Friday, April 20, 2012

ECC-Staten Island Re-scheduled

Next month's Essex County College-Staten Island match has been re-scheduled. It will be played on Tuesday, May 1st in West Orange.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Chess Mates Blanks Staten I. For 1st Win

Chess Mates blanked Staten Island tonight in Rahway, 4-0. The games and page updates will follow later tonight.

Update 4/6 @ 12:55 a.m.: Games added to the 7th round PGN and Java-replay.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Last Night's Scores

Last night, Summit defeated Essex County College 3-1 and the DOCA Knights beat West Orange by the same count.

Both winners swept on the first 3 boards & lost on board 4.

Here is one of the clinchers:

John Moldovan 1823 (S) - Malcolm Gillon (ECC)
D02 QP Game
London System

Kortchnois vs. Newark Postponed

Last night's scheduled match between the Kenilworth Kortchnois and Newark-McDonald's was postponed at the former's request.

ECC & Staten Island Awarded Forfeit Wins

Essex County College has been awarded a 4-0 forfeit win over Chess Mates & Staten Island has been tentatively awarded a 3-0 forfeit win over Newark-McDonald's.


On March 23rd, Chess Mates failed to field a team vs. ECC and Newark has apparently made no effort to re-schedule vs. S.I.

The matches were originally scheduled to be played on December 6th, in round 2.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Hamilton-Karpovs Rescheduled For 5/31

The Kenilworth Karpovs-Hamilton match originally scheduled for April will be played at the Kenilworth Chess Club on May 31st. Hamilton will be the home team.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Summit & Hamilton Tie

Glen Hart defeated John Chladnicek in the final game to give Summit a 2-2 tie with Hamilton, on Thursday night.

NM Dragan Milovanovic had staked Hamilton to a 1-0 lead, with a victory vs. Donnally Miller, but Don Varneckas and I drew with Black against 2 of last year's board-prize winners (Ed Sytnik and Charles Miller) to keep the match close.

C. Miller (H) 1877 - John Moldovan (S) 1823
A48 King's Indian Defense
Colle System


Annotated PGN & Java-replay

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Page Updates

The Standings, Crosstables, Results, Schedule, Team Schedules, Ratings and Rosters pages have been updated, along with team pages for the Dean Of Chess Academy, Newark-McDonald's and Staten Island.

Staten Island-DOCA Scheduled

The June match between Staten Island and the DOCA Knights will be played on June 7th, at Chess Mates in Rahway. The starting time is 7:30 p.m.

The following matches remain unscheduled:
  • Essex County College at Chess Mates
  • Newark-McDonald's (H) at Staten Island (V)
  • West Orange at Chess Mates
  • Hamilton (H) at Kenilworth Karpovs (V)

Friday, March 16, 2012

Newark-McDonalds Edges DOCA Knights

Newark-McDonald's edged the DOCA Knights last night 2.5-1.5.

Lev Zilbermintz and Nathan Napper tallied full points for Newark, which clinched victory when Pierre Damis drew much higher-rated Aravind Kumar.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

ECC Forfeits To West Orange

Last night, West Orange defeated Essex County College 4-0, by forfeit.

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Page Updates

The Standings, Crosstables, Results, Schedule and Team Schedules pages have been updated, along with pages of the 6 teams that played on Thursday.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Last Night's Scores

In GSCL action last night... Hamilton defeated Staten Island 3-1, the Karpovs edged the Kortchnois 2.5-1.5 and Summit was a 4-0 forfeit winner over Chess Mates.