Next Meeting January 4, 2012

Our next meeting will be January 4th. We will start the January Tournament that night with one round per night on the 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th at a time control of Game\55 with a 10 second increment. Entry fee is $2 with a current USCF membership required.

Third Round Pairings, Second Round Results

Pairings for round three

Dannie       Duy
Khoa         Calvin
George      New Player (Ethirajan)
Roger        Huy
Don           Rithik
Jim            Forrest
John          Rohan

Round Two Results

Duy   1   Roger   0
Khoa  1  Don     0
Huy    0  Dannie  1
Calvin  1 Jim       0
Rithik   1 John     0
Rohan  0 George 1

Fourth Round Pairings

Duy       Roger
Glen      Dannie
William  Khoa
Huy       Frank
Dave      Jim
Vince     Rohan
John       Don
Thomas  Forrest
George   Calvin

I will have to miss this round due to a family commitment. I will try to leave the pairings sheet and scoresheets at the Library. Last one to leave please email me the results. Thanks.

First Round Results, Second Round Pairings--REVISED

Round One

Herb    1     Don      0
Calvin  0     Duy      1
Brian    1     Glen     0
Huy      0     Dannie  1
Frank   1     Thomas 0
Forrest  1    Vince    0
Khoa     1    Jim       0
George  0    William 1
Roger    1    Rohan   0

Round Two

Frank         Herb
Duy            Forrest
William       Brian
Dannie        Khoa
Dave           Roger
Vince          Glen
Don           Huy
Thomas      Calvin

Rohan--Bye--1.0

Requested byes--0.5--George, Jim

September Swiss starts Tonight!

We are starting our September Swiss tonight with regristration at 5:30-5:45 pm. 4SS at G\60 with 15 inc, one round per week on the 7th,14th, 21st and 28th. Entry Fee: $2

Hope to see you there!

Blitz Tonight, Simul Photos

Tonight is an open G/5 blitz tournament. No entry fee, everyone is eligible to play.

The simul performed by Alexander Balkum was a huge success. I received lots of positive feedback from the players and Alexander did a fine job scoring 20 wins, 6 draws and 1 loss to Vincent. For his victory, Vincent received an autographed board commemorating his win.

Don't forget that this Saturday is an Austin Kids Open in Round Rock at the Springhill Suites. See Nam or Forrest for details and pre-entry. Also see Austin Kids link on right side of this blog.

The winning position from Vincent's game below.

Simul Tonight!

On Wednesday, August 10th at 6:00 pm the Georgetown Chess Club will host National Master Alexander Balkum (US Chess Federation rating 2219) at the Georgetown Public Library (Friends Room) who will perform a simultaneous exhibition of up to 40 boards against all comers. Club members will have priority seating on the first 20 boards with the remainder of spots being available to the general public on a first come basis.  Spectators are welcome.


A simultaneous exhibition is typically performed with the Chess Master playing white against all opponents who are seated at tables forming a rectangle with the Master inside the rectangle moving from board to board. Etiquette dictates that each opponent waits until the Master arrives at the board to play their move, the Master than responds with his move and proceeds on. The players have time to think about their next move until the Master makes his way around the circuit. It is common for the Master to finish such events undefeated although occasionally an ambitious player can secure a win or a draw after a hard fought battle. Usually the event lasts about two hours with many games finishing in less then half that time.