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Illinois Chess Bulletin Volume 28, Issue 3 May June 2005 Illinois Chess Bulletin Volume 28, Issue 3 May June 2005 Colene Hoose Chess Club 2005 I NSIDE T HIS I S S U E 13 Colene Hoose CC 2005 21 2005 ICA Denker Qualifier 27 Polgar Qualifier 28 2005 ILL Scholastic Championship About the Illinois Chess Bulletin and the Illinois Chess Association The USCF 2005 Election “I love chess, especially what it does for children, and I believe chess is the only pure (untainted) sport for children – the future of our country. “I know how to make a business succeed, I know how to work harmoniously with others and I’ve made enough money to give chess the amount of time it deserves. “One thing I’ve learned in business is that if you don’t evolve you become irrelevant.” -- Joel Channing We, the undersigned, urge USCF members to vote for Joel Channing, a very successful business man and chess aficionado who will bring his tremendous business experience and know-how to the Executive Board table: GM Arthur Bisguier, Dean of American Chess Dale F. Frey, Treasurer, General Electric (ret.) and Chairman of the Board of General Electric Investments (ret.) World Champion GM Susan Polgar Erik Anderson, President AF4C GM Yasser Seirawan, Three-time US Champion & 1979 World Junior Champion Allen Kaufman, Former Executive Director Chess-in-the-Schools Dan Lucas, President Chess Journalists of America Bill Goichberg, USCF Executive Director 2003/04 Don Schultz, USCF Secretary & Board Contact Int’l Affairs Mike Cavallo, USCF Executive Director 1996 to 1999 Dr. Frank Brady, Founder Chess Life Magazine Franc Guadalupe, President Florida Chess Assn. John Donaldson, US Olympiad Team Captain Paul Truong, Team Captain & Manager 2004/05 US Women’s Team Harvey Lerman, Editor floridaCHESS Jon Haskel, Co-chair USCF Finance Committee Carol Jarecki, Co-author USCF Official Rules of Chess Robert Tanner, FIDE Zonal President for USA Dr. Joe Wagner, USCF Executive Board Member Fabio La Rota, 2004/05 US Senior Champion Ballots and mailing instructions will be attached to the June issue of Chess Life. 2 Illinois Chess Bulletin Table of Contents Table of Contents On the Cover Colene Hoose Chess Club had a President great year! Read about it on page 13 Bill Brock 205 W. Randolph, Suite 400 Chicago, IL 60606 President’s Podium ....................................................5 (312) 252-1300, x12 [email protected] Rest in peace Scott Silverman……………………… ...6 Metro Vice-President ICB Games / FM Chow………………………………....8 Les Bale 2121 Halsey Drive Colene Hoose Chess Club……………………………13 Des Plaines, IL 60018 Tactics (Clearance)…………………………………… 15 (847) 813-1956 [email protected] Road Warrior… ........................................................18 Downstate Vice-President 2005 ICA Denker Qualifier.………………….. ...........21 Chris Merli 1206 Watersedge Road Polgar Qualifier ……….............................................27 Champaign, IL 61822-8100 Illinois State Scholastic Championship…………. .....28 (217) 778-3334 [email protected] A Youth Perspective…………. .................................31 Secretary Twin City Chess Club………………………………….37 Richard Easton St Charles Chess Club ………………………………..38 Treasurer Position open Potzering away in Peoria…………………………… ..39 Membership Secretary On Opening Preparation……………………………….40 Jeff Smith 19439 Lakeside Lane ICA News Bloomington, IL 61704 309-378-2078 ICA Rules Tour & ICA Ex Urban Tour..…………… ..33 [email protected] ICA Supporters.........................................................45 ICA Tour Statistician Mark Engelen Where to Play [email protected] Tournament Calendar ..............................................42 CHESS PHONE Chess results & announcements Affiliate Listing ..........................................................43 (630) 832-5222 WORLD WIDE WEB http://www.illinoischess.org 3 Illinois Chess Bulletin About the Illinois Chess Bulletin and the Illinois Chess Association Illinois Chess Bulletin Published six times per year Advertising Rates Copyright © 2005 Illinois Chess Association Back Cover: $125 st Inside Front: $115 Next Deadline: June 1 2005 Full Page: $100 1 /2 Page: $65 Submissions 1 /3 Page: $50 1 Send contributions to: /4 Page: $40 1 Colley Kitson /8 Page: $25 428 N Grant There is a $20 design charge for ads that are not cam- Clinton, IL era-ready. Allow 7 days for design. Allow additional 61727 time if ad proofing is required. ICA affiliates receive a ⅓ discount and ads that appear in consecutive issues [email protected] receive a 10% discount. Payment must accompany Electronic submissions are preferred. Preferred the ad. The ICA and the ICB reserve the right to re- format for articles, stories or advertisements is Micro- fuse any specific advertisement. soft Word. Membership Information Game submissions are also preferred in electronic The Illinois Chess Bulletin (ICB) is published by the format. Games should be submitted in ChessBase Illinois Chess Association (ICA). ICA membership in- archive format (.cbv) or in pgn. ChessBase 8 will cludes a subscription to the ICB. Memberships automatically send archive format if you e-mail from marked 1 st receive their magazine first class. Mem- ChessBase 8. In earlier versions of ChessBase you berships marked P also receive a plaque. Affiliates may archive a database to create a single file to e- also receive discounted advertising rates, event adver- mail. See your help materials. tising on Chess Phone and the ICA website, and the If you need a simple program to create pgn files most right to run Tour events. chess databases will also produce text files in pgn for- Corporate $500 1st Class & Plaque mat, as will many chess playing programs. The main Organization $200 1st Class & Plaque font for the ICB is Arial, as well as the Figurine Aries Business $200 1st Class & Plaque font and the US Diagram font from ChessBase. Century Club $100 1st Class st Editorial Staff Gold Card $50 1 Class Patron $35 1st Class Managing Editor: Colley Kitson Affiliate $25 Affiliate benefits Games Editor: Albert Chow Regular $18 Assistant Games Editor: Angelo Young Junior $14 Family $6 No magazine Contributors FM Albert Chow, Mark Engelen, Pete Karagianis, Ilya Korzhenevich, Dennis Bourgerie, Bill Brock, FIDE Master Albert Chow Accepting games for the ICB Brad Rosen, Chris Merli, Sevan Muradin, Igor Games can be sent to: Khmelnitsky, Charlie Bates. Albert Chow 3513 N Seminary, Chicago 60657. 773-248-4846, [email protected] . 4 Illinois Chess Bulletin President’s Podium President’s Podium Speaking of impressive juniors, I enjoyed Josh’s Dubin’s notes to his game from the Illinois State Scholastic Here’s a beautiful study, one that my friend Scott Championships elsewhere in this issue. Adults would Silverman would have enjoyed: do well to emulate Josh’s thinking technique: don’t worry so much about variations, just look for good squares for cuuuuuuuuC your pieces! {wdwdwdwi} ******* Because of unforeseen personal circumstances, Mike {0wdpdwdP} Maloney has resigned as ICA Treasurer. We thank Mike for his service and hope to have the position filled {wdwdwdPd} by the time this issue is in your hands. Even so, we {dwdwdwdw} still need volunteer help in several areas. If you have the time and the inclination, please don’t hesitate to {wdwdwdwd} contact Downstate VP Chris Merli or me. ******* {dwdwdwdw} Last issue, I promised a rollout of chess content on the ICA website. This rollout has been delayed—but it is {wdwdwdwI} coming. Please bear with us! {dwdwdwdw} As always, ICA members are encouraged to send their vllllllllV feedback (both complaints and compliments) to me at [email protected] . We don’t know what we’re Zinar and Archakov, Kliborob Ukrain , 1986 doing wrong unless you let us know! White to play and win ******* News Flash! The Chicago Open (with $100,000 in guaranteed prizes!) will not be held at the Hyatt Re- I last ran into Scott on April 17; he was a fellow kibitzer gency Oak Brook! It will be held at the former Hyatt at the Spring 2005 FIDE Invitational. Scott died yester- Regency Oak Brook, now known as the “ Doubletree day, April 22, shortly after an upset win in the first round Hotel Chicago Oak Brook .” The hotel has a new lo- of the Illinois Classic. He loved the game with a pas- cal phone number: (630) 472-6000 . Bill Goichberg sion—an amateur in the highest sense of the word— tells us that if you call the Hyatt national number and and this kind, good-natured man was a dear friend to ask for help, they won’t. See you there May 27-30!! many of us. Today we push pawns; someday we’ll all be pushing ******* daisies. How we treat other people in the time given to Our good neighbors at State Farm’s corporate head- us determines our legacy. quarters are providing the facilities for our next board ******* meeting, Sunday, June 5, 2005. Officers will discuss Congratulations to Kayin Barclay of Whitney Young top-secret (yawn) matters from 1:00 until 1:30 p.m., High School for his convincing win of the 2005 Illinois then the general board meeting (open to all ICA mem- High School Individual Championship and Denker bers) begins at 1:30 p.m. As always, we’ll adjourn no Qualifier. While pre-tournament favorites Jason Dun- later than 4:00 p.m. can and Chris Nienart were not in top form, my im- State Farm Corporate HQ pression was that there were another half dozen Conference Room SA 413 players in this year’s field who were strong enough to 1 State Farm Plaza, Bloomington stay with the top seeds throughout the tournament. Please join us—I could use your advice! Patrick Lacey of Mundelein’s Carmel High School proved that a tie for second in the Denker Qualifier is not chopped liver. Despite being paired up five times, Pat scored an undefeated 5.5/7.0 in the top section of Solution: Supernationals. Had he won his last round game, 1.Kg3! a5 2. Kf4! a4 3. Ke5! Réti’s famous dis- Pat may well have won the national title on tiebreaks. covery in a new setting.
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