Sex Change Capital Of Chess

All Things Chess
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Greetings,

I got some feedback from the marketing guru, Tim Brennan, that my use of the letters “sex” in the word sexcenchessial lit up his twitter account like a pinball machine. So, I figured I would keep the trend going and help Tim pass up Charlie Sheen in followers.

Also, on a more serious note, Jerry Maier sent out a reminder that today is the last day to get a discount on the entry fee for the Colorado Class Tournament in a week.

Peace be with you,

Paul Anderson

The Newsletter
( cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/show/ … l-of-chess )

  1. Game Of The Week: Sex Change Capital Of Chess
  2. This Week In Chess: Club Swiss results
  3. Game Viewer: James Powers v Alex Freeman ( cschess.webs.com/ )
  4. Colorado Class Tournament, March 31-April 1, 2012 By Jerry Maier
  5. Video: youtube.com/watch?v=9wn_DdXWbfI

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 Alex Freeman. He is an active, Colorado Springs chess player who served as a monk with me at the Renaissance Festival. He gave me a game last year (cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/show/ … -a-number-), which I combined with the opening line from the British TV show, The Prisoner: I am not a number; I am a free man!

Alex and I have been hanging out with a couple of Masters, LM Brian Wall and NM Josh Bloomer, after the Thursday Panera tournament. They trounce us in blitz and go over our games, laughing at all our mistakes.

One of the funnier games we looked at was Alex’s win over James Powers in the Wild Boar #10 tournament in Fort Collins. Alex was already lost after 7 moves into his opening but came back to win because James had forgotten that the King and Queen had changed places.

We couldn’t help thinking that this game was strangely appropriate to be played in Colorado. Trinidad, Colorado is the home of the sex change capital of the US. So, now we have the sex change capital of chess in Fort Collins.

In this position, Bb5 with check against the King would still be a fairly even game. However, with the switch in place, it just loses and is quite shocking when you realize that everything you have assumed is totally wrong…

[Event “Wild Boar #10”]
[Site “http://cschess.webs.com/”]
[Site “Fort Collins”]
[Date “2012.03.03”]
[Round “3”]
[White “Powers, James”]
[Black “Freeman, Alexander”]
[Result “0-1”]
[ECO “A80”]
[WhiteElo “1776”]
[BlackElo “1718”]
[PlyCount “69”]
[EventDate “2012.03.03”]
[TimeControl “3600”]

  1. d4 f5 2. Nc3 e6 3. e4 fxe4 4. Nxe4 Be7 5. Bd3 Nf6 6. Nxf6+
    Bxf6 7. Qh5+ Ke7 8. Nf3 Qe8 9. Qc5+ Kd8 10. Bf4 d6 11. Qa5 Nc6 12. Qc3 Nxd4 13.
    Nxd4 e5 14. Bb5 exd4+ 15. Bxe8 Rxe8+ 16. Qe3 dxe3 17. Bxe3 Bf5 18. c3 Bg5 19.
    O-O Bxe3 20. fxe3 Bg6 21. Rae1 Kd7 22. e4 Rf8 23. Rf3 Rxf3 24. gxf3 Rf8 25. Kf2
    Bh5 26. Re3 g5 27. Kg3 Bf7 28. Kg4 h6 29. b3 Ke6 30. Rd3 Ke5 31. c4 Bg6 32.
    Rd5+ Ke6 33. c5 Rf4+ 34. Kg3 Bh5 35. cxd6 0-1
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[quote=“Triumph”]
Greetings,

I got some feedback from the marketing guru, Tim Brennan, that my use of the letters “sex” in the word sexcenchessial lit up his twitter account like a pinball machine. So, I figured I would keep the trend going and help Tim pass up Charlie Sheen in followers.

I once was blocked at the office (on my lunch hour, of course) from accessing a chess book site because the token “sex” was found at that site.

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I wouldn’t be surprised if that February Chess Life article blocked a lot of users!