US GAME 30 KIDS SIDE EVENT TO THE NATIONAL GAME THIRTY

Members of the Weibel  Junior Varsity and Novice chess team competed against 14 other school teams at the US Game 30 Kids Side Event during the U.S. National Game 30 Championships on Saturday, September 23, 2017.  Our players once again proved their mettle.  They finished first, a point and a half above the nearest competitor. 

Only points of the top three players counted.  Any one of our eight players could have had their points count.   Ryan Chen, Krishank Sardesai and Om Herur turned out to be our best this day. Vivaan Dudani, Louis Love Le, Yohaan Dudani, Aarav Gulrajani and Krish Behl were our other players. 

KUDOS to all!

As you can see from my photograph, only two of the players hung around for the awards.  I can understand why as it was a long day with five one hour games played and I am sure the kids and the parents were exhausted.

Please forgive my poor photo.  My ancient memory failed and I forgot my camera.  Hard to believe, I know.  I used my iPhone and as you can see I am far from skilled in using its camera.

WEIBEL CHESS TEAMS TAKES FIRST AT RECORD BREAKING EVENT

On this day of breaking heat records (9/2/17) the Bay Area Kids Labor Day Championship broke records as well with 219 players. I congratulate them for the fine job they are doing promoting youth chess in Northern California. The tournament was divided into four divisions by ratings. None of the 36 school teams that included Junior High School had large numbers nor, to be candid, their top players. To be fair that is because the highest section was from 900-1299. Some of the top players went into the three day Open State Championships also held at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

Weibel Chess only had seven players over the four sections. Since the organizers did not expect this large a turnout they only had five school trophies for all four sections combined. Points from each section were counted. I did stop by for a short period. I left before the awards as the heat had worn me out. When I got there Weibel was in sixth place. When I left after the fourth round they moved up to fourth place. When I checked online a few minutes ago, we had won another first place trophy. Congrats to all our players who attended and to the four that pulled us up to first place. Ryan Chen,  Om Heur, Krish Behl and Louis Love obtained the points for the team, while Kabita Nath, Mai-Ha Nghiem and Shruti Nath were our back up.

I thank Om Heur’s Dad for the photograph of the three players that remained for the awards.