Tag: blitz

Twenty-three people participated in our Impromptu Blitz #14 tournament this past Thursday, a G/5;d2 affair which included four first-time visitors to the club—thank you again to Simon Rubinstein-Salzedo, Vin Armelin, Matt Kmiecik and Matt Mascioli for joining us in this event!

For perhaps the first time in one of our casual blitz tournaments we had a four-way tie for first at four out of five points, with Gabe, Kunal, Simon and Josen sharing top honors, while a raft of others tied for second at three points (juniors Max and Chase among them). We’ll hold another casual evening and blitz tournament this coming Thursday then may have a week or two of variant tournaments before beginning our next rated event.

As always, please let me know if there’s anything specific you’d like to see happen at the club (chess-related, preferably) and we’ll try to make it happen. Regards,

Mark Drury

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

Just as with the week before, twenty-one people played in our impromptu blitz tournament this past Thursday, another G/3+2 affair of five rounds and, as with the week before, Pranav Jindal claimed sole first with 4.5 points, the lone draw ceded to young Liam Liu. Three others tied for second in this battle of blitz heavyweights, with Andy Applebaum, Kunal Modi and Cesar Tamondong all securing 4 points (I don’t know that Cesar has ever scored less than 4 points in similar events)—well played, all of you! Full results are in the table below and thank you to everyone who joined us for this event.

We’ll hold one more casual evening this week, with another free blitz tournament beginning at 7pm, then will commence a US Chess dual-rated Swiss-system event over three weeks beginning 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.

Please let me know if you have any questions and I hope to see many of you at the club this Thursday!

#	Player	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Total
1	Pranav Jindal	B 15	W 5	W 10	B 6	B 3
		1.0	1.5	2.5	3.5	4.5	4.5
2	Andy Applebaum	B 13	W 12	B 6	W 3	B 5
		1.0	2.0	3.0	3.0	4.0	4.0
3	Kunal Modi	W 14	B 7	W 4	B 2	W 1
		1.0	2.0	3.0	4.0	4.0	4.0
4	Cesar Tamondong	W 20	B 11	B 3	W 15	B 9
		1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0	4.0	4.0
5	Liam Liu	W 9	B 1	B 12	W 8	W 2
		1.0	1.5	2.5	3.5	3.5	3.5
6	Alex Chin	W 16	B 8	W 2	W 1	B 14
		1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	3.0	3.0
7	Richard Wang	B 19	W 3	B 15	W 18	B 17
		1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.0
8	Hayden Brongersma	B 21	W 6	B 16	B 5	W 12
		1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0	3.0
9	Hugo Pu	B 5	W 13	B 19	B 14	W 4
		0.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.0	3.0
10	Mark Drury	W 17	bye	B 1	bye	bye
		1.0	1.5	1.5	2.0	2.5	2.5
11	Max Cheung	bye	W 4	—-	W 19	B 15
		0.5	0.5	U0.5	1.5	2.5	2.5
12	Jason Cruz	B 18	B 2	W 5	W 16	B 8
		1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
13	Samuel Agdamag	W 2	B 9	W 21	B 17	W 18
		0.0	0.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0
14	Kornel Csernai	B 3	W 19	B 18	W 9	W 6
		0.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
15	Jeff McGinnis	W 1	B 17	W 7	B 4	W 11
		0.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
16	Austin Chen	B 6	W 21	W 8	B 12	W 20
		0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0
17	Joey Lo	B 10	W 15	B 20	W 13	W 7
		0.0	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
18	Beata Ang-Dutta	W 12	B 20	W 14	B 7	B 13
		0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
19	Brian Chen	W 7	B 14	W 9	B 11	W 21
		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.0
20	Maybelline Hinlo	B 4	W 18	W 17	B 21	B 16
		0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
21	Gautam Dutta	W 8	B 16	B 13	W 20	B 19
		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Twenty-one people played in our impromptu blitz tournament last Thursday, a G/3+2 affair of five rounds, and Pranav Jindal once again claimed sole first with 4.5 points, a first-round bye notwithstanding. Gabe Sanchez, Ramkumar Jeyaraman and 9-year-old Liam Liu tied for second with 4 points, followed by Kornel Csernai in sole 5th with 3.5—well played, all of you! Full results are in the table below and thank you to everyone who joined us for this event.

We’ll hold two more casual evenings this week and next, with free blitz tournaments occurring in each, then will commence a US Chess dual-rated Swiss-system event over three weeks beginning 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. More information and a registration link may be found here.

Please let me know if you have any questions and I hope to see many of you at the club this Thursday!

#	Name/Rating/ID	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Total
1	Pranav Jindal	bye	W 5	B 11	W 12	B 3
		0.5	1.5	2.5	3.5	4.5	4.5
2	Gabe Sanchez	B 8	W 13	B 6	W 3	B 9
		1.0	2.0	3.0	3.0	4.0	4.0
3	Ramkumar Jeyaraman	B 19	W 10	B 4	B 2	W 1
		1.0	2.0	3.0	4.0	4.0	4.0
4	Liam Liu	B 16	W 12	W 3	B 7	B 6
		1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0	4.0	4.0
5	Kornel Csernai	bye	B 1	W 21	W 13	B 12
		0.5	0.5	1.5	2.5	3.5	3.5
6	Lauren Goodkind	W 9	B 7	W 2	B 15	W 4
		1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0	3.0	3.0
7	Hayden Brongersma	B 20	W 6	B 19	W 4	B 16
		1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0	3.0
8	David Zhao	W 2	B 18	W 9	B 19	W 15
		0.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.0
9	Austin Chen	B 6	W 20	B 8	W 11	W 2
		0.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.0	3.0
10	Mark Drury	—-	B 3	bye	bye	bye
		X1.0	1.0	1.5	2.0	2.5	2.5
11	Rohan Kapre	bye	W 21	W 1	B 9	B 17
		0.5	1.5	1.5	1.5	2.5	2.5
12	Andy Applebaum	W 15	B 4	W 14	B 1	W 5
		1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
13	Evan Sobel	W 17	B 2	W 15	B 5	W 19
		1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0
14	Renzo Frigato	bye	bye	B 12	W 16	B 20
		0.5	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0
15	Arnav Bhavsar	B 12	W 16	B 13	W 6	B 8
		0.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
16	George Purtell	W 4	B 15	W 18	B 14	W 7
		0.0	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
17	Brian Chen	B 13	W 19	B 20	W 18	W 11
		0.0	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
18	Bud Woll	bye	W 8	B 16	B 17	W 21
		0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	1.5	1.5
19	Beata Ang-Dutta	W 3	B 17	W 7	W 8	B 13
		0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
20	Jerome Oriel	W 7	B 9	W 17	B 21	W 14
		0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
21	Gautam Dutta	bye	B 11	B 5	W 20	B 18
		0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5

We had an excellent turnout for our impromptu blitz tournament last night, with 25 people participating, including a number of first- or second-time visitors—welcome to Munci Inonu, Wyatt Morgan, Pablo Jadzinsky, Evan Sobel, Serena Shinault and Carlos Fuertes and thank you for joining us! Renzo Frigato was able to join us again after a prolonged absence and it was great to see him, as well! This event saw a somewhat unusual 4-way tie for first with four points out of five—congratulations to Munci Inonu, Pranav Jindal, Josen Kalra and David Zhao on their excellent play! The full results for the tournament follow and next week we will play another free, fun-focused tournament using the A4c variant—more details will be on our Events page later today.

#	Player	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Total
1	Munci Inonu	B 16	W 9	B 7	W 13	W 2
		1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0	4.0	4.0
2	Pranav Jindal	W 17	B 4	W 15	W 7	B 1
		1.0	2.0	3.0	4.0	4.0	4.0
3	Josen Kalra	B 12	W 18	B 16	W 6	B 7
		0.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	4.0	4.0
4	David Zhao	W 21	W 2	B 11	B 8	W 9
		1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	4.0	4.0
5	Renzo Frigato	bye	W 25	B 6	B 12	W 13
		0.5	1.5	1.5	2.5	3.5	3.5
6	Wyatt Morgan	bye	bye	W 5	B 3	B 16
		0.5	1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0	3.0
7	Olivia Smith	B 11	W 10	W 1	B 2	W 3
		1.0	2.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0
8	Pablo Jadzinsky	B 18	W 12	B 10	W 4	B 17
		1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0	3.0
9	Alex Wu	W 24	B 1	W 17	B 15	B 4
		1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.0	3.0
10	Evan Sobel	W 22	B 7	W 8	B 20	W 19
		1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.0
11	Michael Byun	W 7	B 22	W 4	B 24	W 15
		0.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.0
12	Austin Chen	W 3	B 8	B 13	W 5	W 20
		1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	3.0	3.0
13	Alex Su	bye	B 20	W 12	B 1	B 5
		0.5	1.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5
14	Mark Drury	W 23	B 15	bye	bye	bye
		1.0	1.0	1.5	2.0	2.5	2.5
15	Jeff McGinnis	B 19	W 14	B 2	W 9	B 11
		1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
16	Samuel Agdamag	W 1	B 24	W 3	B 23	W 6
		0.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
17	Charles Mayville	B 2	W 21	B 9	B 18	W 8
		0.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
18	Hayden Brongersma	W 8	B 3	B 21	W 17	W 23
		0.0	0.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0
19	Serena Shinault	W 15	B 23	W 20	B 25	B 10
		0.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
20	Hugo Pu	bye	W 13	B 19	W 10	B 12
		0.5	0.5	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.5
21	Aditya Dhamdhere	B 4	B 17	W 18	W 22	B 24
		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	1.5	1.5
22	Shlok Chowdhury	B 10	W 11	W 24	B 21	W 25
		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	1.5	1.5
23	Brian Chen	B 14	W 19	B 25	W 16	B 18
		0.0	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
24	Jeff Ungar	B 9	W 16	B 22	W 11	W 21
		0.0	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
25	Carlos Fuertes	bye	B 5	W 23	W 19	B 22
		0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5