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Change in Location for 2012 Elementary Team Championship
James Hodina
1/31/2012The location for the Elementary Team Championship has moved to the Ames Middle School at 3915 Mortensen Road in Ames, IA. This is due to a scheduling conflict at the Ames High School.
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Tyagi and Zhang capture Denker and Barber titles
Bill Broich
1/29/2012The 2012 Iowa Denker and Barber Qualifiers were held at Ankeny High School on January 28th. Kushan Tyagi of Ames will represent Iowa in the 2012 Denker Tournament which is going to be held in Vancouver, Washington next August. He will be joined by Jiahua Zhang of Coralville who will represent Iowa... [More]
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IM John Bartholemew to conduct simul at 2012 Okoboji Open
Hank Anzis
1/7/2012 Okoboji Open organizer Jodene Kruse has announced that the International Master John Bartholemew will be conducting a simultaneous exhibition on April 20th, 2012 at the 6th Annual Okoboji Open and Reserve. The simul will start at 4:00 in the afternoon.
In addition to conducting the ... [More]
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Why FIDE?
Bill Broich
12/27/2011When players ask the question, “Why FIDE?” my response is “It’s a long story.” This is the story, but I’ll keep it short. While playing in the Minnesota Class Championship in fall of 2009, the assistant TD asked if I would be interested in becoming a FIDE arbiter. The assistant TD was Dr. Sisira ... [More]
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Keating goes undefeated to win Iowa FIDE Round Robin #1
Bill Broich
12/17/2011Dr. Robert Keating went 5-0 with victories over Bed Gradsky (2107), Jim Ellis (2100), George Eichhorn (1903), Tony Dutiel (1856),and Tim Crouse (1800) to win FIDE Round Robin #1 held at the Holiday Inn Express in Ames, Iowa on December 10th & 11th.
The top two players in this 6-player round rob... [More]
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Vasto and Carson repeat as Champions in the 3rd Annual Des Moines Classic-More Photos-See below
Bill Broich
11/21/2011Dan Vasto and Bethany Carson repeated as champions in the 3rd Annual Des Moines Classic. The event was in the Des Moines Botanical Center on November 19th. A total of 53 players competed in three sections, the Open, Reserve and U1000 RBO.
Dan won the Open section this year out-right with 4-0 ... [More]
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Li, Kumar, Kopf, Davis, McCarthy, Joshi, Denison sweep in West Des Moines
Hank Anzis
11/5/2011 7 players swept their way to victory in the West Des Moines Youth Chess DoubleHeader held at the St. Francis of Assisi school cafeteria on November 5th 2011.
The 11 player morning rated section saw West Des Moines' Frank Li and Omaha's Trevor Leone take the only 2-0 scores into a ... [More]
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Winners abound on National Chess Day in West Des Moines
Hank Anzis
10/8/2011 67 players celebrated National Chess Day in West Des Moines by competing in 4 free tournaments sponsored by Coggins Shoes for Kids and St. Francis of Assisi School.
The morning rated tournament saw West Des Moines native Sam Cole, Nicholas Leung and Nathan Chen (both of Ames) with t... [More]
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En Passant Issue 51-4 Correction
Mark Capron
10/4/2011Please add the following at the end of page 15 and before page 16:
"Black king closer to the mating square (a1). 4...Ka4 [4...Ka6 5.Nb4+ Ka5 6.Kc5 Notice that"
I apologize for any confusion this may have caused. If anyone would like the original Chessbase file of this endgame please email t... [More]
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Ellis and Wolz share 1st Place at Cychess XLVI
Roger W Gotschall
9/25/2011James Ellis and Dave Wolz both went 3-0-0 to earn top honors at the latest Cychess on the Iowa State University campus in Ames.
Wolz has now accumulated six Cychess crowns dating all the way back to May 1999 (IV) when his 2.5 earned a tie with Don Grove. For the ageless Ellis, it was his third ... [More]
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