Author: Craig Fisher

Thirteen year old Chess Expert, Colin Denniston, scored 3.5 out of 4 to lead the field of 11 players.  Leo Freyvert and Courtney Denniston tied for second place with 2.5 points. Please copy and paste this URL in address line at top of your web page to see the USCF Rating Report: http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?201510262032 After 2…

Scott Strattner made a roaring comeback by defeating 3 former Dutchess County Champions, Ernie Johnson (2044), Chris Brooks (2076) and Ayman Haoula (1970) and scoring 4 wins against no losses and no draws to be a clear winner of the “Back to Vassar Dual” chess tournament. Scott made a whopping jump in rating from 1955…

The Wall Chart for the first 2 rounds of the “Back to Vassar Special” is shown below. Two 1900 plus players , Ayman and Scott, are the only players to have 2 wins.  Here are the Vassar-Chadwick Grand Prix Standings!  Who will make History and be the first one to get their name on the…

Ten year old Brandon Wang (1981) scores 8 wins – 2 losses to win the Vassar RR Blitz.  Expert Ernie Johnson (2051) came in 2nd with 7.5 points and expert Leo Freyvert (2003) came in 3rd with a score of 7 wins and 3 losses.  The strong field of 11 players included 4 experts and…

The VASSAR SPRING QUICK SWISS played in April with 10 players, found Eric Horsboll (2008) scoring 3.5 points out of a possible 4 to win the Spring Quick Swiss tournament. Archie Dore (unr) scored 3 points to win the ‘Booster Section” while Mike Mendez (1649) won the biggest upset prize with a win over expert…

INTRODUCING the VASSAR-CHADWICK GRAND PRIX ! The basic idea is that playing in our Rated tournaments (with the exception of blitz round robin tourneys) will earn you Grand Prix GP points from Sept 21 to the last day of the Duchess County Championship in Spring 2016. The winner who accumulates the most points will get his/her name…

We start the new chess season at Vassar in Rockefeller Hall, rooms 101 and 104, at 7PM on Sept. 14 with an exciting round robin Blitz tournament planned. We are also beginning a new concept, to us, of a VASSAR-CHADWICK Grand PRIX as follows: INTRODUCING the VASSAR-CHADWICK GRAND PRIX ! The basic idea is that…

Ernst T. Johnson, Jr. won 5 games and drew 1 out of a possible 7 games to win this challenging Round Robin.  Eight players competed with three rated  experts, two A Players, and three B players. A very nice competitive tournament!  Brandon Wang qualifies to win the Booster Trophy and the Biggest Upset Trophy.  However our club policy…

Will Fisher scored a perfect score of 4 – 0 to win the heralded Summer Solstice Swiss Chess tournament held at Marist College.  Special congratulations to Richard Whearty for winning the Booster Section with a score of 2 wins and 2 losses.  Will Karafelis is making a habit of winning the biggest upset trophy by defeating…