Category: Club Meetings
Winners of the 2020 Rochester Chess Holiday Tournament. Free Advanced Chess Classes by Woman FIDE Master Jovana Milosevic
Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 Rochester Chess Holiday Tournament! The tournament was held online on Chess.com from December 15-29.
One slow game (G/30+30) was played per week for 3 weeks in 4 sections: 3 quads and one mini-swiss. Cole Hafner finished in first place with a perfect 3-0 score in the swiss section. Cole will receive a 6-month membership to the Rochester Chess. Tied for second place with 2-1 scores were Bob Richardson and Sanvithav Vallurupalli.
Steve Lange finished in first place in the Gamma Quad with a perfect 3-0 score. Steve will receive a 6-month extension to his membership to Rochester Chess. Jack Fulsom finished in second place with a 2-1 score.
Michael Kern finished in first place in Beta Quad with a perfect 3-0 score. Michael will receive a 6-month membership to Rochester Chess. Isaac Sellon and Tim Schimke tied for second place with 1.5 – 1.5 scores.
Soren Wiedmann, Mohamed Omer, and Paul Gabrail finished in a 3-way tie for first place in the Alpha Quad with 2-1 scores. Each will receive a 6-month membership to Rochester Chess.
Women FIDE master Jovana Milosevic is leading an advanced chess class on Saturdays from noon – 1:30 PM. She meets with the participants on Zoom and shares her screen with them during the class. Club members are welcome to join. Tuition will be free for the next series of 4 classes due to a donation to Rochester Chess that was given to support chess improvement among club members. The next series starts on January 9. Send me an email if you want to join the class: dennismays101@gmail.com Jovana also offers individual chess lessons online: jovana51796@gmail.com
New Look for our Website
WFM Jovana Milosevic recently completed her course on web design. She immediately put her new-found knowledge to work by updating our website. Thank you very much Jovana!
In person meetings with Rochester Chess members are still on hold. This situation will likely remain the same until the pandemic subsides. Your membership will be extended without charge by the amount of time the club was closed.
What should you do in the interim? Rochester Chess has held several online chess tournaments on Lichess.org and Chess.com. The most common format is a swiss at a slow time control (G/30+30 or G/60+30). You can register here for the next tournament which begins on Tuesday, November 10. George Paulik and Paul Gabrail won the most recent tournaments with perfect scores (4-0 in the swiss and 3-0 in the quad, respectively).
Master Milosevic is leading a weekly “Online Advanced Chess Class” on Saturdays, noon – 1:30 CDT (soon to be CST). Topics include how to play with different center pawn structures and material imbalances, the importance of centralization, open files and diagonals, and many more. Tuition is $15/class. Send me an email if you are interested in joining the class: dennismays101@gmail.com.
Rochester chess players Matt Jensen and Jesse Buss have created a chess improvement website called ChessGoals. ChessGoals offers study plans that were formed based on study habit data from hundreds of players. They also have weekly blog posts about chess improvement and current events.
Round 2 of the March Slow Tomorrow at 6:30 pm at the Mayo Clinic Superior Drive Support Center, South Cafeteria, at 6:30 PM
Round 2 of the March Slow has been paired. 
The Rochester Quick and the 2020 Amateur have been rated:
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