Mechanics' Institute Chess Club Newsletter #418

 

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  San Francisco Mechanics (4.5-1.5) vs Seattle Sluggers (3.5-2.5)

All Time Series Record: (San Francisco leads 3.5-1.5)

Starts at 9:00 PM ET       Time Control - Game 75 with 30 second increment

San Francisco Mechanics			Seattle Sluggers
GM Vinay Bhat: 2481	1.0	0.0	GM Hikaru Nakamura: 2742
IM John Donaldson: 2422	0.0	1.0	FM Slava Mikhailuk: 2437
FM Sam Shankland: 2364	1.0	0.0	FM John Readey: 2296
FM Daniel Naroditsky: 2321	1.0	0.0	Andy May: 2134
Avg Rating: 2397			Avg Rating: 2402
San Francisco Total -------	3.0	1.0	------- Seattle Total

2008 Standings

EASTERN DIVISION	W	L	Game Points		Opp Avg Rating	Opps Record
@ Queens	5.5	1.5	18.0/28 (64%)		2400	19.5-20.5 (49%)
Carolina	4.5	2.5	17.0/28 (61%)		2396	14.5-25.5 (36%)
New Jersey	4.5	2.5	16.0/28 (57%)		2419	18.0-20.0 (45%)
Boston	3.0	4.0	13.5/28 (48%)		2406	20.0-20.0 (50%)
Philadelphia	2.0	5.0	11.5/28 (41%)		2434	21.5-20.5 (51%)
New York	2.0	5.0	9.5/28 (34%)		2420	19.5-20.5 (49%)
Baltimore	1.5	5.5	10.5/28 (38%)		2403	21.5-16.5 (57%)

WESTERN DIVISION	W	L	Game Points		Opp Avg Rating	Opps Record
San Francisco	5.5	1.5	17.5/28 (63%)		2407	22.0-20.0 (52%)
Dallas	4.5	2.5	15.5/28 (55%)		2416	20.0-22.0 (48%)
Miami	4.0	3.0	17.5/28 (63%)		2404	21.0-21.0 (50%)
Chicago	4.0	3.0	16.0/28 (57%)		2390	18.0-22.0 (45%)
Seattle	3.5	3.5	12.5/28 (45%)		2392	23.0-19.0 (55%)
Arizona	2.5	4.5	10.5/28 (38%)		2387	25.5-16.5 (61%)
Tennessee	2.0	5.0	10.5/28 (38%)		2395	20.0-20.0 (50%)

 

It's from a  club simul back in 1968. His victim is one of the  characters from Wisconsin chess history. Henry Meifert was, I 
believe, the first player in Wisconsin history to earn the Master  rank. There were other masters first, but they were at that rank when 
the rating system was created.

Henry went on to run a second club in Milwaukee, after a dispute with  Pearle Mann. It ran until the mid-1990's, long after Pearle died, 
before it folded back into the municipal club. In fact, Henry was the  man who welcomed me back into chess back in the 80's, and his club 
met just three blocks from my house.

The scoresheet is Henry's, so it's a bit problematic, because he  wasn't the most meticulous scorekeeper.

Milwaukee 1968 (simul)
[White "Martz William"]
[Black "Meifert Henry R"]
[Eco "B94"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 Nbd7 7.Bc4
Qc7 8.Bb3 b5 9.O-O e6 10.a3 Bb7 11.Re1 Rc8 12.Kh1 Qb8 13.f4 Be7
14.f5 e5 15.Nde2 Ng4 16.Qd2 Ba8

 

Just an innocuous move as filler.  The actual move the scoresheet gives here is ...Q-R3, which is 
impossible.

At this point the scoresheet becomes useless (It claims QxP is the  next move)
but a draw was agreed on move 41 (Black offered).

 

Ralph Dubisch named as new Northwest Chess Editor

At a board meeting in Portland, Oregon on Sunday, September 28, the Northwest Chess (NWC) board of directors named FM Ralph Dubisch of San Jose, California as the new editor of Northwest Chess magazine, effective with the November 2008 issue. Ralph served as guest editor for the September 2008 edition of the magazine, which was well-received by the Washington Chess Federation (WCF) and Oregon Chess Federation (OCF) memberships. While thanking editor Fred Kleist for his several years of service to Northwest Chess and to the chess community in the Northwest, the board decided that it was time to make a change.

Although Ralph currently resides in California (also spending time in Arizona), he has a solid connection to Northwest Chess, having served as Editor (May 1989-November 1990) and WCF President (early to mid 1990's) before. As noted in Ralph's "From the Desk of the Guest Editor" column in September, Ralph also has other local connections, including a good working relationship with WCF President (and NWC Publisher) Duane Polich. Some of Ralph's accomplishments include achieving the FIDE Master title; former service as USCF Region XII Vice President; former service on the boards of the Chessmates Foundation and the Seattle Chess Club, and current President of the Free Internet Chess Organization (http://www.freechess.org). His chess-heavy resume includes working for International Chess Enterprises, running chess rating systems and marketing chess software. He has taught private lessons and chess classes in community centers and in after-school enrichment programs in both Washington and California.

http://www.nwchess.com/articles/press/NWC_press_rel_2008_05.htm

Glenn Beck recently interviewed Gary Kasparov ( http://www.truveo.com/Glenn-Beck-Gary-Kasparov-on-Russia/id/3027842554) about the state of the Russian economy and Vladimir Putin.

Here are two quotes from the interview. Thanks to NM Kurt Stein.

KASPAROV: It`s funny that, I think that a lot of the problems that we have been facing in Russia now is inherited here. I always said that Putin`s
regime was the strange mixture of Karl Marx and Adam Smith expenses nationalized, profits privatized.

KASPAROV: And here people believe the same is happening. Expenses nationalize and profits are in the hands of very few. And now instead of this old Karl Marx slogan about worker of the world unite; now we could hear robber barons of the world unite.

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