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Fremont Chess Club for Haiti Relief Your club director Ken Zowal and his budding assistant Aditya Kumar organized a mini tournament on February 26th in aid of the recent earthquake tragedy in Haiti. The proceeds from the tournament will be donated to the American Red Cross towards Haiti Relief effort. The three round G30 unrated tournament attracted 10 local players and 5-6 spectators (parents). Samyukta Bhat ended as the winner, closely followed by John Haig & Aditya Kumar. Here are some pictures of the tournament.
Kaidanov Chess camp While our club has welcomed several prolific players in the past, notably IM Andranik and IM Tate, we recently opened our doors to the arguably best chess teacher in America, GM Gregory Kaidanov. Mr. Kaidanov hosted a 4 day invitational “all chess” camp held at our club on Dec 19-22, 2009, featuring nine strong Bay Area juniors, rated 1600 - 2000. Each day was rigorous with 8 hours of analyzing games and solving positional and tactical puzzles. Although the work was intense, the future chess stars stood up to the challenge and enjoyed every minute of it!
Fremont Open - October 2009 The thrid Fremont Open tournament was a huge success with 62 players participating. The Open section was won by John Smail of Berkeley, when the Open and A players were combined into one group -- resulting in several surprises and upsets! The tournament's final game was a High Drama Cliff-hanger and came down to the last 16 seconds! Nelson Sowell won the B section outright, and Raymond Drummer was first in the Reserve section, half a point ahead of the pack. Jeffery Chan won the Best Unrated Trophy. See the full results on USCF cross tables IM Andranik Matikozhyan Simul Southern CA IM Andranik played a simul with Fremont Chess club patrons on October 02, 2009. Please click the link for pictures of the event here. Fremont Friday August Swiss 2009 The New Fremont Chess Club recently concluded a G 90 swiss tournament that ran for 4 Fridays starting from August 14- Sept 11, 2009 (except for August 21). Please see a short report on this tournament in Aditya's new chess blog, including an annotation of an interesting game between Bay area master Richard Koepcke and Hovik Manveleyan. Emory Tate Simul Our recent FCC simul with IM Emory Tate on June 26th, 2009 had a turn out of 12 players and 8 spectators. The simul started at 8 PM and ended at around 10.30 PM and Emory scored a impressive 11 wins and 1 loss (to Francisco). Many of the players hung around a little later to hear Emory's riveting lecture on one his recent tournament games. The simul was a resounding success and we hope to have more simuls with IM/GM's in the near future. Suggestions from club patrons are welcome for future simuls. Picture below from Emory Tate Simul @ the New Fremont Chess Club
USCF Rated Tournament We are pleased to announce that our second 4-round G/90 Swiss tournament (rated) was a success, attracting 13 strong players, with an average rating of approximately 1650. The winner was the Expert Hayk Manvelyan, a regular player at the club. For full standings, click here. We hope to have another club tourney soon! Games Collection
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