2005 Veterans Day Interscholastic at Aliamanu Elementary

Open section Results:

The second scholastic tournament of 2005 - 2006 season has just been completed. Robert Lau a 9th grader set the pace with a perfect 6 point score to win 1st place overall with 93 players in the Open section. tied for 2nd to 4th on tiebreakers with a score of 5 points were Christopher Wong, John Iinuma & Ian Sakamoto! This win for Robert Lau has placed him at the top of the HICL ratings roster with a seaon high rating of 1480!

Billy Swartworth & Steven Yee came 1st to 2nd on tiebreakers in the Elementary division with score 0f 4 .5 points, Tristan Kaonohi, Ryan Hara & Mark Flores, came in 3rd to 5th with of 4 points each on tiebreakers.

Ryan Jose Palomares, Nathan Ulm, Ryan Young & Aaron Thomas, came in 1st to 4thplace on tiebreakers in the Middle School division with 4 points each.

Kevin Erick, Jesse Manufekai had 5 points each and on tiebreakers came in 1st to 2nd place , Danton Lee came in 3rd place with a score of 4.5 points in the High School Division.

Team Results:

Elementary School Div:: 1st Hanahau'oli School, 2nd Le Jardin Academy E, 3rd Maryknoll ES

Middle School Division: 1st Pearl City HIS, 2nd Maryknoll IS, 3rd Holy Family Catholic Academy

Overall Team winners : 1st Punahau HS, 2nd Pearl City HS, 3rd Hanala HS

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In the Novice section:
Overall winner was Evan de Luna with perfect 6 points, Tyler Oho-Watt, Jesse Ono, Thaddeus Padua, Lucia Amore, & Andrew Brabazon tied for 2nd to 5thplace . The Novice section had 51 novice players and the attendance mark set a record for this section.

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In the College Section: The newest section of these scholastic tournaments is for "Full time students only" and had 14 players, they played a blazing 14 games at G/5 for 7 rounds in a dual meet with each player they played. The winner was Paul Iinuma with an amazing 13.5 score, 2nd went to Scott Kira, and 3rd to Adam Victoria-Santarone.

Guy Ontai & Randy Prothero ran an outstanding scholastic tournament with 158 players in three sections, the players, parents and coaches all should be giving a big Mahalo and lets hope we contunie having these large tournaments year round! But with other events and sports happening that will not always happen so we'll see how the rest of the season goes! Next tournament is Dec 10 at Aliamanu Intermediate School, check www.hawaiichess.org calendars for details.

The Hawaii Interscholastic Chess League (HICL) ratings have been updated and are available at http://www.windwardchess.org/tourresults/HICL.html.

CXR Chess Express, Inc. www.chess-express.com again is rating our scholastic tournaments, so the players are actually getting rated twice, once by HICL a local seasonal rating system that gives out awards at the end of the year to the top performance overall to HCF scholastic tournament players based on HICL rating and via CXR a national lifetime rating system. Please check your ratings at both of these web sites to see how you stand against others. The unique think about CXR is that you get more than one rating you will also see over 40 stats once you are no longer a "Provisional player" and can can see how you stand against other players not just in Hawaii, but nationally and even Canadian players. There currently is 1366 CXR players of which Hawaii has 359 players adults and scholastic players.

For those interested in giving a donation to HICL please contact Frank H. Alejandro at frank713@windwardchess.org or 235-1567 these funds will be used to puchase awards for the HICL winners as well as for the entry fees we will award these players to enter the Hawaii State Championships held in Sept 2006. In case some players are not able to pay for their CXR membership we will be supplementing this dues payment from this fund as its only $5 annually per scholastic player!

Weekly Quads and match games at Windward Chess Club rated by CXR

Chess Game formats: Quads & match games held every Wednesday night! Meeting Time 5:30pm to 8:30pm. Quads (A group of Round Robin tournaments) four or six players per Quad by rating! To play register between : 5:30pm to 6:30pm. Quads Start: 6:30pm & 7:30pm if you want to finish a Quad the week that it's started, please bring your chess clocks and set to G/15. Otherwise we have no time limits per move! If in 4 player Quad - there will be 3 rounds! If in 5 / 6 player Quad - there will be 5 rounds! Match games: Both players must sign in before playing, to indicate date and time and at the end of game mark what the result was on the form! Match game Sign-up form will be on a clipboard by club directors area. USCF rules apply to all games played at WCC! The current in house club ratings can be found at WCC Weekly Events

Last few we had from two to four Quads running at various strengths, so come earlier and sign up, we normally have no entry fees, unless all parties agreed at start if there is to be cash prize! All Quads and match games at WCC are CXR rated! To encourage players to play in these CXR rated Quads we are announcing the prizes of free entry to the 2006 Hawaii Championship's for one adult players and one scholastic player from WCC, scholastic players also get a free entry into the Le Jardin Academy 3rd Annual tournament held next year on Sept 30, 2006! Windward Chess Club meeting calendar

November is seeing lots of chess tournament activity both scholastic and USCF tournaments, being held Nov 11 and Nov 12. See HCF calendar for details. both of these tournaments will have games rated by CXR! HICL will also rate the Nov 11 tournament which the second scholastic tournament of the season. See current HICL Standing - Hawaii Interscholastic Chess league! As a matter of fact from November to April, HCF has scholastic tournaments scheduled and the last of the 2005 for scholastic will be December 10, so be ready for more chess action the next two months in 2005!

Reminder tomorrow is November 7 and Kailua Chess Group will be having their first meeting at the Kailua District Park from 3:30pm to 5:00pm! Kailua scheduled meeting Calendar

Games from 2005 Hawaii State Championship

(2) Rubsamen,Cornelius (2152) - Townsend,Donald (1846) [C86] HI State (2), 03.09.2005 [Fritz 8 (30s)]

C86: Closed Ruy Lopez: Worrall Attack

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 b5 6.Bb3 Be7 7.Qe2 0-0 8.c3 d6 9.d4 Bg4 10.Rd1 Qc8 11.h3 Bh5 last book move
12.a4 b4 13.a5 Rb8 14.Bc4 Ra8 [>=14...bxc3!? is noteworthy 15.bxc3 exd4 16.cxd4 Nb4= ]
15.d5+/- Nd8 16.cxb4 c6 17.Nc3 Qb7 18.Be3 cxd5 [18...Kh8+- ]
19.Nxd5 Nxd5 [19...Nc6 20.Bxa6! a fitting end to a beautiful game 20...Rxa6 21.b5+- ]
20.Bxd5 [20.exd5? e4-+ ; 20.Rxd5?! Qxb4 21.Rdd1 Ne6+/- ]
20...Nc6 [20...Qb8+- ]
21.Rdc1 Rac8 22.b5 axb5 [22...Bxf3 a fruitless try to alter the course of the game 23.gxf3 (23.Qxf3?! Qxb5 24.Qg4 Bf6+- ; ‹23.bxc6 Rxc6 24.gxf3 Rxc1+ 25.Rxc1 Qb4+- ; 23.Bxc6?! succumbs to 23...Bxe2 24.Bxb7 Rxc1+ 25.Rxc1 Bxb5+/- ) 23...axb5 24.a6+- ]
23.a6 Qa8 [23..Nd4 the last chance for counterplay 24.Nxd4 Rxc1+ 25.Rxc1 Qxd5 26.exd5 Bxe2 27.Nxe2 Ra8+-]
24.Qxb5 Na7 25.Qb7 Rxc1+ [25...Bxf3 is not the saving move 26.Qxe7 Nc6 27.Qxd6+- ]
26.Rxc1 Qd8 [26...Qe8 cannot change what is in store for ? 27.Qxa7 Kh8 28.Bc6+- ]
27.Bb6 [27.Bxa7!? might be the shorter path 27..Bxf3 28.Bb6 Qe8+-]
27...Qe8 28.Bxa7 Bxf3 29.gxf3 Bg5 30.Be3 Qd8 [30...Bxe3 does not help much 31.fxe3 h6 32.a7+-]
31.Kf1 Bxe3 32.fxe3 Qh4 [32...Kh8 hoping against hope 33.Rc7 h6 34.Rxf7 Rg8+- ]
33.Qxf7+! Demolition of pawn structure
33...Rxf7 Theme: Deflection from c8
34.Rc8+ The nicest combinations are those leading to mate [34.Rc8+ Qd8 35.Rxd8# ] 1-0

For more colour reveiw of vist HSC 2005

Kailua Chess Group Returns

Kailua Chess Group

Kailua District Park

21 S. Kainalu Drive

Starting November 7, 2005

EVERY Monday

3:30pm - 5:00pm

All interested players, children 3rd grade and up to adult, and parents are invited to attend and to participate. The Kailua Chess group serves all players from children to adults. To sign up for the last seven weeks of this fall season stop by the Registration Desk or call 266-7652!

BRING YOUR IDEAS, YOUR CHESS BOARDS AND CHESS CLOCKS.

Contact: Frank H. Alejandro

235-1567

frank713@windwardchess.org

2nd Annual Le Jardin Academy Chess Tournament Results

Aloha Hawaii Scholastic players, Coaches, Parents and friends,

For those that were able to make it to this year’s tournament, there was plenty of action and we hope to see even more players at the next five tournaments and USCF tournaments. LJA had a total 43 players and Mililani Chess Day (USCF) tournament had only 9 players! So where were you guys, I know football, soccer, swimming, sailing maybe! Not at the movies or just playing video game’s or watching TV this past Saturday (Sept 24)!! Note: If you want to play better chess games, besides studying / practicing you got to get out there and play in our tournaments! Especially if you’re interested and want to qualify for the HICL’s end of year awards, no play no awards!

We had a lot close battles for both teams and individual players in the Open, Novice and Parent section, we had to use tiebreakers to determine the award winners. Le Jardin High / Intermediate won the Team trophy and so Le Jardin’s perpetual team trophy has return to its home of origin. Thanks Maryknoll for taking care of it! Hanahau'oli Intermediate (another team that I help coach) was tied for 1st came in 2nd and Maryknoll Intermediate came in 3rd via tiebreakers!

The Individual players Open section had another three way tie and William (Billy) Swartworth (Le Jardin Academy) even though he lost the his last round game to Aaron Bright (Moanlua High) who came in 2nd. Billy manage to win via tiebreaker. Kris Aldenderfer (Le Jardin Academy) President of LJA chess club also was tied for 1st and got 3rd place trophy. Board #1 on the stage was displayed via A/V equipment lend to us by Le Jardin Academy and the two wood leather boards I provided were made by Katherine Louise http://www.katherinelouise.biz/gallery.html .

Trenton Lum (Roosevelt) and Kimberly Kidani (Maryknoll) tied for 1st in the Novice section and John Mussack (Holy Family Catholic Academy - Coach) won 1st place in the new Parent section!

For additional details ratings and status please visit www.chess-express.com and if you do not remember your log-in or password just email and I will email back this info. This is HICL’s second season and so only the current “35 open section players” will be listed in the HICL roster until Nov 2005! This is when scholastic players will have the next scheduled scholastic event. So be sure to keep playing and practicing. Remember you need a minimum of 18 games to qualify for the end of year awards. Last year winner’s received some really nice awards and all thirteen had free entries to the Hawaii State Championship and we like to do it again. Donations are welcome to continue to provide these awards, please email to get additional details to frank713@windwardchess.org Last year Le Jardin Academy club, Assets School’s and Windward Chess Club’s Awards were made by Marian Hawkins from Kailua. I also like to thank the Le Jardin Faulty, teachers, chess player’s parents, friends and of course our scholastic players for making this a successful tournament. I made a few mistakes and I promise I will improve on that. Wade Okumura was my TD assistant and we like welcome him to the ranks of TD world; hmm forgot to get him to fill-out a USCF TD form! We’ll just email him a copy!

HICL is a local rating (Only for HCF scholastic tournaments) that I generate via the WinTD pairing program and all players start rating is 1200 each season. We also use CXR Chess Express, Inc. a National chess rating system that updates a player’s rating and also has over 40 plus stats to assist (each player, coach, and parent); into understanding a players strong / weak areas of their play. But to be correct you have to play often, and not just in tournaments, you can also have club games rated via CXR just contact Russ Mollot President of CXR at info@chess-express.com or myself and we will explain how to do it. Bottom line there is no additional cost, just each player’s annual dues, your current CXR accounts can easily be transferred when you start your own CXR rated chess club. If you play at Windward Chess Club or any other CXR affiliate chess club you can have you’re name listed at each of these clubs at no additional cost either. Each club will have their own administrator /deputies and they process player’s games and add new players, paid dues via www.paypal.com etc

We had one Hawaii Chess Board member Larry Reifurth visited us on official business to have me sign the new improved constitution / bylaws to help get HCF the 501(c)3 status to help us make chess events even better! I am also the Windward Chess Club Director and club meets on Wednesdays from 5:30PM to 8:30PM approx and so a HCF board member. Larry also is a STD (is the Senior Tournament Director for U.S. Chess Federation) and runs the Sept Labor Day weekend Hawaii State Championship every year; he gave us some good points for making improvements. Next year we expect to have a larger group, and maybe some more fans to help keep us stay cool. The rain on Friday made things a little humid, I could not stop sweating and was not working that hard either! If I left anyone out I did not mean too!

Oh yes, a big hand to Russ Mollot President of CXR – Chess Express, Inc. and Jean Troendle (Cajun Chess www.cajunchess.com – New Orleans) she is still not operational to selling chess equipment, but promises ASAP she will be back in business. Also to HCF - Hawaii Chess Federation for promoting our tournament via their web site at www.hawaiichess.org, check here often to see when the next tournament is scheduled. And just to update you my dad ended up staying in Houston and only his backyard wooden fence got blown down, Houston, Texas was very lucky indeed!

Mahalo to everyone for your outstanding support to scholastic chess,

Frank Alejandro
WCC Director
LJACC Chess Coach

What is CXR? How do some Hawaii Chess clubs use it?

Chess Expess, Inc. CXR (Chess eXpress Ratings) is a chess rating & statistical service. CXR is in the business of providing you with the most complete set of personal performance metrics possible, to help you track and improve your play. CXR service is available through CXR-affiliated chess clubs and tournament directors. CXR is the fastest-growing chess rating authority in the English-speaking world, and has been recognized by many masters, grandmasters, TDs, club officials, and players as the new standard in chess metrics.

Now who uses CXR in Hawaii, Le Jardin Academy CC (LJACC). Maryknoll School CC (KNOLL), Assets School CC (ASSET). Windward Chess Club (WMCHI / WCC), Kaneohe Scholastic Chess Club (KSCHI), and (HICL) - Hawaii Interscholastic Chess League. Any club that has a minimum of 8 players can start a CXR club at no additional charge beside the annual membership dues, you do have to a admin person such as a coach, parent or team leader that updates records, and enters game, this can be delegated to deputies!

Have you noticed there seems to be new scholastic chess club in Kaneohe, well actually since we were getting so many new scholastic members without there own "home clubs" and have been initially placing them in the Windward Chess Club I decided to put all scholastic players that had no home club in the so called Kaneohe Scholastic Chess Club, so basically they are Windward Chess clubs players and chess players who play in the HICL "without home clubs". The other nice thing is that players can be imported in to whatever clubs they play by the admin person of that club, but they have only one home club! So those scholastic players who do play at Windward Chess Club occasionally will also show up on the WCC roster! And when their name appears on a Top 30 or Hot list** that home club will appear next to their name and rating, etc.!

Two new Hawaii Chess Champions!!!

Aloha,

Ohana East Hotel was the place to be on Sept 3rd to Sept 5th for Hawaii chess players: There were 42 USCF players of which 24 were CXR players and more then half were HICL scholastic players.
Congrats to Hawaii Open State Champions, Cornelius Rubsamen and Chet Gionson Hawaii's new co-champions both with 4.0 scores three wins, two draws and no losses. (1600 USCF and below) winner Soliven Lansangan with a 4.5 score one draw and no losses, won this section tournament. For prize info and new state champion photos of the see HCF web site www.hawaiichess.org. To review some of the games played go to HCIL 2005 games

Hawaii Chess Federation was finally able to submit the USCF tournaments in an amazing one day turn around for USCF to process these two tournaments. Several other recent tournaments that were held up due to software bugs, were worked out by USCF's new rating system and were processed Sept 5 via the new USCF TD / Affiliate account system! Yeah!!

CXR members also had their games processed overnight, even though there were only 24 CXR players in the 42 players event. So please check your new USCF www.uschess.org and CXR www.chess-express.com ratings for those that have been wondering what their new rating were especially for the "Unrated new members".

For the most current U.S. Chess Federation ratings results and wallcharts and (CXR) Chess Express ratings and 40 plus stats see the following link for additional details: http://www.windwardchess.org/clubstandings/ratinslinks.html

If anyone who played in the Hawaii state championships, has any chess notated games from this event that you would like to share, please email at frank713@windwardchess.org.

HCF will be posting the new Interscholastic schedule soon, so keep practicing and remember winning is 99 percent tactics!

Reminder the first Interscholastic Chess Tournament is at Le Jardin Academy on Sept 24 see www.windwardchess.org/forms/2005LJACC_CXR_Tourlessphotos.doc

Mahalo to STD Larry Reifurth for submitting the ratings report to the USCF for the quick processing and helping us get CXR ratings process quickly as well!

Paco