 Charlotte
Chess Club
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Current
Roster
Rank, CCC, NCCA,
USCF Exp.
(Click Here)
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December Supplement
(Total
Points Gained Since 12-05)
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Who's
Hot!!
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Amanda McCartney
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+258
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Kevin Huang
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+204
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Colette Wheeless
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+190
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Samuel
Xin
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+167
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Chang Sun
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+143
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Derek
Zhang
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+128
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Adam
Clontz
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+119
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Corey
Frazier
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+113
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Joshua
Mu
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+110
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Last
4 Issues of
"News & Views"
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On August 29, 1948, Kit Crittenden won the N.C. State Championship
at age 13, still youngest ever in the
Nation!
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New Prize Structure for
final Wendy's Event!
Top Section $200!
Top "B", "C"
&
"Lower" Section
Free
Entry to Bertucci's
Winners must have
at least 4 points
(Note: Byes & 1/2 point byes
do NOT count)
(CCC Members Only)
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CCC Top 10
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December 2006 Rating
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Competed
within past 6 months
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1
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FM Andrey Chumachenko
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2470
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2
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NM
Frankie Newton
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2287
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3
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Chris Mabe
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2114
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4
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Shawn Pealer
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2111
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5
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Todd
Trower
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2099
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6
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NM
Leland Fuerstman
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2016 |
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6
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Patrick McCartney
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2016
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8
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James Dickson
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1981 |
9
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James
MacDougall
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1961
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10
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Gary
Newsom
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1952
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"You don't stop playing when you
get old; you get old when you stop playing!"
Benjamin Franklin
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Here is the only truth: "We are the
pawns of the mysterious game of chess played by God, who moves
us, stops us, shifts us ahead, and soon picks us up
one after the other and gathers us in the same box of Nothing."
Omar Khayyam 1040 ad
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"Chess grips its exponent,
shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom and independence
of even the strongest character cannot remain unaffected."
Albert
Einstein
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"Imagination does not breed insanity.
Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go
mad; but chess-players do".
—Chesterton, The Maniac
(1908).
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Welcome to the CCC
NM
Leland L. Fuerstman, Editor
Greetings from
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, Earth to everyone out there in cyberia,
and welcome to the Charlotte Chess Club website. On this page, which is
continuously updated, we will report a weekly synopsis of the previous
meeting to include current standings, annotated games, and other
interesting anecdotes for your reading, viewing, and listening
pleasure. We welcome your contributions and comments on our
Message Board
Scroll down for weekly
article
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McCartney Promoted to Chief TD for
CCC!
Charlotte, NC 11-26-06: Effective
immediately, and until further notice,  LTD Patrick
McCartney will take over as chief Tournament Director for the Charlotte Chess Club.
This includes the Bertucci's
events as well as the Wednesday
evening round at Wendys.
Fuerstman will continue as chief organizer and Assistant TD by greeting
and
registering new members, collecting entry fees, occasionally
competing and editing the website.
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Note: The time control for
the Top Section is now G90 <
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 CCC
NEWS & VIEWS 12-7-06
Newton
Leads Top; Xin, Holmes, Ozherelyev "B"; Singleton "C"; Miranda
Lower Section of Wendy's
LXXXII
- Round
Now Begins at 7:30pm
sharp!! -
Charlotte, NC 12-6-06:
A typical
pre-Christmas
turnout of 20 of the
Charlotte area's most competent calculators converged upon this factory
where chess champions are manufactured
more commonly known as Wendy's
in order  to
participate in Rd:4 of Wendy's LXXXII. In the Top Section,
the CCC's #2 player,
the pride of Crouse, NC, 2005
CCC Player of the Year NM Frankie "Neutrino" Newton (2287)
demonstrated his superiority over Expert Chris "the Babe" Mabe (2114)
to lead with 3.5-1.5.
Meanwhile, Expert Todd
"Squirrelbreath" Trower (2099)
outplayed Gary "NightCrawler" Newsom (1952), Expert Patrick "Fabio" McCartney (2016) squeezed out a
Pawn up Bishop vs. Knight ending over NM Leland "Ennui" Fuerstman
(2016) and Laura "Karate Kid"
Lee (1832)
clobbered Michael  "Bolton"
Kliber (1910). In the "B" Section,
Dr. Gil "Sherlock" Holmes (I1725) performed successful
surgery on "Iron" Mike Eberhardinger (1702), Amelia "Wheels" Wheeless (1660) shared the point
with Samuel "Xman" Xin (1764) and Viktor "the Mad Russian" Ozherelyev (1636) beat down Winfred
"Guns" Gatlin (1342). In the Lower
Section, Cesar "Read me my rights" Miranda (1309) outputted Fran
"Arnie" Palmer (1142) to lead with 3-1. Other Lower Section winners were: Amanda McCartney. All
results may be observed on the current "Crosstable".
E-mail lelandfue@yahoo.com
to add your name to the "List
of Players" who
intend to participate in Bertucci's XVII on Dec 16 - See
("Upcoming
Events") Editor Needs Games... |
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Paradis Takes Clear 1st
in Bertucci's XVI
Charlotte NC 11-18-06: A grand total of 8 wildcat chessplayers
from 2
states including 2 Russian
immigrants refused to honor the "Boycott" and converged upon Bertucci's
Italian Restaurant in order to
participate in Bertucci's XVI. In the Top Section,
15 year old phenom Thomas
"Dolby" Paradis (1910) of
Charlotte dispatched of Slava Fedko (1239) in Rd:1, Drew with Expert Patrick "Fabio" McCartney (2016) in Rd:2 and outplayed Gary
"NightCrawler" Newsom (1952) in the final round to score 2.5-.5 and
take home $80.
Equal 2nd-4th were McCartney, Newsom and Tracy Callis (1893) from Virginia
each with 2-1
winning $13.33.
In order to observe all results see (Crosstable). (McCartney
Assisted) E-mail
me at lelandfue @yahoo.com
to add your name to the "List
of Players" who intend to participate in Bertucci's XVII on Dec 16 - See ya' there!
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