FIDE Thursdays Round 3

Holding at 21 players, the Treger-Ray battle on Board 1 literally went down to the last minute for Yefim and ended up in a drawn Queen and Pawns ending (next time, use a delay clock !!). Marc Widmaier played the thematic e6 pawn sacrifice to inflict an ugly position on top-ranked Asa Hoffmann, but somehow Asa escaped, consolidated and won. Berg-Frumkin slipped into a drawn Rook ending as Black squandered a promising middle game attack. Sandra Oliver’s From Gambit didn’t pan out, as after a Queen exchange she was down a piece for virtually no compensation to John Brendel, who duly delivered checkmate. Marian Waxman repeated the opening error of two weeks prior from Rachlin-Frumkin against Ed Scher and Ed pocketed the exchange, weathered a counterattack and simplified into a relatively easy win. The all Tony game of Gonzales-Greco was a very nice win by the former (after the loss or sacrifice of a pawn, Gonzales won an exchange and cut off Greco’s king with the extra Rook). Jeff Tannenbaum beat Paul Doganges, Serge Adelson beat Fidel De Los Santos and Jerry Monaco beat Polly Wright quickly enough for Polly to enter the G/30 with a bye and Jerry to play a filler game. Lawrence Carlos, William Dubinsky and Paul Rachlin took byes. So far only Ed Scher has a bye next week, so the top pairings appear to be Hoffmann-Treger and Ray-Berg, the first three with 2½-½ scores and the last as top-ranked 2-1.

Submitted by Ed Frumkin

Click to show the crosstable

MARSHALL CC FIDE THURSDAYS

#	Name	Rtng	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Tot
1	ASA HOFFMANN	2313	D16	W15	W10	2.5
2	YEFIM TREGER	2223	W7	W6	D3	2.5
3	SARATHI RAY	2058	W11	W14	D2	2.5
4	GEORGE P BERG	2028	D12	W19	D5	2.0
5	EDWARD A FRUMKIN	2013	W17	D13	D4	2.0
6	JOHN J BRENDEL	1932	W20	L2	W13	2.0
7	EDWARD SCHER	1900	L2	W18	W14	2.0
8	TONY S GONZALES	1863	H---	H---	W16	2.0
9	LAWRENCE CARLOS	1959	L13	W21	H---	1.5
10	MARC WIDMAIER	1953	H---	W12	L1	1.5
11	JEFFRE TANNENBAUM	1900	L3	H---	W19	1.5
12	SERGE ADELSON	1888	D4	L10	W21	1.5
13	SANDRA OLIVER	1717	W9	D5	L6	1.5
14	MARIAN WAXMAN	1994	W18	L3	L7	1.0
15	WILLIAM DUBINSKY	1915	H---	L1	H---	1.0
16	ANTHONY GRECO	1900	D1	H---	L8	1.0
17	PAUL RACHLIN	1871	L5	D20	H---	1.0
18	JERRY J MONACO	1738	L14	L7	W20	1.0
19	PAUL T DOGANGES	1800	H---	L4	L11	0.5
20	POLLY P WRIGHT	1700	L6	D17	L18	0.5
21	FID DE LOS SANTOS	1580	H---	L9	L12	0.5