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January 4th AACC Swiss results!

The results are out for the 2025 January 4th Swiss tournament! We had a small group, but a lot of fun!

Congratulations to Landon Burton Hoard for taking the gold in tie breaks!

It was great to play with and against everyone in this tournament, and it marks a special tournament for me, as this gave me the last 3 rated games I needed to have an established rating, and allows me to request to take the test and, Lord willing, become a Local Tournament Director (LTD), which allows us to run events with up to 100 to 120 competitors! Only possible because of great players like you, so thank you!

*Photo courtesy of Dawn Burton.

241109 AACC November Swiss Results!

The results are in from the AACC November 2024 Swiss tournament!

The cross table from the open section:

Rank   Player          Score   Rating  MM  Solk    Cum. 
1   Weston Howard       3.0     1485    4.0 5.0 6.0
2   Don Wall             2.0    1572    5.0 5.0 5.0
3   Landon Burton Hoard 2.0     1059    4.0 5.0 4.0
4   John Huling          2.0    1122    3.0 4.0 4.0
5   Samuel Boylan       1.0     997 3.0 6.0 2.0
6   Michael Olsta       1.0     unr.    2.0 4.0 2.0
7   Colton Evans        1.0     1541    1.0 3.0 1.0
8   Jeremiah Youmans    0.0     1074    2.0 4.0 0.0

And the results cross table from the extra rated games section:

Rank   Player          Score   Rating  MM  Solk    Cum.
1   John Huling         1.0     1122    0.0 0.0 1.0
2   Landon Burton Hoard 1.0     1059    0.0 0.0 1.0
3   Samuel Boylan       1.0     997     0.0 0.0 1.0
4   Don Wall            0.0     1572    0.0 1.0 0.0
5   Colton Evans        0.0     1541    0.0 1.0 0.0
6   Michael Olsta       0.0     unr.    0.0 1.0 0.0

You can check out the US Chess Federations official MSA listing here:

https://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?202411094542-31397231

And don't forget, you can also look it up on Chessnut.club if you make a log in to go with your account! You can review your projected rating changes, get your statistics against other players, and much more! This event can be found here: https://chessnut.club/events/713

Here are the pictures of the score sheets and the PawnParse digitized pgn files:

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Please keep in mind that the digitized pgn files uses AI to read the score sheets. However, several games were incomplete, or had such poor handwriting, or had incorrectly notated moves, and thus are not complete in these pgn files. Some games are listed twice as both players turned in a scoresheet.

You can also check out the games on my Lichess study:

https://lichess.org/study/rvr8FT64/BV8uPK71

Or download the Lichess Study pgn files as well:

https://lichess.org/study/rvr8FT64.pgn

Thanks for playing and we hope to see you there next time!

National Chess Day in Soldotna was a huge success!

Alaska's top player, Matt Parshall faces off against Alaska's top female player, Kate Weddleton.

The National Chess Day tournament in Soldotna, Alaska was a huge success, gathering over 30 players and no shortage of spectators! A large part of this success is owed to the Barnes family, of Kenai, Alaska, for their incredible support in making this event happen! The Cook Inlet Academy was very gracious in allowing us to use their facilities as well, with their huge gym providing the prefect space for the setup of tables to play chess!

Here are some excellent photos of the event, taken by Caroline Huling, to whom we also owe a thanks for being the event photographer!