{"id":710,"date":"2023-12-17T08:57:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T08:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/?p=710"},"modified":"2023-12-29T06:42:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T06:42:13","slug":"selection-of-games-from-the-final-day-of-the-december-classic-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/17\/selection-of-games-from-the-final-day-of-the-december-classic-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Selection of Games from the final day of the December Classic Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was yet again a dramatic day of top notch chess with some major upsets, and well deserved wins by many players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Artem Aleksenko vs. Ron Lopez<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/lichess.org\/embed\/game\/CYdlFPC5?theme=auto&#038;bg=auto#0\"\nwidth=600 height=397 frameborder=0><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>In the epic final match for first place,  Artem and Ron dueled for almost 2hrs and 30 minutes.  The critical move was 31&#8230;Qa2 when it appears Ron missed a better tactic and gave away his advantage with a losing trade.  Artem entered the endgame up a rook and ultimately received Ron&#8217;s resignation.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_125443-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-744\" style=\"width:406px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_125443-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_125443-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_125443-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_125443-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_125443-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_125443-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_125443-1320x880.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kareem Khan vs. Billy Zifchak<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/lichess.org\/embed\/game\/TWAuheme?theme=auto&#038;bg=auto#0\"\nwidth=600 height=397 frameborder=0><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Kareem did it again! We told everyone to watch out for him.  Billy was ahead out of the opening capturing a second knight with his queen, but this left her in a very precarious position.  Carelessly, Billy castled and allowed a devastating discovered attack on move 13.  Though Billy pressed on, Kareem carefully squeezed his advantage and there was nothing to be done to stop him. Chess.com ranked Kareem&#8217;s move 13. Bxh7+ as a &#8220;brilliant&#8221; move, reported an overall accuracy of 80% for his game, and said he played as if ranked 1050.  Well done.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Joe Burns vs. Josh Pinchuk<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/lichess.org\/embed\/game\/uq1k5NjV?theme=auto&#038;bg=auto#0\"\nwidth=600 height=397 frameborder=0><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>This was a very competitive game!  Josh played an aggressive response to Joe&#8217;s Ruy Lopez opening and developed a strong attack in the middle game.  Black had white on the back foot with a slight material and positional advantage but let it slip with 34&#8230;Rxg2+.  Joe played well above his rank to get to the end game where he was able to turn the tables.  <em>*transcribed from notation, some moves at the end may be missing or inaccurate<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*<em>If you would like us to post one of your games, send a PGN file from lichess.com or chess.com to piermontchess@gmail.com, or hand in a scoresheet at the end of any tournament.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was yet again a dramatic day of top notch chess with some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}