Borlaug Chess Club

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.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

No Chess Club Dec 4th and Updated Chess Ladder T Shirts!

Remember no Chess Club on the 4th of December,

The Fasse Brothers did a tag team WWF smackdown on Noah Willet and JJ Brown yesterday. I think it was because their parents were watching and they wanted to impress them.

Get the T-Shirts! Lets look good as we go to these upcoming Tournaments. I handed out flyers, and they are posted by Mary in the Front Office.

1 +24 7 0 Nathan Wei
2 +20 11 0 Eric Liu
3 -2 10 0 Barry Vigil
4 +1 6 0 Aaron Smith
5 +27 6 0 Andrey Arshava
6 +6 7 0 Andy Luo
7 +14 7 0 Yulong Shao
8   0 5 0 Justin Pieper
9 +36 6 0 Vladimir Tivanski
10 +7 6 0 Benjamin Zhang
11 +31 10 0 Liam Willett
12 +24 7 0 Jim Su
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 10 0 Luke Fasse
18 -3 12 0 Jimin Jung
19 +22 15 0 Noah Willett
20 -18 14 0 Joey Vigil
21 +16 12 0 Joe Su
22 -2 14 0 Jack Fasse
23 +7 12 0 Thomas Pierce
24 -20 3 0 Defne Bayman
25 -16 4 0 Alexandra Curtu
26 -2 8 0 Ben Ciliberto
27 +20 4 0 Alyson Skala
28 -15 6 0 Sanjeev Sarin
29 -23 6 0 Eddy Xu
30 -12 2 0 Reece Yang
31 -15 2 0 Edward Keen
32 +3 4 0 Yifan Bu
33 -10 1 0 Aditya Malgaonkar
34 -24 3 0 Akshat Pawar
35 -24 0 0 Anna Zheng
36 -22 2 0 Miranda Feng
37 +12 11 0 JJ Brown
38 +2 2 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 2 0 Sachiko Goto
44 +6 3 0 Tadamichi Goto
45 -16 5 0 Alexander Pierce
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 1 0 Yuning Shao
52   0 0 0 Ren Hutchinson
53   0 0 0 Marcia Arshava
54   0 0 0 Thomas Keen
55   0 0 0 Zuhair Adnan

Monday, November 11, 2013

ICPL Kids Chess Tournament 2013 in memory of Steve Young

ICPL Kids Chess Tournament 2013

We had 17 Kids represented in the 84 that came to the event! WOW!!!!!

Last year there were 59 kids at the library tournament, this year. 84! We had to bring in extra tables and luckily my friend Jim brought extra chess sets. These are the cross tables, and not in tiebreak order.

3rd grade and under

No.	Name	Rate	Pts	Rnd1	Rnd2	Rnd3	Rnd4
1	Thompson, Kian	653	4.0	W18	W19	W17	W4
2	Fiedorowicz, Isabe	381	4.0	W24	W21	W12	W3
3	Lodh, Anjali	511	3.0	W11	W9	W8	L2
4	Chen, Nathan	492	3.0	W27	W14	W5	L1
5	Gururaja, Tejas Ki	161	3.0	W10	W23	L4	W6
6	Keeney, Sierra Mar	127	3.0	W7	W32	W25	L5
7	Brintle, Marcus		3.0	L6	W28	W19	W17
8	Weimer, Nathan		3.0	W15	W30	L3	W13
9	Willett, Noah Chri		3.0	W26	L3	W18	W14
10	Wu, Athena		3.0	L5	W27	W32	W15
11	Selby, Patrick		2.5	L3	W31	D21	W24
12	Saxena, Anushka	758	2.0	W33	W13	L2	-U-
13	Dixit, Arun	102	2.0	-B-	L12	W20	L8
14	Eltoft, Cameron		2.0	W28	L4	W23	L9
15	Havens, Robi		2.0	L8	W16	W29	L10
16	Kozich, Aden		2.0	L25	L15	W33	W30
17	Lu, Henry		2.0	W22	W25	L1	L7
18	Su, Joe		2.0	L1	W26	L9	W29
19	Tran, Adrian (andy		2.0	W31	L1	L7	W25
20	Tran, Alexandra		2.0	D30	D24	L13	W27
21	Dains, Quinn		1.5	W29	L2	D11	-U-
22	Green, Vincent		1.5	L17	-B-	D30	L23
23	Mannengi, Shiva		1.5	D32	L5	L14	W22
24	Reddy, Aman		1.5	L2	D20	W26	L11
25	Koh, Eric Shih	104	1.0	W16	L17	L6	L19
26	Ali, Ahmed		1.0	L9	L18	L24	W33
27	Ali, Mohanad		1.0	L4	L10	-B-	L20
28	Ciliberto, Ben		1.0	L14	L7	W31	-U-
29	Dillon, Eleanor		1.0	L21	W33	L15	L18
30	Recobe, Javier		1.0	D20	L8	D22	L16
31	Xu, Eddy		1.0	L19	L11	L28	-B-
32	Restrepo, Nicholas		0.5	D23	L6	L10	-U-
33	Naveen-Kumar, Akshetana		0.0	L12	L29	L16	L26

4th grade

No.	Name	Rate	Pts	Rnd1	Rnd2	Rnd3	Rnd4
1	Wei, Nathan	903	3.5	W19	W8	W11	D3
2	Lee, Frank	771	3.5	W14	W10	D3	W7
3	Palaniappan, Arjun	910	3.0	W18	W4	D2	D1
4	Thompson, Luke	357	3.0	W6	L3	W13	W12
5	Chackalackal, Luca		3.0	L7	-B-	W19	W11
6	Issay, Niki		3.0	L4	W14	W18	W15
7	Luo, Andy	996	2.5	W5	D13	W9	L2
8	Willett, Liam Mich	282	2.5	W16	L1	D15	W13
9	Mascardo, Caroline	596	2.0	W12	L11	L7	W18
10	Wilson, Leo	279	2.0	W17	L2	L12	W16
11	Pierce, Thomas	278	2.0	-B-	W9	L1	L5
12	Basri, Akash Gopal		2.0	L9	W16	W10	L4
13	Kumar, Aadarsh Day	379	1.5	W15	D7	L4	L8
14	Alaya, Yusef		1.5	L2	L6	W17	D19
15	Bodin, Caleb		1.5	L13	W17	D8	L6
16	Boaz, Abramoff		1.0	L8	L12	-B-	L10
17	Dillon, Leah		1.0	L10	L15	L14	-B-
18	Segvel, Avi		1.0	L3	W19	L6	L9
19	Thommason, Evan		0.5	L1	L18	L5	D14

5th grade

No.	Name	Rate	Pts	Rnd1	Rnd2	Rnd3	Rnd4
1	Ogrin-Cotarlan, Sa	900	4.0	W16	W6	W13	W2
2	Lu, Kevin	959	3.0	W10	W5	W4	L1
3	Liu, Eric	841	3.0	W12	L8	W11	W13
4	Vigil, Barry J	753	3.0	W18	W7	L2	W9
5	Heller, Evan	541	3.0	W11	L2	W18	W8
6	Kasturirangan, Muk	287	3.0	W9	L1	W15	W7
7	Tivanski, Vladimir	907	2.0	W17	L4	W8	L6
8	Tataurov, Ilya	354	2.0	W14	W3	L7	L5
9	Yang, Reece	187	2.0	L6	-B-	W17	L4
10	Ali, Mohamed		2.0	L2	D17	D19	W18
11	Eltoft, Connor		2.0	L5	W16	L3	W14
12	Ovel, Chloe		2.0	L3	L18	W16	W15
13	Zhang, Benjamin		2.0	W19	W14	L1	L3
14	Baney, Breanna		1.0	L8	L13	-B-	L11
15	Kempuraj, Deepak		1.0	-U-	W19	L6	L12
16	Leira, Marta		1.0	L1	L11	L12	-B-
17	Schmidt-Rundell, Heidi		1.0	L7	D10	L9	D19
18	Su, Jim		1.0	L4	W12	L5	L10
19	White-Laffey, Maxwell		1.0	L13	L15	D10	D17

6th Grade

No.	Name	Rate	Pts	Rnd1	Rnd2	Rnd3	Rnd4
1	Geng, Dillon	912	4.0	W7	W4	W3	W2
2	Jessop, Roman		2.5	D4	W5	W6	L1
3	Nyberg, Jacob		2.5	W8	W6	L1	D4
4	D'Alessandro, Etha	540	2.0	D2	L1	W7	D3
5	Thomasson, Aaron	515	2.0	L6	L2	W8	-B-
6	Bodin, Danny		2.0	W5	L3	L2	W7
7	Schmidt-Rundell, Spencer		1.0	L1	W8	L4	L6
8	Trom, Sophie	106	0.0	L3	L7	L5	-U-

Steve young hot shots

No.	Name	Rate	Pts	Rnd1	Rnd2	Rnd3
1	Lodh, Anish	1357	2.0	W4	W5	L2
2	Kozich, Andrew Joh	1302	2.0	L5	W6	W1
3	Fiedorowicz, Owen	1179	2.0	L6	W4	W5
4	Ogrin-Cotarlan, An	1037	1.0	L1	L3	W6
5	Kuznetsov, Yegor	1033	1.0	W2	L1	L3
6	Chen, Jonathan	1005	1.0	W3	L2	L4

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Puzzle Day!

Not much movement on the Chess Ladder as many of our chess players were doing some chess puzzles. I offered a package of space food as a prize for the student who got the best score on a series of 4 chess puzzles I set up. 4 Students tied with one correct answer. Jack and Luke Fasse, Vladimir Tivanski and Justin Pieper. The Puzzles were from October Chess Life for Kids. We will go over the answers next chess club.

XABCDEFGHY
8rsn-+k+ntr(
7zplzp-+pzpp'
6-+-wq-+-+&
5+p+-sN-+-%
4-+p+-+-+$
3wQP+-+-+-#
2PvL-zPPzPPzP"
1tR-+-mKL+R!
xabcdefghy

Black to Move

XABCDEFGHY
8r+-+-mk-+(
7+-zp-+pzp-'
6-vl-+-+n+&
5+p+p+qsN-%
4-+-+R+-+$
3+-+-+-wQ-#
2-zP-+RzPP+"
1+-+-+-mK-!
xabcdefghy

White To Move

XABCDEFGHY
8r+-wq-trk+(
7zpl+n+pvL-'
6-+p+p+-+&
5+p+-+-+p%
4-+pzPP+pzP$
3+-sN-+P+-#
2PzPQ+-+P+"
1+-+R+RmK-!
xabcdefghy

Black to Move

XABCDEFGHY
8R+-+-+-+(
7+-+-+-+-'
6P+-+-+-+&
5+-+-+p+k%
4r+-+-zP-+$
3+-+-+PmK-#
2-+-+-+-+"
1+-+-+-+-!
xabcdefghy
Black to Move

I made a scheduling error, our match against Prairie will not be on November 7th, as it is parent teacher conferences, so tentatively we plan for Nov 14th.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

First Match of the EICL is scheduled for November 7th vs Prairie Chess Club in Cedar Rapids!

Yes it is here, the Eastern Iowa Chess League.

I am looking for parental volunteers to arrange carpools to transport our club up to Cedar Rapids after school on Thursday the 7th of November. I think this is a great opportunity to play chess against another school, last year we had some tournaments in the library of Borlaug but I think having a focus on playing another school is a keen idea.

Today we had 6 rated games! I am so glad the kids are using the clocks and playing a rated game. I will be submitting the games to US Chess after the last chess club of the month, as there is a 3 dollar minimum charge and since it is 25 cents to rate a game, and so far there have been 11 games to rate over three weeks. But with using the clocks and getting familiar with them, it will help if and when the kids do get to a chess tournament, they wont get freaked out having to use one, it will be more natural.

on the chess ladder Barry Vigil defended his #2 spot, as Nathan was not present, Eric Liu not only did the Borlaug announcements this morning but defended his #3 spot from the hard as the Siberian Frost Vladimir Tivanski.

Lots of good chess happening.

1 +24 5 0 Nathan Wei
2 -1 6 0 Barry Vigil
3 +19 9 0 Eric Liu
4 +1 4 0 Aaron Smith
5 +40 4 0 Vladimir Tivanski
6 +30 5 0 Jim Su
7 +14 4 0 Yulong Shao
8 -1 1 0 Eric Pieper
9 +18 8 0 Akhil Bharanidhar
10 +32 5 0 Liam Willett
11 +21 4 0 Andrey Arshava
12 -9 5 0 Jacob Vigil
13 +24 7 0 Joe Su
14 -6 4 0 Justin Pieper
15 +2 4 0 Benjamin Zhang
16 +25 9 0 Noah Willett
17 +3 12 0 Jack Fasse
18 +1 7 0 Luke Fasse
19 -17 10 0 Joey Vigil
20 -8 3 0 Andy Luo
21 -17 3 0 Defne Bayman
22 -7 6 0 Jimin Jung
23 +24 2 0 Allison Skala
24 -11 6 0 Sanjeev Sarin
25 -19 6 0 Eddy Xu
26 -8 2 0 Reece Yang
27 -18 2 0 Alexandra Curtu
28 +7 3 0 Yifan Bu
29 +10 3 0 Rani Youness
30 -7 1 0 Aditya Malgaonkar
31 -21 3 0 Akshat Pawar
32 -21 0 0 Anna Zheng
33 -19 1 0 Miranda Feng
34 -18 1 0 Edward Keen
35 -5 7 0 Thomas Pierce
36 +13 7 0 JJ Brown
37 -13 4 0 Ben Ciliberto
38 -12 1 0 Ajay Bharanidhar
39 -11 0 0 Shanza Sami
40 +3 1 0 Serena Li
41 -12 2 0 Alexander Pierce
42 -11 0 0 Joshua Park
43 -10 1 0 Sebastian Cochrane
44 +2 2 0 Diana Tivanskaya
45 -11 1 0 Sachiko Goto
46 -8 1 0 Joy Su
47 -7 0 0 Dani Youness
48 -4 1 0 Mohana Sunkara
49 -1 1 0 Grace Song
50   0 0 0 Tadamichi Goto
51   0 0 0 Yuning Shao
52   0 0 0 Ren Hutchinson

Thursday, October 10, 2013

NATIONAL CHESS DAY! OCT 12th!!!! This Saturday!!!

Sure October 12th is National Chess Day, first authorized in 1976 by then President Ford. At a time and a place in this country when Chess was the rage. Bobby Fischer was still the world champion after his defeat of Spassky in Iceland a couple of years before, and the country was chess CRAZY! I remember being in the Langendorf Park Chess Club in Barrington, IL

OK so in honor of National Chess Day the Iowa Chess Association is holding the Iowa Blitz Championship in Cedar Rapids Iowa this Saturday! I handed out flyers this morning.

Here is the skinny

Oct 12, 2013
2013 Iowa Blitz Chess Championship
Celebrate National Chess Day and participate in the 2013 Iowa Blitz Chess Championship. This event is a USCF Blitz Chess Rated event. (Does not effect your regular or quick chess rating). Time control 5+0 (5 min with no delay). Champions, class prizes, and prizes for top senior and top youth. Sets and clocks provided. Where: Cedar Rapids Public Library - Downtown (new building) ,4th Avenue and 5th Street SE ,Cedar Rapids ,IA 52402 Reg: On-Site registration 11:00 am to Noon. Rounds: 7 Rd SS. Round 1 begins at 12:30 pm. Rounds 2-6 ASAP. Entry Fee: $10 in advance, $15 on-site Prize Info: Total prize fund of $240 based on 24 entries. 1st $60, 2nd $45, 3rd $35, U1800, U1600, U1400, Top Youth (U14), Top Senior (>55) $20 each. US Chess Federation (USCF) membership required. On-Site Available. Send Entry Fee to: Send advance entries to James Hodina, 3411 Blue Pointe Ct. SW. Additional Info: Contact TD James Hodina, james.hodina@chessiniowa.org or 319-432-1459.

Today on the chess ladder Nathan Wei lost and regained the top spot from Barry Vigil, losing his first game, but then rallying and winning a second battle with Barry.

Saif spent some time watching a game

and I love me some good floor chess!

Here is the current Ladder.
1 +24 5 0 Nathan Wei
2 -1 4 0 Barry Vigil
3 +19 8 0 Eric Liu
4 +1 4 0 Aaron Smith
5 +31 4 0 Jim Su
6 +15 4 0 Yulong Shao
7 +38 2 0 Vladimir Tivanski
8 -1 1 0 Eric Pieper
9 +18 5 0 Akhil Bharanidhar
10 +32 4 0 Liam Willett
11 -8 4 0 Jacob Vigil
12 +25 6 0 Joe Su
13 -5 2 0 Justin Pieper
14 +3 4 0 Benjamin Zhang
15 +5 10 0 Jack Fasse
16 +3 6 0 Luke Fasse
17 +24 8 0 Noah Willett
18 -16 9 0 Joey Vigil
19 -7 3 0 Andy Luo
20 -16 3 0 Defne Bayman
21 +11 3 0 Andrey Arshava
22 -7 3 0 Jimin Jung
23 -10 6 0 Sanjeev Sarin
24 -18 6 0 Eddy Xu
25 -7 2 0 Reece Yang
26 -17 2 0 Alexandra Curtu
27 +8 3 0 Yifan Bu
28 +11 3 0 Rani Youness
29 -19 2 0 Akshat Pawar
30 -19 0 0 Anna Zheng
31 -17 1 0 Miranda Feng
32 -16 1 0 Edward Keen
33 -3 6 0 Thomas Pierce
34 +15 4 0 JJ Brown
35 -12 0 0 Aditya Malgaonkar
36 -12 3 0 Ben Ciliberto
37 -11 1 0 Ajay Bharanidhar
38 -10 0 0 Shanza Sami
39 +4 1 0 Serena Li
40 -11 2 0 Alexander Pierce
41 -10 0 0 Joshua Park
42 -9 1 0 Sebastian Cochrane
43 +3 2 0 Diana Tivanskaya
44 -10 1 0 Sachiko Goto
45 -7 1 0 Joy Su
46 -6 0 0 Dani Youness
47 -3 1 0 Mohana Sunkara
48 -1 0 0 Alysa Skala
49 -1 1 0 Grace Song
50   0 0 0 Tadamichi Goto
51   0 0 0 Yuning Shao
52   0 0 0 Ren Hutchinson