On May 6th, the CSCC had 11 members in attendance. The evening’s event was a double, round robin, blitz tournament (G5). I lost one game to Jeff Fox and one game to DuWayne Langseth to finish in clear first. Here are the results:

Score	Player
8.0	Paul Anderson
7.0	Jeff Fox
6.5	DuWayne Langseth
4.0	Justin Luebbe
3.5	Joe Fromme
1.0	Steven Firtko

Score	$	Place	Player

Open Section			

4.0	$700.00	1st	Dashzegve Sharavdorj
3.0	$102.50	2nd	Renard Anderson
3.0	$102.50	2nd	Brian Wall
3.0	$130.00	U2000	David Meliti
2.5	$28.33	U2000 2	Paul Anderson
2.5	$28.33	U2000 2	John Flores
2.5	$28.33	U2000 2	Larry Wutt
2.0	$60.00	U1800	Klaus Johnson
2.0	$60.00	U1800	Reuben Sbarge
2.0	$60.00	U1800	Anthea Carson

Reserve Section			

3.5	$115.00	1st	Cory Foster
3.5	$115.00	1st	Michael Dempsey
3.0	$86.25	U1400	Michael Wokurka
3.0	$86.25	U1400	Daniel Zhou
3.0	$86.25	U1400	Jeff Sallade
3.0	$86.25	U1400	Yelena Kandybey
1.5	$95.00	U1000	Kathy Schneider

Hello Everyone!

Hopefully all of you are enjoying the sporadic warm weather spring time affords us here in Colorado! I'm hoping that if you're out and about, you'll find time to make down to Agia Sophia sometime this summer!

Here are details:

When: Saturday, May 17th at 8pm
Where: Agia Sofia Coffee Shop & Bookstore, 2902 W. Colorado Ave 80904. Located on the NW corner of Colorado & 29th (directly west of the firestation) 719-632-3322
Who: Anyone! Just be sure to bring your own sets & clocks!

Please remember to support them if you're able to! (Even if it's not at our casual nights!)

Thank you!

~Renae

Tim, Tuesday, May 06, 2008 6:36 PM

That was funny :-) It was good seeing you over the weekend. I was happy to see Anthea take out Whinemiller, and then see Bill playing Dean Brown in the last round. You know when you are playing Dean Brown in the last round, you did something wrong :-)

Damian Nash, Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:10 PM

Thanks for mentioning the Western Colorado Open. Hope to see a couple of CS players here this weekend!

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Ok, Anderson, I know how you got over 1900. Shear luck! :)

I wish my opponents played like that! (http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/cs_chess/message/199) I played Sbarge and he didn't hand me a rook. In fact, he played best moves most of the time. I couldn't squeeze a tiny advantage out of the guy. Guess I'm just envious.

Now in that game with Doykos (http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/cs_chess/message/200), I have no idea what you were doing giving away pieces! Did I (and Rybka) miss something? I think he was +8 for most of the ending and simply missed your mate combination! Ok, I've roughed you up enough. I apologize.

The reason I voted for the Flores game was that you played almost exactly the way I would have. In fact, it transposed into my very exclusively-played (by me) opening. Another reason to vote for it was the absence of any mistakes. That and the because I couldn't vote for the other two. But that was a quality game.

Hey, didn't you used to have some software that allowed the viewer to use an interactive chess board where you could click on the moves and step through a game? Do you know where to get such a thing? I'm actually thinking of starting a web site to view and analyze games and it would be useful.

[Yes! I still use Fritz 8 to upload a chess game each week, which I am sure you could find at any of your finer chess engine retailers. I have included this week's game in its full clickable glory below, but you have to click the title of the game to be taken to that webpage. Of course, this week's title was taken from your insightful analysis of my play. I'm grateful for your comments, as I've been wondering myself, "How did I get over 1900 while other chess players, who have been playing much longer and studying much harder, still languish in the sub-1900 range?" Plus, I wasn't in the mood to write much this week.]

Luck Of The Draw (Click this link to view the game on your web browser)

(117) Flores,John (1805) - Anderson,Paul (1918) [B13]
Bobby Fischer Memorial Colorado Springs (4.3), 04.05.2008
[Fritz 8 (60s)]

B13: Caro-Kann: Exchange Variation and Panov-Botvinnik Attack
1.d4 c6 2.e4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 h6 last book move 6.Bf4 a6 Consolidates b5 7.Qb3 e6 8.Nf3 [8.c5 Nc6 9.Rd1 g5= ] 8...Be7 9.Bd3 0-0 [9...dxc4 10.Qxc4 b5 11.Qb3=/+ ] 10.0-0 dxc4=/+ 11.Bxc4 b5 12.Be2 Bb7 13.Rfd1 Nd5 14.Nxd5 Bxd5 A valuable piece 15.Qe3 Nd7 16.Ne5 Nb6 17.b3 Covers a4+c4 17...Bb7 18.Qg3 Bh4 19.Qg4 Bg5 20.Rd3 [20.Bxg5!? Qxg5 21.Qxg5 hxg5 22.Nd3+/= ] 20...Bxf4=/+ 21.Qxf4 Qg5 22.Qxg5 hxg5 23.Bf3 Bxf3 24.Nxf3 f6 Controls e5+g5 25.Rc1 Rac8 26.Rdc3 Rxc3 27.Rxc3 Rc8 28.Rc5 Kf7 29.Nd2 Rxc5 30.dxc5 Nd5 31.a3 a5 [31...b4 32.axb4 Nxb4 33.Ne4-/+ ] 32.Kf1 Ke7=/+ 33.a4 bxa4 34.bxa4 Nc3 35.Nc4 Nxa4 36.c6 Nc3 37.Nxa5 Kd6 38.f3 f5 39.Kf2 f4 40.g3 Nd5 41.Kg2 Nf6 42.gxf4 gxf4 43.Kh3 g5 44.Kg2 Nd5 45.Kh3 [>=45.Nc4+ and White is still in the game 45...Kxc6 46.Ne5+ Kd6 47.Nf7+ Ke7 48.Nxg5= ] 45...Ne3-+ 46.Nb7+ Kxc6 47.Nd8+ Kd5 48.Nf7 g4+ 49.fxg4 e5 50.g5 e4 51.g6 Ke6 [>=51...Nf5 52.Ng5 Ke5-/+ ] 52.Ng5+= Kf6 53.g7 Kxg7 54.Ne6+ Kf6 55.Nxf4 Kf5 56.Ne2 Nf1 57.Ng3+ Nxg3 58.Kxg3 Kg5 59.h3 e3 1/2-1/2

5/13 Bughouse tournament, CSCC
5/14,21,28 Poor Richard's Bookstore May Open final rounds, CSCC
5/17 DCC May Flowers Tour Event, CSCA
5/17-18 2008 Wyoming Open, CSCA
5/17 Agia Sophia coffee house, CSCC
5/20 Lecture by Club Champ Shaun MacMillan, CSCC

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/)
New Mexico Chess Organization: NMCO (http://www.nmchess.org/)