Game Of The Year

End Of The Season

Monday September 06, 2004

You may not be aware that the chess year has an off-season, but it does. The chess season ends when the NFL season starts.

Oh sure, some die-hard chess fanatics keep playing all year round.  In fact, I will be playing some myself.  However, the games are far less newsworthy.  So, as a chess news website, I am forced to switch my focus from updating this website each week to updating my football-related blog.

I know this news is very upsetting for all my readers.  So, I have a couple of suggestion to help you make it through the next several months.  If you can’t do without my beautiful prose, check out my fantasy football league:

https://spamfootball.blogspot.com

If it is more chess games you crave, check out:

https://www.chess.com/club/colorado-springs-chess-club?ref_id=7846680

Game Of The Year

For the final game of the year, I had a tough choice to make.  I could have reprised one of the games I published earlier this year, but I didn’t want to repeat myself.  I could have pulled one from my stockpile of games other people have given to me, but I thought, “Who wants to see yet another Brian Wall victory?”  So, I decided to pick one of my own games.

It has been making news on its own without the aid of my shameless self-promotion.  Buck Buchanan selected it as one of the games from the Pikes Peak Open to go on the CSCA website, and he even gave me an exclamation point on move 26.

Brian Wall demanded I publish it.  No really, he did.  He even made it the topic of a couple emails he posted to his yahoo group.  The reason he likes it so much is because I took the “System” from one of his emails.  He listed four elements that are used as white in the Queen’s Gambit Declined and gave an example that ended in 13 moves.

So when I got that opening in the Pikes Peak Open, I figured I could use a quick win.  How hard could it be to get four elements into 13 moves?

Well, it is harder than you might think.  Brian wrote, “Paul Anderson adopted one of my systems and has been having great results.”  Actually, I have played it twice (in a row) in USCF-rated play (40/2+60 and 90) and still haven’t gotten all four elements.  I am undefeated with it, but someday I would like to get the “Bishing Pole” element into a game.  Nobody pushes h6 for me.

In this game, I castled queenside, pushed e4 in one move, got the king to b1, but my bishop got pushed off g5 and by the time I got my opponent to take my bait (knight) there the firing lines were clogged with knight and pawns.

But I was undaunted.  Even though I was well past 13 moves, out of elements, and a stranger in a strange land, I put my trust in the “System.”  It had gotten me this far, and I wasn’t going to abandon it now.  I decided the “System” would require something bold.

So, my plan was to annihilate and demolish the stronghold around the king, and I did just that.  Fritz liked it well enough to award me an exclamation point and a double exclamation point in the course of 4 moves.  Not bad for the first time with the “System”.

White to move

Game Of The Year

[Event "Pikes Peak Open"]

[Site "https://cschessnews.blogspot.com/"]

[Date "2004.08.08"]

[Round "5.4"]

[White "Anderson, Paul"]

[Black "Krowczyk, Mark"]

[Result "1-0"]

[ECO "D53"]

[WhiteElo "1761"]

[BlackElo "1770"]

[PlyCount "97"]

[EventDate "2004.08.07"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Nc3 O-O 6. Qc2 c6 7. h4 Nbd7 8.

O-O-O Ng4 9. e4 f6 10. Bf4 e5 11. Bg3 dxe4 12. Nxe4 Qa5 13. Kb1 f5 14. Neg5 e4

15. Nd2 Ndf6 16. Nb3 Qa4 17. d5 Nh5 18. Bc7 cxd5 19. cxd5 Bxg5 20. hxg5 g6 21.

Bc4 b5 22. Bf1 e3 23. Rd4 b4 24. d6 Bd7 25. Qc4+ Kg7 26. Rxg4 fxg4 27. Qd4+ Nf6

28. gxf6+ Rxf6 29. Rxh7+ Kxh7 30. Qxf6 Qc6 31. Qe7+ Kh8 32. Qxe3 Bf5+ 33. Bd3

Re8 34. Qd4+ Kh7 35. a3 Re1+ 36. Ka2 bxa3 37. Bxf5 gxf5 38. Qc3 Qe4 39. Kxa3

Rd1 40. Qe3 Qb7 41. Qe7+ Kh6 42. Qf6+ Kh7 43. Qxf5+ Kh6 44. Qxg4 Rd3 45. Qe6+

Kg7 46. Qc4 Rd1 47. d7 Rxd7 48. Qg4+ Kf6 49. Qxd7 1-0

 

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Winter Springs Open

By Buck Buchanan

Dec. 4-5, Manitou Springs:  WINTER SPRINGS OPEN.  4-SS. 40/2 and G/1, Masonic Lodge, 455 El Paso Blvd, Manitou Springs, 3 sections:  JUNE (open to all), JULY (U 1800), AUGUST (U 1400).  All sections:  EF $25 if rec'd by 12/2, $30 at site.  Cash prizes per entries.  $6 off EF for juniors, seniors, unrateds.  CSCA membership req'd ($15, 10 for jrs, seniors), OSA.  Register 8:30 - 9:30, rds 10, 4; 9, 3.  Richard Buchanan, 844 B Prospect Place, Manitou Springs CO 80829.  E-mail buckpeace@pcisys.net or call (719) 685-1984.

Free Chess Workshop & Book Signing

By Robert M. Snyder

A National Chess Master will be giving a free workshop on basic rules and strategy, followed by a book signing and chess practice Saturday, October 23rd (7-9pm) at Borders Bookstore (Chapel Hills Mall).  This free event is directed at kids, ages 7-16.  Mr. Snyder has trained 35 first place winners in championship sections at the National Scholastic Chess Championships (the national record), has trained 10 first place teams in championship sections at the national scholastic championships, and has introduced chess to over 170,000 children (the national record) in school assemblies and school programs.  His book, “Chess For Juniors” (Random House, 1991), is the top selling chess book in the country, with his second book, “Unbeatable Chess Lessons For Juniors” (Random House, 2003), following right behind it in national sales.  Mr. Snyder’s latest book, “Winning Chess Tournaments For Juniors,” is being released on September 14 and will also be available at the book signing.  For further information call Borders at 266-1600, or Robert Snyder at 970-377-0011 or robert@chessforjuniors.com.

Pikes Peak Open Games

By Buck Buchanan

I selected games from the Pikes Peak Open.  Brian Wall has annotated the games Weiss-Wall, Carson-Gitis, and Gitis-Wall in his e-mails sent out in mid-August.  If you don't get his e-mails (and you should!!!), you can read his notes by joining his email list:

http://www.taom.com/mailman/listinfo/brianwall-chesslist

Denver Chess Club Website

By Paul Grimm

I can now post quick news bulletins on the home page: http://www.denverchess.com/.  With this and being able to post upcoming DCC events, things are moving along!  Let me know if we need to get the word out on anything going forward (carpools, etc).  More to follow with this web site as time permits (reminder: Rick Nelson is an unpaid volunteer right now).

Misc

Upcoming Events

9/18-9/19 24hr Chess Marathon, DCC

10/23 Workshop & Book Signing, Borders

12/4-12/5 Winter Springs Open, CSCC

News items received will be forwarded to the subscribers.  Games sent in will go into the stockpile for next year.  See ya next year!

Trading Queens

Game Of The Week

This week’s game comes from Tuesday night’s lecture by Shaun MacMillan.  All the members had a chance to take a classic game and butcher the ending.  However, only a handful of members actually took all of Alekhine’s hard work and wasted it by giving black a draw.  I was one of them.

Of course, I felt a lot better when I found out someone actually won as black.  In any case, my draw was an example of over-thinking the position.  It seemed to me (and Joe Fromme too) that Qd4 was too obvious to be selected as the entire evening’s lesson.  There had to be a trick.

Well, there wasn’t.  But there could have been!  If Shaun had only started the lesson from move 46…Qh8, then all those queen traders would have been by impressed by my thinking as Alekhine refused the trade there as it probably leads to a draw.

White to move

Trading Queens

[Event "World Championship 13th"]

[Site "https://cschessnews.blogspot.com/"]

[Date "1927.11.26"]

[Round "34"]

[White "Alekhine, Alexander"]

[Black "Capablanca, Jose Raul"]

[Result "1-0"]

[ECO "D51"]

[PlyCount "163"]

[EventDate "1927.09.16"]

[Source "ChessBase"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Nbd7 5. e3 c6 6. a3 Be7 7. Nf3 O-O 8. Bd3

dxc4 9. Bxc4 Nd5 10. Bxe7 Qxe7 11. Ne4 N5f6 12. Ng3 c5 13. O-O Nb6 14. Ba2 cxd4

15. Nxd4 g6 16. Rc1 Bd7 17. Qe2 Rac8 18. e4 e5 19. Nf3 Kg7 20. h3 h6 21. Qd2

Be6 22. Bxe6 Qxe6 23. Qa5 Nc4 24. Qxa7 Nxb2 25. Rxc8 Rxc8 26. Qxb7 Nc4 27. Qb4

Ra8 28. Ra1 Qc6 29. a4 Nxe4 30. Nxe5 Qd6 31. Qxc4 Qxe5 32. Re1 Nd6 33. Qc1 Qf6

34. Ne4 Nxe4 35. Rxe4 Rb8 36. Re2 Ra8 37. Ra2 Ra5 38. Qc7 Qa6 39. Qc3+ Kh7 40.

Rd2 Qb6 41. Rd7 Qb1+ 42. Kh2 Qb8+ 43. g3 Rf5 44. Qd4 Qe8 45. Rd5 Rf3 46. h4 Qh8

47. Qb6 Qa1 48. Kg2 Rf6 49. Qd4 Qxd4 50. Rxd4 Kg7 51. a5 Ra6 52. Rd5 Rf6 53.

Rd4 Ra6 54. Ra4 Kf6 55. Kf3 Ke5 56. Ke3 h5 57. Kd3 Kd5 58. Kc3 Kc5 59. Ra2 Kb5

60. Kb3 Kc5 61. Kc3 Kb5 62. Kd4 Rd6+ 63. Ke5 Re6+ 64. Kf4 Ka6 65. Kg5 Re5+ 66.

Kh6 Rf5 67. f4 Rc5 68. Ra3 Rc7 69. Kg7 Rd7 70. f5 gxf5 71. Kh6 f4 72. gxf4 Rd5

73. Kg7 Rf5 74. Ra4 Kb5 75. Re4 Ka6 76. Kh6 Rxa5 77. Re5 Ra1 78. Kxh5 Rg1 79.

Rg5 Rh1 80. Rf5 Kb6 81. Rxf7 Kc6 82. Re7 1-0

 

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This Week In Chess

Tuesday August 31, 2004

On 8/24, the CSCC had 18 members in attendance.  In the USCF-rated (G90) games, Josh Bloomer beat Antony Kolenc, and Tom Mullikin got 2 wins, while Gary Frenzel got 1 win, in their 3-game match.

The rest of the group was able to participate in the Thematic Middle Game Tournament.  However, the event turned into more of an endgame exercise and lecture than a tournament since no scores were recorded.  But club officer, Shaun MacMillan, picked an interesting game to talk about, and he added a new twist to our standard lectures.

After introducing the final game of the World Championship between Alexander Alekhine and Jose Raul Capablanca, he had the group split into pairs to play both sides (white and black) of the game from move 48…Rf6 (see Game Of The Week).  The goal as white was to win, and the goal as black was to draw.  After everyone finished playing through the game, Shaun went over how the game was actually played.

Misc

Upcoming Events

8/31 Ladder games, CSCC

9/4-9/6 Colorado Open, CSCA

9/4 Scholastics start, CSCA

9/6 Kids’ Chess Club, Borders

9/7 Speed Tournament, CSCC

9/8 Barnes & Noble Chess, Citadel (6pm)

9/18-9/19 24hr Chess Marathon, DCC

Chess Ads

1 ad in the Guest Book

Carrying The Fox

Game Of The Week

This week’s game comes from one of the three undefeated players in the team tournament, Renae Delaware.

Black to move

Carrying The Fox

[Event "CSCC Team"]

[Site "https://cschessnews.blogspot.com/"]

[Date "2004.08.17"]

[Round "?"]

[White "Frenzel, Gary"]

[Black "Delaware, Renae"]

[Result "0-1"]

[ECO "A48"]

[WhiteElo "979"]

[BlackElo "1373"]

[PlyCount "47"]

[EventDate "2004.08.17"]

[WhiteTeam "Jeff Fox - Renae Delaware MMMCCCXI"]

[BlackTeam "Bill Whinemiller - Gary Frenzel MMMXV"]

[WhiteTeamCountry "USA"]

[BlackTeamCountry "USA"]

1. d4 g6 2. Nf3 Bg7 3. e3 Nf6 4. c4 d6 5. Be2 O-O 6. O-O b6 7. b3 Bb7 8. Nbd2

Nbd7 9. Bb2 Ne4 10. Rc1 e5 11. d5 f5 12. Re1 Nec5 13. Nf1 Nf6 14. h3 Nfe4 15.

Bd3 Bc8 16. Bb1 Ng5 17. Nxg5 Qxg5 18. Ng3 f4 19. exf4 Qxf4 20. Rf1 Bf6 21. Qf3

Qxf3 22. gxf3 Bxh3 23. Rfe1 Bh4 24. Re3 0-1

 

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This Week In Chess

Monday August 23, 2004

On 8/17, the CSCC had 27 members in attendance.  In the USCF-rated (G90) games, Paul Anderson got the victory over Gerry Sunderland and Andrew Chow defeated Tom Mullikin.

The rest of the group was split into teams of two for a four round Swiss tournament (G15).  The teams could not have a combined rating higher than 3400.  In each round, the higher rated player from each team was paired together while the lower rated player from each team was paired together.  So, the team had a chance to score two points each round.  Here are the final scores:

Team

Result

Bill Whinemiller/Gary Frenzel

6.0

Jason Caldwell/Robbie Caldwell

6.0

Jeff Fox/Renae Delaware

5.0

Nate Maher/Brian Wall

5.0

Antony Kolenc/Tom Suh

4.0

Devin Smith/Chris McCarty

4.0

George Raikas/Dennis Lueninghoener

4.0

Roy Roberts/Chris Wykoop*

4.0

Nathaniel Ola/Barry Wilson+

3.0

Scott Hontz/Tikila Nichols

0.0

Substitutions

* Tom Mullikin

+ Jason Feith

Question & Answer

Harrumph, but only mildly!  It would not possibly do any harm to note in upcoming events that the Colorado Open is Sep 4-6, in Denver, details as noted on http/www.colorado-chess.com/?  I hope that this is added in the next two editions of CS News, thanks!  -Andy Rea, not unsubscribing!

Andy, I can do better than that.  I’ll put your news in its own article and place it near the top.

Colorado Chess Informant

By Tim Brennan

The deadline for the October 2004 issue of the Colorado Chess Informant, the official magazine of the Colorado State Chess Association, is September 1.  Contributions such as games, stories, articles, pictures, drawings, jokes, photos, tournament results and club news from anywhere in Colorado are very welcome!  Contact Tim Brennan at TimmyBx@aol.com

Misc

Upcoming Events

8/24 Thematic tournament, CSCC

8/28 CO Open Warm-Up, DCC

8/30 Kids’ Chess Club, Borders

8/31 Ladder games, CSCC

9/4 Scholastics start, CSCA

9/7 Speed Tournament, CSCC

9/8 Barnes & Noble Chess, Citadel (6pm)

Chess Ads

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A Beautiful Square!

Game Of The Week

This week’s game comes from the Brian Wall simultaneous exhibition.  Tom Mullikin was nice enough to give me his game.  He went into the game hoping not to get mated in a miniature.  He came out with a nice game that fell apart after he achieved his goal.

I really like the queenside castling line on move 18.  Anyway, it just goes to show that it is all about the mental attitude.  If I had to put a number on it, I would say chess is 99% mental.  The other 1% would be the actual moving of the pieces on the board.

So, the best advice I could give Tom about how to improve this game is to use heavier pieces next time.

Black to move

A Beautiful Square!

[Event "Brian Wall Simultaneous"]

[Site "https://cschessnews.blogspot.com/"]

[Date "2004.08.10"]

[Round "?"]

[White "Mullikin, Tom"]

[Black "Wall, Brian"]

[Result "0-1"]

[ECO "E11"]

[WhiteElo "1136"]

[BlackElo "2218"]

[PlyCount "58"]

[EventDate "2004.08.10"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Bb4+ 4. Bd2 a5 5. a3 Be7 6. e3 O-O 7. Nc3 d5 8. Bd3

c5 9. Nb5 Nc6 10. Bc3 Ne4 11. cxd5 exd5 12. Bxe4 dxe4 13. Ne5 cxd4 14. Nxc6

bxc6 15. Qxd4 Qxd4 16. Nxd4 c5 17. Nc6 Bd8 18. O-O Ba6 19. Rfd1 Bd3 20. Ne5 c4

21. f3 Bb6 22. Kf2 Rad8 23. fxe4 f5 24. Nxd3 fxe4+ 25. Ke2 cxd3+ 26. Kd2 Rf2+

27. Kc1 Bxe3+ 28. Kb1 Bd4 29. Ka2 Bxc3 0-1

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This Week In Chess

Tuesday August 17, 2004

On 8/10, the CSCC had 24 members in attendance for the Brian Wall lecture and simultaneous.  Life Master Brian Wall spoke about a couple of his games from the Pikes Peak Open.  The first game was from his fifth round win over Alexander Gitis, and the second one was a new opening Brian tried out against Andrew Chow in his third round victory.

After the lecture, Brian held a simultaneous exhibition against ten members.  Brian’s opponents were allowed their choice of color and unlimited passes.  Jeff Fox (as black) was the only one to beat Brian, but Joe Fromme (as white) did manage to get a draw.  Here is the order in which the games finished:

Player

Result

Color

Done

Devin Smith

0.0

B

1st

Sam Meyer

0.0

B

2nd

Tom Mullikin

0.0

W

3rd

Jeff Gilchrist

0.0

B

4th

Joe Fromme

0.5

W

5th

Bob Staten

0.0

B

6th

Gary Frenzel

0.0

B

7th

Renae Delaware

0.0

W

8th

Jeff Fox

1.0

B

9th

Richard Cordovano

0.0

B

10th

Barnes & Noble Chess Night

On 8/11, the Barnes & Noble at the Citadel Mall held its first chess night.  About 16 people showed up for pick up games including several Colorado Springs Chess Club members and a couple of chess players from Schriever Air Force Base.  Similar events will be held in September (9/8 & 9/22).  Contact Lora Reiher or Maureen Durocher at Barnes & Noble for details.

Misc

Upcoming Events

8/17 Team Swiss (G15), CSCC

8/23 Kids’ Chess Club, Borders

8/24 Thematic tournament, CSCC

8/31 Ladder games, CSCC

9/4 Scholastics start, CSCA

9/8 Barnes & Noble Chess, Citadel (6pm)

Chess Ads

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Battle Of The Unbeatens

Game Of The Week

This week at the Colorado Springs Chess Club, I talked with former expert, Dan Avery.  He was very complimentary about the newsletter but thought I should publish my losses as well as my wins.

I didn’t have the heart to tell him that I have already published four of my losses (versus nine wins), but rather I just promised to publish my next recorded loss.  I figured with the Pikes Peak Open this weekend that I would have several losses from which to choose.

Well, it didn’t quite work out like I had planned.  I was one of three people in the tournament who did not lose a game.  Brian Wall and Eric Billaux were the other two.   They did not take a bye like I did so I finished a half point out of first.

Unlike Brian and Eric, not losing a game during a tournament is a rarity for me.  I can count on one hand the times I made it through a 4 round (or more) Swiss tournament without a loss:

Pikes Peak Open 2004

Cabin Fever Reliever 2004

Winter Springs Open 2001 (U1800)

June Borborgyms 2000

Pueblo September 1998.

So, there I was, happy to have had a great tournament but unsure about what to publish in the newsletter.  I thought that since Dan was so eager to have one of my losses published, he would be more than willing to give me his loss from the Pikes Peak Open.

Surprisingly enough, he was a true gentleman about my request and said, “You can have the score sheet I left at the table.”  Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find all of the tiny pieces and put them back together.

So, I will have to give you the next best thing to one of my losses:  a draw.  This will be the first time I have published a draw, but this game has a lot going for it.  It involved two of the three unbeaten people in the tournament, it kept Eric Billaux from winning the tournament outright, and it was the game for which I received the most compliments.

People seemed to like my 21…Nd3 22.h3 Nxb2 combo.  Fritz had very little to say which I also take as a compliment.  I usually have to set my blunder threshold pretty high to keep Fritz from criticizing every move I make.

So, take a look and see if you think there is any value in publishing a draw.

Black to move

Battle Of The Unbeatens

[Event "Pikes Peak Open"]

[Site "https://cschessnews.blogspot.com/"]

[Date "2004.08.07"]

[Round "2.2"]

[White "Billaux, Eric"]

[Black "Anderson, Paul"]

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

[ECO "D42"]

[WhiteElo "2066"]

[BlackElo "1761"]

[PlyCount "72"]

[EventDate "2004.08.07"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nf3 Be7 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8.

Bd3 O-O 9. O-O Nc6 10. Re1 f5 11. Bd2 Ndb4 12. Bc4 Nxd4 13. Nxd4 Qxd4 14. Bxe6+

Bxe6 15. Rxe6 Bc5 16. Be3 Qxd1+ 17. Rxd1 Bxe3 18. fxe3 Rae8 19. Rxe8 Rxe8 20.

Rd7 Rxe3 21. Rxb7 Nd3 22. h3 Nxb2 23. Rxb2 Rxc3 24. Rb8+ Kf7 25. Rb7+ Kf6 26.

Rxa7 h5 27. a4 h4 28. a5 g6 29. a6 Kg5 30. Rh7 Ra3 31. a7 Kf4 32. Kh2 g5 33.

Rf7 Ra1 34. Rh7 Ra2 35. Rf7 Ra1 36. Rh7 Ra2 1/2-1/2

 

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This Week In Chess

Monday August 09, 2004

On 8/3, the CSCC had 28 members in attendance.  In the USCF-rated (G90) games, Richard Cordovano beat Dean Brown, Andrew Chow took care of Allan Ufer, and Ruth Irons dispatched John McIntyre.

The rest of the group was split into 2 groups for the speed tournament (G5).  In the top section, Josh Bloomer showed everyone who is boss, and Roy Roberts went undefeated in the lower section.  Here is how the rest of the groups finished:

Section 1

Josh Bloomer

14.5

Brian Wall

13.0

Denis Kholodar

12.5

Dan Avery

10.0

Paul Anderson

8.5

Bill Whinemiller

5.5

Buck Buchanan

4.0

Devin Smith

4.0

Jim McKenna

0.0

Section 2

Roy Roberts

10.0

Antony Kolenc

8.5

Renae Delaware

7.5

Bob Staten

6.0

Tom Suh

6.0

Chris McCarty

4.0

Sebastian Olariu

4.0

Roger Smyth

3.0

Jeromy Ferguson

2.0

Larry Smith

1.0

Barry Wilson

0.0

24 Hours Of Chess Hell

By Paul Grimm, CO Chess Vulture

I like this 24 hrs of chess idea that the Dallas Chess Club does.  I would call our event:  DCC's 24 Hrs of CHESS HELL!  CO chess fans and 1800-wanna-be's:  Stay tuned, as this event will happen sometime in the next year!  I'll consider giving people the option to only play 12-hrs for a 30% fee reduction in entry fee ("play an extra 12 hrs of chess for only 30% more!").  And like the Eagle's "Hotel California" song goes, we can enforce the rule "You can enter, but you can never leave"!  Oh, and I almost forgot, those who play the entire 24 hrs should get something like a refrigerator magnet.

Pikes Peak Open Standings

By Buck Buchanan

Here are the standings of the Pikes Peak Open, directed by me in Manitou Springs on August 7-8:

Eric Billaux

4.5

1st

$127.50

Brian Wall

4.5

1st

$127.50

DuWayne Langseth

4.0

U2000

$92.50

Paul Anderson

4.0

U2000

$92.50

Alexander Gitis

3.5

Josh Bloomer

3.5

Dan Avery

3.5

Shaun MacMillan

3.5

Larry Wutt

3.5

Mitesh Shridhar

3.0

Anthea Carson

3.0

U1700

$82.50

Mark Jimenez

3.0

Brian Walker

3.0

U1700

$82.50

Mark Krowczyk

3.0

Jim McKenna

3.0

Paul Grimm

3.0

David Langlois

3.0

Emanuel Weiss

2.5

Sam Meyer

2.5

Fred Eric Spell

2.5

U1400

$75.00

Clay Cordova

2.5

Roderick Santiago

2.5

John Schultz

2.5

Richard Buchanan

2.5

Daniel Weissbarth

2.0

Andrew Chow

2.0

Gerry Sunderland

2.0

Joe Fromme

2.0

Steve Hornyak

2.0

Richard Cordovano

2.0

Renae Delaware

2.0

Amar Nemekhbayar

2.0

Gary Bagstad

2.0

Shannon Fox

2.0

Tom Corbett

2.0

Klaus Johnson

1.5

U1200

$35.00

Allan Ufer

1.5

Gary Frenzel

1.5

U1200

$35.00

Thomas Roberts

1.0

Peter James Grigg

1.0

Thao Uyen Le

1.0

Joe Aragon

1.0

Jeff Gilchrist

1.0

Liz Wood

0.0

Letter To The Editor

By Martin T. Deschner, Internet Chess Expert

Ponder the end of Larry's Game of the Week versus Steve Towbin (8-2-04).  The White Knight on e6 is won, but it’s tricky!  Be careful!  A good endgame study!

CSCC’s T-shirts On Sale Now!

The long awaited Colorado Springs Chess Club T-shirts made their first appearance at the Pikes Peak Open.  You can view the winning design on the website (Images).  The shirts are $12 and range in size from M to XXL.  You can purchase your own by contacting Renae Delaware at (safariprincess22@aol.com) while supplies last.

Misc

Upcoming Events

8/10 Brian Wall Simultaneous, CSCC

8/11 Barnes & Noble Chess

8/16 Kids’ Chess Club, Borders

8/17 Team Swiss (G15), CSCC

8/24 Thematic tournament, CSCC

8/31 Ladder games, CSCC

9/4 Scholastics start, CSCA

Chess Ads

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Larry Strikes Again!

Game Of The Week

If you can put chess games in Portable Game Notation (.PGN), send an email with them to me as fast as you can.  I love these things – just highlight, copy, paste, and I am done.  Here is another one from Larry Wutt, God bless his soul!

Black to move

Wutt,Larry (1803) - Towbin,Steve (2062) [A40]

Denver Open Denver (3), 04.07.2004

[Larry Wutt & Fritz]

1.d4

A40: Unusual replies to 1 d4

1...e5

Looks like a strange form of the Budapest Gambit without Nf6 first. [1...d5!?= should be examined more closely]

2.dxe5+/= Nc6 3.Nf3

Trying to develop the kingside for castling.  I am not really worried about keeping my extra pawn.

3...d6 [3...Qe7 4.Qd5+/- ] 4.e4

I briefly looked at Bg5, however, I didn't follow it far enough through to notice that I get to keep the extra pawn and isolate his queen pawn! [4.Bg5 Be7 5.Bxe7 Qxe7 6.exd6 cxd6+/- ]

4...Bg4 [4...Qe7 5.Bg5 f6 6.exf6 Qxe4+ 7.Be2 gxf6 8.Nc3+/= ] 5.Bb5 [5.exd6!? Bxd6 6.Bb5+/-

I would have been up a pawn, but behind in development.  Am I evaluating development to highly?]

5...dxe5=

I spent quite a few minutes on the forced sequence which follows.  I figured that the bishop pair was worth giving up in order to wreck black's queenside pawn structure.

6.Bxc6+ bxc6 7.Qxd8+ Rxd8

It would be nice to take e5, but a pawn is not worth getting mated.

8.Nbd2

Protects the knight on f3 and blocks the d-file from the ugly mate threat.  Now black must protect e5.

8...f6

Prevents intrusion on e5+g5

9.Nb3

Starting my plan of controlling c5.  Blockade and capture!

9...Bd6 Steve wants to castle and start an attack on the Kingside.  This move lends support to e5 so that he can expand with f5.

10.Be3 Controlling c5 and attacking a7.

10...Ra8

Black decides to protect a7.  I thought that it might have been interesting to let the pawn on a7 go.  Steve could try to get his rooks on the half-open a and b-files.  He could then exert a significant amount of pressure on my position.  As black, I would have considered this approach.  Especially if the dark-squared bishop could control the a1-h8 diagonal.

11.Nfd2

My play is on the queenside.  I wanted to bring the knight over to help with an attack.  I was also a little worried that black may take on f3, ruining my kingside pawn structure.  Steve later said that he valued the bishop pair more than ruining my pawn structure.

11...Be6

Keeps my knight out of c4.  It is a strong post for the bishop.

12.Nc5

The knight feels good on c5.  Attacking the bishop and blockading the c6 pawn.

12...Bf7 13.0-0

I don't know if castling was the best move.  With the queens off the board, my king may have been better off in the center.

13...Ne7 14.Rfd1

I want to control the d-file.  Looking at the position again, however, I don't have any infltration points.  Ndb2 probably would have been better.  I started to get away from my original plan of capturing c6.

14...f5 15.f3 0-0 16.c4

This was a weak move.  I thought that I could capture the pawn on c7, which I eventually did. Unfortunately, it cost me my knight and subsequently the game.  I should have played Ndb7.

16...f4

Black gets more space

17.Bf2 g5

In the post mortem, I suggested Kh8 with the idea of bring a rook to g8, and then maybe doubling on the g-file. [17...a5!?+/= is an interesting idea]

18.Na6+/-

Starting my ill-fated plan of capturing c7.

18...Ng6 19.c5 Be7 20.Nxc7?

Throws away the advantage.  Nb3 was much stronger!  I saw that I would lose the knight after I made the move.  For some reason, I missed the move a5, which will trap the knight. [>=20.Nb3!?+/- ; Fritz 6: 20.Nb3 Bc4 (Fritz 6: 20...Bxb3 21.axb3 Rfd8 22.Rxd8+ Rxd8 23.Nb4 Rd2 24.Nxc6 Rxb2 25.b4 1.47/16; Fritz 6: 20...Rac8 21.Na5 Be8 22.Rd3 h5 23.Rad1 g4 24.b3 Rf6 25.a3 1.47/16) 21.Nxc7 Rac8 22.Na5 Be2 23.Ne6 Rf6 24.Rd2 g4 25.Ng5 1.25/16]

20...Rab8= 21.b3

Secures c4 [21.Nb3!?= has some apparent merit]

21...a5=/+

Black threatens.... what?

22.Nc4 Bxc4 23.bxc4 Rb7??

weakening the position [>=23...Rfc8 24.Ne6 Kf7 25.Nxg5+ Bxg5 26.Rd7+ Be7-+ ]

24.Ne6?

What a lemon!  I was so mad at myself for losing a game that I should have won.  Unfortunately, I still had chances.  Nd5! was the correct move, giving me connected passed pawns on the fifth rank.  This would have been ample compensation for the knight being exchanged for two pawns!  Suffice to say, that I did not last long after Ne6? [>=24.Nd5 is the best option White has 24...cxd5 25.cxd5+/= This would have been a fun position to play! Black would be hard-pressed to defend against the coming pawn roller.] 

0-1

Larry Strikes Again!

[Event "Denver Open"]

[Site "https://cschessnews.blogspot.com/"]

[Date "2004.07.04"]

[Round "3"]

[White "Wutt, Larry"]

[Black "Towbin, Steve"]

[Result "0-1"]

[ECO "A40"]

[WhiteElo "1803"]

[BlackElo "2062"]

[PlyCount "47"]

[EventDate "2004.07.02"]

1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Nc6 3. Nf3 d6 4. e4 Bg4 5. Bb5 dxe5 6. Bxc6+ bxc6 7. Qxd8+

Rxd8 8. Nbd2 f6 9. Nb3 Bd6 10. Be3 Ra8 11. Nfd2 Be6 12. Nc5 Bf7 13. O-O Ne7 14.

Rfd1 f5 15. f3 O-O 16. c4 f4 17. Bf2 g5 18. Na6 Ng6 19. c5 Be7 20. Nxc7 Rab8

21. b3 a5 22. Nc4 Bxc4 23. bxc4 Rb7 24. Ne6 0-1

 

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This Week In Chess

Monday August 02, 2004

On 7/27, the CSCC had 20 members in attendance.  In the USCF-rated (G90) games, Richard Cordovano beat Allan Ufer, Dean Brown toppled Dan Southard, and Andrew Chow drew against Damon Walker.  In a G60, Jason Caldwell hammered Shaun MacMillan.

The rest of the group played in a “Brown” random tournament (G15) instead of the scheduled “Fischer” random.  This is a new invention by Dean Brown to make sure nobody splits a 2-game match in a 2-round Swiss pairing system.

The Brown scoring system gives everyone 2 points, and then has the points multiplied by x, with x equaling the number of rounds won.  For the random part, the pawns started in their regular position.  However, the roll of a die determined the set-up of the pieces.  Of course, a couple of rules helped keep the game close to standard chess; the bishops had to be on opposite colors, and the king had to be between the rooks.  Castling was accomplished with the standard rules and into the normal position, but the king and rook could start from almost any other back rank square.  Here is how the tournament ended:

 

Player

Points

X

Result

Jeff Fox

2.0

2

4.0

Paul Anderson

2.0

2

4.0

Roy Roberts

2.0

2

4.0

Antony Kolenc

2.0

1

2.0

Bill Whinemiller

2.0

1

2.0

Jeromy Ferguson

2.0

1

2.0

Ken Burton

2.0

1

2.0

Renae Delaware

2.0

1

2.0

Sebastian Olariu

2.0

1

2.0

Ed Burton

2.0

0

0.0

Jeff Brewer

2.0

0

0.0

John McIntyre

2.0

0

0.0

William Tant

2.0

0

0.0

Chess Night At Barnes & Noble

By Roy Roberts

Barnes & Noble Booksellers are pleased to announce the start of game night with an evening of chess on August 11, 2004 from 6-8pm at 795 Citadel Dr E (next to the Citadel Mall).  Contact Lora Reiher or Maureen Durocher at 719-637-8282.

CSCC to Award Free Entries

The Colorado Springs Chess Club awards free entries to the Pikes Peak Open for the highest club rating and the greatest rating increase.  The likely winners are Brian Wall (2286) and Renae Delaware (+169 ratings increase).  The official club high is our only CGM (club grandmaster), Adam Weissbarth.  However, since he is unlikely to attend the event, I guess the club is forced to drop way down the ratings list to the CM (club master) category.

The Purpose Of A Guest Book

If you haven’t ever check the guest book, here is your chance to do so and get a free chess clock program.  I cannot vouch for the safety or usefulness of the program, but since it is the first ad I have received on the guest book, I will leave it up for anyone to try it.  Let me know how it works if you do. But also, feel free to post any other chess-related ads you like.

Misc

Upcoming Events

8/3 Speed Tournament, CSCC

8/7-8/8 Pikes Peak Open, CSCA

8/9 Kids’ Chess Club, Borders

8/10 Brian Wall Simultaneous, CSCC

8/17 Team Swiss (G15), CSCC

8/24 Thematic tournament, CSCC

8/31 Ladder games, CSCC

Chess Ads

New ad in the Guest Book

Try Blue Bayou Next Time

Game Of The Week

This week’s game comes from the Tuesday night ladder matches.  Bill Whinemiller and I have been coming to the Colorado Springs Chess Club for years but have never played each other…until now.

Bill was a little off his game this night and making all kinds of mistakes.  First, he decided to keep score in a G15 time control.  He looked at me without any score sheet and said, “Aren’t you going to keep score?”

Since Bill usually just plays pick-up games at the club, he was unaware of how fast 15 minutes dwindle.  After falling behind by 10 minutes, he stopped recording at move 25 and didn’t record another move in the rest of his 5 games.

Also, he left this game at the table, and I quickly grabbed it for the website.

His second big mistake was singing “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” to me.  It is not because he has a bad voice (it’s lovely), but rather his mistake was by trying to make fun of Linda Rondstadt, who got kicked out of a concert.

You see, he picked the wrong artist.  Just like he shouldn’t have picked the bishop to sacrifice on move 21, he shouldn’t have picked a Crystal Gayle song.

 

Black to move

Try Blue Bayou Next Time

[Event "CSCC Ladder"]

[Site "https://cschessnews.blogspot.com/"]

[Date "2004.07.20"]

[Round "1.1"]

[White "Whinemiller, Bill"]

[Black "Anderson, Paul"]

[Result "0-1"]

[ECO "B18"]

[WhiteElo "1817"]

[BlackElo "1771"]

[PlyCount "64"]

[EventDate "2004.07.20"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6 7. Nh3 e6 8. Nf4

Bh7 9. Be3 Nf6 10. Bd3 Bxd3 11. Qxd3 Qa5+ 12. Bd2 Bb4 13. c3 Bd6 14. h5 Nbd7

15. O-O Qc7 16. Qf3 O-O 17. Rae1 Nb6 18. Re2 Nbd5 19. Nxd5 exd5 20. Nf5 Rae8

21. Bxh6 Rxe2 22. Bxg7 Rfe8 23. Bxf6 Bh2+ 24. Kh1 Qf4 25. Qxf4 Bxf4 26. g3 Bb8

27. Kg2 Rxb2 28. Rh1 Ree2 29. Nh6+ Kh7 30. Ng4 Bd6 31. Kf3 Be7 32. Be5 f5 0-1

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This Week In Chess

Tuesday July 27, 2004

On 7/20, the CSCC had 23 members in attendance.  In the USCF-rated (G90) games, Richard Cordovano beat Dean Brown, Gary Frenzel finally got a win over Allan Ufer, Tom Mullikin scored the victory over John McIntyre, and Andrew Chow drew against Dan Southard.  In a G60, Buck Buchanan survived against Gerry Sunderland.  The rest of the group played ladder matches (G15).  Here is how the ladder players fared:

Player

Win

Loss

Paul Anderson

6.0

2.0

75.00%

Joe Luciano

4.5

1.5

75.00%

Jeff Gilchrist

3.0

1.0

75.00%

Allan Ufer

1.5

0.5

75.00%

Bill Whinemiller

4.0

2.0

66.67%

Devin Smith

4.0

2.0

66.67%

Sebastian Olariu

4.0

2.0

66.67%

Nick Currott

2.5

1.5

62.50%

Tikila Nichols

3.5

2.5

58.33%

Chris Chester

4.0

4.0

50.00%

Chris McCarty

3.5

4.5

43.75%

Scott Hontz

2.0

4.0

33.33%

Roy Roberts

1.0

5.0

16.67%

James Crisp

0.5

7.5

6.25%

Gary Frenzel

0.0

4.0

0.00%

Misc

Upcoming Events

7/27 Fischer Random, CSCC

8/2 Kids’ Chess Club, Borders

8/3 Speed Tournament, CSCC

8/7-8/8 Pikes Peak Open, CSCA

8/10 Brian Wall Simultaneous, CSCC

8/17 Team Swiss (G15), CSCC

8/24 Thematic tournament, CSCC

Wanted

Your chess games or news

The Sixteen Dollar Man

Game Of The Week

This week I received a game from Larry Wutt.  He sent it to me in an email as a PGN attachment, and it worked well!

The only weird thing I noticed was a $6 and several $2 notations.  I thought Larry was assigning his prize money to specific mistakes by his opponents, but it was just the program’s code for ‘?!’ and ‘?’.

Otherwise, this game would have had $16 worth of mistakes by his opponent, which is about the same amount the producers spent on the first opening for the Six Million Dollar Man.

Here is what Larry said:

“I saw the game between Paul Nikitovich and Brian Wall and I did not want to get involved with the Nimzo.  Dan Avery had taught me this move order to avoid the Nimzo (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3).  We are now in a Bogo-Indian and I am clueless on how to play it.  I did not feel badly about exchanging bishops.  I have played Brian Wall enough times and I realize how well a master can handle the bishop pair.  I really tried to look at how each of our moves effected the position.  I felt that I had the better game after 14...f5 ($6).  This was the first game that I tried to talk myself through the position instead of analyzing and looking for tactics.  I unfortunately missed some tactics, but I am pleased with the overall game.”

White to move

(21) Wutt,Larry (1800) - Nikitovich,Paul (2218) [E11]

Denver Open Denver (1.3), 03.07.2004

[Larry Wutt]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ 4.Bd2 a5 5.a3

This move is out of the book opening.  It has been played a few times.  In the game Pcola-Benjamin, black takes on d2 and ends up with equality.

5...Be7

Saving the bishop pair, but I felt that this wasted time.

6.Nc3

I feel fine here.  I have more central space and I am trying to gain control of e5.

6...d5 7.e3

I hated blocking in my dark-squared bishop, but I wanted to protect c4.

7...0-0 8.Rc1

I am anticipating the opening of the c-file.  I don't want to move my light squared bishop quite yet.

8...c6 9.Bd3

I felt that I needed to castle soon.  I do not like my king in the center.

9...Nbd7 10.0-0 Bd6 11.cxd5 exd5 12.e4

I know that this gives me an isolated d-pawn, but I felt that I could plunk a knight on e5, which I did accomplish.

12...dxe4 13.Nxe4 Nxe4 14.Bxe4 f5?!

I didn't understand this move.  It weakens his kingside and leaves the e5 square without any pawn control for black.  Fritz suggested [14...Nf6 Bc2 =].  Fritz claims that I have a slight advantage and, during the game, I felt that I had gained the advantage.

15.Bb1 h6

Weakens his kingside even more.  What a juicy hole on g6!  It keeps my knight (or bishop) out of g5, however.  But is it worth the cost?

16.Qb3+

Fritz liked Ba2+ better.  I liked the bishop attacking the f5 pawn.  It also keeps an eye on h7. [16.Ba2+ Kh8 17.Re1 Nf6 18.Ne5 ]

16...Kh8 17.Rfe1

Rooks belong on open files!

17...a4

Dilemma!!  Where do I place my queen?  e3 seemed to be the best square.  I thought that I might be able to effect a pin on g7 (Bc3) and threaten to take on h6.  The queen also helps control e5.  I want my knight there!

18.Qe3 18...Nf6

Fritz likes my knight on e5!  And by the way so do I.

19.Ne5 Kg8 20.Ba2+

Lets move his king back to the h-file.

20...Kh7 21.Bb1 Ne4

A nice square for his knight.  Fritz, the great god of ill-gotten gains, wants me to take the knight and the pawn.  I just couldn't see giving that much counter-play for one lousy pawn.

22.f4

Grabbing more space and firmly ensconcing my knight!

22...Be6

Now I have to take the knight.  I cannot allow the bishop to come to d5.

23.Bxe4 fxe4 24.Bc3

Again, I did not go for the material.  Too much compensation for my taste.

24...Bd5

I see a big pawn on d5.  If it ever becomes active, I could be in trouble.  Moving my queen had better be worth something.  I still like my position.

25.Rf1 Rf5 26.g4

I am starting to attack.  Black has 3 minutes left on his clock and I have 15.

26...Rf6 27.Rc2

Preparing to swing the rook to f2, g2, or possibly h2.  It needs to join the party.

27...Qe7 28.Rcf2 28...Raf8 29.h4

Fritz rates this position as basically equal.  I have a tremendous space advantage and the knight on e5 really cramps his position.  I feel that I have the advantage.  I do not understand Fritz's evaluation.

29...Bxe5?

The first of many blunders by both sides.

30.dxe5

Look at the passed pawn on the 5th rank!

30...Rg6 31.g5

I should have played Rg2!

31...hxg5? 32.hxg5

I wanted to open the h-file.  Fritz suggested the following line as stronger.  It was hard to see all the tactics since I was now getting low on time.  I had 6 minutes. [32.f5 Rh6 33.Bb4 Qxe5 34.Bxf8 Rxh4 35.Qxg5 ]

32...Rf5?

This flat out loses the house.  Too bad I missed it.  Qh3+ and the game is over.  I unfortunately felt that attacking his queen was the correct idea.

33.Bb4? c5?

Qh3+ still wins!  Missed it twice.  After the game, everyone who was watching asked me why I didn't play this move.  I wish that I had a decent answer.

34.Bxc5 Rgxg5+ 35.Rg2?

Why didn't I take with f-pawn?  I saw the checks with the queen and Bishop and freaked.  I just gave the advantage back.

35...Rxg2+ 36.Kxg2 Qh4?

I finally catch the blunder!

37.Rh1 1-0

The Sixteen Dollar Man

[Event "Denver Open"]

[Site "https://cschessnews.blogspot.com/"]

[Date "2004.07.03"]

[Round "1.3"]

[White "Wutt, Larry"]

[Black "Nikitovich, Paul"]

[Result "1-0"]

[ECO "E11"]

[WhiteElo "1803"]

[BlackElo "2218"]

[PlyCount "73"]

[EventDate "2004.07.02"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Bb4+ 4. Bd2 a5 5. a3 Be7 6. Nc3 d5 7. e3 O-O 8. Rc1

c6 9. Bd3 Nbd7 10. O-O Bd6 11. cxd5 exd5 12. e4 dxe4 13. Nxe4 Nxe4 14. Bxe4 f5

15. Bb1 h6 16. Qb3+ Kh8 17. Rfe1 a4 18. Qe3 Nf6 19. Ne5 Kg8 20. Ba2+ Kh7 21.

Bb1 Ne4 22. f4 Be6 23. Bxe4 fxe4 24. Bc3 Bd5 25. Rf1 Rf5 26. g4 Rf6 27. Rc2 Qe7

28. Rcf2 Raf8 29. h4 Bxe5 30. dxe5 Rg6 31. g5 hxg5 32. hxg5 Rf5 33. Bb4 c5 34.

Bxc5 Rgxg5+ 35. Rg2 Rxg2+ 36. Kxg2 Qh4 37. Rh1 1-0

 

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This Week In Chess

Monday July 19, 2004

On 7/13, the CSCC had 28 members in attendance.  In the USCF-rated (G90) games, Richard Cordovano got some revenge on Andy Chow (see 6/1 and 6/15 newsletters) and Allan Ufer scored the victory over John McIntyre.  The rest of the group played in a 4 round, Swiss tournament (G15).  Here are the final standings:

Buck Buchanan

4.0

Paul Anderson

3.0

Jeff Fox

3.0

Sam Meyer

3.0

Devin Smith

3.0

Renae Delaware

2.5

Roy Roberts

2.0

DuWayne Langseth

2.0

Joe Luciano

2.0

Gary Frenzel

2.0

Jeff Gilchrist

2.0

Dean Brown

1.5

Chris Chester

1.5

Sebastian Olariu

1.5

Tom Mullikin

1.5

Virgil McGuire

1.0

Paul Christensen

1.0

Chris McCarty

0.0

Misc

Upcoming Events

7/20 Ladder Games, CSCC

7/26 Kids’ Chess Club, Borders

7/27 Fischer Random, CSCC

8/3 Speed Tournament, CSCC

8/7-8/8 Pikes Peak Open, CSCA

8/10 Brian Wall Simultaneous, CSCC

8/17 Team Swiss (G15), CSCC

Wanted

Your chess games or news

Queen's Courtyard

Game Of The Week

Well, I have finally gotten back to my expert trilogy I started in April (https://cschessnews.blogspot.com/2004/04/keep-black-alive.html).  This week I have the third and final installment of games from experts who I have beaten.

This week’s game comes from one of the pillars of the Colorado chess community, Buck Buchanan.  His resume includes Assistant National Tournament Director, current Colorado Springs Chess Club Officer, former Colorado State Chess Association President, former Colorado Chess Informant Editor, and Monk (among many other things).

I used to think that the difference between experts and class players is that the expert talks like he knows it all while the class player just says stuff to sound smart.

But when I learned that Buck had never heard of the Queen’s Courtyard, I pulled it on him in this game and won.  So, see if you are sharp enough to find the super secret…

White to move

Queen's Courtyard

[Event "CSCC Championship"]

[Site "https://cschessnews.blogspot.com/"]

[Date "2000.11.07"]

[Round "4.2"]

[White "Anderson, Paul"]

[Black "Buchanan, Buck"]

[Result "1-0"]

[ECO "E92"]

[WhiteElo "1524"]

[BlackElo "2034"]

[PlyCount "91"]

[EventDate "2000.10.17"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Be2 O-O 6. Nf3 e5 7. dxe5 dxe5 8.

Qxd8 Rxd8 9. Bg5 Re8 10. Nd5 Nxd5 11. cxd5 f5 12. Nd2 Nd7 13. f3 Bf8 14. Be3

Bb4 15. a3 Ba5 16. Rc1 Nf6 17. b4 Bb6 18. Bxb6 axb6 19. Bb5 Re7 20. Rc3 Kf8 21.

Ke2 Bd7 22. Bxd7 Rxd7 23. Rhc1 Ne8 24. g3 Rad8 25. R1c2 Kf7 26. h4 Kf6 27. Nb1

Rc8 28. Rc4 Nd6 29. R4c3 Nb5 30. Rd3 Nd4+ 31. Rxd4 exd4 32. Kd3 fxe4+ 33. fxe4

c5 34. Nd2 Rdc7 35. Nc4 cxb4 36. axb4 Kg7 37. d6 Rc6 38. e5 b5 39. Na3 Kf7 40.

Rf2+ Ke8 41. Kxd4 Rd8 42. Nxb5 Rc1 43. Kd5 Rc6 44. Ke6 Rd7 45. Rf8+ Kxf8 46.

Kxd7 1-0

 

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This Week In Chess

Tuesday July 13, 2004

On 7/6, the CSCC had 23 members in attendance.  In the USCF-rated (G90) games, Dean Brown hung on to beat Andy Chow, Gary Frenzel was victorious against John McIntyre, and Allan Ufer won 2 over Tom Mullikin.  The rest of the group played in a blitz (G5), single round robin match.  Here is how it finished:

Paul Anderson

12.0

Jeff Fox

10.5

Roy Roberts

9.0

Anthea Carson

8.5

Virgil McGuire

7.5

George Raikas

7.5

Richard Cordovano

5.5

Sebastian Olariu

5.5

Jeff Gilchrist

5.0

Devin Smith

3.0

Charles Martin

3.0

Chris McCarty

1.0

Isaac Martinez

0.0

Misc

Upcoming Events

7/13 Swiss (4SS, G15), CSCC

7/19 Kids’ Chess Club, Borders

7/20 Ladder Games, CSCC

7/27 Fischer Random, CSCC

8/3 Speed Tournament, CSCC

8/7-8/8 Pikes Peak Open, CSCA

Wanted

Your chess games or news

The Monk Strikes Back

Game Of The Week

This week I thought I would continue the Friar Tuck theme.  I don’t want people out there to get the wrong impression from Brian Wall’s loss as Friar Tuck.  I was not trying to imply that Friar Tuck, or monks in general, cannot play chess.

In fact, I know just the opposite to be true.  I have seen the monks play, and I have even played as one myself.   Just check out my photos or this video:

Not only do the monks know how to play chess, they know how to play REAL chess.  No, I am not talking about that wimpy tournament chess.  What I am talking about is Renaissance Chess!

This kind of chess is not played inside a quiet hall on nice sturdy tables with padded folding chairs, it is played outside amidst a parade of musicians and wild animals, in the heat, in the rain, in the wind, in the rain, in the hail, and in the rain, on a wobbly table with a bumpy log for a chair.

It is not played against a couple of knowledgeable opponents each day with their fancy electronic clocks set for equal time, but rather it is played against 30+ opponents per day, often 2 at a time, who take their own sweet time while you are trying to blitz out as many games as possible.

Oh sure, a lot of the opponents have only a limited grasp of the rules, but that only means that they often move several times in a row and capture pieces illegally if you are distracted on the other board you are playing.

If you win, you get to keep their dollar, and all is right with the world.

But if you lose even one game, you disgrace the name of the Gaming Monks and you bring utter shame to yourself and your descendants for a thousand generations.  Plus they get a chain mail bracelet or a drink coupon.

If you wish to see Renaissance Chess in action, you only have 4 more weeks left at the Renaissance Festival.  And if you’re real good, be sure and stop by Buck’s table.

White to move

The Monk Strikes Back

[Event "Renaissance Festival"]

[Site "https://cschessnews.blogspot.com/"]

[Date "2004.07.03"]

[Round "?"]

[White "Anderson, Paul"]

[Black "Johnson, Cole"]

[Result "1-0"]

[ECO "B01"]

[WhiteElo "1768"]

[PlyCount "81"]

[EventDate "2004.07.03"]

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 3. Nf3 e6 4. dxe6 Bxe6 5. d4 g6 6. Bg5 Bg7 7. Bb5+ c6 8.

Bd3 O-O 9. O-O h6 10. Bh4 Nbd7 11. c3 Re8 12. Bc2 Bg4 13. h3 Bxf3 14. Qxf3 Qe7

15. Bd3 Qd6 16. Nd2 Re7 17. Ne4 Qe6 18. Rae1 g5 19. Nxg5 Qxe1 20. Rxe1 Rxe1+

21. Kh2 hxg5 22. Bxg5 Ra1 23. Qg3 Re8 24. Bf5 Ree1 25. Qc7 Nh5 26. g4 Rh1+ 27.

Kg2 Rag1+ 28. Kf3 Nhf6 29. Qd8+ Nf8 30. Bxf6 Rxh3+ 31. Ke2 Bxf6 32. Qxf6 Ra1

33. g5 Rh5 34. Bd3 Rxa2 35. Bc4 Rxb2+ 36. Kf3 Rh7 37. g6 Nxg6 38. Qxg6+ Rg7 39.

Qf6 Rc2 40. Bd3 Rxc3 41. Qd8# 1-0

 

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This Week In Chess

Tuesday July 06, 2004

On 6/29, the CSCC had 26 members show up for the Quads.  The group was split into USCF-rated (G30) and club-rated (G20) quads.  Here is the quads’ standings:

USCF

Buck Buchanan

2.5

Roy Roberts

2.5

Andrew Chow

1.0

Allan Ufer

0.0

CLUB A

Shaun MacMillan

3.0

Paul Anderson

2.0

Virgil McGuire

1.0

Gerry Sunderland

0.0

CLUB B

Sam Meyer

2.0

Devin Smith

2.0

Richard Cordovano

1.0

Renae Delaware

1.0

CLUB C

Jeff Gilchrist

3.0

Justin Schiff

2.0

Tom Mullikin

1.0

Mike Jozwiak

0.0

CLUB D

Jeff Fox

3.0

Dean Brown

2.0

Dan Southard

1.0

Mike McKee

0.0

Denver Chess Club Prize Winners for June

By Paul Grimm

Congrats to the following:

Place

Prize

Open Section Total:

$208

Andy Rea

1st

$104

Tyler Hughes

2nd

$73

Shannon Fox

U1700

$31

Reserve Section Total:

$286

Bill O’Neil

1st

$143

Curtis Crockett

2nd

$100

Lou Berman

U1200

$43

Misc

Upcoming Events

7/6 Speed Tournament, CSCC

7/12 Kids’ Chess Club, Borders

7/13 Swiss (4SS, G15), CSCC

7/20 Ladder Games, CSCC

8/7-8/8 Pikes Peak Open, CSCA

Wanted

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Juliet Vs Friar Tuck

Game Of The Week

To those of you who have tuned in to see Renae Delaware’s upset of Brian Wall, you are in luck.  I have published her game in order to bring you this stunning upset.

She was playing Brian Wall in a simultaneous exhibition during a Halloween Tournament when all of a sudden a bishop came flying out of the back row demolishing Brian’s pawn shield.  Screams filled the air as a pawn and his queen vanished.

When the dust settled, the Black King had been tortured and the bull was still on the ice.  No idea what I am talking about?  Well, just check out this week’s game and maybe my insane ramblings will make a little more sense.  Here are some of Brian’s comments about the game:

“Renae to play and Fishing Pole the Fishing Pole man… Arrgghh - I got beat by my own student in a Fishing Pole miniature.  Renae is a sweetheart - she said the best part was that I was not mad at all, just happy and proud for her.  I guess I am a better actor than I thought - my real feeling was that this puts my simul draw over Shabalov into perspective… There is one part that did make me smile about losing to Renae.  I remember teaching her the Fishing Pole in a park on a lovely day in Colorado Springs so I really did feel like a proud teacher when she executed the attack so well and so unexpectedly against me.  This actually happened.  I was there.  I lived it.”

 

White to move

Juliet Vs Friar Tuck

[Event "Brian Wall Simultaneous"]

[Site "https://cschessnews.blogspot.com/"]

[Date "2003.10.25"]

[Round "?"]

[White "Delaware, Renae"]

[Black "Wall, Brian"]

[Result "1-0"]

[ECO "C55"]

[WhiteElo "877"]

[BlackElo "2229"]

[PlyCount "37"]

[EventDate "2003.10.25"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bc4 Nxe4 5. Nxe4 d5 6. Bd3 dxe4 7. Bxe4 Bd6

8. d3 O-O 9. Ng5 f5 10. Qh5 h6 11. Bd5+ Kh8 12. Nf7+ Rxf7 13. Bxf7 Nd4 14. Bxh6

g6 15. Qxg6 Qf8 16. Qf6+ Kh7 17. Bxf8 Bxf8 18. Qg6+ Kh8 19. Qg8# 1-0

 

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This Week In Chess

Tuesday June 29, 2004

On 6/22, the CSCC had 25 members in attendance.  In the USCF-rated match (G90), Larry Wutt and Shaun MacMillan ended in a hard fought draw.  The rest of the members chose between the USCF-rated June Mating Game (4SS, G30) and the club-rated ladder games (G15).  Here is how the ladder players fared:

Player

Win

Loss

%

Roy Roberts

4.0

0.0

100.00%

Renae Delaware

2.0

0.0

100.00%

Paul Anderson

2.0

0.0

100.00%

Devin Smith

6.0

2.0

75.00%

Chris McCarty

3.0

1.0

75.00%

Richard Cordovano

4.0

2.0

66.67%

Sam Meyer

2.5

1.5

62.50%

Doug Betts

4.0

4.0

50.00%

George Raikas

3.5

3.5

50.00%

Scott Hontz

3.0

3.0

50.00%

Tae Suh

2.0

2.0

50.00%

William Tant

2.0

2.0

50.00%

Anita

1.0

1.0

50.00%

Shaun MacMillan

1.0

1.0

50.00%

Tikila Nichols

3.0

4.0

42.86%

Dan Southard

2.0

4.0

33.33%

Charles Martin

2.0

6.0

25.00%

Nich Long

2.0

6.0

25.00%

Mike Jozwiak

1.0

3.0

25.00%

Paul Christensen

1.0

5.0

16.67%

In the June Mating Game, the final 2 rounds were played with myself surviving with the top prize.  Here are the final standings:

Player

Score

Prize

Paul Anderson

3.0

1st $15

Virgil McGuire

2.0

2nd $3.33

Dean Brown

2.0

2nd $3.33

Allan Ufer

2.0

2nd $3.33

Renae Delaware

2.0

U1400 $5

Jeff Gilchrist

2.0

U1400 $5

Tom Mullikin

1.0

Gary Frenzel

0.0

Tom Wilhelm

0.0

Announcement Of Site Change

By Paul Grimm

The Denver Open (July 2-4) will not be at the VFW Post 1 as previously announced.  The tournament has moved to Campfire USA (Camp Rollandet) at 5161 Sheridan Blvd.  See http://www.colorado-chess.com/ for directions.

Misc

Upcoming Events

6/29 Quads: G/20 (USCF: G/30), CSCC

7/5 Kids’ Chess Club, Borders

7/6 Speed Tournament, CSCC

7/2-7/4 Denver Open, CSCA

8/7-8/8 Pikes Peak Open, CSCA

Wanted

Your chess games or news

Mr. White With The Rook In The Endgame

Game Of The Week

To those of you who have tuned in to see Renae Delaware’s upset of Brian Wall, I apologize.  I have preempted her game in order to bring you this puzzling, mystery game.

I was playing Dean Brown on a dark and stormy night when all of a sudden the record keeping went blank!  Screams filled the air as 2 pawns and a rook vanished.  When the record keeping was finally restored, the Black King had received a fatal wound and was near death.

After the game, I desperately tried to reconstruct what had happened, but I kept overlooking one key piece of the puzzle.  Your task, if you chose to accept it, is to find the missing moves.  In this week’s newsletter, I have included the game up to the point where the scorekeeping was lost.  What happened after move 53 is, for the most part, a mystery.  Here is what I do know:

The Black King somehow got to a5.

The Black Rook was gone.

The White King got to c4.

Only the f and h pawns had moved and were gone.

The White Rook got to h6.

Can you find the missing moves?  It took me until the end of the Cordovano-MacMillan (the opposite of speed players) game to figure out what I think happened.

White to move

Mr. White With The Rook In The Endgame

[Event "June Mating Game"]

[Site "https://cschessnews.blogspot.com/"]

[Date "2004.06.15"]

[Round "2.1"]

[White "Anderson, Paul"]

[Black "Brown, Dean"]

[Result "1-0"]

[ECO "A58"]

[WhiteElo "1768"]

[BlackElo "1373"]

[PlyCount "133"]

[EventDate "2004.06.15"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. bxa6 Bxa6 6. Nc3 d6 7. g3 g6 8. Bg2

Bg7 9. Nf3 O-O 10. O-O Nbd7 11. h3 Nb6 12. Re1 Nc4 13. e4 Nd7 14. Bf1 Qb6 15.

Qc2 Nde5 16. Nxe5 Nxe5 17. Kg2 Bxf1+ 18. Rxf1 Nc4 19. b3 Na5 20. Na4 Qa6 21.

Bb2 e5 22. dxe6 fxe6 23. Bxg7 Kxg7 24. Rad1 Qc6 25. Nb2 Nb7 26. Nc4 Rfd8 27.

Rd2 d5 28. exd5 exd5 29. Ne5 Qd6 30. f4 Na5 31. Rfd1 d4 32. Qe4 Qd5 33. Re1

Qxe4+ 34. Rxe4 Nb7 35. Nc6 Rd6 36. Re7+ Kf6 37. Rxb7 Rxc6 38. Rxh7 Re6 39. Rc7

Ra5 40. g4 Rea6 41. a4 Rb6 42. Rd3 Ke6 43. Kf3 Kd5 44. Re7 Re6 45. Rxe6 Kxe6

46. Ke4 Ra6 47. h4 Ra8 48. h5 gxh5 49. gxh5 Rh8 50. Rh3 Kd6 51. f5 Kc6 52. h6

Rh7 53. f6 Kd6 ...?

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This Week In Chess

Monday June 21, 2004

On 6/15, the CSCC had 22 members in attendance.  In the USCF-rated match (G90), Richard Cordovano and Shaun MacMillan ended in a hard fought draw.  The rest of the members chose between the USCF-rated June Mating Game (4SS, G30) and the club-rated ladder games (G15).  In the ladder matches, Jon Tindall went undefeated with 4 points from George Raikas (2-0) and Roy Roberts (2-0).  Roy Roberts also went home with 4 points beating Mike Makinney (2-0) and Justin Schiff (2-0).  George Raikas got 4 points as well with wins against Chris McCarty (2-0) and Devin Smith (2-0).  Devin Smith earned 3.5 points by taking care of Charles Martin (2-0) and Dan Cole (1.5-0.5).  Charles Martin didn’t go home empty handed with 3 points in a victory against Chris Wynkoop (2-0) and a draw against Justin Schiff (1-1).  Both Gary Frenzel (2-1) and Chris Wynkoop (2-0) took their points from Chris McCarty.  Finally, Dan Cole got most of his 1.5 points from his draw with Mike McKinney (1-1).  In the June Mating Game, the first 2 rounds were played with the final 2 rounds finishing up this week.  Here are the current standing:

Paul Anderson

2.0

Virgil McGuire

2.0

Dean Brown

1.0

Allan Ufer

1.0

Renae Delaware

1.0

Tom Mullikin

1.0

Jeff Gilchrist

0.0

Gary Frenzel

0.0

Misc

Upcoming Events

6/22 June Mating Game (part 2), CSCC

6/28 Kids’ Chess Club, Borders

6/29 Quads, CSCC

7/2-7/4 Denver Open, CSCA

8/7-8/8 Pikes Peak Open, CSCA

Wanted

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Your chess games or news

Here is how the game finished:

54. f7 Rxf7 55. h7 Re7+ 56. Kd3 Rxh7 57. Rxh7 Kc6 58. Kc4 Kb6 59. Rh6+ Ka5 60. Rh8 d3 61. Kxd3 Kb4 62. Kc2 c4 63. Rb8+ Ka3 64. bxc4 Ka2 65. a5 Ka3 66. a6 Ka4 67. a7 1-0

Take The Money And Run

Game Of The Week

This weekend I went to the Southern Colorado Open at the beautiful Masonic Lodge in Mantiou Springs.  Not many people know this, but the Lodge is one of the few places that set its clocks ahead 50 minutes at daylight savings time instead of the traditional 60 minutes.  It is called Masonic Savings Time and is why all the rounds started 10 minutes late.

Anyway, I was trying to steal some games from people to put on the newsletter, but I was caught by Richard Herbst, so I had to ask Allan Ufer for his 1st round upset of the top seeded reserve player.  After 1 game, he had $35!  I told him, “It doesn’t get better than that, you should…

 

White to move

Take The Money And Run

[Event "Southern Colorado Open"]

[Site "https://cschessnews.blogspot.com/"]

[Date "2004.06.12"]

[Round "1.18"]

[White "Ufer, Allan"]

[Black "Tufts, Fletcher"]

[Result "1-0"]

[ECO "D00"]

[WhiteElo "1131"]

[BlackElo "1497"]

[PlyCount "61"]

[EventDate "2004.06.12"]

1. d4 d5 2. Bg5 Bf5 3. Nf3 Nd7 4. Nbd2 Ngf6 5. e3 e6 6. Bd3 Bg6 7. Qe2 Be7 8.

Ne5 Nxe5 9. dxe5 Nd7 10. Bxe7 Qxe7 11. f4 c5 12. b3 a6 13. O-O O-O 14. c4 Nb6

15. cxd5 exd5 16. e4 dxe4 17. Nxe4 Bxe4 18. Qxe4 g6 19. f5 Rfd8 20. f6 Qd7 21.

Rad1 Qd4+ 22. Kh1 Qxe4 23. Bxe4 Rxd1 24. Rxd1 a5 25. Bxb7 Re8 26. Rd6 Nc8 27.

Rc6 Na7 28. Rxc5 Rd8 29. h3 h5 30. Rxa5 Nc8 31. Ra8 1-0

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This Week In Chess

Tuesday June 15, 2004

On 6/8, the CSCC had 22 members in attendance.  In the USCF-rated matches (G90), Andy Chow again outlasted Richard Cordovano while Dan Southard pummeled Allan Ufer.  The rest of the members played in the Eccentric Pairing Swiss Tournament.  The goal of the tournament is to be the player with the highest rating gain.  Instead of using the normal pairing system, Buck will match players based on unusual criteria that happen to float through his mind at the time he is making the pairings.  Round 1 was paired by players wearing white shoes as white against players wearing dark shoes as black.  In round 2, the colored pants took on those wearing jeans or shorts.  In the third round, the people with the lowest rating gain chose their opponent.  In the final round, the players were paired in order of the rating gain.  After all the madness, Devin Smith finished on top with +33 rating’s gain:

Player

Score

Change

Devin Smith

3.0

+33

Larry Wutt

4.0

+21

Paul Anderson

4.0

+18

Glenn Miller

3.0

+16

Chris Wynkoop

2.0

+12

Gary Frenzel

1.5

+10

Andrew Edwards

1.0

+10

Roy Roberts

2.0

+2

Tom Mullikin

2.0

-2

Dean Brown

1.5

-4

John McIntyre

0.0

-5

Steve Hornyak

2.0

-11

Jeff Gilchrist

1.0

-19

Chris McCarty

0.0

-24

Buck Buchanan

1.0

-28

Virgil McGuire

1.0

-29

Southern Colorado Open Prizes

By Dean Brown

Open Section

1st: Andy Rea

5.5

$280

2nd: Brian Wall

5.0

$180

A: Jesse Hester

3.5

$130

B: Richard Herbst

4.0

$65

B: Paul Grimm

4.0

$65

U1600: Derek Christensen

3.5

$130

Upset: Jeff Dimiduk

$65

Reserve Section

1st: Dylan Lehti

6.0

$150

2nd: Francisco Baltier

4.5

$100

U1400: Joe Aragon

4.0

$50

U1200: Renae Delaware

4.0

$50

U1000: Ruth Irons

2.0

$12.50

U1000: Kathy Schneider

2.0

$12.50

U1000: John McIntyre

2.0

$12.50

U1000: Thomas Roberts

2.0

$12.50

UNR: Robert Rountree

3.0

$35

Upset: Allan Ufer

$35

Misc

Upcoming Events

6/15-6/22 June Mating Game (4SS), CSCC

6/21 Kids’ Chess Club, Borders

6/19-6/20 Chess Camp, Chess For Juniors

8/7-8/8 Pikes Peak Open, CSCA

Wanted

Roommate for World Open, PA (Imre Barlay)

Your chess games or news