AFebruary 19 1973
The Record, Hackensack, New Jersey, Monday, February 19, 1973
Second Place Team—Leslie Ault ponders a tactical problem of Dumont teammate Ken Regan. Staff photo by Emmett Francois.
Dumont Second in Chess Meet
By Joe Rura, Staff Writer
The Dumont Chess Masters finished second yesterday in the largest team chess tournament ever held in the country.
The two-day event in the Bergen Mall auditorium, Paramus, drew 63 teams, and 289 participants from every county in New Jersey.
First prize—four chess clocks—went to the Bayonne Chess Club, which won all five of its match games.
The Dumont team had the most number of individual wins, but tied in the fifth round with the top-rated Westfield Chess Club for a team score of 4½ each.
The four members of the Dumont team were county champion Ken Regan, 13, of Paramus, Leslie Ault of Closter, Kenneth Lebow of North Bergen, and Bernard Friend of Leonia, who also won a prize for best play on a third board.
St. Peter's Prep School Chess Club of Jersey City won top high school team honors for the second consecutive year.
Expert Eugene Shapiro, who led the Westfield Chess Club, was the tournament's top player.
Shapiro, who once attained a master rating, was given hard competition by high school student Catalda Stolfa of St. Peter's.
Tony Cottell, director of the Passaic-Clifton YMCA, has announced he will hold a U.S. Chess Federation-rated quadrangular chess tournament the first Sunday of every month in the Passaic-Clifton Y.M.C.A., 45 River Drive, Passaic.
The first tournament begins March 4 at 9:30 a.m. The entry fee is $5.
