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Where Organized Chess in America Began Where Organized Chess in America Began EMPIRE CHESS Spring 2015 Volume XXXVIII, No. 1 $5.00 Chess Flight of Six in Lockport. Empire Chess P.O. Box 340969 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 Salisbury Mills, NY 12577 Records: Made to be broken. [email protected] Vice President From its founding as the first state scholastic chess tournament in the Polly Wright country, the New York State Scholastics have long been about being 57 Joyce Road Eastchester, NY 10709 cutting-edge and record-setting. [email protected] This year’s 920-player event in Saratoga Springs continued that long Treasurer Karl Heck tradition. On behalf of NYSCSA, thank you for the support of all of the 5426 Wright Street, CR 67 players, coaches and parents who came to the Spa City to contest our East Durham, NY 12423 Scholastic Championship. [email protected] th Membership Secretary The 48 annual tournament set an Upstate record for attendance, and was Phyllis Benjamin the second-highest attended tournament ever. A few years ago, the USCF P.O. Box 340511 National Office had largely written off chess in New York. Empire Chess Brooklyn, NY 11234-0511 [email protected] players are showing the country, and the USCF, where the best and most dedicated scholastic players in the country live. Board of Directors Upstate Downstate William Townsend Phyllis Benjamin This year’s tournament also had one feature not previously known in our Bill Goichberg Dr. Frank Brady history: two venues. Despite the recent expansion of the Saratoga Springs Shelby Lohrman Mark Kurtzman City Center, the venue still wasn’t big enough for our tournament. A Karl Heck Lenny Chipkin Ron Lohrman Ed Frumkin neighboring hotel had to be rented at the last minute to handle the High Polly Wright School tournament and the Parents/Friends event. Hopefully the officials Steve Immitt in Saratoga Springs to find some more room to make the City Center even Gata Kamsky Sophia Rohde larger. Harold Stenzel Carol Jarecki The New York State Scholastic has become a celebration of the Empire State’s scholastic players. Three of them qualified for the summer Scholastic Invitationals: SM Joshua Colas, our New York State Scholastic Tournament Clearinghouses Zip Codes under 12000 (downstate) Champion, will be representing us in the Denker Tournament of High Bill Goichberg School Champions. NM Marcus Mikasaya won the Junior High [email protected] Championship and will represent New York in the Barber K-8 Championship. Ella Papanek was the top girl player in the High School NYS Zip Codes over 11999 (upstate) Karl Heck section and won the right to represent us in the National Girls Invitational [email protected] Tournament. Deadlines Congratulations to all of these champions. All three invitations will occur December 15 for the Winter Issue March 15 for the Spring Issue during the US Open in August in Phoenix. June 15 for the Summer Issue September 15 for the Fall Issue In two years, the New York State Scholastic will celebrate its 50th Advertising Manager anniversary. It has become a event that is not only a great tradition in New Contact the Editor. York, but throughout the entire country. It is a tradition we can all be proud of establishing and growing. 2 EMPIRE CHESS Where organized chess began in America Volume XXXVIII, Number 1 – Spring 2015 Cover: Mayor Anne McCaffrey, has invited the Golden Knights of Lockport to the Lockport City Council meeting tonight at 6pm to give special recognition certificates to the six players who participated in the 48th annual New York State Scholastic Chess Championships. Pictured is 2015 New York State Scholastic undefeated Champion - Ashton A. William and USCF Head Coach Michael A. Mc Duffie. L-R (front) are Jonathan Carmina, Ashton William, JonLuke Pencille and Ryan Carmina. (Back) are Drew Podgorny, Andrew Pencille, USCF Head Coach Michael A. Mc Duffie and Mayor Anne McCaffrey. (photo Michael McDuffie). From the Editor. 2 Table of Contents 3 State Scholastics by Bill Townsend 4 New York’s Scholastic Invitational Representatives 11 You Don’t Need to be Perfect by Neil Bellon 12 Brooklyn Represents! Spinnell Wins Top Section of Greater NY Scholastics 14 2014-15 MHSCL Season Summary by Larry King 16 Marchand Madness Warms Up Rochester’s Winter by Karl Heck 18 News from the Marshall by Frank Romano. 19 Postional Compensation by Zachary Calderon 21 Queens CC Winter Summary by Ed Frumkin 23 Watertown Chess News byy Don Klug 24 Wilkes-Barre/Traxler by Richard Moody 25 Capital Region News from staff reports 26 New York Tournaments 29 Editor: Karl Heck, [email protected]. Webmaster: Daniel Heck, www.nysca.net. Empire Chess, the official publication of the New York State Chess Association, Inc., is published quarterly. No liability is assumed with respect to the use of any information contained herein, or for any advertised products. Opinions expressed are solely those of the contributors, and not necessarily those of NYSCA. Empire Chess is COPYRIGHTED, 2015. Empire Chess accepts articles, games, tournament reports, art work and photos. No responsibility is assumed for unsolicited material. All material submitted for publication becomes the property of Empire Chess, and will not be returned unless accompanied by a selfaddressed, stamped envelope. Letters received by Empire Chess are accepted & subject to editing. Please send to: Karl Heck, [email protected]. Membership in the NYSCA: $20/year with four printed Empire Chess; $12/year with online Empire Chess (two printed). To join, write to: Phyllis Benjamin, P.O. Box 340969, Brooklyn, NY 11234. NYSCA membership now gets you discounts at Continental Chess Association events in New York State and all New York State Championship tournaments. 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 Summer issue is June 15, 2015, although earlier submissions are appreciated, and will more easily guarantee a space in the next magazine. 3 th with 5½-½, but the fight was very close until the very 48 NY State end. Colas drew with Olivier Chiku-Ratte in round five, and in the final round beat former New York State Champion Nicolas Checa, the only perfect 5-0 Scholastics in remaining. Saratoga Smashes The other 4½, Chiku-Ratte, could only draw against expert Lev Paciorkowski leaving Colas all alone on Attendance Record top. Besides the trophy, Colas gets free entry to the State Championship proper in September and also is the New York State representative at the Denker Yet Again Tournament of High School Champions. Joshua Colas wins his second High Second thru seventh with 5-1 were: Olivier Chiku- Ratte, Nicolas Checa, Isaac Barayev, Alisher School title; Marcus Miyasaka Podavonov, Lev Paciorkowski and Patrick Chi. clear winner of Junior High Eighth through tenth with 4½-1½ were: Shawn Swindell, Ethan Li and Mubassar Uddin. There were section nine players with 4-2, but only the top 15 players are awarded trophies. Eleventh through fifteenth were: by Bill Townsend Andrew Meyer, James Black, Zachary Martin, Brian The 48th Annual New York State Scholastic Arthur and Empire Chess columnist Zachary Championships took place February 28 and March 1 Calderon. Joe Fratianni was top player rated under in Saratoga Springs. The total of 927 players in nine 1500 with 2½ and Theodore Chapman was top player sections again smashed the record for most players in under 1300 with 2. an upstate scholastic, leapfrogging over last year’s total of 775. There was some debate about last year’s Ella Papenak scored 3 1/2, and won the right to being the biggest tournament ever held in Upstate represent New York State in the National Girls’ New York, but this is clearly a new high water mark. Invitational Tournament during the US Open on It is, however, not the biggest turnout at a New York tiebreaks over Martha Samadashvili. State Scholastic – while four-digit turnouts have been claimed the biggest I could find was 990 at the 2000 Top team here was Nest-M School with 17½ points event, held in Pleasantville in Westchester County. while Brooklyn’s Edward M. Murrow High School There were 984 in 2002 in Brooklyn. was second with 16½. Brighton High School from the Rochester area was third with 15, Brooklyn Tech Will this record fall at next year’s event? It is a was fourth with 14 and Joseph C. Wilson Magnet possibility, but there are problems running an event High School of Rochester was fifth with 12½ points. this size. Last year the tournament expanded into the Saratoga City Center attached to the playing site, and The 98-player High School Reserve section finished this year it expanded further: the High School and with three players at the top with 5½ with their final High School Reserve sections were held at the places decided by tiebreaks. First through third were: Marriott down the road from the Saratoga Hilton. Weston White, Austin Kossow, and Alexander While the two sites were only a third of a mile apart, Ordonez. Fourth through eighth with 5-1 were: it was not a fun walk: the sidewalks were icy and the Abdoulaye Diallo, Rohit Mehandru, Danny Diaz, weather was very cold.
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