Gary Still Plays Chess

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  • Gary Still Plays Chess

    I recently finished my first game in the North Atlantic Team Tournament against a Norweigan GM. It was a really enjoyable game as he is employed in the same industry as I was employed for decades. There was a lot of industry comments and other chat. The game kind of took a back seat. At least it did for me. I don't multi task (play and chat) as well as I used to. This should copy and paste to your Fritz. A Sicilian Dragon.

    [Event "North Atlantic Team Tournament VI"]
    [Site "ICCF"]
    [Date "2008.06.20"]
    [Round "?.1"]
    [White "Ruben, Gary"]
    [Black "Haugen, Arild"]
    [Result "1/2-1/2"]
    [ECO "B78"]
    [WhiteElo "2452"]
    [BlackElo "2556"]
    [Annotator "Ruben,Gary"]
    [PlyCount "63"]
    [EventDate "2008.??.??"]
    [WhiteTeam "Canada"]
    [BlackTeam "Norway"]
    [WhiteTeamCountry "CAN"]
    [BlackTeamCountry "NOR"]

    1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 Nc6 8. Qd2
    O-O 9. Bc4 Bd7 10. O-O-O Rc8 11. Bb3 Ne5 12. Kb1 {
    Maybe a little slow but Topalov beat Carlsen with the line.} Re8 13. h4 h5 {
    My Norweigan friend is familiar with all the games of Carlsen.} 14. Bh6 Nc4 15.
    Bxc4 Rxc4 16. Bxg7 Kxg7 17. g4 hxg4 18. h5 Rh8 19. hxg6 fxg6 20. f4 Rxh1 21.
    Rxh1 {It's starting to look drawish.} Kf7 22. Qd3 Rc5 23. Nd5 Qg8 24. Nb3 Rxd5
    {Black is trying to make some play.} 25. exd5 Bf5 26. Qe2 Nxd5 27. Nd4 a6 28.
    Qc4 Kg7 29. Rd1 Be4 30. Re1 Nf6 31. Ne6+ Kh8 32. Rxe4 {
    Giving back the exchange and there isn't much remaining.} 1/2-1/2
    Gary Ruben
    CC - IA and SIM

  • #2
    Another finished game.

    Sometime it's months and nothing ends. Then a couple end close together. Another game from the NATT VI event. This time against a correspondence IM.

    [Event "North Atlantic Team Tournament VI"]
    [Site "ICCF"]
    [Date "2008.06.20"]
    [Round "?"]
    [White "Ruben, Gary"]
    [Black "Cuadrado Wentwort-Hyde, Guillermo"]
    [Result "1/2-1/2"]
    [WhiteElo "2452"]
    [BlackElo "2434"]
    [PlyCount "46"]
    [EventDate "2008.??.??"]
    [WhiteTeam "Canada"]
    [BlackTeam "Spain-Fortuna"]

    1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d6 4. O-O Bd7 5. Re1 Nf6 6. c3 a6 7. Ba4 b5 8. Bc2
    e5 9. d4 cxd4 10. cxd4 Bg4 11. Be3 exd4 12. Bxd4 Bxf3 13. gxf3 Be7 14. Nc3 O-O
    15. Be3 Qd7 16. f4 Qh3 17. f3 Rfd8 18. Rc1 d5 19. Nxd5 Nxd5 20. exd5 Nb4 21.
    Bb3 Rd6 22. Bf2 Rg6+ 23. Bg3 Rxg3+ 1/2-1/2
    Gary Ruben
    CC - IA and SIM

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