Sunday, March 30, 2014

BCC LEGENDS // MORPHY // GRUELING // UPSETS // INTENSE // 18 PLAY // LAWYER TIMES 1ST //

BCC LEGENDS OF CHESS: PAUL MORPHY 4SS, 1 SECTION
NM Lawyer Times, former BCC
Club Champion, goes 3-0 (+1/2 pt bye)=3.5
for the title of BCC Legends/Morphy Champion.
SAD STORY
Suraj Ramanathan takes on NM Farzad Abdi, on Board 1
in the first round of the event. The postmortem chatter by
Farzad himself, suggests that Suraj had a win in this game.
Only after Round 2 did we learn that Suraj was suffering
from a severe soar throat and fever, which totally shut
down his normally sharp analytical skills. He quit the event
after his round 2 loss. We wish you speedy recovery and
a full return to your chess prowess for next Saturday's
Tony Miles Memorial $1000 4SS here at the BCC.
Farzad went on to score 3 points to share 2-4th place with
Timothy O'Malley and Imran Hendley.
Evan Welsh (Northeastern University) plays Imran Hendley
in Round 1. Hendley scored 3 points to share 2-4th place.
Welsh went 2 for 4 in the event.
(background): Boshen Li, black vs Patrick Haley: draw. 
Soren Sandmann Pedersen from Denmark, with an Elo of 1692
plays Suraj Ramanathan in Round 2. Sadly, Suraj was
not available for chess calculation, suffering from a serious virus.
He would quit the tournament after this round.
Nithin Kavi plays an ever improving Phu Si Vo in Round 1.
Vo won this game and up'd his rating +13 to 1717.
Nithin withdrew from the event after this loss, no word as
to his health being a factor, maybe just a blunder.
IRONIC MATCH
David Martin vs Tim O'Malley, Round 1. David won this game
but no doubt "inspired" Tim to his subsequent 3 wins in a row
to share 2-4th place in the event. (background): Natasha Christiansen,
Evan Welch vs Imran Hendley; Boshen Li vs Patrick Haley.
SHARING 5th - 7th PLACE
Bernardo Iglesias, event TD plays black in his game with
Boshen Li, Round 2. Bernardo scored 2.5 points to share
5-7th place with Patrick Haley and Maxwell Zhao.
Patrick Haley scored 2.5 points to share 5-7th place with Iglesias
and Max Zhao. Here Patrick plays black vs Derek Jin in Round 2.
NM Lawyer Times plays junior scholastic star Maxwell Zhao
in Round 3. The game was close, but Times prevailed.
Max shared 5-7th place in the event with a rating hike of +24,
pushing his rating over 1700 to 1723.
3rd LIFETIME MEETING
                                                                                                                Photo: Yi Zhao
6 year old Winston Zhao plays the white pieces vs Steve Stepak.
This was billed as an "extra, non-rated" game in the 4SS
Legends of Chess: Morphy, Round 1, where Winston got the
full-point bye for being the lowest rated player in an odd-number field.
(I won the game and personally analyzed the text with Houdini, which
scolded me for making 3 major blunders. I mis-played the game
right out of the opening, but somehow crawled back to equality.
Yet, I underestimated Winston's plan to promote the a/b pawns,
coming down the pike, unopposed. A few moves before I
actually checkmated Winston, he had a forced win, the concept of
which he missed. Instead of allowing me a queen-rook-knight
trio which forced the mate, he would have won easily had he
thought of trading off my major pieces first, and then pushing the
pawns down the files to promotion and the full point.
A good lesson for next time!)sps
NEW FACES AT THE BCC
Soren Sandmann Pedersen came all the
way over from Denmark to play in this event.
First time player in USCF rated events,
Soren knotched a 1484 provisional rating.
Welcome Soren!
Patrick Connor Haley, Harvard senior from Texas
played his first rated event at the BCC.
Welcome, Connor!
PARTING SHOT
Mark Buckles vs Derek Jin, Round 3: draw!
Mark was +13 (1635) [2 for 4] and Derek was +4 (1437) [1 for 3]
(background): Boshen Li, black vs Evan Welsh.
HEADS UP!!
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