#1070 Sy Fish Pairings

Here are the pairings for round 3 of the Sy Fish Memorial:

1. McAuliffe (2.0) - Kernighan (2.0)

2. Palakollu (1.0) - Komunicky (1.5)

3. Sturniolo (1.0) - Mazzillo (1.0)

4. Constantino (1.0) - Vinson (0.5)

5. Renna (0.5) - Garcia (0.5)

1/2 point bye: Castellano (1.0)

1 point bye: Shiffman (0.0)

#1069 Sy Fish Memorial - Rounds 1 & 2

Sy Fish Memorial
Kenilworth, NJ
September 13-October 18

Round 1 results, by board:

1. Pat Mazzillo 0-1 LM Mark Kernighan

2. Samritha Palakollu 1-0 Joe Renna
3. Jim Castellano 0-1 Geoff McAuliffe
4. Lou Sturniolo 1-0 Bert Shiffman
5. Jose Garcia 1/2-1/2 Robert Vinson

1/2 point byes: Dan Komunicky, Chris Constantino

Extra game: Komunicky 0-1 Don Carrelli

Round 2 results, by board:

1. Kernighan 1-0 Sturniolo
2. McAuliffe 1-0 Palakollu

3. Komunicky 1-0 J. Garcia
4. Vinson 0-1 Castellano
5.  Shiffman 0-1 Mazzillo

1/2 point byes: Constantino, Renna

Standings, after 2 of 5 rounds:

= 1-2. Kernighan 2.0
3. Komunicky 1.5
= 4-8. Palakollu, Sturniolo, Mazzillo, Castellano, Constantino 1.0
= 9-11. Vinson, Renna, J. Garcia 0.5
12. Shiffman 0.0

#1068 U.S. Correspondence Ch. Semi-Finals

The top seeds in the 20th U.S. Correspondence Championship Semi-Finals are:

1. IM Carl I Siefring 2479
2. SIM Ciaran O'Hare 2429
3. Harry Ingersol 2414
4. Grayling V. Hill 2373
5. IM Keith A. Rodriguez 2365
6. Daniel M. Horwitz 2360

I will be playing in section 3, along with Ingersol, Kenneth E. Jones (2256), William J. Morris (2200 provisional), Seydar Akent (2175), Kyle Biedermann (2146) and Lester P. Weiss (2051).
 
You won't be able to see my games, or the others, until they are finished and at least 7 games in the section are done.

#1067 Correspondence Updates

Team USA now leads Sweden 22.5-12.5. My remaining game against Anders Brissman is approaching the 4th time control:

Moldovan - Brissman

D36 Queen's Gambit

Exchange Variation

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 Be7 6. e3 c6 7. Qc2 Nbd7 8. Bd3 O-O 9. Nf3 Re8 10. h3 Nf8 11. Bf4 Ng6 12. Bh2 Bd6 13. Bxd6 Qxd6 14. O-O-O Be6 15. Kb1 Rc8 16. Rc1 b5 17.Nd2 Bd7 (N) 18. Nb3 Nf8 19. g4 h6 20. Rhg1 Qe7 21. Ne2 Ne4 22. Bxe4 Qxe4 23. Qxe4 Rxe4 23. Ng3 Re7 25. Nf5 Bxf5+ 26. gxf5 Kh8 27. Rc3 (White declines Black's draw-offer.) b4 28. Rc2 Nd7 29. Rgc1 Nb8 30. Nc5

PGN of all 90 SWE-USA games.

In other matches:

- The U.S. leads England 3-2, thanks to Charles Merrow's win on board 19.
- There are 2 games left in GER-USA and one in CZE-USA.

PGN of all 68 ENG-USA games.

#1066 Fall Lectures At Kenilworth CC

The Kenilworth Chess Club will be hosting 2 lectures this fall.

On October 25th, LM Scott Massey will present endgames played by Akiba Rubinstein and on November 29th expert Michael Goeller will speak about the Urusov Gambit.

#1065 Sy Fish Memorial Starts 9/13

The KCC's 5th Annual Sy Fish Memorial will begin next Thursday, on September 13th. This year's tourney will be a 5-round swiss with a G/60 (or G/60;d5?) time control.

5th Sy Fish Memorial

 September 13-October 18, 2012

Kenilworth Chess Club

Kenilworth Community Center

575 Kenilworth Boulevard

USCF-rated

Format: 5-SS

Time Control: G/60 (+ 5s delay?)

Entry Fee: $10.

Prize Fund: 90% of entry fees collected.

Prizes: 1st place 30% of EF; 2nd place 20% of EF; 3rd place, U2050, U1750, U1525 each 10% of EF.

Rounds: 8:30 p.m. on 9/13, 9/20, 9/27, 10/11 and 10/18.

Late-joins accepted until the 3rd round is paired.

Late-joiners will receive a 1/2 point for each round missed but lose a bye-option.

Two byes per player allowed.

Byes may be taken in any round.

Please inform the TD or Club President before that round is paired.

Pairings for rounds 1-2 to be made on site.

Pairings for rounds 3-5 to be made on the prior Friday.
Register: On site 9/13, 9/20, 9/27 from 8:00-10:45 p.m.

Note: There will be no round on October 4th.

#1064 Kenilworth Fall Blitz Canceled

The Kenilworth Fall Blitz tournament scheduled for tomorrow night has been canceled.

Casual games and the Garden State Chess League's annual pre-season meeting will take place, instead.

#1063 Summer Tourney - Final Round

Bob Sherry beat U1200 prize-winner Antonio Altamirano and broke the (unofficial) KST points record. Mark Kernighan defeated Greg Tomkovich and finished 3rd.

Pat Mazzillo and Andy Altamirano split a twin-bill. I won twice to end at +13-3=2. Here is one of the games:

John Moldovan (1821) 1-0 Robert Vinson (1365)

B01 Scandinavian Defense

Results:

 

Tomkovich 0-1 Kernighan

Moldovan 1-0 Vinson

Renna 0-1 Moldovan

Antonio Altamirano 0-1 Sherry

Andy Altamirano 1-0 Mazzillo

Mazzillo 1-0 Andy A.

 

Final Standings:

 

1. Sherry 16.5

2. Moldovan 14.0

3. Kernighan 10.5

= 4-5. Tomkovich, Reinoso 8.5

= 6-7. Palakollu, Mazzillo 7.0

8. Antonio Altamirano 6.5

9. Balakrishnan 5.5

10. Shumowitz 5.0

11. Mann 4.5

= 12-14. Sturniolo, Senyatkin, Vinson 4.0

15. Andy Altamirano 3.0

= 16-18. Mangion, Carrelli, McAuliffe 2.5

= 19-20. Goeller, Renna 2.0

= 21-23. Lewis, Al.Tang, Darshan Patel 1.5

24. J. Tang 1.0

25. Dhruv Patel 0.5

= 26-28. Constantino, Cutts, Ruales 0.0

 

Java-Replay for rounds 7-12

PGN for rounds 7-12