A History of the Kenilworth Chess Club
by Michael David Wojcio
(posted June 8, 2005)

Three Years of The Kenilworthian
An article index to The Kenilworthian blog posted on its third anniversary -- May 12, 2008.

New Jersey Knockouts 2007
Coverage of the home team in the US Chess League, with annotated games:

• 10 NJKO vs. NY Knights
• 9 NJKO vs. Baltimore Kingfishers
• 8 NJKO vs. Boston Blitz
• 7 NJKO vs. Philadelphia Inventors
• 6 NJKO vs. Carolina Cobras
• 5 NJKO v NY Knights
• 4 NJKO v Queens II
• 3 NJKO v Baltimore Kingfishers
• 2 NJKO v Tennessee Tempo
• 1 NJKO v Queens

Profiles

• Tim McGrew
• Steve Stoyko
• Evan Ju
• James R. West
• Max Sherer
• Michael Goeller
• Olimpiu G. Urcan
• Peter Radomskyj
• Tyler Cowen
• Harry Nelson Pillsbury

Consultation games

• 2007 (blog coverage)
• 2006 (Moldovan notes)

Essays & Reviews
Essays and Book Reviews by our members are invited for this section.

• Chess and Evolutionary Theory by Michael Goeller
• A Chess Tourist in New York City
• The Immortal Game and Chess History (CJA "honorary mention" for Best Review 2007)
• Chess and Diplomacy
• Chess as a Safe House for Learning
• Chess Restoration and the Usable Past
• Review of ChessLecture.com
• De la Maza's "Rapid Chess Improvement"
• Marketing Chess as Art
• Chess in the Movies

Lectures
Games and ideas presented in master lectures.

• The Games of Paul Keres by NM Scott Massey
• The Stonewall Attack by NM Yaacov Norowitz
• The Isolani by Steve Stoyko
  Lecture notes on an essential motif.
• How to Analyze by NM Scott Massey October 20, 2005 talk on assessment criteria in the context of a Steinitz game.
• Moscow 1925 and the Origins of the Soviet School of Chess by NM Scott Massey
  October 6, 2005 lecture on the tournament that signaled the beginning of the Soviet chess hegemony.
• Personal Favorites by FM Steve Stoyko
  April 21, 2005 talk on Steve's best games.
• Bobby Fischer by NM Scott Massey
  November 2004 talk on Bobby Fischer and his two best games.

Tournaments

2006 NJ Open
(September 2-4, 2006)
Blog coverage of the event can be found here, here, here, here, here, and here.

2007 Club Championship
(January - March 2007)

2006 Club Championship
(January 12 - March 9, 2006)

2006 G/30

2008 US Amateur Teams East Coverage

2007 US Amateur Teams East Coverage

2006 US Amateur Teams East
(February 18-21, 2006)
The Kenilworth Chess Club sent two teams to the annual USATE tournament, with the A-Team finishing a respectable 21st out of 272 teams. Read blog coverage here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

2005 Kenilworth Classic Rated G-30
(October 21-28, 2005)
Rounds 1 and 2
Rounds 3 and 4
Pictures from Day One and Day Two

2005 Club Championship
(January 13 - April 14, 2005)
Over half of the games from the championship, complete with notes and available in multiple formats (including HTML, PGN, Text file, Word, PDF, and on a Java-board you can play through online). Some of the better games include:

• M. Kernighan vs. Steve Stoyko (12)
• Scott Massey vs. Mark Kernighan (11)
• Steve Stoyko vs. Michael Goeller (11)
• Mark Kernighan vs. Mike Goeller (9)
• Steve Stoyko vs. Scott Massey (10)
• Mike Wojcio vs. Steve Stoyko (2)
• Ted Mann vs. Mark Kernighan (2)

2005 U.S. Amateur Teams East
The Kenilworth Chess Club A team won "Best NJ Team," and several other players from the club competed. Pictures, files, and links are posted online.

Team Matches

• Kenilworth - West Orange (June 2006)
• Kenilworth-Holmdel (Sept. 2006)
• Kenilworth-West Orange (Sept. 2006)
• Kenilworth-Roselle (Nov. 2006)
• Kenilworth-West Orange (June 2007)

Best Games
Annotated "best" games from club members.

• Stoyko-Evans, Westfield 1974
• Goeller-Mess, Westfield 1982
• Cavaliere-Schulteis, Correspondence 2002
• Casella-Massey, US Open 2002
• Pinto-Kernighan, NJ Open 1988
• West-Kernighan, Hamilton 2006

History
Articles and photos from the past.

• A History of the Kenilworth Chess Club, by Michael David Wojcio (June 08, 2005)
• 1933 Folkestone Olympiad
• 7th World Student Team Chess Championship, Leningrad 1960
• Fischer - Castro, Havana 1966? Not!
• Photos from the Archives
  (April 29, 2005)
• 2nd Bergen Futurity 1985

Favorite Books
All club members are invited to submit an annotated list of their favorite chess books.

• Scott Massey
• Glen Hart
• Greg Tomkovich
• Michael Goeller
• Ari Minkov

Kenilworth Chess Club Quarterly
A quarterly collection of all games posted to The Kenilworthian chess blog.

• Volume 1A: May-August, 2005, Part One
• Volume 1B: May-August 2005, Part Two
• Volume 1 PGN file

Opening Articles
Theory and analysis from our members.

• King's Indian Attack by Steve Stoyko
  Lecture notes on nine Stoyko games beginning 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d3.
• King's Indian Attack Bibliography
• Grand Prix Attack Bibliography (Updated)
• The Left Hook Grand Prix with a3
• Billy Colias Plays the Grand Prix
• Grand Prix Attack, Explained
• Guseinov's Anti-Paulsen Gambit
• Guseinov's Gambit Refuted?
• Two Knights Sicilian, Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
• The Apocalypse Attack
  1.e4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Ne5!
• Apocalypse Attack Update
• Caveman Caro-Kann
• Caveman Blitz
• The Anti-Portuguese
  1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.Nf3! Bg4?! 4.Bb5+
• Mad Dog
  1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Bc4 Bg7 5.Qe2 Nc6 6.e5
• The Simplified Pirc
  1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. f4 Bg7 5. e5 dxe5 6. dxe5!? Qxd1+ 7. Kxd1 Ng4 8. Ke1
• Benjamin's Classical Hippo
• French Defense Repertoire, Parts One and Two
• French Defense - Anti-Tarrasch
• French Wing Gambit
• A MacCutcheon French Webliography
• Notes on the French 2N
  1.e4 e6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3
• The Spanish Four Knights, Part Three
• The Spanish Four Knights, Part Two
  1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5
• The Spanish Four Knights, Part One
• Spanish Four Knights Bibliography
• The Conquest Attack in the Evans Gambit Declined
  1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bb6 5. a4 a6 6. Nc3 Nf6 7. d4!?
• Traxler Counter-Attack Webliography
• The Modern Horowitz Variation of the Max Lange Attack
• Notes on the Two Knights with d4
• Two Knights Defense as Black Bibliography
• Urusoff / Urusov Gambit Bibliography
• Urusov Gambit 3...Nxe4 4.dxe5 Qh4
• Urusov Gambit - Refuting 5...Qe7
• Urusov Gambit Notes
• Anti-Antoshin
• Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense Bibliography
• The Mortimer Trap
  1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3 Ne7!?
• Symmetrical Petroff
  1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 Nxe4?!
• Petroff Defense with 5.Qe2
• Refuting 5...Nxe4 in the Scotch
• Philidor Defense Bibliography
• Adelaide Counter-Gambit Bibliography
  Featuring 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Nc6 3.Nf3 f5!?
• Anti-Pierce
  1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 Bb4!?
• The Werewolf
  1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nxe4 4.Qh5 Ng5
• Vienna with Bc4 Busted
• More Anti-Vienna
• Benjamin Plays the Nimzovich
• The Brooklyn Defense
• Saemisch Surprise in the Alekhine

• Lasker's Defense to the Queen's Gambit by Michael Goeller and FM Steve Stoyko
• Black 1.d4 d5 Repertoire
  by FM Steve Stoyko
  Lecture notes on the Lasker Defense and related lines for Black, with various supplements by Michael Goeller.
  • Part One: The Lasker Defense Intro
  • Part Two: The Lasker Defense
  • Part Three: White Alternatives
  • Part Four: The QGD Exchange
  • Part Five: The Catalan and Others
  • Lasker PGN file (42 games)
  • Stoyko Plays the Lasker at ICC
  • Some QGD Links
  • Korchnoi-Karpov, Baguio 1978
  • Guimard-Eliskases, Mar del Plata 1941
  • Kernighan-Stoyko, KCCC 2005
  • Bartell-Kernighan, WCC 2005
• Albin Counter Gambit with 5...Nge7: the Mengarini-Morozevich Variation
• Albin Counter Gambit Bibliography
• Topalov-Morozevich Albin Game
• Tango Tactics
• The Panther
  1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nf3 d6 4.Nc3 e5
• 1...Nc6 and Kevitz System Bibliography
• Sidney Bernstein Plays 1...Nc6
• The Meštrović Variation of the Nimzovich Defense
  1. e4 Nc6 2. d4 d6!?
• Tal's Janowski-Indian Games
  1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 Bf5!?
• Janowski's Brother Indian
• Classical KID with ...Na6
• A Rare Line in the Nimzo-Indian 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Bd2!?
• The Colle in Black and White
• The Stonewall Attack
• Torre Plays the Torre at Moscow 1925 and Torre-Saemisch, Moscow 1925
• Barry Attack Bibliography
• Knightmare Repertoire by Michael Goeller
  An opening repertoire built around e4, Nf3, Nc3 as White or Nc6, Nf6, e5 as Black.

Middlegame
Articles and puzzles on strategic and tactical themes.

• Puzzles from New York 1857
• The Triumph of Quality
• Patterns of Error
• Two Upsets from USATE 2007
• Mating Patterns: Bishop and Rook

Endings
Articles and puzzles on the endgame.

• Tactical Endings
  Six puzzles to test your tactics. Some come from games by our members.
• A Practical King and Pawn Ending
• An Interesting Case of Underpromotion

Instruction

• Teaching Chess to Kids Series
• To An Adult Player Who Wants to Improve

Annotated Games
Selected annotated games from our archives.

• Bartell Brilliancy in D.C. by John Moldovan
• Coroner's Corpse Exhumed by John Moldovan
• Benjamin-Kaidanov, US Open 2006

Lake Hopatcong 1923 and 1926
Articles and photos from the historic NJ tournaments.

• Return to Lake Hopatcong 1926 by Michael Goeller
• Capablanca vs. Ed Lasker at Lake Hoptacong
• Maroczy at Lake Hopatcong
• Kupchik at Lake Hopatcong
• Marshall - Capablanca, Lake Hopatcong 1926
• My Grandfather at Lake Hopatcong in the 1920s by Michael Goeller
• The Last American Chess Congress
• Horace Ransom Bigelow at Lake Hopatcong 1923
• Lake Hopatcong Tournaments
• Marshall-Bigelow, Lake Hopatong 1923
• Lake Hopatcong 1923
• Marshall-Black, Lake Hopatcong 1923