FIDE Master (FM) Alex E. Dunne (January 3, 1942 - January 16, 2023, age 81) passed away at his home in Sayre, Pennsylvania on Monday, January 16, 2023, following an extended illness.
Born in Sayre, he graduated from Mansfield University and taught English in the local school district for 30 years.
In his personal life Dunne loved Monty Python comedies, The Simpsons, trivia games, puns, Dr. Pepper soda, Friday evening Chinese dinners and taking walks around the Sayre Pond with his dog.
Tragedy struck Dunne’s life in February, 2003, when his first wife and grandson died in a fire in Sayre while he was away playing in a tournament. A 4 am fire ripped through the Dunne home on a Sunday, claiming the lives of his 62-year-old wife and a 2-year-old grandson.
Dunne fell in love with chess at an early age and for many years he wrote a long-running column for Chess Life on correspondence chess. He also authored How to Become a Candidate Master (i.e. a USCF Expert, 2000-2199 Elo), a book that uses illustrative games between Experts and Class A (1800-1999 Elo) players.
Dunne was the US Chess Correspondence Director from 2005 until retiring in 2020. His Check is in the Mail column (the printed magazine edition and later online)ran from December 1981 through February, 2021.
In the following game Dunne takes out William J. Adam (1962-1982, 19 years old) in a brilliant finish.
Adam had achieved a rating of over 2400 when he died after a brief illness. He competed in the US Junior Invitational on three occasions with his best result being a tie for second in 1981. He was also a strong correspondence player.
Adam was from Syracuse, New York had a huge natural talent. He was a student at State University New York in Stony Brook, New York during which time he appears to gave mostly abandoned competitive chess.
William Adam–Alex Dunne0–1B90Rochesterm NY1978Stockfish 16
B87: Sicilian Defense 1.e4 c5 2.f3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.xd4 f6 5.c3 a6 6.c4 e6 7.e2 e7 8.e3 b5 9.b3 0-0 10.0-0-0 b4 11.a4 xe4 So far this
is all book. The usually move here is 11...Qa5 12.f3 After this black gets
the better of it. More exact was 12.Nb6! 12.b6 xb6 12...a7 13.xc8 xc8 14.xe6 fxe6 15.xa7 wins 13.xe6 c5 14.xc5 dxc5 15.xf8 xf8 16.xf7+ xf7 17.f3+ g8 18.xa8 with the advantage. Aldokhin,I (2413)
-Gadimbayli,A (2507) chess.com INT 2023 12.xe6 fails to xe6 13.b6 e8 14.xe4 xb3 15.xa8 xa4 16.he1 16.d5 c8 17.b3 c6 18.d2 f5 19.f3 d7 with a decisive advantage. Varga,Z (2400)-Pedzich,D (2405) Santiago
wch-jr 1990 16...d7 17.e4 c6 Black's advantage proved decisive in
Ozolin,M (2510)-Dvoirys,S (2585) Omsk/Perm 1998 12.f4 was tried in
Cozianu,C (2420)-Suba,M (2535) Timisu de Sus 1998 which continued d5 13.f5
Black is better, but after mistakes by both sides the game was soon drawn. 12...f6 The threat is 13...e5 trapping the N on the open board. 13.g4
So that is 13...e5 14.Nf5, If black captures the N then white has the
semi-open g-file. d7 14.hg1 c6 15.g5 h5 16.f4 g6 A pass to
demonstrate the threat. 17.f3 17.b1 xd4 18.xd4 18.xd4 xf4 19.e3 xa4 20.xa4 20.xf4 xb3 21.axb3 e5 20...xg5 21.b3 Black is better. 18...a5 Wgite must lose a piece. 17...a5-+ 18.b1 xb3 19.axb3 b5 20.f2 c7 21.b6 ab8 22.f5 exf5 22...d8 has better winning chances. 23.c4 xc4 24.bxc4 and now both 24...Qc4 and 24...exf5 leave black with a
modest advantage. 23.d5 b7 24.xe7+ A natural move, but not the best.
It's surprising how quickly white's game now collapses. 24.h4 and White
has nothing to worry. c6 25.xf5 Equally playable wasd 25.Nf6+, but this
is flashier! gxf5 26.h4 xd5 27.xh5 White has sufficient compensation.
The best line is g2 28.d4 fe8 29.h6 f8 30.f6 e5 31.xe5 dxe5 32.xg2 xg2 33.d7 with about equal chance. 24...xe7 25.ge1 [Black must
now prevent 26.Bf4 c7 25...a5 26.f4 b7 27.xd6 26.d4 Somewhat
better would have been 26.Nd4 c6 27.h4 This move leads nowhere, but
white's position is already critical. e4 28.d4 fc8 29.e2 g7 30.h3 a5 31.f4 e6 32.h4 f8 32...xd4 lands black in trouble after 33.xh7+ f8 34.h8+ e7 35.xd4 with the more promising position. 33.d2 a4
Threatening 34...axb3 34.bxa4 b3 The attack on c2 has been sudden and it's
decisive. 35.c1 bxc2 36.e2 This allows a brilliant mate in 8, but he was
lost in any case. 36.xc2 xc2 37.c3 b7 38.dxc2 xc3 39.bxc3 h1+ 40.d2 b1 41.xd6 g2+ 42.d3 d1+ 43.e3 xc2 36...xb2 Black
mates. 37.xb2 37.xd6 b1+ 38.d2 c1+ 39.xc1 xc1+ 40.e2 f1+ 41.e3 b3+ 42.d4 a1+ 43.c3 xc3# 37...c1+ 38.xc1 xc1+ 39.a2 b1+ 40.a1 c2+ A move quicker was 40...Bd3+ 41.a2 b8 41...Qb1+ was one
move quicker. 42.xh7+ xh7 43.e5 b1+ 44.a3 b3+ White resigned...it's
mate next move. 0–1
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