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2006


M. Derek Meredith Wins 2006 Greater New Haven Fall Open

Oct 16 - M. Derek Meredith (2080) bested a field of 28, including a win against GM Kudrin, to take clear first at the Greater New Haven Fall Open. 103 chessplayers participated in the event held Saturday, Nov. 4. First Place U1600 went to Ethan Segall (1449), First Place U1200 went to Tyler Durkee (1081), First Place U1000 went to Danny Chen (864) and First Place U800 went to Alexander Buhimschi (UNR). Check Full Results under Results Section of this website or see www.edutechchess.com.


Townsend Cup Results

Oct 6 - Max Enkin (MA - 2252) and Alisa Melekhina (PA - 2104) drew their third round game, and tied for first place in the 27th Townsend Cup tournament with scores of 3.5-0.5. Tournament Director Fred Townsend finished third with a score of 2.5-0.5. Arthur Nagel had the dubious honor of playing all four games into the second time control, and played 20 hours of chess in four rounds. The second Townsend Cup will be retired when one player has three clear wins. No player has won two tournaments outright yet for the second Townsend Cup. Rick Bauer (CT) retired the first Townsend Cup. The 28th Townsend Cup is tentatively scheduled for June 23-24, 2007.


James Nitz wins $2000 UCONN Scholarship Tournament

Sep 25 - James Nitz of Rocky Hill, CT took 1st & the $2000 renewable 4 yr. scholarship on TB's at 4 - 1 at the UCONN School of Engineering Scholarship Tournament; 2nd at 4 - 1 and taking the $1000 renewable 4 yr. scholarship was Haizhou Xu of Essex Junction, VT; 3rd at 3 - 2 and taking the $500 renewable 4 yr. scholarship was Haotian Zheng of Newtown, CT. 4th - 6th were, respectively, Alex Fikiet of Storrs, CT, Willam Turpin of West Haven, CT & Matthew Masino of Wantagh, NY.

2006 Scholastic State Championships - Results May 12 - Grandmaster Sergey Kudrin is the 2006 CT State Champion, successfully defending his title against a field of 21 competitors in the Open Section at this year's CT State Championships, held at Peck Place School in Orange, CT. Alan Lasser and M. Derek Meredith tied for 2nd place with 3.5 wins each. The Top U2000 prize went to Jeff Lawerence, and the Top U1800 prize went to Avery Chen. In the Amateur Sections, the U1600 Champion is Vincent Marsden from Ledyard Middle School, and the U1200 Champion is Christopher Sherry, from West Haven High School. In the Novice Sections, the U1000 Champion is Jehanzeb Kayani from Peck Place School, and the U800/Unrated Champion is Nolan Smyth who is home schooled. Team Prizes went to 1. Flanders Elementary School, 2. Foote School, 3.Peck Place School. Check the Results Section of this website for Full Results.


2006 Scholastic State Championships - Results

Apr 2 - Elementary Reserve Team Championships 1st and state champions Parkway School 2nd Riverfield Elementary School, Fairfield CT 3rd Greenwich Country Day School Elementary Reserve Individual Results 1st Hank Cohen, Rye Neck NY 2nd Henry Kalb, Greenwich, CT 3rd Danny Chen, Woodbridge, CT 4th Douglas Wrotnowski, Greenwich, CT 5th Anne Donnelly, Fairfield, CT Elementary K-5 Team Championships 1st Rippowan Cisque School, Bedford NY 2nd and state Co-champions, Greenwich Country Day School, Greenwich, CT 3rd and state Co-champions, Riverfield Elementary School, Fairfield, CT 4th Parkway Elementary School, Greenwich, CT 5th Cider Mill Elementary School, Wilton, CT Elementary K-5 Individual Results 1st Likhit Ganedi, Branford, CT and 4th grade state champion 2nd Ethan Segall, Wilton, CT 3rd Leonardo Filgueiras, Stamford, CT 4th Max Barg, Bedford, NY 5th Dinkar Ahuja, East Lyme, CT Elementay K-6 Team Championships 1st place and state champions, Greenwich Country Day School, Greenwich, CT 2nd East Ridge Middle School, Ridgefield, CT 3rd Peck Place Elementary School, Orange, CT 4th Riverfield Elementary School, Fairfield, CT 5th Cold Spring Elementary School, Hamden, CT Elementary K-6 Individual Results 1st place and 6th grade state champion, Robert Denunzio, Greenwich, CT 2nd William Gregory, Madison, CT 3rd-4th Clark Courtenay, Greenwich, CT 3-4 Chad Wilson, Greenwich, CT 5 Alexandra Wiener, Westport, CT


Christian Antonio Wins High School Championship

Mar 7 - The 2006 CT High School/Middle School Chess Championships took place this past weekend at Peck Place Elementary School in Orange, CT. Turnout was 75 chess players. West Haven High School won their 9th state championship. Peck Place School won the Middle School team championship. 2006 High School State Champion and Denker representative is Christian Antonio, a junior from West Haven High School. 2006 Middle School Champion is William Gregory from The Country School in Madison, CT. 2006 Polgar representative is once again Alexandra Wiener, from Bedford Middle School. Congratulations to all our state champions! For full results, check wallcharts under RESULTS section of this website.


Record Turnout at Greater New Haven Winter Open

Mar 6 - On Sunday, 160 chess players from 40 schools in CT, MA, NY, and RI competed in the 2006 Greater New Haven Winter Open Chess Tournament at Peck Place School in Orange. In the U800/Unrated Section, Rashmi Pashankar from Bethany Community School took 5th place, Pinny Elbaum from Hebrew Day Academy took 4th place, Wilberto Vega from Amistad Academy to 3rd place, Lukas Tolar from Flanders School took 2nd place, and Matthew Schatz from Peck Place School took 1st place. In the U1000 Section, Freeman Demirjian from Peck Place School took 5th place, Jehanzeb Kayani from Peck Place School to 4th place, Benjamin Della Rocca from Cold Spring School to 3rd place, Benjamin Shao from Mary T Murphy School to 2nd place, and Daniel McCabe from Peck Place School took 1st place. In the U1200 Section, Kapil Chandran from Miller School took 5th place, Rodrigo Sapriza from Calf Pen School to 4th place, Ron Scherban took 3rd place, Ryan O'Connor from West Haven High School took 2nd place, and David Portnoy from Amity High School took 1st place. In the U1600 Section, Matt Warnecke from Shaker High School took 5th place, Michael-David Mangini from Scotts-Ridge Middle School took 4th place, William Turpin from West Haven High School took 3rd place, Ethan Segall from Cider Mill School took 2nd place, and Alexander Fikiet from Mansfield Middle School took 1st place. In the Open Section, Stuart Finney took 5th place, Ryan Goldenberg from West Haven High School took 4th place, David Lyons took 3rd place, FIDE Master Akira Watanabe took 2nd place, and Grandmaster Sergey Kudrin took first place. School Team prizes went to Amistad Academy for 3rd place, Flanders School for 2nd place, and Peck Place School took 1st place. The next chess tournament held at Peck Place School will be the CT High School/Middle School State Championships scheduled for March 5.