Dayton Chess Club (DCC) won a chess match with Cincinnati chess players played in Dayton on Saturday, September 10, 2010 by a score of 4 wins, 3 losses, and 9 split individual matches. In the 16 individual matches, two games were played between the opponents switching colors in the second game. In round 1, Dayton had White on the odd numbered boards and Cincinnati had White on the even numbered boards.

Round 1 Dayton won by the surprising score of 9-7, splitting on the top six boards 3-3, even though they were out-rated about 200 points on boards 3-6. On the next 10 boards Dayton took 6 to 4 points. Then came round 2 where Dayton picked up 3½ points on the top boards, but only winning one match with 1 1½ points out of 2. On the top 6 boards, Cincinnati failed to pick up a single match point. On the next 10 boards, Dayton lost overall 4½ to 5½, but picked up enough key wins for 3 match points to Cincinnati’s 2 match points.

Photos of the players from both Cincinnati and Dayton are shown below. Also, the players and the individual match results are shown in the table below. Not shown in the table are the four players from DCC who had no Cincinnati opponent so they played each other – Kay Stanley, Bruce Hill, Daniel
Mogilesvasky, and Malachi O’Neal.

Many thanks to Michael Schauer for acting as the tournament director for this event and running the DCC while the event went on. Also many thanks to Duane Larkin for organizing the Cincinnati team and making the event happen. Lots of fun for all involved

Cincinnati's Chess Team

Dayton’s Chess Team

For a break-down of scores be sure to check out the: Bragging Rights…..