Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 10:12:44 05/23/04
Yesterday I played in quad run by the the Hamilton Chess Club in Hamilton. NJ.
Hamiltion Chess Club is a small chess club, but none the less it has two
nationally ranked youth chess players.
Austin Wang (http://www.uschess.org/ratings/top/apr04/10.php) is ranked first in
the US in the 10 year old catgory , I played one game against him last year and
drew. He is now 300 points above my rating and chances of me playing him again
in the quad are remote.
Yesterday I plaqyed against Rahul Swaminathan, rated 18th on the 9 year old
list, he is now rated about 100 ponints higher than what is reflected on this
list. He now may be in the top 10 for 9-year olds in the country.
(http://www.uschess.org/ratings/top/apr04/9.php).
Both of these young players are competitive, polite, well mannered and very
talented in chess for their age. Austin is particulary talented and shows great
chess creativity at a young age.
My opponent in the game yesterday was Rahul Swaminathan. I was very focused on
this game as I did not wish to return to the house and inform my wife that a 9
year old beat me. That would have made her day. For the game, I used my
'anti-computer" -- thinking that Rahul would not see that type of play normally
in his human matches. This included my attempt at creating stonewall formation,
getting the pieces behind my pawns and my attempt at generating the "mercilous'
attack. The "mercilous" attack (aka "trojan horse") was founded ny a ICC player
named "mercilous" who had very good success with it against computer opponents.
It was mercilous who caused Bob Hyatt two write the "trojan horse" code in
evaluate.c. The modus operandi of the mercilous attack was a premature jump to
the g5 square (or g4 if playing black) folowed by h4 after pawn h6 to kick the
night out. In many cases, taking the knight is bad as usually leads to mate
along the "h" file if the pieces are set up correctly. See the game below for
early mercilous game against crafty from the black side.
[Event "Hamiltion Quad"]
[Site "Hamilton. NJ"]
[Date "2004.05.22"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Byrne"]
[Black "Swaminathan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A45"]
[Opening "Canard Opening"]
[TimeControl "40/80 15/30"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.f4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nbd2 d5 6.e3 Be7 7.Bd3 b6 8.O-O O-O 9.Qe1
Re8 10.h3 a6 11.g4 cxd4 12.exd4 Qc7 13.Qg3 Bb7 14.Ng5 h6 15.h4
{
{[d] r3r1k1/1bq1bpp1/ppn1pn1p/3p2N1/3P1PPP/2PB2Q1/PP1N4/R1B2RK1 b - - 0 15
Amazingly, my opponent does not take the knight, trsuting his instincts that it
was dangerous. I finally withdrew the knight as it was starting to look too
dangerous for me. Later analysis suggests that the knight can be taken.
}
15. Nd7 16.Bh7+ Kf8 17.Qh3 Nf6 18.Bd3 Bc8 19.Ngf3 Bd6 20.Ne5 Nd8 21.Ndf3 Nc6
22.Bd2 b5 23.Rae1 Rb8 24.b4 Bd7 25.g5 Ne4 26.Bxe4 dxe4 27.Rxe4 Bxe5 28.fxe5 hxg5
29.Bxg5 Rec8 30.Qg4 Ne7 31.Bxe7+ Kxe7 32.Qg5+ Kf8 33.Rg4 g6 34.Qh6+ Ke7 35.Qg5+
Kf8 36.Qh6+ Ke7 37.Ng5 Rcf8 38.Nh7 Rfh8
{
[d]1r5r/2qbkp1N/p3p1pQ/1p2P3/1P1P2RP/2P5/P7/5RK1 w - - 10 39
I missed the mate-in-7 Qg5, but Rxg6 and Rxh7 still win by force easily
39.Rxg6 fxg6 40.Qg7+ Kd8 41.Qxh8+ Ke7 42.Qg7+ Kd8 43.Rf8+ Be8 44.Rxe8 +Kxe8
45.Qxc7 Rd8 46.Nf6+ Kf8 47.Qxd8+ Kg7 48.Qg8+ {} 1-0
[Event "ICC 5 0 09/12/97"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "1997.09.12"]
[Round "-"]
[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "?"]
[Round "?"]
[White "crafty"]
[Black "mercilous"]
[Result "0-1"]
[BlackElo "2679"]
[ECO "B00"]
[Opening "Carr's Defence"]
1.e4 h6 2.d4 e6 3.Bd3 d6 4.Nf3 g6 5.O-O h5 6.Nc3 Na6 7.Bf4 Bd7 8.Bxa6 bxa6 9.Qd3
Bh6 10.Bxh6 Nxh6 11.Qxa6 Ng4 12.Qd3 Rc8 13.h3 Nh6 14.Qe3 Kf8 15.d5 e5 16.Qxa7
Ng4 17.hxg4 hxg4 18.Nxe5 Qh4 19.Nxd7+ Ke8 20.Nf6+ Kd8 21.Nh5 Rxh5 22.f3 g3
23.Qxc7+ Rxc7 24.Nb5 Qh1# {White checkmated} {Mate} 0-1
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