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