Ron Luther is a chess player from Kansas City. He is a USCF Original Life Master and his USCF rating is currently 2200. His most notable chess achievements is winning the Missouri Championship eight times. He has also won or tied for 1st in over 150 USCF rated events.
Mr. Luther is well known for his chess playing prowess and wicked since of humor. Ron is a greatly respected figure in the Missouri chess community and often helps weaker players improve their chess playing.
Ron has been playing chess for over 30 years and is known around the Kansas City area as the KC Reaper.
2007 State Championship
After winning the 2006 Mo Invitational, 2007 KC Open, 2007 StLouis Open, 2007 Mo Class, Mr. Luther was seeded to play in the Missouri State Invitational chess tournament. Mr. Luther played strongly and won all his games against fellow chess players James R. Voelker, Nathanael David Swinger, Frank H. Smith, Bob Holliman, and Francis Crow, thus becoming the 2007 Missouri State Champion.
Cheating accusations
Ron Luther's chess career has been under scrutiny lately.
2007 St. Louis Open
At the 2007 St. Louis Open, Accusations of cheating have been made by the president of the Missouri Chess Association Ken Fee on the popular chess forum . The accusation involves giving a player an easy five-move draw in order to win the tournament. Although this is considered unethical by some chess players, prearranged draws aren't against USCF rules.
Mr. Luther is well known for his chess playing prowess and wicked since of humor. Ron is a greatly respected figure in the Missouri chess community and often helps weaker players improve their chess playing.
Ron has been playing chess for over 30 years and is known around the Kansas City area as the KC Reaper.
2007 State Championship
After winning the 2006 Mo Invitational, 2007 KC Open, 2007 StLouis Open, 2007 Mo Class, Mr. Luther was seeded to play in the Missouri State Invitational chess tournament. Mr. Luther played strongly and won all his games against fellow chess players James R. Voelker, Nathanael David Swinger, Frank H. Smith, Bob Holliman, and Francis Crow, thus becoming the 2007 Missouri State Champion.
Cheating accusations
Ron Luther's chess career has been under scrutiny lately.
2007 St. Louis Open
At the 2007 St. Louis Open, Accusations of cheating have been made by the president of the Missouri Chess Association Ken Fee on the popular chess forum . The accusation involves giving a player an easy five-move draw in order to win the tournament. Although this is considered unethical by some chess players, prearranged draws aren't against USCF rules.
"Bad 2 Be An Angel" is the first single from Lindsay Lohan's third studio album rumored to be titled '.
The song was supposed to be called "Nobody's Angel (I'm Not One Too)" but due to the fact the album has the same title, it was changed to "Bad 2 Be An Angel" although the album's name appears many times in the song lyrics.
The single has already been recorded in New York and is rumored to be released in late 2007 or early 2008 as Lindsay told Rolling Stone Magazine in September.
It's reported that Lindsay may have been in Henson Studios Hollywood, California recording material for the album.
The song was supposed to be called "Nobody's Angel (I'm Not One Too)" but due to the fact the album has the same title, it was changed to "Bad 2 Be An Angel" although the album's name appears many times in the song lyrics.
The single has already been recorded in New York and is rumored to be released in late 2007 or early 2008 as Lindsay told Rolling Stone Magazine in September.
It's reported that Lindsay may have been in Henson Studios Hollywood, California recording material for the album.
THE ORIGIN-
(Authors note: This article is intended for informational purposes about the characters, story and projects around the history of, the current projects of, and the characters in "Buck Moon" past, presnt, and future.)
"Buck Moon", from a horror comedy story of the same name, is a character created by actor/comedian/director Jack Matych. The story is of a bounty hunter (Buck) and his clumsy sidekick Oswald.
"It started as a short story," says Matych, "Just this stupid little thing about a guy who wears sunglasses and shoots everything up. And I decided to write a short film script from titled 'The adventures of Buck Moon, Monster Hunter'."
After taking this short film script to his good friend and musician Luke Sayers of the band, The Dead Alives, whose opinion on horror films he appreciates, he didn't like it. So Jack re-wrote the script. This process continued a few times until he had finally set the script on a shelf.
A few months later, Sayers asked to see the script again and after reading it, had made a single suggestion which had motivated Matych to write the first draft of the feature length script.
THE MOVIE-
After enlisting the help of Grand Rapids writer, Justin Dickinson to help write the screenplay, Matych attemtped to find a way to make this feature length film. In 2005 from the sales of t-shirt he was able to make a short film based off of it called, "Buck Moon: Got your back".
GOT YOUR BACK-
"Got your back" takes place after the events in the feature length story and finds Buck and Oswald tracking down a werewolf-type creature. The opening line, "It wasn't even a full moon..." obviously leads us to understand that this creature is obviously not a werewolf.
Jack Matych plays Buck Moon, the gruff, chain smoking antihero-hero along with Jason Eller (of the band AFTERNINE) as Oswald, his jittery, clumsy sidekick.
The double part of the doctor and the creature was played by John Long (stage name), a good friend of Matych and fellow performer from many stage shows in the past.
UNLEASHING TO THE PUBLIC-
"Got your back" was offered as a home burned DVD for sale. Few copies were sold. After many requests to offer the short film online so people could watch it instead, Matych recorded a commentary with his cousin and production manager, Kacy Thatcher for the short film and released that in May 2007 in two parts online...
...Few got the joke.
-BUCK MOON: THE COMIC BOOK
In August of 2007, Matych was approached by Jeff Barnes and Royce VanLoon of Dark Matter Comics to make a comic book version of Buck Moon which they intend as their launch title.
A preview issue (Issue #0) is planned for a December 2007 release. The story will be a precursor to what would have been the feature length "Buck Moon", followed by the next five issues which will be the full story that has been in the works since 2001.
THE FUTURE OF BUCK MOON-
Matych and Co. are planning a number of projects in the future including a new short film, and ultimately getting the feature length film made...someday.
Buck Moon and all characters are copyright 2004-2007 by Jack Matych.
(Authors note: This article is intended for informational purposes about the characters, story and projects around the history of, the current projects of, and the characters in "Buck Moon" past, presnt, and future.)
"Buck Moon", from a horror comedy story of the same name, is a character created by actor/comedian/director Jack Matych. The story is of a bounty hunter (Buck) and his clumsy sidekick Oswald.
"It started as a short story," says Matych, "Just this stupid little thing about a guy who wears sunglasses and shoots everything up. And I decided to write a short film script from titled 'The adventures of Buck Moon, Monster Hunter'."
After taking this short film script to his good friend and musician Luke Sayers of the band, The Dead Alives, whose opinion on horror films he appreciates, he didn't like it. So Jack re-wrote the script. This process continued a few times until he had finally set the script on a shelf.
A few months later, Sayers asked to see the script again and after reading it, had made a single suggestion which had motivated Matych to write the first draft of the feature length script.
THE MOVIE-
After enlisting the help of Grand Rapids writer, Justin Dickinson to help write the screenplay, Matych attemtped to find a way to make this feature length film. In 2005 from the sales of t-shirt he was able to make a short film based off of it called, "Buck Moon: Got your back".
GOT YOUR BACK-
"Got your back" takes place after the events in the feature length story and finds Buck and Oswald tracking down a werewolf-type creature. The opening line, "It wasn't even a full moon..." obviously leads us to understand that this creature is obviously not a werewolf.
Jack Matych plays Buck Moon, the gruff, chain smoking antihero-hero along with Jason Eller (of the band AFTERNINE) as Oswald, his jittery, clumsy sidekick.
The double part of the doctor and the creature was played by John Long (stage name), a good friend of Matych and fellow performer from many stage shows in the past.
UNLEASHING TO THE PUBLIC-
"Got your back" was offered as a home burned DVD for sale. Few copies were sold. After many requests to offer the short film online so people could watch it instead, Matych recorded a commentary with his cousin and production manager, Kacy Thatcher for the short film and released that in May 2007 in two parts online...
...Few got the joke.
-BUCK MOON: THE COMIC BOOK
In August of 2007, Matych was approached by Jeff Barnes and Royce VanLoon of Dark Matter Comics to make a comic book version of Buck Moon which they intend as their launch title.
A preview issue (Issue #0) is planned for a December 2007 release. The story will be a precursor to what would have been the feature length "Buck Moon", followed by the next five issues which will be the full story that has been in the works since 2001.
THE FUTURE OF BUCK MOON-
Matych and Co. are planning a number of projects in the future including a new short film, and ultimately getting the feature length film made...someday.
Buck Moon and all characters are copyright 2004-2007 by Jack Matych.
Matthew Thomas Pakes (nicknamed Pakesy), is a student at Glamorgan University in Wales.
Early Life
Matthew was born on the 31st of January 1989. He was born at St Mary's Hospital on the Isle of Wight. He attended various schools across the Island until finishing school at Medina High School, Newport.
Matthew received three A-levels in Physics, Maths and English Literature and Language.
Matthew is now attending Glamorgan University in Wales. He is studying Aerospace Engineering and is staying on campus in Pontypridd.
Gipsy Moth
Matthew was a crew member on the Gipsy Moth IV from the 25th of September to the 10th of October. He boarded the vessel in Plymouth and left in Gibraltar. Just before the voyage Matthew was said to be "in awe of The Bay of Biscay, but i'm looking forward to overcoming any challenges that come my way during the voyage.". During the voyage Matthew featured in many video clips often showing signs of seasickness, most notably on the 29th of September in a clip named [http://www.gipsymoth.org/gmtv.asp# "Matt's Diary"].
Sporting Life
Matthew is also an active member of . Being a young wicketkeeper for the first XI. In the 2006 cricket season he played 29 times, batting 25 of those and scoring an average of 4.27 runs. Matthew holds the Wootton CC record for the highest number of "ducks" in a season (9). He also averaged 0.6 catches, 0.3 stumpings and 0.4 run-outs per game as wicketkeeper. While his wicketkeeping technique is known to be slightly unorthodox, it has also proved to be successful, as proven by the relatively high rate of dismissals for a wicketkeeper at this level of cricket.
Matthew was awarded indoor cricketer of the year for the 2005/06 season . Following this he was elected indoor, and weekend (outdoor) vice captain for the second year running. Under his vice-captaincy, Wootton performed well coming a respectable 3rd place in the league and 2nd in the cup..
Early Life
Matthew was born on the 31st of January 1989. He was born at St Mary's Hospital on the Isle of Wight. He attended various schools across the Island until finishing school at Medina High School, Newport.
Matthew received three A-levels in Physics, Maths and English Literature and Language.
Matthew is now attending Glamorgan University in Wales. He is studying Aerospace Engineering and is staying on campus in Pontypridd.
Gipsy Moth
Matthew was a crew member on the Gipsy Moth IV from the 25th of September to the 10th of October. He boarded the vessel in Plymouth and left in Gibraltar. Just before the voyage Matthew was said to be "in awe of The Bay of Biscay, but i'm looking forward to overcoming any challenges that come my way during the voyage.". During the voyage Matthew featured in many video clips often showing signs of seasickness, most notably on the 29th of September in a clip named [http://www.gipsymoth.org/gmtv.asp# "Matt's Diary"].
Sporting Life
Matthew is also an active member of . Being a young wicketkeeper for the first XI. In the 2006 cricket season he played 29 times, batting 25 of those and scoring an average of 4.27 runs. Matthew holds the Wootton CC record for the highest number of "ducks" in a season (9). He also averaged 0.6 catches, 0.3 stumpings and 0.4 run-outs per game as wicketkeeper. While his wicketkeeping technique is known to be slightly unorthodox, it has also proved to be successful, as proven by the relatively high rate of dismissals for a wicketkeeper at this level of cricket.
Matthew was awarded indoor cricketer of the year for the 2005/06 season . Following this he was elected indoor, and weekend (outdoor) vice captain for the second year running. Under his vice-captaincy, Wootton performed well coming a respectable 3rd place in the league and 2nd in the cup..