The CCL Chess School

chess lessons and more, for players of all strengths and ages


Private Chess Lessons … with group activities
Jeff Shen – Business Manager  – (614) 404-0248  614chessTD@gmail.com
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We recently started a new prodigious wing to CCL, led by esteemed mathematician and prodigy Dr. Harvey Friedman, who you can meet at Harvey’s Adventures.

Dukie wins Middle School Championship for 2nd year in a row

–        The big event last weekend in Ohio is the HS/MS Championships

  • Top CCL HS finishers:
    • John tied for 2nd
    • Rahul tied for 4th
  • Top CCL MS finsihers
    • Luke – clear 1st – perfect 6-0 score
    • Vikram and Anagh tied for 2nd
    • Abhi – tied for 5th
    • CCL finished in 10 of the top 17 spots (4 points or more)

–        A note on Luke

  • We talked before about Luke’s amazing feat of winning the Ohio Middle School Championship two years in a row, as a 4th grader and as a 5th grader.
    • Last year he did not go to the Barber and his spot eventually dropped down to Maggie who attended.
      • The Barber is the championship of champions where the Middle School Champions of every state meet to see who is the ultimate MS Champion.
      • In Ohio, three years ago they started to allow elementary school students to attend this tournament and for the last 3 years it was a CCL 5th grader who represented Ohio at this tournament (Abhi, Maggie, and Luke {yes Luke is going to attend this year}).  We are always one of the youngest players competing in this event.
    • Last year Luke also qualified for the World Youth Championship but did not attend.  However, this year he will attend if he qualifies by getting his rating up to 2050 in the next month.  He is 2048 right now. Luke will be playing in the Cincinnati Open to try and gain these points.