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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]