Archive for April 10th, 2009

#480 Kortchnois Edge West Orange 2.5-1.5

Friday, April 10th, 2009

On Tuesday night, the Kenilworth Kortchnois got wins from Yaacov Norowitz & Ari Minkov plus a draw by Bill Sokolosky to beat West Orange 2.5-1.5.

The Kortchnois next Garden State Chess League match will be against Hamilton.


more GSCL news :

4/11

  • replay & PGN from the W. Orange match uploaded (1 game)
  • Ed Selling reports Staten Island-Summit was drawn (see comments)

4/13

  • Marty Sobin reports : Hamilton 3 Sparta 1

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#479 Karpovs Beat Maplewood 3-1

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Don Carrelli & Ziggy Bliznikas won on boards 3 & 4 to lead the Kenilworth Karpovs to a 3-1 Garden State Chess League victory over Maplewood last night.


Mike Patrucker (who should’ve beaten Ian Mangion) & I had draws for the losing club.

Here are 3 full games from the match (including the fully annotated Moldovan-Massey) + 1 partial score in java-replay & PGN.

The Karpovs’ next opponent will be West Orange (5/5).

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Spartak wins Russian Women’s League – narrowly

Friday, April 10th, 2009

The women’s section is over. Spartak, which had been coasting, suffered a big setback by losing in the final round. Their main rival AVS drew their match, leaving both teams tied for first. But Spartak had 18 board points to AVS’s 17 and so took gold. IM Tatiana Kosintseva scored 6.0/7 on board two with an incredible 2750 performance. Pictures and statistics.

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