2018-19 Season To Open On October 15th

The Garden State Chess League's 11th season will begin on Monday, October 15th, when defending Champion Lehigh Valley visits Hamilton.

West Orange & Newark-McDonald's will meet the next night.

A link to the full schedule has been placed in the sidebar.

Westfield, which finished 2nd last season, will be sitting-out 2018-19 unless someone is willing to organize the team.

Catching Up

Due to various personal reasons, this site was not updated for many months & there is a lot of catching-up to do.

Results, final standings from 2017-18 will be uploaded and archived but these actions may not be completed for a few weeks as the new season takes precedent.

Updated Standings

	Team	MP	W	L	D	M Points
1.	Lehigh Valley	2	2	0	0	2.0
2.	Westfield	3	2	1	0	2.0
3.	Newark-McDonald's	2	1	1	0	1.0
3.	Hamilton	3	1	2	0	1.0
5.	West Orange	2	0	2	0	0.0

Lehigh Valley 3.5 Hamilton 0.5

On December 12th, Lehigh Valley defeated Hamilton 3.5-0.5.

Here is a photo of the lineup card & results, courtesy of Bruce Davis.

Upcoming Matches

Believe it or not, we are already halfway through the 2017-18 season.

Here is the remaining schedule:

December 12th, at Stewartsville, NJ
Hamilton vs. Lehigh Valley

February 6th, at West Orange
Lehigh Valley vs. West Orange
Westfield vs. Newark-McDonald's

March 5th, at Hamilton
West Orange vs. Hamilton

March 13th, at Stewartsville
Newark-McDonald's vs. Lehigh Valley

Pages Updated

The following pages have been updated:

• Schedule
• Team Schedules
• Rosters
• Standings
• Crosstables
• Board By Board Results

Westfield 2.5 West Orange 1.5

Earlier today, Westfield defeated West Orange 2.5-1.5 to take temporary possession of 1st place.

Details will follow.

Updated Standings

	MP	W	L	D
Lehigh Valley	1	1	0	0
Hamilton	2	1	1	0
Newark-McDonald's	2	1	1	0
Westfield	2	1	1	0
West Orange	1	0	1	0

2nd Round Results

Westfield 2.5 Hamilton 1.5
Newark-McDonald's 2.5 West Orange 1.5

Details to follow.

Standings & Upcoming Matches

	MP	W	L	D
Lehigh Valley	1	1	0	0
Hamilton	1	1	0	0
West Orange	0	0	0	0
Newark-McDonald's	1	0	1	0
Westfield	1	0	1	0

Thursday, November 9th at Kenilworth, 8:20 p.m.

Westfield vs. Hamilton

Tuesday, November 14th at West Orange, 8:00 p.m.

Newark-McDonald's vs. West Orange

Lehigh Valley has the bye.

Lehigh Valley 3.5 Westfield 0.5

	Lehigh Valley	3.5	Westfield	0.5
1)	Karl Dehmelt	1	Dave Lazarus	0
2)	Jon Spinnell	1	Alex Hu	0
3)	C. Wadsworth	1	Donnally Miller	0
4)	Michael Clark	1/2	Mario Reategui	1/2

Note: Westfield played out of order on boards 3 and 4.

Season Opener

Tuesday, October 3rd

	Hamilton	3.0	Newark-McDonald's	1.0
1)	Josh Hill	1	Jeffrey Deluca	0
2)	Gavin McNay	1/2	Jeyson Flores	1/2
3)	Charles Miller	1/2	Greg Shaw	1/2
4)	Ed Sytnik	+	X	-

Schedules & Rosters Posted

The 2017-18 Schedule, Team Schedules & Rosters have been posted.