Colorado Springs Chess News

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado Closed Challenger.  It is now the third episode in my Challenger Trilogy:

• Episode One:  I'm Gonna Play Like I'm 1999 (http://cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/show/25854707-i-m-gonna-play-like-i-m-1999)
• Episode Two:  The Thrill Of Chess Victory (http://cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/entries/show/26033460-the-thrill-of-chess-victory)

I wasn't planning on writing about this event so much, but the fates have conspired against me.  My one loss in the event was to Chris Peterson.  The one person in the event who publishes his games is Chris Peterson.  I used to like Chris Peterson.  Now I think of him like the '85 Dolphins, as he ruined my undefeated tournament.

Chris Peterson was in my head from the second I sat down at the board, as he promised to publish my loss on his Youtube channel (www.youtube.com/user/sagacious00004).  I was over-thinking every move and wasting tons of time on phantoms.  When I decided to speed things up a bit, I came up with this atrocious idea.

The White Knight attacks the Rook and defends the Pawn.  How could it be wrong?  See if you have the same keen discernment as Chris did by finding the best move.

You can click through the chess viewer to see Chris' response and quick finish to this game.  Or you can listen to Chris in his own words from his Youtube channel:

Here is a special edition of my chess analysis. I wanted to get the video up so it can coincide with Paul Anderson's Colorado Springs newsletter (in case he wrote one about this game). This game is an interesting Dutch-Peruvian Gambit which is a dynamic, albeit poor, defense to the Queen's Gambit Declined.

This game is from Round 3 of the 2013 Colorado Closed --

Payback Is Sagacious

http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game-replayer.php?id=79553

[Event "Colorado Closed Challenger"]

[Site "http://cschess.webs.com/"]

[Date "2013.04.20"]

[Round "3.2"]

[White "Anderson, Paul"]

[Black "Peterson, Chris"]

[Result "0-1"]

[ECO "D50"]

[WhiteElo "1999"]

[BlackElo "2120"]

[PlyCount "44"]

[EventDate "2013.04.19"]

[TimeControl "5400+30"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c5 4. cxd5 Nf6 5. Bg5

cxd4 6. Qxd4 Be7 7. Nf3 h6 8. Bf4 exd5 9. Bxb8 Rxb8 10. Qxa7 Bg4 11. Nd4 O-O

12. e3 Ne4 13. Qa4 Ra8 14. Qb3 Nxc3 15. bxc3 Ra3 16. Qb2 Qa5 17. Nb5 Bf6 18. f3

Rxc3 19. Qd2 Rxe3+ 20. Be2 Rxe2+ 21. Kxe2 Qxb5+ 22. Qd3 Re8+ 0-1

This Week In Chess

On April 30th, the Colorado Springs Chess Club held a players' choice night.  Most players were USCF-rated and wanted some free rating points.  So, the club hosted an USCF-rated, Swiss tournament (3SS, G30).  Isaac Martinez went unbeaten to claim the 1st place tour points.  Here are the results:

Score, Player:

Swiss Results (3SS, G30):

3.0 Isaac Martinez

2.5 Paul Anderson

1.5 Mark McGough

1.0 Buck Buchanan

0.0 Alex Torres

0.0 Tom Richardson

Tuesday Night Chess Tour Cumulative and 2nd Quarter Standings

Current Standings (rank, name, total, quarter):

1    Paul Anderson    39.50    14.50

2    Mark McGough    17.75    5.75

3    Isaac Martinez    17.00    12.00

4    Mike Madsen    14.50    7.00

5    Koji DelConte    13.50    7.00

6    Tim Brennan    12.00    0.00

7    Alex Torres    12.00    4.00

8    Josh Bloomer    10.50    8.00

9    Peter Grigg    10.00    7.00

10    Dean Brown    9.00    2.00

11    Jeff Fox    6.25    1.75

12    Alex Freeman    5.00    0.00

13    Daniel Herman    5.00    1.00

14    Sara Herman    5.00    1.00

15    Josh Divine    4.25    4.25

16    Brian Rountree    4.00    0.00

17    Eugin Pahk    3.00    0.00

18    Shirley Herman    3.00    1.00

19    Joe Polanco    3.00    3.00

20    Richard Buchanan    2.75    2.75

21    Anthea Carson    2.00    0.00

22    Mike Wanek    2.00    0.00

23    James Powers    2.00    0.00

24    Wes Smith    2.00    1.00

25    Tom Richardson    2.00    2.00

26    Rebecca Herman    1.50    0.00

27    Joe Pahk    1.50    0.00

28    Mike Toth    1.00    0.00

29    Buddy Diamond    1.00    0.00

30    Kathy Schneider    1.00    0.00

31    Curits Holsinger    1.00    1.00

    MAX POSSIBLE    48.00    20.00