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		<title>U.S. Championships 2011  &#8211; St. Louis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A half dozen of us from the club are here in St. Louis today to watch the Semifinal Round 1 of the U.S. Championships. Garrett Scott, Joe Alford, Chris Morgan, Dennis Bourgerie, Michael Boyle, and I are all present. I will be blogging live / adding photos as I can today. After arriving and looking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laughingvulcan.org/blog/2011/04/23/u-s-championships-2011-st-louis/</link>
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		<title>Normal Open Chess</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(The all-too-cliche joke in Bloomington/Normal would be, &#8220;As opposed to Abnormal Open Chess?&#8221;) Yesterday it was up to Northbridge Baptist church to play in a 4 round G/70. In deference to the joke, though, the turnout was abnormally light. Aside from one person from Hudson, nobody from out of town came despite lots of promotion. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laughingvulcan.org/blog/2011/04/17/normal-open-chess/</link>
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		<title>Decompression starting&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the theme for this post&#8230; you can play it as you&#8217;re reading and it will be clear before the post is over. &#160; So now the scholastic season is over and done, the club championship is over and all we have left are the trophy presentations for it, and I&#8217;m taking a little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laughingvulcan.org/blog/2011/03/10/decompression-starting/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s been awhile&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Not that things haven&#8217;t been happening, rather that too much has been happening for me to keep up on the blogging. Scholastic season is almost done, the club chess championship ended Monday night (won&#8217;t even discuss my performance&#8230; but you can check out those results and more http://tccc.laughingvulcan.org/ ), and I&#8217;m darn near exhausted. A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laughingvulcan.org/blog/2011/03/02/its-been-awhile/</link>
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		<title>2nd Annual Gerald Anderson Memorial, Decatur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Updated:  Saturday night 11 PM. (Post tournament and end of live.) Pre-Tournament: All week long I&#8217;ve dithered&#8230;  I&#8217;m somewhat tired; I&#8217;ve went from directing to tournament to playing while directing to Chief TD directing to drawing the last of four correspondence games (and having no time to blog about it) and will be directing on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laughingvulcan.org/blog/2011/01/14/2nd-annual-gerald-anderson-memorial-decatur/</link>
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		<title>Blogging Live from DeKalb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Updated: 9:27 PM (Final Post on Live) Our last little adventure trying to get to DeKalb was interrupted by a blizzard. This morning, though, it&#8217;s supposed to be sunny and roads clear for the first tournament in Illinois of 2011.  My tournament kit is ready and I&#8217;ve got just a few things left before we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laughingvulcan.org/blog/2011/01/02/blogging-live-from-dekalb/</link>
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		<title>So the new year is upon us&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and I have it on good authority that Chess will continue to be played in 2011.  Correspondence update:  From my last update on November 11th.  I was right about the third game.  It ended with a loss, making me 1-2 with one game remaining.  (That one was a forfeit loss because of time, and by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laughingvulcan.org/blog/2010/12/29/so-the-new-year-is-upon-us/</link>
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		<title>The Return of the King!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little less than a month ago, I blogged about how excellent I felt that I had finally managed to draw a scholastic player that I&#8217;ve habitually lost to&#8230; Well, Vanity, thy name is LaughingVulcan! Monday was our usual club night, and we had ten people turn out to play Round 2 of the monthly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laughingvulcan.org/blog/2010/12/23/the-return-of-the-king/</link>
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		<title>First Scholastic Organizing Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been gearing up for my first experience organizing and being Chief TD of (what we hope will be!) a large scholastic tournament.  Chris (who will run the computer room) and I have been working on it pretty steadily, with lots of good help from the club members. Up until now I&#8217;ve worked the floor, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laughingvulcan.org/blog/2010/12/20/first-scholastic-organizing-experience/</link>
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		<title>For your reading and listening pleasure&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year I made up some Christmas Chess Filks and posted them on the USCF Forums. Now I am pleased to bring you this year&#8217;s new crop.  I&#8217;m a little more proud of these this year, if one can actually have pride over filk.  I am intending, time permitting, to record some of them on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laughingvulcan.org/blog/2010/12/17/for-your-reading-and-listening-pleasure/</link>
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