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  • Searching for En Passant article

    From a CFC member;

    I'm trying to locate an article in the En Passant magazine that was written by Michael Roland (sic). I'm not sure that's the gentleman's exact name - but I know it's close. I believe that he's been inactive for quite some time ; I certainly haven't heard his name invoked in chess circles for quite a while. His multi-page article analyzed a game that he lost to my late cousin - Steve Ellis. His magnanimous article was exceedingly complimentary of Steve. Steve's mom knows that the article exists and she is most anxious to obtain a copy of it to show to Steve's children (her grandchildren).

    I know I have the pertinent issue of En Passant because I've happened upon the article in the past. However, I neglected to flag it and I've have to burrow through literally hundreds of issues in an attempt to locate the article. A secondary approach would appear to be doing a database search for Roland-Ellis games. Unfortunately, I don't even know the date of the game to help streamline such a search.

    Do you know of any archivists that might be able to either ideally locate the specific issue of En Passant or at least the game in a database ; if the game can be located, the date of the game could then be used to isolate those issues of En Passant most likely to contain the article.

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    Re: Searching for En Passant article

    I have just searched my database and can find no game played between Michael Rohland (note spelling) and Steve Ellis.

    I suspect that the requested game was a win against (and annotated by) Michael Dougherty (not Michael Rohland) on page 18 of the October, 1987 (# 86) of "En Passant". It was from the first round of the 1986 Scarborough CC Christmas tournament.

    [Event "Scarborough CC Xmas"]
    [Site "Toronto CAN"]
    [Date "1986.12.??"]
    [Round "1"]
    [White "Dougherty, Michael"]
    [Black "Ellis, Steve"]
    [Result "0-1"]
    [ECO "B07"]
    [WhiteElo "2163"]
    [BlackElo "1997"]
    [PlyCount "80"]
    [EventDate "1986.12.??"]
    [EventType "swiss"]
    [EventCountry "CAN"]

    1. d4 g6 2. e4 Bg7 3. Nc3 d6 4. Be3 e5 5. Nge2 Nc6 6. Qd2 Nf6 7. f3 O-O 8.
    O-O-O a6 9. h4 h5 10. Bg5 b5 11. Nd5 Bb7 12. dxe5 Nxe5 13. Nec3 Re8 14. Qf4 Re6
    15. g4 hxg4 16. fxg4 c6 17. Ne3 Qa5 18. a3 b4 19. axb4 Qxb4 20. Bd3 a5 21. h5
    a4 22. Nb1 Nxd3+ 23. cxd3 Nxe4 24. Nc4 Nxg5 25. Qxg5 d5 26. Qd2 Qe7 27. hxg6
    dxc4 28. gxf7+ Kxf7 29. Rdf1+ Ke8 30. Re1 Bc8 31. dxc4 Rb8 32. Nc3 a3 33. Rxe6
    Bxe6 34. Re1 Rxb2 35. Qd3 Qg5+ 36. Kd1 Qxg4+ 37. Ne2 a2 38. Qa3 Rb1+ 39. Kc2
    Qf5+ 40. Kd2 Bh6+ 0-1

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