Chess Miracles

Recently a Fide rated event with players > elo 1.900 has been played in Robecchetto con Induno, near of Milan, North of Italy. There were 22 players. One International Master, three Fide Masters, two players rated > 2.100 plus various Candidate Masters. And a chess miracle happened. The lowest rated player, the 15th year old  Vincenzo Montilli (class A Player - Fide Rated 1909 at the time) tied for 1st/2nd (although he was eventually 2nd because of the Bucholz) with a performance rating of 2324!         BRAVO Vincenzo!! 
http://www.cavalliesegugi.com/ 
I hope to able to publish soon some of his games from this event.

Final Standings

Pos  Pts  ID  NAME                    | Rtg  PRtg Fed |   Buc1    
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  1  5.0   1  IM Dambrauskas Virginij | 2315 2366 LTU |    18.5 
  2  5.0  22  1N Montilli Vincenzo    | 1909 2324  NO |    16.0 
  3  4.5   3  FM Damia Angelo         | 2281 2311  MI |    17.5 
  4  4.0   6  FM Barlocco Carlo       | 2077 2173  MI |    16.5 
  5  3.5  10  CM Bargeri Ludovico     | 2010 2135  NO |    21.0 
  6  3.5   4  -- Boschetti Claudio    | 2138 2132 SUI |    20.0 
  7  3.5   9  CM Guidi Maurizio       | 2031 2111  MI |    15.0 
  8  3.0   7  CM Santeramo Domenico   | 2069 2111  BA |    20.0 
  9  3.0  12  1N Razzano Lorenzo      | 1982 2117  TO |    17.5 
 10  3.0   2  FM Ranieri Fabrizio     | 2304 2064  TO |    17.0 
 11  3.0  11  CM Siclari Giovanni     | 2007 1993  BI |    16.5 
 12  3.0   5  CM Temi Walter          | 2105 1969  NO |    15.5 
 13  3.0  21  1N Bardone Lorenzo      | 1924 1985  BI |    13.0 
 14  2.5  16  1N Petrone Gianmario    | 1963 2017  MI |    17.0 
 15  2.5  15  CM Marinone Lucio       | 1977 1925  VC |    15.0 
 16  2.5  13  CM Corti Corrado        | 1979 2021  CO |    14.0 
 17  2.5  19  1N Coppola Federico     | 1940 1915  NO |    12.5 
 18  2.0  17  CM Di Chiara Mauro      | 1962 1915  TO |    15.5 
 19  2.0   8  CM Ranfagni Stefano     | 2040 1896  BG |    14.5 
 20  2.0  18  CM Lucchese Paolo       | 1958 1870  AL |    13.5 
 21  1.5  20  1N Morandi Daniele      | 1929 1660  MI |    15.5    
 22  1.5  14  CM Bianchi Alberto      | 1977 1822  MI |    15.5    

The Stonewall Attack

As the previous post on The Stonewall Attack is the most read post, but those dealing with the chess engines, I really hope that a strong player will start working on a new book about this opening.
For the time being, to my knowledge, IM Martin's DVD is the most recent work dealing with this exciting opening.

Droidfish chess GUI & engine for Android

An amazing app to play with the Stockfish engine on a tablet working with Android. 
And it is FREE!! 
I love the option to reduce the engine's strength starting from 1% up to 99%
Highly Recommended. Simply the best.
http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/droidfish/
Droidfish review written more than one year ago
Link to download Droidfish

Napoli - Maiorov, Memorial Crespi 2012

This game has been played on Dec. 2nd 29012 and it is one of the shortest I have ever seen.

Kampman - Bosboom, Dutch League, Tilburg 23-11-2012

 http://theamazingchessworld.blogspot.it/2011/07/im-bosbooms-creative-chess.html http://theamazingchessworld.blogspot.it/2011/07/im-bosbooms-original-chess-part-2.html http://theamazingchessworld.blogspot.it/2012/07/bosboom-punt-from-spachess-open-2012.html

If you play against IM Bosboom...you never know what is going to happen..
In this recent game, he plays h5, h4 and h3 as early as possible and he goes for complications all out…..Enjoy!
 

Basmania in the Dutch League!

Recently the strong FM Jasper Broekmeulen (fide rated 2412) won a Macho Grob game against the current Dutch ladies champion IM and WGM Tea Lanchava

[Event "BSG I- HMC Calder I"]
 [Site ""]
 [Date "2012.11.03"]
 [Round ""]
 [White "Lanchava, Tea"]
 [Black "Broekmeulen, Jasper"]
 [Result "0-1"]
 [ECO "A00"]
 [WhiteElo "2312"]
 [BlackElo "2419"]
 [PlyCount "64"]
 [EventDate "2012.11.03"]
1. c4 d6 2. g3 g5 3. h4 g4 4. h5 Nc6 5. Bg2 e5 6. d3 f5 7. Nc3 Nf6 8. e4 fxe4 9. Nxe4 Nxe4 10. Bxe4 Qf6 11. Ne2 Bh6 12. O-O Bd7 13. Nc3 O-O-O 14. Nd5 Qg7 15. b4 Rdf8 16. Qa4 Bxc1 17. Raxc1 Kb8 18. b5 Nd4 19. Nb4 Qf7 20. Nc6+ Bxc6 21. bxc6 Qxh5 22. Rc2 Qh3 23. Rb1 Nf3+ 24. Bxf3 gxf3 25. Rxb7+ Kc8 26. Rb8+ Kxb8 27. Qb5+ Kc8 28. Qb7+ Kd8 29. Qb8+ Ke7 30. Qxc7+ Ke8 31. Qb8+ Kf7 32. Qc7+ Kg8 0-1

But would you believe me if I told you that FM Broekmeulen won another Macho Grob game against a fide rated 2.300+ opponent in Oct. 2012 as well? Here's the game:

[Event "NL tt, De Stukkenjagers I-HMC Calder I"]
 [Site "Tilburg"]
 [Date "2012.10.06"]
 [Round "3.4"]
 [White "Van Dongen, Cor"]
 [Black "Broekmeulen, Jasper"]
 [Result "0-1"]
 [ECO "A10"]
 [WhiteElo "2357"]
 [BlackElo "2410"]
 [PlyCount "82"]
1. c4 d6 2. g3 g5 3. d4 Bg7 4. Nc3 h6 5. Bg2 Nc6 6. d5 Ne5 7. f4 gxf4 8. gxf4 Ng6 9. Nf3 e5 10. dxe6 fxe6 11. O-O N8e7 12. e4 O-O 13. Ne2 Rb8 14. a4 a6 15. Ra3 b5 16. axb5 axb5 17. cxb5 Rxb5 18. Nfd4 Rb4 19. Rg3 Kh7 20. Nc2 Rb6 21. b4 Qe8 22. Be3 Rb8 23. Rh3 d5 24. e5 Nf5 25. Bc5 Rf7 26. Qd3 Bf8 27. Ncd4 Bxc5 28. bxc5 Qa4 29. Qd2 Qb4 30. Rc3 Bd7 31. Bh3 Nxd4 32. Nxd4 Rg8 33. Kh1 Rxf4 34. Rxf4 Nxf4 35. Bf1 Be8 36. Qe3 Bg6 37. Rb3 Qxc5 38. Rc3 Qb6 39. h3 Be4+ 40. Kh2 Qb2+ 41. Ne2 Qxe2+ 0-1 
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The Macho Grob Tape

The Grob meets its Match 

The Grob cassettes are available as CDs as well 

Enrico Faraoni's 1.g4 & 1...g5 games

Enrico Faraoni is an italian Candidate Master who is fond of 1.g4 & 1...g5
At this link https://hotfile.com/dl/179031423/e3ad30d/Faraoni.zip.html
you can download 33 of his Grob and Macho Grob games against opponents rated from Class A to I.M.
IMO this is his best Grob game against IM Dragojlovic: