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Volume 1, Issue 2
September 2007
INDIANA STATE CHESS ASSOCIATION
Former and future State
Champions compete in the
Masters section. Jim Dean
and John Cole share the
2007 Masters title after com-
peting in two rounds con-
cluding draws. John Cole
due to make the State Title,
will this year be his?
The Senior Championship
came down to tie breaks for
the title. John Roush won
out over Rev. Michael Gant
and Walt Thompson each
having 3 wins out of 4
games. Dennis Geisleman
withdrawing the 4th round
potentially cost Gant tie
break points for the title.
State by-laws dictate breaks
being used to determine the
champion whenever there is
a three way tie.
Garrett Smith took the Ama-
teur Championship
with a perfect 4
game score. Current-
ly Garrett is 40 points
away from his Na-
tional Masters certifi-
cate. Best of luck.
Daniel Gater won
the Junior champi-
onship as well with 4
points. Daniel is also
the 8th Grade Scho-
lastic Champion. His
USCF rating is 1664
and rising.
Thanks to all competitors.
Hope to see you all at the
big dance.
John Cole and Jim Dean tie for 1st at the Masters.
Masters/generations brings
tough players to Logansport
Champions & ISCHoF 2 & 3
Games 2006 State 4
Classy A Games 4
Kokomo Open 5
Scholastic Chess 6
Tactically Speaking 7
TLAs 8
Inside this issue:
Special points of in-
terest:
Lester VanMeter &
Emory Tate page 4
Cole, Davidson & Par-
ham on page 4
Les Kistler & Mike Her-
ron page 5
Josh Smith & Cameron
Donis page 6
White wins 2 of 4 page 7
the Kokomo Chess Club Hosts The Class
Champi onshi ps
A beautiful August day in
Kokomo brought 46 players
to the Union Hall to com-
pete for 5 State titles.
Throughout the day the
doors were propped open
and distant road noise from
the highway as well as a dry
warm breeze surrounded
the competition for a perfect
day of chess.
The Master/Expert section
consisted of a quad with
Mike Herron and Garrett
Smith tying with 2 of 3
points. Roshambo (rock pa-
per scissors) was played,
best 2 of 3, to award the
plaques. Herron won the
exciting contest as players
watched on.
In Class A Robert G Da-
vidson finished first with 3.5
points of 4. Daniel Ryker
finished first with 3.5 points
as well in Class B. Class C
finished with a tie between
Frank Owens and Siyang Liu
scoring 3 of 4 games. Last
but not least the D Class
finished with Matt McKee
taking first with a perfect
score of 4.

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laws and keep Indi-
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Player Indiana State Championships
John Van Benton + 3 (consecutive)
Donald O. Brooks + 7
Edward Vano + 7
Dennis V. Gogel 6
Lester L. VanMeter 5
Emory A. Tate Jr. 5
Jim H. Dean 4
Service To Chess In Indiana
Glen Donley +
Robert J. Rice +
John T. Campbell +
Thomas J. Harris +
Robert J. Fischer
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P A G E 4 U N S O U N D L I N E S

Cao,Tony (2181) - Cole,John W (2320)
2006 Indiana State Championship (5), 10/01/06
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3
e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 h5 9.Qd2 Nbd7 10.0-0-0 Rc8 11.Kb1
Qc7 12.h3 Be7 13.Bd3 h4 14.f4 b5 15.Rhe1 0-0 16.Qf2
b4 17.Nd5 Bxd5 18.exd5 Nxd5 19.Bf5 Nxe3 20.Qxe3
Rcd8 21.Bd3 a5 22.Nd4 Nc5 23.fxe5 dxe5 24.Nf5 Nxd3
25.Rxd3 Rxd3 26.Qxd3 Rd8 27.Qe3 Qd7 28.Qf3 Bf6
29.Ne3 e4 30.Qg4 Qd2 31.Qd1 Qxd1+ 32.Nxd1 Rd2
33.Ne3 Bg5 34.a3 Bxe3 35.Rxe3 f5 36.axb4 axb4 37.c4
bxc3 38.Rxc3 Rxg2 39.b4 f4 40.Rc8+ Kh7 41.Kc1 f3 42.Rf8
f2 43.Kd1 Rg1+ 44.Ke2 e3 45.Rf4 Re1+ 0-1
Final Position








Indiana Plays Chess
31.Rxc8 Rxc8 32.Bc3 Bb4 33.Bxb4 axb4
34.Ne1 Rc4 35.Kf2 Qa7 36.Rd1 Qxa4
37.Nd3 Rc2+ 38.Rd2 Bc4 39.Ne1 Qa1
40.g4 Rxb2 41.Kg3 Rxd2 42.Qxd2 Qc3+
43.Nf3 b2 44.Qd1Be2 45.Qxe2 b1=Q
46.Kh4 Qbd3 47.Qa2 Qc8 48.Ng5 b3
49.Qa7 Qe8 50.Qxh7+ Kf8 51.Qh8+
Ke7 52.Qg7+ Kd8 53.Nf7+ Qxf7
54.Qxf7 Qxd4 55.Qxe6 b2 56.Qb3 Qxf4
57.Qd5+ Kc7 58.Qd6+ Kb7 59.Qd7+
Kb6 60.Qd8+ Kc5 61.Qd6+ Kc4{Game
continued about 20 more moves under
severe time pressure without recorded
moves; White Resigned} 0-1
[Date "2007.08.18"][Round "3"]
[White "Dionisi Koulianos"]["1903"]
[Black "Robert G. Davidson"]["1864"]
[Opening "Colle"][Class "A"][Result "0-1"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.e3 e6 4.Bd3 d5 5.O-
O c4 6.Be2 Nc6 7.Nbd2 Bd6 8.c3 O-O
9.Qc2 b5 10.a4 b4 11.e4 b3 12.Qb1
Bc7 13.Ng5 Bf4 14.Ngf3 Qc7 15.g3 Bh6
16.e5 Nd7 17.Nh4 f5 18.f4 Qd8
19.Nxc4 Nxd4 20.cxd4 dxc4 21.Bxc4
Nb6 22.Qd3 a5 23.Be3 Nxc4 24.Qxc4
Qb6 25.Rfc1 Bb7 26.Qc7 Qa6 27.Qc3
Bd5 28.Bd2 Rfc8 29.Qe3 g6 30.Nf3 Bf8
INDIANA STATE CLASS CHAMPIONSHIPS
(Class A Section)
UAW Hall, CR 50 E, Kokomo, IN
August 18, 2007 (G/90)
Bernie Parham II (1840)Les Kistler (1974)
Round 1, Board 3, B20 Sicilian Defense
1. e4 c5 2. Qh5?! Nf6 3. Qh4 Nc6 About 10
years ago, several Indiana players made a
strong bid to destroy this opening variation
with the enterprising gambit 3. g5!? 4.
Q:g5 N:e4 5. Qe5 Nf6 6. Q:c5 Nc6, with full
(Continued on page 5)
A couple classy games from the A Class 07
Tate Jr,Emory A (2455) - Van Meter,Lester L (2216)
2006 Indiana State Championship (5), 10/01/06
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 Bc5 6.Nb3 Be7
7.f4 d6 8.Be3 Nd7 9.Qf3 Ngf6 10.g4 h6 11.h4 h5 12.g5 Ng4
13.Bd2 b6 14.Bc3 e5 15.N1d2 0-0 16.f5 b5 17.Ba5 Qe8 18.Qg3
d5 19.exd5 e4 20.Nxe4 Nc5 21.Nbxc5 Bxc5 22.0-0-0 Be3+
23.Kb1 Qd7 24.Rhe1 Bd4 25.Bc3 Bxc3 26.Nxc3 b4 27.Ne4 Rd8
28.g6 Bb7 29.Ng5 Bxd5 30.Be4 Nf6 31.gxf7+ Kh8 32.Bxd5
Nxd5 33.Qf3 1-0
Final Position









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P A G E 5 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 2
capture on h6, giving White no time to take
over d5. 10. Bd2 Up to this point, Parham
had consumed only 3 minutes, an average
of less than 20 seconds per move. Is the
position that simple? Parham played quite
rapidly, as if all of this was all wellknown to
him. 10. Nc7 This move and the next one
signaled my desire to play an aggressive
complicated game. The routine 10. Nf6 is
fine, but I wanted to keep my bishop and
queen trained on h4.
POSITION 1 - AFTER 10. Nc7.
11. Nf3 Parham played this whole game
quickly, using less than a minute most of the
time. Here is one of the few times I saw him
pause (for 4 minutes) to think it over. 11.
(Continued on page 7)
compensation for the pawn in the form of a
lead in development. Disciples of this off
beat opening probably play it to force oppo-
nents to play outside their comfort zone.
Although I like wild irrational play, this gam-
bit line might not be advisable with a sud-
dendeath time limit. 4. Be2 This modest
move is directed against Nh5, a move
which would attack the queen at g3 or de-
fend against the mate on g7. 4. e5 5. d3
Be7 6. Qg3 O-O 7. h4 d5 8. Bh6 Ne8 9. Nc3
Moves like this are what make this opening
worrisome for me. White drove the knight
back to e8, and now his knight threatens to
move into d5, the square just abandoned by
that knight. 9. Kh8 This move threatens to
(Continued from page 4)
Kistler, Les (1986) - Herron, Mike (2083)
2007 Howard County Open (4), 4/21/07
Hi everybody, here's a very exciting and interesting game from
board 1 last round at the Howard County open in Kokomo a
week or so ago. I needed a win to tie Josh Bousum for 1st, and
les needed a win to finish clear 2nd and in the money. A draw
didn't do much for either of us, so it was a really good fight. Les'
double piece sac deserved a better fate, as you'll see. Moves 25-
32 especially are full of cool tactics. Les Kistler (1986) vs. Mike
Herron (2083) 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Bd3 Nf6 5.c3 Nc6
6.Bf4 Bg4 7.Qb3 Qd7 {more common is 7...Qc8} 8.Nd2 e6
9.Ngf3 Be7 10.0-0 0-0 11.Rae1 a6 12.Ne5 Qc8(?!) {naturally I
was intending 12...Nxe5 here, but at the last moment I started
looking at 13.dxe5 Ne8 14.Qc2 g6 when my g4 bishop is ma-
rooned. he can either try to win it by getting bishop and queen
off that diagonal and pushing kingside pawns, or he can just
play 15.h3 Bf5 16.Bxf5 gxf5 where my kingside is drafty. I didn't
like any of this, so I switched it up. my move is survivable, but it
looks ridiculous and I hate to lose tempii as black in king-pawn
openings, especially against someone who attacks like les does}
13.Qc2 Bh5 14.Ndf3 Bxf3 15.Nxf3 g6 16.Bh6 Re8 17.Qd2 Ng4
18.Bg5 Qd8 19.Qf4 Bxg5 20.Nxg5 Nf6 21.Re3 Kg7 22.Rh3 Rh8
23.Re1 Qb8 24.Qe3 h6(?!) {The safe move to prevent what's
coming is 24...Qd6. I saw the sac, but just underestimated it. I
saw that my c6 knight covers e7, my f6 knight covers d7, g4,
and e4, and I have the resource Re8 to skewer queen and rook
or force a rook exchange...so I figured I could keep the material
and win} 25.Nxf7(!) {The fireworks begin! a totally sound sac}
25...Kxf7 26.Bxg6+(?) {more exact is 26.Qxe6+ Kg7 27.Bxg6.
then if I don't take the bishop he has 3 pawns for the piece and
a huge attack, and if I take the bishop then we have the game
position with white to move instead of black. that would mean
that I wouldn't have the possibility of forcing the draw with Re8
and he'd have an extra tempo for attack. after 28.Ree3 Qf4
29.Reg3+ Qg5 30.f4 Rae8 Im maybe just barely alive, but there
are a dizzying array of material imbalances that could arise with
white better in most of them} 26...Kxg6 27.Qxe6 {the idea of his
sac is that he will play Ree3, then check on g3 with a rook, then
check on f5 or f7 with the queen and mate me. and it's not an
easy idea to stop} 27...Qf4 {one problem with his move order is
that I can now force a draw with 27...Re8. it looks like it wins
outright because the queen and rook are skewered and if
28.Rg3+? then just 28...Qxg3! wins. however he has the re-
markable 28.Rxh6+(!) shot. then after 28...Kxh6 29.Qxf6+ Im
up rook and knight for a bunch of pawns, but his queen gives
perpetual. I decided to play on mainly because I needed to win
to tie for 1st in the tournament, but also I was still underesti-
mating his attack. 28.Ree3(!) {the key move. it prevents the Re8
skewering idea and prepares a rook check on g3. not
28.Rg3+?, as 28...Qxg3 29.hxg3 Re8 with gobs of material for
the queen wins for me} 28...Rhf8 29.Rhf3 Qg5 {possibly better
is 29...Qh4. then 30.Rg3+ Kh7 31.Qf5+ Kh8 32.Rh3 Qg4
33.Rxh6+ Kg7 34.Rg3 Kxh6 35.Rxg4 Nxg4 36.Qxg4 where it's
queen and 4 pawns vs. 2 rooks and a knight. who's better?
who knows? not me} 30.h4(?) Still trying to attack, I think just
30.Rg3 is the way to go now. Then 30...Rae8 31.Rxg5+ hxg5
32.Qh3 Rxe3 33.fxe3 and white has queen and 3 pawns for
rook and two knights. Very unclear ending with a wild materi-
al imbalance, I think white's chances are a bit better, although
with les having about 5 minutes left and me about 11 minutes,
probably all 3 results would have been possible} 30...Qh5
31.g4(?) {probably the losing move. he could maybe sit on this
position a bit, as if I attempt to untangle with 31...Rae8? he
would hit me with the 32.Rxf6+! thunderbolt. now the g-file is
closed and I can defend 31...Qxh4 32.Qf5+ Kg7 33.g5 {losing,
but 33.Rg3 allows 33...Qg5 and his attack has gone away}
33...Qg4+ 34.Qxg4 Nxg4 35.gxh6+ Kxh6 {as long as Im care-
ful not to lose a piece to a rook check, it's over. he's under 2
minutes left now, and the rest is time scramble} 36.Re6+ Kg5
37.Rg3 Kf5 38.Rd6 Rad8 39.Rf3 Ke4 40.Rxf8 Rxf8 41.Re6+ Kd3
42.Rg6 Nxf2 43.Rg3+ Kc2 {of course Im happy to give up one
knight in order to exchange rooks and eat all the queenside
pawns} 44.Rg2 Kxb2 45.Rg5(?!) {Doesnt matter anymore,
45.Rxf2+ Rxf2 46.Kxf2 Kxc3 47.Ke3 Nxd4 is just as clear}
45...Nh3+ 46.resigns 0-1 Id be interested in comments
from les, fritz, and anyone who would like to weigh in on this. I
didn't use a computer in the analysis, so I likely have some mis-
takes in here. Hope you find this one interesting, Mike
Thanks Mike for sending me this e-mail. I thought it should be
included. As you said it was a key game in the tourney.
POSITION 1

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U.S. Junior Chess Congress 3/8-3/9 2008
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Childrens Museum, Indianapolis

September 22, 2007 - Heartland Fall Scholastic, Heartland Minis-
tries, Sharpsville

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Indianapolis

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School, Indianapolis

Fall 2007 Scholastic Tournaments
0 12. Nc2 Bg5 13. Bd3 Ne7
Chessmaster scores the current po-
sition as a slight edge to black, with
the continuation 14. Nce3 Nxd5
15. Nxd5 Be6 16. Qf3 g6 17. 0-0
Bxd5 18. exd5 f5 19. Rae1.
14. Nce3 Be6 15. Bc2 f5?!
Slightly better here would have
been 15. Nxd5.
16. Nxe7 Qxe7 17. Nxf5 Bxf5 18.
exf5
White is now up a pawn in material,
but based on position, Chessmaster
scores this as a 1/2 pawn ad-
vantage for white.
18. Kh8 19. 0-0 Rac8 20. Qd3
Rfd8 21. f6
White threatens mate, but better a
slightly better continuation would
have been 21. a4 b4 22. cxb4
Qb7 23. b5 axb5 24. axb5 Rc5 25.
Ba4 d5.
Round 5 of the Indiana Individual
State Chess Championships 12th
and Under division
The results of the day left two play-
ers at 4-0 going into the last round.
In round 4, Cameron Donis defeat-
ed Kevin Krenk to defend board 1,
and Josh Smith defeated Benjamin
Klimek for his shot to be the first
sophomore since FM Jim Dean to
win the state title (according to Jim
Deannot independently verified).
Sicilian Defense Pelikan Variation
W Josh Smith (1761)
B Cameron Donis (2091)
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4.
Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Nb5 d6 7.
Bg5 a6 8. Na3 b5
Smith goes out of opening book
with 9. Nd5. Book move would be
9. Bxf6.
9. Nd5 Be7 10. Bxf6 Bxf6 11. c3 0-
Scholastic Chess
21. gxf6 22. Rad1 d5 23. a4?!
Whites advantage is gone with this
move, and black has an even game
again.
23. bxa4 24. Qxa6 a3 25. Rxd5
Rxd5 26. Qxc8+ Rd8 27. Qa6 ax-
b2 28. Rb1 Bc1 29. g3 e4 30.
Qb5? e3
Here is Chessmaster 10th Editions
take on move 30. Qb5? Leads to
30...Rd2 31.Kf1 Rxc2 32.Qb3 Rd2
33.Qb4 Qxb4 34.cxb4 Kg7 35.b5
Kf7, which wins a queen for a
queen and a bishop. Better is Kf1,
leading to 30...f5 31.Qb6 Rc8
32.Bb3 Qe5 33.Qd4 Qxd4 34.cxd4
Kg7, which wins a queen for a
queen. This was white's only signifi-
cant error of the game, but it was
costly. White was never able to re-
gain the lost ground and eventually
resigned. (Score of a 5 pawn ad-
vantage for black after this move)

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Tactically Speaking
White to play and win
Black to play and win


















White to play and win
Black to play and win

















f5! I pondered 10 minutes here 12. Bg5 The
pawn is poisoned: 12. N:e5 N:e5 13. Q:e5
Bd6! traps the white queen. 12. f4 13.
Qh2 If this is the best white can do after his
second move, then the opening system must
be a failure. I was expecting 13. B:e7 Q:e7
14. Qg5, but 14. Qd6! threatens h6
followed by Bd7e8 trapping the queen. 13.
Be6 Several times during this game, I es-
chewed the moves Nd4 or Nb4. White
easily parries the threat to c2. Obviously
White thought about it, or he wouldnt have
made his 14th move. 14. a3 d4 15. Nb1 b5
Obviously, Black has no intention of captur-
ing on g5 since 15. B:g5 16. hg leads to
immediate catastrophe on the hfile. Par-
ham was still playing unbelievably fast, hav-
ing consumed only 10 minutes on the first
(Continued from page 5) 15 moves, an average of 40 seconds per
move. I had consumed 33 minutes. Per-
haps I was overthinking this position, but I
wanted to knit things together very carefully
so he would have no chance at counterplay.
16. N:e5!? I must admit this move escaped
my notice, but I found a good response
while I was thinking it over. 16. N:e5 17.
B:f4 R:f4! By sacrificing the exchange, all of
Whites attacking chances disappear, and
Black keeps all four minor pieces. A mechan-
ical count of material says that White is a
pawn ahead, but his pieces are not partici-
pating in the game. 18. Q:f4 Qd6 Threaten-
ing to win his queen by N:d3+, but 18.
Bd6 is worth considering. I thought about
the bishop move, but the variation 18. Bd6
19. Qg5 Qd7 20. f4 Nf7 21. Qg3, probably
good for Black, looked too unclear. 19. Qg3
Rf8 20. Nd2 There was a little trap here: 20.
f4?? R:f4! wins a pawn since 21. Q:f4
N:d3+ carries out the threat from the pre-
vious note. 20. c4 Black is better, but
how much better? The position is murky,
and there is no obvious way to get at the
white king. Playing b4 would be bad
because it could open up the afile to
Whites advantage. At this point, Parham
was a full 31 minutes ahead of me on the
clock. His clock read 4:42, only 12
minutes consumed, an average of 36(!)
seconds per move. This rapidity might be
unnerving to the slower player who ob-
serves that White has a good position
while Black has no clear way to proceed.
POSITION 2 - AFTER 20. c4.
21. OO c3!? I was not especially happy
about this. I wanted to do some more
damage to his center, but couldnt find a
way to make progress. However, the h
pawns advance has weakened Whites
kingside a bit. 22. b:c3 d:c3 23. Nf3 N:f3+
24. B:f3 Qd8! 25. Qe5 B:h4 26. Q:c3 I
thought for a while here, rejecting 26.
Bf6 27. e5, with no clear progress for
Black. Black has no more center pawns,
so his minor pieces cannot attack much
there. Instead, my eyes were drawn to
the kingside where White has only one
defender. 26. R:f3!
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This sacrifice will be obvious to any master or
grandmaster, but I had to take a leap of faith. I
saw most of the main variations, but I was
afraid to dig too deeply into the variations with-
out running severely short of time, yet I just
knew there was a win here. 27. g:f3 Qg5+ 28.
Kh1 Qh5! I was really worried about allowing
him to take the knight then swooping back
with Qc7h2, holding everything. At first I
pondered 28. Qf4!? here but 29. d4! holds
the f3 pawn and forces Black to work harder.
(Continued from page 7) 29. Kg1 If 29. Q:c7 Bd8+? 30. Qh2 holds, but
29. Bg3+!! does it. In fact, after 30. Kg2 there
is no need to capture the queen because of 30.
Qh2#. 29. Bh3 A picturesque position;
bereft of defenders, the white king perishes. 30.
Kh2 B:f1 31. Qc6 Even if mate couldve been
averted (it cant), the discovered check Bf6+
wins decisive material. 31. B:f2# (01). An-
other picturesque position complementing the
previous diagram. After the game, I took great
pleasure in showing the mating finish to Garrett
Smith and Nate Criss. I told Garrett I like being
old. People underestimate me.