FIDE Thursdays, Round 2

The number of players swelled from 17 to 21 with the addition of Marc Widmaier (our 6th FIDE-rated player), William Dubinsky, Tony Gonzales and Fidel De Los Santos. In the battles among the 1-0 scorers, Treger fended off Brendel’s Sicilian Wing Gambit and Ray won a King and Pawn ending from Waxman in which both sides had doubled c pawns. Frumkin and Oliver ended as a mutually embarrassing draw. Hoffmann narrowly edged Dubinsky in a Knight and Pawn ending, Berg accepted Paul Doganges’ Blackmar Gambit and successfully retained the extra material while Widmaier beat Serge Adelson. Carlos beat De Los Santos, reversing an upset from two Thursday events ago, Scher beat Monaco and Polly Wright won an exchange from Paul Rachlin before giving it back and drawing. Tony Greco, Jeff Tannenbaum and Tony Gonzales took byes, so we had nine games this week. Top board for Round 3 should be Treger-Ray (Ray does have a prior win from Treger—I’m sure somebody was going to ask) and it will be interesting to see what the computer does with the five player 1½ group. I apologize for less opening and middlegame information than usual, but Sandra and I preferred to play skittles upstairs after our relatively short game. The prize fund will be raised now that we have exceeded 20 players and we could still use some more with FIDE ratings. With three place prizes, an under 2000 prize and only 5 players rated 2000 or higher, anybody could win this thing, even a late entrant.

Reported by Ed Frumkin

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MARSHALL CC FIDE THURSDAYS

#	Name	Rtng	Post	Rd 1	Rd 2	Tot
1	YEFIM TREGER	2223	2230	W12	W10	2.0
2	SARATHI RAY	2058	2080	W15	W8	2.0
3	ASA HOFFMANN	2313	2305	D11	W14	1.5
4	GEORGE P BERG	2028	2029	D16	W18	1.5
5	EDWARD A FRUMKIN	2013	2012	W17	D7	1.5
6	MARC WIDMAIER	1953	1966	H---	W16	1.5
7	SANDRA OLIVER	1717	1754	W9	D5	1.5
8	MARIAN WAXMAN	1994	1987	W21	L2	1.0
9	LAWRENCE CARLOS	1959	1937	L7	W20	1.0
10	JOHN J BRENDEL	1932	1934	W19	L1	1.0
11	ANTHONY GRECO	1900	1913	D3	H---	1.0
12	EDWARD SCHER	1900	1905	L1	W21	1.0
13	TONY S GONZALES	1863	1863	H---	H---	1.0
14	WILLIAM DUBINSKY	1915	1912	H---	L3	0.5
15	JEFFRE TANNENBAUM	1900	1891	L2	H---	0.5
16	SERGE ADELSON	1888	1881	D4	L6	0.5
17	PAUL RACHLIN	1871	1854	L5	D19	0.5
18	PAUL T DOGANGES	1800	1793	H---	L4	0.5
19	POLLY P WRIGHT	1700	1701	L10	D17	0.5
20	FID DE LOS SANTOS	1580	1577	H---	L9	0.5
21	JERRY J MONACO	1738	1723	L8	L12	0.0