Year End Berkeley 2006
This year's Berkeley-Area tournament was up for grabs. With defending champ Havens elementary losing its strongest members to middle school and with a record-setting attendance of 125 eager chess players, what would happen?
Answer: the dedicated kids from Jensen Ranch school came away the champs with a strong 19.5 points. Not only do these students have chess at their school, many of them also had private lessons at home with excellent BCS teachers. In second place was Marin (Albany) with 16.0 points and just behind was Bentley with 15.0. Last year's champion Havens was 13th this year with 10.0 points. In all, students from 31 schools participated.
Special mention should be made for two schools. Crossroads Christian School came in an excellent eighth place (13.0) in their first year of chess classes. J.O. Ford Elementary came in ninth place (12.5) and most of their children were playing in their first tournament! (To read about our special program at J.O. Ford, click here).
Alex Zinoman won the Perfect Score trophy. Hwai-Ray Tung won Best Game.
Thanks to everyone for coming and showing off your moves. We will see you at Summer Camp and next year at your school.
Top Ten Schools
1. Jensen Ranch 19.5
2. Marin 16.0
3. Bentley 15.0
4. Oxford 15.0
5. Head-Royce 14.5
6. Crowden
7. Beach
8. Crossroads Christian
9. J.O. Ford
10. Wildwood 12.0
Top Scorers (listed in tiebreak order)
1. Alex Zinoman 6.0
2. Angela Gu 5.5
3. CJ Novogradac 5.0
4. Sam Scherer 5.0
5. Evan Fitzgerald 5.0
6. Brian Fu 5.0
7. Hwai-Ray Tung 5.0
8. Daniel Revere 5.0
9. Mahal Caraher 5.0
10. Joshua Pena 5.0
11. Evin Yang 5.0
12. Caleb Smith 5.0
13. James Ren 4.5
14. Steven Gao 4.5
15. Spencer Stanford 4.0
16. Christopher Fong 4.0
17. Nickolai Whitlow 4.0
18. Gideon Lazarus 4.0
19. Adriano Leon 4.0
20. Alexander Prenata 4.0
21. Rory Luk 4.0
22. Drake Palmer 4.0
23. Aryo Sorayya 4.0
24. Melvin Colorado 4.0
25. Raymar Valera 4.0
26. Camellia Lee 4.0
27. Darryl Mar 4.0
28. Yang Ren 4.0
29. Henry Lichtenstein 4.0
30. Lukas Koch 4.0
31. Charles Shao 4.0
32. William Shao 4.0
33. Julia Rosenberg 4.0
Answer: the dedicated kids from Jensen Ranch school came away the champs with a strong 19.5 points. Not only do these students have chess at their school, many of them also had private lessons at home with excellent BCS teachers. In second place was Marin (Albany) with 16.0 points and just behind was Bentley with 15.0. Last year's champion Havens was 13th this year with 10.0 points. In all, students from 31 schools participated.
Special mention should be made for two schools. Crossroads Christian School came in an excellent eighth place (13.0) in their first year of chess classes. J.O. Ford Elementary came in ninth place (12.5) and most of their children were playing in their first tournament! (To read about our special program at J.O. Ford, click here).
Alex Zinoman won the Perfect Score trophy. Hwai-Ray Tung won Best Game.
Thanks to everyone for coming and showing off your moves. We will see you at Summer Camp and next year at your school.
Top Ten Schools
1. Jensen Ranch 19.5
2. Marin 16.0
3. Bentley 15.0
4. Oxford 15.0
5. Head-Royce 14.5
6. Crowden
7. Beach
8. Crossroads Christian
9. J.O. Ford
10. Wildwood 12.0
Top Scorers (listed in tiebreak order)
1. Alex Zinoman 6.0
2. Angela Gu 5.5
3. CJ Novogradac 5.0
4. Sam Scherer 5.0
5. Evan Fitzgerald 5.0
6. Brian Fu 5.0
7. Hwai-Ray Tung 5.0
8. Daniel Revere 5.0
9. Mahal Caraher 5.0
10. Joshua Pena 5.0
11. Evin Yang 5.0
12. Caleb Smith 5.0
13. James Ren 4.5
14. Steven Gao 4.5
15. Spencer Stanford 4.0
16. Christopher Fong 4.0
17. Nickolai Whitlow 4.0
18. Gideon Lazarus 4.0
19. Adriano Leon 4.0
20. Alexander Prenata 4.0
21. Rory Luk 4.0
22. Drake Palmer 4.0
23. Aryo Sorayya 4.0
24. Melvin Colorado 4.0
25. Raymar Valera 4.0
26. Camellia Lee 4.0
27. Darryl Mar 4.0
28. Yang Ren 4.0
29. Henry Lichtenstein 4.0
30. Lukas Koch 4.0
31. Charles Shao 4.0
32. William Shao 4.0
33. Julia Rosenberg 4.0
Jensen Ranch: the champs
JO Ford: 9th place winners
Perfect Score winner
Best Game winner
