Boylston Chess Club Weblog: February 2017

Monday, February 27, 2017

BCC: $15 OPEN // 43 PLAYERS // FM STEVEN WINER 1ST / 4-0 / OPEN SECTION // JUSTIN Y LI 1ST / 3.5 / U1800 // WELCOME ! / MANY NEW FACES //

BCC $15 OPEN

IN 2 SECTIONS

OPEN SECTION

24 PLAYERS

BCC Electronic Posting of Parings

Chess Coach FM Steven Winer perfect 4-0 for 1st place.

FM Steven Winer with black, plays Jerry Li, Round 2.

NM Farzad Abdi conceives his strategy for play with white.

Farzad scored 3 points to share 2-6th place in the Open Section.

Alan Song plays black vs Dr. Alezandro Felix Botta, Round 4.

Dr. Botta scored 3 points to share 2-6th place in Open Section.

Atul Kannan scored 3 points to share

2-6th place in the Open Section.

Zubin Mohandas Baliga, black vs Dr. Botta, Round 2.

Zubin scored 3 points to share 2-6th place in Open Section.

NM Andrew Hoy vs Suraj Ramanathan, Round 3: draw!

Suraj scored 3 points to share 2-6th place in Open Section.

NM Andrew Hoy vs Suraj Ramanathan, Round 3.

NM Brandon Wu, (standing) observes.

BCC President NM Andrew Hoy prepares his game with

black vs Andrew Fang Meng, Round 2.

Dr. Botta plays black vs Natasha Christiansen, Round 3.

Alan Song, black vs Dr. Botta, Round 4.

U1800 SECTION

18 PLAYERS

Justin Y Li scored 3.5 points to take clear 1st place.

Photo: Bernardo Iglesias

Chun Sun vs Steve Stepak, Round 1.

Chun scored 3 points to share 2-4 place in U1800 Section.

Eric Feng scored 3 points to share 2-4th

place in the U1800 Section.

Alan E. Lu scored 3 points

to share 2-4th place

in the U1800 Section.

VIEWS FROM

THE LENS

CHESS MAKES YOU

HUNGRY!

LUNCH IN THE

SKITTLES ROOM

Going over the game:

critical analysis with dad.

BETWEEN ROUNDS RECREATION

BUGHOUSE BRINGS ON THE SMILES

FULL HOUSE, AGAIN!

BCC $15 OPEN, ROUND 1.

BCC Pleasant Playing Area

Bob Oresick plays Sai Sneha Yerra , Round 2.

Kelsey Liu plans her game as Sai Sneha Yerra observes.

Bernardo Iglesias, TD

Photos: Steve Stepak
PATRON SAINTS OF THE BCC

PORTRAITS: HARRY LYMAN AND HAROLD DONDIS

Sunday, February 26, 2017

Masters Sunday

Date	Sunday, March 5, 2017
Event Format	4SS
Time Control	G/60 d5
Sections	Masters
Entry Fee	$50 for BCF members, $70 for non-members, $5 more if not registering online
Prizes	$700 based on 18 paid entries: $450-$250
Registration	9:15am - 9:45am
Round Times	10:00am, 1:00pm, 3:30pm, 6:00pm
Description	Open to players rated at least 2000 on the February or March supplement or live MSA rating. Free entry for GM's and IM's with no deduction from any prize won.
Entry List	Current Pre-Registration List

March Quads

March Quads

Date	Saturday, March 4, 2017
Event Format	3RR
Time Control	G/65 d10
Sections	Players 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
Registration	9:15am - 9:45am
Round Times	10:00am, 1:00pm, and 3:30pm
Entry List	Current Pre-Registration List

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

HARVARD GAME 20: Brian Salomon 4-0 / 1ST PLACE / OPEN SECTION / STEPAK / BIELER / LESCHLY/BELINO 3 POINTS / 1-4TH RESERVE // 20 PLAY //

1st ANNUAL HARVARD CHESS CLASH

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

QUINCY HOUSE, HARVARD COLLEGE

Brian Salomon vs Holger Droessler, Round 3.

Brian won this game and went on to beat Ofer Grossman

in Round 4 to clinch 1st place with a 4-0 score.

Ofer Grossman and Holger Droessler scored 3 points

for 2-3rd place in the Open Section.

Steve Stepak sets up an English Opening

in Round 3. Steve scored 3 points to share

1-4th place with Sam Bieler, Lan Leschly,

and Xhafa Belino.

Harvard Tennis demonstrates that the winning

strategy for a sport is controlling space.

A winning strategy for playing a successful chess tournament

is having a substantial snack between Round 2 and 3.

1st Annual Harvard Chess Clash: Round 1

TOURNAMENT TREAT

PIZZA !

Richard Wang, black vs Ofer Grossman, Round 3.

Round 3

TOURNAMENT STAFF

Bryan Hu, Richard Wang,

Varun Krishnan

Class of 2018

Boylston Chess Club invites the continued participation

of Harvard and MIT students, faculty and staff, to come

on over to 40 Norris Street, Cambridge and play in our

many and varied chess activities.

BOYLSTON CHESS CLUB ACTIVITIES

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PHOTOS: STEVE STEPAK

Sunday, February 19, 2017

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
Entry List	Current Pre-Registration List

Save $5

Enable smoother pairing,

since this is a double round robin event

and all pairings for the ten rounds will be set the first evening.

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17th Annual Paramount

Weekly on Mondas

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."

Steve Stepak's photo report on the last Paramount.

The crosstable for the 16th Paramount in 2015 is here.

Feb Scholastic

February Scholastic

Date	Sunday, February 26, 2017
Event Format	4SS
Time Control	G/30 d5
Sections	14 & Under and 8 & Under
Entry Fee	$25, $20 for BCF members, $5 more at door
Prizes	Trophies for 1st/2nd each age group, medal for 3rd
Registration	10:00am - 10:20am
Round Times	10:30am, 11:50am, 1:00pm, 2:00pm
Entry List	Current Pre-Registration List