Oct 16th 2012: we started another season...

Aug 26th 2012: six members competed with adults in the New Britain Chess Club Summer Open. The event was held out-doors in Wickham Park in Manchester. In the picture our Eric (left) just finished his game. Later he would get a nice trophy for "Biggest Upset" - the most unexpected victory by rating points for another game. (photo by Brian Kosnoff)

Aug 26th 2012: NBCC member Kevin Zimmerman and his grill. (photo R.R. Kozlowski)

May 22nd 2012: Our new Simsbury Chess Club Champions are from left to right: Luke (4th grade), Ben (5th), Ciaran (K), Josh (6th), Zachary (1st), Falcon (3rd) and John (2nd).

May 22nd 2012: The final game of our Go Championship. Jenna (right) won and is our new Simsbury Go Club Champion.

Fitzgerald's made another wonderful chess cake. The solution is: 1.Qb3+,Kh8 2.Nf7+,Kg8 3.Nh6+,Kh8 4.Qg8+,Rg8: 5.Nf7 mate.

May 20th 2012: John with his dad was one of 18 Simsbury players at a scholastic tournament in UConn in Storrs. Before the tournament we got a tour of the Engineering School. Afterwards we had our usual visit to the UConn Dairy Bar.

May 5th 2012: Falcon won 1st place in the Primary School Section at the Farmington Scholastic tournament!

Our new Go coach Michael Scudder (left). Kyle (right) works with a Go program on a computer.

Our new girls chess coach Nina (center)

Peter and Shin Ae playing Go.

March 31, 2012: Henry James Memorial School won the K-8 CT State Championship. Most players are graduates from our library club.

March 4, 2012: Falcon with his medal after a nice 2.5 out of 5 score at the Woodcrest Chess Challenge, Rifton, NY (a mennonite community)

March 4, 2012: Trophies were maple syrup bottles with chess pieces used as cap.

March 4, 2012: Rudolf van Dommele (chess coach in Cold Spring, NY) checking out the maple syrup production.

March 4, 2012: After the chess tournament chess players had dinner with the rest of the community (300 people).
Bottom left are from left to right Heinrich Arnold (the tournament director) and Brother John (from the Kingston Mighty Pawns)

Simsbury Open Scholastic Chess Championship Feb 25th

Feb 25, 2012: Amanda Litvak from Suffield at the Simsbury Open (photo Kate)

Feb 25, 2012: The new U-18 Simsbury Chess Champion Eric Hilhorst (photo Nina)

Feb 25, 2012: From left to right veteran New Britain Chess Club members Bob McDaniel II and Ted McHugh III testing Scouting Troop 175 members John Michael Mudano and Akash Kaza regarding their chess merit badges.

Results U-18 Championship Section (21 participants, Simsbury players in bold)

1. 5.0  Eric Hilhorst, Henry James Memorial School
2. 4.0  Manu Ponnala, East Hampton
3. 4.0  Jonathan Aiyathurai, Henry James Memorial School
4. 3.5  Leonid Stolov, Simsbury High School
5. 3.5  Sam Zeng, West Hartford
6. 3.0  Giridhar Murali, Shelton
7. 3.0  Patrick Ding, Glastonbury
8. 3.0  Cameron Sahirad, Simsbury High School
9. 3.0  Vignesh Vattigunta, South Windsor
10. 2.5  Jake Peacock, The Master's School
11. more

Results K-6 Elementary Section (41 participants, Simsbury players in bold)

1. 5.0  Benjamin Foxman, West Hartford
2. 4.5  Samuel Foxman, West Hartford
3. 4.0  AJ Corcino, Shelton
4. 4.0  Daniel Taranto, West Hartford
5. 4.0  Ian Sullivan, Glastonbury
6. 4.0  Bob McDaniel III, Tariffville Elementary School
7. 3.5  Sanyu Ponnala, East Hampton
8. 3.5  Aamya Vohra, Rocky Hill
9. 3.0  Jade Logan, Avon
10. 3.0  Ben Fitzsimmons, Latimer Lane Elementary School
11. 3.0  Joshua Oken, Squadron Line Elementary School
12. 3.0  Ted McHugh IV, Central Elementary School
13. 3.0  Geoffrey Kollmer, Glastonbury
14. 3.0  Samantha Aiyathurai, Squadron Line Elementary School
15. 3.0  Luke Medeika, Tootin' Hills Elementary School
16. 3.0  Thomas Kollmer, Glastonbury
17. 3.0  John Riley, The Cobb School
18. 3.0  MJ Chaho, Avon
19. 3.0  Sean Henderson, Central Elementary School
20. 2.5  Steven Taranto, West Hartford
21. more

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