N.C.C.C.
Dragon News
(June
2008)
Meetings
every Thursday, 6:30 pm. @ Bearno’s Pizza
www.geocities.com/nelsoncountychessclub
May Meetings Our May
meetings found the Nick Folino family visiting from E-Town! Along with Nick and Dominic we had Zane and
Elijah Rosenbaum, Lucas, Preston, Zutterman, Frank, Will H., Martin, Harold,
Steff, Ned, Weldin, Starkey, Doc, and Stan.
Treasury Notes We have $303 in our treasury.
Ladder Standings a/o 6/1/08 1 B Lucas, 2 M Abramovich, 3 R Coulter, 4
R McKinney, 5 N Folino, 6 S Mullins, 7 A Preston, 8 D Martin, 9 W Hahn, 10 S
Clayton, 11 S Starkey, 12 N Rosenbaum, 13 H Brussell, 14 L Nelson, 15 D
McCubbins, 16 R Zutterman, 17 S Parsons, 18 F Douglas, 19 R Williams, 20 J
Martek, 21 W Rosenbaum, 22 B Woodring, 13 D Folino.
Club Shirts and Hats Get with Steff or Preston for your club shirts or hats with our
logo.
Beat the Man Results for May Nick’s first
visit to NCCC presented him the chance to ‘knock-off’ Weldin in the monthly
Simul. Nick did just that! Jerry had seven wins, one loss and no draws.
See www.kcachess.org Keep up with
this site to know about the upcoming chess tournaments in our state, like the
KY OPEN, the Bluegrass State Games, as well as smaller venues nearby.
Words from our Director Steff NCCC meetings have been rockin' !!! New ladder tournament participants have
added a spark to the ladder and some of the games leave me asking myself,
"am I really smarter than a 5th grader?" We have also had several cheerleaders and spectators come out and
support their family chessnuts. It was
good to have Cara, Nick, Debbie, Dominic, Rebecca F., Tim, and Rebecca H. with
us in May. I was privileged this month to meet Debbie Folino (Nick's wife) and
she has been gracious enough to share the secrets of her new opening called The
Mastercard Opening. Its simplistic, well thought
out strategy adds ruthlessness to her opening game. It seems to be quite effective against Nick, especially when
combined with his Budweiser endgame strategy.
So a special thanks goes out to my new chess mentor, Debbie Folino. On a more serious note, several of our
members and our friends from the Elizabethtown Chess Club will be heading to
the Kentucky Open next weekend. Good luck folks!
Make us proud!!!! Check w/ Stan for details. Also of interest, is the Bluegrass
State youth tournament this fall, contact Andrew Preston, Scott Starkey, or
Stephanie Clayton. NCCC will Games on
July 17 in Louisville. You may get instructions
for how to sign up by going to the Kentucky Bluegrass State Games website and
searching for the chess page. If you would like to carpool or caravan to the
Bluegrass State Games, contact Scott Starkey.
On the horizon...... NCCC will be hosting a rated tournament in the future with
hopes if hosting regular monthly rated tournaments. Anyone wishing to help with
the planning or implementation of a rated tournament, contact Scott Starkey.
Stan has offered to be our USCF Tournament Director and Johnny Owens and Jerry
"The Man" Weldin have offered to help as well. There is a lot of
interest, but we need to set dates.
Please contact us if you plan to join USCF (or if you are already a member)
and want to have a rated tourney in Bardstown this summer. There will be a
brief planning meeting at Bearno's on Thursday June 12 (6:45) and a date will
be set for the first tournament.
In addition to the adults, we have several youngsters in the community who have
expressed interest in participating in a tournament so let's support
them!!! Anyone wishing to help plan and
host a community cover
the cost of the awards, snacks, etc...but we need adults to set up, monitor
games, etc...
Thanks to all who have been attending club events these past few months. It's a
blast!!! I encourage all members to attend the weekly meetings for a few
laughs....oh, and some chess.
Where's Loader????? He's all about fun!!!!