'07 Class Chmps Rd 2

2007 Class Championships   Round 2      11/28/07         G/120 with 10 sec delay

65 Players Registered in this event so far 

We got 3 new players in week 2 (Freitag, Berlin, Hatton), but we lost 3 players that we thought we in (Salz, Tomlin, Sung), so the total of 65 stays the same.

The Masters Section (17 players):

Upset winners (by rating) in bold

 

Bd 1  Bruce Baker - Dimitry Kishinevsky  1/2-1/2

Bd 2  Alejandro Garamendi - Chris Borgan  1/2-1/2

Bd 3  David Hart - Eric Montany  1-0

 

Bd 4  James Mahooti - John Funderburg  1/2-1/2

Bd 5  George Zeigler - Mariano Lozano  1/2-1/2

Lots of draws on the top boards, but none were quick ones

 

Bd 6  Jim Humphrey - Jason Qu  1-0

Jim said he has no doubt that Jason will be an Expert someday (probably next year at the rate he is going!) 

 

Bd 7  Esteban Escobedo - Carl Wagner  0-1 

It looked like Esteban had a draw until the very end when he blundered in time pressure.

Bd 8  Enrique Parra - Raoul Crisologo  0-1  A very interesting game

Byes: Manuel Herrera 

Class A (15 players):

 

Bd 10  Mario Amodeo - Buddy Morris  0-1 

Bd 11  Ed Baluran - Ron Soto  1-0

Bd 12  Lennart Mathe - Jerry Soelberg  1-0  

Bd 13  David Delgadillo - Dayne Freitag  0-1

Bd 14  Bob Defore - Fausto Robles  1-0

Bd 15  Thomas Fries - Ron Rezendes  1/2-1/2

Bd 16  Richard Jensen - Jamieson Pryor  0-1  Looked like Rich walked into a checkmate!

Bd 17  Marty Lower  full point bye

Class B (14 players):

Bd 18  Vincent Broman - Fawsi Jose Murra  1-0  Fawsi lost on time, but Vincent was slightly better

Bd 19  Damani Fair - Robert Draper  1-0  A long tense game

Bd 20  Fred Borges - Joel Batchelor 0-1  Joel said Fred played well and was tough to beat

Bd 21  Anthony Whitt - Chuck Ensey  1-0  Anthony was a house player and a dirty rat to beat me (just kidding)

Bd 22  Erik Marquis - Shaun Sweitzer  0-1

Bd 23  Robert Henderson - Santaigo Rubio-Fernaz  1-0

Bd 24  Ryan Nichols - Rocio Murra  1-0

Bye: Anthony Harbone

Class C/D (19 players):

Bd 25  Julian Rodriguez - James Hillard  1-0

Bd 26  Morgan Fox - Steven Perry  0-1

Bd 27  Patrick Edwards - David Hall  0-1

Bd 28  Tom Kuhn - Michael Brindell  1-0  Michael is a brand new member and is unrated

Bd 29  Greg Tomlin - Karen Kaufman  0F-1F   Greg was a no show...and I couldn't find a house player for Karen 

 

Bd 30  Mark Lawless - Brian Hatton  1-0   Brian is a brand new member and is unrated

Bd 31  Michael Ryan - Reno Tyrell  0-1

Bd 32  Robert Samuel - Michael Thomas  0-1  Michael is unrated, this is his first win, congrats!! 

Bd 33  Monica Ness - Bill Murray  1-0   Another upset for Monica

Bd 34  Keith Wetterer - Arnold Berlin  1/2-1/2   Keith made 3 pawns count vs a Bishop