Saturday, December 26, 2015

Jan-Mar 2016 Tournaments and Activities

We have over 60 Community Chess Club members.  Our Chess club is growing!

Community Chess Club of Rochester Officers:
President - Donald Stubblebine
Vice-President: Douglas Spencer
Event Organizer, Treasurer & Web/Blog Editor: Michael Lionti
 Secretaries: David Worl and Ken McBride 
Assistant to the club officers: Abe Glasser & Mike Runnells
All officers and assistants are unpaid volunteers 
who wish to promote chess in our community.
You can inquire about the chess club by phone at 585-442-2430
Our mailing address: 221 Norris Drive, Rochester, NY 14610




The Dr. Farley Memorial XXII 
Monday Night League starts on March 28th! 
Register by 6:30pm.  Call the Rochester Chess Center
at 585-442-2430 for Info.




38th Annual Marchand Open!
GM Stripunsky, GM Perelshteyn, GM Kudrin, GM Preotu, Dean-Kawamura, Martin, Sulman share 1st place at the 38th Annual Marchand Open


The Strong National Museum of Play


The 38th Annual Marchand Open, dedicated to the memory of Dr. Erich Marchand, took place on 18-20th March 2016 at the Strong National Museum of Play, One Manhattan Square, Rochester, New York.  
Dr. Erich Marchand "requested that his friends play chess in his memory".
Portrait of Dr. Erich Watkinson Marchand displayed at the Rochester Chess Center

For the 38th Machand Open, 137 players participated.  In addition to our local Rochester chess players, we had a very large group from Buffalo, Syracuse and Canada.  The tournament included four Grand Masters: GM Stripunsky, GM Perelshteyn, GM Kudrin and GM Preotu.  This year, the total prize fund was a huge $16,440. This year's Marchand Open was the largest tournament in size and total prizes in Western New York.  The tournament was a wonderful success and it was enjoyed  by players and spectators.  

The tournament was organized by Ron Lohrman of the Rochester Chess Center. The tournament directors were Ron Lohrman and Ken McBride.

Adam DeSantis with GM Razvan Preotu

Ben Dean-Kawamura (2217) drew GM Bryan Smith (2511) in the final round to tie for 1st place in the Open Section




38th Marchand Open 
Photo Gallery:


Results:









Adam DeSantis with Calvin Moulton


Daniel Johnston and Ethan Yung


More Marchand Open information coming soon.






The Dr. Farley Memorial XXI 
Monday Night League starts on January 4th! 
Register by 6:30pm.  Call 585-442-2430 for Info.



The Mozart of Chess: World Champion "Magnus Carlsen"



Click to view CBS "60 Minutes" documentary



Special Events Coming Up:

  Dec. 28-31 - New Year's Break Chess Camp !!!! At the Rochester Chess Center !!!!

Contact Chess Center at 585-442-2430 for details
 
Jan. 4, 2016 - Chess Center Farley Memorial Fall League begins


Saturday Jan. 9th - Harley Scholastic Tournament for Kids:




January 18th - CHESS CAMP!!!! on Martin Luther King Day holiday


Saturday Jan. 16th - Scholastic Tournament for Kids at India Community Center
Contact Chess Center at 585-442-2430 for details
 

Saturday Jan. 23rd - Scholastic Tournament for Kids at Geneva (North Street)
Contact Chess Center at 585-442-2430 for details 

Feb. 13-15 - U.S. Amateur Team Championship East
Flyer below. Sign up as an individual or team at the Rochester Chess Center.  
Every year Rochester players have a lot of fun at this tournament.
For more details, click here

Flyer from Chess Life magazine


 Feb. 15-19 - CHESS CAMP!!!! on Winter Break holiday
Contact Chess Center at 585-442-2430 for details

Saturday Feb. 27th - Seton 20th Annual Tournament for Kids 
Contact Chess Center at 585-442-2430 for details 

March 19-20 - 38th Annual Marchand Tournament at the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, NY.  Contact Ken McBride or Ron Lohrman at the Chess Center at 585-442-2430 for details.  This is the largest and most excellent chess tournament in Rochester!
Portrait of Dr. Erich Watkinson Marchand displayed at the Rochester Chess Center

Saturday March 26th - 11th Annual Woman's Tournament
Contact Chess Center at 585-442-2430 for details 
  
March 28 thru April 1 - CHESS CAMP!!!! on Spring Break holiday 
Contact Chess Center at 585-442-2430 for details
 

Every Saturday (except for Jan. 9, 16 and Feb. 27 when the Kids Tournament will be held at a different location as noted above) - Chess Center Youth Tournament 10am-1pm, Great way to start out and play, Multiple rounds, USCF-rated (optional): G/30d5
 

Every Saturday - Chess Center Adult Tournament 2pm-8pm, 3-rounds, USCF-rated games: G/60d5, Register by 1:45pm

Nearly every Monday - Chess Center League 7pm-10pm, One USCF-rated game: G/90d5
 

Every Wednesday Night at 7:30pm - Community Chess Club, Register by 7:15pm, One USCF-rated game: G/80d5

The Chess Center is not open on Sundays, except for private lessons.





Reminder of Important Rules and Dues Changes

There are several rules and dues changes that take effect on January 1, 2016.
For the updated list of rules changes since the publication of the 6th edition of the US Chess rule book, see 2016 rules changes.
Tournament Directors should have a copy of this rules update document at tournaments that begin in 2016.
For the dues changes that take effect on January 1st, see 2016 Dues Changes.





Links:




Recent Chess News:

Gelfand Leads Kings To Victory In Nutcracker Tournament (photo from Chess.com)



FIDE president 'withdraws' to fight Syria allegations

 

  Links to Chess News and Special Features:

Chessbase.com 

The Week in Chess

Chessdom.com

 

 

Instructive Chess Games

Mike Runnells played two very nice games over the past two weeks. The first win was against Michael Lionti.  The second game was a win against Bob Talbot.  In both games, there were some missed opportunities which are instructive.  The game analysis in the first game below was performed by Mike Runnells using his Houdini 4 Pro software.  Congratulations to Mike Runnells on his winning streak!

 




Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Nov-Dec 2015 Tournaments and Activities

We have over 60 Community Chess Club members.  Our club is growing. 
Community Chess Club of Rochester Officers:
President - Donald Stubblebine
Vice-President: Douglas Spencer
Event Organizer, Treasurer & Web/Blog Editor: Michael Lionti
 Secretaries: David Worl and Ken McBride 
Assistant to the club officers: Abe Glasser & Mike Runnells
All officers and assistants are unpaid volunteers who wish to promote chess in our community.
You can inquire about the chess club by phone at 585-442-2430
Our mailing address: 221 Norris Drive, Rochester, NY 14610




19th Annual Community Chess Club 
Championship "Awards Night"
** Wed. December 2nd **
Please join us for the award ceremony which will be held at 7:30pm on Wednesday, Dec. 2nd at the Rochester Chess Center.  Cake will be served.  The club's regularly scheduled chess games will follow the awards ceremony.  





Here is an interesting story from The Telegraph newspaper in England:

Football-mad, mobbed by girls and easily bored: Meet Magnus Carlsen, the world's greatest chess player







Alexandra Kosteniuk has a web site with free chess podcasts.  
She is the 12th women's world champion.
Main Web site - click here
Podcasts - Click here

Some other World Champion web sites:

Anatoly Karpov
Magnus Carlsen
Garry Kasparov
Vladimir Kramnik
Susan Polgar




Chess Boxing Tournament 
Presented by ROC Boxing & Fitness
Sunday, Nov. 15th

 





Seneca Lake Open results
  The tournament was held in Geneva on Saturday, Nov. 14th.  The Chess Center van took a large group to participate in the tournament.  There was $1000 in guaranteed prizes.  The cross table photo is a little bit blurry, but hopefully it is still good enough to see the game scores and prizes.  The tournament organizer was Jonathan Porschet and the tournament director was Ron Lohrman.  Several of the most active top players in Western NY participated.  This included our own group of local Rochester players Lev Paciorkowski, Matt Slomski, Abraham Glasser, Daniel Johnston, David Phelps, Jamshed Ahmed, David Campbell, Owen Shriver, and Thomas Kwon to name just a few.  After 4 rounds of play, there were no perfect scores in the Open section.  It is great to see our local players participating in these tournaments.  See the results below.












The 19th Annual Community Chess Club Championship

Here are some of the games from the tournament:
 


Front: 1st Place (center) Cliff Kharroubi, 2nd Place (left) David Campbell and 3rd Place (right) Daniel Johnston.
Standing: 4th Place (left) Sam Cherin, 5th Place (right) Matt Slomski and (center) Jamshed Ahmed.


Group Photo for the 19th Annual Community CHESS CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP


Congratulations to
Cliff Kharroubi
Our Community Chess Club
Champion! 


Cliff Kharroubi won his game with Lev Paciorkowski tonight.  Matt Slomski won his game with Ken McBride.  Cliff won the tournament with 4.5 out of 5 which was also the highest score.  Coming in second was David Campbell.  Taking third was Daniel Johnston.   

1st - Cliff Kharroubi
2nd - David Campbell
3rd - Daniel Johnston
4th - Sam Cherin
5th - Matt Slomski

U2000 - David Phelps
U1800 - Arjun Ganesh
U1600 - Jim Trowbridge/Patrick Phillips
U1400 - Mike Connelly
U1200 - Howard Decker
U1000 - Jonah Green

Please join us for the award ceremony which will be held at 7:30pm on Wednesday, Nov. 25th at the Rochester Chess Center.  Cake will be served.  

More chess games and results will be coming online shortly.


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Photographs and copies of score sheets from the Club Championship are posted here.

Guy Fuhrman at the Community Chess Club Championship.  Nov. 4th, 2015.








Click here to see the tournament rating report from the USCF




 












The 19th Annual Community Chess Club Championship concludes tonight!

Community Chess Club Championship, Round #5 - Nov. 4, 2015 (Final Round)
If you are unable to play a round, please notify the tournament director as early as possible by calling the Chess Center at 585-442-2430 as early as possible. This is greatly appreciated.
A no-show forfeit removes the player from the tournament.  Zero-point byes are available.
Players: Please see Mike Lionti to submit a PGN file or to have a photocopy made of your chess game so it can be posted online. 



Join us for PIZZA tonight at 6pm, Nov 4th at the Chess Center.

Stay after the final game ends for a group photo.


See previous posts for game collections and the photo gallery.