Welcome to the CCL Chess School!

chess lessons, for players of all strengths and ages

THE CCL CHESS SCHOOL
Private Chess Lessons … with group activities
… for students of all ages and strengths
Alan Casden – CEO – (614) 561-2718
Facebook = https://www.facebook.com/cclchess

CCL USCF rated online chess tournaments

Tournaments are run from 1:45 to around 6:30 on Saturdays.

G/25 d/3 USCF rated online quick only

5 round swiss system pairings, everyone plays all 5 rounds

They are free and a lot of fun!

Dates:

6/13
6/20
6/27
7/11
7/25
8/8
8/22

2020 Queen City Classic

CCL cleans up at the Queen City Classic

- Aryan Balyan wins the tournament (K-12) for the 2nd year in a row while the team comes in 1st place.

- Jack Hamilton wins the 4-6 section while the team comes in 1st place.

- Evan Fan wins the K-3 section while the CCL team comes in 1st place.

Despite a small turnout by CCL, we took control at the 2020 Queen City Classic

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K-12 team

(l-r) Matt Wang, Aryan Balyan, Siddarth Kunapuli

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4-6 team

(l-r) James Scarbrough, Colin Park, Jashwin Pisini, Jack Hamilton, Abhinav Pullabhotla

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K-3 team

(l-r) Evan Fan, Aryan Kondekar, Patrick Counts

Some Holiday Results

National Grade Levels

Elton Grade Levels

Elton came in clear 1st place in the 10th grade section of the 2019 National Grade Level Championships.  This has been an amazing year for Elton, adding to this result, he won the State of Ohio (adult) Championship and the National Junior U-15 Championship.

Top CCL results include:
11th grade - Vincent Baker tied for 5th
11th grade - Aristo Liu tied for 5th
10th grade - Elton Cao clear 1st place
6th grade - Rohan Padhye tied for 6th
6th grade - Edison Liu tied for 31st
4th grade - Siddarth Kunapuli tied for 16th
1st grade - Evan Fan tied for 36th

Cleveland Holiday Open

Mason Cleveland

Mason Wu finished in clear 1st place in the U-1200 section of the 2019 Cleveland Holiday Open.  He won $500 for his efforts.

CCL wins most of the grades at the 2019 Ohio Grade Level Championships

For a very long time we have won most of the grades at the Ohio Grade Levels.  This year was not an exception, with CCL  winning 7 of the grades.  It was an exciting event with many ups and downs.  The grade levels were at a nice facility this year and we had a great CCL room.  Although we had many top 5 finishes, I am only going to list our Grade Level Champions below. Complete results are at https://www.chesscincinnati.com/wp-content/uploads/Grade-Level-Individual-and-Team-Standings.pdf.

Grade 1 -Evan Fan; co-champion
Grade 4 - Siddarth Kunapuli; sole champion
Grade 5 - Brody Broderick; sole champion
Grade 7 - Dae San Kim; sole champion
Grade 8 - Michael Lin; co-champion
Grade 8 - Varun Sathyajeeth; co-champion
Grade 10 - Aryan Balyan; sole champion
Grade 11 - Vincent Baker; sole champion

Some pictures from the event are in the slideshow below.