Maryland Chess Association

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 February 2010 20:04 Written by Chris Kim Saturday, 30 January 2010 01:05

The 6th Annual Maryland State Girls Chess Championship was held today (Sat Jan 30, 2010) at Roland Park Country School in Baltimore, MD. Despite reassurances to the contrary, it did snow in Baltimore about 3-5" during the tournament. A total of 62 girls were able to make the trip.

For the 3rd straight year, Fiona Lam (9th grade) from Richard Montgomery High School (Montgoemery County) retains the title of Maryland State Girls Champion.

Further details to follow.

Chris Kim

Chief Tournament Director

Last Updated on Sunday, 21 February 2010 14:30 Written by Chris Kim Thursday, 19 November 2009 00:43

Updated: 21 Feb 2010 with USCF March 2010 ratings (No change in Top 6).

With the Chestertown tournament completed on Sat 2/20, six Rally tournaments have been completed with a total of 40 Maryland players competing..See the standings at the end of this article.

*** NOTICE: UMBC has moved up the date of their Sweet 16 tournament - It is now scheduled for Feb 27-28 (two weeks earlier than usual). This has the unfortunate effect of eliminating the Feb 27 MCA Liberty Christian tournament as a Rally tournament.

The Sweet 16 Invitational is held concurrently with the UMBC Open in a separate section. Players will play four rounds with the same time controls (20/1; SD/1) and round times as the UMBC Open on Saturday and Sunday Feb 27-28 during Rounds 1, 2, 4,and 5. [Round 3 on Saturday evening is excluded]. Only eligible players who can commit to play all 4 rounds should play in the Sweet 16. We will contact all the Qualifiers and the top alternates in the next few days to determine the final field.

The Rally standings are as follows:

TOP 6 by USCF Ratings (Mar 2010):

1. Kevin Wang (2206)

2. Gill Guo (2076)

3. James Pinkerton (2057)

4. Charles Yang (2023)

5. Ramanuja Sreenivasan (1926)

6. Benjamin Krause (1855)

NEXT 10 Qualifiers by Rating Points (Final)

7. Karl Vicente     (16.000 Rally Points)

8. Madeline Kim (14.967)

9. Tanner McNamara (13.333)

10. Dobryna Konoplev (12.510)

11. Saketh Papaiahgari (12.091)

12. Ronald Best, Jr (11.232)

13. Christopher Hazard (10.575)

14. Alan Nguyen (10.376)

15. Jeffrey Chang (9.527)

16. Srinivas Moorthy (9.038)

NEXT 6 (Alternates)

17. Michael Sklar (8.482)

18. Josev Aquino (7.838)

19. Jed Tan (5.302)

20. Derek Mizushima (5.253)

21. Steven Mullens (4.889)

22. Adip Bhargav (4.736)

Read more: Final 2010 Sweet 16 Standings

Last Updated on Thursday, 21 May 2009 19:04 Written by Administrator Thursday, 21 May 2009 18:47

The Maryland Chess Assocition is awarding prizes to the Maryland Players with the five highest Junior Grand Prix points at the end of 2009.

Read more: Maryland Junior Grand Prix Standings

Written by Administrator Sunday, 10 May 2009 19:13

This new site should allow us to add information easier and thus to have more current information on the web site. We've moved to a new event calendar that allows us to seperate our major upcoming events from the more frequent local events. Event organizers can enter their events by registering and then adding the events on the calendar. If you have any questions about how to do this email Mike Regan at   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

We'll soon have all the information from the old site moved over and then we'l be adding new information to this site. So keep checking back.

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Thanks,

Mike Regan