This year’s Queen City Open was held at the Comfort Inn in Manchester, NH. The turnout was quite small, only 11 players in the Open Section. I remember When I first started playing chess back in 1999, there were always 2 or 3 GMs in the Open section slugging it out. I distinctly remember this […]

I recently played in the Liberty Bell Open which was held over Martin Luther King Weekend in Philadelphia. IM David Vigorito and I headed down Thursday afternoon to Philly, in what was an uneventful drive down. Unfortunately, we had booked the room a little too late and when we made the reservation they said they […]