#200 Going on Hiatus... Need Help Moving!

This will be my last post for the foreseeable future (at least 1 month). I'm moving to Garwood in 9 or 10 days & need help transporting my belongings.

If any friends & acquaintances in the local chess community can assist please e-mail or call me.

#199 Blog Stats

About 3 and a half months ago, I put a stat counter in my sidebar. Here are the laughable findings :

• Most page views, one day - 53 June 12th
  
• Fewest views, one day - 5 June 23rd
  

• Most page views, one week - 207 August 13th-19th
  
• Fewest views, one week - 132 July 16th-22nd
  

• Most page views, one month - 795 August
• Fewest views, one month - 701 July

... &, for what its' worth, according to the Checkmate CC site, where this blog's content is hosted, the most viewed games of the past year were from the 2007 KCCC :

1. Bliznikas 0-1 Moldovan (205) huh?
   
2. Moldovan 0-1 Stoyko (179)
   
3. Kernighan 1/2 Stoyko (143)

The top-3 viewed games from the recently concluded KST were :

• Kernighan 1-0 Minkov (88) from round 7, even w/o notes
• Demetrick 1-0 Tomkovich (88)
• Sherer 1-0 Moldovan (82)

Anyway, thanks to everyone everywhere for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope it's helped & entertained you.

#198 Loose Ends

I've annotated my Hoffman Memorial win over Ari Minkov, Tomkovich-Renna from the Kenilworth Summer Tournament (couldn't help myself) & put them into a replay page & PGN file along with the score of last Thursday's Renna-Sherer skittles game.

I've also uploaded a zip with all 51 KST games.

P.S. - The Hoffman & 10th round KST links have also been updated

#197 W. Orange-KCC Rematch Set For 9/27

Kenilworth's return match with West Orange will be at home on September 27th. The match will feature 6 boards with a 1800 USCF average rating. KCC members wishing to play should contact Joe Demetrick.

Matches vs. Holmdel (home?), Roselle (home) & Westfield are also in the works.

#196 KST Wrap-Up

Full notes to last week's Moldovan-Demetrick have been uploaded &, with them, my coverage of the 2007 Kenilworth Summer Tournament is complete.

Thanks to TD Greg Tomkovich for running the event & everyone for submitting their games.

Here again are the 13th-round java-replay page & zipped PGN file.

#195 KST Stats

Most Points Scored

• total - Ari Minkov 13.0 (+12-3=2)
• with White - Minkov 6.5 (+6-1=1)
  
• with Black - John Moldovan 8.0 (+7-1=2)
  

Highest scoring of possible points (minimum 5 games)

• total - .808 NM Mark Kernighan (+10-2=1)
• with White - .812 Minkov
  
• with Black - .833 Kernighan (+7-1=1)

Highest Plus Score (wins vs. losses)

• total - Minkov +9
  
• with White - Minkov +5
• with Black - Kernighan & Moldovan +6

Longest Winning & Unbeaten Streaks

• winning, overall - Moldovan 5 (rounds 3-7) & Kernighan 5 (rounds 5-9)
  
• unbeaten, overall - Moldovan 11 (+7-0=4 in rounds 1-10)
  
• winning, w/White - Minkov 4 (rounds 1-8)
  
• unbeaten, w/White - Minkov 7 (+6-0=1 in rounds 1-12)
  
• winning, w/Black - Moldovan 5 (rounds 3-7)
• unbeaten w/Black - Moldovan 8 (+6-0=2 in rounds 3-10)
  

Most Games Played

• total - Greg Tomkovich 18
  
• with White - Joe Renna 10
  
• with Black - Moldovan & Tomkovich 10
  

Most Wins

• total - Minkov 12
• with White - Minkov 6
• with Black - Kernighan & Moldovan 7
  

Most Losses

• total- Renna 10
  
• with White - Renna 6
  
• with Black - Renna, Max Sherer, Tomkovich & Mike Wojcio 4
  

Most Draws

• total - Pat Mazzillo & Moldovan 4
• with White - Mazzillo, Moldovan , Ed Selling & Harry Smith 2
  
• with Black - Mazzillo, Moldovan 2

Biggest Upsets

• with White : Jim Cole -613 over Tomkovich in round 9
  
• with Black : Sherer -360 over Tomkovich in round 13

honorable mention :

• Sherer (-394) 1-0 Moldovan in round 11
• Selling (-490) 1/2 Kernighan in round 12
  

Game Length

• fastest win by White : Sherer... 11 moves vs. Renna in round 12
  
• fastest win by Black : Moldovan... 15 moves vs. Dmitry Yanpolsky in round 5
  
• shortest draw : Selling-Moldovan... a 23-mover in round 8
• longest game : Minkov 1-0 Kernighan... 65+ moves in round 4
  

Results Breakdown

• total number of games - 81
• White wins - 30 (37.0%)
  
• Black wins - 41 (50.6%)
  
• Draws - 10 (12.3%)

• pct. of points scored by White - .432
  
• pct. of points scored by Black - .568
  

• decisive games - 71 (87.7%)
  

• scores collected - 51 (63.0%)

miscellaneous (minimum 5 games)

• highest pct. of games won - Kernighan .769
• highest pct. of games won or drawn - Kernighan .846
• highest pct. of decisive games - Tomkovich, Wojcio, Mark Bilenky & Joe Demetrick 1.000
• highest pct. of draws - Smith .333

• most popular opening : Queen's Gambit (12 games of the 51 collected)
• most popular e4 defenses : French & Sicilian (6 each)

• worst White score by a blogger - The Chess Coroner +1-2=2 .400