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Northwest Chess June 2005 Northwest News page 4 Minneapolis, MN Oregon Championship Nearly 1500 chess players showed up for the HB Glo- page 5 bal Chess Challenge, a tournament with a $500,000 guar- anteed prize fund. About two dozen Northwesterners took The Higher Purpose part in the event held May 18-22. Some of these got their Don EmighvisitsPeachcroft'sWorld entry fees back: Drew Serres (OR, U2000, 6.5/9, 18th-28th, page 14 $354.55), Chouchanik Airapetian (WA, U2200, 6.0, 21st- 39th,$300), Morgan Griffiths (OR, U2200, 6.0, 21"t-39th, Clatskanie Wins State! $300), and Job Thykkuttathil (WA, U1600, 6.0, 24th-49th, page 16 $300). Others with plus scores included: Colin Field-Eaton Scholastic News (OR, U1800, 6.0, 34th-50th,$188.89), GM Grigory Serper (WA,Open, 5.5, 50th-73th,$20.84), Steve Brendemihl (WA, page 19 U1800, 5.5), Carl Haessler (OR, Open, 5.0), Ed Daroza (OR, Scholastic Checkup with Dr. Leo U2200, 5.0), Michael Darby (WA, U2000, 5.0), and Gre- Dr. Leo discusses sportsmanship gory Prentice (WA, U1800, 5.0). page 21 Tacoma, W A Chess Lessons with a Cattle Prod The Tacoma CC is moving. The new site, as of Friday, Improving Your Chess with NM Tom Rowan June 3, is at 409 PuyaUup Ave E in the DTI Soccer Store page 23 building. The club will meetonthe second floor in Room 11. The site is about two blocks fromTacoma Dome Transit Cen- Movie Review ter. "Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine" Mike MacGregor wonthe Tacoma City Championship, page 25 held over five Fridays in April, with a score of 4.5/5. Steve Matt's Musings Buck, Larry Anderson, and Carl Nighswonger tied for second-fourthat threepointsapiece. Nighswongerwastops Ul700 Matt Fleury discusses a gambit vs. the Veresov in the twelve player tournament. page 26 Physiology of Psychological Warfare Bozeman, MT page 27 Montana chess player Eric Hongisto, who plays in some of the larger Spokane events, is an art professor at Montana 55-50-45-40-35-30 Years Ago State. He recently won a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship page28 award ($37,000). Game from the Inland Empire Open page 29 Seattle, WA Tournament Ads Adam Weissbarth was thetop-scorer at 3.5/4 in the Plus- Score Swiss, held on the weekendof April 30-May 1. Others pages 3D, 31 with plus-scores in the eleven-player event were: FM David The Northwest Chess Calendar Bragg (3.0), Geoffiey Gale (2.5), Michael Darby (2.5), and of Upcoming Events SkylorFryberg(2.5). Weissbarthalso wonthe six-player May back cover Tornado, scoring 4/4, ahead of Bragg and the top section of the May Quads (2.5/3) ahead of Bragg and NM Curt Collyer. He scored + 1=2 against Bragg in the three events and beat Collyer in the Quad. Fryberg won the lower section of the On the Cover: The Clatskanie High School chess team May Quads and the only Quad held in April, both with 3-0 with their trophy. Front row (from left): Michael Taylor, Blake scores. The eight-playerApril Tornado was won by NM Nat Salisbury. Back row (from left): Mike Moran, Thomas Kyle- Koons,whoscored4-0. . Millward, and Tim Robinson. Photo by Kate Taylor 4 Tune 2005 Northwest Chess ...-

Raptis and Zaikov Win 2005 Oregon Championship By Clark Hannon English The 2005 Oregon Championshipwas heldon the weekendsofApril 15-17andApril Mike Janniro'(21JO) 22-24 at the Portland Chess Club quarters. The last two years, Zaikov has domi- NM Roger Martin (2205) nated the field. This year, Raptis had the championship in the bag, but faltered near Portland, Oregon Championship (1) 2005 the end and lost to Ben Lin. After the dust cleared, NM Nick Raptis and NM Oleg 1.c4 dS 2.cxdS c6 3.dxc6 ~xc6 4.~c3 Zaikov tied at 6Yzpoints for the trophy and prize money. Nick plays out of Port- eS S.g3 Acs 6.Ag2 ~16 7.d3 Ae6 land, while Oleg is a high school student from Eugene. For their efforts, Oleg and 8.~f3 hS 9.ll)a4 e4 10.~gS WaS+ Nick earnedthe right to theArthur Dake Memorial perpetual trophy and cash prizes 11.ll)c3 of $200 each. The field was close for most of the tournament, and only two points separated BIZ.... ~ sixth from first. Of course, the question was whether Oregon players are catching up with Oleg, or was he off form. Either way, it made for an exciting and c1ose- 7...... ,/ fought championship. Unlike in recent years, there were no newcomers. In fact, .~.J.. .. ~.~v, ~~ ~ half the field had won the championship previously. .-, -. ~~ . The giant killer was Ben Lin: he beat both Zaikov and Raptis. But losses to ...... NM Carl Haessler and Michael Morris kept him tied for third-fourth with Haessler 3~ ~~. 0 'I on 5Yzpoints. Ben and Carl each took home $50. 2rlinu ~..~ni.~ ~ u ~ In fifth-sixthplace were Morris and NM Clark Harmon. Rounding out the field _1i!!J~~ \VIr~ ~ib~ 11 a bed e f. 9 h were NM Roger Martin and Mike Janniro at 3Yzwith NM Tom Rowan at three and NM Mike Pendergast at two points. 11...Axt2+ 12.~xf2e3+ 13.~e1WxgS 14..a40-0 1S."f4 "as 16. he3 There were several surprises in the tournament. Probably the biggest was ~b417.~1 ~c218.iIc1 ~e3+ 19. Pendergast's poor showing. The veteran championship player had a tough tournament. There is always next year! Lin had the biggest rating gain and continues his .xe3ll)g4 20.fif4 fib6 21.~a4 ffaS improvement. 22.h3 gS 23.b4 gxf4 24.bxaS ~e3+ 2S.~f2 ~xg2 26.~cS AdS 27.iIhg1 The Oregon Championship, a ten-player round robin sponsored and funded by fxg3+ 28.~xg3 h4+ 29.~h2 b6 30.e4 the Oregon Chess Federation, is FIDE-rated. Qualification is determinedby rating bxcS 31.iIxg2+ ~h7 32.exdS iIfd8 and participation in Oregon events. Grisha Alpemas directed the event. OCF 33.llc4 iId6 34.iIxh4+ llh6 3S. thanks the Portland Chess Club for use of its quarters. Ilxh6+ ~xh6 36.iIc2 iIb8 37.~g3 ~gS 38.d6 ~f6 39.d7 iId8 4O.iIxcs King's Indian Attack 46.fS ~c7+ 47.~e4 16 48.~c4 ~d7 Ilxd7 41. lIc3 iId4 42. lIa3 ~gS 43.a6 NM Carl Haessler (2202) 49.~6aS ~b4 Draw 15 44.~13 iIh4 45.<.1>g3iId4 46.iIc3 Michael Morris (2094) iIa4 47.iIc6 iId4 48.lIc3 iIa4 49. Benko Gambit Portland, Oregon Championship (1) 2005 ~f3 iIh4 SO.~g3 iIa4 Draw . 1.e4 e6 2.d3 dS 3.~d2 ~f6 4.~gf3 LM Clark Hannon (2243) ~c6 S.g3 dxe4 6.dxe4 eS 7.Ag2 Acs NM Oleg Zaikov (2332) QGD Slav 8.0-00-0 9.tie2 tie7 10.c3 as 11. Portland, Oregon Championship (1) 2005 LM Thomas Rowan (2176) ~c4 b6 12.Ile1 Aa6 13.h3 !fe6 14. 1.d4 ~f6 2.c4 cS 3.dS bS 4.cxbS a6 NM Nick Raptis (2312) Af1 h6 1S.b3 Ilfe816.~g21lad817. S.bxa6 g6 6.~c3 Axa6 7.e4 Axf1 Portland, Oregon Championship (1) 2005 ffc2 Ild7 18.Ae3 Axe3 19.~xe3 8.~xf1 d6 9.g3 Ag7 10.~f3 0-0 1.c4 c6 2.~f3 ll)f6 3.d4 dS 4.ffc2 Axt1+ 20.lIxf1 lIed8 21.Ilad1 !fe7 11.~g2~bd712.Ile1"aS13.e5~g4 dxc4 S.ttxc4 AfS 6.g3ll)bd7 7.Ag2 22.llxd7 llxd7 23. lId 1 Ilxd 1 24. 14.exd6 exd6 1s.Af4 ~geS16. ~eS ~b6 8."b3 !IdS 9.~bd2 "xb3 10. ~xd1 tics 2S."d3 bS 26.~e3 b427. ~xeS 17.lIe4 "b6 18.Ilb1 Ilfb8 ~xb3 e6 11.0-0 Ad6 12.~fd2 Ac2 cxb4~xb428..b1.c329.~d1"cS 19.a4 ~d7 20.~bS ~f6 21.Ile7 Am 13.e4~fd714.~aS 0-0-0 1S.b3Ad3 30.~e3 "c3 31.~d1 "cS 32.~b2 22.Ilc7 "as 23.llc6 !lxa4 24. ~xd6 16.lIe1 Ab417.ne3 haS 18. Ilxd3 .c6 33.~xeS "xe4+ 34."xe4 ~xe4 .a2 2S.hS ~xdS 26. IlxcSll)b6 27. ~eS19.lIe3 iIxd420.Ab2 lIxd221. 3S.a3 ~c2 36.~bc4 ~cS 37.~xaS b3 Ild8 28. Ilc6 hd6 29. lIxd6 Ilxd6 .!.xeS 16 22..A.c3 hc3 23. iIxc3 eS ~xa3 38.~f3 ~f8 39.b4 ~e6 40.h4 30.hd6 lle8 31.lla1 Wb232.Acs 24.a4a62s.Ah3+ ~b8 26.Ag4 lIhdB ~e7 41.~e4 cS 42.bxcS ~xcS+ 43. !lf6 33.Ad4 We6 34. .13 ~dS 3S.h4 27.h4 lI8d4 28.lIe1 iIb229.Ae6 ~dS ~e6 44. f4 ~c2 4S.~ac6+ ~e8 iIb8 36. lIaS ~c7 37.iIa7 ~e8 0-1 ~a8 30.g4 ll)c7 31.Ag8 h6 32.gS lIIr.T~---L L r"L - -- ~

hxg5 33.hxg5 fxg5 34.lle5 lld8 tnd7 38.tnd5 b6 39.tnf4 lIe5 4O.h5 position. Now I'm forced to sacrifice 35.Ah7 tne6 36.I!xe5 tnf4 37.I!e7 gxh5 41. tnxh5 \tb 7 42. \th3 \te6 43. until it hurts! tnh3+ 38;\tg2 tnxf2 39. \tf3 lld3+ f4lId5 44.lIxd5 \txd5 45. \th4 \txd6 4O.\tg2 tng4+ 0-1 46.\tg5 tneS 47.\txf5 tna4 48.b3 81'...\\Ilr~ .~ lDe5 49.b4lDd3 50.\te4lDe1 S1.bS 7. - QGD Exchange lDe2 S2.a4 \te6 53.lDg7+ \t16 54.lDf5 ..t.. .. NM Michael Pendergast (2250) lDa155.lDd4 1-0 ..I.-~-I.~ ... Benjamin Lin (2110) 5~ . -- ~ Trompovsky 4.~ E8.. Portland, Oregon Championship (1) 2005 -W\WInU~1':'\"~ m"Z.J~ 1.tnf3 tnf6 2.e4 e6 3.tne3 d5 4.d4 NM Nick Raptis (2312) Ae7 5.exd5 exd5 6.!le2 e6 7.iLf4 0-0 LM Clark Harmon (2243) D E D8. , ~ I I 8.e3 a5 9.h3 tna6 10.a3 tne7 11.iLd3 Portland, Oregon Championship (2) 2005 1"", .. ~ a bed e f 9 h tne6 12.AeS g6 13.g4 eS 14.dxe5 1.d4 tn16 2.Ag5 e6 3.e4 h6 4.iLxf6 "xf6 5."d2 d6 6.tne3 e6 7.0-0-0 18.heSdxeS19.d6+c420.1Wd1lDe8 li)xe5 15.lld1 tnxd3+ 16.!lxd3 Ae6 21.lDxe4ti'xe4 22.tLlexeS! 17.tnd4ll)d7 18.Ag3 tne5 19.'8e2 Ae7 8.f4 e5 9.g3 0-0 10.lDf3 Ag4 !ld7 20.0-0 I!fd8 21.trb5 trxbS 11.iLe2Axf3 12.Axf3 lId8 13.h4 The decisive stroke justifying my sac- 22.tndxb5 tne4 23.iLe5 tnxe3 24. lDd7 14.dxe5 dxeS 1S.f5 tnb6 16.ff12 rifice. Ab417.tLlb1 ffe718.e3AeS19.ffe2 li)xe316 2S..!.d4 I!a6 26.lId2 \tf7 27. 22...heS 23.ffb3+ ttc4 24.ttxe4+ lIxd1+ 20.lIxd1 lId8 21.lIh1 !ld7 ilfd1 ile8 28.f3 llae6 29.\t12 I!b8 bxe4 2S.tLlxe5 Ae6 26.d7 tLle7 30.Aa7 i!a8 31.Ad4 lIb8 32.Aa7 22.\te2 Ae7 23.tnd2 e5 24.!le3 ila8 33.Ad4 i!b8 Draw "a4+ 25.\tb1 e4 26.lIe1 !lb5 27. I!e2 lId328.!le1 tLla429.\ta1 AeS 8 ~.. ~-~ Round Two 30.iLe2 lIe3 31.g4 ffe6 32.g5 b5 7~ .~... Standings 33.lIe1 hxgS 34.hxg5 Ae7 3S.!lh4 6 E E.t.E'. 1.0 Raptis, Zaikov 5~. ~I.E 0.5 Haessler, Janniro, Un, Martin, . E... 4 .'E E. Morris, Pendergast ~ n.."" 7 ",.. ..~ ~.- 3~ U..O 0.0 Harmon, Rowan -- E'if... 2U n ..~ Un8~ ~ Caro-Kann Panov-Botvinnik 5~... _~n~ U 1"" , .. ~ a bed.. e f 9 h NM Oleg Zaikov (2332) 4..'.~. ::" 27.11a7 Michael Pendergast (2250) 3~"h n U 5g. . Portland, Oregon Championship (2) 2005 2~nU ~.i..~ . .~ I missed that 27.i!a6! iLd5 28.i!d6 1.d4 tn16 2.e4 e5 3.e3 e6 4.tnf3 exd4 1," ~ fi .. lId8 29.f41ed to Zugzwang and a won- a bed.. e f 9 h 5.exd4 d5 6.tne3 Ae7 7.iLg5 ll)bd7 derful conclusion for my "brilliant" sac- 8.exd5 tnxd5 9.he7 '8xe7 10.tnxd5 35...tth6 36.gxh6 hh4 37.h7+ \th8 rifice. Alas, my technique was inad- exd5+ 11.'8e2 '8xe2+ 12.Axe2 \te7 38.iLh5 Ag5 39.i!g1 164O.tLl13iLh6 equate, and I'm the one who gets mated! 13.1!e1 16 14.tnd2 \td6 15.tnb1ll)f8 41.lDh4 \txh7 42.Af7 lId3 43.tLlg6 27...lld828.11e7? 16.tne3 Ad7 17.0-0 tne6 18.i!fd1 I!d8 44.tne7 lId7 45.lDg6 lId8 46. i!ae8 19.h4 i!e7 20.Af3 i!he8 21. tne7 11d747.tLlg6 Draw 28. i!a6! still works. i!d2 lIe4 22. i!e1 tne7 23.iLe2 lIe8 - 28...\tg729.lDxe4lIxd730.lIeS\t16 24.\tf1 lIb4 25.a3lIb3 26.lIe1 8B14 31.b4 11d1+ 32.\th2 lIb1 33.tLlb6 Benjamin Lin (2110) gS 34.b5 f4 35.c4 h5 36.h4? gxh4 37. E EKE. NM Carl Haessler (2202) ilxh5 tLlf5 38.lIh8 lDg3 39.ilh6+ 7.. .1.- Portland, Oregon Championship (2) 2005 \tg7 0-1 ..~ m - ~ Annotations by Benjamin Lin -- .. 1.tnf3 g6 2.e4 e5 English 5 '~ E'~'E'~ E NM Roger Martin (2205) n ~ I wanted to stay away from the 4.U.jQ. . Michael Morris (2094) 3""".X~.. ~ .. nasty Sicilians, but they keep pulling ~ .. me back in! 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II Portland, Oregon Championship (2) 2005 5.li)f3 d5 6.e5 Ag4 7.Ae2 liJh6 English 8.liJa4 "e7 9.Ae3 liJd7 10.0-00-0 1.c4 liJ16 2.g3 e6 3.Ag2 d5 4.exd5 exd5 5.d4 li)e66.liJf3Af5 7.0-0 e6 LM Thomas Rowan (2176) 11.li)h4he212._xe2 b513.liJe3f5 8.a3Ae7 9.liJe3 ile8 10.ile1 h6 NM Roger Martin (2205) 14.li)f3 e6 15.h3 a5 16._f2 liJb6 11.Af40-0 12.11e1 liJe4 13.Ae3 Portland, Oregon Championship (3) 2005 17.11ad1 M 18.liJe2li)e4 19.Ae1 a4 I 20.11d3 ilfb8 21.cbh1 b3 22.axb3 liJd6 14.li)e5liJxe5 15.dxe5liJc4 16. 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 e63.dxc6 liJxe6 4.e3 ha7liJxb217.tfb3li)e418.a4li)xe5 e5 5.a3 li)166.b4 Ad6 7.Ab2 0-0 axb3 23.exb3 liJa5 24.liJg5 "d7 19."xb7 Aa3 20.e4 he1 21.exf5 25._f3 11b5 26.Ad2 11ab8 27.ba5 8.liJe311e8 9.d3 a6 10.li)f3Ag4 11xa5 28. 11e1 li)f7 29. 11de3 liJd8 liJd3 22.fxe6 fxe6 23. 11xe6 11c724. 11.Ae2 "e7 12.0-0 11ad8 13."e2 "xd5 "xd5 25.hd5 cbh8 26.liJb5 Ab814.11ae111d615.li)e4li)xe416. 30..d3 Af8 31.g4 h6 32.li)f3 AM 11d7 27.Ae4 li)b2 28.Ae5 ile8 29. dxe4 11h6 17.11fd1 f5 18.g3 11f8 19. 33. 113e2 11ab5 34.11g1 cbh735.li)e1 liJd6 11ed8 30.a5 liJa4 31.Ab4 Ab2 exf5 Ax15 20." c4+ Ae6 21." e4 Af5 e5 36.11eg2 e4 37.'8e2 e3 38.bxe3 22."e4+ Ae6 23._e4 Draw Axe3 39.gxf5 exf5 40.11xg6 ~e6 41._g2 _f7 42.lIf6 .e8 43.lIxe6 Serving Chess Enthusiasts Sicilian Accelerated Dragon 1-0 Since 19721 NM Michael Pendergast (2250) Sicilian Kopec NM Nick Raptis (2312) Portland, Oregon Championship (3) 2005 NM Carl Haessler (2202) The Chess NM Oleg Zaikov (2332) 1.li)f3 liJ162.e4 c5 3.li)e3 liJc6 4.d4 Portland, Oregon Championship (3) 2005 exd4 5.~d4 g6 6.e4 Ag7 7.liJe2 0-0 House 1.li)f3 e5 2.e4 d6 3.e3 liJf64.Ad3 8.Ae3 d6 9.iLe2 a6 10."d2liJg4 11. www.thechesshouse.com hg4 hg4 12.11c1 b5 li)e6 5.Ae2 Ag4 6.d3 e6 7.0-0 Ae7 8.liJbd2 0-0 9.h3 Ah5 10.g4 Ag6 [email protected] X~ 11.li)h4li)d7 12.liJxg6 hxg6 13.f4 g5 800-348-4749 8 . - ~.. 14.f5liJde515..e2ffb616.cbg2Af6 7~. . m - 17.1If2 11ae818.liJf1 d519.li)g3exf5 Fax360-354-6765 .i.A PO Box 705 6iB~. 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I!e1 48.cj;e2 ile2+49.cj;e1lL1e450.ilgd3 lLI5xe624.dxe6 a4 25.e7 1-0 lLId7 46. iIe2 ffd6 47.lLIe3 lLIb6 ila6 51. il3d2 lLIxd252. ilxd2 ilxd2 48.ffb5+ cj;e7 49.lLId5+ cj;d8 53. cj;xd2 ilxd6+ 54. cj;e3 ild 1 Catalan 50. iIxe5 iId7 51. Ite6 tWa352. Itxg6 55.cj;e4 a6 56.iLe3 ile1 57.cj;f4 cj;e7 LM Thomas Rowan (2176) ffxa2+ 53.cj;h1lL1xd5 54."b8+ cj;e7 58.iLd4 cj;d6 59.cj;g5 ilf1 60.cj;g6 LM Clark Harmon (2243) 55."xe5+ cj;f8 56."h8+ cj;e7 cj;d5 61.cj;g5 cj;e4 62.16cj;d5 63.cj;g6 Portland,OregonChampionship(4) 2005 57."g7+ cj;d8 58.!lf8+ We7 59.!fc5+ cj;e6 64. cj;g5 cj;d5 Draw cj;b7 60.1Je6+ cj;b8 61. I!g8+ 1-0 1 1.d4 lLIf62.e4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Xlg2 e6 5.lLIf3 Xlb4+ 6.Xld2 iLe77.!fe2 b6 Queen s Indian 8.0-0 iLb7 9.Xlf4lL1bd7 10.lLIbd2 0- Slav Exchange LM Clark Hannon (2243) 0 11.e4 dxe4 12.lLIxe4lL1xe413.fixe4 NM Roger Martin (2205) Mike Janniro (2130) lLIf6 14. fie 2 e5 15. Il fd 1 exd4 16. Benjamin Lin (2110) Portland, Oregon Championship (3) 2005 lLIxd4!le8 17.I!ae1 Draw Portland, Oregon Championship (4) 2005 1.d4lL1f6 2.e4 e6 3.lLIf3 b6 4.g3 iLb7 , 1.d4 d5 2.e4 e6 3.lLIe3lL1f6 4.lLIf3 a6 5.iLg2 iLe7 6.0-0 0-0 7.lLIe3 lLIe4 English Hedgehog 5.exd5 exd5 6.iLf4 lLIe6 7.e3 iLg4 8.lLIxe4 be4 9.lLIe1 bg2 10.lLIxg2 Mike Janniro (2130) 8.Xle2 e6 9.lLIe5be2 10.!fxe2 lLIxe5 d5 11.exd5 1Jxd5 12.iLf4 1Jb7 11.he5 Xld6 12.hd6 !lxd6 13.0-0 NM Michael Pendergast (2250) 13.Ile1 lLIa6 14.!fa4 e5 15.ilfd1 0-0 14.Itfe1 I!fe8 15.Ite2 Ite6 I!fd8 16.dxe5 lLIxe5 17.fie2 I!xd1+ Portland, Oregon Championship (4) 2005 16.iIae1 iIae817.lLIb1 h618.h3 Wf8 18.ilxd1 I!d819.I!xd8+ hd8 20.b4 1.e4 e6 2.lLIf3 lLIf6 3.g3 b6 4.Xlg2 19. iIxe6 iIxe6 20. Itxe6 !lxe6 lLId7 21.Xld6 b5 22.a4 bxa4 23.fixa4 Xlb7 5.lLIe3 e5 6.0-0 iLe7 7.d4 exd4 21.lLIe3 Draw iLb6 24.Xle5 h6 25.iLxb6 lLIxb6 8.fixd4 d6 9.b3 a6 10.Xlb2 lLIbd7 26.fie8+ cj;h7 27.lLIf4 fie7 28.h4 11.h3 !le7 12.I!ae1 0-0 13.ilfd1 Round Five ilfd8 14.fie3 Xlf8 15.g4 iIae8 16.g5 lLIc4 29.h5lL1d6 3O.fia4 fib7 31.fib3 Standings cj;g8 32.1fe3 lLIe4 33.fid4 lLIf6 34. lLIe817.lLIe4"b8 18.lLIh2 d519.lLIg3 dxe4 20.Xlxb7 "xb7 21.bxe4 lLIe5 3.5 Raptis, Zaikov 1Jd8+ cj;h7 35.fid3+ cj;g8 36.fid8+ 2.5 Janniro, Morris cj;h7 37.fid3+ cj;g8 Draw 22.lLIg4 Ilxd 1+ 23. Ilxd 1 lLIa4 2.0 Haessler 24.Xle5 I!xe4 25.Ild8 fie6 26.lLIh5 1.5 Harmon, Martin Round Four ile1+ 27.cj;h2 iIh1+ 28.cj;g3 iIg1+ 1..0 Un, Pendergast, Rowan 29.cj;h4 Xle7 30.I!b8 h6 31.f4 hxg5+ Czech Benoni Standings 32.fxg5 iIxg4+ 33.cj;xg4 cj;h7 2.5 Raptis, Morris, Zaikov LM Clark Hannon (2243) 2.0 Haessler, Janniro 34.1fd3+ g6 35.I!xe81fxe8 36.lLIf6+ Xlxf6 37.Xlxf6 "b5 38.fixb5 axb5 NM Roger Martin (2205) 1.0 Harmon, Martin Portland, Oregon Championship (5) 2005 0.5 Un, Pendergast, Rowan 39. cj;f4 lLIe5 40.e4 lLId3+ 41. cj;f3 b4 42.Xle7lL1e1 43.Xlxb4lL1xa2 44.Xla3 1.d4 lLIf6 2.e4 e5 3.d5 e5 4.lLIe3 d6 King s Indian cj;g8 45.cj;e3lL1e3 46. cj;d3lL1d1 47.h4 5.e4 Xle7 6.h3 0-0 7.Ad3lL1e8 8.g4 NM Oleg Zaikov (2332) lLI12+48. cj;d4lL1g4 49.Xld6 1650.gxf6 iLg5 9.lLIge2 lLId7 10.iLe2 a6 Michael Morris (2094) lLIxf6 51.cj;e5 cj;17 52.Xlb4 Draw 11.Axg5 !lxg512.!ld2 !fh413.lLIg3 Portland, Oregon Championship (4) 2005 g6 14.a4 lLIg7 15.0-0-0 b5 16.exb5 lLIb6 17.b3 axb5 18.lLIxb5 e4 19.a5 1.d4lL1f6 2.e4 g6 3.lLIe3ll.g7 4.e4 d6 Queen s Indian exb3 20.Xlxb3 Xld7 21.lLIe7 lLIa4 5.h3 0-0 6.iLe3 e5 7.d5 a5 8.g4lL1a6 NM Nick Raptis (2312) 9.lLIge2 lLIe5 10.lLIg3 iLd7 11. "d2 LM Carl Haessler (2202) 22.Xlxa4 Axa4 23.lLIxa8 I!xa824.g5 hd1 25.cj;xd1lL1h5 26.lLIxh5 lIxh5+ lLIe812.Xle2e613.h4f514.gxf5gxf5 Portland, Oregon Championship (4) 2005 27.fie2 fixg5 28.a6 iIe8 29.!fb2 15.exf5 bf516.lLIxf5 ilxf517.0-0-0 1.d4lL1f6 2.e4 e6 3.lLIf3b6 4.g3 Xlb7 "b6 18.Xlg4 fih5+ 30.cj;d2 fff3 31.iIe1 "xf2+ 5.Xlg2 Xle7 6.lLIe3 lLIe4 7.Xld2 0-0 32.I!e2 "a7 33."a3 !fe5 34.iIe3 8.0-0 d6 9.fie2 lLIxe3 10.iLxe3 f5 11.d5 e5 12.e4 f4 13.Xlh3 Xle8 fid4+ 35.cj;e2 I!e2+ 36.cj;f3 lId1+ 8 X. .~..~ 37.cj;g3 lIg1+ 38.cj;h4 !f12+ 39.iIg3 14.Xlxe8 fixe8 15.cj;g2 "e8 16.h3 I 78'.. .. fif6+ 0-1 6 mil.-.~ - .WI ~ fig617.fie2 h518.lLIh2 fxg319.fxg3 lLId7 20.b4 iIf4 21. iIae1 iIaf8 Sicilian Sveshnikov 5,~,:,;;.~.X. 22.Xld2 Xlh4 23."d3 Itxf1 24.lLIxf1 4 .~. WI&'~~£"""" ., . Xlg5 25.iLxg5 "xg5 26.lLIe3 h4 Michael Morris (2094) 3~~ ~~. .. 27.lLIf5 hxg3 28.iIe3 iI17 29.iIxg3 NM Nick Raptis (2312) 2 ~rJ",.,0 Bm1t UR ~WI fih5 30.fid2 cj;f8 31. iIg5 "h7 Portland, Oregon Championship (5) 2005 ~ ~'R'--'R' 1~ ~~..~ 32.lLIg3lL1f633.fie3 fih4 34.iIf5 g6 1.e4 e5 2.lLIf3lL1e6 3.d4 exd44.lLIxd4 a bed e f 9 h 35. iIf1 iIh7 36. iIh1 cj;e7 37.e5 dxe5 lLIf6 5.lLIe3 e5 6.lLIdb5 d6 7.iLg5 a6 38.bxe5 1Jf4 39.d6+ cj;d7 40.fid3 8.lLIa3 Ae7 9.Axf6 Axt6 10.lLId5 b5 Northwest Chess Tune 2005 9 Ir

11.c30-0 12.lL1c2.1\.gS13.lL1ce3.1\.e6 French Steinitz 38. Ilab7 .1\.d4+ 39.'iPe2 Ilh2+ 14..1\.e2lL1e71S.lL1xe7+.xe716.lL1dS 40. 'iPd3 Ila2 41. Ilfd7 Ila3+ 42. 'iPc2 .b7 17.0-0 fS 18.f3 fxe4 19.fxe4 LM Carl Haessler (2202) 1-0 I: Ilxf1+ 20..1\.xf1 Ilf8 21.b3 .1\.xdS Mike Janniro (2130) 22..xdS+ .xdS 23.exdS .1\.e3+ Portland, Oregon Championship (5) 2005 Catalan 1.e4 e6 2.lL1c3 dS 3.lL1f3lL1f64.eS 24.~h1 Il12 2S.a4 bxa4 26.bxa4 8S LM Clark Harmon (2243) lL1fd7S.d4 cS 6.lL1e2lL1c67.c3 .b6 27.lLd3.1\.d228.Ilf1 Ilxt1+ 29.lLxt1 Michael Pendergast (2250) e4 30..1\.bSAxc3 31.~g1 .1\.d4+32. 8.g3 .1\.e79.h4 as 10..1\.h3a4 11.0-0 cxd4 12.cxd4 a3 13.bxa3 Axa3 14. Portland, Oregon Championship (6) 2005 ~1 ~f7 33.~e2 ~16 34..1\.d7.1\.g13S. 1.d4 dS 2.c4 c6 3.lL1f3lL1164..c2 e6 h3 ~eS 36..1\.e6~f4 37..1\.d7 g6 38. lL1f4Axc11s.Ilxc1lL1d816.lL1gslL1f8 h6 ~g3 39.';1>f1e340..1\.g4.1\.1241. S.g3.1\.e7 6..1\.g20-0 7.0-0 ,lL1e48.b3 .1\.f3hS42. ~e2 ~4 43.~d3 ~eS 44. lL1d79.Ild1 fS10.b3lLxa311.lL1xa3 8.."'..r= .e712..b2 f413.e3fxe314.fxe3hS ~c4 .1\.g345. ~d3 .1\.f446. ~c4 .1\.gS 1s.b4'Il1616.Ilac1 Ilh617.bSlL1d16 47.'iPd3 'iPf448.'iPe2 Draw 7~'.mn ~ .... ~ ~ 6 - W%&.. ~ 18.bxc6 lL1g4 19.Ild3 bxc6 20.Ilb3 " Sicilian Rossolimo 5~ .'U~ ~ "~ .1\.a621.h3 Ilf8 22.hxg4hxg4 23.lL1eS 4 ~ " if11 lL1xg324.lL1xg4 Ilhs 2s.Ilb8 Ilxb8 Benjamin Lin (2110) --~ U ~ [(; 3~ ~... ~ U.a.~~ 26.1Ixb8+ 'iPh7 27..xg3 .xa3 28. NM Oleg Zaikov (2332) 28~ ~ n ~ Ilf1 Axc429.Ilf711c1+30..1\.f1 IlgS Portland, Oregon Championship (5) 2005 31..h4+ 'iPg8 32..xgS 'iPxf7 33. Annotations by Benjamin Lin 1~ a :.= a bed e f 9 h lL1eS+~g8 34.1Id8+ 'iPh7 3S..h4+ 1.lL1f3cS 2.e4 d6 3..1\.bS+ 17.lL1xdS exdS 18.Ilxc8 Ilxc8 19. 'iPg8 36.1Ih3 .1\.xf137.flxe6+ 'iPh7 38..fS+ ~g8 39..f7+ ~h7 40..xf1 Last year, I did well with 3.c3 lL1f6 Axc8 h6 20.lL1f3.c7 21..1\.fSg6 22. 4..1\.c4?! against Zaikov, Gutman, and .1\.d3 lL1fe623..a4+ ~f8 24..a3+ .xe3+ 41..f2 .c1+ 42.~g2 .gS+ Raptis. However, Kalina refuted it at the ~g7 2s.Ilc1 .b6 26..e7 Ilf827. 43.1Ig3 .d2+ 44.1112 1IgS+ 45. ~h3 'iPg8 46..f7+ 'iPh7 47.lL1f3.e3 48. WA Open. .16+ ~h7 28.hS Ilg8 29.lL1h4 Ilg7 'iPg4 1Ie4+ 49..f4 1Ie2 SO.1Ih2+ 3...lL1d7 4.0-0 g6 S. Ile1.1\.g7 6.c3 a6 30.hxg6+ fxg6 31.Axg6+ ~g8 32.ll)fS .b2 33.Ilc8 .b1+ 34.~h2 1-0 1Ixh2 S1.lL1xh2~g6 S2.lL1f3cS S3. 7..1\.f1 lL1g16 8.d4 cxd4 9.cxd4 0-0 dxcS ~16 S4.c6 'iPe6 SS.lL1d4+ 1-0 10.a41 For the game Pendergast-Rowan, see Total dominationof the entire board. Tom Rowan s article on page 24 French Exchange 10...lL1b811.h3lL1c612.lL1c3eS13.dSRound Six NM Nick Raptis (2312) lL1e714.aSlL1hS1S..1\.e3~f416..1\.b6 Benjamin Lin (2110) .e8 17..b3 1518.lL1d2gS19.93 .g6 Standings Portland, Oregon Championship (6) 2005 4.0 Raptis 3.5 Zaikov 1.e4 e6 2.d4 cS 3.c3lL1164..1\.d3lL1c6 3.0 Haessler, Morris S.dxcS Axcs 6.lL1f3dS 7.exdS 1IxdS 2.5 Janniro, Martin 8.0-0 0-0 9..1\.gSIld8 . 2.0 Un, Rowan 1.5 Harmon 8 .I.~.i..~.. 1.0 Pendergast 70",,'..'.'~ ~ - English 6 ~.~... Mike Janniro (2130) 5~ ~ Michael Morris (2094) 4.... Portland, Oregon Championship (6) 2005 3~ n~~lD~ Retreating the Knight is hopeless, 1.c4 eS 2.g3 g6 3..1\.g2.1\.g74.lL1c3d6 28~U --~ U~8r;' ~ sincethe d6-pawn falls and Black's posi- S.e3 lL1c6 6.lL1ge2 .1\.e6 7.b3 .d7 1 ...rlD.-.:t~~\Wr~ ~ tion crumbles. This speculative sacrifice 8.lL1dSlL1ge7 9.0-0 0-0 10.lL1xe7+ a bed e f 9 h forces White to find a few precise moves .xe711..1\.b2 Ilae812.d4.1\.g413.dS 10.lLx16 gxf611.lLc2lLxt2+ 12.~h1 in order to consolidate. lL1d814.h3Axe21S..xe2fS16.e4f4 .xd1 13.Axd1lLcs 14.lL1bd2b6 1S. 17.g4 b6 18.b4 .h4 19.f3 lL1f7 lL1e4.1\.a616.Ile1lLe717..1\.e2.1\.b7 20.gxf4 gxf4+ 21.~h2 f3 22.lL1xf3 20..1\.c3 fle7 21.a4.1\.16 22..1\.e1 hS fxe4 23.lL1xe4 .hS 24..1\.g2 lL1fS 18.lL1g3Ild7 19.Ilf1 Ilad820.Ilae1 23.8S hxg4 24.hxg4 ~g7 2S..1\.12Ilh8 a6 21..1\.d1 bS 22..1\.c2 b4 23.Ile4 fS 2S.Ila3 .1\.h6 26.lL1g3 .1\.f4 27.Ile4 26.axb6 axb6 27.Ila7 .1\.h428.hb6 .g6 28. Ilxf4 exf4 29.lL1xfS .xfS 24. Ilee1 bxc3 2S.bxc3 .1\.1626.Ile3 30..d3 .hS 31.~d4 .eS 32..e4 .1\.g329.Ilfa1 Ilh2 30. Ilxc7 .h4 lL1aS27.lL1hS.1\.h828.lL1h4 Ild2 29. .hS 33.lL1e6 .1\.d7 34.lL1xf4 .h6 31. Ilaa7 filh8 32. Ilxf7+ 'iPg8 33.~f1 lLa4 Ilxa2 30..1\.d1 Ila1 31..1\.e2 Ilh1+ 34.Axh1 1Ixh1+ 3S..1\.g1.1\.h2 3s.Ilg3+'iPf736.lL1e6 Ilac837.Ilf3+ Ilxf1+32.lLxt1 Ild1 ~3.'iPg1lL1c434. 36.1Ig2 lLxg1 37..xh1 Ilxh1 'iPg838..g4+ 1-0 Ilg3+ 'iPf83S.'iP12lL1eS36..1\.e2 Ilc1 10 Tune 2005 Northwest Chess 37.ile3lbg4+ 38.hg4 fxg4 39.ild3 lbh723.a3lbb624.lbcs lIe72S.ilff1 S1.b7 ild8 S2.~e3 ~b5 53.Ag4 ~a6 ile2+ 40.~g3 ilxe3 41. IIxe3 he3 lbc4 26.Af2ffe7 27.eSlbf8 28.lb3e4 54.Ac8 ~a7 S5.a6 IId6 S6.g4 ~b8 42.~xg4 as 43.lbf4 a4 44.lbe2 iLb2 lbd7 29.lbf6+ hf6 30.gxf6ilee8 31. S7.h4ilxa6 S8.~d4h5 S9.gxh5 ilaS 4s.lbf3 hf3+ 46.~xf3 a3 0-1 lbe4 as 32.lbg3 lbxf6 33.exf6 "xf4 60.h6 ilh5 61.~e4 IIxh4+ 62.~f5 34.lbe4 lIds 3S. ild3 a4 36.iLg3 '@'h6 ilxh6 63.~e6 Draw English 37.iLf4 ffh8 38.h4 iled8 39.ilfd1 LM Thomas Rowan (2176) ~f8 4O.iLgS ~e8 41.lbc3 ilSd742. Benoni LM Carl Haessler (2202) dS cxdS 43.lbxdS ilxdS 44. IIxds "f8 NM Oleg Zaikov (2332) 4s.lIxd8 mate " Portland,OregonChampionship(6) 2005 NM Nick Raptis (2312) 1.lbf3eS 2.e4lbe6 3.d4 exd44.lbxd4 Portland,OregonChampionship(7) 2005 QGD Exchange lIb6 S.e3 eS 6.lbbSlbf6 7.lb1e3 iLe7 1.d4 cS 2.dS g6 Draw 8.lbd6+ ~f8 9.iLe2 lbaS 10.lbxe8 NM Michael Pendergast (2250) ilxe8 11.b3 g6 12.0-0 c!>g713.lbdS NM Roger Martin (2205) Round Eight lbxdS 14.lIxdS IIhd8 1s.iLb2 iLf6 Portland, Oregon Championship (7) 2005. 16.iLxeS lIeS 17.iLxf6+ c!>xf6 1.d4 dS 2.c4 e6 3.lbc3 lbf6 4.cxdS Standings 18.lId4+ ~e6 19.iLf3 hS 20.iLdS+ exdS s.iLgS iLe7 6.ffc2 c6 7.e3 0-0 4.5 Raptis, Zaikov ~e7 21.lIeS+ ~f8 22.fff4 ~g7 23. 8.Ad3lbbd79.lbge2 h610.Ah4 lIe8 4.0 Lin,Morris ffxf7+ ~h6 24.lIad1 lbe6 2s.fff6 Draw 3.5 Haessler, Janniro, Martin ffe7 26.f4 d6 27.b4 IIxdS 28.ilxdS 3.0 Harmon,Rowan lbxb4 29.ilxhS+ 1-0 Sicilian 0 'Kelly 1.5 Pendergast Michael Morris (2094) English French Winawer LM Thomas Rowan (2176) Mike Janniro (2130) NM Roger Martin (2205) Portland, Oregon Championship (7) 2005 NM Oleg Zaikov (2332) NM Oleg Zaikov (2332) 1.e4 c5 2.~f3 a6 3.d4 cxd4 4.~xd4 Portland, Oregon Championship (8) 2005 Portland, Oregon Championship (6) 2005 lbf6 S.ll)c3 eS 6.lbf3 AM 7.Ac4 0- 1.e4 e5 2.g3 ll)f6 3.iLg2 iLeS 4.ll)c3 1.e4 e6 2.d4 dS 3.lbe3 iLb4 4.a3 08.0-oiLxc39.bxc3d610.lIe1"c7 0-0 5.e3 lIe8 6.ll)ge2 e4 7.a3 c6 8.d4 iLxe3+ S.bxe3 dxe4 6.ffg4 lbf6 7. 11.Ab3ll)bd7 12.AgS h6 13.Ah4 b6 iL18 9.dS d6 10.b4 iLfS 11.iLb2ll)bd7 tl'xg7 IIg8 8.ffh6 eS 9.iLbS+ iLd7 14.lIe3 Ab7 1S.ll)d2 dS 16.exdS 12.ll)d4 Ag4 13.ffe2 10.iLxd7+ lbbxd7 11.ffh3 exd4 12. ll)xdS 17.ilg3 ll)Sf6 18.lbf1 ll)e4 exd4 ile8 13.e3 ffe7 14.lbe2 ffe4 19.ffg4ll)xg3 20.ll)xg3 c!>h721.ll)hS 1S.iLe3lbdS 16.ile1 lb7f6 17.ile2 ilg8 22.Axt7'@'c6 23.f3 ~h8 24.ild1 BIXEIIX... 7 '"'"'~ m... ffd3 18.lId2 ffb1+ 19.ild1 ffbS20. ll)eS 2s.iLxg8 IIxg8 26. 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32."14 <;Pb633.~d3 Axd3 34. Peachcroft's World Axd3"a1 35."xf7 "g1 36."18 "xg2 37. "c5+ ~b7 38.Aa6+ ~xa6 39.'8'xc6+ ~a5 40.1Wc5+ ~a6 Draw The Higher Purpose Queen s Indian by Don Emigh NM Oleg Zaikov (2332) he August evening was still warm, and windows in the meeting room of Thomas Rowan (2176) the S Chess Club had been opened. Occasionally, a puff of Portland, Oregon Championship (9) Tsluggish air found its way into the room. A circulating fan in onecomer vibrated 2005 and hummed. A monotonous murmur of traffic came from the street two stories below. 1.d4 ~16 2.c4 e6 3.~t3 b6 4.~c3 So it was not surprising that the members of the club, seated in rows of chairs in the Ab7 5.Ag5 Ab4 6.e3 h6 7.Ah4 not-so-large meeting room, found themselves hot, bored, nodding, and not paying much 0-0 8.Ad3 d6 9.1Wc2~bd710.0- attention at all to Freestable, up on the podium. This was the annual meeting for the 0-0 Axc3 11."xc3 c5 12.Ac2 election of the club's officers and board of directors. 11c8 13.d5 exd5 14.cxd5 b5 15.e4 b416."e3!1a517.~b1 ~g418. The four incumbant officers had just been re-elected. Freestable, continuing as "t4~ge519.~xe5dxe520.!lg4 president, presided over a comfortably solvent club with an expanding membership. '8'b5 21.11d3 15 22.ext5 ~16 23. Except for oneboard position-Mr. Krebshott had movedout of the city-it was now a '\ "g6 11c724. 11g3~h8 25.d6 11d7 matter of form for the members to re-elect the current directors. They did this with 26.Axf6 11x1627."e8+ ~h7 28. another show of hands. 11g6 11ff729.16 e4 30. fxg7 11xg7 "And now," Freestable intoned, "do I hear nominations from the floor? We need a 31.11xg7+ ~xg7 32.!le5+ 1-0 replacement for Mr. Krebshott. Let's make this a little more formal. We'll need a written ballot with at least three nominations. Anyone got a name?" He wiped his Polish Deftnse forehead with the back of his hand and looked out hopefully over the room. LM Carl Haessler (2202) Molewier, loungingas usual in one of the back seats, elbowed Murtosse and whis- I: NM Roger Martin (2205) pered, "What say we put a little life in the 01'meeting,Murt? Let's nominatePeachcroft. Portland, Oregon Championship (9) It'll be a kick to see what happens. No way can that guy get elected, but I wanna see 2005 what the members do when they hear his nomination. An' I WanDasee01'Peachy puff 1.~t3 ~16 2.g3 b5 3.a4 b4 4.Ag2 up like a toad. Watch this, Mort!" He raised his hand for recognition. Ab7 5.d4 e6 6.0-0 Ae7 7.c4 0-0 Acknowledged by Freestable, Moelwier got to his feet and paused a moment for 8."c2iLe49.'8'b3~c610.~bd2 dramatic effect before he said, "Mr. President, I nominate Mr. Peachcroft for the board. ~a5 11.'8'e3 At5 12.h3 d5 13. Peachcroft has been a member of the club for many years." With this meagre endorse- ~e5 Ad6 14.g4 iLc2 15.t4 c6 ment, he sat down. 16.b3 ~d7 There was an immediate buzz in the room. Freestable stood immobilized,speech- less. "Peachcroft!" was blurted out by an incredulous member or two. Here and there, 81.. II ..~ suppressed laughter, quiet giggling, could be heard. It was all involuntary,of course, 0= .~.... but it was rude and embarassing nevertheless. Onecould imaginehow a nomineeon the ~ receiving end of such a demonstration might feel. ~ ,~ ...~ . Molewier elbowed Murtosse. "Hey! Hey! Can you believethis, Murt? Listen to 418i.d~u- ~ u8.~ . that!" Molewier doubled over in his chair. His shoulders shook. He was happy. 3.8. II .8 At this point, Peachcroft, who was seated in the front row with Lenny, asked to be ..t.~8..i.~ recognized. He rose to his feet and turned to face the members. In his measured, w,- ~ .1;l~ ~ resonant voice, he spoke as follows: a bed. e f 9 h . "It is an honor, sirs, to be nominatedto any office from which one can be of service 17.11a2 Axe5 18.11xc2 iLd6 19. to the S Chess Club, and from which the furtherance of the goals of our "13 ~16 20.g5 ~e4 21.~xe4 organization can be resolutely carried foward intothe coming year. Indeed,as has been dxe4 22."g3 15 23.gxt6 '8'x16 so estimablyproven by our current officers and board members, one can expectto serve 24.~h1 !lt5 25."e3 11t6 26. and to toil in the interests of our renowned club for several years, if, as is expected of Axe4 "h5 27."t3 '8'xt3+ 28. him, he performs his tasks with diligenceand acumen. To be an officer or board mem- 11x13 11at8 29.e3 ~h8 30.Ab2 ber of our club is most assuredly a high honor. Votewith your hearts and your minds, ~xb3 31.Axc6 e5 32.dxe5 Axe5 my friends, for he who is elected must, perforce, give his own heart and mind fully- 33.Axe5 11xc6 34.11g3 111735. fully, I say-to the furtherance of our joint endeavors. Yes, let me restate this in more 11b2 ~c5 36. 11xb4 ~a6 37.11b1 personal terms: I should expect an elected representative of our club to spend every ~g8 38.11d1 h6 39.11d8+ ~h7 waking hour in pursuit of the club's interests, and in the sedulous 'furthering of the 40.11d6 1-0 . club's enterprises. Thank you." Peachcroft sat down. 14 Tune 2005 Northwest Chess -' ~

Clatskanie Chess Club Wins State!

by Kate Taylor and knew their standings against the others. Well. against everyone but us. They didn't even see us If this is a dream. please don't wake me up! coming! The tournament would be decided in four Last Spring. as we were leaving the state rounds that would last 3 hours each. Two would championship with our second place JV trophy. I be played on Friday and two on Saturday. Two turned to Mike Wolfe. Assistant Executive Secre- long. grueling days of intense concentration. tary of the Oregon High School Chess Team Asso- Even though our team was well-prepared. we ciation and said. "Next year. were dealing with some we'll bring an A team and win!" unique problems on the He just smiled and shook my Tournament Information morning the tourna- hand and said. "Okay." Oregon High School Chess Team Championship ment began. Blake Lincoln High School in Portland hosted the event held ~ In October. during an Salisbury. team captain. OHSCTAemail discussion about on February 25 & 26, 2005. Four G/90 rounds were played, lasting up to three hours each (two rounds on board one was worried team placement at the Champi- Friday and two on Saturday) about our newest onship. I said. "You'd better put A Division = 16 teams (high school only) player. Mike Moran on us up there at the top. because board five. He'd never B Division = 18 teams (high school and middle our team can't be beat!" They school mix) competed in a tourna- ignored my suggestion and The OHSCTA has been around since the 1960's ment before and had placed us in the middle of the and schools from around the state play in leagues in joined the team just one pack. because Clatskanie had preparation for the final event. Clatskanie was consid- week before the cham- never been able to field an A ered a wild card because we didn't play in a league. pionship. Blake had team before. But they didn't worked with Mike tire- know what I knew. lessly over the previous week for three to four My team was totally committed to winning hours a day to prepare. Michael Taylor. board two. first place. Failure wasn't an option as far as they was suffering from the stomach flu and all that were concerned. Whenever the subject of state goes with it. Tim Robinson on board three had a came up. they talked as if they'd already won. Not family crisis - his sister was in the hospital and only did they talk the talk. but they walked the his parents were by her side. Thomas Kyle- walk as well! Blake. Michael. Tim and Thomas all Milward on board four had been traveling in En- competed in challenging adult tournaments this gland for three months with his family (playing year. They played chess online against masters and chess in tournaments there). He had flown home experts from around the world. They read chess just two days before and was still suffering from books and studied new openings. Blake's rating went over 2000. The rest Clatskanie Results (Varsity Team =A Division) were steadily climbing. And Board 1, Blake Salisbury W W L W [team captain] then.. . Board 2, Michael Taylor WWDW Board 3, Tim Robinson LWWD The big day came! Board 4, Thomas Kyle-Milward W W W W Sixteen varsity teams in the A division marched into Board 5, Mike Moran LWWL Lincoln High School in Port- Round 1: vs. Wilson HS 3.0-2.0 land. They were ready for battle. The teams were from Round 2: VS.Lake Oswego 5.0-0.0 schools large and small. Round 3: VS.Portland Christian 3.5-0.5 Most had competed in league Round 4: VS.Westview HS 3.5-0.5 play during the school year 16 Tune 2005 Northwest Chess jet lag. And First. board five fell to our attack. then board Mike Moran. Team Prizes four. board three. and in perfect succession our courageous A Division Team Champions we dominated the round. and very green , 1. Clatskanie We arrived back home at midnight and board five was 2. Wilson returned for battle at 9 a.m. the following tired from the 3. Westview mornIng. many hours of chess practice 4. Cottage Grove During round three. against Lake Os- with Blake. We 5. Century wego. our toughest opponent. Mike Moran called it his Ex- 6. Sherwood was a key player. Tim and Thomas had both won their games. But Blake and Michael were ,~ treme Chess B Division Team Champions A Makeover! His in trouble. Mike had to win his game in or- 1. Sunset der for us to win the round. He was matched mind was reel- 2. Wilson up with a seasoned tournament player. Mike ing with new chess termi- 3. Pleasant Hill didn't really have an opening. Just a lot of 4. Junction City crammed chess knowledge from the last seven nology and days. But. he used that knowledge well. be- theory. 5. Portland Christian cause Mike came through when we needed And yet. 6. Delphian him most and won his game! It was thrilling with all these Middle School Champions to see. Blake eventually succumbed to one of distractions. 1. Sunset the best players in the league. Corbin Yu. when the five 2. Portland Christian Michael was extremely low on time and about members of the 3. Sherwood to lose. but managed to hold his opponent at Clatskanie High bay with quick moves and perpetual check School varsity and came away with a draw! We finished this team approached their first round against Wilson round with 3.5/5 and won the round! High School. the second highest rated team in the As each team fell. the coaches watched. At one state. the doubts all disappeared. All that was left point. Mike Wolfe turned to me and said. "You guys was the game and their de- really are going to win termination. On Friday. Board Prizes this. aren't you? Do you the first round began at 3 ever let up?" I just smiled o'clock. By 6 pm Blake. Board 1- Brian Esler (Lincoln) and said. "You know those Michael and Thomas had All State Awards: Blake Salisbury dogs that never let go?" (Clatskanie) , Corbin Yu (Lake Oswego), won their games and the "You mean bulldogs?" he round. Ethan Peake (Westview), Chris Griffin (Sherwood), Andy Koch (Portland Chris- asked. "Yes. That's us. tian) We never give up. We In round two. we were Board 2 - Michael Taylor (Clatskanie) never surrender." Mike matched up with Portland All State Awards: Isaiah Dunn (Cottage just nodded and walked Christian. the 2004 Grove), Garrett Good (Wilson), Rory away. Fifield (Sherwood), Greg Watkins (Lake OHSCTAchampions. At 10 And then the fourth p.m. that night. Blake and Oswego) Michael were the last Board 3 - Andy Pham (Benson) and final round was upon All State Awards: Ted Sanders (Wilson), us. We were matched boards playing. They'd Peter Reid (Sherwood), Adam Leong wi th a team from been at it for a total of (Pleasant Hill) seven hours. Not once did Westview High School. Board 4 - Thomas Kyle-Milward one of the largest schools they give up or even (Clatskanie) in the state. We knew glance around the room. All State Awards: Nick Glessman (Cottage their players. They. too. Grove), MarkEthan (Wilson) They were totally focused practiced by playing in on winning their games. Board 5 - Alan Deeth (Westview) adult tournaments and And they did just that. Not All StateAwards: Sean Field-Eaton(Tigard), Paul Stanton (Wilson) online. Blake Salisbury only did we win the match. had to make a difficult but we won allfive games. decision. Should he play l'Ir..T"...1..yoU'.n...'"r1..""...... T.._~ "'nn~ .. pop the Pelikan to guarantee a draw? Or should he Throughout the tournament. Michael and play the Sveshnikov. an opening that would give Thomas were winning their games. Thomas ended him an immediate initial advantage but possibly with a perfect 4-0 score. In spite of his flu. result in a loss? Blake's opponent. Ethan Peake. Michael had played very well. winning two of his was formidable. He and Blake had been matched games in just 16 moves and ending with a total of 3.5 points. up many times before and Ethan was prepared for the Pelikan. None of us knew which opening Blake We knew they were both in the running for would ultimately choose. until the seventh move. the all-state award. which is given to the top per- formers at each board. But it came as a complete I could tell immediately that he was going to risk surprise for both Thomas and Michael to win it all for the win. Not by looking at the board. but Championship awards for the best performance by looking at Ethan's face. After Blake made his on their boards! Blake won all state (runner-up). move. Ethan automatically reached out for his re- which is a significant accomplishment. since board sponse. He stopped. Looked up at Blake's smiling one is the strongest board on every team. face. Looked back at the board. And hesitated. The At the end of the day. when they announced decision had been a good one-early on Blake had the # 1 team in the state and our boys ran up to Ethan wondering what was coming next! Blake. receive their trophy. the room erupted in whistles Michael and Thomas won their games and. after and thunderous applause. Everyone there knew two hours. Tim drew! We'd won our final round. that we had earned our status. Even though the other teams had also come to win. they didn't begrudge our victory. A Message from Mike Wolfe, because we did it with good 0 HSCTA Executive Secretary2005-2007 sportsmanship. a winning smile and a warm handshake whether Thanks to everyone for one of the most exciting and successful state tournaments in recent memory. The competition was fierce, the hospitality was wonderful, and how nice to we won. drew or lost. meet and greet n6W and old friends. Congratulations especially to Kate Taylor and our new state champions from Clatskanie. Steve Hawke. Wilson High It goes to show you that you don't have to be from a big city to put together a program that can School's coach and league direc- compete with, and defeat:, the rest of the challengers. tor. announced the awards. As Congratulations. too, to St8phen Runion, ourtoumament host, for his outstanding effort to make us an comfortable and to do with efficiency an he was called upon to do. I only hope I can Alan Svehaug shook the Clat- do a fraction as wen ... next year at Cottage Grove. skanie team hands one by one. Thanks to Alan Svehaug for two years as our Executive Secretary. Alan is a person who thinks outside the box, and his contribution this year of trophies to middle school teams was Steve announced to everyone brilliant. I watched him make tough decisions a couple of times at the tournament this weekend there. .Clatskanie wins with a and I was impressed with his wisdom, compassion, and sense of fairness for everyone. Kudos perfect score. They were un- as well to Neil Dale, our toumament director, and to Stave Hawke, who ably assisted him and who has already provided me with several words of wisdom. Thanks too to everyone else who touchable. No one could take assisted. I dare not claim to have an exhaustive list because I will forget someone, so, you know them down!" who you are, and you are wonderful! New I begin a term as the OHSCTA Executive Secretary. The goal I have selected as the As we left Lincoln High. I focus of my term wiD be to promote the building of new programs and new leagues. We have already heard of the possibility of a league including McMinnviDe and the Delphian School, along hung back and watched my boys with Amity, and possibly Newberg and Yamhill-Cartton, and maybe more. We also hear there walking together. holding their may be something forming in Central Oregon, and Kate Taylor and others are exploring the trophy high and I realized we possibHity of a "cyber-league" for those who are more remote. If you have contacts in Oregon high schools where chess teams do not exist. Icall upon were coming home with so much you to use whatever influence you have to get things started. I plan to "heat up" the contacts more than that trophy. The hard with other schools, and to keep the pressure on, because once these schools get started, they will have as much fun as we do! Just imagine the current field, but add in teams from the Salem work. perseverance. overcoming area, southern Oregon, the coast, eastern Oregon, and so on. Our tournament is already a great obstacles and complete dedication " event, but more participation would make it even more exciting. to the game and to each other- I also beieve we have some unresolved issues involving the participation of teams c0m- posed entirely of middle schoolers. I fiked Alan's solution of special trophies just for them, but those things are much more im- would 6ke to hear what others thought of that Also, at our next tournament, we will need to elect portant and will last long after an Executive Secretary-elect and establish a site for our '2IXJ7tournament, so please give those items some consideration. that trophy turns dusty sitting on a shelf. We have incredible talent in the teachers, coaches, advisors, and volunteers in our 0rga- nization. Again, thank you aU,and please s1ay in touch wi1tIyour thoughts and ideas to help us continuously improve OHSCTA and our state toumament. Iwill always remember thismo- ment. and I know they will. too. . 18 Tune 2005 Northwest Chess I -

6-24 6.0 Carlin Chuck West Mercer ES Mercer Island Craig Colgrove Heritage Christian Bothell WA 25-38 5.5 Tasha Talbot Liberty Christian Richland WA 39-1025.0 Ankush Puri Evergreen School Shoreline WA Benjamin Davis Evergreen School Shoreline WA Thayer Fisher Meridian School Seattle 1 Kari Keogh Faith Lutheran Lacey WA K-3 U800 (442 players) Nashville, TN 3-4 6.5 Anthony Pangelinan Assumption/St. Bridget Seattle 20-33 5.5 Quentin Chi Univ. Child Development Seattle The Northwest was well represented at the world's Molly Clarfeld Evergreen School Shoreline WA , Zamir Blrnbach EvergreenSchool ShorelineWA i largest scholasticchesstournament. the SuperNationals. 34-83 5.0 ChristopherApacibleWest Mercer ES Mercer Island held in Nashville. TN. on the weekend of April 8-10. MatthewTalbot LibertyChristian RichlandWA Among the over 5200 entries from 1300 schools in 48 8 18.0 Evergreen School (Clarfeld,Birnbach,Jack Betcher,Madison Betcher,Joshua Kahn,Jacob Kohn) states representing over 600 cities were about 40 Or- K-6 UNR(298players) 4-14 6.0 AnthonyYuen West Mercer ES Mercer Island egonians and 120 Washingtonians. In the last issue of KarenYuen West Mercer ES Mercer Island Northwest Chess.we heard of Stevenson Elementary's 15-24 5.5 ElliottChow HuttonES Spokane success. Below is a list of others who did well. The Anshum Siripurapu Stevenson ES Bellevue WA main tournaments were seven rounds. the blitz evnts- 25-57 5.0 Joshua Sommers LibertyChristian Richland WA Rachel Kahn Evergreen School Shoreline WA four double-rounds. and the Bughouse (or Siamese) K-12 Blitz (320 players) events-six double-rounds. 7-27 7.0 Ben Wyde LakesideSchool Seattle DavidWyde LakesideSchool Seattle K-12 Championship (364 players) RickeySelzler BainbridgeIsl. HS BainbridgeIsl. 23-57 5.0 BenWyde LakesideSchool Seattle BrianSvehaug Portland Christian VancouverWA DavidWyde LakesideSchool Seattle 28-34 6.5 DrewSerres home school Salem OR BlakePhillips TIgardHS TIgardOR AdiLanka MercerIsland HS MercerIsland Bryant Brownell OR 35-63 6.0 Steven Taki Mercer Island HS MercerIsland K-12 U1500(349 players) 6-7 21.0 Portland Christian (Svehaug, Jonathan Nyone,Steven Koch, 3-13 6.0 Conor Myhrvold LakesideSchool Seattle Josh Carr,AndyKoch,Joshua Young,DanielPatten) 23-58 5.0 MichaelTaytor Clatskanie HS Clatskanie OR 12-1319.0 Lakeside School (B.Wyde, D.Wyde, CameronMyhrvold) K-12 UNR(139 players) K-8 Blitz (228 players) 12-28 5.0 Steven Koch PortlandChristian Portland 1-8 8.0 AndyMay home school VancouverWA t 20-24 6.5 Marcus Robinson Robert Gray MS Portland I MikeBerkey RICH I K-8Championship (238 players) 4 20.5 CedarParkES (AustinSharp, KurtisSprouse, DavidKim, 13-39 5.0 RaleighFoster HOFO Isaac Kim) K-8 U1250(333 players) K-6 Blitz (309 players) 2-3 6.5 DavidInglis EvergreenSchool ShorelineWA 1-4 8.0 KamranHughes Bear Creek ES WoodinvilleWA 4-10 6.0 KevinTaki Islander MS MercerIsland 8-20 7.0 Alec Ho King'sWay Christian VancouverWA 11-23 5.5 Austin Sharp CedarPark ES Portland Dakota Dixon HeritageChristian BothellWA 24-58 5.0 Cameron Gregson West HilisChristian Portland AlexanderOstrow Washington MS? Seattle AndrewGoldberg Islander MS MercerIsland 25-61 6.0 Jerry Li Stevenson ES BellevueWA Jennifer Apacible Islander MS MercerIsland MichaelOmori EvergreenSchool ShorelineWA 3 20.5 IslanderMS (Taki,Apacible,Goldberg, BryanSolomon) Tate Maider LaurelhurstES Seattle 5-6 19.0 CedarPark ES (Sharp, KurtisSprouse, Isaac Kim,Daniel Sebastian Baker King'sWay Christian VancouverWA Friesen, Joseph Tanquary) 3 21.5 King's Way Christian(A. Ho, Baker,DanielHo, RyanScott) 8-9 17.5 Evergreen School (Ingls,RobertYaman,NatMeyer,CIaytonBrock) 5-6 19.0 Evergreen School (Omori,_RobertYarnan,ClaytonBrock,Nat K-8 U750(196 players) Meyer) 16-35 5.0 AndrewPetrucci Islander MS Mercer Island 7 17.5 ViNaAcademy (NicholasOrlov,BlakeRassilyer,AlexKoh, K-9 UNR(168 players) NathanielNewman) 15-32 5.0 ClintonRainsier UbertyChristian RichlandWA K-12Bughouse(227teams) 5-7 16.5 Portland Christian(TomSeemuth, MichaelRossi, Chance 2-3 11.0 Lanka-Wyde Rossi, KyteSeemuth) 4-1310.0 Taki-Wyde K-6Championship (214 players) Gay-Robinson 2-5 6.0 DanielGay home school TIgard OR K-6 Bughouse (107 teams) 6-15 5.5 Sagar Rotithor Evergreen School? Shoreline WA 2 11.0 Dixon-Ostrow 16-35 5.0 DevonManber Evergreen School Shoreline WA 3-7 10.0 Caspi-Guo KamranHughes Bear Creek ES Woodinville WA K-5Championship (316 players) Clatskanie, OR 23-52 5.0 AlexChow HuttonES Spokane K-3Championship (271 players) Clatskanie Elementary School recently received ~1 2-10 6.0 NicholasOrlov VillaAcademy Seattle the "First Move" chess curriculum grant from Nathan Lee ApolloES Issaquah WA ~, MichaelWang FranklinES Kirkland WA America's Foundation for Chess for all 2nd and 3rd Alec Ho King'sWay Christian Vancouver WA grade classrooms. The program is designed to pre- 19-51 5.0 Sarah May home school Vancouver WA K-1Championship (278 players) pare kids for future chess success. The grant includes 22-53 5.0 Samuel Meissner Sherwood ES Edmonds WA chess sets for all classrooms and a chess mentor to K-6 U1000(258 players) 4-8 6.0 RyanScott King'sWay Christian VancouverWA assist teachers in finding creative ways to use chess 22-46 5.0 AndrewGarrison Evergreen School ShorelineWA in their curriculum. The game of chess is also used 7 16.5 'ViNaAcademy (NathanielNewman,AllysonKoh,Madele as a learning tool to build math skills. reading skills VanZuyten,ForrestPetrich) K-5U900(536 players) and self-esteem. 4-5 6.5 Caleb Chuck West Mercer ES Mercer Island Courtesy of Kate Taylor Northwest Chess Tune 2005 19 ~ I

Lynden, WA Clatskanie, OR This year's Washington State Elementary The Oregon Chess Federation held a two-day Championships attracted over 1100 kids. includ- championship April 22 and 23 in order to crown the ing some from British Columbia. to the fairgrounds 2005 High School and Junior Chess Champion and in Lynden. The five-round event was organized the 2005 Girls Champion. The OCF Oregon Junior and directed by NM Elliott Neff. Open Championship was held in Clatskanie and at- Kindergarten (81 players) tended by more than 90 players. with 20 vying for 5.0 Kevin Ma BellevueChildren's Academy Bellevue the coveted titles in the Open/Championship section. Colton Carpenter St. Paul Primary Bellingham 4.5 Chris Huang Highland Christian In an upset match. expert Blake Salisbury de- 1st Grade (104 players) 5.0 Wesley Yu Lowell ES Seattle feated master Oleg Zaikov in the fourth round. Blake Samuel Meissner Sherwood ES Edmonds then went on to win the fifth round. clinching the 4.5 Billy Wu Stevenson ES Bellevue championship title and a trip to the Denker Tourna- 2nd Grade (189 players) 5.0 CarlinChuck West Mercer ES Mercer Island ment of High School Champions in August. He earned James Colasurdo St. Michael's School Olympia Jaan Budzianowski Bush School Seattle his perfect score in a section of strong contenders Nicolo Gelb Whittier ES Seattle from throughout Oregon. Casey Xing Woodmoor ES Bothell 3rd Grade (240 players) QGDSlav 5.0 Alec Ho King's Way Christian Vancouver Michael Wang Franklin ES Kirkland NM Oleg Zaikov (2332) Nathan Lee Apollo ES Issaquah Blake Salisbury (2007) William Li Stevenson ES Bellevue Andrew Garrison Evergreen School Shoreline Clatsla:mie, Oregon Junior Championship (4) 2005 Tanraj Sohal B.C. 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.lLJc3lLJf64.e3 Af5 5.lLJf3e6 6.Ad3 Anthony Guo Stevenson ES Bellevue Ag6 7.0-0 lLJbd78.tWe2Ad6 9.e4 dxe4 10.lLJxe4lLJxe4 " 4th Grade (211 players) 5.0 Michael Omori Evergreen School Shoreline 11.Axe4 Axe4 12.'ffxe4lLJf6 13.'ffe2 0-0 14.Ag5 h6 Nicholas Orlov Villa Academy Seattle 15.Ah4 g5 16.Ag3 Axg3 17.fxg3 g4 18.lLJe5'ffxd4+ DanielHo King's Way Christian Vancouver Alex Koh Villa Academy Seattle 19.

Scholastic Checkup with Dr. Leo ! Could you please explain the means and mores of chess etiquette and describe how sportsmanship in chess may compare with the ethics 1 and ethos of competitive athletics?

hess is an ancient game steeped in the lore dicates each player's tacit agreement to play their of chivalry and fair play. Chess reflects. and best and follow the rules. Shaking hands also C has contributed to. the civilization of the serves to recognize the worth and dignity of the human mind and will over centuries of personal opponent. while providing a measure of one's own and national evolution. The strategies and wiles worth and civility by extending a hand in friend- of human imagination and will to power are with- ship and good sportsmanship. Chess players be- out limit. This conceptual and creative power of long to an implicit guild of Mental Knights of the the human mind is what leads humans both to Square Table where courage. bravery. boldness great accomplishment and into meaningful con- and courtesy are their stock in trade. In shaking tention. Chess etiquette and sportsmanship are hands. players assert their own mental training. designed to constrain and harness the creative skill and determination. while acknowledging the energies of the human mind and will into positive skill. training. and determination of their oppo- and directed outcomes. Chess etiquette allows nents. ~layers to t.rans.form the ~eat of mental conflict Shaking hands after the game indicates a play- Into a creatIve hght of lOgICand beauty. ers' acceptance of the result. In the case of vic- In particular. chess etiquette clearly distin- tory. shaking hands is also gracious and affirms guishes the goodwill and fair-mindedness of the one's own esteem for the quality of the opponent individual chess player from the assertive. pro- as a person as well as of his play. In the case of vocative and unsparing nature of their chess play. defeat. shaking hands is courteous arid acknowl- In chess. there are are no enemies. There are only edges the fair outcome of the game. while also in- informed and consenting opponents who have dicating a presence of mind to learn from the de- implicitly and explicitly agreed in good faith to a feat! representational c?ntest of m~":d and w~ll. The Chess play is a contest of minds that should rules o.fchess provIde the exphcIt constraInts ~nd not be decided by extraneous factors. Players operatI~g procedures for a chess ga~e. to be fa~r~y should proactively seek to provide the most favor- and eqUItably p~ayed between two wllh~g partIcI- able conditions for their own and their opponents' ~ant~. ~hess IS not a brawl o~ t.he highway of highest mental creativity. Music in a concert hall Imag~natIon no more th~n musIc IS a cac.oph~n.y is not interupted by outside noise. talking by the of nOl.se for the ea~. It IS. however. the Imphclt musicians. or by noise from the audience. How capacity of chess etIquette to elevate th~ power a~d much more subtle and in need of silence and quiet ] ~lay of che.ss f~om a d~y.game of logICal conflict are the improvisational flights of imagination by Into a soarIng IntertwInIng of human hopes and chess players! Fair play requires that a player dreams. not disturb. harass or otherwise interupt the Chess etiquette recognizes the humanity and thinking of one's opponent. this is the rule of chess dignity of the two sen"7>itiveand mortal players law! But chess etiquette and sportsmanship ex- involved in a titanic struggle against unreason. pands this directive to include the absence of any bewilderment and error. Chess players shake coercion. intimidation. or persuasion of an oppo- hands before and after their game-regardless of nent by anything apart from moves made on the the outcome. Shaking hands prior to a game in- board! Northwest Chess Tune 2005 21 ~

Chess players practice the Golden Rule. treat hand of friendship and respect to other players and the opponent the way you should like to be treated. opponents. In a chess game. all players are equal. Chess players seek always to encourage and ex- The act of playing chess requires that we place our pect the best from their opponents-not the worst. common humanity and our common human heri- Chess players realize that a good game is con- tage onto the board of life. Chess players should structed from the best efforts of both opponents. never forget who they are and who their oppo- Chess players will proactively defend proper con- nents are. human beings united in a stand against ditions (quiet. silence. etc) for their opponents as ignorance and uncertainty. readily as they would for themselves. Chess play- The spirit and good sportsmanship of good ers respect themselves. their opponents and the athletic competition are the same as the sports- creative products of their chess efforts. Chess manship of good chess play. The etiquette and players are all too aware of the difficulty of the courtesies expressed in particular sports may vary. paths they have chosen for themselves and always but the spirit of fair and just competition is uni- seek to welcome fellow wayfarers along the way. versal. Chess players realize that the arena of their Chess etiquette recognizes that the excellent jour- contest is within their minds and that actions ap- ney of a chess game is more important than the propriate to an athletic field or arena may be in- resulting destination. appropriate where chess is played. Chess is. perhaps. The spirit of respect. fair play. comraderie. dig- most like the sports of golf or billiards where the nity and courtesy are all part and parcel of chess audience and players know to be quiet during play. etiquette. A true chess player does not seek to win In chess. play continues without interuption or time- at all cost. Rather a chess player. first and fore- out. so quiet and silence by players and spectators most. never seeks to win at any cost to dignity and must continue without interuption as well. selfworth. Chess should and must contribute to Endeavor to recognize and develop what is one's own selfworth and dignity and never subtract your best effort. play your best. and assist and al- from them. And a chess player never seeks to win low your opponents to play their best. Remember at another's expense by denying an opponent fair that you play chess by choice. you agree to engage play or an opponent's selfworth and dignity. and complete the game enthusiastically and that Ii Good sportsmanship is a state of mind which the best chess players are the ones who play with is expressed by the right action of proper chess a clear heart as well as a clear mind. Dr. Leo etiquette. Good sportsmanship seeks good com- wishes you an excellent season of chess practice petition. meritorious victory through one's own and play! thinking and imagination. and reaches out the Copyright 2005 Dr. Leo Stefurak ~

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by LM Tom Rowan lIxc1 19.1Ixc1 Ac8? 20.~c6 centrate on reaching time control without letting my position disintegrate fur- [This is the latest in a series of articles on Threatening both 21 .1tIxe7+ and ther. improving your chess by NMTom Rowan. 21.ltIa7.At first, I thoughtI wasjust win- Earlier articles in this series are avail- .. rung a pIece. 26.a4 able for viewing at Tom:S-chess website, www.tolTll'Dwsn.com.Sendyour questions, 2o...Af6? My play in the following moves is far from flawless, but time pressure, and comments, and suggestions for future ar- But then I saw that 2o...Ag5! saves ticles to Tom at cheSS@ tolTll'Dwan.com.] the realization that I had botched an easy the piece, e.g., 21.f4 Ad8 22.ltIa7? think I'm pretty diligent about trying Ab6+. win, affects my play. 26...Axe2 27.a5 lId8 28.h4 g6 to learn something from each game I 21.ltIa7 ~b6 22.lIc6 Iplay, no matter how "lesson sterile" 29.~c61Id1+30.c;t>h21Ib131.lIb8+ the game seems at first glance. Almost WlnDinga piece. Game over, right? c;t>g732.b4 Ac3 any game you play can become a valu- 22...a5 Around here comesthe sickeningre- able lesson if you look at it the right way alization that, not only may I not win, I and look at it hard enough. A desperate attempt to muddy the waters. may not even survive. My "beautiful" And then there are those games where passed pawns are paralyzed, my kingside 23.lIxb6 a4 the chess gods seem to be saying "Let's pawns are wlnerable, and it's gettinghard make sure we have this guy's attention." to find reasonable moves, especially at blitz tempo. In contrast, Black's position I had two such games at the recent 81 ... is increasingly getting easier to play. OregonStateChampionship. These were . .... 33.lIb6 lIa1 34.lIb7 Aa6 35.lIb6 shockers in the eye-opening, jaw-drop- 6 u~ -..- - d ~ ping, "I can't believe this is happening" JLe2 36.Ae4 Ae1 37.c;t>g2 lIa2 38.t;Ph3 sense. Even the other participants were 5~...~ . shaking their heads in disbelief. 4... . . I had hardly any time left to reach 3~l;).. D move 40. I'm under annoying pressure 2~nu .~n~~~ U.&.. I Catalan and it was impossible to tell what was 1~ LM Thomas Rowan (2176) . . = hanging to a discovered check when the a bed e f gh il Benajmin Lin (2110) f-pawn drops. Now Black is winning. Portland, Oregon Championship (8) 2005 Not seeing a clear way to keep the 38...lLxt239.lIb71Ia340.c;t>g2bg3 extra piece, and getting a little nervous 41.ltId8bh4 42.~xf7 c;t>f643.ltIh6 1.ltIf3 1tIf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Ag2 about loomingtime pressure, I figuredthe Ae7 5.0-0 0-0 6.d4 dxc4 7.trc2 a6 mostpractical approach wouldbe to keep Leaves my Knight stranded. I had ~ 8.1fxc4 b5 9.'iJc2Ab7 1o.Ag5 a clearly winning position that's easy to envisioned possibly repositioning it via g8. I'm several moves past time control, A solid, but tame, line.The potential play quickly. Two extra outside con- but it's still hard to find good moves. My capture on f6 complicates, but doesn't nected passed pawns means an easy win, right? pawns are paralyzed and my pieces, dis- prevent Black's c5-break. connected. 10...ltIbd711.ltIbd2 c5 12.lLxf6lLxf6 24. iIxb5? 43...Ae144.lIb61Ig3+45.1a>h2Af2 I 13.dxc5 lIc8 14.ltIb3 trc7 24.ltIc5! Ad4 25.lIc6, winning. 46.lIb8 ,.; 14...Ad5 also looks fine. 24...axb325.lIxb3 46. iIb7 would at least have pre- I 15.iIac1Ae716.c6'"' ventedthe immediatedisaster, but I liked .. I'm still happy. It 25...Aa6 the ideaofthreatening47.lIf8+. I missed I spent a long time on this. Black's two threats. shouldn't lead to anything. Now I'm no~.I overlookedthis obvi- 46... c;t>g7 16...1fxc617.1rxc61Ixc6 ous movethat wms back a pawn because 17 txc6 and White has nothing. of the dual threats 26...he2 and 26... Now I see one threat. Moving the 18.ltIfd4 lLc4. What's worse, Black's pieces are h6-Knight allows 47...iIg4, threatening active and good aggressive moves aren't ...lIxe4 as well as ...Ag3+. winningthe ~:'~=- -!:;'- ~~~~~ ~~~-=~~ ~~ ~~~ - ~- ~ ~.::;:z=--::::::---::.:=~ _"_-d~ ~~- .r--- =~~

The other threat I'd overlooked. and a hole in my chess education. 24.Ac4? l:Ixc4,winningtwo minors I knew of endings where active for a Rook. Offhand, I can't rememberbeingon piece play could hold two extra 24...1Wb725.Ae4 Ae6 26.1Wb3Ad5 the losingside of a bigger meltdown.It'd passed pawns at bay, but evidently 27.hd5 exd5 be pretty easy to kick myself for the loss, this lesson hadn't sufficiently sunk blaming it on senility, for example. It'd in to my brain for me to realize it I had originally planned on 27... also be pretty easy to blame the loss on over the board. tLlxd5,but 28.tLle4100kedannoying. standard excuses like time pressure or ~ From time to time, we all 28.lIe2 lIe629.lIhe1 lIte830.1Wd3 being out of practice. For purposes of have to deal with being out of prac- lIxe2 31.lIxe2 lIxe2 32.1Wxe21Wd7 improving one's chess and for ensuring tice and getting into time pressure. that similar meltdowns don't happen in I didn't have any good active plan, Too often, I'm in the habit of but I thought I could defend the position the future, it's productive to identify the squandering thinking time if I root causes as objectivelyas possible. easily. Nevertheless, Mike presses hard know I have an easy enough posi- to make progress. I think my loss in this game can be tion that I can safely reach the time 33.tLlb1 tLle8 34.tLle3 tLle7 35.tLla4 attributed to a "perfect storm" of factors. control. Trouble is, sometimes the tLla8 36.tLle3 tLle7 37.1Wa4 1Wxa4 Remove anyone of those factors and I position isn't as easy as you think. 38.tLlxa4b5 39.tLle3f640.e2e6 think the point might have gone to me The time you squander early would 41. d3f642.tLle2 l' instead of to Ben. come in real handy if you suddenly ~ Ben played according to the found yourself having to make Trying for tLle2-e1-b3, forcing a4 "principle of infinite resistance." tough decisions. and a queensideweakness. Insteadof gettingdiscouragedyou Moral: Don't assume the only way 42...tLla8 43.tLle3 tLle744.a4 play the toughest moves you can to lose a piece-up ending is to hang a throw at your opponent. As long Rook, and don't wait to hit the jackpot of This surprised me. After 44...b4, a as he keeps failing to find the all weak factors in your play to cause a Knight retreat leaves no way for White movesthat convinceyou the posi- loss before you work on identifying and to make progress. At first, I was worried about 45.tLlb5. IfI had to retreat, I fore- tion really is hopeless, you keep correcting those weaknesses. putting him to the test. It's amaz- saw positions where his Knight was on ing what can happen when you do For the second half of the "Rowan's a7, with my King on d7 and my Knight this. I've won quite a few "hope- Believe It Or Not Show," let's move on on c7 and I'm in Zugzwang. Then I saw that 45...tLlxb5 looked like it won for less" games playing this way. to my game with Mike Pendergast. ~ Often when I achieve a win- Black. ningposition,Itry to winby "play- Queen SoIndian 44...b4 45.tLlb5 ing safe." The irony is that such a NM Michael Pendergast (2250) I had time so I checked carefully that strategy isn't very safe. Byavoid- LM Thomas Rowan (2176) I was now winning. ing somesharper but moreprecise Portland, Oregon Championship (5) 2005 lines,your advantagecan dissipate 1.d4 tLlf62.e4 e6 3.tLlt3 b6 4.tLle3 45...tLlxb5 46.axb5 e6 rapidly. This is mental laziness. ~ Overlooking24.tLle5ancl26... I don't remember ever facing this. In the square ofthe pawn. Looks like Aa6 are examples of that mental 4...Ab4 5.1We2Ab7 6.Ag5 h6 7.Ah4 an obvious win for Black. laziness. I could dismiss both as a5 47.e2a4 0-1 "oversights happen" (which they 7. ..g5 is probably better. do), but I think they're symptoms 8 8.a3 he3+ 9.1Wxe3 d6 10.e5 . . ...~ of a correctible bad habit. In both 7~ cases I think I relied too much on ... I had been worried about this, but it intuition and feel instead of look- 6 . ... ~ loses time just to weaken b6. ing at move sequences. I think I 5.~..... dismisseO'24.tLle5because of the 10...g5 11.exb6 exb6 12.Ag3 tLle4 4A~-- U~ ~ ~~ ~d 13.1We2 t5 14.e3 tLld7 15.tLld2 lIe8 . lineup of three of my pieces on a 3~.. m n d8u n 16.1Wd1 tLlxg317.hxg3 tLlf618.Ab5+ diagonal his bishop could reach f7 2~ D~. .~~ and because I had a safety net 1.. . . readywith 24.l:Ixb5. I didn't think I've got a solid position, but I don't a bed e f 9 h of 26...Aa6 because that piece see an active plan. was dead and harmless just a 19.t31We720.Ad3 g721.f2lIhf8 Mike resigned. Pressing hard to win, couple of moves ago. he simply overloo!<:ed47...a4. The White ~ Thinking two connected Hoping to be able to play ...tLle4+at King can only watch helplessly as the passed pawns should be an easy some point. Black King wanders over and munches win represents both lazy thinking 22.lIe1 1Wb823.1Wb3Ad5 24.1Wb5 White's pawn on b5. Movie Review So whyinclude,agame in my article that was fairly uneventful until White overpressed and blundered into a dead lost Game Over: King-and-pawn ending? A few hours after the game, I'm enter- ing it into my database while running Kasparov and the Machine CRAFTYinthe background. I notice some- 2003,85 minutes,directed by VikramJayanti, produced by HalVogel,co-produced thing odd. CRAFTYsaysit likes 45.CLlb5, by the NationalFilmBoard of Canada and the BritishBroadcastingCorporation, the very blunder that cost White the game. distributed by THINKFilm.DVDRetail$29.99. h also doesn't like my 45...tLlxb5 move. In 1997the chess world was shocked cluded is a wonderful shot of a car Chess engines sometimes misevaluate end- ~ when its champion Garry Kasparov lost screeching to a halt and Soviet World IDgSuntil they look deep enough to see an his rematch withthe mM computer DEEP ChampionAnatolyKarpov exitIDgitwith extra pawn turn into a Queen. BLUE,3.5-2.5. The documentary Game aplomb. This part also explains how I decided to let CRAFTYthink on it some Over: Kasparov and the Machine looks computers 'think' about chess and uses more while I got a snack and watched some at that match and its aftermath. The pri- Kasparov's famous Pepsi commercial TV. Strangely, CRAFTYstill didn't see that mary themes are duplicity and corporate (2001) to enhance the man vs. machine 45.CLlb5lost. I entered the remaining interests vs. the individual as well as the theme. GM Yasser Seirawan closes this moves and let CRAFTYthinkabout the fi- obvious man vs. machine. segment by talking about the 1996 nal position. The whispered,conspiratorial voice- Kasparov-DEEP BLUEmatch:."[T]here Youdo the same. Take a look at the over by FM Marc Ghannoum in the in- was.a gr~t d~ of cameradene. It w~ :finalposition. As White, what can you troduction points to these themes. all In thIs fnen~,ly at~osphere . . . play,otherthanresigning?. "[Kasparov] wasn't able to avenge him- Kasparov ad.ds, IBM Just showed up CRAFTYandFRITZprefer White in the self. It's just shattering for his abilities later on [dunng the 1996 match] when :finalposition,the samepositionbothplay- and confidence as a chess player. . . theyjust saw the tremendous response." ers were certainwas dead lost for White. Considerthis, 00, the daythat DEEPBLUE The next segment deals with the CRAFTY'Ssuggestedline, at:first, makes no beat Kasparov, mM's stock rose, I think, match conditions. Garry, in a pre-match senseto me. White's movelookspointless 15%." In addition,the opening shot is of press conference, avowed, "The single and Black's replylooksweak. Of course, The Turk, the 18th/19th century 'chess- key factor is that I have no information White's move will look good if Black playing machine' that was actually oper- about my opponent." Indeed,though the doesn't makethe obviousreply. . . ated by a human. Garry avers, "I felt match contract called for mM to provide like we were a bunch of amateurs Kasparov with DEEP BLUE'Spublic Finally, I realized that Black's obvi- challenging...challengffigthe...theterrible games, it turned out that all the games ous reply doesn't work. White's point- faceless monster." DEEPBLUEhadplayedagainst GMs were less move has a point. In the final position, Black isn't winning. He's fighting The film then proceeds to establish in private ~tche.s. GM Joel ~~jamin, for his life. I recommendyou try to fig- Garry's credentials both as a player and who descnbed hIs role as tr~nmg the ure out the right idea for White before as an opponentto communistcontrol In- computer to play closed posItIons, ex- reading the partial solution on page 31. . plained,"[Garry] wantedus to senda ver- I sion of ... of the program, but, well, you Having trouble seeing it? Good! 1"FOu paid know,if we did, he'sjust goIDgtobe more That makes me feel better. Remember, a $5.00 toUI""- aneat aneanbel'-, upset, because the computer is going to duringthe game we didn't have any chess I" sbip at the w.sbiag- change." Garry's agent, OwenWIlliams, engine on our shoulders whispering, toa Ope a, we tbaak confided,"I had a sensethat the rules had "Maybe you should look a little closer." 'FOu 101' 'FOUl' pal'ticipa- been changed. . . But Garry was so sure When the game ended, I was certain tioa, aDd hope 'FOu eajoy , it was about scienceand researchand the that I understood the essence of the final this issue 01 No1l'lAwve.t 1 Cbe.. anagaziae . To coa- good things in life. . ." position. What could be simpler than a tiaue l'eceiviag the anaga- The long middlegamedeals with the King-and-pawn ending? There are not _iDe 101' a lull yeaI' (11 match itself. Kasparov wins Game One even that many legal moves! anol'e issues), please Bead II( the balaace due 101' a easily.EvenBet1jaminremaIked,"The:first Discovering that I hadn't even lull-yeal' aneanbel'sbip , game DEEPBLUEplayedvery strangely. scratched the surface of a position I ($20 balaace 101' adults It ... it played a lot of moves that really thought I had understood was shocking 01' $12 101' iuaion) to surprised me and it certainlylookedbad." and disorienting. My reaction was the busiaess anaa- In Game Two, Kasparov drifts into a lost agel' addl'ess as. "Wow!Chess is a rich game!" Usted oa the ia- position, but sees a ray of hope: he offers I hopethat meansmy ~d is even side II'0at up material in order to initiate an attack more open to learning about chess than it covel' . on DEEPBLUE'SKing. wasbefore. . Continuedonpage 29 Northwest Chess Tune 2005 25 ,.I;

Matt's Musings Albin vs. Veresov

by Matthew Fleury feresov White has two pawns for the piece, and irritating chances based on Black's Clint Ballard (2040) n the FebruaryisssueofNorthwest weakened King position. Black tries to Matthew Fleury (2117) Chess, Bob Ferguson referred to exchange off the offenders. a game he played against me Bellevue, WAPremier (6) 2005 I 12...~f6 13.~f4! Ab414.~d5? where the Veresov opening was put 1.d4 d5 2.~c3 e5 3.dxe5 d4 4.~e4 to the test ITomthe very first moves. "d5 5.~g3 A good move followedby a bad one. White shouldtry to keep the stuff on. Black used a rare line very similarto One idea Mr.Ferguson and I lightly the AlbinCounter Gambit, which, in- kicked around during the post-mortem 14...~xd5 15.exd5 ~e7! 16.c3 Ad6 cidentally,has become popular again was an early ...h7-h5, attempting to dis- 17."f3 IiIf8!18."e2 d3! 19."h5+ g6 20."h4 "xb2 ~ due to the efforts of GMs Alexander rupt the White position with ...h5-h4, Morozevich and Hikaru Nakamura so... Queen raid #2 begins. (see the game Cloy-Gale ITom the 5...h5!? 21.IiId1 ttxa2 22.0-0 "xd5 23.~h7 Premier tournament). The entire "h5? game was: Probably not necessary, as Blackhas the solid and good 5...CtJc6. 23..J!f7 is more efficient,24.CtJf6+ feresov llxf6 25."xf6 .e5! 26."h4'.h5! and 6.e4 "xe5 7.~f3 "a5+ 8.Ad2 "b6 Matthew Fleury (2117) we will get the sameposition inthe game, Bob Ferguson (2191) 8...Ab4 is bad due to 9.CtJd4. with the exceptionthat Black getsto keep Lynnwood, Apropos #2 (2) 2004 9.Ac4 ~c6 his d3-pawn. 1.d4 d5 2.CtJc3e5 3.dxe5 d4 4.~e4 24."xh5 gxh5 25.~xf8 ~xf8 26. II II The sum of this early attack is that Ah6+ ~f7 27.iIxd3 I' I] 4.CtJb5is also possible Black has moved his Queen five times, 4..."d5 5.~g3 the h- pawn once, fallen behind in devel- Losing the hard-working and pre- opment, and weakenedhis kingside. The cious d3-pawn did bring a tinge of sad- ness. Fortunately, with two pieces for a a Z 4alL only plus horn Black's point of view is that the pawns on d4 andh5 control valu- }took and an outside passed pawn, the 7 !'i .-- ..-.d - able space, and, ifhis developmentcould game is won for Black nonetheless, 6.... be stabilized, Black would have a nice 27...Af5 28.iIf3 ~g6 29.Af4 ht4 5...D. position. 30.11xf4 ~d5 31.IiIf3 iIe8 32.h3 h4 33.c4 ~b6 34. IiIb3 iIe5 35. iIc 1 Ae6 10.Axf7+ 4.... 36. IiIb5 c5 37. iIcb 1 bc4 38. IiIxb6+ 3.. . ~~ axb6 39.iIxb6+ iIe6 40. IiIxb7 Ad5 ~~~~U ~f@i~~~ u . 2 . a ."'...4aI. 41.IiIb1 ~f5 42.IiIc1 c4 43.g3 hxg3 ..=i.~: 7 44.fxg3 IiIe3 45.g4+ ~f4 46.~f2 a bed e f 9 h ~.. .i.. iIxh3 0-1 6 . 5...CtJc6 6.e4 "xe5 7.~f3 "a5+ 5~.e . .. . . 8.Ad2 Ab4 9.a3 Axd2+ 10. "xd2 W ~ ~ ha~ISto be l~ed horn this? I, "xd2+ 11.~xd2 Draw ... .~~. forone,WIllbeshelvmg2.CtJc3,maybe 3.. ~?a1 .12 ~:U~?a1 forever. Black's chances in the 2..e5 White's best move of the game was 2 ~ D~. D~ variation appear to be good, almost too fue dm.v.r()ffettBt3.Ck.b.a£.~v.rifuSoseries 1, ..=. ..: good. Does this refute the Veresov? a bed e f 9 h Maybe, but playing devirs advocate tor of forced moves, very easily achieved "' equal chances, and, in fact, OM Jonny '" " a second, White.. may try 1.d4 d52. .£Ie..? . h I admi n Co Co. . .Thi S ISa s ow me move. t 1? ' e5 3 .e.., 3 gett mg mt 0th e ~eelSChi ager Hector has even won 110mthi s posltlon that fi t th ht th . ., Ulte.. my rs' oug. upon seemg eVarIatiOn .. of the French Defe nce (1.e4 a6 WIththe Black pIeces. This made q h fi t If "Ifthi ., . BIS op sacn ce 1se was s were r;-.. r;-.. . ~2!!lpr~~~o be sure, an..1l-.-2.e~e ~';-"'-.eg~d.""",-

by Peter Good The ability of the emotional subconscious mind to swamp the rational conscious mind has been explored by researchers from ost everyone in the chess community probably knows by Sigmund Freud to L. Ron Hubbard (founder of Scientology) to now that Garry Kasparov has retired from competitive Harvey Jackins (founder of Re-evaluation Counseling). Jackins M chess. "Chess is psychological warfare," he said, pre- sumably in explanation. concluded, "While hurting, physically or emotionally, our flexible human intelligence stops functioning." Part of the problem is that I got someinsight into psychological warfare in chess the other emotions are so easily restimulated, even by a word. .J day while reading in Adam Smith's Powers of Mind about the bio- On the one hand, strong emotions readily disrupt our ability to feedback and visceralleaming research of the 1960s and 70s. Ac- concentrate and choose wisely; on the other hand, the emotional cording to Smith, psychologist Barry Dworkin proposed that high subconscious mind is invaluable in a crisis, and when performing blood pressure (hypertension) was something we learn subcon- acts of skill. Hypnotherapist Milton Erickson went even further, sciously. Dworkin and his coworkers found that "a sudden rise in saying: "[I]t is very important for a person to know their uncon- bloodpressureproduces a decreasein general alertness," said Smith. scious is smarter than they are ... They have to be willing to let "Maybe these people learned early in life, unconsciously, that they their unconscious do things and not depend so much on their con- could tune out a disturbing stimulus by raising their blood pressure." scious mind. This is a great aid to their functioning." Remember, i~ too, the odds are good that in right-handed persons the subcon- Physiologists know that fear, anger, and anxiety all cause a scious mind resides in the visual and spatial right hemisphere. Do rapid rise in bloodpressure and heart rate. It's part of the fight-or- the greatest chessplayersknow how to make the most of this? flight response. NelVesof the sympathetic nelVoussystem release Chess becomes psychological warfare when tournament play- ! the transmitter norepinephrine (noradrenaline), which speeds up ers deliberately try to upset, irritate, or intimidate their opponents. the heart and constricts blood vessels allover the body, raising the Maybe they know that an agitated player is less effective. Even blood pressure. Sympathetic activation also causes the adrenal club players do this, in my experience. Clubs ought to recognize . glands to secretenorepinephrine together with epinephrine (adrena- that competition between members needs to be tempered by coop- line), which prolongs the blqod vessel constriction and accelerates eration in unifying enterprises, like matches with other clubs, group the heart even further. teaching, and community service. I know severalpeoplewith high blood pressure. They're highly How do we keep our thinking mind functional under stress, excitable, they talk incessantly, are always in motion. They're also free from distraction and disruption by our emotional mind? Ap- impulsive, careless, hot-headed, and make a lot of mistakes. * parently,keeping blood pressure down helps. Deepbreathing, medi- Funny, that sounds like me, especially when I'm playing chess, tation, calming music, self-hypnosis. . . years of Primal Therapy. though my blood pressure usually tests low. But, when I get angry, It also helps to remember that the real problem is not what some- I've felt heat at the back of my neck, and pressure between my eyes one says or does, but how we react to it. Easier said than done. (frontal sinuses). A final thought: Is Bobby Fischer just too angry to play great Dworkin and his coworkers found that the rise in blood pres- chess anymore? it sure induced by stress inhibits the central nelVous system (brain References: and spinal cord), reducing sensitivity to pain, and perhaps sensi- Smith, Adam (1975). Powers of Mind. NY: Random House. tivity to anxiety. That's why, when you're really angry, you don't Dworkin B. R., et at. (1979). "Baroreceptor activation reduces I feel afraid, and getting hit doesn't hurt. But people with hypertension are so excitable, it's hard to imagine that high blood pressure reactivity to noxious stimulation: implications for hyper- inhibits the mind. tension." Science 205 (4412):1299-301. Dworkin B. R., et at. (1994). "Central effects of baroreceptor I think the explanation is that the part of our brain that gets activation in humans: attenuation of skeletal reflexes and damped down when we're angry or scared or nelVous(or joyous!) pain perception." Proceedings of the National Academy is our conscious, thinking mind. From the body's point of view, of Sciences USA. 91:6329-33. that can make good sense. There is a time to think, and a time to Hubbard, LR (1978). Dianetics. Los Angeles: Bridge Publica- act without thinking. In an attack or an accident, fight-or-flight tions. -! can saveyour lift:.;indecision cankill you. Coaches train athletes to respond automatically to situations so that their responses be- Jackins H (1978). The Human Side of Human Beings. Seattle: comesecondnature. Aconcert pianist who suddenly began to think Rational Island Publishers. II aboutthe movements of his fingers could not continue. Erickson M. H., et at. (1976). Hypnotic Realities. The Induc- Likewise,a Grandmaster giving a simul knows how to move tion of Clinical Hypnosis and Forms of Indirect Sugges- without thinking in a variety of openings and endgames. Blitz tion. NY: Irvington Publishers. t players carrythis to an extreme. At other times, however, like the Note: restofus~grandmastersmust.calmlyas~esspositionsand.calculate . I would like to make one minor comment about this nicely written,schol- moves WIth great concentration. Getting angry or atlXlOUSdoes arly article. High blood pressure does not reveal itself in any identi- not help there. I suspect this is one reason won games are so hard flable personality traits. Most people with hypertension are unaware II to win. The player with the advantage gets excited, he can taste that they have the condition until they are diagnosed. Hypertension I victory, his blood pressure rises and turns down his thinking mind, is usually silent: its effects may not appearlor years. - August Piper, helosescautionandmakesanimpulsive,'thoughtless'move. M.D. Northwest Chess June 2005 27 ~

55-50-45-40-35-30 Years Ago JUNE 1965 in the pagesof In the B.C. Open, Duncan Suttles and Elod Macskasy tied at 4%. Clark Harmon won the 2nd Washington Chess Letter annual U ofW Chess Tourney, Kent Pullen was 2nd. The U of W and Portland State played as-board and Northwest Chess match to a 5-5 tie; U ofW beat a Fort Lewis team 3- 1 and a McNeil Island team 5-1. Dana Sudborough and Phil Dolph tied for 1st in 36-player Rouge Valley by Russell ("Rusty") Miller Open Championship. Oliver Morris and Vik Pupols were the top-rated postal players. JUNE 1950 Washington won the International Match, held JUNE 1970 this time in Mount Vernon: WA 16 - BC 12 on the This issue consisted solely of one page of tour- Class A boards and 14-4 on the B boards. Colville nament announcements. NWC Editor Willie Skubi ~ was the site of another Washington win over BC, 4- was unable to get the issue to Yakima for printing I 1. G.S.G. Patterson of the Seattle CC staged a 14-0 and mailing before the circulation director, WCF simultaneous exhibition at the Aberdeen CC. The President Russell Miller, was to leave on a two-week Tacoma CC was meeting at the USD at 13th and vacation. Fawcett. This issue was 18 pages. ~ JUNE 1975 JUNE 1955 Dan Bailey was editor for a 32-page issue of The International Match was to be held July 24 NWC. 320 players took part in a multi-section tour- at the Peace Arch in Blaine. Washington would try namentin Vancouver from May 17ththrough 25th. It, for its third straight win. Bob Edberg of Tieton won was the largest chess event to date in the North- a Yakima CC round-robin with +24=1-2. William west. The prize fund was $16,128. The open event Bills, current WA Champion won a 10-man speed was won by GM Paul Keres, an undefeated 8%-1 %, tournament at the Seattle CC. USCF ratings were with Elod Macskasy, GM Gyozo Forintos, and 1MJohn printed in this issue. Here is a sampling: Arthur Watson tied for 2nd_4thwith seven points apiece. Dake 2400, Victor Pupols 2027, Ivars Dalbergs Duncan Suttles had 6% in the 34-player field. Rob- 2014, Dan Wade 1909, Jim McCormick 1900, Ken ert Zuk won the Expert Section of 18 players. Nigel Mulford 1733, Oliver LaFreniere 1719, Vince Bricher Fullbrook won the 36-player A section with eight 1600, Joe Bricher 1550. McCormick is reported to points. Gary Burk won the 62-player B section, scor- have retired from chess at age 18. The American ing 8%, with William Schill, Matt Edwards, and Eric Chess Foundation was formed this year to provide Tangborn at 7%. Frank Szarka won the 88-player C sound financing for chess in the USA. Fred Howard section with 9% points. Paul Sontag won the D I won the West Seattle CC Championship. 18 pages Unrated section, scoring 8%. The event drew 151 in this issue. players from B.C., 33 from Washington, 17 from Or- egon and two from Idaho. Keres won $2670 for 1st JUNE 1960 and $8028 was awarded in the Open Section. The event is still being held on a smaller scale and is Vik Pupols won the Puget Sound Open over a called the Keres Memorial. field of 46 with a perfect 5-0. In 2nd spot was Rich- ard Schultz. Jim McCormick was third. The time Bruce Harper and Robert Chow won the B.C. control was 30 I 1, but then a petition was circulated Championship 6-3. The House of Chess in Portland calling for 50/2. The TD then amended the control had to close. Mike Schemm won the 27 -player Grants to 50/105 minutes. Pupols won the $40 first prize Pass Open 5-0 for $37.75. Allen Thompson won the by beating McCormick in round five with the Black Newport Open 4%-% over seven others. Rob pieces. Some other scores were: Oliver LaFreniere Hankinsori won the Yakima Spring Open 4%-%. Rob- 4-1, John Braley 3%, Dan Wade 3, Jerry Wolfe 2%, ert Stephenson won the Idaho Open, scoring 5-0 good Buz Eddy 2. Ivars Dalbergs won a USCF-rated In- for $225.00. Richard Vandenburg was 2nd in the terstate Open, 5-0. Don Turner won the unrated 58-player field. Allen Thompson won the Open Sec- section. WCF officers elected at the annual meeting tion of the Ellensburg Spring Open 3-0. There were were: Pres.-Max Mage, VP-Peder Husby, Sec.- 14 players. In the closed section, Joe Huffman won Charles Joachim, Tres.-W. Raleigh, Ed.-Dan Wade, 3-0. Vik Pupols won $87.50 for his 4%-% best score Pub.-John Braley, Postal/Circ.-RR Merk, TD-Buz in the 29-player Puget Sound Open held in Olympia. Eddy, Publicity-oliver LaFreniere, Rating Dir.-Rich- Paul Eggers and Randy Dean tied for 2nd at four ard Schultz. Mike Franett won the 20-player top points. Current U.S. Champion Walter Browne section of the USCF rated Idaho Open 4%-%. Jerry played a 35-board simultaneous at Boeing CC. Pat Wolfe won the B section of 12 players. Franett had Hessen and NW Rating Director Bruce Bailey beat , now played 24 tournament games without a loss. the OM, while Mike Spiegal drew. RiChaI1d Schultz Don Eilmes was the top rated postal player. was the top postal player. . 28 Tune2005 Northwest. Chess j Game Over conI 'd from page 25 gamepress conferencethat it was the first told his IBM collegues, "Look, you know, "GM-style" game played by a computer. this guy, he's shot, he's broken down. I don't think he can play much of a game B Garry became even more convinced ~ K~~."'~ ~. " ~ ~ that somethingwas amisswhenhe learned today." He was correct; Kasparov walked 7~... . -. of the missed draw. How could DEEP into a well-known opening trap. The 6 match ended 3Y2-2Y2in favor of DEEP . ~ ..~ ~ - ~1J1I BLUEplaythe subtle 37th move and yet BLUE. 5~'~8.8~= allow a simpleperpetual? He demanded D'~ ~.. to see printouts of the game log. IBM IBM never turned over any of DEEP I~ 3 ~ D ~ ~ 8 refused. In the press conference after BLUE'Slogs, nor was Kasparov given the 2 J::t~.i.~.~. Game Three, Garry made a veiled allu- chance for a rematch. Instead, DEEPBLUE 1 .d...... ~ ~W4 sion to cheating, saying that Game Two was shut down and dismantled. ~ - !a bed e f 9 h reminded him "of Maradona's goal that The documentary is well done and Instead of going for 37.!Vb6, DEEP he scored against England in '86 . . . maintains dramatic tension, for the most BLUEchose, after long thought, 37.Ae4! [Maradona]said it was the hand of God." part. The codas-a triumphant Kasparov This move, so antithetical to the computer During the nextthree games, accord- at the end of the 2002 Bled Olympiad and programs Garry was familiar with, ingtoYasser,"Garry gets bigadvantages, a vaquished Kasparov at the end of the caused great consternation. Even today, he doesn't capitalize on any of them, and mini-match against Anatoly Karpov in Garry asserts that, because of the seem- Garry's level of frustration is going up New York-add little to the overall ef- ingly heightened value placed upon King and up and up until it's really beyond the fect. If you demand a definitive answer safety in Game Two, "[I]t's absolutely ceiling." IBM's control over all aspects to whether IBM and the DEEP BLUE clear that Game One and Game Two were of the match, helpedincreasethe psycho- cheated, you won't find it in this film. " played by different computers." Garry logical pressure on Garry. "Everyday it But if you want to see the effect of the was so vexed that he missed a draw by was somethingnew," said Garry's agent. match on Kasparov and want to learn perpetual check after 45.IiIa6? DEEP entry passes were changed, journalists what he felt he was up against, you should BuJE's programmers and GM Benjamin thrown out, DEEPBLUEcrashed,etc. Be- enjoy this film. were elated. The latter said in the post- fore the sixth and final game, Benjamin * * * out oflive. . Another Game from the Inland Empire Open

I had to win this game to gain rating 12...c6 13.~d5 exd5 14.ba5 dxe4 changed significantlywiththe removalof points overall and take 1stplace in the C 15.dxe4~c516.ile1 ~e617.g3 ~g5 the Queens. Black no longer has an iso- Class section. 18.Ag2 "e6 lated pawn, nevertheless the pawn is - slightly overextended relative to the po- Thereis pressureon mykingside,but, Petroff sitioning of the Kings. Adam Attwood as daunting as it appears, I have enough Steve Brendemihl resources to hold the position. My dark- 31. IiIf2 iIxf2 32.\txf2 ~e5 33.Af1 g5 squaredBishopjust needsa one-movelull 34.hxg5 hxg5 35.\tg3 ~g6 36.Ad3 Spokane, Inland Empire Open (5) 2005 ~e5 Annotations by Adam Attwood in Black's activity to come to d2 and aid 1.e4 e5 2.~f3 ~f6 3.~c3 Ab4 4.d3 in solidifying the kingside. What I gave Better for Black would have been d6 5.h3 Ae6 6.Ad2 ~bd7 7.a3 Aa5 up in immediateinitiative,I havebalanced 36...~f4; keeping the position more with my Bishop pair. double-edgedand slowingthe potency of Here was my chance to force my op- 19.94 d5 20.exd5 /l)xd5 21.lLd2 ~f4 my Bishop.Butwith36...~e5, I can now ponent to give up the Bishop pair, and I 22.Axt4 IiIxf4 use my pawn majority on the kingsideto seized the opportunity despite the possible full effectiveness immediately and gain In the impendingend game, I consid- threat developed against my kingside with the decisive opposition and tempo with the partially opened f-file that will result ered my Bishop to be slightly better than my King and Bishop. from the necessitated recapture. Black's Knight. Plus, Black now has a weak, isolatedpawn. Black's consolation 37.f4 gxf4+ 38.\txf4 ~f7 39.Ac4 8.ttJg5 h6 9.~xe6 fxe6 10.Ae2 0-0 \tg7 40.Axt7 \txf7 41.\te5 \tg6 42. 11.0-0!Ve712.Af3 is pressure on the kingside, but I act quickly to neutralize the threats. \txd4 \tg5 43.\tc5 \txg4 44.\td6 I was \)rotecting the e-\)awn and set- ~f5 45.~c7 ~e6 46.~xb7 ~d6 47. 23.h4 ~f7 24. ne4 nd8 25."e2 nd4 ~xa7 ~c7 48.c4 c5 49.b4 ~c6 50. ting u\) for "\3.tUdSto achieve m)Timme- 26.nxd4 nxd4 27.f3 "d6 28.ilf1 \ta6\tc751.b5 1-0 . diate goal of gaining the Bishop pair IiId2 29.ffc4 ffd4+ 30.!Vxd4 exd4 against two Knights in an ever-opening I considered move 29 the critical PIII18labBlncbal.- oIaddral position, because eventually the center ProllPIIJ101118Ballnlll Manl._. would be broken open. point of the game. Endgame strategy has Northwest Chess Tune 2005 ?Q ..

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Dortner 253-535-2536 [email protected] Fb21 PCC Sunday Quads Neil Dale 503-256-5233 [email protected] www.aboutchess.org Port1and, OR Fb27 PCC Game-in45 Neil Dale 503-256-5233 [email protected] www.aboutchess.org ooPort1and,OR Fb27 SCC Saturday Quads sec Infoline 206417-5405 [email protected] www.seattiechessclub.org Seattle WA 27-28 Spokane City Championship (Inv) Dave Griffin 509-928-3260 [email protected] www.spokanechessclub.org Spokane WA Fb27-28 Great Auntie's Open Dave Griffin 509-928-3260 [email protected] www.spokanechessclub.org Spokane WA Fb28 SCC Sunday Tornado SCC Infoline 206417-5405 [email protected] Seattle WA 29 TCC Rapid Transit (10 sec./move) G. DodDer253-535-2536ggarychesl@aol.comwww.tacomachessclub.netfirms.oom..oo..Tacoma WA September 2005 Fb3-5 Oregon Open OCF Pres. Jerry Ramey 541-232-0328 [email protected] """""""""""""""""""""""" Site TBA 9,16 Tacoma CC Gambit Tmt G.Dorfuer253-535-2536ggarychess@aol.oomwww.tacomachessc1ub.netfirms.oom Tacoma WA 10 G/60 Open & Novice #3 G. Dortner 253-535-2536 [email protected] 10 SCC Novice SCC Infoline 206417-5405 [email protected] Seattle WA Fbl0 SCC Saturday Quads SCC Infoline 206417-5405 [email protected] Seattle WA Fbll PCC Sunday Quads Neil Dale 503-256-5233 [email protected] www.aboutchess.org Portland OR NOTE: A 'Fb' in front of the date indicates a Christopher Memorial Northwest GP event A 'g' in front of the date indicates an Island GP event. A 'm' in front of the date indicates a Vancouver Seasonal GP event. Events listed in boldface type have tournament announcements (in our Future Events Section) or display advertisements elsewhere in this issue Scholastic Events June 2005 18 Chess Odyssey Fresh Air Blitz Pete 503-504-5756 [email protected] www.chessodyssey.com Hillsboro OR 21 Hot Summer Chess I Randy Kaech [email protected] http://mysite.verizon.net/-kaech Bellingham WA July 2005 9 8 Sizzling Summer Open Kate Taylor 503-728-3754 [email protected] Clatskanie OR 19 Hot Summer Chess II Randy Kaech [email protected] http://mysite.verizon.netJ-kaech Bellingham WA August 2005 6 Chess Odyssey Summer Olympics (K-12) Pete 503-504-5756 [email protected] Portland OR 9 Hot Summer Chess III Randy Kaech [email protected] http://mysite.verizon.net/-kaech Bellingham WA 14 8 1st Soccer-Season Scholastic Q:l (K-12) Sudhakar (503)430-5744 www.aboutchess.org Portland OR 30 Hot Summer Chess IV Randy Kaech [email protected] http://mysite.verizon.net/-kaech Bellingham WA September 2005 18 Chess Odyssey Fresh Air Blitz Pete 503-504-5756 [email protected] www.chessodyssey.com Hillsboro OR 18 82nd &xx:er-SeasonScholasticQ:l(K-12) Sudhakar (503)430-5744 www.aboutchess.org Portland OR NOTE: A ' 8 ' in front of the tournament name indicates an OSCF qualifYing tournament For scholastic summer chess camps, see page 22