Peninsula Chess: April 2016

The April 2016 Peninsula Chess league tournament was held on Friday, April 15th. This was a 3-round event, time control G/15; d3 for the USCF sections, and G/18 for the unrated sections. The tournament was run as an individual swiss tournament with 6 sections (3 USCF-rated, 3 unrated). 83 kids from 26 different schools participated.

Here is the USCF Rating Report.

Winning teams:

1st place, Super Team (6 players): Brittan Acres

1st Place, Large Team (5 players): Fox

1st Place, Standard Team (4 players): Brewer Island

1st Place, Small Team (3 players); Bayside

1st Place, Mini Team (2 players): Peninsula Liberty Academy

This is Brittan Acres' 3rd Super Team title out of the 6 times we've held the event in this format. Fox and Brittan Acres are the only teams to win any title in all 6 events. Brewer Island is right behind them with 4 titles. This was the first time winning for Bayside and Peninsula Liberty Academy.

Players with perfect 3.0 scores: Brandon Kwan (Brittan Acres), Cade Miller (Brittan Acres), Luke Schumacher (Brittan Acres), Tristan Liu (Bayside), Ethan Cartagena (PLA), Caden Cartagena (PLA), Zion Abraham (Bowditch), and Calvin Baxter (Baywood).

Here are the final team standings (winners in bold):

Team Size 6 Standings

School	Points
Brittan Acres	478
Fox	386
Brewer Island	324

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Brittan Acres	Brandon Kwan	Section 4	3.0	90
Brittan Acres	Jason Kothari	Section 3	2.5	85
Brittan Acres	Collin Liou	Section 1	2.0	84
Brittan Acres	Cade Miller	Section 5	3.0	78
Brittan Acres	Luke Schumacher	Section 5	3.0	78
Brittan Acres	Alexander Cottrell	Section 1	1.5	63
Brittan Acres	Allison Wang	Section 5	2.0	52
Brittan Acres	Ariane Yedidia	Section 2	1.0	38
Brittan Acres	Zachary Tyson	Section 2	1.0	38
Brittan Acres	Jacob Wallace	Section 6	1.0	22

Team Size 5 Standings

School	Points
Brittan Acres	415
Fox	344
Brewer Island	290
Foster City Elementary	184
West Hillsborough	156

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Fox	Jared Gong	Section 2	2.5	95
Fox	Ethan Li	Section 3	2.5	85
Fox	Mikael Cheng	Section 2	2.0	76
Fox	Ryan Lee	Section 6	2.0	44
Fox	Erick Cheng	Section 6	2.0	44
Fox	Evan Leong	Section 1	1.0	42
Fox	Skyler Peterson	Section 1	1.0	42
Fox	Jason Nguyen	Section 5	1.5	39
Fox	Jacob Yuryev	Section 2	1.0	38
Fox	Erik Leong	Section 3	1.0	34
Fox	Kara Kim	Section 5	1.0	26

Team Size 4 Standings

School	Points
Brittan Acres	337
Fox	300
Brewer Island	248
Foster City Elementary	184
Ralston Middle	179
Nesbit	154
West Hillsborough	134

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Brewer Island	Vishal Dandamudi	Section 3	2.0	68
Brewer Island	Arin Magesh	Section 4	2.0	60
Brewer Island	Arush Bisht	Section 4	2.0	60
Brewer Island	Sumedha Chikkerur	Section 4	2.0	60
Brewer Island	Abhijith Aravind	Section 1	1.0	42
Brewer Island	Trisha Sabadra	Section 3	1.0	34
Brewer Island	Akshay Anandh	Section 4	1.0	30
Brewer Island	Shrisha Dandamudi	Section 5	1.0	26
Brewer Island	Akshita Bisht	Section 5	1.0	26
Brewer Island	Neeharika Kumar	Section 6	1.0	22
Brewer Island	Prakruthi Radhakrishan	Section 6	1.0	22
Brewer Island	Kunal Kapoor	Section 6	0.5	11

Team Size 3 Standings

School	Points
Brittan Acres	259
Fox	256
Bayside	232
Brewer Island	188
Bowditch Middle	166
Foster City Elementary	162
Ralston Middle	160
Nesbit	133
West Hillsborough	112

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Bayside	Tristan Liu	Section 2	3.0	114
Bayside	Rohan Kumar	Section 1	2.0	84
Bayside	Sejong Williamson	Section 3	1.0	34

Team Size 2 Standings

School	Points
Bayside	198
Peninsula Liberty Academy	192
Fox	180
Brittan Acres	175
Tierra Linda	139
Bowditch Middle	136
Foster City Elementary	136
Brewer Island	128
College Park	128
Ralston Middle	122
Woodland	118
Central Middle	118
Baywood	110
Nesbit	99
Kids Connection	98
West Hillsborough	90
Cipriani	65
SCCLC	30

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Peninsula Liberty Academy	Ethan Cartagena	Section 1	3.0	126
Peninsula Liberty Academy	Caden Cartagena	Section 6	3.0	66

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Tierra Linda	Rita Kravtchenko	Section 2	2.0	76
Tierra Linda	Adam Zweiger	Section 1	1.5	63

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Laurel	Elliott Regan	Section 1	2.5	105

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Central Middle	Keenan Liou	Section 1	2.0	84
Central Middle	Akash Devalcheruvu	Section 3	1.0	34

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Ralston Middle	Nathan Gong	Section 1	2.0	84
Ralston Middle	Darren Yao	Section 2	1.0	38
Ralston Middle	Isaac Braunstein	Section 2	1.0	38
Ralston Middle	Aidan Li	Section 2	0.5	19

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Nesbit	Whitman Bozarth-Greteman	Section 6	2.5	55
Nesbit	Kian Baheri	Section 6	2.0	44
Nesbit	Tobias Sin	Section 3	1.0	34
Nesbit	Raj Keswani	Section 1	0.5	21

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Terman	Michael Xu	Section 1	0.0	0

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Woodland	Nathan Bederov	Section 2	2.0	76
Woodland	Adam Bederov	Section 1	1.0	42

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
SCCLC	Maya Devalcheruvu	Section 4	1.0	30
SCCLC	Isaia Tuimavave	Section 2	0.0	0

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Kids Connection	Anish Dara	Section 2	2.0	76
Kids Connection	Anika Dara	Section 6	1.0	22

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
College Park	Ayman Ahmed Khan	Section 2	2.0	76
College Park	Aaron Chun	Section 5	2.0	52

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Belmont Oaks	Vian Yang	Section 3	2.0	68

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Bowditch Middle	Zion Abraham	Section 3	3.0	102
Bowditch Middle	Kritvi Kapoor	Section 3	1.0	34
Bowditch Middle	Parth Khanna	Section 4	1.0	30

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Foster City Elementary	Zayne Abraham	Section 3	2.0	68
Foster City Elementary	Pranav Kamisetty	Section 3	2.0	68
Foster City Elementary	Mahitha Ballijepalli	Section 5	1.0	26
Foster City Elementary	Aravind Acharya	Section 6	1.0	22
Foster City Elementary	Shricharan Sriram	Section 6	0.0	0

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Nueva	Xander Yang	Section 3	1.0	34

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Crocker Middle	Uma Labouisse	Section 3	0.0	0

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Heather	Aditya Garg	Section 3	2.0	68

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Sandpiper	Ishaan Aradhye	Section 3	2.0	68

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
West Hillsborough	Zackary Tuzar	Section 4	2.0	60
West Hillsborough	Nick Kitahata	Section 4	1.0	30
West Hillsborough	Dane Tuzar	Section 6	1.0	22
West Hillsborough	Kai Labouisse	Section 6	1.0	22
West Hillsborough	Evan Panchula	Section 6	1.0	22

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Cipriani	Anders Kostrub	Section 5	2.0	52
Cipriani	Rhodes Kostrub	Section 5	0.5	13

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Central Elementary	Everett Keninger	Section 6	2.0	44

School	Name	Section	Score	Points
Baywood	Calvin Baxter	Section 6	3.0	66
Baywood	Camden Baxter	Section 6	2.0	44

Individual results:

Section 1 (USCF-rated 832 - 1254)

Place	Name	Rating	Grade	School	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Total	TB(H)	TB(S)	TB(C)	TB(CO)	NW	NB
1	Ethan Cartagena	1254 P20	7	Peninsula Liberty Academy	W13	W4	W3	3.0	0.0	4.5	6.0	9.5	2	1
2	Elliott Regan	1020	4	Laurel	D7	W10	W8	2.5	0.0	4.0	4.5	9.0	2	1
3	Collin Liou	1126	4	Brittan Acres	W5	W6	L1	2.0	2.0	7.0	5.0	13.0	1	2
4	Keenan Liou	1115	6	Central Middle	W11	L1	W7	2.0	0.0	5.5	4.0	10.5	1	2
5	Rohan Kumar	920	6	Bayside	L3	W11	W9	2.0	-1.0	4.0	3.0	9.0	2	1
6	Nathan Gong	1098	7	Ralston Middle	X14	L3	W12	2.0	-1.0	3.0	4.0	7.0	1	1
7	Alexander Cottrell	832	5	Brittan Acres	D2	W13	L4	1.5	0.0	5.0	3.5	9.0	2	1
8	Adam Zweiger	1185	5	Tierra Linda	D10	W9	L2	1.5	0.0	4.5	3.5	9.5	1	2
9	Abhijith Aravind	974 P9	4	Brewer Island	W12	L8	L5	1.0	1.0	4.5	3.0	8.5	1	2
10	Evan Leong	945	4	Fox	D8	L2	D13	1.0	0.0	4.5	2.0	8.5	2	1
11	Skyler Peterson	915 P10	3	Fox	L4	L5	B-	1.0	0.0	4.0	1.0	7.0	1	1
12	Adam Bederov	816	7	Woodland	L9	B-	L6	1.0	-1.0	3.0	2.0	7.0	1	1
13	Raj Keswani	968	3	Nesbit	L1	L7	D10	0.5	0.0	5.5	0.5	11.5	1	2
14	Michael Xu	873 P5	7	Terman	F6	U-	U-	0.0	0.0	2.0	0.0	4.0	0	0

Section 2 (USCF-rated 540 - 790)

Place	Name	Rating	Grade	School	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Total	TB(H)	TB(S)	TB(C)	TB(CO)	NW	NB
1	Tristan Liu	654 P19	6	Bayside	W5	W10	W4	3.0	0.0	5.0	6.0	11.0	2	1
2	Jared Gong	540	4	Fox	D13	W14	W3	2.5	0.0	2.5	4.5	6.5	1	2
3	Ayman Ahmed Khan	600 P0	5	College Park	W8	W7	L2	2.0	1.0	5.5	5.0	10.5	2	1
4	Anish Dara	744 P24	3	Kids Connection	W9	W11	L1	2.0	0.0	5.0	5.0	10.0	1	2
5	Rita Kravtchenko	790 P15	6	Tierra Linda	L1	W13	W10	2.0	0.0	4.5	3.0	10.5	1	2
6	Nathan Bederov	786	2	Woodland	L11	W9	W8	2.0	0.0	3.0	3.0	6.0	2	1
7	Mikael Cheng	676	5	Fox	W12	L3	W13	2.0	-1.0	3.5	4.0	7.5	2	1
8	Jacob Yuryev	743	4	Fox	L3	W12	L6	1.0	1.0	5.0	2.0	9.0	1	2
9	Darren Yao	615 P17	7	Ralston Middle	L4	L6	W11	1.0	1.0	5.0	1.0	11.0	1	2
10	Ariane Yedidia	747	4	Brittan Acres	W14	L1	L5	1.0	0.0	5.0	3.0	9.0	2	1
11	Zachary Tyson	646	4	Brittan Acres	W6	L4	L9	1.0	-1.0	5.0	3.0	9.0	2	1
12	Isaac Braunstein	574	8	Ralston Middle	L7	L8	W14	1.0	-1.0	3.0	1.0	6.0	1	2
13	Aidan Li	725	6	Ralston Middle	D2	L5	L7	0.5	0.0	6.5	1.5	11.5	1	2
14	Isaia Tuimavave	645	5	SCCLC	L10	L2	L12	0.0	0.0	4.5	0.0	8.5	2	1

Section 3 (USCF-rated 100 - 543)

Place	Name	Rating	Grade	School	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Total	TB(H)	TB(S)	TB(C)	TB(CO)	NW	NB
1	Zion Abraham	469	7	Bowditch Middle	W13	W10	W4	3.0	0.0	4.0	6.0	10.0	2	1
2	Jason Kothari	543 P3	1	Brittan Acres	W11	W12	D3	2.5	0.0	4.5	5.5	10.5	1	2
3	Ethan Li	370	4	Fox	W17	W14	D2	2.5	0.0	3.5	5.5	8.5	2	1
4	Ishaan Aradhye	281 P17	2	Sandpiper	W8	W7	L1	2.0	2.0	7.0	5.0	13.0	1	2
5	Vian Yang	547 P14	2	Belmont Oaks	L12	W6	W11	2.0	1.0	4.0	3.0	9.0	2	1
6	Vishal Dandamudi	100 P0	4	Brewer Island	W9	L5	W10	2.0	0.0	5.0	4.0	9.0	2	1
7	Zayne Abraham	383	4	Foster City Elementary	W15	L4	W13	2.0	-1.0	4.0	4.0	8.0	2	1
8	Pranav Kamisetty	519	2	Foster City Elementary	L4	W15	W12	2.0	-1.0	4.0	3.0	9.0	1	2
9	Aditya Garg	345 P5	3	Heather	L6	W17	W14	2.0	-1.0	3.0	3.0	7.0	1	2
10	Xander Yang	362 P4	5	Nueva	W16	L1	L6	1.0	1.0	6.0	3.0	11.0	1	2
11	Trisha Sabadra	288 P24	3	Brewer Island	L2	W16	L5	1.0	1.0	5.5	2.0	9.5	2	1
12	Kritvi Kapoor	322 P14	6	Bowditch Middle	W5	L2	L8	1.0	0.0	6.5	3.0	11.5	1	2
13	Tobias Sin	219 P17	3	Nesbit	L1	B-	L7	1.0	0.0	5.0	2.0	10.0	1	1
14	Sejong Williamson	115 P3	6	Bayside	B-	L3	L9	1.0	0.0	4.5	3.0	8.5	1	1
15	Erik Leong	122 P15	1	Fox	L7	L8	W17	1.0	0.0	4.0	1.0	7.0	2	1
16	Akash Devalcheruvu	100 P0	5	Central Middle	L10	L11	B-	1.0	-2.0	2.0	1.0	5.0	1	1
17	Uma Labouisse	101 P6	7	Crocker Middle	L3	L9	L15	0.0	0.0	5.5	0.0	9.5	1	2

Section 4 (unrated intermediate)

Place	Name	Grade	School	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Total	TB(H)	TB(S)	TB(C)	TB(CO)	NW	NB
1	Brandon Kwan	4	Brittan Acres	W9	W6	W2	3.0	0.0	4.0	6.0	10.0	2	1
2	Zackary Tuzar	5	West Hillsborough	W5	W4	L1	2.0	2.0	7.0	5.0	13.0	2	1
3	Arin Magesh	4	Brewer Island	B-	L8	B-	2.0	0.0	1.0	4.0	2.0	0	1
4	Arush Bisht	4	Brewer Island	W7	L2	W8	2.0	-1.0	4.0	4.0	8.0	1	2
5	Sumedha Chikkerur	4	Brewer Island	L2	W7	W6	2.0	-1.0	4.0	3.0	9.0	1	2
6	Parth Khanna	6	Bowditch Middle	W8	L1	L5	1.0	1.0	6.0	3.0	11.0	2	1
7	Maya Devalcheruvu	7	SCCLC	L4	L5	W9	1.0	1.0	5.0	1.0	9.0	1	2
8	Nick Kitahata	5	West Hillsborough	L6	W3	L4	1.0	-1.0	5.0	2.0	11.0	2	1
9	Akshay Anandh	4	Brewer Island	L1	B-	L7	1.0	-1.0	4.0	2.0	7.0	1	1

Section 5 (unrated 3rd - 5th grade beginners)

Place	Name	Grade	School	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Total	TB(H)	TB(S)	TB(C)	TB(CO)	NW	NB
1	Cade Miller	3	Brittan Acres	W9	W7	W3	3.0	0.0	4.0	6.0	9.5	1	2
2	Luke Schumacher	2	Brittan Acres	B-	W4	W8	3.0	0.0	3.0	6.0	6.0	1	1
3	Aaron Chun	3	College Park	W8	W5	L1	2.0	1.0	6.0	5.0	12.0	2	1
4	Anders Kostrub	5	Cipriani	W6	L2	W10	2.0	0.0	5.5	4.0	10.0	2	1
5	Allison Wang	4	Brittan Acres	W10	L3	W7	2.0	-1.0	4.0	4.0	10.0	2	1
6	Jason Nguyen	3	Fox	L4	D9	B-	1.5	0.0	3.0	2.0	5.5	1	1
7	Shrisha Dandamudi	2	Brewer Island	W11	L1	L5	1.0	0.0	5.5	3.0	10.5	1	2
8	Kara Kim	3	Fox	L3	W11	L2	1.0	0.0	5.5	2.0	11.5	1	2
9	Akshita Bisht	3	Brewer Island	L1	D6	D11	1.0	0.0	5.0	1.5	8.5	1	2
10	Mahitha Ballijepalli	4	Foster City Elementary	L5	B-	L4	1.0	0.0	4.0	2.0	8.0	1	1
11	Rhodes Kostrub	3	Cipriani	L7	L8	D9	0.5	0.0	3.0	0.5	6.5	2	1

Section 6 (unrated K - 2nd grade beginners)

Place	Name	Grade	School	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Total	TB(H)	TB(S)	TB(C)	TB(CO)	NW	NB
1	Caden Cartagena	2	Peninsula Liberty Academy	W14	W6	W4	3.0	0.0	5.0	6.0	11.0	2	1
2	Calvin Baxter	2	Baywood	W13	W12	W5	3.0	0.0	4.0	6.0	8.0	1	2
3	Whitman Bozarth-Greteman	2	Nesbit	D12	W17	W9	2.5	0.0	2.5	4.5	5.5	1	2
4	Ryan Lee	1	Fox	W7	W8	L1	2.0	2.0	7.0	5.0	13.0	1	2
5	Erick Cheng	2	Fox	W11	W10	L2	2.0	0.0	5.0	5.0	11.0	1	2
6	Everett Keninger	1	Central Elementary	W9	L1	W14	2.0	0.0	5.0	4.0	10.0	2	1
7	Camden Baxter	2	Baywood	L4	W13	W10	2.0	-1.0	4.0	3.0	9.0	1	2
8	Kian Baheri	2	Nesbit	X18	L4	W11	2.0	-1.0	3.0	4.0	7.0	1	1
9	Neeharika Kumar	2	Brewer Island	L6	W15	L3	1.0	1.0	5.5	2.0	10.5	2	1
10	Dane Tuzar	2	West Hillsborough	W16	L5	L7	1.0	1.0	5.0	3.0	9.0	2	1
11	Kai Labouisse	2	West Hillsborough	L5	W16	L8	1.0	1.0	5.0	2.0	10.0	1	2
12	Prakruthi Radhakrishan	K	Brewer Island	D3	L2	D15	1.0	0.0	6.5	2.0	12.5	1	2
13	Jacob Wallace	2	Brittan Acres	L2	L7	W17	1.0	0.0	5.5	1.0	10.5	2	1
14	Evan Panchula	2	West Hillsborough	L1	B-	L6	1.0	0.0	5.0	2.0	10.0	1	1
15	Aravind Acharya	1	Foster City Elementary	D17	L9	D12	1.0	-1.0	2.5	2.0	5.5	2	1
16	Anika Dara	K	Kids Connection	L10	L11	B-	1.0	-2.0	2.0	1.0	5.0	1	1
17	Kunal Kapoor	K	Brewer Island	D15	L3	L13	0.5	0.0	4.5	1.5	7.5	2	1
18	Shricharan Sriram	2	Foster City Elementary	F8	U-	U-	0.0	0.0	2.0	0.0	4.0	0	0

Peninsula Chess

Sunday, April 17, 2016

April 2016 PCL Results

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Peninsula Chess April Blitz Results

Place	Name	Rating	Grade	School	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Total	TB(H)	TB(S)	TB(C)	TB(CO)	NW	NB
1	Elliott Regan	841 P20	4	Laurel	W7	W15	L5	W8	W2	4.0	1.0	13.0	12.0	45.0	2	3
2	Adam Zweiger	1185 P0	5	Tierra Linda	W4	W9	W3	W5	L1	4.0	0.0	16.5	14.0	52.0	3	2
3	Jared Gong	849	4	Fox	W8	W12	L2	W6	W5	4.0	-1.0	14.0	12.0	49.0	3	2
4	Darren Yao	615 P0	7	Ralston Middle	L2	D14	W15	W9	W10	3.5	0.0	10.5	8.0	35.0	3	2
5	Nathan Gong	940 P25	7	Ralston Middle	W11	W6	W1	L2	L3	3.0	1.0	17.0	12.0	50.0	2	3
6	Adam Bederov	698 P15	7	Woodland	W16	L5	W7	L3	W8	3.0	0.0	13.0	9.0	41.0	2	3
7	Nathan Bederov	488 P14	2	Woodland	L1	W10	L6	W13	W12	3.0	-1.0	13.0	7.0	38.0	3	2
8	Pranav Kamisetty	519 P0	2	Foster City Elementary	L3	W11	W13	L1	L6	2.0	2.0	15.0	7.0	41.0	2	3
9	Alexander Mueller	347 P0	2	Addison	W13	L2	W12	L4	L11	2.0	1.0	13.5	8.0	37.0	2	3
10	Rita Kravtchenko	729 P0	6	Tierra Linda	L15	L7	W14	W16	L4	2.0	0.0	10.0	5.0	26.0	2	3
11	Caspar Li	unrated	4	College Park	L5	L8	L16	W14	W9	2.0	0.0	9.5	3.0	33.0	3	2
12	Jacob Yuryev	696 P19	4	Fox	W14	L3	L9	W15	L7	2.0	-1.0	11.5	7.0	35.0	3	2
13	Anish Dara	744 P0	3	Kids Connection	L9	W16	L8	L7	W15	2.0	-2.0	9.0	5.0	30.0	3	2
14	Mikael Cheng	127 P10	5	Fox	L12	D4	L10	L11	W16	1.5	0.0	10.5	3.0	26.0	3	2
15	Skyler Peterson	253 P4	3	Fox	W10	L1	L4	L12	L13	1.0	0.0	13.5	5.0	37.0	2	3
16	Vian Yang	547 P0	2	Belmont Oaks	L6	L13	W11	L10	L14	1.0	0.0	10.5	3.0	25.0	2	3