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| The Pasadena Chess Club |
| Pasadena Chess Club: cross tables for all club tournaments | |||
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Annual club membership dues are $25 for adults Annual club membership dues are $15 for junior members (under 18) [Note: Will increase to $20 in 2020] Standard tournament entry fee is $20 Entry fee for the Club Championship will be $25 [Note: Will increase to $30 in 2020] Entry fee for 7 round tournaments (if we have any) will be $25 Entry fee for 8 round tournaments (if we have any) will be $30 No admittance to the building before 7:00 PM Round starting time is 7:15 PM | |||
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01/04/2019 02/08/2019 |
Dr. Richard Lewis Memorial |
6 rounds Four Sections |
40 moves in 90 minutes followed by game/30, 10-second time delay Arrive by 7:00 PM to register before round 1. USCF & club membership required
2019: PCC Final Standings 2019 Dr. Richard Lewis Memorial prizes
Top Section
Open Section
Middle Section
Junior Section
Best Game: Linus Eisenberg (551 points) |
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02/15/2019 03/22/2019 |
Club Championship
2016 Champion
2017 Champion
2018 Champion
2019 Champion
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6 rounds Two Sections Open & U1000
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$25 entry fee 40 moves in 90 minutes followed by SD/30, 10-second delay Registration begins at 7 PM on 15 February Register in advance by E-mail to TD if possible USCF & club membership both required Free entry for all players rated 2400 or above Entry fee will be deducted from any prize
Note: Entry fee is $25 2019 Prize Fund Distribution (different from last year):
1st thru 8th place prizes for ratings 1000-1499
1st thru 8th place prizes for ratings 1500-1899
1st thru 8th place prizes for ratings 1900 and above Any player of any rating may of course play well enough to knock out much higher rated players and therefore receive a prize greater than their present rating allows.
Prizes will increase proportionately if enough players enter.
2019: PCC Final Standings 2019: USCF Final Standings Posted Tuesday 26 March @ 1:45 PM Aaron Sun & Jesse Victoria tie for first place with 5½/6 and Aaron Sun wins Championship title on tie-breaks. 2019 Club Championship Prize List
Open Section
Open Section 1500-1899
Open Section 1000-1499
Lower Section
Best Game: Phillip Wang (876 points) |
| 03/29/2019 |
Annual Meeting
Championship
Blitz Chess |
double rounds groups of six |
Game/10, blitz rating system, $20 entry fee. USCF & club membership required
2019: PCC Final Standings 2019 Annual Blitz & Mini Scholastic Prize List
Blitz Section 1
Blitz Section 2
Blitz Section 3
Blitz Section 4
Blitz Section 5
Blitz Section 6
Blitz Section 7
Best Game: Anderson Yang (688 points)
Mini Scholastic Tournament
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04/05/2019 05/10/2019 |
Pasadena City Championship |
6 rounds 4 Sections |
$20 entry fee Time Control 40/90, game/30, 10 second delay Registration begins at 7 PM on 4/05. USCF & club membership required
2019: PCC Final Standings 2019 Pasadena City Championship Prize List
Championship Section
Open Section
Middle Section
Junior Section
Best Game: Sophia Manahan (425 points) |
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05/17/2019 06/21/2019 |
Mt. Wilson Open |
6 rounds Four Sections
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40 moves in 90 minutes followed by game/30, 10-second time delay $20 entry fee Registration begins at 7PM on 5/18 USCF & club membership required
2019: PCC final standings
2019 Mount Wilson Open Prize List
Section One
Section Two
Section Three
Junior Section
Best Game: Chelsea Yu (497 points)
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06/28/2019 08/16/2019 |
Liberty Open |
8 rounds 3 Sections |
40 moves in 90 minutes followed by game/30, 10-second time delay NOTE: $30 entry fee Registration begins at 7PM on 6/28 USCF & club membership required
2019: PCC final standings 2019 Liberty Open Prize List
Section One
Section Two
Section Three
Best Game: Martin Zhao (877 points)
Highest Performance Ratings
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08/23/2019 09/27/2019 |
San Gabriel Valley Open |
6 rounds 4 Sections |
40 moves in 90 minutes followed by game/30, 10-second time delay $20 entry fee Registration begins at 7PM on 8/23 Contact TD to register in advance if you can USCF & club membership required
2019: PCC Final Standings 2019: USCF Final Standings Posted Tuesday 1 October @ 10:36 PM San Gabriel Valley Championship 2019 prize List
Section One
Section Two
Section Three
Section Four
Best Game: Jonny Tran (313 points)
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10/04/2019 11/08/2019 |
Crown City Open |
6 rounds 4 Sections |
40 moves in 90 minutes, followed by game/30, 10-second time delay $20 entry fee Registration begins at 7PM on 10/04 Contact TD to register in advance if you can USCF & Club membership required
2019: Standings after round 5 2019: Tentative round 6 pairings Posted Tuesday 5 November @ 9:18 PM Tentative pairings are always subject to change without notice
2018: USCF Final Standings
Top Section
Open Section
Middle Section
Junior Section
Best Game: Laura Kinoshita (380 points) |
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11/15/2019 12/20/2019 |
A Rose For Your Queen |
6 rounds 4 sections |
40 moves in 90 minutes, followed by game/30, 10-second time delay $20 entry fee Registration begins at 7PM on 11/15 Contact TD to register in advance if you can USCF & Club membership required
2018: PCC Final Standings
Top Section
Open Section
Middle Section
Junior Section
Best Game: Nathan Luhur (441points) |
| 12/27/2018 |
Blitz Tournament |
Double Round |
$10 entry fee Time control: Game/10, no delay. Number of rounds & sections will be decided that night |
Big News!!
Fifteen year old WIM Annie Wang, Champion of the Pasadena Chess Club for 2016 & 2017, won the 2017 World Youth Chess Championship for Girls Under 16, with a relentless score of 10½/11 a full 2½ points ahead of the 2nd place finisher.
Annie also came in 2nd place in the 2018 U.S. Women's Chess Championship. Annie & Nazi Paikidze tied at 8½/11 in the regular tournament, and split their two rapid playoff games, before Paikidze finally won the armageddon blitz game to take the title.
Congratulations to our high-achieving Club Champion! As of the May 2018 USCF rating list, Annie is the 3rd highest rated girl (under 21) in the country. As of the October 2018 FIDE rating list, Annie is the 6th highest rated girl (under 16) in the world.
2017 Youth Championship final standings
2018 U.S. Chess Championship
Annie's FIDE profile
Annie's USCF profile
The Pasadena Chess Club meets in the Elmer and Teen Slavik Memorial Building at the Boys and Girls Club, 3230 East Del Mar, Pasadena 91107 (between Rosemead Blvd and San Gabriel Blvd). It's on the south side of Del Mar. Use the west driveway to enter and the east driveway to exit. There is a large parking lot we can use, but occasional events in other buildings on Friday nights might not leave enough parking for everybody, but there is no time limit & no charge for parking on the streets after 6:00 PM, including Del Mar in front of the Boys & Girls Club.
The club will meet from 7:00 to roughly 11:15 PM. Anticipate that start time for all games will move to 7:15 PM sharp, so we can get out by about 11:15 PM with the same time control we use now (40/90, SD/30). But always expect delays on the night of 1st round due to registration.
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President and Chief Tournament Director |
Scott Hunt schkjv at yahoo.com |
| Secretary & Treasurer |
Tim Thompson timthompson3 at verizon.net |
As a result of a generous donation the Pasadena Chess Club now has available a substantial library of chess books that can be borrowed by members in good standing. To borrow books, contact one of the club officers before or after their tournament game (borrowing library books is an insufficient emergency to justify interrupting a tournament game).
When? Friday nights opening at 7:00 PM, tournament games start promptly at 7:15 PM. Check the schedule below to make sure we are not closed.
Where? Boys and Girls Club, 3230 East Del Mar, Pasadena 91107 (between Rosemead Blvd and San Gabriel Blvd). See description at the top of this page.
The Pasadena Chess Club is one of the older chess clubs still extant in Southern California. During the 1930's the club successfully hosted a number of international competitions, which included the participation of Alexander Alekhine, then world chess champion. Past events include successful simultaneous exhibitions by SM Levon Altunian and IM Jack Peters (chess columnist for the Los Angeles Times), and the Tim Pellant Memorial Masters Open.
Note that annual dues & tournament entry fees have risen slightly, to offset increased costs
The Champions of the Pasadena Chess Club
A list of champions of the Pasadena Chess Club follows. We don't know who was champion prior to 1967. There was no champion in 1994 because the championship tournament was unexpectedly interrupted when we lost our meeting venue and it was never completed.
1967 Donald Cotton
1968 Andrew Vinock
1969 Alan Carpenter
1970 Don Bicknell
1971 Al Larsen
1972 Greg Francis
1973 Al Larsen
1974 Greg Francis
1975 Jerome Hanken
1976 Neilen Hultgren
1977 Don Bicknell
1978 Rob Salgado
1979 Rob Salgado
1980 Charles Novitski
1981 William Pennucci
1982 William Pennucci
1983 Tim Pellant
1984 Bobby Avila
1985 Don Bicknell
1986 Don Bicknell
1987 Francisco Alonso
1988 Don Bicknell
1989 Don Bicknell
1990 Mel Tyner
1991 Michael Zachary
1992 Matthew Beelby
1993 Andy Sacks
1994 no champion
1995 Matthew Beelby
1996 William Longren
1997 Levon Altounian
1998 Levon Altounian & Mark Saylor
1999 Matthew Beelby
2000 Randy Hough
2001 Levon Altounian
2002 Tonci Korsano Saavedra
2003 William Longren
2004 Mike Zaloznyy
2005 Randy Hough
2006 Chris Lee
2007 Dave Matson
2008 Tianyi He
2009 Konstantin Kavutskiy
2010 Jesse Victoria
2011 Yusheng Xia
2012 Yusheng Xia
2013 IM Tim Taylor
2014 Alexander Xie
2015 Albert Lu
2016 WIM Annie Wang
2017 WIM Annie Wang
2018 Anthony Ge
2019 Aaron Sun