{"id":1106,"date":"2024-01-17T00:46:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T00:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2024-01-17T03:31:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T03:31:29","slug":"results-and-highlights-from-the-january-13th-unrated-rapid-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/results-and-highlights-from-the-january-13th-unrated-rapid-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Results and Highlights from the January 13th Unrated Rapid Tournament!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to all the participants!  It was a full day of interesting chess that went by very quickly!  After 5 lively rounds starting at 10am and ending right on time at 1pm we had our winners!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1st place<\/strong> with 5 pts: Artem Aleksenko<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2nd place<\/strong> with 4pts: Josh Pinchuk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&amp; in <strong>3rd place<\/strong> with 3 pts: Peter Graham<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Select Games from Jan 13th<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note: many moves may be incorrectly recorded or missing.  Most endings are not recorded due to rules allowing no notation under 5 minutes.  Analyses by lichess.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Billy Zifchak vs. Stephane Derveaux<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/lichess.org\/embed\/game\/Jf8T16Gq?theme=auto&#038;bg=auto\"\nwidth=600 height=397 frameborder=0><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A balanced opening if not a somewhat messy game.  Both players missed free bishops.  After 11. Bf4??, 11&#8230;e5 would have won the bishop with a fork,  And after 17&#8230;Be5??  18. Qxe5 would have also won a bishop for white with the d6 pawn pinned by the d1 Rook, and ultimately black made the blunder (27&#8230;f5??) that gave white the chance to win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jacob Kim vs. Joseph Burns<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/lichess.org\/embed\/game\/JNEcifwm?theme=auto&#038;bg=auto#0\"\nwidth=600 height=397 frameborder=0><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was a really sharp game but white lost the game early on with 6. Bd2??  The best move is Nxc6 which is a book move for the sharp mainline of the Scotch opening.  This blunder ultimately left black up a knight and rook after move 11.  After trading queens the endgame began with black up a rook.  Finally, a fork with 31&#8230;b5! ended any hope of white&#8217;s survival.  White found checkmate 5 moves later.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minus the early error, both played very well. Lichess gave white 85% accuracy with 29 average centipawn loss while black had 99% accuracy and 10 centipawn loss!  Almost every move in the endgame was an excellent or best move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stephane Derveaux vs. Joseph Burns<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/lichess.org\/embed\/game\/qaXltaAG?theme=auto&#038;bg=auto#0\"\nwidth=600 height=397 frameborder=0><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This started off with an unconventional response to the English opening 1. c4.  Black tried to open up the queen side with the Scandinavian defense 1&#8230;d5 which was not the engines favorite move.  White steadily increased the advantage until 23. Bd2+?? landing on a square guarded by the knight on e5, but black missed it!  There must have been some tunnel vision when white played 23. Bd2?? likely aiming for a potential checkmate threat with Bb4.  But black caught it this time and white was knocked back with 23&#8230;Nxc6.  There is no notation after move 28, but white won.  One possible continuation saw an interesting checkmate by pawn promotion from the advanced e pawn, but black had ways around it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to all the participants! 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