Borlaug Chess Club: December 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.