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chess lessons, for players of all strengths and ages

THE CCL CHESS SCHOOL
Private Chess Lessons … with group activities
… for students of all ages and strengths
Alan Casden – CEO – (614) 561-2718
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Rohan Padhye ties for 2nd place at National K-5 Championship

Rohan had a great tournament. He finished with 6/7 points and tied for second in K-5 National Elementary Chess Championship being held at Nashville, TN from May 10-12.  175 kids from schools all over the country participated in his section. His only loss came in the 4th round to the eventual winner, Cooper Ho from NY, who finished in clear first place with a score of 6.5/7. This is Rohan’s best performance at the Nationals to date. He played on the top 4 boards for 3 of his 7 games. These games were telecast live over the internet.

Another great result in this section was achieved by Druvin Mutalam,  Druvin tied for 12th place with a 5-2 score and brought his rating from 1272 to 1505.  Druvin has done amazing over the past 6 months, raising his rating 550 points over that time!

4 CCL Players Qualify for US Team at the World Youth Championships

CCL is proud to announce that the following 4 CCL players have qualified to participate in the 2019 World Youth (U14, U16, U18) Chess Championships, as part of the USA team, to be held in Mumbai, India, from October 1 – 13, 2019.  These students earned this honor by achieving the highest rating in their age and gender categories according to the US Chess April 2019 rating supplement.

Chis Shen – Open U-16

Vincent Baker – Open U-16

Jason Wang – Open U-14

Adeti Mohanselvan – Girls U-14

Vincent Baker wins the Ohio HS Championship and Jason Wang wins Ohio MS Championship

CCL cleaned the table with clear 1st place finishes in every major Ohio Scholastic event this Spring: Queen City Classic, K-3 Championship, and Elementary School Championship.  Last weekend we won the State HS and MS Championships.  The top CCL results were:

High School

Clear 1st place - Vincent Baker
Tied for  2nd place - Elton Cao
Tied for 4th place - Justin Storn, Aryan Balyan, and Aristo Liu

Middle School

Clear 1st place - Jason Wang
Tied for 2nd - Rohan Padhye and Dae San Kim
Tied for 4th place - Varun Sathyajeeth, Wesley Lai, Matt Wang, Michael Lin, Adeti Mohanselvan

Vincent will be representing Ohio at the Denker tournament, against the HS Champions of the other 49 states.  Jason will be represent Ohio at the Barber tournament, against the MS Champions of the other 49 states.  Complete details on this event can be seen at http://ohioscholasticchess.org/2019hsmsresults.htm .

We also had a weekend camp with IM Atanas Kizov 2 weekends ago.  Below are some the few pictures that I took at these two events.

CCL has perfect scores in winning both Ohio Elementary School Championships

Edison Lui scored a perfect 5-0 to win the Ohio Elementary School Chess Championship while Siddarth Kunapuli also had a perfect 5-0 score to win the Ohio K-3 Championship.  Top CCL finishes include:

K-6
1st place – Edison Liu
2nd place – Anant Adury
Tied for 3rd – Matt Wang

K-3
1st place – Siddarth Kunapuli
3rd place – Saadhika Bagley
Tied for 4th – Colin Park

Complete details are at http://ohioscholasticchess.org/2019elementaryresults.htm .

CCL dominates at Queen City

CCL continues to show that there is no program even close to the strength of CCL in the State of Ohio.

Aryan Balyan defeated Justin Storn in the final round with the black pieces to win the Queen City Classic with a clear 1st place score of 4.5.  It was a fascinating game where Justin sacrificed a minor piece for for two pawns and an apparent attack.  However, the attack did not really exist as Aryan's knight dominated the position.  You can see this game at https://cclchess.com/ccl-games/.  The team pretty much had the team championship locked up after 3 rounds, almost doubling the score of the 2nd place team.  CCL trophy winners in the top section where Aryan Balyan, Karthik Kallam, Arjun Krishna, Om Borkar, and Udbhav Raghukanth.

In the 7-9 section both Atharva Sapre and Dhruti Shah came in tied for 2nd place and the team came in 2nd place.

In the 4-6 section, Matt Wang sweep the field with a perfect 5-0 score.  Matt is adding this win to his grade level championship for a coming of age year for Matt.  Druvin Mutalam came in tied for 2nd while both Aditya Mehta and Aniket Shetty coming in tied for 5th.  CCL won the team trophy by almost 3 times the score of 2nd place.

We only had two players in the K-3 section, Colin Park and Jashwin Pisini, yet we still manged to come in 3rd place as a team.  Colin came in 3rd place with a 4-1 score.

Complete results are posted at  https://ccpf.proscan.com/programs/queen-city-classic-chess-tournament/final-results/ .  Below are the team pictures of those who were still available when the team trophy was given out, as well as a photo or the Storn-Balyan game.  Team trophies were raffled off at the end of the tournament.