Complete Results
Round 1
Bye
Round 2 - Me vs MICHAEL A MORRIS (1944) Loss
In this game I could have forced the following position (on move 16) with Black to play:
I thought that the isolated pawn would be a liability, but I think that my active pieces compensate for this and White should be fine. I lost this game because of the move 17. Nh7, for a moment I forgot that rooks can move horizontally too!Click here to replay game.
Round 3 - KEVIN MALLOY (1914) vs me Draw
I could have played Kh7 and there are no more checks and Black shold be able to win with the extra piece.
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Round 4 Me vs - MICHAEL CHIANG (1856 ) Win
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Round 5 GEORGE J ELGIN (1771) vs Me Draw
This was a very interesting but frustrating draw. I was clearly winning for most of the game, and then I got into a winning pawn endgame (43...e5). I then blundered with 51...Kg2 and should have lost, but my opponent captured the wrong pawn and the game was drawn. 60. K x b5 wins while K x b4 draws. So instead of gaining about 12 rating points I lost a couple.
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Interesting games - thanks. In G4 in particular, seems to me that Black played quite passively. Did you look at either 14 d5 or 16 d5 to mount pressure on e6?
ReplyDeleteAn observation about taking the B on d6 - from a pawn structure perspective, it evens things up for Black. Another plan - even earlier in the game - might have been to use your Rooks on the half-open c file. Nice finish on the K-side.
Hey I played at KI in the u2000, I haven't had a cance to look at your games (or even mine for that matter) but will sometime this week. I am trying to break 2k also but I think it will take me a couple of years if I work hard...
ReplyDeleteHow did you do at the KI, Maybe we can colaborate on the getting 2000 goal
ReplyDeleteI scored 2.5 (see my blog). I am looking for training partners so maybe we can arrange some games and analyze them together...
ReplyDeleteHi Ivan,
ReplyDeleteI like your game 4 against Michael Chiang and especially how your locked out his white bishop. I agree with the first comment that it looks like he played passively. Good game.
Is there a way to swap the board displays to always play through the games from Ivan's point of view?
ReplyDeleteIn R5, did you consider playing Ke7 rather than castling? That would have left your K much closer to the action.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I knew better I was not disciplined enough not to get over confident in this game. I was so sure that I was going to win, that I was in auto pilot mode. I read some where that the bigger your advantage the more you have to lose. I forgot that during this game.
ReplyDeleteI spent about 20 minutes on my 43…e5 just to make sure that I was winning in all variations. If White went after my q-side pawns he would lose by a tempo, I didn’t spend too much time looking at him going to the k-side since I had 2 reserve tempi with my b7 pawn.
My evaluation was correct, but I made the horrible blunder 51…kg2 with 50…g5 it was an easy win.
There is no way to flip the board.
60. Kxb4 is the most obvious blunder of all.
ReplyDelete60. Kxb5 Kc3 61. Ka4 and black loses.
Great article! Thanks.
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