Our first USCF tournament was a great success, held on April 20th, 2023 at the Des Moines Gospel Chapel. We had 14 total players, 2 who showed up late, which caused Chief TD Kyle Boddy and Assistant TD Matthew Duran some stress!
However, in the end we figured it all out and ended up with two sections:
- Top Quad with 4 players
- 2nd Section that started with 6 players for the first round, then added two more for the second and third rounds
Top Quad Results
Quan Luong, the winner of last week’s Unrated Open Blitz tournament, scored a perfect 3.0/3.0 and won the section!
2nd Section Results
Khoi Le scored a perfect 3.0/3.0 and won the section! Khoi found us from this /r/chess reddit post that went unexpectedly viral!
Paul Smith won the puzzle solving drawing, earning a $5 gift card to Marina Mercantile.
The tournament was submitted this morning by Chief TD Kyle Boddy to the USCF for rating, so you should see your rating update in the next few days barring any complications.
Congrats to all of our winners, and we’ll see you next week for Hybrid Mini-Swiss games which are USCF Dual-Rated!
See photos and comments on our Facebook post for this event.