Dec 18th, 2010: Jonathan and Eric joined the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the chess world championship of Max Euwe in Amsterdam. Above (left), Eric is about to make his move against the current world champion GM Viswanathan Anand. Jonathan also played him. In the picture above (right) he plays against GM Anish Giri, only 16 years old and already #55 in the world ranking (photos by Frans Hazenberg). For more see video.
Dec 5th, 2010: 16 members joined a tournament in West-Hartford organized by the New Britain Chess Club (photo by R.R. Kozlowski).
Nov 14th, 2010: Eric won the under 1210 section at the Eastern Chess Congress in Stamford, $ 300 plus a trophy. On the picture he is congratulated by his opponent in the final round Henry Olynik. Mr. Olynik is blind. He used the little board in front of him while Eric used a regular set. On Mr. Olynik's board all fields have a different feeling. His black and white pieces also had slightly different shapes since, obviously, he cannot tell the difference between black and white. Their handshake sealed a draw which gave Eric the overall victory because he won all his other games.
Oct 16th, 2010: Kate and Jonathan won nice trophies in Holyoke, MA.
Oct 3rd, 2010: Elias writing down his moves at the 1st Bill Dworski Sunday Afternoon Tournament held in West Hartford (photo by R.R. Kozlowski)
August 8th members played adults (and golf) at the New Britain Summer Open Chess Tournament held at the Hawk's Landing golfclub in Southington. Samantha got a trophy for biggest upset in the 80+ year history of the New Britain Chess Club. She beat a player rated 1163 rating points above her! (photo by Doug Fiske)
Our new 2010 Simsbury champions are:
The position on the cake: white begins and wins:
April 13 there was a simul at Simsbury Library: the current U-14 American Champion Daniel Rozovsky visited us. He played 30 members simultaneously. He beat us all!
A view from the K-6 CT State Championship at UConn March 28 2010 (photo by John Fikiet) Tariffville School got a trophy for fifth place.
Nine members visited UConn in Storrs for a tournament Feb 2010. Our UConn oracle, Associate Professor dr Roger M. Travis Jr of the UConn School of Liberal Arts & Sciences - Department of Modern & Classic Languages (a.k.a. Kate's dad), shows us how things would be done in ancient Greek times. Eric and Samantha hanging at the UConn Student Union. (photos by Jerry)
Two Simsbury players joined 900 (!) other players and Garry Kasparov at the New York Scholastic Championship held Jan 2010 in NYC (photo by Jerry)
MLK-day: 7 members played in the Mighty Pawns Tournament in Kingston, NY. (photos by Roger Travis) Proof: we have a member who can talk, eat pizza and play chess at the same time!