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Full results for 2013 Dutchess County Championship
From the TD, Michael O’Connor: Thank you to all of you who participated in the 2013 Dutchess County Championship. A special congratulations to the trophy winners: Ernie Johnson First Place Ayman Haoula Second Place Bob Simmons Class A Mike O’Connor Class B Al Musumeci Class C [Editor’s note and interesting statistic: Class winners Bob Simmons (A), Michael…
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DCC Round 4 Standings
Going into the last round, Ernie Johnson leads with 3.5 points (he has won all his games, taking a draw in the 3rd round in order to play in the USATE). Ayman and Darius have 3 points each, followed by a large number of players with 2.5 points. Monday March 4th is the last round…
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Blitz rating coming in March
The USCF is planning to roll out another rating system, for Blitz events, starting March 1st. The rule update document (link to PDF) outlines the new rating: Blitz rating system: Blitz has its own rating system. To be rated, the time controls require from 5 to 10 minutes total playing time. See also 5C. Ratable time…
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DCC Round 3 Standings
Below are the standings after three rounds of the 2013 Dutchess County Championship. Ayman Haoula tops the list with the only perfect score, followed by Ernie and Darius (who is riding a hot streak), with 2.5 points each. The penultimate round starts at 7;30pm Monday 2/25 – about 70 hours away, as of this update.…
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USATE 2013
Once again Vassar-Chadwick sent multiple teams to one of the most enjoyable tournaments of the year, the US Amateur Team East. Participants included the following (with their final score and rating change in parenthesis): Vassar-Chadwick.com (3.5) Board 1: Ernie Johnson (2, -20) Board 1 is a thankless job… Board 2: Scott Strattner (4, -1)…
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We’re back
Frequent visitors (they exist, right?) may have noticed that our site went off-line for a couple weeks. Our hosting provider suffered from a server failure, and our webmaster suffered from a lack of a reliable backup. But after some frantic rebuilding, and other interruptions (such as USATE), we are back in business. Stay tuned for…