We had another full house (and a considerable wait list—register early!) for our quick-rated, double-round quads plus Swiss which ran from August 10th – 24th, with clear winners in all sections save Quad 1, wherein Andy Applebaum and Pranav Jindal tied for 1st-2nd with 4 points apiece out of 6. Tobin Bennion took sole first in Quad 2 with 4.5 points while David Zhao had the only perfect score in the event with his impressive 6-0 in Quad 3. Kornel Csernai also tallied 4.5 to win Quad 4 and Umar Rasyid had perhaps our best junior showing with his excellent 5 points to take Quad 5.
Quad 6 was dangerously close to seeing a 4-way tie at 3 points until Michael Darr bested six-year-old phenom Rosalyn Chu (remember that name) in their final game to win outright with 4 points. In the Swiss event, Travis Torres-O’Callaghan, the front runner after four rounds, became ill and was unable to play rounds 5 and 6, regrettably, leaving Austin Chen and Victor Chen to square off atop that section. Austin prevailed over both games and claimed 1st with an admirable 5 points. The full results for this event may be found here.
Thank you to everyone who played in this fun event, please let me know if you have any feedback (good or bad) and congratulations to all of our prize winners–their winnings are given below and I’ll reach out to individuals via email about how they wish to be paid. Regards,
Mark Drury
| Quad 1 | 1st-2nd: Andy Applebaum, Pranav Jindal, $20 |
| Quad 2 | 1st: Tobin Bennion, $25 2nd: Triet Vo, $15 |
| Quad 3 | 1st: David Zhao, $25 2nd: TBD (Cesar Tamondong and Michael Sherrard to play August 31st), $15 |
| Quad 4 | 1st: Kornel Csernai, $25 2nd: Hamdanil Rasyid, $15 |
| Quad 5 | 1st: Umar Rasyid, $25 2nd: Atul Dhingra, $15 |
| Quad 6 | 1st: Michael Darr, $25 2nd: Paul Hartel, Kushal Dhingra, $7.50 each |
| Swiss | 1st: Austin Chen, $30 2nd: Siddharth Kalra, $25 3rd: Travis Torres-O’Callaghan, Rosaleia Torres, Nicholas Bao, $15 each |
