Chess is so much fun when you get to make moves like Qxd3!

G/30 Quads, Chess Castle MN

Deserved a picture

Canadian Open 2018 Under 2000

I beat Andrea Botez in the last round.

Complete last round results here 

Final Standings here

North Central Open/Martz MemorialNOV. 24-26 2017

Results here

Alice Li 1586 ->1736 !

Dane Zager vs Alice Lee 0-1

Round 3 OKECHUKWU ANELE NNEJ IWU vs DANE BRUNO ZAGAR 1-0

2017 Wellsburg Open

More information here

---

History: 

      (open+reserve=total) Open Winner(s):
2016  (17+19=36)           IM ANGELO YOUNG, FM LEONARD JEFFREY JOHNSON

2015  (20+17=37)           FM ALEX BETANELI

Got a game in at the Denver Chess Club

We are on a ~3500 mile road trip

Brian Wall lectures before the games

The gentleman in the blue shirt is ROGER REDMOND, long tine MSCA treasurer

Denver chess club

G/70, 5s Delay
More info here

2nd Place tie in the Mid-America Open U1900

Results here

Round 3 GOLLAPUDI vs WIJETUNGE (0-1)

MN Contingent

Saints Louis March 24-26

Chess Pocket Park. 

You can read about the story behind the park clicking here.

2017 Twin Cities Chess League

More info here

I am in the "B Team" we are in the Silver Division. We are guaranteed to move up to Gold with a round to spare!

Bert Wilson    0-0=1
Todd Miller    3-0=1
Nate Hoover    3-1=1
Steven Azar    2=0=0
Jon Heyer      2-3=1
Ivan Wijetunge 4-1=0
Terrance Opine 1-0=0
              15-5=4

B Team	2062	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Bert Wilson	2220			1
Todd Miller	2202	1	1		1	1
Nate Hoover	2100	2	2		2	2	1
Steven Azar	2066			2			2
Jon Heyer	2000	3	3	3	3	3	3
Ivan Wijetunge	1940		4	4	4	4	4
Terrance Opine	1913	4

Some pictures from round 6

Ivan Wijetunge,  Steven Azar, Jon Heyer,  Nate Hoover

George Tiers

MN Open U2000 Section - 1st place tie

I went 4-0=2 (1 bye)  to tie for first with one other player.

Complete results here

The above is from my last round game. ( I am playing White)

1) Find the best move for White
2) Find the best reply for Black

---

2000 !!!

Section 1 - FIRST QUAD Section Date(s) 2016-09-26 Processed Received: 2016-09-27   Entered: 2016-09-27   Rated: 2016-09-27 Re-Rated: 2016-09-28 Stats 3 Rounds,  4 Players;  K Factor: F  Rating Sys: D  Tnmt Type: R Time Control: G/30;d5

Show floating point ratings from this event ----------------------------------------------------------------- Pair | Player Name |Total|Round|Round|Round| Num | USCF ID / Rtg (Pre->Post) | Pts | 1 | 2 | 3 | ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | DANIEL ALLEN JING |2.0 |W 4|W 2|L 3| MN | 14393735 / R: 2143 ->2142 | |B |W |W | | Q: 1919 ->1930 | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2 | CHRIS KALINA |2.0 |W 3|L 1|W 4| MN | 12616431 / R: 2050 ->2061 | |W |B |B | | Q: 1953 ->1959 | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- 3 | IVAN WIJETUNGE |2.0 |L 2|W 4|W 1| MN | 12511643 / R: 1982 ->2004 | |B |W |B | | Q: 1813 ->1849 | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4 | JEFF A CHANDLER |0.0 |L 1|L 3|L 2| MN | 12521977 / R: 2028 ->1996 | |W |B |W | | Q: 1927 ->1884 | | | | | -----------------------------------------------------------------

The following game is the one that put me over the top 0-1

Daniel Jing 2143 vs Ivan Wijetunge 1982

No notation after move 21, but the a, b and c pawns ran down the board.

https://lichess.org/study/X7gO0P6A




USCF results
The following game is the one that put me over the top 0-1
No notation after move 21, but the a, b and c pawns ran down the board.

Paul Salem Sioux Falls OpenSeptember 24th-25thSioux Falls, SD

Last round action 

DANE MATTSON wins clear first with 4.5/5.00

2nd-3rd CAMILLA BAGINSKAITE & OKECHUKWU IWU with 4.0/5.0

Final results here

---

TD Alex Yermolinsky

My results:

1. Win 1512 SOORI, VASANTHA
2. Win 1326 RAJJAN, SANJAY
3. Loss 2282 IWU, OKECHUKWU ANELE NNEJ
4. Draw 1655 LEITEL, JOHN H
5. Win 1759 MILLS, MICHAEL

Chess Castle Thursday Night Premier Section G/140 + 30s Increment (Month long event)

USCF results here

Blundered horribly against NM Wilson in the last round.  A draw would probably have put me over 2000, a win comfortably over 2000!

I am black in the following position.  What I should have done was to play Rcd8 to put pressure on the e-pawn and then played Kh8 & Rg8.  I think I have a good position.

Instead I played, Qf6 and after White played Qf4 blundered horribly with Kh8,  Qf6 was not necessary. After Qf4, I had to play Qg7 when White has a small edge.

St. Croix Valley Chess Tournament

5-way tie for 1st place Aaron Thomson, Josh French, Brian Billman, Ivan Wijetunge, Stan Kegal

Here's the age you peak at everything throughout life

Link : http://www.techinsider.io/science-what-peak-age-is-2016-7?op=0#

40th Annual Green Bay Open

4 way tie for first, Vijay gets trophy on tie breaks

There were 95 players equaling the record from 2001

    1 | RITHWIK MATHUR                  |4.5  |W  59|W  19|D  12|W  13|W  11|
   WI | 15446725 / R: 2199   ->2203     |     |B    |W    |B    |W    |B    |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    2 | VIJAY RAGHAVAN                  |4.5  |W  75|W  58|W   8|D   3|W  12|
   WI | 12541034 / R: 2120   ->2132     |     |B    |W    |B    |W    |B    |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    3 | ROHAN MHASKAR                   |4.5  |W  52|W  28|W  25|D   2|W  14|
   WI | 13483138 / R: 2058   ->2076     |     |B    |W    |B    |B    |W    |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    4 | AARON JING                      |4.5  |W  34|W  30|D  24|W  16|W  17|
   WI | 13788391 / R: 2035   ->2046     |     |W    |B    |W    |B    |W    |

Complete results here

Prize winners:

1st, 2nd, & Expert 4 way tie:
Vijay Raghavan, Rithwik Mathur, Rohan Mhaskar, and Aaron Jing

1900 - 2 way tie:
Guy Hoffman and Joziah Rudolph

1800 - Ivan Wijetunge

1700 - 6 way tie:
James Coons, Joel Heinrich, Hersh Singh, Robert Reinke, Robin Grochowski, Jeff Buck

1600 - Aayush Singh

1500 - 4 way tie
Alexander Hogg, Gauri Menon, James Nickell, Jason Delpire

1400 - Sidharth Rane

1300 - 2 way tie
Akshaj Mathur, and Thomas Mattson

1200 - Neil Hogg

Under 1200/Unrated - 2 way tie
Kevin Wan, and Cory Juntunen

Organizer/Director LUKE LUDWIG, AKSHAJ MATHUR, RITHWIK MATHUR, IVAN WIJETUNGE

---

Haubrich vs Bogenschutz 0-1  (Round 4)

Bogenschutz vs Mathur 1/2-1/2 (Round 3)

Jing vs Neetman 1/2-1/2 (Round 3)

Fogec vs Prenot 0-1(Round 3)

---

History (Participants, Winner(s)
2015 95 RITHWIK MATHUR, VIJAY RAGHAVAN, ROHAN MHASKAR, AARON JING

2015 72 ROHAN MHASKAR, TINGLIN SHI, TIM J BOGENSCHUTZ 

2014 62 BENEDICT A SMAIL, KELLY L BORMAN

2013 70 RICHARD EDWARD HERBST, DEREK D SACHS, KELLY L BORMAN, DOUGLAS R YOUNKLE

2012 70 JERRY ZHEXUAN ZHOU, TROY JOSEPH ZIMMERMANN

2011 85 ALEX BETANELI

2015-2016 Twin Cities Chess League (TCCL)

Founded in 1962, the Twin Cities Chess League is one of the largest open chess leagues in the US.

This was a record breaking year with 45 teams, which exceeded last season's record of 42 teams.

The league meets September to March. Seven rounds, one round a month, Fridays at 7:00 PM.

The time control for the top 3 divisions is G/90, for the Open Division it is G/60.

The games are unrated.

David Kuhns ran the league for many years

---

Gold Division

	Team	rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	match	game
1	Rochester Ultimates	2047	x	4	1.5	0	1.5	2		0	1.5	9
2	No Pawn Intended	1755	0	x	1.5	0	1		0	1.5	0	4
3	Twin Knights of CCOM	2104	2.5	2.5	x	2.5		1.5	1.5	2.5	4	13
4	Topalov the day to you	2160	4	4	1.5	x	1	1.5	1.5		2	13.5
5	Champions of the Castle	2261	2.5	3		3	x	2	0	2.5	4.5	13
6	The A Team	2233	2		2.5	2.5	2	x	1.5	2	3.5	12.5
7	Pawn America	2266		4	2.5	2.5	4	2.5	x	0.5	5	16
8	NYET	2201	4	2.5	1.5		1.5	2	3.5	x	3.5	15

Round 7
Pawn America(5) vs Rochester Ultimates(1.5)
Twin Knights of CCOM(4) vs Champions of the Castle(4.5)

	Twin Knights of CCOM	2104
1	Andrew Titus	2206	1		1	1	1	1
2	Maor Leker Locker	2068	2	1	2		2
3	Connor Quinn	2080		2	3	2	3	2
4	Saumik Naryanan	2064	3		4	3	4	3
3	D.J. Hooker	1937		3
4	Matthew Qu	1901	4
4	John Thomson	1842						4
4	Venkat Srinivasan	1579				4

	Champions of the Castle	2261
1	Kevin Wasiluk	2321	1		1	1	1
1	Alex Richter	2307						1
1	Matt Dahl	2268		1
2	Ahment Shapiro-Erciyas	2150	2	2
3	Byamba Tumurkhuu	2157		3	2		2	2
2	Reuben Lubka	2090				2
4	Peyton Smith	2065	3	4	3			3
3	Dan Voje	2060				3
4	Clark Whitmore	1998	4		4
3	Chris Zweber	1922					3
4	Roy Knuth	1734						4
4	Tumurkhuu	UNR					4

	Pawn America	2266
1	Andrew Tang	2487	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Kevin Bu	2220				2
3	Jackson Wahl	2167	2	2	2	3	2	2
4	Samarth Chakrasali	2190	3		3	4	3	3
3	Glenn Panner	2071		3
4	Rich Diaz	1813			4		4
4	Riaz Khan	1486	4	4				4

---

Silver Division

	Team	rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	match	game
1	Kings of St Thomas	2194	x	3	2.5	4	4	2.5		4	6	20
2	Supernova	1988	1	x	0.5	2.5	1.5		1	2	1.5	8.5
3	It’s a Trap	1852	1.5	3.5	x	F		2	0	2	2	9
4	Austin City Limits	1977	0	1.5	4	x	1.5	2.5	1		2	10.5
5	Team Bobby Fischer	1898	0	2.5		2.5	x	2.5	3	3.5	5	14
6	Sons of the Mecheïde	2044	1.5		1	1.5	1.5	x	1.5	3.5	1	10.5
7	Rochester B2 or not B2	1906		3	4	3	1	2.5	x	2.5	5	16
8	3M64	1999	0	2	2		0.5	0.5	1.5	x	1	6.5

Round 7
Kings of St Thomas(6) vs Rochester B2 or not B2(5.0)
Team Bobby Fischer(5) vs It’s a Trap(2)

	Kings of St Thomas	2194
1	Alex Balandin	2459				1
2	Andre Chernov	2191		1	1	2	1	1
3	Arkady E Shemyakin	2124	1			3	2
4	Serafima D Sokolovskaya	2003	2	2	2	4	3	2
4	Andres D Hortillosa	1962	3	3	3		4	3
4	Charles D Musselman	1731	4		4
4	Ralph I Haefner	1626		4				4

	Team Bobby Fischer	1898
1	William Murphy	2010	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Sean Tuff	1970		2	2	2	2
3	Shrivinas Venkatasubramani	1840	2	3		3		2
4	Louis K Leonard	1775	3		3	4	3	3
4	Matthew Krusack	1672		4				4
4	Thad Swiggum	1628	4
4	Al Tuff	1403			4		4

	Rochester B2 or not B2	1906
1	Masoud Khadem	2032		1	1		1	1
2	Roy W Truelson	2000	1		2		2	2
3	Piyush Debashis Mukherjee	1859	2	2	3	1	3	3
4	Ralph E Townsend	1736			4		4
3	Kevin A Gaustad	1729	3	3		2
4	Thomas Quinn Brinkmann	1686	4	4		3		4
4	Tim Schimke	1631				4

---

Bronze Division

	Team	rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	match	game
1	Rochester Rookies	1822	x	2	1.5	2.5	2.5	1		2	3	11.5
2	Ministry of Silly Moves	1795	2	x	2	3	2		3	2	4	14
3	Beginner's Mind	1797	2.5	2	x	2.5		0.5	2	2.5	4	12
4	ModelUS Tigers	1787	1.5	1	1.5	x	1	1.5	3		1	9.5
5	uncalled four	2026	1.5	2		3	x	1.5	3	3.5	3.5	14.5
6	B Team	2183	3		3.5	2.5	2.5	x	3.5	3.5	6	18.5
7	paddle to the sea	1765		1	2	1	1	0.5	x	1.5	0.5	7
8	Minnesota g4s	1528	2	2	1.5		0.5	0.5	2.5	x	2	9

My team, the "B Team" clinched 1st place with a round to spare.

0	B Team	2183
1	Tim Lee	2254			1
1	Todd Miller	2202	1	1		1		1
1	Ed Zelkind	2200					1
2	Dave Bocek	2077			2	2
3	Jon Heyer	2000	2	2	3		2	2
4	Ivan Wijetunge	1821	3	3	4	3	3	3
4	Kevin Landman	1732	4	4		4	4	4

---

Open Division

	Chestnut Tree Café Chess	1823	b9	2.5	w5	3	w8	3	w3	3	b1	3.5	w4	0			5	15
1	Three Thorns and a Rose	1780	bye		bye		w7,15	3	b8	3	w0	0.5	b3	1.5			3	8
2	Rochester Knights	1630	b11	4	w8	1.5	b16	4	w6	3	b3	1	---	1			3	14.5
3	Rabid Rooks of Jupiter	1754	b15	4	b14	3	w6	3	b0	1	w2	3	w1	2.5			5	16.5
4	Magnus Force	1595	w13	3	b6	1.5	w10	3	b11	4	w14	3	b0	4			5	18.5
5	Hawks	1551	w17	4	b0	1	w11	1	w15	2.5	b18	2	b14	2.5			3.5	13
6	Claymore	1532	b19	4	w4	2.5	b3	1	b2	1	w16	3.5	w8	2			3.5	14
7	Tal Tales	1492	w14	1.5	w17	2.5	b1,15	1	b18	1	w19	4	w16	3			3	13
8	The Eagle Timinions	1443	w20	4	b2	2.5	b0	1	w1	1	b11	2.5	b6	2			3.5	13
9	Pawn Storm	1390	w0	1.5	b13	3	w14	2	b16	0.5	w10,12	0	b20	2			2	9
10	Team Darker Knights	1410	bye		bye		b4	1	w13	2	b9,12	3	w18	3			3.5	9
11	Spectacular Starbursts	1184	w2	0	b20	3	b5	3	w4	0	w8	1.5	b17	2.5			3	10
12	Burnsville Blaze	1391	bye		bye		w18	2	b14	1	w9,10	3	b19	1			2.5	7
13	Kings Quartet	1414	b4	1	w9	1	b19	2	b10	2	w20	2	w15	3			2.5	11
14	Knightmares	1490	b7	2.5	w3	1	b9	2	w12	4	b4	1	w5	1.5			2.5	12
15	Chess Spartans	1039	w3	0	w19	3	w1,7	2	b5	1.5	b17	1	b13	1			1.5	8.5
16	Black Stallions	996	bye		b17	3	w2	0	w9	3.5	b6	0.5	b7	1			2.5	8
17	Mighty Force	949	b5	0	b7	1.5	b20	3	w19,20	1	w15	3	w11	1.5			2	10
18	Andover	1320	bye		w16	1	b12	2	w7	3	w5	2	b10	1			2.5	9
19	Chess Dragons	832	w6	0	b15	1	w13	2	w17,20	1	b7	0	w12	3			1.5	7
20	Fischer of men	1228	b8	0	w11	1	w17	1	b17,19	4	b13	2	w9	2			2	10

	Standings	match	game
1	Magnus Force	5	19
2	Rabid Rooks of Jupiter	5	16.5
3	Chestnut Tree Café Chess	5	15
4	Claymore	3.5	14
5	Hawks	3.5	13
6	The Eagle Timinions	3.5	13
7	Team Darker Knights	3.5	9
8	Rochester Knights	3	14.5
9	Tal Tales	3	13
10	Spectacular Starbursts	3	10
11	Three Thorns and a Rose	3	8
12	Knightmares	2.5	12
13	Kings Quartet	2.5	11
14	Andover	2.5	9
15	Black Stallions	2.5	8
16	Burnsville Blaze	2.5	7
17	Mighty Force	2	10
18	Fischer of men	2	10
19	Pawn Storm	2	9
20	Chess Spartans	1.5	8.5
21	Chess Dragons	1.5	7

Round 7

	Magnus Force	1594
1	Aaron William Thomson	1703	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Justyn Kei Fine	1727	2	2	2	2	2	2
3	Joshua Dylan French	1727	3	3	3	3	3	3
4	Nathyn Jiro Fine	1221	4			4		4
4	Will Conness	729		4	4		4

	Rabid Rooks of Jupiter	1754
1	Eddie Wasserman	1853	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Tom Babcock	2000						2
2	Jordan Jelinek	1598	2	2		2	2	.
3	Robert Phenicie	1565	3	3	2	3	3	3
4	Mark Sorlie	1388		4	3	4	4	4
4	John Billman	1317	4
4	Tumua	unr			4

	Chestnut Tree Café Chess	1823
1	Steve Turmo	1954	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Emmett O'Hare	1836	2	2	2	2	2	2
4	Owen Poepke	1779					3	4
4	Matt Evans	1722	3	3	3	3	4	3
4	Kent Archerd	1609	4	4	4
4	Ben Patterson	699				4

---

George Tiers

George Tiers was a MSCA board member when the TCCL was founded in 1962. He has played in every league season, except for one.

This season he played for 3M64 in the Silver Division.

3M64	1999
Craig Heirigs	2045			1	1	1	1
Charles J Fenner	2028	1	2	2	2	2
Antoine Carter	1961						2
Reed Russell	1963	2
Vince Wisniewski	1803			3	3	3	3
George Tiers	1800	3	3	4	4	4	4
Zach Henderson	1702		1
Ed Conway	1600		4
Lincoln Schmidt	unr	4

George's unique chess clock