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Tri-Valley Open Sat Feb 21st
More than 100+ youth joined the Tri-Valley Chess Night on Saturday Jan 31st hosted by AoPS Academy Pleasanton and Emerald Hills Chess.
Our novices enjoyed lessons and monitored free play by HS volunteer coaches from the Tri-Valley Chess League and Emerald High School, while experienced players competed in a 4-round unrated tournament with their classmates and friends.
Congrats to the trophy winners, who all scored at least 3 out of 4 points:
Experts (USCF 800+ rating): Noah Toy, Vikram Snyder, and Boya Wu (above)
Advanced (USCF Under 800): Rohith Nukula, Avyan Amritkar, Atharva Kudva, Arastu Shrivastava, and Sarangan Vijayan
Intermediate (age 10+): Vvihaan Chanana, Mark Taranov, Jasper Huang, Ishani Pachika
Intermediate (ages 9-10): Stanley Xu, Aarav Nayak, Shourya Gowda, Joshika Buditi, and Purvik Mummareddy
Intermediate (age U9): Dhruv Anandharaman, Aaryan Patel, Saiaansh Mudireddy, Kedarnath Kalidindi
Full final standings (click on tabs to choose section)
Thank you from the lead organizers - Eric Lai and Brandon Kim from AoPS - to all the coaches, room assistant tournament directors, and room monitors:
Tony Sanchez, Reena Garg, Aya Rashad, Daniela Williams, Rajani Martha, Samantha Bonadio, Kevin Chang, Sergey Starkov, Rachel Pascua, Sarah Stephenson, and Campbell Whalen from AoPS Pleasanton.
Vatsal Srivastava, Shasank Bonthu and Amar Sakthivel from the Tri-Valley Chess League
Naman Jain, Wesley Ng, Neil Mallu and Viren Sethi from the Emerald High School Chess Club
Rayan Jain and Bhavna Jain from Emerald Hills Chess
Want to play more tournaments? Join the next Tri-Valley Monthly Open on Saturday Feb 21st in Dublin. Register by Feb 17th for early bird discount.
Want to improve your chess? Become one of the 300+ students for our 15 tournament training classes and after-school programs in the Tri-Valley.
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