Chicago Open Update by Phil Simborg
Our acquaintance, Phil Simborg, reports from the Chicago Open ABT Tournament:
I am sad to report that I lost in the Open and am playing last chance (I did win the first two rounds including a win over the great Herb Roman in Round 2).
In the Open Div, the Semis are Sam Pottle vs. John Jennings and Chris Yep vs. Alan Grunwald (I own John and Alan in the Calcutta along with my partner, Scott Casty, who is in the finals of Intermediate, and we own him as well!)
In one of my later matches, this interesting positions came up. Black trails 0-4 in a match to15 and is on roll. Cube action?
As you can see from the GNU rollout below, it’s double/pass:
