Western New York's own NM Matt Perry (2261-FIDE) is competing at the World Youth Chess Championships in Vietnam. Matt is from the Rochester Chess Club and is this past year's New York State High School Champion and thus our representative at the prestigious Denker Tournament.
- The WYCC began today with Matt ranked 36th at the start. He won as black today against an unrated player from Nepal and is now in the 28th spot. He will be white tomorrow against FM Luka from Georgia.
- He is the third highest representative from the USA competing in Open U18 section of this event. The other two USA players in this section also won today. They are FM Shankland (FIDE 2436)- presently ranked 13th in this section and NM Daniel Ludwig (FIDE 2400) -presently ranked 16th.
- He will be playing in this year's Jeff White Memorial Championship at the Main Place Mall on December 20th along with IMs Regan and Hartman and NM Lionel Davis.
To follow the results of all the members of the US team at this international event go to
http://chess-results.com/tnr15980.aspx?art=25&fedb=USA&lan=1&flag=30&m=-1
Western New York's own NM Matt Perry (2261-FIDE) is competing at the World Youth Chess Championships in Vietnam. Matt is from the Rochester Chess Club and is this past year's New York State High School Champion and thus our representative at the prestigious Denker Tournament.
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Just saw the results that he has won his second game against FM Luka as well. Congratulations to him!!
ReplyDeleteYes, now he is paired with the top player at this event GM Howell of England 2593 in the third round.
ReplyDeleteGO GET'M MATT!
Saddly, Matt lost today to GM Howell. He still is having a fine tournament.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately he lost to IM Potapov, he has had some very tough opponents (avg elo: 2277...not including the first round: 2481). His next game is against FM Klimov 2451.
ReplyDeleteGood Luck Matt!
-Josh Rofrano
Tough games so far for him. He lost his fifth round to FM Klimov, http://chess-results.com/tnr15980.aspx?art=2&rd=5&lan=1&fedb=USA&flag=30&m=-1 but came back strongly to win his 6th round against Schon Eugene (http://chess-results.com/tnr15980.aspx?art=2&rd=6&lan=1&fedb=USA&flag=30&m=-1
ReplyDeleteIn the final round (7th) he is paired up against Rajapakse (rated 2132).
his (as well as many other) games are posted here, analysis is coming soon.
ReplyDeletehttp://communitychessclub.com/games.shtml
-Josh Rofrano
Matt Parry's vietnam trip summary is at http://communitychessclub.com/mparry.shtml
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