Thursday, September 3, 2009

Mistaken Identity @ "TWIC"

In its coverage of the DOCA TransNet FIDE Invitational, issue 772 of The Week in Chess mistakenly shows Jonathan West instead of me in the tournament's crosstable.

Not only that, all my games from the event show J. West with a FIDE rating of 1970 which is Jonathan's rating. This is how my victory against Kevin Chen appears in the TWIC database.

[Event "1st DOCA FIDE Inv"]
[Site "Branchburg USA"]
[Date "2009.08.14"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Chen, Kevin Emmanuel"]
[Black "West,J"]
[Result "0-1"]
[BlackElo "1970"]
[EventDate "2009.08.11"]
[ECO "C41"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 f5 4. Nc3 fxe4 5. Nxe4 d5 6. Nxe5 dxe4 7. Qh5+ g6 8. Nxg6 Nf6 9. Qe5+ Kf7 10. Bc4+ Kg7 11. Nf4 h6 12. Be6 Bb4+ 13. c3 Nc6 14. Qf5 Qe8 15. O-O Bd6 16. d5 Bxf4 17. Bxf4 Bxe6 18. dxe6 Qh5 19. Qxh5 Nxh5 20. Bxc7 Rhe8 21. Rad1 Rxe6 22. Rd7+ Re7 23. Be5+ Nf6 24. Bxf6+ Kxf6 25. Rd6+ Kg7 26. Rfd1 Rae8 27. b4 Ne5 28. a4 Nc4 29. R6d4 Nb2 30. Ra1 Rc8 31. g3 Rxc3 32. Ra2 Rd3 33. Rxd3 Nxd3 34. b5 Re5 35. Rc2 Rc5 36. Re2 Rc4 37. a5 Kf6 38. b6 axb6 39. axb6 h5 40. Kg2 Rb4 41. h4 Kf5 0-1

I must say that Jonathan West plays the Philidor Counter Gambit as though he is Jonathan Mestel combined with Jim West!