Greetings,
This week marks my 600th game! I wrote about it in this week’s newsletter including a long list of my opponents from my last 100 games.
Also, I included the Chess Is The Word video with Bill Murray’s compact music player from the 70’s.
Peace be with you,
Paul Anderson
The Newsletter
( cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/show/ … enchessial )
- Game Of The Week: The Sexcenchessial
- This Week In Chess
- Colorado Springs Open Crosstable
- Game Viewer: Paul Anderson v Rian McEnany ( cschess.webs.com/ )
- Video: youtube.com/watch?v=rVHpRZtGyrE
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 March Quad. I was 3 games away from my 600th over-the-board, USCF-rated game, and the final round of the Quad was going to be the one that hit the milestone.
I was having a hard time adjusting from G90 to G30, and this game was no different. I kept getting good positions from my openings. However, I was having a hard time finding the best plan to finish off my games, often losing all my advantage. In this position, white has the choice of saving his rook or taking the black rook. I found the best move but played a weaker continuation. Sometimes it is better to go with a worse line you understand than to spend all your time trying to find all the best moves.
When I hit 500 games in 2009, I finally broke the expert level and set my peak rating (2003). I was so thrilled to have crossed that barrier that I took a break to lock in a published rating and get my 1800 floor. I celebrated the occasion by coining a new chess term for playing 500 games: The Quincenchessial (cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/show/ … enchessial)
However, I quickly dropped a ton of rating points and have spent the past 3 years and 100 games trying to get back to expert. Now that I am at the next milestone, The Sexcenchessial, I wanted to look back and see how the past 100 games went for me.
[Event “March Quad”]
[Site “http://cschess.webs.com/”]
[Date “2012.03.13”]
[Round “3.3”]
[White “Anderson, Paul”]
[Black “McEnany, Rian”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “A41”]
[PlyCount “79”]
[EventDate “2012.03.13”]
[TimeControl “1800”]
- d4 d6 2. c4 f6 3. e4 e5 4. d5 b6 5. Bd3 c5 6. Nc3 Na6 7.
Nge2 Nb4 8. O-O Nxd3 9. Qxd3 Qd7 10. f4 Be7 11. Qg3 g6 12. Be3 Ba6 13. b3 O-O-O - a4 f5 15. fxe5 dxe5 16. exf5 gxf5 17. Qxe5 Nf6 18. Bf4 Kb7 19. Rad1 Qd6 20.
Qxf5 Qd7 21. Qd3 Bd6 22. Ne4 Nxe4 23. Qxe4 Rde8 24. Qf3 Rhf8 25. g3 Bxf4 26.
Nxf4 Qg7 27. d6+ Kb8 28. d7 Rd8 29. Ne6 Rxf3 30. Nxg7 Rxf1+ 31. Kxf1 Bb7 32.
Ne6 Bf3 33. Nxd8 Bxd1 34. Nc6+ Kc7 35. d8=Q+ Kxc6 36. Qxd1 Kb7 37. Qd7+ Ka6 38.
Ke2 h6 39. Kd3 Ka5 40. Qb5# 1-0