LVCA-Hamilton Postponed

Tomorrow's Lehigh Valley-Hamilton match has been postponed, at the visitors' request.

No make-up date has been announced.

Annotated Game

I have annotated my victory over Newark-McDonald's Michael O'Connor.

Replay and PGN links are given below the image.

Replay

PGN

Newark-McDonald's 2.5 Kenilworth 1.5

Thursday, October 15 at Kenilworth

	Newark-McDonald's	2.5	Kenilworth	1.5
1)	Lev Zilbermintz	1	Jackson Hueckel	0
2)	Michael O'Connor	0	John Moldovan	1
3)	Jonathan Aisoni	½	Bob Sherry	½
4)	Greg Shaw	1	Greg Tomkovich	0

Newark jumped out to a 2-0 lead and clinched the match when Aisoni drew Sherry. My win over O'Connor made the final score close. Annotations of the latter to follow.

Boards 1 & 2.

Zilbermintz-Hueckel (backround) & Moldovan-O'Connor.

Boards 3 & 4.

Tomkovich-Shaw (front) & Aisoni-Sherry.

Summit 2 - West Orange 2

Tuesday, October 6 at West Orange

	Summit	2	West Orange	2
1)	Simon Thomson	0	Peter Radomskyj	1
2)	Vince Klemm	1	Ari Minkov	0
3)	Donnally Miller	0	Matt Boxer	1
4)	Max Weinstein	1	Ed Trieste	0

                                      Drawn Match.

Information provided by John Hagerty, the On-Site Director

Note: Black won all 4 games!

Rutgers 2 - DOCA Knights 2

Branchburg, 10/7/15
RU had white on boards 1 & 3

1) Aleksey Vishnyakov 0-1 Jonathan Chin
2) Alex Little 0-1 Jarrett Dewelde
3) Will Schreefer 1-0 Todd Jobson
4) Andrew Harris 1-0 Doug Pecota

Photo: Doug Pecota

Lineup Template

For those unable to photograph a match's completed lineup card, here's a template to use as a substitute reporting item.

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Season Starts Tonight!

The 2015-16 Garden State Chess League Starts tonight, with Summit visiting West Orange.

Progress Report On Site Update

All the pages for 2015-2016 have been uploaded, including the all-important Schedule, Rosters and Rules pages.

Player lists & stats to be added on the 8 team pages.

2014-15 archiving still to be done.

2015-16 Schedule

The 2015-16 Schedule has been uploaded.

Here are the opening round match-ups:

Tuesday, October 6th
Summit at West Orange

Wednesday, October 7th
Rutgers at DOCA Knights

Thursday, October 8th 15th
Newark-McDonald's at Kenilworth

Monday, October 19th
Lehigh Valley at Hamilton


Team by team schedules


Post updated 10/6 @ 1:34 a.m.

2014-15 Board Prize Winners

The board prize winners for 2014-15 are:

Board 1 - Lev Zilbermintz of Newark-McDonald's (5 points)
Board 2 - Nathan Napper of Newark-McDonald's & Aaron Nicely of Lehigh Valley (4 points)
Board 3 - Matt Boxer of West Orange (4 points)
Board 4 - Greg Shaw of Newark-McDonald's (4 points)

Point totals include the playoff round.

Site Being Updated

This blog/site is in the process of being archived and updated. Some pages and files will be temporarily unavailable as they are moved about.

Games From The Newark-Lehigh Valley Match

Newark-McDonald CC vs Lehigh Valley CC Championship games Posted here -

http://www.chess.com/blog/srdiamondd/2014-2015-garden-state-chess-league-playoffs

Enjoy and thanks to the players for sharing these games for the fact that we came and played.

Thanks to all GSCL teams for promoting chess in your communities.

See you in the Fall 2015-2016 Season. :)

Lehigh Valley Edges Newark-McDonald's, Wins GSCL Championship

Last night, Lehigh Valley won the 2014-15 Garden State Chess League Championship with a 2.5-1.5 victory over Newark-McDonald's.

Bruce Davis' report on the match follows.

(posted by J.M. @ 2:07 p.m. on 5/13/2015)


Hello Everybody -

It has been a challenge and pleasure to play in this year's 2014-2015 Garden State Chess League.

The final board by board result of the Match for 1st and 2nd played at Dean of Chess Academy, Branchburg, NJ (with our special thanks to our host, along with Doug Pecota on site) on Tuesday, May 12th from 8-11 pm is as follows:

	Newark-McD.'s	1.5	Lehigh Valley	2.5
1)	Lev Zilbermintz	1/2	Karl Dehmelt	1/2
2)	Nathan Napper	0	Aaron Nicely	1
3)	Michael O'Connor	0	Christian Wadsworth	1
4)	Greg Shaw	1	A. Griffing-Snyder	0

I would like to thank every person in the Garden State Chess League for sacrificing their time and efforts to support, promote and participate in this league for the benefit of all.

In this, our second season playing with all of you good people here in the Garden State it was good to meet you all and visit your facilities.

It is also wonderful that you have honored extraordinary people and chess players like Edgar McCormick and Steve Ferrero by naming the East and West divisions after them.

We do wish to thank all the chess club's that have made it all possible in the spirit of friendly competition and we look forward to the next season of the Garden State Chess League.

Good chess to you in all you do!

Below are pictures from the evening's event just prior to and after starting. Enjoy!