Joel Benjamin vs Stuart Rachels (1983)

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Joel Benjamin vs Stuart Rachels
USA Junior Championship (1983), New York, NY USA, rd 6, Jun-20
Sicilian Defense: Grand Prix Attack (B23) · 1-0

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Jan-14-14		MarkFinan: This is a nice little game. Amazes me how someone with such a high rating could play B.d7 in this position though click for larger view Queen back to d8 was so much better, and probably the only move. I love games like this where one side makes a bad mistake and the other side kinda repays the favour a few moves later. Not that black had any winning chances after Bd7 but white could have made it a little easier for himself.

Jan-14-14		Howard: This game was one of several that Chess Life printed in its coverage of the 1983 U.S. Junior championship. Dlugy and Benjamin, in fact, made the cover of that month's issue. I recall playing over this game. Rachels apparently lost too much time in the opening trying to get the bishop pair, and paid dearly for it.

Jan-14-14		MarkFinan: Howard.. I was forgetting that they played this game as juniors! Still, Bd7? I'm guessing at no time trouble with it being so earlier in the game, so it was still a blunder that cost black the game. Anyway, I'm starting to realise that I prefer games between players of equally strength around the 2450-2550 mark, because there are more mistakes and therefore more attacking and attractive games of chess.. I don't mean complete plums that even I could beat, just strong masters that make mistakes that often aren't punished. And I think g6 in this game looks very very weak, but the engine doesn't find any real fault in it! Do you agree it looks weak? Look at the dark squares in that diagram?

Jan-14-14		perfidious: As I submitted all the games from this event, I should note that I went by the FIDE ratings for those players who had them at the time. All the players were at least low 2300s USCF by then. Patrick Wolff, who would go on to win two US titles, finished dead last in this US Junior. Was a tough crew-at the time of the tournament, I had already faced several of the players and played a fair number of events with them in the preceding year.

Jan-14-14		MarkFinan: Do you not play anymore, Perf? Even online or at a local club? Because you played to a more than decent level at one point, so you must have some of that instinct where you want to destroy similar rated players, in you. I used to love it as a kid but only because I mainly used to win, but I stopped playing for so long I really have to be in the mood to even play online nowadays. But when im in the mood I love it. Hate it when you've been playing and concentrating for an hour or so, and you reach a winning position that you really worked for and the guy disconnects! To me that's cheating, but if a few rating points on an internet site mean that much to them I'd rather let them have the points at the start of the game! But at least finish the game until you resign.

Jan-14-14		perfidious: <Mark>: Played a little online in 2011, but have not otherwise since spring 2001. At the time, poker, chess and a family were too much, so my spare time was devoted ever more to poker.

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