Beginner Tournament

Pictures from the beginner tournament this weekend.

Tournament Standings

1. Walt Spickler
2. Sobenna Egwuekwe
3. Adam Grisham

State Championship Results

This weekend was a great weekend for Region 4. Players from West TN won 3 of the 4 sections, and finished 3rd in the other.



2012 Tennessee State Individual Finals
Region 4 in bold

PRIMARY
No. Name        
1 Bansal, Saumil   
2 Satheesh, Saharsh  
3 Wu, Logan 
4 Chandra, Dhruv
5 Rangan, Manish   
6 Goco, Joshua Valen
7 Williams, Max
8 Smith, Colin
9 Zhang, Franklin X
10 Campbell, Harrison



ELEMENTARY
(** WON G/10 PLAYOFF FOR CHAMPIONSHIP)
No. Name  
2** Campbell, Joshua A
1 Pao, Lucas
3 Kouch, Joshua  
4 Bowling, Michael R
5 Zhao, Shijie "Jack
6 Cao, Kevin
7 Barrett, Bowen Alt
8 James, Cydney M 
9 Illukpitiya, Binul
10 Rotz, Michael  A 




JUN IOR HIGH

No. Name
1 Friedman, Max Asher 
2 Hoyos, Jordan
3 Li, Angela
4 Xue, Albert
5 Fu, Jason
6 Sharpe, Kyle Andre
7 Burgess, Carter
8 Zhang, Alvin
9 Qin, Alexander Cha
10 Vogt, Gretchen

HIGH SCHOOL
(****WON 4 YR $4,000/YR  SCHOLARSHIP TO TENNESSEE TECH UNIVERSITY)
(** WON 2ND PLACE + 4 YR $2,500/YR SCHOLARSHIP TO TN TECH IN G/10 PLAYOFF)

No. Name  
1 Vogt, Nathan****
2 Marsh, Corry L**
3 Sorensen, Andy 
4 Kumar, Vikas
5 Sharpe, Trevor
6 Neglia, Salvatore
7 Knowles, Chase 
8 Weishaar, Luke
9 Carrillo, Oscar
10 Kurupassery, Neel

Greater Memphis Open 2

6SS, G/120 (Open & U1600).  Site: Greater Memphis Chess Center, 5796 Shelby Oaks Drive Suite 11, Memphis, TN 38134. 

Round times: Fri 7pm, Sat 9-2-7, Sun 9-2. Optional 2 day with round 1 and 2 as G/60 9-11:30 and merge. 

EF $45 before 2-20-12, $55 after and onsite. GMCC and MCC members $40 anytime. USCF Youth and Scholastic Players may enter either Section to compete for no prize money for $25 anytime.  Re-entry after round one: $25.

Guaranteed Prize Fund: Open: 1st $250, 2nd 125, 3rd 75, Top U1600: 1st  125, 2nd  75, 3rd  50. 

Special U1000 Scholastic section. 4 round G/1. Entry fee: $15. Round times: Sat 9-11:30,2, 4:30. Trophies to top 10. 

Onsite Registration:  Friday 2/24: 5pm-6:30pm,  Saturday 2/25: 7am-8:30am.

Tournament Director: Gary M. Pylant,  901-359-8616. 

Grahamwood Chess Students

Pictures of all of the Grahamwood Chess Club students by grade. 

Pictures From Memphis K-12 City Championships

Some of the Grahamwood Kids now in Junior High and High School
Deepu, Jay, Tian, Sreemanth, Sarthak

Henry Yu from PDS working on notation.

Logan Wu versus Saharsh Satheesh.  

Peabody Elementary player Rueben Dailey. Rueben finished with 3 points and won top Unrated trophy.

Sobenna Egwuekwe from Peabody and Anya Vadayar from Grahamwood playing in the Primary Novice section.

I have more and will update them soon. 

Pictures from Peabody

Playing the pawn game and Bear versus Bees.

Creating a Blog

I have decided to create a blog to help share what is going on at the center, and various functions that we attend. I hope that you enjoy the blog and information here, and look forward to seeing you at some of the events.