More 2009 LIberty Bell Chess Tournament Pictures By Kevin C

Here are three more photo's that Kevin C emailed me recently that I specifically asked for so that I could post them on my Chess Blog.

Participaton at the 2009 Liberty Bell Chess Tournament was slightly larger that last year which allow the prize fund for each section to be increased by 23 % or so per the Tournament Directors.

The only downside of winning is that if you are in a three or fourway tie for first or second place the prize fund is split that many ways, which is only fair to all for those who win, place or show in their individula sections. It is very difficult for clear first winners.

In some of the higher rated sections six points was clear first and second place one needed at least 5 and half points from playing seven rounds of tournament chess, not an easy task. Those who scored five points or less were out of luck for winning any part of the prize fund.

Lesson learned, play to win all your games in any of these Swiss Tournaments, don't acccept any draw offer unless you are in a losing position or your position is completely lost.

2009 Liberty Bell Chess Tournament Pictures Taken By Kevin E Chen

Here are some pictures taken by Kevin E Chen during the 2009 LIberty Bell Chess Tournament by Keven E Chen.

Kevin was kind enough to email me these pictures so I could post them on my chess blog. Thank You Kevin ! Just a side note, Kevin also played in the Liberty Bell Chess Tournament and he also has his own team for the upcoming Amateur Team East Chess Tournament that takes place in February. Info is listed below for that event.

February 14-16, 2009

39th Annual - Celebrate the 60’s! 6SS, 40/2, SD/1.
Parsippany Hilton, 1 Hilton Ct., Parsippany,N.J. 07054. Chess Rate valid until 1/16. Reserve early 973-267-7373 or 1- 800-HILTONS. Morris/Essex train to Morris Plains 1.5 miles.

Open to 4- player teams with one optional alternate.

Forced Mate Wins At 2009 Liberty Bell Tournament

In this round five game my opponent focused on White's queenside only to be shut down by my knight on C5. And eventually I cramped Black's pieces on the seventh rank and neutralized their scope and activity.

Having secured the Queenside, by White's 20th move Rc1 and White's 21st move Nc5,I preceded to pawnstorm Black's castled king on the kindside.

Seeing that forced mate or the loss of material on the seventh rank, my opponent resigned.

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[Event "Liberty Bell January 2009"]
[Site "Philadelphia, PA"]
[Date "2009.1.18"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Diamondback"]
[Black "Ms. Patel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteELO "1263"]
[BlackELO "1268"]

%Created by Caissa's Web PGN Editor
1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nc6 3. Bg5 Nf6 4. Bxf6 exf6 5. e3 Be6 6. a3 a6 7. Be2 Be7 8.
Nbd2 Qd7 9. c4 dxc4 10. Nxc4 b5 11. Ncd2 Bg4 12. b4 O-O 13. O-O Rfb8 14. Nb3
Be6 15. Nfd2 a5 16. Nc5 Bxc5 17. bxc5 Ne7 18. Ne4 Nd5 19. c6 Qxc6 20. Rc1 Qd7
21. Nc5 Qd8 22. Qd2 Ne7 23. e4 c6 24. f4 Qc7 25. f5 Bd7 26. Bf3 Be8 27. Nd3
Qb6 28. Nc5 Rd8 29. Qf2 Rd6 30. e5 fxe5 31. dxe5 Rdd8 32. f6 Ng6 33. Be4 Bd7
34. fxg7 Kxg7 35. Qxf7+ Kh8 36. Qf6+ Kg8 37. Bxg6 hxg6 38. Qxg6+ Kh8 39. Rf7
1-0

Below is the Chess Flash game with some light annotations from Fritz 8 and an older version of Fritz 4.




Take Note: White's 29th move is Queen to F2 !! Not Q-f4 as in the Chess Flash diagram below.......diamondback

Patel5.pgn

Chess Swindle At 2009 Liberty Bell Chess Tournament

Complete Results For Liberty Bell 2009 Chess Life MSA


The first chess flash diagram below, is my last round game at the Liberty Bell Tournament sponsor by the Continental Chess Association.

The second Chess Flash diagram is an Endgame analysis if Black did not blunder by taking the B pawn. But White pushes thru and queens anyway.


Diamondback-Vijay.pgn



Endgame Analysis if Black does not take white's B pawn.

Vijay333.PGN



Entering this last round I had four and a half points (4.5 pts). This was a must win game for the seond through fourth place prize money. I got lucky with a lot of help from my opponent

My opponent was Vijay , a 10 year kid , who played tenaciously for a draw as Black througout the game. My opponent decided to break thru the center in the middle game and put pressure on the G files with his rook towards my King.

I controlled the C file with both rooks and counter played on the queenside. After the center was completely gone, my opponent decided to King walk and chased down my King side pawns which was not good strategy on his part because I locked up his King on the H file. Using my King , I was basically a piece up and took after his queenside pawns with my Rook and King.

At this point the game was a dead draw , so I decided to swindle my opponent by setting him up to take my B pawn with his rook , which if he does take the B pawn he would lose his rook by my King moving and attacking it and in the process releasing a deadly discover check on his king from my rook on the same rank.

Some would say this was a blunder on Black's part but I believe it was a swindle because I moved my rook up next to him trying to entice my opponent to exchange which would have been unbenificial for him, so he did the next best thing by taking what he thought would be a free pawn.

Just a few notes , the Liberty Bell tournament took place at the Sheraton at 17th and race streets in Philadelphia, PA

The overall turnout at the Liberty Bell was larger than usual, 445 players in eight sections compared to 374 in 2008 and 330 in 2007.