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August 22, 2018
GM Awonder Liang Simul
GM Liang is a two time world champion having won the 2011 Under 8 section of the World Youth in Brazil and the 2013 Under 10 section of the World Youth in the United Arab Emirates. He is the 2017 and 2018 US Junior Closed Champion and recently completed his first US Closed Championship where he drew games with GM Fabiano Caruana, GM Wesley So and GM Hikaru Nakamura, America’s top three players!
Local GM Awonder Liang conducted a FREE 23 board Simul to open the US Open in Middleton, Wisconsin on Saturday, July 28. Participants were players from the Denker, Barber and National Girls Tournament of Champions (NGTOC) with up to seven participants from each of the three events. In addition, our two guests were the Mayor of Middleton, Mr. Gurdip Brar and Dylan Denker (FL), grandson of GM Arnold Denker. Simul results were 22 wins and one loss. Congratulations to the following players: Win–Tinh Son Nguyen (UT), Best Game–Tianhui (Cindy) Jie (FL) and Longest Game–Amanda Lossef (DC).
GM Liang is a two time world champion having won the 2011 Under 8 section of the World Youth in Brazil and the 2013 Under 10 section of the World Youth in the United Arab Emirates. He is the 2017 and 2018 US Junior Closed Champion and recently completed his first US Closed Championship where he drew games with GM Fabiano Caruana, GM Wesley So and GM Hikaru Nakamura, America’s top three players!
In addition, Awonder Liang (WI) earned his Grandmaster title and played in the 2018 U.S. Championship in St. Louis. He previously completed the 2017 US Junior Closed Championship with a 6.5/9 result taking clear 1st Place. Awonder played in the Barber Tournament of K-8 Champions in 2013. We wish him the greatest success in the future.
Barber Tournament Results
Congratulations to NM Andy Huang (VA), rated 2276 who scored 5.5/6 for clear First Place. He received the $5,000 College/University Scholarship to the school of his choice. Following Andy was FM Anthony Bi He (WA), rated 2337 who had only two draws to capture clear 2nd Place. Third Place was a three-way tie with FM Arthur Guo (GA), rated 2315, NM Alexander Costello (CA-S), rated 2271 and FM Vincent Tsay (NY), rated 2273 were unable to move up. Eight players tied for 6th Place. There was a field of seven Masters and eleven Experts among the fifty-one participants which was the largest group to ever contest the title, Barber Champion of Champions.
FM Arthur Guo (GA) was the winner of the $500 Chess Scholarship for best result under the age of 13.
Further details can be found here:
Virginia clear first in State Team Competition
Congratulations to Virginia on their First Place finish (14.5/18) ending any doubt that their state team average (2213) was strong enough to take the top spot. Their team was lead by Denker representative, IM Praveen Balakrishnan (5.5/6) rated 2496. Barber representative, NM Andy Huang (5.5/6) rated 2276 and National Girls representative Vivian Cao-Dao (3.5/6) rated 1866 completed the effort. The Second Place team was Washington State that had a team average (2310) and was one point behind Virginia. There was a two-way tie for 3rd Place between Southern California and Massachusetts.
State Team winners in the Under Sections: (Under 2100) Arizona. In the (Under 1900) it was Connecticut and in the (Under 1700) section was Indiana. Complete results can be found at:
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