Cruz Control

Greetings,

Tonight is round 2 of the Colorado Springs Chess Club’s June Swiss 90 (4SS, G/90+30, $10 entry). Games start around 7 pm. See calendar for details.

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The CSCC offers FREE extra games at the club when players are available. This week’s newsletter covers some of the fun of extra games:

cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/show/ … uz-control

This week’s position comes from one of the extra games played last week. It is black to move.

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[Event “June Swiss 90”]

[Site “http://cschess.webs.com/”]

[Date “2018.06.05”]

[Round “1.12”]

[White “Herman, Shirley”]

[Black “Cruz, Gerardo”]

[Result “0-1”]

[ECO “A53”]

[WhiteElo “1105”]

[BlackElo “1214”]

[PlyCount “88”]

[EventDate “2018.06.05”]

[TimeControl “5400+30”]

  1. d4 d6 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 h6 4. Qb3 Nbd7 5. Bf4

c5 6. Nf3 g5 7. Bg3 cxd4 8. Nxd4 Nc5 9. Qc2 e5 10. Nf3 Bg7 11. Rd1 Be6 12. Nxe5

O-O 13. b4 Na6 14. a3 Qe7 15. Nf3 Rfd8 16. e4 Rac8 17. Nb5 d5 18. Nxa7 Nxb4 19.

axb4 Qxb4+ 20. Qd2 Qxd2+ 21. Rxd2 Ra8 22. Bc7 Nxe4 23. Bxd8 Nxd2 24. Nxd2 Rxd8

  1. Be2 Bc3 26. Nb5 Bb4 27. Bd3 dxc4 28. Nc7 Rxd3 29. Nxe6 fxe6 30. Ke2 Rxd2+

  2. Ke3 c3 32. Ra1 Bc5+ 33. Ke4 c2 34. Rf1 Rd1 35. Ke5 Rxf1 36. h4 gxh4 37. g3

hxg3 38. f4 Rxf4 39. Kxe6 Kh7 40. Ke5 c1=Q 41. Ke6 Qe3+ 42. Kd7 Rd4+ 43. Kc8

Qe7 44. Kb8 Rd8# 0-1