Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 12:11:36 09/12/02
We all remember the old rocksong "You can do what you want, but don't step on my blue Swede shoes!" And most of us will also have the Swede SSDF in mind, especially when ranking questions had been raised by total beginners. You know that SSDF has been validated in a fine manner simply by letting Swedes of all classes play the old boards from the past. Now - today - I made a horrible experience! I let the CB integrity utility shift into high gear for the 2002/2001 Twic games and then the EVIL stood right in front of me. Ok, Jenni vs Aronian from 2001 was just a little warm-up before the nightmare was born. Jenni castled in move 25 although the black Queen had f1 under complete control! Then the notation ends and I think it could also be a typo or such. But now back to the Swede. I didn't know that player with White, whose name is Dominguez. I was shocked that I didn't know a player with over 2600 ELO, because normally I know them all! THere was a time when I examined only the games of players above 2600, but later I had to change the attitude because even former Wch candidates like Hubner or Tal, yes Tal, went down below that crucial mark. Ok, today we have the inflation and it could well be that Dominguez managed to get 2600. As CC addict I am exclusively interested in player above 2700 for years now because I can't digest the 'fact' that programs like FRITZ should be better that my favorite players. Dominguez had no chances what-so-ever against today's commercial machines. (Sorry, Ed, I did it again!) But now to the Swede. Keep in mind, that Dominguez is a 2600 player!! What do you think what he could do against a player with ELO 2187? Ok, I must add that it was an OPEN in Sweden! And the Black player was no other than N. Nielsson from Sweden. In short my Swede. Elo 2187! And it was the third round. Perhaps I must also explain that Dominguez won almost all the games before this round and also afterwards. He came in 6th or so. Or 9th. When N.N. was 90th or 95th or some such! Now the sadness in chess! N.N. (2187) had placed his B on a6, perhaps a premonition of our long thread a couple of days before, when we learned that a B on that file a6-f1 is a power! Dominguez, as GM, had foreseen all that and had his own B, so that he could exchange on a6. Since the N was no longer on b8, Nielsson had to take back with his Rook. Now, the masters among the readers will certainly already know what happened next. Of course. N.N. played this R back to his original place on a8. And a couple of moves later, much later I must elaborate, so late that even the GM Dominguez couldn't remember the earlier exchange. Perhaps it was very cold then in Sweden and Dominguez, who must come from Spain or Ecuador or such, was frozen? Anyway. Suddenly Niellson played o-o-o!!!! The game went on and Black won. This was probably the only win by NN and the only loss by Dominguez. Two conclusions! 1. Dominguez could well be Phil Innes, a friend from the internet. He already played like this as a student in the US when he played against the expert on the campus instead of meeting Albert Einstein on the road. Phil once let the expert, the professional simul player, win a lost game because he felt compassion for him. Phil had a clearly won game, an attack against the white K and the expert saw it, and Phil saw it too. It was very hot that day in the fifties and perhaps Phil just had some sunstroke. But this is history! 2. We don't know what happened in the Open, perhaps Dominguez thought that he couldn't win the event anyway and so he tried to make a present to a Swede. Although Bob said, that a GM would never give away a point intentiously. Well, it becomes a bit off-topic. Now the on-topic part. I checked with FRITZ as engine in CB8 and you simply can't play the move! If you take the K and put him on c8, he will bounce back to e8! And that was the reason BTW why CB8 didn't tolerate the move o-o-o. But the game wasn't deleted because I had de-activated the possibility to repair the errors. :) Then I took CRAFTY. And CRAFTY accepted the castle. Bob! Now, why is the Subject called The Semi-closed Swede? You know, the SSDF in Sweden is an almost closed system (Sir POPPER). Perhaps, I thought, Nielsson, N., wanted to lay his finger into the wound of the validation process decades ago in SSDF. When Swedish measters and amateurs played the famous machines of that time. So, he opened a bit the closed system. He's a spy so to speak. A revolutionary man in hidance. Footnote. If I could write in Finnish like Robert Hubner, I would certainly write much better plays, because the Finnish language has a certain satire element in itself, when you learn it, because it's so difficult and so very few people speak it. So a minimum of sarcasm is pre-defined. Otherwise you cannot survive... Best from Rolf Tueschen
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