New England top 25
| GM | LARRY M CHRISTIANSEN | 2657 | MA |
| GM | SERGEY KUDRIN | 2607 | CT |
| GM | ALEXANDER IVANOV | 2606 | MA |
| GM | ILDAR IBRAGIMOV | 2597 | CT |
| GM | EUGENE PERELSHTEYN | 2587 | MA |
| GM | JOSHUA EDWARD FRIEDEL | 2581 | NH |
| IM | DAVID VIGORITO | 2532 | MA |
| IM | MARC R ESSERMAN | 2516 | MA |
| IM | ROBERT ANDREW HUNGASKI | 2512 | CT |
| IM | IGOR FOYGEL | 2505 | MA |
| IM | JAN VAN DE MORTEL | 2462 | CT |
| DENYS KONSTANTIN SHMELOV | 2476 | MA | |
| FM | STEVEN M WINER | 2433 | MA |
| FM | CHARLES R RIORDAN | 2419 | MA |
| IM | WILLIAM MARK PASCHALL | 2417 | MA |
| FM | WILLIAM JOSEPH KELLEHER | 2393 | MA |
| FM | CHRISTOPHER W CHASE | 2378 | MA |
| FM | BRADEN BOURNIVAL | 2377 | NH |
| IM | JOSEPH H FANG | 2354 | NH |
| EDWARD F MCHUGH | 2344 | CT | |
| FM | PAUL MACINTYRE | 2343 | MA |
| FM | NELSON CASTANEDA | 2304 | CT |
| MAX ENKIN | 2301 | MA | |
| ALEX CHERNIACK | 2301 | MA | |
| LAWYER TIMES | 2298 | MA | |
The list has been compiled by Dave Couture
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Shouldn’t Nakamura be #1?
Naka does not live in New England.
I think IM James Rizzitano is missing from the list. I could be wrong, but I thought he lives in MA.
Nakamura doesn’t live in New England.
I guess a caveat is in order here. I took the info from the USCF’s “top members by state” list and I believe it only lists active players. I believe that means they have to have played a rated game within the last year and Rizz hasn’t played in about 2 years. Good catch though!
Rhode Island used to have guys like Jorge Hasbun-Sammour, Dave Griego, Sandeep Joshi, Jim Thibault, Eugene Curtin and a lot of masters.
It’s true about the RI players, but
Joshi hasn’t played since about 1986, Thibault seldom after the mid 80s, and the last time I saw Griego in action was at Philadelphia in 1994. I believe Curtin was a student from Ireland, who left the area about the time I moved to Boston (1982). Sammour plays out of New York now.