RTCC founder Jon Achelpohl is the first official champion of the Raleigh Tournament Chess Club scoring an undefeated 3 out of 4 points to claim the crown. Jon earned the $27 first prize. Daniel Solarez and Emil Mayev shared second with 2½ points. Each wins $7 for splitting second.

On a quick note. We will as I mentioned earlier be changing out time control to Game/75. Also, we voted tonight that players are entitled to one ½-point bye per tounrnament. Player may use this bye in any round except for the final round.

We will be starting our next tournament next Wednesday at 7PM. Games will be paired at 7:30PM. Our website of course is at http://raleighchess.freewebpages.org/index.html