Good morning chess players. We’re back for another week of Bushwick Chess. We’re pushing our way into the second rapid tournament of August tonight with our regular Club Rapid, with the second half of August lending toward a rest before back to back blitz tournaments to decide the final players of the THREE Bushwick Chess teams for the upcoming NYC Chess Club Olympiad. We have a few names locked in across the 24 open slots, and as we close into the official date to lock in our teams roster on 9/14 the club will look over who’s on top and active.
Reminder! Tonight is the monthly Club Rapid Tournament at Nook! Join us 7pm for five rounds of 10|2 Rapid Swiss, $20 with prizes for all skill levels. Monthly Club Rapid/Blitz split into Open and U1600 sections to encourage a healthy mix of casual and competitive play.
While invitations have been sent out to all 2025 competitors across all twelve teams, we’re inviting more players into the fold in 2026. Along with a potential three teams from the likes large clubs Prospect Park, Bushwick Chess, Astoria Chess and Williamsburg Chess, the other clubs from last year may also have more than one team. NYU Chess Club, GP Chess, Chess Chat, Sapphics For the Bush and 2025 Challenger Champs Bishops Pair have all been invited.
When you add confirmed team Check Mates, our sister club at Common Mollie’s every Thursday 7pm, along with murmurs of more new names attending it’s safe to say this year will be the largest tournament we have put on to date. We’re aiming at dropping more information every week until Team Submission closes on Monday 8/31.
That being said we’re ready to talk shop. Let’s get into last weeks results.
Premiere Rapid Winners Share Gold
At last week’s Premiere Rapid, the second of it’s iteration saw 24 players compete in a slower three round 15|10, rated an average of 1523 NYCR. With ten decisive games in round one, 1773 rated Nick Marino faced off against top seed 1886 Jack Nugent on board one in round two. Marino went on to win against 1601 Christian Dittmeier to finish 3/3, gaining 27 rating to finish 1800 NYCR. Only 1886 rated Dmitry Redkin, a returning player from the January Club Rapid, finished the event with 3/3 as well, finishing rated 1969. You can see full results HERE.
A couple fun facts! Ten players from the January Rapid attend both events, almost a 50% double attendance. Marino and Redkin also tied in their third game of the January Rapid, meaning the two share gold among two fronts. This is just like the Magnus Nepomniatchi thing.
And that’s it for this week chess players! Join us tonight for more chess and be sure to check our socials HERE. Much love chess players, see you over the board soon. You can find your updated NYC Rating HERE.