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$2,000 East Bay Open Coming Oct. 11 to San Ramon
149 players competed at the Tri-Valley Sept Open at Cottonwood Creek School, a co-presentation of Emerald Hills Chess, the Tri-Valley Chess League, and Emerald Knights Chess Club and part of our monthly tournament series.
In the 18-player Open Championship, Teddy Usman repeated his perfect 4-0 performance from August to take first and win the $150 first prize. Usman’s key victory was again over May champion Raghav Ramesh in round three.
Another past champion Kadir Baki tied for second at 3-1 with Ramesh, splitting $140.
In the 38-player Experts (U1200) section, Dhruv Jadhav and Pradyun Mekala (Warm Springs Elementary) tied for first place with perfect 4-0 scores, taking trophies and $75 each home.
Seven players tied for third place with strong 3-1 records, in tiebreak order: Mahat Aravind (MSJE), Abhi Kumar, Adhvik Nuti* (Fallon), Aditya Ashwin* (Cottonwood), Anvit Nadendla (Cottonwood, 1st U1000), Tejas Bhatkhande, and Varchasv Garg* (Fallon). Viaan Rai (Bella Vista Elementary) picked up the 2nd place U1000 trophy.
(* denotes one of the 300 students of Emerald Hills Chess tournament training classes and after-school clubs)
In the 43-player Premier (U800) youth/adult section, Charith Pavuluri went a perfect 4-0 to take first. Sreekar Macherla (Emerald HS) and Eileen Zhang (Fallon) tied for second with undefeated 3.5-0.5 scores.
Eight players tied for 4th place with strong 3-1 scores: Advaith Subramonia (Harvest Park), Vihaan Annam* (Amador), Rishvik Paruchuri (Kolb), Oliver Yu* (Wells), Advaith Aravind, Rohith Nukala (1st U600), Mihir Kolpuru (John Green), and Nico Xiao* (Fallon). Arjun Sharma (Amador) was 2nd U600.
In the 30-player K12 Challenger, Zhiyuan Tian (Kolb) and Prajan Sundaramoorthy tied for first with perfect 4-0 scores.
Seven players tied for third with 3-1 scores: Anthony Zavgorodniy (Quarry Lane), Ishan Dwivedi, Shauryveer Chaundkar, Vishnu Vandanapu, Sanjeev Senthil, Evan Li (Kolb, 1st U200), and Leonardo Fernandez (Castro Valley HS). Orion Wei (Cottonwood) took 2nd place, U200.
Finally, in the non-rated Novice round-robins, our trophy winners (min score 3.5) were:
Group 1: 1st - Joaquin Garcia (5-0), 2nd (tie) - Andy Kim* (Fallon) and Jasper Huang
Group 2: (Co-1st, 4-1) - Janmey Prakash, Dhruv Anand, and Sarvesh Velmurugan
Group 3: (Co-1st, 4-1) - Atharva Kudva and Kedarnath Kalidindi
US Chess Federation-Rated results and Rating system explained (note: ‘official’ ratings used for tournaments are updated every 30 days. Click on ‘Tnmt History’ to see your most updated rating.)
Full Standings (for Rated sections) and Tiebreakers explained
Thank Yous
Thank Yous
From lead organizers Emerald Hills Chess’s Eric Lai (Chief Tournament Director) and Bhavna Jain to our floor TDs: Vatsal Srivastava, Yichen Hu, Shulin (Tiger) Lu, Saathvik Dharmapuram, and Karan Satish, all from the Tri-Valley Chess League, and FIDE Master Advay Bansal (assistant TD) and Shivish Bansal from the Emerald Knights Chess Club.
Join us for our biggest tournament of the year on Saturday Oct. 11! Last year’s edition drew 235 players of all ages and levels.
This year’s tournament will again be an all-day Swiss offering $2,000 in guaranteed cash prizes and 60+ individual trophies over 5 sections.
Grandmaster (and Emerald Hills Chess coach) Enrico Sevillano will return to defend his title.
We are also offering eight K-12 team trophies - get your classmates and friends to join and represent your school or club!
Not too late to join (or trial) one 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 FIDE-awarded, national champion Fallon Middle School club, now also open to Grade 4 and up tournament players in the Tri-Valley
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