Showing posts with label Sonny Mata. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sonny Mata. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Chicago Industrial Chess League season underway

As always, check out the latest results at the fabulous CICL site.  I play for the AMA Rogue Squadron in the East Division: we won a tough match on Monday against Blue Cross / Blue Shield 4-2.  Our teammate Jim Duffy lost a very interesting game to Sonny Mata, and it took me a long time to figure out the computer evaluations in this very interesting ending.  Please take the following notes with a large grain of salt: I'm still not sure I understand what was going on, and computers are not to be trusted in rook endings!





 After 40.Kc2
Black to play: how to stop the e-pawn?

Analysis diagram
White to play and win: harder than it looks!