Nov 2002 December, 2002 Jan-Feb 2003

Kid Chess Will Be At The National K-12

id Chess instructors will be available at the National K-12 Scholastic championships this December 13-15 at the Downtown Atlanta Hilton, 255 Courtland St. Several Kid Chess instructors, including state co-champions FIDE Master Stephen Muhammad and International Master Carlos Perdomo, will be available to analyze games and offer advice after your game is over.

For the last few months, we’ve been counting down to the Nationals, the first national championship to be held in Atlanta since the National High School championship in 1991. Now it is only days away. It is not too late to register; in fact, you can even register at the tournament site. The cost is $70 and you can register online at www.uschess.org.

If you have questions about the event or wish to volunteer your time (monitors, result takers, and more are needed), please contact Alexis Fairweather at 678-355-0495.

Here is the schedule of events:

Opening Ceremony: 
     Friday 6:30 PM
Rounds:
     Friday, 7 p.m
     Saturday, 10 a.m, 2 p.m, 6 p.m.
     Sunday, 9 a.m., 1 p.m.		 Coaches and Parents Meeting:
     Friday, 5 p.m.
Scholastic Meeting:
     Saturday, 2:30 p.m.
Awards Ceremony:
  Sunday, 5:00-7:00 p.m. (approx.)

Special Events:
(There is an extra cost to participate in these events; see www.uschess.org for details.)

Blitz tournament:
     Friday, 9:30 a.m.		 Bughouse tournament:
     Friday, 2 p.m.

Volunteers Needed For National K-12!

Many volunteers are needed for this event.  If you are interested in volunteering while your child plays or just wish to serve as an
ambassador for Atlanta, contact
Alexis Fairweather.

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This Month In
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Kid Chess
Advanced Classes

Kid Chess is pleased to announce a regular schedule of Advanced Classes. Taught by either International Master Carlos Perdomo or FIDE Master Stephen Muhammad, the 2002 Georgia state co-champions, there is a class available almost every day of the week.

Class Schedule

Monday: Mountain Park (just West of Roswell)
Tuesday: Dunwoody
Wednesday:  East Cobb & Alpharetta/Duluth
Friday: Alpharetta

Please contact Alexis Fairweather for more information.

Metro Area Tournaments

The following tournaments are not associated with Kid Chess and may be run differently than our events.  Please contact the organizer to discuss details.

12/28, 1/5:
Atlanta Chess Center Scholastic Tournaments
Atlanta Chess Center, 3155 E. Ponce de Leon Ave., Scottdale, GA  Sections: K-3, K-6, K-8, 9-12. Entry fee: $10. GCA membership required for Georgia residents ($10 junior or $1 scholastic). Trophies to top 3 in each section (if at least 8 in each section). Registration: 12:15-1:00. Rounds: 1:30-2:45-4-5:15. Awards ceremony at 6:30.  Contact: David Spinks, (404)377-4400.

12/8, 1/12, 2/9, 3/23, 4/27, 5/18:
Sarah Smith Elementary Tournaments
On the above Sundays, starting at noon at Sarah Smith Elementary School. Sarah Smith is located in North Buckhead. The address is 370 Old Ivy Rd. N.E. Atlanta, GA  30342. Contact Information: Richard Benjamin (770) 953-6916

 

Greater Atlanta Christian Tournament Draws 184!

The following is taken from georgiachess.org:

he 3rd in a series of new Greater Atlanta Christian School K-12 USCF Rated tournaments drew a surprising 180+ participants this past Saturday. Despite the surprise of 60+ unregistered arriving on the morning of the tournament, the 5 round G/30 event came off very well at the comfortable site. Probably the largest chess tournament of any type ever held in Gwinnett county, and one of the largest Rated scholastic tournaments in the state.

Individual and Team Champions by Section:

  • Primary Champs: GACS Team and Brandon Danzig (Dolvin) 5/5
  • Elementary Champs: GACS Team and Matthew and Patrick MacDonald (Austin) 5/5
  • Middle School Champs: GACS Team and Ashley Guthrie (TEACH) 5/5
  • High School Champs: Gilmer High Team and Yancey Guthrie (TEACH) 5/5
  • Unrated Section: No Team Champion and David Purcell (Lake W) 5/5

 
Kid Chess In-Class Tournament Results

Addison Elementary:

Bughouse

  • Rookie Winners: Joshua Gibson, Jordan Pinner and Blake Minster.

  • Veteran Winners: Brian Lee, Nolan Smith and Kylie Alea.

Davis Academy:

Bughouse

  • Rookie Winners: Josh Bircoll, Ali Shutzberg and Coleman Gordon.

  • Veteran Winners: Sam Kallman, Daniel Marmer and Adam Suskin.

Davis Elementary School in Cobb

Bughouse Winners (1st Period):
  • 1st Place Primary Bughouse: Alex True
  • 2nd Place Primary Bughouse: Joe Black
  • 3rd Place Primary Bughouse: KJ Sinclair
  • 1st Place Elementary Bughouse: Ben Fitzgerald
  • 2nd Place Elementary Bughouse: Clark Franzman
  • 3rd Place Elementary Bughouse: Logan Rogers

Bughouse Winners (2nd Period):
  • Primary 1st Place: Jared Gant
  • Primary 2nd Place: Kevin Bujarski
  • Elementary 1st Place: Hunter Horne

  • Elementary 2nd Place: Brian Berg

Dunwoody Springs:

Bughouse

  • 1st Period Winners: Alex Fisher, Emma Neish and Brian Brandt.

  • 2nd Period Winners: Allison Fisher, Matthew Fedchuk and Autumn Austin.

Findley Oaks Bughouse Winners:

Bughouse Winners (1st Period)
  • 1st Grade Veteran Champion: Alex Everett
  • 1st Grade Rookie Champion: Alex Dhom
  • 2nd Grade Veteran Champion: Elise Zhang & Brian Sykes
  • 2nd Grade Rookie Champion: Tony Quian
  • 3rd Grade Veteran Champion BOTH PERIODS: Anish Narayanan & Cullen Huoni
  • 3rd Grade Rookie Champion: Brandon Cook
  • 4th grade Rookie Champion: Cameron Phillips
  • 4th Grade Veteran Champion: Patrick Smith
  • 5th Grade Rookie Champion: Michael Yen
  • 5th Grade Veteran Champion BOTH PERIODS: Praveen Sanjay

Bughouse Winners (2nd Period):
  • (primary veteran Champion already went out to Anish Narayanan)
  • Primary Veteran 2nd Place: Monisha Narayanan
  • Primary Rookie Champion: Marc Orlando
  • (1st Place Elementary Veteran already went out to Praveen Sanjay)
  • Elementary Veteran 2nd Place: Reginald McClain
  • Elementary Rookie Champion: Ben McShane

Heards Ferry:

Bughouse

  • 1st Period Winners: Brennan Coheleach, Zach Cole, Dylan Jeffay, Evelyn Kelley and Kareem Mulki.

  • 2nd Period Winners: Evelyn Kelley and Patrick Ryan.

Hillside:

Bughouse

  • 1st Period Winners: Jack Kilgore, Zachary Davis, Payam Ghobadpour, Alex Levine, Zachary Bobick, Naveen Chandran.

  • 2nd Period Winners: Ethan Sterling, Jared Sterling, Zachary Bobick and Idean Behforovz.

Holy Redeemer:

Bughouse

  • Rookie Winners: Gregory Steffes, Brandon Burroway and Cameron Burroway.

  • Veteran Winners: Andrew Smith, Peter Zyla and Peter Choi.

Manning Oaks:

Bughouse

  • Veteran Winners: Darby McNally, Melanie Lockard and Manik Kanitkar.

  • Rookie Winners: Ben Thomas, Motonobu Shimazaki and Bret Rose

Mount Bethel Friday:

1st Period Bughouse Winners:
  • 1st grade Veteran Champ: Sam Rapowitz
  • 2nd grade Veteran Champ: Sammy Sbiti
  • 2nd Grade Rookie Champ: Sam Lowry
  • 3rd Grade Veteran Champ: Matthew Kavney & Joe Cheroff
  • 3rd Grade Rookie Champ: Michael Lattizori
  • 4th Grade Veteran Champ: Zach Fenster & Muhammad Zurieck
  • 4th Grade Rookie Champ: Andrew Morrisette
  • 5th grade veteran Champ: Gil Golan
  • 5th Grade Rookie Champ: Sloan Limpman

**2nd Period Bughouse Winners:

K-3rd
  • 1st Place Brandon Gialiano
  • 2nd Place Robbie Carl
  • Rookie champ: Jack

4th-5th
  • 1st Vangelis Zafiroulis
  • 2nd Gabe & James Williams
  • Rookie Brandon Tucker

Mount Bethel Monday Bug

Bughouse Winners (1st Period)
  • 1st Grade Veteran Champion: Ian Green
  • 2nd Grade Rookie Champion: Jacob Eye & Jake Richardson
  • 2nd Grade Veteran Champion: Cameron Mistr
  • 3rd Grade Rookie Champion: Teddy Poulos
  • 3rd Grade Veteran Champion: Chris Harris
  • 4th Grade Veteran Champion: Hartley Chiang
  • 5th Grade Rookie Champion: Zach Foster & Eric Graves
  • 5th Grade Veteran Champion: Yusuke Saito ** overall Champion**

Bughouse Winners (2nd Period)
  • Primary Veteran Champion: Ian Fletcher
  • Primary Veteran 2nd Place: Taylor Webb
  • Primary Rookie Champion: Christian Lundberg
  • Elementary Veteran Champion: Marcus Balbed
  • Elementary Veteran 2nd Place: Ethan Guthman
  • Elementary Rookie Champion: Tanner Weston
 Mountain Park:

Bughouse

  • Rookie Winners: Jake Martin and Jackson Fust.

  • Veteran Winners: Michael Koleos, Thomas Sanderson, Calvin Studebaker and Caleb McCracken.

Queen of Angels:

Bughouse

  • Rookie Winners: Mathew Fenlon, Greg Stephens and Christopher Buzzard.

  • Veteran Winners: Riley Lyons and David Cano.

River Eves:

Bughouse Winners (1st Period)
  • Primary Veteran Champion: Charlie Lockridge
  • Primary Veteran 2nd Place: Scott Hess
  • Primary Veteran 3rd Place: Kayla Martin
  • Elementary Veteran Champion BOTH PERIODS: Danny Schneider
  • Elementary Veteran 2nd Place: Seth Loeb
  • Elementary Veteran 3rd Place: Evan Ide
  • Elementary Rookie Champion: Cajer Gong

Bughouse Winners (2nd Period):
  • Primary Veteran Champion: Alexander Clegg
  • Primary Rookie Champion: Alexander Smith
  • (Elementary Veteran Champion already went out to Danny Schneider)
  • Elementary rookie Champion: Andrew Nam

Roswell North:

Bughouse
  • Rookie Winners: Charles Burchett, Kevin Donnelly, William Alexander and Noah Kroeger.
  • Veteran Winners: Shaun Cohen, Brent Zucker and Jake Rogers

Sibley Forest Tuesday Bug

Bughouse Winners (1st Period):
  • 1st Grade Rookie Champion: Leah Scrybalo
  • 1st Grade Veteran Champion: Matthew Lewellen
  • 2nd Grade Rookie Champion: Matthew McKinnley
  • 2nd Grade Veteran Champion: Sean Scrybalo
  • 3rd Grade Rookie Champion: Megan Kitrell
  • 3rd Grade Veteran Champion: Jim Hogue
  • 4th Grade Rookie Champion: Colton Kleban
  • 4th Grade Veteran Champion: Ryan Selvaggio
  • 5th Grade Rookie Champion: Sindu Suapangali
  • 5th Grade Veteran Champion: Samhita Noone

Bughouse Winners (2nd Period)
  • 1st Place Primary Veteran: Jason Weiner
  • 2nd Place Primary Veteran: Danny Kwak
  • 1st Place Primary Rookie: Abdallah Kanawati
  • 1st Place Elementary Veteran: Aladdin Kanawati
  • 2nd Place Elementary Veteran: Zach Hilley
  • 1st Place Elementary Rookie: Harvin Vallabhaneni

Sibley Forest Thursday

Bughouse Winners (1st Period)
  • 1st Grade Rookie Champ: Sam Marsh *****
  • 2nd Grade Rookie Champ: Sana Fadhima
  • 2nd Grade Veteran Champ: Sean Eikoff
  • 3rd Grade Rookie Champ: Jacob Slesenger
  • 3rd Grade Veteran Champ: Payton Prins ***overall champ**
  • 4th Grade Rookie Champ: Kelly Bunn & Adam Shipley
  • 4th Grade Veteran Champ: Jeffrey Brownell
  • 5th Grade Veteran Champ: Eaman Fatemi

Bughouse Winners –(2nd Period)
  • Kindergarten Champion: Harrison Jones
  • Primary Bughouse Veteran Champion: Ben Jarratt
  • Primary Bughouse Rookie Champion: William Chocallo
  • Elementary Bughouse Veteran Champion: Scott Wiener
  • Elementary Bughouse Rookie Champion: Jack Oswell *****

Tritt:

Bughouse Winners (1st Period)

(There are no 1st grade veterans)

  • 1st Grade Rookie Champion: Seth Cohen
  • 2nd Grade Rookie Champion: Jamie DeLange
  • 2nd Grade Veteran Champion: Nick Sligar
  • 3rd Grade Rookie Champion: Caroline Penhallegon
  • 3rd Grade Veteran Champion: Wayne Lu
  • 4th Grade Rookie Champion: Jonathan LeBoutillier
  • 4th Grade Veteran Champion: Kyle Falvey
  • 5th Grade Rookie Champion: Chris Valdez & Jake Johnson
  • 5th Grade Veteran Champion: Andrew Payson

Bughouse Winners (2nd Period):
  • Primary Veteran Champion: Luke Oliver
  • Primary Veteran 2nd Place: Collin Gorey
  • Primary Rookie Champion: Ben Oren
  • Elementary Veteran Champion: Andrew Payson
  • Elementary Veteran 2nd Place: Jack Harle & William McFadden
  • Elementary Rookie Champion: Todd Summers

Vaughan

Bughouse Winners (1st Period)
  • 1st Place Primary Bughouse: Alexandra Maeder
  • 2nd Place Primary Bughouse: Jacob Zimmerman
  • 2nd Place Primary Bughouse: Adam West
  • 1st Place Elementary Bughouse: Andrew Vita
  • 2nd Place Elementary Bughouse: Max Bilderback
  • 3rd Place Elementary Bughouse: Austin Agatston

Bughouse Winners (2nd Period):
  • (kindergarten-1st Grade) 1st Place: Trammel Braden (6-0)
  • (kindergarten-1st Grade) 2nd Place: Trenton Lindbom (5-2)
  • (2nd Grade and Up) 1st Place: Mitch Wellman (6-2)
  • (2nd Grade and Up) 2nd Place: Payton Turnage (5-2)

The Walker School

First Period Bughouse Trophies Second Period Trophies

  • 1st Place Primary Joshua Zuckerman 1st Place Primary Glen Struther
  • 2nd place Primary Chase Hale 1st Place Elementary Alan Norsworthy
  • 3rd Place Primary Cameron Prince 2nd Place Elementary Erik Houston
  • 1st Place Elementary Paristu A
  • 2nd Place Elementary Nikhil M.
  • 3rd Place Elaementary Sam Y.

 

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Chess Essentials
Tactics Corner

here are hundreds if not thousands of terms in chess. Fortunately, you don’t have to know them all to play good chess. There are certain terms that you will hear over and over again though, and these you should know. This is especially true when it comes to pawns. Andre Philidor (1725-1795) famously said, “Pawns are the soul of chess.” What this means is that almost everything that happens on the chessboard is the result of pawn structure.

This month’s Chess Essentials takes the form of a quiz:

See how much you already know about pawn terms. In the above position, identify the following:

  1. Passed pawn

  2. Isolated pawn

  3. Isolani

    4.

  4. Doubled pawns

  5. Pawn chain

  6. Backward pawn

In the above position, identify the following:

  1.  Pawn majority

actics in chess often resemble a boxing match. One fighter throws a punch thinking it is a knockout blow only to be felled himself by a well-timed counter punch. When you are considering a tactical blow, you must make sure that your opponent does not have a counter-tactic that ends up costing you the game. Seldom will your opponent meekly accept your plans.

In the following position, Black certainly must have considered what appears to be a good tactical shot, 12...Rxh4, followed by 13. Nxh4 Qxh4+. Black saw, however, that White had a good counterpunch instead of the meek 13. Nxh4. What is White’s best move if Black were to play 12...Rxh4? There are actually three good possibilities, all easy to miss if you are playing Black and don’t look deeply enough.

Tactics Corner Solutions

13. Bg5 and 13.Bc8 are both good, but 13. Nxe4 gives White his best chances.

Click here to view the whole game, which ends with a pretty knight move. See if you can guess White’s 19th and 20th moves before you play them.
Chess Essentials Solutions

  1. The a5 pawn is a passed pawn, meaning no enemy pawn can block it or capture it.

  2. The f5 pawn is an isolated pawn. It stands by itself with no pawn of the same color on either adjoining file.

  3. The d4 pawn is an isolani, which is an isolated pawn on the d-file. This type of pawn is a common result of a number of different openings.

  4. The h3 and h4 pawns are doubled. These are two pawns that share the same file. In rare cases, tripled pawns can appear.

  5. The d7, c6, and b5 pawns form a pawn chain.

  6. The f3 pawn is backward, meaning it cannot be guarded by a pawn of its own color.

  7. The a2, b2, and c3 pawns form a pawn majority over the opposing black pawns because they outnumber them 3 to 2, and the f7, g7, and h7 pawns form a majority over their white counterparts.
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