ICA Winter 2008 Open

Earlier today, I participated in the ICA Winter 2008 Open where I finished with a win, a draw, and a bye in round three. Meanwhile, my student Ziping Liu [shown below, as White, in his fourth round game] played in Section 4.


Here are my games.

Round One: Philidor Counter Gambit

Kavinayan Sivakumar (USCF 1694) - Jim West (USCF 2200), Hackensack NJ 2/3/2008

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 f5 4.d3 c6 5.O-O f4 6.Nc3 Qf6 7.d4 Ne7 8.dxe5 dxe5 9.b3 g5 10.Bb2 Ng6


11.Nd5 cxd5 12.Qxd5 Nd7 13.Rad1 a6 14.Qe6+ Qxe6 15.Bxe6 Be7 16.Bxd7+ Bxd7 17.Nxe5 Nxe5 18.Bxe5 Rg8


19.c4 Bc6 20.f3 Rd8 21.Rxd8+ Kxd8 22.Rd1+ Kc8 23.Kf2 Rd8 24.Rxd8+ Kxd8 25.Ke2 Kd7 26.Kd3 Ke6 27.Bd4 h5 28.h3 b5


29.Bf2 bxc4+ 30.bxc4 Ba4 31.Bd4 Bb4 32.Bf2 Be7 33.Bd4 Bf6 34.Bf2 Be5 35.Bc5 g4 36.fxg4 hxg4 37.hxg4 Kf6 38.Bb6 Kg5 39.Ba5 Kxg4 40.Be1 Bc7


41.Kd4 Bc6 42.a3 a5 43.Kd3 Bb6 44.Bd2 Kg3 45.Bc1 Bc5 46.Bxf4+ Kxf4 47.Kc3 Bxe4 48.Kb3 Bc6 49.Kb2 Bxg2 50.Kb3 Bc6 51.Kb2 a4 52.Ka2 Ke3 53.Kb2 Kd3 54.Ka2 Kc2 55.Ka1 Bd4+ 56.Ka2 Bc3 57.c5 Bd5#.

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Round Two: Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation

Jim West (USCF 2200) - Solomon Lerner (USCF 1869), Hackensack NJ 2/3/2008

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.O-O Bg4 6.h3 Bxf3 7.Qxf3 Bc5 8.d3 Qd7 9.Nd2 Ne7 10.Nc4 Ng6 11.Qf5 Qe7 12.g3 f6 13.h4 Nf8

14.Be3 Bxe3 15.Nxe3 Ne6 16.Kg2 O-O-O 17.b4 Kb8 18.Rab1 h5 19.Qg6 Nf8 20.Qf5 g5 21.Qf3 Ng6 22.Nf5 Qe6 23.hxg5 fxg5 24.c4 h4 25.Rh1 Rhg8 26.a4 Ne7


27.Nxe7 Qxe7 28.b5 h3+ 29.Kh2 cxb5 30.axb5 Qc5 31.Rhf1 Rgf8 32.Qe2 axb5 33.Rxb5 Qd4 34.Kxh3 Qd7+ 35.Kg2 Rh8 36.Rh1 Rxh1 37.Kxh1 Rh8+ 38.Kg1 Qh3


39.Qf3 g4 40.Qg2 Qh6 41.Rb1 Qd2 42.Qf1 Qh6 43.Qg2 Qd2 44.Qf1 Qh6, draw.