Charlotte Chess Club Home (Click Here) Upcoming Events (Click Here) Games Archive (Click Here) CCC History  (Click Here) Miscellaneous  (Click Here) Game of the Week (Click Here) Current Roster August 2004 Rating Rank & CCC Expiration (Click Here)  Aug  2004 Supplement Who's Hot!!  Marty katz +188 Amelia Wheeless +141 Ervon Nichols +115 Kevin Diao +111 Jared Morse +110 Time Control For all Wendy's Events is: 30/1,G30 Time Delay Clocks May Be Used or NOT if  Both Players Agree 14H.  Insufficient  Losing Chances Per USCF Rule 13G. Withdrawing from  Tournament  without notifying director "...the player may be barred from any of the organizer's tournaments until the fine is paid" Last 4 Issues of  "News & Views"       7-15  7-8 7-1 6-24 Previous Crosstable Games Wanted lelandfue@yahoo.com KASIMDZHANOV WHO? FIDE Rating Records Smokehouse LIV (See Upcoming Events) August 21 (Entire 2004 Schedule) New Prize Structure for Wendy's Events! Top Section $100. "B", "C" & "Lower" Section  Free Entry to Smokehouse (CCC Members Only) CCC Top 10  August 2004 Rating Competed within past 6 months 1 NM Frankie Newton 2264 2  Daniel Tapia 2158 3 NM John Lane 2086 4 Chris Mabe 2064 5 Keith Eubanks 2061 6 Todd Trower 2036 7  Patrick McCartney 2024 8  NM Leland Fuerstman 2000 9 NM Daniel Liu 2000 10 Shawn Pealer 1992 Wendy's I-LVII Top Section Titles (Equal 1st Counts as 1) NM Frankie Newton 38 NM Leland Fuerstman 14 NM Justin Daniel 7 NM Garrick Wells 5 Patrick McCartney  5 NM Daniel Liu  3 Daniel Tapia 3 Micheal Curcuru 2 Tarokh Taefi  1 Jon Pietras 1 NM Harold Mouzon 1 NM Dr. Luigi Vacca 1 Gary Newsom 1 Shawn Pealer 1 "You don't stop playing when you get old; you get old when you stop playing!" Benjamin Franklin "Chess grips it's exponent, shakling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom and independence of even the strongest character cannot remain unaffected."  Albert Einstein Great New Links!! 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The Record for the total playing in 1 Rd is 48,  total  participating  is 78, for a Smokehouse 3 Rd event 38. Total Tournaments Directed Since 1991 Robert Singletary 160  Leland Fuerstman 188 New CCC T-Shirts    now on Sale! $20.	(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. 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. 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(Me either!?) http://groups.google.com/groups?group=rec.games.chess.politics CCC Youth Win the Gold at "States" - Take all 4 Titles! 2004 North Carolina Scholastic Champions 2004 Scholastic Champion Daniel Tapia 2004 K-8 Champion Laura Lee 2004 K-5 Champion Kevin Huang 2004 K-3 Champion Joshua Mu Flash Flash Flash Flash Flash Flash Flash Tapia Uses "Swiss Gambit"; Achieves Master Title With 2550+ Performance Rating at World Open! Philadelphia, PA 7-6-04:  CCC Favorite Son, three time NC Scholastic Champion Daniel "Johnny" Tapia (2159)represented the state of North Carolina in quite an extraordinary fashion after he took a half point Bye in Rd:1. He then realed off wins against IM Jay Bonin (2405), IM Mark Ginsberg (2435) and WGM Keteva Arakhamia- Grant (2452) before slipping against GM Alexander Ivanov (2623). Next, he Drew IM Nikolai Andrianov (2433), Lost to GM Pavel Blatny (2547) defeated Bruce Leverett (2337) and finally Drew FM Lev Milman (2472) to score 5.5 and take home Top Under 2300 honors and $2,300! The average rating of his opponents was 2463! His performance rating was a whopping 2556! And, according to the USCF Rating Calculator his new rating will be 2234! This should move him to the "Top 10" for 18 year olds in the Nation. Wow!! Congratulations Daniel. Keep up the great work!!  Honorable mention goes to Expert Chris "the Babe" Mabe (2069) who did not lose a single game, including a final round pawn down Draw versus a 2199, and finished =8th-18th in the Under 2200 Section with 6.5 winning $2,000. His performance rating was 2374 and his new rating should be 2124! Fantastic results, Chris! You are on your way to Mastery! 0397 Michael Curcuru 2099 - GM Alex Wojtkiewicz 2623  1/2-1/2 0399 Todd Trower 2026 - IM Anthony Saidy 2361  1-0 0400 Michael Kliber 1910 - Shawn Pealer 1997   0-1 0401 Asya Grechka 815 - Samuel Xin 1143  0-1 0403 Tim Holman 1994 - Patrick McCartney 2023  0-1 New Prize Structure for Wendy's Events! Top Section: 1st Place $100. cash "B" Section: Free Entry to Smokehouse ($20) "C" Section: Free Entry to Smokehouse ($20) Lower Section: Free Entry to Smokehouse ($20) "Bobby Fischer's Pathetic Endgame" CCC NEWS & VIEWS 7-22-04 Newton, Pealer Share Top Honors; Griffin "B"; Gatlin "C"; Xin Lower Section of Wendy's LVII Charlotte, NC 7-21-04:  A grand total of 46 of the Metrolina area's most congenial chessplayers participated in Wendy's LVII. In the Top Section, the CCC's #1 player, the pride of Crouse, NC, 2004 NC Invitational Champion NM Frankie "Neutron" Newton (2264) quickly dispatched of NM Leland "Premier Hombre" Fuerstman (2026) to share =1st-2nd Place with Shawn "Arlo" Pealer (1997) who prevailed against visitor from Kansas City, John "I am not a" Crooks (2008). Each scored 3.5-1.5 and pocketed $50; Newton's 38thTitle, Pealer's 1st. Meanwhile, the good Reverend Bernard "King" Baker (1820) upset Patrick "Flanker" McCartney (2024). In the "B" Section, David "the Bear" Griffin (1675) mauled Kevin "Spacey" Huang (1645) to grab clear 1st Place with 3.5-1.5 and win Free Entry to the next Smokehouse! In addition, "Iron" Mike Eberhardinger (1666) beat down Ankit "Butch" Jivan (1665) while the good Dr. Gerard "the Butcher" Sztyber (1746) performed a rather sloppy surgical procedure on Walter "Mitty" Overman (1661). In the "C" Section, with all cannons blazing, Winfred "Guns" Gatlin (1506) blew David "Ameen" Eadie's ship out of the water to take clear 1st Place with 2.5-2.5 and Free Entry to the next Smokehouse! In addition, Jon "the Mad Siberian" Grechka (1406) demonstrated his youthful skill over veteran Paul "the Survivor" Lucas (1602). In the Lower Section, 9 year old phenom, current student of the "Fuerstman School of Chess," Samuel "Reshevsky" Xin (1076) defeated Hassan "HH" Hashemloo (1079) to take clear 1st Place with 4-1 and Free Entry to the next Smokehouse! Other Lower Section winners were: Chang Sun and Hubert Song. All results may be observed on the "Current Crosstable." Next Smokehouse Saturday, August 21.Editor Needs Games; Please E-mail to: lelandfue@yahoo.com Upsets Abound as Trower Takes Top Honors; Overman Lower Section of Smokehouse LIII Charlotte,  NC 7-17-04: A moderate turnout of 21 fierce competitors from North and South Carolina arrived at the Smokehouse with a vengeance! In the Top Section, Rd:1 upsets took their toll as SC Expert Keith "Chuck" Eubanks (2061) fell to Shawn "Arlo" Pealer (1992), NM Leland "El-Slowpoke" Fuerstman (2026) overspent his clock versus Brian "Tiger" Woods (1678) and Patrick "Flanker" McCartney (2024) was for the second time tripped up by 15 year old "Mean" Matthew Green (1659) (See Game 0406). Meanwhile, Todd "Chessninja" Trower (2036) dispatched of the good Reverend Bernard "King" Baker (1820), Brian "Tiger" Woods (1678) and finally Drew with Chris "the Babe" Mabe (2069) to capture clear 1st Place with 2.5-.5 and pocket $100. Equal 2nd-5th were Keith "Chuck" Eubanks (2061), Chris "the Babe" Mabe (2069), Shawn "Arlo" Pealer (1997) and James "Big" MacDougall (1829) each with 2-1 winning $12.50. In the Lower Section, Walter "Mitty" Overman (1661)  registered wins against Paul Copeland (1191), Samual Xin (1076) and Jeff McAdams (1516) to take clear 1st Place with 3-0 and take home $100. Equal 2nd-5th were Suliman Mason, Solomon Mason, Samuel Xin and Chang Sun each with 2-1 winning $12.50. To view complete crosstable (Click Here) (Fuerstman directed) Next Smokehouse August 21. See ya' there!