Author: Chris Brooks

Our 4 Games @ Poughkeepsie tournament (G20 d10) has two start times: 4-SS, Registration at 630, Round 1 at 7.  3-SS, Registration at 730, Round 2 at 8.

Happy New Year to our members and followers!  A reminder that we will return on January 8 at 630 PM for our four rated games tournament!  Also, the blitz on January 15 has a time control of Game 5, no delay.  It will still be a double swiss, double round robin if there are six…

Merry Christmas from the Vassar-Chadwick Chess Club staff to our family, friends, members and followers!  See you on January 8.

Our inaugural 4 Games @ Poughkeepsie got off to a slow start, with only four players showing up for the 7 PM start.  Relative newcomer Rudolph Van Dommele won the converted quad with 2.5/3 total.  Ernie Johnson finished with 2/3.  Our next 4-game event is January 8, again starting at 7. For those that might…

Chris Brooks and Sandhya Sudarsanam won their respective quads with perfect 3-0 scores!  Sandhya upset newcomer Joshua Chapman in the final round to take 1st in that quad.  I apologize for the incorrect post last week, but next week the first round will begin at 7PM.  Registration will get going around 6:30.  A bye is…

Trevor Brooks upset Ernie Johnson to win this latest addition to the Vassar Quads (converted to swiss).  He finished with 3 points, Ernie, Shiv and Darius finished with 2.  A reminder that next week, round 1 starts at 7.

Chris Brooks (2046) defeated Chris Keefe (1840) in the G60 d10 playoff to win the inaugural standalone Club Championship!

Congrats to our Chadwick Grand Prix bonus point winners, updated after the club championship: (4.0) Chris Brooks / Chris Keefe: 1st/2nd (3.5) Ernie Johnson / Peter Barkman: Class A (3.0) Darius Jafary: Class B (2.5) Ori Raz: Class C (2.0) Michael Guse / Taylor Dean / David Wright: Class D

Here are the results from our final round: (2053) Chris Brooks 0.5-0.5 Colin Denniston (2071) (2106) Leo Freyvert 0-1 Chris Keefe (1840) (1744) Harry Stenger 0-1 Ernie Johnson (1924) (1872) Peter Barkman 1-0 Ken Evans (1806) (1872) Rasit Topaloglu 1-0 Trevor Brooks (1715) (1638) JJ Oracz 0-1 Robert Simmons (1811) (1783) Darius Jafary 1-0 Michael…

Here are the results from round 4: (2071) Colin Denniston 0.5-0.5 Leo Freyvert (2106) (2053) Chris Brooks 1-0 Robert Fanshel (1987) (1924) Ernie Johnson 0.5-0.5 Ken Evans (1806) (1840) Chris Keefe 1-0 Rasit Topaloglu (1872) (1811) Bob Simmons 0-1 Harry Stenger (1744) (1739) Michael O’Connor 0-1 Darius Jafary (1783) (1065) Shivansh Patel 0-1 Ori Raz…