Waltham Chess Club – June 2017: SUMMERTIME! 960Chess

Waltham Chess Club – June 2017: SUMMERTIME! 960Chess

Fellow Chess-Players,

It has been a long time since I have posted any tournament results on Waltham Chess Club’s website.  Since then there have been a lot of changes on Waltham Chess Club’s schedule, and one of the more recent ones is the addition of 960Chess, or Fischer Random.

At our second 960Chess Summertime! Tournament on June 23, 2017, we drew in 12 players.   The major procedural change from last time was to randomize the positions better by drawing them directly off the chessgames.com website instead of pre-printing them.  This change definitely made the chosen positions much more varied.

SM Denys Shmelov, Robert King, and Anand Nair split 1^st, 2^nd , 3^rd, and Under 1800 Prizes.   Highlight and Upset Game of the night: Vitaliy Ryabinin defeated Denys Shmelov in Round 2.  Evidently 960Chess is tricky for players at all levels!

Full standings are below my signature.

Blitz Championship in July.  We’ll see you soon over the board.

Nicholas P. Sterling, Ph.D.

Waltham Chess Club

Tournament Director

Final Standings. SUMMERTIME! 960Chess – 06-23-2017

#	Name	ID	Rtng	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Tot	Prize
1	Robert King	12681247	2008	W3	W12	W8	W4	L2	4.0	1st-2nd-3rd Tied
2	Denys Shmelov	13433622	2379	W7	L4	W5	W8	W1	4.0	1st-2nd-3rd Tied
3	Anand Nair	15223527	1720	L1	W10	W7	W6	W4	4.0	1st-2nd-3rd Tied; U1800
4	Vitaliy Ryabinin	14237176	1841	W9	W2	W12	L1	L3	3.0
5	Ilya Rozonoyer	12733326	1775	W11	L8	L2	W9	W7	3.0
6	Stephen E Carlin	12674473	1449	H—	L7	W11	L3	W9	2.5
7	Yuriy Zhaurov	14256202	1733	L2	W6	L3	W11	L5	2.0
8	Carl A Stutz	10249198	1946	W13	W5	L1	L2	U—	2.0
9	Stephen Desouza	12811020	1323	L4	L11	W10	L5	L6	1.0
10	Eric A Heinecke	14193718	1049	L12	L3	L9	L13	W11	1.0
11	Gordon Peters	15885708	935	L5	W9	L6	L7	L10	1.0
12	Lenny Cavallaro	10037352	1804	W10	L1	L4	U—	U—	1.0
13	Nicholas Sterling	12454027	1643	L8	U—	U—	W10	U—	1.0