If you remebered last week we didn’t have a quick tournament and were closed on Saturday due the 17th Annual Kings Island Open. Well thanks to Mike Oaster for the big news came was Carl Bixel beat GM Anatoly Lein at the Kings Island Open this weekend!  That’s BIG news!  Congratulations, Carl.

• Germany holds off Russia in Chess Olympiad:

  Russia’s chess team, hailed as the highest rated ever assembled for a Chess Olympiad, hit a bump Monday as 11th-seed Germany battled all four games against them to a draw in round five of the biennial tournament in open division play

• 44th American Open Coming Up:

  There are the options of a 3 day schedule with four relatively fast games or, for those who do not like fast time controls, or wish to spend Thanksgiving day with family, two half point byes still allow for six “slow” games.

• US team Rolls over Hong Kong at Chess Olympiad:

  The United States crushed Hong Kong 4-0 almost without effort in the fifth round of the Chess Olympiad on Monday

• NJ inmates vs. Princeton students: Prison chess:

  David Wang is a young man who’s clearly going places. The Princeton University sophomore is gifted with a brilliant mind, a movie-star smile and an understated self-confidence.

  Kelvin Washington is a middle-aged man who’s not going anywhere for the next 44 years. He’s a career criminal who has spent 29 years behind bars for a string of robberies and burglaries.

  An unlikely pairing, the two men went head to head Wednesday at the New Jersey State Prison, a maximum-security lockup. Their battlefield: a chess board.

• No fear: RP chess prodigy ‘excited’ to play highly rated Spaniard

  When the country found out who its next opponent will be at the resumption of the 38th World Chess Olympiad, the 14-year-old So asked the more senior members of the RP team if he could be pitted against Super GM Alexei Shirov of Spain.

Keep an eye out – More Next Week! If you have any news feel free to contact us.