BayAreaChess... A Tradition of Champions
(updated 12/5/09)
| CalChess Open & Class Championship 2010 | ||||||||||||
| Open | Expert | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | |
| IM Samuel Shankland, GM Jesse Kraai |
Karim Seada | James G Kwok | Thadeus Frei | Jonathan Uesato, Udit Iyengar |
Leyton Ho | Rupa L Gudiseva | Joel C Alcaraz | Andy Sheng Charles Tang |
Matthew Polentz | Telvin Zhong | Jasper Wu | |
| BayAreaChess Event | Open or SuperStar | Reserve or Star |
Elite | Champs | Premier | Booster | Blitz |
| 135: 5/16/10 |
Chris Xiong Team: None |
Ojas Arun Team: Borel MS |
James Pflaging, John Andrew Chan
Team: Encinal ES |
Jordan Jiao Team: Brewer Island ES |
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| 132: Summer Open 5/1-2/10 |
IM Ricardo De Guzman, NM Jimmy P Heiserman | Jeffrey Tao, Tab Salvo | Alonzo M Sanchez | ||||
| 130: 4/10/10 |
NM Mike Splane | Pranav Srihari | Charles Lin, Swaminathan Sankar Team: None |
Allen Bazhenov
Team: None |
John Andrew Chan Team: None |
Auston Lee Team: Keys School |
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| 128: 4/3/10 |
Nikhil Jaha Team: Weibel |
Dhanush Venkatesh Team: Walker Family |
Benjamin Gu Chen Team: Weibel |
Ethan Vincei Kho Team: KR Chess |
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| 124: 2/20/10 |
Daniel Song Team: Foster City |
Ishas Kekre Team:Weibel |
Albert Pun Team: Harker |
Andrew Xu, Vivek Iyer Team: Roy Cloud |
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| 120: 1/23/10 |
Nikhil Jaha Team: Foster City |
Solomon Ge, Alex Berlaga Team: Gideon Hausner |
Allen Bazhenov Team: None |
Nithin Sriram Team: Brewer Island |
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| 118: 1/10/10 |
Kory Hui Team: None |
Arhant Katare Team: None |
Daniel George Team: Millard |
Jimmy Lin Team: None |
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| 114/116: 12/12/09 & 12/19/09 |
Julian Lin | Daniel Song Team: Foster City |
Srinath Goli Team: St. Mark's |
Telvin Zhing Team: Weibel |
Keenan Rea Team: None |
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| 110: Sat 11/7/09 |
Jeffrey Chen Xu Team: None. |
Shopnavo Biswas, Amit Sant Team: None |
Jonathan Hsu Team: Millard |
Jacob Chudnovsky, Michael Sze, Joe Posthauer Team: Encinal |
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| 109 (San Jose Open): Sat 10/31 - 11/1/09 |
Arjoe Loanzon | Julian Lin | |||||
| 106/108: Sat 10/25/09 |
Edward Li | Aleksander Kozminski Team: None. |
Brunston Poon, Team: None |
Albert Pun, Jaysen Shi Team: None |
Shauli Bar-on Team: Nueva |
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| 104: Sat 10/24/09 |
Chris Xiong Team: Foster City Elem. |
Sameer Vijay, Nikhil Jaha Team: Weibel Elementary |
Alex Berlaga Team: Gideon Hausner Jewish DS |
Jamie Ip Team: Warm Springs Elem |
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| 102: Sun 10/11/09 |
Aadeesh Shastry Team: None. |
Andrew Canafe Team: Bethany Elementary |
Daniel George Team: None |
Michael Ryaboy, Anthony Laus Team: Millard Elementary |
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| 100: Sat 10/3-4/09 |
Karim Seada | Daniel Steiner | |||||
| 98: Sat 10/3/09 |
Richard Yi | Jeffrey Chen Xu Team: Foster City Elem. |
David Rahmat, Team: Gideon Hausner Jewish DS |
Jamie Jimu Ip, Joshua Vendrow
Team: Encinal |
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| 95 & 97: Sat 9/26/09 |
Edward Li | Anuj Patel,
Thomas Weber,
William Weber
Team: Foster City Elem. |
David Vendrow,
Evan Howard,
Anthony Zhou
Team: St. Mark's |
Solomon Ge,
Edward Vendrow
Team: Gideon Hausner Jewish DS |
Howard Tang Team: None |
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| 93: Sun 9/13/09 |
Leyton Ho Team: Duveneck Elem. |
Victor Lin, Charles Lin Team: Foster City Elem. |
James Wang Team: None |
Nathan Hutama Team: Stevenson Elem. |
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| 90 & 91:
8/15/09 & 8/22/09 |
Open: Julian Lin |
Udit Iyengar Team: Foster City Elem. |
Anand Rangarajan, Akash Thiagarajan
Team: St. Mark's School, Foster City Elem. |
Derek Hua, Anthony Zhou
Team: None |
Daniel George
Team: Millard Elem. |
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| 87 & 89:
7/18/09 & 7/25/09 |
Open: NM Arjoe Bar Loanzon |
Reserve: Jerry Wu, Julian Lin |
Udit Iyengar Team: Foster City Elem. |
Erik Wong Team: MIssion San Jose Elem. |
Arya Goutam, Julia Schulman, Aaron Ge
Team: Williams Elem. |
Andrey Kalinin Team: Gideon Hausner & Millard Elem. |
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| 84 & 86:
6/20/09 |
IM Emory Tate | Max Chen | Rahul Ram Mohan Team: Silver Oak |
Siddharth G Banik Team: Foster City Elem. |
Swapnil Garg Team: Weibel |
Andrey Kalinin Team: Nixon |
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| 82:
6/6/09 |
Bryan Huang Team: Nueva |
Charles Lin Team: Foster City Elem. |
Kaushik Donthi Team: None |
James Wang, Preetham Gujjula Team: Weibel |
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| 81:
5/23-25/09 |
Master: Kenan Zildzic |
Expert: Andrew Yeh, Samuel Bekker |
A: Michael G Da-cruz | B: Daniel Steiner | C: Joe Emole, Stephen Lupton | D/E/unr: Thomas Weber | |
| 76 & 79: 4/18 & 25/09 |
Samuel Sevian |
Daniel Steiner |
Art Zhao Team: Forest Park |
Rahul Iyer Team: Foster City Elem. |
Leonardo Cardarelli Team: St. Mark's |
Benjamin Gu Chen Team: Nixon |
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| 75: 3/28/09 |
Star: Michael Lico |
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| 69, 70: 2/21/09 & 2/28/09 |
SuperStar: NM Arjoe Barros Loanzon |
Star: Andrew J Strommen, Vignesh Panchanatham |
Grigor Gasparyan Team: Stratford Sunnyvale |
Chris Xiong Team: Granada Islamic School |
Sharvil Kekre, Siddharth Banik Team: Foster City Elementary |
Swapnil Garg Team: None |
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| 66, 67: 1/24/09 |
SuperStar: Francisco Anchondo |
Star: Ganesh Krishnan |
Leland Yu, Udit Iyengar Team: Weibel Elementary |
Steven Yuan Team: Granada |
Akash Thiagarajan Team: None |
Siddharth Banik, Sanjay Gupta Team: Parkmont |
FunBlitz: Arvind Sankar Team: Las Lomitas |
| 64, 65: 1/3/09 |
Open: NM Arjoe Bar Loanzon |
Reserve: Thomas A Gonda |
Jacob Saldinger Team: Silver Oak Elementary |
Jeffrey Chen Xu Team: Mission Lawson Middle School |
Jordan Langland Team: None |
Sanya Sehgal, Chaitanya Gaddam, Edward Vendrow Team: Horner Jr. High | FunBlitz: Aleksander Kozminski, Sergey Gasparyan, John L Canessa Team: Las Lomitas |
| 61, 62, 63: 12/20-21/08 |
SuperStar: Merged with Star | Star: NM Arjoe Barros Loanzon |
Joshua Chan Team: Silver Oak Elementary |
Hunter Klotz-Burwell, Alex Yin, and Sergey Gasparyan Team: Lawson Middle School |
Rohan Varma Team: None |
Edward Vendrow Team: Ronald C. Wornick Jewish Day School | FunBlitz:Arvind Sankar Team: None |
| 57, 58, 60: 11/28-30/08 |
Expert/Master: Ricardo De Guzman A/B: Rahul Desirazu |
C/D: Julian Lin Star: Binjih Lin, Richard Yi |
John Guiragossian Team: Kennedy Middle School |
Anish Yakkala, Nathaniel Sauerberg, Udit Iyengar Team: Mission San Jose Elementary |
Steele Langland, Michael Sandler Team: Art Frieler School |
Akash Thiagarajan Team: Ronald C. Wornick Jewish Day School |
FunBlitz: John L Canessa Team: Las Lomitas Elementary |
| 52/53: 10/25/08 |
SuperStar: Daniel Zheng |
Star: Ken Hui, Kyle Hui |
Ken Hui Team: Pleasanton Middle School |
Armete Mobin, Merak Jos Arriola Team: Clark Elementary |
Shopnavo Biswas Team: Foster City Elementary |
Akash Thiagarajan Team: Live Oak Elementary |
FunBlitz:Aleksander Kozminski Team: AFS (Tracy) |
| 50/51: 10/4/08 |
SuperStar: Daniel Zheng |
Star: Daniel Steiner, Kyle Hui |
Julian Lin Team: Weibel |
Kanstantiin Shchehlik, Leland Yu Team: Clark Elementary |
Jeffrey Xu Team: Garden Gate Elementary |
Duyminh Darr Tran Team: Nixon Elementary |
FunBlitz:Anish Yakkala |
| 49: 8/23/08 |
SuperStar: Greg Bodwin, Albert J Rich, Zachi Baharav |
Star: Arun Giridharan, Andrew Luo |
Julian Lin Team: Weibel |
Thomas Weber Team: Lawson |
Anirudh Seela, Moksh Jawa Team: Mission Valley Elementary |
Edmund Q Shen, Alanna Song
Team: Blossom Hill Elementary |
SuperBlitz: Ted Belanoff,
Richard Willis under 1000: Yousef Azhar FunBlitz: John Guiragossian under 950: Lucas Nguyen |
| SuperStar: Jim Bennett |
Star: Armaan Kalyanpur |
Richard Yi, Art Zhao, Aaron Wong Team: Monticello Academy |
Arvind Sankar Team: Clark Elementary |
Leland Yu Team: Garden Gate |
Wilson Zhang Team: Live Oak |
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| 45 & 46: 7/12/08 |
Open : Rohan Sathe, Alex Radu, Albert Rich, Jay Kumar, Yian Liou, Steven Svoboda, Zachi Baharav |
Star : Eric L Chen |
Jeffrey Tao, Julian Lin Team: None |
Aaron Wong, Aadeesh Shastry Team: Warn Springs |
Amit Abhijit Sant Team: None |
Vinayak Nadig, Kasen Teoh, Akshay Aravindan Team: Monticello |
FunBlitz: John Guiragossian Team: AFS |
| 43: 6/28/08 |
SuperStar: Ricardo De Guzman |
Star: Minjian Wang |
Brian Q Tsui, Muhammed Mohideen, Richard Zhang Team: Granada, Hopkins |
Colin Liu, Larry Liu, Jeffrey Tao Team: MSJE |
David Vendrow Team: Ardenwood |
Elliot Ki Team: Challenger- Ardenwood |
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| 40-42 (1-day): 5/24/08 |
Superstar: David Trestor |
Star: Brandon Lee, James Bennett |
Max Chen Team: Duveneck |
Rahul Iyer, Evan Baldonado, James Du, Kevin LC Moy Team: Granada |
Lunxi Zhang, Leonardo Cardarelli, Om Chinchwadkar Team: Garden Gate |
Sean Young, Edwin Peng, Nicholas Cardarelli Team: Duveneck |
SuperBlitz: Ted Belanoff FunBlitz: Brian Fu |
| 39 (2-3 day): 5/24-26/08 |
Expert/Master: Kenneth Hills, Steven Zierk |
A: Fleford Redoloza B: Rico Adkins |
C: Qijie [jack] Zhu D: Kevin Hui |
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| 37: 4/26/08 |
Kaushik Bakhandi | Evan Ye | Sterling J Engle Team: Hopkins |
Bowen Jiang, Hansel Teoh Team: Monticello Academy |
Joseph Zhang Team: Monticello Academcy |
Daniel Li Team: Monticello Academcy |
FunBlitz:Steele Langland, Alek Kozminski, Micah Pruyn Goldstein, Jordan Langland |
| 35 & 36: 3/29/08 |
Karim Seada | Aamir Azhar, Neel Apte | Sean Gospe | Rahul Mohan, Nikita Kouevda Team: Egan |
Daniel Polissky Team: Miller |
Erwan Fraisse Team: Duveneck |
FunBlitz:Farris Al-Manaseer |
| 33 & 34: 3/8/08 |
Jay Dave Kumar | Anthony Luo, Phil Ploquin, Andrew Luo, Arun Giridharan, Minjian Wang, Salman Azhar | William Weber Team: Forest Park & Egan |
Hansel Teoh Team: Granada |
Hansel Teoh, Christine Shen, Hershel Shah,
Hui-chuan Yang Team: Monticello |
SuperBlitz: Ted Belanoff FunBlitz: Alek Kozminski |
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| 31: 2/23/08 |
Ted Belanoff Team: Miller |
Sterling J Engle Team: Weibel |
Primus Lam, Jordan Langland Team: Weibel |
Jonathan Hsu Team: Granada |
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| 28: 2/17/08 |
, | Daniel Liu, Stephen Leung,
Rahul Swaminathan Team: Duveneck |
Linus Wang Team: Granada |
Muzammil Khan Team: Duveneck |
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| 27/28: 1/26/08 |
Paul Richter Team: Miller |
Alina Ma Team: Weibel |
Alex Yin Team: AFS |
Sijung-Jason Kim Team: Granada |
SuperBlitz: Ted Belanoff |
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| 25/26: 1/19/08 | Ricardo De Guzman | Evan Ye | SuperBlitz: Nima Ferdosi |
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| 23/24: 12/29/07 |
Isaac Zhang, Ted Xiao, Andrew Chen Team: Holmes |
Binjih Lin, Samuel Saldinger, Sterling J Engle Team: Hopkins |
Paul Richter Team: Granada |
Anirudh Seela, Leyton Ho Team: R.C. Wornick Jewish Day School |
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| CalClassic 20/21/22: 11/10/07 | Francisco Achnondo, Paul Gallegos | Minjian Wang | Alina Ma Team: Gomes |
Ricky Safran Team: Granada |
John Lee Team: Granada |
SuperBlitz: Francisco Achnondo, Serge Bierhuizen FunBlitz: Jeffrey Tao |
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| 19: 10/29/07 |
Shankash Shankar, Steven Hao |
Arun Giridharan Team: Weibel |
Ajit Vijayakumar Team: Stratford De Anza |
Andy Sheng Team: Granada |
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| 18: 10/6/07 Individual | Ronald Cusi |
Salman Azhar, Dimitry Taich, Eric L Chen | |||||
| 17: 9/29/07 Individual | G. Neelakantan, Zachi Baharav | Muhammed Akhil Mohideen, John Guiragossian Team: Granada |
Rahul Iyer, Naveen Janarthanan Team: St. Mark's |
FunBlitz: Kevin Cao Team: Granada |
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| 16: 8/25/07 Individual | Aamir Azhar, Hank Manvelyan Team: Granada |
Jeffrey Tao, Steven Soward Team: Weibel |
FunBlitz:Dawood Rahmat, Viraj Thakur Team: Granada |
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| 15: 7/21/07 Individual | Eric Xu, Tanuj Vasudeva, Daniel Steiner Team: Weibel |
Max Chen Team: Granada |
Abhinav Naikawadi | ||||
| 14: 6/16/07 Individual | Digesh Shankar Malla | Vishal Dasari, Chen-Chi Andrew Chen | Gurman Shoker Team: Mission San Jose |
Jordan Langland Team: Granada |
Ramie Salem, Daniel Li, Michael Sandler Team: Granada |
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| 13: 5/26/07 Individual | Allan Beilin Team: Granada |
William Weber Team: Weibel |
Muhammad Kaddoura Team: Granada |
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CalChess Regional Individual Champions |
Kindergarten: Tanuj Vasudeva, Leonardo Cardarelli, Alisha Chawla |
1st Grade: Yousef Azhar, James Du, Shalin Shah, Ritnaak Tiwari, Cameron Wheeler |
2nd Grade: Allan Beilin |
3rd Grade: Daniel Ho, John Guiragossian |
4th Grade: Muhammed Akhil Mohideen |
5th Grade: Aamir Ali Azhar, Steven Hao, Aditya Srinivasan, Hwai-ray Tung |
6th Grade: Ted Xiao Junior HS: Sankash Shankar, Evan Ye High School: Brandon Lee |
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CalChess Regional Individual Blitz Champions |
Blitz: Aamir Ali Azhar Team: Granada Islamic School, Santa Clara, CA |
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CalChess Regional Team Champions |
Kindergarten: N/A 1st Grade: Granada Islamic School, Santa Clara, CA |
2nd Grade: None | 3rd Grade: Weibel Elementary School, Fremont, CA | 4th Grade: Granada Islamic School, Santa Clara, CA | 5th Grade: Granada Islamic School, Santa Clara, CA | 6th Grade: Granada Islamic School, Santa Clara, CA | Junior HS: Redwood Middle School, Saratoga, CA High School: None |
| 12: 4/14/07 Individual | Karim Seada | Aamir Azhar, Don Kim | Daniel Steiner | Jacqueline Garbe, Eric Xu, Jonathan Lin | William Weber | ||
| 12: 4/14/07 Team | Almond | Weibel | Blossom Hill | ||||
| 11: 3/24/07 Individual | Digesh Malla | Kamil Azhar, Anu Walawalkar | Suraj Nair | Aaron Wong | Sahil Bansal, Vincent Zhang | ||
| 11: 3/24/07 Team | Granada | Weibel | Carden | ||||
| 10: 2/10/07 Individual | Aamir Azhar | Suraj Nair | Eric Chen | ||||
| 10: 2/10/07 Team | Granada | Granada | Weibel | ||||
| 9: 1/14/07 Individual | Digesh Malla | George Mandrusov | Michael Meng, Sanjay Srinivas | Tavor Baharav | Tanuj Vasudeva | ||
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