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129 players competed at the Tri-Valley Open on July 26th at Hidden Hills Elementary in San Ramon, 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 26-player Open Championship, Aaditya Rajesh (Amador Valley High School) went a perfect 4-0 to win the $150 first prize.
Two players tied for second and won $70 each with undefeated 3.5-0.5 scores: Emerald Hills Chess coach Kadir Baki and Litong Nie.
Arjun Patil and Raghav Ramesh tied for 4th with strong 3-1 records, with Ramesh scooping up the $60 U1200 prize.
In the 21-player Experts (U1200) youth/adult section, Arjun Shenoy* (Fallon MS) and Bradley Harger III (Mission Hills MS) both went undefeated with 3.5-0.5 scores to share first and take home $75 each.
(* denotes one of the 300 students of Emerald Hills Chess tournament training classes and after-school clubs - fall schedule coming soon)
Spencer Hu and Adrel Coutinho* (Coyote Creek) tied for 3rd at 3-1. Chetan Patil tied for 5th place with Rishaan Nair and Udayveer Kulhary. (Tiebreakers explained)
Anvit Nadendla* (Cottonwood Creek) won the 1st place U1000 trophy, while Jason Phan* placed second.
In the 33-player Premier (U800) youth/adult section, Aditya Ashwin* (Cottonwood Creek) went a perfect 4-0 to take first. Aarush Noothi (above right, Fairlands) was sole second with 3.5-0.5 score.
There was an eight-way tie for third at 3-1, in tiebreak order: Vivaani Gogte* (Fallon), Joshua Cruz (Creekside), Suhan Bansal (Frederiksen), Nathan Ho, William Huang, Utsav Godra* (Walnut Grove, 1st U600), Partha Chereddy* (2nd U600, Dougherty) and Annika Majumder (Kolb).
In the 30-player K-12 U400-rated youth Challenger, three players tied for first with undefeated 3.5-0.5 scores, in tiebreak order: Siddharth Kumar* (above right, Fairlands), Anika Aravind* (Mission San Jose), and Vihaan Sirupa*.
Four players tied for fourth with 3-1 scores: last month’s champion Ehaan Parekh* (John Green), Arya Ashwin* (Cottonwood Creek), Rishaan Das (Hart), and Ashrith Tatiparthi (Epic).
Zhiyuan Tian (Kolb) and Rivaan Ermal* (Kolb) won the top U200 trophies.
US Chess Federation-Rated results and Rating system explained
Full Standings (for Rated sections) and Tiebreakers explained
In the 21 player non-rated Novice round-robins, our results were:
Group 1 Points (Min 3.5 for Trophy)
David Kurian 5
Izyaan Chowdhary 5
Sarvesh Velmurugan 4
Byron Zhong 3.5
Azhagunaachi
Karthikeyan 2
Nathan Ho 2
Kedarnath Kalidindi 1.5
Aiden Zhu 1
Group 2 Points (Min 3.5 for Trophy)
Leonardo Fernandez 4.5
Thunkshan Mahesvar 3.5
Caiden Khanna 3.5
Joaquin Fernandez 3
Mihishree Gaddi 1.5
Charush Dewaragatla 1
Tanvi Chakilam 0.5
Group 3 Points (Min 3.5 for Trophy)
Kalev Thomas 5
Arjun Bethanabotla 4
Eleanore Ahsan 2.5
Rishaan Verma 2.5
Calvin Zhu 1
Karthikeya Vandanapu 0
Thank Yous
Thank Yous
From lead organizers Emerald Hills Chess’s Eric Lai (Chief Tournament Director) and Bhavna Jain to our floor TDs (above): Vatsal Srivastava (lead), Yichen Hu, Shulin (Tiger) Lu, Saathvik Dharmapuram and Karan Satish, all from the Tri-Valley Chess League, and Viren Sethi from Emerald HS.
Location: John Green Elementary in Dublin.
We will again offer $500 in guaranteed cash prizes as well as 35+ trophies over 5 sections.
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