Thursday, August 29, 2013

Peter Hodges Precision Shoothout Rd 3 of 6

Peter Hodges Precision Shootout, Round 3 of 6 on 9/4/13 at 7 PM

Here are the tentative pairings for this round:  30/90, SD/60, d/5
Please call the club if you need a bye. 619-239-7166

Open Section
Bd 1  Lennart Mathe (2) - David Saponara (2)

Bd 2  Peter Hodges (1 1/2) - Jim Humphrey (1 1/2)

Bd 3  Antonio Gonzalez (1 1/2) - George Zeigler (1 1/2)

Bd 4  Jerry Qu (1 1/2) - Allan Virtue (1 1/2)

Bd 5  Alfredo De Leon (1) - Buddy Morris (1)

Bd 6  Alejandrino Baluran (1/2) - Chuck Ensey (1)

Bd 7  Miguel Ceballos (1/2) - Raoul Crisologo (1/2)

Bd 8  Gurveer Singh (1/2) - Shaun Sweitzer (1/2)

Bd 9  Fawsi Murra (1/2) - Joel Batchelor (1/2)

Bd 10  Robert Draper (1/2) - Thomas Fries (0)

Reserve Section

Bd 12  Robert Henderson (2) - Steve Perry (2)

Bd 14  Irina Nizmutdinova (2) - Jim Harrell (2)

Bd 16  Dwayne Matheny (1 1/2) - Damani Fair (1 1/2)

Bd 18  Tom Kuhn (1) - Hector Gonzalez (1)

Bd 20  Anthony Harbone (1) - Tygan Zeng (1)

Bd 22  Santiago Rubio-Fernaz (1) - Rocio Murra (1)

Bd 24  Karen Kaufman (1) - Ken Green (1)

Bd 26  Maria Murra (1/2) - Eliza Eggert (1/2)

Bd 28  Keith Wetterer (1) - Patrick Edwards (1/2)

Bd 30  Mark Lawless (0) - Bill Murray (0)

Bd 32  Roger Pedersen (0) - Frank Cuenca (0)

Several house players are standing by and will be paired if possible.

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Southern Cal Open Prizes


Southern California Open  8/31 - 9/02/13

$20,000 in Guaranteed Prizes

6 round Swiss in 5 sections. 40/2, G/1 + 5 second delay, or for 2 day option, the first 3 games are at G/60, d/5 then merge with the rest in round 4. 

Location: The Town and County Hotel in San Diego's Mission Valley. 500 Hotel Circle North, San Diego 92108. 150 Grand Prix points (enhanced) and this is a State Championship Qualifier.

Great turnout of 193 players, plus 3 re-entries!! Thanks everyone for supporting our event which will allow us to continue this big Guaranteed Prize Fund and come back next year at the same location!

Fully Guaranteed Prizes:

Open Section (63 players):
1st - 3rd Place: GM Melekset Khachiyan (5), GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami (5), FM Nicholas Van Der Nat (5), $1,733 each
4th - 5th Place: Michael Brown (4 1/2) and Jonathan Homidan (4 1/2), $750 each
BU2300/2nd U2300: Kevin Davidson (4 1/2) and Isaac Martinez (4 1/2), $800 each
9-way tie for 6th - 7th Place: GM Enrico Sevillano (4), FM Alexandre Kretchetov (4), IM Edward Formanek (4), IM Dionisio Aldama (4), FM Eugeen Yanayt (4), WIM Shayesteh Ghader Pour (4), Liulia Cardona (4), Tony Yim, Craig Hilby (4), $100 each
BU2200/2ndU2200/3rdU2200: Solomon Ruddell (3 1/2), Ethan Li (3 1/2), Joshua Sheng (3 1/2), $666 each
11-way tie for 4th U2200: Marian Nick Nita (3), Ashok Kumar Ramadoss (3), Alaa-Addin Moussa (3), Agata Bykovtsev (3), Mario Vinoya (3), Annie Wang (3), Nikolay Arutyunov (3), John Funderburg (3), Jeff Turner (3), Nicky Korba (3), Ashritha Eswaran (3), $18 each

Premier (U2000) Section (40 players):
6-way tie for 1st-4th: Edward Collins (4 1/2), Chris Roberts (4 1/2), Dennis Saccuzzo (4 1/2), Carlos Hernandez (4 1/2), Joselito Quiba (4 1/2), Rachel Eng (4 1/2), $366 each

Amateur (U1800) Section (38 players):
1st - 2nd Place: Mack Kelly (5) and Eliza Eggert (5), $800 each
3rd - 4th Place: Charles Berkman (4 1/2) and Hector Gonzalez (4 1/2), $300 each

Reserve (U1600) Section (22 players):
1st - 2nd Place: Justin Friedlander (5) and David Palmer (5), $800 each
3rd - 4th Place: Joshua Shaham (4 1/2) and Gia Peterson (4 1/2), $300 each

Booster (U1400) Section (34 players):
1st Place: Errol Acosta (5), $375, tied with
2nd - 3rd Place/BU1200: Alfredo Ong (5), Matthew Mullen (5), Rianne Ke (5), $375 each
4-way tie for 4th Place: Anthony Liu (4), Alexander Shaham (4), Vavara Okaneva (4), Vincent Maggio (4), $25 each
2nd U1200: Ashritha Eswaran (4), $150
Best Unrated: Dwayne Matheny (4), $100

Special Bonus Woman's Prizes for players not already winning $300 or more:
(donated by Dr. Dennis Saccuzzo)
Top Woman Master: Shayesteh Ghader Pour (4) and Liulia Cardona (4), $25 each
Top Woman Expert: Agata Bykovtsev (3), Annie Wang (3) and Ashritha Eswaran (3), $17 each
Top Woman U2000: Stephanie Shao (4), $50; note Rachael Eng already won $366
Top Woman U1800: Alice Salvaryan (3 1/2), $50; note Eliza Eggert already won $800
Top Woman U1600: Sabrina Duong (3), $50, note Gia Peterson already won $300
Top Woman U1400: Varvara Okuneva (4), $50, note Rianne Ke already won $375
Top Woman U1200: Aksithi Eswaran (4) $50

Best Game Prizes still being worked on...

 Email Chuck Ensey at chucnglo@aol.com if you have a question...

SDCC Summer Scholastic


SDCC Summer Scholastic on Sunday August 24th


All students Grade K-12 are invited to play
3 Sections: Novice (Under 600 USCF or unrated)
                   Intermediate (under 1000 USCF rated)
                   Advanced (over 1000 USCF rated)
Note: All players play 5 games, win or lose
Rated event, United States Chess Federation (USCF) membership required, may join at event (usually cost is $19 per year) 
Registration: 9 AM to 9:45 AM, Entry Fee $15
Trophies each section, plus medals for other players

Round 1 begins at approximately 10 AM, event is over by 4 PM or 4:30 at the latest.
Bring chess sets if you have them.
contact Bruce Baker at brucesandiego@cox.net if you have any questions or call the club at 619-239-7166  

Gambito #622

Gambito Open #622 on 8/24/13

This is the last Gambito of the month as next week, August 31st, is the Southern California Open, right here in San Diego at the Town and Country Hotel in Mission Valley. This event features a $20,000 Guaranteed Prize fund with a long classical time control of 40/120, SD/60, d/5. If you opt for the 2 day schedule then you have to play 3 fast games at G/60, d/5 on Sunday and then merge that evening at 5 PM with the other players for round 4 for a slow game. That is a brutal schedule, but about 15% of the players choose it, so we keep offering it to help boost attendance.  Sign up for this event at scchess.com where you can also see the list of advance entries, so far we have 4 GMs, 5 IMs and 12 other masters.

I (Chuck Ensey) wasn't able to play today, but I stopped by at lunchtime. Another great turnout!
Here are the players in pre-event rating order, Bruce Baker directed and used a 3 point McMahon where Master/Expert = 3, A = 2, B = 1, C/D = 0:

3 Masters: Dionisio Aldama, Cyrus Lakdawala and Bruce Baker

6 Experts: Dimitry Kishinevsky, Venkat Iyer, Ben Barquin, Jeff Turner, Leonard Sussman and Raoul Crisologo

11 Class A: Buddy Morris, Chris Wonnell, Aaron Householder, Jay Choi, Richard Skinnell, Jerry Qu, Gurveer Singh, Kevin Yang, Jason Arbeiter, Ramil Macaspac and David Delgadillo

8 Class B: Datris Robinson, (John Donahoo as a house player), Ben Keltner, (Sam Barboo as house), Justin Kang, Jesse Wang, David Narevsky, Eusy Ancheta, Scott Householder and Anthony Harbone

5 Class C: Sabrina Duong, Ben  Duong, Tygan Zeng, Rex Pimentel and Ken Green

4 Class D and below: Matthew Wang, David Terr, Frank Yang and Andruw Householder
  

Peter Hodges Precision Shootout Rd 2

Peter Hodges Precision Shootout  Rd 2 of 6 on 8/28 at 7 PM

30/90, SD/60, d/5   This is a Championship Qualifier!  Here are the results:

Open Section

Bd 1  George Zeigler (1) - Peter Hodges (1)  1/2-1/2

Bd 2  Buddy Morris (1) - Lennart Mathe (1)  0-1

Bd 3  Alfredo De Leon (1) - David Saponara (1)  0-1 

Bd 4  Shaun Sweitzer (1/2) - Jim Humphrey (1/2)  0-1

Bd 5  Fawsi Jose Murra (1/2) - Antonio Gonzalez (1/2)  0-1

Bd 6  Allan Virtue (1/2) - Robert Draper (1/2)  1-0

Bd 7  Alejandrino Baluran (0) - Miguel Ceballos (0)  1/2-1/2

Bd 8  Joel Batchelor (0) - Gurveer Singh (0)  1/2-1/2

Bd 9  Chuck Ensey (0) - Thomas Fries (0)  1-0

Bye: Jerry Qu (1). Raoul Crisologo (1)
 
Reserve Section

Bd 12  Hector Gonzlaez (1) - Steve Perry (1)  0-1

Bd 14  Robert Henderson (1) - Rocio Murra (1)  1-0

Bd 16  Karen Kaufman (1) - Irina Nizmutdinova (1)  0-1

Bd 18  Jim Harrell (1) - Keith Wetterer (1)  1-0

Bd 20  Thomas Kuhn (1/2) - Santiago Rubio-Fernaz (1/2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 22  Maria Murra (1/2) - Damani Fair (1/2)  0-1

Bd 24  Mark Lawless (0) - Anthony Harbone (0)  0-1

Bd 26  Patrick Edwards (0) - Tygan Zeng (0)

Bd 28  Bill Murray (0) - Ken Green (0)  0-1

Bd 30  Roger Pedersen (0) - Dwayne Matheny (1/2)  0-1

Bd 32  Frank Cuenca (0) - Jeffrey Harding (0)  result not reported

Bd 34  Erik Marquis (1/2) - Datris Robinson (1/2)  0-1  house game

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Peter Hodges Precision Shootout Rd 1

Peter Hodges Precision Shootout 
Round 1 of 6 on 8/21/13 at 7 PM

This event is a qualifier for next year's Club Championship, whoever wins the Open section will be seeded in the Championship without having to otherwise qualify through the Alina Markowski Open.
There will likely be 2 sections, Open and Reserve (U1800), depending on the turnout. Pairings will be done by hand by the TD and you will be paired with the player closest to you in rating that has the same number of points. This is pretty much the opposite of the way a normal Swiss system works where the top half is paired against the bottom half. Many of the other pairing rules are also turned on their head, for instance the LOWER rated player gets his due color. The time control will be 30/90, SD/60, d/5.

Open Section
Bd 1  Peter Hodges  (2082) - Alejandrino Baluran (2107)  1-0

Bd 2  Miguel Ceballos (2031) - George Zeigler (2062)  0-1

Bd 3  Raoul Crisologo (2020) - Lennart Mathe (2023)  0-1

Bd 4  Gurveer Singh (1920) - Buddy Morris (1938)  0-1

Bd 5  David Saponara (1910) - Joel Batchelor (1917)  1-0

Bd 6  Thomas Fries (1900) - Jerry Qu (1891) 0-1

Bd 7  Robert Draper (1780) - Fawsi Jose Murra (1791)  1/2-1/2

Bd 8  Chuck Ensey (1827)- Alfredo De Leon (1884)  0-1

Bye: Jim Humphrey (2140), Shaun Sweitzer (2012), Al Virtue (1875)

Reserve Section

Bd 10  Eliza Eggert (1763) - Hector Gonzalez (1781)  0-1

Bd 12  Steve Perry (1710) - Mark Lawless (1715) 1-0

Bd 14  Damani Fair (1666) - Tom Kuhn (1676)  1/2-1/2

Bd 16  Rocio Murra (1631) - Anthony Harbone (1664)  1-0

Bd 18  Tygan Zeng (1523) - Robert Henderson (1569)  0-1

Bd 20  Ken Green (1481) - Irina Nizmutdinova (1506)  0-1

Bd 22  Bill Murray (1357) - Karen Kaufman (1400)  0-1

Bd 24  Patrick Edwards (1207) - Maria Murra (1273)  1/2-1/2

Bd 26  Keith Wetterer (1062) - Roger Pedersen (1104)  1-0

Bd 28  Frank Cuenca (661) - Jim Harrell (1018)  0-1

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Super Double Gambito Prizes

Super Double Gambito (#621)  8/17-8/18

Open Section
First Place: Kyron Griffith (7), $300
2nd Place: Dionisio Aldama (6 1/2), $200
3rd Place: Bruce Baker (5 1/2), $100
BU2200: Craig Clawitter (5 1/2), $200
2nd U2200: Peter Hodges (4), $100
BU2000/2nd U2000: Richard Skinnell (4) and Bryan Tangtartharakul (4), $150 each
3rd U2200: Elkaei Rivera (3 1/2), $50
3rd U2000: Jay Choi (3 1/2), $50

Reserve Section
First Place: Thomas Diem (6 1/2), $200
2nd/3rd Place: Datris Robinson (6), Ben Keltner (6) and Justin Kang (6), $50 each
BU1600: Willie E. Roy (3 1/2), $150
2nd U1600: Ken Green (3), $75
BU1400: Sreekanth Vutthuri (2), $50
3rd U1600: Fred Cleveland (2), $25
  

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Pairings for Round 5. Super Double Gambito

Super Double Gambito

Pairings for Round 5. Super Double Gambito: Open

BdResWhiteResBlack
1 Venkat Iyer (3) IM Dionisio Aldama (3½)
2 Kyron Griffith (3½) Craig Clawitter (2½)
3 Bryan Tangtartharakul (2) Bruce Baker (2)
4 Jerry Qu (1½) Chuck Ensey (1½)
5 Richard Skinnell (1) Alex Costello (1½)
6 Jay K Choi (1½) Gurveer Singh (½)
½ Elkaei Rivera (2)BYE
½ Peter Hodges (2½)BYE
½ Ramil Macaspac (1½)BYE
Super Double Gambito

Pairings for Round 5. Super Double Gambito: Reserve

BdResWhiteResBlack
11 Ben Keltner (4) Thomas Diem (3)
12 Justin Kang (3) Datris Robinson (3)
13 Anthony Harbone (2) Frank Tangtartharakul (3)
14 Sreekanth Vutthuri (1) Ken Green (2)
15 Sukanya Dave (1) Willie E Roy (½)
½ Eliza Eggert (1½)BYE
½ John Donahoo (2½)BYE
½ Ronaldo Salenga (2)BYE
½ Fred Cleveland (1½)BYE

Wall Chart. Super Double Gambito: Round 4

Super Double Gambito

SwissSys Wall Chart. Super Double Gambito: Open (standings)

#Name/Rtng/IDRd 1Rd 2Rd 3Rd 4Rd 5Rd 6Rd 7Rd 8
2Kyron GriffithW 11B 6W 1B 3W 5
2397 12860484 1 2
1IM Dionisio AldamaB 10W 3B 2W 9B 6
2544 13557810 1 2
6Venkat IyerB 16W 2W 15B 8W 1
2150 12907690 1 1 2 3
9Peter Hodgesbye B 14W 8B 1bye
2058 11218873 ½
5Craig ClawitterW 14B 13bye W 16B 2
2205 12800135 ½ 1
8Elkaei RiveraW 17B 4B 9W 6bye
2094 14470201 1 2 2 2
3Bruce BakerB 12B 1W 13W 2B 16
2295 11323634 1 1 2 2
16Bryan TangtartharakulW 6B 11W 17B 5W 3
1851 14450721 0 1 2 2
4Paul Agronbye W 8B 7W 10----------------
2224 14016682 ½ ½ 1 2
10Alex CostelloW 1B 15W 14B 4B 11
1995 14702870 0 ½
12Jay K ChoiW 3B 17W 11B 15W 14
1924 13775854 0 0 1
17Ramil MacaspacB 8W 12B 16W 13bye
1811 15184868 0 1 1
13Jerry Qubye W 5B 3B 17W 15
1912 13421896 ½ 1 1
15Chuck Enseybye W 10B 6W 12B 13
1855 10487188 ½ 1 1
7Jim Humphreybye bye W 4--------------------
2149 11351298 ½ 1U 1½
11Richard SkinnellB 2W 16B 12B 14W 10
1925 12898664 0 0 0 1
14Gurveer SinghB 5W 9B 10W 11B 12
1910 12921902 ½ ½ ½ ½
Super Double Gambito

SwissSys Wall Chart. Super Double Gambito: Reserve (standings)

#Name/Rtng/IDRd 1Rd 2Rd 3Rd 4Rd 5Rd 6Rd 7Rd 8
4Ben KeltnerW 13B 15W 9B 2W 1
1724 14005153 1 2 3 4
9Justin KangB 18W 1B 4W 6W 2
1633 14554482 1 2 2 3
2Datris RobinsonB 12W 8B 7W 4B 9
1752 12796177 1 2 3 3
1Thomas DiemW 11B 9W 15W 7B 4
1772 14382934 1 1 2 3
10Frank TangtartharakulW 5B 7B 8W 3B 6
1623 14450715 1 1 2 3
5John DonahooB 10W 16B 3bye bye
1723 12610809 0 1 2
7Ronaldo SalengaB 16W 10W 2B 1bye
1671 12554340 1 2 2 2
8Jesse WangW 17B 2W 10B 14----------------
1661 13739762 1 1 1 2
6Anthony HarboneW 15B 13W 11B 9W 10
1710 10468086 0 1 2 2
13David PalmerB 4W 6B 18W 17----------------
1461 12695790 0 0 1 2
11Ken GreenB 1W 18B 6W 15B 16
1524 15208138 0 1 1 2
3Eliza Eggertbye B 14W 5B 10bye
1734 14466080 ½
14Fred Clevelandbye W 3B 17W 8bye
1432 12569732 ½ ½
15Matthew WangB 6W 4B 1B 11----------------
1371 13739777 1 1 1 1
18Sukanya DaveW 9B 11W 13B 16W 12
unr. 0 0 0 1
17David TerrB 8W 12W 14B 13----------------
1132 13785138 0 1 1 1
16Sreekanth VutthuriW 7B 5B 12W 18W 11
1271 15206881 0 0 1 1
12Willie E RoyW 2B 17W 16bye B 18
1471 12394428 0 0 0 ½

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Super Double Gambito

Super Double Gambito Open  8/17- 8/18  

$2,000 Guaranteed Prize Fund

2 days, 8 Rounds, 2 Sections, G/40, d/5

Open Section
First Place $300, 2nd $200, 3rd $100
Best Under 2200 $200, 2nd U2200 $100, 3rd $50
BU 2000 $200, 2nd U2000 $100, 3rd $50

Reserve Section
First Place $200, 2nd $100, 3rd $50
BU 1600 $150, 2nd $75, 3rd $25
BU 1400 $50, 2nd $20
Plus a Best Game Prize of $15 for each section

Registration: 10 AM to 10:25.
Rounds: 10:30, 12:15, 2:45 and 4:30 both Saturday and Sunday
Entry Fee: $60 on site, or $50 if registered by email by Friday 8/16 at midnight
Email Chuck Ensey at chucnglo@aol.com
Special entry fee of $25 for players U1400 or unrated
Unrated eligible for book prizes only.
SCCF membership required ($18 adult or $13 junior)
2 Byes allowed, but  no byes in round 7 or 8.
Call Bruce Baker at 619-239-7166 for more info.  

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Gambito #620

Gambito Open  #620  on 8/10/12 

Six Gambito Opens in a row with 30+ players, this one had 31, I wasn't expecting this as there usually is a drop off after the big County Championships last week (64 players). We had a few new players too which is always nice. I (Chuck Ensey) wasn't able to play, but I stopped by during the lunch break to collect some entry fees for next week's Super Double Gambito and also for the Southern California Open coming up on August 31st. Sign up online or mail a check in soon to get the advance rate of $100 ($50 for the Super Double), or pay in person Wednesday night. Soon the SCO rate goes up to $120 and then to $140.

Here they are today's players in pre-event rating order, Bruce Baker directed using a 4 point McMahon pairing system:

4 Masters: Cyrus Lakdawala, Kyron Griffith, Todd Andrews and Bruce Baker

6 Experts: Nikolay Arutyunov, Venkat Iyer, Leonard Sussman, Elkaei Rivera, Peter Hodges and Jeff Turner.

8 Class A: Buddy Morris, Chris Wonnell, Aaron Householder, Dara Oissine Murchadha, Ramil Macaspac, Jerry Qu, Jay Choi and Kevin Yang

6 Class B: Datris Robinson, (John Donahoo and Brian Kelly were house players for 1 game each), Justin Kang, Scott Householder, Ben Duong, Christopher Lane and Anthony Harbone

2 Class C: Sabrina Duong and Tygan Zeng

5 Class D: Alex Householder, Joshua Chung, David Terr, Frank Yang and Ken Green (unr)

Here are the prize winners:

First Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (8), $100

Second Place: Kyron Griffith (6), $50  BU2400: Todd Andrews (6) and Bruce Baker (6), $50 each

BU2200: Venkat Iyer (5 1/2) and Elkaei Rivera (5 1/2), $37 each

BU2000: Buddy Morris (5), Jay Choi (5) and Jerry Qu (5), $25 each

BU1800: Chris Lane (4), $75

BU1600: Sabrina Duong (3), $75

BU1400: Alex Householder (2 1/2), $20

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Arutyunov Open Rd 6

Nikolay Artyunov Open  Round 6 of 6 on 8/14/13 at 7 PM

Here are the results:

Open Section

Bd 1  Kyron Griffith (4) - Alejandrino Baluran (4)  1-0

Bd 2  Aaron Wooten (3) - Bud Stamper (3)  0-1

Bd 3  Robert Defore (2 1/2) - Jim Humphrey (2 1/2)  0-1

Bd 4  Mario Amodeo (0) - Miguel Ceballos (2 1/2)  0-1

Bd 5  Lennart Mathe (2) - Peter Hodges (2)  1-0

Withdraw: Mario Vinoya (2), Raoul Crisologo (1/2)

First Place: Kyron Griffith (5), $80
Second/Third Place: Alejandrino Baluran (4) and Bud Stamper (4), $60 each

Premier Section (U2000)

Bd 6  Fawsi Murra (3) - Bruce Charnov (4)  0-1

Bd 7  Gurveer Singh (3 1/2) - Chuck Ensey (2 1/2)  0-1

Bd 8  Pejman Sagart (3 1/2) - Buddy Morris (2)  0-1

Bd 9  Allan Virtue (2 1/2) - Thomas Fries (2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 10  Jerry Qu (1 1/2) - David Saponara (2 1/2)  1-0

First Place: Bruce Charnov (5), $80
Second Place: Gurveer Singh (4 1/2), $50
Third Place: Pejman Sagart (3 1/2), $35

Amateur Section (U1800)

Bd 12  Anthony Harbone (3 1/2) - Hector Gonzalez (4)  0-1

Bd 13  Mark Lawless (3 1/2) - Tom Kuhn (2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 14  Eliza Eggert (3) - Rocio Murra (2 1/2)  1-0

Bd 15  Santiago Rubio-Fernaz (2) - Keric Rivas (2)  1/2-1/2 

Bd 16  Ken Green (0) - Steve Perry (1 1/2)  0-1

Withdraw: William Wijaya (2), Ben Keltner (1 1/2)

First Place: Hector Gonzalez (5), $80
Second/Third Place: Eliza Eggert (4) and Mark Lawless (4), $40 each

Reserve Section (U1600)

Bd 18  Jim Harrell (3) - Robert Henderson (3 1/2)  0-1

Bd 19  Patrick Edwards (2 1/2) - Irina Nizmutdinova (3 1/2)  0-1

Bd 20  Bill Murray (2 1/2) - Tygan Zeng (3)  0-1

Bd 21  Maria Murra (3 1/2) - Roger Pedersen (2 1/2)  1-0

Bd 22  Frank Cuenca (0) - Keith Wetterer (1)  0-1

Withdraw: Karen Kaufman (3), Morgan Fox (3)

First/Second Place: Robert Henderson (4 1/2) and Irina Nizmutdinova (4 1/2), $50 each
BU1400: Tygan Zeng (4), $50
2nd U1400: Jim Harrell (3), $30

Match Games

Bd 30  Joel Batchelor (3 1/2) - Robert Draper (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 32  Alfredo De Leon (2) - Shawn Sweitzer (3)  0-1

Match winners: Joel Batchelor (4 1/2) and Shawn Sweitzer (4), $40 each


Sunday, August 4, 2013

Entries and Prizes for SD County Champs

San Diego County Championships  8/03 - 8/04 2013
at the SDCC in Balboa Park

64 players total, here they are in pre-event rating order:

Open Section, 16 players: 

2 Masters: IM Dioniso Aldama, Bruce Baker

12 Experts: Nikolay Arutyunov, Karl Tolentino, Ben Barquin, Leonard Sussman, Alfredo Hernandez, Peter Hodges, Jason Ma, Alejandrino Baluran, Esteban Escobedo, Raoul Crisologo, Leo Raterman and Michael Nagaran

2 Class A: (playing up): Miguel Ceballos and David Delgadillo

Reserve Sectiom (U2000), 29 players:

15 Class A: Alex Costello, Joel Batchelor, Dennis Saccuzzo, Daniel Zhu, Zechariah Zhu, Ramil Macaspac, Chuck Ensey, Jerry Qu, Ajay Krishnan, Jay Choi, Daniel Collins, Joseph Rice, Gurveer Singh, Charles Berkman and Alexander Dumadag

14 Class B: Carlos Hernandez, Carl Newell, Kevin Yang, Steve Perry, Thomas Diem, Datris Robinson, Ben Keltner, William Wijaya, Frank Arias, Eliza Eggert, Mark Anderson, Ben Duong, Christopher Lane and Anthony Harbone

Booster Section (U1600), 19 players:

6 Class C: Victor Delgadillo, Steven Dahl, David Palmer, Sabrina Duong, Fred Cleveland and Stephen Zhu

9 Class D and below: Joe Sanna, Joshua Chung, Errol Acosta, Roger Pedersen, Matthew Mullen, Frank Yang, Richard Xia and William Xia

5 Unrated: Angel Fuerte, Juan Fuerte, Jackson Nathan, Andres Tapia and Sreekanth Vutthuri

Here are the Prize winners:

Open Section

First Place: IM Dionisio Aldama (5), $500

2nd Place: Michael Nagaran (3 1/2), $250

BU2400/2300: Nikolay Arutyunov (3) and Alfredo Hernandez (3), $200 each

BU2200/2100/2nd U2400/2ndU2300/2nd U2200/2nd U2100):
Peter Hodges (2 1/2), Karl Tolentino (2 1/2), Ben Barquin (2 1/2), Alejandrino Baluran (2 1/2), Leonard Sussman (2 1/2) and Raoul Crisologo (2 1/2), $100 each

Reserve Section (U2000)

First Place: Joseph Rice (4 1/2), $300

Second Place: Alex Costello (4), $150    BU 1900: William Wijaya (4), $200

BU1800/2nd U1900: Carlos Hernandez (3 1/2) and Kevin Yang (3 1/2), $125 each

2nd U1800: Datris Robinson (3), $50

BU1700: Mark Anderson (3), $200

2nd U1700: Eliza Eggert (2 1/2), $50

Booster Section (U1600)

First Place: Sabrina Duong (4 1/2), $180

2nd Place: Steven Dahl (4), $75

U1500: Errol Acosta (4): $100

2nd U1500: Fred Cleveland (3 1/2), $50

BU1400/2ndU1400: Joe Sanna (3) and Joshua Chung (3), $50 each

Best Game Prizes to be announced here later.

Total Prizes: $3,500

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Advance Entries for SD County Championships

San Diego County Championships  8/03 - 8/04

47 players total so far.  Round 1 at 10 AM sharp!  G/100, d/5

email Chuck Ensey at chucnglo@aol.com to join in (or if I forgot to list you here).

Open Section (13 players so far):
Varun Krishnan 2358, Bruce Baker 2300, Nikolay Arutyunov 2189, Karl Tolentino 2095, Ben Barquin 2083, Carlos Hernandez 2069, Peter Hodges 2061, Jason Ma 2060, Esteban Escobedo 2053, Raoul Crisologo 2049 (Rd 4 bye), Leo Raterman 2027, Michael Nagaran 2020, David Delgadillo 1817

Reserve Section (22 players so far):
Miguel Ceballos 1994, Alex Costello 1976 (bye Rd 3), Joel Batchelor 1910, Dennis Saccuzzo 1902, Daniel Zhu 1900, Zechariah Zhu 1891, Alfredo De Leon 1873, Chuck Ensey 1870, Ajay Krishnan 1867, Alexander Dumadag 1802, Carlos Hernandez 1798, Kevin Yang 1786, Steve Perry 1762, Thomas Diem 1742, Datris Robinson 1728, Ben Keltner 1721, Frank Arias 1700, Eliza Eggert 1689, Jesse Wang? 1661, Ben Duong 1622, Christopher Lane 1605, Anthony Harbone 1605

Booster Section (12 players):
Victor Delgadillo 1573, Steven Dahl 1515, David Palmer 1474, Sabrina Duong 1457, Fred Cleveland 1417, Stephen Zhu 1409, Joe Sanna 1377, Matthew Wang? 1371, Joshua Chung 1281, Roger Pedersen 1029, Matthew Mullen 1028, Frank Yang 702

Arutyunov Open Rd 5

Nikolay Arutyunov Open  Rd 5 of 6 on 8/07/13 at 7 PM

Here are the results for Round 5:

Open Section

Bd 1  Miguel Ceballos (2 1/2) - Kyron Griffith (3)  0-1

Bd 2  Bud Stamper (2) - Lennart Mathe (2)  1-0

Bd 3  Aaron Wooten (2) - Mario Vinoya (2)  1-0

Bd 4  Jim Humphrey (1 1/2) - Peter Hodges (2)  1-0

Bd 5  Robert Defore (2) - Jeff Turner (0)  1/2-1/2

Jeff filled in for Raoul Crisologo (1/2), who was a no show...
Bye: Alejandrino Baluran (3 1/2)

Premier Section

Bd 6 Bruce Charnov (3) - Chuck Ensey (2 1/2)  1-0

Bd 7  Fawsi Jose Murra (2 1/2) - Gurveer Singh (3)  1/2-1/2

Bd 8  Allan Virtue (2) - David Saponara (2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 9  Buddy Morris (1) - Jerry Qu (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 10 Thomas Fries (1) - David Delgadillo  (house)  1-0

Bye: Pejman Sagart (3); Withdraw - Alexander Dumadag (1)

Amateur Section

Bd 11  Eliza Eggert (3) - Anthony Harbone (2 1/2)  0-1

Bd 12  Keric Rivas (2) - Mark Lawless (2 1/2)  0-1

Bd 13  Steve Perry (1 1/2) - Rocio Murra (1 1/2)  0-1

Bd 14  Tom Kuhn (1) - Ben Keltner (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 15 Santiago Rubio-Fernaz (1) -  Erik Marquis (house)  1-0

Bye: Hector Gonzalez (3 1/2)

Reserve Section

Bd 21  Irina Nizmutdinova (3 1/2) - Robert Henderson (2 1/2)  0-1

Bd 22  Tygan Zeng (2 1/2) - Karen Kaufman (2 1/2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 23  Roger Pedersen (2) - Bill  Murray (2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 24  Maria Murra (1 1/2) - Jim Harrell (2)  0-1

Bd 25  Keith Wetterer (1) - Patrick Edwards (1 1/2)  0-1

Bd 26  Frank Cuenca (0) - Ken Green (0)  0-1

Bye: Morgan Fox (2 1/2)


Match Games

Bd 30  Shaun Sweitzer (3) - Alfredo De Leon (1)  0-1

Bd 32  Robert Draper (1 1/2) - Joel Batchelor (2 1/2)  0-1