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(CCC Members Only)  7 Perfect Scores After Rd:2 CCC Top 10  October 2003 Rating List Competed within past 6 months 1 NM W F  Newton 2280 2  NM Justin Daniel 2196 3 NM Harold Mouzon 2195 4 Daniel Tapia 2122 5 Keith Eubanks 2058 6 NM Daniel Liu 2014 7  NM Leland Fuerstman 2004 8  Chris Mabe 2004 9 Michael Curcuru 1998 10 Gary Newsom 1997 Wendy's I-XLIX Top Section Titles (Equal 1st Counts as 1) NM Frankie Newton 30 NM Leland Fuerstman 13 NM Justin Daniel 7 NM Garrick Wells 5 Patrick McCartney  5 NM Daniel Liu  2 NM  Dr Luigi Vacca 1 Gary Newsom 1 Tarokh Taefi  1 Jon Pietras 1 NM Harold Mouzon 1 Michael Curcuru 1 Daniel Tapia 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 L Current Crosstable Chess Equipment Latest Books! www.sigschess.com Cigars Etc. 3712 E. Independence Now Sells Sets,  Clocks cigars & accessaries!! 704-532-9853 Joshua, you've got your work cut out for you!! 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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 XLIX Crosstable  Click Here CCC Top 50 (October 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 Visit the CCC Message Board!! (Click Here) Click Below To View USCF Most Current Ratings New!! Check Your Rating History! This site is visited over 3000 times per month 2003 Carolina Class Championship (Click Here for full report) Open: Keith Eubanks 4-1 A: Matthew Wofford 4.5-.5 B: Bernard Baker 5-0 C: Jiri Janko 4-1 D: Clyde Plyler 4-1 E: Sean Villone 5-0  "USCF Complete Crosstable" 2003 North Carolina Closed Championship  Atlantic recording superstar  Joe Firstman will appear on the NBC  program "Last Call" with Carson Daly on Tuesday night at 1:30am! LF www.joefirstman.com CCC NEWS & VIEWS 10-30-03  By NM Leland Fuerstman Four Lead Top; Ivens "B"; Three 2-0's in the "C"; Three 2-0's in the Lower Section of Wendy's #50! Charlotte, NC 10-29-03: A substantial turnout of 38 of the Metrolina area's most productive thinkers journied to this factory of creative calculators more commonly known as Wendy's in order to participate in Rd:2 of Wendy's "L". In the Top Section, the CCC's #1 player, current NC State Champion, NM Frankie "Blitz" Newton (2270) withstood the vicious counter assault of NM Leland "El-Jefe" Fuerstman (2016) (See Game 0355) to catch the leaders at 1.5-.5. Meanwhile, Michael "See You Are; See You Are You" Curcuru (2037) (more commonly known as the "Grim Reaper") entered the "twilight zone" (a point in the game where time "stops" but the game continues with each player waiting for the other to blunder in an attempt to win a drawn position!??... Down with "time-delay" clocks?? They, along with unscrupulous Tournament Directors continue to bring considerable harm to chess...) with Patrick "Flanker" McCartney (1980) and won a drawn position to equal the leaders at 1.5-.5. Meanwhile, NM John "Night-train" Lane (2091) established a vastly superior position only to let the CCC's Favorite Son, current NC Scholastic Champion, 17 year old phenom, Daniel "Sour-Grapes" Tapia (2137) escape with a Draw each now with 1.5-.5. In addition, Jon "Cigars" Pietras (1789) with his sharpened sword poised for the coup de grace, issued a stay of execution to the good Reverend Bernard "King" Baker (1727). (Hey, we each have our reason...). In the "B" Section, Ken "the Terrible" Ivens (1666) brought terror to Jeremy "Irons" Davenport (1626) to lead with 2-0. Meanwhile, "Iron" Mike Eberhardinger (1697) administered a savage beating to Michael "the Savage" Savage (1694) and Chris "Dirty Harry" Callahan (1655) made his day against Viktor "the Mad Ukrainian" Ozherelyev (1616) In the "C" Section, Ankit "Butch" Jivan (1524) handled Algie "Van" Clyburn (1500), Michael "Y" Shoup (1519) beat down Tim "the Twin" Chen (1514) and Clyde "the Glyde" Plyler (1413) (See Game 0354) dunked on Kevin "the Twin" Huang (1466) each now with 2-0. In addition, Jim "Sticks" Ulaky (1470) did a drum roll on Spencer "Jazzman" Singleton (1528).  In the Lower Section, Tom "the Twin" Chen (1358), Sean "the Villain" Villone (1262) and Laura Lee (1347) each have 2-0. Other Lower Section winners were: CCC Player Representative Alphonse "Amazing Al" Ashamalla, Austin "Powers" Scott and Joe "SticksJr" Ulaky. All results may be viewed in "Current Crosstable."  Visit the CCC Message Board and speak to us!! Editor Needs Games; Please E-mail to: lelandfue@yahoo.com   Next Smokehouse Saturday, Nov 15 Tapia Takes Top; Richards, Ozherelyev Lower Section of Smokehouse XLIV Charlotte, NC 10-25-03: A moderate turnout of 18 of the Southern Piedmont area's most active competitors participated in Smokehouse XLIV.  In the Top Section, CCC Favorite Son, current NC Scholastic Champion, 17 year old phenom, Expert Daniel "Johnny" Tapia (2137) registered wins over Ken "Beans" Baxter (1912), Patrick "Flanker" McCartney (1980) and SC Expert Keith "Chuck" Eubanks (2046) to score 3-0 and pocket $100. Equal 2nd-4th were NM Leland "El-Jefe" Fuerstman (2016), Patrick "Flanker" McCartney (1980) and Slobodan "the Mad Serb" Sinanovic (1701) each with 2-1 winning $17. In the Lower Section, equal 1st-2nd Place were Dave "Richman" Richards (1660) and Viktor "the Mad Ukrainian" Ozherelyev (1599) who each scored 2.5-.5 and won $60. To view complete crosstable (Click Here)(Fuerstman directed)  Next Smokehouse November 15. See ya' there!