Greetings,
This weekend Damian Nash is holding a Memorial Chess Tournament for Steve Dieckhoff. You can read more about him on the tribute page.
The Colorado Springs Chess Club started its June Swiss 90 tournament on June 6th (4SS, G/90+30,$10 entry). You can view the standings in the newsletter or on the calendar. The calendar is typically updated on Wednesdays.
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This week’s position comes from my list of upsets in 2009. It is black to move.
See the diagram and answer here:
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The Knight
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[Event “Al Ufer Memorial”]
[Site “http://cschess.webs.com/”]
[Date “2009.01.03”]
[Round “4.2”]
[White “Buchanan, Buck”]
[Black “Anderson, Paul”]
[Result “0-1”]
[ECO “A42”]
[WhiteElo “2004”]
[BlackElo “1952”]
[PlyCount “90”]
[EventDate “2008.01.05”]
[TimeControl “3600”]
- d4 c6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nc3 Bg4 6.
Be2 Bxf3 7. Bxf3 Qb6 8. d5 Qb4 9. Qb3 Qxb3 10. axb3 Nd7 11. Be3 Bxc3+ 12. bxc3
c5 13. O-O Ngf6 14. g3 O-O 15. Bg2 Rfb8 16. f4 b5 17. Rfb1 bxc4 18. bxc4 Rxb1+
- Rxb1 Nb6 20. e5 Ng4 21. Bc1 Nxc4 22. h3 Nge3 23. Bf3 Nf5 24. g4 Ng7 25. Rb7
Kf8 26. Rb1 f5 27. Be2 Nb6 28. Bb5 Nxd5 29. Bc6 Nxc3 30. Rb2 Rc8 31. Bd7 Rd8
- e6 Nd5 33. Bd2 Nb6 34. Ba5 Rb8 35. Kf1 fxg4 36. hxg4 h5 37. Kg1 hxg4 38.
Rh2 Nh5 39. f5 Kg7 40. Bc3+ Nf6 41. Bc6 gxf5 42. Rf2 Kg6 43. Ra2 Nbd5 44. Ba1
Rb6 45. Bd7 a6 0-1