Tonight - Our 3rd Rated USCF Play Event - 10|2 at 7PM central

Hi all - we're going to run our 3rd online USCF rated event tonight. Like last time, we're not going to use the chess.com tournament system (it limits our rounds or pairing flexibility), which means it will be paired by me. Communication will be key, so read below to make sure you know what to expect. Look forward to seeing you tonight!!

Feel free to forward this, just remember that players have to be chess.com and USCF members.

What it is:

• 5 rounds (depending on players - may turn into a RR) of 10 | 2
• USCF Rated - affects ONLY your USCF Online Quick rating (not your OTB standard or even OTB Quick rating)
• All communication will happen in the Club Live Chat for the Waukesha Chess Club page on chess.com. Here's the club page. If you need to join, do it NOW - don't wait for 7PM. Club membership needs to be approved, so if you wait, you could be out of luck.
• You need to be a member of this club to play (and an active USCF member, just like on Wednesdays.).

How to join:

• Some time between 6:30 and 7:00 PM tonight, check that you can connect to chess.com.
• Open the the WCC club page.
• There's a "Live Chat" button on this page, right under the club title - click it :) to open the chat window.
• To enter, send a chat in that window: "Hi John, it's <your real name>, USCF ID <your USCF ID> and I'm joining tonight's event.
• I (RealGojira on chess.com) will reply when I see it, something like "OK <your name or handle>, I've got you."
• We will NOT BE USING the chess.com pairing system. DO NOT join that event. It's there to remind people we're playing. I will delete it around 6:57 tonight... you should already be in club chat by then...

What will happen tonight:

• Again, we will NOT BE USING the chess.com pairing system, all pairings and standings will be posted to the club chat window.
• At Start:
• At 7PM, I'll post who's entered, any section and rating detail, and have last call for entries.
• I will post R1 pairings. At this point EITHER player can issue a match request to the other player 10 | 2 with colors as listed in the pairings in chat.
• TO ISSUE A MATCH CHALLENGE (looks hard, but is really easy...):
• Go to the chess.com homepage and click "New Game"
• Click on the "Custom Challenge" on this page
• Click the arrow in the button under "Opponent" and select "Search"
• Enter your opponent's username in the box
• Leave the game type as Standard
• Click the down arrow next to whatever time control is there, and then click on the "More Time Controls" label.
• enter 10 in the min box, and 2 in the inc box and hit the arrow.
• click the White or black option next to "I play as"
• Click "Send Challenge"
• That's it!
• When you get a match request - accept it
• Play the game, and BOTH PLAYERS should put the result in chat: "I won (or lost) against <opponent>" and I'll reply when I see it.
• As games end I'll put status notes in chat - feel free to watch any of the active games once your game is done.
• After all games in the round are complete, I'll post the next round pairings. I'm hoping for at least 5 rounds (around 100 max game minutes or so, plan accordingly).
• If you have to leave, please tell us in the chat. Don't make an opponent wait wondering if you're going to play.

That's about it - hope to see everyone tonight. If there are questions, post them in club chat (even right now, I'll eventually see it). I enjoy running these, but it's always more fun when there's more people :)

Remember, we have 1 more planned event in two weeks, then we'll consider the longer term schedule, so if you want to see these continue, think about playing in one or both of these.

- John (RealGojira on chess.com, still John at the Eagle's Club...)

Spring Swiss - projected pairings for round 4

 open - Round 4                                                                                                                          Pairing Sheet, Page 1

 

Board	White	Black
101.	Sloan, Nicholas (3.0,1693)	De Mastri, John (2.5,1728)
102.	Grochowski, Robin J (2.0,1702)	Krause, Aaron Paul (2.0,1839)
103.	Coons, James Jay (2.0,1729)	Klandrud, Kevin (2.0,1550)
104.	Gendloff, Elie (2.0,1603)	Mishra, Ashish Kumar (1.5,1895)
105.	Lilly, Hobart W (1.5,1765)	Sihra, Ridham (1.5,1383)
106.	Chaveriat, Lee (1.0,1568)	Ninneman, Adam (1.5,1351)
107.	Kopp, Ed (1.0,1301)	Jensen, Alex D (1.0,1652)
108.	Felker, James (1.0,1200)	Lawrence, Michael (1.0,1400)
109.	Vivek, Jahnav (0.5,1207)	Akkina, Jaswanth (0.0,1293)

 

U1200

Rd        Bd                      White                                                    Black

04        201.     ____    Kurumaddali, Rudransh (3.0,k,1026)___Sirumala, Vrishank (3.0,k,740)

04        202.     ____    Kakumanu, Veda Anish (2.0,k,1156)   ____    Arun, Arnav (2.0,688)

04        203.     ____    Sharma, Shagun (2.0,990)      ____    Batra, Kian (2.0,500)

04        204.     ____    Yadav, Kush (2.0,638)              ____    Slavik, Trinity (1.5,827)

04        205.     ____    Milligan, Michael (1.0,832)     ____    Mishra, Brihad (1.5,m,300)

04        206.     ____    Landey, Charles N (1.0,706)    ____    Everette, Samuel (1.0,1008)

04        207.     ____    Dasari, Gautham (1.0,k,700)  ____    Chavez-Paez, Victor (1.0,778)

04        208.     ____    Mishra, Aranyak (0.5,m,400)  ____    Killada, Jayadev (1.0,500)

04                    1.0       Mading, James E (0.0,647)     BYE      

Spring Swiss cross tables

No. Gr Name(Team)                                 St Rate Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Score

1. Sloan, Nicholas (9) ............................ WI 1693 W17 W15 W3         3.0

2. De Mastri, John (7) •••••••••••••••••••••••WI 1728 W20 W6     D4        2.5

3. Krause, Aaron Paul (4) ...................... WI 1839 W12 W14 L1           2.0

4. Coons, James Jay (6) ........................ WI 1729 -H- W10 D2            2.0

5. Grochowski, Robin J (8) .................... WI 1702 -H- 011 W15             2.0

6. Gendloff, Elie (11) ............................. WI 1603 W21 L2 W16             2.0

7. Klandrud, Kevin (13) .......................... WI 1550 W18 L9 W14            2.0

8. Seghers, Evan C (1) ••••••••••••••••••••••WI 2161 W16 -H- -N-              1.5

9. Allen, Ethan J (2) ..............................   WI 2091 -H- W7 -N-                1.5

10. Mishra. Ashish Kumar (3) .................. OH 1895 -H- L4 W18           1.5

11. Lilly, Hobart W (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WI 1765 L13 D5 X20           1.5

12. Sihra, Ridham (16) ••••••••••••••••••••••••WI 1383 L3 -H- W21           1.5

13. Ninneman, Adam (17) ........................ WI 1351 W11 -H- -N-            1.5

14. Jensen, Alex D (10) •••••••••••••••••••••••WI 1652 W22 L3 L7            1.0

15. Chaveriat, Lee (12) ............................ WI 1568 W19 L1 L5             1.0

16. Lawrence, Michael (15) ••••••••••••••••••WI 1400 L8 W22 L6             1.0

17. Kopp, Ed (19) .................................... WI 1301 L1 L18 X22             1.0

18. Felker, James (22) ............................. Ml 1200 L7 W17 L10            1.0

19. Nickell, James W (14) ···················•··· WI 1500 L15 -H- -N-                0.5

20. Senthil, Aadit (18) .............................. WI 1308 L2 -H- F11               0.5

21. Vivek, Jahnav (21) ............................. WI 1207 L6 -H- L12               0.5

22. Akkina, Jaswanth (20) •••••••••••••••••••WI 1293 L14 L16 F17            0.0

U1200

No. Gr Name(Team)                                 St Rate Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3     Score

1. Kurumaddali, Rudransh (3,k) . ............ WI 1026 W14 W11 W4         3.0

2. Sirumala, Vrishank Reddy (9,k) .........  WI 740 W17 W16 W8           3.0

3. Kakumanu, Veda Anish (1,k) ............. WI 1156 W12 L4 W9              2.0

4. Sharma, Shagun (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ml 990 W18 W3 L1               2.0

5. Arun,Arnav(12) ................................    WI 688 L10 X15 X11             2.0

6. Yadav, Kush (14) ............................... WI 638 L11 W12 W10            2.0

7. Batra, Kian (15) ................................. WI 500 -N- W10 X14              2.0

8. Slavik, Trinity (7) ................................ WI 827 W15 -H- L2                1.5

9. Mishra, Brihad (18,m) ........................ WI 300 -H- X17 L3                 1.5

10. Everette, Samuel ( 4) ........................WI 1008 W5 L7 L6                 1.0

11. Milligan, Michael (6) .......................... WI 832 W6 L1 F5                  1.0

12. Chavez-Paez, Victor (8) .................... WI 778 L3 L6 W18                1.0

13. Landey, Charles N (10) ••••••••••••••••••WI 706 -N- -N- W16              1.0

14. Dasari, Gautham (11,k) ..................... WI 700 L1 W18 F7                1.0

15. Killada, Jayadev (16) ......................... WI 500 L8 F5 -8-                   1.0

16. Mishra, Aranyak (17,m) ••••••••••••••••••WI 400 -H- L2 L13                0.5

17. Sinha, Aarav (2) ................................. WI 1061 L2 F9 -U-                0.0

18. Mading, James E (13) ........................ WI 647 L4 L14 L12               0.0

4/28 Online Event Results

Hi all - tonight's play was a relative success - moving from the chess.com tournament system allowed us to run a RR successfully, but I think communication could have been better, and we only had 4 players participate.  We did get all games in and the results are noted here:

For the 5/11 event, I'll post a few days ahead of time, and remind folks in our Wed meeting- instructions on how to access the club chat and find pairings and results.

Take care and see you all tomorrow.

THANKS TO ED, LEE AND SAM FOR HELPING US DO SOME NEW THINGS AT WCC!!

John D

2026 Club Speed Championship Results

Hi all  - what a fun evening - we had a total of 29 players, including a number of parents who usually don't play - GREAT to see more folks participating, especially in these unrated, casual events.

We broke these into 4 sections with roughly even rating mixes, and played a double-RR in each section.  Competition was fierce, with several tiebreaks along the way to determine a winner!

The 4 section winners were Evan Seghers (11.5 / 12.0), Aaron Krause (11.0 / 12.0, won tiebreak with Ridham Sihra), Kevin Klandrud (11.0 / 12.0), and John DeMastri (12.5 / 14.0, won tiebreak with Nick Sloan).

Semifinals were close as well, with Evan beating Aaron, and John edging past Kevin in the other match.

Congratulations to Evan for "winning the exhibition" (apologies to Hans Kmoch) and the title, besting John in the final!  We will get pics with the plaque (which has been found!!) posted as soon as it can be updated.

I hope you all enjoy these more casual, fun events as much as I enjoy running them.  Thanks, as always, to Jim and Kevin for helping with setup, registration, general floor TD work and teardown - very much appreciated.

See you next week for the first round of the Spring Swiss - I'll put up a blog post soon to open registration, but you can always email the TDs, reply here, or let one of us know, and we'll get you signed up.  It will be two sections, Upper (1200+) and Lower (U1200).  Jahnav Vivek, by winning the Lower section, is also eligible to enter the upper section.

- John D

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Reminder - TONIGHT - Club Speed Championship * many sections * EF $1

Title says it all - see you tonight for some blitz fun, many games, many sections - details will be determined at runtime depending on number and ratings mix of players.  This event is NOT USCF rated, and it's only one George, so you don't even have to risk your rating - come on down and play!

This event did have a plaque associated with it...but has been lost to the mists of time.  If you happened to win this in the past, and remember that "Oh, yeah, it's in the corner of my basement..." - please bring it back to the event tonight - appreciated.

See you tonight - 

John D

Results for first online USCF rated play event!

Hey everyone - we had 7 players for a fun, quick blitz event tonight hosted by the Waukesha Chess Club online at chess.com .  Here's the rated USCF crosstable, along with a link to the event itself and a link to the games (as PGN).  This 5|2 event affected only online blitz ratings for USCF, which are different from the chess.com site's hosted rating.

No.	Chess.com ID	Player Name	State	USCF ID	Pre	Post	Norm	R1	R2	R3	Total
1	Rislon	Aethelred Templin	WI	16614292	1853	1882/20		W6	W3	W2	3
2	Magister_Militum	Gregory John Cravetz	WI	12936925		1796/13		W4	W7	L1	2
3	RealGojira	John De Mastri	WI	12580948	1497	1502		W5	L1	W7	2
4	dudeimthebest	Lee Chaveriat	WI	15201114		1476/13		L2	W6	D5	1.5
5	veda2015	Veda Anish Kakumanu	WI	30466766		1092/12		L3	B	D4	1.5
6	kid2323	Jim Manske	WI	12280380	1452	1428		L1	L4	B	1
7	Jaswnath	Jaswanth Akkina	WI	30298526		1147/12		B	L2	L3	1

Rislon (Aethelred Templin) took first, and Magister_Militum (Greg Cravetz) took second.  Congratulations!!  

Thanks to everyone who played.  Couple of questions:

• Should we configure this as a RR if we have less than 15 ppl?  If not chess.com will limit the number of rounds in a swiss.  How about up to 7 is a single round robin.  8-15 is two sections of RR, split by rating, and over 16 it's a regular old swiss.  This makes sense for the 5|2 - folks on board with that?
  
• I was a little surprised (coming from the old ICC, where TDs were close to gods, lol), at how little control I had to manage this event.  Will see about this over the next two weeks before the next one.
• What do folks think about the 10|2 coming up?  Leave it as is?  How would you change it?

John D

WCC Online USCF Rated Play Schedule

Reminder that the first event in this series is tonight at 7PM on chess.com.  Ping me online (RealGojira on chess.com) if you have any questions.

Hi all - thanks to everyone who responded to the survey I sent out a few weeks ago.  There was literally no-one opposed to having some form of online events, so based on the responses received here's what I'm proposing:

• 5 round events every two weeks, alternating Mon/Tues on chess.com
• Time controls 5|2 and 10|2, alternating between Mon/Tues
• The 5|2 affects USCF Online Blitz rating only, 10|2 affects USCF Online Rapid rating only
• There will be NO CHARGE for these events, but for now I'm limiting them to people we know IRL at WCC.  (There is a USCF rating fee, but a generous benefactor :) will help defray those costs)

So - unless I get overwhelmingly negative response here's what I'll do:

• I will commit to one cycle of these (4/13, 4/28, 5/11, 5/26) and then we can assess how it went.
• You can register on chess.com before the event, but I need to know you as a member of WCC by name and uscf id - we might open to other SE WI or Madison players if there's interest.
• I will print flyers and send a note to the club email list (and maybe the WCA list) as well.
• I will add an "Online WCC Schedule" area to the blog and website

Couple of questions:

• How to prevent cheating?
• We can't.  But chess.com does devote serious resources to preventing cheating.  The real defense is that we know who we're playing in real life.  It's amazing how that prevents most people from cheating.
• Why chess.com?  Why Mondays and Tuesdays?  Why 5 and 10 min?
• These were overwhelmingly the most popular answers to the survey.  We might change these over time.

We're discussing or doing these things (RR, online play, match play) because YOU said you wanted new / more options to play, either in discussions, comments to the club board or via online survey.  If you don't think this is a good idea, let us know.  If nobody shows up, they'll stop :)

- John