We enjoyed an excellent turnout this past Thursday for our first foray into A4c Chess, as we’re styling it (though the variant’s creator may yet object). As a reminder, this variant is best-of-three games against each opponent with ten total minutes on one’s clock, so time management across the two or three games in each match is critical. Indeed, we saw a number of matches in each round where time was used, how shall we say, less than optimally, which led to severe time crunches in the third game and to much clock slapping (sometimes in a vain attempt to stave off the inevitable loss on time)—it definitely made for interesting spectacle and was fun to watch. More information about the variant and the tournament details may be found here.
Twenty-eight people participated in three sections, which worked well for the three rounds we were able to squeeze in during the evening. Below are the results for each section and congratulations are due to winners Kunal (group one), David (group two) and Hayden and Austin (group three). Thank you to everyone who played in this event and the feedback was universally positive, even with the late start, so we’ll definitely play A4c Chess again soon.
Group One
| # | Player | Rd 1 | Rd 2 | Rd 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kunal Modi | B 8 | W 5 | B 3 | |
| 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | ||
| 2 | Pranav Jindal | W 7 | B 3 | W 6 | |
| 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | ||
| 3 | Gabriel Sanchez | B 4 | W 2 | W 1 | |
| 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||
| 4 | Karim Seada | W 3 | B 7 | B 5 | |
| 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||
| 5 | Wentao Wu | B 6 | B 1 | W 4 | |
| 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||
| 6 | Alaric Stein | W 5 | B 8 | B 2 | |
| 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||
| 7 | Josen Kalra | B 2 | W 4 | W 8 | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||
| 8 | Renzo Frigato | W 1 | W 6 | B 7 | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Group Two
| # | Player | Rd 1 | Rd 2 | Rd 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Zhao | W 6 | B 4 | B 2 | |
| 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | ||
| 2 | Paul Tanenbaum | W 8 | B 5 | W 1 | |
| 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | ||
| 3 | Pablo Jadzinsky | B 4 | W 6 | B 7 | |
| 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | ||
| 4 | Michael Byun | W 3 | W 1 | B 5 | |
| 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | ||
| 5 | Samuel Agdamag | B 7 | W 2 | W 4 | |
| 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||
| 6 | Amogh Rao | B 1 | B 3 | W 8 | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||
| 7 | Charles Mayville | W 5 | B 8 | W 3 | |
| 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||
| 8 | Evan Sobel | B 2 | W 7 | B 6 | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Group Three
| # | Player | Rd 1 | Rd 2 | Rd 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hayden Brongersma | W 10 | B 8 | B 3 | |
| 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | ||
| 2 | Austin Chen | W 7 | B 4 | W 6 | |
| 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | ||
| 3 | Atul Dhingra | W 9 | B 5 | W 1 | |
| 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | ||
| 4 | Fadi Arodaki | B 12 | W 2 | W 8 | |
| 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | ||
| 5 | Hugo Pu | W 11 | W 3 | B 7 | |
| 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | ||
| 6 | George Purtell | B 8 | W 10 | B 2 | |
| 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||
| 7 | Kumaravel Mohamkumar | B 2 | W 12 | W 5 | |
| 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||
| 8 | Aditya Dhamdhere | W 6 | W 1 | B 4 | |
| 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||
| 9 | Will Kesselman | B 3 | W 11 | —- | |
| 0.0 | 1.0 | U1.0 | 1.0 | ||
| 10 | Shlok Chowdhury | B 1 | B 6 | W 12 | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||
| 11 | Victor Chen | B 5 | B 9 | bye | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | ||
| 12 | Bud Woll | W 4 | B 7 | B 10 | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |