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Joel Johnson vs. Ilan Meerovich Recap by Joel Johnson

My Second USCL Match In this week’s match against the Chicago Blaze, I find out that my opponent is scholastic chess star Ilan Meerovich. And, as in my last match, I start digging for information about...

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Scorpions Barely Miss Playoffs!

Well that was close! We missed the playoffs in our first year by the narrowest of margins tying for 4th place (four teams make the playoffs in each division) only to lose on tiebreaks by 1/2 point. You...

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Oh dear sweet Dragon…

Danny’s relationship with the Dragon: “I wish I could quit you!” Dominguez Perez,L (2717) – Radjabov,T (2761) [B77] XXVI SuperGM Linares ESP (5), 24.02.2009 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3...

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Adelberg annotates his week 1 game

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USCL Week 4 Opening of the Week

USCL Week 4 Opening of the Week Molner (NJ) – Herman (NY) Sicilian Najdorf  Bg5 AND Bc4 Combo Platter It’s always entertaining when an ersatz pioneer “wings it” in a sharp opening, essentially making...

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USCL Week 6: Opening of the Week (OOTW)

The Fabulous 00s: USCL Week 6 Opening of the Week (OOTW) The Inscrutable Chinese Dragon I guess we could say it’s a gambit of structure (backward pawn on d6 after black moves e7-e5) for activity.  It’s...

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Alejandro wins Week 6 Game of the Week

Each week a panel of 5 judges from around the country review all USCL games and select the top 3 of the week. By a large margin, Alejandro’s victory over GM Joel Benjamin was selected as this week’s...

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IM Mark Ginsburg Analyzes One of Many Critical Positions in the...

Scorpions-Mechanics: Not for the Faint of Heart Wow, I am still freaking out a day later.  The Arizona Scorpions and the SF Mechanics played a titantic match on 10/14/09 that will go down in USCL...

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Scorpions Sting Again; ICC Kibitzers Hopelessly Confused

Well, the Scorpions did it again!  They squeaked by the Chicago Blaze 2.5 – 1.5 Let’s see a very important ending on board 3 where Mehmed Pasalic (CHI) was battling Danny Rensch. A very dramatic battle...

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Week 8 Opening of the Week: Bhat-Stripunsky

In Week 8, we had an interesting old-school Semi-Slav Meran (think Larsen, Uhlmann, and other giants of 1960s Candidate Matches!) with lots of twists and turns. Quick Chess History Preamble Before...

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