New Technology!

Yesterday I finally got the smart board to work, Now I feel smart.  I put up a game between two grandmasters and challenged the students to find the best moves.  I get these puzzles from Bruce Pandolfini and his solitaire chess article in Chess Life Magazine.  Anyway the more advanced chess players got a mind workout and had fun doing it.

Chess club continues to be popular, and with the large amounts of children playing chess we have many games on the floor. 

It really excites me to see new players learning the game and enjoying the camaraderie

On the Ladder today Nathan Wei took over the top spot from Eric Liu.  Lots of fierce battles going on in the library.

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