This Week In Chess
On March 10th, the CSCC had 10 members in attendance. Due to a lack of interest in the scheduled team event, the participants opted for club-rated ladder games (G30). Each player faced an opponent similar in rating in a 2 game match. Here is how the ladder players fared:
Score Player
2.0 DuWayne Langseth
2.0 Rhett Langseth
0.0 Paul Anderson
0.0 Dean Brown
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Game Of The Week
This week’s game comes from my list of upset victories. One of my goals when I started this newsletter was to publish all my USCF-rated wins over opponents within 25 points of my rating or higher. It was an easy way to choose a game for the week, and it also helped me focus on those things I was doing right. I have 47 upsets to date and only 4 left to publish.
Year # of upsets
1998 6
1999 2
2000 5
2001 7
2002 3
2003 5
2004 4
2005 3
2006 4
2007 3
2008 2
2009 3
However, this method is not without its flaws. I upset three people in quick events for which I have no record. Therefore, my upset list can never really be complete. In addition, I have upset a couple of people multiple times. In fact, two people make up one third (36%) of my upset victories. This means that I would have had to write about someone’s losses over and over and over. That seemed a little redundant and a little unfair to that opponent. So, I decided to pick several games from one person to post to the Yahoo! Group and write about the one that received the most votes. That way I still get all my upsets published, just not all in the newsletter. My most common upset victim is Jeff Fox who represents 21% of my victories. Of course, we have played more often than any other combination of players at the club in the past 12 years. Jeff holds the overall lead in wins with 27.5 to 25.5. However, I hold the lead in USCF-rated wins with 12 to 9. Most of the time, I was lower rated than Jeff and could play for a draw and wait for him to flag as he used up all his time trying to find a win. Oh, sure, some might say that was the lazy way to catch the Fox, but I would remind you that one should let sleeping dogs lie.
Lazy Dog Awakens
(Click this link to view the game on your web browser)
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(136) Anderson,Paul (1526) - Fox,Jeff (1700) [A10]
June Borborgyms Colorado Springs (3.1), 20.06.2000
[Fritz 8 (60s)]
A10: English Opening: Unusual Replies for Black
1.c4 g6 2.g3 Bg7 3.Bg2 d6 last book move 4.e3 c6 Consolidates d5 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Nge2 f5 7.0-0 Nf6 8.d4 0-0 9.b3 e5 10.dxe5 dxe5 11.e4 a5 12.Rb1 Na6 13.a3 Covers b4 13...Be6 14.Be3 Rfd8 15.Qc2 Rd7 16.Rbd1 Rad8 17.Rxd7 Rxd7 18.Rd1 Bf8 19.Rxd7 Qxd7 20.Bb6 Bxa3 21.Bxa5 Nb4 22.Bxb4 Bxb4 A valuable piece 23.Kf1 Qd6 24.Bh3? [24.exf5 gxf5 25.Kg1 Qc5-/+ ] 24...f4 [>=24...fxe4!? 25.Bxe6+ Qxe6-+ ] 25.Bxe6+-/+ Qxe6 26.Kg2 Qg4 [26...f3+!? 27.Kxf3 Qh3-/+ ] 27.Qd3 Kf7 28.f3 Qc8 [>=28...Qd7!? and Black hangs on 29.Qc2 g5= ] 29.gxf4+/- exf4 30.Nxf4 g5 31.Nfe2 Nh5 32.Qd4 [32.e5!? Kg7+- ] 32...Qe6 33.h3 Qc8 1-0
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Upcoming Events
3/17 Bughouse!!, CSCC
3/18,25 Poor Richard's Bookstore March Open - final rounds, CSCC
3/21 DCC March Madness, CSCA
3/21 casual chess at Agia Sophia coffee house, 2902 W Colorado, 8:00 PM, CSCC
3/24 Quads - USCF rated (G/30) or not (G/20), CSCC
3/27-29 Colorado Closed and Colorado Scholastic Closed, CSCA
For event details and additional events, see the following websites:
Colorado Springs Chess Club: CSCC (http://springschess.org/)
Boulder Chess Club: BCC (http://www.geocities.com/boulderchessclub/)
Colorado State Chess Association: CSCA (http://colorado-chess.com/)
Wyoming Chess Association: WCA (http://www.wyomingchess.com/)
Kansas Chess Association: KCA (http://www.kansaschess.org/)
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