Spartans Bring Home Five Trophies from Florida SuperState IX!

Congratulations are in order for a great MCDS performance at the Florida State Scholastic Chess Championship! MCDS was represented by 16 players, its greatest representation in any SuperState competition.

K-12 OPEN
This is the second year in a row that the Spartans have finished in the top 4 (last year's finish was 3rd Place) in the highest-rated section of the state championship. The Spartans finished in 4th Place, only a half of a point out of 2nd Place, in a highly competitive section that included one master & five experts. The Spartans were led by Captain Bharat Chandar (4.0/6.0), who finished tied for 8th Place and had a rating increase to 1472. Aaron Ser, Neil Mehta, Ian Gonzalez, Albert Katz, & David Gonzalez also had 3 wins in a strong overall team effort. Congratulations to Coach Peter Konen!

1st: Nova University School
2nd: Divine Savior Lutheran Academy
3rd: South Dade Senior High School
4th: Miami Country Day School
5th: Gulliver School

K-12 U/1000
Led by Matthew Cohen & Sascha Kappos (3.5/6.0), the Spartans earned a 3rd Place trophy in the K-12 U/1000 section. Cristian Padilla got 3 victories in his first-ever rated tournament, and Ricky Gonzalez also had multiple wins. This is the first time that MCDS has brought home two K-12 team trophies.

1st-South Dade Senior High School
2nd-Archbishop Curley-Notre Dame High School
3rd-Miami Country Day School
4th-Hialeah Garden Middle School
5th-Shenandoah Middle School


K-3 OPEN
Elliot Starkman (4.5/6.0) brought home a 6th Place individual trophy from the state championship to help the Spartans win the 5th Place team trophy. James Srebnick's performance helped the team finish the best among all two-person teams in the section.

1st-Elbridge Gale Elementary
2nd-Williams Elementary
3rd-Norwood Elementary
4th-Twin Lakes Elementary
5th-Miami Country Day School

K-3 U/500
Filippo Sbroggio had a fantastic performance winning five out of his six matches, resulting in a 3rd Place trophy. This was a career performance for Filippo and resulted in a 150 point rating increase!

Aaron Ser & Albert Katz also won a 4th Place trophy in the Bughouse side event.

Some pictures from the event are available now at https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/46730067/1/SuperState%20IX?h=878da4. More will be added later in the week.

Congratulations, again, to our teams and trophy winners!

Michael Hutsko
Director, Spartan Chess Club

Superstate IX: Day One

After four rounds of play, the K-12 Open team has 8.5 points. Until I'm able to see the posted standings, I'm not sure exactly what place that is. However, if I had to predict, it would be 3rd Place currently, perhaps two points out of 1st. Ser has 2.5/4.0, and Chandar, Mehta, Werner, & Ian Gonzalez all have 2.0.

The K-12 U/1000 team has 6.5 points, enough for approximately 6th Place at the moment. Cohen & Padilla have 2.0/4.0 for the day, Ricky Gonzalez has 1.5, and Sascha Kappos has 1.0.

Starkman had an undefeated day at 3.5/4.0 in the K-3 Open section. That should put him in the top 3 going into round 5. Srebnick has 2.5/4.0.

Sbroggio is playing well in the K-3 U/500 with 3.0/4.0.

Lots of potential for great things tomorrow in rounds 5 & 6. Stay tuned to @SpartanChess on twitter for more frequent updates. Katz & Ser are playing the Bughouse side event this evening.

MCDS SuperState IX Registrations

K-12 OPEN
Bharat Chandar 1413
Ian Gonzalez 1328
Neil Mehta 1151
Aaron Ser 1070
Albert Katz 1001
David Gonzalez 1000
Alec Werner

K-12 U/1000
Ricardo Gonzalez, III 734
Sascha Kappos 707 (owes Mr. Hutsko $23.19)
Matthew Cohen 593
Cristian Padilla UNR
Simon Hoffman UNR

K-5 OPEN
Andre Harper-Rosenberg 907

K-3 OPEN
Elliot Starkman 1287
James Srebnick 987

K-3 U/500
Filippo Sbroggio 313

Saturday Quick Chess @ MCDS Standings, 1/7/2012

#	Name	Rtng	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Tot	TBrk[M]	TBrk[S]	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]	Prize
1	NM Ernesto Alvarez	2111	W21	W17	W7	W2	W8	5.0	12	13.5	15	45.5	70.00/Trophy
2	Jordanys Diez	1819	W18	W13	W11	L1	W7	4.0	13	15	13	49.5	26.00
3	Jose Machado	1601	W25	W12	W4	L8	W11	4.0	11.5	12.5	13	38	26.00
4	David A Raymond	1696	H---	W9	L3	W15	W13	3.5	12	12	9	38
5	Jonathan C Lau	1417	W19	L7	W18	D11	W12	3.5	10	12	10	39.5
6	Moshe Libbin	1452	L9	W25	D12	W20	W14	3.5	9.5	10.5	8.5	31.5
7	Kevin M Mc Donald	1777	W20	W5	L1	W17	L2	3.0	14.5	16	11	51.5
8	Adam Kutikoff	1874	L12	W22	W16	W3	L1	3.0	14	15.5	9	49.5
9	Aaron Ser	1036	W6	L4	W24	L13	W17	3.0	11.5	13	9	39	21.00
10	Neil Mehta	1112	L17	L21	W23	W18	W19	3.0	7.5	9	6	25	21.00
11	Rene Jean Gillet	1612	W14	W15	L2	D5	L3	2.5	10	16.5	10	51
12	Frank Castillo	1263	W8	L3	D6	W22	L5	2.5	10	15.5	8.5	46
13	Bharat Chandar	1358	W23	L2	D20	W9	L4	2.5	8	13.5	8.5	39.5
14	Miroslav Kriz 2nd	1154	L11	W26	D15	W16	L6	2.5	7.5	11	7.5	33.5
15	Daniel Goldfarb	1324	W26	L11	D14	L4	W24	2.5	6.5	10	7.5	31.5
16	Gabriel Lee	1337	D22	W24	L8	L14	W20	2.5	5.5	10	7.5	32
17	Bruce Kutikoff	1545	W10	L1	W21	L7	L9	2.0	10.5	15.5	8	45.5
18	Aladdin Pettit	1249	L2	W23	L5	L10	W22	2.0	9.5	13.5	5	37
19	James Srebnick	938	L5	L20	W26	W21	L10	2.0	6	9.5	5	26	25.00
20	Peter Konen	1219	L7	W19	D13	L6	L16	1.5	10	13.5	5.5	40.5
21	Anna Maria Nuryasin	1295	L1	W10	L17	L19	D23	1.5	8.5	13.5	4.5	36.5
22	Julian Schultz	638	D16	L8	W25	L12	L18	1.5	8	11	5.5	31	Trophy
23	Ramya Reddy	897	L13	L18	L10	W25	D21	1.5	7	10	2.5	25
24	James Callado	960	H---	L16	L9	W26	L15	1.5	5	8	4	24
25	Raul Martinez-Esteve	1125	L3	L6	L22	L23	W26	1.0	6.5	10.5	1	29.5
26	Bhaveshsai Reddy	604	L15	L14	L19	L24	L25	0.0	7	9.5	0	25.5

Saturday Quick Chess @ MCDS, 1/7/12

Celebrate the new year with some quick chess this Saturday! It is an open, rated tournament for all ages & abilities.

Saturday Quick Chess @ MCDS
January 7, 2011
Round 1 (of 5) begins at 9:30am
G/20
Registration can be done in-person or online at http://qcmcds01072012.eventbrite.com/

Hope to see you here!

Epicure Grand Prix at Miami Country Day #2

The finest chess tournament series in South Florida continues this Saturday!

SCHOLASTIC SECTIONS (K-1, K-3, K-5, K-8 & K-12) 5 ROUNDS,
GAME 30 (30 MINUTES PER PLAYER) EACH TOURNAMENT

NON-SCHOLASTIC (OPEN) SECTION 4 ROUNDS, GAME 45 EACH TOURNAMENT
(OPEN TO ALL ADULTS, STUDENTS MUST HAVE A RATING OF AT LEAST 1500)

FIRST ROUND STARTS AT 9:45, LATER ROUNDS WILL START ASAP

MORE INFORMATION AND DETAILS ARE POSTED AT:

http://bocachess.com/GrandPrix/2011-2012/

USCF MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED.

E-MAIL: JON@BOCACHESS.COM PHONE: 954-421-8222 OR 561-479-0351
WEBSITE: WWW.BOCACHESS.COM (ONLINE ENTRY AVAILABLE)
TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR - JON HASKEL, USCF NAT’L TD,

ASST. TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR - MICHAEL HUTSKO, USCF LOCAL TD

National Chess Day Quick Quads Results

Congratulations to our quad winners!

SwissSys Standings. National Chess Day Quick Quads @ MCDS: Quad 1

#	Name	ID	Rtng	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Tot	Prize
1	Jose Machado	13635137	1538	W2	D4	W3	2.5	30.00
2	Carlos A Hoyos	14676260	1291	L1	W3	W4	2.0
3	Israel J Garcia	14659010	1456	W4	L2	L1	1.0
4	Anna Maria Nuryasin	13882905	1324	L3	D1	L2	0.5

Quad 2

#	Name	ID	Rtng	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Tot	Prize
1	Gabriel Lee	13770334	1286	W3	W4	W2	3.0	30.00
2	Carlos D Hoyos	14676301	1276	W4	W3	L1	2.0
3	Bharat Chandar	14024545	1225	L1	L2	W4	1.0
4	Patrick Jones	14640913	unr.	L2	L1	L3	0.0

Quad 3

#	Name	ID	Rtng	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Tot	Prize
1	Michael Hutsko	21001653	1078	W4	W3	W2	3.0	30.00
2	Ian Scott Gonzalez	14028203	1218	W3	D4	L1	1.5
3	Albert Katz	14316218	959	L2	L1	W4	1.0
4	Stanley Pescador	13461474	1070	L1	D2	L3	0.5

Quad 4

#	Name	ID	Rtng	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Tot	Prize
1	James Callado	14151014	904	D2	W4	W3	2.5	30.00
2	Rommel Concepcion	14621405	861	D1	W3	D4	2.0
3	Giovanni Cragnotti	14252586	931	W4	L2	L1	1.0
4	Gautam Veerapaneni	14156686	826	L3	L1	D2	0.5

Small Swiss

#	Name	ID	Rtng	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Tot	Prize
1	David A. Gonzalez	14028198	788	W2	W3	W4	3.0	30.00
2	Sascha Kappos	13193634	626	L1	W4	W5	2.0
3	Julian Schultz	14028224	651	W5	L1	W6	2.0
4	Siddharth Veerapaneni	14473086	635	W6	L2	L1	1.0
5	Filippo Sbroggio	14366542	196	L3	D6	L2	0.5
6	Matthew Kinkead	14545755	185	L4	D5	L3	0.5