Suffern Chess Club

2008 Results

Crosstable Links [updated 11/7/08] -

We now have access to the official USCF crosstable links from their website.  Click on the tournament of your choice to see the official results.

Dog Days of August [August 2008] - Won by Arthur Feuerstein with a 4.0 score. crosstable link

Firecracker Swiss [July 2008] - Won by Arthur Feuerstein with a perfect 5.0 score. crosstable link

Memorial Swiss [June 2008] - Won by Arthur Feuerstein with a perfect 5.0 score. crosstable link

April Fools Swiss [April 2008]- Won by Arthur Feuerstein with a 4.0 score. crosstable link

Ides of March Swiss [March 2008] - Won by Eric Samuels with a 4.0 score. crosstable link

Snowball Swiss [Feb 2008] - Won by David Collins with a perfect 5.0 score.  crosstable link

Xmas Swiss [Jan 2008] - A close tournament with co-champions Neil Marcus and Eric Samuels.  crosstable link

April Fool’s Swiss [updated 4/17/08]

The third round has come and gone.  This week we had a distinguished guest - the president of the Dumont Chess Club, Lawrence Constance stopped by to join in on the fun.  Many exciting games were played.  Among the better battles, Eric Samuels continued his strong play and worked out an endgame triumph over Roger Pedersen.

After three rounds, the standings are as follows:

• Arthur Feuerstein - 3 points
• Eric Samuels - 2 points
• Gerry Freel - 2 points
• Louis Winokur - 1  1/2 points
• Numerous players with 1 point = Roger Pedersen*, David Collins, Chris Zelenka, Neil Marcus, Bessalel Yarjovski and Frank Bloise.

(* Roger has played two boards over the past two weeks and has earned a couple of points on the side …)

As noted below, this will be our last tournament under Game 85 timing.  Starting next month, we will switch to Game 90 to help avoid some of the last minute time scrables we have seen in the past few weeks.

Here is a photo of the last phase of the Samuels - Pedersen match …

Ides of March Swiss

Well the Ides of March has come and gone, and our new tournament champion, Eric Samuels unseated David Collins, the winner of last month’s Snowball Swiss in a final round battle that lasted untill each player had less than two-minutes on their respective clocks.

The tournament had many exciting matches including last week’s time-scramble finish between your humble reporter and Fred Sauberman, which probably caused me to gain a few gray hairs along the way (through perserverence - and a bit of luck - I was able to come out on top in the end).

Win, Place and Show standings were as follows:

• Eric Samuels            4 pts.
• David Collins            3 pts.
• Gerry Freel              2 1/2 pts.
• Arthur Feuerstein   2 1/2 pts.
• Louis Winokur         2 1/2 pts.
• Chris Zelenka          2 1/2 pts.

Snowball Swiss

The first event of the year is in the books.  As noted last week on the home page - David Collins was the runaway winner of the Suffern Snowball Swiss with a perfect 5 point score!  Eric Samuels was the closest competitor with a score of 3.5 after five rounds.  To see the complete crosstable, click on the following USCF link - http://main.uschess.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,181/

2008 Events

4/12/08 - New! Based on popular demand, starting in May, all future Suffern Chess Club Events will now be Game 90.  Plans for future blitz or match play tournaments have been put on hold due to lack of interest.

5 Round Swiss, Game 90:

Unless otherwise noted, weekly matches will fall under this format.

2007 Recap

2007 was our first full year in our new Suffern location.  Roger Pedersen was our “unofficial” club champion, capturing 8 of the 10 events held over the course of the year.

Arthur Feuerstein, our highest rated regular member, was the winner of 2 events and was the runner up in five other contests.

The official win/place/show standings are listed below (win = 3 pts., place = 2 pts., show = 1 pt.):