Archive for January 12th, 2010

2010 West Orange Chess Club Championship

• USCF-rated
• 7-round Swiss
• January 26th-April 13th
• G/100 time control

Rounds, at 8 p.m. on the following Tuesdays:

1. January 26th
2. February 9th
3. February 23rd
4. March 9th
5. March 16th
6. March 23rd
7. April 13th

• Three half-point byes per player allowed.
• Byes may be taken for any round but TD must be notified by round 4.
• The Median System will be used to break ties in the standings.
• West Orange Chess Club & USCF memberships required.
• EF: $20
• Prizes: To be determined (depends on the number of players).

Site : Toby Katz Community Center, Degnan Park, 650 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange NJ 70752.

John Hagerty will direct. If you have any questions, please contact him at 973-736-3433 or hagerty1@live.com

Gelfand – Nakamura
Black to play.

Commentators point out the similarities to Beliavsky – Nakamura 2009 and Roozmon – Charbonneau 2008. Here are some notes from around the web:

• Nakamura Annotates Gelfand Scorcher by GM Hikaru Nakamura at the USCF website
  
• Bursa WTC: Nakamura beats Gelfand in round five at ChessBase
• Ben’s Blog: Hikaru leads U.S. to victory over Israel, Robson draw clutch by Ben Finegold 
• Round 5 Games from Bursa by Dennis Monokroussos
  
• World Teams ‘10: Messing with Zohan by Mig Greengard
• Nakamura Brilliancy Beats Gelfand by Malcolm Pein at TWIC
• Russia and USA Lead at World Team Championship at ChessVibes
  
• Beliavsky and Gelfand Hopelessly Confused by Nakamura’s King’s Indian by Mark Ginsburg

The KCC Calendar posted earlier today had wrong dates for the USATE.

That event will be February 13th thru 15th (not 2/20-22). The error has been corrected.

We continue this week with our second look at the chess of the great Akiba
Rubinstein, one of the greatest players never to become world champion. Rubinstein
was a supreme master in all phases of the game, of course, but his endgame skill
was legendary. A lofty claim, but we’ll see clear evidence for this in this
week’s Playchess lecture by Dennis Monokroussos.
9 p.m. EST.

The big surprise in round seven was Turkey’s 2½-1½ win over Israel (Sutovsky and Rodshtein lost to Yilmaz and Esen). The USA beat Greece with the same score, while Russia drew Armenia. That meant that the US is now in the sole lead, with twelve match points to Russia’s eleven. Azerbaijan and India follow with nine match points each. Two rounds to go.