Albany! and Won by Albion High School, Who Had a Perfect 5-0 Score

Where Organized Chess in America Began EMPIRE CHESS Summer 2012 Volume XXXIV, No. 4 $5.00 Players of All Ages at the Tulip Festival Empire Chess P.O. Box 340511 Brooklyn, NY 11234 NEW YORK STATE CHESS ASSOCIATION, INC. www.nysca.net The New York State Chess Association, Inc., America‘s oldest chess organization, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting chess in New York State at all levels. As the State Affiliate of the United States Chess Federation, its Directors also serve as USCF Voting Members and Delegates. President Bill Goichberg PO Box 249 The Empire of Chess Salisbury Mills, NY 12577 [email protected] Vice President After a better than expected turnout, both of Grandmasters Polly Wright and of total players, at the New York State Open in Lake 57 Joyce Road Eastchester, NY 10709 George, organizer Steve Immitt declared that the recently [email protected] revived tournament is back on the calendar for good. At Treasurer Karl Heck NYSCA, we are extremely glad to hear that. 5426 Wright Street, CR 67 East Durham, NY 12423 [email protected] New York had another piece of excellent news in June, with Membership Secretary the announcement by USCF that five of the eight Phyllis Benjamin P.O. Box 340511 participants in the 2012 US Cadet in July in Maryland hail Brooklyn, NY 11234-0511 from the Empire State. FM Aleksandr Ostrovskiy leads the [email protected] Board of Directors group, which also includes Barber co-champion NM Justus Upstate Downstate Williams, James Black, Michael Bodek and Joshua Colas. Phil Ferguson Phyllis Benjamin Two of the remaining three players are from New Jersey, Bill Goichberg Dr. Frank Brady Vacant Mark Kurtzman and play at the world-famous Marshall Chess Club in Karl Heck Lenny Chipkin Manhattan. Somehow a player from Rhode Island also rated Ron Lohrman Ed Frumkin William Townsend Carrie Goldstein an invite to the New York, I mean US Cadet. Steve Immitt Congratulations to all of our fine young players on their Gata Kamsky Sophia Rohde achievement. Hopefully the next Bobby Fischer, Joel Harold Stenzel Benjamin or Hideku Nakamura is among them. Carol Jarecki Polly Wright The future of chess in New York is definitely brightening. Tournament Clearinghouses New York remains the leader in sending players to the Zip Codes under 12000 (downstate) National Scholastics, and the state had a champion in all Bill Goichberg [email protected] three National Scholastics this season. With New York products like Nideku Nakamura and Gata Kamsky on the NYS Zip Codes over 11999 (upstate) Karl Heck world stage, New York is known world-wide for chess [email protected] excellence. Deadlines December 15 for the Winter Issue We look forward to continuing that tradition of excellence at March 15 for the Spring Issue th June 15 for the Summer Issue the 134 State Championship in Albany, the longest-running September 15 for the Fall Issue tournament of its kind in the country. See you there! Advertising Manager Contact the Editor. 2 EMPIRE CHESS “The magazine of America’s oldest chess organization” Volume XXXV, Number 2 -- Summer 2012 Cover: Players of all ages, including Expert John Morse in the center, await their moves from New York State Scholastic Chess Champion Deepak Aaron at the Albany Tulip Festival, held on Mother’s Day weeken (photo courtesy Phil Ferguson) From the Editor...................................................................................................................................2 Table of Contents…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….3 New York International Another Triumph for NY Chess……………………………………………….…….4 GM Ivanov Wins 20th New York Open by Bill Townsend…………………………………………………….…..6 Ed-Grr Wins 12th Queens Team by Joe Felber..................................................................................10 Upstate NY Interscholastic Chess Leagues 2011-12 …………………………………………………….. 11 Obvious Moves in the Opening: The Scholastic Column by Zachary Calderon ………………………12 Seven Tie at the Top at Rochester’s Marchand Open …………………………………………………….. 13 Open Lines by Karl Heck ……………………………………………….………………………………………………....14 News from the Marshall by Frank Romano...................................................................................... 15 Buffalo Niagara News from staff report and Buffalo Niagara Chess Corner………………………………......16 Northern NY News by Don Klug………………………………………………………………………………………….18 Capital Region News (including Capital Region Chess League) by Bill Townsend ………………..19 New York State Updated Chess Club Directory ……………………………………………………………..28 New York Tournaments……………………………….............................................................................30 Editor: Karl Heck, [email protected]. 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Box 340511, Brooklyn, NY 11234. Please send articles and advertisements in camera-ready format for publication. (TIF file, Adobe Photoshop, 100 lines per inch). Chess games should be in ChessBase, with boards and positions in final form. Articles should be sent via e-mail, in Microsoft Word, Times New Roman font, size 11. Deadline for the Fall issue is September 15, 2012, although earlier submissions are appreciated, and will more easily guarantee a space in the next magazine. 3 Fifth New York Three players tied for third with 6 ½ points. One was another GM in residence in the Big Apple, International Another Mikheil Kekelidze, whose fifth-round loss to Kacheishvili was ultimately the difference maker at Triumph for NY Chess the top. The other two players received something more valuable than money with their results: FIDE For the fifth consecutive year, the Marshall Chess norms. Texas IM Darwin Yang obtained his Club organized the New York International chess second GM norm, beating GM Vladimir Romanenk tournament, which provides an opportunity to earn in the last round with the norm on the line to cap an FIDE norms in Manhattan, where so much of the undefeated performance of four wins (three in the country's high-level chess is played. The site for first three rounds) and five consecutive draws in this year is the St. John's University Manhattan rounds four through eight. Yang won one and drew campus in Tribeca, a truly unique location that three against GM's in the event. allows players to stay in Manhattan for less than $80 per night. Victor Shen also became New Jersey's newest International Master with his result securing his The nine-round, five-day event maximizes people's third IM norm, wrapping up his norm with a last- chess time and provides a high-quality round win over IM Mackenzie Molner. The Jersey environmental for chess in the city. It is a truly player also defeated last year's New York unique environment for a world-class chess International champion, IM Robert Hungaski, in the tournament, and the New York International is seventh round and drew co-champion and GM more of a European-style Swiss than a tournament Kacheishvili. Congratulations to both players on in the United States. Your typical Grand Prix norms well deserved! tournament at the Marshall has five or six countries represented. For the New York International, it's a Five players tied for sixth with six points: GM Ivan true international, with players from throughout the Ivanisevic, IM Marc Tyler Arnold, IM Zhe Quan, globe represented. Over 200 players, including 70 FM Thomas Bartell and Illinois junior Adarsh in the Open section, participated. Jayakumar. Bartell and Jayakumar earned IM norms for their performance. Jayakumar, who beat The 200 Grand Prix point tournament was two IM's and drew IM Dean Ippolito in the last organized in five sections: FIDE-norm, Under round to secure his second norm, only recently 2200, Under 1900, Under 1600 and Under 1300. joined the 2300 rating ranks and lost rating points at The norm tournament is a nine-round Swiss, while his last tournament, the National High School. Go the remaining four sections are held on the weekend figure! with five rounds. Veteran Pennsylvania FM Thomas Bartell earned The world came to New York, but it was the his norm against a very tough field, as he played six hometown boys that took home the big money. games against players who finished 12th or higher, GM's Tamaz Gelashvili and Giorgi Kacheishvili, as many as the other two IM-norm winners did both resident in New York City, tied for first in the combined. Bartell split those six games, beating FIDE Norm section with undefeated 7-2 scores, IM Conrad Holt (11th), and losingt o Gelashvili with both players receiving $3,750 for their efforts. while drawing the other four games. Only Bartell's The two heavy hitters drew in the seventh round, second-round win was against a non-titled player. and each player scored 1 ½ points out of two the A very impressive performance. rest of the way to stay ahead of the field. Gelashvili defeated FM (and IM norm recipient) Thomas Eleven players tied for 11th with 5 1/2-3 ½ scores in Bartell of Pennsylvania in round eight, and then this very deep tournament. They are IM Conrad drew IM Marc Tyler Arnold. Kacheishvili drew Holt, IM Mackenzie Molner, GM Vladimir GM Ivan Ivanisevic in the eighth round, and then Romanenk, IM Dean Ippolito, IM Michael Mulyar, pulled out a win over IM Conrad Holt in the last IM Colomban Vitous, FM Eric Rosen, FM Louie round to force the tie at the top.

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