BCC WINTER CHAMPIONSHIP: TRALDI, KAVI, WALD

Round 4, BCC Winter Championship, March 9, 2013

 

Oliver Traldi, BCC Winter Co-Champion, Premier Section with 3.5 points.

 

Nithin Kavi: focused! Co-Champion, Premier Section with 3.5 points.

Joel Wald: BCC Winter Champion, U1800 section, 3.5 points.

 NM Eric Godin, black vs Arthur Tang, R3: draw. Godin finished, 3-4th, in Premier Section.

Expert Michelle Chen, finished 3-4th, in Premier Section.

Uri Feld, +10 rating points, Premier Section.

 

Matthew Manzo, clear 2nd, U1800, 3 points, +28 rating points.

Lucy Cai (+17 rating points) black, v Eddie Wei, Round 2, U1800 Section.

 

OK, let's see, what did I do wrong? Brandon Wu, Eddie Wei, Lucy Cai discuss chess.

 Foye v Kavi, Godin v Xu, Feld v Driscoll; Shankar, Manzo, Wald (left, background) . . . Round 2

 

Mark O'Brien v David Martin, Brandon Wu v Matthew Manzo, 

Sandeep Shankar v Joel Wald, Round 2.

To take or not to take that is the question: Farzad Abdi (left) took.

Oliver Traldi demonstrates his win, as the "poison" bishop is taken; 

not taken, position is +/= according to Rybka 4.

 

Brandon Wu, 2.5 points U1800 Section, +69 rating points!

 Conway Xu, 2 points, Premier Section, +17 rating points.

 

Kavi - Traldi, Round 4. The pressure is on. The players are tired.

Who will blink first, who will falter. Chess is a sport. 

In this case, both players were up to the task: neither player cracked under the pressure, 

neither erred. The game was drawn. The players share the title: BCC Winter Champion 2013.