Note: No Gambito on 12/25/10, Christmas Day. However there will be a Super Gambito on 01/01/11 New Year's Day... don't stay up too late on 12/31!! see you next year!
Gambito #498 12/18/10
19 players, McMahon pairings with M/E=3, A=2, B=1, C/D=0.
First Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (7), $100 U2400: Daniel Grazian (6), $50
2nd Place: Kyron Griffith (5), $20
U2200: Nikolay Arutyunov (4 1/2), $50
U2000: Jamieson Pryor (4), $50 U1800: Kenneth Xu (4), $50
U1600: Haziq Siddiqi (3), $40
Total Prizes: $360
Gambito #497 12/11/10
16 players, bit of a light turnout, but understandable with the holiday season upon us. McMahon pairings with M/E = 2, A/B = 1, C/D = 0. Bruce Baker directed. Cyrus drew with Varun. Varun skipped the last round to lock in his newly attained master rating of 2200. Congratulation to Varun, we knew this day would come...but it is amazing how fast he did it.
First Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (5 1/2), $80 U2400: Kyron Griffith (4 1/2), $50
U2200: Varun Krishnan (4), Leonard Sussman (4), Peter Hodges (4), $13 each
U2000: Venkat Iyer (3 1/2), $40 U1800: Elkaei Rivera (3), $40
U1600: Jay Choi (2) and Joe Propati (2), $15 each
Total Prizes: $281
Gambito #496 (December Super Gambito) 12/04/10
33 players today, good turnout, enough to pay out even more than the Guaranteed Prize Fund of $700; we paid out $750 today. Here are the players in pre-tournament rating order:
2 Masters: Lakdawala, Baker
6 Experts: Arutyunov, Wooten, Milton, Agron, Sussman, Gonzalez
8 Class A: Pryor, Vinoya, Souza, Quiba, A. Householder, Rivera, Padilla, Ensey
8 Class B: S. Householder, Sweitzer, Arbeiter, E. Lopez, Ibarra, Narevsky, Qu, Harbone
1 Class C: Choi
8 Class D/E: C. Negus, Cleveland, A. Negus, Nizmutdinova, Edwards, Zeng, Stanard, Quattlebaum. Mark Negus filled in as a house player for 3 games.
Here were the prize winners:
Open Section, 16 players
First Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (4), $125
Second Place/BU2400: Bruce Baker (3) and Nikolay Arutyunov (3), $75 each
BU2200/2nd U2200: Leonard Sussman (2 1/2) and Aaron Wooten (2 1/2), $50 each
2nd U2400: Carey Milton (2), Antonio Gonzalez (2) and Paul Agron (2), $8 each
BU2000/2nd U2000: Mario Vinoya (2) and Chuck Ensey (2), $50 each
Best Game: Aaron Wooten, $15, for win over Prisciliano Padilla
Reserve Section (U1800), 17 players
First Place: Edgar Lopez (3 1/2), $62 BU1600: Andrew Negus (3 1/2), $62
Second Place: Aaron Ibarra (3), Anthony Harbone (3) and David Narevsky (3), $8 each
2nd U1600/BU1400: Jay Choi (2), Claire Negus (2) and Fred Cleveland (2), $23 each
Best Game: Andrew Negus, $15, for win over Scott Householder
Total Prizes: $750
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