Matches Re-scheduled For October 24th

Last Tuesday's matches in Branchburg were postponed because the facility was unavailable.

Chess Mates vs. the DOCA Knights and Summit vs. Lehigh Valley will take place on Thursday, October 24th. (not the previously posted 10/22 & 10/29)

Kenilworth & Rutgers Tie 2-2

The Kenilworth CC and Rutgers U. played to a 2-2 tie last night in New Brunswick.

Jackson Hueckel and Dr. Geoff McAuliffe won for Kenilworth while Rutgers received victories from Robert Forney and Aleksey Vishnyakov.

Here are some photos from the start of the match and afterward:

Early action on boards 1 and 3: Michael Goeller, Hueckel, Forney, Greg Tomkovich

 Board 2: Vishnyakov versus Donald Carrelli getting underway.

 Hueckel and Goeller discuss their game.

McAuliffe and Shai Horowitz examine the 4th board battle.

Rutgers' Home Site & Dates

Site for Rutgers' home matches:
Plangere Writing Center
College Avenue Campus
Murray Hall
Room 304
510 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Dates:
October 15 vs. Kenilworth, 8 p.m.
December 17 vs. West Orange, 8 p.m.
February 11 vs. DOCA Knights, 8 p.m.

The April match vs. Lehigh Valley remains unscheduled.

Hamilton 3 West Orange 1

Hamilton opened its bid for a 5th straight GSCL title with a 3-1 win over West Orange on Tuesday night.

LM Dragan Milovanovic and Charles Miller won with White while John Chladnicek and Ed Sytnik held with Black.

Hamilton will host the DOCA Knights on November 4th while West Orange's next match will be at Kenilworth, on November 7th.

3 LVCA Home Matches Re-scheduled

Lehigh Valley's home matches in Stewartsville, NJ have been changed from Wednesday nights to Tuesday nights. New dates are listed below.

Tuesday, December 3
Hamilton vs. LVCA

Tuesday, February 4
West Orange vs. LVCA

Tuesday, May 6
Newark-McDonald's vs. LVCA

2012-13 Board Scoring Leaders

The Board Scoring Leaders for 2012-13 were:

Board 1
1. LM Dragan Milovanovic, Hamilton (2267) 7.0
2. Praveen Balakrisnan, DOCA (2131) 3.5
3. NM Arthur Macaspac, Chess Mates (2135) 3.0
3. John Moldovan, Kenilworth Kortchnois (1821) 3.0

Board 2
1. Nathan Napper, Newark-McDonald's (1991) 5.5
2. Kevin Chen, DOCA (1888) 4.0
3. Greg Tomkovich, Kenilworth Kortchnois (1635) 3.5

Board 3
1. John Chladnicek, Hamilton (1775) 5.5
2. Doran Race, West Orange (1914) 4.5
3. Pierre Damis, Newark-McDonald's (1676) 4.0

Board 4
1. Ed Sytnik, Hamilton (1700) 6.0
2. Doug Pecota, DOCA (1268) 4.0
3. Guido Rodriguez, West Orange (1628) 3.0
3. Greg Shaw, Newark-McDonald's (unrated) 3.0

Click on the links to download crosstables in .xls format.

They can be read with Microsoft Office or Open Office Calc.

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Schedule Released

The GSCL schedule for 2013-14 has been released.

Teams requesting day or venue changes for round 1 should contact the league promptly.

Please postpone other requests until October 10th, as there is much work to do over the next 2-3 weeks.

Post updated at 5:21 p.m. 

Season Starts October 1st

The 2013-14 Garden State League season will open on Tuesday, October 1st with Hamilton, the 4-time defending champions, visiting West Orange.

On October 8th, the Dean of Chess Academy will be hosting Chess Mates. Branchburg is also the scheduled venue for Summit-Lehigh Valley.

The date for Kenilworth at Rutgers is to be announced.

Newark-McDonald's gets the bye.

GSCL To Operate With 9 Teams In 2013-14

The Garden State Chess League will have 9 teams again in 2013-14.

We've lost one Kenilworth team but have added the Lehigh Valley Chess Association (LVCA) and Rutgers University is returning.

Final Standings

FINAL 2012-13 GSCL STANDINGS

	Team	MP	W	L	D	Points
1.	Hamilton	7	5	0	2	6.0
2.	West Orange	7	5	1	1	5.5
3.	DOCA Knights	7	4	2	1	4.5
4.	Newark-McDonald's	7	3	1	3	4.5
5.	Kenilworth Karpovs	7	2	3	2	3.0
6.	Kenilworth Kortchnois	7	1	4	2	2.0
7.	Summit	7	1	5	1	1.5
8.	Chess Mates	7	1	6	0	1.0
x	Rutgers University	0	0	0	0	0.0

Rutgers withdrew on Feb. 22nd. Their results were nulled because they did not finish half of their schedule.

If Rutgers results were included, West Orange would have finished 1st.

DOCA won the 3rd-place tiebreak by virtue of their forfeit win vs. Newark.

Final Round Results

The 2012-13 season wrapped-up last night with West Orange blanking Summit 4-0.

In other 9th round "action", the Kortchnois-Karpovs match was declared an un-played draw and DOCA was a forfeit winner over Chess Mates.

Kortchnois Tie Hamilton

On May 30, the Kortchnois rallied to tie League Champion Hamilton 2-2.

Greg Tomkovich and Joe Renna won to offset victories by Dragan Milovanovic and John Chladnicek.