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Correspondence Chess League of Australia Postal Address: GPO Box 2360, Sydney, NSW, 2001 Website Australian Correspondence Chess Quarterly Australia Post No PPn 230594/00010 Correspondence Chess League of Australia Postal Address: GPO Box 2360, Sydney, NSW, 2001 Website: www.ccla.asn.au August 2011 Vol. 64 No. 3 pp 65-96 $4.00 Editor: Shaun Press ISSN 819-7806 2 Auburn St, Amaroo, ACT, 2914 [email protected] A little bit of the old, and a great deal of the new in this issue of Australian Correspondence Chess Quarterly. My pleas for extra articles from reader did not fall on deaf ears, and a couple of new contributors have written articles on the early days of the CCLA, as well as the early days of chess itself. As for the new, this issue sees a big issue on Webserver chess. While postal chess has been the backbone of correspondence chess for over 100 years, technology is changing the way that we play. The ICCF has moved all of its major events over to online play, and the CCLA is heading in that direction. In this issue there is a quick guide to playing on the ICCF Webserver, and hopefully those of you who have been a little reticent about making the move to online play will take the plunge. Not only is it a little quicker to play (in terms of transmission time), it is also cheaper, as most events cost the equivalent of 20 stamps. To illustrate this point further, the crosstables for the 2007,2008 and 2010 Australian Championships are included in this issue. While the 2008 Championship finished last year, both the 2007 (Postal) and 2010 (Webserver) Championship have just been completed. Congratulations to Dr E.B. Morgan, John Paul Fenwick, and Simon Jenkinson for their victories in each of these events. The win for Dr Morgan signifies the end of an era however, as all future Championships will be played via webserver (or whichever technology supersedes that!) 66 Upstairs, 1 Garfield Road East Riverstone, NSW 2765 Tel: (02) 9838 1529 Fax: (02) 9838 1614 [email protected] Recommended Chess Software A$ ChessBase 11 Starter Package 295.00 ChessBase 11 Upgrade from ChessBase 10 175.00 ChessBase Correspondence Database 2011 149.95 Deep Fritz 12 (Multiprocessor Version) 195.00 Deep Rybka 4 (Multiprocessor Version) 195.00 Deep Shredder 12 (Multiprocessor Version) 195.00 Fritz 12, Rybka 4 or Shredder 12 (each) 99.95 Rybka 4 Book (Opening Theory) 49.95 Recommended Hardback Books A$ The Turk Chess Automaton (Gerald Levitt) 105.00 My Life, Games and Compositions (Pal Benko) 89.95 Olympiad United! Dresden 2008 75.00 Russians versus Fischer (Plisetsky & Voronkov) 75.00 Chess is My Life (Victor Korchnoi) 65.00 Breaking Through (Susan Polgar) 59.95 Surviving Changi: E.E. Colman (Olimpiu Urcan) 59.95 Behind Deep Blue (Feng-hsiung Hsu) 49.95 Chess Bitch (Jennifer Shahade) 49.95 Chess Duels (Yasser Seirawan) 49.95 Recommended Softback Books A$ Bobby Fischer Career and Games (Karsten Muller) 79.95 San Luis 2005 (Alik Gershon & Igor Nor) 59.95 A Chess Omnibus (Edward Winter) 59.95 The Giant Chess Puzzle Book (Zenon Franco) 42.95 Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual 2nd Edition 39.95 A Course in Chess Tactics (Bojkov & Georgiev) 37.95 Come visit our website at: www.chessaustralia.com.au 67 Overseas News The ICCF 2010-2011 Champions Bg4 17.Bf3 Bxf3 18.Rxf3 Re8 League is drawing to a close, and 19.Raf1 f6 20.R3f2 Qd6 21.b4 the three Australian teams have Qd7 22.c5 a5 23.Qc2 e4 24.Nd4 found it tougher going than in Bb8 25.Qd1 axb4 26.axb4 Bc7 previous years. 27.Qh5 Nf8 28.g4 Qf7 29.Qh4 The Chess Allies carried the flag in Ne6 30.g5 fxg5 31.fxg5 Qg6 the A Division, with a team 32.Nxe6 Rxe6 consisting of SIM Nigel Burne (Eng), SIM Stephen Kerr, IM Shane Dibley and SIM Tim Runting. With 3 games left to played (2 matches to be completed) they are 3 points, from 3 drawn matches. However to show how tough and competitive this Division is, they lost 6 of their matches by a narrow 2.5-1.5 margin. In Division C Purdy's Centurions A & B are also struggling. In Section C7 the A team have won 1 match, 33.Rg2 hxg5 34.Qxg5 Qxg5 but have lost the rest, with 1 game 35.Rxg5 Re7 36.h4 Rf8 37.Rxf8+ outstanding. The B team (Section Kxf8 38.h5 Rf7 39.Kg2 Bd8 C 8) have failed to trouble the 40.Rg6 Be7 41.Kg3 Rf1 42.Kg4 scorers, losing all their matches. [42.Bxg7+? Kf7 43.Bc3 Rg1+ Here are a collection of wins from 44.Kf4 Rxg6 45.hxg6+ Kxg6 each of the teams, with some light 46.Ke5 Kf7=] 42...Rf7 43.Bc3 notes added by the editor. Bd8 44.b5! cxb5 45.Rd6 Ke8 46.Rxd5 Rf1 47.Re5+ Kd7 Kerr,Stephen (2488) - 48.Rxe4 Rh1 49.Rd4+ Kc8 Berlinger,Gerson (2516) [A25] 50.Rf4 Rh4+ 51.Kf3 Rxh5 52.Rf8 Champions League 2010 A ICCF, Kd7 53.d4 Rg5 54.Ke4 Rg4+ 25.01.2010 55.Kd3 Rg5 56.Rf7+ Kc6 57.Be1 1.c4 e5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 Bc5 4.Nc3 b6 58.Bh4 Rd5 59.Bxd8 Rxd8 Nc6 5.a3 a6 6.e3 0–0 7.Nge2 Ba7 60.cxb6 Kxb6 61.Rxg7 Rh8 8.Qc2 d6 9.b3 Ne7 10.Ne4 Nxe4 62.Rg6+ Ka5 63.d5 b4 64.Kc4 1– 11.Bxe4 h6 12.Bb2 c6 13.0–0 d5 0 14.Bg2 Bf5 15.Qc3 Ng6 16.f4 68 Kerr,Stephen (2488) - 58.Rxa5 g2 59.Ra1] 57.c7 Rc3 Sabaev,Sergey Valentinovic 58.Rc6 Rxc6 59.bxc6 g2 60.c8Q (2480) [A14] g1Q 61.Qd7+ 1–0 Champions League 2010 A ICCF, 25.01.2010 Jones,Brian (2115) - 1.c4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 Plume,Gunars (1841) [A69] Be7 5.0–0 0–0 6.b3 c5 7.Bb2 Nc6 Champions League 2010 C Group 8.e3 d4 9.exd4 cxd4 10.Re1 Ne8 7 ICCF, 25.01.2010 11.Ne5 Nxe5 12.Rxe5 f6 13.Re1 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 e5 14.d3 Nc7 15.Nd2 Rb8 16.a3 d6 5.f4 0–0 6.Nf3 c5 7.d5 e6 Rf7 17.b4 b6 18.Qh5 a5 19.b5 8.Be2 exd5 9.cxd5 Re8 10.e5 Bd6 20.Ne4 Be7 21.f4 g6 22.Qh6 dxe5 11.fxe5 Ng4 12.e6 [12.Bg5 is Bf8 23.Qh4 Be7 24.fxe5 fxe5 by far the most common move 25.Qh6 Bf5 26.Bc1 Qd7 27.Nf2 here.] 12...fxe6 13.d6 Ne5 14.0–0 Bd6 28.Qh4 h5 29.Bc6 Qe6 30.h3 Nxf3+ 15.Bxf3 Bd4+ 16.Kh1 Be7 31.Bg5 Bxg5 32.Qxg5 Qd6 Qxd6 17.Nb5! This is why this 33.Ne4 Qf8 34.Qh4 Qe7 35.Qxe7 line is playable. 17...Qd8 18.Nxd4 Rxe7 36.g4 hxg4 37.hxg4 Bxe4 cxd4 19.Be4 Nc6 20.Qd3 Ne7 38.Rxe4 Kg7 39.Rae1 Kf6 40.Kf2 21.Bg5 Qb6 22.Qf3 Nf5 Only Rh8 41.Kg3 Rb8 move 23.g4 Nd6 42.g5+! Kxg5 43.Rxd4 Ne8 24.Be7!! Nf5 [24...Bd7 25.Bxd6 44.Rg4+ Kh6 45.Be4 Re6 46.Bd5 Qxd6 26.Qf7+ Kh8 27.Qf6+ Kg8 Re7 47.Rge4 Nf6 48.Rxe5 Nxd5 28.Bxg6! hxg6 29.Qxg6+ Kh8 49.Rxe7 Nxe7 50.Rxe7 Rd8 30.Rf7+-] 25.Bf6 Rf8 [25...Nd6 51.Kf4 Rxd3 52.Ke4 Rxa3 26.Be5] 26.Bh4 Rf7 27.gxf5 exf5 53.Rb7 g5 54.Rxb6+ Kg7 55.c5 28.Bd5 Be6 29.Rad1 Re8 30.Rfe1 g4 56.c6 g3 [56...Rc3 57.Ra6 g3 69 Rd7 31.Rxe6! Rxe6 32.Bf2 Rxd5 21.Ne6! fxe6 22.dxe6 Re8 33.Qxd5 Qc6 34.Rxd4 Qxd5+ [22...Qxd2 23.e7++-] 23.Bd5 35.Rxd5 Re2 36.Bd4 Rd2 37.Rd7 Rxe6 24.Qxh6 Another pretty b5 38.Rg7+ Kf8 39.Bc3 Rd1+ move. 24...f2+ 25.Kxf2 Qf8+ 40.Kg2 b4 41.Bf6 Rd2+ 42.Kg3 26.Qxf8+ Kxf8 27.Bxe6 Bxe6 Rd3+ 43.Kf4 Rh3 44.Rxa7 Rxh2 28.Rxe6 White is easily winning 45.Bg7+ Ke8 46.Ke5 Kd8 47.Ke6 here. 28...Nc6 29.Rg6 Rd8 30.h5 Rc2 48.Be5 h5 49.Ra8+ Rc8 Rd5 31.h6 Rh5 32.Rxg4 Ne7 50.Rxc8+ Kxc8 51.Kf6 Kd7 33.Bd2 Rf5+ 34.Rf4 Rxf4+ 52.Kxg6 Ke6 53.Bg3 h4 54.Bf4 35.Bxf4 Nd5 36.Bd2 Nf6 37.Kf3 h3 55.Kg5 1–0 Kf7 38.g4 Kg6 39.g5 Nd7 40.Ke4 Nb6 41.Kd4 c6 42.Kc5 Nc8 43.a4 Flude,David A (2158) - Kh7 44.c4 Kg6 45.a5 Kh7 46.Be3 Zielinski,Sergej (2211) [C39] Kg6 47.Kd4 Ne7 48.Ke5 Kf7 Champions League 2010 C Group 49.Bc5 1–0 7 ICCF, 25.01.2010 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.h4 g4 Stubbs,Mike (1900) - 5.Ne5 Nf6 6.Bc4 d5 7.exd5 Bd6 Henderson,Greg (2056) [B43] 8.d4 [8.0–0 is the celebrated, but Champions League 2010 C Group unsound, Rice Gambit.] 8...Nh5 8 ICCF, 25.01.2010 9.Nc3 Qe7 10.0–0 Bxe5 11.Nb5 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 0–0 12.dxe5 a6 13.Nd4 Qxe5 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Nc3 b5 6.Bd3 Qb6 14.b4 f3 15.Qd2 Ng3 16.Re1 Ne4 7.Nf3 Nc6 8.0–0 Nge7 9.Re1 Qb8 17.Rxe4 Qxe4 18.Bb2 Qe5 10.e5 Ng6 11.Be4 Bb7 12.h4 d6 [18...Re8 19.gxf3 Qe5 seems 13.exd6 Bxd6 14.h5 Nge7 15.h6 testing here.] 19.Bc3 Qd6 20.Re1 gxh6 16.Bxh6 Qc7 17.Bd3 0–0–0 h6 18.Ne4 Bf4 19.Bxf4 Qxf4 20.Nc5 Rhg8 21.Nxb7 Kxb7 22.a4 Rd5 23.axb5 axb5 24.Re4 Qh6 25.Rh4 Qg7 26.Qf1 Nf5 27.Rh3 Nd6 28.Rg3 Qh8 29.Rxg8 Qxg8 30.c4 bxc4 31.Bxc4 Nxc4 32.Qxc4 Qf8 33.Qf4 f5 34.Ng5 Nd4 35.Qe3 Qd6 36.b4 Qb6? [36...h6] 37.Qa3!+- Rd8 38.Nf7 Rg8 39.Ne5 Nb5 40.Qf3+ Kc7 41.Rc1+ 1–0 70 Games Column by Colin McKenzie Great weather for CC ! At our move as a theme has been played place we have had a monthly dump before, and its aim is obvious.
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