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 The September $15 Open saw 46 combatants fight it out on a fall Saturday. There were a number of outstanding performances.  John Archibald ...

The numbers were on the players side as we were able to make 5 quads with no need for a small swiss.  Michael Carey took care of business wi...

Mikayel added to his trophy case with a first place in the Friday Night Blitz event. 10 points out of a possible 12 allowed him to cruise to...

Andrew Hoy won the open section.  Justin Guerra took first in the under section earning the right to play up next month. It feels like a mat...

  

Max took first in the most recent Friday Night Blitz with 9.5 out of 12 With the victory the promising junior passed 2000 in blitz and my m...

  A hard tactic is just two or more simple tactics combined.  I am not sure who originally said this pearl of wisdom but I heard it from Ne...

David McCabe won entry into next months club championship with a score of +3 -0 =2. David was able to secure the draw necessary in the last ...

Andrew won the ALTO event but more importantly food and fun was had by all. The ALTO event is an attempt to rebrand our Milestones event. AL...

 Max finished with 9.5 out of 12 which was enough to win first in the 8/16 edition of Friday Night Blitz. 

 Anton took first by a half point over Andrew Hoy. With the two facing off in the final round the victory was on the balance until the end. ...

Aryan Shroff started the 23 participant event as the 12th highest rated player in the field. Despite what might have seemed like long odds A...

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Siddharth Arun won the top quad.  John Archibald won the second quad continuing his hot streak.  Simon Payne took quad 3 with a perfect scor...

GM Ivanov finished clear first with 10.5/12.0 at the August edition of the Big Money Swiss event. IM Shmelov finished second with Anton Bara...

Andrew took first with a perfect score. With the groups combined, we saw Mike a Bernier finish second with Hallie Martin and Daniel Paley fi...

After the first move there are three different ways to deliver mate depending on how black responds  

In his last event John Archibald suffered a cruel blow. He had a good tournament but his rating stopped at 1999. Just 1 point short of the m...

 

Joaquin Carlson took first in Saturday’s Summer Open. He has clearly shaken the rust off from being away at college. Jeremy Berman finished ...

White is down a piece but has an advanced pawn on d7. Can white utilize the pawn to get into a winning position?  

In its second itteraion we saw another strong crowd for the clubs newest event. We say 59 people sign up for the event which at least in my ...

Mikayel took the Friday Night Blitz event on July 19th with a score of 11/12. A pair of draws against Zachary Pan is all that stood in his w...

 Jianchao scored 12/12 in July’s Big Money Blitz event. Mikayel finished 2nd with Andrew and Felix Wu tied for 3rd. The big question now is ...

 I have been sharing tactics that I have found interesting. While I will continue to do that I wanted to share a website I came across that ...

After a busy period I am back to blogging about BCC events.  On Sunday the action came back to BCC with Sunday Morning Action.  Four rapid g...