'07 Finals Rd 1

2007 Club & Reserve Championship and The Lasker Open

Round 1 was on 2/21/07, Rd 2 is 2/28 and Round 7 is 4/04/07

The Club Championship

Results for Round 1  No upsets in this round for the top flight. Maksim Gusev was unable to play in this event, so Ed Baluran, the next person in line with the best tiebreaks from the Markowski Open is now in as the 16th player. Duesterwald and Humphrey both took round one byes and will play next week (we hope!). 

Board 1 Ignacio Sainz - Ronald Bruno  0-1

Bd 2  Todd Smith - Carey Milton  1-0

Bd 3  Brad Salz - Bruce Baker  0-1       game    [A number of games were decided in time pressure (Sainz-Bruno, Borgan-Funderburg). This is another one]

Bd 4  Dimitry Kishinevsky - Fawsi Murra Jr  1-0 

Bd 5  Chris Borgan - John Funderburg  0-1

Bd 6  Rick Aeria - Buddy Morris 1-0

Bd 7  Fausto Robles - Ed Baluran  0-1     see Cyrus Annotates

Byes: Marc Duesterwald, Jim Humphrey

Declining to play in this event (with qualifying scores from Markowski Open):

Richard Russell (5 1/2), David Hart (5 1/2), Robert Richard (5) and Maksim Gusev (winner of The Masters). 

The Reserve Championship

Bd 9  Richard Jensen - Chuck Ensey  1-0

Bd 10  Pouyan Azarshahri - Joel Batchelor  1/2-1/2

Bd 11  William Wijaya - Jason Qu  1/2-1/2   The Longest Game of the Night

Bd 12  Erik Marquis - Roberto Aiello  1-0

Bd 13  Vincent Broman - Hector Gonzalez  1-0

Bd 14  Robert Samuel - Marty Lower  0-1

Bd 15  Shaun Sweitzer - William Murray  1-0

Bd 16  Caley Anderson - Luis Castaneda  1-0

Theron Pummer (3 1/2) and Reno Tyrell (3) qualified but are unable to play. 

The Lasker Open

More people will join next week. Please email me at chucnglo@aol.com if you want to join this event.

Lasker Open Section (for Masters, Experts and Class A) 

Bd 17  Manuel Herrera - Ramin Sinaee  1-0

Bd 18  Esteban Escobedo - Hercules Madriaga  1-0

Bd 19  Thomas Fries - Jerry Soelberg  1/2-1/2

Bd 20  James Malowney - Alfredo DeLeon  1/2-1/2

Bd 21  Mario Amodeo - Gary Tuttle  1-0

Bd 22  Ron Rezendes - David Delgadillo  0-1

Bd 23  Jamieson Pryor - Roger Dooc  1-0  Roger filled in as a house player 

Byes: Lennart Mathe, Amando Malvar

Lasker Reserve Section (for Class B, C and below)

Bd 25  Tom Kuhn - Charles Berkman  1/2-1/2

Bd 26  Fred Borges - Karen Kaufman  1-0

Bd 27  Mark Lawless - Damani Fair  0-1

Bd 28  Robert Henderson - Morgan Fox  1-0

Bd 29  Jeffrey Ledbetter - Derek Cameron  1-0

Bd 30  Anthony Harbone - Patrick Edwards  1-0  

Bd 31  Monica Ness - Julian Rodriguez  0-1

Bd 32  David Hall - Christian Garcia  0-1

Bd 33  Pedro Guerrero - Daniel Bagliazo  0-1

Bd 34  James Aranda - Hai Qu  1-0

Byes: Eric Castro, Kevin Oakes

See next week's tentative pairings