Juniors to Masters Chess Academy vs. Orlov Academy Team Match

Orlov Chess Academy	Juniors to Masters Chess Academy
IM Georgi Orlov & NM Josh Sinanan	GM Gergely Szabo & Victoria Doknjas
Captain: Josh Sinanan Chief Arbiter: Rekha Sagar, Victoria Doknjas (Deputy Arbiter)	Captain: Victoria Doknjas

Juniors to Masters Chess Academy and Orlov Chess Academy Team Match took place on chess.com on Saturday, March 6, 2021. Altogether twenty-two Players represented their respective teams and played in a 5-Round Team Swiss Match. The team match had 5 rounds where Players could only be paired against those on the opposing team. Rapid time control of 15 mins + 10 sec incr. and dual rated: CFC Active rating and NW rating.

During each of the first 4 rounds, the Orlov Team always scored better and was leading 25 to 19 going into the 5th and final round where the JtM Team made an amazing comeback scoring 9 to 2, and winning the match by only 1 pt with a team score of 28 to 27.

Congratulations to our top scoring JtM Players: Atharva Srinivas (4.5/5) and Kaitlyn Tao (4/5).

Congratulations to Orlov Team’s top scorer: Carson Roesch (4.5/5).

Here are the Final Results:

Juniors to Masters Chess Academy vs. Orlov Academy Team Match FINAL Team Score: JtM 28 to 27
#	Place	Name	Rating	Team	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Total
1	1	Atharva Srinivas	1823	JtM	W16	W6	W5	D2	W8	4.5
2	2-3	Carson Roesch	1762	OCA	W12	W13	D4	D1	W19	4
3		Kaitlyn Tao	1707	JtM	W17	L5	W14	W10	W6	4
4	4-9	Noah Nathaniel Yuen	1884	JtM	W15	D10	D2	L8	W5	3
5		Nikash Vemparala	1836	OCA	W19	W3	L1	W12	L4	3
6		Vidip Kona	1767	OCA	W9	L1	W18	W19	L3	3
7		Joshua Imoo	1678	JtM	W20	L14	L10	W17	W11	3
8		Dann Merriman	1491	OCA	D13	W9	D19	W4	L1	3
9		Kaiqi Qin	1388	JtM	L6	L8	W20	W14	W10	3
10	10-13	Stephen Willy	1687	OCA	W18	D4	W7	L3	L9	2.5
11		Ted Wang	1627	OCA	W22	L19	D12	W18	L7	2.5
12		Zichen Roger Zuo	1346	JtM	L2	W20	D11	L5	W14	2.5
13		Henry Haichen Liu	799	JtM	D8	L2	L15	W16	W17	2.5
14	14-18	Meera Shanmugam	1678	OCA	W21	W7	L3	L9	L12	2
15		Donovan To	1487	OCA	L4	L22	W13	W21	L18	2
16		Stuart Bushfield	1435	OCA	L1	L18	W21	L13	W22	2
17		Sharvesh Arul	1412	OCA	L3	W21	W22	L7	L13	2
18		Winston Huang	1118	JtM	L10	W16	L6	L11	W15	2
19	19	Josiah Field	1474	JtM	L5	W11	D8	L6	L2	1.5
20	20-22	Calvin To	1378	OCA	L7	L12	L9	W22	L21	1
21		Nathan Yang	1025	JtM	L14	L17	L16	L15	W20	1
22		Jayden Su	963	JtM	L11	W15	L17	L20	L16	1

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Juniors to Masters Chess Academy Inc. is the provider of the National Training Program for Canadian Youths, as sanctioned by the Chess Federation of Canada. Juniors to Masters Chess Academy Inc. was founded by GM Gergely Szabo and Victoria Doknjas. GM Gergely Szabo has been Team Canada’s Head Coach at WYCC, WCCC, World U16 Youth Olympiad, and the Women’s Olympiad. Victoria has been Team Canada’s Head of Delegation at multiple WYCCs and NAYCCs.

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