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Welcome to the New MCA Newsletter!
This is an attempt to get the Mississippi Chess
Association newsletter back off the ground and make it available as an
online publication.
We’re hoping to keep the membership up to date on
Mississippi, regional, national, and international chess news. We also want to help people improve
their game by presenting interesting games and helpful articles.
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USCF News
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GM Alexander Shabalov is the new U.S. Champion
and WIM Anna Hahn is the new women’s champion.
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The USCF Executive Board is meeting May 24-25
in Crossville, Tennessee.
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Games Wanted
Want to be published? Send
us your game or article and we’ll be happy to publish it!
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Opening Theory – Benko Gambit
By Douglas Stewart
Some gambits are more obvious than others. It can be especially hard to find a
sound gambit from the Black perspective.
In the Benko gambit, black sacrifices a pawn to get
positional pressure.
Here is a typical main line:
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. bxa6 g6 6.
Nc3 Bxa6 7. e4 Bxf1 8. Kxf1 d6
Black is going to attack on the queenside, while White
will try to push through in the center without letting his queenside
collapse.
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Linares Summary
By Douglas Stewart
Linares is a super-GM tournament held in Spain every
year. It is a double round robin
tournament, which means everyone plays each other twice, alternating
colors. It always attracts some of
the strongest players in the world and has been considered an unofficial
world championship.
This year the tournament was won by 23 year old GM
Peter Leko, who finished with 4 wins, 2 losses, and 6 draws.
One of the highlights of the tournament was 39 year
old (recently turned 40) GM Garry Kasparov getting beat by 15 year old GM
Teimour Radjabov.
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Upcoming Tournaments
Because nothing compares to tournament competition!
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May 9-11
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$8,000 Paul Morphy Open (Biloxi)
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June 1
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2003 Louisiana State G/29 Championship (New Orleans)
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July 13
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2003 Louisiana State G/60 Championship (New Orleans)
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Information about these tournaments can be found at http://www.cajunchess.com.
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Jackson Chess Club Lives!
The Jackson Chess Club is currently meeting at the
food court at Northpark Mall in Ridgeland every Tuesday at 6:30pm.
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Contacting the Editors
Douglas Stewart douglas@pobox.com
Warren Porter wbport@bellsouth.net
Feedback is welcome!
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Alabama Chess
By Douglas Stewart
The Alabama scene is pretty active right now. I’ve played in tournaments in
Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Montgomery, and Tuskegee so far this year. There are a lot of A players (1800-1999)
that play in tournaments in Alabama, which makes for challenging
competition.
Here’s one of my recent games:
White: Douglas Stewart (1797)
Black: Chris Bond (1923)
Tuskegee Open
April 26, 2003
1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. Bc4 Bc5 5. O-O d6
6. d3 Bg4 7. h3 Bxf3 8. Qxf3 Nd4 9. Qd1 c6 10. a3 b5 11. Ba2 O-O 12. Ne2 h6
13. Ng3 Kh7 14. c3 Ne6 15. Be3 Bb6 16. Bxb6 Qxb6 17. Qf3 Nf4 18. Rad1 Qc7
19. Nf5 g6 20. Ne3 Kg7 21. Kh2 Rad8 22. g3 Ne6 23. Rd2 Ng5 24. Qg2 h5 25.
f4 Ne6 26. f5 Ng5 27. h4 Ngh7 28. g4 1-0
Here Black’s flag fell in this position:
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White: Garry Kasparov (2847)
Black: Teimour Radjabov (2624)
XX SuperGM Linares ESP
Feb 23, 2003
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.Nf3 Nc6
7.Be3 a6 8.Qd2 b5 9.a3 Qb6 10.Ne2 c4?! 11.g4 h5 12.gxh5 Rxh5 13.Ng3 Rh8
14.f5?! exf5 15.Nxf5 Nf6! 16.Ng3 Ng4 17.Bf4 Be6 18.c3 Be7 19.Ng5 0-0-0
20.Nxe6 fxe6 21.Be2 Ngxe5 22.Qe3 Nd7 23.Qxe6 Bh4 24.Qg4? g5 25.Bd2 Rde8
26.0-0-0 Na5 27.Rdf1?? [ 27.Kb1 ] 27...Nb3+ 28.Kd1 Bxg3 29.Rf7 [ 29.hxg3
Qg6 30.Bc1 Qb1 31.Qxg5 Rhg8 32.Qf4 Re4 33.Qh6 Rg6! ; 29.Qxg3 Qg6 30.Bc1
Rxe2 31.Kxe2 Qc2+ 32.Kf3 Qe4+ 33.Kf2 Rf8+ 34.Kg1 Rxf1+ 35.Kxf1 Qxh1+ ]
29...Rd8 30.Bxg5 Qg6 31.Qf5 Qxf5 32.Rxf5 Rdf8 33.Rxf8+ Nxf8 34.Bf3 Bh4 35.Be3
Nd7 36.Bxd5 Re8 37.Bh6 Ndc5 38.Bf7 Re7 39.Bh5 Nd3 0-1
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