CHESS
important to acknowledge the oftenunderappreciated work of Ken Ballou,
Brian Lafferty, Chris Bird, Beebe
Wiegand, Steve Frymer and Brian
Mottershead. Maryanne Reilly, our
esteemed Madame President, put
great effort into organizing this
event and making sure it ran smoothly. In addition to being the President
of MACA, Maryanne is the scholastic coordinator for the organization.
She describes her rationale behind
holding down the double position:
“I do so love—after years of being
scholastic coordinator—watching
kids who were once kids grow into
adults, and watching their attraction
to chess grow into something that
helps them become adults.” Well,
one of the kids that Maryanne
watched grow up is now sitting here
trying to write about her, but cannot
find the right words. I guess there is
always something more we can learn.
At the Hurvitz this year, there
was stress, and there was laughter.
There were tears and there were
smiles. There was passion, and there
was compassion. At the Hurvitz, we
didn’t need the sunshine of the
spring day outside. We didn’t need
the paranoia of the world around us.
All we needed were chess sets, and
we created happiness. Let us hope
that we will all come together to do
the same next year.
Please consider making a taxdeductible donation to MACA to
support Chess Horizons. Send
your check, payable to MACA,
to MACA Treasurer Bob
Messenger at 4 Hamlett Dr.
Apt. 12, Nashua NH 03062,
specifying that your donation is
for Chess Horizons.
HORIZONS
Holiday Team Challenge
by Bob Messenger
2010 HTC K-12 Team 1st Place Winner. Loch Chess Monsters: Henry Friedlander, Max
Wiegand, Michelle Chen, and Jordan Shapiro. Photo by Beebe Wiegand
On January 24th thirty teams in
three sections competed in the Holiday
Team Challenge tournament at the
Hilton hotel in Woburn. Unlike the
Hurvitz Cup scholastic team championship, teams in the Holiday Team
Challenge can include players from
different schools, subject to rating
restrictions. This is a good opportunity for a group of friends to play
together on a team even if they
don't all go to the same school.
The Loch Chess Monsters
(Michelle Chen, Max Wiegand, Henry
Friedlander, and Jordan Shapiro)
won the K-12 section with a perfect
4-0 score. BB&N Middle School
(Nicholas Trieu, Bunnard and Darrith
Phan, and Zachary Lovett) and the
ACLS Tigers (Edward Li, Changming
Xu, Andy Li, and Mason Liu) tied
for second place with 3-1.
In the K-6 section, Sage School
Team A (Nicholas Plotkin, Kevin Hu,
Daniel Plotkin, and Brian Reidy)
swept into first with 4-0. Andover
(Alexander and Isabella Shih, James
Zhou, and Peter Heckendorn) was
clear second with 3-1. Three teams
tied for third with 2 1/2-1 1/2: the
ACLS Tigers (Jenny Qiu, Eric Liu,
Brandon Wu, and Anthony Gao), Sage
School Team B (Alex Gottlieb, Max
and Iain Sheerin, August Donovan,
and Eric Hu), and Wildcats Team 3
(Ellis O'Donnell, Daniel In, Nathan
Lu, and Daniel Benson).
The Smiling Buddhas (Rohan
Krishnan, Christopher Wang, Rahul
Krishnan, Justin Lin, and Eric Feng)
won the K-3 section with a score of
3 1/2-1/2. There was a two-way tie
for second between the Russian
Knights (Anton Barash, Alan Sikarov,
Alon Trogan, Gene Kuperman, and
Ben Bugalter) and the Cabot School
(Evan Meyer, Jonathan Cohen,
Jacob Brockman, and Jason Wolf.)
Alex Relyea was the chief tournament director, assisted by Nita
Patel, Ken Ballou, Maryanne Reilly,
Beebe Wiegand, Steve Frymer, and
Bob Messenger.
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