OH 2011

[Alex_Moiseyev]

Hope this year we have 2 divisions

[Jason Solan]

Wish I could've made it. Hopefully next year.

Anyone know if Joe Moore made it out?

[Danny_Alvarez]

what are the results?
has it finished yet ?

cheers to all
Danny

[rich beckwith]

Thanks, John, for the good update. Some additional thoughts: The placements above reflect honor-point tie-breaks.

For the second year in a row, Alex had a close call with retaining the state title. In this tournament, Alex trailed by as many as 4 points after the third round, but came back strongly to win. Congrats to Alex for winning his 9th straight Ohio title!

Donations were received by Joe LoConti ($385), Richard Beckwith (playing room), and Alan Millhone ($10). Thanks also go to the Hollidays and Joe LoConti for providing cookies to the players.

[Palomino]

Congratulations to Alex and everyone!

Is interesting to see that Alex's friend Mark, who I met in Cleveland, entered and finished a very respectable (tied for) 4th place.

Congrats to Alex for winning his 9th straight Ohio title!

Rich, how many times have you finisher second?

"Pal"

[Alex_Moiseyev]

For the second year in a row, Alex had a close call with retaining the state title. In this tournament, Alex trailed by as many as 4 points after the third round, but came back strongly to win. .

Yes, it was very close call this time. After 3rd round I had 7 points and Richard had 11 points and this forced me to win all 6 games before we came to last round. Perhaps Richard got a little bit nervious by getting a real chance to win a title and this had a bad influence on his play in the 4th round when we met.

Good tournament and good games. I am still recovering from my world title match with Miki Borghetti and OH State tournament was a part of this recovery. Yea-a-a ... I lost a very 1st game in this tournament to Gary Schultz, old Microsoft Zone player. It was a good game and "good loss" - not just a blunder. I miscalculated things and was graciously punished by my worthy opponent. I am sure this makes Gary very proudly and he will remember this OH 2011.

Many thanks to all organisers, sponsors and cookie makers of this event and personally to Richard Beckwith being a referee and sponsor of this event.

I also was very glad to see my friend Mark Sokolovsky showup at this tournament and I hope it's not a last time - he will be very good addition to our fraternity !

Respectfully,

Alex Moseyev

[Chexhero]

Congrats Alex on your win. I did not finsh as well as I did in PA, but I actually noticed a slight improvement in my playing, so I came out feeling good about my performance. And I would like to pronounce your friend Mark with the title of the most fierced checker player ever lol. Does anyone know what happened to ou chess friend? I did not see him after the first day.

[rich beckwith]

Rich, how many times have you finisher second?

Pal, I checked, and found two 2nd-place finishes for me in Ohio tournament -- this year, and last year (where I needed to win last game to tie Alex, but game with John Acker was a clear draw). In 2009, I also had Tied-2nd prize money, but was lower on honor points. More impressive is Alex's nine straight 1st-place finishes, and Louis Cowie's 31 state titles (including some ties), a streak which, so far, has stopped when Alex moved to Ohio. I'm curious how many 2nd-place finishes Louis must have had!

[Palomino]

Hi Rich,

I would have bet you had more than two but I guess I wasn't thinking about how many 2nd place finishes Louis Cowie has racked up. I guess the average Buckeye player has to feel pretty good about a 4th place finish with Alex, Louie and yourself being the compition.

More impressive is... Louis Cowie's 31 state titles

WOW, Now that is impressive!

Alex only has to win 22 more time to tie that record. He'll be pretty long in the tooth by then but good luck to him.