Event Participation Awards - Tue 18 May 2010

MetroWest Chess Club Players who have played in a significant number of monthly tournament events will be presented an official Event Participation Award Buttons during Round 3 of the 27th MCC Anniversary Swiss on Tuesday 18 May 2010 just prior to the round starting, at approximately 7:20pm.

The following players will be recognized, and presented an official Event Participation Award Button:

200 events
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Larry Eldridge

175 events
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150 events
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125 events
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Epp, Edward
Thompson, Douglas

100 events
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Barry, Michael
Cousin, Neil
Phelps, Matthew
Abbot, Ames

75 events
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Astrachan, Edward
Krastev, Plamen
Schnair, Stephen
Harvey, Robert

50 events
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Mishkin, Paul
Matthews, Robert
Ballou, Kenneth
Eddins, Steven
Paphitis, Alexander
Zhu, Larry
Callahan, Daniel
Krasik, Ilya
Simon, Thomas
Goldowsky, Howard
George Duval (did not receive last time)

25 events
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Clark, Henry
Brattain, Mika
Riordan, Charles
Lung, James
Brisbois, Laura
Brisbois, Ken
Hall, Jeffrey
Lung, Timothy
Shmelov, Denys
Campanelli, Ralph
Gruenberg, Leonard
Iversen, Tom
Wetzell, Rolf
Gasser, Katherine
Sonnenstuhl, Eric
Holmgren, Robert (cross this month)

10 events
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Fleurant, Pierre
Vadlamudi, Sandeep
Wolkind, Steve
Gueler, Sebastian
Plotkin, David
Poliannikov, Oleg
Sciacca, Patrick
Callahan, George
Ocallaghan, Sean
Parfenov, Sasha
Fauman, Alex
Jones, Alexander S
Perl, Joseph
Rossi, Tian
Smith, Warner M
Staples, Edmund
Times, Lawyer
Krishnan, Rahul
Martin, Travis
Rangan, Sridhar
Sezen, Kumsal
Krishnan, Rohan
Strassman, Elliot
Bisguier, Arthur
Dorfman, John
Shapiro, Jordan
Weiss, Adam
Chase, Todd
Liu, Henry




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Sneak Peek at 2010 Championship Games

[Event "2010 Metrowest CC Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2010.03.28"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Times,Lawyer"]
[Black "Krasik,Ilya"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Opening "King's Indian: fianchetto, classical variation, 8.e4"]
[ECO "E68"]
[NIC "KI.64"]
[Time "19:30:04"]
[TimeControl "5400+0"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. O-O d6 6. c4 Nbd7 7. Nc3 e5 8.
e4 exd4 9. Nxd4 Re8 10. h3 Nc5 11. Re1 a5 12. Ndb5 Bd7 13. Qc2 Qc8 14. Kh2
Re5 15. f3 Rh5 16. g4 Nxg4+ 17. fxg4 Bxg4 18. Nd5 Kh8 19. Nbxc7 Bxh3 20. Kg1
Be5 21. Nxa8 Qg4 22. Bf4 Bxf4 23. Nxf4 Qxf4 24. Qc3+ Kg8 25. Bxh3 Rg5+ 26.
Bg2 Rg3 27. Qc2 Nd3 28. Re2 Qg5 29. Rf1 Qc5+ 30. Rff2 h5 31. Kf1 h4 32. Rf3
Ne5 33. Rxg3 hxg3 34. Qc3 {White wins} 1-0

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March 2010 Results

FINAL: MetroWest CC Vernal Equinox winners are [Foygel, Strassman]/Open, [Fins]/U2000, [Arun]/U1700, [McLaughlin, Iversen, Brisbois]/U1400


FINAL: MetroWest CC Club Championship standings are Riordan 4.5, Shmelov 3.5, Times 3.5, Huang 1.5, Krasik 1.0, Chamberlain 1.0

FINAL: MetroWest CC Class Championship standings are Thompson 3.5, Harvey 3.5, Cousin 3.0, Rossi 3.0, Hori 1.5, Xu 0.5

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Club and Class Championships wrapup next Tuesday

The Championships (both Club and Class) are still hotly contested (between 1st and 2nd place), even after 4 rounds!

• The Club Championship has 3/6 players still contesting
• The Class Championship has 4/6 players still contesting

Next Tuesday (last round) will be exciting! Make sure to come, play and watch the action...

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Continental Chess Association (CCA) Survey Results

For those of us who have played CCA events recently, you may know that CCA is interested in player's preferences for start times, locations, etc. to make their tournaments fit the widest set of player preferences. Here is the link to the survey results page:
http://www.chesstour.com/survey30910.htm

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MetroWest Chess Club is on Twitter

MetroWest Chess Club is:
MetroWestChess on Twitter
http://twitter.com/MetroWestChess

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2010 MCC Club and Class Championships set!

The 2010 MCC Club and Class Championship participants are finalized and ready to start March 2nd.

The Club Championship players this year are (in rating order):

1. Denys Shmelov
2. FM Charles Riordan
3. Lawyer Times
4. Ilya Krasik
5. Winston Huang
6. John Chamberlain

The Class (under 2000) Championship consists of:

1. Neil Cousin
2. Calvin Hori
3. Robert Harvey
4. Winbur Xu
5. Tian Rossi
6. Ethan Thompson

Both tournaments are six player round robins. The wallcharts, which containg pairing and color info, are at http://www.metrowestchess.org/Compete/Championships/2010/2010_Championship_Wall.htm

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