It is from an era before mobile phones, Internet, chess databases and chess engines. It was the days of black and white television and milk carts drawn by horses. It was when you could play correspondence chess without any concern an opponent may be getting assistance from a computer.
It happened in a time and place that formal chess coaching was almost non-existent. In those days people learned chess from books. It happened in a city with a library that was home to the world’s largest collection of chess books.
Its story of learning through books and magazines, through playing over master games, doing chess puzzles, playing blitz and correspondence chess, learning from one’s own mistakes and learning from others. For those on the path to improving their understanding of chess it may be possible to make a few insights.
It includes highlights of games from state Junior championships, national junior championships, club games, weekenders and other types of tournaments. Some games are rather unusual.
It includes games with various national champions, two world chess champions and a world correspondence chess champion.
My tournament experience began with the State Under 14 and includes the journey to the national junior title. Shortly after completed school I played overseas representing Australian in the first Asian Teams championship.
I was White against Steve Lewinsky, who was the State U16 champion.
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.d5 d6 5.Bg5 a6 6.e3 Be7 7.Bd3 exd5 8.cxd5 Nxd5 9.Nxd5 Bxg5 10.Nf3 Bg4 11.Qa4+ Bd7 12.Qe4+ Be7 13.Nxe7 Qxe7 14.Qxb7 Bc6 15.Qc8+ Qd8 16.Qg4 Qa5+ 17.Nd2 O-O 18.h4 Nd7 19.Qf5 g6 20.Qg5 Ne5 21.Be2 f5 22.h5 Rab8 23.hxg6 Nxg6 24.Qh6 Qc7 25.O-O-O
White has been attacking ferociously for some time.
...Bxg2? 26.Rh2
...Bd5
This pawn grab is not good. White could play Nc4 and Nxd6 or Rxd6 with a strong attack.
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