38. Bf3 Bc4 39. gxf5 gxf5 40. Bh5 Rxh3
41. Bf7 Rh2+ 42. Ke3 Rxd2 43. Kxd2 Bxa2 44. Be6+ Ke7 45. Bxf5 Bxd5 46. Bxh7 Kf6
47. Kc3 Be6 48. Bd3 Bd7 49. Kb4 Ke6 50. Bxb5 Bxb5 51. Kxb5 d5 52. Kc5 Kf5 53.
Kxd5 Kxf4 1/2-1/2
This Week In Chess
Place, King Hunt Rapid Online, Score
1 "#1 JJ7X (1943)" 3.5
2 "#2 Czechmate1972 (1740)" 3.0
3 "#3 agapatos1 (1859)" 2.5
4 "#4 albertgardner (1527)" 2.5
5 "#5 BigBoyShaq12 (1671)" 2.0
6 "#6 pretbram (1573)" 2.0
7 "#7 Cocomcfrecal (1091)" 2.0
8 "#8 jfoxhoot (1689)" 1.5
9 "#9 caveTrog (1309)" 1.0
10 "#10 AluminumHD (1399)" 0.0
11 "- linuxguy1 (1889)" 2.0
12 "- Honeybrook (1390)" 0.0
13 "- tristancruz (1264)" 0.0
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