Kortchnois-S. Island Re-scheduled

The Kortchnois-Staten Island match has been re-scheduled. It is now slated for Thursday 5/5 at Kenilworth.

More Round 7 Games

Radomskyj-Chieu and Lewis-Cohen have been added to the 7th round replay page and PGN file.

Team Scoring Leaders

Scoring leaders for each team, through 7 rounds

Chess Mates: Roger Pedersen 4.5 (+3-1-3)

DOCA Knights: Aleksey Vishnyakov 2.5 (+2-1=1)

Hamilton: Ed Sytnik 5.5 (+5-0=1)

Kenilworth Karpovs: Max Sherer 6.0 (+5-0=2)

Kenilworth Kortchnois: Richard Lewis 3.5 (+3-1=1)

Sparta: Russ Avarella 2.5 (+2-2=1)

Staten Island: Ed Selling, Lionel Fisher 3.0 (both +2-1=2)

Summit: John Moldovan 3.0 (+2-1=2)

West Orange: Victor Rosas 2.5 (+2-0=1)

Board Leaders

Board Scoring Leaders, through 7 rounds:

1st board:

1. Dragan Milovanovic, Hamilton 5.0 (+4-0=2)

2. Steve Stoyko, Karpovs 4.0 (+3-2=2)

3. Five players with 2.0

2nd board:

1. Ian Mangion, Karpovs 4.5 (+3-0=3)

2. Charles Miller, Hamilton 4.0 (+3-1=2)
3. Richard Lewis, Kortchnois 3.5 (+3-0=1)

3rd board:

1. Max Sherer, Karpovs 6.0 (+5-0=2)

2. Phil Hepler, Hamilton 3.0 (+1-1=4)
3. Glen Hart, Summit 2.5 (+2-0=1)

4th board:

1. Ed Sytnik, Hamilton 5.5 (+5-0=1)
2. Joe Demetrick, Karpovs 3.0 (+3-2=0)

3. Russ Avarella, Sparta 2.5 (+2-2=1)

Scoring Leaders

Individual Scoring Leaders, through 7 rounds:

1. Max Sherer, Karpovs 6.0 (+5-0=2)

2. Ed Sytnik, Hamilton 5.5 (+5-0=1)
3. Dragan Milovanovic, Hamilton 5.0 (+4-0=2) 
4. Ian Mangion, Karpovs 4.5 (+3-0=3)
4. Roger Pedersen, Chess Mates 4.5 (+3-1=3)

Page Updates

The Standings, Results, Scoring and other pages and have been updated. The Round 7 replay page & PGN file will be amended this weekend.

Last Night's Scores

Here are the scores from last night's matches:

Staten Island 2 Karpovs 2

Kortchnois 3 West Orange 1

Hamilton 4 Chess Mates 0

Additional info and page updates will follow later today.

Another Summit-DOCA Game

Aleksey Vishnyakov of the DOCA Knights has annotated his win from Saturday for the GSCL blog.

Thanks, Aleksey! I'm sure the readers will enjoy your excellent commentary. (see links below board)

Vishnyakov 1929 - Donnally Miller 1794

D16 Queen's Gambit

Slav Defense

Updated 7th round java-replay, zip

DOCA Knights Rally, Tie Summit

The DOCA Knights rallied from a two point hole to tie Summit 2-2 yesterday, at the Dean Of Chess Academy in Branchburg.

John Moldovan opened the scoring, winning on board 1 in just 58 minutes, and Lou Sturniolo gave the visitors high hopes. However, Aleksey Vishnyakov kept the hosts in the match and Aravind Kumar, making his GSCL debut, knotted it.

The 2-3-1 Knights play at West Orange next month while Summit (1-3-2) takes on Sparta.

Moldovan 1811 - Marvin Shumowitz 1994

D35 Queen's Gambit

Exchange Variation

Deeply annotated version of the above game, in PGN & Java-replay

Team Scoring Leaders

Scoring leaders for each team, through 6 rounds

Chess Mates: Roger Pedersen 4.5 (+3-0-3)

DOCA Knights: Doug Pecota 2.0 (+1-2=2)

Hamilton: Ed Sytnik 4.5 (+4-0=1)

Kenilworth Karpovs: Max Sherer 5.0 (+4-0=2)

Kenilworth Kortchnois: Richard Lewis 2.5 (+2-1=1)

Sparta: Russ Avarella

Staten Island: Ed Selling 2.5 (+2-1=1)

Summit: Glen Hart 2.5 (+2-0=1)

West Orange: Victor Rosas 2.5 (+2-0=1)

Board Leaders

Board Scoring Leaders, through 6 rounds:

1st board:

1. Dragan Milovanovic, Hamilton 4.0 (+3-0=2)

1. Steve Stoyko, Karpovs 3.5 (+3-2=1)

3. Arthur Macaspac, Chess Mates 2.0 (+2-0=0)
3. Ari Minkov, Chess Mates 2.0 (+1-0=2)

2nd board:

1. Ian Mangion, Karpovs 4.0 (+3-0=2)

2. Charles Miller, Hamilton 3.0 (+2-1=2)
3. Richard Lewis, Kortchnois 2.5 (+2-0=1)
3. Ed Selling, Staten Island 2.5 (+2-0=1)
3. Roger Pedersen, Chess Mates 2.5 (+1-0=3)

3rd board:

1. Max Sherer, Karpovs 5.0 (+4-0=2)

2. Glen Hart, Summit 2.5 (+2-0=1)

3. Ziggy Bliznikas, Chess Mates 2.0 (+2-1=0)
3. Phil Hepler, Hamilton 2.0 (+0-1=4)

4th board:

1. Ed Sytnik, Hamilton 4.5 (+4-0=1)
2. Joe Demetrick, Karpovs 3.0 (+3-1=0)

3. Russ Avarella, Sparta 2.0, 2.5 or 3.0
3. Doug Pecota, DOCA Knights 2.0 (+1-2=2)

Scoring Leaders

Individual Scoring Leaders, through 6 rounds:

1. Max Sherer, Karpovs 5.0 (+4-0=2)

2. Ed Sytnik, Hamilton 4.5 (+4-0=1)
2. Roger Pedersen, Chess Mates 4.5 (+3-0=3)
4. Dragan Milovanovic, Hamilton 4.0 (+3-0=2) 
4. Ian Mangion, Karpovs 4.0 (+3-0=2)
6. Steve Stoyko, Karpovs 3.5 (+3-2=1)