CCL Wins at MOTCF 2018

March 29, 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

March 16, 2018

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

March 4, 2018

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.

2108 State of Ohio Elementary School Championship

February 25, 2018

The future for The CCL Chess School looks just as bright as the current and the past. The Elementary School Championship (K-6) was a 2-way tie for 1st place between CCLians Varun Sathyajeeth and Michael Lin. Varun and Michael won all their games, excepting drawing against each other, finishing the tournament with a 4.5 score.

Varun Sathyajeeth

Michael Lin

In the K-3 Championship there was a 4-way tie for 1st place with 3 CCLians becoming co-champions. Two of them are from our Akron Pre-CCL program (Saadhika Bagley and Arjun Soni). The other was Colin Park from Central Ohio.

For all results, go (and to http://www.ohioscholasticchess.org/2018elementaryresults.htm