Rather than move this blog now (will probably have to do so soon enough), I have posted a Best Game Poll for the 2010 Kenilworth Championship on my Garden State Chess League site, just below the header.
The nominees are :
Mangion 1-0 Moldovan, from round 2
Moldovan 1-0 Hart, from round 4
Kernighan 1-0 Komunicky, from round 4
Kernighan 1-0 Moldovan, from round 5
I think Mangion’s win over me deserves the honor.
You can vote until 4 p.m. next Thursday.
Arthur Macaspac defeated Don Carrelli last night to win the 20th Kenilworth CC Championship.
5th Round Pairings:
Carrelli 0-1 Macaspac
Mangion 1-0 Pawlowski
Kernighan 1-0 Moldovan
Schwarcz 1-0 Sturniolo
Lewis 1-0 Mann
Renna 0-1 Hart
Wojcio 0-1 Cole
Komunicky 1-0 Shiffman
Java-replay for round 5.
PGN for round 5.
ChessBase archive with the all the games, blanks (15) & reports from the event.
Final Standings:
1. Macaspac 4.5
= 2-3. Carrelli, Mangion 4.0
= 4-9. Kernighan, Schwarcz, Moldovan, Lewis, Pawlowski, Hart 3.0
= 10-13. Komunicky, Mann, Sturniolo, Renna 2.0
= 14-16. Wojcio, Shiffman, Cole 1.0
= 17-19. McAuliffe, Kruglyak, Reinoso 0.5
Prize Winners:
1st place: Macaspac 4.5
2nd place: Carrelli 4.0
3rd place: Mangion 4.0
U2000: Pawlowski 3.0
U1800: Lewis & Hart 3.0
U1600: Sturniolo 2.0
U1400: Renna 2.0
Biggest Upset – Cole (-440) > Wojcio
Best Game – to be determined
The US Amateur Teams East (or USATE) is the only event I play in each year, but with young kids (ages 3 and 7) at home it’s tough to make it even to this “Tournament for the Rest of Us” without some guilt. My team has always been among those in the chase for the title, and I think that’s what draws me back every year. Plus, it is just such a great event and all my chess friends will be there. But next year I might just visit and take my kids.
Update: The USCF website offers a nice preview of US Amateur Team events: see “Amateur Team Weekend Approaches.”
After three rounds of this massive tournament GM Le Quang Liem is the only player left with a clean score: three wins in three games. He is followed by another Vietnamese GM (and a Bulgarian and a Russian), with 31 players behind them – of whom two are female and one an IM. We bring you results and games, plus photo impressions by WGM Yana Melnikova.
… is a classical chess theme. In this Bundesliga top game the reigning U20 World Champion had sacrificed a pawn to open lines against the black monarch, which was countered with
16…f6. How would you assess this continuation?
A) a mistake, White can decisively penetrate the opponent’s position;
B) good move, Black drives back the bishop and consolidates his plus pawn;
C) much ado about nothing, the position remains balanced.
The solution is here,
but first ponder over it with a larger version of the diagram.