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Greetings,

This week’s newsletter features NM Imre Barlay, still playing top level chess in his 80s. I finally got a win over him, but I had to barely survive to do it.

Chess Review from 1959:
cschess.webs.com/apps/photos/pho … d=70525646

Imre photo from 1959:
cschess.webs.com/apps/photos/pho … d=70525641

Don’t forget the JUNE MATING GAME (6/12 and 6/19, USCF-rated, 4SS, G/30, only $5 at the club)

Peace be with you,

Paul Anderson

Read The Newsletter!
( cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/show/ … -old-lions )

  1. Game Of The Week: Old Lions
  2. This Week In Chess: Player’s Choice Quad Results
  3. Game Viewer: Paul Anderson v Imre Barlay ( cschess.webs.com/ )

2012 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/)
Kansas Chess Association: KCA (kansaschess.org/)

ps - Newsletter preview with pgn (for board diagram and video see The Newsletter):

This week’s game comes from the Wednesday Night Panera Tournament. I did very well in this event, even achieving my peak rating of 2015. However, the best part of the tournament was getting to play an old rival, Imre Barlay, in the 4th and decisive round. After going 4-0, I was far enough ahead of the pack to lock in first with a bye, and considering my month of May had too many chess activities already, I needed the day off.

I first met Imre in 1998 at the Colorado Springs Chess Club at the beginning of my tournament chess career. He won easily. He was still playing at the master level at that time. We met again in 2004, 2005, and 2006, and he continued to win them all. However, by 2006 our skill levels had grown closer together, and in August, I finally got a draw against him to share 1st place in the Pikes Peak Open (cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/show/ … it-anyway-). In 2007, I was able to draw him again, this time in the Colorado Springs City Championship. But the victory still eluded me.

Imre has been playing top level chess longer than I have been alive, and I am no young pup to begin with. He appeared in Chess Review in 1959 for winning the CA Intercollegiate Championship, which recounted his narrow escape from the Soviets while fleeing from Hungary (cschess.webs.com/apps/photos/pho … d=70525646). He would make a great poster child for the idea of chess keeping your mind sharp in your declining years. He is still in the 90th percentile of chess players into his 80s. He is older than when my grandfather died of Alzheimer’s and still punishing us whippersnappers over the board…

[Event “May Panera Wednesday”]

[Site “http://cschess.webs.com/”]

[Date “2012.05.23”]

[Round “4.1”]

[White “Anderson, Paul”]

[Black “Barlay, Imre”]

[Result “1-0”]

[ECO “A17”]

[PlyCount “115”]

[EventDate “2012.05.02”]

[TimeControl “5400”]

  1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. b3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bb2

Bd6 6. Nf3 O-O 7. g3 c6 8. Bg2 Qe7 9. O-O Ba3 10. Bxa3 Qxa3 11. Qc1 Qe7 12. e3

Bf5 13. d4 Nbd7 14. Nh4 Be6 15. f4 Nb6 16. Nf3 Nfd7 17. a4 a5 18. Qa3 Rfe8 19.

Qxe7 Rxe7 20. Kf2 f6 21. Rfe1 Bf7 22. Nh4 g6 23. Bh3 Rae8 24. Rab1 Nb8 25. Bf1

Nc8 26. b4 axb4 27. Rxb4 Nd6 28. Bd3 Nd7 29. Nf3 c5 30. Rbb1 Ne4+ 31. Bxe4 dxe4

  1. Ng1 cxd4 33. exd4 e3+ 34. Kg2 Nb8 35. Nge2 Rd8 36. Red1 g5 37. Kf3 h5 38.

Rb6 g4+ 39. Kg2 Kg7 40. Kf1 Bc4 41. Ke1 Nc6 42. d5 Na5 43. Nd4 Kf7 44. Ne6 Rc8

  1. Ne4 Rd7 46. Nd6+ Rxd6 47. Rxd6 Nb3 48. Rd7+ Kg6 49. Rc7 Nd2 50. Rxd2 exd2+

  2. Kxd2 Rxc7 52. Nxc7 Kf7 53. Kc3 Ba2 54. Kd4 Ke7 55. Kc5 Kd7 56. a5 Bb1 57.

Nb5 Be4 58. Nd6 1-0