I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

Date: 17 Jun 2007 15:23:41
From: samsloan
Subject: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

I try not to gloat too much over my occasional chess victories, but I
think I am justifiably proud of my victory over veteran master Jon
Jacobs, who is rated 2264, at the Hotel New Yorker last night. Jon
Jacobs recently organized the forum on computer chess cheating at the
shall Chess Club.

Before the game started, Polly Wright dubbed this the "USCF Forums
Chess Championship" and I am happy to claim the title.

I played a lot of nice moves in this game. I especially liked 30. Kh1
and 32. Bxg7.

However, I must confess that I nearly blew it. I got too fancy with
37. Qxf8+. I should have just played 37. Bxf7+ trading into an easily
won king and pawn endgame a pawn up. Fortunately, my opponent did not
see the refutation to the move I played, so I won anyway by
checkmating him with only 4 seconds remaining on my clock. (Can you
see the refutation.)

With this victory, I won $140 as the prize for Best Under 2000, plus,
of course, I won the title of USCF Forums Champion.

My other games in the tournament were not quite so brilliant. I got
wiped out by former child prodigy Adam Maltese. However, my rock-solid
Damiano's Defense scored another brilliant victory with 1. e4 e5 2.
Nf3 f6 !!

Sam Sloan

[Event "New York June Game in 50"]
[Site "Hotel New York, NYC"]
[Date "2007.06.16"]
[Round "05"]
[White "Sloan,Sam"]
[Black "Jacobs,Jon"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "1918"]
[BlackElo "2264"]

1.g4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.e4 e6 4.d3 Nge7 5.f4 d5 6.Nf3 b6 7.Bg2
dxe4 8.Nxe4 Bb7 9.O-O Qd7 10.Be3 Nd5 11.Bd2 Be7 12.Qe2 Nf6
13.Ne5 Nd4 14.Qf2 Qc7 15.Ng5 O-O 16.c3 Nc6 17.Nexf7 Rxf7
18.Nxf7 Kxf7 19.g5 Nd7 20.f5 e5 21.Bd5+ Ke8 22.Qh4 Qd6
23.Be4 h6 24.f6 Nxf6 25.gxf6 Bxf6 26.Qh5+ Ke7 27.Rf2 Rf8
28.Raf1 Nd8 29.Qg6 Bc8 30.Kh1 Be6 31.Bxh6 Bf7 32.Bxg7 Bxg7
33.Qxg7 Ke8 34.Rf6 Qe7 35.Bg6 Qb7+ 36.Kg1 Qe7 37.Qxf8+ Qxf8
38.Rxf7 Qh6 39.Rg7+ Nf7 40.Bxf7+ Kd8 41.Rg8+ Kc7 42.Bc4
Qe3+ 43.Kh1 b5 44.Rf7+ Kb6 45.Rg6+ Ka5 46.Rxa7# 1-0

[Event "New York June Game in 50"]
[Site "Hotel New Yorker, NYC"]
[Date "2007.06.16"]
[Round "01"]
[White "Sloan,Sam"]
[Black "Maltese,Adam"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "1918"]
[BlackElo "2284"]

1.g4 d5 2.Bg2 c6 3.h3 e5 4.e4 dxe4 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.Nxe4 h5 7.g5
Nxe4 8.Bxe4 Qxg5 9.d4 Qe7 10.dxe5 Qb4+ 11.Kf1 Qxe4 12.Nf3
Be6 13.Rg1 Bc4+ 14.Kg2 Be2 15.Re1 Qxf3+ 0-1

[Event "New York June Game in 50"]
[Site "Hotel New Yorker, NYC"]
[Date "2007.06.16"]
[Round "02"]
[White "Rosato,Silvio"]
[Black "Sloan,Sam"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "1583"]
[BlackElo "1918"]

1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 c5 3.g3 Nc6 4.e3 Nf6 5.c3 Bg4 6.h3 Bh5 7.Nbd2
e6 8.Qc2 Rc8 9.Qb1 cxd4 10.Nxd4 Bd6 11.Be2 Bg6 12.Bd3 Nxd4
13.Bxg6 hxg6 14.cxd4 Qc7 15.f4 g5 16.Kf2 gxf4 17.Qd3 fxe3+
18.Kxe3 Bxg3 19.Nf3 Ne4 20.Qb5+ Kf8 21.Ke2 Nf2 22.Qc5+ Qxc5
23.dxc5 Nxh1 24.Be3 Rxh3 25.Ng5 Rh2+ 26.Kf3 Be5 27.Bf4 Bxf4
28.Kxf4 Rxc5 29.Rf1 Rf2+ 30.Rxf2 Nxf2 31.Nh7+ Kg8 32.Ng5
Rc2 33.Nf3 Rxb2 34.Ke5 Kf8 35.Nd4 Ke7 36.a4 Nd3# 0-1

[Event "New York June Game in 50"]
[Site "Hotel New Yorker, NYC"]
[Date "2007.06.16"]
[Round "03"]
[White "Sloan,Sam"]
[Black "Lloyd,Steadroy A"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "1918"]
[BlackElo "2052"]

1.g4 g6 2.e4 Bg7 3.Nc3 b6 4.d3 Bb7 5.f4 e6 6.Nf3 Ne7 7.Be3
d5 8.Bf2 dxe4 9.dxe4 Qxd1+ 10.Rxd1 Bxc3+ 11.bxc3 Bxe4
12.Be2 Bxc2 13.Rd2 Be4 14.O-O O-O 15.Rfd1 Nd5 16.Ng5 Nxc3
17.Nxe4 Nxe4 18.Rc2 c6 19.Bh4 Re8 20.Bf3 Nc5 21.Bf2 Nba6
22.Bxc6 Red8 23.Rdc1 Rab8 24.f5 Nb4 25.fxg6 hxg6 26.Bxc5
bxc5 27.Rxc5 Nd3 28.Ba4 Nxc5 29.Rxc5 Rb1+ 30.Kg2 Rb2+
31.Kg3 Rd3+ 32.Kh4 Rxh2+ 33.Kg5 Rxa2 34.Kh6 Rh3+ 35.Kg5
Rxa4 0-1

[Event "New York June Game in 50"]
[Site "Hotel New Yorker, NYC"]
[Date "2007.06.16"]
[Round "04"]
[White "Rotsen,Gregory"]
[Black "Sloan,Sam"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C40"]
[WhiteElo "1705"]
[BlackElo "1918"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6 3.Bc4 Ne7 4.c3 c6 5.d4 d5 6.exd5 e4 7.Nh4
cxd5 8.Bb3 Nbc6 9.Qh5+ g6 10.Nxg6 Nxg6 11.Bxd5 f5 12.Bb3
Qa5 13.Nd2 Bd7 14.Nc4 Qc7 15.d5 Nce5 16.Nxe5 Qxe5 17.O-O
O-O-O 18.Qe2 Bd6 19.g3 h5 20.Be3 Kb8 21.Bd4 Nf4 22.Qe3 Qe7
23.Bxh8 Nh3+ 24.Kh1 Rxh8 25.c4 f4 26.Qd4 Re8 27.Rac1 Bc5
28.Qd1 Bg4 29.f3 Bxf3+ 30.Rxf3 exf3 31.Qxf3 Qe2 32.Qxe2
Rxe2 33.Rc2 Rxc2 34.Bxc2 f3 35.Bd3 Nf2+ 0-1

Date: 24 Jun 2007 01:54:54
From: help bot
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

On Jun 23, 11:43 pm, "Sam Slone" <[email protected] > wrote:
> "help bot" <> Well, you can call it "playing style" if you like, but the
> fact remains that moves like p-g4, followed up with p-h3 and p-e4 and then
> Bxe4, are symptomatic of a complete lack of understanding of chess.

-------------------------------
> I imagine if a GM was playing retarded kids at some kind of charity
> tournament, he might accidentally let them win the matches out of pity or
> sympathy. Maybe this is what happened.

Funny you should mention that. As it happens, we are
hosting just such an event here at the Winterpeg Sanitarium,
and although severely retarded in social development, we do
have one player who it seems can give these GMs a decent
run for their money -- if only at bullet-chess. Jason Repa,
more commonly known around here as "Skippy", is one
quick-mover, and is reputed to be rated well above 2000 in
the bullet category!
-------------------------------

Following up on my earlier post, I raised the handicap in
Fritz to about 1900 -- but as I said before, modern process-
-ors are vastly quicker than when this program was calibrated,
so it may well be playing much better than this -- and went
at it again. With no openings book included, Fritz plays in
a strange, ultra-hypermodern style, with lots and lots of
(tactically sound) pawn moves and a bunch of Knight-hops.
Yet against its near-instantaneous moves, I either win
outright on the board or else eventually miss a tactical
shot, losing horribly, much like Mr. Sloan did in his game.

I find it amazing just what a strong program can get away
with in a blitz game. In particular, the program is much,
much better with pawn attacks than I am in blitz. When
it loses, it is often because it got carried away with the
crazy tactics, and allowed me to simplify to a technically
won endgame; against a bona fide chess genius like me,
this is a fatal error. : >D

Sam Sloan claims to have spotted the crushing Q-b4+
as he was making his move, but what about the moves
that led up to that? Apart from the weak p-g4 and its
kindred p-h3, there is the grotesque error: p-e4, which
is defended only by the White Bishop. This means that
when captured, White must recapture with Bxe4,
exposing this piece to what we real chess players call
"development with gain of time". In other words, White
cannot respond to the attack by developing one of his
own pieces, such as N-c3; that is because the Bishop
is more valuable than the Knight (Chess 101) at this
stage of the game. The result is a loss of time (i.e.
tempo), which gives the initiative to one's opponent.

Likewise, even if SS could be excused for missing
the combination B-c4+ followed by the fork, B-e2,
his move R-g1 simply left the pawn on h3 hanging to
Bxh3+, R-g2 (forced), which also loses horribly.

In sum, to match this fiasco, I would have to reach
way back to the days when I too, was, a horrible
patzer like SS. I can still recall such games, from
the 1980s, where I was over-matched by some
hundreds of rating points, and fell into such traps
routinely at the local club. It was the painful losses
like that one which at first led me to play in a very
defensive style, avoiding open games with their
many unpleasant tactical "surprises". In fact, my
first successes against strong players came from
defending just well enough to survive, and then a
lucky counterattack when they least expected it.

Then, one day, I just got good.

-- help bot

Date: 23 Jun 2007 18:14:00
From: help bot
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

On Jun 22, 6:12 am, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:
> Of course, 10.dxe5 was an outright blunder. As soon as I picked up the
> pawn to move it, I saw the queen fork, but it was too late to change
> my move, as the rule is touch-move.
>
> However, the great thing about my playing style is that most of my
> opponents think that I am a complete beginner until they discover that
> they have lost the game.
>
> Sam Sloan

Well, you can call it "playing style" if you like, but the
fact remains that moves like p-g4, followed up with p-h3
and p-e4 and then Bxe4, are symptomatic of a complete
lack of understanding of chess.

For perspective, back in oh, the 1850s or so, a player
named Paul Morphy came along and -- as if it had not
already been discovered -- showed the entire world why
such idiotic moves lose, and how!

Lately, I have been playing a bit of blitz chess against
the free, downloadable version of Fritz, set to approximate
a 1300-1400 level player, although because of the great
increase in processor speed since that program was
written, it may well be a lot higher than that. In many of
these games, the program adopts an idiotic, ultra-hyper-
modern style of play involving a multitude of (tactically-
sound) pawn moves, and bouncing its Knights around the
board to no particular effect -- unless I make a mistake!
Usually it is a steamroller victory for me, but many times
there have been unexpected tactical slugfests, with their
accompanying "surprises", often leading to a quick loss.
But I must point out that these are blitz games, where
the computer is playing ultra-quickly, making my clock
run almost non-stop! And, being Fritz, it is automatically
going to be far superior at short-range tactics.

Of course, in the SS game, there would have been
plenty of time to consider the ramifications of p-e4, for
instance, or for that matter the dead loss after R-g1.
Such moves are next to impossible to account for,
except where a horrible lack of understanding is duly
considered.

But what about the concept that Mr. Sloan takes his
opponents by surprise, because they tend to vastly
underestimate his ability after seeing such moves?
Again, there is a problem in that a player is not only
judged by his played moves in the current game, but
more so by his rating, which is a far better indicator.
As I understand it, SS's rating is above 1900 USCF,
and as such most players would tend to consider him
a fairly dangerous player, even were he to open with
1.Nh3, 2.Ng1, 3.Na3, 4.Nb1. Stupid, but dangerous.
: >D

-- help bot

Date: 23 Jun 2007 23:43:31
From: Sam Slone
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

"help bot" < > Well, you can call it "playing style" if you like, but the
fact remains that moves like p-g4, followed up with p-h3 and p-e4 and then
Bxe4, are symptomatic of a complete lack of understanding of chess.
>

I imagine if a GM was playing retarded kids at some kind of charity
tournament, he might accidentally let them win the matches out of pity or
sympathy. Maybe this is what happened.

Date: 22 Jun 2007 03:12:02
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

Of course, 10.dxe5 was an outright blunder. As soon as I picked up the
pawn to move it, I saw the queen fork, but it was too late to change
my move, as the rule is touch-move.

However, the great thing about my playing style is that most of my
opponents think that I am a complete beginner until they discover that
they have lost the game.

Sam Sloan

Date: 21 Jun 2007 20:32:33
From: help bot
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

On Jun 20, 2:36 am, michael adams <[email protected] > wrote:

> Bot, bot, dear old Iowa'n earbot. Have you not quite worked out that
> 'smegma-bolerus' is more innerested in pulling your chain, than anythink
> else - no? >> Meanwhile gruppen, after a long fallow time my icc acc.is
> active & the rust just seems to flake away. My handle is 'ignudo'..

Er, I thought that I was the one pulling *his* chain?

Anyway, don't think for a moment that hiding out on
some backwoods site like ICC will fool anyone here.
We all know full well that the real test is on GetClub,
where such notable players as IM Innes, 2300+
Taylor Kingston, and last but not least, yours truly,
have crossed swords with the world's most "improved"
chess program. In fact, Sanny's program is so
powerful that even top GMs like Kramnik and Shirov
now stay away out of sheer terror. The site is down
right now for some hardware upgrades, such as
installation of a new, 200 kB hard drive and addition
of a 112 k memory module -- effectively doubling its
awesome power. Last time I spoke to Sanny, his
final words were something like: "I'll be back".

-- help bot

Date: 21 Jun 2007 20:12:34
From: help bot
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

On Jun 17, 11:23 am, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:

> [Event "New York June Game in 50"]
> [Site "Hotel New Yorker, NYC"]
> [Date "2007.06.16"]
> [Round "01"]
> [White "Sloan,Sam"]
> [Black "Maltese,Adam"]
> [Result "0-1"]
> [ECO "A00"]
> [WhiteElo "1918"]
> [BlackElo "2284"]
>
> 1.g4 d5 2.Bg2 c6 3.h3 e5 4.e4 dxe4 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.Nxe4 h5 7.g5
> Nxe4 8.Bxe4 Qxg5 9.d4 Qe7 10.dxe5 Qb4+ 11.Kf1 Qxe4 12.Nf3
> Be6 13.Rg1 Bc4+ 14.Kg2 Be2 15.Re1 Qxf3+ 0-1

This has got to be one of the worst games I have ever seen.

Not too long ago, Larry Parr talked about how, despite his
Class A rating, Sam Sloan was supposedly of USCF master
strength. But in this particular game it would be neigh well
impossible to differentiate between the play of SS and that
of, say, a typical 1000-rated player.

It's not just a matter of allowing the winning combinations
at the end, but not seeing that ...Q-b4+ picks off a piece,
along with not even comprehending that Bxe4 will lose
crucial time -- I am dumbfounded. About the only move
in this game by White that made any sense whatever was
p-h3, to defend the recklessly overextended g-pawn.

Were it not for Mr. Sloan's much superior play in most of
the other games, I would be forced to conclude that the poor
man had stayed up all night playing blitz, and was in effect,
brain-dead at the board.

-- help bot

Date: 21 Jun 2007 16:07:45
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

I am the king of the toilet!

Date: 20 Jun 2007 16:36:16
From: michael adams
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

help bot wrote:
>
> On Jun 18, 9:57 pm, "Smegmato" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Mr. Sloan pulled off a nice upset victory here, but the
> > > moves were not go great.
> >
> > Maybe he did in fact trade sex with his wife in order for someone to throw
> > the game and let him win?? This has been rumored to have happened in the
> > past. After all, he is the President of the Free Love Berkeley Society or
> > whatever it was. They practiced wife-swopping and communal living.
>
> That was a very long time ago. The truth is, a 2200+ player
> is not immune from such upsets as this one, especially when
> taken out of his studied book lines so early.
>
> But hey, maybe there is something to this ad hom. approach
> after all. If SS practiced "wife-swopping" and communist --
> oops, I mean communal living, then it goes without saying that
> all his accomplishments must have entailed something evil,
> right? Association with the city of Berkeley, California is still
> more evidence of cheating; only left wing nut jobs emerge from
> colleges there, so it follows that his screwy 1.g4 problem is his
> mind's subtle way of compensating by shifting the opening move
> far to the right side of the board.
>
> But... what if his opponent was not a card-carrying member of
> the wife-swap-for-chess-game union? What if he was too old,
> or gay, or if his own wife/girlfriend was better looking than SS's?
> Then the whole edifice goes down the toilet, since it is built
> upon a foundation of quicksand. That's the only trouble with
> ad hom.: it may be fun, but in the end, it is still a ramshackle
> construct, made much akin to the first of the three little pig's
> own house of straw. It takes a skilled engineer like LP just to
> make one temporarily stand up to the stress of its own weight!
>
> -- help bot

Bot, bot, dear old Iowa'n earbot. Have you not quite worked out that
'smegma-bolerus' is more innerested in pulling your chain, than anythink
else - no? >> Meanwhile gruppen, after a long fallow time my icc acc.is
active & the rust just seems to flake away. My handle is 'ignudo'..

Date: 19 Jun 2007 01:59:28
From: help bot
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

On Jun 19, 2:18 am, "Smegmato" <[email protected] > wrote:

> "J=FCrgen R." <> He also wins because he doesn't bathe, so he smells like=
a
> goat; he puffs and snorts continually; he scratches his balls habitually;
> when available he changes the diapers or dirty underwear of his most rece=
nt
> heir, right next to the chess board.

> The stench of a man is often used to attract young women in tribal
> situations. Since SS is reportedly a master of the backwoods wife-hunting
> and has ensnared many a young hill-girl thanks to his mountainous odor,
> perhaps we should give the old goat his due. He has turned a life of devi=
ant
> attitudes into a full-time job as father-figure to many young brides.

Alas, it is not the stench of filth or goats that attracts
women; it is the male pheromone, emitted in sweat.
I would think this could most easily be detected if a
man were well bathed.

I just went over the game where SS beat a USCF
master, and it looks to me like the guy simply made
a lot of mistakes. Even after the Kingside assault
had been in full swing for a good long time, SS gave
him plenty of chances to escape, but he missed
them all. Have you ever watched the really good
players? They focus on the board and shut out
everything else by shielding their eyes with their
fingers. When facing Mr. Sloan, you might see
one shove a pair of captured pawns up his nostrils,
to block out the stench. Both thumbs are available
to plug the ears. That leaves only telepathy and
mind-control via radio waves transmitted to the
metal fillings in one's teeth. Teeth can easily be
removed.

-- help bot

Date: 18 Jun 2007 22:47:43
From: help bot
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

On Jun 19, 12:58 am, "Smegmato" <[email protected] > wrote:

> The fact is that if SS plays 6 people in the tournament, he only needs to
> trade his wife in for one victory and he still has a respectable score. In
> this case, SS only won one game. He was beaten later by a young boy who
> presumably was not interested in an older (or OLD) woman.

What makes you think that Mr. Sloan's current wife is
old? An extensive traveler, SS might have recently picked
up a wife of, say, 16 years of age.

> Now if SS could parlay his wife for one victory (against the HARDer
> opponent) and then honestly win a couple against opponents at his own skill
> level, then SS could place in many tournaments and beef up his rating back
> to over 2000.

Good point. However, getting his rating *over* 2000
would mean no more easy class prizes. In sum, the
supposed ego boost is not worth the cost.

> I myself have a similar plan, but I am aiming at the gay players and I am
> recruiting for willing homosexuals who would be interested in traveling to
> chess tournaments (free room and board--Holiday Inn and IHOP) in exchange
> for trading-4-wins with old chess players (emphasis on OLD). If you are a
> willing homo (ADULTS ONLY), then post your name, address and phone number
> here along with a link to your photo. The two top gays as selected by the
> usenet voting community will be invited for an exclusive chess tour that
> will hit all the major tournaments during the next year. My goal is to get
> an IM title by this time next year. My current rating is 1564.

I might be willing to participate as one of the OLDs;
my 1200 rating could use a shot in the arm, and if you
need to see my pic, it can be found here:

http://www.msn.com/?lc=1033

The caption reads "Who's on the Red Carpet".
It's rekable how closely I resemble a famous
movie star, so I'm told.

But you said the trade involved only four wins:
what am I supposed to do after I get to 4-0, and
sit down in the final round to play a GM -- offer
a quick draw and try to look confident?

-- help bot

Date: 19 Jun 2007 02:13:09
From: Smegmato
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

"help bot" < > what am I supposed to do after I get to 4-0, and sit down in
the final round to play a GM -- offer a quick draw and try to look
confident?
>

That would get you a 4.5 in a 5 round tournament. Definitely either First
Place or the top three.

Date: 18 Jun 2007 20:46:58
From: help bot
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

On Jun 18, 9:57 pm, "Smegmato" <[email protected] > wrote:

> > Mr. Sloan pulled off a nice upset victory here, but the
> > moves were not go great.
>
> Maybe he did in fact trade sex with his wife in order for someone to throw
> the game and let him win?? This has been rumored to have happened in the
> past. After all, he is the President of the Free Love Berkeley Society or
> whatever it was. They practiced wife-swopping and communal living.

That was a very long time ago. The truth is, a 2200+ player
is not immune from such upsets as this one, especially when
taken out of his studied book lines so early.

But hey, maybe there is something to this ad hom. approach
after all. If SS practiced "wife-swopping" and communist --
oops, I mean communal living, then it goes without saying that
all his accomplishments must have entailed something evil,
right? Association with the city of Berkeley, California is still
more evidence of cheating; only left wing nut jobs emerge from
colleges there, so it follows that his screwy 1.g4 problem is his
mind's subtle way of compensating by shifting the opening move
far to the right side of the board.

But... what if his opponent was not a card-carrying member of
the wife-swap-for-chess-game union? What if he was too old,
or gay, or if his own wife/girlfriend was better looking than SS's?
Then the whole edifice goes down the toilet, since it is built
upon a foundation of quicksand. That's the only trouble with
ad hom.: it may be fun, but in the end, it is still a ramshackle
construct, made much akin to the first of the three little pig's
own house of straw. It takes a skilled engineer like LP just to
make one temporarily stand up to the stress of its own weight!

-- help bot

Date: 19 Jun 2007 00:58:49
From: Smegmato
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

"help bot" <what if his opponent was not a card-carrying member of the
wife-swap-for-chess-game union? What if he was too old, or gay, or if his
own wife/girlfriend was better looking than SS's?
>

The fact is that if SS plays 6 people in the tournament, he only needs to
trade his wife in for one victory and he still has a respectable score. In
this case, SS only won one game. He was beaten later by a young boy who
presumably was not interested in an older (or OLD) woman.

Now if SS could parlay his wife for one victory (against the HARDer
opponent) and then honestly win a couple against opponents at his own skill
level, then SS could place in many tournaments and beef up his rating back
to over 2000.

I myself have a similar plan, but I am aiming at the gay players and I am
recruiting for willing homosexuals who would be interested in traveling to
chess tournaments (free room and board--Holiday Inn and IHOP) in exchange
for trading-4-wins with old chess players (emphasis on OLD). If you are a
willing homo (ADULTS ONLY), then post your name, address and phone number
here along with a link to your photo. The two top gays as selected by the
usenet voting community will be invited for an exclusive chess tour that
will hit all the major tournaments during the next year. My goal is to get
an IM title by this time next year. My current rating is 1564.

Date: 19 Jun 2007 07:54:01
From: J�rgen R.
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:58:49 -0400, "Smegmato"
<[email protected] > wrote:

>"help bot" <what if his opponent was not a card-carrying member of the
>wife-swap-for-chess-game union? What if he was too old, or gay, or if his
>own wife/girlfriend was better looking than SS's?
>>
>
>The fact is that if SS plays 6 people in the tournament, he only needs to
>trade his wife in for one victory and he still has a respectable score. In
>this case, SS only won one game. He was beaten later by a young boy who
>presumably was not interested in an older (or OLD) woman.
>
>Now if SS could parlay his wife for one victory (against the HARDer
>opponent) and then honestly win a couple against opponents at his own skill
>level, then SS could place in many tournaments and beef up his rating back
>to over 2000.

He also wins because he systematically drives his opponents mad: He
doesn't bathe, so he smells like a goat; he puffs and snorts
continually; he scratches his balls habitually; he has a cancer on his
left cheek; when available he changes the diapers or dirty underwear
of his most recent heir, right next to the chess board.

>
>I myself have a similar plan, but I am aiming at the gay players and I am
>recruiting for willing homosexuals who would be interested in traveling to
>chess tournaments (free room and board--Holiday Inn and IHOP) in exchange
>for trading-4-wins with old chess players (emphasis on OLD). If you are a
>willing homo (ADULTS ONLY), then post your name, address and phone number
>here along with a link to your photo. The two top gays as selected by the
>usenet voting community will be invited for an exclusive chess tour that
>will hit all the major tournaments during the next year. My goal is to get
>an IM title by this time next year. My current rating is 1564.
>

Date: 19 Jun 2007 02:18:29
From: Smegmato
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

"J�rgen R." < > He also wins because he doesn't bathe, so he smells like a
goat; he puffs and snorts continually; he scratches his balls habitually;
when available he changes the diapers or dirty underwear of his most recent
heir, right next to the chess board.
>

Perhaps he studied in Russia? Aren't they renown for intimidating their
opponents with odd personality quirks?

The stench of a man is often used to attract young women in tribal
situations. Since SS is reportedly a master of the backwoods wife-hunting
and has ensnared many a young hill-girl thanks to his mountainous odor,
perhaps we should give the old goat his due. He has turned a life of deviant
attitudes into a full-time job as father-figure to many young brides.

Date: 20 Jun 2007 11:34:38
From: J�rgen R.
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:18:29 -0400, "Smegmato"
<[email protected] > wrote:

>"J�rgen R." <> He also wins because he doesn't bathe, so he smells like a
>goat; he puffs and snorts continually; he scratches his balls habitually;
>when available he changes the diapers or dirty underwear of his most recent
>heir, right next to the chess board.
>>
>
>Perhaps he studied in Russia? Aren't they renown for intimidating their
>opponents with odd personality quirks?
>
>The stench of a man is often used to attract young women in tribal
>situations. Since SS is reportedly a master of the backwoods wife-hunting
>and has ensnared many a young hill-girl thanks to his mountainous odor,
>perhaps we should give the old goat his due.

Probably a misinterpretation. The reason he had to travel to distant
lands is, most likely, that nobody nearby could stand him. Egomaniac
flunkies like Sloan were a dime a dozen in Berkeley in the sixties.

> He has turned a life of deviant
>attitudes into a full-time job as father-figure to many young brides.
>

Date: 18 Jun 2007 18:29:49
From: help bot
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

On Jun 18, 8:28 am, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:

> > I played a lot of nice moves in this game. I especially liked 30. Kh1
> > and 32. Bxg7.

Mr. Sloan pulled off a nice upset victory here, but the
moves were not go great.

For one thing, in order for the Kingside attack to
succeed, Black had to defend rather poorly. One simple
example was the time-losing retreat ...Bc8, instead of
trading pieces. In fact, were it not for the ridiculous
"counter-attack" move ...Nd4, the White Queen would not
have been driven to f2, which allowed for Q-h4 later on; it
was this Queen move which weakened Black's defenses.

> > With this victory, I won $140 as the prize for Best Under 2000

Of course, when I said "upset" victory, I meant that
it was an upset in terms of official ratings. Many
players these days engage in a practice known as
"sandbagging".

> > My other games in the tournament were not quite so brilliant.

Weak players often make the mistake of equating wild
and reckless play involving piece sacs, with "brilliancy".
But if you boil it down and look at it, somebody had to
*look* brilliant in such games; it's only a matter of result:
either an attacking (1-0) or a defensive (0-1) "brilliancy".

> Fortunately for me, Jacobs was down to the last few seconds on his
> clock and instead played 38. ... Qh6?? allowing me to win easily.

Okay, so a "brilliancy" is a wild attacking game
where the opponent voluntarily mismanages his
time?

> Here is the game with Fritz annotations in Fritz format. I do not
> understand the squiggles do any translation would be appreciated.
>
> Sam Sloan
>
> [Event "New York June Game in 50"]
> [Site "Hotel New Yorker, NYC"]
> [Date "2007.06.16"]
> [Round "5"]
> [White "Sloan, Sam"]
> [Black "Jacobs, Jon"]
> [Result "1-0"]
> [ECO "B23"]
> [WhiteElo "1918"]
> [BlackElo "2264"]
> [Annotator "Fritz 10 (30s)"]
> [PlyCount "91"]
> [EventDate "2007.06.16"]
>
> {B23: Closed Sicilian: Lines without g3} 1. g4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. e4 e6
> {
> last book move} 4. d3 Nge7 5. f4 d5 6. Nf3 b6 (6... e5 7. f5 $11) 7.
> Bg2 $11
> dxe4 8. Nxe4 Bb7 9. O-O Qd7 10. Be3 (10. a4 Rd8 $14) 10... Nd5 11. Bd2
> Be7 12.
> Qe2 Nf6 {Black threatens to win material: Nf6xg4} 13. Ne5 {
> White threatens to win material: Ne5xd7} Nd4 {
> Black threatens to win material: Nd4xe2} (13... Nxe5 $5 {
> is worthy of consideration} 14. Nxf6+ gxf6 15. fxe5 f5 $11) 14. Qf2

On average, Fritz seems to think your moves are
worth about 11 to 14 dollars apiece.

> makes it even easier for White} Rf7 31. Bg5 Bh3 $18) 30... Be6 $4 {
> sad, but how else could Black save the game?}

I find that *stubborn defense* is most effective against
humans; they eventually do something really dumb and
presto!, you are back in the game!

-- help bot

Date: 18 Jun 2007 21:57:29
From: Smegmato
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

"help bot" < > Mr. Sloan pulled off a nice upset victory here, but the
> moves were not go great.
>

Maybe he did in fact trade sex with his wife in order for someone to throw
the game and let him win?? This has been rumored to have happened in the
past. After all, he is the President of the Free Love Berkeley Society or
whatever it was. They practiced wife-swopping and communal living.

Date: 18 Jun 2007 13:42:09
From: help bot
Subject: Re: MI sloan "Who are you" ,angers Eric Moscow

On Jun 18, 12:53 pm, Rob <[email protected] > wrote:

> anither note big 3 day training with kaidanov this week coming to be
> followeds by my first im attempt in july. eric

I was there when Gregory Kaidanov first showed up on
the American tournament scene. Nobody had ever heard
of him, and he distributed flyers offering chess lessons at
what probably now seem like giveaway prices. Problem
was he was operating out of, I believe, Lexington, Kentucky,
which was much too far away.

The feuding continues... .

-- help bot

Date: 18 Jun 2007 13:37:14
From: help bot
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

On Jun 18, 8:28 am, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:

> > However, I must confess that I nearly blew it. I got too fancy with
> > 37. Qxf8+. I should have just played 37. Bxf7+ trading into an easily
> > won king and pawn endgame a pawn up. Fortunately, my opponent did not
> > see the refutation to the move I played, so I won anyway by
> > checkmating him with only 4 seconds remaining on my clock. (Can you
> > see the refutation.)

Hard to say. After your illegal moves, such "refutations" are
hit or miss.

> I am just learning how to use Fritz, so I decided to run my game
> against Jon Jacobs through Fritz.

Um, Fritz isn't going to like it if you type in those same
illegal moves.

> Here is the game:
>
> [Event "New York June Game in 50"]
> [Site "Hotel New York, NYC"]
> [Date "2007.06.16"]
> [Round "05"]
> [White "Sloan,Sam"]
> [Black "Jacobs,Jon"]
> [Result "1-0"]
> [ECO "A00"]
> [WhiteElo "1918"]
> [BlackElo "2264"]
>
> 1.g4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.e4 e6 4.d3 Nge7 5.f4 d5 6.Nf3 b6 7.Bg2
> dxe4 8.Nxe4 Bb7 9.O-O Qd7 10.Be3 Nd5 11.Bd2 Be7 12.Qe2 Nf6
> 13.Ne5 Nd4 14.Qf2 Qc7 15.Ng5 O-O 16.c3 Nc6 17.Nexf7 Rxf7
> 18.Nxf7 Kxf7 19.g5 Nd7 20.f5 e5 21.Bd5+ Ke8 22.Qh4 Qd6
> 23.Be4 h6 24.f6 Nxf6 25.gxf6 Bxf6 26.Qh5+ Ke7 27.Rf2 Rf8
> 28.Raf1 Nd8 29.Qg6 Bc8 30.Kh1 Be6 31.Bxh6 Bf7 32.Bxg7 Bxg7
> 33.Qxg7 Ke8 34.Rf6 Qe7 35.Bg6 Qb7+ 36.Kg1 Qe7 37.Qxf8+ Qxf8
> 38.Rxf7 Qh6 39.Rg7+ Nf7 40.Bxf7+ Kd8 41.Rg8+ Kc7 42.Bc4
> Qe3+ 43.Kh1 b5 44.Rf7+ Kb6 45.Rg6+ Ka5 46.Rxa7# 1-0

I'm on the road now, but when I get back home I'll check
this to see if any illegal move errors were corrected here.

> I felt that one of my best moves was 30. Kh1. Fritz says that I should
> have played 30. Bxh6. I do not understand this. Why cannot Black
> simply play 30. ... gxh6.

Generally speaking, when you don't understand why
a move like this loses, all you need to do is try it and
see what happens; nine times out of ten, the very next
move by Fritz yields the now-obvious answer.

> One of my best moves was 32. Bxg7. Fritz easily sees the point which
> many humans would miss.

Yeah, especially when you give the wrong moves so
they can't even reach this position to analyze it!

> One problem is that Fritz does not understand the difference between
> an elementary win and just a win.

Fritz is so good in the opening and middlegame, he
doesn't need to know much about endgames. : >D

-- help bot

Date: 18 Jun 2007 16:53:42
From: Rob
Subject: MI sloan "Who are you" ,angers Eric Moscow

Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:53:00 PM
Eric Moskow said...
Posted by Eric Moskow

I just hads an email sent to me and then read sam sloan repreenting
that he knows me for 25 years, let me clarify I met him 25 years ago,
he tells me. I have not spoken to him since except a call he made to
me. As I recall was surprised to recieve it, let me be 100 percent
clear susan and paul are the only interfaces with the uscf that I will
respond to, furthermore no one else will make a deal with me for me
and around me. Anyone that represents a connection to me other than
them for political purposes is either wishing or lying. periods the
end. Furtermore I have no ill will towardsd mr sloan but his
representation that he coulds make a deal with me is just one mans
conjecture, this fat man is clearly in suans corner. thanks. on
anither note big 3 day training with kaidanov this week coming to be
followeds by my first im attempt in july. eric

<Someone please post this to Sam private group >

Date: 18 Jun 2007 12:28:41
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

On Jun 17, 11:23 am, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:
> I try not to gloat too much over my occasional chess victories, but I
> think I am justifiably proud of my victory over veteran master Jon
> Jacobs, who is rated 2264, at the Hotel New Yorker last night. Jon
> Jacobs recently organized the forum on computer chess cheating at the
> shall Chess Club.
>
> Before the game started, Polly Wright dubbed this the "USCF Forums
> Chess Championship" and I am happy to claim the title.
>
> I played a lot of nice moves in this game. I especially liked 30. Kh1
> and 32. Bxg7.
>
> However, I must confess that I nearly blew it. I got too fancy with
> 37. Qxf8+. I should have just played 37. Bxf7+ trading into an easily
> won king and pawn endgame a pawn up. Fortunately, my opponent did not
> see the refutation to the move I played, so I won anyway by
> checkmating him with only 4 seconds remaining on my clock. (Can you
> see the refutation.)
>
> With this victory, I won $140 as the prize for Best Under 2000, plus,
> of course, I won the title of USCF Forums Champion.
>
> My other games in the tournament were not quite so brilliant. I got
> wiped out by former child prodigy Adam Maltese. However, my rock-solid
> Damiano's Defense scored another brilliant victory with 1. e4 e5 2.
> Nf3 f6 !!
>
> Sam Sloan
>
I am just learning how to use Fritz, so I decided to run my game
against Jon Jacobs through Fritz. Here is the game:

[Event "New York June Game in 50"]
[Site "Hotel New York, NYC"]
[Date "2007.06.16"]
[Round "05"]
[White "Sloan,Sam"]
[Black "Jacobs,Jon"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "1918"]
[BlackElo "2264"]

1.g4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.e4 e6 4.d3 Nge7 5.f4 d5 6.Nf3 b6 7.Bg2
dxe4 8.Nxe4 Bb7 9.O-O Qd7 10.Be3 Nd5 11.Bd2 Be7 12.Qe2 Nf6
13.Ne5 Nd4 14.Qf2 Qc7 15.Ng5 O-O 16.c3 Nc6 17.Nexf7 Rxf7
18.Nxf7 Kxf7 19.g5 Nd7 20.f5 e5 21.Bd5+ Ke8 22.Qh4 Qd6
23.Be4 h6 24.f6 Nxf6 25.gxf6 Bxf6 26.Qh5+ Ke7 27.Rf2 Rf8
28.Raf1 Nd8 29.Qg6 Bc8 30.Kh1 Be6 31.Bxh6 Bf7 32.Bxg7 Bxg7
33.Qxg7 Ke8 34.Rf6 Qe7 35.Bg6 Qb7+ 36.Kg1 Qe7 37.Qxf8+ Qxf8
38.Rxf7 Qh6 39.Rg7+ Nf7 40.Bxf7+ Kd8 41.Rg8+ Kc7 42.Bc4
Qe3+ 43.Kh1 b5 44.Rf7+ Kb6 45.Rg6+ Ka5 46.Rxa7# 1-0

The Fritz analysis had many surprising results. The first was that my
1.g4 transposed into a known book line of the Closed Sicilian. That is
the first time that this has happened, that I can recall.

Fritz has me having a winning advantage early in the game. By move 17,
Fritz is reporting the position as lost for Black. Apparently, Fritz
considers 13. ... Nd4 to be the losing move.

Fritz does not consider any alternative to 24. ... Nxf6. It is obvious
that after 24. ... gxf6 White can play 25. gxh6 going for a touchdown.
However, Jacobs thought that 24. ... Bxf6 might have been better.

I felt that one of my best moves was 30. Kh1. Fritz says that I should
have played 30. Bxh6. I do not understand this. Why cannot Black
simply play 30. ... gxh6.

One of my best moves was 32. Bxg7. Fritz easily sees the point which
many humans would miss.

What is most surprising is that if gives the move that I thought to be
a blunder an exclam. It gives 37.Qxf8+! However, it ks the next
move as a blunder, as indeed it was, and then gives the refutation
which both I and Jacobs saw after the game. Black would have won after
38. Rxf7?? Nxf7 39. Rxf7 Qh6 and White has a lot of discovered checks
but the black king always escaped.

Fortunately for me, Jacobs was down to the last few seconds on his
clock and instead played 38. ... Qh6?? allowing me to win easily.

What I do not understand is that Fritz does not consider the move I
originally planned to play, which was 37. Bxf7+ After 37. ... Nxf7 38.
Rxf7 Rxf7 39. Rxf7 Qxf7 40. Qxf7+ Kxf7 41. Kg2 and White has an
elementary king and pawn endgame a pawn up (although since I had only
seconds remaining on my clock it is possible that my flage would have
fallen before I mated him.

Also, Black cannot try to escape with 37. ... Kd7 because of 38. Be6+
and White can force an exchange of all the pieces leading to an
elementary win.

One problem is that Fritz does not understand the difference between
an elementary win and just a win.

Here is the game with Fritz annotations in Fritz format. I do not
understand the squiggles do any translation would be appreciated.

Sam Sloan

[Event "New York June Game in 50"]
[Site "Hotel New Yorker, NYC"]
[Date "2007.06.16"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Sloan, Sam"]
[Black "Jacobs, Jon"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "1918"]
[BlackElo "2264"]
[Annotator "Fritz 10 (30s)"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[EventDate "2007.06.16"]

{B23: Closed Sicilian: Lines without g3} 1. g4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. e4 e6
{
last book move} 4. d3 Nge7 5. f4 d5 6. Nf3 b6 (6... e5 7. f5 $11) 7.
Bg2 $11
dxe4 8. Nxe4 Bb7 9. O-O Qd7 10. Be3 (10. a4 Rd8 $14) 10... Nd5 11. Bd2
Be7 12.
Qe2 Nf6 {Black threatens to win material: Nf6xg4} 13. Ne5 {
White threatens to win material: Ne5xd7} Nd4 {
Black threatens to win material: Nd4xe2} (13... Nxe5 $5 {
is worthy of consideration} 14. Nxf6+ gxf6 15. fxe5 f5 $11) 14. Qf2
Qc7 15. Ng5
O-O 16. c3 Nc6 17. Nexf7 Rxf7 $2 (17... Qd7 18. Rae1 c4 $18) 18. Nxf7
$18 Kxf7
19. g5 Nd7 20. f5 e5 (20... Rf8 21. fxe6+ Kg8 22. Bf4 $18) 21. Bd5+
(21. Qh4 {
and White can already relax} Kg8 22. Bd5+ Kh8 $18) 21... Ke8 22. Qh4
Qd6 23.
Be4 h6 24. f6 Nxf6 25. gxf6 Bxf6 (25... gxf6 26. Qxh6 Kd7 27. Rf2 $18)
26. Qh5+
(26. Qh3 Rb8 $18) 26... Ke7 (26... Kd8 27. b4 $1 {Decoy: b4} Kc7 28.
a3 $18)
27. Rf2 Rf8 28. Raf1 Nd8 29. Qg6 (29. Bxb7 $142 Nxb7 30. Qg6 $18)
29... Bc8 $2
(29... Bxe4 30. dxe4 Nf7 31. Be3 $18) 30. Kh1 (30. Bxh6 {
makes it even easier for White} Rf7 31. Bg5 Bh3 $18) 30... Be6 $4 {
sad, but how else could Black save the game?} (30... Kd7 $142 $18) 31.
Bxh6 $1
{Deflection: h6} Bf7 (31... gxh6 32. Rxf6 {Deflection} (32. Rxf6
{Overloading})
) 32. Bxg7 Bxg7 (32... Bxg6 {there is nothing else anyway} 33. Bxf8+
Kxf8 34.
Rxf6+ Qxf6 35. Rxf6+ Bf7 $18) 33. Qxg7 Ke8 (33... Kd7 {
cannot change what is in store for ?} 34. Rxf7+ Nxf7 35. Rxf7+ Rxf7
36. Qxf7+
Qe7 37. Qg6 $18) 34. Rf6 Qe7 35. Bg6 Qb7+ (35... Kd7 {doesn't do any
good} 36.
Bxf7 c4 37. Qg4+ Kc7 38. Qxc4+ Qc5 39. Qxc5+ bxc5 40. Bd5 $18) 36. Kg1
Qe7 37.
Qxf8+ $1 {Decoy: f8} Qxf8 (37... Qxf8 38. Rxf7 {Double attack} (38.
Rxf7 {Decoy
})) (37... Kxf8 38. Rxf7+ {Double attack}) 38. Rxf7 $4 {
letting the wind out of his own sails} (38. Bxf7+ $142 Nxf7 39. Rxf7
Qg8+ 40.
Kh1 $16) 38... Qh6 $4 {simply ches past the door to victory} (38...
Nxf7
$142 39. h4 Qh6 $17) 39. Rg7+ $18 Nf7 40. Bxf7+ (40. Rg8+ $142 {and
White wins}
Ke7 41. Rxf7+ Kd6 42. Rd8+ Kc6 43. Rf6+ Kc7 44. Rc8+ Kxc8 45. Bf5+ Kd8
46. Rxh6
Ke7 $18) 40... Kd8 (40... Kd7 {there is nothing better in the
position} 41.
Bg6+ Qxg7 42. Rf7+ Qxf7 43. Bxf7 b5 $18) 41. Rg8+ Kc7 42. Bc4 Qe3+
(42... b5 {
otherwise it's curtains at once} 43. Bxb5 a6 44. Bxa6 e4 45. Rf7+ Kd6
$18) 43.
Kh1 b5 44. Rf7+ Kb6 45. Rg6+ Ka5 46. Rxa7# 1-0

Date: 18 Jun 2007 08:52:07
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

On Jun 17, 11:23 am, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:

[Event "New York June Game in 50"]
[Site "Hotel New Yorker, NYC"]
[Date "2007.06.16"]
[Round "04"]
[White "Rotsen,Gregory"]
[Black "Sloan,Sam"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C40"]
[WhiteElo "1705"]
[BlackElo "1918"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6 3.Bc4 Ne7 4.c3 c6 5.d4 d5 6.exd5 e4 7.Nh4
cxd5 8.Bb3 Nbc6 9.Qh5+ g6 10.Nxg6 Nxg6 11.Bxd5 f5 12.Bb3
Qa5 13.Nd2 Bd7 14.Nc4 Qc7 15.d5 Nce5 16.Nxe5 Qxe5 17.O-O
O-O-O 18.Qe2 Bd6 19.g3 h5 20.Be3 Kb8 21.Bd4 Nf4 22.Qe3 Qe7
23.Bxh8 Nh3+ 24.Kh1 Rxh8 25.c4 f4 26.Qd4 Re8 27.Rac1 Bc5
28.Qd1 Bg4 29.f3 Bxf3+ 30.Rxf3 exf3 31.Qxf3 Qe2 32.Qxe2
Rxe2 33.Rc2 Rxc2 34.Bxc2 f3 35.Bd3 Nf2+ 0-1

I am just learning how to use Fritz, so I decided to have it analyze
my game against Rotsen who, incidentally, is from Moldova.

Fritz analyzed the game completely differently from the way I did over
the board.

I felt that when my opponent sacrificed a knight for two pawns on move
10, this was a blunder and I had an easy win after that. However, I
blundered with 20. ... Kb8 allowing 21. Bd4 winning back the exchange.
I launched a desperate attack with 21. ... Nf4. He should have played
21. Kg2 followed by Kxh3 and, although I would have had a good attack
he would have had a material advantage.

After that, his position was hopeless and I easily finished him off.

That is what I thought. However, the Fritz analysis was completely
different.

Fritz did not give 20. ... Kb8 a ?. Surprisingly, Fritz gave 23. Bxh8
a ?? Fritz said that before that White had the advantage.

Fritz found several ways I could have won by checkmate sooner than I
did. However, this is not surprising as a human will always take the
simple win rather than the quickest.

Here is the analysis by Fritz. However, I cannot read the squiggles so
if anybody is able to interpret them it would be appreciated.

[Event "New York June Game in 50"]
[Site "Hotel New Yorker, NYC"]
[Date "2007.06.16"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Rotsen, Gregory"]
[Black "Sloan, Sam"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C40"]
[WhiteElo "1705"]
[BlackElo "1918"]
[Annotator "Fritz 10 (30s)"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2007.??.??"]

{C40: Latvian and Elephant Gambits} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f6 {last book
move} 3. Bc4
Ne7 4. c3 (4. d4 $142 $5 exd4 5. Nxd4 $18) 4... c6 $14 {Consolidates
b5+d5} 5.
d4 d5 6. exd5 e4 7. Nh4 (7. Nfd2 $5 cxd5 8. Bb3 $16) 7... cxd5 $14 8.
Bb3 Nbc6
(8... h5 9. f4 $11) 9. Qh5+ (9. O-O Be6 10. f3 exf3 11. Nxf3 Qd7 $14)
9... g6
$11 10. Nxg6 (10. Qe2 $142 $5 $11 {and White can hope to survive})
10... Nxg6
$17 11. Bxd5 f5 12. Bb3 Qa5 13. Nd2 Bd7 {
White has a cramped position. White's piece can't move: c1} 14. Nc4 {
White threatens to win material: Nc4xa5} Qc7 15. d5 $2 (15. Bg5 $142 {
would allow White to play on} Be7 16. d5 $17) 15... Nce5 $19 16. Nxe5
Qxe5 17.
O-O (17. Bg5 Ba3 $1 {Double attack: a1/e1} 18. Qe2 Bd6 $19) 17... O-O-
O 18. Qe2
$2 (18. Be3 Nf4 19. Qh4 $19) 18... Bd6 19. g3 (19. Qh5 {is no
salvation} Rhg8
$19) 19... h5 (19... f4 $142 $5 {makes it even easier for Black} 20.
Bc2 Rde8
21. Re1 $19) 20. Be3 Kb8 21. Bd4 Nf4 {Black threatens to win material:
Nf4xe2}
(21... Qe7 $142 {it becomes clear that Black will call all the shots}
22. Qe3
h4 $19) 22. Qe3 {White threatens to win material: Qe3xf4} Qe7 (22...
Nh3+ $142
23. Kg2 Qe7 24. Bxa7+ Kc8 $17) 23. Bxh8 $4 {throwing away the
advantage} (23.
gxf4 $142 {would hold out} Rhg8+ 24. Kh1 $16) 23... Nh3+ $19 24. Kh1
Rxh8 25.
c4 (25. Qd4 Rh6 $19) 25... f4 26. Qd4 Re8 27. Rac1 (27. Rae1 $19 {
is still a small chance}) 27... Bc5 28. Qd1 (28. d6 {hoping against
hope} Bxd4
29. dxe7 Rxe7 30. c5 $19) 28... Bg4 29. f3 Bxf3+ (29... exf3 30. d6
Qe3 31. Qe1
Qxe1 32. Rcxe1 Nf2+ 33. Kg1 Rxe1 34. Rxe1 Ne4+ 35. Kh1 Bh3 36. Re2
fxe2 37.
gxf4 e1=Q#) 30. Rxf3 exf3 31. Qxf3 Qe2 32. Qxe2 Rxe2 33. Rc2 (33. gxf4
{
is not the saving move} Nf2+ 34. Kg2 Nd3+ 35. Kg3 Bf2+ 36. Kg2 Be3+
37. Kf3
Nxc1 38. Bd1 $19) 33... Rxc2 (33... Re1+ 34. Kg2 Ng5 35. Rf2 f3+ 36.
Rxf3 Rg1#)
34. Bxc2 $19 f3 35. Bd3 (35. Bg6 {praying for a miracle} Nf2+ 36. Kg1
Ng4+ 37.
Kh1 $19) 35... Nf2+ (35... Nf2+ 36. Kg1 Nxd3+ 37. Kf1 Nxb2 $19) 0-1

Date: 17 Jun 2007 22:32:32
From: help bot
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

Date: 17 Jun 2007 17:57:26
From: EZoto
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

God help us all................

OOPS! I'm sorry. Your muslim.

ALLAH help us all.

EZoto

Date: 17 Jun 2007 14:32:46
From: Smegmato
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

"EZoto" < > OOPS! I'm sorry. Your muslim.
>
>

Sloan is not Muslim, he is a Jehovah's Witness. Some of his kids are Muslim,
some are Hindu, some are Budhhist, some are Christian. Not sure if any of
his kids are Jewish.

Sloan is like the Johnny Appleseed of the Chess world. He has spawned dozens
of future Chess champions.

Date: 17 Jun 2007 14:16:23
From: Chess Freak
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

"Smegmato" <[email protected] > wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "EZoto" <> OOPS! I'm sorry. Your muslim.
>>
>>
>
> Sloan is like the Johnny Appleseed of the Chess world. He has spawned
> dozens
> of future Chess champions.
>

What, he mated with a computer?

Date: 17 Jun 2007 19:51:24
From: D. Spencer Hines
Subject: Re: I Win The USCF Forums Chess Championship

Not a bad legacy.

DSH

"Smegmato" <[email protected] > wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> "EZoto" <> OOPS! I'm sorry. Your muslim.
>
> Sloan is not Muslim, he is a Jehovah's Witness. Some of his kids are
> Muslim, some are Hindu, some are Budhhist, some are Christian.
> Not sure if any of his kids are Jewish.
>
> Sloan is like the Johnny Appleseed of the Chess world. He has spawned
> dozens of future Chess champions.

Date: 17 Jun 2007 18:44:42
From: EZoto
Subject: Re: I Win the USCF Forums Chess Championship

On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:32:46 -0400, "Smegmato"
<[email protected] > wrote:

>"EZoto" <> OOPS! I'm sorry. Your muslim.
>>
>>
>
>Sloan is not Muslim, he is a Jehovah's Witness.

How do you like that. Never knew that. Just one of those things that
slip by.

EZoto

> Some of his kids are Muslim,
>some are Hindu, some are Budhhist, some are Christian. Not sure if any of
>his kids are Jewish.
>
>Sloan is like the Johnny Appleseed of the Chess world. He has spawned dozens
>of future Chess champions.
>