Photo above by John Tu of our first trial of the sensory boards that we will be using at the California Northern Scholastic Chess Regionals on April 16 & 17 at the San Jose Convention Center.  We only ran the wireless internet connection a few feet in the over 1000 rated playing room to get a feel for how it will work.  We will have more boards in use at the Regionals with at least one in each Varsity/Championship division.  These will be projected to the 18,000 square foot parents room where individuals with laptop computers should be able to pick them up as well as at least one of the games projected onto the 200 square foot screen that drops from the ceiling in Parkside Hall #1. The real feat--if we are lucky--will be to send the games into the Team Rooms that will be available for $100 a day for up to 6 schools that reserve them for this historic championship.

Alan Kirshner took this photograph of the winners (minus 3 who had left early) of the SCS Summer Grand Prix.  The two young men in the center (in yellow & red), William Chen and Sankash Shankar,  scored the highest points from the three events--160 out of a possible 165 points.  William and Sankash also took home a free year's membership to the SCS program of their choice or free entries into all SCS tournaments held between September 1, 2004 and August 31, 2005.  The other winners (they received two free entries to any SCS tournament in the next year) were Eric Lee (155 pts), Andrew Yeh (155 pts), Christopher Clayton (150 pts), Rohan Desikan (145 pts), Gordon Su (145 pts), Andrew Li (145 pts), Vasishta Jayanti (130 pts), Jay Mulye (120 pts), Ankur Gupta (120 pts) and last year's winner, Raji Srikant (120 pts).

GRAND PRIX III RESULTS:

QUAD#  NAME  (RATING) GAME PTS--

1  Charles Ling (1756) & Greg Bodwin (1490) 2 (I would like to congratulate Greg on being the first player to enter the California Northern Scholastic Chess regionals) :0)

2  Tejas Mulye (1409) 2

3  Ted Belanoff   (1349) 3

4  Steven Liu (1342) & Greg Young (1351)  2

5  Jonathan Chang (1329) 3

6  Victor Shen (1242) 2.5

7  Brian Lin (1223) & Andrew Li (1213) 2

8  Ankita Roy (1203) 3

9  Brian Yeh (1165), Brandon Sung (1138), Rohan Mahajan (1095) 2

10 Andrew Yeh (1083) 3

11 Stephen Lee (1059) 3

12 William Cheung (1031) & Brandon Lee (1028) 2.5

13 Raji Srikant (1026) 3

14 Christopher Clayton (1000) 2.5

15 Sahana Rajasekar (943) 3

16 Justin Lew (939), Michael Meng (924) & Kevin Wang (912) 2

17 Vasishta Jayanti (897) 3

18 Vikram Ganesh (889) 2

19 Aditya Srinivasab (874) 3

20 Rohan Desikan (877) 2, & Gordon Su (861) 2

21 Kyle Fukui (757) 3

22 Aamir Azhar (836) 2.5

23 (Swiss-6 players) Matthew Jin (825) 3, Varun Mathuria (759) & Daniel Mao (753) 2

24 Michael Sisario (700) 3

25 Pranav Gopal (648) & Matt Jensen (612) 2

26 Eric Lee (623) 3

27 Aman Upadhyay (555) 3

28 Stephen Wang (587) & Jay Mulye (557) 2

29 William, Chen (428) 3

30 Ankur Gupta (427) 3

31 Caroline Lin (299) & Cody Hui (321) 2

32  Praveena Motupalli (394) & Jacqueline Garbe (217) 2

33 Eva Lai, Gregory Liu & Rahul Khurana 2

34 Adam Goldberg 3

35 Sankash Shankar 3

36 Vincent  Ho 3

37 Christian Woroch 2.5

38 Jordan Kay 3

39 Daniel Ho 3

40 (Swiss) Andrew Lau (1125) 3, James Paquette (1184) 2

41 Denis Melnykov 3