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 Read these New Articles by West Michigan Chess Players!
Winter 2010 Lake Effect Chess (3MB)
March Calvin: Sanetullaev repeats4 games annotated by Alisher; 2 Hassen wins
Clara and Mike both annotateClara Mcgrew-Mike Schulte, November 2009
Michigan Class: Sanetullaev, Michael Chen19 Games. Alisher, Michael, Joe Meyer annotate!
Seth Homa, FIDE Master
February Lansing Mini-SwissGames
Elkhart County ChampionshipGames
Coach Fisch annotatesLeah fights back!

 West Michigan Chess News

March 2010 Calvin
Alisher Repeats!

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Alisher at the 2008 Michigan Class. 

2010 Michigan Class champion Alisher Sanetullaev scored 3.5 out of 4.0 to win the March Calvin.  Only local hero Stan Jarosz was able to hold Alisher to a draw, in a hard fought Round 1 game.  Ratko Bojanovic got the clear upper hand against Alisher in Round 4, but then lost his way pressing his king side attack.

Isaac Zylstra swept the reserve with a perfect 4-0, pushing his rating over 1500.

Reuben Niewenhuis, Leah Ziegler, and Charlotte Deimel tied for first in the scholastic section, all with 3.5/5.0 points.

March 2010 Scholastic winners

  Photo Credit:  David Ziegler

Alisher has annotated all four of his games here:

http://www.westmichiganchess.com/Shared%20Documents/2010/201003calvin.htm

You can find USCF TD Katy Ford's rating report here:

http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?201003067481.0-12796057
  		 

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1. Nxd6! Rf8 (or 1... Rxe1+ 2. Rxe1 Bf6 3. Nxb7 wins two Pawns) 2. Nxb7 wins two Pawns.  Tony Palmer—Ed Feldman, Pan American Championship,  Providence, RI 1986.