Fusilli Member since Aug-09-04 · Last seen Jan-12-22 Mariano Sana, Argentinian living in the US since 1995. Naturalized US citizen in 2015. 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, well rested and inspired, I may beat an FM or IM (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. Lately, my tournament play has been limited to Nashville events. Sometimes I travel. If you see me at a tournament, feel free to say hi. I am a friendly fellow! 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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Jan-02-22 Penguincw chessforum    Fusilli: Happy holidays to you too, <Penguincw>!      Dec-12-21 Fusilli chessforum    Fusilli: <OCF> It makes two of us.      Dec-11-21 L Espig vs P Mertens, 1968   Fusilli: <Stanco: That was an easy one.> SMH      Dec-05-21 Korchnoi vs Alterman, 1998   Fusilli: Oh, I hadn't noticed that 61. Hadn't looked at the score at all. Thanks.      Dec-04-21 Carlsen - Nepomniachtchi World Championship Match (2021)    Fusilli: <nok: I'll give Nepo a 3 and Carlsen a 6-7.> SMH      Nov-21-21 Korchnoi vs J Gallagher, 1998   Fusilli: <myschkin: Right after the game: Korchnoi's answer 5.Ne2 a6?! to Gallagher's question, where he went wrong ;))> It does sound like a reasonable answer!      Nov-14-21 H Bouwmeester vs E Cobo Arteaga, 1970   Fusilli: If 27.Nb6, I thought black had 27...Rh6 and the rook on a8 is untouchable because of Qh4. The computer gives 27...d5 though, then 28.Nxd5 and then 28...Rh6. White plays the conservative 27.Qb6. The computer says 27.Nxf4 instead and black is cooked (because white's DSB now watches ...      Nov-14-21 Korchnoi vs Geller, 1971   Fusilli: <WCC Editing Project: Paul Keres confirms that Geller lost this game on time.> I guess that explains 32...Qg4. Black had to play Bf6. Hard to believe Geller would not see the Nxc5 threat, but if he lost on time, he must have been playing instantly at that point.      Nov-06-21 E Mnatsakanian vs G Ustinov, 1959    Fusilli: I clicked on "see a random game" and I got this totally crazy lollapalooza. Nice choice, randomness fairy!      Nov-05-21 J Salaba vs D Belik, 1991   Fusilli: Nice technique in the endgame.      Nov-05-21 Burke vs So, 2021    Oct-15-21 M Weigel vs S Limontaite, 2008    Oct-02-21 D Bailey vs L Day, 1988    Sep-12-21 Sax vs Anand, 1986     Aug-18-21 Sveshnikov vs Korchnoi, 1973    Aug-15-21 S Bartha vs G Kluger, 1979     Aug-08-21 Rohde vs I Gurevich, 1992     Jul-19-21 Schlomer vs Beetz, 1936    Jul-19-21 Abhimanyu Mishra     Jul-19-21 G Kluger vs Nagy, 1942     Jul-06-21 Yu Yangyi vs Ding Liren, 2019     Jun-05-21 Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1981    May-23-21 J Cori vs Morovic Fernandez, 2018    May-14-21 Westerinen vs I Papadopoulos, 1964     May-08-21 Artur Yusupov    May-01-21 Smejkal vs Suba, 1983    Apr-11-21 Piket vs Karpov, 1999    Mar-27-21 Adlane Arab     Mar-27-21 H Leyva vs A Arab, 2006    Mar-14-21 Lisitsin vs V Goglidze, 1933     Mar-14-21 Farhad Tahirov     Feb-26-21 K Regan vs Rogoff, 1978     Feb-19-21 S Ionov vs A Yashtylov, 2000     Feb-13-21 chessgames.com chessforum     Feb-10-21 Yudasin vs Kramnik, 1994     Feb-08-21 Yuri L Averbakh     Jan-27-21 J Rukavina vs Korchnoi, 1973     Jan-27-21 Leningrad Interzonal (1973)    Jan-20-21 Lubomir Kavalek     Jan-17-21 Viktor Kupreichik    Dec-28-20 moronovich chessforum     Dec-28-20 chancho chessforum     Dec-15-20 Benko vs R Sanguineti, 1958    Dec-12-20 Efimenko vs Onischuk, 2011    Dec-06-20 Luis Alberto Castillo     Dec-06-20 Karpov vs Nunn, 1985    Dec-04-20 Sam Sloan     Nov-26-20 Kibitzer's Café     Nov-22-20 P Nikolic vs Yusupov, 1987    Nov-12-20 Sungho Yim vs M Sana, 2017    Nov-03-20 Daniel Abbas vs E Inarkiev, 2017    Nov-02-20 Kenneth Rogoff     Oct-14-20 V Sherbakov vs Furman, 1955     Oct-13-20 M Tamburini vs E Paoli, 1957    Oct-11-20 Geller - Smyslov Candidates Quarterfinal (1965)     Oct-08-20 V Arbakov vs Vyzmanavin, 1981     Sep-21-20 Juan Traian Iliesco     Sep-21-20 Pilnik vs Najdorf, 1941    Sep-18-20 Benko vs I A Horowitz, 1968    Sep-18-20 Lajos Portisch     Sep-08-20 Lombardy vs I A Horowitz, 1972     Sep-05-20 Najdorf vs Y Porat, 1939    Sep-04-20 Kaufman vs A Moreno, 2006     Aug-22-20 Ree vs K Langeweg, 1969     Aug-21-20 Gert Ligterink     Aug-20-20 Tukmakov vs G Ligterink, 1984     Aug-17-20 Mikhail Botvinnik     Aug-14-20 Karpov vs Illescas Cordoba, 1993    Aug-09-20 Najdorf vs Fischer, 1966     Aug-01-20 Topalov vs Kasimdzhanov, 2007    Jul-25-20 Benoni Defense (A56)    Jul-22-20 B Itkis vs Aronian, 1999    Jul-21-20 Romanishin vs Vaisser, 1982    Jul-15-20 Najdorf vs Quinteros, 1970    Jul-15-20 Damjanovic vs Najdorf, 1970    Jul-15-20 Najdorf vs J A Rubinetti, 1970    Jul-15-20 Panno vs O'Kelly, 1970    Jul-15-20 Panno vs Szabo, 1970    Jul-15-20 Panno vs Damjanovic, 1970    Jul-11-20 Zeng Chongsheng vs V S Gujrathi, 2019    Jul-11-20 K Makarczyk vs Sliwa, 1952    Jul-11-20 A Lupo vs A Shaw, 1998     Jul-06-20 Tal vs Uhlmann, 1977    Jul-06-20 Kholmov vs Spassky, 1963     Jul-05-20 Kasparov vs Karpov, 1984     Jul-05-20 K Osterberg vs J Christensen, 1998    Jul-05-20 Ivkov vs Karpov, 1978    Jul-03-20 M Stean vs Sax, 1982    Jul-02-20 Oscar Panno     Jul-02-20 Quinteros vs A Planinc, 1970    Jul-01-20 Miguel Najdorf     Jul-01-20 G Barcza vs Portisch, 1959     Jun-30-20 Panno vs Illescas Cordoba, 1993    Jun-27-20 Moscow (1967)    Jun-27-20 Portisch vs Petrosian, 1967     Jun-27-20 P Dozsa vs Portisch, 1962    Jun-26-20 Unzicker vs M Czerniak, 1954     Jun-25-20 Beliavsky vs Quinteros, 1986     Jun-23-20 P Hardicsay vs Adorjan, 1986     Jun-22-20 Smyslov vs Geller, 1955    Jun-22-20 Z Franco Ocampos vs Guimard, 1980    Jun-21-20 J Kozma vs Vogt, 1976    Jun-19-20 Mark Dvoretzky    Jun-19-20 Huebner vs Korchnoi, 1995     Jun-19-20 Viktor Korchnoi     Jun-18-20 Keres vs Petrosian, 1950     Jun-18-20 Bertrand vs Beuter, 1927    Jun-18-20 L Navarovszky vs Szabo, 1959    Jun-18-20 Carlsen vs Caruana, 2020     Jun-18-20 Ree vs Korchnoi, 1976    Jun-18-20 Pachman vs Petrosian, 1958    Jun-18-20 Fischer vs Korchnoi, 1962     Jun-17-20 Najdorf vs Keres, 1963     Jun-16-20 Benjamin vs M Sana, 2019     Jun-16-20 Larsen vs Smyslov, 1988    Jun-15-20 Sax vs Portisch, 1989    Jun-15-20 S Mareco vs J Rapport, 2014    Jun-15-20 Dreev vs S Azarov, 2013    Jun-14-20 Steinitz vs Lasker, 1896    Jun-14-20 C Polk vs M Sana, 2016    Jun-11-20 J S Rouleau vs M Sana, 2003    Jun-11-20 C Zhu vs M Sana, 2008     Jun-03-20 Van Wely vs G Guseinov, 2007     Jun-03-20 Miles vs Yusupov, 1985    Jun-03-20 Gyula Sax     Jun-02-20 P Yee vs Bisguier, 1995    Jun-02-20 N Kopilov vs G Borisenko, 1954    Jun-02-20 M Grau Carreras vs N Kosintseva, 1996    Jun-01-20 Leonid Shamkovich     May-31-20 B Socko vs Fedorov, 2015    May-31-20 L Steiner vs H R Bigelow, 1929    May-30-20 J Krejci vs M Motycakova, 2017    May-29-20 J Grefe vs Korchnoi, 1979     May-24-20 Gabriel Schwartzman    May-24-20 Anatoly Karpov     May-24-20 Jack Puccini    May-21-20 S Hosea vs S Thomson, 2009     May-18-20 E Torre vs Susan Polgar, 1985 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Timman, 2013     Apr-22-20 Carl Ahues     Apr-21-20 Portisch vs R Sanguineti, 1976    Apr-21-20 R Sanguineti vs Liberzon, 1976     Apr-15-20 Guimard vs Najdorf, 1944    Apr-01-20 E Alekseev vs G Tenikashvili, 1998    Mar-17-20 Tarjan vs R Shean, 1968    Mar-16-20 Spassky vs Fischer, 1972     Mar-14-20 V Ciocaltea vs U Geller, 1968     Mar-09-20 Margarita Lysenko vs Alisa Nur-Mukhametova, 2019     Mar-08-20 Z Kornin vs S Giardelli, 1983     Mar-07-20 Motylev vs B Savchenko, 2007     Mar-06-20 Portisch vs Karpov, 1978     Mar-05-20 G Kuzmin vs A Kapengut, 1972    Mar-04-20 Honza Cervenka chessforum     Mar-02-20 M Roiz vs Ni Hua, 2001     Feb-28-20 M Sana vs L Bondar, 2019    Feb-19-20 Nunn vs Seirawan, 1984    Feb-12-20 Y Bleiman vs Korchnoi, 1978    Feb-08-20 Mecking vs Quinteros, 1976    Jan-19-20 J van Foreest vs Firouzja, 2020     Jan-17-20 S Mareco vs V Artemiev, 2016    Jan-16-20 A Sorokin vs M Sinyanskiy, 2014    Jan-16-20 Bondarevsky vs Smyslov, 1946     Jan-15-20 Bronstein vs Reshevsky, 1953    Jan-15-20 Firouzja vs Ni Hua, 2019     Jan-14-20 Firouzja vs Urkedal, 2016    Jan-14-20 Alireza Firouzja     Jan-13-20 E Zagorjansky vs Bronstein, 1945    Jan-13-20 I Saric vs B Morchiashvili, 2010     Jan-11-20 October Revolution 60th Anniversary (1977)     Jan-11-20 Gheorghiu vs Romanishin, 1977     Jan-11-20 Sergio Mariotti     Jan-11-20 S Mariotti vs G Kuzmin, 1977     Jan-07-20 Annie K. chessforum     Jan-06-20 Fischer vs Michalopoulos, 1964    Jan-04-20 Steinitz vs Lasker, 1894     Jan-03-20 Bagirov vs R Nezhmetdinov, 1961    Jan-03-20 A Timofeev vs V Malakhov, 2003    Jan-02-20 Sofia Polgar vs Meduna, 1993    Jan-02-20 Antoshin vs R Mascarinas, 1979    Jan-02-20 OhioChessFan chessforum     Jan-01-20 Keene vs B Jacobsen, 1983    Jan-01-20 M Kobalia vs K Holm, 2018    Dec-31-19 wordfunph chessforum     Dec-31-19 juan31 chessforum     Dec-31-19 WinKing chessforum     Dec-31-19 perfidious chessforum     Dec-31-19 keypusher chessforum     Dec-31-19 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Geller, 1983     Sep-29-19 T D Andrews vs M Sana, 2018    Sep-29-19 Andy Lin vs M Sana, 2017    Sep-29-19 Mariano Sana    Sep-28-19 E Gerstenfeld vs Lilienthal, 1940    Sep-28-19 Lilienthal vs Bondarevsky, 1940     Sep-28-19 Lilienthal vs Botvinnik, 1940    Sep-27-19 Rauzer vs Veresov, 1934    Sep-27-19 Veresov vs Lilienthal, 1940     Sep-26-19 Botvinnik vs Boleslavsky, 1941    Sep-25-19 V Mikenas vs Bronstein, 1965     Sep-24-19 Giri vs Xiong, 2019     Sep-22-19 Balashov vs Botvinnik, 1970    Sep-22-19 Yuri S Balashov     Sep-20-19 Suttles vs Benko, 1974     Sep-19-19 F Felecan vs F Rhine, 2019     Sep-16-19 Grischuk vs Zhang Pengxiang, 2005    Sep-16-19 C Coppola vs B Macias Murillo, 2009     Sep-15-19 Karpov vs Mihajlo Stojanovic, 2007     Sep-15-19 M Roiz vs Karpov, 2007    Sep-09-19 Kholmov vs Lutikov, 1954    Sep-04-19 Topalov vs Kasparov, 1999    Sep-02-19 Ivkov vs Guimard, 1960    Sep-02-19 B Wexler vs Korchnoi, 1960    Aug-25-19 Karpov vs Ftacnik, 1988     Aug-25-19 Andersson 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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 68 OF 68 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-12-20    Fusilli: <OCF> Haha, that's funny! Dec-21-20    morfishine: Dear <Fusilli> I hope you and your family have a wonderful Holiday Season! morf Dec-25-20    Penguincw: < Dec-25-19 Penguincw: Enjoy the holiday season, <Fusilli>. > < Dec-27-19 Fusilli: <Penguincw> Thank you! Right back at you! > And right back at you now! Enjoy the holiday season again. Dec-25-20    moronovich: Wish you a merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year ! Dec-26-20    chancho: <Fusilli> Feliz Navidad, y prospero año nuevo. Que el nuevo año te encuentre con un elo de 2550. 😀😀😀 Dec-28-20    Fusilli: Merry belated Christmas, <morf>! I was off the grid for a few days. Cheers! Dec-29-20    moronovich: Also merry belated Christmas to you dear <Fusilli> ! And all the best wishes for the New Year to come which hopefully will be a better one ! May all your pawns enjoy a touchdown. Jan-14-21    Fusilli: The analysis feature in chess.com is great. I take post-mortem looks at some of my blitz games (I always play 3min 2sec) for a quick evaluation. Some evaluations are decidedly funny though. For example: Someone v Fusilli: click for larger view Black to move. Of course, I am hopelessly, categorically, and unforgivably lost. The evaluation is +14. I played 45...Qd8 and the computer gives it ?? because it allows mate in seven (starting with 46.Rf7 Qf6), while 45...Qb8 kept the position at +14. As it happens, I won on time right after making that move. I had seven seconds left. Aug-26-21    Fusilli: Just played on chess.com. Fusilli vs Someone click for larger view White to play. Aug-26-21    chancho: 1.Rd6! If Queen takes, 2.Rg4+ and mate on the next move. If 1....Rf1+ then 2.Kg2. Aug-26-21    Fusilli: <chancho> Si! Lindo, no? Aug-26-21    chancho: Claro que si. Oct-02-21    Fusilli: Oddly, a 2300 player let me get this position (I was white) on chess.com yesterday: click for larger view And here he played 13...Nxg2? click for larger view Now white kills, easily but flashily. See it? Oct-02-21    jessicafischerqueen: I see it, my good international maritime geophysical feature. 14.Rxh7+ Kxh7 15.Neg5+ Kh8 16.Rh1+ Nh4 click for larger view Oct-06-21    Fusilli: <JFQ> Nice! Either knight wins, but I played the other one, so that after Bh6, Rxh6+ Kg7, Rh7 is mate (no escape to f6 because of the knight on e4). Oct-07-21    jessicafischerqueen: <Massive Ocean Plate Nexus> Aha! I sea. You supply trenchant proof there is more than one wave to engulf Black's position! Oct-14-21    Fusilli: Difficult and beautiful. Pal Benko, 1990 White to play and win click for larger view Oct-18-21    Fusilli: The solution is: 1.Ke7 d2 2.Rd6 c3 3.Kf7! Kh7 (otherwise 4.Rd3 and 5.Rh3 with mate) click for larger view 4.g4! c2 5.g5, c1=Q (or d1=Q) 6.Rh6+! gxh6 7.g6+ Kh8 8.g7+ Kh7 9.g8=Q mate. Oct-18-21    OhioChessFan: Pretty solution. Interesting how often the side with an extra piece in an endgame vs. extra Pawns has to continue to make mate threats. Oct-19-21    Fusilli: <OCF> You are right. Or at least I agree! After I read the solution (I was leafing through a 2012 Chess Life issue where this was published and I was too lazy to try to solve it), I kept wondering what if black plays 1...c3 instead: click for larger view The idea is that if now 2.Kf7 c2 (2...d2 3.Rd6 transposes to the main solution) and if 3.Rg3? c1=Q followed by Qh6. But white has 3.Rc6, I think: click for larger view If now 3...d2 4.Rc3 mates, and if 3...Kh7 4.g4. (Now if 4...d2 5.g5 --or just 5.Rxc2. Notice that 5.Rxd2 in the main solution didn't work, but here it does because a queen from d1 is useless to stop mate). But now what if 4...g6? (BTW, if 4...g5, 5.Rc3). click for larger view 5.g5! d2 6.Rxc2 d1=Q 7.Rh2+ Qh5 8.Rxh5+ gxh5 9.g6+ and white wins. (I am not checking with a computer, but I think I got it right.) Oct-19-21    OhioChessFan: I first noticed the mate threats issue in a little different context. Just learning chess, I tried to win with Queen vs. Knight. You need to threaten mate to get it done in any reasonable timeframe. Dec-12-21    Fusilli: Has anyone else noted the secret grandmasters that visit this website? They sign up anonymously because, you know, they are modest and unassuming. Yet, interestingly, they tend to post arrogant comments such as a Saturday puzzle being easy, or other stuff like that. In other words, they are too good for the rest of us, but out of modesty conceal their identities and GM titles, even though disclosing them would confirm that their comments are genuine rather than self-aggrandizing computer-aided bulls**t. How lucky we are to learn from them! Dec-12-21    OhioChessFan: I've always suspected some of the habitual Saturday/Sunday braggarts aren't really solving them. Dec-12-21    Fusilli: <OCF> It makes two of us. Dec-28-21    Penguincw: Dear Fusilli, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 68) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 68 OF 68 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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