Great First Day for 2014-15 School year

In my third year of running chess club, I really liked the later start, as I was much more prepared to sign people up and perhaps the years of experience in running the chess club helped as well.  Lots of great chess going on.  Lots of new faces, which I really enjoyed seeing as well as many old faces. 

One thing, I am a little sad about is the scheduling, as many of our best players are in 6th grade and are now (Go Figure!) in pre-algebra and going to Northwest Jr High in the morning of Chess Club, Sigh... I hope that doesn't deter them from attending chess tournaments and supporting our school. 

I updated the chess ladder with everyone who turned in a form this morning, and left last years roster intact.  So Nathan Wei ended last year on top so he will start on top this year.  Then where ever your ranking was minus students who are not coming back, then I added in alphabetical order new students to chess club.  Hence the beginning rating.

We will be playing in the Eastern Iowa Chess League again this year against other schools in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids.  Schedule to be coming soon.  Also there was a first!  All the students put away the chess sets and I didn't find one piece on the floor!  Our new Librarian was very impressed!  Keep up the good work.

  1   0  0  0 Nathan Wei                         
  2   0  0  0 Barry  Vigil                       
  3   0  0  0 Liam Willett                       
  4  +1  0  0 Benjamin Zhang                     
  5  +2  0  0 Andy Luo                           
  6  +4  0  0 Akhil Bharanidhar                  
  7  +4  0  0 Aaron  Smith                       
  8  +4  0  0 Eric  Pieper                       
  9  +4  0  0 Justin Pieper                      
 10  +6  0  0 Thomas Pierce                      
 11  +6  0  0 Akshat Pawar                       
 12  +6  0  0 Noah Willett                       
 13  +7  0  0 Joey Vigil                         
 14  +7  0  0 Ajay Bharanidhar                   
 15  +7  0  0 Eddy  Xu                           
 16  +7  0  0 Aditya Malgaonkar                  
 17  +8  0  0 Luke Fasse                         
 18  +8  0  0 Jimin Jung                         
 19  +8  0  0 Alexandra Curtu                    
 20  +8  0  0 Jack Fasse                         
 21  +8  0  0 Defne Bayman                       
 22  +8  0  0 Alyson Skala                       
 23  +8  0  0 Ben Ciliberto                      
 24 +12  0  0 Anna  Zheng                        
 25 +12  0  0 Miranda Feng                       
 26 +12  0  0 Diana Tivanskaya                   
 27 +14  0  0 JJ Brown                           
 28 +14  0  0 Shanza Sami                        
 29 +15  0  0 Mohana Sunkara                     
 30 +15  0  0 Grace  Song                        
 31 +16  0  0 Jaehyun Jung                       
 32 +16  0  0 Maria Arshava                      
 33 +16  0  0 Alexander  Pierce                  
 34 +20  0  0 Yuning Shao                        
 35 +20  0  0 Ren Hutchinson                     
 36 +22  0  0 Mahmoud Aly                        
 37 +22  0  0 Huichan Jung                      
 38 +22  0  0 Brady Thoma                        
 39  +3  0  0 Asif Ali                           
 40  +2  0  0 Aneesh Arvind                      
 41  +2  0  0 Joey Bartelme                      
 42  +2  0  0 Nya Bunyan                         
 43  +2  0  0 Sarah Bunyan                       
 44  +2  0  0 Sophie Castro                      
 45  +2  0  0 Gabriella Ciliberto                
 46  +2  0  0 Julieta Fajardo-New                
 47  +2  0  0 Jaymeson Harms                     
 48  +2  0  0 Owen Houtman                       
 49  +1  0  0 Thomas  Keen                       
 50  +1  0  0 Aiden Liu                          
 51  +1  0  0 Aden Mascher                       
 52  +1  0  0 Cale Mascher                       
 53  +1  0  0 Anna  Miao                         
 54  +1  0  0 Bennett Olson                      
 55  +1  0  0 Rebecca Ren                        
 56  +1  0  0 Arieanna Singh                     
 57  +1  0  0 Isaac Smith                        
 58  +1  0  0 Gregory Van Auken                  
 59  +1  0  0 Collin Whitters                    
 60  +1  0  0 Flora Zhu