Archive for August 6th, 2009

#542 Summer Tourney – Round 8

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Ian Mangion, Mark Kernighan, Greg Tomkovich, Don Carrelli, Ted Mann & Mike Wojcio were among the winners in 8th round KST action.


I inched into 4th place with a couple of lucky, simultaneous wins. Gordon Agress should’ve beaten me & Jim Cole should have drawn but they erred in time trouble.

Results from July 30th :
  • Shiffman 1-0 Mangion
  • Kernighan 1-0 Wojcio
  • Mazzillo 1-0 Tomkovich
  • Carrelli 1-0 Pawlowski
  • Agress 0-1 Moldovan
  • Cole 0-1 Moldovan
  • Wojcio 1-0 Mangion
  • Renna 0-1 Mann


Standings going into tonight’s 9th round :
  • 1. Mangion 8.5
  • 2. Kernighan 8.0
  • 3. Tomkovich 7.0
  • 4. Moldovan 5.5
  • 5. Carrelli 5.0
  • 6. Mann 4.0
  • 7. Sherer 3.5
  • = 8. Pawlowski, Mazzillo, Renna, Cole 2.5
  • = 12. Lewis, Shiffman, Sokolosky, Wojcio 2.0
  • 16. Sturniolo 1.5
  • = 17. Zhu, Agress 1.0
  • = 19. Hart, McAuliffe, Kruglyak, Balint, Castillo, Ruales 0.0
Interestingly, there are no ties among the top 7 scorers!

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Tromsø 2009 – four lead in Arctic Chess Challenge

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

At the Arctic Chess Challenge in Tromsø 120 players are competing in the year’s most prestigious Norwegian event. After five of nine rounds there are four players in the lead. Three are GMs, one a female, but the fourth is of particular interest: 14-year-old US American IM Ray Robson, whom some people are calling the new Bobby Fischer. Pictorial report by IM Torstein Bae.

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