West Orange 2 1/2 Center Squares/Hamilton 1 1/2

Last night in the Garden State Chess League West Orange defeated Center Squares/Hamilton by a score of 2 1/2 - 1 1/2.

Here are the results:

Board # White Black

1 Haari Muthukumar (WO) 2223 1-0 Andrew Kelemen (CS/H) 2159
2 Simon Thomson (CS/H) 1991 1-0 Pete Radomskyj (WO) 2200
3 Mark Kogan (WO) 1826 1-0 Charles Miller (CS/H) 1700
4 Ed Sytnik (CS/H) 1700 1/2-1/2 Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay (WO) 1304

Each score above is formatted W-B.

Games likely to follow.

Two games (without notes) for now. Notes to follow.

And hopefully the Board #2 game (and with notes) also to follow.

Board #2 game. Annotation symbols courtesy of Pete Radomskyj. Notes to follow.

Here is the Board #2 game with light analysis courtesy of Radomskyj, with the exception of the 42. d6 and the missed win 42...Rc1!! lines in which the analysis comes courtesy of Andy Chan. At some point a more complete analysis courtesy of Andy may be posted.