Saturday Camps

Beginning this week, Chess Mates will be holding camps every Saturday from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. The price is $55 for members, $60 for non-members. Lunch and a snack is included. Those registering 4 days in advance will receive a $5 discount.

Weekend Wrap-Up

Arthur Macaspac won our Saturday G/45. Maurico Camejo was 2nd.

GM Leonid Yudasin won yesterday's Open G/30. Errol Singh was the runner-up.

Karandeep Singh won the Scholastic G/30 ahead of Kapil Kanakaraj and Rameek Singh.

Wednesday G/90 Update

Doran Race and Arthur Macaspac drew. There is one game left: Macaspac-Bliznikas.

Standings:  1. Race 2.0/3, 2. Macaspac 1.0/2, Bliznikas 1.0/2 and Mangion 1.0/3.

Sunday G/30 Results

14 players took part in yesterday's G/30. Justin Sarkar won section 1 by beating GM Leonid Yudasin in the final round. Sam Barsky and Errol Singh tied for first in section 2. Karandeep Singh was section 3's winner.

Camejo Wins Saturday G/45

Maurico Camejo won Saturday's G/45 with a 3-0 score.

Wednesday Tourney Update

In Round 3 of our Wednesday G/90, on Jan. 18th, Ziggy Bliznikas defeated Ian Mangion. The game between Arthur Macaspac and Doran Race was postponed.

Standings:  1. Race 1.5/2, 2. Bliznikas 1.0/2 & Mangion 1.0/3, 4. Macaspac 0.5/1

Sunday Camp

Chess Mates will be running its Sunday Camp & Quads from 10 a.m-6 p.m. today.



Camp: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Scholastic Quads: 3-6 p.m.
Fee: $80 members, $90 non-members
Lunch, snacks & entry to the quads included.

Instructors: GM Leonid Yudasin & NM Arthur Macaspac

For more details, right-click the image below and open it in a new tab or window

Sunday Results

Albert Tang won Sunday's Scholastic Tournament and Arthur Macaspac won the Open G/30 Quad.

Lost And Found?!

Recently, while searching for a help file on our hosting site, we stumbled upon a game that Frank Bloise submitted to our feedback page in 2010... at 5:31:27 (GMT) on 9/21/2010, to be exact!

Belatedly, here it is, sans notes:

NM Arthur Macaspac 2101 - Frank Bloise 1566

Chess Mates G/45 Grand Prix

Rahway, NJ

9/19/2010 

E32 Nimzo-Indian Defense

Classical Variation with 4...b6

(by transposition)

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 b6 3. Nc3 e6 4. e4 Bb4 5. Bd3 Bb7 6. Qc2 Nc6 7. Nf3 Ne7 8. O-O Rc8 9. a3 Bxc3 10. bxc3 d6 11. Bg5 Neg8 12. Rfe1 h6 13. Bh4 c5 14. e5 g5 15. Nxg5 hxg5 16. Bxg5 Rxh2 17. Bxf6? Rxg2+ -+ 18. Kf1 Nxf6 19. exf6 Qxf6 20. d5 Rh2 21. Be4 Qh4 22. Bg2 Ke7 23. Re4 Qg5 24. f4 Qh6 25. Rae1 Rg8 26. R1e2 Rhxg2 27. Rxg2 Qh1+ 0-1

PGN

Our apologies to Frank for not noticing his notable win before. The Feedback page was removed from the Chess Mates website a long time ago.

Wednesday Results

In Round 2 of our Wednesday G/90, Arthur Macaspac and Ian Mangion played to a draw while Doran Race defeated Ziggy Bliznikas.

Standings:  1. Race 1.5/2, 2. Mangion 1.0/2, 3. Macaspac 0.5/1, 4. Bliznikas 0.0/1

Round 3 will see Ziggy vs. Ian and Doran vs. Arthur (colors to be determined by toss).

Mid-Winter Camp

Chess Mates will be holding a Mid-Winter Chess Camp February 21-24. To view details and rates, please right-click the image below and open it in a new tab or window.

This camp will be Tuesday thru Friday. We will be closed on Monday, Feb. 20, as well as 2/16-19.

Sunday Camps

Chess Mates runs camps every Sunday (expect for Feb. 19), from 10 a.m - 3 p.m. To view details, right-click the image below and open it in a new tab or click here.

Sunday Results

Angel Munoz-Avila won Sunday's Scholastic G/30, ahead of Juan Jimenez and Nicholas Wang.

GM Leonid Yudasin won the Open G/30.

3-Way Tie In Saturday G/45

Anthony Norris, Ari Minkov and Arthur Macaspac tied for 1st in yesterday's G/45 Quad.

Wednesday Results

In Round 1 of our Wednesday G/90, Doran Race & Ian Mangion played to a draw while Arthur Macaspac vs. Ziggy Bliznikas was adjourned.

Sunday Results

Here are the results of Sunday's events at Chess Mates.

Scholastic G/30

No.	Name	USCF	1	2	3	Points
1	Merric Hu	400	X	1	1	2.0
2	Allan Zhang	840	0	X	½	0.5
3	Edward Hu	796	0	½	X	0.5

Open G/30

No.	Name	USCF	1	2	3	4	Points
1	GM Leonid Yudasin	2616	X	1	1	1	3.0
2	NM Maraj Daftani	2204	0	X	1	1	2.0
3	Anthony Norris	2196	0	0	X	1	1.0
4	NM Arthur Macaspac	2096	0	0	0	X	0.0

Blitz

No.	Name	Quick	1	2	3	4	5	Points
1	Leonid Yudasin	2552	X	11	11	11	11	8.0
2	Maraj Daftani	2349	00	X	11	1½	11	5.5
3	Sam. Mujumdar	2176	00	00	X	1½	11	3.5
4	Lev Zilbermintz	2157	00	½1	½1	X	11	3.0
5	Art. Macaspac	2049	00	00	00	00	X	0.0

All 3 tournaments have been validated but could not be submitted for rating. The USCF says: "Submission of new format events will be enabled soon."

Update: The events were rated on January 3rd.