By the chess instructor Jonathan Whitcomb
Yesterday we finished the Harman Chess Club championship tournament, with seven players participating enough to keep on the records to the end of this all-summer competition (it began on June 13, 2018). Since we had no rules about attendance, however, nobody was able to play all possible games in this double round robin tournament; people do have other things than chess games in their lives, after all, and we could not get everybody paired with every other competitor.
This was a free tournament, open to all senior citizens who play chess in this area of Utah. The Harman Senior Center is in West Valley City, Utah, and the chess club meets on Wednesdays from about 12:15 p.m. until the building closes at 3:00 p.m.
The top three winners were:
- First: Jonathan Whitcomb, 8½-1½ (7 wins, 3 draws, no loses)
- Second: Grant Hodson, 7-2 (6 wins, 2 draws, 1 loss)
- Third: Alan Bradbury, 4-5 (3 wins, 2 draws, 4 loses)
This was a double round robin chess tournament, and trophies will probably be provided to the top three finishers. Here is the cross table, ordered according to positive scores of the seven players:
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Chess Tournament in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah
The event was organized by the local chess tutor Alexander Gustafsson and the Youth-Services librarian Laura Renshaw, with publicity help from the author Jonathan Whitcomb. . . . October 29, 2016 [a free chess tournament for children]
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I’ll be happy to introduce you to chess lessons, and the first session is free. If you choose to continue, the lessons are only $25 per hour-long session, which is less than most chess tutors charge for face-to-face instruction.
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Harman Chess Club Championship of 2018
This double round robin chess tournament was held at the Harman Senior Center in West Valley, Utah, from June 13th through September 12th of 2018, with fourteen days of tournament play. I was delighted and challenged in my participation. I don’t recall any game that was easy for me. [First place: Jonathan Whitcomb]
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Dragon or Big Bird in Sandy and Draper, Utah
This is unrelated to the chess opening “dragon-Sicilian,” although the researcher/investigative-reporter does play that chess opening.
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I (Jonathan Whitcomb) am both a tutor and an author of chess, having written the book Beat That Kid in Chess in 2015. I’m active in both the Harman Senior Center chess club and the Sandy Senior Center chess club . . .
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Lessons From a Tournament Chess Game
The following game I [Jonathan Whitcomb] played on June 14th against Grant Hodson, the tournament leader in the Harman Chess Club Championship (2017) in West Valley, Utah.
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