Thursday, March 28, 2013

Club Championship Rd 7

Club Championship Round 7 of 7  on 4/03/13  at 7 PM

Here are the results and prizes from the last round: 

Plus Election Results: David Saponara is our new President, replacing Ron Rezendez, who has served for over ten years (?? probably more, I can't remember, it has been so long), thank you Ron for all your work.  Jeff Turner and Bruce Charnov win re-election as Secretary and Member At Large.

Club Championship Section
New Champ: Bruce Baker (6), trophy + $100
2nd Place: Peter Hodges (5 1/2), $60
3rd Place: Kyron Griffith (4 1/2), $40
BU2200: Raoul Crisologo (4), $40
2nd U2200: Bud Stamper (3 1/2) and Alejandrino Baluran (3 1/2)

Bd 1  Peter Hodges (5 1/2) - Raoul Crisologo (3)  0-1
Bd 2  Bruce Baker (5) - Alejandrino Baluran (3 1/2)  1-0
Bd 3  Kyron Griffith (3 1/2) - Bud Stamper (3 1/2)  1-0
Bd 4  Fidel Gonzalez (2 1/2) - Aaron Wooten (2 1/2)  1/2-1/2
Bd 6  Lennart Mathe (1) - Jeff Turner (1) 1/2-1/2

Reserve Championship Section
New Reserve Champ: Ron Rezendes (5 1/2) on tie breaks over Miguel Ceballos (5 1/2)
Trophy to Ron, plus $70 each for Ron and Miguel
3rd Place: Eliza Eggert (4 1/2), Thomas Webb (4 1/2) and Anthony Harbone (4 1/2), $25 each

Bd 7  Sam Barboo (3 1/2) - Ron Rezendes (5)  1/2-1/2
Bd 8  Miguel Ceballos (4 1/2) - Eliza Eggert (4 1/2)  1-0
Bd 9  Anthony Harbone (3 1/2) - Chuck Ensey (4)  1-0
Bd 10  Robert Henderson (2) - Thomas Webb (3 1/2)  0-1
Bd 11  Gary Weeks (3 1/2) - Rocio Murra (2)  0-1
Bd 12  Santiago Rubio-Fernaz (2 1/2) - Steve Perry (2 1/2)  1/2-1/2
Bd 13  Stephen Zhu (1) - Hector Gonzalez (2)  0-1 

Fred Borges Open Section
First/Second/Third: Chris Wonnell (5), Gregory Ingolia (5) and Mario Amodeo (5), $50 each
4th Place: Buddy Morris (4 1/2) and David Saponara (4 1/2), $25 each
Bd 16  Chris Wonnell (4 1/2) - David Saponara (4)  1/2-1/2
Bd 17  Buddy Morris (4 1/2) - Gregory Ingolia (4)  0-1
Bd 18  Mario Amodeo (4) - Daniel Zhu (4)  1-0
Bd 19  Pejman Sagart (2 1/2) - Thomas Fries (3)  1-0
Bd 20  Bruce Charnov (3) - Robert Draper (2 1/2)  1-0
Bd 21  Fawsi Jose Murra (3) - Shaun Sweitzer (2 1/2)  0-1

Fred Borges Reserve Section
First/Second: Brian Kelly (5) and William Wijaya (5), $50 each
3rd Place: Tom Kuhn (4), $30
BU1600: Morgan Fox (3 1/2) and Mark Lawless (3 1/2), $30 each

Bd 23  William Wijaya (4) - Mark Lawless (3 1/2)  1-0
Bd 24  Morgan Fox (3 1/2) - Brian Kelly (4)  0-1
Bd 25  Keirc Rivas (1) - Karen Kaufman (2)  0-1
Bd 26  Shiny Kaur (3 1/2) - John Huey (1 1/2)  0F-1F
Bd 27  Thomas Kuhn (3) - Darryl Woodson (3)  1-0

Fred Borges Amateur Section
First Place: Maria Murra (4 1/2), $50
BU1200: Patrick Edwards (4 1/2), $50
3rd Place: Tygan Zeng (4), $25
2nd U1200: Ross Blum (4) and Keith Wetterer (4), $25 each

Bd 24  Maria Murra (4) - Bill Murray (3)  1/2-1/2
Bd 25  Keith Wetterer (4) - Ross Blum (3)  0-1
Bd 26  Jim Harrell (2) - Patrick Edwards (3 1/2)  0-1

 
 

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Gambito #603

Gambito Open #603  3/23/13 

31 players today, good turnout after the St. Patrick's Day layoff. Here they in rating order:

Open Section (17 players):
3 Masters: Cyrus Lakdawala, Kyron Griffith and Peter Graves
8 Experts: Craig Clawitter, Venkat Iyer, Leonard Sussman, Aaron Wooten, Bud Stamper, Jeff Turner, David Rupel and Elkaei Rivera
6 Class A: Buddy Morris, Sridhar Ramanujam, Jason Arbeiter, Alex Costello, Jay Choi and Jerry Qu

Reserve Section (14 players):
6 Class B: Marco Gonzalez, Chuck Ensey, Anthony Harbone, Bryan Tantartharakul, Gary Weeks and Thomas Diem
3 Class C: Claire Negus, Andrew Negus and Ben Duong
5 Class D/E: Fred Cleveland, Matthew Wang, Mark Negus, Sabrina Duong and Dereck Williams

Prize Winners:
Open Section:
First Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (3 1/2), $100
2nd Place/BU2400: Craig Clawitter (3) and Peter Graves (3), $75 each
BU2200: David Rupel (3), $75
BU2000: Alex Costello (2 1/2), $75

Reserve Section:
BU1800: Bryan Tangtartharakul (4), $75
BU1600: Ben Duong (3), $60
BU1400: Fred Cleveland (2 1/2), $40

Total Prizes: $575


Thursday, March 21, 2013

Club Championship Rd 6 of 7

SDCC Club Championship  Round 6 of 7  on 3/27/13  at 7 PM

Club Championship Section
Bd 1  Peter Hodges (4 1/2) - Aaron Wooten (2 1/2)  1-0
Bd 2  Bud Stamper (3 1/2) - Bruce Baker (4)  0-1
Bd 3  Raoul Crisologo (2) - Tim McGuiness (3)  1-0
Bd 4  Alejancdrino Baluran (2 1/2) - Fidel Gonzalez (2 1/2)  1-0
Bd 5  Jeff Turner (1) - Kyron Griffith (2 1/2)  0-1

Reserve Championship Section
Bd 6  Ron Rezendes (4 1/2) - Gary Weeks (3)  1/2-1/2
Bd 7  Chuck Ensey (4) - Miguel Ceballos (3 1/2)  0-1
Bd 8  Eliza Eggert (3 1/2) - Damani Fair (3)  1-0
Bd 9  Steve Perry (2 1/2) - Sam Barboo (2 1/2)  0-1
Bd 10  Anthony Harbone (2 1/2) - Robert Henderson (2)  1-0
Bd 12  Rocio Murra (2) - Thomas Webb (2 1/2)  0-1
Bd 13  Santiago Rubio-Fernaz (1 1/2) - Stephen Zhu (1)  1-0
Full point bye: Hector Gonzalez (1)

Fred Borges Open Section
Bd 14  David Saponara (3 1/2) - Buddy Morris (4)  1/2-1/2
Bd 15  Daniel Zhu (3 1/2) - Thomas Fries (3)  1-0
Bd 16  Gregory Ingolia (3) - Bruce Charnov (3)  1-0
Bd 17  Zechariah Zhu (2 1/2) - Allan Virtue (1 1/2)  1-0
Bd 18  Robert Draper (1 1/2) - Pejman Sagart (2 1/2)  1-0
Bd 19  Fawsi Jose Murra (2 1/2) - Antonio Gonzalez (0)  1/2-/2
Bd 20  Shaun Sweitzer (1 1/2) - Erik Marquis (0)  1-0
Bye: Chris Wonnell (4), Mario Amodeo (3 1/2)

Fred Borges Reserve Section
Bd 21  Brian Kelly (3) -William Wijaya (4)  1-0
Bd 22  Carl Newell (0) - Thomas Kuhn (3)  1-0
Bd 23  Hector Gonzalez (0) - Morgan Fox (3)  1/2-1/2
Bd 24  Mark Lawless (2 1/2) - Karen Kaufman (2)  1-0
Bd 25  John Huey (1 1/2) - Darryl Woodson (2)  0-1
Bd 26  Libano Rodrriguez (0) - Keric Rivas (0)  0-1

Fred Borges Amateur Section
Bd 27  Maria Murra (4) - Patrick Edwards (2 1/2)  0-1
Bd 28  Tygan Zeng (3) - Jim Harrell (2)  1-0 
Bd 29  Ross Blum (2) - Andrew Sung (2 1/2)  1-0
Bd 30  Roger Pdeersen (0) - Keith Wetterer (3)  0-1


  


Thursday, March 14, 2013

Club Championship Rd 5

SDCC Championship  Round 5 of 7  on 3/20/13  at 7 PM

Here are the Tentative Pairings as of 3/15:

Club Championship
Bd 1  Kyron Griffith (2 1/2) - Peter Hodges (3 1/2)  0-1
Bd 2  Aaron Wooten (2 1/2) - Bruce Baker (3)  0-1
Bd 3  Bud Stamper (2 1/2) - Alejandrino Baluran (2 1/2)  1-0
Bd 4  Tim McGuiness (2 1/2) - Fidel Gonzalez (2)  1/2-1/2
Bd 5  Raoul Crisologo (2) - Jeff Turner (0)  1-0
Zero point bye: Lennart Mathe (1)  Withdraw: Todd Smith (1 1/2), Esteban Escobedo (1)

Reserve Championship
Bd 6  Damani Fair (3) - Ron Rezendes (3 1/2)  0-1
Bd 7  Chuck Ensey (3 1/2) - Eliza Eggert (3)  1/2-1/2
Bd 8  Miguel Ceballos (2 1/2) - Robert Henderson (2)  1-0
Bd 9  Gary Weeks (2) - Steve Perry (2 1/2)  1-0
Bd 10  Sam Barboo (1 1/2) - Glenn Rich (1 1/2)  1-0
Bd 11  Santiago Rubio-Fernaz (1 1/2) - Anthony Habone (1 1/2)  0-1
Bd 12  Hector Gonzalez (1) - Rocio Murra (1)  0-1
Bd 13  Stephen Zhu (1/2) - Steve Gordon (1/2)  1/2-1/2

Fred Borges Open Section
Bd 14  Chris Wonnell (3) - Mario Amodeo (3 1/2)  1-0
Bd 15  Buddy Morris (3) - Bruce Charnov (3)  1-0
Bd 16  David Saponara (2 1/2) - Zechariah Zhu (2 1/2)  1-0
Bd 17  Thomas Fries (2) - Fawsi Jose Murra (2 1/2)  1-0
Bd 18  Daniel Zhu (2) - David Delgadillo (1 1/2)  1-0
Bd 19  Shaun Sweitzer (1 1/2) - Gregory Ingolia (2)  0-1
Bd 20  Pejman Sagart (1 1/2) - Allan Virtue (1 1/2)  1-0
Bd 21  Robert Draper (1/2) full point bye
 
Fred Borges Reserve Section
Bd 22  William Wijaya (3) - Gurveer Singh (3)  1-0
Bd 23  Thomas Kuhn (2 1/2) - Shiny Kaur (2 1/2)  1/2-1/2
Bd 24  Morgan Fox (2) - Mark Lawless (2 1/2)  1-0
Bd 25  John Huey (1 1/2) - Brian Kelly (2)  0-1
Bd 26  Darryl Woodson (2) - Karen Kaufman (1)  0-1
Bd 27  Christopher Martin (1) was a no show?! 

Fred Borges Amateur Section
Bd 28  Andrew Sung (2 1/2) - Maria Murra (3)  0-1
Bd 29  Patrick Edwards (1 1/2) - Keith Wetterer (3)  1-0
Bd 30  Jim Harrell (2) - Roger Pedersen (1 1/2)  0-1
Bd 31 Ross Blum (1) full point bye 



Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Gambito #602



Gambito #602

25 Players, which was an excellent turnout; but a lot of regular strong players didn’t play this one

1 Masters: Bruce Baker
3 Experts: Lenny Sussman, Bud Stamper, Chris Wonnell
4 A: Bud Morris, Aaron Householder, Sridhar Ramanujam, Alex Costello
5 B: Chuck Ensey, Gurveer Singh, Anthony Harbone, Cory Foster, Scott Householder
5 C: Ben Keltner, Chris Thomas, Jesse Wang, Eusy Ancheta, Rex Pimentel
6 D/E: Fred Cleveland, Alex Householder, Jim Harrell, David Terr, Andruw Householder, Sonny Mattia

Thanks to John Donahoo for playing a house game.

Jeff Turner directed and used a 1 point McMahon pairing system where:
M, Exp, A = 1 and B, C, D, E = 0

Here were the prize winnners:

First                        
Bruce Baker   $100

Second/U2200/U2400
Sridhar Ramanujam, Alex Costello, Aaron Householder $50 each

U2000/U1800          
Gurveer Singh, Anthony Harbone, Cory Foster $33 each

U1600                      
Ben Keltner  $50

U1400                      
David Terr, Alex Householder, Andrew Householder $10 each

Total Prizes: $429

602nd Gambito Wall Chart

602nd Gambito

SwissSys Wall Chart. 602nd Gambito: Open (standings)

#Name/Rtng/IDRd 1Rd 2Rd 3Rd 4Rd 5Rd 6
1Bruce Bakerbye bye W 5B 7W 2B 6
2261 11323634 ½ 1 2 3 4 5
7Sridhar Ramanujambye bye W 3W 1B 4B 2
1824 12851455 ½ 1 2 2 3
8Alex Costellobye bye B 4B 2W 10W 11
1814 14702870 ½ 1 2 2
6Aaron Householderbye bye bye B 3W 5W 1
1879 13487640 ½ 1
3Bud Stamperbye bye B 7W 6B 20W 14
2083 13417417 ½ 1 1 1 2 3
10Gurveer Singh--------B 17W 16B 8W 4
1740 12921902 U 0U 0 ½ 2 3
2Lenny Sussmanbye bye bye W 8B 1W 7
2107 10113814 ½ 1 3
12Anthony Harbone--------B 20W 4B 23B 5
1690 10468086 U 0U 0 1 1 2 3
13Cory Foster--------W 22B 5W 18B 21
1626 12928613 U 0U 0 1 1 2 3
11Chuck Ensey--------W 18B 15W 21B 8
1726 10487188 U 0U 0 1
15Ben Keltner--------B 23W 11B 14W 24
1572 14005153 U 0U 0 1
14Scott Householder--------bye B 19W 15B 3
1622 13596092 U 0U 0 ½
5Buddy Morrisbye bye B 1W 13B 6W 12
1920 12425168 ½ 1 1 2 2 2
4Chris Wonnellbye bye W 8B 12W 7B 10
2020 12894088 ½ 1 1 2 2 2
16Chris Thomas--------W 25B 10W 9B 20
1572 12809642 U 0U 0 1 1 1 2
9John Donahoobye bye --------B 16----
1763 12610809 ½ 1U 1U 1 2U 2
18Eusy Ancheta--------B 11W 24B 13W 23
1442 12452533 U 0U 0 0 1 1
23David Terr--------W 15B 22W 12B 18
980 13785138 U 0U 0 0 1 1
21Alex Householder--------bye W 17B 11W 13
1367 13487655 U 0U 0 ½
24Andrew Householder--------bye B 18W 19B 15
818 13738842 U 0U 0 ½ ½
19Fred Cleveland--------bye W 14B 24W 25
1432 12569732 U 0U 0 ½ ½ ½
20Rex Pimentel--------W 12B 25W 3W 16
1426 14454216 U 0U 0 0 1 1 1
25Sonny Mattia--------B 16W 20W 22B 19
800 14901040 U 0U 0 0 0 1 1
22Jim Harrell--------B 13W 23B 25bye
1097 15059276 U 0U 0 0 0 0 1
17Jesse Wang--------W 10B 21--------
1552 13739762 U 0U 0 ½ ½U ½U ½

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Club Championship Round 4

Club Championship  Round 4 on 3/13/13 at 7 PM

Here are the Tentative Pairings for Rd 4: as of 3/12/13

Championship Section
Bd 1  Peter Hodges (2 1/2) - Bud Stamper (2 1/2)  1-0
Bd 2  Bruce Baker (2) - Tim McGuiness (2 1/2)  1-0
Bd 3  Todd Smith (1 1/2) - Aaron Wooten (1 1/2)  0-1 
Bd 4  Esteban Escobedo (1) - Paul Agron (1)  0-1
Bd 5  Lennart Mathe (1) - Raoul Crisologo (1)  0-1
Bd 6  Fidel Gonzalez (1) - Jeff Turner (0)  1-0 
Bye: Kyron Griffith (2), Alejandrino Baluran (2)
Withdraw: David Hart (1 1/2) and John Funderburg (1/2)

Reserve Championship
Bd 7  Ron Rezendes (3) - Chuck Ensey (3)  1/2-1/2
Bd 8  Steve Perry (2) - Miguel Ceballos (2)  1/2-1/2
Bd 9  Thomas Webb (2) - Eliza Eggert (2)  0-1
Bd 10  Glenn Rich (1 1/2) - Damani Fair (2)  0-1
Bd 11  Gary Weeks (1) - Sam Barboo (1 1/2)  1-0
Bd 12  Robert Henderson (1) - Hector Gonzalez (1)  1-0
Bd 13  Rocio Murra (1) - Santiago Rubio-Fernaz (1/2)  0-1
Bd 14  Stephen Zhu (1/2) - Anthony Harbone (1/2)  0-1

Fred Borges Open
Bd 15  Mario Amodeo (2 1/2) - Buddy Morris (3)  1-0
Bd 16  Chris Wonnell (2) - Zechariah Zhu (2 1/2)  1-0
Bd 17  Bruce Charnov (2) - Thomas Fries (2)  1-0
Bd 18  Greg Ingolia (2) - David Saponara (1 1/2)  0-1
Bd 19  Pejman Sagart (1 1/2) - Daniel Zhu (1)  0-1
Bd 20  David Delgadillo (1) - Shaun Sweitzer (1)  1/2-1/2
Bd 21  Allan Virtue (1/2) - Robert Draper (1/2)  1-0
Bd 22  Steve Gordon (0) - Erik Marquis (0)  1-0
Bye: Fawsi Jose Murra (2) 

Fred Borges Reserve
Bd 23  Tom Kuhn (2 1/2) - William Wijaya (2)  0-1
Bd 24  Morgan Fox (2) - Gurveer Singh (2)  0-1
Bd 25  Shiny Kaur (1 1/2) - Brian Kelly (2)  1-0
Bd 26  Mark Lawless (1 1/2) - John Huey (1 1/2)  1-0
Bd 27  Darryl Woodson (1) - Christopher Martin (1)  1-0
Bd 28  Karen Kaufman (0) - Patrick Edwards (0)  1-0

Fred Borges Amateur
Bd 29  Keith Wetterer (2) - Maria Murra (3)  1-0
Bd 30  Andrew Sung (1/2) - Nick Staffend (1 1/2)  1-0
Bd 31  Ross Blum (1) - Jim Harrell (1)  0-1
Full Point Bye:  Patrick Edwards (1/2)
1/2 point bye: Tygan Zeng (2), Monica McGuiness
Withdraw: Bill Murray (2)

Match Play:
Bd 38  Batchelor (1) - Fred De Leon (2)   0-1

Saturday, March 2, 2013

March Super Gambito, #601

March Super Gambito Open on 3/02/13 (#601)
29 players today, missing a few regulars... here are the players today in rating order:
Open Section (15 players)
4 Masters: Dionisio Aldama, Bruce Baker, Peter Graves and Nikolay Arutyunov
7 Experts: Venkat Iyer, Raoul Crisologo, Leonard Sussman, Aaron Wooten, Peter Hodges, Ben Barquin and Jeff Turner
2 Class A: Buddy Morris, Fidel Gonzalez
2 Class B playing up in the Open: Jerry Qu and Chuck Ensey
Also John Donahoo (1746), our dependable house player had 1 win and 1 loss in the Open, plus 1 win in the Reserves.

Reserve Section (14 players)
8 Class B: Daniel Cook, Rolando Ignacio, Hector Gonzalez, Bryan Tangtartharakul, Thomas Diem, David Narevsky, Anthony Harbone and Andrew Negus
1 Class C: Claire Negus
4 Class D/E: Caleb Laguna, Joshua Chung, Patrick Edwards, Mark Negus and Batuhan Korman (unr)

Dioniso took a first round bye and drew with Peter Graves. Peter also won games with Venkat and Nikolay. Jeff Turner upset Leonard Sussman. Nikolay upset Bruce Baker. In the Reserves, an unrated player won all 4 games, so next time he will be in the Open Section!
  
And the prize winners were:
Open Section:
First Place: Peter Graves (3 1/2), $125
Second Place: Dionisio Aldama (3), $75
BU2400: Nikolay Arutyunov (2 1/2) and Raoul Crisologo (2 1/2), $50 each
BU2200: Jeff Turner (2 1/2) and Peter Hodges (2 1/2), $50 each
BU2000: Fidel Gonzalez (2), $75
2nd U2000: Buddy Morris (1 1/2), $25

Reserve Section:
First/Second Place: Anthony Harbone (3) and Bryan Tangtartharakul (3), $50 each
BU1600/2nd U1600: Clair Negus (2) and Caleb Laguna (2), $35 each
Best Unrated: Batuhan Korman (4), book prize 
Best Game Prizes TBA
Total Prizes: $700