June Pride and Points Tournament

Mike Carrel (founder of the Carrel Chess Club) and I teamed up to run a 5 round G/30 tournament yesterday, June 28th. The tournament was the christening tournament for the Carrel Chess Club in its new permanent location.

Here are some of the highlights as I see them:

1. 28 people showed up for the inaugural tourney
2. We were only 15m behind schedule in spite of a printer problem
3. In the top section:
--- 9 player ratings increased with an average gain of 43 pts each
--- only 5 players ratings dropped with an average loss of 36.8 pts each
4. In the bottom section:
--- 7 players played their first rated tournament (average rating 324)
--- 3 players ratings increased an average of 214 pts each
--- 4 players ratings decreased an average of 23 pts each
--- 1 player graduated from provisional

Congratulations to the 4 biggest ratings winners (all of them were up over 100 points):
1. John Zhang gained 300 points!
2. Jacob Schneider gained 188 points
3. Mandy Lu gained 154 points
4. Rodney Dison gained 141 points

Additional congratulations to:
1. Manmohan Das for winning the open section with 4.5/5
2. John Zhang for winning the U700 section with 4/5!
3. Joy Chen for the biggest upset of the day. Joy won her first game in spite of a deficit of 537 rating points!