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Keep it up. Keep blogging. Looking to reading your next post. <a href="http://www.win-at-chess.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.win-at-chess.com</a><br />buy backlinkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010110060210863163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845009903340716413.post-22146356218147354212017-06-08T07:49:05.953-07:002017-06-08T07:49:05.953-07:00http://blog.rochesterchessclub.org/2013/04/abraham...http://blog.rochesterchessclub.org/2013/04/abraham-glasser-wins-16th-annual-cccr.html?showComment=1496933286780#c6813448090170390639buy backlinkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010110060210863163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845009903340716413.post-76754936071865791502017-05-10T08:46:30.863-07:002017-05-10T08:46:30.863-07:00Wonderful article, thanks for putting this togethe...Wonderful article, thanks for putting this together! This is obviously one great post. Thanks for the valuable information and insights you have so provided here. <a href="http://www.chess-forum.com/" rel="nofollow">Join me on Chess Forum</a><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17454961560287048593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845009903340716413.post-48524330896616866962016-03-21T09:10:01.996-07:002016-03-21T09:10:01.996-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07334480086571571152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845009903340716413.post-76119944166460011302015-12-04T19:01:17.308-08:002015-12-04T19:01:17.308-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.FADO Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07721276106081810981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845009903340716413.post-77941607146400953282015-11-27T18:58:09.408-08:002015-11-27T18:58:09.408-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12116079799963923879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845009903340716413.post-25952600289587299612015-06-01T22:56:44.236-07:002015-06-01T22:56:44.236-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14275630866116149378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845009903340716413.post-55368013018828205432006-06-02T21:49:00.000-07:002006-06-02T21:49:00.000-07:00You are absolutely correct about the unnecessary n...You are absolutely correct about the unnecessary noise, David . These distractions need to stop. I appluade your courage in bringing this issue up again , as everybody needs to be aware of it . Can't we all get along with quiet in the chess club? That is the question. The Miltonian Institutecarey600 MSNhttp://msn-carey600.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845009903340716413.post-18537761042796349552007-07-22T16:14:00.000-07:002007-07-22T16:14:00.000-07:00Caley, you should start I new message, this one is...Caley, you should start I new message, this one is getting way too long. I have enjoyed it though, thanks for contributuing...chuck_ensey1 MSNhttp://msn-chuck_ensey1.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845009903340716413.post-82031134730738982722007-07-18T21:54:00.000-07:002007-07-18T21:54:00.000-07:00Yep, I've got it. I agree that the winning ch...Yep, I've got it. I agree that the winning chances are mostly mine, but at the time I calculated that no matter what pawn pushes I executed over on the Kingside, Black would be able to just plant his King over there and prevent any trouble. I can't tell yet what kinds of positions flow if I had continued this game, but you're right; it is very hard for me to get in much trouble.krazycaley MSNhttp://msn-krazycaley.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845009903340716413.post-62733858709681677172007-07-18T20:54:00.000-07:002007-07-18T20:54:00.000-07:00does this attachment work??Attachment: out.gifdoes this attachment work??<br><br>Attachment: <a href="/journal/item/3737/out.gif" rel="nofollow">out.gif</a>andypbell MSNhttp://msn-andypbell.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845009903340716413.post-79131777177039927372007-07-18T20:53:00.000-07:002007-07-18T20:53:00.000-07:00I disagree with the draw...I think white has an ed...I disagree with the draw...I think white has an edge...final position is attached (white to move):<br><br>It seems that h4 leads to good prospects and that you had all the chances here. Yes, it's almost certainly a draw with best play but I think you should have pushed here given your favorable position -- I remember being surprised when I was watching the game at the club and seeing the final position.<br><br>Thanks for the annotation.<br><br>-Andrew<br><br>andypbell MSNhttp://msn-andypbell.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845009903340716413.post-13789457708567844872007-07-18T20:18:00.000-07:002007-07-18T20:18:00.000-07:00Next up, Round 6 of the Reserve Championship. To ...Next up, Round 6 of the Reserve Championship. To even have a hope of catching undefeated Vincent Broman in Round 7, I had to take at least a half-point away from this game. Still, a win was really needed, as then I could control my own fate in the final round. [Event "2007 Championship"] [Site "San Diego Chess Club"] [Date "2007.3.28"] [White "Anderson, Caley"] [Black "Broman, Vincent"] [Round "6"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [Opening "Queen's Pawn Game"] [Annotator "Anderson, Caley"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 h6 {Far from unheard of.} 3. Nc3 c5 4. d5 e6 5. e4 exd5 6. exd5 d6 7. Nf3 Be7 8. Bd3 O-O 9. O-O Re8 10. Bf4 Bg4 11. h3 Bh5 12. g4! Bg6?! {White's 12th move, a bold provocation, nearly forces the sacrifice 12...Nxg6, with a whirlwind position that White will win if he can successfully defend against Black's strong attack. Instead, this retreat gives White a commanding positional advantage.} 13. Bxg6 fxg6 14. Qd3 g5 15. Bg3 Nbd7 {The White bishop wants to keep watching d6, and Black must complete development quickly.} 16. Rfe1 Nf8! {This is a very good prophylactic move that takes away many of White's attacking options. "Never a mate with a knight on f8" was very clearly in Black's mind. Few players would take two tempi just to shift the queenside knight over to f8 in this situation, but it is what must be done.} 17. Re3 Qd7 18. Nh2 N8h7 19. Rae1 a6 20. a4 b6 {The queenside has essentially stabilized, and now White has a slight space advantage spread over the entire board. Black's defensive resources are very great, nonetheless.} 21. b3 Bf8! {Another very good defensive move. Black knows that active play is very difficult to initiate just now, so he fortifies what he has and makes it nearly impenetrable.} 22. Rxe8? Rxe8 23. Rxe8 Qxe8 24. Qe3 Kf7 {White wastes most of his advantage with these exchanges. 22. Re6!! was the right way to proceed, increasing the pressure on e6 and daring Black to create a deadly passed pawn by exchanging. White is still ahead, but not by much.} 25. Qxe8+ Nxe8 26. f3?! Nhf6 {White's 26th move wastes whatever momentum he had left. f4! is the way to go.} 27. Nf1 Nd7 28. Kf2 g6 29. Nd2? Bg7 {29. Ne4! keeps up the pressure.} 30. Nde4 Bd4+ {The game is pretty clearly drawn now.} 31. Ke2 Ne5 {Here Black offered a draw, which was accepted. White's only plan is to play f4, then trying to exchange knights by playing Nf3, then trading off one pawn each on the kingside, THEN using the White king to attack the remaining Black kingside pawn. It is doubtful that Black will sit by and allow this.} 1/2-1/2krazycaley MSNhttp://msn-krazycaley.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845009903340716413.post-43663015982354627552007-06-07T06:26:00.000-07:002007-06-07T06:26:00.000-07:00[Event "2007 Championships"] [Site "...[Event "2007 Championships"] [Site "San Diego Chess Club"] [Date "2007.3.7"] [Round "3"] [White "Wijaya, William"] [Black "Anderson, Caley"] [Result "0-1"] [Opening "French Unorthodox"] [Annotator "Anderson, Caley"] 1. e4 e6 2. c3 d5 {I've never seen this before, but there doesn't seem to be an obvious way for Black to refute it. Perhaps it's simply not aggressive enough for most White players?} 3. exd5 exd5 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. d4 c5 6. h3 Nc6 7. Bb5 Qb6 8. Ba4 Bd7? {Given that White is going to castle long before Black does, Black needs 8...Bd6 as a way to block Black's rook until castling can be completed. Black could do it later, but it would waste tempo after Bd7, and Be7 doesn't work as an alternative because the knight guarding e7 can be exchanged away.} 9. O-O Be7? 10. Re1 Be6 {Black realized his problem, but this inaccuracy allows White enough time to deal out some serious punishment.} 11. Ng5 Bf5 12. Qe2? Qc7? {White's move is too slow- dxc5! is the best way to rip things open. Black, amazingly, should have castled kingside safely! Observe- 12. Qe2? O-O!! 13. Bxc6 Qxc6 14. Qxe7?? Rae8!, and Black wins a Queen for a Rook.} 13. dxc5 h6 14. Nf3 Ne4 15. Nd4 Bg6? {Black needed 15...Be6. White can now implement any number of lines that clear open the e-file for assault- 16. Nxc6 Qxc6 17. f3! and Black is in serious trouble.} 16. b4? O-O {Luckily for Black, White misses the kill. White is still considerably better, though.} 17. Nb5 Qd8 18. Bf4 Bg5 19. Bc7? Qf6 {White's move just forces Black's Queen to a better square, and that bishop doesn't really do anything where it stands that it didn't do better where it used to be.} 20. f3 a6 21. fxe4 axb5 22. e5 Qe6 23. Bxb5 Rfe8 24. Nd2 f6 25. Nf3 Bf4 26. c4 Be4 27. cxd5 Bxd5 28. Bxc6 Bxc6 29. Nd4 Qf7 30. Bb6? Rxe5?! {White's move is very bad indeed. It takes the White bishop off of its best diagonal and accomplishes apparently nothing. It also fails to save the e-pawn with something like 30. Nxc6 bxc6 31 Rf1! This line would have left White with a very healthy advantage that he probably could have converted into a win, but now Black gets a pawn back and will slice and dice with his bishops. It's unclear as to what this will lead to, but White definitely had better options. Black's move is ok, but Bxe5 is probably better, pinning the poor knight.} 31. Qb2?? Rxe1+! {White's move quickly turns into a disaster. Chuck's annotation provides the best alternative: 31. Rf2 Rxe1+ 32. Rxe1 Rxa2, after which I still think White is in very serious trouble. I am definitely agreed that it is superior to the alternative, however, as White's move gives Black one more tempo in an already dangerous position.} 32. Rxe1 Rxa2! 33. Qc3 Bd2 {Sub-optimal, but still winning. There is no reason not to play Rxg2 immediately.} 34. Qg3 Bxe1 35. Qxe1 Rxg2+ {Forced mate follows. The furthest White can prolong it is as follows- 36. Kf1 Qc4+ 37. Ne2 Qd3 38. Qf2 Qb1+ 39. Nc1 Qxc1+ 40. Ke2 Qc2+ 41. Ke3 Qxf2+ 42. Kd3 Rg3+ 43. Kc4 Qf4 mate.} 36. Kf1 Qc4+ 37. Resigns {Or 37. Ne2 Qd3, and if White does anything but offer a queen sacrifice, leading to mate lines like the one shown above, Black mates next move via Qf3.} krazycaley MSNhttp://msn-krazycaley.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845009903340716413.post-61159410503294420182007-06-07T05:48:00.000-07:002007-06-07T05:48:00.000-07:00[Event "2007 Championships"] [Site "...[Event "2007 Championships"] [Site "San Diego Chess Club"] [Date 2007.2.28] [White "Lower, Marty"] [Black "Anderson, Caley"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [Opening "French Rubenstein"] [Annotator "Anderson, Caley"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 {I had been brushing up a little on my Rubenstein, having had little recent success with the Winawer, and decided to deploy it here against Marty, a well-known opening expert. At the very least, I'd learn something new.} 4. Nxe4 Nc6 5. Nf3 Nf6 6. Bg5 Be7 7. Nxf6+ Bxf6 8. Bxf6 Qxf6 9. Bd3 O-O {As Chuck points out in his annotation, 9...Nxd4 10. Nxd4 Qxd4?? 11. Bb5+ is ruinous for Black, but any Black player of the French worth his or her salt has already learned this common French lesson, probably quite painfully if I'm any example.} 10. c3 e5 {A very thematic move in the Rubenstein. With White uncastled, Black can create severe problems on the central files.} 11. d5 Ne7 12. Be4? Bf5? {The move is bad for White because of the following idea for Black (and Black's move was bad because of his failure to recognize the idea), which can now be implemented even if White's actual moves differ- 12. Be4? Qd6! 13. O-O (or virtually anything else) 13...f4!!, and Black will eventually play e5, taking over in the center and seriously hampering White's position at essentially no cost. Black failed to find this idea, however, and so White's error goes unpunished.} 13. Qd3 Rad8 14. Bxf5 Qxf5 15. Qxf5 Nxf5 16. O-O-O f6 {Not 16 Nxe5, which loses a piece after a black rook pins from e8. Defending via f4 does nothing, as Black responds with f5. Now the position looks pretty drawish.} 17. Rhe1 Rd6 18. g4 Ne7 {Black offered a draw, which was declined.} 19. c4 Rfd8 20. Nd2 b6 21. Ne4 R6d7 22. Nc3 {Here White offered back the draw, and Black accepted. There's not really a lot interesting going on in this position.} krazycaley MSNhttp://msn-krazycaley.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8845009903340716413.post-9901656578657385062007-06-07T01:06:00.000-07:002007-06-07T01:06:00.000-07:00[Event "2007 Markowski Open"] [Site &quo...[Event "2007 Markowski Open"] [Site "San Diego Chess Club"] [Date "2007.2.7"] [Round "6"] [White "Anderson, Caley"] [Black "Borges, Fred"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [Opening "Center Counter"] [Annotator "Anderson, Caley"] 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. d4 c6 5. Nf3 Bf5 6. Bd3 Bg6 7. O-O Nd7 8. Re1 e6 {Black is playing very defensively, but his position has no real weaknesses.} 9. Ne5 Nxe5 10. dxe5 O-O-O 11. Qf3 Qc7 12. Bxg6 hxg6 {This does open up a file bearing down on my White's kingside, but Black can make nothing of it as of yet.} 13. Bg5 f6 14. exf6?? Qxh2+ {White simply missed that his pawn was effectively pinned and thought he was just winning a pawn.} 15. Kf1 gxf6 16. Bxf6 Nxf6? {16...Rd2!! leaves White with no option but to throw away material to avoid mate.} 17. Qxf6 Bd6?! {I couldn't tell what Fred was trying to do here. A bishop move may well be needed, but why not threaten to weaken White's position further with Bb4, for instance? This move just seems to block in the Rook. Rd2 was still possible.} 18. Qxe6+ Kb8 19. Qg4 {Not 19. Qxg6? Rhg8!, leaving White up the river.} 19... Qh1+ 20. Ke2 Rhe8+ 21. Ne4 Qh8 22. c3?! Rxe4+ {White decides that he's better off giving up his queen and piece for two rooks than letting the black queen wreak havoc amongst his queenside pawns. Black can't really capture pawns at once though- 22. Kf1 Qxb2? 23. Nxd6! Rxe1 24. Rxe1 and White has significant play.} 23. Qxe4+ Re8 24. Qxe8+ Qxe8+ 25. Kf1 Qf8 {White is down queen and piece for two rooks and a pawn, but it is by no means easy for Black to convert this advantagem, especially since the dark-squared bishop will have a hard time assisting the Queen in Kingside attacks.} 26. Re2 a6 27. Kg1 Qh6 28. g3! Qh3 {28. g3! is a strong, very necessary move that effectively keeps White's king completely safe and exposes the weakness of the Black bishop on this side of the board.} 29. Rd1 Bxg3?! {A nice attempt, but this turns the position into a more or less easily drawable one for White. He just has to shuffle his rooks back and forth now, and the black passer will present no threat. He just has to be careful to avoid cheap checkmates.} 30. fxg3 Qxg3+ 31. Kf1 Qf3+ 32. Ke1 g5 33. Rdd2 Qh1+ {Of course, if the Black queen could get to g1, Rdd2 would allow mate.} 34. Kf2 g4 35. Ke3 Qf3+ {As soon as the checks end, Black will not be able to avoid the permanent blockade of the passed pawn via Rg2. White must simply deny Black the opportunity to win a tempo by effectively playing g3+.} 36. Kd4 Ka7 37. a3 Qd5+ {White used his move to defend his only undefended pawn, since he still has a free tempo to play Rg2, and he does not want to allow Black to win a pawn with Qd5+. Here Black offered a draw, which White quickly accepted.} krazycaley MSNhttp://msn-krazycaley.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.com