2012 Holiday Season ...RESULTS...

Our 2012 Holiday Season Chess tournament drew 31 players from Global, Timon Bishop, and other local schools. We divided into three sections according to their December ratings. First a word about ratings before we mention the winners of the tournament. The USCF takes the last rating of a player right up to the third Friday of every month and then uses that rating to update their rating supplement at the beginning of the next month. For example if you play a tournament on Saturday December 15th,  and get a new rating of let's say 1200 then on the following Saturday the 22nd  your rating goes down to 1149. When you play your next tournament in January your rating according to the USCF rating supplement will show 1200 and not 1149. Sounds simple enough, but there are other contingencies like the tournament director (TD) sending in the tournament on time or if the TD uses the latest rating supplement in the tournament one plays in; I hope this clarifies some of the confusion about what rating is being used for you in the tournaments. QueensKnight will always use the latest USCF rating supplement available for our tournaments.

Okay enough of that jargon, here are the winners of the 2012 Holiday Season Tournament.

In the Unrated section:

            Winner was JOSHUA CAMPBELL

            Second place went to MEGAN MELOON

            Third COREY McCOOEY

            Fourth KYLE FULLONE

            Fifth TYLER OLROGG

In the U-750 section:

            Winner ROMAN CASTLE

            Second NICHOLAS RZEZNIK

            Third ENYA CIRILLO

In the U-1500 section:

            Winner BENJAMIN RUMMELL

            Second JOSHUA BENHAM

            Third TIM KEANE

Our next tournament will be the Blizzard Challenge on January 12th. This is a FREE tournament, so stay tuned for more info. Till next year.

I WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON

FELIZ NAVIDAD

QueensKnight at The 2012 Olympics

The 2012 Chess Olympics was played this past Saturday December 1st, in Sardinia New York. The event was hosted by Tom Warner at the Pioneer High School for no less than 73 enthusiastic chess players. The tournament consisted of three sections an Unrated section, a K-6 section and a K-12 section. Team trophies were awarded for the top 3 teams in the K-6 and K-12 sections.

In the K-6 section Global Concepts Charter school with the QueensKnight scholastic affiliate won FIRST PLACE. Brighton school took SECOND PLACE and Pioneer took THIRD PLACE. The other two teams were Horse Head and Pittsford.

The GCCS team was comprised by Thomas Blum (3pts), Roman Castle (3pts.), Alexis Schlaak (2pts), Ashton William (2pts.), Braden Chalupka (2pts), Armando Martinez (2pts), and Alexis Burgos (1pt).

In the K-12 section the Pioneer High School came out Victorious followed by Brighton School and then in Third Place Global Concepts Charter school.

 The GCCS team was made up by Benjamin Rummell, Sam Santora, John H. Blum, Mason Coleman, Sabrina Campbell, Enya Cirillo, David Primosch, and Miguel Mercado.

Individually the K-12 was won by Ryan Madden Champion, Owen Shriver 2nd pace, and Abe Glasser 3rd place. In the K-6 the Champion was Wendell Lambert, and in the Unrated section Paradis Connor was the Champion.

The Unrated section involved Paradis Connor (won individual), Colby Hess (Third place individual), Mathew France, Naim Wood, Julien Andross, James Davila, Jayla Collins, Chai Cendening, and Selena Martinez.

QUEENSKNIGHT AND G.C.C.S. WOULD LIKE TO THANK TOM WARNER AND HIS SPONSERS FOR A JOB WELL DONE AT THE CHESS OLYMPICS. See you all next year.