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CONTENTSAROUND THE NATION ........... .........................................................32005 STATE CHAMPIONSHIP ..............................................5THE LONG VIEW ........................................................................................THE LONG VIEW ........................................................................................THE LONG VIEW 11PACIFIC SOUTHWEST OPEN ...............................................12TACTICS

by TIM HANKS .................................TIM HANKS .................................TIM HANKS .....................................................................14HERE & THERE Club news, local tournaments, scholastic scholastic schol eventsastic eventsastic and more .............................................................................and more .............................................................................and more 17GAMES FROM RECENT EVENTS .................................. 25

UPCOMING EVENTS .............................................................................26STATE CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIERSSTATE CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIERSSTATE CHAMPIONSHIP Q ................27CHESS QUIZ ............................................... .......................................................28

Around the Nation

Southern Californians at the U.S. Open

The 106th Annual U.S. Open, held in Phoenix, drew many South-ern Californians. In the “apples and oranges” comparison to LA 2003 (three less rounds, larger entry fee, smaller prizes, much warmer cli-mate), the total participation was 453 compared to 2003’s 456.

Southern California native, GM Larry Christiansen, now of Massa-chusetts, was the clear leader going into the last round, but lost a heart-breaker to GM Vadim Milov, who took first on tiebreak over GM Joel Benjamin. Larry tied for 3rd/7th with 7½ of 9.

Among current residents, Joel Banawa scored 7 (downing IM Se-villano in the last round) to tie for 1st/6th Master. At 6½ were GM Bo-ris Kreiman, IM Andranik Matiko-zyan, and young Christian Tanaka (who tied for 1st/6th Under 2200). Christian downed Masters Jerry Hanken and Nick Schoonmaker in the final two rounds when it count-ed.

The group with 6 included Sevil-lano, Matthew Beelby, Nick Nita, Francis Chen, Takashi Iwamoto, John Bryant, and David Bennett (with the last two tying for 1st/10th Under 2000).

At 5½ were IM Tony Saidy, Chris Slupik, Josh Gutman, Tom Fries, Derek Tan, Vanessa West, Mike Nagaran, Randy Hough, Chris Lee, and Donald Danlag. And the five-pointers included Elliott Liu, Jerry Hanken (his 38th plus score in an Open), Jared Tan, Kyle Rieb, and Gabriella Kay.

Francis Chen scored 3½ of 6, equal tenth place, in the Denker

Tournament of High School Cham-pions, never recovering from a first round loss when he pressed too hard. In the Polgar Tournament of High School Girls, last-minute sub-stitute Melinda West tallied 4-2, in-cluding an upset, to tie for seventh. – Randy Hough

USCF Election: But ’twas a famous victory’twas a famous victory’

Four new members have been elected to the USCF Executive Board. Bill Goichberg, Greg Sha-hade, Joel Channing, and Robert Tanner, who were loosely associ-ated as a “slate” and endorsed

one another, swept the board over the competing slate of Elizabeth Shaughnessy, Randy Bauer, Steve Shutt (all incumbents), and George John. Perpetual candidate Sam Sloan was associated with neither group. Vote totals were:

Bill Goichberg 3941Greg Shahade 3694Joel Channing 3358 Robert Tanner 3179

Elizabeth Shaughnessy 1638Randy Bauer 1591 Steve Shutt 1194 Sam Sloan 1064 George John 1059


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The four were elected to four-year terms. They will join incum-bent members Don Schultz and Bea-triz Marinello. Tim Hanke resigned shortly after the election, and it is not yet clear if a special election will be held to replace him. At the new Board’s first meeting in August, of-ficers were elected: Bill Goichberg President, Don Schultz Vice Presi-dent, Joel Channing Vice President for Finance (known as “Treasurer” before the buzzword epidemic), and Greg Shahade Secretary.

The number of voters participat-ing this year was significantly high-er than in the past. One reason for this was presumably the increasing-ly harsh terms of debate, with both sides predicting the imminent de-mise of the USCF should the enemy prevail. Equally significant, howev-er (and with ominous implications for future USCF elections) was the substantial amount of money spent on direct-mail advertising.

2005 U.S. Cadet Championship

Kings Island, Ohio was the site of the 4-player 2005 U.S. Cadet on June 12-16, 2005 where a close bat-tle was waged between Elliott Liu (2230), from California, and Sarkis Agaian (2123), from New York. A double round robin was played to determine the title of U.S. Cadet Champion and it was so close that a playoff was used to determine first place and the scholarship. Although both Liu and Agaian are considered co-champions, Liu earned the four-year scholarship which was offered by University of Maryland at Balti-more County (UMBC).

The tournament was organized by the United States Chess Federa-

tion and the Warren County Con-vention and Visitors Bureau and directed by Mike Anders.

The U.S. Cadet Championship is an invitational tournament held every year for the top players under 16 years old. – USCF news release

Polgar sets new simul records

In a marathon 16-and-a-half hours, Grandmaster Susan Polgar set not one, but four new records, and unofficially set a Guinness World Record for the most simulta-neous matches.

More than 500 people from around the world, ranging in ages from 4 to 95, turned out at The Gar-dens Mall in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida on August 1 for a chance to compete against the first female celebrity icon of the chess world. The games began at 10:30 a.m. and wrapped up at 3:00 a.m.

New Records by Grand-master Susan Polgar

1) 326 Simultaneous Games Played

(309 wins, 14 draws, 3 losses = 96.93% in 16 hours and 30 min-utes)

2) Most games won 309 3) Highest percentage 96.93% 4) 1,131 Consecutive Games

Played against 554 opponents (Overall 1,112 wins, 16 draws, 3

losses)

Photos: Cover, pp. 6, 13: Lola Nunn. Pp. 7, 8, 9, 10, 12: John Hillery. P. 20: Jay Stallings. P. 21: Harry Akopyan.

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Halo Industries office.

Randy Hough and John Hillery directed the event. Special thanks are due to John Rowell, who provid-ed the playing site, Essam Mohamed of Halo Industries, and Jaques Landry and Bill Conrad, who made substantial donations, as well as all who particiapted in our “Chess Lot-to” fund raiser. Unfortunately, the cost of the Championship continues to exceed the SCCF’s resources, and the future of the tournament is in doubt unless more money can be raised for next year.

Craig Clawitter (2166) - IM Melikset Khachiyan (2577)

SCCF State Championship, Los Angeles 2005

B39 SICILIAN DEFENSE, Accelerated Dragon Variation1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4.

Nxd4 g6 5. c4 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Nc3 Ng4 8. Qxg4 Nxd4 9. Qd1 Ne6 10. Qd2 Qa5 11. Be2 Bxc3 12. bxc3 d6 13. 0–0 Bd7 14. f4 Bc6 15. f5 Nc5 16. Qd4 f6 17. fxg6 hxg6 18. Rxf6 exf6 19. Qxf6 Rf8 20. Qxg6+ Kd8

21. Qxd6+ Nd7 22. Rd1 Rg8 23. Qe6 Re8 24. Qf6+ Kc8 25. Bg4 Qe5 26. Qf7

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IM Jack Peters (2549) - IM Enrico Sevillano (2590)


C18 FRENCH DEFENSE, Winawer Variation1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5

c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Qg4 Qc7 8. Qxg7 Rg8 9. Qxh7 cxd4 10. Ne2 Nbc6 11. f4 Bd7 12. Qd3 dxc3 13. Qxc3 0–0–0 14. Rb1 Nf5 15. Bd2

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 81 IM Andranik Matikozyan * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 5-22 IM Cyrus Lakdawala ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 5-23 IM Melikset Khachiyan ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 1 5-24 IM Jack Peters 0 ½ ½ * 0 1 1 1 4-35 Ron Bruno ½ 0 ½ 1 * ½ ½ ½ 3½-3½6 IM Enrico Sevillano ½ ½ 0 0 ½ * ½ 1 3-47 Alaa-Addin Moussa 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ * 1 2-58 Craig Clawitter 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 * ½-6½

The 17th annual SCCF State Championship, held July 9-17 at the Century City law offices of Cheong, Denove, Rowell &

Bennett, featured perhaps the strongest field in the tournament’s history. Five IMs, including four former champions, joined three others from the year-long Candidates cycle in the seven-round event.

Three former champions shared first place with scores of 5-2: IMs Melik-set Khachiyan, Cyrus Lakdawala and Andranik Matikozyan. On tiebreak, Matikozyan received the first-place cup donated by Halo Industries, a Hun-tington Beach aerospace manufacturing company. A perpetual trophy (see cover photo) with the names of all winners, will remain on display at the

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FRONT: Melikset Khachiyan, Andranik Matikozyan (with trophies), Cyrus Lakdawala. REAR: John Rowell (tournament host), Ron Bruno, Craig Clawitter, Jack Peters, Essam

Mohamed (donor of the Halo Cup), Alaa-Addin Moussa. Absent: Enrico Sevillano.

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Alaa-Addin Moussa (2218) - IM Andranik Matikozyan (2585)


E73 KING’S INDIAN DEFENSE, Averbakh Variation1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4.

e4 d6 5. Be2 0–0 6. Bg5 Na6 7. Qd2 e5 8. d5 c6 9. Bd1 cxd5 10. cxd5 b5 11. Nxb5 Nxe4 12. Bxd8 Nxd2 13. Bh4 Nc4 14. Be2 Nb6 15. Nf3 Nb4 16. Rd1 N4xd5 17. Nxd6 Nf4 18. Be7 Nxg2+ 19. Kf1 Bh3

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Ron Bruno (2157) - IM Cyrus Lakdawala (2498)


B33 SICILIAN DEFENSE, Sveshnikov Variation1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4.

Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 Bc5 7. Bg5 0–0 8. Qf3 Be7 9. Bxf6 Bxf6 10.

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49. Rh5 h3 50. f5 Kf6 51. Kd2 Rb3 52. Kc2 a4 0–1

IM Enrico Sevillano (2590) - Craig Clawitter (2166)


C15 FRENCH DEFENSE, Winawer Variation1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4.

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1989 Upland-Commerce Jack Peters 5½-1½

1990 El Toro-Los Angeles Jack Peters 4½-2½

1991 Los Angeles Doug Root (on tiebreak over Jack Peters and Jonathan Schroer) 4½-2½

1992 Long Beach- Buena Park David Strauss 6-1

1993 Buena Park Thomas Wolski 6-1

1994 Buena Park Cyrus Lakdawala 6½-½

1995 Buena Park Jack Peters 5½-1½

1996 Irvine Marc Leski 5½-1½

1997 Irvine Cyrus Lakdawala 5½-1½

1998 Irvine Levon Altounian, Cyrus Lakdawala, Jack Peters 5-2

1999 Los Angeles Jack Peters, Charles Van Buskirk 5-2

2000 Hollywood Cyrus Lakdawala, Jack Peters 5½-1½

2001 Los Angeles Levon Altounian 5-2

2002 Costa Mesa Melikset Khachiyan 5½-1½

2003 Costa Mesa Levon Altounian, Andranik Matikozyan 7-2

2004 Los Angeles Kong Liang Deng 6-1

Southern California Champions

17. 0–0–0 Rg8 18. Rd6 Nxc6 19. Qd8+ Nxd8 20. Rxd8# 1–0

IM Cyrus Lakdawala (2498) - IM Jack Peters (2549)


E90 KING’S INDIAN DEFENSE1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4.

Nc3 0–0 5. e4 d6 6. h3 c6 7. Bd3 a6 8. 0–0 b5 9. e5 Nfd7 10. exd6 exd6 ½–½

IM Melikset Khachiyan (2577) - Alaa-Addin Moussa (2218)


B17 CARO-KANN DEFENSE, Smyslov Variation1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4.

Nxe4 Nd7 5. Nf3 Ngf6 6. Ng3 e6 7. Bd3 Be7 8. 0–0 c5 9. c3 0–0 10. Qe2 Re8 11. Be3 b6 12. Ne5 Bb7 13. Rad1 Qc7 14. Nxd7 Qxd7 15. Nh5 Qc6 16. Nxf6+ Bxf6 17. f3 Qc7 18. dxc5 bxc5 19. Qc2 h6 20. Bh7+ Kh8 21. Be4 Rac8 22. Bxb7 Qxb7 23. Rd2 Red8 24. Rfd1 Qc7 25. Qa4 Rxd2 26. Rxd2 Be5 27. f4 Bd6 28. g3 a5 29. Qe4 Kg8 30. c4 Be7 31. b3 Rd8 32. Qe5 Bd6 33. Qe4 Be7 34. Kf1 Rxd2 35. Bxd2 Qd8 36. Ke2 Bf6 37. Be3 Qc7 38. Qa8+ Kh7 39. Bd2 Qd6 40. Qf3 Qc7 41. h4 e5 42. Qe4+ Kg8 43. Qa8+ Bd8 44. fxe5 Qxe5+ 45. Be3 Qe7 46. Qc8 Kh7 47. Qxc5 Qe4 48. Qd5 Qg4+ 49. Qf3 Qg6 50. h5 Qc2+ 51. Bd2 Qxa2 52. Qd3+ 1–0

IM Andranik Matikozyan (2585) - Ron Bruno (2157)


B47 SICILIAN DEFENSE, Paulsen Varaition1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. Nc3 a6 4. g3

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Ron Bruno (2157) - IM Melikset Khachiyan (2577)


B56 SICILIAN DEFENSE, Boleslavsky Variation1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4.

Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. f3 e5 7. Nb3 Be6 8. Be3 Be7 9. Qd2 d5 10. exd5 Nxd5 11. Nxd5 Qxd5 12. Qxd5 Bxd5 13. 0–0–0 0–0–0 14. c4 Be6 15. Be2 b6 16. a3 Kb7 17. Nd2 Nd4 18. Bd3 Nf5 19. Be4+ Kc7 20. Bf2 Bg5 21. h4 Bf4 22. Bxf5 Bxf5 23. g3 Bxd2+ 24. Rxd2 Rxd2 25. Kxd2 Rd8+ 26. Ke2 Bd3+ 27. Ke3 Bxc4 28. Rc1 b5 29. Ke4 Rd2 30. b3 Rxf2 31. bxc4 Re2+ 32. Kd3 Ra2 33. cxb5+ Kb6 34. Rc3

IM MELIKSET KHACHIYAN

RON BRUNO


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IM Cyrus Lakdawala (2498) - IM Enrico Sevillano (2590)


B33 SICILIAN DEFENSE, Sveshnikov Variation1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4.

Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8. Na3 b5 9. Nd5 Qa5+ 10. Bd2 Qd8 11. Bg5 Be7 12. Bxf6 Bxf6 13. c3 Bg5 14. Nc2 Rb8 15. a4 bxa4

16. Ncb4 Nxb4 17. Nxb4 Bd7 18. Bxa6 0–0 19. 0–0 Bf4 20. Bc4 Qg5 21. Kh1 Bg4 22. Qd3 Kh8 23. h3 f5 24. Bd5 Qh5 25. Rfe1 fxe4 26. Bxe4 Bg5 27. Kg1 Qh4 28. Qg3 Qxg3 29. fxg3 Bd7 30. Rad1 Rb6 31. Rf1 Re8 32. Rf3 Bb5 33. Nd5 Be2 34. Nxb6 Bxd1 35. Rf1 Be2 36. Re1 Bb5 37. c4 Ba6 38. Bd5 Rb8 39. Nxa4 Rb4 40. Ra1 Bxc4 41. Bxc4 Rxc4 42. Nb6 Rc1+ 43. Rxc1 Bxc1 44. Nc4

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44. ... d5 45. Nxe5 Bxb2 46. Nd3 Bc3 47. Nf4 Be5 48. Kf2 Bxf4 49. gxf4 Kg8 50. Ke3 Kf7 51. Kd4 Ke6 52. g4 h5 53. Kc5 hxg4 54. hxg4 g6 55. Kd4 Kd6 56. f5 gxf5 57. gxf5 ½–½

Alaa-Addin Moussa (2218) - Craig Clawitter (2166)


E10 BLUMENFELD GAMBIT1. d4 e6 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nf3 c5 4. d5

b5 5. dxe6 fxe6 6. cxb5 Bb7 7. e3 d5 8. b3 Bd6 9. Bb2 0–0 10. Be2 Nbd7 11. Nbd2 e5 12. Nc4 Bc7 13. Ncxe5 Ba5+ 14. Kf1 Ne4 15. Qc2 Bc7 16. Nc6 Qe8 17. Rd1 Ndf6 18. Bxf6 Rxf6 19. Rxd5 a6 20. Re5 Bxe5 21. Qxe4 axb5 22. Qd5+ Kh8 23. Nfxe5 Bxc6 24. Nxc6 Qxc6 25. Qxc6 Rxc6 26. Bxb5 Rb6

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27. a4 Rxb5 28. axb5 Ra1+ 29. Ke2 Rxh1 30. Kd3 Kg8? 31. b6 Rd1+ 32. Kc4 Kf7 33. b7 Rd8 34. Kxc5 Ke7 35. Kc6 Rd6+ 36. Kc7

Rd7+ 37. Kb6 Rd3 38. b4 1–0

IM Jack Peters (2549) - IM Andranik Matikozyan (2585)


B25 SICILIAN DEFENSE, Closed Variation1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 d6 3. g3 Nc6 4. Bg2

g6 5. d3 Bg7 6. f4 e6 7. Nf3 Nge7 8. 0–0 0–0 9. Be3 Rb8 10. Rb1 b5 11. d4 cxd4 12. Nxd4 b4 13. Nce2 Qc7 14. c3 Ba6 15. Rf2 Nxd4 16. Nxd4 bxc3 17. Rc2 Qa5 18. bxc3 Rxb1 19. Qxb1 Bd3 20. Qb7 Bxc2 21. Qxe7 Qxc3 22. Nxc2 Qxc2 23. Qxa7 Qb1+ 24. Kf2 Rc8 25. g4 Rc2+ 26. Kg3 Rxa2 0–1

IM Andranik Matikozyan (2585) - IM Cyrus Lakdawala (2498)


A07 RETI SYSTEM, Capablanca Defense1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 c6 3. Bg2 Bg4 4.

0–0 Nd7 5. d3 Ngf6 6. Nbd2 e5 7. e4 Bd6 8. h3 Bh5 9. Qe1 ½–½

IM Melikset Khachiyan (2577) - IM Jack Peters (2549)


B89 SICILIAN DEFENSE, Leonhardt-Sozin Attack1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4.

Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bc4 e6 7. Be3 a6 8. Qe2 Bd7 9. 0–0–0 b5 10. Nxc6 Bxc6 11. Bb3 b4

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12. Qc4 Qd7 13. Qxb4 a5 14. Qd4 a4 15. Bc4 Qb7 16. Qb6 Qxb6 17. Bxb6 Nxe4 18. Nxe4 Bxe4 19. Bb5+ Ke7 20. f3 Bxc2 21. Kxc2 Rb8 22. Bc7 ½–½

ALAA-ADDIN MOUSSA

IM CYRUS LAKDAWALA


Craig Clawitter (2166) - Ron Bruno (2157)


B40 SICILIAN DEFENSE, Alapin Variation Deferred1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c3 d5 4.

e5 d4 5. cxd4 cxd4 6. Bb5+ Bd7 7. Nxd4 Qa5 8. Qe2 a6 9. Bxd7+ Nxd7 10. Nf3 Nc5 11. Nc3 Rd8 12. d4

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12. ... Nb3 13. Bg5 Rc8 14. Rd1 Rxc3 15. bxc3 Qxc3+ 16. Kf1 h6 17. Be3 Na5 18. Rc1 Qa3 19. g3 Ne7 20. Kg2 Nd5 21. Nd2 b5 22. Rc2 Be7 23. Qg4 Kd7 24. Rhc1 g5 25. Qe4 Bd8 26. Nb1 Qf8 27. a4 Nb3 28. axb5 Ba5 29. bxa6 Qa8 30. f3 Nxc1 31. Bxc1 Qxa6 32. Bd2 Bxd2 ½–½

IM Cyrus Lakdawala (2498) - IM Melikset Khachiyan (2577)


D10 SLAV DEFENSE, Exchange Variation1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. cxd5 cxd5 4.

Nf3 Nc6 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. Bf4 a6 7. Rc1 e6 8. e3 Bd6 9. Bg3 0–0 ½–½

IM Enrico Sevillano (2590) - Alaa-Addin Moussa (2218)


B17 Caro-Kann Defense, Smyslov Variation1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4.

Nxe4 Nd7 5. Bd3 Ngf6 6. Ng3 e6 7. Qe2 Be7 8. Nf3 c5 9. c3 cxd4 10. Nxd4 0–0 11. 0–0 Nc5 12. Bc2 Bd7 13. Rd1 Qc7 14. a4 a5 15. Bg5 Rfe8 16. Bxf6 Bxf6 17. Nh5 Be7 18. Qf3 Qe5 19. Re1 Qg5 20. Ng3 Qf6 21. Qe2 Bf8 22. Ne4 Qh6 23. Qf3 Rab8

24. Nxc5 Bxc5 25. Rad1 g6 26. Re2 Bxd4 27. Rxd4 Bc6 28. Qe3 Qxe3 29. fxe3 e5 30. Rd1 Rbd8 31. Red2 Rxd2 32. Rxd2 Kf8 33. b4 Ke7 34. b5 Bd7 35. Rd5 Rc8 36. Rxe5+ Kd6 37. Re4 Rxc3 ½–½

IM Jack Peters (2549) - Craig Clawitter (2166)


C60 RUY LOPEZ, Brentano’s Defense1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g5 4.

d4 Nxd4 5. Nxd4 exd4 6. Qxd4 Qf6 7. Qe3 h6 8. Nc3 c6 9. Be2 Bd6 10. g3 Ne7 11. f4 gxf4 12. gxf4 Qh4+ 13. Qg3 Ng6 14. e5 Bb4

15. a3 Bxc3+ 16. bxc3 d6 17. exd6 Bf5 18. Be3 Bxc2 19. Bg4 h5 20. Bh3 Qxg3+ 21. hxg3 f5 22. Rh2 Be4 23. 0–0–0 Kd7 24. Rd4 Kd8

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25. Rxe4 fxe4 26. Bf5 Rh6 27. g4 Nh8 28. g5 Rxd6 29. Rxh5 Kc7 30. Rh7+ 1–0

Ron Bruno (2157) - Alaa-Addin Moussa (2218)


B14 CARO-KANN DEFENSE, Panov-Botvinnik Attack1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4

Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nf3 Bb4 7. Qb3 Nc6 8. Bg5 0–0 9. Bd3 dxc4 10. Qxc4 Be7 11. a3 Bd7 12. h4 Rc8 13. Qb3 Qa5 14. Rd1 e5 15. Bxf6 Bxf6 16. Qxb7 Bg4 17. Qa6 Bxf3 18. Qxa5 Nxa5 19. gxf3 exd4 20. Nd5 ½–½

IM Andranik Matikozyan (2585) - IM Enrico Sevillano (2590)


C86 SICILIAN DEFENSE, Rossolimo Variation1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4.

Ba4 Nf6 5. Qe2 b5 6. Bb3 Be7 7. c3 0–0 8. 0–0 d6 9. Rd1 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Qc7 12. d5 c4 13. Nbd2 Nb7 14. Nf1 Nc5 15. Ng3 Re8 16. h3 Bd7 17. Nh2 Qc8 18. f4 exf4 19. Bxf4 Kh8 20. Qf3 Ng8 21. e5 dxe5 22. Bxe5 Bf6 23. Bd4 Nd3 24. Bxf6 Nxf6 25. Bxd3 cxd3 26. Rxd3 Re5 27. Rad1 Qb7 28. d6 Bc6 29. Qf2 Rd8 30. b3 Rd5 31. Rxd5 Bxd5 32. Nf5 Be6 33. Rd4 Qc6

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34. Nxg7 Kxg7 35. Qg3+ Kf8 36. Qg5 Qxc3 37. Qxf6 Rxd6 38. Nf3 Ke8 39. Qf4 Rxd4 40. Nxd4 Kd7 41. Qe4 Kd6 42. Nxe6 fxe6 43. Qxh7 ½–½

IM Melikset Khachiyan (2577) - IM Andranik Matikozyan (2585)


B40 SICILIAN DEFENSE, Scheveningen Variation1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 Nc6 4. Nc3

d6 5. d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 Nf6 7. Be2 Be7 8. 0–0 0–0 9. Be3 a6 10. Rc1 Bd7 11. Re1 Nxd4 12. Bxd4 ½–½

Craig Clawitter (2166) - IM Cyrus Lakdawala (2498)


B30 SICILIAN DEFENSE1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 e6 4.

0–0 Nf6 5. Re1 Nxe4 6. Bxe6 dxe6 7. Rxe4 Be7 8. Nc3 0–0 9. b3 f6 10.

IM JACK PETERS


Qf1 e5 11. Qc4+ Kh8 12. Bb2 Bf5 13. Re3 Nd4 14. Ne1 Qd7 15. Ne4 Rac8 16. c3 Ne6 17. Nf3 Nf4 18. g3

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18. ... b5 19. Qf1 Bh3 20. Qd1 Nd3 21. Qc2 c4 0–1

Alaa-Addin Moussa (2218) - IM Jack Peters (2549)


E73 KING’S INDIAN DEFENSE, Averbakh Variation1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4.

e4 d6 5. Be2 0–0 6. Bg5 Nbd7 7. Qd2 e5 8. d5 Nc5 9. f3 Bd7 10. h4 a6 11. h5 Qe8 12. Bh6 Qe7 13. g4 Ne8 14. Nh3 gxh5 15. b4 hxg4 16. fxg4 Na4 17. Nxa4 Bxa4 18. Ng5 Bxh6 19. Rxh6 f6 20. Rxh7 Ng7

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21. Rxg7+ Qxg7 22. Ne6 Qh7 23. Nxf8 Qh4+ 24. Kf1 Rxf8 25. Kg2 Qg5 26. Qd3 Kg7 27. Rh1 Rh8 28. Rxh8 Kxh8 29. Qh3+ Kg7 30. Qc3 Bd7 31. Kh3 Qh6+ 32. Kg2 Qf4 33. Qf3 Qd2 34. a3 Ba4 35. Qd3 Qc1 36. Qf3 Qe1 37. Qf1 Qd2 38. Qf3 Bc2 39. Kg3 Qd4 40. g5 Qg1+ 41. Kh3 Qxg5 42. Bd3 Bxd3 43. Qxd3 f5 44. exf5 Kf6 45. Kh2 Qxf5 46. Qe2 Kg5 47. Qg2+ Qg4 48. Qc2 e4 49. Qc3

Kf5 50. Qd4 Qe2+ 51. Kg1 e3 52. Qh8 Qg4+ 53. Kh2 e2 54. Qh7+ Kf4 55. Qh6+ Kf3 0–1

IM Enrico Sevillano (2590) - Ron Bruno (2157)


B22 SICILIAN DEFENSE, Alapin Variation1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4.

d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. Be2 e6 7. h3 Bh5 8. 0–0 Nc6 9. Be3 cxd4 10. Nxd4 Bxe2 11. Qxe2 Nxd4 12. Bxd4 Be7 13. Nd2 0–0 14. Nf3 Qe4 15. Qd2 Rfd8 16. Rfe1 Qc6 17. Rad1 Bc5 18. Re5 Bxd4 19. Nxd4 Qc7 20. Qe2 Rd6 21. Rg5 Rad8 22. Re1 a6 23. Qe5 h6 24. Rg3 Kh8 25. Kh1 R6d7 26. Qe2 Rd5 27. Qe3 Ra5 28. Rf3 Rdd5 29. a3 Rh5 30. Qc1 Rhg5 31. Ne2 Rgf5 32. Rxf5 Rxf5 33. Kg1 Nd5 34. Nd4 Rf6 35. Nf3 Nf4 36. Ne5 Rf5 37. Qe3 f6 38. Nd3 Nxd3 39. Qxd3 Rd5 40. Qe4 Re5 41. Qb1 Rxe1+ 42. Qxe1 Qd7 43. c4 Qd3 44. Qb4 Qd1+ 45. Kh2 Qd4 46. Qxb7 Qxc4 47. g3 Qe2 48. Kg2 Kh7 49. b4 f5 50. a4 e5 51. Qd5 f4 52. gxf4 e4 53. Qf5+ Kh8 54. Qc8+ Kh7 55. Qc3 Qd1 56. a5 Qd6 57. Kg3 Qg6+ 58. Kh4 Qd6 59. Qe5 Qxb4 60. Kh5 g6+ 61. Kg4 Qe1 62. Qc7+ Kg8 63. Qc4+ Kg7 64. Qd4+ Kg8 65. Qd8+ Kg7 66. Qc7+ Kg8 67. Qb8+ Kg7 68. Qa7+ Kg8 69. Qb8+ Kg7 70. Qb2+ Kg8 71. Qb3+ Kg7 72. Qb2+ Kg8 73. Qa2+ Kg7 ½–½

IM Andranik Matikozyan (2585) - Craig Clawitter (2166)


C48 FOUR KNIGHTS GAME1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. Nf3 Nc6

4. Bb5 Nd4 5. Bc4 Bc5 6. d3 0–0 7. Bg5 c6 8. h3 Ne6 9. Bxe6 fxe6 10. Qd2 d6 11. Na4 Bb6 12. Nxb6 axb6 13. c4 Qe8 14. Bxf6 Rxf6 15. Nh2 c5 16. Ng4 Rg6 17. 0–0 Bd7 18. b4 Qe7 19. Ne3 Rf8 20. f3 Qh4 21. Kh1 Qf4 22. Rf2 h5 23. a4 Ra8 24. Re2 Rh6 25. a5 g5

26. Rb1 Kh7 27. Kg1 Rg8 28. bxc5

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IM Jack Peters (2549) - Ron Bruno (2157)


A08 KING’S INDIAN ATTACK1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d3 d5 4.

Nbd2 Nf6 5. g3 Nc6 6. Bg2 Be7 7. 0–0 0–0 8. Re1 b6 9. e5 Ne8 10. Nf1 Bb7 11. h4 b5 12. N1h2 b4 13. Bh3 Nc7 14. Ng5 h6 15. Ngf3 Nb5 16. Bf4 Ncd4 17. Nxd4 Nxd4 18. c3 Nf5 19. cxb4 cxb4 20. Nf3 d4 21. Bg2 Bd5 22. h5 Qd7 23. Nd2 Bxg2 24. Kxg2 Rac8 25. Kh3 f6 26. Qb3 fxe5 27. Rxe5 Rc6 28. g4 Nh4 29. Bg3 Nf3 30. Nxf3 Rxf3 31. Rae1 Rf6 32. Bh4 Rf3+ 33. Kg2 Bxh4 34. Kxf3 Qf7+ 35. Rf5 Qb7 36. Re4 Kh7 37. Rf8 Qe7 38. Rb8

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MATIKOZYAN


Rxe3 dxe3 44. Qc3 Qf1+ 45. Kc2 e2 46. Rxc6 Qd1# 0–1

IM Cyrus Lakdawala (2498) - Alaa-Addin Moussa (2218)


B23 SICILIAN DEFENSE, Rossolimo Variation1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g6 4.

Bxc6 dxc6 5. f4 Bg7 6. Nf3 Nf6 7. Qe2 Nd7 8. d3 e5 9. f5 Qe7 10. g4 f6 11. Be3 b6 12. 0–0–0 g5 13. h4 h6 14. hxg5 hxg5 15. Rxh8+ Bxh8 16. Qh2 Bg7 17. Ne2 Ba6 18. Qh5+ Kd8 19. Bxg5 Kc7 20. Bh6 Rh8 21. g5 fxg5 22. Bxg5 Nf6 23. Qg6 Rg8 24. Nxe5 1–0

IM Melikset Khachiyan (2577) - IM Enrico Sevillano (2590)


B09 PIRC-ROBATSCH DEFENSE1. e4 d6 2. d4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4.

f4 Nf6 5. Nf3 c5 6. Bb5+ Bd7 7. e5 Ng4 8. e6 fxe6 9. Ng5 Bxb5 10. Nxb5 Qa5+ 11. c3 Qxb5 12. Qxg4

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12. ... Qc4 13. Nxe6 Bf6 14. Nc7+ Kd8 15. Nxa8 cxd4 16. Qe2 Qxe2+ 17. Kxe2 Nc6 18. cxd4 Nxd4+ 19. Kd3 Kd7 20. Be3 Ne6 21. Raf1 Rxa8 22. f5 gxf5 23. Rxf5 b6 24. b3 Rg8 25. Rg1 Be5 26. g3 Ng7 27. Rf7 h5 28. Rgf1 Ke6 29. Rf8 Rxf8 30. Rxf8 Nf5 31. Ra8 d5 32. Rxa7 d4 33. Bg5 Bd6 34. Rb7 Kd5 35. Rxb6 e5 36. Rb5+ Kc6 37. a4 Bc7 38. Bf4 1–0

The Long Viewby John Hillery

The White King is driven to c3 and Black wins both Rooks, but it is the Black King that succumbs to a hunt in which the White King him-self participates.

Taubenhaus – PollockNottingham, 1886C39 KING’S GAMBIT ACCEPTED,

Allgaier Variation1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4.

h4 g4 5. Ng5 The Allgaier Gambit, which

commits White to the sacrifice of a piece.

5. ... h6 6. Nxf7 Kxf7 7. d4 f3 8. Bc4+ d5 9. Bxd5+ Ke8 10. gxf3 g3 11. f4 Nf6 12. Bc4 g2 13. Rg1 Bg4 14. Qd3

Threatening 15. e5 and 16. Qg6+. Black finds a clever reply that deserved a better fate.

14. ... Nc6 15. e5 Ne4 16. Qxe4 Qxh4+ 17. Kd2 Qf2+ 18. Kc3 Qxg1 19. Be3 Qe1+

Obvious, but not the best -- after 19. ... Bf5! Black would retain his material advantage safely.

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20. Nd2 g1(Q) 21. Bxg1 Qxa1?

Too greedy. With 21. ... Qxe4 Black would have good winning chances, though the White central pawns would have to be treated with respect. After the text Black is lost.

22. Qg6+ Kd8 23. Qf6+ Kc8 24. Qxh8 Kd7 25. Qh7+ Be7 26. e6+ Bxe6 27. Bxe6+ Kxe6 28. d5+ Kxd5 29. Qf5+ Ne5 30. Qxe5+ Kc6 31. Qxe7 Qxg1 32. Qe6+ Kb5 33. a4+ Kxa4 34. Qb3+ Ka5 35. Nc4+ Ka6 36. Qa4 mate

Supporting organizations for the World Record chess challenge in-clude the Susan Polgar Foundation, the U.S. Chess Trust, The Gar-dens Mall, Northern Palm Beaches Chamber of Commerce, PGA Corri-dor Association, Boca Raton Chess Club, Palm Beach County Sports Commission, The Palm Beach Post, American Chess Equipment, Ex-calibur and the World Chess Hall of Fame, International Chess Market-ing, Florida Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Palm Beach Gardens Marriott and William T. Dwyer High School.

For more information on the Susan Polgar Foundation, and for downloadable photos, visit www.su-sanpolgarfoundation.org. – USCF news release

... continued from page 4 U.S. Junior OpenA record-setting attendance

brought 138 young chess players from all over the United States to King’s Island, Ohio as the 2005 U.S. Junior Open Chess Champion-ship was held on June 10-12, 2005. The Championship was a six round tournament with four separate age-based sections.

In the Under 21 Section, Ben-jamin Coraretti (2043), from Ohio, and Roger Rojas-Suarez (Unrated), from Michigan scored five points to best the 30-player field. Coraretti earned the spot in the 2006 U.S. Junior Invitational Championship.

Anton Uskov (Unrated), from North Carolina, took clear first in the Under 15 with 5½ points as he led the 42-player field giving up

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45th Annual

Pacific Southwest OpenJuly 2-4, 2005

Michael Casella – IM Melikset Khachiyan

Pacifi c Southwest Open, Burbank 2005

C45 SCOTCH GAME1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4.

Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nxc6 bxc6 6. e5 Qe7 7. Qe2 Nd5 8. c4 Ba6 9. b3 g5 10. h4 Bg7 11. Bb2 Nf4 12. Qe3 Ng6 13. Qxg5 Qxg5 14. hxg5 Nxe5 15. Nc3 0–0–0 16. 0–0–0 h6 17. gxh6 Rxh6 18. Rxh6 Bxh6+ 19. Kc2 Ng4 20. Ne4 f5 21. Nc5 Bb7 22. Bd4 d6 23. Ne6 Rg8 24. c5 Kb8 25. Bd3 Nxf2 26. Bxf2 Rxg2 27. Rh1 Rxf2+ 28. Kb1 Rf3 29. Kc2 Rf2+ 30. Kb1 Rf3 31. Bc4 d5

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32. Nd4 Rf2 33. Rxh6 dxc4 34. Rh8+ Bc8 35. Nxc6+ Kb7 36. Na5+ Ka6 37. Nxc4 Bb7 38. a4 Bd5 39. Rh6+ c6 40. Ne5 Be4+ 41. Ka1 Ka5 42. Nxc6+ Bxc6 43. Rxc6 Kb4 44. Rc7 Kxb3 45. Rb7+ Kxa4 46. Kb1 Rf4 47. Rxa7+ Kb5 48. Kc2 Rd4 49. Kc3 Rd5 50. Rc7 ½–½

IM Jack Peters – Ricky Yu Pacifi c Southwest Open, Burbank

2005C11 CARO-KANN DEFENSE,

Fantasy Variation1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. f3 e6 4. Nc3

Nf6 5. e5 Nfd7 6. f4 c5 7. Nf3 Nc6 8. Be3 cxd4 9. Nxd4 Be7 10. Qd2 Nxd4 11. Bxd4 b6 12. Bd3 Bb7 13. 0–0–0 0–0 14. Rde1 Nc5 15. g4 Nxd3+ 16. Qxd3 Bc5 17. Ne2 Qc8 18. Qd2 Ba6 19. Nc3 Bb4 20. Re3 Qc4 21. b3 Bxc3 22. Rxc3 Qe2 23. h3 Rac8 24. Re3 Qxd2+ 25. Kxd2 Rc6 26. Rh2 Rfc8 27. Kd1 R8c7 28. h4 Bc8 29. h5 b5 30. Kc1 a5 31. Kb2 Bd7 32. Rf3 g6 33. a3 Bc8 34. Rg2 Kf8 35. Bc3 Ra6 36. Rh3 Rb7 37. Rgh2 Kg8 38. Be1 Rc7 39. Bh4 a4 40. Be1 Rac6 41. Ba5 Ra7 42. Bb4 axb3 43. cxb3 Rd7

This year’s edition of Southern California’s longest-runnign tournament, held at the Burbank Airport Hilton, had a

slightly disappointing turnout of 113. Four players shared first place with scores of 5-1: Michael Casella, IM Andranik Matiko-zyan, IM Jack Peters, Michael Casella, and Ilia Serpik. Next at 4½-1½ were IM Melikset Khachiyan, IM Enrico Sevillano and top expert Julian Landaw. Louie Rivera and Immanuel Singuillo tied for best U2000.

In other action, Dingchao Lu won the Amateur (under-1800) section with 6-0. Roger Aramayo, Janice Chen, Jak Jonz, Konstantin Kavutskiy, Yunlin Zhang and best under-1600 Sunil Deolalikar finished with 4 1/2-1 1/2. Wen Wu earned the under-1400 prize. Randy Hough directed.


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Elliot Liu – Sean Higgins Pacifi c Southwest Open, Burbank

2005B14 CARO-KANN DEFENSE,

Panov-Botvinnik Attack1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4.

c4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nf3 Bb4 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. Qc2 Nc6 9. Be2 Be7 10. 0–0 0–0 11. Rd1 Bf6 12. Qe4 Nce7 13. h4 Bd7 14. Bd3 g6 15. Ne5 Bg7 16. h5 Rc8 17. hxg6 hxg6 18. Bg5 Nxc3 19. bxc3 Ba4 20. Qh4 f6

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21. Nxg6 fxg5 22. Nxe7+ Kf7 23. Qh7 Qxe7 24. Bg6+ Kf6 25. Rd3 Bc6 26. Bh5 Qc7 27. Re1 Bh8 28. Qg6+ Ke7 29. Rxe6+ Kd7 30. Bg4 Rf4 31. Qh7+ Kd8 32. Qxh8+ Kd7 33. Qg7+ 1–0

Janice Chen – Dingchao Lu Pacifi c Southwest Open, Burbank

2005A47 TROMPOWSKY ATTACK

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. Bg5 Be7 4. Nbd2 b6 5. e3 Bb7 6. Bd3 h6 7. Bf4

d6 8. h3 Nbd7 9. c3 0–0 10. Qc2 Re8 11. g4 e5 12. dxe5 Nxe5 13. Bxe5 dxe5 14. Rg1 Bf8 15. Bc4 e4 16. Nd4 Nd7 17. 0–0–0 a6 18. Qb3 Ne5 19. Nf5 Qf6 20. Rdf1 Rad8 21. Qc2 b5 22. Be2 c5 23. Ng3 Nd3+ 24. Kb1 c4 25. Rh1 Rd7 26. Nf5 g6 27. Nd4 Qb6 28. h4 Bg7 29. Rh3 Bd5 30. h5 b4 31. cxb4 Qxb4 32. Qc3 Qb6 33. Ka1 Rb7 34. hxg6 fxg6 35. Rh2

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Carlos Garcia – Edward Perepelitsky

Pacifi c Southwest Open, Burbank 2005

B51 SICILIAN DEFENSE, Rossolimo Variation1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Nc6

4. c3 Bd7 5. 0–0 a6 6. Ba4 b5 7. Bc2 e5 8. h3 Nf6 9. d4 Be7 10. Be3 0–0 11. Nbd2 Re8 12. d5 Na5 13. b3 c4 14. b4 Nb7 15. Nh2 h6 16. f4 exf4 17. Rxf4 Nh7 18. Qh5 g6 19. Qf3 Bg5 20. Rf1 Rf8 21. h4 Bxf4 22. Qxf4 g5 23. Qf3 Kg7 24. Ng4 f6 25. e5 fxe5 26. Qe4 Rxf1+ 27. Nxf1 Nf8 28. Ng3 Be8

Prize WinnersOpen

1st-4th: IM Andranik Matikozyan, IM Jack Peters, Michael Casella, Ilia Serpik, 5-1; 5th: IM Enrico Sevillano, IM Melikset Khachiyan, 4½-1½; U2200: 1st: Julian Landaw, 4½-1½; 2nd-3rd: Ike Miller, Pablo Pena, Gregg Fritchle, Show Kita-gami, 4-2; U2000: 1st-2nd: Louie Rivera, Immanuel Singuillo, 4-2; 3rd: Philipp Perepelitsky, 3½-2½.

Amateur1st: Dingchao Lu, 6-0; 2nd-3rd:Konstantin Kavutskiy, Jak Jonz, Janice Chen, Roger Aramayo, 4½-1½; U1600: 1st. Sunil Deolalikar, 4½-1½; 2nd-3rd: Rolando Garci-agutierrez, Julie Timokhina, 4-1; U1400: 1st: Yunlin Zhang; 2nd: Wen Wu, 3-3; 3rd: Tai Yoon, Bren-dyn Estolas, Colin Chen, Sandy He, Cheston Gunawan, 2½-3½; Unrat-ed: Eric Hammond, 2½-3½.

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Tacticsby NM Tim Hanks

One of the worst mistakes you can make when you’re under a

fierce attack is to panic and to lose your cool. Young players are espe-cially prone to a desire to attack. It’s almost as if they feel inclined to play this way in order to win. Often young players become more and more anxious to attack simply because they’re winning against op-ponents who have never developed the strategy of how to play against them. They’re winning becomes short lived when facing players who understand this. Seasoned veterans of the game and those with years of experience know how to play an opponent – not just a line or varia-tion. They recognize the style of the younger or less experience player and develop strategies that lure them into creating positional weak-nesses – to be exploited later on in the endgame where true chess skills can be tested. Players who develop a style that relies on attacking become frustrated when things don’t work out. So typically, later they falter against the opponent who remained focused and patient for just the right moment to strike back. They often wonder just where they went wrong. We all know that games involving direct attacks against ones King are more exciting – and certainly can be

the most difficult to defend against. Tactical defense is a skill that re-quires patience, nerves of steel and strong mental control. The following game with Rotsagov vs Lanka (Deb-recen 1992) is an excellent example of how to coordinate defensive tac-tics against a fierce and dangerous attacking opponent.

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc63. d4 cxd44. Nxd4 Nf65. Nc3 d66. Bc4

This, of course, is the Sicilian De-fense, Velimirovic Attack. See posi-tion no. 1. Bobby Fischer employed this Bishop developing move in the early 70’s and it is now quite com-mon against various Sicilian sys-tems. Play continues with 6. ... e6. Black, in typical style, strives to de-velop his dark-squared Bishop and plan for Kingside castling. Remem-ber the basics … first things first in the opening. Develop and safeguard your King. Activate your forces and avoid weakening moves. The f7-e6 pawn chain also works to restrict the ever-ominous White squared Bishop. This piece can swoop into action with amazing power with sacrifices on e6 and d5. Black must always be on the lookout. For White the success of opening play in this line typically relies on the activity of the c4-Bishop. Black must strive to keep it restricted. If White can find a way to open lines on the a2-g8 diago-nal a dangerous attack can possibly develop. One common way for this is

for White to utilize pawn advances to f4-f5 – attacking the e6 square to f4-f5 – attacking the e6 square – perhaps forcing an e5 response by Black, thus creating greater scope opportunities for the light-squared Bishop.

Position No. 1. It’s Black to move. How do you proceed?

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7. Be3 Be78. Qe2

This rather simple developing looking move is really the first sign of White’s long-term strategy. White plans to castle Queenside and that means he will be planning a King-side attack. So … Black must begin looking many move ahead to pre-pare for what’s coming and remain focused on a defensive strategy – as well as tactical countermeasures.

8. … a6

Black needs a place for his Queen, off the d-file. The c7 square


is most suitable – as counterplay on the c-file will be necessary.

9. 0-0-0 Qc710. Bb3 0-0

Another idea is to hold off on cas-tling and play 10. … Na5 11. g4 b5 12. g5 Nd7?! (12. … Nxb3+ is better and necessary – leaving about equal chances for both. (See Position No. 2.)

Position No. 2. It’s White to move. Black has

failed to see White’s threats and the looming danger. How do you proceed? See the text.

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White continues strongly with 13. Bxe6 fxe6 14. Nxe6 allowing White a wonderful and almost easy attacking game. For example, play might continue 14. … Qc4 15 Ng7+ Kf7 16 Qh5+ Kxg7 17. Bd4+ Ne5 18. f4 Nc6 19. fxe5 Nxd4 20. exd6 Bf8 21. Rxd4! Qxd4 22. Rf1 Bf5 23. Rxf5 and Black is pretty much busted. Back to the game which continued –

11. Rhg1

Not 11. f4 in view of 11. … Nxd4 12. Bxd4 e5 13. Be3 Bg4 winning the Exchange.

11. … Nd7

This Knight will eventually have to move. Might as well start re-grouping to setup counter play and more importantly defensive tactics!

12. g4

Here White comes. This is where many players become rattled and spend so much time worrying. On top of that they lose their cool – as the attacking player comes across with total confidence and a posture and expression that’s so commonly full of glee.

12. … Nc5 13. g5

13. Nf5 is another line that truly introduces wild complications.

13. … Bd7 14.Qh5 Rfc815. Rg3

White is slowing mounting seri-ous mating threats. 16. Rh3 is a ma-jor threat. Black’s responses must be accurate and this is where keeping a “cool head” helps your concentra-tion and accurate play. More than anything else … just don’t panic!

15. … g616. Qh6 Bf817. Qh4 Nxd4

Black is defensively prepared, as White’s move Rh3 is met by h5 and if gxh6 e.p. then Kh7 keeps the Kingside blockaded with White’s own Pawn.

18. Rxd4 b519. Rh3 h520. gxh6 Kh7

All of a sudden White’s attack be-gins to fizzle. Ideally, White wants to run his h-pawn to attack g6 – but this will take considerable time and in the meanwhile, Black has slowly shifted counterplay opportunities towards the White King.

21. Qf6 Be822. Bg5 Nd723. Qf3 b4 24. Nb1

So look who is defending now.

Just that quickly – all focus goes to the growing Black initiative and Queenside counterplay. White’s overconfidence on the Kingside has been stifled and it is now Black who takes control.

24. … a525. Nd2 a426. Bc4 b327. axb3 a3

Nothing frustrates an attacking player more than having to go on the defensive. The spirit of White’s entire opening strategy was clev-erly thwarted and now White faces the discomfort of being on guard. Unfortunately, White has created many weaknesses that Black can now exploit.

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White is totally lost.

33. f4 e534. Rd3 Nf635. Rg3 d5

When attacking make sure you invite all your gang to the party. Here come the Black Bishops.

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This is a remarkable game that truly exemplifies the importance of keeping cool when being attacked. Confident defensive composures are probably more impressive than the typical glee shown on an attacker’s face. Realize that once the attacker has loss his drive it’s very impor-


tant to strike fast with your tactical and positional counterplay – taking advantage of all the weaknesses or ill-placed pieces that went off look-ing for mate and left their home vulnerable to counterattack.

Improving your ability to cal-culate and visualize tactical com-binations takes practice. Tactical problem solving will help in this de-velopment. Avoid moving the pieces when solving problems to strengthen your over the board play.. The follow-ing exercises will test your tactical awareness. Be alert, play sharp and always remember to do your safety check. Enjoy, good luck and happy solving! Solutions on page 25.

Problem No. 1Black to play

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Problem No. 2White to move

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b) 1. Rxe1 is incorrect.

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Problem No. 4 You’re playing White and it’s

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b) 1. Rxc6 is an “illusion” and you’ve wasted too much time look-ing for nothing.

only a draw to second-place finish-er Chirukandath Vishnuvardhan (2188) from Illinois.

In the Under 11 Section Alek-sandr Ostrovskiy (1563), from New York, scored 5½ points allow-ing only one draw to Vivek A. Raj (1167), from Kentucky. Following closely behind to take second place honors was Elizabeth Vilenchuk (873), from Ohio, with 5 points.

In the Under 8, Skanda Palani-rajan (1032), from Michigan, won his section scoring 5½ points, only allowing a draw to Samuel Concan-non (992), from Indiana. Mark Oet (1153), from Ohio, came in second with 5 points.

Grant Perks and Mike Anders direected the tournament, which was organized by the Warren Coun-ty Convention & Visitors Bureau. – USCF news release

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La Palma Chess ClubWith a score of 4.85 norm points,

club founder Mike Henebry won La Palma chess Club’s second Beat Your Norm Grand Prix. This was a 5-event 25-round competition held from January through June, where club players amassed so-called norm points by frequent play and best-ing opponents. Complete standings and details of the club’s innovative norm point scoring mechanism are at www.lapalmachess.741.com/Cur-rent/Norm_point_scoring_rules.html. This mechanism awards high-er points to upsets and less to those that beat lower rated opponents.

With five straight wins Robert Hutchinson dominated the 11-player top section of LPCC’s Action in the Center, Mating in the Back Rank 5-round Swiss that ended August 5. In the 13-player second section, Orlando Jaimes-Guzman won top honors with a fine score of 4. Other winners were Don Bin-nix, Best U1700; Joe Tishy, Best U1500; Tony Gray, Best U1300; and best performance rating gain, Isaac Zhou.– Chris Roberts

Pasadena Chess ClubThe 16-player Mount Wilson

Open was marked by upsets in over 40% of the games. Sixth seed Ger-

ald Harrison emerged on top with 3½ of 4, barely ahead of Greg Hall, Elston He, and Jason McKeen. Tai Yoon, Roberto Queiro, and Con-stance McClendon split Under 1400 honors.

Veteran Jerry Harrison won this nice attacking game en route to his victory in the recent Mt. Wilson Open.Greg Hall – Jerry HarrisonMt. Wilson Open, Pasadena 2005B77 SICILIAN DEFENSE, Dragon

Variation1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4.

Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 0–0 8. Qd2 Nc6 9. Bc4 Bd7 10. h4 h5 11. 0–0–0 Qa5 12. Kb1 Rfc8 13. Bb3 Ne5 14. Nde2 Nc4 15. Bxc4 Rxc4 16. g4 hxg4 17. h5?! Nxh5 18. fxg4 Bxg4 19. Rdg1 Bxe2 20. Qxe2 Rxc3! 21. Bd2 Rac8 22. Rg5 Qb6 23. Rb5 Qc6 24. Rbxh5 Rxc2 25. Rb5 Rxd2 0 - 1

The Liberty Open, in two sec-tions with 21 players, ended August 5. Randy Hough won the Open with 4½ of 5, trailed by Elston He with 3½ and Neil Hultgren and Frank Cipriani with 3. The Amateur was swept by Danny Machuca, 5-0, ahead of Roberto Queiro at 3.½ and Cleo Rojas and Jason McKeen (tied for under 1400 honors) at 3.

The Pasadena Club meets Friday nights at Throop Memorial Church, 300 S. Los Robles (NE corner of Del Mar) in Pasadena. – Randy Hough

Dan NystromPast Ventura County Chess Club

President Dan Nystrom lost his bat-tle with ALS and died Tuesday June 21, 2005. Dan was an active member of the club for over 30 years. He gave generously of his time and money to support the club. In recent years Dan had been the driving force be-

hind the club holding the Ventura County Open. A tournament many local players enjoyed. What is not well known is that the tournament lost money and Dan covered those losses out of his own pocket. Dan felt it was important to give the lo-cal players an opportunity to play in a weekend event without having to leave the area.

When the club reached a cross-roads in 1998 at the passing of the then Director/President Irv Besen, Dan stepped up and largely through his efforts the club continued and was run smoothly. Dan was Presi-dent, treasurer, coffee maker and chief bottle washer. For two terms I had the privilege/challenge of work-ing with Dan on the club board. Dan and I did not always see eye to eye in administrative matters but at the chessboard he was always a gentle-man.

One thing is certain; we will not soon forget him. God bless you Dan, we will surely miss you! — Jimmy J. Sweet

Costa Mesa OctosTwenty-five players participated

in the June 25th Costa Mesa Octo. In the top section Alex Gojich won with a score of 2½-½. Second place was shared by Neil Bershad and Werner Belke at 2-1. Young Ni-sha Deolalikar, who had been the scourge of the second section, win-ning it several times, had to play in the top section this time. After she drew her first game against 1900+ rated Dennis Saccuzzo, I jokingly told her that the first time one made it to the top section they usually got a spanking from the stronger play-ers. She followed up this draw with a win over Marina Asami, and was tied for the lead going into the last


round. But alas, she lost to Gojich. Her new rating is now over 1800. The second section was won by Vin-cent Huang with a perfect 3-0 score. This 11 year old was number 6 (1669) on the crosstable of eight players. He played the number 1, 2 and 3 play-ers in the section (1756, 1740 and 1723) winning each game easily. His new rating is now 1747. Second place was shared by Pirous Hendi and Ju-lie Timokhina at 2-1. In the bottom section Kurt Oldenburg won with a perfect 3-0 score. Second place was taken by Christopher Lee at 2½-½. Chris was the lowest rated player in this section (1195). His new rating went to 1390 after this great perfor-mance. When I submitted the event I even received a warning message on Chris that his performance was over 500 points above his rating. Well he played the 2, 3, and 4 players in his section (1602, 1557, and 1540). Scor-ing 2½ against this opposition will give you a performance rating over 1800. Chris, like Vincent is another 11 year old to watch out for.

Twenty-four players partici-pated in the July 30th Costa Mesa Octo. Actually 23 showed up and I decided to play to make it 24, for three sections of 8.

The top section was unusually strong with 7 experts and yours truly making it 8. In all the years that I have known Randy Hough I have never played him (of course I have known Jerry Hanken for 43 years and only played him once a couple of years ago -- I won). Well, Randy and I were paired in the first round. I couldn’t win the game, and Randy to his credit held the draw two pawns down. I felt pretty good after that. I could concentrate on my games because my regular assistant TD, Dr. Elliot Landaw, was there to do the legwork. Both his sons were playing. Well I had the misfortune to run into both his sons in the second and third rounds. Needless to say I ended up with just the draw against Randy. There was an interesting event in the third round. I had made my move against Julian Landaw and left the board. Julian came back

to the game, sat down on my side of the board and started to write in my scorebook. I told him it was alright to play my side as long as he made the best move for me. We all got a good laugh in the top section. The top sec-tion was won by Mike Zaloznyy with a perfect 3-0 score. Second place went to Ed Cohen at 2-1. The second section was won by Marina Asami with the only other perfect 3-0 score. Second place was a three way tie be-tween David Cody Oldham, Werner Belke, and Ped Bashi all at 2-1. In the bottom section Kurt Oldenburg and Richard Martin shared first and second place with scores of 2½-½.

The next Costa Mesa Octo will be held August 27th. — Mike Carr

Alex Gojich (1973) – Nisha Deolalikar (1793)

Costa Mesa Octos, June 2005E32 NIMZO-INDIAN DEFENSE

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 0–0 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. Qxc3 b6 7. Bg5 h6 8. Bh4 d6 9. Qf3 d5 10. Bxf6 Qxf6 11. Qxf6 gxf6 12. cxd5 exd5 13. Rc1 c6 14. e3 Bf5 15. Ne2 Rc8 16. Nf4 Nd7 17. Ba6 Rd8 18. Bb7 Rab8 19. Bxc6 Rbc8 20. Ke2 Nb8 21. Bxd5 Kg7 22. Bb7 Rc2+ 23. Rxc2 Bxc2 24. Rc1 Rd7 25. Bc8 Rc7 26. Bf5 Bxf5 27. Rxc7 1–0

LA MastersWinners of the weekly “L.A.

Masters” tournaments in June, July and August were: June 27: David Zimbeck, 4-0; July 11: Mick Bighamian, Gregg Small, and Joel Banawa, 3-1; July 18: Jouaquin Banawa, 4-0; July 25: Louie Rivera, 3½-½; August 1: Ron Hermansen, Dean Arvidson, 3-1.

The Los Angeles Chess Club plans to hold these events, inspired by the long-running New York Mas-ters, every Monday evening at 7 p.m. The LACC is located on the second floor of 1514 Santa Monica Blvd., above Javan restaurant. For information, call Mick Bighamian at (310) 795-5710 or send a message to [email protected]. Web site: www.lachessclub.com.

Arcadia Chess ClubThe 39-player “B.T. McGuire Me-

morial,” ending in June, saw Randy Hough take first place with 6-0. Next at 4½-1½ were David Argall, Gregg Fritchle, and Tim McCarron. Class prize winners included Robert Goldberg and Thurlo Mishler (A), Fred Brock, Efrain Ramirez and Jeff Schroeder (B), Robert Head (C), and Anthony Milico (D-E).

The “Arcadia Summer Open,” ending in August, saw 50 players compete. First place went to Law-rence Stevens with 5½-½, followed by Gregg Fritchle at 5-1. Class prizes went to Denton Anderson and Rob-ert Goldberg (A), James Sutton (B), Tyrone Liddell (C), and Tai Yoon (D-E-U).

The Arcadia Chess Club meets 6:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Mondays in the Senior Citizens building, 405 S. Santa Anita Ave. For information, call Fred Brock at (626) 331-1638 or Mel Clark at (626) 447-9355.

Joshua Tree June OpenJune 25

First place went to Louie Rivera with 4½-½, followed at 4-1 by Joel Johnson. Class prizes went to Ches-ter Bailey, Austin Cambon, Steven Dahl, and Tyler Ross. The tourna-ment was held at Faith Lutheran Church in Joshua Tree. Mark Mull-er directed.

West Covina Chess Club

Section winners in the “Malcolm Memorial,” a 25-player tournament ending in June, were Eddie Concep-cion, Fred Wild, and Richard Pol-hamus. In July, the “Midsummer Swiss” saw Dave Matson, Fred Wild, and Romy Foley win their section. The West Covina Chess Club meets 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Senior Center, 2501 E. Cortez St. For information, call Richard Williams at (626) 339-5188.


Exposition Park Chess Club

Section winners at the monthly free tournament on July 10 were Lee St. Thomas and Edward Schuck. In August, sections were won by Marc Conde, Lionel Hernandez, and Jose Quiros (tied at 2-1), and Stewrat Yanez and Jazzmin Dar-nell (tied with 3-0). The Exposition Park Chess Club meets at 1 p.m. ev-ery Sunday at the Exposition Park Branch Library, 3665 S. Vermont Ave. in Los Angeles. For informa-tion, call the library at (323) 732-0169 or send a message to the club secretary at [email protected]. Web site: http://chess.expo-parkla.com/

Glendale Chess Park Blitz

The strongest blitz tournament in years took place July 15 at Glen-dale Chess Park. Russian visitor GM Evgeny Bareev, ranked fourth in the world in 2003, had to settle for second place after losing,½-1½, to GM Varuzhan Akobian, Califor-nia’s best player. Akobian scored an impressive 9½-½. Henrik Pashayan was third at 7½-2½ in the 39-player event. For information on the con-tinuing series of Friday night blitz tournaments at the park, call Ha-rut Keshishian at (323) 578-0514.

Arcadia Summer Scholastic

July 30This 23-player event, held at the

Diversity Educational Center in Arcadia, saw Anthony Hung take first with 4½-½. Second place went to Daniel Gong, after a playoff with Cheston Gunawan and Nathaniel Devorss. Class prizes went to Evan Wang (U700) and Jonathan Chein (unrated).

Gambito OpensAt the July Super Gambito, a

new twist was tried for the first time in an attempt to attract more play-ers: a $40 advanced entry fee (or $50 on site) and $1,500 in guaran-teed prizes with 5 rounds at G/40 in 2 Sections. 32 players in all showed up, a little less than we were hoping for, but there was some competition from some out of town events such as the Pacific Southwest Open and the World Open, plus just the 4th of July holiday weekend. All in all it went well, and we plan to repeat this experiment on October 2nd. Enrico Sevillano took home the first place prize of $300 (he also managed to play in the Pacific Southwest Open, as did several other players) and Cyrus Lakdawala was 2nd for $125, having to share some of his money with BU2200 winner Franco Alejan-drino, who also scored 4 points for a pooled prize of $125 each. Enrico drew with Cyrus in round 4 and won all his other games. The field was quite strong with 5 masters, along with several former and some soon to be masters; the Open section of 19 players had an average rating of 2079! Bruce Baker won 3rd place with 3½ points. 2nd U2200 was Ron Bruno, who now has gone well over the critical 2200 level. BU2000 was split between Ben Barquin and Eric Smith. The Reserve Section (U1800) was won by Chang H Kim for $200 and 2nd U1800 was Rolando Gar-ciagutierrez for $100. Sam Barboo won BU1600, Gene Arnaiz was 2nd U1600. Mark De Yoe won $100 for BU1400 and Tom Kuhn $50 for 2nd U1400. Mark also won the Biggest Upset Prize of $25. The Best Game Prize was won by Bruce Baker for this nice win over Franco Alejan-drino:

Bruce Baker (2297) – Franco Alejandrino (1928)

Gambito #229, Rd 2, 7/02/05B18 CARO-KANN DEFENSE

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Nc5 e5 6. Nxb7 Qxd4 7. Qxd4 exd4 8. Bd3 Bb4+ 9. Bd2 Bxd2+ 10. Kxd2 Bxd3 11. cxd3 Kd7

12. Nf3 Na6 13. Na5 c5 14. Ne5+ Ke6 15. Rae1 Kf6 16. Ng4+ Kf5 17. Ne5 Nh6 18. Nac4 f6 19. g4+ Nxg4 20. Nxg4 h5 21. Nd6+ Kg6 22. Rhg1 hxg4 23. Rxg4+ Kh7 24. Re7 Rhg8 25. f4 Nb4 26. f5 Kh6 27. Rh4+ 1-0

At the August Super Gambito, IM Enrico Sevillano was once again in fine form, posting the only per-fect 4-0 score. Cyrus Lakdawala and Ron Bruno were second with 3 points, and BU2200 prize win-ners Ryan Richardson and Dimitry Kishinevsky also scored 3 points. Class “A” player John Bryant upped his rating to a new high of 1926 by beating two Experts and scoring 2½ to take the BU2000 prize, followed by four players who tied for 2nd U2000: Felipe Camacho, James Ma-hooti, Alex Garcia-Betancourt and Ben Barquin, all with 2 points out of the 4 round event. 33 players in all participated, plus four “house” players who filled in when needed due to the odd number of players. In the Reserve Section, Chris Borgan won BU1800, Vince Broman and Chuck Ensey were 2nd U1800. Gene Arnaiz was the ONLY player under 1600, so he had an automatic claim on the BU1600 prize, but he scored 3 points and nearly won the whole section anyway as the lowest rated player! In the Reserve Section, rat-ings don’t carry a lot of weight and are pretty much meaningless; any-one can beat anyone on any given day. The proud winners garnished a total of $750 in prizes.

Here is the Best Game Prize Winner:

Ron Bruno (2248) – Ryan Richardson (2089)

Gambito #234, Rd 3, 8/06/05B90 SICILIAN DEFENSE, Najdorf

Variation1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4.

Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. f3 Qb6 7. Nb3 e6 8. Bg5 Nbd7 9. Qd2 Be7 10. 0-0-0 Qc7 11. g4 b5 12. Be3 Nb6 13. Qf2 Rb8 14. g5 Nfd7 15. Kb1 Na4 16. Bd4 Bb7 17. Bxg7 Rg8 18. Bd4 e5 19. Be3 Nxc3+ 20. bxc3 Qxc3 21. Bh3 Nf8 22. Bd2 Qc7 23. Ba5 Qc6 24. Rd3 Ne6?


25. Bxe6 fxe6 26. Rc3! (the Queen is trapped) Qxc3 27. Bxc3 Bxg5 28. Qa7 Kd7 29. Rd1 Bf4 30. Bb4 Kc6 31. Rxd6+ Kc7 32. Qc5+ 1-0

The Gambito Open has been go-ing strong every Saturday for almost 5 years now; this last event was #234. The Super Gambito has extra prizes and is held on the first Sat-urday of every month at the San Di-ego Chess Club in Balboa Park. For more information, call 619-239-7166 after 4 PM every day and speak to NM and club manager Bruce Baker, or see our website at http://Groups.msn.com/sandiegochess — Chuck Ensey

Joshua Tree July OpenJune 16

First with 4½-½ was Stan Kara-filoski, followed at 4-1 by Kermit Norris. Class prize winners includ-ed Fred Parks, Mark Muller, Wolf-gang Belim, and Keith Duncan. The tournament was held at Faith Lutheran Church in Joshua Tree. Mark Muller directed.

Thorner Finally Gets The Gold Cup!

By Jay StallingsA thrilling final round battle

between Juliet Thorner Elemen-tary (Bakersfield) and the State K-6 Champions, The Chandler School (Pasadena), ended with victory for Chandler. But it wasn’t enough -- Thorner had won the war.

The experienced team from Thorner finished with 28.5 points, a single point ahead of Chandler to finally earn the coveted Champions Challenge Cup, held on May 1 in Ba-

kersfield. This event has been a fa-vorite of many of the players involved because they compete as a team, with school pride on the line. The format is an invitational six-team (8 players each team) round-robin. And because every point is counted (not match points), each game is critical.

Chandler, who had won the Cup several years before, brought a young, but ambitious team who would go on to win each match of the day. Thorner, however, was more convincing in its victories, including a critical sweep (8-0) of the green team from Pinetree (Canyon Coun-try). Both teams distanced them-selves from the rest of the field.

# Team 1 2 33 4 55 66 Total Place

1 Thorner X 33 66 6.56.5 55 88 28.5 1st2 Chandler 5 X 6 5 4.5 7 27.5 2nd 3 Cesar Chavez 2 2 X 3 5 6 18 5th 4 Meadows 1.5 3 5 X 3 6 18.5 4th 5 Fairfax 3 3.5 3 5 X 7 21.5 3rd 6 Pinetree 0 1 2 2 1 X 6 6th

Board Prizes## Name School Score1 Jackson StallingsJackson Stallings Meadows 4.52 Sammy KennedySammy Kennedy Meadows 4.533 Daniel GongDaniel Gong Chandler 44 Amanda McCarthyAmanda McCarthy Cesar Chavez 3.555 Tammy YabikuTammy Yabiku Thorner 566 Robert Chan Chandler 4.577 Geromar Hasta Thorner 588 Michael Chen Chandler 5

Fairfax (Bakersfield), the team of 6th-graders, most of whom learned how to play chess only 9 months be-fore, clawed their way to 21.5 points, good for 3rd Place. Meadows (Valen-cia), the Cup-holders for 5 straight semesters, finished 4th at 18.5 with Cesar Chavez (Bakersfield), who was the current holder of The Cup, one-half point behind in 5th. Pine-tree grabbed 4 points in the first two rounds, but only managed two more points in the final three rounds to finish at 6 points.

The Thorner team was captained by Margarito Guzman and consis-tency and depth were the keys to their success. None of the Thorner players scored lower than 2.5 points, and their bottom 4 boards scored 4.5 total points more than the top 4 boards. The rest of the team: Al-exander Pearson, Elijah Baier, Us-man Zahid, Tammy Yabiku, EJ Ro-driguez, Geromar Hasta, and Alan Roney.

2nd Annual International Chess

CampJuly 5-14, 2005

The 2nd Annual International Chess Camp, hosted by the AAA Chess Club rounded up over 60

THIRD TIME’S A CHARM: In previous Cham-pions Cup matches, Thorner had twice lost the lead in the final round.


participants from California, New York, Texas, Nevada, and Arizona to play and study chess with one of the world’s strongest Grandmasters, Evgeny Bareev from Russia. Held at the beautiful Double Tree Golf resort in San Diego, it was the perfect vaca-tion spot for parents who wanted to join their children in the camp and enjoy all that the fresh atmosphere had to offer. Whether it was play-ing golf, relaxing at the pool or just sightseeing around some of the well known San Diego attractions like Sea World, the parents had as much of a blast as the kids did.

Needless to say, the chess class-es were at the highest caliber. The coaching staff included some of Cal-ifornia’s strongest players and in-structors including guest lecturers International Masters Jack Peters and Grandmaster Melikset Khachi-yan. For the second time now, AAA Chess Club has provided a profes-sional arena for the youth in the United States preparing for tourna-ments outside the United States. 17 years old and National Master Tatev Abrahamian, ranked first among her age is just one of the kids who participated in the camp. She has competed in World Youth events before and this camp is a perfect preparation method for kids such as herself. The kids have a daily sched-ule of sport activities such as tennis, soccer and swimming combined with five hours of chess classes and two more hours of fun chess. Fun chess

consists of chess related games such as bughouse, blitz, suicide chess, etc. Many other bright students partici-pated in this chess camp. Christian Tanaka(12), Elliot Liu(15), Michael Yee, Alen Melikadamian(18), Harut Keshishian (17) Vanesa West (16) (Daniel Fedunov(7), Erick Zhang(8), Brendyn Estolas (8) are some of the best and highest rated chess players for their age category in the United States who were a part of the camp.

Following the camp, AAA Chess Club held a blitz (5 minute chess) event in the Glendale chess park where along with Grandmasters Ba-reev and Khachiyan, local Southern California Grandmaster and one of the strongest in the U.S. Varuzhan Akobian also participated and won the tournament over Grandmaster Bareev by one point. A huge turnout of participants witnessed the excit-ing fast chess game between the two grandmasters. More information on the chess camp, the 5-minute event, and other chess news will shortly be available on www.aaachessclub.com. – Harut Akopyan

West Valley Chess Club

Jose Ruelas and David Chow tied for first in the 31-player “Summer Swiss,” ending in July. Class prizes went to Filiberto Zadini (B), Max Gould (C), and Greg Engel (U1400). Max Sorkin won a concurrent quad section.

The West Valley Chess Club meets 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Thurs-days in the West Valley Jewish Com-munity Center, 22622 Vanowen St. For information, call John Price at (818) 363-1379 or Duane Cooper at (818) 999-0837.

San Diego Chess ClubForty-seven members played in

“Philidor’s Feud” this June at the SDCC, a 5 round Spring Swiss using the McMahon pairing system. Mas-ters & Experts started with 4 bye points, Class “A” with 3, “B” with 2, “C” with 1 point and Class “D” with 0. The McMahon is a Tourna-ment Director’s friend, as it greatly eases the problem of unpaired play-ers due to odd numbers in multiple-sectioned events like Class tourna-ments. At most you will need only 1 house player with a McMahon, since everyone plays in one giant section, but the players like it because it feels like a Class tournament, where they mostly play people near their own rating. The Feud ended with a tie for First Place between Todd Smith and Carey Milton, with 8 points each. The Best Under 2000 was split be-tween Alex Garcia-Betancourt and Franco Alejandrino, with 6½ points each. BU1800 went to Gary Tuttle with 6 and BU1600 was Luis Cas-taneda with 4½. Monica Ness and Mark Lawless split BU1400 with 3 points each, while Morgan Fox was Best Unrated, also with 3 points. Meanwhile Bruce Baker won his side match with Club Champion Adam Corper, 4 to 2.

In July, the Summer Swiss saw Alex Garcia-Betancourt do well once again, winning the Premier section by a wide margin with 5 points. Ed Baluran was second with 3½, and Gary Tuttle third with 3. Robert Defore was BU1900 with 3½, Robert Draper BU1800 with 3, Luis Cas-taneda BU 1700, also with 3 and Erik Marquis BU1600 with 2½. Maksim Gusev was Best Unrated with 3. In the Reserve Section (U1500), David Hall was 1st with 4 points, and Bill Murray 2nd with 3½. BU1400 was


split 3 ways between Morgan Fox, Mark De Yoe and Mark Lawless. Meanwhile the Masters and Experts were playing in a Round Robin that was won by Carl Wagner with 3½, while Todd Smith and Carey Milton once again tied, this time for second place with 3. Carey managed to up-set both Carl and Todd, along with Leonard Sussman, but lost to Mario Amodeo and Nick Lita.

Here is one of the upsets show-ing Carey’s reckless attacking style. Notes from comments by Bruce Baker. – Chuck Ensey

Carey Milton (2056) – Todd Smith (2200)

Round Robin, San Diego, 7/20/05E10 BLUMENFELD GAMBIt

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. d4 a6 4. Bg5 c5 5. e4 Qa5+ 6. Bd2 Qb6 7. e5 Ne4 8. Nc3 Nxd2 9. Qxd2 cxd4 10. Nxd4 Nc6 11. Nf3 Qc7 12. Qg5 h6 13. Qg3 g6 14. 0-0-0 Bg7 15. Re1 Qa5 16. Bd3 d6 17. Bxg6 Nxe5 18. Bc2 Kf8 19. Nxe5 Bxe5 20. f4 Bxc3 21. bxc3 Qxa2 22. f5 Qa3+ 23. Kd2 Qc5?

The losing move. Better was e5, closing the position)

24. fxe6 Qg5+ Or Bxe6 25. Rxe6! (Carey would

play this instantly) 25. … fxe6 26. Rf1+ Ke8 27. Qg6+ Kd8 28. Qf6+ Kc7 29. Qg7+ Kb6 30. Rb1+ Ka5 31. Ra1+ draw, but with 31. Qxb7 Fritz says White could escape the perpetual and come out on top. I suspect Black calculated this ac-curately because 25. Qxg5 is not an attractive move)

25. Qxg5 hxg5 26. Rhf1 b5

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27. Rxf7+ Kg8 28. Be4 Bxe6 29. Re7 d5 30. cxd5 Bf7 31. Rf1 Rf8 32. Rf5 Kg7 33. d6 Rxh2 34. Bd5 and White won after time con-trol. 1-0

Chess Palace July Wednesday Open

Chess Palace had 25 players participate in the club’s monthly Wednesday Knight event that took place on July 6 to 27, 2005. Expert Randall Hough, the ever-present National Tournament Director took clear first with 3.5 out of 4. Ty-ing for second were Ricardo Mora, Michael Henebry, Chris Alarcon, and Peter Van Couvering. Class prizes went to Donald Binnix, Alev “Eren” Karadayi, and Aaron Ong. This one-game per week night is a great event for busy and new play-ers. Chess Palace is located at 4336 Katella Avenue, Los Alamitos CA 90720. Visit www.chesspalace.comor call 562-598-5099 for more infor-mation.

Chess Palace 1st Amateur Open

The Chess Palace 1st Amateur Open held on July 30, 2005 attract-ed thirty five players. Twenty-two players battled it out in the USCF rated section and thirteen in the Non- USCF rated. The latter is a novel addition to the Chess Palace schedule of events to encourage new players to obtain over-the-board ex-perience in a cordial atmosphere. Robert Harshbarger and Randall Smolensky topped the USCF sec-tion. Following them, all class prize winners, were Nicolas Reiner, Jeffrey Laban, Steven Biernbaum, and Ashwin Devendran. The Non-USCF section saw Jonathan Chen take home clear first followed by Ashmit Adarsh and Lucas Reiner, the younger brother of Nicolas. The next Amateur Open is scheduled for last weekend of September. Please visit www.chesspalace.com or call 562-598-5099 to find out future dates of this event.

Chess Palace Independence Day Scholastic Tournament

Chess Palace hosted the Indepen-dence Day Scholastic Tournament on July 3, 2005. The event attracted 45 kids from kindergarten to 12th grade. In the top, Rooks section, Jason Garfield cruised to take first place amid a very strong field of ju-nior superstars. David Chacon took second followed by Venkat Iyer at third. In the Knights section, Salem Munoz took home his first ever first place trophy with a perfect 5-0 score. Tying for second were Luis Evaristo, Brett Friedland, and Jesse Koons all with 4-1 socres. In the Pawns sec-tion, Jonathan Chen topped the field with a score of 4.5-0.5. Zakary Dossi and Brad Gonzales finished at sec-ond and third respectively. The next kids tournament by Chess Palace, is scheduled for August 21, 2005.

Chess Palace’s SUPER DOUBLE (2X) QUADS Unique Format Attracts Many

The July Super 2x Quads held on July 9 attracted 17 players. In the first section, prize winners in-cluded Alex Gojich, who took home a cool $100 with a perfect score, Neil Bershad, Jason Garfield, and Pirouz Hendi. In the section, Jeffrey La-ban, Bartek Buzanowski, and Gau-rav Datta won in their respective groups.

The August Super 2x Quads also attracted 17 participants. In the first section, prize winners included Alex Gojich, Neil Bershad, Chris Mc Kay, and Marina Asami. In the other section, Chris Alarcon, Peter Van Couvering, Aaron Ong, and Ste-ven Callaway won in their respective groups. Steven Callaway, a regular club patron who can always be found playing casual games at the facility, was the biggest performer of the day. Going in as the lowest rated player in the event with a 900 rating, he finished the day with an amazing 1700 performance rating! Not bad for being his only second “official” tournament.

Chess Palace, at 4336 Katella


Ave., is open 6:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays, 10:30 am to 10:00 p.m. Saturdays, and 11:00 am to 7:00 p.m. Sundays. For in-formation, all Alfred Ong or Austin Ong at (562) 598-5099. Web site: www.chesspalace.com. – Austin Ong

Pacifi c Coast Openby Randy Hough

With 214 players, the Pacific Coast Open, July 21-24 at the Re-naissance Hotel in Agoura Hills, was the largest tournament of the year so far. GM Boris Kreiman led the 28-player Open section with 5-1. Next at 4½-1½ were GM Aleks Wojt-kiewicz and IM Vladimir Mezent-sev. State champion IM Andranik Matikozyan, IM Ricardo de Guz-man, IM Gregory Hjorth, IM David Vigorito, and top under-2300 Shiv-kumar Shivaji finished with 4-2.

Other section winners included Ron Bruno, Show Kitagami, Alen Melikadamian, Ike Miller, Henrik Pashayan and Kofi Tatum (U2200), Francisco Anchondo (U2000, Shah-ram Nazarinia (Under-1800), Jeff Young (U1600), Tanraj Sohai and Wen Wu (U1400), and Antony Mili-ci (U1200). Steve Immitt and Randy Hough directed for the CCA.

Drake Wang – Shivkumar Shivaji Pacifi c Coast Open, Agoura Hills

2005B75 SICILIAN DEFENSE, Dragon

Variation[Notes by Los Angeles Times

chess columnist Jack Peters]1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4.

Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 The Sicilian Dragon. 6. f3 Bg7 7. Be3 Nc6 8. Qd2

0–0 9. 0–0–0 The modern treatment, instead

of the older 9. Bc4. 9. ... Bd7 Most challenging is 9. ... d5!?

10. exd5 Nxd5 11. Nxc6 bxc6, when White can accept the pawn sacrifice by 12. Nxd5 or decline it with 12. Bd4.

10. g4 Rc8 11. h4 Ne5 12. h5 Qa5 13. Kb1

White is nearly ready to attack on the h-file, so Black changes the course of the game.

13. ... Nxf3!? 14. Nxf3 Rxc3 15. Qxc3 Qxc3 16. bxc3 Bxg4 17. Bg2 Nxe4 18. Rd3

Probably best. 18. ... Nxc3+ 19. Kc1 To try for a win, White must give

Black five pawns for a Rook by 19. Kb2! Ne4+ 20. Kc1 Bxh5 21. Re1, then try to pick off a pawn or two.

19. ... Bf5!

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20. hxg6 Maybe 20. h6 improves. 20. ... hxg6 21. Rxc3?! Not 21. Rd4? Ne2+, but it’s un-

certain if Black has more than a draw after 21. Rd2 Nxa2+ 22. Kb1 Nc3+ 23. Kc1.

21. ... Bxc3 22. Bd4 Bxd4 23. Nxd4 Bc8 24. Re1

Apparently recovering a pawn, as 24. ... Re8?! 25. Nb5 a6?? loses to 26. Nxd6.

24. ... e6! To refute 25. Nb5 by 25. . ... d5

26. Nxa7 Bd7 27. c4 Ra8. 25. c4 a6 26. Rd1 Rd8 27. Nb3

Kf8 Not bad, but 27. ... b6 28. Nd4

Bd7 29. Nc2 Ba4! preserves four pawns for the piece.

28. Nc5 Ke7!Relying on the three connected

passers. If 28. ... b6 29. Na4 b5 30. cxb5 axb5 31. Nc3 b4 32. Nb5 Ke7 33. Rd4, the a-pawn may cause trouble.

29. Nxb7 Bxb7 30. Bxb7 Rb8 31. Bxa6 Ra8 32. Bb5 Rxa2 33. Rd2?

Undesirable. After 33. Rd3, Black

must avoid pitfalls such as 33. ... f5? 34. Rg3 Kf6 35. Rd3 and 33. … g5? 34. Rg3 f6 35. Rh3 f5 36. Rh7+ Kf6 37. Rh6+ Kf7 (or 37. ... Ke5 38. Bd7) 38. Rh7+ Kg6 39. Rd7. The correct 33. Rd3 Rg2 34. Bc6 Rg4 35. Rc3 f5 is still complicated.

33. ... Rxd2 34. Kxd2 f5 35. Ke3 g5 36. Bc6 e5 37. Kf3 Kf6 38. Bd7 e4+

The pawns are unstoppable. 39. Ke3 Ke5 40. Bc8 f4+ 41.

Ke2 Kd4 42. Bf5 f3+ 43. Kf2 Ke5 44. Bd7 Kf4 0–1

For some reason, the talented lo-cal master David Zimbeck, having lost a winning position against GM Sharavdorj in the first round, decid-ed to “punish himself” by embark-ing on a suicide march with his king in the opening of his next game. All he did was offend his opponent and the spectators.

Drake Wang – David Zimbeck, Pacifi c Coast Open 2005B07 PIRC DEFENSE?

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Kd7 3. Nf3 Kc6 4. Nc3 a6 5. Bc4 Qe8 6. Qd3 Kb6 7. Nd5+ Ka7 8. Nxc7 Qd8 9. Nxa8 Kxa8 10. Bxf7 and we’ll spare readers the rest; White won in 41 moves.

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Francisco Anchondo – Marina Asami,

Pacifi c Coast Open (Under 2000), Agoura Hills 2005

C44 SCOTCH GAMBIT 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4

4. Bc4 Bb4+ 5. c3 dxc3 6. 0–0 Nf6 7. bxc3 Be7 8. e5 Ng4 9. Qe2 b6 10.


Bxf7+ Kxf7 11. Qc4+ Kf8 12. Qxg4 Ba6 13. Re1 h6 14. Nbd2 Kg8 15. Ne4 Bd3 16. Rd1 h5 17. Qg6 Be2 18. Bg5 Bxd1 19. Rxd1 Bxg5 20. Nexg5 Qe7 21. Qe4 Rh6 22. Qd5+ Kf8 23. e6 Rd8 24. exd7 Nb8 25. Ne5 c6 26. Nh7+ 1–0

Prize WinnersOpen: 1st: Boris Kreiman, 5-1.

2nd/3rd: Aleks Wojtkiewicz and Vladimir Mezentsev, 4½. 4th/8th:Andranik Matikozyan, Gregory Hjorth, Ricardo De Guzman, Da-vid Vigorito (first Under 2400), and Shivkumar Shivaji (first Under 2300), 4. Under 2200: 1st/6th:Ike Miller, Ronald Bruno, Alen Melikadamian, Kofi Tatum, Show Kitagami, and Henrik Pashayan, 4½. Under 2000: 1st: Francisco Anchondo, 5. 2nd/5th: David Mu-radyan, Lonnie Neal, Alex Uyemu-ra, and Daniel Alvira, 4½. Under 1800: 1st: Jeff Young, 5½. 2nd: William Waddell, 5. 3rd/5th: Hai Le, Ian Jones, and Ted Belanoff, 4½. Under 1600: 1st: Shahram Nazarinia, 5½. 2nd/4th: Anthony Gonzales, Charles Sun, and Daniel Jaison Oliver, 5. 5th: Scott Kira, 4½. Under 1400: 1st/2nd: Tan-raj Sohai and Wen Wu, 5. 3rd/4th:Arthur Liou and Arun Gomatam, 4½. 5th/6th: Mohamed Sayed and Joshua Katz, 4. Under 1200: 1st:Antony Milici, 5½. 2nd: Stewart Yanez, 5. 3rd/5th: Cheston Gu-nawan, Giovanni Catalanello, and Nathaniel Devorss, 4½.

Boney Mountain Chess Club

The first tournament held at this new club in Newbury Park, the Club Championship, ended Au-gust 12. Clear with 4½ was Dave Matson, followed at 4-1 by Dane Hinrichsen. The U1600 prize win-ner was Akagi Kayashima with 3½, and top scholastic (13 and under) went to Wes Merrill (835) with 3½ Seventeen players competed.

The Boney Mountain Chess

Club meeets on Friday evenings in Borchard Community Center, 190 Reino Rd. The club plans a three-round event in November and hopes to meet weekly in 2006. For information, call Akagi Kaya-shima at (805) 230-9919. E-mail: [email protected].

San Luis Obispo County Championship

August 13-14, 2005

IM Ricardo De Guzman and Francisco Anchondo, scoring 4-1, took first and second prizes in the 12-player Open Section of the SLO County Championship. John Wil-liams and Charles Wolff, 3-2, tied for third. The U1800 prize was won by newcomer Steven Tomak, 3-2. De Guzman lost only to John Wil-liams, and Anchondo lost only to De Guzman.

Kevin Maxwell and Steven Por-ta, Jr. each scored 4½-½ to take the top two prizes in the 8-player U1600 Section, drawing with each other in the third round. Zach Lindsay took third, 2½-2½, while Shaun Kelly won the U1300 prize, 3-2.

John Williams and Steven Tomak will become State Championship Qualifiers as the two highest scoring Southern California residents.

The tournament was co-spon-sored by the S.L.O. Chess Club and the Math Department at Cuesta College, with facilities obtained by Professor Matt Robertson. It was co-directed by Barbara McCaleb and Steven Tomak. – Barbara Mc-Caleb

John Williams – IM Ricardo De Guzman

SLO County Championship, 2005C30 GIUOCO PIANO

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2nd Annual Westwood Open

August 21, 2005This one-day event at the West-

wood Doubletree Hotel had a fairly good turnout of 52 players. The 24-player Open was surprisingly strong, with a GM and four IMs competing. Taking clear first with 4½-½ was IM Andranik Matiko-zyan, closely followed at 4-1 by GM Boris Kreiman and IM Melikset Khachiyan. Show Kitagami and Ul-ric Aeria split the U2200 prize, and James Mahooti took top U2000.

In the Reserve (U1800) section, Paul Lazarte and David Perry tied for first and second with 4½-½. Class prize winners included Al-len Kim (U1600), Yu-Kai Chou (U1400), Ellie Simon (U1200), and Per-Kristian Engstead (unrated). John Hillery directed.

Vrezh Zohrabian, 1954 – 2005

Vrezh Zohrabian, an active weekend tournament participant and member of the Arcadia and Pasadena clubs, died suddenly Au-gust 16 after an evening of chess playing.

Vrezh was an enthusiastic player, often engaging in lengthy after-game analyses and blitz games, and loved to study chess books and magazines. Rather than dismiss his games as “water under the bridge,” he would frequently focus on specific positions and ask others’ opinions long afterwards. Sometimes he would apologize to his opponents for not having given them a better game. His dynamic personality and love of the game will be missed. Vrezh is survived by his father. – Randy Hough


Solutions to Tactics by Hanks

(see page 16)

Problem no. 1: a. Black is better. Black, in fact, has a total-ly winning position and wins with the following combination: 1. … Qh4! An awesome Queen sacrifice. Did you (even) consider this move? The main line continues 2. Nxh4(if 2. Qxc5, then R(f8)xf3 smashes through White’s defenses) 2. … Bxe3 3. Ng6+ (see a check – give a check) 3. … hxg6 4. g3 Re2+ 5. Kh1 Rxe1+ 6. Kg2 Rg1+ 7. Kh3 Nf2+ 8. Kh4 Rf4+ 9. gxf4 Rg4#The beauty of chess combinations lies waiting for those who are con-stantly looking for them.

Problem no. 2: a. White is better. From Steinitz vs Tchigo-

rin, Havana 1892. White obtains a clear advantage beginning with 1. d4 exd4 2. Nxd4 Bxd4 3. Rxd4 Nxd4? (perhaps 3. … Rf7 improves, but White is clearly better, as 4. Qg1 sustains a strong initiative and sets up more pressure against the Black Kingside with 5. Qh2 to fol-low. Now Black expected 5. Bxd4+ Rf6 returning the exchange, but …) 4. Rxh7+! Kxh7 5. Qh1+ Kg7 6. Bh6+ Kf6 7. Qh4+ Ke5 8. Qxd4+ Kf5 9. Qf4#.

Problem no. 3: b. 1. Rxe1 is incorrect. Tal vs Miller, Los Ange-les 1988 — and yes Mikhail Nekhe-mievich Tal (d. 1992) was still play-ing. If 1. Rxe1? Nxe1 2. Qxe1 then 2. Qe5 and Black will win. Instead White played 1. Nb5! Qe5 (other moves still allow White to hold a clear advantage) 2. h4!! (With one move Tal incredibly eliminates all

of Black’s threats, i.e. 2. … Qxe2, 2. … Qxg5, 2. … Nxa1 and 2. … c6, and now threatens 3. Qxe5 himself) 2. … Qg3 (of course not 2. … Qxe2 3. Nxc7#) 3. Rd1 Rf2 4. Qxf2 Bxf2 5. Rxd5 with a totally win-ning position for White, thus 1 - 0. (The threat is 6. Rd8#)

Problem no. 4: a. 1. Rxc6 is correct and White will win. Oh, yes … the combination is there all right, and if Black responds with overconfidence, then it’s over even faster. The main line goes 1. Rxc6 Bxc6 2. Qc4+ Kb7 (overconfident, as 2. … Ka7 avoids the pretty fin-ish – but Black is clearly worse ow-ing to White’s very active pieces) 3. Qxc6+ (of course) 3. … Kxc6 4. Ne5+ Kc5 5. Nd3+ Kd4 6. Kd2(So subtle and yet so sweet) with 6. …. Black “any move” 7. c3#.

Solutions to Chess Quiz

(see page 28)

Fuller – Steedman, Chester – Steedman, Chester –1979: The Bishop on d4 shows its muscle after 1. Ng6+ Kg8 (or 1. ... fxg6 2. f7+) 2. Ne7+ Kh8 3. Qh6 Rg8 (3. ... Nf5 4. Qg7+) 4. Qg7+ Rxg7 5. fxg7# 1–0

Burzlaff – Starck, Oschatz, – Starck, Oschatz, –1958: 1. Qxh6+ (A double clear-ance, removing the pawn from g7 and freeing the pawn on e5.) 1. … gxh6 (or 1. ... Bh7 2. e6 Rg8 3. Be4) 2. e6+ Kh7 3. Be4+ 1–0

Blau – Kanko, Havana 1966: – Kanko, Havana 1966: –White wins material with 1. gxf6 exf3 2. Nd5 Bxf6 (2. ... Qa5 3. Nxe7+ Kh8 4. fxg7#) 3. Nxc7 Rb8 4. Ba7 Bf5 5. Bxb8 Rxb8 6. Nd5 Bh4 7. fxe5 f2 8. Rg2 1–0

Old Lionby Jerry Hanken

Playing in master sections. I don’t win too many games nowa-days. but I was proud of this one. against a player whose Canadian rating is almost 2200. in the Chica-go Open – especially my 33rd move. though Fritz subsequently showed me that Black would have equal-ized by trading queens instead of the suicidal 33. … Kf8.

Jerry Hanken – Wilhelm HajeniusChicago Open, Chicago 2005 E67 KING’S INDIAN DEFENSE

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September 3-527TH ANNUAL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA OPEN. 6-SS, 40/2, SD/1 (2-day sched-ule rds 1-3 G/60, then merges). LAX Hilton, 5711 W Century Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045. $$10,000 b/200, 60% of each prize guaranteed. In two sections: Open: $$T+1700-1000-800-450-300, U2400 400, U2300 200, U2200 600-300, U2000 $$600-300. Amateur (Under 1800): $$T+750-400-200-150-100, U1600 $$500-300-200-100, U1400 $$300-150, U1200 100, Unr 100. Best game prize $25, all sections eligible. All: half-pt bye available in rds 1-4 if requested with entry, lim-it 2. SCCF membership req ($14, jr. $9), OSA. No checks or credit cards at door. SCCF Annual Membership Meeting: 2:30 p.m. Sept. 5. Reg: 3-day 8:30-9:45 a.m. 9-3. 2-day 8:30-9:30 a.m. 9-4. Rds: 3-day: 10:30-5 Sat-Sun, 10-4:30 Mon. 2-day: 10-12:15-2:30 Sun., then merges. EF: $81 if received by 9-1, $97 door, U1400 $66 by 9-1, $80 door. Ent: SCCF, c/o John Hillery, 835 N. Wil-ton Pl. #1, Los Angeles CA 90038. On-line entry: www.westernchess.com. HR: $89, (310) 410-4000, men-tion chess. Parking $6/day. Parking $6/day. Parking Inf: [email protected]. NS, W, F. GP: 50. State Championship Qualifier

September 4SCO SCHOLASTICS. 5-SS, SD/45. LAX Hilton, 5711 W Century Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045. Open to gr. 12-below. In two sections: Open:Trophies to top 5, top 3 U1200, top 2 Unrated. Grade 6/below U1000: Trophies to top 5, top 3 U700, top 2 Unrated. Reg: 8:30-9:15. Rds9:30-11-1:00-2:30-4. EF: $16 if re-ceived by 9-1, $20 at door. On-line entry: www.westernchess.com. Inf: [email protected]. Ent:

SCCF, c/o John Hillery, 835 N. Wil-ton Pl. #1, Los Angeles CA 90038.

September 5SCO ACTION SWISS. 5-SS, G/30. LAX Hilton, 5711 W Century Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045. $$500 b/40, else proportional: $150-70-40, U2100/Unr $80, U1800 $80, Under 1500 $80. EF: $20 if received by 9-1, $25 at door. Reg: 9-10 a.m. Rds10:15-11:30-12:45-2:30-3:45. Ent: SCCF, c/o John Hillery, 835 N. Wil-ton Pl. #1, Los Angeles CA 90038, online at www.westernchess.com.

September 5SCO HEXES. 3-RR, G/90. LAX Hil-ton, 5711 W Century Blvd, Los An-geles, CA 90045. 6-player sections by rating. $$40-20-10 each section. EF: $20 if received by 9-1, $25 door. Reg: 9:30-10:30 a.m. Rds 10:45-2-5. Ent: SCCF, c/o John Hillery, 835 N. Wil-ton Pl. #1, Los Angeles CA 90038, online at www.westernchess.com

September 12-26SMBCC 3 ROUND QUADS. 3-RR, G/1:55. Santa Monica Bay Chess Club, Joslyn Park Community Ctr., 633 Kensington Rd. (5 blocks south of Pico Blvd., 2 blocks west of Lin-coln Blvd.) EF: $10 (with $40 yearly club membership). Cash prizes. Reg. 7-7:45 p.m. Rds: 7:10 p.m. Monday nights. Info: Pete Savino (310) 827-2789 [email protected]

September 24COSTA MESA OCTOS. 3-SS, 35/90, SD/30. 8 player sections by rating. Odd Fellows/Rebekah Hall, 2476 Newport Blvd., Costa Mesa, CA. EF: $20 advance, $25 at site, $2 disc. to all Southern Calif. Chess Federation members. $$ prizes per entries. Reg. 9:15-10 a.m. Rds.

10:15-2:45-6:45. Info/Ent: Michael Carr, 25601 Chrisanta Drive, Mis-sion Viejo, CA 92691. (949) 768-3538. NS, NC.

October 22COSTA MESA OCTOS. 3-SS, 35/90, SD/30. 8 player sections by rating. Odd Fellows/Rebekah Hall, 2476 Newport Blvd., Costa Mesa, CA. EF: $20 advance, $25 at site, $2 disc. to all Southern Calif. Chess Federation members. $$ prizes per entries. Reg. 9:15-10 a.m. Rds.10:15-2:45-6:45. Info/Ent: Michael Carr, 25601 Chrisanta Drive, Mis-sion Viejo, CA 92691. (949) 768-3538. NS, NC.

October 30NORWALK OPEN. 5-SS, G/40. Nor-walk Marriott, 13111 Sycamore Drive, Norwalk, California 90650. $$1500G. In two sections: Open:$400-200, U2200 125, U2000 125. Reserve (U1800) $$200-125, U1600 $100, Under 1400 $75, U1200 $75, Unrated $75 (unr. may win unrated prize only). EF: $47 if received by 8-19, $56 at site; all $5 less to unrated. SCCF memb. ($14, under 18 $9) req. for rated S. CA res-idents. No checks or credit cards at site. Half point byes: Limit 1, must be req. w/entry. Reg: 8:45-9:30 a.m. Rds: 10-12-1:45-3:30-5:30. HR: $84, 1-800-442-4556. Free park-ing. Inf: [email protected]. Ent: SCCF, c/o John Hillery, 835 N. Wilton Place #1, Los Ange-les, CA 90038. On-line entry: www.westernchess.com. GP: 10. State Championship Qualifier.

November 24 – 27 41ST ANNUAL AMERICAN OPEN. 8SS, 40/2, SD/1. LAX Renaissance Ho-tel, 9620 Airport Bl, Los Angeles, CA 90045. $$40,200 b/o 400 en-tries, 50% of each prize gtd. In 6


sections (Unr. must play in Unr. or Master). Open: $4000-2000-1000-700-600-500, U2450/Unr. $1000-500, U2300/Unr. $800-400. U2200 (not a separate section; Experts eli-gible for all other prizes in section) $2600-1300-700. U2000, U1800, U1600: Each $3200-1600-800-400. U1400: $2200-1100-550, U1200 $1000-500 (not a separate section; U1200s also eligible for U1400 priz-es). Unrated: $350-200. EF: Open, U2200, U2000, U1800, U1600, U1400 $119 if received by 11/22, $30 less for jrs. under 15 playing up, $50 more for players rated un-der 2000 playing in Open, Unrated $39. All: $21 more at door. SCCF membership req’d, $14, $9 jrs un-der 19 includes Rank & File maga-zine, OSA. Elegant trophy each sec-tion winner. Best game prizes gtd: $100-50-50 (one must be from non-Master). No checks at door – cash, credit card or money order only. 4-day schedule: Reg. closes noon 11/24, Rds. 12:30-7:30, 12:30-7:30, 10:30-5, 10-4:30. 3-day schedule: Reg. closes 11:30 a.m. 11/25, Rds. 12-2:30-5-8 (G/1), schedules merge in Rd 5 and compete for common prizes. Byes (2 max) with advance notice. CCA minimum ratings and TD discretion will be used to pro-tect you from improperly rated players. October Rating Supple-ment used. HR: $89, (310) 337-2800, mention chess. Parking only Parking only Parking$5. Info: NTD Randy Hough (626) 282-7412, [email protected]. Ent: American Open, PO Box 205, Monterey Park, CA 91754 or www.americanopen.org. NS, W, F. U.S. Championship Qualifier. GP: 80. State Championship Quali-fier

November 26AMERICAN OPEN QUICK CHESS CHAM-

PIONSHIP. 5-SS (double round), G/10. LAX Renaissance Hotel, 9620 Air-port Bl, Los Angeles, CA 90045. $5 parking. EF: $30 receivedd by 11/23, $35 at site. $$G 1100: $300-200-100; U2200, U2000, U1800, U1600, Unr. each $100. (Unrated eligible only for Open and Unr.

prize). Reg. closes 8 pm. Rds: 8:15-9-9:45-10:30-11:15. Double bye (1 pt) available Rd 1. Ent: American Open, PO Box 205, Monterey Park, CA 91754. Info: Randy Hough (626) 282-7412, [email protected]. NS. GP: 10

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received by 11/23, $20 at door. Reg: 9-9:45, Rds: 10-11:30-1-3-4:30. Ent: American Open, PO Box 205, Monterey Park, CA 91754. NS, W. Info: Randy Hough (626) 282-7412, [email protected]

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2005-2006 State Championship

Seeded into the Championship are 2005 co-champions Andranik Matiko-zyan, Cyrus Lakdawala, and Melikset Khachiyan, one player selected on

the basis of rating, and four from the 2006 Candidates Tournament.

Date Name Qualifiers

July 2-4 Pacific Southwest Open Michael Casella Ilia Serpik

July 9-17 State Championship Enrico Sevillano Jack Peters Alaa-Addin Moussa Craig Clawitter Ron Bruno

July 21-24 Pacific Coast Open Boris Kreiman Greg Hjorth

August 13-14 San Luis Obispo John Williams County Championship Steven Tomak

August 21 Westwood Open Tatev Abrahamyan

Upcoming

Sept. 4-6 Southern California Open LAX October 30 Norwalk Open Norwalk Nov. 24-27 American Open LAX

Each event qualifies two players (highest scoring Southern California residents not previously qualified) except that 1) In the event of a tie, all tied players will advance; 2) A score of 60% is required to qualify; 3) The SCCF Amateur, SCCF High School and any one-day event will each have one qualifying spot; and 4) All one-day tournaments shall require a 75% score and only one player shall qualify on tiebreak.

SCCFPO BOX 205MONTEREY PARK CA 9754

FULLER - STEEDMAN

CHESTER, 1979WHITE TO MOVE

BLAU - KANKO

HAVANA, 1966WHITE TO MOVE

BURZLAFF - STARCK

OSCHATZ, 1958WHITE TO MOVE

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