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| Albertan: Here is the rest of the game in PGN format:copy and paste it into a pgn viewer:
(12... e6 $142 13. Ne4 Nxf4 14. Qxf4
Be7 15. h4 Nf6 16. Ng5 O-O $14) 13. Be5 $14 e6  revents intrusion on d5+f5 (
Worse is 13... Rh4 $143 14. Bb3 $14 a5 15. a3 a4 16. Ba2 Nd7 17. Ne4 Rh5 18.
Qg3 Rf5 19. Bxd5 cxd5 20. Bc7 Qe6 21. Nd6+ exd6 22. Rhe1 Ne5 23. dxe5 Rxe5 24.
Rxe5 Qxe5 25. Qxe5+ dxe5 26. Rxd5 f6 $14) 14. Rhe1 (14. h4 $142 O-O-O 15. Bxd5
Rxd5 16. h5 gxh5 17. Nxh5 Rh6 18. Nf4 Rxh1 19. Rxh1 Rd8 $14) 14... Be7 White
has an active position (14... Nd7 $142 $14 15. Ne4 Nxe5 16. dxe5 Qc7 17. Rxd5
$5 cxd5 18. Bb5+ Kd8 19. Ng5 Bc5 20. Nxf7+ Ke7 21. Nxh8 Rxh8 $14) 15. Rd3
Loses material (15. Kb1 $142 O-O 16. h4 a5 17. a3 Ng4 18. Ne4 (18. Qxg4 $143
$2 Bxa3 19. Bb3 a4 20. Rd3 axb3 21. Rxb3 Qa5 $19) 18... Nxe5 19. dxe5 Qc7 $11)
(15. a3 $5 $14 has some apparent merit) 15... Qb4 $15  lack threatens to
win material:  b4xe1 16. Bxd5 Qxe1+ $15 (Less effective is 16... Nxd5 17.
Qe2 O-O-O 18. Ne4 Qc4 19. b3 Qa6 20. c4 Nb4 21. Rd2 Qa5 $11) 17. Rd1 White
threatens to win material:  d1xe1 Qa5 lack threatens to win material: a5xd5
(17... Qxd1+ $142 $1 18. Qxd1 (18. Kxd1 Nxd5 19. c4 Nb6 20. Bxg7 Rxh2 $15)
18... Nxd5 (18... cxd5 19. Nf1 O-O 20. Ne3 Nd7 $44 With sufficient
 for the pawn.) 19. Ne4 Rd8 (19... f6 20. Bd6 Rd8 21. Bxe7 Nxe7
with sufficient for the pawn.) 20. h3 f6 21. Bg3 Kf7 22. Qf3 f5
23. Be5 b5 $11) 18. Bxc6+ $11 Kf8 lack loses the right to castle (18... bxc6
$4 19. Qxc6+ Nd7 20. Qxa8+ Qd8 21. Qc6 Qb6 22. Qxb6 axb6) 19. Bxb7 Rd8 $8 20.
Kb1 Rh4 (20... Nd7 $142 21. Bf4 g5 22. Bc1 Rxh2 23. Ne4 Rh4 24. g4 Kg8 25. c4
Qc7 26. Nxg5 Nf6 27. c5 Rxg4 28. Be3 Rh4 $44 with sufficient for
the pawn.) 21. Ne2 $14 Ng4 $2 (21... Rh5 $142 $5 is the best option for black
22. Nf4 Rf5 23. Qe2 (23. g4 Rxe5 $5 24. dxe5 Rxd1+ 25. Qxd1 Nxg4 26. c3 Nxe5
$15) 23... Qb6 24. Bf3 g5 25. Nd3 g4 26. Bxg4 Nxg4 27. Qxg4 f6 28. Bg3 Rxd4 $11
) (21... Qb6 $142 22. Bg3 Rh5 23. Qc6 Qxc6 24. Bxc6 Bd6 25. h3 Bxg3 26. Nxg3
Rh4 $14) 22. Bg3 $18 Nxh2 23. Qc6 Rh5 (23... Ng4 $142 24. Bc7 (24. Bc7 Qd5 (
24... Qg5 25. f4 Qf6 26. Bxd8 Bxd8 27. g3 Rh2 28. Rh1 Rxh1+ 29. Qxh1 Nh6 $18)
25. Qxd5 Rxd5 26. Bxd5 exd5 27. Re1 g5 $18) (24. Bxh4)) 24. Bc7 $18 Rxd4 $4
leading to a quick end. (24... Qb5 $142 25. Bxd8 Qxe2 26. Bxe7+ Kxe7 27. Qc7+
Kf6 $18) (24... Qb4 $142 25. Bxd8 Bxd8 26. Nc3 Qe7 27. Qc8 Qc7 28. Qa8 Qd6 $18)
25. Nxd4 Rd5 (25... Qc5 $142 26. Qd7 Kg8 27. Nxe6 fxe6 28. Qxe6+ Kh7 29. Be4
Qg5 30. Rd5 Ng4 31. Qxg6+ Qxg6 32. Rxh5+ Nh6 33. Bxg6+ Kxg6 $18) 26. Bxa5 1-0
(A possible conclusion ending in checkmate is 26. Bxa5 Rc5 27. Qd7 Bg5 28.
Bb4 Kg8 29. Bxc5 Bh4 30. Qe8+ Kh7 31. Qxf7 Bg5 32. Be4 Kh8 33. Qe8+ Kh7 34.
Qxg6+ Kg8 35. Qe8#) 1-0 |
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Jul-14-09
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| Albertan: I have begun playing in my first Canadian Open Chess Championship in Edmonton! What a thrill, and today was really wonderful because FIDE Master Vladimir Pechenkin of Edmonton, gained a draw with GM Michael Adams of England! That must have been quite a thrill for Vladimir as Adams is the 35th highest-rated player in the World!
So far I have a win a loss and a draw. I have played players who all have higher ratings than me so far (by as much as 400 points). I won a game tonight which really makes me feel good, as I had black in a English Opening and I blasted my way into his position (even though this gave my opponent a protected passed pawn on the d-file)! Yesterday I played the most amazing game of my life against Edmonton Chess Club President Terry Seehagen. The opening was a Center counter defense, and we both got into serious time trouble (in fact at the end of the game when I offered Terry a draw, a pawn up, we both only had 2 minutes and 11 seconds left on our clocks!!). So tommorrow I have the white pieces and I hope to do really well with them! |
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Jul-14-09
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| brankat: Good show <Albertan>! Best of luck the rest of the way. Frankly, I wish I were in Your shoes. But, I happen to live in Vancouver :-) |
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Jul-15-09
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| brankat: <Albertan> Hi. I did visit Your blog a few minutes ago. Since I'm not familiar with the "technology" could You please let me know (when You have time) whether my signing-in and leaving a comment actually worked :-) Thank You. We'll talk again, soon. |
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Jul-18-09
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| Albertan: I have scored 2 wins in the Canadian Open since my last entry. This leaves me with a score of 3 points after 7 rounds of play.I played another member of the Edmonton Chess Club on Friday, someone who I have never beaten before, and who is 231 points higher in rating to me entering the event. I seems my devotion to tactics training is paying off, as I was able to launch a mating combination after this player made a bad decision to sacrifice the exchange against me tonight. So, tommorrow I am going to be playing someone who is up in the stratosphere in terms of rating LOL. This victory tonight is good for my ego for another reason, I will have my name published in the offical tournament bulletin for the second time ,because of this second upset I have had in the tournament. :) |
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Jul-20-09
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| Albertan: I finished the Canadian Open with 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses (all of my games were against higher-rated players than myself): round 1:I played against an unrated player who was given a provisional rating of 1500 however, he scored 5 points in the tournament, and ended up winning a prize for the best unrated player (defeating players with ratings of 2054, 1992,and 1810.This player also had draws with players who had ratings of 2072, 1992,2089). I am disapointed with this first game because I could have been a piece for a pawn up at one point, instead I captured his enprise pawn (he had left a bishop and a pawn en-prise and I thought I had a strong attack by capturing the pawn rather than his bishop..live and learn!). Round 2:I drew with the Edmonton Chess Club President, who has a rating 260 points higher than myself,the game was the most fascinating of the tournament,one of the most interesting I have ever played! (I love the creative aspect of chess much more than the winning-losing-drawing part!) Round 3: I defeated a player who has a rating 260 points higher than myself. Round 4:I lost to a player who has a rating 427 points higher than myself.However according to Deep Rybka 3, my opponent had at best a  advantage until I blundered in terrible time pressure). This player exhibited poor sportsmanship after the game and apparently suffers from delusions of grandeur because he actually said to me he crushed me! Right, and you know chess better than the International Master who told me the position was equal for all the game until I blundered? Round 5:I was given a half-point bye,due to several players withdrawing (most of them highly rated who were not happy with their play).This left and unequal number of players in the tournament. This was lousy because of course I really wanted to play in this round! Round 6:My shortest game of the tournament..20 moves I lost to someone who was 317 rating points higher than myself. What causes us chess players to blunder especially walk into a mate in one,when all I had to do is recapture a piece with another piece which was available? To quote one of my favorite chess players of all times, Tartakover, "Chess is a fairytale of 1001 blunders", well at least it was for me in this game. LOL. I vow not to play the Nimzo-Indian Defense again until I have a better understanding of the opening! Round 7:I defeated someone who has a rating 271 points higher than myself. I had a great game,in which my opponent for some reasons sacked an exchange, which allowed me to checkmate him. Round 8:I drew with someone who has a rating 352 points higher than me! I was really happy with this game, as the game was an English Opening (how I detest closed games LOL), and I was able to totally stop any attacks he had and even mount pressure against him by being very aggressive with my play! The worst part of this game was what I had to put up with from the Past President of the our regional Chess Association after the game. (Give someone a "title" relating to the administrative aspects of chess and some of these people become delusional regarding their understanding of chess! This same person lost in something like 10 moves to a GM in a simul!) He should worry about his behavior, because what he said to me about my opponent in this game, I could have easily told this person, and this person would have very good chances of winning a lawsuit for defamation of character against the Past President now self-professed chess expert (whose Canadian Chess Federation is only 1774!) Round 9:I did not get to play due to the fact that 15 players in the field dropped out, some due to travel committments,some due to other committments and some because they were
disgusted with their performance in the tournament....I thought chess was only a game, or is it a sport? The tournament was extremely well-organized and run (according to what other players,especially those from out of town stated to me). Well Done Vlad, Micha, Terry,Vitaly,Anastasia, Tony and Zelija (Of Monroi)! Congratulations to GM Mark Bluvshtein for winning the 2009 Canadian Open Chess Championship (on a tie-break over Edmonton IM Edward Porper who had the misfortune of not playing enough players, with FIDE ratings and thus did not gain his second GM norm in this tournament!) All those in favor of having a playoff to decide such events say aye...AYE! |
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Jul-20-09
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| technical draw: Good show Albertan! Did you get a performance rating? |
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Jul-21-09
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| Albertan: Hi Technical Draw,thanks for your kind words. As of yet the final crosstable with the performance ratings of all the players has not yet been posted online.I will tell you what my performance rating and new rating is when it is posted online. |
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Jul-24-09
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| Albertan: My performance rating for the Canadian Open was 1736 :) Considering I had never played five of the opponents I faced, and considering I never got to play in the last round (and this game was counted as a loss against me?? ), I think I did really well! I gained 78 rating points in this tournament which is more than alot of players who played in the tournament. Source:http://www.chess.ca/xtable.asp?TNum... |
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Jul-24-09
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| technical draw: <Albertan> You did better than the winner, GM Bluvhstein who picked up only 36 points. |
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Aug-12-09
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| Fusilli: You won 78 rating points in a single tournament! That's remarkable. Congrats! |
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Aug-27-09
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| Albertan: For those of you who have chess engines and like to play online against other engines, or offline using a Chessbase interface such as Fritz or Hiarcs etc ,I would like to tell you that a new version of PerfectBook has been released by the author. The new opening book is called Perfect 15 and can be downloaded by clicking on this link:\
http://www.sedatchess.com/perfect15... |
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Sep-08-09
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| Fusilli: Hi <Albertan>, thanks for your good wishes. I just returned from Miami. I posted a note on my chessforum with my results at the Miami Open. |
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Sep-22-09
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| Albertan: I have analyzed the round 4 game between Anna Muzychuk and IM Bart Michiels from the 2009 Inventi GM ChessTournament and posted the analysis on the first page of my blog: http://albertan1956.blogspot.com/ I hope you will drop by my blog and enjoy playing through this analysis! |
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Sep-25-09
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| Albertan: I have analyzed the game A Stefanova vs G Sargissian, 2009 in great detail and posted the analysis at the bottom of page one of my blog. You can play through the game and my analysis move for move by going to http://albertan1956.blogspot.com/ |
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Sep-28-09
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| Albertan: I have analyzed the first round game between GM Surya Ganguly and GM Zoltan Almasi, from the first round of the 2009 Marx Gyorgy Memorial Chess Tournament and posted this analysis at the first page of my blog. I hope you enjoy playing through this analysis I have done with the help of the following chess programs:Deep Rybka 3 Human and Deep Shredder. I used the program Chessviewer Deluxe, to post the analysis to my blog:
http://www.geocities.com/pilafovi/C...
to post the analysis to my blog. The address of my blog is: http://albertan1956.blogspot.com/
I hope you enjoy playing through this analysis. |
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Sep-28-09
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| jessicafischerqueen: Thanks for your comment on the live game page!
Also, thanks very much for posting the accurate clock times for the players- That is crucial information and the "second hand clock" on the game page cannot be counted on. |
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Sep-28-09
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| Open Defence: nice work on the blog |
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Oct-01-09
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| Viewer Deluxe: Hi <Albertan>,
I like your blog very much and I enjoy the deep game analyses you post there.
Unfortunately, the layout problems are preventing you from making efficient use of the screen estate. I took a look at the techie side and I can help you fix it. It isn’t as tricky as it might appear so, if you’re interested, drop me an e-mail and I’ll send you some instructions. |
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Oct-01-09
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| Albertan: I have analyzed the fantastic game
Wang Yue vs Carlsen, 2009, and posted the analysis on the first page of my blog at http://albertan1956.blogspot.com/.I hope you can drop by and play through this analysis. |
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Oct-01-09
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| Viewer Deluxe: Yes <Albertan>,
You got it right -- that’s me. I didn’t mean to make it more difficult to you but directly posting e-mails like that often allows <spammers> to just steal it. Shortly, I’d highly appreciate it if you could edit your message not to contain my email (the actual way is to delete+edit+repost it). |
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Oct-06-09
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| Albertan: I have analyzed the first round game between GM Pia Cramling and WGM/IM Yelena Dembo from round 1 of the 2009 European Club Cup and posted this analysis on the first page of my blog using ChessViewer Deluxe. I hope you drop by and enjoy the game and my analysis (especially if you enjoy the King's Indian Defense). |
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Oct-07-09
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| Albertan: I have analyzed the second round game between World Women's Chess Champion GM Alexandra Kosteniuk and F Steil Antoni from round two of the Women's Club Cup chess tournament and posted the analysis at the bottom of the first page of my blog using the program Chess Viewer deluxe. I hope you come by and play through this game and my analysis which was done with the assistance of Deep Rybka 3 on my quad core computer. My blog is at:
http://albertan1956.blogspot.com/
In this game GM Alexandra Kosteniuk was really put to the test by Fiona Steil-Antoni. If you enjoy sicilian defense games I hope you will drop by my blog and play through the game using Chess viewer deluxe. |
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Nov-15-09
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| Albertan: I have extensively analyzed the game
Kramnik vs Svidler, 2009 from round 4 of the 2009 Tal Memorial Chess Tournament and posted this analysis to the first page of my blog using the program Chess Viewer Deluxe. I hope you can drop by http://albertan1956.blogspot.com/ . Kramnik gave an interview after the tournament and he considered this game against Svidler to be his best game of the event. |
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Nov-15-09
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| Albertan: I have extensively analyzed the game Ivanchuk vs Gelfand, 2009 and posted this analysis on my blog using the program Chessviewer Deluxe http://chesstuff.blogspot.com/2008/... I hope you drop by and play through the game which can be found at the bottom of the first page of my blog:http://albertan1956.blogspot.com/ |
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