Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 14:57:45 05/23/04
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On May 23, 2004 at 13:12:44, Mike Byrne wrote:
>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
Is that really classical Chess??
Looks like black has used illegal assistance to determine his moves.
Either a dice or some Random move generator.
Michael
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