My KUDOS to Joanna Liu. After last weekend's Golden State Open in Concord Joanna broke the 2000 (2005) rating barrier and is now a National Expert. Joanna, a sixth grade student at Gomes, who led her school Team to a National Open Scholastic title last Spring, is a former Weibel student. Joanna attended Weibel until the middle of fourth grade when her family moved into the Gomes district. When she left Weibel she had obtained the highest ever rating for a girl in our program, 1587. This was broken by her good friend Serafina Show last week with her 1613. I sent the following note to Joanna's father Jay:
"Please congratulate Joanna for reaching the Expert title. She is only the fourth ever former Weibel student to have obtained an Expert title: Kevin Moy, NM Michael Wang, NM Rohan Agrawal, Micah Fisher-Kirshner. In my 25 years with chess in NorCal only one young girl has obtained the title of Master. This was Jennie Frenklakh at 16 back in the 80’s. I am sure that Joanna will break that record."
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Congratulations Jonna! I remember loosing to her once in 2012 and later equalizing the score last year.
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