Tournament Information

The NEIU Chess Club recently organized its first open chess tournament, held Saturday April 26th in the Ronald Williams Library. Eighteen Club members competed in a five round Swiss tournament with G/30 time control. Congratulations to David Rubin, David Williams, and Saad Ahsan, who took the top three places, in that order. Special thanks to Adnan Shamoon for running the tournament, Steven Searle for providing extra chess sets, and David Rubin for providing all the photographs below. Click on an image to see it full size.


David Rubin, First Place 4.5/5

David Williams, Second Place 4/5

Saad Ahsan, Third Place 4/5

Adnan Shamoon, Tournament Director

Gilbert Baptiste, Randolph Miranda

David Rubin, Jose Lewis

Jonathan Gad, Qasif Reedwan

Steve McDaniels, Clayton Woods

Eric Paniagua, Raymond Fuller

Future Chess Champions!

Clockwise from lower left: Jose Lewis, Haresh patel, David Rubin, David Williams

Clockwise from lower left: Saad Ahsan, David Williams, Steven Searle, Mohammed Sayidine

Sami Rahmoun, Deian Ivanov

Fuller-Miranda, Round Five