Boylston Chess Club Weblog: Paramount ... we can still accept 2 more players.

Tuesday, March 07, 2017

Paramount ... we can still accept 2 more players.

The Paramount has begun with 16 players (see below),
but ideally we could have 3 groups of 6,
so we can accept 2 more players.
At this point we have found two additional players

17th annual Paramount

Paramount

Date	Monday, March 6, 2017 - Monday, May 8, 2017
Event Format	10 Rounds 2RR. Players divided into six player sections by rating.
Time Control	40/90, SD/60 d5. Adjournments are allowed after 3 hours of play, 11:15 PM at the latest.
Entry Fee	$35, $20 for BCF Members, $5 more at the door
Prizes	50% EF
Registration	6:30pm - 7:00pm
Round Times	7:15pm

Current registration in the Paramount:

1	ANDREW HOY	B 4
	2242 12846607
2	ATUL S KANNAN	W 5
	2130 12932528
3	EDWARD ASTRACHAN	B 6
	2015 12430870
4	GABRIEL BIRZU	W 1
	1983 15148583
5	NATASHA CHRISTIANSEN	B 2
	1903 11366805
6	ROBERT C SULLIVAN	W 3
	1900 12443343
7	BENJAMIN GUNBY	- 10
	1898 13518190
8	JONATHAN M LEE	W 11
	1837 12742928
9	OMKAR V DIXIT	B 12
	1717 16241347
10	ALEXANDER PAPHITIS	- 7
	1713 12436540
11	LARRY ELDRIDGE	B 8
	1700 10017297
12	FRANK FRAZIER	W 9
	1697 10014280
13	ANTHONY CORTIZAS JR	B 14
	1565 12378850
14	ROBERT ORESICK	W 13
	1517 12659519
15	ANDREW C ALLERDT	B 16
	1346 16064194
16	THOMAS PENDERGAST	W 15
	1274 13869178

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17th Annual Paramount

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40 Norris St, Cambridge, MA 02140, USA

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For some people, spring is signaled
by the start of Red Sox reporting to spring training,
by groundhog day,
by the returning swallows to Capistrano...

But for many of us it is the Paramount

This will be the 17th annual edition of the popular tournament (there was a hiatus in 2016),
a ten-round, double round-robin.
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Initiated by past BCC president Bryan Clark,
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this format [generous time control with two try's against known opponents bunched in competitive groups] remains popular.
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And it is one of the few tournaments left that incorporate adjournments.
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At $2 per evening for ten Monday evenings for BCC members, this is is an incredible bargain for a high quality chess match.
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If you haven't played in a Paramount before, give it a try.
If you have, please play again.

As Steve Stepak has put it:

"This is a thinking person's event: 10 rounds, double round robin. The time control is: 40 moves in 90 minutes (+5" delay) and then G/60. A nuance in the time control is: after 3 hours of play, the game may be adjourned and resumed on a day agreed to by the players. So this event is for players who like to think out complex combinations and strategies on the board and need the time to do so and who enjoy analyzing adjourned positions and resuming the game like was done in the "old days" . . . in the time of Bobby Fischer, for example. Today, due to the proliferation of chess programs like Rybka (3199), Fritz (3080), Shredder (3058) and now Houdini (rating 3287) there is no more adjournment option, neither in professional chess play or most amateur club play. So the BCC Paramount may be one of the last places on earth where there is indeed an adjournment."