Frankenstein-Dracula Variation in the Vienna Game
Thematic Quick Tmt
What are the moves?  Okay….
1. e4 e5
2. Nc3 Nf6
3. Bc4 Nxe4!?
4. Qh5! Nd6
5. Bb3 Nc6
6. Nb5 g6
7. Qf3 f5
8. Qd5 Qe7
9. Nxc7+ Kd8
10. Nxa8  b6 (unclear, very unclear)
…and that’s it – up to you and your opponent to trounce each other….
Oh yeah – a book on this variation is for sale at the Dayton Chess Club!

$13 EF ($3 disc to DCC members)
Prize fund 70% of EFs
Registration 10:30-11:45am
Round 1 starts promptly at 12:13pm
4 rounds – G/25, TD/5 – subsequent rounds start ASAP!

And yes – this is a USCF Quick Rated Tournament.

Ready to play?

Registration for NON DCC-Members $13.00

Registration for DCC Members $10.00

*remember to put down your USCF ID and name of player*

Any questions, email dcc.18w5@sbcglobal.net or call 937-461-6283 & leave a message if we’re not there to answer…..
Hope to see you there- in costume or not!

The purpose of this regular column is to share items big and small about chess found around the web on chess that catch my interest and that I believe in turn will be of interest to you and others.

Chessedelic

For instance today, Friday, June 19, 2009, for my first recommendation from Chess Here And There I would like to bring to your attention a website with the improbable name “chessedelic” of all things – inspired by the term “psychedelic”.

It is not the name that has drawn me www.chessedelic.com, but instead a chess video on the site. A lecture if you will on a game between super GM’s Magnus Carlsen and Veselin Topalov at video #37: Carlsen vs. Topalov … the only complaint I have about the lecture is sometimes Waldemar Moes (FIDE 2036 currently) sometimes speaks too quietly. That may be more a function of my hearing rather than my volume settings.  Check out the video and let me know what you think.

Chess Shots

Chess Couple

My next recommendation is due to a picture/photograph on GM Alexandra Kosteniuk’s website/blog under the heading Chess Couples showing the Bride and Groom as the King and Queen … does anyone recall an Ohio wedding with a chess motif and written up in the Ohio Chess Bulletin by yours truly?

Next are few of my favorite photos found around the web … two men playing chess next to the Ganges river in India.  Then there are two sets from Menton on the French Riviera showing the range of interest in chess with the older and younger alike here and here.

Missing Snap

Then there is the photo that got away, sorry. It appeared somewhat basic with a title “Chess Lesson” with a board and two players up front – one older and one much younger – with 1 or 2 other games going on in the background in some café. What drew me to the photo was the thought the man was instructing the boy until I started a piece count and the boy was clearly giving the man ‘a lesson’ or a whupping.  If any of you know of this photo please let me know … I would really like to share the actual photo rather than a description.

Chess and Baby Boomer Fears

Finally (for today) there is Chess and Alzheimer’s published on ChessNinja.com aka “The Daily Dirt Chess Blog” … for those of us ‘baby boomers’ this is an article of real interest and motivation to maintain our “dedicated amateur” status as noted in the article. While I clearly come down on the side of chess or chess like activities may help prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease, the discussion on this topic was very interesting no matter which side of the argument you take.

And now it is time to say goodbye until our next C.H.A.T. Thanks for reading and feel free to send any suggestions you have for C.H.A.T. topics in the future.

RileyD, nwJ

Riley D. Driver

Before jumping into the top stories from around the world don’t forget that tonight at the Dayton Chess Club we will be having a Holiday Party starting at 6:30 p.m. to…closing {whenever that happens}. Tonight will be the last night we’ll be open until the new year so get your chess playing in for 2008!

Miroshnichenko wins Ukrainian Championship 2008

Evgenij Miroshnichenko, the 2003 Champion, has done it again: he took the 77th Ukrainian title on tiebreak points, ahead of Yuri Drozdovskij

Weston students win chess championship

Four Weston students are members of the chess teams of Pierrepont School, which competed in the Fifth Annual New England Scholastic Championship, held at Mt. Snow, Vt., Nov. 8-9.

Las Tunas to Host Cuban National Chess Championship

According to organizers, the tournament will consist of two stages and will be attended by 38 players, including 11 Grand Masters.

Vladimir Hakobyan – “Chess is a game of fantasy and intuition”

At the age of five Vladimir Hakobyan started to play checkers and even though his dad thought he played well, he didn’t consider it a serious game and that the boy needed to play chess.

2009 All-Girls National Chess Championships

Kasparov Chess Foundation Presents 2009 All-Girls National Chess Championships.

Antonio wins seventh US over-all chess title

Filipino Grandmaster (GM) Rogelio “Joey” Antonio Jr. continued his winning streak in the US as he emerged over-all champion in the recently held 10th Annual Joseph Ileto Memorial Open Chess Championships at the Monterey Park, California.

Did I miss anything? Feel free to contact me and let me know. I’d more than happy to post it and give credit where credit is due.

That’s all for now until next week!

Chess helps young players develop thinking and social skills

As If we didn’t already know this, right? Well check out the story about some middle school players

Parag clinches open Int’l chess title

Parag beat Mahfuzur Rahman Emon in the ninth and final round to secure eight points to clinch the title.

12-year-old in contention in Ukraine Championship

The 2008 Ukraine Championship is missing Ivanchuk, Ponomariov and Karjakin, but is still very strong, with 26 participants, including 17 GMs. The player to watch is IM Illya Nyzhnyk. At twelve he sports a 2444 rating, and after four rounds he has three points (two wins, two draws).

‘Chess’ Just Isn’t Fun Anymore

Good ol’ Soviet intrigue just doesn’t entertain like it used to. In “Chess,” two world-class players at the end of the Cold War find themselves caught within an ever-growing game of politics and trickery, a game that fails to amuse

Check mate: Giant chess board in Auburn for school holidays

During the summer holidays Auburn residents will have the chance to polish their knowledge of rooks, bishops, knights, queens and pawns by enrolling in special coaching classes and a giant chess board game.

New five Cuban chess players were promoted to Grand Masters

The congress promoted Fidel Corrales, Yuri González, Isam Ortiz, Luis Manuel Pérez and Yaniet Marrero to that category.

Deep Green – “the best chess game” for iPhone

Yesterday a new Chess app called Deep Green ($4.99, App Store) was released, and there’s been a lot of noise about it – the most amount of noise coming from John Gruber, who says that Deep Green is “the best chess game yet for the iPhone”.

Lalgopal crowned chess champion

L Lalgopal Sharma of Accountant General culled 15 points with 45 progressive score to win the chess competition of the 6th Inter Central civil Services Sports Meet.

First defeat for chess team

Worcestershire League’s First Division champions Kidderminster lost for the first time since March 2007.

Doping scandal shocks the world… of chess

…Chess Grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk. The Ukrainian professional chess whiz failed to submit a urine sample after the Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany. So since he didn’t play by the rules, he is being accused of doping. Ivanchuk aka “Big Chunky” could face a two-year ban.

Did I miss anything? Feel free to contact me and let me know. I’d more than happy to post it and give credit where credit is due.

That’s all for now until next week!

If you remebered last week we didn’t have a quick tournament and were closed on Saturday due the 17th Annual Kings Island Open. Well thanks to Mike Oaster for the big news came was Carl Bixel beat GM Anatoly Lein at the Kings Island Open this weekend!  That’s BIG news!  Congratulations, Carl.

• Germany holds off Russia in Chess Olympiad:

  Russia’s chess team, hailed as the highest rated ever assembled for a Chess Olympiad, hit a bump Monday as 11th-seed Germany battled all four games against them to a draw in round five of the biennial tournament in open division play

• 44th American Open Coming Up:

  There are the options of a 3 day schedule with four relatively fast games or, for those who do not like fast time controls, or wish to spend Thanksgiving day with family, two half point byes still allow for six “slow” games.

• US team Rolls over Hong Kong at Chess Olympiad:

  The United States crushed Hong Kong 4-0 almost without effort in the fifth round of the Chess Olympiad on Monday

• NJ inmates vs. Princeton students: Prison chess:

  David Wang is a young man who’s clearly going places. The Princeton University sophomore is gifted with a brilliant mind, a movie-star smile and an understated self-confidence.

  Kelvin Washington is a middle-aged man who’s not going anywhere for the next 44 years. He’s a career criminal who has spent 29 years behind bars for a string of robberies and burglaries.

  An unlikely pairing, the two men went head to head Wednesday at the New Jersey State Prison, a maximum-security lockup. Their battlefield: a chess board.

• No fear: RP chess prodigy ‘excited’ to play highly rated Spaniard

  When the country found out who its next opponent will be at the resumption of the 38th World Chess Olympiad, the 14-year-old So asked the more senior members of the RP team if he could be pitted against Super GM Alexei Shirov of Spain.

Keep an eye out – More Next Week! If you have any news feel free to contact us.

If you are a current Dayton Chess Club member and are looking for a way to  help out the club……we need you!  We’re looking for someone to help run the club on Wednesday or Thursday evenings or Saturdays.  If you’re interested, please do come by the club & let us know.

You might ask “do you play?”   Yes, I do – but badly.  Very badly.  What I enjoy about the game is the stories I hear during a chess tournament (yes, I am a club tournament director – and a darn good one at that).  Even though the chess players know I play very little, several will come over to the counter and relate the position that lost their game.  I love it!

I would like to play better – but please, please – I don’t know if I’ll ever get to the stage of “oh yes, let’s analyze this game for the next three hours”.

So – more women in chess!  I think you’ll enjoy the photos of these young girls on their way to excelling in chess….Just wish there was a little more to the story!  What prompted them to play chess?  What is it about the game that evokes the passion?  Oh well …. enjoy !

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