Volume 47, Number 1 COLORADO STATE CHESS ASSOCIATION January 2020 COLORADO CHESS INFORMANT

Chess Landscaping Volume 47, Number 1 Colorado Chess Informant January 2020

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 The Colorado State Chess Association, Incorporated, is a and effort he put into such an endeavor is amazing.

Section 501(C)(3) tax exempt, non-profit educational corpora- Sadly, 2019 saw the passing of Colorado’s own Imre Barlay. His tion formed to promote chess in Colorado. Contributions are was an interesting life and the story is told by DuWayne tax deductible. Langseth and others. He will be sorely missed. Dues are $15 a year. Youth (under 20) and Senior (65 or older) memberships are $10. Family memberships are available to Many other fine stories inside, so don’t hesitate - jump right in! additional family members for $3 off the regular dues. Scholas- tic tournament membership is available for $3. May Caissa be with you.

● Send address changes to Ann Davies. Fred Eric Spell

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The Colorado Chess Informant (CCI) is the official publication of the CSCA, published four times a year in January, April, July and October. In This Issue

Articles in the CCI do not necessarily reflect the views of the 3. The 2019 Class Championship Report CSCA Board of Directors or its membership. 4. Letter to CSCA Members

CSCA President Paul Covington CSCA Board of Directors CSCA Appointees 6. 2nd CSCA Board Meeting

President: USCF Delegates: 8. Pawn Garden - Chess Landscaping for the Yard Paul Covington Richard “Buck” Buchanan NM Todd Bardwick [email protected] [email protected] 14. The Life of Senior Master Imre Barlay Vice President: Paul Covington DuWayne Langseth, et al. Kevin McConnell [email protected] 18. Winter Springs Open

[email protected] Richard “Buck” Buchanan CCI Editor: Secretary: Fred Eric Spell 22. Denver Chess Club Fall Classic Ann Davies [email protected] J.C. MacNeil 24. Watson - Carlson 1975 [email protected] Correspondence Chess: Curtis Carlson Treasurer: Klaus Johnson 34. 2019 London Chess Classic Report Dean Brown [email protected] John Brezina [email protected] Scholastic Chess: 36. Games From the 2019 Colorado Open (Part II) Junior Representative: Lior Lapid Richard “Buck” Buchanan Griffin McConnell [email protected] 41. Colorado Chess Club Directory [email protected] Webmaster & Tournament ® Members at Large: Clearinghouse: 42. The Chess Detective Lior Lapid Dean Clow NM Todd Bardwick [email protected] [email protected] 44. Tactics Time! Tim Brennan Gracie Salazar CSCA Historian: 46. Upcoming Colorado Tournaments [email protected] Todd Bardwick

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January issue - December 21 / April issue - March 21 On the cover: July issue - June 21 / October issue - September 21

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Pawn Garden © 2020 Colorado State Chess Association

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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: [email protected].

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 people 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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and diplomatic interpreter. He also had a career as a therapist The Life of Senior Master and counselor, giving sessions in stress management, relaxation, Imre Barlay self-esteem, family issues, and drug/alcohol dependence. In addition to Imre’s love of chess, he played tennis, and enjoyed August 8, 1929 - October 13, 2019 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 by DuWayne Langseth, with contributions from Claire Silveri, chess. Peter Barlay, Earle Wikle, and Paul Covington

A tournament was held at Club Chess!! in 2017 celebrating One of the most familiar faces at Colorado Springs chess Imre’s 88th birthday (August 8th). He leaves behind five tournaments in the last twenty years was that of Imre Barlay. He children: Claire, Monica, Stephen, Gregory, and Peter, as well as played a strong game even in his advanced years, but few of his seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren. He will be opponents knew they were sitting across from one of the most missed and remembered dearly by his family and the Colorado accomplished and interesting chess players in Colorado history. chess community.

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 Imre Barlay (1800) particularly hostile environment for Jews. He thought his new DuWayne Langseth (1906) name was safer. Match 9, Game 1 January 20, 2018 / Imre’s Apartment 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 1.d4 d5 2.Bg5 Qd6 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

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(I devised this response to the Trompowsky Attack and beat Imre Barlay (1876) Brian Wall with it. I wonder if Imre had studied that, as the DuWayne Langseth (1885) result is much different here. He sometimes prepared for our Match 1, Game 1 games.) 3.Qd2 Nf6 4.Nc3 Ne4 5.Nxe4 dxe4 6.e3 e6 7.Ne2 Nd7 November 8, 2015 / Earle Wikle’s Apartment

8.Nc3 Qb6 9.Be2 Bb4 10.Bf4 O-O 11.a3 Bxc3 12.Qxc3 c6 1.d4 f5 2.e3 Nf6 3.Nf3 g6 4.Be2 Bg7 5.O-O O-O 6.b3 d6 13.b4 a6 14.O-O Nf6 15.Qb3 Bd7 16.c4 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!

(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 (I knew I would be sacking the exchange, but my pieces are 23.e4 Qd6 24.Rbd1 f6 25.e5! 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?

(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 (I could no longer see an attack and decided I better exchange 41.Rxg5 g6 42.Qf4 (Both 42.Rdg1! and 42.Bh5! were crushing.) queens, but I underestimated the mess his rook would make on 42...Rac8 43.Rg3 Rd7 44.Rh3+ Kg8 45.Rg1 Qg7 46.Qe3 Kf8 my queenside. 25.cxd5 or 25.Nf3 would have been fine for 47.Rh4 Qg8 48.Rg3 Rh7 49.Rgh3 Rxh4 50.Rxh4 Rc7 51.Qg5 White.) 25...Qxh3 26.Nxh3 Re2 27.Bc3 Rc2 28.Rf3? (28.Ba1 Rg7 52.Qf6+ Qf7 53.Qd8 Qd7 54.Rh8+ Rg8 55.Qxd7? (I feel was necessary.) 28...Rxc3! 29.Ng5 Rxf3 30.Nxf3 Bf6 31.cxd5 like Imre was being kind here. Maybe he was tired by now. On cxd5 32.Kf2 Nc7 33.a4 Ne6 34.Ke3 Nd8 35.g4 Nc6 36.Kd3 55.Qf6+ Qf7 56.Rh7 Qxf6 57.exf6 Black can safely resign. He Bd8 37.h4 Ba5 38.Ng5 Ke7 39.Nf3 Kf6 40.Ng5 Nd8 41.Nf3 completely pummeled me all game and then mercifully let me Ne6 42.Ke3 Bc3 43.Kd3 Bb2 44.h5 gxh5 0-1 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

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Imre Barlay (2285) Imre Barlay (1874) GM Pal Benko (2540) DuWayne Langseth (1923) New Hampshire Tournament Match 3, Game 1 1968 December 17, 2016

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.bxa6 g6 6.Nc3 Bxa6 7.g3 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.cxd5 exd5 6.e3 O-O d6 8.Bg2 Bg7 9.Qa4+ Nbd7 10.Qh4 h6 11.f4 Rb8 12.e3 Qa5 7.Bd3 b6 8.Nge2 Bb7 9.Ng3 Ne4 10.Bxe7 Qxe7 11.Qc2 f5 13.Nge2 Bd3 14.Kf2 g5 15.fxg5 hxg5 16.Qa4 Qxa4 17.Nxa4 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

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 21.Qxb2 Rc3 22.Qxa3 Rxa3 23.Bc2 Rxe3 24.Rhe1 Nc4 26.Rb1 Nf2+ 27.Kc1 Rxe2 28.Rb8+ Kd7 29.Bf5+ e6 30.dxe6+ 25.Rxe3 Nxe3 26.Rd2 Nc4 27.Re2 Ba6 28.Re7 Na3+ 29.Kb2 fxe6 31.Bxe6+ Kxe6 32.Rxh8 Nd3+ 0-1 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! Imre Barlay (1800) Rxh4 40.gxh4 Kg6 41.Kxc3 Kh5 42.Kc4 Kxh4 43.Kb5 ... 1-0 Brian Rountree (1856) 8888 Birthday Celebration Tournament / Round 4 k 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 Imre with his son Peter. 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

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Austin Cook with 2.5. One delightful 21.Rxe3 Qg4 22.Ne7+ Kh8 23.Qxc7 Nd8 Winter Springs player was 7-year-old Iris Li, who I am 24.Nf3 d4 25.Re1 d3 26.Ne5 d2 Open informed by a reliable source (Dean 27.Qxd8+! 1-0 Brown) is the second most active by Richard “Buck” Buchanan tournament player in Colorado, exceeded Grayson Harris (1646) Chief Tournament Director only by Mr. Brown himself. Earle Wikle (2043) Round 1 The 2019 Winter Springs Open came to During the Saturday afternoon round I 1.d4 e6 2.Bf4 f5 3.e3 Nf6 4.Be2 Be7 pass on a sunny December weekend in had to leave the tournament to perform Manitou Springs. Forty players 5.Nf3 0-0 6.h3 d6 7.0-0 Qe8 8.Bc4 Kh8 with other members of the Colorado 9.Ng5 Bd8 10.c3 h6 11.Nf3 g5 12.Bh2 participated in the three sections. Some Springs Chorale in Cripple Creek (alert were tourney regulars, including Nc6 13.Bb5 g4 14.hxg4 Nxg4 15.d5 a6 players noted my tux shirt with studs and 16.Bxc6 bxc6 17.dxe6 Bxe6 18.Bf4 Qg6 Colorado’s two highest rated active cufflinks, and suspected something was players; some were youngsters 19.Na3 Rg8 20.Bg3 Bf6 21.Nc2 Bc4 going on). They have an annual 22.Nh4 Qh5 23.Re1 Bd5 24.Nf3 Nxf2! sharpening their weapons; some were old December event there (usually not this friends who I haven’t seen for quite a 25.Kxf2 Qg4 26.Rg1 Qxg3+ 27.Ke2 early) as a fundraiser for the Aspen Mine Bc4+ 28.Kd2 Qf2+ 29.Kc1 Rxg2 while. Among this last group were Randy Center. We sang in a church west of Canney, former state champion, and Ed 30.Rxg2 Qxg2 31.Qg1 Qxf3 32.Qg6 Bg5 downtown, more than 100 years old and 0-1 Sedillo from New Mexico, who I knew with acoustics that make it a joy to long ago when I lived down there. Both perform there. The locals are always glad Sara Herman (2018) these players did well and won prizes, to see us, and provide a warm welcome though Randy generously donated his Andrew Eskenazi (1712) with goodies and meal passes to the Round 1 share to the other players who had tied various casinos! I very much appreciated with him. Be sure to play over Ed’s game Earle Wikle and Dean Brown serving as 1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 with Mirza Peljto - it’s a cliffhanger, the Tournament Directors during my 5.Qe2 Nxe4 6.Qxe4 Nd7 7.Bc4 g6 8.Ng5 most exciting game in the tournament. absence. Thanks so much guys, I couldn’t e6 9.Nxf7 Nf6 10.Nxd8 Nxe4 11.Nxe6 have done it without you. Bxe6 12.Bxe6 Bc5 13.f3 Ng5 14.Bb3 h5 The Open (June) section was by far the 15.d4 Be7 16.h4 Nh7 17.Bf4 Rf8 18.Bg3 most crowded, and featured Josh Bloomer Kd7 19.0-0-0 Rad8 20.d5 Rf6 21.Rhe1 and Gunnar Andersen in the top two Bd6 22.dxc6+ Kxc6 23.Be5 Rff8 spots. Gunnar, however, tripped over 24.Ba4+ 1-0 Rhett Langseth in the second round, and so once again Josh played his students, Scott Williams (1216) Daniel and Sara Herman, in the last Max Higa (1490) rounds. Josh took first alone with 4-0 (not Round 1 surprising for a 2412), and was followed 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 g6 3.d4 Bg7 4.e4 d6 a point behind by Gunnar, Randy, Neil Mirza Peljto (1912) 5.Be2 0-0 6.Be3 e5 7.Nf3 Nc6 8.0-0 Ng4 Bhavikatti, Sami Al-Adsani, and the Randy Canney (2222) 9.Bg5 f6 10.Bc1 f5 11.d5 Ne7 12.exf5 Herman siblings. Other prize winners Round 1 gxf5 13.h3 Nf6 14.Bg5 f4 15.Bxf6 Rxf6 were Ed Sedillo and Andrew Eskenazi. 16.Ne4 Rg6 17.Bd3 Bxh3 18.Neg5 Bf5 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 19.Ne6 Qd7 20.Bxf5 Nxf5 21.Nfg5 h6 Jeff Baffo dominated the U1800 (July) 5.e4 Nb6 6.Nc3 Bg7 7.Be3 0-0 8.Qd2 22.Nf3 Qf7 23.Kh2 Rg4 24.Rh1 Qg6 section until he had to leave before the Nc6 9.0-0-0 Na5 10.Bf2 Nac4 11.Bxc4 25.Ne1 Nh4 26.g3 Rxg3 27.Rg1 Rxg1 last round. Ted Doykos and Robert Nxc4 12.Qd3 Nd6 13.Nge2 b5 14.Kb1 a5 0-1 Carlson shared the top prize with him. 15.h4 a4 16.h5 b4 17.Nd5 Ba6 18.Qd2

The U1500 prize was split between Nc4 19.Qe1 b3 20.a3 Qd6 21.Nb4 Rfd8 Isaac Langer (Unrated) William Wolf and Sravyasri Lankipalle, 22.hxg6 hxg6 23.Rc1 c5 24.Bg3 Qf6 Jonathan Reinhard (998) and Shirley Herman won the U1400 25.Nd5 Rxd5 26.exd5 Qf5+ 27.Ka1 Nxa3 28.Be5 Qb1+!! 0-1 Round 1 prize. Sravyasri, 13 years old, was a top scorer in the Girls Tournament at the 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 d6 4.Bc4 e6 Denver Open last spring, and she scored a Eric Billaux (2102) 5.0-0 Nf6 6.d3 a6 7.a4 d5 8.exd5 exd5 hard fought draw against me in a Club Charles Alexander (1800) 9.Bb3 Be6 10.d4 Ng4 11.h3 h5 12.Bg5 Round 1 Be7 13.Qd2 cxd4 14.Ne2 Nce5 15.hxg4 Chess!! tournament a week before our event. 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.exd6 exd6 Nxf3+ 16.gxf3 Bxg5 17.Qxd4 hxg4 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nf3 Bg4 7.Be2 Be7 8.0-0 0-0 18.Qxg7 Bf6 19.Qxh8+ Bxh8 20.Rfd1 The U1400 (August) section had only 7 9.Qb3 Qc8 10.Re1 Nc6 11.Be3 Na5 gxf3 21.Nf4 Qg5+ 22.Kf1 Qxf4 23.a5 players, of whom we lost 2 in the course 12.Qc3 b6 13.Nbd2 d5 14.c5 Nb7 15.Ne5 0-0-0 24.Rac1 Qh2 25.Ke1 Rg8 26.c4 of the tournament. Victor Papa-Simil took Bxe2 16.Rxe2 bxc5 17.Nc6 Re8 18.dxc5 Rg1+ 27.Kd2 Qf4+ 28.Kc2 Bf5+ 29.Rd3 first with 3.5 points, followed by unrated Bxc5 19.Rae1 Bxe3 20.Rxe3 Rxe3 Qxc1# 0-1 Page 18 www.ColoradoChess.com Volume 47, Number 1 Colorado Chess Informant January 2020

Rhett Langseth (2122) 41.Kg3 Rd3+ 42.f3 Rxa3 0-1 18.Nb3 Bb5 19.Bxc5 Bxc5 20.Nxc5 Bxf1 Gunnar Andersen (2303) 21.Kxf1 Rab8 22.Nd3 Rb6 23.f5 Qg5 Round 2 Edward Sedillo (1712) 24.Re3 Rb1+ 25.Ne1 c5 26.h3 h5 27.Rg3

1.d4 e6 2.e4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Nf3 Bd6 Mirza Peljto (1912) Rxe1+ 0-1 Round 2 5.Bg5 f6 6.Bh4 Ne7 7.Bd3 Bf5 8.0-0 0-0 9.Re1 Qd7 10.Nc3 Bxd3 11.Qxd3 Nbc6 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Nxe4 Neil Bhavikatti (2102) 12.Bg3 Bb4 13.a3 Bxc3 14.Qxc3 Nf5 5.Re1 Nd6 6.Nc3 Nxb5 7.Nxe5 Nxe5 Elliott Woo (2086) Round 3 15.Bf4 Rae8 16.Qd3 g5 17.Bg3 g4 8.Rxe5+ Be7 9.Nd5 Kf8 10.Nxe7 d6 18.Nh4 Nfxd4 19.c3 Nb3 20.Rad1 Nc5 11.Re1 Be6 12.a4 Nd4 13.c3 Qxe7 1.e4 d5 2.Nc3 d4 3.Nce2 e5 4.d3 Bg4 21.Qd2 d4 22.f3 gxf3 23.Nxf3 Rxe1+ 14.cxd4 Qf6 15.Qc2 c6 16.b3 Bd5 5.h3 Bh5 6.g4 Bg6 7.Ng3 Nc6 8.Bd2 Bd6 24.Bxe1 Rd8 25.Qf4 Qd6 26.Qg4+ Kh8 17.Qd3 h5 18.Ba3 Rd8 19.Re3 g6 9.Bg2 Qd7 10.Nf3 0-0-0 11.h4 f6 12.Nf5 27.Nxd4 Ne5 28.Qf5 Ncd7 29.Rd2 Rg8 20.Rae1 Rd7 21.Re8+ Kg7 22.Qe3 Rxe8 Kb8 13.Bh3 Be8 14.Qe2 Qf7 15.a3 Bf8 30.Kh1 Qf8 31.Ne6 Qh6 32.Nxc7 Ng4 23.Qxe8 Be6 24.Bb2 Rd8 25.Qxd8 Qxd8 16.g5 g6 17.Ng3 Bd6 18.h5 h6 19.hxg6 33.h3 Qe3 34.Rd1 Nge5 35.Bh4 Rg6 26.d5+ Kg8 27.dxe6 Qe7 28.Bf6!! Qe8 Qxg6 20.Nh4 Qf7 21.g6 Qf8 22.Ngf5 36.Nd5 Qe2 37.Rg1 Kg7 38.Nf4 Qxb2 29.e7 Kh7 30.f4 g5 31.f5 Kh6 32.Kf2 a6 Rd7 23.Rg1 Rg7 24.Nxg7 Qxg7 25.Nf5 39.Nxg6 hxg6 40.Bxf6+ Kf7 41.Qf4 Nd3 33.Re3 d5 34.Rg3 g4 35.h3 Qd7 36.hxg4 Qd7 26.Qf3 Bf8 27.g7 Bxg7 28.Nxg7 42.Qc4+ Kxf6 43.Qxd3 Nf8 44.Qd6+ hxg4 37.e8Q!! Qxf5+ 38.Ke2 Kg6 Qf7 29.Nxe8 Qxe8 30.0-0-0 Qf7 31.Kb1 Kg7 45.Qe7+ Kg8 46.Rf1 Nh7 47.Qf7+ 39.Qe5 1-0 Nge7 32.Qg4 Rg8 33.Qe6 Qf8 34.Rxg8 Kh8 48.Re1 1-0 Nxg8 35.Rg1 Nge7 36.Bb4 Nxb4 37.axb4 Max Higa (1490) a6 38.Rg3 Ka7 39.Qc4 Qd8 40.Rg7 Nc6 Randy Canney (2222) Jeffrey Baffo (1754) 41.Qc5+ Kb8 42.Qd5 Qxd5 43.exd5 Elliott Woo (2086) Round 2 Nxb4 1-0 Round 2 1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 e5 3.d5 Nce7 4.Nf3 Ng6 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.Nc3 Bg4 5.c4 Bc5 6.Bd3 Nf6 7.h3 0-0 8.a3 d6 Gunnar Andersen (2303) 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Nxc3 7.bxc3 g6 8.Bc4 9.Nc3 c6 10.b4 Bb6 11.0-0 cxd5 12.cxd5 Henry Poston (1839) Round 3 e6 9.h3 Bxf3 10.Qxf3 Bg7 11.Ba3 Nd7 Bd7 13.Qe2 Rc8 14.Bd2 Nh5 15.Rac1 12.0-0 Qc7 13.e5 Nb6 14.Bd6 Qd7 1.b3 Nc6 2.Bb2 d5 3.Nf3 f6 4.d4 g5 5.c4 15.Bd3 Bf8 16.Bxf8 Rxf8 17.Be4 0-0-0 e6 6.e3 Bb4+ 7.Nfd2 Nge7 8.Qh5+ Ng6 18.a4 f5 19.exf6 Nd5 20.a5 Rxf6 21.Qg3 9.a3 Bxd2+ 10.Nxd2 f5 11.h3 Bd7 a6 22.Rfe1 Rdf8 23.Ra2 Qf7 24.c4 Nc7 12.Nf3 g4 13.hxg4 Qf6 14.cxd5 exd5 25.Rb2 Rf4 26.Ree2 Ne8 27.Qb3 Qc7 15.Ne5 0-0-0 16.Nxd7 Kxd7 17.Qxf5+ 28.d5 Nd6 29.Bd3 exd5 30.cxd5 c5 Qxf5 18.gxf5 Nge7 19.g4 Rdg8 20.Rh5 31.Rec2 Qxa5 32.g3 Rf3 33.Rxc5+ Qxc5 Nd8 21.f6 Ng6 22.Rxd5+ Ke6 23.Rf5 1-0 34.Rc2 Qxc2 35.Qxc2+ Kd7 36.Qe2 R8f6 37.g4 Rxf2 38.Bf5+ R2xf5 39.gxf5 Eric Billaux (2102) Nxf5 40.Qb2 Rd6 41.Qxb7+ Ke8 Edward Sedillo (1712) 42.Qxh7 Kd8 43.Qa7 Ne7 44.Kf2 Nxd5 Round 3

45.Kf3 Ne7 46.Kf4 Ke8 47.Qb8+ Kd7 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Bd3 dxe4 4.Bxe4 Nf6 48.Qb7+ Ke8 49.Ke5 Rc6 50.Kf4 Kf7 5.Bf3 Nbd7 6.Nc3 c6 7.Bf4 Nd5 8.Bg3 51.Qb3+ Kg7 52.Qb2+ Kg8 53.Qb3+ Nxc3 9.bxc3 Nf6 10.Ne2 Bd6 11.0-0 0-0 Kg7 54.Qb2+ ½-½ 12.Re1 Re8 13.Nc1 Bxg3 14.hxg3 Qc7 Nhf4 16.Bxf4 Nxf4 17.Qd2 Qf6 18.Ne2 15.Nd3 b6 16.g4 Bb7 17.g5 Nd7 18.Be4 Charles Alexander (1800) Nxh3+ 19.gxh3 Qxf3 20.Rxc8 Rxc8 f5 19.gxf6 Nxf6 20.Ne5 Nxe4 21.Rxe4 c5 DuWayne Langseth (1941) 21.Nc1 Qg3+ 22.Kh1 Qxh3+ 23.Kg1 22.Rh4 g6 23.Qg4 Qg7 24.Rd1 Rad8 Round 2 Qg3+ 24.Kh1 Qf3+ 25.Kh2 Bg4 26.Be2 25.Rd3 Re7 26.Rdh3 Qf6 27.Nf3 Qf5 1.g3 d5 2.Bg2 e6 3.b3 Nf6 4.Bb2 Be7 Qh3+ 27.Kg1 Qg3+ 28.Kh1 Bf3+ 28.Qxf5 exf5 29.Ne5 Rd6 30.Re3 Be4 5.Nf3 0-0 6.0-0 b6 7.c4 Bb7 8.cxd5 Nxd5 29.Bxf3 Qxf3+ 30.Kh2 Qxe4 31.Rg1 31.Nd3 cxd4 32.cxd4 Rc7 33.Ne1 Bd5 9.Nc3 Nxc3 10.Bxc3 c5 11.Rc1 Nd7 Bxf2 32.Qxf2 Rc2 0-1 34.a3 g5 35.Rh5 h6 36.Re8+ Kg7 37.Rh3 12.Rc2 Nf6 13.Qa1 g6 14.d3 Nd5 15.Bg7 Re6 38.Rxe6 Bxe6 39.Re3 Kf6 40.Kf1 Bf6 16.Bxf6 Qxf6 17.Ne5 Nb4 18.Rc4 Earle Wikle (2043) Bc4+ 41.Kg1 Re7 42.Rxe7 Kxe7 43.f3 Bxg2 19.Kxg2 Rfd8 20.Rf4 Qh8 21.Nxf7 Randy Canney (2222) Kd6 44.Kf2 Kd5 45.c3 b5 46.g3 h5 Round 3 Qxa1 22.Rxa1 Rd5 23.Nh6+ Kg7 24.Ng4 47.Nc2 f4 48.gxf4 gxf4 49.Ne1 Ke6 a5 25.Ne3 Re5 26.a3 Nd5 27.Nxd5 exd5 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4 Nf6 50.Kg2 Kf6 51.Nc2 a5 52.Ne1 Be2 28.Kf1 g5 29.Rf3 d4 30.e4 b5 31.g4 a4 5.e5 d5 6.Bb5 Ne4 7.Nxd4 Bd7 8.Bxc6 53.Kf2 Bc4 54.Kg2 ½-½ 32.bxa4 Rxa4 33.Rb1 c4 34.dxc4 Rxc4 bxc6 9.0-0 Bc5 10.f3 Ng5 11.f4 Ne4 35.Rf5 Rxf5 36.exf5 d3 37.Rxb5? Rc1+ 12.Be3 Bb6 13.Nc3 Nxc3 14.bxc3 Qe7 38.Kg2 d2 39.Rd5 d1Q 40.Rxd1 Rxd1 15.Qf3 0-0 16.Rae1 Rfe8 17.Qf2 c5

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Andrew Eskenazi (1656) 31.Kf1 Ne3+ 32.Kf2 Nd1+ 33.Ke2 Nxb2 Sravyasri Lankipalle (1371) DuWayne Langseth (1941) 34.Nc5 Kf7 35.Nxe6 Re8 36.Rc7+ Kxe6 Ted Doykos (1791) Round 3 37.Rxg7 Kf6+ 0-1 Round 4

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nd2 f5 4.Ngf3 c6 5.g3 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4 e6 4.Nbd2 Be7 Bd6 6.Bg2 Nd7 7.Qc2 Qf6 8.Nb3 Ne7 Daniel Herman (2124) 5.e3 0-0 6.Bd3 Nbd7 7.c3 b6 8.Nf1 c5 9.Bf4 Bxf4 10.gxf4 Ng6 11.e3 0-0 Rhett Langseth (2122) 9.Ng3 a5 10.Qe2 Bb7 11.Ne5 Ne4 Round 4 12.0-0-0 Nh4 13.Rhg1 Nxf3 14.Bxf3 b6 12.Nxe4 dxe4 13.Bb5 Nxe5 14.Bxe5 Bd6 15.Rg5 Ba6 16.c5 Bc4 17.Nd2 Bb5 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e5 4.Nge2 Nbd7 15.Bxd6 Qxd6 16.dxc5 Qxc5 17.Rd1 18.Nb3 Ba4 19.Rdg1 Rf7 20.h4 bxc5 5.g3 c6 6.Bg2 b5 7.0-0 Bb7 8.h3 a5 Rfd8 18.0-0 g6 19.h3 Kg7 20.Rfe1 h5 21.dxc5 Rb8 22.Bh5 Re7 23.f3 Rb5 9.Be3 b4 10.Nb1 c5 11.d5 h5 12.Nd2 Ba6 21.a3 Bd5 22.c4 Bc6 23.Bxc6 Qxc6 24.Qd2 Bxb3 25.axb3 Nxc5 26.Kd1 Rxb3 13.c4 bxc3 14.bxc3 a4 15.c4 Qa5 16.Qc2 24.b3 a4 25.b4 Rac8 26.Qb2+ f6 27.Rxd8 27.Qa5 Nb7 28.Qxa7 Rxb2 29.Qb8+ Qf8 a3 17.Nc1 Rb8 18.Nd3 g6 19.f4 Bg7 Rxd8 28.Rc1 Rd3 29.c5 Rb3 30.Qd2 Rd3 30.Qe5 Rb1+ 31.Ke2 Rxg1 32.Rxg1 Nd8 ½-½ 33.e4 Ra7 34.Kf2 Qc5+ 35.Kg2 Ra2+ 36.Kh1 Qe7 37.Rg5 h6 0-1 William Wolf (1455) Robert Carlson (1552) Robert Carlson (1552) Round 4

Ayush Vispute (1415) 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3 Bg4 4.h3 Bxf3 Round 3 5.Qxf3 e6 6.b3 c6 7.Bb2 Nbd7 8.g4 Qa5 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.c3 e6 4.Bf4 Be7 5.e3 9.a3 0-0-0 10.b4 Qb6 11.Nc3 e5 12.Na4 0-0 6.Bd3 d5 7.dxc5 Bxc5 8.0-0 Nbd7 Qc7 13.fxe5 Nxe5 14.Qf5+ Ned7 9.Nbd2 Re8 10.Ne5 Nxe5 11.Bxe5 Nd7 15.0-0-0 g6 16.Qxf6 Nxf6 17.Bxf6 Be7 12.Nf3 Nxe5 13.Nxe5 f6 14.Nf3 e5 18.Bxh8 Rxh8 19.Bd3 Qe5 20.Kb1 d4 15.Bb5 Rf8 16.Qb3 Kh8 17.Rad1 Be6 21.exd4 Qxd4 22.Rhe1 Bf6 23.Nc3 Kd7 18.Qc2 Qb6 19.Ba4 Rac8 20.Bb3 Rfd8 24.Re4 Qf2 25.Rf1 Qh4 26.Ref4 Bxc3 21.h3 d4 22.Bxe6 Qxe6 23.exd4 exd4 27.Rxf7+ Kc8 28.dxc3 Re8 29.R1f3 Re7 24.Qb3 Qxb3 25.axb3 d3 26.Rd2 Rc7 30.Rf8+ Kc7 31.a4 Qg5 32.R8f7 Kd7 27.Rfd1 Rcd7 28.Ne1 a5 29.Rxd3 Rxd3 20.fxe5 Nxe5 21.Nxe5 dxe5 22.Nb3 Qa4 33.Bc4 Qe5 34.Rxe7+ Kxe7 35.Rf7+ Ke8 30.Rxd3 Rxd3 31.Nxd3 Bd6 32.Kf1 Kg8 23.Qf2 Bxc4 24.Nxc5 Qa5 25.Rab1 0-0 36.Kb2 b5 37.axb5 cxb5 38.Bb3 h5 33.Ke2 Kf7 34.f3 Ke6 35.Ke3 Kd5 26.Rfc1 Rb5 27.Rxb5 Qxb5 28.Qc2 Be2 39.gxh5 Qxh5 40.Rxa7 Kf8 41.Rf7+ 36.c4+ Kc6 37.Kd4 g6 38.Kc3 Be5+ 29.Rb1 Qc4 30.Qd2 Bh6 31.Bxh6 Qxc5+ Ke8 ... ½-½ 39.Nxe5+ fxe5 40.b4 a4 41.Kd3 b5 42.c5 32.Kh2 Qf2 33.Bxf8 Kxf8 34.Re1 Nxe4 Kd5 43.h4 h6 44.g4 g5 45.h5 1-0 35.Qxe2 Qxg3+ 36.Kg1 Ng5 37.Qe3 Qh4 Austin Cook (Unrated) 38.Qxe5 Kg8 39.Rb1 f6 40.Qe8+ Kg7 Isaac Langer (Unrated) Sara Herman (2018) 41.Rb7+ Nf7 42.Rxf7+ Kh6 43.Qh8+ Round 4 Kg5 44.Qxf6+ 1-0 Josh Bloomer (2412) 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.Bg5 Bb4 Round 4 Elliott Woo (2086) 5.e4 d5 6.e5 h6 7.Be3 Ne4 8.Nge2 0-0 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Nd7 4.c3 Ngf6 Eric Billaux (2102) 9.Rc1 dxc4 10.Ng3 Nxc3 11.bxc3 Be7 5.Qe2 a6 6.Ba4 e6 7.0-0 Be7 8.d4 b5 Round 4 12.Bxc4 Bg5 13.Qg4 f5 14.exf6 gxf6 9.Bc2 Bb7 10.a4 0-0 11.Rd1 Qc7 12.Na3 15.Bxe6+ Bxe6 16.Qxe6+ Kg7 17.Nh5+ b4 13.Nb1 cxd4 14.Nxd4 d5 15.exd5 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bg5 Nbd7 4.e3 g6 Kg6 18.Qe4+ Kxh5 19.g4+ Kh4 20.f4 Nxd5 16.Rd3 N7f6 17.Rh3 Rfd8 18.Bg5 5.c4 Bg7 6.Bd3 0-0 7.0-0 c6 8.Nc3 e5 Kxg4 21.f5+ Kh5 22.Qf3+ Kh4 23.Bf2# Rac8 19.Bxf6 Bxf6 20.Bxh7+ Kf8 9.dxe5 dxe5 10.Qc2 Qc7 11.e4 Nc5 1-0 21.Nxe6+ fxe6 22.Bf5 Nf4 0-1 12.Be2 Bg4 13.h3 Bxf3 14.Bxf3 Ne6 15.Bxf6 Bxf6 16.Ne2 Nd4 17.Nxd4 exd4 k DuWayne Langseth (1941) 18.Qd3 c5 19.Rab1 a5 20.a3 a4 21.b3 Gunnar Andersen (2303) axb3 22.Rxb3 Ra6 23.Rfb1 b6 24.g3 Bd8 Round 4 25.Bg2 Qa7 26.Bf3 Re8 27.Kg2 Ra4 28.Bg4 Qe7 29.Bf3 Qg5 30.Ra1 Bc7 1.d4 e6 2.e3 c5 3.f4 Nf6 4.Bd3 b6 5.Nf3 31.h4 Qe5 32.Rab1 Kg7 33.Ra1 Re7 Ba6 6.Bxa6 Nxa6 7.0-0 Be7 8.Qe2 Nb8 34.Rab1 h6 35.R3b2 Qe6 36.Rc1 g5 9.e4 cxd4 10.Nxd4 0-0 11.Nc3 Nc6 37.hxg5 hxg5 38.Ra2 g4 39.Bd1 Ra8 12.Nxc6 dxc6 13.Be3 Qc7 14.Rad1 e5 40.Bc2 Rh8 41.Rh1 Rxh1 42.Kxh1 Qh6+ 15.fxe5 Qxe5 16.Bd4 Bc5 17.Qf2 Bxd4 43.Kg2 Re8 44.Bd1 Qh3+ 45.Kg1 Rh8 18.Qxd4 Rfe8 19.Qxe5 Rxe5 20.Rd6 Rc8 46.Bf3 gxf3 47.Qxf3 Qh2+ 48.Kf1 Qh1+ 21.Rfd1 Kf8 22.Rd8+ Re8 23.Rxc8 Rxc8 49.Qxh1 Rxh1+ 50.Ke2 Rc1 51.Kd3 24.e5 Ng4 25.Rd7 a5 26.a4 Rb8 27.e6 Rc3+ 52.Ke2 Rxc4 53.f4 Rc3 54.Kf2 f6 fxe6 28.Rd6 b5 29.Rxc6 b4 30.Ne4 Rd8 55.a4 Re3 56.Rb2 Ra3 0-1 Page 20 www.ColoradoChess.com Volume 47, Number 1 Colorado Chess Informant January 2020

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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

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Denver Chess Club Fall Classic The youngster, Owen Vonne - who is like 8 years old - just keeps winning money. He tied for 1st place in the U1400 section by J.C. MacNeil 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. (Reprinted with permission of the Denver Chess Club) Owen’s only loss was to Mr. Smith and he in turn only lost to This year’s attendance was down slightly, but a 53 player the 3rd place winner, Jeff Manuel. Mr. Manuel won $94 for his well earned 3.5 points. 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 Jesse Hester came so close to clear 1st place good chances; down the exchange but with a strong passed but alas... pawn. The youngest McConnell brother prevailed and he and Gunnar won $186 each. Mr. Hester ended up sharing the 3rd It’s good for me to see that pretty near all the prize winners in place prize of $94 with Brian Wall, both finishing with 3.5 this tournament are regular DCC Tuesday night players. DCC points. 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!

Gunnar Andersen awaiting Brian Wall’s opening move.

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 Meint Olthof with the Black pieces against Phillip Brown. 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 Denver Chess Club last round game against Mr. Doykos. Thus they all share the combined 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes, with each winning www.DenverChess.com $156.

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Brian Wall (2200) Kxd7 42.Kf2 Kc7 43.Kf3 Kb6 44.d4 exd4 45.exd4 Kc7 46.Kf4 Jeffrey Baffo (1801) g6 47.h3 Kd7 48.g4 Ke7 49.h4 h6 50.h5 gxh5 51.gxh5 Kf8 Round 1 52.Kf5 Kf7 53.c5 1-0

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+ Andrew Eskenazi (1645) Bxd8 13.g5 Nxe4 14.Nxe4 0–0 15.Nd6 Nf5 16.Bf4 Nxd6 Vendant Margale (1439) Round 5 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 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 0–0 6.Bg5 Na6 7.Qd2 26.Rd1 Kf7 27.Kf3 e5 28.Ke4 Ke6 29.d7 g6 30.b4 Rxd7 e5 8.Nge2 Qe8 9.Bh6 c6 10.Bxg7 Kxg7 11.0–0–0 b5 12.dxe5 31.Rxd7 Kxd7 32.Kxe5 Ke7 33.a3 b6 34.a4 a6 35.a5 b5 36.Kd4 dxe5 13.Ng3 b4 14.Na4 Rb8 15.b3 Qe7 16.h4 h5 17.Qg5 Ng8 Kd6 37.e4 c5+ 38.bxc5+ Kc6 39.e5 Kd7 40.Kd5 Kc7 41.e6 Kc8 18.Nxh5+ Kh7 19.Qxe7 Nxe7 20.Nf6+ Kg7 21.Nd7 Bxd7 42.c6 Kd8 43.Kd6 1-0 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 Coleman Hoyt (1469) Ne7 32.a4 Rhh8 33.a5 Rb8 34.Rxe7 Rhf8 35.a6 Rbe8 36.Rc7 Owen Christ (1109) Ng8 37.a7 Re7 38.Rxe7 Nxe7 39.a8R Rxa8 40.Nxa8 Ng8 Round 1 41.Rd1 Nf6 42.Rd6 Nh7 43.Rd7 Kh6 44.Rxf7 g5 45.Rxh7+

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Qc7 5.Nc3 e5 6.Nf5 Nge7 Kxh7 46.h5 Kh6 47.b4 Kg7 48.b5 cxb5 49.c6 bxc4 50.c7 c3 7.Nb5 Qa5+ 8.Bd2 Qb6 9.Nfd6+ Kd8 10.Nxf7+ Ke8 11.Nbd6# 51.c8Q c2 52.Qf5 Kg8 53.Qd7 Kh8 54.h6 Kg8 55.Qg7# 1-0 1-0 Coleman Hoyt (1469) Robert Cernich (1486 William O’Neil (1658) Round 5 J.C. MacNeil (1690) Round 2 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d5 3.cxd5 Nxd5 4.e4 Nf6 5.e5 Nd5 6.Nc3 e6 Be7 8.Qf3 Qc7 9.0–0–0 Nc6 10.g4 Nxd4 11.Rxd4 e5 12.Rc4 7.Nf3 Bb4 8.Bd2 c5 9.Nxd5 Bxd2+ 10.Qxd2 Qxd5 11.dxc5 Qd8 13.Bxf6 Bxf6 14.Nd5 0–0 15.g5 Be7 16.Rc7 Re8 17.h4 b5 Qe4+ 12.Be2 Nc6 13.0–0 Nxe5 14.Nxe5 Qxe5 15.Bb5+ Kf8 18.f5 f6 19.gxf6 Bxf6 20.Qh5 Rf8 21.Rg1 Rb8 22.Qh6 Rf7 16.Qd8# 1-0 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

k Owen Vonne in full focus mode. Maybe channeling the player on his shirt? The Final Standings for the Denver Chess Club Fall Classic can be found here: Phillip Brown (1550) https://tinyurl.com/yevfl2xq

Meint Olthof (1441) And pics of the event by John Brezina can be found here: Round 4 https://tinyurl.com/yfldrh4c

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+

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Watson - Carlson 1975 round game with Brian was a memorable miniature (see below). It felt like another Colorado tournament, playing my friends. by Curtis Carlson 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 “Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its round. This was my last tournament before my 21st birthday on peculiar charm.” - GM Jonathan Rowson April 13. I couldn’t believe I was actually 21, but now that I’m on Social Security it no longer seems so old. “Most of the missteps made by professional economists in the past century have been movements away from the analysis of “In a broad sense, the ability to perform well in extremely individual action and toward the analysis of aggregates and adverse situations is a mark of true greatness.” - averages.” - Robert Higgs GM Alex Yermolinsky “I probably became a Libertarian through exposure to tough- minded professors who encouraged me to think with my brain John and I managed not to cross swords at the US Open in instead of my heart.” - Walter E. Williams Lincoln, Nebraska (August 10-22) where we each scored 8.5-3.5

“Never trust anything a fiction writer says about himself.” - (see crosstable at https://www.chessgames.com/perl/ Stephen King chesscollection?cid=1019621). Our third 1975 game was in the fifth round of the Colorado Open on September 1, where I “...the modern player derives his perspective and intuition from blundered a pawn in the opening, managed to equalize, then the detailed analysis of great numbers of positions.” - blundered again and lost! Forty-five years later I still kick IM John L. Watson myself. See my last article at http://coloradochess.com/ “The world is rich and complicated, and a civil society allows informant/October_2019.pdf, page 29 for more painful for countless paths to human flourishing.” - Sarah Skwire memories.

A complex position can hardly be solved by the application of From 1972-76 I played IM John Watson twelve tournament just one positional principle. Unfortunately, that’s what people games. I won three, drew three, and lost six. Our 1972 games are are taught to do.” - GM Alex Yermolinsky at http://www.coloradochess.com/informant/January_2019.pdf. John has authored fine books on the French Defense, the English Our fourth 1975 game was a quick draw in the Mile High Open Opening, and strategic play (among many others). He has yet to on November 12, where we again tied for first by winning all write one about me, but I’m hopeful that will change sometime our other games. Our last was at the Showboat Open in Las soon. Vegas on December 8. Once again, after taking a long trip together, we got paired! I was losing but missed a draw when he “...Grandmasters tend to have a very deep knowledge of chess played inaccurately. Oh how I wish I could change some of my that encompasses all sorts of different openings and positions. moves! Stewie Griffin won’t loan me his time machine so I have It’s not sufficient anymore to be a one trick pony - you must be to make peace with myself some other way. universal.” - GM Danny Gormally “The solution to the problem only becomes apparent when you After we broke even in four 1972 games John and I had a understand the problem.” - Randall Carlson (No known ‘vacation’ from each other in 1973 when he was in Europe, but relation to me. His YouTube natural history videos are met again in the 1974 Appreciation Open (May 27), and the excellent.) 1975 Loveland Open (February 22). He won both easily, so my lifetime even record against him was brief. The first thing he My last two rated games with John were in 1976: I won the first asked after not seeing me for a year and a half was what my in the Appreciation Open (May 30), and drew the second in the current rating was. He seemed surprised when I said it was Colorado Open (September 6). Overall I only only managed half something like 2100 (not much higher than before); evidently, a point (out of four) with White, but got four (out of in eight) his expectations for my metoric rating rise were misplaced. I with Black. It’s too bad (for me) I didn’t have Black every time, finally made 2200 in 1976, but it was largely undeserved. since our lifetime record might then be 6-6 instead of 7.5-4.5.

“Magic is everywhere if you don’t understand science.” - “I think that’s what they meant when they talked about Anonymous Botvinnik’s ‘iron logic’: a very disciplined approach to solving “...the things that you do well and understand best have a the problem on the board, and not just basing a plan on your lasting value. Keep faith in them!” - GM Keith Arkell natural instincts.” - GM Matthew Sadler

Four of our 1975 games are examined here. I only managed two Annotations are mine with help from Houdini Chess engine 6.02 draws, but could have done better in other two. We had a hard with four CPUs (HCE), whatever engines are online while I fought 60 move draw in the 7th Las Cruces Open on March 22; analyze, and ChessBase 14. It’s not always easy to bare my soul after making a 600 mile trip from Denver (with with Brian Wall, to a cold blooded silicon monster that mercilessly refutes my Paul Nikitovich, and Alan Sebeckis) we got paired! My fourth mistakes, but hopefully it helps me improve. I try to learn something from every game, but usually learn how badly I Page 24 www.ColoradoChess.com Volume 47, Number 1 Colorado Chess Informant January 2020 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) 16...Rad8 = (This perfunctory move continues the plan to A04: https://denverchess.com/games/view/19007 overprotect d4, but 16...Rfe8! is more consistant with 11...Bg4

1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 Nf6 3.g3 e6 4.Bg2 d5 (This is HCE’s first choice, and makes White regret his last. Black does well to intensify but Black can also play the less commital 4...Be7 and 5...O-O pressure on e2 before White plays Nd3 so Nf4 isn’t possible. first. 5.d4 d5 6.cd ed 7.O-O O-O 8.b3 Nc6 = is Tal-Korchnoi 16...Rfe8 17.Rc2 Qe6! {Aiming at two pawns} 18.g4 Bg6 1984) 5.O-O Be7 6.cxd5 Nxd5 (This is OK but 6...ed keeping 19.Rd2 h5 is almost -+. If 19.Nd3 Qb3 -/+) 17.Nd3 = Rfe8 knights on the board is probably stronger since Black’s f6 knight 18.Rc2 (HCE prefers 18.Nf4 Bg6 19.Ng6 hg 20.b4 =, but John seems better than White’s c3 knight) 7.Nc3 O-O 8.Nxd5 (HCE was reluctant to trade his strong knight) 18...Bg6 =+ 19.Rd2 Be4 seems to think White shouldn’t capture on d5 before Black (11...Bf5 looks more reasonable now) 20.b4 Bxg2 21.Kxg2 a6 = captures on d4, and prefers 8.d4 cd 9.Nd5 ed 10.Nd4 +=, or (More passive play. With light squared bishops gone 21...h5 =+ 8...Nc6 9.e4 Nc3 10.bc +=) 8...exd5 = (Also playable is 8...Qd5 is logical, hoping to further weaken White’s castled position 9.d4 cd 10.Nd4 Qc4 +=) 9.d4 Nc6 (Now Black doesn’t have to with 22...h4. Also good was 21...Qd5 22.Kh2 h5 23.h4 Re4 =+. take on d4) 10.dxc5 Bxc5 11.b3 (Many moves have been tried My position was better than I realized) 22.Qb3 Qd5+ (Since here. 11.Bg5 has been played by Tomashevsky, Anand, Black has a space advantage trading queens only helps White. Topalov, Korchnoi, Kramnik, and Polugaevsky {among others}. HCE suggests 22...Re4 or 22...Re6 planning to double rooks on 11.Qc2 has been tried by Portisch, Huebner, Miles, and Smyslov the e file, which gives White more to think about. HCE’s second {among others}. Petrosian and Portisch have played 11.a3. choice is 22...Qf5 23.Ne1 h5 =) 23.Qxd5 Rxd5 = 24.Rc1 f6 11.b3 emulates Ribli, Uhlmann, and Najdorf) 11...Bg4 (Most 25.Nf4 Rdd8 (more consistent was 25...Rde5 =) 26.Rcd1 Kf7 popular and probably best is 11...Bf5 {Gurevich-Alburt 1983}, 27.Kf1 Ne5 (Black only wants a draw and aims for which intends ...Be4 since White no longer has a knight aiming simplification. 27...g5 28.Nd3 h5 was more dynamic and looks at e4. 11...Qf6 = is Najdorf-Karpov 1980. Also reasonable are like something Magnus Carlsen would play) 28.Bxd4 Nc4 11...Re8 and 11...Be6. 11...Bg4 is rare but was played 29.Rd3 Bxd4 30.Rxd4 Rxd4 31.Rxd4 Nxa3 32.Rd7+ Re7 successfully by Israeli GM Alon Greenfeld in 2012) 12.Bb2 d4 33.Rd8 Re8 34.Rd7+ Re7 35.Rd6 (It’s dead even but after I 13.h3 Bh5 (13...Bf3 and 13...Bf5 were just as good) 14.a3 Bb6 = collapsed in our last game John understandably plays on. We (This is HCE’s and Komodo 9’s first choice, although I can’t were both moving quickly in time pressure. find it in ChessBase. There are three games with 14...a5 when “Fighting spirit trumphs over reason.” - David Bronstein White has played 15.Qd3 and 15.b4, both with approximate equality. 14...Rc8, 14...Qe7, and 14...Qd6 are also about even) 35...Nb5 36.Rb6 Nc3 37.Nd3 Nd5 (HCE prefers 37...Ke8 15.Rc1 Qd7 (It’s probably better to get the queen off the d file heading to the queenside, which I didn’t even consider. If with 15...Qe7 {15...Re8 is also strong}. If then 16.g4 {16.Nd4? 37...Ne2 38.Nc5 Nc3 39.Nb7 Nd5 40.Nd6 Ke6 41.Ra6 Nb4 =) Nd4 17.Bd4 Rad8-+} 16...Bg6 17.Nd4 Rad8 18.e3 Nd4 19.Bd4 38.Rd6 Nc3 39.e3 Re6 40.Rd4 Nb5 41.Rd8 Rd6 42.Rxd6 Nxd6 Qa3 = {also 19...f5 =} HCE) 16.Ne1?! (White wants his knight 43.Nc5 Ke7 44.Ke2 b6 45.Nxa6 Kd7 46.Kd3 Kc6 47.Kd4 Kb7 on d3, but this is risky since Black’s h5 bishop now hits e2. HCE 48.Kd5 Nb5 49.Nc5+ bxc5 50.bxc5 (The situation has cleared, gives 16.Rc2 Rad8 17.Rd2 =) 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 “It is not enough for something to be interesting and innovative. Kxc5 58.h5 Kd5 59.Kf5 Nxe3+ 60.Kf4 Ke6 DRAW John finally Against strong opposition, it also has to be good and accurate.” gave up the ghost. This was our seventh tournament game and - IM Colin Crouch 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 enough to force resignation) 1-0. Brian was my Tal and I was his March 23, 1975 Korchnoi! He once said there’s no one he’d rather not face in an Curtis Carlson (2083, age 21) important game than me, which is exactly how I felt about Paul Brian Wall (2036, age 20) Nikitovich (who beat me like a beginner numerous times). I C41: https://denverchess.com/games/view/19013 almost felt guilty about winning so brutally, but it couldn’t

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 (In 1974 Brian and I had a bunch of Sicilians happen to a nicer guy than Brian! If we ever play again he’ll so he tries something different) 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Nbd7 5.Bc4 Be7 likely try his Fishing Pole. 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 “Speak only of things you understand. If you are ignorant... me in the 1978 US Open in Phoenix - see the July 2019 CCI for every opinion you express on this matter is groundless and silly.” - Kozma Prutkov the complete game. 11...Bd6 is OK, but probably best is 11...Ne5 12.de Bc5 =, which is first choice of HCE and Komodo “Hey Curt, sometimes pieces hang with check!” - Brian Wall 13.02, while Stockfish 8 prefers 12...Be6 = and Deep Fritz 14 (After I lost to Bob Fordon in the 1981 Boulder Open, which likes 12...Qb6 =. Black could also consider 11...c5 += and was my last Colorado tournament.) 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 Between games with Brian and John I had an unforgettable third Kf7 15.Qh5 Kg8 16.Qe5 +=, which of course I didn’t even round... consider) 12...exf3? (It’s dangerous to open the f file. HCE likes 7th Las Cruces Open / Round 3 12...Qe7, 12...c5, or 12...Qc7 which are all +=) March 22, 1975 “Chess is a deep creative process and will not tolerate Curtis Carlson (2083, age 21) superficial positional judgement and normally punishes such Zigmund Mayer (1802, age about 30) superficiality very harshly.” - GM Efim Geller B80: https://denverchess.com/games/view/19019

“...the reason we love chess so much is the beauty that lies in its 1.e4 e6 2.d4 c5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 cxd4 5.Nxd4 d6 6.Bg5 Be7 complexity and that the human mind cannot master the 7.f4 h6 8.Bxf6 Bxf6 9.Qd2 a6 10.O-O-O Qc7 11.Kb1 O-O 12.g4 game...we will never have a perfect calculating brain, mistakes Rd8? (12...Nc6 +=) 13.h4 +/- Bxd4 14.Qxd4 Nc6 15.Qd2 b5 and oversights will always be made, but in a competitive sense, 16.g5 b4 17.Ne2 h5 18.g6 (I didn’t want to allow 18...g6, but it is only important to see more than your opponent, who is after 18.Ng3 g6 19.Bh3 +/- was OK) 18...Rb8? (18...fg 19.Rg1 Ne7 all faced with the same problems of complexity himself!” - +/- was a better try) 19.Rg1 a5 20.Bh3 a4 21.gxf7+ Qxf7 22.Rg5 GM Danny Gormally 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

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. 30.Rxe7 (I didn’t even consider HCE’s first choice of 30.R7g6,

“Timing is everything in chess.” - IM Cyrus Lakdawala 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 13...Qa5? (This is suicide. Development can’t always be also hopeless) 31.Rgg7 dxe4 32.Ref7+ 1-0 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 Not a great game, but it was enjoyable to get a horizontal which are all +=, according to HCE. Now with an extra tempo version of Alekhine’s Gun. the game is over since White’s pieces harmonize beautifully in a crushing attack.) 14.Ng5 +- Nf6 15.Qd3! h6 16.Nxf7 Rxf7 “The sole purpose of chess is thinking about chess.” - 17.Qg6 (HCE prefers 17.Rf6 Qe1 18.Rf1 but this was good David Bronstein

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After Las Cruces John and I had a six month ‘vacation’ from “...a half dozen moves, in chess, can be a lifetime.” - each other, but finally played again in the fifth round of the Bobby Fischer 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) 26.Ne4 (My dream move! Bad was 26.f5? Bc6 -/+, but also C06: https://denverchess.com/games/view/19020 playable was 26.b4 Be7 27.f5 {27.Ne4? R6f7 -+ doesn’t work

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Bd3 (In the ‘90s I with Black’s g pawn protected} 27...Bd6 {27...Bc6 is now bad successfully played 5.f4 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Ndf3 Qb6 8.g3 in postal because of 28.b5, which was the point of 26.b4} 28.fe Rf2 games, but this older line isn’t bad) 5...c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Ne2 Qb6 29.Kg1 R2f3 =. This was hard to see with little time on the 8.Nf3 cxd4 9.cxd4 f6 (This is most common, but 9...Bb4, clock ) 26...gxf4 (John always preferred ‘forward’ moves, even if it meant losing material.) 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, “One of the basic principles of good defense is the willingness to 12.Nf4, and almost everything else has been played here. HCE give back any material gained.” - GM Max Euwe and Stockfish 10 prefer 12.Bf4 Bf4 13.Nf4 O-O {13...Qb2 27.Nxf6+ (HCE gives the crazy 27.b4 R6f7 28.Ng5 f3 29.Kf1 14.Re1 O-O 15.g3+= HCE, Komodo 13.01, Stockfish 10, Deep Bb5 30.Bd3 Bd3 31.Rd3 Rf5 32.Ne6 Rh5 33.Kg1 Bf2 34.Kf2 Fritz 13} 14.Re1 g6 15.Bc2 Qb2 16.g3 += HCE. I probably Rh2 35.Kf1 Rh1 36.Kf2 Rh2 =, which even Tal would have passed on this because I didn’t want to lose my b pawn) missed.) 27...Rxf6 28.gxf4!? =+ (Too submissive. Best was 12...O-O 13.Nc3 Bd7 14.Bg5 (14.a3, 14.Be3, and 14.h3 are also 28.Rd3 = HCE to answer 28...gf with 29.Rg3) 28...Rxf4 29.f3 played here. My primordial self was more worried about blind (More passitivity! HCE gives 29.b4 Bf2 30.Rf1 Be3 31.Rf4 Bf4 development than positional needs) 14...Ng4 (14...Kh8 and 32.Rf1 Bg5 33.Bh7 =+, which was hard for a blind materialist to 14...Rae8 are most common) 15.Bh4 += (White has a cheap consider.) 29...Rf7 30.Rh1 Rg7+ 31.Kf1 Bb5!? (After this Black threat to take on h7. 15...Kh8 16.Bh7 += is Geller - Ulibin 1989) has no advantage. John said he missed my response, which was 15...Nh6 16.Qb3? (A ridiculous mistake. 16.Bg3 Be7 17.Na4 made instantly. 31...Be3 or 32...h6 give Black a small edge. John Qa5 18.a3 Rf3 19.gf Nd4 20.Nc3 Bf6 21.Kh1 {22.Kg2 =} briefly seemed unhappy but quickly regained his optimism.) 21...Qb6 22.b4 Be8 23.f4 a5 DRAW is Keres-Bronstein 1956, 32.Bd3 Bd7 = (It’s amazing I could equalize after my 16th, although Black is better after 23...Qc6 or 23...Qd6. 17.Na4 although I still thought I was lost.) 33.Rd2 Be3 34.Rg2 (It was seems too optimistic since the exchange sac gives Black at least hard not to make a cheap threat on h7 in our time scramble. He equality. HCE prefers guarding b2 indirectly with 17.a3 += or took about two seconds to respond. 34.Re2 = or 34.Rc2 = were 17.Rc1 +=. During the game I had no idea Keres once had the better.) 34...h6 35.Rxg7+ Kxg7 36.Ke2 Bf4 37.Rg1+ (This is same position! But instead of playing his move I blundered after OK but White’s rook was probably better on h1. White should thinking 20 minutes.) try to trade light squared bishops with 37.b3, a4, and Bb5.) “Success in chess depends not so much on knowledge as on 37...Kf6 38.Rg6 (38.Rg8 and 38.Rg4 are also equal.) 38...Ke7 skills and the ability to make confident decisions in all sorts of 39.Rg7+ Kd6 40.b3 Bc6 41.Bg6 (Here I came up with the idea situations.” - IM Mark Dvoretsky to trade light squared bishops with Rg8 and Be8, which was

16...Nxd4 17.Qxb6 (I nearly resigned here) 17...Nxf3+ 18.gxf3 easier with 41.a4 and 42.Bb5. 41.Rf7 e5 42.Bf5 = was also axb6 -/+ 19.Kg2 Nf5 20.Bg3 Bc5 21.a3 Rf6 22.Rad1 Rc8 (HCE possible.) 41...Ke5 42.Kd3 Kf6 43.Rg8 (43.Rf7 Kg5 44.Rg7 Kf6 likes 22...Nd4 but this is also good) 23.Bb1 Nxg3?! (It’s hard to = was easier) 43...Bb5+ 44.Kc2 (44.Kd4 was slightly better.) understand why John made this exchange which reduced his 44...Be2 advantage. 23...Rcf8-/+ was obvious) 24.hxg3 =+ Rcf8!? = (HCE now dislikes this natural move and says it’s now equal. “Do you realize, Fischer almost never had any bad pieces. He Better was 24...Rf7 25.f4 g6=+ when Black is a solid pawn up.) exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents.” 25.f4 g5!? (John never lacked optimism! 25...Rh6 and 25...R6f7 - GM Yuri Balashov were also equal. Now the game gets mixed up in mutual time pressure. Time control was 40/2.)

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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

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 Curt Carlson and John Watson in Lone Pine, California

I should have resigned after 46...e5. This game shows how fast (March 1977). I’m the handsome one on the left. ‘natural’ moves (my 45th and 46th) can ruin a position. This was played exactly six years after I lost the unforgettable rook My fifth and last 1975 game with John was also memorable. ending to Steve Yamamoto (see my previous article). I may have This was the second time we traveled out of state to a to erase September 1 games from my memory. 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 “Respect your opponent if he’s a strong player...but not too opening... much.” - GM Matthew Sadler Showboat Open Las Vegas, Nevada / Round 5 John won the last round and became the new state champion. I December 11, 1975 finished a full point behind him. I wasn’t destined to be Curtis Carlson (2127, age 21) Colorado champion in 1975, but 1976 was right around the John Watson (2301, age 24) corner. B15: https://denverchess.com/games/view/19023

“It can be very hard to keep things together when you’re just 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c6 4.f4 d5 5.e5 h5 (John played this looking at weaknesses in your position all the time, even if you against me in blitz games so I should have been better prepared.) have a slight material advantage.” - GM Matthew Sadler 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 Our fourth game was a quick draw... his position gradually 14.b3 and c4. Also good was 14.Be2 += avoiding unfavorable trades. The text leads to a complicated 3rd Mile High Open / Round 5 exchange of queen for two rooks.) 14...axb4 15.axb4 b5 = (HCE November 9, 1975 wants to trade light squared bishops before making this push so Curtis Carlson (2107, age 21) White can’t block a back rank check with Bf1, and gives John Watson (2350, age 24) 15...Bd3 16.Qd3 b5 17.Nc5 Qa1 18.Ra1 Ra1 =+) 16.Nc5 Qxa1 B80: https://denverchess.com/games/view/19022 17.Rxa1 Rxa1+ 18.Kh2? (This is bad since in some lines Black

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 a6 6.g3 d6 7.Bg2 can play ...Ng4 with check. 18.Kf2 =+ was better, and best was Bd7 8.O-O Nf6 9.b3 Qc7 10.Bb2 Rc8 11.Rc1 h5 (John was 18.Bf1 = when HCE gives 18...Ra2 19.Qc3, and if 19...Rc2? always an optimist, but this is HCE’s first choice.) 12.Nce2 h4 20.Qa3 is actually winning. White should avoid trading minor 13.c4 hxg3 14.hxg3 Qa5 15.Nxc6 Qh5 16.f3 Bxc6 17.Kf2 += pieces, especially light squared bishops.) 18...Ra7 (I don’t know (17.Qd2 is also +=) 17...Qg5 18.Bd4 Be7 19.Be3 (HCE gives why John played this, maybe he disliked 19.Nb7 and 20.Nd6. 19.Qc2 Nd7 20.Rh1 += where White tries to use the h file Black HCE gives 18...Ra2 19.Bf2 Bd3 20.Qd3 Nf5 -/+) 19.Bf2 Be7 =+ has conveniently opened.) 19...Qa5 20.Qd2 Qxd2 21.Bxd2 Bd8 (Again, HCE gives 19...Bd3 20.Qd3 Nf5 -/+) 20.Bh4 (Also good Page 28 www.ColoradoChess.com Volume 47, Number 1 Colorado Chess Informant January 2020 was 20.Nb3 Bd3 21.cd! {not leaving a hole on c4} 21...Nf5 into the next move’s note.) 37...Ke7? = (After 37...bc 38.Qc1 22.Na5 Nb8 23.g3 = when the a file is blocked and makes Black Ra2 39.Qb1 Rb2 40.Qa1 Ng7! 41.Kf6 Ne8 42.Kf7 Nc7 -+ the regret 18...Ra7.) 20...Nxc5 21.dxc5? (According to HCE 21.Be7 7th rank is blocked and White can resign.) 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 38.g4?? (The move that haunts me. HCE says it’s dead equal =+, or 26.Kg1 Nf5 27.Nf5 gf 28.Qg7 Rf8 29.Kf2 =. Also good after 38.Qb2 Rc3 39.g4 hg 40.Qb4 g2 41.Qb7 when White has a was 25.Qf3 Ra4 26.f5 Nf5 27.Nf5 gf 28.Qh5 Rf8 =, or 26...gf perpetual.) 38...hxg3 39.Kg4 (39.Qb2 is now too slow since 27.Qh5 Rb4 28.Qh6 Rd4 =, but not 26...ef? 27.e6+ and 28.Qf4 + 38...Rc3 isn’t mandatory, and 38...g2 39.Qb4 g1 promotes with -. These pawn sacrfices didn’t occur to me during the game, but check.) 39...g2 0-1 Defeat from the jaws of equality! It’s if I had been more familiar with Pillsbury - Lasker Nuremberg important to be ever alert for opportunities provided by the 1896 they might have; opponent’s inaccuracies. I shouldn’t have missed the obvious see https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1109111. 38.Qb2, but of course John shouldn’t have missed the obvious My passive idea to block the a file and wait was met by a 36...d4. This was poorly played by both of us, but justice powerful exchange sacrifice.) 25...Nf5 -/+ (Black is doing well ultimately prevailed since he was better most of the game. but HCE prefers 25...Ra4 or 25...Ra3 before White can play Nonetheless, I will forever kick myself for 38.g4 (and 25.Nb3).

26.Na5. The rest of the game was played quickly while we were “...behind each victory or defeat is invariably concealed a both low on time. Time control was 50/2.5) 26.Na5 h4 27.Qf3 history of searchings, findings, and disappointments.” - Rh8 28.Qd1 Ne3 29.Qd4 Nf1+ 30.Kg1 Ng3 31.Kf2 Rha8 GM Efim Geller 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 This was my last rated loss to John. I won our next game in the surprised me, but shouldn’t have. fifth round of the 1976 Appreciation Open (after another six month ‘vacation’), then we drew in the sixth round of the 1976 “Experienced players know that, in a cramped position, the Colorado Open. It was finally my turn to be state champion! It main trouble often happens to be the poorer activity of the was the third time in two years we tied for first in a tournament Rooks.” - Tigran Petrosian by drawing each other and winning the rest. If I remember

I think Tigran would have liked Black’s active rook.) 33.bxa5 correctly John moved to Berkeley in early 1977 and played Rxa5 -+ 34.Kg4 Nf5 35.Qd2 Ra3 36.c3 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 36...b4? = (This is a serious mistake, since White can now International, 38 years after their first at the 1981 Lone Pine penetrate to the 7th rank via the b file. White must resign after Masters tournament; both were drawn. 36...d4) 37.Kg5? -+ (37.Qb2 Rc3 38.Kg5 Ke7 39.g4 transposes JT beat me badly the one time we played in 1983. www.ColoradoChess.com Page 29 Volume 47, Number 1 Colorado Chess Informant January 2020

My other loss in LV was also interesting. My opponent was one White still stands well. It’s harder to play c4-c5 without a pawn of California’s top players for many years and received his FM on b4) 16.Be3 +/- (Black could resign after 16.b5 Nd4 17.ba title in 1983. 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 Showboat Open / Round 2 18.Kd2 Rfd8 offered more resistance when Black has some hope Las Vegas, Nevada of eliminating White’s bishop pair.) 18.dxe5 (Stronger was December 8, 1975 18.d5) 18...Ng6 19.c5 (HCE prefers 19.b5 Bb7 20.a4+-, or Tibor Weinberger (2368, age 43) 19...Bc8 20.c5 bxc5 21.Rc1! Ne5 22.Rc5 Nf3 23.Bf3 ef 24.Kd2 Curtis Carlson (2127, age 21) +/-. 19.e6 was also good) 19...Bxe2 20.Kxe2 bxc5 21.bxc5 Nxe5 E45: https://denverchess.com/games/view/19025 22.Rhb1 Rfc8 23.Rb4 Nd3 24.Rc4 Rab8 25.Ra2 (HCE thinks

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 b6 5.Ne2 Ba6 6.a3 Bxc3+ it’s best to simplify with 25.Re4 Nc5 26.Rb4 when White’s 7.Nxc3 d5 8.Qf3 (8.b3 is most common, but the text has been superior minor piece is very difficult for Black.) 25...f5 (As played by Mamedyarov, Aronian, and Hort.) 8...O-O 9.b4 (9.g4 good as anything. This is HCE’s first choice.) 26.gxf6 gxf6 Bb7 10.g5 Ne4 11.Ne4 de 12.Qg3 = Mamedyarov-Istratescu 27.Rxe4 Nxc5 28.Re7 a5? (This pawn is now hard to defend. 2004, also Aronian-Istratescu 2004. First choice of HCE, Much stronger was 28...a6 +/- when a future ...Rc6 protects it. Stockfish, and Komodo 9.02 is 9...c6, and after 10.b3 dc 11.bc We had less than half an hour each remaining. Time control was e5! = HCE. Also reasonable is the optimistic 9...c5 =) 9...Qd7 50/2.5) 29.Ra1 (Better was 29.Rd2 Rc6 30.Rd5 and 31.Rh5 +-.) (The queen isn’t well placed here and makes d7 unavailable for 29...Rb7 30.Rg1+ Kh8 (Better was 30...Kf8) 31.Rgg7 Rxe7 a knight. It’s not mentioned in ChessBase 14 but HCE says it’s 32.Rxe7 Kg8 33.Bh6 Rc6? (33...Nb3+/-, 33...Ra8+/-, and equal. I must have been thinking of Portisch-Fischer Santa 33...a4+/- were all better tries. By now we each had less than Moncia 1966 {Game 53 in MSMG}. HCE, Stockfish 5, and five minutes remaining.) 34.Rg7+ Kh8 35.Ra7 (35.Rf7! Rc8 Deep Fritz 14 all prefer 9...c5 = hoping to advantageously open 36.Rf6 was overwhelming.) 35...Kg8 36.Rxa5 (Oh how I wish I the c file. 9...Bb7, 9...Re8, and 9...c6 are also good. 9...Nbd7 had played 28...a6!) 36...Kf7 37.Be3 Nd7 38.Ra7 Ke6 39.a4 h5? 10.g5 Ne4 11.Ne4 de 12.Qe4 Qg5 += is slightly better for (Another weak move. I wanted to move my knight without White. Black’s slight lead in development compensates for losing my h7 pawn, but 39...Ne5 40.Rh7 Rc2 41.Kf1 Ra2 White’s bishop pair.) 10.g4!? (Perhaps too optimistic. 10.Bb2 c6 42.Rh4 f5 was much harder for White to win. Sometimes piece activity is more important than material!) = HCE) 10...c5 = (More consistent is 10...Bc4 =+, where 11.Bc4? Qc6 is bad for White. 11.g5 is well answered by “The most important feature of the chess position is the activity 11...Ne4 12.Bc4 Nc3 13.Bd3 c5 14.dc Nc6 =+. Also on 10...dc of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the not 11.Qa8? Nc6-+, but 11.Bg2 =.) 11.g5 Ne4 12.Nxe4 dxe4 game: opening, middlegame, and especially endgame. The 13.Qd1 = 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 13...cxd4 +/-? (This could almost be called the losing move. McRaney said, “If you think you’re the same person now that During the game I was puzzled, since I’m castled and have two you were earlier in life, you are not so smart!” Hopefully this pieces developed, while he has no development and has applies favorably to me. weakened himself on both sides of the board; shouldn’t I open up the game? But according to HCE, it’s equal! What would “How you make others feel says a lot about who you are.” - Fred Reinfeld have said? White lost time securing a queenside A. A. Milne pawn majority and the bishop pair; to offset these advantages Black should should keep developing {and aim at pawns} with “True Power is sitting back and observing things with logic. 13...Rd8 14.Bb2 Qe7 = HCE.) 14.Qxd4 Qxd4 15.exd4 += Nc6? True power is restraint.” - Warren Buffett (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 At the Showboat I won my other four and finished 4-2; at least it Black has a light squared blockade} 16...Bb7 17.a4 a6, although took 2300 strength players to beat me! John also scored 4-2, losing only to GM Larry Christiansen and tournament winner Page 30 www.ColoradoChess.com Volume 47, Number 1 Colorado Chess Informant January 2020

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 December 1975: Mike Chess is happy after going wish now I’d called it a chess career after the Pan Am so I could 7-1 on board four in the Pan Am. have gone out with a bang. There’s a lot of hindsight in chess, both on and off the board. Martin Thomas Deschner (1950-2018) I was also saddened to learn my longtime friend Martin ‘Tuna’ “...the combination is the summit of creative chess and that it Deschner passed away in early 2018. I met him at a 30-30 appeals equally to the intellect and the heart of man.” - tournament in May 1969, and we were friends nearly 50 years. GM Yuri Averbakh He was a solid expert most of his playing career and was always

“Effort inequality reinforces rating inequality.” - Anonymous 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 In Memoriam: asked about it shortly before his death, he forgot what it was!

Mike Chess (1954-2019) We can only wonder. Martin scored 4-2 in the reserve section of I was saddened to hear my longtime friend Mike Chess from the Showboat Open and played in many national tournaments. Omaha, Nebraska, died in January 2019. At the 1975 Pan Am RIP Martin.

(in Columbus, Ohio) we were teammates with his brother Rich “Chess is a tragedy of a single tempo.” - Anonymous and Loren Schmidt. Our team (Nebraska) tied for first with Harvard. In the ‘70s Mike, Rich, and I (and many others) played Corrections: in several North American Opens in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and accumulated lots of memories. Mike was colorful fellow who In my last article I mistakenly said IM Mark Dvoretsky (1947- played practical jokes and intimided TV cameramen. At the 2016) was a Grandmaster.

1977 US Open (also in Columbus) IM Bill Martz (1945-1983) “During the 1970s, Mark was widely regarded by the strongest said Mike was the world’s most notorious simultaneous IM in the world, due to a number of excellent results: he was exhibition kibitzer! He will be missed. 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 This is from the March 1976 Chess Life (page 133). Oleg Romanishin at https://www.chessgames.com/perl/ My mother said we looked like a bunch of hippies! chessgame?gid=1117938. It makes you want to play 4.Bc6 The Pan Am was one of the best times of my life. against the Ruy Lopez (which is also a way to avoid the Marshall Gambit). www.ColoradoChess.com Page 31 Volume 47, Number 1 Colorado Chess Informant January 2020

“Studying abstract truths, both in chess and in life, enriches our On page 28 of the October 2019 CCI the remark about the 1969 intuition.” - IM Mark Dvoretsky Colorado Open picture should have said Richard Misare (not

On page 303 of For Friends & Colleagues Volume 1 Dvoretsky Ron Hosler) was a math professor at Metro State College. In analyses this position: 1976 I took two linear algebra classes from RM, who quickly saw I cared little about academics. Chess is a great game, but Yusupov - Dolmatov / 8th Match Game 1991 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:// White to play tinyurl.com/s2xykp2. Don’t look at this site unless you have The game continued 39.Qb6 b2? +- (39...e3 = HCE) 40.Qb2 e3? several hours to spare.

(40...Kh7 was tougher but still losing.) 41.Rcf6! Qc7 42.Qa2 “I have always liked evaluation exercises, because we frequently Kh8 43.Rf5! Kh7 44.Re6 1-0, since 44...Re6 45.Qe6 is hopeless. learn that we overemphasized certain factors in the position and Back to the diagram: White has an unexpected win with 39.Rg7! overlooked the importance of other, more relevant ones.” - Qg7 (If 39...Kg7 40.Qd4 Kg8 41.Rh6 +-) 40.Qb3 Qf7 (40...Kf8 IM Erik Kislik 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 There are also 20 interesting interactive studies by Siyavush surprising the attack is so deadly when Black’s queen and rook Viliyev at https://tinyurl.com/vyfedme. The copious learning are near their king. Black could hold if the weak h5 pawn was resources online now could only be dreamed of 50 years ago. 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! “Not even the world’s biggest guns and armies can stop the looks like vintage Tal. forces of supply and demand.” - Jeffrey Tucker

“Exerting effort for the sake of exerting effort, with no regard to “The only thing chess players have in common is chess.” - the results of that effort, is and ought to be a source, not of Lodewijk Prins dignity, but at best of embarrassment.” - Donald J. Boudreaux A fascinating Ivanchuk - Yusupov game is at https:// www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1060180. Even Comments, corrections, and suggestions are appreciated. HCE has a hard time with this one. [email protected]

“What is the best approaching to finding balance...to creating k an awesome life? Adaptability!” - Shimi Kang

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London Classic. 2019 London Chess Classic Report I was able to make it to the second classical game of the semi- finals which paired Carlsen vs Vachier-Lagrave, and Aronian vs by John Brezina / Parker Chess Club Liren. They would play two classical games followed by two rapid and four blitz games on the third day. Both classical games The 2019 Grand Chess Tour wrapped up an exciting year in were drawn by each and set up an exciting following day of London with the top four players of the tour. The number one chess. First to score in the Rapids in game one was Ding Liren. qualifier was the return of the World Champion Magnus Carlsen Levon Aronian was not playing up to his usual standards and it to the tour with a commanding 67 GCT points. Joining him showed as he also lost game two which would require winning would be Ding Liren, Levon Aronian, and finally Maxime all four blitz games just to tie. And after drawing game one of Vachier-Lagrave who would qualify by a slim 0.3 point margin their blitz match Ding Liren secured a spot in the finals. 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.

Levon Aronian & Ding Liren

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 Magnus Carlsen & Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 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 The Classic returns again to the Olympia London building in knight and rook, surprising and pleasing the World Champion. West Kensington. A great venue that can accommodate multiple Back to a tie and game four would draw as no chances were big events. Upon entering the third floor is an open area with a taken. 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 On to the two tie breaks which would then lead to an live feed from St. Louis for live commentary during the games. armageddon game if still undecided. The chief arbiter had the The same room had Maurice Ashley interviewing the players players draw colors and Magnus would start with White. It was after each round. A great chance for fans to get near their becoming late into the evening at this point and it was favorite player and a photo or autograph. A separate room for announced to the audience that game one would start at 9:00pm. VIP only had their own commentary team including Lawrence Maxime Vachier-Lagrave appeared at the board and the crowd Trent. anxiously awaited the World Champion. As we all waited and watched the clock tick past 9:00pm, an uneasy feeling came over I arrived early before the second round and was able to catch the arbiters and audience. After about five minutes even Maxime part of the Junior chess tournament that had local schools from appeared a bit concerned and it looked as though they may have the London area compete. There were some serious players and to start Magnus’ clock. After much scrambling and nervous it was fun watching teams being photographed with their arbiters, it was discovered that the original agreed upon schedule trophies. Afterwards many of the kids played some casual chess had the tie break games commencing at 9:30pm which team on the big board in the hallway. Some of the top kid players Magnus obviously were quite aware of. So a twenty minute were invited to make opening moves for the top boards at the break was announced, whew! Finally the time arrived. Page 34 www.ColoradoChess.com Volume 47, Number 1 Colorado Chess Informant January 2020

As like clock work, Magnus appears and moves quickly to the and tie for first place. Fellow Indian player GM Chithambaram board and shakes hands. It is quite something to be near him Aravindh was also a pleasure to photograph and finished tied for onstage as his presence is quite commanding as he enters and third. Many great games to watch but I was disappointed to see captures everyone's attention. After aggressive play by Magnus no American players this year. and preventing Maxime from castling, it appeared to favor the World Champion. But Maxime fought back and defended well There was something going on for any type of chess fan and went into an ending with a knight and pawn which became including the annual simul by English GM Jon Speelman. While unstoppable. After 82 moves Magnus would resign as his lone he dispatched most players quite easily, one young man gave knight could not stop a queen from reappearing. Game two was him some trouble. As the last board standing he garnered quite a must win for Magnus. But Maxime was playing incredible the attention including the mother of Indian GM chess and holding his own with the World Champion. While all Praggnanandhaa. three decided games thus far were with the Black pieces, this one would not. Maxime played solid chess and after 44 moves And the nearly empty wine glass of Mr. Speelman would Magnus, knowing the inevitable, graciously resigned with a indicate the struggle that ended in a draw. Meeting new people smile and congratulated his opponent. at these events is something I enjoy most including Dylan Mize. He is an American student at Slade School of Fine Art in Thus setting up a final between Ding Liren and Maxime Vachier London, doing a Masters in painting. -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 Dylan Mize, an American artist games from time to time including the English GM John Nunn. at work at the London Chess Classic.

In the FIDE Open there were many new players that I have not He could be seen in the front row of each game doing color photographed before and my favorite was the fourteen year old sketches in soft pastel he calls “chess portraiture”. He kindly Indian prodigy Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa. 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!

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You can find John Brezina’s pics of the Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa at the board. London Chess Clasic here: https://tinyurl.com/yk5pqqmh

Very professional and extremely confident at the board for being And of the London Classic FIDE Open so young. His round seven victory over a top French & British Knockout here: Grandmaster and friend of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Jules https://tinyurl.com/yhctym9j Moussard, was quite exciting. GM Praggnanandhaa would go on www.ColoradoChess.com Page 35 Volume 47, Number 1 Colorado Chess Informant January 2020

Nd2 0-1 0-0-0 16.fxe6 fxe6 17.Nh5 g6 18.Ng7 Games From the Nf8 19.Bxa6 Qxa6 20.Rhf1 h6 21.Bxe7 2019 Colorado Vedanth Sampath (1681) Nxe7 22.Rf7 Rd7 23.Qf3 Nf5 24.Nxf5 Neil Bhavikatti (2115) gxf5 25.Qh5 Qb7 26.Rf6 Re7 27.Rxh6 Open (Part II) Round 1 Rxh6 28.Qxh6 Nd7 29.h4 b5 30.Kb1 b4 31.Ne2 c5 32.Nf4 Qc6 33.h5 c4 34.Qg5 by Chief Tournament Director 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 Bb4+ Re8 35.h6 c3 36.h7 Kb7 37.Qg7 Qc8 Richard “Buck” Buchanan 5.Bd2 Be7 6.Bg2 0-0 7.0-0 b6 8.Nc3 Bb7 38.Rh1 Rh8 39.Ng6 cxb2 40.Nxh8 1-0 9.Ne5 Nbd7 10.Qc2 c5 11.e3 Qc8

(You can find the first part of games here: 12.cxd5 exd5 13.Qa4 Rd8 14.Rac1 Nxe5 William Wolf (1314) https://tinyurl.com/udqx6xb 15.dxe5 Ne8 16.e4 dxe4 17.Be3 Bc6 Ryan Snodgrass (1726) & the Final Standings here: 18.Qc2 Nc7 19.Bxe4 Bxe4 20.Qxe4 f5 Round 1 https://tinyurl.com/vb53wqa) 21.Qc4+ Qe6 22.Qxe6+ Nxe6 23.Rfd1 Kf7 24.Nb5 a6 25.Nd6+ Bxd6 26.exd6 a5 1.e4 e6 2.b3 d5 3.Bb2 dxe4 4.Nc3 Nf6 Ryan Baten (1887) 27.a3 a4 28.Rb1 Rd7 29.b4 axb3 30.Rxb3 5.Qe2 Bb4 6.0-0-0 Bxc3 7.Bxc3 0-0 8.g4 Mitch Fishbein (2218) Ra6 31.Kg2 Nd8 32.Bf4 h6 33.h4 Kf6 b6 9.d3 Nd5 10.Bb2 exd3 11.Rxd3 Nf4 Round 1 34.h5 Ne6 35.Be3 Ke5 0-1 12.Qe5 Nxd3+ 13.Bxd3 Qf6 14.Qe4 Qh6+ 15.Kb1 c6 16.g5 Qg6 17.Qh4 f5 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Nf3 0-0 Dean Clow (2050) 18.gxf6 Qh6 19.Qg3 Rxf6 20.Bxf6 Qxf6 5.Qc2 c5 6.a3 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3 d5 8.Bg5 h6 Richard Pugh III (1606) 21.Nf3 Nd7 22.Rg1 Nc5 23.Bxh7+ Kxh7 9.Bh4 cxd4 10.cxd4 Nc6 11.e3 Bd7 Round 1 24.Qh3+ Qh6 25.Ng5+ Kg8 26.Qf3 Qf6 12.cxd5 exd5 13.Bd3 Rc8 14.Qb2 Qa5+ 27.Qh5 Bb7 28.Nh7 Qf5 29.Ng5 Ne4 0-1 15.Qd2 Ne4 16.Qxa5 Nxa5 17.0-0 f6 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 d5 3.Nf3 e6 4.c4 Be7

18.Rfc1 Nb3 19.Rxc8 Rxc8 20.Rb1 Rc3 5.e3 0-0 6.Nc3 c6 7.c5 Nbd7 8.b4 Ne4 Joseph Morrison (1010) 21.Bxe4 dxe4 22.Ne1 Bc6 23.Bg3 Bd5 9.Nxe4 dxe4 10.Bxe7 Qxe7 11.Nd2 e5 Ilan Sebba (975) 24.Bd6 a5 25.h4 h5 26.Kh2 Kf7 27.Kg3 12.Nxe4 exd4 13.Qxd4 Ne5 14.Qd6 Re8 Round 1 Ke6 28.Bf8 Rc8 29.Bc5 Nxc5 30.dxc5 Rxc5 31.Kf4 g5+ 32.hxg5 fxg5+ 33.Kg3 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d3 Be7 b5 34.f4 Kf5 35.fxg5 Kxg5 36.Kf2 h4 5.Nc3 d6 6.0-0 Na5 7.Bb3 Nxb3 8.axb3 37.Rb2 Bc4 38.Nc2 Rf5+ 39.Ke1 Rf1+ 0-0 9.Be3 b6 10.d4 exd4 11.Nxd4 Bb7 40.Kd2 Rf2+ 41.Kc3 Rxg2 42.Rb1 0-1 12.f3 Qd7 13.Bg5 h6 14.Bh4 Nh7 15.Bxe7 Qxe7 16.Nd5 Bxd5 17.exd5 Alexander Freeman (1765) Rfe8 18.Re1 Qf6 19.Rxe8+ Rxe8 Rhett Langseth (2135) 20.Rxa7 Re5 21.Nc6 Re8 22.Rxc7 Qxb2 Round 1 23.Rb7 Nf6 24.Rxb6 Qc3 25.Rb8 Rxb8 26.Nxb8 Nxd5 27.h3 Qe5 28.Nc6 Qe6 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 Nbd7 4.e4 e5 29.Qxd5 Qxd5 30.Ne7+ Kf8 31.Nxd5 f5 5.d5 Be7 6.Be3 0-0 7.Bd3 Ne8 8.Qh5 g6 32.b4 1-0 9.Qe2 Ng7 10.Nf3 f5 11.Bh6 Nf6

12.0-0-0 c6 13.Kb1 Qb6 14.h3 Bd7 Ben Gurka (1915) 15.exf5 gxf5 16.g4 e4 17.gxf5 cxd5 Wesley Woo (1758) 18.cxd5 exd3 19.Qxe7 Rf7 20.Qe1 Bxf5 15.Rd1 Bg4 16.Be2 Rad8 17.Qxe7 Round 2 21.Qd2 Rc8 22.Rhg1 Ne4 23.Nxe4 Rc2 24.Bxg7 Rxg7 25.Rxg7+ Kh8 26.Rg8+ Rxd1+ 18.Bxd1 Rxe7 19.Bxg4 Nxg4 (A young player springs an old trap, then Kxg8 27.Qg5+ Bg6 28.Qf6 Bxe4 20.Nd6 g6 21.h3 Ne5 22.Ke2 Kg7 scores after tough resistance.) 1.d4 d5 29.Rg1+ Bg6 30.Nh4 Rxf2 31.Qc3 23.Rd1 f6 24.f4 Nf7 25.Kf3 h6 26.e4 Kf8 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.cxd5 Rxb2+ 32.Qxb2 Qxg1+ 33.Qc1 d2+ 0-1 27.Nxf7 Kxf7 28.g4 Kg7 29.h4 Kf7 30.a4 exd5 6.Nxd5 Nxd5 7.Bxd8 Bb4+ 8.Qd2 Kg7 31.Rd6 Kf7 32.Ke3 Kg7 33.Kd4 Kf7 Bxd2+ 9.Kxd2 Kxd8 10.e4 N5f6 11.Bd3 Wesley Woo (1758) 34.b5 cxb5 35.axb5 Kg7 36.Kd5 Kf7 Re8 12.f3 c6 13.Ne2 Nb6 14.a4 a5 Alaa-Addin Moussa (2123) 37.e5 fxe5 38.fxe5 Kg7 39.h5 gxh5 15.Rhb1 Be6 16.b4 axb4 17.Rxb4 Nfd7 Round 1 40.gxh5 Kh7 41.c6 bxc6+ 42.bxc6 a5 18.f4 g6 19.Nc3 f5 20.e5 Kc7 21.Rc1 43.Rd7 1-0 Kb8 22.Ke3 Nd5+ 23.Nxd5 Bxd5 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6 24.Rcb1 Ra7 25.g3 Kc7 26.a5 Rb8 5.Qc2 d5 6.Bg2 Bxc4 7.Ne5 Ba6 8.Bg5 Luke Namesnik (1546) 27.Ra1 Rba8 28.Rab1 Nf8 29.Kd2 Ne6 Bb4+ 9.Nc3 0-0 10.0-0 c5 11.dxc5 Bxc5 Mirza Peljto (1799) 30.Kc3 Nd8 31.Bc4 Rxa5 32.Bxd5 Rxd5 12.Rfd1 h6 13.Bf4 Nbd7 14.e4 Nxe5 Round 1 33.Re1 Ne6 34.Reb1 Ra3+ 35.Kb2 Raa5 15.Bxe5 d4 16.Qa4 Qc8 17.Bxd4 Bb7 36.Kc3 Rab5 37.Rxb5 Rxb5 38.Ra1 Kb8 18.Bxc5 Qxc5 19.Rac1 Ng4 20.Rc2 Rfc8 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 Ne4 3.Bf4 d5 4.f3 Nf6 39.h3 h5 40.g4 Nxf4 41.gxf5 gxf5 42.Rf1 21.Rdc1 Qh5 22.h3 Ne5 23.Nb5 Rxc2 5.Nc3 c6 6.e4 e6 7.Qd3 Bb4 8.Nge2 b6 Nd5+ 43.Kd2 f4 44.Rg1 Rb3 45.Rg5 24.Rxc2 Rd8 25.Rc7 Rd1+ 26.Bf1 Qe2 9.0-0-0 Ba6 10.Qe3 Nbd7 11.e5 Ng8 Rxh3 46.Rf5 h4 47.Rf8+ Kc7 48.Rf7+ 27.Qxd1 Nf3+ 28.Kg2 Qxd1 29.Rxb7 12.Bg5 Be7 13.f4 Qc7 14.Ng3 Qb7 15.f5

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Kb6 49.Rf5 Rg3 50.Rh5 h3 51.Ke2 Kb5 5.Nf3 Bg7 6.Be2 0-0 7.0-0 axb5 8.Bxb5 30.Be2 Nxc4 31.Rc1 Nd2 32.Bd3 Ne4 52.e6 Kc4 53.Kf2 b5 54.Re5 Re3 c5 9.d4 cxd4 10.exd4 d6 11.Bg5 Ba6 33.Bxe4 Rxe4 34.Rxc7 Rxb4 35.Qf6 Qg7 55.Rxe3 fxe3+ 0-1 12.Qd2 Bxb5 13.Nxb5 Ne4 14.Qe3 Nxg5 36.Qxd6 Rb1+ 37.Kh2 Re8 38.Rf3 Qa1 15.Qxg5 Qb6 16.a4 Nc6 17.Qd2 Na5 39.Rcxf7 Rh1+ 40.Kg3 Qe1+ 41.Kg4 Rithvik Ijju (1490) 18.Qd3 e5 19.dxe5 dxe5 20.Qd6 Qxd6 Re4+ 42.R7f4 Rxf4+ 43.Qxf4 Qe7 44.d6 Jose Llacza (1752) 21.Nxd6 e4 22.Nxe4 Bxb2 23.Ra2 Rfb8 Qd7+ 45.Kg3 Qg7 46.d7 Rd1 47.Qb8+ Round 2 24.Rd1 Nc4 25.g3 Rb4 26.Nc5 Ra5 Kh7 48.d8Q Rxd8 49.Qxd8 Qe5+ 50.Kf2

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 e6 4.Bc4 Na5 27.Nd3 Rbxa4 28.Rxb2 Nxb2 29.Nxb2 Qc5+ 51.Kf1 Qc1+ 52.Ke2 Qc2+ 53.Qd2 5.Be2 Nf6 6.0-0 Be7 7.d4 cxd4 8.Nxd4 Ra2 30.Nc4 Rf5 31.Kg2 Re2 ½-½ Qc4+ 54.Kf2 Qc5+ 55.Kf1 Qb5+ 56.Kg1 0-0 9.Be3 Nc6 10.a3 d5 11.exd5 Nxd5 Qc5+ 57.Rf2 Qc7 58.Qf4 Qc5 59.Qf7+ 12.Nxd5 exd5 13.Qd2 Nxd4 14.Bxd4 Be6 Amitai Sebba (1349) Kh6 60.Qf8+ 1-0 Tyler Thieszen (1444) Round 2 Robert Carlson (1595)

1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 Nf6 4.e5 Nd5 Francisco Baltier Jr (1730) Round 3 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 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 d5 3.Nf3 Bf5 4.e3 e6 Bxf6 13.Be3 Na5 14.Rc1 Nac4 15.Qc2 e5 5.Bd3 Bg6 6.0-0 Nbd7 7.c4 dxc4 8.Bxc4 16.dxe5 Bxe5 17.Bxb6 axb6 18.Bxc4 Nb6 9.Bb3 Bd6 10.Bg5 Be7 11.Nc3 0-0 Bxc3 19.Qxc3 dxc4 20.Qxc4+ Kh8 12.Rc1 c6 13.Bc2 Bh5 14.Ne4 Nbd5 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+ 15.f4 Qc8 16.b4 a5 17.Rab1 axb4 Rxg5+ 43.Kf2 b5 44.Rf3+ Ke5 45.Ke3 18.axb4 Ra2 19.Rb2 Ra8 20.Bd3 Bf5 ½-½ 21.Rb3 Bxd3 22.Rxd3 Ra2 23.Rg3 g6 24.f5 Qxc2 25.Qh6 f6 26.fxg6 hxg6 Brad Lundstrom (1974) 27.Rxg6+ Kf7 28.Rgxf6+ Ke8 29.Rxf8+ Rhett Langseth (2135) Kd7 30.Qh3+ Kd6 31.Bc5+ Kc6 32.Rc8+ Round 3

Kb5 33.Qd7+ 1-0 1.d4 d6 2.e4 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nbd7 4.Bc4 e5 5.Nf3 Be7 6.Ng5 0-0 7.Bxf7+ Rxf7 Mark Brown (1463) 8.Ne6 Qe8 9.Nxc7 Qd8 10.Nxa8 b5 15.Nxf6+ Bxf6 16.Bxf6 Qxf6 17.Qd3 Andrew Roerty (1726) 11.dxe5 Nxe5 12.0-0 Bb7 13.Nxb5 Bxa8 Bg6 18.Qd2 Bh5 19.Qd3 Bg6 20.Qd2 Round 2 Nb6 21.Bxg6 hxg6 22.Ne5 Rfd8 23.Qe2 14.Bf4 Qb6 15.a4 a6 16.Be3 Qc6 17.Nc3 1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 Nf6 3.e3 e6 4.Nf3 c5 Nxe4 18.f3 Nxc3 19.bxc3 Qxc3 20.Bd4 Nd7 24.Nxd7 Rxd7 25.Rc3 Rad8 26.Qf3 5.Nbd2 Nc6 6.c3 Be7 7.h3 0-0 8.Bd3 b6 Qc4 21.a5 Bxf3 22.gxf3 Nxf3+ 23.Rxf3 Qe7 27.g3 e5 28.dxe5 Qxe5 29.Qf4 Qd5 9.Ne5 Bb7 10.Qe2 Nxe5 11.dxe5 Nd7 Rxf3 24.Rb1 Rf4 25.Bf2 Rg4+ 26.Bg3 h5 30.Qc4 Qd6 31.Rfc1 Qf6 32.R3c2 Rd5 12.Qh5 g6 13.Qg4 Re8 14.h4 h5 15.Qg3 27.Rb8+ Kh7 28.Qf3 Qxc2 29.Qf7 Qc5+ 33.Qc3 Qf3 34.h4 g5 35.e4 Rd3 36.Qe5 Kg7 16.Nf3 c4 17.Bc2 b5 18.Nd4 b4 30.Kg2 Qe5 31.Re8 Qe2+ 32.Kg1 Qe1+ Rd1+ 37.Kh2 Rxc1 38.Rxc1 Qxf2+ 19.Nxe6+! 1-0 33.Kg2 Qe4+ 34.Kg1 Qe1+ 35.Kg2 Qe2+ 39.Kh3 gxh4 40.Kxh4 Qd4 41.Qe7 Rd7 ½-½ 42.Qe8+ Kh7 43.Rh1 Kg6 44.Kg4 Qd6 Cory Foster (1793) 45.e5 Qb4+ 46.Kh3 Re7 47.Qb8 Qe4 Gregory Bain (1013) Ben Gurka (1915) 48.Rd1 Qf5+ 49.Kg2 0-1 Round 2 Davin Yin (1818) Round 3 Kary Fang (1282) 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 Bc5 4.d4 Bb6 Jack Nauman (1461) 5.Bxf4 Nc6 6.c3 d6 7.Bc4 Bg4 8.0-0 Nf6 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f4 Round 3 9.Nbd2 Ne5 10.Bxe5 dxe5 11.Bxf7+ Kf8 0-0 6.Nf3 Bg4 7.Be2 Nbd7 8.0-0 Bxf3 12.Qb3 Qe7 13.Nxe5 Qxe5 14.Kh1 Qg5 9.Rxf3 e5 10.d5 exf4 11.Bxf4 Re8 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Bc5 15.Nf3 Bxf3 16.Rxf3 h5 17.e5 1-0 12.Qc2 Nc5 13.Bg5 h6 14.Bxf6 Bxf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.h3 a6 7.Bxc6+ bxc6 8.Re1 15.Raf1 Bd4+ 16.Kh1 Re7 17.Qd2 Bg7 0-0 9.d3 h6 10.b3 Bb4 11.Bb2 Nd7 12.a3 Phillip Brown (1556) 18.b4 Nd7 19.Nb5 a6 20.Nd4 Ne5 Ba5 13.b4 Bb6 14.Ne2 c5 15.Ng3 a5 William Wolf (1314) 21.Rg3 Nd7 22.Nf5 Rxe4 23.Nxh6+ 16.bxc5 Nxc5 17.c4 f5 18.d4 Nxe4 Round 2 Bxh6 24.Qxh6 Qh4 25.Qd2 Qh7 26.Bd3 19.Nxe4 fxe4 20.dxe5 Bxh3 21.Qd5+ Rh4 27.h3 Ne5 28.Qe2 Qh5 29.Qf2 Qh7 Kh8 22.Qxe4 Bf5 23.Qd5 dxe5 24.Qxe5 1.c4 b5?! 2.cxb5 Nf6 3.Nc3 a6 4.e3 g6 Rf7 25.Rad1 Qf6 26.Qd5 c6 27.Qd2 Qd8 www.ColoradoChess.com Page 37 Volume 47, Number 1 Colorado Chess Informant January 2020

28.Ne5 Re7 29.Qc3 Qc7 30.Nxc6 Rf7 1.e4 d5 2.d4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Bf5 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nf3 d6 4.g3 Bg7 31.Ne5 Rf6 32.Rd5 Be6 33.Rd4 Bxd4 5.d5 g6 6.Bxf6 exf6 7.Qd4 Bh6 8.Bb5+ 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg2 0-0 7.0-0 Bf5 8.Re1 34.Qxd4 Raf8 35.c5 Rd8 36.Qe3 Rd5 c6 9.Bc4 0-0 10.d6 Re8 11.Nge2 e3 Ne4 9.e3 Nxc3 10.bxc3 Be4 11.Nd2 37.Ng4 Bxg4 38.Bxf6 Rh5 39.Qe8+ Kh7 12.0-0-0 exf2+ 13.Kb1 Nd7 14.Qxf2 Ne5 Bxg2 12.Kxg2 e5 13.Bb2 Qd7 14.d5 Na5 40.Qe4+ Bf5 41.Qe5 Qf7 42.Bd8 Bg4 15.Bb3 Kg7 16.h3 b5 17.Nd4 Bd7 15.e4 b5 16.cxb5 Qxb5 17.Rb1 Rab8 43.Qe4+ Bf5 44.Qe7 Qg6 45.Bxa5 Rg5 18.Rhf1 a5 19.a3 a4 20.Ba2 Rb8 21.Ka1 18.Ba1 Qa6 19.Qa4 Rb6 20.Rxb6 axb6 46.Qb7 Bh3 47.g3 Rxg3+ 48.fxg3 Qxg3+ c5 22.Nf3 b4 23.Nxe5 Rxe5 24.Nd5 f5 21.Bb2 b5 22.Qb4 Nc4 23.Nxc4 bxc4 49.Kh1 Qxa3 50.Qb1+ Kg8 51.Qg6 Qf3+ 25.Qxc5 Be6 26.Qc7 bxa3 27.Qc3 f6 24.Ra1 f5 25.f3 fxe4 26.fxe4 Qa7 27.Rf1 52.Kg1 Bd7 ½-½ 28.Ne3 axb2+ 29.Kb1 Bc8 30.Nc4 Re4 Qxa2 28.Ra1 Qb3 29.Qxb3 cxb3 30.Ra7 31.Rd4 Rb5 32.Rxe4 fxe4 ½-½ Rc8 31.Rb7 Bf8 32.Rxb3 c6 33.c4 c5 Donald Hillman (1263) 34.Bc1 Ra8 35.h3 Kg7 36.Rb7+ Kg8 David Grover (1502) Ryan Baten (1887) ½-½ Round 3 Davin Yin (1818) Round 4 David Grover (1502) 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 d5 4.exd5 Nxd5 5.Bg2 Nxc3 6.bxc3 c6 7.d3 Be7 8.Bd2 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 Kary Fang (1282) Round 4 0-0 9.h3 Be6 10.Nf3 e4 11.dxe4 Bc4 5.Be2 Nbd7 6.Be3 e5 7.Qd2 0-0 8.d5 b6 12.Ne5 Ba6 13.Qf3 f6 14.Nd3 Nd7 9.Bg5 a5 10.Nf3 Nc5 11.Qc2 h6 12.Be3 1.d4 e6 2.c4 d5 3.Nf3 c5 4.e3 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bd7 13.0-0 Ng4 14.Bxc5 bxc5 15.h3 Nf6 Nc6 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 cxd4 8.Nxd4 16.a4 Nh5 17.Rfd1 Nf4 18.Bf1 f5 19.Nd2 Nxd4 9.exd4 Be7 10.0-0 0-0 11.Be3 a6 Qg5 20.Kh2 Nh5 21.Nb5 Rac8 22.Ra3 f4 12.Bb3 b5 13.Bc2 Bb7 14.Qd3 h6 15.h4 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+! 15.0-0 Ne5 16.Qe3 Nxd3 17.cxd3 Qxd3 57.Kxe3 Kg5 58.Kf3 Kh4 59.Kf2 Kg4 18.Qf4 Bd6 19.Qg4 Qxd2 20.Rfd1 Qxc3 60.Ke3 Kg3 0-1 21.Qe6+ Kh8 22.Qxd6 Qe5 23.Qa3 Rad8 24.Kh2 h6 25.f4 Qe8 26.Bf1 Rxd1 Ted Doykos (1749) b4 16.Bg5 hxg5 17.hxg5 bxc3 18.gxf6 g6 27.Rxd1 Bxf1 28.Rxf1 Rf7 29.Qxa7 Vedant Margale (1472) 19.fxe7 Qxe7 20.bxc3 Kg7 21.f3 Qh4 Qxe4 30.Qg1 Re7 31.f5 Qc2+ 32.Rf2 Round 4 22.Qe2 Qg3 23.c4 Rac8 24.Bb3 Qh4

Re2 33.Rxe2 Qxe2+ 34.Qg2 Qxg2+ 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.e3 Bg7 4.Bd3 0-0 25.Qe5+ f6 26.Qe3 Rh8 27.c5 Rce8 35.Kxg2 Kg8 36.Kf3 Kf8 37.Ke4 Ke7 5.0-0 d5 6.Nbd2 c5 7.c3 Nbd7 8.Re1 c4 28.Rad1 a5 29.Bc4 Qg3 30.Bb5 Rh2 38.Kd4 Kd6 39.a4 b6 40.Kc4 Ke5 41.g4 9.Bc2 b5 10.e4 dxe4 11.Nxe4 Bb7 31.Qf2 Rh1+! 32.Kxh1 Rh8+ 0-1 Kf4 0-1 12.Nxf6+ Nxf6 13.h3 Re8 14.Bf4 Rc8 15.Bh2 e6 16.Qe2 Nd5 17.Ne5 Qg5 Alexander Zhang (1325) Griffin McConnell (1999) 18.Be4 a6 19.Nd7 Qe7 20.Nc5 Red8 Alayne Wilinsky (1278) Brad Lundstrom (1974) 21.a4 Rxc5 22.dxc5 Qxc5 23.Bf3 b4 Round 4 Round 4 24.cxb4 Qxb4 25.Be5 c3 26.Bxg7 Kxg7 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 Nf6 4.e5 Nd5 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 exd4 27.Qe5+ Kg8 28.bxc3 Qe7 29.a5 Ba8 5.cxd4 e6 6.a3 Be7 7.Nf3 d6 8.Be3 Nxe3 5.Nxd4 Bb4 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.Bd3 d5 8.Bd2 30.c4 Nb4 31.Bxa8 Rxa8 32.Red1 Nc6 9.fxe3 dxe5 10.Nxe5 Nd7 11.Nxd7 Bxd7 0-0 9.0-0 Re8 10.Re1 Rb8 11.Rb1 Bc5 33.Qd6 Qe8 34.Rdb1 Rd8 35.Qc5 Qd7 12.Nc3 a6 13.Bd3 0-0 14.0-0 Rc8 15.Rc1 12.Bg5 h6 13.Bh4 g5 14.Bg3 dxe4 36.Rb6 Nb8 37.Rab1 Qa7 38.Qb4 Nd7 Bc6 16.Be4 Bxe4 17.Nxe4 Qd5 18.Nc3 15.Bc4 Qxd1 16.Nxd1 Bd6 17.Re3 Bg4 39.Qe7 Qc7 40.Rd6 h5 41.Rbd1 h4 Qg5 19.Qf3 b5 20.Qf4 Qxf4 21.Rxf4 Bg5 18.Nc3 Bf4 19.Bxf4 gxf4 20.Ree1 Rbd8 42.Rxd7 Rxd7 43.Rxd7 Qf4 44.Qd8+ 22.Rf3 a5 23.Rb1 b4 24.axb4 axb4 21.Be2 Rd4 22.Bxg4 Nxg4 23.f3 Nf6 Kg7 45.Rd4 Qc1+ 46.Kh2 Qh6 25.Ne4 Bh6 26.Nc5 g6 27.Rbf1 Rfd8 24.fxe4 Rd2 ½-½ 47.Rxh4 ... 1-0 28.Kf2 Bg7 29.Rc1 e5 30.Nb3 Rxc1 31.Nxc1 exd4 32.Nd3 dxe3+ 33.Kxe3 b3 Richard Shtivelband (2273) John Krue (1566) 34.Ke4 Rd4+ 35.Ke3 Rc4 36.Rf1 Rc2 Alexander Freeman (1765) Gregory Bain (1013) 37.Rf2 Bh6+ 38.Kd4 Rxf2 39.Nxf2 Bg7+ Round 4 Round 4 40.Kc4 Bxb2 41.Kxb3 Be5 42.h3 Bf4 ... Page 38 www.ColoradoChess.com Volume 47, Number 1 Colorado Chess Informant January 2020

½-½ Qe8 16.Qxb7 Qc8 17.Qd5 Qe8 18.Qc4 R8g2+ 61.Kd3 Rd1+ 62.Ke4 Rxd7 Nb8 19.Qd5 Na6 20.Qc4 Nb8 21.Qd5 63.Rcxb8 Rg4+ 64.Kf3 Rgg7 65.Ra8+ Charles Zhang (1196) Na6 22.Qc4 ½-½ Ra7 66.Rxa7+ Rxa7 67.Ke4 Rd7 68.Rb5 Murlin Varner Jr (1500) Rd1 69.Ke3 Ra1 70.Rb4 Ka5 ½-½ Round 4 Adam Markos (2282)

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.c4 Bb4+ Sami Al-Adsani (1830) Jose Llacza (1752) 5.Bd2 Bxd2+ 6.Qxd2 Nf6 7.Nc3 0-0 Round 5 Roberto Bolivar (1709) Round 5 8.Nf3 Re8+ 9.Be2 dxc4 10.0-0 b5 11.a4 1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 d5 3.e3 Nf6 4.Nf3 c5 b4 12.Na2 a5 13.Bxc4 Ba6 14.Bxa6 Rxa6 5.cxd5 exd5 6.d4 Nc6 7.Be2 c4 8.Ne5 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Nc3 a6 15.Nc1 Ne4 16.Qd3 c5 17.Re1 Rae6 Be6 9.f4 Nxe5 10.fxe5 Nd7 11.0-0 Bb4 5.a4 Nc6 6.h3 e6 7.0-0 Be7 8.d4 cxd4 18.d5 c4 19.Qxc4 Nd2 20.dxe6 Nxc4 12.e4 Qa5 13.exd5 Bxd5 14.Nxd5 Qxd5 9.Nxd4 e5 10.Nf3 h6 11.Be3 Be6 21.e7 Rxe7 22.Nd3 Rxe1+ 23.Rxe1 g6 15.Bf3 Qb5 16.Qe2 0-0 17.Qe4 Qb6 12.Bxe6 fxe6 13.Qd2 d5 14.exd5 exd5 24.Nde5 Nxe5 25.Nxe5 Qd2 26.Nf3 18.Kh1 c3 19.bxc3 Bxc3 20.Rb1 Qa6 Qxb2 27.g4 Nc6 28.Ng5 Qd2 29.Re8+ 21.Be2 Qg6 22.Qxg6 hxg6 23.Rxb7 Rad8 Kg7 30.Ne4 Qd1+ 31.Kg2 Qxg4+ ... 0-1 24.Bc4 Bxd4 25.Ba3 Nxe5 26.Bxf8 Nxc4 27.Be7 Re8 28.Rf4 Nd6 29.Rd7 Nf5 George Lombardi (1299) 30.g4 Be3 31.Re4 Rxe7 32.Rdxe7 Nxe7 Michael McNamara (1181) 33.Rxe3 Nc6 34.Ra3 a5 35.Rc3 Nb4 Round 4 36.a3 Na6 37.Rc6 Nb8 38.Rc8+ 1-0

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 h5 Wesley Woo (1758) 9.h4 b5 10.Bg5 Nbd7 11.Nd5 Bxd5 Aiden Sirotkine (1572) Round 5 12.exd5 Be7 13.Qd2 Rc8 14.Rc1 Qc7 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 15.Qc1 d4 16.Rd1 Qc7 17.Nxd4 exd4 18.Na4 Qd8 19.Nc5 Rh6 20.Nxb7 Qh4 18.Bxd4 Nxd4 19.Rxd4 0-0 20.Qd1 Rad8 21.f4 exf3 22.Rxf3 Qxh2+ 23.Kf2 Qh4+ 21.Rxd8 Rxd8 22.Qe2 Qc6 23.Qxe7 Rd2 24.Ke2 Bg4 25.Rxc6 Bxf3+ 26.gxf3 24.Rc1 Nd5 25.Qe1 Nf4 26.Qf1 b5 Qxd4 27.Rxh6 gxh6 28.Nd6 Re6 29.Ne4 27.axb5 axb5 28.g3 Rxf2 29.Kxf2 Qc5+ Qc4+ 30.Qxc4 dxc4 31.Kd2 Rxe4 30.Ke1 Qe3+ 31.Ne2 Nxe2 32.Qxe2 32.fxe4 h5 0-1 Qxc1+ 33.Kf2 Qxb2 34.Qe6+ Kf8 35.Qc8+ Kf7 36.Qf5+ Qf6 37.Qxf6+ Craig Moffitt (1790) Kxf6 38.Ke3 Ke5 39.Kd3 Kd5 40.Kc3 Mirza Peljto (1799) Kc5 41.Kd3 b4 42.g4 g5 43.Kd2 Kd4 Round 5 44.Ke2 Kc3 45.Kd1 Kd4 46.Ke2 Ke4 15.0-0 Nh7 16.Bxe7 Kxe7 17.Qa5 g5 47.Kf2 Kf4 48.Ke2 Kg3 49.Kd3 Kxh3 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.Ngf3 Nc6 50.Kc4 Kxg4 51.Kxb4 h5 52.c4 h4 53.c5 18.Qxc7 Rxc7 19.hxg5 Nxg5 20.Kh2 h4 5.exd5 exd5 6.dxc5 Bxc5 7.Nb3 Bd6 21.Rh1 f5 22.Kg1 f4 23.Bd3 Nc5 h3 54.c6 h2 55.c7 h1Q 56.c8Q+ Kg3 8.Be2 Nge7 9.0-0 0-0 10.h3 a6 11.Nfd4 57.Qc7+ Kg2 58.Qc2+ Kg3 59.Qc7+ Kg4 24.Nxc5 Rxc5 25.Be4 Rcc8 26.Kf2 Be5 12.c3 Nf5 13.Nxf5 Bxf5 14.Be3 Re8 Nxe4+ 27.fxe4 Rcg8 28.Rh3 Rg3 60.Qc8+ Kf4 61.Qc7+ Kf5 62.Qc8+ Kf6 15.Bg4 Bg6 16.Qd2 f5 17.Bf3 Bf7 63.Qf8+ Ke6 ... ½-½ 29.Rch1 Rhg8 30.R3h2 R8g4 31.Rd1 Kf6 18.Bd4 Nxd4 19.Nxd4 Qf6 20.Rfd1 Rad8 32.Rd3 Rxd3 33.cxd3 Kg5 34.Kf3 Rg3+ 21.Qc2 g6 22.a4 Re7 23.Qb3 g5 24.g3 h5 Rithvik Ijju (1490) 35.Ke2 Kg4 36.Kd2 f3 37.gxf3+ Rxf3 25.Qc2 Bg6 26.Qd2 g4 27.Bg2 f4 28.b4 38.Ke2 h3 39.Rf2 Rf4 40.Kf1 Kg3 Ted Doykos (1749) Kh7 29.Bf1 fxg3 30.fxg3 Bxg3 31.Qg2 Round 5 41.Rxf4 exf4 0-1 Bf4 32.Bd3 Be3+ 33.Kh1 Re4 34.Rf1 Qe5 35.hxg4 hxg4 36.Qh2+ Kg7 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 e6 5.c4 Aleksandr Bozhenov (1990) 37.Qxe5+ Rxe5 38.Bxg6 Kxg6 39.Ra2 g3 Nd7 6.cxd5 cxd5 7.Nc3 Ne7 8.Bg5 f6 Brian Wall (2200) 40.Kg2 Bf2 41.Ne2 Re3 42.Rd2 Kg5 9.Nb5 Nc6 10.Be3 Bb4+ 11.Bd2 Bxd2+ Round 5 12.Qxd2 0-0 13.exf6 Nxf6 14.Bd3 Ne4 43.Rfd1 Re5 44.Nxg3 Be1 45.Rd3 Kf6 1.e4 Nh6 2.d4 Na6 (Yep, it's a Brian Wall 46.b5 Ke6 47.c4 Rg8 48.cxd5+ Kd6 15.Bxe4 Bxe4 16.Qe3 Nb4 17.Na3 Nd3+ game.) 3.Nf3 g6 4.Bc4 c6 5.0-0 d5 6.exd5 49.Rc1 Ba5 50.bxa6 bxa6 51.Rc6+ Kd7 18.Ke2 Nxb2 19.Ng5 Bd3+ 20.Ke1 Qa5+ cxd5 7.Bb5+ Bd7 8.Bxd7+ Qxd7 9.Ne5 52.Rxa6 Be1 53.d6 Reg5 54.Ra7+ Kc6 21.Qd2 Qxa3 22.f3 Nc4 23.Qd1 Ne3 0-1 Qd8 10.c4 Bg7 11.Qa4+ Kf8 12.cxd5 55.Rc7+ Kb6 56.Rb3+ Ka6 57.d7 Bxg3 Qxd5 13.Nc3 Qd8 14.Bxh6 Bxh6 15.Qb3 58.Rc8 Bb8+ 59.Kf1 Rg1+ 60.Ke2

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Robert Cernich II (1483) 16.c5 f6 17.Bd4 fxe5 18.fxe5 Bxe5 59.a6 Ba7 ... 1-0 Ryan Snodgrass (1726) 19.Qe2 Bf4+ 20.Kb1 e5 21.Be3 Bxe3 Round 5 22.Qxe3 d4 23.Bc4+ Kh8 24.Qf3 Qe7 Joseph Morrison (1010)

1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.Nf3 d5 4.cxd5 exd5 25.Ne4 Ng7 26.Ng5 Rf8 27.Nf7+ Rxf7 Keith Glass (930) 28.Qxf7 Qxf7 29.Bxf7 Rf8 30.Rhf1 Bc8 Round 5 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.Bg5 c6 7.e3 Be7 8.Bd3 0-0 9.0-0 Ne4 10.Bxe7 Qxe7 11.Ne5 Nd7 31.Bxg6 Rxf1 32.Rxf1 Ne6 33.Bf5 Kg7 1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Bg5 0-0 12.Nxd7 Bxd7 13.Qe2 Rf6 14.f3 Nd6 34.b4 h6 35.a4 Bd7 36.a5 Kf7 37.Bd3+ 5.e4 d5 6.e5 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3 h6 8.Bh4 g5 Nf4 38.Bxa6 Bxg4 39.Bc4+ Ke7 40.a6 9.Nxg5 Ne4 10.Nxe4 Qxh4 11.Nf6+ Kh8 Bc8 41.a7 Bb7 ... 1-0 12.g3 Qg5 13.h4 Qg7 14.Qg4 Qxg4 15.Nxg4 Nd7 16.Nf6 Nxf6 17.exf6 Rg8 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 15.Rae1 Re8 16.Qc2 Re6 17.Nd1 Qh4 Rc8 30.Rc3 Rb8 31.Rd3 Rb4 32.b3 Bf6 18.Qf2 Qg5 19.Re2 R6e7 20.Rfe1 Be6 33.a3 Rd4 34.Rxd4 Bxd4 35.Qc4 e5 21.b3 Bf7 22.Kh1 Bg6 23.Qg3 Qf6 24.f4 36.Nd6 Rf8 37.a4 Ne3 38.Qb5 Rd8 Bh5 25.Rd2 Qxd4 26.h3 Qb4 27.Qf2 Ne4 39.Nc4 Nf5 40.g4 Ng3+ 41.Kf3 Nxh1 18.Bd3 Bd7 19.Rb1 b6 20.Ke2 Rge8 28.Bxe4 Rxe4 29.a3 Qe7 30.Nc3 Rxe3 42.Kg2 Nf2 43.Nxe5 Nd1 44.Nc6 Nc3 21.Rhg1 e5 22.dxe5 Rxe5+ 23.Kd2 Re6 31.Rxe3 Qxe3 32.Qxe3 Rxe3 33.Rc2 d4 45.Qc4 Nd1 46.Qb4 Bc3 47.Qb7 Rd2+ 24.Bf5 Rd6 25.Bxd7 Rxd7 26.g4 Kh7 34.Na4 d3 35.Rd2 Re1+ 36.Kh2 Rd1 48.Kf3 Rf2+ 49.Ke4 Re2+ 50.Kd5 Rd2+ 27.g5 h5 28.f4 Kg6 29.Rbf1 Kf5 30.Kd3 37.Rb2 Rc1 38.Rd2 Be2 39.Nb2 Rc2 51.Kc5 Ne3 52.Kb6 Rb2 53.Qc8+ Kg7 c5 31.Re1 c4+ 32.Kd4 Kxf4 33.Re7 Rxe7 40.Rxd3 Rxb2 41.Rd8+ Kf7 42.Rd7+ 54.Kc7 Rxb3 55.a5 Nd5+ 56.Kd6 Nb4 34.fxe7 Re8 35.Re1 Kg4 36.Kxd5 Kxh4 Kf6 43.Rxb7 Bf3 44.Kg3 Bd5 45.b4 57.a6 Nxc6 58.Kxc6 Bd4 59.Kd5 Bg1 37.Kd6 Kxg5 38.Kd7 Rxe7+ 39.Kxe7 f5 Rxg2+ 46.Kh4 h6 47.Rd7 Bf7 48.Rxf7+ 60.Qc4 Ra3 61.g5 Ra5+ 62.Ke4 Rxg5 40.Rg1+ Kf4 41.Ke6 h4 42.Rf1+ Kg3 Kxf7 49.a4 Rb2 50.b5 cxb5 51.axb5 63.Qc3+ f6 64.Qc7+ Kh6 65.a7 Bxa7 43.Kxf5 Kg2 44.Re1 h3 45.Ke4 b5 Rxb5 52.Kh5 g6+ 53.Kxh6 Kf6 54.h4 66.Qxa7 Re5+ 67.Kf4 g5+ 68.Kg3 Kg6 46.Kd5 h2 47.Kc5 a6 48.Kb6 h1Q Rb8 55.Kh7 a5 56.h5 gxh5 57.Kh6 Rh8# 69.Qd4 h5 70.Qd3+ Rf5 71.Kh3 h4 1-0 49.Rxh1 Kxh1 50.Kxa6 Kg1 51.Kxb5 0-1 Kf1 52.a4 Ke2 53.a5 Kd2 54.a6 Kxc2 Charles Zhang (1196) 55.Kxc4 1-0 Gregory Bain (1013) Cayden Hetzel (1192) George Peschke (1554) Round 5 Michael Schmidt (Unrated)

Round 5 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6 4.Nf3 Daniel Smith (1238) Round 5 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Be7 4.c3 Nf6 Nc6 5.Bc4 Na5 6.Bd5 Nf6 7.Bb3 c5 8.a3 5.d3 0-0 6.Be3 d5 7.exd5 Nxd5 8.Qe2 Nxb3 9.cxb3 Be6 10.0-0 Qb6 11.Na4 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Nf3 Ne4 Re8 9.0-0 Bf6 10.Nbd2 Na5 11.Bb3 Nf4 Qxb3 12.Qxb3 Bxb3 13.Nxc5 Bd5 5.Bd2 Nxd2 6.Nxd2 d5 7.e4 Bxc3 8.bxc3 12.Bxf4 exf4 13.Ne4 Kf8 14.Rfd1 Bg4 14.Nd4 e5 15.Re1 Bxc5 16.Rxe5+ Be7 dxe4 9.Nxe4 Nd7 10.Bd3 Nf6 11.Nc5 b6 15.h3 Bh5 16.Ba4 c6 17.Qd2 Bxf3 17.Nf5 Be6 18.Nxg7+ Kd7 19.Nxe6 fxe6 12.Qa4+ Nd7 13.Be4 bxc5 14.Bxa8 Qf6 18.gxf3 Be5 19.d4 Bc7 20.b4 b5 21.Bb3 20.d4 Bd6 21.Rg5 Rhg8 22.Rxg8 Rxg8 15.Bc6 cxd4 16.0-0 dxc3 17.Rac1 a6 Nc4 22.Bxc4 bxc4 23.a4 Qh4 24.Kh2 23.b4 Ng4 24.h3 Nf6 25.Be3 Nd5 26.Rc1 18.Rfd1 Qe7 19.Rxc3 f6 20.Rcd3 Kf7 Re6 25.Rg1 Rh6 0-1 Bf4 27.Re1 Nxe3 28.fxe3 Bg3 29.Rf1 21.Bxd7 Bb7 22.Bc6 Bxc6 23.Qxc6 Qb4 Kd6 30.Rf7 Kd5 31.Rxb7 Ke4 32.Rxa7 24.Qxc7+ Kg6 25.Rd8 Qa4 26.R1d2 Qb4 Coleman Hoyt (1511) Kxe3 33.Re7 Bf2+ 34.Kf1 Rg6 35.d5 Rf6 27.h3 e5 28.R2d7 Qe1+ 29.Kh2 Rxd8 Ayush Vispute (1414) 36.Rxe6+ Rxe6 37.dxe6 Bh4 38.g3 Be7 30.Qxd8 Qxf2 31.Qg8 Qf4+ 32.Kg1 Round 5 39.Kg2 Ke4 40.h4 Ke5 41.Kf3 Kxe6 Qe3+ 33.Kf1 Qc1+ 34.Ke2 Qc2+ 35.Rd2 42.Kg4 Kf7 43.Kf5 Bd6 44.g4 Bg3 45.h5 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 Qe4+ 36.Kd1 Qb1+ 37.Ke2 Qe4+ 38.Kf1 Be1 46.b5 Ba5 47.Kg5 Kg7 48.Kf5 Kh6 5.c4 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Nc3 0-0 8.f3 Qc7 Qf4+ 39.Ke1 Qe4+ 40.Kd1 Qb1+ 41.Ke2 49.Kf6 Bc3+ 50.Kf5 Ba5 51.Kf6 Bc3+ Qe4+ 42.Kf1 Qf4+ ½-½ 9.Qd2 a6 10.0-0-0 Rd8 11.g4 e6 12.h4 d5 52.Kf7 Kg5 53.Kg8 h6 54.Kh7 Bd2 55.b6 13.Nxc6 bxc6 14.e5! Ne8 15.f4 Bb7 Bf4 56.b7 Bb8 57.a4 Ba7 58.a5 Bb8 k Page 40 www.ColoradoChess.com Volume 47, Number 1 Colorado Chess Informant January 2020

COLORADO CHESS CLUB DIRECTORY

Boulder Chess Club: Meets Wednesdays at the University Fort Lewis College Chess Club: Meets Thursday nights in Memorial Center (First Floor) on the CU Boulder campus, 6:30- the X-treme room which is located the College Union Building, 9:30pm. 1669 Euclid Avenue, 80309. www.BoulderChess.com. the club is sponsored by the school and is a USCF affiliate club. For more info, contact Andrea Browne at (970) 247-6239. Carbondale Chess Club: Meets every Tuesday from 6:00pm until the wee hours at Kahhak Fine Arts & School, 411 Main Grand Junction Chess Club: Meets Mondays at 6:30pm in Street, Carbondale, 81623. All levels and ages are welcome and the Safeway at Starbucks, 2901 Patterson Road. Call Rick Lova- chess coaching is available. Please contact Majid Kahhak at to at (970) 243-1073. (970) 704-0622 or email: [email protected]. Grand Junction Junior Chess Club: Meets every 3rd Sat- Castle Rock Chess Club: Meets every Monday from 6:00- urday of the month at the Knights of Columbus Building, 2853 9:00pm at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 South Wilcox Street, North Avenue. Call Rand Dodd at (970) 245-4015. Castle Rock, 80104. Greeley Chess Club: Meets Wednesdays, 6:00-9:00pm at Chess Knights: (Highlands Ranch) Meets on the 2nd & 4th Your Place Coffee, 2308 West 17th Street, Greeley. Contact Wednesday evenings from 7:00-9:00pm. Highlands Ranch Li- Brad Lundstrom at [email protected]. Or call him at brary, 9292 Ridgeline Boulevard, 80129. (970) 415-3855. Information is also available on the Chess Knights' Web site at Lafayette Chess Club: Meets Mondays, from 6:00-9:00pm at HighlandsRanchLibraryChess.org. the Mojo Coffeehouse, 211 North Public Road in Lafayette. For Contact: Frank Atwood (720) 260-1493 or by email: more information send an email to [email protected] or [email protected]. contact Victor Creazzi at (303) 332-7039. Chessmates Chess Club: (Fort Collins) 4825 South Lemay Longmont Chess Club: Meets Wednesdays from 6:30- Avenue, 80525. Mondays & Thursdays 5:00-6:30pm for Ad- 9:00pm. Check www.LongmontChess.com for current meeting vanced players, Tuesdays for Beginners from 5:15-6:15pm. In- location. Email Todd Burge at [email protected] or structed by Zachary Bekkedahl. For more information contact call (720) 220-5240. Zachary Bekkedahl by email at [email protected] or go to www.chessmatesfc.com. North Jeffco Chess Club: Meets Thursdays from 7:00- 10:00pm at the Grandview Tavern & Grill, 7427 Grandview Colorado Springs Chess Club: Meets Tuesday evenings, Avenue in Arvada. Email [email protected] for more information. 7:00-10:00pm, in the ballroom of the Acacia Apartments build- ing, 104 East Platte Avenue. Scheduled activities every meeting Northeast Denver Chess Club: Meets Mondays and Thurs- at 8:00pm (must show up by 8:00pm or you might be locked days from 4:00-8:00pm at 2575 Vine Street, Denver. Call (303) out). For information see our website at www.SpringsChess.org 320-6716 for more info. or email Richard “Buck” Buchanan at [email protected] or Pagosa Springs Chess Club: Meets on Tuesdays (6:00- call (719) 685-1984. 9:00pm) and on Saturday mornings (9:00-Noon) at Nello’s Res- Craig Chess Club: Call Rick or Mary Nelson, (970) 824- taurant, 135 Country Center Drive, #A. For more information 4780 to schedule play. contact Anthony Steventon by email at [email protected] or at (970) 731-3029. Denver Chess Club: Meets on Tuesdays, 6:00-10:00pm at the Third Christian Reformed Church, 2400 South Ash Street, Den- Parker Chess Club: Meets every Thursday from 7:00- ver. (303) 733-8940. www.DenverChess.com. 9:00pm at the new Parker library in Parker, CO. All levels and ages welcome. Contact John Brezina at [email protected]. Denver Chess / Meetup.com: This group is run through the social site Meetup.com, and our page is www.Meetup.com/ Pueblo Chess Club: Meets at the Hanging Tree Café, 209 Learn-to-Play-Chess/. Players must join in order to receive in- South Union, 81003 on Tuesdays and Thursdays after 6:30pm. formation and sign up for events. Contact: David Costantino at For more info contact Liz Nickovich at [email protected] or [email protected] or through the group's Meetup.com page. by phone at (719) 696-8389.

Durango Chess Club: Meets on Wednesdays from 6:00- Rifle Chess Club: Meets Thursdays, 6:30-9:00pm, at City 9:00pm at Durango Joe’s Coffee Shop, 732 East College Drive. Hall. For information email Dane Lyons at [email protected].

Fort Collins Chess Club: Currently meets Tuesdays, Stonebridge Games Chess Club: (Longmont) Meets Tues- 7:00pm, in the food court of the Lory Student Center (2nd level), days at 5:00pm. 449 Main Street, Longmont. Call (303) 776- Colorado State University. You can email Randy Reynolds at 3796 for more info. [email protected]. On the web - groups.yahoo.com/group/fort_collins_chess. k

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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.

This position is from the 1998 Colorado Closed. By planning ahead, you can set up sacrifices in a combination that win material. Mikhail Ponomarev (2282) This position is from the 1995 Colorado Closed.

Todd Bardwick (2239)

Jerry Kearns (2335)

Position after 30...Be7 White to move Michael Mulyar (2450)

In this position, material is even. White has more active pieces Position after 40.Qd2 and a safer king. But how can he convert this to a victory? Black to move

White's best move is the surprising sacrifice, 31.Rf6! forking the With less than a minute to make time control, Black played, queen and the e-pawn. 31..Bxf6 If Black moves his queen, either 40...Rdg8 Preparing the sacrifice of the g7 rook on g3. 41.Bc5 32.Rxe6 or 32.Qxe6 may be pleasant choices for White. Rxg3+! 42.hxg3 Rxg3+ 43.Kf2 Rg2+ Skewering the king and 32.Qxe6+ Kf8 32...Kd8 33.Bxf6+ Kc7 34.Be5+ wins the queen. queen and after capturing the queen, Black is ahead in material 33.Qxc8+ Kf7 34.Qxc6 Resigns White's temporary rook with a winning endgame. sacrifice has netted him two pawns. k 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 Page 42 www.ColoradoChess.com Volume 47, Number 1 Colorado Chess Informant January 2020

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Tactics Time! One of the best ways to improve your game is to study tactics, such as the following, by Tim Brennan from games played by Colorado players. Answers are on the next page.

1. Brian Rountree - Clint Eads 2. Dean Brown - Scott Williams 3. J.C. MacNeil - Coleman Hoyt CSCC March Swiss / 2019 CSCC March Swiss / 2019 DCC April / 2019 White to move Black to move White to move

4. Rob Cernich - Aditya Krishna 5. Alexandr Bozhenov - Jesse Williams 6. Sheena Zeng - Tatev Abrahamyan DCC April / 2019 CSCC March Swiss / 2019 Denver Open / 2019 White to move White to move Black to move

7. Ed Yasutake - Zydrunas Gimbutas 8. Neil Bhavikatti - Sara Herman 9. Akshat Jain - Dean Ippolito Denver Open / 2019 Denver Open / 2019 Denver Open / 2019 Black to move Black to move 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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