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.
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.
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.