This week's tournaments and activities: Feb. 24 - Mar. 2, 2014

REMINDER: The 36th Annual Marchand Open is quickly approaching. Sign up soon!

36th Annual Marchand Open - March 8-9, 2014

 There are now 6 GMs on the list of players: Kekhelidze, Kudrin, Kamsky, Ivanov, Paragua and Lenderman.

Feb. 26th: Wednesday Community Chess Club of Rochester at 7:30pm
Results (click for USCF ratings page):
Lionti, M 1/2-1/2 Runnells, M
Kehoe, W 1/2-1/2 Ahmed, J
Klug, B 1-0 Chapman, T
Wagner, C 1/2-1/2 Iosevich, A
Saweikis, C 1-0 Eckert, M
Phelps,D 1-0 Strazzaboso, J
Phillips, P 0-1 Spencer, D
Carter, P 1-0 Patel, A
Cherin, S 1-0 Stubblebine, D
De Riso, M 1-0 Connelly, M

Here are some photos from the Wednesday games. We had 20 players tonight:

Marcelo G. De Riso (left) won his game against Mike Connelly in a very interesting game.

Arjun Patel (left) played a terrific game, but lost to Peter Carter.

Don Stubblebine (left rear) lost a titantic battle in his game against Sam Cherin.
Mike Lionti (front left, not shown) drew his game against Mike Runnells, with no pieces left on the board, except for the kings.

Mar. 1st: Saturday kids (10am) and adult tournament (2pm)

Mar 1st: Saturday Morning Youth Tournament Final Standings:  
1st Place: Erich Snell with 7 points and trophy winner!

2nd Place: Dale Janezis with 5 points.
3rd Place: Joshua Iosevich with 3 points.

4th Place: Aidan Kharroubi and Arianna Kharroubi with 2 points each.

5th Place: Nathan Girnius and Revathi Meka with 1 point each.

6th Place: Xavier Zayas and Vladimir Bondar with 1/2 point each.

7th Place: Evan Peterson. 

 

Dale Janezis (left) vs Aidan Kharrobui.

Arianna Kharroubi (left) vs Erich Snell.

Adam DeSantis (aka Mr. Chess) played a game for fun with Joshua Iosevich.

Today's Youth Tournament Champion Erich Snell celebrated with his chess buddies.

Mar. 8-9th: Marchand Open Chess Tournament
Mar. 22nd: 9th Annual Women's Invitational chess tournament at Rochester Chess Center
Mar. 31st: Spring Chess League at the Rochester Chess Center (Register by 6:30pm)
Apr. 14-18: Spring Break Chess Camp

Call 585-442-2430 for details

This week's tournaments and activities: February 17-23, 2014

REMINDER: The 36th Annual Marchand Open is quickly approaching. Sign up soon!

36th Annual Marchand Open - March 8-9, 2014

Feb. 17-21st: Chess Camp - Call 585-442-2430 for details.

Congratulations to Lev Paciorkowski who became a chess EXPERT with his win against David Campbell during this week's Chess Camp: USCF Rating 1995 => 2007






Feb. 17th: Monday Night League ** No games ** Closed for Presidents Day
Feb. 19th: Wednesday Community Chess Club of Rochester at 7:30pm
Results:
Worl, D 1-0 Runnells, M
Spencer, D 0-1 Kehoe, W
Carter, P 0-1 Chadwick, D
Dewey, S 1/2-1/2 Kharroubi, Aidan
Cherin, S 1-0 Klug, B
Rossi, J 1-0 Stubblebine, D
Chapman, T 1-0 Kharroubi, Arianna
Glasser, A 1-0 Kharroubi, C
Eckert, M 0-1 Connelly, M
Scullin, K 1/2-1/2 Lionti, M

Feb. 22nd: Saturday kids (10am) and adult tournament (2pm)

Feb 22nd: Saturday Morning Youth Tournament Final Standings:  
1st Place: Jason Niu with 4 points.

2nd Place: Thomas Kwon with 2 points.
3rd Place: Michael Niu with 1 point.

Under 1600 Section:
1st Place: Patrick Chernjavsky and Erik Westwig with 2.5 points each.
U1250: John Westwig with 2 points.

We had Buffalo players in the morning and in the afternoon there were players from Syracuse, Painted Post, Ithaca, Avon, and Pennsylvania. 

Mar. 8-9th: Marchand Tournament
Mar. 22nd: 9th Annual Women's Invitational chess tournament at Rochester Chess Center

9th Annual Woman's Invitational chess tournament flyer:


Here are 3 fine chess games provided by Jamshed Ahmed:


Here is the Wed. night Community Chess Club of Rochester (CCCR) TD Schedule:

This week's tournament results: February 10-16, 2014

This week at the Rochester Chess Center:
Feb. 10th: Monday Night League @ 7pm week #6
Results:
Phelps, D 1-0 Luce, E
Gianniny, Blake 1/2-1/2 Ahmed, J
Frearson, J 1-0 Rubenstein, G
Gianniny, Bruce 1/2-1/2 Lionti, M
Chalifour 0-1 Gianniny, Max
Dewey, S 0-1 Fuhrman, G
Shriver, O 0-1 Badamo, T
Lambert, W 1-0 McMahon, M
Carter, P 1/2-1/2 Sunkara, A
Parry, N 0-1 Derry, R
Kolaczyk 0-1 Coltrain, E

Cunningham, S 0-1 Stubblebine, D
Iosevich, A 1/2-1/2 Rosenberg, E
Connelly, M 0-1 Cherjavsky, B
Devarakonda 1-0 Hofer

Feb. 12th: Wednesday Community Chess Club of Rochester at 7:30pm
Results:
Patel, A 0-1 Attaya, J
Runnells, M 1/2-1/2 Lionti, M
Eckert, M 1-0 DeSantis, A
Kehoe, W 1-0 Miller, G
Carter, P 1/2-1/2 Frearson, J
Cherin, S 1-0 Vecka, R
Phillips, P 0-1 Saweikis, C
Stubblebine, D 0-1 Wagner, C
Strazzabosco 1-0 Chapman, T

Feb 15th: Saturday Morning Youth Tournament Final Standings:  
1st Place: Dale Janezic with 2 points.

2nd Place: Vladimir Bondar.

Feb. 15th-16th: Amateur Team East (Parsippany, N.J)
Feb. 17-21st: Chess Camp - Call 585-442-2430 for details.
Mar. 8-9th: Marchand Tournament

NM Laszlo Tapaszto

Here is an excerpt from the book, The Unknown Bobby Fischer, scanned by Abe Glasser and found by Jim Attaya showing a blitz tournament many years ago when Laszlo Tapaszto (Benet) played and won his game against future World Champion Bobby Fischer. Later, Laszlo would win six Venezuelan championships during his chess career.

Here are some chess games provided to us by Jamshed Ahmed:

This week's tournament results: February 3-9, 2014

 

 

Feb 8th: Saturday Morning Youth Tournament Final Standings:  
1st Place tie: Toby Thompson (Trophy winner) and Nathan Girnius with 4 points each.

2nd Place: Joshua Iosevich with 2.5 points.

3rd Place: Dale Janezic with 1.5 points.

4th Place tie: Harry Larson and house player Evan Peterson

Toby Thompson (front, with trophy) tied for 1st place with Nathan Girnius today at the Rochester Chess Center Kids tournament. From left to right: Dale Janezic, Evan Peterson and Harry Larson.

There was also a scholastic tournament in Geneva this Saturday. Here are the details:

8th Geneva  Scholastic @ North Street School, 400 W. North St, Geneva, 14456 9am, individual and team K-2, 3-5, 6-8 $10 entry. Call 585-442-2430.

 

Feb 8th: Saturday Afternoon Adult Tournament

Round 2: Doug Spencer (left) drew Jacob Chen in a rook-knight-king vs rook-king ending in serious time pressure.

Wed. Feb. 5th: The Rochester Chess Center is open tonight for the Community Chess Club of Rochester's chess games.

Please drive carefully and give yourself plenty of extra time if you plan on attending the games tonight.

Feb. 5th: Wednesday Night Community Chess Club of Rochester (CCCR):
We had a great turn-out tonight considering how much snow has fallen today. We had 11 players!
Here are the results:
Abe Glasser 1/2-1/2 Connor Wagner
Abe Glasser 1-0 Mike Lionti
Patrick Phillips 1-0 Matt Eckert
Alex Iosevich 1-0 Sam Cherin
Ken McBride 1/2-1/2 Webster Kehoe
Peter Carter 1-0 Theo Chapman

The Rochester Chess Center just restocked their old used books. There are some great titles. Check them out at the chess center, because they are selling fast.

  
Mon Feb 3rd: Rochester Chess Center's Monday Night Winter Chess League - Round 5:
Phelps 1/2-1/2 Lohrman
Shriver 0-1 Ahmed
Frearson 0-1 McMahon
Carter 1/2-1/2 Lionti
Chalifour 1-0 Dery
Kolaczyk 0-1 Fuhrman


Badamo 1-0 Cunningham
Sunkara 1-0 Cherjavsky, Patrick
Chernjavsky, Ben 1-0 Parry
Coltrain 1-0 Devarakonda

Luce 0-1 Petty
Stubblebine 0-1 Gianniny, Blake
Rubenstein 1/2-1/2 Iosevich
Marshall 1-0 Gianniny, Bruce
Gianniny, Max 1-0 Connelly
Hofer 1-0 Dewey
  

USCF WEB SITE ISSUES:
 ** Update at 2:45pm Feb. 5th: Phil Smith at the USCF informed me that the USCF web server experienced a catastrophic failure, and the system had to be restored from backups. There still may be some permissions issues which are being investigated. The TD/Affiliate area is now working, and all pending USCF memberships have been processed. The Wed. CCCR and Sat. Chess Center results have also been processed. The FIDE results and SLWC weekend tournaments will be rated shortly.

** Update at 1:15pm Feb. 4th: The main web site (uschess.org) is working, but the chess club affiliate area is still down... still cannot process any tournaments/memberships.

** NOTICE: The uschess.org web site has been down for most of Sunday and is still down as of 9am Tuesday, Feb. 4th 2014. As a result of this, the GAME RESULTS and USCF memberships have not yet been submitted for CCCR and for the Chess Center. We hope to submit the games ASAP when the USCF web site is working again. **

Here is an interesting game provided by Jamshed Ahmed from the Monday Night League at the Rochester Chess Center:

White: Owen Shriver
Black: Jamshed Ahmed
Date: 2/4/2014
Result: 0-1
Annotated by: Jamshed Ahmed
Location: Rochester Chess Center, NY USA