a game to go with your morning coffee

[Hans Jung]

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1289113 One of my favorite Canadian games! I enjoyed doing fun Halloween annotations of it when I was editor of Chess Canada.

[Eric Hansen]

Re: a game to go with your morning coffee

Thanks for this game Hans. I've been spending a lot of time with Yasser and he often mentions the "Winter of Zuk" in reference to Robert Zuk. Canadians would regularly attend Northwest US events but there was one period where Zuk was extremely ruthless and went a long time without a loss supposedly.

[Mathieu Cloutier]

Re: a game to go with your morning coffee

Great game. The kind of game where my patzer eyes realize only afterwards that white was in trouble long before his position started to look bad.

[Hans Jung]

Re: a game to go with your morning coffee

My memory is patchy sometimes. It tells me: " Didnt Gordon Taylor write the article: The Winter of Zuk and if so, Gordon, could you please provide a link!?
Eric, I envy you your time with Yasser but hes an incredible source of chess culture and erudition. Lucky you!

[Gordon Taylor]

Re: a game to go with your morning coffee

"The Zuk Winter (1970-71)" appeared on pp 18-21 of En Passant, April 1996 (the first issue of full magazine size).

[Jack Maguire]

Re: a game to go with your morning coffee

Chessgames.com continues their Canadian "Tomb" theme with today's 'game of the day' between Dmitri Feoktistov and Maroun Tomb from the Quebec-ch U20, 2003 and appropriately entitled "Tomb of Horrors". (:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1601813

[Frank Dixon]

Re: a game to go with your morning coffee

The Harper vs Zuk game cited is one of my all-time favourites!

For your enjoyment, I offer a game of mine on a somewhat similar theme, from 1999:

Geoff McKay (2159) -- Frank Dixon (2069)
Kingston Chess Club Active, 1999-09-21
English, Black Knights' Tango by transposition
1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4 Nc6 4.d4 d5 5.e5 Ne4 6.Nxe4 dxe4 7.Ne2 Bb4+ 8.Bd2 0-0 9.Bc3 f5 10.Qd2 Bxc3 11.bxc3 Na5 12.Ng3 b6 13.Be2 Bb7 14.0-0 f4
15.Nh5 Qg5 16.g3 e3 17.fxe3 fxe3 18.Qd1 Rxf1+ 19.Bxf1 Rf8 20.Bg2 Bxg2 21.Kxg2 Rf2+ 22.Kh1 e2 23.Qg1 Qe3 24.Nf4 Nxc4 25.Re1 Nd2 26.Ng2 Qf3 0-1.