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Virginia Chess Federation VIRGINIA CHESS Newsletter The bimonthly publication of the Virginia Chess Federation 2009 - #1 VIRGINIA CHESS Newsletter 2009 - Issue #1 Editor: Circulation: Macon Shibut Ernie Schlich 8234 Citadel Place 1370 South Braden Crescent Vienna VA 22180 Norfolk VA 23502 [email protected] [email protected] k w r Virginia Chess is published six times per year by the Virginia Chess Federation. Membership benefits (dues: $10/yr adult; $5/yr junior under 18) include a subscription to Virginia Chess. Send material for publication to the editor. Send dues, address changes, etc to Circulation. The Virginia Chess Federation (VCF) is a non-profit organization for the use of its members. Dues for regular adult membership are $10/yr. Junior memberships are $5/yr. President: Mike Hoffpauir, 405 Hounds Chase, Yorktown VA 23693, mhoffpauir@ aol.com Treasurer: Ernie Schlich, 1370 South Braden Crescent, Norfolk VA 23502, [email protected] Secretary: Helen Hinshaw, 3430 Musket Dr, Midlothian VA 23113, jallenhinshaw@comcast. net Scholastics Coordinator: Mike Hoffpauir, 405 Hounds Chase, Yorktown VA 23693, [email protected] VCF Inc. Directors: Helen Hinshaw (Chairman), Rob Getty, John Farrell, Mike Hoffpauir, Ernie Schlich. otjnwlkqbhrp 2009 - #1 1 otjnwlkqbhrp 2009 Virginia Open randmaster Eugene Perelshteyn came down from Massachusetts to take clear Gfirst in one of the largest ever—if not the largest—Virginia Opens. The VCF’s biggest annual event drew 165 players to a beautiful new venue at the Crowne Plaza Hotel near Tyson’s Corner, in McLean, Feb 27-March 1. Perelshteyn went into the last round alone in first place after defeating fellow-GM Larry Kaufman in round 4, but then FM Daniel Yeager pushed him to the max in a game that ended in a draw after nearly six hours. Eugene picked up a couple rating points on his quest to qualify for the US Championship and took home the plaque and $600 for his effort. Daniel Yeager – Eugene Perelshteyn King’s Indian 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d6 5 h3 O-O 6 Bg5 h6 7 Be3 e5 8 d5 Na6 9 Bd3 Nc5 10 Bc2 a5 11 g4 c6 12 Nge2 cxd5 13 cxd5 Bd7 14 a4 Qb6 15 Ra2 Qb4 16 Ng3 Rac8 17 Bd2 Qc4 18 Qe2 Qxe2+ 19 Kxe2 Ne8 20 f3 Nc7 21 Be3 N7a6 22 Ra3 Nb4 23 Bb1 Kh7 24 h4 Rh8 --------25 h5 Kg8 26 Nf1 Kf8 27 Nd2 Ke7 28 Bxc5 Rxc5 29 Nb3 b6 30 Nxc5 bxc5 31 Bd3 Bf6 32 Na2 Bg5 33 Nxb4 cxb4 34/ + L + +\ Ra2 Rc8 35 b3 Rc3 36 Rb1 Bf4 37 Rc2/+ + + + \ Rxc2+ 38 Bxc2 g5 39 Bd3 Bc8 40 Rb2 Kd8 41 Rc2 Bb7 42 Kf2 f6 43 Ke2 Bh2 44/n+rO O O\ Kd1 Bg1 45 Ba6! Bxa6 46 Rc6 /O +pO Op\ [It appears Black must go down, eg 46…/pO +p+p+\ Bb7 47 Rxd6+ Ke7 48 Re6+ Kf7 49 Kd2 Bc5 50 Kd3 and the king comes in on the/+p+ +p+ \ light squares. But Perelshteyn throws up/ + + + +\ a remarkable barricade—even if it ought not to have worked, it’s a testimony to/+ a +k+ N \ grandmaster’s resourcefulness in practical play.]________ 46…Bc8 47 Rxd6+ Ke7 48 Rc6 Bd7 49 Ra6 Bc8 50 Rxa5 Kd6 51 Rb5 [try 51 Ra8 Kc7 52 d6+ Kd7 (52...Kb7 53 d7 and the rook breaks through to the kingside) 53 a5 etc] Ba7 52 Kd2 [52 Rxb4 Ba6—an optical illusion?—53 a5 ∆ Ra4] 52…Kc7 53 Kd3? Ba6 54 Kc4 Bf2 55 Kxb4 Be1+ 56 Kc4 Kd6 57 b4 Bf2 58 Kc3 Bxb5 59 axb5 Bb6 60 Kc4 ½-½ Now could Black have won? Readers are invited to try and figure this out. At the board, at least three factors probably figured in the result: Perelshteyn’s relief at having survived the previous ordeal, the fact that merely a draw was sufficient for him to win the tournament outright, and the looming ‘sudden death’ time deadline. 2 Virginia Chess Newsletter otjnwlkqbhrp Six players finished a half-point behind with 4-1 scores. Aside from his last- round game, Yeager had an earlier draw with 4-time Virginia state champ Geoff McKenna. FM Dov Gorman & IM Oladapo Adu drew in the 5th round to join the 4-point club, Adu had been held to a draw earlier by Ali Almuktawakel. (Ali, a regular at US Chess Center and the Arlington Chess Club, also beat Stan Fink in round 1 for a FIDE performance and a rating gain of 50 points.) IM Ray Kaufman also finished 4-1 after drawing with Gil Guo and McKenna. Finally, expert Eddie Mark defeated McKenna in final round to join the four pointers and bring the Expert money into the 2nd-4th place pot. Harry Cohen won the Class A prize. Three players tied atop the Amateur Section. Raghu Rajaram won the plaque and Virginia Open Amateur champ on tiebreaks over Deodato Obregon & JinSeok Kim. They each scored 4½-½. Ties also occurred for every class section prize! Thomas Fore Jr, Adam Chrisney, Alan Lofdahl, Robert Harrison, Karl Peterson & Ashley Xue all shared top class B. Steve Kouse, Jesse Cai, William Hall & Isuru Attanagoda shared the class C prize. Keith Burghardt & Brian Perez-Daple split class D. Emil Danalache, Brian Schneider & Jeremy Knox won the E prize. Raghav Ramraj scored the Top Upset. What goes into making a really successful tournament? A quality site in a convenient location that has a good room rate ($79), nice playing conditions and good food that doesn’t crack your budget create the venue. Players eager for competition coming from various places up and down the east coast and from as far away as California fill the playing room. We also had a lucky break in timing, as the morning after the tournament found the area in the midst of the biggest snowstorm of the year, which might have destroyed the tournament had it arrived three days earlier. 2009 - #1 3 otjnwlkqbhrp The tournament had the feel on an older-style event, with the traditional breakout of approximately a third of the field in the Open group and two-thirds in the Amateur. Forty-seven players came from outside Virginia. The majority came from chess-starved Maryland, but Texas, California, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, DC and Ontario were also represented! A number of players turned in FIDE performances: Goran Zalar, Ali Almuktawakel, Ed Pabalan, Charles Yang, Ramen Sreenivasan & Geoff McKenna (but he should have an old FIDE rating from years ago). Scholastic players have been a larger showing at Open tournaments. The chance to play adults helps the rapid gains they often make. A full 33% of the field in 2008 were scholastic players and the figure went up to 39% this year. (The date was changed to late February, from the Virginia Open’s traditional late January slot, mainly to avoid a conflict with a big scholastic event.) Mike Atkins directed the Open section and ran the event as a whole. Don Millican came to direct the Amateur section and get more experience with large events on his way from Senior TD to a higher level. Eugene Perelshteyn - Larry Kaufman Slav 17 Nb5 [17 Qb3 Bg6 18 Qxb7 Nxd4 19 Notes by Larry Kaufman/Rybka Nd5; 17 Bc5 Rad8 18 Nb5 Rd7 19 Nd6 1 d4 d5 2 c4 c6 3 cxd5 cxd5 4 Nc3 Rxd6 20 Bxd6 Nxd4 21 b4 Qd8 22 Bc5 Nf6 5 Bg5 Ne4 6 Nxe4 dxe4 7 a3 Qd5 b6 23 Bxd4 Bxd4 24 Qb3 Qf6 25 Rae1 8 Bh4 Nc6 9 e3 e5 10 Ne2 exd4 11 Bg6 26 Qg3 (26 b5 Qf4 27 Qb4 Be5 28 Nc3 Qa5 12 exd4 g5 13 Bg3 Bg7 14 g3 Qf6 29 Rd1 Bf5 30 Bd5 Bh3 31 Qxe4 Bc4 O-O 15 O-O Bf5 16 Bd6 Rfe8 Bxf1 32 Kxf1 Kg7 33 f3 Re7 34 Qg4 [16...Rfc8 17 Qb3 Bxd4 (17...Bg6 ) 18 Bd6 35 a4)] 17...Rec8 18 Bc5 Bg6 19 Bxf7+ Kg7 19 Rad1] Nd6 Rcb8 20 f4 gxf4 21 Rxf4 Nd8 22 -------- Qb3 b6 23 Nxf7 Nxf7 24 Bxf7+ Bxf7 /t+ +t+l+\25 Rxf7 Kh8 26 Rxg7 Kxg7 27 Qg3+ Kh8 28 Qe5+ Kg8 29 Qe6+ Kh8 30 /Oo+ +oNo\Be7 Rf8 31 Bf6+?! [31 Rf1! wins more / +jB + +\quickly—in fact, mate in 19! 31...Rxf1+ 32 Kxf1 Qa6+ 33 Kg1 Qb7 34 Bf6+ Qg7 /W + +nO \35 Bxg7+ Kxg7 36 Qe5+ etc] 31...Rxf6 / +bPo+ +\32 Qxf6+ Kg8 33 Qe6+ Kh8 34 Qxe4 Rf8 35 Qe5+ Qxe5 36 dxe5 Rc8 37 e6 /P H + + \Kg7 38 Re1 Kf8 39 e7+ Ke8 40 Re2 / P + PpP\Rc4 41 Kf2 h5 42 Kf3 Rd4 43 g3 Rc4 44 h3 Rd4 45 g4 hxg4+ 46 hxg4 Rc4 /R +q+rK \47 g5 Rd4 48 g6 1-0 ________ 4 Virginia Chess Newsletter otjnwlkqbhrp Goran Zalar - Daniel Yeager Geoffrey McKenna - Jason Braun Catalan/Bogo-Indian Scotch Game 1 d4 c6 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 c4 e6 4 g3 d5 5 Bg2 1 e4 e5 2 d4 exd4 3 Nf3 Nc6 4 Nxd4 Bb4+ 6 Bd2 Be7 7 cxd5 exd5 8 Nc3 Bc5 5 Nxc6 Qf6 6 Qd2 dxc6 7 Bd3 O-O 9 O-O Re8 10 Bg5 h6 11 Bxf6 Ne7 8 O-O O-O 9 Kh1 Ng6 10 f4 Qd4 Bxf6 12 Re1 Bf5 13 e3 Nd7 14 b4 Be7 11 Qe1 f6 12 Nd2 Qd8 13 Nb3 Be7 14 15 Qb3 b5 16 a4 a6 17 axb5 axb5 18 Qc3 Qe8 15 Nd4 Kh8 16 Be3 Bd7 17 Ne5 Nxe5 19 dxe5 Bf8 20 Rxa8 Qxa8 Rae1 Bd6 18 Qd2 Rd8 19 Qa5 b6 20 21 f4 Qa7 22 Ne2 Qe7 23 Rc1 Bd7 24 Qh5 Ne7 [20…Bxf4 21 Bxf4 Nxf4 22 Nd4 Qxb4 25 Qxb4 Bxb4 26 Kf2 Rc8 Qxe8 Bxe8] 21 Qh4 Ng6 22 Qg3 Ne7 27 e4 dxe4 28 Bxe4 c5 29 Rb1 g6 30 23 e5 Bc5 24 e6 Bc8 25 Qh4 g6 26 f5 e6 Bxe6 31 Nxe6 fxe6 32 Bxg6 Rd8 33 g5 27 Qe4 Rd5 28 c3 Bd6 29 g4 Bb7 Rb2 Kf8 34 Be4 Ke7 35 Bc6 Kd6 36 30 Nf3 Qa8 31 c4 [31 Kg2 c5 32 Qc4 Bf3 Kc7 37 Bg4 Rd6 38 Re2 Kd7 39 f5 Re5-------- 33 Bd2 Rxe1 34 Bxe1] exf5 40 Bxf5+ Kc6 41 Re6 c4 42 Ke2 Rxe6+ 43 Bxe6 Bd6 44 Ke3 Kc5 45 /w+ + T L\ Bd7 b4 46 Be6 Be5 47 Kd2 b3 0-1 /OnO J +o\ / OoNpO +\ /+ +t+pO \ / +p+q+p+\ The VCF /+ +bBh+ \ /pP + + P\ proudly endorses /+ + Rr+k\ the candidacy of 31…Re5________ 32 Nxe5 c5 33 Qxb7 Qxb7+ 34 Nf3 Rd8 35 Bd2 Qa6 36 Bc3 Kg7 Mike Atkins 37 Nxg5 Bxh2 38 Rd1 [38 Bxf6+! Kxf6 39 Nxh7+ Kg7 40 f6+ Kh8 41 for the fxe7] 38…Bd6 39 Ne4 Ng8 40 Nxf6 Nxf6 41 g5 Qb7+ 42 Kg1 Rg8 [42… USCF Be7] 43 Bxf6+ Kf8 44 Rde1 Qb8 45 Executive Board Be4 c6 46 Bxc6 Bh2+ 47 Kh1 1-0 time 2009 - #1 5 otjnwlkqbhrp Daniel Yeager - Macon Shibut King’s Indian Notes by Macon Shibut [I write these notes in ‘time trouble’ fxg6 20 Ne6 Rf7 (20...Nbd3!?) is double- trying to get the issue of VIRGINIA CHESS edged at best—White has a king too.] out the door, so I will qualify my remarks 19...g5 20 Rxg4 [In for a dime, in for a by acknowledging that I’m basically just dollar.
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