Tuesday, December 15, 2015

When was Universe created - acording to Ahyan

Conversation in a lazy Saturday evening at home -

Shusmita to me: Tell Ahyan something about what you are reading recently.
Me: I am reading about the creation of everything. So let's start with the creation of universe. Ahyan, can you tell me when the universe was created?
Ahyan: 1st January!!!

Saturday, October 10, 2015

Ahyan's 6th Round Win in Millionaire Chess 2015

Ahyan was black against Michael Redden whose USCF rating is 1246. Ahyan won the rook end game.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Ahyan at Try City Voice Newspaper





Tri-City checkmates at national tournament
Submitted By Ted Castro
Chess was the topic for 293 kids from the Bay Area and other parts of the country who gathered at the Santa Clara Convention Center on January 24-25 to vie for coveted National Titles. Fremont-based chess club, NorCal House (NHC) of Chess, dominated Team Championships winning three national team titles out of the five sections they participated in. Impressively, the other sections got 2nd place!

In the 16-under section, NorCal House of Chess triumphed by scoring 10.5 points (5.5 pts. ahead of the 2nd place finisher). The 16-under team, composed of Fremont kids, led by National Master Pranav Nagarajan (who is a co-National Champion), Calvin Tam (4th place) and Seth Castro (5th place).

In the 12-under division, NHC scored 11.5 points, a half point ahead of Berkeley Chess School. The team was bannered by Chenyi Zhao (2nd place finisher) from Warm Springs Elementary, Ronit Pattanayak (Delphi Academy), Mihir Buptani (Mission San Jose High School), Alan Yao (Hopkins Junior High), Rithwik Narendra, Steve Rong, and Nivedha Kumar.

In the 8-under section, 3rd grader Ahyan Zaman from Parkmont Elementary in Fremont became the National Junior Champion by winning all of his games. He won in an exciting fashion in the last round by beating the highest rated opponent from Berkeley. Ahyan is currently coached by Ted Castro and his dad, Ashik Uzzaman (who is also an expert chess player). He has played at the Nationals in Florida and also won $ 1,000 at the Millionaire Chess Tournament in Las Vegas last year.

Several East Bay competitors helped NHC bag the hotly contested 8-under section winning it by half point with a total of 13 points. The team included: Katherine Pask, Pranav Bellanagari, Prisha Jain, Prathul Ganesh, Anand Hadli, Erin Law, Brickman Jones, Nik Sadeghi, Sriram Venkatesh.

Other Tri-City kids who did very well in this tournament were: Sriram Krishnakumar (National Champion 6-under), Aditya Kumar (4th place in the 12-under) from Forest Park, Kory Hui (3rd place in the 18-under) from Irvington High School, Shaurya Palusa from Forest Park and Shreyas Jay from MSJE both tied for 2nd place in the 6-under; Louis Law (10th place) from Weibel; Ryan Dong (16th) from Chadbourne.

For more information, visit www.norcalhouseofchess.com or email norcalhouseofchess@gmail.com.

Monday, January 26, 2015

Ahyan Won US National Junior Chess Championship 2015 in Age 8 and Under Group Winning All 5 Games

2015 US National Junior Chess Congress was organized by Bay Area Chess during January 24th and 25th at Santa Clara Convention Center in the hearth of Sillicon Valley. The tournament had 8 different Age Level group - for Under 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Two groups for Age Level 6 and 8 were held in 25th January while the other 6 groups were a 2 days event.

Ahyan Zaman, Bangladeshi American living in Fremont (California) won all the 5 games and clinched the National Junior Champion title in Age group 8 and Under. He is currently studying in 3rd grade of Parkmont School and is a regular member of the chess club NorCal House of Chess.




73 players participated in the Age 8 and Under group. Ahyan from Norcal House of Chess was 6th top seed by rating in this group. His final (5th) round game was the championship decider, where he faced top seed Adrian Kondakov of Berkeley Chess School which you can replay below -







Above is the final result posted in the wall at Santa Clara Convention Center. The USCF results can be found here - http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?201501252712.7-15035222

In that same age group's team championship was won by NorCal House of Chess and Ahyan was part of that team. While he has a bunch of trophies at home, this is by far the largest and is close to as tall as him. After winning the tournament, his first question was - where am I going to store this trophy?


The presentation was given by four times Women World Chess Champion GM Susan Polgar. Here is a video of the part where Ahyan received the trophy from her after announcement by Chielf Tournament Director Tom Langland.