RCC Saturday tournament results for December 28, 2013

Saturday Morning Youth Tournament Final Standings:
1st: Arianna Kharroubi with 3.5 points
2nd: Aidan Kharroubi with 3 points (Trophy winner)
3rd: Jason Niu with 2.5 points
4th: Joshua Iosevich, Nathan Girnius and Meka Revathi with 1 point each

Today, we also celebrate the 90th birthday 

of local chess player and chess teacher

Adam DeSantis

Happy Birthday "Mr. Chess"!

Rounding out the week, here are the Final Standings from this past week's Community Chess Club of Rochester's (CCCR) games played on Thursday, Dec. 26th:

Ken McBride lost to Sherman Cunningham
Mike Lionti lost to Alex Iosevich
Doug Spencer won against NM Laszlo Tapaszto
Jim Attaya won against David Worl

Reminders:

The Community Chess Club of Rochester (CCCR) will be having their USCF-rated G/80d5 game on THURSDAY (Jan. 2nd) because the regular Wednesday schedule falls on New Years Day. The Chess Center is also open for chess and store sales on the Saturday during the upcoming holiday.



  CHESS CAMP is taking place this week at the Rochester Chess Center! Aquire chess skills from their excellent teachers and have lots of fun too!
Call 585-442-2430 for more information. 

Here are two FIDE chess games that Jamshed Ahmed submitted to the Community Chess Club of Rochester for our viewing enjoyment:

RCC Saturday tournament results for December 21, 2013

Saturday Morning Youth Tournament Final Standings: 
1st: Arianna Kharroubi and Thomas Kwon with 2 points each
3rd: Aidan Kharroubi

Saturday Afternoon Adult Tournament Final Standings:
Open Section:
1st and 2nd place  tie: Jacob Chen and Sherm Cunningham with 2.5 points each
U2000: David Phelps with 2 points
U1876: Doug Spencer with 2 points

U1700 Section:
1st: Ethan Yung with 2.5 points
2nd: Patrick Chernjavsky, Mike Lionti, Samuel Liu, and Michael David with 2 points each

Before the Adult chess tournament, we celebrated Sherman Cunningham's 58th birthday and had a party with pizza, cookies and cake. Sherman had a wonderful day over the chess board finishing with 2.5 in a tie for 1st place in the Open section.

Reminder:

The Community Chess Club of Rochester (CCCR) will be having their USCF-rated G/80d5 game on THURSDAY this week (Dec. 26th) and next THURSDAY (Jan. 2nd) because the regular Wednesday schedule falls on Christmas Day and New Years Day. The Chess Center is also open for chess and store sales on the Saturdays during the upcoming holidays.

RCC Saturday tournament results for December 14, 2013

Saturday Morning Youth Tournament Final Standings: 
1st: Arianna Kharroubi with 3 points
2nd: Achutha Ramesh with 1.5 points
3rd: Anirudh Ramesh with 0.5 point

(Left to Right) Arianna Kharroubi, Anirudh Ramesh and Achutha Ramesh at the Youth Tournament. Arianna won the trophy last week, so this week Achutha won the trophy.

Michael Miller (left, 1746) from Syracuse lost to Jacob Chen (1888) in an interesting game.

 

NY Scholastic & RCC Saturday tournament results for December 7, 2013

Pioneer High School Western New York Scholastic: 
Congratulations to all these fine chess players!
K-12:
1st (of 28): Lev Paciorkowski
2nd: Owen Shriver
12th: Patrick Chernjavsky
K-8:
1st (of 14): Wendell Lambert
2nd: Anoop Sunkara
K-4:
1st (of 17): Arjun Patel

Anoop Sunkara (left) and Wendell Lambert hold their individual trophies and team trophy for the K-8 Section.

NM Laszlo Tapaszto (at right, 2200) visiting from Caracas Venezula defeated Richard Motroni (1712) in a beautiful game in round 2 of the Chess Center's Saturday afternoon Adult tournament.

Pahz Cherelin (left, 1285) played a magnificent game against John Manning (1815), but lost in a close end-game.

Saturday Morning Youth Tournament Final Standings: 
1st: Arianna Kharroubi with 2 points
2nd: Aidan Kharroubi with 2 points
3rd: Toby Thompson and Joshua Iosevich with 1 point each
4th: Nathan Girnius

Arianna Kharroubi (right) won her game against Joshua Iosevich in the Chess Center's Saturday morning youth tournament. Arianna went on to win the 1st place trophy.

The Youth tournament is every Saturday from 10am to 1pm.
The Adult tournament is every Saturday from 2pm-8pm, 3 Rds G/60d5 with registration by 1:45pm.