Tuesday, June 25, 2013

BCC: HAVEN FOR PRODIGIES. WEAVER ADAMS WRAP-UP // 2 FREE ENTRIES TO REUBENS-LANDEY

JOEL WALD AND BRANDON WU SCORE 3 POINTS TO SHARE 1ST PLACE IN WEAVER ADAMS
GAIN FREE ENTRY INTO THE REUBENS-LANDEY 1800-U2199
QUALIFIER EVENT FOR THE BCC CHAMPIONSHIP
Steve Stepak vs Brandon Wu, Round 2. 
Remember the "d5" pawn push I failed to make vs Daniel Wang in the 
Grande Prix U1800 Round 1 game? Well as luck would have it (co-incidence?) 
I also missed a thematic d5 push vs Brandon Wu in a 
Nimzo-/Queeen's Indian hybrid which would have been a "+/-" evaluation.
As they say in the movies: "it was not meant to be. . . " 
Steven Stepak vs Joel Wald, Round 3.
"Benoni" lesson.  1.d4 c5 is a really complicated tangle of
opening nuance and tactics. I learned a lot playing Joel.
My two defeats in the Weaver Adams launched the career of
9 yr old Brandon Wu and made Joel Wald very happy. They 
both scored 3 points to share 1-2nd in this event, writing their free
tickets into the Reubens-Landey, a 1800-U2199 qualifier which
seeds the winner into the Boylston CC Championship, played this Fall.
(photos: Bernardo Iglesias, TD of the event)
BCC Treasurer Bob Oresick plays Tom Pendergast in Round 3.
Decisive Game, Round 4: Brandon Wu, black vs Richard Mooney.
Brandon Wu chalked up a +78 rating hike. Keep an eye on this 
young prodigy too, along with Daniel Wang!
(background): Bob Oresick black vs Chen Bai.
There were 8 players in the Weaver Adams event.
BCC House of Scholastic Chess Prodigies:
Mika Brittain, Andrew Liu, Luke Lung, Nithin Kavi, Mateos Sahakian, Jacob Fauman, 
Michelle Chen, Carissa Yip, Jason Tang, Arthur Tang, Eric Feng, Michael Yu, Lucy Cai,
and Eddie Wei, just to name a few . . . 
Reubens-Landey Qualifier begins next week.
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