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1 rank & File JULY-AUGUST 2005 VOLUME XXVIII, NO. 4 $ Wins Lina Grumette Memorial Day Classic 2 rank & FILE JULY-AUGUST 200527th Annual Southern California OpenSeptember 3-5, 2005$10,000 Prize Fund!(based on 200 players, 60% of each prize guaranteed)at theLAX Hilton 5711 W. Century Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90045 Six Rounds Swiss System 3-day schedule 40/2, SD/1; 2-day schedule rounds 1-3 G/1 Entry Fees: $81 if received by 9-1, $97 at door Under 1400 or unrated (may play in either section): $66 by 9-1, $80 doorOn-line entry: membership required of rated state residents ($14, jr. $9)On-Site Registration: 8-9:30 9-3 (3-day), 8:30-9:30 9-4 (2 day)Rounds: 3-day 10:30-5 Sat. & Sun, 10-4:30 Mon.; 2-day 10-12:15-2:30 Sunday (G/60), then mergesEntries: SCCF, c/o John Hillery, 835 N.

2 Wilton Place #1, Los Angeles, CA 90038HR: $89 single or double. (310) 410-4000, mention chess. Parking $6/day More details, advance entry lists: : $1700 + T2nd-5th: $1000-$800-$450-$300U2400: $400U2300: $200U2200: $600-$300U2000: $600-$300 Amateur(Under 1800)1st: $750 + T2nd-5th: $400-$200-$150-$100U1600: $500-$300-$200-$100U1400: $300-$150U1200: $100 Unrated: $100(Unrated may win Unrated prize only in Amateur section) Best Game Prize: $25 (both sections eligible)SCO ScholasticsSept. 45-SS, G/45 REG: 8:30-9:15. RDS: 9:30-11-1:00-2:30-4. EF : $16 IF RECEIVED BY 9-1, $20 AT DOOR. ON-LINE ENTRY: SCO Action SwissSept. 55-SS, G/30$$500 B/40, ELSE PROPORTIONALREG: 9-10 RDS: 10:15-11:30-12:45-2:30-3 : $20 IF RECEIVED BY 9-1, $25 AT DOOR. SCO HexesSept. 53-SS, G/906-PLAYER SECTIONS BY RATING.

3 $$40-20-10 EACH SECTION. EF : $20 IF RECEIVED BY 9-1, $25 DOOR. REG: 9:30-10:30 RDS 10:45-2-5. 3 rank & FILE JULY-AUGUST 2005 CONTENTSAROUND THE NATION ..3 LINA GRUMETTE MEMORIAL DAY CLASSIC ..5 SUPER STATE SCHOLASTICS .. 9 TACTICS by TIM HANKS .. 11 HERE & THERE Club news, local tournaments, scholastic events and more .. 14 THE LONG VIEW .. 22 SCCF NEWS .. 24 UPCOMING EVENTS .. 26 CHESS QUIZ .. 28 CONTENTSAROUND THE NATION .. 321ST ANNUAL AMATEUR TEAM WEST.. 5 WESTERN CLASS CHAMPIONSHIPS.. 10 TACTICS by Tim Hanks .. 12 HERE & THERE Club news, local tournaments, scholastic events .. 15 STATE CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIERS.. 19 GAMES FROM RECENT EVENTS.. 21 THE LIGHTER SIDE.. 24 UPCOMING EVENTS .. 26 CHESS QUIZ.. 24 Around the NationNew ED NamedThe United States Chess Fed-eration, better known as the USCF, now headquartered in Crossville, Tennessee, has completed a seven-month nation-wide search for a new Executive Director.

4 Out of a field of several applicants, five were invited to the initial interviews in March in Berkeley, California. The field was narrowed to two finalists. Final in-terviews were conducted in Minne-apolis, Minnesota on May 21st and 22nd, where the Executive Board selected Bill Hall as the new Execu-tive Director. Hall is a former Tennessee state scholastic chess champion and has a bachelor s degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is an avid believ-er in the value of chess in schools, both as an after school activity and as a part of the mathematics cirric-ulum. He is committed to providing quality service to the membership including the expansion of web-re-lated services and a focus on the general promotion of says, Coming from a ru-ral Tennessee community, chess was a major factor preparing me and allowing me the opportunity to attend a school like MIT.

5 Chess has tremendous value in personal, cognitive, and social development. I want to expose as many people as possible to the benefits and fun of chess. Bill Hall can be reached at: (931) 787-1234, ext. 189 or by email at: or USCF news release2006 Chess ChampionshipThe Chess Championship returns to San Diego from Febru-ary 22 through March 5, 2006 and will be held at its new permanent home at NTC Promenade. The Championship was brought to San Diego last year by America s Foun-dation for Chess and the NTC Foun-dation and will be one of the first signature events to inaugurate the new Special Event Center at NTC tournament will feature a 64-player field, composed of 19 seeded players (as determined by the October 2005 Rating List), 43 tournament qualifiers (two of which being online) and two wild cards selected by the AF4C.

6 The seeded players include the de-fending Champion, Hikaru Nakamura; Women s Champion, Rusudan Goletiani; the 2004 Chess Caf .com Grand Prix winner, Aleks Wojtkiewicz; the 2005 Junior Champion; the 2005 Senior Champion; eight top-rated Overall players, and six top-rated female players from the rating players, with eleven spots reserved for woman play-ers, will qualify from eight top 4 rank & FILE JULY-AUGUST 2005 Advertising Rates: Full page $80, half page $45, 1/4 page $25, 1/8 page $15, back cover (3/4 page) $80. (All rates are for camera-ready copy.) Flyer insert $50 (advertiser must supply flyers). 50% discount for tournaments requiring SCCF membership. Display ads should be sent to the Editor, flyers to the Publisher (addresses at right).

7 Payment should be sent with order to the Editor. SCCF reserves the right to reject any OnlineThe SCCF Web page is located at: www. President Ron Rezendes Vice President John Hillery Secretary Chuck Ensey Treasurer Randy Hough Executive Board Nshan Keshishian Elliot Landaw Mike Nagaran Rick Aeria John Surlow David Saponara Dennis SteeleRank & File Editor John Hillery 835 N. Wilton Pl. # Los Angeles CA 90038 Publisher David Argall Contributing Editors Jack Peters Tim Hanks Al Pena Contributors Mike Carr Chuck Ensey Randy Hough Mike White Jay Stallings Larry Smith Karl Yee Lola Nunn Subscriptions/Address Changes Randy Hough, Membership Secretary Box 205 Monterey Park CA 9 754 (626) 282-74 2 & File ISSN 8750-9 64 USPS 738-230, published bimonthly by the Southern California Chess Federation, 300 Ballista, La Puente CA 9 744.

8 Periodical postage paid at Industry, CA. POSTMAS-TER: Send changes of address to SCCF, PO Box 205, Monterey Park CA 9 754. Subscriptions: $ 4 adult, $9 SCCF 2005. One-time only publication rights have been obtained from signed contributors. All other rights are hereby assigned to the authors. The opinions expressed are strictly those of the contribu-tors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SCCF, its officers or California Chess Federationtournaments in the period March through December 2005. The break-down of the qualifying spots and the tournaments will be as follows:March 23--27 Foxwoods Open; Chicago Open May 27-30; Na-tional Open June 10-12; World Open June 30-July 4; Open August 6-14; American Open No-vember 25-27; National Congress November 25-27; North American Open December new qualifying process will see one spot decided by the player who accumulates the highest score from playing in as many (or all) of the qualifying tournaments.

9 After each tournament, the latest placing for this Qualifier Grand Prix will be posted on the dedicated Cham-pionship there will be an online event of all 2005 US State Champi-ons. The 50 State Champions (split into two conferences of East and West) will compete in an online event held over two weekends the first, with each conference split into two zones, being a double-round all-play-all to determine four winner, who will then go forward to the knockout Final Four Weekend, played under supervised conditions. This event will take place in October. A new online event will see the winners of the Denker High School Championship, the Super National Championships, the Polgar Girls Championship and the Cadet Championship playing a similar styled online event on the ICC for one more information about the Chess Championships or the events surrounding the 2006 games, please visit AF4C news releaseHB Global Chess ChallengeWith the largest attendance in a decade, and the largest prize fund ever, the HB Global Chess Chal-lenge was the event to beat this year.

10 Over 1500 players came to Minneapolis May 18 to 22, compet-ing for a prize fund of $500, powerful Open section, with 50 GMs topping a 267-player field, saw Georgian GM Zviad Izoria take first place with 7 -1 . His victims included GMs Alexander Beliavsky, Ilya Smirin, and Victor Mikha-levski. Izoria s victory was worth $50, section winners included Andrew Cunanan (U2200), Karl Ochoa (U2000), Southern Cali-fornian Vaughan Heussenstamm (U1800), Todd Freitag (U1600), John Thomas (U1400), and Ynocen-cio Pujols (Unrated).There are conflicting reports as to whether this event will be held again. While 1509 players (plus over 100 re-entries) ought to be regarded as a success, the (somewhat unre-alistic) predictions of 4000 made by tournament promoter Maurice Ashley failed to materialize, and the sponsors unquestionably had to absorb a six-figure : Cover, 6 (col.)