Fusilli Member since Aug-09-04 · Last seen Feb-02-23 Mariano Sana, Argentinian by birth, in the US since 1995. Naturalized US citizen in 2015. I hold a PhD in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania, and I am an associate professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University: https://as.vanderbilt.edu/sociology.... Previously, I was at Louisiana State University (2003-2009). My published academic work can be seen here: https://vanderbilt.academia.edu/Mar.... My review of Gary Alan Fine's "Players and Pawns" is here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/d.... My avatar comes from a cartoon of mine drawn by a friend. My username, besides the pasta, is my late cat's name (he died in March 2021, age 19), inspired by this cartoon: http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/F.... My first tournament was at age 12 in 1979. I finished 8th in the Argentine junior championship in 1985. So, I was good enough, but not great. (That same evaluation might still be apt today, on a good day.) Unfortunately, no game scores survived from those years. I started to play again after grad school. I haven't played OTB since 2019. I won the Louisiana State Championship in 2007, featuring the Swiss gambit. I lost the first game and then won six in a row. This was my last round win, where I got lucky after playing the opening pretty terribly: J Rousselle vs M Sana, 2007. I also won the under 2200 section of the US Open in 2014. Again, Swiss gambit. Lost the first one, then won five in a row, lost game 7, and won games 8 and 9. My last round win was featured as a Tuesday puzzle: K Gulamali vs M Sana, 2014. I'd say that I am essentially a good but inconsistent player. My playing style is a mix of strategic and tactical. I'm usually very willing to sac a pawn or allow positional weaknesses in exchange for active piece play. For years I hovered around 2200, down to mid 2100s a few years ago. On a good day, I can score wins like these: (T Bartell vs M Sana, 2009, R Burnett vs M Sana, 2012, M Sana vs C Blocker, 2014, M Sana vs R Burnett, 2015). But on a bad day, I can play horribly and lose against whoever is sitting in front of me, losing tons of rating points at once. I was diagnosed multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2011, but it didn't cause me trouble until a few years ago. I have a weak right leg (I often use a cane now) and I fatigue easily. The latter may mean that it's time for me to retire from chess competition. My last tournament, the summer before the pandemic, was a total disaster that cost me 50 rating points (the World Open, where I scored +1 -6). My participation on this website goes through ebbs and flows, and 80+ percent of my posts are about chess. I often post on my own forum just to keep records, for myself. Everyone is welcome to visit and share! (But please don't post about politics here.)

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Feb-02-23 Gulko vs A Panchenko, 1981   Fusilli: <Retireborn: Lost on time, according Gulko's annotations in Informator.> One can see why. Black seemed to have a nice dynamic position in the middle game, but it slipped away and ended up in trouble. I wonder if he spent a lot of time considering 21...fxg3, which intuitively ...      Jan-28-23 I Krush vs J Becerra Rivero, 2000    Fusilli: <agb2002> <I admit I lost interest in the puzzle when I found 37.Qd7 after a lot of work on 36... Rc8.> I know that feeling! I think you mean 37.Rd7, not 37.Qd7.      Jan-28-23 Fusilli chessforum   Fusilli: <OCF ... only other maybe move Qe4 met by Re4.> P.S. I didn't even see the Qe4 possibility!      Jan-27-23 Velimirovic vs S Bouaziz, 1987   Fusilli: <keypusher: ...but Velimirovic also left his king in the center :-)> Yes, but I like him. He had a cool last name. And if he had been Argentine, he would have been a fan of Boca Juniors. So, his leaving the king in the center is fine. See, nothing you can do against scientific      Jan-27-23 Andersson vs Velimirovic, 1987   Fusilli: Wow, hard to believe Andersson missed such a straightforward win. 29. Rxg6+ wins clearly, and so does 29.Qf4, as <Mateo> said, <as it threatens at the same time Qxd2 and Rxg563682941+.> :D      Jan-26-23 S Urusov vs Ben, 1862    Fusilli: <scormus>! Not sure if you check your forum, but do! I left you a message there.      Jan-26-23 scormus chessforum   Fusilli: Hey <scormus>! I see you posted on a game. I thought you were gone. I saw Stuck Elevator, put up by Nashville Opera, last weekend. Super interesting! I recommend it. The production was impressive (small theater and amazing use of a limited space, light, and staging). The ...      Jan-24-23 Kibitzer's Café    Fusilli: <harrylime> <Bogart like Mary Shelley or Beethoven seems to be in or out ... depending which decade you are living in ... > True. As for my individual rather than societal preference, I think the secret is not to wear yourself out. I watch it every five years or so, or      Jan-24-23 C Becx vs Yermolinsky, 1989   Fusilli: Yermo must have been too eager to win this game. (He won this open tournament with +8 -1 and this was his one loss.) Something went seriously wrong in the transition from this position, after 25.Qa3: [DIAGRAM] where it's even and both players have two sets of grouped pawns (did we ...      Jan-23-23 Jan Timman   Fusilli: <stone> <That's almost certainly Dick Dolman> Good catch. I think the "almost" can be dropped after seeing this photo: < https://nos.nl/artikel/2269423-oud-... > A bit more obvious than the photo in the Wikipedia page.      Jan-20-23 Pelikan vs R Hase, 1972    Jan-20-23 Teyss chessforum     Jan-17-23 Anand vs Kasparov, 1997    Jan-14-23 Seirawan vs Kasparov, 1983     Jan-14-23 Karpov vs Kavalek, 1974    Jan-14-23 Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1974    Jan-11-23 Daniel Noteboom    Jan-08-23 Kasparov vs T Krabbe, 1987    Jan-08-23 Tal vs Spassky, 1965    Jan-07-23 C E Murphy vs S Sulskis, 2022    Jan-07-23 Aleksandar Matanovic     Jan-05-23 Gligoric vs Najdorf, 1946    Dec-31-22 Andersson vs Marjanovic, 1979     Dec-30-22 Vachier-Lagrave vs Carlsen, 2014    Dec-30-22 M Nastic vs E Fucak, 2010     Dec-29-22 P Ricardi vs M Fraschini, 2005    Dec-29-22 Najdorf vs K Opocensky, 1946    Dec-28-22 G Norman vs Rubinstein, 1922    Dec-28-22 C Guimard vs Najdorf, 1946    Dec-28-22 Prague (1946)     Dec-27-22 Najdorf vs Pachman, 1946    Dec-27-22 Golombek vs R 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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 82 OF 82 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-20-22    Fusilli: <TD> I just looked it up and answered my own question. Duh! Dec-20-22    moronovich: <Fusilli: <moro> Good job! I mistakenly discarded Qf1 because I didn't see Qf5 mate after Kxe6.> I also misssed Qf5 mate, the first time I tried ;) Quite some rare double bind, one may say ! Dec-20-22    Fusilli: Follow up on the position I posted: The killer blow is 23.Nxe7+ Rxe7 24.Bf6. White's subsequent Qh4, threatening mate on h8 (Black needs to respond with Ng7) means White will capture the rook, recovering the exchange and with a killer advantage. Dec-20-22    OhioChessFan: Nice. The hard part is taking the Pawn that is pinned. Like you, I'd have gone for the Pawn that seems the right target due to the defending Pawn frozen in place. Dec-20-22    technical draw: <Fusilli> If you join GameKnot look me up I play under the name <goodchessactor>. My rating usually hovers around 1800 but when I start losing I lose a lot in a row. Right now my rating is 1763. Dec-20-22    Check It Out: I looked at Nxe7, Bf6 but wasn't sure about it. I was too focused on Rxd6, again wasn't sure where that led. Dec-23-22    Fusilli: Be an endgame defense hero! Black to play and save this: click for larger view 55...? Level: Difficult. So, here's a little help: Black played 55...Rb1, which loses. I posted this and four more puzzles from this endgame in the game's page: J Marsalek vs K Opocensky, 1962 Dec-23-22    Messiah: I did not analyze deeply, but 55...Bd6 seems to be promising. Dec-23-22    Fusilli: <Messiah> It fails to Rf7+ and Bxd6. But you are on the right track. How can you make the same idea work? Dec-24-22    Fusilli: Follow up on the puzzle. It's difficult and fun! So, if you feel like going a little chess mad on Christmas Eve, here we go: Follow up on the puzzle. Black to play, from J Marsalek vs K Opocensky, 1962 click for larger view The only move that holds the draw is 55...Rb6! For example: A) 56. Kf5 Rf6+! The computer says 56...a2 draws too, but who wouldn't prefer this fancy move?  click for larger view Then 57.Bxf6 Bxf6 and now white has to choose between 58.Kxf6 a2 and perpetual check with Rf7 and Rg7, or 58.Rxb7 a2, give the rook up for the a-pawn and draw. Notice white's bad luck that taking the bishop puts the king on the long diagonal for a check when black promotes. B) 56.Rf7+ Ke8 57.Kf5, now 57...Rf6+ loses: click for larger view 58.Bxf6 Bxf6 59.Rxf6 a2 60.g7 and white will mate. The key is that now white's king is not on the long diagonal. Instead, the more natural 57...a2 draws (as it does against 56.Kf5). click for larger view In fact, white is the one who struggles now. For example, the natural 58. Rh7 loses to 58...Bf6!! click for larger view And white has nothing better than giving up the bishop to capture the a-pawn. So, white is in the unenviable situation of having to play 58.Rg7 as the only move that keeps the draw. click for larger view B1) Now, 58...Bf6 meets 59.Rg8+ Ke7 60.g7 Bxe5 61.Re8+ Kxe8 62.g8=Q+ click for larger view And this, the computer says, is a draw. B2) Or, if black calculates the promotion and it looks scary (it does, doesn't it?), there is 58...Rf6+ (remember Rf6+?) click for larger view 59.Ke4 Rf8, draw again. B3) Finally, there is the quicker path to draw so that everybody can avoid a heart attack, with 58...Kf8 59.Rf7+ Ke8 60.Rg7. Notice that against 59.Rh7 click for larger view Black again has 59...Rf6+ where the best white can do is retreat with 60.Ke4, lose the g-pawn and suffer, but it's still a draw. So, better go for move repetition. Dec-25-22    chancho: Feliz Navida a ti y los tuyos. Muchas bendiciones. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Dec-25-22    Check It Out: Merry Christmas, Fusilli! Dec-25-22    Fusilli: Same to you <Check it Out>! Dec-25-22    FSR: Merry Christmas, Fusilli! Dec-26-22    Penguincw: Hi there, dropping by to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Dec-28-22    technical draw: Happy New Year <Fusilli>. Thanks for your post on my forum. I would like to reply to it but I can't think of the appropriate words to do it justice. Maybe next year. Dec-28-22    Fusilli: <TD> Oh, no worries, don't feel obligated! I was just sharing from what (I think) I learned lately. Cheers! Dec-31-22    Fusilli: Publications come up with lists of "those we lost this year" too early. Pelé and Pope Benedict now rendered those lists grossly incomplete. Lat year, Desmond Tutu, Harry Reid, John Madden, E.O. Wilson, and Betty White all died in the last six days of the year. So, today is December 31 and our likelihood of missing someone is very low. So... which GMs died in 2022? In alphabetical order: Yuri Averbakh (100) Miso Cebalo (77) Ivan Farago (76) Borislav Ivkov (88) Nikolai Krogius (91) Konstantin Landa (50) Gilles Miralles (55) Igor Naumkin (56) Alex Sherzer (51) Mark Tseitlin (78) Mean life span of these players = 72.2 years Wide range though (max-min = 50! No GM died between ages 57 and 75 in 2022), and standard deviation = 17.17 Four GMs died in their 50s in 2022, and at the higher end we lost three of the oldest ones, including the oldest one. The five oldest living GMs are now: Aleksandar Matanovic (92) Juraj Nikolac (90) Yair Kraidman (90) Nikola Padevsky (89) Klaus Darga (88) Jan-16-23    Teyss: Hi <Fusilli> With a bit of delay, happy new year. Teyss chessforum (kibitz #30) Jan-25-23    Fusilli: Random comment: I love junco birds (aka snowbirds). I love it when they appear in little flocks in my backyard in winter. I find the white & grey & black contrasts in the color of their feathers beautiful. In other bird news, I set up a second blue bird house in my backyard. The first one has been there for a year but no one took me up on it last season. I saw a couple of blue birds exploring one of them a few weeks ago. I think a chickadee uses it for shelter occasionally. I am hoping to get blue bird tenants this spring. They are valuable real estate jewels! Comfy, protected, and with access to my ecologically diverse backyard. Jan-28-23    Fusilli: 5-min blitz on chess.com I am black. White just played 26.b4 click for larger view Black to play. Any takers? Can you fill in the blanks? 26. white played b4, black plays [fill in] 27. white plays [fill in], black plays [fill in] 28. white plays Rg1, black plays [fill in] 29. white plays [fill in], black plays [fill in] and black is clearly winning Jan-28-23    chancho: <Fusilli> I looked at 26...Rxc3 27.Qxc3 Rd2 28.g3 Qh3. 26...Rxc3 27.Qxc3 Rd2 28.Rg1 Qxf4 What's the 29th move for White? Jan-28-23    OhioChessFan: I can't pretend I'd have done it in a 5 minutes game, but here it is. 26...Rxc3 is clearly best. 27. Qxc3 only other maybe move Qe4 met by Re4. 27...Rd2 not e2 as I considered, 28. Rf3 and White is fine. 28. Rg1 Bd4 and all of a sudden White's Queen is in trouble. 29. Qb3 Qxf4 clearly winning. click for larger view Jan-28-23    Fusilli: <chancho> <OCF> Yes to both of you. In the game, white played 28.Rg1, and yes, Qxf4 and black is winning. (He then played the desperate 29.Rd1 and after e2 let his remaining minute or so run out. I had the even better 29...Bxe5.) <I can't pretend I'd have done it in a 5 minutes game, but here it is.> My memory now has been erased, but I believe I saw until Rd2, saw that g3 allowed for Qh3 and there is no defense, and if Rg1 I just assumed I would have something good, since white was all tied up. Turns out that Qxf4 is the only good move, says the computer, and clearly winning, so I had my share of luck. I often make this kind of assumption in blitz, going with Fischer's dictum that good tactics come from a superior position. It doesn't always work! In this case, I seem to have no choice but sacking the exchange anyway, but I knew that when I played Rd3 in the previous move Jan-28-23    Fusilli: <OCF ... only other maybe move Qe4 met by Re4.> P.S. I didn't even see the Qe4 possibility! Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 82) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 82 OF 82 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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