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Game Of The Week
This week’s game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club’s event: CSCC Killer Curfew Rapid Online (4SS, G/10+10). It was played by Vedant Margale and Dean Brown. Vedant is ranked at 98 for the Top 100 - Age 10 by USCF. Dean is his top USCF opponent in the past year and fifth all-time.
I had asked for Game Of The Week suggestions during the tournament, and Vedant quickly responded. I think he had an unfair advantage, as most of our older players don’t know how to operate the chat window and may not have seen the request. I decided to get suggestions this week, as my plan to go over all the games in the online event has not panned out.
It is funny that when I have to hand-enter all the score sheets myself, I see all the games. But have the computer do all the work, and I don’t look at any games.
I also liked this game because of how it finished. I was amused by the online computer when it gave me an award for applying checkmate with a Bishop. The award was called Killer Bishop and started my Killer theme.
Well, I got another award this week when I checkmated with a Pawn. I had to pause because I didn’t remember winning that way. As I went over my games, I finally realized that I got the award when I promoted my Pawn to a Queen with checkmate.
Does that count as a Pawn Mate or a Queen Mate?
Here is how Vedant’s suggestion ended. What award would you give him?
White to mate
See the diagram and answer here:
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Killer Pawn
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[Event “CSCC Killer Curfew Rapid Online”]
[Site “https://cschess.webs.com/”]
[Date “2020.06.07”]
[Round “3.5”]
[White “Margale, Vedant”]
[Black “Brown, Dean”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “B23”]
[WhiteElo “1491”]
[BlackElo “1087”]
[PlyCount “53”]
[EventDate “2020.05.10”]
[TimeControl “600+10”]
- e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. d3 Nf6 6. Be2 d6 7. O-O O-O 8. Qe1
Bg4 9. h3 Bxf3 10. Bxf3 Nd4 11. Bd1 e6 12. Ne2 Nd7 13. Nxd4 Bxd4+ 14. Kh1 Qb6
- c3 Bg7 16. Qg3 Qa6 17. Bb3 Nb6 18. f5 d5 19. f6 Bh8 20. Bh6 Rfd8 21. Qg5
dxe4 22. dxe4 Qe2 23. Bxe6 Qxe4 24. Rae1 Qa4 25. Bxf7+ Kxf7 26. Re7+ Kg8 27.
f7# 1-0
This Week In Chess
On June 7th, the Colorado Springs Chess Club held the CSCC Killer Curfew Rapid Online event (4SS, G/10+10).
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Place, Player, Score
1 “#1NMBrianWall (1900)” 4.0
2 “#2cschessnews (1807)” 2.5
3 “#3RayFchess (1579)” 2.5
4 “#4Skadelig (1545)” 2.0
5 “#4linuxguy1 (1538)” 2.0
6 “#4JJ7X (1734)” 2.0
7 “#7msmcgough (1427)” 2.0
8 “#8liencam2 (1223)” 1.0
9 “#8KingVed (1481)” 1.0
10 “#10Navajo36us80917 (1087)” 1.0
11 “#10amauer01 (1025)” 1.0
12 “#12CosmicNovaGalaxy (1298)” 0.0