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Apr 21

Thunder Quick VII

Thunder Quick 7 fields 27 players. The interesting start of this event was seeing Austin, former Wickham student, in chess.com trying to...

James Neal

Apr 19

Thunder Quick VIII

Thunder Quick VIII fields 25 players. This event started off like any other tournament but as we approached the starting time, it...

James Neal

Mar 16

Thunder Quick VI

This Thunder Quick event featured 21 players. The turnout was lower than expected but this was probably due to the start of Spring Break....

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James Neal

Mar 9

Thunder Quick V

There were 28 participants in Saturday’s Thunder Quick event. The new player was Kevin from Weber Elementary. He did not have a...

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James Neal

Feb 14

Thunder Quick IV

Thunder Quick IV fields 29 players. I was expecting a top player from Central to be present at this event. Wyatt had competed with a few...

James Neal

Feb 12

Thunder Quick III

Thunder Quick III took place on chess.com. There were 24 participants with the prevailing majority of these players being from either...

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James Neal

Dec 13, 2020

Thunder Quick II

This tournament fielded a group of 20 players with a few new, and noticeable, faces: stan_b (1226)(from Central) and Ashvid_s (1200)...

James Neal

Oct 24, 2020

King's League Schedule & Playoffs

Pairing Formula for the Regular Season The above table will be the formula used to calculate the matchups throughout the season. There...

James Neal

Feb 10, 2020

Port of Burlington 2020

Last weekend I traveled to Burlington, my hometown, at the south east corner of Iowa. Now, I wouldn’t travel there just for sightseeing...

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James Neal

Sep 24, 2019

Scholastic Clubs Predictions (9.24)

September 13th - 15th featured the Iowa Open that was being held at the IMU (Iowa Memorial Union) this year. The tournament had been...

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James Neal

Jul 1, 2019

Gokul Wins Thunder Quick XIV

Gokul Thangavel (2086) goes on a tear through a field of 26 other players. He had just come off a 5 game sweep in the Thunder Quick XIII...

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James Neal

Jan 29, 2019

Team Chess Wars

Scholastic Chess Tournament Team Chess Wars January 30th 2019 The cold weather has kept a great few of us from playing chess but this...

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James Neal

Jan 13, 2019

Prairie Winter Classic 2019

by James Neal (Iowa City Chess Coach) I woke up this morning disturbed, I realized there was a good 6 inches of snow on the ground....

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James Neal

Nov 17, 2018

6 Reasons Fabi will BEAT Carlsen!

I believe it will be Fabiano Caruana that will become the new World Champion of Chess. My reasons for his success are not on the basis of...

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Central Wins the Coralville K-6 Team Championship!

James Neal

Nov 13, 2018

Central Wins the Coralville K-6 Team Championship!

The Coralville Team Championship was created to get the schools motivated to compete. There were 5 teams that competed though 1 of the...

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