LSGH Summer TournamentLSGH, Mandaluyong City
White: Junior Sol Cruz
Black: Gio Mejia1 e4 c5 2 Nc3
World Champion Emanuel Lasker in Manual of Chess, one of The Wall Street Journal's Five Best (chess books of all time), "Get the knights into action before both bishops are developed."
In opening theory, this formation is known as the CLOSED SYSTEM of the SICILIAN DEFENCE.
The Closed System is a historic opening for Philippine chess. It was used by Rogelio Antonio, Jr., the 3rd Filipino Grandmaster, in his victorious Round 1 match vs Alexander Kozak of Kalmykia in the 1999 Las Vegas World Championship.
2 ... d6 3 d3 Nf6 4 Nf3 g6 5 b3 Bg7 6 h3?
Mason in The Art of Chess, "Refrain from pushing any rook pawn merely to prevent bishop attacking knight or pinning, as it is called."
6 ... Nc6 7 g4?
Reinfeld in The Complete Chess Player, "Don't attack prematurely. An attack should be undertaken, as a rule, only when one's development has been completed or well advanced."
And Weeramantry & Eusebi in Best Lessons of a Chess Coach, "Development is not complete until Rooks are connected."
7 ... O-O 8 g5 Nh5 9 Bb2
World Champion Jose Raul Capablanca in Chess Fundamentals, "Placed on the long diagonal, the bishop is posted for its maximum potential control of the central squares as well as eyeing the opposite wing of the enemy's camp."
However, this move should have been made right after 5 b3 instead of the "too many pawn moves" h3, g4 & g5.
9 ... a6 10 Qd2Tarrasch in The Game of Chess, "It is best, in the opening, to make but one move with the Queen, and that to a square where she is not exposed to any direct or indirect attack, so especially not to a file in which there is an opposing Rook, no matter how many men there may be in between."
10 ... b5 11 O-O-O
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World Champion Garry Kasparov in Kasparov Teaches Chess, "Beginners and those with insufficient experience should castle at the earliest opportunity."
11 ... Bb7 12 Be2
Chernev in Logical Chess, "Moving the Bishop only one square may not seem much of a move, but it complies with the first law of rapid development: Get your pieces off the back rank!"
12 ... e5 13 h4 Nf4
diag
14 Nh2?
Weeramantry and Eusebi in Best Lessons of a Chess Coach, "However, decentralizing a knight can hurt you if your opponent can counterattack immediately in the center."
14 ... Nd4
Planting a Knight at the center of the board, the squares e4, d4, e5, & d5, will reap benefits similar to The Parable of the Sower, "Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."
15 Rde1?Wolff in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess, "A piece that defends a pawn or another piece, particularly when it controls few squares, is called a passive piece."
15 ... d5 16 PxP b4 17 Ne4 QNxB+
Diag 4
18 Kb1???
Shipman wrote in Portable Chess Coach, "Running away when under attack seems to be the first impulse for many new players who find themselves in check."
And in this situation, running has cost Junior a Bishop and eventually the game against the 2-time runner-up of the National Age Group Championship.
18 ... BxP 19 Nf6+??? BxN 20 PxN BxR 21 RxB Nc3+ 22 BxN PxB 23 QxP QxNP 24 Ng4 Qe6 25 Nh6+ Kg7 26 Re1 f6 27 QxBP Rac8 28 Qa7+ KxN 29 d4 Qf5 30 PxP QxBP+ 31 Ka1 Qc3+ [0-1].
White: Junior Sol Cruz
Black: Gio Mejia1 e4 c5 2 Nc3
World Champion Emanuel Lasker in Manual of Chess, one of The Wall Street Journal's Five Best (chess books of all time), "Get the knights into action before both bishops are developed."
In opening theory, this formation is known as the CLOSED SYSTEM of the SICILIAN DEFENCE.
The Closed System is a historic opening for Philippine chess. It was used by Rogelio Antonio, Jr., the 3rd Filipino Grandmaster, in his victorious Round 1 match vs Alexander Kozak of Kalmykia in the 1999 Las Vegas World Championship.
2 ... d6 3 d3 Nf6 4 Nf3 g6 5 b3 Bg7 6 h3?
Mason in The Art of Chess, "Refrain from pushing any rook pawn merely to prevent bishop attacking knight or pinning, as it is called."
6 ... Nc6 7 g4?
Reinfeld in The Complete Chess Player, "Don't attack prematurely. An attack should be undertaken, as a rule, only when one's development has been completed or well advanced."
And Weeramantry & Eusebi in Best Lessons of a Chess Coach, "Development is not complete until Rooks are connected."
7 ... O-O 8 g5 Nh5 9 Bb2
World Champion Jose Raul Capablanca in Chess Fundamentals, "Placed on the long diagonal, the bishop is posted for its maximum potential control of the central squares as well as eyeing the opposite wing of the enemy's camp."
However, this move should have been made right after 5 b3 instead of the "too many pawn moves" h3, g4 & g5.
9 ... a6 10 Qd2Tarrasch in The Game of Chess, "It is best, in the opening, to make but one move with the Queen, and that to a square where she is not exposed to any direct or indirect attack, so especially not to a file in which there is an opposing Rook, no matter how many men there may be in between."
10 ... b5 11 O-O-O
diag
World Champion Garry Kasparov in Kasparov Teaches Chess, "Beginners and those with insufficient experience should castle at the earliest opportunity."
11 ... Bb7 12 Be2
Chernev in Logical Chess, "Moving the Bishop only one square may not seem much of a move, but it complies with the first law of rapid development: Get your pieces off the back rank!"
12 ... e5 13 h4 Nf4
diag
14 Nh2?
Weeramantry and Eusebi in Best Lessons of a Chess Coach, "However, decentralizing a knight can hurt you if your opponent can counterattack immediately in the center."
14 ... Nd4
Planting a Knight at the center of the board, the squares e4, d4, e5, & d5, will reap benefits similar to The Parable of the Sower, "Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."
15 Rde1?Wolff in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess, "A piece that defends a pawn or another piece, particularly when it controls few squares, is called a passive piece."
15 ... d5 16 PxP b4 17 Ne4 QNxB+
Diag 4
18 Kb1???
Shipman wrote in Portable Chess Coach, "Running away when under attack seems to be the first impulse for many new players who find themselves in check."
And in this situation, running has cost Junior a Bishop and eventually the game against the 2-time runner-up of the National Age Group Championship.
18 ... BxP 19 Nf6+??? BxN 20 PxN BxR 21 RxB Nc3+ 22 BxN PxB 23 QxP QxNP 24 Ng4 Qe6 25 Nh6+ Kg7 26 Re1 f6 27 QxBP Rac8 28 Qa7+ KxN 29 d4 Qf5 30 PxP QxBP+ 31 Ka1 Qc3+ [0-1].
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