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Events covered this month:
Featured Event: December 2024 Holiday Action Quads
Featured Event: December 2024 Holiday Action Quads
In between Christmas and New Years, we had 35 players show up for our Chess Zone Holiday Action Quads. The event on December 29 was divided into 7 quads and a small Swiss. Please click here for the crosstables.
The top quad ended in a three-way tie between Damian Krotov (2104), Dean Bowler (1972), and Sourish Uday Kavalae (1886). Each player had two draws and a win.
Also notable was in Quad 5, where Isabelle Chelladorai earned a perfect 3.0. She started the event at 1424 but tells CZN that she is excited to now be over 1500. (Her post event rating is 1520.)
Our CZ team was able to gather a number of games from the event, which you can play through below. Send us your games, preferably annotated and as a PGN file or a link to a LiChess study, by clicking this button (CZ photos too!):
Quad 1
Damian Krotov, Dean Bowler, Sourish Kavale (l-r)
Quad 2
Daniel Shapiro (not pictured: Joseph Francis)
Quad 3
Ryan Sceusi
Quad 4
Siddarth Basavaraju (not pictured: Jane Baxter)
Quad 5
Isabelle Chelladorai
Quad 6
Matia Zapata Sanchez
Quad 7
Sarath Chadalawada
Small Swiss
Alex Zheng
Championship Section
Alex Zheng
U1200 Section
Vadym Orlov
On Sunday, January 5, we had 22 players turn out for the Championship Section and 19 in the Reserve (U1200) section. Please click here for the crosstables.
In the game below, Alex Zheng, with a provisional rating of 1451 (based on seven games), used a Dutch Defense against the event’s top seed Damian Krotov who entered the event with a 2094 rating. After winning the tournament, Zheng’s new provisional rating jumped all the way to 1756.
October Rapids and Blitz
Rapid: First
Dean Bowler
Rapid: 2nd-3rd
Bradley Roberson
Rapid: 2nd-3rd
Sanjay Ghatti
Blitz: Champion
Saharsh Santosh
Kid Chess coach Dean Bowler took clear first place in our October Rapid event on October 20 with a perfect 4 out of 4. Dean became a Class A level player after this performance with a new rating of 1822 (but as of December 29 he is approaching Expert level with a rating of 1986).
In the Blitz Championship, Saharsh Santosh dominated the 15-player field with a perfect 10 out of 10. The two tied for 2nd-3rd place were a distant 3.5 points back at 6.5, Sanjay Ghatti and Vish Jonnalagadda.
Please click here for the Rapids crosstables.
Please click here for the Blitz crosstable
We only snagged one game from the Rapid event, a round three victory by Ram Movva with a Sicilian Riossolimo:
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Chess Zone News is edited by Dan Lucas. Contributors include: Zac Bolton, Ryan Darling, Doug Cox, Jane Baxter, Sarah Pak, Michael Farris.
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