Saturday, April 30, 2011

#824 Correspondence Updates

E30 Nimzo-Indian Defense
Leningrad Variation

1.d4 e6 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nf3 b6 4.Bg5 h6 5.Bxf6 Qxf6 6.e3 Bb4+ 7.Nc3 Bxc3+


Bxc3+ varies from my previous play. "If 8.bxc3 then 8...0-0", has been proposed.

D38 Queen's Gambit
Ragozin Defense

1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.Bg5
PGN of all the CZE-USA games.

Friday, April 29, 2011

#823 Ellner Wrap-Up

3rd round games from the Ellner Memorial have been uploaded in java-replay and zipped PGN.

Thanks to all for playing and to Geoff McAuliffe for directing.

The next USCF-rated event at the Kenilworth CC will be G/60 Quads, which will run from 5/12-5/26.

#822 Kernighan Wins Ellner Memorial

Mark Kernighan defeated Ken Chieu in a time scramble to win the Irving Ellner Memorial Swiss for the 4th straight year.

Chieu, Ian Mangion and I shared 2nd-4th places. There was a 4-way tie for U1600 honors. All 8 players in the event won a prize!!

4th Irving Ellner Memorial
Kenilworth, NJ
April 14-28, 2011

3-SS, G/45

No.
Player
USCF
R1
R2
R3
Points
1
Mark Kernighan
2234
D5
W4
W2
2.5
2
Ken Chieu
2194
W6
W3
L1
2.0
3
Ian Mangion
1971
W7
L2
W5
2.0
4
John Moldovan
1811
W8
L1
W7
2.0
5
Lou Sturniolo
1512
D1
-H-
L3
1.0
6
Bert Shiffman
1336
L2
L7
X8
1.0
7
Pat Mazzillo
1242
L3
W6
L4
1.0
8
Joe Renna
1196
L4
-B-
F6
1.0

The complete set of 3rd round games will follow.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Sunday, April 24, 2011

#820 Ellner Memorial - Round 2

Ken Chieu, Mark Kernighan (who beat my Bogo-Indian) and Pat Mazzillo won. Lou Sturniolo took a half-point bye. Joe Renna received a full-point bye.

4th Irving Ellner Memorial 
Kenilworth, NJ 
April 14-28, 2011 

3-SS, G/45


No.
Player
USCF
R1
R2
R3
Points
1
Mark Kernighan
2234
D5
W4
2
1.5
2
Ken Chieu
2194
W6
W3
1
2.0
3
Ian Mangion
1971
W7
L2
5
1.0
4
John Moldovan
1811
W8
L1
7
1.0
5
Lou Sturniolo
1512
D1
-H-
3
1.0
6
Bert Shiffman
1336
L2
L7
8
0.0
7
Pat Mazzillo
1242
L3
W6
4
1.0
8
Joe Renna
1196
L4
-B-
6
1.0


Round 2 replay page
Round 2 PGN

Friday, April 22, 2011

#819 CZE-USA Update

E12 Queen's Indian Defense
4.Bg5 Variation
1.d4 e6 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nf3 b6 4.Bg5 h6 5.Bxf6 Qxf6 6.e3 Bb4+

D35 Queen's Gambit
Exchange Variation
1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Nc3
PGN of all the games, the furthest advanced of which are already at move 21.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

#818 This Week's Pairings

Barring late-joins or byes, the Ellner Memorial's 2nd round parings will be:

1. Mangion-Chieu
2. Kernighan-Moldovan
3. Shiffman-Mazzillo

Sturniolo took a 1/2 point bye.
Renna gets a 1 point bye.

Monday, April 18, 2011

#817 Two Wins Vs. The Slav

I have uploaded 2 of my recent wins against the Slav Defense.

A micro-mini Baltic-hybrid:


Moldovan-guestqydx
after 6...b6??

White to win

Yesterday's interesting, French-like, English turned Winawer Counter-Gambit over expert Rooney Simonaitis. 


Moldovan-Simonaitis
 after 23...Nc6

White to win

PGN

#816 Ellner Memorial Games

Three annotated games from Thursday's opening round, including the Sturniolo-Kernighan draw and my W over Joe Renna's Gruenfeld, have been uploaded in java-replay and PGN.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

#815 CZE-USA Update

Svitil-Moldovan
E12 Queen's Indian Defense
1.d4 e6 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nf3 b6 4.Bg5 h6 5.Bxf6 Qxf6

I had this position against Bert Shiffman in 2002 & 2004.

There have been no moves in my other game since April 9th.
PGN of all the games

#814 Ellner Memorial - Round 1

NM Ken Chieu, Ian Mangion and I lead after 1 round of the KCC's Irving Ellner Memorial Swiss.

Lou Sturniolo, coming off a draw against IM Dean Ippolito, nicked NM Mark Kernighan for a half-point.

Late-entries will be accepted until the start of round 2, provided it leaves with an even number of players. Fill-ins may also be permitted.


4th Irving Ellner Memorial
Kenilworth, NJ
April 14-28, 2011

3-SS, G/45

No.
Player
USCF
R1
R2
R3
Points
1
Mark Kernighan
2234
D5


0.5
2
Ken Chieu
2194
W6


1.0
3
Ian Mangion
1971
W7


1.0
4
John Moldovan
1811
W8


1.0
5
Lou Sturniolo
1512
D1


0.5
6
Bert Shiffman
1336
L2


0.0
7
Pat Mazzillo
1242
L3


0.0
8
Joe Renna
1196
L4


0.0

Games and 2nd round pairings will follow.

#813 KCC Crew Shines In Ippolito Simul


Lou Sturniolo, who notched a draw, reports:
  
There were 91 official entrants. Some opponents, such as family members, did not count for World Record purposes. I think at least 25 players were class A or above. Four were masters.

Despite problems with the Kenilworth contingent (detailed below), Dean beat his share of high rated opponents and had a pretty tactical win over Matthew O’Brien, who is rated about 2130. In the end, he had  67 wins, 4 losses, and 20 draws. That is an 84.6% winning percentage.

The fearsome Kenilworth contingent included Steve Stoyko, Ken Chieu,  Kevin Chen, Ari Minkov, Joe Renna, Max Sherer, and yours truly. Steve handed Ippolito his first simul loss in well over 10 years and 10,000 games and the exhibition was stopped momentarily while the significant victory was announced to the crowd, who responded with rousing applause for both players.

Ken, Max, Kevin, Ari, and I drew. Joe Renna lost after a very tough fight, his game going about 9 hours. So Kenilworth's 7 players (7.7% of the official participants) hit .500 (25% of the IM's losses and draws). while all others batted just .125!

Here is Dean's win over Renna, in java-replay and PGN, which I was asked to annotate for the Around About Peterstown newspaper.

#812 No Virus Or Gremlins

Every upload to my chesscoroner folder has been checked. There are no viruses, spyware, pop-ups or other crap in them.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

#811 Ellner Memorial Starts Thursday

4th Irving Ellner Memorial Swiss

Dates : April 14th, 21st, 28th
Site : Kenilworth Chess Club

Format : USCF-rated
, 3/SS
Time Control : G/45

Rounds : 8:35 p.m. on 4/14, 8:30 p.m. on 4/21 and 4/28
Entry Fee : $10

Prizes :
80% of entry fees, as determined by the TD (Geoff McAuliffe) and Club President


Register : At site on 4/14 from 8:00-8:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

#810 Virus?

A reader has informed me that this blog seems "to be infected with a virus. Every time I visit"... "my anti-virus software gives me a warning. I tried it several times, even just going to the site and leaving (no java replay, no download of pgn) results in an attempted attack."

I removed the Geo-Counter and clock from my sidebar, one of which was causing pop-up ads, but he's still getting the alert.

You may recall I got similar warnings about the Westfield CC site last year.