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Spokane City ChampionshipSprenkle Reigns in SpokaneNewcomer Dave Sprenkle, a 2296-rated FIDE Master, became the FrenchAdvancenew Spokane City Champion when he managed to outlast three- FM David Sprenkle (2296)time defending city champion Curt Collyer, rated 2162. Collyer won Curt Collyer (2162)the opening game of the four-game match as White. The second and third Spokane City Championship(4) 2004rounds ended as draws. Sprenkle managed to win a pivotal game four as Annotationsby FM DavidSprenkleWhite to force a G/25 tiebreak. Sprenkle drew White for the tiebreak game 1.e4 e6 2.d4 dS 3.eS eS 4.e3 lDe6and won in a time scramble with both players having less than one minute S.lDf3lLd76.lLe2 I!e8remaining. The exciting conclusion capped a great weekend of chess at Curt and I played two gameslast fallAunties Book Store in downtown Spokane. withthe line6...tlJge77.0-0 I!e88.tlJa3The City Championship match, a staple of chess in the 1960s and early exd4 9.exd4 'ifb6 10.tlJe2, and I didn't1970s was brought back in 2001 under the sponsorship of Dave Rowles. get much of anything in eith~r one: InDave and his wife Dawn Fields have hosted the past four matches. Dave game.two of our match, I tned a ~lttl,eGriffin takes over as the sponsor of the 2005 event. -Courte of DavidGriffin surpnse: 8.dxeS tlJg.69.b4. C~rt didn.t.syseem comfortableWIththe ensumgPOSl-Dutch Leningrad French Advance tions, though he held the draw ratherCurt Collyer (2162) FM David Sprenkle (2296) handily. In this game, he omits oo.tlJge7FM David Sprenkle (2296) Curt Collyer (2162) to avoid the dxcSline, but stumbles intoSpokane City Championship(1) 2004 Spokane City Championship (2) 2004 somethingworse.1.d4 fS 2.g3lDf6 3.Ag2 g6 4.e3 Ag7 1.e4 e6 2.d4 dS 3.eS eS 4.e3 lDe6 7.0-01Wb6?!S.1Wb3lDe6 6.lDd2 dS 7.lDh3 eS 8. S.lDf3 Ad7 6.Ae2lDge7 7.0-0 I!e8 I think Curt needsto find an improvedxeSlDxeS9.lDf4 e6 10.0-00-011. 8.dxeS lDg6 9.b4 tlJcxeS 10.lDxeS . ment in the 7oo.tlJge78.dxcS line, or, ife4 d4 12.lDf3 lDxf3+ 13.Axf3 1We7 lDxeS11.Ae3 Ae712.lDd2 0-0 13.f4 he really wants to play ...1Wb6,to throw14.Ad2lDe4 1s.Ab4 cS 16.Ae1 b6 lDe614.lDb3Af6 1S.1Wd21We716.bS in 7...exd4. True, that would give WhitellJd31We617.a4Ae621.b318.1We2A1719.aSI!ab8 22.axb6gSaxb620.