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Monday, January 18, 2010

Lee and Radford Storm Class Championships

Andrew Lee and Darren Radford stepped up to the action at the Kentucky Class Championships held on Saturday, January 16 in Louisville. Andrew scored 3 wins in 4 games and took 2nd place in the Class E and under section! The performance was good enough to earn him $65 to spend on chess books and to raise his provisional rating to 1188 with 4 more games before gaining a regular rating. Class D seems to be clearly in his sights. Darren scored an impressive win against 1917 rated Randas Burns and a draw against 1930 rated Robert Amback for a total of 1.5 points in 3 games in the A section before coming home with his shiny new rating points. He now stands just 8 points shy of an official A-player status. Congratulations to both players for their performance. For complete crosstables look here.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow!!! You guys really made a good showing. Maybe you will inspire some of the others to stick their necks out and play in a class championship. The E-town Club should be proud!!!

Jerry said...

Yeah; like you!! Just kidding I know you had "family commitments that day as did several other club members.

Anonymous said...

I did! I was at Incredible Daves and was thinking that it reminded me of the good ol' days at Bearno's and how it would be a good place to play chess. LOL

Darren said...

I felt a bit rusty but I was pleased with my performance, except for the 3rd round game. I was well outplayed, but it was a good lesson.