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Bertucci's III - September 17
 
Bertucci's Restaurant, 1600 E. Woodlawn Rd.
Charlotte, NC (Across the street from Billy's)

- In the Park Town Shopping Village -
All Players are required to purchase their lunch at Bertucci's
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  to participate! Current number: 2
GM John Fedorowitz 2580 - Colette Wheeless 1596  1/2-1/2
L Fuerstman 1650 - Bill Wall 1750  (1975)
Elina Kats 1845 - Amelia Wheeless 1613
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Newton, Mabe, Fuerstman Lead Top; Lee  "B"; S. Xin "C"; Kohlhepp Lower Section of  Wendy's LXIX - $300 Bonus Still Awaits!
Charlotte, NC 9-7-05:  A particularly strong turnout of 38 of the greater Charlotte area's most gifted thinkers congregated at this possibly contaminated chess superdome more commonly known as Wendy's in order to participate in Rd:4 of Wendy's LXIX. (Thanks to the generosity of honorable chess philanthropist SCCA President James MacDougall, as many as 21 CCC members who will have competed in all 5 rounds shall share the $300 gift at a drawing just prior to the 5th Rd). In the Top Section, the CCC's #2 player, the pride of Crouse, NC, NM Frankie "Neutrino" Newton (2298) AKA "the Gladiator" went to the wire with CCC Favorite Son Expert Chris "the Babe" Mabe (2162) when with 27 seconds left on his clock, his opponent tipped his King, each now with 3-1. Meanwhile, NM Leland "Perro Grande" Fuerstman (2003) ditched a Pawn, but recovered it with a superior position and a surprise conclusion versus Gary "the Nuisance" Newsom (1987)  (See Game 0508) to share the lead with 3-1. In addition, NM Justin "Dawg" Daniel (2192) made minced meat of Patrick "Fabio" McCartney (1989) (See Game 0509), Expert Shawn "Arlo" Pealer (2048) schooled newly crowned "A" Player "Iron" Mike Eberhardinger (1821) and Clarke "Kent" Brosi (1808) split the point with Ken "the not so Terrible" Ivens (1767). In the "B" Section, 15 year old phenom Laura "Karate Kid" Lee (1777) scored a late round  knock-out over Donald "Trump" Hofer (1635) to lead with 3-1. Meanwhile, old square pants "Sponge" Bob Moore (1700) beat down Jonathan "Henry" Hudson (1692) and Amelia "Wheels" Wheeless (1638) emasculated Ankit "Butch" Jivan (1649). In the "C" Section, despite the fact that he was handily defeated by Keith "Sherlock" Holmes (1454), 9 year old phenom Samuel "Reshevsky" Xin (1461) still leads with 3-1. In addition, Winfred "Guns" Gatlin (1458) opened all barrels against Viktor "the Mad Russian" Ozherelyev (1568), Dave "Ameen" Eadie (1586) made peace with Colette "Wheels" Wheeless (1587), Ervon "Wooden" Nichols (1474) beat Chris Yoder (Unr) and Octavius "0-0" Obey (1497) got by Michael Baker (1259). In the Lower Section, Chris Kohlhepp (1283) defeated Dyrus "What is it good for" Wuor (1201) to lead with 4-0 and win Free Entry to Bertucci's III on September 17. Other Lower Section winners were: Copeland Blackwell, Adam Jaffe, Drexall Shorter and Amanda Braband. All results may be observed on the "Current Crosstable E-mail me at lelandfue@yahoo.com to add your name to the "List of Players" who intend to participate in Bertucci's III Saturday, September 17. See ("Upcoming Events") Editor Needs Games... 

Lucas! Takes Top Honors; Moore, Hudson, Ozherelyev, Huang =1st-4th in Lower Section of Bertucci's II
Charlotte NC 8-20-05:
A grand total of 20 chessplayers from hither and yon travelled to the Queen City in order to participate in Bertucci's II. (Believe it or not, Bertucci's Italian Restaurant is actually better than Billy's! The simi-private playing area is spacious and well lighted, the traditional Italian cuisine is delicious, reasonably priced and far more than I could eat, and the servers and management made us feel very welcome.) In the Top Section, "surprise, surprise, surprise" was the reaction of many upon learning that Paul "Survivalist" Lucas (1748) of Lake Wylie upset Patrick "Fabio" McCartney (1989) in Rd:1, eviscerated Ken "the not so Terrible" Ivens (1767) in Rd:2 and emasculated Dan "Ski" Andrzejewski (1749) in Rd:3 to capture clear 1st Place with 3-0 and take home $100. Equal 2nd-3rd were NCCA President NM Neal Harris (2215) of Old Fort and Expert Chris "the Babe" Mabe (2162) each with 2.5-.5 winning $25. In the Lower Section, =1st-4th Place was shared by "Sponge" Bob Moore (1700), Jonathan "Henry" Hudson (1679), Viktor "the Mad Russian" Ozherelyev (1533) and Kevin "Spacey" Huang (1536) each with 2.5-.5 winning $37.50. In order to observe all results see (Crosstable). E-mail me at lelandfue@yahoo.com to add your name to the "List of Players" who intend to participate in Bertucci's III on September 17. See ya' there! LF 
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