Another Exciting day at the Borlaug Chess Club!  We Saw Nathan Wei dethroned by Vladimir Tivanski,  Aaron Smith Battled Barry Vigil for the 3rd spot on the ladder, I see rematches brewing next week.  On the Chess Ladder as a reminder you cannot play someone that is greater than 7 positions above you.  It will not count and please please please put last names when recording results Sebastian played Bob and I have no Bob on my chess club list and Alexander played Benji and I have no Alexander on my list unless it is a middle name or nickname.  (Update, I went to their classrooms and tracked down the results, Bob is Jikun Zhang and Alexander is Alexandra Curtu)

Big Thanks to Levant Bayman for labeling the new chess pieces, and to Mr. Wei for working on the chess skills book.  We have cool notation books with Borlaug logo stickers for those students completing the skills checklist.

We Will be having a Borlaug Chess Club Mini Tournaments in the Media Center on the 18th of October and the 15th of November right after school there will be two sections Unrated and USCF Rated.  Both sections will be G/30 for three rounds.  Start times will be 2:30, 3:30, and 4:30 so if you cannot be at one of the rounds you can request a bye.  There will be no trophies just bragging rights.


  1  +2  2  0 Vladimir Tivanski               
  2  -1  4  0 Nathan Wei                       
  3  +1  2  0 Aaron Smith                      
  4  -2  3  0 Barry vigil                      
  5   0  2  0 Liam Willett                     
  6   0  4  0 Joseph  Vigil                    
  7   0  1  0 Jacob Vigil                      
  8   0  1  0 Mohana Sunkara                   
  9   0  2  0 Justin Pieper                    
 10   0  1  0 Eric  Pieper                     
 11  +6  2  0 Benjamin Zhang                   
 12  -1  1  0 Alexandra Curtu                  
 13  -1  3  0 Andy Luo                         
 14  -1  0  1 Yifan Zhai                       
 15  -1  4  0 Jack Gray                        
 16  -1  2  0 Laurel Haverkamp                 
 17  +1  2  0 Yulong Shao                      
 18  -2  3  0 Thomas  Pierce                   
 19   0  4  0 Sebastian Cochran                
 20   0  0  1 Miranda Feng                     
 21   0  1  0 Jikun Zhang                      
 22   0  0  1 Jocelyn Hsieh                    
 23   0  0  1 Defne Bayman                     
 24   0  0  1 Richard Yang                     
 25   0  0  1 Reece Yang                       
 26   0  1  0 Connor  Houtman                  
 27   0  0  1 Sabrina  Du                      
 28   0  0  1 Karina Li                        
 29   0  1  0 Noah Willett                     
 30   0  1  0 Jimin Jung                       
 31   0  1  0 Emerson Bennett                  
 32   0  0  1 Lily (Hongjin) Li                
 33   0  0  1 Evan Green                       
 34   0  0  1 Josh Greene                      
 35   0  0  1 Amelia Stevens                   
 36   0  1  0 Tommy Stevens                    
 37   0  0  1 Emma Zheng                       
 38   0  0  1 Naomi A. Gugsa                   
 39   0  1  0 Shalom A. Gugsa                  
 40   0  0  0 Andrey  Arshava
41   0  0  0 Ryan Goodman                     
 42   0  0  0 Joey  Goodman