Chess Pundit

In the 4th round, I faced a 10 year old who looked like he was even younger. It's interesting to watch kids play. Being about 1650 and 10 years old, he probably beats most kids his age. He's certainly better than when I was 10. So he plays the first 12 moves, in about 5 minutes. (We have 90 minutes for the first 30 moves.) He blunders and then takes about 40 minutes for the next two or three moves. Some of the time he isn't even looking at the board, but his eyes wander around the room.

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1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 e6 3. f4 Nc6 4. Nf3 a6 5. g3 d6 6. Bg2 Qc7 7. d3 Nf6 8. O-O
Be7 9. Qe1 b5 10. e5 Nd7 11. exd6 Bxd6 12. f5 Nde5 13. Nxe5 Bxe5 14. Bxc6+
Qxc6 15. Qxe5 Bb7 16. Ne4 O-O 17. f6 g6 18. Qf4 Kh8 19. Be3 Rad8 20. Bxc5 Rg8
21. b4 Rd7 22. h3 Rdd8 23. Kh2 g5 24. Qf3 Rg6 25. Rf2 h6 26. g4 Kh7 27. Qg3
Qd7 28. Qd6 Bxe4 29. Qxd7 Rxd7 30. dxe4 Rg8 31. e5 Rgd8 32. Bd6 Rc8 33. Rd1
Rc4 34. Rfd2 a5 35. bxa5 Ra4 36. a3 Rxa5 37. Bb4 Rxd2+ 38. Rxd2 Ra7 39. Kg3
Kg6 40. Rd8 Rc7 41. c3 Kh7 42. Kf3 Rb7 43. Ke3 Rc7 44. Kd4 Rc4+ 45. Ke3 Rf4
46. Rb8 Rf1 47. Rxb5 Rh1 48. a4 Rxh3+ 49. Kf2 Rd3 50. a5 1-0

ROUND 5

For the 5th round, I drew the top seed, a 14 year old, rated 1989, as black. The game was actually quite boring. Afterwards he said he never faces the Caro-Kann, so he's never bothered to learn any lines. It's a boring game, and I couldn't really do anything about it. So we agreed to a draw. Since it's a dull game, I'm only posting the final position and the pgn.



1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Bd3 Nc6 5. c3 Nf6 6. Bf4 Bg4 7. Qb3 Qc8 8. Nd2 e6 9. Ngf3 Bh5 10. O-O Be7 11. Rae1 O-O 12. h3 Bg6 13. Bxg6 hxg6 14. Ne5 Nxe5 15. Bxe5 Nd7 16. Bh2 Qc6 17. Qc2 Bd6 18. Bxd6 Qxd6 19. Qd3 b5
20. b3 Rab8 21. Rc1 Rfc8 22. Rc2 a6 23. Rfc1 Nb6 24. Nf3 Rc7 25. Ne5 Rbc8
26. Qe3 Nd7 1/2-1/2