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Letter to the EditorStephen Christopher

I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of StephenChristopher.

I first met Mr. Christopher, as I knew him then, in 1969in the Bothell High School library. The Bothell High Schoolchess team he coached was hosting the Redmond High Schoolteam I played for. I remember noticing that he had far morechess equipment than his team'could ever use. Curiosity gotthe better of me, and I asked him why he had so much equip-ment. I don't remember his exact words, but the answer boileddown to: because someone might need it.

Not too long after that chess match, I got a call from Mr.Christopher. Did I want to play in a chess tournament in Se-attle that weekend? He said he'd be happy to pick me up andgive me a ride if I did.

That's how my life in tournament chess started. Early inthe morning of January 1, 1970, a nice man who barely knewme drove many miles out of his way through the back roadseast of Redmond to give me and another student a ride to ourfirst chess tournament.

That first trip and the other rides he gave me don't explainthe fond memories I have ofhim, however. I think the fondmemories come from a lot of little things I observed over theyears: generosity that never seemed to be accompanied by anexpectation of getting something in return.

That kind of generosity is rare. It makes those who re-ceive it feel special. It makes them feel like it's natural to helpothers and expect nothing in return.

It's how you treat family, and I think that's how Stephenviewed the chess community.

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On the Cover: GM Emil Anka of Hungary (L) and GMVitaliGolod of Israel (R). Photo courtesy of Clark Harmon.

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GM's Dominate Dake MemorialGM Golod and GM Anka score 7Y2out of 9

by NM Clark Harmon

The2004 Arthur Dake Memorial 1MTournament was played June 5-13 at USFiberglass, Inc. offices in McMinnville, Oregon. The ten-player event broughttogether five foreign and five USA players in what was the strongest tourna-

ment ever in Oregon. Two GMs, one 1M and four FMs competed in the round robinevent honoring Oregon's only GM, Arthur bake, who passed away in 2000 at theage of 90. GM Vitali Golod from Israel led most of the way when Hungarian GMEmilAnka was held to an early draw by FM David Roper. However, Roper's drawagainst Golod in the eighth round put the race in a dead heat. The last round sawAnka and Golod, each having seven points, face off for the win. However, a decisiveresult was not to be and a hard-fought draw resulted.

In third place, with five points, was Seattle FM Dave Roper. Fourth and fifthplace went to 'drawing' master, 1M Nikolai Andrianov of Russia and Portland'sNick Raptis, each with 4Y2points. The pre-tournament favorite to score 6Y2 pointsand thereby gain an 1M norm, California FM Dmitry Zilberstein , scored only fourpoints to tie with bottom-ranked Mike Stanford of Victoria, Be.

Rounding out the field, British Columbia's FM Jon Berry finished 8th with 3Y2points, McMinnville' s Clark Harmon 9th with 2Y2points, and FM Lester Van Meterof Indianapolis finished with 2 points.

There were several surprises in the tournament. Probably the biggest wasZilbeTstein's poor showing. The young FM was fourth ranked with a rating near2400, and looked a probable 1M norm qualifier. In the end, it was Roper who wasgoing for the norm, but late round losses to Raptis and Berry KO'd his hopes. Thebig ratings loser was 1MAndrianov, who drew every game. GM Anka, while chas-ing GM Golod for first place, compiled the biggest rating point gain with MikeStanford not far behind.

The Arthur Dake Memorial 1M, a ten-player round robin, is FIDE rated andsponsored and funded by US Fiberglass, Inc., and owners Clark and Sherry Harmon.Participation is determined by rating, title, and foreign status and is invitational.There must be six title holders and 40% foreigners to be classed as an InternationalTournament. Grisha Alpernas directed. It is planned to be a regular event.

9...cxb4 10.axb4 d5 11.c5 as 12.

bxa5 bxc5 13.'i¥a4 is a very interestingposition for me. Probably equal, but Ilike Black's chances.

10.Ab2 Ae7 11.IiIc1 0-0 12.dxe5dxe5 13.b5

Queen s IndianLM Clark Harmon (2184)NM Michael Stanford (2176)

McMirmville,DakeMemorlal (1) 2004Annotationsby NM Michael Stanford1.d4lt)f6 2.e4

2.lt)f3 e6 3.Af4 is what Clark hasplayed many times before.2...e6 3.lt)f3 a6 4.lt)e3 e5 5.e3

5.d5 exd5 6.cxd5 d6 is the kind ofstuffl thought he'd play for. 6...b5100kslike more fun, though.5...b6 6.a3 Ab7 7.Ad3 d6

My plan after 5.e3 was to steer thegame into a Sicilian-Kan-type position.8.0-0 It)bd7 9.b4 !le7

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This's a very interesting position.spent a fair amount of time trying to decide how I should continue.

13... IiIad8

13...a5 is probably one of the weakeof the "decent-looking"moves, becausjit'll give Clark all the time he needs tcbuild up an attack on the kingside (sinathe queenside's locked up). 13...Ad6 i:stronger than the text, e.g., 14.h3 Axt:15.gxf3 iLe5 16.bxa6 IiIxa6with a slighadvantage for Black.

14.bxa6 hf3 15.gxf3

15.tYxf3, which, at first glance, lookpretty terrible, is actually quite good! 1'(missed move 16 in my calculations (15..'DeS 16.'i¥g3! IiIxd3 17.'Db5 !ic8).

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15. ..'De5 looks good, but, sadly, iloses to 16.'Db5 .b8 17.a7.

16..e2

Better is 16.!ia4 IiIa8 (16...'Db8!:17.'Db5 !ixa6 18.!ixa6'Dxa6 19. I!fd1g6 20.Ae5 I!d7) 17.'Db5 tYxa6 18!ixa6 IiIxa6 19.IiIfd1 I!d8 20.I!d~'Db8 21.iLe5 'Dc6 22.Ac7 I!d7 23IiIcd1 g6.16...!lxa617.f4

I believe that this's a good move,be.cause White must act quickly to preven;me from repositioningmypiecestoo eas.ily. Another choice is 17.'Db5!?

17...g6

17...'Db8 18.'Db5 I!d7 19.I!cd1I!fd820.f5;t:;

18.\Wf3'Dh519.IiIfd1\We8 20.e4 \WeE21.Ae2'Dg7

21...Af6is a moveI hadn't reall)thought about, because my idea behincthese last few moves was to play...f5 a1some point.22.lt)b5'Df6

I don't remember why I wimped ou1and didn't play 22...f5 23.e5 'Db8!?, ]guess I figured this was decent.

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23.Ad3 might offer White a fewmore winning chances.23...Axf6 24.eS 1Wxf3 2S.hf3 Ae726.liJa7 lIxdH 27. lIxd1 lIdS 2s.lDbSlIxdH 29.hd1

I think Black has better chances in

this position. It's not easy to win, be-cause White has such a strong Knight andmy Bishop is kinda stuck (b- and c-pawnsin the way).29...<j}fS

29...tiJfS 30.Ag4 tiJd4 31.<j}g2 (31.a4 hS 32.tDxd4 cxd4 33.Ae2 f6 34.

<j}g2) 31...tiJxb5 32.cxb5 c4 33.a4 islikely a draw, but looks like an interest-ing endgame to try out. I opted to avoidthis 'cause of the drawish look.

30. <j}g2 <j}eS 31. <j}f3 <j}dS 32. <j}e4tlJeS 33.Aa4 Ah4 34. <j}f3 Draw'

Schmid Benoni

FM Jonathan Berry (2255)1M Nikolai Andrianov (2446)

McMinnville, DakeMemorial (1) 2004

1.d4 tlJf6 2.tlJf3 cS 3.dS g6 4.lDc3lLg7 5.e4 0-0 6.Ae2 d6 7.0-0 e68.dxe6 Axe6 9.Af4 dS 1O.exdStiJxdS11.tiJxdS AxdS 12.e3 tlJe6 13.1We2lIe8 14.lIfd1 lLe4 1s.lIxdS he216.lIxaS lIxaS 17.AbS h6 1S.Ae3AfS19.he6 bxe6 20.lDeS lIbS 21.b3neS 22.g4Ag7 23.tiJe4 Draw

King s Indian ClassicalGM Vitali G,olod (2552)NM Nick Raptis (2262)

McMinnville,DakeMemorial (1) 2004

1.d4tlJf62.e4 g6 3.tlJe3lLg7 4.e4 0-0 5.tlJf3 d6 6.Ae2 e5 7.0-0 ltJe6 S.dStlJe7 9.b4 a5 10.Aa3 ltJd7 11.bxaSr!xaS 12.Ab4 lIaS 13.a4 lIeS 14.a5eS 1S.dxe6 tiJxe6 16.hd6 lIxaS 17.tlJdS r!xa11S.1Wxa1ltJf619.Ae7'8d720.lLb6ltJxe4 21.lId1 lIf8 22.1Wb1fS23.iLd3 ltJf6 24.AeS lIeS 2S.Ae2tlJxdS 26.exdS ltJd4 27.ltJxd4 exd42S.'ti'b4 lIe2 29.Ad3 lIa2 30.AbS1Wf?31.h3iLd7 32.lIe1 Af6 33.Ad3iLe8 34.1Wb6lIaS 3S.Ae4 AdS 36.1Wb2r!e8

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Sicilian Kan

FM Dmitry Zilberstein (2392)FM Lester Van Meter (2240)

McMinnville, DakeMemorial (1) 20041.e4 eS 2.ltJf3 e6 3.d4 exd4 4.ltJxd4a6 S.lDe3 bS 6.Ad3 '8'b6 7.lDb3 '8'e7S.o-o Ab7 9.'8'e2 ltJf6 10.f4 lDe611.Ae3 d6 12.lIae1 hS13.lIf3ltJg414.Ad2 '8b6+ 15.<j}h1 0-0-0 16.a4ltJd4 17.ltJxd41Wxd4 1S.axbS as 19.ltJd1 '8b6 20.ltJe3 dS 21.exdS AeS22.tiJe4 '8e7 23.haS1We7 24.hdS'8xdS 2S.ltJe3 '8h4 26.g3 '8dS 27.lDxg4 hxg4 2S.lIe3 AxdS+ 29.Ae4<j}bS30. lId3

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Sicilian AlapinFM David Roper (2292)GM Emil Anka (2422)

McMinnville, DakeMemorial (1) 20041.e4 eS 2.llJf3 e6 3.e3 dS 4.exdS exdSS.d4 ltJe6 6.Ae2' Ad6 7.0-0 ltJge7S.dxe5 AxeS 9.tiJbd2 0-0 10.ltJb3lLd6 11.lDbd4 Ag4 12.AgS '8'd713.lIe1 lIfeS 14.1Wd2a6 1S.lIad1 '8'e716.h3AhS17.ltJh4he21S.'8xe2 h619.1Le1 tlJxd4 20.exd41Wd7 21.1WhS

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27.ltJxh6 gxh6 2s.lIf3 "e6 29.lIxf7+Ag7 30.lIxb7 lIbS 31.lIxbS ltJxbS32.Ae3 '8e4 33.'8'g4 '8'xg4 34.hxg4ltJe6 3S.f4lDxd4 36.<j}12 lDe2 37.b3lDb4 3S.a3 lDe2 39.a4 AfS 40.Ad2AeS+ 41. <j}g3 Ab4 42.hb4 lDxb443.f5 as 44.<j}f4 lDe6 4S.gS hxgS+46.<j}xgS <j}g747.~f4~f7 48.g4~f649.gS+ <j}e7 SO.<j}e3 <j}d6 S1.<j}f4<j}e7S2.c;t>e3c;t>f7S3.c;t>f4c;t>e7 Draw,

Sicilian DragonNM Michael Stanford (2176)GM Emil Anka (2442)

McMinnville, DakeMemorial (2) 20041.e4 eS 2.ltJf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.lDxd4lDf6 S.lDe3 g6 6.Ae3 Ag7 7.13 0-0S."d2 lDe6 9.Ae4 Ad7 10.0-0-0lIbS11.h4bS12.lDdxbSlDeS13.Ae21WaS 14.lDd4 lIfeS1S.lDb3

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Dutch LeningradNM Nick Raptis (2262)FM David Roper (2292)

McMinnville, Dolce Memorial (2) 2004

1.d4 f5 2.g3 tDfS 3.Ag2 gS 4.tDf3Ag7 5.0-00-0 S.c4 dS 7.tDc3 cS 8.d5Ad7 9.tDd4 "bS 10.e3 tDaS 11.b3tDc5 12.Ab2 a5 13.lIb1 traG 14.h3lIac8 15.Wh2 tDce4 1S.tDxe4 tDxe417.tDeS AxeS 18.Axg7 Wxg7 19.be4 cxd5 20.bd5 bd5 21."xd5!fb622.lIb21Ic723.e4!fc524.lIe2a4 25. "xc5 lIxc5 2S.exf5 lIcxf527.lIxe7+ 1I8f7 28.lIxf7+ Wxf7 29.bxa4 h5 30.Wg2 lIa5 31.lIb1 IIxa432. IIxb 7+ WeS 33.lIbS lIxc4 34. lIaSWe5 35.a4 g5 3S.lIa8 d5 37.a5 g438.Ilh8 gxh3+ 39.Wxh3 Ila4 40.lIxh5+ WeS 41.aS d4 42. Wg2 lIa343.g4 d3 44. Wf3 Wf6 45. We3 1-0

Modem Averbakh

FM Lester Van Meter (2240)FM Jonathan Berry (2255) .

McMinnville, DalceMemorial (2) 2004

1.d4 gS 2.tDf3 dS 3.c4 Ag7 4.e4 tDd75.tDc3 e5 S.d5 "e7 7.g4 tDgf6 8.h3tDc5 9."c2 a5 10.Ae3 cS 11.0-0-0h5 12.g5 tDfd7 13."8d21Ias 14.Wb1a415.tDh4 "8d8'1S.Wa1 0-0 17.Wb1"a518.f3 Ilbs19."8c2 1Ib420.lIh2lId8 21.dxcS bxcS 22. IlxdS Af823. IIhd2 AxdS 24. IlxdS tDeS25."8d2 Ilb82s.Wc1 tDdf8 27.Ilxd8tDxd8 28.f4 a3 29.b3 Ilb7 30.tDf3lId7 31."8c2 exf4 32.Axf4 tDdeS33.Ae3 IId8 34.tDe2 tDd7 35.tDed4tDxd43S.tDxd4 "8e1+ 37."8d1 "xe3+38."8d2 "8xd2+ 39.Wxd2 tDc5 40.We3lIxd4 41. Wxd4 tDxb3+ 42. Wc3 tDc50-1

King s Indian ClassicalLM Clark Harmon (2184)FM Dmitry Zilberstein (2392)


1.d4 tDf6 2.c4 gS 3.tDc3 Ag74.tDf30-0 5.e4 dS S.h3 tDaS 7.Ag5 hS8.Ae3 e5 9.d5 tDh5 10.g3 1te8 11.Ae2 f512.exf5 gxf5 13.tDh4 tDf614."d2 Wh715.0-0-0 cS 1S.dxcS bxcS17.WxdSWf718.f4exf419.Axf41Ib820."a3 IIbs 21. Ild2 c5 22.tDf3 tDe423.tDxe4 fxe4 24.tDe5 We7 25."e3be5 2S."xe4+ Af5 27."8xe5 lIeS28."c3 IIxe229.lIxe2Wxe230.lIe1tDb4 Draw6

Queen s Gambit Accepted1M Nikolai Andrianov (2446)GM Vitali Golod (2552)

McMinnville, DolceMemorial (2) 2004

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.tDf3 tDf6 4.e3 eS5.bc4 c5 S.o-o as 7.a4 tDcs 8."e2"c7 9.tDc3 AdS Draw

Nimzo-Indian Rubinstein

FM Dmitry Zilberstein (2392)NM Michael Stanford (2176)

McMinnville, DolceMemorial (3) 20041.d4 tDf6 2.c4 eS 3.tDc3 Ab4 4.e3 0-0 5.Ad3 bc3+ S.bxc3 dS 7.tDe2 tDcs8.e4 e5 9.0-0 "e7 10.f3 tDe8 11.f416 12.h3 gS 13.Aa3 bS 14.c5

14...bxc515.fxe5 dxe51S.bc5 tDdS17.tDg3 tDd8 18.d5 i!f7 19.c4 "d720.Aa3 tDe8 21.c5 lIg7 22.Ac4 Wh823."c2 cS 24.Ac1 h5 25.1112 lIh72S.trc3 Ab7 27.Aa3 IIc8 28.lId2Wg7 29.lIad1 "c7 30.Ab4 cxd531.exd5 tDdS 32.cS "bS+ 33.Wh1tDxc4 34."xc4 Aa6 35."c3 lIh83S.Aa5 "b5 37.tDe4 tDf7 38.tDc5tDd6 39.a4 1tc4 40."xc4 Axc441.lIc1 lIhg8 42.tDb7 tDxb743.cxb7IIc5 44.Ab4 1-0

King s Indian AttackFM Jonathan Berry (2255)LM Clark Harmon (2184)


1.tDf3 tDf6 2.g3 b6 3.Ag2 Ab7 4.0-0 c5 5.d3 d5 6.tDbd2 e6 7.e4 dxe48.tDg5 tDcs 9.tDgxe4 Ae7 10.tDxf6+Axf6 11.tDe4 Ae712."g4 g6 13.tDg5 h5 14."a4 Ilc8 15.h4 0-0 16.lIe1 Af6 17.tDe4 Ag7 18.Ag5 "d419."xd4 tDxd4 20.lIac1 lIc721.c3tDf5 22. Ilcd 1 1623.Ac 1 lId724.Af1IIfd8 25.tDd2 Wf7 26.tDc4 Aa6 27.b3Ab7 28.tDb2 Af3 29.Ae2 Ab7 30.Af1 Af3 31.Ae2 Ab7 32.Af1 Af3Draw

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Slav Schlechter

GM Vitali Golod (2552)FM Lester Van Meter (2240)

McMinnville, DalceMemorial (3)1.c4 tD162.tDc3 cS 3.tDf3 d5 4.E5.d4 Ag7 S.Ae2 0-0 7.0-0 A~cxd5 tDxd5 9.h3 Axf3 10.Axf11.Ad2 tDd7 12.lIc1 tDe7 13'-tDf5 14.i!fd1 e5 15.d5 c5 1S.tDe17.g3 tD1618.b4tDxe419.be4'20.Ad3 e4 21.Aa6 cxb4 22.JAe5 23.i!c6 "16 24."c2 IlfeSAf1 i!ad8 26.a4 h5 27.Ag2 "g!"e2 h4 29.g4 f5 30.gxf5 "xf5"8g4 "xg4 32.hxg4 g5 33. i!dc1 :34.be4 i!f7 35.bd6 lIxds 36.,i!xc6 37.Ilxc6 lIc7 38.i!e6 II39.Wg2 1-0

Sidilian AlapinFM David Roper (2292)1M Nikolai Andrianov (2446)


1.e4 c5 2.tDf3 tDc6 3.c3 d5 4.e.1Ixd5 5.d4 tD166.Ae2 e6 7.tDa3 c.8.tDb5 "d8 9.cxd4 a6 10.tDc3 j11.0-00-0 12.Ae3 b5 13.tDe5 j14.Af3 lIc8 15.i!c1 tDa5 1s.A:tDxb7 17."f3 tDa5 18.i!fd1 'I19.tDe4tDxe420."xe4"d521."Jexd5 22. Ilxc8 i!xc823.Ilc1 Dra

QGD SlavGM Emil Anka (2422)NM Nick Raptis (2262)

McMinnville, Dolce Memorial (3) 2£

1.d4 tDf6 2.tDf3 d5 3.c4 c6 4.Wc25.g3 tDbd7 S.Ag2 Ae7 7.0-0 08.i!d1 b6 9.tDbd2 Ab7 10.e4 i!11.e5 tDe8 12.tDb3 dxc4 13."xtDc7 14.h4 h6 15."e2 tDd5 1S.tDlc5 17. dxc5 tDxc5 18. tDxc5 Ax!19.tDg4 "e7

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20.Axh6 f5 21.exf6 ~xf6 22.~xf6+'8xf6 23.Axb7 ne7 24.Ae3 nxb725.Axe5 bxe5 26.nd2 nfb827.nb1'8f5 28.ne2 a5 29.nbe1 a4 30.a3'8d5 31.nd2 '8f5 32.ne4 '8f633.nf4 "g6 34.<;:tg2 na7 35.1'Ie5nb5 36.nd8+ <;:th7 37.nff8 '8g438.h5 1-0

FrenchAdvance

NM Michael Stanford (2176)NM Nick Raptis (2262)

McMinnville,DakeMemorial (4) 20041.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 e5 4.e3 ~e65.~f3 1'Ib6 6.a3 Ad7 7.b4 exd48.exd4 ne8 9.Ab2 ~a5 10.~bd2ti:)e411.~xe4dxe412.ne1 '8a613.ti:)g5b5 14.d5 exd5 15.1'Ixd5 ~h616.iId1 Ae6 17.'8d4 Ae7 18.'8f4 0-019.~e4 .b7 20.~d6 Axd6 21. nxd6f6 22.exf6 nee8+ 23.Ae2 ne4 24.'8f3 nfe8 25.nd2 iIg4 26.17+ '8xf727.'8xe6 e3 28.Axe3 ne4 29.1'Ixb5iIxe3 30.0-0 ~f5 31.nd7 1'Ie6 32.Ag4 nf8 33.Axf5 nxf5 34..b8+nf8 35.1'Ixa7 1'1f636.b5 lIe2 37.a41'Ib2 38.'8d4 iIexf2 39.1'Ixf2 nxf240.iId8+ 1-0

Slav Exchange

GM Nikolai Andrianov (2446)GM Emil Anka (2422)

McMinnville, Dake Memorial (4) 2004

1.d4 d5 2.e4 e6 3.~f3 ~f6 4.exd5exd5 5.~e3 ~e6 6.Af4 Af5 7.e3 e68.Ad3 Axd3 9.'8xd3 Ad6 10.Axd6'8xd6 11.0-0 0-0 Draw

Dutch LeningradFM Lester Van Meter (2240)FM David Roper (2292)

McMinnville, Dake Memorial (4) 2004

1.d4 f5 2.g3 g6 3.b3 Ag7 4.Ab2 e55.lt)f3 ~e6 6.e3 d5 7.Ag2 e6 8.0-0ti:)ge7 9.~bd2 0-0 10.e3 b6 11.e4Aa6 12.ne1 '8d7 13.~e5 ~xe514.dxe5 lIad8 15.f4 ~e6 16.exd5exd5 17.a3 Ad3 18.~f3 Ae419.Af1h6 20.~d2 <;:th7 21 .ne 1 g5 22.Ab5gxf4 23.exf4 1'Ie6 24."e2 ~e725.Ad3 '8g6 26.~f3 ng8 27.~h4"f7 28.lIed1 Ah8 29.<;:tf2 ~g630."h5 iIdf8 31.Axe4 txe4 32.~xg6iIxg6 33. .e2 '8e6 34. 1'Id2 .h335.I!h1 d4 36.Axd4 exd4 37.'8xd4iIxf4+ 38.<;:te3IIf3+ 39.<;:txe4.f5+40.'\bd5'8'd7+ 0-1

Northwest Chess

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Griinfeld Exchange

LM Clark Harmon (2184)GM Vitali Golod (2552)


1.d4 ~f6 2.e4 g6 3.~e3 d5 4.exd5~xd5 5.e4 ~xe3 6.bxe3 Ag7 7.~f3e5 8.h3 0-0 9.Ae3 '8a510.1id2 ~e611. ne 1 nd8 12.d5 e6 13.Ah6 exd514.exd5 nxd5 15.1'Ixd5 Axh6 16.~g5 Ae617..d2 IId818."e3 IId519.f4Axg520.Ae2 ne521.'8f2~d422.txe5 Axe1 23.'8g3 Ad2+ 0-1

Dutch LeningradFM Dmitry Zilberstein (2392)FM Jonathan Berry (2255)


1.d4 d6 2.~f3 f5 3.g3 ~f6 4.Ag2 e65.0-0 "e7 6.~bd2 e5 7.dxe5 dxe58.e4 txe4 9.~g5 Ag4 10..e1 ~a611.~gxe4 0-0-0 12.a3 ~e5 13.b4~e6 14.~b3 Ae7 15.Ad2 IIhe8 16.f3 Af5 17."f2 b6 18.a4 ~d4 19.~xd4 exd4 20.b5 e5 21.a5 ~d522.axb6 ~xb6 23.na6 <;:td724.lIfa1na8 25.f4 ~d5 26.~g5 Axg5 27.Axd5 Af6 28.Ae6+ <;:te729.Axa8nxa8 30.b6 '8e6 31.nxa7+ IIxa732.bxa7.a8 33."g2 Ae4 34.'8xe4+'8xe435.11e1 1-0

Stonewall Attack

FM Jonathan Berry (2255)NM Michael Stanford (2176)

McMinnville, DakeMemorial (5) 2004Annotations by NM Michael Stanford1.f4

A good surprise! I figured that he'dgo QG since my Nirnzo vs. Zilbersteinwas quite the disaster. I like the Nirnzo,but it don't like me!

1...d5 2.~f3 e5

2...lLIf6 is a better move, since itdoesn't leave my light squares onqueenside vulnerable.

3.e3 g6 4.e3 ~f6 5.d4

On the plus side, 2..c5 made himavoid the Leningrad structure, which, Ibelieve, was his prep.5..lLIbd7 6.Ad3 e6?!

Now I'm in serious trouble. I'll haveto suffer for a long time because of theselast few moves.

Au~ust 2004

7.0-0 Ag7 8.~bd2 0-0 9.~e5 ~xe510.txe5 ~d7 11.~f3

At this point, I was almost in des-peration mode. I had no idea how I wasgoing to combat White's attack, and itseemed like only a matter of time beforeWhite ran over my King.

11...b6 12.e4 Ab713.Ag5 '8e8

Not such a goodmoveby me. 13...f614.exf6 Axt615.Axt6 (15.Ah6?! dxe416.Axf8 ~xf8+) 15...lLIxf616.e5lt)h5is a much better position than the one Igot myself into.14.'8e2 ne8 15.lIad1 11e7 16.~d2exd4 17.exd4 ~b8 18.exd5

I was happy to see this move duringthe game, since it does free up my gamea little. 'Course, it helps him as well.18.'8f2 '8a4 19.b3 '8b4 (19...'8xa2?20.11a1 Vib2 21.I!xa7lL1c6 22.11a4lLIa5isn't as bad as I'd initially thought:maybe slightly better for White.18...exd5

There was no way I was goingto givehis Knight the d6-square by playing 18...Axd5 19.1LIe4'ti'd7 20.lLId6.

19.~f3 Ae8 20.11e1 nxe121.11xe1Ag4

This move was played very quicklyduring the game. I remember thinkinghow lucky I was to last this long. Betteris 21...Ad7.

22.Ab5

A good move, but it'd be hard to saywhether it's the best. There are so manygood-lookingmoves in his position, e.g.,22. 11c7looks quite strong.22...'8e6 23.h3 Axf3 24.'8xf3 f625.exf6 Axf6 26.Axt6 11xf627. 11c8+!

I believewe wereboth in timetroubleat this point (maybe I arrived there first),and this move really shocked me.

27.!.<;:tg7 28.11e7+ n17 29.'8g3 a630. nxf7+ <;:tx1731.'8e7+ <;:tf632.1'Id8+

32.Af1 wins.

32...<;:tg733.1'Ie7+~f6 34.'8f4+ rbe735.Ad3??

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This mistake really saved me. Afterthe gameJonathansuggested35.Af1, andI believe that gives him a good advan-tage, as 32.Af1 would've.35..."16 36."e7+ /l)d7

Dang, I felt this was the best movefor him, and was now using a lot of timeto figure out how I could make progress.Move 53 is what I thought was the an-swer.

50...'iPb2 51.a4'iPb3 52.AbS 1Ia1+?!S3.'iPh2 "e1??

Bah, what a dumb move! For somereason, I thought that when he played"d8, he'd be attacking only one of mypawns (givingme a chance to repositionand protect everything). And it's the an-swer to the question: What's a really badmove in this position?

S4.1Id8 "e4 SS.1Ixb6 1If4+ S6.'iPg1d4 S7.aS "e3+ S8.'iPh1 1Ie1+?

I believe I offered a draw here. He, 58...llJe4 is a much better move, of-of course, declined. fering better drawing chances.37.ba6 1Ixd4+ 38.'iPh2 "xb2 S9.'iPh2 Draw

Jonathan sighed after this move, kick-ing himself for poaching a great position.

39."e6 "eS+ 40.'iPg1 1Ie3+ .

So we've reached TC after a semi-mad time scramble, and I 'should' winthis endgame.41.'iPh1 "eS 42."b7 'iPd6 43.Ae2"d4

43...d4!? is the exact opposite of myplan inthe text, which's to bring my Kingto the White side of the board, and thenadvance the pawn. This plan might bebetter, but it's complicated (44."f3llJe5).44.Af3 h545."a8 /l)eS46."f8+ 'iPe647.1Ie8+

47. Ae2 is what I thought he'd playduring the game. It prevents my Kingfrom advancing.47...'iPeS 48."e7+ 'iPe4 49.Ae2+'iPe3S0."gS

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Northwest Chess

Here's where the game ended.Jonathan offered a draw here because ofa peep. But he should've let me play it.Jonathan has too much respect for myplay. Maybe I'd miss it? I most likelywould've played 59...llJf3+. What elseis there in this position that offers goodchances? 59..:@e3? Nab! So 59...llJf3+60.gxf3 'iff2+ 61.'iPh1 'ifxf3+ 62.'iPg1tWg3+ 63. 'iPf1 (As long as Black doesn'tlet White block the check with his Bishop,it's a perp.) 63...tWf4+ [63...'f¥f3+64.'iPe1tWe3+ 65.'iPe2 tWe2+ (65..."e3+?? 66.'iPd1)] 64.'iPe2'iVe4+ 65.'iPf2"f5+ (65...tWf4+66.'iPe1 'iVe1+ 67.'iPf2 alsoperps.)66. 'iPg 1 'iVg5+ 67. 'iPf1 tWf5+ 68. 'iPe2tWe4+ 69.'iPd2 tWe2+ 70.'iPe1 tWb1+71.'iPe2 tWe4+ etc.

Sicilian Kan

GM Emil Anka (2422)FM Lester Van Meter (2240)


1.e4 eS 2./l)f3 e6 3.d4 exd4 4./l)xd4a6 S.Ad3 Ae5 6./l)b3 Ae7 7.tJg4 g68."e2 "e7 9.0-0 /l)e6 10.e4 d6 11./l)e3 /l)eS 12.Ae3 /l)f6 13.lIae1 b614./l)d2 /l)xd315."xd3 Ab716./l)a4/l)d7 17.llJxb6 /l)xb6 18."d4 0-019.tJxb6 "xb6 20.bb6 fS 21.lIfe1Ag5 22.Ae3 Af6 23.Af4 eS 24.Ae3fxe4 2s.Ah6 lIfe8 26./l)xe4 Axe427.lIxe4 dS 28.exd5 g5 29.lIee4lIxe4 30.lIxe4 'iPf7 31.lIe7+ 'iPg632.lIe6 lId8 33.g4 lIxdS 34.h4 'iPxh63s.1Ixf6+ 'iPg7 36.1Ixa61Id4 37.hxg5

Au~ust 2004

lIxg4+ 38. 'iPh2 lIxgS 39.lIa3 'iPf640.lIg31IfS41.'iPg2 'iPe642.a41If743.lIa3 lIb7 44.1Ia2 lIg7+ 45.c.t>h31If7 46.'iPg2 lIg7+ 47.'iPf1 hS48.aSh4 49.a6 h3 SO.a7 h2 51.a8=" lIg1 +S2.c.t>e2h1=" S3.lIa6+ 1-0

QGD 5..Jif4GM Vitali Golod (2552)FM Dmitry Zilberstein (2392)


1./l)f3 /l)f6 2.e4 e6 3.d4 dS 4./l)e3Ae7 S.Af4 0-0 6.e3 /l)bd7 7.a3 eS8.exdS /l)xd5 9./l)xdS exdS 10.dxe5/l)xeS 11.Ae2 as 12.Ae5 a4 13.lIe1Ae6 14.0-0 lIe8 1S.~d4 1IaS 16.Ag41Ife817.be6fxe618.1Ig4Af819./l)xe6 lIxe6 20.lIxeS 1IxeS 21."xe6+ 'iPh822. lId 11Ie623.1If7 1-0

Nimzo-Indian Classical

FM David Roper (2292)NM Clark Harmon (2184)


1.d4 /l)f6 2.e4 e6 3./l)e3 Ab4 4.1Ie20-0 S./l)f3 eS 6.dxeS /l)a6 7.a3 bc3+8.'8xe3 /l)xeS 9.Ae3 /l)ee4 10.1Id4b6 11.lId1 AaC>12.g3 lIe8 13.b31Ie7 14.tJb2 dS 1S.exdS /l)xd516.Ad4 f6 17.Ag2 /l)de3 18.be3/l)xe3 19.1Id2 lIfd8 20./l)d4 lIxd421.lIxd4 /l)xe2 22.lIe4 Axe4 23.bxe4 lIxe4 24.1Ixe2 lIe1+ 2S.c.t>d2lIeS 26."d3 lIe7 27.'iPe2 lId728.1fb311d6 29.lId1 '8eS+ 30.'iPf1lIxd1+ 31.1Ixd1 1Ie3 32.a4 a6 33.1Id8+ c!1f734.'8d7+ c!1f83S.Ae6 g636."xe6 "eS 37.1Ixe5 fxeS 38.Ab7bS 39.a5 b4 40.ba6 b3 1-0

English SymmetricalNM Nick Raptis (2262)1M Nikolai Andrianov (2446)


1.e4 e5 2.g3 g6 3.Ag2 Ag7 4./l)f3/l)e6 S.o-o eS 6./l)e3 /l)ge7 7./l)e1 d68./l)e2 Ae6 9./l)e3 1Id7 10./l)edS 0-0 11.d3 Ah312.Ah6 bg213.c!1xg2/l)xd514./l)xdS /l)e71S./l)xe7+ 1Ixe716."d2 bh6 Draw

Sicilian Maroczy BindNM Michael Stanford (2176)1M Nikolai Andrianov (2446)

McMinnville, DolceMemorial (6) 2004Annotations by NM Michael Stanford1.e4e5 2./l)f3 /l)e6 3.d4 exd4 4. /l)xd4

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If you do a search in your databasefor this opening, and Andrianov, you'llfind that in Chicago he drew a 2200player with it.12...a6 13.b3 Ilfc8

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14.ll)dS

I spent much of my time trying toconvince myself to play 14.llJa4," Ichickened out and played 14.llJdS, be-cause, if he was going to offer me suchan easy draw (all myprevious games hadgonethe distance), I was going to take it.This's also a very complicated positionthat is not so easy to play vs an 1M. It'spossible(likely?)that hewould've offereda draw here anyways.14...1Ixd2+ 1S.ct>xd2ll)xd5 16.cxdSAd7 Draw

He offereda draw here, because it'seas~ for White to draw this.. After17.li!xc8+ 11xc8 18.11c1, the positionbecomes completely dry, If I went for18.iLxe7, Black could get somecompen-sation after 18...Ah6+ 19.ct>e1 11cH20.Ad1, At first glance, it looks to bean easy win for White, but the more youlookat it, the lessyou'll want to beWhite,i.e., 20...IIa1 21.a4 fS (21...bS couldalso be nasty) and Black is swarming. Ilooked at this semi-closely before thegame, and disliked it so much that it al-most pushed me to play 14.llJa4 insteadof 14.llJdS. 'Course, I figured the ex-change of Rooks was an easy draw; so Iwas going to go for that.

King s IndianFM Lester Van Meter (2240)NM Nick Raptis (2262)

McMinnvil/e,DakeMemorial (6) 2004

1.d4ll)16 2.ll)f3 g6 3.c4 ilg74.llJc310

-0-0 S.e4 cS 6.dS d6 7.h3 bS 8.cxbS a69.a4 ll)bd7 10.11a3 axbS 11.ilxbSila6 12.ilxa6 Ilxa6 13.0-0 ll)e8 14.11e1llJc7 1s.ilf4 1'Ib8 16.Ilb3 Ilb617.Ilxb6ttxb6 18.1'Ic2 16 19.Ile2Ilb8 20.Ae3 !fb4 21.ct>h2 ll)b622.llJd2ll)c4 23.llJxc4 ttxc4 24.ll)d1"a6 25.llJc311b4 26.f3 1'Ic4 27.Ilf211b3 28.1Id2 fS 29.exfS ileS+ 30.g3ilxc3 31.bxc3 !fxc3 32.ilgS !fxd233. Ilxd2 ct>1734.fxg6+ hxg6 3S.ct>g211a3 36.g4 Ilxa4 37.ct>f2 Ild4 38.Ilxd4 cxd4 39.ct>e2llJxd5 40. ct>d3eS41 .h4 ct>e642.ild2llJ16 43.ilgsllJd744. ct>c4 d5+ 4S.ct>d3llJcS+ 46. ct>e2e4 47.ilh6 ll)d3 48. fxe4 dxe4 49.hSgxhS 50.gxhS ct>f5s1.ild2llJeS S2.h6ct>g6 S3. ct>f2 e3+ S4.ilxe3 ll)g4+SS.ct>f3dxe3 0-1

Modem Benoni

LM Clark Harmon (2184)GM Emil Anka (2422)

McMinnvil/e, /JakeMemorial (6) 20041.d4ll)16 2.c4 e6 3.llJf3 cS 4.d5 exd5S.cxdS d6 6.ll)c3 g6 7.e4 ilg78.h3 0-0 9.ild3 llJhS 10.0-0 ll)d7 11.AgSA16 12.Ae3 Ile8 13.11e1 a6 14.a411b8 1S.llJd2 ild4 16.ilf1 1'If6 17.11c1ll)es 18.g3 ilxe3 19. Ilxe3 1'IgS20.ll)f3ll)xf3+ 21.1'Ixf3 ild7 22. Ilce1"e5 23.1Ie2 1'¥d4 24.b3 bS 2S.axbShb5 26.ll)xbS axb5 27."d3 !fxd328.ilxd3 llJf6 29.Ila1 c4 30.bxc4bxc4 31.hc4 11xe432.Ilxe4ll)xe433.IIa6 11b2 34.Ila2 Ilb1+ 3S.ct>g2ilc1 36.ild3ll)cS 37.ile2 ct>g738.h4h6 39.ilb2 ct>1640.ild2 gS 41.hxgS+hxgS 42.ilhS 11a1 43.ilb2 ila744.ile2ll)d34S.ild2ll)eS46.Ad1 g447.ild4ct>gS48.Ilf4 ila249.ild4f5S0.ct>f1ct>16S1.ct>e1 ll)d7S2.ild3llJcSS3.ile3 ila154.ct>e2ll)e45S.f4gxf3+s6.ilxf3 ct>eSs7.Ild3 11xd1 0-1

Dutch Leningrad

FM Dmitry Zilberstein (2392)FM David Roper (2292)

McMinnville, /Jake Memorial (6) 2004

1.d4 fS 2.ll)f3ll)16 3.c4 g6 4.g3 ilg7S.ilg2 d6 6.0-0 0-0 7.ll)c3 c6 8.1Ib3llJa6 9.11d1 h610.1!fa3 gS11.b4 .e812.bS cxbS 13.llJxbS 1'117 14.1!fd3llJe41S.ilb1 Ad716.ll)d2 Ae617.f3ll)xd2 18.ilxd2 "f6 19.ilc3 dS20.cxdS ilxdS 21.e4 ilxa2 22.ilb2il17 23.dS 1'Ib6+ 24.llJd4 fxe4 2S.fxe4

Au~ust 2004

"c7 26.11c2 11ac8 27.ildc1 .b628.ild2 ll)b4 29.ffe3 llJa2 30.11cc2ffb1+ 31.ilf1 11xc3 32.ilxc3 ll)xc333.ffxc3 1'¥xe4 34.1'Id3 1'Ixd33S. ilxd3 ilxd5 36.ilh3 ilxd4+37. ilxd4 e6 38.ilf1 ilc8 39.h4 ct>g74O.hxgShxgS 41.ild3 ilc3 42. ct>12as43. ct>e2ilb3 44. ila4 b6 4S. ila 1 ct>1646.11c1 a4 47.11c7 a3 48.ct>d2 a249.ilc1 ct>eSSO.I!a1 Ilxd3+S1.ct>xd3ile4+ 0-1

EnglishFM Jonathan Berry (2255)GM Vitali Golod (2552)


1.c4 llJf6 2.g3 eS 3.Ag2 c6 4.d4ilb4+ S.ild2 ilxd2+ 6.ffxd2 d6 7.ll)c3 0-0 8.ll)f3 e4 9.ll)gS dS 10.cxdScxdS 11. f3 h6 12. fxe4 hxgS 13.exdSll)bd7 14.0-0 ll)e8 1S.e4 16 16.ilae1ll)d6

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17.eS fxeS 18. 11xf8+ 1'Ixf8 19.dxeSll)xeS 20. ilxeS ll)c4 21."@xgSll)xeS22.1'IxeS ffcs+ 23.ct>h1ild724.1'Ie111f8 2S.d6 1'Ixd6 26.ildS+ ct>h827.hb7 ilb8 28.ildS 11xb229.ffc1.16 30.h4 ff12 31.!fg1 1'Id2 0-1

Nimzo-Indian Classical

GM Vitali Golod (2552)NM Michael Stanford (2178)


1.d4ll)16 2.c4 e6 3.ll)c3 ilb4 4.!fc2ll)c6 S.ll)f3 0-0 6.ild2 d6 7.a3 ilxc3

The participants in the first Arthur DakeMemorial International.' (seated, L-R)-FM Jonathan Berry (Canada), GM EmilAnka (Hungary), FM Dmitry Zilberstein;

(standing, L-R}-NM Michael Stanford(Canada), FM Lester VanMeter, GM

VItali Golod (Israel), LM Clark Harmon(organizer,and player), NM Nick Raptis,

FM David Roper, and 1M NikolaiAndrianov (Russia) ~

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S.Axc3 as 9.e4 ~d7 10.b3 eS11.Ae2fff6 12.lId1 ~e713.0-0 ~g6 14.g3ffe7 1S.lIfe1 ~f6 16.Af1 Ag4 17.Ag2b61S.h3Axt319.Axf3a420.b4ffe6 21.h4 ffxc4 22.hS ~e7 23.dxeSdxeS 24.ffb2 ffb3 2S.~g2 ~c6 26.h6ffe6 27.hxg7 lIfeS 2s.lIh1 lIad829.bS ~d4 30.Axd4 exd4 31.lIxd4lIxd4 32.ffxd4 ~xe4 33.lIe1 fS34.lIc1 fff7 3S.lIc6lIe7 36.ffxa4 ffdS37.ffaS+ 1-0

Giuoco Piano

FM David Roper (2292)FM Jonathan Berry (2255)

McMinnvil/e, Dolce Memorial (7) 2004

1.e4 eS 2.Ac4 ~f6 3.d3 ~c6 4.~t3Acs S.o-o d6 6.c3 Ab6 7.b4 ~e7S.lIe1 0-0 9.a4 c6 10.Ab3 ~g6 11.~bd2 Ac7 12.~f1 Ae6 13.d4 exd414.~xd4 Axb3 1s.ffxb3 dS 16. AgSdxe4 17.lIad1 ffe7 18.~g3 ffeS 19.~dfS lIfeS 20.Ah6 ~h4 21.~xg7lIedS 22.h3lIxd1 23.lIxd1 lIdS' 24.lIxd8+ AxdS 2s.1Wd1 Ae726.fld2~dS 27.c4 e3 2S.ffe2 exf2+ 29.ffxf2~xb430.~h1 Acs 31.At41Wa1+ 32.fft1 ffxf1 + 0-1

King s Indian ClassicalGM Emil Anka (2422)FM Dmitry Zilberstein (2392)

McMinnvil/e,DolceMemorial (7) 2004

1.d4 ~f6 2.~t3 g6 3.c4 Ag7 4.~c3d6 S.h3 0-0 6.e4 eS 7.dS as 8.AgS~a6 9.Ae2 ffeS 10.g4 ~cS 11.~d2c6 12.h4 Ad7 13.a4h6 14.Ae3 ~h71S.~b3 ~xb316.ffxb3 ffe717.hS gS1S.cS dxcS 19.ffb6 lIfe8 20.AxeSffeS 21.f3 ~f6 22.XLe4 AtS 23.AxtSffxfS 24.b3 ffb4 2s.flxb4 axb4 26.dxe6 Axc6 27.~a2 Axa4 28.~xb4Ad7 29.~d2 ~fS 30.~dS ~xdS 31.

.~ AxdS Ae6 32.Axe6 bxe6 33.lIhe1lIabS 34.lIa3 ~e7 3S.lIe4 lIe7 36.~c3 ~d6 37.lIa6lIceS 38.lIa7lIe739.lIea4 16 40.lIa1 lIbb741.lIxb7lIxb7 42.lIa8 ~e6 43.lIeSlIb6 44.lIe7 lIa6 45.~b2 lIb6 46.~e2 lIa647.~b1 lIb6 48.~b2 lIa6 49.lIh7lIaS SO.lIxh6 lIdS S1. ~e2 lIaSs2.lIh7 lIa2+ S3.~d3 lIf2 54.~e3lIh2 SS.lIb 7 ~d6 S6.b4lIb2 s7.lIb8lIh2 SS.lId8+ ~e6 s9.lId2 lIh1 60.lIb2 ~d6 61.~d3lIh3 62.lIf2 lIh163.~e3lIh3 64. Itd2+ ~e7 6s.lId3lIh1 66.~c4lIe1+ 67.lIe3lIh1 6S.

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~d3 ~d6 69. IIb3 IIh2 70. IIb1 IIh371.~e2 IIh2+ 72.~e3 ~e6 73.IIe1~d6 74.lIa1 lIb2 7S.IIa4 IIh2 76.lIa7 IIb2 77.h6 lIh2 78.h7 IIh179.~f2 IIh2+ 80.~g3 IIh1 81.~g2IIh482. IIb7 IIh6 s3.lIg7 ~e6 84.~g1 IIh3 SS.IIe7 ~d6 86.IIa7 IIh4s7.lIg7 ~e6 8S.~f2 IIh2+ 89.~e3IIh1 90.~d3 ~d6 91.IIa7 IIh3 92.~e4 IIh193.bSexbS+94.~xbS IIb1+9S.~e4 IIe1+ 96.~d3 IIh1 97.IIa6+~e7 98.IIaS 1-0

EnglishNM Nick Raptis (2262)LM Clark Harmon (2184)

McMinnvil/e, DolceMemorial (7) 2004

1.g3 eS 2.e4 ~t6 3.Ag2 dS 4.exdS~xdS S.~t3 ~e6 6.~e3 ~b6 7.0-0Ae78.d30-09.a3 IIeS10.b4AfS11.Ab2 Ag4 12.h3 XLe6 13.~e4 16 14.~cS AxeS1S.bxeS ~dS 16.e4 ~de717.d4 exd4 1S.~xd4 ~xd4 19.11xd4flxd4 20.Axd4 IIad8 21.Ae3 ~e622.IIab1 IId3 23.IIte1 AeS24.At1IIdd8 2S.Ae4+ ~f8 26.XLdS IId727.Ad2 gS 2S.XLe3~e 7 29. lIe 1 ~dS 30.g4 e6 31.Ae4 ~e6 32.eS ~xeS 33.exf6+ ~f8 34.IIxe8+ ~xe8 3S.f7+

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English1M Nikolai Andrianov (2446)FM Lester Van Meter (2240)

McMinnvil/e, Dolce Memorial (7) 2004

1.c4 ~f6 2.~e3 e6 3.e4 ~e6 4.~f3 dSS.eS ~e4 6.d4 XLb4 7.!le2 tS 8.a3Axe3+ 9.bxe3 0-0 10.Ae2 b6 11.exdSexdS 12.0-0 ~aS 13.~e1 ~gS 14.hgS flxgS 1S.f4 fle7 16.~f3 e6Draw

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Sicilian Kan

NM Michael Stanford (2176)FM Lester Van Meter (2240)

McMinnville, DolceMemorial (8) 2004Annotations by NM Michael Stanford1.e4 eS 2.~f3 e6 3.d4 exd4 4.~xd4a6 S.XLd3AeS

Before this game I was really wor-ried about what I'd play versus his...XLeSKan. Partly because I also playthis, but mainly because. it's so incred-ibly strong!6.~b3 XLe77.~e3 ~e6 8.f4 d6 9.flt3bS 10..1\e3 Ab711.0-0-0

So I opted to play the structure thatJack Yoosplayed against me.11...IIeS

11...!¥e712.g4llJf613.gSllJd714.~b1 12Jb41S.ilhf1 Draw, Yoos-Stanford, 2002 BC Championship.12.~b1 ~aS!?

Black's last two moves pretty muchreveal what he's going for - my King.13.g4

Since he plays the ...AeS line, he'dlikelybe happy to play the type of struc-ture that arises after 13..g3!? g6. Andhe'd still have the attacking chances.

13...~f6 14.gS ~d7 1s.1Wh3

1S.~S!? is somethingthat I'd brieflyconsidered. 1S...g6 16.!¥h3 b4 createssomeserious complicationsafter 17.llJe2llJe418.Ad4(18.Axe4!? ilxc419.llJd2ile7 20.e4:i:) 18...eS (forced) 19.Axe4ilxe4 20.fxeS Axe4 (20...dxeS? 21.AxeS) 21.exd6 Axe2+ 22.Wa1 Axd123.ilxd1 ilxd424.llJexd4!+- (24.ilxd4AxgS 2S. IIe4+ Wf8 26. ilxb4) 24....1\xd6 2S.l2Je6 !¥e7 26.'iWe3+ llJeS(26...Wf8 27.!¥d4) 27. llJxeS AxeS28. ildS.

1S...~xb3

1S...b4 16.l2Je212Jxb317.exb3 (17.

axb3 is what I was going to play. 17...llJeS 18.AxeS ilxeS 19.96 reaches themain variation, but with axb3 insteadof exb3.) 17...llJeS 18.AxeS ilxeS19.96 (19.llJd40-0) 19...fxg6 20.llJd4eS 21. llJe6 ire8 22.Ae4 Axe623.Axe6 exf4.

16.axb3f1aS

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After the game, Lester told me thathe was thinking about doing... Ilxe3shouldthe opportunity present itself, andthat is why he played all these moves(... Ile8, ...GtJa5-b3,and ...'tWa5).

17.g6 Af6!?

I spent most of my time calculatingthe consequencesof 17...fxg6 18. 'tWxe6GtJe519. Axe5 Ilxe5 20.GtJd5 Axd5(20...'tWd821.b4 Ile8 22. IlheH:) 21.exd5 Ile7, but wasn't sure whether thiswas a strong enough attack or not.

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22. Ilde 1 is what I thought aboutplaying when considering 17.g6. Al-though 22...<t>d823. Ile3 (23.f5!?) 23...'1Wb624. Ilh3 (24. Ilhe 1 Ah4 25. II 1e2Ile726.¥i'h3 Ilxe327. Ilxe3 <t>e7andBlack should survive this.) 24...iLf6 25.Axg6 Ile7 26.'tWg4'tWd427.e3 'tWf228.'ifg3 looks pretty good, but I thinkblack has good drawing chances.

FRITZfound22. Ilhg 1!( Idea: Crackopen the g-file with f4-f5.) 22...<t>d823.f5 g5 (23...gxf5?? 24. Ilxg7) 24.h4,with a winning attack.

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doesn't look like it works because of20. 5S.~h4 Ae1 s6.Ilf8 GtJxa4S7.~gSAd2 Ilxd3 21.'tWxd3'tWe722.e5!+- llJcs 5S. ~h6 llJe6 S9. Ilf6 ct>d6

opening up lines for all my pieces, e.g.,' 60.ct>xh7Ae361.ct>xg6 ct>e762.Ilf7+22...dxe5 23.Ab4+ GtJe524.Axe5+ ~d6 63.~fSllJd8 64.Ila7llJc6 1-0<t>xf725.'itd7+.

19.1lJdSllJcS

Just holding tight with 19...g6Iooksstronger - 20. Ilhf1 step I: point piecesat the King; step 2: crush, crush, crush.20.Axc5 AxdS 21.exdS Ilxcs 22.!lxe6+ ~fS 23.!lxd6+ Ae7 24.!le6!IdS 25._xa6

25. e4!?

2S...b4

25...Ilxd5 26.Ae2 b4 27.Ilxd5'ifxd5 28.Ild1 'iff7 29.'ite8+ 'ite830.'itf5+ 'tWf731.'tWe5(all Black's piecesare tied up) 31...Af6 32.¥i'e5+ 'ite733.Ild8+

26.AbS Ad6 27.Ilhe1 ~f7 28.Ile6Axf4 29.Ilf1 gS30.Ild6 1-0

GriinfeldLM Clark Harmon (2184)1M Nikolai Andrianov (2446)


1.d4 dS 2.c4 e6 3.11Jf311Jf64.!fe2 g6S.Af4 Ag7 6.e3 0-0 7.llJc3 AfSS.Ad3 hd3 Draw

GriinfeldFM Dmitry Zilberstein (2392)NM Nick Raptis (2262)

McMinnville, Date Memorial (8) 2004

1.d411Jf6 2.c4 g6 3.11Jc3Ag7 4.llJf30-0 5.iLf4 d5 6.e3 e5 7.dxeS !laS8.Ile1 dxe4 9.he4 !lxeS 10.Ab3GtJe6 11.0-0 !laS 12.!fe2 llJhS 13.AgS Ag414.GtJe4 !lfS 1S.Ae2 ~h816.Ah4 hf3 17.!lxf3 _as 18.Ab1!lb4 19.b3 fS 20.a3 !lxa3 21.11JeSeS22.llJxb7 e4 23.!ld1 IlabS 24.llJeSIlfe8 2S.!ldS llJeS 26.Ae7 GtJe627.Ad6 llJf6 2S.!lf7 llJdS 29.!le7llJg8 30.'itd7 llJf6 31.!le7 llJgS32.!fd7 llJf6 33.!fa4 !fxa4 34.bxa4Ilb2 3S.AeS Ilxb1 36.Ilxb1 IlxeS37.IlbS IlxeS 3s.IlxdS+ IleS 39.IlxeS+ GtJxeS40.Ild1 ~gS 41.IldS~f7 42.IlasllJe7 43.Ilxa7 Ae5 44.Ilb7 ~e6 4S.h3 ~d6 46.g4 ~e6 47.IlbS llJe6 4S. Ile8 ~d7 49. IlgS fxg4SO.hxg4 Ae3 51.~g2 llJeS S2.IlaS~e7 S3.~g3 AeS+ S4.<t>h3 Ac3

Au~ust 2004

Sicilian Closed

FM Jonathan Berry (2255)GM Emil Anka (2442)


1.e4 eS 2.11Jf3e6 3.llJe3 a6 4.g3 bSs.Ag2 Ab7 6.!le2 d6 7.a4 b48.11Jd1Ae7 9.d311Jf6 10.11Je311Je611.11Je4dS 12.llJeeSllJxeS 13.llJxeS 0-0 14.0-0 e4 1s.Ild1 exd3 16.cxd3 "as17.f4 IlfdS 1s.Ad2

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1S...AeS+ 19.~h1 Ad420.llJf3dxe421.dxe4 Axe4 22.Ae1 Aa7 23.11JeS!le5 24.Ad2 !IdS 2S.h4 Axg2+26.!lxg2 !lxg2+ 27.~xg2 llJdS2S.~f3 IlaeS 29. Ilae1 Ad430.llJd3as 31.g4 g6 32.fS gxfS 33.gxfS exfS34.Ah6 Ilxe1 3S.Ilxe1 f6 36.hS b337.Ile6 GtJb638.11Je1 llJd739.Ile7llJeS+ 40. ~e2 IleS 41.llJxb3 llJg4+42.~f3 AeS 43.Ilg7+ ~hS 44.Ilb7llJxh6 4S.11JxaSIleS46.b3 Ilc3+ 47.~e2 f4 48.11Je4f3+ 49.~d2 f2 0-1

Dutch LeningradGM Vitali Golod (2552)FM David Roper (2292)

McMinnville, Date Memorial (8) 2004

1.d4 fS 2.e4 llJf6 3.lLIf3 d6 4.g3 g6S.Ag2 Ag7 6.0-0 0-0 7.11Je3e6 S.dSAd7 9.Ilb1 exdS 10.lLIxdSllJc6 11.1lJxf6+Axf6 12.Ah6 Ag7 13."dS+~hS 14.hg7+ ~xg7 1S.eS Ilf6 16.exd6 Ilxd6 17.!lb3 "as 1S.a3 Ae619.!fe3 h6 20.Ilfd1 IladS21.I!xd6Ilxd6 22.h4 !lbS 23.!lc3+ ~h7 24.Ile1 "b3 2S."xb3 hb3 26.e4 Ild127.exfS gxfS 2s.Ilxd1 Axd1 29.11Jd2lLIdS30.~f1 Aa4 31.~e2 ~g7 32.~e3 ~f6 33.AdS Ac6 34.Ac4 b63S.f311Jb736.Ad311Jd6 37.11Jb3Ad5 3S.

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tDd4 .$.b7 39.b4 .$.dS 40.tDbS tDxbS 'fIxf7+ Wxh6 41.'fIf6+ WhS 42.'fIx15+ tDdS 28.AbS iId8 29.tDe3 Ags41.AxbS WeS 42..$.d3 e6 43.g4 f4+ Wh643.'lff6+ WhS 44.'lfg7'lfx124S.

44.W12Wf6 Draw tWxh7+WgS46.tWg7+WhS47.tWh7+ 8. ill...D~ 7~ .~....6. . ...

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Queen s GambitAccepted1M Nikolai Andrianov (2446)FM Dmitry Zilberstein (2392)

McMinnville,DakeMemorial (9) 20041.d4 dS 2.e4 dxe4 3.e4 tDf6 4.eS tDdSS.Axe4 tDb6 6..$.b3 tDe6 7.tDf3 Ag48.tDgS Axd1 9.iLxt7+ Wd7 10.Ae6+Draw

Sicilian AlapinFM David Roper (2292)NM Michael Stanford (2176)

McMinnville,DakeMemorial (9) 20041.e4 eS 2.e3 tDf6 3.eS tDdS 4.d4 exd4S.tDf3 e6 6.exd4 b6 7.a3 Ab7 8.Ad3d6 9.0-0 tDd7 10.iIe1 .$.e711.'lfe20-0 12."'e4g613..$.h6 iIe814."'g4lIe8 1S.tDbd2 tDf8 16..$.e4 iIe7 17."'g3 dxeS 18.dxeS 15 19.exf6 Axf620.tDeS tDe7 21.lIad1 tDfS22.iLxtSexfS 23.tDdf3 tIIe8 24.h4 Axf3 2S.tDxf3 lIxe1+ 26.iIxe1 .$.xb2 27.hS.$.g7 28.Axg7 lIxg7 29.h6 iId7 30.tDgS tIIe4 31.tllb8 tIIh4 32.tDe6 .e733.tDxf8 tIIxe1+ 34.Wh2 iIe7 3S.tDxg6+ Wf7 36.tDh8+ Wf6 37.'lff8+WgS 38.tDf7+ WhS 39.'lfg7 iIxf7 40.

Ruy Lopez OpenGM Emil Anka (2422)GM Vitali Golod (2552)

McMinnville, DakeMemorial (9) 20041.e4 eS 2.tDf3 tDe6 3.AbS a6 4.Aa4tDf6 S.o-o tDxe4 6.d4 bS 7.iLb3 dS8.dxeS .$.e6 9.tDbd2 AeS 10.'fIe2tDxd2 11.Axd2 0-0 12.iIad1 Ag413.e3 tDe7 14..$.e3 Axe3 1S.'lfxe3 e616..$.e2 tDg6 17.iId4 Axf3 18.tWxf3tWgS 19.Axg6 fxg6 20.'fIe2 iIae8Draw

QGD SlavNM Nick Raptis (2262)FM Jonathan Berry (2255)


1.d4 dS 2.tDf3 tDf6 3.e4 e6 4.g3 AfSS.tDe3 e6 6.'fIb3 'lfb6 7.eS .e7 8.Af4'lfe8 9.tWa4tDbd7 10.Ag2 bS 11.exb6axb6 12.tWb3 Ae7 13.0-0 0-0 14.iIfe1 tWa6 1S.tDh4 iIfe8 16.tDxfSexfS 17.f3 bS 18..e2 g6 19.e4 fxe420.fxe4 b4 21.tDd1 dxe4 22.'fIxe6tWd3 23.Ae3 .e2 24..$.12 iIa6 2S..$.f1 iIxe6 26.Axe2 iIxe1 27.iIxe1

a..thu.. Dake Meano..ial

30..$.xd7 Axe3 31. iIe8 iIxe8 32.Axe8 Axt2+ 33.Wxf2 tDb6 34..$.b7fS3S.Ae6 Wf7 36.a4 bxa3 37.bxa3 We638.a4 Wd6 39.AbS WdS 40.aS tDe841.We3 tDa7 42..$.e8 gS 43..$.f7+Wd6 44.g4 We7 4s.Ag8 1-0

Queens IndianFM Lester Van Meter (2240)LM Clark Harmon (2184)

McMinnville, Dake Memorial (9) 20041.d4 tDf6 2.tDf3 e6 3.e4 b6 4..$.f4 .$.b7S.e3 .$.b4+ 6.lLJfd2 0-0 7.a3 .$.e78.tDe3 dS 9.exdS tDxdS 10.tDxdSAxdS 11.Ad3 eS 12.dxeS AxeS 13.tWe2 h6 14.0-0 Ad6 1s.Axd6 .xd616.iIae1 tDd7 17.b4 lLJeS 18..$.e4tDg4 19.tWe7tWxe720.iIxe7lLJf6 21.Af31Ife822.iIfe1 Draw -

JUDe 5.13

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1 GM Emil Aoka 2518 2422 Y Yz Yz Yz 1 1 1 1 1 1 7.5 2528

2 GM VitaliGolod - 2552 Yz Y Yz Yz 1 1 1 1 1 1 7.5 2449

3 J?MDavid Roper 2295 2292 Yz Yz Y Yz 0 Yz 1 0 1 1 5.0 2308

4 1M NikolaiAndrianov 2441 2446 Yz Yz Yz Y Yz Yz Yz Yz Yz Yz 4.5 2421

5 NM Nick Raptis 2307 2262 0 0 1 Yz Y 0 0 1 1 1 4.5 2311

6 NMMichaeI Stanfonl unr 2176 0 0 Yz Yz 1 Y 0 Yz Yz 1 4.0 2295

7 FM Dmitry 7ilberstein 2425 2392 0 0 0 Yz 1 1 Y 1 I Yz 0 4.0 2401,

8 FM Jonathan Deny 2294 2255 0 0 1 Yz 0 Yz 0 T Yz 1 3.5 2286

9 LM Oark Hannon 2223 2184 0 0 0 Yz 0 Yz Yz Yz Y Yz 2.5 2214

10 FM Lester VanMeter 2207 2264 0 0 0 Yz 0 0 1 0 Yz . 2.0 2200

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May Day1 Julian, John2 Steinocher, Kirk3 Benson, Dustin4 Weyland, Phillip5 Griffin, David6 Erickson, Kenneth7 Waugh, James8 Attwood, Adam9 Weyland, Ronald

1 Julian, John2 Stelnocher, Kirk3 Benson, Dustin4 Weyland, Phillip5 Griffin, David6 Waugh, James7 Erickson, Kenneth8 Weyland, Ronald9 Attwood, Adam

see Close Ratings1 Kleist, Fred2 Fryberg, Skylor3 Darby, Michael4 Hubbell, Larry5 Lund, Richard6 Roach, Erin7 Milener, Gene8 Cloy, Elston9 Kleist, Carol

Spokane 5/1 TD: David Griffin1895 1892 L8 W5 W6 W21880 1882 W6 W4 W3 L11768 1764 W9 we L2 D4

ID 1682 1685 W7 L2 we D31550 1557 B L1 W9 we

ID 1390 1396 L2 W7 L1 B1305 1304 L4 L6 B W91442 1447 Wl L3 L4 L5

ID 1276 1260 L3 B L5 L7Quick

(1749) (1800)(1868) (1852)(1764) (1710)

ID (1568) (1584)(1449) (1460)(1364) (1353)

ID(1294) (1301)ID (1275) (1289)

(1526) (1501)

517-222084 20931477 15411886 18821741 17491555 15711467 14611429 14171943 19371521 1504

May Lightning Quick Spokane1 Herbers, Patrick (1997) (1995)2 Julian, John (1800) (1816)3 Drake,Christopher (1922) (1893)4 Moore,Craig (1666) (1645)5 Attwood,Adam (1502) (1526)6 Korsmo,Kevin (1517) (1510)7 Countryman,Zachary (1118) (1263)8 Griffin, David (1514) (1494)9 Waugh, James (1338) (1316)

see Plus Score Swiss1 Bragg, David2 VanDyke, Patrick3 Gale, Geoffrey4 Cloy, Elston5 Anderson, Larry6 Kleist, Fred7 Buck, Stephen8 Mathews, Dan9 Fryberg, Skylor

10 McAleer, James

see MayTornado1 Readey, John2 Bragg, David3 Gale, Geoffrey

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517-82242 22352059 20702035 20401937 19431729 17352093 20951761 17601769 17521541 15611654 1640

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TD: Fred KleistW3 we U 2.0W7 L5 W9 2.0L1 W6 U 1.0U U W5 1.0U W2 L4 1.0U L3 D7 0.5L2 U D6 0.5U L1 U 0.0U U L2 0.0

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1812 Wl2 W7 D2 L1 2.51607 L1 WlO we B 2.51944 W9 W8 L1 L2 2.01753 Wl3 L4 L3 Wl1 2.01649 Wl5 L6 L5 Wl2 2.01608 L6 Wl5 Wl1 L3 2.01429 Lll L5 Wl3 B 1.51720 WlO L1 L9 L7 1.01520 L4 L13 Wl5 L8 1.01431 L7 Wl2 L10 U 1.02092 B L2 U U 0.5

961 L8 L9 L12 U 0.0

May Dual ACtion Quads Spokane 5/6-131 Drake,Christopher 2016(1893) 2026(1922)2 Steinocher,Kirk 1882(1852) 1872(1825)3 Weyland, Phillip ID 1685(1584) 1695(1605)4 Kirtin, Patrick 1472(1355) 1459(1335)

1 Griffin, David 1557(1460) 1563(1514)2 Attwood,Adam 1447(1501) 1455(1502)3 Waugh, James 1304(1353) 1301(1338)4 Weyland, Ronald ID 1260(1289) 1245(1262)

1 Johnson, Vern 1273(1361) 1278(1362)2 Burney,James 1121(1247) 1167(1298)3 Baker,James 1417(1363) 1363(1320)4 Christiansen, Peter 914(1072) 922(1066)

TD: David Griffin- wwwwww 6.0LL - WLww 3.0LL LW- ww 3.0LL LL LL - 0.0

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Pee MayGame-in-45 5/22 TD: Kornelijs Dale1 Raptis, Nick 2288(2169) 2295(2174) Wl1 W5 W4 W2 W9 5.02 Un, Benjamin 2144(1902) 2142(1907) Wl7 Wl6 Wl2 L1 we 4.03 Ball, Larry 1946(1898) 1928(1875) L6 W21 Wl3 D8 Wl4 3.54 Banner,Richard 1824(1737) 1826(1734) Wl8 Wl4 L1 WlO D6 3.55 May,Todd WA1594(1413) 1599(1415) W21 L1 Wl8 D14 Wl5 3.56 Chen, Howard WA 1404 (902) 1547(1197) W3 Lll Wl6 Wl2 D4 3.57 May,Andy WA1776(1436) 1739(1399) W24 L12 L15 W21 Wl8 3.08 Knutson, KeeganWA1761(1608) 1768(1626) Wl5 D13 WlO D3 L2 3.09 Salisbury, Blake 1761(1522) 1753(1526) Wl9 L10 Wl7 Wl1 L1 3.0

10 Rosenbaum,David 1676(1642) 1679(1631) W23 W9 L8 L4 Wl7 3.011 Serres, Drew 1487(1259) 1526(1321) L1 W6 W20 L9 W16 3.012 Gagnon,William 1638(1591) 1633(1566) W20 W7 L2 L6 D13 2.513 Schartz, Brian 1518(1556) 1521(1541) W25 D8 L3 D15 D12 2.514 Becker, Brett 1503(1273) 1506(1284) W26 L4 Wl9 D5 L3 2.515 May,Sarah WA 1202 (737) 1279 (900) L8 W25 W7 D13 L5 2.516 Robinson,Marcus 1516(1483) 1491(1433) W22 L2 L6 W19 Lll 2.017 Nettles, Jordan 1363(1315) 1360(1309) L2 W22 L9 W23 L10 2.018Wang,Eddie 1214 (890) 1220 (939) L4 W26 L5 W20 L7 2.019 Harvey,Tristan WA 1194 (879) 1198 (964) L9 W23 L14 L16 W22 2.020 Bailey,Taylor 1030 (957) 1038 (959) L12 W24 Lll L18 W23 2.021 Schon, Levi Sky 1014(1036) 1033(1038) L5 L3 W26 L7 W24 2.022 Wang, Kevin 982 (996) 980 (976) L16 L17 W24 W26 L19 2.023 Harvey,Whitney WA 965(1033) 940 (975) L10 L19 W25 L17 L20 1.024 Kanwar,Gurtej 721 (700) 720 (695) L7 L20 L22 W25 L21 1.025 Kanwar,Vikramjit 0 (653) 653 (638) L13 L15 L23 L24 W26 1.026 Riedi,Andrew 784 (784) 701 (705) L14 L18 L21 L22 L25 0.0

5/27 TD: DavidGriffin- L W W W W W W W 7.0W - W D W L WWW 6.5L L - W W L W W W 5.0L D L - W W L D W 4.0L L L L - W W W W 4.0L W W L L - W L L 3.0L L L W L L - W W 3.0L L L D L W L - W 2.5L L L L L W L L - 1~

TD: Fred KleistW7 L4 W8 W2 3.0WlO W3 W4 L1 3.0we L2 W7 W4 3.0W9 Wl L2 L3 2.0B L6 W9 D7 2.0B W5 U U 1.5L1 W9 L3 D5 1.5L3 WlO L1 L9 1.0L4 L7 L5 we 1.0L2 L8 U U 0.0

5/16 TD: Fred Kleist2308 2310 W5 Wl1 W6 W4 4.02235 2236 B Wl4 D4 W6 3.02040 2043 B B W7 W9 3.0

Washington Open

1 Serper, Gregory2 Mikhailuk, Slavs3 Zaikov, Oleg4 Raptis, Nick OR5 Koons, Nat6 Greninger, Harley7 Martin, Roger8 Collyer, Curt9 Schill, William

10 Bragg, David11 Peres, Ignacio12 Brewster, Robert13 Roper, David14 Pupols, Viktors15 Griffiths, Morgan16 De Asis, Rex17 Haessler, Cart18 Un, Benjamin19 Fleury, Matthew20 Bartron, Paul21 Goshen, Matthew22 Darby, Michael23 Ballard, Clint24 Slye, Damon25 Gale, Geoffrey

AuJ;tust 2004

Bellevue 5129-31Open

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OR 2307 23112295 23072213 22322204 2225

OR 2184 22042138 21582268 22642237 22292215 2218

BC 2008 20302311 22952234 2222

OR 2232 22092227 2216

OR 2214 2207OR 2142 2144

2080 21022049 20452000 20001882 19022051 2035

OR 2049 20382044 2035

TDs: F. Kleist, C. Kleist, G Dorfner

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Northwest Chess

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26 Rozenfeld, Yevgeny27 Cloy, Elston28 Lakhovsky, Meir29 Cambareri, Michael30 Drake, Christopher31 Bea, Steven32 Selzler, Richard33 Kelley, Dereque34 Kalina, Chris35 Daroza, Eduardo36 Milligan, Kerry37 Ryan, Mark38 Ramey, Forrest OR39 Herrera, Robert OR40 Lee, Michael41 Copeland, Daniel42 Klacsanzky, Nicholas43 Julian, John44 Pitre, H G45 Crawford, Scott OR46 Perez, Juan47 Knutson, Keegan48 Mathews, Dan49 Mc Nail, Kent50 Koenig, Kerry51 Perkins, Tim52 Crawford, Travis OR

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OR 1935 19361911 18981844 18581844 18451821 18371812 18271706 17141539 16411892 18731842 18221805 17561673 16971768 17641753 17301923 18851624 1635

0 14870 1352

Reserve1 Pritchett,Pete OR 1752 18242 Lowther,Jeff 1873 18743 Phillips, BlakeOR 1864 18704 Edwards, Gary 1822 18355 Banner,Richard OR 1800 18246 Lanka,Adi 1794 18157 Buck, Stephen 1760 17688 Saidy,Jawid 1819 18029 Shitabata,Russell OR 1812 1818

10 May,Andy 1731 177611 Korsmo,Kevin 1634 169812 June, Peter 1477 159413 Togrye,Cameron. TN 315 146814 Steinocher,Kirk 1872 185215 LeRoux,Jaun 1810 176816 Rasmussen, Ernst 1797 177517 Benson,Dustin 1764 175718Anderson, Larry 1735 172919Shankland,Adam 1697 170220 Taki,Steven 1687 168821 Kelly,Brian 1611 160622 Dietz, R Sterling 1543 161823 Petchoom,Sakchai 0 159224 Bannon, David OR 1839 184025 Hosford, Michael 1747 173826 Roberts,Jacob 1648 163927 Baldwin,Christopher 1575 157928 VanWeerdhuizen,Lane1557 156629 Blumenthal,Gabriel 1547 156830 Chen, Howard 1301 140431 Manzon,Pablo 0 180632 Ward, H H OR 1635 164833 Hendricks, David 1622 161534 Nelson,James 1615 160335 Monahan,Darby 1582 156736Wu, Darren 1429 142737 Selzler,Andrew 1265 130838Allen, Robert 1740 170039 Iodice,Arthur 1700 170040 Varner,Murlin 1642 161741 Hilling, Lloyd AK 1637 163242 Hughes, Kamran 1631 159043 May,Todd 1618 158544 Morkill,Alex 1547 153345 Chen, Chun-Chueh 1510 144246 Warrier, Krishnan" 1457 144947 Emerrnan,Alex 1443 144948 Pearson,Stuart 1400 141549Zulqernain, Nadir 1754 173150 Jarmin, John 1596 157551 Kohlenberg,Jeremy 1297 128452 Rosenthal,Michael 1477 143853Witecki, Thomas 1347 131954 McClanahan,Gavin" IL 1251 126855 Brendemihl,Steve 1622 1600

Northwest Chess

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Booster1 Ummel, Igor 1422 15432 Burgert,Jeffrey 1461 14923 Willson, Andrew 1346 14644 Ostrow,Alexander 1263 13265 Weller, Stephen 1201 13126 Tanaka,Shinichiro 1513 15077 Fetters,Jason 1452 14688 Delson, Ben 1433 14389 Milener,Gene 1417 1427

10 Manber,Devon 1411 142411 Emerman,Michael 1357 139912 Roberts,James 1287 130313 Bleich, Travis 1249 132714 Yang, Matthew 1202 132115 Omori, Michael 1444 143316 Larkin,Jerry 1397 137517 Li, Jerry 1383 138018 Ho,Alec 1279 129219 Lee, Nathan 1242 128820 Akopov,Michael 1220 133321 Griffin, David 1563 152322 Cordero, Rowland 1518 146523 Charleston, Scott 1451 141724 Tucker, James 1262 125525 VanVeen,Kerry 1201 121226 Wang, Michael 896 108227 Hunting,Jordan 845 88228 Batara,Eric 0 126429 Loudon, David 0 118330 Thatcher, Sean 0 116231 Rogers,William 1418 137032 Omori, Jeffrey 1294 130133 Inglis, David 1291 128434 Schroeder,Andrew 1228 121335 Mead, John 1222 120436 Ferrin, Shannon 1139 112537 Tucker, Jimmy 1135 111238 Kirlin, Patrick 1459 139539 VanWeerdhuizen,David1248 119740 Craig,Thomas 1226 119341 Terrill, Michael OR 1148 113142 Preszler,David 886 91343 Burns, Christopher 0 101744 Kendrick, Tad 1100 98845 Brock, Clayton 1035 98946 Babcock, Chris 839 81047 Simpson, Stephen 0 67948 Tucker, Joseph 1014 97549 Adams, Nick. AZ 0 502

1 Gat, Israel2 Rader, Gabriella3 Terrill, Michael OR4 Ho, Daniel5 Larus-Stone, Nicholas6 Fico, Nathaniel7 Schmidt, Peter8 Lee, Megan9 O'Neal, Max

10 Cantor, Milo11 Schmidt, Karen12 Thatcher, Andrew13 Wu, Darryl14 Dodge, Jarva15 Gat, Neil16 Sung, Jason17 Babcock, Chris18 Hannibal, Carson OR19 Hannibal, Dana OR20 Bartron, Vivi

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0 865997 945922 897

0 8961003 899810 753672 669411 528662 589

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Wl4 W2 W3 W4 W5Wll Ll W7 we W4W18 W15 Ll Dl0 W7W13 Wl0 W5 Ll L2W9 Wl9 L4 Wl5 LlL8 Wl3 Ll0 Wl4 Wl7W20 W8 L2 Wl2 L3W6 L7 Wl6 L2 W15L5 L16 W20 Wl3 Wl0Wl2 L4 W6 D3 L9L2 L14 Wl8 W16 D12Ll0 Wl8 Wl7 L7 DllL4 L6 Wl9 L9 W20Ll Wll L15 L6 Wl9W17 L3 Wl4 L5 L8L19 W9 L8 Lll D18L15 W20 L12 D19 L6L3 L12 Lll W20 D16Wl6 L5 L13 D17 L14L7 L17 L9 L18 L13

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* Several players have been mistakenly identified#13 (yVAO, Reserve) Monkhouse, Neale 1863#46 (yVAO,Reserve) Bravo, Angelo 1648#54 (WAO, Reserve) Demulling, Sam UNR#49 (yVAO, Booster) Esler, Megan 1112In addition, #25 (yVAO,Reserve) Hosford won vs. #13 in Rd 6USCF will, most likely, not correct these errors.

Au~ust 2004 17

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Corvallis Citywide Scholastic 518 Dr Lisa Still1 Kabalnova, Masha 0 1132 W7 DS Wl3 WlS W2 4.52 Vincent-Hill, Alex 768 926 Wl8 W3 Wl 7 W6 Ll 4.03 Mutch, Joshua 0 1075 we L2 Wl8 WS W6 4.04 Russell, Matthew 0 969 Wll Wl3 L6 W7 we 4.05 Vincent-Hill, Nick 922 912 W20 Dl WlO L3 D13 3.06 Medina, Fernando 902 896 W21 Wl4 W4 L2 L3 3.07 Jackson, Joshua 767 746 Ll W20 W21 L4 Wl4 3.08 Khoshzoban, Mahan 759 767 L3 W22 W12 Wl6 L4 3.09 King, Kelli 634 548 W23 L17 L16 Wl9 WlS 3.0

10 Brumbaugh, Matthi 566 624 B W19 LS Wl 7 B 3.011 Perlin, Michael 539 573 L4 L16 W23 W20 Wl7 3.012 Brumbaugh, Stephen 493 586 B B L8 Wl8 w16 3.013 Uu, Frank NY 527 622 Wl6 L4 Ll W21 DS 2.514 Hansen, Travis 346 330 B L6 L20 W22 L7 2.015Schalk,Adrian 284 304 W22 B B Ll L9 2.016 Wickman, Brian 0 561 L13 Wll W9 L8 L12 2.017Wu, Evan 0 560 Wl9 W9 L2 Ll0 Lll 2.018 Keipp, Zachary 656 564 L2 W23 L3 L12 D20 1.519 Finn, Ian 517 406 L17 Ll0 W22 L9 B 1.520 Still, Craig 488 475 LS L 7 Wl4 Lll D18 1.521 Langley, Matherin 407 380 L6 B L 7 L13 B 1.522 Diehl, Daniel 0 100 L1S L8 L19 L14 B 1.023 Pugliese, Nikko 0 151 L9 L18 Lll F F 0.0

Eugene Spring Scholastic 5/15 TD: Jerry RameyGrades K-Five

1 Hull,Emily 740 931 Wl8 WlS D20 W3 W2 4.52 Liu, Jessie 905 969 Wl6 Wl3 W4 W7 Ll 4.03 Thompson, Joshua 808 902 W32 WlO we Ll W13 4.04 Kesey, Caleb 755 845 W30 W29 L2 W2S W9 4.05 Yue, Carolyn 696 760 W31 W24 L7 Wl8 Wl2 4.06 Young, Faith 596 707 L20 W33 W31 W21 W22 4.07 Herbert, Tyler 860 869 W23 Wl4 WS L2 D8 3.58 Daily, Michael 635 773 W26 Wll L3 W23 D7 3.59 Newman, Tony 1040 979 L29 W2S WlS W20 L4 3.0

10 Keller, Natasha 892 854 Wl9 L3 W26 L12 W2S 3.011 Gracie, Jordan 888 824 Wl7 L8 W29 L13 W20 3.012 Hooker, Justin 833 799 L2S W30 Wl6 WlO LS 3.013 Krueger, Aden 785 788 W34 L2 W24 Wll L3 3.014 Bruns, Cole 612 620 W27 L7 L18 W26 W23 3.015 Gordon, Hannah 574 622 W28 Ll L9 W27 W24 3.016 Evans, Aidan 511 571 L2 W34 L12 W33 W21 3.017 Nordquist, Jinny 488 473 Lll L26 W33 W34 W31 3.018 Letaw, Ben 248 422 Ll W28 Wl4 LS W33 3.019 Reindel, Karl 0 563 Ll0 L23 W32 W29 W30 3.020 Ferguson, Jonathan 0 807 W6 W22 Dl L9 Lll 2.521 Webb, Matthew AZ. 873 762 L24 W31 W27 L6 L16 2.022 Kelly, Connor 698 626 W33 L20 L2S W30 L6 2.023 David, Jake 482 492 L7 Wl9 W34 L8 L14 2.024 Falk, David 467 501 W21 LS L13 W32 L1S 2.025 Shin, Jinhyun 435 574 Wl2 L9 W22 L4 Ll0 2.026 Kelly, Jim 0 578 L8 Wl 7 Ll0 L14 W29 2.027 Suchan, Benjamin 0 391 L14 W32 L21 L1S W34 2.028 Partherner, Alex 0 305 L1S L18 L30 W31 W32 2.029 Smith, Franklin 543 524 W9 L4 Lll L19 L26 1.030 Hallmark,Ivy 233 277 L4 L12 W28 L22 L19 1.031 Logan, Jonathan 418 333 LS L21 L6 L28 L17 0.032 Napier, Tasha 306 225 L3 L27 L19 L24 L28 0.033 Thomas, Jodie 121 Joo L22 L6 L17 L16 L18 0.034 Smith, Joselyn 0 100 L13 L16 L23 L17 L27 0.0

Grades Six-Twelve1 Ponedel,Benjamin 1079 1178 Wll W2 W3 W7 WS 5.02 Crobar, Woody 816 901 W2S Ll W23 Wl3 WlO 4.03 Garcia, David 794 935 W21 Wl3 Ll W9 W7 4.04 Yang,Tony 757 899 W20 Wl9 WlO LS W6 4.05 Moccasin, Michael 1028 1047 D12 Wl6 Wl8 W4 Ll 3.56 Young,Isaac 904 864 B L14 Wl 7 Wl8 L4 3.07 Henzie, Rex 883 896 W22 WlS Wl4 Ll L3 3.08 Evans, Griffin 866 842 L18 D12 W2S Wll D13 3.09 Yue, CaMn 841 791 W23 L18 WlS L3 Wl 7 3.0

10 Offenbacher, Char 836 846 Wl9 W20 L4 Wl4 L2 3.011 Letcher, Katie 692 722 Ll W2S W24 L8 Wl8 3.012Thomas, Justin 673 798 DS D8 L13 W22 Wl6 3.013 Letcher, Emily 1017 925 Wl7 L3 Wl2 L2 D8 2.514 Sylwester, Thomas 892 852 W24 W6 L7 Ll0 D1S 2.515 Shunk, Kevin 574 676 Wl6 L7 L9 W24 D14 2.516 Hustoles, Celine 1050 957 L1S LS Wl9 W23 L12 2.017Yenduru, Karthik 513 534 L13 W21 L6 W20 L9 2.018 Helzer, Alison 479 612 we W9 LS L6 Lll 2.019 Hazel, Ian 0 619 Ll0 L4 L16 W2S W24 2.020 Brusasco, Gaia 0 512 L4 Ll0 W21 L17 W23 2.021 Phillips,Alex 0 373 L3 L17 L20 B W22 2.0

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L7 L24 B L12 L21 1.0L9 B L2 L16 L20 1.0L14 W22 Lll L15 L19 1.0L2 Lll L8 L19 B 1.0

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Premier1 Rankin,Josh 1367 1437 Wl4 W8 W9 W2 4.02 Serres, Drew 1490 1487 Wll W7 W6 Ll 3.03 Kleshchev,Fedya 1401 1396 L8 Wl4 WlO W6 3.04 Russo,Andy 1180 1282 L13 Wl2 WS W7 3.05 Vaintrob,Dmitri 1360 1315 Wl6 L9 L4 W15 2.06 Mowery,Zane 1224 1260 Wl2 Wl3 L2 L3 2.07 Wang, Eddie 1207 1214 WlS L2 we L4 2.08 Kluber,Graeme 1169 1198 W3 Ll L7 W9 2.09 Viwak,Albert 952 1098 WlO WS Ll L8 2.0

10 Piebenga,Yuri 1277 1204 L9 Wl6 L3 D12 1.511 Taylor,Nevin 1188 1194 L2 Wl5 B U 1.512Arnold,Simon 0 1090 L6 L4 Wl4 Dl0 1.513 Webb, Mark 1524 1502 W4 L6 U U 1.014 Mathisen, Ryan 1028 1015 Ll L3 L12 Wl6 1.015 Foster,Raleigh 0 969 L7 Lll Wl6 LS 1.016 Pikus,Aaron 1126 954 LS Ll0 L15 L14 0.0

Mountain View May Scholastic Corvallis 5/21 TD: Dr Lisa Still1 Vincent-Hill, Nick 912 998 Wl6 Wl3 Wll W4 4.02 Button, Mitchel 1023 1014 W27 W6 L3 Wll 3.03 Vincent-Hill,Alex 926 931 Wl9 WlS W2 L8 3.04 Brumbaugh, Nathan 876 887 W23 Wl2 W9 Ll 3.05 Baumgartner,Jared 799 780 D24 Dl0 W23 Wl3 3.06 Vorse, Elijah 749 779 W20 L2 Wl6 Wl2 3.07 Jackson, Joshua 746 769 Wl8 L9 WlO Wl4 3.08 Pinard,Alex 733 788 Ll0 W28 Wl 7 W3 3.09 Brumbaugh,Matthi 624 653 "21"7 L4 D18 2.5

10 Arvey,Benjamin 0 783 we D5 L7 W21 2.511 Morrell, Ian 839 824 Wl7 Wl4 Ll L2 2.012 Provencher,Andrew 685 639 W28 L4 Wl9 L6 2.013 Keipp,Zachary 564 569 W25 Ll W24 L5 2.014 King, Kelli 548 557 W29 Lll WlS L7 2.015 Dickson, Ian 542 532 W30 L3 L14 W23 2.016 Still, Craig 475 497 Ll W25 L6 W24 2.017 Keith, Zahuma 438 464 Lll "26 L8 W25 2.018 Hansen,Travis 330 398 L7 D21 W20 D9 2.019 Langley,Matherin 380 376 L3 W30 L12 B 1.520 Still,Cara 202 224 L6 D24 L18 W30 1.521 Ruiz,Elijah 0 397 L9 D18 W30 Ll0 1.522 Mutschler,Jerika 584 584 W26 U U U 1.023 'sOOm,Dazmond 484 423 L4 W29 LS L1S 1.024Wells,Reid 416 364 D5 D20 L13 L16 1.025 Jackson, Joseph 0 231 L13 L16 W26 L17 1.026 Pinard,Jennifer 0 100 L22 L17 L2S B 1.027 Finn,Ian 406 403 L2 U U U 0.0-28 Bailey,Chauncela 0 253 L12 L8 U U 0.029 Langley,Olivia 0 100 L14 L23 U U 0.030 Slater,Josiah 0 100 L15 L19 L21 L20 0.0

SCC May Quads II 5122 TD: Fred Kleist1Bragg,David 2235 2237 - W W W 3.02 Hickey,Patrick 1720 1724 L - D W 1.53 Binz, Kevin 1620 1637 L D - W 1.54 Monahan,Darby 1607 1582 L L L - 0.01 Fryberg,Skylor 1561 1695 W6 W3 W2 3.02 Delson,Ben 1400 1433 W4 WS Ll 2.03 Roach,Erin 1461 1462 WSLl D4 1.54 Poyneer,Thomas 1207 1212 L2 B D3 1.55 Rosenthal,Michael 1520 1477 L3 L2 B 1.06 Emigh, Donald 1703 1688 Ll U U 0.0

PCC May Quads 5/4-20 TD: GregoriAlpemas1Hann,Anthony 1705 1745 - W W W 3.02 Lundin,Robert 1770 1742 L - W L 1.03 Esler,J Brian 1586 1580 L L - W 1.04 Becker,Brett 1494 1503 L W L - 1.0Phildo's Action Spokane 6/10 TD:PhillipWeyland

1 Collyer, Curt (2158) (2162) W9 W7 W3 3.02 Julian, John (1873) (1874) WlO we D7 2.53 Drake, Christopher (2004) (2002) W5 W4 Ll 2.04 Griffin, David (1523) (1526) Wll L3 WlO 2.05 Johnson, Vem (1278) (1297) L3 Wll we 2.06 Countryman, Zachary (1123) (1151) L7 W9 Wll 2.07 Steinocher, Kirk (1852) (1850) W6 Ll D2 1.58 Attwood, Adam (1455) (1440) Wl2 L2 LS 1.09 Waugh, James (1301) (1286) Ll L6 Wl2 1.0

10 Weyland, Ronald ID (1245) (1242) L2 Wl2 L4 1.011 Christiansen, Peter (922) ( 911) L4 L5 L6 0.012 Baker, Ted (0) (846) L8 Ll0 L9 0.0

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Matt's Musings

by Matthew Fleury

Castling, as a rule, is nonnally per-fonned whenthe pawns that fonnthe shield are intact, i.e.,

undoubled,unisolated,and, inmostcases,unmoved. There are situations (excus-ing, of course, the kingside fianchetto)when this "rule" can be violated. Andwhen it is, the reason is usually a strongcounterattack. A very famous exampleIS. . .

Sicilian Najdorf, Poisoned PawnGM Svetozar GligoricGM Robert J Fischer

Bled, CandidatesTournament 19591.e4 e5 2.tlJf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.tlJxd4tlJf6 5.tlJe3 a6 6.ilg5 e6 7.f4 ile78."f3 '8e7 9.0-0-0 tlJbd7 10.g4 b511.ilxf6 gxf6 12.f5 tlJe5 13.'t!'h3O-O!?

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At first glancethis is an insane-look-ing move due to Black's broken pawns,limitedpiece protection and the prospectof the White pieces floodingthe kingside.However, once the King goes to h8, andthe Rook comes to g8, Black's King willbe protected and the e5-square and g-filewill be his to use.

14.tlJee2 '\1>h815.tlJf4 Ilg8 16.llg1d5 17.fxe6 dxe4 18.tlJd5 't!'e5 19.tlJxe7 !be7 20.tlJf5 !lxe6 21.!lh6ild7 22.lld6 tlJxg4 23.llxg4 1!¥xf524.llxg8+ Ilxg8 25.llxf6 !ld526.lld6!1f5 27.1116 !lg5+ 28.!lxg5Ilxg5 29.1lxf7 ilg4 30.'\1>d2ilf3 31.'\1>e3Ilg132.ilh3Ile1+33.'\1>f4ild134.'\1>e5e3 35.ilf5 Ilg1 36.llxh7+'\1>g837.lle7 ilg4 38.ilxg4 Ilxg420

Broken Castling39.lle3 e2 40.lle3 Ilg2 41. '\1>d4e1='t!' 42.llxe1 lIxe243.llb1 '\1>1744.a3 '\1>e645.b31lxh2 46.'\1>e5 '\1>d747.'\1>b6lIa248.'\1>xa61lxa3+49.'\1>b7'\1>d650.'\1>b6'\1>d751.b41lh3 52.lle1lIh8 53. '\1>xb5 Ilb8+ 54. '\1>a4 lla8+55.'\1>b3 lIe8 56.llxe8 '\1>xc857.'\1>c4'\1>b8 Draw

Here is a masterful example:

Modern DefenseGM Vasser SeirawanGM Jonathan Speelman

Elista Olympiad 1998

1.d4 g6 2.e4 ilg7 3.c4 d6 4.tlJe3 tlJc65.ile3 e5 6.d5 tlJce77.g4 f5 8.f3 tlJh69.ile2 tlJ17 10.h4 tlJg8 11.exf5 gxf512.!ld2tlJf613.gxf5 hf514.tlJh3e415.tlJg5!1e7 16.tlJx17 '\1>x1717.fxe4tlJxe418.tlJxe4 !fxe4 19.0-0!

BIz.. . I7.......6...~5~.~.....4 .~.i¥. ~3 . ~ .~. - .2 ~D II.t.' ~.1 . d . .n=I

abcdefgh

Wonderful!!Whiteturns the kingsideair into a brutal attack. The finish was:

19...llhg8 20.ilh5+ '\1>f821.lIxf5+"xf5 22.ilg5 ile5 23.llf1 !lxf1+24.'\1>xf1'\1>g725.ile7 '\1>h826."h6ilg7 27.!fe6 hb2 28.il17llg3 1-0

French WinawerThe Gambiteers GuildDavid Taylor

correspondence 2002

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.tlJc3 ilb4 4.a3hc3+ 5.bxc3 dxe4 6.f3 c5

The Winkelman-Riemer Gambit,which was considered better for Blackuntil it was discoveredthat. . .

7.!fd2! tlJf6 8.fxe4 tlJxe4 9.!fe3 !fa510.ilb2!? f5 11.0-0-0!!

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. . . long-castlingcould and shouldbeplayed. The possibility of the c3- and d4-pawns advancingmakesthe positionverytense. Even though the pawns are bro-ken, it is very hard to attack the WhiteKing. Meanwhile, Black must look forcounterplay elsewhere and must try toblockade the pawns.

11...tlJd7 12.g4 tlJdf6 13.gxf5 exf514.tlJf3 ild715.llg1 0-0-0 16.tlJe5tlJd5 17.!le1 g6 18.ilg2 Ilhf8 19.ilxe4 fxe4 20.c4! '@xe1 21.lIgxe1

tlJf6 22.dxc5ilf5 23.lld6tlJh5 24.lled1Ilxd6 25.cxd6tlJf626.e5! tlJg427.d7+ '\1>e728.lld6 Ild829tlJxg4 hg430.ile5 lLxd731.1lxg6+ '\1>c832. Ilg7 lle8Draw

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FIDE Women.\'Ch-Fina1200J

1.d4 dS 2.e4 e6 3./l)e3 e6 4.e4 dxe4S./l)xe4 Ab4+ 6.Ad2 t!xd4 7.hb4t!xe4+ 8.Ae2 /l)a6 9.Ae3 16 10./l)f3/l)e7 11./l)d2 t!f4 12.g3 t!e713.AhS+ /l)g6 14.f4 0-0 15..e2 /l)e716.Af3/l)fS17.0-0-0

This castled position is not broken.but after. . .

17...iIb8 18./l)b3 eS 19.iId2 /l)b420!;t>b1 b621.iIhd1 as 22.a4!!

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. . . it is. White voluntarily destroys herown King's protection, with the idea ofslowing down the attack. The methodused is brave, for the a-pawn willbe hardto defend if it is ever attacked directly.

22.../l)e6 23.g4 /l)fe7 24.gS fxgS2S..g2! eS 26.fxeS AfS+ 27.t;t>a1ltlxeS 28.@xgS /l)7g6 29.t!g3 .e730.AdS+ t;t>h831./l)e1 iIbe8 32. iIe1t!e7 33.iIde2 fld7

Black finally eyes the a4-pawn, thethreat to which was ignored in favor ofmaterialism.

34.AxeS! /l)xe5 35. iIxe5 flxa4+36./l)a2

This exemplifies the principle"economy of defense" perfectly. Whiteneeds only a b-pawn and a Knight to de-fend the King, while all the other piecescan play more aggressively. The Blackpawns are no match for the extra Knight.

36...iIxeS37.flxeSAg638..d6 iIe839.iIxe8+ flxe8 40.tne3 hS 41..xb6a442..e6 1-0

Old Indian

FM Gregory KotlyarNM Filipp Frenkel

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1.d4 /l)f6 2.e4 d6 3./l)f3 Af5 4.g3 e6S.Ag2 h6 6./l)e3

13..a4+ Ad7 14..b3 b6 1s.Af1Ah6 16..a3 t;t>e7! 17.Ad3 Ae8 18.AgS hgS 19.hxg5 /l)h7 20.f4 tnd721.0-0

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While the protection is broken, theuse of the f-file must have been a mainconsideration, that along with White'sexcessively large lead in development.NM Frenkel defends in a very dashingmanner.

21.../l)e5 22.fxeS dxeS 23.g6 /l)g5!24./l)b5 a6 25.g7 iIg8 26.iIae1 axb5!27.ffxa8 tnxd3 28.iIed1 /l)eS29.d6+t;t>e830.!fdS IiIxg7 31..xe5+ t;t>f832.iIe1 Ab7 33.b4 tnh3+ 34.Wg2Axe4+ 3S./l)f3 f6! 36.!fd4 gxf3+37.t;t>xh3 .d7+ 38.t;t>h2 "8g4 39.t!xf6+ t;t>g840. IiIg1 1241 .t!xf2 /l)d342.d7 /l)xf2 43.d8=.+ t;t>h744.t!h4!fe2 4S.IiIe2 he2 0-1 .

As amazing as it seems, White willnot castle for fifteen more moves!

6...gS 7.h4 g4 8.tnh2 eS 9.e4 Ae610.d5 exdS 11.exd5 Ae8 12.Ae3 h5

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In "From Chess Life," we learn that Lany Evans andArturo Pomar scored 9.5-2.5 and tied for 1stplace in US Openheld in New Orleans, Louisiana. Each won $700 and Evanstook the title on tiebreaks. Mrs. Gisela Gresser won theWoman's title in New Orleans. George Krauss won the 49-player Southem Open. C. C. Bates won a 28-player Ala-bama event. Gene Shapiro topped 24 others in New Mexico.

Washington won the annual intemational match withBritish Columbia 22-8 in the A section and 9-6 in B Section.Elmars Zemgalis lost on board one to W. Jursevakis. Theyused to play each other in Latvia before World War II. Zemgalisusually won those games. Other players who might readthis article that took part were James McCormick and NormanAbramson. The playing site was Seven Cedars Pavilion inMount Vemon. The Mt. Vemon Chess Club was the host.All the Yakima players - Nelson, Edberg, Hoge, Falk andLaFreniere - won their games. This was Charles Joachim'seighth WA-BC match and he has not lost a game, scoring fivewins and three draws. In total, 58 Washington players tumedout, while 43 came from BC. This was the smallest BC tum-out in several years. This was the 9th WA-BC match.

The rest of World Championship match games betweenBotvinnik and Smyslov were given. The match ended 12-12,with both winning seven games, but Botvinnik kept the title.The article says that 2,000 spectators watched the final game.

57 names were listed on the Postal Chess Rating List.Tops was Greene. Twenty-six pages in this fme issue of theWashington Chess Letter.

Au~ust 2004

50 Years Ago

Washing1:on Chess Let:t:erAugust 1954

by Russell ..Rusty" Miller

John.s. DeWitt continues as Editor. R. R. Merk was thecirculation head with Ken W. Mulford as Publisher. Con-tributors: John N. Nourse("Nourse AdNauseam") , Fred H.Weaver ("From Chess Life"), Viktor Pupols ("Vox Pupoli"),Stephen Falk ("Chess Bits"), Dan E. Wade (feature writer),Ollie W. LaFreniere (feature writer). The Washington Opentoumament announcement again filled about If:.a page. Theevent was set for Labor Day Weekend at the Seattle ChessClub. The 1954 Washington Junior had been rescheduledfor Sept. 18-19 in Yakima.

The six-round Seafair Open, won by Ivars Dahlbergs(4.5-1.5) of Portland on tiebreaks over Ted (Eugene) Wamerof Seattle, was the subject of 3If:.-page report which includedthe 20-player crosstable. The only name in the crosstablestill around playing chess that I know is James McCormick.Roseburg won the Seattle City Championship that was con-ducted concurrently with the Seafair. Charles Joachim, whoscored four, was the toumament director and story writer.

As reported in the July issue, Ken Mulford of Seattlewon the Woodpusher toumament over eight other players.R. M. Collins of Tacoma was 2nd. A full crosstable was giventhis issue.

Northwest Chess 21

Peachcroft's World

A Day at the Mallby Donald Emigh

If there had been leaves, if there had been leaves, I say, theywould have been brown and yellow and hectic red, as itwas a beautiful fall day. But there were no leaves, for the

newten-acre shoppingmall nowstoodon this formerlywooded "You don't have a number," the man barked. "You'renotland north of the city. Onthis, the opening day of the mall, the part of the festivaland you can't be out there. You'renot regis-mall's vast parking lot was filled with bandstands, carnival tered." He stared at the two, taking in the tall, sharp-featuredrides, booths, concession stands, and several thousand happy Peachcroft and the shorter, considerably rounder Lenny. Hepebpleinafestivemood. Theyhadcometocelebratethemall's beganto smile. Finally,he said, "Tellyouwhat I'm goingto do,opening day and its promotional Performing Arts Festival. gents. This is your lucky day. Go ahead with your stuff out

The gen al th f th .L' h al.

ted b th there behind the food concessions. You can have some of theer erne 0 e U,;:IL1V, commumca y e ,

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U.ty Thr gh C mrad space that nobody wanted. I guess a couple of card tables can tcia ac ers was IViC m ou 0 e- .

. . , , ... . hurt anything." He abruptly bent once more over the computership and Purchasmg. Partlclpatmg artists had to show at least and b bing be.

t hi II h H h. I.L'. thi th.f . . egan punc a num r m 0 s ce pone. e ~lu.Uey

some respect lor s eme I they were to be elIgible for a di . ed fr his . d th ding bete himthousand dollar prize. The mayor himself was to select the SffiISS om mm e two men stan ore.winner, or winners, and present the check. That afternoon. "It will be as I told you, Lenny. No matter that the pomp-The mayor. There would be pictures in the papers. ous bureaucrat inside would not allow us to work with him.

At ten 0'clock on this eventful morning, Peachcroft and We will.~o much better out here, minglin~wi~ the citizens, inLenny, each carrying a card table and a pillow case full of the pavilions at the very heart of the festIval.chess equipment,exitedthe mall's main entranceand struggled The card tables had been placed side by side a few feetout onto the parking lot. Lenny, in addition, was straining from the dumpster behind the Burrito Palace. The c~essmenunder the added burden of two battered folding chairs. They had been setup, the clocks woundandthe foldingchairs placedmade their way to the organizer's table, set down in an open invitingly in front. It was Peachcroft's intention to play allspace several feet from the end of the building. The table was comers, on both boards simultaneouslyif the occasion arose,a sheet of plywood stretched across two sawhorses. A man for a dollar a game ifhe won and fifty cents ifhe lost. He wascradling a cell phone at his ear was bent over a computer, doing this for the Club. The moneyhe collectedwould go intostaring at the screen. He was shuffling papers with one hand, the Club's treasury.while with the other he was reaching for a coffee cup. Basil Penbrooke President of the Mall Association had, ,

Peachcroft rested his card table on the asphalt. Address- giventhe S Chess Club permissionto set up four tablesing the man behind the table, he said, "Where shall we set this insidethe mall. Penbrooke,an amateur player himself,thoughtup, my good man?" that a tasteful line of tables graced with beautiful chessmen

The man continued at his work He did not look up He wouldgive a touch of intellectual' class' to the book and com-said "Set up what?" . . puter area. "Let's do it!" he had told Freestable overthe phone.,. Freestable was the Club President. "That's a blah area over

, "That w~ch ~e have here, sir," Peachcroft resp~)llded. there, with books and batteries and computer what-not. Alittle'These matenal things that you see befo~eyou, th~eqUIpment show in the aisle out front might be just what we need. Go

and the accoutr~ents for an art and a SCI~ceca.T?edfo~ard ahead, and charge a fee if you want to, just make sure yourfrom ten centunes ago. Today, I myself wIll proVIdethe mtel- visitors understand that it's all non-profit that it is all for theleet and knowledge necessary to breathe life into these sym- benefit of the S Chess Club." ,bols from the past, these husks."

. .. . Peachcrofthad becomeaware of this projectonlythe nightAt this, the man qUIcklystraightened. Looking at Peach- before. This morning standingbefore the tables in the mall, he

croft, he clearedhis throat and said, "That may be, mister, but had beenastounded~learnfrom Freestablethat he had not beenha ' .. be ? 'V. , ha

w t s your reglstt:atIonnum ~; .IOUve got to ve a num- selectedas one of the players. In addition,the equipmentthat heber to set up anything out there. and Lennyhad carried in was, in no way,neededor wanted.

"We don't have a number," Lenny whimpered But that was an hour ago. Peachcroftand Lennyhad foundPeachcroft hastily cut in. "My friend means to say that a spot in the parking lot, as above narrated, and now were in

the S Chess Club is perhaps the premier civic organi- business. Peachcroft stood tall and imposing, one hand rest-zation in the city. The Club and its members are welcome ing lightly on a chess clock. Master now of his own tables, hiseverywhere,at any function. Indeed, the citizenry expect our grey eyes swept the vista before him.

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presence. Here is my card, as you may wish to verify what Ihave said." Peachcroft had taken his club membership cardfrom his wallet. He offered the bent and soiled card to the manacross the table. The man did not look at it.

,"Let Freestablesmirk and preen, Lenny. By day's end, we the fore, stepping quickly along as the obvious leader of the

shall know whetherit is better to labor here, in the field, or to troupe. He pulled up at the counter. Before he could saywait, likespiders,inthe mall. Aplayer or two at our tables, and anything, a panting cohort bumped forward and said to theour reputationwillbe, post haste, broadcast throughout the fes- clerk, "This is the mayor here, son. He needs two burritos."tival. Ah, if! am not mistaken,here comesour first lad now." A little irritably the mayor said "Youknow John I think, , "

A young man of eight or nine years came up to the tables I could have handledthat myself. But okay. Bring 'em aroundand, with no word or ceremony, immediatelysat down in one to the side. I'll be out there. I want to see what all the ruckusof the chairs. A man and a woman were a step or two behind is about."

him. The b<:,ylaid a bu~to, care~essly.wrappedin a.napkin, Themayor, a livelylittleman,was distinguishedonlyby hison the ~ble m fr?nt of him. ~e WIpedhi.smo~thon his sleeve suit inthat millingmob of children. He wadedin. He foughthisand s~d, over his ~houlder, See, D~ Just like I told you. I wayto thetables and,pushingbetweentwo parents,stoodwatch-saw this old guy WIththe chess sets. ing Peachcroft's performance. He was much impressed by

"And right you were, son," agreedthe man. To Peachcroft Peachcroft's comportment and by his apparent interest in thehe said, "My boy has recently learned the game. At school. education of his opponents. When Peachcroft, with much dig-Wouldyou mind if he played a few games with you?" nity, shookthe hand of the small winner of a game, the mayor

"Sir, it will be my pleasure," replied Peachcroft. "I shall n:'adeup his ~d. The mayorwas tired of the festival's~ingbe more than happy to instruct the youngster in some of the sm~ers and discor~ bands and he h~ always hated mImes.subtleties of the game. I must ask as recompense the small This man.before ~ knewhowto b~ p~ple togetherandsum of one dollarper game Not for myself of course but for howto buildenthustasm- agreeablequalitIesmonewhowouldthe benefit of the S 'Chess Club" , , represent the community. It was settled. He was the judge.

. Thismanbeforehimwouldreceivethe onethousanddollarprize.Lenny added, "Only fifty cents if he wins." Peachcroft . . .,

shrugged and turned his hands out, palms up. So we amve at the followmgday - the foll?wmgevenmg. " at the Club, to be exact. At the general meetmg before the

ThemansaId, <?h.Well,son,g~aheadandplaya~ games. eyening's play began, Freestable anouncedthat his three play-~ourmother~ I~ cheeryou011. He laughedand ~d a ham- ers had collecteda total of$148 fromthe gamestheyhad playedlikehandon his sons shoulderand gavePeachcrofta wink. at the IrnJll.Then it was Peachcroft's turn. Peachcroft,standing

The boy was an incredibly fast player, and, as Peachcroft on the podium at full height, handed Freestable the check hesoon discovered, incredibly accurate as well. Peachcroft lost had received from the mayor. Speaking in a slow, resonantthree games. At the end of the third game, the boy stood up voice,he said, "Youwill see, Mr. Freestable, that this onethou-and said, "Let's go, Dad. I've got to find Jamie and tell him sand dollar checkhas been constructed in the name of our ownabout this old guy. He's reallya pushover. Let's go find Jamie. S Chess Club. Today's newspapers show its presenta-I think he's over by the ferris wheel." tion by the mayor of our fair city. Take it from these hands,

"Jamie's learningchess, too," said the man. He put a dol- sir, ~ from the hands of the mayor." There was loud andlar bill and two quarters on the table and gave Peachcroft a sustamed applause.wink. "Billy's been teaching him." He and the woman took Freestable did not know what to say. He finally managedoff after Billy,whohad disappeared intothe crowd out beyond to mumble, "Thanks," and then stood there trying to smile.the Burrito Palace. "One thing more," said Peachcroft. He motionedto Lenny,

As Peachcroft had foreseen, the happy existence of his who came to the front and climbed onto the stage carrying achess tables soon spread throughout the grounds. Children box of receiptsfromthe day before. "Go ahead,Lenny." Lennyand their parents convergedon the site. By three in the after- cleared his throat. He said, "Wehave here an additional sixty-noon, the area was in chaos. Children milled about, shouting two dollars as our winningsfrom yesterday's games.This, too,and screaming. Fights broke out over whose turn it was to we present to the Club." There was applause.pla~. Parents.mobbed the tables, hooting and jeering and oc- Molewier, halfway back in the room, had a question. HecaslOnallytrymg to reach across and make moves themselves. rose to his feet and said, "Well, Peachcroft, Lenny calls that

Above it all ranged Peachcroft, confident, unruffled, money 'w~s.' That ~y be partly true, I suppose;, Nostooped slightly over the boards, turning with the move from doubt you did.manage to wm a game or two yesterday? Hetable to table. It was his maddeninglycalm demeanor,and the sat down. A npple of rude laughter spread through the room.runningcommentshe made as he played, that seemedto excite Peachcroft took a step forward and put his hands behindthe wild enthusiasmof the juvenile players. Occasionally,the his back and, after a moment, said, "My friend, the games thatraucous proceedingsbrought people from around the corner I played yesterday were priceless victories, every one. Withof the Burrito Palace to stand staring, purchased food forgot- those games, my abilities have attained, at last, a temperingten in their hands. . which will ensure against future defeat - and that is a victory

At the heightof this magnificentconfusion, a small group beyond measure."of men dressed in suits was seen arrowing in on the Burrito The meeting broke up. Molewier immediatelychallengedPalace itself. They came swiftlyon; a round, red-faced man at Peachcroft to a game. .

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Impro\'inl YourChess

Prototype for a Personalized Chess Book

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[This is the latest in a series of articles on improving yourchess by NM TomRowan. Earlier articles in this series are avail-ablefor viewing at Toms chess website, www.tomrowan.com.Sendyour questions, comments, and suggestions for future articles toTomat [email protected].]

A: arge chess library can sometimes be more of a hin-drance than a help. With such an embarrassment of.ches, you'll probably find yourself hopping from one

book to the next without getting full value from anyone ofthem. On the other hand, if you had only one book, getting fullvalue from it would be easier, but you'd miss out on what theother books can offer.

What I want is a single chess book that meets nearly allmy study needs. It'd be the book I'd pull from my shelfiflhad a whole month to study or just 15 minutes. Sounds goodso far, but the specifications are a teensy bit vague. Let's tryto pin down those specifications by examining how books pub-lished today fall short.

Opening books based on annotated illustrative games arethe type many chess players find the most useful. Let's startthere.

Strong points:

The games cover an opening I play.The games are complete; so I get to see how the open-

ing, middlegame, and endgame fit together as an in-tegrated whole.

The games are carefully selected to illustrate the keyideas of the opening.

The games are annotated to help me understand the rea-sons behind the moves.

Variations to the game continuation are illustrated bypartial or complete games.

Weak points:

Parts of the book are out of date. By the time the bookis in my hands, some of those main lines may havebecome historical footnotes, and the obscure sub-variations may have become the new main lines.

Variations and sub-variations are hard to follow on areal board. I often have to back up all the way to thebeginning of the game just to make sure I'm reset-ting the board correctly.

The book focuses on games and variations the authorthinks are important and not on the games and varia-tions I think are important.

The book completely overlooks the games I've played inthis opening, including the games from just last month.How am I supposed to improve my repertoire, if thebook doesn't remind me what I've been playing?

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Clearly these weaknesses are not the author's fault. He'sconstrained by the realities of the publishing world. You, how-ever, are not operating under these constraints. If you have aPC, you can correct these weaknesses and author your ownpersonalized chess book that corrects these weaknesses.

The chess database programs Scid (free), ChessBase (com-mercial), and Chess Assistant (commercial) have all theauthoring software you need. The key is to use the "merge"function (called ')oin" in Chess Assistant). When you're an-notating a game in your database, the merge function allowsyou to include one or more games as variations, automaticallyinserted where they diverge from the main game.

Many chess authors make heavy use of this merge func-tion when they're writing a book. The book is essentially aprintout of that part of the database that the author has se-lected to be the illustrative games. His annotations to the gamesbecome the text of the book, and all the merged games becomethe variations.

Since you'll want to keep your personalized chess bookup to date, don't bother printing it out. Just leave it as'a set ofgames in your database. Note that because you'll be "read-ing" your book by viewing the games and annotations in yourdatabase program, navigating through variations and sub-varia-tions can also be handled with the database program.

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Just decidingto maintain your personalized chess book inelectronic form as a collection of annotated games in a data-base has automatically fixed two of the weaknesses: how tokeep the book up to date and how to navigate variations.

Now the trickier question. How do you to select the illus-trative games and the mergedgamesthat will becomethe varia-tions? Don't you have the same problem other authors have?Won't you periodically have to update the book by replacingillustrative games that no longer reflect the main line you careabout?

I chose a solution that doesn't require any replacement ofillustrative games. I chose to make the games I've played bethe illustrative games. When I playa new game, I add it as anillustrative game. I merge in appropriate GM games as wellas previous games I've played in that line to serve as varia-tions.

In principle, I could periodically update my older illustra-tive games. That sounds like a lot of work, though, whichmeans I wouldn't keep doing it for long. It's probably notworth the effort anyway, since I'll be focusing my study efforton my latest games, not the older ones.

To get started creating your personalizedchess book, copyall of your annotated games to a new database that will serveas your book of illustrative games and variations. I call mine"rowan book."

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When I playa tournament game, I add it to my "rowan"database and annotate it. Then I copy it to "rowan_book" toserve as my latest illustrative game.

Next I look for key games in that line that I might want toinclude as variations for the illustrative game. To find these"variation" candidate games I look through:

My earlier games played in this line. - This helps mereviewwhat I've played before.

My books about this opening. - The author typicallyselects important and instructive games. Nearly allof these games are in one or more of my databases,so I don't have to re-enter the moves.

My databases of annotated games. - The Chess Infor-mant and Chesspublishing.comcollections are goodresources if you have them.

My databasesofunannotated games. The Weekin Chesscollection, updated weekly, is an excellent free re-source.

I use ECO openingcodes and tree searchesto helpme findcandidate "variation" games.

Most of my illustrative games include 10 or more gamesas variations. Here's an example with just 2 variation gamesso you can get an ~deahowthe result would look if you printedout your illustrativegame book-style. Rememberthat, in prac-tice, you'll probably want to forego the printing and just keepyour book of illustrative games in electronic form to facilitateupdating and to make navigating variations easier.

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1.e4 e6 2.d4 dS 3.ttJe3 ttJf6 4.ttd3 ~b4

4...dxe4 S.ttJxe4 ttJxe4 6.\I¥xe4 'iVdS7.Ad3 Ad7 8.'iVxdSexdS 9.~f4 ttJe6 10.e3 0-0-0 11.0-0-0 h6 12.h4 ~e713.ttJe2 gS 14.hxgS hxgS 1S.~e3 f6 16.ttJg3 Ad6 17.ttJfSAxfS 18.AxfS+ <t>b8 19.93 ttJe7 20.Ah7 e6 21.I!h3 <t>e722.I!dh1 I!df8 23.Ad3 I!xh3 24.I!xh3 I!f7 2S.I!hS <t>d726.<t>d1 g4 27.I!h4 fS 28.<t>e2 ttJg6 29.I!hS ttJe7 30.I!gS<t>e6 31.b3 I!f8 32.I!hS f4 33.gxf4 hf4 34.hf4 I!xf435. I!h8 <t>d736.a4 a6 37.b4 <t>d638. I!h6+ <t>e7 39. I!h2<t>d640.bS axbS 41.axbS exbS 42.AxbS ttJfS 43. I!h7 I!e4+44.<t>d2 I!f4 4S.<t>e2 I!e4+ 46.<t>f1 D:f4 47.<t>g2 I!f348.I!hS ttJg7 49.I!h6+ <t>e750.Ae2 I!xe3 51.hg4 Draw[Kuzmin, GennadiP (2S69)-Jaeimovic, Dragoljub (2S04) / 2.IECC(12), Ohrid MKD 2001]

4...cS S.exdS exdS 6.AgS cxd4 7.'iVxd4 Ae7 8.0-0-0ttJc6 9.\I¥a4 0-0 10.ttJf3 Ae6 11.ttJd4 'iVb6 12.Ae3 'iVc713.Ad3 a6 14.ttJxe6 fxe6 1S.'iVh4Ab416.ttJa4 bS 17.ttJcS\l¥f7 18.e3 ~aS 19.ttJb3 ~d8 20.tth3 I!e8 21.ttJd4 ttJeS22.Ac2 ttJc4 23.I!he1 g6 24.f4Ab6 2S.<t>b1 I!ad826.Ac1eS 27.GDe6e4 28.ttJxd8 r!xd8 29.fS ttJeS 30.fxg6 hxg6 31. I!f1I!d6 32.Axe4 tte8 33.~c2 ttJfg4 34.ttg3 b4 3S.h3 ttJf636.I!de1 GDfd737.~f4 I!e6 38.ii.b3 ttJc4 1-0 [Cartagena,Omar (2380)-Koploy, Paul (2330) / Closed Ch (4), San Fran-cisco, CA USA 1996]

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s.AgS dxe4 6.hf6 ttxf6 7.1Vxe4 ttJe6

Fuzzy thinking. A one-move threat, with possible laterideas of playing ...e6-eS. However,it's soonapparentthat ...e6-eS isn't practical.I haveto worryaboutWhiteattackingmyKing and playing d4-dS. White is developing normally andquickly, while I'm defending and untangling.

8.0-0-00-0 9.Ad3 g6 10.ttJf3 Ad6 11.h41Vf4+ 12.<t>b1ttJb413.hSii.d714.hxg6fxg61S.XLc4 iIaeB16.fle2<t>g717.iIh4 flfS 1B.a3 ttJdS 19.ttd2 Af4 20.ttd3 ttxd321.Axd3 ttJxc3+ 22.bxe3 Ae6 23.iIdh1 hS 24.iIe1 hf32S.gxf3 <t>h626.iIeh1

26.I!g1! (CRAFTY)and White is winning, because my in-tended 26...gS is answered by 27.I!xhS+.26...XLd227.ii.e4hc32B.iId1 e629.iIhh1 iIdB30.iId3ii.xd4 31 .iIg 1 gS

I have less than 10 minutes to make 10 moves; so I'm alittle rushed. I saw that it would be awkward to defend mypostion after White's coming I!d7, but 31... I!f6 is answeredby 32.I!gd1. I never even considered31...I!g8, which coversboth threats.

32.iIgd1 XLf633.iId7 g4

I hadn't considered 33...I!h8.

34.fxg4 hxg4 3S.f4 gxf3 36.hf3 iIxd7 37.I!xd7 ii.eS

37...I!g8 is better,but, at this point, I have less than aminute to make move 40.

3B.ile2 iIf2 39.ild3 <t>gS40. iIxb7 a5 41. iIa7 Ae342.<t>a2 I!fB 43.<t>b3ile1 44.I!e7 <bf4 Draw

Nothing fancy or difficult to create. Just my usual per-sonal annotations with a couple of other games merged in asvariations. In one convenient place, I can review my play inthe game and branch down a couple of variations to see whatothers have played.

Is this more work than simply annotating your games?Unfortunately, yes.

However, the good news is that the act of searching forthese variation games to be merged in is educational in itselfYou're forced to study some games played by strong playersto see which ones best serve your purpose. After you've madeyour selection and merged them into your illustrative game,you have a small piece of your personalized chess book fin-ished and ready to use.

You'll learn quite a bit just by searching for the games tomerge into your personalized chess book. You'll learn evenmore by browsing through it as it grows. Replay through yourown games, branching off occasionallyto seehow strongplay-ers played differently in the variation games. When you learnsomething new, add it to your annotations.

You may not have the chess insights of famous chess au-thors, but you have many advantages they don't. You don'thave to "freeze" the book for publication. You can also directthefocusrightwhereitshouldbe- onyou. .

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WCF Board Meeting 6/24/04Present Pres.-Kent McNall.V.P.-Duane Polich.Sec-Gary Dorfner. Treas. -RobertAlien. I.C. -CarolKleist. NWC Rep.-absent. S.D.-absent: Bus. MgrNWC- Eric Holcomb

The meeting was called to order at 7:02 pm. Theminutes were read. amended & approved.

Officers Reports:

Pres.: The Retreat is set for Sun. Aug. 15th inLynnwood. Kent will host it at his office.

V.P.:Will be working on more projects through outthe year.

I.C.: The WAClass Championship may be held atthe same site were the WAOpen was held. Thiswill be decided later. Carol said she wants to lookat other potential sites first. The lady vendor whowas selling children's books has yet to pay her fee.There were 220 players in all. 150 in the WAOpen.50 in the Scholastic & 20 in the Novice.

Sec.: No report.

Financial report There is $4694.77 on hand asof 6/24/04.

WAOpen $1716 profitWA Blitz 70 profitScholastic 570 profitTotal profit $2356

No report on money made on bulletins. Discussed 1.ways & means of improving tournament account-ing procedures. Motion to approve the financial 2.report was made by Mr. Dorfner & 2ndby Mr. Polich 3.passed.

NWC Report The WAOpen brought the member-ships back upto about 450 to 460 members. NWC 4.is about $1000 in the red. Kent is putting together 5.a marketing kit to be used at tournaments to pro-mote membership.

Scholastic Director: No report. absent.

Old Business:

Discussed Ethics Violations. Info has been sent tothe USCFEthics Committee. but there has been no 7.response from them so far. The WCF board may 8.or may not take further action. but willwait & seewhat the USCF does first. WCF letter of reprimandhas not been sent to the players in question.

Discussed the WAJr. Open. The Jr. Open still hasnot been USCF rated. The Treas. said that he stillhas not received a financial accountingforthis tour-nament.

Discussed the Denker &Polgar tournaments. Needto choose representatives & decide how muchmoney to give them. The WAScholastic Associa-tion is to give $1000.00 to the Denker Rep. A mo-tion was made by Mr. Polich & 2ndby Mr. Dorfnerto givethe Susan Polgar rep $200.00. passed.

Discussed holding the US Jr. Open &the US Open.In 2005 or 2006.

Amotion was made by Mr. Polich to table this itemof business until the retreat meeting &at that timedecide what action to take if a bid can be made for2005 & if not then a bid would be submitted for2006. 2nd Mr. Holcomb. passed. The New Tacoma

ConventionCenter was suggested as a possiblesite.It was felt that a committee should be formed tostudy & research these 2 tournaments. A motionwas made by Mr. Polich to do so. 2ndby Mr. Dorfner.passed. Chairman. Duane. committee members

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Gary. Tony. Carol. The Pres. outlined the followinglist of things the committee needs to look into:Whatbid package should look like. Financial commit-ment of WCF if any. talk to another national orga-nizer. time commitment to organize. man hours &number of people. Role WCF will play vs USCF.amount of site deposit. budget.

New Business:

Discussed the WA-OR match proposal submittedby Harley Greninger. This match would be held inHoquiam in 2005. Carol to follow up on it.

Discussed America's Foundation for Chess's pro-posal for a Internet Tournament of State Champi-ons. Carol to follow up on it.

Discussed the WA-BC match. It will be held in

Bellingham in Oct. Duane to follow up on it.

Discussed the WASr. Adult Championship. Garyhas it set for the weekend of Aug. 7-8 at the Uni-versity Place Library. A motion was made by Mr.Dorfner that the WCFsponsor &guarantee it. 2ndMrs. Kleist. passed.

Discussed the WAWoman's Championship. It wasdecided to table this item of business until the Re-treat Meeting.

The Pres. laid out his plan on how he wants to or-ganize & run the board meetings.

Take action on ideas that the board choosesto take action on.

To be effective as a body.That the board knows what they decide totake action on & they know what they canexpect from it.Appointing committees & chairmen.Committees would not be limited to boardmembers. They would also include outside vol-unteers at the discretion of the committeechairman.

6. Be able to appoint a committee to do such &such a thing & to then report to the board bya certain date.Goals & controls.Motion based consideration. That is what isthe board going to talk about & what will theboard decide on. what to make a motion on.

9. Set dates for board meetings & decide howoften board should meet.

10. Also e-mail the minutes to all board members

after the meetingA.S.A.P. &e-mail an agendato all board members a week before the nextmeeting so that board members can add anyitems to it that they may. The Pres. will then

create an agenda. Items not on the agendacan be considered. but will be consideredafter items on the agenda.

Discussed the WA Challenger's Cup. Date- Dec.11111& 12th. Deadline for CL. Aug. 10th. Kent willdonate $250.00 toward prize fund. Prize fund willbe guaranteed. Site-University Place Library. Amo-tion was made by Mr. Polich & 2ndby Mr. Dorfnerto create a committee to work out the. details &setup the format & budget &e-mail them to the boardmembers by Aug. 1st. passed. Carol was appointedchairman. Gary. Bob & Fred are committee mem-bers. CL ad needs to be e-mailed in by Aug. 10111.

Discussed the Business Manager of NWC beingon the WCF Board. Business Manager is not cur-rently on the board. Gary to research the archivesto find out why business manager & other posi-tions were removed from the board.

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Discussed the mail ballot for the constitution tobe put in the Sept. issue of NWC. Mail ballot willbe sent to the Sec.

Discussed the membership graph Mr. Dorfnermade up. Page 1 is a zip code map showing howmaf¥ members are in each location. Page 2 showshow membership has been going up & down overthe last few months. Gary was asked to includeUSCF membership. too.

The Pres. suggested holding the WAOpen in Spo-kane in 2006. Board needs to get the word outearly to EasternWash. first. Mr. Dorfner said thathe is stronglyagainstit. It was decided that theboard study this issue further. This item of busi-ness was then tabled until the planning meetingon Aug. 15111.Gary to research the Eastern Wash.tournaments from 2000 to 2004 to see how manyplayers played in each one. The Columbia Cup willalso be included.

Discussed future meetings.It was suggested thatthe board meet every 2 months. Pres. to e-mailproposed dates to board members. Next meetingwill be in Tacoma.

Discussed the WAClass. It was decided to form acommittee to work out the details & set up a for-mat & budget &then e-mail them out to the boardmembers. Kentsaid he wants to donate $1000.00for guaranteed sponsorship & $1000.00 for un-der writing sponsorship. Kent will be the Chair-man & Carol. Gary. Bob & Fred will be committeemembers. A motion was made by Mr. Dorfner &2ndby Mrs. Kleist to do this. passed.

The Pres. asked that if board members have anyideas for the Retreat meeting to e-mail them tohim. Retreat meeting will be open to volunteers &friends of the board.

The board needs to build a network of volunteerswho willserve on committees. etc. Bob suggestedhaving a TD work shop at the Wash. Class Cham-pionship or WA.Open.

Meeting adjourned at 9:58 pm

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Cu"ent standings (Includes all eventsthrough 7/11/04):

OregonMastersRaptis, NickHaessler,CarlZaikov,OlegGriffiths, MorganRowan,ThomasProchaska, PeterExpertsUn, BenjaminMartin, RogerSlye, DamonGutman, RichardMorris, MichaelHeywood,BillClass ASalisbury, BlakeBanner,RichardPhillips, BlakePritchett, PeteShitabata, RussellHerrera, RobertClass BGagnon, William 32.5Rosenbaum, David 24.0Gay, Daniel 19.0Peake, Ethan 19.0Gay, Patrick 19.0Ward, H H 18.0Class CRobinson,MarcusBecker, BrettArun, AdityaSerres, DrewSherrard, JerryJarvinen, JohnClass D and belowTerrill, MichaelWang, EddieTaylor,MichaelCampbell, PaulPerko, NeilSmith, JohnOverall Leaders1 Raptis,Nick 101.02 Un, Benjamin 60.53 Terrill, Michael 49.04 Salisbury, Blake 42.55 Banner,Richard 38.06 Phillips, Blake 37.57 Haessler,Carl 34.08 Pritchett, Pete 33.09 Gagnon,William 32.510 Robinson,Marcus 32.0

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supplement (they come out in even-num-bered months) to see if a new high isreached. The current standings abovearebased on changes from all supplements

Bragg,David 123.0 up to and including the August supple-Koons,Nat 62.5 mentPupals,Viktors 43.5 .Perez, Ignacio 29.5 As a result of the peak rating method, ,

Schill, William 29.0 players will never move down a class dur-Serper, Gregory 28.0 ing a GP year, but many will move up.Gale Geoffrey 100.0 Often the most active players are also theBart;on,Paul 61.0 most likely to be increasing their ratings.Collyer,Curt 56.0 Many of the leaders in this month's re-Drake, C~ristopher49.0 port havejust movedup a class. ThismaySelzler, Richard. 40.5 or maynotenhancetheir chancesofwin-Razenfekl,Yevgerny34.5. 1

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.ling a c ass pnze, epen ng on w 0 ISalready in that class. A case in point isMorgan Griffiths, who just moved intothe Master class. He remained at fourthplace in his class, but since the Oregonmaster class includes overall leader NickRaptis, Griffiths is about 40 points fur-

89.0 therbehindtheclassleader. Onthe other~.~ hand, Geoffrey Gale (WA), Blake53:0 Salisbury(OR),andPatrick Kirlin (WA)50.5 each movedup a class,but remained in49.5 firstplacein their

respectiveclasses.These moves

help those left be-hind, too. ElstonCloy, MichaelAkopov and WiI-

43.0 Ham Gagnon38.0 have assumed

;g.; first place in their29:0 classes due to the27.0 upward move-

ment of players123.0 they used to trail.100.0

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month's leadersinto class C (Kir-lin, Igor Ummeland Gene Milen-er). Other playerswho have movedup a class yet re-main on the leader

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board include Keegan Knutson, DavidRosenbaum and Daniel and Patrick Gay.

Congratulations to all the upwardly-mobile players. That is often a reward ofbeing an active tournament player, alongwith a shot at Christopher MemorialNorthwest Grand Prix cash prizes. If onlyI could find the time to get more activemyself. .. Well, there still is a lot of op-portunity to gain points (both GP and rat-ing varieties) before the year is over, andmany races are very close. (I suspect theOregon Open should help to juggle theOregon standings substantially. PerhapsI should make plans to go to Eugene. Youshouldtoo.) .

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Friday Night Upsetsby Gene Milener

Without occasional upsets therewould be less reason to playchess, or any other competi-

tion. By definitionupsets are infrequent,which can also make them more interest-ing. Beloware somerecentupsets inratedgames taken from Friday night play atthe Seattle Chess Club.

Each Friday night at the SCC is for oneround of rated games. Everyone who at-tendsgets a game,because directors Fredor Carol Kleist join in if there is an oddnumber of players. I like playing Fridaynights because there is no time to kill be-tween games, and because I do not workthe next day.

The winners of the games below arerelative new-comers to the SCC. Withwins like these, each has quicklybecomepart of club scene. Both Rick Lund andErin Roach have gotten back into chessafter not playing much since their youth.To those who lost these games, it is thehigh level of chess skill you usually de-feat us with that madethese victories spe-cial for the winners.

This is the first chess article I havewritten. Annotating chess games for anaudienceistrickierthan I expected. First,most scoresheets are nearly unreadable,and all I read had errors (approx every10-15 moves). I now have even morerespect for the NWC editor who eachmonthsdeciphersthese scrawls. Second,FRITZ8is a lopsidedanalyzingtool inthatit gives out only'?', never 'I'. A '?' is gen-erated when a player creates a big weak-ness in his position, or when he fails toexploit a big weakness in his opponent'sposition. It is hard to suppress the truthwhenFRITZbluntlydisplaysthe flaws. SoI fear being thought a scrooge for show-ing too many'?'. My lame excuse couldbe FRITZmade me show them.

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Sicilian Closed

Erin Roach (1490)Larry Hubbell (1762)

Seattle, SCC Friday Night 2004Annotations by Gene Milener and FRrrL81.e4 c5 2.li)f3 g6

Rarely played, 2%. Yet wins 47%.3.li)c3

3.c4 wins 59%; the text, only 49%.3.d4 is most common, 70%.

3...Ag7 4.g3 li)c6 5.Ag2 d6 6.0-0li)f6 7.d3 0-08. iIe1li)d7 9.Ae3li)d410.ffd2li)xf3+ 11.ilxf3li)e512.Ag2li)g413.iIab1li)xe314.fxe3 iIb815.d4 b6 16.li)e2 e6 17.c3 Ab7 18.c4 f519.d5 exd5 20.exd5 "f6 21.li)f4!iIfe8 22.li)e6 Ah6 23.ffd3 ~h8 24.

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The losing move. Black blunders bythe common error of assessing the newsquare (g5), but ignoring the old (f6).FRITZ recommended 27...a6, makingBlack better by -0.88£::..

28.li)xd6 iId7?

Now + 1.25 t!:.. FRITZrecommended28...Ad7 for +0.44t!:..

29.li)b5 a6 30 .li)c3 iId6 31 .~h 1 .h5

FRITZdislikes this move, now saying+1.22t!:.and again recommended 31...Ad7 for +0.75£::..

32.e4 Ae5 33..f3 !Ixf3 34.iIxf3Ad7 35.exf5 Axc3 36.bxc3 Axf537.11e7 iIbd8 38.iIfe3 g5 39.Ae4

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Fritz says 47...~f8 for +0.84t!:..48.a4 llf449.d6 llxc4 50.d7 iIxc3+51. ~f2 lld3 52. iIc8+ ~f7 53.d8="llxd8 54. llxd8 ~e6 55. ~e3 ~e556.11b8 ~d5 57.iIxb6 ~c4 58.iIb5~c3 59.~e4 c4 60.~f5 ~d2 61. iIxa51-0

Old Indian

Rick Lund (1593)Michael Darby (1896)

Seattle, SCC Friday Night 2004Annotations by Gene MiIener and FRrrL81.d4li)f6 2.li)f3 d6

2.li)f3 is second most common reply.2...d6 is a rare, frequency 3%, yet it wins46%.

3.Ag5li)bd7

Stats highly recommend 3.c4, whichwins 59%. 3...li)bd7 by far most fre-quent move. 3...Ag4 wins 75%, butbased on low frequency.4.li)bd2 h6

These fourth moves are the most fre-quently played.5.Ah4 c6

5...c6 takes us out of book, 5...g5being the most common alternative.6.e3 e5 7.li)e4 .a5+ 8.1Vd2 1Wxd2+9.li)exd2 g5 10.Ag3 li)h5 11.dxe5li)xg3 12.hxg3 g4 13.li)g1 li)xe5 14.li)c4 Ae6 15.li)xe5 dxe5 16.Ad3 Ag717.e4!

Rick's only long think, he wanted torestrain ...f7-fS. Now FRITZsays -O.62t!:..Over the next several moves, FRITZlikesBlack's position ever better, approaching-1.00 t!:.,because it hates g 1 for the Whiteknight.17...~e7 18.f3 iIad8 19.0-0-0 iId720.li)e2 llhd8 21.li)c3

White strengthens d1 to counterBlack's doubled rooks.

21...b5 22.a3 a5 23.Ae2 Af6

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Black begins a series of movesweaker than we usually see from Michael.Rick partly took advantage of these op-portunities, trying to trap Black's light-squared Bishop. Michael was unable tocalculate the correct escape. After 23.iLe2, FRITZsays Black is better by -0.75 /:!"and recommended 23...11d4 with

an eye toward ...b5-b4. FRITZseriouslyconsidered 23...11f8, aiming to play ...f?-f5. After the actual 23...iLf6?, FRITZsaysBlack is better by only -0.50LS. White'snext moves are exactly as FRITZrecom-mends. Note FRITZdoes not recommend24.11xh6.

24.11xd7+ llxd7 25.f4! exf426.gxf4iLd4

After 26.gxf4, FRITZsays game isdeadeven. FRITZrecommended26...lld427.iLd3 iLg7. After the actual 26...iLd4?, Black's e6-Bishop is too immo-bile, because it cannot escape f4-f5through the d7-Rook.Northwest Chess

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27.f5 Ae3+ 28.~b1 Ae429.Axg4lId2

FRITZsays game is even. At firstglance, this seems strange given thatWhite is up in material by one pawn.Now the calculationsgot too complexforboth players.30.Af3? ~f6??

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ing e2 as an escape square provided byBlack's Rook? Black's 30...~f6?? wasthe main losing move. It put White ahead+2.13/:!'. 30...b4 would have put Blackahead by -0.31 /:!,.

31.b3 b4 32.axb4 axb4 33.tlJd1lIxd1+ 34.lIxd1 Ab5 35.lId6+ ~e536.lId7 f6 37.~b2 Ad4+ 38.~e1Ae3+ 39. rbd1 Af4 40.lIe7+ ~d441.Ae2 ~e3 42.Axb5 exb5 43.lIb7~xe4 44. lIxb5 Ad6 45. ~e2 ~d446.lIb6 ~e5 47.lIb7 Af4 48.~d3Ag5 49. lIe7+ ~b5 50.~d4 ~b651.11e4 ~b5 52.~d5 Ae3 53.~e6Ag5 54. lIe8 Ah4 55. lIg8 ~e556. lIe8+ ~b5 57. ~d5 Af2 58. lIe6Ah4 59.lIe6 Ag5 60.~d6 Ah461.rbe7 <be5 62. lIe4 Ag5 63.<bf?~b5 64.~g6 ~e5 65.11g4 ~b566. lIxg5 1-0

FRITZrecommended30.tlJd1, expect- White trades his Rook for Black'sing 30...iLg5 in reply. Could Black have Bishop,knowingWhite's Kinghas a hugesavedhis c4-Bishopand the game by see- positionaladvantage. .

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