The 7th Annual Bruce Bowyer
Memorial Chess Tournaments
Were held at the Hotel New Yorker
8th Avenue and 34 Street, New York
on April 29 & 30th, 2006
Sponsored
by our dear friends at the Royce
Funds,
a wonderful time was had by all, both players and kibitzers.
Results and related information below provided by The Bruce
Bowyer
Foundation.
We had our largest turnout ever this year , with 68 players
on
Saturday, and 50 for the Scholastic on Sunday.
This is only our 3rd year at the New Yorker, and was held a
bit later
than usual, but this date worked our very well for us, so we
will
probably schedule for the same timeframe next year.
This annual event in Bruce's honor continues to grow and is
rapidly
becoming a favorite in the NY chess world. We did a survey
again this year
to get some feedback from our players on what they did and
didn¡¦t like
about our tournament, and how we might improve it. Take a look
at some
of the replies, they are both interesting and funny:
ƒÞ
most of the kids¡¦ favorite part of the tournament
is the fact that
this is more fun than other tournaments, but especially the
free pizza
for lunch on Sunday ļ
ƒÞ The adults appreciate both the low entry fee and the strong
competition, but the consensus overall is that this is truly
the friendliest
chess tournament of the year.
RESULTS
Saturday's Open tournament ended in a win for Grandmaster Joel
Benjamin
First: GM Joel Benjamin 4-0 --$200.
Tie for Second, Third, Under 2200 and Under 2000:
FM Asa Hoffmann, FM Boris Privman, Oliver Chernin, Nagib Gebran,
Paul
Szuper 3.5-0.5 --$61 each
Under 1800: Oscar Santana 3-1 -- $50
Chief TD: Nick Conticello, Assistant TD: Edward Frumkin
That evening, we held a"Bughouse" tournament.
Bughouse is a fast-moving variant
of chess, played by teams of two, that was a favorite and specialty
of
Bruce's. Bughouse results were both fast and funny:
First Place Cash ($100!) and trophy went to the upstart younger
generation team of Angel Lopez and Greg Fernandez
Second Place trophy was to the team of Peter Kopke and Murray
Schecter
In Sunday's Junior tournament, we had a *lot* of winners:
As before, where prize money was $+change,,we rounded up and
paid a few
dollars more to each winner where prizes were shared.
Leif Pressman --$200 + 1st Place Trophy
Zachary Weiner -- $50 + 2nd Place Trophy
Paul Szuper - $50 + 3rd Place Trophy
Raven Sturt - $50 + U1800 Trophy
Loren Weiss -- $50
Jesus Perez -- $50
Mohammed Haque - $15 + U1600 Trophy
Linda Diaz -- $15
Angel Bao -- $15
Jose Rivera - $20 + U1400 Trophy
Angelica Berrios -- $20 + U1200 Trophy
And we awarded an unadvertised prize of the chess book: The
Most
Instructive Chess Games Ever Played to the under 1000 winner:
Andrei Legoun -- $20 + Book Prize
Chief TD: Andre Harding
Congratulations
to the winners & thanks to all our family
of players
for joining us.
We look forward to seeing you all next year!
Many thanks also to the Hotel New Yorker and its staff, and
special
thanks to
Nick Conticello and Andre Harding, our Tournament Directors
.
Logistical/administrative/emotional support (&catering)
were provided
by
Bruce's sister Pat and his niece, Sunny, along with family
members
Rebecca and Ariel Gendelman.
This event would not have been possible without the continued
help and
support from Chuck Royce and so many of Bruce¡¦s
colleagues at the
Royce Funds as well as friends everywhere.
We would like to especially thank:
John & Crystal Burke, David Wilson, Dan O¡¦Byrne
and family, Peter
Kopke, Mark Penkower, Joe LeDu, Guy Doherty, and especially
Mr. John Galvin
and Elizabeth of I.S. 318.
The tournament was a tremendous success, and we so are proud
to have
once again
hosted an event that celebrated Bruce Bowyer's memory by honoring
his
beliefs.
