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Attacking 101
Forget defense, just attack! ~ Life Master Joel Johnson

his position comes from the game

T Nick DesMarais (2124) vs Richard

Cowan (2154), Valley Chess New
Years, Round 3, played January 1,
2015.

In the position on the right it is White to

move.

Answer below.

I got my copy of Joel Johnson's "Attacking

101: Volume #002" in the mail this week.

(Today's tactic is from that book, and was

sent to me by Joel Johnson - thanks Joel!)

You might recall my newsletter entitled "Book Game" from the U.S. Open, this past August,
(which you can read here:
http://archive.aweber.com/tacticstime/DtCJj/h/Tactics_Time_Chess_Newsletter_.htm), where I
wrote:

"My chess coach Joel Johnson is here. So it has been nice getting to chat with him in
person. Joel is always on the lookout for "book games". These are games that are in
consideration to go into one of his books (Formation Attacks series, Attacking 101 series, etc).

Joel is quite picky about what constitutes a "book game". Basically it has to be a short game,
with some kind of very efficient attack. When I played this game in round 4, when it was over I
thought "book game!" Playing a Joel "book game" is a real honor :-)

So after I played this game, I emailed it to Joel with the subject "book game", and no other
comments. Joel wrote back, "I could not agree with you more - awesome!!!! game - the game will
be in Attacking 101: Volume #002."

So that was cool!"

 So when I got the book, I saw that my "book game" is #28 in the book, on page 50.

sweet!

Joel's annotations are funny - especially if you know him, and can hear him saying them in his
booming voice.

After my move "9...g5", Joel's comment was "White must be thinking.... - I cannot find this line
anywhere in my London System opening book!"

That cracked me up, as did a lot of his other comments.

The book is easy to read, and like "Tactics Time", contains lots of games with class players and
players "down in the trenches" and "in the real world", which I like, and I feel makes it very
practical study material.

Here is a selfie of me with the book :)

Here is the complete game:

[Event "Valley Chess New Years"]

[Site "?"]
[Date "2015.01.01"]
[Round "3"]
[White "DesMarais, Nick"]
[Black "Cowan, Richard"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B94"]
[WhiteElo "2124"]
[BlackElo "2154"]
[PlyCount "43"]
[EventDate "2015.??.??"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 Nbd7 7. Bc4 e6 8.

Qe2 Ne5 9. Bb3 h6 10. Bh4 Be7 11. O-O-O Qc7 12. f4 Ng6 13. Bg3 b5 14. f5 exf5
15. Ndxb5 axb5 16. Nxb5 Qc5 17. Nxd6+ Bxd6 18. Bxd6 Qa7 19. exf5+ Ne7 20. Rhe1
Nfg8 21. Bxe7 Nxe7 22. Ba4+ 1-0

You can play through this game here:

http://www.viewchess.com/cbreader/2015/10/25/Game521326855.html

Answer:

Black is checkmated on all replies after 22. Ba4+!

22. … Kf8 23. Rd8#

22. … Bd7 23. Qxe7#
22. … Qd7 23. Qxe7#
22. … Qxa4 23. Qxe7#

Happy Tactics!

Your Friend,

P.S. Here is the link again for Joel's books: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/fearnoevil

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