Please welcome the newest members of CCL, Karanvir and Aishwarya.  These siblings live in Wales in the United Kingdom.  They are the first CCL members who live outside of the United States.  Both Karanvir and Aishwarya have qualified for the World Youth championships, which now makes it 7 CCL players who have qualified for this year’s World Youth Championship.  Since they live so far from us I would really like you to go out of your way to help make them feel like welcomed members of the CCL family.  It is a great experience to develop a pen pal from overseas, and what could be finer than for it to be another CCL player!  I don’t have their ICC handles yet but I will let you know them when I know.

This was a pretty successful tournament for those who made the trip to Cleveland for this CCA tournament.  If you like the structure of this tournament, there are the upcoming CCA tournaments; Indianapolis Open and King’s Island Open. 

• The big money winners were:
  • Abhi                      $500                     Top U-1900 class prize in U-2100 section
  • Vincent                $250                     Two way tie for 1^st U-1600 class prize in U-1800 section
  • Richard                $ 33.33                 Six way tie for 4^th place in U-1500 section
• The 25 club members
  • Ayush                   +166      1265
  • Vincent                +89        1684
  • Richard                +78        1468
  • Nayan                  +72        1134
  • Abhi                      +67        1945
  • Anagh                   +65        1899
  • Aristo                    +63        1805
  • Kunal                    +45        1363
  • Nolan                   +36        1674

The first ever chess-soccer match was held last Friday.  This event was organized and paid for by Mulligan Mark Johnson.  We had twenty participates which I broke into 2 teams.  There was Walker’s “Cheese Box” and Luke’s “Cheese Ball”.  It was a 5 round format where each chess game was worth 1 point (draws did not count) and each soccer goal was worth one point.

round 1 – 10 minute chess game     – Ball wins 5-4   Running total:  Box 4    Ball 5

round 2 – 3o minute soccer game   – Tied 2-2          Running total:  Box 6    Ball 7

round 3 – 10 minute chess game     – Ball wins 6-3   Running total:  Box 9    Ball 13

round 4 – 30 minute soccer game   – Box wins 7-2   Running total:  Box 16 Ball 16

round 5 – 5 minute chess game       – Box wins 6-3   Running total:  Box 22 Ball 18

As you can see, it was a very close and tense competition.  After three rounds Luke’s Cheese Ball felt like it was in the bag, with an relatively easy commanding lead.  However, under much verbal support from their team team leader, Walker’s Cheese Box made a huge comeback.

The kids had a thrilling time.   We will have to do this again sometime..

 

Check out this interesting game and commentary.  Jovana is playing former woman’s world champion Antoaneta Stefanova, a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women’s World Chess Champion. She became the tenth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE.

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• Whatitbelike was the last of 18 teams standing in the U-1400 section of the International 4545 League!
• Congratulations to team members:
  • Emily
  • Vincent
  • Cody
  • Daniel
  • Jacob
• They did not lose a single match, throughout the whole season.  They won their division with 3 match wins and 3 match draws and 0 match loses and then went on to win both of their playoff matches.
• Each player will receive a free 2 month extension to their ICC account as a prize.