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Where Organized Chess in America Began EMPIRE CHESS Spring 2017 Volume XL, No Where Organized Chess in America Began EMPIRE CHESS Spring 2017 Volume XL, No. 1 $5.00 Checa Leads List of State Scholastic Champions 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 Thousands of Players [email protected] Vice President The Winter Issue had glitches with the names and proofreading for two of the Polly Wright articles. I apologize for the errors. A corrected version of the Winter Issue 57 Joyce Road Eastchester, NY 10709 will be available by email at [email protected] or on the [email protected] www.nysca.net website. We have revised our proofreading protocol to ensure articles don’t fall through the cracks in the future. Treasurer Karl Heck th 177 Broad Street #C The amazing 50 anniversary New York State Scholastics drew over 1,100 Catskill, NY 12414 players to Saratoga Springs, a record for the event anywhere and likely the [email protected] largest chess tournament ever held in Upstate New York. The headline in the Membership Secretary local newspaper said it all, “Chess Players Take Over Spa City.” It was a Phyllis Benjamin friendly takeover on a cold weekend, but chess was everywhere to be seen in P.O. Box 340969 Brooklyn, NY 11234-0511 mid-March in Saratoga. [email protected] Along with quantity, the New York State Scholastics have always been Board of Directors Upstate Downstate second to none in terms of player quality among State tournaments. Former William Townsend Phyllis Benjamin champion GM Joel Benjamin was back at the tournament as a coach. IM Bill Goichberg Dr. Frank Brady Nicolas de Checa swept the High School section and has a rating of over Shelby Lohrman Margarita Lanides Karl Heck Lenny Chipkin 2500. As Checa is a ninth-grader and former New York State Champion as Ron Lohrman Ed Frumkin well as Scholastic Champion, he will be a formidable road-block to others Brenda Goichberg Polly Wright seeking the title for three more years. He wasn’t even the highest-rated player Steve Immitt Dolly Teasley in the tournament. FM Olivier Chiku-Ratte was with a 2531 Quebec rating Sophia Rohde entering the tournament. He tied for 10th. Harold Stenzel Carol Jarecki Joe Felber Checa is the designated representative of New York for the Denker Sunil Weeramantry Tournament of High School Champions, which will be held this year in Norfolk, VA. Tournament Clearinghouses WFM Martha Samadashvili was the top Girl in the Championship section as a Zip Codes under 12000 (downstate) Bill Goichberg seventh-grader with five points, tying for second overall one point behind [email protected] Checa, and is the designated representative of New York to the Girls’ NYS Zip Codes over 11999 (upstate) Tournament of Champions, also held in Norfolk at the same time as the US Karl Heck Open. [email protected] While younger than much of the competition, both Checa and Samadashvili Deadlines December 15 for the Winter Issue are seasoned tournament veterans with substantial amounts of international March 15 for the Spring Issue experience that makes them formidable competitors at the National June 15 for the Summer Issue September 15 for the Fall Issue Invitationals. Nine National Masters competed in the High School Championship section this year, an impressive number for this type of event. Advertising Manager Contact the Editor. 2 EMPIRE CHESS Where organized chess began in America Volume XL, Number 1 Spring 2017 Cover: The sweatshirt at the State Scholastics says it all about the record-setting tournament in Saratoga Springs, which drew over 1,100 players . Photo by Karl Heck From the Editor 2 Table of Contents 3 Golden Anniversary State Scholastics Smashes Previous Records by Bill Townsend 4 51st Greater NY Scholastics Set Records by Colonel David Hater and Danny Rohde 12 The Closed Catalan by Neal Bellon 15 Over 200 Players Participate at NYS Girls Championship by Vanessa Sun 16 Isolated Queen Pawn by Zachary Calderon 19 Kratzat and Prieto Tie for First in Watertown Blitz Champiouship by Don Klug 20 Open Lines by Karl Heck 21 Notes from the Marshall from staff reports 24 Queens Chess Club Roundup: Bonin Wins Them All by Ed Frumkin 24 TRM 221 at Riverside by Brother John McManus 26 Evans Gambit: Normal Position by Richard Moody 27 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 self-addressed, 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, 2017, although earlier submissions are appreciated, and will more easily guarantee a space in the next magazine. 3 . Golden Anniversary NY State Scholastics Smashes Previous Records Nicolas Checa and Justin Chen win HS and JHS championships with perfect 6-0 scores by Bill Townsend The 50th Annual New York State Scholastic if he hadn’t won his last-round game the finish could Championships took place March 11 and 12 in have looked quite different. Saratoga Springs. For years, the tournament has been flirting with breaking into four digits, and this year it Below: The new champion playing Lev finally did it, and how! My count is that 1,117 Paciorkowski in the last round. players competed in the 11 sections. Obviously this crushes last year’s total of 925 and 2015’s record of 921. Not only that, it smashes the previous NYS Scholastic Championship record of 990, set in 2000 at Pleasantville in Westchester County. This is the 11th consecutive that the tournament has been anchored at Saratoga, and it continues to mutate as it grows. Initially the tournament was based at the Saratoga Hilton, but had problems expanding into the City Center next door because of competing events being held there. To resolve this issue, last year the event was moved from February to mid-March and more sections were moved to the City Center. This year there were actually no sections in the Hilton at all, only team rooms. The sections were all in the City Center, except for the two High School sections, played a half mile down the road at the Courtyard Marriott. The winner of the 106-player High School Championship section was IM Nicolas Checa. This is the first time he has won the State Scholastics, but Top seed Canadian FM Olivier Chikku-Ratte lost his not the first time he has been a New York State fifth round game to NM Lev Paciorkowski, who in Champion – he was the top New Yorker at the 2013 turn lost to Checa in the final round. Besides the overall tournament, when he was just 11 years old. championship trophy, Checa wins free admission to By the same token, he’s not the first person to win the overall championship in Albany over Labor Day both championships in the reverse of the expected weekend, and is the New York entry to the Denker order: IM Alex Ostrovskiy was overall State Tournament of High School Champions held in champion in 2010, 2015 and 2016, but won the State Norfolk, Virginia this summer. Scholastics in 2014. Eight players placed second through ninth with 5-1. In hindsight, Checa’s 6-0 result seems like an scores. In tiebreak order they were NM William inevitable march to victory, but it didn’t seem that Graif, NM Lev Paciorkowski, NM Warren Wang, way while the tournament was going on. He didn’t WFM Martha Samadashvili, Derek Chen, FM Shawn play on the top board until the final round, and while Rodrigue-Lemieux, Max Li and FM Ethan Li. With he was the only player with 5-0 at the end of round 5, her fifth-place finish WFM Martha Samadashvili is 4 the designated New York entry to the National Girls 17½ points. Edward R. Murrow was third on Tournament of Champions held in Norfolk this tiebreaks, also with 17½. East Side Community High summer. Tenth and eleventh with 4½ were: FM School was fourth with 16 points while Pioneer High Olivier Chikku-Ratte and WIM Maili-Jade Ouellette.
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