Sunday, January 6, 2008

Gambito #381

381st Gambito

Congratulations to Perry Sagart for making Class A, 1800 on the nose. He had a tough pairing schedule and made the best of it. And congratulations too to the winner, IM Cyrus Lakdawala, who doesn't always get mentioned because he's so consistant. Daniel Grazian won a game with my very favorite opening 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d4 which I believe continued 3...Nc6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.dxe5 Bc5 6.Qd5 0-0 7.Qxe4 d6 8.Bd3 1-0. Try to name another opening that's as dangerous.

[Chuck's notes: Bruce has inspired many of his students with his strong attacking spirit. As a young player himself once, before he became a master, he won many games with this opening and it maybe even helped him become a master (or so I have heard). Sorry I missed this Gambito, looks like a really good one. Bruce used the usual McMahon pairing system with M/E=2, A=1, B/C =0. There was an evenly balanced field (which makes for a good McMahon) with 3 Masters, 3 Experts, 6 Class A, 7 Class B, and 5 Class C and below, so 24 players in all, not counting the 2 house players. See you guys next week! Oh and congrats to Bruce for the draw with Cyrus, and even with the Black pieces, which he always seems to get against Cy. Also good to see Ali Morshedi back, another strong player (along with the frequent player Peter Graves) to give Bruce and Cy some tough competition. Next week we may see Bruno and Bryant too!]     

Next week:  August Super-Gambito

Wall Chart

Name/Rtng/ID Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 IM Cyrus Lakdawala bye bye B 3 W 2 W 4 B 5
2504 2507   1st $100  1 2 3 3쩍 4쩍 5쩍
2 Bruce Baker bye bye W 5 B 1 W 3 B 4
2314 2324   U2400 $60  1 2 3 3쩍 4 5
3 Ali Morshedi bye bye W 1 B 9 B 2 W 7
2323 2315   2nd $50  1 2 2 3 3쩍 4
5 Carey Milton bye bye B 2 W 10 B 7 W 1
2038 2047   U2200 $60  1 2 2 3 4 4
9 Richard Jensen bye bye B 12 W 3 B 13 W 14
1898 1910   U2000 $20  1 2 2 2쩍 3쩍
10 Roberto Aiello bye bye W 13 B 5 W 14 B 12
1891 1899   U2000 $20  1 2 2 2쩍 3쩍
4 Leonard Sussman bye bye bye W 7 B 1 W 2
2105 2106  1 2 2쩍 3쩍 3쩍 3쩍
8 Daniel Grazian bye bye ---- B 18 W 12 W 13
1946 1953   U2000 $20  1 1 2 2쩍 3쩍
11 Jamieson Pryor bye bye W 6 B 14 B 15 W 19
1874 1868  1 1 1 2 3
16 Ray Viernes ---- ---- W 23 B 6 W 20 B 21
1747 1775   U1800 $50  0 0 1 1 2 3
7 Michael Nagaran bye bye bye B 4 W 5 B 3
2011 2002 1 2 2쩍 2쩍 2쩍 3
12 Jesse Orlowski bye bye W 9 B 17 B 8 W 10
1863 1853  1 1 2 2쩍 2쩍
13 Chris Wonnell bye bye B 10 W 19 W 9 B 8
1801 1797  1 1 2 2쩍 2쩍
14 Pejman Sagart ---- ---- B 21 W 11 B 10 B 9
1775 1800  0 0 1 2 2쩍 2쩍
21 Anthony Harbone ---- ---- W 14 B 22 W 17 W 16
1600 1612  0 0 0 1 2 2
17 Jason Arbeiter ---- ---- B 24 W 12 B 21 W 26
1722 1701  0 0 1 1 1 2
20 Nestor Dagamat ---- ---- B 26 W 15 B 16 W 22
1666 1653  0 0 1 1 1 2
19 William Delaney ---- ---- W 25 B 13 W 23 B 11
1690 1678  0 0 1 1 2 2
23 Harold-Xavier Gonzalez ---- ---- B 16 W 26 B 19 W 25
1326 1343   U1600 $25  0 0 0 1 1 2
15 Ariel Gerardo bye ---- ---- B 20 W 11 W 24
1800 1787  1쩍 1쩍 2
24 Chris Calbat ---- ---- W 17 B 25 W 22 B 15
1312 1362   U1600 $25  0 0 0 1 1쩍 2
6 Alan Sebeckis ---- ---- B 11 W 16 ---- ----
2026 2035   house  0 0 1 2 2 2
26 Patrick Edwards ---- ---- W 20 B 23 W 25 B 17
1131 1143  0 0 0 0 1 1
22 Jason Ma bye ---- ---- W 21 B 24 B 20
1434 1412  1 1
25 Fred Cleveland ---- ---- B 19 W 24 B 26 B 23
1242 1185  0 0 0 0 0 0
18 Arash Nahavandi ---- ---- ---- W 8 ---- ----
1698 1692   house  0 0 0 0 0 0

total prizes:  $430

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