On Thursday, September 29th the Schenectady club held its annual Handicap Blitz tournament. The “usual suspects” showed up for the most part, twelve in all. That is one more than came out for the Blitz Championship event held September 15th . We did not have Deepak Aaron and Bobby Rotter in the field, but it was pretty strong nonetheless with Ashok Aaron (the Club Blitz Champion), Patrick Chi (the Club Champion), Jon Leisner, John Phillips, Peter Henner and the fast rising Zack Calderone all playing.
The handicap was time distributed by rating. If the rating difference was less than 200 points both side had five minutes each. Up to 400 rating points difference the time was four minutes to six minutes with higher rated having the lesser amount of time, and so forth. The greatest time imbalance was two minutes to eight minutes. That is a very hard task for the higher rated player, although Chi and Aaron seemed to handle it very well.
The results were:
1 - Patrick Chi 9 ½ - 1 ½; losing only to Matt Clough and drawing with Jon Leisner.
2 - Ashok Aaron 9 - 2; losing only to Bill Little and drawing with Clough and Chi
3&4 - Jon Leisner and Zack Calderone tied at 7 - 4 and Zack won the head-to-head encounter.
5 - Peter Henner 6 - 5
6&7 Bill Little and Cory Northrup 5 - 6 and Cory won the head-to-head encounter.
8 - Herman Calderone 4 ½ - 6 ½
9&10 - R. Ellsworth and John Phillips 4 - 7 and Ellsworth won the head-to-head encounter.
11 - Matt Clough 3½ - 7½ notably winning from Patrick Chi and drawing with Ashok Aaron, the top two finishers.
12 - Mike Laccetti 1 ½ - 9 ½
Once again John Barnes did the director’s job without a hitch and the well run event was wrapped up before 11:00pm. Good Job John!
Bill Townsend was in attendance, and he managed - I don’t know how - to record a game or two from this very fast play event. Look for the games in one of Bill’s future columns in the Schenectady Gazette.
More soon.
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