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Franklin and Loncarevic win June Rapid
 

David
Franklin
 
Robby Hecht

Robert
Loncarevic
 
Mark Parnaby

Experts David Franklin and Robert Loncarevic tied for first with 4.5 points each in Evanston's five round Rapid yesterday. Franklin drew with FM Aleksandar Stamnov while Loncaravic drew with Expert Geoffrey Caveney, both in the fourth round.

Mark Parnaby and Robby Hecht tied for third with 4.0 points each. Parnaby lost only his third round game to Loncarevic while Hecht fell to the rising young player Abe Sun in the first round. Congratulations to all.

Crosstable

Posted by Tom June 28, 2009

Trevor Huang wins Evanston U1200
 

June 2009 U1200 -- Fourth Round Board 1
Cleo Newsome Jr vs Trevor Huang

Samuel Tartamella

Sritej Vontikommu

Huang won all four of his games to emerge with a perfect score and clear first place. Cleo Newsome Jr., Sritej Vontikommu, and Samuel Tartamella tied for second with three points each. Newsome lost his fourth round game to first place winner Huang, Vontikommu lost his third round game to Newsome, and Tartamella dropped a point to Vontikommu in the second round.

Special thanks to Expert Matt Pullin who provided post-game analysis in the skittles room. It was particular fun watching Pullin, Master Ken Wallach and Expert Bill Brock, analyze a variation of the Fried Liver Attack that occured in one of the games.

Thanks also to the three fathers who enroled their sons in the Illinois Chess Association, and the one adult who enroled as well. The ICA maintains a chess events calendar for Illinois and appreciates their contributions. Evanston Chess offers free entry to anyone who joins or renews their ICA membership at an Evanston Chess tournament.

Crosstable

Posted by Tom June 14, 2009

Two new clubs run low-cost tournaments
 

Highland Park Chess will run its first USCF rated tournament on July 25th. It will be a scholastic 4SS G/30 format for grades K-8. You can see more details at http://hpchess.org/ or at
http://il-chess.org/events.htm. The organizer is Leo Vilker, who served as Assistant TD and house player at our last tournament.
 

Midway Chess Club will also run a tournament on July 25th. Their tournament will be a 4SS G/45 for adults and strong juniors (900+). Hmm, now that's a familiar format! You can read more about their club and tournament at http://www.midwaychessclub.org/ The organizer is William Shehan and the TD will be Leroy Sims.

Posted by Tom June 1, 2009

Brock and Braswell share honors in May Tri-Level
 

Isaac Braswell

Bill Brock

Bill Brock and Isaac Braswell tied for first in the Gold Section. Both scored 3.5, giving up only a half point to each other in the final round.

Danny Ginzburg

Matthew Szulc and Danny Ginzburg each scored 3.5 to tie for first in the Silver Section. Szulc drew with Dan Griffin in the first round while Ginzburg drew with third place finisher Mark Spitzig.

Timothy Krick

Timothy Krick won sole possesion of first in the Bronze Section with 3.5. He gave up a draw to Christian Kavouras in the second round.

Crosstable

Posted by Tom May 16, 2009

House Players Wanted

Want to help us run better tournaments? Consider being a house player. Odd numbers and drop outs force us to assign byes. That's very unpleasant, especially for those who've traveled a long distance.

You stand ready to enter any round. Your entry fee is free. You may play all rounds or none, as needed. Contact enter@evanstonchess.org to volunteer.

Posted by Tom, October 27, 2007