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Make a Difference – Benefit for Prison Chess

david — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:10:38 +0000

Fifteen local players showed up on 7/10/10 at the Blackbaud Office on Daniel Island and participated in a two section Game 60 USCF-rated Swiss event to benefit prison chess in South Carolina. This was the “brainchild” of SCCA Prison Chess Coordinator, Chris Falter, of Summerville, who organized and directed the event. All proceeds were donated to fund prison chess activities under Chris’ direction in S.C. As for the chess event, go to the following link to see the outcome of the competition – Make a Difference Game 60 Swiss. Hopefully, Chris will stage another benefit for prison chess so that we can encourage more players to visit the excellent facility that hosted this event and help with this important cause.

Simul Results and Business Meeting

stephen — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:47:59 +0000

We had a full meeting last Wednesday. Club Champion David Causey finished his simul +8, -1, =3, a score that wouldn’t seem out of place with ones we’ve seen from GMs in our state.

Members also discussed and voted unanimously on a couple changes that will be taking place. We will be adding a monthly kids/family night with a start time around 5 or 5:30 once the space becomes available to us in a month or so. We will also be having continual 5 round Game :60 tournaments. There will be one round each week starting July 7th at 8pm. There will be a weekly entry fee and prizes given, details will be announced soon. The change in starting time is designed to accommodate blitz and thematic tournaments, players looking for casual games, and those members who have a difficult time making it by 7:30. If able please come by 7 to enjoy some of these other activities.

Final Results of 2010 CCC Championship

david — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0000

After over two months of competition, the final results of the Charleston CC Championship have been rated. Go to 2010 CCC Championship and view how everyone finished. Trophies will be awarded at the next meeting on Wednesday, June 30, followed by a simulteanous exhibition by the 2010 champion, David Causey. Also, bring any chess books or equipment that you would like to sell, swap or donate. Be sure to bring your board and set to participate in the simul. See you there and be ready to give the new champion your best game!

GM Ftacnik has no problem with twelve CCC simul opponents

david — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:49:07 +0000

GM Lubomir Ftacnik, after giving an instructive lecture using the last game between GM Anand and GM Topolov in the World Championship match, dispatched all twelve participants in the simultaneous exhibition that followed. Not even a draw was recorded this year against the grandmaster, who just finished winning this year’s S.C. Open in Greenville with a 5-0 score. Though all are “licking their wounds” from the grandmaster’s drubbing, they should have a chance to conduct a post mortem on their game and see where they went wrong. As has always been said in chess, “we learn mostly from our losses.” Many thanks go out to our SCCA president, David Grimaud, along with his sponsorship of GM Ftacnik’s tour of our state through Precision Tune Automotive Care. Also, many thanks to the participants who came out to see GM Ftacnik’s lecture and take their turn over the board against such a formidible grandmaster.

2010 Charleston Chess Club Championship Results thru 6/16/10

david — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:41:35 +0000

	Upper Section
No.	Name	USCF #	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Place
1	Josh Nissenboim	12705060	1887	\|\|\|	WD	WD	WD	WD	WD	WD	1	1
2	Stephen Welt	12812084	1907	-	\|\|\|	0	1	1	1	0	1	4	2nd-3rd
3	David Causey	10213606	1885	-	1	\|\|\|	1	1	1	.5	1	5.5	1st	Trophy
4	Qianli Sun	14038551	1536	-	0	0	\|\|\|	0	1	1	1	3	5th
5	Ian Morton	12780240	1767	-	0	0	1	\|\|\|	1	1	1	4	2nd-3rd	Trophy
6	Richard Hartnett	12655954	1558	-	0	0	0	0	\|\|\|	0	1	1	6th
7	John Vonderlieth	12335210	1815	-	1	.5	0	0	1	\|\|\|	1	3.5	4th
8	BYE			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	\|\|\|	0

	Lower Section
No.	Name	USCF #	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Place	Perf.
1	Wally Jack	13956101	853	\|\|\|	0	0	0	1	0	1	5th
2	Michael Doyle	14242725	Unr	1	\|\|\|	1	1	1	1	5	1st	1757
3	Gordon Miller	12936954	831	1	0	\|\|\|	1	1	0	3	3rd
4	Wei Sun	14229182	601	1	0	0	\|\|\|	1	0	2	4th
5	George Horton	12757688	642	0	0	0	0	\|\|\|	0	0	6th
6	Paul Bryan	12553104	1357	1	0	1	1	1	\|\|\|	4	2nd

Go to “Club Calendar” for scheduled pairings and results.

36th Snowstorm Special Results

david — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:12:15 +0000

The 36th Snowstorm Special was held February 5-7, 2010, with a turnout of twenty-eight players participating. Though numbers were down, the competition was up. Many games featured rating differences of over 400 points, but were strongly contested to the bitter end. Some draws were given up to lower rated opponents even by the best players in the field. For the final crosstables, click the link below:

http://main.uschess.org/assets/msa_joomla/XtblMain.php?201002076831

Congratulations to FM Andrey Chumachenko, NM Philipp Lamby, Expert Kevin Kane and “Super A” (former Expert) Douglas Holmes for tying for the top place with a score of 4-1. Many of our local players won or tied for many of the class prizes, in fact, a total of 18 players out of 28 participating won prize money. Thanks to all who showed up to play and gave it their best shot. For those that missed the tournament for whatever reason, notice that some prizes were given out due to the low number of participants in their class. Don’t let that happen again next year!

GM Kaidanov Simul

stephen — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:27:27 +0000

Grand Master Kaidanov won 13 games and drew 1 in his simultaneous exhibition. He won all four boards in his blitz simul and won his blindfold blitz game.

Nissenboim Victorious?!

stephen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:13:37 +0000

For the third straight year Josh Nissenboim has successfully drawn our visiting Grand Master. Granted the first time they didn’t see him coming, in hindsight Ftacnik didn’t really stand a chance. The second time though, he must have been wondering at how this so called B player was tauntingly, and needlessly, throwing away pawns in a hopelessly drawn opposite color bishop ending until he was up his three useless pawns. It seems no surprise that Ftacnik didn’t show for a third humiliation.

I’m ashamed to admit I wasn’t sure that Josh would do it again. When GM Kaidanov announced that he would be taking the white pieces my doubts grew. When David Grimaud announced that Josh had twice drawn Ftacnik I became down right skeptical. But as Josh offered a draw in a position I thought he might have been winning I’ve started to ask myself not why these GM’s are letting Josh draw them but why he’s letting them draw him.

Congratulations Stephen Welt, 2009 Club Champion

Josh — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:27:29 +0000

The club championship was harrowing, well kind of. In the end it was a tie for first between Stephen Welt and David Causey with 4.5/5. As was pre-arranged the players were to play an indefinite sequence of 2-game mini-matches (G/45) until there was a decisive result. The first and second week experienced missed wins by both sides, and all 4 games were drawn. In week 3 of the playoff Stephen struck in the first game with a win in a Q+R+6 pawns vs Q+R+6 pawns ending. In the second game Stephen offered a draw in a winning position. The draw was accepted, ending the match.

Enjoy a video of this last game.

Qianli Sun won the reserve section. After a five way tie for first, a five way playoff ensued in which Qianli Sun and Susan Reed tied for first. The first game of their playoff match ended in a draw. Qianli was then able to win the second game to win the match and the reserve section.

CCC Championship

stephen — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:21:45 +0000

After five rounds both sections are competing in play offs. In the upper section David Causey and Stephen Welt have tied for first and will begin a mini match on June 3rd.

In the reserve section there was a five way tie for first! Billy Mummert, Terry Mummert, Qianli Sun, Susan Reed, and Gordon Miller all came in first. They have begun play offs and may have a winner by June 3rd as well.

Round 1

Morton, Ian _0_ Causey, David _1_
Vonderlieth, John _1_ Bryan, Paul _0_
Nissenboim, Josh _0_ Welt, Stephen _1_

Mummert, Billy _1_ Reed, Susan _0_
Gordon, Miller _1_ Sun, Qinli _0_
Horton, George, _0_ Mummert, Terry _1_

Round 2

Welt, Stephen _1/2_ Causey, David _1/2_
Bryan, Paul _0_ Nissenboim, Josh _1_
Morton, Ian _0_ Vonderlieth, John _1_

Mummert, Terry _0_ Reed, Susan _1_
Sun, Qianli _1_ Horton, George _0_
Mummert, Billy _0_ Miller, Gordon _1_

Round 3

Causey, David _1_ Vonderlieth, John _0_
Nissenboim, Josh _1_ Morton, Ian _0_
Bryan, Paul _0_ Welt, Stephen _1_

Reed, Susan _1_ Miller, Gordon _0_
Horton, George _0_ Mummert, Billy _1_
Sun, Qianli _1_ Mummert, Terry _0_

Round 4

Causey, David _1_ Bryan, Paul _0_
Vonderlieth, John _1_ Nissenboim, Josh _0_
Welt, Stephen _1_ Morton, Ian _0_

Reed, Susan _0_ Sun, Qianli _1_
Miller, Gordon _1_ Horton, George _0_
Mummert, Terry _1_ Mummert, Billy _0_

Round 5

Nissenboim, Josh _0_ Causey, David _1_
Welt, Stephen _1_ Vonderlieth, John _0_
Morton, Ian _1_ Bryan, Paul _0_

Horton, George _0_ Reed, Susan _1_
Mummert, Terry _1_ Miller, Gordon _0_
Mummert, Billy _1_ Sun, Qianli _0_