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1 NOVEMBER 2017 Chess News and Chess History for Oklahoma Honorary Okie Anna Zatonskih HONORARY OKIES ISSUE This month we have a wide variety of chess news and features, including an update on the In This Issue: activity of many of our “Honorary Okies” • around the country. ARK-OKLA Friendly Feud First off, a short article about the Ark-Okla • Friendly Feud held on National Chess Day in “Oklahoma’s Official Chess The Southwest October in Fort Smith. The new event is having Bulletin Covering Oklahoma Chess Missouri major growing pains and may be in trouble for on a Regular Schedule Since 1982” Diehards the future. • http://ocfchess.org The recent “Southwest Missouri Diehards Open” Oklahoma Chess Honorary prompted me to finish an article about the Okies interesting background behind this event, Foundation • which has roots that date back to the 1960s. Register Online for Free Plus News Bites, Speaking of the “old days”… we have two new Editor: Tom Braunlich Game of the player profiles about players who were regulars Asst. Ed. Rebecca Rutledge st Month, in the Fischer Boom era here in Oklahoma — Published the 1 of each month. Elliott Winslow, and Rollie Tesh. Tesh also Puzzles, Send story submissions and created a special fun chess quiz for us. Plus we Top 25 List, tournament reports, etc., by the Tournament catch up with other “Honorary Okies.” 15th of the previous month to Reports, Plus a book review by IM John Donaldson, mailto:[email protected] and more. Game of the Month, puzzles, games, and more… ©2017 All rights reserved. 23 The 2nd annual attempt to form a friendly would keep it a good date. Period. And if for team tournament in the border city of Fort some odd reason that was truly impossible, I Smith for Arkie and Okie players (following a would personally communicate with a phone strong debut last year) unfortunately ended call. None of that happened.” in failure, at least partly due to a conflict of Spokesmen for OCA have explained in the past dates by OSCO (Oklahoma Scholastic Chess that OSCO has special needs when it comes to Organization). scheduling due to the large turnouts at its Only three Oklahoma players attended, not tournaments (60-200 players typically), plus the enough to meet the minimum for a team need to have it at secure school-friendly competition in the rapid/blitz events that locations, (which requires insurance for the make up the tournament (G/20, G/10, G/5). event and also possibly security measures as well). This limits the number of possible venues Organizer Karis Bellisario (see profile of her and tends to limit selection of dates. Thus OCA in the Jan 2017 OCM) targetted National and OSCO have said that OSCO’s plans should be Chess Day (Oct 14) and cleared this date by given priority and others should schedule around contacting Oklahoma organizers starting last them. But it’s rather difficult for other May. Receiving an apparent go-ahead she did organizers to schedule around OSCO when they so and began advertising. She was don’t announce their schedule until just weeks particularly targeting the scholastic kids who before it begins. tend to like the faster time controls, and was hoping for a good turnout. Only Okies James Long, Harold Brown, and Howard Dihrberg participated; not enough for a Unfortunately, when OSCO announced its team event to come off. See crosstable: schedule for the upcoming school year in early September, it chose October 14 for one http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?201710144212-12374730 of its five “regular season” qualifying After the event, Bellisario announced, “I will tournaments, conflicting with the Friendly consider this Feud the last one unless Oklahoma Feud. These events are key dates in the opts to initiate one going forward … .” She OSCO calendar as any kid hoping to qualify pointed out, “OSCO … could have made the Feud for the coveted slot in the Denker or Barber event one they truly got behind where the points national championships must have at least counted toward the student champion two strong scores in these events plus do requirements and it was celebrated as a family well in the state championship event at the event – where kids and parents and coaches end of the season. Their best two scores in could all compete together.” the five are taken, so most must attend as Personally I think that sounds like a great idea many as they can. No scholastic players for kids … an interstate scholastic fun rivalry showed up for the Friendly Feud. event, with the whole family able to play, and Bellisario said, “What stunned me most is with Fort Smith as the logical border city venue. learning it was not an oversight or case of But the onus will now be on OSCO or some other forgetting; they remembered, but did it organizer acceptable to OSCO to make that anyway. I do not understand that. I would happen. NEVER do that. If I said it was a good date, I 2 12 23...Rxh2! 24.Bxh2 Qxh2+! 25.Kxh2 Nf3+ HONORARY OKIES: 26.Kh3 Rh8+ 27.Kg4 Rh4+ 28.Kxf3 g4# 0-1 Tres Roring, former active Okie player Update who is now living on the west coast, now has by Tom Braunlich something . They both were beaten in September by Frank Berry used to call chess players who were newly-unretired GM James Tarjan. Tarjan, at one time participants in multiple Oklahoma one of the top American GMs from the 1970s, tournaments but who lived elsewhere was a very scary opponent in his heyday. I “Honorary Okies” — those we like that always played him once when I was rated over 2300 will have a welcoming chess home here. Former (in Okie players were also included in the term. He could not make a good enough Here is an update on the news for several such living as a professional so in 1984 he quit Honorary Okies: chess completely and became a librarian. In recent years he retired from that life, and David Zelnick, just became a new former has been playing tournaments again. Okie by moving recently to Massachusetts, (near Boston), where he has already played in a couple tournaments. : “I moved to Worcester, MA, with my fiancée, Roring, Tres (2071) Helen, who is going to school up here and will Tarjan, James (2481) [A46] be coming back in December to get married. If Portland Open 2017 (2), 02.09.2017 I can, maybe I'll stop by and say hey to you all.” 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.b3 d6 3.d4 Bg4 4.e3 Nbd7 5.Be2 e6 Apparently his fiancé is from Ghana, Africa! 6.Bb2 d5 7.0-0 Bd6 8.Nbd2 0-0 9.Ne5 Bxe2 Congrats and best wishes to David, who sent in 10.Qxe2 c6 11.f4 Qe7 12.g4!? Rad8 13.g5 Ne8 this recent win of his with a problem-like end: 14.Rf3 f6 15.Nxd7 [15.gxf6] 15...Rxd7 16.Rg3 g6 Ross, Alonso (1980) - Zelnick,David (2154) 17.Nf3 Ng7 18.Rh3 Nh5 19.Bc1? fxg5 20.Nxg5 [D00] Massachusetts, 14.10.2017 1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 c6 3.e3 Nf6 4.Bd3 e6 5.Nd2 Nbd7 6.Ngf3 Be7 7.Ne5 Nxe5 8.dxe5 Nd7 9.Qg4 g6 10.c3 b6 11.0-0 Nc5 12.Be2 h5 13.Qh3 g5 14.Bg3 Ba6 15.Bxh5 [15.Bxa6 g4] 15...Bxf1 16.Rxf1 Kd7 17.Qg4 Rh7 18.Qf3 Qh8 19.Bg4 Nd3 20.Qe2 Nxe5 21.Qa6 Kc7 22.Be2 Bd6 23.c4 Black to move and win!... Later that month, former world champion Vladimir Kramnik suffered the same fate at the big tournament at the Isle of Man off the coast of England: Tarjan, James (2412) Kramnik, Vladimir (2803) [A12] Isle of Man 2017 (3), 23.09.2017 [TB] 1.c4 Nf6 2.g3 c6 3.Nf3 d5 4.b3 Bg4 5.Bg2 e6 6.0- 0 Nbd7 7.Bb2 Bd6 8.d3 0-0 9.Nbd2 Re8 10.h3 Bh5 11.Re1 a5 12.a3 e5 13.cxd5 cxd5 14.Nh43 43 Nc5 15.Qc2 Ne6 16.Rac1 Nd4 17.Qd1 Nb5 18.Nb1 Qd7 19.Kh2 Ra6 20.Nf3 e4 21.dxe4 Nxe4 22.Rf1 Bb8 23.Nc3 Nbxc3 24.Bxc3 Rae6 25.Be1 h6 26.Rc2 Ba7 27.Qc1 Bb6 28.e3 Qb5 29.Nd4 Bxd4 30.exd4 Bf3? 31.Bxf3 Nxg3? [31...Qxf1 32.Be2 Nxg3 33.Bxf1 Nxf1+ 34.Kg2 Rxe1 35.Qf4 R8e6=] 32.fxg3 Qxf1 33.Bf2 Qd3 34.Rc3 Qf5 35.Kg2 Rf6 36.Qc2 Qd7 37.g4 Rc6 38.Rc5 Rd8 39.Qf5 Rxc5 40.Qxd7 Rxd7 41.dxc5 d4 42.Kf1 d3 43.Ke1 d2+ 44.Kd1 Kf8 45.Bg3 Ke7 46.Bd6+ Ke6 47.Kxd2 b6 48.Ke3 bxc5 49.Bxc5 Rd8 50.b4 axb4 51.axb4 f5 52.b5 fxg4 53.hxg4 g6 54.b6 h5 55.g5 Kd7 56.b7 1-0 Anna Zatonskih is another Honorary Okie who was also playing at Isle of Man, and had a great tournament, which included wins over GM Boris Gelfand and former women’s world champion GM Alexandra Kosteniuk. She has played in Oklahoma many Anna Zatonskih, Isle of Man 2003 times, including winning the U.S. Women’s , the 15-year-old Dallas Championship in Tulsa in 2008. Jeffrey Xiong grandmaster whom we claim as an Honorary Okie, defeated Anna in round 8 at Isle of Man. But perhaps more exciting was who he got to play in round three: Carlsen, Magnus (2827) Xiong, Jeffrey (2633) [D03] Isle of Man 2017 (3.1), 25.09.2017 [TB] 1.Nf3 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.d4 e6 4.Bg5 d5 5.e3 h6 6.Bh4 Nc6 7.Nbd2 a6 8.Bd3 Be7 9.0-0 Nd7 10.Bxe7 Nxe7 11.Ne5 cxd4 12.exd4 Nxe5 13.dxe5 Bd7 14.Re1 Rc8 15.Nf3 b5 16.h4 a5 17.a3 Qb6 18.Qd2≤ b4!? 19.cxb4 axb4 20.a4 [20.Qxb4 Qxb4 21.axb4 Nc6 (21...Rb8 22.b5±) 22.Rec1± Nxb4? 23.Rxc8+ Bxc8 24.Bb5+ Gelfand-Zatonskih, Isle of Man, 2017 Kd8 25.Ra4] 20...Ra8 21.b3 0-0 22.Rac1 Rfc8 23.h5 35…Rc5! 36.
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