National Elementary Championship Results:
K-1: Feng, Roland and Vasudeva, Tanuj (co-champions) 7 points
K-3: Angermeier, Danny and Polgar, Tommy (co-champions) 6.5 points
K-5: Li, Brian S and Liao, Eric N (co-champions) 6.5 points
K-6: Ostrovskiy, Aleksandr A (champion) 6.5 points
Full results of all other sections can be found here. Congratulations to ALL the winners!
After (Friday) the first day of the championship, Tommy got sick. When he woke up on Saturday morning, he almost had to withdraw from the tournament. He was not feeling well at all. At the last minute, he decided to give it a shot. After drawing round 4, he won the last games today, including against 2 of the top 5 seeds. He said it was a Mother’s Day Present for me.
Special thanks to the Texas Tech / SPICE Chess Club and members of the Texas Tech Knight Raiders chess team for practicing and working out with Tommy. They took him under their wings as one of their own since he arrived to Lubbock late August last year.
Didn’t Angermeier take the championship on a tie break?
Well done Angermeir and Polgar!
All players who tie for 1st in any section are declared co-champions. New trophie plates are ordered for all co-champions in all sections. This is the official USCF rules. Their names will also be listed as co-champions in all sections.
Can you say TANUJ??!!
IL Chess Dad is correct. This has been the long system for the USCF. All players who tie for first are declared co-champions. The anon 8:19 is obviously has no understanding of USCF rules.
I bet it’s Laugherty trying to pick on Susan’s kid again.
You should hear what John Hillery, Ken Sloan and others are saying about him. Not pretty.
John Hillery: “Tell us Brian: Are you grossly dishonest or grossly ignorant? Inquiring minds want to know.”
Kenneth Sloan: “complete drivel.
One can only repeat the sound words at the beginning of this thread: please get some experience as a player and TD before engaging in public debate on matters about which you know NOTHING.
Start with reading the rulebook.
Then, talk to someone with some experience.
If after all that, you have strong opinions on how events should be run, by all means bring them up in a public forum.
Until then, be guided by the adage: “’tis better to keep your mouth shut, and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.”
John Hillery: “If you had any experience directing or playing in chess tournaments … well, you wouldn’t be such an easy target.”
I was at the award ceremony of all sections and they declared every player who tied for first co-national champions.
Why do you guys feed an obvious stupid troll? You’re making him think that he’s important.
Amazing that in K-1 the first place kids in order of tiebreaks had ratings of 652 and 1500!
Too bad not enough rounds to have the two of them play each other.
Tommy, GRATULALOK!!!
Congratulations,Tommy!
Full time chess teacher,
National Master,
Bela Kis
Great work Tommy! We are proud of you!
Your friends in Lubbock!
Congratulations to Tommy Polgar and to his Chess Mom!
best wishes
A. Weiler
I’m 100% sure that the first anon post is from Laughterty trying to harass Susan and belittle her son. This is the one who has been abusing her for over a year while worshiping and defending a convicted felon like Sloan. Don’t feed this troll.
fpawn, I would expect a 1500 to go 7-0 in a K-1 section, but how the heck does one get a 1st grader to 1500?
Mr. Brock, how one gets a first grader to 1500 is not something that I have an answer to. He has a private coach who gives him the loving instruction that he needs. This kid is the real deal, perhaps more talented than Daniel Naroditsky and Nicholas Nip (although that’s hard to say at this point). I have seen him with my own eyes. He plays in a mixture of adult and scholastic tournaments. Like any kid, he has his ups and downs, but he learns so quickly it is scary.
Remember the name Tanuj Vasudeva. You’ll hear it again!
Photo and story about Tanuj at http://fpawn.blogspot.com
2nd on tiebreaks is not too shabby.
Any of Tanuj’s games available in PGN?
I don’t have a recent game, although maybe Chess Life Online will publish one from Pittsburgh. Here’s a game from last fall. Black is another underrated junior who is now rated nearly 1900.
[Event “Mechanics”]
[Date “2007.09.15”]
[Round “3”]
[White “Vasudeva, Tanuj”]
[Black “Lin K, Michael”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “B22”]
1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. d4 cxd4 5. cxd4 Qc7 6. Nf3 e6 7. Bd3 b6 8. O-O Bb7 9. Be3 d6 10. Nbd2 dxe5 11. Rc1 Qd8 12. Bb5+ Nd7 13. Nxe5 N5f6 14. Bg5 Bc8 15. Rxc8 Rxc8 16. Nxd7 Be7 17. Nxf6+ Kf8 18. Nd7+ Kg8 19. Bh6 f5 20. Qe2 gxh6 21. Qxe6+ Kg7 22. Re1 Bf6 23. Nxf6 Qxf6 24. Qd7+ Kg6 25. Re6 Rhd8 26. Rxf6+ Kxf6 27. Qxh7 Rxd4 28. Qxh6+ Kf7 29. Nf3 Rd5 30. Ng5+ Ke7 31. Qe6+ 1-0
Tom’s result (like most kids, he doesn’t want to be called by the pet name his mom gives him) is excellent. I’m glad I escaped with a draw against him in a regular-tournament game.
Speaking of regular tournaments, should scholastic players compete in the open sections for cash prizes? I did that when I was a teenager during the Fischer boom (there were far fewer scholastic tournaments then; none in my part of the country). I remember an agnry exchange of letters in what was then Chess Life and Review when Joel Benjamin, aged 11 at the time, was invited to an international tournament despite a far-below-master rating. He had a low score, but it didn’t stop him and he went on to the GM title. Although it’s unlikely that a junior would be invited to an international now unless Bill Goichberg is organizing it, there is no rule about them going for the top boards in the Open section, as Benjamin, Yasser Seirawan and Doug Root, among others, proved.
Any thoughts?
Peter Harris
Too Bad nobody has any recent games. USCF say’s Tanuj is rated over 1500 but only 6! Anyboby have any games we can see?