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Round 1 Games

The Cobras are playing San Francisco tonight at 8:30pm Eastern. It's such a shame because my bed time is at 9pm; I might make it to 10pm before crashing.

Go Cobras!

Two games have started:

Malugu-CAR vs. Naroditsky-SF

A Sicilian - I only played closed/grand prix and have no understanding of any other sicilians so I can't comment much on it.





Friedel-SF vs. Milman-CAR

A Ruy Lopez. The Marshall they've said. Move 17 - Friedel has an hour and Milman has 38 minutes.




Pruess-SF vs. CraigJones-CAR

A French, I only play exchange as white - so another game I don't know much about. :)




Zaikov-CAR vs. Bhat-SF

A Nimzo-Indian - something else I don't play - at least not yet. (Forget about this mention future d4 opponents)

1. Aug 29: Black vs San Francisco Mechanics (8:30 ET)

1. GM Patrick Wolff: 2623 - http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=15542
http://www.wolffchess.com/php/home.php3
2. IM Josh Friedel: 2535 - http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=10172
http://beta.uschess.org/frontend/news_7_502.php
3. IM Vinay Bhat: 2465 - http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=19912
http://www.eastbaychess.com/about/vinay.html
4. IM Vince McCambridge: 2502 - http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=15509
5. IM David Pruess: 2452 - http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=36826
http://www.calchess.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=78000
6. IM John Donaldson: 2460 - http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=15461
http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_jd/donaldson_bio.html
An NY Times Article
7. Daniel Naroditsky: 2076 - http://www.calchess.org/chessbio_index.php
8. Gregory Young: 2043 - http://www.calchess.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=93000

Cobras' 2007 Schedule

2007 Schedule

1. Aug 29: Black vs San Francisco Mechanics (8:30 ET)
2. Sept 5: White vs Baltimore Kingfishers (7:15 ET)
3. Sept 12: Black vs Miami Sharks (7:30 ET)
4. Sept 19: Black vs Dallas Destiny (8:15 ET)
5. Sept 26: White vs Seattle Sluggers (9:00 ET)
6. Oct 3: Black vs New Jersey Knockouts (7:00 ET)
7. Oct 10: White vs Tennessee Tempo (8:00 ET)
8. Oct 17: White vs San Francisco Mechanics (8:30 ET)
9. Oct 24: White vs Miami Sharks (7:45 ET)
10. Oct 31: Black vs Tennessee Tempo (8:15 ET)

All About Cobra Udayan Bapat

http://www.blogger.com/profile/4020130

http://udayanbapat.blogspot.com/

http://www.fide.com/ratings/card.phtml?event=5005957

All About Cobra FM Andrey Chumachenko

http://www.uschessleague.com/AndreyChumachenko.html

http://www.geocities.com/mjg99/CHESS/ANDREY/

http://www.chessclub.com/finger/andreyChu2

http://www.bambergchessclub.org/

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4432535539750014921&hl=en

http://www.fide.com/ratings/card.phtml?event=2028972

All About Cobra NM Timur Aliyev

http://www.scchess.org/champs/2006/aliyev.htm

Timur Aliyev has a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from
Technion University in Israel - http://www.eng.ufl.edu/academicaffairs/abet/ChE_CIP-log.pdf

http://www.fide.com/ratings/card.phtml?event=2804956

All About Cobra John Timmel

http://www.uschessleague.com/JohnTimmel.html

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=100887

http://www.cxrchess.com/PlayerProfile.php?PlayerID=3026

http://www.ourhillsborough.com/html/main/org_display/orgID/25118/index.html

All About Cobra NM Craig Jones

http://www.uschessleague.com/CraigJones.html

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=999040175637871920

http://beta.uschess.org/frontend/news_7_227.php - written by NM Craig Jones

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=57358

http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~sherman/Chess/highlights/news/umbc_open94.ascii
The crosstable from the above reported event: http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?199403274760-11264239

All About Cobra FM Oleg Zaikov

A member of the Duke University Chess Club - http://cgi.duke.edu/web/dukechess/teammembers.pl

http://www.uschessleague.com/OlegZaikov.html

http://www.cxrchess.com/PlayerProfile.php?PlayerID=6237&force=

http://www.chessclub.com/activities/cofc-results.html - Represented Oregon in the 2004 US State Champion of Champions through the semi-finals

Oleg Zaikov of Eugene, Oregon finished third at the 2003 Denker Tournament of High School Champions

http://www.chesscafe.com/text/scholastic19.pdf - Was a 2006 Scholar-Chessplayer Outstanding Achievement Awards winner

http://www.nwchess.com/articles/history/OR_chess_champions.htm - Oregon State Champion 2003 - 2006

All About Cobra IM Jonathan Schroer

http://www.chessclub.com/finger/Schroer

 1: Hi! I am International Master Jonathan Schroer, many times North Carolina
Champion since 1993. I am a professional scholastic coach and Program
Director of the Emory-Atlanta Castle Chess Camp. I have been giving ICC/phone
lessons (individual and group) since 1995.

http://www.chessclub.com/help/Schroer

http://www.chessclub.com/resources/articles/article12_7_schroer.html

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE1D61038F937A3575BC0A963948260

http://chessconfessions.blogspot.com/2007/01/first-lessons-of-chess-coach.html

http://www.duke.edu/web/dukechess/champstandings/

http://www.chessgames.com/player/jonathan_schroer.html

All About Cobra IM Lev Milman

From the Final Four 2007 Program:
LEV MILMAN– Board 1
USCF rating: 2513
Home state/country: New York, U.S.A.
Chess accomplishment: International Master (2 GM norms)
Academic accomplishments: Economics, Markets and Management Studies
Other interest/hobbies: AEPi, all things entrepreneurial, looking like Peyton Manning, large chip stacks, and putting the collar down.

http://www.fide.com/ratings/card.phtml?event=2020050

http://www.uschessschool.com/LevMilman.html

http://www.nachess.org/newsletter/mar2007.html#section02

http://www.chessgames.com/player/lev_milman.html

http://www.newyorkmasters.com/players/LevMilman.html

http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/mi/article_210.htm

http://cgi.duke.edu/web/dukechess/