On Jul 7, 11:19 am, "Curious George" wrote:
Why did you forget to mention or post your 9th round game, Sam, where you
got toasted playing g4 against a 14-year-old girl?

C. George

I will have you know that she is 17. Perfectly legal.

And yes, it is true. I was paired against this fabulously beautiful
girl for my last round game. Her picture is on page 32 of the July
Chess Life.

This was the money game, as the winner would get a $500 prize as a tie
for 11th through 20th. This, no doubt, was part of Goichberg's
conspiracy to deprive me of a top prize.

I certainly did not give her the game. I tried my best to beat her,
not for any other reason than I needed the money.

So, I lost.

I recommend putting her on the cover of Chess Life. She would project
a great image of chess and bring in ooodles of boys who will want to
join the USCF just to meet her. She would be much better than that
divorced middle-aged mother whose photo keeps appearing in Chess Life
for some unknown reason.

I am not sure how good she is. I do not want to take any credit away
from her but I played an exceptionally bad game, with bad moves on
move 6, 7 and 8 and several more later on. On the other hand, I had
been playing bad moves throughout the tournament and still I had
managed to recover and win almost every game, thereby being in
contention for a prize.

Here is the game:


[Event "World Open Championship"]
[Site "Valley Forge, Pennsylvania"]
[Date "2007.07.04"]
[Round "09"]
[White "Sloan,Sam"]
[Black "Mateer,Armanda R"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "1934"]
[BlackElo "1939"]

1.g4 e5 2.d3 Bc5 3.Nc3 d5 4.h3 c6 5.e4 Qh4 6.Qe2 Bxg4 7.Qd2
d4 8.Nd1 Nd7 9.Bg2 Bxd1 10.Qxd1 Bb4+ 11.Kf1 h6 12.a3 Ba5
13.b4 Bc7 14.Rb1 Ne7 15.c4 dxc3 16.Be3 Bb6 17.Nf3 Qf6
18.Kg1 Ng6 19.Kh2 Ndf8 20.Rg1 Ne6 21.b5 c5 22.Rc1 Ba5 23.b6
axb6 24.Qa4+ Ke7 25.Bh1 Nd4 26.Bxd4 cxd4 27.Qb5 Rhc8 28.Rg3
Rc5 29.Qa4 Nf4 30.Qc2 Rb5 31.Rb1 Rxb1 32.Qxb1 Rc8 33.Ne1
Ne2 34.Rf3 Qg5 35.Bg2 Qc1 36.Qb3 f6 37.Bf1 Qxe1 38.Bxe2 c2
39.Rg3 Qxf2+ 40.Rg2 Qf4+ 41.Rg3 c1=Q 42.Kg2 Qxg3+ 43.Kxg3
Qg1+ 44.Kf3 Qe3+ 0-1