Tuesday, January 31, 2017

BCC LEGENDS OF CHESS: HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR / 15 DAY CELEBRATION // RICHARD YI / SURAJ RAMANATHAN 1-2ND OPEN // 10 YR OLD JOY CAO 1ST / CHRIS ESTREMERA 2ND // U1800 // 29 PLAY //

LEGENDS OF CHESS
OPEN SECTION
Richard Yi scored 3 wins and withdrew from the
event in Round 4! (oops) to share 1-2nd place.
[Richard earned a +22 to 2207 USCF rating!] 
Bravo, Richard!
Suraj Ramanathan scored 2 wins and 2 draws to rack up 3 points
good enough to share 1-2nd place. Bravo, Suraj!
NM Farzad Abdi vs Bernie Xu, Round  1.
Bernie scored 2.5 points to share 3-4th place. Farzad had 2
points to share 5-10th place.
(foreground): Suraj Ramanathan / Zubin Baliga.
Alan Song vs Eddie Wei, Round 1: 1-0!
Eddie recovered from this loss to score 2 wins + 1/2 point bye,
for a total of 2.5 points and a share of 3-4th place.
Alan scored 2 points for a piece of 5-10th place.

U1800 SECTION
Joy Cao hits the jackpot for
Happy Chinese Lunar New Year
3.5 out of 4: clear first place.
+75 for 1655 rating.
Brava, Joy !!
Chris Estremera scored 3 points to take clear
2nd place. Bravo, Chris!
SCENES FROM AROUND THE HALL
POST MORTEM: Richard Yi vs Alan Song
Suraj Ramanathan observes. Round 2.
BOYLSTON CHESS CLUB: COLORFUL PLAYING VENUE
WCM Natasha Christiansen vs Howard Goldowsky, Round 2:
draw! Natasha had 1.5 points, Howard 2 points.
David Xie, black vs Ed Foye, Round 2.
(background): Natasha Christiansen vs Howard Goldowsky.
(background): Kevin Liu vs Bob Oresick.
CHECKMATE!
Evan Maclure, black vs Zubin Baliga, Round 1.
Bob (don't call me Buffalo Bill) Oresick, black vs Kevin Liu
Round 2. Bob scored 2 points to share 8-12th place; Kevin
scored 2.5 points to share 3-7th place! Bravo, Kevin.
THIS IS TOUGH STUFF!
Kelsey Liu plays Greg Ardini, Round 1.
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR
Year of the Rooster by Meia Geddes
HAPPY NEW YEAR COLORS
8 yr old Claire Cao
Joy's sister, saving her
smile for the end of the
tournament when her
sister Joy, won the
U1800 Section.
NM ANDREW HOY CHIEF TD
BERNARDO IGLESIAS ASSIST CHIEF TD 
PHOTOS: STEVE STEPAK

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Sunday, January 29, 2017

Quads



 
 
 
DateSaturday, February 4, 2017
Event Format3RR
Time ControlG/65 d10
SectionsPlayers will be arranged into quads by rating
Entry Fee$35, $20 for BCF Members, $5 more at the door
Prizes$$80 First place in top quad, $$50 First place in each of the other quads
Registration9:15am - 9:45am
Round Times10:00am, 1:00pm, and 3:30pm
Entry ListCurrent Pre-Registration List




Thursday Night Swiss




DateThursdays, Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23, 2017
Event Format4SS
Time Control40/90 SD/20 d10
SectionsOpen & U1900
Entry Fee$35, $20 for BCF Members, $5 more at the door
Prizes$300 based on 25 paid entries: Open 1st $125, 2nd $75 U1900 1st $60, 2nd $40
Registration6:30pm - 7:00pm
Round Times7:15pm
Entry ListCurrent Pre-Registration List


Wednesday, January 25, 2017

More TOURNAMENT DIRECTORS needed!



The Boylston Chess Club Needs Your Help



We urgently need more tournament directors (TDs) to keep offering a wide variety of tournaments each month.  Our small core group of currently active TDs is stretched quite thin, and we cannot run as many events at our beautiful site as we would like due to insufficient (wo)manpower.

 
Andrew 
photo:  Tony Cortizas, Jr.


Please consider becoming a certified USCF tournament director, if only to act as an assistant TD from time to time.

Bernardo 
photo:  Tony Cortizas, Jr.





The certification process is extremely straightforward: 
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1)  Read the USCF rulebook ("USCF Official Rules of Chess"), available at the club or online, e.g., on Amazon.




Andrew photo: Steve Stepak







Paul 
photo:  Tony Cortizas, Jr.





  
Bernardo  photo:  Steve Stepak


2) Fill out and return the following form to the USCF:
 

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Andrew, Carissa,  and Bernardo  photo: Steve Stepak


Players, please consider helping out as a TD occasionally to keep the tournaments we all enjoy running smoothly. 

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Jared
Parents, perhaps you can help direct while your child plays to help support the club's contributions to scholastic chess.
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Please feel free to contact me or any other TD if you have any questions.  We look forward to working with you.




Natasha 
photo: Tony Cortizas, Jr.
  Natasha Christiansen
Board Member, BCF



Monday, January 23, 2017

Scholastic



January Scholastic 

Spiegel Cup Series 
 
DateSunday, January 29, 2017
Event Format4SS
Time ControlG/30 d5
Sections14 & Under and 8 & Under
Entry Fee$25, $20 for BCF members, $5 more at door
PrizesTrophies for 1st/2nd each age group, medal for 3rd
Registration10:00am - 10:20am
Round Times10:30am, 11:50am, 1:00pm, 2:00pm
DescriptionFREE street parking on Sundays.
Entry ListCurrent Pre-Registration List









Legends of chess


 
DateSaturday, January 28, 2017
Event Format4SS
Time ControlG/60 d5
SectionsOpen & U1800
Entry Fee$35, $20 for BCF Members, $5 more at the door
Prizes$300 based on 25 paid entries: Open 1st $125, 2nd $75 U1800 1st $60, 2nd $40
Registration9:15am - 9:45am
Round Times10:00am, 1:00pm, 3:30pm, 6:00pm
Entry ListCurrent Pre-Registration List







Friday Night Action


  
DateFriday, January 27, 2017
Event Format4SS
Time ControlG/25 d5
Entry Fee$40, $30 for BCF members, $5 more at door
Prizes$150-$100-$50, U2200 $50 based on 19 paid entries
Registration6:30pm - 7:00pm
Round Times7:00pm, 8:15pm, 9:15pm, and 10:15pm
Entry ListCurrent Pre-Registration List








BCC SENIOR SUNDAY: 3SS // GAME 80 // 10 SECOND DELAY // NM LAWYER TIMES 2.5: 1ST PLACE // U1749: MARK KAPRIELIAN 2.5: 1ST PLACE // 14 PLAY //

OPEN SECTION
Former BCC champion, NM Lawyer Times, plays white
vs Calvin Hori, Round 2. Lawyer scored 2.5/3 to clinch 
clear 1st place. Calvin scored 2 points to share 2-3rd place
with NM Professor Timothy Sage.
BCC Board members: NM Professor Timothy Sage 
plays white vs WCM Natasha Christiansen, Round 3.
Tim scored 2 points to share 2-3rd place with Calvin Hori.
NM Lawyer Times, black vs BCC board member,
Paul Mishkin, Esq., Round 3.
U1749 SECTION
Mark Kaprielian, black vs Mike Griffin, Round 2.
(background): Chess Journalist and teacher, Larry Eldridge.
Mark won the U1749 Section with 2.5 out of 3 points.
Mike scored 1.5 points to share 3-4th place with David Martin.
Photographer and BCC Executive Board Secretary, 
Tony Cortizas plays David Martin, Round 2.
David scored 2 points to take clear 2nd place.
                                                                                       Photo: David Martin
Bob Oresick plays Steve Stepak, Round 2.
(extra game). Bob scored 1.5 points to share
3-4th place with Mike Griffin.
(on the wall): In Memoriam:
BCC Chess Patron Harold Dondis, Esq.
Mark Kaprielian, black vs Professor Robert Pozen, Round 3.
Dr. Pozen is a professor at Sloan School of Management, MIT.
He is a graduate of Harvard College, '68, Phi Beta Kappa, and earned
a JSD (Ph.D. in law) from Yale University in 1973. He passed
the bar in Massachusetts, New York, and Washington, D.C.
Dr. Pozen worked at Fidelity Investments from 1978 to 2001
rising to the position of Vice Chairman and Chairman of
FMR, Co.,became chairman of MFS Investment
Management in 2004, retiring in 2010. Dr. Pozen remains
active on the MFS mutual fund boards. He received the Fund 
Action Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, by the 
mutual fund industry. Dr. Pozen was visiting professor at
Georgetown University Law Center, New York University
Law School, and Harvard Law School. He is currently
a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and the
MIT Sloan School of Management.
 World Chess Champion GM Mikhail Tal at the BCC, 1988    Photo:Steve Stepak
This is Dr. Pozen's first visit to the Boylston Chess Club.
He insists that in this chess venue, we call him: "Bob" . . . 
The BCC Senior Sunday Open is Bob's first chess tournament.
Bob intends to learn chess the same way as he has learned and 
understands the dynamics of the legal profession 
and investment banking industry. Bob will, no doubt 
discover similarities in the logic and strategies of "winning" 
between law,  economics/finance and chess . . . engaging his mind in 
neurotechnosynthetic cogitation.  Bravo, Bob, welcome to the BCC, 
and the world of global strategic chess theory and application
and the development of network inter-connectedness.
THE SPIDER'S WEB IS NOW!
 NATASHA CHRISTIANSEN CHIEF TD
 PHOTOS: STEVE STEPAK