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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

April Fool's Open To Be Played on April 2nd!




Details of our April tourney have been published in "Chess Life".

Apr. 2 April Fools' Open
4SS, G/45. Elizabethtown Community & Technical College; Room 303, Occupational-Technical Building, Elizabethtown, KY. EF: $20 by Mar 30, at site $25. $$b/20; $100, 50 Class A, B, C, D, E/UNR $50 each if at least 2 players in section. Reg.: 8:45-9:15 am, Rds.: First round 9:30 am, others ASAP. Ent: Johnny Owens (TD), P.O. Box 226, Elizabethtown, KY 42702-0266 (270) 272-3061.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Emdee Is Back!


Nathaniel Emdee returned tonight and became the Club's fifth Life Member!! (that's Emdee on the right)

And the good news just keeps coming; Josh Jordan stopped by, joined the Club and paid his entry fee to the upcoming April Fools Tournament. Josh is on active duty at Ft. Knox and although a member of USCF is unrated. Josh has played on line and is looking forward to playing his first "over the board" tournament. Welcome aboard Josh!

There were two ladder games tonight. Joe defeated Kerry and moved up one rung on the ladder. Jerry overcame James which resulted in no change in the ladder. Both games were rated.

Emdee and Rudy played a non-ladder game and Rudy split two 10 minute games with Jerry. Josh couldn't stick around to play but promises to have more time next meeting.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Street Fight


Tonight's meeting was like a street fight with 7 ladder games played as the challenges came fast and furious.

Kerry whipped Sal - rated
Dave overpowered Sal - rated
Joe annihilated Jerry - rated
James schooled Rudy - unrated
Joe parried Rudy - rated
Jerry outlasted Sal - rated
Dave drew James - unrated

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Joe Farrell Wins March Swiss 2.5-0.5!

Joe appears to have everything under control in his game with Gelvvic!

We had 8 club members show up for the March 2011 Monthly Swiss! Joe Farrell won the event with a score of 2.5-0.5. Johnny Owens, Ernie Weaver and Rudy McKinney finished in a 3-way tie for second with 2.0-1.0.

The monthly swiss as well as rated ladder games have been posted here.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Only One Ladder Game Tonight at the Club!



There was only one ladder game played tonight and it was a rated game.
Johnny played his London System and Kerry played his favorite response
to 1.d4 --The Dutch Defence! Johnny won and moved to #2 on the ladder.

The other memebers that were present tonight played some unrated games.
Rudy McKinney was busy playing Dave Brock and Ernie Weaver won an
interesting game vs. James Whiddon.

Remember, next Tuesday is Tournament Night!

Ernie, you need to post one of the games you played with James!!