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Monday, June 16, 2014

Overrated Idea

The blockade Benoni is a defensive setup where Black places his pawns on c5,d6, and e5. Since these pawns all resided on dark squares, Black's f8 Bishop is, by definition, bad. So it seems reasonable to trade it off for White's c1 Bishop.

In the following position played at ICC, Black a  Spanish GM named jelmatos did just that via g6 and Bh6. However his kingside became a bit breezy creating the preconditions for the following attraction sacrifice which set up a fork that ultimately won a piece and forced the Grand Master to resign.




It is a very straightforward temporary sacrifice to find. I think the GM may have been drinking or perhaps letting a weaker player use his account.



6 comments:

  1. That might be ICC handle for GM Spaniard Miguel Illescas

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  2. Does anybody know what Ben Finegold meant by "You got the d— riders" when commenting about Nakamura's attempts to "mainstream" chess to the masses? Article by
    DAN BERNSTEIN did not clarify. Could Ben have meant DICK riders?

    Plenty of average chess players who are better on Twitch because they are more of the whole person rather than your typical NERD GM. Follow the money, Hikaru does not care what the inferior neophytes add to chess "body of Knowledge" as long as his subscription levels continue to elevate.

    I am surprised GM D. Gurevich does not convert his chess stardom to some YouTube vlogging ad revenue dollars!! Also Gata Kamsky dropped into obscurity for what reason again.

    I remember his paranoid father Rustam who would get into fights with guys who wanted Gata's attention at Balley's las vegas. Rustam thought Gata would become a GM Doctor. And then there was Susan Polgar's husband in Lubbock Texas with the hacked email accounts transmitting pictures of political adversary Sam Sloan's wife using a cucumber as a DILDO??!

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    1. Poor Susan, I was in Lubbock at the time and still remember the granite chair in front of library with her quote "win with grace and lose with dignity" I asked her about the touch move controversy with her sister Judith when Kasparov took back that Knight move illegally AND Judith would have won had the rule been enforced.

      NM cheater Benjamin Coraretti may have played with the strong IMs and GMs while she was coach of the team there. Elizabeth Spiege,Kevin Bachler,Jeffrey Ashton ,Jim Hollingsworth all had insightful comments on how to curb widespread and depraved cheating!!!

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    2. Speaking of immature older men who got into fights at chess tournaments, My son had a run in with Detroit organizer and musician Pete Nixon. Pete had fucked up complimentary tickets to a Tiger's baseball game. I think it was coach Malcolm Lewis who had to break up the fisticuffs with a 20 year old punk who was bitching about not getting his free tickets.

      I think it was Myzell Sowell who witnessed the whole thing. I dont really blame Nixon for being pissed off

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    3. Is that supposed to be a criticism of a female for using a cucumber as an item that would stimulate her clitoris to orgasm?!?!??! A green vegetable shaped like an erect penis is the least expensive and most healthy way to reach sexual climax. Battery operated boyfriends are often not particularly clean and then there is the cost of voltage!!!

      Ask FRANCESCA FRAWLEY. Also, haling from Brynmawr, Wales Nicole Hillman got weak kneed over some of the produce at a local grocer!!!

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  3. Watched B. Coraretti get spanked hard by El Paso female Claudia Munoz back 2015. I beat Ben's dad that same year. Claudia was rated 250 USCF rating points below him which would support your cheating claim.

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