The CCL Chess School

Chess, Community and Learning

 

Chess lessons and more, for players of all strengths and ages.

Rohan Padhye wins Ohio K-3 Championship

Rohan Padhye
Rohan Padhye Ohio K-3 Champion

Congratulations to Rohan Padhye for winning the Ohio K-3 Championship with a perfect 5-0 score. Rohan has been on fire, also recently winning the U-1500 section of the Pittsburgh Open.

 

Adeti Mohanselvan
Adeti Mohanselvan Ohio Elementary School Championship – 2nd place

In the K-6 Championship, CCL did not win the championship but did finish 2nd – 5th place with all players scoring 4-1.  In order of tie-breaks, the finishing order was:

  1. ——————
  2. Adeti Mohanselvan
  3. Dae San Kim
  4. Benjamin Yin
  5. Nicholas Wang

CCL at MOTCF

Six CCL teams participated in the Midwest Open Team Chess Festival.  The teams were CCL-G, CCL-O, CCL-R, CCL-O, CCL-N, and CCL-V.  The last letters being a tribute to GORAN Vojinovic, former head coach of The CCL Chess School. Our top finish was clear 2nd place by the 2nd CCL team, CCL-O,  In board order, the members of that team were Anagh Kulkarni, Justin Storn, Alan Casden, and Elton Cao.  Forest Chen, 3rd board from from out first team CCL-G. won the board prize for his strong performance.  It was very nice to have Forest come up from Tennessee and Arthur Xu from Illinois to join the teams.  Forest plans on joining us again at next year’s MOTCF.  I am so glad to meet CCL players from around the country and look forward to meeting many of you at the Super Nationals this May.  One thing that we did this time, which I hope that we can do next time, was to have an all female team.  Here is a picture of that team.

Watch Maggie on Good Day Columbus

Maggtie Feng will soon play in the US Woman’s Championship.  She was on Good Day Columbus this morning due to this upcoming event.  Watch the video by clicking HERE.   CLICK HERE for details on the 2017 US Woman’s Championship which is being held from March 27th to April 10th.

Student Assessments

At the request of the CCL PTO, we are implementing a couple of features that will both allow the parent to be more aware of how their child is performing and well as how to improve their performance. There is a free and a paid service that fall in this domain. The CCL PTO is welcome to suggest improvements to this process in the future.

CLICK HERE for details on the new CCL Student Assessments.

CLICK HERE to join the CCL PTO and help to shape the future of The CCL Chess School!

Midwest Open Team Chess Festival – MOTCF

The Midwest Open Team Chess Festival (MOTCF) is in Dayton, Ohio this March 11-12, 2017.  This tournament is highly recommended fro students rated around 1400 and above.  If you want to play on a CCL team at this event, please CLICK HERE!