Every year CCL breaks their previous year’s records.  The new school year ratings are out and CCL has:

The top 4 k-12 players (we have finally taken control of the K-12 list.   Being a young program, only 6 years old, it took us a little while to develop the talent to compete on the older players list).

The top 14 K-6 players!

The top female player and 9 of the top 14 female players.

The complete lists can be seen at http://ohchess.org

Scholastic Top 50

September USCF Rating Scholastic Top 50

Ranking	Name	Rating	Grade
1	Hughes, John Lodger	2206	12
2	Naguleswaran, Annorjan	2087	7
3	Feng, Maggie	2053	7
4	Xie, Luke Bohua	2032	6

 

Scholastic K-6 Top 50

September USCF Rating Scholastic K-6 Top 50

Ranking	Name	Rating	Grade
1	Xie, Luke Bohua	2032	6
2	Shen, Christopher	1999	4
3	Liu, Aristo	1805	5
4	Baker, Vincent	1684	5
5	Yuan, Matthew	1681	6
6	Yan, Austin	1667	4
7	Cao, Stanley	1626	6
8	Rachuri, Sujan	1599	6
9	Prasad, Arvind Sai	1551	5
10	Ghosh, Shourjya	1542	6
11	Kleban, Joseph	1527	6
12	Borkar, Om	1510	6
13	Kumar, Arvind	1508	6
14	Yang, Cody	1487	4

 

Top Scholastic Girls

September USCF Rating Top Scholastic Girls

Ranking	Name	Rating	Grade
1	Feng, Maggie	2053	7
3	Huang, Stella	1307	7
5	Massick, Laine	1284	3
7	Van Scoy, Ellison	1189	4
9	Tang, Lily	1153	6
11	Chen, Michelle	1103	3
12	Lin, Lisa	1056	7
13	Cheng, Emma	1051	2
14	Baker, Victoria	1047	7

As a results of tying for 2nd in the U-2100 section of the Indianapolis Open, Noah became a USCF expert and earned his CCL graduation.  Noah is our first Cincinnati player to graduate.  Congratulations to a hard working chess player.

 

CCL graduates are:

John Hughes

Walker Griggs

Maggie Feng

Rahul Ramaswamy

Annorjan Naguleswaran

Luke Xie

Chris Shen

Noah Keating-Adams

 

What is a CCL graduate?  It is an honorary degree that we give to any CCL player who has worked their way through the ranks while in CCL and has made a USCF experts rating (>= 2000).   It entitles them to lifetime membership in CCL, based on good behavior, without the requirements of taking lessons.  They are allowed to receive email spam from me for the rest of their lives!!  Although graduates are no longer required to take lessons while in CCL, all of our previous graduates are still active students in CCL.

Please welcome the newest members of CCL, Karanvir and Aishwarya.  These siblings live in Wales in the United Kingdom.  They are the first CCL members who live outside of the United States.  Both Karanvir and Aishwarya have qualified for the World Youth championships, which now makes it 7 CCL players who have qualified for this year’s World Youth Championship.  Since they live so far from us I would really like you to go out of your way to help make them feel like welcomed members of the CCL family.  It is a great experience to develop a pen pal from overseas, and what could be finer than for it to be another CCL player!  I don’t have their ICC handles yet but I will let you know them when I know.

This was a pretty successful tournament for those who made the trip to Cleveland for this CCA tournament.  If you like the structure of this tournament, there are the upcoming CCA tournaments; Indianapolis Open and King’s Island Open. 

• The big money winners were:
  • Abhi                      $500                     Top U-1900 class prize in U-2100 section
  • Vincent                $250                     Two way tie for 1^st U-1600 class prize in U-1800 section
  • Richard                $ 33.33                 Six way tie for 4^th place in U-1500 section
• The 25 club members
  • Ayush                   +166      1265
  • Vincent                +89        1684
  • Richard                +78        1468
  • Nayan                  +72        1134
  • Abhi                      +67        1945
  • Anagh                   +65        1899
  • Aristo                    +63        1805
  • Kunal                    +45        1363
  • Nolan                   +36        1674

The first ever chess-soccer match was held last Friday.  This event was organized and paid for by Mulligan Mark Johnson.  We had twenty participates which I broke into 2 teams.  There was Walker’s “Cheese Box” and Luke’s “Cheese Ball”.  It was a 5 round format where each chess game was worth 1 point (draws did not count) and each soccer goal was worth one point.

round 1 – 10 minute chess game     – Ball wins 5-4   Running total:  Box 4    Ball 5

round 2 – 3o minute soccer game   – Tied 2-2          Running total:  Box 6    Ball 7

round 3 – 10 minute chess game     – Ball wins 6-3   Running total:  Box 9    Ball 13

round 4 – 30 minute soccer game   – Box wins 7-2   Running total:  Box 16 Ball 16

round 5 – 5 minute chess game       – Box wins 6-3   Running total:  Box 22 Ball 18

As you can see, it was a very close and tense competition.  After three rounds Luke’s Cheese Ball felt like it was in the bag, with an relatively easy commanding lead.  However, under much verbal support from their team team leader, Walker’s Cheese Box made a huge comeback.

The kids had a thrilling time.   We will have to do this again sometime..