BCC GRAND PRIX THIS SATURDAY! // DEFENDING HONOR // CHALLENGING LEADERS // FORGING AHEAD // HOLDING STEADY // MAKING FRIENDS

GRAND PRIX STANDINGS 

THROUGH JULY 2013

U2400: Eric Godin 16.5; Hal Terrie 5.5; Andrew Wang 5.

 U2200: Jesse Nicholas 19.5; Carey Theil 7.5; Emmanuel Mevs 4;

Arthur Nugent 3; Joe Perl 3; Timothy Sage & Luis Baez-Rosario 2.5;

Philip Nutzman 2; Tony Blum 1.5.

U2000: Nithin Kavi 11; Carissa Yip 10.5; Mike Griffin 9.5

Jason Tang & Arthur Tang 8; Sandeep Vadlamudi 7; Michelle Chen 6.5;

Mateos Sahakian 5.5; Arthur Tang 4; Jerry Williams 4.0; Conway Xu 4;

Conway Xu 6;  Mateos Sahakian 5.5; Jerry Williams, 4;  Loring Lauretti 4; 

Luke Lung 3;  Nathan Smolensky 3;  Ross Eldridge 2.5; Brandon Wu 2.5; 

Aashish Welling 2.5; Joel Wald 2; Armen Martirosyan 2; Seth Lieberman 2; 

Uri Feld 2; Bowen Wang 2; Walter Driscoll 2; 

Aidan Sowa 1.5; Oliver Traldi 1.5; James McConville 1.5;

Katherine Gasser 1; Allen Wang 1; Syed Al-Mamun 1; 

Natasha Christiansen 1; Robert Neale 1; S. Chandrashekar 1.

U1800: Rohan Shankar 8; Tony Cortizas 7; Harold Dondis 5.5;

Eric Matthews 3; James Byrd 2; Robert Holmgren 1.5. 

U1600: David Martin 11; Chen Bai 8.5; Richard Mooney 8;

Daniel Giaimo 7.5; Eddie Wei 7;  Eric Feng 6.5;

William Wisdom 5.5;  Steve Stepak 5.5; Gabriel Birzu 4.5;

Andrew Okoh 4;  Maxwell Zhao 3.5; Eddie Wang 3; Kevin Anthony 3; 

Matthew Lee 2.5; Mark O'Brien 2; Bernard Coleman 1.5.

U1400: Lucy Cai 8; Sandeep Shankar 8; Brandon Wu 6; Daniel Wang 6; 

Aaron Brown 2.5; Christopher Burkhart 1.5; Pooja Welling 1.5; Ron Riley 1. 

U1200: Larry Jin & David Sun 7; Richard Chen & Anthony DiNosse 5.5;

Edward Chiu & Michael Yu 2.5; Winston Zhao 2; 

Sammi Pan/ Ji Tuo / Alexander Shi Jin /; Derek Jin /& Eric Han 1.

YOUNG AND OLD

GIRLS AND BOYS

Playing to Win

4 SS G/60

Details: 

CALENDAR OF BCC EVENTS

EYES ON THE PRIZE

THIS IS A YEAR-LONG EVENT

Where persistence is as important as winning

AUGUST 17 2013

See you this Saturday!

BCC: INSTRUCTION FOR BEGINNERS

TUESDAY: 7:00PM TO 8:30 PM

NM Alex Cherniack teaches Jose

who has a passion for chess

and wishes to improve his play!

Well, it's your move! Come on over to the BCC!

If the door is locked, call

(617) 629-3933

and we'll let you in!

BCC LEGENDS OF CHESS HOSTS RIGOROUOS ADVENTURE // NM GODIN TOPS FIELD

OPEN SECTION:

NM Eric Godin vs Expert Oliver Traldi, Round 2.

Maestro Godin won the premier section with 3.5 points.

Joe Kelly, black vs Walter Driscoll, Round 2.

Kelly, Driscoll and Conway Xu shared 2-4th place with 2.5 points

Conway Xu vs Rohan Shankar, Round 4.

Rohan scored 2 points for clear 5th place.

Kate Gasser, black  vs Rohan Shankar, Round 3.

(background): Jason Tang vs Tony Cortizas.

U1800 SECTION

Sandeep Shankar, black vs Lucy Cai: draw! Round1.

Sandeep won the U1800 Section with 3.5 points.

Richard Alan Chen vs Stephen Savage, Round 1.

Stephen scored 3 points to share 2-3rd place with Suraj Ramanathan.

                                                                                                              Photo:ChessPress

Steve Stepak, black vs Suraj Ramanathan: draw! Round 2.

Suraj scored 3 points to share 2-3rd place.

Stepak knotched 2.5 points for clear 4th.

Suraj Ramanathan, black vs David Zhu Sun, Round 3: draw!

David scored 2 points to share 5-6th place with Richard Kahn.

Tony DiNosse vs Richard Kahn. Richard hit 50 percent

for his second BCC event in a row, after a year off.

Welcome back Richard!

Suraj Ramanathan, From Chennai, India,

(home of World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand,

and venue for the up-coming World Chess Championship)

just arrived from the Greater Chicago Area, Illinois, in

a job relocation for his dad, Mr. Ram Ramanathan. Suraj is here

with his dad, and mother Savi and younger brother, Bharat, 4 yrs old.

Welcome Ramanathan family to the BCC!

Endgame position: Gasser v Jason Tang, Round 2.

The game ended in a draw. I thought Kate had the edge.

What do you think?  (Black to move)

GM LARRY CHRISTIANSEN FROM CAMBRIDGE MA OFF TO WORLD CUP OF CHESS IN NORWAY

GM Larry C and his lovely wife Natasha are packing for their

adventure of a lifetime:

FIDE WORLD CUP: TROMSO 2013

GM Larry Christiansen, performs his simul @ South Station,

Boston, here facing off with this young lad and admirer.

Well, tomorrow, August 11th GM LarryC will

begin his adventure playing the big boys of world chess

in Tromso, Norway near the Arctic Circle.

The BCC and the Greater Boston Area Chess Community

wish Larry and Natasha a pleasant and safe trip;

and a shout out "good luck and good chess" 

to Larry in his many successful games

in this most prestigious chess event

on the world chess stage.

                                                                           Photo: Natasha Christiansen

GM Larry Christiansen at venue of FIDE World Cup 2013

FIDE WORLD CUP OFFICIAL SITE

  GM Laurent Fressinet, black vs GM Larry Christiansen

GM Levon Aronian: World No. 2

                             

Breathtaking: Tromso Bay

                                






      GM Judith Polgar



GM Mickey Adams

Winner: Dortmund 2013 

Performance Rating: 2925



   View of the Mountains heading towards the North Pole

                                                            

Thank you Natasha Christiansen for the wonderful photos!

BCC: SATURDAY SPECIAL // ONE DAY ONLY // LEGENDS OF CHESS // MAROCZY GEZA // BE THERE!

BCC: This Saturday, August 10th: 4SS G60

CALENDAR OF BCC EVENTS

View this: G. Maroczy vs M. Chigorin Vienna, 1903

Geza Maroczy vs Mikhail Chigorin Vienna, 1903, Round 3.

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 g4 5. Nc3 gxf3 6. Qxf3 d6 7. d4 Be6 8. Nd5 c6 9. O-O cxd5 10. exd5 Bf5 11. Bxf4 Bg6 12. Bb5+ Nd7 13. Rae1+ Be7 14. Bxd6 Kf8 15. Rxe7 Nxe7 16. Re1 Kg7 17. Bxe7 Qa5 18. Qe2 Nf8 19. Bf6+ Kg8 20. Qe5 h6 21. Bxh8 f6 22. Qe7 Kxh8 23. Qxf6+ Kg8 24.Re7 1-0
Geza Maroczy (2688 ChessMetrics) 1870-1951 (63.1 percentage rate win/loss/draw)

And the term Maroczy Bind: Maroczy Bind // 
So come to the Boylston Chess Club  //  Play this wonderful one day event commemorating this very talented Hungarian master from the turn of the 20th Century, and win some cash in the process!

LISTEN: MAROCZY GEZA

See you this Saturday!

BCC: TNS // NM ERIC GODIN TOPS FIELD OF 18 IN PREMIER EVENT WITH 3.5 POINTS

Maestro Eric Godin wins 

July Thursday Night Swiss

Thomas Carr (right) playing Terrence Fricker in Round 2.

Carr took clear 2nd with 3 points.

Ted Cross shared 3-5th place with 2.5 points.

Tim O'Malley shared 3-5th place with 2.5 points.

and

Harold Dondis, Esq. the oldest living

club player, also scored 2.5 points

to share 3-5th place.

Bravo Harold, way'to go!

Proving once again, that

you are never too old to play chess

and play it well!

There were 18 players in one section

in this event.

Nathan Smolensky, TD

Remember:

Round 1 of August Thursday Night Swiss

begins tonight, August 8th!

CHECK OUT THE FACTS:

CALENDAR OF BCC EVENTS

So, come on down to the BCC

and join this elite group of

chess players

for another tourney, 

technically challenging

and powerfully energizing.

BCC RAPID QUADS: JOEL WALD SCALDING HOT // PERFECT 3-0 IN QUAD 3 // JESSE NICHOLAS: NM

BCC RAPIDS MAINTAIN ATTENDANCE 

WITH 3 QUADS: 12 PLAYERS

QUAD 1:

BCC Champ shares the prize

NM Lawyer Times vs Jacob Fauman: draw.

Times, Nicholas and Fauman scored 2 points each

to share 1-3rd place!

New NM Jesse Nicholas breaks 2200 with 2 points to share 1-3rd place

with Expert Jacob Fauman (+19 to 2128) and NM Times.

In this photo: Nicholas vs Joe Perl, Round 1.

background:  Howard Goldowsky, black vs Emmanuel Mevs.

Bravo Jesse!

Emmanuel Mevs vs Howard Goldowsky, Round 1.

Mevs scored 2 points to share 1-2nd place.

Natasha Christiansen (center) observes.

QUAD 2

. . . thinking. . . thinking. . . thinking. . . 

Ed Astrachan, black vs Nathan Smolensky, Round 1.

Astrachan and Mevs thought their way to share 1-2nd place.

QUAD 3

Joel Wald vs Ilya Rozonoyer, Round 1.

Joel was too hot to handle, scoring a perfect 3-0 to clinch 1st place.

Mateos Sahakian vs Michael Morales, Round 1.

Two points: one, Michael plays his 2nd BCC event,

and only 2nd tournament in his career! Bravo for the courage!

And the other point? Mateos. Mateos?

                                                        Photo: SammiPan

Mateos in last Saturday BCC Quads.

                                         Photo: Steve Stepak

The new look: Wednesday Rapid Quads

Cool!

Nathan Smolensky did a 

fine job directing this event.

BCC RAPIDS: ENJOYABLE EVENING CHESS

NM Lawyer Times, BCC Club Champion, (left) winner of last Wednesday's

Rapid Quad, invites you to play this evening:

30/SD in quad and 3SS pairing formation.

A chance to mix it up;

an opportunity to win some money.

This evening: Lucky August 7th.

BCC CALENDAR OF EVENTS