BOSTON CHESS CONGRESS
JANUARY 2017
BOSTON SKYLINE: JANUARY 2017
1st Place: GM Alexander Ivanov $1,207
2-3rd Place: GM Eric Hansen $232
2-3rd Place: IM David Vigorito $232
2-3rd Place: FM Chris Chase $232
2-3rd Place: WFM (BCC Champion 2016) Carissa Yip $232
1st U2300: NM Farzad Abdi $464
PREMIER SECTION
It's all in the pencil!
GM Alexander Ivanov, endgame specialist, builds his win.
Alex won this Round 4 game and took 1st price in the Premier.
It's all in the pencil!
Alex won this Round 4 game and took 1st price in the Premier.
CRITICAL GAME
GM Alexander Ivanov on the move vs IM David Vigorito
Round 4. Boston Chess Congress, Hyatt Boston Harbor Hotel
at Logan Airport. Alex won this game in a convincing positional
endgame zugzwang position, up a pawn.
GM Ivanov (right) up a pawn, on the move, calculating
for the full point, vs IM David Vigorito, Round 4
FINAL POSITION: BLACK RESIGNS
Black on the think: resigns. White will re-position the knight
on c3 to d5 after the bishop on d5 vacates that square, to
usher in one of white's queen-side pawns for queening . . .
MASTERLY DISCUSSION
GM Alexander Ivanov shares his comment on the draw between
GM Eric Hansen (left) and IM Alexandr Ostrovsky, Round 4.
Bb5!
WFM Carissa Yip on the move vs GM Alex Ivanov, Round 5.
This game ended in a draw, securing first place to Alex and
prize money for Carissa.
for the full point, vs IM David Vigorito, Round 4
FINAL POSITION: BLACK RESIGNS
on c3 to d5 after the bishop on d5 vacates that square, to
usher in one of white's queen-side pawns for queening . . .
MASTERLY DISCUSSION
GM Eric Hansen (left) and IM Alexandr Ostrovsky, Round 4.
Bb5!
This game ended in a draw, securing first place to Alex and
prize money for Carissa.
GM Eric Hansen on the move vs NM Michael Isakov, Round 5.
FM Chris Chase, former BCC Champion and board member, black vs
NM Nithin Kavi; Former BCC president, IM David Vigorito vs
expert Zhanehe Liu; Paul Mishkin, Esq. BCC board member, observes
Round 5. Chris and David won their games to place in the money.
CRITICAL GAME
WFM Carissa Yip (2324), black vs NM Grant Xu (2397),
Round 4. Carissa won this game with style, catapulting
her up to the money parings for the last round.
IN THE GROVE
NM Nithin Kavi; Former BCC president, IM David Vigorito vs
expert Zhanehe Liu; Paul Mishkin, Esq. BCC board member, observes
Round 5. Chris and David won their games to place in the money.
CRITICAL GAME
Round 4. Carissa won this game with style, catapulting
her up to the money parings for the last round.
IN THE GROVE
NM Farzad Abdi, BCC master and chess coach, laser focused,
holds the board vs Alexandr Ostrovsky for the full point, Round 5.
(background): GM Eric Hansen (3rd ranked player of Canada) vs
NM Michael Isakov.
TIME PRESSURE EXCITEMENT
Maxwell Chen, black vs Alex Yu, Round 4.
One comment: "Alex had a win in the middle game."
By the endgame, I thought the game looked
drawn to me. [It might have been.]
Alex was pushing for a miracle . . .
but got caught in a mating net.
Joy Cao and Tianna Wang before the start
holds the board vs Alexandr Ostrovsky for the full point, Round 5.
(background): GM Eric Hansen (3rd ranked player of Canada) vs
NM Michael Isakov.
TIME PRESSURE EXCITEMENT
BCC regulars Nicholas Belous (left) plays black vs
Josh Keller, on the move with white, trying to squeeze
a win out of a drawn position . . . time-pressure: draw!
Nick and Josh shared 1-2nd place in the U1700 section,
each to earn $649 for their sporting efforts. Bravo, both!
BOYLSTON CHESS CLUB
2017 NEW YEARS DAY TRAINING
PAYS OFF
Paul Arond, trains at the BCC, Herb Healy
un-rated section, New Year's day event.
Paul found his stride and won the U1900
Section of the Boston Chess Congress
with a perfect 5-0 score. Bravo, Paul!
Nowell Sheinwald (right) plays Robert Stewart, Round 4.
(background): Rishabh Vuthamaraju, from Connecticut,
plays black vs Paul Arond. Paul won this game and the
section with a perfect 5-0. Nowell, former BCC board
member, now in law school, finished the day with 4 points
and 2-3rd place for a $185 cash prize. (way back):
Paul Mishkin plays Matthew Manzo.
SCENES FROM
AROUND THE HALL
Alan Song vs Ian Lomeli, Round 4
BOYLSTON CHESS CLUB PLAYERS
NM Hal Terrie vs Danila Poliannikov; NM Ryan Sowa vs
Zhanhe Liu; NM Nithin Kavi plays NM Timothy Sage;
FM Chris Chase vs WFM Martha Samadashvili.
(standing, left): IM David Vigorito and NM Farzad Abdi.
REALLY!
Patric Schenk plays black vs former BCC Vice President
WCM Natasha Christiansen, Round 5.
Brian Yin vs Scott Didham; Matt Manzo, black vs Alonzo Ross;
Calvin Hori vs Christopher Lomeli . . .
Brian Yin, black vs BCC patron Mark Fins, Round 4.
squeezing . . .
One comment: "Alex had a win in the middle game."
By the endgame, I thought the game looked
drawn to me. [It might have been.]
Alex was pushing for a miracle . . .
but got caught in a mating net.
Ansgarius Aylward vs Bob Oresick [center stage]
of Round 5 in the U1900 Section
U2100 SECTION
THOUGHT PROVOKING
U2100 SECTION
BCC Veteran Bob Sullivan vs Jarrod Tavares, Round 4: draw!
BCC Veteran Tom Sifter plays black vs Justin Li, Round 5
in the U1700 section.
Patric Schenk v Chris Lomeli; Calvin Hori,
black v Scott Didham, Round 4.
CENTER STAGE: David Katzman (writing) vs Mark Chudnovsky.
you don't saaay!
Jonathan Lee finger talk'n with his opponent, Round 4.
Round 5 U1900 Section
Kelsey Liu vs Jack Tompros, R5
Lydia Shen vs Arthur Learnard, Round 5, U1500 Section.
U1250 Section.
BLACK: CARISSA!
DREAM ILLUSION
OOPS!
BOSTON CHESS CONGRESS
BLITZ EVENT
BLITZ CROSSTABLE
Charles Slade, BCC board member
scored 6/8 for 2nd place: $43
Maxwell D. Chen
BCC regular, scored
6/8 for 1st U2100: $51
BCC president, NM Andrew Hoy
scored 5/8 for 4-6th place.
BCC regular NM Siddharth Arun
scored 5/8 for 4-6th place.
Former BCC board member
and current law school student
Nowell Sheinwald scored
5/8 for 4-6th place.
WFM Carissa Yip/Anton Barash placed
1-3rd in the Mixed Doubles Teams
Category for a cash prize of: $433.34
PARTING SHOT
WFM Carissa Yip on the move vs GM Alexander
Ivanov, Round 5: draw!
PHOTOS: STEVE STEPAK
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