Queen City Chess Association

 OK, QCCA members, here's your chance to play free rated chess every Friday night and win a valuable prize. Here's how it works: every Tuesday for the next 10 weeks a new "Potter's Challenge" position will be posted on the website. The positions all come from the games of Russell "Rusty" Potter, the Virginia Life Master. The degree of difficulty will vary, with the first one being pretty easy.

Your task is to SOLVE THE POSITION. There will be a decisive continuation. Find it (preferably without the help of a computer program...it's not cheating in the contest...but it is cheating yourself out of an opportunity to work on your solving skills).

Then, show up at the club on Friday night. There will be a board set up with the position. If you can demonstrate the correct solution, you will play that evening's rated chess game for FREE, PLUS you will earn a Grand Prix point. What good is that you ask? Well, after 10 weeks, we will add up the Grand Prix points, and whoever has the most will win FREE ENTRY INTO THE LPO OR NC OPEN...your choice! We want to encourage every chess enthusiast to GET OUT THERE and play more real time face to face chess, because that's where the REAL FUN is.

Standings (through week 10):

Linus Whitlock 9
Dave Eadie 7
Andrew Whitlock 6
Ankit Jivan 5
Samuel Xin 5
Tarokh Taefi 3
Josh Mu 3
Derek Zhang 3
Dominique Myers 3
Ulugbek Ergashev 2
Zhi Zhang 2
Dan Liu 2
Kevin Huang 1
Ken Ivens 1
Patrick Mc Cartney 1

Challenge #1 winners 2/29/08:  Dan Liu, Dave Eadie, Linus Whitlock, Andrew Whitlock.

Challenge #2 winners 3/7/08:  Dan Liu, Dave Eadie, Ankit Jivan, Andrew Whitlock, Linus Whitlock, Derek Zhang, Josh Mu.

Challenge #3 winners 3/14/08:  Kevin Huang, Josh Mu, Linus Whitlock, Zhi Zhang.

Challenge #4 winners 3/21/08: Linus Whitlock, Andrew Whitlock, Ken Ivens, Sam Xin, Dave Eadie, Derek Zhang, Ulugbek Ergashev.

Challenge #5 winners 3/28/08: Linus Whitlock, Josh Mu, Sam Xin, Dominique Myers.

Challenge #6 winners 4/4/08: Linus Whitlock, Andrew Whitlock, Dave Eadie, Dominique Myers.

Challenge #7 winners 4/11/08: Samuel Xin,
Tarokh Taefi, Kevin Huang, Dave Eadie, Ankit Jivan, Derek Zhang, Ulugbek Ergashev.

Challenge #8 winners 4/18/08: Eadie, Jivan, Taefi, L Whitlock, A Whitlock.

Challenge #9 winners 4/25/08: Xin, Taefi, McCartney, Myers, Jivan, Eadie, Zhang, A Whitlock, and L Whitlock.

Challenge #10 winners 5/2/08: Linus Whitlock, Ankit Jivan, Samuel Xin.

Flash:  Linus Whitlock wins Potter's Challenge, by correcting solving 9 of 10 problems.  Linus will be rewarded free entry into this year's LPO or NC Open - Linus's choice.


NM Rusty Potter

Life Master Russell Potter is one of the icons of Southeastern Chess. In a tournament career that has spanned five decades, he achieved a peak rating of just below 2400 and has been Virginia State Champion three times. The QCCA is proud to have "Rusty" aboard as a regular contributor.

Rusty has over 35 years of teaching experience and specializes in adult students. He can be reached at (540) 344-4446 or chess_lessons@verizon.net if you are interested in benefiting from his chess knowledge.