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2006 Golden Knights Results

Today I received a resignation notice from David Drevinsky in the 2006 USCF Golden Knights Semifinal. This means that I will be advancing to the Finals of this prestigious event.  Below are the crosstables for my section in the 2006 Golden Knights Preliminary and Semifinal rounds. Perhaps at a future date I will post the games I have played.  

Starting Date: 28 October 2006               2006  GOLDEN KNIGHTS PRELIMINARY

Finishing Date:28 April 2009                                      Section  06N37

Steven Fairbairn 2087 = 1F 1 1F 1 0 4.5-1.5
Barry Walker 2039 =   x 1 1 1F 1 = 5-1
Dennis Bullock 1845 0F 0   x 0F 0 0F 0F 0-6
Philip DeAugustino 1711 0 0 1F   x 1F = 0 2.5-3.5
Gary Gallagher 1639 W W 1 W   x 1 W 2-4
Ernest Piunti 1610 0 0 1F = 0   x 0 1.5-4.5
Chris Torres 0000 1 = 1F 1 1F 1   x 5.5-.5

Start Date : 18 January 2008              You are entered in section 06Ns10 of our

End Date:   18 July 2010                              2006 Golden Knight Semifinals

1 Faraday Strock 2242  x 1 0 1 0 1 1 4-2
2 Bruce Reynolds 2189 0  x = = = 1 1 3 ½-2 ½
3 Chris Torres 2173 1 =  x 1 = 1 1 5-1
4 David Drevinsky 2142 0 = 0  x 0 1 1 2.5-3.5
5 Barry Walker 2108 1 = = 1  x 1 1 5-1
6 Norman Cotter 2036 0 0 0 0 0  x 0 0-6
7 John Oberg 1883 0 0 0 0 0 1 1-5

 

I would like to thank my opponents for the challenge and banter. Also worth mentioning is the tournament director, Alex Dunne, who takes his job very seriously and runs a fantastic tournament. For more information on playing correspondence chess and the Golden Knights tournament please visit: http://main.uschess.org/content/blogcategory/82/397/

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Chris Torres is a nationally renowned scholastic chess coach working in the San Francisco Bay Area. His classes have attracted players of strengths ranging from rank beginners to world champions. A chess professional since 1998, Chris is widely recognized as one of the main driving forces behind the explosion in popularity and sudden rise in quality of scholastic chess in California. Chris Torres served as the President of the Torres Chess and Music Academy from 2005-2020 and currently is recognized as a correspondence chess master with the United States Chess Federation. Since 1998 Chris Torres has taught 6 individual national champions as well as led multiple school teams to win national championship titles. In addition, Chris Torres has directed and taught at 10 different schools which have been California State Champions at chess. In 2011 and 2012, several former and current students of Chris Torres have been selected to represent the United States at the World Youth Chess Championships. Mr. Torres’ hobbies include playing classical guitar and getting his students to appear on the national top 100 chess rating lists.

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