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From chess board to basketball court

Last Saturday, Abe and I went to the the Blaze Fundraiser tournament. Abe hadn’t been to chess tournaments for about a month since he loved playing basketball games on Saturdays.

The reason that I chose this tournament with assumption that Abe can play the chess tournament and still make his basketball game was:

• The chess playing hall of the tournament is only about half an hour’s drive to the gym of his basketball games.
• Abe’s basketball game starts at 3:30 pm.
• We could  go to the gym directly after his chess tournament. Abe can miss his third round if no enough time (the tournament has three rounds) for it.

Here is the chess playing hall:

Chess playing hall of Blaze Fundraiser tournament

Abe won the his first two games and quickly lost his third. Out of the three games, he recorded the moves of the second game, both his opponent and he made quite a few blunders according to later computer analysis,  the game is shown here:

[pgn]
[White "Abe, 1463"]
[Black "Shayna, 1438"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 e6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4
dxc4 7. e4 g5 8. Bg3 b5 9. a4 Bb4 10. Qc2 Bb7 11. Be2 Nbd7 12. O-O a6 13. axb5
cxb5 14. e5 Nd5 15. Nxd5 Bxd5 16. Rac1 Qe7 17. Nd2 Nb6 18. Ne4 O-O-O 19. Bf3 h5
20. h3 h4 21. Bh2 a5 22. Qe2 a4 23. Nd6+ Bxd6 24. exd6 Qb7 25. Be5 Bxf3 26.
gxf3 Rhf8 27. Qd2 f6 28. Bh2 Qxf3 29. Qe1 Rde8 30. Qa5 Qc6 31. Qa6+ Kd8 32. d5
exd5 33. Rfe1 f5 34. Re7 Rxe7 35. dxe7+ Kxe7 36. Qa7+ Kd8 37. Re1 Nc8 38. Qa5+
Qb6 39. Qa8 f4 40. Qxd5+ Nd6 41. Qxg5+ Kc8 42. Bxf4 Nf5 43. Re5 Qf6 44. Re8+
Kd7 45. Qxf6 Rxf6 46. Rb8 Kc6 47. Rc8+ Kd5 48. Rb8 Kc5 49. Rc8+ Rc6 50. Rf8 Nd4
51. Be3 b4 52. Rf5+ Kd6 53. Bxd4 a3 54. bxa3 c3 55. axb4 c2 56. Be3 c1=Q+ 57.
Bxc1 Rxc1+ 58. Kg2 Rb1 59. Rf4 Ke5 60. Rxh4 Kd5 61. Rh5+ Kc4 62. b5 Kd3 63. h4
Ke4 64. f3+ Kf4 65. Kf2 Rxb5 66. Rh8 Rb2+ 67. Kg1 Kxf3 68. h5 Kg3 69. Rg8+ Kh4
70. h6 Rb6 71. h7 Rb1+ 72. Kf2 Rb2+ 73. Ke1 Rb1+ 74. Kd2 Rb5 75. h8=R+ Rh5 76.
Rxh5+ Kxh5
[/pgn]

We arrived just on time for his basketball game. Abe still has some gas left in his tank and made some free throws.

As usual, Abe and his teammates scored another win. Go “Nuggets”!