Monday, August 12, 2013

BCC LEGENDS OF CHESS HOSTS RIGOROUOS ADVENTURE // NM GODIN TOPS FIELD

OPEN SECTION:
NM Eric Godin vs Expert Oliver Traldi, Round 2.
Maestro Godin won the premier section with 3.5 points.
Joe Kelly, black vs Walter Driscoll, Round 2.
Kelly, Driscoll and Conway Xu shared 2-4th place with 2.5 points
Conway Xu vs Rohan Shankar, Round 4.
Rohan scored 2 points for clear 5th place.
Kate Gasser, black  vs Rohan Shankar, Round 3.
(background): Jason Tang vs Tony Cortizas.
U1800 SECTION
Sandeep Shankar, black vs Lucy Cai: draw! Round1.
Sandeep won the U1800 Section with 3.5 points.
Richard Alan Chen vs Stephen Savage, Round 1.
Stephen scored 3 points to share 2-3rd place with Suraj Ramanathan.
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Steve Stepak, black vs Suraj Ramanathan: draw! Round 2.
Suraj scored 3 points to share 2-3rd place.
Stepak knotched 2.5 points for clear 4th.
Suraj Ramanathan, black vs David Zhu Sun, Round 3: draw!
David scored 2 points to share 5-6th place with Richard Kahn.
Tony DiNosse vs Richard Kahn. Richard hit 50 percent
for his second BCC event in a row, after a year off.
Welcome back Richard!
Suraj Ramanathan, From Chennai, India,
(home of World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand,
and venue for the up-coming World Chess Championship)
just arrived from the Greater Chicago Area, Illinois, in
a job relocation for his dad, Mr. Ram Ramanathan. Suraj is here
with his dad, and mother Savi and younger brother, Bharat, 4 yrs old.
Welcome Ramanathan family to the BCC!
Endgame position: Gasser v Jason Tang, Round 2.
The game ended in a draw. I thought Kate had the edge.
What do you think?  (Black to move)

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