ACC’s Club Manager, George Supol, was recently interviewed by CTV regarding his thoughts about the Club and Joey Votto, an ACC Club member who’s also an MLB superstar.
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CTV News Article
ACC Club Championship Round One!
Hello everyone! Here are the results of round one of the 2023 ACC Club Championship, a six-round tournament!
Results for Round 1: Crown
| Bd | # | Res | White | # | Res | Black |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Nader Haji Ghanbari (2117) | 8 | 0 | Charis Zhu (1842) |
| 2 | 9 | 0 | Omaray M. Shah (1823) | 2 | 1 | Ekrem Tamkan (2074) |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | David Southam (2060) | 10 | 0 | Charlie Grisar (1803) |
| 4 | 11 | 0 | John Fines (1747) | 4 | 1 | Merlin Nazareno (2002) |
| 5 | 5 | 1 | Richard Douglas (1988) | 12 | 0 | Ryan Zhuoyuan Xu (1729) |
| 6 | 13 | 1 | Daniel Sirkovich (1711) | 6 | 0 | Carina D’Souza (1915) |
| 7 | 7 | 1 | Samuel Ulrich (1868) | 14 | 0 | Arkadiy Ugodnikov (1701) |
| 15 | 1 | Lorne Schwartz (1697) | BYE |
Results for Round 1: Reserve
| Bd | # | Res | White | # | Res | Black |
| 8 | 35 | 1 | Philip Melnik (1146) | 46 | 0 | Joseph Votto (1046) |
| 9 | 2 | 1 | Daniel Stueckmann (1617) | 36 | 0 | Benjamin Kamnitzer (1095) |
| 10 | 37 | 0 | Marko Bulatovic (1095) | 3 | 1 | Ambarish Chandra (1586) |
| 11 | 4 | 1 | Toy Chack Kwan (1583) | 38 | 0 | Paul Kemp (1094) |
| 12 | 39 | 1 | Adam Comer (1091) | 5 | 0 | Glib Dunikov (1565) |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Jose Escobar (1561) | 40 | 0 | Alex Geddie (1090) |
| 14 | 41 | 0 | Justin Ryan (1088) | 7 | 1 | Adie Todd (1522) |
| 16 | 43 | 1 | Alan [Jing Chiuan] Peng (1074) | 8 | 0 | Robert Wagner (1512) |
| 17 | 9 | 1 | Frank Helwig (1490) | 45 | 0 | Abdullah Caglayon (1062) |
| 20 | 48 | ½ | Sam Ghamarimonavvar (986) | 12 | ½ | Umid Allahverdi (1479) |
| 21 | 54 | ½ | Glen Newbury (920) | 49 | ½ | Henry Prickett-Morgan (980) |
| 22 | 50 | 1 | Joshua Bakradze (976) | 14 | 0 | Leon Noel Merse (1463) |
| 23 | 16 | 1 | Afeez Sanni (1433) | 51 | 0 | Alexei Antonov ( 975) |
| 24 | 52 | 1 | Gabriel Saimovici (966) | 17 | 0 | George Supol (1419) |
| 25 | 19 | 1 | Isabelle Zhu (1404) | 53 | 0 | John Zabbal (961) |
| 26 | 55 | 0 | Maxim Bondarev (920) | 20 | 1 | David Dunikov (1400) |
| 27 | 21 | 1 | Ian Greig (1385) | 56 | 0 | Tina Hui (917) |
| 28 | 57 | 1 | Larry Zhou Chen (911) | 23 | 0 | Robert Joy (1331) |
| 29 | 24 | 1 | Leeor Greenblat (1323) | 58 | 0 | Samantha Tajik ( 909) |
| 30 | 59 | ½ | Anoush Avakian (893) | 25 | ½ | Atiba Yusuf (1322) |
| 31 | 26 | 1 | Onur Naiboglu (1321) | 60 | 0 | George Flagg ( 865) |
| 32 | 61 | 0 | Peter Grucza (858) | 27 | 1 | Sivaram Maneharan (1311) |
| 33 | 28 | 1 | Neil Goel (1293) | 63 | 0 | Preston Rehdner (723) |
| 35 | 30 | 1 | Daniel Rokhvarger (1233) | 65 | 0 | Ziya Musayev (480) |
| 36 | 64 | 0 | Luc Leclair ( 507) | 31 | 1 | Ivan Moshe (1225) |
| 38 | 68 | 0 | Marco Chirigoni (unr.) | 33 | 1 | Richard Kang (1172) |
| 39 | 34 | 1 | James Taylor (1155) | 69 | 0 | Luba Shtepa (unr.) |
| 40 | 47 | 1 | Umang Bhatt (1021) | 44 | 0 | Keith Denning (1073) |
| 41 | 32 | 0 | Alexander Wagner (1211) | 67 | 1 | Steven Nunez ( 200) |
Standings will be published along with results in later rounds.
Something to Think About
A QUOTE TO PONDER (from today’s ACC RSS Chess News Feed):
“If you don’t understand how to practice archery in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acquire is just technique. It won’t help you through and through. Perhaps you can hit the mark without trying, but without a bow and arrow, you cannot do anything. If you understand the point of practice, then even without a bow and arrow the archery will help you.”
Shunryu Suzuki (Zen Monk 1904 – 1971)
CHESS PRINCIPLES
GM Alex Colovic says … (in his Chessable blog)
A very accurate thought expressed by a Zen monk. It perfectly describes the stereotypical chess player who “can hit the mark without trying, but without a bow and arrow […] cannot do anything.”
ACC Class Registrations Site
We have now setup a temporary Guestlist registration site for ACC Chess Courses/Classes here. We’ll use this while we are building our new permanent membership/registration site.
You can now purchase individual in-person classes on an a-la-carte basis. We have separate Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced in-person courses for kids and adults that define their individually scheduled classes.
We also have an Advanced online course for both kids and adults together. All registered students are pre-screened for suitability.
Discount codes are available to ACC members for both in-person classes and online courses.
We think that the new registration site will help us reduce the lineups at the Front Desk on Monday evenings, and therefore reduce frustration for some students having to stand in line. Our administration will also be easier.
NOTE: In buying classes a-la-carte, say you jump in at week 4 of an 8-week Intermediate course. You could register now for weeks 4-8 (buy 5 classes) then register later for weeks 1-3 (buy 3 more classes) for the next iteration of the course (we run them continuously throughout the year). That’s because, generally the topics within a course are additive and not necessarily sequential. This allows for maximum flexibility, especially if you have a commitment one week and can’t make a class. You don’t use up one of your classes if you don’t show.
RSS Chess News Feeds
Below is a list of our latest selected RSS Chess News Feeds we pull in daily from internet chess news servers from around the world. You can click on any link to read the news feed or listen to the podcast. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It’s an easy way for you to keep up with news and information that’s important to you, and helps you avoid the conventional methods of browsing or searching for information on websites.
Our Daily Chess News Feed (10 posts in list format, latest on top):
The Chess News Feeds are updated on a daily basis. The selected blogs and podcasts do not necessarily publish every day, and some (e.g. ChessBase) are more prolific than others. Each day the list is auto-refreshed with new content. A copy of this ACC news post may also be found under our main NEWS menu as a permanent webpage.
Here is the list of the 10 blogs and podcasts that we presently follow:
- Chessbase | Chess News
- FIDE – World Chess Federation
- Susan Polgar Global Chess Daily News And Information
- Chess.com | Chess News And Event Coverage
- The Week In Chess Magazine | Worldwide Chess News And Games
- The Chess Improver | Nigel Davies And Friends On Getting Better At Chess
- Chessable Blog
- Ladies Knight Chess
- Lichess | Free Online Chess
- The Perpetual Chess Podcast
Coming to ACC for RSS Chess News Feeds to review means you don’t have to worry about managing those feeds in your email account, which can clutter things up.
Note: RSS Chess News Feeds is a feature we are adding to our new website/registration system presently under construction. Since we’ve already got it working, we decided to also start using it on our current website.