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| Mar-12-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: The moral of this story? If you see a fat, (maybe sick) lion sleeping in the tall grass ... leave him strictly alone. You go poking him with a stick, and you never know what will happen. |
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Mar-12-12
 | | skytzo985: AJ, great tournament! Congrats on the win! Hopefully next time, I'll see you over board 1 myself. |
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| Mar-12-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain... The link is for the LA 2012 Pro-Am ... which I won.
<< Mar-12-12 skytzo985: AJ, great tournament! Congrats on the win! Hopefully next time, I'll see you over board 1 myself. <<<>>> >> Yes, I will look forward to that. Congrats on breaking 1800 for the first time. 2.5 out of three (the first day) is a great result!!! |
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| Mar-12-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: <skytzo985> If you want, send me your game vs. Curry, I would like to see that. (Isn't that the one you won in under 20 moves?) |
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Mar-12-12
| | skytzo985: He just missed a tactical shot on move 16. It was nothing special that I did. Pujol - Curry 2012
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 de 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ ef 6.Be3 Bd6 7.Bd3 0-0 8.Qf3 Na6 9.c3 Nc7 10.Ne2 Nd5 11.0-0 Qc7 12.Ng3 Nxe3 13.fe Bxg3 14.hg Be6 15.Kf2 Qd7 16.Bxh7+ 1-0 If 16...Kxh7, 17.Qh5+ Kg8 18.Rh1 and mate on h8
If 16...Kh8, 17.Rh1 and any g-pawn move loses to 18.Qxf6#, while anything else loses to a combination of the discovered check and Qh5 in some order. Thanks for the congrats as well. My first goal when I started playing tournaments (with a starting rating of 1251) was to make 1800 one day. That day was yesterday! Time for new goals! |
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| Mar-13-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: Yuppers, time to make new goals to shoot for! (CONGRATS!!!!) |
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| Mar-13-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: Jordan M. Pujols (1770) - Stephen Curry (1906)
[B15]
PRO-AM / New Orleans, LA (R#3) / 10,03,2012.
[A.J.G.]
A fun miniature. (upset)
1.e4 c6; 2.d4 d5;
Black plays the Caro-Kann.
click for larger view 3.Nc3 dxe4; 4.Nxe4 Nf6; 5.Nxf6+ exf6; 6.Be3,
This is a good, solid developing move ... and is fully playable. 
click for larger view [Personally, I am fond of
the following line - which is
also good for White:
6.c3 Bd6 ; 7.Bd3 0-0 ;
8.Qc2 Re8+ ; 9.Ne2 g6 ;
10.Bh6 Be6 ; 11.h4, 
click for larger view and White has attacking chances. (Castle Q-side and sack!) ] 6...Bd6; 7.Bd3 0-0; 8.Qf3 Na6; 9.c3 Nc7;
I would rate White as being a tiny bit better here. (space) However, Black's position was more than playable here. 
click for larger view 10.Ne2 Nd5;
According to most engines, Black has fully equalized ... ... ... Now I like the plan of Bd2, Rae1, and then throw the kitchen sink at the Black King.
11.0-0 Qc7; 12.Ng3 Nxe3; 13.fxe3 Bxg3; 14.hxg3 Be6; This is the current position ...
click for larger view Black has got to be OK here. (The engines confirm this.) 15.Kf2!,
Delightfully diabolical!
[15.Qe4 f5; 16.Qf4 Qxf4; 17.gxf4, - Fritz 12. ] 15...Qd7?; (Really - '??')
Apparently, Black has no clue of what is about to occur here. [ Black had to play: >/= 15...h7-h6 ;
which is OK and even gives Black a good endgame.
(White has split pawns - which does not promise White an enjoyable ending.) (The current position.)
click for larger view White to move and win.
16.Bxh7+!, "  " Black Resigns.
"If 16...Kxh7; 17.Qh5+ Kg8; 18.Rh1, and mate on h8. If 16...Kh8; 17.Rh1, and any g-pawn move loses to 18.Qxf6#, while anything else loses to a combination of the discovered check and Qh5 in some order." - J.M. Pujol 1-0 |
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| Mar-13-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: The final eval should have been "  " not " " (My bad.) |
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| Mar-13-12 | | Jim Bartle: OK, I'm a terrible player and would probably get crushed by either of these guys. But even I would smell a rat after 15. Kf2, leaving the rooks to occupy the half-open h-file, even more so with the bishop on d3 and the queen ready to jump to the h-file as well. So pretty good chess from such a great soccer player, and a sad loss by the Warriors guard. |
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| Mar-14-12 | | jthib: Congrats on your win AJ! I'm the guy that you helped with his clock. Twice! Many thanks for that again! |
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Mar-14-12
| | skytzo985: Thanks for the props AJ. Curry is a strong player whose results speak for themselves in most instances. It seems I caught him napping here. After 15...h6, I have a tough fight ahead of me involving b4 and Qf4 just to try to keep it drawish. There were ideas of a rook sac on h6, but Fritz found that it was unsound, and Curry (with time) probably would have as well. |
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Mar-14-12
| | skytzo985: Jim Bartle, the h7 sac is not immediately apparent. It seemed even to me that white needed one more tempo (Rh1) to make an attack possible. I analyzed the line while he considered his 15th move, and once I saw it was devastating, I started looking at the b2 pawn with worry in my eyes in order to induce Qb6. I don't know if he saw me and considered my bluff, but I like to think he did. |
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| Mar-14-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: <<Mar-14-12 jthib: Congrats on your win AJ! I'm the guy that you helped with his clock. Twice! Many thanks for that again!>> You are very welcome! Thanks for stopping by and saying hello! <skytzo> I agree. Kf2 could be seen as a patzer move, just protecting the pawn. Of course (in hindsight) the threat was there, but just the fact that a strong player (1900+) managed to miss it, means that it was less than obvious. (The "regular crowd" sharpens their tactics every day ... which is why I still come here.) |
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| Mar-14-12 | | Jim Bartle: My only point is that a move like Kf2 should set off warning bells concerning the h-file, as the most likely reason for the move has to be moving a rook to h1. |
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| Mar-14-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: Maybe, maybe not. The fact that a fairly good player - in a rated tournament - missed it, means that it was not so obvious. (Hindsight, however, is always 20-20.) |
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| Mar-14-12 | | Jim Bartle: Oh, my hindsight is much better than 20-20. As a kibitzer I have yet to lose a single game! |
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Mar-14-12
| | skytzo985: Jim Bartle, I'm pretty sure he did see the open h-file. He probably just didn't realize that I didn't need a rook on h1 to take on h7. I had already played Kf2 before I realized that I could take instantly and force mate (or at least force a queen-for-rook trade). He probably thought he had time to set up ...Bg4 before playing ...h6. |
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| Mar-14-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: <skytzo985> Its a good game, I am glad that I annotated it. Congrats on the win and on breaking 1800 for the first time. |
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| Mar-14-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: And in case you missed it ...
http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain...
The link is for the LA 2012 Pro-Am ... which I won. |
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| Mar-14-12 | | Jim Bartle: "He probably just didn't realize that I didn't need a rook on h1 to take on h7." Good point. |
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Mar-14-12
 | | waustad: Congrats for the win. I've won a number of class B prizes but never a tournament. |
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| Mar-16-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: <Waustad> Thanks. (I also went 4-0 in Bayside, earlier this year.) |
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| Mar-18-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: March 17th, 2012: Played in the "Birmingham Challenge," (Open); a one-day, 4-round swiss. I went 4-0, but the highest player that I played was Roger Johnson, a 1900. Won clear 1st, some money and another trophy. |
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| Mar-19-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain... The CT for the Birmingham Challenge, I went from 2238 to 2243. |
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| Mar-19-12 | | Rook e2: Nice game skytzo985! I had a nice Caro-Kann experience with white too:
1. e4-c6 2. d4-d5 3. Nc3-dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Nf3-Ngf6 6. Ng3-Qc7 7. Bd3-g6 8. Bg5-h6 9. Bd2-Bg7 10. c4-c5 11. 0-0 - 0-0 12. Qc2-Re8 13. Rad1-b6 14. Qc1-Kh7 15. Bf4-Qb7 16. Ne5-Rf8 17. Nxf7-Rxf7 18. Bxg6 Kg8 19. Bxf7 Kxf7 20. Nf5-Ng8 21. Rfe1-Ndf6 22. Rxe7 Nxe7 23. Nd6 Kf8 24. Nxb7-Bxb7 25. d5-Nf5 26. Be5-Ng4 27. Bxg7 Kxg7 28.Qf4 might be a nice puzzle after 17. or 22. |
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