Iowa Open 2008

USCF Results

Top seed and 2008 Iowa Open Champion FM Sean Nagle

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Sean Nagle won the tournament with 4.5/5. He beat 2 time Iowa champion Pete Karagianis in round 4 and 3 time current Iowa champion Tim McEntee in round 5. Matt Anzis was second with 4/5. 3rd was shared by McEntee, Matt Dahl, Robert Keating, and Tatiana Vayserberg at 3.5/5

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History (year/# of players/ winners)
2007 32 P KARAGIANIS, R BUTROS, J HODINA, A APPLEBAUM
2006 27 A BETANELI, J BURGESS, R REYNOLDS
2005 26 J ZULIC, D VASTO, D ROCKLIN, R REYNOLDS

I wish I could gain 215 points from four games!

Roshan plays in Texas

Labor Day Events

Labor day is big w-end for chess in most states.

Illinois - Illinois Open Championships

Wisconsin pre-entries include:

2168 Kane, Jeremy
2066 Velikanov, Alexander (He will also be playing in the World Youth Champ. in Vietnam!)
1833 Veech, John
1770 Pan, Hongkai
1723 Jin, David
1717 Kane, Jonathan M
1601 Gorectke, Andrew
1530 Zhang, Tianye
1432 Schneider, Thomas
1415 Jing, Aaron
1192 Gorectke, Samuel

Iowa - 54th Iowa Open

Michigan - 2008 MICHIGAN OPEN

Ohio - 64th Ohio Chess Congress

Professor Arpad E. Elo – a fond remembrance

Don't miss this article which has references to Milwaukee/Western Open etc.

Link to chess base article

Free Yemolinsky Lecture

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No "Western Open" this year

Arlen Walker came by and gave the news. This event has a rich history.( Fischer played in the 1957 edition )

More Chicago Chess

When I was in Chicago, I stopped by Angelo Young's Chess Club where Chris Baumgartner was running a FIDE/USCF rated event. Anthony Parker picked up a FIDE rating norm at this event.

USCF Results

IM Angelo Young's Touch Move Chess Center

3 Days 4 events

Aug. 15 Indiana State Blitz Championship Kokomo, Indiana Results

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Aug. 15 Indiana State Quick Championship Kokomo, Indiana Results

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Aug. 16 Indiana State Class Championships Kokomo, Indiana Results

I scored 1-1=2. This is a position I had in the loss.

I am black. Here I had 23...cxd4 24.cxd4 fxe5 if then 25.fxe5 I have Nxd4! if then Bxd4 Bg5+ wins.

But inaccurate play on my part cost me the game.

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Aug. 17 Blitz Chess Tournament Skokie, Illinois

Final results from the Skokie Blitz event. IM Amanov vs IM Kapengut,

FM Kaushansky vs FM Stamnov (shaking hands)

SWCC Club Championship - Anthony Parker goes 6-0

Southwest Chess Club

Anthony playing the wing gambit against the Sicilian defense in his last round game.

Final results

USCF results