Author: Matt Jensen
RCC Champions Place 1st/2nd
Monthly Rated Summary: Eleven players showed up today for our G/60,d/5 monthly rated tournament. The 3 round accelerated Swiss tournament was organized as one section with prizes for 1st, 2nd, and top U1600/unrated. Kevin Gaustad, the RCC Champion, scored a perfect 3 points and bumped his rating over 1800! Maor Leker Locker, the RCC Youth Champion, scored 2.5 points for clear 2nd place. Ben Schimke and Walker Larson split the class prize with one point each.
USCF Crosstable | Ladder Ratings Updated
Tuesday night: G/15; D5 four round Swiss tournament. Entry fee: $5 members, $7 nonmembers. RCC rated. Tournament starts at 6:30 PM and should end by 9:00. You can now renew your membership via PayPal on our membership page.
RCC Correspondence Championship 2012: I am organizing a free correspondence tournament for RCC members only. It’s free to play in you just need to be a chess.com member. To join the RCC group on chess.com and sign-up for the tournament follow the links:
RCC Chess.com group | RCC Correspondence Championship 2012
Next Monthly Rated (10/27): The info is posted on the schedule. There are a few small changes. The first round will be at 9:00 and we will have 4 rounds. The plan is to still be finished by 6:30 PM. Link on the right sidebar or the schedule page.
Pre-register for Saturday USCF Tournament (Big Turnout!)
The RCC monthly rated tournament is on Saturday. We already have 8 players committed to playing and a few more on the fence. The list of players attending includes RCC Champion Kevin Gaustad. Here’s the pre-registration list so far:
Name Rate
GAUSTAD, KEVIN A 1776
PAULIK, GEORGE F 1755
KNUTH, ROY A 1700
LARSON, MICHAEL P 1596
SCHIMKE, TIM 1571
JASPERSON, LARRY A 1549
SCHIMKE, BEN 1105
LARSON, WALKER
If you would like to pre-register please shoot me an email, mjensen23@gmail.com, and I will add you to the list of expected players. Full tournament info.
Matt
Rochester was successful at the TCCL!
TCCL Recap
The Rochester Chess Club and Mayo Clinic Chess Club will be sending up three teams each month to the Twin Cities Chess League. Last night was the first round of the 2012-2013 season. We received positive news that our top team would be bumped up to the Gold division. The TCCL is divided in three sections called Gold, Silver, and Bronze. The Gold and Silver sections are 8 team all-play-all format that requires qualification from previous seasons. The Bronze division is open to all and has teams ranging from about 800 to 1800. Rochester has one team in each division and our players are ordered by USCF ratings. The teams are all named after Mayo this year to have some continuity among the teams. Mayo also provides us a free playing site for all of our club meetings and tournaments.
In the Gold section the Mayo Ultimates (Scott Riester, Matt Jensen, Piyush Mukherjee, Rob Newshutz) won 2.5-1.5 against the Twin Knights of CCOM to put us in a tie for 2nd place out of 8.
In the Silver section the Mayo B2 or not B2 (Roy Truelson, Kevin Gaustad, George Paulik, Roy Knuth) won 3-1 against the Ministry of Silly Moves to put us in 3rd place out of 8.
In the Bronze section the Mayo Knights (Dennis Mays, Peter Hansel, Maor Leker Locker, Paul Kinion) won 3.5-0.5 against the Flaming Ostriches to put us in a tie for 4th place out of 20.
This Week
Tuesday night will be casual night at the club. This would be a great night to bring friends who haven’t been to the club yet.
Saturday we are holding our monthly rated tournament. Please email Matt for pre-registration. https://rochesterchess.com/ai1ec_event/monthly-rated/?instance_id=131