Puncher's Chance

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Greetings,

Tonight will be the start of the Colorado Springs Chess Club’s Cabin Fever Reliever (4SS, G/45d10, USCF-rated, $10 entry)! It is a 2 week event with 2 games tonight.

This week’s newsletter contains the April Quick Six prizes and final standings along with a Tim Brennan chess tale about the Colorado vs New Mexico match, where he compares himself to Connor McGregor.

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The April Quick Six has been rated:

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This week’s position comes from Tim Brennan’s upset. It is white to move.

See the diagram and answer here:

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Puncher’s Chance

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[Event “NM vs CO”]

[Site “http://cschess.webs.com/”]

[Date “2017.08.26”]

[Round “2.2”]

[White “Brennan, Tim”]

[Black “Bauer, Philip”]

[Result “1-0”]

[ECO “B18”]

[WhiteElo “1821”]

[BlackElo “2102”]

[PlyCount “67”]

[EventDate “2017.08.26”]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. Bc4 e6 7. N1e2 Nf6 8.

O-O Nbd7 9. f4 b5 10. Bb3 a5 11. c3 a4 12. Bc2 Bxc2 13. Qxc2 Bd6 14. f5 e5 15.

Bg5 h6 16. Bh4 Qb6 17. Kh1 exd4 18. Nxd4 O-O 19. Ne4 Nxe4 20. Qxe4 c5 21. Nf3

Rfe8 22. Qg4 Re2 23. f6 Nxf6 24. Bxf6 Bf8 25. Bh4 Rae8 26. Rae1 c4 27. a3 R8e6

28. Nd4 Rxe1 29. Rxe1 Rg6 30. Qc8 Qa6 31. Qxa6 Rxa6 32. Re8 g5 33. Bg3 f6 34.

Re6 1-0

[jwiewel]

Seeing as going down a piece for a pawn is a fairly straightforward loss, black may have had better practical chances eschewing Nxf6 and instead playing the still ugly:
… g5
Qxd7 gxh4
Qg4+ Kf8
Qg7+ Ke8
Rae1 Rxe1
Rxe1+ Kd7
Qxf7+ Kc6
where black is “merely” down a passed pawn on f6 with doubled and vulnerable h pawns and a “somewhat” vulnerable king, but in a more fluid position with the queen’s rook finally getting activated than the prosaic piece for pawn disadvantage that actually occurred. I still strongly prefer the white position but if I found myself in the unfortunate position of playing black I would prefer the pawn-down black position with its complications as opposed to the pawn-vs-piece black position.

[10mostwanted]

@jwiewel

Seeing as going down a piece for a pawn is a fairly straightforward loss, black may have had better practical chances eschewing Nxf6 and instead playing the still ugly:
… g5
Qxd7 gxh4
Qg4+ Kf8
Qg7+ Ke8
Rae1 Rxe1
Rxe1+ Kd7
Qxf7+ Kc6
where black is “merely” down a passed pawn on f6 with doubled and vulnerable h pawns and a “somewhat” vulnerable king, but in a more fluid position with the queen’s rook finally getting activated than the prosaic piece for pawn disadvantage that actually occurred. I still strongly prefer the white position but if I found myself in the unfortunate position of playing black I would prefer the pawn-down black position with its complications as opposed to the pawn-vs-piece black position.

just glanced at it but Nxg5 might be a strong rejoinder to g5.

…scot…

[jwiewel]

@10mostwanted

@jwiewel

Seeing as going down a piece for a pawn is a fairly straightforward loss, black may have had better practical chances eschewing Nxf6 and instead playing the still ugly:
… g5
Qxd7 gxh4
Qg4+ Kf8
Qg7+ Ke8
Rae1 Rxe1
Rxe1+ Kd7
Qxf7+ Kc6
where black is “merely” down a passed pawn on f6 with doubled and vulnerable h pawns and a “somewhat” vulnerable king, but in a more fluid position with the queen’s rook finally getting activated than the prosaic piece for pawn disadvantage that actually occurred. I still strongly prefer the white position but if I found myself in the unfortunate position of playing black I would prefer the pawn-down black position with its complications as opposed to the pawn-vs-piece black position.

just glanced at it but Nxg5 might be a strong rejoinder to g5.

…scot…

Were you looking at
Nxg5 hg
Bxg5 Ne5
Bh6+ Ng6

[Triumph]

@10mostwanted

@jwiewel

Seeing as going down a piece for a pawn is a fairly straightforward loss, black may have had better practical chances eschewing Nxf6 and instead playing the still ugly:
… g5
Qxd7 gxh4
Qg4+ Kf8
Qg7+ Ke8
Rae1 Rxe1
Rxe1+ Kd7
Qxf7+ Kc6
where black is “merely” down a passed pawn on f6 with doubled and vulnerable h pawns and a “somewhat” vulnerable king, but in a more fluid position with the queen’s rook finally getting activated than the prosaic piece for pawn disadvantage that actually occurred. I still strongly prefer the white position but if I found myself in the unfortunate position of playing black I would prefer the pawn-down black position with its complications as opposed to the pawn-vs-piece black position.

just glanced at it but Nxg5 might be a strong rejoinder to g5.

…scot…

24. Bxg5! hxg5 25. Nxg5!! hitting both Rook and Knight and mate threat