WOW! Lots of Chess! Already 49 members of the chess club!

We have 49 players!  I am so impressed.

Sorry about last week, I was not able to attend, thank you Saif, Charles and Shungang for running chess club.  We have kids playing chess all over the place!  There are not enough tables in the Library!

I think it is great.  I love seeing new players and welcome the old.  Lots of good chess going on!  I can't wait until our first "rated" chess club.  All of these USCF memberships I have been diligently filing with the United States Chess Federation, we will play some rated chess.  Watching the kids has been great, some of the older more experienced kids are teaching the younger ones.  I am getting the skills competency books ready to go and to start some puzzling. 

Eric Liu climbed to the top of the chess ladder.  And Liam Willet is now number 7.  Liam is quite a good chess player.  I felt bad for him as he didn't understand that we set up the chess ladder first signed up were on top, well Liam, you made it up to number 7.  Play Eric and shoot for the top!   And here is the ladder!

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