News & Announcements3-20-10 Far West Open is coming: The website for the 2010 Far West Open is up! The tournament is scheduled for April 2-4. The first entry deadline has already passed, so it's now $11 extra to enter. The second mail-in deadline is approaching on March 26. An email deadline comes on March 31. After that it's a total of $22 extra to enter on site.
3-19-10 Club Championship Qualifier, round 10 of 11: After 10 rounds, leaders in Group A include Garingo at 9/9, Hong at 8.5/10, Fleming with 4.5/6, Chinnici with 5/7, and Brandt with 5/7. Leaders in Group B include Fedunov with 7.5/9, Van Reken with 6/8, and Fischer with 5.5/8. Checking the stats, Garingo and Fedunov have clinched berths to the finals. For various reasons, Jerry Weikel has been seeded directly into the finals, so all qualifier games against Weikel are now Byes. Also, Group B will seed three players aside from Weikel to the finals now. Group A is 10 games behind while Group B is 6 games behind. Please try to coordinate with your opponent to make up missed games. Sunday nights at the chess club are available after 6pm, but you may need to plan to meet an officer there with a key to the club OR some people don't mind the noise of book stores. See Championship Qualifier>> for results and playing schedule.
12-17-09 Congratulations: Daniil Fedunov played in the National K-12 Championships in Dallas, TX and got 20th place among 104 seventh graders! Plus he got his picture in Chess Life Online.
12-17-09 Holiday Swiss, final round 6: Ernie Hong finished with 5.0/6 atop the 22-player field. Jeff Olson increased his rating by 187 points! See results>>.
10-30-09 October Swiss, final round 4: Daniil Fedunov and George Fischer finished with 3.0/4 atop the 15-player field. See results>>. 10-27-09 Western States is done!: About 250 players showed up for the 27th annual tournament including a strong field of GMs Khachiyan, Ibragimov, Perelshteyn, Kudrin, Ehlvest, Ivanov, Simutowe, Van Wely, and Gurevich. Khachiyan and Ibragimov topped the field at 5.0/6 with Khachiyan winning the G/10 playoff. See results>>. 10-12-09 Tonopah Match result: The South extended its possession of the team trophy to six years in a row with a 10.5-9.5 match score. Glenn Bidari repeated as state champion against Jerry Weikel. See results>>. 9-25-09 Tonopah Warm-Up, final round 4: Jerry Weikel topped the 18-player field with 3.5/4. See results>>. 9-21-09 New Experts!: This is not strictly Reno Chess Club news, but thanks to some competition at David Peterson's Chess Invitationals, both Mark Rand and Daniil Fedunov have crossed the threshold into Expert rating. Congratulations to these two for earning a '2' at the beginning of their ratings. 9-18-09 Annual Meeting: The yearly Annual Meeting was held 17 September 2009. Election of officers was held; the new officers for 2009 - 1010 are: Jerry Weikel, President; Grant Fleming, Vice President; Norm Wyatt, Secretary; George Smith, Treasurer, and George Fischer, Sgt. at Arms. Congratulations to the new officers. 9-13-09 Class Championships: The first game of the Class A championship ended with Grant Fleming drawing with black against Daniil Fedunov. In Class C, Chris Harrington conceded the match making Rick Arteaga the Class C Champion. Congratulations to Rick Arteaga! In Class D, Mike Houser won the match against Norm Wyatt. Congratulations to Mike Houser, the 2009 Class D Champion! See results>>. 8-28-09 Club Championship: Congratulations to Edwin Straver who is the Club Champion for the second year in a row. He drew the fourth game of the 6-game finals match against Terry Alsasua to clinch the title and finish an amazing run of 9 wins, 1 draw, and 0 losses. See the championship bracket>>. 8-22-09 David Ryba Memorial/Hot August Knights: 11-year old Daniil Fedunov topped the 18-player field with 5.5/6, winning $180 and gaining 113 rating points in the inaugural David Ryba Memorial. He's now just 17 points short of Expert. See results>>. 8-19-09 Reno Chess Club website hosting changed: I moved the hosting for the website to Google Sites. I believe the linkages are mostly still intact, but I had to leave behind the Java playable game board. 5-14-09 Club Championship Qualifier, final round 15: The qualifiers were Gafni, Garingo, Fleming, Weikel, Alsasua, Case, Hong and Shoemaker. See results>>. 4-13-09 Far West Open results are in!: 179 players showed up to fight for six rounds on Easter Weekend. GM Sergey Kudrin, IM Enrico Sevillano, and IM Gergely Antal finished atop the open section with 5.0/6. Sevillano outblitzed Antal, but he was in turn outblitzed by Kudrin in the playoff. The cross table is here>>.
News items before 2009 are archived in the News Archive.
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