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Greetings,

Tonight is the beginning of the Colorado Spring Chess Club’s May Swiss 90 (4SS, G/90+30, $10 entry)! Games start at 7pm.

This week’s newsletter covers the Cabin Fever Reliever and the Colorado Closed.

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Congratulations to NM Lior Lapid! He won the Colorado Closed by a half point in the toughest field of the Closed history.

The Cabin Fever Reliever has been rated:

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This week’s position is the Jeff Gillooly of chess positions (see newsletter). It is black to move.

See the diagram and answer here:

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What’s Your Name

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[Event “Cabin Fever Reliever”]

[Site “http://cschess.webs.com/”]

[Date “2018.04.24”]

[Round “3.1”]

[White “Smith, Mike”]

[Black “Buchanan, Richard”]

[Result “0-1”]

[ECO “C44”]

[WhiteElo “1641”]

[BlackElo “2010”]

[PlyCount “70”]

[EventDate “2018.04.17”]

[TimeControl “2700”]

  1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. Bc4 Bc5 5. c3

d3 6. Qxd3 d6 7. b4 Bb6 8. b5 Nce7 9. Bb3 Nf6 10. Bb2 O-O 11. O-O Ng6 12. c4

Nf4 13. Qd2 Ne6 14. Nc3 Nc5 15. Bc2 Be6 16. Qe2 Re8 17. Rad1 Qc8 18. Ng5 Bg4

  1. Nf3 Qe6 20. Rfe1 Ncd7 21. Qd3 Bxf3 22. gxf3 Ne5 23. Qe2 Qh3 24. Rd3 Nxd3

  2. Bxd3 Re5 26. Bc1 Ba5 27. Qe3 Rh5 28. Bb1 Qxh2+ 29. Kf1 Qh1+ 30. Ke2 Qg2 31.

c5 Rxc5 32. Bd2 Re8 33. Rf1 Bxc3 34. Bxc3 Nd5 35. Qd3 Nf4+ 0-1