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

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.

We are now a community-driven program!!  See the community section for details.

Chess, Community, Learning

Having fun at the 2017 Columbus Open

Congratulations to Adeti Mohanselvan and Alina Niu for finishing in 1st place in the U-1700 and the U-1300 sections respectively.

 

Jason Wang is US Elementary School Champion while CCL does well at Super Nationals

The sky is the limit.

CCL shows that it is a National power.

Some of the top results that I am aware of follow:

  • Jason Wang is the National Elementary School  (K-6) co-champion. 
  • In K-12, Maggie Feng tied for 7th place with 5.5 out of 7, only half point below the co-champions.
  • Chris Shen finished in 2nd place in K-8 Champion section where he was the only one entering the final round with perfect score of 6.0, however he lost a very close game in a marathon contest of 105 moves.
  • Ricky Wang. from Chicago, IL, tied with Chris for 2nd place, finishing in 8th place on tiebreaks.

Trophy winners with 5-2 scores include:

  • Vikram Srivastava - K-12
  • Neel Mehta - K-12 U-1600
  • Aristo Liu - K-9
  • Eric Albers - K-6 U-1000
  • Kennedy Brown - K-5 U-900
  • Rohan Padhye - K-3
  • Kaylee Chu - K-3 U-1000
  • James Scarboro - K-3 U-700
  • Colin Park - K-3 U-700
  • Lingaadyakssh Venkataraja - K-1

Top rating gainers at this event are:

  • Kennedy Brown - +281
  • Nicholas Wang - +157

 

Watch Us in Action!

CCL has a clean sweep at the Ohio High School and Middle School Championships

In the Ohio High School Championship,  CCL players Vikram Srivastava and Maggie Feng tied for 1st place with 5-1 scores and are co-champions.  Vikram won their individual game, gaining 1st place on tiebreaks, and plans on representing Ohio at the National Denker tournament.  Interestingly, Vikram won this event as a 9th grader, didn’t compete as a 10th grader and has now won it as an 11th grader.  I guess that many of you are hoping that he does not return next year.

In the Middle School Championship, CCLian Chris Shen came in clear 1st place with a 5.5 – .5 score, only yielding a very hard fought draw to Vincent Baker in the last round. Chris plans on attending the Barber tournament.  There was a 3-way tie for 2nd place with 5-1 scores amongst CCLians: Vincent Baker, Justin Storn, and Dae San Kim.

With Victoria Baker’s win at the Ohio All-Girls, CCL will represent Ohio at all of the key National Scholastic tournaments held during the beginning of the US Open.

Victoria Baker and Adeti Mohanselvan are Ohio All Girls Co-Champions

There was a 3-way tie for 1st place at the 2017 All-Girls Championship.  1st and 3rd place on tiebreaks went to CCLians Victoria Baker and Adeti Mohanselvan.  Emma Cheng finished a 1/2 point behind in 4th place.  Due to Victoria’s 1st place finish, she has won an invitation to play in the National All-Girls Invitational, along with the top girl players from the other 49 states.  Right now, Victoria does not plan on attending so the invitation will drop down.

On the right is Victoria Baker and on the left are the top boards going into round 3.  As you see, it was a pure CCL shootout at that time with Emma Cheng vs Sneha Prabu on board 1 while Adeti Mohanselvan was battling with Victoria Baker on board 2.