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Billy's
II (See Upcoming Events) March 19 (Entire 2005 Schedule) |
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Section $100. "B", "C" & "Lower" Section Free Entry to Billy's Winners must have at least 4 points (CCC Members Only) |
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The CCC has 105 current members. This is our 64th Wendy's 5 Rd event. The Record for the total playing in 1 Rd is 48, total participating is 78, for a 3 Rd event 38. |
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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. 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 new "user friendly" Message Board Scroll
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New Location: Billy's Restaurant, 1601 Woodlawn Rd. - In the Park Road Shopping Center - All Players are required to purchase their lunch at Billy's Note: E-mail me at lelandfue@yahoo.com and your name will be included on the List of Players who intend to participate! |
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2005 NC
Scholastics Championship
>Read 3 time Champion NM Daniel Tapia's Comments!< Charlotte "Homeschoolers" Win Team Title! K-12 =2nd-5th Laura Lee, Amelia Wheeless 4-1 K-8 =4th-22nd Thomas Paradis 4-1 K-5 =2nd-4th Samual Xin, Chang Sun 6-1 K-3 =2nd-6th Hubert Song 6-1 |
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Passport for Bobby Fischer! The Real Endgame by Rene Chun |
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NEWS & VIEWS 3-10-05Newton Leads Top; Lee "B"; Hofer, Gatlin "C"; Nichols 3-0 in Lower Section of Wendy's LXIV - {Happy Birthday, Bobby!} Charlotte, NC 3-9-05: A strong turnout of 32 of the Metrolina area's most jovial mental jousters reported to this factory of chess champions more commonly known as Wendy's in order to participate in Rd:3 of Wendy's LXIV.  The
CCC was honored to be visited by IM Carlomagno
Oblitas (2505) and Russian NM Lenoid
Risan (2350) who entertained the croud later in the evening by
playing a series of speed games! In the Top Section,
the CCC's #2 player, 2004 N.C. Invitational Champion, the pride of Crouse, N.C., NM Frankie "Neutrino" Newton (2295)  went
to the wire with the good Reverend Bernard "King" Baker (1801) but, as
usual, with seconds left on his clock, prevailed in the end to
lead with 2.5-.5.
One half point behind the leader is NM Leland
"El-Fuerte" Fuerstman (2000) who was the benificiary of a 9th move blunder by tyro 2004 CCC "D" Player of the Year
Marty "Fritz" Katz (1732!). In addition, Patrick "Fabio" McCartney (1952) split the point
with Gary "Sandbagger" Branton (1800). In the "B" Section, 2005 Scholastic Team Champion Laura "Karate Kid" Lee (1665)  KOed Ken "the Terrible" Ivens
(1764) to lead with 2.5-.5.
Meanwhile, Chris "Dirty Harry"
Callahan (1712)
made his day against Viktor "the Mad Russian" Ozherelyev (1619), new
member, Davidson College student, Tim "I just improved my" Rankin
(1790) outplayed "Sponge" Bob Moore (1700), the good Dr. Gerard "the Butcher" Sztyber (1799) performed a delicate
surgical procedure on Thomas Paradis (1745) and 2005 Scholastic Team Champion Amelia "Wheels" Wheeless (1630) put a hard tackle on
Algie "Crumpler" Clyburn (1500). In the "C" Section, Donald "Trump" Hofer (1522) made peace with Jonathan "Henry" Hudson (1607) as did Winfred "Guns" Gatlin (1483) with new member, Davidson College student Carlos Ortiz (1595)
to each lead with 1.5-1.5. In
addition, 2005
Scholastic Team Champion Colette "Wheels" Wheeless (1479) surprised Octavius
"0-0" Obey (1520), Spencer
"Jazzman" Singleton (1499)
handled Duncan "Doughnuts" McLaughlin (1263) and Austin "Powers" Scott (1405) could be overheard
saying "Yeah, Baby" upon defeating Sylvester "Sly" Hubbard (1317). In
the Lower Section,  Ervon "Wooden" Nichols (1206) manhandled Samuel
"Reshevsky" Xin (1192) to lead with 3-0. Other Lower Section winners were: Joe Shirlen and Bobby Lee.All results may be observed on the "Current Crosstable- Billy's II, March 19. ("Upcoming Events") Editor Needs Games; Please E-mail to: lelandfue@yahoo.com |
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| Tapia, McCartney
Share Top Honors; Thiede Lower Section of "Billy's I" Charlotte NC 2-19-05: A small group of 16 happy competitors surrounded by stock car memorabelia, reported to our new location and participated in Billy's I.  Almost everyone, to a man, thoroughly enjoyed the
atmosphere, friendly
and professional wait staff and management, extraordinary reasonably
priced cuisine and modern design of the recently renovated facility.
(Playing in a completely silent, upstairs private room seems to be a
rarity around here ). In
the Top Section, =1st-2nd Place was
taken by the CCC's #3
player, 2004
NC
Scholastic Champion, 2004
CCC Scholastic Player
of the Year NM Daniel
"Johnny" Tapia (2201) who
just unvailed his new website at www.danieltapia.
com, posting his second tournament
victory in as many weekends with a Rd:1
victory over Gary "Sandbagger" Branton (1800), a Rd:2 rout of Matthew "Hoekstra"
Green (1881) and a Rd:3
grandmaster Draw with co-champion Patrick
"Fabio" McCartney (1941). McCartney tamed Jerome
"Cookiemonster" DeBell (1667) in Rd:1
and upset NM Leland "El Moron" Fuerstman (2000) in Rd:2. Each scored 2.5-.5 and
pocketed $75. In the Lower Section, 13 year old Eric-Henning Thiede (1358) scored 2.5-.5 and
carried home the 1st Place
prize of $60.
Equal 2nd-3rd Place with 2-1 was
shared by Donald "Trump" Hofer (1522) and Jeff McAdams (1537) of Greensboro
each winning $15.
To observe all results see (Crosstable). See you at Billy's II, March 19. |
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