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US Junior Chess Congress 2013 |
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Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:14 |
375 flocked to 2013 Junior Chess Congress last weekend, at the San Francisco Airport Hyatt Regency, breaking the previous record.
The National Championship comprised of eight sections based on age from 20 & under to 6 & under. There was also a side event of blitz in two sections, 20 & under and 11 & under, on Sunday afternoon.
Bay Area Chess and Norcal House dominated the club competition winning three National titles each bringing their tally in Junior Congress to eight and six National Titles, respectively.
Coalinga, Liu Chess, Foster City, and Berkeley Chess won one section each to keep up their streak of National Titles.
Edward Li (2045) sealed his National Championship title in the fourth round and won clear first with 4.5 points. Thomas Hart and Blake Wong tied for second with 4.0. After an epic see-saw batter Coalinga Chess and Bay Area Chess shared the National Championship title.
Charles Tang (1951) won all his games to finish in clear first with 5.0. Sammy Kennedy (1747) came in second place with 3.5 while Andrew Tang, Kevin Wu, and Charles Ledesma tied for third place with 3 points. Liu Chess dominated from the beginning to win their third National title in 3 years.
Alekhya Nandula (1788), Vikram Vasan (1837), and Dhanush Venkatesh (1706), all of Bay Area Chess, earned their first National Championship Title as they tied for the top spot in 16 & under, with 4.0 points. Bay Area Chess dictated terms from the very start to win their second National title this year.
Cameron Wheeler (2291), World Youth Silver Medalist, and Siddharth Banik (2117) shared the National Championship in 14 & under section after finishing with 4.5 points with a hard fought draw to complement their four wins in the other games. This section produced the most exciting team competition with the top 4 teams separated by ? point each in the entire tournament. In the end, Foster City won the National Title with 11 points, Albany Middle followed with 10.5, Bay Area Chess with 10, and NorCal House with 9.5 points.
Alexander Feghhi (1822) produced a special performance in the 12 & under section, scoring a perfect 5.0, including a win against a FIDE Master, on his way to his first National Title. Six players tied for second with 4 points. NorCal House won their second National Title with comfortable 1.5 points over Liu Chess Club in the second place.
David Li (1714) and Dmitri Dobrynin (948) tied with perfect scores in an 86-player 10 & under section. Seven players tied for third players for third place. Berkeley Chess School and Norcal House tied for team championship with 12 points.
The 8 & under section was the largest one with 99 entries. Joaquin Perkins (1800), Advait Budaraju (1604), and Mihir Kondapalli (1167) carried perfect scores into the last round. Perkins overcame strong resistance from Budaraju and Kondapalli lost to Andrew Peng (1347) so Perkins retained his title and the other two tied with nine others for second place with 4 points each. Bay Area Chess won their third team title after overcoming a strong challenge from Berkeley Chess.
Aksithi Eswaran (952) beat all the grown boys to win the 6 & under Championship with a perfect score. Pradyum Chitlu, Micah Stearman, Leonard Vu, Arnav Lingannagari, Matthew Hwang, and Amar Dhami tied for second place with 4 points each. All the players in this section earned a trophy. NorCal won their third team title.
Edward Li won the individual championship and Marin Scholastic won the team championship in the 20 & under Blitz section. Dante Peterson, Hans Niemann, and Max Schlosberg tied for 11 & under blitz and ASA Chess won the team section.
Salman Azhar, Michele Doan, and Justin Easterday organized the event. Tom Langland, John McCumiskey, Richard Koepcke, Scott Mason, Jordan Langland, and others directed the event.
The event is sponsored by BayAreaChess and CalChess.
Please find the final individual standings here, team standings here, and rating report here.
You can also find pictures of the events by Azleena Azhar, Salman Azhar, and Salman Azhar at Day 2.
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