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1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d4
cd 4 N:d4 Nf6 5 Nc3 e5 6 Ndb5 d6 7 Bg5
a6 8 Na3 b5 9 B:f6 gf 10 Nd5
f5
I used to play the White side of this position over and over
and over again against World Famous Rock Climber Pat Ament at the Univeristy of
Colorado Alfred E. Packer ( the stranded in a blizzard turned cannibal survivor
guy ) Grill in Boulder, Colorado 28 years ago. I guess we didn't fully exhaust
the position! Pat Ament is still going strong and had a big writeup in National
Geographic last year. I am not a rock climber by any means - I went once 2
summers agowith Dwight Sehler and our 14 year old daughters and Bobby "
the Butcher " Ascher - the rope held! - but I enjoyed reading Pat Ament's
autobigrapghy when I ran into him a after a 25 year break in a Denver Kinko's
and he gave me a copy of his book - Below is a description of one Pat's many
incredible Climbing Books.
Climbing Everest: A Meditation on Mountaineering and the Spirit
of Adventure
by Pat Ament
Pat Ament-Stories of a Young Climber
This is the one I read - I liked it a
lot - it makes you think a lot - I believe one climber said something like
- " What we do at our darkest hour gives us strength our whole life " - Pat told
me when he was about 25 years old that his Chess friends were nothing compared
to his climbing friends because the bond that is created when one rope and a lot
of trust is your only insurance policy is much stronger than the one created by
a Chess game. I thought about that statement for a quarter of a century but when
I mentioned it to Pat 25 years later, he laughed and looked pained - Pat Ament -
" I said a lot of stupid things back then! "
11 B:b5
Back when I played Pat I had a positional style,
not trusting moves like this. We usually went for something like 11
ef B:f5 12 c3 Be6 13 Nc2 Bh6 14 a4
11 ... ab 12 N:b5 Ra4 13 b4
Qh4
Kasparov avoids moutains of theory and fighting
his way through a thick wall of vines, leads Shirov into a private grotto seen
only once before by human eyes.
" The World is not full of
objects - but of their absence." - Yana
Djin - Internationally acclaimed poetess and niece to Grandmaster Roman
Dzindzichashvili.The quote is from "Bits and Pieces of
Converstaion"