Azhar Memorial Grade Level Tournament

The Weibel future!  Our 1st place kindergarten team, Oliver, Louis, Eshaan and Vincent.

in conjunction with the CalChess State Championships at the Fremont Marriott this weekend, there was a scholastic grade level tournament on Memorial Day.  Here is a report from Dr. Alan Kirshner regarding our Weibel players:

Today there was a Grade Level Chess Championship run through Bay Area Chess. I am happy to report that Weibel players did well.

Let me start with our wonderful Kindergarten crew--and I do mean crew. We had four players attend. Oliver Wu and Louis Law tied for second winning four of their five games. Eshaan Mistry tied for sixth with 3.5 out of 5 and Vincent Wang tied for eighth with 3 wins. There were 29 players in this group of Kindergartners. I think this holds well for the future of chess in the Bay Area and for Weibel.  Weibel took first place in the team competition, defeating Encinal who had seven players, by 1.5 points.

Only one First Grade student showed from Weibel--Amy Chan. She tied for seventh place with 3 out of five points. (31 players) To have a Team you need two players and three count for points.

Second Grade had 43 competitors. Our group of seven players all did well, but not enough to win first as a team. Actually, first place went to Bay Area Chess--obviously not one school. Yet, once again--as at the Nationals--deja vu--Mission San Jose beat us by 1/2 a point. 10.5 to 10. Our top scorer was Surya Teja Mandadi who tied for second with 4 out of 5. Shivangi Gupta, Atri Surapaneni and Kevin Zhu also had a plus score of 3 and tied for 11th. While Jaden Wei finished with 2.5 he lost to the winner who had a rating twice his as well as to another player 300 points higher. Anvi Surapaneni and Enya Mistry both showed well and finished near the top half of the pack. What potential this group shows for future years.

Only Grace Xu played for Weibel in Third Grade. And, while we had no team, she won the whole thing--yup, she took first place on tie-breaks.

Weibel only had two players in Fourth Grade, but they did well enough to get us first place even over the multi-team club of Bay Area Chess and Mission San Jose! Sara Kaushik became our second first place winner of the day with Kia Sadeghi only a half-point behind.

Only one Weibel Player showed up in both Fifth Grade and Sixth Grade. Rishabh Khurana in Fifth Grade finished out of the trophies, but Rohan Koka, in Sixth Grade, did tie for fifth.

Only one of our Horner Junior High School students entered the 7-12 grade division--Shubham Gupta and tied for seventh.

Calchess State Championships - Final results

All out of 6 points:
Xpert section -
Michael Wang 2.5

A section
Kevin Moy 3.5

B section
Justin Wang 4.0 (won $50)
Sameer Vijay 3.5
Abhishek Handigol 3.0
Joanna Liu 2.0

C section
Calvin Tam 2.5
Alisha Chawla 1.5

Calchess State Championships

The regular Calchess State Championships are going at the Fremont Marriott this Memorial Day weekend.  The D-E section is complete (U1400), and results (out of 6 games) for Weibel Team members:

Ishas Kekre 4.0
Telvin Zhong 3.0 
Cynthia Zhang 3.0


In the other sections, 4 games have been played, with 2 more to go on Monday:  Results up-to-date for Weibel Team members:

Expert (U2200):
Michael Wang 2.5

A (U2000):
Kevin Moy 3.0

B (U1800):
Abhishek Handigol 3.0
Sameer Vijay 2.5
Justin Wang 2.0
Joanna Liu 2.0

C (U1600):
Calvin Tam 1.5
Alisha Chawla 0.5

Fremont Elementary School Championship

The 2nd Annual Fremont Elementary School Chess Championship was held at Irvington High School on Saturday, May 21.  A total of 13 Weibel Team members and/or Weibel-attendee players played.

2nd grader Jaden Wei took 1st place in the U1000 division.  Jaden is part of a very talented 2nd grade group at Weibel that will be very good for years to come.  Two other Weibel students, 2nd grader Atri Surapaneni and 6th grader Rohan Koka, tied for 2nd in this section.

3rd grader Anthony Zhou, who will attend Weibel next year and be a huge part of Weibel's Nationals group, finished 2nd in the Open section.

CalNorth Girls' Grade Level Championships

61 girls, plus 4 moms competed in the 3rd annual Cal North Girls' Grade Level Championships on May 14.  This was held at Mission Valley Elementary in Fremont.

Weibel Nationals Team Member Sharon Lu tied for 1st in the Open section and won the subsequent Blitz playoff, thus taking home the 1st Place trophy.

a couple of Weibel Team pictures

most of the team is here (Sameer didn't get the message about the photo shoot apparently)

 

                                    Coach D trying to pump up the kids before the last round.

Nationals Team Room

memories of the weekend past - our team room at the Nationals, the Ming Room.

Nationals - a recap

sorry I'm late with this blog.  Busy day today running around downstairs waiting for Kevin to come out.

We ended up in 3rd place behind the powerful team from Illinois and a mere 0.5 points behind our arch-rivals from Mission San Jose with 17 points.  Going in, I had thought that we would get 18.5 points (10.5 points from our top 2 boards and 8 points from the 3rd and 4th boards), and obviously we didn't quite meet expectations.  In order to meet expectations, we had to have players play above their heads, and, well, as it turned out, no one did.   Also, it didn't help that 2 5th graders who transferred out this year who would have been our 4th boards wound up getting 5.0 and 4.5 points, respectively in the K-5 division, playing for other schools. It was a frustrating day because not only was 2nd place there for the taking, but first place as well, as the Illinois team did not have a particularly good tournament.

Final scores (out of a possible 7.0):
Kevin 5.0 (finished in a tie for 11th place, was the highest 5.0 player)
Michael 5.0 (finished in a tie for 11th place, gets the 15th place trophy)
Sameer 3.5
Sharon 3.5
Ishas 3.5
Calvin 3.0
Serafina 3.0

Also, Louis finished with 3.0 in K-1, Atri with 4.0 in K5U900, and Angela with 5.0 in K6U1000.

Nationals, end of Round 5

wow, an exhausting day is now over.  It's 11pm here and time to go to bed.

The K-6 team is at 13.5 points.  Not a particularly good round, only added 1.5 to our total, but most everyone was playing up.  We're trailing the Illinois team by 1.5 going into Round 6.

Weibel K-6 players at the end of Round 5:

Michael 4.0
Kevin 4.0
Sameer 3.0
Sharon 2.5
Ishas 2.5
Serafina 2.5
Calvin 2.0

Louis has 2.0 in K-1
Angela has 3.0 in K-6U1000
Atri has 3.0 in K-5U900

Nationals, results after Round 4

we're .5 points behind the great team from Illinois in the K-6 Championship Division! 12.5 to 12

Kevin has 3.5
Michael has 3.0
Sameer has 3.0
Serafina has 2.5

Sharon has 2.0
Calvin has 2.0
Ishas has 1.5

In other divisions -

Louis has 2.0 in K-1
Angela has 2.0 in K-6 U1000
Atri has 3.0 in K-5 U900

Nationals, Round 2

Kevin was out after barely 2 minutes, he's now at 2.0

Michael won, and Sameer with the big upset, so 3 of us with 2.0.

Serafina has 1.0, so the team has 7.0 after 2 rounds.

Nationals, Round 1

After Round 1, the K-6 group has 3.0 out of a possible 4.0.    Michael, Kevin and Sameer won.