Daily Chess Musings

July Camp Points & Prizes

Hello Chess Players!

First place shirt + private lesson with Coach Torres + entry to pyramid

Third place shirt

Fourth & Fifth place button

6-10 sticker

Absolute Beginners

1	Isaiah Ndukuba	zaythundersmash8	179
2	Luca Aeberhard	LucaSwiss13	81
3	Mia Moore	dot2021	56
4	Srini Ka	Srini_Ka	25
5	Samuel Huang	mehuman1	21
6	Chris Huang	FalconyChris	3

Beginners

1	Jayden Ndukuba	jayndukuba	210
2	Philip Tullis	PhilipTullis	77
3	Ben Brennan	Lunaateacookie	49
4	Kaitlyn Pham	CookieKiki	46
5	Jason Yuan	Jyxz575	43
6	Heidi Brennan	leafwinggoddess	39
7	Becky Brennan	maplewolf24	37
8	Eayon Hsu	Ea2181	22
9	Eadburt Hsu	Ea20045	18
10	Solomon Breimhorst	MakingMovesA11	11
11	Menna Mohamed	Lavender_blu	5
12	Katherine Lin	Kathiscool	3
13	Darren Chen	darrenchen	2

Intermediate

1	Aahna Kaistha	knightingale0720	241
2	Vaibhav Kamepalli	vkamepalli	137
3	Henry Buck	hanlinbuck	127
4	Matthew Tian	16796572	127
5	Ian Belov	ChessMusher	107
6	Hilge Samuelson-Lynn	TotoroBoy	68
7	Deshna Ananth	Deshna0101	61
8	Teancum Whitchurch	tjexdino	55
9	Dhyey Patel	DhyeyNPatel	54
10	Noor Moughamian	noorjmoug	30
11	Aram Skope	SkopeAram	29
12	Siddharth Aryav	SiddyAryav	26
13	Lam Vu	BizarreOwl	24
14	Suhas Kudithipudi	Aquatic_SK	23
15	Robin Subash	robin_subash	18
16	Tariq Cisse	tariqac	16
17	Aidan Bell	AidanDBell	12
18	Samuel Byun	Sam_oo123erf	11
19	Anvita Kandregula	GeniusHuskies	9
20	Elijah Breimhorst	MakingMoves365	9
21	Ishaan Gokhale	sauchin100	8
22	MAHAT ARAVIND	MahatAr	7
23	Sophia Smith	9SoccerStar9	3
24	Brody Drawbaugh	ChessH3r0	3
25	Leo Lin	lepoisawesome	2
26	Ashmi Gupta	Chessfun592	1
27	Vyas Chari	VYAS	1

Advanced

1	Eden Frisco	kabibblet	250
2	Krish Mathimaran	KrishMathimaran	158
3	Ashwin Mathimaran	AshwinMathimaran	145
4	Troy Tian	MrEagerMcBeaver	137
5	Anirv Kudithipudi	anikud	125
6	Daniel Tong	Skuemr	108
7	Caleb Jao	caljao215	96
8	Emma Davis	HiddenVacatin	84
9	Sirini Mora	supergirrrrrl	84
10	Ousman Cisse	alphaous	82
11	Hyden Zhang	hydenzhang	39
12	Christopher Ruzicka	ChrisRuzicka	29
13	Kieran Chalk	pred1c4ment	28
14	Justin Zhao	TopStrongGem	23
15	Gabe Pestka	brinthegamester09	22
16	Saswin Maheswaran	Saswinmahesh	9
17	Jordan Lai	Cheese-123	8
18	Brayan Amaya	royalknight101	6
19	Shrey Arora	shreyarora0711	4
20	Jeffrey Xiong	JeffXiong2020	4
21	Maddie Pestka	koollcat	2

Experienced

1	Ethan Mei	chessfoe105	405
2	Micah Hansen	ThunderousRage	304
3	Sebastien Mei	chessfor107	293
4	Phuc Hoang	PhucHoangVn	238
5	Benjamin Chamie	Programmer57beater	208
6	Srihan Pasupula	SrihanP	187
7	Dhruv Karvaje	dkarva	166
8	Vivaan Garg	Vivaan938	156
9	William Condron	BluePeopleRE	127
10	Sarah Davis	LushChild	122
11	Jin Shao	MiniLightBaboon	117
12	Edmund Tsou	CRpro1	102
13	Yogi Patel	Yoginpatel	102
14	Likhith Bommineni	likhith31	101
15	Justin Mathew	annieg001	60
16	Henry Klassen	HenryGKlassen	44
17	Patrick Wang	patrickwang7	33
18	John Herrera	GoodOrangeQueso	30
19	Sarat Chandrapaty	Llyod2009	28
20	Swanik Edulakanti	swanike	27
21	Chaaruhaas Kandregula	chaas2178	19
22	Nathaniel Guo	peanutpokerman	15
23	Amane Kumamoto	AmaneKitty	11
24	Pema McAlister	VibrantDiamond100	8
25	Darsh Raja	alertf	7
26	Jerryl Tong	XchraQeLymePi	6
27	Isaac Chan-Osborn	PythGoram	4
28	Tara McAlister	QueenBunny1	4
29	Eric Li	Eric1226	4

Tournament

1	Ayaansh Kaistha	Koolking0727	233
2	Sophia Huang	Sophiafeifei0	233
3	William Chui	Chess1William	212
4	Julian Ma	julian2468	202
5	Pahlychai Thao	pthao2020	197
6	Rithwik Edulakanti	rithwike	186
7	Aaron Liu	Werwer119	177
8	Darsh Maheshwari	smjuniorgm	170
9	advait anand	agm2920	133
10	Justin DuBeau	Majin_Buu22	118
11	Darren Palmer	Furbidfurball	106
12	Abirami Govind	abirami.pse	102
13	yuchen zhou	hupidou	102
14	Bode Li	900USCFRated	89
15	Rehan Gallege	rgallege	86
16	Robyn Nakhimovsky	RobynoDude	72
17	Richard Jimenez	RichieTexas	59
18	Roshita Kommaraju	RedCharmingRoad	58
19	Shreeansh Bommoju	bshreeansh	51
20	Vamika Satish	gentlelilac	30
21	Yang Yu	racerbilchess	22
22	Conrad Grimme	bronzelegs	20
23	Dann Merriman	theLittlePetey	20
24	Aaradhya Patil	COLDTIDYDENTIST	19
25	Anthony Wan	antwan356	18
26	Aakash Praveen	JivashProdigy	15
27	Vineel Uppada	vinupp972	14
28	Raghav Mangudi	Poochi1	13
29	Aditya Kanade	BishopSnipe945	12
30	Raghav Ramesh	rrrocks	9
31	Daniel Medved	DanielM8027	8
32	FNU Diganth	sooki2011	6
33	Lyan Dmitriev	dinogenius	4
34	Anna Miller	AnnaEMiller	4
35	Shivam Wagh	SuperShivam	4
36	Inay vellore	Rapidflashlight	4
37	Noah Zhang	noahzhang324	2
38	Eli Song	elite_mover	2
39	Lydia Xiong	Xiongly	1

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If you are on this list it’s because we didn’t have all your information

1	Kshitij Goyal	Blabberboy2	156
2	Sam C	Iamsamthechessman	66
3	Mary Mikitish	Beauty 9,000	64
4	Gianna Mikitish	nature 1000	63
5	John Paul Mikitish	Runsfast10	56
6	Hari Vasanthakumar	Hwinner	40
7	Lara Aeberhard	LaraSwiss15	35
8	Maria Mikitish	Lovesdogs 1000	32
9		diced_knights	30
10		krithik_r	30
11	xavier mikitish	lovesoutside	29
12		KingSharvil	26
13	Arya Kunisetty	hydroheat	22
14		crosserbishop	20
15		commentscontrol	19
16		Coltzt11	18
17		NivedhP	18
18	Amogh Chauhan	Coolkid1008	16
19		Thefearlesscarrot	16
20		voldemort093	16
21	Karthik Subramanian	winnerkarthik07	15
22		benridge3241	15
23		Akashh1507	13
24		colorfulcake	13
25		khang083	13
26		nehaldantwala	13
27		sazhagianambi	13
28		TheKidsKid	13
29		QueenAlisha	12
30		sarithapotula	12
31		VillageIdiot01	12
32		WilliamOspina	12
33		dhruvpenumalla	11
34		Nirvu0	11
35		CastawayWill	10
36		ryan_pt	8
37		Sriharirkrishnan	8
38		roadto3kinchess	7
39		Shypaledentist	7
40		minojossa1	6
41		GooooChess	6
42		HemNishil	6
43		LegoChessBuddy	6
44		louaj	6
45		nextspacejl	6
46		6LittleMen	5
47		pallavivipinhere	5
48		jeswanth20	5
49		denmerc	4
50		lukelegendwalker	4
51		macallan0125	4
52		puffypuffball	4
53		Red900	4
54		mynameisjohnsmith	3
55		neelypeely	3
56		thebezperson	3
57		jakea0027	2
58		binu093	1

Correspondence Chess is Making News!

The Associated Press has a piece about the Daily Chess Musings Rated Correspondence Chess Pyramid. The article entitled, “Taking Time for Correspondence Chess in a Fast-Paced World” details the history of correspondence chess leading up to our US Chess rated correspondence chess tournament on chess.com.

Here is a screenshot of the feature article.

If you want to read the whole piece, here is the link: https://apnews.com/press-release/prodigy-news/lifestyle-sports-chess-0f72cc996d6dc3df3f008c1090b8ee93

The Daily Chess Musings Rated Correspondence Chess Pyramid is ongoing right now! To find out more information and sign up, please visit:

https://dailychessmusings.com/daily-chess-musings-rated-correspondence-pyramid/

Lots of Chess Fun in August

Summer Vacation may be coming to a close, but we have a lot of fun activities in store for the final days of break. Coming up in just the next couple of weeks, we have the inaugural Daily Chess Musings Summer Games and our Free Online Summer Chess Camp for the month of August! The Daily Chess Musings Free Online Chess Camp will continue to meet on Wednesdays, and we will continue offering the Friday Frenzy Blitz Tournament, Super Saturday Swiss, and Sunday Beginner Brunch Tournaments every week!

The Summer Games have begun in Tokyo, and we are joining in the fun with our very own chess summer games August 2 – 6. See how your chess skills match up against other chess players in the Daily Chess Musings community. All the events are free, and we will be awarding some really awesome prizes to the top place finishers in every event. In addition, I will be live streaming all the events which include Rapid, Blitz, Bullet, Chess 960, and Bughouse on the Daily Chess Musings YouTube channel. Signing up is easy and more information is available at DailyChessMusings.com! So, sign up today, have fun and go for the gold!

Our Free Online Summer Chess Camps represent one of my proudest achievements as a chess educator.

Participants will earn points each day at camp by taking part in skill-appropriate classes, completing training tasks, and competing in fun camp chess matches against other chess students. During camp, the top point earners will win prizes, and all children who participate for the entire week will receive a camp certificate. Players of all ages and skill levels are welcome, however, those above the age of 21 are not eligible for rewards. Our final summer chess camp for 2021 will take place from August 9-13 and is tuition free. Signing up is easy at https://dailychessmusings.com/free-online-summer-camp-2021/

On a personal note, I will be representing Northern California as a delegate at the United States Chess Federation’s annual meeting on August 7th and 8th in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. If you are playing in this year’s US Open, please let me know so that we can meet up there. More importantly, if you have a concern or idea for US Chess that you would like me to mention to the USCF Board of Directors, please send it in an email to DailyChessMusings@gmail.com

Finally, with the new school year right around the corner, keep in mind that I will gladly arrange to help your school chess club either directly with a custom online chess club or indirectly by advising your chess club leaders in all aspects of club management. For more information on these services please visit https://dailychessmusings.com/free-online-chess-club/

And with that, I bid you adieu. Thanks for being a part of the Daily Chess Musings community and as FM James Eade likes to say, “If you are a part of a community, you are never alone.”

Chris Torres

Director of Daily Chess Musings

P.S. Speaking of James Eade, be sure to check out the last lesson we did together!

All Chess Masters Are Stoic

Not all stoics are chess players,

but all chess masters are stoic.

Knights who sacrifice themselves, contemplating truth,

baring their brains among the scholars of war.

Burning neurons like Tal’s cigarettes.

Quiet!

Listen to the whispering eyes in the room evaluate them.

Their positions busting along with their hearts.

Watch them!

Staring with disillusion at the board,

one last time,

before the swallowing of pride,

and tipping of a king.

Winning Chess Moves: Bronstein vs Geller, 1961

There have been many great chess players over the years, but only a small percentage of them manage to captivate the public imagination and receive considerable mainstream attention at any given time. David Bronstein never became a world champion, but there’s no denying that at the height of his career, he frequently captivated imaginations while defeating the world’s best. In today’s puzzle, David Bronstein is white against Efim Geller who has just played 19… Rxc3. What does Bronstein play as white?

White to move and mate in 3 from Bronstein – Geller, USSR Championship 1961.

My Quora Answer to: Is there a shortcut for becoming really good in chess?

Under the best of circumstances, becoming really good in chess is a serious endeavor that takes a considerable amount of time. Millions of individuals like playing chess, but only a few can master the game. What is the reason for this? Chess is, simply said, one of the most complicated games ever devised. Despite the enormous technological advancements that have made their way into the realm of chess over the years, mastering chess remains as elusive as it has always been. There is, however, a well known shortcut for becoming really good in chess.

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News About Our Summer Chess Camp

Did you see the feature story on our Free Online Chess Camp published in the Associated Press? The AP article entitled “Top California Chess Coach Teaches Free Online Chess Camps” details how Daily Chess Musings offers free online summer chess camps for players all ages and skill levels.

Please share information about these camps with your friends and don’t forget that our next free camp starts on Monday, July 12th.

Club Points Through June

Anyone who got more than 50 points will be getting a sticker. The top point earner will be getting a t-shirt as well.

Name	Email	Points
Karthik Subramanian	winnerkarthik07@gmail.com	318	winnerkarthik07
Ethan Mei	runner.ethanmei@gmail.com	147
Rithwik Edulakanti	madhu.edulakanti@gmail.com	109	Rithwike
Hiram Crossley	hiramcrossley@gmail.com	80
Justin mathew	justin63007@gmail.com	78
Chaaruhaas Kandregula	chaas2178	65
Arushi Maheshwari	arushi2718@gmail.com	61
Michael Cankosyan	mceltics21@gmail.com	61
Lovekesh Gupta	lovekeshgupta333@gmail.com	57
Phuc Hoang	phuc.hoang@stu.jefferson.kyschools.us	57	PhucHoangVn
Roshita Kommaraju	Srijita459@gmail.com	53
Charles T. Stevens, Sr.	ctstevens@email.com	52
Estella Mei	estellamei3@gmail.com	52
Jin Shao	jqshao@hotmail.com	50
Krithik Ravichandren	krithik_r	50
Eadburt hsu	zengb07@yahoo.com	50
Eayon	zengb07@yahoo.com	50
Swanik Edulakanti	madhu.edulakanti@gmail.com	50	swanike
Muchen Liu	muchenliu1421@gmail.com	50
John S	mynameisjohnsmith1979@gmail.com	39
rgallege	rgallege	39
Glynnton Buckley	thebuckleysnyc@gmail.com	33
RedCharmingRoad	RedCharmingRoad	33
annieg001	annieg001	30
Amanekitty	Amanekitty	29
louis948	louis948	28
aruminchess	aruminchess	26
AshwinMathimaran	AshwinMathimaran	26
MaestroKermit	MaestroKermit	26
Mauro Inojossa	minojossa@gmail.com	26
Rohitsaich	Rohitsaich	25
VibrantDiamond100	VibrantDiamond100	25
GeniusHuskies	GeniusHuskies	24
KingSharvil	KingSharvil	24
KrishMathimaran	KrishMathimaran	24
TheKidsKid	TheKidsKid	24
Hari Vasanthakumar	vasanth.dev@gmail.com	23
Alisha	QueenAlisha	20
Arunabha Saha	diced_knights	20
Jerryl Tong	XchraQeLymePi	19
crosserbishop	crosserbishop	18
Michael Blanzy	mblanzy@hotmail.com	18
Nivedh Panchal	NivedhP	17
QueenBunny1	QueenBunny1	17
Arya Kunisetty	aryakunisetty@gmail.com	16	hydroheat
Vineel Uppada	vinsummer2020@gmail.com	16
pjegga	pjegga	15
Timofei Oshurkov	oshurkovana@gmail.com	15
khang083	khang083	14
Larry Jordan	larry7jordan@outlook.com	14
luckylol3	luckylol3	14
Thefearlesscarrot	Thefearlesscarrot	14
DearShowyCircus	DearShowyCircus	13
DrakonWarrior	DrakonWarrior	13
Isaias Mateo Vasquez Rodriguez	isaias.m.rod@gmail.com	13
Akashh Ravi shankar	manju.duraiswamy@gmail.com	12
Alex W	RuralOne39@gmail.com	12
Arnav Bhosale	arnavbhosale1	12
denmerc	denmerc	12
Luke Haggart	owlsnchess	12
zishun	zishun	12
Anthony Elliott	AnElliott	10
Bode Li	febraspberry@hotmail.com	10
Chessllamallamallama	Chessllamallamallama	10
Derek Wu	dwu2460@gmail.com	10
GooooChess	GooooChess	10
Kunal tayde	taydekunal108@gmail.com	10
nextspacejl	nextspacejl	10
Bshreeansh	Bshreeansh	9
Caleb Taylor	B1ad3z	9
Dhyey Patel	patel.manini@gmail.com	9
Mr_Kermit	Mr_Kermit	9
rrrocks	rrrocks	9
Thaarak Sriram	thaarak.sriram@gmail.com	9
bwashie	bwashie	8
Dann Merriman	juanmerriman@gmail.com	8
George Wang	PowerOfApawn	8
louaj	louaj	8
lukelegendwalker	lukelegendwalker	8
Mukilan	Starhopper7	8
Alecliu12	Alecliu12	7
Andrew Garcia	adrianapekee@gmail.com	7
Ben Walter	lightningwarrior2000@gmail.com	7
Eric1226	Eric1226	7
JONATHAN ANONUEVO	JONATHAN_ANONUEVO	7
Kavin Narendrakumar	KavinFunChess	7
Leo Blum	maria@gmail.com	7
Micah Hauck	micah.hauck@chdacademy.org	7	Micah24
Nitikach	Nitikach	7
Andrew3060	Andrew3060	6
jakea0027	jakea0027	6
Keytheone	Keytheone	6
LavendarLlama	LavendarLlama	6
Nicole Linksy	nicolelinksy2@gmail.com	6
Phoenix_CC	Phoenix_CC	6
Semyon Armavirsky	winwin12	6
Adrien Howard	adrienhoward33@gmail.com	5
AllenShen1226	AllenShen1226	5
Anand Challa	sudhavalli@gmail.com	5
Carlos Gomes	carlosgomes7@outlook.com	5
CautiousAgent	CautiousAgent	5
Jeff rittenhouse	jjrinvestments@aol.com	5
Karthika Sakth	kaavya12345	5
Kien dang	kevindang2021@gmail.com	5
Luke Taylor	TimDuncanLT	5
narendra kumar	NinjaNithin	5
Peregrine104	Peregrine104	5
Raj9901	Raj9901	5
Sarbani Sengupta	Sengupta17	5
brinthegamester09	brinthegamester09	4
Eden F.	kabibblet	4
Jack Bryant	thebezperson	4
Pmlegg	Pmlegg	4
Rocco Frello	potealessandro02@gmail.com	4
Andrew Dong	Andrewluvches	3
Anika Kaul	anikakaul25@gmail.com	3
challenger2018	challenger2018	3
eegr6	eegr6	3
King999983	King999983	3
Nambi S	sazhagianambi	3
dkarva	dkarva	2
epicchessmaster999	epicchessmaster999	2
kiddo39	kiddo39	2
sunshine_21	sunshine_21	2
ragingrook8653	ragingrook8653	1
sja kk	sophie.pautrel@gmail.com	1

Daily Chess Musings Summer Games Coming Next Month!

Greetings Chess Players and welcome to my Daily Chess Musing for Tuesday July 6th, 2021.

The pandemic has greatly curtailed opportunities to play in chess tournaments over the last year and a half. So we are giving all chess players an opportunity to compete and share their love for chess at a major online international chess event by playing in The Daily Chess Musings Summer Games.

Players from around the world will be participating in The Daily Chess Musings Summer Games and compete in daily chess events from August 2 through 5. The Daily Chess Musings Summer Games have no entry fee and winners will be awarded special prizes.

I am greatly looking forward to hosting these events and seeing all of you play. Until then, I am Chris Torres bidding you adieu. But before you go, make sure you like and subscribe.

Visit the Daily Chess Musings Chess Games page for more information and to register!

TACTICAL PYROTECHNICS FOR THE 4TH OF JULY

Greetings Chess Players. My name is Chris Torres and this is my daily chess musing for Sunday July 4, 2021.

For those of us in America, the Fourth of July is Independence Day. But, since this is a chess musing, rather than talk about Uncle Sam I will be presenting a chess game played by Grandmaster Sam.

Sam Shankland is an American Grandmaster who grew up, like myself, in Northern California. In fact, he is five-time California State Chess Champion, won the U.S. Chess Championship in 2018 and has been awarded the medals while representing Team USA at two Chess Olympiads. But we aren’t going to look at those performances today. Instead, let’s look at a beautiful game GM Sam Shankland played on July 4th, 2013.

In early July of 2013, Sam Shankland was participating in the 41st World Open in Arlington, Virginia. Its large prize fund attracted a strong field of titled players. GM Sam Shankland was black in the fourth round against FM Taibur Rahman. And while Arlington is known to have an extravagant Fourth of July fireworks show, Shankland put on an amazing display of tactical pyrotechnics of his own with the black pieces. Explosive tactics and sparkling accuracy allowed GM Sam Shankland defeated his opponent in just 24 moves! Let’s see how he did it.

Play through the game HERE

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My Quora Answer to: What is your favorite puzzle?

White to move and win (Mikhail Zinar, 1983).

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Broadly speaking, a chess puzzle refers to a board situation where chess pieces and chess rules must be used to solve the puzzle. While game winning moves from actual play make up the majority of chess puzzles, some of the most challenging puzzles in chess have been composed as art rather than played in competition. Composed (not arising from actual chess games) chess puzzles are often referred to as problems. With each generation of composers stretching the boundaries of chess further, chess problems have become increasingly complex.

My favorite chess puzzle is a problem composed by Mikhail Zinar which demonstrates the rare motif of under promoting to a bishop an incredible five times!

Ukrainian chess composer Mikhail Zinar (5/9/1951 – 2/4/2021) chess studies are some of the most deliberately complex, unique chess compositions ever published. Many of his compositions were designed to stretch the limits of what is possible on the chessboard, not actually be solved by the human intellect. But that doesn’t mean some haven’t tried. In fact, Zinar has been called a favorite composer of World Champions because of his ability to show the greatest chess minds a narrow path to solve seemingly impossible chess tasks.

The solution to this puzzle is a little difficult to understand without a thorough explanation. So, once you have exhausted your brain trying to solve the puzzle, I invite you to watch the video below for a brief demonstration of the astonishing solution.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-favorite-chess-puzzle/answer/Chris-Torres-13?ch=99&share=f2f12e63&srid=i4Sz

My Quora Answer to: What is the greatest known defeat of a chess icon or master via use of a “Grob” variation?

My Quora Answer to: What is the greatest known defeat of a chess icon or master via use of a “Grob” variation?

Joseph Norman Cotter (June 25, 1929 – May 23, 2021)

It is with great sadness that I am sharing the news that Joseph Norman Cotter passed away on May 23 at the age of 91. Mr. Cotter was a chess player, educator and friend whom I met during our shared adventures in the 2006 USCF Golden Knights correspondence chess tournament. During our game, Norman spoke highly of his son (who was also named Christopher) and we shared many stories about our families and common interests. Norman Cotter was a gentleman and a scholar (in fact a University Professor) who enjoyed intellectually challenging games. He was quite an accomplished chess player and I am saddened that I will never again be able to share moves and stories with him.

I offer my sincere condolences to the friend and family of Joseph Norman Cotter.

June Camp Points & Prizes

Hello Chess Players!

The points are done being calculated. We apologize that it took a bit longer, but we had an issue with the patches we ordered. So we found an alternative: We will be giving out T-Shirts, pins, and stickers instead. I will be sending an email out today about your shirt size. Please respond by Monday, July 5th. Please allow 2 weeks for prizes to arrive.

First place shirt + private lesson with Coach Torres + entry to pyramid

Second place shirt + entry to pyramid

Third place shirt

Fourth & Fifth place pin

6-10 sticker

Absolute Beginners

1	Hinako Kashiro	chesshinako	164
2	Gage Moore	Wakko	156
3	Luca Aeberhard	SwissPower LucaSwiss13	141
4	Ansley Lau	Honeybear809	129
5	Tieu-Dao Nguyen	Tieu-dao	125
6	Srini Ka	Srini_Ka	94
7	Thuy-Anh Nguyen	Thuy-Anh	72
8	Lara Aeberhard		71
9	Ellie Bao	Ellie Bao	61
10	Harper Li	HarperLi	41
11	Kiaan Kalani	kiaankalani	31
12	oscar chan	freestars	24
13	Dominic Lemons	DomE125	14
14	genie chan	freestars1	11

Beginners

1	Parry Moore	Yakko	147
2	Varunsai Anumothu	varunsai15	143
3	Ethan Hood	Whatsup5814	135
4	Matthew Yin	2matthewyin	129
5	Kaitlyn Pham	CookieKiki	76
6	Kevin Jamka	kevinchess000	70
7	Eli Bostwick	Jahtick	69
8	Raphael Alamsjah	bei1101	60
9	Amelia Wong	SkyLetsFly	53
10	Myra Gupta	MGupta14	45
11	Eadburt Hsu	Ea20045	30
12	jeyavardhini vasantha kumar	JVK05	28
13	Eayon Hsu	Ea2181	26
14	Arjun Arora	aroraarjun1208	12
15	Yenthy Luong	yenthy YenYen2021	5
16	Isaiah Clark	MegaMan7x	3
17	Wonderful World	wonderfulworld01	3

Intermediate

1	Vaibhav Kamepalli	vkamepalli	203
2	Rommel Yambao	dradicle	177
3	Sirini Mora	Supergirrrrrl	170
4	Aahna Kaistha	knightingale0720	166
5	Pritish singhal	Pritish2014	163
6	Dhyey Patel	DhyeyNPatel	141
7	Anirv Kudithipudi	anikud	129
8	Jayden Peters	Shellyshi1002	121
9	Ashi Gupta	Funplaying123	114
10	Amurai Lau	acl169	110
11	Abraham Rodriguez	HombreHumano2021	108
12	Akash Muthukumar	TheChessMasterAkash	100
13	Adrian Rodriguez	Opi2021	99
14	Daniel Jackson	DeathACEo	89
15	Sai Nirmith Indukuri	HiiHiiH	83
16	Suhas Kudithipudi	DHP	83
17	Marcus Knight	Marco_on_Xfinity	82
18	Alex Tripkovic	GIMME_ELITER4K	67
19	Ian Sutanto	Iansutanto	63
20	Noor Moughamian	noorjmoug	61
21	Ashmi Gupta	Chessfun592	60
22	Shivika Biswari	globalworld7624	42
23	Shivam Wagh	SuperShivam	41
24	Stacey sutanto	Staceysutanto	40
25	Melody Yu	MelodyYu	38
26	Evie Conley	EvieBug	31
27	Charan Kodaru	MegaWildBalloon	29
28	Demi Zheng	demigodZD	29
29	Avik Saha	crosserbishop	27
30	Alexander “Anders” Wang	Orca222	26
31	Ritwik Saha	diced_knights	25
32	James Rigby	j-man00	22
33	Andrew Lucero	18out	21
34	Jacob Chan	KellerJacob	20
35	Coco Wu	icoco09	18
36	Lam Vu	BizarreOwl	18
37	Theo Kung	ImaCookiee	18
38	Anthony Wang	CFox02	17
39	Caleb King	jesicashenking	17
40	Logan Chrisman	crfsucks	16
41	Justin Lin	Mr_Kermit	14
42	Lovekesh Gupta	clashindia	14
43	Robin Subash	robin_subash	10
44	Isabella Jamka	Bella0323	10
45	Bridget Almeter	bridgetalmeter	8
46	Arjun puttagunta	Zynglord	7
47	Ian Manandhar	Ddrraaggoonn kkoommooddoo	7
48	David Grigorian	david_grigorian	5
49	Jessica Kuo	Katsuki Bakugou	5
50	Anne Kuo	AnnetheWatermelonz09	4
51	Colin McGinley	redfox555	4
52	Danny Karthikeyan	dannykarthik	4
53	Luke Alamsjah	kichoi101812	4
54	Aaron Zhao	imsoupersad	3
55	Raymond Eason III	REASONIII	3
56	Nora Almeter	nalmeter	2

Advanced

1	Ethan Mei	chessfoe105	448
2	Krish Mathimaran	KrishMathimaran	278
3	Khang Le	khang083 khang420	252
4	Sebastien Mei	chessfor107	236
5	Ashwin Mathimaran	AshwinMathimaran	204
6	Raju Wolfe	eflownumber2	201
7	Alexander Brihn	bryx8	168
8	Chase Anson	naruto7272	157
9	William Condron	BluePeopleRE	142
10	Grady Belcher	Ejepzenpjote1112	127
11	Alan Donner	smallwhiterabbit	92
12	Michael Jia	mjia1187	87
13	Liam McCuaig	liammccuaig	74
14	Joel hood	moderatlycompetative7	69
15	Justin Zhao	TopStrongGem	66
16	Eli Rigby	cipesi173	61
17	Brayan Amaya	royalknight101	55
18	Kaushal Veeranki	submemo	43
19	Kieran Chalk	pred1c4ment	43
20	Raymond Chen	Zangetsu4444	40
21	Mihir Kolpuru	funnybunnymini funnybunnymini4	37
22	Shrey Arora	shreyarora0711	24
23	Emily Byrons	ECB716	18
24	Chak Bull	Chak135	14
25	Samhita Krishnan	TheChessWarlock	6
26	Max Lin	MaxMB2021	2

Experienced

1	Jin Shao	MiniLightBaboon	253
2	advait anand	agm2920	240
3	Michael Cankosyan	MichaelC546	197
4	Dhruv Karvaje	dkarva	180
5	Likhith Bommineni	likhith31	171
6	Vedanth Swaminathan	Veda2608 veda3750	157
7	Sujana Rajesh Kumar	sujanacheckmate2010	136
8	Yogi Patel	Yoginpatel	135
9	Vivaan Garg	Vivaan938	130
10	Iori Hasebe	ChouwaShogiChannel	108
11	Srihan Pasupula	SrihanP	94
12	Swanik Edulakanti	swanike	75
13	Vincent Kriner	birdexpert	74
14	John Herrera	GoodOrangeQueso	68
15	Bhumi Murki	17112632	60
16	Kevin Cui	KevinCuiCT	53
17	Darsh Raja	alertf	48
18	Ishaan Ganigara	ballboy947	48
19	Elshad Pashazadeh	EDPM101	47
20	neev jain	Neev_Jain	46
21	Jimmy Isaacs	captainpenguin08 chesscaptainpenguin08	45
22	Nathaniel Guo	peanutpokerman	26
23	Derek Donner	sendmarketing	25
24	Austin Tran	gryrules	24
25	Elijah Moss	Elijahlittlemas	22
26	Pema McAlister	VibrantDiamond100	21
27	Nishanth Mannem	Harishwar7	18
28	Tara McAlister	QueenBunny1	17
29	Sathvik Jampaan	sathvikj	16
30	Sriniketh	Pokemons97 Pokemondude123	16
31	Alex McCuaig	AlexMcCuaig	15
32	Eric Li	Eric1226	15
33	Sathvik Jampana	WiseFearlessBeast	15
34	Srihari Anandheri kandadai	aksrihari	14
35	George Zhao	George_zhao	11
36	Justin Mathew	annieg001	10
37	Shreemayi Anandheri Kandadai	akshreemayi	5
38	Nishil Rajani	nisilchess	2

Tournament

1	Roshita Kommaraju	RedCharmingRoad	225
2	William Chui	Chess1William	204
3	Phuc Hoang	PhucHoangVn	201
4	Ayaansh Kaistha	Koolking0727	186
5	Bode Li	900USCFRated	172
6	Darsh Maheshwari	smjuniorgm	138
7	Rithwik Edulakanti	rithwike	135
8	Shreeansh Bommoju	bshreeansh	126
9	Anna Miller	AnnaEMiller	122
10	Alden Rigby	ChekinNooget	114
11	Isabella Stubbins	stardiscovery	114
12	yuchen zhou	hupidou	111
13	Rehan Gallege	rgallege	103
14	Hari Vasanthakumar	Hwinner	99
15	Dominic Alamsjah	nico0922	96
16	Abirami Govind	abirami.pse abirami_pse	89
17	Lydia Xiong	Xiongly	79
18	Dann Merriman	theLittlePetey	73
19	Jithin Kodaru	McnChess99	71
20	Carlos Varela	CarlitosFrancisco	67
21	Richard Jimenez	RichieTexas	45
22	Raghav Ramesh	rrrocks	42
23	Daniel Medved	DanielM8027	41
24	Richard Zhao	Knightzyq	39
25	Vamika Satish	gentlelilac	39
26	Aditya Kanade	BishopSnipe945	33
27	Jason Zhang	Jasonbluesky2011	29
28	Anthony Wan	antwan356	26
29	Alice Zhao	Snowflake102	22
30	Eli Song	elite_mover	18
31	Raghav Mangudi	Poochi1	17
32	Avery Zhang	AveryZhang2011	16
33	Aaradhya Patil	COLDTIDYDENTIST	15
34	Christian Zhang	ChristianZhang	15
35	Conrad Grimme	bronzelegs	15
36	Sharvil Kolhatkar	ChessEggHead	15
37	Isa Turpen	debatequeen	14
38	FNU Diganth	sooki2011	12
39	Glynnton Buckley	BUCKLEYNYC	9
40	Inay vellore	Rapidflashlight	7
41	Kevin Fang	kevin_201303	7
42	Ella Montana	Eegr61 eegr6	5

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Anthony Elliott	AnElliott	3
Arumugaraja Selvaraj		55
Charles Stevens		24
Dhruv Penumalla	dhruvpenumalla	5
Eden F.	kabibblet	5
Evan Petri		12
Isaac	Chessnut102	5
Kavin Narendrakumar	KavinFunChess	2
Krithik Ravichandren	krithik_r	25
Mauro Inojossa		21
narendra kumar	NinjaNithin	4
Nivedh Panchal	NivedhP	17
Ostap Mostovyi	Ostapoux	10
Seth Talyansky	SethTalyansky	14
William Hardison	CastawayWill	28
	Akashh1507	38
	Aquatic_SK	18
	aruminchess	5
	Awesome_Chess1234	5
	awuhawuh	1
	Bhumi2311	23
	BirghtChessLearner	5
	ChasBoss	7
	Chessllamallamallama	7
	DearShowyCircus	11
	DrakonWarrior	11
	FrozenQueen10	3
	GooooChess	13
	HemNishil	7
	Hollydood	5
	Howtoplaythisgam	17
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	kiddo39	3
	Kunj_1	7
	louaj	2
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	Thefearlesscarrot	33
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	wljefferson	4
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Betcha Can’t Solve This #Chess Puzzle! 58

When you think about it, our whole life is about solving puzzles. Chess problems are similar to life problems in that solving the puzzle requires careful thought and that through practice, we can improve our ability to quickly find the best solution. So enjoy our daily chess puzzles and smile knowing that by doing so you could be fine tuning your brain to respond to life’s dilemmas.

White to move and mate in 2 (Johan Axel Akerblom, 1926.)

#Chess Position Worth Sharing 135

Emmanuel Lasker offered the famous advice, “When you see a good move, look for a better one.” Today’s position easily lends itself to this exercise in chess thought. First, find the obvious good move. Then, try and find the best continuation.

Black to move and mate in 3 (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/)

#Chess Position Worth Sharing 134

White to move and mate in 5 (from Yuri Averbakh vs. Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush, 1963).

GM Yuri Averbakh is Checkmating Covid

MOSCOW, RUSSIA – AUGUST 29, 2017: Yuri Averbakh, a 95-year-old grandmaster, plays a chess match against four-year-old chess player Mikhail Osipov at Ostankino television centre. Sergei Bobylev/TASS

At age 99, Yuri Averbakh has spent the better part of of his life checkmating opponents but off the board, it appears that he used his famous chess stubbornness to checkmate COVID. Multiple sources have confirmed that the world’s oldest chess grandmaster has been released from a Moscow hospital to continue recovering from Covid-19 at home.

Yuri Averbakh was born on February 8, 1922 in Kaluga. Averbakh’s father was of German Jewish heritage and his mother was Russian and an Eastern Orthodox Christian which made Yuri an especially rare blend of religions and nationalities for the time period.

Yuri Averbakh’s first major tournament success didn’t come until the age of 27 when he took first place at the 1949 Moscow Chess Championship. Three years later, Averbakh earned the Grandmaster title. His greatest tournament triumph came in 1954 when Yuri won the USSR Chess Championship.

Perhaps Averbakh’s greatest contribution to chess is as a writer and endgame theorist. His many books on endgame theory are among the best ever written and his chess autobiography “Averbakh’s Selected Games” is a testament to his skill as a writer and a chess master.

As a chess player, Yuri Averbakh has always employed an ultra solid style that almost always blunts the attacks of more aggressive players. While not known as a swashbuckling chess player, Yuri is certainly capable of launching devastating attacks when the conditions are correct as seen in his 1947 victory over Vladimir Zak:

Match for Masters Title Yuri Averbakh vs Vladimir Zak

We at Daily Chess Musings wish Yuri Averbakh the best in his recovery and look forward to celebrating his 100th birthday with our chess community on February 8, 2022.

Tournament Report for The Eade Foundation’s Spring Scholastic Chess Classic

On May 22, The Eade Foundation Spring Scholastic Chess Classic took place online. This prestigious event attracted many of the top youth chess players from around the United States and Canada. The tournament which was organized by Chris Torres of https://dailychessmusings.com and directed by Jay Stallings of https://chesshootz.com was a well-run 5 round rapid play event where children were broken up into 4 different grade level sections. All the rounds started on time and as soon as games finished, Chris and Jay were analyzing them during the live YouTube broadcast. In addition, all the games were analyzed using sophisticated FairPlay methods to ensure the integrity of the results.

The Eade Foundation’s Spring Scholastic Chess Classic kicked off with a message on the importance of building a chess community from FIDE Master James Eade. The Eade Foundation’s ideals were epitomized by the scholastic chess players who spent their day demonstrating chess literacy and chess excellence. Of course, certain competitors earned the distinction of being crowned the champions of this first of its kind chess tournament and they are: Ariv Debmisra (K-1), Aaron Reeve Mendes (2-5), Ankita Jain (6-8), & Arnav Kapadia (9-12). In addition to the section champions, (list runners up) also deserve recognition for their performance in this prestigious online youth chess tournament.

For more information on The Eade Foundation, please visit: https://eadefoundation.org.

Below are the Final Standings of the 2021 Eade Foundation Spring Scholastic Chess Classic and some examples of the outstanding play exhibited during this prestigious youth chess event.

Standings

K-1

↓	#	Name	Age<	Gender	Score	Tie.	Init. rtg.	New rating
Gold	1	Ariv Debmisra			5	14	1050	996 (5/20)
Silver	2	Johnson Weng			4	15	new	841 (5/20)
Bronze	3	Andrew Chang			4	11	1068	796 (5/20)
	4	Winston Chen			3	17	500	696 (5/20)
	5	Vedant Basu Acharya			3	16	new	686 (5/20)
	6	Pritish Singhal	7	Male	3	14	new	671 (5/20)
	7	Raymond Ouyang	7	Male	3	12	742	651 (5/20)
	8	Matthew Chao			3	9	new	764 (4/20)
	9	Evelyn Hsing			3	9	770	616 (5/20)
	10	Kiyomi Yuk			3	9	new	557 (4/20)
	11	Sayan Mukhopadhyay			2	14	400	516 (5/20)
	12	Peter Wardlow			2	12	382	491 (5/20)
	13	Eric Liu			2	11	new	382 (4/20)
	14	Sai Chandhuru Vijay Regunathan			2	8	new	451 (5/20)
	15	Asher Yu			1	14	445	351 (5/20)
	16	Dharsh Patibandla			1	13	333	341 (5/20)
	17	Joshua Goldberg	6	Male	1	12	400	336 (5/20)
	18	Talia Pogue-Jewell			1	11	165	336 (5/20)
	19	Dann Merriman			0	1	728	101 (1/20)
	20	Siva Kolli			0	0	501	0 (0/20)

2-5

↓	#	Name	Age<	Gender	Score	Tie.	Init. rtg.	New rating
Gold	1	Aaron Reeve Mendes			5	14½	1806	1547 (11/20)
Silver	2	Anusha Mukhopadhyay			4	18	1040	1312 (5/20)
Bronze	3	Sophia Huang			4	12	875	1041 (5/20)
	4	Rohan Menon			3½	16½	902	1217 (5/20)
	5	Alice Wang			3½	13½	new	1023 (5/20)
	6	Sam Carpenter			3	16	994	974 (17/20)
	7	Manu Varma Vegisana	11	Male	3	15	950	916 (5/20)
	8	Sai Nirmith Indukuri			3	12½	900	1060 (5/20)
	9	Trent Padilla			3	12	800	918 (5/20)
	10	Cole Pogue-Jewell			3	11	638	886 (5/20)
	11	Eden Skye			3	8½	750	1017 (4/20)
	12	Shreeansh Bommoju			2	15	900	930 (5/20)
	13	Devansh Alwa			2	13	623	763 (5/20)
	14	Kendrick Qu	9	Male	2	12½	443	731 (5/20)
	15	Aaron Wu			2	11½	677	1047 (4/20)
	16	Holden Scheff			2	10½	390	731 (5/20)
	17	Havish Arun			2	9	new	716 (5/20)
	18	Shaun R McGrath			2	9	new	686 (5/20)
	19	George You			2	6	new	644 (3/20)
	20	Aditi Deorukhkar			1	10	195	546 (5/20)
	21	Lucas Moras			1	10	new	411 (4/20)
	22	Asher Georgy			1	9	new	399 (4/20)
	23	Khaushal Ragavan			1	3	new	436 (1/20)
	24	Joshua Huang			0	4	900	386 (2/20)
	25	Varun A Ganesh			0	3	new	461 (1/20)

6-8

↓	#	Name	Age<	Gender	Score	Tie.	Init. rtg.	New rating
Gold	1	Ankita Jain			4½	16	1200	1364 (5/20)
Silver	2	Ansh Batra			4½	15½	1300	1354 (5/20)
Bronze	3	Johannes Chow			4	16	1590	1284 (5/20)
	4	Phuc Hoang	14		4	12	new	1244 (5/20)
	5	Kaelyn Dasovich	15	Female	3½	14½	1186	1189 (5/20)
	6	Devin Kozakis			3½	12	759	1184 (5/20)
	7	Sydney Zhang	14	Male	3	16½	1500	1129 (5/20)
	8	Caden Guo			3	15½	900	1109 (5/20)
	9	Sebastian Henriksson			3	14	1000	1109 (5/20)
	10	Sanjay Reddy			3	12½	1101	1089 (5/20)
	11	Siddharth Sivakumar			3	11½	new	1074 (5/20)
	12	Hardik Alwa			2	14½	892	949 (5/20)
	13	Javi Nashat			2	13½	800	959 (5/20)
	14	Cody Satinsky	11	Male	2	13½	1100	934 (5/20)
	15	Dev Patel			2	13	900	944 (5/20)
	16	Jericho Suarez			2	11½	new	822 (4/20)
	17	Vishnu Vijayachandran	14	Male	2	10½	1350	909 (5/20)
	18	Gauri Deorukhkar			2	9½	384	914 (5/20)
	19	Vivaan Garg			2	8	new	778 (4/20)
	20	Nicolo Wolfson			1	9½	308	754 (5/20)
	21	Joseph Miao			1	9	1000	584 (4/20)
	22	Hamilton Qinrun Zhang			1	3	new	634 (1/20)
	23	Neel Deshpande			½	2½	new	784 (2/20)
	24	Taedus Nguyen			½	1½	500	759 (2/20)
	25	Sebastien Mei			0	3½	new	659 (1/20)
	26	Soham Khan			0	2	new	584 (1/20)
	27	Ethan R Mei			0	2	1400	584 (1/20)

9-12

↓	#	Name	Age<	Gender	Score	Tie.	Init. rtg.	New rating
Gold	1	Arnav Kapadia			4	14	1000	1317 (5/20)
Silver	2	Matthew Hsin-De Tran			4	12	1100	1307 (5/20)
Bronze	3	Sofia Doroshenko			3½	13	1002	1237 (5/20)
	4	Jackson Bennett			3	17	1500	1187 (5/20)
	5	Jeevan Dhanota	15	Male	3	11	459	1122 (5/20)
	6	Jake Ebersole			2½	14	new	1077 (5/20)
	7	Adam Kremer			2	11	1200	962 (5/20)
	8	Kabir Zaman			2	8½	1000	945 (3/20)
	9	Ojas Agarwal			1	12	1500	812 (4/20)
	10	Cedrick Garcia			1	8½	1256	937 (3/20)
	11	Rihan Podder			1	7	600	637 (3/20)

The Eade Foundation Spring Scholastic Chess Classic – K-1, Debmisra vs Chao

The Eade Foundation Spring Scholastic Chess Classic – 2-5, Mendes vs Nirmith Indukuri

The Eade Foundation Spring Scholastic Chess Classic – 6-8, Kozakis vs Jain

The Eade Foundation Spring Scholastic Chess Classic – 9-12, Kapadia vs Doroshenko

The Golden Ticket for an Iconic Summer Chess Experience

Greetings Chess Players. My name is Chris Torres and this is my daily chess musing for Saturday, June 12, 2021.

Yesterday, I saw advertisements for ten or so summer chess camps just by perusing through my Facebook feed. Of course, every chess camp claimed to be great, but in reality, very few can prove to be iconic.

For over twenty years, my summer chess camps have taught tens-of-thousands of young people chess and many have gone onto to become chess masters, national champions and even greater achievements. Rest assured though, I put out my best effort for every child who comes to learn. This is why my summer chess camps are truly iconic.

Consider the 2021 Daily Chess Musings Free Online Summer Chess Camp to be your golden ticket. I have already done much of the hard work on your behalf, and now all you have to do is sign up your child and give it your best effort. All ages and skill levels are welcome.

The Daily Chess Musings Free Online Summer Chess Camp will be held during the weeks of June 14-18, July 12-16 and August 9-13 Participants will spend two and a half hours on chess activities per day from 12:30 pm until 3:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time.