| Section | Grade | Rating | Name | USCF ID | Expires | State | School Code | Byes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allen, David | 14646123 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Antunish, Lennin | 14405828 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Antunish, Lennin | 14405828 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Arthur, Brian | 14176605 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Arthur, Brian | 14176605 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Asseviro, Anthony S, Jr | 13679473 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Asseviro, Anthony S, Jr | 13679473 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Barayev, Jacob | 13674277 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Barayev, Jacob | 13674277 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Baugh, Rashaan | 14820413 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Baugh, Rashad | 14820428 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Bennett Jr, Richard | 14693284 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Bento-Simon, Ishmael | 14540696 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Bullock, Jayvon | 14782166 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Bullock, Jayvon | 14782166 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Calixte, Eldridge | 14357417 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Calixte, Eldridge | 14357417 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Chanderdatt, Joshua | 14523912 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Chase, Earl | 14044732 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Chase, Earl | 14044732 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Chen, Mengnan | 14820366 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Chen, Mengnan | 14820366 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Clifton, Raphael | 14125092 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Clifton, Raphael | 14125092 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Cordero, Fernando | 14987702 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Cuate, Edeli | 14096560 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Dalhouse, Tristan | 14284268 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Dalhouse, Tristan | 14284268 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Diallo, Haby | 14170098 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Edwards, Kayla | 14096506 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Garcia, Sebastian | 13978603 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Gomez, Vincente | 14540675 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Gonzalez, Henry | 14583624 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Idemudia, Aaron | 14369997 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Idemudia, Aaron | 14369997 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Idemudia, Sean | 14369982 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Idemudia, Sean | 14369982 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Jobe, Kirk | 14221707 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Jobe, Kirk | 14221707 | NYI318 | ||||||
| John-Burnley, Elijah Kidane | 13944107 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Lawrence, William | 14159053 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Lewis, Isaiah | 14176564 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Marin, Kevin | 14463225 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Marin, Kevin | 14463225 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Marshall, Jelani | 14987697 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Nowosadko, Michal | 14876202 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Ntango, Edmond | 14567782 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Ouyang, Zongshan | 14812764 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Ouyang, Zongshan | 14812764 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Peguero, Ariel | 14521627 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Pond, Markus | 13578801 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Pond, Markus | 13578801 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Psujek, Krystian | 14109855 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Rasheed, Nasir | 14567797 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Rasheed, Nasir | 14567797 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Rivera, Gabriel | 14782098 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Rodriguez, Jordan | 14571657 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Rush, Christopher James | 13668541 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Sanchez, Freddie | 14988218 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Sheehan, Paul | 14966836 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Tapia, Carlos | 14176632 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Tapia, Carlos | 14176632 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Uddin, Mubassar | 14603572 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Uddin, Mubassar | 14603572 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Wang, Nancy | 14782103 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Wang, Nancy | 14782103 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Wen, Jack | 14531817 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Wen, Jack | 14531817 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Wright, Shanniah | 14096512 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Yang, Calvin | 14820351 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Yang, Calvin | 14820351 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Ye, Cindy | 14812847 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Yu, Michael | 14753683 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Yu, William | 14515817 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Yurgel, Stefek | 14089411 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Zamor, Jordan | 14696058 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Zhang, Tommy | 14491570 | NYI318 | ||||||
| Zhang, Tommy | 14491570 | NYI318 |
Friday, April 5, 2013
Supernationals V: The IS 318 Players
Here is a list of the players from IS 318 Brooklyn, and the events in which they are registered to play (that's why you see some names multiple times). Keep your eyes out for their results:
Supernationals V: GM Alexandria Kosteniuk Simul
Hola darlings!
The Chess Queen(TM), GM Alexandria Kosteniuk, came, saw, and conquered. USCF online presents a video interview of the 12th Women's World Chess Champion in Nashville from CLO Editor Jen Shahade. GM Kosteniuk is there (1) to give a simul and (2) to support her young daughter playing in the Supernationals. The video below is from You Tube. If you have keen eyes, you will see Alexandria's daughter clinging to Mama near the beginning of the video - for a few seconds only:
The Chess Queen(TM), GM Alexandria Kosteniuk, came, saw, and conquered. USCF online presents a video interview of the 12th Women's World Chess Champion in Nashville from CLO Editor Jen Shahade. GM Kosteniuk is there (1) to give a simul and (2) to support her young daughter playing in the Supernationals. The video below is from You Tube. If you have keen eyes, you will see Alexandria's daughter clinging to Mama near the beginning of the video - for a few seconds only:
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Newly Invented Game for Someone Buried in Secret Location - Inventor Hopes for the Next 2,700 Years!!!
This is - like - totally awesome - like...
From cnet.com
by Tim Hornyak
That's what game designer Jason Rohrer was shooting for when he unveiled A Game for Someone, winner of the Game Design Challenge at the recent Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco.
Rohrer, who has created titles such as The Castle Doctrine, designed A Game for Someone for a challenge titled "Humanity's Last Game," which it won.
Rohrer's new board game is meant to be played not by anyone alive today, but by people some 2,000 years in the future, assuming our species survives that long. To that end it has been buried somewhere in the Nevada desert, Polygon tells us.
"I wanted to make a game that is not for right now, that I will never play," the website quoted Rohrer as saying, "and nobody now living would ever play."
Inspired by the Mancala group of board games, A Game for Someone was tested in video game form by AI algorithms, and apparently Rohrer did not even play it himself. It was designed to last through the ages, with the 18x18-inch board and silver cylindrical pieces machined from about 30 pounds of titanium. The rules, which Rohrer has kept secret, were printed as diagrams on acid-free paper, sealed in a Pyrex tube, and housed in more titanium. Rohrer then buried the game at a secret location in the Nevada desert, but kept the GPS location.
With dramatic panache, after describing the game he had GDC attendees open envelopes he had distributed. They contained a total of 1 million GPS coordinates.
"He estimates that if one person visits a GPS location each day with a metal detector, the game will be unearthed sometime within the next million days--a little over 2,700 years," Polygon noted.
Anyone up for some game hunting? Who knows what else you'll find buried out there.
Heh heh heh... Was he hired by the Nevada Chamber of Commerce? I can see for the remainder of my life a trickle, and then a stream, and eventually a flood -- of earnest (and not so much) would-be modern-day Indiana Joneses running around the deserts of Nevada (particularly around Las Vegas, LOL!) with shovels in hand. Oh my, the Nevada State Patrol will sure have their hands full rescuing would-be archaeologists... And maybe some folks will even die out in the desert, because they weren't smart enough to be sure they could be found before they ran out of water...
Well, it looks like a take on a merels game to me -- why else have the cross-hatchings on the board if they don't have anything to do with the game? Could simply be decoration, of course, but since when has a man ever concerned himself with decoration, except those who appear on PROJECT RUNWAY? And the holes in the board meant to hold pegged pieces...
Native Americans played a "war" game on a board with the same kind of cross-hatchings (but no holes to hold pegged pieces). I don't have my notes in front of me so I'm working from my very poor memory (these days) - it was called something like totolopsi and it was written about by Stewart Culin, among others (impossible to know if this game and similar were created pre-Hispanic invader contact). I've also seem photographs online (well-vetted) of carved-in-stone merels boards from ancient Egypt that date back to around 1400 BCE. They don't have holes within which to place pegged pieces, but they have the cross-hatchings and accepted rules say the playing pieces were places at the interstices of the squares, not inside the squares.
The cross-hatchings also remind me of the Xiang Qi board, Chinese chess, where the pieces were placed on the interstices of the squares on an 8 x 8 board, not inside the squares.
Interesting. I won't be around in 2700 or so years, unless reincarnation actually is true. But if it is, and I have access to whatever media of the day is, I'll be reporting back on the eventual discover of this Game for Someone.
From cnet.com
Game meant to be played in 2,000 years gets buried in desert
Jason Rohrer's A Game for Someone is meant to be played in the distant future. But you could be the first to play it if you can dig it up in Nevada.by Tim Hornyak
That's what game designer Jason Rohrer was shooting for when he unveiled A Game for Someone, winner of the Game Design Challenge at the recent Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco.
Rohrer, who has created titles such as The Castle Doctrine, designed A Game for Someone for a challenge titled "Humanity's Last Game," which it won.
Rohrer's new board game is meant to be played not by anyone alive today, but by people some 2,000 years in the future, assuming our species survives that long. To that end it has been buried somewhere in the Nevada desert, Polygon tells us.
"I wanted to make a game that is not for right now, that I will never play," the website quoted Rohrer as saying, "and nobody now living would ever play."
Inspired by the Mancala group of board games, A Game for Someone was tested in video game form by AI algorithms, and apparently Rohrer did not even play it himself. It was designed to last through the ages, with the 18x18-inch board and silver cylindrical pieces machined from about 30 pounds of titanium. The rules, which Rohrer has kept secret, were printed as diagrams on acid-free paper, sealed in a Pyrex tube, and housed in more titanium. Rohrer then buried the game at a secret location in the Nevada desert, but kept the GPS location.
With dramatic panache, after describing the game he had GDC attendees open envelopes he had distributed. They contained a total of 1 million GPS coordinates.
"He estimates that if one person visits a GPS location each day with a metal detector, the game will be unearthed sometime within the next million days--a little over 2,700 years," Polygon noted.
Anyone up for some game hunting? Who knows what else you'll find buried out there.
Heh heh heh... Was he hired by the Nevada Chamber of Commerce? I can see for the remainder of my life a trickle, and then a stream, and eventually a flood -- of earnest (and not so much) would-be modern-day Indiana Joneses running around the deserts of Nevada (particularly around Las Vegas, LOL!) with shovels in hand. Oh my, the Nevada State Patrol will sure have their hands full rescuing would-be archaeologists... And maybe some folks will even die out in the desert, because they weren't smart enough to be sure they could be found before they ran out of water...
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A Game for Someone is played with titanium pieces. (Credit: Jason Rohrer)
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Well, it looks like a take on a merels game to me -- why else have the cross-hatchings on the board if they don't have anything to do with the game? Could simply be decoration, of course, but since when has a man ever concerned himself with decoration, except those who appear on PROJECT RUNWAY? And the holes in the board meant to hold pegged pieces...
Native Americans played a "war" game on a board with the same kind of cross-hatchings (but no holes to hold pegged pieces). I don't have my notes in front of me so I'm working from my very poor memory (these days) - it was called something like totolopsi and it was written about by Stewart Culin, among others (impossible to know if this game and similar were created pre-Hispanic invader contact). I've also seem photographs online (well-vetted) of carved-in-stone merels boards from ancient Egypt that date back to around 1400 BCE. They don't have holes within which to place pegged pieces, but they have the cross-hatchings and accepted rules say the playing pieces were places at the interstices of the squares, not inside the squares.
The cross-hatchings also remind me of the Xiang Qi board, Chinese chess, where the pieces were placed on the interstices of the squares on an 8 x 8 board, not inside the squares.
Interesting. I won't be around in 2700 or so years, unless reincarnation actually is true. But if it is, and I have access to whatever media of the day is, I'll be reporting back on the eventual discover of this Game for Someone.
8th Annual All Girls Tournament (SE Wisconsin)
Sponsored by the Wisconsin Scholastic Chess Federation.
The 8th annual All Girls Championships will be held at Cardinal Stritch University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) on April 13th. $1000 dollars in scholarships will be awarded with trophies to top 5 players and top two teams in four divisions. T-shirts and $5 food vouchers will be given to each participants depending upon a fund drive to make this a free tournament. More information about the fund drive can be found at All Girls Link.
I want to give a shout out to Anjana Murali, who has played in several Hales Corners Chess Challenges. She is a lovely and fine young woman -- and also a damn good chessplayer :) Anjana is one of the volunteers raising funds for the 8th annual All Girls Championships and this evening I made a donation on behalf of Goddesschess to her account. I don't know if she'll be playing at the Hales Corners Chess Challenge XVII, which is also being held on April 13th! But if you read this, Anjana, here's to you, kiddo. I was absolutely floored reading about your two-day chess camp for girls! What a wonderful thing!
In fact, as of this evening, fund-raising for the All Girls Championships is at a little less than 50% of the estimated $7,000 needed to make this a fully cost-free event for all participants. Wouldn't it be wonderful if all the girls who wanted to enter the tournament could play for free, and be provided with a free meal and souvenirs of the event as well as fully-funding the scholarships to be awarded! Any funds donated to support this event mean that the WSCF won't have to dip into reserves to cover the remaining expenses for this great event! So I hope you will consider making a donation to your favorite fundraiser (ANJANA ANJANA ANJANA!!!!!) page.
And now, in case I did not pick up on it back in December, 2012, here is the article published at the U.S. Chess Federation website about Anjana's excellent work to earn a Girl Scout Gold Award. YOU ROCK, GIRLFRIEND!
P.S. After reading further, I saw that two other chess femmes (Lauri Pautz Ostdick and Anjelika Henke) were also raising funds for this great event, so I also made a Goddesschess donation under each of their pages. One does what one can for the Goddess of Chess, darlings :)
The 8th annual All Girls Championships will be held at Cardinal Stritch University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) on April 13th. $1000 dollars in scholarships will be awarded with trophies to top 5 players and top two teams in four divisions. T-shirts and $5 food vouchers will be given to each participants depending upon a fund drive to make this a free tournament. More information about the fund drive can be found at All Girls Link.
I want to give a shout out to Anjana Murali, who has played in several Hales Corners Chess Challenges. She is a lovely and fine young woman -- and also a damn good chessplayer :) Anjana is one of the volunteers raising funds for the 8th annual All Girls Championships and this evening I made a donation on behalf of Goddesschess to her account. I don't know if she'll be playing at the Hales Corners Chess Challenge XVII, which is also being held on April 13th! But if you read this, Anjana, here's to you, kiddo. I was absolutely floored reading about your two-day chess camp for girls! What a wonderful thing!
In fact, as of this evening, fund-raising for the All Girls Championships is at a little less than 50% of the estimated $7,000 needed to make this a fully cost-free event for all participants. Wouldn't it be wonderful if all the girls who wanted to enter the tournament could play for free, and be provided with a free meal and souvenirs of the event as well as fully-funding the scholarships to be awarded! Any funds donated to support this event mean that the WSCF won't have to dip into reserves to cover the remaining expenses for this great event! So I hope you will consider making a donation to your favorite fundraiser (ANJANA ANJANA ANJANA!!!!!) page.
And now, in case I did not pick up on it back in December, 2012, here is the article published at the U.S. Chess Federation website about Anjana's excellent work to earn a Girl Scout Gold Award. YOU ROCK, GIRLFRIEND!
P.S. After reading further, I saw that two other chess femmes (Lauri Pautz Ostdick and Anjelika Henke) were also raising funds for this great event, so I also made a Goddesschess donation under each of their pages. One does what one can for the Goddess of Chess, darlings :)
Discovery of Formula for Maya Blue Claimed
Story from Live Science
The ancient Maya used a vivid, remarkably durable blue paint to cover their palace walls, codices, pottery and maybe even the bodies of human sacrifices who were thrown to their deaths down sacred wells. Now a group of chemists claim to have cracked the recipe of Maya Blue.
Scientists have long known the two chief ingredients of the intense blue pigment: indigo, a plant dye that's used today to color denim; and palygorskite, a type of clay. But how the Maya cooked up the unfading paint remained a mystery. Now Spanish researchers report that they found traces of another pigment in Maya Blue, which they say gives clues about how the color was made.
"We detected a second pigment in the samples, dehydroindigo, which must have formed through oxidation of the indigo when it underwent exposure to the heat that is required to prepare Maya Blue," Antonio Doménech, a researcher from the University of Valencia, said in a statement.
"Indigo is blue and dehydroindigo is yellow, therefore the presence of both pigments in variable proportions would justify the more or less greenish tone of Maya Blue," Doménech explained. "It is possible that the Maya knew how to obtain the desired hue by varying the preparation temperature, for example heating the mixture for more or less time or adding more of less wood to the fire." [Note the different shades of blue to blue-green in the modern reproduction painting.]
American researchers in 2008 claimed that copal resin, which was used for incense, may have been the third secret ingredient for Maya Blue. Their research was based on a study of a bowl that had traces of the pigment and was used to burn incense. But Doménech's team didn't buy those findings.
"The bowl contained Maya Blue mixed with copal incense, so the simplified conclusion was that it was only prepared by warming incense," Doménech said in a statement.
The Spanish researchers say they are now investigating the chemical bonds that bind the paint's organic component (indigo) to the inorganic component (clay), which is key to Maya Blue's resilience.
Among the more remarkable discoveries of the paint in context was a 14-foot thick (4 meters) layer of blue mud at the bottom of a naturally formed sinkhole, called the Sacred Cenote, at the famous Pre-Columbian Maya site Chichén Itzá in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. When the Sacred Cenote was first dredged in 1904, it puzzled researchers, but some scientists now believe it was probably left over from blue-coated human sacrifices thrown into the well as part of a Maya ritual.
The research was detailed this year in the journal Microporous and Mesoporous Materials.
Maya Blue Paint Recipe Deciphered
Megan Gannon, News Editor
Date: 02 April 2013 Time: 05:42 PM ET
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A Maya king, seated and wearing an elaborate head dress
of blue feathers, adorns the north wall of the ruined
house discovered at the Maya site of Xultún. An attendant,
at right, leans out from behind the king’s head dress.
The painting by artist Heather Hurst recreates
the design and colors of the original Maya artwork at the site.
CREDIT: Heather Hurst, copyright National Geographic Society |
Scientists have long known the two chief ingredients of the intense blue pigment: indigo, a plant dye that's used today to color denim; and palygorskite, a type of clay. But how the Maya cooked up the unfading paint remained a mystery. Now Spanish researchers report that they found traces of another pigment in Maya Blue, which they say gives clues about how the color was made.
"We detected a second pigment in the samples, dehydroindigo, which must have formed through oxidation of the indigo when it underwent exposure to the heat that is required to prepare Maya Blue," Antonio Doménech, a researcher from the University of Valencia, said in a statement.
"Indigo is blue and dehydroindigo is yellow, therefore the presence of both pigments in variable proportions would justify the more or less greenish tone of Maya Blue," Doménech explained. "It is possible that the Maya knew how to obtain the desired hue by varying the preparation temperature, for example heating the mixture for more or less time or adding more of less wood to the fire." [Note the different shades of blue to blue-green in the modern reproduction painting.]
American researchers in 2008 claimed that copal resin, which was used for incense, may have been the third secret ingredient for Maya Blue. Their research was based on a study of a bowl that had traces of the pigment and was used to burn incense. But Doménech's team didn't buy those findings.
"The bowl contained Maya Blue mixed with copal incense, so the simplified conclusion was that it was only prepared by warming incense," Doménech said in a statement.
The Spanish researchers say they are now investigating the chemical bonds that bind the paint's organic component (indigo) to the inorganic component (clay), which is key to Maya Blue's resilience.
Among the more remarkable discoveries of the paint in context was a 14-foot thick (4 meters) layer of blue mud at the bottom of a naturally formed sinkhole, called the Sacred Cenote, at the famous Pre-Columbian Maya site Chichén Itzá in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. When the Sacred Cenote was first dredged in 1904, it puzzled researchers, but some scientists now believe it was probably left over from blue-coated human sacrifices thrown into the well as part of a Maya ritual.
The research was detailed this year in the journal Microporous and Mesoporous Materials.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Afghani Gives Six Year Old Daughter as Payment for Debt
As far as I can tell, the child's father has taken the money that poured in to pay the debt, and is still "selling" his daughter. Prove me wrong. Please.
From The New York Times
Painful Payment for Afghan Debt: A Daughter, 6
By ALISSA J. RUBIN
Editors' Note Appended
Editors' Note: April 2, 2013
A front-page article on Monday described the painful decision of an Afghan man, Taj Mohammad, to give his 6-year-old daughter in marriage to pay off his debt to another man. After the article was published, Mr. Mohammad called The New York Times on Monday and said the debt had been paid nearly a month ago, by an anonymous donor. In an interview on Friday, when asked if there had been any developments in the case — which The Times first learned about several months ago — Mr. Mohammad did not mention the payment. Asked on Monday why he had not said anything about it, he gave no direct answer. An article updating the case can be found on Page A6.
From The New York Times
Painful Payment for Afghan Debt: A Daughter, 6
By ALISSA J. RUBIN
Published: March 31, 2013
Editors' Note Appended
KABUL, Afghanistan — As the shadows lengthened around her family’s hut here in one of Kabul’s sprawling refugee camps, a slight 6-year-old girl ran in to where her father huddled with a group of elders near a rusty wood stove. Her father, Taj Mohammad, looked away, his face glum.
“She does not know what is going to happen,” he said softly.
If, as seems likely, Mr. Mohammad cannot repay his debt to a fellow camp resident a year from now, his daughter Naghma, a smiling, slender child with a tiny gold stud in her nose, will be forced to leave her family’s home forever to be married to the lender’s 17-year-old son.
The arrangement effectively values her life at $2,500. That is the amount Mr. Mohammad borrowed over the course of a year to pay for hospital treatment for his wife and medical care for some of his nine children — including Janan, 3, who later froze to death in bitter winter weather because the family could not afford enough firewood to stay warm. [So, Mr. Prick, you're still in the Camp and you're still impregnating your wife, thereby endangering not only her life, but the lives of your surviving children, just to prove You.Are.A.Macho.Man. And not a word uttered against this kind of barbarian attitude from the Republicans here in the USA. You.Are.Absolutely.Disgusting. All.Of.YOU.]
“They said, ‘Pay back our money,’ and I didn’t have any money, so I had to give my girl,” Mr. Mohammad said. “I was thankful to them at the time, so it was my decision, but the elders also demanded that I do this.”
The story of how Mr. Mohammad, a refugee from the fighting in Helmand Province who in better days made a living as a singer and a musician, came to trade his daughter is in part a saga of terrible choices faced by some of the poorest Afghan families. But it is also a story of the way the war has eroded the social bonds and community safety nets that underpinned hundreds of thousands of rural Afghans’ lives.
Women and girls have been among the chief victims — not least because the Afghan government makes little attempt in the camps to enforce laws protecting women and children, said advocates for the camp residents.
Aid groups have been able to provide a few programs for women and children in the ever-growing camps, including schooling that for many girls here is a first. But those programs are being cut as international aid has dwindled here ahead of the Western military withdrawal. And the Afghan government has not offered much support, in part because most officials hope the refugees will leave Kabul and return home.
Most of the refugees in this camp are from rural southern Afghanistan, and they remain bound by the tribal codes and elder councils, known as jirgas, that resolved disputes in their home villages.
Few, however, still have the support of a broader network of kinsmen to fall back on in hard times as they would have at home. Out of context, the already rigid Pashtun codes have become something even harsher.
“This kind of thing never happened at home in Helmand,” said Mr. Mohammad’s mother as she sat in the back of the smoky room. Watching her granddaughter, as she laughed and smiled with her teacher, Najibullah, who also acts as a camp social worker and was visiting the family, she added, “I never remember a girl being given away to pay for a loan.”
From the point of view of those who participated in the jirga, the resolution was a good one, said Tawous Khan, an elder who led it and is one of the two main camp representatives. “You see, Taj Mohammad had to give his daughter. There was no other way,” he said. “And, it solved the problem.”
Some Afghan women’s advocates who heard about the little girl’s plight from news media reports were outraged and said they had asked the Interior Ministry to intervene, since child marriage is a violation of Afghan law and it is also unlawful to sell a woman. But nothing happened, said Wazhma Frogh, the executive director of the Research Institute for Women, Peace and Security.
“There has to be some sort of intervention,” Ms. Frogh said, “otherwise others will think this behavior is all right and it will increase.”
The Camps
The dark, cramped room where Mr. Mohammad lives with his wife and his eight children is typical of the shelters in the Charahi Qambar camp, which houses 900 refugee families from war-torn areas, mostly in southern Afghanistan.
The camp is the largest in the capital area, but just one of 52 such “informal settlements” in the province, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Abjectly poor, the people in the camps came with little more than a handful of household belongings. Seeking safety and aid, they instead found themselves unwelcome in a city already overcrowded with returning refugees from Pakistan and Iran.
For years Charahi Qambar did not even have wells for water because the government was reluctant to let aid groups dig them, said Mohammad Yousef, an engineer and the director of Aschiana, an Afghan aid group that works in nine camps around the country as well as with street children.
The refugees’ skills as farmers and small village workmen were of little use here since they had neither land nor houses. Penniless, they gravitated to others from the same area, and the camps grew up.
Mr. Mohammad, like most men in the camps, looks for work almost every morning as an unskilled laborer, which pays about $6 a day — not even enough to buy the staples that his family subsists on: green tea, bread and, when they can afford them, potatoes. Meat and sugar are the rarest of luxuries.
Many days, no one hires the camp men at all, put off by their tattered clothes, blanketlike wraps and full beards. “People know where we are from and think we are Taliban,” Mr. Mohammad said.
After four years in the camp, he is thinking now of going back to Helmand as a migrant laborer for the opium poppy harvest so that he can earn enough to feed his family and save a little for next winter’s firewood.
“It is too cold, and we wish we had more to eat,” said Rahmatullah, one of 18 deputy camp representatives and one of the few who spoke against the jirga’s decision to have Mr. Mohammad give his daughter to pay off the debt.
Rahmatullah, who uses just one name, did note a positive difference in camp life, however, adding, “We do have one thing here — we have education.”
Education was unheard-of for most camp residents at home in Helmand, and Rahmatullah, like many camp residents, said that at first he was suspicious of it. Shortly after arriving in the camp four years ago, he was shocked to see young girls walking on the street.
He was even more amazed when another camp resident explained that the girls were going to school.
“I did not know that girls could go to school, because in my village only a very few girls were taught anything and it was always at home,” he said. “I thought, ‘Maybe these are the daughters of a general,’ because where I come from women do not leave their homes, not even to bring water.”
“I talked to my wife, and we allowed our girls to go to the camp school, and now they are in the regular Kabul school,” he said.
His daughters were lucky. The schools in the camp were run by Aschiana, which gives a healthful lunch to every child enrolled — 800 in the Charahi Qambar camp alone. They try to bring the children up to a level where they can keep up in the regular Kabul schools.
However, that program has just ended because the European Union, amid financial woes, is not renewing its programs for social protection. Instead, it is focusing its aid spending on the Afghan government’s priorities, ratified at last year’s international aid meeting in Tokyo, which do not include child protection, Alfred Grannas, the European Union’s chargé d’affaires in Afghanistan, said in an e-mail.
The World of Women
Like most dwellings in the camp, Mr. Mohammad’s hut has a tarpaulin roof, lightly reinforced with wood, an unheated entry room, and an inner room with a stove. A small, grimy window lets in a faint patch of light, and piled around the room’s edges are the family’s few possessions: blankets, old clothes, a few battered pots and pans, and 10 bird cages for the quails he trains to sing in hopes of selling them for extra money.
For his wife, a beautiful young woman who sat huddled in the shadows, a black veil drawn across her face as her husband discussed their daughter’s fate, there is little to look forward to day to day. Back in their village in Helmand, even poor families have walled compounds and sometimes land where a woman can go outdoors.
In the camps, though, the huts are crammed together, with narrow mud pathways barely more than foot wide between them.
“There’s no privacy in the camps, and for women it is like they are in a prison,” said Mr. Yousef, the Aschiana director. “They are constantly under emotional stress.”
Like many Afghan women, Mr. Mohammad’s wife, Guldasta, let her husband speak for her — at first. He explained that she was too upset about what was happening to her daughter to talk about the situation.
But then in a quiet moment, she turned, lifting her veil to reveal part of her face and said clearly: “I am not happy with this decision; it was not what I wanted for her.”
“I would have been happy to let her grow up with us,” she said.
The family’s case is a kind of dark distortion of the Afghan tradition of the groom’s family paying a “bride price” to the family of the wife-to-be. The practice is common particularly in Pashtun areas, but it exists among other ethnic groups as well and can involve thousands of dollars. In this case, the boy who is receiving Naghma as a wife, instead of paying for her, will get her in exchange for the debt’s forgiveness. [Calling a 17-year old male a "boy" is an oymoron.]
Because Naghma, whose name means melody, was not chosen by the groom, she will most likely be treated more like a family servant than a spouse — and at worst as a captive slave. Her presence may help the groom attract a more desirable second wife because the family, although poor, will have someone working for it, insulating the chosen wife from some of the hardest tasks.
Anthropologists say this kind of use of women as property intensified after the fall of the Taliban, said Deniz Kandiyoti, a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
The most recent anthropological studies of the phenomenon were of indebted drug traffickers who sold their daughters or sisters to settle debts, she said. These are essentially distress sales. And unlike the norm for marriage exchanges before the past three decades of war, the women in some cases have become salable property — stripped of the traditional forms of status and respect, she said.
Regrets
Almost from the moment he agreed to the deal, Mr. Mohammad began to regret it and think about all that could go wrong. “If, God forbid, they mistreat my daughter, then I would have to kill someone in their family,” he said as he stood at the edge of the camp in a muddy lot in the cold winter dusk.
“You know she is very little, we call her ‘Peshaka,’ ” he said, using the Pashto word for kitten. “She is a very lovely girl. Everybody in our family loves her, and even if she fights with her older brothers, we don’t say anything, we give her all possible happiness.”
He added: “I believe that when she goes to that house, she will die soon. She will not receive all the love she receives from us, and I am afraid she will lose her life. A 6-year-old girl doesn’t know about having a mother-in-law, a father-in-law, or having a husband or being a wife,” he said.
Adding to their fears, the mother of the boy that Naghma will marry came to Mr. Mohammad’s home to ask his wife to stop sending the girl to school, he said.
“You know, my daughter loves going to school, and she wants to study more and more. But the boy she is marrying, he sent his mother yesterday to tell my wife, ‘Look, this is dishonoring us to have my son’s future wife go to school,’ ” he said.
“I cannot tell them what to do,” he added, looking down at his boots. “This is their wife, their property.”
A front-page article on Monday described the painful decision of an Afghan man, Taj Mohammad, to give his 6-year-old daughter in marriage to pay off his debt to another man. After the article was published, Mr. Mohammad called The New York Times on Monday and said the debt had been paid nearly a month ago, by an anonymous donor. In an interview on Friday, when asked if there had been any developments in the case — which The Times first learned about several months ago — Mr. Mohammad did not mention the payment. Asked on Monday why he had not said anything about it, he gave no direct answer. An article updating the case can be found on Page A6.
Supernationals V and LOTS of Chess Drama!
Hola darlings!
Well - lots of news! I normally do not follow scholastic chess events (with a few exceptions). But ever since those dedicated coaches and teachers at IS 318 in Brooklyn brought their kids into national prominence, and because I am a fan of Elizabeth Vicary Spiegel and supporter of her efforts, I try do check the news on occasion to see what IS 318 is doing. And - wow, they've snuck up on me! Supernationals are taking place this year in Nashville, Tennessee and begin in just two more days, April 5 - 7!
IS 318, which has become internationally famous for its excellent chess program and great results with kids that, let's face it, some people consider "throw-aways", is defending it's K-12 title -- how excellent is that!!!!!
And - gasp - Elizabeth Vicary Spiegel will NOT be able to accompany "her kids" to Nashville. She is in the early stages of a much-desired pregnancy and is experiencing some complications, you see, and is prohibited from travelling at the present time. B-U-M-M-E-R! I'm not revealing any delicate secrets here - she's written all about it in her blog. Lizzy - SKYPE! Face-to-face with the kids has never been easier, and it's free. 'course, she's probably already planning on that...
While Coach Spiegel won't be in Nashville, WIM Dr. Alexey Root will be, as coach to a K-12 team from Denton, Texas. She is going to be one busy lady, too. Not only is she coaching, she'll be hosting a seminar: WIM Alexey Root Seminar - Thinking with Chess: Teaching Children Ages 5-14 ... Saturday at 10 AM.
From what Dr. Root wrote in her article for USCF, it appears that UT-Dallas will have a strong presence at Supernationals V, scouting for potential recruits for its collegiate-level chess team.
A little background... The ultimate prize among colleges and universities that sponsor a chess team is to win the Chess equivalent of the "Final Four." Until the advent of the Polgar Dynamic Duo at Texas Tech in 2007, it had been more or less taken for granted that UT-Dallas or the University of Maryland-Baltimore, would win the coveted title, year after boring year. Susan Polgar changed the equation - in a BIG FRICKING WAY! She won TWO titles for Texas Tech, suddenly putting it on the MAP, before (half-way through what was generally understood to be a 10-year long "understanding") moving her program (under the auspices of the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence) to St. Louis, Missouri and Webster University at the end of Spring Term, 2012, AND taking the entire "A" Team with her. Not without some controversy. The bottom line is that Polgar's grateful beneficiary, Webster University, has the best "collegiate" level team yet.
Suffice to say - there is, er, COMPETITION among top-level collegiate chess programs these days to attract high-level players, er, chessplayers. Who'd have thunk it! Cut-throat, darlings, absolutely cut-throat! Knives are out and high drama is afoot these days in the world of collegiate chess. Who is backing who? Where is the money coming from? Just how much, exactly, are we talking about? What are the ultimate goals, and who is scoring points on who? Woo woo! Like I said, high drama! Those idiots in Washington have some lessons to learn from chess politicians, let me tell you...
The chess femmes will have a STRONG presence this year at Supernationals -- in addition to the above --
WGM Jennifer Shahade Seminar - Popularizing Chess ... Friday at 5 PM.
Parents Coffee with USCF President WIM Ruth Haring ... Saturday 3 PM.
In addition, one of my favorite players ever, GM Alexandria Kosteniuk, the 12th Women's World Chess Champion, who has a big kind heart and is so sweet and shy, will be giving a simul:
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk Simul Thursday 2 PM.
Cost: $50. Limited to first 40 players. Register Online (scroll down to Event 4 under Step 3).
So, tune in and watch for the results. Right now I'm hunting for Teams composition to see what IS 318 players will be playing, so I can root for the all! Just not finding anything. I'll keep looking and will update as we get into the actual tournament.
Well - lots of news! I normally do not follow scholastic chess events (with a few exceptions). But ever since those dedicated coaches and teachers at IS 318 in Brooklyn brought their kids into national prominence, and because I am a fan of Elizabeth Vicary Spiegel and supporter of her efforts, I try do check the news on occasion to see what IS 318 is doing. And - wow, they've snuck up on me! Supernationals are taking place this year in Nashville, Tennessee and begin in just two more days, April 5 - 7!
IS 318, which has become internationally famous for its excellent chess program and great results with kids that, let's face it, some people consider "throw-aways", is defending it's K-12 title -- how excellent is that!!!!!
And - gasp - Elizabeth Vicary Spiegel will NOT be able to accompany "her kids" to Nashville. She is in the early stages of a much-desired pregnancy and is experiencing some complications, you see, and is prohibited from travelling at the present time. B-U-M-M-E-R! I'm not revealing any delicate secrets here - she's written all about it in her blog. Lizzy - SKYPE! Face-to-face with the kids has never been easier, and it's free. 'course, she's probably already planning on that...
While Coach Spiegel won't be in Nashville, WIM Dr. Alexey Root will be, as coach to a K-12 team from Denton, Texas. She is going to be one busy lady, too. Not only is she coaching, she'll be hosting a seminar: WIM Alexey Root Seminar - Thinking with Chess: Teaching Children Ages 5-14 ... Saturday at 10 AM.
From what Dr. Root wrote in her article for USCF, it appears that UT-Dallas will have a strong presence at Supernationals V, scouting for potential recruits for its collegiate-level chess team.
A little background... The ultimate prize among colleges and universities that sponsor a chess team is to win the Chess equivalent of the "Final Four." Until the advent of the Polgar Dynamic Duo at Texas Tech in 2007, it had been more or less taken for granted that UT-Dallas or the University of Maryland-Baltimore, would win the coveted title, year after boring year. Susan Polgar changed the equation - in a BIG FRICKING WAY! She won TWO titles for Texas Tech, suddenly putting it on the MAP, before (half-way through what was generally understood to be a 10-year long "understanding") moving her program (under the auspices of the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence) to St. Louis, Missouri and Webster University at the end of Spring Term, 2012, AND taking the entire "A" Team with her. Not without some controversy. The bottom line is that Polgar's grateful beneficiary, Webster University, has the best "collegiate" level team yet.
Suffice to say - there is, er, COMPETITION among top-level collegiate chess programs these days to attract high-level players, er, chessplayers. Who'd have thunk it! Cut-throat, darlings, absolutely cut-throat! Knives are out and high drama is afoot these days in the world of collegiate chess. Who is backing who? Where is the money coming from? Just how much, exactly, are we talking about? What are the ultimate goals, and who is scoring points on who? Woo woo! Like I said, high drama! Those idiots in Washington have some lessons to learn from chess politicians, let me tell you...
The chess femmes will have a STRONG presence this year at Supernationals -- in addition to the above --
WGM Jennifer Shahade Seminar - Popularizing Chess ... Friday at 5 PM.
Parents Coffee with USCF President WIM Ruth Haring ... Saturday 3 PM.
In addition, one of my favorite players ever, GM Alexandria Kosteniuk, the 12th Women's World Chess Champion, who has a big kind heart and is so sweet and shy, will be giving a simul:
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk Simul Thursday 2 PM.
Cost: $50. Limited to first 40 players. Register Online (scroll down to Event 4 under Step 3).
So, tune in and watch for the results. Right now I'm hunting for Teams composition to see what IS 318 players will be playing, so I can root for the all! Just not finding anything. I'll keep looking and will update as we get into the actual tournament.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Hales Corners Chess Challenge XVII
Hola darlings!
The Hales Corners Chess Challenges are my favorite local events here in Milwaukee/SE Wisconsin, and Goddesschess has provided prizes for the Challenges since Challenge VIII. The Challenges are one of the strongest events held in southeastern Wisconsin twice a year, and attract players from a multi-state area.
Challenge XVII is coming fast! April 13, 2013. Goddesschess is once again sponsoring prizes as follows - just for the ladies:
Open: $40 per win; $20 per draw (4 rounds)
Reserve: $20 per win; $10 per draw (4 rounds)
In addition, Goddesschess pays the entry fee for the top-finishing female in each section should she choose to enter the next Challenge.
This Challenge, as in Challenge XVI, Goddesschess is providing specially created gift bags for the top female finisher in each section will also be presented.
More information and entry form for Hales Corners Challenge XVII.
By the way, the Hales Corners Challenge is worth 10 USCF Grand Prix points, nothing to sneeze at :)
Would LOVVVVEEEEE to see Chess Femme Power increase at Challenge XVII, heh heh heh, shows those chess dudes a thing or two and prove once again, oh yeah, that Challenge femmes are formidable forces to be reckoned with...
The Hales Corners Chess Challenges are my favorite local events here in Milwaukee/SE Wisconsin, and Goddesschess has provided prizes for the Challenges since Challenge VIII. The Challenges are one of the strongest events held in southeastern Wisconsin twice a year, and attract players from a multi-state area.
Challenge XVII is coming fast! April 13, 2013. Goddesschess is once again sponsoring prizes as follows - just for the ladies:
Open: $40 per win; $20 per draw (4 rounds)
Reserve: $20 per win; $10 per draw (4 rounds)
In addition, Goddesschess pays the entry fee for the top-finishing female in each section should she choose to enter the next Challenge.
This Challenge, as in Challenge XVI, Goddesschess is providing specially created gift bags for the top female finisher in each section will also be presented.
More information and entry form for Hales Corners Challenge XVII.
By the way, the Hales Corners Challenge is worth 10 USCF Grand Prix points, nothing to sneeze at :)
Would LOVVVVEEEEE to see Chess Femme Power increase at Challenge XVII, heh heh heh, shows those chess dudes a thing or two and prove once again, oh yeah, that Challenge femmes are formidable forces to be reckoned with...
2013 Grand Pacific Open
Here are the final standings, darlings! I won't keep you in suspense one second: the top-rated chess femme, WGM Kateryna Rohanyan, finished in 4th place overall with 4.5 of 6. Top honors went to local favorite FM John (Jack) Yoos:
As the top finishing female player, WGM Rohanyan won the top Goddesschess prize of $80.
Other Goddesschess prize winners:
I hope I didn't goof up the Goddesschess prize winners! I'm trying to pick them out one by one. Other chess femmes in the Open:
I hope I didn't miss anyone!
FINAL - SwissSys Standings. 2013 Grand Pacific Open (7th Annual): OPEN (FIDE and CFC rated)
| # | Name | ID | Rtng | Post | Rd 1 | Rd 2 | Rd 3 | Rd 4 | Rd 5 | Rd 6 | Tot | TBrk[C] | TBrk[O] | Prize |
| 1 | FM John C [Jack] Yoos | 107994 | 2355 | 2387 | +64 | +18 | +3 | =4 | +8 | +10 | 5.5 | 19.5 | 87 | $1150 |
| 2 | NM Alfred Pechisker | 104330 | 2255 | 2282 | +39 | +14 | -4 | +22 | +28 | +8 | 5.0 | 17 | 85.5 | 575 |
| 3 | NM Tanraj S Sohal | 135830 | 2240 | 2262 | +37 | +23 | -1 | +17 | +30 | +9 | 5.0 | 17 | 80.5 | 575 |
| 4 | WGM Katerina Rohonyan | 151130 | 2347 | 2355 | +48 | +30 | +2 | =1 | =9 | =5 | 4.5 | 18 | 87.5 | |
| 5 | Lucas Davies | 110614 | 2233 | 2248 | +56 | +38 | =11 | =28 | +29 | =4 | 4.5 | 17 | 76.5 | |
| 6 | FM Jason Cao | 149413 | 2208 | 2215 | +49 | =33 | +13 | +7 | -10 | +19 | 4.5 | 16.5 | 79.5 | |
| 7 | Alisher Sanetullaev | 153722 | 2158 | 2162 | +54 | =21 | +16 | -6 | +20 | +18 | 4.5 | 15.5 | 74 | |
| 8 | IM Lawrence Day | 101024 | 2227 | 2243 | +53 | +29 | +10 | +11 | -1 | -2 | 4.0 | 18 | 87 | |
| 9 | Jamin Gluckie | 127161 | 2200 | 2198 | +41 | =19 | +24 | +20 | =4 | -3 | 4.0 | 16.5 | 83 | |
| 10 | NM Butch Villavieja | 151916 | 2294 | 2293 | +42 | +22 | -8 | +15 | +6 | -1 | 4.0 | 16 | 88 |
As the top finishing female player, WGM Rohanyan won the top Goddesschess prize of $80.
Other Goddesschess prize winners:
| 30 | WFM Chouchanik Airapetian | USCF | 2131 | 2109 | +62 | -4 | +21 | +39 | -3 | -16 | 3.0 | 13 | 73 |
| 33 | Becca Lampman | 153846 | 1931 | 1937 | +55 | =6 | -28 | H--- | +36 | -15 | 3.0 | 11.5 | 57 |
| 39 | Alice Huanyi Xiao | 148766 | 1859 | 1887 | -2 | +66 | +40 | -30 | =25 | -23 | 2.5 | 10 | 65 |
| 46 | Joanne Foote | 143555 | 1697 | 1708 | =15 | -20 | =64 | -40 | =55 | +61 | 2.5 | 7 | 51 |
I hope I didn't goof up the Goddesschess prize winners! I'm trying to pick them out one by one. Other chess femmes in the Open:
| 55 | Jill Ding | 146400 | 1518 | 1543 | -33 | =53 | -44 | =54 | =46 | =59 | 2.0 | 5.5 | 43.5 |
| 66 | Polly P Wright | 150795 | 1635 | 1608 | -14 | -39 | =54 | -47 | -48 | -62 | 0.5 | 2 | 43 |
I hope I didn't miss anyone!
Sunday, March 31, 2013
2013 Grand Pacific Open
Happy Easter, Darlings!
Victoria, BC's Grand Pacific Open, the largest open event of its kind in British Columbia, started on Friday, March 29th, and ends tomorrow, April 1st!
Goddesschess is proud to play a small part in bringing this successful even to you, by providing dedicated funds for chess femme prizes and funds to help defray the costs of bringing a WGM or female IM to the tournament.
Without further ado, here are the present standings for the top players (2 wins or better out of 3 games thus far) (after R3; Rs 4 and 5 are being played today, not updated yet):
SwissSys Standings. 2013 Grand Pacific Open (7th Annual): OPEN (FIDE and CFC rated):
Stay tuned for further updates!
Victoria, BC's Grand Pacific Open, the largest open event of its kind in British Columbia, started on Friday, March 29th, and ends tomorrow, April 1st!
Goddesschess is proud to play a small part in bringing this successful even to you, by providing dedicated funds for chess femme prizes and funds to help defray the costs of bringing a WGM or female IM to the tournament.
Without further ado, here are the present standings for the top players (2 wins or better out of 3 games thus far) (after R3; Rs 4 and 5 are being played today, not updated yet):
SwissSys Standings. 2013 Grand Pacific Open (7th Annual): OPEN (FIDE and CFC rated):
| # | Name | ID | Rtng | Post | Rd 1 | Rd 2 | Rd 3 | Tot | Prize |
| 1 | FM John C [Jack] Yoos | 107994 | 2355 | 2370 | +50 | +17 | +13 | 3.0 | |
| 2 | IM Lawrence Day | 101024 | 2227 | 2248 | +57 | +19 | +12 | 3.0 | |
| 3 | WGM Katerina Rohonyan | 151130 | 2347 | 2363 | +63 | +18 | +11 | 3.0 | |
| 4 | NM Howard Wu | 105433 | 2259 | 2267 | +52 | +40 | =5 | 2.5 | |
| 5 | Lucas Davies | 110614 | 2233 | 2240 | +64 | +31 | =4 | 2.5 | |
| 6 | Jamin Gluckie | 127161 | 2200 | 2201 | +36 | =23 | +28 | 2.5 | |
| 7 | Ryan Lo | 145788 | 2196 | 2195 | +44 | =15 | +29 | 2.5 | |
| 8 | FM Jason Cao | 149413 | 2208 | 2210 | +41 | =29 | +30 | 2.5 | |
| 9 | Alisher Sanetullaev | 153722 | 2158 | 2157 | +61 | =27 | +34 | 2.5 | |
| 10 | David Kenney | 103040 | 1905 | 1924 | =47 | +42 | +35 | 2.5 | |
| 11 | NM Alfred Pechisker | 104330 | 2255 | 2253 | +24 | +22 | -3 | 2.0 | |
| 12 | NM Butch Villavieja | 151916 | 2294 | 2288 | +43 | +21 | -2 | 2.0 | |
| 13 | NM Tanraj S Sohal | 135830 | 2240 | 2239 | +51 | +33 | -1 | 2.0 | |
| 14 | NM Harry Moore | 101144 | 2245 | 2234 | +37 | =30 | =15 | 2.0 | |
| 15 | Pavel Trochtchanovitch | 143763 | 1919 | 1944 | +55 | =7 | =14 | 2.0 | |
| 16 | Janak Awatramani | 142084 | 2240 | 2231 | +60 | =28 | =20 | 2.0 | |
| 17 | NM Georgi Kostadinov | 120324 | 2136 | 2137 | +38 | -1 | +41 | 2.0 | |
| 18 | WFM Chouchanik Airapetian | USCF | 2131 | 2132 | +65 | -3 | +27 | 2.0 | |
| 19 | Benedict Daswani | 111363 | 1983 | 1986 | +39 | -2 | +48 | 2.0 | |
| 20 | John Doknjas | 141225 | 2094 | 2089 | =42 | +45 | =16 | 2.0 | |
| 21 | Dan Erichsen | 145706 | 2103 | 2104 | +56 | -12 | +44 | 2.0 | |
| 22 | Jingzhou [Peter] Lai | 144566 | 2029 | 2028 | +62 | -11 | +46 | 2.0 | |
| 23 | Michael A Murray | 132150 | 1921 | 1934 | +54 | =6 | H--- | 2.0 | |
| 24 | Alice Huanyi Xiao | 148766 | 1859 | 1889 | -11 | +62 | +40 | 2.0 | |
| 25 | NM Jason Kenney | 110204 | 2226 | 2209 | -27 | +61 | +43 | 2.0 | |
| 26 | Robert North | 106910 | 1938 | 1922 | -32 | +65 | +49 | 2.0 |
Stay tuned for further updates!