Gens Una Sumus!
Gregory Kaidanov ( Chess Life January 2009 page 30)
1) Mechanics Institute Chess Club News
2) Kraai-Milman, Berkeley International
3) Top Bay Area FIDE Rated Players
4) Candidates for the USCF Executive Board
5) Nike and Jordan Fundamentals Grant Program
6) Copper State International
Bob Burger Open San Francisco (5), 2009
Bob Burger Open San Francisco (4), 2009
IM Walter Shipman leads a large group of players with perfect scores after two rounds of the Winter Tuesday Night Marathon.
The following except comes from Michael Aigner's excellent blog - http://fpawn.blogspot.com. Michael highlights the Bay Area's newest rated Master, 16-year-old Fremont High School student Rohan Agarwal, who went over 2200 with a fine result in the North American Open in Las Vegas.
The following crush from Las Vegas illustrates Rohan's attacking style. He chooses to mix it up against the iconic IM Emory Tate out of Philidor's defense. The sly IM quickly got an inferior position (16.Nb1 simply admits failure) and it went downhill from there. White's retreat 21.Bg2 lost instantly to Nxg2 followed by an invasion along the h-file.
2008 North American Open (2)
North American Open Las Vegas (4), 2008
Don't miss visiting the Mechanics' on Tuesday, January 27. IM Sam Shankland will be awarded his Falconer prize at 5 pm and then Sam (for his IM title) and newly minted GMs Josh Friedel and Vinay Bhat will be awarded their medals and certificates from FIDE recognizing these outstanding achievements. Finally Vinay will give a talk on his recent trip to play in India.
Berkeley International (10), 2008
- GM Josh Friedel 2511
- GM Jesse Kraai 2506
- GM Vinay Bhat 2495
- IM Sam Shankland 2453
- GM Walter Browne 2435
- IM David Pruess 2422
- IM Andrei Florean 2420
- IM John Donaldson 2411
- IM Vladimir Mezentsev 2403
- IM Ricardo DeGuzman 2402
- FM Vladimir Strugatsky 2397
- IM Dmitry Zilberstein 2393
- FM Daniel Naroditsky 2362
- FM Elliott Liu 2356
- IM John Grefe 2348
- FM Shiv Shivaji 2308
- NM Julian Landaw 2286
- NM Gregory Young 2264
- NM Steven Zierk 2259
- FM Bela Evans 2258
- NM Nicolas Yap 2255
- NM Andy Lee 2240
- NM Daniel Schwarz 2228
- Michael Aigner 2227
- IM Walter Shipman 2220
- IM Sam Shankland 2453
- FM Daniel Naroditsky 2362
- NM Gregory Young 2264
- NM Steven Zierk 2259
- NM Rohan Agarwal 2190
- NM Nicholas Nip 2150
- Alan Naroditsky 2133
- Evan Sandberg 2131
- Adarsh Konda 2115
- Michael Zhong 2113
- Adam Goldberg 2008
- Louiza Livschitz 1963
Mike Atkins
Jim Berry
Bill Goichberg
Ruth Haring
Eric Hecht
Mikhail Korenman
Brian Lafferty
Blas Lugo
Brian Mottershead
Mike Nietman
Sam Sloan
A few signed petitions were received for Beatriz Marinello and David Quinn. However, no filing fee or statement of intent to run from either of these individuals was received, so these individuals have not met the requirements for being certified as a candidate in the election.
Once the office has completed the process of verifying the signatures, a double-blind random drawing will be held at the office to determine the order the names will be placed on the ballot, which will also be the order that the candidate statements will appear in Chess Life.
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Mike Nolan, Chair, USCF Election Committee
We received the information below about grants awarded to teachers throughthe Nike and Jordan Fundamentals Grant Program. We appreciate the effortsof Joe Lux to pass this along to our members who might be able to connect toexisting or new scholastic chess programs.
Grant Awards
Nike and Michael Jordan award grants to teachers from $1,000 to $2,500 whohave programs geared to the concept of excellence, excelling, and playingyour best game everyday. The schools must have over 50% of the student bodyon free or reduced lunch programs. This tends to be Federal Title I schools.
A few years ago USCF members Ken and Kevin Olenwalder applied for anafterschool chess program at Ferris High School, Jersey City, NJ thatalready existed. They were awarded a total of $5,000 for the Chess Club.What better an area of study for excelling competitively than chess!
You can find Jordan Fundamentals Grant Program atwww.nike.com/jumpman23/features/fundamentals/guidelines.html.
Ken and Kevin are allowing other teachers to see their successful grantapplication. They are also willing to review your application for ideas.
Contact Joe Lux at [email protected] to receive the successful application for ideas, and to contact Ken and Kevin.
The deadlines for applications is April 15, 2009.
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Jerry Nash, USCF Scholastic Director
The Copper State International will be a 10 round Swiss offering GM and IM norms. Entry is limited to players rated FIDE 2200 and higher, although exceptions down to FIDE 2000 made be made by the organizer.
The tournament will take place in Mesa (Phoenix), Arizona from May 29-June 3, 2009, conveniently between two of the countries largest events, the Chicago Open and the National Open.
The time control for all games will be G/90 minutes plus 1 minute increment per move. Most rounds (except the last) will be at 10:00 am and 4:00 pm per day.
ENTRY FEE:
Grand Masters = FREE (1st 5 GMs to register will receive $600.00 toward expenses)
International Masters rated over 2450 FIDE = FREE
Rated Under 2450 FIDE = $150.00
Rated Under 2350 FIDE = $225.00
Rated Under 2250 FIDE = $300.00
1st 5 Foreigners will receive $300 toward expenses. (Foreign GMs who commit within the first 5 will receive the full $900.00).
All additional players of foreign federation will receive $50 off the entry price listed for their rating class.
PRIZE FUND (All prizes are unconditionally guaranteed!!):
1st place: $2,000.00
2nd place: $1,500.00
3rd place: $1,000.00
Top U2500 FIDE: $500.00
Top U2400 FIDE: $500.00
Top U2300 FIDE: $500.00
Best Game Prize: $200.00
Brilliancy Prize: $200.00
For more information on this event, organized by Daniel Rensch of American Chess Events, please visit the tournament website at http://www.americanchess.net/tournaments/csi_052909.asp.
Please contact Daniel at [email protected] if you require more details.
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