End of the tournament

I drew my last round against Kadhir Pillai which resulted in me being tied for 3rd and I just barely beat Christopher Yang on third tiebreaks by 1/2 a point which got me fifth place. My dad and I nearly missed the flight because the rental car, check-in, and security took a long time.

                                                                                                         

NAYCC Last Round coming up

I won my two games yesterday, and now I am tied for second with 5 others...If I win my last game, then I could tie for first or second. So, wish me luck!

North American Youth 2011

After 6 months I am continuing on my blog. I am currently in Tarrytown, New York at the 2011 North American Youth with 2.5/4. I won against a 1470 and a 1660, but lost to last year's champion Hong Rui Zhu from Canada and drew with a 1800, Tanmay Khattar. I need to do well in the final 3 rounds to have a decent result. I will continue updating and post photos of my opponents tomorrow. I will also talk about what has happened in the past 6 months soon.

LAX American Open

LAX American Open

My tournament in LA didn't go very well. I scored only 2.5 out of 6. In the first game I wasn't playing focused, but in the second game I had a chance for a draw, went for the win and lost. In the third game I beat Ojas Chinchwadkar after a sharp attack. I lost again in the fourth game after getting tired. The next day I won the fifth round after another sharp attack before drawing a 2000 in the endgame of my final round. We also saw many cool sights at LA. The LAX airport was right next to us, but the hotel did a good job of keeping the noise down. Many blinking cylinder lights stood around us. They kept changing their color into green, yellow, orange, red, purple, and pink. I had tasty food to eat every day. For example, we ate delicious chinese food before the fourth round. Most of the lunches were from Subway because that is where I usually eat on chess days. The drive back took two hours more than the first one because there was a lot of traffic because of the end of Thanksgiving weekend and we drove more relaxed.

On Tuesday nights I am playing a FIDE tournament (FIDE stands for Federation Internationale des Echecs) called Tuesday Fight Knight to improve my rating because in many tournaments you have to play in the Open to get a FIDE rating. There are 12 players and 11 rounds so we are going to play everybody in the round robin. It is in San Jose and my chess friends are also playing so I see them every time. I won my first game against Randy Moon, a 1750 who won the A section in Bay Area on Thanksgiving, but there are 10 more rounds to go. 

Thanksgiving!

     Muthu(my little brother) and I both participated in a piano recital yesterday. He played five short songs and I played four long songs. We both did very well.
     I am now all caught up with my schoolwork because my science project about biomes is now finished.
     This Thanksgiving week, I am going to LA to play a tournament. We are leaving on the early morning of Thursday. That means we have to celebrate Thanksgiving on Wednesday or in LA. We have the whole week off so I have lots of time to prepare. I am playing only six rounds on three days not eight rounds on four days so that I could have fun on Sunday.  I will update my blog while I'm playing in Los Angeles.

A Week After Getting Back...

After getting back from WYCC, I took the week off from chess. I had fun reading, watching TV, and playing sports. Boy, I had a ton of work to catch up on! I am almost done with the work I missed. We also had fun on Diwali this Friday. This week I'm getting back to my chess work.

Round 10 and 11 - Final Update

In Round 10, I beat a very strong German, Raphael Lagunow, in a long game. He was leader in the earlier part of the tournament.

In the final 11th round, I got paired against the top seed, and fellow Bay Area kid, Samuel Sevian. I drew him after a sharp, positional game.

I finished with 8 out of 11, and tied for 5th through 10th...with 9th place on tie-breaks. I achieved my goal of making Top 10 in the world.

See you all back in California.

http://chess-results.com/tnr39337.aspx?art=1&rd=11&lan=1&flag=30&m=-1&wi=1000

World Youth Chess Championships 2010 Open Under 10

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Final Ranking after 11 Rounds

Rk.			Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1
1			Cao Jason	CAN	0	9,0	56,5
2			Xiong Jeffrey	USA	1824	9,0	54,5
3			Puranik Abhimanyu	IND	1790	8,5	55,0
4			Gupta Bhaskar	IND	1742	8,5	54,5
5			Wheeler Cameron	USA	0	8,0	53,0
6			Sevian Samuel	USA	2105	8,0	53,0
7			Drozdowski Konrad	POL	1769	8,0	50,5
8		FM	Tabatabaei M Amin	IRI	1793	8,0	48,0
9			Panchanatham Vignesh	USA	1803	8,0	46,5
10			Trjapishko Alexandr	UKR	1931	8,0	46,0