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Recent Highlights
October, 2009. White plains GM Hikaru Nakamura, the 2009 U.S. Champion, is the highest rated U.S. player on the October USCF ratings list, at 2824. He also tops U.S. players on the current FIDE list.
May 17, 2009. The 2008-2009 NSCF Grand Prix competition has concluded.
Congratulations to Grand Prix champions Kevin Rosenberg (Over 1500), Jonathan Baccay (Championship), Jason Shi (Reserve), Morgan Lawless (Elementary), Lazar Vilotijevic (Primary), and Andrew Berzolla (K-1).
See all winners here.
April 5, 2009. The Solomon Schechter team has done it again, winning the National K-9 Championship at the Supernationals.
More...
March 28, 2009. Kudos to the 2009 Westchester County Scholastic Chess Champions Max Steinberg(JHS-HS), Alan Zhang(MS), Josh Colas(Elementary), Chris Mercado (Primary), Nicolas De T Checa(K-1) and Max Li(K-1).
All results.
March 1, 2009. The Solomon Schechter school team won the New York State Junior High Championship, and Ben Gershenov won the Championship trophy. Michael Ainsworth, Kevin Rosenberg and William Graif tied for 2nd place in the Elementary section.
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December 15, 2008. NSCF players excel
in the National K-12 championships.
Congratulations to 2008 National K-12 Sixth Grade Champion Michael Bodek and to Third Grade champion William Graif.
Kudos also to the Fifth Grade Co-Championship team, the Mamaroneck Avenue School (Joshua Colas,
Michael Ainsworth and Andrew Teller). These are just the highlights - see the long list of other successes by NSCF players.
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 Sunil with White Plains Mayor Joseph Delfino.
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December 6, 2008. At the NSCF Grand Prix Awards ceremony at the Ridgeway school,
White Plains Mayor Joseph Delfino awarded a plaque to NSCF Executive Director Sunil Weeramantry proclaiming December 6, 2008 Chess in White Plains Day.
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November 25, 2008. U.S Teams nail the bronze. In a dramatic final round at the
2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden,
the U.S. Men's team, led by GM Gata Kamsky of Brooklyn and GM Hikaru Nakamura of White Plains,
scored an upset over a higher ranked (and previously unbeaten) Ukrainian team by the stunning score of
3.5-0.5. Ironically, a pivotal win was scored by GM Alexander Onischuk, a former Ukrainian champion now living in Virginia.
The U.S. victory proved sufficient to land the team in third place on tiebreaks.
See the US Chess report here.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Women's team, led by IM Irina Krush, also won Bronze.
IM Anna Zatonskih earned a gold medal for 8/10 on board 2 while WGM Rusudan Goletiani, going undefeated,
earned silver for 9/11 on board 3.
See the USChess women's team report here.
For complete results,
see the official Olympiad site here.
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November 2, 2008. Hikaru wins Cap D'Agde. White Plains resident GM Hikaru Nakamura
has won the Cap d'Agde speed tournament ahead of some of the world's best players,
defeating former World Champion Anatoly Karpov in the semi-finals and
World #3 Vassily Ivanchuk. See the US Chess article
here. In the featured game Nakamura-Ivanchuk, after 38.Nxc4
Hikaru enters an endgame in which his knight is
better than Black's bishop. White's king can get to
the center faster than Black's king, his pawns will
all be on white squares versus the dark-squared
bishop, and the bishop is left tied to the defense
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May 11, 2008. Congratulations to 2008 National Elementary Championships K5 section trophy
winners Kevin Rosenberg (9th), Michael Ainsworth (12th), and Michael
Bogarty (20th). Congratulations also to team trophy winners MS15 (K6),
Albert Leonard (K6), Mamaroneck Ave. (K5), Fox Meadows (K5), MS15 (K6
Under 1000), and PS291 (K3 Under 800).
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FM Sunil Weeramantry gives a chess lesson at Scarsdale Summer Camp 2007.
For more pix, see Sound Mind/Sound Body
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March 16, 2008. Congratulations to 2008 New York State Scholastic Champions Ben Gershenov (JHS)
and William Graif (Primary). Other area residents who won trophies:
Jack Hutton, Treva Ayton, and Andrew DiFabbio(16th, 19th, and 20th in the HS section);
Max Steinberg, Andrew Zigmont and Alexander Reis
(7th, 15th and 16th in the JHS); Kevin Rosenberg, Michael Bogarty and Jasmine Chen (4th, 17th and 18th in the Elementary) ;
Eric Zhang and Jonathan Baccay (8th and 20th in the Primary);
and Ari Rosen, Christian Baccay and Nicholas Lombardi (6th, 7th and 10th in the K1).
In the state team competitions, Hunter won the Primary and K1 sections. Other winning area teams: New Rochelle (3rd in the HS);
Solomon Schechter and Isaac Young (2nd and 7th in the JHS); Albert Leonard (7th in the Elementary);
Colonial and Bedford Village
(7th and 8th in the Primary) and West Patent (4th in the K1). All posted
results (with teams at bottom of pages):
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JHS
Elementary
Primary
K-1
March 9, 2008.
Congratulations to Westchester County Champions Andrew Zigmont (JS/HS),
Dylan Etzel and Dario Dellorto (MS),
Anthony Panat and Kevin Rosenberg (Elementary),
Eric Zhang and Christopher Mercado (Primary),
and Nichoas Lombardi (K-1).
Kudos also to the winning teams
Hastings HS, Iona Grammar, MS15, Edgewood and West Patent.
All results.
March 9, 2008.Congratulations to Jonathan and Christian Baccay and to Alexander Reis
for their excellent results in the CT State Championships.
Results.
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Previous Two Year's Highlights
October 2007. White Plains GM Hikaru Nakamura had a stunning result in Corsica, winning an international tournament ahead of two former
world champions. See the article at chessbase.com.
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Michael Ainsworth and Ben Winston
2007 Westchester County Primary Co-Champions
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May 13, 2007.
Congratulations to area schools Mamaroneck Ave, MS15, PS291, Scarsdale Middle and Ward, to K-5 Under 900 Champion Zachary Martin, and to all others who won trophies in the National Elementary Championships.
See results.
March 3-4, 2007. Congratulations to Primary-K-1 Champion William Graif and to all
high placing area teams and individuals in the New York State Scholastic Chess Championships.
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January 2007. NSCF Executive Director Sunil Weeramantry
has been awarded the coveted title of FIDE trainer. More...
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Bishop takes Rook, David Tobey, 2006
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(Can you find the chess pieces in the picture?)
David Tobey,
son of the late distinguished historical painter, muralist and illustrator
Alton S. Tobey (1914-2005), had a one-man show of his own paintings and sculptures
at the Pleiades Gallery in New York, November 7th through November 25th, 2006 to benefit the National Scholastic Chess Foundation.
100% of proceeds from an auction sale of the painting "Bishop Takes Rook", that he donated to the NSCF went to the foundation;
as well as a full 30% of all other sales of his paintings and sculptures that were in the show.
For more, visit his website .
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