Teaching chess since 1996

Tournaments

We had sixteen players this week at our tournament. If we have sixteen every week, we’ll be able to stay at Piada. Maybe it’ll stay like this as people travel during the summer. Thank you to those of you who filled out the survey about what to do if we outgrow Piada. We’re still taking survey results if you want your opinion to be counted.

In a National Barbeque Day Open tournament, we had an Over 700 and a Below 700 section. Bo-You Lee won first in the first section and Aryan Shah, Neel Awasthi, and Gary Morey tied for second. The Below 700 group saw a five-way tie for first (because one of the players promoted to a bishop instead of a queen and tried unsuccessfully to checkmate with three bishops). Tied for first were Nellie Bishay, Dhirendra Diwan, Carter Hedges, Elbert Lu, and Soham Nethi. We had no large upsets this week.

Next week’s tournament looks busy; we already have seventeen players signed up to play.

Here is the link to sign up for tournaments.

We are going to have a sponsor for the tournament on May 30. Brookdale-Galleria Senior Living will provide dinner for players that night again.