Odds And Ends

Sam Hunt, winner of the biggest upset in the Mike Anders Memorial.



                                         Gelvic is back! And played in the Mike Anders Memorial.

                  Davis Whaley, winner of the Mike Anders Memorial, playing Randas Burns.

There are only 5 "Second Tuesday Tournaments" left this year. Just a reminder that Johnny added the requirement to play in at least 5 tournaments to qualify for the 2013 Club Championship. So far only Amy, Sal, and Johnny have met that requirement.

USCF Master Davis Whaley Wins "The Mike Anders Memorial Open!"

            Mike Anders (left) plays Louis DeFiore at the "School's Out Classic" in May 2012!

One Master and four Experts play in the 1st Annual Mike Anders Memorial Open in Elizabethtown!
Twenty-two players played in the tournament to honor Mike Anders!

Master Davis Whaley of Lexington, KY won the tournament with a score of 4-0! Michael Thomas and Stephen Dillard both scored 3-1 to share 2nd place. The Class B prize went to Jennifer Ishee, Louis DeFiore and Samuel Hunt who all scored 2.5-1-5! Dan Franklin and Michael Williams shared the Class C prize. The Class D and Under prize was spilt by Stuart Kernohan and Jacob Williams.

Jerry Weldin donated a leather chess wallet for the biggest upst prize which was won by Samuel Hunt for his victory over Expert Chris Bush! Way to go Sam!

The crosstable can be viewed here:

Mike Anders Memorial Tournament This Saturday!

The Mike Anders Memorial Chess Tournament will be held at the Family Buffet this Saturday, July 27th, 2013!

The tournament flyer can be viewed here:

Rudy Wins The "July Monthly Swiss" With A Score Of 3-0!

                Sal Mancuso (left) makes a move vs. Rudy McKinney in the July Monthly Swiss!

Only 3 members showed up and Rudy McKinney won the club's July Monthly Swiss!
Johnny went pawn grabbing and overlooked a mate in one vs. Rudy in their Round 2 game!

The crosstable can be viewed here!

Chris Bush Returns And Places 1st in "The Battle of Elizabethtown!"

                       Chris Bush (left) is playing Steve Dillard at "The Battle Of Elizabethtown!"
                                                       Yes. Steve does still play chess!!

Chris Bush went 4-0 to win "The Battle of Elizabethtown!" Mike Thomas, Steve Dillard and Jennifer Ishee all scored 3-1 for 2nd Place!  Jennifer took home the Under 1800 prize as it was higher than her share of 2nd place. Jennifer played 3 Experts - Beating 2 of them!! She won't be under 1800 for long!

Dave Brock was 1st Under 1400 and Sal Mancuso was 1st Under 1000.

The complete crosstable can be seen here:

Attendance

                                                     Attendance was up by 50% tonight!

The Battle of Elizabethtown Chess Tourney This Saturday!

This Saturday, June 29th we will be having a chess tourney at Elizabethtown!

A copy of the flyer can be veiwed here:

We hope to see you there!!

Attendance

Hopefully attendance will bounce back soon. Sal reported that he and Phillip were the only players to show up Tuesday night.

Reminder

                            Reminder; we will be playing at the Family Buffet on Tuesday 18 June.

Owens Is Perfect At The June Monthly Swiss!

 

Johnny Owens went 3-0 in the Elizabethtown Chess Club Monthly Swiss. Again it turned out to be a Quad, but those that played, had a great time!

It was good the see Kerry Fatula join the mix! The crosstable can be veiwed here:

Reminder

The 2nd Tuesday Tournament will be held 11 June in room #108A, the Carpentry Shop, of the Occupational & Technical building at ECTC.

Remember, you must be a paid club member to play! It was decided that if you will be playing in the 2nd Tuesday tournament you need to place a comment on the "reminder post" (this post!) NLT noon the day of the tournament. Remember the top two finishers are seeded into the 2013 Club Championship.

Club meeting starts at 6:30 pm and the tournament will start at 7:00.

Thomas Is Perfect At The 2nd School's Out Classic!

             Rodney Woolson (left) playing Michael Thomas in the 1st Round of the tournament!

USCF Expert Michael Thomas went 4-0 in this year's "School's Out Classic" to win 1st Prize! Sai Ravi Munagala and Michael Williams both scored 3-1 to tie for 2nd place and the Under 1800 prize. Philip Laws took home the Under 1400 prize and Jacob Williams went home with the Under 1000 prize!

It was a good showing considering it was a holiday weekend and several big tournaments within easy driving distance! The complete crosstable chart can be viewed here:

Thanks to all those that played and I hope to see you at the Kentucky Open!

One Of My Games From Saturday

Play chess online

Click on the double arrows at the extreme left to reset to the starting position then click on the single arrow pointing to the right to replay the game move by move.

2nd Annual School's Out Classic

This Saturday, May 25th, I will hosting the 2nd Annual School's Out Classic at the Family Buffet!

To look at the tournament flyer, click here:

Owens Is Perfect In May Monthly Swiss!

Amy Nunn playing Bob Kilmer in their 3rd Round game!

 

    Johnny Owens won his three games in this month's club "2nd Tuesday Tournament" to take

1st Place! Robert Kilmer, Amy Nunn and Sal Mancuso also played in the tournament.     

 

The rated crosstable can be viewed here:       

Look Like A Lady----Play Like A Lion!

The photo above shows Vera Menchik the first Woman World Chess Champion at the board. Menchik won the World Championship 8 times! With a phenomenal score of 78 wins, 4 draws, and only 1 loss! Not only did Vera play in women's events she also participated in men's events and played matches against men. Before the 1929 Carlsbad Tournament Viennese master Albert Becker remarked sarcastically that anyone losing to her should be put in the Vera Menchik Club . You guessed it, he became the first member!

In the Elizabethtown Chess Club there is a similar club: the Amy Nunn Club! Amy has taken more than a few scalps in tournament play, click here to view her record and once you get the link opened click on "Top 30 opponents" then click search for a by name list of her victims. Unbeknown to me Amy even keeps track of skittles games and informed me that I had just lost my first game (G/10;d5) against her at a recent Club meeting. Once Amy improves her end game play (we all need to do that!) she will become a force to be reckoned with as she has already almost eliminated her old time control problems.

Michael Thomas Takes 1st Place In The Elizabethtown Tornado!

          Michael Thomas (Right) wins his 4th round game vs. Randas Burns to take 1st Place!

Michael Thomas scored 4-0 to take first place and $150 cash!  Chris Bush and Matthew McDonald both scored 3 ½ , which netted them second place.  Tod Head won first place in Class C and Robert Cheng and Sal Mancuso split the first place prize for Class E and below.

The cross table can be viewed here:

Congratulations to Matthew McDonald for gaining 106 rating points and to Tod Head for picking up 64 rating points.

Twenty-three players participated in the tournament, but where were all our club members?  We had players from Illinois and Tennessee, but only 4 club members played in our annual club event!

Elizabethtown Tornado This Saturday!

Rememebr that our Annual Club tournament is this Saturday! I hope we can get a large turn-out
from our club membership!

A link to the flyer can be found here:

Match With New Albany

Johnny's post on the match was pretty brief and the "Anonymous" comment was pretty provocative. So I thought I'd present a more detailed account.

The E-town Chess Club is a "USCF Affiliate" which holds regular USCF rated events; all our current members are USCF members with current USCF ratings. The New Albany Club has three current USCF members. E-town selects their board players by current rating; New Albany has shuffled their line up at every meeting (three to date) to include playing folks who had never visited their Club before the night of the match (Phil Bond - second match).

The first match was won by E-town with a score of 3 wins and 2 draws. The second match was won by E-town with 4 wins and 3 draws.

Match #3 was a different story; as it was drawn with 3 wins and 1 draw each. Miami Fugate, KY's newest expert and representative of the Highland Chess Club majically appeared on 1st board!

Board 1 - Joe Farrell (2051)        -0           Miami Fugate  (2001)     - 1
Board 2 - John Coghill *              -1/2        Jerry Weldin (1820)      - 1/2
Board 3 - Loius DeFiore (1700)  -0           Mel Person (1850)        - 1
Board 4 - John Warth **             -0          Johnny Owens (1694)    - 1
Board 5 - Kerry Fatula (1640)     -1          Bryan Rayzor  ***         - 0
Board 6 - Andrew Comeau          -1          Amy Nunn (1511)         - 0
Board 7 - Bob Kilmer (1497)       -1          Bill Cornell                    - 0
E-town had white on odd numbered boards after coin toss.

*     John Coghill's USCF membership expired 2000-07-31 at that time he had a rating of 1451.
**   John Warth's USCF membership expired 2006-11-31 and is considered Unrated by USCF.
*** Bryon Rayzor's USCF membership expired 2011-06-30 at that time he was rated 1135.
Dan Bulleit with a USCF rating of 1368 was present for New Albany but did not play.

I'd like to see New Albany bring "over the board" USCF rated players to the next match so we can compare "apples to apples" instead trying to stack the deck with "correspondence masters" and others who don't play regularly for their Club. But I think I speak for all of us when I say "we just love to play chess"; bring on the strongest team you can muster and let's make the chess boards rumble!

Match With The Chess Club of Southern Indiana Ends In A Tie!

                                     John Warth playing the white pieces vs. Johnny Owens

Our match vs The Chess Club of Southern Indiana ended in a tie!  3.5 - 3.5!

Johnny Owens, Kerry Fatula and Bob Kilmer all scored victories and Jerry Weldin drew
as we ended with 3.5 points on the seven boards played at the Family Buffet.

Joe Farrell, Louie De Fiore and Amy Nunn also represented our club.

Next time we travel to New Albany!