Colorado Springs Chess News

Wind Of Change

Tuesday February 27, 2007

“The world is closing in. Did you ever think that we could be so close, like brothers? The future is in the air, can feel it everywhere and blowing with the wind of change…” (K. Meine)

Game Of The Week

This week is the second time my Yahoo! Group got to vote on the game of the week. And for the second time, the poll ended in a tie. This time I did publish the games so the voters could make a more informed choice, and this time Randy did vote.  Alas, it was to no avail as none of my games from this weekend’...

Game Of The Week

This week’s game comes from Tim Fisher, who is not to be confused with another Fischer, a different chess player with a different spelling.

Tim, not Bobby, sent me his Fisher-King game, which is not to be confused with the Fisher King character from the King Arthur legends as neithe...

Game Of The Week

This week’s game comes from this week’s club event at the Colorado Springs Chess Club. NM Josh Bloomer was caught playing too deliberate in his first round game against Josh Divine and misplayed his endgame in the time pressure giving the divine Josh the only upset of the night.

Game Of The Week

I played in the chess club match this past Saturday. I haven’t played in a team event since my college days. In college, I played football and tennis.

Football is very different as a team sport when compared to tennis and chess. Football require...

Game Of The Week

Last week’s game was my loss to Markus Petters in the Mountain States Chess Club Match. I had given the Yahoo! Group the choice of which game from the match they wanted published. I think the Ft. Collins representatives all voted for that game, as it was one of their only two wins that day.

Game Of The Week

With two people making requests for the Game Of The Week, someone wasn’t going to get their request honored. But how to make the choice?

Martin did ask first and who wouldn’t want to see a game by an Anderson. On the other hand, Tim’s game is timelier as it comes from ...

Game Of The Week

This week’s game came to me at the beginning of the season. Back then, my stockpile consisted of several games that related to some theme weeks I had started as a result of having too many submissions for a couple of Game Of The Week ideas:  Al Ufer and Father’s Day.

The rest of the s...

Game Of The Week

This week’s game comes from a couple of staples of the CSCC, Jerry Maier and Tom Mullikin. They both seem to prefer a long, slow game (G90) to whatever the club event is that week. Often, they are the only G90 that week, and every time Dean announces their pairing, he says, “In the game 90, it’s Tom “the cat” Mullikin versus...

Game Of The Week

Today is my son’s birthday. I decided to publish his first chess victory over his Dad as part of his birthday celebration. Of course, we are going to be very busy today so I can’t give you much background on the game, as it is a long story.

I will just say that after 46 losses to me, he wa...

Game Of The Week

This week’s game comes from my first weekend chess tournament. It was the first time I played with a slow time control (any time control that allows a certain number of moves in a specific amount of time then has additional time for the rest of the game). It was also my biggest upset in a slow game. I haven’t done better since....

Game Of The Week

This week’s game comes from Chessbase. It is one of my three games that have made it into the greatest collection of the world’s finest chess games. I wrote about the database in a past newsletter, but the game I published that week was a draw. This time I am publishing my only win in Chessbase. The third game of mine in the database is a los...

Game Of The Week

If you don’t belong to the CSCN Yahoo! Group, you will have to read the rest of this to understand the following two articles. Then they might make a little more sense…maybe.

The controversy started as the team event was winding down. Of course, it is important to note that ...

Game Of The Week

This week’s game comes from the club event. After the controversy from last week, I don’t think either my opponent or myself were eager to play each other this week. But in a round robin tournament, there is little hope that you won’t be paired together.

Now we had to ...

Game Of The Week

This week’s game comes from the club’s Swiss tournament played this past Tuesday. I was paired against Dean Brown in the first round. Dean was happy to play me as he just rocketed his way into the 4th spot on my chess enemies list at the beginning of this year.

At the end of...

Game Of The Week

This weekend I played in the Southern Colorado Open, and it could just be my worst tournament ever. I finished with more points from byes than from actual victories.

It all started after I beat Anthea Carson NN in the first round. I moved up to the first board and had nowhere to go bu...

Game Of The Week

The past couple of years, I have published a loss of mine to my Dad as part of my Father’s Day celebration. The first year, I chose the game, and he didn’t like the choice very well. So, I asked him how he got better and to choose his favorite game.

He chose two games. I published one of t...

Game Of The Week

This week’s game comes from the June Mating Game tournament. It was the biggest upset of the tournament and a bigger upset than anything I have ever achieved.

A couple weeks ago, I published Tom Mullikin’s 662-point upset and there was some debate about whether this win would...

Game Of The Week

The nice thing about the thematic tournaments is that you often get to play an opening that is unfamiliar to you. I have played in 574 club-rated games to date with a winning percentage of 67.51%. I have played in 424 USCF-rated games to date with a winning percentage of 60.14%. I have also played in countless non-rated games at the club, ...

Game Of The Week

It is two years ago today since Allan Ufer passed away. I still have games people sent me back in 2005 to remember him. So, I decided to keep publishing them until I run out of games. But I wasn’t sure which one to choose. I thought I would turn the responsibility over to Dean Brown, the tournament director of the Al Ufer Memorial.