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Box Hill and Canterbury Chess News CJCC ABN 52 352 957 553 BHCC ABN 52 929 596 514 Date: 23 Sept, 2014 Volume 5 issue 20 Box Hill and Canterbury Chess News Page In This Issue Calendar 1 Calendar www.boxhillchess.org.au/calendar/ 1 Editorial 2 A Visit To The San Francisco Chess Club 2 Sunday Arvo Swiss Date Day Time Event Oct 24 Friday 7:30pm Club open Rd. 3 3 Game Of The Week by David Flude Oct 26 Sunday 2pm Sunday Coaching 4 Our Sponsors Oct 26 Sunday 3:45pm Sunday Arvo Swiss 4 Bits & Pieces Oct 31 Friday 7:30pm 5 round allegro 4 Venue Update Nov 02 Sunday 2pm Sunday Coaching 5 IM Max Illingworth–How to analyze your chess games Nov 02 Sunday 3:45pm Sunday Arvo Swiss 9 Boxhill Open Update Nov-07 Friday 7:30pm Club open Rd. 4 9 Northern Star Chess Cards Nov-09 Sunday 12:30pm Rookies Cup 10 Forthcoming Events Nov-14 Friday 7:30pm Club open Rd. 5 10 November Rookies Nov-16 Sunday 2pm Sunday Coaching 10 Results of October Rookies Nov-16 Sunday 3:45pm Sunday Arvo Swiss Nov-21 Friday 7:30pm Club open Rd. 6 12 CJCC Group Coaching Details Nov-23 Sunday 2pm Sunday Coaching 12 Sunday Coaching updates Nov-23 Sunday 3:45pm Sunday Arvo Swiss 13 Financial members Nov-28 Friday 7:30pm Club open Rd. 7 14 CV Girls Primary School inter-schools final Nov-30 Sunday 2pm Sunday Coaching 15 WYCC 2014 Experiences Nov-30 Sunday 3:45pm Sunday Arvo Swiss 16 Chess Victoria inter-schools finals 18 Australian Junior Chess League How to subscribe to the Box Hill and Editorial Canterbury Chess News After a thin last issue we have a bit of a “bumper” this time around. We have the personal experiences of the WYCC2014 by Box Hill and Canterbury Chess News is one of our members. She also writes up the Secondary Schools distributed by email link to subscribers. It Girls & Open finals she competed in. One of our parents provides provides news and tournament details of the coverage of the girls primary schools final. Fludy annotates one of BHCC and CJCC chess clubs and chess his correspondence games and IM Max Illingworth provides a Victoria material when appropriate. To guide on how you can analyze your chess games and Peter Tsai become a subscriber email David Flude at: relates his experience at the San Francisco Chess Club. [email protected] with your name We have further updates on the venue for the future. The and email address and David will enter you on prospects look good, but until it’s all signed and sealed we can’t the news sheet data base. Your reveal full details just yet. entry will remain confidential. BHCC and CJCC venue: 3 Rochester Road Canterbury 3126 Page 1 A Visit To The San Francisco Chess Club (by Peter Tsai) While I was in the US for a work conference, I took some time off and dropped into the San Francisco Chess Club, located in the Mechanics Institute (57 Post Street, San Francisco). The Mechanics' Institute is the oldest chess club in the United States. The chess club was running a Blitz tournament (Falconer Blitz Tournament). It was a 5 double-round Swiss tournament The director of the blitz tournament was John Donaldson. John is an International Master as well as a FIDE Arbiter and is the director of the Mechanics' Institute Chess Club There was a field of about 40 players with an entry fee of only $10, however the prize money of $750 was guaranteed because of the generous donation of Grandmaster Patrick Wolff. Patrick also played in the tournament. In addition, all players who entered the tournament received a book from Neil Falconer's library. The time control was 5 minutes + 2 sec increment from move 1. It was a very strong tournament by Australian standards with 4 GMs, 3 IMs and 3 FMs in the field. I decided to enter the tournament and was soundly beaten in most games & only managed 4 points. Most of the field were experienced players and the Arbiter did not have to intervene. The tournament was IM, FA John Donaldson IA Peter Tsai efficiently run & completed in only 2 & half hours. Sunday Arvo Swiss. On a mild Sunday in pleasant Melbourne, after you have read the Sunday papers, had a lovely Brunch in a sidewalk cafe, trimmed the ivy hedge so that there is not a leaf out of place,what next? That is an easy question, why you just mosey on down to the chess Club to play a serious game of chess in the Sunday ARVO Swiss that starts at 3.45 pm and finishes in the cool of the evening. That is what 12 good players did in round 1. You can join them in round 2 next Sunday. No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Chmiel, Rad 1750 [0] 1:0 Neymanis, Eric 1139 [0] 2 Warren, Elizabeth 716 [0] 1:0 Lawson, Shane 1640 [0] 3 Flude, David A 1621 [0] 0:1 Tang, Jason 2156 [0] 4 Mendes, Amelia 673 [0] 1:0 Bergmanis, Olgerts 1515 [0] 5 Sucevic, Milic 1426 [0] 1:0 Wang, William 637 [0] 6 Soetanto, Brandon 688 [0] 0:1 Taylor, Stephan James 1225 [0] BHCC and CJCC venue: 3 Rochester Road Canterbury 3126 Page 2 Game of the Week – Annotated PGN (by David Flude) [Event "AUS/C2014 (AUS)"] [Site "ICCF"] {During March I played at the Begonia Tournament at Ballarat. One of the [Date "2014.04.11"] locals commented to me that I always enjoy my games. At the time I thought. [Round "?"] " What is the point of playing if you do not enjoy it?" Afterwards I recollected [White "Dunlop, Gordon"] watching a game from a previous Begonia Tournament where a very strong [Black "Flude, David A"] player was slowly outplayed. As his position deteriorated he became more [Result "1/2-1/2"] and more distraught. He not only lost the game but the game in the next [ECO "B77"] round as well. Now I am going to tell you the big secret of defence. It is not to [WhiteElo "2407"] be found in any of my books on defence. You must learn to enjoy defending [BlackElo "2118"] difficult positions. In the following game played in The current Australian [Annotator "Flude,David"] Correspondence Chess Championship I get to employ a wide range of [PlyCount "73"] defensive techniques.} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 [EventDate "2014.??.??"] 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 Nc6 8. Qd2 O-O 9. Bc4 Rb8 {I have employed this move in a number of correspondence games achieving a series of draws and one catastrophic loss.} 10. O-O-O Na5 {This is a mistake although I was following an over the board game.} 11. Be2 a6 12. h4 {Suddenly I realized that white would crash through on the kingside long before the black queen side counter attack was underway. Nh5 {This is an attempt to turn the position into a yukky mess. This was a favourite defensive technique of sometime World Champion Emmanuel Lasker.} 13. Rh2 {White continues to build up his position. However this leaves the rook on h2 unprotected for one move. It took me a long time to see how I could take advantage of this.} e5 {According to which book you read on defence this is referred to blackmail or psychological blackmail. White is given the choice of winning the pawn on d6 or continuing the attack. I have no idea as to which was the better plan.} 14. Nb3 Be6 15. g4 {White continues to attack.} (15. Qxd6 Qxd6 16. Rxd6 Nxb3+ 17. axb3 {is the alternative approach. White has an extra pawn but the queenside pawns are a little weak. Winning the game would involve a lot of hard work by white and is anything but certain.}) 15... Nf4 16. Bf1 { The knight has a great position.} (16. Bxf4 exf4 17. Qxf4 $2 Be5 {takes advantage of the unprotected rook on h2.}) 16... Rc8 17. Kb1 Rc6 18. h5 b5 ( 18... Nxb3 {is an alternative.} 19. axb3 {What should black do in this position? I could not see a good plan for black.}) 19. Nd5 ({In an over the board game there would be the tempation to play} 19. hxg6 {hoping for} hxg6 $4 20. Nxa5 Qxa5 21. Nd5 {and black has a choice between losing his queen or getting checkmated.}) 19... Nxb3 20. axb3 Bxd5 21. exd5 Rc7 {This is another well known defensive technique giving up the exchange for a pawn. If white does not grab the exchange the rook will be redeployed along the second rank.} (21... Rc8 {is a very passive way to play.}) 22. hxg6 fxg6 23. Bb6 Rxc2 24. Bxd8 Rxd2 25. Rhxd2 Rxd8 26. Rc2 {Black has one pawn for the exchange but his pieces are not well coordinated.} e4 {here is yet nother defensive technique. Black sacrifices a pawn to increase the scope of the bishop.} 27. fxe4 Be5 28.Rc6 Ra8 29. Kc2 h5 {Now black is going to have an outside passed pawn with the knight and especially the bishop well placed to help it advance.} 30. gxh5 gxh5 31. Ra1 Kf7 32. Rcxa6 Rc8+ {I was unsure as to whether white should interpose the rook or move the King. If I could keep giving white choices possibly he would get one wrong.} 33. Rc6 Rg8 {The open file is the place for the rook.} ({ I spent many hours looking at} 33..
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