IM Mark Ginsburg
5289 N Via La Doncella
Tucson, AZ 85750
(520) 577-0509
mark@bpa.arizona.edu
http://uaeller.eller.arizona.edu/~mark/chess/
Rate: $50 per hour. Available most evenings and some weekends.
I specialize in opening systems. I have a few students on the Internet Chess Club and a few students OTB in the
Tucson, AZ area. Typically I go over some master-level systems for white and for black to
give the student a well-rounded foundation for successful tournament play. I have some
theoretical novelties (TNs) that I can bestow in these lessons.
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Mark Ginsburg's List of Chess Accomplishments
- First place, Brugges Belgium 1990 ahead of Finegold and others
- Manhattan CC Champ, 1988 and 1990.
- First place, Eeklo Belgium 1985 ahead of Hellers, Winants, and others.
- National Chess Congress, first place, 1978. Defeated GM Dzindzihashvili at age 20, 1979.
- Peak rating = 2578 (23rd in USA) in 1993. Currently 2500 USCF, 2400 FIDE.
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Some Examples of
my Opening Novelties
- 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. e4 d5 4. e5 Ne4 5. N:e4 dxe4 6. Qg4 f5! TN 7. exf6 e.p. Q:f6 8.
Q:e4 Nc6 with obvious compensation; 0-1, 37, M. Petursson - MG, Bar Point NYC 1981.
- 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. e4 d5 4. e5 Ne4 5. Nf3 Nc6!? 6. Qc2 Ng5! TN with full equality,
1/2-1/2 in short order, K. Spraggett - MG, Toronto 1985.
- 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. e4 c5 4. e5 Ng8 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. d4 cd4 7. N:d4 N:e5 8. Ndb5 a6 9.
Nd6+ B:d6 10. Q:d6 f6 11. Be3 Ne7 12. Bb6 Nf5 13. B:d8 N:d6 14. Bc7 Ke7 (if either knight
takes on c4, white wins a piece) 15. c5 Ne8 16. Bb6 d6 (or 16...d5, same thing) 17. cxd6+
e.p. N:d6 18. O-O-O Nec4 19. Bd4! TN (previously seen was 19. Bc5? b6! with a black edge,
Timman-Huebner) and white maintains pressure. White won in both MG - D. Shapiro, Bar Point
NYC 1983, and MG - E. Kourkounakis, Belgium ECI Youth 1978. The point is that white has
time to drive the BN/c4 away with b2-b3, and then resume the pin with Bc5. White has full
compensation for the pawn here.
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Bb4+ 4. Bd2 c5!? TN (nowadays commonplace, but I was either
the first or one of the first to try it vs. a strong player) 5. Bxb4 cxb4 and drawn after
a lively middlegame, Seirawan-MG, World Open 1984.
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 c5 5. dxc5 Na6 6. a3 B:c3+ 7. Q:c3 N:c5 8. b4 Na4!?
TN 9. Qc2 (or 9. Qb3) b5!? with complication; 0-1, 44, IM R. Tomaszewski (POL) - MG,
Brugges Belgium 1990. Nowadays this gambit has been seen quite a bit but I was either the
first or one of the first to try it.
- 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cd 4. N:d4 Nf6 5. Bc4!? N:e4 6. Qh5 e6 7. Bb5+! TN Bd7 8. N:e6!
Qe7 (8...Qa5+? 9. Bd2 wins) 9. Nc7+ Kd8 10. Nd5 Ng3+ 11. N:e7 N:h5 12. B:d7 with an edge
in the ending.
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