Chet Gionson continues his winning ways, winning the 4 man double round robin with perfect a 6.0 points in the adult section and Charles Sonido wins the scholastic section with a perfect 7.0 points in a field of 11 players. All the players won something either a cash award or silver bars or coins and some even free entries to the next scholastic tournament to be held on January 16. 2007 on MLK Day. See www.hawaiichess.org for further details of this upcoming tournament.
Due to the the holiday weekend we had a smaller group, but expect the word will get out that "Times Coffee Shop" has a very nice venue for playing chess in Kaneohe and expect our next TOPTOPUS to be larger and will make sure I announce it sooner!
We not only had chess boards out in force were had a couple of nice Go sets that some players and even parents attempted to master the game of Go as well! There were some side games of 5 in row and capture Go. I also noted that Hikaru No Go was of interest to some of the young players!
We hope to see more players visiting the Windward Chess Club and Oahu Go Club! Check the meetup schedule for our respective club meetings times!
Hope to see you either playing more Chess or Go, hmmm or both at this two clubs!
Happy Holidays!
Mahalo!
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Mililani Chess Day G/45 - The Town Center of Mililani
Happy Thanksgivings,
Just reporting that the Mililani Chess Day tournament held on Nov 18, had a 5 way tied, in a 24 player event. The co-winners were Chet Gionson, Scott Kira, Noah Canter, B.G. Dennison, and Beau Mueller each with 4.0 points.
To see the current ratings from both USCF and CXR rating systems go to following reports below:
USCF Tournaments Report
CXR Tournament Report
The next Hawaii Tournament is this weekend on Nov 25, at Times Coffee Shop in Kaneohe Hawaii, its limited to 48 players due to space, see please visit www.hawaiichess.org and review the calendar of events!
Just reporting that the Mililani Chess Day tournament held on Nov 18, had a 5 way tied, in a 24 player event. The co-winners were Chet Gionson, Scott Kira, Noah Canter, B.G. Dennison, and Beau Mueller each with 4.0 points.
To see the current ratings from both USCF and CXR rating systems go to following reports below:
USCF Tournaments Report
CXR Tournament Report
The next Hawaii Tournament is this weekend on Nov 25, at Times Coffee Shop in Kaneohe Hawaii, its limited to 48 players due to space, see please visit www.hawaiichess.org and review the calendar of events!
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Hawaii Veteran's Day Interscholastic Chess Tournament
Aloha,
TD's Guy Ontai and Randy Prothero ran a large scholastic tournament Nov 10th with 103 players in the Open section and 36 players in the Novice section. All Open section players are now CXR members see www.cxrchess.com, with 31 new members and 10 renewing the rest were already current members. There actually was 111 CXR active CXR members as there were 8 playing in the Novice section, trying to regroup to re-enter the Open the section next time! CXR has added some interesting graphs to each player that has played at least 20 games so check it out! These Novice players games were rated by CXR as well.
To see the current HICL - Hawaii Interscholastic Chess League standing see (click here) This was the second tournament rated by HICL and the next one will the Jan 16, 2007 the MLK Scholastic chess tournament!
The surprise winner was Charles Sonido who had been laying back and out fought Robert Lau in the 5th round to go undefeated 6.0 points and win the tournament with the only perfect score. 2nd went to Robert Lau (last year's state champion), and 3rd John Iinuma who won the Le Jardin Academy tournament on Sept 30. So we are seeing some great competition and we look forward to more in the coming months.
In the Novice section the winner was Roy Yang with 7.0 out 8 possible points on tiebreakers over Christian Arakaki who was tied with him. 3rd palce went to Joshua Lee & Ryan Nakashima with 6.0 points. Ryan defeated his own teammate Roy Yang) in the final round to cause the final round tie!
The 1st place overall team was Punahou HS with 18.5 points and Moanalua HS with 17.o points and Pearl City HS with 16.5, so that was a very close battle there as well. I expect the next few tournament prior to the State Championships on March 9 - 10th.
This month we had the most tournaments scheduled, today the Mililani Chess Day and next Saturday the TOPTOPUS CXR tournament with a silver besides cash to be given away on November 25th! See www.hawaiichess.org for more details!
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Frank
TD's Guy Ontai and Randy Prothero ran a large scholastic tournament Nov 10th with 103 players in the Open section and 36 players in the Novice section. All Open section players are now CXR members see www.cxrchess.com, with 31 new members and 10 renewing the rest were already current members. There actually was 111 CXR active CXR members as there were 8 playing in the Novice section, trying to regroup to re-enter the Open the section next time! CXR has added some interesting graphs to each player that has played at least 20 games so check it out! These Novice players games were rated by CXR as well.
To see the current HICL - Hawaii Interscholastic Chess League standing see (click here) This was the second tournament rated by HICL and the next one will the Jan 16, 2007 the MLK Scholastic chess tournament!
The surprise winner was Charles Sonido who had been laying back and out fought Robert Lau in the 5th round to go undefeated 6.0 points and win the tournament with the only perfect score. 2nd went to Robert Lau (last year's state champion), and 3rd John Iinuma who won the Le Jardin Academy tournament on Sept 30. So we are seeing some great competition and we look forward to more in the coming months.
In the Novice section the winner was Roy Yang with 7.0 out 8 possible points on tiebreakers over Christian Arakaki who was tied with him. 3rd palce went to Joshua Lee & Ryan Nakashima with 6.0 points. Ryan defeated his own teammate Roy Yang) in the final round to cause the final round tie!
The 1st place overall team was Punahou HS with 18.5 points and Moanalua HS with 17.o points and Pearl City HS with 16.5, so that was a very close battle there as well. I expect the next few tournament prior to the State Championships on March 9 - 10th.
This month we had the most tournaments scheduled, today the Mililani Chess Day and next Saturday the TOPTOPUS CXR tournament with a silver besides cash to be given away on November 25th! See www.hawaiichess.org for more details!
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Frank
Saturday, November 04, 2006
November in Hawaii is Hot for Chess - three tournaments in three weeks!
Three tournaments that all scholastic players can play in and two that adults can play in as well! The first tournament this month is the Friday November 10th - Veteran's Day Scholastic tournament held at Aliamanu Middle School, door registration starts at 9:00am, 6 rounds, G/25, Open and Novice sections. The Open section is rated by both HICL - Hawaii Interscholastic Chess League - see for link http://hawaiichess.homestead.com/Tournaments.html and CXR - Chess Express, Inc. www.cxrchess.com
The second tournament is the Saturday November 18th, the Mililani Chess Day tournament, 5 rounds, G/45 held at Mililani Town Center, registration starts at 9:00am. Its is rated by both USCF - U.S. Chess Federation www.uschess.org and CXR.
The final tournament in November is on the 25th the Hawaiian TOPTOPUS Chess Tournament 7 rounds, G/15 to be held at Times Coffee Shop, registration starts at 8:30am.
This tournament is limited to 24 adults and 24 scholastic there is two sections. Scholastic players are allowed to move up to the adult section, but will need to paid the adult entry fee to play in this section, both sections will be rated ONLY by CXR www.cxrchess.com.
Tournament partly sponsored by Chess Express, Inc and Times Coffee Shop!
Fri 11/10/06 Veterans Interscholastic G/25 TD: Guy P. Ontai
$5 in advance, $10 at Door
Open and Novice Section
Aliamanu Middle School
Flyer & registration form - MS Word Version
Flyer & registration form - Adobe PDF Version
Fri 11/17/06 5:30pm HCF Board Meeting Contact: Randy Prothero
Dillingham Sizzlers
Sat. 11/18/06 9am Reg Mililani Chess Day G/45 USCF Rated TD: Randy Prothero
Round 1: 9:15am; EF $10
The Town Center of Mililani - Near Gazebo in Center
Also Open Play, Free Lessons & The Giant Chess Set
Sat 11/25/06 8:30am Reg The Great Hawaiian TOPTOPUS G/15 TD: Frank Alejandro
Notice: Limited to the first 24 adults and 24 scholastic players - due to space limits
10am - Rd. 1, CXR rated;
CXR membership available at door
EF: Adults $25 by 11/20, $30 at door
Youth $12.50 by 11/20, $15 at door
Location: Times Coffee Shop - Kaneohe, Kam & Haiku Rd.
Flyer & registration form - MS Word Version
Flyer & registration form - Adobe PDF Version
The second tournament is the Saturday November 18th, the Mililani Chess Day tournament, 5 rounds, G/45 held at Mililani Town Center, registration starts at 9:00am. Its is rated by both USCF - U.S. Chess Federation www.uschess.org and CXR.
The final tournament in November is on the 25th the Hawaiian TOPTOPUS Chess Tournament 7 rounds, G/15 to be held at Times Coffee Shop, registration starts at 8:30am.
This tournament is limited to 24 adults and 24 scholastic there is two sections. Scholastic players are allowed to move up to the adult section, but will need to paid the adult entry fee to play in this section, both sections will be rated ONLY by CXR www.cxrchess.com.
Tournament partly sponsored by Chess Express, Inc and Times Coffee Shop!
Fri 11/10/06 Veterans Interscholastic G/25 TD: Guy P. Ontai
$5 in advance, $10 at Door
Open and Novice Section
Aliamanu Middle School
Flyer & registration form - MS Word Version
Flyer & registration form - Adobe PDF Version
Fri 11/17/06 5:30pm HCF Board Meeting Contact: Randy Prothero
Dillingham Sizzlers
Sat. 11/18/06 9am Reg Mililani Chess Day G/45 USCF Rated TD: Randy Prothero
Round 1: 9:15am; EF $10
The Town Center of Mililani - Near Gazebo in Center
Also Open Play, Free Lessons & The Giant Chess Set
Sat 11/25/06 8:30am Reg The Great Hawaiian TOPTOPUS G/15 TD: Frank Alejandro
Notice: Limited to the first 24 adults and 24 scholastic players - due to space limits
10am - Rd. 1, CXR rated;
CXR membership available at door
EF: Adults $25 by 11/20, $30 at door
Youth $12.50 by 11/20, $15 at door
Location: Times Coffee Shop - Kaneohe, Kam & Haiku Rd.
Flyer & registration form - MS Word Version
Flyer & registration form - Adobe PDF Version
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