Gary Still Plays Chess

[Gary Ruben]

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]

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