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2001/1 Layout Virginia Chess Newsletter 2001- #1 1 2001 VIRGINIA OPEN 1 1 Ilye Figler, of New York, scored 4 ⁄2 - ⁄2 to take clear first at the 2001 Virginia Open, held Jan 19-21 at the now-restored Holiday Inn in Fredericksburg. IM Adrian Negulescu and Macon Shibut scored 4-1 to tie for 2nd. In the Amateur section, top rated David O’Bryant Other prizewinners in the Open included IM Larry 1 1 validated the rating system by scoring 5 ⁄2 - ⁄2. Kaufman, Peter Fleischer , Boris Privman, Stan Jason Hart, Barry Quillon & Philip Shing tied Fink & Ray Kaufman (=4th); and Paul Yavari, for 2nd - 4th. Ray Fletcher, Chris Sevilla & Marvin Lazo (= U2100). Amateur prizewinners included William Keough, Jason McKinney, Dan Calhoun & Jef- VIRGINIA CHESS KIDS frey Mason Jones (= top B); Grant Fleming & CORE N IAMI Daniel Summers(= top C); Brian Jones, Jerry S I M Cano, Fernand Piller, Marshall McDaniel, Dennis by Peter Hopkins Okola & Jonathan Greenburg (all = top D); Adam OR THE SECOND year in a row, Virginia Kuriloff (top Under 1200); Christopher Snell (2nd Scholastic Chess Association (VSCA) U1200); and Fredd Snell & Lisa DePasquale (= F top unrated). teams brought home trophies from the Junior Orange Bowl International Chess Mike Atkins and Ira Lee Riddle directed on be- Championships held at the Radisson Mart Plaza half of the VCF. in Miami, Florida, December 26 - 29, 2000. ADRIAN NEGULESCU - STAN FINK After seven rounds of fierce competition in the 19- BENONI and-Under section, the VSCA team placed 2nd, 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 c5 3 d5 g6 4 Nc3 Bg7 5 e4 d6 just two match points behind Miami International 6 Bb5+ Nbd7 7 a4 O-O 8 h3 a6 9 Be2 Rb8 10 Chess Academy and well ahead of teams from a5 b5 11 axb6 Bb7 12 O-O Nxb6 13 Bf4 Ra8 Netherlands Antilles, Jamaica and Barbados. The 14 Qd2 Re8 15 Bh6 Bh8 16 Rfd1 Qc7 17 Qf4 Miami team was led by 1999 national high school Nbd7 18 Nd2 Ne5 19 Qh4 Ned7 20 Nc4 a5 and US Junior Champion Marcel Martinez (USCF 21 Bg5 Reb8 22 Ra2 Bc8 23 e5 2434) and 2000 national high school champion ‹óóóóóóóó‹ Rodelay Medina (2226). Martinez placed first in 1 õÏÌË›‹›ÙÈú the section with a score of 6 ⁄2. VSCA’s Judah Brownstein, from Lexington, scored a draw õ›‹Ò‰·‡›‡ú against Medina in the 5th round and the two õ‹›‹·‹Â‡›ú eventually tied for second place. Philip Shing and õ·‹·fifl‹Á‹ú Andrew Miller, both from Fredericksburg, and Robert Brady, from McLean and new on this õ‹›‚›‹›‹Ôú year’s team, completed the scoring for Virginia. õ›‹„‹›‹›fiú All four members of the Under 20 team won õÍflfi›Êflfi›ú individual trophies. õ›‹›Í›‹Û‹ú Continued page 5 ‹ìììììììì‹ 2 Virginia Chess Newsletter 2001 - #1 23...Nxe5 24 Nxe5 dxe5 25 d6 Qb6 26 dxe7 Be6 White to play d5 on the 7th move. Castling first 27 Bxf6 Bxf6 28 Qxf6 Bxa2 29 Qxb6 1-0 and only then d5 would force Black to play the normal Yugoslav variation lines with ...c5 whereas JASON MCKINNEY - DAVID O’BRYANT now Black has this additional option ...c6. If 9 b4 SICILIAN (This was the decisive last round game in the Nxd5! the complications work out okay for Black; Amateur section.) 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d4 cxd4 but otherwise Black has time to rescue his knight 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 e5 6 Ndb5 d6 7 Bg5 a6 8 by cxd5 and Rc8 î Nc4. Na3 b5 9 Nd5 Qa5+ 10 Bd2 Qd8 11 Nxf6+ 9 0-0 cxd5 10 cxd5 Bd7 11 a4 Qxf6 12 Bd3 Qg6 13 O-O Be7 14 Kh1 f5 15 To stop ...b5; in any case, if 11 b4 Rc8! exf5 Bxf5 16 Bxf5 Qxf5 17 Be3 Rc8 18 c3 O-O 19 Qd5+ Qf7 20 Rad1 Qxd5 21 Rxd5 Na5 22 11...Rc8 12 h3 Qb6 13 e4 a6 Bb6 Nc4 23 Nxc4 Rxc4 24 Ba5 Ra4 25 Bb4 “Winning” a pawn by 13...Nh5 (threatens both g3 Rxa2 26 Ba3 ‹óóóóóóóó‹ and c3) would be ridiculous. õ‹›‹›‹ÌÙ›ú 14 Kh2‹óóóóóóóó‹ Rc7 15 Qe2 Rfc8 16 f4 õ›‹›‹È‹·‡ú õ‹›Ï›‹›Ù›ú õ‡›‹·‹›‹›ú õ›‡ÌË·‡È‡ú õ›‡›Í·‹›‹ú õ‡Ò‹·‹Â‡›ú õ‹›‹›‹›‹›ú õ‹›fi›‹›‹ú õÁ‹fl‹›‹›‹ú õfi›‹›fifl‹›ú õÏfl‹›‹flfiflú õ›‹„‹›‹flfiú õ›‹›‹›Í›Úú õ‹fl‹„Ó›ÊÛú ‹ìììììììì‹ õ΋Á‹›Í›‹ú 26...Rb8 27 Rb1 a5 (White hoped to make some- ‹ìììììììì‹ thing of the stuck Black rook but instead he finds his own bishop trapped! ...b4 is coming and if 28 VIRGINIA CHESS Bxd6 Rd8 29 Rbd1 Bxd6 30 Rxd6 Rxd6 31 Rxd6 Ra1+) 28 b3 Rxa3 29 h3 Kf7 30 Kg1 Ke6 31 Newsletter Rd2 Rc8 32 Rd3 a4 33 bxa4 bxa4 34 Rg3 g6 2001 - Issue #1 35 Rg4 Rcxc3 36 Rgb4 Rcb3 37 R1xb3 axb3 Editor: Circulation: 38 Kf1 Ra1+ 39 Ke2 Ra2+ 40 Kf3 d5 41 Rb6+ Macon Shibut Roger Mahach Bd6 42 Rxb3 Ra3 43 Rxa3 Bxa3 44 Ke3 Bc5+ 8234 Citadel Place 7901 Ludlow Ln 45 Ke2 Kf5 46 f3 Kf4 0-1 Vienna VA 22180 Dunn Loring, VA 22027 [email protected] [email protected] FLOYD BOUDREAUX - MACON SHIBUT Ú Í KING’S INDIAN Notes by Macon Shibut Virginia Chess is published six times per year by 1 Nf3 d6 2 d4 Nf6 3 c4 g6 4 Nc3 Bg7 5 g3 0-0 the Virginia Chess Federation. VCF membership 6 Bg2 Nc6 7 d5 Na5 8 Nd2 c6 dues ($10/yr adult; $5/yr junior) include a subscription to Virginia Chess. Send material for I have written previously (see Virginia Chess publication to the editor. Send dues, address #1999/5) about why I believe it is inaccurate for changes, etc to Circulation. Virginia Chess Newsletter 2001- #1 3 16...Nb3 W.P. HOOGENDONK It’s time to consider concrete variations. My origi- I first met W.P. Hoogendonk prior to the 5th round of a nal thought was 16...e6 since White is undevel- Virginia Open. It was a Sunday morning in January 1989 oped and it might seem to be in Black’s interest at the old Howard Johnson’s in Fredericksburg. That to blow the situation open. However, I did not like was my first tournament and after an opening win, things the continuation 17 dxe6 Bxe6 18 f5 and after were not going very well. As we set up the pieces W.P. 18...Bd7 19 fxg6 White will sacrifice the exchange smiled and said, “I am not having a very good tourna- ment.” Thirteen moves later, his tournament had mark- on f6 and then play Nd5. edly improved while mine was still spiraling downward. I wasn’t exactly in love with the text move because Over the years since, I have seen W.P. at dozens of events I hated doing White the favor of exchanging off and played him several times. He was almost always in his knight that’s in the way of his bishop. But I good humor and just as frequently had a briefcase in saw no other constructive plan. One point of the one hand and a pipe in the other. W.P. was a throwback text is that after my queen winds up at b3 she to the days when a gentleman dressed like a gentleman, and thus he was always attired in jacket and tie. covers e6. In some variations that’s useful if White tries stuff with e4-e5-e6... Otherwise, I win abso- He and I developed a bit of byplay involving that pipe. lute control of square c4. I can trade queens there While he always had it at hand, he knew VCF events were non-smoking and thus he would go outside to ac- and the resulting positions highlight the greater ac- tually light up. However, anytime I saw the pipe in or tivity of my rooks. near the playing room, I would adopt a superior tone 17 Nxb3 Qxb3 18 Ra3?! and say, “I’m sorry, Sir, but this is a No Smoking event.” He would give me a long suffering look in return and This walks into a very powerful “sacrifice”. 18 Be3 say in his precise way, “It’s not lit so I’m not breaking was better. the rules.” 18...Qxa3 19 bxa3 Rxc3 W.P. was a fixture at VCF events. I have no idea how many games he would play in an average year but I White’s problem is that he started an attack that know he played across the Old Dominion as well as in he didn’t finish. Now the effect of having played other states including North Carolina and Maryland. I e4 and f4 is that his 1st, 2nd & 3rd ranks are all don’t recall ever hearing a complaint from him about anything or anyone. He loved chess and was always very exposed to the lateral pressure of Black’s happy to be playing it. rooks. In 1994 W.P. agreed to take a position on the VCF Board 20 Bd2 Rc2 21 Qe3 Bxa4 22 Rc1 Rxc1 23 of Directors and he served ably and well in that capac- Bxc1 Nd7 24 Bd2 Rc2 25 Bb4 Bb5 ity for six years. This costs no time since White has to deal with W.P. Hoogendonk passed away on January 12, 2001 the threat ...Bf1, and it’s a useful safeguard. If in- at the age of 79.
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