ALEXIS WINS!!!

At a tournament held in Chinatown on Saturday, Alexis Paredes and Rawn Prowell tied for first place. Both had 4-0 scores, but Alexis eliminated Rawn int he blitz playoff. the entire team played well with many players scoring 3 points. Stay tuned as Alexis will annotate his victory over Mattheu Jefferson.

In the reserve section, Rhoda Lynch had a perfect 4-0 score!

And once again, Jie Jing and Jacob had the same exact score. HMMMMMMMMMMMM

Lisa's NICE IDEA

Lisa was white in this position on Saturday against Someone Zhao. What would you play?

Lisa played the attacking move 22.Qh6!

What would you suggest for black here?

Black could play a move that attacks the Rg1, like 22...Qa7 or 22....Qb6, or he could retreat his bishop with 22....Bg7. But he didn't see Lisa's threat, and made a move like 22...Qc7. (I forgot to write down the next moves, but it was something like this!) How can Lisa continue her attack and win?

23.Rh5!!! Rfd8

24.Qxh7+ Kf8

Find a good move here!

There are a couple!

25.Rxg6 is great, but

25.Rf5 is the funniest and best, because white attacks f7 again and if 25....gxf5 26.Rg8+ Ke7 27.Qxf7#!!

Pictures from the dinner with UFT Pres. Randi Weingarten and Governor David Patterson

King Vs Beast

In our two quad tournaments held this week, Ezequiel THE BEAST Quinones unleashed a mighty attack on his opponents. In the quad held on Wednesday, Ezequiel went 4-0! Today, Ezequiel upset Rochelle and Mattheu but faced off against the KING PAREDES in the final round. Alexis, fresh off his 1900 smashing victories on Wednesday tamed the Wild BEAST in the final game. Ezequiel may be 1800? What a great job.

Sixth Graders on Fire

David, Aleem, and Danny

At the tournament held last weekend at CES 70 in the Bronx, our sixth graders posted some impressive results!

Danny Feng won the reserve section in his first week playing in that section. His rating went up almost 400 points.

Other strong performers included Aleem Awan, gio Quinones and David Kim who all went 4-0 in the Novice section.

Shawn Swindell also posted a great performance at the Marshall u1800 tournament by winning all 4 games.

Results can be seen here

Next tournament will be the winter quads held on Wednesday at 9 am. Any player over 1400 is welcome to come and play in a rated quad

Pictures from Cities on Sunday

Daniel Wins!

In the tournament held today in the Bronx, Daniel Maciag took clear first by beating the super talented Justus Williams in the last round. The entire open team did well with sixth graders Randy Rivera and Joel Ogunremi posting some impressive upsets. Rochelle's victory streak came to an end as she was held to a draw in the last round by M. Jefferson. What a streak!

In the novice section, special congratulations go to Richard Wu and Danny Feng who both won 3.5 and led the novice team to a first place team finish.

NEXT TOURNAMENT: I.S. 318 NEXT SATURDAY