2nd Annual Le Jardin Academy

 Hawaii Interscholastic Chess League (HICL) – CXR Rated Tournament

TD Frank Alejandro, Assistant TD Wade Okumura

 LJA Open Team / Individual Roster and Scores

LJA Novice Roster and Scores

LJA Parent Roster and Scores

Sept 24, 2005

Aloha Hawaii Scholastic players, Coaches, Parents and friends,

For those that were able to make it to this year’s tournament, there was plenty of action and we hope to see even more players at the next five tournaments and USCF tournaments. LJA had a total 43 players and Mililani Chess Day (USCF) tournament had only 9 players! So where were you guys, I know football, soccer, swimming, sailing maybe! Not at the movies or just playing video game’s or watching TV this past Saturday (Sept 24)!!  Note: If you want to play better chess games, besides studying / practicing you got to get out there and play in our tournaments! Especially if you’re interested and want to qualify for the HICL’s end of year awards, no play no awards!

We had a lots close battles for both teams and individual players in the Open, Novice and Parent section, we had to use tiebreakers to determine the award winners. Le Jardin High / Intermediate won the Team trophy and so Le Jardin’s perpetual team trophy has return to its home of origin. Thanks Maryknoll for taking care of it!  Hanahauoli Intermediate (another team that I help coach) was tied for 1st came in 2nd and Maryknoll Intermediate came in 3rd via tiebreakers!

 The Individual players Open section had another three way tie and William (Billy) Swartworth (Le Jardin Academy) even though he lost the his last round game to Aaron Bright (Moanlua High) who came in 2nd. Billy manage to win via tiebreaker. Kris Aldenderfer (Le Jardin Academy) President of LJA chess club also was tied for 1st and got 3rd place trophy. Board #1 on the stage was displayed via A/V equipment lend to us by Le Jardin Academy and the two wood leather boards I provided were made by Katherine Louise http://www.katherinelouise.biz/gallery.html .

Trenton Lum (Roosevelt) and Kimberly Kidani (Maryknoll) tied for 1st in the Novice section and John Mussack (Holy Family Catholic Academy - Coach) won 1st place in the new Parent section!

For additional details ratings and status please visit www.chess-express.com and if you do not remember your log-in or password just email and I will email back this info. This is HICL’s second season and so only the current “35 open section players” will be listed in the HICL roster until Nov 2005! This when scholastic players will have the next scheduled scholastic event. So be sure to keep playing and practicing. Remember you need a minimum of 18 games to qualify for the end of year awards. Last year winner’s received some really nice awards and all thirteen had free entries to the Hawaii State Championship and we like to do it again. Donations are welcome to continue to provide these awards, please email to get additional details to frank713@windwardchess.org  Last year Le Jardin Academy club, Assets School’s and Windward Chess Club’s Awards were made by Marian Hawkins from Kailua. I also like to thank the Le Jardin Faulty, teachers, chess player’s parents, friends and of course our scholastic players for making this a successful tournament. I made a few mistakes and I promise I will improve on that. Wade Okumura was my TD assistant and we like welcome him to the ranks of TD world; hmm forgot to get him to fill-out a USCF TD form! We’ll just email him a copy!

HICL is a local rating (Only for HCF scholastic tournaments) that I generate via the WinTD pairing program and all players start rating is 1200 each season. We also use CXR Chess Express, Inc. a National chess rating system that updates a player’s rating and also has over 40 plus stats to assist (each player, coach, and parent); into understanding a players strong / weak areas of their play. But to be correct you have to play often, and not just in tournaments, you can also have club games rated via CXR just contact Russ Mollot President of CXR at info@chess-express.com or myself and we will explain how to do it. Bottom line there is no additional cost, just each player’s annual dues, your current CXR accounts can easily be transferred when you start your own CXR rated chess club. If you play at Windward Chess Club or any other CXR affiliate chess club you can have you’re name listed at each of these clubs at no additional cost either. Each club will have their own administrator /deputies and they process player’s games and add new players, paid dues via www.palpay.com etc

We had one Hawaii Chess Board member (Larry Reifurth) visited us on official business to have me sign the new improved constitution / bylaws to help get HCF the 501(c)3 status to help us make chess events even better! I am also the Windward Chess Club Director and club meets on Wednesdays from 5:30PM to 8:30PM approx and so a HCF board member. Larry also is a STD (is the Senior Tournament Director for U.S. Chess Federation) and runs the Sept Labor Day weekend Hawaii State Championship every year; he gave us some good points for making improvements. Next year we expect to have a larger group, and maybe some more fans to help keep us stay cool. The rain on Friday made things a little humid, I could not stop sweating and was not working that hard either! If I left anyone out I did not mean too! Oh yes, a big hand to Russ Mollot President of CXR – Chess Express, Inc. and Jean Troendle (Cajun Chess www.cajunchess.com – New Orleans) she is still not operational to selling chess equipment, but promises ASAP she will be back in business. Also to HCF - Hawaii Chess Federation for promoting our tournament via their web site at www.hawaiichess.org, check here often to see when the next tournament is scheduled. And just to update you my dad ended up staying in Houston and only his backyard wooden fence got blown down, Houston, Texas was very lucky indeed!

Mahalo to everyone for your outstanding support to scholastic chess,

Frank Alejandro, WCC Director, LJACC Chess Coach

LJA Open Team Roster and Scores

Awards

Code

Name

Score

TBrk[M]

Overall

1st

LJAH

Le Jardin Academy High (1214.0) - Cnt: 5

13.5

64

 

 

Kris Aldenderfer (1293) 5.0

 

 

 

 

Adam Feurer (1329) 3.5

 

 

 

 

Brett Fischer (1126) 3.0

 

 

 

 

Holly Fischer (1108) 2.0

 

 

Overall

2nd

HANAHI

Hanahauoli Inter (1045.5) - Cnt: 4

13.5

56

 

 

Steven Yee (1206) 4.5

 

 

 

 

Connor Lawhorn (1109) 3.5

 

 

 

 

Nickolas DeMello (1006) 3.0

 

 

 

 

Kyle Obana (861) 2.5

 

 

Overall

3rd

MARYI

Maryknoll Inter (1141.5) - Cnt: 4

13.5

53

 

 

Ryan Morisato (1113) 4.0

 

 

 

 

Joseph Lindsay (1140) 3.5

 

 

 

 

Matthew Amore (1141) 3.0

 

 

 

 

Joshua Mau (1172) 3.0

 

 

Elem

1st

MARYE

Maryknoll Elem (1079.0) - Cnt: 6

12.5

47

 

 

Anthony DiTucci (1107) 4.0

 

 

 

 

Eric Takiguchi (996) 3.0

 

 

 

 

Blaise Kapena Lum (1057) 3.0

 

 

 

 

Mickey Morikawa (1091) 2.5

 

 

Elem

2nd

LJAE

Le Jardin Academy Elem (1098.8) - Cnt: 6

11.5

51.5

 

 

Billy Swartworth (1323) 5.0

 

 

 

 

Wyatt Fischer (1062) 2.5

 

 

 

 

Travis Cundiff (1061) 2.0

 

 

 

 

Jefferson Huyuh (801) 2.0

 

 

High

1st

MOANAH

Moanlua High (1322.0) - Cnt: 1

5.0

20

 

 

Aaron Bright (1322) 5.0

 

 

Elem

3rd

KAME

Kam Elem (1470.0) - Cnt: 1

4.5

18.5

 

 

Tristan Kaonohi (1470) 4.5

 

 

 

LINCE

Lincoln Elem (1116.0) - Cnt: 1

4.0

20

 

 

Katie Tanabe (1116) 4.0

 

 

High

1st

HOMEH

Home School High (1237.0) - Cnt: 1

4.0

19.5

 

 

Raphael Leonard (1237) 4.0

 

 

Inter

1st

VOCI

Voyager Charter School (1226.0) - Cnt: 1

4.0

16

 

 

Matthew Carland (1226) 4.0

 

 

 

ASSETE

Assets School (996.0) - Cnt: 1

3.0

14

 

 

Ryan Hara (996) 3.0

 

 

 

IOLANE

Iolani Elem (845.0) - Cnt: 1

3.0

11.5

 

 

Logan Colby (845) 3.0

 

 

 

HFCAE

HFCAE (750.0) - Cnt: 1

3.0

10.5

 

 

Joshua Nascinento (750) 3.0

 

 

 

WAIAE

Waialae Elem (808.0) - Cnt: 1

2.0

13.5

 

 

Mitchell Heidenreich (808) 2.0

 

 

Inter

2nd

KAILI

Kailua Inter (960.0) - Cnt: 1

2.0

9.5

 

 

Connor Smith (960) 2.0

 

 

 

HICL Standings / LJA Individual Roster and Scores.

2nd Annual Le Jardin Academy

Awards

 

#

Name

New

HICL

Seasonal

Rating

09/25/05

CXR

Pre

Rating

09/24/05

CXR

Post

Rating

09/25/05

Team

Grd

Rd 1

Rd 2

Rd 3

Rd 4

Rd 5

Rd 6

Tot

TBrk[M]

Overall

1st

1

Billy Swartworth

1345

1323

1372

LJAE

4th

W22

W8

W15

W3

W7

L2

5.0

21

Overall

2nd

2

Aaron Bright

1337

1322

1357

MOANAH

10th

W24

L6

W20

W8

W4

W1

5.0

20

Overall

3rd

3

Kris Aldenderfer

1329

1293

1343

LJAH

11th

W30

W12

W6

L1

W14

W7

5.0

19.5

Intermediate

1st

4

Steven Yee

1297

1206

1287

HANAHI

6th

W16

W14

D5

W11

L2

W15

4.5

19

Elementary

1st

5

Tristan Kaonohi

1289

1470

1466

KAME

5th

W23

W17

D4

L7

W15

W9

4.5

18.5

Elementary

2nd

6

Katie Tanabe

1285

1116

1155

LINE

5th

W18

W2

L3

W16

L9

W14

4.0

20

High School

1st

7

Raphael Leonard

1258

1237

1234

HOMEH

9th

W21

W27

W29

W5

L1

L3

4.0

19.5

Intermediate

2nd

8

Ryan Morisato

1248

1113

1144

MARYI

7th

W28

L1

W30

L2

W23

W18

4.0

17.5

Intermediate

3rd

9

Matthew Carland

1239

1226/P

1240/P

VOCI

7th

L14

W31

W23

W27

W6

L5

4.0

16

 

13

Joseph Lindsay

1236

1140/P

1140/P

MARYI

6th

H---

F29

W18

W20

L11

W27

3.5

11

Elementary

3rd

10

Anthony DiTucci

1229

1107/P

1096/P

MARYE

4th

L29

L16

W34

W25

W21

W17

4.0

13

6th Grade

1st

12

Connor Lawhorn

1225

1109

1147

HANAHI

6th

W26

L3

L14

W19

W16

D11

3.5

17.5

High School

2nd

11

Adam Feurer

1222

1329

1296

LJAH

9th

W33

L15

W19

L4

W13

D12

3.5

18

5th Grade

1st

14

Eric Takiguchi

1215

996

1017

MARYE

5th

W9

L4

W12

W17

L3

L6

3.0

16

8th Grade

1st

15

Matthew Amore

1207

1141

1147

MARYI

8th

W34

W11

L1

W29

L5

L4

3.0

14

4th Grade

1st

16

Ryan Hara

1206

996

961

ASSETS

4th

L4

W10

W24

L6

L12

W28

3.0

14

 

17

Brett Fischer

1202

1126

1100

LJAH

8th

W25

L5

W28

L14

W24

L10

3.0

12

 

22

Blaise Kapena Lum

1199

1057

1039

MARYE

5th

L1

L28

H---

H---

W32

W29

3.0

6

 

18

Logan Colby

1197

845

915

IOLANE

4th

L6

W33

L13

W30

W27

L8

3.0

11.5

 

19

Joshua Mau

1195

1172

1143

MARYI

8th

W31

D20

L11

L12

W29

D24

3.0

10.5

 

21

Nickolas DeMello

1193

1006

1031

HANAHI

6th

L7

W35

L27

W28

L10

W31

3.0

10

2th Grade

1st

23

Wyatt Fischer

1186

1062

1045

LJAE

2th

L5

W25

L9

W26

L8

D20

2.5

15.5

 

20

Joshua Nascinento

1184

750/P

890/P

HFCAE

4th

B---

D19

L2

L13

W33

D23

3.0

10.5

 

24

Mickey