Streaming Comes to Chess Zone!
Welcome to Chess Zone News (CZN), a monthly offering from your home for rated tournament chess in metro Atlanta. Please send your games and photos from Chess Zone events for possible inclusion in a future edition of CZN to Dan Lucas. You can send full games or simply interesting tactical or strategic positions. PGN preferred.
Events covered this month:
Featured Event: Chess Zone February Sunday Classic
Dean Bowler Wins Chess Zone MLK Rapid
Featured Event: Chess zone february sunday classic
On February 23, 19 players competed in three sections in a G/75+30 event Please click here for the crosstables.
Arjun Garg won the Championship Section with 2.5 out of 3, and jumping from Class B to Class A in the process. Arjun started the tournament with a 1794 rating but closed with a jump to 1833.
Jonathan Lian, Jr. had a perfect 3.0 in the Amateur Section, also jumping a full class level by simply rearranging the digits in his rating from 1246 to 1426.
In the Reserve Section, the provisionally-rated Alex Kay took 3.0 in only his eighth over-the-board event ever to now sport a four-digit rating: 1023 (P25). As this was his 25th rated game, after his next one his rating will now be an established one.
But the reason this event is our featured one this month is because of an exciting development: The introduction of streaming. Allysa Sullivan, who streams on Twitch under the name GremlinPlaysChess, used our brand new DGT board to not only stream all three of her games in the Reserve Section, but also to stream casual games between rounds. You can see the stream here:
Streaming will continue at select events. Please follow Gremlin’s schedule page on Twitch and also follow her on Instagram.
We hope to begin streaming from our top boards soon as well. Stay tuned!
More Action from the February Classic:
Dean Bowler Wins Chess Zone MLK Rapid
Kid Chess coach Dean Bowler continues his torrid streak of late by taking the Chess Zone MLK Rapid event by a full point over Chris Chambers and Richard Jones. 20 players competed in the G/15+10 event on January 19. In this game annotated by Arturo Imberno, Bowler’s French Defense holds up against Chambers’ Alapin Gambit:
More Action from the MLK Rapid:
Coach Arturo Annotates Selected Games
Arturo Mesa Imberno is a Kid Chess coach. Originally from Cuba, he has a FIDE rating of 2106. If you’re interested in having your Chess Zone game annotated by Coach Arturo, please send it as a PGN file or LiChess study to Dan Lucas.
Chess Zone TV!
Herman ‘Mr. Checkmate’ Jones takes on Lee Creel ‘The Real Deal’ at Chess Zone! Who wins game 2 of this exciting blitz match? (See last month’s newsletter for game 1.)
Chess Zone News is edited by Dan Lucas. Contributors include: Arturo Mesa Imberno, Zac Bolton, Ryan Darling, Doug Cox, Jane Baxter, Sarah Pak, Michael Farris.
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