Open Section Winners

Trophy winners from the Open Section of Sunday's Westfield Fall Scholastic:

From L-R: Ramneek Singh (1st place), John Cartier (3rd), Piush Sarkar (4th) and Nick Rizzo (2nd).
 

Not pictured: Kevin Corrigan (5th) and Travis Alverio (Honorable Mention)

Final Open Section Standings, in tie-break order.

Congratulations to the 16 trophy winners and thanks to all 34 who participated.

Our next Scholastic event will be on January 18th, 2015.

U1250 Winners

Trophy winners from the U1250 Section of Sunday's Westfield Fall Scholastic:

Above, from L-R: Dillon Shelton (2nd place), Thoshan Omprakash (1st), Ronak Bhatia (3rd), Albert Yao (4th place) and Alexander Chen (5th).

Final U1250 Standings, in tie-break order.

U750 Winners

Trophy winners from the U750 Section of yesterday's Westfield Fall Scholastic:

From L-R (with trophies) : Aneek Mahajan (5th place), Anish Reemala (3rd), Michael Pylypovych (1st), Johnson Lin (4th) and Dylan Volinski (2nd).

Final U750 Standings, in tiebreak-order.

Fall Scholastic Winners

Ramneek Singh (1763), Thoshan Omprakash (1208) and Michael Pylypovych (624) were section winners in Sunday's Westfield Fall Scholastic, which featured 34 participants.

The full list of trophy recipients and some additional photos will follow.

Zilbermints Wins Westfield Championship

Lev Zilbermints won the Westfield Championship today by going 1.5/2 in the last 2 rounds.

(photo credit: Jim West)

LM Peter Radomskyj and Ilya Zhurbinskiy tied for 2nd.

Michael Yen, Errol Singh (both U2200), David Zhurbinsky (U2000), Ramneek Singh, Sam Chatsky (both U1800) and Nicole Yen (U1600) won class prizes.

For a complete list of participants, results, photos and final standings, click here.

Zilbermints, M. Yen & Feng Lead Westfield Championship

Lev Zilbermints, Michael Yen and Ryan Feng lead the 2014 Westfield Championship at its midway point.

LM Peter Radomskyj and David Zhurbinsky are a half-point back.

Club Championship September 21 & 28

On September 21 & 28, the Westfield Chess Club will be running its annual Club Championship. As in recent years, the event will be a 4-round Swiss with an 85+5 (delay) time control.

The entry fee is $20. Westfield CC membership ($40/year) is required.

For prizes, registration & round times, etc., click here.

Westfield Open Moved To 11/9

To avoid competing with the recently re-scheduled, $18,000 Boardwalk Open (originally slated for 10/25-26), the Westfield Chess Club has pushed its Westfield Open back to November 9th and moved its 11/9 Quads up to November 2nd.

Note: The September issue of Chess Life will show incorrect dates for the aforementioned events.

NJ All-Girls Chess Camp

On Saturday, November 6th & Sunday, December 7th, Alice Dong will be leading a free, NJ All-Girls Chess Camp at the Dean of Chess Academy in Branchburg.

More details can be found in the links below:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gcnj2014
Eventbrite, for signing up: http://gcnj2014.eventbrite.com/
GoFundMe, for donation: http://www.gofundme.com/gcnj2014

Westfield CC Closed On August 31

The Westfield Chess Club will be closed on Sunday, August 31.

Our next event will be the September 7th Quads.

Yesterday's Quads

Yesterday's Westfield Quads were held in the spacious Kellogg Room, on the YMCA's 2nd floor.

Being able to walk around, view the games and not have everyone crowding the TD's table was a treat but we will be returning to our usual location on September 7th.