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One of the
Applesauce's troubles seems to lie in their lack of
consistency, with at least one of their top players
always managing to have a very tough season. But
the main thing that has tripped them up has
questionalbly been the bottom board, having finished
with at the bottom of the league in Board Four score
each of the last two years.. With
their solid veterans, including two of their best
performers in recent seasons, IM
Eli Vovsha and FM
Andrei
Zaremba, Manhattan has every reason to be
confident in what their performance might be on the
middle boards. But the key to their success will
likely lie in their ability to solve their Board Four
troubles, and the responsiblity for that will likely
mostly fall to former Shark, NM
Matan Prilleltensky, as well as their still rising
young star, NM
James Black. Should Manhattan manage to
reach a more reasonable plateau on the bottom board,
with the aforementioned players manning the middle and
the third highest rated player in the League, GM
Alex Stripunsky, available at the top, 2011 could
well prove to be a break out year for the Applesauce. |