Children’s Chess in the Bay Area

A Parent’s Guide to Chess in the San Francisco Bay Area:

Bay Area chess parents have many resources available to help establish their children’s chess calendar. Two of my  favorite Northern California chess websites are listed below.

1) SiliconValleyChess.com

This is the web site to visit to get all the latest information on children’s chess events in Norther California. SiliconValleyChess.com features an easy to use Bay Area scholastic chess calendar that offers links to the top children’s chess events in the Silicon Valley Area. Rated tournaments listed on SiliconValleyChess.com are a part of a yearly scholastic chess grand prix which awards special prizes to the Bay Area’s top young chess players.  A regularly updated scholastic chess leader board allows all competing children to view their position in relation to the other young chess players in Northern California.

2) FremontChess.com

The best website to find out information on scholastic chess in Fremont, California. FremontChess.com enables parents to easily find chess coaches teaching in Fremont. This website also features stories on the top scholastic chess players in Fremont including Fremont’s National Champion Elementary Chess Teams. Also, included on FremontChess.com is a calendar which depicts many of the best scholastic chess opportunities in Fremont, California.

Chess Quads for Children

A children’s chess quad run by the Torres Chess and Music Academy is the ideal way for new chess players to begin playing in tournaments. Children are separated into groups of four based on rating and age so that each quad tournament represents the closest chess experience grouping possible. This structure assures that all three chess games a child in are winnable and instructive. All Torres Chess and Music Academy tournaments have a group of outstanding master chess teachers on hand to review the child’s game as soon as he/she finishes it. At Torres Chess and Music Academy tournaments a loss is never just a loss. Instead a loss is a unique opportunity to grow as a chess player under the supervision of the very best chess coaches.
Today the Torres Chess and Music Academy ran a children’s chess quad tournament in Sunnyvale, California. Our tournament was hosted at the beautiful South Peninsula Hebrew Day School site. On hand were scores of enthusiastic young chess players as well as TCAMA coaches Chris Torres, Tans Hylkema, Kenneth Kirkland and Saurabh Gupta. Plenty of children left with trophies while even more left with consolation prize medals. All children who attended left with a better understanding of chess than they arrived with. Below are the cross tables from todays event. I will provide some games and photographs in a future post.

Q#	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	SCHOOL	USCF ID	RATING	PLAYER 1	PLAYER 2	PLAYER 3	PLAYER 4	TOTAL
Q1	SERGEY	GASPARYAN	LWS	13708417	1292		1	1	1	3
	TRUMAN	LEUNG		13520267	1210	0		1	1	2
	ALBERT	SUI	CHADBOURNE	13590730	754	0	0		1	1
	OJAS	ARUN	MSJES	14192020	683	0	0	0		0
Q2	SOORYA	KUPPAM	MSJES	14267883	689		0	0	0	0
	SABRINA	LEUNG		13545068	898	1		1	0	2
	KEVIN	MAO	HIRSCH	14137754	534	1	0		1	2
	LUKE	ZHAO	MSJES	14282042	500	1	1	0		2
Q3	DANIEL	HU	ALMOND	14137733	455		1	1	1	3
	SEAN	CROFUT	COLLINS	14135537	424	0		1	0	1
	RHYS	GIROUARD	JOHN MUIR SB	14207710	390	0	0		0	0
	ALBERT	QIU	COLLINS	14137775	388	0	1	1		2
Q4	MARSHAL	HATFIELD	PARKMONT	14212354	283		1	1	1	3
	VIVEK	POKALA	COLLINS	14137905	204	0		0.5	1	1.5
	ADITYA	MENON	COLLINS	14176302	112	0	0.5		0.5	1
	RAVI	VARMA	MUIR	14176240	114	0	0	0.5		0.5
Q5	RUSHABH	SHAH	COLLINS	14204003	105		1	1	0	2
	SHREYASH	GUPTA	GARDEN GATE	NEW	0	0		1	0	1
	ANOOP	BHAT	COLLINS	NEW	0	0	0		0	0
	JAMIN	CHEN	MONTESSORI	14298006	0	1	1	1		3
Q6	WILLIAM	QIU	COLLINS	NEW	0		0.5	0	0	0.5
	RIO	VAZQUEZ	ST. NICHOLAS	NEW	0	0.5		0	0	0.5
	ANEESH	BHAT	COLLINS	NEW	0	1	1		X	2
	PRATIK	MULPURY	LOYOLA	NEW	0	1	1	F		2
Q7	ALVIN	CAI	DELPHI	NEW	0		1	1	1	3
	FAVEO	HOEROLD	COLLINS	14346836	0	0		0	1	1
	DANILA	KARABELNIKAU	MUIR	14349967	0	0	1		0	1
	ASHWIN	NATHAN	MUIR	NEW	0	0	0	1		1
Q8	RYAN	SU	LACS	NEW	0		0.5	1	1	2.5
	NIVEN	JAYANTHI	JOHN MUIR SB	NEW	0	0.5		1	0.5	2
	JOSEPH	YOON	LACS	NEW	0	0	0		1	1
	KEITH	ANDREWS	CRESTMOOR	14339447	0	0	0.5	0		0.5
Q9	HARRISON	CHEN	STOCKLMEIR	NEW	0		0	1	1	2
	ZACHARY	CHEN	LOYOLA	NEW	0	1		1	1	3
	MORIAH	ELDAR	SPHDS	NEW	0	0	0		0	0
	VICTOR	LEE	DELPHI	NEW	0	0	0	1		1
Q10	ANISH	SUNDAR	COLLINS	NEW	0		1	1	1	3
	AMRITA	MENON	COLLINS	NEW	0	0		0	0	0
	BEN	FERREL	ST. NICHOLAS	NEW	0	0	1		X	1
	DERRON	MENDEL	SPHDS	NEW	0	0	1	F		1
Q11	ORI	SHANI		14298012	0		0.5	1	1	2.5
	JESSE	CHEN	MONTESSORI	NEW	0	0.5		1	1	2.5
	PHILIP	CULBERTSON	LACS	NEW	0	0	0		0.5	0.5
	GABRIEL	GELLER	SPHDS	NEW	0	0	0	0.5		0.5
Q12	ANTHONY	LIU	DELPHI	NEW	0		1	1	1	3
	CHEZKY	FELSEN		NEW	0	0		0	1	1
	RONIT	PATTANAYAK	DELPHI	NEW	0	0	1		1	2
	COLE	RINENBACH	LACS	NEW	0	0	0	0		0

Standings. SPHDS QUAD 13 FEB 10: QUAD 13	Name	ID	Rtng	Team	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Tot
1	MOSHE FELSEN		unr.	SPHDS	W2	W3	W5	3
2	SHARV UTPAT		unr.	DELPHI	L1	W5	W4	2
3	MORGAN STOLPMAN		unr.	LACS	W4	L1	B—	2
4	SHION TAKIGUCHI		unr.	MUIRC	L3	B—	L2	1
5	RAI MADHAV		unr.		B—	L2	L1	1