2017 Fox School Scholastic Chess Tournament Results

The 14th annual Fox School Scholastic Chess Tournament was held on Sunday March 19th.  We had a turnout of 138 players.  The results are listed below.

This year the 6th-8th grade section was USCF Quick-Rated.  Here is the USCF rating report (note that the rating report link is not in tie-break order, so cannot be used to determine place prizes).

The top 8 in each section were awarded trophies.  There was also a trophy to the top player rated under 800 in the 6th-8th grade section (won by Andrew Cheng).

K-1

#	Name	Rtng	Team	Grd	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Tot	TBrk[M]	TBrk[S]	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]
1	Manikanden, Krish	584	NRTHSH	1	W8	W3	W6	W2	W4	5.0	14.5	17.5	15	54.5
2	Korn, Noah	10	BAYW	1	W24	W14	W7	L1	W11	4.0	12.5	14.5	13	44.5
3	Kistenmacher, Henri	10	HEAT	1	W13	L1	W15	W14	W7	4.0	12.5	14.5	11	46.5
4	Sargeant, Graham	10	FOX	1	W20	W10	D11	W6	L1	3.5	13	14.5	12.5	46
5	Sargeant, Connor	5	FOX	K	L14	B---	W20	D9	W12	3.5	9	9	8	29.5
6	Park, Grant	147	HEAT	1	W21	W9	L1	L4	W14	3.0	13.5	15	10	50
7	Fowler, Michael	342	CENTRL	K	W22	W12	L2	W11	L3	3.0	13	14	11	44.5
8	Pazdera, Julien	10	HEAT	1	L1	W19	D17	W13	D9	3.0	12.5	14.5	8	42.5
9	Slater, Toby	10	HEAT	1	W23	L6	W21	D5	D8	3.0	10.5	11	9.5	33
10	Nierenberg, Elsie	5	ARUN	K	B---	L4	L14	W23	W15	3.0	8	8	7	28.5
11	Burton, Cooper	515	HEAT	1	W15	W17	D4	L7	L2	2.5	8.5	14.5	10.5	49.5
12	Kumar, Sanvi	5	NESBIT	K	W16	L7	D13	W17	L5	2.5	7.5	12.5	8.5	38
13	Thomas, Joanna	5	FOST	K	L3	W22	D12	L8	W21	2.5	7	12	6.5	34
14	Fomin, Sofia	10	HEAT	1	W5	L2	W10	L3	L6	2.0	12.5	16.5	8	49
15	Pelevina, Anastasiia	10	FOX	1	L11	W18	L3	W16	L10	2.0	9	13	6	38.5
16	Nishikawa, Darin	5	FOX	K	L12	D20	W19	L15	D18	2.0	7.5	10	5.5	27
17	Yip, Andrew	10	FOX	1	W18	L11	D8	L12	H---	2.0	7	10	6.5	31.5
18	Edwards, Ausra	5	ARUN	K	L17	L15	W22	D21	D16	2.0	6.5	8.5	4.5	25
19	Joe, Audrey	10	BAYW	1	H---	L8	L16	D20	W23	2.0	4	7	4	19
20	Eriksson, Molly	5	HEAT	K	L4	D16	L5	D19	D22	1.5	8	11.5	3.5	32
21	Acharya, Ananya	5	FOST	K	L6	W23	L9	D18	L13	1.5	8	11	5	32.5
22	Proekt, Joseph	5	HEAT	K	L7	L13	L18	B---	D20	1.5	6	9	1.5	25.5
23	Jia, Natalie	5	FOST	K	L9	L21	B---	L10	L19	1.0	6	9	2	26
24	Proekt, Nora	5	HEAT	K	L2	U---	U---	U---	U---	0.0	0	4	0	13

Grade 2

#	Name	Rtng	Team	Grd	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Tot	TBrk[M]	TBrk[S]	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]
1	Cheung, Jaden	746	HIGHL	1	W11	W25	W2	W5	W7	5.0	13	14	15	47
2	Lee, Ryan	460	FOX	2	W3	W19	L1	W18	W9	4.0	14	16	12	49
3	Acharya, Aravind	20	FOST	2	L2	W24	W10	W8	W6	4.0	13	14	10	39.5
4	Roodman, Aryn	20	SANC	2	W24	W8	W13	L6	W5	4.0	11.5	12.5	13	42.5
5	Gurskis, Aeron	20	CENTRL	2	W26	W6	W7	L1	L4	3.0	15	15.5	12	52
6	Keninger, Everett	621	CENTRL	2	W10	L5	W15	W4	L3	3.0	14	16.5	10	49.5
7	Edwards, Baron	468	ARUN	2	W18	W9	L5	W12	L1	3.0	14	16	11	52
8	Vemulapalli, Raghav	271	FOST	2	W23	L4	W11	L3	W13	3.0	13.5	15	9	43.5
9	Kacholiya, Maya	20	HEAT	2	W14	L7	W20	W15	L2	3.0	12	14	10	44.5
10	Zhang, Hamilton	20	HIGHL	2	L6	W23	L3	W21	W14	3.0	11.5	13	7	36.5
11	Roodman, Caleb	20	SANC	2	L1	W27	L8	W25	W18	3.0	11	11.5	7	37
12	Chaparala, Nishant	20	BREWI	2	L13	W22	W25	L7	W19	3.0	9.5	10.5	8	37
13	Leong, Erik	484	FOX	2	W12	W20	L4	D14	L8	2.5	8.5	14.5	10	44
14	Kodige, Vevaan	293	BRITT	2	L9	W16	W26	D13	L10	2.5	8	11.5	8	36.5
15	Minton, Aaron	20	BRITT	2	H---	W21	L6	L9	W23	2.5	6.5	9.5	7	28.5
16	Thirunagari, Vidhu	20	SANDP	2	D21	L14	D23	W22	D17	2.5	6	10	6.5	25
17	Gurskis, Orion	20	CENTRL	2	L19	L18	B---	W20	D16	2.5	6	8.5	4.5	26.5
18	Strechlow, Grant	20	FOX	2	L7	W17	W19	L2	L11	2.0	10	14	7	41.5
19	Eriksson, Henry	20	HEAT	2	W17	L2	L18	W26	L12	2.0	7.5	11.5	7	34.5
20	Boonyapornnad, Mak	20	FOX	2	W22	L13	L9	L17	W26	2.0	7	10	6	31.5
21	Jenks, Kian	20	ARUN	2	D16	L15	D24	L10	W27	2.0	6.5	9.5	5	23.5
22	Manrao, Colby	20	ARUN	2	L20	L12	W27	L16	W25	2.0	6	9	4	26.5
23	Wong, Justin	20	FOX	2	L8	L10	D16	W24	L15	1.5	9	12	3.5	31.5
24	Bunin, Zachary	20	FOX	2	L4	L3	D21	L23	B---	1.5	7.5	11.5	1.5	31.5
25	Kumer, Delaney	199	HEAT	2	W27	L1	L12	L11	L22	1.0	8.5	13.5	5	35
26	Huang, Kalissa	20	HEAT	2	L5	B---	L14	L19	L20	1.0	6.5	9.5	3	33
27	McDow, Nicholas	20	OCEAN	2	L25	L11	L22	B---	L21	1.0	5	8	1	21

Grade 3

#	Name	Rtng	Team	Grd	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Tot	TBrk[M]	TBrk[S]	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]
1	Cartagena, Caden	762	PENIN	3	W25	W9	W6	W16	W3	5.0	12	13	15	45
2	Yao, Trevor	808	CPARK	3	W7	W4	W15	L3	W10	4.0	14	17	13	52
3	Aradhye, Ishaan	805	CIPRI	3	W19	W12	W16	W2	L1	4.0	14	16	14	50
4	Kamisetty, Pranav	370	FOST	3	W18	L2	W17	W7	W11	4.0	12	14	11	44
5	Baxter, Camden	100	BAYW	3	W21	L15	D23	W24	W8	3.5	9	10.5	9.5	37
6	Yuan, Jason	422	NRTHSA	3	W20	W8	L1	L11	W17	3.0	13	14.5	10	46
7	Li, Arthur	30	BRITT	3	L2	W20	W12	L4	W16	3.0	13	14.5	8	44
8	Chua, Dylan	30	CPARK	3	W10	L6	W9	W13	L5	3.0	12.5	15	10	42.5
9	Baxter, Calvin	124	BAYW	3	W22	L1	L8	W20	W21	3.0	11	12.5	8	36
10	Shao, Bohan	316	SEREND	3	L8	W26	W19	W17	L2	3.0	11	11.5	9	38
11	Kumar, Neeharika	124	BREWI	3	L23	W18	W25	W6	L4	3.0	10.5	11.5	9	36.5
12	Pazdera, Aidan	248	HEAT	3	W27	L3	L7	W23	W18	3.0	10.5	11.5	8	34.5
13	Harris, Vivian	167	HEAT	3	L17	D14	W21	L8	W24	2.5	6	10.5	6	34.5
14	Labouisse, Kai	30	WEST	3	L16	D13	L24	W22	W23	2.5	5	9	5	30
15	Yang, Vian	628	BOAKS	3	W26	W5	L2	H---	U---	2.5	4	8	9.5	23.5
16	Burton, Olive	515	HEAT	3	W14	W23	L3	L1	L7	2.0	11	16	9	48.5
17	Shi, Alexander	30	CENTRL	3	W13	W24	L4	L10	L6	2.0	10	14	9	41.5
18	Baheri, Kian	30	NESBIT	3	L4	L11	W26	W19	L12	2.0	8.5	12.5	5	34
19	Mendez, Marina	30	HEAT	3	L3	W27	L10	L18	W25	2.0	7	11	5	33
20	Stephanos, Kayla	30	CENTRL	3	L6	L7	W27	L9	B---	2.0	7	10	3	27
21	Tuzar, Dane	30	WEST	3	L5	B---	L13	W25	L9	2.0	6.5	10	5	27.5
22	Fomin, Anastacia	30	HEAT	3	L9	L25	B---	L14	W26	2.0	4	7	3	18
23	Slater, Benjamin	30	HEAT	3	W11	L16	D5	L12	L14	1.5	10.5	14	6.5	40.5
24	Stiefel, Grace	30	HEAT	3	H---	L17	W14	L5	L13	1.5	7	10.5	5	29.5
25	Moretti, Lucas	30	BRITT	3	L1	W22	L11	L21	L19	1.0	8	13	4	37
26	Huang, Katrina	30	HEAT	3	L15	L10	L18	B---	L22	1.0	6.5	9.5	1	27
27	Parihar, Aarav	30	SEREND	3	L12	L19	L20	H---	U---	0.5	3.5	6.5	0.5	16

Grade 4

#	Name	Rtng	Team	Grd	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Tot	TBrk[M]	TBrk[S]	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]
1	Sijp, Neel	723	HEAT	4	W11	W10	W5	W3	W4	5.0	10.5	12	15	42
2	Kumar, Manya	40	NESBIT	4	L4	W12	W6	W5	W3	4.0	11.5	12	10	42
3	Johnson, Kyle	40	HEAT	4	B---	W8	W4	L1	L2	3.0	15	15	11	42
4	Kim, Kara	347	FOX	4	W2	W7	L3	W10	L1	3.0	14.5	16.5	11	54
5	Nelson, Christopher	40	FOX	4	W13	W6	L1	L2	W10	3.0	14	14.5	10	44
6	Peterson, Skyler	646	FOX	4	W9	L5	L2	W13	W7	3.0	11.5	12	8	37
7	Nguyen, Jason	40	FOX	4	W8	L4	W9	W12	L6	3.0	10.5	11	10	31
8	Manrao, Andrew	40	ARUN	4	L7	L3	W11	W9	W12	3.0	8.5	9	6	29
9	Tanvir, Ronok	40	CIPRI	4	L6	W11	L7	L8	B---	2.0	7.5	10.5	4	26
10	Yang, Kevin	277	HEAT	4	W12	L1	W13	L4	L5	2.0	7	12	8	41
11	Kostrub, Rhodes	40	CIPRI	4	L1	L9	L8	B---	W13	2.0	5	10	2	28
12	Fazeli-taremi, Dariush	40	FOX	4	L10	L2	B---	L7	L8	1.0	8	12	2	34
13	Clusin, Audrey	40	HEAT	4	L5	B---	L10	L6	L11	1.0	6.5	9.5	3	28
14	Akka, Benton	40	CENTRL	4	U---	U---	U---	U---	U---	0.0	0	0	0	0

Grades 5-8

#	Name	Rtng	Team	Grd	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Tot	TBrk[M]	TBrk[S]	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]
1	Aravind, Abhijith	966	BREWI	5	W14	W5	D3	W2	W7	4.5	13.5	15	13.5	48.5
2	Yedidia, Ariane	924	ARROYO	5	W17	W8	W6	L1	W3	4.0	14	15.5	13	47
3	Narayan, Gabrile	473	HIILV	6	W12	W9	D1	W6	L2	3.5	14.5	16.5	12.5	51.5
4	Li, Ethan	407	FOX	5	L10	W11	D7	W8	W5	3.5	12	14	8.5	43.5
5	Li, Caspar	186	CPARK	5	W19	L1	W9	W13	L4	3.0	13	14	10	40
6	Li, Aidan	530	RALST	7	W15	W10	L2	L3	W11	3.0	12.5	14	10	44
7	Saban, Annie	346	KIDS	5	D11	W18	D4	W12	L1	3.0	12	12.5	10	39.5
8	Chua, Desmond	60	BOWM	6	W13	L2	W16	L4	W12	3.0	11.5	13.5	9	39.5
9	Pyalling, Mikhail	50	TIERRA	5	W16	L3	L5	W14	W13	3.0	10.5	12	8	36.5
10	Tuzar, Zackary	60	WEST	6	W4	L6	L12	W18	W15	3.0	10	10.5	8	33.5
11	Zhang, Derek	50	CENTRL	5	D7	L4	W18	X16	L6	2.5	6.5	10	6.5	32.5
12	Gurskis, Aidan	60	RALST	6	L3	W14	W10	L7	L8	2.0	10.5	14	7	42.5
13	Ginwalla, Samina	375	TIERRA	5	L8	W17	W19	L5	L9	2.0	8.5	11.5	7	32
14	Suits, Derek	126	FOX	5	L1	L12	W17	L9	B---	2.0	6.5	11	3	30.5
15	Shajeeb, Ruba	70	LAWSN	7	L6	L16	B---	W19	L10	2.0	6	9	4	25
16	Yang, Xander	258	NUEVA	6	L9	W15	L8	F11	X19	2.0	4.5	7.5	4	21
17	Presta, Francois	107	BAYW	5	L2	L13	L14	B---	W18	2.0	4	8	2	27
18	McDow, Jonathan	50	OCEAN	5	B---	L7	L11	L10	L17	1.0	6.5	9.5	4	26.5
19	Kang, Noel	50	FOX	5	L5	B---	L13	L15	F16	1.0	3.5	6.5	3	21
20	Knappau, Honukai	274	TIERRA	6	U---	U---	U---	U---	U---	0.0	0	0	0	0

USCF-Rated Section

#	Name	Rtng	Team	Grd	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Tot	TBrk[M]	TBrk[S]	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]
1	Finkelstein, Alan	1202	TIERRA	6	W18	W19	W4	W5	D2	4.5	14.5	16.5	14.5	51.5
2	Cartagena, Ethan	1393	PENIN	8	W28	W9	W3	W8	D1	4.5	14.5	15.5	14.5	52.5
3	Liou, Keenan	1173	CENTRL	7	W13	W14	L2	W20	W9	4.0	13.5	15.5	12	47.5
4	Liu, Tristan	1074	BAYS	7	W22	W15	L1	W19	W8	4.0	12	14	12	49.5
5	Ward, Julian	520	CENTRL	7	D6	W23	W16	L1	W15	3.5	13	15	10.5	46.5
6	Kumar, Rohan	996	BAYS	7	D5	W7	D11	D15	W16	3.5	12.5	15	10	46.5
7	Velicheti, Sri Krishna Sai	1100	BOWD	7	H---	L6	W22	W17	W10	3.5	11	11	8	34.5
8	Liou, Collin	1214	ARROYO	5	W12	W20	W10	L2	L4	3.0	14.5	16.5	12	52.5
9	Leong, Evan	1046	FOX	5	W30	L2	W12	W11	L3	3.0	14.5	15.5	10	46
10	Cottrell, Alexander	1041	CENTRL	6	W27	W21	L8	W14	L7	3.0	11.5	12	11	35.5
11	Lu, Thomas	889	BAYS	7	W25	D16	D6	L9	W22	3.0	11	12.5	9.5	38
12	Cheng, Andrew	697	FOST	4	L8	W27	L9	W21	W20	3.0	10	10.5	7	36
13	Chen, Derek	641	FRANK	3	L3	L17	W27	W25	W19	3.0	10	10.5	6	30.5
14	Kostrub, Anders	891	CIPRI	6	W31	L3	W29	L10	W24	3.0	9.5	10	9	33
15	Gong, Jared	844	FOX	5	W29	L4	W21	D6	L5	2.5	9	13.5	9	41.5
16	Regan, Elliott	1078	LAUREL	5	W24	D11	L5	W23	L6	2.5	8.5	14	9	40
17	Vyas, Pranav	497	FOST	5	L20	W13	W28	L7	D18	2.5	7.5	12	7.5	33
18	Cottrell, Nicholas	754	ARROYO	4	L1	W26	L20	W30	D17	2.5	6.5	12	6.5	36
19	Dara, Anish	904	KIDS	4	W26	L1	W24	L4	L13	2.0	11	15.5	8	41.5
20	Yuryev, Jacob	969	FOX	5	W17	L8	W18	L3	L12	2.0	11	15	8	45
21	Kothari, Jay	599	BRITT	2	W23	L10	L15	L12	W29	2.0	8	11	6	34
22	Tuimavave, Isaia	623	SCCLC	6	L4	W31	L7	W29	L11	2.0	7.5	11.5	6	34
23	Gong, Nathan	1069	RALST	8	L21	L5	W26	L16	W31	2.0	7	10.5	4	29.5
24	Kodige, Samay	629	ARROYO	4	L16	W25	L19	W28	L14	2.0	7	10	6	33
25	Abraham, Zayne	383	FOST	5	L11	L24	B---	L13	W30	2.0	6	9	3	24.5
26	Bobba, Sid	492	FOST	5	L19	L18	L23	W27	W28	2.0	5.5	8	3	22.5
27	Abraham, Zion	567	BOWD	8	L10	L12	L13	L26	B---	1.0	8	11	0	27
28	Agarwal, Avirral	818	RALST	6	L2	W30	L17	L24	L26	1.0	7.5	12	4	34
29	Golomb, David	161	HEAT	2	L15	B---	L14	L22	L21	1.0	6.5	9.5	3	30
30	Golomb, Stanley	577	HEAT	4	L9	L28	W31	L18	L25	1.0	5.5	8.5	3	24.5
31	Itami-wolf, Kenta	412	NOTRE	1	L14	L22	L30	B---	L23	1.0	5	8	1	22

Peninsula Chess League Tournament (2017-2018)

These rules apply to the Peninsula Chess League tournaments in 2017-2018.  This a team-oriented event open to grade K-8 kids who live in the San Francisco Peninsula.

This will be an individual Swiss tournament with 5 sections, but trophies will be awarded based on team performance.

Summary

• Date:  Friday, October 20th (2017), January 19th (2018), April 20th (2018)
• Time:  6:30-9:00pm
• Location:  Belmont Public Library
• Pre-registration is required (http://januarypcl.eventbrite.com/).
• There will be 5 sections:
• USCF advanced section (approx rating 800-1200)
• USCF intermediate section (approx rating 400-800)
• USCF beginner section (approx rated under 400)
• Unrated 4th-8th grade
• Unrated K-3rd grade
• Each section will have about 15-20 players.
• All games in the USCF sections will be USCF Quick-Rated.
• Time control for USCF sections:  G/15; d3 (game in 15 minutes with a 3 second delay)
• Time control for unrated sections:  G/18 (no delay)
• Each player will play 3 games.
• Individual Swiss format, except players are guaranteed not to play against other players from their school.
• Round times:  6:45pm, 7:25pm, 8:15pm.  Trophies:  8:55pm
• Players must play for the school they currently attend, except 5th graders (and below) may play for their elementary school alma mater
• Trophies will mainly be distributed based on team performance.  Limited individual trophies will be available.  See below for details.
• Your team has a better chance of winning trophies if your team has more players, so encourage your classmates to register.
• Players who score a perfect 3.0 in the K-3 unrated section will be asked to play in the 4th-8th grade section in the next tournament.  Players who score a perfect 3.0 in the 4th-8th grade unrated section will be asked to join the USCF for the next tournament.

Team Scoring

Scoring subject to change based on number of sections, but scoring will be something like this for team trophy purposes:

• USCF advanced section:  42 points per win (21 points per draw).  Expected rating range for section:  800 - 1200 (may be modified to balance sections)
• USCF intermediate section:  38 points per win.  Expected rating range for section:  400-800 (may be modified to balance sections)
• USCF beginner section:  34 points per win.  Expected rating range for section:  under 400 (may be modified to balance sections)
• Unrated 4th-8th grade:  28 points per win
• Unrated K-3rd grade:  24 points per win
• USCF members must play in USCF section (exceptions may be made for players rated under 200).
• Non-members may play in unrated sections, or become members to play in USCF rated sections.  Sign up for USCF membership here (memberships start at $17 per year).
• Unrated USCF members will be placed in an appropriate USCF section (TD discretion).
• Rated USCF members may not play below their section, but can optionally play in a higher section even if they are lower-rated.  Exception:  provisionally-rated USCF members may be placed in lower rated section at TD's discretion.
• The latest USCF Quick Ratings will be used for section and pairing purposes.

Trophies

Team scores are based on the combined scores of the top players on that team.  Trophies awarded:

• Best Super team (6 players)
• Best Large team (5 players)
• Best Standard team (4 players)
• Best Small team (3 players)
• Best Mini team (2 players)
• To qualify for a team trophy, a team *must* have at least the required number of players.
• Only the top scoring players on the team get a trophy (i.e., for a standard team, only the top 4 get trophies; ties broken by tie-breaks).
• A team cannot win more than 1 trophy.  e.g., a team winning the Large team trophy is disallowed from winning the Standard team trophy.
• There will be trophies for individual players with perfect 3.0 scores, but only to those who didn't already win a team trophy (an individual can't win two trophies).

Example:  Team A has 6 players, with point totals of 126, 102, 85, 75, 66, and 55, so their 6-player total is 509 and 5-player total is 454.  Team B has 6 players, with point totals of 105, 102, 90, 60, 45, 34, so their 6-player total is 436, and 5-player total is 402.  Then Team A wins the 6-player team trophies, and Team B wins the 5-player team trophies (since their 5-player total is best of the remaining teams).