Cold and gray in the morning with a bit of blue peaking through, enough to remind me of more beautiful and healthy times. Walked the Navy Pier route then walked to the library for a 5 hour chess study session. A man named Jawanza stopped at my table for a game, he played a tight hedge hog position as white so I had to think hard about how to proceed and find a strategy to exploit it. I had a satisfying moment when I found an indirect way to defend against 27.Nc3, creating a pin on his bishop at c2, I was not too surprised when he quickly played 27.Nc3 because he tended not to think too long on any move so after 27...RxN the game was technically over.
Jawanza/J -
1.g3 Nf6 2.Bg2 d5 3.b3 g6 4.Bb2 Bg7 5.d3 O-O 6.Nd2 c5 7.e3 Bg4 8.f3 Bd7 9.Qe2
Na6 10.O-O-O Qa5 11.d4 Bb5 12.Qe1 c4 13.Nb1 Qc7 14.b4 c3 15.Nxc3 Rac8 16.a3
Bc4 17.Rd2 Nb8 18.Nge2 a5 19.b5 a4 20.Bh3 e6 21.g4 Qa5 22.g5 Ne8 23.f4 Nc7 24.
Ng3 Nxb5 25.Nxb5 Qxb5 26.Ne2 Ba2 27.Nc3 Rxc3 28.Bf1 Qb6 29.Rd3 Rxd3 30.Bxd3
Rc8 31.c3 Bc4 32.Bc2 Bb3 33.h4 Bxc2 34.Kxc2 Qb3+ 35.Kc1 Bf8 36.h5 Bxa3 37.Qd2
Rxc3+ 38.Qxc3 Qxc3+ 39.Kd1 Qxb2 40.Rf1 Bb4 41.hxg6 Qd2# 0-1
| Read Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces - |
| g37 Speilmann/Rubinstein (J) |
| Library game - Jawanza/J |
| Read Application of Chess Theory (Geller) - |
| g12 Geller/Vatnikov (J) |
