TEXAS KNIGHTS The official publication of the Texas Chess Association Volume 57, Number 1 P.O. Box 151804, Ft. Worth, TX 76108 Sept-Oct 2015 Southwest Open! IM Andrey Gorovets - Winner of the Southwest Open Table of Contents From the Desk of the TCA President ................................................................................................................... 4 TCA Meeting Minutes (Tabled Motions on page 29) ........................................................................................... 6 81st Annual Southwest Open ........................................................................................................................... 10 Tactics Time! by Tim Brennan (answers on page 18) .................................................................................. 15 Leader List ....................................................................................................................................................... 16 Touch and Move! by WCM Claudia Muñoz ....................................................................................................... 19 2015 Denker Tournament by NM Akshay Malhotra........................................................................................... 22 Coach’s Corner, e4! by Robert L. Myers ............................................................................................................ 24 Member Submissions ....................................................................................................................................... 28 Upcoming Events ............................................................................................................................................. 30 facebook.com/TexasChess texaschess.org TEXAS CHESS ASSOCIATION www.texaschess.org President: Lakshmana Viswanath, 2009 Manzanares Dr., Laredo, TX 78045; [email protected]. Vice-President: Forrest Marler, [email protected]. Secretary: Lori Balkum, [email protected]. Treasurer: Barb Swafford, 2709 Longhorn Trail, Crowley, TX 76036-4719; [email protected]. Editor: Jeff French, P.O. Box 151804, Ft. Worth, TX 76108; [email protected]. Webmaster: Peter Kappler, [email protected]. Tournament Clearinghouse: Lori Balkum, [email protected] Texas Chess Association is a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit corporation dedicated to promoting chess in Texas. Membership Dues (annual): Regular $10, Family $15. Non-subscribing: $5. Patron: $25. Family Patron: $30. Junior (18 and under) or Student: $7.50. Lifetime Regular: $200. Lifetime Patron: $500. Foreign: Canada and Mexico $12.50, Others $17.50. Club: $25. Scholastic Club: $10. Foreign Club: $40. Ad rates: $50/page, $35/half, $20/quarter (Club membership includes 1 free quarter-page ad a year), $1/line. Send to TCA Treasurer, 2709 Longhorn Trail, Crowley, TX 76036-4719. Give name, address, city, state and zip code; also phone and e-mail (optional). Contributions beyond membership fees are tax deductible. TCA Hall of Honor Selby K. Anderson Peter Kappler Luis Salinas Ruben Arzaga R. Lynn Leone Family Gary Simms Clarence Callaway, Jr. Patrick C. Long Clayton Swafford Family Michael E. Carpenter Mark E. McCue James Thames George W. Church, Jr. Dale McLemore Rodney J. Thomas Renate Garcia Family George A. Mota Harmon Throneberry Rusty Harwood Marcus Roberts Louis Thurston James Houghtaling Jr. Lakshmana Viswanath Family Contributors: Tim Brennan, Oren Eliezer, Akshay Malhotra, Mark McCue, Claudia Muñoz, Robert Myers Cover photo: Barb Swafford Game annotations if not attributed, are a collaboration of Jeff French and Deep Fritz 14. All contents of Texas Knights ©2015 by the Texas Chess Association, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any way without express consent of the editor. Submission deadline for next issue: November 10th! Send submissions by e-mail to [email protected], or mail to P.O. Box 151804, Ft. Worth, TX 76108 (please include contact information). 2 From the Desk of The Editor Hello, With any luck, you are reading this issue a little earlier than usual. The submission deadline has been backed up by 5 days with the goal of getting it printed and into your hands no later than the first week of the month delivered (October this time). The contributors have been great about meeting the new deadline and I thank them for their compliance. Hopefully there hasn’t been any complications added to their schedules. This issue contains a lot of TCA business. Everything from Meeting Minutes (which includes Election and Survey results) and Tabled Motions to a Request for Proposal. We do, of course, have some fun stuff included as well. Tim Brennan has provided the next installment of Tactics Time! We have a new Touch and Move! from WCM Claudia Muñoz, with a very import message. We have a new article from Coach Robert Myers … his column is now called Coach’s Corner, e4! In addition, we have Results and Games from this year’s Southwest Open as-well-as an article and game from our representative (NM Akshay Malhotra) at this year’s Denker Tournament. Finally, we have a new feature added to Texas Knights called Member Submissions. This is a portion of our magazine set aside specifically for TCA Members to submit their games and, if wanted, member analysis for publication into our magazine. If you don’t provide analysis for the game, I will put your submission through a computer analysis and publish it with your sub- mission. If you provide limited analysis (annotations, etc.), I may also include the computer analysis. It depends on space available. I will also send any games that you submit to Tim Brennan for possible future Tactics Time! puzzles (but it is ultimately up to Tim whether or not he uses them or not). Of course, it depends on participation whether this feature continues. Thanks again to all contributors and a big thank you to all that participated in the Survey and the Election (whether candidate or voter). Enjoy the issue. With luck, you should see the next issue around the first week of December. — Jeff French 3 From the Desk of the TCA President Hello everyone, I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who participat- ed in the elections and those who voted for me again as the President. I am looking forward to another productive chess year. The TCA bylaws had been changing over a period of time. Thanks to David Harvey, Luis Salinas and Forrest Marler, all those changes/ updates were incorporated and a new version was placed on TCA web- site. Please take some time to read through the updates. If you have comments please let me know. Please understand that these changes have already been voted on and approved in the previous years. Please also take some time to read the meeting minutes. Several tabled motions will be finalized during the next Spring meeting. The SWO went very well. Our next major event is the grade championships in October 23-25 to be held in Houston. Until next time. Vish Request for Proposal Texas Chess Association is requesting Southwest Open tournament bid proposals (RFP's). TCA usually awards its premier Southwest Open for the Labor Day weekend. In 2017 TCA would like to convert the open section into a FIDE rated Norm tournament. Any bidder may submit two separate bids: 1) Requesting NO financial responsibility from TCA. 2) Requesting PARTIAL financial responsibility from TCA. In either case, TCA expects submission of the following details: section breakdowns, prize funds distribution, entry fee information, location, indemnity information, hotel rates, organiz- er information, backroom TD experiences and proposed floor TD levels. If TCA participation is required/anticipated, profit/loss sharing details are expected. Bids are due on or before November 30, 2015 and need to be electronically submitted to the TCA President, [email protected]. Texas Chess Association reserves the right to accept/reject any or all bids or work with the winner and make amendments as deemed fit. 4 TCA Treasurer’s Report - August 31, 2015 Income Expenses September memberships $75.00 Region 10 Start-up Chess Sets $500.00 October memberships $10.00 Texas State Amateur Trophy Cub $163.00 November memberships $50.00 Texas Masters Tournament $850.00 December memberships $57.50 Texas Knights Sept-Oct 2014 $872.72 January memberships $10.00 Texas Knights Nov-Dec 2014 $873.34 February memberships $250.00 Texas Knights Jan-Feb 2015 $880.19 March memberships $142.50 Texas Knights Mar-Apr 2015 $870.57 April memberships $410.00 Texas Knights May-Jun 2015 $915.01 May memberships $60.00 Texas Knights July-Aug 2015 $930.51 June memberships $60.00 Insurance $315.00 July memberships $30.00 Ballot Expenses $200.00 August memberships $245.00 Hotel for Barber Qualifier Playoff $382.94 2014 SW Open memberships $469.00 Barber Qualifier player travel reimbursement $400.00 2014 Texas Girls State Championships $70.00 Legal Fees $3,570.00 2014 Texas Grade & Collegiate memberships $309.00 Affiliates Dues (2 years) $80.00 2015 Texas Masters memberships $46.00 2014 Denker Representative - Austin Jiang $300.00 2015 Texas Team Chess Championships $145.00 World Junior Chess in India - Claudia Munoz $500.00 2015 Texas Scholastic Chess Championships $2,945.00 Total $12,603.28 2015 Texas State & Amateur Chess memberships $536.00 Region 2 Scholastic Chess Championships $71.00 Region 3 Scholastic Chess Championships $180.00 Region 5 Scholastic Chess Championships $192.00 Region 6 Scholastic Chess Championships