Author: Chris Brooks

A few current and past club members ventured up to Rochester this St. Patty’s weekend to participate in this year’s Marchand Open. FM Bobby Sulman finished up with 4.0/5, which was good enough to tie for 3rd with five others, including GM Shabalov and current DCC top rated NM Matan Prilleltensky. Mat also played to…

Happy New Year to all our members! The Grand Prix has been updated, check it out here. A reminder that next Monday, January 7 is a club holiday, no meeting scheduled.

Bob Simmons completed a perfect 4-0 tournament (!) by upsetting Ernie Johnson in the last round. Trevor Brooks and Darius Jafary tied for 2nd with 3.0/4 each. Congratulations to our winners. The Grand Prix will be updated soon after the official results come in from the TD. So Bob Simmons wins the First Place Trophy…

The Winter and Spring schedule has been posted.  View it here.

Our Chadwick Grand Prix has been updated to a easier to view standings sort, and we were able to dig up final results for previous champions.  View them here

Happy Thanksgiving from the club leadership to all our members!  The Grand Prix has been updated to reflect results of the recently completed Falling Leaves Swiss.  The next update will arrive somewhere between Christmas and New Years.

Peter Barkman won the shorter than usual Falling Leaves Swiss with a score of 2.5/3.  Ernie Johnson, Trevor Brooks, Craig Fisher, and Harold Stenger followed with 2/3 each.  Our next event is the Holiday Leaves Swiss which features a normal four rounds.  Thanks to all who participated.

Trevor Brooks completed an undefeated tournament, winning our Club Championship with a final score of 4.5/5.  Very well done for our youngest champion ever!  Ayman Haoula secured a draw with Trevor in the final round to lock up the Class A prize with 4/5.  John Weigand and Hernan Salazar-Chala both finished up with 3/5 to…

The Keith Delia Memorial tournament has been added.  It will run on (Saturday) October 20 starting at 9:30 AM.  It will not be played at Vassar College, Rockefeller Hall.  Instead, it will run at Secretary Ernie’s church at 469 Coldenham Rd, Walden, NY 12586.  Thanks to Ernie Johnson for the space to run the event. …

I would like to put a quick blurb on our parking situation near Rockefeller Hall (especially for the club championship/DCC weeks).  Our directions page is here to get to the area.  Once on that side road on campus, across from Rockefeller is a rectangular parking lot with about a half dozen spots (driving south its…