by scribe | Mar 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
Okay, here’s what everyone wants to know: Who qualified for the U.S. Championship? The results became official about one minute ago. The top eleven people, who all qualify for the U.S. Championship, are (in order of tiebreaks): Kraai (5.5) Becerra (5.5) —...
by scribe | Mar 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
It’s a drizzly Sunday morning here in Tulsa, as we get ready for round six. I can see from the comments that some of you want pairings. We’ve got your pairings! Here they are. Games start at 9:00 local time, 10:00 Eastern time. Yermolinsky (4.5) –...
by scribe | Mar 29, 2008 | Chess Lecture, endings, games, literature, people, tournaments
A quick update between rounds… I won in both round three and round four, so I now have a score of 2-2 and feel as if I’m back in the tournament. When I told my wife last night about my nervousness with this funny time control, she said, “Why? It...
by scribe | Mar 28, 2008 | games, people, tournaments
The U.S. Championship Qualifier got under way today. The final turnout was 104 people, with 10 grandmasters. The top-rated player in the tournament is Julio Becerra. There were no big surprises yet that I know of, but we did have our first mini-controversy. In the...
by scribe | Mar 25, 2008 | Chess Lecture, Chess Life, games, tournaments
I was just playing over one of David Vigorito’s games in the recently concluded Foxwoods Open, and darned if he didn’t pull out the Hook and Ladder Trick! That makes him the second ChessLecturer I know of to make use of it. (The first one was Jesse Kraai,...
