David Penkalski
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David Penkalski (1962- ) USCF Chess Senior Master, rated 2414, U.S. Open Blitz chess Champion (1994) and in the top fifty US Chess Players in 2000[1], as well as the Wisconsin State Champion ([2]), and Milwaukee City Champion.
Senior Master Penkalski also was an instructor at the Whitewater Instructional Summer Chess Camp in Wisconsin. Other notables to teach at the weeklong Wisconsin summer camp are IM Silman, Kaidanov, Gurevich, GM Zsófia Polgár, and GM Yasser Seirawan.
He is a proponent of Fischer Random Chess or "chess960", a chess variant that randomizes the initial placement of pieces on the first rank. It was created by the former World Chess Champion (1972-1975) Bobby Fischer to eliminate chess opening "book knowledge." However, his favorite chess opening is the King's Gambit.
In 2001, with Richard Lambrecht, Expert Tom Mertins and Xhelal Dema; he attempted to restart a Wisconsin chess newsletter called Wiz Chess after Badger Chess went defunct. Only 9 issues were printed and mailed. It is believed to be the first publication in which a regular column (Penkalski's, The King is Wild) was devoted completely to Fischer Random Chess.
Currently he is teaching chess to elementary students in schools in the northern suburbs of Chicago. He is a regular bullet chess player on the Free Internet Chess Server(FICS)[3].
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