Full Results Albany PAL 2012: Albany Chess Champs — Martha, Brian, Antonio

SwissSys Standings. Albany PAL 2012: Sargeant Gr K-2

May 14 & 16, 2012 at PAL Center, 844 Madison Ave., Albany

# Name Rtng Post Team Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 Martha Samashvilli 954 966 EAGLE W3 W2 B— W5 W4 5.0
2 Zeroun Ni 429 439 EAGLE B— L1 W3 L4 B— 3.0
3 Raemonah Patterson 450 412 SPA L1 B— L2 B— D5 2.5
4 Sayyed Ayube 567 587 HJ U— U— U— W2 L1 1.0
5 Areyn Oliver 450 443 SPA U— U— U— L1 D3 0.5

SwissSys Standings. Albany PAL 2012: Lieutenant Gr 3-5

# Name Rtng Post Team Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 Brian Stewart 410 717 GIF W6 W9 W4 W2 L3 4.0
2 ReyAmelet Reynoso 815 825 HJ W3 W7 W10 L1 W6 4.0
3 Adam Aleksic 724 774 EAGLE L2 W10 W7 W8 W1 4.0
4 Chamaobi Nwosu 470 570 HJ W9 D6 L1 D7 W8 3.0
5 Liguori Karapanxho 423 449 EAGLE D8 B— H— L6 W10 3.0
6 Paul Fields 695 659 HJ L1 D4 W9 W5 L2 2.5
7 Michael Marcellus 480 479 EP W10 L2 L3 D4 D9 2.0
8 Nicholas Koopman 562 501 HJ D5 B— H— L3 L4 2.0
9 Isaac Williams 451 426 GIF L4 L1 L6 W10 D7 1.5
10 Sylvia Patterson 450 349 SPA L7 L3 L2 L9 L5 0.0

SwissSys Standings. Albany PAL 2012: Captain Gr 6-9

# Name Rtng Post Team Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 Antonio Lacy 706 813 GIF W10 B— B— W2 W3 5.0
2 Supreme Webb 626 685 MYER W9 W4 W5 L1 W6 4.0
3 Jahsier Chandler 620 679 HMS W6 W8 W7 W4 L1 4.0
4 Jyasi Nagel 499 539 HMS W5 L2 W9 L3 W7 3.0
5 Saquan Malloy 420 480 MYER L4 W9 L2 W7 W8 3.0
6 Sean McDuffie 419 388 MYER L3 L7 W8 X10 L2 2.0
7 Ephraim Rosenberg 449 403 HMS D8 W6 L3 L5 L4 1.5
8 Nakaya Brown 389 348 MYER D7 L3 L6 W9 L5 1.5
9 Miriam Rosenberg 359 277 HMS L2 L5 L4 L8 B— 1.0
10 Antoine Whitfield 383 375 GIF L1 H— H— F6 U— 1.0

In the Albany PAL City Championships held May 14 -16, 2012 at the PAL Center (VI) tie-break points were awarded in the Lieutenant’s Section for Grades 3-5 Champion when Brian Stewart, ReyAmelet ReyNoso and Adam Aleksic, all tied with 4 points out of a possible 5. The chart below shows the number of each of their opponents and the total number of points of each.  The first tie-break system (Modified Median) gets rid of the top and bottom scores of each of their opponents (using only the middle three scores), while the second tie-break system (Median) looks at all five scores.

 

BrianOpponent # Stewart ReyAmeletOpponent # RenNoso AdamOpponent # Aleksic
Rd 1 6 2.5 3 4 2 4
Rd 2 9 1.5x 7 2 10 0x
Rd 3 4 3 10 0x 7 2
Rd 4 2 4 1 4x 8 2
Rd 5 3 4x 6 2.5 1 4x
TB 1 8.5 8.5 8
TB 2 15 12.5 12
Position First Second Third

 

Based on the chart above you can see that Brian and ReyAmelet tied according to the first tie-break system, each having 8.5 points while Adam only had 8.  The second tie-break system using all five opponents shows Brian has a clear 15 to 12.5 point advantage over ReyAmelet according to all scorers, thereby winningFirst Place on the second tie-break system.

Undefeated Deepak Meets the Challenge

On Satuday, May 12,  Deepak Aaron single-handedly beat the 20 opponents who faced off trying to  best a Master level player at home in Washington Park on the weekend of Mother’s Day. After allowing his opponents to choose color in the Tulip Festival the actual carnage began… Deepak 20, Opponents 0.  The festival event lasted three hours, from 1:00 – 4:00. Congratulations to the New York State Scholastic Champion who continually gives honor and glory for chessplayers everywhere.  Hard work and persistence pay off.  Congratulations, Deepak, and all those who challenged our magnificnet champion!!!

Deepak’s simul during the Tulip Festival was a nice turn out in spite of a slow start. He probably played over 45 games! Winning all in spite of having some solid 2000, 1900 and 1800 players was pretty good for Deepak. He wasn’t  too well as he was nursing a cole. Probably the open air and the competition cleared his cold away!!!

When we returned there was an email waiting with an invitation for Deepak to attend the US Chess School at the Marshall Chess Club in Manhattan from July 10 – 14, run by IM Greg Shahade. This year they have several GMs taking a day each – the line up is:
GM Alejando Ramirez
GM Giorgi Kacheishvili
GM Loek van Wely
GM Tamaz Gelashvili
GM Alex Stripunsky
GM Loek Van Wely is well known. I have heard of Giorgi Kacheishvili’s excellent coaching abilities based on his work with Irina Krush. Not sure of the others, but they are all active GMs in the US circuit. The cost for the camp is FREE as Deepak is being invited. However, we would have to cover for lodging, travel and food.