Congratulations to Constantine Khayutin for winning the Summer Series 2010. Agabekian put up a big fight but was unable to stop his rise to the summit.

Please click on the following link to see the final results.

Summer Series 2010: Results and Standings

Our next weekend swiss is the Hamilton Summer Open 2010. To see a poster of Hamilton's next big chess event please click on the following link:

Hamilton Summer Open 2010

Titled players who contact us by August 1 will receive a major discount. Other players who pre regiser by email by Aug 20 will receive 5 dollars off their entry fee. To contact us about pre registration or other questions please email us at:

chesshamilton@gmail.com

On Saturday June 26 at 4:00pm there will be a chess for charity event in the food court of Jackson Square. Some of the proceeds will go towards helping CityKids. The tournament will have time controls of 15 minutes each and will be open to everyone. Entry fee is $10 before June 19, and $15 on tournament day.

Prizes include gift certificates and trophies.

To see the detailed poster of this event please click on the following link.

Chess For Charity

For further details about this event please contact Israel Crooks at israel_crooks@cogeco.ca

Just a reminder that our next Friday Series, Summer Series 2010 begins tonight. It will be a CFC rated event over the next five weeks. Registration for this event will be at the club at 7pm.

Those who wish to enter on the second round, not a problem.

It is with regret that I inform the chess community that Brian Fortney has passed away. Personally I consider him a friend and a really nice guy.

His generosity is also something I experienced first hand when one year I was unexpectedly stuck in North Bay and he gave me a ride back to Hamilton.

He wasn’t a bad chess player either. In our last Club Championship he scored 5 points (out of 8) and won the u1900 prize.

Here is the memorandum from the Hamilton Spectator:

FORTNEY, Brian Suddenly at the Henderson Hospital on May 8, 2010 at the age of 67 years. Survived by his loving wife of 39 years Helen. Son of Earl and the late LaVerne Fortney. Cherished brother of Pat Fortney and Val (Ron) Castello. Son-in-law of Rose and the late Gord Booker. Brother-in-law of Gord (Marianne) Booker, Darlene Watson and Lorraine Booker. Dear friend of Bob Watson. Uncle of Ron, Rob, Jason, Jamie, Shawn, Richie, Mark, Richard, Ryan and Shaun. Brian will be dearly missed by his extended family and many friends. Visitation will be held at CRESMOUNT FUNERAL HOME, 322 Fennell Avenue East on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A Funeral Service will be held in the chapel of the funeral home on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 1 p.m. Interment to follow at Mount Hamilton Cemetery. Online tributes can be made at www.cresmountfennellchapel.com

Congratulations to Alex Friedman for winning the Victoria Series! Since no one entered the voluntary prize fund no one won any money, but I encourage everyone to shake Alex hand and tell him hes a good chess player.

To see the final results and standings please visit:

Victoria Series 2010: Results and Standings

And I'd like to remind everyone to please submit your games for coach's corner! Mike needs time to analyze them.

Our Next Friday chess series begings this Friday April 30. Please remember if you would like to play in this tournament registration begins at 7pm. Hope to see you all there!

Just a reminder that on April 23 we will be going over member's games on the demo board.

If you would like to see you game analyzed please submit them to chesshamilton@gmail.com or give them to Mikhail this Friday.

Bobby G has once again made his prescence felt in Hamilton chess by winning our latest Friday series. After winning the tournament he said, "Too bad I didn't enter the voluntary prize fund".

1 ....Robert Gillanders.........4.0
2 ....Mikhail Egorov ............3.5
3 ....Raymond Singh ..........3.0
4 ....Aaron Both .................3.0
5 ....Laurence Crichton .......3.0
6 ....Konstantin Agabekian .2.5
7 ....Mike Pejovic ...............2.5
8 ....Rf Puschke ................2.5
9 ....Damir Baizhiyenov ......2.5
10 ...Alexander Friedman ...2.0
11 ...Garvin Nunes .............2.0
12 ...Dennis Perger ............2.0
13 ...Bogdan Bobin ............2.0
14 ...Constantine Khayutin ..1.5
15 ...William J Mollison .......1.5
16 ...Josh Perl....................1.0
17 ...Carlos Zubieta ...........0.5

I encourage everyone to start organizing their car pools for the upcoming events in April.

In particular we need rides for

Toronto Open at Hart House Chess Club on April 2, 3 and 4

and

Niagara Falls Open on April 10 and 11

Please email us at chesshamilton@gmail.com if you can offer or need a ride during these events