Chess: Luck of the Irish

Friend of the blog Anthony Ragan is in this month's The Check is in the Mail with a Walter E. Muir correspondence chess event win. Anthony finished 4.5-1.5 to win Muir 07W35.

Congratulations!

Chess: Another Muir Win

YaHoo!

I'll post the games as soon as I have had a chance to go back through them. My opponents in this event were accomplished and tough. All had multiple Muir and other USCF event titles. Of the correspondence events I have taken part in over the past year (I started back last January) the Muir events have been the most enjoyable.

Events Update

I've won the first USCF Walter E. Muir E-Quad I have entered with a score of 6-0. This is my first event win outside of ICC in correspondence chess. FM Alex Dunne emailed me this certificate:



There are still other games to go. Once they are finished the participants will be able to publish them. FM Dunne sent the following message along with the certificate:

Hi, Steven !
Congratulations on winning first place in the 2007 Walter Muir section 07W27. Your score of 6-0 was an excellent one. To commemorate your win of this webserver tournament, a certificate is attached. We hope you have enjoyed your games. If there were any games you think of exceptional quality, please send them for possible publication to “The Check Is in the Mail” at chesskinetics@stny.rr.com
Pax, Alex Dunne
USCF CC Director

USCF/WS/07WM27						TD Dunne, Alex
Unrated						1	1	2	2	3	3	4	4	Score	SB	R	Place
1	USA	514360		Owens, Steve				1	1	1	1	1	1	6	4	0	1
2	USA	514306		Evans, William		0	0			.	.	1	1	2	0	2	2
3	USA	514319		Kohler, Dennis		0	0	.	.			.	.	0	0	4	3
4	USA	514440		Beeman, Brett		0	0	0	0	.	.			0	0	2	4

Latest results from 8/21/2007 are displayed in red.




Over at ICCF, I have one game still going in WS/O/109. Mrs. Karola Kaspschak has nine reflection days left in this time control and has not moved since 28 July 2007. I am White in a Slav and am a complete Rook up after White's twenty-second move. I anticipate four points in this event which assures a top four finish and retains faint hopes for an event win, though Pötz has an advantage of a win in our game and I drew with Kýhos.

WS/O/109						TD Millstone, Michael
Rated						1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Score	SB	R	Place
1	AUT	10588		Pötz, Florian	1800P		½	1	.	1	.	1	3.5	6	2	1
2	CZE	130711		Kýhos, Alois	1701	½		½	.	1	.	1D	3	4.75	2	2
3	USA	514360		Owens, Steve	1800P	0	½		½	1	.	1D	3	4	1	3
4	POL	421419		Deren, Marcin	2019F	.	.	½		½	.	1D	2	2.25	3	4
5	USA	514348		Thomas, Gerald K	1800P	0	0	0	½		.	1	1.5	1	1	5
6	GER	85582		Kaspschak, Mrs. Karola	1800P	.	.	.	.	.		1D	1	0	5	6
7	ITA	241236		Barzaghi, Andy	1800P	0	0D	0D	0D	0	0D		0	0	0	7

X^D = result by default
X^F = FIDE Elo
X^P = provisional
Latest results from 8/19/2007 are displayed in red.




WS/O/120 and WS/O/138 have had no notable changes since the last update.




I've started a new event on ICC, 2007Quad08.

2007Quad.08 Rating 1 2 3 4
The7thGuest 2065 X X
sdo1 1956 X X
Boromir 1812 X X
Molton 1800 X X