Greetings,
Happy Birthday to LM Brian Wall, the 2018 Colorado State Senior-Citizen Chess Champion! Enjoy your year supply of prunes.
The Colorado Springs Chess Club will celebrate Brian’s birthday by holding round 4 of the March Swiss 90 (4SS, G/90+30) this Tuesday. See calendar for details and results:
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This week’s position comes from the round 3 Game Of The Week in the March Swiss 90. It is white to move:
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[Event “March Swiss 90”]
[Site “http://cschess.webs.com/”]
[Date “2018.03.20”]
[Round “3.6”]
[White “Smith, Mike”]
[Black “Eads, Clint”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “B07”]
[WhiteElo “1644”]
[BlackElo “1250”]
[PlyCount “103”]
[EventDate “2018.03.06”]
[TimeControl “5400+30”]
- e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 e5 4. dxe5 dxe5 5.
Qxd8+ Kxd8 6. Bg5 Ke8 7. Nf3 Bd6 8. O-O-O Be6 9. Bb5+ Nc6 10. Bxf6 gxf6 11. Nd5
Bxd5 12. exd5 a6 13. Bxc6+ bxc6 14. dxc6 Ke7 15. Rhe1 Rhg8 16. g3 Rab8 17. Rd3
Rb6 18. Nd4 Kf8 19. Nf5 Rxc6 20. Red1 Rg5 21. Nxd6 cxd6 22. Rxd6 Rxd6 23. Rxd6
a5 24. Rxf6 Kg7 25. Rf3 e4 26. Rf4 Re5 27. Kd2 Rb5 28. b3 a4 29. Rxe4 axb3 30.
cxb3 Rd5+ 31. Kc3 Rd1 32. a4 Rf1 33. Rf4 Rc1+ 34. Kb4 Rh1 35. h4 Re1 36. a5 Re5
- a6 Re8 38. Ka4 Re6 39. Kb5 Re5+ 40. Kb6 Re6+ 41. Kb7 Re7+ 42. Kc8 Re8+ 43.
Kd7 Ra8 44. Ra4 Ra7+ 45. Kc6 Re7 46. a7 Re6+ 47. Kd5 h5 48. a8=Q Rg6 49. Rf4
Re6 50. Qb7 Rg6 51. Rxf7+ Kh6 52. Rh7# 1-0