Archive for October 3rd, 2009

FM Steve Stoyko won the 2nd Sy Fish Memorial with a 4-0 score. Mark Kernighan, Ken Chieu & Ian Mangion tied for 2nd place.

David Pawlowski, Mike Wojcio & Lou Sturniolo split top U1800 honors. Joe Renna was the top U1500.

Final standings :

• 4.0 Stoyko
  
• 3.0 Kernighan, Chieu, Mangion
  
• 2.0 Singh, Pawlowski, Wojcio, Sturniolo, Renna
  
• 1.5 Mann, Komunicky, Garcia
  
• 1.0 Carrelli, Mazzillo, Shiffman, Agress

Board by results :

Round 3

1. Kernighan 0-1 Stoyko
2. Komunicky 0-1 Chieu
3. Singh 1-0 Mann
4. Wojcio 0-1 Mangion
5. Pawlowski 1-0 Sturniolo
6. Mazzillo 0-1 Renna
7. Shiffman 0-1 Agress

Garcia received a full-point bye

Round 4

1. Stoyko 1-0 Chieu
2. Pawlowski 0-1 Kernighan
3. Mangion 1-0 Singh
4. Komunicky 0-1Wojcio
5. Mann 1/2 Renna
6. Sturniolo 1-0 Agress
7. Mazzillo 1/2 Garcia

Shiffman received a full-point bye.

Replays, PGN & a table will be uploaded tonight, sometime after the N.Y. Rangers’ game.

Here are Kenilworth’s rosters & schedules for the 2009-2010 Garden State Chess League season :

Karpovs

Steve Stoyko 2240, Ian Mangion 1878 (captain), John Moldovan 1812, Max Sherer 1668, Bob Pelican 1649, Mike Wojcio 1613

Kortchnois

Yaacov Norowitz 2395, Mark Kernighan 2200, Michael Goeller 2095, Ari Minkov 1958, Richard Lewis 1700 (captain), Mikhail Kruglyak 1367, Joe Renna 1326, Bill Sokolosky 1167

Kenilworth Kramniks (formerly Maplewood)

Ziggy Bliznikas 1800, Don Carrelli 1794, David Pawlowski 1777, Mike Patrucker 1717, Geoff McAuliffe 1704, Greg Tomkovich 1698, Lou Sturniolo 1530, Dan Komunicky 1496, Gordon Agress 1277, Jim Cole 1160 (captain)

Not Assigned – NM Scott Massey 2213, Mark Schwarcz 1948, Richard Buschgans 1866, Howard Osterman 1856, Glen Hart 1696, Daniel Zhu 1669, Ted Mann 1550, Jack McCorkell 1534, Aaron Kiedes 1531, Leon Hrebinka 1354, Pat Mazzillo 1352, Bert Shiffman 1316, Jose Garcia 973, Brian Balint 927

If you have not been assigned and would like to play please contact John Moldovan.
Those who have been placed on a team but are not interested in playing should contact their captain.
Only 8 or 9 guys are willing to play every month. So, if possible, please make yourself available for 1 road match.

Once a player plays for a team during the 2009-2010 season, he is bound to them for the season.
However, those who have not yet played can be traded or interchanged; if a team needs someone to play on the road or with a certain rating, etc.
The captains should work-out such transactions.

If Garry Kasparov needed an advertisement for his talents as a chess coach, he could ask for none better than Magnus Carlsen’s incredible performance at the Nanjing Super-GM tournament (official site). With a score of 4.5 out of 5 at the tournament’s halfway mark, Carlsen is not only dominating some of the best chess players in the world, he is the only one with any wins. What’s more, even in his one draw result (against Wang Yue), Carlsen had a winning position but let it slip in time pressure. This has to be one of the most impressive tournament performances in chess history, so it is well worth replaying Carlsen’s games with notes.

Carlsen – Radjabov, Round 5

• Dennis Monokroussos
• Lubomir Kavalek
• Malcolm Pein
• Andre Shultz (see also ChessBase report)
• Gaprindashvili, Azmaiparashvili, Ye Jiangchuan
• Peter Doggers (ChessVibes)
• IM Perunovic and Goran Urosevic (refresh if ads intrude)

Jakovenko – Carlsen, Round 4

• ChessBase Annotations and Report
• Karsten Mueller
• Peter Doggers
• Jorge Luís Fernández

Wang Yue – Carlsen, Round 3

• Dennis Monokroussos
• IM Perunovic and Goran Urosevic
• Peter Doggers
• ChessBase Report

Carlsen – Topalov, Round 2

• Dennis Monokroussos
• GM Dimitrov
• ChessBase Report
• Peter Doggers
• IM Héctor Leyva Paneque

Carlsen – Leko, Round 1

• Dennis Monokroussos
• Malcolm Pein
• IM Perunovic and Goran Urosevic
• ChessBase Report
• Peter Doggers

Words fail us: Magnus Carlsen has won again, beating Teimour Radjabov in a ferocious 25-move slugout. At halftime at the Pearl Spring tournament the Norwegian leads by two full points and displays an Elo performance of 3143. The other games were drawn. We have an interesting historical assessment of Carlsen’s performance by chess statistician Jeff Sonas in our illustrated report.