BCF SPRING OPEN
Event Date(s) 2006-04-01 thru 2006-04-02
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[Note: fans of the epic poem Gilgamesh
will love the chorus - the rest can skip reading the "ticks"- MG].
I went into the skittles room to eat an apple to ramp up my depleted blood sugars at a critical point against then US 11th Grade Champ: newly titled Master Chris Williams (then 2249). I have a much better position than him, winning in fact. Amidst the din of the skittles room was a discussion about World War II. A young man just had declared that D Day was the turning point of the war that it was all down hill for Hitler and Germany after the invasion. Two older gentlemen from the former Soviet Union jumped in simultaneously that it was the Soviets who had defeated Germany, taken the biggest losses, and Stalingrad turned the war around. Back and fourth the argument went.......I ate my apple............
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My clock was ticking My family has a genetic predisposition to get entangled in debates about The T/Mass Transportation, Privatization, and World War II. So I stepped in, had to: The Soviet Union turned the war, but you are both wrong it was the battle of Kursk that did Germany in.
Although the 6th army was defeated in Stalingrad, and many Germans were killed and captured.................
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My clock was ticking And I have forgotten about this fact.
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.....................Following Stalingrad, Germany still had enough resources in the Eastern Front to wage a good war if Hitler allowed Field Marshal von Manstein to go wide of Soviet strength and fight a delaying retreating war against the Soviets that taxed the Soviet supply lines but instead.....and....the artillery the greatest since the Somme..............Germany gambled it all at Kursk and lost in the biggest tank battle ever............were lucky Hitler was so dumb.....
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My clock was ticking And I have just remembered this fact. Segue to two weeks before this game:...........................
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This was in my d4 days: Chris Williams quietly comes up to me and says that he and his coach Larry Christiansen looked at my response to the Slav and it wasn't very good because of........gives black a good game. It was nice for Chris to take time out and warn me. I think he did this because during his very early days I showed him how he should play against the French Defense. (hint to old timers: kids don't forget who helped them on their way up). I thanked Chris for the info but responded well if you do that ......tell Larry then there's this......I think I'm fine.
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Segue to 1 1/2 hours ago: ...............
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Today I sat down with white against Chris, we looked each other in the eye, shook hands, both know theory was about to become reality.Opening phase: interesting enough we both deviated from our discussion.
Mike Griffin 1714 - Chris Williams 2249
[D10] BCC Spring Open, 02.04.2006
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1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Ne4 5.Nxe4 dxe4 6.Qd2 g6 7.e3 Bg7 8.Ne2 0-0 9.h4 Nd7 10.Nc3 f5 11.0-0-0 h6 12.Bf4 Qa5 13.Kb1 e5 14.dxe5 Nxe5 15.Nxe4 Qb6 16.c5 Qc7 17.Qd6 Qf7 18.Ng5 hxg5 19.Bxe5 Be6 20.Bxg7 Rfd8 21.Qxd8+ Rxd8 22.Rxd8+ Kxg7 23.hxg5 f4
Here is where I took almost 1/2 an hour debating Kursk. Chris Williams didn't not budge one inch working his butt off trying to find resources in a difficult losing position. I went back to my game and made an awful move Bd3 when Rdh8 would have been a killer. But I was basically out of time..
24.Bd3 Qe7 25.Rdh8 Bg8 26.exf4 Qxc5 27.R8h6 Bf7 28.g4 Qd5 29.Rh7+ Kf8 30.Rh8+ Ke7 31.Re1+ Kd7 32.Re3 Qxa2+ 33.Kc1 Qa1+ 34.Bb1 Ba2 35.Rh7+ Kd6 36.Rd3+ Kc5 37.Rc3+ Kb6 0-1.
[ Editors note: it is a little known fact that the battle of Kursk was almost lost because some tank drivers delayed joining the battle, because they were analyzing a chess postion from the Slav.].
The following week Chris Chase read me the riot act: "Mike you have got to work hard at this game....."
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Jesse Nicholas and Lior Rozhansky and I discuss a potential way they could make some lunch money by approaching some of my opponents and for a fee, say $5.00, get me involved in a WW II arguments in the skittles room while my game is in progress.Have you ever lost a game because of being sidetracked during a tournament?
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Please comment. Thank you.
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Mike Griffin
mgriffin@haemonetics.com
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