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January Double-Round Quick-Rated Quads, Round 1

The Menlo Park Chess Club will hold USCF Quick-rated double-round quads over three consecutive weeks beginning Thursday, January 18th, using the G/15;d5 time control and playing two games against each opponent during the same evening, one as white and one as black. No byes will be available for this event so if you are unable to play all three weeks (18th, 25th, February 1st) please do not register for the tournament. These quads are suitable for experienced players as well as newer US Chess members seeking to establish an over-the-board rating. Details follow:

Format: Double-round quad tournament over three weeks, two games per evening against the same opponent, one as white and one as black
Rounds: January 18th, 25th, February 1st—games begin promptly at 7:00pm
Control: G/15;d5 (Quick-rated game of 15 minutes per player plus a 5-second delay per move)
Entry Fee: $10 (PayPal: mark@drury.com; Venmo: @Mark-Drury-12); entire entry fee goes to the prize fund.
Prizes: First place in each quad receives $25, second place receives $15, any ties will split the cash prize(s)
Byes: No byes are available for this event
Register: Please sign up in advance using the ‘Register’ button, above
Boards, sets and clocks will be provided by the Menlo Park Chess Club (bring a clock if you own one)
All tournament participants must be current US Chess members
Our tournament chess rules summary is mandatory reading if you’re new to tournament play
For more information please send email to info@menloparkchess.club or tweet @MenloParkChess
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December 1, 2023December 8, 2023

Second Club Championship Results

Our second club championship concluded Thursday, November 30th, with many exciting games impacting the final prize distributions, as is often the case in a single-section Swiss event such as ours, and we were able to stream the top six boards live thanks to the efforts of Jean-Rudolph Cendejas and Cesar Tamondong—thank you both again for arranging that for our club!

Alex Chin went a perfect 5-0 to claim sole first place, followed by Tobin Bennion and David Zhao in second with 4 points out of five. Prinav Jindal, Nick Matelli, and Anton Bobkov shared 4th-6th places with 3.5 points and five players tied for 7th-11th with 3.0. The US Chess rating report may be found here while the full wall chart and prize group standings follow in the two tables below. Thank you to everyone who played in this event and we’ll look to hold a third club championship same time next year!

#	Name/Rating/ID	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5
1	ALEX CHIN	W 11	B 8	B 2	W 7	B 5
	2009 17050697	1.0	2.0	3.0	4.0	5.0
2	TOBIN BENNION	—-	B 26	W 1	W 12	B 9
	1708 12679573	X1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0	4.0
3	DAVID ZHAO	B 17	W 18	B 27	W 24	B 7
	1502 14793784	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	4.0
4	PRANAV JINDAL	B 23	W 21	B 12	W 5	W 10
	2004 30628884	1.0	2.0	2.5	2.5	3.5
5	NICK MATELLI	bye	B 32	W 29	B 4	W 1
	1695 12928935	0.5	1.5	2.5	3.5	3.5
6	ANTON BOBKOV	bye	W 19	B 20	—-	B 13
	1292 30162536	0.5	1.5	2.5	U2.5	3.5
7	CESAR TAMONDONG	W 24	B 9	– 18	B 1	W 3
	1632 12439091	1.0	2.0	X3.0	3.0	3.0
8	JOSEN KALRA	B 30	W 1	W 16	B 10	W 24
	1600 12615210	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0
9	CHASE WANG	—-	W 7	B 17	B 15	W 2
	1328 15015852	X1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.0
10	LASHA LAKIRBAIA	B 29	B 34	W 30	W 8	B 4
	1304 30975473	0.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.0
11	KORNEL CSERNAI	B 1	W 17	W 34	B 32	W 16
	1285 30594380	0.0	0.0	1.0	2.0	3.0
12	JIALIN WU	W 15	B 22	W 4	B 2	—-
	1703 30410290	1.0	2.0	2.5	2.5	U2.5
13	NIKITA GRINKIN	W 34	B 16	W 32	B 29	W 6
	1453 31286945	0.5	0.5	1.5	2.5	2.5
14	DHRITEE DESAI	B 18	bye	B 19	—-	W 29
	1213 16336152	0.0	0.5	1.5	U1.5	2.5
15	BANKS BENNION	B 12	W 33	B 21	W 9	B 17
	1140 30175646	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.5
16	ATUL DHINGRA	bye	W 13	B 8	W 26	B 11
	1095 31236322	0.5	1.5	1.5	2.5	2.5
17	PAUL HARTEL	W 3	B 11	W 9	B 22	W 15
	918 31277799	0.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.5
18	RAMKUMAR JEYARAMAN	W 14	B 3	– 7	bye	—-
	unr. 31454772	1.0	2.0	F2.0	2.5	U2.5
19	AMOGH RAO	bye	B 6	W 14	B 31	W 25
	unr. 30949341	0.5	0.5	0.5	1.5	2.5
20	LIAM LIU	B 27	W 29	W 6	bye	—-
	1665 30390852	1.0	1.5	1.5	2.0	U2.0
21	JEFFREY MCGINNIS	W 31	B 4	W 15	B 30	—-
	1504 13195830	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	U2.0
22	TAEWOO KIM	B 28	W 12	B 24	W 17	B 27
	1400 30622509	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0
23	HAMDANIL RASYID	W 4	B 30	– 33	B 34	W 32
	1260 30466276	0.0	0.0	F0.0	1.0	2.0
24	FADI ARODAKI	B 7	W 28	W 22	B 3	B 8
	1060 31279904	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
25	MICHAEL SHERRARD	W 32	bye	—-	B 33	B 19
	1478 12447368	0.0	0.5	U0.5	1.5	1.5
26	SAMUEL AGDAMAG	B 33	W 2	bye	B 16	—-
	1462 14874734	1.0	1.0	1.5	1.5	U1.5
27	HAYDEN BRONGERSMA	W 20	B 31	W 3	B 28	W 22
	1064 31240441	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.5	1.5
28	GREGORY GAUTHIER	W 22	B 24	W 31	W 27	—-
	unr. 31300086	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.5	U1.5
29	HUGO PU	W 10	B 20	B 5	W 13	B 14
	unr. 31093860	1.0	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.5
30	JEFFREY UNGAR	W 8	W 23	B 10	W 21	B 31
	1043 16396743	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
31	UMAR RASYID	B 21	W 27	B 28	W 19	W 30
	1001 30516925	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0
32	MICHAEL DARR	B 25	W 5	B 13	W 11	B 23
	798 31240182	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
33	PARAMDEEP SINGH	W 26	B 15	– 23	W 25	—-
	672 30214394	0.0	0.0	X1.0	1.0	U1.0
34	SIDDHARTH KALRA	B 13	W 10	B 11	W 23	—-
	253 30498046	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	F0.5

Name	Rating	Score	Prize
1600+
CHIN, ALEX	2009	5.0	$100
BENNION, TOBIN	1708	4.0	$60
MATELLI, NICK	1695	3.5	$20
JINDAL, PRANAV	2004	3.5	$20
TAMONDONG, CESAR	1632	3.0
KALRA, JOSEN	1600	3.0
WU, JIALIN	1703	2.5
LIU, LIAM	1665	2.0
JEYARAMAN, RAMKUMAR	unr.	2.0
1300-1599
ZHAO, DAVID	1502	4.0	$80
WANG, CHASE	1328	3.0	$50
LAKIRBAIA, LASHA	1304	3.0	$50
GRINKIN, NIKITA	1453	2.5
MCGINNIS, JEFFREY	1504	2.0
KIM, TAEWOO	1400	2.0
SHERRARD, MICHAEL	1478	1.5
AGDAMAG, SAMUEL	1462	1.5
1002-1299
BOBKOV, ANTON	1292	3.5	$60
CSERNAI, KORNEL	1285	3.0	$40
DHINGRA, ATUL	1095	2.5	$7
DESAI, DHRITEE	1213	2.5	$7
BENNION, BANKS	1140	2.5	$7
RASYID, HAMDANIL	1260	2.0
ARODAKI, FADI	1060	2.0
BRONGERSMA, HAYDEN	1064	1.5
UNGAR, JEFFREY	1043	1.0
UNR-1001
HARTEL, PAUL	918	2.5	$50
RAO, AMOGH	unr.	2.5	$50
PU, HUGO	unr.	1.5	$10
GAUTHIER, GREGORY	unr.	1.5	$10
RASYID, UMAR	1001	1.0
DARR, MICHAEL	798	1.0
SINGH, PARAMDEEP	672	1.0
KALRA, SIDDHARTH	253	0.5

November 29, 2023November 29, 2023

Club Championship Games Streamed Live!

Thanks to the efforts and connections of Juan Cendejas and Cesar Tamondong, the top six boards of the final round of our club championship to be played Thursday, November 30th, at 7pm will be streamed live on both chess.com and DGT’s livechesscloud.com via the following links:

https://www.chess.com/events/2023-menlo-park-chess-club-championship
https://view.livechesscloud.com/#bffa7ace-751d-40a8-bf8f-9a324599ba3f

The pairings for the top six boards remain the same as in our previous post but there were some changes on the lower boards due to illness or withdrawal—the latest pairings are shared below for reference. This is an exciting first for our young club and likely won’t be the last time we dabble in this technology. Thank you, Juan and Cesar!

Board	#	White	Result	#	Black
1	5	NICK MATELLI		1	ALEX CHIN
2	15	CHASE WANG		3	TOBIN BENNION
3	7	CESAR TAMONDONG		10	DAVID ZHAO
4	2	PRANAV JINDAL		16	LASHA LAKIRBAIA
5	13	NIKITA GRINKIN		17	ANTON BOBKOV
6	18	KORNEL CSERNAI		22	ATUL DHINGRA
7	8	JOSEN KALRA		24	FADI ARODAKI
8	27	PAUL HARTEL		21	BANKS BENNION
9	32	AMOGH RAO		11	MICHAEL SHERRARD
10	20	DHRITEE DESAI		34	HUGO PU
11	23	HAYDEN BRONGERSMA		14	TAEWOO KIM
12	19	HAMDANIL RASYID		28	MICHAEL DARR
13	30	SIDDHARTH KALRA		25	JEFFREY UNGAR
	26	UMAR RASYID	1		BYE

November 21, 2023November 21, 2023

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

Our round 4 games were no less exciting than previous rounds and we saw a number of upsets, to boot. Below are the final round pairings, wall chart and prize group standings heading into the final round. As always, the pairings could change if someone is unable to play on the 30th, and I’ll update these tables asap if that’s the case.

Recall that the chess club will not meet this Thursday, the 23rd, due to Thanksgiving—please enjoy the holiday, everyone! Regards,

Mark Drury

Board	#	White	Result	#	Black
1	5	NICK MATELLI		1	ALEX CHIN
2	15	CHASE WANG		3	TOBIN BENNION
3	7	CESAR TAMONDONG		10	DAVID ZHAO
4	2	PRANAV JINDAL		16	LASHA LAKIRBAIA
5	13	NIKITA GRINKIN		17	ANTON BOBKOV
6	18	KORNEL CSERNAI		22	ATUL DHINGRA
7	8	JOSEN KALRA		24	FADI ARODAKI
8	27	PAUL HARTEL		21	BANKS BENNION
9	32	AMOGH RAO		11	MICHAEL SHERRARD
10	20	DHRITEE DESAI		34	HUGO PU
11	23	HAYDEN BRONGERSMA		14	TAEWOO KIM
12	19	HAMDANIL RASYID		28	MICHAEL DARR
13	30	SIDDHARTH KALRA		25	JEFFREY UNGAR
	26	UMAR RASYID	1		BYE

#	Name/Rating/ID	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5
1	ALEX CHIN	W 11	B 8	B 2	W 7	B 5
	2009 17050697	1.0	2.0	3.0	4.0	5.0
2	TOBIN BENNION	—-	B 26	W 1	W 12	B 9
	1708 12679573	X1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0	4.0
3	DAVID ZHAO	B 17	W 18	B 27	W 24	B 7
	1502 14793784	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	4.0
4	PRANAV JINDAL	B 23	W 21	B 12	W 5	W 10
	2004 30628884	1.0	2.0	2.5	2.5	3.5
5	NICK MATELLI	bye	B 32	W 29	B 4	W 1
	1695 12928935	0.5	1.5	2.5	3.5	3.5
6	ANTON BOBKOV	bye	W 19	B 20	—-	B 13
	1292 30162536	0.5	1.5	2.5	U2.5	3.5
7	CESAR TAMONDONG	W 24	B 9	– 18	B 1	W 3
	1632 12439091	1.0	2.0	X3.0	3.0	3.0
8	JOSEN KALRA	B 30	W 1	W 16	B 10	W 24
	1600 12615210	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0
9	CHASE WANG	—-	W 7	B 17	B 15	W 2
	1328 15015852	X1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.0
10	LASHA LAKIRBAIA	B 29	B 34	W 30	W 8	B 4
	1304 30975473	0.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.0
11	KORNEL CSERNAI	B 1	W 17	W 34	B 32	W 16
	1285 30594380	0.0	0.0	1.0	2.0	3.0
12	JIALIN WU	W 15	B 22	W 4	B 2	—-
	1703 30410290	1.0	2.0	2.5	2.5	U2.5
13	NIKITA GRINKIN	W 34	B 16	W 32	B 29	W 6
	1453 31286945	0.5	0.5	1.5	2.5	2.5
14	DHRITEE DESAI	B 18	bye	B 19	—-	W 29
	1213 16336152	0.0	0.5	1.5	U1.5	2.5
15	BANKS BENNION	B 12	W 33	B 21	W 9	B 17
	1140 30175646	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.5
16	ATUL DHINGRA	bye	W 13	B 8	W 26	B 11
	1095 31236322	0.5	1.5	1.5	2.5	2.5
17	PAUL HARTEL	W 3	B 11	W 9	B 22	W 15
	918 31277799	0.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.5
18	RAMKUMAR JEYARAMAN	W 14	B 3	– 7	bye	—-
	unr. 31454772	1.0	2.0	F2.0	2.5	U2.5
19	AMOGH RAO	bye	B 6	W 14	B 31	W 25
	unr. 30949341	0.5	0.5	0.5	1.5	2.5
20	LIAM LIU	B 27	W 29	W 6	bye	—-
	1665 30390852	1.0	1.5	1.5	2.0	U2.0
21	JEFFREY MCGINNIS	W 31	B 4	W 15	B 30	—-
	1504 13195830	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	U2.0
22	TAEWOO KIM	B 28	W 12	B 24	W 17	B 27
	1400 30622509	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0
23	HAMDANIL RASYID	W 4	B 30	– 33	B 34	W 32
	1260 30466276	0.0	0.0	F0.0	1.0	2.0
24	FADI ARODAKI	B 7	W 28	W 22	B 3	B 8
	1060 31279904	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
25	MICHAEL SHERRARD	W 32	bye	—-	B 33	B 19
	1478 12447368	0.0	0.5	U0.5	1.5	1.5
26	SAMUEL AGDAMAG	B 33	W 2	bye	B 16	—-
	1462 14874734	1.0	1.0	1.5	1.5	U1.5
27	HAYDEN BRONGERSMA	W 20	B 31	W 3	B 28	W 22
	1064 31240441	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.5	1.5
28	GREGORY GAUTHIER	W 22	B 24	W 31	W 27	—-
	unr. 31300086	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.5	U1.5
29	HUGO PU	W 10	B 20	B 5	W 13	B 14
	unr. 31093860	1.0	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.5
30	JEFFREY UNGAR	W 8	W 23	B 10	W 21	B 31
	1043 16396743	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
31	UMAR RASYID	B 21	W 27	B 28	W 19	W 30
	1001 30516925	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0
32	MICHAEL DARR	B 25	W 5	B 13	W 11	B 23
	798 31240182	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
33	PARAMDEEP SINGH	W 26	B 15	– 23	W 25	—-
	672 30214394	0.0	0.0	X1.0	1.0	U1.0
34	SIDDHARTH KALRA	B 13	W 10	B 11	W 23	—-
	253 30498046	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	F0.5

Name	Group	Rating	Score
CHIN, ALEX	1600+	2009	4.0
MATELLI, NICK	1600+	1695	3.5
BENNION, TOBIN	1600+	1708	3.0
TAMONDONG, CESAR	1600+	1632	3.0
JINDAL, PRANAV	1600+	2004	2.5
WU, JIALIN	1600+	1703	2.5
LIU, LIAM	1600+	1665	2.0
KALRA, JOSEN	1600+	1600	2.0
JEYARAMAN, RAMKUMAR	1600+	unr.	2.0

ZHAO, DAVID	1300-1599	1502	3.0
WANG, CHASE	1300-1599	1328	3.0
LAKIRBAIA, LASHA	1300-1599	1304	3.0
GRINKIN, NIKITA	1300-1599	1453	2.5
MCGINNIS, JEFFREY	1300-1599	1504	2.0
SHERRARD, MICHAEL	1300-1599	1478	1.5
AGDAMAG, SAMUEL	1300-1599	1462	1.5
KIM, TAEWOO	1300-1599	1400	1.0

BOBKOV, ANTON	1002-1299	1292	2.5
DHINGRA, ATUL	1002-1299	1095	2.5
CSERNAI, KORNEL	1002-1299	1285	2.0
BENNION, BANKS	1002-1299	1140	2.0
ARODAKI, FADI	1002-1299	1060	2.0
DESAI, DHRITEE	1002-1299	1213	1.5
BRONGERSMA, HAYDEN	1002-1299	1064	1.5
UNGAR, JEFFREY	1002-1299	1043	1.0
RASYID, HAMDANIL	1002-1299	1260	1.0

HARTEL, PAUL	UNR-1001	918	2.0
PU, HUGO	UNR-1001	unr.	1.5
GAUTHIER, GREGORY	UNR-1001	unr.	1.5
RAO, AMOGH	UNR-1001	unr.	1.5
DARR, MICHAEL	UNR-1001	798	1.0
SINGH, PARAMDEEP	UNR-1001	672	1.0
KALRA, SIDDHARTH	UNR-1001	253	0.5
RASYID, UMAR	UNR-1001	1001	0.0

November 15, 2023November 15, 2023

Second Club Championship Round 4 Pairings, Wall Chart, Prize Group Standings

The round 3 games were every bit as exciting as those in the previous round, with some narrow escapes, some clearly winning attacks which fizzled out and some interesting endgames, including that between Greg and Umar, which had a study-like quality about it given the opposite-color bishops. Again, I’ll try to get some of these games online during the Thanksgiving break next week, perhaps sooner.

Below are the pairings, wall chart and prize group standings for round 4. Anton is half a point clear in his group but fell ill this week and won’t be able to play Thursday, regrettably, though he still has an excellent chance at a prize with a draw or win in the final round. Hugo is also half a point clear in his group and we’ll see if he can keep that going when he plays Nikita this week. Note that a number of players have needed to take a zero-point bye given they’d already used the one half-point bye allowed in this event. That’s always unfortunate but there are a number of reasons why we use this rule–follow up with me Thursday if you have any questions.

Due to the odd number of players this round Umar gets the full-point bye though, as always, things could change in 24 hours if we get another bye request or the like–I’ll redo the pairings if I receive any such requests before 4pm Thursday. I look forward to seeing many of you tomorrow! Regards,

Mark Drury

Board	#	White	Result	#	Black
1	1	ALEX CHIN		7	CESAR TAMONDONG
2	2	PRANAV JINDAL		5	NICK MATELLI
3	3	TOBIN BENNION		4	JIALIN WU
4	16	LASHA LAKIRBAIA		8	JOSEN KALRA
5	10	DAVID ZHAO		24	FADI ARODAKI
6	21	BANKS BENNION		15	CHASE WANG
7	34	HUGO PU		13	NIKITA GRINKIN
8	22	ATUL DHINGRA		12	SAMUEL AGDAMAG
9	25	JEFFREY UNGAR		9	JEFFREY MCGINNIS
10	14	TAEWOO KIM		27	PAUL HARTEL
11	28	MICHAEL DARR		18	KORNEL CSERNAI
12	33	GREGORY GAUTHIER		23	HAYDEN BRONGERSMA
13	29	PARAMDEEP SINGH		11	MICHAEL SHERRARD
14	30	SIDDHARTH KALRA		19	HAMDANIL RASYID
15	26	UMAR RASYID		32	AMOGH RAO
	31	RAMKUMAR JEYARAMAN	½		BYE
	6	LIAM LIU	½		BYE

#	Name/Rating/ID	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4
1	ALEX CHIN	W 23	B 8	B 7	W 2
	2009 17050697	1.0	2.0	3.0
2	CESAR TAMONDONG	W 13	B 10	– 14	B 1
	1632 12439091	1.0	2.0	X3.0
3	PRANAV JINDAL	B 33	W 21	B 4	W 5
	2004 30628884	1.0	2.0	2.5
4	JIALIN WU	W 12	B 22	W 3	B 7
	1703 30410290	1.0	2.0	2.5
5	NICK MATELLI	bye	B 27	W 20	B 3
	1695 12928935	0.5	1.5	2.5
6	ANTON BOBKOV	bye	W 32	B 15	—-
	1292 30162536	0.5	1.5	2.5
7	TOBIN BENNION	—-	B 16	W 1	W 4
	1708 12679573	X1.0	2.0	2.0
8	JOSEN KALRA	B 25	W 1	W 19	B 11
	1600 12615210	1.0	1.0	2.0
9	DAVID ZHAO	B 26	W 14	B 24	W 13
	1502 14793784	1.0	1.0	2.0
10	CHASE WANG	—-	W 2	B 26	B 12
	1328 15015852	X1.0	1.0	2.0
11	LASHA LAKIRBAIA	B 20	B 31	W 25	W 8
	1304 30975473	0.0	1.0	2.0
12	BANKS BENNION	B 4	W 28	B 21	W 10
	1140 30175646	0.0	1.0	2.0
13	FADI ARODAKI	B 2	W 29	W 22	B 9
	1060 31279904	0.0	1.0	2.0
14	RAMKUMAR JEYARAMAN	W 18	B 9	– 2	bye
	unr. 31454772	1.0	2.0	F2.0
15	LIAM LIU	B 24	W 20	W 6	bye
	1665 30390852	1.0	1.5	1.5
16	SAMUEL AGDAMAG	B 28	W 7	bye	B 19
	1462 14874734	1.0	1.0	1.5
17	NIKITA GRINKIN	W 31	B 19	W 27	B 20
	1453 31286945	0.5	0.5	1.5
18	DHRITEE DESAI	B 14	bye	B 32	—-
	1213 16336152	0.0	0.5	1.5
19	ATUL DHINGRA	bye	W 17	B 8	W 16
	1095 31236322	0.5	1.5	1.5
20	HUGO PU	W 11	B 15	B 5	W 17
	unr. 31093860	1.0	1.5	1.5
21	JEFFREY MCGINNIS	W 34	B 3	W 12	B 25
	1504 13195830	1.0	1.0	1.0
22	TAEWOO KIM	B 29	W 4	B 13	W 26
	1400 30622509	1.0	1.0	1.0
23	KORNEL CSERNAI	B 1	W 26	W 31	B 27
	1285 30594380	0.0	0.0	1.0
24	HAYDEN BRONGERSMA	W 15	B 34	W 9	B 29
	1064 31240441	0.0	1.0	1.0
25	JEFFREY UNGAR	W 8	W 33	B 11	W 21
	1043 16396743	0.0	1.0	1.0
26	PAUL HARTEL	W 9	B 23	W 10	B 22
	918 31277799	0.0	1.0	1.0
27	MICHAEL DARR	B 30	W 5	B 17	W 23
	798 31240182	1.0	1.0	1.0
28	PARAMDEEP SINGH	W 16	B 12	– 33	W 30
	672 30214394	0.0	0.0	X1.0
29	GREGORY GAUTHIER	W 22	B 13	W 34	W 24
	unr. 31300086	0.0	0.0	1.0
30	MICHAEL SHERRARD	W 27	bye	—-	B 28
	1478 12447368	0.0	0.5	U0.5
31	SIDDHARTH KALRA	B 17	W 11	B 23	W 33
	253 30498046	0.5	0.5	0.5
32	AMOGH RAO	bye	B 6	W 18	B 34
	unr. 30949341	0.5	0.5	0.5
33	HAMDANIL RASYID	W 3	B 25	– 28	B 31
	1260 30466276	0.0	0.0	F0.0
34	UMAR RASYID	B 21	W 24	B 29	W 32
	1001 30516925	0.0	0.0	0.0

Name	Group	Rating	Score
CHIN, ALEX	1600+	2009	3.0
TAMONDONG, CESAR	1600+	1632	3.0
JINDAL, PRANAV	1600+	2004	2.5
WU, JIALIN	1600+	1703	2.5
MATELLI, NICK	1600+	1695	2.5
BENNION, TOBIN	1600+	1708	2.0
KALRA, JOSEN	1600+	1600	2.0
JEYARAMAN, RAMKUMAR	1600+	unr.	2.0
LIU, LIAM	1600+	1665	1.5

ZHAO, DAVID	1300-1599	1502	2.0
WANG, CHASE	1300-1599	1328	2.0
LAKIRBAIA, LASHA	1300-1599	1304	2.0
AGDAMAG, SAMUEL	1300-1599	1462	1.5
GRINKIN, NIKITA	1300-1599	1453	1.5
MCGINNIS, JEFFREY	1300-1599	1504	1.0
KIM, TAEWOO	1300-1599	1400	1.0
SHERRARD, MICHAEL	1300-1599	1478	0.5

BOBKOV, ANTON	1002-1299	1292	2.5
BENNION, BANKS	1002-1299	1140	2.0
ARODAKI, FADI	1002-1299	1060	2.0
DHINGRA, ATUL	1002-1299	1095	1.5
DESAI, DHRITEE	1002-1299	1213	1.5
CSERNAI, KORNEL	1002-1299	1285	1.0
BRONGERSMA, HAYDEN	1002-1299	1064	1.0
UNGAR, JEFFREY	1002-1299	1043	1.0
RASYID, HAMDANIL	1002-1299	1260	0.0

PU, HUGO	UNR-1001	unr.	1.5
HARTEL, PAUL	UNR-1001	918	1.0
DARR, MICHAEL	UNR-1001	798	1.0
SINGH, PARAMDEEP	UNR-1001	672	1.0
GAUTHIER, GREGORY	UNR-1001	unr.	1.0
KALRA, SIDDHARTH	UNR-1001	253	0.5
RAO, AMOGH	UNR-1001	unr.	0.5
RASYID, UMAR	UNR-1001	1001	0.0

November 7, 2023November 7, 2023

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	#	White	#	Black
1	4	TOBIN BENNION	1	ALEX CHIN
2	5	JIALIN WU	2	PRANAV JINDAL
3	3	RAMKUMAR JEYARAMAN	8	CESAR TAMONDONG
4	6	NICK MATELLI	34	HUGO PU
5	7	LIAM LIU	18	ANTON BOBKOV
6	9	JOSEN KALRA	23	ATUL DHINGRA
7	10	JEFFREY MCGINNIS	22	BANKS BENNION
8	24	HAYDEN BRONGERSMA	11	DAVID ZHAO
9	25	FADI ARODAKI	15	TAEWOO KIM
10	28	PAUL HARTEL	16	CHASE WANG
11	17	LASHA LAKIRBAIA	26	JEFFREY UNGAR
12	14	NIKITA GRINKIN	29	MICHAEL DARR
13	32	AMOGH RAO	21	DHRITEE DESAI
14	19	KORNEL CSERNAI	31	SIDDHARTH KALRA
15	20	HAMDANIL RASYID	30	PARAMDEEP SINGH
16	33	GREGORY GAUTHIER	27	UMAR RASYID

#	Name/Rating/ID	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3
1	ALEX CHIN	W 30	B 12	B 4
	2009 17050697	1.0	2.0
2	PRANAV JINDAL	B 31	W 13	B 5
	2004 30628884	1.0	2.0
3	RAMKUMAR JEYARAMAN	W 27	B 14	W 6
	1800 31454772	1.0	2.0
4	TOBIN BENNION	—-	B 15	W 1
	1708 12679573	X1.0	2.0
5	JIALIN WU	W 19	B 16	W 2
	1703 30410290	1.0	2.0
6	CESAR TAMONDONG	W 21	B 17	B 3
	1632 12439091	1.0	2.0
7	NICK MATELLI	bye	B 24	W 11
	1695 12928935	0.5	1.5
8	LIAM LIU	B 20	W 11	W 9
	1665 30390852	1.0	1.5
9	ANTON BOBKOV	bye	W 29	B 8
	1292 30162536	0.5	1.5
10	ATUL DHINGRA	bye	W 26	B 12
	1095 31236322	0.5	1.5
11	HUGO PU	W 18	B 8	B 7
	unr. 31093860	1.0	1.5
12	JOSEN KALRA	B 22	W 1	W 10
	1600 12615210	1.0	1.0
13	JEFFREY MCGINNIS	W 32	B 2	W 19
	1504 13195830	1.0	1.0
14	DAVID ZHAO	B 23	W 3	B 20
	1502 14793784	1.0	1.0
15	SAMUEL AGDAMAG	B 33	W 4	—-
	1462 14874734	1.0	1.0
16	TAEWOO KIM	B 34	W 5	B 21
	1400 30622509	1.0	1.0
17	CHASE WANG	—-	W 6	B 23
	1328 15015852	X1.0	1.0
18	LASHA LAKIRBAIA	B 11	B 28	W 22
	1304 30975473	0.0	1.0
19	BANKS BENNION	B 5	W 33	B 13
	1140 30175646	0.0	1.0
20	HAYDEN BRONGERSMA	W 8	B 32	W 14
	1064 31240441	0.0	1.0
21	FADI ARODAKI	B 6	W 34	W 16
	1060 31279904	0.0	1.0
22	JEFFREY UNGAR	W 12	W 31	B 18
	1043 16396743	0.0	1.0
23	PAUL HARTEL	W 14	B 30	W 17
	918 31277799	0.0	1.0
24	MICHAEL DARR	B 25	W 7	B 26
	798 31240182	1.0	1.0
25	MICHAEL SHERRARD	W 24	bye	—-
	1478 12447368	0.0	0.5
26	NIKITA GRINKIN	W 28	B 10	W 24
	1453 31286945	0.5	0.5
27	DHRITEE DESAI	B 3	bye	B 29
	1213 16336152	0.0	0.5
28	SIDDHARTH KALRA	B 26	W 18	B 30
	253 30498046	0.5	0.5
29	AMOGH RAO	bye	B 9	W 27
	unr. 30949341	0.5	0.5
30	KORNEL CSERNAI	B 1	W 23	W 28
	1285 30594380	0.0	0.0
31	HAMDANIL RASYID	W 2	B 22	W 33
	1260 30466276	0.0	0.0
32	UMAR RASYID	B 13	W 20	B 34
	1001 30516925	0.0	0.0
33	PARAMDEEP SINGH	W 15	B 19	B 31
	672 30214394	0.0	0.0
34	GREGORY GAUTHIER	W 16	B 21	W 32
	unr. 31300086	0.0	0.0

Name	Group	Rating	Score
CHIN, ALEX	1600+	2009	2.0
JINDAL, PRANAV	1600+	2004	2.0
JEYARAMAN, RAMKUMAR	1600+	(1800)	2.0
BENNION, TOBIN	1600+	1708	2.0
WU, JIALIN	1600+	1703	2.0
TAMONDONG, CESAR	1600+	1632	2.0
MATELLI, NICK	1600+	1695	1.5
LIU, LIAM	1600+	1665	1.5
KALRA, JOSEN	1600+	1600	1.0

MCGINNIS, JEFFREY	1300-1599	1504	1.0
ZHAO, DAVID	1300-1599	1502	1.0
AGDAMAG, SAMUEL	1300-1599	1462	1.0
KIM, TAEWOO	1300-1599	1400	1.0
WANG, CHASE	1300-1599	1328	1.0
LAKIRBAIA, LASHA	1300-1599	1304	1.0
SHERRARD, MICHAEL	1300-1599	1478	0.5
GRINKIN, NIKITA	1300-1599	1453	0.5

BOBKOV, ANTON	1002-1299	1292	1.5
DHINGRA, ATUL	1002-1299	1095	1.5
BENNION, BANKS	1002-1299	1140	1.0
BRONGERSMA, HAYDEN	1002-1299	1064	1.0
ARODAKI, FADI	1002-1299	1060	1.0
UNGAR, JEFFREY	1002-1299	1043	1.0
DESAI, DHRITEE	1002-1299	1213	0.5
CSERNAI, KORNEL	1002-1299	1285	0.0
RASYID, HAMDANIL	1002-1299	1260	0.0

PU, HUGO	UNR-1001	unr.	1.5
HARTEL, PAUL	UNR-1001	918	1.0
DARR, MICHAEL	UNR-1001	798	1.0
KALRA, SIDDHARTH	UNR-1001	253	0.5
RAO, AMOGH	UNR-1001	unr.	0.5
RASYID, UMAR	UNR-1001	1001	0.0
SINGH, PARAMDEEP	UNR-1001	672	0.0
GAUTHIER, GREGORY	UNR-1001	unr.	0.0

October 31, 2023November 2, 2023

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	#	White	Result	#	Black
1	9	JOSEN KALRA		1	ALEX CHIN
2	2	PRANAV JINDAL		10	JEFFREY MCGINNIS
3	11	DAVID ZHAO		3	RAMKUMAR JEYARAMAN
4	13	SAMUEL AGDAMAG		4	TOBIN BENNION
5	15	TAEWOO KIM		5	JIALIN WU
6	7	LIAM LIU		34	HUGO PU
7	16	CHASE WANG		8	CESAR TAMONDONG
8	29	MICHAEL DARR		6	NICK MATELLI
9	23	ATUL DHINGRA		14	NIKITA GRINKIN
10	18	ANTON BOBKOV		32	AMOGH RAO
11	31	SIDDHARTH KALRA		17	LASHA LAKIRBAIA
12	19	KORNEL CSERNAI		28	PAUL HARTEL
13	26	JEFFREY UNGAR		20	HAMDANIL RASYID
14	22	BANKS BENNION		30	PARAMDEEP SINGH
15	27	UMAR RASYID		24	HAYDEN BRONGERSMA
16	25	FADI ARODAKI		33	GREGORY GAUTHIER
	21	DHRITEE DESAI	½		BYE
	12	MICHAEL SHERRARD	½		BYE

Player #	Name/Rating/ID	Rd 1	Rd 2
1	ALEX CHIN	W 24	B 8
	2009 17050697	1.0
2	PRANAV JINDAL	B 25	W 9
	2004 30628884	1.0
3	RAMKUMAR JEYARAMAN	W 26	B 10
	1800 31454772	1.0
4	TOBIN BENNION	—-	B 11
	1708 12679573	X1.0
5	JIALIN WU	W 27	B 12
	1703 30410290	1.0
6	LIAM LIU	B 28	W 15
	1665 30390852	1.0
7	CESAR TAMONDONG	W 29	B 13
	1632 12439091	1.0
8	JOSEN KALRA	B 30	W 1
	1600 12615210	1.0
9	JEFFREY MCGINNIS	W 31	B 2
	1504 13195830	1.0
10	DAVID ZHAO	B 32	W 3
	1502 14793784	1.0
11	SAMUEL AGDAMAG	B 33	W 4
	1462 14874734	1.0
12	TAEWOO KIM	B 34	W 5
	1400 30622509	1.0
13	CHASE WANG	—-	W 7
	1328 15015852	X1.0
14	MICHAEL DARR	B 22	W 16
	798 31240182	1.0
15	HUGO PU	W 23	B 6
	unr. 31093860	1.0
16	NICK MATELLI	bye	B 14
	1695 12928935	0.5
17	NIKITA GRINKIN	W 20	B 19
	1453 31286945	0.5
18	ANTON BOBKOV	bye	W 21
	1292 30162536	0.5
19	ATUL DHINGRA	bye	W 17
	1095 31236322	0.5
20	SIDDHARTH KALRA	B 17	W 23
	253 30498046	0.5
21	AMOGH RAO	bye	B 18
	unr. 30949341	0.5
22	MICHAEL SHERRARD	W 14	bye
	1478 12447368	0.0
23	LASHA LAKIRBAIA	B 15	B 20
	1304 30975473	0.0
24	KORNEL CSERNAI	B 1	W 32
	1285 30594380	0.0
25	HAMDANIL RASYID	W 2	B 30
	1260 30466276	0.0
26	DHRITEE DESAI	B 3	bye
	1213 16336152	0.0
27	BANKS BENNION	B 5	W 33
	1140 30175646	0.0
28	HAYDEN BRONGERSMA	W 6	B 31
	1064 31240441	0.0
29	FADI ARODAKI	B 7	W 34
	1060 31279904	0.0
30	JEFFREY UNGAR	W 8	W 25
	1043 16396743	0.0
31	UMAR RASYID	B 9	W 28
	1001 30516925	0.0
32	PAUL HARTEL	W 10	B 24
	918 31277799	0.0
33	PARAMDEEP SINGH	W 11	B 27
	672 30214394	0.0
34	GREGORY GAUTHIER	W 12	B 29
	unr. 31300086	0.0

Name	Group	ID	Rating	Expiration
CHIN, ALEX	1600+	17050697	2009	11/30/2023
JINDAL, PRANAV	1600+	30628884	2004	08/31/2024
JEYARAMAN, RAMKUMAR	1600+	31454772	(1800)	10/31/2024
BENNION, TOBIN	1600+	12679573	1708	11/30/2023
WU, JIALIN	1600+	30410290	1703	01/31/2024
MATELLI, NICK	1600+	12928935	1695	05/31/2024
LIU, LIAM	1600+	30390852	1665	12/31/2024
TAMONDONG, CESAR	1600+	12439091	1632	08/31/2024
KALRA, JOSEN	1600+	12615210	1600	10/31/2024
MCGINNIS, JEFFREY	1300-1599	13195830	1504	03/31/2025
ZHAO, DAVID	1300-1599	14793784	1502	06/30/2024
SHERRARD, MICHAEL	1300-1599	12447368	1478	04/30/2025
AGDAMAG, SAMUEL	1300-1599	14874734	1462	05/31/2024
GRINKIN, NIKITA	1300-1599	31286945	1453	06/30/2024
KIM, TAEWOO	1300-1599	30622509	1400	06/30/2025
WANG, CHASE	1300-1599	15015852	1328	08/31/2025
LAKIRBAIA, LASHA	1300-1599	30975473	1304	01/31/2024
BOBKOV, ANTON	1002-1299	30162536	1292	10/31/2024
CSERNAI, KORNEL	1002-1299	30594380	1285	06/30/2024
RASYID, HAMDANIL	1002-1299	30466276	1260	08/31/2024
DESAI, DHRITEE	1002-1299	16336152	1213	03/31/2024
BENNION, BANKS	1002-1299	30175646	1140	06/30/2025
DHINGRA, ATUL	1002-1299	31236322	1095	05/31/2024
BRONGERSMA, HAYDEN	1002-1299	31240441	1064	05/31/2024
ARODAKI, FADI	1002-1299	31279904	1060	05/31/2025
UNGAR, JEFFREY	1002-1299	16396743	1043	04/30/2024
RASYID, UMAR	UNR-1001	30516925	1001	05/31/2024
HARTEL, PAUL	UNR-1001	31277799	918	05/31/2024
DARR, MICHAEL	UNR-1001	31240182	798	05/31/2024
SINGH, PARAMDEEP	UNR-1001	30214394	672	09/30/2023*
KALRA, SIDDHARTH	UNR-1001	30498046	253	05/31/2025
RAO, AMOGH	UNR-1001	30949341	unr.	01/31/2024
GAUTHIER, GREGORY	UNR-1001	31300086	unr.	Life
PU, HUGO	UNR-1001	31093860	unr.	03/31/2024

October 27, 2023October 31, 2023

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	#	White	Result	#	Black
1	1	ALEX CHIN	1 – 0	19	KORNEL CSERNAI
2	20	HAMDANIL RASYID	0 – 1	2	PRANAV JINDAL
3	3	RAMKUMAR JEYARAMAN	1 – 0	21	DHRITEE DESAI
5	5	JIALIN WU	1 – 0	22	BANKS BENNION
6	24	HAYDEN BRONGERSMA	0 – 1	7	LIAM LIU
7	8	CESAR TAMONDONG	1 – 0	25	FADI ARODAKI
8	26	JEFFREY UNGAR	0 – 1	9	JOSEN KALRA
9	10	JEFFREY MCGINNIS	1 – 0	27	UMAR RASYID
10	28	PAUL HARTEL	0 – 1	11	DAVID ZHAO
11	12	MICHAEL SHERRARD	0 – 1	29	MICHAEL DARR
12	30	PARAMDEEP SINGH	0 – 1	13	SAMUEL AGDAMAG
13	14	NIKITA GRINKIN	½ – ½	31	SIDDHARTH KALRA
14	33	GREGORY GAUTHIER	0 – 1	15	TAEWOO KIM
16	34	HUGO PU	1 – 0	17	LASHA LAKIRBAIA
	4	TOBIN BENNION	1 X		BYE
	16	CHASE WANG	1 X		BYE
	6	NICK MATELLI	½		BYE
	18	ANTON BOBKOV	½		BYE
	23	ATUL DHINGRA	½		BYE
	32	AMOGH RAO	½		BYE

October 26, 2023October 26, 2023

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	#	Res	White	#	Res	Black
1	1		ALEX CHIN	17		KORNEL CSERNAI
2	18		HAMDANIL RASYID	2		PRANAV JINDAL
3	3		RAMKUMAR JEYARAMAN	19		DHRITEE DESAI
4	20		ANTON BOBKOV	4		TOBIN BENNION
5	5		JIALIN WU	21		BANKS BENNION
6	23		HAYDEN SCOTT BRONGERSMA	6		LIAM LIU
7	7		CESAR TAMONDONG	24		FADI ARODAKI
8	25		P JEFFREY UNGAR	8		JOSEN SINGH KALRA
9	9		JEFFREY D MCGINNIS	26		UMAR RASYID
10	27		PAUL HARTEL	10		DAVID ZHAO
11	11		MICHAEL LESLIE SHERRARD	28		MICHAEL DARR
12	29		PARAMDEEP SINGH	12		SAMUEL AGDAMAG
13	13		NIKITA GRINKIN	30		SIDDHARTH KALRA
14	32		GREGORY GAUTHIER	14		TAEWOO KIM
15	15		CHASE WANG	33		JEFFERSON MATEO
16	34		HUGO PU	16		LASHA LAKIRBAIA
	22	½	ATUL DHINGRA			BYE
	31	½	AMOGH RAO			BYE

October 11, 2023October 11, 2023

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