Well the season is a few weeks old now and everyone should have had a game or
two under their belts?( where are you Dave Evans the Rugger is over!!) The way
my season is going I'll be glad when it's over - not so for Lord Zed who is on
a rather good run at the moment , 9 games undefeated if you haven't spoke to
him in the last few days. I think he should crack 1700 + this season no
problems - then his head will probably be as large as another part of his body
!!( answers on a postcard to....) Seriously, if you haven't seen one of wins
this season here is a sample of him putting a 1700+ through the treadmill.
(6) Owen,A (1766) - Allford,Z (1658) [C30]
Gwent U1800 Cup Final, 13.10.1999
[Fritz 5.32 (20s)]
1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Nf3 d6 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 last book move 5...exd4
6.cxd4 Bb4+ 7.Bd2 Bxd2+ 8.Nbxd2 0-0 9.Bd3 c5 10.Qc2 cxd4 11.0-0 Nc6 12.a3 Covers
b4 12...h6 13.h3 Prevents intrusion on g4 13...Nh5 14.Nh2 Qh4
15.Ndf3 15...Qg3 16.Qf2 Qxf2+ 17.Rxf2 Nxf4 18.Bb5 Bxh3µ [¹18...d3!?-+] 19.Nh4
Bxg2 [19...Bxg2 20.Rxf4 g5³] 0-1
Short n' sweet eh - on top of that it helped us win last years Gwent u-1800
Cup - although, we are already OUT of this years competition!
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where Zane has an up to date record of League results, tables and performances
of all players. Also if you haven't signed the guest book do so !
One of the other games that has got my attention this season was the recent
DERBY match between our club sides. As I was deselected
for the match it was a good opportunity to watch our players in action. One of
the games that caught my eye was an intriguing game on board 2 - Alan
Thompson vs. Mark Cooke. I soon found myself writing the moves
down and when I got home I immediately got to putting into my database to
analyse at a later stage. Whilst doing this though I found myself commenting
on the game as I thought of it in "real time" - the results of which
I posted to WAT & MC the next day. Later I put Fritz to work on it but
these were my observations at the time !!....
(103) Thompson,A (1185) - Cooke,M (1573) [D07]
Ebbw Vale Ebbw Vale, 1999
[Alan Coles]
1.Nf3 After 1 d4 this is known as The WAT attack! 1...Nc6 Never
one to follow fashion our Mark! 2.d4 If Alan dosen't play this 1st move
it MUST follow on the 2nd! 2...d5 3.e3 The beginnings of a Torre attack
- Steve Williams would be proud! 3...Bg4 This is looking more like a
mutant scandinavian to me now!?? 4.c4 I haven't let the PC analyse this
yet so God knows what opening it will code it as ? my guess b4 blacks next
move is a Queens gambit... 4...e5 Budapest stylee !! 5.h3 Bxf3 [5...Bxf3
best] 6.Qxf3 Bb4+ 7.Bd2 e4 8.Qd1 [Qg3 looked better methinks htting the
g pawn?] 8...Nf6 9.Nc3 0-0 10.a3 Be7 11.cxd5+- Nxd5 12.Nxe4 a pawn is a
pawn ! 12...Re8 13.Nc3 Bd3 looked a bet try ? 13...Bf6 14.Be2
Bxd4‚ 15.exd4 here I thoug ht Nxd4 might have been better with the idea
of Qxd4 Be3 Qxg2 Rf1 etc ? 15...Nxd4 16.Be3 Nxe3 17.fxe3 Rxe3 18.0-0 Nxe2+
19.Nxe2 Qxd1 20.Raxd1 Rxe2 The dust settles & MC is 2 pawns to the
good -but Wat has slim threats of a back ranker if Thomas asks for the toilet
?!! 21.Rd7 f6 22.b4 b6 23.Rxc7 a5 24.bxa5 Rxa5 25.Rd1 h6 26.Rdd7 Rg5 This
I must admit I did not see - good move Mark !! 27.g4 h5 ? Re3 must be
better hitting the a n' h pawns... 28.Kf1 Ra2 29.Ra7 hxg4 30.h4 Rf5+ 31.Ke1
Here the general consensus from the observers was that Al had gone the
wrong way ? Kg1 looked safer? 31...Re5+ 32.Kd1 f5 33.Rxg7+= Kf8 34.Rgd7 [Crafty
16.6: 34.Rgf7+ Kg8 35.Rg7+ Kf8 0.00/12; Crafty 16.6: 34.Raf7+ Ke8 35.Rb7 Rd5+
0.00/12; Crafty 16.6: 34.Rh7 Rd5+ 35.Kc1 Kg8 36.Rag7+ Kf8 37.Rf7+ Kg8 38.Rhg7+
Kh8 39.Rh7+ Kg8 0.00/12] 34...g3 This is where Zane says that Rh7 wins
for white - Crafty gives it as half a pawn better for white but still not
conclusive? It gives WAT's move the same + score of 0.31 35.Rf7+ Ke8 NOW
white is winning if Rh7 is played !! 36.Rg7? [Crafty 16.6: 36.Rh7 Rd5+
37.Kc1 Rd7 38.Raxd7 g2 39.Rde7+ Kd8 40.Kb1 g1Q+ 41.Kxa2 Qd4 42.h5 f4 2.39/11;
Crafty 16.6: 36.Rfb7 Rd5+ 37.Ke1 g2 38.Re7+ Kd8 39.Rg7 Re5+ 40.Kd1 g1Q+
41.Rxg1 Ra1+ 42.Kd2 Rd5+ 43.Kc3 Rxg1 -4.67/11] 36...Rd5+ 37.Kc1 Kf8 38.h5??
[Crafty 16.6: 38.Rh7 Kg8 39.Rag7+ Kf8 40.Rf7+ Kg8 41.Rhg7+ Kh8 42.Rxg3
Rc5+ 43.Kd1 Rac2 0.49/11] 38...g2 Blacks win is unstoppable !! 39.Rgf7+
Ke8 Somewhere by here both Myself and Alan T seem to have stopped
recording the game, but the game is now over methinks a win for Black but a
very enjoyable game to spectate at!! - Well done both..I think it went
something like this -. 40.Rae7+ Kd8 41.Rg7 g1Q+ 42.Rxg1 Ra1+ 43.Kb2 Rxg1 and
the 'A' team have their 4 - 0 win but not after a very hard clean fight......
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