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Second Club Championship Round 3 Pairings, Wall Chart, Prize Group Standings

Round 2 of our club championship was another exciting affair with a number of very close games, including several of those on the top boards. I will try to publish some or all of the games in a Lichess study, as with a couple of our previous events, a task which is always made easier if you send me a timely pgn file of your game score (thank you to those who are already doing so). The second and third tables below include the wall chart and the prize group standings, and all prizes remain very much up for grabs in each group. I’ve received the entry fee payment from a smattering of players so please send that along (or pay at the club) at your earliest convenience. Regards,

Mark Drury

Board#WhiteResult#Black
14TOBIN BENNION1ALEX CHIN
25JIALIN WU2PRANAV JINDAL
33RAMKUMAR JEYARAMAN8CESAR TAMONDONG
46NICK MATELLI34HUGO PU
57LIAM LIU18ANTON BOBKOV
69JOSEN KALRA23ATUL DHINGRA
710JEFFREY MCGINNIS22BANKS BENNION
824HAYDEN BRONGERSMA11DAVID ZHAO
925FADI ARODAKI15TAEWOO KIM
1028PAUL HARTEL16CHASE WANG
1117LASHA LAKIRBAIA26JEFFREY UNGAR
1214NIKITA GRINKIN29MICHAEL DARR
1332AMOGH RAO21DHRITEE DESAI
1419KORNEL CSERNAI31SIDDHARTH KALRA
1520HAMDANIL RASYID30PARAMDEEP SINGH
1633GREGORY GAUTHIER27UMAR RASYID
#Name/Rating/IDRd 1Rd 2Rd 3
1ALEX CHINW 30B 12B 4
2009 170506971.02.0
2PRANAV JINDALB 31W 13B 5
2004 306288841.02.0
3RAMKUMAR JEYARAMANW 27B 14W 6
1800 314547721.02.0
4TOBIN BENNION—-B 15W 1
1708 12679573X1.02.0
5JIALIN WUW 19B 16W 2
1703 304102901.02.0
6CESAR TAMONDONGW 21B 17B 3
1632 124390911.02.0
7NICK MATELLIbyeB 24W 11
1695 129289350.51.5
8LIAM LIUB 20W 11W 9
1665 303908521.01.5
9ANTON BOBKOVbyeW 29B 8
1292 301625360.51.5
10ATUL DHINGRAbyeW 26B 12
1095 312363220.51.5
11HUGO PUW 18B 8B 7
unr. 310938601.01.5
12JOSEN KALRAB 22W 1W 10
1600 126152101.01.0
13JEFFREY MCGINNISW 32B 2W 19
1504 131958301.01.0
14DAVID ZHAOB 23W 3B 20
1502 147937841.01.0
15SAMUEL AGDAMAGB 33W 4—-
1462 148747341.01.0
16TAEWOO KIMB 34W 5B 21
1400 306225091.01.0
17CHASE WANG—-W 6B 23
1328 15015852X1.01.0
18LASHA LAKIRBAIAB 11B 28W 22
1304 309754730.01.0
19BANKS BENNIONB 5W 33B 13
1140 301756460.01.0
20HAYDEN BRONGERSMAW 8B 32W 14
1064 312404410.01.0
21FADI ARODAKIB 6W 34W 16
1060 312799040.01.0
22JEFFREY UNGARW 12W 31B 18
1043 163967430.01.0
23PAUL HARTELW 14B 30W 17
918 312777990.01.0
24MICHAEL DARRB 25W 7B 26
798 312401821.01.0
25MICHAEL SHERRARDW 24bye—-
1478 124473680.00.5
26NIKITA GRINKINW 28B 10W 24
1453 312869450.50.5
27DHRITEE DESAIB 3byeB 29
1213 163361520.00.5
28SIDDHARTH KALRAB 26W 18B 30
253 304980460.50.5
29AMOGH RAObyeB 9W 27
unr. 309493410.50.5
30KORNEL CSERNAIB 1W 23W 28
1285 305943800.00.0
31HAMDANIL RASYIDW 2B 22W 33
1260 304662760.00.0
32UMAR RASYIDB 13W 20B 34
1001 305169250.00.0
33PARAMDEEP SINGHW 15B 19B 31
672 302143940.00.0
34GREGORY GAUTHIERW 16B 21W 32
unr. 313000860.00.0
NameGroupRatingScore
CHIN, ALEX1600+20092.0
JINDAL, PRANAV1600+20042.0
JEYARAMAN, RAMKUMAR1600+(1800)2.0
BENNION, TOBIN1600+17082.0
WU, JIALIN1600+17032.0
TAMONDONG, CESAR1600+16322.0
MATELLI, NICK1600+16951.5
LIU, LIAM1600+16651.5
KALRA, JOSEN1600+16001.0
MCGINNIS, JEFFREY1300-159915041.0
ZHAO, DAVID1300-159915021.0
AGDAMAG, SAMUEL1300-159914621.0
KIM, TAEWOO1300-159914001.0
WANG, CHASE1300-159913281.0
LAKIRBAIA, LASHA1300-159913041.0
SHERRARD, MICHAEL1300-159914780.5
GRINKIN, NIKITA1300-159914530.5
BOBKOV, ANTON1002-129912921.5
DHINGRA, ATUL1002-129910951.5
BENNION, BANKS1002-129911401.0
BRONGERSMA, HAYDEN1002-129910641.0
ARODAKI, FADI1002-129910601.0
UNGAR, JEFFREY1002-129910431.0
DESAI, DHRITEE1002-129912130.5
CSERNAI, KORNEL1002-129912850.0
RASYID, HAMDANIL1002-129912600.0
PU, HUGOUNR-1001unr.1.5
HARTEL, PAULUNR-10019181.0
DARR, MICHAELUNR-10017981.0
KALRA, SIDDHARTHUNR-10012530.5
RAO, AMOGHUNR-1001unr.0.5
RASYID, UMARUNR-100110010.0
SINGH, PARAMDEEPUNR-10016720.0
GAUTHIER, GREGORYUNR-1001unr.0.0
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Second Club Championship Round 2 Pairings

Below are the pairings for round two of our club championship, which begins promptly at 7pm Thursday, November 2nd, 2023. Please call Mark Drury at 650-400-6393 if you are unable to play for any reason and try to arrive no later than 6:50pm to check in.

The two tables which follow the second round pairings, below, are the wall chart and the prize groups–we have two groups with 9 members and two with 8 and the ratings distributions seen in this event make the groups reasonably equitable (though please let me know if you have any questions or concerns, of course). Regards,

Mark Drury

Board#WhiteResult#Black
19JOSEN KALRA1ALEX CHIN
22PRANAV JINDAL10JEFFREY MCGINNIS
311DAVID ZHAO3RAMKUMAR JEYARAMAN
413SAMUEL AGDAMAG4TOBIN BENNION
515TAEWOO KIM5JIALIN WU
67LIAM LIU34HUGO PU
716CHASE WANG8CESAR TAMONDONG
829MICHAEL DARR6NICK MATELLI
923ATUL DHINGRA14NIKITA GRINKIN
1018ANTON BOBKOV32AMOGH RAO
1131SIDDHARTH KALRA17LASHA LAKIRBAIA
1219KORNEL CSERNAI28PAUL HARTEL
1326JEFFREY UNGAR20HAMDANIL RASYID
1422BANKS BENNION30PARAMDEEP SINGH
1527UMAR RASYID24HAYDEN BRONGERSMA
1625FADI ARODAKI33GREGORY GAUTHIER
21DHRITEE DESAI½BYE
12MICHAEL SHERRARD½BYE
Player #Name/Rating/IDRd 1Rd 2
1ALEX CHINW 24B 8
2009 170506971.0
2PRANAV JINDALB 25W 9
2004 306288841.0
3RAMKUMAR JEYARAMANW 26B 10
1800 314547721.0
4TOBIN BENNION—-B 11
1708 12679573X1.0
5JIALIN WUW 27B 12
1703 304102901.0
6LIAM LIUB 28W 15
1665 303908521.0
7CESAR TAMONDONGW 29B 13
1632 124390911.0
8JOSEN KALRAB 30W 1
1600 126152101.0
9JEFFREY MCGINNISW 31B 2
1504 131958301.0
10DAVID ZHAOB 32W 3
1502 147937841.0
11SAMUEL AGDAMAGB 33W 4
1462 148747341.0
12TAEWOO KIMB 34W 5
1400 306225091.0
13CHASE WANG—-W 7
1328 15015852X1.0
14MICHAEL DARRB 22W 16
798 312401821.0
15HUGO PUW 23B 6
unr. 310938601.0
16NICK MATELLIbyeB 14
1695 129289350.5
17NIKITA GRINKINW 20B 19
1453 312869450.5
18ANTON BOBKOVbyeW 21
1292 301625360.5
19ATUL DHINGRAbyeW 17
1095 312363220.5
20SIDDHARTH KALRAB 17W 23
253 304980460.5
21AMOGH RAObyeB 18
unr. 309493410.5
22MICHAEL SHERRARDW 14bye
1478 124473680.0
23LASHA LAKIRBAIAB 15B 20
1304 309754730.0
24KORNEL CSERNAIB 1W 32
1285 305943800.0
25HAMDANIL RASYIDW 2B 30
1260 304662760.0
26DHRITEE DESAIB 3bye
1213 163361520.0
27BANKS BENNIONB 5W 33
1140 301756460.0
28HAYDEN BRONGERSMAW 6B 31
1064 312404410.0
29FADI ARODAKIB 7W 34
1060 312799040.0
30JEFFREY UNGARW 8W 25
1043 163967430.0
31UMAR RASYIDB 9W 28
1001 305169250.0
32PAUL HARTELW 10B 24
918 312777990.0
33PARAMDEEP SINGHW 11B 27
672 302143940.0
34GREGORY GAUTHIERW 12B 29
unr. 313000860.0
NameGroupIDRatingExpiration
CHIN, ALEX1600+17050697200911/30/2023
JINDAL, PRANAV1600+30628884200408/31/2024
JEYARAMAN, RAMKUMAR1600+31454772(1800)10/31/2024
BENNION, TOBIN1600+12679573170811/30/2023
WU, JIALIN1600+30410290170301/31/2024
MATELLI, NICK1600+12928935169505/31/2024
LIU, LIAM1600+30390852166512/31/2024
TAMONDONG, CESAR1600+12439091163208/31/2024
KALRA, JOSEN1600+12615210160010/31/2024
MCGINNIS, JEFFREY1300-159913195830150403/31/2025
ZHAO, DAVID1300-159914793784150206/30/2024
SHERRARD, MICHAEL1300-159912447368147804/30/2025
AGDAMAG, SAMUEL1300-159914874734146205/31/2024
GRINKIN, NIKITA1300-159931286945145306/30/2024
KIM, TAEWOO1300-159930622509140006/30/2025
WANG, CHASE1300-159915015852132808/31/2025
LAKIRBAIA, LASHA1300-159930975473130401/31/2024
BOBKOV, ANTON1002-129930162536129210/31/2024
CSERNAI, KORNEL1002-129930594380128506/30/2024
RASYID, HAMDANIL1002-129930466276126008/31/2024
DESAI, DHRITEE1002-129916336152121303/31/2024
BENNION, BANKS1002-129930175646114006/30/2025
DHINGRA, ATUL1002-129931236322109505/31/2024
BRONGERSMA, HAYDEN1002-129931240441106405/31/2024
ARODAKI, FADI1002-129931279904106005/31/2025
UNGAR, JEFFREY1002-129916396743104304/30/2024
RASYID, UMARUNR-100130516925100105/31/2024
HARTEL, PAULUNR-10013127779991805/31/2024
DARR, MICHAELUNR-10013124018279805/31/2024
SINGH, PARAMDEEPUNR-10013021439467209/30/2023*
KALRA, SIDDHARTHUNR-10013049804625305/31/2025
RAO, AMOGHUNR-100130949341unr.01/31/2024
GAUTHIER, GREGORYUNR-100131300086unr.Life
PU, HUGOUNR-100131093860unr.03/31/2024
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Second Club Championship Round 1 Results

Below are the results from round 1 of our club championship, which occurred Thursday, October 26th, 2023. Note that, due to my forgetting an email exchange in the aftermath of COVID, I paired someone who had requested a bye for this past Thursday, a lacuna that resulted in a forfeit win for one player and the agreed-upon half-point bye for the other. We also had one no-show which resulted in another forfeit win, but all-in-all it was a decent start to this much-delayed tournament. Regards,

Mark Drury

Board#WhiteResult#Black
11ALEX CHIN1 – 019KORNEL CSERNAI
220HAMDANIL RASYID0 – 12PRANAV JINDAL
33RAMKUMAR JEYARAMAN1 – 021DHRITEE DESAI
55JIALIN WU1 – 022BANKS BENNION
624HAYDEN BRONGERSMA0 – 17LIAM LIU
78CESAR TAMONDONG1 – 025FADI ARODAKI
826JEFFREY UNGAR0 – 19JOSEN KALRA
910JEFFREY MCGINNIS1 – 027UMAR RASYID
1028PAUL HARTEL0 – 111DAVID ZHAO
1112MICHAEL SHERRARD0 – 129MICHAEL DARR
1230PARAMDEEP SINGH0 – 113SAMUEL AGDAMAG
1314NIKITA GRINKIN½ – ½31SIDDHARTH KALRA
1433GREGORY GAUTHIER0 – 115TAEWOO KIM
1634HUGO PU1 – 017LASHA LAKIRBAIA
4TOBIN BENNION1 XBYE
16CHASE WANG1 XBYE
6NICK MATELLI½BYE
18ANTON BOBKOV½BYE
23ATUL DHINGRA½BYE
32AMOGH RAO½BYE
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Second Club Championship Round 1 Pairings

Below are the pairings for round one of our club championship, beginning promptly at 7pm Thursday, October 26th, 2023. Please call Mark Drury at 650-400-6393 if you are unable to play for any reason and try to arrive no later than 6:50pm to check in. Regards,

Mark Drury

Bd#ResWhite#ResBlack
11ALEX CHIN17KORNEL CSERNAI
218HAMDANIL RASYID2PRANAV JINDAL
33RAMKUMAR JEYARAMAN19DHRITEE DESAI
420ANTON BOBKOV4TOBIN BENNION
55JIALIN WU21BANKS BENNION
623HAYDEN SCOTT BRONGERSMA6LIAM LIU
77CESAR TAMONDONG24FADI ARODAKI
825P JEFFREY UNGAR8JOSEN SINGH KALRA
99JEFFREY D MCGINNIS26UMAR RASYID
1027PAUL HARTEL10DAVID ZHAO
1111MICHAEL LESLIE SHERRARD28MICHAEL DARR
1229PARAMDEEP SINGH12SAMUEL AGDAMAG
1313NIKITA GRINKIN30SIDDHARTH KALRA
1432GREGORY GAUTHIER14TAEWOO KIM
1515CHASE WANG33JEFFERSON MATEO
1634HUGO PU16LASHA LAKIRBAIA
 22½ATUL DHINGRA  BYE
 31½AMOGH RAO  BYE
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COVID Continues

I tested positive again for COVID late last night so I won’t be at the club Thursday and our championship will now be delayed an additional two weeks, given I was already planning to be out of town October 19th. The new start date is October 26th, then continuing the weeks of November 2nd, 9th, 16th and 30th (the 23rd is Thanksgiving, no chess). This change may or may not work for some of you who have registered or added your name to our wait list so please let me know if you wish to withdraw or take a bye on one of the indicated days. You may also review the details of this event, as well as update/cancel your registration or add yourself to the wait list here: https://menloparkchess.club/…/second-menlo-park-chess…/.

This Thursday and October 19th will be casual, blitz, bughouse and ladder chess game evenings–please bring your own equipment if you plan to attend: https://menloparkchess.club/events/. I hope you see many of you on October 26th! Regards,

Mark Drury

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I, COVID (Club Championship Delayed)

Well, after three and a half years of deftly avoiding the infernal virus my wife and I tested positive for COVID Tuesday afternoon. Kim feels worse than I do and may have gotten it earlier (my symptoms are like a bad cold with body aches but will likely worsen). This clearly throws a wrench in the club championship which was supposed to begin Thursday but I’m hoping I’ll test negative well before October 12th and perhaps we can begin then (I’m reasonably certain I wasn’t contagious last Thursday). This again highlights the need for another tournament director in the club, when my absences would be a non-issue. I know a few members are interested in directing so perhaps we can make this happen early next year.

You are still welcome to stop by the club Thursday, of course, but you’ll need to bring your own equipment and set up the room for play (and return the tables to the center of the room before you leave). I’m very sorry for the delay but I’m certain everyone understands, and I hope to see many of you at the club next week! Regards,

Mark Drury

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Club Championship Playoff Results

Our club championship blitz playoff for the 2nd-3rd overall, Under-1500 and Under-1000 prizes took place this past Wednesday in our skittles room and, after all the flags fell, Pranav Jindal took 2nd with 2.5/3 points, Andy Shih secured 3rd with 1.5 points and Cesar Tamondong and Aaron Cho tied for 4th-5th with 1 point apiece (Pranav and Andy are pictured together, below).

The U1500 group was all tied after the first round robin with each player securing the needed 1 point, but Peter Roumeliotis prevailed in the second go-round, winning the first two games against Roshan Mahanth and Anton Bobkov. Oisin Harrington wasn’t able to join us for the U1000 playoff so Banks Bennion and Benjamin Sergeant played a best-of-three blitz match, one wherein Banks’ savvy use of the clock and excellent play got the better of Benjamin over two games (Peter and Banks are also pictured below with their winnings).

Congratulations to all of our playoff contestants and winners and, again, thank you to everyone who played in this event–please let me know if you have any feedback, good or bad, which will help make future tournaments better. Regards,

Mark Drury

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Club Championship Final Standings

Wednesday’s final round of our club championship offered up yet more exciting chess and a number of time scrambles which impacted the standings, and when all was said and done unrated Adithya Karavadi (pictured below on the left) stood alone atop the wall chart with 4.5 out of 5 points. Adithya’s first provisional rating will likely be Expert level when this event is rated, which should occur no later than Monday or Tuesday. Five people tied for second place with 4 points: Pranav Jindal, Aaron Cho, Andy Shih, Daniel Francis and Cesar Tamondong. Well done, all of you!

Roshan Mahanth, Anton Bobkov and Peter Roumeliotis tied for the Under-1500 prize with 3 points apiece, while the Under-1000 prize also saw a 3-way tie between Oisin Harrington, Benjamin Sergeant and Banks Bennion, all at 2 points. The ties will be settled over the board next week with some friendly G/5+0 blitz to determine who takes home the remaining premium club set and board prizes, a spectacle which may alone merit attendance this coming Wednesday.

Congratulations to Adithya and a huge thank you to everyone who played in or stopped by to spectate our first club championship–hopefully we’ll hold the same event same time next year! Regards,

Mark Drury

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Club Championship Round 4 Results

We again had some very exciting games come down to the final seconds of the time control in round 4 of our club championship–improbable draws were salvaged and tough-fought seeming wins lost in the proceedings and it was a great deal of fun to be a spectator rather than a player in many cases.

Below are the round 5 pairings for tomorrow night (final round of the tournament) as well as the championship standings thus far. As a reminder, if we have ties for the 1st-3rd (2nd-3rd is really the only possibility), U1500 or U1000 prizes we’ll hold a blitz chess playoff the following week (G/5+0, number of games determined by number of players). Please let me know if you have any questions and I look forward to more exciting games during the final round on November 9th! Regards,

Mark Drury

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Club Championship Round 3 Results

We had an excellent round 3 with a number of very exciting games! As we get deeper into the tournament the pairings are evening out somewhat and many of Wednesday’s games again came down to the final few minutes of the time control. More than a few of the games merit review by everyone in the club and I’ll share those after I get everything added to our Lichess study.

I’ve included two attachments with this post: one showing the round 3 results and the tentative round 4 pairings and another showing ratings changes based on the USCF formula as calculated by the SwissSys software. I have not validated this ratings report but I’m guessing it’s reasonably or wholly correct, given US Chess endorses SwissSys. I decided to share the parings early (on Facebook) because they offer so many good matchups that I’m hoping we get no additional bye requests for the round. Given a few people asked last night, I’d also like to remind everyone that this is a 5-round event, so this Wednesday is not the final round.

Please let me know if you have any questions and thank you again to everyone who is playing in this tournament–it’s been a great deal of fun thus far! Regards,

Mark Drury