Downers Grove Chess Club

Downers Grove Chess Club The Downers Grove Chess Club provides friendly and fun chess action. Chess players of all levels of chess experience attend and are welcome.

AS of March 2020 - we are temporarily closed due to Corona Virus

03/22/2022

The club is closed until further notice

Here are the results from our Wednesday Night tourney
12/19/2020

Here are the results from our Wednesday Night tourney

Hi, We are doing online tourneys on lichess.org.This week 5 Min + 2https://lichess.org/swiss/CJbq8YWrit is password prot...
12/15/2020

Hi, We are doing online tourneys on lichess.org.
This week 5 Min + 2
https://lichess.org/swiss/CJbq8YWr
it is password protected to make sure only people we know
participate.
If you are interested - comment here.

also a little quick puzzle:
white to move is winning quickly -

03/10/2020

Due to the Corona Virus our host has asked us to postpone any chess activities.
We will get an update in a few weeks.

At this point there will not be any activities at the club

02/21/2020

we drew a tough match last night

Matt lost a rook right away - not sure what happened. He lost.

in the other games we all looked ok
then I made an inaccuracy, which I followed up with a small mistake - I was slightly worse
Greg's game was very interesting, up and down - his opponent went for a perpetual
Dan P looked like he was winning, but his opponent was able to wiggle out - draw
James looked slightly better, same there, his opponent was able to get a draw
Ralph looked good, he had an exchange, but the opponent had an attack. well his opponent miscalculated a sacrifice and Ralph won

My opponent decided to win a pawn, but he gave up his fianchetto bishop.
Eventually I had two rooks 4 pawns versus Queen and 5 pawns.
I had small hopes to be able to win this but after a while I realized I could not, so also
draw

S. Allsbrook (2112) 0.5 G. Bungo (2099) 0.5
T. Ludwig (1912) 0.5 S. Klug (2084) 0.5
F. Tegel (1804) 0.5 D. Parmet (1829) 0.5
B. Marcowka (1793) 0.5 J. Kless (1782) 0.5
C. Dobrovolny (1737) 0 R. Wakerly (1780) 1
K. Komoravolu (1631) 1 M. Cimbalista (1768) 0
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DRGNS 3 DGCCC 3

02/19/2020

We have a match against the Dragons on Thursday!

01/23/2020

We lost a tough match against the Wombats last night.
Kurt (b) - Freitag (w) 0-1
Greg (w) - Chowdhury (b) 0-1
Steffen (b) - Panner 1/2
Dan P - Connelly, A 1/2
Ralph - Franek 1/2
John 1-0 (Forfeit)

01/21/2020

We have a match tomorrow at home against the Wombats

12/12/2019

We tied a tough match against the Pawns tonight. I felt we were a little unlucky..

1. Greg played a nice game and was able to establish a kraken on d6..black held on longer than I expected but still lost fairly quickly
2. Nick's opponent definitely wanted to mate him with f5 and f6, Nick kept his calm accepted the piece sacrifice and converted nicely
3. my opponent started with b3. I kept making small mistakes after thinking over 15 minutes.. I was happy with my time management.
I had 5 minutes left at move 45, my opponent kept blitzing the moves in the opening.
I eventually won a pawn on the queen side I thought it was drawn, but played on. it was a rook endgame with pawns on g&h and I had an a pawn. I was able to convert.

At that time Joe was a piece up (+8) but under pressure and time trouble.
John had an even endgame and Kurt had a slightly worse endgame where the queen side pawns were on the color of his bishop

well
4. in time trouble Joe oversaw that his opponent could check from behind. and in even higher time trouble he ran into mate
5. John lost the thread and a pawn, which is usually deadly in endings

3-2

6. last game went all the way until midnight. Kurt was defending nicely
then with 3 minutes left on the clock he thought he had made a mistake by allowing a bishop trade. (so did I)
We stopped at Shanahan's and then on the way he figured it out and he asked me, what happens if I just take the bishop and bring the king over the queen side, it turns out that would have worked.
it turned out he resigned in a drawn position. bummer, well, well,
it was a hard fought out match.

3-3

STEIN,KURT 0 - 1 PRUDE,S|Pawns
BUNGO,G |DGCC 1 - 0 KORENMAN,M|PAWNS|
KLUG,S 1 - 0 DONAHUE,T|PAWNS|
FLEMING,JOE|DGCC 0 - 1 JENNINGS,STEVE|PAWNS
GEANNOPOULOS,N 1 - 0 JACKSON,WILLIAM
DOWSE,JOHN 0 - 1 HARRISON,E

Thanks for playing

Great turnout last night for our Thanksgiving party.We had 16 people celebrate the season.Dritan Zekaj won 5.5 / 6,Steff...
11/28/2019

Great turnout last night for our Thanksgiving party.
We had 16 people celebrate the season.
Dritan Zekaj won 5.5 / 6,
Steffen & Gaddiel came in 2nd with 4.5

10/20/2019

We drew Fermilab 3-3 Thursday night
Stein drew, Greg drew, Steffen won, Matt lost, Nick won and Brian G lost

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Downers Grove, IL
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