Tactics Time Chess Newsletter: We need your opinion!

Published: Thu, 07/30/15

Newsletter Issue: We need your opinion!

Tactics Time

We need your opinion!

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. ~ Charles Dickens


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his position comes from the 2 minute game "GauteS" vs "jbaffo" (Jeffrey Baffo), Chess.com, July 28, 2015.

In the position on the right it is Black to move.

Answer below.

A couple news and notes:

The chess book cover design contest that we ran turned out great!

We have narrowed it down to 8 designs (from over 120 submitted!), and we need your opinion!

Click here to see the 8 book cover designs and rate and comment on the ones you like best
https://99designs.com/book-cover-design/contests/chess-niche-kindle-ebook-cover-512474/poll/k87wlv?utm_source=voting_app&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=voting

We will use the most popular one as the cover for our new book Tactics Time Zero! Thank you for voting!

I will be one of the chess playing monks at the Colorado Renaissance Festival this Saturday with Paul Anderson. You might recall I did this last year as well, and wrote about it in this newsletter "Bulletproof Monk", http://archive.aweber.com/tacticstime/DaWF9/h/Tactics_Time_Chess_Newsletter_.htm. Should be fun!

Then on Wednesday August 5, I am heading to the 116th Annual U. S. Open Chess Championship in Phoenix Arizona! I am playing in the 4 day section, where you play 9 rounds in 4 days. There is also a 9 day and 6 day schedule. The Arizona Biltmore hotel where it is being held looks really amazing!

On Tuesday's newsletter I mentioned that Daniel Herman would likely make it to an expert rating by the end of summer. In fact, he made expert that very day, by getting a draw against Life Master Brian Wall at the Denver Chess Club. Brian has a "not on my watch" policy where he doesn't like to allow players to cross the line to master or expert by getting rating points from him. Brian says "I don't mind if they go around me, but I don't like it when they go THROUGH me!" Before the pairings Daniel's mom Shirley actually publically predicted this! I thought that was hilarious

Here is the complete game:

[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2015.07.28"]
[White "GauteS"]
[Black "jbaffo"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1378"]
[BlackElo "1505"]
[TimeControl "2|1"]
[Termination "jbaffo won by checkmate"]

1.e4 Nc6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.d4 d6 5.exd6 exd6 6.Bc4 Nb6 7.Bb3 Be6 8.Bxe6 fxe6 9.O-O Be7 10.Bf4 O-O
11.Qd2 Bf6 12.Bg5 h6 13.Bxf6 Qxf6 14.c3 Qf4 15.Qxf4 Rxf4 16.Re1 Re8 17.Nbd2 Nd8 18.Nf1 Rxf3 19.gxf3 Rf8 20.Re3 Nd5
21.Rd3 Nf4 22.Re3 Nd5 23.Rd3 Nf4 24.Rdd1 Nf7 25.a4 Ng5 26.Nd2 Ngh3+ 27.Kf1 Nd3 28.Ne4 Nxb2 29.Rdb1 Nc4 30.Rxb7 Rxf3
31.Kg2 Rd3 32.Rxc7 Nf4+ 33.Kf1 d5 34.Nc5 Nd2+ 35.Ke1 Nf3+ 36.Kf1 Nxh2+ 37.Kg1 Nf3+ 38.Kf1 Nh2+ 39.Kg1 Rh3 40.Rc8+ Kh7
41.Re8 Nf3+ 42.Kf1 Rh1# 0-1

You can play through this game here: http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?fb_ref=Default&id=1230317029

   Answer:

   Jeff plays really well with his knights, and here they were in ninja move trapping the white king with 41...Nf3+ 42.Kf1 Rh1#


   Happy Tactics!

Your Friend,

P.S. Here is the link again for the chess book cover design poll: https://99designs.com/book-cover-design/contests/chess-niche-kindle-ebook-cover-512474/poll/k87wlv?utm_source=voting_app&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=voting

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