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Game of the Week February 4thth, 2003 Week 42 marked the first “wildcard” week of the NY Masters. In the “wildcard” week, one player under 18 years old, rated 2000-2200 is eligible to play in the event. This player is in turn sponsored by a company, which increases the prize fund. Also in the first round, the wildcard’s game will be shown on ICC. This week the “SmartChess.com” wildcard player was Maxsim Grinman, 17 years old and rated 2130. There will be a wildcard in every 10th event, thus meaning every event that ends in 2, such as the 42nd, 52nd, 62nd and I think you can all see the pattern. We had one new player this week, in Canadian National Champion, IM Pascal Charbonneau. He has been promising to join the fray for a while now, and has scheduled his classes this semester to make it a more likely occurrence. Also this week we had the entire Shahade family in the tournament, for the first time in many months. The omens were not good when all three of us were given the black pieces in the first round. Participant List for 42nd NY Masters
Let’s see how the game between Stripunsky and I went.....although everyone who knows me please close your eyes. (4) Shahade,G (2510) - Stripunsky,A (2648) [B43] [Click here for an interactive JavaScript board] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Nc3 b5 6.Bd3 Qb6 7.Nb3 Qc7 8.f4 Bb7 9.Qf3? Stupid Move.9...f5
The point of this move is that my e-pawn is pinned! Wonder how that happened? 10.Qe2 b4 11.Nd1 fxe4 12.Bxe4 Bxe4 13.Qxe4 Nc6 14.Qe2 Nf6 15.0-0 Bd6 16.Ne3??
16...Bxf4!!! A bolt from the blue!!! The spectators showered the board with gold!!! Ok ok, I just hung a pawn for nothing, I admit it. 17.Ng4 Maybe Stripunsky could have believed that I planned to sacrifice this pawn, if I didn’t spend 5 minutes thinking about what to do next. 17...Bxc1 18.Nxf6+ gxf6 19.Qh5+ Ke7 Despite the black king being in the center, white has absolutely no chance to take advantage of this.20.Raxc1 Qe5 21.Qh4 Rag8 22.Kh1 Rg5 23.Rce1 Rh5
A nice technical move, trading down into an easily won endgame. 24.Rxe5 Rxh4 25.Rc5 Re4 26.Kg1 f5 27.Rd1 Rg8 28.Rd2 Rgg4 29.h3 Rgf4 30.c3 Re1+ I really want to resign, but I know how much the people on ICC love watching people get crushed. It just becomes comment after comment that go something like this…Player A kibitzes – White is dead!! Being that it’s clear how much they enjoy this, It’s probably best to wait as long as possible to resign. 31.Kh2 Rff1 32.Kg3 Re3+ 33.Kh2 f4 34.h4 Ne5 0-1With this win, Stripunsky joined Jay Bonin in joint 3rd
place. Return to the New York Masters Index
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