The Farmington Open Chess Tournament, hosted recently at the Farmington Community Center, held its inaugural event to celebrate National Chess Day.

This tournament marked Farmingtons first-ever sanctioned chess tournament recognized by the U.S. Chess Federation. Its 42 competitors were aged between 12 and 77.

Scholastic entrant Charlie Creswell claimed the championship trophy with a crucial draw in the final round against former Maine state champion Aaron Spencer, who finished second. Colby Colleges Amrit Shakya claimed third place. These top players in the Moose section each earned $160 for their performance.

Of the more than $1,300 in cash and prizes awarded, the overall cash winner was Loki Drisko, gold medalist in the Puffin section, who took home $220 for his perfect 4-0 record. Colby College student An Alfie Nguyen triumphed in the Lobster section, earning a gold medal and $200.

Tournament Director Glenn Miller expressed gratitude in a news release, saying, The Farmington Community Center was the perfect venue for this competition. Our club is fortunate to have the support of the Farmington Recreation Department. We received overwhelmingly positive feedback from many seasoned tournament players about the quality of the setting and how professionally the event was managed. What a privilege to host players from across the state, in such fierce competition and to promote interest in the game.

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Councillor Stephen Stokes joined members of the Bray-Greystones Chess Club gathered on Wednesday, October 25, for a celebration to mark the 100th birthday of local chess player Vincent Denard, who has just hit the milestone 100.

Vincent is originally from Bangor in Co Down. In 1935 he won a scholarship to Bangor Grammar School. Following this, he went to Trinity College Dublin and graduated with a degree in Philosophy, in 1948, achieving first class honours. He subsequently worked as a lecturer.

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In June 1963, Vincent had the honour of robing President John F Kennedy for the conferral of his honorary doctorate.

Vincent is a long time member of the Bray-Greystones Chess Club having joined in 2004.

He continued playing actively in Leinster chess competitions deep in to his nineties. In 2017, Vincent was a key member of the Bray-Greystones team that lifted Leinsters OSullivan Cup.

He followed up this success in 2019, helping Bray-Greystones to win the William Brennan Cup. At a critical moment, Vincent scored an impressive draw against one of Irelands top junior players. He would regularly slot in for teams at short notice and secure vital results.

Veteran chess captain Eugene Rellis described Vincent as the best damn chess sub in the world.

Today, Vincent continues to inspire younger generations with chess lessons.

Paying tribute to Vincent, Cllr Stokes said: Vincent is amazing. He is full of life and an inspiration in chess longevity. To continue to get positive results for the club, well in to his nineties, is remarkable. On behalf of everyone associated with the Bray-Greystones Chess Club, I would like to wish Vincent many more years of good health and happiness.

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GM Fabiano Caruana not only captured his third U.S. national title with a dominating performance earlier this month at the St. Louis Chess Club, the worlds No. 2 player also had a message for a generation of rising American stars aiming for his crown.

Not yet.

The 31-year-old Caruana, whose previous titles came in 2016 and 2022, not only won going away over the strong 12-grandmaster field, but his 8-3 undefeated result including victories over some of the younger players in the field looking to take him down, including 14-year-old GM Abhimanyu Mishra (who finished in a very credible tie for second in his first U.S. title tourney) and early 20-something GMs Andrew Tang, Jeffery Xiong and Hans Moke Niemann.

Niemann, the center of a global chess cheating controversy last year that is just now starting to subside, gave the new champ a run for his money in the early rounds, but his hopes were dealt a fatal blow when matched with the leader in Round 9. Caruana is now 3-0 against the brash, 20-year-old California GM, winning all three games with Black.

Niemann does fine from the White side of this now-popular Vienna Game line, but the need to take chances given the tournament score winds up costing him in the end. After 21. f4!? (21. Re3 f4 22. Rc3 may be more flexible; White underestimates the power of Blacks kingside initiative once the center is closed) Qe7 22. a3 c5 23. Rac1 c4 24. Qd1 Kh8 25. Bb5 (Kh2!? Rg8 26. Re2 g5 27. Rf2 would have made the play more double-edged) g5!?, and Black goes on the attack.

The pressure leads to a material win on 28. Rc3 (c5 Rg3 29. Be2 Qh4 30. Bf3 Rag8 [Qxh3 31. Re2 Qh4 32. Rf2 Rag8 33. Kf1 stalls the Black attack and gives White fresh hope] 31. Kf1 Bd7!, and the bishop enters the game powerfully from the other wing) dxc4 29. Bxc4 Bxc4 30. Rxc4 Qxa3 31. Rc2, and Whites last hope is that his now-liberated central pawns can do some damage.

After 31 f3!? (the materialistic computers like the straightforward 31 Qxh3, in lines such as 32. Rf2 Rxg2+! 33. Rxg2 f3 34. Rg5 Qh4! 35. Qd2 f4, and if 36. Rf5, then Black has 35. Rg8+ 37. Kf1 Qh1+ 38. Kf2 Qg2 mate) 32. e6? (Caruana said afterward that 32. Qa1 may have been Whites last chance, though on 32 Qxa1 33. Rxa1 b5 34. d4 b4 35. d6 b3 36. Rb2 a4 37. e6 Kg7! 38. g3 Kf6 39. e7 Ke6 40. Re1+ Kd7, the White pawns are frozen, while Blacks are ready to roll) fxg2 33. Qe2 Qxh3 34. Qe5+ Rg7, also losing would have been 35. e7 (Qh2 Qxh2+ 36. Kxh2 g1=Q+ 37. Rxg1 Rxg1 38. Kxg1 Kg7, and Black should win the ending) Qh1+ 36. Kf2 g1=Q+ 37. Rxg1 Qxg1+ 38. Ke2 Qg2+ 39. Kd1 Qg4+ 40. Kd2 Qg5+ 41. Kd3 Qxe7 and wins.

Its over on 43. Qd5 (d5 Rf5 44. Qb8+ Kh7 45. d6 Rd5 46. e7 Qe6+ 47. Kxf3 Rf5 mate) Re8, and Niemann conceded facing lines like 44. e7+ Kh8 45. Qxf3 Rge7+ 46. Kd3 Qxf3+ 47. Rxf3 Rg8 48. Rh3 Rg5, and Black is just three pawns to the good.

We also slighted GM Wesley So in last weeks column, dropping him from the list of three players along with GMs Abhimanyu Mishra and Leinier Dominguez Perez who finished second to Caruana in St. Louis. So and Dominguez Perez matched the winner in going undefeated in the 11-round event.

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Its a measure of how things can change: The just-completed 76th Russian national championship tournament, once the gold standard for these things worldwide, was a far more low-wattage affair compared to the U.S. event, with not a single player in St. Petersburg topping the 2700 ratings mark and many familiar names Nepomniachtchi, Grischuk, Svidler declining to participate.

Top-seeded GM Vladislav Artemiev overpowered the field, winning by 2 full points at 8-2. Among his wins was a quick knockout of GM Ivan Rozum in a Caro-Kann Advance, an object lesson in how even a strong master can play himself in a miserable position with just a couple of misguided early moves.

Black gets himself in trouble the classic way grabbing a pawn at the expense of development: 8. Nge2 Be7?! (Ne7 9. Ng3 Bg6 10. Bg5 Nb6 would have been easier for Black to play) 9. Be3 Bxh4?! 10. Nf4 Bg4 11. Be2!, a slightly unexpected retreat, but Artemiev is happy to trade off Blacks one truly active piece. After 11 Bxe2 12. Qxe2, recalling the bishop for defense is bad because after 12 Be7?! 13. Rxh5 Rxh5 14. Qxh5 Nf8 15. 0-0-0 Nh6 16. g4, and White has all the play.

But White just keeps pushing ahead after the games 12 g6 13. g4 hxg4 14. Ne4! wasting no time stopping to recover the pawn; already threats like 15. Nd6+ Ke7 16. 0-0-0 g5 17. Rxh4! gxh4 18. Nxe6! fxe6 19. Qxg4 Qf8 20. Bg5+ Ngf6 21. exf6+ Nxf6 22. d5! Kxd6 23. Qxxe6+ Kc7 24. d6+ Kb8 25. d7 hover in the air.

Black has been barely holding things together with chewing gum and baling wire, and the modest 16. 0-0-0!, getting the king to safety and bringing a rook into play, is enough to push him over the edge.

Thus: 16 Nxe3 17. fxe3 f5 (yet another desperate defensive move that only undermines Blacks positional foundation) 18. Nd6+ Kf8 19. Nf4 (threatening the brutal twins 20. Nxg6+ and 20. Nxe6+) Kg8 20. Qc4 Nf8 (see diagram; having been there many times, Im guessing poor Rozum by now was just looking for a dignified way to get out of the playing hall) 21. Nxg6! (Artemiev obliges; even now, the stronger 21 Rh6 only prolongs the agony after 22. Nxh4 Rxh4 23. Qb3 Rxh1 Qb6 25. Qc2 Qc7 26. Rh5 Rd8 27 Qh2, and Black wont survive long) Nxg6 22. Qxe6+ Kh7 23. Nxf5 and Black stops the clocks.

White wraps up quickly after 23 Rf8 (Qf8 24. Nxh4 Nxh4 25. Rxh4+ Kg7 26. Rxg4+ Kh7 27. Qg6 mate) 24. Rxh4+ Nxh4 25. Qh6+ Kg8 26. Qg7 mate.

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Niemann-Caruana, U.S. Chess Championship, St. Louis, October 2023

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. c3 a5 6. O-O d6 7. Re1 Ba7 8. Nbd2 O-O 9. h3 Be6 10. Bb5 Ne7 11. d4 Ng6 12. Ba4 Nh5 13. Nf1 Nhf4 14. Ng3 exd4 15. Nxd4 Bxd4 16. cxd4 d5 17. e5 f6 18. Bxf4 Nxf4 19. Nh5 Nxh5 20. Qxh5 f5 21. f4 Qe7 22. a3 c5 23. Rac1 c4 24. Qd1 Kh8 25. Bb5 g5 26. b3 gxf4 27. bxc4 Rg8 28. Rc3 dxc4 29. Bxc4 Bxc4 30. Rxc4 Qxa3 31. Rc2 f3 32. e6 fxg2 33. Qe2 Qxh3 34. Qe5+ Rg7 35. Rcc1 Qh1+ 36. Kf2 Qh4+ 37. Ke2 f4 38. Rg1 Qg4+ 39. Kd2 f3 40. Ke3 Kg8 41. Rc2 Rf8 42. Rf2 h5 43. Qd5 Re8 White resigns.

Artemiev-Rozum, 76th Russian Chess Championship, St. Petersburg, October 2023

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. h4 h5 5. c4 e6 6. Nc3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 Nd7 8. Nge2 Be7 9. Be3 Bxh4 10. Nf4 Bg4 11. Be2 Bxe2 12. Qxe2 g6 13. g4 hxg4 14. Ne4 Nh6 15. Ng2 Nf5 16. O-O-O Nxe3 17. fxe3 f5 18. Nd6+ Kf8 19. Nf4 Kg8 20. Qc4 Nf8 21. Nxg6 Nxg6 22. Qxe6+ Kh7 23. Nxf5 Black resigns.

David R. Sands can be reached at 202/636-3178 or by email at dsands@washingtontimes.com.

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Achieving norms is something special for all players and a hurdle to overcome. Having a highly skilled brother or sister can be a source of motivation, but it can also be another obstacle. Vaishali has now overcome this "problem".

Some time ago I talked about this with Vaishali and her coach Ramesh RB. She is very thoughtful. And indeed, there is no reason to be jealous of each other's success or to feel inhibited. Vaishali and her brother Praggnanandhaa, Pragg, have enjoyed similar success. Vaishali won two bronze medals at the Chess Olympiad 2022 in her home town Chennai - the Indian Women team finished third and won bronze and Vaishali won another bronze medal for the third best individual result on board three.

Pragg also secured two third places. Most recently, they both won silver medals with the Indian teams at the Asian Games. Vaishali is 22 years old and has been playing chess for almost 17 years. In 2012 (U12) and 2015 (U14), Vaishali won two World Junior Championships, just like Pragg, who, like his older sister, won two World titles (U8) and (U10) in 2013 and 2015. The Asian and national titles will probably only be counted by historians.

Achieving a Grandmaster norm in the second strongest open tournament of the year, while playing against Grandmasters in eight out of ten rounds and performing very well, is a magnificent accomplishment. Vaishali has now obtained her third norm and, of course, also won the women's prize of $5,000.

The best women players at the Qatar Open: 1. R. Vaishali 5.0/9 2. Divya Deshmukh 5.0/9 3. Alua Nurmanova 4.5/9. Zhu Chen congratulates.

The young Indian player started with four points out of five games, defeating her compatriot, Sethuraman, and Shamsiddin Vokhidov from Uzbekistan. In the sixth round, she was paired against Gukesh. Both are from Chennai and have been students at the Westbridge Anand Chess Academy (WACA) since 2021. Vaishali came close to even beating the Indian number one. However, the 17-year-old Grandmaster handled the complications better.

With a solid plus two, Vaishali was still on course for her third Grandmaster norm. In round 7 was followed a hard-fought game against Aditya Mittal.

The two players were the last to leave the tournament hall. Unfortunately, the game was no longer broadcasted from the fifty-seventh move onwards, presumably due to a technical error.

In the penultimate round, the Indian player faced an opponent who himself aimed to achieve a Grandmaster norm, but in the end narrowly missed it in the final round. Vaishali, however, who had White played more solidly than usual and achieved the desired result and her third Grandmaster norm, no matter how she would play in the final round.

There she lost a tenable rook endgame against the tournament senior, Gregory Kaidanov, who had lost against Magnus Carlsen in the previous round. After the game, Kaidanov was the first to congratulate Vaishali on her third GM norm.

After the final round, Vaishali gave a brief interview to Chessbase India. She quickly analyzed her game against Vokhidov from the fifth round. Outstanding.

Pragg did not play in Qatar but instead attended several PR events in India. He has been helping his sister with her opening preparations. The pair will join their mother on the Isle of Man for the Grand Swiss. Vaishali was in Qatar with her mother, Nagalakshmi, who has become a popular subject for photographers. Although Nagalakshmi doesn't play chess herself, she seems to be able to judge the state of a game by the expressions on her children's faces and to empathise with them when things aren't going well.

Vaishali andNagalakshmi

Vaishali is just over thirty rating points away from becoming the third Indian Grandmaster after Koneru Humpy and Harika Dronavalli. However, there is still a lot of work to be done to reach this milestone. There is a cautionary tale: India's Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman had all her norms in place in 2005 but only achieved a rating of 2485. She continued to try to break the rating barrier for some time, but was only able to achieve the title of GM-elect, which means that she could become a grandmaster under certain conditions or circumstances.

Stars have to give autographs.

I will never mention again that Vaishali is Pragg's sister, unless the two of them achieve a common goal, such as both becoming individual world champions. Because Vaishali is an outstanding player in her own right.

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Law enforcers are also chess enthusiasts.

This holds true on Saturday, October 28, when the Philippine National Police Chess Club holds a tournament dubbed as the Police Colonel Lawrence Reloj Chess Cup 2023 at Robinsons Galleria, Edsa corner Ortigas Avenue, Quezon City.

The one-day rapid chess event is open to all players with a Philippine rating of 2000 or below as of October 1, 2023.

Sportsman Renato "Kuya Buboy" Abalos, who is part of the organizing team, said the champion will pocket P6,000 plus trophy while second to fifth placers will receive P3,000, P2,000, P1,500 and P1,000, respectively.

The sixth to 10th placers, meanwhile, will get P500 each.

Special category awards will also be given to the top kiddie, top junior, top female, top unrated, top executive, top senior (50-59 years old) and top 60 years old and above.

"The tournament is set to be a fun and exciting event for young chess enthusiasts, with people of different ages competing against each other for the top prize. It is also a great opportunity for youth to showcase their chess skills and sportsmanship," Abalos said.

National Chess Federation of the Philippines director Rey Cris Urbiztondo, meanwhile, gave his support to the Antonio "Bolok" Santos Memorial Open Rapid Chess Tournament to be held also on Saturday, October 28, at the Barangka Barangay Hall in Marikina City.

The tournament, which honors the late sports philanthropist Antonio "Bolok" Santos, has a total pot of P45,000 with the champion getting the lion's share of P10,000.

Bolok is the father of former NCFP director and former Marikina City Councilor Thaddeus Santos.

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Squatting over a large paper surface with a paintbrush dangling between her legs. Sitting onstage at Carnegie Hall while audience members come up to snip her clothing off with scissors. Blowing soap bubbles to make musical sounds. These are some of the actions taken in the name of art in Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus at the Japan Society, an exhibition that focuses on four revolutionary women, Shigeko Kubota, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, and one youve probably heard of before, Yoko Ono.

Fluxus was founded in the early 1960s and paved the way for Conceptual art, Minimalism, performance and video. It saw the future in other words. Rather than create traditional paintings or sculpture, these artists did things like play games, mail postcards, cook meals and offer instructions inspired by notated musical scores. (The composer John Cage was a central figure.) There was a logic or anti-logic to this approach. Serious, rational society had produced mass destruction in the 20th century. Maybe novel methods of producing culture could serve as a salvo or blueprint for a new society.

But by focusing on four Japanese women, the show asks: Who stands the test of time? Who doesnt? Was Fluxus really a blueprint for the future? The exhibition, organized by Midori Yoshimoto and Tiffany Lambert, with Ayaka Iida, features around 150 objects, which range from boxes full of curious objects to videos, films and photographs.

One of the things thats obvious immediately is just how international Fluxus was a portent of todays much more global art world. Kubota and Shiomi moved to New York in 1964 partly because they felt their career prospects were limited in Japan and quickly became involved with Fluxus. Kubota focused on everyday activities, preparing meals and making Flux Napkins (c. 1967).

Kubotas infamous Vagina Painting (1965) was a performance in which she either attached a paintbrush to her underwear or inserted the brush into her body (the details of this are left a little unclear) and waddled over a large paper surface. The idea of birthing a painting and using the body in such a crudely basic way was echoed in feminist art by Ana Mendieta and Marina Abramovic, or Carolee Schneemanns Interior Scroll (1975), which consisted of pulling a written text out of her own vagina. In many ways, this serves as a precursor of all the bodily performance you see in the art world today.

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