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In most games between top players, victory is usually determined by a few minor errors by one of them. Blowouts are rare.

That was not the case at the 93rd Marshall Chess Club Championship, which ended last weekend.

The club, on West 10th Street in Manhattan, is one of the oldest and, based on its membership, strongest in the country. The club is named after Frank J. Marshall, the United States champion from 1909 to 1936. Marshall was a swashbuckling player, and he would have appreciated many of the games at this year’s tournament.

The field included eight grandmasters and three international masters. The runaway winner was Alex Lenderman, 20, of Brooklyn. The victory capped off a good year for him: He tied for first at the Philadelphia International tournament in late June, and he tied for third at the World Junior Chess Championship in Argentina in the fall.

Based on his performances in 2009, Lenderman qualified for the grandmaster title.

In Round 7 at the Marshall tournament, Lenderman sacrificed his queen against Irina Krush, an international master. It was a speculative combination that should have failed, but Lenderman got away with it.

The opening was a symmetrical double-fianchetto, but then Lenderman had pushed his d pawn, initiating a series of exchanges. After 12 Qd4, the players reached the position in the diagram above.

Krush played 12 … d5, offering what she thought would be a temporary pawn sacrifice. If White played 13 Nd5 then 13 … Nh5 14 Qd2 e6 15 g4 ed5 16 gh5 Bb2 17 Qb2 Qg5 18 Kh1 Qh5, and Black would have a small edge.

Lenderman played 13 cd5, and the game continued 13 … e6 14 Rfd1 Nd5. Instead of 15 Qd3 Qg5 16 Nd5 Bb2, which offers equal chances, Lenderman surprised Krush with 15 Qg7 Kg7 16 Nd5 Kh6 (forced) 17 Nf6 Qc7 18 Be5 Qc6 (if 18 … Qe5 19 Ng4 wins the queen) 19 f3.

Krush should have played 19 … g5 to give her king breathing space, but she blundered with 19 … Rfd8, and the game went 20 Ng4 Kh5 21 Bg7 g5 22 Ne5 Qc2 23 Kh3 g4 (forced) 24 fg4 Kg5 25 Nf7 Kg6 26 Nd8 Kg7 27 Ne6 Kg8 28 Nf4 Qb2 29 Rac1 Rf8 30 Rc7 Rf7 31 Rd8. Krush then resigned because she was again in a mating net.

There was an outwardly more subtle end to the Round 9 game between grandmasters Robert Hess of New York and Magesh Chandran Panchanathan of India.

In the diagram at left, Panchanathan erred by playing 22 … f6; the straight-forward 22 … Qe4 was better. Hess replied 23 f3, and Panchanathan blundered again with 23 … d5. He resigned after 24 Rac1. The most spectacular end would have been 24 … Qa2 25 Rc7 Rf8 26 Qg5!! fg5 27 Rg7 Kh8 28 Rg5 Rf6 29 Bf6, mate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/nyregion/27chess.html

New York City Chess Inc. introduces….

Instructional League play!

Students will enjoy multiple stations of “technique training” for 30 minutes and then begin playing; good natured, competitive, League Chess play. Results and Weekly Standings will be posted. Instructors will observe and offer specific training to Students based on these observations.
Chess NYC’s unprecedented approach promotes learning through, instruction, games, competition and then…tailored instruction…and back to games.

Where: Robert Louis Stevenson (PS 183) 67th Between 1st and York

When: Thursdays 6.00 - 7.30 (Starting Dec 10th)

Sundays 11.30 - 1.00 (Starting Dec 13th)

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