Class Championships Rd 4 of 6

Bruce Baker Class Championships  Round 4 of 6  11/28/12  7 PM
Down the homestretch...

Master/Expert Section
Bd 1  Kyron Griffith (2 1/2) - Aaron Wooten (2 1/2)
Bd 2  Raoul Crisologo (2) - Jim Humphrey (2 1/2)
Bd 3  Peter Hodges (1 1/2) - Jeff Turner (1 1/2)
Bd 4  Chris Wonnell (1 1/2) - Robert Defore (1 1/2)
Bd 5  Mario Amodeo (1) - Alejandrino Baluran (1)
Bd 6  Bud Stamper (1) - Esteban Escobedo (1/2)
Bd 7  Lennart Mathe (1/2) - house player

Class A Section
Bd 8  David Saponara (2 1/2) - Allan Virtue (3)
Bd 9  David Delgadillo (2) - Guru Gopalakrishnan (2 1/2)
Bd 10  Pejman Sagart (2) - Thomas Fries (1 1/2)
Bd 11  Joel Batchelor (1 1/2) - Luke Neyndorff (1 1/2)
Bd 12  Bruce Charnov (1 1/2) - Buddy Morris (1 1/2)
Bd 13  Alfredo Deleon (1) - Ron Rezendes (1)
Bd 14  Robert Draper (1/2) - Shaun Sweitzer (1/2)

Class B Section
Bd 15  William Wijaya (3) - Tom Kuhn (3)
Bd 16  Hector Gonzalez (2) - Anthony Harbone (2)
Bd 17  Gregory Ingolia (2) - Jim Krooskos (2)
Bd 18  Robert Henderson (1 1/2) - Mayra Movius (1 1/2)
Bd 19  Fawsi Jose Murra (1 1/2) - Sam Barboo (1)
Bd 20  Gary Weeks (1) - Steve Perry (1)
Bd 21  Brain Kelley (1/2) - Damani Fair (1/2)
Bye: Chuck Ensey (1)

Class C Section
Bd 22  Morgan Fox (2 1/2) - Thomas Webb (3)
Bd 23  Glenn Rich (2) - Darryl Woodson (2)
Bd 24  Mark Lawless (1 1/2) - John Huey (1 1/2)
Bd 25  Rob Soul (1 1/2) - David Palmer (1)
Bd 26  Rocio Murra (1) - Arnold Berlin (0)

Class D/E Section
Bd 27  John May (3) - Karen Kaufman (2 1/2)
Bd 28  Maria Murra (2) - Keric Rivas (2)
Bd 29  Keith Wetterer (2) - Patrick Edwards (2)
Bd 30  Mike Smith (1) - Ron Stanard (1)
Bd 31  Bill Murray (1/2) - Roger Pedersen (1)
Bd 32  Stephen Tuba (1/2) - Blake Foster (1/2)

Class Championships Rd 3 of 6

Bruce Baker Class Championships Rd 3 of 6 on 11/21/12  7 PM

Master/Expert Section
Bd 1  Raoul Crisologo (2) - Kyron Griffith (2)
Bd 2  Jim Humphrey (1 1/2) - Aaron Wooten (1 1/2)
Bd 3  Alejandrino Baluran (1) - Aaron Wooten (1 1/2)
Bd 4  Chris Wonnell (1 1/2) - Peter Hodges (1/2)
Bd 5  Lennart Mathe (1/2) - Jeff Turner (1/2)
Bd 6  Esteban Excobedo (1/2) - Mario Amodeo (0)
Bye: Bob Defore (1), Kyron Griifth (2), whoops we will redo these pairing soon

Class A Section
Bd  7  Allan Virtue (2) - Pejman Sagart (2)
Bd  8  David Saponara (1 1/2) - Joel Batchelor (1 1/2)
Bd 9  Guru Gopalakrishnan (1 1/2) - Luke Neyndorff (1 1/2)
Bd 10  Buddy Morris (1) - Thomas Fries (1)
Bd 11  Shaun Sweitzer (1/2) - David Delgadillo (1)
Bd 12  Bruce Charnov (1/2) - Ron Rezendes (1/2)
Bd 13  Alfredo Deleon (0) - Bob Draper (0)
Withdraw: Jerry Qu (1/2)

Class B Section
Bd 14  Greg Ingolia (2) - William Wijaya (2)
Bd 15  Tom Kuhn (2) - Robert Henderson (2)
Bd 16  Chuck Ensey (1) - Hector Gonzalez (1)
Bd 17  Anthony Harbone (1) - Sam Barboo (1)
Bd 18  Jim Krooskos (1) - Steve Perry (1)
Bd 19  Erik Marquis (1/2) - Fawsi Jose Murra (1/2)
Bd 20  Damani Fair (1/2) - Gary Weeks (0)
Bye: Mayra Movius (1)

Class C Section
Bd 21  Darryl Woodson (2) - Tom Webb (2)
Bd 22  John Huey (1 1/2) - Morgan Fox (1 1/2)
Bd 23  Glenn Rich (1) - Rocio Murra (1)
Bd 24  David Palmer (1) - Rob Soul (1)
Bd 25  Stanford Talcott (1/2) - Mark Lawless (1/2)
Bd 26  Joe Sanna? (0) - Arnold Berlin (0)

Class D/E Section
Bd 27  John May (2) - Maria Murra (2)
Bd 28  Roger Pedersen (1) - Keric Rivas (1)
Bd 29  Patrick Edwards (1) - Mike Smith? (1)
Bd 30  Bill Murray (1/2) - Keith Wetterer (1)
Bd 31  Stephen Tuba (0) - Ron Stanard (0)
Bye: Karen Kaufman (2), Blake Foster (0)

November Gambito Opens

November Gambito Opens #585-588

Nov 4, '12 8:21 AM by Chuck for everyone

Gambito Open #587  11/17/12
$20 Entry Fee, 4 rounds of G/40, d/5, rounds at 10:30 AM, 12:15, 2:45 and 4:30, all over by 6 PM. All entry fees paid out in prizes minus small club and rating fees. Prizes for 1st, 2nd, BU2400, BU2200, BU2000, BU1800 and BU1600. Also BU1400 if we have enough of those players. We may use a McMahon pairing system or split the field into 2 or 3 sections depending on the number of entrants and the discretion of the TD.   
Gambito Open #586  11/10/12
4 Masters (2 bye points): Cyrus Lakdawala, Kyron Griffith, Varun Krishnan and Bruce Baker
11 Experts (1 bye point): Raoul Crisologo, Aaron Wooten, Alan Sebeckis, Peter Hodges, Jamieson Pryor, Leonard Sussman, Jeff Turner, Elkaei Rivera, Mario Amodeo, Bud Stamper and Chris Wonnell (missing Agron, Barquin and Humphrey from last week or we would have had a record 14 Experts!)
0 Class A: My big chance to be a winner, but I couldn't play today! (Chuck Ensey)
8 Class B: Jerry Qu, Jerry Cupat, Jay Choi, Gary Weeks, Bryan Thayillam, Boris Polonsky, Anthony Harbone and Jesse Wang
5 Class C and below: Fred Cleveland, Matthew Wang, Patrick Edwards, Ganesh Dekate and Rolando Llevares (unr)
Bruce Baker directed and used a 2 point McMahon pairing system. This event is now rated.
Here were the Prize winners:
First Place/BU2400: Cyrus Lakdawala (5) and Kyron Griffith (5), $85 each
2nd Place: Varun Krishnan (4 1/2), $60
BU2200: Aaron Wooten (4), $70
BU2000/BU1800: Jerry Cupat (3) and Gary Weeks (3), $70 each
BU1600: Patrick Edwards (2), $60
Total Prizes $500

Gambito Open #585 November Super 11/03/12
32 players today, here they are in rating order :
2 Masters: Cyrus Lakdawala and Bruce Baker
11 Experts: Paul Agron, Raoul Crisologo, Aaron Wooten, Jamieson Pryor, Jim Humphrey, Leonard Sussman, Ben Barquin, Jeff Turner, Elkaei Rivera, Bud Stamper and Chris Wonnell.
A little light on the masters (no Griffith, Aldama or Graves), but I think that was a record number of Experts!
5 Class A: Sridhar Ramanujam, Jason Arbeiter, Jay Choi, Jerry Qu and Chuck Ensey (playing up, currently only 1781 and I lost more points today, sigh; I was up two pieces against Elkaei and lost, groan. I don't mind losing to Experts, but I should have been able to hold that one, but to Elkaei's credit, he hung in there and pulled it out. I used to say never resign against me, I have blown so many games and I guess that bad habit is still haunting me!)
6 Class B: Jerry Cupat, Marco Gonzalez, William Wijaya, Rolando Ignacio, Boris Polonsky and Anthony Harbone
5 Class C: David Narevsky, Alex Costello, Cassidy Liu, David Palmer and Fred Cleveland
3 Class E: Patrick Edwards, Ganesh Dekate and Chase Finch (unr)
We played in 2 sections as usual. John Donahoo (1660) filled in as a house player when needed and won one both games, one in the Open and one in the Reserves. Here are the prize winners:
Open Section (18 players):
First Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (3 1/2), $125
2nd Place/U2400/U2200: Bruce Baker (3), Raoul Crisologo (3) and Leonard Sussman (3), $75 each
2nd U2400/2nd U2200: Ben Barquin (2 1/2), Aaron Wooten (2 1/2) and Bud Stamper (2 1/2), $17 each
U2000: Sridhar Ramanujam (2), $75
2nd U2000: Jerry Qu (1) and Chuck Ensey (1), $12 each
Reserve Section (14 players):
First Place: Marco Gonzalez (4), $75
2nd Place: Jerry Cupat (3), $25
BU1600: David Narevsky (2 1/2) and Alex Costello (2 1/2), $50 each
BU1400: Ganesh Dekate (1 1/2), $25
Best Games TBA
Total Prizes: $755

Class Championships

Class Championships 11/07/12 7 PM

Oct 31, '12 4:02 PM by Chuck for everyone

Class Championships start Nov 7th  7 PM 
Round 1 of 6 on 11/07/12  40/90, SD/60, d/5 
6 sections if we have enough players for each, which we usually do...
Winner of the Master/Expert section gets seeded into the 2014 Club Championship  
66 players so far
Master/Expert Section (14 players so far)
Bd 1 Mario Amodeo - Kyron Griffith  0-1
Bd 2  Bruce Baker - Bud Stamper  1-0
Bd 3  Lennart Mathe - Raoul Crisologo  0-1
Bd 4  Aaron Wooten - Chris Wonnell  1/2-1/2
Bd 5  Robert Defore - Peter Hodges  1-0
Bd 6  Alejandrino Baluran - Estebam Escobedo  1-0
Bye: Jim Humphrey, Jeff Turner
Class A (U2000) Section (15 players so far)
Bd 7  Alfredo Deleon - Thomas Fries  0-1
Bd 8  David Saponara - Shaun Sweitzer  1-0
Bd 9  Robert Draper - Joel Batchelor  0-1
Bd 10  Allan Virtue - David Delgadillo  1-0
Bd 11  Pejman Sagart - Buddy Morris  1-0
Bd 12  Guru Gopalakrishnan - Bruce Charnov  1-0
Bd 13  Jerry Qu - Luke Neyndorff  0-1
Bye: Ron Rezendes
Class B (U1800) Section (13 players so far)
Bd 14  Steve Perry - Hector Gonzalez  1-0
Bd 15  Greg Ingolia - Erik Marquis  1-0
Bd 16  Damani Fair - William Wijaya  0-1
Bd 17  Gary Weeks - Tom Kuhn  0-1
Bd 18  Robert Henderson - Fawsi Jose Murra  1-0
Bd 30  Anthony Harbone - Mayra Movius  1-0
Bd 31  Chuck Ensey - Donald Klass  1-0  Don is a house player
Class C (U1600) Section (12 players so far)
Bd 19  Rob Soul - Thomas Webb  0-1
Bd 20  Rocio Murra - David Palmer  1-0
Bd 21  Arnold Berlin - Glenn Rich  0-1
Bd 22  Morgan Fox - Stanford Talcott  1/2-1/2
Bd 23  Joe Sanna - Darryl Woodson  0-1
Bye: Mark Lawless, John Huey
Class D (U1400) Section (4 players so far)
Bd 24  Keric Rivas - Bill Murray  1-0
Bd 25  Karen Kaufman - Ronald Stanard  1-0
Class E (U1200) Section (8 players so far)
Bd 26  Roger Pedersen - John May  0-1
Bd 27  Patrick Edwards - Blake Foster  1-0
Bd 28  Keith Wetterer - Maria Murra  0-1
Bd 29  Michael Smith - Stephen Tuba  1-0
Very nice Trophies for winner of each class.

November Super Gambito

Gambito Open #585 November Super Gambito  11/03/12

Sorry this post got deleted, so I had to reconstruct

32 players today, here they are in rating order :

2 Masters: Cyrus Lakdawala and Bruce Baker

11 Experts: Paul Agron, Raoul Crisologo, Aaron Wooten, Jamieson Pryor, Jim Humphrey, Leonard Sussman, Ben Barquin, Jeff Turner, Elkaei Rivera, Bud Stamper and Chris Wonnell.

A little light on the masters (no Griffith, Aldama or Graves), but I think that was a record number of Experts!

5 Class A: Sridhar Ramanujam, Jason Arbeiter, Jay Choi, Jerry Qu and Chuck Ensey

6 Class B: Jerry Cupat, Marco Gonzalez, William Wijaya, Rolando Ignacio and Boris Polonsky

5 Class C: Anthony Harbone, David Narevsky, Alex Costello, Cassidy Liu and David Palmer

3 Class E: Patrick Edwards, Ganesh Dekate and Chase Finch (unr)

We played in 2 sections as usual. Here are the prize winners:

Open Section:

First Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (3 1/2), $125

2nd Place: Bruce Baker (3), $75

U2400/2200: Raoul Crisologo (3) and Leonard Sussman (3), $75 each

2nd U2400/2200: Ben Barquin (2 1/2), Aaron Wooten (2 1/2) and Bud Stamper (2 1/2), $17 each

U2000: Sridhar Ramanujam (2), $75

2nd U2000: Jerry Qu (1) and Chuck Ensey (1), $12 each

Reserve Section:

First Place: Marco Gonzalez (4), $75

2nd Place: Jerry Cupat (3), $25

BU1600: David Narevsky (2 1/2) and Alex Costello (2 1/2), $50 each

BU1400: Ganesh Dekate (1 1/2), $25

Best Game Open Section goes to Cyrus for win over Kyron
Best Game Reserve Section goes to Claire Negus for win over Gary Weeks

Total Prizes: $755