NM Peter Radomskyj took clear 1st at last month’s Westfield Championship, with a perfect 4-0 score.
NM Todd Lunna, Jonathan Cohen (top U2100) & Ziping Liu (top U1850) shared 2nd place honors, with 3-1.
Lev Zilbermints, Ian Mangion & Eve Zhurbinskiy tied for 5th, at 2.5.
Andy Chen, Shivani Shanmigudas & Pat Mazzillo shared the U1600 prize.
Sasha Romayev was the U1350 winner.
James Clark & Ivan Listoch went 3-0 to tie for 1st in last month’s Scotch Plains Swiss.
Joe Renna, Bert Shiffman, Alexander Gorbach, Scott Seyffarth & Pablo Vasconez tied for 2nd place, with 2-1 scores.
All of the above received Kenilworth Chess Club membership for the rest of 2009. Current KCC members Renna & Shiffman will get 25% off their 2010 dues, in lieu of a pro-rated refund.
Chess-in-the-Schools president Marley Kaplan is profiled in the Giving section of today’s New York Times (see “Marley Kaplan Left the Banking World to Teach Chess to Schoolchildren” by Geraldine Fabrikant — and be sure to check out the excellent “Chess for Change” photo gallery by Tom White). The article tells the story of how Kaplan left a lucrative banking career and turned the American Chess Foundation into Chess-in-the-Schools, “which now teaches 20,000 new children a year, with an annual budget of $3 million. Since 1986, it calculates, it has taught chess to 425,000 children on the theory that the game helps them develop basic analytical skills that lead to academic success.” Hat tip: Jim West.
On November 4th the World Junior Championship in Patagonia, Argentina, ended, with a final-round surge by the French participant (and top seed) Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who caught his main rival, Sergei Zhigalko from Belarus, to take the title. Maxime has given us an exclusive English language interviews, while we use the opportunity to take a nostalgic look back at past events.