Fish Memorial Starts Tonight

7th Annual Sy Fish Memorial

October 23rd thru November 6th, 2014

• USCF-Rated
• 3-round Swiss
• Time Control: G/40;d5
• Rounds: 8:30 p.m. on October 23, 30 and November 6.
• Site: Kenilworth Community Center, 575 Boulevard, Kenilworth, NJ 07033.
• Entry Fee: $5.
• Projected Prizes, based on 8 entries: 1st place $15; 2nd place $11, 3rd place or Class prize $10.
• 10% of EF reserved for rating fees and scoresheet purchases.
• Register with Geoff McAuliffe or John Moldovan, on site, before 8:25 p.m. on 9/12.
• Late-joins accepted until the start of round 2.
• 1 bye allowed, any round. Must declare before the end of round 3.
• If taking a bye, please inform the TD (Geoff or John) before the round is
  paired.

Schedule For The Remander Of 2014

Here is the KCC's Schedule for the rest of 2014:

October

9 - Game/30 Tournament, rounds 1 & 2 (non-rated, 4-SS, G/25;d5, EF: free)

16 - Game/30 Tournament, rounds 3 & 4

23 - Sy Fish Memorial, round 1 (USCF-rated, 3-SS, G/40;d5, Details tba)

30 - Sy Fish Memorial, round 2

November

6 - Sy Fish Memorial, round 3

13 - Kenilworth Consultation Game, week 1

20 - Kenilworth Consultation Game, week 2

27 - No Meeting (Thanksgiving)

December

4 - Lecture (speaker & subject TBA)

11 - Scott Massey Lecture on Anand-Carlsen II. $5

18 - Business Meeting & Holiday Party

25 - No Meeting (Christmas)

Events For 9/18 & 9/25

The Kenilworth Chess Club has scheduled a Partner Tournament for this Thursday (September 18) and a Blitz Tournament for next week (September 25).

Here are the details for the events:

Partner Tournament
September 18
8:30 p.m.
Non-Rated.
G/15;d5.
3-SS.
EF: Free.
Prizes: none.
TD: John Moldovan.

• Lower-rateds get to pick their partner for the 3 games.
• Higher-rated partner may switch his team's playing order up to 3 times per game.
• Otherwise, partners will alternate moves.
• Lower-rated player on a team gets to play his team's 1st move in each game.
• A player may only tell his partner "be careful", "take your time", "watch our time" or "help!"
• Only the higher-rated partner can offer draws, accept draws, or resign a game.
• Score-keeping is optional but will be necessary for claims.

Blitz Tournament
September 25
8:30 p.m.
Non-Rated.
G/5;d.
3-SS. 2 games per round.
EF: $3 KCC members, $5 non-members.
Prize Fund: $3 x number of players.
Prize distribution: TBA.
TD: Geoff McAuliffe or Bob Sherry.

Swap Meet Next Thursday

Next Thursday night (September 11th), the Kenilworth Chess Club will be having a swap meet.

Current members & past members invited by the Club President, may bring chess books, equipment & software for trade or sale.

Please do not bring too many items. 20 per person is the maximum. If space proves to be short, we may have to limit individual displays to 10 items each.

Although the event will be private, I suggest that you inventory the items you are bringing.

One more thing... let's respect everyone's stuff by keeping all food, beverages, etc. away from the display area.

Club Championship Awards Ceremony Tomorrow

Before tomorrow night's Summer Tourney finale, we will have our Club Championship Awards Ceremony.

If you are to receive a trophy, please arrive before 8:00 p.m. Those playing in the tournament should not begin games until 8:15.

I apologize for the extremely short notice but did not know if the 1st-place trophy would be done until late this afternoon.

John Moldovan

Kenilworth Site Back Online

The Kenilworth Chess Club's website is back online.

Kenilworth CC Site Down Due To Server Failure

The Kenilworth Chess Club's site, www.kenilworthchessclub.org, has been down since sometime on Saturday, due to hardware failure on our server.

It will take several days for the site to be restored.

Emergency Maintenance

Brinkster is conducting emergency maintenance on your shared webserver.

Event Details

- Saturday, August 2, 2014 we experienced a hardware failure on the shared server running your website
- Standard recovery procedures were unsuccessful
- We are currently recovering from the disaster recovery backups
- Due to the large amount of data that is recovering, it is expected to take multiple days to complete