Upcoming Tournaments, and New Players! And lots of Rain!

So much for the drought I guess

Tournaments coming up

1st the Class E and Under State Championship on Saturday the 27th of April at the Kirkwood Hotel in Cedar Rapids.  This one is open to all ages and abilities.  A great one to play along with your kids!  Since it is a state championship event Iowa Chess Association Membership is required 10$ for a year for a Jr. Player. 

The second is on May 11th-12th a two Day event at Ice Harbor in Dubuque, this is crazy as inbetween games you can swim in the waterpark!  We have 5 players from Borlaug already signed up and I think we will be competing in some team competitions.

Flyers for both of these tournaments will be posted at the front desk of the school.

In Club play this morning we almost had a change of the Guard.  Eric Yo Yo Liu had Barry Vigil on the Ropes with a queen and a King Vs a lone Queen.  Eric unfortunately provided Barry with a draw in the following position.  BLACK to move.

Black cannot move, and thus a stalemate.  I would say that Yo Yo needs a rematch next week.

We had three new players join the club this morning Welcome Yifan Bu, and Laura and Serena Li.  I hope you learn lots of chess and have fun.  Results of the Chess Ladder

 1  +5 18  0 Barry vigil                       
  2 +45  5  0 Eric (Yo Yo) Liu                  
  3  -1 20  0 Andy Luo                          
  4  +4 20  0 Nathan Wei                        
  5  +2 11  0 Vladimir Tivanski                 
  6  -5 24  0 Yulong Shao                       
  7  -2 20  0 Aaron Smith                       
  8  -4 20  0 Andrey  Arshava                   
  9  +3 24  0 Jack Gray                         
 10 +10 15  0 Eric  Pieper                      
 11  -8 21  0 Liam Willett                      
 12  -3 11  0 Justin Pieper                     
 13 +35 12  0 Akhil Bharanidhar                 
 14  -1 11  0 Jacob Vigil                       
 15  -5 17  0 Benjamin Zhang                    
 16  -5 21  0 Joseph  Vigil                     
 17  +4  7  0 Alexandra Curtu                   
 18  -1  9  0 Thomas  Pierce                    
 19   0 21  0 Mohana Sunkara                    
 20 +17 10  0 Josh Greene                       
 21 +12  4  0 Reece Yang                        
 22 +23 17  0 Jim Li                            
 23 +30  6  0 Sachiko  Goto                     
 24 +16 11  0 Shalom A. Gugsa                   
 25 +27  7  0 Diana Tivanski                    
 26 -12  7  0 Lily (Hongjin) Li                 
 27  -9  6  0 Karina Li                         
 28 -13  7  0 Miranda Feng                      
 29  +2  6  0 Jocelyn Hsieh                     
 30  -4 16  0 Sebastian Cochran                 
 31  -3  9  0 Noah Willett                      
 32   0  3  0 Richard Yang                      
 33 -17  8  0 Defne Bayman                      
 34 -12  2  0 Yifan Zhai                        
 35 -12  5  0 Xinyu Wang                        
 36  -9 12  0 Jimin Jung                        
 37 -13  7  0 Sanjeev Sarin                     
 38 -13  6  0 Laurel Haverkamp                  
 39 -10  6  0 Jikun, (Bob) Zhang                
 40 -10  1  0 Sabrina  Du                       
 41  -7  4  0 Emerson Bennett                   
 42  -7  3  0 Connor  Houtman                   
 43  -7  9  0 Evan Green                        
 44  -6  0  3 Amelia Stevens                    
 45  -6  2  0 Tommy Stevens                     
 46  -5  4  0 Emma Zheng                        
 47  -5  0  3 Naomi A. Gugsa                    
 48  -5  1  1 Ryan Goodman                      
 49  -5  1  1 Joey  Goodman                     
 50  -4  2  0 David Zhou                        
 51  -2  4  0 Ajay Bharanidhar                  
 52  -2  1  0 Yeon (Jay)  Lim                   
 53  -2  0  0 YoonJi (Beth) Lim                 
 54   0  6  0 J.J. Brown                        
 55   0  1  0 Serena Li                         
 56   0  0  0 Laura Li                          
 57   0  1  0 Yifan Bu