Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 09:11:31 04/30/01
It was a night of great fun. Rodrigo came to my home even earlier than planned,
when I was driving my wife to the airport for her trip to Paris, Venice and
Florence. So imagine: alone in home with nobody there sniffing at the sight of
the board and the computer. Just my daughters and Rodrigo.
Rodrigo is a lovely young man, my kind of people to be with: cheerful, full time
jester, carefree and inmensely talented. He is a very good chess player but
knows very well there is no future there, so is trying to finish his career as a
lawyer. That he is doing since God said "Fiat Lux". Anyway, he does not take
chess as a matter of death or life. He look at it with detachment and because of
this sane, warm, smart attitude, he played Gambit with a light, humoured mood.
He does not care a shit to lose or to win, just to get some fun with an
interesting game. If all the players were like him.... So do not expect in
Rodrigo the kind of pain-in-the-ass behaviour typical of so many chess players
facing computers. For Rodrigo the key word in life and chess is "fun". Isn't he
a sage guy?
So Rodrigo sitted at my side in my great desk almost the size of a tennis field
and played with my pretty french wooden board. I manipulated Tiger and annotated
his comments from time to time. Rodrigo did not stop to talk and joke and used
all the time a language that I cannot reproduce here in order to avoid a ban or
deletion. There are here, I am afraid, too many delicate ears that jump to the
sky with the so called "profanities". I will just reproduce some of them in the
original spanish not to hurt those minds. If they make the effort to translate,
then it is his fault, not mine.....
And now to the game. Rodrigo asked me to sett the game in the very first moves
of the sicilian to test his line, in fact a Pogulayesky one he knows well, but
it seems Tiger knew it too well.....
[Event Friendly Tournament
[Date "29/4/2001"]
[Round 1
[White "R.Vásquez"]
[Black "Gambit Tiger 2.0"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2468"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Opening "B96 Sicilian: Najdorf, Polugayevsky Variation"]
[Setup "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkb1r/1p2pppp/p2p1n2/8/3NP3/2N5/PPP2PPP/R1BQKB1R w KQkq - 0 1"]
The game begun after: e4, c5...Nf3, d6...d4,cxd...Nxd, Nf6...Nc3, h7
1.Bg5 e6 2.f4 b5 3.e5 dxe5 4.fxe5 Qc7 5.exf6 Qe5+ 6.Be2 Qxg5 7.O-O Qe5 8.Nf3
Bc5+ 9.Kh1 Qxf6
10.Ne4 Qe7
{Vasquez say: I have two chances: Ne5 or Nfg5. My idea follow this line: if Ne5
and then black castle, then I play Nxf7, he does Rxf7, I do rRxf7, follows Kxf7
and then I go Bh5. But if g6, then I play Qf3+, he play Kg8 and then maybe I go
nf6+ and the rook fall..... After bh5, Kg8, Nxc5, Qxc5,
Qd8+, Qf8 and the blow Bf7+... "Voy a dársela por el culo a esta putita"}
11.Ne5 f5 12.Bh5+ g6 13.Nxg6 hxg6 14.Bxg6+ Kf8 15.Nxc5
Rh6 16.Nxe6+ Bxe6 17.Bxf5 Bf7 18.Qf3 Ra7 19.Rae1 Qd6 20.h3 Rf6 21.Rd1
{ FV: How do you feel right now? V: With this excellent wine, very good....}
21...Qe5 22.Qg4
Re7 23.Qh4 Rxf5 24.Rxf5 Qxf5 25.Qh8+ Bg8 26.Rd8+ Re8 27.Rxe8+ Kxe8 28.Qxg8+
(FV: And now, what do you expect? V: Objetively I see a draw, but if he takes
risks, I can win... "Esta vieja cabrona sabe jugar"}
28...Qf8 29.Qe6+ Kd8 30.h4 Qh8 31.Qd5+
{V :Well, maybe this lady is going to win after all, but you cannot say I did
not play an entertainning kind of game, isn't Fernando?.....}
31...Kc7 32.h5 Qxb2 33.Kh2 Qf6 34.Kh3
Nc6 35.g4 Nd4
( FV: Are you fool, Rodrigo? You are going to fall in a mate net.. V: So what? I
prefer a fast death...)
36.g5 Qf1+ 37.Kh2 Nf3+ 38.Kg3 Qe1+
{ V: The same history: calculation power against human impulse and red wine....}
)
34...Qh4+ 0-1
After the game Rodrigo agreed to play next week two more games at a my favourite
rythm, 40 in 90 minutes. This time he will not talk nor sip red wine. There will
be also, to spur his brain, a modest but acceptable money price. Stay tunner and
do not go away.
Fernando Happy Productions
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