Schenectady A Wins the CDCL

Here is some fresh news. The Schenectady A team won their match with Albany by the score 3-1.

The score breaks down as follows with the Schenectady players listed first:

On board one Deepak Aaron with the White pieces won from Matt Katrein in an Alekhine's Defence, 31 moves.

On board two Philip Sells with the Black pieces held Peter Michelman to a draw. It was the last game to finish although it only went 32 moves. The opening was a Catalan. These two players are known for using all the time on their clocks and they did it again tonight. For them the time pressure was not serious. They had something like four minutes each at the end.

One board three, with White, Patrick Chi won a Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower variation from Dean Howard. I misplaced the game score so I can't give you the number of moves.

On board four Bobby Rotter defending the Black side of the Bird's Opening drew with Jon Leisner in 28 moves.

That is two wins and two draws, or 3-1 overall.

Albany still has Saratoga A to play. That match will not make a difference regards the title. Saratoga has drawn two matches and Albany has lost one match, while Schenectady A after finishing their schedule tonight gave up only a single draw to Saratoga A last week.

In the match last week with Saratoga A the youth squad, Aaron and Chi, were only able to score

0.5 - 1.5. This week with the title one the line, they came through in great style scoring 2-0. It has been some years since Schenectady A held the CDCL title. This was an excellent effort by the entire team. Congratulations!

The game scores will be up on the blog in the next couple of days.