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Thursday, May 3, 2012

Season Final Resuts and Ratings

Final Tournament Results 
Tie-breaks are the ones recommend by the USCF and used also by SCA. Basically it boils down to how tough was your competition.
Tie-break #1 - Modified Median - Same as Solkoff except, for players who won more than half, don't count the lowest score and for players who won less than half, don't count the highest score.
Tie-break #2 - Solkoff -Count the total points of all opponents.
Tie-break #3 was not needed, but it would have been the one recommended by USCF, Cumulative - total the points you had after each round was completed.
Top 5 places get awards.


Place Name Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Points TBk1 TBk2










1 Thomas 1090 H W7 W3 D2 3 7.5 7.5
2 Dan 652 W4 D5 W6 D1 3 7 8.5
3 Frank 567 W9 W6 L1 W4 3 6.5 7
4 Ben W 333 L2 W10 W7 L3 2 8 8
5 Sam E 383 H D2 W9 U 2 4 4
6 Andrew 547 H L3 L2 W9 1.5 4 7
7 Ben E 574 W11 L1 L4 H 1.5 2.5 5.5
8 Veronica 100 B H U U 1.5 0 0
9 Lendale 201 L3 B L5 L6 1 6.5 6.5
10 Charlie 191 H L4 U U 0.5 0 2
11 Maureen 177 L7 H U U 0.5 0 1.5


And here are you final ratings. I'll save these and this is where you'll start next year.

All FHMS Chess Club Participants
Last Name First Name Rating
Miranda Thomas 1081
Pressman Sam 727
Henry Mace 723
Keis Dan 645
Sullivan Frank 579
Ellison Ben 574
Keis Andrew 557
Pressman Alex P 555
Fischer Monte 484
Essen Sam 383
Venturi Alex V 350
Varnado Phillip 339
Wirrer Ben 330
McEllistrom Oliver 312
Delmont Gabe 311
Williams Brigham 300
Peterson Quintin 300
Friedman Matthew 297
Fischer Vic 263
Swenson Albin 259
Kaderlik Luc 254
Smith Lendale 201
Figueroa Christopher 201
Rutman Charlie 191
Andersen Maureen 177
Buell Tommy 156
Kinzer Blake 142
Lee Keighvin 131
Wen Mandi 130
Lund Jill 113
Wendt Jake 111
Andersen Veronica 100

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Ratings and in-house tournament

May 2 will be the last round
May 9 will be our last meeting this year. Hope we'll all be back in the fall (except the 6th graders)


FHMS Tournament
Plc Name Rnd1 Rd2 Rd3 Pts R4 (tentative assignment)
1 Thomas....H..W8..W3..2.5 A2
2 Dan K....W5..D4..W9..2.5 A1
3 Frank....W11.W9..L1..2.0 A5
4 Sam E.....H..D2..W7..2.0 A6
5 Ben W....L2..W10.W8..2.0 A3
6 Veronica..B...H...F..1.5 A4
7 Lendale..L8...B..L4..1.0 A9
8 Ben E....W7..L1..L5..1.0 A10
9 Andrew....H..L3..L2..0.5 A7
10 Charlie..H..L5...F..0.5 A8
11 Maureen.L3...H...F..0.5 Bye



Friendly Hills
Last Name First Name Rating
Miranda Thomas 1090
Pressman Sam 727
Henry Mace 715
Keis Dan 617
Ellison Ben 574
Sullivan Frank 567
Pressman Alex P 555
Keis Andrew 535
Essen Sam 383
Wirrer Ben 333
Swenson Albin 259
Figueroa Christopher 201
Smith Lendale 196
Rutman Charlie 191
Andersen Maureen 171
Andersen Veronica 100

Monday, April 23, 2012

Ratings after Tournament

Way to go team! I thought we had a chance at 10th place. You guys really came through on Sunday!

Here are your old and new ratings and the change. Everyone went up a lot.



Name Before After Change Merit Pts
Tom 1049 1084 35 124
Andrew 502 572 70 11 *
Frank 542 563 20 11 *
Ben 517 598 81 4






*Earned bronze medal

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

4-18 Results

FHMS Ratings
Last Name First Name Rating
Miranda Thomas 1049
Pressman Sam 727
Henry Mace 715
Keis Dan 596
Pressman Alex P 555
Sullivan Frank 542
Ellison Ben 517
Keis Andrew 502
Essen Sam 369
Wirrer Ben 273
Swenson Albin 259
Figueroa Christopher 201
Rutman Charlie 191
Smith Lendale 186
Andersen Maureen 171
Andersen Veronica 104
Here are the in-house tournament results after 2 rounds. We'll play 4.
Place Name Rd 1 Rd 2 Points
1 Frank W7 W9 2
2 Dan W6 D8 1.5
3 Thomas H W5 1.5
4 Veronica B H 1.5
5 Ben E W10 L3 1
6 Ben W L2 W11 1
7 Lendale L1 B 1
8 Sam E H D2 1
9 Andrew H L1 0.5
10 Maureen L5 H 0.5
11 Charlie H L6 0.5

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Latest Ratings and Tournament Standings 4-11

Tournament Standings:
W L D
1. Dan 1 0 0
2. Frank 1 0 0
3. Ben E 1 0 0
4. Veronica 1 0 0
5. Ben W 0 1 1
6. Lendale 0 1 1
7. Maureen 0 1 1

Last Name First Name Rating
Miranda Thomas 992
Pressman Sam 727
Henry Mace 715
Keis Dan 624
Pressman Alex P 555
Sullivan Frank 522
Ellison Ben 513
Keis Andrew 487
Essen Sam 356
Swenson Albin 259
Wirrer Ben 254
Figueroa Christopher 201
Smith Lendale 181
Andersen Maureen 171
Andersen Veronica 104

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Ratings after March 28 with CORRECTION

One more huge team tournament for those of you in grades 5 & 6 April 21-22 at Breck!
We need some of those 5th and 6th graders who used to come to chess club to come back in these last 4 weeks before the big Statewide tournament. Wee need at least 4 players for a team. So thomas, Andrew, and Frank - recruit some others in 5th and 6th grade.

Here's my optimistic best hope for statewide: Thomas 5 wins, Frank, Andrew and Ben Ellison 4 points. That's a total of 21 points. (CORRECTION - I can't add - 17 points!) 17 is in trophy contention - last year 5th place. 10th place was 15.5 and there are 4 regional trophies beyond that. If we finish as high as 5th place the top 4 from that team receive medals also.

In preparation, I will run a chess tournament during chess club with medals and ribbons for top performers beginning right after spring break.

First NameRating
Thomas992
Sam P727
Mace715
Dan604
Alex P555
Frank528
Ben E503
Andrew K487
Sam E356
Alex V350
Phillip339
Oliver312
Gabe311
Albin259
Ben W251
Christopher201
Lendale180
Maureen168
Keighvin131
Veronica100
Naomi100



Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Ratings after March 21

One more huge team tournament for those of you in grades 5 & 6 April 21-22 at Breck!
We need some of those 5th and 6th graders who used to come to chess club to come back in these last 4 weeks before the big Statewide tournament. Wee need at least 4 players for a team. So thomas, Andrew, and Frank - recruit some others in 5th and 6th grade. If you do, I'm pretty sure we'll finish in the top 10. If' we can't get 4 rated near 300+ I don't think we can make it. ALBIN - we need you back!

First NameRating
Thomas985
Sam P727
Mace715
Dan600
Alex P555
Andrew513
Frank512
Ben E503
Sam E356
Alex V350
Phillip339
Oliver312
Gabe311
Albin259
Ben W220
Christopher201
Lendale176
Maureen168
Keighvin131
Veronica100
Naomi100