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Hi Everyone,
This is a new report on the just concluded 7th Arlington Chess Open,Arlington VA and also the
Quads that was played alongside the tournament.
This past weekend,I participated in 3 Chess events,I was playing in the 7th Arlngton Open,and
at the same time playing in a Quad event.The Quad event had 4 players playing a single round
robin, with a time control of 1hr for the whole game.
The first Quad I played in,it was a game in 45 mins,and the results can be seen at the link
below:- http://main.uschess.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,181/ the event was
played on October 20th,2007,at a point in time my last round game against Alex Passov 2032
was going on while I was playing another master at the 7th Arlington Open, NM Steve Greanias
2200,I had to go back and forth between the games,and I won both,some of the games at the
event will be posted after the mail.
The second Quad I played in was game in 60 mins,and the results could be seen on this page:-
http://main.uschess.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,181/ this was a little stronger
than the first one.The Quad also clashed with the final 2 rounds of the 7Th Arlington open,at
some point in time I was playing against Yand Dai 1937 and also at the Arlington Open IM
Lawrence Kaufaman 2392,I won both games.
Then in the last round of the Quad I was playing NM Phillip Collier 2200 and at the same time IM
Bryan Smith 2427 at the Arlington Open,I won my game gainst NM Philip Collier,and even
though my game against IM Bryan smith was a draw,I a much better position,and could have
played for a win,since half a point was ok to win the tourney,I offered him a draw which he
accepted,and the event was over,so the weekend of October 20th-21st,I played 11 games and
scored 10.5/11 against IM,'s and Masters, I do not know why I have such a strong appetite for
Chess right now,but what I know is there has been a different me since the Namibian trip,I have
an idea why,but like I said I will write about this in the near future,the final standings of the 7th
Arlington Open can be seen on this website:-
http://main.uschess.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,181/ it was actaully fun playing I
should say I ch ess tornament simultaneously,and also most importantly against some tough
Oppositions,but it was tiring though.
My next event will prolly be this one:- http://www.vachess.org/nova.htm and also I plan to play at
the National Congress in Philadelphia,November 23rd-25th,2007
http://www.chesstour.com/ncc07.htm also like I said in my earlier reports,I plan to play at the
Commomwealth games in India,there will be very good norm possiblities there,but meanwhile I
am trying to hit the 2400 mark USCF before the year runs out,and hopefully hit 2400-2450 before
the next Chess Olympiad.
Here are some pictures taken at the tournmanet this past weekend October 20th-21st,2007 and
some games are attached too.
The first pics is my game against Sandra Costescu 1700
The second pics is my game against NM Steve Greanias 2200
The third pis is also the same game with NM Steve Greanias 2200
The fourth pics is against IM Lawrence Kaufamn 2392
This are some of the games:-
[Event "Arlington Quad 2"]
[Site "Arlington,VA"]
[Date "2007.10.21"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Adu, Oladapo"]
[Black "Collier, Philip M"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A08"]
[WhiteElo "2296"]
[BlackElo "2200"]
[Annotator ",Oladapo"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "2007.10.21"]
[EventType "tourn (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "3"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 c5 3. Bg2 Nc6 4. O-O g6 5. d3 Bg7 6. Nbd2 Nf6 7. e4 h6 8. Re1
O-O 9. c3
Be6 10. Qe2 Qc7 11. Nb3 b6 12. Bf4 Qd7 13. Ne5 Nxe5 14. Bxe5 Rad8 15. Rad1 Bg4
16. f3 Bh3 17. exd5 Bxg2 18. Kxg2 Qxd5 19. d4 cxd4 20. Bxd4 Qf5 21. Qxe7 Rde8
22. Qxa7 Ra8 23. Qxb6 Rxa2 24. Re2 g5 25. Bxf6 Bxf6 26. Nd4 Qd5 27. Qxf6 1-0
[Event "7th Arlington Open"]
[Site "Arlington,VA"]
[Date "2007.10.21"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Adu, Oladapo"]
[Black "Smith, Bryan G"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A04"]
[WhiteElo "2296"]
[BlackElo "2392"]
[Annotator ",Oladapo"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "2007.10.20"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "5"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
1. Nf3 g6 2. g3 Bg7 3. Bg2 c5 4. O-O Nc6 5. e4 e5 6. d3 Nge7 7. c3 O-O 8. a3 d6
9. b4 h6 10. Be3 b6 11. b5
Na5 12. Nh4 Bb7 13. Nd2 d5 14. Nb3 Nxb3 15. Qxb3 Kh7 16. Qc2 Rc8 17. c4 d4 18.
Bd2 Qd7 19. f4 exf4 20. gxf4 f5 21. e5 Bxg2 22. Nxg2 a5 23. Rae1 Qe6 24. Qd1
Rg8 25. Kh1 Bf8 26. h4 Kg7 27. Rf3 Kf7 28. Rg3 Ke8 29. Qf3 Kd7 30. Kg1 Kc7 31.
Kf2 Bg7 32. Ke2 Bh8 33. Kd1 Rg7 34. Re2 Rcg8 35. Ne1 Kb8 36. Qg2 Ka7 37. Nf3
1/2-1/2
[Event "7th Arlington Open"]
[Site "Arlington,VA"]
[Date "2007.10.21"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Kaufman, Lawrence"]
[Black "Adu, Oladapo"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C09"]
[WhiteElo "2392"]
[BlackElo "2296"]
[Annotator ",Oladapo"]
[PlyCount "110"]
[EventDate "2007.10.20"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "5"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c3 d5 4. exd5 exd5 5. d4 Bd6 6. Bb5+ Nc6 7. O-O Nge7 8.
dxc5 Bxc5 9. Nbd2 O-O 10. Nb3 Bd6 11. Bd3 h6 12. h3 Ne5 13.
Nxe5 Bxe5 14. Qh5 Bc7 15. Nd4 Qd6 16. g3 Qf6 17. Be3 Bd7 18. Kg2 a6 19. Rae1
Rfe8 20. f4 Qd6 21. h4 b5 22. a3 Rab8 23. Qf3 a5 24. f5 Qf6 25. Qh5 b4 26. axb4
axb4 27. Re2 bxc3 28. bxc3 Nc6 29. Nxc6 Bxc6 30. Bd4 Qd6 31. Rxe8+ Bxe8 32. Qg4
f6 33. Re1 Bh5 34. Qf4 Rb2+ 35. Kg1 Qxf4 36. gxf4 Bxf4 37. Rb1 Rh2 38. c4 Bf3
39. Rb2 Rxh4 40. Kf2 Be4 41. Bxe4 dxe4 42. c5 Rh2+ 43. Kf1 Rxb2 44. Bxb2 Kf7
45. Ba3 g6 46. fxg6+ Kxg6 47. c6 Bc7 48. Bc1 f5 49. Kf2 f4 50. Bd2 Kf5 51. Bc1
Kg4 52. Bd2 h5 53. Bc1 h4 54. Kg2 e3 55. Kh1 Kf3 0-1
[Event "7th Arlington Open"]
[Site "Arlington,VA"]
[Date "2007.10.20"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Greanias, Steve"]
[Black "Adu, Oladapo"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D35"]
[WhiteElo "2206"]
[BlackElo "2296"]
[Annotator ",Oladapo"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2007.10.20"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "5"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. d4 c6 6. Bf4 Bf5 7. e3 Nbd7 8.Be2
Be7 9. O-O O-O 10. h3 Ne4 11. Nxe4 Bxe4 12. Qd2 a5 13. Ne5 Nb6 14. f3 Bf5 15.
g4 Be6 16. Bg3 f6 17. Nd3 Nc4 18. Qc1 Bf7 19. Nf4 b5 20. a4 Bb4 21. Rd1 Re8 22.
Bf2 Qe7 23. Ng2 Rac8 24. b3 Na3 25. Qb2 bxa4 26. bxa4 Rb8 27. Bd3 Bg6 28. Bxg6
hxg6 29. Qc1 Rbc8 30. Nf4 g5 31. Nd3 Bd6 32. Nc5 Nc4 33. e4 Bc7 34. Kg2 Rb8 35.
Rb1 Qd6 36. e5 fxe5 37. Rxb8 Bxb8 38. Re1 e4 39. Rh1 exf3+ 40. Kxf3 Ne3 41. Nd3
Qf6+ 42. Ke2 Nxg4+ 0-1
[Event "Arlington Quad"]
[Site "Arlington,VA"]
[Date "2007.10.20"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Adu, Oladapo"]
[Black "Passov, Alexander"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A04"]
[WhiteElo "2296"]
[BlackElo "2032"]
[Annotator ",Oladapo"]
[PlyCount "85"]
[EventDate "2007.10.20"]
[EventRounds "3"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
1. e4 e6 2. d3 c5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 g6 5. Bg2 Bg7 6. O-O Nge7 7. Re1 O-O 8. c3
d6 9. a3 Rb8 10. a4 a6 11. Nbd2 b5 12. axb5
axb5 13. h4 b4 14. Nb1 Bb7 15. Bf4 Qd7 16. Qc1 Ra8 17. Rxa8 Rxa8 18. Nbd2 Ba6
19. Bf1 d5 20. Nb3 bxc3 21. bxc3 Qa7 22. Bd6 c4 23. dxc4 Bxc4 24. Bxc4 dxc4 25.
Bc5 Qc7 26. Nbd4 Ne5 27. Nxe5 Bxe5 28. Bxe7 Qxe7 29. Nf3 Qf6 30. Kg2 Ra2 31.
Re3 Kg7 32. Qb1 Ra3 33. Nxe5 Qxe5 34. Qb4 Ra1 35. Qxc4 Rc1 36. Qb4 Rc2 37. Rf3
Qc7 38. e5 Rc1 39. Qd4 Qc6 40. Qf4 Rxc3 41. Qxf7+ Kh6 42. Qf4+ Kh5 43. Qg5# 1-0
I will post some more pics soon.
Oladapo Adu.
This is a new report on the just concluded 7th Arlington Chess Open,Arlington VA and also the
Quads that was played alongside the tournament.
This past weekend,I participated in 3 Chess events,I was playing in the 7th Arlngton Open,and
at the same time playing in a Quad event.The Quad event had 4 players playing a single round
robin, with a time control of 1hr for the whole game.
The first Quad I played in,it was a game in 45 mins,and the results can be seen at the link
below:- http://main.uschess.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,181/ the event was
played on October 20th,2007,at a point in time my last round game against Alex Passov 2032
was going on while I was playing another master at the 7th Arlington Open, NM Steve Greanias
2200,I had to go back and forth between the games,and I won both,some of the games at the
event will be posted after the mail.
The second Quad I played in was game in 60 mins,and the results could be seen on this page:-
http://main.uschess.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,181/ this was a little stronger
than the first one.The Quad also clashed with the final 2 rounds of the 7Th Arlington open,at
some point in time I was playing against Yand Dai 1937 and also at the Arlington Open IM
Lawrence Kaufaman 2392,I won both games.
Then in the last round of the Quad I was playing NM Phillip Collier 2200 and at the same time IM
Bryan Smith 2427 at the Arlington Open,I won my game gainst NM Philip Collier,and even
though my game against IM Bryan smith was a draw,I a much better position,and could have
played for a win,since half a point was ok to win the tourney,I offered him a draw which he
accepted,and the event was over,so the weekend of October 20th-21st,I played 11 games and
scored 10.5/11 against IM,'s and Masters, I do not know why I have such a strong appetite for
Chess right now,but what I know is there has been a different me since the Namibian trip,I have
an idea why,but like I said I will write about this in the near future,the final standings of the 7th
Arlington Open can be seen on this website:-
http://main.uschess.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,181/ it was actaully fun playing I
should say I ch ess tornament simultaneously,and also most importantly against some tough
Oppositions,but it was tiring though.
My next event will prolly be this one:- http://www.vachess.org/nova.htm and also I plan to play at
the National Congress in Philadelphia,November 23rd-25th,2007
http://www.chesstour.com/ncc07.htm also like I said in my earlier reports,I plan to play at the
Commomwealth games in India,there will be very good norm possiblities there,but meanwhile I
am trying to hit the 2400 mark USCF before the year runs out,and hopefully hit 2400-2450 before
the next Chess Olympiad.
Here are some pictures taken at the tournmanet this past weekend October 20th-21st,2007 and
some games are attached too.
The first pics is my game against Sandra Costescu 1700
The second pics is my game against NM Steve Greanias 2200
The third pis is also the same game with NM Steve Greanias 2200
The fourth pics is against IM Lawrence Kaufamn 2392
This are some of the games:-
[Event "Arlington Quad 2"]
[Site "Arlington,VA"]
[Date "2007.10.21"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Adu, Oladapo"]
[Black "Collier, Philip M"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A08"]
[WhiteElo "2296"]
[BlackElo "2200"]
[Annotator ",Oladapo"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "2007.10.21"]
[EventType "tourn (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "3"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 c5 3. Bg2 Nc6 4. O-O g6 5. d3 Bg7 6. Nbd2 Nf6 7. e4 h6 8. Re1
O-O 9. c3
Be6 10. Qe2 Qc7 11. Nb3 b6 12. Bf4 Qd7 13. Ne5 Nxe5 14. Bxe5 Rad8 15. Rad1 Bg4
16. f3 Bh3 17. exd5 Bxg2 18. Kxg2 Qxd5 19. d4 cxd4 20. Bxd4 Qf5 21. Qxe7 Rde8
22. Qxa7 Ra8 23. Qxb6 Rxa2 24. Re2 g5 25. Bxf6 Bxf6 26. Nd4 Qd5 27. Qxf6 1-0
[Event "7th Arlington Open"]
[Site "Arlington,VA"]
[Date "2007.10.21"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Adu, Oladapo"]
[Black "Smith, Bryan G"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A04"]
[WhiteElo "2296"]
[BlackElo "2392"]
[Annotator ",Oladapo"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "2007.10.20"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "5"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
1. Nf3 g6 2. g3 Bg7 3. Bg2 c5 4. O-O Nc6 5. e4 e5 6. d3 Nge7 7. c3 O-O 8. a3 d6
9. b4 h6 10. Be3 b6 11. b5
Na5 12. Nh4 Bb7 13. Nd2 d5 14. Nb3 Nxb3 15. Qxb3 Kh7 16. Qc2 Rc8 17. c4 d4 18.
Bd2 Qd7 19. f4 exf4 20. gxf4 f5 21. e5 Bxg2 22. Nxg2 a5 23. Rae1 Qe6 24. Qd1
Rg8 25. Kh1 Bf8 26. h4 Kg7 27. Rf3 Kf7 28. Rg3 Ke8 29. Qf3 Kd7 30. Kg1 Kc7 31.
Kf2 Bg7 32. Ke2 Bh8 33. Kd1 Rg7 34. Re2 Rcg8 35. Ne1 Kb8 36. Qg2 Ka7 37. Nf3
1/2-1/2
[Event "7th Arlington Open"]
[Site "Arlington,VA"]
[Date "2007.10.21"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Kaufman, Lawrence"]
[Black "Adu, Oladapo"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C09"]
[WhiteElo "2392"]
[BlackElo "2296"]
[Annotator ",Oladapo"]
[PlyCount "110"]
[EventDate "2007.10.20"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "5"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c3 d5 4. exd5 exd5 5. d4 Bd6 6. Bb5+ Nc6 7. O-O Nge7 8.
dxc5 Bxc5 9. Nbd2 O-O 10. Nb3 Bd6 11. Bd3 h6 12. h3 Ne5 13.
Nxe5 Bxe5 14. Qh5 Bc7 15. Nd4 Qd6 16. g3 Qf6 17. Be3 Bd7 18. Kg2 a6 19. Rae1
Rfe8 20. f4 Qd6 21. h4 b5 22. a3 Rab8 23. Qf3 a5 24. f5 Qf6 25. Qh5 b4 26. axb4
axb4 27. Re2 bxc3 28. bxc3 Nc6 29. Nxc6 Bxc6 30. Bd4 Qd6 31. Rxe8+ Bxe8 32. Qg4
f6 33. Re1 Bh5 34. Qf4 Rb2+ 35. Kg1 Qxf4 36. gxf4 Bxf4 37. Rb1 Rh2 38. c4 Bf3
39. Rb2 Rxh4 40. Kf2 Be4 41. Bxe4 dxe4 42. c5 Rh2+ 43. Kf1 Rxb2 44. Bxb2 Kf7
45. Ba3 g6 46. fxg6+ Kxg6 47. c6 Bc7 48. Bc1 f5 49. Kf2 f4 50. Bd2 Kf5 51. Bc1
Kg4 52. Bd2 h5 53. Bc1 h4 54. Kg2 e3 55. Kh1 Kf3 0-1
[Event "7th Arlington Open"]
[Site "Arlington,VA"]
[Date "2007.10.20"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Greanias, Steve"]
[Black "Adu, Oladapo"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D35"]
[WhiteElo "2206"]
[BlackElo "2296"]
[Annotator ",Oladapo"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2007.10.20"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "5"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. d4 c6 6. Bf4 Bf5 7. e3 Nbd7 8.Be2
Be7 9. O-O O-O 10. h3 Ne4 11. Nxe4 Bxe4 12. Qd2 a5 13. Ne5 Nb6 14. f3 Bf5 15.
g4 Be6 16. Bg3 f6 17. Nd3 Nc4 18. Qc1 Bf7 19. Nf4 b5 20. a4 Bb4 21. Rd1 Re8 22.
Bf2 Qe7 23. Ng2 Rac8 24. b3 Na3 25. Qb2 bxa4 26. bxa4 Rb8 27. Bd3 Bg6 28. Bxg6
hxg6 29. Qc1 Rbc8 30. Nf4 g5 31. Nd3 Bd6 32. Nc5 Nc4 33. e4 Bc7 34. Kg2 Rb8 35.
Rb1 Qd6 36. e5 fxe5 37. Rxb8 Bxb8 38. Re1 e4 39. Rh1 exf3+ 40. Kxf3 Ne3 41. Nd3
Qf6+ 42. Ke2 Nxg4+ 0-1
[Event "Arlington Quad"]
[Site "Arlington,VA"]
[Date "2007.10.20"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Adu, Oladapo"]
[Black "Passov, Alexander"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A04"]
[WhiteElo "2296"]
[BlackElo "2032"]
[Annotator ",Oladapo"]
[PlyCount "85"]
[EventDate "2007.10.20"]
[EventRounds "3"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
1. e4 e6 2. d3 c5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 g6 5. Bg2 Bg7 6. O-O Nge7 7. Re1 O-O 8. c3
d6 9. a3 Rb8 10. a4 a6 11. Nbd2 b5 12. axb5
axb5 13. h4 b4 14. Nb1 Bb7 15. Bf4 Qd7 16. Qc1 Ra8 17. Rxa8 Rxa8 18. Nbd2 Ba6
19. Bf1 d5 20. Nb3 bxc3 21. bxc3 Qa7 22. Bd6 c4 23. dxc4 Bxc4 24. Bxc4 dxc4 25.
Bc5 Qc7 26. Nbd4 Ne5 27. Nxe5 Bxe5 28. Bxe7 Qxe7 29. Nf3 Qf6 30. Kg2 Ra2 31.
Re3 Kg7 32. Qb1 Ra3 33. Nxe5 Qxe5 34. Qb4 Ra1 35. Qxc4 Rc1 36. Qb4 Rc2 37. Rf3
Qc7 38. e5 Rc1 39. Qd4 Qc6 40. Qf4 Rxc3 41. Qxf7+ Kh6 42. Qf4+ Kh5 43. Qg5# 1-0
I will post some more pics soon.
Oladapo Adu.
7th Arlington Chess Open
