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2108 State of Ohio Elementary School Championship

February 25, 2018

The future for The CCL Chess School looks just as bright as the current and the past. The Elementary School Championship (K-6) was a 2-way tie for 1st place between CCLians Varun Sathyajeeth and Michael Lin. Varun and Michael won all their games, excepting drawing against each other, finishing the tournament with a 4.5 score.

Varun Sathyajeeth

Michael Lin

In the K-3 Championship there was a 4-way tie for 1st place with 3 CCLians becoming co-champions. Two of them are from our Akron Pre-CCL program (Saadhika Bagley and Arjun Soni). The other was Colin Park from Central Ohio.

For all results, go (and to http://www.ohioscholasticchess.org/2018elementaryresults.htm

Arjun Sohi and Saadhika Bagley

Colin Park

Walker wins Cardinal, Abhi takes way the top 2100.

February 2, 2018

pictured above are the co-champions; GM Alexander Shabalov and Walker Griggs.

CCL performed very well at the 2018 Cardinal Open. Below I will list our top 5 finishes and the money that they won, if I know it.

Open
Walker Griggs – tied for 1st – $1750
Chris Shen – tied for 3rd.

U2100
Abhi Ramaswamy – clear 1st place – $1085
Aryan Balyan – tied for 2nd place

U1800
Ethan Ferkins – tied for 4th place

U1500
Anant Adury – tied for 4th place

U1200
Uku Hughes – tied for 2nd place

Want to play on a CCL team?

January 28, 2018

February 16 – 18 – 2018 US Amateur Team North – email acasden@insight.rr.com if you would like to play on a CCL Team.

March. 24-25 MOTCF!!!!: Midwest Open Team Chess Festival. If you want to play, just fill out the CCL form by going to https://cclchess.com/motcf/. I will submit the teams and pay the entry fees. Then I will email you to collect your part of the entry fee.

Aryan Balyan is State of Ohio G/45 Champion

December 29, 2017

State Champion Aryan Balyan is pictured on the right.

CCLian Aryan Balyan, who is only in 8th grade, came in sole 1st place in the State of Ohio G/45 championship held last December 26th. It is very unusual for such a young player to win an open/adult state championship.

Sneha Prabu and Matt Wang came in a 2-way tie for 1st place in the U-1600 section while Naga Sankula came in 2nd place in the U-1200 section.

The CCL Wins Most of the Grades at the Ohio Grade Levels

November 19, 2017

Despite many students from the CCL School not showing up for this event, we managed to win 7 or the 13 sections. The ‘I can’t believe it’ of the tournament was when Joe Kleban, who only played in 2 tournament games in the last 2 years, came in clear 1st in the 10th grade division. Although we had many top 5 finishes, I am only going to list our Grade Level Champions below. Complete results are at http://www.neilley.com/chess/results/2017glresults.pdf.