PCC Newsletter Contribution Deadline Do you have a game or chess article you would like to contribute to our chess club newsletter? Please e-mail analyzed games and/or chess article contributions to [email protected] by EOD Friday, November 15 if you would like them featured in the December 2024 issue. Word document and pgn preferred file formats […]
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Pittsburgh Chess Club En Passant Edition for September 2024 has been released, with printed copies located in the Pittsburgh Chess Club in the tan circulars in the Frederick A. Sorensen Game Room. An electronic copy of En Passant Volume 77, Issue 1 is in PDF is available in the top header under “News and Events”
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Last weekend was National Chess Day. Established in 1976, National Chess Day is to encourage people to play chess and improve their critical thinking skills. The Pittsburgh Chess Club honored that day hosting a free entry chess tournament called the Bob Dudley Memorial on Saturday, October 19, 2024. Bob Dudley was an active member of
2024 Annual Picnic Pittsburgh Chess Club’s Annual Picnic was held Saturday, August 24, 2024, at Wightman Park in Squirrel Hill, across from where our former chess club location was on Solway St. Pittsburgh Chess Club member and International Master-Elect Erick Zhao held a chess game exhibition, playing against 7 players simultaneously ranging from Expert-class to
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Congratulations to the winners of our 25th Fred Sorensen Memorial: Daniel Hodgson, Sam Timmons, John Vuillemot, Aayansh Samanta, Benjamin Nicholson, Jordhy Ledesma, Constance Robbins, and Cole Risbon.
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Congratulations to our 45th Pittsburgh Summer Open winners: Championship Section: Zachary Thompson, Engin Katipoglu, Aayansh Samanta, Neelansh Samanta and Peter Lu. Reserve Section: Matt Bradley, Sudarshan Aravind, Arjun Kairi, Felix Zheng, Andrei Balcan, Mokshagnya Chityala and Cory Weeks. Novice Section: Benjamin Nicholson, Cole Risbon, and Lipi Kairi. For the “Comeback Win” trophy, we were looking
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Congratulations to our August Quick Quads winners: Maxim Yaskolko, Charles Kiesling, and Trevor Richards.
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It was great weather and another great weekend of chess in Schenley Park this weekend. Congratulations to the Quads in the Park X winners: Jack Bluebaugh, Justin Glover, Joshua Foster, Siddhartha Senthilkumar, and Benjamin Nicholson. Also, thanks to Pat Barron for directing.
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Congratulations to the winners of the 26th Robert P. Smith Memorial: Melih Özbek, Franklin Chen, Edward Dean, Robin Steiner, John Vuillemot, Charles Kiesling, Aayansh Samanta, Joshua Schmitt, Andrei Balcan, and Sam Kinkus Also thanks to Tyler Smith for helping with tournament directing.
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Congratulations to our July Free For Members tournament winners and plus scorers: Zachary Thompson, Peyton Legg, Matt Bradley, Joseph Pleso, Peter Lu, James Shirley, Jack Bluebaugh, Chintala Yashasvi Yadav, Drew Moses, Kitana Olson, Kamila Olson, Isaac Kirby, Andrei Balcan, Avani Bhargava, William Murtha, and Siddhartha Senthilkumar Thank you to Pat Barron for directing and to
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