World Open Video Up!

Macauley Peterson's World Open Video is now available! In it, he talks with GMs Najer, Negi, and Moiseenko after the tournament's end. View it here.

Sergey Erenburg: Champion of the Future

Sergey Erenburg successfully defended his title as the New Jersey Futurity Champion. He finished with an outstanding score of 7.5/9.0, a full point ahead of GM Leonid Yudasin, who finished in second. Unfortunately, NM Mackenzie Molner—the favorite in the IM norm race—fell a half point short during his final three rounds. In last week’s newsletter, we had projected that Molner needed 1.5/3.0 in his last three rounds to score a norm, but instead he finished ever so close with two draws and a loss. Regardless, congratulations to Molner on a fantastic run!


Pictured: Mackenize Molner

KibBlitzing with IM Dean Ippolito

This week we KibBlitzed with IM Dean Ippolito, who is currently ranked #10 on the Grand Prix charts. Dean is one of the most active chessplayers in New Jersey—in fact, he crammed 36 rated games into 20 days by playing in the World Open, the New Jersey Futurity, and many other tournaments! Dean called this his “experiment”, which yielded mixed results. Find out why Dean thinks he could have won a few games in the ARVO tournament of 1938 by reading the KibBlitz.

Chess.FM Updates

WCL Newsletter Editor NM Jonathan Hilton came on the Dan Heisman Radio Show last Thursday at 9:00 P.M. server time to talk about his recent chess journalism exploits, including his work with WCL. You can listen to a replay of the full interview here.

In other Chess.FM news, Part 6 of GM Ronen Har-Zvi's Petroff series is now available to WCL members! Click this link to catch the action.