Friday, July 26, 2019

LASSER ANALYZES LOSS TO WOODBURY

GAME OF THE WEEK   by Alan Lasser
 
  My loss in the recent Connecticut Yankee Open, hosted by the ever-active Rob Roy, was to the second place finisher Alex Woodbury, who will be a freshman at RPI next fall.  I lost my way in a complicated position where both kings were under attack.

It was the sort of defeat that makes one feel good;  I first met my opponent three years ago at the Westerly Chess Club and he became a subscriber to my Game of the Week column, so now I get the torch-passing satisfaction.

 
Alex Woodbury (1364)-Alan Lasser (1995)
2019 Connecticut Yankee Open
7/13/19
 
 
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GOING BACK IN TIME  by Bob Cyr

 
We are getting ready to say goodbye to July and move onto August, here is a blast from the past. Enjoy this article. USCF NM (lifetime) James M. Bolton was one very strong player in during his day. He also ranks in the Top 10 players in all-time history, which includes Arkadijs Strazdins, FM Nelson Castaneda, FM Richard Bauer, Bob Milardo, NM Dennis Prawira, Edmund Roman (club president in the 40s and 50s), John Baclawski, USCF NM Derek Meredith, and now joining this elite group, fresh off his tie for first place in the July Swiss Tournament, Joseph Bilhmeyer. 
 
The article is below this chart. 
 
Safe travels,
 
Your friend in time,
 
Bob Cyr
NBCC Historian 
 
 
Rank Member # Year First Achieved Year Last Achieved Span
1 Arkadijs Strazdins
72
1952
1999
47
2 FM Nelson Castaneda
39
2002
2019
17
3 FM Richard Bauer
30
1987
2019
32
4 Robert Milardo
16
1972
2001
29
5 NM Dennis Prawira
13
2007
2017
10
6 Edmund Roman
12
1946
1951
5
7 John Baclawski
10
1979
2010
31
8 NM James Bolton
8
1975
1997
22
9 tie NM Derek Meredith
6
1981
2012
31
9 tie Joseph Bihlmeyer
6
2005
2019
14
 
 
 


 
 

CHESS COLUMNS FROM THE PAST   by Rob Roy

1977 - 2000, Rob Roy wrote 1,300 Waterbury Sunday Republican chess columns.  The column helped his Waterbury Chess Club to become very successful.

Clerks at the newspaper office were the ones who re-typed hard-copy into the newspaper system, they made many typos with chess notation. All future editions of Connecticut Chess Magazine will feature a different column.

 

 

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