New Jersey Knockouts reach Final Four By Way Of Baltimore

New Jersey Knockouts Beats Baltimore Kingfish to qualify for the final four.

The New Jersey Knockouts having draw odds left little hope for the Baltimore Kingfish to enter the final four. But Baltimore played to win in every game but lost in the match in the end.

Here is a Board One game link below, from that USCL match courtesy The Kenilworthian chess java chess game archive.

New Jersey Beats Baltimore Kingfish annotated by Michael Goeller Chess Blogmaster supreme.




PGN game file courtesy of The Kenilworthian.

Game Format: ChessFlash courtesy of Glenn Wilson



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All The King's Men Chess Lecture November 23, 2009

Philadelphia chess icon and International Master Bryan Smith will be appearing at All the King's Men
(3) hours on Monday, November 23rd from 7 PM to 10 PM.

Bryan will lecture for one hour on "What to do after the opening". Basically, it will be about planning and finding
your way through the middle game after you have developed your pieces/played some book moves and are
now on your own.

During the second and third hours Bryan will play a remote chess match against ATKM's Chess Club Ladder
Leader and 'A' Class Player Anthony Norris. The match will be played from separate rooms, Bryan in the front
room with the lecture attendees and Tony in the back room. A runner will courier moves from front to back
while Bryan analyzes the game, out loud, move by move. This unique arrangement will give those in
attendance a rare chance to peer inside the mind of one of the nation's top fifty chess players during the
course of a live game.

Those planning to attend who register online, or at the shop, by November 21st will be eligible to win one of
three hardcover chess notation books (a $9.00 value).

Since we will be digitally recording the event, any attendee who brings a blank DVD or 2G thumb drive will
receive a FREE copy of the event which you can view again and again on your home computer.
All the King's Men Chess Club Logo
62 S. Broadway Pitman, NJ 08071 856-582-8222
Directions by Google Maps

Week 9 US Chess League

Below are some links that cap off the final week of play in the United States Chess League.

The first link is from the USCF web page titled Week 9 US Chess League Recap.


The second link is from "The Kennilworthian" USCL Regular Season Ends Wednesday.

I'm not just kissing ass here, I sincerely believe The Kenilworthian chess blog one of the premier chess blogs out there. I take my hat off to Mike Goeller, chess blogger elite.


Finally , an excellent link at the chess blog page " The New Jersey Knockouts " titled Knockouts Forced Queens Abdication penned by Joesph Criscuolo.

Here is an excerpt from that blog post by Joesph Criscuolo:

The Knockouts will have a change of scenery for this match as they will be playing at the Dean of Chess Academy in Branchburg, New Jersey which is owned by the Knockouts' own Dean Ippolito. The Knockouts' regular site, Chapel Hill Academy, is closed this week. Because of the location change, the match begins at 8:00 PM Eastern on Wednesday November. The time control has changed as well, with the game being in 75 minutes with 30 second increments. For the season finale Joel Benjamin, Mackenzie Molner, Andrew Ng, and Arthur Shen face off against Alex Stipunsky, Lev Milman, Elizabeth Vicary, and Fritz Gaspard

GM Elect Alex Lenderman Will Play For The Philadelphia Inventors In 2009 USCL Season

Alex Lenderman

Biograprhy Of Alex Lenderman at Wikipedia

Philadelphia Inventors
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In one of the most surprising moves of the offseason, the 2008 MVP, IM Alex Lenderman, will be hoping to continue his impressive play in Philadelphia. Alex dominated in 2008 with a 7.5/8 record, and showed afterwards that it wasn't a fluke, by going out and getting 3 GM norms in 2 months. Alex hopes to help Philly rebound from a dissapointing 2008.


Chessgames of GM Alex Lederman

Notable Games Of GM Alex Lederman

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GM-elect Alex Lenderman

Stats as of Aug 09

Rating
2528

Date of Birth 1989

Awards/Records

2008 MVP USCL

2008 1st Team All Star, Board 3

2008 Rookie of the Year

Won Game of the Week, Week 7, 2008

Won Game of the Week, Week 6, 2008

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2008 Interview by WFM Elizabeth Vicary

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2008 Games (7.5/8) - Played for the Queens Pioneers

Week 1: IM Alex Lenderman (QNS) vs IM Richard Costigan (PHI) 1-0
Week 2: NM Evan Ju (NJ) vs IM Alex Lenderman (QNS) 0-1
Week 3: IM Mark Ginsburg (ARZ) vs IM Alex Lenderman (QNS) 0-1
Week 4: IM Alex Lenderman (QNS) vs FM Tegshsuren Enkhbat (BAL) 1-0
Week 6: IM Alex Lenderman (QNS) vs FM Oleg Zaikov (CAR) 1-0 (Game of the Week!) article
Week 7: IM Alex Lenderman (QNS) vs IM Dean Ippolito (NJ) 1-0 (Game of the Week!) article
Week 8: IM Alex Lenderman (QNS) vs IM Emory Tate (CHC) 1-0
Week 10: SM Marc Esserman (BOS) vs IM Alex Lenderman (QNS) 1/2-1/2
2008 MVP Points: 22.5
2008 Performance Rating: 2726

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Click here to go back to the Philadelphia Inventors Roster

Click here to go back to the US Chess League homepage

Amateur Versus Amateur Pirc Defense

Ziping Liu Amateur Chessplayer



Here is a hard fought game, which was lost by Atomic Patzer in the Amateur East, in Parsippany, New Jersey, Round five in June 2007.


The winner of this game is Ziping Liu a young upstart on the New Jersey chess scene and also a student of NM Jim West Chess Teacher of New Jersey also. A disclaimer here is that on his chess blog Jim West On Chess, his student Ziping is showcased many times either in a win, place or show in the local New Jersey Chess Quads.


The opening is the Pirc , played by Black.


More info for the Pirc on Wikipedia.













In the game below in Chess Flash format , to open up the variations play on the chessboard, just click on the variation and those moves will highlight in red and play through them.

Analysis by Fritz 8


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All the analsysis is by Fritz 8, which by the way was given gratis to me by Atomic Patzer. Any player who utilizes the Pirc Defense is welcome to post a comment about how the first part of this game is played.


Notable Grandmaster Games Using The Pirc Defense

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Ziping Liu Chess Tournaments Statistics from MSA Chess Data from US Chess Life

MSA Chess Program, An IntroductionThis is data from 01-01-1991 to 08-23-2009

Current Official rating is 1694 Current UnOfficial rating is 1731
Best Unofficial rating = 1737 Best Official rating = 1737 Lowest rating on record = 631
200 Opponents Total Rated Games = 267 ---> 121 Wins 53 Draws 93 Losses

Best Upset = 517 points -- SCOTT VANDER VEEN -- 1221 SCHOLASTIC 08-06-2006
Best Draw = 463 points -- JAMES R WEST -- 2200 ICA EARLY WINTER OPEN CHAMPION 12-07-2008
Worst Loss = -441 points -- KELVIN E YAO -- 1021 US AMATEUR EAST U1400 05-28-2007

Highest Rated Opponent Win = ALICE DONG -- 1786 WESTFIELD QUAD 160 06-28-2009
Highest Rated Opponent Draw = JAMES R WEST -- 2200 ICA EARLY WINTER OPEN CHAMPION 12-07-2008
Lowest Rated Opponent Loss to = CHRISTOPHER M CALDERON -- 668 WESTFIELDQUADS20 08-27-2006

Most Recent Wins in a row = 7 ending on 11-10-2007 at UNION CTY CHAMP
Most Recent Draws in a row = 4 ending on 05-17-2008 at 1ST EVERBRIGHT KOPEC CUP OPEN
Most Recent Losses in a row = 7 ending on 06-16-2007 at 6TH NEW YORKER JUNE GAME/50!

Results against 129 higher rated players: Wins = 35 Draws = 27 Losses = 67
Results against 1 equally rated players: Wins = 0 Draws = 1 Losses = 0
Results against 137 lower rated players: Wins = 86 Draws = 25 Losses = 26

Results against 78 players rated + 100 : Wins = 19 Draws = 8 Losses = 51
Results against 90 players rated +/-100: Wins = 37 Draws = 29 Losses = 24
Results against 97 players rated - 100 : Wins = 65 Draws = 15 Losses = 17