Robin Grochowski, wi.rr.com,">rgrochowski@wi.rr.com, RobinChess69, 1700
3-round, 3-week G/60+5 Swiss online at chess.com: July 23, July 30, August 6

FYI, Gauri Menon is representing Wisconsin in this weekend's "National Tournament of Girls State Champions" - https://new.uschess.org/haring

Yes I'd LOVE to play ! Ellen Wanek, waneks@sbcglobal.net , elie-mae , USCF 1257

I'll play.
Andrew Rivedal, andrew.rivedal@gmail.com, arivedal, 1650 uscf
Good luck this weekend, Gauri!
Shaunak Bhattacharyya, shaunakb2003@gmail.com, chessbhatt03, 1884 USCF
Tom Fogec tfogec@gmail.com 1660 USCF

Here are the players for tonight, as of 3:15 pm:
No. Name ID Exp. St Rate
1 Becker, Allen J 10481783 9999 WI 2044
2 Bhattacharyya,Shaunak 15454333 0521 WI 1883
3 Fogec,Thomas G 10313295 9999 CA 1660
4 Grochowski,Robin 11164412 0422 WI 1698
5 Menon,Gauri 15187152 0621 WI 1960
6 Rivedal,Andrew 16025954 0720 WI 1634
7 Wanek, Ellen Ann 14569155 0421 WI 1168
8 Wright,Gary M 12597152 0221 WI 1234

No. Name St Rate
1 Becker, Allen J WI 2044
2 Menon,Gauri WI 1960
3 Bhattacharyya,Shaunak WI 1883
4 Grochowski,Robin WI 1698
5 Fogec,Thomas G CA 1660
6 Rivedal,Andrew WI 1634
7 Wright,Gary M WI 1234
8 Wanek, Ellen Ann WI 1168
Rishav Bhattacharyya, pokebhatt07@gmail.com, pikachuli, 1888 USCF

As of 5:00 pm, we have the following 10 players. I will pair Round 1 at around 5:15 pm (so that's the cutoff time).
No. Name St Rate
1 Becker, Allen J WI 2044
2 Menon,Gauri WI 1960
3 Bhattacharyya,Rishav WI 1888
4 Bhattacharyya,Shaunak WI 1883
5 Coons,James Jay WI 1708
6 Grochowski,Robin WI 1698
7 Fogec,Thomas G CA 1660
8 Rivedal,Andrew WI 1634
9 Wright,Gary M WI 1234
10 Wanek, Ellen Ann WI 1168

Ellen, you will play right here, on chess.com. Once I issue the pairings, the White player will challenge the Black player. Sometimes, it has to be that Black challenges White. Here are the challenge instructions:
http://www.southwestchessclub.com/Chess.com%20challenge%20instructions.pdf
(I will give a better link a bit later)

Here are easier-to-read CHALLENGE INSTRUCTIONS:
http://www.southwestchessclub.com/Create%20Challenge%20on%20Chess.com%20G60+5.pdf

OK, here are the pairings. They won't change. Start your games around 7:00 pm. Let me know if there are any questions:
July-Aug SWCC 3-round online G60+5 - Round 1
Board White Black
1. ___ Grochowski,Robin (0.0,1698) ___ Becker, Allen J (0.0,2044)
2. ___ Haubrich, Scott A (0.0,2009) ___ Fogec,Thomas G (0.0,1660)
3. ___ Rivedal,Andrew (0.0,1634) ___ Menon,Gauri (0.0,1960)
4. ___ Bhattacharyya,Rishav (0.0,1888) ___ Klandrud,Kevin (0.0,1437)
5. ___ Wright,Gary M (0.0,1234) ___ Bhattacharyya,Shaunak (0.0,1883)
6. ___ Coons,James Jay (0.0,1708) ___ Wanek, Ellen Ann (0.0,1168)
This Thursday we start another online multi-week Swiss-system tournament with a time control of G/60 +5 (initial time of 60 minutes plus a 5 second increment for each move).
This will be a three-round tournament (1 game each Thursday 7:00 pm, for 3 Thursdays in a row: July 23, July 30, August 6, in 1 section. (If we get a large number of entries we might have 2 sections).