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SCA’s International Chess Day Online Tournament 2022 Results

SCA's International Chess Day Online Tournament 2022 Results

Raphael Corcole and Humphrey Xiao played like tigers and were undefeated to conquer respectively their U10 and U16 categories of SCA’s International Chess Day Online Tournament held last July 20 on the Lichess platform. Time control was Rapid with 10 minutes + 2 seconds 8 rounds.

U16 Results

Top10 

Champion 

Humphrey Xiao 2053 Pts:7.5

2nd Place 

Donald Wen 2020 Pts:7.5

3rd Place 

Edison Gao 1734 Pts:5

4th Place 

Jerome Ying 1684  Pts:5

5th Place 

Nathan Cheng 1719  Pts:5

6th Place 

Brian Cheng 1703  Pts:4

7the Place 

Yuxuan Huang 1679  Pts:4

8th Place 

Michael Sun 1187  Pts:4

9th Place 

Andrew Zheng 1438  Pts:4

10th Place 

SAM ALRAIMI 1424  Pts:4

Best Female 

Youyou Yu 1333 Pts:3

Margaret Hu 1177 Pts:3

Diamond Knight

Nathan Cheng 1719 Pts:5

Nathan Cheng found the correct strategic plan to simplify a winning position. The effort earned him the Diamond Knight Prize.

Brilliancy Prize

Brian Cheng 1703 Pts:4

Brian Cheng played a fine attacking game to win the Brilliancy Prize.

Chess Phoenix Prize

Humphrey Xiao 2053 Pts:7.5

Humphrey Xiao never gave up from a losing position to register a come from behind victory to win the Chess Phoenix Prize.

U10 Results

Top10 

Champion 

Raphael Corcolle 1899 Pts:7.5

2nd Place 

Michael Jiang 2064  Pts:7

3rd Place 

Adam Yue 1505 Pts:5

4th Place 

Steven Cai 1374 Pts:5

5th Place 

Grigorii Vaniukov 1278 Pts:5 

6th Place 

Andy Yin 1584 Pts:4.5

7the Place 

William Shi 1440 Pts:4.5

8th Place

Kelvin Zhang 1375 Pts:4.5

9th Place 

Toby Chen 1501 Pts:4.5

10th Place 

Richard Ding 1363 Pts:4

Best Female 

Grace Zong 1263 Pts:3.5

Yichen Han 972 Pts:3

Diamond Knight/Brilliancy Prize

Steven Cai 1374 Pts:5

Steven was awarded the Diamond Knight Prize for executing the best plan in the tournament to win material in his game against Adam Yue. The game also earned him the Brilliancy Prize for beautiful attacking play.bbb

Chess Phoenix Prize

Adam Yue 1505 Pts:5

The Chess Phoenix Prize was given to Adam Yue for staging the best comeback in the tournament.  Playing as Black with a piece down and losing, he essayed a successful counter-attack to turn the game around.