Photos: 2007 Big Apple ST: Round 5

Jeremy Cahnmann (Chicago, IL), not content to eat only apples, moves onto bananas and breaks Ira Freehof up. Shhhh, games are in progress!

Dan Wachtell (New York, NY) vs. Joey Mallick (Cape Elizabeth, ME).

Jeremy Cahnmann (Chicago, IL), Joey Mallick (Cape Elizabeth, ME), and Joe Edley (Coram, NY) discuss chess move risks....

Robert Linn (Potomac, MD) vs. Joe Weinike (New York, NY) at table 1. Diane Firstman and Muriel Sparrow Reedy annotate.

Louis Schecter (Brooklyn, NY) vs. Mark DiBattista (Astoria, NY).

Eric Goldstein (Scarsdale, NY) vs. Debbie Stegman (Kew Gardens, NY). Stefan Fatsis (Washington, DC) looks on.

That is one BIG pocket calculator!

Ember Nelson (Buffalo, NY) vs. Richard Ferrara (Farmingdale, NY).

Stefan Fatsis (Washington, DC) plays one of his "Word Freaks," Joe Edley (Coram, NY).

Brian Bailey (Rockville, MD) vs. Rod MacNeil (Somerville, MA).

Randy Greenspan (Buffalo, NY), Joe Weinike (New York, NY), and Ember Nelson (Buffalo, NY).

John OLaughlin (Cambridge, MA) vs. Augustine Adda (Belleville, NJ).

Relative newcomer, Augustine Adda (Belleville, NJ) and his self-designed scoresheet book.

Jesse Day (New Haven, CT), John OLaughlin (Cambridge, MA), and Cecilia Le (Boston, MA) talk over an endgame.

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