'07 Finals Rd 7

Results for Round 7 of The Championships & The Lasker Open on 4/04/07 

This was a 7 round event with 72 players, 32 players were in the Championship sections, plus 16 in the Lasker Open and 24 in the Lasker Reserve (U1800). This count does not include house players. 

Special Note: Remember there is a 5 round Super Gambito this Saturday April 7th with $1,600 in prizes. $40 entry fee if you pay in advance (please pay Bruce Baker), otherwise it is $50 on event day. Round 1 is at 10:00 AM so we can fit in 5 rounds (not 10:30 as usual, so get there early). There is 1 bye available in rounds 1-4, but no last round bye. See special Super Gambito for details.

Next week April 11: Simultaneous Exhibition by John Funderburg and Marc Duesterwald, no charge to club members, $5 for non-members

New tournament, The Spring Swiss, 5 rounds, starts April 18th

Club Championship

Final Standings: John Funderburg (5 1/2) & Marc Duesterwald (5 1/2) $80 each, John wins the trophy on tie breaks, but they are Co-Champions.

Third Place: Todd Smith (4 1/2) $40

Board 1   Marc Duesterwald - Ron Bruno  1F-0F  

Bd 2   Ignacio Sainz - John Funderburg  0-1   See Cyrus Annotates for this game 

Bd 3   Bruce Baker - Todd Smith  0-1  

Bd 4   Dimitry Kishinevsky - Jim Humphrey  1-0  

Bd 5   Rick Aeria - Ed Baluran  1/2-1/2  

Bd 6   Brad Salz - Chris Borgan  1-0  

Bd 7   Buddy Morris - Carey Milton  1-0  

Bd 8   Fawsi Murra Jr - Bob Richard (house)  0-1  

Withdraw: Fausto Robles  No Show: Ron Bruno

Biggest rating increases = +43 John Funderburg (now 2174), Buddy Morris +25 (to 1947)

Reserve Championship  

Final Standings: Vincent Broman (6 1/2) First Place, $100 + Trophy

Richard Jensen (5) Second Place, $60

Caley Anderson (4 1/2) and Marty Lower (4 1/2) Third Place tie, $20 each

Bd 9  Vincent Broman  - Jason Qu  1-0  See this game on Cyrus Annotates

Bd 10  Joel Batchelor - Richard Jensen  1/2-1/2

Bd 11  Caley Anderson - Shaun Sweitzer  0-1 

Bd 12  Luis Castaneda - Marty Lower  0-1

Bd 13  Pouyan Azarshahri - Erik Marquis  1-0

Bd 14  Roberto Aiello - Rocio Murra (house) 0-1 

Bd 15  Hector Gonzalez - Robert Samuel  1-0 

Bd 16  Mark Allen (house) - William Murray  1/2-1/2

Withdraw: Chuck Ensey, William Wijaya

Biggest rating increases: +186 Caley Anderson (now 1652), Vincent Broman +88 (1846)

Lasker Open

Final Standings: Manuel Herrera (5 1/2) First Place, $100

James Malowney (4 1/2) and Tom Fries (4 1/2) Second/Third Place tie, $50 each

Bd 17  James Malowney - Manuel Herrera  0-1

Bd 18  Mario Amodeo - George Zeigler  1/2-1/2  

Bd 19  Jerry Soelberg - Esteban Escobedo  1-0 

Bd 20  Jamieson Pryor - Ramin Sinaee  1-0

Bd 21  Roger Dooc - Alfredo DeLeon   0-1

Biggest rating increases = +92 Manuel Herrera (2030), +45 James Malowney (1858)

Lasker Reserve

Final Standings: Eric Castro (6), First Place, $80

Robert Henderson (5 1/2) & Fred Borges (5 1/2), Second/Third Place tie, $40 each

Monica Ness (4), BU 1400 $50 

Morgan Fox (3) & Mark Lawless (3) 2nd U1400 tie, $37 each

James Aranda (2 1/2) BU1200,  $40    

Christian Garcia (1 1/2) & Patrick Edwards (1 1/2) 2nd U1200 tie, $12 each

Bd 25  Robert Henderson - Jacquelyn Egger  1/2-1/2

Bd 26  Michael Ross - Eric Castro  0-1

Bd 27  Tom Kuhn - Fred Borges  0-1

Bd 28  Julian Rodriguez - Kevin Oakes  1-0

Bd 29  Steven Perry - Jeffrey Ledbetter  0-1

Bd 30  Morgan Fox - Dan Bagliazo  0-1

Bd 31  Monica Ness - Karen Kaufman  1-0

Bd 32  David Hall - James Aranda  1-0

Bd 33  Mark Lawless - Patrick Edwards  1-0

Biggest rating increases = +156 Eric Castro 1765,  +151 Monica Ness (1285), +89 Jacquelyn Egger (1549)