24 players participated in the December 19, 2024 Rapid Night Tournament. This was our first time using the time control of 10 minutes and 5 seconds delay. We had five rounds with one game per round, and used SWISS pairing. There was an intense game in round 4 with NM Ryan Young and NM Matt Fishbein playing on the delay. Congrats to Ryan (first place), Matt (second) and Elliott (third place), all of whom took home medals. 

Thanks to Adam and Jim being the on-site organizers for running such a great night. Play started at 6:30pm and finished around 9:20pm and there were several new faces.

Our next tournament will be a Fischer Random (Chess960) tournament with Rapid Time Controls in February 2025.

Google Spreadsheet with Rapid Night Results

22 players competed in the fourth quarter blitz tournament, six of whom had chess.com ratings over 2000, and two of whom were National Masters. The average rating was 1640, the highest to date in all our tournaments.

It was an extraordinary final result with 7 players finishing on 7 points and places being determined using modified median. In first place was NM Matthew Fishbein who won a medal and chess sweatshirt donated by Eduardo from Infinite Variations. In second place was newcomer Nagaraj Kaushik who won a medal and JP Chess Mug. Third place medal went to NM Ryan Young. The star performer award went to Andres Llerena with 7/10 who won a one hour chess lesson (donated by NM Ryan Young).

Thanks to Adam and Jim for being the on-site organizers for the tournament.

Google Spreadsheet with QB Results

The fourth and final round of the Slow Summer SWISS for 2024 has been completed. The final round saw Charlie and Sebastian battle it out for first place. Congrats to Charlie who took the overall first position with 100% (4 wins). Second place saw three players with 3 out of 4. More details in the charts below. A JP Mug and JP Medal goes to Charlie. Thanks to all that participated. Our Slow Winter SWISS will start mid November.

Google Spreadsheet with Slow SWISS Results

On August 11, 2024 we held our 2nd 5DC Tournament at the Civic Pavilion, City Hall Plaza, Boston. This event was financed with a grant from the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture and was the final and fifth event in the 5DC Series.

The tournament consisted of 5 rounds, one game a round, with time controls of 10|5. We had 75 players, 29 of which were in the rated sections and 46 in the unrated sections. Rated and unrated sections were split in to 'Under 1200' and '1200 and UP' subsections.

Frank DelBonis from Ocean State Chess was the tournament director and Jamie Williams was the Tournament Assistant

USCF Tables for Rated Sections

It was a hot sunny Sunday for the Jamaica Plain Open Street 2024 on July 21, 2024. We had our regular spot camped outside, with a tent this year, of J.P. Licks. We had 12 tables set up, 8 dedicated to the tournaments, 2 for casual chess and 2 for the Boston Creative Chess Club.

After an early morning set up, we kicked off the morning blitz tournaments a little late due to some no shows. In group A, NM Matt Fishbein took first place, Kevin came in second after 1.5-0.5 result in the final round against Ryan. Ryan took third place. In Group B, newcomers Karanbir and Kaleem took first and second, while JP regular, Dee, was placed third. Full details below for Group A.

The afternoon tournaments kicked off at 2:00pm with an additional titled player in Group A. The newcomer, candidate master Jospeh St Pierre, took first place. NM Matt Fishbein took second and there was a joint third between Ryan and Zach. In Group B, JP Chess regular James won, second was Tal and third went to Xavier.

Thanks go to our donors of prizes which included Kendall Dental Square, Monumental Market, On-Centre, The BYTE Shop, J.P. Licks, Boing Toy Shop and Papercut Bookstore. The Stealth Chess set from Boing Toy Shop was awarded to JP Chess regular Ryan so we hope to see some games with the set one Thursday evening.

In between the tournaments there was plenty of casual chess with people stopping by for a game or two. Thanks to Adam and James who helped with the setting up, administration during the day and packing up at the end.

JP chess was at the Roxbury Open Streets event on Saturday June 22 from 10:00am-4:00pm. It was a quiet start to the day but all tables were filled on occasion during the afternoon. Being our first year there we set up just six chess sets. We encountered a wide range of chess levels. While we taught the moves to some people, some local players also taught us a lesson or two! Luckily the rain held off to around 4pm.

We held our second Rapid Night tournament of 2024 on June 13th with 10 players in Group A and 12 players in Group B. Average chess.com ratings were 1835 for Group A despite missing NM Ryan Young. For Group B the average rating was 1353. It seems that the standard of chess continues to get higher and the tournaments tougher.

In Group A, Sam took first place after winning against Joe in the final round. Joe was placed second. Sebastian came third based on modified median.

In Group B, Xavier took first place beating J.P. Chess new comer Sofia. Sofia took second place. River was placed third based on modified median after beating the March 2024 Group B winner, Alexander in the final round.

Thanks to organizers Adam and Jamie for adminstering the tournament. 

Google Spreadsheet with Rapid Night Results

On May 16, 2024 we held our second quarterly blitz of 2024 with 24 players participating. The three 2000's took the top three spots. NM Ryan Young took first place (and a chess.com mug) with 10/10, followed by Sam (awarded a J.P. Chess mug) with 8/10 and then Zach with 7/10. The JP chess Star performer was Xavier finishing with 5/10. A lesson was awarded to Alex Myers with 4/10 given Xavier had previously won a lesson. There was some strange pairings in the final rounds with the SWIPS software and we may look to switch up the system at the next tournament.

Google Spreadsheet with QB Results

A few JP Chess players participated in the 5th Brookline Blitz Chess tournament on May 4, 2024 and a couple of them, Adam and Daniel, took home prizes. Congrats to both of them. Daniel kindly awarded his trophy to a young player who had the same points as himself. A non JP Chess player, GM Daniel Naroditsky, took first place in the Open section (see photo below). 

USCF Cross Tables

Our slow chess tournament for the 2023 winter has now been completed after four rounds. The tournament started November 1, 2023 and finished March 30, 2024, with approximately one game each month. There were some interesting and surprising results. Congratulations go to Sebastian who took first place with 3.5/4. To the victor goes a JP Chess Mug. Also congratulations to Alex for second place and, Charlie and Carlos who drew for third place. Our next slow chess tournament will be the Slow Summer SWISS which starts on June 1, 2024.

Google Spreadsheet with Slow SWISS Results

On March 14, 2024 we held our first Rapid Night Tournament. We split the 27 entrants in to two groups based on estimated rating and each group played a four round SWISS tournament using time controls 10|5. 

NM Ryan Young won in Group A with 4/4 and Alexander won in Group B with 3.5/4. Liu came second in Group B with also 3.5/4 but positions were given using the modified median.

Google Spreadsheet with Rapid Night Results

Our first tournament of 2024 was our Quarterly Blitz held on February 15, 2024 and had 28 entrants. It was the toughest tournament to date with three titled players, being two National Masters and a Womens FIDE master. The three titled players took first, second and third place. NM Ryan Young was first, NM Matt Fishbein was second and WFM Roza Eynula was third.

Google Spreadsheet with QB Results