CHAMPIONS Greater Dayton High School Chess League Miami Valley School’s Team of Chess Champions: From left to right – Matthew Page, 10th grade, 5th board (shared), Matt Renner, coach (rear), Ishan Paranjpe, 10th grade, 1st board, Bo Wang, 12th grade, 5th board (shared), Bill Dyer, 11th grade, 4th board (rear). Phillip Shepard, 10th grade, 3rd […]
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MOTCF 2012…..!!!!
****First MOTCF entry: Skullsplitters! Please note that the listed players under each team are NOT necessarily in board order number!!! **Skullsplitters Lou Friscoe Joe Landusky John Hampton Wm. Hemming **TalmaAubryScottManians Charles Diebert John Bath James Weitthoff John Hayes **The CCLian Defense John Hughes Alan Casden Vikram Raman Chris Shen **CCLB Runya Xu Luke Xie Rohit […]
Holiday Blues 2012…….21 and 22 January 2012
Here are a few photos of the tournament…..
Bellbrook high School Places 2nd in State!
Bellbrook High School Chess Team wins Second Place At Ohio Grade Level Chess Championship 2012 This past Saturday 401 scholastic chess players descended upon the campus of Akron University to play in the Student Union. The students represented grades K-12 and played 5 rounds of a game known worldwide that tests mental agility. The […]
Riley Driver’s Point of View
Thursday, September 15, 2011 Too Good Not to Share Wednesday night, September 14, 2011 was a “Movies and Matches” night. No one showed up to play any match chess. However, there were a few of us for the “Movie.” To be sure, this was not a movie in the normal “movie” sense. Instead it was […]
Bragging Rights – Dayton Vs Cinci Match
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 GRAPE – Gem City Open 2011
The GRAPE Richard Mercer (1911) vs Mark Kellie (1732) Round 2 – OPEN SECTION Commentary by Mark Kellie 1. d4 d6 2. c4 Nd7 Signature move of my “Grape” system. 3. Nc3 g6 4. e4 Bg7 5. Be3 e5 6. d5?! In this “Grape” system which I play, the d5 move relieves the tension in […]
Round 3 Heartbreak! – Gem City Open 2011
Another great game from the Gem City Open….. Ariel Ofek beat USCF Master Hans Multhopp in Round 1 near miniature (23 moves) to get off to a great start, followed by a long hard fought draw in Round 2 against National Expert and 8 time Dayton Chess Club Champion David Friedman . Not bad for […]
The 53rd Gem City Open Champion – Walker “Grinder” Griggs
Walker Griggs has picked up 159 rating points from April 10 to June 5, 2011 moving from a rating of 2048 to a rating of 2207. Not bad for a 15 year old. First, in the Ohio HS Championship he tied for first picking up only 9 rating points. Then in the Mulligan Masters & […]
Parking for Gem City Open!
Here are some convenient parking spots close to the Dayton Chess Club: DCC Parking