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Ben Finegold earned his second GM Norm at the Chicago Spring
Futurity held from April 16-22. This was a round-robin event with
twelve players. He scored 8.0/11 to tie for first with GM
Varuzhan Akobian. Here are some of Ben’s games:
Ben Finegold (2522)
Vladimir Georgiev (2535)
Chicago Spring Futurity, Round 2
Chicago, IL, April 2005
Slav: Two Knights, D15
Notes by Ben Finegold
I prepared a lot of this game, and made a slight improvement
on Kaidanov-Georgiev from one month ago in Foxwoods. Georgiev did
not meet the new 17.Rc7 (my prepared improvement) well, and was
much worse soon thereafter.
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 a6 5.c5 Nbd7 6.Bf4 Nh5
7.e3 b6 8.cxb6 Qxb6 9.Bd3 Qxb2 10.Rc1 Nxf4 11.exf4 g6 12.0–0
Bh6 13.g3 0–0 14.Na4 Qb4 15.Rxc6 Rb8 16.Qc2 a5 17.Rc7 Re8
18.Qc6 Qd6 19.Ne5 Nf6 20.Qxd6 exd6 21.Nxf7 Bf8 22.Ng5 Bg7 23.Nc3
Rb4 24.Nb5 Bf8 25.Ra7 h6 26.Nf3 Bh3 27.Rc1 Ne4 28.Nc7 Rc8 29.Re1
Nf6 30.Bxg6 Kh8 31.Bf7 Rb2 32.Be6 Bxe6 33.Nxe6 Ne4 34.Nh4 Nxf2
35.Nxf8 Nh3+ 36.Kh1 Nf2+ 37.Kg1 Nh3+ 38.Kh1 Nf2+ 39.Kg2 Nd3+
40.Kg1 Rxf8 41.Ng6+ Kg8 42.Ree7 1–0
Ben Finegold (2522)
Rusudan Goletiani (2332)
Chicago Spring Futurity, Round 6
Chicago, IL, April 2005
Nimzo-Indian: Berlin (Pirc), E39
Notes by Ben Finegold
I won again, in suspicious fashion! I was outplayed, then
SLIGHTLY better...then squeeze, squeeze, squeeze...and luck! :)
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 c5 5.dxc5 0–0
6.Nf3 Na6 7.g3 Nxc5 8.a3 Bxc3+ 9.Qxc3 b6 10.Bg2 Bb7 11.b4 Nce4
12.Qd4 Qc7 13.Bb2 Rac8 14.Rc1 d6 15.0–0 e5 16.Qd1 Qd7 17.Ne1
Rc7 18.f4 Qe6 19.Nd3 Nd7 20.fxe5 dxe5 21.Nxe5 Nxe5 22.Qd4 Rxc4
23.Qxe5 Qxe5 24.Bxe5 Rfc8 25.Rxc4 Rxc4 26.Rd1 Kf8 27.Bf3 f6
28.Bb8 Nc3 29.Rd7 Bxf3 30.exf3 a5 31.Bc7 axb4 32.axb4 b5 33.Bd6+
Kg8 34.Rb7 Rd4 35.Bc5 Rd2 36.f4 h5 37.Rb8+ Kf7 38.f5 g5 39.Rb7+
Kg8 40.Be7 Rd5 41.Bxf6 Ne4 42.Be7 Rxf5 43.Bc5 Nc3 44.Kg2 g4 45.h3
Rd5 46.hxg4 hxg4 47.Re7 Rd2+ 48.Kf1 Rd3 49.Kf2 Rd2+ 50.Ke3 Rg2
51.Rb7 Rxg3+ 52.Kf4 Rf3+ 53.Kxg4 Rf1 54.Kh5 Nd5 55.Kg5 Nxb4
56.Bxb4 Rg1+ 57.Kf6 Rf1+ 58.Ke6 Re1+ 1–0
Ben Finegold (2522)
Albert Chow (2239)
Chicago Spring Futurity, Round 10
Chicago, IL, April 2005
Semi-Slav: Anti-Meran (Ekström), D44
Notes by Ben Finegold
This was a VERY complicated game. Then he blundered in a blaze
of tactics, and resigned suddenly.
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 c6 5.Bg5 dxc4 6.e4 b5
7.e5 h6 8.Bh4 g5 9.exf6 gxh4 10.Ne5 Qxf6 11.Be2 Nd7 12.Nxc6 Bb7
13.Bf3 a6 14.0–0 Rc8 15.Ne5 Bxf3 16.Nxf3 Bb4 17.d5 e5 18.Ne4
Qf4 19.a3 Bc5 20.Re1 0–0 21.d6 f5 22.Qd5+ Rf7 23.g3 hxg3
24.hxg3 Qg4 25.Nxe5 1–0
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