Last week, Jonathan Rasberry separated himself from the pack of 8 2/3 players with a win over Bill Melvin with the Black pieces. This week, he’ll play White against Miles Melvin, while Joel Friedman will challenge Bill Melvin on Board 2.

Come on out and check out the tournament! As a reminder, it isn’t too late to sign up to play a couple of the remaining rounds. $10 is still a pretty great rate for 2 rated games of chess. Sign up here.

Watch the top 2 boards LIVE. The previous live link has expired, but we’ll post another on the day of the tournament on our Huntsville Chess Club Facebook page.

The standings after 3 rounds are below.

#	Name	ID	Rtng	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Tot
1	Jonathan Rasberry	14678910	2105	W11	W7	W2	3
2	Bill Melvin	12406133	2200	W5	W3	L1	2
3	Miles Melvin	12699798	2020	W6	L2	W12	2
4	Robert Lubin	12504653	1849	L7	W12	W10	2
5	Ashish Acharya	16980497	1836	L2	W8	W14	2
6	Joel Nic Friedman	14466418	1646	L3	W9	W15	2
7	Logan Alex Richey	16459168	1554	W4	L1	W16	2
8	Tomasz Nielsen	12820023	1184	W16	L5	W11	2
9	Abhinav Ayyadevara	17016512	unr.	W13	L6	X17	2
10	Michael Porter	16765061	1042	H—	W13	L4	1.5
11	John Daugherty	11251510	1800	L1	W14	L8	1
12	Gabriel Tu Noland	16763278	1511	W15	L4	L3	1
13	Daniel Seewald	15989365	1044	L9	L10	B—	1
14	Patrick Thom Dowd	16240207	949	W17	L11	L5	1
15	Larisa V Friedman	16068066	841	L12	B—	L6	1
16	Douglas Seewald	17016444	unr.	L8	D17	L7	0.5
17	David Justi Clark	16723067	unr.	L14	D16	F9	0.5