Borlaug Chess Club: 2013

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Great Results for the Anti Hunger Games

WOW! what a great turnout! On Dec 30th we had a chess tournament at Christ the King Lutheran Church, with a $5 entry fee going to feed the hungry in Johnson County. I also asked to bring a can if you can.

Well we raised $116 and 15lb in cans of food.

Barry and I bringing the Money and Food to the Crisis Center this morning.

Andy Lou won second place in the Over 1000 section

Barry Vigil won first place in the Under 1000 section

Thank you everyone for coming.

    1 | AUSTIN JAMES SCHAROSCH         |4.5  |W   8|W   2|D   3|W   4|W   5|
   IA | 12911304 / R: 1222P20->1229P25 |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q: 1006P14->1101P19 |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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    2 | BARRY J VIGIL                  |4.0  |W   9|L   1|W   7|W  12|W   4|
   IA | 14707608 / R:  851   -> 912    |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q:  838   -> 899    |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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    3 | ANDY LUO                       |3.5  |W   7|W  13|D   1|L   5|W   6|
   IA | 14604183 / R:  996   -> 985    |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q: 1028   ->1006    |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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    4 | JONATHAN CHEN                  |3.0  |W  19|W   6|W  11|L   1|L   2|
   IA | 14735100 / R:  991   -> 977    |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q: 1035   ->1006    |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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    5 | NIKALAUS HUERTER               |3.0  |W  15|L  10|W  14|W   3|L   1|
   IA | 13662253 / R:  809   -> 858    |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q:  857   -> 890    |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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    6 | PETE LANDE                     |3.0  |W  17|L   4|W  16|W  13|L   3|
   IA | 14842764 / R:  605   -> 610    |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q:  610   -> 615    |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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    7 | ATHENA WU                      |3.0  |L   3|W  20|L   2|W  14|W  12|
   IA | 15274655 / R:  413P4 -> 493P9  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q:  417P4 -> 497P9  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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    8 | ARUN DIXIT                     |3.0  |L   1|W   9|L  12|W  16|W  15|
   IA | 14607904 / R:  102P9 -> 224P14 |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q:  102P9 -> 226P14 |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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    9 | LUKE FASSE                     |2.5  |L   2|L   8|D  15|B    |W  13|
   IA | 15216322 / R: Unrated-> 248P4  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q: Unrated-> 250P4  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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   10 | MORGAN LU                      |2.0  |W  16|W   5|U    |U    |U    |
   IA | 14647806 / R: 1278   ->1283    |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q: 1388   ->1391    |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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   11 | NATHAN WEI                     |2.0  |W  20|W  18|L   4|U    |U    |
   IA | 14667795 / R:  956   -> 938    |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q:  992   -> 973    |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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   12 | DOMINIC RUTKOWSKI              |2.0  |L  18|W  19|W   8|L   2|L   7|
   IA | 15102978 / R:  378P5 -> 377P10 |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q:  407P5 -> 397P10 |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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   13 | CARTER CHRISTOPHER PHILLIPS    |2.0  |W  14|L   3|W  20|L   6|L   9|
   IA | 15324885 / R: Unrated-> 281P5  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q: Unrated-> 283P5  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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   14 | SEBASTIAN RUTKOWSKI            |2.0  |L  13|W  17|L   5|L   7|B    |
   IA | 15102880 / R:  103P5 -> 128P9  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q:  103P5 -> 128P9  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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   15 | GEORGE HUERTER                 |1.5  |L   5|L  16|D   9|W  17|L   8|
   IA | 15305576 / R:  250P5 -> 182P10 |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q:  252P5 -> 183P10 |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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   16 | HUTCHINSON REN                 |1.5  |L  10|W  15|L   6|L   8|D  17|
   IA | 15306867 / R: Unrated-> 179P5  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q: Unrated-> 180P5  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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   17 | MAX GERKE                      |1.5  |L   6|L  14|W  19|L  15|D  16|
   IA | 15324142 / R: Unrated-> 107P5  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q: Unrated-> 107P5  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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   18 | BENJAMIN ZHANG                 |1.0  |W  12|L  11|U    |U    |U    |
   IA | 15216337 / R: Unrated-> 645P2  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q: Unrated-> 673P2  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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   19 | JACK FASSE                     |0.0  |L   4|L  12|L  17|U    |U    |
   IA | 15216316 / R: Unrated-> 101P3  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q: Unrated-> 101P3  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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   20 | PATRICK JOSEPH SELBY           |0.0  |L  11|L   7|L  13|U    |U    |
   IA | 15271970 / R: Unrated-> 101P3  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q: Unrated-> 101P3  |     |     |     |     |     |     |

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Grades Championship and the Anti Hunger Games.

Well We had a great time at the Iowa Individual Grades Championship.

Barry Vigil, Vlad Tivanski and Jim Su played in the 5th Grade Section

Barry did quite well and tied for third place but lost on tiebreakers.
Jim and Vlad did ok and won two of their four games.
Nathan Wei won 3rd place in the 4th grade. It was a crazy good tournament with 5 Borlaug players out of 96 entrants.

Eddy Xu had a good tournament and won 5th place out of 11!

Over the Holiday Break I will be hosting the Anti Hunger Games at Christ the King Church in Iowa City.

Registration will start at 9am or you can register online. It will be USCF tournament (all Borlaug Players are USCF members) and the cost will be 5$ all profits will go to the Johnson County Food Bank. I will be sending out a more detailed announcement by email.

Thank you so much for the gifts yesterday morning. I felt the love this holiday season.

Here is the ladder.

1 +24 7 0 Nathan Wei
2 +20 11 0 Eric Liu
3 -2 12 0 Barry Vigil
4 +1 9 0 Aaron Smith
5 +31 9 0 Jim Su
6 +6 9 0 Andy Luo
7 +25 8 0 Andrey Arshava
8 +13 8 0 Yulong Shao
9 -1 5 0 Justin Pieper
10 +35 6 0 Vladimir Tivanski
11 +6 7 0 Benjamin Zhang
12 +30 12 0 Liam Willett
13 +26 12 0 Rani Youness
14 -7 6 0 Eric Pieper
15 +12 9 0 Akhil Bharanidhar
16 +14 15 0 Thomas Pierce
17 -14 9 0 Jacob Vigil
18 +1 12 0 Luke Fasse
19 -4 13 0 Jimin Jung
20 +21 17 0 Noah Willett
21 -19 15 0 Joey Vigil
22 +15 13 0 Joe Su
23 -14 5 0 Alexandra Curtu
24 -4 15 0 Jack Fasse
25 -15 4 0 Akshat Pawar
26 -22 3 0 Defne Bayman
27 -3 8 0 Ben Ciliberto
28 +19 4 0 Alyson Skala
29 -16 6 0 Sanjeev Sarin
30 -24 7 0 Eddy Xu
31 -13 2 0 Reece Yang
32 -16 2 0 Edward Keen
33 -10 2 0 Aditya Malgaonkar
34 +1 5 0 Yifan Bu
35 -24 0 0 Anna Zheng
36 -22 2 0 Miranda Feng
37 +3 5 0 Dani Youness
38 +11 15 0 JJ Brown
39 -13 2 0 Ajay Bharanidhar
40 -12 0 0 Shanza Sami
41 +2 1 0 Serena Li
42 +2 2 0 Mohana Sunkara
43 +3 4 0 Diana Tivanskaya
44 -10 5 0 Sachiko Goto
45 -16 7 0 Alexander Pierce
46 +4 6 0 Tadamichi Goto
47 -16 0 0 Joshua Park
48 -15 1 0 Sebastian Cochrane
49 -11 2 0 Joy Su
50 -2 2 0 Grace Song
51   0 2 0 Yuning Shao
52   0 0 0 Ren Hutchinson
53   0 1 0 Maria Arshava
54   0 0 0 Thomas Keen
55   0 0 0 Zuhair Adnan

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Next Match 28 Feb against Horn/ grades championship in Ames this Saturday

I realize this is parent teacher conference day, but with enough notice we should be able to work it out.

had a lot of games at chess club.

I have a Suburban going to Ames this weekend for the Grades Championship on Saturday. I'm hoping to have a good turnout from Eastern Iowa. It is chess season.

Here is the ladder. Nathan and Eric are battling for first, they had a heated game on Wed Morning, and it is still going on.

1 +24 7 0 Nathan Wei
2 +20 11 0 Eric Liu
3 -2 11 0 Barry Vigil
4 +1 8 0 Aaron Smith
5 +31 8 0 Jim Su
6 +26 7 0 Andrey Arshava
7 +5 8 0 Andy Luo
8 +13 8 0 Yulong Shao
9 -1 5 0 Justin Pieper
10 +35 6 0 Vladimir Tivanski
11 +6 6 0 Benjamin Zhang
12 +30 11 0 Liam Willett
13 -6 4 0 Eric Pieper
14 +13 9 0 Akhil Bharanidhar
15 +24 10 0 Rani Youness
16 -13 7 0 Jacob Vigil
17 +2 12 0 Luke Fasse
18 -3 13 0 Jimin Jung
19 +22 17 0 Noah Willett
20 +10 14 0 Thomas Pierce
21 -19 15 0 Joey Vigil
22 +15 12 0 Joe Su
23 -3 14 0 Jack Fasse
24 -14 4 0 Akshat Pawar
25 -21 3 0 Defne Bayman
26 -17 4 0 Alexandra Curtu
27 -3 8 0 Ben Ciliberto
28 +19 4 0 Alysa Skala
29 -16 6 0 Sanjeev Sarin
30 -24 7 0 Eddy Xu
31 -13 2 0 Reece Yang
32 -16 2 0 Edward Keen
33 +2 4 0 Yifan Bu
34 -11 1 0 Aditya Malgaonkar
35 -24 0 0 Anna Zheng
36 -22 2 0 Miranda Feng
37 +12 13 0 JJ Brown
38 +2 4 0 Dani Youness
39 -13 1 0 Ajay Bharanidhar
40 -12 0 0 Shanza Sami
41 +2 1 0 Serena Li
42 +2 2 0 Mohana Sunkara
43 -9 3 0 Sachiko Goto
44 -15 6 0 Alexander Pierce
45 +5 5 0 Tadamichi Goto
46 -15 0 0 Joshua Park
47 -14 1 0 Sebastian Cochrane
48 -2 3 0 Diana Tivanskaya
49 -11 2 0 Joy Su
50 -2 2 0 Grace Song
51   0 2 0 Yuning Shao
52   0 0 0 Ren Hutchinson
53   0 1 0 Marcia Arshava
54   0 0 0 Thomas Keen
55   0 0 0 Zuhair Adnan

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Prairie Chess Round 1

We did pretty good the first round of the Prairie Chess Series. Nathan Wei won third overall in the K-5 Section. Eddy Xu won 1st place under 400 in the K-2 section. It was Eddy's first tournament. I love the face of a kid winning their first chess trophy!

In the Team Section, although I have not seen the official results I think we are second in K-5 but 4th or 5th in the K-2 Section, However the K-2 section was under represented as only 10 kids showed up and we could ROCK the section by showing up in force.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

No Chess Club Dec 4th and Updated Chess Ladder T Shirts!

Remember no Chess Club on the 4th of December,

The Fasse Brothers did a tag team WWF smackdown on Noah Willet and JJ Brown yesterday. I think it was because their parents were watching and they wanted to impress them.

Get the T-Shirts! Lets look good as we go to these upcoming Tournaments. I handed out flyers, and they are posted by Mary in the Front Office.

1 +24 7 0 Nathan Wei
2 +20 11 0 Eric Liu
3 -2 10 0 Barry Vigil
4 +1 6 0 Aaron Smith
5 +27 6 0 Andrey Arshava
6 +6 7 0 Andy Luo
7 +14 7 0 Yulong Shao
8   0 5 0 Justin Pieper
9 +36 6 0 Vladimir Tivanski
10 +7 6 0 Benjamin Zhang
11 +31 10 0 Liam Willett
12 +24 7 0 Jim Su
13 -6 4 0 Eric Pieper
14 +13 9 0 Akhil Bharanidhar
15 +24 10 0 Rani Youness
16 -13 7 0 Jacob Vigil
17 +2 10 0 Luke Fasse
18 -3 12 0 Jimin Jung
19 +22 15 0 Noah Willett
20 -18 14 0 Joey Vigil
21 +16 12 0 Joe Su
22 -2 14 0 Jack Fasse
23 +7 12 0 Thomas Pierce
24 -20 3 0 Defne Bayman
25 -16 4 0 Alexandra Curtu
26 -2 8 0 Ben Ciliberto
27 +20 4 0 Alyson Skala
28 -15 6 0 Sanjeev Sarin
29 -23 6 0 Eddy Xu
30 -12 2 0 Reece Yang
31 -15 2 0 Edward Keen
32 +3 4 0 Yifan Bu
33 -10 1 0 Aditya Malgaonkar
34 -24 3 0 Akshat Pawar
35 -24 0 0 Anna Zheng
36 -22 2 0 Miranda Feng
37 +12 11 0 JJ Brown
38 +2 2 0 Dani Youness
39 -13 1 0 Ajay Bharanidhar
40 -12 0 0 Shanza Sami
41 +2 1 0 Serena Li
42 +2 2 0 Mohana Sunkara
43 -9 2 0 Sachiko Goto
44 +6 3 0 Tadamichi Goto
45 -16 5 0 Alexander Pierce
46 -15 0 0 Joshua Park
47 -14 1 0 Sebastian Cochrane
48 -2 3 0 Diana Tivanskaya
49 -11 2 0 Joy Su
50 -2 2 0 Grace Song
51   0 1 0 Yuning Shao
52   0 0 0 Ren Hutchinson
53   0 0 0 Marcia Arshava
54   0 0 0 Thomas Keen
55   0 0 0 Zuhair Adnan

Monday, November 11, 2013

ICPL Kids Chess Tournament 2013 in memory of Steve Young

ICPL Kids Chess Tournament 2013

We had 17 Kids represented in the 84 that came to the event! WOW!!!!!

Last year there were 59 kids at the library tournament, this year. 84! We had to bring in extra tables and luckily my friend Jim brought extra chess sets. These are the cross tables, and not in tiebreak order.

3rd grade and under

No.	Name	Rate	Pts	Rnd1	Rnd2	Rnd3	Rnd4
1	Thompson, Kian	653	4.0	W18	W19	W17	W4
2	Fiedorowicz, Isabe	381	4.0	W24	W21	W12	W3
3	Lodh, Anjali	511	3.0	W11	W9	W8	L2
4	Chen, Nathan	492	3.0	W27	W14	W5	L1
5	Gururaja, Tejas Ki	161	3.0	W10	W23	L4	W6
6	Keeney, Sierra Mar	127	3.0	W7	W32	W25	L5
7	Brintle, Marcus		3.0	L6	W28	W19	W17
8	Weimer, Nathan		3.0	W15	W30	L3	W13
9	Willett, Noah Chri		3.0	W26	L3	W18	W14
10	Wu, Athena		3.0	L5	W27	W32	W15
11	Selby, Patrick		2.5	L3	W31	D21	W24
12	Saxena, Anushka	758	2.0	W33	W13	L2	-U-
13	Dixit, Arun	102	2.0	-B-	L12	W20	L8
14	Eltoft, Cameron		2.0	W28	L4	W23	L9
15	Havens, Robi		2.0	L8	W16	W29	L10
16	Kozich, Aden		2.0	L25	L15	W33	W30
17	Lu, Henry		2.0	W22	W25	L1	L7
18	Su, Joe		2.0	L1	W26	L9	W29
19	Tran, Adrian (andy		2.0	W31	L1	L7	W25
20	Tran, Alexandra		2.0	D30	D24	L13	W27
21	Dains, Quinn		1.5	W29	L2	D11	-U-
22	Green, Vincent		1.5	L17	-B-	D30	L23
23	Mannengi, Shiva		1.5	D32	L5	L14	W22
24	Reddy, Aman		1.5	L2	D20	W26	L11
25	Koh, Eric Shih	104	1.0	W16	L17	L6	L19
26	Ali, Ahmed		1.0	L9	L18	L24	W33
27	Ali, Mohanad		1.0	L4	L10	-B-	L20
28	Ciliberto, Ben		1.0	L14	L7	W31	-U-
29	Dillon, Eleanor		1.0	L21	W33	L15	L18
30	Recobe, Javier		1.0	D20	L8	D22	L16
31	Xu, Eddy		1.0	L19	L11	L28	-B-
32	Restrepo, Nicholas		0.5	D23	L6	L10	-U-
33	Naveen-Kumar, Akshetana		0.0	L12	L29	L16	L26

4th grade

No.	Name	Rate	Pts	Rnd1	Rnd2	Rnd3	Rnd4
1	Wei, Nathan	903	3.5	W19	W8	W11	D3
2	Lee, Frank	771	3.5	W14	W10	D3	W7
3	Palaniappan, Arjun	910	3.0	W18	W4	D2	D1
4	Thompson, Luke	357	3.0	W6	L3	W13	W12
5	Chackalackal, Luca		3.0	L7	-B-	W19	W11
6	Issay, Niki		3.0	L4	W14	W18	W15
7	Luo, Andy	996	2.5	W5	D13	W9	L2
8	Willett, Liam Mich	282	2.5	W16	L1	D15	W13
9	Mascardo, Caroline	596	2.0	W12	L11	L7	W18
10	Wilson, Leo	279	2.0	W17	L2	L12	W16
11	Pierce, Thomas	278	2.0	-B-	W9	L1	L5
12	Basri, Akash Gopal		2.0	L9	W16	W10	L4
13	Kumar, Aadarsh Day	379	1.5	W15	D7	L4	L8
14	Alaya, Yusef		1.5	L2	L6	W17	D19
15	Bodin, Caleb		1.5	L13	W17	D8	L6
16	Boaz, Abramoff		1.0	L8	L12	-B-	L10
17	Dillon, Leah		1.0	L10	L15	L14	-B-
18	Segvel, Avi		1.0	L3	W19	L6	L9
19	Thommason, Evan		0.5	L1	L18	L5	D14

5th grade

No.	Name	Rate	Pts	Rnd1	Rnd2	Rnd3	Rnd4
1	Ogrin-Cotarlan, Sa	900	4.0	W16	W6	W13	W2
2	Lu, Kevin	959	3.0	W10	W5	W4	L1
3	Liu, Eric	841	3.0	W12	L8	W11	W13
4	Vigil, Barry J	753	3.0	W18	W7	L2	W9
5	Heller, Evan	541	3.0	W11	L2	W18	W8
6	Kasturirangan, Muk	287	3.0	W9	L1	W15	W7
7	Tivanski, Vladimir	907	2.0	W17	L4	W8	L6
8	Tataurov, Ilya	354	2.0	W14	W3	L7	L5
9	Yang, Reece	187	2.0	L6	-B-	W17	L4
10	Ali, Mohamed		2.0	L2	D17	D19	W18
11	Eltoft, Connor		2.0	L5	W16	L3	W14
12	Ovel, Chloe		2.0	L3	L18	W16	W15
13	Zhang, Benjamin		2.0	W19	W14	L1	L3
14	Baney, Breanna		1.0	L8	L13	-B-	L11
15	Kempuraj, Deepak		1.0	-U-	W19	L6	L12
16	Leira, Marta		1.0	L1	L11	L12	-B-
17	Schmidt-Rundell, Heidi		1.0	L7	D10	L9	D19
18	Su, Jim		1.0	L4	W12	L5	L10
19	White-Laffey, Maxwell		1.0	L13	L15	D10	D17

6th Grade

No.	Name	Rate	Pts	Rnd1	Rnd2	Rnd3	Rnd4
1	Geng, Dillon	912	4.0	W7	W4	W3	W2
2	Jessop, Roman		2.5	D4	W5	W6	L1
3	Nyberg, Jacob		2.5	W8	W6	L1	D4
4	D'Alessandro, Etha	540	2.0	D2	L1	W7	D3
5	Thomasson, Aaron	515	2.0	L6	L2	W8	-B-
6	Bodin, Danny		2.0	W5	L3	L2	W7
7	Schmidt-Rundell, Spencer		1.0	L1	W8	L4	L6
8	Trom, Sophie	106	0.0	L3	L7	L5	-U-

Steve young hot shots

No.	Name	Rate	Pts	Rnd1	Rnd2	Rnd3
1	Lodh, Anish	1357	2.0	W4	W5	L2
2	Kozich, Andrew Joh	1302	2.0	L5	W6	W1
3	Fiedorowicz, Owen	1179	2.0	L6	W4	W5
4	Ogrin-Cotarlan, An	1037	1.0	L1	L3	W6
5	Kuznetsov, Yegor	1033	1.0	W2	L1	L3
6	Chen, Jonathan	1005	1.0	W3	L2	L4

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Puzzle Day!

Not much movement on the Chess Ladder as many of our chess players were doing some chess puzzles. I offered a package of space food as a prize for the student who got the best score on a series of 4 chess puzzles I set up. 4 Students tied with one correct answer. Jack and Luke Fasse, Vladimir Tivanski and Justin Pieper. The Puzzles were from October Chess Life for Kids. We will go over the answers next chess club.

XABCDEFGHY
8rsn-+k+ntr(
7zplzp-+pzpp'
6-+-wq-+-+&
5+p+-sN-+-%
4-+p+-+-+$
3wQP+-+-+-#
2PvL-zPPzPPzP"
1tR-+-mKL+R!
xabcdefghy

Black to Move

XABCDEFGHY
8r+-+-mk-+(
7+-zp-+pzp-'
6-vl-+-+n+&
5+p+p+qsN-%
4-+-+R+-+$
3+-+-+-wQ-#
2-zP-+RzPP+"
1+-+-+-mK-!
xabcdefghy

White To Move

XABCDEFGHY
8r+-wq-trk+(
7zpl+n+pvL-'
6-+p+p+-+&
5+p+-+-+p%
4-+pzPP+pzP$
3+-sN-+P+-#
2PzPQ+-+P+"
1+-+R+RmK-!
xabcdefghy

Black to Move

XABCDEFGHY
8R+-+-+-+(
7+-+-+-+-'
6P+-+-+-+&
5+-+-+p+k%
4r+-+-zP-+$
3+-+-+PmK-#
2-+-+-+-+"
1+-+-+-+-!
xabcdefghy
Black to Move

I made a scheduling error, our match against Prairie will not be on November 7th, as it is parent teacher conferences, so tentatively we plan for Nov 14th.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

First Match of the EICL is scheduled for November 7th vs Prairie Chess Club in Cedar Rapids!

Yes it is here, the Eastern Iowa Chess League.

I am looking for parental volunteers to arrange carpools to transport our club up to Cedar Rapids after school on Thursday the 7th of November. I think this is a great opportunity to play chess against another school, last year we had some tournaments in the library of Borlaug but I think having a focus on playing another school is a keen idea.

Today we had 6 rated games! I am so glad the kids are using the clocks and playing a rated game. I will be submitting the games to US Chess after the last chess club of the month, as there is a 3 dollar minimum charge and since it is 25 cents to rate a game, and so far there have been 11 games to rate over three weeks. But with using the clocks and getting familiar with them, it will help if and when the kids do get to a chess tournament, they wont get freaked out having to use one, it will be more natural.

on the chess ladder Barry Vigil defended his #2 spot, as Nathan was not present, Eric Liu not only did the Borlaug announcements this morning but defended his #3 spot from the hard as the Siberian Frost Vladimir Tivanski.

Lots of good chess happening.

1 +24 5 0 Nathan Wei
2 -1 6 0 Barry Vigil
3 +19 9 0 Eric Liu
4 +1 4 0 Aaron Smith
5 +40 4 0 Vladimir Tivanski
6 +30 5 0 Jim Su
7 +14 4 0 Yulong Shao
8 -1 1 0 Eric Pieper
9 +18 8 0 Akhil Bharanidhar
10 +32 5 0 Liam Willett
11 +21 4 0 Andrey Arshava
12 -9 5 0 Jacob Vigil
13 +24 7 0 Joe Su
14 -6 4 0 Justin Pieper
15 +2 4 0 Benjamin Zhang
16 +25 9 0 Noah Willett
17 +3 12 0 Jack Fasse
18 +1 7 0 Luke Fasse
19 -17 10 0 Joey Vigil
20 -8 3 0 Andy Luo
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