Chess Games Of Michael Shahade

IM Mike Shahade on right
Chess Expert Jeremy on left
Rittehhouse Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
Saturday , October 9, 2010



















International Master Mike Shahade was just recently spotted on Saturday afternoon October 9, 2010 playing blitz at Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania.
(Top Photo above) Mike was giving time odds of two minutes to five minutes to his opponent Jeremy, who is a chess expert.

I was standing right next to this gentleman kibitzing and did'nt even know who he was until another chessplayer whisper to me his name.

Mike is now better known as the father of Greg and Jennifer, but his multi-PA State Champion titles are no accident. A fierce competitor, Mike has also been a contributor to the Franklin-Mercantile Chess Club for many years. Mike was a mainstay of the Philadelphia Quakers phone-league team in the 1970's. He still competes with the "Shahade" team at the US Amateur Team East. He now captains the 21st century Philadelphia Inventors in the US Chess League (started by his son Greg!).


Chessgames Of Michael Shahade




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shahade_cates_2001.pgn

English Opening You Tube Video By Jrobichess

Marathon Games At Hamilton 6 man Swiss, Groveville, New Jersey, USA

Here are two marathon games. Marathon game number one was the first round game at the Hamilton Chess Club 6 man Swiss. This game was adjourned on move 63 and played out at around 8:30 PM at the HHC Quads on August 21, 2010 Saturday night at Groveville, New Jersey.

The second marathon game was the third and last round game at Hamilton Chess Club quads in the six man swiss. This game was finished around 8:30PM and then I resumed the adjourned game from the first round.

Also here are some candid shots of the lower quads and some of the amateur chess players at the Hamilton Chess Club Quads on August 21, 2010.



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Second Marathon Game



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Hamilton Chess Club Six Man Swiss at Groveville, New Jersey USA Saturday , August 21, 2010.

Yesterday I played at the Hamilton Chess Clubs Quads in the Six Man Swiss, the top seed was rated 1400 who I was paired up in the second round as white and was very fortunate to win this game which allowed me take second place in the Swiss event and drive away with some prize money in my pocker.

My opponent was a ten year old rated at 1400 USCF and he had me on the ropes in the middle game but did not find the right moves to finish me off. Instead my opponet allowed some breathing room and I was able to activate my dark square bishop which assisted in a bishop and rook mate pattern to end the game.

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[Event "Hamilton Six Man Swiss"]
[Site "Groveville, New Jersey"]
[Date "2010.8.21"]
[Round "2"]
[White "diamondback"]
[Black "M Ganhtapodi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteELO "1200"]
[BlackELO "1400"]

%Created by Caissa's Web PGN Editor
1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. Bg5 e6 4. a3 Nc6 5. Nc3 Be7 6. e3 O-O 7. Be2 h6 8. Bh4
Nd7 9. Bg3 Nf6 10. O-O Re8 11. Bb5 Bd7 12. Bxc6 Bxc6 13. Ne5 Bd7 14. Nxd7
Qxd7 15. Re1 c5 16. dxc5 Bxc5 17. Be5 Be7 18. Qe2 Rac8 19. Red1 Qc6 20. Rac1
Qb6 21. Qb5 Qxb5 22. Nxb5 a6 23. Nd6 Bxd6 24. Bxd6 Rc6 25. Be5 Nd7 26. Bc3
Rec8 27. Rd2 Nc5 28. f3 f6 29. b4 Na4 30. Ba1 Nb6 31. Kf2 Kf7 32. c3 Nc4 33.
Ra2 Ne5 34. Ke2 Rc4 35. h3 g5 36. Rd2 h5 37. Rd4 Kg6 38. Rcd1 b5 39. f4 Rxd4
40. Rxd4 Nc4 41. e4 Nxa3 42. fxg5 Nc2 43. Rd1 Kxg5 44. Bb2 Kf4 45. exd5 exd5
46. Rd3 Re8+ 47. Kd1 Ne3+ 48. Kd2 Nxg2 49. Rxd5 h4 50. Rd6 Kg5 51. Bc1 Kg6
52. Kd3 Ra8 53. Bd2 a5 54. bxa5 Rxa5 55. Ke4 Ra4+ 56. Kf3 Rc4 57. Kxg2 Rc5
58. Rd4 Re5 59. Kf3 Rf5+ 60. Rf4 Rd5 61. Be1 Rd3+ 62. Kg2 Re3 63. Rg4+ Kh5
64. Bxh4 Rxc3 65. Rf4 Rc6 66. Rb4 Rb6 67. Bf2 Rb7 68. Kf3 f5 69. Kf4 Kg6 70.
h4 Kh5 71. Be1 Kg6 72. h5+ Kxh5 73. Kxf5 Rb8 74. Bc3 Rc8 75. Rb1 Rc5+ 76. Be5
Kh6 77. Rh1# 1-0

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[Event "Hamilton Six Man Swiss"]
[Site "Groveville, New Jersey"]
[Date "2010.8.21"]
[Round "2"]
[White "diamondback"]
[Black "M Ganhtapodi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteELO "1200"]
[BlackELO "1400"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. Bg5 e6 4. a3 Nc6 5. Nc3 Be7 6. e3 O-O 7. Be2 h6 8. Bh4
Nd7 9. Bg3 Nf6 10. O-O Re8 11. Bb5 Bd7 12. Bxc6 Bxc6 13. Ne5 Bd7 14. Nxd7
Qxd7 15. Re1 c5 16. dxc5 Bxc5 17. Be5 Be7 18. Qe2 Rac8 19. Red1 Qc6 20. Rac1
Qb6 21. Qb5 Qxb5 22. Nxb5 a6 23. Nd6 Bxd6 24. Bxd6 Rc6 25. Be5 Nd7 26. Bc3
Rec8 27. Rd2 Nc5 28. f3 f6 29. b4 Na4 30. Ba1 Nb6 31. Kf2 Kf7 32. c3 Nc4 33.
Ra2 Ne5 34. Ke2 Rc4 35. h3 g5 36. Rd2 h5 37. Rd4 Kg6 38. Rcd1 b5 39. f4 Rxd4
40. Rxd4 Nc4 41. e4 Nxa3 42. fxg5 Nc2 43. Rd1 Kxg5 44. Bb2 Kf4 45. exd5 exd5
46. Rd3 Re8+ 47. Kd1 Ne3+ 48. Kd2 Nxg2 49. Rxd5 h4 50. Rd6 Kg5 51. Bc1 Kg6
52. Kd3 Ra8 53. Bd2 a5 54. bxa5 Rxa5 55. Ke4 Ra4+ 56. Kf3 Rc4 57. Kxg2 Rc5
58. Rd4 Re5 59. Kf3 Rf5+ 60. Rf4 Rd5 61. Be1 Rd3+ 62. Kg2 Re3 63. Rg4+ Kh5
64. Bxh4 Rxc3 65. Rf4 Rc6 66. Rb4 Rb6 67. Bf2 Rb7 68. Kf3 f5 69. Kf4 Kg6 70.
h4 Kh5 71. Be1 Kg6 72. h5+ Kxh5 73. Kxf5 Rb8 74. Bc3 Rc8 75. Rb1 Rc5+ 76. Be5
Kh6 77. Rh1# 1-0

Free Internet Chess Club Games

Here are some games from the Free Internet Chess Server from various amateurs.

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[Event "FICS rated blitz game"]
[Site "FICS, San Jose, California USA"]
[Date "2010.08.17"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Ykwily"]
[Black "StreetLights"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteELO "2685"]
[BlackELO "2063"]
[Time "12:22:34"]
[WhiteElo "1487"]
[BlackElo "1557"]
[TimeControl "180+0"]
[Mode "ICS"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. c3 Nf6 4. Qc2 e6 5. d4 cxd4 6. cxd4 Be7 7. Bd3 a68 8.
e5 dxe5 9. dxe5 Nd5 10. Bxh7 Bb4+ 11. Nbd2 Qb6 12. O-O Nc6 13. Nc4 Qc7 14. a3
Be7 15. Be4 b5 16. Ncd2 Bb7 17. Qb3 O-O-O 18. Bxd5 Rxd5 19. Ne4 Nd4 20. Nxd4
Rxd4 21. Nc3 Qxe5 22. Be3 Qxh2# {White checkmated} 0-1

Experience team fights back with 3-2 win

Courtesy ChessVibes


Rising Stars Official Web Page












In the sixth round of the NH Chess Tournament the Experience team defeated the Rising Stars 3-2. Boris Gelfand had a relatively easy day against David Howell, while Loek van Wely scored his first point for the Experience team in his 16th attempt. Hikaru Nakamura limited the damage for the Rising Stars with a win over Ljubomir Ljubojevic.
The NH Chess Tournament takes place August 12-22 in hotel Krasnapolsky, in the heart of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. As always, the tournament is a confrontation between a team of five young ‘Rising Stars’ and a team of five ‘Experienced’



Ljubojevic vs Nakamura 0-1

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[Event "NH Chess Tournament"]
[Site "Amsterdam"]
[Date "2010.18.28"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Ljubojevic"]
[Black "Nakamura"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteELO "2685"]
[BlackELO "2863"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 c6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8.
Bd3 Bb7 9. e4 b4 10. Na4 c5 11. e5 Nd5 12. dxc5 Bxc5 13. Nxc5 Nxc5 14. Bb5+
Ke7 15. Qd4 Qb6 16. Bc4 Rac8 17. Bg5+ Ke8 18. O-O Ne7 19. Rfd1 Bxf3 20. gxf3
h6 21. Be3 Nf5 22. Qd2 Nxe3 23. Qxe3 Nd7 24. Qxb6 Nxb6 25. Ba6 Rd8 26. Rac1
Rxd1+ 27. Rxd1 Ke7 28. Rd4 Nd5 29. Bb7 a5 30. Bxd5 Rd8 31. Rc4 Rxd5 32. Rc7+
Ke8 33. f4 g5 34. fxg5 hxg5 35. a3 bxa3 36. bxa3 Rxe5 37. Kg2 Rd5 38. h3 Kf8
39. Rc4 Ke7 40. h4 gxh4 41. Rxh4 Kd6 42. Kf1 Kc5 43. Ke2 Rd4 44. Rh7 Re4+ 45.
Kd3 Rf4 46. Ke3 e5 47. Rh8 Kb5 48. Rc8 f6 49. Rc3 Rc4 50. Rb3+ Kc5 51. Kd2
Rd4+ 52. Ke2 f5 53. Rb8 Ra4 54. Rc8+ Kd5 55. Rc3 Re4+ 56. Kd2 Rc4 57. Rh3 Rf4
58. Ke2 Kc4 59. Rg3 a4 60. f3 Kb3 61. Rg8 Kxa3 62. Ke3 Rb4 63. Re8 e4 0-1

Rising Stars

Courtesy of Chess Vibes web page









Rising Stars Official Web Page



In the second round of the NH Chess Tournament the Rising Stars team took the lead over the Experience team thanks to a win by David Howell over the luckless Ljubomir Ljubojevic. The other four games were drawn, which resulted in a 3-2 win for the youngsters. The overall score after two rounds is 5½- 4½ in favour of the Rising Stars.
The NH Chess Tournament takes place August 12-22 in hotel Krasnapolsky, in the heart of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. As always, the tournament is a confrontation between a team of five young ‘Rising Stars’ and a team of five ‘Experienced’ grandmasters.

Bobby Fischer interview

A Very Different Bobby Fischer

Donald Byrne vs Bobby Fischer - Game of the Century - Chess Network

Czech Grandmaster Viktor Laznicka finished at the top of the World Open

The World Open 2010 took place from June 29 to July 5, 2010 at the Valley Forge Convention Plaza.

Czech Grandmaster Viktor Laznicka finished at the top of the standings with 7½/9, winning $17,413!


Laznicka started the tournament with 6 wins, leaving him a clear point ahead of the field at that stage. Rounds 7 and 8 were fairly peaceful draws while the final half-point needed to take the title was scored in a complex fight against GM Loek Van Wely in Round 9.

Finishing half-point behind the leader were GMs Pentala Harikrishna, Ilya Smirin and Luke McShane, who each won $5028.67 for their efforts.

FM Conrad Holt managed to hold on to score an IM norm despite finishing the event with just half-point in his final 4 rounds. This was achieved thanks to his great start to the event where he scored 4/5, including scoring 3/4 against GM opposition!

Hamilton Chess Quads, June 25, 2010 Groveville, New Jersey USA

Yesterday , I played in Hamilton Chess Quads in Groveville , New Jersey, the most active National Master in New Jersey , Jim West was missing in action on June 25, 2010. at Hamilton Chess Quads in Groveville, New Jersey, USA

Overall the turn out was light about24 players , about six quads , about 20% of the players were Generation Y under the age of ten in all sections bout five players with their parents.

Given the outside temperature of about 90 degrees. the air conditioner unit was barely maintaining in the lower quad sections.

Here is my first round game with Dion a strong class D player unfortunately he had over things on his mind about his family being sick and had to withdraw after the first round in our Quad Section , which was rated under 1350 USCF rating points.

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[Event "Hamilton CC Quads"]
[Site "Groveville, NJ"]
[Date "2010.6.25"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Diaon Callahan"]
[Black "Diamondback"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteELO "1325"]
[BlackELO "1240"]

%Created by Caissa's Web PGN Editor
1. Nf3 c5 2. c4 Nc6 3. g3 e5 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. d3 Be7 6. Bg2 d6 7. O-O O-O 8. Bd2
Bd7 9. a3 a5 10. Qc2 Qc7 11. Rfe1 Rfe8 12. Rac1 Nd4 13. Nxd4 exd4 14. Nd5
Nxd5 15. Bxd5 Bc6 16. e4 dxe3 17. Bxe3 Bxd5 18. cxd5 Bf6 19. Bf4 Rxe1+ 20.
Rxe1 Qd7 21. Qe2 b5 22. Qd2 a4 23. Bg5 Qd8 24. Bxf6 Qxf6 25. Qe2 Kf8 26. Qd2
Re8 27. Rxe8+ Kxe8 28. Qe3+ Kd7 29. Qe4 g6 30. Qe2 Qf5 31. Qd2 Qxd5 32. Qa5
Qxd3 33. Qa7+ Ke6 34. Qb8 Kf6 35. Qd8+ Kg7 36. Kg2 Qd5+ 37. f3 Qe6 38. Kf2
Qf5 0-1

Here is an off hand game in five minute blitz , that Black was on his opponent like white on rice. This game shows that Blitz in sloppy chess at its best.

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[Event "Hamilton Chess Club Blitz 5 mins"]
[Site "Groveville, NJ"]
[Date "2010.6.25"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Jet Lee"]
[Black "Diamondback"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteELO "1196"]
[BlackELO "1255"]

%Created by Caissa's Web PGN Editor
1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 Bf5 3. cxd5 c6 4. dxc6 Nxc6 5. a3 Nf6 6. Nc3 e5 7. e4 Bg6 8.
Bb5 Bc5 9. h3 O-O 10. Bxc6 bxc6 11. Nxe5 Bxe4 12. O-O Re8 13. Nxc6 Bxc6 14.
d3 Nd5 15. Ne4 Bb6 16. Re1 Qh4 17. Qd2 f5 18. Ng3 Rxe1+ 19. Qxe1 Re8 20. Qd2
Be3 21. Qc2 Qxg3 22. fxe3 Nxe3 23. Bxe3 Qxe3+ 24. Kh1 Qxh3+ 25. Kg1 Qe3+ 26.
Kh2 Bd5 27. Rf1 Qe2 28. Qxe2 Rxe2 29. Kg3 Rxg2+ 30. Kh3 Rxb2 31. Rxf5 Be6 0-1

Masterminds Chess Club , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA

Here are some photos of Masterminds Chess Club located at the Watermark at Logan Square , that I recently visited about three moths ago on a Friday night.

Checkmate With Two Knights

This is second round game that I played at Hamilton Chess Club Quads at Groveville, New Jersey on May 22, 2010, the game score is quite erratic but not the end result of the last three moves.

I will post at a later date a game with more analysis and a more accurate score....diamondback


This is kind of a helpmate which my opponent basically boxed in one of his rooks on the H8 square and keeping his King isolated near the edge of the board, while he had visions of marching his queenside pawns down to queen one of them. Unfortunately he allowed both of my knights and rook to take over the center squares and the center file by my rook.


I am adding this game with tongue in cheek to "addiction to chess" greatest games of chess ever. Or maybe I can ask "Menacing Knights" to add this game to his Favorite Games.

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[Event "HCC Quads"]
[Site "Groveville, NJ"]
[Date "2010.5.22"]
[Round "?"]
[White "diamondback"]
[Black "tommie boy"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteELO "1302"]
[BlackELO "1380"]

%Created by Caissa's Web PGN Editor
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nc3 d6 4. d4 g6 5. e4 b6 6. d5 Bg7 7. Be2 O-O 8. O-O
Nbd7 9. Bd2 a6 10. Qc1 Qc7 11. Bh6 Re8 12. Bxg7 Kxg7 13. Re1 e5 14. Qg5 h6
15. Qd2 Nf8 16. Bd3 Bd7 17. Re3 Rab8 18. Rb1 b5 19. Ne2 bxc4 20. Bxc4 Bb5 21.
Bxb5 axb5 22. Ne1 N8d7 23. Rh3 h5 24. Ng3 Rh8 25. Qg5 Kf8 26. Qe3 Qa5 27. a3
b4 28. Nc2 bxa3 29. Nxa3 Qb4 30. Nc2 Qc4 31. Na3 Qd4 32. Qxd4 exd4 33. Nc4
Ke7 34. Na5 Kf8 35. Nc4 Nb6 36. Nxd6 Nbxd5 37. exd5 Nxd5 38. Nge4 Ke7 39. Nc4
Rbc8 40. Ra3 f5 41. Ra7+ Kf8 42. Ned6 Rc7 43. Rxc7 Nxc7 44. Re1 Na6 45. h3
Nb4 46. Re6 Kg7 47. Ne5 Nd5 48. Rxg6+ Kh7 49. Ndf7 Rb8 50. Ng5+ Kh8 51. Nef7#

Selected Games From Garden State Chess League Season 2009-2010 New Jersey, USA

Garden State Chess League


Note: The web page of the Garden State Chess League is maintained and updated by John Moldovan of the Kenilworthian Chess Club. All the links in this chess blog post point his excellent web page on the New Jersey Garden State Chess League.

This chess blog link above covers the goings-on of the Garden State Chess League for the year 2009- 2010 , which features teams from Hamilton, Kenilworth, Sparta, Summit and West Orange, NJ; as well as Staten Island, NY.

Some of the key features of the blog are links to Standings, Rosters, Schedules , Board by Board results and Games.



Below are selected games in ChessFlash Format. All of these games can be found on the Garden State Chess Blog Site, which is maintained and updated by John Moldovan.


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Moldovan-Hueckel.pgn




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World Chess Championship 2010: Anand vs. Topalov - Game 4

Game 4 Anand and Topalov. Photo © http://www.chessdom.com who are on the spot with commentary, photos and reports.








Anand - Topalov World Championship Game 4
Mark Crowther - Thursday 29th April 2010

After the draw in game 3 it was Anand who is looking to make progress with white in game 4. Anand opened with the Catalan as Kramnik did in his match against Topalov in Elista.

Anand played a novelty with 10.Na3 which led to a long think from Topalov. It may be Topalov had studied this position but not for a while. But in the end he played 10...Bd7. So the big question was if Anand's preparation could cause serious problems for Topalov.

The answer was an emphatic, yes. Topalov's pieces gradually got tied up on the Queenside and far away from his king. Anand needed no second invitation to go for a sacrificial attack which he prosecuted with no problems at all.

Now it is up to Topalov to strike back with white on Friday. This has been a match where the white pieces have dominated (three wins and a draw so far) but Topalov will have some recovering to do after this loss.


















topalov_anand_2010.pgn








Game 4 of 2010 World Chess Championship at Chessgames.Com




Apr-30-10 CharlesSullivan: Instead of 22...Rad8?, with 22...f6 23.Rc4 h5! Black seems to reach a defensible position; for example: 24.Ne3 Rad8 25.Qc3 Ba8 26.Bh3 Qe7 27.Rcd4 Nc6 28.R4d2 g6 29.Qc4 Nc7 30.Qxa4 e5.









Material is even and Rybka3 rates this as about +0.60 for White.


Apr-30-10 CharlesSullivan: Instead of 23...gxh6, Black could try 23...Kh7, but 24.Ng4 f6 25.Qf4! Be8 26.e5 f5 27.Ne3 Qe7 28.Qc4 gives White a large advantage:










Rybka3 rates this as +2.41 for White, Zappa says +2.07. There is obviously a lot of play left, but with accurate play, White wins.

Powerless Queen versus Two Connected Pass Pawns

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[Event "Blitz 10 minute"]
[Site "ICC "]
[Date "2010.5.12"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Saxmann"]
[Black "Jeremia"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteELO "793"]
[BlackELO "1007"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "6k1/5b2/p5p1/1p3p2/8/2Q4P/5PPK/8 w KQkq - 0 1"]

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0-1

White to move and stop Blacks' Connected passed pawns

Second Chess Diagram is complete playable game score.


Here is an interesting game that I kibitz on ICC, Saturday May 12, 2010. In this game White skewers Black's Queen in the middle game and has a queen, and rook versus Black's two rooks and a bishop.

Blacks' king tries to shelter himself in a fortress of his center pawns and he has connected passed pawns. White forks Blacks king and rook, which wins Blacks rook but White still has to contend with Blacks' connected passed pawns.

Unfortunately , White forfeits on time in the ten minute blitz game. If anyone out there in the chess blogosphere would like to comment if White can stop blacks' advance connected passed pawns with a continuation , this may be helpful to the Amateur Chess player in this endgame play.

I will try to followup in some endgame analysis later this Sunday....Diamondback

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[Event "Blitz 10 Minute"]
[Site "ICC Chess Club"]
[Date "2010.5.12"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Saxmann"]
[Black "Jeremia"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteELO "793"]
[BlackELO "1007"]

%Created by Caissa's Web PGN Editor
1. Nf3 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3. d4 e6 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. e4 O-O 6. Be2 d6 7. O-O Re8 8. Be3
Nfd7 9. d5 e5 10. Rc1 Nf6 11. c5 Nbd7 12. cxd6 cxd6 13. Nb5 Nxe4 14. Bd3 a6
15. Nc3 Nxc3 16. Rxc3 Nf6 17. Bb1 b5 18. Rb3 Bb7 19. Bg5 Qd7 20. Bxf6 Bxf6
21. Qd2 Rac8 22. Ng5 Bxg5 23. Qxg5 Bxd5 24. Rh3 Qe7 25. Qh6 f6 26. Bxg6 hxg6
27. Qh8+ Kf7 28. Rh7+ Ke6 29. Rxe7+ Kxe7 30. Qh7+ Ke6 31. Qh3+ f5 32. Re1 Rc2
33. Qa3 Rec8 34. h3 Rc1 35. Rxc1 Rxc1+ 36. Kh2 Rc6 37. Qg3 Kf6 38. Qh4+ Ke6
39. Qg5 Kf7 40. Qd8 Be6 41. Qg5 Bxa2 42. Qe3 Bd5 43. Qa7+ Kf6 44. Qh7 Bf7 45.
Qh8+ Ke6 46. Qh4 Rc4 47. Qd8 Rb4 48. Qc8+ Kf6 49. Qd8+ Ke6 50. Qc8+ Kf6 51.
Qd8+ Kg7 52. Qxd6 Rxb2 53. Qxe5+ Kh6 54. Qxb2 Kh7 55. Qb3 Kg7 56. Qc3+ Kh6
57. Qd2+ Kh7 58. Qc3 Kg8 0-1

South Jersey Open Chess Championship May 15, 2010 Cherry Hill, New Jersey USA

Directions by Google Maps


Registered Players For South Jersey Open


30th South Jersey Open Set for May 15th
By Stephen Arnold Dick
May 4, 2010
CHERRY HILL, NJ-The South Jersey Open (SJO), established in 1956, is one of America's longest running open chess tournaments. This year's event is being held at the the Holiday Inn in Cherry Hill, New Jersey on May 15th.

The South Jersey Open not only awards 1st through 5th place finishers with more than $1000 in cash prizes but it also awards the prestigious Hoffman Trophy to the top player who resides in Southern New Jersey. Players who live in South Jersey are able to win both, a cash prize and the trophy.

More than 80 players attended last year's SJO including world class players GM's Alex Lenderman and Michael Rohde and IM's Dean Ippolito and Bryan Smith. Lenderman and Rohde tied (3.5/4.0) for first place while Andrew Shvartsman (2.5/4.0) took home the Hoffman Trophy.

Pre-registration ends May 7th. However, anyone who pre-registers by May 3rd will be entered to win a eNotate electronic scorekeeper courtesy of Sevan Muradian and the North American Chess Association. For tournament details or to register now please visit www.atkmchesssets.com/sjopen.

This is an All the King's Men Chess Center Event. Contact Stephen Arnold Dick at 856-582-8222 for information. Also see a recent PR on a big money scholastic tournament coming to Cherry Hill on June 12-13.

World Chess Championship Games 2010 Sofia

Official World Chess Championship 2010 Page



Wikipedia Info On 2010 World Chess Championship


Chessdom Coverage World Chess Championship 2010




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Kosteniuk Beats Judith Polgar

Kosteniuk vs Gaponenko Commented Game Sicilian Dragon

Chess Queen Beats Magnus Carlsen

Chess Queen Beats Vishy Anand

World Chess Championship Game One Video

Courtesy Chessvibes.com

Topaolov Draws First Blood In World Chess Championship 2010

Courtesy New York Times Chess Blog Gambit



Game One Replay

April 24, 2010, 2:18 pm
Topalov Wins First Game of Title Match
By DYLAN LOEB MCCLAIN
Win
Veselin Topalov


Loss
Viswanathan Anand
Replay the game with analysis»
Veselin Toplaov of Bulgaria got off to a great start in the world championship match as he won Game 1 after Viswanathan Anand of India, the world champion, blundered. The game was barely out of the opening stages when Anand erred in a dynamically balanced position. Facing checkmate, he resigned after only 30 moves.




Chess Games Of Vaselin Topalov




2005 World Championship Photo

Robert James Fischer 1943-2008 | Reaction Veselin Topalov

Veselin Topalov interview (chessdom.com)

M-Tel - Topalov Blind Game

A volcanic trip – with the Lord of the Rings

The Mercedes Sprinter that transported the World Champion's team to Sofia











Report from www.chessbase.com


Link to Chessbase Article on April 21, 2010 below:
article copyrighted by Chessbase. 15% of article posted in this blog
to call attention to article posted by Chessbase.

A volcanic trip – with the Lord of the Rings

21.04.2010 – On Thursday Vishy Anand embarked on a trip from his house in Madrid, Spain, to the World Championship match. He got as far as Frankfurt, Germany, and was stopped by the volcanic ash cloud from Iceland. Frantic planning followed, and on Tuesday morning, after a 40-hour drive, he arrived with his team in Sofia, Bulgaria. A team member has sent us this remarkable report.


A volcanic trip – with the Lord of the rings
How World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand travelled to Sofia
Five countries, 2000 kilometres, about a million potholes, an unexpected ferry and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. A report of a crazy road trip through Europe. – A team member reports

Months of careful planning for the chess world championship in Sofia by the Anand team were disrupted by a volcano in Iceland, located under Eyjafjallajökull, one of the smaller glaciers of the North Atlantic island. Tens of thousands of people were stranded on airports in Europe. One on them was Viswanathan Anand, who had travelled with his wife and manager Aruna from Madrid to Frankfurt on Thursday April 15th. They planned to continue their journey to Sofia on Friday April 16, together with three other travellers. Two more seconds were to fly from other airports in Europe to the Bulgarian capital on Friday to join the team there.




Arriving in Sofia in the early hours of the morning

Top Chess Player Almira Skripchenko Receives Poker Award

Almira made it to the through to the final table (nine players) and finished third. The prize pool for the event was more then 600,000 Euros, with 152,580€ going to the winner, 93,200€ to the runner up and 59,100€ to her – slightly more than female players win at chess events.







The 2010 France Poker Awards designed to reward the best players of the year 2009. The awards ceremony was held during the European Poker Tour in the Casino Barriere de Deauville. The trophys were awarded by a jury and Internet votes. In the end chess player Almira Skripchenko won the prize as "best lady".

Biography of Almira
Skripchenko



Poker Rating of Almira Skripchenko


Chess Games of Almira Skripchenko

Unsound Sacrifice At Cherry Hill Quads, New Jersey , Saturday March 13, 2010

Yesterday , I played in the under 1600 Quads at Cherry Hill Library, at Cherry Hill , New Jersey. Despite the heavy rain and high winds there was a decent turnout of about 15 players or so. After arriving 20 minutes late because of the heavy rains for the first round game and completely razzled by the driving conditions, I hung a piece on move six or so but decided to play on to about 20 more moves.

Only the diehard chess fanatic would come out in hurricane gust winds and monsoon rain conditions to play in Cherry Hill. New Jersey.

The TD Dan Hermann passed judgement at this Quad when some younger players wanted to switch up in the round << pairings by playing the third round pairings in the second round and vice a versa, rather strange, I might say but I have seen stranger things in my lifetime>>> in the lowest quad , the under 1600. Dan's ruling was the pairings stand as was paired up at the start of the Quad.

My excuse, for driving in windswept rains and playing in this quad was I just got a wild hair up my ass and decided to drive across the Ben Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia towards Cherry Hill in South Jersey, at the last minute. Not a smart thing today with winds knocking down trees and Admiral Wilson Blvd, and Highway 30 East being flooded out and having to back track to Camden and crossing over the Ben Franklin bridge to Philadelphia that way.
Because of this poor judgement in deciding to drive from Philadelphia, Pennsyvania USA to Cherry Hill, New Jersey in this latest Nor'Easter I am placing myself on a chess tournement time out for thirty days.



My second game was with the White pieces and my last round game that I played was with the Black pieces and my opponent decided to play the Caro Kann Exchange. My opponent decided to sacrifice the exchage on move 24, even though I lost that game, I am showing that the sacrifice exchange was unsound and Black can play to a draw.

More detail games of the Caro Kann Exchange can be found at chessgames.com.

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[Event "Cherry Hills Quads"]
[Site "Cherry Hill , New Jersey"]
[Date "2010.3.13"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Robert A. LaC"]
[Black "Diamondback"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteELO "1371"]
[BlackELO "1283"]

%Created by Caissa's Web PGN Editor
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Nf3 Nd7 5. c4 Ngf6 6. cxd5 Nxd5 7. Bc4 e6
8. O-O Be7 9. Re1 O-O 10. Qe2 Re8 11. Bd3 N5f6 12. Nc3 a6 13. Bc2 b5 14. Bg5
Bb7 15. Qd3 Bxf3 16. Bxf6 Nxf6 17. Qxf3 Rc8 18. Rac1 Qxd4 19. Rcd1 Qb6 20.
Qh3 Bb4 21. Re3 Bc5 22. Rf3 Bd4 23. Qh4 Rc4 24. Rxf6 gxf6 25. Qxh7+ Kf8 26.
Rd2 Bxc3 27. bxc3 Rxc3 28. h3 Qc6 1/2-1/2

Some Analysis

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[Event "Cherry Hill Quads"]
[Site "Cherry Hill, New Jersey"]
[Date "2010.3.13"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Diamondback"]
[Black "Robert LaC"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteELO "?"]
[BlackELO "?"]

%Created by Caissa's Web PGN Editor
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Nf3 Nd7 5. c4 Ngf6 6. cxd5 Nxd5 7. Bc4 e6
8. O-O Be7 9. Re1 O-O 10. Qe2 Re8 11. Bd3 N5f6 12. Nc3 a6 13. Bc2 b5 14. Bg5
Bb7 15. Qd3 Bxf3 16. Bxf6 Nxf6 17. Qxf3 Rc8 18. Rac1 Qxd4 19. Rcd1 Qb6 20.
Qh3 Bb4 21. Re3 Bc5 22. Rf3 Bd4 23. Qh4 Rc4 24. Rxf6 Bxf6 25. Qxh7+ Kf8 26.
Rd7 Rh4 27. Qd3 Rd8 28. Nd1 Rxd7 29. Qxd7 Rd4 30. Qc8+ Rd8 31. Qxd8+ Qxd8 32.
Bb3 Qd2 33. g3 Ke7 34. Kg2 Bxb2 35. Nxb2 Qxb2 1-0

Youngest Ever Published Chess Author

14 year old FM Daniel Naroditsky


Here is a link to FM Daniel Naroditsky that samples some of the pages of his first chess book of many to come.

Mastering Positional Chess













John Saunders, British Chess Magazine:
"You would never guess that he was so young when he wrote it as it is imbued with a great deal of understanding of the game and expressed in good, plain English."



Game Collection of FM Daniel Naroditsky



Biography of FM Daniel Naroditsky

Redux: Atomic Patzer Trumps Diamondback

Atomic Patzer AKA Saint Thomas










Diamondback aka Saint George









Here is a first round game between Tom and I at the February 27, 2010 HCC Hamilton Chess Quads at Groveville, New Jersey. Atomic was the top seed rated at 1498 USCF class C in the under 1500 six man swiss Swiss, which was part of the Quad event for that day. Selected games from that HCC six man swiss can be found in my previous post Hamilton Swiss Clear First Winner

I tried for Black's 14th..... Nxe4 sac the exchage but it backfired in an endgame rout.

This first chessflash game shows Fritz 6 analyzing this outcome after blacks14.....
Nxe4



Dmdbck3.pgn





The second chess flash game shows the real game up to Black's 14th move.


Atomic_Patzer-Dmdback2.pgn







The previous post on this game does not include the second chessflash analsysis which is for Black 14......h6. So I decided to repost this battle of the chess bloggers again with both chessflash game analsysis.....diamondback




Atomic Patzer recommends for Black 14.... Re8 to hold the Center, Fritz 6 in Chessbase Light 2009 analyzes from point on, but looks like Black is busted as shown in this Chess Flash game below:


AtmDmd.pgn


Frtiz version 6 analysis after Blacks's move 14.....h6


AtmDmd2.pgn








Saint George

Part Two, USATE 2010 Games

Dragan Milovanovic


This is part two of some master and expert rating level games of the recent United States Amateur Team East in Chess Flash format.



Wright-Milovanovic.pgn




Milovanovic-Fogle.pgn





Milovanovic-Hidalgo.pgn

USATE 2010 Games

Here are a few games from the higher players rated above 2000 USCF. All of the games are unannotated, so if anyone wants to make some comments about the games posted, just leave a comment. Thanks.....diamondback

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[Event "Challenge"]
[Site "Parsippany USA"]
[Date "2010.02.13"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Allen,E"]
[Black "Izoria,A"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteELO "2685"]
[BlackELO "2063"]
[WhiteElo "2174"]
[BlackElo "2146"]
[EventDate "2010.02.13"]
[ECO "B99"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Be7 8.
Qf3 Qc7 9. O-O-O Nbd7 10. Bd3 b5 11. Rhe1 Bb7 12. Qg3 b4 13. Nd5 Bxd5 14.
exd5 Nxd5 15. Bxe7 Nxe7 16. Qxg7 Rg8 17. Qxh7 Nf6 18. Qh4 Nfd5 19. Qf2 Qa5
20. Bc4 Nc3 21. Rd3 d5 22. Bb3 Ne4 23. Qf3 Qc5 24. g3 a5 25. Ba4+ Kd8 26.
Nxe6+ fxe6 27. Qxe4 Ra6 28. Qd4 Qc7 29. Qe5 Rd6 30. Kb1 Kc8 31. c3 Kb8 32.
Rc1 Rc8 33. Rdd1 b3 34. axb3 Ka8 35. Qe2 Rb6 36. c4 1-0

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[Event "Challenge"]
[Site "Parsippany USA"]
[Date "2010.02.13"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Bryant,J"]
[Black "Schmidt,Winsor C"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteELO "2685"]
[BlackELO "2063"]
[WhiteElo "2335"]
[EventDate "2010.02.13"]
[ECO "C41"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Nd7 4. dxe5 dxe5 5. Bc4 h6 6. Bxf7+ Kxf7 7. Nxe5+
Kf6 8. Qd4 c5 9. Nxd7+ Kg6 10. Ne5+ 1-0

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[Event "Challenge"]
[Site "Parsippany USA"]
[Date "2010.02.13"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Kernighan,Mark"]
[Black "Manukyan,Artak"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteELO "2685"]
[BlackELO "2063"]
[EventDate "2010.02.13"]
[ECO "D79"]

1. d4 c5 2. c3 cxd4 3. cxd4 Nf6 4. Nc3 g6 5. Nf3 d5 6. g3 Bg7 7. Bg2 O-O 8.
O-O Nc6 9. Bf4 Bf5 10. Ne5 Ne4 11. Qa4 Nxe5 12. Bxe5 Nxc3 13. bxc3 Bxe5 14.
dxe5 Be6 15. e4 dxe4 16. Qxe4 Rb8 17. Qe3 b6 18. Rfd1 Qc7 19. Bd5 Bxd5 20.
Rxd5 Rbc8 21. Rd4 Qxc3 22. Qxc3 Rxc3 23. Rd7 Rfc8 24. Rxa7 e6 25. Rb1 Rc1+
26. Rxc1 Rxc1+ 27. Kg2 g5 28. a4 Kg7 29. a5 bxa5 30. Rxa5 Kg6 31. g4 h5 32.
h3 Rc4 33. Kg3 Re4 34. Kf3 Re1 35. Kg2 Rd1 36. Rb5 hxg4 37. hxg4 Rd5 38. Rb7
Rxe5 39. Kg3 Rc5 40. Rb3 Kf6 41. f4 gxf4+ 42. Kxf4 e5+ 43. Kg3 Rc4 44. Rf3+
Ke6 45. Rf5 Rc3+ 46. Kf2 Rc8 47. Kg3 Rg8 48. Rf1 f6 49. Kh4 Kf7 50. Ra1 Rh8+
51. Kg3 Kg6 52. Ra3 Rh1 53. Ra8 Rg1+ 54. Kf3 Rf1+ 55. Kg3 Rd1 56. Rg8+ Kf7
57. Ra8 Rd4 58. Ra3 Ke6 59. Ra6+ Rd6 60. Ra5 Rd3+ 61. Kh4 Rd1 62. Kg3 Rf1 63.
Rb5 Rf4 64. Ra5 Rd4 65. Ra3 Kf7 66. Rb3 Kg6 67. Rb7 Rd1 68. Ra7 Rg1+ 69. Kf3
Rh1 70. Kg3 Rh7 71. Ra1 Rd7 72. Ra3 Kg5 73. Rf3 Rd4 74. Rf5+ Kg6 75. Rf3 Rd1
76. Rf5 Rd3+ 77. Kg2 Rd6 78. Kg3 Re6 79. Rf1 Rc6 80. Rf3 Rc1 81. Rf5 Rg1+ 82.
Kh4 Kf7 83. Rf2 Ke6 84. Re2 Rf1 85. Rd2 e4 86. Ra2 Ke5 87. Kg3 Rf3+ 88. Kh4
Kf4 89. Ra6 Ke3 90. Ra3+ Ke2 91. Ra2+ Kf1 92. Ra1+ Kg2 93. Re1 Rh3+ 0-1