Great Work Bulldogs!

Check out the Trophies at the front desk

1st Place 7th Annual Weber Chess Tournament
3rd Place K-5 overall Prairie Chess Series
1st Place K-2 overall Prairie Chess Series

We are now a Chess Force to be reckoned with!  Congratulations team! 

I put two chess sets down in the After School Program for kids to practice with.  And thank you Charles Pierce for volunteering to do lessons at club in the morning, I can see some lights going on.  When Charles was explaining the two rook checkmate he was doing the Micheal Jackson Moonwalk!  It was a sight to see, but I think JJ got the concept. 

Here is the updated ladder.

 1  +5 18  0 Barry vigil                       
  2  +6 19  0 Nathan Wei                        
  3  +4 11  0 Vladimir Tivanski                 
  4  -2 17  0 Andy Luo                          
  5 +42  4  0 Eric (Yo Yo) Liu                  
  6  -5 24  0 Yulong Shao                       
  7  -2 19  0 Aaron Smith                       
  8  -4 20  0 Andrey  Arshava                   
  9  +3 24  0 Jack Gray                         
 10  -7 19  0 Liam Willett                      
 11  -2 11  0 Justin Pieper                     
 12 +36  9  0 Akhil Bharanidhar                 
 13   0 11  0 Jacob Vigil                       
 14  -3 20  0 Joseph  Vigil                     
 15  -5 16  0 Benjamin Zhang                    
 16  +5  7  0 Alexandra Curtu                   
 17  +2 19  0 Mohana Sunkara                    
 18 +19 10  0 Josh Greene                       
 19 +14  3  0 Reece Yang                        
 20   0 13  0 Eric  Pieper                      
 21 +24 15  0 Jim Li                            
 22 +31  6  0 Sachiko  Goto                     
 23 +29  5  0 Diana Tivanski                    
 24 -10  7  0 Lily (Hongjin) Li                 
 25  -7  6  0 Karina Li                         
 26  -9  7  0 Thomas  Pierce                    
 27 -12  7  0 Miranda Feng                      
 28  +3  5  0 Jocelyn Hsieh                     
 29  -3 15  0 Sebastian Cochran                 
 30  -2  8  0 Noah Willett                      
 31  +1  3  0 Richard Yang                      
 32 -16  8  0 Defne Bayman                      
 33 -11  2  0 Yifan Zhai                        
 34  +6  9  0 Shalom A. Gugsa                   
 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  3  0 Ajay Bharanidhar                  
 52  -2  1  0 Yeon (Jay)  Lim                   
 53  -2  0  0 YoonJi (Beth) Lim                 
 54   0  4  0 J.J. Brown                        

7th Annual Weber tournament Results 2013

Weber Chess Tournament Results

Overall

1.        Gokul Thangaval              5.0

2.       Andrew Kozich                  5.0

3.       Arjun Palaniappan           5.0

4.       Michael Takahashi           4.5

5.       Owen Fiedorowicz          4.0

6.       Kevin Lu                               4.0

7.       Anish Lodh                          4.0

8.       Eric Pieper                           4.0

9.       Andy Luo                             4.0

10.   Austen Mattingly             4.0

Top 5 Female Players

1.        Sarah Ogrin-Cotarlan     4.0

2.       Sanmati Thangaval          3.5

3.       Anushka Saxena               3.0

4.       Shu Shu Chalkley              3.0

5.       Emmeline Kraus               3.0

Kindergarten

1.       Robert Havens                  3.0

2.       Isabel Fiedorowicz           2.5

3.       Khoi Tong                            2.0

4.       Lodh, Anjali                        2.0

1^st Grade

1.        Kian Thompson                 4.0

2.       Sebastian Rutkowski          3.0

3.       Noah Willet                        2.5

4.       Athena Wu                         2.5

2^nd Grade

1.       Andrew Ogrin-Cotarlan 3.0

2.       Justin Pieper                      3.0

3.       Marcus Brintle                   3.0

4.       Nathan Weimer                   3.0

3^rd Grade

1.       Liam Willet                          4.0

2.       Luke Thompson                   3.0

3.       Aaron Smith                       3.0

4.       Frank Lee                            3.0

4^th Grade

1.       Vladimir Tivanski              4.0

2.       Yulong Shao                       4.0

3.       Makundon Kasturirangan 4.0

4.       Barry Vigil                            3.5

5^th Grade

1.       Andrew Arshava              4.0

2.       Dillon Geng                         4.0

3.       Mitchell Wilkes                 4.0

4.       Jacob Nyberg                     4.0

6^th Grade

1.       Jack Dickens                       4.0

2.       Owen Kraus                       3.5

3.       Sourabh Terakanambi    3.5

4.       Nicu Curtu                           3.0

The Team Competition there was some confusion on.  We changed the award categories for sake of time and figuring out the winners as my computer program did not work properly in sorting the data.  I had to hand calculate the scores and there were some ties.  There were also some incorrectly reported scores, Since the Tournament I verified the scores in question and here is how we handed out the top team trophies.  In the way we gave out trophies, more schools got trophies than the previous scoring modalities.  Here is a list of how things broke down.

Team Trophies

1^st Borlaug Elementary with 16 points, tiebreak score 52.0

2^nd Wickham Elementary with 16 points, Tiebreak score 51.0

3^rd Horn Elementary 15.5 points

4^th place Lincoln with 14.0 points

5^th Coralville Central 13.5 points

6^th Weber Elementary 13 points

Advertised was top K-6 Teams and top K-3 Teams

1^st would have been Borlaug K-6

2^nd Wickham K-6

3^rd Horn K-6

!st place K-3 would have been Borlaug K-3 14 points

2^nd Place K-3 would have been Wickham 13 points

3^rd place was tied between Coralville Central and Van Allen each with 12 points, with Coralville Central winning on tiebreaks 52.5 to 51.0