Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Happy Holidays


The Westfield Chess Club wishes its members and patrons the happiest of holidays.

We will be closed on December 29th. Our next event will be the January 5th Quads.

Zilbermintz Wins Holiday Blitz

Lev Zilbermintz won the Westfield Holiday Blitz, held on Sunday, December 22.

NM Mauricio Camejo and Alex Schwartzberg tied for 2nd.

Leonid Fleysher (1913), Thomas Arvin (1675), Brandon Ng (1532) and Ramneek Singh (1466) were tops among U2000s.

Eric Song (1181), Jessica Lee (939) and Mark Schwartzberg (872) split the U1200 prize.

Here are the complete standings:

1. Zilbermintz 6.0/7
= 2-3. Camejo, A. Schwartzberg 5.5
= 4-9. Errol Singh, Fleysher, Arvin, Ng, R. Singh 4.0
10. Justin Lee 3.5
= 11-15. Samuil Chatsky, John Cartier, Jun Tang, Song, Jes. Lee, M. Schwartzberg 3.0
16. Albert Tang 2.0
17. Anthony Tang 1.5
18. Sujeeth Shanmugam 1.0

Note: Regular December ratings were used to determine pairings and prize-groups.