Jim West On Chess: Upsets on Super Sunday

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Upsets on Super Sunday

I guess it makes sense that, on the same day that the Giants upset the Patriots in the Super Bowl, there were so many upsets at the ICA Winter 2008 Open.

Meanwhile, in Section 4, Ziping Liu finished with a score of 1-0-3. Here is his winning effort.

Round Two: King's Indian Attack

Ziping Liu (USCF 1429) - Kelvin Yao (USCF 1242), ICA Winter 2008 Championship 2/3/2008

1.e4 e5 2.d3 Nf6 3.Nd2 Nc6 4.g3 d5 5.Bg2 d4 6.Ngf3 Bg4 7.O-O Bd6 8.a4 O-O 9.Nc4 Qd7 10.Bg5 Be7

11.Qd2 Bxf3 12.Bxf3 h6 13.Bxf6 Bxf6 14.Bg2 a6 15.a5 Rfb8 16.f4 exf4 17.Qxf4 b5 18.axb6 cxb6 19.e5 Bg5 20.Qf3 Nb4 21.Nxb6, Black resigns.

"My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, and have never regarded it as anything else, for all the science and sport involved in it. And, moreover, an art which in some ways is closer to music than it is customary to think. Perhaps chess and music are drawn together by laws of harmony and beauty which are difficult to formulate and difficult to grasp, or perhaps by something else." - Vasily Smyslov