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Nov162009

A Disaster at the USCL

Monday, November 16, 2009 at 11:27PM

Looking through the games in this week's TWIC, I was shocked to find the following game from last week's USCL playoffs:

US Chess League, Internet Chess Club, 2009
White: Becerra, Julio (2557)
Black: Nakamura, Hikaru (2710)

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.Nc3 e6 5.Nxd5 exd5 6.d4 Nc6 7.dxc5 Bxc5 8.Qxd5 d6 9.Bc4 Qe7 10.Bg5 f6 11.0-0-0 dxe5 12.Rhe1 1-0

(The game, with comments, can be replayed here.)

The next time you're miniatured, remember that it even happens to the best players in the world. Errare humanum est!

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USCL MVP Nakamura losing in 12(!!!) moves.

Everyone loses, even Magnus and Nakamura.

November 18, 2009 |

gmnotyet

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