RayDelColle

Good News: The "Deep Analysis" Computer gave me a perfect score of 100%: 15 Excellent moves, 0 inaccuracies, 0 mistakes, 0 blunders. I played the black pieces on January 20, 2018. The gentleman on the white pieces is a veteran of over 400 rated games from Turkey. My 15th move checked his King and uncovered his Queen's Abduction. White made his 16th move and then resigned. 

OnJuly 13, 2017 made it into the top 2.0% of the 658,805 players at chess.com ... Bad news: My rating plummeted 158 points in a game where I made at least 3 blunders.

Best win: 1821, a gentleman from Scotland, I played the black pieces on April 9, 2019.

Most 'Artistic' Win: a 12 move checkmate playing white against   a Gentleman from Siberia, Russia on June 18, 2013

Best USCF rated over the board live game: in Pawtucket RI, My opponent, with a 1655 USCF rating resigned after 10 moves. I played the black pieces. 

On April 3, 2013 I successfully executed an interesting combination playing the black pieces in a variation of the Queen pawn game at the Bristol Chess Club. 

On May 2, 2012 I successfully executed a particularly interesting combination playing the white pieces in a Queen Pawn game at the Bristol Chess Club. 

Life member of the US Chess Federation & the Mass Chess Association. 

Honorary member of the Four Knights Chess Club of Brockton, MA. 

Chess club advisor at DRRHS in Rehoboth, MA (68-71), Coyle Cassidy HS in Taunton, MA (71-75) & Whitman Hanson RHS in Whitman, MA (76-88). 

USCF Certified Intermediate Tournament Director (1970s - 80s). 

Founder and the first President of the Fall River Chess Club. 

On January 20, 1971, with the USCF and the Narragansett Interscholastic League, I hosted a Simultaneous Exhibition with the International Grandmaster and former US Champion Arthur Bisguier. Richard Holleran, a student on our chess team, checkmated the Grandmaster.  

On September 17, 1973, The Fall River Chess Club defeated the Southeastern Mass Chess Club (with Gus Gosselin) by a score of 7 to 4. Fall River won a previous match 7.5 to 4.5. The Fall River Chess Club was leading the series by 3 to 1. 

On October 15 1973 with the Fall River Chess Club I hosted a Simultaneous Exhibition given by FIDE Chess Master John Curdo at the Herrick House. John, a former Massachusetts Champion, played 35 games. 

There was another simultaneous exhibition with International Master John Peters ... Monday February 13th.

I played in the 1974 US Open Championship in Manhattan, NY City: 12 Rounds (4 wins, 7 losses, 1 Draw; Paul Benko & Vlastimil Hort won the Tournament). 

I played frequently at the Rogers Free Library in Bristol, RI at 6 PM on Wednesday evenings. 

I gave a Simultaneous Exhibition at Coyle-Cassidy HS, Taunton, MA (1970s) and at Whitman Hanson Regional HS  in the early 1980s.

In the bottom black & white photo, I am playing black (French Defense) in a Simultaneous Exhibition by the International Grandmaster Arthur Bisguier, (2471) 11th rank player in the U. S. at that time. January 20, 1971 at Dighton Rehoboth Regional H.S. in Rehoboth, MA