Michael's Chess
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Awards
October 6--8, 2006
1st Place in Los Angeles with a check for $225. I had no losses that tournament, and one draw to a 9-year old Pakistanian
April 20, 2006 The red trophy is for second place in the Western States Championships, and the other two trophies were from the night before the tournament. First place in the blitz tournament (5-minute chess) and first place in the Bughouse Tournament, which is a variant of the actual game of chess and is played with two boards and four people.
FIRST PLACE!
.....and loot too!
Kern County 8th Grade Student wins 1st Place in Adult Chess Competition Michael Taylor, a 14-year-old Bakersfield resident has won 1st place in the Under 1400 section of the Lina Grumette Memorial Day Chess Classic held at the LAX Hilton this past weekend. Michael started out 8th in ratings among the entrants in the Under 1400 section, with an official rating of 1305, and came away with the $245 first prize award and trophy. This was only the second adult tournament that Michael has competed in. Michael is the Kern County K-8 Scholastic Chess Champion for 2005. Earlier this year, he tied for First place in the 8th Grade 2005 Western States Single Grade Chess Championships and won the 8th place trophy in the Junior High Division of the 2005 California Super States Chess Championship. Michael started playing in scholastic tournaments just two years ago with the Bessie Owens Intermediate Chess Team. While at Bessie Owens he was a GATE student. He is now a member of the AAA Chess Club of Glendale. Michael will be entering the ninth grade this coming year and will be commuting to a private school in Sherman Oaks. Michael has a 4.0 average. Michael's unofficial chess rating has now climbed to 1500. Michael's chess activities are currently sponsored by Mike Griffin of M.A.Griffin & Sons and Ken Reed of Guthrie's Alley Cat.
Greatest Upset
My November 6, 2004 chess tournament results were:
Round 1, My Opponent fell asleep and I won (he got last place) with 0.0 points
Round 2, I beat someone rated 523 (he got 11th place) with 2.0 points
Round 3, I beat someone rated 1546 (he got 3rd place) with 3.5 points
Round 4, I beat someone rated 1343 (he got 4th place) with 3.5 points
Round 5, I tied with someone rated 1414 (he got 2nd place) with 3.5 points
I got 4.5 points out of 5 and got 1st place.
If two people get the same number of points, the people who played the hardest people win the tiebreaker.
My round 5 opponent was the only person to manage a tie against me, so he got 2nd place instead of my round 3 and round 4 opponents even though all three of them had the same number of points at the end of the tournament.
My round 3 and round 4 opponents were my teammates. Our team got 1st place with a total of 11.5 points.
The second place team winners had six people!
Michael's new trophy
I beat someone rated 988, he got 6th place with 4.0 points I beat someone rated 814, he got 14th place with 3.0 points I beat someone rated 1039, he got 3rd place with 4.0 points I lost to someone rated 1355, he got 1st place with 5.0 points I beat someone rated 1275, he got 8th place with 3.5 points I got 2nd place with 4.0 points.<
MICKE'S B....I....G 2ND PLACE TROPHY!!
THE BOTTOM LINE
I played in a local tournament last weekend and went 5-0 perfect.
Iwas initially ranked 1st in ratings: in the first two rounds I beat two easy people
who were rated under 1250, and in the last three rounds, I defeated numbers 4, 3, and 2
whose ratings ranged from 1300-1700.
It was like I had to win the tournament otherwise
I'd be losing to players who wern't as strong as I was.
I finished a chess tournament last Saturday on the 25th of February in Bakersfield. There were five rounds and I was initially ranked #2 in ratings, but I finished with a perfect 5-0 score, winning 1st place, and the #1 player finished with 3-2, only getting 6th place. He lost to a girl in the second round, and later lost to me in the last round. By the end of the tournament, I was almost 100 points above the former #1 player.
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