Bulletin of the South Dakota Chess Association November 1997
Governor's Cup: Special Edition The South Dakota Chess Association would like to thank the Sioux Empire Chess Foundation for the organization of the Second Annual Governor's Cup Chess Tournament. The SDCA is issuing a special edition on the Governor's Cup Chess Tournament to all Governor's Cup participants with assistance from the Sioux Empire Chess Foundation. The final results of the Governor's Cup have been on the SDCA web page (http://www.usd.edu/student- life/orgs/sdca/index.htm) for nearly one month. Rashid Ziadtinov published his tournament report on his web page. Illinois plans to publish an article on Governors Cup in its November-December issue and Minnesota plans a fall edition which will include an article on the Governor's Cup Chief Tournament Director Carol Jarecki produced an article for Chess Life Online Issue #31 prior to the tournament and has done an article on the Governor's Cup for November issue of Chess Life. We were very satisfied with the feedback that we got from the survey we took at the end of the Governor's Cup. We will probably change the format for Premier and Reserve sections back to a two day format, while retaining the three day format for the Open Section. The Blitz tournament which was won by IM Osman Palos was a great success with over forty players participating. On the other hand, placing the simultaneous exhibition on Thursday night before any players outside Sioux Falls had arrived resulted in a less than spectacular turnout. The numbers for the Governor's Cup were reduced from last year. In the Open section we had fifty one in 1996, forty-eight in 1997. The Premier section had thirty-six persons this year, compared to forty-three in 1996. We had fifty-seven in the reserve section in 1996, this year we had forty-eight in this section. Overall, one hundred thirty-two players participated in this Governor’s Cup compared with one hundred fifty one in 1996. The scholastic numbers were improved: 41 in1996, 56 in 1997. We hope to improve our numbers next year. On Thursday, September 11, Grandmaster Sam Palatnik played twenty five players including a television reporter and the mayor of Sioux Falls. Governor William Janklow was on hand to meet Grandmasters Gregory Serper, Dmitry, Gurevich, Boris Gulko, Sam Palatnik, International Master Osman Palos, Women Grandmaster Angelina Belkovskaia and FM Eugene Martinovsky. The Governor gave a birthday cookie to Grandmaster Gurevich and played a first move against GM Palatnik. Carol Jarecki says in her article that the Governor was there because De told him to be there for the entire simultaneous.GM Palatnik did not lost a game. He gave a draw to Shirley Kohl of Madison. All of the titled