This Week’s News Items:
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WCH Thematic
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Christmas Party Next Tuesday (Dec. 21) at 6 PM
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Upcoming Events
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Blitz XXVI Results
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Game of the Year - 2021
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Training - WCH Thematic
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Saturday Study Group - 5 pm (Different Link)
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WCH Thematic
This Tuesday will be the second week of the WCH Thematic tournament. We will review the remaining games of the World Championship and play out positions in a G/10;d/5 tournament. Spoiler alert - Magnus Carlsen retained his World Championship crown.
Last week, we played out the first four positions of Nelson’s thematic positions. With 3.5/4, Suhas Kodali took first, and in second with 3/4 was a four-way tie: Mario Guevara-Rodriguez, Norman Burtness, and Nelson Castaneda.
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Christmas Party
Next Tuesday (Dec. 21) is our Christmas Party! Doors will be open by 6 and food will be arriving at 6:15. We have a mix of both vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes from Fitzgerald’s Foods. Come early, bring your family and join us in our celebrations. Afterward, we will have our annual bullet tournament. It’s a pure 1+0, where everyone plays everyone else for yearly bragging rights.
If you have any time in between, you can peruse our fabulous historian’s review of the year. The annual newsletter is also available on the club website.
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Upcoming Events
We will close out the year with an unrated tournament. Starting next year, we will have a qualifying tournament for the Club Championship, followed by our most popular tournament of the year - the NBCC Championship.
Events are posted on the club calendar on the club website - newbritainchessclub.com
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Blitz XXVI Results
Congrats to NM Derek Meredith for winning the top section with 8/10. In second place was FM Nelson Castaneda with 7.5/10. In the next section, congrats to Lisa Smith for winning with 9/10pts. In a tie for second were Sumanyu Nandecha and Vishnu Mukku with 7/10 pts.
Many thanks to Lisa Smith for sharing her first-place prize with the 2nd place winners in her section. It’s a nice gesture to our young players, who won $10 each, rather than sharing the 2nd place $5 prize.
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Game of the Year
FM Rick Bauer will be announcing the Game of the Year prize at the Christmas Party. Many games were submitted this year, from Oktoberfest, Summer Open, and the Club Championship. You can preview the games analyzed by Rick on Lichess.
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In-person Lecture - NM Suhas Kodali
Tuesday 12/14 - 6:15pm
Suhas will wrap up the World Championship and Ian Nepomniatchi’s characteristic collapse after Game 6.
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Saturday Study Group at 5pm
The Saturday Study group will be experimenting with their schedule. It will start at 5pm and run for three hours. The first hour will be general, where one of the regulars will give a club-like demo. The second hour will be "practice games" or a "practice game." These are very informal and geared towards learning. We are experimenting with group games involving input from everyone for BOTH sides. The third hour will review games from participants, from the club, if and when we get them, the internet, or from history and their analysis.
Link to Zoom - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 856 9749 6782
Passcode: NBCC
Cheers,
Suhas Kodali
President
New Britain Chess Club
