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Fall After-School Clubs & Tourney Training Classes Schedule
157 players competed at the Tri-Valley Open on August 23rd at John Green Elementary, a co-presentation of Emerald Hills Chess and Tri-Valley Chess League and part of our monthly tournament series.
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In the 29-player Open Championship, adult Teddy Usman went a perfect 4-0 to win the $150 first prize. Usman won his final round game with just 4 seconds on the clock over 4th place Raghav Ramesh, avenging three straight losses.
Top seed Andrew Zavgorodniy won the $80 second prize with an undefeated 3.5-0.5 record. Five players tied for third with strong 3-1 records, in tiebreak order: Gloria She, Raghav Ramesh, Yuvan Nandhakumar, Shaahin Rushan (wins $60 top U1200 prize) and Aaron Ahsan. (Tiebreakers explained)
In the 39-player Experts (U1200) section, another adult, unrated Sheng Liang, went a perfect 4-0 to take first place and the $100 first prize.
In these corrected results, second place went to Varchasv Garg* (Fallon MS) on tiebreak over Aryan Bhardwaj - both scoring undefeated 3.5-0.5 records.
(* denotes one of the 300 students of Emerald Hills Chess tournament training classes and after-school clubs)
Nine players tied for 4th place with strong 3-1 records: Neev Srinivasan, Nihal Gundu, Mahat Aravind* (Mission San Jose Elementary), Wilson Han, Michael Haddad* (Cottonwood Creek), Syd Sinha* (1st U1000), Ansh Doshi, Sairaghav Kumar, and Abhi Kumar.
In the 44-player Premier (U800) youth/adult section, Aditya Ashwin* (Cottonwood Creek) repeated his perfect 4-0 record from last month to win sole first.
Three players tied for second with undefeated 3.5-0.5 scores: Andrei Labutin, Advaith Subramonia, and Namish Shrivastava*.
There was a seven-way tie for fifth at 3-1, in tiebreak order: Charith Pavuluri, Allen Zhang (Cottonwood Creek), Sebastian Karagozlu* (Fallon MS), Mihir Kolpuru, Arjun Sharma (1st U600), Marvin Guo, and Briyan Chen. Advaith Aravind won 2nd U600.
In the 27-player K-12 U400-rated youth Challenger, two unrated players Vaishnav Srihari and Tong Hsieh-Lin tied for first with perfect 4-0 scores.
Arjun Banda* and Vihaan Sirupa* tied for 3rd with undefeated 3.5-0.5 scores.
Four players tied for fifth place with strong 3-1 scores: Sebastian Yang, Rishaan Das (1st U200), Arya Ashwin* (2nd U200, Cottonwood Creek), and Nora Liang.
US Chess Federation-Rated results and Rating system explained
Full Standings (for Rated sections) and Tiebreakers explained
Finally, in the 14 player non-rated Novice round-robins (above), our trophy winners (top 3) were:
Group 1: Adhish Manoji Prabu, Aaryankrishna Kasireddy and Eleanor Ahsan
Group 2: Orion Wei, Atharva Kudva, and Nilan Subramaniam
Thank Yous
Thank Yous
From lead organizers Emerald Hills Chess’s Eric Lai (Chief Tournament Director) and Bhavna Jain to our floor TDs: Yichen Hu, Shulin (Tiger) Lu, Saathvik Dharmapuram and Austin Lin, all from the Tri-Valley Chess League, and Viren Sethi and Neil Mallu from Emerald HS.
Join us for our biggest tournament of the year! Last year’s edition (above) drew 235 players of all ages and levels, and was won for the third time by Grandmaster (and Emerald Hills Chess coach) Enrico Sevillano!
This year’s tournament will again be an all-day Swiss tournament (4 round Open Championship, 5 rounds for all other sections) offering $2,000 in guaranteed cash prizes and 60+ individual and school team trophies over 5 sections.
Join one (or more!) of our 14 classes and clubs in the Tri-Valley, including:
Small group tournament training classes for all levels on Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings
Fun, competitive after-school and homeschool clubs in Pleasanton, San Ramon and Dublin
The award-winning, national champion Fallon Middle School club, now also open to Gr4 and up tournament players in the Tri-Valley
Most are starting within the next two weeks, though there’s still time to catch the early bird discount for some!
See all our Locations and Register
Also - our free Thursday Night (5:30-8:30 PM) Adult Social Chess Club in the Pacific Pearl Mall Food Hall in Pleasanton is now open to experienced youth players accompanied by a playing parent or adult.
Join us for a non-intimidating way to flex your chess muscles, hang with other adults, and maybe win a prize in our casual tournaments!
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