Club Championship Qualifier

January 15th – January 29th, 2006

 

This event turned into a warm-up tournament when an embarrassingly low number of entries guaranteed everyone a place in the 2006 Club Championship. We envisioned more 1900-rateds being directly seeded into the final & 4-5 players vying for 1 or 2 remaining spots.

 

 

seed

Player

USCF

1

2

3

Total

1

Robert J. Sherry

1812

x

1

1

2.0

2

John Moldovan

1774

0

x

1

1.0

3

Bertram Shiffman

1434

0

0

x

0.0

 

: G/60

(or G/55 + 5 seconds added after each move)

 

Director : Robert J. Sherry

 

PGN

 

 

Round 1   (January 15th)

 

White

Result

Black

Opening

Moldovan

0:1

Sherry

A28 English Opening : 4 Knights' Variation

 

bye : Shiffman

 

 

Round 2   (January 22nd)

 

White

Result

Black

Opening

Sherry

1:0

Shiffman

B14 Caro-Kann Defense : Panov-Botvinnik Attack

               

bye : Moldovan

 

 

Round 3   (January 29th)

 

White

Result

Black

Opening

Shiffman

0:1

Moldovan

E13 Queens Indian Defense : Nimzo-Indian hybrid

               

bye : Sherry

 

 

Sherry, Moldovan & Shiffman qualify for the finals, which will feature National Master Mark Kernighan & last years co-champs :  Ari Minkov & Ted Mann.

 

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