23rd Space Coast Open Second Place Brilliancy Prize [Corrected]

[Notes have been corrected somewhat for spelling and grammar, and a few additional notes have been made. Plus, it's now published with the fancy ChessBase viewer.]

In the new edition of Florida CHESS, the FCA's quarterly magazine, the three 'brilliancy prize'* games from the 23rd Space Coast Open are reproduced. The first and third place games are provided with notes, but not the second place game. That seems wrong to me, so I've made an attempt at providing an analysis of the game. With all due apologies to Mr. Andretta and Mr. Dawley, here is my effort. 

(The game can be replayed either at the link above, or below the fold within the webpage. Does anyone have an opinion on which they prefer?)

* I agree with Paul Leggett that these would be more properly called 'best game' prizes. 'Brilliancy' is a lot to live up to!

Published!

Here! (See page 20.)

The best place to read the rest of the story is here.

23rd Space Coast Open Brilliancy Prizes

The winners of the three brilliancy prizes have been posted to the Florida Chess Association's (all new) website. The games can be found here. I'll be publishing the notes to my game shortly, after I decided whether or not to post all of them. (Readers may have noticed that I tend towards overkill in the analysis department.)

A Game from the 2015 Space Coast Open

Back on April 24th I had the chance to drop in on the first round of the 22nd Space Coast Open. I got lucky and observed the following game. We've already posted this on the Club's Facebook page, but I decided put it up here for ease of access. Paul Leggett provided some analysis. This game is fun to play over with friends, as there's a lot going on. Enjoy!

From Paul's Facebook post:

Hi all- Todd Durham was visiting the Space Coast Open when he observed this game between Matt Helfst and Vlad Yanofsky. Todd was so impressed that he asked to take a picture of the score, and then he showed it to me Thursday at the club (one of those days where I hated leaving early to go to work!). He converted the score and then sent it to me so we could post it. All the notes are mine except where indicated, superficially based off of Komodo's analysis. It is one of those games where the computer analysis is interesting, but it sheds very little light on the competitive nature of the struggle with fuzzy human logic and a ticking clock. Enjoy this great contest! EDIT: For the record, the game ended at move 61, and the subsequent moves should have been in note format. Sorry about that!