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) Upcoming Events (Click Here) Current Roster w/April 2002 Rating & CCC Expiration (Click Here) April 2002 Supplement Who's Hot!! Kevin Chu +189 Joe Ulaky +139 Mike Isner +123 Nick Bambara +106 Time Control For all Wendy's Events is: 30/1, G30 Time Delay Clocks May Only Be Used if Both Players Agree Last 4 Issues of "News & Views"    4-4  3-28 3-21 3-14 Games Wanted lelandfue@yahoo.com SmokehouseXXVI (See Upcoming Events)  May 11 (Entire 2002 Schedule) $100 Bonus! For 5-0 in CCC Tournaments! (CCC Members Only) 5 Perfect Scores After Rd:2 NM Leland Fuerstman Douglas Millsaps Kevin Blackwell Joshua Mu Robert Callahan CCC Top 10 (April 2002 Supplement) 1 NM W F  Newton 2216 2 Justin Daniel  2164 3  NM Gary Wells 2082 4 Daniel Tapia 2037 5 NM L Fuerstman 2027 6 Gary Newsom 2014 7 NM Daniel Liu  2009 8 Pat  McCartney 1923 9 Ralph Lombard 1835 10 David Jaap 1808 Wendy's I-XXXIII Top Section Titles (Equal 1st Counts as 1) NM Frankie Newton 18 NM Leland Fuerstman 11 Justin Daniel 7 NM Garrick Wells 4 Patrick McCartney  3 NM Daniel Liu  1 NM  Dr Luigi Vacca 1 Gary Newsom 1 Tarokh Taefi  1 Jon Pietras 1 "You don't stop playing when you get old; you get old when you stop playing!" Benjamin Franklin Jeff Jones Reprimand Providence Day Chess Club Sunday Special $500 1st Place  International Grandmaster Julio Becerra will compete!! - Begins May 5 - (See Upcoming Events) Great New Links!! Bill Walls Chess Page "The Past/Future is Now" By Dr. Sam Fuerstman Wendy's XXXIV <Predicted Pairings> Rd:3 - Top Section Fuerstman - Newton Daniel - Tapia Jaap - Liu Wells - McCartney Brosi - Pietras Current Crosstable	(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<bgsound src="beethoven92.mid" loop=infinite> Wendy's XXXIII Crosstable  Click Here CCC Top 50 (Apr 2002 Supplement) (Click Here)  "Images" of  CCC Members (Click here) Links to Other Chess Sites (Click Here) "Miscellaneous" Contains 29 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 Official Letter of  Reprimand for Jeffrey Mason Jones This site has been visited  times since April 1, 2002 CCC NEWS &VIEWS 4-11-02 By NM Leland Fuerstman Fuerstman Leads Top; Millsaps Middle; 3 Lower Section of Wendy's XXXIV Charlotte, NC 4-10-02: Forty-two of the Metrolina area's most cunning calculators temporarily removed themselves from the direct proximity of their cathode tubes on Wednesday evening and participated in Rd:2 of Wendy's XXXIV. In the Top Section, the absence of Justin "Dog" Daniel (2166) and Daniel "Johnny" Tapia (2036), both en route to the National Scholastic Championships, left NM Leland "Premier Hombre" Fuerstman (2018) to fight it out with David "Kamikaze" Jaap (1831). In the latter stages of the game, Jaap achieved a Drawn position but attempted to press on, ultimately leaving Fuerstman as the lone 2-0 in the Section. (See Game 0218)  Meanwhile, the CCC's #1 player, NM Frankie "Blitz" Newton (2216) out drove Expert Gary "Player" Newsom (2014) causing the latter to double-bogey while Draws were turned in by NM Daniel "Deep" Liu (2010) vs. NM Garrick "Outlaw" Wells (2082) and Jon "Cigars" Pietras (1787) vs. Patrick "Flanker" McCartney (1918). {"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar..." Sigmond Freud} In the Middle Section, Captain Doug "Sky" Millsaps (1617) wreaked havoc upon Danesh "Ayatollah" Dadgar (1550) to lead with 2-0. In addition, Frank "Chessman" Johnson (1428) beat down Spencer "Jazzman" Singleton (1421), Frank Mu (1524) handled Bernard "Bman" Baker (1472), Daryl "Flash" Gordon (1609) used his raygun on Michael "You Know You Make Me Wanna" Shoup (1550), Algie "Van" Clyburn (1500) ethnically cleansed Viktor "the Mad Ukrainian" Ozherelyev (1550) and Nathan "TechDude" Eerenberg (1360) initiated a hostile takover of "CEO" Mike Isner (1638) (See Game 0219) . In addition, Draws were submitted by Deneil "Slick" Brazell (1557) vs. Gil "John" Holmes (1673) and Slobodan "the Mad Serb" Sinanovic (1716) vs. Clarke "Kent" Brosi (1797). Leading the Lower Section with 2-0 are Kevin Blackwell, Joshua Mu and Robert "Dirty Harry" Callahan.Other Lower Section winners were: Winfred "Guns" Gatlin, Marat Kocharyan, Darrell "Wilkes" Booth, Gennady Brazhnikov, Ankit Jivan and Paul "Survivalist" Lucas. All results may be viewed in the "Current Crosstable." Visit the "new" CCC Message Board www.charlottechess.com/wwwboard and speak to us!! All welcome new CCC member Chris Kohlhepp. (We now begin at 7:30pm sharp! LF). See ya' this Saturday at Smokehouse XXVI!Editor Needs Games; Please E-mail to: lelandfue@yahoo.com Pohl, Jurjevich Share Top Honors; Brazhnikov, Dadgar Middle; Hunter Lower Section of Smokehouse XXVI Charlotte, NC 4-13-02:  A record number of 29 weekend warriors participated in Smokehouse XXVI. In the Top Section, SM Klaus Pohl (2225) of Columbia, SC defeated David "Kamikaze" Jaap (1831) in Rd:1, Drew with co-champion NM Joseph Jurjevich (2135) in Rd:2 and knocked off upstart Sam Copeland (1722) in Rd:3 to tie for =1st-2nd Place with 2.5-.5. Jurjevich knocked off Clarke "Kent Brosi (1797) in Rd:1, Drew with Pohl in Rd:2, and beat David "Kamikaze" Jaap (1831) in Rd:3. Each took home $75. In the Middle Section, Gennady Brazhnikov (Unr) and Danesh "Shah' Dadgar (1550) turned in perfect 3-0's each collecting $75. In the Lower Section, Scott "Scratch" Hunter (Unr) also had a perfect performance with 3-0 and took home $90. Equal 2nd-5th with 2-1 were Paul Copeland, Winfred "Guns" Gatlin, Bernard "Bman" Baker and Lee Nevitt. To view complete crosstable (click Here) (Fuerstman directed) Next Smokehouse May 11 See ya' there!