October Swiss Underway

Crosstable of September Swiss (click here)

Jonathan had a tremendous 97 point rating gain in tying for 1st with Duy who gained 30 points.





Vincent v. Dang

 October 6th was the 1st round of the October Swiss with a turnout of 8 players. If you have not signed up and would like to play (with a 0.5 point bye in round one) please email me immediately so I can update the tenative pairings for round two.




Khoa v. Duy


Round One Results

Duy    1     Khoa    0
Huy    0     Herb     1
Brian  .5    Calvin  .5
Dang   0    Vincent  1




Not so casual chess


Round Two Pairings (tenative)

Herb        Duy
Vincent    Brian
Calvin      Huy
Khoa       Dang

3rd Round Results, 4th Round Pairings

Vincent        1    Duy          0
Jonathan      1    Brian        0
Frank          1    John T.     0
Khoa          1F  Kenneth    0F
Byes  Dang 1.0
         Herb  0.5
         Huy   0.5
         Lee   0.5
         Calvin 0.5

Round Four

Duy              Jonathan
Khoa            Frank
Huy              Herb
John T.         Brian
Lee              Dang
Calvin          Kenneth
Vince--Bye 0.5

I will ask once more that if you are not going to attend please let me know as soon as possible so that I can try to re-pair your scheduled opponent or at least save them a trip to the club. Also note that this is a FIVE round tournament with the final round on September 29th.

I'm open to suggestions for October--Quads, Swiss, Quick Chess, Time Controls--please let me know via email or by adding a comment to this blog (see comments section at the bottom). I'm thinking about a 45/45 Quad. This would be 45 minutes with a 45 second increment. A typical 40-60 move game could take 2.5 to 3 hours. It would be regular rated only. Also the idea of starting each meeting with a brief lesson has been requested. I would try to start the lesson by 5:15 and finish between 5:30-5:40 once most of the tournament players had arrived (I'll gauge interest in this by attendance).

2nd Round Results Third Round Pairings REVISED 9/15

Brian v. Calvin (front) Tom v. Jonathan (back)

2nd Round Results

John T.     0F     Duy         1F
Khoa        0       Jonathan 1
Huy          0       Vincent     1
Herb        1        Lee          0
Dang        0        Frank       1
Brian        1        Calvin      0

Kenneth    .5      Duy         .5

Huy v. Vincent

3rd Round Pairings

Jonathan          Duy
Vincent            Herb
Frank              Brian
Kenneth          Khoa
Lee                 John T.  (Revised)
Bye 1.0--Dang         

Requested Bye 0.5--Huy
Requested Bye 0.5--Calvin

Duy v. Kenneth

Please let me know as soon as possible if you aren't going to be able to make the round. It may allow me time to re-pair or found a house player so your opponent can still get a game that evening.

We had a couple of brand new adult players show up last Wednesday along with a returning player who is on the strong end of our club's rating scale. It would be great if the club can continue to attract and keep new players. Keep in mind that October 9th is National Chess Day. Any ideas regarding possible club activities to increase publicity or awareness are welcome.

Vince sent me this link on setting the Chronos Clock with Increment.

Chronos Increment Setting

Special Note: The USCF has announced the 2011 US Senior Open will be in Houston July 18-23rd. The 2011 Junior Open is also in Houston from July 22-24th.

US Senior Open

For those who are 50 plus as of July 18, 2011 it's a great chance to play top flight competition in a relatively small national tournament. The 2010 US Senior Open in Boca Raton, FL had 51 players with 6-8 GMs and IMs leading the way.

September Swiss Round One Results and Pairings

Duy         1       Brian       0
Johnathan 1      Herb       0
Frank       0      Huy         1
Calvin       0     Khoa       1
Vincent     1     Dang        0

John T.  1.0-bye
Lee       0.5-bye

Round Two Pairings

John T.          Duy
Khoa             Johnathan
Huy               Vince
Herb              Lee
Dang              Frank
Brian              Calvin

Note: Johnathan is tenative for tonight and Brian may be a bit late. Clocks will start no later than 6:00 pm.

September Swiss

On September 1st we will start our new tournament. Since we have 5 Wednesdays in the month the tourney will be 5 rounds, swiss-system, with a time control of Game\55 with a 15 second increment. Entry Fee will be $2. I would like to pair and start the round at 5:45 pm. If you plan to play and will be later than 5:40 pm please email me to let me know you're playing.

Quick recap of recent events.

Nate and Calvin won the G\5 unrated blitz tourney on August 18th. Herb (2-1) and Vince (3-0) won their respective quads in the G\20 QC tourney on August 25th.

Crosstable

Hope to see everyone on the 1st!

Second Saturday Quads

Top Quad in action. John (in orange) was the winner with 2.5

Crosstable

We had an excellent turnout for the inaugural Second Saturday Quads. Some last minute registration changes and a few late arrivals got us started about 20 minutes later then expected but we managed to finish in a somewhat timely fashion. I wasn't sure how well the space would work but it seems to have sufficed. As evidenced below the spectator space may have been a little lacking.

Spectator space was tight.

The 2nd Quad had the most exiting finish. With two players tied with 1.5 points going into the last round, the stars had to align just right for Brian to sneak through as the winner with 2.0 as both leaders were defeated.

Andrew v. Brian

The 3rd Quad saw Serena coast in with a final round draw against Dale to finish with 2.5.

Serena v. Emily

The 4th Quad saw Steve coasting to a win with 2.5 points after a first round time scramble. He also was able to secure his win with a final round draw. His post-tourney rating is 1408 so congratulations on breaking into Class "C".

Steve v. Sanjna with a time scramble ahead.

The 5th Quad saw the only perfect 3-0 score by Dang.

 William v. Sarah and Khoa v. Dale

A special welcome to Joseph who was playing in his first rated tournament.and now has his first provisional rating of 478. I'm sure it will be leaping upwards quickly in the near future.

I hope everyone enjoyed the afternoon and I'll keep everyone posted on any future events.

August Swiss

Crosstable

Nate clinched his tournament victory with a last round draw against Vince. Anthony cruised through the Quad with a perfect 3-0.

This Wednesday is our first ever blitz event. An unrated Game/5 double 5-SS (one white, one black against each opponent). EF: $1 with 50% to 1st and 50% to 1st Under/1500. We will try to start promptly at 5:45.