The CCL Chess School

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Coach Goran finishes first at the King’s Island Open

Just as he has done so many times before, Coach Goran has won a major tournament in Ohio.  He has clearly become the king of Ohio chess.  He won $2188 for his efforts, beating out GM Gregory Kaidanov on tiebreaks.  Walker Griggs finished in 6th place and took home $214.  Luke Xie tied for 1st in the U-1900 section, bring home $750, not bad for a 5th grader!  Also in the U-1900 strong 3.5 showings were provided by Noah Keating-Adams, Anagh Kulkarni and Vikram Srivastava.  Om Borkar continued his winning ways by tying for 3rd with 4 points, taking home $214 in the U-1700 section.  Also scoring 3.5 were Tim Goldenberg in the U-1700 section, Vincent Baker in the U-1500 section, and Sujan Rachuri in the U-1250 section.  There was big surprise in the U-1000 section when Anagh’s dad, Nitin, coming in clear 1st place took home $714.  Finishing tied for 2nd was Arvind Sai Prasad.

There are many CCL parents who are good chess players and are just hanging around the tournament.  I would like to see more of you participating by playing along with your children.   Joshua’s dad, Tony Qian, stepped up and played his first tournament at King’s Island.  He finished with a plus score of 3 points.

Walker and Goran are Ohio Co-Champions

9/23/12 – Over the Labor Day weekend, the State of Ohio Chess Championship (aka Ohio Chess Congress) was held. Walker successfully defended his state title which he obtained at the 2011 Ohio Chess Congress. This year he shared the honors with CCL Coach Goran. CCL has for quite a while dominated the Ohio scholastic chess space and now they are starting to show this same high level of performance at the adult level as well.

Walker and Goran tie for 1st in Open Section

Walker is State Champion for 2nd consecutive year

John Hughes and Alan tie for 3rd among others

Chris, Luke, and Abhi tie for 3rd in U-2000

Arjun in a 2-way tie for 1st in U-1700

Vincent and Om part of 4-way tie for 1st in U-1400

Rahul and Annorjan earns Expert title

10/21/12 – Annorjan earned his expert title yesterday and became the 5th CCL graduate!  This is starting to become a regular occurrence!!

9/23/12 – Rahul earned his expert title a few weeks ago at the Ohio Chess Congress. Rahul has now become the 4th CCL graduate. Having joined John, Walker, Maggie among this elite group.

 

CCL Chess Camp

The CCL high end & intensive two weekend chess camp was voted a success by all who survived! Here is a picture of some of the participants.

chess camp