Vote Chess Match vs Southwest Chess Club

We will be holding a Vote Chess match against the Southwest Chess Club this Thursday, August 13 at 7:30 PM!  

What is a Vote Chess match? 

All Waukesha Chess Club players participating will (jointly) choose our moves. There will be just one game. While it’s the SWCC’s turn to move we can discuss strategy and possible moves they will make. While it’s our turn to move we will discus our various options and then vote on what move we should play. 

The Vote Chess match is scheduled to start at 7:30 PM. However, the Zoom meeting will start at 7:00 PM so that those unfamiliar with how to use Zoom will have a chance to try out the various features. (e.g., How to send/view Chat messages; How to “raise” your hand; How to mute/unmute yourself; etc) 

No video is required or will be used. Your computer or tablet should have a microphone and speakers. The first vote chess match we had in early July was a lot of fun and produced a hard fought draw. 

Please consider taking part on Thursday!

Late July Swiss - Pairings

Round 3 (12 August)

29Jul20 29Jul20 - Round 3 Pairing Sheet, Page 1

Board White Black

101. ___ Kurth, Isabella (2.0,866) ___ Coons, James Jay (2.0,1708)

102. ___ Grochowski, Robin (1.5,1698) ___ Kier, Frederick (2.0,542)

103. ___ Rivedal, Andrew (1.0,1634) ___ Claditis, Nicholas (1.0,1165)

104. ___ Kier, Delenn (1.0,1324) ___ Nickell, James W (1.0,1500)

105. ___ Klandrud, Kevin (0.0,1437) ___ Krause, Aaron Paul (0.5,1946)

106. ___ Gupta, Arvav (0.0,590) ___ Drout, Ethan Chris (0.0,610)

Round 2 (05 August)

Board White Black

101. W  Coons, James Jay (1.0,1708)   L Rivedal, Andrew (1.0,1634)

102. .5 Krause, Aaron Paul (0.0,1946) .5 Grochowski, Robin (1.0,1698)

103. L Claditis, Nicholas (1.0,1165) W Nickell, James W (0.0,1500)

104. L Klandrud, Kevin (0.0,1437) W Kurth, Isabella (1.0,866)

105. WF Kier, Delenn (0.0,1324) LF Drout, Ethan Chris (0.0,610)

106. W Kier, Frederick (1.0,542) L Gupta, Arvav (0.0,590)
 

Round 1 (29 July)  

Board White Black

101. L Krause, Aaron Paul (0.0,1946) W Rivedal, Andrew (0.0,1634)

102. L Nickell, James W (0.0,1500) W Coons, James Jay (0.0,1708)

103. W Grochowski, Robin (0.0,1698) L Klandrud, Kevin (0.0,1437)

104. W Kurth, Isabella (0.0,866) L Kier, Delenn (0.0,1324)

105. W Claditis, Nicholas (0.0,1165) L Gupta, Arvav (0.0,590)

106. WFpawnpatine Kier, Frederick (0.0,542) LF Diojf (Ethan Drout)

Late July Swiss - Begins 29 July

We will hold a three round Swiss on chess.com at classical time control of G100; +5 Send me (Kevin) an email/text or comment on chess.com that you wish to take part int this three week tournament.
Or just drop a note here.  I will pair 1 hour prior to game time and post here and will try to post on chess.com

22July on chess.com G18/5i Register one hour prior to start of tournament

22July on chess.com
G18/5i  Register one hour prior to start of tournament
if you need assistance please contact me.

Kevin

June Classic Final Crosstables

Open Section

#	Username	Name	Elo	Score	Rnd 1	Rnd 2	Rnd 3
1	JamesCoons	James Coons	1708	3	W 6	W 4	W 3
2	RobinChess69	Robin Grochowski	1698	2	L 7	W 5	W 6
3	BenzoChess	Ben Corcoran	1644	2	W 8	W 7	L 1
4	arivedal	Andrew Rivedal	1634	2	W 9	L 1	W 5
5	jnickell	Jim Nickell	1500	1	W 10	L 2	L 4
6	mikedlawrence	Mike Lawrence	1446	1	L 1	W 9	L 2
7	kklandrud	Kevin Klandrud	1437	2	W 2	L 3	W 10
8	Agastya_B	Agastya Bhadoria	1359	1	L 3	L 10	W 9
9	delennkier	Delenn Kier	1324	0	L 4	L 6	L 8
10	CHECKMATE9701	Nick Claditis	1165	1	L 5	W 8	L 7

Reserve Section

#	Username	Name	Elo	Score	Rnd 1	Rnd 2	Rnd 3
1	vinayakchess2043	Vinayak Menon	976	3	W 4	W 6	W 2
2	bellakurth	Bella Kurth	834	2	W 5	W 3	L 1
3	beeUbeeBest	T Shanmugasundaram	748	1	L 6	L 2	BYE
4	xcats	Abhinav Shanmugasundaram	744	1	L 1	W 7	L 6
5	abhitanu	Menaka Paramasivam	618	1	L 2	BYE	L 7
6	Guuuuupta5	Gupta Arvav	580	1	L 3	L 1	W 4
7	pawnpatine	Fred Kier	542	2	BYE	L 4	W 5

Round 3 Pairings

June 17 2020 open - Round 3 

Board               White                                     Black

101. ___ (BenzoChess) Corcoran, Ben (2.0,1644) ___ (JamesCoons) Coons, James Jay (2.0,1708)

102. ___ (RobinChess69) Grochowski, Robin (1.0,1698) ___ (mikedlawrence) Lawrence, Mike (1.0,1446)

103. ___ (arivedal) Rivedal, Andrew (1.0,1634) ___ (jnickell) Nickell, James W (1.0,1500)

104. ___ (kklandrud) Klandrud, Kevin (1.0,1437) ___ (CHECKMATE9701) Claditis, Nick (1.0,1165)

105. ___ (Agastya_B) Bhadoria, Agastya (0.0,1359) ___ (delennkier) Kier, Delenn (0.0,1324)

June 17 2020 reserve - Round 3 Pairing

Board             White                                      Black

201. ___ (vinayakchess2043) Menon, Vinayak (2.0,976) ___ (bellakurth) Kurth,Isabella (2.0,866)

202. ___ (Guuuuupta5) Gupta, Arvav (1.0,580) ___ (xcats) Shanmugasundaram, A (1.0,680)

203. ___ (pawnpatine) Kier, Frederick (1.0,542) ___ (abhitanu) Paramasivam, Menak (1.0,618)

Shanmugasundaram, T (0.0,748) Please Wait

June Classic Round 2 - Results

Open Section

Board	White	Black	Result
1	JamesCoons	arivedal	1 - 0
2	benzochess	kklandrud	1 - 0
3	jnickell	RobinChess69	0 - 1
4	delennkier	mikedlawrence	0 - 1
5	CHECKMATE9701	Agastya_B	1 - 0

Reserve Section

Board	White	Black	Result
1	Guuuuupta5	vinayak0243	0 - 1
2	bellakurth	beeUbeeBest	1 - 0
3	xcats	pawnpatine	1 - 0
4	abhitanu	BYE

June Classic Round 2 - Pairings

June 24 2020 OPEN - Round 2 

Board         White                                             Black

101. ___ (JamesCoons) Coons, James Jay (1.0,1708) ___(arivedal)  Rivedal, Andrew (1.0,1634)

102. ___ (Benzochess) Corcoran, Ben (1.0,1644) ___  (kklandrud) Klandrud, Kevin (1.0,1437)

103. ___ (jnickell)  Nickell, James W (1.0,1500) ___ (RobinChess69) Grochowski, Robin (0.0,1698)

104. ___ (delennkier) Kier, Delenn (0.0,1324) ___(mikedlawrence) Lawrence, Mike (0.0,1446)

105. ___ (CHECKMATE9701) Claditis, Nick (0.0,1165) ___(Agastya_B) Bhadoria, Agastya (0.0,1359)

June 24 2020 RESERVE - Round 2

Board          White                                       Black

201. ___ Gupta, Arvav (1.0,580) ___ (vinayakchess2043) Menon, Vinayak (1.0,976)

202. ___  (bellakurth) Kurth,Isabella (1.0,866) ___ (beeUbeeBest) Shanmugasundaram, T (0.0,748)

203. ___  (xcats) Shanmugasundaram, A (0.0,680) ___ )pawnpatine) Kier, Frederick (1.0,542)

(abhitanu)  Paramasivam, Menak (0.0,618) - if Vinayak's sibling would like to play please be white and challenge abhitanu

June Classic Round 1

PAIRINGS

Open Section

Board White                                                     Black

101. ___ (mikedlawrence) Lawrence, Mike (0.0,1446) ___ (JamesCoons) Coons, James Jay (0.0,1708)

102. ___ (RobinChess69) Grochowski, Robin (0.0,1698) ___ (kklandrud) Klandrud, Kevin (0.0,1437)

103. ___ (Agastya_B) Bhadoria, Agastya (0.0,1359) ___ (Benzochess)Corcoran, Ben (0.0,1644)

104. ___ (arivedal) Rivedal, Andrew (0.0,1634) ___ (delennkier) Kier, Delenn (0.0,1324)

105. ___ (CHECKMATE9701) Claditis, Nick (0.0,1165) ___ (jnickell) Nickell, James W (0.0,1500)

Reserve Section

Board White                                           Black

201. ___ (vinayakchess2043) Menon, Vinayak (0.0,976) ___ (xcats) Shanmugasundaram, A (0.0,680)

202. ___ (abhitanu) Paramasivam, Menak (0.0,618) ___ (bellakurth) Kurth,Isabella (0.0,866)

203. ___ (beeUbeeBest) Shanmugasundaram, T (0.0,748) ___ (Guuuuupta5) Gupta, Arvav (0.0,580)

pawnpatine Kier, Frederick (0.0,542) Please Wait

RESULTS

Board White Black

101. 0.0 Lawrence, Mike (0.0,1446) 1.0 Coons, James Jay (0.0,1708)

102. 0.0 Grochowski, Robin (0.0,1698) 1.0 Klandrud, Kevin (0.0,1437)

103. 0.0 Bhadoria, Agastya (0.0,1359) 1.0 Corcoran, Ben (0.0,1644)

104. 1.0 Rivedal, Andrew (0.0,1634) 0.0 Kier, Delenn (0.0,1324)

105. 0.0 Claditis, Nick (0.0,1165) 1.0 Nickell, James W (0.0,1500)

Board White Black

201. 1.0 Menon, Vinayak (0.0,976) 0.0 Shanmugasundaram, A (0.0,680)

202. 0.0 Paramasivam, Menak (0.0,618) 1.0 Kurth,Isabella (0.0,866)

203. 0.0 Shanmugasundaram, T (0.0,748) 1.0 Gupta, Arvav (0.0,580)

        1.0 (bye) Kier, Frederick (0.0,542)

June Blitz Arena - Results

We held our June Blitz Arena event on June 10, 2020. There were two sections and the results were:
Open: 1st mikewier, 2nd zugzwang_mke, 3rd AaronKrauseWCC
Reserve: 1st ninjagu, 2nd jnickell, 3rd Guuuuupta5

Spring Classic Final Crosstable

#	Username	Name	Elo	Score	Rnd 1	Rnd 2	Rnd 3	Rnd 4
1	zugzwang_mke	Mike La Budde	2056	3.5	W 9	W 5	W 8	D 2
2	JamesCoons	James Coons	1757	3.5	W 10	W 6	W 4	D 1
3	RobinChess69	Robin Grochowski	1755	2.5	W 11	L 8	BYE	W 12
4	Wacked_One	Jack Creed	1700	3	W 12	W 7	L 2	WF 13
5	arivedal	Andrew Rivedal	1615	2	W 15	L 1	W 11	L 8
6	srhegel	John A. Hegelmeyer	1514	2.5	W 16	L 2	W 17	D 10
7	jnickell	Jim Nickell	1500	1	W 17	L 4	L 12	L 9
8	kklandrud	Kevin Klandrud	1462	3	W 18	W 3	L 1	W 5
9	mikedlawrence	Mike Lawrence	1443	2	L 1	L 14	W 19	W 7
10	Agastya_B	Agastya Bhadoria	1316	2.5	L 2	W 18	W 16	D 6
11	delennkier	Delenn Kier	1290	2	L 3	W 16	L 5	W 14
12	CHECKMATE9701	Nick Claditis	1165	2	L 4	W 15	W 7	L 3
13	vinayakchess2043	Vinayak Menon	976	2.5	BYE	W 19	W 14	LF 4
14	bellakurth	Bella Kurth	834	1.5	BYE	W 9	L 13	L 11
15	xcats	Abhinav Shanmugasundaram	744	0.5	L 5	L 12	D 18	L 17
16	abhitanu	Menaka Paramasivam	606	0.5	L 6	L 11	L 10	BYE
17	Guuuuupta5	Gupta Arvav	592	2	L 7	BYE	L 6	W 15
18	pawnpatine	Fred Kier	542	1.5	L 8	L 10	D 15	W 19
19	442oons_messi	Vedang Bhadoria	443	0.5	BYE	L 13	L 9	L 18

Spring Classic Round 4 - Results

Board	White	Black	Result
1	JamesCoons	zugzwang_mke	½ - ½
2	Wacked_One	vinayakchess2043	1 - 0 F
3	kklandrud	arivedal	1 - 0
4	srhegel	Agastya_B	½ - ½
5	CHECKMATE9701	RobinChess69	0 - 1
6	bellakurth	delennkier	0 - 1
7	mikedlawrence	jnickell	1 - 0
8	xcats	Guuuuupta5	0 - 1
9	442oons_messi	pawnpatine	0 - 1
	abhitanu	--	½ (bye)

Spring Classic Round 4 - Pairings

The fourth and final round of our Spring Classic will be held online at Chess.com at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, June 3. Here are the pairings.

Board	White	Black
1	JamesCoons	zugzwang_mke
2	Wacked_One	vinayakchess2043
3	kklandrud	arivedal
4	srhegel	Agastya_B
5	CHECKMATE9701	RobinChess69
6	bellakurth	delennkier
7	mikedlawrence	jnickell
8	xcats	Guuuuupta5
9	442oons_messi	pawnpatine
	abhitanu	-- please wait --

Please try to arrive online a few minutes early and White is responsible for creating the challenge. Instructions on how to do so can be found here.

Spring Classic Round 3 - Results

Board	White	Black	Result
1	zugzwang_mke	kklandrud	1 - 0
2	JamesCoons	Wacked_One	1 - 0
3	bellakurth	vinayakchess2043	0 - 1
4	abhitanu	Agastya_B	0 - 1
5	delennkier	arivedal	0 - 1
6	Guuuuupta5	srhegel	0 - 1
7	jnickell	CHECKMATE9701	0 - 1
8	442oons_messi	mikedlawrence	0 - 1
9	pawnpatine	xcats	½ - ½
	RobinChess69	-- BYE --	½

Spring Classic Round 3 - Pairings

Board	White	Black
1	zugzwang_mke	kklandrud
2	JamesCoons	Wacked_One
3	bellakurth	vinayakchess2043
4	abhitanu	Agastya_B
5	delennkier	arivedal
6	Guuuuupta5	srhegel
7	jnickell	CHECKMATE9701
8	442oons_messi	mikedlawrence
9	pawnpatine	xcats
	RobinChess69	-- BYE --

Please try to arrive online a few minutes early and White is responsible for creating the challenge. Instructions on how to do so can be found here.

Spring Classic Round 2 - Results

Board	White	Black	Result
1	arivedal	zugzwang_mke	0 - 1
2	srhegel	JamesCoons	0 - 1
3	kklandrud	RobinChess69	1 - 0
4	Wacked_One	jnickell	1 - 0
5	vinayakchess2043	442oons_messi	1 - 0
6	mikedlawrence	bellakurth	0 - 1
7	Agastya_B	pawnpatine	1 - 0
8	delennkier	abhitanu	1 - 0
9	xcats	CHECKMATE9701	0 - 1

Spring Classic Round 2 - Pairings

Round 2 pairings:

Board	White	Black
1	arivedal	zugzwang_mke
2	srhegel	JamesCoons
3	kklandrud	RobinChess69
4	Wacked_One	jnickell
5	vinayakchess2043	442oons_messi
6	mikedlawrence	bellakurth
7	Agastya_B	pawnpatine
8	delennkier	abhitanu
9	xcats	CHECKMATE9701

Like last week, please try to arrive online a few minutes early and White is responsible for creating the challenge; instructions on how to do so can be found here.

Spring Classic Round 1 Results

Here are the results from Round 1

Board	White	Black	Result
1	zugzwang_mke	mikedlawrence	1 - 0
2	JamesCoons	Agastya_B	1 - 0
3	delennkier	RobinChess69	0 -1
4	CHECKMATE9701	Wacked_One	0 - 1
5	arivedal	xcats	1 - 0
6	abhitanu	srhegel	0 - 1
7	jnickell	Guuuuupta5	1 - 0
8	pawnpatine	kklandrud	0 - 1

Spring Classic Round 1 Pairings

The pairings are now available for round 1 of the Spring Classic and can be found here.
Time Control is: G/100;+5
Instructions for creating the online Challenge for your game are here.
Good Luck!!

May Blitz Arena - Results

We held our second Blitz Arena event on May 06, 2020. This was held in two sections.
Open: 1st zugzwang_mke, 2nd arivedal, 3rd JamesCoons
Reserve: 1st vinayakchess2043, 2nd jnickell, 3rd Abhitanu

May Blitz Arena

The 'Vote Chess' match against the SWCC is on hold for now. Therefore, we will hold another Blitz Arena event this Wednesday. As a reminder, an Arena event is a set duration and you get to play as many games as you can in the allotted time period. In our case this will be two hours. There will be two sections. Please comment here (or on chess.com in the club's Forum topic) and let us know your preferred time control. Next week we will begin a 4-round Swiss-system event at the classical TC of G/100;+5.

Blitz Swiss

This was scheduled to be an 8 round Blitz tournament in two sections. I think each section played fewer rounds because the chess.com site decided less rounds were needed to determine a winner. We may need a greater number of players in a section to hold an 8-round tournament.

Time Control Notes
The time control was G4;+3 (4 minutes initial time with a 3 second increment). With this time control if a game lasts 30 moves each player will have 5.5 minutes. If the game lasts 60 moves, then each side will have 7 minutes. The only time a player would have less than 5 minutes is if the game lasts less than 20 moves.

Open: 1st mikewier, 2nd zugzwang_mke, 3rd arivedal
Reserve: 1st vinayakchess2043, 2nd jnickell, 3rd 442oons_messi

Blitz Arena

We held our first Blitz Arena events. A Swiss-system event is a set number of rounds; while an Arena event is a set duration and the idea is to play as many games as you can in the allotted time period. In our case this was two hours. This was held in two sections.
Open: 1st arivedal, 2nd menonkutty, 3rd ikt_74
Reserve: 1st Pawnpatine, 2nd vinayakchess2043, 3rd Guuuuupta5

April Quads

We held a Quad Action Tournament with a TC of G/15;+5 in multiple sections. Good fun was had by all!

First online Action Tournament

We held an Action Tournament with a TC of G/25;+4 in two sections and the results were
Open: 1st rosswilj, 2nd JamesCoons, 3rd zugzwang_mke
Reserve: 1st Diojf, 2nd Guuuuupta5, 3rd Pawnpatine

No foolin' April 1st Blitz

We held our first online event(!) on April 1st with a Blitz tournament - TC: G/4;+3 - in two sections. The results were
Open: 1st menonkutty, 2nd zugzwang_mke, 3rd arivedal & AaronKrauseWCC
Reserve: 1st vinayakchess2043, 2nd Guuuuupta5, 3rd Pawnpatine

WCC Holding Online Events

Given the current situation with Covid-19 and "Safer at Home" guidelines, the Waukesha Chess Club will be holding events on Chess.com. Intially, we will hold tournaments/events with quicker time controls in order to keep each event to a single night. Once we have all had a bit more experience with how this will work, we will hold tournaments with slower, "classical" time controls.

Come join the club on Chess.com!

If you aren't a Chess.com member yet, they offer free/basic memberships (as well as other premium memberships).  To sign up for a basic (free) membership register for an account.

See you online!

Late Winter Swiss

This tournament was cut short by the 'Safer at Home' order but took place between Feb 26 and Mar 11. There were two sections and the results were:
Open Section - 1st: Bill Williams; 2nd: Matt Roeder; 3rd Clark McCutchin
Reserve Section - 1st: Shivam Kendale; 2nd: Vedanta Tripathi; 3rd Jim Mading
Crosstable

Waukesha Memorial

Leap year occurs every four years and this year's Waukesha Memorial was held on 'Leap Day'! Not sure how often that has ever happened in the past. We had a great turnout for this wonderful annual tournament. There were two sections and the results were:
Open Section - 1st: Chip Kraft; 2nd: Avi Rajendra; 3rd Josh Zillmer
Reserve Section - 1st: Jimmy Chen; 2nd: Bill Evers; 3rd Peter Bolgert
Crosstable

Action Quads

On February 19 the club held a one night Action Quad event. There were multiple groups and the full results are available here.

Winter Swiss

The Winter Swiss tournament was held from Jan 22 thru Feb 12 in two sections. The results were:
Open Section - 1st: Bill Williams; 2nd: Mike La Budde; 3rd Stuart Dill
Reserve Section - 1st: Shivam Kendale; 2nd: Vinayak Menon; 3rd Sam Ni
Crosstable

Early Winter Swiss

The Early Winter Swiss was held between Dec 11 and Jan 15 in two sections. The results were
Open Section - 1st: Matt Roeder; 2nd: James Coons; 3rd Stuart Dill
Reserve Section - 1st: Jim Mading; 2nd: Shivam Kendale; 3rd Ralph Klass
Crosstable