#171 KST Round 6 - More Annotations

I've updated the 6th round replay & PGN with annotations of Bilenky-Minkov & Cole-Kruglyak.

#170 Summer Tourney - Round 6

Ari Minkov (6.5) continues to lead the Kenilworth Summer Tournament standings, as he has from the outset. NM Mark Kernighan & I won to join Greg Tomkovich in 2nd place (at 5.0). Pat Mazzillo (4.0) solidified his 5th-place seat by taking 1.5/2 for the second straight week. No one else in the 19-player field has more than 2.0.

My victory over Greg was one my most efficient efforts ever. I'd love to hear what you folks think of it. So, after visiting the Java-replay page, please leave a comment. You can download the PGN here.

Tomkovich-Moldovan
after 31.Bh5

Black to win

#169 Summer Tourney - Round 5

Ari Minkov (5.5), Greg Tomkovich (5.0), NM Mark Kernighan (4.0) & I each won one game to maintain the status quo among the Kenilworth Summer Tournament leaders.

Ari lost to Greg (see diagram below) & he probably should have done so against Mike Wojcio, too.

Tomkovich-Minkov
after 19...a5?

White to win

There was, however, some movement, in the next group of hopefuls. Pat Mazzillo took 1.5 points & jumped into 5th place (2.5). Mark Bilenky (2.0) grabbed a share of 6th with a win & was still playing when I left.

In other developments, Max Sherer nicked Pat for a draw, to get on the scoreboard, and Doran Race, who finished 2nd in the West Orange CC Championship, joined.

Here are the standings (pending Race-Bilenky) and 5 games (3 lightly annotated) for you to replay or download.

#168 KST Update

Annotations of Smith-Cole have been added to the 4th round replay page & PGN file.

#167 Summer Tourney - Round 4

Ari Minkov (4.5) rallied from a pawn-down position to upset NM Mark Kernighan & retain his Kenilworth Summer Tournament lead. Greg Tomkovich (4.0) moved up one spot with a pair of wins over Max Sherer.

I'm still =3rd (now at 3.0 with Kernighan), thanks to a very lucky win vs. Mike Wojcio. As in Tuesday's game at West Orange, my opponent missed a decisive sac on d5 (see diagram below) & was victimized by a desperado Knight sac.

Wojcio-Moldovan
after 26...Qe7??

White to win

... There were a bushel of mistakes in the aforementioned's middlegame but the opening should be of interest to Caveman Caro-Kann fans.

In other action Jim Cole beat Harry Smith and Renna-Mazzillo was drawn.

Here's the current standings page, plus 4 of Thursday's games in Java-replay & zipped PGN.

#166 One More From West Orange

I've added Mark Kernighan's win over fellow NM & frequent rival Peter Radomskyj to the West Orange replay page & PGN file.

Kernighan-Radomskyj
after 21...c4??

White to win

#165 Correction

KST Director Greg Tomkovich has informed me that the 3rd round game between Ari Minkov & Mark Bilenky was won by the former, not the latter.

Item #162 & the standings page have been changed to reflect the proper result. My apologies to Ari & any affected parties.

#164 Kenilworth 4.5 W. Orange 1.5

The Kenilworth Chess Club won its 3rd straight road match with a 4.5-1.5 win at West Orange last night.

Kenilworth fell into 0-1 hole, due to a board 6 forfeit (Where was Joe Renna??), but Ari Minkov tied the score at 1, I kept things level, Joe Demetrick provided a 2.5-1.5 lead, Mark Bilenky clinched the match & Mark Kernighan put the icing on the cake.

The only game I can present, at the moment, is my mistake-filled fight with Guido (aka "Mike") Rodriguez (replay... PGN). He missed a win on turn 25 (a simple tactic) & I overlooked one at move 36 (an underlying Q sac) :

Rodriguez-Moldovan
after 36.Qxb7??

Black to win

Please come back Friday for more coverage on this event & round 4 of the Summer Tournament.

#163 Sherry wins Springfield G/15

Bob Sherry (1812) won the 15-Minute Tournament in Springfield last night, with a 3-0 count. Mauricio Camejo (2094), Ari Minkov (1955) & Ted Mann (1463) tied for 2nd, at 2-1. NM Mark Kernighan directed the 8-player swiss.

Interestingly, the last 7 tournaments at Barnes & Noble, have been won by 7 different people!!

Here's the G/15 crosstable.

#162 Carrelli & Mazzillo Quad Winners In Westfield

Don Carrelli of the Checkmate CC & Pat Mazzillo of the Kenilworth CC were among the winners at yesterday's Westfield Quads. Don, playing in just his 2nd event, went 3-0 in section 5 & now has a provisional 1547 rating. Pat scored 3-0 in section 6 to raise his rating 89 points.

#161 Summer Tourney - Week 3

Ari Minkov (3.5) & NM Mark Kernighan (3.0) kept their places at the top of the Kenilworth Summer Tournament leader board with wins over Mark Bilenky & Greg Tomkovich.

Ed Selling (who defeated Joe Renna) & I won to join Greg in a 3-way, 3rd-place tie at 2.0. Richard Lewis, meanwhile, scored a full point against Max Sherer. Harry Smith & Pat Mazzillo drew.

Here's the current standings page, plus notes to my nice win over Joe Demetrick in both Java-replay & zipped PGN.

P.S. - The 2nd round replay & PGN file files have been amended with 2 more KST games. We now have 12 of the 21 played thus far.

This post was corrected on Friday, June 29th

#160 One More From KST Round 2

I've added the Lewis-Kernighan score to the 2nd round files (Java-replay... zipped PGN) & corrected the Bilenky-Goeller result.