The Chess Club
of Minnesota
 

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Club Championship

 

 

 

 

The Chess Club Championship is determined each August/September. Players qualify for the championship during the course of the year by winning special qualifying tournaments, winning more tournaments than other members, or by winning more tournament games. This page outlines the rules, tracks how players are doing each year, and provides a list of participants.

Who Qualifies?

The club championship is a 16-player, 4-round, swiss tournament. There are four qualifying tournaments during the course of the year; the winners of these tournaments are automatically invited to the championship. Once those players have been selected, the next qualifying criteria: tournaments won. The 10 players who have won the most tournaments are invited. The next criteria looked at is the number of tournament games won – the two players with the most tournament games won fill the final two spots in the championship. 

If a player is invited but cannot attend, the next player on the list, based on the criteria above, is invited. Note: Although winning blitz tournaments counts towards the club championship, individual blitz (5-minute) games do not count toward the “tournaments won” total.

Qualifier 1: Calvin Lee (Winter Break Premier)
Qualifier 2: Justin Kleist (January Scholastic Round Robin - Premier)
Qualifier 3: Joshua Ylinen (April Scholastic Round Robin - Premier)
Qualifier 4:

2007/2008 Championship

Tournaments Won

Tournament Game Points

Club Championship Lineup

Justin Kleist 2
Joshua Ylinen 2
Alexandra Ding 1
Brandon Wang 1
Phillip Kram 1
Brett Kleist 1
Calvin Lee 1
Joshua Langendorf 1
Jeremiah Buenger 1
Mike Thorud 1
Adam Jace 1
Satish Uppaluri
Eoin 1
Brantley 1
Atharva Limaye 1
Leighton Zhao 1
Roman Koutsenov 1
Roman Glusker 1
David Begelman 1
Mitchell Olson 1



Justin Kleist 19
Joshua Ylinen 19
Leighton Zhao 19
Brett Kleist 17.5
Roman Koutsenov 17
Satish Uppaluri 16.5
Roman Glusker 14
Maverick Manzke 12.5
Tarrick Mehanna 11.0
William Weyrens 10.5
David Begelman 10.5
Atharva Limaye 10.5
Christian Weyrens 10.0
Winston Chen 9.5
Phillip Kramer 9.5
Lauren Yunker 9.0
Alex LaVone 9.0
Jeremiah Beunger 9.0
Jarrod 8.5
Adam Jace 8.5
Brandon Wang 8.0
He Li 7.5
Jake Siefker 7.5
Alex Ding 7.0
Calvin Lee 6.5
Owen 6.5
Joshua Langendorf 6.0
Martin Halverson 6.0
Sina 6.0
Griffin Groethe 6.0
Alex Welty 5.5
Justin Tran 5.5
Michael Dokken 5.0
Jacob Harris 5.0
Leon Ding 5.0
Mike Thorud 5
Daniel Lekah 4.5
Leo Segal 4.5
Dylan Bergerud 4.5
Ralph Haffner 4.5
Austin Lind 4.5
Matthew Hayes 4.0
Nick Caspers 4.0
Daksh Goel 4.0
Nicholas 4.0
Tate Welty 3.5
Andrei Bergthold 3.0
Joey 3.0
Grant Halvorsen 3.0
John Belk 3.0
Danesh Bankwala 3.0
Eoin 3.0
Brantley 3.0
Zach LaVone 3.0
Luke Rouse 3.0
Adam Bissonette 3.0
Sunag U. 3.0
Travis 2.5
Vladimir Maltsev 2.5
Srinivas Patri 2.5
Barney Johnson 2.5
Jeff Theroux 2.0
Alex? 2.0
Travis S 2.0
Michael W 2.0
Isaiah Paguyo 2.0
Frank Jowett 2.0
George Ding 2.0
Hans Liu 2.0
Grant Hopkins 2.0
Amann Bankwala 2.0
Joseph 1.5
Ethan D 1.5
Logan R 1.5
Ben Johnson 1.5
Mike Wroblewski 1.5
Gavin T 1.5
Wes Cannon 1.5
Christian C 1.5
Brittney Blazar 1.0
Andrew 1.0
Bradley K 1.0
Collin L 1.0
Jonathan Liu 1.0
Dave R 1.0
Anthony J 1.0
Gavin Sullivan 1.0
John Caspers 1.0
Jackson Hilman 1.0
Sam Spaeth 1.0
Purva 1.0
Klye C 1.0
Sam Gleason 1.0
Peter Bertel 1.0
Sophia Maltsev .5
Matthew Zeman .5
Paul T .5
Grace Hilman .5
Anthony Hu 0.0








Joshua Ylinen
Calvin Lee
Justin Kleist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Club Champions

2001-2002 – Tim Lee

 

2002-2003 – Matt Mahowald

 

2003-2004 – Franky Johnson

 

2004-2005 -- Matt Mahowald

 

2005 - 2006 -- Matt Mahowald

 

2006-2007
Justin Kleist