In our final Garden State Chess League match of the 2023-24 season on August 14th Kenilworth defeated West Orange 3 1/2 – 1/2.
Here are the results:
Board # White Black
1 Peter Radomskyj (WO) 2200 1/2-1/2 Ted Cross (K) 1922
2 Louis Leiggi (K) 1900 1-0 Bryan Cohen (WO) 1849
3 Jaron Bernard (WO) 1775 0-1 Lucas Cirasella (K) 1907
4 Gavin Sandberg (K) 1834 1-0 William Culbertson (WO) 1585
Each score above is formatted W-B.
Open Section
1st Place: Peter Radomskyj & Mark Kernighan – 3 1/2 points
3rd Place: Timothy Xie, David Donohoe, David Zhang, Lev Zilbermintz – 2 1/2 points
Top Under 1900: Fermin Arias – 2 points
Under 1800 Section
1st Place: William Culbertson – 3 1/2 points
2nd Place: Samvel Hovsepyan & Udeg Ahuja – 3 points
Top Under 1300: Adam Darack – 2 points
Under 1200 Section
1st Place: Benjamin Aronson – 4 points
2nd Place: Ethan Jiang – 3 points
3rd Place: Siddhanth Nidhin, Neil Gogineni, Eshan Gogineni – 2 1/2 points
Top Under 900: Hannah Kuo – 2 1/2 points
Top Under 700: Raghav Sambasivan & Herbert Chen – 2 points
Congratulations to all section and prize winners!
Official United States Chess Federation Tournament Report:
The title of 2024 West Orange Chess Club Champion has been won by Bilgen Sazci as a result of his 2-0 win in the Game 15 (D5) tiebreaker vs. Mark Kernighan.
The club would like to congratulate all 4 players who tied for 1st Place: Bilgen Sazci, Mark Kernighan, Aston Roberts and Vladimir Lipman. And the club would like to thank all 63 who participated in the Club Championship.
But of course special congratulations to 2024 West Orange Chess Club Champion Bilgen Sazci!
The second half of the tiebreaker to determine the title of 2024 West Orange Chess Club Champion has been completed. However after the double round robin Game 25 tiebreak tournament we are still left with two, Mark Kernighan and Bilgen Sazci, as they tied for first in the tiebreak.
So on Tuesday June 11th the tiebreaker will be completed with two Game 15s (with 5 second delay before each move) and if still tied after that an Armageddon game where white gets 5 minutes and black gets 4 minutes (no delay for this game) but white must win the game otherwise black becomes champion.
Second Half Tiebreak Results
Roberts 1-0 Kernighan
Sazci 1-0 Lipman
Kernighan 1/2-1/2 Sazci
Lipman 1-0 Roberts
Lipman 0-1 Kernighan
Sazci 0-1 Roberts
Final Tiebreak Standings
Kernighan – 3 1/2 points (3 wins 2 losses 1 draw)
Sazci – 3 1/2 points (2 wins 1 loss 3 draws)
Roberts – 3 points (2 wins 2 losses 2 draws)
Lipman – 2 points (1 win 3 losses 2 draws)
The club would like to congratulate all four participants for their fight as 8 of the 12 games ended decisively, not necessarily all that common for top level competition!
The first half of the double round robin tiebreaker to determine the title of 2024 West Orange Chess Club Champion has been completed.
Four Participants (with ratings)
Mark Kernighan – 2227
Vladimir Lipman – 2213
Bilgen Sazci – 2199
Aston Roberts – 2023
Results
Kernighan 1-0 Roberts
Lipman 1/2-1/2 Sazci
Sazci 1-0 Kernighan
Roberts 1/2-1/2 Lipman
Kernighan 1-0 Lipman
Roberts 1/2-1/2 Sazci
The second half of the tiebreaker (with colors reversed) will take place on June 4th and if necessary Blitz and Armageddon games will be played on June 11th.
Open Section
1st Place: Mark Kernighan, Vladimir Lipman, Bilgen Sazci, Aston Roberts – 4 points
Top Under 2000: Harold Colton-Max – 3 1/2 points
Top Under 1800: Andrew Chan Jr. – 3 points
Top Under 1600: William Culbertson & Colin Hu – 2 points
Under 1400 Section
1st Place: Stephen Kankam – 5 points
2nd Place: Fielding Water – 4 points
3rd Place, Top Under 1200, Top Under 1000: Amy Lin, Lily Xing, Nicholas Jones – 3 1/2 points
Top Under 800 & Top Unrated: Jason Bischak & Amiri Joseph – 3 points
Under 600 Section
1st Place: William Patchett – 4 points
2nd Place: Raghav Sambasivan – 3 1/2 points
3rd Place: Myra Jogani – 3 points
Congratulations to all section and prize winners!
Official United States Chess Federation Tournament Report: https://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?202405213802-20020149
The West Orange Chess Club’s hours have been extended to Tuesdays from 6:00 PM to 10:30 PM!
The later closing time will allow the club to lengthen the time control for the upper sections (or perhaps just the Open Section) of our slow time control tournaments to Game 90 with 5 second delay before every move. This should help to increase the quality of the games in the upper section(s).
The club intends on keeping the faster time control of G75 d5 for the young kids’ section(s) so their games will still end at a more reasonable time.
Thanks and hope to see you at the club!
In a Garden State Chess League match which concluded on May 10th West Orange drew Rutgers 2-2.
Here are the results:
Board # White Black
1 Ansh Shah (R) 2314 1-0 Vladimir Lipman (WO) 2213
2 Pete Radomskyj (WO) 2200 0-1 Dushyant Choudhary (R) 1900
3 Matthew Li (R) 1200 0-1 Mark Kogan (WO) 1826
4 Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay (WO) 1304 1-0 Max Ho (R) 1139
Each score above is formatted W-B.
Octo #1
1st Place: Mark Kernighan – 3 points
2nd Place: David Donohoe, Tim Walters, Jaron Bernard – 2 points
Octo #2
1st Place: Alberto Martinez – 3 points
2nd Place: Edwin Vales – 2 points
3rd Place: Andrew Chan, Jonathan Lu, Tommy Vazzano – 1 1/2 points
Octo #3
1st Place: Matthew Medina – 2 1/2 points
2nd Place: Colin Hu & Zander Venutolo – 2 points
Octo #4
1st Place: Rafael Lampon – 3 points
2nd Place: Lucas Chi & William Zou – 2 points
Octo #5
1st Place: Davis Zung – 3 points
2nd Place: Ethan Jiang – 2 1/2 points
3rd Place: James Chwalyk – 1 1/2 points
Congratulations to each Octo winner and all other prize winners!
Official United States Chess Federation Tournament Report: US Chess MSA – Cross Table for WOCC SWISS OCTOS (Event 202402278082)
On February 6th in the Garden State Chess League West Orange defeated Newark McDonald’s by a score of 3 1/2 – 1/2.
Here are the results:
Board # White Black
1 Vladimir Lipman (WO) 2213 1/2-1/2 Lev Zilbermintz (NM) 1924
2 Fermin Arias (NM) 1841 0-1 Pete Radomskyj (WO) 2200
3 Mark Kogan (WO) 1826 1-0 Alberto Martinez (NM) 1800
4 Greg Shaw (NM) 1615 0-1 Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay (WO) 1304
Each score above is formatted W-B.