Greetings,
Tonight is Speed chess at the Colorado Springs Chess Club! It is FREE, unrated, and good practice for the Colorado Springs City Speed Championship (G/5;d/0,RR, $10, 1st week: 1 Qualifier section; 2nd week: Championship section and Consolation section, unrated, prizes) on June 23rd and 30th. Winner goes down in history on the club’s plaque!
Colorado Springs City Champions
The CSCC May Swiss 90 has been rated:
uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?201505270282
The North Gate Chess Wednesday event has been rated:
uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?201505270672
The North Gate Chess Thursday event has been rated:
uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?201505281032
The North Gate Chess Weekend event has been rated (as I am sure new expert Larry Wutt was happy to see):
uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?201505239112
Also, I received this reminder about the Denver Open:
The events shown below are ones that have been or will be advertised in Chess Life or Chess Life for Kids:
Date Event Location TLA in Affiliate
2015-06-13 The Denver Open Denver CO 2015-06 CL A5016762
This week’s position comes from my list of upsets. It is evidence that you don’t have to play well to get an upset. The game is so bad that I thought the score sheet must have been wrong. It is white to move (and I missed it).
See the diagram and answer here:
cschess.webs.com/apps/photos/pho … =198685993
Read The Newsletter!
cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/show/ … verload-iv
- Game Of The Week: O Is For Overload IV
- This Week In Chess: May Swiss 90 results and prizes
2015 Calendar Of Events for the Colorado Springs Chess Club:
cschess.webs.com/apps/calendar/
For additional events, see the following websites:
Denver Chess Club: DCC (denverchess.com)
Colorado State Chess Association: CSCA (colorado-chess.com/)
Wyoming Chess Association: WCA (wyomingchess.com/)
O Is For Overload IV
chessvideos.tv/chess-game-re … ?id=102022
[Event “March Quad”]
[Site “http://cschess.webs.com/”]
[Date “2002.03.12”]
[Round “1.3”]
[White “Anderson, Paul”]
[Black “Fox, Jeff”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “A42”]
[WhiteElo “1695”]
[BlackElo “1706”]
[PlyCount “65”]
[EventDate “2002.03.12”]
[TimeControl “1800”]
- c4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nf3 d6 4. Nc3 c6 5. e4 Nd7 6. Be2 a6 7.
O-O b5 8. a3 Qc7 9. Be3 Ngf6 10. Rc1 Qa5 11. cxb5 axb5 12. Qd2 O-O 13. h3 Rd8 - Kh2 e5 15. d5 cxd5 16. Nxd5 Nxe4 17. Qxa5 Rxa5 18. Nc7 Ra8 19. Bxb5 Bb7 20.
Bc6 Bxc6 21. Rxc6 d5 22. b4 Rxa3 23. Nxd5 Nb8 24. Ne7+ Kf8 25. Rc7 Ra6 26. b5
Re6 27. Nc6 Nxc6 28. bxc6 Re7 29. Rxe7 Kxe7 30. Bb6 Rc8 31. c7 Bf6 32. Re1 Nxf2 - Bxf2 1-0