Our First Spring Chess Tournament

Kindergartener Addison Chase from Madison Simis scored 2.5 points out of 4 coming in 7^th place in her first tournament!

Addison

Also from Madison Simis was kindergartener Dominic Kroeger who scored .5 point out of 2 games played in his first tournament.

Stefan Schaeffer, 3^rd grader fromDesertSunAcademy scored 1.5 points in his first tournament

Stefan and Coach

while Sairishitha (Rishi) Tamma

Rishi

from Madison Simis and Jacob Wetherell  & Everett Smith both from Pinnacle Peak Elementary all played well.

In the upper grades my returning student Joaquin Rosales

Joaquin

played very well scoring 3 out of 4 to capture 15^th place while Jordan Black

Jordan

from Pinnacle Peak Elementary experienced his first tournament.

One of my top chess players Thomas Patton

Thomas

played for the first time in the Champ section finding out that moving up is tough.

It doesn’t matter where each student placed in the tournament, I’m proud of them all.

Mazart of Chess: Magnus Carlsen

CBS 60 Minutes did a great story on Magnus Carlsen.

You can see it here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57380894/mozart-of-chess-magnus-carlsen/?tag=contentMain;cbsCarousel

Two Nice Wins as Black Playing the Nimzowitsch Defense

Here is two games I one won using the Nimzowitsch Defense as Black.

The first one is against a stronger opponent:

[Event "Half Dozen"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2011.12.21"]
[White "Ryuo"]
[Black "KingLeopold"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1815"]
[BlackElo "1713"]
[TimeControl "1 in 3 days"]
[Termination "KingLeopold won by resignation"]

1.e4 Nc6 2.Nf3 f5 3.exf5 d5 4.Bb5 Bxf5 5.Ne5 Qd6 6.d4 Nf6 7.O-O Nd7 8.Bxc6 bxc6 9.Qf3 e6 10.g4 Bg6 11.Nxg6 hxg6 12.Bf4 e5 13.dxe5 Qe6 14.Nd2 Bc5 15.Nb3 Bb6 16.Rad1 O-O 17.Qg3 Rae8 18.Rde1 c5 19.c3 a5 20.h3 a4 21.Nc1 c4 22.Ne2 Nc5 23.Nd4 Qe7 24.Nc6 Qf7 25.Be3 Qe6 26.Bxc5 Bxc5 27.Nd4 Bxd4 28.cxd4 Qb6 29.Qc3 c5 30.dxc5 Qxc5 31.b3 axb3 32.axb3 Rb8 33.bxc4 dxc4 34.e6 Rb3 35.Qc2 Rxh3 36.Qxg6 Qd6 37.f4 Qd2 0-1

The second one is against my friend and fellow coach Miguel Luna:

[Event "Let's Play!"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2012.01.01"]
[White "ChaozFilms"]
[Black "KingLeopold"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1650"]
[BlackElo "1684"]
[TimeControl "1 in 3 days"]
[Termination "KingLeopold won by checkmate"]

1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.Be3 e5 5.c4 Bb4+ 6.Nc3 Qd8 7.d5 Bxc3+ 8.bxc3 Na5 9.Nf3 Bg4 10.Be2 Ne7 11.Qa4+ c6 12.dxc6 Naxc6 13.Rd1 Qc7 14.h3 Bd7 15.Qc2 O-O 16.Ng5 Ng6 17.Ne4 f5 18.Nc5 Rad8 19.Bg5 Nce7 20.Nxd7 Rxd7 21.O-O Rfd8 22.Bh5 e4 23.Bxe7 Nxe7 24.Be2 Nc6 25.c5 Ne5 26.Qb3+ Kh8 27.Qb4 Rd2 28.Rxd2 Rxd2 29.Bc4 Nxc4 30.Qxc4 e3 31.fxe3 Qg3 32.Qg4 Rxg2+ 33.Kh1 Qh2# 0-1

Game in 12…..Moves that is

KingLeopold (1727) vs Prince_elf (1568)

Chess.com / 1 in 3 days / 2012.02.08

1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 Bf5 5.fxe4 Nxe4 6.Qf3 Nxc3 7.bxc3 Bc8 8.Bc4 f6 9.Nh3 Nc6 10.Nf4 Na5 11.Qh5+ g6 12.Nxg6 1-0

The Blackmar-Deimer Gambit Strikes Once Again!

Here I have a nice win over my opponent who has already beaten me in several games prior to this one…

KingLeopold (1693) –  NeilCousin (1733)

Chess.com  2012.02.03

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.e4 e6 (The game starts out as a French Defense.) 4.Bg5 (I’ve been playing the Alekhine Variation lately) 4…dxe4 (With this move my opponent allows the transposition into the BDG)  5.f3 exf3 6.Nxf3 (We have now transposed into the Ewue Variation) 6…Be7 7.Qd2 Nbd7 8.Bd3 c5 9.O-O-O Qa5 10.h4 h6 11.Be3 cxd4 12.Bxd4 Nc5 13.Bb5+ Kf8?! (Why not 13…Bd7 guarded by the knight?)

14.Bxc5! Bxc5 15.Qd8+ Qxd8 16.Rxd8+ Black Resigns as he can not prvent the loss of his rook. 1-0