LACC Weekend Activities June 13

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LACC Weekend Activities June 13 - 14 2009

Submitted by mick on 6/16/2009 12:34:07 AM

Saturday Open (G/30)

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Highlights:

David Koller was the surprise winner of this 7-player tournament; upsetting 4 higher-rated players. His 3.0/4.0 result was good for clear place and first prize of $30 as well as gaining 44 rating points (1279-1423). This weekend, he resumes playing consistently on weekends. Perseverance pays!
Bryan Xiao, a SoCal prodigy, was another surprise. This 7-year old had a ½ pt. bye in the first round and scored 2 wins from the last 3 games; good for clear second as well as gaining 79 rating points! After taking only a few Private Lessons, he has been having consistently good results lately.
His rating performance graph – below - looks like some of the stocks I did not buy!

Here he is after another one of his recent great results:

LA Masters (G/30)

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National Master Takashi (Tak) Kurosaki overcame higher-rated NM Ryan Porter to be the winner of this week’s strongest Quad in the West. Making $90 and 24 rating points was not bad either! (2164-2188).

Saturday Nite Blitz (G/5)

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I was able to win this week’s strong Blitz tournament right after the LA Masters. My 5.0/6.0 was good for gaining a few Quick rating points (2200-2213).

Sunday Open (G/60)

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Richard Henderson had another nice sweep with a perfect 3-0 and gaining 31 points in the 14-player field of (1900-1931).
The semi-strong field included 5 ‘A’ players, 5 ‘B’ players, and 4 others.
Woman FIDE Master Simone Liao, another SoCal prodigy, played 3 tough games this weekend. In one, with the Black pieces, she played a VERY nice and tough game against an experienced ‘A’ player; and despite having a weakened K-side position, she managed to score the full point.

Here she is representing USA in the World Youth Tournaments (2007&2008):

June Scholastics I (G/30)

Highlights:

Gerardo Bruno won another one of the LACC semi-monthly Scholastic tournaments – his 5^th in a row!
And here is her rating performance graph – in just about 1 year, he has doubled his ratings!

Richard Peterson, father of 3 talented youngsters, Dante, Mick, and Gia had them play in last weekend’s Scholastic tournament – impressive results as all 3 started playing tournament chess in March of this year:

Rating graph for Dante: http://main.uschess.org/datapage/ratings_graph.php?memid=14164184

Rating graph for Mick: http://main.uschess.org/datapage/ratings_graph.php?memid=14164178

Rating graph for Dante: http://main.uschess.org/datapage/ratings_graph.php?memid=14164190