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Want to know the standings so far? Here you go! Mark Courtney (1866) and Hernan Salazar (1565) share first place, with a perfect 3.0 Colin Denniston (1980), Chris Brooks (2003), William Fisher (2433), and Craig Fisher (1840) each have 2.5 Michael O’Connor (1653), Ernie Johnson (2013), Robert Simmons (1800), Keith D’Elia (1668), Seamus Gould (1580),…

Before the 2nd round of the 2015 Dutchess County Chess Championship, the annual club meeting was held. The agenda covered election of club officers, a summary of the member survey, overview of suggestions, the treasurer’s report, and an open discussion of ideas. A. Election After announcing the end of his 2nd term, the outgoing president…

If you can only attend a few major chess tournaments a year, you would do well to put the US Amateur Team East (USATE) on your short list. A unique team event, where a scrub has a chance to play against a GM, and where if you are willing to humiliate yourself by performing a skit…

According to the evil meteorologists, this Monday may be yet another snowy mess, with a Winter Storm Warning until Tuesday morning. The ill-fated Year of the Goat Swiss was originally a three round G/75 event, but that turned into a two round Swiss, which was also cancelled, and now hopes are on a one day…

Due to the inclement weather we have not been able to host chess the last two weeks (tonight the Vassar campus is essentially shut down), which means no Year of the Goat Swiss. Sorry. Instead, the intrepid (or unlucky) TD, Dr. Craig Fisher, will look to run a 4 round Quick Swiss next Monday. Details…

Just like Tom Brady against Andrew Luck (minus the psi controversy), the Old triumphed over the Young last Monday, winning 3.5 to 2.5. Young took first blood on board 1, as SM William Fisher dispatched Ernie Johnson.  Young 1 Old 0 On board 2, David Antonucci impressively won over a very tough Colin Denniston. Young…

Nine players participated in our first Quick event of the year, a 4 round Swiss (G/25 + 3 sec delay). The winner was Leonid Freyvert, the favorite by rating, who was undefeated. In addition to the first place trophy, we are also handing out a biggest upset trophy to Angelo Delli Carpini (provisional rating 537),…

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It was the expected result, although he didn’t clinch until the last round. FIDE Master William Fisher wins the Turning Leaves Swiss with 3 out of 4 points. Ken Evans takes 2nd (2.5) on tiebreaks over Chris Brooks. William and Ken will receive trophies, to be handed out during the next event (Winter Swiss, starting…

FIDE Master William Fisher (2497 USCF) graciously agreed to come up to Vassar on Saturday (November 15th) to give a simul. Nine players took up the challenge. Pictures of the event can be found on our club Flickr page. We also had a reporter from the Poughkeepsie Journal stop by taking pictures, so you may…