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… for students of all ages and strengths

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CCL does well at the Queen City Classic

March 28, 2014

  • CCL does well at Queen City Classic, winning the team championship in top section, where many of our students ‘played up’ into.  We also won the team championship in 4-6 and took 2nd place in both 7-9 and K-3.
  • The winner in the open section is a master from W.V. (Advait Patel) who is the same age as Luke and a friend of Luke.  Both of them were the lone 4-0 scores going into the last round but Advait got the better of Luke and won the tournament.  Both of the boys are planning to return next year to again fight for the championship.  Actually Luke plans on playing in the Queen City Classic for until he graduates.
    • As you all know by now, Luke is one of my heroes.  While everyone else is worrying about their ratings, Luke plays in whatever tournament he wants to play in.  Yes, he is concerned about his rating but he does not put that before the enjoyment and value of the experience that he will gain.  As a benefit of this he keeps gaining more and more valuable experiences and in the long run he is becoming a stronger player which is reflected in his rating.  He is not letting the short sightedness of ‘protecting his rating’ get in his way of enjoying his chess.  And in the long run, he is coming out the winner.
  • Listed are the top 10 and 3.5 CCL finishers in each section.
    • K-12 Open – 1st place team
    • K-12
      • 2 Luke Xie
      • 3 Vikram Srivastava
      • 4 Vincent Baker
      • 5 Sujan Rachuri
      • 8 Arvind Sai Prasad
      • 9 Jason Wang
      • 10 Tim Goldenberg
      • 11 Divyesh Balamurali
    • 7-9 Open – 2nd place team
      • 7-9
      • 4 Jacob Eismann
      • 6 Victor Lim
    • 4-6 Open – 1st place team
    • 4-6
      • 2 Om Borkar
      • 3 Ethan Ferkins
      • 4 Justin Huang
      • 5 Soham Joshi
      • 7 Yutong (Elton) Cao
      • 9 Alvin Anand
    • K-3 Open – 2nd place team
      • 4 Kellan Ren
      • 9 Emma Cheng
    • Blindfold Exhibition with Jason
  • Jason
    • This is an interesting story.  Usually on Friday night, one of their events would be Gregory Kaidanov and Irena Krush playing a blindfold game.   This year they put a twist on the game with each blindfold player being paired up with a random 1600+ player.  They played in a turn, like double-player in ping-pong (not tennis).  Jason was picked up because of his 1600+ rating. GM Ashley was surprised about his rating/height and wanted the parents to verify.  There is a video of this game at http://youtu.be/7xchVa2TH-w

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The Coaches

  • alancasden2
    National Master Alan Casden
    -- CEO --
  • International Master Atanas Kizov -- CCL Head Coach --
  • GM VLATKO BOGDANOVSKI
    Grand Master Vlatko Bogdanovski
  • Zoran
    International Master Zoran Arsovic
  • FM_Sasa_Jevtic
    FIDE Master Sasa Jevtic
  • NM Vladimir Kizov
    National Master Vladimir Kizov
    Head of Pre-CCL
  • Jelena
    Woman FIDE Master Jelena Arsovic

The Best in Chess Instruction

How can we say that?
- read our blogs, our results speak for themselves

Why are we so successful?
- we use the top chess coaches from around the world
- we develop a chess community
- we use a team approach with experts in both chess and psychology
- over 1900 free chess book library
- we always put the student first

Who are our customers?
- we started in Ohio but now reach out to all of North America, currently with students in 20 states and 8 countries
- we address the needs of students of all ages and strengths (a CCL and Pre-CCL program)

Let us help you to live up to your potential.

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Recent Posts

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  • Jason Wang wins the North American Open January 3, 2023
  • 2022 National Grade Level Championships December 31, 2022
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  • Michael Lin becomes the 33rd CCL Graduate September 14, 2022
  • Sneha becomes a TD while she, Jack, and Joshua each win a quad. August 14, 2022
  • Rohan Padhye wins Joe Yun Memorial and becomes a Chess Master July 20, 2022
  • CCL at the National Elementary School Championship May 20, 2022
  • Jason Wang wins Ohio HS Championship while Rohan Padhye takes MS Championship May 9, 2022
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  • Three New CCL Graduates September 11, 2021
  • CCL Chess Camp 9/11-12/2021 July 4, 2021
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  • The sleeping giant awakens April 3, 2021
  • Dae San Kim with the 2020 CCL Chess Championship August 22, 2020
  • 2020 CCL Chess Championship August 12, 2020
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  • CCL USCF rated online chess tournaments June 9, 2020
  • 2020 Queen City Classic March 3, 2020
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  • CCL tops the charts October 15, 2019
  • CCL Chess Camp 11/2-3/2019 September 16, 2019
  • Elton Cao is the State of Ohio Chess Champion September 3, 2019
  • Jason Wang is the Barber Co-champion August 9, 2019
  • 2019 Columbus Chess League August 8, 2019
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