Lombardy Memorial Tournament to be Held by the Marshall Chess Club, 11/28

William Lombardy Memorial and Blitz

WhenTue, November 28, 5pm – 10pm

DescriptionJoin us to celebrate the life of GM William Lombardy. Memorial and reception: 5-7pm Blitz tournament: 7-10pm In memory of one of the greatest legends of American chess. 9-SS, G/3 +2. FIDE Blitz Rated. $2500 Guaranteed! $600-450-350-250-150; top U2400/unr, U2200, U2000, U1800: $100 each; Top Senior (born in/before 1955): $100-50; Top Junior (born in/after 2001): $100-50. EF: $25; Non-MCC Mbr: Additional $25 Mbr Fee. GMs Free. Reg: 6:15-6:45pm. Rds: Begin at 7pm and continue ASAP. Max three byes; request at entry. Register online: www.marshallchessclub.org/register. 23 W 10th St / NYC / 212-477-3716. Made possible by the Marshall Chess Foundation.

A Blast From the PastGligoric vs. Lombardy

Gligoric doesn't like Lombardy's 10...c6, a pet move of Lombardy's at the time. Both Gligoric and Rybka prefer 10...c5

[Event "Munich ol (Men) fin-A"]
[Site "Munich"]
[Date "1958.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Gligoric, Svetozar"]
[Black "Lombardy, William James"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator ""]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Classes "0"]
[ECO "C96"]
[GameID "0"]
[Remark ""]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[WhiteElo "2575"]

{Game analysis^13 ^10 Processor: AMD A6-7310 APU with AMD Radeon R4 Graphics
(@2.00GHz)^13 ^10 Engine(s): Deep Rybka 2.3.2a x64^13 ^10 Analysis time:
0:07:54} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3
O-O 8. c3 d6 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c6 {[%t Val] :}{[%t Shrt] N} (10... c5 11. d4
Qc7 12. d5 Nc4 13. a4 Bd7 14. b3 Na5 15. Nbd2 {...1-0, Anand Viswanathan 2792
- Hjartarson Johann 2619 , Reykjavik 3/15/2006 It "Glitnir Blitz"})(10... Bb7
11. d3 c5 12. Nbd2 Re8 13. Nf1 Qc7 14. Ng3 g6 15. Bh6 {...1/2-1/2, Ciric
Dragoljub M 2395 - Karpov Anatoly 2725 , Groningen 1988}) 11. a4 Rb8 {[%t
Val] =} 12. axb5 {[%t Val] <} 12... axb5 13. d4 Nd7 {[%t Val] A} 14. Nbd2 Bf6
15. Nf1 {[%t Shrt] N} 15... Nc4 (15... Bb7 16. Ne3 Ra8 17. Qd3 Ra6 18. Bd2 Qb6
19. b4 Nc4 {+0.50}) 16. b3 Ncb6 17. Ne3 g6 {[%t Val] I} 18. Ng4 Bg7 19. dxe5
Nxe5 20. Nfxe5 dxe5 21. Nh6+ Bxh6 22. Bxh6 Re8 23. Qxd8 Rxd8 24. Bg5 Re8 25.
Red1 Be6 26. Rd6 c5 27. Be3 Rec8 28. Ra7 {[%t Val] D} 28... Kf8 {?!}{[%t Val]
O} (28... b4 {!?} 29. Ra6 Nd7 30. c4 Ra8 31. f3 Kg7 32. Kf2 {+0.67}) 29. Bd1
h5 30. g4 hxg4 {?!}{[%t Val] Z} (30... Kg8 {!?} 31. gxh5 gxh5 32. h4 Rd8 33.
Rb7 Nd7 34. Rxb8 Rxb8 {+1.18}) 31. Bxg4 Bxg4 32. hxg4 Kg7 33. Bg5 Re8 {[%t
Val] ^94 } 34. Bf6+ Kf8 35. Rd3 Re6 36. g5 Kg8 37. Rh3 Rxf6 38. gxf6 c4 39.
bxc4 bxc4 40. Kg2 Rc8 41. Re7 Na4 42. Rxe5 1-0

FIDE Troglodytes Are At It Again--Boycott Underway

"Fide, the World Chess Federation, has been accused of "total moral degredation" after awarding this year's $2 million world speed chess championship to Saudi Arabia.

A raft of top players have now revealed they will boycott the blitz and rapid event, one of the most exciting in the chess calendar, over concerns about safety and human rights in the ultra-conservative regime.
Among the big names who won't be there are double women's world champion Anna Muzychuk and the American super grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, a renowned specialist at playing in short time controls."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/12/holding-chess-championship-saudi-arabia-horrible-move-top-players/#

VT Fall Scholastic (K-12) Chess Tournament Saturday, Berlin Elementary School

This is an unrated (US Chess membership is NOT required) tournament. Details can be found at the following link.
http://vtchess.info/Events/15th_Berlin_VT_Fall_Scholastic.htm

Tal's Birthday was November 9th

Tal giving a simul

From the Chessbase article

http://en.chessbase.com/post/remembering-mihail-tal-november-9-1936-to-june-27-1992

Azerbaijan Wins The European Team Championship

Ukraine (foreground); Russia (behind them)

http://en.chessbase.com/post/european-team-championship-2017-live

Two Games Played by David Carter Winning the Vermont Open Last Weekend

Ian Dudley is an Expert Class player from Vermont. He's been rising steadily over the past two years and is now trained by GM Elshan Moradi of Iran, now resident in Texas.

[Event "Vermont State Championship"]
[Site "Burlington, VT"]
[Date "2017.10.28"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Carter, David"]
[Black "Dudley, Ian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "2050"]
[ECO "D00"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
[EventDate "2017.10.28"]
[EventRounds "4"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[WhiteElo "2249"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Nf3 b6 7. Rc1 Bb7 8. Bd3
Nbd7 9. cxd5 Nxd5 10. Bxe7 Qxe7 11. Nxd5 Bxd5 12. Rxc7 Rfc8 13. Rxc8+ Rxc8 14.
O-O Qb4 15. b3 Qa3 16. e4 Bb7 17. Qe2 Nf6 18. h3 Rc1 19. Re1 Rxe1+ 20. Nxe1 a5
21. Qc2 g6 22. Nf3 b5 23. Qc7 Bxe4 24. Ng5 Qf8 25. Nxe4 Nxe4 26. Bxe4 Qb4 27.
Qb8+ Kg7 28. Qe5+ Kg8 29. g3 a4 30. Bc6 axb3 31. axb3 Qxb3 32. Bxb5 h5 33. h4
Kh7 34. Be2 Qb7 35. Qf6 Qe4 36. Bf3 Qd3 37. d5 exd5 38. Qxf7+ Kh6 39. Qxd5 1-0

Paris Prestia is an eleven year old Class A player from New York State.

[Event "Vermont State Championship"]
[Site "Burlington, VT"]
[Date "2017.10.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Prestia, Paris"]
[Black "Carter, David"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D36"]
[WhiteElo "1950"]
[BlackElo "2249"]
[PlyCount "144"]
[EventDate "2017.10.28"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "4"]
[EventCountry "USA"]

1. d4 e6 2. c4 d5 3. Nc3 c6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Qc2 Nf6 6. Bg5 Be7 7. e3 Nbd7 8.
Bd3 Nh5 9. Bxe7 Qxe7 10. Nge2 g6 11. O-O-O Ndf6 12. h3 Ng7 13. g4 Be6 14. Ng3
O-O-O 15. Na4 Kb8 16. Kb1 h5 17. f3 Qc7 18. Qf2 Ka8 19. g5 Nfe8 20. h4 Nd6 21.
Nc5 Bc8 22. e4 b6 23. Nb3 Be6 24. Rc1 Qd7 25. e5 Ndf5 26. Ne2 Ne7 27. Rc3 Bf5
28. Bxf5 Qxf5+ 29. Ka1 Qd7 30. Rhc1 Rc8 31. Nf4 Ne6 32. Nxe6 fxe6 33. R1c2 Rhf8
34. Nc1 Rc7 35. Nd3 Rfc8 36. Nf4 c5 37. dxc5 d4 38. Rc4 bxc5 39. Nd3 Nf5 40.
Rxc5 Rxc5 41. Rxc5 Rxc5 42. Nxc5 Qd5 43. Qc2 Qxe5 44. Nd3 Qb8 45. Qc6+ Qb7 46.
Qe8+ Qb8 47. Qxe6 Nxh4 48. Qe4+ Qb7 49. Qxh4 Qxf3 50. Nc1 Qe3 51. Qh1+ Kb8 52.
Qh2+ Kb7 53. Qh1+ Kc7 54. Nb3 Kd6 55. Qd1 Ke5 56. a3 h4 57. Ka2 h3 58. Qc2 d3
59. Qc7+ Kf5 60. Qd8 Kg4 61. Qd7+ Kg3 62. Qd6+ Kg2 63. Nd4 Qe4 64. Ne6 h2 65.
Nf4+ Kf1 66. Nxd3 h1=Q 67. Qf6+ Qhf3 68. Qc3 Qfxd3 69. Qc1+ Kg2 70. Qc7 Qe6+
71. Ka1 Qd1+ 72. Qc1 Qxc1# 0-1

Azerbaijan Defeats Russia 3-1 at European Team Championship

[Event "ETCC Open 2017"]
[Site "Hersonissos"]
[Date "2017.11.05"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Matlakov, Maxim"]
[Black "Naiditsch, Arkadij"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E04"]
[WhiteElo "2730"]
[BlackElo "2702"]
[Annotator "ChessBase"]
[PlyCount "113"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[EventType "team-tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[WhiteTeam "Russia"]
[BlackTeam "Azerbaijan"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "RUS"]
[BlackTeamCountry "AZE"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1800+30"]

1. d4 {0} Nf6 {8} 2. c4 {0} e6 {11} 3. Nf3 {38} d5 {10} 4. g3 {29} dxc4 {11} 5.
Bg2 {15} a6 {82} 6. O-O {47} Nc6 {7} 7. e3 {78} Rb8 {9} 8. Nfd2 {82} e5 {439}
9. Bxc6+ {95} bxc6 {269} 10. dxe5 {21} Ng4 {135} 11. Nxc4 {44} Be6 {215} 12.
Nbd2 {77} h5 {211} 13. f3 {874} Rb4 {100} 14. fxg4 {388} Bxc4 {29} 15. Nxc4 {7}
Qxd1 {12} 16. Rxd1 {6} Rxc4 {5} 17. Bd2 {41} Rxg4 {42} 18. Rac1 {232} Rh6 {144}
19. Ba5 {645} Be7 {20} 20. Bxc7 {334} Rb4 {410} 21. Rc2 {740} Re6 {379} 22. Kg2
{549} Rb7 {403} 23. Ba5 {100} Rxe5 {88} 24. Bc3 {45} Rg5 {1157} 25. e4 {395} h4
{346} 26. Kf3 {81} hxg3 {73} 27. hxg3 {5} f5 {321} 28. Re1 {198} Kf7 {255} 29.
Bd2 {334} fxe4+ {34} 30. Rxe4 {6} Rf5+ {43} 31. Kg2 {343} Rd7 {510} 32. Be3 {66
} c5 {217} 33. g4 {186} Rf6 {50} 34. Rec4 {81} Rg6 {127} 35. Rf4+ {64} Rf6 {74}
36. Rfc4 {57} Rg6 {31} 37. Rf2+ {33} Rf6 {81} 38. b3 {69} Rd3 {51} 39. Rxf6+ {
39} gxf6 {95} 40. Kf3 {0} Ke6 {91} 41. Ke4 {541} Rd5 {114} 42. Ra4 {36} Re5+ {
14} 43. Kf3 {76} Kd5 {231} 44. Rxa6 {37} f5 {9} 45. g5 {57} Re4 {6} 46. Bf4 {
417} Re1 {23} 47. Bg3 {132} Re4 {94} 48. g6 {82} Rg4 {12} 49. Bf4 {106} c4 {78}
50. bxc4+ {69} Kxc4 {7} 51. a4 {7} Bc5 {158} 52. Be5 {191} Kd5 {17} 53. Bb2 {
115} Kc4 {585} 54. a5 {218} Bb4 {441} 55. g7 {68} Bc3 {12} 56. Bxc3 {61} Kxc3 {
9} 57. Ra7 {5} 1-0

[Event "ETCC Open 2017"]
[Site "Hersonissos"]
[Date "2017.11.05"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Black "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A04"]
[WhiteElo "2741"]
[BlackElo "2733"]
[Annotator "ChessBase"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[EventType "team-tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[WhiteTeam "Azerbaijan"]
[BlackTeam "Russia"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "AZE"]
[BlackTeamCountry "RUS"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1800+30"]

1. Nf3 {0} c5 {30} 2. c4 {0} Nc6 {5} 3. Nc3 {11} g6 {9} 4. e3 {49} Nf6 {12} 5.
d4 {33} cxd4 {8} 6. exd4 {2} d5 {10} 7. cxd5 {47} Nxd5 {9} 8. Qb3 {29} e6 {11}
9. Bb5 {52} Bg7 {5} 10. Bxc6+ {372} bxc6 {12} 11. O-O {2} O-O {10} 12. Na4 {97}
Qd6 {25} 13. Re1 {213} Rb8 {11} 14. Qd3 {480} c5 {19} 15. Nxc5 {218} Nb4 {10}
16. Qc3 {496} Bb7 {17} 17. a3 {372} Nd5 {13} 18. Qd3 {230} Ba8 {19} 19. b4 {248
} Rbc8 {9} 20. Ne5 {217} Ne7 {130} 21. Bb2 {250} Nf5 {82} 22. Rad1 {142} Rfd8 {
41} 23. Qe2 {163} Qe7 {174} 24. Ne4 {257} Qh4 {482} 25. f3 {185} Rd5 {626} 26.
a4 {1453} h6 {1301} 27. b5 {124} Qd8 {169} 28. Rc1 {59} Rxc1 {561} 29. Rxc1 {1}
Nxd4 {7} 30. Bxd4 {11} Rxd4 {59} 31. Nc6 {83} Bxc6 {5} 32. bxc6 {2} Be5 {9} 33.
Qc2 {118} Qc7 {524} 34. g3 {92} Rb4 {10} 35. Kh1 {212} Kg7 {155} 36. Qd1 {16}
Bd4 {253} 37. Nd6 {131} Kh7 {888} 38. Nb5 {27} Rxb5 {44} 39. axb5 {3} e5 {4}
40. Qb3 {0} Kg7 {15} 41. Qd5 {44} Be3 {64} 42. Rd1 {180} Qb8 {66} 43. Re1 {39}
Bd4 {4} 44. f4 {15} 1-0

[Event "ETCC Open 2017"]
[Site "Hersonissos"]
[Date "2017.11.05"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Grischuk, Alexander"]
[Black "Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C72"]
[WhiteElo "2785"]
[BlackElo "2791"]
[Annotator "ChessBase"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[EventType "team-tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[WhiteTeam "Russia"]
[BlackTeam "Azerbaijan"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "RUS"]
[BlackTeamCountry "AZE"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1800+30"]

1. e4 {0} e5 {5} 2. Nf3 {0} Nc6 {4} 3. Bb5 {8} a6 {4} 4. Ba4 {3} d6 {6} 5. O-O
{380} Bd7 {14} 6. Re1 {384} g5 {7} 7. Bxc6 {688} bxc6 {17} 8. d4 {4} g4 {2} 9.
Nfd2 {5} exd4 {2} 10. Nb3 {445} Ne7 {10} 11. Nxd4 {401} Bg7 {594} 12. Nc3 {845}
O-O {221} 13. Bg5 {67} f6 {5} 14. Be3 {380} Qe8 {525} 15. Qd3 {998} Qf7 {435}
16. Qd2 {72} Qg6 {183} 17. Bf4 {57} h5 {461} 18. b4 {289} h4 {109} 19. a4 {186}
Qh5 {76} 20. Be3 {433} h3 {371} 21. Nce2 {65} hxg2 {47} 22. Nf4 {284} Qh7 {457}
23. Nfe6 {40} Bxe6 {55} 24. Nxe6 {2} Ng6 {5} 25. Nxf8 {14} Rxf8 {3} 26. Bf4 {44
} f5 {501} 27. exf5 {66} Nh4 {9} 28. Ra3 {44} Qxf5 {79} 29. Bg5 {14} Nf3+ {157}
30. Rxf3 {1} gxf3 {4} 31. Bh6 {6} Qd5 {141} 32. Qc1 {62} Bc3 {303} 33. Re3 {2}
Bd4 {476} 34. Rd3 {9} Re8 {101} 35. c3 {119} Bxf2+ {38} 36. Kxf2 {1} Re2+ {5}
0-1

[Event "ETCC Open 2017"]
[Site "Hersonissos"]
[Date "2017.11.05"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Mamedov, Rauf"]
[Black "Dubov, Daniil"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B31"]
[WhiteElo "2678"]
[BlackElo "2677"]
[Annotator "ChessBase"]
[PlyCount "115"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[EventType "team-tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[WhiteTeam "Azerbaijan"]
[BlackTeam "Russia"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "AZE"]
[BlackTeamCountry "RUS"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1800+30"]

1. e4 {0} c5 {8} 2. Nf3 {0} Nc6 {7} 3. Bb5 {0} g6 {7} 4. O-O {0} Bg7 {6} 5. Re1
{0} Nf6 {17} 6. e5 {0} Nd5 {6} 7. Nc3 {4} Nc7 {14} 8. Bxc6 {4} dxc6 {7} 9. Ne4
{2} b6 {120} 10. Nf6+ {120} Kf8 {8} 11. Ne4 {3} Bg4 {13} 12. d3 {13} Bxe5 {78}
13. Nxe5 {52} Bxd1 {7} 14. Bh6+ {5} Kg8 {6} 15. Nxc6 {5} Bxc2 {25} 16. Nxc5 {8}
bxc5 {104} 17. Nxd8 {138} Rxd8 {11} 18. Rxe7 {2} Ne6 {81} 19. Re1 {150} Ba4 {
906} 20. Rxa7 {887} Bc6 {829} 21. h4 {1559} Ra8 {1856} 22. Rxe6 {899} fxe6 {26}
23. Rc7 {10} Rd8 {735} 24. Rxc6 {110} Kf7 {13} 25. Rc7+ {4} Ke8 {7} 26. Bg5 {6}
Rb8 {164} 27. Re7+ {263} Kf8 {8} 28. Bf6 {50} Ra8 {278} 29. a3 {119} h5 {74}
30. Rc7 {61} Rg8 {6} 31. f4 {370} Ke8 {10} 32. Kf2 {58} Rb8 {5} 33. Be5 {262}
Rb3 {192} 34. Ke3 {20} Kd8 {94} 35. Rxc5 {84} Rb7 {45} 36. Bc3 {173} Ra7 {66}
37. Bb4 {152} Kd7 {21} 38. Rg5 {70} Kc6 {120} 39. Ke4 {24} Rf7 {147} 40. Rc5+ {
0} Kb6 {47} 41. Re5 {217} Re8 {37} 42. Ba5+ {224} Kc6 {175} 43. Bc3 {147} Rf5 {
39} 44. g3 {18} Kd7 {194} 45. Ra5 {33} Rxa5 {258} 46. Bxa5 {9} Ra8 {216} 47.
Bb4 {65} Rc8 {29} 48. Bc3 {21} Ra8 {6} 49. Ke5 {17} Ra6 {20} 50. Kf6 {442} Rd6
{8} 51. Kxg6 {490} Rxd3 {6} 52. Kxh5 {4} Rxg3 {5} 53. a4 {36} Kc6 {318} 54. Be5
{151} Rg1 {175} 55. Kh6 {124} Ra1 {71} 56. h5 {41} Rxa4 {6} 57. Kg6 {4} Ra1 {6}
58. Bf6 {67} 1-0