Tactics Time Chess Newsletter Half Insane

Published: Fri, 01/08/16

Newsletter Issue Half Insane

Tactics Time

Half Insane

Of course with Joel or Anthea or Tim or Paul Anderson or me you always
have to wonder what tactic will show up in an email, Facebook post, book, newsletter or
calendar later. Playing one of us is like a Maze Runner movie for anonymity. ~ Brian Wall annotating a game he played against me at Shirley Herman's half insanity tournament.


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his position comes from the game DuWayne Langseth (1885) vs Sara Herman (1642), 2015 Winter Springs Open, Round 3, played December 6, 2015 in Manitou Springs, CO.

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

Answer below.

Some news and notes:

I started the year playing in a "half insanity" tournament organized by Shirley Herman.

   The event was a lot of fun, starting at 6PM with plans to go until 6AM the next day.

   (A "full insanity" would be 24 hours of straight chess, which Shirley has also organized in the past - see my email "Surely you can't be serious", where I talked about this one: http://archive.aweber.com/tacticstime/NQf6X/h/A_24_Hour_Insanity_Tournament_.htm)

   The time control was G/20 with a 16 second increment (20+16 for the year 2016 which I thought was clever), and was held at a local Denny's.

   Chris Peterson put his 2198 rating on the line, and was able to maintain that rating, but was still fractional points away from making it to Master after all the smoke cleared.

   You can see the final results here: http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMainFP.php?201601023332-12718954

   Thanks Shirley for organizing a fun event to start the new year!

The new issue of the Colorado Chess Informant (January 2016) is out.

   You can read the issue here: http://www.coloradochess.com/informant/January%202016.pdf

   My Tactics Time column is on page 30.

   Fred Spell (the editor) does an amazing job. I love his use of fonts and colors.

My "wing man" Francisco Baltier is going to come visit Colorado next month, and we are going to go skiing for two days at Copper Mountain, then play in Randy Reynolds' "Loveland Open", Feb 21-22, which is already a really well run event. See details here: http://www.coloradochess.com/newtourn.shtml#1005

Here is the complete game:

[Event "2015 Winter Springs Open"]
[Site "Manitou Springs Art Gallery, CO"]
[Date "2015.12.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Langseth, DuWayne"]
[Black "Herman, Sara"]
[WhiteElo "1885"]
[BlackElo "1642"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[Opening "Stonewall"]
[ECO "A45"]
[PlyCount "129"]
[Time "9 AM"]
[TimeControl "G/90 + a 30 second increment"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. e3 e6 3. f4 c5 4. Nf3 b6 5. Bd3 Bb7 6. c3 d5 7. Qe2 Nc6 8. Nbd2
Rc8 9. O-O Be7 10. Ne5 cxd4 11. exd4 g6 12. Ng4 Nxg4 13. Qxg4 Bf6 14. Nf3 O-O
15. Ne5 Na5 16. Rf3 h5 17. Qh3 Qe7 18. Rg3 Bg7 19. Nxg6 fxg6 20. Bxg6 h4 21.
Rg4 Qf6 22. Bd2 Qe7 23. Be1 Rc6 24. Bxh4 Rf6 25. Bxf6 Qxf6 26. Qh7+
Kf8 27. Bd3 Nc4 28. Bxc4 dxc4 29. Qg6 Qxg6 30. Rxg6 Kf7 31. Rg3 a5 32. Re3 b5 33. Rae1 Bf6
34. g4 b4 35. g5 Bd8 36. Rh3 Kg6 37. Rh6+ Kf5 38. Re5+ Kxf4 39. Rh4+ Kf3 40.
Rh3+ Kf4 41. Kf2 Kg4 42. Rg3+ Kf4 43. g6 Bh4 44. g7 Rc8
45. Rxe6 Bxg3+ 46. hxg3+ Kf5 47. Rb6 bxc3 48. bxc3 Bd5 49. Rb5 Ke4 50.
Rxa5 Rg8 51. Ra7 Kd3 52. g4 Kxc3 53. Ke3 Re8+ 54. Kf4 Kxd4 55. g5 c3 56. Rc7 Bxa2 57. Kf5
Kd3 58. Rd7+ Kc2 59. Kf6 Kb2 60. Rf7 Bxf7 61. Kxf7 Ra8 62. g8=Q Rxg8 63. Kxg8 c2 64. g6
c1=Q 65. g7

1/2-1/2

You can play through this game here: https://denverchess.com/games/view/15442

Answer:

DuWayne played 43. g6 missing the mating net 43. h3!! any 44. Rg4#

Happy Tactics!

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