My Chess History
My current rating, title and ambition
Tournament Highlights
Strong players I've beaten
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Current title: FM,
seeking SM or IM.
Current USCF rating: 2270,
seeking 2400.
Current FIDE rating: 2265.
2003 Eastern Open,
Washington, DC.
tied 4th place, just missing 1st in a last-round time scramble.
2002 Midland Open,
Kenilworth, England.
clear first place, scalping a GM.
1999 Eastern Open,
Washington, DC.
tied 4th place, scalping two IM's.
1996 Mass Open, Boston, MA.
tied 2nd place.
1995 US Amateur Team East, Somerset, NJ.
5.5/6 on second board, not good enough for a prize!
1994 Pan Ams, Providence, RI.
first board prize with 5.5/6, scalping two GM's.
1994 World Open,
Philadelphia, PA.
shared 1st place with 7.5/9, Under 2200 Section.
1992 Harvard Freshman Intramural Chess Tournament, Cambridge,
MA.
won in a very long elimination playoff over Jeremy Martin and Oliver Tai.
1992 US Junior Open,
Bradford, PA.
tied for 3rd place.
1992 World Open,
Philadelphia, PA.
tied for 3rd place with 7/9, Under 2000 Section.
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GM Mark Hebden
(Midland Open, 2002).
GM Gennady Zaitchik
(World Open, 2001).
IM Igor Khmelnitsky
(US Amateur Team East, 2001).
IM Rico Mascarinas
(Liberty Bell Open, 2001).
IM Eugene Meyer
(Eastern Open, 1998).
IM Ed Formanek
(Eastern Open, 1998).
GM Gennady Sagalchick
(Pan-Ams, 1994).
GM Ilya Gurevich
(Pan-Ams, 1994).
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2001 "Chess Braintwisters" by Burt Hochberg.
An unorthodox problem I composed was published in this book.
2000 Chess Life. CJA (Chess Journalists of America) Award.
"Best Analysis" prize in the "general" category went to my article
"A most memorable game," originally published in the March-April 2000
edition of Chess Horizons. This article is available elsewhere on this website.
1996 "M21" Masters of the 21st Century.
Chess teacher and WWW consultant. The organization was devoted to teaching
chess for talented children, since studies have shown this can be instrumental in
developing young minds in a variety of important ways.
1995-96 Chess Horizons (MA).
I annotated numerous games for this publication, which can be found
elsewhere on this website.
1995 Chess Horizons (MA).
In an article on college chess tournaments, I was named
"Undoubtedly the collegiate chess player of the year [1994]."
1994-96 H3 Publications, Cambridge, MA.
I served as an editorial assistant for the American Chess Journal and
for Patrick Wolff's book on Kasparov-Anand 1995, and acted as web consultant
for H3. I also wrote an article on Karpov, which was regrettably never
published, but which is now available on this website.
1991 American School of Chess.
A training ground for "top 50 list" players at the Marshall Chess Club.
We had lectures with the late GM Edmar Mednis and various training activities.
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