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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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CCL finishes 1-2 in both Ohio HS and MS Championships

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CCL had many strong performances at the Ohio HS and MS Championships and all of the results are posted at http://buckeyechess.com/2018HS_MS.html .

In the HS Championship, CCLians Maggie Feng and Aristo Liu came in 1st and 2nd place respectively.  Maggie is planning on playing in the Champion of Champions Denker tournament (1 HS player from each state) later this summer.  If she changes her mind, the offer will drop down to Aristo.

In the MS Championship, CCLians Elton Cao and Aryan Balyan came in 1st and 2nd place respectively.  Elton is planning on playing in the Champion of Champions Barber tournament (1 MS player from each state) later this summer.  If he changes his mind, the offer will drop down to Aryan.  CCLian Chris Shen won the Barber tournament last year.

I took all of the pictures at the end of the tournament, so some CCL students had already left.  The top picture is all CCL students still there at the end of the prize ceremony.  Below is a slideshow of the pictures that I took at the end of the tournament.

A Successful Spring Chess Camp

Head CCL pic, IM Atanas Kizov (pictured below) made the long trip from Macedonia to help CCL at this weekend's National HS Championship in Columbus, Ohio.  Last weekend he held a chess camp to ready those who were interested and this coming weekend he will be in the large skittles room at the National HS Championship to review the games of all CCL players who participate.

Pictured below left are the trophy winners (l-r Karthik Kallam, Druvin Mutalam, James Scarbrough and Isaac Partee) from this chess camp.  In the A  section, Karthik Kallam dominated the opposition with a very strong 5.5/6.  There was a 3-way tie for 2nd place between Isaac Partee, Matt Wang, and Lainie Massick.  The tie breaks went respectively to the order just listed with Isaac taking home the 2nd place trophy.  In the B section there was a 2-way tie at 5-1 between Druvin Mutalam and James Scarbrough, with Druvin having the better tie-breaks.  Drivin got the 1st place trophy while James took home the 2nd place trophy.  Atanas is giving a free chess lesson to both 1st place finishers.

CCL Wins at MOTCF 2018

CCL Ablaze (Maggie Feng, Chris Shen, Forest Chen, Aristo Liu) and CCL Blasters (Vincent Baker, Anagh Kulkarni, Abhi Ramaswamy, Alan Casden, Aryan Balyan) tied for first along with a team from Dayton at the 2018 MidWest Open Chess Festival.  Our all girls team, CCL Empowered (Emma Cheng, Adeti Mohanselvan, Sneha Prabu, Hemma Bagley), tied for the top U-1600 team.  The first picture below is CCL Empowered.  The 2nd picture, is just a random picture were we called for any CCL player who was were around us.

An intensive Spring 2018 weekend, studying chess with Atanas

A weekend with IM Atanas Kizov – A CCL Chess Camp

    • Date:  Saturday/Sunday   April 21-22, 2018

    • Time:    9:00 – 5:00

    • Where:
      CCL Training Center
      at the home of:
      Dr. Carrie Casden
      736 Watterton Drive
      Westerville, Ohio

      Open only to CCL members and members of a Mulligan Chess Club.
      Lectures, game reviews, camp review book, tournament, and many prizes.
      Draw or beat Atanas in a 5-1 game or Alan in a 5-2 game and win a $1 coin, tournament trophies, free chess lessons, books, etc.
      All chess equipment and snacks will be provided but bring your own lunch.
      For more details, or questions call Alan (614) 561-2718 or email acasden@insight.rr.com

      40% discounts to 2nd/3rd person from the same family, participants coming from outside of Ohio, retired individuals, or members of the Mulligan Chess Club.
      100% refunded if you cannot make it to the camp, no questions asked.

      Update:  This camp is only open to the 1st 24 signups!  Enter early as our last chess camp sold out.

      IM Atanas Kizov will be teaching these 6 topics!:

      • Isolated pawn – how to play with it
      •  Isolated pawn – how to play against it
      • Blocking the f6 square
      • The positional piece sacrifice
      • Prophylaxis
      • Tactics in Rook endings
  • Cost of the camp
    • two days – $199
    • one day – $109
    • free to a parents of a student in 2nd grade or below

To signup, CLICK HERE!

CCL Student, Justin Storn, Wins Queen City

Justin sweep the field at Queen City, winning the open section 5 -0.  This is the 2nd year in a row for Justin, having been co-champion with CCLian Vikram Srivastava last year.

CCL had a skeleton group at Queen City as most of our better players where participating in the Arnold Classic.  As a team in the open section, the 2-player CCL team came in 2nd place.

There were not many of us there but the few that did attend did well.  Some highlights include: Justin winning the tournament; Anson Chu clear 1st in K unrated; James Scarbrough finishing clear 2nd (+ 220 points) in 4-6U800r; Matt Wang 2-way tie for 1st place in the 4th - 6th grade section.  Complete results are at https://ccpf.proscan.com/programs/queen-city-classic-chess-tournament/final-results/ .  Some pictures from the event are below.