Beware the Bear

DREWBEAR 63, the top-rated player, has quickly won 3 games in the ChessWorld Jerome Gambit Thematic Tournament. Yesterday (see "Surprise!") we saw a theoretical novelty in defense against 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+. Here are 2 of his more prosaic wins, one with White and one with Black.

There are 15 players and 210 games in the tournament, but everyone is on alert: Beware the Bear!


DREWBEAR 63 - calchess10
JGTourney4 ChessWorld, 2009

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6 7.f4 Qf6 8.f5+ Ke7 9.Nc3 d6 [a slip: better 9...Kf8] 10.Nd5+ Kd7 11.Nxf6+ gxf6 12.c3 Ne7 [ 12...Nd3+ only +/-] 13.d4 Bxd4 14.cxd4 Nd3+ 15.Kd2 Nb4 16.Qf7 c6 17.Qe6+ Kd8 18.Qxf6 Re8 19.Qxd6+ Bd7 20.Qxb4 b6 21.f6 Black resigned


calchess10 - DREWBEAR 63
JGTourney4 ChessWorld, 2009

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.a3 Qf6 6.Nc3 Nge7 7.d3 h6 8.h3 g5 9.b4 Bb6 10.Bb2 d6 11.0-0 g4 12.hxg4 Bxg4 13.Nh2 h5 [ 13...Bxd1] 14.g3 Qg6 15.Qd2 h4 16.Kg2 hxg3 17.fxg3+ Ke8 18.Rae1 Bh3+ [ 18...Rxh2+ 19.Kxh2 Qh5+ 20.Kg2 Qh3#] 19.Kh1 Bxf1 20.Rxf1 Qxg3 21.Ne2 Qxh2 checkmate