Club Championship starts this week!

Fourteen players came out for Casual Night and learned about the K+p on the 7th vs K+Q. After the fine presentation by Daniel Smith a double round robin blitz tournament broke out with Kyle Oody (1858) taking the top quad by .5 point over Paul King (1805). Ron Tims (1376) rolled through the swiss quad scoring 5 out of six to edge out Shiva Balasubramanian (1012) by a .5 point. A second blitz quad was played and Paul King (1805) tied for first with Joerg Lohse (1665), half a point ahead of Keith Eubanks (1980).

The Blitz crosstable can be found HERE.

The Club Championship begins on March 4. Here are the details:

Five round Swiss. One round a week for five weeks. Club members only, can join on site.

Entry fee $10 ($2/rd). One bye allowed, No last round byes, No free entries. Rounds start at 7:30.

Open Section only, Game 90. Accelerated Pairings will be used. Trophies to 1st, 2nd, Top U1600 and Top Jr. player. Trophy winners also receive 1yr club membership.

NO CASH PRIZES this tournament.

Based on first round attendance an Unrated trophy OR an U1200 trophy may be added to the awards.

Even if you are registered you must confirm you are playing by 7:15 EACH WEEK or you WILL NOT be paired!!! Call, text or email anytime before 7:15

Our match with Queen City Chess will be May 15 at Ashland United Methodist Church, home field advantage! Our roster is full. If QCCA has more than 10 players we will expand the roster. The QCCA team can be found HERE.

The Polgar - Kaidanov match ended tied at 2-2, White won all the games??! Judit won with Black in the Armageddon playoff after they were still tied after two blitz games. The full results, pictures and video can be found HERE.

Polgar Evens the Match at 1-1

Judit bounced back in the second game to even the match at 1-1. White has won the first two games but today is the Najdorf :) , Kaidanov has the white pieces.

Susan Polgar has been following the match on her Blog with analysis.

The clocks start at 2:00

Kaidanov takes Game 1

GM Kaidanov wins the first game with the White pieces. Be sure to check out the game as he sacked a Knight for two pawns on move 13. Hope the rest of the games are this exciting!

Pictures from the first round are HERE.

Polgar - Kaidanov This Week

The match is being held here in South Carolina this week. Sicilian Theme Match (Dragon, Scheveningen, Najdorf or Sveshnikov), GM Judit Polgar vs GM Gregory Kaidanov, 4 Classical 100 min /40 move games, Possible Blitz playoff.

The games start at 2:00 each day and can be viewed at the Monroi site.

The USCF article is HERE.

Full details can be found HERE.