Mona achieved a perfect 14-0 record in the Fifth Annual E-mail Tournament
with wins over most of the best Lines of Action players in the world.
Here are Mona's gamescores from the final round.
Jorge Gómez Arrausi (Spain) vs Mona Jan 8 - Feb 28, 2001
annotated gamescore
1. b1-b3 h4-f2 2. e8-g6 a2-d2 3. b8-b6 h2-e2 4. c1-c3 a6-d3
5. g6:d3 a7-c7 6. f8-f5 a3-b4 7. f5:f2 h3:d3 8. g8-g6 a4-c4
9. g6:d3 c7:c3 10. e1-g3 h7-f5 11. g3:c3 f5:f2 12. d8-d4 h5-f5
13. d3:f5 h6-g7 14. c3-f6 g7-g5 15. f1-c1 c4:c1 16. f5-e4 g5-g3
17. c8-d7 a5-b5 18. e4:e2 b4:d4 19. Resigns (mate in five moves)
[eg. e2-e3 g3-e1 e3:e1 b5-c4 f6-f4 c1-c3 b3-b1 f2:b6 g1:d4 b6:d4]
mona : 3 days, 06:14:53 jarrausi : 47 days, 14:16:24
Ragnar Wikman (Finland) vs Mona Jan 8 - Mar 31, 2001
annotated gamescore
1. b8-b6 h5-f7 2. d8:a5 h7-e7 3. c8-c6 a7-d7 4. e8-b8 a3-d6
5. g8-g6 a4-c2 6. b8-b5 h2-e2 7. f8:h6 h3:f1 8. g6-d3 d7:d3
9. e1-c3 a2-c4 10. h6-f4 f1:f4 11. g1-e3 e7-g5 12. a5-d5 a6-a5
13. b5-f5 h4-e4 14. Resigns (mate in six moves)
[eg. b1-e1 a5-a4 c3-d4 a4:d1 f5-e6 c2:c6 d5-f5 d6-c5 f5:c5 f7-f5 c5:f5 c6-c3]
mona : 2 days, 10:52:45 ragnar : 80 days, 00:40:39
Hartmut Thordsen (Germany) vs Mona Jan 8 - Feb 13, 2001
annotated gamescore
1. e1-g3 a4-c2 2. g1-g4 a2-d2 3. f1-f3 a5-c7 4. g3:c7 h7-e4
5. c7-f4 h6-f6 6. b1-b3 h4-e7 7. d1:h5 a3-d6 8. e8-g6 a6:c8
9. d8-c7 h2-e2 10. b8-b6 c8:f8 11. g8-g5 f8:f4 12. f3-c3 h3-e3
13. b3:e3 e7:e3 14. c3:e3 a7:c7 15. h5:e2 c2-f5 16. b6-d4 f6:d4
17. c1-d1 d2-c3 18. d1:d4 d6:d4 19. e3-g3 c7-c5++
mona : 3 days, 18:10:47 hthordsen : 32 days, 19:13:49
Mona vs John Bosley (New Zealand) Jan 8 - Feb 23, 2001
annotated gamescore
1. d1-b3 a5-c7 2. b1-b4 h3-e3 3. e1-g3 a7-d4 4. g1-g4 h7-f7
5. g8-g5 h6-f6 6. c8-e6 a6-d6 7. e8-e5 a2-c2 8. f1-f5 a4-b5
9. g5:b5 e3-c5 10. d8-g8 h2-f2 11. b8-e8 h5:e8 12. b3:f7 a3-c3
13. c1-d1 f2-d2 14. d1-f3 c3:f3 15. b4:d2 e8-c6 16. g4:d4 f3-d5
17. b5-c4 h4-h5 18. g8-g6 c6-d7 19. g3-g5 c7:f7 20. f8-g7 c2:f5
21. d2-f4++
mona : 4 days, 02:45:06 johnbosley : 42 days, 15:21:19
Mona vs Pietro Rossi (Italy) Jan 8 - Feb 12, 2001
annotated gamescore
1. d1-b3 a5-c7 2. b1-b4 a7-d7 3. g1-g3 h3-e6 4. e1:h4 h2-f2
5. c1-c4 f2-f5 6. g8-g6 h6:f8 7. e8:e6 a6-d6 8. g6:d6 a4-c6
9. g3:c7 f8-g7 10. f1-d3 f5-d5 11. d8-b6 g7:c7 12. h4-g3 a3-a5
13. g3:c7 Resigns (mate next move)
mona : 2 days, 21:20:10 pedro : 32 days, 12:14:17
Mona vs David Priddy (USA) Jan 8 - Feb 6, 2001
annotated gamescore
1. d1-b3 h3-e3 2. e1-g3 h5-f7 3. g1-g4 f7:b3 4. b8-e5 a7-c7
5. b1:b3 a5:d8 6. f1-d3 h6:f8 7. c1:e3 h2-h5 8. c8-e6 h5-f7
9. g8-g5 h7-e7 10. b3:f7 a6-c6 11. e8-g6 c7:f7 12. e3-f2 f8-f5
13. d3-d5 f7-f4 14. e5-f6++
mona : 3 days, 03:10:27 dpriddy : 26 days, 04:18:45
Mona vs Patrick Duff (USA) Jan 8 - Feb 13, 2001
annotated gamescore
1. d1-b3 a5-c7 2. b1-b4 a7-d7 3. g1-g3 c7:g3 4. g8-d5 h6:f8
5. b8-b5 h4:e1 6. f1-c4 e1-c3 7. e8-a8 g3-e5 8. d8-c7 h5:d5
9. c8:c3 e5:c3 10. a8-c6 f8-c5 11. c1:a3++
mona : 2 days, 14:35:14 pduff : 33 days, 06:50:27
Total elapsed time:
mona : 22 days, 05:09:22 finalists : 298 days, 19:06:27
(average 3.2 days) (average 42.7 days)