Scholastic March Arena Top Performers

 Thank you all who participated in our March Arena series, 2 Lichess tournaments held on 3/23 and 3/30. Total of 54 players! 

Remember that Arena tournaments are very different from Swiss.  Arena points can be a bit manipulated by reducing the time control compared to your opponent. In addition, some kids only played in only one March Arena so they have less points.

Here are the 25 top performers of the March Arena (points for both days were added).

Ryuta Nunez

Nishk Shah

Eric Oen

Fausto Borquez

Cameron Twu

Ephi Rosenstock

James Chang

Saksham Kapoor

Sashwat Raj

Joshua Lin

Hiro Uchiyama

Miller Zhang

Michael Mokhov

Sai Krishna

Chetan Yanamala

Darren Youn

Gordon Negus

Gavin Tjipto

Milo Gilson

Holden Cheng

Anoushka Silva

Anton Mokhov

Kyle Chuang

Francis Ordanza

Brayden Tantisira

SDCC Scholastic Team Brings Trophies from SuperStates

 2023 South California Scholastic SuperStates took place last weekend in Santa Clarita with many teams competing for the best performing teams in South California. In addition, the top players would go on representing South California in the invitational national event.

The list of various teams in SuperStates is below. SDCC kids were all competing under CAS2CC Club team name.

SDCC had few kids representing our club:

Grade Championship:

K8 - Noah Ward, Vedant Maheshwari, Ruhan Vichare, Priyansh Garg

K5 - Ryuta Nunez, Sarthak Gattani

K3 - Hiro Uchiyama, Francis Ordanza, Rayansh Maheshwari

Junior Varsity:

K12 U1600: Gavin Barnes

K8 U1200: Smaran Mukkavilli, Dylan Liu, Delby Sherod

K6 U700: Aiden Yan

K3 U500: Ella Cai, Isaac Sayre

K2U200: Elliott Yan, Binh-Minh Le, Patrick Huang, Atlas Rajaee

SuperStates kicked off with a side bughouse event where SDCC guys Delby Sherod and Ryuta Nunez paired up and placed second!

The following day started with intense matches in many scholastic categories.  SDCC team performance varied from round to round finishing strong:

3rd in K8 championship (represented by Vedant Maheshwari, Noah Ward, Priyansh Garg and Ruhan Vichare) with 15 points, only 0.5 point behind the second team.  Vedant scored 5 points and got the third place on tiebreaks.

3rd in K5 Championship (represented by Ryuta Nunez and Sarthak Gattani)

2nd in K3 Championship (represented by Rayansh Maheshwari, Francis Ordanza and Hiro Uchiyama)

3rd in Rookies K2 U200:   Championship (represented by  Elliott Yan, Bihn-Minh Le, Patrick Huang, Atlas Rajaee).

6th in K8 U1200 (represented by Smaran Mukkavilli, Dylan Liu and Delby Sherod)

7th in K3 U500 (represented by Ella Cai and Isaac Sayre)

In addition, our guys did outstanding in Blitz tournaments taking first places in K6 (by Sarthak Gattani) and in K12 (Noah Ward). Ryuta Nunez, Vedant and Rayansh Maheshwari also took awards in the Blitz tournament.

We are all very proud of our scholastic guys going and facing a very tough competition in 2023 South California Super States!

Gambito #1007 Wallcharts and prizes

 

Gambito #1007

Elite Section

1st Place Zachary Fitzpatrick. 2nd Place Arseiny Kryazhev $50. 3rd Place Lennart Mathe $25. Best U2000 Anthony Mokhov $75. 2nd U2000 Datris Robinson $50. 3rd U2000 Vincent Roberts $25. Best U1800 Tosshaan Thapar $25.

Open Section

1st Place Tez Padhee $75. 2nd Place Jason Arbeiter $50. 3rd Place 3 way tie, Charles Ensey, Sai Pulagam, and Luis Urzua $8 each. Best U1600 Samarth Raghavan $75, 2nd U1600 Vihaan Gupta $50. Best U1400 Vian Parikh $75. 2nd U1400 Joshua Kaasik $50. 3rd U1400 Toby Chen $25. 

U1200 Section

1st/2nd Place Michael Fagan and Omar Orduno $62 each. 3rd Place Trazie Gbahe $25. 1st/2nd Place U1000 4 way tie. Shishir Sodagudi, Sai Krishna, Nathan Trieu, and Saanvi Sheoran $25 each.

Total prize fund $1000 based on 52 players (47 Paid)

SwissSys Wall Chart. Gambito #1007: Elite (standings)

#	Name/Rating/ID	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4
2	Zachary Fitzpatrick	B 8	W 6	B 1	W 4
	2046 16177988	1.0	2.0	3.0	4.0
1	Arseniy Kryazhev	W 7	B 4	W 2	B 12
	2094 30397686	1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0
7	Anthony Mi Mokhov	B 1	W 11	B 3	W 5
	1866 16196162	0.0	1.0	2.0	3.0
9	Datris Robinson	B 3	W 8	B 11	W 6
	1809 12796177	0.0	0.5	1.5	2.5
4	Vincent Roberts	B 11	W 1	W 12	B 2
	1977 15863186	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0
3	Lennart Mathe	W 9	B 12	W 7	B 10
	2015 13333232	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0
12	Tosshaan Thapar	B 5	W 3	B 4	W 1
	1755 17253577	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
6	Tan Vu	B 13	B 2	W 10	B 9
	1936 16384033	1.0	1.0	1.5	1.5
5	Ben Barquin Jr	W 12	B 10	W 8	B 7
	1964 12682476	0.0	0.5	1.5	1.5
10	Pejman Sagart	bye	W 5	B 6	W 3
	1774 12536658	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.5
8	Vincent Broman	W 2	B 9	B 5	W 11
	1828 12838600	0.0	0.5	0.5	1.0
11	Leon Chen	W 4	B 7	W 9	B 8
	1773 17076931	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5
13	Jason Arbeiter	W 6	----	----	----
	1732 13734901	0.0	U0.0	U0.0	U0.0

SwissSys Wall Chart. Gambito #1007: Open (standings)

#	Name/Rating/ID	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4
4	Tez Padhee	W 13	B 7	W 2	B 1
	1682p 31014323	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.5
9	Samarth Raghavan	W 17	W 8	B 7	B 3
	1556 30633647	1.0	1.5	2.5	3.5
13	Vian Parikh	B 4	W 16	W 11	B 2
	1382 17080518	0.0	1.0	2.0	3.0
1	Jason Arbeiter	bye	B 10	W 6	W 4
	1732 13734901	0.5	1.5	2.5	3.0
3	Charles Ensey	bye	W 14	B 8	W 9
	1713 10487188	0.5	1.5	2.5	2.5
6	Sai Pulagam	B 14	W 12	B 1	W 8
	1627 16075110	0.5	1.5	1.5	2.5
5	Luis Urzua	bye	----	B 18	W 12
	1649 30118234	0.5	U0.5	1.5	2.5
14	Vihaan Gupta	W 6	B 3	W 10	B 11
	1361 30019619	0.5	0.5	1.5	2.0
18	Joshua Kaasik	W 11	B 2	W 5	B 10
	1209p 30686852	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0
2	Pouya Mehrkesh	B 12	W 18	B 4	W 13
	1731 31088215	0.5	1.5	1.5	1.5
8	Jacob I Derain	W 15	B 9	W 3	B 6
	1615 14400837	1.0	1.5	1.5	1.5
7	Ken Green	B 16	W 4	W 9	B 15
	1615 15208138	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.5
11	David Narevsky	B 18	W 15	B 13	W 14
	1500 12329150	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.5
12	Xingti Gu	W 2	B 6	W 19	B 5
	1412 17145338	0.5	0.5	1.5	1.5
15	Toby Chen	B 8	B 11	W 16	W 7
	1357 30273244	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.5
17	Sean Devitt	B 9	W 20	----	----
	1234p 30594249	0.0	1.0	U1.0	U1.0
19	Ayaan Oswal	bye	----	B 12	B 16
	957 30407501	0.5	U0.5	0.5	1.0
16	Howard Wang	W 7	B 13	B 15	W 19
	1282 30291617	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5
10	Ildefon Mamaradlo	bye	W 1	B 14	W 18
	1500 12975870	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
20	Katharine Ahrens	----	B 17	----	----
	412p 12935622	U0.0	0.0	U0.0	U0.0

SwissSys Wall Chart. Gambito #1007: U1200 (standings)

#	Name/Rating/ID	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4
5	Michael Fagan	W 16	B 9	W 2	B 7
	1019p 14254137	1.0	2.0	2.5	3.5
1	Omar Orduno	W 11	B 8	W 6	B 2
	1155 30414226	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.5
2	Trazie Gbahe	B 12	W 10	B 5	W 1
	1120p 30214478	1.0	2.0	2.5	3.0
6	Shishir Sodagudi	B 17	W 14	B 1	W 11
	954 17120302	1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0
9	Sai Krishna	B 15	W 5	B 14	W 18
	907 30520681	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0
13	Nathan Trieu	B 3	W 7	W 8	B 12
	730p 17068423	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0
10	Saanvi Sheoran	W 22	B 2	W 15	B 4
	899p 17350815	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0
7	James Wall	W 20	B 13	W 18	W 5
	943 30567182	1.0	2.0	2.5	2.5
14	Greg Deuerlein	W 4	B 6	W 9	B 21
	543 30191332	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0
18	Nicholas Pastrana	bye	W 3	B 7	B 9
	unr. 31144455	0.5	1.5	2.0	2.0
11	Jake Brambila	B 1	W 20	B 21	B 6
	856p 30735489	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.0
8	David Brambila	B 21	W 1	B 13	W 15
	909p 30798353	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0
3	Bruce Mason	W 13	B 18	W 19	B 17
	1057p 15725880	0.0	0.0	1.0	2.0
4	Victor Pineda	B 14	W 17	B 12	W 10
	1039p 30568279	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.0
12	Hemish Parikh	W 2	B 22	W 4	W 13
	829 30286280	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
15	Katharine Ahrens	W 9	bye	B 10	B 8
	412p 12935622	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
17	Nicolas A Wilcox	W 6	B 4	B 20	W 3
	unr. 31161406	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.0
21	Daniel Corona	W 8	B 16	W 11	W 14
	unr. 31128014	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
20	Jeffrey Ren	B 7	B 11	W 17	B 19
	unr. 31156752	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0
16	John Devitt	B 5	W 21	----	----
	unr. 31149156	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
22	Ryan Devitt	B 10	W 12	----	----
	unr. 31150586	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
19	Vinay Gupta	----	----	B 3	W 20
	unr. 31161388	U0.0	U0.0	0.0	0.0