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The Catonsville Chess Club

 
Ian Harris is the 2009 Club Champion after defeating Jared Defibaugh in the final round for a 4 1/2 - 1/2 record.
 

Hucks, Lew [1911] vs Harris, Ian [2127] Catonsville Club Chpshp, round 3, Schliemann Defense to the Ruy Lopez:

 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 f5! 4. d3 fxe4 5. dxe4 Nf6 6. Qe2 Bb4+ 7. c3 Bc5 8. O-O d6 9. Rd1 Qe7 10. Nbd2 O-O 11. h3 Nd8 12. Nf1 Kh8 13. Ng3 Qf7 14. Be3 Bb6 15. Bc4 Qe8 16. a4 Ne6 17. Bxe6 Bxe6 18. a5 Bxe3 19. Qxe3 h6 20. Nh4 Nh5 21. Nxh5 Qxh5 22. Qg3 g5 23. Nf3 Bxh3 24. Nxe5 Be6 25. Nf3 Rf4 26. Re1 Raf8 27. Re3 Rg4 28. Qh2 Qg6 29. Rae1 Rgf4 30. Nd4 Rxf2 31. Nf5 Bxf5 32. Kxf2 Bxe4+ 33. Kg1 Rg3+ 34. Qxc7 Qf5 35. Qg3 h5 36. R3e2 Qf4 37. Qxf4 Rxf4 38. g3 Rf3 39. Kh2 g4 40. c4 h4 41. gxh4 Rh3+ 42. Kg1 Rg3+ 43 Kf2 Rf3+ 44. kg1 1/2-1/2 

 

Harry Cohen is the 2008 Action Champion with a perfect 6-0 against strong competition
 
Troy Roberts and Aditha Subrmanian are 2009 Blitz Co-champions
 
 

This is the Lew Hucks of the 1960's.
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He not only looked better, he played better too.

The Catonsville Chess Club
 
 
grew out of the Hillcrest Chess Club, started by Bob Raven with members of the Westinghouse Chess Club, their friends and contemporaries. When Joe McCarthy's flap over Irving Kandel's association with the communist party brought down the Maryland Chess Club in the 1950's through the unconscionable coverage by Baltimore newspaper photographers involving innocent club members, the membership formed the Arion Chess Club and met at the Franklintown Inn on Franklintown Road just south of Franklin Street in west Baltimore. There was a large membership active every Friday. When Franklintown Inn ownership changes made it necessary, the club was moved a couple of times and eventually moved to Nolan's Tavern on Wilkens Avenue where it stayed for a few years. It was largely these club members and the Westinghouse Defense Center Team that Bob took to the Hillcrest School as a part of the Baltimore County Recreation Council supported club. The club moved first to the Senior Center off North Rolling Road, a bit south of Route 40, outside the Baltimore Beltway, and then to the School on Bloomsbury where it is today. It is my honor to have been a former club president, and it is my sincere desire to see the club prosper there.