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2013 MD Sweet 16 Standings - after Round 3

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By Chris Kim

Sunday, March 3 (14:40)

UMBC - Commons 3rd Floor

After the third round, the field has separated a little. We have three players tied for first with 2.5 points. Depending on the final rounds, we may end up with a playoff for first place and a chess scholarship to UMBC.

Round 4 will start at 3pm this afternoon.


Standings after Round 3 (tiebreak order):

2.5 - Sahil Sinha, Bendeguz Offertaler, Andrew Zheng

2.0 - Quil Kibak, Kevin Huang

1.5 - Jerry Wu, Pieter Heesters, Alexander Davydov, Nathan Feldman, Kindan Chintamaneni, Dobrynya Konoplev

1.0 - Douglas Malcolm, Madeline Kim, Robert Pekarek

0.5 - Andrew Mao

0.0 - Aditya Balasubramanian

2013 MD Sweet 16 Champion: Andrew Zheng

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Congratulations to Andrew Zheng (2100), who defeated Bendeguz Offertaler (2082) on Board 1 in Round 4 to become the 2013 Maryland-Sweet-16 Champion.  A 5th grader at Pointers Run Elementary School in Howard County, Andrew finished with a score of 3.5/4. With the title comes the 4-year MD-Sweet-16 UMBC Chess Scholarship  to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, valued at $39,056 in 2012-2013.

2012 MD Sweet 16 Final Standings

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The 2011-2012 MCA Maryland Sweet 16 qualification season is now complete, after the 6th event at Liberty Christian school yesterday.  The Maryland Sweet 16 consists of 16 of the top Maryland scholastic players, who compete at their own section of the UMBC Open. The winner receives a UMBC Chess scholarship. The 2012 Maryland Sweet 16 will be held Feb 25-26 at UMBC.

Here is the list of the 2012 Maryland Sweet 16 qualifiers:

Top 6 (USCF rating): Charles Yang, Ramanuja Sreenivasan, Dobrynya Konoplev, Bendeguz Offertaler, Andrew Zheng, Saketh Papaiahgari

Next 10 (Rally Points): Ronald Best Jr, Jerry Wu, Madeline Kim, Pieter Heesters, Alex Li, Jordan Best, Jason Zou, David Snyder, Sahil Singha, Aditya Balasubramanian

Top alternate: Zachary Jablow

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2011 MD Sweet 16 Winner: Jeffrey Chang

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Jeffrey Chang wins the 2011 Maryland Sweet 16 tournament at UMBC and with that also wins a 4-year chess scholarship to UMBC. He finished with a win over Ronald Best Jr (runnerup) to finish with a perfect score. Jeffrey is a 7th grader from Takoma Park Middle School in Montgomery County.

Further details to follow. Congratulations!

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