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Tournament News
We had our annual Halloween tournament on Friday. We had a full 24 players and had to tell another ten players that we were out of room, and eight of our players came in a costume. Regrets to everyone who called trying to enter after we had reached our limit. It was lots of fun, and everyone got goody bags.
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The Candy section was above 1400. Carl Yu and Bo-You Lee had perfect scores. In the costumes section (1100-1400) there was another tie for first: Neel Aswathi, Kyle Peterson, Francis Kok, Aryan Shah. Nila Krishnan, Om Krishnan, and Brian Watson won the Pumpkins section (800-1100). And Saatvik Pattanaik won the Cats section with 1.5 points.
And the important part, for the Piada gift cards, the Steampunk costume was first and Dr. Strange was second.
And our top three upsets of October receive a free month of diamond membership from chess.com
Chess Apps
New Classes starting this Winter
We have two new classes starting in December.
Level 3 - Basic tactics
You know how to make good moves. This class teaches how to make winning moves (including the most important tactic that causes more losses than all other tactics combined). We also teach how to decide which move to make when you have multiple choices and the seven endgames you HAVE TO know before you’re rated 400.
Level 9 - what to play against 1.d4
If you’re an intermediate player, you’ve been playing against players who start with d4. Come learn a strong and defense that White isn’t expecting and helps you fight for a win.
Coaching
If you are looking for one-on-one instruction or small group instruction, contact us and reserve your time with one of our coaches before someone else grabs your best spot with the coach that you want.
Version 0.82 of the Beast Chess Trainer has been released to assist you with your chess training. Click on the Beast for more details.