Once again, the magnificent Grand Ole Opry in Nashville hosts the granddaddy of all scholastic chess tournaments. Held every four years like the Olympics, the SuperNationals draws young chess enthusiasts from across the country, representing their hometown schools and competing to bring home giant trophies. The 2009 edition attracted a record 5,300 players to Music City, a mark that has apparently fallen.
Indeed, the final tally of advance entries reached 5,344, a number that includes withdrawals, but does not include last minute entries and a few inevitable no-shows. Despite the distance, an impressive delegation of 82 will represent Northern California, led by a trio of masters who sharpened their skills around the world. Six schools will compete for team trophies, seeking to demonstrate that the hottest spot for scholastic chess is Fremont and not the Bronx.
No doubt, this will be a weekend filled with ups and downs, stunning victories and maddening upsets, the glee of success and the agony of defeat. The letters NY automatically indicate that the rating is 200 points too low. The top boards will be occupied by budding prodigies, perhaps a new generation of American Grandmasters. A mass of humanity spills from the cavernous hallways into the vast courtyards, filled by nervous soccer moms and hockey dads all praying for the same answer to the same question: Did my son/daughter win? Three grueling rounds on Saturday can wipe out even the most energetic kids and adults. Having attended two of the previous SuperNationals, I can personally attest to the stressful atmosphere--and I didn't play!
- 20 sections, 7 rounds, 18,000 games!
- Schedule (PDT): Friday 11am, 5pm; Saturday 7am, 12pm, 5pm; Sunday 7am, 12pm
- Pairings and Results
- Games on MonRoi (currently only K-12)
Unfortunately, the Pairings and Results appear to be quite a mess. It is nearly 11pm PDT and there are no results in most sections, or they put standings for Unrated into the file for the Championship section. Now they took down *all* of the results.
K-12 Championship (329 players)
#139 Taylor McCreary (1837)
K-9 Championship (145 players)
#3 FM Cameron Wheeler (2291)
#7 NM Vignesh Panchanatham (2202)
#18 Solomon Ruddell (2065)
#23 Joshua Cao (2030)
#43 Pranav Srihari (1884)
#53 Daniel Ho (1856)
#54 Arhant Katare (1838)
#55 Vikram Vasan (1837)
Kennedy Middle School (Cupertino) 4 players (Wheeler, Srihari, Katare, Wang)
Irvington High School (Fremont) 4 players (Ho, Wang, Chahal, Jaha)
K-8 Championship (260 players)
#3 Allan Beilin (2161)
#5 Siddharth Banik (2117)
#25 Armaan Kalyanpur (1933)
Hopkins Middle School (Fremont) 6 players (Kalyanpur, Kong, Shah, Zhu)
K-6 Championship (203 players)
#1 FM Tanuj Vasudeva (2150)
#37 Amit Sant (1735)
Mission San Jose Elementary (Fremont) 8 players (Sant, Pan, Pan, Das)
K-5 Championship (359 players)
#2 Rayan Taghizadeh (2021)
#15 Joanna Liu (1847)
#29 Ganesh Murugappan (1761)
#31 Anthony Zhou (1741)
Gomes Elementary School (Fremont) 5 players (Liu, Murugappan, Zhang, Sartorio)
Weibel Elementary School (Fremont) 6 players (Zhou, Surapaneni, Show, Mandadi)
K-3 Championship (280 players)
#4 Ben Rood (1798)
#13 Andrew Hong (1692)
#18 Milind Maiti (1612)
#22 Rishith Susarla (1609)
#27 Chenyi Zhao (1558)
Mission San Jose Elementary (Fremont) 6 players (Susarla, Meiyappan, Thomas, Liu)
Weibel Elementary School (Fremont) 4 players (Wu, Law, Mistry, Lee)
K-1 Championship (351 players)
#1 Chinguun Bayaraa (1644)
#10 Maurya Palusa (1306)
#13 Kevin Pan (1277)
Mission San Jose Elementary (Fremont) 8 players (Pan, He, Chen, Rao)
Weibel Elementary School (Fremont) 4 players (Chitlu, Chen, Hu, Law)
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