Thanks to Greg Shahade there is a great tournament in New York. Every Tuesday masters in NY meet at 7pm at Marshall Chess Club to play four rated games.

Commented Rafal Furdzik Games in Java Script

On 3/19/02 Greg Shahade wrote:

    The first week of the Tuesday Master Rapids
turned out to be a success. There were 14 players,
with 9 of the 14 being rated over 2400 USCF. Hope to
see all of you next week at the same time (Tuesday
March 26th)! Below are the results and the prizes


3.5
 GM Kacheishvili, Giorgi  2662  ($190)
 GM Novikov, Igor    2684      ($190)
3 pts 
 IM Shahade, Gregory   2515    ($50)
2.5 pts       
 FM Lapshun, Yury   2461
    Furdzik, Rafael  2224 
 FM Privman, Boris  2243 
2 pts       
 GM Ashley, Maurice   2531
 IM Sarkar, Justin  2419
 FM Ariel, Donny  2448  
1.5 pts   
 IM Bonin, Jay R  2369
 FM Eisen, Lewis  2299
1 pt    
    Siegel, Noah J  2329
    Norowitz, Yaacov  2247 
0 pts
 IM Rao, Vivek   2572 

Avg. Rating - 2429


1st Place - $260
2nd Place - $120
3rd Place - $50



If you need to contact me you can reach me at
917-294-1338. First round starts next Tuesday at 7 pm.
Thanks to all those who played, to the Marshall Chess
Club and to John Fernandez for directing.