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Colorado Chess Informant Colorado Chess Informant YOUR COLORADOwww.colorado-chess.com STATE CHESS ASSOCIATION’S Jul 2008 Volume 35 Number 3 ⇒ On the web: http://www.colorado-chess.com Volume 35 Number 3 Jul 2008/$3.00 COLORADO CHESS INFORMANT Inside This Issue Reports: pg(s) Colorado Closed 4 Spring is Sprung 6 Bobby Fischer Memorial 8 G/29 Grand Prix Update 17 Crosstables Bobby Fischer Memorial 7 Denker/Polgar Fundraiser 23 Games Colorado Closed 5 Spring is Sprung 6 Scholastics Under the Microscope 10 Ramirez, Wall, GM Sharavdorj, Colorado Springs Open 12 A Tale of Two Grandmasters 18 Ponomarev, Canney, and Anderson... Bobby Fischer Memorial 20 Departments CSCA Info. 2 The Usual Suspects... Knight Moves by Joe Haines 3 Club Directory 24 Colorado Tour Update 25 Tournament announcements 26 But which one walked away Features with the Colorado Closed Parting with the Lady 9 Poems ‘bout Chess 14 PageChampionship?? 1 Tactics Time 15 Colorado Chess Informant www.colorado-chess.com Jul 2008 Volume 35 Number 3 COLORADO STATE Treasurer: The Passed Pawn ONE NIGHT OF ONLINE CHESS ASSOCIATION Richard Buchanan CO Chess Informant Editor 844B Prospect Place The COLORADO STATE Manitou Springs, CO 80829 Randy Reynolds CHESS ASSOCIATION, (719) 685-1984 Greetings Chess Friends, INC, is a Sec. 501 (C) (3) [email protected] tax-exempt, non-profit edu- cational corporation formed Members at Large: Please excuse the picture this to promote chess in Colo- Todd Bardwick issue. I’ve been on sort of an rado. Contributions are tax- (303) 770-6696 80’s kick lately. deductible. Dues are $15 a [email protected] year or $5 a tournament. Tom Nelson In this issue, we’ve got some Youth (under 21) and Senior (303) 713-1327 tournament reports from the (65 or older) memberships [email protected] Colorado Closed and the are $10. Bobby Fischer Memorial tour- RANDY REYNOLDS Junior Representative: Family memberships are Garrick Talmage naments. We’ve got a good available to additional family follow-up analysis from Bob members for $3 off the regu- USCF Delegates: Rasmussen, who comments on one of the scholastic games from last issue. lar dues, with only one Richard Buchanan We’ve also got Paul Anderson sharing his two losses to Grandmasters in a magazine delivered to the Dean Brown Dickens’ twist (no, not Oliver). Lee Lahti is also sharing another update address. to the Northern Colorado G/29 Grand Prix events, this time with stand- Editor: Randy Reynolds ings. It’s a tight race but still not too late to get on the leader board. And The Colorado Chess Infor- (970) 206-9107 we’ve got a poem from Anatoly Makarevich that made it into Chess Life mant (CCI) is the official 1839 Thyme Court for Kids, reprinted here. Check it out; it’s pretty cool! publication of the CSCA, Fort Collins, CO 80528 published four times a year [email protected] And we’ve got games. Lots of them. Colorado Closed has closed their in January, April, July, and October. CSCA Depts./Appointees report with a few, but we’ve got games from the Colorado Springs Open, Spring is Sprung (Pueblo), and the Bobby Fischer Memorial. It’s nice to Articles in the CCI do not Webmaster see a small uptick in the number of players attending tournaments. Hope- necessarily reflect the views Tournament Clearinghouse: fully the trend continues. of the CSCA Board of Direc- Rick Nelson (970) 824-4780 tors or membership. [email protected] We are still looking for someone to take over the Colorado Chess Infor- mant after the next issue (October) is published. We’ve had some interest, Send address changes and Prison Chess: Randy Canney but all potential candidates have since had to withdraw from consideration. memberships to Tom Mul- Once again, here are qualifications that the ideal candidate should possess: likin. Send pay renewals to CO Chess Tour: Richard Buchanan. See page Tom Mullikin A qualified candidate for the editorship is knowledgeable in Microsoft 27 for E-Z renewal form! Publisher and hopefully other Microsoft products like Excel and Word. Scholastic Chess: They should have access to such software as well. They should have good Tom Nelson CSCA Board attention to detail and are willing to proofread others’ work. The qualified of Directors [email protected] individual must be able to adhere to strict deadlines and has good disci- Submission Deadlines: pline to persevere in the face of hardship. A good candidate will have President: January Issue – December 1st; people skills as well and is not afraid to solicit others for articles and Joe Haines April Issue – March 1st; 5881 Pierce St., #103 games, knowing a good magazine cannot be written in a vacuum. July Issue – June 1st; Arvada, CO 80003 October Issue – September 1st (720) 339-7233 If you are interested in applying for this position, please let me or a CSCA [email protected] Contributors to this issue : Board member know. We would be most appreciative. Paul Anderson Vice-President: Todd Bardwick Finally, in an effort to curb online play and get OTB chess back into Colo- Mario De La Victoria Tim Brennan rado, here’s the new updated lyrics of Murray Head’s “One Night in Bang- (303) 755-5857 Richard Buchanan kok” on page 3 to play us out. (I don’t know what that means, “to play us [email protected] Joe Haines out? What does that mean: “To play us out”?!? “To end the column”?!? Lee Lahti Secretary: Tom Mullikin Anatoly Makarevich All right, go, go...) 1475 Big Valley Drive Bob Rasmussen Colorado Springs, CO 80919 Randy Reynolds We’ll do it live! (719) 231-5663 Liz Wood [email protected] Enjoy this issue! RRR Page 2 Colorado Chess Informant www.colorado-chess.com Jul 2008 Volume 35 Number 3 [Ed. note: I’ve got a new-found respect for Tim Rice after trying this... oh well.. Let’s do this..] THE EDITOR: Knight Moves ? Colorado, Mountainous setting By CSCA President Joe Haines And the state don't know that the state is getting The creme de la creme of the chess world in a Show with everything but Ben Kingsley Time flies - doesn't seem a minute olorado Chess, like Unfortunately, these individu- Since the VFW post had the chess boys in it All change - don't you know that when you most chess organiza- als, like you, have other lives Play in real life there's no ordinary venue tions, has its ups and and will get burned out. We It's Denver... or Fort Collins... or the Springs... or... or this downs. There are need to consider helping out. place! C years when participation is high VOLUNTEER. Learn how to COMPANY: and when it is low. There are run a tournament, become a One night of online and the world's your playground You’ll find your place among the chess e-leet many factors for this and the TD, join you local club’s board They’ll play a sac that’s never bad or unsound best thing to do is to adjust to (or even the state board!) Con- And if you're lucky, your opponent won’t cheat I can feel a hustler sliding up to me those changes and do the best tribute to the Colorado Chess THE EDITOR: job a person can to provide the Informant, or help out with One town's very like another best product out there. scholastic chess. You could When your head's down over your pieces, brother even become the editor of the COMPANY: It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really a downer The one thing that remains con- informant. A commitment of as To be looking at a board, not staring at a browser sistent is that state and local little as one hour a month can THE EDITOR: organizations in Colorado are make all the difference! Whaddya mean? Ya seen one congested website... run by volunteers. They are you Chess is an activity that we COMPANY: board members and club man- Lots of players, young and old, choose to do. There are many Automatic scorekeeping and the clock’s controlled. agers and Tournament Direc- tors (yes, TDs get paid a mod- things we could be doing dur- THE EDITOR: ing the week or on weekends, Get frag'd! This is my vocation est stipend, but is far less then Where every move has hand notation they should be getting.) These and instead, we choose to play I get my kicks by pushing real wood, sunshine chess. Don’t take that opportu- individuals week in and week COMPANY: out make sure that the majority nity to play chess on Tuesdays, One night of online makes a strong man blunder Wednesdays, Thursdays or on Mouse slip between despair and ecstasy place chess when and where One night of online and the tough guys wonder they want without too much the weekends for granted! If Can't be too careful with your company you do, someday you may find I can see a GM playing against me concern. I can count on less than two hands the number of that opportunity lost. THE EDITOR: Denver's gotta be the witness individuals who make Colo- To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness rado Chess (and local chess) Sincerely, This grips me more than tryin’ Red Hot Pawn with the latest client. run. Joe Haines And thank God I'm only watching the game, controlling it CSCA President I don't see you guys have brought The kind of skills live chess has taught I'd let you watch, I would invite you But the clocks we use would not excite you One awesome way to volunteer is to So you better go back to your blogs, your chatrooms, your ICCs consider being the next Colorado COMPANY: One night of online makes a strong man blunder Chess Informant Editor.
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