Austin Kids #15 Results

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We had a nice turnout of 58 players, including 1 Expert and 1 Class A players.




Congratulations to the winners:

Duy Nguyen, Anthony Nguyen, and Mike Ingram: tied for 1st place - Open section. Duy broke the 1800 mark again.
William Liu:1st place U1700 - Open section.
Steve Manion: 1st place - U1400 section.
Camille Kao (1st place U1100), Dang Nguyen, and Glen Liu: tied for 2nd place - U1400 section.
Andrew Lu: 1st place - U900 section.
Kayhaun Ahmadian, Kevin Huang, and Samuel Tian (1st place U600): tied for 2nd place - U900 section.
Bharat Rao (Biggest Upset prize for defeating a opponent 379 points stronger): 1st place U300 - U900 section.
Ben Fincher and Lance He: tied for 1st place Unrated - U900 section.
Steve/Jonathan/Sarah Manion: 1st place Parent/Child team.











We also gave chess medals to players with 3 points who did not win any chess prize.

Each of the winner should receive a prize or get free entry to a future tournament. Please send Nam Nguyen (nam67@yahoo.com) an email if you have not picked up your prize.

Austin Kids #15 (2/05/2011, 12 pm – 6 pm) at the Austin Chinese Education Services

Time:
Saturday, February 5th 2011, 12 pm - 6 pm

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

Details:
A one-day tournament for all ages.

Open section: USCF rated, 3SS G/60.
U1400 section: USCF rated, 4SS G/45.
U900 section: USCF rated, 5SS G/30.
In the Open and U1400 sections, we will subtract 5 minutes when using a delay clock.

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 11:45 am. Players may be required to take a half-point bye if registered after 12 pm.

Prizes: A trophy or a chess prize (clock, book, software, or chess set...) to the top finishers in each section, the biggest upset in the tournament, and the 1st Parent/Child team.

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)

Austin Kids #14 - Results

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We had a nice turnout of 55 players, including 1 Expert and 1 Class A players.

Congratulations to the winners:

Craig LaSalle: 1st place - Open section.
Mike Ingram and Duy Nguyen: tied for 2nd place - Open section.
Serena Zadoo and Emily Nguyen: tied for 1st place U1700 - Open section.
Sanjna Zadoo: 1st place - U1400 section.
Sandhya Zadoo, Camille Kao, and Ritik Goyal (1st place U1050): tied for 2nd place - U1400 section.
Eric Ingram and Kody Cardamone (1st place U600): tied for 1st place - U900 section.
NhuAnh Nguyen, Andrew Li, and Kevin Huang: tied for 3rd place - U900 section.
Bharat Rao, Simona Kao (Biggest Upset prize for defeating a opponent 400+ points stronger), Daisy Cheng, and Annie Xia: tied for 1st place U300- U900 section.
Bobby Gittinger: 1st place Unrated - U900 section.
Mike/Eric Ingram: 1st place Parent/Child team.
Grant He: winner of the Puzzles Solving competition.

Each of the winner should receive a prize. Please send Nam Nguyen (nam67@yahoo.com) an email if you have not picked up your prize.

We do not have a good participation on the Puzzles Solving competition. It will be removed from future Austin Kids event.

1st Annual Austin Chess Club Championships - Results

We have a high participation in that challenging event. Congratulations to:

Duy Nguyen: 1st place in the Reserved section, winning $300.
Andrew Zhang: 1st place U1000 in the Booster section, winning $50.

Anthony Nguyen did not do well nor win any prize, but make it to the list of interesting hair styles.

Click here for the final standings.

Austin Kids #14 (1/15/2011, 12 pm – 6 pm) at the Austin Chinese Education Services

Time:
Saturday, January 15th 2011, 12 pm - 6 pm

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

Details:
A one-day tournament for all ages.

Open section: USCF rated, 3SS G/60.
U1400 section: USCF rated, 4SS G/45.
U900 section: USCF rated, 5SS G/30.
In the Open and U1400 sections, we will subtract 5 minutes when using a delay clock.

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 11:45 am. Players may be required to take a half-point bye if registered after 12 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 winner of Chess Puzzles Solving competition, the biggest upset in the tournament, and the 1st Parent/Child team.

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)

Unrated chess tournament (01/02/2011) - Results

Even with the cold weather in the 50s and under short notice, 42 players showed up for this event; one came all the way from Perth, Australia. We had 8 players (most with ratings of over 1600) in the 3SS G30 section and 34 in the 5SS G15 section.




Congratulations to the winners:

3SS G30:
Khoa Nguyen - 1st place trophy with a perfect score 3.0

5SS G15:
Amough Dambal - 1st place trohy with a perfect score 5.0
Dang Nguyen - 2nd place trophy with 4.0/5.0
Earnest Fernades - 3rd place trophy with 4.0/5.0
Shreyes Kaliyur - 4th place medal with 4.0/5.0
Andrew Lu - 5th place medal with 4.0/5.0
Zachary Siegel - 1st place U600 medal with 3.0/5.0
Rishi Ganesh - 1st place U300 medal with 2.5/5.0
Don Hoang - 1st place Unrated medal with 2.5/5.0

Cross tables for the G30 section:

No. Name St Rate 1 2 3 Score

1. Nguyen, Khoa Minh (3)......... TX 1717 W8 W3 W2 3.0

2. Dambal, Sanjeev (4)........... TX 1665 W5 W6 L1 2.0

3. Baumann, Herbert A (2)........ TX 1729 W7 L1 D6 1.5
4. Kaliyur, Rohith (5)........... TX 1611 D6 L7 W8 1.5
5. Nguyen, Huy Van (7)........... TX 1503 L2 D8 W7 1.5

6. Nguyen, Duy Minh (1).......... TX 1737 D4 L2 D3 1.0
7. Hsieh, David (6).............. TX 1593 L3 W4 L5 1.0

8. Pasapuleti, Mukund (8)........ TX 1301 L1 D5 L4 0.5

Standings for the G15 section:



Cross tables for the G15 section:

No. Name St Rate 1 2 3 4 5 Score

1. Dambal, Amogh (2)............. TX 1166 W21 W11 W4 W2 W7 5.0

2. Nguyen, Dang Minh (1)......... TX 1218 W17 W5 W8 L1 W9 4.0
3. Kaliyur, Shreyes (5).......... TX 1026 W24 W13 W9 L7 W11 4.0
4. Fernandes, Ernest (6)......... TX 992 W23 W12 L1 W14 W10 4.0
5. Lu, Andrew Y (12)............. TX 721 W27 L2 W21 W13 W8 4.0

6. Pingale, Chinmay M (3)........ TX 1091 W22 L16 W26 D10 W15 3.5
7. Dong, Dylan Roswell (4)....... TX 1055 -H- W19 W16 W3 L1 3.5

8. Karuturi, Tejas (7)........... TX 923 W25 W20 L2 W16 L5 3.0
9. Fernandes, Louis (8).......... TX 890 W29 W26 L3 W12 L2 3.0
10. Gucer, Doru (9)............... TX 855 D19 W31 W15 D6 L4 3.0
11. Nguyen, Anh Nhu (10).......... TX 769 W34 L1 W17 W22 L3 3.0
12. Pingale, Gargi Mahendra (14). TX 561 W18 L4 W28 L9 W20 3.0
13. Siegel, Zachary (15).......... TX 458 W33 L3 W29 L5 W22 3.0
14. Siegel, Jason (16)............ TX 436 L26 W25 W20 L4 W21 3.0

15. Polavaram, Rohan (11)......... TX 754 -H- W30 L10 W19 L6 2.5
16. Kondubhatla, Siddharth (13)... TX 564 W32 W6 L7 L8 D17 2.5
17. Ganesh, Rishi (19)............ TX 289 L2 W18 L11 W24 D16 2.5
18. Gupta, Somil (22)............. TX 119 L12 L17 D25 W27 W29 2.5
19. Hoang, Don (28)............... nnnn D10 L7 W30 L15 W23 2.5

20. McMullen, Leila Mari (17).... TX 425 W28 L8 L14 W29 L12 2.0
21. Ravilla, Bharat (20).......... TX 248 L1 W32 L5 W28 L14 2.0
22. Karuturi, Rahul (21).......... TX 218 L6 W27 W31 L11 L13 2.0
23. Desai, Aditya H (23).......... TX 110 L4 L28 W27 W31 L19 2.0
24. Cheng, Daisy (24)............. TX 107 L3 L29 W32 L17 W25 2.0

25. Desai, Anshul H (25).......... TX 105 L8 L14 D18 W30 L24 1.5

26. Ngo, Evelyn (34).............. TX nnnn W14 L9 L6 -U- -U- 1.0
27. Momin, Nuha (31).............. TX nnnn L5 L22 L23 L18 W31 1.0
28. Math, Jason (30).............. TX nnnn L20 W23 L12 L21 -U- 1.0
29. Durham, Luke (27)............. nnnn L9 W24 L13 L20 L18 1.0

30. Lee, Elliot (29).............. TX nnnn D31 L15 L19 L25 -U- 0.5
31. Dokka,Bhavana (26)............ TX nnnn D30 L10 L22 L23 L27 0.5

32. VanGulick, Jordan (35)........ nnnn L16 L21 L24 -U- -U- 0.0
33. Nagle, Osric (33)............. nnnn L13 -U- -U- -U- -U- 0.0
34. Nagle, Anish (32)............. nnnn L11 -U- -U- -U- -U- 0.0

If your child has not picked up the trophy/medal, please send an email to nam67@yahoo.com.

Unrated tournament (1/02/2011, 12 pm - 3:30 pm) at Spicewood Elementary

Time:
Sunday, January 2nd 2011, 12 pm - 3:30 pm

Location:
Spicewood Elementary (pavilion - northwest corner of the playground)
11601 Olson Dr.
Austin, TX 78750

Details:
An unrated chess tournament open to everyone, but seating is limited to the first 36. Send email to nam67@yahoo.com to reserve the seat.
One section: not USCF rated, 5SS G/15 (with 3s delay).

Entry fee: Free.

Prizes: Trophies and medals to top finishers.

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)

2010 National K-12 Championships - Results

Congratulations to the following Austin Kids who competed in the 2010 National K-12 Championships (10-12 December 2010 · Lake Buena Vista, Florida):

Andrew Jacob: 6th Grade - 11th Place
Rohit Kaliyur: 8th Grade - tied for 10th Place
Shreyes Kaliyur: 3rd Grade - U1200 2nd Place

Click here for the complete results.

Austin Kids #13 - Results

We had a nice turnout of 53 players.

Congratulations to the winners:

Vasfi Gucer: 1st place - Open section.
Duy Nguyen, Herb Baumann, Jonathan Manion, Andrew Jacob, Khoa Nguyen, Mike Ingram, and Kevin Li (1st place - U1700): tied for 2nd place - Open section.
Sarah Manion, Arjun Devireddy (1st place - U1050), and Louis Fernandes (Biggest Upset prize for defeating a opponent 514 points stronger): tied for 1st place - U1400 section.
Doru Gucer: 1st place - U900 section.
Victoria Ryan, Kayhaun Ahmadian, and Erik Hanson: tied for 2nd place - U900 section.
Raj Kohli: 1st place U600 - U900 section.
Annie Xia, Jonathan Darmawan, and Samual Tian: tied for 1st place Unrated - U900 section.
Vasfi/Doru: 1st place Parent/Child team.
Michael Darmawan: winner of the Puzzles Solving competition.












Click here for the USCF cross-table.

Each of the winner should receive a chess prize. Please send Nam Nguyen (nam67@yahoo.com) an email if you have not picked up your prize.

Austin Kids #13 (12/04/2010, 12 pm – 6 pm) at the Austin Chinese Education Services

Time:
Saturday, December 4th 2010, 12 pm - 6 pm

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

Details:
A one-day tournament for all ages.

Open section: USCF rated, 3SS G/60.
U1400 section: USCF rated, 4SS G/45.
U900 section: USCF rated, 5SS G/30.
In the Open and U1400 sections, we will subtract 5 minutes when using a delay clock.

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 11:45 am. Players may be required to take a half-point bye if registered after 12 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 winner of Chess Puzzles Solving competition, the biggest upset in the tournament, and the 1st Parent/Child team.

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)

Fundraising for Emily Nguyen to the 2010 World Youth Chess Championships

Emily Nguyen has been selected to be on the US Youth Chess team to participate in the 2010 World Youth Chess Championships (Halkidiki - Greece, Oct 19-31 2010). This is a great honor for Emily to wear the red/blue/white uniform representing the US Under-8 Girls and to be the first World Youth team member from the Austin area.  It is also a wonderful opportunity for her to play against other top chess players her age around the world. Being the 3rd-ranked member in the team, Emily does not get free meals/lodging from the organizer nor travel stipend from the USCF. The expense for the trip runs about $2500 per person.


The Austin Chess Community has been offering tremendous support and encouragement. A lot of discussions and ideas have been brought up to raise money for the trip.  Emily has received $1724 so far:

Texas Chess Association: $600

• Received $600 from Barbara Swafford on 9/3/10

Austin Chess Club and its members: $414

• $25: Received from Lori Balkum in 06/10
• $25: Received from Dale McLemore on 8/1/10
• $304: Received from Drew Sarkisian on 10/4/10
• $60: Received from Lori Balkum on 10/10/10

Austin Kids Chess Club members: $305

• Austin Kids #10: $75
• Austin Kids #11: $230

Rocks & Rooks Chess Club: $275

• Chess tournament at NYOS: $110 (Received  from Gary Gaiffe on 9/15/10)
• Chess tournament at Baranoff Elementary: $165

The Salvation Army: $100

• Austin Kids #8: $30
• Austin Kids #9: $40
• Austin Kids #10: $30

Laurel Mountain Chess Club members: $30

• $30: Received from Binny Nanavati on 9/15/10

We would like to thank the Austin Chess Community (Lori Balkum, Binny Nanavati, Peter Kappler, Gary Gaiffe, Drew Sarkisian, Jenwei Hsieh, Adrian Diaz, and others) and the Texas Chess Association for your wonderful support; it is greatly appreciated.

RRISD Students Winning at the 14th Annual Texas Grades & Collegiate Chess Championships - by Huy Nguyen

RRISD Students Winning at the 14th Annual Texas Grades & Collegiate Chess Championships

Over 600 students from across Texas gathered to Brownsville this past weekend November 13-14 for the 14th Annual Texas Grades & Collegiate Chess Championships. In this state championship tournament, the students played in the sections according to their grades. Our RRISD had a group of students participating in the tournament, and they all came back as winners in their grade sections.

Anh Nguyen, Cactus Ranch Elementary School, 3rd Place Trophy in Kinder
Helen Le, Laurel Mountain Elementary School, 8th Place Trophy in Kinder
Dang Nguyen, Cactus Ranch Elementary School, 2nd Place Trophy in 2nd Grade
Collin Le, Laurel Mountain Elementary School, 3rd Place Trophy in 2nd Grade
Emily Nguyen, Laurel Mountain Elementary School, 1st Place Trophy in 3rd Grade
Shreyes Kaliyur, Spicewood Elementary School, 6th Place Trophy in 3rd Grade
Khoa Nguyen, Cactus Ranch Elementary School, 3rd Place Trophy in 4th Grade
Anthony Nguyen, Laurel Mountain Elementary School, 4th Place Trophy in 5th Grade
Duy Nguyen, Walsh Middle School, 1st Place Trophy in 6th Grade
Andrew Jacob, Canyon Vista Middle School, 4th Place Trophy in 6th Grade
Rohith Kaliyur, Canyon Vista Middle School, 5th Place Trophy in 7th Grade

Congratulations to all of the students and parents for their outstanding results!
They all make RRISD very proud!

Huy Nguyen
Cactus Ranch Chess Club Coordinator

Austin Kids #12 - Results

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We had a record turnout of 75 players, and had to split the U900 into 2 rooms. There were quite a few new faces in the U900. Some came to the chess tournament for the first time. It was very nice to see a lot of kids so eager to play chess. The registration with a large number of players, some trying to get USCF membership in the last minute, was causing some delay. In the future, please help us ensure that everyone has valid USCF membership and has sent pre-registration email prior to the event. At the end of the day, everyone seemed to enjoy the day. My fatigue seemed to go away when parents asked me when the next event would be.




Congratulations to the winners:

Anthony Nguyen, Jonathan Manion, Michael Ingram, and William Liu: four-way tie for 1st place in the Open section.
Emily Nguyen and Niteka Raina: tie for U1600 - 1st place in the Open section.
Dang Nguyen: 1st place in the U1400 section with perfect score 4/4.
Steve Manion, Forrest Marler, and Dylan Dong: 3-way tie for 2nd place in the U1400 section.
Camille Kao and Louis Fernandes: tie for U1000 - 1st place in the U1400 section.
Ritik Goyal and Duru Gucer: tie for 1st place in the U900 section.
Eric Ingram, Shauhin Ahmadian, Abhishek Rao (Biggest Upset prize for defeating a opponent 683 points stronger), Venkat Alapati (unrated - 1st place prize), Vikas Burugu (U600 - 1st place prize), and Andrew Lu: 6-way tie for 2nd place in the U900 section.
Mike/Eric Ingram: 1st place Parent/Child team.
James Joh: winner of the Puzzles Solving drawing.
Ernest Fernandes: winner of the Puzzles Solving competition.

Each of the winner should receive a chess prize. Please send Nam Nguyen (nam67@yahoo.com) an email if you have not picked up your prize.