Monday, October 31, 2011
Ashburn Chess Club hosts former Soviet junior champion Nikolay Andrianov for holiday camp.
Former Soviet junior champion and renowned world chess trainer International Master Nikolay Andrianov will lecture on how to play like a master in a chess camp during the Thanksgiving break. The camp, sponsored by the Ashburn Chess Club, runs on Nov. 23, 25 and 26. The event combines both Soviet style of chess training and “chess is fun” breaks that feature short tourneys. It is intended to equip scholastic players with the skills to compete effectively in tournaments. IM Andrianov specializes in chess coaching having attained a baccalaureate degree from the top school for sports and chess training in the former Soviet Union, the Moscow Central Physical & Sports Institute. The theme “Play Like a Master” covers the afternoon class, which is…
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
GM Ray Robson will play a chess simul at Ashburn Chess Club
He follows in the footsteps of world champion Bobby Fischer and the currently top-rated U.S. chess player Hikaru Nakamura. And he pre-empted their records of being the youngest in becoming a grandmaster in the United States. While both Fischer and Nakamura became grandmasters at age 15, grandmaster Ray Robson fulfilled all the grandmaster requirements at 14, two weeks before turning 15. Another player, Italian-American Fabiano Caruana also became grandmaster at age 14, but he plays under the Italian flag. Ray Robson will visit Ashburn Chess Club on July 5 at 7 p.m. and will play a chess simul. His visit coincides with the new location for the club, which is now known as the Ashburn Chess Center at 44927 George Washington Blvd, Ashburn, …
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Thursday, June 9, 2011
ACC teams win division titles in the DC Chess League, making it one of the region's strongest clubs.
The emergence of Ashburn Chess Club as one of the strongest clubs in the Washington, DC, area is now stamped with approval. Ashburn's Open and Amateur teams each recently won their respective division titles in the DC Chess League, a tournament that pits the best talents in chess from around the Maryland/DC/Virginia region. The league has operated since the 1950s and has been running consistently since the 1970s. The achievement came as a surprise of sorts since the Ashburn club is barely two years old, but the talents behind the club are no surprise at all. Members have competed against long established clubs in the region such as the 57-year-old Arlington Chess Club to hone their skills. FIDE master, or FM, Anton Paolo del Mundo, …
Thursday, May 19, 2011
International Master's experience in chess training runs through Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Indonesia, the Philippines and Arizona.
It has been a long journey. Ashburn is the next stopover for IM Nikolay Andrianov. Andrianov, former Soviet junior champion, will conduct the Ashburn Chess Camp this summer. The camp, now highly touted as the best chess camp in the area, produced the top three scholastic players in the K-3 section of the VA state championship in the past year. From the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, Andrianov has circled the globe, and with the seeming touch of Midas has turned out great chess players from Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Indonesia, the Philippines, and the United States. Andrianov was, after all, the conqueror of Garry Kasparov during their junior years. Andrianov defeated the eventual world champion in a 1978 match in the Soviet Spartakiad. He…
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Stone Bridge, Weller ES teams, as well as other Ashburn and Leesburg participants, took home trophies.
The Stone Bridge High School chess team scored its best finish ever with a second-place finish at the Virginia Scholastics competition. Each year, players from all over Virginia gather to compete for the state’s top chess prize. The event attracted 20 schools to this year’s venue, Grafton Middle School in Yorktown. In only its third year at the competition, Stone Bridge forged ahead of perennial contender Patrick Henry High School. Thomas Jefferson won first place and retained its status as the team state champion. Al Farone and Dino Obregon, coaches for Stone Bridge, both said that the results should inspire its players to gun for the title in the future. Seniors Jerad Engebreth, Matthew Montera and Eric Cawi, along with freshman prodigy …
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
FM Del Mundo beat a grandmaster to place in the Eastern Open; other Ashburn club members fared well.
Ashburn Chess Club member and FIDE Master Anton Paolo del Mundo beat GM Alexander Ivanov in the last round of the Eastern Open, held at the Westin Hotel in Washington, DC, Dec. 27-30. With the win, Del Mundo barged into the prize column and tied for second in one of the biggest chess events in the area. GM Alexsandr Lenderman emerged as the top winner. Del Mundo, rated 2382, scored one of the biggest upsets in the Open section when he won against Ivanov whose rating from the U.S. Chess Federation stood at 2644. Players with a rating higher than 2600 are considered super grandmasters. Ivanov was a former U.S. Open champion and has represented the United States in international competitions. Also, recent national scholastic winner and …
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Trung and Tan Nguyen are among the top in the K-12 national scholastics in chess
Asburn Chess Club members Trung and Tan Nguyen of Lansdowne placed among the top in the recently concluded 2010 National Scholastic K-12 Championship in Lake Buena Vista, FL. Trung, 8, tied for second in the grade 2 division, while his younger brother Tan, 6, also tied for second in the grade 1 division. Players from all over the country gather every year in mid-December to test how they compare with the best nationally. The two boys exceeded their expected performance. Tan was seeded in the top 10, while Trung was among the top 20. They played seven rounds of three hours each, and both scored a total of six points. "We knew that both boys were competitive in their grade levels," Luan Nguyen, the father of the boys said. What got it …
Friday, October 15, 2010
Tie may as well be victory for 10-year-old Alex Chang
The chance of winning was less than one percent, and closer to zero. But one 10-year-old Ashburn beat those narrow odds in a recent chess match against International Master Nikolay Andrianov. The boy, Alexander Chang, turned his statistical improbability into a surprising outcome when he drew Andrianov in a chess camp sponsored by the Ashburn Chess Club. While a draw does not represent a win, it's not every day such a young chess enthusiast fares so well against a master. Chang, who lives in Belmont Country Club, held an Elo rating of 800 in chess, indicating the mathematical odds of a positive result were close to nil against a player like Andrianov, rated at 2,400. The rating system was devised by Hungarian Arpad Elo for the world …
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