Seghers Chess Outing: July 28th

We are planning a Summer Chess Outing on July 28th- Mark your calendars!!!
Details will be posted here on the blog, and an email will also be sent out. The game will be held at the Seghers house.

Ashish (rating=2201) vs. Evan Seghers

Evan played our local Master last night, and it is a good game! Evan had him pretty even until late in the game.

An Unusual Draw

Take a look at the end of this game.

As Mr. Reese explained to me, neither King could move past the "hidden line" between winning and losing. Look at the end of this game and see if you can figure out where that line is, and why both players agreed to a draw.

It is interesting to see a draw with so many pawns still on the board!

Evan Destroys Dad

Not one of my best games... but a nice game by Evan, and an interesting checkmate while I had my eye on a poorly thought-out mate.

King's Gambit Demolished

Bobby Fisher used the King's Gambit many times during his illustrious career... however he would have not been happy with the ignorant post-gambit pawn moves of Mr. Seghers... ignoring 4. ...Be7 which set up the Bishop cannon deep into white's territory and spelling ultimate destruction. Only the first few moves are shown here. Mr. Seghers was able to hold off checkmate for 30 moves and force black to castle, but it was over after this exchange.
Mr. Feder, a 1500+ player, showed me how one mistake in the opening can lead to destruction.

ChessMaster Grandmaster Vs. Greg Jr.!

Coach Reese told me about a game in which young Gregory beat Chessmaster's GrandMaster (the top setting, a 2831 rating)...
It is a quick game, and a great attack by black.

Mark Seghers vs. Rick Markowski

After much anticipation, the big match between Mark Seghers and Rick Markowski finally took place. Here is the game log and my comments.




White Move #1: Interesting start for Mark. Not sure what he is doing here, but I gather he read another book on opening moves and figures he has me confused.
Black Move #1: Rick moves cautiously as I am not sure what he has up his sleeve.
White Move #2: Wow, what's this guy thinking? Was it the Chess for Dummies book he is reading? Mark is sitting smugly at this point with his arms folded and sipping a brewski.
Black Move #2: Of course I know what I want to do here, but I play to his ego and really act like I am flummoxed by Mark's last move. I feign that I am going to move my Knight, but then quickly grab my Queen and move to H4 with a triumphant "Check mate!". Mark did not say a word.

After the game, I calmly picked up the chess board and pieces from the floor after Mark threw them to the ground in disgust and stormed out of the room....

Want to Post New Articles?

Anybody can post comments to existing articles. If you would like to be an AUTHOR on this site and post your own articles, games, or whatever, just email me and I will add you to the list of authors.
- Mark Seghers (email address is my last name @ gmail.com) - dont put your email address in an actual post, or the spammers will get you! :)

Send me your chess games!

Email me your games!

As Mr. Markowski noted last night at the boys' baseball game, Mr. Seghers has too much time on his hands these few weeks!
Take advantage of this! It won't last long, sadly...! Send me via email
the notation from a great game your child may have had recently. Use the chess notation example here on this blog. I will convert it and place it on the site so other children can "play" that game right here on our blog!
- Co-coach Mark

Reid vs. Coach Reese!

Last Wednesday, at the USCF Chess Club at the Eagles Club in Waukesha, Reid Seghers had the unlucky draw of playing Coach Reese himself!

"I should have known never to play with my food... I will never underestimate our kids again!" said Coach Reese after the game.

Enter your own Chess Games!

Here is how to enter your own chess games!

1) ENTER YOUR GAME MOVES!
You must first type your moves in "PGN" notation. An example game is below:
[Event "Reid Seghers Vs. Coach Reese"]
[Site "Waukesha, WI"]
[Date "2007.06.06"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Seghers, Reid"]
[Black "Reese, Gregory Sr."]
[Result "0-1"]
1. e4 d5 2. Nc3 d4 3. Nb5 a6 4. Na3 e5 5. b3 Bb4 6. Nf3 Bg4 7. Bc4 Nf6 8. h3
Bh5 9. 0-0 b5 10. Be2 Nxe4 11. Nxe5 Bxe2 12. Qxe2 Qh4 13. g3 Nxg3 14. Ng6+ Qe4
15. Qxe4+ Nxe4 16. Nxh8 Kf8 17. Re1 Nxd2 18. Bxd2 Bxd2 19. Re2 Bc3 20. Rd1 Nc6
21. Nxf7 Kxf7 22. Rd3 Re8 23. Rf3+ Kg6 24. Rxe8 Nb4 25. Re6+ Kh5 26. Rg3 g6
27. Re7 h6 28. Rg7 g5 29. Kf1 d3 30. cxd3 Bxg7 31. Nb1 Nxa2 32. Ke2 Nc1+ 33.
Kf3 Nxb3 34. h4 Nd4+ 35. Ke4 C5 36. hxg5 hxg5 37. Kd5 Nf5 38. Rf3 Kg4 39. Ke4 Nd4
40. Rg3+ Kh4 41. Kd5 Ne2 42. Re3 Nf4+ 43. Kxc5 Nh3 44. d4 Nxf2 45. d5 g4 46. d6 g3
47. d7 Bf6 48. Re6 Bg5 49. Kc6 g2 50. Re1 Kh3 51. Kc7 Kh2 52. d8=Q Bxd8 53. Kxd8
g1=Q 54. Rxg1 Kxg1 55. Kc7 Nd3 56. Kb6 b4 57. Kxa6 b3 58. Ka5 b2 59. Ka4 Kf2
60. Ka3 Ke2 61. Ka2 Kd1 62. Ka3 Kc2 63. Ka2 Nc1+ 64. Ka3 Kxb1 65. Ka4 Ka2 66.
Ka5 b1=Q 67. Ka4 Nd3 68. Ka5 Qb7 69. Ka4 Qb4++ 0-1

2) NOW, CREATE YOUR GAME DIAGRAM!
Using the notation style shown above (and using zero instead of the letter O for castling), type your game (or example or lesson) out on the computer. Then, go to the Chess Publisher web site and paste your game into the window. Then, click on the "Generate Diagram --->" button. You will see the diagram for your game. Highlight the text below the diagram (in the box "Highlight and copy this text") and click on Edit / Copy to copy that to memory.

3) FINALLY, PASTE THE DIAGRAM LINK INTO YOUR BLOG ENTRY!
Now, go to this blog and you can paste your text into your own blog article or into a response from someone else's article! Your game diagram will show.

This method should work very well to help Mill Valley parents and kids enter their games for all to enjoy!!!!
- Mark Seghers

Welcome to the Mill Valley Chess Blog Site!

National Chess Champions!

Hello, and welcome to the Mill Valley Chess Site!

Mill Valley is a K-4 grade school in Muskego, WI. Mill Valley has a great chess team, with over 80 kids (a full 25% of the school) on the team! In the recent National tournament in Nashville TN, our K-3 Unrated team took first place! The picture above shows the kids from Mill Valley who went to this tournament, and in front of them are the trophies from just this one event!

This blog will document our outstanding 2007 season, and keep interested parties up to date on Mill Valley Chess!