Connecticut Chess Magazine

Friday, July 29, 2022

Bob Cyr 35th Anniversary Aug 2

BOB CYR'S 35TH NBCC ANNIVERSARY PARTY AND CHESS TOURNAMENT - TUESDAY AUGUST 2, 2022 - ARMENIAN CHURCH OF THE HOLY RESURRECTION

FREE OF CHARGE TO THE NBCC - ALL CHESS PLAYERS ARE WELCOME

1) PIZZA FROM TONY'S PIZZA IN NEW BRITAIN (NEAR THE CCSU CAMPUS) -

PLAIN, MEAT, AND VEGGIE PIZZAS (AT LEAST FIVE LARGE PIZZAS)

LITERS OF SODA (COKE, DIET COKE, GINGER ALE) AND BOTTLED WATER

PARTY WILL START AT 7:00 P.M. AFTER THE LECTURE

2) UNRATED CHESS TOURNAMENT - DIRECTED BY BURTNESS

- TWO SECTIONS (OPEN AND UNDER 1600)

- 4 ROUND SWISS SYSTEM

- G/15; D/5

TOURNAMENT WILL START AT 7:15

NILOY CHAUDHURI WINS 2022 JULY KNOCKOUT - HIS FIRST MAJOR WIN

To view the 2022 NBCC newsletter as of today, please click on the link below.

NBCCNEWSLETTER2022zzz.pdf (chessct.org)

JULY KNOCKOUT AND SWISS TOURNAMENT OF 2022

The club commenced the month of July with its annual knockout and Swiss tournament. FM Nelson Castaneda, who drafted the format for this event, reprised his role as tournament director. According to the rules for this unique tournament, all players were initially assigned numbers based on rating and were grouped into one section for pairing purposes. The first and all subsequent winners in each round of the knockout event would advance until there was one champion. The losers in each round of the knockout event would be placed into an open Swiss system section. In case of a draw, a two-game blitz match would have to be played to determine the winner of the match. If the draw persisted after the blitz match, then the person who played with black in the classical game would advance. After three rounds, new member Niloy Chaudhuri and Nelson, prior knockout champion, were vying for the title of NBCC Knockout Champion 2022. The battle on the sixty-four squares between the #7 seed and the #1 seed was one for the history books. However, with the game ending up a draw, we went into overtime to break the tie. Because Niloy played as Black against Nelson, he had the advantage in the blitz chess playoff. All Niloy had to do was win one of two games in the playoff to clinch first place. And he did! Niloy is now the NBCC Knockout Champion of 2022! Of historical note, this is his first major tournament win in the club. In the Swiss section, Joseph Bihlmeyer took home the gold. He has won (or tied for first place) in the Swiss section for two consecutive tournaments.

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The Championship Round Between Niloy Chaudhuri and Nelson Castaneda

https://connecticutchess.blogspot.com/2022/07/chess-by-sm-rick-bauer-connman.html

CHESS by SM Rick Bauer, "ConnMan"

A stunning last-round upset resulted in the fourth of four possible champions so far this year at the New Britain Chess Club. Niloy Ray Chaudbury employed a Sveshnikov Sicilian to great effect, both in the tournament game and the following playoff game. Here are both games:

https://lichess.org/study/taIJzUtz

Nelson Castaneda (FM RealAndante on LiChess), with his customary class, has added his comments to the game.

The rating differential would give Niloy only a 10% chance of winning, but his rating is quite suspect. Before joining the club, he had not played tournament chess for over a decade. He grew up in India at a time when the "Anand Boom" must have rivaled our "Fischer Boom" of 30 years prior (1972).

These two games and his previous result in the rapid play show a dramatic improvement.

I hope that you enjoy the games as much as I did.

Rick

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Saturday, July 23, 2022

GAME OF THE WEEK by Alan Lasser

The fiftieth anniversary of the last time an American won the World Chess Championship is a good reason to put some Fischer stuff in this letter. The creation of Fischer-Random may carry the board and pieces well into the future, and his defense against the King's Gambit is still used by grandmasters. This game was recently played in some politically incorrect country, which gives me the chance to nominate Vladimir Putin for the Nobel Prize in Economics. That’s right, Economics, because Putin has provided the answer to the most famous question in that field. Yes, it is better to be a renter.

GM Boris Savchenko(2547)-GM Vladislav Artemiev(2697)

2022 Moscow Open

7/19/22

1.e4 e5

2.f4 exf4

3.Nf3 d6

4.Nc3?! -0.33/22