The Tuesday Night Masters is a 4 Round action chess tournament (GAME 30). It is limited to players rated above 2200. One U2200 player will have a chance to qualify each week, by finishing first U2200 in the Marshall Chess Club's Thursday Night Action.  Some of the best players compete in the NY Masters every week.  The 1st New York Masters tourney was held March 19, 2002.

To ensure Grandmaster participation, this event runs on sponsorship and donations, to be added to every prize fund. At the moment more than $300 is added to each prize fund, which results in first prizes often over $400.  Entry fee is $30 for members of the Marshall Chess Club and $40 for non-members. Entry for GM's is free and nothing will be deducted from any prize the GM may win.

If you have any questions about the event, if you want to donate, or if you want to play in the event, please contact Greg Shahade (or call him at 917-294-1338).  Any web related questions, contact John Fernandez.

The list of past participants reads like a veritable Who's Who of the New York chess scene, along with plenty of visitors: GM Maurice Ashley, GM Joel Benjamin, GM Pavel Blatny, GM Vitali Golod, GM Yehuda Gruenfeld, GM Ildar Ibragimov, GM Giorgi Kacheishvili, GM Kamil Miton, GM Evgeny Najer, GM Igor Novikov, GM Eloi Relange, GM Michael Rohde, GM Jonathan Rowson, GM Roland Schmaltz, GM Alex Shabalov, GM Alex Sherzer, GM Alexander Stripunsky, GM Alex Wojtkiewicz, GM Leonid Yudasin, IM Jay Bonin, IM Ronald Burnett, IM Pascal Charbonneau, IM Dean Ippolito, IM Boris Kreiman, IM Irina Krush, IM Hikaru Nakamura (now GM-elect!), WGM Elisabeth Paehtz, WIM Jenn Shahade, FM Sunil Weeramantry, and IM Greg Shahade just to name a few.

Here is a special message from IM Greg Shahade, on 8-25-03:

Dear Chess Fans,

The 4^th season of the NY Masters is coming to an end and what a fantastic season it has been! The most exciting development this season was the beginning of chess.fm’s live internet radio coverage of the NY Masters. This coverage sent the viewer-ship of the tournament through the roof, as there were regularly over 2000 listeners to the radio program, thus making it the most popular weekly show on chess.fm! The highly entertaining commentary of IM William Paschall and Tony Rook, has earned the highest of praise from everyone I’ve talked to so far. All of our sponsors also get mentioned each week on the air!

The 5^th season of the NY Masters is starting in a few weeks on September 15^th, and we are hoping for another raise in the sponsorship. Here were some highlights of the past season and plans for the future:

• We have now had over 160 players compete in the NY Masters from 28 different countries!

• We have awarded a whopping $46,000 in prize money!

• We have seen the emergence of young stars such as Lev Milman, Dmitro Kedyk, fantastic results from other young players such as WFM Laura Ross, and most recently 21 year old NM Yaacov Norowitz’ (2210) tied for first place with GM Jan Ehlvest!

• Our tournament regular, IM Jay Bonin, has played in all 69 events to this date. He capped it off in NY Masters 68 with his first ever NY Masters first place finish as he went 4-0 after an exciting last round battle with Canadian Champion, IM Pascal Charbonneau

• If we get our sponsorship amount to over $500 per week (This season it was $360 per week), we will disallow short draws on the top boards, thus providing for more exciting and fighting chess for the fans!

• The chess.fm coverage of the event has made the NY Masters the most popular regular chess event in the world. With this popularity, the traffic on our website has gone through the roof as our overall web hits and page requests have doubled in the past 20 weeks! We now have over 1.7 million hits!!

Come be a part of the most exciting thing happening in the chess world today! The sponsorship works as follows: You sponsor the tournament for a certain amount per season (each season is 20 weeks long), and that amount is divided towards all 20 tournaments of the season. For example:

You can donate any amount; you don’t have to stick to the above numbers. A large percentage of our sponsorship each season comes from sponsors of under $5 per week, so donations of any amount are a great help!

If you are interested in sponsoring the event or would like more information, please contact Greg Shahade by email at gregshahade@yahoo.com or by phone at (917) 294-1338.  You can also contact John Fernandez at jfernandez@jfern.com.

Sponsorship checks should be made out to Greg Shahade and can be sent directly to:

Greg Shahade
114 North 7^th St. Apt 1R
Brooklyn, NY 11211

If you do plan to sponsor please let us know as soon as possible as the final sponsorship amounts for Season 5 will be calculated on September 14^th! Thanks to all of our sponsors who have supported us so far.  We hope to see you back with for another exciting season of the NY Masters!

Sicilian Defense, Rossolimo Variation
(4) Ehlvest,J (2514) - Shahade,G (2662) [B52]
71st New York Masters New York (4), 02.09.2003

Stonewall Attack
(2) Norowitz,Y (2204) - Stripunsky,A (2660) [D00]
69th New York Masters New York (2), 19.08.2003

Sicilian Defense, Kan Variation
(3) Braylovsky,G (2386) - Yudasin,L (2682) [B43]
67th New York Masters New York (3), 05.08.2003

Sicilain Defence, Goteborg System
(2) Paehtz,E (2467) - Yudasin,L (2692) [B96]
66th New York Masters New York (2), 29.07.2003

Sicilian Defence, Closed Variation
(4) Stripunsky,A (2651) - Shabalov,A (2644) [B24]
65th New York Masters New York (4), 22.07.2003

Sicilian Defence, Najdorf Variation
(1) Kedyk,D (2361) - Nakamura,H (2656) [B99]
64th New York Masters New York (1), 15.07.2003

Sicilian Defence
(1) Cela,A (2393) - Ross,L (2144) [B30]
62nd New York Masters New York (1), 24.06.2003

Larsen Attack
3) Blatny,P (2563) - Bonin,J (2440) [A01]
60th New York Masters New York (3), 10.06.2003

Caro-Kann, 3.c5 Attack
(4) Yudasin,L (2692) - Bonin,J (2440) [B12]
59th New York Masters New York (4), 03.06.2003

Sicilian Defense, Kopec Variation
(3) Yudasin,L (2666) - Wojtkiewicz,A (2617) [B50]
57th New York Masters New York (3), 20.05.2003

Irregular Queen's Pawn
(1) Hahn,A (2231) - Bonin,J (2462) [A40]
56th New York Masters New York (1), 13.05.2003

Sicilian Defense, Paulsen Variation
(4) Charbonneau,P (2444) - Stripunsky,A (2643) [B42]
55th New York Masters New York (4), 06.05.2003

Grünfeld Defense, Closed Variation
(3) Akobian,V (2634) - Ehlvest,J (2705) [D94]
54th New York Masters New York (3), 29.04.2003

Irregular Opening
(3) Lapshun,Y (2566) - Paschall,W (2483) [A00]
53rd New York Masters New York (3), 22.04.2003

Queen's Indian Defense
(3) Nakamura,H (2632) - Schmaltz,R (2642) [E12]
52nd New York Masters New York (3), 15.04.2003

Nimzo-Indian Defense
(3) Ehlvest,J (2705) - Yudasin,L (2666) [E20]
51st New York Masters New York (3), 08.04.2003

Sicilian Defense, Rossolimo Variation
(4) Yudasin,L (2706) - Ehlvest,J (2702) [B30]
49th New York Masters New York (4), 25.03.2003

Reversed Sicilian
(4) Ehlvest,J (2702) - Stripunsky,A (2648) [A25]
47th New York Masters New York (4), 11.03.2003

Caro-Kann, Panov Attack
(4) Shahade,G (2510) - Yudasin,L (2706) [B14]
46th New York Masters New York (4), 04.03.2003

Philidor's Defense
(4) Stripunsky,A (2648) - Schmaltz,R (2628) [C41]
45th New York Masters New York (4), 25.02.2003

Sicilian Defence, Kan System
(4) Shahade,G (2510) - Schmaltz,R (2628) [B43]
44th New York Masters New York (4), 18.02.2003

Irregular Opening
(3) Blatny,Pavel (2564) - Kreiman,Boris (2581) [A00]
43rd New York Masters New York (3), 11.02.2003

Sicilian Defence, Kan System
(4) Shahade,G (2510) - Stripunsky,A (2648) [B43]
42nd New York Masters New York (4), 04.02.2003