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"The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality." Bobby Fischer 1) Mechanics' Institute Chess Club News 2) October FIDE Rating List 3) New Book by Kasparov 4) East Bay Chess Club Activities 5) Val Zemitis win Merk Memorial 6) Here and There 7) MI Book and Equipment Donations 8) Upcoming Events Mechanics' Institute Chess Club NewsIGM Dmitry Gurevich will give a special lecture next Wednesday night, October 13, in the MI Members Lounge on the 4th. The lecture, which runs from 5:15 to 6:30, is free to all. Dmitry's talk should be a great warm-up for the Western States Open which starts Friday, October 15, in Reno. If you would like to play for the Mechanics' team please contact John Donaldson at imwjd@aol.com before October 11. Last night Filipino IM Ricardo DeGuzman won a tough last round battle against FM Frank Thornally to take first place in the Robert Jordan Tuesday Night Marathon. Tying for second, half a point back of DeGuzman's score of 7-1, were Experts Nicolas Yap and Ariel Mazzarelli. Both players scored two upsets against masters during the event.
Prize Winners: IM DeGuzman was again successful in the 4th annual J.J. Dolan Memorial held October 2 at the Mechanics' scoring 5-0 to take first. Tying for second at 4-1 were Dmitry Vayntraub and Felix German (formerly Rudyak), while Yefim Bukh and Ewelina Krubnik were equal fourth in the 29-player event directed by Anthony Corrales. Arthur Ibragimov won the September 29th Wednesday Night Blitz followed by John Cline and Yefim Bukh. The main Chess Room is closing until October 25 for the installation of new flooring but the club's regular activities will consider as usual in Room 407. 2) October FIDE Rating ListThe new FIDE rating list is out with GMs Morozevich and Topalov creeping towards Vladimir Kramnik's number 3 position.
1. Kasparov - 2813 US players in the top 100 are: =43. Onischuk 2653 = 64. Seirawan 2631 =83. Nakamura and Goldin 2620 =98. Kaidanov 2611 Other US players at 2600 and above are Shabalov (2608) and Gulko (2600). Top West Coast players are GMs Akobian (2571) and Yermolinsky (2568). 3) New Book by KasparovThe New York Post reports that Penguin Press, the Penguin Group (USA) imprint run by ex-Random honcho Ann Godoff, bought two big ticket items at auction for a combined price of more than $750,000. In both cases, the agents held on to foreign rights, with the intention of pitching them at Frankfurt. After three days of incremental bidding, Emily Loose at Penguin agreed to pay close to $500,000 for "How Life Imitates Chess," by champion Garry Kasparov. The Azerbaijan-born Kasparov has been the No. 1 ranked chess player in the world since 1984, according to the 31-page proposal that was sent to nine publishers. "Before I knew much about life, I understood chess," it begins and then goes on to explain how advantage, initiative, opinion, threat and hope (among other ideas) influence both life and game. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Crown and Simon & Schuster were the underbidders for the philosophical self-help tome. Kasparov's co-author, is Mark Reiter, who is also acting as agent. 4) East Bay Chess Club ActivitiesSM David Pruess writes: International Master Vinay Bhat to take on Fritz chess program. One of Berkeley's strongest chess players, International Master Vinay Bhat, will be taking a day off from his studies at Cal to take on premier chess program Fritz in a two game match, Saturday October 9th. The games will be played at the recently opened East Bay Chess Club, 1940 Virginia St (at Milvia) in Berkeley, at 11:00 A.M. and 3 P.M. Live move-by-move commentary will be provided in the next room by International Master John Donaldson and National Master Andy Lee, two of Berkeley's other leading players. IM Bhat set a U.S. record, becoming the youngest master in the country at the age of 10 in 1995. He went on to earn his International Master title at the young age of 16. He is now a fulltime student in Political Economy at UC Berkeley, teaching and directing at the East Bay Chess Club part-time. Fritz is a commercial version of a program, which in recent years has (under the names "Deep Fritz" and "X3D Fritz") drawn matches with the current world champion, Vladimir Kramnik, and the world's #1 rated player, Garry Kasparov. It is developed by the ChessBase team, and can be obtained at their website, www.chessbase.com. East Bay Chess Club G/60 Tournament
Sunday, October 10th, 2004
Location: 1940 Virginia St., Berkeley, CA
Registration/Check-in: 9-9:45 AM the day of the tournament.
Rounds: 10 AM, 12:15 PM, 2:45 PM, and 5:00 PM Time control: Game in 1 hour.
Entry fee: $15 if mailed before 10/2, $20 at site.
If you'd like to mail your entry, print out the form here.
Prizes: (Based on 30 full entries): Directors: David Pruess, Vinay Bhat, Andy Lee 5) Val Zemitis win Merk MemorialVal Zemitis of Davis won the Merk Memorial Correspondence Tournament organized by Northwest Chess magazine. Here is a key win in Zemitis' favorite Latvian Gambit.
Thompson,L - Zemitis,V [C40] 6) Here and ThereCrossville, Tennessee, appears to be the clear front runner in the race to become the new home of the United States Chess Federation despite a clearly superior financial offer from Lindsborg, Kansas. Both offers are good for the USCF. Crossville is offering free land, the ability to use the land as equity to secure an interest free loan to put up a building and a place to operate from rent free while construction is going on. Lindsborg is offering free land and a building (already constructed) plus $72,000 in relocation money. Also still in the mix is an offer from Liberty, New York. The Executive Board will vote on a final decision in a few weeks. The annual Isle of Man tournament was won by GMs Ehsan Ghaem Maghami of Iran and Petr Kiriakov of Russia with 7 from 9. Hikaru Nakamura, who lost his last two games to finish =16th at 5.5, could not have been happy about his result but still had a 2592 FIDE performance IM Dmitry Schneider (2454 FIDE) had a solid 5 from 9 for a 2504 result. Frequent Mechanics' guest GM Suat Atalik of Turkey turns 40 on October 10. The 1st Sevastopol Invitational 2004 was held September 23-26 with a time control of G/25. Final Standings:
1. Karjakin (UKR) 3.5 out of 5 Sergey Kudrin, Yury Shulman and Alex Yermolinsky are the invited GMs for the 8th annual Governor's Cup in Sioux Falls, South Dakota from October 29-31. Bob Long's ChessCo will handle the book concession. MI GM-in-Residence Alex Yermolinsky will continue his trip to the Heartland the following week. He, IMs Andrew Martin and Igor Khmelnitsky and CGM Jonathan Berry will be the featured guests at Bob Long's chess festival in Iowa. Go to http://www.chessco.com/ for more information. The September issue of the German magazine Schach reports that Amsterdam based Yasser Seirawan took part in two events this past August in Mainz. He finished =14th with 7.5 from 11 in the 207 player 960-Open (Fischer Random Chess) in a very strong field and did even better in the Ordix-Open. This 542-player rapid chess event featured 31 of the top 100 players in the world. Alexander Grischuk was first at 9.5 from 11 with Yasser, Vaganian, Rublevsky, Zvaginsev, Morozevitch, Dautov and Greenfeld sharing second with 9 points. Retirement seems to be suiting Yasser well! GM Alex Wojtkiewicz of Maryland and IM Stanislav Smetankin of Minnesota tied for first in the 63rd Indiana State Championship held September 25-26 in Indianapolis. The two winners score of 4.5 from 5 was good for $638 each. NM Jim Dean became Indiana State Chess Champion with his 4-1 score. NM Nick Adams scored 3.5 with a draw versus Wojtkiewicz and a win over SM Todd Andrews. Longtime Cal Chess Journal editor and Bay Area chess teacher Frisco Del Rosario has just published his first book. A First Book of Morphy (213 pages; perfect bound) illustrates basic principles by world correspondence champion Cecil Purdy and grandmaster Reuben Fine with 65 games by the legendary American champion Paul Morphy. The author was named Teacher of the Week by the San Jose Mercury News on Aug. 19, 2004. Copies can be ordered at http://www.trafford.com/robots/04-1714.html, or by sending send $20 to Frisco at 126 15th Ave., San Mateo 94402. 7) MI Book and Equipment DonationsBook and equipment donations to the Mechanics' are always welcome. All donations to the Mechanics' are tax deductible due to the M.I.'s 501(c) (3) nonprofit status. If you have any chess books or equipment that have been lying around unused for some time consider donating to the Mechanics'. You will not only get a tax write off but also the satisfaction of seeing things put to good use. 8) Upcoming EventsUpcoming Tournaments at the MI
Carroll Capps Memorial - November 6-7 Mechanics Institute Scholastic Quads 2004 Tournaments:
October 16, November 13, December 18 Rounds : 10:30am, 12:15pm, 2:00pm Late Registration: 9:30am - 10:15am Open: to the first eighty players Note: Quads based on rating. USCF Rated. Unrated players face each other. You must be a USCF member to play in the quads. Time Control: Game in 45 minutes Entry Fee: $20 / $30 day of tournament/ $15 for MI members Checks payable to Mechanics' Chess Club Prizes: Trophies for the winners of each quad. Northern California Events
Oct. 9, 10 Burlingame Open Oct. 15-17 22nd Annual SANDS REGENCY RENO-WESTERN STATES OPEN GPP: 200 Nevada Special guest for 5 days-former World Champion GM Boris Spassky!!! 6SS, 40/2, 20/1. Sands Regency Hotel/Casino, 345 N. Arlington Ave., Reno, NV 89501. 1-800-648-3553 or (775) 348-2200. $$52,400 b/500, $$33,550 Gtd. G-$5,000-2500-1500-1200-1000-900-800-700-600-500 in Open Section plus 1/2 of all other prizes. 7 Sections: OPEN: EF: GMs & IMs free, Masters $150, (2000-2199) $201, (1999-below) $301. $$ Prizes 1-10 listed above, (2400-2499) $1000, (2300-2399) $1000-600-400, (2299-below) $1000-600-400. If a tie for 1st overall then (G/15) playoff for $100 from prize fund. (Note: GM/IM w/free entry not eligible for class prizes 2499and below, may elect to pay entry fee and become eligible). EXPERT: (2000-2199) EF: $149 $$2,000-1000-500-400-300-200-200-200-200-100-100-100-100-100 (under 2100) $700. "A" Sec. (1800-1999) EF: $148, $$1,900-1000-500-400-300-200-200-200-200-100-100-100-100-100-100. "B" Sec. (1600-1799) EF: $147, $$1,800-1000-500-400-300-200-200-200-200-100-100-100-100-100-100. "C" Sec. (1400-1599) EF: $146, $$ 1,700-1000-500-400-300-200-200-200-100-100-100-100-100-100-100. "D" Sec. (1200-1399 including adult unrateds) EF: $145 (unrated EF: $10 + must join USCF membership for 1 additional year through this tournament ($49 adults). $$1,500-800-500-400-300-200-200-200-100-100-100-100-100-100-100 (top unrated wins 1 yr. USCF membership plus trophy). "E" Sec. (1199-below including unrated Jrs.) EF: $75 (unrated EF: $10 + must join USCF membership for 1 additional yr. through this tournament ($25 Jrs.) (Note: each entry counts as 1/2 paid player towards total prize fund). $$500-400-300-200-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100; 1st unrated - 1 year USCF membership + trophy. Seniors (65/over) $$500-300-200-100 (Srs not eligible: provisionally rated, unrated, "E" & masters) - Club Championship $$1000-500-300-200 decided by total score of best 10 scores form one club or area (not eligible - masters, unrated and Sec "E") Trophies to Top 3 (A-E Sections). ALL: $11 more if postmarked after 9/27/04 and $22 more if postmarked after 10/10/04 or at site. $20 off EF to Sr 65/over and Jrs 19/under (does not apply to "E" Section or Unrateds) Players may play up. Unrated players not eligible for cash prizes except Open 1-10. Provisionally rated players may win up to 50% of 1st place money except open Section 1-10. CCA ratings may be used. Note pairings not changed for color alternation unless 3 in a row or a plus 3 and if the unlikely situation occurs 3 colors in a row may be assigned. Reg: 5-9pm (10/14), 8:30-10am (10/15) rds 12-7, 10-7, 9:30-6. Byes available any round if requested before 1st round. Side events: 10/14 6-7:30pm GM Larry Evans lecture (free), Blitz (5 min) Tourney ($20) 7:30pm. GM Boris Spassky's schedule: Wed (10/13) "An Evening with Boris" dinner, cocktails & more advanced reservations required $30, 8:30pm. Thurs (10/14 Simul (25 boards) $100 (includes commemorative pen to all players), Spectator fee $5, 7:30pm. Fri (10/15) Book Signing Session 10-11am. Sat (10/16) Clinic - $10 4:30-6pm. Sun (10/17) film "Clash of the Titans" (Boris Spassky & Bobby Fischer) followed by questions & answers with Boris Spassky & Larry Evans, $10, 4-5:30pm. NOTE: All paid players receive free non transferable admission to all Spassky events except Wed dinner. Ent: Make checks payable and send to: SANDS REGENCY (address above) HR: $39 (Sun-Thurs) & $59 (Fri-Sat) + 13.5% tax. Info: Jerry Weikel, 6578 Valley Wood Drive, Reno NV 89523, (775) 747-1405 (wackyykl@aol.com) FIDE, W.
Oct. 30-31 Blacknight October Open Southern California
A Heritage Event! National Events
Oct. 29-31. GPP: 80 South Dakota Mark these two events down on your calendar. The PAN AM Intercollegiate will be held in Kansas right after Christmas.Email Mikhail Korenman for more information at mkorenman@yahoo.com 4th Annual Lindsborg Open December 17-22 GM & IM norms are available; $4,000 guaranteed prize fund! Rapid Knock-out Tournament Lindsborg, Kansas December 23-25, 2004 $11,500 guaranteed prize fund! 9SS; |