U1250 Section Winners

Trophy winners from the U1250 Section of today's Westfield Fall Scholastic:

From L-R: Juan Jimenez (5th place), Max Brustein (2nd), Evan Xie (3rd) and Roman Brustein (1st).

Not pictured: Michael Golikov (4th).

U750 Section Winners

Trophy winners from the U750 Section of today's Westfield Fall Scholastic:

From L-R: Max Waitz (1st place), Jack Waitz (2nd), Eliana Zebro (4th) and Nicholas Feigelson (5th).

Not pictured: Alexander Fox (3rd).

Fall Scholastic Winners

Christopher Giordano (1460), Roman Brustein (1214) and Max Waitz (490) were section winners in today's Westfield Fall Scholastic, which featured a record 54 participants.

The full list of trophy recipients and some additional photos will follow.

Westfield Club Championship 10/20 & 10/27

This year's Westfield Chess Club Championship will take place on October 20 & 27.
 

2013 Westfield Chess Club Championship

 October 20 & 27

 

4-SS. G/85;d5. Westfield Y, 220 Clark St., Westfield, NJ 07090. Prize Fund: $400
guaranteed. Prizes: 1st place $125, 2nd place $80, U2150 $50, U1900 $50, U1650
$50, U1400 $50. EF: $20. Westfield CC members only. Register: 1:30-2:00 p.m. on
10/20 or before. Late-joins accepted until round 2 is paired. Rounds: 2:15 & 5:45 p.m.
on 10/20, 2:00 & 5:30 p.m. on 10/27. Byes: 1 available, rounds 1-3 only. Must declare
before the end of round 2. Info: John Moldovan: westfieldchessclub@gmail.com,
Bill Cohen: 732-548-8432 or 848-219-1358, westfieldchessclub.blogspot.com and
www.westfieldchessclub.com. Please present identification on entering the building. 

 

Note: This event will not be advertised in Chess Life.

Octos Prize-Winners

Today's Westfield Octos attracted 54 players, 25 of whom earned prizes:

Here is the complete, section by section list of winners, their ratings & a few notes on the event:

Section 1
= 1-2. Lev Zilbermintz (2162) & Brandon Nydick (2141)
U2141... Vladimir Polyakin (2102)

Section 2
= 1-2. Marvin Shumowitz (2003) & Ishan Muzumdar (1735)
U1958... Jay Yalamanchili (1897)

Section 3
1. Ed Selling (1691)
= 2. Sam Chatsky (1702) & Daniel Chai (1698)
U1698... Henry Kingsmore (1682) & Patrick Melosh (1623)

Section 4
= 1-2. David Liu (1544), Brandon Ng (1493), Colin Kneucker (1466) & Stephen Cheng (1463)

Section 5
1. Justin Lee (1239)
2. Gregory Pylypovich (1216)
U1279... Henry Siegel (1193)

Section 6
1. Nikhil Arayath (1144)
= 2. Eric Song (1125), Adam D'Souza (992), Kaavya Balamurugan (965)

Section 7
1. Jessica Lee (658)
= 2. David Fraile (876) & Stanley Liu (854)

Notes
- Rating-wise, Section 3 was the closest-matched, with only 90 points separating the players. The biggest gap was 486, in Section #7.
- Black scored 18 wins, 4 losses & 5 draws (a .759 winning percentage) in the first round and +39-26=13 overall.
- Just 9 players turned-in plus scores. Selling, N. Arayath & the Lee siblings went 3-0. 5 players had 2.5.
- Jessica Lee raised her rating 223 points!!, from 770 to 993. 3 others (Mazumdar, Pylypovich & N. Arayath) gained more than 100.
- No one in the top half of section 5 earned a prize.

Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to every participant for making our 2nd-ever Octos a big success.

B. Jacobson Wins Quick Swiss

Brandon Jacobson won yesterday's Quick Swiss, a half-point ahead of LM Todd Lunna.

Sam Chatsky (1603) and John Cartier (1282) were the U2150 winners. Sriram Kumar (1450) earned the U1500 award and the U1300 honors went to Bhupinder Sohal (957).

Interestingly, all the prize-winners were juniors (<15 y.o.) or seniors (>60).

Quick ratings from the August Golden Database were used to determine pairings and prizes.

Open Section Winners

Trophy winners from the Open Section of today's Westfield Summer Scholastic:

From L-R: Keshav Rao (1st place), Michael Berrios (2nd), Stephen Cheng (3rd), Piush Sarkar (4th), Suvel Karmarkar (5th).

Keshav is also holding his 5th place trophy from the Spring Scholastic.

Our next scholastic event will take place on October 13th.

U1250 Section Winners

Trophy winners from the U1250 Section of today's Westfield Summer Scholastic:

From L-R: Roman Brustein (2nd place), Ronak Bhatia (3rd), Swagnik Roychoudhury (4th), Jayadeep Boya (1st).

Not pictured: Michael Golikov (5th).

U750 Section Winners

Trophy winners from the U750 Section of today's Westfield Summer Scholastic:

From left to right: Jessica Lee (5th place), Isha Slavin (3rd), Gregory Burton (2nd) and Sujeeth Shanmugam (1st).

Not pictured: Aziz Kodirov (4th)

All tied for 1st place with 3.0/4.

Summer Scholastic Winners

Keshav Rao (1684), Jayadeep Boya (1224 on the July rating list) and Sujeeth Shanmugam (487) were section winners in today's Westfield Summer Scholastic, which featured 44 participants.

There was a five-way tie for 1st in the U750 section. Open the screenshot in a new tab and enlarge it to view the standings in tie-break order.

The full list of trophy recipients and some additional photos will follow.

Spring Scholastic: Open Section Winners

Trophy Winners from the Open section of today's Westfield Spring Scholastic:

From L-R: Sriram Kumar (1st place), Albert Tang (3rd), Nicholas Cardenas (4th).

Not pictured: Michael Morin (2nd), Keshav Rao (5th)