Club Update: Summer Spring Swiss, Pairings Round Three

Van Leyden Painting, The Chess Players, c.1508

Before the immediate business of posting the lattest pairings for Round Three of the WOCC Summer Swiss, let us take a moment to give special thanks to Roger E. Pedersen for being of service to the club in furnishing the pairing calculations and reporting them.

He has been among our chief advocates in favor of the club not only obtaining an inexpernsive computor to use at the clubhouse, but to do so with a view to have SwissMaster (link here, in red) software close at hand.

We love and appreciate our President, John Hagerty, but having already done way, way too much, this spares him that particular labor of love. John does so and did so to the fullest extent possible--manually, but this insures the work being done so without possible error or the slightest margin of interpretion. Any of us would face the same thing, were it us.

Roger has generiously allowed us to not only use his version, and has been of service in recording the results at evening end--to the fullest extent possible, but also taken time to promptlyy report the calculated next round pairings to the blog administrator.

Let us all be sure to thank Roger for his effort. Every bit helps, we all can agree. That said, our official business:

ROUND 3
Rd Bd White Black
03 1. Radomskyj, Peter (2.0) Tica, Juan P (2.0)
03 2. Zilbermintz, Lev (1.5) Race, Doran (2.0)
03 3. Burn, Murray (1.5) Pedersen, Roger E (1.5)
03 4. Lynn, Robert L (1.5) Hart, Charles M (1.5)
03 5. Cohen, Bryan Paul (1.0) Hochheiser Jeremy S. (1.5)
03 6. Boxer, Matthew (1.0) Katz, Harry S (1.0)
03 7. Martinez, Alberto (1.0) Prettyman, William (1.0)
03 8. Arias, Fermin (1.0) Fortunato, Joseph (1.0)
03 9. Paris, Shea (1.0) Garrett, Damon T (1.0)
03 10. Korn, David Allan (1.0) Nayak, Mohan Rao (1.0)
03 11. Rivero, Rene Thoma (0.5) Trieste, Edward Wi (1.0)
03 12. Kwok, Manchit (0.5) Sharpell, Fred (0.5)
03 13. Corcoran, Paul (0.0) Mehta, Palash (0.0)
03 14. West, Robert (0.0) Falconi, Stefano (0.0)


West Orange Summer Swiss 2011
Name/State ID Rate Rnd 1 Rnd 2 Rnd 3
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1. Radomskyj, Peter 2269 W 13 B 5 W 2
NJ 12460475 1.0 2.0
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2. Tica, Juan P 2202 B 14 W 8 B 1
NJ 14020117 1.0 2.0
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3. Zilbermintz, Lev 2054 W 15 B 7 W 4
NJ 12476202 1.0 1.5
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4. Race, Doran 1952 B 26 W 12 B 3
NJ 12183660 1.0 2.0
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5. Cohen, Bryan Paul 1924 B 16 W 1 W 28
NJ 20020149 1.0 1.0
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6. Boxer, Matthew 1914 W 17 B 11 W 16
NJ 12510577 0.5 1.0
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7. Pedersen, Roger E 1911 B 18 W 3 B 11
NJ 10092990 1.0 1.5
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8. Martinez, Alberto 1902 W 21 B 2 W 17
NJ 12490535 1.0 1.0
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9. Hart, Charles M 1900 B 23 W 10 B 24
NJ 10004071 0.5 1.5
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10. Sharpell, Fred 1853 W 24 B 9 B 22
NJ 12088600 0.5 0.5
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11. Burn, Murray 1852 B 25 W 6 W 7
NJ 10104891 1.0 1.5
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12. Arias, Fermin 1817 W 27 B 4 W 21
NJ 12670179 1.0 1.0
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13. Garrett, Damon T 1797 B 1 W 18 B 20
NJ 12545276 0.0 1.0
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14. Corcoran, Paul 1783 W 2 B 21 W 26
NJ 11476317 0.0 0.0
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15. Nayak, Mohan Rao 1758 B 3 W 26 B 23
NJ 12237580 0.0 1.0


16. Katz, Harry S 1720 W 5 B 27 B 6
NJ 12052860 0.0 1.0
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17. Prettyman, William 1710 B 6 W 23 B 8
NJ 12393939 0.5 1.0
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18. West, Robert 1686 W 7 B 13 W 27
NJ 12904515 0.0 0.0
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19. Rivero, Rene Thoma 1656 HALF B 24 W 25
NJ 12441215 0.5 0.5
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20. Paris, Shea 1590 HALF HALF W 13
NJ 12659701 0.5 1.0
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21. Fortunato, Joseph 1510 B 8 W 14 B 12
NJ 12932570 0.0 1.0
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22. Kwok, Manchit 1504 HALF B 28 W 10
NJ 14201547 0.5 0.5
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23. Korn, David Allan 1466 W 9 B 17 W 15
NJ 14564164 0.5 1.0
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24. Lynn, Robert L 1445 B 10 W 19 W 9
NJ 14010970 0.5 1.5
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25. Trieste, Edward Wi 1414 W 11 BYE B 19
NJ 12029830 0.0 1.0
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26. Mehta, Palash 1300 W 4 B 15 B 14
NJ 0.0 0.0
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27. Falconi, Stefano 1220 B 12 W 16 B 18
NJ 14571505 0.0 0.0
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28. Hochheiser Jeremy S. 1212 HALF W 22 B 5
NJ 14446490 0.5 1.5

Conduct: Good Sportsmanship, Morals, and Learning

DRAFT / DRAFT / DRAFT / subject to review by WOCC board / DRAFT / DRAFT

Played as a serious game, competitive chess while sedentary can be quite tense in nature.

Performed at a high level you must not only evaluate hundreds--if not thousands--of combinations and postions, but this must be done not only quickly, but accurately for a sustained period of time. As is well know in these circles, one bad move, and its OVER.

Then you are seated across from someone, for hours at a time, and cannot help but be affected by their state of mind, or conduct. Think about this.

Nevermind chess, but the much broader arena of life is filled with costs, benefits, and costs. Risk is everywhere, and while it can to an extent can be controlled, cannot completely done so. And the process of playing chess and the process of engaging our opponent is a small labority within which to do so.

Playing chess for two or three hours is s significant investment of time and energy. You might have worked all day and come straight to the club or tournament hall without letup; your opponent might have left spouses or children to face you across the board, or feel anxiety when there is a history of other battles with you or imbalance of skills or ability.

If it is true as Kasparov said that 'Chess is mental torture', it has never been encouraged to torture your opponent off the board. Well OK, if its not tortune, then disturbance if you will.

Then the clubhouse. Chess in a club such as ours is a real priviledge. Let it be remembered please, that membership is a priviledge not a right. Lets cherish this place and each other. Let there be good sportsmanship (Wikipedia, link at left).

It is not hard to be disruptive. Making faces, banging pieces, hitting the clock, making other noises, side talk or little comments, standing too close over the shoulder of another tables player, maing faces, all that is not what a good sportsman does.

We want to keep it positive. We are not a formal club. We are serious, but are friendly and do everything possible to keep it that way.

Take a moment and visit the webpages of some high level professional golf webpages. Sometimes, in the upper left, outside FAQ [1] is a note on code of conduct. Whereas golf can involve wearing spiked shoes and swing a metal club which is capable of great destruction, chess can be just a board and a clock. Why should we be any less?

[1] FAQ, abrev for 'Frequently asked questions'.

Ponderous Hippo

We are all very proud of the imprimateur of NM Peter Radomsky (click red for web-link), who very kindly prepared the game record ready for publicaton at our blog. Peter ranks 415th out of 46,161 USCF members nationally, or an even more impressive figure, ranking 15th out of 815 rated players in the state of New Jersey. Notice how he demonishes his opponent, Candidate Master Lev Zilbermintz, who while also very much at times a most forminable force, falls ill to Peter by his preturnatural yearning for the idiosyncratic!

Radomskyj,Peter (2261) - Zilbermintz,Lev (2113) [A04]
West Orange Chess Club Double Round Rob (5), 17.05.2011
[Peter Radomskyj]

Hippopatamus Defence 1.Nf3 f6 This is not a typo 2.e4 e6 3.d4 b6 4.Bd3 Bb7 5.0-0 g6 6.c4 Bg7 7.Nc3 Ne7 8.Be3 d6 9.e5! dxe5 10.dxe5 f5 11.Ng5 Qc8 12.f4 h6 13.Nf3 Nd7 14.b4 a6 15.Nd4 Nf8 16.c5 Nc6 17.Nxc6 Bxc6 18.a4 Qb7 19.b5! axb5 20.axb5 Rxa1? 21.bxc6!! Rxd1 22.cxb7 Rxf1+ 23.Kxf1 Nd7 24.Bb5 Ke7 25.c6 Nb8 26.Bxb6! Kd8 27.Ba7 Ke7 28.Na4 Rd8 29.Nc5 Rd1+ 30.Ke2 Rb1 31.Bxb8 Rxb5 32.Bxc7 Bf8 33.Bd6+ Kf7 34.c7 Bxd6 35.exd6 Rxc5 36.c8Q 1-0

Since this game stands on its owns so well, we will wait a few days till we furnish Peters second game, equally impressively and therefore shown seperately.

[Peter wishes to correct the error in our recent post, 'Next Up, and Spring Results'. He did not win his section in its entirety, but tied with Juan for 1st. Now let us also extend our congratulations to Juan also! Thank you Peter.]

Club Update: Summer Spring Swiss, Pairings Round Two

Useful Swiss Knife

The character of The West Orange Chess Club has a variety of components, but outside of commitment, depth, and a much deserved reputation for genuine friendlyness, the major flavor of our club is our consistency.

We have been around for a long time, and we can still count among our regular members more than a few persons who have been comming for over twenty years. Can you imagine? Thats one fifth of a century, or 2% of 1000 years, or 1% of the elapsed time since antiguity. Thats a lot of time. Thats a lot of human character. And in our case, thats a lot of chess.

Our Board--and with it, our President John Hagerty--has put in place an environment where rated tournaments--often between all club members--are held on a regular basis. As our editor here told a family member last night, 'Its not that Tuesday night rated play is the exception, but rather that a few weeks of off from serious play is the exception'. This affords us all a regular venue within which to practice chess among familiar faces in a comfortable and secure environment. That is to say:

Besides being of very low cost relative to overal quality and availability (not to sound too much like Harvard Business Review, but this means location, access, ease of entry, good terms), we hasten to repeat that we are a friendly, welcoming club with a lot of strong players. And for sure a strong club are particularly welcoming of new players and visitors [1].

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On that note, after the winter Club Championship and Spring Swiss, we are now underway with our Summer Swiss. This is five round (prior we seven and six respectively).

The pairings for round two are as follows. And our sincere appreciation to Roger Peterson for his great contribution of furnishing and operating his Swiss Master programs:

Rd Bd Scr White Scr Black
02 1. xxx Cohen, Bryan Paul (1.0) xxx Radomskyj, Peter (1.0)
02 2. xxx Tica, Juan P (1.0) xxx Martinez, Alberto (1.0)
02 3. xxx Pedersen, Roger E (1.0) xxx Zilbermintz, Lev (1.0)
02 4. xxx Race, Doran (1.0) xxx Arias, Fermin (1.0)
02 5. xxx Burn, Murray (1.0) xxx Boxer, Matthew (0.5)
02 6. xxx Hart, Charles M (0.5) xxx Sharpell, Fred (0.5)
02 7. xxx Prettyman, William (0.5) xxx Korn, David Allan (0.5)
02 8. xxx Lynn, Robert L (0.5) xxx Rivero, Rene Thoma (0.5)
02 9. xxx Garrett, Damon T (0.0) xxx West, Robert (0.0)
02 10. xxx Fortunato, Joseph (0.0) xxx Corcoran, Paul (0.0)
02 11. xxx Nayak, Mohan Rao (0.0) xxx Mehta, Palash (0.0)
02 12. xxx Falconi, Stefano (0.0) xxx Katz, Harry S (0.0)
02 1.0 Trieste, Edward Wi (0.0) BYE

[1.] Ten dollers per year, or about 19 cents per weekly visit. Can you imagine?

Next Up, and Spring Results

Along the recent lines of our commitment to keeping the WOCC Blog fresh and up to date, one or two house keeping things, then a bit of news. In no particilar order of significance:

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Starting this next Tuesday, the next Swiss starts, which promises to have a good turnout for the summer months. While 32 or 36 participants is a good turn out for our club--especially in the winter months when vacations are not often planned, Tournament Director Charlie Hart sees 24, possibly 25 members planned on entering the summer tournament [1].

Members have been hungering for another tournament, and this fullfills this need after the long six round Spring Swiss, which was seven weeks with a one week hiatus between round three and four, as players switched sides of play (double round robbin, white plays Blk, then black plays Wht).

If you are new to our area, new to chess, or a serious chess player looking for a new place to play, meet nice persons of engaging mind, we very greatly hope that you will visit. Easy contact information, page down to earlier post, including phone numbers.

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Winners by section in the Spring Swiss:

Perenial winner Peter Radomskyj tied for first with Juan Tica, won their sections, sharing first honors. We all enjoy Peters leadership as one of our strongest players, and for participating at our club, raising our profile in the region as we take our club to the next level. Congratulations to Peter! And not least of which to say:

Let it be duly noted that Juan Tica played extraordinarily strong for someone who was only just making his debut games, as a provisional player. Can you imagine? 2000 elo plus, one must assume, as an unrated? The writer asked him so much and so on, and was told by Juan that he trains with CT-Art 3.0 [link here], which is known as still the best master level tactical trainer. Its an older program, based on Maxim Blokh's book Combinative Motifs [linked here] but the CR-Rom powerfully reflect his labor of of love. He trained several future GM's, not least of which, now world number 12, Alexander Grischuk. CD Publisher: Convekta, a competitor of ChessBase.

Matthew Boxer won the second section. Congratulations to Matthew. There is nothing harder than winning a won game. :-)

Fred Sharpell who is also very well accomplished as a correspondence player, not just nationally, but globally, won his section. If we have this right (correct us if the editor is wrong), he previously won the under 1900 section of the club championship, a very tough section if ever there was one. Congratulations to Fred for his 'convincing performance'. Fred does not fool around, and is known for deep, careful calculation.

Despite a tough work schedule, Fermin Arias still won the forth second he found himself in. The writer here--as many of us do--knows how hard it is to make as little as just a ham sandwitch after a long day working, never mind several hour battles at the chess board. He is noted for 'steady improvment'. Congratulations to Fermin, whom we are delighted to see keep making it to our club to compete and other. Thank you from all of us.

Shea Paris won his section. Shea is always understated, and anyone who underestimates his solid, quiet, but always very accurate play is making a very big mistake (the writer here??). Congratulations to Shea. Joseph Fortunato was the sole member in the chasing pack, very close behind. Hope to see more of Shea at our club. Shea is always a very positive person, which never hurts!

Ed Trieste won the sixth and final section commandingly.

[1] We remind kind readers, notably new ones, that we are not only quite well heated in the winter, and well appointed as we are, thanks to the efforts of Toby Katz whom we never wish to cease thank for our debt of gratitude, but also have the good fortune to enjoy a properly cooled environment for the summer. Can you imagine?? On a lake with trees and ample parking!

Announcement for Club Members Regarding a Roster

Dear Club Members,

The initial steps towards having a club roster have been drafted and put into place. This makes us a better organized club. In the next three or four weeks when and if you stop by, please if you would check the side table to see if your contact information is correct.

Thank you, John Hagerty, WOCC President

Spring Swiss . | . Garden State Chess League

Keeping up to date here:

ONE LAST NOTE ON WINTER 'ENDING':
We concluded our annual WOCC chess championship, which was handily won by the inestinable Peter Radomskyj (USCF 2240, linked here). The last of the seven rounds was played on Tuesday 23 March 2011. While 'only' seven rounds, its was a long hard fought slog for many of us.

Club Presient John Hagerty wanted everyone both involved and other club memembers to know how thankful he was that this could be made such a wonderful success. In kind, all the members thank him--as if to say it only once more, were somehow enough--for his ceaseless and unselfish efforts on behalf of our club.

A NOTE ON SPRING STARTING:
We have just reached the halfway point for our annual Spring Swiss (groups of four, all play all Wht and Blk, at six games) tournaments. Charlie Hart is stepping up again, and in his tweed jacket, the starting night, looked and sounded very presentorial. We all thank him.

SUMMER LOOMS:
Somehow the word 'summer' and 'Garden' State seems to sound so euphoneous together! This next Tuesday, we continue our efforts in the Garden State Chess League, (linked here)playing Dean Academy of Chess (linked here) at our club. These events are characterized by club level players often (but not always) having access to peer to peer competition, in a serious but not unfriendly competitive atmosphere.

We chess players as a rule of often (if not always!) the cundrum or spectre of having ratings hanging us. Chess players measure and are measured. What is the saying in carpentry: "Measure twice, cut twice". You win, your ratings go up, loose, go down.

The GSCL games are all the more delightful for not only playing new faces and styles, away from the somewhat familiar peers from your own club (maybe not over months, but YEARS!) and for the comrodery of playing along side your breathern in arms, but are unrated. Just chess as we say, for the love and art of it.

Come visit us, or give John a call. See you soon!

Very Informative Article By the US Amateur Winning Team

The USAT Champs: from left, Matt Helfst, Jeremy Mandelkern, Peter Dyson (holding the South region’s ‘ugly rook’ rotating trophy), and IM Javad Maharramzade (photo: Lerman).

Information on any subject is often available on the internet. Of course.

But this does not mean that you will always be able to get it, or if you can that it will be anywhere near sufficient. If you check about USATE--or in our case, recheck, and then in a few weeks recheck again, and so on--on Google--you would think that numerous sources would be available, even a paragraph or two about a result or an experience. It is not true.

So it is with great delight that we not only found this article about our semi-final opponent from Saturday night (four days ago; see post immediate below), but written in detail about their preparation and posting the games. We faced IM Javad Maharramzade (2610), Peter Dyson (2099), and Jeremy Mandelkern (2098). Our team was comprised of IM Mikail Zlotnikov (2330), NM Peter Radomskyj (2246), Jose Fernandez, Captain (2108), and Victor Rosas (2052).

To give you a rough idea about how tough they were, they went on to win the nationals. Peter Dyson on board two against our team writes here, which can be found at the USCF website, linked here: Armageddon Your Pieces Wins US Amateur Team Playoff. It was posted on Monday 28th of March, 2011.

Now we have to extend our congratulations to their national win, against the North team, 'For Whom the Azbel Tolls'. How sweet the joy must be for them. Bravo!

Armageddon?

The stupendous run of our top team West Orange Krush has come to a grinding halt. Truth be told, the team which overcame us in the semi-finals, Armageddon, deserves every congratulations.

We appreciated the chance to compete against them this last Saturday, and wish them every success. We cannot wish them good luck since based on the evidence, it would appear that luck is the one thing they may not be needing. A very strong team. Good luck anyway!

Now the brief news till we can elaborate with revision here, or post again: Armageddon beat us 3.5 to 0.5. A demonstrable win. Only our most esteemed IM Mikhail Zlotnikov managed the half point, for a much appreciated draw. Three tough loses--one draw. Chess is chess.

Please when you see our top team and its captain, Jose Fernandez, take a moment if you would and congratulate their serious effort. WOCC

Toby Katz: In Heartfelt Thanks From the Entire West Orange Chess Club

Mr. Harry s. Katz, Vice President of our West Orange Chess Club.

Don't Let This Benign Smile Deceive You! Still Lethal at the Chess Board.

Our Vice-President is Harry S. Katz who has been a long time resident of W. Orange and member of the club. His wife, Toby, served 3 four year terms on the 5-member council of W. Orange. During that time, one of her many good accomplishments was urging the renovation of a small building at Degnan Field near the W. Orange High School.

Many town social events such as graduation parties, birthday and engagement parties take place in this building, as well as our club meetings on Tuesday nights.

Because of Toby's spearheading the effort to renovate the building, the then Mayor, Sam Spina, with approval of the Council, named the building 'The Councilwoman Toby Katz Community Center'.

Toby urged the town Recreation Department, which is in charge of the building operations, to continue to allow the chess club to conduct the Tuesday night sessions without the charges that other activities must pay.

Contact Us!

Short and sweet: Set next to Degnan Park, lovely green outside our door, thanks to the very forward looking efforts of Toby and Harry S. Katz, we enjoy among the nicest of all facilities to play chess, in a refreshing and natural setting.

It was these most generous supporters who helped secure for the long term, the recreational center we use. They really are the ones we need to thank most of all, having given us what we needed to be a sustainable club enjoyed by many, many persons . Thank you.

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We love new members. While fully non-commercial (we don't count dollar bills), we always enjoy those who share our art, the creative endless richness of chess.

Please drop us a note here, or Buick [one word ] chess@ gee male [you get the idea] dot com. Also feel free to phone our wonderfully engaged John Hagerty at 97-three, 73-six, 343-three. John is the rare person who actually returns phone calls on a consistent basis in the 21st century. All messages are responded to. Please call before ten p.m. Besides being our President, John is our Tournament Director.

Our main room is very more often than not for standard (timed games), but we have a side room for blitz or 'skittles'. Often latter at night, you can find our senior players helping developing players in the analysis of their games in this informal side room. Always wonderful to see Chess Masters and Experts explaining the royal game!

Calling ahead is by no means necessary, but does add to our ability to fully welcome you, which we go out of our way to do! Thank you. Somehow snacks always appear. We aim to please.

West Orange Chess Club, Wins Top Honors

[We promise to substitute an image of our top winning team (but other unmentioned winners here!), but this photo aught to give those who might not have attended a sense of the size of this event--about 1,000 persons in this room alone, one of several rooms!]

We are most proud to announce that our first team, West Orange Krush, won top honors at USATE--aka "The World Amateur Team Competition for the East", recently held at the Parsippany Hilton the weekend of 19-21 February.

The NJSCF rapidly and to their credit quickly posted the results here.

Our club also won top team under 1700. These were two of five teams sent by our club, at various levels. Team results were out of 444 teams, comprised of four participants each, or 1,776 chess players.

This was a very well organized event, and we all look forward to next year.

We also wish to thank the USCF for their prompt ELO results for each person with this very comprehensive table shown here. It is amazing how the USCF manages to keep up.

Thank you. WOCC members!!



This video does not pertain to our club, but does give a taste of the raw hum and energy of the room. A thousand person calculating (or were earlier)...

Simple Map of Our Location

[Please click image above to enlarge.]

We promise to get a better image or link... But, for now, since we just south of West Orange High, a little map provided by the Recreation Department of the Township of West Orange, shown here.

We are just east off of Degnan Park, off of Pleasant Valley Way, between Eagle Rock Avenue to the North, Interstate Route 280 conveniently to the south, The Garden State Parkway to the East (about 3.5 miles), and Valley to the West. Easy Parking just off the High School. Degnan park is shown just right of Interstate 280 running top to bottom, in the expandable map above.

We meet every Tuesday at the West Orange NJ Toby Katz Community Center [above map, linked at here] between 7 p.m. and midnight. Chess sets are provided. Young, old, and all between invited. We are a friendly--but serious--club! West Orange Chess Club Members.

Summer Game-100 Swiss

The club's summer Game-100 swiss system tournament got under way on Tuesday, June 23rd with the schedule picking up tonight with Round 2 at 8:00 p.m. (Tuesday evening June 30th the club hosted the Garden State Chess League, with at least one make-up game in the summer swiss.) Victor Rosas is directing the tournament and I will work with Victor and other club members to endeavor to post as many of the tournament games as possible, along with schedule information and results. To that end I have sent an e-mail to the creator of the Silverlight Chessboards (Martin Bennedik)to seek his permission to use his weblog display boards here at our site for preesnting games. (See The Week in Chess site: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic.html for an example of these boards.)

In the meantime, here is the game Piccoli - Cohen from round one:

White - John Piccoli - 1561 Black - Bryan Cohen - 1851


1. e4 c5
2. Bc4 d6
3. d3 e6
4. a3 Nf6
5. Nf3 Nc6
6. Nc3 Be7
7. h3 a6
8. Bg5 Qc7
9. Bxf6 Bxf6
10. Qd2 0-0
11. g4 Nd4
12. Nxd4 Bxd4
13. 0-0-0 b5
14. Ba2 b4
15. Nb1 Bd7
16. ab cb
17. f4 Rfc8
18. Bb3 a5
19. Rde1 a4
20. Bc4 a3
21. ba ba
22. Ba2 Rab8
23. Nxa3 Bb2+
24. Kd1 Bxa3
25. Ref1 Ba4
26. Bc4 Rb2
27. Rh2 Rxc2
28. Qxc2 Bxc2+
29. Rxc2 Qb6
30. Ke2 d5
31. Ra2 dxc4
32. dc Rxc4
33. Rxa3 Qb2+
34. Kd3 Qxa3+
35. Kxc4 Qa6+
36. Kd4 Qxf1
37. f5 ef
38. gf Qf2+
39. Kd5 Kf8
40. h4 Qxh4
41. Kd4 Ke7
42. Ke3 Kd6
43. Kd3 Kc5
44. e5 Qd4+
45. Ke2 Qxe5+
46. Kf3 Kd4
47. Kg4 Ke4
48. f6 Qf4+
49. Kh3 Kf3
50. fg Qg3 MATE

Best regards,

Glen Hart

Bartell Simul Postponed to May 29th

Just a quick note to pass along the news that FIDE Master Tommy Bartell has postponed his planned simultaneous exhibition at the Kenilworth Chess Club (see my previous post) until May 29, 2008. (He is going to play in a North America FIDE master invitational event which will take him out of town on the 15th.) I plan on attending and I hope to see some of the West Orange regulars there! I will get an update on the ongoing quads from TD Charlie Hart and see if I can post a mid-point, or "half-time" report on this double round robin event this weekend. If anyone has games or commentary on the event please let me know.

Best regards,

Glen Hart

Tommy Bartell Plans Kenilworth Simul

FIDE Master and two-time New Jersey State Champion Tommy Bartell will give a simul at the Kenilworth Chess Club on Thursday, May 15th. Here are the details from John Moldovan's e-mail...hope you can make it!

The Kenilworth Chess Club is very pleased to announce that FIDE Master Thomas Bartell will be giving a simultaneous exhibition on May 15th.
Tom, who won the N.J. State Championship in 2004 (= 1st) & 2005, will take Black on half the boards.

Here are the full details :

Simultaneous Exhibition
by FM Thomas Bartell
May 15th, 2008
8:30 p.m.

Kenilworth Community Center
575 Boulevard
Kenilworth, NJ 07033

$10 entry fee
If you beat Tom, you'll get your money back!

Non-members welcome!

Please arrive early (the club opens at 8 p.m.) so we can have everyone seated and ready to go at starting time.

2008 WOCC Championship Games

Here are three games played by the top finishers in this year's edition of the club championship. Bryan Cohen submitted his 5th round victory over the always dangerous Bob West and Victor Rosas - our new club champion - submitted his win over Bryan, who finished in second place, and his draw with defending club champion Peter Radomskyj from the final round, enabling him to secure sole possession of first place. I will endeavor to format these in the on-line chess game viewer later this week. I am presently experiencing some technical difficulties with my high speed internet connection at home and only have access from the office. Thanks for your patience and enjoy the games.

West, Robert (1746) – Cohen, Bryan (1858)

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. c5 Bg7 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Nf3 c6 7. b4 Qc7 8. Bd3 e5 9. de Nxe5 10. Be2 Nxf3+ 11. Bxf3 Ne4 12. Bb2 Nxc3 13. Qb3 d4 14. 0-0 Be6 15. Qc2 Nd5
16. Bxd5 Bxd5 17. Qd3 0-0 18. e4 Be6 19. f4 b5 20. Rf2 Rad8 21. f5 Bc4 22. Qh3 Qe7 23. Rf4 Qg5 24. Bc1 Qh5 25. Qxh5 gxh5 26. Rh4 d3 27. Rxh5 d2? 28. Bxd2 Rxd2
29. Rg5 Kh8 30. Re1 Rfd8 31. e5 Rd1 32. Rxd1 Rxd1+ 33. Kf2 Rf1+ 34. Ke3 Bh6 0-1

Rosas,Victor - Cohen,Bryan [D71]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nf3 d5 4.cxd5 Bg7 5.g3 Nxd5 6.Bg2 c5 7.e4 Nf6 8.d5 0-0 9.Nc3 Nfd7 10.0-0 h6 11.Be3 f5 12.Nh4 Kh7 13.exf5 gxf5 14.Qc2 Ne5 15.Bxc5 Na6 16.Bd4 Qe8 17.Rae1Nb4 18.Qb1 Ned3 19.Bxg7 Nxe1 20.Bxf8 Nxg2 21.Kxg2 Qxf8 22.Re1 Bd7 23.Re5 Qf6 24.f4
Rf8 25.a3 Na6 26.Qe1 Rf7 27.b4 Rg7 28.Kf2 Rf7 29.Qe3 b6 30.Ne2 Nc7 31.Nd4 Nb5
32. Ndxf5 Bxf5 33.Nxf5 Nd6 34.Nd4 Nc4 35.Qd3+ 1-0


Rosas,Victor - Radomskyj,Peter [A45]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 Ne4 3.Bf4 c5 4.f3 Nf6 5.d5 Qb6 6.Bc1 e6 7.e4 d6 8.c4 Be7 9.Bd3 0-0
10.Ne2 Nbd7 11.b3 exd5 12.exd5 Ne5 13.Bc2 Nh5 14.0-0 f5 15.Nbc3 Bd7 16.f4 Ng6 17.Qd3 Nf6 18.Ng3 Nh4 19.Re1 Rae8 20.Bb2 Bd8 21.Qf1 Ng4 22.Qd3 Bf6 23.Na4 Qa5 24.Bc3 Bxa4
25.Bxa5 Bd4+ 26.Qxd4 cxd4 27.bxa4 Ne3 28.Re2 Nxc4 29.Rxe8 Rxe8 30.Re1 Ne3 31.Re2 Rc8 32.Bd3 g6 33.Bd2 Nxd5 34.Re6 Rc6 35.Re8+ Kg7 36.Ne2 Rb6 37.Nxd4 Rb2 38.Nb3 Nxg2
39.Kxg2 Nxf4+ 40.Kg3 Nxd3 41.Re7+ Kg8 42.Bh6 f4+ 43.Bxf4 Nxf4 44.Kxf4 Rxa2 45.a5 b6 46.Rxa7 bxa5 47.Nxa5 Rxh2 48.Kg5 Rh5+ 49.Kf6 Rf5+ 50.Ke6 Rf8 51.Nc6 ½-½



Oh, and by the way, here are some scores that I neglected to post from the final make-up rounds of the championship. As you can see from the games above, Rosas v. Radomskyj was drawn and Victor Rosas beat Bryan Cohen. Also, John Hagerty defeated Nicholas Kant, Harvey Susswein defeated Ken Ganning, Paul Corcoran beat Harry Katz and I drew with Leon Hariton. Other reports: Victor Rosas defeated Bob West and Charles Kirck defeated Nicholas Kant. That should bring the reporting up to date. Thanks.

Victor Rosas is 2008 Club Champion!

It's official...Victor Rosas is the new club champion after drawing in his final game with defending club champion Peter Radomskyj to finish with a strong 4 1/2 out of 5 points. Bryan Cohen and Harvey Susswein both had fine tournament performances and finished tied for second with 4 points each. Peter Radomskyj came third at 3 1/2.
Please join me in extending hearty congratulations to Victor and the other strong finishers who made this year's event a memorable one. Full results, some games and the detailed announcement for our next event (double round robin quads to be run by Mr. Charles Hart, tentatively set to start on April 22nd) will be posted this weekend. Thank you.

West Orange C.C. Make-up and Round 5 Results

Following are the missing results from earlier rounds:

Davenport, Rodney v. Ellsman, Mark 1/2-1/2
Rosas, Victor v. Cohen, Bryan Postponed
Burn, Murray v. West, Robert 0-1
Leffew, Richard v. Volpe, John 1-0
Hagerty, John v. Kant, Nicholas Postponed

Following are the available Round 5 results:

Rosas, Victor - Radomskyj, Peter Postponed
West, Robert - Cohen, Bryan 0-1
Susswein, Harvey - Ganning, Ken Postponed
Leffew, Richard - Stephan, Walter 1-0
Katz, Harry - Corcoran, Paul Postponed
Hariton, Leon - Hart, Glen Postponed
Trieste, Ed - Ellsman, Mark 1/2-1/2
Fortunato, Joe - Nayak, Mohan 0-1
Kant, Nicholas - Kirck, Charles Postponed
Paris, Shea - Hagerty, John 1/2-1/2
Levanda, Mark - Davenport, Rodney 1/2-1/2

John Volpe had the full point bye.

Please contact me with any questions or leave a comment.

Best regards,

Glen Hart

WOCC Championship Make-up Results and Round 5 Pairings

The results from the last two weeks of make-ups are as follows:

Ken Ganning - Leon Hariton 1-0
Nicholas Kant - Mark Ellsman 1/2 - 1/2
West, Robert v. Rosas, Victor Postponed
Stephan, Walter, v. Katz, Harry 1/2 - 1/2
Hagerty, John v. Hart, Glen 1/2 - 1/2

I am not sure of the following results, but will post them tomorrow night:

Davenport, Rodney v. Ellsman, Mark Postponed
Rosas, Victor v. Cohen, Bryan Postponed
Burn, Murray v. West, Robert Adjourned
Leffew, Richard v. Volpe, John Postponed
Hagerty, John v. Kant, Nicholas Postponed

Following are the Round 5 pairings for tomorrow evening (Tuesday, March 18th). The first player has the white pieces:

Rosas, Victor - Radomskyj, Peter
West, Robert - Cohen, Bryan
Susswein, Harvey - Ganning, Ken
Leffew, Richard - Stephan, Walter
Katz, Harry - Corcoran, Paul
Hariton, Leon - Hart, Glen
Trieste, Ed - Ellsman, Mark
Fortunato, Joe - Nayak, Mohan
Kant, Nicholas - Kirck, Charles
Paris, Shea - Hagerty, John
Levanda, Mark - Davenport, Rodney

John Volpe has the full point bye.

Please contact me with any questions or leave a comment.

Best regards,

Glen Hart