Vance High School Chess Club of Charlotte, NC

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 Southern Scholastics Results!!!!

Vance Claims 3rd Place at 20th Annual Southern Scholastic Championship with 13.0 Points in the k-12 Section.

Individual Trophies went to:

Peter Giannatos with 4.0/5.0 points.

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Reverse Angle V

January 19, 2008

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 Reverse Angle a Success!!!

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VANCE WILL BE HOLDING THEIR FIRST USCF RATED TOURNAMENT, THE REVERSE ANGLE ON OCTOBER 20, 2007 AT UNC CHARLOTTE. FOR MORE INFORMATION ENTRY FEE,TIME CONTROL, ETC. CLICK HERE!!

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 FOR UPCOMING CMSCA TOURNAMENTS FOR THE 2008-2009 YEAR CLICK HERE!! 

 2007-2008

Last Tournament of the School Year!! 

June 23, 2007

Crazy Horse Open (Open to all, 8-person SECTIONS, 3 round SWISS TOURNAMENT, G/90) Rounds 9:00, 12:45, 4:00. EF $25 early; $30 at door. Registration ends 8:40 am. For each section: Prizes 1st $55, 2nd $25.
• George Armstrong Custer Special (Under 1400 only, 4 person quad, round robin, G/30, Morning and Afternoon Events; can play in both AM and PM quads). AM quad Registration ends 9:10 Rounds 9:30, 10:40, 11:50; PM quad Registration ends 1:15 Rounds 1:30, 2:40, 3:50.
EF $15 early for one, $25 for both AM and PM; $20 and $30 at door.
Prize: 1st place: Medal and $25.

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 Results from Occum's Razor

Peter Giannatos scored 1.0/3.0 in section one.

Ashraf Azihan scored 2.0/3.0 in section two

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Last Tournament of the Year!!

May 26, 2007

CMSCA is hosting its 1st annual 8-man section Swiss Open on May 26th at Vance High School. This tournament is open to both scholastic and adult players.After Round 1 of the 3 round tournament, the CMSCA instructors will face off once again in a Blitz Competition to see if anyone can take the 'chess belt' away from our current champion, John Lane. Don't miss this exciting event!

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NATIONALS RESULTS!!

Over 1400 minds gathered together to compete in the K-12 Scholastic Nationals in Kansas City, MO. It was a great tournament, and we are looking forward to going in the years to come. Well lets get to the results!

Peter Giannatos, and Ashraf Azihan scored an impressive 4.0/7.0 in the extremely hard open section. Ashraf tied for the U1400 class prize and recieved 1st on the tie breaks. Peter tied for 1st in the U1600 but did not manage to recieve a trophy. Drew Holloway and Ayman Azihan both scored 2.0/7.0, and Al Smith scored 1.5/7.0.

team results

USCF crosstables

 Fake Copper Blanket Results

 In the U1800 section Peter Giannatos scored 2.5/3.0 to tie for first with Chang Sun, and Mark Gragg.

In the U1400 section NC K-12 U1300 champion Ashraf Azihan proved his skill agaist his opponents BUT blundered horribly in a won position and lost his 3rd round and finished with 2 points of 3. In addition Drew Holloway recieved a score of 1.0/3.0

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 NC Scholastic Championship Finally Rated!!

 Ratings After the NC Scholatic

 NC State Championship Results In!!!!

In the open section Peter Giannatos managed to get 3.5 points out of 5 to tie for 4th place with 8 others. He recieved 12 place after tie breakers.

In the under 1300 section Ashraf Azihan made Vance proud and went 5 points out of 5 to receive clear first.

Ayman Azihan finished with an impressive 3.5 out of 5 in the U1300 section.

Drew Holloway finished with 3 out of 5 in the U1300 section.

And Altyree Smith pulled off 1.5 out of 5 in the U1300

THE TEAM FINISHED 2nd in the U1300 section!!!

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Vance Dominates at the Grade Championship!

Peter Giannatos and Ashraf Azihan got 3.0 points out of 4.0, to take home 1st and 2nd place trophies in the 10th grade. Peter got the nod on the tie breaks.

Ayman Azihan and Drew Holloway both got 2.0 points out of 4.0.

Ayman Azihan also upset 7 year old Einstein Ken Chu!

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Vance Wins Clear 1st at the Southern Scholastics!!!!!

Peter Giannatos and Ashraf Azihan led the cougars with an impressive score of 4.0/5.0.

Drew Holloway and Ayman Azihan finished with an impressive 3.5/5.0 score.

 Other scorers were Altyree Smith and Richard Thomson who both finished with a 2.0/5.0 score.

And James Pinyenot finished with a 1.0/5.0 score.

We would like to thank CMSCA for providing an instructor to come to our school and teach us the things that are key to our success in chess.

That instructors name happens to be  NM Matthew Noble. We would like to thank him for letting us use his knowledge and add it to our way of playing chess. With his knowledge he has made us better players and for that we would like to thank him. 

Finally we would like to thank Paul West for being a great chess coach and sponsor. He has been with us for three years now and has done all he can to help us improve in chess.

Sincerely,

The K-12 19th Annual Southern Scholastics First Place Team

Vance High School Chess Team

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Carolinas Challenge Results

Peter Giannatos scored 4.0 points out of a possible 5.0 Claiming Clear 2nd in the D/E section.

Peter Giannatos (1397) vs. Copland Blackwell (1135)

Petroff Defence

1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. Re1 f5 9. Bf4 Nd7 10. c4 c6 11. Nc3 Nb6 12. cxd5 cxd5 13. Rc1 Bd7 14. Qb3 Bc6 15. Ne5 Qe8 16. Nb5 Qc8 17. f3 Bg4! 18. fxe4 Bxf4 19. exd5 Bxc1 20. dxc6+ Kh8 21. Nd6!! Qc7 22. N(d)f7+ Kg8 23. Nh6+ Resigns 1-0 The threat of 23....Kh8 24. Qg8+ Rxg8 25. Nf7+ Qxf7 26. Nxf7 mate

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 Junior Open Results

The Junior Open is sectioned off by ages not rating.

Ashraf Azihan finished with a score 1.5 points out of a possible 3.0 in the U19 section at the Junior Open. Drawing with an 1800+ player!!(see game below)

Ayman Azihan finished with a score of 2.0 points out of a possible 3.0 in the U16 section at the Junior Open.

Drew Holloway finished with a score of 2.0 points out of a possible 3.0 in the U16 section at the Junior Open.

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Games from the Junior Open

Joshua Mu (1850) vs. Ashraf Azihan (1254)

Pirc Defence

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Bg5 Bg7 5. e5 dxe5 6. dxe5 N(f)d7?! 7. Nd5 Nc6 8. Bb5 N(d)xe5 9. Bxe7 Qd7 10. Nf6+ Bxf6 11. Bxf6 Qxd1+ 12. Rxd1 O-O 13. Ne2 a6 14. Ba4 b5 15. Bb3 Be6 16. Bxe6 fxe6 17. Bg5 Rf5 18. Be3 Nb4 19. Nd4 Rf7 20. O-O Re8 21. Bd2 c5 22. Bxb4 cxb4 23. R(f)e1 Nc4 24. b3 Nb6 25. Rxe6 Rxe6 26. Nxe6 Re7 27. Nc5 Re2 28. Nxa6 Rxc2 29. Nxb4 Rb2 30. f3 Nc4 31. bxc4 Rxb4 32. cxb5 Rxb5 33. Ra1 Ra5 34. a4 Kf7 35. Kf2 Ke6 36. Ke3 Kd5 37. Kd3 Kc6 38. Kc3 Kb6 39. Kb4 Rh5 40. h3 Rg5 41. Ra2 Rd5 42. a5+ Ka6 43. Rc2?! Rb5+ 44. Kc4 Rxa5 45. Kd4 Rf5 46. Ke4 Kb5 47. Rc7 Rh5 48. Kf4 Kb6 49. Rd1 Rf5+ 50. Kg4 h6 51. h4 h5+ 52. Kh3 Rf4 53. Rc3 Kb5 54. g4 Kb4 55. gxf4 Kxc3 56. f5 gxf5 57. Kg3 Kd3 58. Kf3 Ke2 Draw Agreed 1/2-1/2

More Games to Come!!

Results from the Fake Copper Blanket

Peter Giannatos-tied for 1st 2.5/3/0 U1400

Ashraf Azihan- 1st 3.0/3.0 U1200

Ayman Azihan- 5th 3.0/4.0 U1000

Drew Holloway- 17th 2.0/4.0 U1000

Full Results

Here are some games from the FCB

Peter Giannatos(1370) vs. Robert Broadbent(1286)

Evan's Gambit

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.O-O N(g)e7 7.d4 d5? 8.exd5 Nxd5 9.Nxe5 Bxc3? 10.Nxc3 Nxc3 11.Bxf7+ Kf8 12.Ba3+ Ne7 13.Qf3 Ne2+ 14.Qxe2 Bf5 15.R(f)e1 b6 16.BxN+ QxB 17.Ng6+! Kxf7 18.Qxe7+ Kxg6 19.Re3 h6 20. Rg3+ Kh5 21.Qe2+ Resign Black Can Not Stop the threat of 21....Kh4 22.Qf3 h5 23.Qf4+ Bg4 24.h3 

David Spencer(1193) vs. Ashraf Azihan(1146)

Pirc Defence

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bc4 0-0 6.0-0 Nxe4 7.Nxe4 d5 8.Bd3 dxe4 9.Bxe4 Nd7 10.Bf4 Nf6 11.Bd3 Bg4 12.c3 b6 13.b4 Nd5 14.Bd2 e5 15.dxe5 Bxe5 16.Be2 Bxf3 17.Bxf3 Rc8 18.Bh6 Qh4 19.h3 Qxh6 20.Qxd5 Bxc3 21.Rb1 Rfd8 22.Qb7 Qf8 23.a3 Rd2 24.Qxa7 Ra8? 25.Bxa8 Qd6 26.Rc1 Bd4 27.Rxc7 Rxf2 28.Qb8+ Kg7 29.Rxf7+?? Rxf7+ 30.Kh1 Rxf1#

Ayman Azihan(902) vs. Brandon Rogers(812)

English Opening

The Results from the Nationals!!
The Team finished 24th in the U1500 section

•  Peter Giannatos   4.5 points 
• Ashraf Azihan       3.5 points  
• Drew Holloway     1.5 points  
• Ayman Azihan      1.5 points  

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Ratings after the Nationals

                      Before            After

Peter Giannatos-   1260             1371

Ashraf Azihan-       977              1146

Ayman Azihan-      877                902

Drew Holloway-     1005              982

Go COUGARS Chess Team!!!!!!!!!!!

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