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Jan-Feb 2007 JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2007 ILLINOIS CHESS BULLETIN IN THIS ISSUE Reader Games Games and an Interview from IM Angelo Young Illinois Chess Club Reports Chess from the Middle Road Warrior and much more! Illinois Chess Bulletin Contents Page 2 Table of Contents e-ICB http://ilchess.org/e.htm Ica Supporters Life Patron Members Helen Warren James Warren Todd Barre Features Century Club Patron Members Michael Aaron Kevin Bachler Bill Brock A Rating is Just a Number ..... 6 Lawrence Cohen Vladimir Djordjevic by Vince Hart William Dwyer In Memory of Victor George Thomas Fineberg Thomas Friske Interview With a Champion ... 8 Samuel Naylor IV James Novotny Daniel Pradt Randall Ryner Reader’s Games! ........................ 14 Frederick W Schmidt, Jr. Pradip Sethi Scott Silverman Bill Smythe Kurt W Stein Northshore/Kumbaya Report ............... 12 Phillip Wong Gold Card Patron Members Todd Barre Clyde Blanke Jim Brontsos departments Phil Bossaers Aaron Chen Chess-Now Ltd. Editor’s Desk .......................... 4 David Cook Joseph Delay John Dueker Fred Gruenberg David Heis Vincent Hart President’s Podium ........................... 5 Steven Klink Richard Lang Mark Marovitch Mark Nibbelin Alex Pehas Joseph Splinter Games from IM Young ............. 10 Michael Sweig James Tanaka Robert Widing Road Warrior ..................................... 16 Patron Members Bacil Alexy Adwar Dominic Amodei Club News ...................................... 20 Roy Benedek Roger Birkeland Jack Bishop Foster L Boone, Jr. Dennis Bourgerie ICA Calendar ...................................... 22 Robert J Carlton Mike Cronin Tom Duncan Brian Dupuis Charles Fenner Gregory Fischer Shizuko Fukuhara Fulk Alan Gasiecki David Gerber Walter Griesmeyer Seteven Hansen Frank Harvey Special Web Feature S.E. Henderson, Jr. Hectory Hernandez Daniel G Iovin Timothy Just Richard Karpes Replay the “Reader’s Games” section! Steven Klink Thomas Knoedler Richard Lewis Michael Lobraco Kenneth Marshall Gary Martin http://ilchess.org/eICB/e.htm Daniel Modes Clarence J Moore David B Mote Cecil Rhymer Eric Rose Keith Rose Ray Doyle Satterlee Garret Scott Ely Sollano Walter Showa Ronald J Suarez John Tums Michael Zacate Illinois Chess Bulletin Information Page 3 About the ICA and ICB e-ICB http://ilchess.org/e.htm Illinois Chess Bulletin e-ICB Contributors President Chris Merli Published online six times per year. IM Angelo Young 1206 Watersedge Road Copyright 2006 Illinois Chess As- Chris Merli Champaign, IL 61822-8100 sociation. Ron Suarez (217)778-3334 Vince Hart [email protected] Next Deadline: Feb 15, 2007. Pete Karagianis David Long Metro V.P. Submission Guidelines Henry Getz Vacant Send all e-ICB submissions to: Downstate V.P. Pete Karagianis Advertising Rates David Long [email protected] Contact the ICA President at: Secretary Only electronic submissions will be [email protected] Colley Kitson accepted. The preferred format is for e-ICB advertising rates. .cbh or .pgn file for games, .doc There is a $20 design-charge for all Treasurer file for articles. advertisements that are not cam- Carl Dolson era-ready or pre-made in .jpg for- 6021 N. Wickwood Road ALL SUBMISSIONS mat. Allow additional time before Peoria, IL 61614 including advertisements should deadline for design and placement. [email protected] have the subject “ICB Submission” Payment must accompany the ad. in the e-mail. Membership Secretary Membership Information Jeff Smith Pictures Wanted! 19439 Lakeside Lane The Illinois Chess Bulletin (ICB) is Bloomington, IL 61704 Have a digital camera? Take it to published by the Illinois Chess As- (309)378-2078 your next tournament and send sociation (ICA). ICA membership [email protected] the photos to the ICB! A picture includes a subscription to the ICB. says a thousand words. Preferred Memberships marked 1st receive ICA Tour Statistician format for all digital images is .jpg, their magazines first class. Mem- Vince Hart but others are accepted. berships marked “P” also received a [email protected] plaque. Affiliates receive discounted Editorial Staff advertising rates, event advertising on the ICA website, and the right to Editor in Chief: Pete Karagianis run tour events. Games Editor: IM Angelo Young Further information on membership rates and benefits can be found at: HTML Replay www.ilchess.org/membership.htm All games found in the ICB are available for online replay: http://ilchess.org/eICB/e.htm Illinois Chess Bulletin Contents Page 4 From the Editor’s Desk e-ICB http://ilchess.org/e.htm by Pete Karagianis seeing it by now, and maybe I’ll get news, tournament results, goofy the nerve to change it if you, the pictures of chess players in cowboy readers, send me some images! hats, annotated games, or what- The cool thing about owning a digi- It’s a busy ever else floats your boat, and you tal camera is the ease with which time of year just might see it in print! It’s a new one can immediately transfer the for chess and, year, chock full of new events, tour- photographs to an e-mail. For those well, every- naments, and rants and I’m sure of you still not hip to the idea, e- thing else for plenty of it is fit for publishing. mail [email protected] for a that matter. I brief motivational speech. Now get I, myself, have been desperately have collected here an itemized list those shutters clicking! punching away at the incredibly of ICB news, chess news, and any- difficult 2006 Chessbase Christmas thing and everything else that may All Games Puzzle Contest, and you can read have something to do with the ICB, all about my path to solution in this you, the ICA, me, or anything in be- are available month’s installment of the Road tween. for replay online: Warrior. I hope you’ll find my walk through the world of the super-puz- First I am very pleased to bring you zle both entertaining and, in some an exciting game from downstater ilchess.org/eICB/e.htm strange way, instructive? and A-class player, Peoria’s own- Henry Getz, who won eight games You will also find the ICA Election in a row in downstate play before Oh, and get those fingers typing, Results on the next page, along taking home sizeable money in the too. GM Shulman was busy with his with some informative spiel from North American Open, 2006! Also in many nefarious opening prepara- new ICA President Chris Merli. the Reader’s Games section (page tions and thus unable to contribute 12) you will find an interesting bat- to this issue, but he has promised For those among you who don’t tle between up-and-comer Jason me “the ultimate rook ending” arti- know yet, The ICB will be published Chien and old-schooler Victor Mata, cle for a future bulletin. Fortunately, fully online for the forseeable fu- from the final round of the McClean some headstrong ICA members ture (read: 2007 and beyond?), so County Open. took the initiative and hooked me up with a wonderful batch of con- fire up your internet browsers. Part of my goal is to make the down- Second, Congratulations again to tent for this issue that I am sure you load speed of the e-ICB reasonable IM Angelo Young who emerged will all enjoy. Take their lead and get even for those of us still stuck in the victiorious once again in another Il- in line, amigos! Send in your club stone-age of dial-up, which means linois Open. Can anyone stop this I’ll be doing my best to keep the guy in that tournament? Goodness! total document Megabyte size to a You will find an interview with IM reasonable number. Young and also be able to peruse his own annotations from his 2006 Finally, Merry Christmas to all and State Championship later in this Happy Holidays. I hope you will en- Bulletin. joy the cover design as much as I did, and please once again check Of course, I’m sure you will all re- out the designer’s advertisement on member this awesome picture page 21. (-------> ) from the last issue. I’m sure many of you may be tired of _PDK Illinois Chess Bulletin Podium Page 5 [ed: Chris Merli, former downstate Notes: VP, assumed the role of interim Mr. David Heiser and president until the 2006 election Mr. Sevan Muradian was completed. Merli retained his should emphasize our primary goals have declined their role as president, and full results of overseeing state tournaments and election to the Metro are available in the far collumn in providing current tournament in- V.P. position. President formation. I also believe our status Chris Merli is contact- as a non-profit organization offers Welcome fellow chess players. ing the other nominees us a unique opportunity to educate to determine interest. Many of you have noticed future generations of chess players. some big changes recently in the Mr. Dolson returns as Finally I think we should provide or- Treasurer, while Mr. Illinois Chess Association. One ganizers with what they need to run of the major changes has been a Kitson and Mr. Long successful tournaments. Hopefully begin new terms. reduction in the ICA membership in the next couple of years we can rates. make progress in these areas. Part of the reason for the decrease has been a significant 2006 ICA ELECTION RESULTS shift in our publication of the ICB. One way in which the ICA was able to lower dues was by lowering Position Candidate Votes Winner accross-the-board publication President Chris Merli 18 costs. The printed version of the David Heiser 1 ICB costs us about $1,600 per issue Merli as compared to the online version at only $900 per issue. Though our Treasurer Carl Dolson 18 financial situation is improving it is David Heiser 1 still prudent to keep the ICB fully- Dolson online and produce more online Metro VP David Heiser 4 issues than we have in the past.
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