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STATE CHAMPS! 2008.
Please join me in congradulating
the Newport chess kids,
Whom i direct on
Mondays and Wednesdays;
For winning
The NEW JERSEY STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.
1st place, second grade.
Sunday November 23rd, 2008.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Hoboken Kids
Are
2008
New Jersey
State Chess Champions;
With
over 300 participants, directed by the New Jersey State
Chess Federation, and sanctioned by the United States Chess Federation,
the Hoboken Chess kids went to the New Jersey 2008 state chess
championship, and again were successful.
Anangh
Kulkarni won a first grade 3rd place championship trophy.
Max
Tamarkin won the 6th grade 1st place Championship trophy.
However
the star of the day was Garrett Chu.
Garrett
went an unprecedented 5-0 to win the overall tournament. Garrett was awarded title of
New Jersey 2008 State Chess champion,
Elementary division.
Vrutik Thakkar finished with a respectful 2 wins and a draw
for 2.5 points.
The Hoboken Chess kids have won
at this event for the past eight years.
Please
join me in congratulating these children on this great accomplishment.
BOBBY FISCHER.
November 18th,
2007
State Champs.
With over 300 children from around the state of New Jersey, the Hoboken Chess kids won TWO State championships
and finished fourth in another one!
Hoboken Now has the title’s of;
NJSCF State Champions
First grade First Place.
AND
NJSCF State Champions
Sixth
grade First Place.
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Peter
Croce is a proven Chess instructor.
He has over 3000 students.
His students have won;
- Over 100 individual Chess championship trophies
- Over 45 team championship trophies.
- 5 Elementary divisional New Jersey
State championships
- 3 primary divisional New Jersey
State championships
- 5 individual State championships
1 high school individual New Jersey State championship
Chess School
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The Hoboken Chess Champions.
Saturday, May 19th , 2007, a
huge Chess tournament in Jersey City took place
with over 100 children throughout the State of
New Jersey participating.
Sponsored by the Boys & Girls Club of Hudson
County and NJ after 3,
Hoboken was represented
by 12 children. And our results were incredible.
Hoboken Championed
In All 3 sections.
The Hoboken Chess
Champions.
Ben Lenz.(8th grade) 4-0. 7th -9th grade 1st Place
Co-Champion.
Max Tamarkin(5th grade) 4-0. 4th- 6th grade
1st Place Champion.
Joslyn Feola (3rd grade) 4-0. K-3rd grade
1st Place Co-Champion.
Brecon Hession (k)
4-0. K-3rd grade
1st Place Co-Champion.
Ian Russell (2nd grade) 3
½ - 0. Ian played the last round Board 1 for the Title and drew his game.
Ian Finished in 3rd place,
without losing a single game.
The combined
record was 30 Wins- 1 draw - 6 loses.
Please join me
in congratulations on this GREAT accomplishment.
Lenz, Ben
4-0 Hoboken
Charter.
Tamarkin, Max
4-0 Elysian
Charter.
Feola, Josln
4-0 Wallace.
Hession, Brecon
4-0 Mustard Seed.
Russell, Ian
3.5- 0 Mustard Seed.
Bravo,Aaron
3-1 Mustard Seed.
Matos, Emanuel
3-1 Demarest School
Gilbert, Ethan
2.5 – 1 Elysian Charter
Zatac, Aidan
2-2 Stevens Co-op.
Miles, Jalen 1-1 Brandt School.
Miles, I no-score Brandt
School. Feola, N no-score Wallace School.
- Two week Chess Clinic.
- Monday – Thursday.
- Beginers. / Advanced lessons.
Contact the Hoboken
Chess Club on the web;
hobokenchess
hobokenchess@yahoo.com
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| Brendan Klemm-Smith Champion........ 1-2nd grades |
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Hudson County Chess Association, Inc.
Chess Summer program registration.
50% off to Hoboken Chess Academy members.
Limited time offer (APRIL)
CLICK HERE
Friday  NIGHTS
CHESS/ PIZZA PARTY.
We will be having our Friday KNIGHTS
Pizza party
Friday
6 PM to 7 PM
Paul Morphy plays Chess in Hoboken!
And The Hoboken residents he played, Actually WON.
Something tells me,
Hoboken, Home of the champions!
Is historic!
The link of the game is ;
Pete, I was just looking up chess games online and I found a game where Paul Morphy played in Hoboken NJ!!!
"On Sunday, December 6, Morphy visited Eugene Cook in Hoboken,
New Jersey, accompanied by Fredrick Perrin,
W. J. A. Fuller
and D. W. Fiske. While there, the three visitors played a consultation
game against Morphy, which
they won. Cook, a brilliant problemist,
was an invalid confined to his house most of the time. When
the First American
Chess Congress was published, the frontispeice
was a chess problem composed by Cook and "Dedicated
with the Highest
Esteem and Admiration to Paul Morphy, the
Only." -- Lawson "
Friday KNIGHTS CHESS / Pizza Party CLICK HERE!
Upcoming
Chess tournaments!
We will be going to the
Sparta Chess tournament,
March 17th.
Friday KNIGHTS CHESS/ PIZZA PARTY.
See upcoming events!
5th grade,
4th place
State Champs
2006
The Team (pictured above) of Max Tamarkin (left), Sean Evers (center) and Ethan Gilbert (right) Claimed
a trophy at the 2006 New Jersey State Chess championships.
The three players were in a fifth place tie with a number of teams going into the last (5th) and final round. (top five schools win team trophies)
They All came out victorious, winning there games to
actually move ahead of the fourth place team in the process.
Congradulations!
The Hoboken Chess Kids
DID IT AGAIN!
Ivy League Chess Champions 2006
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Hobokenc Chess Champions. 2006
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Back Row;
Left to Right; Bonnie Waitzkin, Coach Peter Croce.
Front Row;
Nico Oberholtzer, Hoboken Charter School., R.J. Long Russel, Garret Chu, Hoboken Catholic. Sean Evers,
And Jonah Henkle, Hoboken Charter School.
Garret Chu , 4th grade,
Won The over all Championship, winning All his Games.
Sean Evers 4th grade, placed third, losing only once.
Not Picture , Evan Luckman, Kindergardeer From Stevens Cooperative school.
The Children were in grades Kindergarten all the way up to to 8th Grade!
Sign-ups for
Chess Camps
are now taking Place.
Summer Break.
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Chess Review Online
The Newsletter of the United States Chess Federation |
| June 15, 2005 |
Volume 2 • Issue 24 | | |
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Front Page
National News:
Attention: USCF Voting Members
US Chess Federation Names Bill Hall as Executive
Director
World News:
Anand wins Ciudad de Leon
Chess In the Media: Chess Stories Across the USA and Around the World
Index to Newsletters |
Chess In the Media
In the past decade, chess has seen a major resurgence in popularity for America's youth. This trend is readily evident
in Hoboken, where the five-year-old Hoboken Chess Club has evolved into one of the state's premier chess programs.
In an effort to support this movement, the city dedicated three concrete chess tables Wednesday and held a Chess Festival
at Church Square Park. The new tables have been dedicated to Hoboken's own coach and teaching guru, Peter Croce, who founded
the Hoboken Chess Club.
"Chess is gymnastics for the mind," said Croce Wednesday at the dedication. He added that in the past five years, he has
taught over 1,000 children how to play chess, and his students have competed in state chess championships for the past four.
Davor Kolmjenovic, born 60 years ago in Zagreb (Croatia), insists he has beaten the world's number two player Veselin Topalov,
but he still eats with his hands. Kolmjenovic, a grandmaster, makes a living of sorts out of playing chess, but he keeps left-over
bread wrapped in a napkin. He takes night trains, sometimes hiding in the toilet; sleeps wherever he can, taking sustenance
from little fruit packets he buys in food stores.
He makes between €300 and €900 a month, and participates in around 50 chess contests a year, with prizes that
range from €20 to €1,500 for the winner. This "fortune" is shared between the 100 or more grandmasters who currently
play the chess circuit in Spain. Most of them are Russians, Argentines, Cubans, Serbs, Croats, and from various former states
of the Soviet Union.
All of them are ranked among the world's top 300 players, in a sport which requires at least four hours daily practice.
Chess is a mental activity that also demands "soul and spirit, like playing an instrument," according to Chilean Daniel Barrķa.
Barrķa plays no instrument. He's married and has a child. He barely gets by. Barrķa says that this fight for survival at minor
tournaments that give small cash prizes but no points to help climb the international ranking is "a cesspit."
Venturing into uncharted territory has been part of Susan Polgar's repertoire since she was 4. That's what brings her to
Salt Lake City tonight. As a guest at a chess festival named in her honor, the grandmaster will arrive with an agenda to promote
the game, especially for young children and girls.
"I want more exposure for the game. Chess needs somebody out there to speak out on behalf of chess," Polgar says.
The Hungarian native, now a U.S. citizen, will be at the Susan Polgar Chess Festival - which runs through Sunday in various
locations in Salt Lake City.
Do you know of an interesting, humorous, or unique chess story published online? E-mail us at newsletter@uschess.org. |
Friday;October 7th
Pizza party 6-7 Pm
Tournament 7:30Pn to 9:30 PM
Outside Tournament; view the schedule.
After School Chess Academy
Chess Tournaments.
The Hoboken Chess Club
will be participating as a group
See tournament page;
Kings and queens of the park
New chess tables open in Church Square Park
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In an effort
to support this movement, the city dedicated three concrete chess tables Wednesday and held a Chess Festival at Church Square
Park. The new tables have been dedicated to Hoboken's own coach and teaching guru, Peter Croce, who founded the Hoboken Chess
Club.
"Chess is gymnastics for the mind," said Croce Wednesday at the dedication. He added
that in the past five years, he has taught over 1,000 children how to play chess, and his students have competed in state
chess championships for the past four.
He added that the game improves critical thinking skills and concentration.
He also noted that interest in the game is growing dramatically. In the last year, the United States Chess Federation records
show that its membership has increased to 90,000 members, of which half are school aged children.
Even though the Chess
Club has a permanent location at 334 Park Ave., Croce said that having a table in the park is another opportunity to introduce
children to chess. He said that it is his plan to put chess pieces out every afternoon after school and allow students to
play for free. "They now know that if they want to play chess, then this is the place to come," said Croce.
Young champions
While the many of the Croce's students have had success at the state championships, three in particular have shown their
mettle.
James Arsenault, William Alston, and Liudmil Liudmilov have a combined record of 45 wins, 2 draws, and only
eight loses in the past four years. All three have placed in the top four of their grade each of the past four years.
Alston
has won the top spot once and placed second once. Beck has won the top spot in his grade three times, and Arsenault has played
at the final board for the championship four consecutive years.
Paid for by...
Two of the tables, which cost about $950 each, were paid for by the city. The third was paid for by City Council candidate
Terry LaBruno, according to the city's director of human services, Carmelo Garcia.
Mayor David Roberts said the Hoboken
Chess Club has been a major success in Hoboken. "The skills that chess teaches are ones that greatly benefit children, and
we as a city are happy to add these tables to Church Square Park," Roberts said.
The Hoboken Chess Club is located
at 334 Park Ave. The club offers classes, open play, tournaments and individual lessons, as well as a Chess Summer Camp. For
more information call (201) 232-6741.
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Saturday; 12PM to 5 PM
Weekend chess;
Friday;
Pizza party 6-7 Pm
Tournament 7:30Pn to 9:30 PM
This Weekend;
We begin our Weekend Chess program.
Friday;
Pizza party 6-7 Pm
Tournament 7:30Pn to 9:30 PM
Saturday; 12PM to 5 PM
weekend chess;
| State Champs 5th year in a row! |
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Chess Park
opens in
Hoboken
11th st & Madison.
(outside Shop rite Parking lot)
Hoboken Chess Kids
win at the
New Jersey State Chess Championship!
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| Johnie Bauers, Brendan Evers, Ben Shendar, Garrett Chu |
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