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Vinny's Chess Adventures: January 2008
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The meanderings of an active tournament player and volunteer high school coach. Monday, January 28, 2008. 2008 MSL Tournament (1):Prospect goes 2-2. Prospects lower boards played very well with Dhruvin Talati and Max Zwolenik finishing 4-0 and Mike Zwolenik and Parth Patel finishing 3-1. The complete results can be seen at the ICCA Website. Monday, January 7, 2008. Tim Just Winter Open: "Guile and Treachery". Highest rated nine-year-old in the country, Alexander Velikanov. Year-old, the 38 th. Outplayed ...
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Vinny's Chess Adventures: Tim Just Winter Open: "Guile and Treachery"
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The meanderings of an active tournament player and volunteer high school coach. Monday, January 7, 2008. Tim Just Winter Open: "Guile and Treachery". At last year's edition of the this event, I managed escape a losing position by bamboozling the 2 nd. Highest rated nine-year-old in the country, Alexander Velikanov. When he was in time trouble. This left Zhe. Highest ten-year-old. However, I still managed a respectable 3.5-1.5 score by drawing the 39 th. Fifteen-year-old and beating the 18 th. I finally f...
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Vinny's Chess Adventures: 2008 State: Dimopoulos v. Strunk
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The meanderings of an active tournament player and volunteer high school coach. Sunday, February 10, 2008. 2008 State: Dimopoulos v. Strunk. Both sides overlooked some tactical points that would have been very hard to find in a sixty minute time control without investing a good deal of one's clock, but Peter kept the pressure on and found the very pretty move 22.Nh8! To win the exchange. Two interesting points occurred in the ending where Peter made himself sweat more than he had to. In both cases,.
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Vinny's Chess Adventures: 2008 State: Whining Coaches*
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The meanderings of an active tournament player and volunteer high school coach. Sunday, February 10, 2008. 2008 State: Whining Coaches*. The biggest hindrance to preparing for specific opponents is lack of time. Other than the first and fifth rounds, players do not know who they are going to play until minutes before the round begins. There is no time to prepare for an opponent even if there were much benefit to doing so. The Road to Chess Improvement. In sum, I hate it when coaches whine about pairings,...
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Vinny's Chess Adventures: May 2007
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The meanderings of an active tournament player and volunteer high school coach. Thursday, May 31, 2007. Chicago Open (5) - Happy to Draw. The game that I am most pleased with is the draw I achieved from the following position in the last round. I tend to think that the superior position of the Black king and rook offer my opponent winning chances, but I am not really sure. I suspect that I am going to learn a lot about rook endings by analyzing the game. White (Me) to move. Wednesday, May 30, 2007. My lu...
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Vinny's Chess Adventures: July 2007
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The meanderings of an active tournament player and volunteer high school coach. Monday, July 30, 2007. Wednesday, July 25, 2007. Summer Chess: Library Simul. Given his inactivity, I did not figure that playing against him in a simul would be all that interesting, but I went over to the library anyway figuring it might provide a recruiting opportunity for the Prospect chess team. Of course, once I got there I could not resist sitting down at an open board and playing. 3Qh5 g6 4.Qxg6#. Although I did not e...
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The Royal Game: Getting the band back together
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My take on tournament chess in the 21st century. Friday, March 07, 2008. Getting the band back together. OK, so I took a 573 day break from posting! I’m back now, ready to fire this old blog up and see what we can make of it. I’ve been getting back into chess lately and actually played in my first tournament last weekend in, well, 567 days! Fitting. How about the same bridge where the Dave Matthews Band tour bus took a dump. On unsuspecting tourists below? Also fitting. I had been paired down and wen...
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The Royal Game: March 2008
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My take on tournament chess in the 21st century. Monday, March 31, 2008. Give 'em enough rope. I had this crazy notion mine would fall somewhere in between, perhaps a weekly post that’s extensive, well written, witty. Turns out I’ve been too busy reading the vibrant, daily ones to post myself! Seriously, I find a new, interesting chess blog almost everyday. I’ll update my links on the right with my favorites so keep an eye on that. As you can see from the game score link on the right, Albert declined my ...
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The Royal Game: Highway to Dell(s)
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My take on tournament chess in the 21st century. Wednesday, April 09, 2008. Little did I know I wouldn’t be seeing much of them the rest of the weekend as the tournament schedule was packed tight and I ended up playing a lot of chess. The tournament was in the Wisconsin Dells, a well-known summery tourist destination for families in this part of the country. It has all the trappings: waterslide parks galore, amusement parks, a casino, dinner theaters, events with words like “Xtreme! Perhaps I’m jus...
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The Royal Game: The Dream Police
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My take on tournament chess in the 21st century. Tuesday, May 20, 2008. There has been a lot of activity in the chess world lately, with the MTel Masters. Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria just wrapping up, the U.S. Championships. In Tulsa are heading towards the final two rounds and locally, the 11th FIDE Invitational. Is at the midway point and taking place not 10 minutes from my house! Would also need to get a stay of execution from her work as well. So, here is how it starts:. I do need to participate in...
