June has school letting out and people taking a break from the work they’ve been doing all year. Chess tournaments are similar. Time to stop the studying and preparation and just play the game you love to play. Here are last month’s results.
May 5: The Evanston 3×3 Tournament had 37 players for this 3 section event. In the Gold Section (1700+) Sam Schmakel was the solitary person to win all three rounds. In the Silver Section (1200-1699) Seth Jay Kushinsky was the sole finisher with 3 points. In the Bronze Section (U1200 and unrated) Edward Zhang won all his games. Crosstables.
May5: 13th Annual JJC Spring Quads in Joliet, IL. 12 players total. The winners were: Daniel Sajkowski (Quad 1), David Middleton (Quad 2), Len Webber (Extra). Crosstables.
May 5: Warriors Open and Reserve had 21 players in New Lenox. The Open Section had Wesley Underwood coming out on top and the Reserve Section had two players, Madeline Doon and James Marchert Sr., tying for first by winning all their games. Crosstables.
May 5: The Orland Park May Tournament had 8 players. Edward Dornbos came out on top with 4 points. And their was quite a battle for second place with three players tying for second. Crosstables.
May 6: Renaissance Knights held its 77th Quest tournament in Northbrook, IL. 85 players participated in this four section event. In the Open Section, Aung Zin once again came in first. The U1400 section had Aidan Kolar finishing with 4 points, and in the U1000 Section, Aaron Gan was the sole winner of all four of his games. The U600 had a big battle for first place with three players tying for it (Alexander Presman, Dhruv Bansal, and William Tan) and three players tied for second. Crosstables.
May 5 to 6:The 10th NA Amateur was held in Skokie and drew 12 players. There was tough competition for first place. Two people tied for it (Kent Cen and Dmitri Sergatskov) with four people tying for second. Crosstables.
May12: The “It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over” Tournament drew 14 players to Dekalb and had two sections: Yogi and Berra. Vincent Do won the Yogi section, and Erik Czerwin and Zachary Kauffman tied for first in the Berra section. Crosstables.
May 12:The Spring 2012 tournament had 20 players and two sections for this event in Peoria, IL. The Challenger Section lived up to its name with three people coming in first after five rounds. They were: Geoffrey Murphy, Connor Cai, and Devanshi Kothari. The Championship Section also lived up to its name with Maxwell Jong finishing ahead of the pack with 4.5 points. Crosstables.
May 12: The May Game – 30 Tournament was in Skokie and had 14 players. It isn’t often that the two lone masters in a tournament don’t finish in the top spots but this tournament had an incredible strong amount of talent in it and at the end of the day, Kent Cen and Rafeh Qazi finished in first with 4 points. Crosstables.
May 17: The St. Charles Chess Club had their 2012 G/10 Tournament. This 6 round event drew 12 players. Dmitri Sergatskov dominated the tournament by drawing only one game and finishing with 5.5 points. Crosstables.
May 18: The Naperville Youth Chess Club had a May tournament with five sections and 19 players. The winners for each section were: Brian Gong (Q1), Allen Shi (Q2), Jonathan Li (Q3), Jatin Mathur (Q4), and Joseph Yuan and Charles Chen tied (Q5). The tie in Q5 section could also be because there was only two people in the section and they tied. Crosstables.
April 27 to May 18: The G30 Championship 2012 Tournament was held in Oak Lawn and had 13 players. Martin Franek acted as spoiler in the tournament by beating master Len Webber in the second round preventing him from tieing for first. Instead the sole winner was Steven Tennant. Crosstable.
May 19: The Glenwood May Open drew 12 players. S.E. Henderson Jr. and David Guidry tied for first with 3 points. Crosstable.
May 19: The 52nd Kumbaya Scholastic Tournament was in Skokie and had 58 players. The winners for each of the four sections were: Emil Weisfeld (U600), Evan Helbig (U1000), Vishesh Verma (U1400), and Rishi Narayanan (+1400). Crosstables.
May 19: The Ninth Annual David Mote Memorial Open had 16 players. Anshul Adve was the only person to win all four rounds. Crosstable.
May 26: May Game 60 in Skokie had 14 players with Sevan Muradian finishing on top with 3.5 points. Crosstable.
May 27: The Chicago Open Action Quad had 14 players. Carl Boor was the sole finisher with 3 points. Crosstable.
May 27: Chicago Open G15 event had the two top finishers both losing their second round to second and third place finishers but in the end Rene Ancheta and Nicky Korba stayed at first with 3 points. Crosstable.
May 24 to 28: The Chicago Open. The biggest tournament held in Illnois every year drew 745 players to Wheeling, IL. Getting 7 points out of a possible 9 is a good result in any tournament but when you throw in that Gabriel Sargissian’s competition were all masters and grandmasters in the Open Section then it makes it that much more remarkable. The U2300 Section had Kevin Wasiluk winning all his games except the last one to Illinois’ own William Aramil. In the U2100 Section David Petty came close to a perfect winning record for all seven rounds but drew one game to second place finisher Mark Plotkin. The U1900 Section Juan Hernandez III needed to beat Robert Hill in the last round to tie him and that’s just what he did. Jeremy Ashley got a big 132 point boost from winning all the rounds in the U1700 Section. Talhah Chaudhry’s near perfect record in the U1500 section was blemished with a single draw to second place finisher David Vogel. In the U1300 Section, Walter Bourdachs needed at least a draw to hold onto first place, and third place finisher Griffith Hibbard-Curto gave him one. The U1100 Section winner, Mark Reed, has picked up a LOT of ratings points in the past month and a half. At the 2012 National High School Champions he picked up 250 points and at the Chicago Open he picked up another 95. The U900 Section had Segun Kamara walking away with both first place and a perfect 7.0 record. Crosstables.
May 28: The Chicago Open Game 7 tournament had 22 players and a master from Kansas, Conrad Holt, walked away with first place. Crosstable.
March 6 through May 29: The First Robin of Spring Tournament held in Aurora, IL had 8 players with highest rated Kyle Mathew taking first place. Crosstable.
May 1 to 29: The Illowa May Tourney had 22 players and had two Iowa players tying for first: Mark Flowers and Don Bruemmer. Crosstable.
May 31: The Blitz Tournament at the Chicago Open drew 24 players. Illinois was well represented at the top, but Wisconsin’s Jim Kinsman was sitting on the tipy-top. Crosstable.