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Championship: Sunday, November 20th

1. Chicago Blaze vs New York Knights                                   3:00 PM ET

If you are wondering why some teams have an average rating of above 2401, click here
All ratings listed below are August ratings - not always the ratings used for the league rating calculations!
Team listed first has White on Boards 1+3
Sunday, November 20th, 2011

Chicago Blaze (10.0 – 2.0) vs New York Knights (7.5 – 4.5)
                            
All Time Series Record:  (This is their first match)

Starts at 3:00 PM ET       Time Control - Game in 90 with 30 second increment    

Chicago Blaze

New York Knights
GM Mesgen Amanov: 2576 0.0
 1.0
 GM Giorgi Kacheishvili: 2653
GM Dmitry Gurevich: 2547 0.5
 0.5
 IM Irina Krush: 2560
IM Angelo Young: 2415 0.0
 1.0
 SM Matt Herman: 2426
NM Gopal Menon: 2222 1.0
 0.0
 John Fernandez: 2129
Avg Rating: 2440

Avg Rating: 2442
Chicago Total ------- 1.5
 2.5
 ------- New York Total

*Due to the World Youth and K-12 Nationals causing many players to be unavailable, Chicago agreed to allow New York to use John Fernandez on Board Four when generally that would not have been permitted as he had not played the requisite two games during the regular season


If the match ties 2 – 2, there will be a special tiebreaker.  Click here for the tiebreaker procedures.

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