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California Chess Journal in This Issue ISSUE 2004.3 FALL 2004 S 2 Ragin’ in Reno: Californians Score in Western States 3 Official Publication of CalChess California Chess Journal In this issue ISSUE 2004.3 FALL 2004 s 2 Ragin’ in Reno: Californians score in Western States 3 Many CalChess members slipped sev, who overcame an early Emeryville, who tied for first in 4 across the border to compete in stumble to finish in 14th place the B-section. Vallejo’s Calixto the 22nd Western States Open with 4 points., joined by FM Ti- Magaoay and Santa Clara’s 5 in Reno, held October 15-17 at gran Ishkhanov of Mountain Randolph Moore tied for 5th in the Sands Regency Hotel. The View, IM Bela Evans of Newark the B group In the C-section, event, organized by Jerry Weikel, scored 3.5, while FM Richard Daniel Naroditsky of Foster City 6 featured Boris Spassky as the Kelson (Clayton) and FM Eric took clear first with 5.5, followed guest of honor. Schiller (Moss Beach) tied for by Cupertino’s James Burns and 7 GM Hikaru Nakamura ran away 2nd-3rd under 2300 with 3 Alan Naroditsky on 5. with the event, winning his first 5 points. FM Dmitry Zilberstein —Michael Aigner games before agreeing to a draw also wound up with 3. Additional 8 Event Website: in his last round game against CalChess players in the open Alexander Ivanov. But second section included NM Michael http://home.nvbell.net/wayern/ Aigner, Shivkumar Shivaji, IM renochess/wso/ 9 place went to our local Grand- master Alex Yermolinsky. At 4.5, Walter Shipman, Roger tied with GM Aleks Wojtkiewicz, Popehlmann, IM Ricardo de 10 IM Enrico Sevillano, GM Alexan- Guzman, IM John Donaldson, der Ivanov, Andran Matikozyan, Ankit Gupta, GM Walter Bowne and Luis Busquets. 11 GM Ildar Ibragimov and GM Dmitry Gurevich. Impressive results in the lower Other CalChess scores included sections include San Francisco’s 12 Belmont’s IM Vladimir Mezent- Victor Todortsev, 3rd place in the A section, Rico Adkins of 13 14 New Home for CalChess State Scholastic Championship 15 The official CalChess State Scho- nearby, the event is sure to draw 16 lastics are getting a major up- more families than ever! grade in 2005! The event is mov- ing to San Francisco’s Fort Ma- 17 son, May 6-8. The new venue is the magnificent Herbst Pavilion, 18 right on the waterfront. With Fisherman's Wharf and all of San Francisco’s tourist attractions Details on page 9 19 PAGE 2 California Chess Journal goes digital As you can see, the California the additional costs involved in feel it is the best format to chess Journal has taken on a producing the printed version. reach all of our members. It is new form. In order to reduce This first issue of the digital a big file, especially when we costs and take advantage of couch as journal is a big ex- use a lot of color photographs. some of the opportunities perimental, and it will take So we have emailed a special given to us by the latest tech- some time for us to work out link for downloading the file, nology, we are now presenting the best possible presentation rather than sending it by email. the Journal in a digital form. All of material. We welcome your If you are online when reading CalChess members will now comments and criticisms and this, you can click on links to received its printable digital have set up a web page at the take you directly to web pages. publication, In this way we can CalChess site for your use. Remember, this issue is highly reduce our fees, while at the The PDF format is cross- experimental, We rely on your same time offering those who platform and universal, and feedback to help create an prefer a printed version the most of you probably have ideal publication. opportunity to subscribe at a software to read the files. We rate which will simply cover Eric Schiller, Editor. Chess is booming in California! CalChess Board of Directors: Elizabeth Shaunessy, President Although both the Traditional chess tour- Eric Hicks, Vice President United States chess naments are adapting Richard Koepcke, Treasureer Federation and the their formats to make it Roger Poehlmann, Secretary world chess Federation possible to participate Michael Aigner (Clearinghouse) are facing major chal- even taking into ac- Jacob Green lenges at the moment, count how busy most Joe Lonsdale just in California is do- people are. There are John McCumiskey ing very well indeed. unlimited opportunities Eric Schiller We have a chess playing to play chess online, Steve Smith governor, the tourna- ever are involved in most of them for free. ment calendar is nearly scholastic chess pro- 2005 is going to be a full, and more kids than grams. banner year for chess! Matthew Ho at World Youth Championships San Jose junior NM Mat- He has his work cut out Californians NM Elliott thew Ho was selected for him in Greece, since Liu (B16) and WFM to represent the United he is seeded 41st out of Tatev Abrahamyan States at the World 116 players in the B16 (G16) are the only Youth Chess Champi- (boys 16-and-under) other west coast par- onship in Crete, Greece section, with two ticipants. Full results on November 4-13. Grandmasters sitting at available online. Matthew is the highest the top boards. Mat- Michael Aigner rated junior in North- thew joins the 24-player ern California, with cur- delegation of American Matthew finished with an rent ratings of 2259 kids who play in five age even score in the impres- USCF and 2277 FIDE. categories. Southern sive field.—ed. ISSUE 2004.3 PAGE 3 DeGuzman dominates local scene In many chess communities DeGuzman vs. Michael Aigner, There just throughout the United States, Black Knight Halloween Swiss seems to be no and indeed all over the world, 1. c3 f5 2. d4 Nf6 3. f3 d5 4. Nh3 one expects to find a player c5 5. Nf2 Nc6 6. e3 Qb6 7. Qb3 stopping IM with a Russian, Armenian, or it Qxb3 8. axb3 e5 9. Bb5 cxd4 10. Ricardo Georgian taking top honors in exd4 exd4 11. cxd4 Kf7 12. Bxc6 bxc6 13. Nd3 Bd6 14. Bf4 Bxf4 DeGuzman, the local competitions. How- 15. Nxf4 Bd7 16. Nd3 Rhb8 17. who has been ever, here in San Francisco a Nd2 Ke7 18. Kf2 Kd6 19. h4 Ne8 member of the Filipino com- 20. b4 f4 21. Ra4 Rb6 22. Nb3 dominating the munity is the man to beat. In- Nc7 23. Rha1 Bf5 24. Nbc5 Bxd3 Bay Area Chess ternational master Ricardo de 25. Nxd3 Nb5 26. Nxf4 Rb7 27. Rd1 Re8 28. Rd2 Rbe7 29. h5 scene lately. Guzman has been winning Re1 30. Ne2 Rh1 31. Ng3 Rc1 32. tournament after tournament International Master Nf5+ Kc7 33. Nxg7 Ree1 34. Nf5 in the Bay area. Ricardo DeGuzman Kb6 35. g4 Nc7 36. Ra3 1-0 Yefim Bukh was sec- ond at 4 followed by Filipino IM Ricardo DeGuzman Philipp Semenenko in the site. The event was directed by Nicolas Yap, Dmitry won the top section of 2004 Booster Section ( U1400 ) with the Author and Robert Blatt. Vayntraub, Sam Burlingame Open outright a 3.5 - 0.5 score. The tourna- The Burlingame Chess Club Shankland, Ewelina with a perfect 4-0 score. The ment drew 53 players which is was the host for the site. Krubnik and Rama- other two section winners slightly less than the 60 player On December 4, IM De- nathan Thirupathy at were Julian Standen in the Re- the organizers had hoped for, Guzman was again victori- 3.5. Anthony Corra- serve Section ( U1800 ), also but a respectable showing for ous the 4th annual Guthrie les directed the 28- with a perfect 4-0 score and a first tournament at a new McClain Memorial, scoring 4.5 player event for the from 5. Mechanics'. DeGuzman wins Black Knight Halloween Tourney International Master Ricardo with a half point after a diffi- those players were in the com- was reserve section de Guzman came out on top cult endgame against de petitive booster (1600-1999) champion Alberto of the October Open at the Guzman. Second place went section. Amazingly, nobody Calderon. The under Academic Chess BlacKnight to Aigner with 3.0/4 while managed to score more than 1400 honors went to Palace in San Jose with a score Schiller and Amarnath Muk- 3.0/4, resulting in a six-way tie Albert Gu, Jonathan of 3.5/4. In his classic "trick or herjee shared third place with for first place and top under Pak, and Yukihiro treat" playing style, De- 2.5. Mukherjee won the top 1800 between Jan De Jong, Suda. Guzman defeated NM Michael Eric Madriaga, Patrick Shep- under 2200 honors. —Michael Aigner Aigner on Halloween morning herd, Arnav Shah, Stephen with the rare Saragossa open- 40 players took part in this Young, and Ken White. The ing (1. c3). Only FM Eric event, which was capably di- only person to achieve a per- Schiller managed to escape rected by Albert Rich. Half of fect score in the tournament ISSUE 2004.3 Rumble in Reno PAGE 4 IM John Donaldson reports: oris Spassky vs. George Stone (1719) [B39] Reno Simul 15.10.2004 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 Bg7 7.Be3 Ng4 8.Qxg4 Nxd4 9.Qd1 Ne6 10.Qd2 0-0 11.Be2 Qa5 12.Rc1 d6 13.0-0 Bd7 14.Rfd1 Bc6 15.f3 Rfe8 16.b3 Rac8 17.Nd5 Qxd2 18.Rxd2 b6 19.b4 Bxd5 20.exd5 Nf8 21.Bd1 Rc7 22.Ba4 Rec8 23.Bb5 Nd7 24.Rdc2 Nf6 25.Ba4 h5 26.Kf2 Kh7 27.Ke2 Bh6 28.Bxh6 Kxh6 29.Kd3 e6 ½-½ The following game between GM-elect Boris Kreiman of Los Angeles and David Vigorito of Henderson, Nevada, who has three IM norms, was the most spectacular of the event even if it later proved to be unsound.
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