tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68713345626773339482024-03-13T19:33:17.223-07:00Chess TravelUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-49084951611981691802022-10-13T16:00:00.005-07:002022-10-13T17:07:29.538-07:00Gift Ideas for Chess Players<p> </p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-2fa9c14d-7fff-7a1a-8b8d-d28b4f614cf3" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 24pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A7141123011%2Cp_4%3AShapes+Mania+Chess+Gift" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">Amazon</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Forks-Capablanca-Bogoljubov-Chess-T-Shirt/dp/B07YLPXRD2/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; 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background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">Redbubble</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><a href="https://www.redbubble.com/people/shapes-mania/shop?artistUserName=shapes-mania&collections=1182286&iaCode=u-clock" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We drove Naomi from Seattle to Boston for </span><a href="http://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2021/05/naomi-goes-to-harvard.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">her freshman year at Harvard</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Her dorm move-in is on August 25 morning, which means we leave on August 14 and spend 11 days on the road. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These might be the easiest </span><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/ty5q9ChYNaNoMKNT8" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">transcontinental trip directions</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ever: Drive on Interstate 90 east for 3,064 miles (45 hours). To make it fun, Luda found a </span><a href="https://maps.roadtrippers.com/trips/14543191" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">road trip guide to I-90</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. We follow it in reverse, west-to-east. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here are our August 2021 travels in Google Maps location history:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 219px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="219" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/QqThs07ABBB0cqVBX2tETBrm7aC82gOU4WBrCPRMigxLVWwGujlusuz4r91uz6YoY0gI_W6tFqLkxl4V0IdvN0MVFYTx4VoHJIOhFTPLWuYxEk3J8OUoI5J4lNRPvzzxvCpwpQki=s0" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="720" /></span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here are the daily photo albums from our trip, click on each link to see the photos:</span></p><br /><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/4Ynw8T36Da4wsfqx6" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-08-14 Road trip day 1: Packing minivan, leaving house, central WA wind turbines, Ginkgo petrified forest, Columbia River, Sprague Lake rest area, Spokane at night</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 540px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="540" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/v93vRAbWqqqjOiIktPLZxVzum_aEQSOFOqul-Zpwp6p8tbviM95W5tTyh80fZ78SjLMJQyTad6NMLFmrUC8Kk2POkI3ABg7QQW8c3V_a3kJH36WpgG0FQm4wV1vyBxrUOtY3-vNZ=s0" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="720" /></span></span></a></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></p><ol start="2" style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/KiW28QLbMhXMhToT8" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-08-15 Road trip day 2: Coeur D'Alene + Lake, Cataldo Mission, Red Light Garage, Wallace Bordello, Center of the Universe</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 540px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="540" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/VVw_EhbZ9Cq39XENCSB0N1Tn4kcmFWT87Vi3YdTOhs7fecD8hXZt9dqryRn3tK-7B5I83vFguXywkpx5_N1QjgeFM_V8brm7L3GODx2HaaJfW5xMWGWCIX6sKcObFdQuIb1jf6OU=s0" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="720" /></span></span></a></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></p><ol start="3" style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/mECK6tV1q2MM6xtD9" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-08-16 Road trip day 3: Prison Museum, Auto Museum, Yesterday's Playthings, Frontier Montana, Powell County Museum, Police Memorial, Iron Horse Cafe in Three Forks, driving family, Greycliff Prairie Dog Park, Montana's luxurious rest areas, hotel view</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 960px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="960" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/UKkoS46_sqZNb2IL8yHqk2aq1oBGwWhZGcYEyR01GIF3yx3zxB9PxJ0E084Dq31sjkO-1tyHInV8pKaKYXxngl_HWdBn1WHJZje5D9UDBrOXiMyd_M2p74Od_2r6to_VVkxKkywA=s0" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="720" /></span></span></a></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></p><ol start="4" style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/XrVBe3pDW1DGbsos9" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-08-17 Road trip day 4: Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, The Bozeman Trail Steakhouse, South Dakota's monumental rest area, Deadwood Western-themed town, Mount Rushmore at night</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 540px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="540" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rQGDN4yxpbHRSxfnrdytjcp8g9Rnh555S3ufB4tzuZG8VeOhy3hpriD6Z4lh9OmE1vjrO7MJfyT6ChK8SC-EDuLBHYXYIShWdUJugfrpU_q_VH1qB57OSgGtIpm-ZsqiNBAPWpiT=s0" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="720" /></span></span></a></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></p><ol start="5" style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/9VTv9nDnHYBEF9Be7" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-08-18 Road trip day 5: Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Keystone, Dahl's Chainsaw Art, Chapel in the Hills, Rapid City Art Alley, Firehouse restaurant, Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, Dignity Statue, Chamberlain sunset</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 540px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="540" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/XG6DPhygNlylXYMdPYT4FYJixQeL13Nn1YviX9Kyf5mqSt9m-6N3vrLmfFPRHD9ogfnt_-kdj2jQsUITvVVcvaBcKwBp9dNUHhdWcCPineHNUuqQyQRhZWohpYSeWx0P-RYIp0hq=s0" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="720" /></span></span></a></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></p><ol start="6" style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/qKz4ddSjema56JUw5" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-08-19 Road trip day 6: Chamberlain SD Veterans Park, World's Only Corn Palace, City of Sioux Falls, Cathedral of St. Joseph, Devil's Gulch, Jolly Green Giant</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 540px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="540" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/HJC0xqKsOMuf3mJDstfN65qQfNGffCkxVoMV6xxLPm_GqX40RXFzD4vgxrs9STlrAnA293HkPN21P4lr2ve2sQn1dZMxdoG-dbQpd37_TFV6A4IzcVt_qiBroTrDaRTVBCiUGjwE=s0" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="720" /></span></span></a></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></p><ol start="7" style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/qPh2zBA8RAf4gqDZA" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-08-20 Road trip day 7: Jolly Green Giant, Spam Museum, Sushi Pirate, Pearl Ice Cream, Fiberglass Mold Graveyard, Witches Gulch</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 540px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="540" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/UlwlX62caVr87SPD-LlwYIvc6nvGeY9oO1znzyGLJLXQeSKPiFbKKODESE25c4Wza5GL8fDxc7i3C7tBs1D2Fm2uziLS9Ko7kjiOS6ipOipX9JVYdGgH1Bq8gOFBCaHk4HUeE2Kf=s0" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="720" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></a></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/WU1BvvQa75BZcRo66" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-08-21 Road trip day 8: Voyageur Inn, Circus World Museum show and exhibits, Pink Elephant, Michigan hospitable rest area</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 540px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="540" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/wMtwK6s9jjqrD-8wi9tGBgNcSc6akJgvLGLpEBPv3BC3dyk38svdUCoN6TQDWfjqR8aYNLVDosCVATTCQ0x3OfOHpS8GdomLvcxPoXYihgavGG59hlAxRQ2T4aiplclTzPzLzb3S=s0" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="720" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></a></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/Hpm82WGDz8BqFNUT6" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-08-22 Road trip day 9: Indiana: Shipshewana Amish Country, Mennonite / Nazarene Church, Pokagon State Park, Ohio: palatial service plaza, Olde Avon Village, Serbian Cultural Garden and Superman's birthplace in Cleveland, Holiday Inn Express</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 540px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="540" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/UusO3TZm0o04Pf-FiTS4wFf36BeeP7tjPP2FXqPH45V2-IfspIivHa8doN4GN3pCMuVzhygX-zwwcvJn0P57Gu7YPedO04N_1Fa8b27_jzh5xwRqEIYydAZWxBP3tDJrup4jxEwc=s0" style="margin-left: -11.630529054640109px; margin-top: 0px;" width="743.2610581092803" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></a></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/CxaurG5oT7WWtAVC7" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-08-23 Road trip day 10: Holiday Inn, Pennsylvania's provincial rest area, New York State's imperial rest area, Eternal Flame Trail, Iron Skillet restaurant at TA truck stop</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 540px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="540" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/JB7mse28a3POqorD1jUxDSFSyBX40BJqJiXgyCm_XCk18wEr3xYyiIKTWsTLADG_LBKrAnGpxFTwHPdTtDeGAxINqf8z8Y5eo4N7OimCg7sW1yB-ovkIKMR9sVBEYNAda3GtcA9r=s0" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="720" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></a></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/qREPbwEjCWdjsgJr7" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-08-24 Road trip day 11: Days Inn, Cross Island Chapel, Hudson River, Massachusetts spirited rest area, A Friendly Inn At Harvard, Mona Lisa Pizza</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 540px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="540" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_UqHZ9A2AXzirXhXUhwONlvWfkvJMmA74dksp5t96b9i_SaMWTXAof5YPEKRuHWOio-1AByUerjGJwXiZgpRKL1UGRbGnAZADZFYPaZai38MDZcD4h5h7WYDTfXX23krI6QEZnqz=s0" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="720" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></a></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/vWViXX9SBXHeuh2Z6" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-08-25 Road trip day 12: Naomi Harvard move-in, Guy and Luda stay at A Friendly Inn, evening walk around Harvard Yard</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 540px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="540" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/PewpP6R1IxHjrnGwqiSSLiLJ5NDCIZGQllFAbvZawCtREzEyRtTCa3vu4qY1RmGhJXbJLW58htTTj87Dwgt8CK_Bknhw6_VJOXE8DuRA6ay0_W7AARDeVTE8i09WRC2VbH1CD3rF=s0" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="720" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></a></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/kzGqEqR8htYfCCVr8" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-08-26 Road trip day 13: Harvard Yard walk: Memorial Hall, Annenberg Hall, The Plaza, Thayer Hall, John Harvard Statue, Weld Hall, Grays Hall, Old Yard, Widener Library, Memorial Church, Stoughton Hall, Holden Chapel, Harvard Hall, Holworthy Hall, Science Center, Sanders Theatre, Fitzgerald Theatre</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 540px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="540" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/0_mM8kDu--dh0CQ_Q5qbaO5OjE1n5TYGu2jxs2jWm6-0nN3sNmBtMgUtvpxXxtl9_iD1VQurX5iJUQAd1dZS-xMUY8wwx4A3FzMZXMpNkXm0AMzk1uDMPGP0xlr1PdUXZK5VHB3m=s0" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="720" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></a></p></li></ol><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comMount Rushmore National Memorial, 13000 SD-244, Keystone, SD 57751, USA43.879102499999988 -103.459066710.897673853585268 -138.6153167 76.8605311464147 -68.3028167tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-28085837331668409262021-05-07T18:53:00.008-07:002021-05-24T10:11:45.085-07:00Naomi goes to Harvard<p> <span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 20pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">Harvard vs. Stanford... Godzilla vs. Kong?</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-7eb96a4c-7fff-3738-5768-25bab2d445bb"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naomi has been accepted to study Computer Science in Stanford, Georgia Tech, UW, UT Austin and Harvard. Stanford's CS is the best, but Harvard is the most alluring. </span></p><br /><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Complex Chessboard</span></h1><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The US </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_admissions_in_the_United_States" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">university admission</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> system can be daunting. For the uninitiated, the distinctions between </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_decision" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Early Decision</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_action" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Early Action</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_action#:~:text=restrictive%20early%20action%20(rea)%20allows%20candidates%20to%20apply%20to%20only%20one%20early%20action%20institution%20and%20to%20no%20institutions%20for%20early%20decision" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Restrictive Early Action</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and Regular Decision are incomprehensible at first. And yet, it has much internal logic and even, dare I say, evolutionary beauty of stochastic assortative mating.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We were spared this entire tribulation a few years ago with Ethan, because he got into the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Washington" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UW</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> after 10th grade, through the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UW_Academy_for_Young_Scholars" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UW Academy</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> early admission program. Having started college at 16, he lived mostly at home and graduated with a BA Math degree in just 3 years, at 19. So we got off lightly the first time.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/naomibas/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naomi</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is 5 years younger, and wanted to graduate from high school first, and then go to a top university through a usual application process. We were about to experience the pleasures and bewilderments of the Admission Game.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naomi decided to study Computer Science (CS). She's a head of computer programming at her school's massive </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Inspiration_and_Recognition_of_Science_and_Technology" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FIRST</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> robotics club, highly competent and enthusiastic. That said, Naomi is not a typical computer geek. She also has many other interests.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Computer Science is a good trade, though. Rife with gainful employment, a lot of entrepreneurial prospects, eligible bachelors all around. And all this supposedly complex CS stuff is very easy for Naomi, with her strong math ability, chess-trained memory, and deductive thinking.</span></p><br /><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thoughtful Opening</span></h1><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The college admission saga typically starts in September when a senior student returns from the summer break to the last year of high school. The atmosphere at both school and home is pregnant with talk about college applications, submission deadlines, early actions, fateful decisions, date collisions. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To make order in it all, we maintain a document and a spreadsheet with all the relevant information, and keep track of what needs to be done next, when, how, and where. For Naomi, it's a great exercise in scheduling what is urgent and important ahead of anything else, and she becomes very good at it, with only a slight nudge from us.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Generally, you can apply for Early Action at one college only. Selecting it is a critical step which stages the rest of the application process. Turns out, some colleges are a bit more permissive than they might seem. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stanford</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'s Early Action regulations allow parallel Early Action applications at some other universities, and in cases of pressing scholarship deadlines. Out of those, Computer Science is good at </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Tech" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Georgia Tech</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Austin" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UT Austin</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> prestigious </span><a href="https://www.cs.utexas.edu/turing-scholars" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Turing Program</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Plus, our local UW is allowed, with a November 15 regular application deadline. Thus, Naomi has her opening quartet: Stanford, GT, UW, UT Austin.</span></p><br /><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grueling Middlegame</span></h1><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each university requires a separate application, with its own idiosyncratic set of fillable forms, questionnaires, and especially multiple long and short essays. Most colleges accept the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Application" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Common App</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, but still require custom essays and information.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naomi powers through the applications. We can help her by providing specific data on her exact education history, our family, origins, background, different dates, numbers, official documents. But she does all the heavy lifting by writing dozens of essays on a bewildering bevy of topics. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We read the essays and constantly admire Naomi's youthful creativity and sophistication. Sometimes we advise her to tone down, an adult wariness of piquing an admission officer's interest too much. Luckily, she has a lot of amazing things to write about. Some are related to our chess travel history and dramatic tournament events.</span></p><br /><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Early Capture</span></h1><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So Stanford and Georgia Tech are applied to in October, UW in early November, then UT Austin, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Southern_California" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">USC</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_University" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BU</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Harvard</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (almost an afterthought) in the long Thanksgiving weekend. There is a short respite before the Stanford Early Action decision is revealed. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And then on December 11... drumbeat... it's a yes! Naomi is accepted into Stanford. As customary nowadays, we video-record the first immediate reaction to the message:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/z1CJ4pinRonZU2r36" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2020-12-11 Naomi Stanford acceptance reaction video</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/z1CJ4pinRonZU2r36" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 276px; overflow: hidden; width: 446px;"><img height="276" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/7q5RQmzBIl5mqhoCh70oPyw2eBVcvBTAhq7510azvzSJbmfxpi7WM1Yg16NNzHQS0LlkS1zydDK0n4Cx22Qe3bUMGOVffh54AY1WBYPTyNJ6ssaAWN84vbb2EMbJ1oWmByYX_NKW" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="446" /></span></span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stanford is ranked </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Ranking_of_World_Universities#Results" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2nd in the world</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and is the </span><a href="https://blog.prepscholar.com/ivy-league-acceptance-rates" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">most selective</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> among US universities. At that moment, there is no doubt in our minds that Naomi is going to Stanford, with its combination of best Computer Science, warm climate which she prefers, familiar West Coast culture, superb name recognition, and beautiful campus. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naomi goes into a daily routine of asking us foxily "Guess what?" We feign innocence "What?" She pounces "I got into Stanford!" No other university appears as appealing. Maybe MIT would be comparable, if Naomi were more of a geek. She applies to MIT in late December during winter break.</span></p><br /><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gaining Material</span></h1><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stanford and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MIT</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are so mentally dominant that it reduces the drama of other target colleges' responses. It seems less important now, with Stanford already assured.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On January 23, Georgia Tech accepts. That's nice, it's a good place with great CS. If they only knew what they're up against, bless their hearts.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On January 29, UT Austin accepts, into its praised CS Turing Program. Naomi enjoys meeting these people online, likes them a lot, and tells them directly she'd probably go to Stanford. That's a good skill to have.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On March 12, UW accepts, with CS direct admission! That's a dream of every geek in our metro area. Every high-tech parent here, in dozens of huge corporations and hundreds of startups would be elated to learn the kid got into the most exclusive UW CS directly. We feel the tingles of desire to keep the girl close to home. But Stanford is still a better choice.</span></p><br /><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Turbulent Endgame</span></h1><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The closing college quartet takes quite some time to respond, but our waiting is not tense at all. They are not even Plan B at this point. The Admission Game is over, and Naomi has won. It's only interesting for the technicality of keeping the score. Or is it?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On March 14, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pi Day</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, MIT waitlists Naomi. We knew this would be their most probable response. Still, Ethan is shocked. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"She is exactly what they would be looking for in a candidate. How come they are not grabbing her?"</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Beware the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_March" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ides of March</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, when it rains it pours. On March 27, Boston University also waitlists Naomi. That's genuinely surprising. C'mon, what now? Would she even get accepted to a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KinderCare_Learning_Centers" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KinderCare</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> preschool, in this March bloodbath?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On March 30, USC outright </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rejects </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naomi. This is a new, and almost exciting, feeling for us all. Of course USC was in the news lately because of its admission scandal. And it is not anywhere near top by Naomi's preference. Still, how could anybody </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">reject</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> her? We just tick it off as funny.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But April follows March, and the wheel turns. On April 6, Harvard's decision is revealed. Naomi wouldn't let us into her room for the customary reaction video. She takes her time, we wait. Then, a scream! She's in.</span></p><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Game Results</span></h2><br /><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><colgroup><col width="40"></col><col width="90"></col><col width="119"></col><col width="114"></col><col width="52"></col><col width="48"></col><col width="45"></col><col width="74"></col><col width="60"></col><col width="70"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 39.75pt;"><td style="background-color: white; border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Accepted</span></p></td><td style="background-color: white; border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On date</span></p></td><td style="background-color: white; border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">University</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Location</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Type</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Name recognition</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://shanghairanking.com/ARWU2020.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shanghai rank</span></a></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://shanghairanking.com/Shanghairanking-Subject-Rankings/computer-science-engineering.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CS Shanghai rank</span></a></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings-articles/university-subject-rankings/top-computer-science-schools-us-2020" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CS studies rank</span></a></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://csrankings.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CS Research rank</span></a></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 15.75pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2020-12-11</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://cs.stanford.edu/degrees/undergrad/Considering.shtml" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stanford</span></a></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stanford, CA</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">private</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 15.75pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-01-23</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.cc.gatech.edu/academics/degree-programs/bachelors" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Georgia Tech</span></a></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Atlanta, GA</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">public</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">42</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">14</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 15.75pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-01-29</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.cs.utexas.edu/turing-scholars/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UT Austin (Turing)</span></a></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Austin, TX</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">public</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">25</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">18</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 15.75pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-03-12</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/ugrad" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UW (CS)</span></a></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seattle, WA</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">public</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 17.25pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wait</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-03-14</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.eecs.mit.edu/academics-admissions/undergraduate-programs" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MIT</span></a></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cambridge, MA</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">private</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 15.75pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wait</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-03-27</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.bu.edu/academics/met/programs/computer-science/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Boston U</span></a></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Boston, MA</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">private</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">38</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">56</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">51</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">30</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 15.75pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-03-30</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.cs.usc.edu/academic-programs/undergrad/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">U of Southern Cal</span></a></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Los Angeles, CA</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">private</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">32</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">30</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 15.75pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021-04-06</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.seas.harvard.edu/computer-science/undergraduate-program" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Harvard</span></a></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cambridge, MA</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">private</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-left: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-right: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; border-top: solid #cccccc 0.7457385000000001pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">29</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Checkmate Sacrifice</span></h1><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now there is a choice between two top universities. Suddenly Harvard is in the game, and pulls its considerable weight. This was not even Plan B after that early Stanford acceptance 3.5 months ago. An epic battle unfolds in our minds. We see parallels with the recently watched movie </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_vs._Kong" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Godzilla vs. Kong</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stanford Computer Science is huge and much better known. It's the epicenter of the Silicon Valley high-tech start-up ecosystem. The prevailing spirit is entrepreneurial. Everybody dreams of becoming the next Elon Musk, or something. However, Naomi is not driven by the idea of creating a startup. She's concerned about imposter syndrome. Nearly half of Stanford undergrads study CS, so Naomi would be a small fish in a big pond. And the California vibe is famously laid-back.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Harvard Computer Science is small and less known. We hear it's more theoretical in nature, and more intimate. Naomi would be a big fish in a small pond. She likes Harvard's more serious, less laid-back vibe. There is no social pressure to create a high-tech startup. Naomi enjoys CS, and it pays well; however, she is not totally obsessed with it, so a more liberal arts education sounds nice. Life can take her away from CS, but the Harvard name recognition would stay.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The decision is reached, it's Harvard. Checkmate! Stanford becomes an elegant piece sacrifice. Godzilla beats Kong.</span></p><br /><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Postgame Analysis</span></h1><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have all those years of world-level chess achievements paid off big time? As a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Bashkansky" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Woman International Master</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, we think Naomi is the highest-titled American female chess player applying to colleges in the 2020-2021 admissions cycle. Her being the </span><a href="http://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2016/11/world-school-chess-championship.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">World School Girls U13 Chess Champion</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and</span><a href="http://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2017/09/north-american-junior-girls-under-20.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> North American Junior Girls U20 Champion</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><a href="http://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2013/04/all-girls-in-chicago-naomi-usa-champion.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">many-times</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> US Girls </span><a href="http://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2015/04/naomi-wins-us-all-girls-chess.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">champion</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> might have helped as well. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or maybe it's the perfect </span><a href="https://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2019/10/acing-act.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ACT test score 36</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">? Plus GPA 4.0, SAT 800 in Math II and Chemistry, AP exams 5-s? National Merit Finalist, National AP Scholar? Or being Head of Programming at FIRST </span><a href="https://www.nrg948.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Robotics Club</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">; an intern at UW Computer Science </span><a href="https://makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu/news/122/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Makeability Lab</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">; knowing multiple programming languages? How about being a true-to-spirit teacher's pet? Maybe the adoring recommendation letters from her educators and supervisors made an impact?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We'll never know for sure. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Bashkansky" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naomi's chess</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> might have provided that "whompf" factor that tilted the scales. Especially in the era of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen's_Gambit_(miniseries)" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Queen's Gambit</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> chess glamour. Stay tuned for Naomi's combined college response video at her </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChe5Q1dQHvTqBsiPAKzKFAQ/videos" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">YouTube channel</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Postproduction takes time!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 312px; overflow: hidden; width: 422px;"><img height="312" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/O4WIb_gD9c8MDXoyEfYZ0b6P4q2Rg78NCAoF0SOHnr3ekFr2fqYXT9kjUvS3hqeQD71CnoMZPDKjfGAXEPxM6cjIB9NByWDQhPy0eeHgJbCnnMzCdxWTOl-x8kGiEhFShC_tHcLe" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="422" /></span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 559px; overflow: hidden; width: 437px;"><img height="559" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/3R65-v-psPjTmW-csX-vQh9mN6zeRzFNB4oOOhD586D6fVAUG88lVYYGW_ehsHbtqmr0iPiLfBHcglzYNDD4g35X6d8IT4F9yRDFnl2U4WD7BbTp5KMo3XNIuP3l37hmseMLkG4B" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="437" /></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 559px; overflow: hidden; width: 437px;"><br /></span></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comCambridge, MA, USA42.3770029 -71.1166600999999942.191578769999673 -71.39131830312499 42.562427030000329 -70.84200189687499tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-4759298953896965442020-12-19T12:00:00.004-08:002021-05-07T18:43:56.028-07:00Naomi has been accepted to Stanford!<p> <span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 24pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">Did years of chess pay off?</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-2928631c-7fff-1f6d-53ef-9fcad427bd1c"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naomi just got accepted into Stanford University. She will study Computer Science. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's an Early Action admission; regular admissions will be known only in April 2021.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As customary nowadays, we video-recorded the immediate reaction to the message:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/cBoUMJEwpwJC5izCA" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2020-12-11 Naomi Stanford acceptance reaction video</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/cBoUMJEwpwJC5izCA" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 232px; overflow: hidden; width: 443px;"><img height="232" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/55QugZwfBuGITBXRp6VCk1mTxQq4zzk0hT1XwO0eMfNGONXaidZnFpbQD3hejxjaeYsNLf36KFp2PlgTL91mHjZbvNWIg-py-8kISDwNGlGSuVwXDde1l4eowUVD_N9dub-K-97P" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="443" /></span></span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stanford is ranked </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Ranking_of_World_Universities#Results" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2nd in the world</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and is the </span><a href="https://blog.prepscholar.com/ivy-league-acceptance-rates" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">most selective</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> among all US universities:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 281px; overflow: hidden; width: 467px;"><img height="281" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/O4-JqMfQlT2u557Bx_6nku01XZ1KbazOXzluTwg1MnntTzQPtVYpveGonGKFI3l9_YBkioHwjfI26b6w8tLtTk1Ipp47pc6cnmkPLP_BPshzoD8uitMV73rHUXcGZTOKePB0m7Kl" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="467" /></span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Did all those years of impressive chess achievements pay off big time? </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a Woman International Master, Naomi is the single highest-titled American female chess player applying to colleges in the 2020-2021 admissions cycle. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her being the </span><a href="http://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2016/11/world-school-chess-championship.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">World School Girls U13 Chess Champion</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><a href="http://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2017/09/north-american-junior-girls-under-20.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">North American Junior Girls U20 Champion</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and many-times US Girls champion might have helped as well.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or maybe it's the perfect ACT test score 36? Plus GPA 4.0, SAT Math II and Chemistry 800, AP exams 5-s? National Merit Semifinalist, National AP Scholar?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or being Head of Programming at FIRST Robotics Club; an intern at UW Computer Science Makeability Lab; knowing multiple programming languages?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We'll never know for sure. Naomi's chess might have provided that </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">whompf </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">factor that tilted the scales. Especially in the era of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen%27s_Gambit_(miniseries)" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Queen's Gambit</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> chess glamour.</span></p><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comStanford University37.4274745 -122.1697199.1172406638211569 -157.325969 65.737708336178855 -87.013469tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-55840556138426871492020-09-10T18:25:00.012-07:002021-01-05T12:04:23.954-08:00Naomi - National Merit Semifinalist<p> <span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 24pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not chess... but close</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-38146392-7fff-142c-d919-68118d02ce2d"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/naomibas/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naomi</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is in the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seattle Times</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2017/01/media-star-naomi.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">again</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Merit_Scholarship_Program" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Merit Scholarship Program</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is an academic scholarship competition for recognition and university scholarships. It uses the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSAT/NMSQT" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PSAT/NMSQT</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> scores to select 16,000 Semifinalists (who become Finalists after submitting SAT scores) out of 1.5 million high school students. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The selection process is long (takes many months) and complicated (with state-dependent cutoffs), however the honor is real because Semifinalists are approximately the top 1%, and the program gives out some scholarship money.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From the </span><a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/washington-students-named-national-merit-scholarship-semifinalists-interlake-high-school-tops-list/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seattle Times</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> article</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on WA National Merit Scholarship semifinalists:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- BELLEVUE -</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Newport H.S.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bashkansky, Naomi</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">; Chen, Justin K.; Gao, Daniel; Hu, Daniel; Jain, Stuti; Jiang, Kelly; Kim, Athena Y.; Ma, Kenneth; McClelland, Kai L.; Ouyang, Diana; Pham, Leanne; Yang, Richard Z.; Zeng, Julia W.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the Semifinalists in her school, Richard Yang, is also a chess player. We've known him since he and Naomi were little. He played with Naomi on all her chess teams: Spiritridge ES, Odle MS, Newport HS, both locally and nationally.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From Naomi's </span><a href="https://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2015/05/odle-chess-team-succeeds-in-nashville.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2015 Nashville Nationals</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> chess team, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">three</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> players became National Merit Semifinalists: Naomi, Richard Yang, Brian Chen (now at Interlake HS).</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From Naomi's </span><a href="https://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2016/04/k-8-national-chess-team-co-champions.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2016 K-8 Indianapolis Nationals</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> chess team, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">five</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> players became National Merit Semifinalists: Naomi, Richard Yang, Brian Chen, and previous year Semifinalists Benjamin Mousseau and Derek Zhang.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As the </span><a href="https://xkcd.com/552/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">xkcd.com/552</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> hover text says, "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"</span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comSeattle Times47.6189513 -122.336032523.862259043657971 -157.4922825 71.375643556342027 -87.1797825tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-42699972909732566282019-10-01T10:00:00.000-07:002019-10-11T15:11:50.537-07:00Acing the ACT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">This is not our usual chess-related update, but it's somewhat close in the competitive spirit.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">A couple of weeks ago Naomi took the ACT college-aptitude test, her first attempt ever.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">We just learned that she received a perfect score of 36 out of 36 possible:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-0e9927cc-7fff-597f-6251-e3b531f47683" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
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</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comACT Test Center, Puyallup, WA47.0892646 -122.26310347.0676556 -122.3034435 47.1108736 -122.2227625tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-78792566159916412722018-11-06T16:03:00.001-08:002020-09-02T19:08:54.244-07:00Naomi wins North American All-Girls<p> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over the weekend of November 3-4, 2018 Naomi won the </span><a href="https://www.bayareachess.com/events/18/allgirls/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">North American All-Girls Chess Championship</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in Santa Clara, CA, with 4.5 out of 5 points:</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-e41ffcb0-7fff-ed92-78db-33de19676a7a"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/susanpolgar/posts/10156687415966664" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/susanpolgar/posts/10156687415966664</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.542857142857143; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Susan Polgar</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191003044253/https://www.facebook.com/susanpolgar/posts/10156687415966664" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">November 4, 2018</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: -3pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naomi Bashkansky (Seattle area) just won the top section at the 3rd Annual North American All-Girls Chess Championships! In addition to the big trophy, she also won a $52,000 scholarship to Webster University! Congratulations!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: -9pt; margin-top: 8pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 403px; overflow: hidden; width: 503px;"><img alt="Image may contain: 2 people, people smiling, people standing" height="403" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ik2mSRd3sY3hEHk7P5ivpWKPHNmNSVBgN49q2nR6qkCV53bdNckW-8OEd_sBWyRddj5KzHmOHyAj7l08JCAX2rpnHOQvQjsVAVP02nECJqB4qo99RjfmOjZ3SK2rT9aUjw_n-TRg" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="503" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: -9pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 8pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 332px; overflow: hidden; width: 499px;"><img alt="Image may contain: 2 people, people smiling" height="332" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/4leWxwZNP17rte49J5CBydHzbBbPl97v88LV0oSqRXdZWXV5N-ZU4EgM4hzb8MEr4v_xfWZNMxtjps9n-10PVCIuzcTKgnrY8znEx70z_RhwDN5YYwNoxDw5dKqdB2JOvBS_aFoC" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="499" /></span></span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The $52,000 scholarship award to Webster University, as a ratio to the trip cost, made it ~ 100 times return on investment ;-)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The weekend trip to Bay Area was a lot of fun for the three of us, here are our two daily Google Photos albums as proof:</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/aASnr7rFrsr7SwwAA" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2018-11-03 North American All-Girls Chess Championship in Santa Clara -- Biltmore Hotel, Rounds 1 and 2, Intel Museum, San Pedro Square, Santana Row</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/sK1XEMnzFE49mH9G8" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2018-11-04 North American All-Girls Chess Championship in Santa Clara -- Rose Garden, Egyptian Museum, Naomi 1st place, award ceremony, Winchester Mystery House</span></a></p><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBiltmore Hotel, Santa Clara37.3838935 -121.9614814000000311.863457 -163.27007540000002 62.90433 -80.652887400000026tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-8153651775384007862018-08-28T15:26:00.000-07:002019-12-05T15:24:19.360-08:00Riga Tech U Intl Chess Fest Grandmaster Open<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 16pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hot Baltic Summer</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On August 6 -12 Naomi played in the </span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20181006182035/http://rtuopen.lv/en/content/tournament-grandmaster-open" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Grandmaster Open</span><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> section of the International Chess Festival</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> in Riga Technical University (RTU), in Latvia.</span></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-61f1731c-7fff-46f3-f648-3c2b8b60c265" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We arrived from to London - Gatwick in the morning of August 4, rented a car, visited the Windsor Castle, slept in a hotel, and flew next morning from London - Luton to Riga.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In Riga we stayed at the RTU Hostel apartment, which is just 10 minutes walk from the RTU Open chess playing venue in the international exhibition center "Kipsala".</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grandmaster Open</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> sounds intimidating! At the </span><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr327162.aspx?lan=1&art=0&flag=30&zeilen=99999" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">start</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, Naomi was ranked 241st of 260 players. But she </span><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr327162.aspx?lan=1&art=4&flag=30&zeilen=99999" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">finished</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 134th of 260, a very good result, with 4.5 points in 9 rounds.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We gathered a lot of tourist experiences, see the daily photo albums:</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/3mVe5qWKCv1Kcyqb7" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">2018-08-04 Windsor Castle</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/RSXeeL4v1BBrueL19" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">2018-08-05 Flight Luton - Riga, RTU Hostel apartment</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/jQNxeBijGX5pws4S6" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">2018-08-06 Riga walk 1: Bridge, Castle, Doma Sq, Doma organ, Town Hall Sq, Cat's House; Chess Opening Ceremony, Round 1; Riga walk 2: Park Vērmanes, Orthodox Cathedral, Freedom Monument, Bastion Hill, Swedish Gate</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/rrnhMCmNS9SFn1EP6" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">2018-08-07 RTU Open Round 3, Riga walk 3: Town Hall Square, St. Peter's Church & view deck, History Museum</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/C1yU3vs2Pt36USE76" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">2018-08-08 RTU Open, Riga walk 4: History Museum, Occupation Museum, War Museum, Old Town/Three Brothers</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/xpDnRCReyw49jWRY6" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">2018-08-09 Round 5, Riga walk 5: Art Nouveau architecture, Art Museum, Kronvalda Park</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/qaoLCYhe5AK9ZAJn9" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">2018-08-10 Botanic Garden, Lipke Memorial, National Library, Dam walk</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/RonSyiM7QGfGuPd27" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">2018-08-11 Jurmala trip, Kipsala walk</span></a></div><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/r2YMDS3FB6m6in8u9" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">2018-08-12 Riga Holocaust Museum, Science Academy Observation Deck, Central Market, Chess Blitz</span></a></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comĶīpsala, Rīga56.956009384973434 24.07922029495239356.953844884973435 24.074177794952394 56.958173884973434 24.084262794952391tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-6406017937659149072018-07-31T18:15:00.005-07:002020-08-16T17:55:02.737-07:00National Girls Tournament of Champions<p> <span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who's the Smartest of Them All?</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-20609b3b-7fff-6834-c26f-8cfd398dca68"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naomi </span><a href="http://www.nationalgirlschess.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/NGTOC-Standings-2018.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">took third place</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at the 2018 </span><a href="http://www.nationalgirlschess.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Girls Tournament of Champions</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in Madison, WI on July 28-31. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Washington State team took second place at the 2018 team championship -- with Naomi Bashkansky at the Girls Championship, Anthony He at the Barber Championship, and Roland Feng at the Denker Championship.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Similarly, the Washington State team </span><a href="http://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2017/07/national-girls-tournament-of-champions.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">took second place</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2017 </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">team championship -- with Naomi Bashkansky at the Girls Championship, Jason Yu at the Barber Championship, and Bryce Tiglon at the Denker Championship.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naomi played in the Tournament of Champions for two years: </span><a href="https://www.nationalgirlschess.com/champions/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NationalGirlsChess.com/champions</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here are the Google Photos albums from the tournament, by date:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/cNvw1tf5rLpgBGLf7" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2018-07-28 National Girls Tournament of Champions: Opening Ceremony, Round 1</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/cNvw1tf5rLpgBGLf7" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 540px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="540" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/fIsgXhh4Mu4xsINsctFEvrP2RXYCA-Jg4RF19prBNRBsZgIxnkLpz-Ir-yMH5DstR4xuaRXOXYEwI9gILNYVt4XhYKOwITNntrA8QoXPscjhozuYkAa_DkRqoRo2_2KA7WKVmJ_3" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="720" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/zuHb6vAXomDbDpSd8" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2018-07-30 NGTOC in Madison, Round 4</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/zuHb6vAXomDbDpSd8" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 540px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="540" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/VfcmZqg_kUko0-gvIpCFlVrZFKJxPeW79OtfwaNg9g8MShYGeD6MbEl63OVux2IcL3wDvaU3UtTGLfE9h1fFUdu41HIa7TKX7u1OdymhJYV85HNh6H5-0jd69rhoXIR1AWPn8RIg" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="720" /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naomi Bashkansky vs. Veronika Zilajeva (OK)</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/6hJUjXdJxUCDHKdFA" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2018-07-31 NGTOC in Madison, Round 6, Awards</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/6hJUjXdJxUCDHKdFA" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 540px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="540" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/5JEDiQhmWldcKIk-DGJgxs8XZnbBmZsfBC7pSkNiYqWVD35JShOuZJC1FZKMeEPbfQECpJgPuT9YmhD7ZJPgRDRmvDaRHmeflJ1k9sRlUa-HfDR8ws7zL_Csgwq5gPEa938LXkYQ" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="720" /></span></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naomi Bashkansky, Anthony He, Roland Feng</span></p><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comMarriott near Madison, WI43.0878486 -89.52243249999997943.0414326 -89.603113499999978 43.1342646 -89.441751499999981tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-57573525096147974412018-07-27T18:50:00.000-07:002020-05-13T15:43:36.717-07:00Susan Polgar Foundation Girls’ Invitational<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 16pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Flying Solo</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The </span><a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GQ9jC7kleL4J:https://gamesmaven.io/chessdailynews/womens/2019-spfgi-world-s-richest-all-girls-event-250-000-in-scholarships-prizes-83Z2gJLtEkGaaHfPiv5u7w+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">15th Annual Susan Polgar Foundation Girls’ Invitational</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (SPFGI) took place on July 21-26, 2018 at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri.</span></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-14e0afa9-e407-9aff-bb21-b35c90e96b6e" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Naomi was traveling to this chess tournament </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">alone</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, for the first time ever! </span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here are the photos of Naomi from SPFGI, in the date/time order: </span><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/Y1aQ2Fg6EHJzcEmPA" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">https://photos.app.goo.gl/Y1aQ2Fg6EHJzcEmPA</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here are all the photos from SPFGI, in reverse date/time order: </span><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/hBnFwn29dppULCQK6" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">https://photos.app.goo.gl/hBnFwn29dppULCQK6</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Saturday, July 21</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Arrival Day. After sending off Naomi on a flight to St Louis, we went to play disc golf and see a botanical garden nearby: </span><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/mquXWay7gZ9qcQuEA" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">https://photos.app.goo.gl/mquXWay7gZ9qcQuEA</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile Naomi flew to St Louis, where the organizers met her and other girls at the airport, and drove them to a Webster University dorm.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sunday, July 22</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9:00 am – 12:00 pm: Seminar & Training</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Puzzle Solving Championship</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3:00 pm: Blitz Championship</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/Y1aQ2Fg6EHJzcEmPA" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="480" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/kpxw5h397OKCVyCtR6XGRQC6ND9t1BhV1x0kfOxujuA_ao6IUtX2ofgKczef9y-J_Jt1Ye--BHPAwgU5VcVn2_xyM54-Y-89DMKNFqQIFSfZt8IgMnYw89EOGM4g9Lf667LagChY" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/susanpolgarchess/videos/1784422264937569" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.facebook.com/susanpolgarchess/videos/1784422264937569</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Monday, July 23</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1:00 pm Opening Ceremony</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="480" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/ykPCLJOm2ohhAZEDuFS9M_JX_G_Mjx2VfOhN379DgqLsktXwlbD7zeIkkd_QocFWUMcqlJe0C014iv-yWP8786VeM4bmytLDmdhI21h5hykXh-mz8XHRNSIM2HTZe5MPTmGs3yil" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2:00 pm Round 1</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/Y1aQ2Fg6EHJzcEmPA" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="480" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/dcQo5cSXs1vw-mA3PXCfBC_sZAm9_p40lO95fiUWvejUvH75noNRIwdDP29u5iYwy8HyQHUzUn-rzYCCD60evBirw5P5NaixF81W19z9LZRUQQYwpGnS8JZkVf88e3vkRwIk4nSE" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tuesday, July 24</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9:30 am Round 2</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/Y1aQ2Fg6EHJzcEmPA" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="481" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/ton8EbCW6Dp8iPqnf8HD7FazUw1OQKAV8Wiph6LzkIlft6F3DUQTh6S_ofPULNzNtiMsZxQqx8A-A_trP184w679VMo8EevTvw_jZu-wqQyQOz9idZf7DTsfe5i_vbepqlpNgfgW" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3:00 pm Round 3</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="480" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cUDUcGzhLYNaqeq2Fki13g9iRpglblPehE88e86Zni852quUIiNGGpDBHn14GaMbYVbL8YqWioZznQceU-CIt5eRPFsrjD4shimCLlkdc53d7F-1drOM00V0JnmWm_mbHqPYTEXx" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wednesday, July 25</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9:30 am Round 4</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="480" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/ITx2akrhI14SDcu_YOowpBIx0y60BCwtCMgEy9ylRE2ZBSRd_4alUbg65AahpWukr1H_iXT2t7ii5p7gKhSzZMH6QqFAsEbGDeheQOnSVzo7Fv4YEOJ41hbJOeIndbX4Rg8oyJTF" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3:00 pm Round 5</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="480" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/QPmUmUOh7XjXePdjOwLmS9ZZ_9ucIPIugWYUdOKgLP8pKQXeMl_3I8xK-luz0GfivKcd-W_pEPYyaZXhW_P0nNVqn_ifXzHfwRYX7Ijca9mTVapBEJinAv_k5XS4oElKQtO8clst" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thursday, July 26</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9:00 am Round 6</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="480" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/ZAhh1InpNgo6G6HVar8F7MhbqO40rq42qtg05qBAhEUTMpJbJSMmZra0DzA9wmROFVXavvQiBO42TOySNh8fOZN2-aQEg2eEs2ZpPiTGSJBowMj5C43FLhGzEoEG5ZcEmkbTZZ8v" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There was a 5-way tie for first place, and Sasha Konovalenko won the playoff:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.themaven.net/chessdailynews/scholastic/5-way-tie-for-1st-at-2018-spfgi-konovalenko-wins-playoff-photos-standings-6bum_IAKi0KhVd-3knOwDQ/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.themaven.net/chessdailynews/scholastic/5-way-tie-for-1st-at-2018-spfgi-konovalenko-wins-playoff-photos-standings-6bum_IAKi0KhVd-3knOwDQ/</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2:00 pm Closing Ceremony</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="480" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/iUoGunfzpDh4MDNzpMtw9CMqxq920ES2DgetphEnjNYaUPTFkfYm8OkHh5OK3l6EKgfqn2MINvJ12KuLo3vIW2Z3j0drdE3hua4-kovt8ml4v0OV5VOzAMSfCLsQ8j6VXc6nh9mu" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After the closing ceremony, the organizers drove Naomi to the airport and she flew to Atlanta to catch a connecting flight to Madison, WI. </span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Serendipitously, Dylan Porth from Idaho flew the same route. They had a good time:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="540" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/fKcg6Mkq6ZIrb-GWrK83fRrpvpKtkfDmDbsFWsViFv8DEchmNXhNTN4mGq7KZ1V0zd5V3zfEEnU8gZ6KXx69I5BiQxmkphFF1peVyygM3xG-7VlZKTfdGD9ZrMQcoZ_KvgjKAwuR" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In Madison's suburb Middleton, the National Girls Tournament of Champions is about to start: </span><a href="http://www.nationalgirlschess.com/selection-procedures-for-invitees/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.nationalgirlschess.com/selection-procedures-for-invitees/</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And here, Susan Polgar shares her thoughts on all-girls chess tournaments:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.themaven.net/chessdailynews/womens/why-is-there-a-need-for-some-all-girls-or-women-s-chess-tournaments-jchwvXHHk0SuodXKDF7FFQ/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.themaven.net/chessdailynews/womens/why-is-there-a-need-for-some-all-girls-or-women-s-chess-tournaments-jchwvXHHk0SuodXKDF7FFQ/</span></a></div><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comWebster University38.5892883 -90.343766716.6189968 -131.6523607 60.559579799999995 -49.035172700000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-2853733312158251642018-06-19T13:11:00.000-07:002018-06-19T13:15:04.107-07:00In Memoriam -- Aberdeen Museum of History<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 16pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fire Is Never A Gentle Master</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So sad!</span></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-c602a60e-19a7-a88a-a8e7-38cdef0f441d" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our favorite beautiful lovely Aberdeen Museum of History interior and exhibits have been completely burned down in a fire on June 9, 2018.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We visited it on July 11, 2015 on the way to Lake Quinault where our friends were camping.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It had a mechanical piano, a phone booth, an old school punishment card, and many more fascinating exhibits.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also, an amazing collection of old fire engines, ironically. Just take a look at the photos and videos below to appreciate this whole lost world.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An extremely uncomplicated map of Asia -- just 6 empires and 4 outbacks:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="495" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/M2PzgkGiCdsveOU3GAGa74nOXoqAG-fS5TVjjGh5KgIYX8ASkKuknLWtzWwlVoExCryf0MRavSklYZSxyrz_oNkmIvIwwTKlLDok0dk8_a8M_S5NH0neC0TH7qTnO6IBkNDW08Vb" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A school punishment card, with number of lashes for each transgression, just adorable:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="942" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/2rgsmzgKwU0DMPq_ocUEqmusDGc-p6SnjUW_PD6plDLfb8wo20-c87lWu1pHWuM0f41Dey7bwem2PKxCOacd3Ca1RWXPjY5u1gZykpOMMWKBwMrf0I2nPsB1RR8-1ib3atqpUlCy" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="684" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naomi finds this school punishment card irresistibly fascinating:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="405" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/7UlQh8byXas2xezHIBL12oLq20gkdYvzb_nutEmE_CAykSR4rwi-YJEQ97HH72pgDBcaeasFYCw2lRCjkYkxLhGi79vJTECj1h5wgx-z52YtNALkaR28QunTUr3wjDv9CTMv1plu" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Click on this picture to see the </span><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/jwdKXkT1gMnPBr99A" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">video</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of Naomi "playing" the mechanical piano:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/jwdKXkT1gMnPBr99A" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="405" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/Mu_0hUe2dqiAtM8PJ-U3J_CTRXrJtcaGU9OmWBSn5Ba-Pg5_rKZDerpNdXG1lmG8n4WJNKS3A6Q4yD4bzqCUlpNLaFieT2CwzPr2lnEoVZUK8VmXi0HKWLBcM5mzaXR27bwFZxR1" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another musical </span><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/EC6E3cSEPMZ8UvpM6" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">video</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/EC6E3cSEPMZ8UvpM6" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="405" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/Gv5VSkDh-6YYHuIbCCbsW6AFS2rPwVrWEaMAzn2GK7R4VGNP-zYXNbtvg0Nt4omMx2MVAHJO7b-3oRB_MSThmI__SkZRSxfFUByiekFRMxSBzO4NmZ2eGFVQdfE3Jh47tkhXrWUa" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A whole 19 century fire department, ironically, has been burned in the 21 century fire:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="405" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/L9GDHAsay6vcEwQrB5H7UAEqIWlc67AlHZ6nH31GVgHt78VvTSwG7CeKRXVvt0gDgej3ru2SImwfoP8nCa-eOxYJSfjS1bpO6mj6kFnSfXSxylhs8Kdw6o0jJIcKCeq4UYDqlsLv" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inside a phone booth, a weird contraption people used instead of simply whipping out a smartphone:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="405" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/kPGLkbkKQKEvWKD3RclKQgt4eDX5sGe4213DJ5kF__Tl23ClElgw4oXskB6S701hhNacJuzJz0QVFmBh8dO3OgmPVSoGVva0uer1Xt0-D9XZLqeEVwgPb4wMhJNaLh7sKuTlozCe" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Separation of state and church was a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">process</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. As was moving away from monarchy:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="405" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/SB6nsaIdrc-Y16luoO_XGu9OK88i9rFQqL4jIdvSi47KHgeK2IvQwuybkOsgkOvV1GwNAceHmpqu3eDShgWaVH0taAow-YCUzu0-8DgkNk9QurfQQLgvLsm50sBx8OAXVw7QSP9I" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This steampunk chrome sphere holds water for the fire engine:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="405" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/TfnbGpxoTIR-DmoPQXfnxHMYNPBiQVn26HcArGzINCEAGaacu0ZdasdyZfyPnESPDaAHIxE66AarQHZ9I47-iwax9a0-comK1KvFS3n3_wXCNglP6Tv9zCAbZFKJCSv4t2D2CyDd" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A childhood dream comes true:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="405" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/V3kkLIzjUJwh5izGZWukliIx3XhMxkwz9m-Fk21K5WgiQ8v2VI7Ff4RH4n-pTSYDq3TTI4NZ0DCrTAsVzx2O1UHizogljCTOrpxG6m68MeGraY7xJF8Z2iNuIsOvgs3yEa74MkhJ" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aberdeen girls showcase wooden swimsuits to advertise local logging. I'm sold!</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="393" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/nYwwwdWrj1b7twyuKcwrf9SOY7wUf3cbEAf_NQcddQmWIatYvVFoB7Oz9m4wEJiissbp_d2-TAK53JWyjmDs4SZZMxEislD-cZI3nren0l2B5UUFkO-tqPkA1WrzImlA0ILZluW5" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="787" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All this beauty has been lost in the June 9, 2018 fire:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="475" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_LgL--qj-QNwgHdfxoTvrXstTB6MkwOvw0kWdmAEreC7JMNnyB_u45Hn9Dmoh9ars9V47dlm_Q_Msjl33z7D-vUIMg85rXqkicdhvFV-zDMxM9K-FDeoWkdNBc2ynmSYYVzgbxAK" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The sad, heartbreaking result:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="480" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/gADRhzLgW3u_efy3QKiQFHXB3_287teyfuVRHkrrvNOb134K6wg9OUqduwDlXuBqXYjwT9dQEZcEMbW8vn_LYEAEnA-pPXrnUc2mndsbIIrVg-SjePo9GaxXJEI4GO4sA_TiM2lA" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Only the concrete outer wall survive, all interior and exhibits are gone.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The June 15, 2018 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seattle Times</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> article about the fire was written by Erik Lacitis (who wrote that </span><a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/puget-sound/bellevue-teen-wins-world-chess-title-with-aggression-preparation/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">seminal article</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> about Naomi), in a fittingly mournful style:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="814" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/DQfvNevw_o4WvLatEXXotLZoynjCkiIFa_lLNfIiJXacMn-V1nMtQM395Y2IrGMWZSawRoXcvrOcYKh0o-Rf5BVvVrdxgI35Xxbw-HgNvbkvzFNUAFUQ30euKxY5WYGOjebThC_Q" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="803" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="797" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/7wc3C_zVZPLxgNCjIDdarntxzmmbgSRM6l__2chObmseXaChF-v05Tn8LHyFHflmx6ZBsWpuByVplMlsBSUrszu3_TJZ_32iSmuYxhD421uYFgadEg7aJwrRxVswhqNrGvwb77zP" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="782" /></span></div><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comAberdeen Museum of History46.9776248 -123.8202865000000125.008826300000003 -165.1288805 68.946423299999992 -82.511692500000009tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-73251219621127726002018-05-07T19:18:00.001-07:002020-05-13T15:47:22.766-07:00Epic Magazine, Epic Interview, Epic Photoshoot<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 16pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A Novel in Letters, Interviews and Photos</span></div><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 20pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Letters - Set Up</span></h1><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On June 30, 2017, Emma Gross from the </span><a href="http://epicmagazine.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Epic Magazine</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (they sell stories to Hollywood!) contacted us about a possible photo essay, after reading the seminal </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Seattle Times</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/puget-sound/bellevue-teen-wins-world-chess-title-with-aggression-preparation/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">story</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> about Naomi.</span></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-0856734e-418f-90bf-afb1-5169e2f19227" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Our 2017 summer chess tournaments schedule was packed: at the moment Naomi was in Costa Rica for the </span><a href="http://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2017/07/pan-american-youth-chess-championship.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Pan-American Youth Chess Championship</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> on June 29 - July 6, to continue on vacation in Costa Rica on July 7 - 11.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From Costa Rica we'd fly directly to the </span><a href="http://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2017/07/north-american-youth-chess-championship.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">North American Youth Chess Championship</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> in New Jersey on July 12 - 16, then flying back home.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And then we'd fly off to the </span><a href="http://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2017/07/national-girls-tournament-of-champions.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">National Girls Tournament of Champions</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> in Norfolk, VA on July 29-31, then flying home again.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Emma would be out on July 11 - 17, so she asked when Naomi might have time for a phone interview. </span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On July 1, Emma wrote: "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So our editorial and art departments are on slightly different schedules for this project. There will be a short article to accompany each photograph, and the editorial department wants drafts turned in well before we send out photographers. My deadline for a rough draft of Naomi's story was initially July 6, but I understand you're in the midst of a tournament, so speaking before then might be tricky. SO, this is all to say, Naomi, if you're open to an interview (which I hope you are!!!!), as soon as we could hop on the phone would be awesome, but it's really whenever is best for you. I'll let my editor know if we need to shift the deadline.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On July 2, Naomi replied from Costa Rica: "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We have a half day off on July 4th, so I can talk anywhere from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm (Costa Rica time, which is one hour ahead). If that's not a good day, I'm free July 7th in the evening.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Emma: "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">July 4 at 11am Costa Rica Time (10am Pacific Time) would be awesome. Thank you! What's the best number to reach you?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That was a question easier asked than answered. Naomi's smartphone is not international, so the choice was between Google Hangouts, Skype, mom's Project Fi smartphone, San Jose hotel room phone.</span></div><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 20pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Interview 1 - Warm Up</span></h1><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the end we arranged for the first interview to be conducted via </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Hangouts#Features" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Hangouts on Air</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (later known as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Live_streaming" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">YouTube Live</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">), resulting in the following very nice video, watch it -- even just a little bit:</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UgIY6SDidA&t=4m" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">July 4, 2017 video: Emma Gross (Epic Magazine) interviews Naomi Bashkansky</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UgIY6SDidA&t=4m" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="282" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/HG5h3EmZlSYHn6Y9fHsZpuC7riTqpBZHyBA0qffnhs1MjgbJqaTFnkBEg5L7cjwvpDOVzAQinlOeyVkCJbP35Oogp3nazDHfejy_MYLwAqcJqcecPijS5-zR2wxDj250FeD2urOU" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="491" /></span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We thought that's it, now it's a smooth sailing to Hollywood celebrity.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For Emma though, this turned out to be just a warmup. She has only tasted Naomi's story, and now she wanted more. The appetite comes during the meal, especially for a reporter. We've seen enough of them to generalize.</span></div><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 20pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Interview 2 - Screw Up</span></h1><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On July 27, Emma wrote: "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Naomi, I was wondering if you might be open to a quick follow-up interview? Your narrative is mostly complete, but I'd love to get a bit more information from you: </span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'd like to zero in on the World School Chess Championship you played last December. The one where you had three draws in a row at the beginning, and then ended up taking first place. I want you to walk me through all details you can remember including: </span></div><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What was going on in your life leading up to the tournament? Were you in school? What were you studying at that time? Were there any big school projects you remember? OR was it over the holidays / winter vacation? If so, what were you and your family doing at that time? Any details-- family dinners? Movies you saw? Birthday parties you went to? </span></div></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How did you prepare for the tournament? Do you remember specific sessions with you had with your coach? Aspects of the game you and your mother went over? </span></div></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I believe you said you were ranked first at that time, and so were pretty confident going into the games. Is this correct? Tell me more about how you were feeling leading up to the tournament, what you thought your prospects would be. </span></div></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where was the tournament held? Had you been to that part of the world before? What was the hotel like? What was the tournament space like? I'd love for you to describe the interior of a chess tournament hall, for someone who has never been to one-- what is hanging on the walls? How are the tables organized? Are there screens? Where do people wait to play their games? Do crowds watch each game? Or is it mostly just a few parents and coaches? Is the space loud, or pretty quiet? </span></div></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Walk me through those first few rounds. Who did you play? What gender were they? What did they look like? Had you played them before? Had you met them before? What did you know about them going into the games? </span></div></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What moves led to the draws? Was it in the opening? The middle section? Take me through each game. </span></div></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What was running through your head during the first draw? What about the second? The third? What were your emotions? What were you thinking? </span></div></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What did you and your mom talk about after each game? What was the advice she gave you? </span></div></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tell me how you ended up winning the tournament? How did you refocus yourself after the three draws? What were those next winning games like? </span></div></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How did it feel once you finally won the tournament? When do they announce the winners? How do they announce the winners? </span></div></li>
</ul><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I know there are A LOT of questions here, but they're just to get you thinking and remembering the tournament. </span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Guy and Ludmila-- if there are any details you remember relating to these questions, those would be awesome as well! </span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SO, Naomi, would you be able to talk tomorrow or sometime this weekend? Whenever is best for you! Just let me know!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> " </span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On August 4 at 1pm, exactly one month after the first interview, Emma and Naomi had a follow-up interview over Google Hangouts on Air, like the first one. </span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unfortunately, this lovely interview is now lost to humanity because of my technical screwup. Typically, after the Hangout recording starts, I hit the Mute button on </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">my own account</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, to avoid distracting Emma and Naomi. Alas, this time I have accidentally muted the Hangout </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">host account</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> instead, thus the audio was lost.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The deep remorse over this irreparable mistake still physically pains me. Both Emma and Naomi were gracious and forgiving, even though I totally deserve that deep inside they would mentally roll their eyes at my cosmic blunder. Coincidentally, just a few days later Google </span><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/15/12490666/google-hangouts-on-air-september-youtube-live" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">killed</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Hangouts on Air and </span><a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7083786" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">switched</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to YouTube Live. Maybe it's karma?</span></div><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 20pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Interview 3 - Fix Up</span></h1><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On August 6 at 1pm Emma interviewed Naomi again, with a similar set of questions. This time Emma has recorded the interview on her phone. Which is totally understandable after the rueful fiasco of Interview 2 with Hangouts on Air, two days earlier. That final interview became the base of Emma's excellent article. However, the magazine still needed Naomi's professionally made photos for the photo essay.</span></div><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 20pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Photos 1 - Close Up</span></h1><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On August 14, the Epic Magazine's photographer </span><a href="http://www.kathryneharrison.com/info" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Kathryn Harrison</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> emailed that she will fly to Seattle on August 21 to shoot Naomi's photos for the photo essay. ("</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Quick note for wardrobe: nothing black.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">")</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Notably, there was a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_21,_2017" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">solar eclipse on August 21</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> in Seattle, reaching 90% maximum at 10:20 am. It would have been totally </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">epic </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">if Naomi's photos had this solar eclipse background. During the eclipse, I managed to capture a few reflection photos in our backyard, and stole one direct photo from a friend who had a proper filter and a large lens, plus traveled to Oregon for the totality. See these once-in-a-lifetime </span><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/i9aaEdxWYVTKCoUZ8" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Great American Solar Eclipse photos</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kathryn came at 7pm, an hour before the 8pm sunset, and took </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">literally </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">more than a hundred photos, including many with her </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160726230758/http://www.chamonixviewcamera.com/045F1.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">large-format view camera</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, whose negative plates cost dozens of dollars each! </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_format" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">These cameras</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> have the mystical aura of your grandparents' photoshop. Just try to nail the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheimpflug_principle" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Scheimpflug principle</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I photographed the photographer photographing the photographic object, at photogenic sunset:</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/krwzAdfB5fx2s2598" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">August 21, 2017 photo album: Naomi with Epic Magazine photographer Kathryn Harrison</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/krwzAdfB5fx2s2598" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="480" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/HdQpK6P2Ni-Hrg3rIn5JuskFs7HumrOcClRoFNJ1gTF5OjLkYg7daSO5gLkrhxj8S5mLj_DCsWAO3HV4cviB1knZZ4qYgc1ljBUPOogTPL26JHD898wO3etGBeaG12pp6hXzHVbk" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></a></div><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 20pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Epic Article - Write Up</span></h1><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On September 24, Emma emailed Naomi a couple of quick follow-up questions. In the reply, we bragged that, in the beginning of September, Naomi (14) has </span><a href="http://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2017/09/north-american-junior-girls-under-20.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">won first place</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> at the North American Junior Girls Under 20 Chess Championship in Dallas, TX. This got her the title of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_titles#Woman_International_Master_.28WIM.29" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Woman International Master</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and a "norm" (i.e. 1/3 title) towards </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_titles#Woman_Grandmaster_(WGM)" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Woman Grandmaster</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Emma heartily congratulated Naomi and wrote "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I've been traveling through the Middle East for work, so have been in and out of WiFi and time zones.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">" That surely sounded as journalistically heroic as it can possibly get. We knew our little chess story can wait.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Then, on January 13, 2018 we found all the essays at </span><a href="http://www.epicmagazine.com/littleamerica/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">epicmagazine.com/littleamerica</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And Naomi's story is first! Read it here:</span></div><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://epicmagazine.com/littleamerica/?story=naomi" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">epicmagazine.com/littleamerica/?story=naomi</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (backed up </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cWJJ7xEsR3vMgQM8kC8ecVMqEviyQYWoq_bayxnFvsM/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">)</span></div></li>
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</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Emma's piece about Naomi is a gripping and dramatic triumph of journalism. We like her professional writing style. She follows the old advice to aspiring scriptwriters, "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Find a hero; put him in trouble.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">" Or rather "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">her</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">". Among the other essays, the stories of </span><a href="http://epicmagazine.com/littleamerica/?story=igor" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Igor</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><a href="http://epicmagazine.com/littleamerica/?story=daniel" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Daniel</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> are so cool and crazy they merit a movie script.</span></div><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 20pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Photos 2 - Finish Up</span></h1><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Having witnessed the professional photographer Kathryn taking more than a hundred photos, and her spending hundreds of dollars worth of large-format view camera negative plates, we desperately wanted to see more results than just one story-cover photo shown online. On February 23, 2018 we asked Kathryn and Emma for permission to see the rest of the photos, and they both immediately agreed!</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It took a bit of time, because Kathryn was in the midst of her master's thesis and classes, and Emma was "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">in the midst of an assignment: in search of epic, true love stories</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">". Her official job title is "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Story Hunter</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">", how cool is that? Kathryn should go with "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">People Snapper</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">". </span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They both have shown great interest in Naomi, who meanwhile moved to 9th grade and became very busy with studies (no time for </span><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/8C4wImkpt2dSXY5H3" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">dance</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> anymore). She likes Math, Chemistry, English, and especially Coding and French, while still getting straight A grades in all subjects.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On April 8, 2018, Kathryn sent us a selection of 38 screenshot-resolution unedited photos. Here is the work of a professional, for your admiration:</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/rRVZbT1IOIfhRjJE3" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Aug 21, 2017 photos of Naomi by</span><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Epic Magazine photographer Kathryn Harrison</span></a></div></li>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/rRVZbT1IOIfhRjJE3" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="788" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/VGVSsJ7k5IlzD-AQfaYYIq8pp5qiJ8ShLu9NzkuPgmY6wkG2XueBCwHhXktJKtHSI5RNzp4Qr4MZjniRUxIzrX6RWYE1jUKJtFf9giPp3YnG0ne_mMpcWWEmuSHYGdB_Xypiyjmm" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="527" /></span></a></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comSeattle, WA, USA47.6062095 -122.332070847.2636695 -122.9775178 47.9487495 -121.68662379999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-46943104504706035002018-04-11T12:19:00.002-07:002018-05-08T14:39:00.386-07:00Grand Pacific Open 2018<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 16pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No losses, one win, two draws with 2300-2400!</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The </span><a href="http://grandpacificopen.pbworks.com/w/page/15387541/FrontPage" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">12th Annual Grand Pacific Open</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chess tournament took place in Hotel Grand Pacific in Victoria, BC on March 30-April 2, 2018. We almost always go to this annual tournament. </span><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/fMzBMVSD3t5TmyKi9" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">We</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="http://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2014/04/grand-pacific-open-in-victoria-bc.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">just</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/6HeZ2ggTyXF2pZX8A" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">love</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="http://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2017/04/grand-pacific-open-2017.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Victoria</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-770d20b3-41af-b868-8f14-bace0b70bc85" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Naomi played in the strongest Premier section, and </span><a href="http://grandpacificopen.pbworks.com/w/page/117911079/Standings_2018" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">finished 14th out of 43</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, a good result. She has not lost a single game. Her two draws with 2300-2400 rated players are even more impressive than her one win.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IM Mark Ginsberg (L) has beaten IM Raymond Kaufman in the the most critical game and eventually has won 1st place in the Premier section, along with $1000 and a trophy, presented by organizer Paul Leblanc (R):</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="480" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/Z3_CRabEQGzfFfJZ6oVt73gpzJop6inMxZYKGVCF9BAnBi4TKY_l2P4fkcbE23_bHlvJPb27qOC8vulS65GXYfg7srmAtxnr7iq6WjSjLJ2iEiOc_YriUYccs-hwZ_yyOr0ocVTr" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2nd - 5th places were shared by Zulfikar Sali (L), Andrew Hemstapat (2L), FM Ian Findlay (C) and WIM Agnieszka Matras-Clement (R), who got $250 each: </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="480" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/bg0XZysc9E3sTksfT7WJ3WRSla-IkmEJE6EnhlTEy-w6NhRzQ6jUL-xJwRNjwq4JhfAd6MI2LMS2JQJbtWg5WAwIi8LHOz14OnPi4q55U7aq6r2Z22XF8zzcqStEktTuNjTG6Tm_" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Under 2100 -- Louis Cheng (L), WIM Naomi Bashkansky (R) and Mike Murray (abs.) got $270 each:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="480" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/Y27HMglBQG2Kbi7GpdVV_B0ob26khq4GBtXy2VNjOZm9i60OklCpgsjJCfqLYR_KhqsiNacHgA-cqoLNBmOJcFOuHs0ublCpSxxR_iG_dRiRiTGThzVhQGE2DXPRUbnYBPAFVrlH" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Top Women (Courtesy of Goddess Chess) -- WIM Agnieszka Matras-Clement (2L) $125, NM Valeria Gansvind (2R) $100, WIM Naomi Bashkansky (R), Anna Van (U2000 section) $50, Kate Jiang (U1700 section) $25:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="480" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/m7DvVhNLfvh86vlraeXO9NU5CTuAd1d2gpolvoN1lWvKMbrJozscHWZFDF6Kd2iqFlXGOfV7iIsWQZe0vtbrSgdFK4-Pgelm4VKU3yIgUdBbtSrO20VG6jZhZvdzczAjYkXm_EHJ" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Organizer Brian Raymer (L) invited Naomi there, like he did last year. Thanks to all 3 organizers.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Read organizer Roger Patterson's </span><a href="http://grandpacificopen.pbworks.com/w/page/125275772/Event_Report_2018" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">event report</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, and Naomi's own writeup: "</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GP3YNkjIPRtVptWrw1Kr-aDdkeLu5nXFmjKkkEEE16U/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">If you can’t beat them, confuse them</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">".</span></div><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 20pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Beautiful Victoria</span></h1><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">thousand </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">pictures are worth a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">million </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">words:</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/hEOMjQt5o6IrhYM32" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">2018-03-30 Grand Pacific Open, ferry to Victoria</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/x8MHKo83LrjqtL2J3" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">2018-03-31 Grand Pacific Open, Hatley Castle, Round 2, Victoria South Shore, Round 3</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/x8MHKo83LrjqtL2J3" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="480" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/U3BKCz1rA4AiVbJFbFhWQ3oOthLtwCl2_NGZPtzJ5l_PfObWkCsT_7nqfn6A2w_MuPN00ibyT9k4VTS6Y4F9JQZT5qShij2FySadWOt1lnJdqrhmnrLL0PH3UZNcObON377k0eIK" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Victoria South Shore</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/H0sP2vIRREubPOrn1" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">2018-04-01 Grand Pacific Open, Round 4, Butchart Gardens, Round 5, Beacon Hill Park</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/H0sP2vIRREubPOrn1" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="480" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vdEa_BsCrwcIM0b2SsRJdrpN0cTMXETka32oF2D5JBb3Cf13AR_uepW24z8dRQ1l60xSc4BCg5J0HQdNQUQ2RmW39EOC-mBo4j3ZB3nSW_0DQRQhXvLwnBEsfelpmxxkq_D_zGhG" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Round 5</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/kTlpBQJgBykEtoSP2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">2018-04-02 Grand Pacific Open, Round 6, Abkhazi Garden, award ceremony, ferry back</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/kTlpBQJgBykEtoSP2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="480" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/vlgT7oM5FU9Stnbxd54_HKDVT4BdOgIEqE88EKZhafLrz8pW0uknnr8IHprfwFmXJfxQuINKEhBlVtnS5WMwDLBrUB__D-Cg1X8QbuP7Yy-qVp95_vzhvmCl037rS3XHlG1kOYib" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Funny Money</span></div><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comHotel Grand Pacific48.4205585 -123.3726816999999926.45176 -164.6812757 70.38935699999999 -82.064087699999988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-28024808035001380562018-03-07T12:47:00.000-08:002019-10-11T15:16:38.768-07:00High School State Team Championship<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 16pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Newport takes 1st in King County, shares 1st in WA State!</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The </span><a href="http://whsca.org/stateteam/registrations.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">2018 High School Washington State Team Chess Championship</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> took place in Interlake High School</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">in Bellevue on March 2-3, 2018. It's the central annual event of the Washington State school chess life.</span></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-e27d5759-02c0-653c-5d06-4fd9c3a743cc" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The board order (1 to 5) of each school team is constant: board 1 the strongest player, board 2 the next</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">strongest player, and so on. Some schools had more than one team, e.g. Team A and Team B.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The 28 participant teams were selected according to the results of the chess league in their respective</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">counties, a great achievement in itself.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Naomi's Newport High School Team A took first place in King County!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> Congratulations!</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Before that, Newport High took 1st in King County only once, </span><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/gCeUQTjHtAFCtI3w1" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">in 2013</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">, with Naomi's brother Ethan.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">And then ... </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">drumroll </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">...</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Naomi's Newport High School Team A shared first place in WA State!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> Double congratulations!</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Before that, Newport High took 1st in WA State only once, </span><a href="http://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2014/03/we-are-champions.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">in 2014</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">, also with Naomi's brother Ethan.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/vumt6T33MiRzjnUq2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><img height="647" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/LRNVA1VjxdRsXd10OT0PdEtTh_IS9ri-H5RGl4NjajduX0v0DpSpM50GrTM2EeZq9ySsnvN4OB3PbAFUvF6qtxQRZRCHXbL2EkE5AW36Eprdhi7vmC-dWPVuzlYFBaaH01QdBd-3" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Newport A winners: Gabriel Tafalla, Ronen Huang, Luke Xie, Naomi Bashkansky (Joseph Truelson is absent)</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/vumt6T33MiRzjnUq2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Photo Album: High School WA State Team Championship</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Remarkably, Gabriel Tafalla from Newport A got 5 out of 5 possible points, playing on board 3. </span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">A statistically improbable event has occurred -- FIVE high school teams (each with 5 players) each took </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">exactly</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">18 points after 5 rounds and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">shared 1st place</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">: Newport A, Garfield A, Interlake A, Bellevue, Lakeside.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">It's a strong tournament. The players on the first boards in the winning schools all have high USCF ratings:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Garfield A - Roland Feng (2481), Lakeside A - Bryce Tiglon (2472), Newport A - Luke Xie (2159), Interlake A -</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Derek Zhang (2150), Bellevue - Wenyang Du (1955), and the runner-up Inglemoor - Kyle Haining (2262).</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">In short, all Washington State high school chess stars were here! Here's the winning teams collective photo:</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/vumt6T33MiRzjnUq2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><img height="487" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/T2ljJCQOgolt9xOZIoZ4Qi7KDqYPWuMbI_0ZOQApIHp2d6TXmjnfNHREoFDsEtNrjpLPs2wX9HIMG_w5iiak0Co3UMDgF1f3rFpkWdXWmNR7kEg1x7pY2y4jwDn0DzQRPpkUH92L" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="945" /></span></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">5 teams -- Newport A, Garfield A, Interlake A, Bellevue, Lakeside A -- share 1st place</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/vumt6T33MiRzjnUq2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Photo Album: High School WA State Team Championship</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">To play for the school, Naomi and many other participants had to forgo a very interesting tournament with 3 (!)</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Grandmasters especially invited to our state. Games with Grandmasters would look impressive on the chess</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">players' resumes. That tournament was held at the same time in the Seattle Chess Club. </span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
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</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">However, on the eve of March 1, the Seattle Chess Club hosted lectures of the three Grandmasters:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">- GM Andrey Gorovets: "How to improve the pieces"</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">- GM Julio Sadorra: "My Secrets in Conducting an Effective Attack"</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">- GM Yaroslav Zherebukh: "How to do the impossible: reflections on beating world’s #3 and losing to 1200"</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/V4ZDVG1ou69DnUwP2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Photo Album: Seattle Super Masters - GM Lectures & Blitz</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The lectures were followed by a blitz tournament, where Naomi played with GM Yaroslav Zherebukh:</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/V4ZDVG1ou69DnUwP2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><img height="540" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/Bvvh7f8dDDAhWNmdFmRM9zCRa2_bRAODe4APt2nsiEnBBTj77AndqUtQkdh4llJ6IYviow3CreNDP55cMFzE-Nd2ik7RRLWEsHgJkHt3TQbt51knMZ4uG3VQdqs6X3GrsZXmrYmY" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">It was a glorious, cherishable defeat -- see </span><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/bsNJV7yaOKTwRfaF3" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">GM Zherebukh vs WIM Bashkansky blitz video</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">.</span></div><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comInterlake High School, Bellevue, WA47.628934 -122.1240410000000325.660135500000003 -163.43263500000003 69.5977325 -80.815447000000034tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-75903811891631121762018-02-26T15:09:00.000-08:002019-10-11T15:17:54.261-07:00Washington State Girls Championship<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">On February 24-25 Naomi Bashkansky won the Washington State Girls Championship and got a $750 prize! </span></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-90d2fba4-082f-31e2-529a-2497da9e8289" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The prize was generously donated by the Washington Chess Federation.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/7A5pPBsizgEUuGp63" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Photo Album: WA State Girls Championship</span></a></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/7A5pPBsizgEUuGp63" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><img height="540" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/RwRdHslfHuAghDLzlsxlBATjIpOk6NUwcpXZ7v4LdtXpnE6eqSyzjhr_yxU2CqmYcl738o1RN_UaKAeVda6UEx2SJsg4hCd9Z_JhF_pUuP-cf1PoOX_lmmKsaEoQag7qQbJeiLJn" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Winners: Naomi 1st, Anne-Marie Velea 2nd, Minda Chen 3rd, Stephanie Velea 4th, absent Melina Li 5th</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Naomi became the Washington State Girls Under 18 Champion for the </span><a href="https://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2017/03/wa-state-girls-championship.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">second consecutive year</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Last year, she </span><a href="https://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2017/07/national-girls-tournament-of-champions.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">represented</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> Washington State at the National Girls Tournament of Champions in Norfolk, VA.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Back then, Naomi, Bryce Tiglon, Jason Yu got 2nd place for Washington State, a good return for the state money!</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">This year too, Naomi will represent Washington State at the </span><a href="http://ngitchess.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">National Girls Tournament of Champions</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><img height="945" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/m47istDdLfF__4bn8MIDr8dKWC7vtZjBaEEKLh9eMjz88dGF9zCO_7BQu2kxfiAUV5HnyrEKpcFFQzuYTQnBk0VyJkH-Uo-VIgbFsz9WEx4KEqToPAWYRyYpKTjE8J8KXd3va_fM" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="709" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Participants: front row, from left: Iris Zhang, Emma Li, Michelle Zhang;</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">2nd row: Varnika Jammalamadaka, Angel Shen, Stephanie Velea;</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">3rd row: Lily Deng, Grace Deng, Sophie Szeto;</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">4th row: Melina Li, Shifa Somji (CEO of Girls4Chess.com);</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">5th row: Minda Chen, Naomi Bashkansky, Anne-Marie Velea;</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">absent: Sophie Tien</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></div><hr /><br />
<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The Official Email</span></h2><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">From: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">David Hendricks</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Date: Feb 26, 2018 12:35 PM</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Subject: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">WA State Girls Championship Results</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Congratulations to Naomi Bashkansky who won the WA State Girls Championship held Feb 24-25 in Clyde Hill WA. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">She and Anne-Marie Velea actually tied, each with a score of 3.5, having drawn each other, in the 4 round competition </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">in a field of 14 girls all rated over 1000 NWSRS. So an Armageddon style G/15;d5 White against G/12;d5 Black </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">with black having draw-odds decided the contest. Naomi won the coin toss and selected black, and managed to finish </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">with a checkmate against white. Naomi wins $750 donated by the Washington Chess Federation. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Anne-Marie wins $250 donated by the Chess4Girls organization.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SwissSys Standings. WA State Girls Championship: Championship</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><colgroup><col width="24"></col><col width="152"></col><col width="72"></col><col width="40"></col><col width="44"></col><col width="33"></col><col width="40"></col><col width="40"></col><col width="40"></col><col width="40"></col><col width="30"></col></colgroup><tbody>
<tr style="height: 19pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">#</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Name</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">ID</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Rtng</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Team</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Grd</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Rd 1</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Rd 2</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Rd 3</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Rd 4</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Tot</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 19pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">1</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Naomi Bashkansky</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">14048474</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">2080</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">NPR</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">9</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W10</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W11</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W3</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">D2</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">3.5</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 19pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">2</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Anne-Marie Velea</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">15689252</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">1862</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">EPS</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">7</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W12</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W5</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W11</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">D1</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">3.5</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 19pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">3</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Minda Chen</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">15185862</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">1899</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">ADD</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">8</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W6</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W4</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L1</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W9</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">3.0</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 19pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">4</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Stephanie Velea</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">15695130</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">1721</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">EPS</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">5</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W8</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L3</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W6</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W7</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">3.0</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 19pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">5</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Melina Li</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">15744318</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">1684</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DCT</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">5</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W7</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L2</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">H---</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W10</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">2.5</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 19pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">6</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Angel Shen</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">16313693</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">710</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">CGR</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">4</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L3</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W8</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L4</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W12</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">2.0</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 19pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">7</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Lily Deng</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">16640701</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">unr.</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">LEC</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">4</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L5</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W12</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W10</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L4</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">2.0</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 19pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">8</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Grace Deng</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">16640696</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">unr.</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">LEC</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">7</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L4</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L6</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W14</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W13</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">2.0</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 19pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">9</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Sophie Szeto</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">15458295</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">1460</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">HTN</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">6</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W14</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L10</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W13</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L3</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">2.0</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 33pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">10</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Varnika Jammalamadaka</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">16449025</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">834</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">BCA</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">3</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L1</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W9</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L7</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L5</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">1.0</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 19pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">11</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Sophie Tien</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">15248711</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">1796</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">TYE</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">7</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W13</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L1</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L2</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">U---</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">1.0</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 19pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">12</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Emma Li</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">16538490</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">609</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">LMA</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">3</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L2</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L7</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">B---</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L6</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">1.0</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 19pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">13</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Iris Zhang</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">16476340</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">522</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">RSA</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">3</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L11</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W14</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L9</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L8</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">1.0</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 19pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">14</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Michelle Zhang</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">16640681</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">unr.</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">MED</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">1</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L9</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L13</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L8</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">B---</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">1.0</span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SwissSys Standings. WA State Girls Championship: Playoff</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><colgroup><col width="16"></col><col width="133"></col><col width="72"></col><col width="40"></col><col width="44"></col><col width="33"></col><col width="39"></col><col width="30"></col></colgroup><tbody>
<tr style="height: 19pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">#</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Name</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">ID</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Rtng</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Team</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Grd</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Rd 1</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Tot</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 19pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">1</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Naomi Bashkansky</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">14048474</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">2080</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><br />
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">9</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">W2</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">1.0</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 19pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">2</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Anne-Marie Velea</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">15689252</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">1998</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><br />
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">7</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">L1</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-left: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-right: solid #808080 0.75pt; border-top: solid #808080 0.75pt; padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 2pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">0.0</span></div></td></tr>
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</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comClyde Hill, WA47.6317656 -122.2179014999999847.610364600000004 -122.25824199999998 47.6531666 -122.17756099999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-83506883278812578302017-09-05T12:47:00.000-07:002018-07-17T18:55:47.392-07:00North American Junior Girls U20 Champion!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 16pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Naomi wins first place, gets Woman International Master title + Woman Grandmaster norm (⅓ title)!</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Naomi (14) </span><a href="http://www.chess-results.com/tnr297815.aspx?lan=1&art=4&wi=821" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">won</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> first place at the </span><a href="http://dallaschess.com/2017SWOpen/U20/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">2017 North American Junior Girls U20 Chess Championship</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and earned the chess title "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Woman International Master</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">" (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_titles#Woman_International_Master_.28WIM.29" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">WIM</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">), which sounds almost like "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">International Adventuress</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">".</span></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-d0a73d2a-ab18-ac23-1a94-6708d64b63f4" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is much cooler than Naomi's prior nerdy-sounding title "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Woman FIDE Master</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">" (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_titles#Woman_FIDE_Master_.28WFM.29" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">WFM</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">), not to mention her prior-prior juvenile-sounding title "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Woman Candidate Master</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">" (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_titles#Woman_Candidate_Master_.28WCM.29" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">WCM</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">).</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And, crucially, she got a "norm" (i.e. ⅓ of the title) towards Woman Grandmaster (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_titles#Woman_Grandmaster_.28WGM.29" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">WGM</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">). Oh dear.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The 2017 North American Junior U20 Chess Championship took place on August 31 - September 5 in Sheraton Dallas-Fort Worth Airport Hotel in Texas. No international travel for this international tournament.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">North American players born on or after January 1st, 1997 played 9 rounds, using the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Swiss pairing system</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> in the Open and Girls Divisions. Naomi got </span><a href="http://www.chess-results.com/tnr297815.aspx?lan=1&art=4&wi=821" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">8 points out of 9</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, with just 2 draws. Good job.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The winners of the Open and Girls Divisions earned the titles of International Master (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_titles#International_Master_.28IM.29" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">IM</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) and WIM, and also scored a "norm" (i.e. ⅓ of the title) towards Grand Master (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_titles#Grandmaster_.28GM.29" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">GM</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) and Woman Grandmaster (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_titles#Woman_Grandmaster_.28WGM.29" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">WGM</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">). Good deal.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The organizer, International Arbiter (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Arbiter" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">IA</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) Francisco Guadalupe, has worked miracles to resolve all problems and successfully keep the promise of this tournament, with complete dedication and exemplary results. Coming from </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Harvey#Texas_2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">hurricane-devastated</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Houston, he made sure that everything worked here in Dallas.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="491" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/k64xos4JTOn_x6NUBzLrHQnkwDxL5kswXp6hCAxZx0KGNGpFPktk1WeK9D8DbttQ5onQZ-fzeozpTiweDoaNnrjBostDq2r39kEMBjP4Te-jqEWhU-kFt60AgKa1FQx6pEHirThn" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Francisco, Naomi, Luda</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/5TxwB21QrvsP7iQt6" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="529" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/Qpkk-c7txbpbL43gv59rW35LJYOLA3sa_RCRhy7oXk28k6CTGWU61PRjyNmK3rB14yseHoKpRRN6HVlaXdChNlhRsYpvM7hU-UWg0K-3ivGoTKZiw8-d35SiQKs2jRiZNbiacOqJ" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">North American Junior Girls trophy-winners: Naomi, Ramya, Sanjana, Shree</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="540" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VBoutByE5_d5Ve2WP4ouVSNdu4x45RInfSRq5fRfm539GJt47SQeFpBZZQdlOLG3LQ3AKxGj40N0lQsbBJ9LRI7DOr_eVu-xNWKurOzhY7NEooGrOPFEdSb09oa-_4y-ZezSd9F-" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NA Junior Open U20 winner Advait Patel and NA Junior Girls U20 winner Naomi Bashkansky</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All those under-20 girls look so lovely and kind at these photos of pre-game handshake. It's scary to think they will try to outplay, outfox and utterly destroy each other just seconds later. Enjoy the photo album:</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comSheraton DFW Airport32.913324 -97.00679630000001910.944525500000005 -138.31539030000002 54.8821225 -55.69820230000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-16693471728630625022017-08-20T22:00:00.000-07:002017-08-21T18:31:36.238-07:00Seattle Chess Classic<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comSeattle Chess Club47.707446 -122.331710325.715842999999996 -163.6403043 69.699049 -81.0231163tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-85231900976896061372017-07-28T18:08:00.001-07:002020-08-16T17:48:51.725-07:00National Girls Tournament of Champions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 16pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ea749c7d-7fff-965d-bde6-8891fa15d342"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 16pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Girls Battle in Navy Town</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 2017 </span><a href="http://www.nationalgirlschess.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">US Chess National Girls Tournament of Champions</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is held on July 29-31 at the Sheraton Waterside Hotel in a historic Navy town of </span><a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Norfolk_(Virginia)#See" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Norfolk</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Virginia, coinciding with the Denker and Barber tournaments.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each US state sends one female player in grades K-12. Naomi is the </span><a href="http://www.nationalgirlschess.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/List-of-2017-NGTOC-Participants.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Washington State representative</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The weather is hot and humid. The battle is tough in the Navy town.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Out of the 50 state representatives, Naomi takes 9th place in </span><a href="http://www.nationalgirlschess.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/NGTOC-Standings.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Individual Standings</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, with 4 wins and 2 losses. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jason Yu shares 3rd place in the Barber tournament. Bryce Tiglon becomes a co-champion in the Denker High School tournament.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The team of all three Washington State representatives (Girls+Denker+Barber) takes 2nd place in </span><a href="http://www.denkerchess.com/wp-content/uploads/State-Team-Standings.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">State Team Standings</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Not bad at all.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 540px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="540" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/mXW-KjfF6_3w2n9kzASbkMw1Hy5hfBr86hDl2pTL-NEu0RV5U0WO0togsP2sapENBSqYBDTIFivbNvsqfIHyItUyMWZf_ukvsIIISboYOMyKfMSVD5hDPUiqyg0e2ddpIJPt6nBr" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="720" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bryce Tiglon, Naomi Bashkansky, Jason Yu</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(photo by Jenny Cui)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Norfolk is a great place to visit. Take a look at the photos:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/wprJyJnCs12TPvFA9" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2017-07-28 Norfolk - Botanical Gardens, Waterside, Hilton</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/wprJyJnCs12TPvFA9" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 405px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="405" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/dfC3x7nx5rBEFwtKI6QUPnBE84cai3KrzyTxArWf46M14kBfs1GbCZCP4XJk_S6or3EHUPV-fcdMIlT0tJ2zsgLGt9yDNajM8joQ61CI4Ziu7jnYjJDMfI00GGgNLETjp54C3nLK" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="720" /></span></span></a></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/TAUXP8CNKMFCHkSc9" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2017-07-30 Norfolk - Round 2, Waterside, Naval Museum, Battleship Wisconsin, Round 3</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/TAUXP8CNKMFCHkSc9" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 242px; overflow: hidden; width: 1307px;"><img height="242" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/isfK6j8zO1Tx9fvkXU26z149CATSK-N5dud1lVbJf4oN1G8l_ATlX8cLenxD4oJzrhX_6XN36LIabi0NjhPe-92iP_Tq1H3ZS1fAm3iaXuCKTKKUpi2qq3R4fLRNz9YLeLQQeWmz" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="1307" /></span></span></a></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/csG3Dbr6Hmq942EA8" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2017-07-31 Norfolk - Round 4, Cannonball Trail, Round 5, Ferry, Portsmouth</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comSheraton Waterside Norfolk36.8437588 -76.28962709999996214.874960300000005 -117.59822109999996 58.8125573 -34.981033099999962tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-32101463022865328342017-07-14T19:45:00.000-07:002017-07-19T11:33:25.470-07:00North American Youth Chess Championship<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comHyatt Regency, Morristown, NJ40.800114 -74.48097430000001416.425345 -115.78956830000001 65.174883 -33.172380300000015tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-9846702809867886132017-07-01T21:14:00.000-07:002017-08-27T17:41:22.010-07:00Pan-American Youth Chess Championship<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><a href="http://fcacostarica.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/PAN-AMERICAN-YOUTH-CHESS-CHAMPIONSHIPS-2017..pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pan-American Youth Chess Championship</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (June 30 - July 7) is held in San José, Costa Rica. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naomi (14) plays 4 years up, in the 18-year-old girls category. She's thrown into the lion's den. There will be blood. Follow the results here: </span><a href="http://www.chess-results.com/tnr290236.aspx?lan=1&art=4&flag=30&wi=821" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.chess-results.com/tnr290236.aspx?lan=1&art=4&flag=30&wi=821</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here are the first day photos and videos: </span><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/VfXv6nKtKJaEjafH8" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://goo.gl/photos/VfXv6nKtKJaEjafH8</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Check out the fantastic opening ceremony dances: </span><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/qWGVrwd7VwLs5w2t7" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://goo.gl/photos/qWGVrwd7VwLs5w2t7</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luda and Naomi</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, by Sofia Petrov</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 1, evening Round 1: Naomi wins against Woman Candidate Master (WCM) Valeria Marin-Leon from Costa Rica, see the webcast video: </span><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/VoHZXh9GzKKDkYxb7" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://goo.gl/photos/VoHZXh9GzKKDkYxb7</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 2, morning Round 2: Naomi wins against WCM Thais Castillo-Morales from Costa Rica:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="481" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/T58M2Ytqjmtt2jKKGguWWIWSECvL-NjDZmlCQDIIdffMqAle-Se8SuJiaMtF35jVOSE1N-9ttIMcauy4M6ug227tFoNxDLsTypAYFkY7Gexn57AF7_033x9wi03e5BrTai4nMIRE" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="720" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First board!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Paul Truong</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 2, evening Round 3: Naomi loses to a fellow American Woman FIDE Master (WFM) Sanjana Vittal:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 3, morning Round 4: Naomi draws with a WFM Trilce Cosme-Contreras from Peru:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trilce and Naomi</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Playing with 18-year-olds is tough for a 14-year-old Naomi.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">See the other photos from July 2 and 3: </span><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/a5ywdyPosbna1qHy7" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://goo.gl/photos/a5ywdyPosbna1qHy7</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> July 3, evening Round 5 Naomi wins against WFM Priya Trakru from USA. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 4 in the morning Naomi gives an hour-long interview to Emma Gross from </span><a href="http://epicmagazine.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Epic Magazine</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> over Google Hangout on Air. After we return home, they will send a photographer to take Naomi's picture for a story. In the evening Round 6 Naomi loses to WCM Thalia Cervantes-Landeiro from USA.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 5 morning Round 7 Naomi wins against CM Rachel Miller from Jamaica; evening Round 8 draws against our friend WFM Nastassja Matus from USA.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 6 last Round 9 Naomi risks in a drawn position and loses to WFM Corals Patino from Venezuela. In the afternoon Girls Under 14 Blitz tournament Naomi shares 1 - 2 place, and gets a nice parrot-shaped trophy (and that's Susan Polgar in the background):</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 20pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Costa Rica</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the tournament ends, we move to Hotel Balmoral in downtown San Jose, next to Avenida Central and Plaza de la Cultura. This is the centermost location to explore the capital and venture on a day trip.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Costa Rica is famously amazing. We discover yet another stunning Mesoamerican culture, bustling city life, friendly people, breathtaking nature, gorgeous plants, unknown animals. Better see these photo albums:</span></div>
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<a href="https://goo.gl/photos/pLDnaTY1jQuGPCMy6" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2017-07-07 Costa Rica - Precolumbian Gold Museum, Hotel Balmoral, Iglesia de Soledad, The Gypsy Pigs, Metropolitan Cathedral, Central Market, National Theater</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the end of March, Lauren Foster, the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">425 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">magazine managing editor, contacted our school district communications manager about a possible interview with Naomi, after learning about her </span><a href="http://www.bsd405.org/2016/12/odle-student-named-chess-champion/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on their website</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBellevue47.6101497 -122.201515947.4388297 -122.5242394 47.7814697 -121.87879240000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-21908106357608353002017-05-20T11:37:00.000-07:002017-05-23T11:40:30.187-07:00Vashon Island conquered<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comVashon Library47.4508516 -122.4594665000000225.4820531 -163.76806050000002 69.4196501 -81.15087250000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-26459132228324073862017-05-12T17:03:00.000-07:002017-05-21T19:16:24.826-07:00SuperNationals in Nashville<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's a huge chess event which occurs every 4 years. This year 5,578 kids play (134 players from WA alone), grades K to 12. Adding parents, coaches and organizers, there might be around 10,000 people involved. It's the largest chess tournament in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before the main tournament, on May 11, Naomi played blitz in the K-9 section. She placed </span><a href="http://www.uschess.org/results/2017/snvi/?page=STANDINGS&xsection=k9blitz" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">20th out of 265</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> participants, and Naomi's school placed </span><a href="http://www.uschess.org/results/2017/snvi/?page=TEAM&xsection=k9blitz" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">second out of 35</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> teams in blitz.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The last blitz opponent didn't let Naomi move pieces when his time ran out, in order to make her time run out too. Feeling distressed, Naomi haven't reported this clear violation to tournament directors. She should have gotten 9 points, rather than 8.5. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The main tournament started on May 12 at 1pm. Naomi played in the K-8 section -- </span><a href="http://www.uschess.org/results/2017/snvi/?page=STANDINGS&xsection=k8" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">see the results here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. There are 7 rounds overall. Naomi has won in Round 1 against Patrick Leary from Georgia. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On May 14, Naomi won Round 6 over Atticus Halley, GA, and lost Round 7 to Ricky Wang, IL, who went on to take 8th place.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comGaylord Opryland Resort36.211441400000012 -86.694499214.242642900000014 -128.0030932 58.180239900000011 -45.385905199999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-39192499631215961992017-04-21T21:34:00.000-07:002017-04-21T21:59:18.185-07:00Grand Pacific Open - 2017<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naomi has played in the top section and placed in the middle of the </span><a href="http://grandpacificopen.pbworks.com/w/page/110096656/Standings_2017" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Final Standings</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, befitting her chess rating rank. She has shared the 2nd/3rd Top Women CA$90 prize sponsored by </span><a href="http://www.goddesschess.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goddess Chess</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Not bad.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We traveled to Victoria many times in the past, and always loved it: </span><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/fMzBMVSD3t5TmyKi9" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2009 road trip</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="http://chesstravel.blogspot.com/2014/04/grand-pacific-open-in-victoria-bc.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2014 Grand Pacific Open</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chess Travel </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">blog post), </span><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/6HeZ2ggTyXF2pZX8A" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2015 Grand Pacific Open</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Victoria is one of those places you come back every time to discover something new on top of old memories and familiar places. It occupies a special place in our hearts. A favorite travel spot.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To get there, in the past we always took a ferry: either Port Angeles - Victoria (with or without car), or Anacortes - Sidney, or Tsawwassen - Swartz Bay. This time we decide to live large and pay up for the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_Navigation" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Victoria Clipper</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As we sail into Victoria's Inner Harbor, my smartphone's camera does blank. This wouldn't be unusual, since my smartphone's screen needs to be literally warm in order to work. I habitually press it against my skin, to use body warmth for reanimation, as usual. Only this time the trick doesn't work! The device seems to have died, finally, after half a year of daily agony. That's the First Plague.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We get the room at the fabled Hotel Grand Pacific, and head straight to the </span><a href="http://www.victoriabugzoo.ca/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bug Zoo</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. There, our amazing guide Jeanine shows each insect (or, more precisely, arthropod) with indefatigable enthusiasm. This needs to be seen:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the morning, on our way to the </span><a href="http://www.miniatureworld.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Miniature World</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> we pass a quiet and well-organized demonstration of Venezuelan dissidents on the steps of the British Columbia Legislature. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Miniature World initially feels a bit claustrophobic and noisy, with tight spaces, voice recordings in loops, and kids running around. It takes time to adjust. The experience is both slightly tiresome and very rewarding.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The miniature displays are fantastic. Meticulous, masterful work done over many years. They are organized by category: war history, frontier, Canada, castles, dollhouses, London, circus, Camelot. Take a look:</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comHotel Grand Pacific48.4205585 -123.3726816999999937.362443 -144.02697869999997 59.478674 -102.71838469999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871334562677333948.post-38209085778694252022017-04-05T17:05:00.000-07:002017-04-05T17:11:36.948-07:00Seattle Chess Masters Series<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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