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School Year 2025 - 2026
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Results ~ QUEENS GAMBIT
CHESS TOURNAMENTS

Played October 4, 2025 ~ Saturday
Location: St. John Vianney School

BISHOP SECTION
1st: Reed Autry-Dalsanders
2nd: Liam Weiss-Hurd

KNIGHTS SECTION
1st: Scott Phelps
2nd: Deacon McBroome

PAWNS SECTION
1st: Audry Mallett
2nd: Carson Spohr

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USCF OPEN Mini Swiss SECTION
1st: Darshini Dinesh-Babu
2nd tie: Antonius Raeland and
Nickolay Bulakh

1st U1500: John McIntyre
2nd U1500: Ron Linquest
1st Unrated: Jose Rodriguez
2nd Unrated: Austin Manly

by Craig Moore, TD
Eleven players participated in the 4-round mini-Swiss system tournament. Fifth-grader Darshini Dinesh-Babu was the surprise winner, with a score of 3.5 and achieving a win and draw against the top-rated players, Antonius Raeland (1944) and Nickolay Bulakh (1839).

Thank you to St. John Vianney School for providing a pleasant venue for the tournament, and to the participants for helping to keep it that way.

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Results ~ KINGS KLASH
CHESS TOURNAMENTS

Played October 18, 2025 ~ Saturday
Location: St. John Vianney School

BISHOP SECTION
1st: Kelin Bai
2nd: Patrick Bray
Upset: Reed Autry-Dalsanders

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KNIGHTS SECTION
1st: Aj Duncan
2nd: Joeseph Eberlein

PAWNS SECTION
1st: Lawrence Falstrom
2nd: Robert LaMothe
Upset: Lorenzo Centers

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Results

PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
CHESS TOURNAMENT
Played November 15, 2025 ~ Saturday
Location: St. Georges School

OVERALL
1st: John McIntyre
2nd: Rachel Price
3rd: Patrick Bray

USCF Four Round
1st: Melody Ji
2nd: John McIntyre
3rd: Darshini Dinesh Babu

See results: NW Rating Service

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The Pilgrim's Progress tournament at Saint George's School ended with an uncommon five-way tie for first place. John McIntyre, Rachel Price, Patrick Bray, Asmi Jain, and Darshini Dinesh Babu each had 4.0 points. They are listed in tie-break order.

The tournament had been advertised to have the top section USCF rated, but turnout was lower than expected. Five players opted for the USCF section. A hybrid structure was employed so that the USCF section would play four rounds within the larger Swiss. The USCF players were hard on each other--four of the five won two and lost one against others in this section. Melody Ji, one of these four, lost a second game and did not finish in the first place tie with the other three. Jain and Price played in the regular Swiss to join USCF players McIntyre, Bray, and Dinesh Babu at the top. Price beat Ji and Jain and entered the last round as the only player with 4.0 points.
Six others trailed with 3.0.

After a glance at the game half-way through the round, the TD predicted to others helping in the playing room that we would have a tie for first. As foreseen, McIntyre beat Price late in the last round to secure the tie.

There were 24 players. No team award was offered. Three schools had three players or more. Had there been a team award, Saint George's with 9.0 would have beaten Libby Center with 7.0 and Ness with 5.5. The 24 participants represented 14 schools. The TD substantially reduced the original trophy order from 15 to 4 trophies the day prior to the event because at that time he knew of only 12 players registered.  by James Stripes

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Results
TURKEY GOBBLE
CHESS TOURNAMENT
Played November 29, 2025 ~ Saturday
Location: St. John Vianney School

ELEMENTARY SECTION
1st: Joachin Hanley
2nd: Austin Johnson
3rd: Ambrose Eberlein
Upset: Ben Stewart

MS-HS SECTION
1st: Lawrence Fahlstrom
2nd: Jacob Eberlein
3rd: Jordan Ferguson

USCF Scholastic A
1st: Darshini Dinesh Babu
2nd: Patrick Bray
3rd: Julian Bingo

USCF Scholastic B
1st: Kelby Wang
2nd: Daniel Young
3rd: Peter Higgins

See results: NW Rating

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Results
HOLIDAY CHESS
TOURNAMENT

Played January 3, 2026 ~ Saturday
Location: St. John Vianney School

BISHOP SECTION
1st: Liam Weiss-Hurd
2nd: Melody Ji
Upset: Aj D Duncan

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KNIGHT SECTION
1st: Austin Johnson
2nd: Greta Drewlen
Upset: Hunter Vanderdoes

PAWN SECTION
1st: Henry Hagarty
2nd: Greta Drewlen
3rd: Llewyn Knott
4th: Isaac Wu

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Results
WINTERFEST
CHESS TOURNAMENT
Played on Saturday, January 17, 2026
Deer Park High School

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KNIGHT SECTION
1st: Brody Brown
2nd: Spencer Worrell
3rd: Keegan Whitney
Upset: Elijah Sparre

PAWN SECTION
1st: Alex Zhang
2nd: Grant Bary
3rd: Kaiden Whitney
Upset: Gibson Bowman

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Results
GROUNDHOG GAMBIT
CHESS TOURNAMENT

Played Saturday, February 7, 2026
at Saint George School.

See story by TD James Stripes.

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1st: Anthony Eakin
2nd: Conan Rivers Tapia
Upset: Reyansh Modha

PREMIER SECTION
1st: Lawrence Fahlstrom
2nd: A.J. Duncan
Also 2nd and receiving trophies:
Owen Stark, Logan Byrd,
Joseph Eberlein, Benjamin Richards
Upset: Austin Johnson

Team Winner: Immaculate Conception