Samuel Open Rd 2

The Robert Samuel Open  Round 2  4/23/08    7 PM

You can sign up for this event in 3 different ways

1) Preferred method - sign up online by emailing to Chuck Ensey at chucnglo@aol.com (must do so before 4 PM on Wednesday) or

2) by calling into the club telephone at 619-239-7166 before 6:30 PM (speak with Bruce Baker or leave a message), or

3) just by showing up in person at the club before 6:30 PM on Wednesday and sign in with TD. Entry fee is $25. 

This is a 6 round event in 3 sections: Open = Masters and Experts, Premier = Class A and B players, Reserve = Class C and below. Time control is our usual 40/90, SD/60 with 5 second time delay. If you can't make a round please be sure to call us and let us know so you don't get paired (or email if before 4 PM Wed). Two half point byes are available.

Open Section

Board 1  Ed Baluran (1) - Todd Smith (1)  1/2-1/2

Bd 2  Mariano Lozano (1)  - Rick Aeria (1)  1/2-1/2

The opening began as a French Defence 1. e4 e6  2. d4  d5 And after Mariano elected to play 3. exd5 (The Exchange Variation), outlooker Master David Hart - with all the dry wit of a veteran jokester wondered aloud later, it there was a Chess Informant symbol for "chicken"?  Nonetheless, after failing to react correctly to Mariano's pugnacious but anti-positional c4-c5 advance, White built up a dangerous spatial advantage and could-have and should-have won when I offered an unsound sacrifice. With Master David Hart's lucid post-mortem analysis, he pointed out an advanced idea: a sacrifice of the exchange for only a pawn and then to follow up positionally.  I had rejected the sac because I was only looking for a tactical solution.  So thus, I leaned something from this game... the great divide between a true master and an expert.

See game here.  Special thanks to Master David Hart and Mariano Lozano for going over the game in post-mortem analysis.

Bd 3  Alejandro Garamendi (1/2) - Ron Soto (1)  0-1

Bd 4  George Zeigler (0) - Carey Milton (0)  1-0

Bd 5 Raoul Crisologo (0) - Phil Roth    Raoul did not show up last night, hope he is ok

Bye: Bruce Baker (1/2) 

Premier Section

Bd 10  Lennart Mathe (1) - Fawsi Murra Jr (1/2)  1-0

Lennart was supposed to play William Wijaya, but William didn't show up until 7:50 PM. By then the game had been re-paired. REMEMBER if you are going to be late, you must call in (619-339-7166) and let us know. After 7:30 we find a house player for your opponent if we haven't heard from you because by that point we have to assume you are not coming.    

Bd 11  Thirunathan Sutharsan (1) - Roxas Acosta (1)  1-0

Bd 12  Jason Qu (1) - Dayne Freitag (1)  0-1 

Bd 13  Ron Rezendes (1) - Nathanael Plapp (1)  1/2-1/2

Bd 14  Fausto Robles (1) - Vincent Broman (1)  1-0

Bd 15  Rocio Murra (1) - Phillip Roth (1)  0-1

Phil was a house player filling in for Bob Defore, who also was MIA, hope he is OK

Bd 17  Jerrry Soelberg (1/2) - David Delgadillo (0)  1/2-1/2

Bd 18  Arash Nahavandi (0) - Hector Gonzalez (0)  0-1

Bd 19  Fred Borges (0) - Chuck Ensey (0)  0-1

Bd 20  Fawsi Jose Murra (0) - Erik Marquis (0)  1-0

Bd 21  Bob Draper (0) - Ryan Nichols (0)  1/2-1/2

Bd 22  Anthony Harbone (0) - Damani Fair (0)  1/2-1/2

Byes: Caley Anderson (1), Alfredo Deleon (1/2), Shaun Sweitzer (0)

Reserve Section

Bd 25  Bassam Shammas (1) - Michael Ryan (1)  1-0

Bd 26  Tom Kuhn (1) - Victor Delgadillo (1)  1-0

Bd 27  Steve Perry (1/2) - Robert Samuel  (1)  1-0

Bd 28  Morgan Fox (1/2) - Arnold Berlin (1/2)  1-0

Bd 29  Mark Lawless (0) - Fred Cleveland (0)  1-0

Bd 30  Keith Wetterer (0) - Monica Ness (0)  0-1  

Bye: Patrick Edwards