tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20977818400599924762024-03-05T11:11:58.789-06:00Chicago Chess BlogNotes on chess in Chicago.Bill Brockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14550157556545540714noreply@blogger.comBlogger2199125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097781840059992476.post-25836337426193869412015-08-04T01:36:00.001-05:002015-08-07T00:38:12.933-05:00An astonishing oversightWhat would you play in the diagrammed position?
<div><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://kvchess.com/releases/latest/KnightVision.swf" width="100%" height="700"><param name="movie" value="http://kvchess.com/releases/latest/KnightVision.swf" /><param name="flashvars" value='orientation=V&tabmode=false&light=f4f4fF&dark=0072b9&bordertext=494949&headerforeground=ffffff&mtforeground=000000&mtvariations=FF0000&mtmainline=000000&mtbackground=ffffff&background=f0f0f0&initialmove=19&pgndata=[Event "iWYZE Garry Kasparov Chess Rapid"] [Site "Table Mountain, South Africa"] [Date "2012.03.22"] [EventDate "2012.03.22"] [Round "1"] [Result "0-1"] [White "Marcel Roberts"] [Black "Garry Kasparov"] [ECO "B06"] [WhiteElo "1838"] [BlackElo "2812"] [PlyCount "40"] 1.e4 g6 2.Nf3 Bg7 3.d4 d6 4.Bd3 Nf6 5.c4 Bg4 6.Nc3 O-O 7.Be3 Nc6 8.h3 Bxf3 9.Qxf3 Nd7 10.Ne2 Nb4 11.Bb1 c5 12.O-O Nc6 13.Rd1 Qb6 14.dxc5 Qxb2 15.Bd3 Nde5 16.Qg3 Nxd3 17.Rab1 Qxe2 18.Rd2 Nd4 19.Kh1 Nxf2%2B 20.Qxf2 Qxf2 0-1'/><p><iframe width='100%' height='700' src='http://kvchess.com/joo/latest/showpgn.html?tabmode=0&boardonly=1&background=f0f0f0&orientation=V&tabmode=false&light=f4f4fF&dark=0072b9&bordertext=494949&headerforeground=ffffff&mtforeground=000000&mtvariations=FF0000&mtmainline=000000&mtbackground=ffffff&background=f0f0f0&initialmove=19&pgndata=%5BEvent%20%22iWYZE%20Garry%20Kasparov%20Chess%20Rapid%22%5D%0A%5BSite%20%22Table%20Mountain%2C%20South%20Africa%22%5D%0A%5BDate%20%222012.03.22%22%5D%0A%5BEventDate%20%222012.03.22%22%5D%0A%5BRound%20%221%22%5D%0A%5BResult%20%220-1%22%5D%0A%5BWhite%20%22Marcel%20Roberts%22%5D%0A%5BBlack%20%22Garry%20Kasparov%22%5D%0A%5BECO%20%22B06%22%5D%0A%5BWhiteElo%20%221838%22%5D%0A%5BBlackElo%20%222812%22%5D%0A%5BPlyCount%20%2240%22%5D%0A%0A1.e4%20g6%202.Nf3%20Bg7%203.d4%20d6%204.Bd3%20Nf6%205.c4%20Bg4%206.Nc3%20O-O%207.Be3%0ANc6%208.h3%20Bxf3%209.Qxf3%20Nd7%2010.Ne2%20Nb4%2011.Bb1%20c5%2012.O-O%20Nc6%0A13.Rd1%20Qb6%2014.dxc5%20Qxb2%2015.Bd3%20Nde5%2016.Qg3%20Nxd3%2017.Rab1%20Qxe2%0A18.Rd2%20Nd4%2019.Kh1%20Nxf2+%2020.Qxf2%20Qxf2%200-1' border='no' seamless='seamless'><a href='http://kvchess.com/joo/latest/showpgn.html?pgndata=%5BEvent%20%22iWYZE%20Garry%20Kasparov%20Chess%20Rapid%22%5D%0A%5BSite%20%22Table%20Mountain%2C%20South%20Africa%22%5D%0A%5BDate%20%222012.03.22%22%5D%0A%5BEventDate%20%222012.03.22%22%5D%0A%5BRound%20%221%22%5D%0A%5BResult%20%220-1%22%5D%0A%5BWhite%20%22Marcel%20Roberts%22%5D%0A%5BBlack%20%22Garry%20Kasparov%22%5D%0A%5BECO%20%22B06%22%5D%0A%5BWhiteElo%20%221838%22%5D%0A%5BBlackElo%20%222812%22%5D%0A%5BPlyCount%20%2240%22%5D%0A%0A1.e4%20g6%202.Nf3%20Bg7%203.d4%20d6%204.Bd3%20Nf6%205.c4%20Bg4%206.Nc3%20O-O%207.Be3%0ANc6%208.h3%20Bxf3%209.Qxf3%20Nd7%2010.Ne2%20Nb4%2011.Bb1%20c5%2012.O-O%20Nc6%0A13.Rd1%20Qb6%2014.dxc5%20Qxb2%2015.Bd3%20Nde5%2016.Qg3%20Nxd3%2017.Rab1%20Qxe2%0A18.Rd2%20Nd4%2019.Kh1%20Nxf2+%2020.Qxf2%20Qxf2%200-1'>PGN</a></iframe></p></object></div>
If you said 10...Nde5! or 10...Nce5!, take full credit. White's position is already resignable after either knight move. White loses two pawns and is forced to move his king. Mega Database 2013 finds 18 games that reached the above position. In 15 of them, Black moved one of the knights to e5. He scored 14.5 points in those 15 games.<br><br>
If you said anything other than 10...N(either)-e5!, please enroll in Remedial Chess Tactics 101 forthwith. But don't feel too bad: you're in good company. Garry Kasparov, arguably the greatest player of all time, also missed it. He played the lemon 10...Nb4?, which would have allowed White to survive after 11.Bd2! when White is only a little worse (-0.47 according to Komodo 9.02). Instead, White played 11.Bb1? and was steamrollered.<br><br>
How long has the shot 10...Ne5! been known, you ask? For almost 90 years. It was first seen in Norman-Vidmar, Hastings 1925/26, which Black won in short order:
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This trap was given in Irving Chernev's book <i>Winning Chess Traps</i>, first published in 1946. The entire game appears, for example, in Chernev and Reinfeld's <i>The Fireside Book of Chess</i> (1949), as well as in more recent works such as the <i>Encyclopedia of Chess Miniatures</i> (2014) and Müller and Knaak's <i>222 Opening Traps After 1.d4</i> (2008). It is scarcely believable that Kasparov did not know of this old chestnut. Even if he somehow did not, it is mind-blowing that so great a tactical genius could miss so obvious a shot.Frederick Rhinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11728232939607408071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097781840059992476.post-42230741511669803602015-02-25T01:05:00.000-06:002015-02-25T02:00:56.907-06:00Nothing new under the sun II After playing Rhine-Boerkoel (see previous post), I found the following game, which has strikingly similar tactics. The most salient difference is that in the final position 18...Kxf7 isn't an option because of 19.Nxd8+. Had the game continued, Black would have had to take the queen, allowing White's rook to give perpetual check on g7 and h7.
<div><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://kvchess.com/releases/latest/KnightVision.swf" width="100%" height="700"><param name="movie" value="http://kvchess.com/releases/latest/KnightVision.swf" /><param name="flashvars" value='orientation=V&tabmode=false&light=f4f4fF&dark=0072b9&bordertext=494949&headerforeground=ffffff&mtforeground=000000&mtvariations=FF0000&mtmainline=000000&mtbackground=ffffff&background=f0f0f0&initialmove=31&pgndata=[Event "Gausdal"] [Site "Gausdal"] [Date "1992"] [EventDate "1992"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [White "Heikki Westerinen"] [Black "Konstantin Sakaev"] [ECO "B23"] [PlyCount "35"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 e6 3.Nge2 d6 4.g3 Nc6 5.Bg2 Nf6 6.O-O Be7 7.h3 O-O 8.d3 Rb8 9.f4 d5 10.exd5 exd5 11.f5 d4 12.Ne4 Nxe4 13.Bxe4 Bd6 14.Nf4 Ne5 15.Qh5 Re8 16.Ne6 g6 17.fxg6 hxg6 18.Rxf7 1/2-1/2'/><p><iframe width='100%' height='700' src='http://kvchess.com/joo/latest/showpgn.html?tabmode=0&boardonly=1&background=f0f0f0&orientation=V&tabmode=false&light=f4f4fF&dark=0072b9&bordertext=494949&headerforeground=ffffff&mtforeground=000000&mtvariations=FF0000&mtmainline=000000&mtbackground=ffffff&background=f0f0f0&initialmove=31&pgndata=%5BEvent%20%22Gausdal%22%5D%0A%5BSite%20%22Gausdal%22%5D%0A%5BDate%20%221992%22%5D%0A%5BEventDate%20%221992%22%5D%0A%5BResult%20%221/2-1/2%22%5D%0A%5BWhite%20%22Heikki%20Westerinen%22%5D%0A%5BBlack%20%22Konstantin%20Sakaev%22%5D%0A%5BECO%20%22B23%22%5D%0A%5BPlyCount%20%2235%22%5D%0A%0A1.e4%20c5%202.Nc3%20e6%203.Nge2%20d6%204.g3%20Nc6%205.Bg2%20Nf6%206.O-O%20Be7%207.h3%0AO-O%208.d3%20Rb8%209.f4%20d5%2010.exd5%20exd5%2011.f5%20d4%2012.Ne4%20Nxe4%2013.Bxe4%0ABd6%2014.Nf4%20Ne5%2015.Qh5%20Re8%2016.Ne6%20g6%2017.fxg6%20hxg6%2018.Rxf7%0A1/2-1/2' border='no' seamless='seamless'><a href='http://kvchess.com/joo/latest/showpgn.html?pgndata=%5BEvent%20%22Gausdal%22%5D%0A%5BSite%20%22Gausdal%22%5D%0A%5BDate%20%221992%22%5D%0A%5BEventDate%20%221992%22%5D%0A%5BResult%20%221/2-1/2%22%5D%0A%5BWhite%20%22Heikki%20Westerinen%22%5D%0A%5BBlack%20%22Konstantin%20Sakaev%22%5D%0A%5BECO%20%22B23%22%5D%0A%5BPlyCount%20%2235%22%5D%0A%0A1.e4%20c5%202.Nc3%20e6%203.Nge2%20d6%204.g3%20Nc6%205.Bg2%20Nf6%206.O-O%20Be7%207.h3%0AO-O%208.d3%20Rb8%209.f4%20d5%2010.exd5%20exd5%2011.f5%20d4%2012.Ne4%20Nxe4%2013.Bxe4%0ABd6%2014.Nf4%20Ne5%2015.Qh5%20Re8%2016.Ne6%20g6%2017.fxg6%20hxg6%2018.Rxf7%0A1/2-1/2'>PGN</a></iframe></p></object></div>Frederick Rhinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11728232939607408071noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097781840059992476.post-15259629971714798572015-02-24T10:12:00.000-06:002015-02-25T00:50:18.565-06:00A spectacular gameThis is one of my three favorite games that I have played. The others are <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1468358">K.Thompson-Rhine, 1992</a> and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1443742">Rhine-Sprenkle, 1981</a>. This is the only one of the three that isn't published in Chess Informant I should've submitted this one too, but I got lazy. It's a beautiful game, primarily because of my opponent's efforts - he sacrificed, or offered to sacrifice, a pawn, knight, bishop, rook, and queen - literally every kind of piece except his king. The cold, dispassionate engine (Houdini 3) tells me that had I played slightly differently (23.Qc2!), I would have had a large advantage. But as "Kinghunt" once observed on chessgames.com, "This is a King's Indian Defence - Black is always objectively lost until suddenly Black wins." Or draws, in this case.</br></br>
Up through 15.c5, the game was all book. My opponent's 15...c6!? was a novelty. I was quite happy after 23.Qb3, thinking that I was a pawn up for little compensation. I could meet 23...f3 with 24.g3 Qh3 25.Bf1. Boerkoel's 23...Ne3!! came as a huge shock. The main points are that Black threatens to win with both 24....Nxg2 25.Kxg2 f3+ and 24...f3 25.g3 Qh3 26.Bf1 Nxf1, and if White plays 24.fxe3, 24...fxe3 threatens 25...Qxh2#, 25...Qxe4, and 25...f2+. The subtle 23.Qc2! would have avoided this shot; since it would have guarded my knight, I could have met 23...Ne3?? with simply 24.fxe3 fxe3 25.g3 and wins. I still thought I was winning after 26.Kxf2. After 26...Bxg3+!, the light finally dawned: I had to allow perpetual check.
<div><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://kvchess.com/releases/latest/KnightVision.swf" width="100%" height="700"><param name="movie" value="http://kvchess.com/releases/latest/KnightVision.swf" /><param name="flashvars" value='orientation=V&tabmode=false&light=f4f4fF&dark=0072b9&bordertext=494949&headerforeground=ffffff&mtforeground=000000&mtvariations=FF0000&mtmainline=000000&mtbackground=ffffff&background=f0f0f0&initialmove=46&pgndata=[Event "1995 Golden Knights semifinals"] [Site "correspondence"] [Date "1996.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Frederick Rhine"] [Black "Antonie Boerkoel"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "E97"] [WhiteElo "2406"] [BlackElo "2243"] [PlyCount "65"] [EventDate "1996"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. O-O Nc6 8. d5 Ne7 9. b4 Nh5 10. Re1 f5 11. Ng5 Nf4 12. Bxf4 exf4 13. Rc1 Kh8 14. Bf3 Be5 15. c5 c6 {N} 16. exf5 Nxf5 17. dxc6 (17. Nge4 $1 {%2B1.15}) 17... Qxg5 18. cxb7 Bxb7 19. Bxb7 Rab8 20. Ne4 Qh4 21. Ba6 dxc5 (21... 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Compare the finishes of these two games. They reached identical positions except for the side on which White castled. In both, 15.Nxc6! is the killer, with the point that 15...bxc6 is met by 16.Qa6#, while 15...Qxe2 is met by the unusual checkmate 16.Nxa7#. The first game is No. 314 in Chernev's classic <i>The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess</i>. </br></br>
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Over sixty years later, I played this blitz game, without knowing of its predecessor:</br></br>
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The astute observer will notice that in my game, 14.Nxc6! was already possible. In fairness to Albert, who was my teammate on the Lane Tech High School chess team, this result was highly atypical of our games at the time. He was much stronger. Later we both became masters. Many years later, he co-founded the chessgames.com website.
Frederick Rhinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11728232939607408071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097781840059992476.post-8764434665750020662015-02-17T07:39:00.000-06:002015-02-17T07:39:22.917-06:00A typical sacrificeIn the game below, White was already in big trouble when he attempted to exploit the pin on my knight with 8.Ne4?? 8...Nxe4! was a typical sham sacrifice. After 9.Bxd8 Bb4+, Black will regain the sacrificed material with interest. In the final position, the threat of 15...Nd2 double check and mate was enough to induce my opponent to resign.
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Ne4 Nxg5 27. Qg6%2B Qg7 28. Qxd6 fxe3 29. Nxg5 Qxg5 30. Qxc6 e2 31. Rf3 e4 32. Qe6%2B Kg7 33. Qxe4 Rxf3 34. Qxf3 Re8 35. Re1 Qd2 36. Qg3%2B Kh7 37. Qf2 Kg8 38. d4 Qxb2 39. Qg3%2B Kf7 40. Qf4%2B Kg7 41. Qc7%2B Kf8 42. Qc5%2B Re7 43. d5 Qd2 44. Qf2%2B Ke8 45. c4 bxc4 46. bxc4 a5 47. Qg3 a4 48. Kh2 Qe3 49. Qg6%2B Kd8 50. Qd6%2B Ke8 51. Qc6%2B Kf7 52. d6 Qf4%2B 53. Kg1 Qe4 54. d7 Qd4%2B 55. Kh1 Qxd7 56. Qxh6 Qf5 57. Kh2 a3 58. Qd2 Qe5%2B 59. Kh1 Qe3 60. Qd5%2B Kg7 61. Qf5 Qg3 62. Qa5 a2 63. Kg1 Kh6 64. Qb6%2B Kh7 65. Qa5 Qxe1%2B 66. Qxe1 a1=Q 67. Qxa1 e1=Q%2B 68. Qxe1 Rxe1%2B 69. 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Black wins by force. Instead, White should play 6.Qh5+ g6 7.Qh4 exf4 8.exf4 Bd7 9.Nf3 Nb4 10.Bxd7+ Qxd7 11.Na3 O-O-O or 6.fxe5 fxe5 7.Nf3 Bg4 8.h3 Bxf3 9.Qxf3 Nf6 10.Nc3 a6, in either case with approximate equality. Note that in the game continuation, 14...Bf5!, staying in the middlegame, was even better than allowing White to go into a lost endgame.<br><br>
Note also that 10...Qxh1!, as played, was much better the tempting 10...Bg4?! I think that I once had the White side of this many years ago against James Fagan in a blitz tournament at the Elbo Room. White survives after 11.Nc3!, and now (a) 11...Qg6 12.Bxh8! Bxd1 13.Nxd1!, when White is only a little worse, or (b) 11...Qxh1 12.Qxg4 Qxg1+ 13.Ke2 Qxa1 14.Nxd5 Qh1 15.Qe6+ Be7 [15...Kd8 16.Nf6 (16.Bf6+ also draws) 16...Qg2+ 17.Kd3 Qf1+ 18.Ke4 Qh1+ 19.Kd3 with a draw by perpetual check] 16.Nxc7+ Kd8 17.Nxa8.<br><br>
<b>ADDENDUM:</b> White can also grab the pawn immediately on move 7 without first playing Bxc6+. It turns out that this is a better try, although still weak. After 7.Bxe5 Qh4+ 8.g3 Qe4 9.Bxg7 Qxh1 10.Qh5+ Ke7 11.Qh4+ Kf7 12.Bxh8 Qxg1+ 13.Bf1 Bf5 14.Nc3 Nge7 15.Ne2 Qh1 16.Bc3 Ne5 17.O-O-O Qe4 18.Qxe4 dxe4 Black is up a piece for two pawns. The alternative 11.Kf1 is clearly winning for Black after 11...Be6 12.Be2 Be5 13.Bxh8 [or 13.Bxe5 Nxe5 14.Qxe5 Rf8+ 15.Bf3 Rxf3+ 16.Ke2 Qxg1 17.Qxc7+ (17.Nc3 Qg2+ 18.Kd3 Nf6) 17... Kf6] 13...Rf8+ 14.Bf3 Bxh8.
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Frederick Rhinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11728232939607408071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097781840059992476.post-6189646266890662562014-12-17T00:25:00.000-06:002014-12-20T03:31:32.711-06:00Mate by castlingOver four years ago, I published a game where I administered checkmate <a href="http://chicagochess.blogspot.com/search/label/en%20passant">by capturing en passant</a>. Here I deliver another very rare form of checkmate: mate by castling. This appears to be comparable in rarity to mate by en passant. The only other examples of it that I've been able to find are <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1238144">P. Morphy-A. Morphy, New Orleans 1850</a>,
and <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1272123">Kvicala-NN, Prague 1875</a>. The famous game <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1259009">Ed. Lasker-Thomas, London 1912</a> is not an instance of this, since Edward Lasker in that game chose to play 18.Kd2# rather than 18.0-0-0#. Nor, it appears, is <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1037399">Prins-Day, Lugano (ol) 1968</a>, despite the score of that game given at chessgames.com, which shows the game ending with 31...0-0-0#. According to Day, the winner of the game, who should know, the game actually ended after 28...Qe4+. He writes, "And my opponent resigned, unwilling to investigate 29.K-B6 Q-B4+ 30.K-N7 Q-N3+ 31.K-R8 and Black has a choice of absurd mates." Raymond D. Keene (ed.), <i>Learn from the Grandmasters</i>, p. 108. Mate by castling is thus sufficiently rare that I have been unable to find an example of it occurring <i>in the entire 20th century!</i>
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It's a line of the King's Gambit that begins 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Nc3!?, deviating from the usual Kieseritzky prescription of 4.h4 g4 5.Ne5. The line is named for a 19th-century Dutch sea captain (not to be confused with Captain Evans, a Welshman). The natural response is 4...g4 5.Ne5 Qh4+, when White responds with the surprising 6.g3! fxg3 7.Qxg4! Now Black can and should trade queens, when Black will be a pawn up but White's lead in development and better pawn structure give him sufficient compensation.<br/><br/>
But who can resist the temptation to win a rook with 7...g2+ 8.Qxh4 gxh1=Q? Not many, according to the databases. But resist Black should, for after 9.Qh5! he is in big trouble. According to John Shaw in his <i>magnum opus</i> on the King's Gambit, Black's best chance is 9...Nh6! 10.d4 d6 11.Bxh6 dxe5 12.Qxe5+ Be6 13.Qxh8 Nd7 14.Bxf8 0-0-0 15.Qxh7 Nxf8 16.Qh6 Ng6 17.0-0-0 Rh8 18.Qd2 Qxh2 19.Qxh2 Rxh2 20.Bd3, when White is a pawn up in the endgame with good winning chances. In the game below, Black instead went down in flames, as he usually does in this line. White won a once-in-a-lifetime beauty of a game:
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Frederick Rhinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11728232939607408071noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097781840059992476.post-73667846524862626252014-08-19T16:04:00.001-05:002014-08-19T16:11:31.062-05:00Another trap in the Caro-Kann, Two Knights VariationBobby Fischer wrote in <i>My 60 Memorable Games</i> that the purpose of the Two Knights Variation against the Caro-Kann Defense (1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3) "is to exclude the possibility of" ...Bf5. As I've showed previously, <a href="http://chicagochess.blogspot.com/2010/07/important-trap-in-caro-kann.html">Black indeed gets in big trouble</a> if he proceeds in stereotyped fashion with 3...dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5?! 5.Ng3 Bg6?! But the Two Knights Variation is no one-trick pony. The following game shows another, much less-known trap in the 3...Bg4 line, which is considered Black's best. As the game and notes show, after 4.d4!?, Black gets in hot water if he tries to win a pawn with the natural 4...dxe4 5.Nxe4 Bxf3 6.Qxf3 Qxd4. Better is the solid 4...e6!, which gives Black a plus score in the databases.
Scott Thomson ("keypusher" on ChessGames.com) sets the stage for the game:
<blockquote>I don't have the score, but as our Secretary of State might say it is seared -- seared! in my memory. . . . It was when I lived in England in the early 90s, and for some reason -- perhaps a cholera epidemic -- I was playing first board for Wood Green in a team match. There was a pub next door, to which my opponent repaired after each move (which he took about five seconds on).</blockquote> Deceived by his opponent's alcohol consumption and seemingly reckless play, Scott proceeded to lose a miniature in humiliating fashion. We've all been there.<br/><br/>
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Frederick Rhinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11728232939607408071noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097781840059992476.post-2265813669007722252014-07-15T09:23:00.000-05:002014-07-15T09:23:53.573-05:00Hello world 2.0 - July 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
*Wakes up from 6½-month hibernation*<br />
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Kindly check out the <a href="http://www.chichess.org/blog/" target="_blank">Chicago Chess Center Blog</a>: I'll be hanging out there for the foreseeable future. As with all new web spaces, it may take us a little time to get up to speed....</div>
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Jim Froelich's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/155662254469928/" target="_blank">Chicago Area Chess usergroup</a> on Facebook is a great place to chat and gossip, and the <a href="http://il-chess.org/index.php/tournaments-all" target="_blank">Illinois Chess Association's tournament calendar</a>, maintained by the indefatigable Maret Thorpe, keeps you up-to-date on where to play. It's because of these two great resources that I didn't feel guilty about a sabbatical.</div>
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I'll certainly keep this blog up, and I may occasionally post things over here that are incompatible with the CCC's nonprofit mission. And of course, my very nice co-editors are always welcome to continute to use this space for anything of interest to the Chicago chess community or to woodpushers in general. Thanks to Keith Ammann, Vince Hart, Matt Pullin, Tom Panelas, and especially NM Frederick Rhine for their contributions. </div>
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Bill Brockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14550157556545540714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097781840059992476.post-81502003355388664912014-06-15T00:56:00.000-05:002014-06-15T00:56:25.974-05:00Another trap in From's GambitDO NOT play 1.f4 unless you have an answer ready for From's Gambit, 1...e5!? King's Gambiteers can happily play 2.e4. The line White played in the game was fine up to a point. IM Tim Taylor in his book <i>Bird's Opening</i> recommends 7.d4 Ng6 8.Nxg6 hxg6 9.Qd3! Nc6 10.c3! Bf5 11.e4 Qe7 12.Bg2 0-0-0 13.Be3 Bd7 14.Bf2!, when Black doesn't have enough compensation for the gambit pawn. Another line is 5.d4 g4 6.Ne5!, heading into a slightly better ending for White after 6...Bxe5 7.dxe5 Qxd1+ 8.Kxd1. Instead of playing these reasonable lines, most of my blitz opponents have played ridiculously and gotten crushed. A case in point:
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">I've read a string of wonderful stories in the last week about young Chicago-area players making their mark on their chessboard:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship is winding up today in Lubbock, Texas. Most of the young masters on the University of Illinois team are from the Chicago area. Today, the "walk-ons" play a much stronger team from Texas Tech (international players on chess scholarships!) to try to return to the Final Four of chess for a second consecutive year. Please join me in wishing Eric Rosen, Michael Auger, Xin Luo, and Akshay Indusekar the best of luck today</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">! By the time you read this, <a href="http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ttuchess/panam_results.php" target="_blank">you may be able to see whether the Illini qualified</a>.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">David Peng of Wilmette (whose coach is Grandmaster Dmitry Gurevich of Chicago) just won a silver medal in the World Under-10 Championship in Al-‘Ain, United Arab Emirates. Who won the gold medal in the same section? Awonder Liang of Wisconsin, who often studies with Chicago grandmasters.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">And just a couple of weeks ago, Sam Schmakel of Chicago's Whitney Young High School won his fifth national scholastic title. For this accomplishment, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/29/us/still-a-senior-in-high-school-and-a-five-time-champion.html?smid=pl-share" target="_blank">Sam was featured in yesterday's New York Times</a>.</span></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">I've played tournament games against six of these seven young people, and have analyzed with the seventh. I feel honored to know them!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">So chess in Chicago must be doing wonderfully, no? Not according to Dylan Loeb McClain, the author of the Schmakel feature:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Schmakel's school, Whitney Young High, is a magnet school that is part of the Chicago public school system and is where Michelle Obama graduated. </span><b style="color: #222222;">It was the only representative at the K–12 Championships from the city, which is not known as a chess stronghold.</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> More students are enrolled in scholastic chess programs and are sent to tournaments across the country from schools in New York, which sends more teams to competitions than any other city; Miami; Seattle; Portland, Ore.; and even Brownsville, Tex.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b>It is unusual for a city as large as Chicago, with 2.7 million people, to have only one school enter a tournament as prestigious as the K–12 Championships.</b> By comparison, Los Alamos, N.M., population 18,000, also sent one school.</span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">It helps to go to a great magnet school. It helps to have parents who are willing to make financial sacrifices in order to give their children the opportunity to succeed. But most of the talented young people in our city won't be admitted to Whitney Young. And many of their parents would love to give their children greater opportunities but are barely making ends meet.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">In my last fundraising pitch, I also asked for financial assistance to send teams from two Chicago West Side schools to the same Florida event at which Sam Schmakel won his fifth title. In the end, the schools could not accept the money that several kind people (including a CPS administrator) pledged. The airfares jumped in price as the deadline approached, and the trip was called off.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Could these kids have succeeded at Nationals? Of course they could have: the team from Faraday Elementary, which draws its students from some of the most dangerous neighborhoods on the West Side, just finished third in a December 14 Youth Chess Foundation of Chicago event.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">The Chicago Chess Center does not want to turn children away because their parents can't afford to pay us. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Please help us open our doors: please help us help them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Speaking only for myself, I don't have very much interest in turning young players into grandmasters. It matters more to me that one of my former students is a freshman at an Ivy League school than his having earned an International Master norm. Chess is a fun way to teach critical thinking skills, the skills that turn kids into high achievers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Children don't get to choose how much money their parents have, and they don't get to choose the neighborhood they are raised in. We want to be there for all of these children, but we can't do it without your support.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">We are fortunate to have GMs Dmitry Gurevich, Yury Shulman, Nikola Mitkov and Mesgen Amanov on our <a href="http://www.chichess.org/who-we-are/">advisory board</a>, which also includes leaders from Chicago's nonprofit and business community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">My friend and fellow board member Dave Ducat made a compelling pitch on <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Facebook</span></span> the other day. I can't improve on it, so I'll steal Dave's words:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Of course you're thinking that this is Chicago and that there has to be such a place already . . . an actual "Chicago Chess Center" somewhere . . . right?</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Nope.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">There is no physical "Chicago Chess Center" location in the city, and there hasn't been one within the city limits for<i> over 20 years.</i> Cities like St. Louis and Dallas have developed premier chess clubs, have set the new standard and have seen their international exposure and tourism increased over the last three to five years. I want that for Chicago. I want Chicago to become the center for chess in the United States, and I want it to set the example for other cities to follow.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I need your help to make the Chicago Chess Center a reality.</span></span> I need your financial contributions to create a physical location, centralized and within easy access of public transportation, so that chess-playing people of all ages, all walks of life, and all neighborhoods in and around the city can have a place to call their own. I need your help to shape the future of chess in Chicago and shape it with our youth in mind.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">When the CCC was founded, the board put together a campaign to raise $30,000 within a year to fund the acquisition, furnishing and rent of a suitable space to call the Chicago Chess Center. To date, through tireless solicitation by the board of directors as well as through key personal and corporate investments [...], we've been able to raise over half that amount [<i>we're now over $18,000—BB</i>]. It's my hope that you can find a few dollars to contribute to this worthy cause and help the CCC reach its goal of opening the doors of a new location in early 2014. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b><a href="https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/chicagochesscenter?code=web-ccb" target="_blank">We need your support</a></b></span></span><a href="https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/chicagochesscenter?code=web-ccb" target="_blank"> to make this happen.</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Please take a moment to <a href="http://www.chichess.org/" target="_blank">review our website and click the "Donate Now" button</a>. Please consider a donation of $50; however, any amount will be gratefully accepted. For the price of one latte a day for one week, you can make a lasting contribution to a worthwhile cause and help us achieve our mission.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bill again. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Without your financial support, we may not be able to fulfill our mission. And we are so close to opening our doors . </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Bill Brock<br />Treasurer</span><br />
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Bill Brockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14550157556545540714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097781840059992476.post-61466718555861751362013-12-26T14:09:00.001-06:002013-12-30T15:07:50.826-06:00David Peng at World Youth Championships<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
David has 7 points in 9 rounds!<br />
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UPDATE: He won again! Now 8-2! Tomorrow he faces Abdrashev Arlen of Kazakhstan, who just lost to Awonder Liang.<br />
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Cheesehead and honorary Chicagoan Awonder Liang leads the world with 9-0! <br />
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UPDATE: Make that 10-0! Tomorrow he faces Kaifeng Yu of China, who trails him by a full two points! That is the last round, so it looks like Awonder has already clinched the World Under-10 Championship outright, while David is fighting for second! We wish the best of luck (and skill) to both Awonder and David tomorrow.
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FINAL UPDATE: Yes, David won the World Under-10 silver medal and Awonder won his second gold medal! <a href="http://www.uschess.org/content/view/12481/735/" target="_blank">Story here.</a></div>
Bill Brockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14550157556545540714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097781840059992476.post-56204519180278995772013-11-29T14:42:00.001-06:002013-11-29T14:42:49.260-06:00CICL: Big upset for Tornado Snakes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The East Division of the Chicago Industrial Chess League is going to be interesting this year!<br />
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Mark Coleman scores a convincing upset against yours truly. (I have a backlog of recent losses to publish: it's therapeutic.)<br />
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Bill Brockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14550157556545540714noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097781840059992476.post-87919666606433769462013-11-27T14:31:00.000-06:002013-11-27T14:31:53.258-06:00"Freshman ranks #2 among US chessplayers"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.news.cornell.edu/sites/chronicle.cornell/files/Chess11-25.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.news.cornell.edu/sites/chronicle.cornell/files/Chess11-25.jpg" /></a></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I would have said "18-year-old US chessplayers," but what the heck.
<a href="http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/11/freshman-ranks-no-2-among-us-chess-players">Story here</a>.
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Bill Brockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14550157556545540714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097781840059992476.post-44865873490375890792013-11-21T09:52:00.000-06:002013-11-21T09:52:15.561-06:00Road trip: Kings Island Rd 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Hey, it's a blog.
<p>I had a casual dinner with Andrew Karklins at the Melrose a week ago Monday, and wound up playing him in Ohio on Friday. A perpetual cheapo salvages my iffy position.
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My former graduate school / barroom colleague Paul Catterson plays the game of his life. I have vowed revenge.<div>
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</div><div><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://kvchess.com/releases/latest/KnightVision.swf" width="80%" height="700"><param name="movie" value="http://kvchess.com/releases/latest/KnightVision.swf" /><param name="flashvars" value='orientation=V&tabmode=false&light=f4f4fF&dark=0072b9&bordertext=494949&headerforeground=ffffff&mtforeground=000000&mtvariations=FF0000&mtmainline=000000&mtbackground=ffffff&background=f0f0f0&initialmove=21&pgndata=[Event "casual"] [Site "GameKnot"] [Date "2013.11.12"] [Round "?"] [White "Brock, Bill"] [Black "Catterson, Paul"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C30"] [Annotator "Brock,Bill"] [PlyCount "52"] [EventDate "2013.11.13"] [SourceDate "2013.11.13"] {There are so many good lines against the King’s Gambit....} 1. e4 e5 2. f4 Bc5 3. Nf3 d6 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Bc4 Nc6 6. d3 Bg4 (6... a6) (6... Ng4) 7. Na4 O-O $1 8. Nxc5 dxc5 9. O-O Qd6 10. Qd2 Bxf3 11. gxf3 {all theory: both Marin and Shaw discuss this position} Nd4 $146 12. a4 $6 (12. c3 b5 13. fxe5 ({I spent a few minutes looking at} 13. cxd4 Qxd4%2B 14. Qf2 Qxf2%2B 15. Kxf2 bxc4 16. dxc4 Nd7 $14 {which would have been very sensible}) 13... Qxe5 14. cxd4 Qxd4%2B 15. Qf2 bxc4 16. Be3 $1 $14) (12. fxe5 Qxe5 13. a4 $14 {is straightforward (but I thought my king was too naked)} (13. c3 b5 14. cxd4 {transposes to the previous line})) (12. f5 $6 b5 $1 13. Bb3 c4 $1 14. dxc4 bxc4 15. Bxc4 $6 Qc5 $17) 12... exf4 13. Kh1 Nh5 14. c3 Ne6 (14... Nc6 $1 15. b4 cxb4 16. cxb4 Ne5 17. Qc3 Rfd8 {is difficult for White}) 15. b3 Ng5 16. Ba3 b6 {reasonable so far...} 17. Qg2 $2 ( 17. Qe1 $1 Qh6 {with the idea} 18. Qh4 $11) 17... Qh6 18. Rfd1 $4 (18. Kg1 Rad8 $15) 18... Ng3%2B $1 {I saw this move (that’s why I moved the rook)} 19. Kg1 Nh3%2B {(but hallucinated a flight square: it’s over)} 20. Qxh3 Qxh3 21. hxg3 Qxg3%2B 22. Kf1 Qxf3%2B 23. Ke1 Qe3%2B 24. Kf1 Qh3%2B 25. Ke1 Qg2 26. b4 f3 ({After} 26... f3 {I was too embarrassed to play} 27. Ra2 Qg3%2B {followed by opening lines for the rooks}) 0-1'/><p><iframe width='80%' height='700' src='http://kvchess.com/joo/latest/showpgn.html?tabmode=0&boardonly=1&background=f0f0f0&orientation=V&tabmode=false&light=f4f4fF&dark=0072b9&bordertext=494949&headerforeground=ffffff&mtforeground=000000&mtvariations=FF0000&mtmainline=000000&mtbackground=ffffff&background=f0f0f0&initialmove=21&pgndata=%5BEvent%20%22casual%22%5D%0A%5BSite%20%22GameKnot%22%5D%0A%5BDate%20%222013.11.12%22%5D%0A%5BRound%20%22%3F%22%5D%0A%5BWhite%20%22Brock%2C%20Bill%22%5D%0A%5BBlack%20%22Catterson%2C%20Paul%22%5D%0A%5BResult%20%220-1%22%5D%0A%5BECO%20%22C30%22%5D%0A%5BAnnotator%20%22Brock%2CBill%22%5D%0A%5BPlyCount%20%2252%22%5D%0A%5BEventDate%20%222013.11.13%22%5D%0A%5BSourceDate%20%222013.11.13%22%5D%0A%0A%201.%20e4%20e5%202.%20f4%20Bc5%0A3.%20Nf3%20d6%204.%20Nc3%20Nf6%205.%20Bc4%20Nc6%206.%20d3%20Bg4%20%20%207.%20Na4%20O-O%20%241%208.%0ANxc5%20dxc5%209.%20O-O%20Qd6%2010.%20Qd2%20Bxf3%2011.%20gxf3%20%20Nd4%20%24146%2012.%20a4%20%246%20%20%0A%2012...%20exf4%0A13.%20Kh1%20Nh5%2014.%20c3%20Ne6%20%2015.%20b3%20Ng5%2016.%20Ba3%20b6%20%2017.%20Qg2%20%242%20%2017...%20Qh6%2018.%20Rfd1%20%244%20%2018...%20Ng3+%20%241%20%2019.%20Kg1%20Nh3+%0A%2020.%20Qxh3%20Qxh3%2021.%20hxg3%20Qxg3+%0A22.%20Kf1%20Qxf3+%2023.%20Ke1%20Qe3+%2024.%20Kf1%20Qh3+%2025.%20Ke1%20Qg2%2026.%20b4%20f3%20%200-1' border='no' seamless='seamless'><a href='http://kvchess.com/joo/latest/showpgn.html?pgndata=%5BEvent%20%22casual%22%5D%0A%5BSite%20%22GameKnot%22%5D%0A%5BDate%20%222013.11.12%22%5D%0A%5BRound%20%22%3F%22%5D%0A%5BWhite%20%22Brock%2C%20Bill%22%5D%0A%5BBlack%20%22Catterson%2C%20Paul%22%5D%0A%5BResult%20%220-1%22%5D%0A%5BECO%20%22C30%22%5D%0A%5BAnnotator%20%22Brock%2CBill%22%5D%0A%5BPlyCount%20%2252%22%5D%0A%5BEventDate%20%222013.11.13%22%5D%0A%5BSourceDate%20%222013.11.13%22%5D%0A%0A%201.%20e4%20e5%202.%20f4%20Bc5%0A3.%20Nf3%20d6%204.%20Nc3%20Nf6%205.%20Bc4%20Nc6%206.%20d3%20Bg4%20%20%207.%20Na4%20O-O%20%241%208.%0ANxc5%20dxc5%209.%20O-O%20Qd6%2010.%20Qd2%20Bxf3%2011.%20gxf3%20%20Nd4%20%24146%2012.%20a4%20%246%20%20%0A%2012...%20exf4%0A13.%20Kh1%20Nh5%2014.%20c3%20Ne6%20%2015.%20b3%20Ng5%2016.%20Ba3%20b6%20%2017.%20Qg2%20%242%20%2017...%20Qh6%2018.%20Rfd1%20%244%20%2018...%20Ng3+%20%241%20%2019.%20Kg1%20Nh3+%0A%2020.%20Qxh3%20Qxh3%2021.%20hxg3%20Qxg3+%0A22.%20Kf1%20Qxf3+%2023.%20Ke1%20Qe3+%2024.%20Kf1%20Qh3+%2025.%20Ke1%20Qg2%2026.%20b4%20f3%20%200-1'>PGN</a></iframe></p></object></div>Bill Brockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14550157556545540714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097781840059992476.post-84197999331313580602013-11-12T06:31:00.000-06:002013-11-12T06:31:00.655-06:00Warm up for the big event at the Illinois Class Championships!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This year's Illinois Class is an affordable one-day event in Lisle. Have fun, warm up for the <a href="http://www.il-chess.org/index.php/tournaments-open/details/1088-greater-midwest-classic" target="_blank">Midwest Class Championships</a>, win <a href="http://www.il-chess.org/index.php/ica-tour-159" target="_blank">Tour Points</a>, and support the Illinois Chess Association. See you there!<br />
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A State Championship Event<br />Sunday, November 24, 2013<br />2013 Illinois Class Championships<br />An <a href="http://www.il-chess.org/index.php/rules" style="background-color: transparent; color: #36688c; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Illinois Chess Tour</a> Event</strong></div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4SS:</strong> G/60, 5 sec. increment. <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Location:</strong> Hilton Lisle/Naperville; 3003 Corporate West Drive; Lisle, Illinois, 60532; USA TEL: 1-630-505-0900, $89 + tax room rate if reserved by 6pm Nov 15th, mention Illinois Chess Association. </div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Six Sections:</strong> Master & Expert, Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D, U1200. For a fee, you may play up one section, but you must be an E player to play up into the Class D section. November rating supplement determines section eligibility. </div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prizes:</strong> Master & Expert (one section): $500-$200-$50. Classes A, B, C, D (four sections): $150-$75-$40 each section. U1200: Trophy-Medal-Medal (no cash prizes, tie breaks apply). Cash prizes based on 90 entries in MX through D sections.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EF:</strong> MX through D $40, U1200 $20, plus $5 for non-ICA members, plus $10 after Nov 17th. Play-up fee $20 cash, payable on-site. <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Free entry</strong> to GM, WGM, IM, WIM, FM, WFM FIDE titleholders who list Illinois as their state of residence with the USCF. Contact Tom Sprandel, secretary@il-chess.org, to register.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Registration:</strong> On-site 8:30 - 9:30am. Online <a href="http://shop.il-chess.org/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #36688c; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://shop.il-chess.org/</a> (ends 9:00pm, Nov 23rd). Or, mail check, name, USCF#, and phone number to: Class Championships; Illinois Chess Association, Inc.; 150 N Wacker Dr, Ste 3100; Chicago, IL 60606. (Must arrive by Nov 16th.) <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Round Times:</strong> 10:00am, 12:30pm, 3:00pm, 5:30pm. </div>
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Bill Brockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14550157556545540714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097781840059992476.post-4639769119917972232013-11-12T05:30:00.000-06:002013-11-12T05:30:00.863-06:00$10,000 in prizes at Greater Midwest Class Championships in Rosemont 11/29 to 12/1!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Yes, folks, that's $10,000!<br />
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You can choose between three-day and two-day schedules, too.<br />
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<a href="http://www.il-chess.org/index.php/tournaments-open/details/1088-greater-midwest-classic" target="_blank">Details here.</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.chessiq.com/events/greater-midwest-class-championships/" target="_blank">Enter here!</a></div>
Bill Brockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14550157556545540714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097781840059992476.post-46668978430861347372013-11-11T13:52:00.002-06:002013-11-11T13:52:27.685-06:00XX1 Chicago Latino Championships in Pilsen on November 30th<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Thanks to Hector Hernandez for running the 21st edition of this labor of love!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">5SS G/30. Non-rated. Chicago Public Library Lozano Branch, 1805 S. Loomis Street, Chicago, IL 60608. </span><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Schedule: Registration </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">is from 9-9:30 am on the day of the event only. </span><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Time:</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> 9:00 am - 4:30 pm 5. </span><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rounds: </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">10:00 am, 11:15 am, 1:00 pm, 2:15 pm, 3:30 pm. </span><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sections: </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Section I: Open to players 15 years of age and older. Section II: Open to players 14 years of age and younger. </span><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prizes: </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">10 trophies awarded in each section. </span><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Entry fee: </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Free. </span><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For more information:</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><a href="mailto:hernande@chipublib.org" style="background-color: white; color: #36688c; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">hernande@chipublib.org</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> or (312) 746-4329</span></div>
Bill Brockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14550157556545540714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2097781840059992476.post-79473679674309206342013-11-11T13:10:00.001-06:002013-11-11T13:11:29.958-06:00Hmm, November 16th is a busy day....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Two nice events at Whitney Young (but a bit of a scheduling snafu), as there's <a href="http://chicagochess.blogspot.com/2013/11/youth-chess-foundation-of-chicago.html" target="_blank">a great unrated scholastic event in the city</a> and a great <a href="http://chicagochess.blogspot.com/2013/11/all-grade-championship-this-november.html" target="_blank">USCF-rated state championship event in the Twin Cities</a>. Oh well: there are only so many weekends in the year, and stuff like this happens. The trick is to minimize the calendar conflicts....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;">But note the Winter Camp on January 2-3, 2014. Michael Auger is simply wonderful with children! (He's not bad with AARP members like me, either.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;"><u style="color: #222222;"><b>K-8 Chess Tournament</b></u><u style="color: #222222;"><b>:</b></u><b style="color: #222222;"><br />Date: <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1355272787" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">November 16th, 2013</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">Place: <span class="il">Whitney</span> Young High School (2nd Floor Library) 211 S Laflin, Chicago<br />Schedule: 4 rounds, Game 30, Check in <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1355272788" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">9:00-9:45am</span></span>, 1st round begins at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1355272789" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">10am</span></span>, last round ends around <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1355272790" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">2pm</span></span><br />Sections: All USCF Rated: K-2, K-8 Open, and K-8 U1000; USCF membership is required and can be purchased at the event.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">Entry Fee: $20 online registration by 11/15, $25 on site.<br />Awards are given to the top 5 individuals and top team (3 players) in each section.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;"><br /><b>Register at </b><a href="http://www.chesskash.com/" style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">www.chesskash.com</a><br /><big><u><b><br /></b></u></big></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;"><b><u><br /></u></b>All Camps run from <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1355272791" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">9am - 2pm</span></span>, feature master level instruction, include lunch, both casual and tournament play, including blitz and bughouse, and recess usually in a gym or outside.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;"><br /><b><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1355272792" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">January 2-3</span></span></b><b> @ <span class="il">Whitney</span> Young High School</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;"><br />Featured instructors: National Master Michael Auger and State Champion Chess Coach Paul Kash<br />Entry Fee $50 per day</span></div>
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Mark Nibellin and the Bloomington-Normal crew always run a great event. My personal opinion: if your child has USCF tournament experience at any level and is grades K-8, a road trip to the All-Grade is not to be missed!<br />
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<a href="http://il-chess.org/index.php/youthnews/610-all-grade-championship-a-month-away" target="_blank">ICA announcement here</a>.</div>
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The Illinois All Grade state championship is coming up on November 16th. This is one of the two most important events for Illinois’ scholastic players in grades K-12. </div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Event Details</strong>: Bone Student Center, Illinois State University, 100 N. University St., Normal, IL 61761</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Schedule</strong>: Arrive by 8:30 Rd 1 begins at 9:00 am. Subsequent rounds begin a minimum of 15 minutes from the last game completed in each section’s previous round.</span></div>
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K-3: 5 rounds, Swiss system, G/30 </div>
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6-12: 4 rounds, Swiss system, G/60</div>
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Players must come from the state of Illinois. Top three players count toward team score. No Club Teams. No byes last round. Byes for any single round must be requested before the end of the first round. Only one bye allowed for tournament. All other rules/regulations shall be in accordance to ICA By-laws and the USCF Rulebook.</div>
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Each grade K-1 and 6-8 10 individual trophies and 3 team trophies.</div>
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Each grade 2-5 15 individual trophies and 5 team trophies.</div>
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Each grade 9-12 3 individual trophies and 3 team trophies.</div>
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