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IM Regan's Annotated Games 2008 Mayor's Cup

White to move and win
from Game 3 IM Regan v. NM B. Davis
2008 Buffalo Mayor's Cup and Class Championship

The following are links to IM Ken Regan's own annoted games from his recent victory at the 2008 Buffalo Mayor's Cup and Class Championship

  1. IM Regan v. Bob Shao http://chessflash.com/node/120
  2. NM Lionel Davis v. IM Regan http://chessflash.com/node/116
  3. IM Regan v. NM Barry Davis http://chessflash.com/node/118
  4. A. Patterson v. IM Regan http://chessflash.com/node/110
  5. T. Warner v. IM Regan http://chessflash.com/node/111
Posted by thechessdoctor at 6/22/2008 10:15:00 PM
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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 23, 2008 at 4:33 AM

    Re8+ wins the queen.

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  2. thechessdoctorJune 23, 2008 at 11:36 AM

    Harish,

    No need to thank me the thanks should go to IM Regan for providing the games and annotation.

    I appreciate your offer of trying to insert the chessflash player directly into this blog. The one concern I have with that is it probably, just like the other embedded chess players, makes the website extremely slow in loading. This can be more frustrating for the readership than clicking on the links for the games.

    The real benefit in using the ChessFlash player is that it allows the anotated comments and the variations to be seen and manipulated in the same viewer and Fritz/Chessbase pgn files are (now that I know how) easily loaded into the system without need for editing.

    PS-Welcome to "isolated pawn" and your move is correct-the Queen is dead after 1.Re8+ Rxe8 2.Qxd5

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  3. VicJune 23, 2008 at 2:31 PM

    Mark, Harish,

    I am encouraged by the capabilities
    that ChessFlash appears to possess.
    One minor 'complaint' : is there
    anyway to use a different chess
    font for the pieces? I have a little
    difficulty with the pieces and
    shading between white and black.

    Thanks.

    --Vic.

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  4. Glenn WilsonJune 23, 2008 at 4:58 PM

    I can answer the ChessFlash questions. :)

    There is currently only one font available for the pieces, but there are a large variety of colors for the board, etc available that may have the effect you desire (?). See the Gallery for some other colors.

    "The one concern I have with that is it probably, just like the other embedded chess players, makes the website extremely slow in loading."
    Well, that potential exists. But one of the reasons I wrote ChessFlash was that problem (and other issues) with existing viewers. To check speed you could try my web site: Houston Chess, or for a worst case scenario, see the ChessFlash label with lots of instances of the viewer in one page. (Reloading or refreshing the page will also randomly change the main viewer color). But adding another web site (ChessFlash) as another point of failure or bottleneck does have the potential of slowing down the page load. I have just fixed a bug that was causing slow page loads for IE7. There could be others...it is still very new.

    By the way, this is a great chess blog, both content and appearance!

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  5. Glenn WilsonJune 23, 2008 at 6:43 PM

    ...and I should add that if you have 50 instances of the ChessFlash PGN viewer in one web page (consider your archives and labels pages which could have a lot of games) then there will be problems. The current upper limit is probably around 25 instances. This is something I would like to be able to significantly increase in the (near) future but at the moment this limitation suggests a conservative approach.

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  6. Harish SrinivasanJune 23, 2008 at 11:35 PM

    Thanks Glen for your inputs. I was wondering if the following is possible. If we want to post say 3 games of a person, rather than have three flash players, instead have just one and load the corresponding game as selected from a combo box. I use the chess pgn viewer on my vishy anand fan site (heres an example www.cse.buffalo.edu/~hs32/Harish/vishyAnand.htm ). You can click on the games/awards and then in the list click on play column and play through the tournament games. And there I saw that if we have more than 1 game in the pgn file, then it automatically loads them in a combo box. I once searched on net to see if I can do something similar in the blog, but I suppose java scripts are not supported in blogs.

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  7. Glenn WilsonJune 26, 2008 at 8:13 AM

    NM L. Davis v. IM K. Regan 6/7/08


    Harish - I thought I had answered your question but I don't see it here so I must not have published it. The short answer is no, not at this time. (But, java scripts are supported in blogger.)

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  8. Tom WJuly 2, 2008 at 2:29 PM

    Dr.Regan- The reason I played 14.Rxd4 is because of the skewer 14...e5 and 15...Bf5. But after analysis I think that after 14...e5 I can play 15.Nc2 and then move the Rook to e1 after Bf5
    Is this OK? Tom

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  9. KWReganJuly 4, 2008 at 2:51 AM

    Dear Tom -
    True, and I should have mentioned this in my annotations. I did see the 15.Nc2 defense during the game, but figured Black would "have an easy game": two Bishops, strong open center, White's pieces tangled, open c- and f-files are stronger than White's blunted center files. My engines all give Black well over a pawn's advantage right away. Your choice gave you more "potential" and caused me to think longer than I would have otherwise.

    Thanks (Mark) for fixing the Shao game. The PGN display of this viewer is a nice feature, others have to match it! I've been solidly busy with my "regular work" *plus* the statistical analysis of my anti-cheating chess performance data---I just stayed up late debugging NaNs appearing in my Newton iterations. More when I can, happy 4th in the meantime...

    ---Ken R.

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