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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Weaver Adams 2012

U1800 Boylston Chess Club Championship

Mondays, June 4, 11, 18, 25

 

The Weaver Adams U1800 Championship begins the annual club championship cycle. It is followed by the Reubens-Landey U2200 Championship, the winner of which is seeded into the club championship - a round robin tournament of Boylston masters.


The Weaver Adams Qualifer is the first part of the Boylston Chess Club championship cycle.

You may play if you are rated under 1800 in the June 2012 supplement and a BCF member (you can join or renew at the start of the tournament.) The prize is the championship title, your name added to the coveted Weaver Adams trophy (created by Mike Griffin) 
and entry into the Reubens Landey.

Players rated between 1800 and 2200 in the June supplement may play in the Reubens Landey (U2200 championship) in July. The prize is the U2200 championship title and entry into the BCC Championship.

Players rated 2200 and above in the June supplement will be invited to play in the BCC Championship.

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Mon, June 4
6:30 pm – 11:00 pm



  • 1 Section for Boylston Chess Foundation members
    rated under 1800 (June supplement)
 (of course you may join or renew at registration)
  • 4 Rounds (Swiss System Pairings)
  • Time Control:  40/90, d5 G/20, d5
  • Entry Fee: $20 
  • Registration: 6:30 – 6:55 PM
  • Round 1 begins at 7:00
  • Winner receives free entry into the Reubens/Landey U2200-1800 BCF Championship
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Past winners of the Weaver Adams are:

2011   Ken Ho, Mike Griffin, Khikmet Sadykov
2010   Alexander Paphitis
2009   Frank Frazier
2008   Jonathan Lee, Adam Yedidia
2007   Alexander Paphitis
2006   Alexander Paphitis, Jonathan Lee, Lior Rozhansky
2005   Robert Oresick, Joshua Blanchfield
2004   Mike Griffin
2003   Robert Oresick
2002   William MacLellan
2001   Mike Griffin
2000   Stephen E. Smith
1999   Bryan Clark
1998   Bryan Clark, Charles G. Alex
1997   Walter A. Driscoll III
1996   Hector Perez, Jared Becker
1995   Miguel A. Santana
1994   Andrew L. Yerre
1993   Charles G. Alex
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Weaver Warren Adam
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was born on April 28, 1901 in Dedham, Massachusetts. An American chess master, he participated in the U.S. Championship in 1936, 1940, 1944, 1946 and 1948. He won the Massachusetts State Championship in 1937, 1938, 1941 and 1945. In 1939, he wrote a book entitled "White to Play and Win." After publication he played in the U.S. Open at Dallas. He did not win a single game as White (3 losses and 1 draw) and won all his games (4 games) as Black! Weaver Adams won the 49th U.S. Open, held in Baltimore, in 1948. He also wrote "Simple Chess", "How to Play Chess", and "Absolute Chess." He passed away in Cedar Grove, New Jersey in 1963.

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Below is a photograph taken in Hastings on 28 December 1950. Lord Dunsany (standing on the right) is watching the first-round game between Alan Phillips and Weaver Adams.




















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about Weaver Adams:


WEAVER WARREN ADAMS (born Apr-28-1901, died Jan-06-1963) United States of America

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Weaver Warren Adams was born on April 28, 1901 in Dedham Massachusetts. He was an American chess master. He participated in the U.S. Championship in 1936, 1940, 1944, 1946 and 1948. He won the Massachusetts State Championship in 1937, 1938, 1941 and 1945.

In 1939, he wrote a book entitled "White to Play and Win." After publication he played in the U.S. Open at Dallas. He did not win a single game as White (3 losses and 1 draw) and won all his games (4 games) as Black!

Weaver Adams won the 49th U.S. Open, held in Baltimore, in 1948. He also wrote "Simple Chess", "How to Play Chess", and "Absolute Chess."
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In May, 1947, Weaver Adams, New England Champion, gave a 16-board simul in San Jose, winning all his games.

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Weaver W. Adams An AutobiographyMassachusetts State Chess Association, 1949, Robert W. Reddy (Ed.) p. 6-8

I was born on April 28th, 1901 to Frank H. Adams, native of Dedham, Mass., salesman for many years for Bellantine Breweries and later (after prohibition) for Ceresota Flour, and Ethel Weaver Adams, native of Newmarket, NH and graduate of Wellesley College. I am not directly related to the Presidents, John and John Quincy Adams, although the Adams's in and about Massachusetts are mostly of the same family, deriving from a Henry Adams who landed in Braintree in 1644. The family is quite famous and boasts of many statesmen, writers, historians, judges, preachers, etc. Footing the list comes a national chess champion. In the old days he would have surely been branded as a black sheep for wasting his time at so idle a pastime, and perhaps by many even today.


My schooling was conventional, Dedham Public schools and Dedham High School, but then they tried to make an engineer out of me by sending me to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The result was not too good. During the first year a half dozen of us, after playing a few games at Walker Memorial in Cambridge, would regularly trek across the bridge to Ye Olde Boston Chess Club on Ashburton Place or to various dives in the West End, not the least attractive of which was the Lighted Lamp operated by Boston's famous Ambrose Gring.


Those were really the balmy days of chess in Boston. Well I remember listening to tales told many times over by John Barry, Will Miller, George Babbitt, and a host of others most of whom are no longer living. I seemed to have been a favorite with John Barry because I would talk chess and analyze with him until 4 A. M. in the morning after everybody else had either gone home or turned to a bridge game. At any rate I believe I learned most of my chess from Mr. Barry, and in 1922 attained to the club championship.


An autobiography is supposed to contain a statement as to when one learned chess, although it's not clear as to why this is so important. However, for the sake of the record, I began playing at the age of about twelve. An older brother of a friend next door taught the two of us to play, and would play us both simultaneously blindfold at Queen odds.


What I do think is important, however, is the time when he took us to Boston once to visit the Boston Chess Club which at that time was located in an alley off Boylston Street. I shall never forget the thrill it was to me to see for the first time the large club size pieces in action. Instinctively I seemed to feel that that was me. A friend of mine tells me that he had a similar experience on first visiting a stock exchange and seeing the ticker tapes in action. Curiously, all the rest of his life has .been spent in the stock market.


My chess activities , of course, did not have a good effect on my marks at M.I.T., and, due redness of my report card at the half year, I was politely asked to take a vacation. This I was quite agreeable too, since it afforded me additional time for chess playing. A year went by before my parents inveigled me into attending a military school in northern Vermont, and, six months later, re-entering my class at M.I.T. All knowledge is useful, and it is always futile to look back and say if we had done so and so, life would have been better. It is completely impossible to foresee the over all plan. We can live but a day at a time.


To continue my story, about 1924 Harold Morton had just won the championship of the Providence, R. I., chess club, and a purse was gotten up for a match to take place between Mr. Morton and myself for the championship of New England. Up to that time John Barry had been unofficially recognized as the strongest player in N. E., so, with his consent and approval it was logical that the winner of the match should hold that title. Thus, in 1924 I became the NE Champion and held the title until 1929 when Morton beat me in a succeeding match. Another match between us did not take place until about 1938 which Morton again won.


After his death in 1939 the title came under the control of the N. E. Chess Association and has been decided by an annual tournament (usually held over Labor Day weekend) ever since, which is all to the good, since I am strongly opposed to the awarding of titles through private matches. The tournament method is pre-eminently fair and much more attractive to both the players and the public.


Thereby closes the local chapter in my chess career. At this time – say 1936 - I think that both Morton and myself - I know I did - thought that we were pretty good chess players. We were in for a rude awakening. In that year (1936) was held the first tournament for the Chess Championship of the United States, due to the retirement of Frank J. Marshall.


I recall that after the first few rounds I kept figuring that I might still win the tournament, provided I won all of the remainder of my games. In fact, this went on for several rounds, before I finally gave up hope of first prize. After nine rounds I was relatively proud of my score, since I had three wins and six losses, while Morton had nine goose eggs in a row. However, we finished in a tie for last place, since in the remaining six rounds Morton got six draws, and it was my turn for goose eggs. I mention this experience in order to caution the reader that unless he happens to play regularly in the chess clubs of New York City, he shouldn't put too much store by his showing in the chess clubs of other cities. There is really a difference.


In a considerable sense I feel that my serious chess playing did not begin until after 1936. Hundreds of hours I spent on opening analysis, with the result that there began forming in my mind the idea that by means of precise play White could perhaps emerge from the opening with just enough edge to win. Thus developed a small volume published in 1959 by the David McKay Co. of Philadelphia entitled "White to Play and Win", by Weaver W. Adams. Forthwith, in a tournament at Dallas, Texas in 1940 I proceeded to lose all of my games playing white and win all of my games playing black!


However, I still stick to my theory, and even under the handicap of bucking my own analysis (most writers sedulously avoid playing a move which they have recommended as best, because of fear of having to play against a line which their opponent has prepared against it) and despite the hours which I am advised that many of my opponents spend in trying to discover mistakes in my published variations in "Simple Chess," I nevertheless lost but a single half point with the white pieces in the Open Tournament at Baltimore in 1948. And it wasn't because the boys didn't try. There were my moves open for all to see in "Simple Chess." They could select any one of a hundred different opening variations and I would play the exact moves as published. Is this not just a little significant that white can win? And, if so, why is my favorite opening the Vienna, so damned by faint praise, and so shunned by all the celebrities? You answer that one. I can’t.


I don't wish to take up space by tournament records. All in all, they could be a lot better, except perhaps locally, inasmuch as I have won every City of Boston, Massachusetts State, end New England tournament in which I have taken part since 1956 - some dozen or more altogether. I will merely say that having played in eighteen national tournaments, including U. S. National, U. S. Open, Ventnor City, and the Pan American in Los Angeles in 1945, I feel that this experience should mean something, and I hope eventually to demonstrate that it is possible to play chess with consistent scientific accuracy.


The following is an example of such a game. It is one of five which I have thus far played with similar accuracy for the Log Cabin Chess Team of West Orange, New Jersey, of which I have recently become a member. It was played at Elizabethtown, New York, vs. a Montreal Team, and was part of the coast to coast 1949 match between Canada and the U. S.

Adams,W - Guze [B72]
US v Canada, 1940

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.h3 Bg7 7.Be3 Nc6 8.Qd2 a6 9.g4 Nxd4 10.Bxd4 0-0 11.0-0-0 b5 12.Bg2 Bb7 13.f4 Qc7 14.Rhe1 Rfd8 15.Qf2 Nd7 16.Bxg7 Kxg7 17.Nd5 Bxd5 18.exd5 Nb6 19.f5 Nc4 20.g5 gxf5 21.Qxf5 Qd7 22.Qf4 Rac8 23.Be4 Rc5 24.b4 Rc7 25.Bf5 Qe8 26.Qd4+ Kg8 27.Qh4 e5 28.Qxh7+ Kf8 29.Qh8+ Ke7 30.Qf6+ Kf8 31.Re4 1-0



Alex Cherniack has posted 8 games between Weaver Adams and Harry Lyman, where you can see Harry Lyman 's opinion of the forced win for white theory.

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

MA State Chess Assoc. Election Results

by Richard "Doc" Kinne

This last weekend the MA State Open Championships were held in Marlboro. The winners list has several Boylston CC members and friends on it which is great to see. The club was well represented in all sections of the State Open Championship!

In concert with the Championship, the Annual Meeting of the MA State Chess Association was held. The highlight of this meeting were the reporting of the Election Results for the coming year. 736 ballots were sent out. 105 were returned giving us a return rate of 14.2%. No ballot was invalidated. The results are as follows.

Directors:
• Ken Belt - Re-elected with 61 votes.
• Brian Mottershead - Re-elected with 63 votes.
• Walter Driscoll - Re-elected with 79 votes.
• Stephen Dann - Re-elected with 81 votes.
• Richard "Doc" Kinne - Elected with 87 votes (Kinne was not re-elected since he had been appointed to fill out someone else's term last year).
• Larry Eldridge - Re-elected with 89 votes.
• George Mirijanian - Elected with 98 votes. (Mirijanian was not re-elected since he was not a Director last year, he was President).

Officers:
• Clerk - Dr. Nicholas Sterling - re-elected with 88 votes.
• Treasurer - Bob Messenger - re-elected with 101 votes.
• Vice President - Steve Frymer - elected with 78 votes.
• President - Robby King - elected with 66 votes.

The shock of the election results (certainly insofar as this author is concerned) were the 14 write-in votes that Kinne received for President - the most write in votes received for anyone for any position.

The newest November-May double issue, featuring our own Mika Brattain on the cover, is finally out after a long and difficult birth. You can download the PDF here.

While obviously the MACA Board of Directors represents active chess players in the whole of the Commonwealth, I'm proud to note that - right now - a bit more than 25% of the State Board is filled by Boylston CC members - myself and Walter Driscoll. More than that, I'm looking forward to an exciting year because, serendipitously, the Boylston CC is coming up with some very exciting ideas that, if they can be implemented, I believe will strengthen the ties between local clubs and the State level, enriching both sections of the community.

I encourage anyone who has any comments or suggestions for MACA to contact me.
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Results of the May Thursday Night Swiss

The Boylston CC Thursday Night Swiss - one of the Club's longest running events - concluded for the month of May last week. We had several interesting results.

With 1.5 points coming in 2nd Under 1700 was Marc Turgeon.
Coming in 1st under 1700 was newcomer Doug Chin who we are looking forward to seeing more of.

Over all, 2nd Place for the May BCC Thursday Night Swiss with 3 points went to Ted Cross.

Finally, sweeping the May Thursday Night Swiss with a full 4 points, coming in 1st Place was Chris Williams!

Congratulations to all the winners!!

Please remember that this Thursday is the fifth Thursday in May and so there will be no Thursday Night Swiss on 31 May.


We hope to see all of our regulars - and newcomers! - again for the June BCC Thursday Night Swiss starting on 7 June.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012

RI Championship

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Monday, May 21, 2012

BCF Member Tony DiNosse is hospitalized for pneumonia

Yesterday I spoke with long time BCF member Tony DiNosse, who is in the hospital.  Tony was in good spirits, but said he will likely not be released for several more days.  Apparently he underwent surgery after suffering pneumonia, and doctors told him that he could have become dangerously ill if his condition had been allowed to worsen for a few more days.

I'm sure Tony would like to hear from other chess players, so if you get a chance give him a call.  The direct number at his room is 617-632-1838.  If you would like to visit him, he is at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in the Farr 2 building, in room 220.

Get better Tony!
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Thursday, May 10, 2012

The Legend of George Koltanowski

As we stand on the eve of the latest installment in the Boylston's monthly Legends of Chess tournament series, it is only natural that our curiosities be piqued by the question: 'who was George Koltanowski?'

Perhaps best known for twice breaking the record for largest blindfold simul, Koltanowski (1903-2000) worked relentlessly as a chess promoter and author. He is perhaps the most famous TD of all time, directing the U.S. Open every year from 1947 through the late '70's, introducing the Swiss system to that event for the first time in its history in the first of those years. He became president of the USCF in 1974.

His achievements as a player were less notable, and in fact he played little tournament chess after an unremarkable showing in the 1946 U.S. Open. He was, however, awarded the International Master title in 1950.

And then there are his blindfold exploits. In 1937, he broke a world record by playing 34 games simultaneously while blindfolded. In 1960, he broke it again, playing 56 games at once blindfolded in San Francisco. He won 50 of those games and drew six. That record still stands today.

So join us this Saturday as we honor this legend of chess!
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012

 Grandmaster takes on all comers in chess at South Station

 

 GM Larry Christiansen won all 25 games he played simultaneously.

 

read 

Colin A. Young's article in the Globe from May 8 

 at:

 http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/05/08/grandmaster-take-all-comers-chess-this-afternoon-south-station/tTRIxhOZpSNqFqr5m4JhGM/story.html

 



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Taking on a Grandmaster

 

 from the Boston Globe, May 9.

Chessgrandmaster Larry Christiansen, standing inside the tables, played 25 simultaneous games of chess in South Station In Boston on Tuesday aftemoon. 


Bill MacLellan of the Boylston Chess Club said Christiansen, currently ranked 15th in the United States, will be taking on opponents at South Station about once a month. The United States Chess Federation calls Cbristiansen "an American master of attack."

Below, Carlheb Cemesca, Io.of Everett, a studentat Prospect Hill Academy, reacted to a move.


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Find the Losing Move

 White to move

Can you guess what White played in this position?   Amazingly, in the first round of the U.S. Championship 2012 yesterday, Stripunsky played 11. d3?? and resigned, giving Onischuk the full point.

So....don't beat yourself up over whatever blunder you may have made in the Quads last weekend.  It could have been worse.

-Natasha Christiansen
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Saturday, May 05, 2012

I Am Number Three

Two Have Resigned. I Am Number Three.
Patheticus Score



By popular demand (okay, Frank Frazier suggested I post this game), I present the following travesty of chess.

This would perhaps most appropriately have been posted right after I lost the following game. However, I decided I would delay posting it until after Greg had played all his games as White in this tournament in order to give him maximum "freedom of expression".

Greg Bodwin - Ken Ho
Four Knights, Halloween Gambit
2 April 2012

1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Nxe5


Had I known before the game that Greg had already used this surprising move to beat both Jon Lee and Larry Eldridge earlier in the tournament, I would have at least tried to prepare for it.

However, since I had rescheduled my game from the tournament's opening night, I wasn't present to see Jon's loss down this same path. I did see Greg play this same move against Larry in the tournament's second week, but after 4 Nxe5, giving up a knight for a pawn, I had blithely and quite mistakenly concluded that Larry was headed for a win. I subsequently didn't look seriously, if at all, at their game for the rest of the night.

I figured that if Greg later also played 4 Nxe5 against me, I would just take him to the cleaners "like Larry did".
:-(

5 d4 Nc6 6 d5

In Harvard Square around the mid-to-late 1980's, a fellow named Vlad used to play, as Black, 1 d4 Nc6 2 d5 Nb8 3 e4 Nf6 4 e5 Ng8 and vehemently insist that it was a good opening. I thought it might actually be a good opening if you were up a knight for a pawn, which led me to play:

6...Nb8

Better is 6...Ne5 7 f4 Ng6, but at the time I didn't see any meaningful advantage over my chosen move. At least my having chosen the road less traveled caused Greg to spend some time on the clock. Somewhere around the first 10 moves of the game, word had apparently made it back to the skittles room that we had each already chewed up around an hour of time.

7 e5 Qe7

A common enough defensive move in open games.

8 Qe2 Ng8


Vlad would be proud.

9 d6 cxd6 10 Bf4 Qe6

It was only as I struggled in vain to activate my pieces ("A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!") that I checked the wall chart and learned, to my rapidly decreasing surprise, that Larry had lost his aforementioned game with Greg. During the post-mortem with Greg is when I learned that he had also beaten Jon with this Halloween Gambit.

11 Qb5 d5 To prevent 12 Bc4, which I feared would be bad for my health.

12 Nxd5 Qc6 13 Qb3


I spent an embarrassingly long time evaluating 13...d6?? before finally realizing that 14 Bb5 would be the end of me. So I figured I'd prevent that pin as preparation for ...d6, and instead played:

13...a6??

...forgetting to do another blunder check.

Greg suggested 13...Ne7! to chase off White's knight, since if 14 Bc4 b5!

14 Nb6 Qe4+ 15 Be3 Nc6 16 Nxa8

They're taking you down
They're breaking you down....
- J. Geils Band

16...Nd4 17 Nc7+ Kd8 18 Qb6 Nxc2+ 19 Kd1 Nxe3+ 20 fxe3 Be7

The d8 square needs protecting to prevent checkmate there.

21 Rc1 Qg4+ 22 Be2 Qg6 23 Ne6+


Unfortunately for Black, the c8 square needed protection as well. 1-0


Thanks for bringing this wild and crazy gambit to the club, Greg, and congratulations on your hat trick!

Watch out, Number Four!
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Friday, May 04, 2012


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 Chess on  the Boston Common



On May 2, Ed Foye and I walked up to the Boston Common from our respective offices in the Financial District to check out the inauguration ceremony of the Brewer Fountain Plaza and to play a few games.  We were pleased to see Nathan Smolensky had set up a couple of sets with clocks, so Ed and I immediately sat down and played blitz while nearby Mayor Menino and other officials extolled the virtues of the beautiful plaza.  Alas, Ed had to go back to work, but I could not resist playing hooky a little longer.  Sitting next to the magnificent fountain with the accompaniment of live piano music, I felt transported to Paris' Luxembourg Gardens as Nathan and I played chess with various passersby.

I am excited about the new addition to Boston's chessplaying venues, and will certainly be back.  Nathan will be at the Plaza Monday-Wednesday and on Fridays 12-5, so if you visit during those hours, you will be sure to get a game, even if you come alone.  You may borrow a set from the reading area (where you can also borrow books, magazines, and newspapers) Monday - Friday, even if Nathan is not present.  Finally, you may bring your own set and play anytime,


weather permitting.  Enjoy!  

Natasha  Us-Christiansen

Read the Boston Globe piece about the refurbished Common:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/05/02/refurbished-boston-common-plaza-seen-place-stop-sit-down-spend-time/MqXpWwtoNaTgELfFKNKfUI/story.html
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Chess Town (Summer in the City)

Artist's Rendering of the future of Brewer Fountain Plaza. Credit Friends of the Public Garden.

As many of you know, the Boylston Chess Club takes its name from the street in downtown Boston on which it was originally located. We left that location years ago, and in our doing so the presence of chess in the heart of the city faded somewhat. 
But the tide is turning. With the refurbishment of Brewer Fountain Plaza in Boston Common, chess tables are now open to the public there, with sets and clocks also available during weekdays. Come by and play! If there aren't any sets out, you can request them at the reading area.
Just a few blocks away, you can also check out our NEXT SOUTH STATION SIMUL, MAY 8TH AT 5:00 P.M., with local GM and three-time U.S. Champion Larry Christiansen!  
It's an exciting time for chess in the city, so join the fun!
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Chess Brewing in the Common


Only a short walk away from the Boylston's original location, chess returns to downtown Boston at the restored Brewer Fountain Plaza in the Common!

Join us tomorrow at noon as we embark on this new chapter in Boston chess. Let's make our presence felt, so that chess in the city can become a truly Common occurrence!

For more information on this exciting new forum for chess, check out the press release here.

Many thanks to Biederman Redevelopment Ventures for all their work in bringing chess to downtown Boston!

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