Tounraments Galore!

Today, I observed a lot of seriously contended chess matches.  I loved the concentration that kids were putting forth in playing their games. 

Upcoming Tournaments

Tomorrow!  Borlaug After School Special!  3 round G30 Swiss at 2:30pm at the Borlaug Media Center!  should be over at 5:30pm and we will have Medals this time! for the top three players in both the Rated and Unrated Sections.

Saturday Nov 17th!  The ICPL Kids Chess Tournament in Memory of Steve Young!  3rd thru 6th graders, and USCF members under 3rd grade.  It will be 12:00 to register, first game at 1:00pm and goes to 4:30, Steve Young's sister will be present to hand out the trophies and see the legacy her brother created here in Iowa City.

Saturday Dec 1st!  the K-12 open tournament for scholastic chess!  I think we have an excellent k-3 team and K-6 team.  I think we can get some hardware if we go.  I will be driving 5 kids in my Suburban, perhaps we could get some other parents to carpool and get a large team presence, perhaps we can convince Anne Marie to let us put the trophies on top of the bookshelves? 

I went to the Quad cities and won the U1000 in the Veterans Day Classic at the Lodge this past weekend winning 3 of my 4 games and tying my final game.  My kids were impressed that daddy came home with a trophy.

On the Chess Ladder  Yulong was dethroned by Andrey, and then consoled himself by finishing the skills checklist and walking away with one of those spiffy chess move recording books, emblazoned with a Borlaug Chess Club sticker!  Andy Luo also completed his skills checklist.  Good Job Guys!

 1  +3 12  0 Andrey  Arshava                 
  2  -1 14  0 Yulong Shao                     
  3  -1  8  0 Andy Luo                        
  4  +3  6  0 Vladimir Tivanski               
  5  -2 10  0 Liam Willett                    
  6  -1 11  0 Aaron Smith                     
  7  -1  6  0 Barry vigil                     
  8   0  9  0 Nathan Wei                      
  9   0  6  0 Justin Pieper                   
 10   0  9  0 Benjamin Zhang                  
 11  +1 11  0 Jack Gray                       
 12  -1 11  0 Joseph  Vigil                   
 13   0  4  1 Jacob Vigil                     
 14   0  2  0 Lily (Hongjin) Li               
 15   0  5  0 Miranda Feng                    
 16  +3  8  0 Mohana Sunkara                  
 17  -1  6  0 Defne Bayman                    
 18  -1  5  0 Thomas  Pierce                  
 19  -1  3  0 Karina Li                       
 20   0  4  0 Eric  Pieper                    
 21   0  3  0 Alexandra Curtu                 
 22   0  2  0 Yifan Zhai                      
 23   0  2  0 Xinyu Wang                      
 24   0  5  0 Sanjeev Sarin                   
 25   0  6  0 Laurel Haverkamp                
 26   0  6  0 Sebastian Cochran               
 27   0  6  0 Jimin Jung                      
 28   0  4  0 Noah Willett                    
 29   0  4  0 Jikun Zhang                     
 30   0  1  0 Sabrina  Du                     
 31   0  3  0 Jocelyn Hsieh                   
 32   0  0  3 Richard Yang                    
 33   0  1  1 Reece Yang                      
 34   0  4  0 Emerson Bennett                 
 35   0  2  0 Connor  Houtman                 
 36   0  2  0 Evan Green                      
 37   0  1  0 Josh Greene                     
 38   0  0  3 Amelia Stevens                  
 39   0  1  2 Tommy Stevens                   
 40   0  2  0 Shalom A. Gugsa                 
 41   0  1  0 Emma Zheng                      
 42   0  0  3 Naomi A. Gugsa                  
 43   0  1  1 Ryan Goodman                    
 44   0  1  1 Joey  Goodman                   
 45   0  4  0 Jim Li