Saturday, June 13, 2009

Pix from DOCA

Last night, I visited the Dean of Chess Academy where colors were drawn for the 1st DOCA TransNet FIDE Invitational, to be held in July. I picked number 3 from the hat. Here are the pairings.

Round 1: Saturday July 11, 11am
Chen-Feuerstein
West-Somers
Hall-Grasso
Swaminathan-Ferrero
Ippolito-Wu (rescheduled)

Round 2: Saturday July 11, 3pm
Ippolito-Chen (rescheduled)
Feuerstein-West
Somers-Hall
Grasso-Swaminathan
Wu-Ferrero (rescheduled)

Round 3: Sunday July 12, 11am
West-Ippolito
Hall-Feuerstein
Swaminathan-Somers
Ferrero-Grasso
Chen-Wu

Round 4: Sunday July 12, 3pm
Ippolito-Hall
Chen-West
Feuerstein-Swaminathan
Somers-Ferrero
Wu-Grasso

Round 5: Saturday July 18, 10am
Swaminathan-Ippolito
Hall-Chen
Ferrero-Feuerstein
Grasso-Somers
West-Wu

Round 6: Saturday July 18, 2pm
Ippolito-Ferrero
Chen-Swaminathan
West-Hall
Feuerstein-Grasso
Wu-Somers

Round 7: Saturday July 18, 6pm
Grasso-Ippolito
Ferrero-Chen
Swaminathan-West
Somers-Feuerstein
Hall-Wu

Round 8: Sunday July 19, 11am
Ippolito-Somers
Chen-Grasso
West-Ferrero
Hall-Swaminathan
Wu-Feuerstein

Round 9: Sunday July 19, 3pm
Feuerstein-Ippolito
Somers-Chen
Grasso-West
Ferrero-Hall
Swaminathan-Wu


While there, I took these photos of Dean Ippolito lecturing his chess students, as well as shots of the Friday Night League.