BCC APRIL QUADS // RECORD 12 X 4 = 48 PLAY! // FIRST PLACES: 1-12 // NITHIN KAVI; ATUL KANNAN; NICHOLAS BELOUS; ILYA ROZONOYER; DAVID MILLIERN; VICTOR FENG; JUSTIN LI / HERMENEGILDO NETO; AARON LI; JEFFREY LIU / LYDIA SHEN; RIYA KANURY; ISAAC CHEN; LEONARD SWEENEY-BARRETT //

3RR G65 10" DELAY

 

 QUAD 1

 

NM Nathan Solon vs NM Nithin Kavi, Round 1.

Nithin scored 2.5/3 to take clear 1st place.

QUAD 2 

 Atul Kannan, black vs Joe Perl, Esq. Round 2.

Atul scored 3 points to take clear 1st place, and

a +31 to 2195 rating upgrade!

Bravo, Atul!

QUAD 3

Nicholas Belous vs Maxwell Chen, Round 2.

Nick scored a perfect 3-0 to take clear 1st place

and a +61 to 2063 rating upgrade. Bravo, Nick!

QUAD 4

  

Natasha Christiansen, black vs Ilya Rozonoyer, Round 1.

Ilya scored 2.5/3 to take clear 1st place.

(background): Joaquin Carlson, black vs  Soren Pedersen.

QUAD 5

David Milliern vs Derek Chubo Zhao, Round 1.

David scored 2.5/3 to take clear 1st place.

QUAD 6 

 Victor Feng scored a perfect 3-0 to take

clear 1st place.

 QUAD 7

 

Justin Y Li vs Dr. Robert Oresick, Round 2.

Justin scored 2/3 to share 1-2nd place.

 (background): Hermenegildo Neto vs Brandon Ni

Hermenegildo Neto scored 2 points

to share 1-2nd place.

QUAD 8

 

Sai Sneha Yerra, black vs Aaron Li, Round 2.

Aaron scored 3 points to take clear 1st place

and a +86 to 1666 rating. Bravo, Aaron!

 QUAD 9

Lydia Shen (lavandar) vs Alan Lu and Jeffrey Liu (violet) vs Ben Hough;

Lydia and Jeffrey each scored 2 points to share 1-2nd place.
QUAD 10 

 

Saanvi Tiruveedhula, black vs Riya Kanury, Round 2.

Riya scored 2.5 points to take clear 1st place.

(background): Maruthi Kishore Tiruveedhula, black vs

Alessia Iancarelli; Isaac Chen, black vs Michael Bernier;

Michelle Zhang vs Anthony DiNosse. 

QUAD 11

Isaac Chen scored a perfect 3-0 to

take clear 1st place.

Bravo, Isaac!

QUAD 12

 

Leonard Sweeney-Barrett, black vs Suhavi Tiruveedhula,

Round 2.  Leonard scored a perfect 3-0 to take clear 

1st place and a rating upgrade of +79 to 1226.

Bravo, Leonard! [Note: I played a series of 5 blitz

games with Leonard during lunch break. My blitz rating 

hovers around 1850; Leonard won our match 4-1; 

he won all his games on time, using the "new" control:

3 minutes with 2 seconds added per move!

Leonard played confidently and very very fast.

Did I mention: fast!]

 

SCENES FROM 

AROUND THE CLUB 

LUNCH

 

 

 

TOURNAMENT ADMINISTRATION:

CHIEF TD BERNARDO IGLESIAS

ASST TD NATASHA CHRISTIANSEN

ASST TD FARZAD ABDI

PHOTOS: STEVE STEPAK

Patriot's Day Open - US CHESS GRAND PRIX EVENT!

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Patriot's Day Open  

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Date	Saturday, April 14, 2018
Event Format	4SS
Time Control	G/60 d5
Sections	Open & U1900
Entry Fee	$35, $20 for BCF members, $5 more if not registering online in advance
Prizes	$$400 GUARANTEED: Open 1st $150, 2nd $100, 3rd $50 U1900 1st $100
Registration	9:15am - 9:45am
Round Times	10:00am, 1:00pm, 3:30pm, 6:00pm
Description	US CHESS GRAND PRIX EVENT! US CHESS GRAND PRIX POINTS: 6
Entry List	Current Pre-Registration List

What Bad Openings Teach Us - seminar by NM Atul Kannan

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What Bad Openings Teach Us - 

seminar by  

NM Atul Kannan 

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Date	Friday, April 13, 2018
Entry Fee	$25 for members; $35 for non-members
Registration	Register online anytime; on-site 6:30-7pm
Round Times	7:00pm - 8:30pm
Description	Just as we learn more from losses than wins, so too do we learn more from "bad" openings than the best ones. What can we learn from openings like the Elephant Gambit (1.e4 e5 2. Nf3, d5?!) the Fred (e4, f5?) Barnes (1.f3?) Desprez (1.h4!?) or Ware openings (1.a4!?) Turns out a lot! We will also cover other openings like the King's gambit, Grob, Schliemann, and even the Winnawer posion pawn variation (All of these were once thought to be losing). We will end with open Q&A about any bad openings.
Entry List	Current Pre-Registration List

BCC:BLITZ //ATUL KANNAN 1ST // NATHAN SMOLENSKY 2ND // BILL KELLEHER / JOE PEARL / ZUBIN BALIGA 2-5 // 16 PLAY

 

8 ROUND SWISS / GAME 3, +2 INCREMENT

IN ONE SECTION

 

 

Atul Kannan vs Nathan Smolensky: 1-0. Atul scored 7/8

for clear 1st place; Nathan scored 6/8 for clear 2nd.

 

Nathan Smolensky, on the move with black vs Atul

Kannan, Round 1.

IRISH GREEN PREVAILS

 

David Gunapalan (Canada/blue) vs FM Bill Kelleher (USA/green).

Bill contemplates the winning line in this game.

In this event, each players plays white and black.

With white, in a winning position, Bill lost on time,

so the the point was split: 1:1.

Bill scored 5 points to share 3-5th place.

 

(foreground): Zubin Baliga, black vs David Gunapalan.

Zubin scored 5 points to share 3-5th place.

(center, right) Joe Perl (blue) scored 5 points to

share 3-5th place. 

 

Alex Karam vs WCM Natasha Christiansen. Natasha

scored 4.5 points to share 6-7th place.

Natasha Christiansen, black vs Brian Salomon

Round 3. Brian scored 4.5 points to share 6-7th

place.

Alessia Iancarelli, black vs WCM Dr. Vesna Dimitrijevic,

MIT nuclear engineer. Alessia is working at Harvard Psych Dept

 and will study for her PhD in London this fall. Vesna is a

veteran chess player for the BCC for many decades.

 

Alessia on the move with white.

 

Hermenegildo Neto vs Dmitri Shevchenko;

Srikanth Rapaka, black vs Jay Smith;

Alessia Iancarelli vs Venna Dimitrijevic;

Alex Karam plays Natasha Christiansen;

Richard Graf plays Zubin Baliga.

 CHECKMATE!

 

CHIEF TD: ATUL S KANNAN

PHOTOS: STEVE STEPAK

BCC SPRING GAME 80: NITHIN KAVI 1ST / OPEN SECTION // U1800 / KISHORE MOSALIGANTI / JEREMY SETH ROSENHOLTZ / 1-2ND // 45 PLAY !!

 

IN 2 SECTIONS: OPEN AND U1800

 OPEN SECTION

NM Nithin Kavi, clear 1st: 3 points!
CRITICAL ROUND

NM Nithin Kavi, black vs NM Professor 
Tim Sage: 0-1

Jason Tang, black vs DiGeng Du, Round 3: draw!
Jason and Du scored 2.5 points to share 2-4th place.

Libardo Rueda, black vs Maxwell Chen, Round 3.
Max scored 2.5 points to share 2-4th place.

 U1800 SECTION

 

Saanvi Tiruveedhula, black vs Kishore Mosaliganti

Round 3: 1-0. Kishore scored 3 points to share 1-2nd place

with Jeremy Seth Rosenholtz.

(background):Michelle Zhang, black vs Will Wisdom.

 

Jeremy Seth Rosenholtz, black vs Amy Lei, Round 3.

Jeremy scored 3 points to share 1-2nd place with Kishore.

 SCENES FROM AROUND

THE HALL

(left pair): Isaac Chen vs Sophia Rosenholtz;

(right pair): Hermenegiodo Neto vs Suhavi Tiruveedhula.

[note: Suhavi Tiruveedhula scored a perfect 4-0

in Sunday, April 1st in the MACA 2018 Girls Championship]

 

TOURNAMENT ADMINISTRATION

 BERNARDO IGLESIAS, CHIEF TD

NATISHA CHRISTIANSEN ASST TD

 

STEVE STEPAK: PHOTOS 

Photos by Tony Cortizas, Jr. from the Massachusetts Girls Championship

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Photos 

by Tony Cortizas, Jr. 

from the 

Massachusetts Girls Championship 

held at the Boylston Chess Club, April 1, 2018.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/9zSXCpU90YjquARp1

Enjoy.

Playing room. Mass. Girls Championship 2018.

Yue (Kerry) Huang, 1st Place Open. BCC's Mass. Girls Championsihp 2018.

Suhavi Tiruveelhula. 1st Place Under 1000.  Mass. Girls Championsihp 2018.

Milestones Sunday

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Milestones Sunday  

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Date	Sunday, April 8, 2018
Event Format	3SS
Time Control	G/80 d10
Sections	TBA
Entry Fee	$35, $20 for BCF members, $5 more if not registering online in advance
Prizes	TBA
Registration	9:30am - 9:45am
Round Times	10:00am, 1:45pm, 5:00pm
Description	Open to all players born in 1997 or earlier. Accelerated pairings may be used. Free parking on Sundays!
Entry List	Current Pre-Registration List

April Quads

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April Quads  

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Date	Saturday, April 7, 2018
Event Format	3RR
Time Control	G/65 d10
Sections	Players will be arranged into quads by rating
Entry Fee	$35, $20 for BCF Members, $5 more if not registering online
Prizes	$$80 First place in top quad, $$50 First place in each of the other quads
Registration	9:15am - 9:45am
Round Times	10:00am, 1:15pm, and 4:00pm
Entry List	Current Pre-Registration List

Thursday Night Swiss

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April Thursday Night Swiss 

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Date	Thursday, April 5, 12, 19, 26
Event Format	4SS
Time Control	40/90, SD/20 d10
Sections	Open & U1900
Entry Fee	$35, $20 for BCF members, $5 more if not registering online in advance
Prizes	$300 based on 25 entries: 1st $125, 2nd $75; U1900 1st $60, 2nd $40
Registration	6:30pm - 7:00pm
Round Times	7:15pm
Entry List	Current Pre-Registration List