Archive for February, 2009

Paul Hoffman’s “Chess It Out!” at NPR offered an interesting commentary on Gata Kamsky’s “Brain Freeze” in the second game of his match with Veselin Topolov for the right to challenge Anand:

Wednesday’s game was morbidly dramatic, in the way NASCAR racing is when cars collide. Kamsky got strangely caught up in the boundlessness of chess and self-destructed. He suffered brain freeze and spent much too much time thinking in simple positions. The rules required him to make his first 40 moves in two hours, but he managed to play only 32 and forfeited — a very rare result in world-class chess.

Kamsky briefly pulled even at the halfway point, but Topalov soon took a commanding lead in the match and won it all with Game 7. Analysis of the seven games can be found online from various commentators:

Game 7
Topalov – Kamsky, 1-0 (French Defense, Tarrasch Variation C07)

• USCF, “Topalov Wins Game and Match“
• Dennis Monokroussos
• Mihail Marin
• Vladimir Dimitrov
• Peter Doggers

Game 6
Kamsky – Topalov, 1/2-1/2 (Caro-Kann, Short Variation B12)

• Dennis Monokroussos
• Mihail Marin
• Vladimir Dimitrov
• Peter Doggers
• Antonio Torrecillas

Game 5
Topalov – Kamsky, 1-0 (French Defense, Tarrasch C07)

• Dennis Monokroussos
• Mihail Marin
• Vladimir Dimitrov
• Peter Doggers
• Malcolm Pein
• Guillermo Soppe

Game 4
Kamsky – Topalov 1-0 (Ruy Lopez, Closed – C88)

• Dennis Monokroussos
• Ian Rogers
• Mihail Marin
• Vladimir Dimitrov
• Malcolm Pein
• Susan Polgar
• Jorge Luis Fernandez
• Peter Doggers

Game 3
Topalov – Kamsky 1/2-1/2 (Gruenfeld – D81)

• Dennis Monokroussos
• Mihail Marin
• Vladimir Dimitrov
• Susan Polgar
• Peter Doggers
• Hector Leyva Panequas
• Malcolm Pein
• Commentary and Photos from ChessPro

Game 2
Kamsky – Topalov 0-1 (Ruy Lopez, Berlin Variation – C65)

• Dennis Monokroussos
• Mihail Marin
• Malcolm Pein
• Vladimir Dimitrov
• Peter Doggers
• Mig Greengard
• Jorge Luis Fernandez
• Photos from ChessPro
• Dylan Loeb McClain

Game 1
Topalov – Kamsky 1/2-1/2 (Gruenfeld – D86-88)

• Dennis Monokroussos
• Mihail Marin
• Malcolm Pein
• Vladimir Dimitrov
• Peter Doggers
• Mig Greengard
• Hector Leyva Paneque
• Photos from ChessPro

Activities at the Kenilworth CC tonight will include :

The KCCC Awards Ceremony scheduled for February 26th has been postponed. We’ll give out the hardware March 5th or 12th.

The replays, zips, images & tables that were deleted some 10 days ago have been re-upped. If you find a dead link, please leave a comment to this post & indicate which post number you found it in. Thanks.

There are quite a few postings regarding the recently completed US Amateur Team East 2009, beginning with the prize results (at the NJSCF site). The top teams were:

Top Team (Dennis Barry Award): Palin Gambit: Give UP
2nd Place: Black’s First Move – President Obama
3rd Place: UR Outrated: Give Up
4th Place: Quantum of Soltis
5th Place: 1. d4 (they also won best NJ team)

The tournament crosstable will probably be up around March 1, to judge from last year (there were over 1200 players, after all). Some reflections and games can be found online:

Chess by Dylan Loeb McClain in The International Herald Tribune
An article on USATE featuring an important game Rueda – Schoch from the last round, top board match-up between “Palin Gambit” (the winners) and “You Are Outrated.” This article will likely appear in the Sunday NY Times as well.

Palin gambit Takes US Amateur Team East at USCF site
Gives the results and a java replay of the top board action from the final round, between Paul MacIntyre and GM Lawrence Kaufman.

USATE 2009 Photo Gallery by Jim West
A nice selection of photos, mostly of NJ area players and teams (one photo referenced above). He has also posted his games under USATE 2/16/09 and USATE 2/14/09.

Am Team East, Rd. 5 by Elizabeth Vicary
One of three posts that basically show WFM Vicary’s interesting anti-Sicilian repertoire, including US Am Team Rd. 3: Rossolimo 2, A Players 0 and US am Team Rd 1 – I’m off to a vigorous start!

USATE – Days 2 & 3 by John Moldovan
The Chess Coroner offers post mortem analysis of his better games from the last two days. This is a follow-up to his USATE – Day 1 post.

Another Boston team wins at the AMATE by Robert Oresick of the BCC Weblog
A nice summary of the top board results from the event, along with photo gallery.

USATE – Back to Our Regular Programming by Polly Wright
The last of several blogs on the event, including “Breaking News: Palin Gambit Wins USATE 6-0,” “USATE Rd 4 Photos,” “USATE Rd. 3 – St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Deferred,” and “USATE Rds 1&2.”

Hilton Blogs from the Amateur East by Jonathan Hilton
A report at the end of Day 2 at the USCF site.

Parsippany’s Only Chess Club Band at YouTube
This plays very slowly on my computer, but it is nice to see video from the event. I saw some people shooting video of other parts of the festivities and am curious where that will appear.

For results at the concurrent team events in other parts of the country, see “My Girl Takes Amateur Team South” by Harvey Lerman, “ACA Beasts win US Amateur Team West” by Jerry Yee, “New year, same teams on top” by Jack Peters, “Standings – USATW” and “US Amateur Team North” at Getting to 2000 blog.

In round 3, I struggled against a 1437-rated youngster, missing 2 wins after being worse, but was able to clinch the match with a draw :

1. d4 e6 2. Nf3 f5 3. g3 b6 4. Bg2 Bb7 5. O-O Nf6 6. c4 Be7 7. Nc3 O-O 8. Bf4 Qc8 (N) 9. d5! Nh5 10. Qd2 Nxf4 11. Qxf4 Bd6 12. Qd4 Re8 13. e4 e5 14. Qd3 f4 15. Nb5 += fxg3 16. fxg3 Bc5+ 17. Kh1 a6 18. Nc3 = Qd8? 19. Na4! += Bf8? 20. Qe2? (Qb3! +/-) d6?! 21. Qf2?! Nd7 = 22. h4 Nf6 23. Nc3 Bc8 24. h5? =+ Be7 25. Nh4? Rf8 $17 26. Qe2 Bg4 27. Bf3??

27… Bh3?? (27…Nxh5!! idea 28.Bxg4 Nxg3+ -+) 28. Bg2 = Qd7 29. Nf5 Bg4 $15 30. Nxe7+? Qxe7 -/+ 31. Bf3? Bd7?? (Again, Nxh5! -+) 32. Nd1 = h6 33. Ne3 Nh7 34. Bg4? Bxg4 35. Qxg4 Nf6? (Qg5 -/+) 36. Qg6? (Qh4 =) Qf7 =+ 1/2-1/2

Round 4 featured my best game of the event. I outplayed a former U.S. Women’s Championship competitor :

1. d4 e6 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 c5 5. Nge2 b6 6. a3 Ba5 7. Bd2 Bb7 8. f3 (N) d5 9. cxd5 exd5 10. Nf4 O-O 11. Be2 Bxc3 12. bxc3 c4 13. O-O Re8 14. Qc2 Nc6 15. e4? dxe4 16. fxe4

16…Nxd4! 17. cxd4 Qxd4+ 18. Kh1 Bxe4? (Nxe4 -/+) 19. Qc3 Qxc3 20. Bxc3 Nd5 21. Nxd5 Bxd5 += 22. Bf3 Bxf3 23. Rxf3 f6 = 24. Kg1 Re4 25. Re1 Rae8 26. Rxe4 Rxe4 27. Kf2 Kf7 28. Re3 Re6 29. Rxe6 Kxe6 30. Ke3 Kd5 31. Bb4 f5 32. Bf8 g6 33. Bg7

33…Kc5! 34. h4 Kb5! 35. Kf4? Ka4 36. Kg5?? Kxa3 37. Kh6 b5 (the move she missed) 38. Kxh7 b4 39. Kxg6 c3 40. h5 c2 41. Bh6 b3 -+ 1/2-1/2

Black was winning but, with the match already lost (0.5-2.5), I agreed to a draw to return a favor. Just after the match started, one of my teammates had a family emergency & his opponent waited for 30 minutes, instead of starting the clock.

Yesterday, in rounds 5 & 6, I had bad openings against weaker opponents but won both games to end up +1 & stay >1800 :

1. d4 e6 2. Nf3 f5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4 5. Qd3 b6 6. a3 Ba6 7. Qd2 Be7 8. O-O-O (N) d5 = 9. Ne5 Ne4 10. Nxe4 fxe4 += 11. Bxe7 Qxe7 = 12. Qf4 Qf6? += 13. Qxf6? gxf6 = 14. Ng4 h5! 15. Ne3 c5 16. c3 Nc6 17. Nc2 Rg8 18. g3 Ke7 19. f4 =+ exf3 20. exf3 Bxf1 21. Rhxf1 = Rad8 22. Rfe1 Kf7 23. Re2 Rd6 24. b4 cxb4 25. cxb4 Rc8 26. Kb2 b5 27. f4 a5 28. bxa5 Nxa5 29. Ne3 Nc4+ 0-1

My opponent touched his N & attempted to play 30.Kb3 =/+. When TD Carol Jarecki told him to move the N (presumably 30.Nxc4+ -/+) he abruptly resigned.

1. Nf3 Nc6 2. d4 d5 3. Bf4 Nf6 4. e3 Bg4 5. Nbd2 e6 6. c3 Bd6 7. Bb5 O-O 8. h3 (N) Bh5 9. g4 Bg6 = 10. Ne5 Bxe5 11. dxe5 Nd7 =+ 12. Nf3?! Be4 13. Bxc6 bxc6 14. O-O f6 15. exf6 Qxf6 16. Ne1 Qg6? 17. f3 e5 18. Bg3 Bf5 19. Kh2 Be6 $11 20. f4 Qh6 21. Kg2

21…exf4 22. exf4 = Nf6?! 23. f5 Bd7? (Bc8 +=) 24. Bf4 Qh4?? (g5 +/- was forced) 25. Nf3 +- (Black’s Q is trapped.) Qxg4+ 26. hxg4 Nxg4 27. Qd2 Bxf5 28. Rae1 Be4 29. c4 Rad8 30. Bxc7 Rd7 31. Rxe4 dxe4 32. Qxd7 exf3+ 33. Rxf3 Nf6 34. Qe6+ Rf7 35. Bd6 a5 36. Qc8+ Rf8 37. Qxf8# 1-0

Keresmatic Combo split their 6 matches, +3-3=0. Two of the losses were against the 5th & 11th seeds.

Individually, Ari Minkov had 2.0/4… Arunus Simonaitis was 2.5/6… Ziggy Bliznikas had 2.5/5… Including a forfeit win, I was 4-2… Don Varnekas had 0.5/3.

replays
PGN

The Jackal Attack

We finished out the US Amateur Team East with two drawn matches and 4.5 points out of 6 (half a point behind the best New Jersey Team).

The most interesting game that I got to see was in Round 5, when French aficionado FM Steve Stoyko faced “The Jackal Attack” (1.e4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.d4 c5 6.Bg5). I have posted Meredith-Stoyko, USATE 2009 along with some additional analysis I have done on the Jackal.

As a player of the Two Knights French myself, I have looked at the Jackal Attack and read Skelton’s first edition (he has since issued an update). Anyone interested in learning more about this line can find a lot of analysis on the web, starting with Skelton’s own website on “The Jackal Attack” (where you can purchase a copy of his self-published book) and several reviews: “Play of the Jackal,” “The Jackal Attack and Other Stories,” and “French Defense: Jackal Attack” (with java replay here). Perhaps the most incisive commentary, however, is to be found in Glenn Flear’s review from New in Chess Yearbook #72 (btw: Skelton’s original analysis appeared in NIC Yearbook #61) titled “The Way of the Jackal” (in PDF).

In the game, Steve walked into an Exchange sacrifice that started to look like a mammoth trap.

Mammoth Trap?
Black to play after 12.Bb5

However, as with all mammoth traps (see here and here for examples), it’s hard to contain the beast. And Steve saw that he could escape the trap fairly easily by battering open the a-file with 12…a5! Instead, he played too quickly 12…O-O?! when White is able to force a draw after 13.O-O followed by Nc3 and (after the forced Qxb2) Rb1-b3-b1-b3 with perpetual threat on the Queen.

I have never enjoyed the US Amateur Teams more than I have this year, and I think it shows in the two games I have played so far, which I have annotated and posted online. Playing only in the mornings, against lower-rated competition, and having White in every round certainly helps to keep your spirits up. I have also had the good fortune of only playing very friendly and interesting opponents.

In the first round, I had the pleasure of playing Dale Brandreth, the rare chess book seller, owner and publisher of Caissa Editions, and author or editor of numerous historical chess books (including The Unknown Capablanca.) We spoke about his recent struggle to complete the tournament book for Chicago 1926 based on the (often illegible) holographic game scores. I told him about my own efforts to track down game scores, including from the Dimock Theme Tournament of 1924 and Lake Hopatcong in 1923, and how several people had mentioned Dale himself as the best hope of making a complete collection of Dimock games. He was familiar with Dimock’s own history and offered some ideas, but he held out little hope that I’d ever complete the set (though he did say there were probably untold boxes of unopened materials in the Cleveland Library that could contain just about anything). He also told me some terrible stories about how historical chess documents and game scores go missing, from wives happy to finally throw the stuff in the trash to families worried about incriminating documents simply burning everything.

Position after 6…Nf6!

Our game was an interesting struggle, where he played an innovative move against my Two Knights Caro-Kann to get easy equality. The game could have gone either way, but he failed to attack swiftly enough on the kingside, making it possible for me to win the game on the queenside in an opposite-side castling scenario. This was probably my best attacking game in a long time and I was quite proud of it, especially since even the computer had little to complain about.

After winning our first two matches, the Kenilworth A team made it behind the ropes to Board 9, where we met a team made up of players from the Holmdel Chess Club: Tommy Bartell, Tod Chasin, Brian Meinders, and Bill Potts. Someone remarked that it was the unofficial New Jersey team championship, and our teams certainly represented two of the strongest clubs in the state. The match started out on such friendly terms that no one was willing to start the clocks before everyone was seated–that is, until the chief TD came over and insisted.

I won my game after my opponent walked into a terrible line in the Left Hook Austrian Attack against the Pirc, where Black has literally no play and has to put up with continuous restraint and torture. In some ways, the game reminded me of one that former Kenilworth CC president Joe Demetrick played in a team match and which I annotated. However, despite my win we only drew the match, meaning that we were basically knocked out of contention for the title.

This year the favorite seems to be a team comprised of GM DeFirmian, GM Fedorowicz, and two of their young students. The two kids seem to know how to play chess (unlike a particular kid I encountered last year) — and they likely play better than their ratings. So I think they have a good shot at winning the tournament.

I hope others will be posting their about their experiences and some of their better games and comments in the coming week.

In my only game, I blew a full point against expert Victor Rosas :

[Event "USATE"]
[Site "Parsippany, NJ"]
[Date "2009.02.14"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Moldovan, John"]
[Black "Rosas, Victor"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D36"]
[WhiteElo "1811"]
[BlackElo "2035"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[EventDate "2009.02.14"]
[EventType "team-tourn"]
[EventRounds "6"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
[Source "John Moldovan"]
[SourceDate "2009.02.15"]

{D36 Queen’s Gambit Exchange Variation} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 d5 4. d4 e6
5. cxd5 exd5 6. Bg5 Be7 7. Qc2 Be6 8. e3 Nbd7 9. Bd3 Rc8 10. O-O O-O 11. a3 h6
12. Bh4 c5 {Diagram #} 13. Rae1 $146 Re8 14. Qb1 Qb6 15. Na4 Qd8 $11 16. Nxc5
Bxc5 17. dxc5 Rxc5 $6 18. Nd4 $14 Qb6 19. Rd1 a6 20. Rd2 Rec8 21. Rfd1 Kh8 22.
h3 g5 $6 23. Bg3 $16 Nh5 24. Bh2 Ng7 25. Nxe6 Qxe6 26. Be2 $6 Ne5 $2 $18 {
Diagram #} 27. e4 dxe4 28. Qxe4 $16 Re8 $2 29. Rd6 $18 Qf5 30. Rxh6+ $2 Kg8 $16
31. Qxb7 $2 $44 Ng6 $4 32. Bg4 $18 Qc2 33. Rf1 Qc1 34. Qxa6 Re1 35. Bd6 Rc2 $2
36. Bb4 $2 Rxf1+ 37. Qxf1 Qxb2 {Diagram #} 38. Bf3 $4 Rc1 $19 39. Bd1 Qa1 40.
Qb5 Rxd1+ 41. Kh2 Rh1+ 42. Kg3 Qe5+ 43. Qxe5 Nxe5 44. f4 Nf5+ 0-1

NM Yaacov Norowitz drew against FM Steve Stoyko to win the 2009 Kenilworth Championship. I beat Mark Schwarcz to finish at 4-1 & take clear 2nd place.

Trophy Update

winners :

1st place…  Yaacov Norowitz 4.5

2nd place… John Moldovan 4.0

 

leaders :

3rd place… Steve Stoyko & Mark Kernighan 3.5

U2000… Ari Minkov 3.5

U1800… Richard Lewis 3.5

U1600…  Pat Mazzillo 3.0

U1400… Lou Sturniolo, Bert Shiffman & Joe Renna 2.0

The 4-way deadlock for 3rd could be resolved with a G/30 playoff but I think the easiest solution would be to have the titled players face-off for 3rd place & make Minkov the U2000 winner. That would leave Lewis as the best U1800 or in a playoff vs. Sherer, if a 5-way knot occurs.

Sturniolo can avoid an U1400 playoff by drawing or winning his last game.

Games from round 5 will not be posted until the middle of next week (Tuesday at the earliest).

P.S. – The java-replays & PGN for the previous weeks are up again & working. Refer to post #446 for the 4th round links.  It will, however, be some time before everything is replaced.

I accidentally deleted the Events folder at the host site & will have to re-upload almost every file from 1/1/2008 to the present. I’ll try to do so ASAP. Sorry for the error & inconvenience.

TD Geoff McAuliffe has corrected the board 2 & 3 KCCC pairings to :

2. Schwarcz – Moldovan
3. Bliznikas – Kernighan

For the other pairings, see post #448.

I have not been blogging much, in part because every hour I’ve devoted to chess lately has been spent preparing for the 2009 US Amateur Teams East this weekend in Parsippany, NJ. I have spent most of my time developing and refining a new opening repertoire, which is my most coherent to date. I am sure I will be filling these pages with my new ideas in the coming weeks, following USATE.

The Kenilworth Chess Club is sending several teams, and most of our members will be there, many playing on one of Mike Wojcio’s numerous “Chessaholics” teams. As usual, I will be playing on the Kenilworth Chess Club’s A team with FM Steve Stoyko, NM Scott Massey, NM Ed Allen, expert Bob Rose and myself as alternate. Last year we finished 5-1, losing only to the infamous “GGGg” team. This year I am trying to keep my expectations low to avoid a similar disappointment. After all, USATE is a chance to see old friends, browse the book shops, and play some serious chess in this “Tournament for the Rest of Us.” Secretly, of course, I’m always in it to win it. Unfortunately, so are a lot of other people…

I expect to post about the event and expect others to as well — perhaps at our new Kenilworth Kibitzer blog, which already has four registered members and more on the way. But I have not been able to turn up news or links regarding other people’s preparations, with one exception: the USCF website promises several “blogs” from the event, and they have already posted Abby Marshall’s reflections on getting mentally prepared: “Abby Psychs Up for Amateurs.” The rising star felt down after some hard luck at the Liberty Bell Open, but she is ready for the weekend. Her best comment:

“If I had the choice of going 6-0 and my team does not get first or going 0-6 and getting first, I would choose the latter. Definitely. Rating points and pride can be won back; winning at Amateur Teams is priceless.”

For more information and links about all four team events, check out Presidents Day Weekend: Four Amateur Team Championships from the US Chess Trust.

Welcome another web log to the chess blogosphere: the Kenilworth Kibitzer is now online and open to all members of the club who want an outlet for their chess-related commentary. I have posted a few questions there to help get us started, but I expect to be more of a kibitzer than a commentator in that space down the road.

As readers of the Kenilworth Chess Club History know, that was the name of our old monthly newsletter, which Mike Wojcio started in 1988 and which published off and on for over 15 years. I almost took that name for my own blog, but I was hoping Mike would pick up the blogging habit himself under that banner, and I didn’t want Tim Harding of Chess Cafe’s long-running “The Kibitzer” column to think I was swiping his moniker. Now the blog returns to the real meaning of “kibitzer,” which is basically anyone, expert or tyro, with something to say about our game. If you want to post, let me or a club officer know and we will invite you. But anyone can go to listen in or add a comment to an existing post.

Laugh at it if you must but my Garden State Chess League website is up.

I knew that someone would eventually write a column like Bob Herbert’s “The Chess Master” (The New York Times, February 9), presenting Barack Obama’s rational political strategy as equivalent to brilliant chessplaying. Not surprisingly, Herbert is not the first to make the comparison: “Chessmaster Obama’s Plan for a 60-Seat Super-Majority” is only one of many that I turn up with a quick Google search. It seems that there is a new game in town, and one that contrasts sharply with the primitive, bullying, dangerous, risk-taking, and self-centered gamesmanship of the previous administration, as I have commented on in “Texas Hold’em,” “Chess and Diplomacy” and “US-Russian Diplomacy as Monopoly vs. Chess.” I hope Obama’s middlegame and endgame are as strong as his opening.

Defending champion Mark Kernighan clinched a tie for 1st place by beating Bob Sherry… Ari Minkov took sole possession of 2nd by handing me my 3rd straight defeat… Don Carrelli moved into 3rd place with a quick, model Bird’s Opening win vs. Leon Wu… Ted Mann & Bert Shiffman also won.

Here are the pairings for Thursday 2/12, which will be the 5th & final round of the Kenilworth Championship :

I have finally gotten around to uploading a crosstable for the Kenilworth Championship. On the same page you will find the standings in tiebreak order & performance ratings.

NM Yaacov Norowitz clinched a 1st place tie by beating me in a rather one-sided game. I was equal after 14 moves but made errors on the next 2 turns, lost a pawn & couldn’t hold.

5 more annotated games have been added to the 3rd round replay page & zip.

Mark Kernighan avenged his Jan. 29th KCCC loss by smashing my ill-prepared English… Ari Minkov handed Leon Wu his 1st loss… & Ted Mann time-forfeited in a winning position vs. Bob Sherry.

Wu-Azzarello added to the 2nd round replay page & zip. Game dates corrected to 1/25.

The KCCC pairings for Thursday 2/5 are :

Yaacov Norowitz & I won for the third straight week.

Mark Kernighan, Ziggy Bliznikas, Ian Mangion, Richard Lewis (via forfeit), Pat Mazzillo & Lou Sturniolo stayed within a point of first with their second victories.

Also within striking distance, after their draw, are Steve Stoyko & Mark Schwarcz.

In Thurday’s other action, Aaron Kiedes, Bert Shiffman & Joe Renna took whole points while Rich Buschgans & Max Sherer split one.

So, with 2 rounds to go, the overall standings look this way :

= 1-2. Norowitz, Moldovan 3.0
= 3-12. Stoyko, Schwarcz, Kernighan, Minkov, Bliznikas, Mangion, Carrelli, Lewis, Mazzillo, Sturniolo 2.0
= 13-16. Buschgans, Sherer, Hart, Kiedes 1.5 = 17-22. Tomkovich, Wojcio, Mann, Zhu, Shiffman, Renna, 1.0
= 23-24. McCorkell, Azzarello 0.5
= 25-26. Agress, Cole 0.0

Trophies will be awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places plus the top U2000, U1800, U1600 & U1400 scores.

At the moment, the class-prize leaders are :

• U2000 – Moldovan (1811) 3.0
• U1800 – Carrelli (1748) & Lewis (1719) 2.0
• U1600 – Mazzillo (1442) 2.0
• U1400 – Sturniolo (1368) 2.0

There may be additional categories… if we have enough hardware in the equipment cabinet.

Finally, to wrap this post, here are 7 of the week’s games (all annotated) in Java-replay & PGN.