Mike Serovey Wins Two More CC Sections

I received another certificate from Alex Dunne stating that I won a Walter Muir e-quad and I had an opponent resign in a John Collins Memorial section. In Walter Muir Section 12W42 I earned a score of 5 - 1. In the John Collins section 12C01 I earned a score of 5.5 - 05. My only draw was with the highest rated player in that section. That score did win the John Collins section and should give me my first chess trophy in over ten years. That win should also put my USCF CC rating over 2100 points for the very first time. I believe that getting my CC rating over 2110 will get me into a top 100 list for Correspondence Chess players in Florida.

Mike Serovey, MA, MISM

Mike Serovey Loses to Spanish Chess Expert Valentin Costa Trillo

This is one of my games that was played on the ICCF server last year. I played what I beleive to be a main line in the French Defense, Advanced Variation and I got outplayed by my opponent. The PGN file that I copied below has some notes and analysis in it, but this game is not yet posted to my chess site because I am still analyzing it. I want to get this posted here for the benefit of those players who want to know what was played in this game.


[Event "FINJUB50pr47"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2012.10.20"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Serovey, Michael"]
[Black "Costa Trillo, Valentín"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C11"]
[WhiteElo "1866"]
[BlackElo "2084"]
[Annotator "Michael Serovey"]
[PlyCount "94"]
[EventDate "2012.11.01"]
[EventType "corr"]
[WhiteTeam "USA"]
[BlackTeam "Spain"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. e4 e6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Be3 Qb6 8. Na4
Qa5+ 9. c3 cxd4 10. b4 Nxb4 11. cxb4 Bxb4+ 12. Bd2 Bxd2+ 13. Nxd2 O-O 14. Bd3 b5
15. Nb2 Nb6 16. Ke2 Nc4 17. Qc2 Qa3 18. Rhb1 f6 19. Bxh7+ Kh8 20. Qd3 fxe5 21.
Bg6 e4 22. Nxe4 Qxd3+ 23. Nxd3 dxe4 24. Bxe4 Rb8 25. g3 g5 26. Rf1 Nd6 27. Bc6
b4 28. fxg5 Rxf1 29. Rxf1 Ba6 30. Rf4 Rc8 31. Bd7 Rc3 32. Rxd4 Nf5 33. Rxb4 Rxd3
34. Ra4 Rd6+ 35. Ke1 Ne3 36. Be8 Ng2+ 37. Kf2 Rd2+ 38. Kf3 Bb7+ 39. Kg4
a6 40. h4 e5 41. g6 Kg7 42. Rb4 Bc8+ 43. Kf3 Rxa2 44. Bf7 Ne1+ 45. Ke4 Re2+ 46.
Kd5 Rd2+ 47. Ke4 Bd7 0-1

 

Mike Serovey, MA, MISM

Latest ICCF Ratings

Here are my ICCF ratings so far:

Ratinglist	Rating	Games
2011/4	0	1	Details
2012/1	0	9	Details
2012/2	1734	17	Details
2012/3	1812	28	Details
2012/4	1866	35	Details
Mike Serovey, MA, MISM

Mike Serovey Defeats Kadriye in rematch

This is one of my ICC correspondence chess games and is the last one that I completed there. This brings my record for ICC correspondence chess to 29-15-10 and my rating to 1749. I played 2 games against Kadriye in this section and lost the one where I had Black so I needed to win this one in order to even up the score with him. This entire game, complete with analysis and diagrams, can be found at http://www.mikeseroveyonchess.com/Kadriye-English.html. Here is the game in PGN.

[Event "ICC correspondence 2009Quad.08.02"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.09.12"]
[Round "-"]
[White "OnGoldenPawn"]
[Black "Kadriye"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[Opening "English: Bremen, Smyslov system"]
[ECO "A22"]
[NIC "EO.10"]
[Time "00:11:15"]

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 Bb4 4. a3 Bxc3 5. dxc3 O-O 6. Bg2 h6 7. Nf3 Nc6 8.
c5 d6 9. cxd6 cxd6 10. O-O Be6 11. Re1 Qd7 12. e4 Nh7 13. Qd3 Rad8 14. Be3
b6 15. Rad1 Bh3 16. Bh1 Bg4 17. Rc1 Bxf3 18. Bxf3 Ng5 19. Bg2 Ne6 20. Rcd1
Qc7 21. b4 Ne7 22. Re2 Rc8 23. Rc2 Rfd8 24. a4 Qc4 25. Qxc4 Rxc4 26. Rcc1
Rdc8 27. Rxd6 Rxc3 28. Rxc3 Rxc3 29. Rd7 Rc7 30. Rxc7 Nxc7 31. b5 Nc8 32. f4
f6 33. Bf1 Nd6 34. Bd3 Kf7 35. f5 Ke7 36. Kf1 Kd7 37. Bd2 Nb7 38. Bb4 Nd6
39. Ke2 Nce8 40. Ke3 Nc7 41. g4 Nce8 42. Bc2 Nc7 43. Bb3 Nce8 44. h4 Nc7 45.
Kf3 Nce8 46. Bd2 Nc7 47. g5 hxg5 48. hxg5 Nce8 49. gxf6 gxf6 50. Bd5 Nc7 51.
Bc6+ Kd8 52. Bb4 Nc8 53. Kg4 Ne7 54. Bxe7+ Kxe7 55. Kh5 Kf7 56. Kh6
{Black resigns}
1-0

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