Aviator Pawns #1
Scholastic Report
April 3, 2010 – Riley D. Driver

On a beautiful Saturday on April 3, 2010, twenty young men and women fought for five rounds of chess and finished just before the high winds arrived. This is their story.

In the Unrated K3/K1 section had four heart breaking losses in a row and it looked like a fifth one was going to occur.  But Elana Bock hung in there,  and swindled her opponent,  and was stalemated. Kevin Brown and Daniel Mogilevsky playing in their first ‘official’ tournament scored 1.0 and 2.5 points respectively.  George Kamlet won K1 First Place with 2.0 points. Steve Wellbaum won the K3 trophy with 3.5 points while Olivia Kamlet and Spencer Tani tied for K3 first place with 4.0 points – look for them to move to rated chess soon.

In the Unrated K5/K8 section six players fought it out in Round Robin style. Malacki O’Neal lost his first four rounds, but managed a draw in the final round. K5 Third Place went to Keith Brown while K5 Second Place went to Ian Scott. But it was Solomon West who took K5 First Place with 3.0 points. Jackson Donaldson took the K8 Second Place trophy with 3.5 points and it was Zachary Mikhail who took K8 First place with 4.5 points – without suffering a single loss.

Unrated cross table  – just a click away:

AvaitorPawnsCrossTables

In the RATED K5/K8 section six players again fought it out in Round Robin action. It was Viswanath Namburi’s first ever rated event and everyone was tough on him as he finished with 0.0 points, but his games showed great heart and mental toughness. He never quit and will do better next time around. K5 Third Place trophy went to Kevin Zhu. (Note to self – Kevin’s trophy had the wrong label and we have to get the correct one mailed to him – he wasn’t complaining) The Second Place K5 trophy went to Nicholas Kamlet with 2.0 points. K5 First Place trophy went to Colin Gohmann with 3.0 points, who missed a win against Ishan Paranjte in the third round. K8 First Place went to Ishan and Manish Praanjte with 4.5 points each losing only one half point to each other in a hard fought draw in round five.

About the parents … the parents in attendance were the best behaved parents I have ever seen at a scholastic tournament. Heck, the way they behaved, I may want to put on more scholastic tournaments. Oh, two more are already scheduled for later this year – September 18 and November 8, both on Saturday. Some of the parents said they wanted one over the summer as well. We will take a look.

For the rated cross tables….just a click away:

http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?201004036341

And for photos….