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Game of the Week
With Analysis by IM Greg Shahade

May 13th, 2003

Last week the US Champion competed in the NY Masters and this week we had the reigning US Woman’s champion, playing for her first time! We had another new player this week, as the Colombian master, Mauricio Uribe joins the fun. According to Mauricio these will be his first serious chess games in a year! At 2387 FIDE, one may suspect that his 2330 US rating should be somewhat higher.

Participant List for 56th NY Masters

1.      GM Jan Ehlvest
2.      GM Leonid Yudasin
3.      IM Greg Shahade
4.      IM Jay Bonin
5.      IM Irina Krush
6.      SM Gregory Braylovsky
7.      FM Bryan Smith
8.      NM Evgeny Gershov

9.        FM Mauricio Uribe
10.      NM Rafal Furdzik
11.      FM Boris Privman
12.      WIM Anna Hahn
13.      NM Marc Esserman
14       NM Alex Lenderman
15       Qualifier – Robert Hess
16       Filler – Evan Rosenberg

(1) Hahn,A (2231) - Bonin,J (2462) [A40]
56th New York Masters New York (1), 13.05.2003

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There were a few upsets in the first round, and they belonged to the youth of the event. The two youngest, and lowest rated players emerged with a victory in round one! Lenderman sacrificed a pawn against Braylovsky and had enough compensation not to lose, but probably not enough to win the game, however Braylovsky’s ambition proved the better of him, and Lenderman was able to use his a-pawn to create unstoppable queening threats in the endgame.

This week’s qualifier, 11 year old Robert Hess, scored an upset over the strongest ever Alaskan player, 23 year old Bryan Smith. Now let’s see how the US Woman’s Champion fares in her first game, against the fixture of the NY Masters, Jay Bonin. Jay has played in all 56 events thus far, a remarkable achievement!

1.d4 Nc6 2.c4 e5 3.d5 Nce7 4.e4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Ng6 6.Nf3 Bc5 7.Bd3 0-0 8.0-0 a5 9.a3 d6 10.Rb1 Nh5 11.b4 axb4 12.axb4 Bb6

13.Na4 Ba7 14.Bc2 Nhf4 15.c5 Bg4 16.g3 Qf6

Bonin offers a piece for a kingside attack…..he is hoping that the pin on the f3 knight will make it too dangerous to accept the offering.

17.Rb3 Bxc5 18.Nxc5 dxc5 19.bxc5 Ra1

White’s pieces are being pinned from all directions! Finally Anna decides to accept the piece……as if your position is going to suck, you may as well have a piece for it!

20.gxf4 Nxf4 21.Kh1 Nh3 22.Qe2 Rfa8 23.Rc3 R8a2