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Date: 17 Apr 2006 09:59:52
From: Sam Sloan
Subject: Sam goes to Foxwoods
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Sam goes to Foxwoods
I went up to Foxwoods just to watch chess on Saturday, April 15, 2006.
I would have liked to have played but I had my over-active baby with
me, and this eliminated that idea.
Bill Goichberg complained that the tournament got less than 500
players this year. He had hoped for more. I have a suggestion: More
players will come if you tell them how to get there and find cheap
hotel rooms for them. I have asked Bill and many others how to get
there. Nobody has offered helpful suggestions. Bill drives his own
car, so he knows nothing about how to get there by bus or train.
I decided that it could not be that difficult to get there, so I
called around. By far the best deal I found is from Metro North.
Forget Amtrak. Buy a special package to Foxwoods at Grand Central
Station. It costs $31.75 round trip. They make sure to sell you a
round trip ticket because many visitors lose all their money gambling
in the Foxwoods Casino and cannot get home. A Japanese girl I know had
that happen to her a few weeks ago. She was going around Foxwoods
trying to bum a ride back to Boston, because her boyfriend with whom
she was had lost all their money gambling at Foxwoods.
After buying the round trip ticket for $31.75 at Grand Central
Station, you take the train to New Haven and then a Greyhound Bus to
Foxwoods. When you get to Foxwoods, they give you a welcome package.
You get a free buffet dinner worth $10 and two quick keno tickets.
The buffet was worth much more than $10. The red meat me and my baby
ate would have cost more than $10 even at the superket. The food
was a little too rich for my taste, but at least I left completely
full.
The two quick keno tickets both won $5 each. I suspect a fix. This was
just too easy. I suspect that they let you win $10 just to give you
part of your $31.75 back and to hook you on gambling.
However, there was one very negative development. I decided to take
the 1:05 AM bus back. I had to wait two hours until 1:05 AM because
that is how long you have to wait to collect on your free keno
tickets. I suspect that this is all part of the plot to keep you in
the casino for two hours in the hope that you will gamble.
However, when I came to the bus stand to catch the 1:05 AM bus, I
found out that there is no such bus. The schedule I had been given by
Metro North when I bought my ticket for $31.75 listed several
returning busses, the last of which left at 1:05 AM. Sophia Rohde had
also said that there was a 1:05 AM bus. However, at the bus station,
the attendant pointed out that the schedule we had been given was
dated 2005. It was no longer valid. A terrible mistake had been made,
since I had my four year old baby with me.
So, we had to wait for the next bus, which was at 4:30 AM. I went back
to the skittles room where I analyzed chess with some unspeakably weak
players. One was telling me how he always beats masters and he cannot
understand why he only has a 1600 rating. After analyzing with him, it
became apparent why he only has a 1600 rating. I said nothing about
that, however.
I went back to the bus stand and amazingly at 4:00 AM a dozen busses
pulled in to pick up passengers. They all had Chinese kings on
them. They had names in Chinese like Lucky Star. They were advertising
trips to Flushing, Queens, Brooklyn Eighth Avenue and Manhattan
Chinatown for only $10 cash or $52 in coupons. I almost took a Chinese
bus, because it was not clear from the schedule when or if my
Greyhound Bus would arrive. Also, my trip from New York to Foxwoods
had taken four and a half hours. However, the Chinese busses were
advertising a trip to Flushing, Queens, in New York City, of only 2
1/2 hours.
Actually, the distance from Foxwoods to Lower Manhattan is only 138
miles and to Flushing, Queens is much less, so it really should take
only 2 1/2 hours, not the 4 1/2 hours the MTA took.
When I had arrived at Foxwoods at 6:30 PM, I had hoped to spend the
night. However, this is another problem with Foxwoods. There are no
local cheap motels. What chess players want and need is a motel room
for $37.95 a night that will sleep four people, including two on the
floor. Instead, at Foxwoods, on the weekends, the rooms are $169 a
night. I decided to take the bus back rather than spend the night.
In the future, I recommend Jessica Bus Company in Flushing. Sandy is
the girl there. I met her hawking bus rides for $10. Her number is
347-739-1901. You can ride her to Foxwoods for only $10. She even
speaks some English too!
I had hoped to meet the Mongolian Girl with unpronounceable name at
Foxwoods. I have become a big fan of hers, even though I have never
met her. She was playing a long endgame. So, I waited. Then, later, I
was facing in the opposite direction looking after my baby when she
came brushing right past me. She seemed angry and seemed to be having
an argument with the Mongolian man she was with. I do not speak
Mongolian, it is not one of my languages, but I presumed that she must
have lost. Turns out that she won an interesting endgame.
The main thing I needed to find out was whether she looks nice enough
to put on the cover of People Magazine, or at least on the cover of
Chess Life. I found out that she does look nice enough to put on the
cover of People Magazine. This is important because, it does not
matter what the intellectual accomplishments of a woman are, if she
does not look nice enough that you can publish her picture on the
cover, what is the good of it?
In the end, I accomplished almost nothing during my trip to Foxwoods,
mainly because I could not spend the night due to the high cost of
hotel rooms, except that I got to meet a beautiful girl, Mrs. Van
Wely, as Loek would have it, and I got to go through the trash cans
while waiting for the 4:30 AM bus to look for discarded game scores. I
have always found that the best games go in the trash, so I look for
games that have been literally thrown away.
So, here they are, two trashcan games. You will not find these games
in the official tournament bulletins, but you got them from me.
When I played over the game by the beautiful Mongolian Girl (you heard
it first here) I thought it was an obvious mistake in the score. I
went back over and over the game, looking for the mistake. I could not
find it. Then it hit me. There was no mistake in the score. I was
missing something!
I had thought that White could play 29. Qxf7## checkmate! Obviously,
the score sheet must be wrong. Finally, I took a third look and
realized that he cannot play 29. Qxf7 because it drops a rook with 29.
. . . Kxh6
A very good game in the Pelican Defense. A game by two relatively low
rated players needs to go into the trash, right?
It is more of a mystery why a game that GM Nakamura lost to a talented
new IM would wind up in the trashcan, but here it is, rescued and in
my hot hands.
Sam Sloan
[Event "Foxwoods Open"]
[Site "Foxwoods CT"]
[Date "2006.04.15"]
[Round "07"]
[White "Herman, Metthew J."]
[Black "Tuvshintugs, Batchimeg"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "2153"]
[BlackElo "2269"]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5
a6 8.Na3 b5 9.Nd5 Be7 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.c3 O-O 12.Nc2 Bg5 13.a4
bxa4 14.Rxa4 a5 15.Bc4 Rb8 16.Ra2 g6 17.Nce3 Kh8 18.h4 Bxh4 19.g3
Bf6 20.f4 exf4 21.gxf4 Bg7 22.b3 Be6 23.Rah2 h6 24.Nf5 Bxd5
25.Bxd5 gxf5 26.Rxh6+ Bxh6 27.Rxh6+ Kg7 28.Qh5 Rh8 29.Rxh8 Qxh8
30.Qxf7+ Kh6 31.Qe6+ Kg7 32.Qd7+ Kh6 33.Qxd6+ Kg7 34.Qc7+ Kh6
35.Qd6+ Kh5 36.e5 Kg4 37.Bxc6 Rd8 38.Bd7 Qh4+ 39.Kd2 Qh2+ 40.Kd1
Rh8 41.Bb5 Qxf4 42.Qg6+ Kf3 43.Bc6+ Ke3 44.Qg1+ Qf2 45.Qxf2+ Kxf2
46.e6 Rh7 47.b4 axb4 48.cxb4 f4 49.b5 f3 50.b6 Ke3 51.b7 f2
52.b8=Q f1=Q+ 53.Kc2 Qc4+ 54.Kb2 Qxc6 55.Qb3+ Kf4 56.Qb4+ Qe4
57.Qd2+ Ke5 58.Qa5+ Kxe6 59.Qa6+ Kf7 60.Qf1+ Ke7 0-1
[Event "Foxwoods Open"]
[Site "Foxwoods CT"]
[Date "2006.04.14"]
[Round "04"]
[White "Nakamura, Hikaru"]
[Black "Bercys, Salvijus"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B42"]
[WhiteElo "2755"]
[BlackElo "2451"]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 Bc5 6.Nb3 Ba7 7.Nc3
Nc6 8.Qg4 Nf6 9.Qg3 d6 10.a4 Qe7 11.O-O Bd7 12.Kh1 Nd4 13.Na5 Bc6
14.b4 Bb6 15.f4 Bxa5 16.bxa5 Rg8 17.e5 O-O-O 18.Qe1 dxe5 19.fxe5
Nd7 20.Ne2 Nxe2 21.Qxe2 Qc5 22.Bf4 Qxa5 23.Bg3 Nc5 24.Be1 Qc7
25.Bb4 Nxd3 26.cxd3 f6 27.Bd6 Rxd6 28.exd6 Qxd6 29.d4 Rd8 30.Rfd1
Rd7 31.a5 Kd8 32.Rd2 Qd5 33.Qe3 Ke7 34.h3 Kf7 35.Qd3 Qe4 36.Qxe4
Bxe4 37.Rc1 Bc6 38.Rc5 h6 39.Kg1 Ke7 40.Kf2 Kd6 41.g4 Re7 42.Rc1
Rf7 43.Rc5 f5 44.gxf5 Bd5 45.Rd3 Rxf5+ 46.Ke1 Rf4 47.Rc8 g5
48.Rh8 Rh4 49.Rc3 g4 50.hxg4 Rxg4 51.Rxh6 Rxd4 52.Rhh3 Rb4 53.Kd2
Rb5 54.Ra3 Kc5 55.Kc3 Rb4 56.Rh2 Rc4+ 57.Kb2 Kb5 58.Rh5 Ra4
59.Re3 Kb4 0-1
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Date: 18 Apr 2006 01:37:42
From: John J.
Subject: Re: Sam goes to Foxwoods
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That's actually great information.
One thing, though, a 4 year old is not a 'baby'.
"Sam Sloan" <[email protected] > wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Sam goes to Foxwoods
>
> I went up to Foxwoods just to watch chess on Saturday, April 15, 2006.
> I would have liked to have played but I had my over-active baby with
> me, and this eliminated that idea.
>
> Bill Goichberg complained that the tournament got less than 500
> players this year. He had hoped for more. I have a suggestion: More
> players will come if you tell them how to get there and find cheap
> hotel rooms for them. I have asked Bill and many others how to get
> there. Nobody has offered helpful suggestions. Bill drives his own
> car, so he knows nothing about how to get there by bus or train.
>
> I decided that it could not be that difficult to get there, so I
> called around. By far the best deal I found is from Metro North.
> Forget Amtrak. Buy a special package to Foxwoods at Grand Central
> Station. It costs $31.75 round trip. They make sure to sell you a
> round trip ticket because many visitors lose all their money gambling
> in the Foxwoods Casino and cannot get home. A Japanese girl I know had
> that happen to her a few weeks ago. She was going around Foxwoods
> trying to bum a ride back to Boston, because her boyfriend with whom
> she was had lost all their money gambling at Foxwoods.
>
> After buying the round trip ticket for $31.75 at Grand Central
> Station, you take the train to New Haven and then a Greyhound Bus to
> Foxwoods. When you get to Foxwoods, they give you a welcome package.
> You get a free buffet dinner worth $10 and two quick keno tickets.
>
> The buffet was worth much more than $10. The red meat me and my baby
> ate would have cost more than $10 even at the superket. The food
> was a little too rich for my taste, but at least I left completely
> full.
>
> The two quick keno tickets both won $5 each. I suspect a fix. This was
> just too easy. I suspect that they let you win $10 just to give you
> part of your $31.75 back and to hook you on gambling.
>
> However, there was one very negative development. I decided to take
> the 1:05 AM bus back. I had to wait two hours until 1:05 AM because
> that is how long you have to wait to collect on your free keno
> tickets. I suspect that this is all part of the plot to keep you in
> the casino for two hours in the hope that you will gamble.
>
> However, when I came to the bus stand to catch the 1:05 AM bus, I
> found out that there is no such bus. The schedule I had been given by
> Metro North when I bought my ticket for $31.75 listed several
> returning busses, the last of which left at 1:05 AM. Sophia Rohde had
> also said that there was a 1:05 AM bus. However, at the bus station,
> the attendant pointed out that the schedule we had been given was
> dated 2005. It was no longer valid. A terrible mistake had been made,
> since I had my four year old baby with me.
>
> So, we had to wait for the next bus, which was at 4:30 AM. I went back
> to the skittles room where I analyzed chess with some unspeakably weak
> players. One was telling me how he always beats masters and he cannot
> understand why he only has a 1600 rating. After analyzing with him, it
> became apparent why he only has a 1600 rating. I said nothing about
> that, however.
>
> I went back to the bus stand and amazingly at 4:00 AM a dozen busses
> pulled in to pick up passengers. They all had Chinese kings on
> them. They had names in Chinese like Lucky Star. They were advertising
> trips to Flushing, Queens, Brooklyn Eighth Avenue and Manhattan
> Chinatown for only $10 cash or $52 in coupons. I almost took a Chinese
> bus, because it was not clear from the schedule when or if my
> Greyhound Bus would arrive. Also, my trip from New York to Foxwoods
> had taken four and a half hours. However, the Chinese busses were
> advertising a trip to Flushing, Queens, in New York City, of only 2
> 1/2 hours.
>
> Actually, the distance from Foxwoods to Lower Manhattan is only 138
> miles and to Flushing, Queens is much less, so it really should take
> only 2 1/2 hours, not the 4 1/2 hours the MTA took.
>
> When I had arrived at Foxwoods at 6:30 PM, I had hoped to spend the
> night. However, this is another problem with Foxwoods. There are no
> local cheap motels. What chess players want and need is a motel room
> for $37.95 a night that will sleep four people, including two on the
> floor. Instead, at Foxwoods, on the weekends, the rooms are $169 a
> night. I decided to take the bus back rather than spend the night.
>
> In the future, I recommend Jessica Bus Company in Flushing. Sandy is
> the girl there. I met her hawking bus rides for $10. Her number is
> 347-739-1901. You can ride her to Foxwoods for only $10. She even
> speaks some English too!
>
> I had hoped to meet the Mongolian Girl with unpronounceable name at
> Foxwoods. I have become a big fan of hers, even though I have never
> met her. She was playing a long endgame. So, I waited. Then, later, I
> was facing in the opposite direction looking after my baby when she
> came brushing right past me. She seemed angry and seemed to be having
> an argument with the Mongolian man she was with. I do not speak
> Mongolian, it is not one of my languages, but I presumed that she must
> have lost. Turns out that she won an interesting endgame.
>
> The main thing I needed to find out was whether she looks nice enough
> to put on the cover of People Magazine, or at least on the cover of
> Chess Life. I found out that she does look nice enough to put on the
> cover of People Magazine. This is important because, it does not
> matter what the intellectual accomplishments of a woman are, if she
> does not look nice enough that you can publish her picture on the
> cover, what is the good of it?
>
> In the end, I accomplished almost nothing during my trip to Foxwoods,
> mainly because I could not spend the night due to the high cost of
> hotel rooms, except that I got to meet a beautiful girl, Mrs. Van
> Wely, as Loek would have it, and I got to go through the trash cans
> while waiting for the 4:30 AM bus to look for discarded game scores. I
> have always found that the best games go in the trash, so I look for
> games that have been literally thrown away.
>
> So, here they are, two trashcan games. You will not find these games
> in the official tournament bulletins, but you got them from me.
>
> When I played over the game by the beautiful Mongolian Girl (you heard
> it first here) I thought it was an obvious mistake in the score. I
> went back over and over the game, looking for the mistake. I could not
> find it. Then it hit me. There was no mistake in the score. I was
> missing something!
>
> I had thought that White could play 29. Qxf7## checkmate! Obviously,
> the score sheet must be wrong. Finally, I took a third look and
> realized that he cannot play 29. Qxf7 because it drops a rook with 29.
> . . . Kxh6
>
> A very good game in the Pelican Defense. A game by two relatively low
> rated players needs to go into the trash, right?
>
> It is more of a mystery why a game that GM Nakamura lost to a talented
> new IM would wind up in the trashcan, but here it is, rescued and in
> my hot hands.
>
> Sam Sloan
>
>
> [Event "Foxwoods Open"]
> [Site "Foxwoods CT"]
> [Date "2006.04.15"]
> [Round "07"]
> [White "Herman, Metthew J."]
> [Black "Tuvshintugs, Batchimeg"]
> [Result "0-1"]
> [ECO "B33"]
> [WhiteElo "2153"]
> [BlackElo "2269"]
>
> 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5
> a6 8.Na3 b5 9.Nd5 Be7 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.c3 O-O 12.Nc2 Bg5 13.a4
> bxa4 14.Rxa4 a5 15.Bc4 Rb8 16.Ra2 g6 17.Nce3 Kh8 18.h4 Bxh4 19.g3
> Bf6 20.f4 exf4 21.gxf4 Bg7 22.b3 Be6 23.Rah2 h6 24.Nf5 Bxd5
> 25.Bxd5 gxf5 26.Rxh6+ Bxh6 27.Rxh6+ Kg7 28.Qh5 Rh8 29.Rxh8 Qxh8
> 30.Qxf7+ Kh6 31.Qe6+ Kg7 32.Qd7+ Kh6 33.Qxd6+ Kg7 34.Qc7+ Kh6
> 35.Qd6+ Kh5 36.e5 Kg4 37.Bxc6 Rd8 38.Bd7 Qh4+ 39.Kd2 Qh2+ 40.Kd1
> Rh8 41.Bb5 Qxf4 42.Qg6+ Kf3 43.Bc6+ Ke3 44.Qg1+ Qf2 45.Qxf2+ Kxf2
> 46.e6 Rh7 47.b4 axb4 48.cxb4 f4 49.b5 f3 50.b6 Ke3 51.b7 f2
> 52.b8=Q f1=Q+ 53.Kc2 Qc4+ 54.Kb2 Qxc6 55.Qb3+ Kf4 56.Qb4+ Qe4
> 57.Qd2+ Ke5 58.Qa5+ Kxe6 59.Qa6+ Kf7 60.Qf1+ Ke7 0-1
>
>
> [Event "Foxwoods Open"]
> [Site "Foxwoods CT"]
> [Date "2006.04.14"]
> [Round "04"]
> [White "Nakamura, Hikaru"]
> [Black "Bercys, Salvijus"]
> [Result "0-1"]
> [ECO "B42"]
> [WhiteElo "2755"]
> [BlackElo "2451"]
>
> 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 Bc5 6.Nb3 Ba7 7.Nc3
> Nc6 8.Qg4 Nf6 9.Qg3 d6 10.a4 Qe7 11.O-O Bd7 12.Kh1 Nd4 13.Na5 Bc6
> 14.b4 Bb6 15.f4 Bxa5 16.bxa5 Rg8 17.e5 O-O-O 18.Qe1 dxe5 19.fxe5
> Nd7 20.Ne2 Nxe2 21.Qxe2 Qc5 22.Bf4 Qxa5 23.Bg3 Nc5 24.Be1 Qc7
> 25.Bb4 Nxd3 26.cxd3 f6 27.Bd6 Rxd6 28.exd6 Qxd6 29.d4 Rd8 30.Rfd1
> Rd7 31.a5 Kd8 32.Rd2 Qd5 33.Qe3 Ke7 34.h3 Kf7 35.Qd3 Qe4 36.Qxe4
> Bxe4 37.Rc1 Bc6 38.Rc5 h6 39.Kg1 Ke7 40.Kf2 Kd6 41.g4 Re7 42.Rc1
> Rf7 43.Rc5 f5 44.gxf5 Bd5 45.Rd3 Rxf5+ 46.Ke1 Rf4 47.Rc8 g5
> 48.Rh8 Rh4 49.Rc3 g4 50.hxg4 Rxg4 51.Rxh6 Rxd4 52.Rhh3 Rb4 53.Kd2
> Rb5 54.Ra3 Kc5 55.Kc3 Rb4 56.Rh2 Rc4+ 57.Kb2 Kb5 58.Rh5 Ra4
> 59.Re3 Kb4 0-1
>
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Date: 18 Apr 2006 01:14:47
From: Ange1o DePa1ma
Subject: Re: Sam goes to Foxwoods
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"John J." <[email protected] > wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> That's actually great information.
>
> One thing, though, a 4 year old is not a 'baby'.
Your youngest child is always a baby.
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Date: 17 Apr 2006 16:12:16
From: Melton
Subject: Re: Sam goes to Foxwoods
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I bet that you feed your infant from the trash cans. You tell people that
you are looking for discarded games, but you are trying to find half-eaten
sandwiches and left-over French fries for little Sammy, Jr.
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