Charlotte Chess Club Home (Click Here) News & Views (You're Here) Games Archive (Click Here) For PGN Viewing (Click Here) CCC History (Click Here) Miscellaneous (Click Here) UpcomingEvents(Click Here) Current Roster February 2003  Rating & CCC Expiration (Click Here) February 2003 Supplement Who's Hot!! Tony Hicks +144 Joe Ulaky +127 H Hashemloo +103 Joshua Mu +103 Jim Ulaky +91 Time Control For all Wendy's Events is: 30/1, G30 Time Delay Clocks May Only Be Used if  Both Players Agree 14H.  Insufficient  Losing Chances Per USCF Rule 13G. Withdrawing from  Tournament  without notifying director Last 4 Issues of "News & Views"    1-9 1-3 12-27  12-19 Games Wanted lelandfue@yahoo.com Smokehouse XXXV (See Upcoming Events)  February 22 (Entire 2002 Schedule ) $100 Bonus! For 5-0 in CCC Tournaments! (CCC Members Only) 7 Perfect Scores After Rd:2 NM Frankie Newton NM John Lane Bernard Baker Jonathan Munnell Joshua Mu Mike Richards Brandy Johnson CCC Top 10  February 2003 Rating List 1 NM W F  Newton 2246 2  NM  Justin Daniel 2215 3 NM Harold Mouzon 2195 4 Daniel Tapia 2127 5 NM John Lane 2080 6 NM Garrick Wells 2061 7  NM L Fuerstman 2033 8 Patrick McCartney 2033 9 Gary Newsom 2022 10 NM Daniel Liu 2000 Wendy's I-XLI Top Section Titles (Equal 1st Counts as 1) NM Frankie Newton 24 NM Leland Fuerstman 12 NM Justin Daniel 7 NM Garrick Wells 5 Patrick McCartney  4 NM Daniel Liu  1 NM  Dr Luigi Vacca 1 Gary Newsom 1 Tarokh Taefi  1 Jon Pietras 1 NM Harold Mouzon 1 "You don't stop playing when you get old; you get old when you stop playing!" Benjamin Franklin Great New Links!! Bill Walls Chess Page Wendy's XLI Current Crosstable Chess Equipment Latest Books! www.sigschess.com CCC Membership  $20. Renewals Due: Bernard Baker Allan Crombie Todd Essex Jim Fischer Kevin Huang David Jaap Marat Kocharyan Terrence Parks Clyde Plyler Eric Rust Matthew Smith Reid Ward Garrick Wells Cigars Etc. 3712 E. Independence Now Sells Sets and Clocks 704-532-9853 Need Address For: Michael Bryant Randy Hight NM John Lane Jonathan Roes Michael Savage Dr Gerard Sztyber Richard Wesson	(Remember to "reload" or "refresh" this page often) This site works best with "Netscape" CCC News & Views 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. In this column, 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 new "user friendly" Message Board www.charlottechess.com/wwwboard Wendy's XLI Crosstable  Click Here CCC Top 50 (February 2003 Supplement) (Click Here) "Images" of  CCC Members (Click here) Links to Other Chess Sites (Click Here) "Miscellaneous" Contains 35 Items of Interest Tournament Results  To determine new rating after tournament competition click on: USCF Rating Calculator http://groups.google.com/groups?group=rec.games.chess.politics  Who is that "10" with Leland ? Visit the CCC Message Board!! (Click Here) Click Below To View USCF Most Current Ratings This site is visited over 3000 times per month CCC NEWS &VIEWS 1-23-03 By NM Leland Fuerstman  Newton, Lane Lead Top; Baker, Munnell Middle; J. Mu, M. Richards Lower Section of Wendy's XLII Charlotte, NC  1-22-03:  A large gathering of  33 chess scientists, socialists and sciolists    converged upon or holy temple of higher thinkers more commonly known as Wendy's in order to participate in Rd:2 of Wendy's XLII. In the Top Section, the CCC's #1 active player, current NC State Champion NM Frankie "Blitz" Newton(2-1) (2257) abandoned his scoresheet and lived up to his nickname as he edged out NM Leland "El-Duce" Fuerstman(1-1) (2033). Meanwhile, with the Black pieces, NM John "Night-Train" Lane(2-1) (2080) did likewise to NM Daniel "Deep" Liu(.5-1.5) (2000) to keep the pace with 2-0. In addition, Patrick "Flanker" McCartney(1-1) (2033) foiled mild mannered Clarke "Kent" Brosi(0-2) (1846) while Chris "the Babe" Mabe(1-1) (1909) tamed Deneil "Sean" Brazell(1-1) (1781). In the Middle Section, the good reverend Bernard "JoeDon" Baker(2-0) (1588) sold short against "CEO" Mike Isner (1566) while Jonathan "Enforcer" Munnell(2-0) (1460) put a hurtin' on Doug "Sky" Millsaps(1-1) (1637) to each lead with 2-0. Also, in the Middle Section, Winfred "Guns" Gatlin (1429) riddled Spencer "Jazzman" Singleton (1459), Chris "Dirty Harry" Callahan (1462) displaced Viktor "the Mad Ukrainian" Ozherelyev (1600) and Mark "Chessman" Johnson (1491) split the point with Danesh Dadgar (1587) as did Slobodan "the Mad Serb" Sinanovic (1721) with Daryl "Flash" Gordon (1715). In the Lower Section, Mike Richards (1310) handled Michael Savage (1360) and #6 in the nation, 7 year old phenom Joshua "Moo" Mu (1320) defeated Travis Filling (1109) to each lead with 2-0.  Other Lower Section winners were: CCC Player Representative Alphonse "Fonzie" Ashamalla, Hassan Hashemloo, Jim "Sticks" Ulaky and Duncan "Donuts" McLaughlin. All results may be viewed in the "Current Crosstable" Visit the "new" CCC Message Board and speak to us!! All welcome new CCC members Ken McCarver and Kermon Lane. Next Smokehouse Saturday, February 22 (We now begin at 7:30pm sharp! Editor Needs Games; Please E-mail to: lelandfue@yahoo.com Mera Perfect in Top; Johnson, Savage, Woods take Lower Section of  Smokehouse XXXV Charlotte, NC 1-25-02: Two complete sections of a total of 20 chessplayers from 4 different continents participated in Smokehouse XXXV. In the Top Section, which was noticably absent of most of Charlotte's top players, (some speculated that the fear of losing was the reason), the pride of South America, (IM) Angel Mera (2161) posted victories against Robert C. Moore (1700), Chris "the Babe" Mabe (1909) and NM Leland "El-Duce" Fuerstman (2033) to score a perfect 3-0 and pocket $100. Clear 2nd Place with 2.5-.5 was Clarke "Kent" Brosi (1846) who took home $50. Equal 1st-3rd in the Lower Section were Mark "Chessman" Johnson (1491), Michael Savage (1360) and SSgt Russell Woods (1319) each scoring 2.5-.5 and winning $50. To view complete crosstable (Click Here) (Fuerstman directed) Next Smokehouse February 22. See ya' there!