Photos by John Tu Photos by Richard Shorman

RESULTS:

Quad # NAME OF TROPHY WINNER(S) Rating  pts

1        Allan Sung (1573) 2

2(6 inSwiss)  Rahul Subramaniam (1481), Kevin Liu (1418) 2, Tejas Mulje (1450), Allen Tu (1377) 1.5

3        Mihir Pendse (1443), Harsha Nukala (1358), Clayton Chan (1346) 2

4        Avinash Kumar (1287) 3

5        Benjamin Tien (1281), Andrew Li (1261) 2

6        Brian Lin (1241) 2.5

7        Jerome Sun (1223), Ray Hua Wu (1221), Dilip Shekar (1163) 2

8        Daniel Steiner (1065), William Ziwei Chen (1058), 2.5

9        Michael Meng (1061) 3

10      Ryan Tu (1056) 3

11      Sally Lin (1038) 2.5

12      Spencer Yee (1019) 3

13      not played

14      not played

15(6 in Swiss) Eric Lin Lee (979) 3, Aditya Kumar (996), James Kwok (975) 2

16      Brandon Chen (971) 2.5

17      Nathan Zhang (939) 2.5

18      David Tedone (950), Shivam Vakil (941), Michael Sisario (926) 2

19      Alexander He (910) 2.5

20      Donald Livingston (896), Allan Tang (876) 2

21      Yash Verma (893) 3

22      Yin-Wei Cheng (833 p8) 2.5

23      Wilson Wang (792 p16) 3

24      Jay Mulye (805) 2.5

25      Binjin Lin (793 p6) 3

26      Alexander Zinoman (711 p18) 2.5

27      Matthew Chan (767) 3

28      Suchaaver Chahal (713), Jason Liu (705), Colin Liu (699 p 13) 2

29 (6 in Swiss) Lawrence Hsia (694 p12) 3, Pratik Patel (682 p 18) 2

30      Rishi Ravuri (671) 3

31      Primus Lam (643), Devesh Gokalgandhi (631), Ashin Mehta (628) 2

32      Raj Borra (616) 3

33      Rishabh Jha (602 p18), Patrick Zhu (592 p17) 2

34      Alex Li (557) 2

35      Mohit Asthana (548 p19), Navneedh Maudgalya (537 p12) 2.5

36      Melissa Wang (523 p10) 3

37      Patrick Zhang (461 p3) 3

38      Alina Ma (439 p8) 2.5

39      Dillion Peng (384 p5), Cody Teague (370 p8) 2

40      Michelle Kenney (329 p12) 2

41      Anthony Lee (283 p23) 2.5

42      Allen Hsiao (174 p8) 3

43      Divya Gupta (unr) 3

44      Mark Harrington (unr) 3

45      Neel Apte (unr) 3

46(6 in Swiss) Roy Lo (unr) 3, Thomas Choi (unr), Singhuja Ramini (unr), Suresh Talapaneni (unr) 1.5

STORY POSTED AT CALCHESS.ORG WEBSITE:

WEIBEL SUMMER SCHOLASTIC CHESS QUADS #2 - Harry Potter Chess
Posted by alan on Saturday, July 16 @ 21:42:45

Harry Potter Chess
By Alan M. Kirshner, Ph.D.

I am pleased to announce that in about 9 hours I am off to Hawaii. However, I did promise a load of people that I would provide a small story—difficult for me to do—about today’s Quads. As you can read in the title, I subtitled the competition, Harry Potter Chess to honor the appearance of The Half-Blood Prince at 12:01 AM this morning. I might note that ten of our 180 players had already obtained the book.

Top seed, John Boyle (1610), whose mother waited on line in the early morning, was half through the book by the end of the tournament. This may have accounted for his mediocre results in Quad #1. I decided to subtitle the competition when I realized that The Half-Blood Prince was going on sale the same day as the Quads because over the years a fair number of parents informed me that their children became interest in playing chess after the scene in the first Harry Potter film. I spent a few hours creating Harry Potter Chess posters to provide the usual information I do at tournaments as well as direction signs for parents to locate the parking lot and the Multi-Use Room at Weibel. Since this was a one shot deal, I raffled off the posters along with a Chess Mentor program and a couple of Frisco del Rosario’s A First Book of Morphy.

Frisco was on hand to sell copies of his book that I understand was nominated as the best chess book of the year. NM Eric Schiller joined him at a special author’s table. I would have loved to sell some Harry Potter books, but I do not have a distributor license and failed to obtain any. And, no I did not insist that Frisco or Eric wear Harry Potter glasses.

While the 180 players in the second Weibel Quads topped last month’s first Quads by about 20 players, the numbers were a bit low even for summer. If I can speculate why, I suspect it was due to a bit of improvement in the economy and the large number of children traveling with their parents. I suspect I will see the normal 250 to 300 players at the Weibel Fall Scholastic Quads: http://www.calnorthyouthchess.org/Applications/FallQuads05/QuadsFall05.html

For complete results and loads of photographs by our great photographs of the Weibel Summer Scholastic Quads #1 you can go to: http://www.calnorthyouthchess.org/Applications/Results6-25-05.html I will post the complete results of these Quads as soon as I return from Kona, Hawaii at the link from: http://www.calnorthyouthchess.org/photographs.html. Since our Clearinghouse Director, NM Michael Aigner usually links to my results from this website as soon as I get them posted, I suspect you can find the results and photographs as well from: http://www.calchess.org/modules.php?name=Information&page=02_calchess_scholastics/results.htm CHESS IS FOREVER!
Alan