Author: Matt Jensen
MN Scholastic Results
A quick reminder tomorrow night is our first USCF Blitz tournament at the club. This is a new USCF rating category for games between 5 and 10 minutes! Free for members and we’ll start at 7 PM.
Below is a recap of the scholastic tournament by Chuck Handlon. Dennis Mays annotated a nice game by George Berg which is posted on the Games page.
Photos of State from Century Coach Chuck Handlon.
Rochester Chess Players Find Some Success at 2013 State Tournament
Rochester area students were challenged in the Minnesota State Chess Association 2013 state scholastic chess tournament held at the Crowne Plaza in St. Paul March 23 & 24. Over 200 students grades K-12 competed in six rounds of games, some of them over three hours in length. The tournament was divided into K-9 and 9-12 divisions. About 30 middle and high school teams were represented.
Several Rochester players had success breaking the “top twenty” of the tournament, all with records of 4-2. Various tiebreakers were used for the overall place. In the K-9 division Peter Hansel (Friedell MS) finished 17th while Richard Huang (Kellogg) was 20th. Zhengdao Lin a Willow Creek 8th grader followed at 23rd. The best high school finishes were Maor Locker (Century) who was 20th and Daniel Frieburger (Lourdes) who was 22nd and named the “top twelfth grader”.
Team scores are based on the best four team players’ scores. Willow Creek Middle School received the Second Place Middle School trophy. This was an excellent finish for a team that had never participated in a tournament. The team was coached by Jim Huerter a paraprofessional in the RPS middle school Newcomers program at Willow Creek. The team consisted of eight boys and two girls who are English Speakers Other Languages in the program including some who have only recently come to the United States.
Rochester Lourdes High School coached by Dennis Mays achieved 9th on tiebreakers with 12.5 points. Century High School coached by Chuck Handlon was 14th with 9 points.
Individual and team results of this tournament may be found on the Minnesota Chess Castle website http://www.chesscastle.com/
Chuck Handlon
Rochester Area Scholastic Chess League
Spring Schedule Posted!
The schedule for the next two months has been posted. We will have USCF events the next 4 Tuesdays in April. There is a new USCF Blitz rating category for games between 5 and 10 minutes. The officers are excited to try out this new format in April! In May we will be holding a new G/90 tournament. Send Matt an email to register.
Scholastic tournament results from this past weekend will be posted after the press release is ready.
Final round of the March G/90 is tonight. See you there!
Mid-March Updates
Rochester Area Scholastic Chess League – 2013 Rochester Area Scholastic Chess League season standings and recap by RASCL Secretary Chuck Handlon: RASCL standings.
2013 Rochester Grand Summer Open Announced – June 7th-8th. RGSO flyer.
Chess.com Rochester Chess Club vs. Team Minnesota! Join the RCC team to help us take down Team Minnesota in a vote chess game.
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Twin Cities Chess League Report by Mayo B2 or not B2 Team Captain Dennis Mays
Hello Rochester Twin Cities Chess League Combatants,
It was a fun year in the TCCL with 37 teams competing in 3 divisions. The top 2 divisions (Gold and Silver) were round robin events with 8 teams each (7 rounds). The Bronze division was a 7-round swiss tournament. By my count, 18 players from the Rochester area participated in the TCCL this season. This is a major achievement for chess in our community.
The Ultimates finished in clear 4th place in the very competitive Gold division with a record of 3 match points and 12 game points and will be one of the top six teams automatically returning to the Gold division next year. NYET finished in 1st place with 6 match points and 21 game points. Matt finished 2nd on board 2 (4/5) and Rob finished 2nd on board 4 (4.5/7 including some points on board 3) in the gold division.
B2 placed 5th in the Silver division with a record of 3.5 match points and 13.5 game points and will be one of the top six teams automatically returning to the Silver next year. George won the 3rd board prize with a score of 4.5/6 points. Roy tied for first place on board 4 with 5/7 points. The Austin City Limits won the division with a score of 5 match points and 18 game points. Advancing from Silver to Gold will be Austin City Limits and Uncalled Four.
The Knights finished in 10th place in the Bronze division with 3.5 match points and 15 game points. Maor won the top prize on board 3 with 6.5/7 points (impressive!). 3M64 won the Bronze division with a score of 6 match points and 20 game points. Advancing from Bronze to Silver will be 3M64 and Metro Chess.
Congratulations to the teams and the board prize winners. A special thanks go to Rochester Chess Club officers Jack Fulsom and Matt Jensen for their efforts in organizing and financing the TCCL teams.
TCCL Awards ceremony (with or without trophies; ask George what the joke is here) is planned for April 12 at the Chess Castle (Pizza and Blitz, $10 per person).
The final TCCL results can be found at the following link:
http://www.minnesotachess.org/
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Dennis