Twenty-five people played in our impromptu blitz tournament this past Thursday, a G/5+2 affair of five rounds and the slightly longer time control helped to shake up the results in yet another strong field. Gabriel Sanchez took sole first with 4.5 points while Liam Liu and David Zhao shared second at 4, ahead of some very strong master- and expert-level competition. Kunal Modi grabbed sole fourth at 3.5, leaving a raft of players to share fifth with 3 points.
Of particular note, chess expert, author, journalist and friend Frisco Del Rosario was able to visit the club for the first time and it was great to see and play a game with him—hopefully you will join us again soon, Frisco! Full results are in the table below and thank you to everyone who played in this event.
As a reminder, we’ll begin a US Chess dual-rated Swiss-system event over three weeks beginning this Thursday, April 4th, and concluding April 25th (there will be no chess club meeting April 18th). Players will be divided into groups of 6 or 8 based on rating and will play one game at G/45;d5 each week. A few spots remain for this event and more information and a registration link may be found here. As always, please register early if you plan to play in this event.
| # | Player | Rd 1 | Rd 2 | Rd 3 | Rd 4 | Rd 5 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gabriel Sanchez | W 3 | B 2 | W 5 | B 4 | W 7 | |
| 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | ||
| 2 | Liam Liu | B 22 | W 1 | W 15 | B 12 | W 4 | |
| 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | ||
| 3 | David Zhao | B 1 | W 21 | B 22 | W 17 | B 11 | |
| 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | ||
| 4 | Kunal Modi | W 12 | B 8 | W 6 | W 1 | B 2 | |
| 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 | ||
| 5 | Andy Applebaum | B 11 | W 16 | B 1 | W 7 | B 6 | |
| 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.0 | ||
| 6 | Pranav Jindal | B 14 | W 13 | B 4 | W 15 | W 5 | |
| 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.0 | ||
| 7 | Frisco Del Rosario | W 17 | B 9 | W 13 | B 5 | B 1 | |
| 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | ||
| 8 | Hayden Brongersma | B 20 | W 4 | B 11 | W 22 | B 13 | |
| 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | ||
| 9 | Mark Drury | B 23 | W 7 | bye | bye | bye | |
| 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.0 | ||
| 10 | Renzo Frigato | W 24 | B 15 | W 17 | B 18 | W 19 | |
| 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | ||
| 11 | Rohan Kapre | W 5 | B 18 | W 8 | B 19 | W 3 | |
| 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | ||
| 12 | Josen Kalra | B 4 | W 20 | B 16 | W 2 | B 17 | |
| 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | ||
| 13 | Cesar Tamondong | W 19 | B 6 | B 7 | W 16 | W 8 | |
| 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | ||
| 14 | Max Cheung | W 6 | B 19 | W 25 | B 20 | B 21 | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | ||
| 15 | Hugo Pu | bye | W 10 | B 2 | B 6 | W 20 | |
| 0.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | ||
| 16 | Evan Sobel | W 18 | B 5 | W 12 | B 13 | W 24 | |
| 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | ||
| 17 | Austin Chen | B 7 | W 23 | B 10 | B 3 | W 12 | |
| 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | ||
| 18 | Brian Chen | B 16 | W 11 | B 23 | W 10 | B 22 | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | ||
| 19 | Shlok Chowdhury | B 13 | W 14 | B 21 | W 11 | B 10 | |
| 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | ||
| 20 | Joey Lo | W 8 | B 12 | W 24 | W 14 | B 15 | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||
| 21 | Victor Chen | bye | B 3 | W 19 | B 25 | W 14 | |
| 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||
| 22 | George Purtell | W 2 | B 24 | W 3 | B 8 | W 18 | |
| 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||
| 23 | Bud Woll | W 9 | B 17 | W 18 | B 24 | W 25 | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||
| 24 | Wendy Gu | B 10 | W 22 | B 20 | W 23 | B 16 | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||
| 25 | Malcolm Willig | bye | —- | B 14 | W 21 | B 23 | |
| 0.5 | U0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |