Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Borlaug Player Wins Tournament!

At the latest chess tournament in Iowa City, Kirkwood Chess Wars V Andy Luo went 4.5 out of 5 games and took First Place, and Eric Liu tied for second with 4 games of 5!  Nathan Wei didn't do so shabby and placed 6th with 3 games.  I also want to congratulate Karina Li!  who came to her first rated tournament!  I showed the game she played against my daughter this morning and where she could have pulled out a victory.  (pictures to come later)

If you go to a tournament, you will get a notation book and we will spend time at chess club going over your games using a computer analysis of the game.  But we can only do this if you write down your games correctly.

I am hoping to have a rated tournament sometime over this holiday season, I will be out of town and have to work over Christmas.  Either Dec 31st during the day, or Jan 2nd the day before school, if you would be so kind, write a comment on which day would work better for you and I will try to have the tournament on the day that more people can attend.

On the Chess Ladder this morning, Barry Vigil defended his #1 spot by defeating Yulong, and was in the middle of a heated match with Andy Luo when time came to an end.  Aaron Smith was quite a speedy player and defeated three players in rapid succession.  Andrey joined US Chess this morning, and I hope to see him at tournaments in the near future.  Have a great holiday season and here are the results from this morning.

 1  +5  9  0 Barry vigil                      
  2 +45  3  0 Eric (Yo Yo) Liu                 
  3  +5 14  0 Nathan Wei                       
  4  +1 14  0 Aaron Smith                      
  5  -1 17  0 Andrey  Arshava                  
  6  -5 18  0 Yulong Shao                      
  7  +5 16  0 Jack Gray                        
  8  -6 10  0 Andy Luo                         
  9  -6 15  0 Liam Willett                     
 10  -3  8  0 Vladimir Tivanski                
 11  -2  7  0 Justin Pieper                    
 12  -2 14  0 Benjamin Zhang                   
 13   0  7  0 Jacob Vigil                      
 14  -3 15  0 Joseph  Vigil                    
 15  -1  2  0 Lily (Hongjin) Li                
 16  +5  4  0 Alexandra Curtu                  
 17  +1  5  0 Karina Li                        
 18  -1  7  0 Thomas  Pierce                   
 19  -4  7  0 Miranda Feng                     
 20  +6 10  0 Sebastian Cochran                
 21 +11  2  0 Richard Yang                     
 22  -3 10  0 Mohana Sunkara                   
 23  -7  8  0 Defne Bayman                     
 24  -4  6  0 Eric  Pieper                     
 25  -3  2  0 Yifan Zhai                       
 26  -3  2  0 Xinyu Wang                       
 27  -3  6  0 Sanjeev Sarin                    
 28  -3  6  0 Laurel Haverkamp                 
 29  -2  7  0 Jimin Jung                       
 30  -2  5  0 Noah Willett                     
 31  -2  4  0 Jikun Zhang                      
 32  -2  1  0 Sabrina  Du                      
 33  -2  3  0 Jocelyn Hsieh                    
 34  -1  2  0 Reece Yang                       
 35  -1  4  0 Emerson Bennett                  
 36  -1  2  0 Connor  Houtman                  
 37  -1  4  0 Evan Green                       
 38  -1  3  0 Josh Greene                      
 39  -1  0  3 Amelia Stevens                   
 40  +5  7  0 Jim Li                           
 41  -2  2  0 Tommy Stevens                    
 42  -2  2  0 Shalom A. Gugsa                  
 43  -2  2  0 Emma Zheng                       
 44  -2  0  3 Naomi A. Gugsa                   
 45  -2  1  1 Ryan Goodman                     
 46  -2  1  1 Joey  Goodman                    
 47  -1  2  0 David Zhou                


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