Club Championship Rd 4

The Club Championships  Round 4 of 7  3/24/2010  7 PM

This tournament is in 5 sections. Time control is 40/90, SD/60, 5 second delay. Entry Fee: $25. Two byes are available, but no last round byes. If you would like to join this event, please email chucnglo@aol.com or call the club telephone at 619-239-7166. If you want to request a bye by email, please do it before 4 PM on Wednesday, otherwise you can call the club phone by 6:30 PM. Byes after that time will be zero point byes instead of 1/2 point byes.   

80 players registered so far...   

Please Note: comments below are made by Chuck Ensey and are intended for entertainment purposes only. I take full responsibility and these comments do not reflect the official views of the SDCC, this website or anyone else. Rick Aeria and I used to write long and lovingly about the Club Championship and we used to try to inject humor and funny photos, captions and cartoons, etc. for every round. We really don't have time to do that anymore (Rick is now in Guam), since the recession has hit our wallets and we all have to work much harder just to try to stay even. Maybe when I retire I can get back to full coverage, but I fear that day is still a long way off. Anyway, if anyone is offended by my lame jokes then I am sorry, we are just trying to liven it up a bit... (Note: comments deleted due to change in pairings)      

Here are the Results for round 4:   

Club Championship (16 players):

Board 1  John Funderburg (3) - Bruce Baker (2)  1-0

Ron Bruno (1 1/2) taking a bye changed all but two (Bd 4 & 7) of the expected pairings.   

Bd 2  Raoul Crisologo (2) - Todd Smith (2)  0-1

Bd 3  Lennart Mathe (2) - Mario Amodeo (2)  0-1

Bd 4  Paul Agron (1 1/2) - Fausto Robles (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 5 Ron Soto (1 1/2) - Carl Wagner (1)  1/2-1/2

Bd 6  Mariano Lozano (1) - Eric Kuniholm (1)  1-0

Bd 7  Fawsi Murra Jr (0) - Alejandrino Baluran (1/2)

Byes: Ronald Bruno (1 1/2) and Bill Whitney (1)

Here's how play ended the last few years:

2007 - John Funderburg (5 1/2) and Marc Duesterwald (5 1/2); Todd Smith (4 1/2)

2008 - Ronald Bruno (6); John Funderburg (5 1/2); Todd Smith (4 1/2), Ignacio Sainz (4 1/2) and Alejandro Garamendi (4 1/2)

2009 - John Funderburg (5 1/2); David Hart (4 1/2), Todd Smith (4 1/2), Raoul Crisologo (4 1/2) 

As you can see Funderburg has been in the thick of it the last 3 years, so no surprise he is leading again....and Todd Smith has been a consistent contender too.  

Reserve Championship (16 players):

Bd 10  Anthony Harbone (3) - Eduardo Vasquez (2 1/2)  0-1

Bd 11  Mayra Murra (2) - Chuck Ensey (2)  0-1

Bd 12  Rocio Murra (2) - Erik Marquis (2)  1-0

Bd 13  Jerry Soelberg (1 1/2) - Julian Rodriguez (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 14  Damani Fair (1) - Donald Klaas (1)  1/2-1/2

Bd 15  Phil Skiba (1) - Steve Perry (1)  0-1

Bd 16  Shaun Sweitzer (0) - James Sturtevant (1/2)  1-0

Byes: Robert Hall (2), Chris Jensen (1 1/2) and Christopher Kuttruff (0)

Open Section (17 players):

Bd 17  Robert Draper (2 1/2) - Jim Humphrey (2 1/2)  1-0

Bd 18  Pejman Sagart (2 1/2) - Gary Tuttle (2 1/2)  0-1

Bd 19  Daniel Quan (2) - David Delgadillo (2)  0F - 1F  No Show by new player Daniel Quan

Bd 20  Matt Souza (1 1/2) - Dayne Freitag (1 1/2)  0-1

Bd 21  Larry Vikander (1 1/2) - Phillip Roth (1 1/2)  0-1

Bd 22  David Saponara (1 1/2) - Joel Batchelor (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 23  Chris Wonnell (1) - Marty Lower (1)  1-0

Bd 24  Buddy Morris (1) - Khris Juroshek (1)  1-0

Bd 25  Matt Foley (0) - Thomas Fries (0)  1-0

U1800 Section (16 players):

Bd 26  Jerry Beck (3) - Tom Kuhn (2 1/2)  1-0

Bd 27  Mark Lawless (2) - Sean McNeely (2)  1-0

Bd 28  Fawsi Jose Murra (1 1/2) - Jim Krooskos (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 29  Victor Delgadillo (2) - Fred Borges (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 30  Fred Cleveland (1) - Guru Gopalakrishnan (1 1/2)  0-1

Bd 31  Santiago Rubio-Fernaz (1) - Edgar Lopez (1)  0-1

Bd 32  Eric Tuttle (1/2) - Eduardo Sanchez (1/2)  1-0

Byes: Jerry Kavanau (2 1/2) and Hector Gonzalez (1 1/2)

U1400 Section (15 players)  

Bd 35  Leonardo Villaverde (2 1/2) - Jerry Qu (2 1/2)  0-1

Bd 36  Tom Lavoy (2) - Bill Murray (2 1/2)  1/2-1/2 

Bd 37  Monica Ness (2) - Rafael Hernandez (2)  1-0

Bd 38  Maria Murra (1 1/2) - Orrin Olgart (1 1/2)  0-1  

Bd 39  Keith Wetterer (1 1/2) - Larry Harper (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 40  Klodeta Abdoli (1) - Patrick Edwards (1)  0-1

Bd 41  Arnold Berlin (0) - Frank Gaylord (1/2)  0-1

Withdraw: Darryl Woodson (1)         

Tentative Pairings for next week will be posted tonight

Expected top boards are Smith-Funderburg, Vasquez-Murra,R, Draper-Delgadillo,D, Beck-Kavanau and Qu-Murray.