This week's tournament results: Jan. 27 - Feb. 2, 2014

Jan 29th: Wednesday Night Community Chess Club of Rochester (CCCR):

Badamo 1-0 Glasser
Patel 0-1 Lionti
Stubblebine 1-0 Trent
Spencer 1-0 Strazzabosco
Eckert 1-0 Dewey
Frearson 1-0 Chadwick
Birmingham 0-1 Saweikis

Some photographs from the Community Chess Club of Rochester Wednesday night games:

Gerald Birmingham (left) plays an intriguing chess game with Chuck Saweikis.
In the background, Edwin Rosenberg (left) plays a Monday Night League make-up game with Alex Iosevich.

Chess Club President Don Stubblebine (white pieces) contemplates
 his next move against his opponent Mike Trent.

Feb 1st: Saturday Morning Youth Tournament Final Standings: 
There will not be a kids tournament at the Chess Center. 
The kids tournament was held today at Seton Catholic School - Their 18th Winter Scholastic Tournament.  
Please call the Chess Center at 442-2430 to register and for more details.
1st Place grades 6-8: Pahz Cherelin
1st Place grades 3-5: Anirudh Ramesh
1st Place grades K-2: Aidan Kharroubi

Here are some photos from today's Saturday afternoon adult tournament: 

Adam DeSantis (left) played an exhibition game against new USCF member Keith Bernard.

Samuel Liu (left) gained some rabbit ears during his game against Ben Chernjavsky in round 2.

And, for something NEW !! 

The Rochester Chess Center's Introduction to Chess:

Chess Match #3

Published on Nov 18, 2013

Third episode of Chess Match where instructors Ken McBride and David Petty from the Rochester Chess Center go over general principles of Openings and the common openings Ruy Lopez and Guioco Piano. An advanced match begins in the second half between Webster Kehoe and Connor Wagner, followed by a TIP of the Match and a BENEFIT of the Day, and chess teams from Gates-Chili HS and Wilson Magnet HS; chess teams from Pittsford HS, Sutherland, and Webster HS are also represented at the end of this episode. Episode 3 of Chess Match, an instructional video series airing in New York and featuring instructor Ken McBride and guest instructors David Petty, Ryan Horst, James Hiltunen, Wendy Xia, Ron Lohrman and David Phelps. And featuring chess clubs and competitions from around Upstate New York. Whether you are a beginner or advanced player or have never played chess, or are a parent of a player or would-be player, you will find something for you here. Dispelling all the myths about chess being too complicated or intimidating or uninteresting. We show blitz game and bughouse game variations. We list all the great benefits of gaming in chess. With instruction coming directly from the matches, we have a Tip of the Match for every game and a BENEFIT of the Day for every episode. Watch to see how, what, and why. New episodes every month with new players. See if your team, your club or your school, friends or acquaintances are on this episode.

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This week's tournament results: January 20-26, 2014

Jan 22nd: Wednesday Night Community Chess Club of Rochester (CCCR):

Lionti 1/2-1/2 Scullin
NM Tapaszto 1/2-1/2 Iosevich
Dewey 0-1 Patel
Trent 0-1 McBride
Worl 1-0 Carter, P
Saweikis 0-1 Spencer
Connelly 0-1 Stubblebine
Cunningham 1/2-1/2 Attaya
Runnells 1-0 DeSantis

Some photographs from the Community Chess Club Wednesday night games:

Arjun Patel (right) had an interesting chess game with Spencer Dewey

Kenn Scullin enjoying his chess game against Mike Lionti

NM Laszlo Tapaszto (left) drew his chess game with Alex Iosevich

Jan 25th: Saturday Morning Youth Tournament Final Standings: The Youth tournament today was held at the Mendon Center Elementary School.
1st Place:   6th-8th grade - Pahz Cherelin
                     3rd-5th grade - Ashton William
                     K-2nd grade - Harlan Novy Marx

This week's tournament results: January 13-19, 2014 PLUS Audio & Video

Jan 15th: Wednesday Night Community Chess Club of Rochester (CCCR):
McBride 1-0 NM Tapaszto
Stubblebine 1-0 Saweikis
Chadwick 1-0 Runnells
Crosby 1-0 Dewey
Spencer 1-0 Fuhrman

Jan 18th: Saturday Morning Youth Tournament Final Standings:
The Youth tournament today was held at the India Community Center. 
1st Place: Joseph Riccardi

Next week's Youth tournament will be held at Mendon Center Elementary. Call 442-2430 for more information.


Today, we had a visiting chess player from Paris, France: Joseph Binet. His mother (author, Pauline) and father (photographer, Guillaume) are writing a book containing interviews with book authors from around North America. 

Joseph Binet (left, 11 years-old with ELO 1560) took 2nd place in the Chess Championship of Paris

We have some interesting web sites by Joseph's father Guillaume:
 

• The chess club where Joseph plays chess in Paris

• A link to Joseph's Chess Rating from the French Chess Federation

• The web site of the director (Robert Laffont) of the above chess club 

• A link to Guillaume Binet's photography

Visitors are ALWAYS welcome at the Rochester Chess Center! 

We wish Joseph and his family good luck on their journey!

Here are some photos from today's tournament:

Doug Spencer (left) and Joseph Binet

John Manning (left) and Joseph Binet

Lev Paciorkowski (left) and Patrick Chernjavsky

Tom Riccardi (left) and Abe Glasser (United States Deaf Champion)

Joseph Binet (left) and Samuel Liu

Guillaume Binet (left) and his son Joseph Binet

And for something to enjoy listening to:
Here is the next CBS Radio Mystery theater production that you can listen to and enjoy which features CHESS as part of the plot. Enjoy! 

The title is Your Move, Mr. Ellers: 

"Chess seems the perfect foil for a sophisticated jewel thief. An insurance investigator looks into the theft of several diamonds and other jewels from a jeweler. A stolen emerald and a game of chess lead him to look into the lives of three supsects: an employee; a long time member at the jewelry store; and a fence. Every character in this story is a chess fan."

Click on the Cat to listen to YOUR MOVE, MR. ELLERS

And, for something NEW !! 

The Rochester Chess Center's Introduction to Chess:

Chess Match #2

Published on Nov 11, 2013

Second episode of Chess Match teaches chess from a beginners match between Catherine Healy & Katherine Stein, and an intermediate players matchbetween Krish Thakkar & John Healy. Tips of the Match for each game, and more Benefits of the Day. The Victor High School Chess Club is featured at the end of the episode. Episode #2 of Chess Match, an instructional video series airing in New York and featuring instructor Ken McBride and guest instructors David Petty, Ryan Horst, James Hiltunen, Wendy Xia, Ron Lohrman and David Phelps. And featuring chess clubs and competitions from around Upstate New York. Whether you are a beginner or advanced player or have never played chess, or are a parent of a player or would-be player, you will find something for you here. Dispelling all the myths about chess being too complicated or intimidating or uninteresting. We show blitz game and bughouse game variations. We list all the great benefits of gaming in chess. With instruction coming directly from the matches, we have a Tip of the Match for every game and a Tip of the Day for every episode. Watch to see how, what, and why. New episodes every month with new players. See if your team, your club or your school, friends or acquaintances are on this episode.

This week's tournament results: January 5-12, 2014 PLUS Audio & Video

This has been a very cold week in Rochester! But, that did not suspend the chess games that were scheduled for the new Winter Chess League this past Monday, and then Wednesday night Community Chess Club of Rochester. There are some audio and video links in this blog post, so don't forget to check those out.

Rochester Chess Center's Monday Night Winter Chess League - Round 1:
Badamo 0-1 Shriver
McMahon 0-1 Lambert
Dery 1-0 Neil Parry
Coltrain 1-0 Kolaczyk
Luce 0-1 Phelps
Ahmed 1/2 - 1/2 Blake Gianniny
Rubenstein 1-0 Frearson
Lionti 1/2 - 1/2 Bruce Gianniny
M Gianniny 1/2 - 1/2 Chalifour
Furhrman 1-0 Dewey
Exhibition Game: Connelly 1-0 Hofer

Mike Runnells (left) won a spectacular game against Mike Connelly Wednesday night.

Wednesday Night Community Chess Club of Rochester (CCCR):
Tapaszto 0-1 Cunningham
Runnells 1-0 Connelly
Glasser 1-0 Spencer
Attaya 0-1 Saweikis
Lionti 1-0 Worl
Dewey 0-1 Trent

And for something FUN:

Here is the first of several installments of CBS Radio Mystery theatre productions that you can listen to and enjoy which feature CHESS as part of the plot. I will post a new one every week. Enjoy!

The first mystery title is THE CHESS MASTER:

"An uneventful game of chess with a stranger in the park leads to a world of adventure for an out-of-work advertising agent."

Click on the Cat to listen to THE CHESS MASTER

According to Wikipedia:  
CBS Radio Mystery Theater (a.k.a. Radio Mystery Theater and Mystery Theater, sometimes abbreviated as CBSRMT) was a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was carried by the NPR satellite feed.

 

And, for something NEW !! 

The Rochester Chess Center's Introduction to Chess:

Click on the above picture to watch the video CHESS MATCH #1

Chess Match #1

Published on Nov 12, 2013

First episode of Chess Match, new instructional chess show with instructor Ken McBride, guest instructors David Petty, Ryan Horst, James Hiltunen, Wendy Rifeng, Ron Lohrman, and David Phelps, and chess clubs & chess competitions from all over Rochester. Learn chess from the matches themselves, and about the people who love chess, young and old. This episode includes board setup and how the pieces move, an introduction to the time clock, a beginners match between Catherine Healy & Katherine Stein, a Tip of the Match, an intermediate players match between John Healy & Krish Thakkar, another Tip of the Match, the Benefit of the Day, and some bughouse from the Rochester Chess Center, the primary sponsor.

Check back here every week for another episode! Enjoy!

This week's tournament results: January 2-4, 2014

There's "snow-way" you can stop chess players from playing chess no matter what the weather!

At the Community Chess Club of Rochester's (CCCR) Thursday night club meeting, we had 6 fearless chess players show up during the freezing cold Rochester snowstorm.

From left to right: Daniel Johnston, Adam DeSantis, Ken McBride, Abe Glasser, Mike Lionti (holding the camera) and Neil Parry (not pictured) arrived for the weekly chess battles. Ice, snow and extreme cold can't hold back these chess players!

Here are the CCCR results for Thursday Jan. 2nd:

Abe Glasser won against Adam DeSantis
Mike Lionti and Neil Parry drew
Daniel Johnston won against Ken McBride
 

Adam DeSantis (left) contemplates the game position while Abe Glasser ponders his next move.

Here are the CHESS CAMP USCF-rated game results for Friday Jan. 3rd:

Franklin Jones drew Tierra Cherelin
Spencer Dworkin lost against Brendon Bennett
Pahz Cherelin lost to Chess Camp Counselor David Phelps 

Here are the Saturday tournament results for Saturday Jan. 4th:

Saturday Morning Youth Tournament Final Standings:
1st: Arianna Kharroubi with 4 points (Trophy winner)
2nd: Franklin Jones and Toby Thompson with 2 points each
3rd: Aidan Kharroubi with 1 point
4th: Revathi Meka

3rd Round: NM Laszlo Tapaszto (left) from Caracas Venezula played in the Adult tournament today. Laszlo played a strong game, but lost to Samuel Liu.

3rd Round: Peter Killinger (left) lost the chess battle in a fine game against Jamshed Ahmed.

3rd Round: Arjun Ganesh (left) won a nice game against Jennifer Thompson.