GM Alex Sherzer scored 10.5/12 to win the Arlington Chess Club's Nov
14th Blitz Qualifying tournament. I left out the traditional "WBCA"
out of the title since it is folding next month - see my previous
r.g.c.p post.

This is the 9th Annual ACC Blitz Championship. It has been a yearly
series of monthly qualifying tournaments which lead to a 14 player
round robin championship tournament in December. The Club Champ and
previous Blitz Champ are automatically ceded into the following year's
tournament. The web address for the tournament history is
http://members.cox.net/arlingtonchessclub/toc.htm
Past winners have been:
1995 - NM Dave Sherman
1996 - IM Larry Kaufman
1997 - NM Fred Garcia
1998 - Tom Murphy
1999 - IM Larry Kaufman
2000 - IM Eugene Meyer
2001 - IM Oladapo Adu
2002 - GM Alex Sherzer

There is one final qualfying spot available to the winner, or highest
scorer not previously qualified, on Friday December 5th. The past
conditions have been $EF 15, $10 to WBCA members, but this tournament
will be $15 to all so a greater prize fund can be offered. Six Round
Double Swiss, registration 7p-820 with play starting at 8:25pm. The
following week, for the Blitz Championship, play will start at 8:20pm.
Here is the list of current qualifiers for the tournament on Dec 12th.

IM Larry Kaufman
GM Patrick Wolff
IM Adrian Negulescu
IM Oladapo Adu
Tom Murphy
Paul Yavari
Ray Kaufman
Ruixin Yang
FM Emory Tate
Alex Barnett
S.N. Kotha
Mark Young
GM Alex Sherzer
???? - Dec 5th

Location of Arlington Chess Club is at
http://members.cox.net/arlingtonchessclub/lyon.htm

Below are the results from the tournament with the very deflated blitz
ratings.

SwissSys Standings. 35th Virginia Open: Nov 14 ACC Qualifying Blitz
# Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
Tot
1 Alex I Sherzer 2568 $13 $18 $3 #2
$7 W6 10.5
2 Alex Barnett 2216 W10 $8 $6 D1 $11
$3 9.5
3 Thomas D Murphy 2278 $14 #4 L1 $5 $6
L2 7.5
4 Macon A Shibut 2147 $16 D3 $12 L7 W5
$14 7.5
5 Stanley Wil Fink 2000 W12 W10 $9 L3 W4
$7 7.0
6 Lawrence Kaufman 2278 $9 #7 L2 $8 L3
W1 6.5
7 William Marcelino 2143 $17 D6 $18 $4 L1
L5 6.5
8 Harry S Cohen 1992 $19 L2 W10 L6 W12
$16 6.0
9 Ronald L Henry 1900 L6 $17 L5 $16 W14
W11 6.0
10 Paul Yavari 1890 W2 W5 W8 L11 W13
$17 6.0
11 Kebadu Belachew 1861 L18 $19 W14 $10 L2
W9 6.0
12 Greg Idziak 1660 W5 $13 L4 L14 W8
$19 6.0
13 Alexander Passov 1986 L1 L12 W16 $17 W10
#15 5.5
14 Marvin Jose Lazo 1927 L3 W16 W11 $12 W9
L4 5.0
15 Michael Atkins 1879 U--- H--- H--- $19 #17
D13 5.0
16 David W Sterner 1748 L4 W14 W13 L9 $19
L8 4.0
17 Gene Velasquez 1695 L7 L9 $19 L13 D15
L10 2.5
18 Raymond Kaufman 2209 $11 L1 L7 U--- U---
U--- 2.0
19 Richard Allen 1660 L8 L11 L17 L15
L16 L12 0.0



Michael Atkins, NTD (remove nospam from my e-mail address for
responding)

(Michael Atkins) wrote that GM Sherzer won a Blitz
tournament.

Brave guy! Winning a tournament with a participation of players 300 Elo lower
than himself.

BTW Michel, it would more interest me with how many underaged little girls GM
Dr. Sherzer has email exchange again. Do you have something new?

Rolf

On 16 Nov 2003 21:24:17 GMT, (Rolf Tueschen)
wrote:

(Michael Atkins) wrote that GM Sherzer won a Blitz
tournament.

Brave guy! Winning a tournament with a participation of players 300 Elo lower
than himself.

He had no control over who else showed up. The point of my post was
not to highlight him so much as my 9 year blitz series. Had anyone
else won, the subject would have had a different title.


BTW Michel, it would more interest me with how many underaged little girls GM
Dr. Sherzer has email exchange again. Do you have something new?

Seems like you are either stuck in the past or get some kind of
purient pleasure out of other's misfortune. Move on and get a life


Rolf

(Michael Atkins) wrote:

On 16 Nov 2003 21:24:17 GMT, (Rolf Tueschen)
wrote:

(Michael Atkins) wrote that GM Sherzer won a Blitz
tournament.

Brave guy! Winning a tournament with a participation of players 300 Elo
lower
than himself.

He had no control over who else showed up. The point of my post was
not to highlight him so much as my 9 year blitz series. Had anyone
else won, the subject would have had a different title.

Thanks for your short reply.

First of all let me confirm you that I dont know you, so all what I have to say
is related exclusively to the written data here in the usenet messages.

Let me also say that I must congratulate you for your long record of hosting
tournaments for so many players over the years. I dont even know if you are
"just" the tournament director or also the main sponsor. In any case this has
no influence on what I have to say.

I wished so much that you could understand what I have to say.

Two points.

1. Nobody showed up with a higher Elo than one 300 Elo lower than GM Dr.
Sherzer.

I don't want to know if you for example had invited Sherzer or if he just
showed up. My point is that it's somewhat unfair to have such a big fish
playing amateurs or older experts UNLESS you want to support the GM with a kind
of extra money. Perhaps the players wanted it too. No problem. It's a personal
thing. And I wished Sherzer had many such supporters.

But my point is that such a benefit event is presented here in such an
international group. Then it looks a bit odd. Do you really think that it is
news that such a strong GM had won a Blitz tournament against some "patzers",
excuse me?

And is it news that the delinquent, who only left the court hall on the basis
of a lack of proofs, and NOT because he was found completely innocent, now has
won a Blitz tournament in the province?





BTW Michel, it would more interest me with how many underaged little girls
GM
Dr. Sherzer has email exchange again. Do you have something new?

Seems like you are either stuck in the past or get some kind of
purient pleasure out of other's misfortune. Move on and get a life


That is my second point of course.

You seem to think that your information in the international group here "just"
has a chess content. But as I showed you above, the chess content is more of a
homeopathic dosis.

The information i got is, that Sherzer won a Blitz tournament against weak
opponents, as if that would mean anything at all. UNLESS the message should be
told, here, just look and see, GM Dr. med. Sherzer is in the business again.
And I, Michael Atkins am supporting him.

Hence I asked you about Sherzer's "problem".

And you answer with the term of his "misfortune" that I seemed to enjoy
somehow.

Now listen. This might be a good response if you like to shoot from the hip but
I have Sherzer's "misfortune" in mind, which was the picture of him being
caught with a suitcase full of alcohol and sex instruments, when he was in
train of meeting a 15 year old teenager - with the admitted intention to have
sex with her!

What a misfortune! You are plain right!

Therefore, out of concern for such possible victims of the over 30 years old
medical doctor [sic!] and chess GM, I ask you again:

1) doesn't it interest you what he's doing privtely and

2) do you still mean, that it is good news to publish for a world community
that the man had won a Blitz tournament that you hosted for such a long time?

You answered question 1 with a smiley and question 2 with all possible naivety.

Perhaps you will rethink all that and make a different decision next time. At
least I wished that also for the benefit of this GM.

You know, to tell you my deepest thoughts, I wished that this man could come
over it with a different life style than the internet chatting with kids and I
wished to hear something new about that topic. I don't want to be informed
about such mickey mouse tournaments where the GM has such a huge advantage in
strength. That is a normal event. No news.

But is his old vice also under control? That is what interests me from abroad.
Since I also had children of that age. So that is the topic. And not out of
unethical concern.

But it might well be that you've been unaware of the consequences of your
"news" message.

--

Just a P.S.

Also this topic was cut in the private forum of "the biggest chess store in the
USA", ICDchess. Probably because Sherzer is a book author, the company must
protect him aganist ethical questions. Yes, here it's Sherzer, the book author,
there it was Israel as a whole, that had to be protected, included its
propaganda speaker Omid David Tabibi, the chess programmer.


Regards,

Rolf

Rolf Tueschen wrote:

(Michael Atkins) wrote:

On 16 Nov 2003 21:24:17 GMT, (Rolf Tueschen)
wrote:

(Michael Atkins) wrote that GM Sherzer won a Blitz
tournament.

Brave guy! Winning a tournament with a participation of players 300 Elo
lower
than himself.

He had no control over who else showed up. The point of my post was
not to highlight him so much as my 9 year blitz series. Had anyone
else won, the subject would have had a different title.

Thanks for your short reply.

First of all let me confirm you that I dont know you, so all what I have to say
is related exclusively to the written data here in the usenet messages.

Let me also say that I must congratulate you for your long record of hosting
tournaments for so many players over the years. I dont even know if you are
"just" the tournament director or also the main sponsor. In any case this has
no influence on what I have to say.

I wished so much that you could understand what I have to say.

But we do Rolf, at least I do. I understand exactement to the 'nth
degree where you're coming from. Now about your '****ing' in toilet of
female guest worker?..


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