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Sunday, May 2, 2010

Austin Kids #7 (05/15/2010, 1 pm - 6 pm) at Austin Chinese Education Services

Time:
Saturday, May 15 2010, 1 pm - 6 pm

Location:
Austin Chinese Education Services
13581 Pond Spring Road, Suite 200
Austin, TX 78729

Details:
Advanced section: USCF rated, 3SS G/45.
Novice section: USCF rated, 4SS G/30.

Players will play against opponents with similar strength.

Entry fee: $5.

Registration: send email to nam67@yahoo.com for pre-registration. Without the pre-registration email, an additional $5 fee will be charged. On-site registration starts at 12:45 pm. Players may be required to take a half-point bye if registered after 1 pm.

Side event: Chess Puzzles Solving competition.

Prizes: A trophy or a chess prize (clock, book, software, or magnetic chess set...) to the 1st place finisher in each section, the biggest upset in the tournament, and the winner of the Puzzles Solving competition.

Please bring your chess set & clock if possible.

For more information, contact Nam Nguyen (nam67@yahoo.com, 512-786-9242) or Jenwei Hsieh (p0pp0r@yahoo.com, 512-560-2760)

Results from 2010 Region VI Chess Championships

The list is not complete. Please send me emails for missing or incorrect data.

Congratulations to the following Austin Kids Chess Club members:

High School Championship:

Serena Zadoo: 2010 Region VI Champion

Middle School Championship:

Dhurv Garg: 2010 Region VI Champion
Snnay Nanavati: 2nd Place
Kartik Kulkarni:
Rohith Kaliyur:

Elementary Championship:

Duy Nguyen: 2010 Region VI Champion
Kevin Li: 2nd Place
Saavan Nanavati: 3rd Place
Andrew Jacob: 4th Place
David Hsieh: 5th Place
Anthony Nguyen: 6th Place
Andrew Lu: 7th Place
William Liu: 8th Place
Shannan Chen: 9th Place

Primary Championship:

Khoa Nguyen: 2010 Region VI Champion
Emily Nguyen: 2nd Place
Chinmay Pingale: 3rd Place
Dylan Dong: 4th Place
Amogh Dambal: 5th Place
Nathaniel Li: 6th Place

Elementary JV:

Saket Myneni: 1st Place
Kayhaun Ahmadian:

Austin Kids #6 - Final Results

We had a great turnout with 21 in the 2 Advanced sections and 24 in the Novice section.





Congratulations to the winners:

Andrew Jacob: 1st place in the 1st Advanced section.
Emily Nguyen: 1st place in the 2nd Advanced section.
Jonathan Qi: 1st place in the Novice section.
Grant Odama: Biggest Upset for defeating an opponent 300+ points stronger.
Jonathan Tuck: winner of the Puzzles Solving competition. Jonathan got all 12 problems correct and picked the book The Nimzo-Indian Rubinstein for the prize. We had 2 different sets of puzzles, one with more difficult problems for the Advanced section and the other one for Novice with easier problems. The competition was very close; some in Novice section had a very good chance to win.