Scholastics / Spring Nationals
The Catalina Foothills team that won the Under 18 Championship at the Kasparov Chess Foundation (KCF) All-Girls. Left to right: FST Mikhail Khodarkovsky of the KCF, Aiya Cancio, Emma Wing, Amber Fox, and Coach Robby Adamson.
this final round could be for them. The first game to finish was the one
between Becca and Rachel Eng from Arizona. Becca had an extra pawn, and her opponent missed a tactic that put her another pawn behind. Though the path to checkmate would have taken Becca a lot more work, her opponent resigned, and thus Becca joined the leaders with 5 points. Anupama finished next in her game against Lilia Poteat from New York, though their game lasted much longer. In fact, there was a scramble at the very end. Anupama was down one pawn in a seemingly drawn rook and pawn endgame, yet her tenacity pushed her to continue playing until, in the resulting time pressure, she turned the tables around and won her game, joining the group of the Under 18 Champi- onship winners.
Sicilian Defense, Taimanov Variation (B48) Rachael Eng (1927) Becca Lampman (2099)
12th All-Girls National Championships (6), Chicago, Illinois, 04.19.2015 Notes by Lampman.
26 July 2015 | Chess Life
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Be3 a6 7. a3 Nf6 8. Be2 Be7 9. 0-0 0-0 10. Qd2
11. ... Nxd4 12. Bxd4 e5 Carlos Garcia Moreno-GM Ulf Andersson (2580), Ciudad Real, 2004.
11. h3 b5 12. Bf4 12. f4 was a more consistent follow up
after h3. 12. ... Nc4 13. Bxc4 Qxc4 14. e5 Ne8 (White wins after 14. ... Nd5 15. Nxd5 Qxd5 16. Nf5).
12. ... d6 13. Bg3 Bb7 14. f4 Nc4 15. Bxc4 Qxc4 16. Qd3 Rac8 17. Rae1 Qc5 18. Bf2 Qc7
A seemingly natural move that doesn’t
fit the position. This move is more consist - ent with castling queenside, followed by f2-f3, g2-g4, and so on. Most popular is: 10. f4 d6 11. Kh1 Re8 12. Qe1.
10. ... Ne5?! 10. ... d6 is more popular because if
White plays 11. f4 Black can reply with
Moving the queen to c5 and then to c7 obviously seems like a waste of time. To
PHOTO: JORGE BARRERA
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