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

Summer Tournament Starts Tonight!

The Kenilworth Chess Club's fun, friendly, yet highly competitive Summer Tournament starts tonight at 8:00 p.m.

Here are the rules :

• The 2014 Summer Tournament will run from June 5th through August 28th.
• The entry fee is $5.00.
• The event is not rated.
• The time control is G/60.
• G/55+5 (delay) may be used if there is mutual agreement between paired players. Increment settings are not allowed.
• You may play anyone who is entered. The first time you play an opponent, the lower rated or unrated player has White. In subsequent games against the same opponent you alternate colors.
  If both players are unrated or have identical ratings, they toss for initial color.
• You may not play the same opponent more than four times in the tournament.
• All games are to be played at the Kenilworth Chess Club during normal operating hours.
• You may play up to 2 games per week. You can skip weeks but the more you play the more points you can accrue.
• You get one point for a win, one half point for a draw and zero for a loss. No bye points are awarded.
• The winner is the person who has the most points at the end of the tournament.
• The prizes are 60% for first place, 30% for second, and 10% for third.

Bob Sherry won last year and in 2012. Other past winners of this popular event include LM Scott Massey (2004), LM Mark Kernighan (2005, 2011), Greg Tomkovich (2006), Ari Minkov (2007, 2010), John Moldovan (2008) and Ian Mangion (2009).

Kenilworth Wins GSCL Championship

On Thursday night, Kenilworth edged Hamilton 2.5-1.5 to become the 2013-14 Garden State Chess League Champions.

The team, which featured Dr. Ian Mangion and Greg Tomkovich of Cranford, Jackson Hueckel of Staten Island, John Moldovan of Garwood, Don Carrelli and Bob Sherry of Mountainside, Dr. Geoff McAuliffe of Dunellen, Paul Gottleib and finished with a +5-0=3 record, stumbled with draws against Summit & Newark-McDonald's in April, but came through in the must-win season finale against the 4-time defending champs.

Ellner Update

May 1st will be used a make-up date for those who were unable to play last week.

Pairings for round 3:

Board 1: Mark Kernighan 1-0 Luis Ruales (played on 4/24)
Board 2: John Jackmin vs. Dan Komunicky

Board 3: Pat Mazzillo vs. Joe Renna

The 4th round has been canceled.

Ellner Memorial Starts Tonight!

The Kenilworth Chess Club's annual Irving Ellner Memorial tournament begins tonight. Here are the details:

7th Irving Ellner Memorial

April 10-May 8, 2014

• USCF-Rated
• 4-round Swiss
• Time Control: G/45 + 5 second per move increment.
• A player must keep score if he has 5 minutes or more remaining.
• Rounds: 8:30 p.m. on April 10th, 17th, 24th and May 8th. There is no game on May 1st!
• Entry Fee: $10
• Prize Fund: $150 b/ 16 entries. If there are more than 16 players, a 5th round will be added & the prize fund will be increased accordingly.
• Prizes: To be announced.
• Register before 8:25 p.m. @ Kenilworth Community Center, 575 Boulevard, Kenilworth, N.J.
• Late-joins accepted until round 2 is paired. 1 bye allowed. Must commit prior to round 3.