Fall Scholastic Winners

Benjamin Ma (1398),  Darren Zheng (1244) and Gordon Fan (639 on the October rating list) were section winners in today's Westfield Fall Scholastic.

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

Summer Scholastic Wrap-Up

Congratulations to the 20 trophy winners & thanks to all 73 who took part in Sunday's record-breaking  Westfield Summer Scholastic.

 Hopefully, our frenzied TD's Variegated Tomato (above) and Fish Pepper (below)

will be spared further deer attacks and bear fruit well before the October 16th Fall Scholastic.

Open Section Winners

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

From L-R: Sriram Kumar (1st place), Frank Prestia (2nd), Alexander Hu (3rd) & Vishan Ramanathan (4th).

Not pictured: Bryce Powell (5th), Suraj Oruganti (Honorable Mention), Abinav Mundayat (Honorable Mention) & Ronak Bhatia (Honorable Mention).

Final Open Section Standings, in tiebreak-order.

U1250 Winners

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

From L-R: Sudyut Sinha (4th place), Ryan Chen (5th), Kevin Cisneros (3rd), Pardhav Chakka (1st) & Sujeeth Shanmugam (2nd).

Final U1250 Standings, in tiebreak-order.

U750 Winners

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

From L-R: Aadith Narayan (5th place), Alan Hu (3rd), Pranav Thota (2nd) and Aditya Patadia (1st).

Not pictured: Audrey Hu (4th), Ryan Xu (Honorable Mention) & Benjamin Laskov (Honorable Mention)

Final U750 Standings, in tiebreak-order.

Summer Scholastic Winners

Sriram Kumar (1789),  Pardhav Chakka (1247) and Aditya Patadia (619) were section winners in Sunday's Westfield Summer Scholastic, which featured a record 73 participants!!

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

Millionaire Chess III Qualifier & U1601 Quads

Special thanks to the New Jersey State Chess Federation & its President, Hal Sprechman, for providing the free entry to the 1600-1999 winner.

Westfield Millionaire Chess III Qualifier & U1601 Quads

September 18, 2016

Westfield Y

220 Clark Street

EF: $25, $20 members.

Please present identification upon entering the building.

Ratings from the October 2016 Golden Database will be used, if available.

Section details below.

2000+ Swiss & 1600-1999 Swiss

4-SS.

G/40;d5.

Register: 11:15 a.m.-12 noon.
Rounds: 12:15, 2:00, 3:45, 5:30 p.m.

Byes: 1 per player allowed. Must declare before  round 3.

2000+ Prize: 1st place $600 b/30 total paid entries in the swiss sections.
1600-1999 Prize: 1st place receives free entry to the October 2016 Millionaire Chess
III tournament in Atlantic City, NJ (courtesy of the New Jersey State Chess Federation).

If necessary, the following tiebreaks will be used to determine the 1600-1999 winner:

1. Head to head, 2. Modified median, 3. Solkoff, 4. Cumulative, 5. Cumulative of opponent.

The Swiss sections begin at 12:15 p.m.!

U1601 Quads

3-RR.

G/40;d5

Register: 1:15-1:45 p.m.

Rounds: 2:00, 3:45, 5:30 p.m.
Prizes: $60 to first in each 4-player group.

The Quads begin at 2:00 p.m.

If you have any questions email John Moldovan at westfieldchessclub@gmail.com.

 Info updated 7/6 @ 3:44 p.m.

New May Record

Today's G/45 Quads attracted 60 players, which is a Westfield CC record for May. The previous record was 50, for the Ernesto Labate Memorial on May 1st.

The Quads have been submitted for rating and should appear online around 10 11 p.m. We are sorry for the delay but a program glitch corrupted the tournament data and it had to be re-entered.

Spring Scholastic Wrap-Up

Congratulations to the 18 trophy winners, thanks to all 58 who took part in yesterday's record-breaking  Westfield Spring Scholastic.

Our next Scholastic event will be on July 17th, 2016.

Open Section Winners

Trophy winners from the Open Section of yesterday's Westfield Spring Scholastic:

From L-R: Jack Silver (4th place), Alec Touhey (5th), Gregory Pylypovych (1st), Mythrea Dharani (2nd) and Justin Baylock (Honorable Mention).

Not pictured: Eric Li (3rd) and Albert Yao (Honorable Mention).

Final Open Section Standings, in tiebreak-order.

U1250 Winners

Trophy winners from the U1250 Section of yesterday's Westfield Spring Scholastic:

From L-R: Grant Carlson (1st place), Alan Weintraub (4th), Sanjay Oruganti (2nd), Asgar Musaji (5th) and Wendy Jin (3rd).

Not pictured: Neha Kalyanraman (Honorable Mention).

Final U1250 Standings, in tiebreak-order.