Prize List Gambito 616 6/29/13

Open

Name	Prize	Amount
IM Cyrus Lakdawala	Tie 1st Place	$85
Bruce Baker	Tie 1st Place	$85
Jason Ma	1st U2400	$60
Elkaei Rivera	2nd U2400	$20
Aaron Householder	1st U2200	$60
Jeff Turner	Tie 2nd U2200	$20
Lenny Sussman	Tie 2nd U2200	$20
Alex Costello	Tie U2000	$43
Sridhar Ramanujam	Tie U2000	$43
Chuck Ensey	Tie U2000	$43
Datris Robinson	1st U1800	$50
Scott Householder	2nd U1800	$25
Luiz Uribe	1st U1600	$50
Frank Tanglartharakul	2nd U1600	$25

Wall Chart. Gambito #616 6/29/13

SwissSys Wall Chart. Gambito #616: Open (standings)

#	Name/Rtng/ID	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7
1	IM Cyrus Lakdawala	bye	bye	bye	W 3	B 2	W 9	W 4
	2522 11486738	1	2	3	3½	4½	5½	6½
3	Bruce Baker	bye	bye	bye	B 1	W 4	W 2	B 5
	2309 11323634	1	2	3	3½	4½	5½	6½
2	Kyron Griffith	bye	bye	bye	B 5	W 1	B 3	W 6
	2406 12860484	1	2	3	4	4	4	5
9	Jason Ma	bye	bye	bye	W 14	B 7	B 1	W 15
	1976 13972226	1	1½	2	3	4	4	5
12	Aaron Householder	bye	bye	bye	bye	W 15	B 13	W 18
	1886 13487640	1	1½	2	2½	3	4	5
5	Elkaei Rivera	bye	bye	bye	W 2	B 16	W 17	W 3
	2048 14470201	1	2	3	3	3½	4½	4½
7	Alex Costello	bye	bye	bye	B 6	W 9	B 18	W 20
	1995 14702870	1	1½	2	3	3	3½	4½
6	Jeff Turner	bye	bye	bye	W 7	B 17	W 16	B 2
	2040 11457525	1	2	3	3	3½	4½	4½
4	Leonard Sussman	bye	bye	bye	bye	B 3	W 10	B 1
	2075 10113814	1	2	3	3½	3½	4½	4½
10	Sridhar Ramanujam	bye	bye	bye	B 15	W 13	B 4	W 16
	1898 12851455	1	1½	2	2½	3½	3½	4½
17	Chuck Ensey	bye	bye	bye	B 19	W 6	B 5	W 8
	1835 10487188	1	1½	2	3	3½	3½	4½
15	Ajay Krishnan	bye	bye	bye	W 10	B 12	W 14	B 9
	1853 14375346	1	1½	2	2½	3	4	4
20	Datris Robinson	bye	bye	----	W 23	W 11	B 25	B 7
	1735 12796177	½	1	U 1	2	3	4	4
11	Buddy Morris	bye	bye	bye	W 16	B 20	W 24	B 14
	1888 12425168	1	1½	2	2	2	3	4
18	Jerry Qu	bye	bye	bye	bye	B 8	W 7	B 12
	1808 13421896	1	1½	2	2½	3½	4	4
29	Luiz Uribe	----	----	----	W 34	B 22	W 21	W 13
	1488 12839860	U 0	U 0	U 0	1	2	3	4
16	Gurveer Singh	bye	bye	bye	B 11	W 5	B 6	B 10
	1838 12921902	1	1½	2	3	3½	3½	3½
31	Frank Tanglartharakul	----	----	----	B 27	B 23	W 22	B 24
	1454 14450715	U 0	U 0	U 0	1	1½	2½	3½
25	Scott Householder	bye	bye	----	bye	B 21	W 20	W 23
	1600 13596092	½	1	U 1	1½	2½	2½	3½
13	Jay K Choi	bye	bye	bye	W 8	B 10	W 12	B 29
	1883 13775854	1	1½	2	3	3	3	3
14	Ramil Macaspac	bye	bye	bye	B 9	W 24	B 15	W 11
	1866 15184868	1	1½	2	2	3	3	3
8	Chris Wonnell	bye	bye	bye	B 13	W 18	B 19	B 17
	1995 12894088	1	1½	2	2	2	3	3
27	Justin Kang	----	----	----	W 31	B 26	W 28	B 19
	1501 14554482	U 0	U 0	U 0	0	1	2	3
23	Anthony Harbone	bye	bye	----	B 20	W 31	W 33	B 25
	1600 10468086	½	1	U 1	1	1½	2½	2½
21	Eliza Eggert	bye	bye	----	bye	W 25	B 29	W 30
	1723 14466080	½	1	U 1	1½	1½	1½	2½
33	Fred Cleveland	----	----	----	bye	W 30	B 23	B 26
	1364 12569732	U 0	U 0	U 0	½	1½	1½	2½
19	Bryan Tangtartharakul	bye	bye	----	W 17	B 28	W 8	W 27
	1780 14450721	½	1	U 1	1	2	2	2
24	David Narevsky	bye	bye	----	W 22	B 14	B 11	W 31
	1600 12329150	½	1	U 1	2	2	2	2
34	Alec Chen	----	----	----	B 29	W 32	B 30	B 28
	1258 14873704	U 0	U 0	U 0	0	1	1	2
30	Matthew Wang	----	----	----	bye	B 33	W 34	B 21
	1464 13739777	U 0	U 0	U 0	½	½	1½	1½
26	Jesse Wang	----	----	----	bye	W 27	B 32	W 33
	1584 13739762	U 0	U 0	U 0	½	½	1½	1½
28	Tygan Zeng	----	----	----	B 32	W 19	B 27	W 34
	1500 13983645	U 0	U 0	U 0	1	1	1	1
22	Ben Duong	bye	bye	----	B 24	W 29	B 31	----
	1678 14901358	½	1	U 1	1	1	1	U 1
32	Sabrina Duong	----	----	----	W 28	B 34	W 26	----
	1368 13530772	U 0	U 0	U 0	0	0	0	U 0

2013 Varun Krishnan Open Prizes 6/26/13

2013 Varun Krishnan Open Prizes

The Master/Expert Section (40/90, SD/60)

1st Place   Alejandrino Baluran   3     $30         

2nd Place   Raoul Crisologo          3     $30

3rd Place   Mario Vinoya             3     $30

               Peter Hodges               3     $30                        

                                                        

The Premier Section (U2000, G/90)

1st Place   Joel Batchelor             4     $50         

2nd Place   Bruce Charnov           4     $50

3rd Place   Thomas Fries              3     $10

                Pejman Sagart             3     $10

BU1800   Steve Perry                 3     $60

2nd U1800    Thomas Kuhn             2 ½  $30

  

The Reserve Section (U1600, G/90)

1st Place   Bill Murray                 4     $50         

U1400     Maria Murra               3 ½  $40

2nd U1400    Karen Kaufman          3     $10

                                                           

The Doubleheader Section (G/45 x 2), A=3, B=2, C=1

1st Place   Buddy Morris             11   $40         

2nd Place   Shaun Sweitzer           11   $40

BU1800   Mark Lawless              7   $50

BU1600   Robert Henderson        6   $40         

BU1400   Tygan Zeng                 4 ½ $30         

                                                                        

Total Prizes $630  based on number of players (43 Total)

Krishnan Doubleheader Final Standings 6/26/13

SwissSys Wall Chart. krishnan doubleheader: McMahon Pairings 2 games (standings)

#	Name/Rtng/ID	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Rd 8	Rd 9	Rd 10	Rd 11	Rd 12	Rd 13
4	Buddy Morris	bye	bye	bye	W 2	B 2	W 5	B 5	W 1	B 1	B 7	W 7	W 9	B 9
	1935 12425168	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	7	7	8	9	10	11
1	Shaun Sweitzer	bye	bye	bye	W 3	B 3	W 7	B 7	B 4	W 4	B 9	W 9	B 2	W 2
	1965 12791027	1	2	3	3½	4	5	6	7	8	8	9	10	11
5	Allan Virtue	bye	bye	bye	bye	bye	B 4	W 4	B 10	W 10	W 12	B 12	W 8	B 8
	1905 12543468	1	2	3	3½	4	4	4	5	5	6	6½	7½	8½
9	Mark Lawless	bye	bye	bye	B 10	W 10	B 11	W 11	B 2	W 2	W 1	B 1	B 4	W 4
	1633 13146688	1	1½	2	2	3	4	5	5	6	7	7	7	7
2	Alfredo Deleon	bye	bye	bye	B 4	W 4	bye	bye	W 9	B 9	bye	bye	W 1	B 1
	1942 12291870	1	2	3	3	3	3½	4	5	5	6	7	7	7
6	Gurveer Singh	bye	bye	bye	bye	bye	bye	bye	bye	bye	bye	----	B 10	W 10
	1856 12921902	½	1	1½	2	2½	3	3½	4	4½	5	U 5	6	7
7	Jerry Qu	bye	bye	bye	W 8	B 8	B 1	W 1	bye	----	W 4	B 4	B 14	W 14
	1725 13421896	1	1½	2	3	4	4	4	4½	U 4½	4½	4½	5½	6½
10	Robert Henderson	bye	bye	----	W 9	B 9	W 13	B 13	W 5	B 5	W 14	B 14	W 6	B 6
	1554 12472307	½	1	U 1	2	2	2½	3½	3½	4½	5½	6	6	6
8	Glenn Rich	bye	bye	bye	B 7	W 7	bye	bye	- 13	- 13	bye	bye	B 5	W 5
	1657 12482031	1	1½	2	2	2	2½	3	X 4	X 5	5½	6	6	6
3	Miguel A Ceballos	bye	bye	bye	B 1	W 1	bye	bye	----	----	----	----	----	----
	1939 13223038	1	2	3	3½	4	4½	5	U 5	U 5	U 5	U 5	U 5	U 5
12	Tygan Zeng	----	----	----	B 11	W 11	- 14	- 14	W 15	B 15	B 5	W 5	- 13	- 13
	1395 13983645	U 0	U 0	U 0	0	0	F 0	F 0	1	2	2	2½	X 3½	X 4½
11	Morgan Fox	bye	bye	----	W 12	B 12	W 9	B 9	B 14	W 14	----	----	----	----
	1552 13199827	½	1	U 1	2	3	3	3	4	4	U 4	U 4	U 4	U 4
14	Patrick Edwards	----	----	----	W 13	B 13	- 12	- 12	W 11	B 11	B 10	W 10	W 7	B 7
	1120 12663915	U 0	U 0	U 0	0	0	X 1	X 2	2	3	3	3½	3½	3½
13	Joshua Chung	----	----	----	B 14	W 14	B 10	W 10	- 8	- 8	bye	----	- 12	- 12
	1217 14476813	U 0	U 0	U 0	1	2	2½	2½	F 2½	F 2½	3	U 3	F 3	F 3
15	Jeffrey Brown	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	B 12	W 12	----	----	----	----
	unr.	U 0	U 0	U 0	U 0	U 0	U 0	U 0	0	0	U 0	U 0	U 0	U 0

Varun Krishnan Open Final Standings 6/26/13

SwissSys Wall Chart. Varun Krishnan Open: Master/Expert (standings)

#	Name/Rtng/ID	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5
5	Alejandrino Baluran	B 8	W 6	W 9	B 3	W 7
	2047 12218060	1	1	2	2	3
3	Raoul Crisologo	bye	B 7	W 6	W 5	B 9
	2135 12925427	½	1½	2	3	3
9	Mario Vinoya	bye	W 8	B 5	W 2	W 3
	2005 12930285	½	1½	1½	2	3
4	Peter Hodges	W 7	B 2	W 8	B 6	----
	2071 11218873	½	1	2	3	U 3
6	Bob Defore	W 1	B 5	B 3	W 4	B 8
	2022 12544882	1	2	2½	2½	2½
8	Chris Wonnell	W 5	B 9	B 4	bye	W 6
	2014 12894088	0	0	0	1	2
2	Jim Humphrey	bye	W 4	bye	B 9	----
	2148 11351298	½	1	1½	2	U 2
7	Lennart Mathe	B 4	W 3	bye	----	B 5
	2019 13333232	½	½	1	U 1	1
1	Bruce Baker	B 6	bye	----	----	----
	2295 11323634	0	½	U ½	U ½	U ½

SwissSys Wall Chart. Varun Krishnan Open: U2000 (standings)

#	Name/Rtng/ID	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5
2	Joel Batchelor	B 9	W 5	B 6	W 4	B 10
	1937 10422086	1	2	3	3	4
5	Bruce Charnov	W 16	B 2	B 8	W 11	B 4
	1833 14453255	1	1	2	3	4
4	Thomas Fries	B 12	W 8	B 11	B 2	W 5
	1900 10459451	1	1½	2	3	3
8	Chuck Ensey	W 14	B 4	W 5	B 12	W 1
	1806 10487188	1	1½	1½	2½	3
6	Pejman Sagart	B 19	W 1	W 2	B 10	B 11
	1822 12536658	1	2	2	2	3
10	Steve Perry	B 3	W 11	B 7	W 6	W 2
	1737 10966841	1	1	2	3	3
1	David Saponara	W 7	B 6	bye	W 14	B 8
	1946 10455073	1	1	1½	2½	3
12	Thomas Kuhn	W 4	B 16	bye	W 8	B 13
	1703 13035497	0	1	1½	1½	2½
11	Fawsi Jose Murra	bye	B 10	W 4	B 5	W 6
	1731 12880268	½	1½	2	2	2
13	Rocio Murra	bye	W 7	B 14	B 16	W 12
	1652 12880266	½	½	1	2	2
14	Donald Klaas	B 8	W 9	W 13	B 1	B 17
	1636 12873096	0	1	1½	1½	1½
9	Eliza Eggert	W 2	B 14	W 16	B 15	----
	1755 14466080	0	0	1	1½	U 1½
7	Robert Draper	B 1	B 13	W 10	bye	----
	1818 12555944	0	1	1	1½	U 1½
16	Santiago Rubio-Fernaz	B 5	W 12	B 9	W 13	B 18
	1600 12478169	0	0	0	0	1
17	Karen Kaufman	----	----	----	----	W 14
	1399 12682629	U 0	U 0	U 0	U 0	1
15	Anthony Harbone	----	----	----	W 9	----
	1600 10468086	U 0	U 0	U 0	½	U ½
3	Guru Gopalakrishnan	W 10	- 19	----	----	----
	1937 14404626	0	F 0	U 0	U 0	U 0
19	Ryan Schofield	W 6	- 3	----	----	----
	unr.	0	F 0	U 0	U 0	U 0
18	Ross Blum	----	----	----	----	W 16
	1270 14509568	U 0	U 0	U 0	U 0	0

SwissSys Wall Chart. Varun Krishnan Open: U1600 (standings)

#	Name/Rtng/ID	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5
4	Bill Murray	W 2	B 5	W 7	B 3	W 6
	1367 12778336	0	1	2	3	4
6	Maria Murra	bye	B 7	W 3	- 1	B 4
	1280 13309535	½	1½	2½	X 3½	3½
3	Karen Kaufman	W 5	B 2	B 6	W 4	bye
	1399 12682629	1	2	2	2	3
7	Jim Harrell	bye	W 6	B 4	bye	W 2
	957 15059276	½	½	½	1½	2½
2	David Palmer	B 4	W 3	B 1	W 5	B 7
	1450 12695790	1	1	1	2	2
1	Luiz Uribe	bye	bye	W 2	- 6	----
	1500 12839860	½	1	2	F 2	U 2
5	Ross Blum	B 3	W 4	bye	B 2	bye
	1282 14509568	0	0	½	½	1½

Special 5 Round Gambito Open 6/22/13

Gambito #615  on 6/22/13     $2,000 in Guaranteed Prizes!!

Kick off summer in Grand Style! 
Time Control: Game in 40 minutes with 5 second delay
Round times: 10 AM, 11:45, 2:15 PM, 4 and 5:30.
2 Sections: Open and Reserve (U1800)
36 players total, slightly less than expected, but still pretty good.
Here they were in pre-event rating order:

Open Section (19 players):
5 Masters: Cyrus Lakdawala, Kyron Griffith, Bruce Baker, Peter Graves and Paul Agron
4 Experts: Nikolay Arutyunov, Raoul Crisologo, Jeff Turner and Mario Vonoya
10 Class A: Jason Ma, Ramil Macaspac, Roberto Aiello, Jay Choi, Aaron Householder, Gurveer Singh, Charles Berkman, Jerry Qu, Chuck Ensey and Kevin Yang (playing up). John Donahoo played 2 house games

Reserve Section (17 players):
6 Class B: Datris Robinson, Thomas Diem, Carlo Del Pilar, Ben Duong, Scott Householder and Anthony Harbone
4 Class C: Justin Kang, Jesse Wang, David Palmer and Sabrina Duong
4 Class D: Alex Householder, Matthew Wang, Mark Negus and Joshua Chung
3 Class E: Patrick Edwards, Alec Chen and Andruw Householder
Brian Kelly played 1 house game while Claire Negus and Jim Harrell played 2 each.

Here were the prize winners;
Open Section:
First/Second Place/BU2400 tie: Kyron Griffith (4), Cyrus Lakdawala (4) and Nikolay Arutyunov (4), $233 each
2nd U2400: Bruce Baker (3 1/2), $75
BU2200: Jeff Turner (3), $150  BU2000: Roberto Aiello (3), $150
2nd U2200: Raoul Crisologo (2 1/2), $25 tie with 5 below
2nd U2000: Aaron Householder (2 1/2), Jason Ma (2 1/2), Jay Choi (2 1/2), Chuck Ensey (2 1/2) and Kevin Yang (2 1/2), $25 each
Biggest Upset: Chuck Ensey, $15, 155 points
estimated rating point gainers: Roberto Aiello +24 to 1965, Nikolay Arutyunov +16 to 2182, Kevin Yang +16 1781, Chuck Ensey +15 to 1834, Aaron houeholder +13 to 1880, Jeff Turner +12 to 2034, Kyron Griffith +11 to 2412, Bruce Baker +10 to 2311
Best Game: to be announced here later

Kyron lost only to Cyrus, Cy drew with Peter and Bruce, Nikolay lost only to Kyron, as did Bruce. Jeff beat Raoul in the last round and Roberto beat Mario.

Reserve Section:
First Place: Ben Duong (4 1/2), $200
2nd Place: Thomas Diem (4), $120
BU1600: Matthew Wang (4), $150
3rd Place: Jesse Wang (3 1/2), $75
2nd U1600: Justin Kang (3), $58 tie with 2 below
U1400: Alec Chen (3) and Mark Negus (3), $58 each
Biggest Upset, Alec Chen, $15, 769 points
Best Game Prize: to be announce here later
this event is not rated yet, but here are some estimates: 3 players gained over 100 points:
Alec Chen +162 to 1162, Mark Negus +131 to 1363, Matthew Wang +124 to 1432, Jesse Wang +92 to 1576, Patrick Edwards +55 to 1141 and Ben Duong +43 to 1711.
Ben Duong drew with Alec in rd 1, then won 4 in a row. Thomas lost only to Ben. Matthew lost only to Thomas.
Total Prizes: $2,000

Gambito #614 Final Wallchart 6/15/13

SwissSys Wall Chart. Gambito #614: Open (standings)

#	Name/Rtng/ID	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Rd 8
1	IM Cyrus Lakdawala	bye	bye	bye	bye	W 3	B 2	B 6	W 7
	2522 11486738	1	2	3	4	5	6	6½	7½
2	Bruce Baker	bye	bye	bye	bye	W 5	W 1	B 9	W 6
	2295 11323634	1	2	3	4	5	5	6	7
9	Jeff Turner	bye	bye	bye	bye	B 10	W 7	W 2	B 16
	2000 11457525	1	2	2½	3	4	4½	4½	5½
6	Venkat Iyer	bye	bye	bye	bye	B 8	B 3	W 1	B 2
	2150 12907690	1	2	2½	3	4	5	5½	5½
8	Elkaei Rivera	bye	bye	bye	bye	W 6	B 16	B 12	W 14
	2063 14470201	1	2	2½	3	3	3	4	5
11	Jason Ma	bye	bye	bye	bye	W 15	B 14	W 16	B 5
	1976 13972226	½	1	1½	2	2½	3½	4	5
7	Leonard Sussman	bye	bye	bye	bye	bye	B 9	W 5	B 1
	2070 10113814	1	2	2½	3	3½	4	5	5
4	Paul Agron	bye	bye	bye	bye	bye	B 5	----	----
	2202 14016682	1	2	3	3½	4	5	U 5	U 5
16	Jay K Choi	bye	bye	bye	bye	W 13	W 8	B 11	W 9
	1803 13775854	½	1	1½	2	3	4	4½	4½
5	Ramil Macaspac	bye	bye	bye	bye	B 2	W 4	B 7	W 11
	2201 15184868	1	2	3	4	4	4	4	4
21	Ben Keltner	bye	bye	----	----	bye	B 17	W 19	W 25
	1653 14005153	½	1	U 1	U 1	1½	2	3	4
17	Chuck Ensey	bye	bye	----	----	bye	W 21	B 20	W 12
	1774 10487188	½	1	U 1	U 1	1½	2	3	4
10	Alex Costello	bye	bye	bye	bye	W 9	B 19	W 13	----
	1994 14702870	½	1	1½	2	2	3	4	U 4
3	Peter Graves	bye	bye	bye	bye	B 1	W 6	----	----
	2295 12476605	1	2	3	4	4	4	U 4	U 4
12	Buddy Morris	bye	bye	bye	bye	bye	B 15	W 8	B 17
	1935 12425168	½	1	1½	2	2½	3½	3½	3½
14	Jerry Qu	bye	bye	bye	bye	bye	W 11	B 15	B 8
	1824 13421896	½	1	1½	2	2½	2½	3½	3½
18	Thomas Diem	bye	bye	----	----	W 19	B 25	W 27	B 24
	1769 14382934	½	1	U 1	U 1	1	1	2	3
19	Datris Robinson	bye	bye	----	----	B 18	W 10	B 21	W 15
	1764 12796177	½	1	U 1	U 1	2	2	2	3
20	Carlo Del Pilar	bye	bye	----	----	W 23	B 13	W 17	B 27
	1753 15188690	½	1	U 1	U 1	2	2	2	3
25	Tygan Zeng	----	----	----	----	W 28	W 18	B 26	B 21
	1395 13983645	U 0	U 0	U 0	U 0	1	2	3	3
13	John Donahoo	bye	bye	bye	bye	B 16	W 20	B 10	----
	1853 12610809	½	1	1½	2	2	3	3	U 3
15	Jason Arbeiter	bye	bye	bye	bye	B 11	W 12	W 14	B 19
	1823 13734901	½	1	1½	2	2½	2½	2½	2½
23	Luiz Uribe	----	----	----	----	B 20	W 28	B 24	W 26
	1590 12839860	U 0	U 0	U 0	U 0	0	1	1	2
26	Fred Cleveland	----	----	----	----	bye	W 24	W 25	B 23
	1379 12569732	U 0	U 0	U 0	U 0	½	1½	1½	1½
24	Jesse Wang	----	----	----	----	bye	B 26	W 23	W 18
	1502 13739762	U 0	U 0	U 0	U 0	½	½	1½	1½
27	Matthew Wang	----	----	----	----	bye	W 29	B 18	W 20
	1306 13739777	U 0	U 0	U 0	U 0	½	1½	1½	1½
28	Joshua Chung	----	----	----	----	B 25	B 23	W 29	W 22
	1217 14476813	U 0	U 0	U 0	U 0	0	0	1	1
22	Donald Klaas	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	B 28
	1636 12873096	U 0	U 0	U 0	U 0	U 0	U 0	U 0	1
29	Patrick Edwards	----	----	----	----	bye	B 27	B 28	----
	1121 12663915	U 0	U 0	U 0	U 0	½	½	½	U ½

Gambito #614

Gambito #614  on 6/15/13

26 players, attendance usually increases as we get into the summer months, which is why we are having a 5 round Special Gambito next week (starts at 10 AM instead of 10:30 to sqeeze in the extra round). Entry fee is $50 and there are $2,000 in guaranteed prizes! Details to follow in a new posting. As for Gambito 614, here are the players in pre-event rating order:

We used a 4 point McMahon pairing system with M=4, E=3, A=2, B=1 and C/D=0

4 Masters: Cyrus Lakdawala, Bruce Baker, Peter Graves, Ramil Macaspac (based on only 4 games from last week, but we had to honor that).
4 Experts: Venkat Iyer, Leonard Sussman, Elkaei Rivera and Jeff Turner
6 Class A: Alex Costello, Jason Ma, Buddy Morris, Jerry Qu, Jason Arbeiter and Jay Choi
5 Class B: Chuck Ensey, Thomas Diem, Datris Robinson, Carlo Del Pilar and Ben Keltner
2 Class C: Luiz Uribe and Jesse Wang
5 Class D: Tygan Zeng, Fred Cleveland, Matthew Wang, Joshua Chung and Patrick Edwards

House players: Paul Agron (1 game), John Donahoo (3 games), Donald Klaas (1 game)

Cyrus drew with Venkat in round 3 and also beat Bruce, Peter and Lenny. Bruce beat Ramil, Jeff and Venkat. Jeff beat Alex, drew with Lenny and beat Jay. Venkat beat Elkaei and Peter before drawing and losing to the top 2 players. Jason Ma drew with Jason Arbeiter, beat Jerry, drew with Jay and beat Ramil. Ben and Chuck took byes and then drew each other but both won their last two, Ben over Datris and Tygan; Chuck over Carlo and Buddy. Tygan beat Joshua, Thomas and Fred, before losing to Ben in the last round.
As far as rating points, the winners were (these are estimates): Tygan +92 to 1497, Jay +51 to 1854 and Ben +50 to 1703.

and the prize winners were:

First Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (7 1/2), $100
Second Place: Bruce Baker (7), $60
U2400/U2200: Jeff Turner (5 1/2) and Venkat Iyer (5 1/2), $55 each
U2000: Jason Ma (5), $60
U1800: Chuck Ensey (4) and Ben Keltner (4), $30 each
U1600: Tygan Zeng (3), $40
U1400: Fred Cleveland (1 1/2) and Matthew Wang (1 1/2), $15 each

Total Prizes: $450

Gambito #613

Gambito Open #613   6/08/2013

27 players, including, in pre-event rating order:
5 Masters: Cyrus Lakdawala, Varun Krishnan, Raad Hamad, Bruce Baker and Peter Graves
4 Experts: Elkaei Rivera, Leonard Sussman, Jeff Turner and Mario Vinoya
7 Class A: Alex Costello, Buddy Morris, Sridhar Ramanujam, Gurveer Singh, Jerry Qu, Chuck Ensey, Bryan Tangtartharakul, plus John Donahoo (2 games) and Vincent Broman (1 game) as house players
4 Class B: Jay Choi, Eliza Eggert, Ben Keltner and Jared Weiss
3 Class C: Jesse Wang, Michael Blandin and David Palmer
2 Class D/E: Matthew Wang and David Terr, plus house player Robert Sulzen (1 game)
2 unrated (free entry): Carlo Del Pilar and Ramil Macaspac

Pretty good turnout considering many of the usual players were in Las Vegas for the National Open.
We used a 3 point McMahon, with M/E=3, A=2, B=1, C/D=0
Here are the Prize winners:

First Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (6 1/2), $100
2nd Place: Peter Graves (6), $60
BU2400: Bruce Baker (5 1/2), $60
BU2200: Mario Vinoya (5), $60
BU2000: Alex Costello (5), $60
BU1800: Ben Keltner (3 1/2) and Jared Weiss (3 1/2), $30 each
BU1600: Matthew Wang (2 1/2), $40
BU1400: David Terr (1), $10

Total Prizes: $450

Cyrus drew with Peter Graves, then beat Varun, Bruce and Raad
Peter also beat Mario, drew with Raad and beat Varun and raised his rating over 2300!
Bruce drew with Mario, beat Jeff, lost to Cy and beat Lenny
Mario also drew with Jeff and beat Sridhar
Raad racked up 3 draws with Jeff, Lenny and Peter before losing to Cyrus
Alex had a bye, beat Sridhar, drew with Elkaei and beat Jeff
Ramil Macaspac beat David Terr, Michael Blandin (barely, on time with an analog clock), Bryan Tangtartharakul and Jay Choi, so estimated provisional rating is 2199!! No relation to Arthur Macaspac, by the way.
Carlo Del Pilar beat David Palmer, Eliza, drew with Chuck and lost to Jared for an est 1752 rating.  

Bruce Charnov directed with assistance from me, Chuck Ensey

In two weeks, June 22 we will kick off summer with a 5 round Special Gambito, starts early at 10 AM and with a $50 entry fee, it will have lots of big prizes, details to follow... 

Prize List Gambito #612 (Super) 6/1/13

Open & Reserve

Name	Prize	Amount
IM Cyrus Lakdawala	1st Place	$125
Bruce Baker	Tie 2nd Place & U2400	$77
Peter Graves	Tie 2nd Place & U2400	$77
Jerry Qu	U1800	$45
Venkat Iyer	2nd U2400	$45
Daniel Zhu	Tie U2200 & U2000	$45
Jeff Turner	Tie U2200 & U2000	$45
Ben Barquin	Tie U2200 & U2000	$45
Alex Costello	Tie U2200 & U2000	$45
John Donahoo	1st U1800	$75
Kevin Yang	Tie 2nd U1800	$15
Ben Duong	Tie 2nd U1800	$15
Sabrina Duong	1st U1600	$75
Thomas Diem	Tie 2nd U1800	$15
Andrew Negus	2nd U1600	$25
David Terr	U1400	$40