Hey all, I’ve been on a little hiatus from blogging the last couple of weeks. For good or for worse, I’ve started playing a lot of poker again, and it’s been taking up a lot of my time. Anyhow, my team didn’t travel down to the Amateur Team East last weekend because a few of […]

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 […]

IM David Vigorito has proved once again that he is one of the strongest players in New England with a convincing 8/9 score at the Boylston Chess Club Championship. Charles Rirodan finished 2nd with a very respectable 6/9 after he and Vigorito drew in the last round.
Dave showed me his 8th round game against FM […]

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I’ve been following the Fide Invitational Tournament in Chicago the past few days and have been highly impressed with one of the player’s preparation. The author of this book, David Vigorito, is supposedly well known as an opening theoretician. Seeing the positions he […]

Back on Labor Day weekend I tied for 1st with IM Igor Foygel at the 67th New England Open which was held it my hometown, Manchester, NH. This is my first New England Title, which meant a lot to me. I have won the New Hampshire title 4 times, but usually there are only a […]