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Garrett Reynolds decisively wins Erwin Kett Invitational

            Erwin Kett, Hailey, treated students of the WRHS Chess Club to a relaxing day of chess, free from the competiveness of formal tournaments at his house on Saturday, June 19.  Erwin is a long time supporter of the WRHS Chess Club and has volunteered his time and money to support students of the high school in their scholastic chess endeavors.  Invited to participate were WRHS alumni and graduates, and friends of the chess club.  The venue attracted BSU graduate student and two-time State Champion, Garrett Reynolds and other chess notables such as Jeff Roland, Boise and Jeff Baggett, Ketchum.

            The event totaled 18 kids and adults and featured four rounds of G/60 games.  G/60 means that each player gets 1 hour to complete their game.  These were relatively slow time controls for the high school students, but rather fast controls for the adults who are used to playing four to six hour tournament games.  Award sections were broken down into juniors, high schoolers, and adults with all players playing each other in one open section.

            The tournament was Rocky Mountain Chess rated with no significant upsets.  Garrett Reynolds coasted with four wins.  In between rounds, he helped players and analyzed games providing welcomed learning.  Four players tied with three points:  Jamie Lang, Shane Taylor, Jeff Baggett, and Jeff Roland.  Former WRHS Champion, Nick Bruck finished in 6^th place with 2.5 points, claimed the top high school position.  Desmond Porth, 1.5 points finished as the top junior.

            Alumni present included WRHS Champion Taylor Walton,  Bughouse Champion Kitt Connor, Blitz Champion Danny Mills, and Tyler Jaramillo.  Souvenir trophies were provided by Adam Porth and lunch for all players was provided for by the Kett’s.  For other local chess events or to support the WRHS Chess Club, contact Adam Porth, 450-9048 or visit the WRHS Chess Club website:  www.wix.com/aporth/WRHS-Chess-Club. 

Erwin Kett Results

Erwin Kett plays in Round 4

**Red = 1st place, Pink = 2nd place, tan = 3rd & 4th place**

Place    Name                           Rate     Score   MMed Solk     Cum    CumOp 

 1         Reynolds, Garrett (1)  1956       4.0       8.0       9.0      10.0     26.0   trophy 

 2         Lang, Jamie (4)           1496       3.0       8.0      10.0      8.0      24.5   trophy 

 3         Taylor, Shane (17)       1000       3.0       8.0       9.5       8.0      24.5  trophy 

 4         Roland, Jeff (2)           1679       3.0       8.0       8.5       9.0      22.0  trophy

 5         Baggett, Jeff (3)          1644       3.0       6.5       7.5       7.0      20.5

 6         Bruck, Nick (9)        1089       2.5       5.0       6.0       5.0      14.5  HS trophy 

 7         Patterson, Kevin (6)    1196       2.0       5.5      10.5      5.0      25.0

 8         Porth, Adam (5)          1220       2.0       5.0      10.5      6.0      25.5

 9         Jaramillo, Tyler (13)    1000       2.0       4.0       8.0       5.0      21.0

 10       Mills, Danny (8)          1096       2.0       3.5       6.5       4.0      17.0

 11       Kett, Erwin (14)          1000       1.5       5.0       8.0       3.5      18.5

 12       Porth, Desmond (15) 1000       1.5     4.5      7.0       3.0      14.0   junior trophy

 13       Walton, Taylor (18)     1000       1.5       4.0       6.5       3.5      16.0

 14       Bruess, Shane (12)      1000       1.5       2.0       5.0       3.5      12.5

 15       Connor, Kitt (7)          1136       1.0       5.5       8.5       4.0      22.5

 16       Katie, Patterson (10) 1019       1.0     5.0       9.0      3.0      19.0  junior trophy

 17       Black, Jason (11)         1000       1.0       2.5       5.5       0.0      15.5

 18       Porth, Dylan (16)   1000       0.5     4.0       6.0       1.5      14.0  junior trophy

Round 4 Erwin Kett Invitational

Garrett Reynolds discovers a great trap against Jeff Roland

Rd Bd Scr White                                 Scr Black
04 101. 1.0 Reynolds, Garrett (4.0,1956) 0.0 Roland, Jeff (3.0,1679)
04 102. 0.0 Patterson, Kevin (2.0,1196) 1.0 Baggett, Jeff (3.0,1644)
04 103. 1.0 Lang, Jamie (3.0,1496) 0.0 Porth, Adam (2.0,1220)
04 104. 0.0 Kett, Erwin (1.5,1000) 1.0 Taylor, Shane (3.0,1000)
04 105. 0.0 Walton, Taylor (1.5,1000) 1.0 Bruck, Nick (2.5,1089)
04 106. 0.0 Connor, Kitt (1.0,1136) 1.0 Jaramillo, Tyler (2.0,1000)
04 107. 0.0 Katie, Patterson (1.0,1019) 1.0 Mills, Danny (2.0,1096)
04 108. 1.0 Porth, Desmond (1.5,1000) 0.0 Porth, Dylan (0.5,1000)
04 1.0 Black, Jason (1.0,1000) BYE

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Round 3 Erwin Kett Invitational

Lunch and Fellowship after Round 2

Rd Bd Scr White Scr Black
03 101. 1.0 Reynolds, Garrett (4.0,1956) 0.0 Lang, Jamie (3.0,1496)
03 102. 1.0 Roland, Jeff (3.0,1679) 0.0 Taylor, Shane (3.0,1000)
03 103. 1.0 Baggett, Jeff (3.0,1644) 0.0 Connor, Kitt (1.0,1136)
03 104. 0.0 Mills, Danny (2.0,1096) 1.0 Porth, Adam (2.0,1220)
03 105. 0.0 Jaramillo, Tyler (2.0,1000) 1.0 Patterson, Kevin (2.0,1196)
03 106. 1.0 Bruck, Nick (2.5,1089) 0.0 Katie, Patterson (1.0,1019)
03 107. 1.0 Walton, Taylor (1.5,1000) 0.0 Porth, Dylan (0.5,1000)
03 108. 0.0 Black, Jason (1.0,1000) 1.0 Kett, Erwin (1.5,1000)
03 109. 1.0 Bruess, Shane (1.5,1000) 0.0 Porth, Desmond (1.5,1000)

Notes:  Before Round 3 began, the Kett's cooked an 18 lb. ham and feed everyone a great lunch.

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Round 2 Erwin Kett Invitational

Garrett Reynolds crushes me like a noob with a nasty fork

Rd Bd Scr White                         Scr Black
02 101. 0.0 Porth, Adam (2.0,1220) 1.0 Reynolds, Garrett (4.0,1956)
02 102. 1.0 Roland, Jeff (3.0,1679) 0.0 Connor, Kitt (1.0,1136)
02 103. 1.0 Taylor, Shane (3.0,1000) 0.0 Baggett, Jeff (3.0,1644)
02 104. 1.0 Lang, Jamie (3.0,1496) 0.0 Jaramillo, Tyler (2.0,1000)
02 105. 1.0 Patterson, Kevin (2.0,1196) 0.0 Bruck, Nick (2.5,1089)
02 106. 0.0 Porth, Desmond (1.5,1000) 1.0 Mills, Danny (2.0,1096)
02 107. 1.0 Katie, Patterson (1.0,1019) 0.0 Black, Jason (1.0,1000)
02 108. 0.5 Porth, Dylan (0.5,1000) 0.5 Bruess, Shane (1.5,1000)
02 109. 0.5 Kett, Erwin (1.5,1000) 0.5 Walton, Taylor (1.5,1000)

Notes:  Maxx Bates visited to say hello to all his buddies and watch some of the games.

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Round 1 of the Erwin Kett Invitational underway

In foreground:  Katie Patterson plays State Champion Garrett Reynolds

          Rd   Bd Scr   White                            Scr Black

1. 01 101. 1 Reynolds, Garrett (0.0,1956) 0 Katie, Patterson (0.0,1019)
2. 01 102. 0 Black, Jason (0.0,1000) 1 Roland, Jeff (0.0,1679)
3. 01 103. 1 Baggett, Jeff (0.0,1644) 0 Kett, Erwin (0.0,1000)
4. 01 104. 0 Bruess, Shane (0.0,1000) 1 Lang, Jamie (0.0,1496)
5. 01 105. 1 Porth, Adam (0.0,1220) 0 Walton, Taylor (0.0,1000)
6. 01 106. 1 Taylor, Shane (0.0,1000) 0 Patterson, Kevin (0.0,1196)
7. 01 107. 1 Connor, Kitt (0.0,1136) 0 Porth, Dylan (0.0,1000)
8. 01 108. 1 Jaramillo, Tyler (0.0,1000) 0 Mills, Danny (0.0,1096)
9. 01 109. 0.5 Bruck, Nick (0.0,1089) 0.5 Porth, Desmond (0.0,1000)

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Notes:  Danny Mills surprised us with a late registration.  Glad to have him back in the mix.  Andrew Uriarte, Maxx Bates, and Miles Hendrix did not show up.

WRHS attends the Twin Falls Championship

Five players from the Wood River Valley attended the four round G/60 Twin Falls Championship this past weekend and faired well.  Taylor Walton(1.0), Desmond Porth(1.0), Adam Porth(2.0), and Nick Bruck(1.5) attended this annual event that featured 18 players from Southern Idaho.  Additionally, Jeff Bagget(3.0) came along for the ride.  Jeff finished in third place behind first place Fred Bartell(3.5) and second place Nathaniel Garrabrandt(3.0).

Sports from Hell

Germany is crushing Australia in the World Cup at the moment so here is a link to a chess variant in tribute to the two great sports in the world (soccer chess):
http://www.chessvariants.com/crossover.dir/soccer.html

Here is a link to another interesting chess variant, chess boxing.  Link to chess boxing on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127772215

I couldn't help myself to not post this. . .

Yellowstone Chess

Old Faithful

Near Mammoth

Lower Falls

On a glacier??

Now, this is out of hand . . .

Obsidian Cliffs

In the rain by a falls and a grizzily bear with 4 cubs. . .

A supporting spouse

Norris Geyser Basin

The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone

The K-bar

Tower Gift Shop

Unknown Pretty Canyon

Mammoth

The giant pee-pee(left) & Mammoth Springs(right)

Watch out for Bisen poop(left) & Norris Geysers(right)

Lowsy Chess Weather(left) & Tower Falls(right)

End Game(left) & Blitz, Desmond 1/Dad 0(right)

"Dad, do we have to?"

End of Year Party

Three Champions:  Nick Bruck (2nd), Taylor Walton (1st), Andrew Uriarte (3rd)

Chess Club and Friends

Four Seniors honored with School Letters:  Taylor Walton, Juve Ruiz, Maxx Bates, and Tyler Jaramillo

We honored Erwin Kett for his dedication with a beautiful wood board from Poland

Curly and Miles Can't get enough. . .

Julia and Andrew 

They are better chess players than bowlers!

Umm . . .

Nick and Miles (Miles was awarded Most Inspirational Player)

Nick Bruck, WRHS :MVP

The New WRHS Chess Champion

Andrew Uriarte was voted in as President and Miles Hendrix as Vice President for the 2010-11 school year.

End of the Year Summary

Here is to a great year!  We had members attend over 23 local to national tournaments and we collectively earned over 43 awards.  We added a club website, purchased training software, sponsored a simul, boasted over 28 active members, featured guest lecturers, and had lot's of fun.  Here are other achievements.

Team Achievements:

2010 State Scholastic Champions

2010 West Jordan 1st Place

2010 Twin Falls Invitational 1st Place

Individual Achievements:

Nick Bruck

1^st Place Christmas Blitz

3^rd Place 11^th grade West Jordan

2^nd Place WRHS Chess Championship

Andrew Uriarte

2^nd Place Christmas Blitz

1^st Place High School Winter Tournament

1^st Place Santa’s Bughouse

1^st Place Challenger MVCC

3pt. trophy West Jordan

2^nd Place 11^th grade State Scholastics

2^nd Place Class E State Closed

3rd Place WRHS Championship

Tyler Jaramillo

2^nd Place High School Winter Tournament

Adam Porth

2^nd Place Southern Idaho Open

2^nd place Challenger MVCC

1^st Place Class E State Closed

Chris “Curly” Ellis

1^st Place Santa’s Bughouse

3^rd Place High School Winter Tournament

3 pt. Trophy West Jordan

Taylor Walton

1^st Place Think Like a King Contest

1^st Place WRHS Chess Championship

Desmond Porth

1^st Place U800 US National Scholastics

2^nd Place 7^th grade West Jordan

1^st Place Middle School Winter Tournament

Darwin Porth

1^st Place K-3 Winter Tournament

Dylan Porth

1^st Place 4-5^th grade Winter Tournament

3 pt. trophy West Jordan

6^th place 4^th grade State Scholastics

Jake Whitlock

1^st Place 6^th grade Winter Tournament

1^st Place 6^th grade West Jordan

Raleigh Grossbaum

2^nd Place 10^th grade West Jordan

Shane Bruess

3 pt. trophy West Jordan

Maxx Bates

1^st Place 12^th grade West Jordan (Perfect Score)

3^rd Place Twin Falls Invitational

Miles Hendrix

1^st Place Twin Falls Invitational

Juve Ruiz

2^nd Place 12^th grade State Scholastics