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El ajedrez es un juego, considerado un deporte, entre dos personas, cada una de las cuales dispone de 16 piezas móviles que se colocan sobre un tablero dividido en 64 escaques. En su versión de competición está considerado como un deporte.
El ajedrez es un juego, considerado un deporte, entre dos personas, cada una de las cuales dispone de 16 piezas móviles que se colocan sobre un tablero dividido en 64 escaques. En su versión de competición está considerado como un deporte.
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you can see them on our blog page at<br />
the sandiegochessclub.com website,<br />
but I will mention that on November<br />
14, Gambito #726 we had an exceptionally<br />
strong event with 6 players<br />
over 2300! IM Cyrus Lakdawala, IM<br />
Dionisio Aldama, Amin Nasri from<br />
Iran, Carlos Lacunza from Spain,<br />
plus local masters Stevan Djordjevic,<br />
Ali Morshedi and Bruce Baker were<br />
the top players, I think we may have<br />
had a few stronger fields in the past,<br />
but it has been quite a while. Dionisio<br />
came out on top this time and Cyrus<br />
had to settle for Second Place. Amin<br />
Nasri, Carlos Lacunza and Leonard<br />
Sussman tied for BU2400. Datris<br />
Robinson won the Premier Section<br />
(U2000), Jason Arbeiter and Tommy<br />
Wen won 2nd U2000 and BU1800, respectively.<br />
Kai Chen won the Reserve<br />
Section (U1600), and there were 31<br />
players in all, a pretty good turnout<br />
for mid-November.<br />
The San Diego Chess Club is really<br />
looking forward to getting back to our<br />
refurbished building in Balboa Park<br />
sometime early next year, but the exact<br />
date has not been determined yet.<br />
We have enjoyed playing in our two<br />
alternate sites, the Music Association<br />
on Morena Blvd for Wednesday<br />
nights and the Consulate Hotel on<br />
Nimitz Blvd for the Saturday Gambito<br />
Opens, but really there is no place<br />
like home and we are all quite homesick.<br />
One more thing we are looking forward<br />
to early next year is the 2nd<br />
annual Dreaming King Open over<br />
Martin Luther King weekend in mid-<br />
January. See the scchess.com website<br />
for details, advance entries and convenient<br />
online sign-up options. Sections<br />
are Open, U2100, U1900, U1700 and<br />
U1500 and the location is the beautiful<br />
Courtyard Marriott at Liberty<br />
Station near the San Diego Airport,<br />
same as last year and the previous<br />
three Recession Buster Opens. The<br />
prize fund is a guaranteed $13,000<br />
this year. I hope to see you there!<br />
- Chuck Ensey<br />
SANTA MONICA BAY CHESS<br />
CLUB (310) 827-2789<br />
11555 National Blvd. (@ Federal Ave.)<br />
West Los Angeles<br />
Pasadena Chess Club<br />
The summer extravaganza<br />
Liberty Open drew 82 players. Young<br />
Jeffrey Chou topped the field with<br />
6½ of 8, downing strong Expert Ray<br />
Armagnac in the last round. Master<br />
Ashok Ramadoss and Experts Alex<br />
Xie and Tony Kukavica (top U2100)<br />
split second place with 6; Xie crossed<br />
2200 for the first time. U2000 honors<br />
were split among Patrick Giles,<br />
Stephanie Shao, Victor Veturi, and<br />
Daniel Manahan; Cory Chen was best<br />
U1900; and Aaron Sun topped the<br />
U1700 players. Tommy Wen was best<br />
U1600; Greg Villar and Philip Leung<br />
split U1400 laurels; Grace Liang was<br />
top U1200; and Armen Hovasapian<br />
had the best Unrated result. Qize Li<br />
racked up the most upset points.<br />
Eighty-four players turned<br />
out for the San Gabriel Valley Open.<br />
Axel Muller and Ron Jabali scored<br />
5-1 in the first section (Muller had<br />
two byes while Jabali yielded a draw<br />
to Jeff Chou and had one bye). Chou,<br />
Ray Armagnac, and Larry Stevens at<br />
4½ split U2100 honors. Oscar Ortiz<br />
and Cory Chen tied for best U2000;<br />
Arturo Armagnac and Nicholas Mendez<br />
for top U1800; Teddie Wen was<br />
best U1700; and Bowen Liu, Brian<br />
Sheldon, and Eric Woo tied for top<br />
U1600. Arman Hovasapian dominated<br />
Section Two of this tournament<br />
with 5 points. Edmond Wen was best<br />
U1400; Andrew Li U1300; and Maxwell<br />
Li (who also had the most upset<br />
points) was top U1100.<br />
Turnout inched up again to<br />
86 in the Crown City Open. Muller<br />
(unable to play the last round because<br />
of illness), Jabali, Stevens, Ray<br />
Armagnac, and Alex Severino (top<br />
U2100) split first with 4-1 in Section<br />
1. Mendez, Phil Chase, and Jason<br />
Gurtovoy were equal first U1900;<br />
Neil Hultgren, Ryan Yang, Alex Futterer,<br />
and Jason McKeen tied for top<br />
U1800. Hovasapian was best U1600.<br />
The second section also had a fiveway<br />
tie: Leung, Ryan Shirtz, Qize Li,<br />
Alex Chen, and Kevin Zhang (U1400).<br />
Jason Zhang was best U1200, and<br />
Derek Jiang first U1000. Alex Bravo<br />
won best Unrated, and Grace Liang<br />
notched 1016 upset points.<br />
The club will hold the Dr.<br />
Richard Lewis Memorial January 2<br />
through February 6, with six rounds<br />
in two sections, 40/90 and SD/30.<br />
Club membership ($20,juniors $10)<br />
required, $15 entry fee,85% returned<br />
in prizes. The club meets at 7 pm each<br />
Friday at the Boys and Girls Club,<br />
3230 East Del Mar. Its website, http://<br />
www.tim-thompson.com/pasadena.<br />
html, includes the full annual schedule<br />
and a catalogue of the hundreds<br />
of books in its lending library. Direct<br />
questions to Randy Hough: randallhough@gmail.com,<br />
(626) 282-7412.<br />
-Randy Hough<br />
Lancaster<br />
The AV Chess House, 3710 Neola<br />
Way, hosts two chess clubs. The Kids<br />
Chess Club (for grades K-8) meets<br />
5:15 pm. to 6:45 p.m. Fridays, and<br />
the Check Chess Club (for ages 15<br />
and up) meets 3:30 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.<br />
Fridays. Rated and non-rated tournaments<br />
on most weekends, instruction,<br />
newsletter. Contact Daa Mahowald at<br />
daa@mahowald.org.<br />
Website: chess4.us<br />
Temecula Chess Club<br />
27403 Inez Road, Suite 213<br />
Temecula, CA 92591<br />
951.327.1000<br />
info@temeculachess.com<br />
USCF rated tournament games every<br />
Tuesday evening, starting at 7 p.m.<br />
r n l q k<br />
www.scchess.com Dec 2015-Jan-Feb 2016<br />
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