Andrew Hoy won the top quad with 2.5/3.
Emma Zhang won the second quad with a perfect score. The performance helped push Emma over 1600 for the first time.
Anand Swaroop win the bottom quad with a perfect score.
Andrew Hoy won the top quad with 2.5/3.
Emma Zhang won the second quad with a perfect score. The performance helped push Emma over 1600 for the first time.
Anand Swaroop win the bottom quad with a perfect score.
This one is shown as a mate in 8 but is technically a mate in 9 as our opponent has a spite block. To solve this you will need to combine two tactical motifs. Warning this one isn’t easy despite the fact it came from 1001 tactics for beginners.
GM Naroditsky took first with 11.5 out of 12. Not surpringly, Danya who is considered one of the best speed chess players in the world defeated all comers at our Big Money Blitz event. IM Shmelov as the only person not to lose both games to GM Naroditsky holding him to a draw with the white pieces.
The Tuesday night event ended with familiar faces in the top spots. Anton Barash took first despite taking a 0 point bye in the last round. Andrew Hoy finished second. In the Under section Nicanor Millán won with 5 out of 5. Nicanor has completely graduated from the under sections as between this event and the Spring festival he has increased his rating to 1828.
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There is also a mate in 4 if black doesn’t defend as resolutely. Correct calculation should show you both.
The youth dominated Saturday’s event. Bohan Wang took 1st in the Open section with 3.5 out of 4. Bohan who is already one of the top 13 year olds in the country picked up 60 rating points and is very close to 2000. Royce Zhang finished tied for second with 3.0 out of 4 and passed 1800 for the first time. Royce was in the top 50 in the country for his age group at the time of the April Supplement will likely see that position skyrocket having picked up nearly 150 points since then.
Rohan took the top spot in the under section finishing with 3.5 out of 4.0.
BCC has been holding regular rated online events since the pandemic. Nick TDs the events which are UCSF rated. Each event runs six weeks with one game each Tuesday night. They provide shorter time controls and no need to travel for those that want that midweek chess fix but can’t travel. Michael Carey won this edition. The next one starts next Tuesday for those that are interested.
Black is up a pawn but white has an attack brewing and black’s king is far from safe. What tactic does black have which results in a clearly won position? White has a checkmate threat which helps clarify your candidate moves.
GM Zhou took first place in the 34 player field with a +10 =2 -0 performance. Charles Slade finished second which is a very strong performance given the filed had 2 GMs and an IM. Charles who is now a blitz specialist saw his blitz rating go back over 2100. The blitz event in two weeks will feature food for the players so sign up early. A proper headcount is important.
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The black bishop is loose but you will need to use an unrelated tactical motif generate the tempo needed to grab it
Akshay Padmanabhan won the top quad with three wins including a winner takes all third round game against Michael Carey.
Carter Zsittnik took first place in the second quad with three wins. Carter took care of business picking up 23 rating points in the process.
In the small Swiss Marcus Farzenah-Far and Chris Senhouse split first with two wins and a draw each.
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