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Atlantic Chess News Annual 2015 Atlantic Chess News Annual 2015 Welcome from Steve Doyle Here we are at the Sapphire Anniversary of THE team tournament. It seems like yesterday when I dug into my savings to go to Atlantic City for my first team experience. That was also the last time playing was my only activity. Princeton A: Jack Hutton (team coach), Michael Lee (board one), Jason Every year after that, I had a job and was part of the administration Altschuler (board three), Derek Johnson (board four), Andrew Ng (board 2). of the tournament. That first year at (Photo courtesy of Mike Somers) Princeton Wins USATE 2014 4 SCRUBS, WE’RE ABOUT TO GET (12) Atlantic City was exciting, too. I still 2189 5.0 remember buying a pork roll sandwich The Princeton University “A” for fifty cents on the boardwalk—such Team has achieved something not 5 CORNELL UNIVERSITY (11) an expensive food budget! done since 1975-76 by the GSCA Four. 2191 5.0 6 CHRISTIE CLOSED THE B-FILE (18) Who could forget the follow- It has won back to back US Amateur 2175 5.0 ing year where the hotel only used Team East championships. 7 KINGSIDE CRUSHERS (27) eight floors, but left five others with Back then it was the whole 2164 5.0 doors open! Only chess players would US championship, but it has exploded 8 3 1/2 MEN (16) use the rooms instead of renting one. I in popularity, and by 1984 it was East 2178 5.0 vs. West and by 1987 we had the first 9 BOSTON BRIGADE (27) remember on player boasting he used 2171 5.0 a water view room one night and the computer connected four region play- 10 MISTAKES WERE MADE (3) second night used a suite! off. 2197 5.0 The tournament then moved The East, with its 278 teams 11 NOBODY (21) on to Asbury Park, Cherry Hill and and 1173 players despite the snow, is 2172 5.0 12 CAMBRIDGE SPRINGERS (1) Somerset before landing in Parsippany always the most competitive. The top 2199 5.0 for good in the 1990s. 14 teams were half a point apart with 13 STOYKO TEAM (25) There are certain constants at Princeton winning on tie breaks. Here’s 2167 5.0 every team tournament. We should that select group: (original seeding in 14 THE WESTFIELD CHESS FACTORY (19) 2175 5.0 probably make a list. parentheses, rating and placing by tie- --Picking just the right team name and break) Michael Lee ‘15, first board maybe even winning a prize. We’ve with a rating of 2445. Andrew Ng ‘16, had some hilarious ones! 1 Princeton A (4) 2197 5.5 second board with a rating of 2341 --Top players with their amateur 2 WHAT DOES THE GM SAY? CHECKC (5) Jason Altschuler ‘16, third board with a friends squeezing under 2200 or just 2197 5.5 rating of 2277and fourth board Darek having fun with friends for a weekend. 3 ON THE ROHDE AGAIN (7) Continued On Page 2 2193 5.5 Continued On Page 6 Letter From Steve (Continued) New Jersey was ably repre- committed suicide. We can only note --People forget their clocks, their sented nationally with Chris Wu at the the horror, as words are insufficient to socks, their scorepads, their money, Denker (National High School Cham- describe it. their cell phone…always something. pionship), Kim Ding at the National One last note. We were some- --The mob in the lobby. Girls’ Invitational Tournament and what discouraged by the decline in --Trying to find a parking spot closer John Michael Burke at the Barber game scores being turned in last year, to the hotel. (National K-8 Championship). Their especially by stronger players. Come --The chess convention aspect: meet- combined scores at that event site out- on, guys! We return to offering a $100 ing your best chess friends once a year, did every other state, just edging out Best Game Prize for this year’s team going out to dinner to catch up. our neighbors in New York. tournament. It’s the only cash prize in In fact, the New Jersey State Our youth were busy else- the place, so take advantage of it! Chess Federation can trace Presidents’ where as well. A very enterprising and Weekend (when it was just Wash- service oriented young high school ington’s Birthday) back as far as 1885 student, Alice Dong, came up with I should not end this letter as the annual chess player retreat. A the idea of hosting an all-girls’ two without my heartfelt thanks to Aaron retreat and a treat is what it is. day chess camp at Dean Ippolito’s new Kiedes, who put this together because We are all honored to host chess emporium over the teachers’ I rely on his skills with computers and you, see you and visit with you year convention break. Once she got to 50, his patience with me. Anyone who has after year. Thank you for your support she actually had to put people on a seen him in action as a TD will have and participation. waiting list. experienced both those characteristics. Stop and say hello! Our president, Hal Sprech- Personal plug by Pete: I hope you’ll buy Steve man, as tournament director, had to my new book, Openings for Amateurs, turn people away as well, at the K-12 on sale here. I am very pleased with its class championships at Brookdale reception in reviews online, in Chess Community College where over 400 Life and British Chess Magazine, who Letter From The Editor kids showed up. Register ahead of has me now writing a regular column time!! of the same name in their distin- This past 2014 has been Our contents include many guished periodical. a spectacular year for New Jersey annotated games this time around. As Steve says in his letter, if chess activity. The team tournament All but a few are taken from the you see me, stop me and say hello! attracted almost 1200 players, over games your editor wrote about in the Be warned: I will ask you for a game 270 teams and Garry Kasparov, who Star-Ledger this past year. You may not score! --Pete Tamburro made speeches, answered a multi- know that the newspaper changed its tude of questions ranging from FIDE format to use a whole set page from and Carlsen to the Budapest Gambit, the Newhouse newspapers, so now signed books and gave private inter- Shelby Lyman’s column inhabits our views. spot. Due to lots of outraged readers, Our 2014 New Jersey Open the Star-Ledger put Steve and me on- attracted SEVEN GRANDMASTERS line where we now inhabit http://www. AND FIVE INTERNATIONAL MAS- nj.com/inside-jersey/ . We hope you’ll TERS. It was like a futurity for our up visit every week. and coming young stars. My favorite Other transitions have been moment of that Labor Day Weekend made—several sad ones. New Jersey was hearing this conversation between lost master Bernie Friend just before two talented youngsters on the run to the New Year in 2014 and long-time their next round: “I’m playing an IM organizer from Hackettstown, Harold this round.” “I’M playing a GM this Darst. David Cole has favored us with round.” In fact, Grandmasters Joel some personal remembrances, and Benjamin and Alex Stripunsky, were we added Bernie’s most famous game. NJ co-champions. People raved about All deaths have tragic loss attached to the Hyatt Hotel site in Morristown as them for their friends and family, but the playing conditions are terrific. We none stunned so much as the killing of encourage you to think about the next 11 year old expert Thomas Elberling, Labor Day in your chess plans. done in by his own father who then NJ State Chess Federation www.njscf.org Atlantic Chess News - Annual Edition Page 2 playing in the New Jersey Open on La- Vinko Rutar-Sandi Hutama, US Sandi Hutama Wins bor Day weekend in Morristown at the Amateur East Championship, Mor- US Amateur East Individual same site, which is only ten minutes ristown, 2014: 1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 By Pete Tamburro from his house. e6 4.e4 d6 5.Bg2 Be7 6.Nge2 0–0 7.0–0 (Reprinted from Chess Life with per- In the meantime it’s back to what am- a6 8.d4 cxd4 9.Nxd4 Qc7 10.Qe2 Nbd7 mission) ateurs do: play blitz on line and with 11.Bd2 Rb8 12.Rac1 b6 13.h3 Bb7 friends. He might not be systematic in 14.Kh2 Rfe8 15.b3 Bf8 16.Rfe1 Rbd8 Sandi Hutama is the quint- his studies, but he is relentless over the 17.Qd3 Qb8 18.Qb1 Qa8 19.Re2 g6 essential amateur chess player and board. 20.Rce1 Bg7 21.Nf3 Nc5 22.Ng1 Bc6 proved it by winning the US Amateur A prime example is his game 23.a4 Rb8 24.Qc2 Rec8 25.Bf4 Ne8 East held at the luxurious Hyatt Hotel against Rutar. Once the game hit move 26.b4 Bxc3 27.Qxc3 Nxa4 28.Qb3 b5 in Morristown. 34, it becomes unbearably complex. 29.c5 e5 30.Bh6 dxc5 31.f4 exf4 32.gxf4 He’s 48 years old, feels “my Figuring this out with a clock ticking c4 33.Qg3 a5 34.f5 Rb7 35.fxg6 fxg6 chess calculating skill is in decline,” is impossible. Doing a post mortem is 36.Nf3 Ng7 37.Ne5 Re7 38.Nxc6 Qxc6 and was once a master and would like equally so! Here are some key conclu- 39.Bg5 Nh5 40.Qg4 Re5 41.Bf3 axb4 to be again.
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