State Senior/Junior Championship

Start:	Apr 10, '10 10:00a
End:	Apr 11, '10
Location:	San Diego Chess Club at 2225 Sixth Avenue,

2010 SCCF SENIOR/JUNIOR OPEN
$4,000 ENHANCED PRIZE FUND
Based on 80 players (60% of all prize levels guaranteed)
5 Rd Swiss, 2 Sections,
Senior Section: 50 years & older and
“Junior” Section: Under 50 years old
PRIZES for BOTH SECTIONS:
1st $350, 2nd $200, 3rd $100
U2400 $150, 2nd $50, U2200 $150, 2nd $50
U2000 $150, 2nd $50, U1800 $150, 2nd $50
U1600 $100, 2nd $50, U1400 $75, 2nd $25


SENIOR:
JUNIOR:

$100 for Best Over 60 years old
$100 for BU 20 years old

$100 for Best Over 70 years old
$100 for BU 16 years old

$100 for Best Over 80 years old
$100 for BU 12 years old




Each player is eligible for only one of all the above prizes!

Registration: 9AM - 9:45 AM, arrive early for best free parking

Rounds: 10:00 AM, 2:00 PM, 6:00 PM Sat, G/90 w/ 10 sec delay

10 AM and 3 PM on Sunday, G/120 with 10 second delay

Entry Fee: $50 if paid by 4/09 (or $60 on event day), Special rate of $25 only

for players rated under 1500 (or unrated, but unr players can only win a book prize)

SCCF membership is Req’d ($18/10 Jr); One Half-Point Bye OK in Rounds 1 – 4

For More Information: (619) 239-7166, ask for Bruce Baker

Or visit our new website at: sdchessclub.multiply.com

Please Mail Entries to: San Diego Chess Club, PO Box 120162, San Diego CA 92112

Please include Name, email, phone #, address, Section (Junior or Senior), USCF ID# and Expiration date, rating, list any round that you want a bye.

US Amateur Team West 2010

The San Diego Team, "Two and Half Asians", won the U.S. Amateur Team West Best Junior Team prize this year. Pictured: Kyron Griffith, Alan Tsoi, Jason Qu and Jesse Orlowski.


Photo and information courtesy of Michael Griffith



Amateur West Team 2010.jpg

Club Championship Rd 5

The Club Championships  Round 5 of 7  3/31/2010  7 PM

This tournament is in 5 sections. Time control is 40/90, SD/60, 5 second delay. Entry Fee: $25. Two byes are available, but no last round byes. If you would like to join this event, please email chucnglo@aol.com or call the club telephone at 619-239-7166. If you want to request a bye by email, please do it before 4 PM on Wednesday, otherwise you can call the club phone by 6:30 PM. Byes after that time will be zero point byes instead of 1/2 point byes.   

80 players registered so far...   

Here are the Tentative pairings for round 5:  As of 3/29/10 

Club Championship (16 players):

Board 1  Todd Smith (3) - John Funderburg (4)  1-0

The two Titans of the last few years finally meet.    

Bd 2  Mario Amodeo (3) - Paul Agron (2 1/2)  1/2-1/2 

Bd 3 Ron Soto (2) - Raoul Crisologo (2)  0-1

Bd 4  Mariano Lozano (2) - Lennart Mathe (2)  0-1

Bd 5  Carl Wagner (1 1/2) - Fawsi Murra Jr (1)  1-0

Bd 6  Alejandrino Baluran (1/2) - Larry Vikander (1 1/2)  1-0

Byes: Bruce Baker (2), Fausto Robles (1 1/2) and Eric Kuniholm (1)

Withdraw: Ron Bruno (2) and Bill Whitney (1 1/2) 

Here's how play ended the last few years:

2007 - John Funderburg (5 1/2) and Marc Duesterwald (5 1/2); Todd Smith (4 1/2)

2008 - Ronald Bruno (6); John Funderburg (5 1/2); Todd Smith (4 1/2), Ignacio Sainz (4 1/2) and Alejandro Garamendi (4 1/2)

2009 - John Funderburg (5 1/2); David Hart (4 1/2), Todd Smith (4 1/2), Raoul Crisologo (4 1/2) 

Reserve Championship (16 players):

Bd 7  Eduardo Vasquez (3 1/2) - Rocio Murra (3)  1-0

Bd 8  Chuck Ensey (3) - Anthony Harbone (3)  1-0

Bd 10  Robert Hall (2 1/2) - Jerry Soelberg (2 1/2)  1-0

Bd 11  Erik Marquis (2) - Chris Jensen (2)  0-1

Bd 12  Steve Perry (2) - Mayra Murra (2)  1-0

Bd 13  Julian Rodriguez (1 1/2) - Damani Fair (1 1/2)  0-1

Bd 14  Donald Klaas (1 1/2) - Shaun Sweitzer (1)  0-1

Bd 15  James Sturtevant (1/2) - Christopher Kuttruff (1/2)  0-1

Open Section (17 players):

Bd 17  Gary Tuttle (3 1/2) - Robert Draper (3 1/2)  0-1

Bd 18  Jim Humphrey (2 1/2) - David Delgadillo (3 1/2)  1-0

Bd 19  Dayne Freitag (2 1/2) - David Saponara (2 1/2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 20  Phillip Roth (2 1/2) - Pejman Sagart (2 1/2)  0-1

Bd 21  Buddy Morris (2) - Chris Wonnell (2)  1-0 

Bd 23  Carl Newell (0) - Thomas Fries (1)  1/2-1/2

Bd 24  Peter Hodges (0) - Antonio Gonzalez (1/2)  0-1

Byes: Matt Souza (1 1/2) and Joel Batchelor (1 1/2)

No Show: Khris Juroshek (1)

U1800 Section (16 players):

Bd 25  Jerry Beck (4) - Jerry Kavanau (3)  0-1 

Bd 26  Tom Kuhn (2 1/2) - Mark Lawless (3)  1-0

Bd 27  Guru Gopalakrishnan (2 1/2) - Fawsi Jose Murra (2 1/2)  0-1

Bd 28  Hector Gonzalez (2) - Victor Delgadillo (2 1/2)  1-0 

Bd 29  Fred Borges (1 1/2) - Eric Tuttle (1 1/2)  0-1

Bd 30  Jim Krooskos (1 1/2) - Jerry Cupat (0)  1/2-1/2

Byes:  Eduardo Sanchez (1/2), Santiago Rubio-Fernaz (1 1/2), Fred Cleveland (1), Edgar Lopez (2), Santiago Rubio-Fernaz (1)

U1400 Section (15 players)  

Bd 32  Jerry Qu (3 1/2) - Bill Murray (3)  0-1

Bd 33  Tom Lavoy (2 1/2) - Monica Ness (3)  1-0

Bd 34  Leonardo Villaverde (2 1/2) - Keith Wetterer (2 1/2)  1-0

Bd 35  Rafael Hernandez (2) - Patrick Edwards (2)  0-1

Bd 36  Frank Gaylord (1 1/2) - Larry Harper (1 1/2)  0-1 

Bd 37  Maria Murra (1 1/2) - Klodeta Abdoli (1)  1-0

Bd 38  Arnold Berlin (0) - Carl Qu (1)  0-1

Tentative Pairings for Round 6 will be posted tomorrow night...   

  

Club Championship Rd 4

The Club Championships  Round 4 of 7  3/24/2010  7 PM

This tournament is in 5 sections. Time control is 40/90, SD/60, 5 second delay. Entry Fee: $25. Two byes are available, but no last round byes. If you would like to join this event, please email chucnglo@aol.com or call the club telephone at 619-239-7166. If you want to request a bye by email, please do it before 4 PM on Wednesday, otherwise you can call the club phone by 6:30 PM. Byes after that time will be zero point byes instead of 1/2 point byes.   

80 players registered so far...   

Please Note: comments below are made by Chuck Ensey and are intended for entertainment purposes only. I take full responsibility and these comments do not reflect the official views of the SDCC, this website or anyone else. Rick Aeria and I used to write long and lovingly about the Club Championship and we used to try to inject humor and funny photos, captions and cartoons, etc. for every round. We really don't have time to do that anymore (Rick is now in Guam), since the recession has hit our wallets and we all have to work much harder just to try to stay even. Maybe when I retire I can get back to full coverage, but I fear that day is still a long way off. Anyway, if anyone is offended by my lame jokes then I am sorry, we are just trying to liven it up a bit... (Note: comments deleted due to change in pairings)      

Here are the Results for round 4:   

Club Championship (16 players):

Board 1  John Funderburg (3) - Bruce Baker (2)  1-0

Ron Bruno (1 1/2) taking a bye changed all but two (Bd 4 & 7) of the expected pairings.   

Bd 2  Raoul Crisologo (2) - Todd Smith (2)  0-1

Bd 3  Lennart Mathe (2) - Mario Amodeo (2)  0-1

Bd 4  Paul Agron (1 1/2) - Fausto Robles (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 5 Ron Soto (1 1/2) - Carl Wagner (1)  1/2-1/2

Bd 6  Mariano Lozano (1) - Eric Kuniholm (1)  1-0

Bd 7  Fawsi Murra Jr (0) - Alejandrino Baluran (1/2)

Byes: Ronald Bruno (1 1/2) and Bill Whitney (1)

Here's how play ended the last few years:

2007 - John Funderburg (5 1/2) and Marc Duesterwald (5 1/2); Todd Smith (4 1/2)

2008 - Ronald Bruno (6); John Funderburg (5 1/2); Todd Smith (4 1/2), Ignacio Sainz (4 1/2) and Alejandro Garamendi (4 1/2)

2009 - John Funderburg (5 1/2); David Hart (4 1/2), Todd Smith (4 1/2), Raoul Crisologo (4 1/2) 

As you can see Funderburg has been in the thick of it the last 3 years, so no surprise he is leading again....and Todd Smith has been a consistent contender too.  

Reserve Championship (16 players):

Bd 10  Anthony Harbone (3) - Eduardo Vasquez (2 1/2)  0-1

Bd 11  Mayra Murra (2) - Chuck Ensey (2)  0-1

Bd 12  Rocio Murra (2) - Erik Marquis (2)  1-0

Bd 13  Jerry Soelberg (1 1/2) - Julian Rodriguez (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 14  Damani Fair (1) - Donald Klaas (1)  1/2-1/2

Bd 15  Phil Skiba (1) - Steve Perry (1)  0-1

Bd 16  Shaun Sweitzer (0) - James Sturtevant (1/2)  1-0

Byes: Robert Hall (2), Chris Jensen (1 1/2) and Christopher Kuttruff (0)

Open Section (17 players):

Bd 17  Robert Draper (2 1/2) - Jim Humphrey (2 1/2)  1-0

Bd 18  Pejman Sagart (2 1/2) - Gary Tuttle (2 1/2)  0-1

Bd 19  Daniel Quan (2) - David Delgadillo (2)  0F - 1F  No Show by new player Daniel Quan

Bd 20  Matt Souza (1 1/2) - Dayne Freitag (1 1/2)  0-1

Bd 21  Larry Vikander (1 1/2) - Phillip Roth (1 1/2)  0-1

Bd 22  David Saponara (1 1/2) - Joel Batchelor (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 23  Chris Wonnell (1) - Marty Lower (1)  1-0

Bd 24  Buddy Morris (1) - Khris Juroshek (1)  1-0

Bd 25  Matt Foley (0) - Thomas Fries (0)  1-0

U1800 Section (16 players):

Bd 26  Jerry Beck (3) - Tom Kuhn (2 1/2)  1-0

Bd 27  Mark Lawless (2) - Sean McNeely (2)  1-0

Bd 28  Fawsi Jose Murra (1 1/2) - Jim Krooskos (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 29  Victor Delgadillo (2) - Fred Borges (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 30  Fred Cleveland (1) - Guru Gopalakrishnan (1 1/2)  0-1

Bd 31  Santiago Rubio-Fernaz (1) - Edgar Lopez (1)  0-1

Bd 32  Eric Tuttle (1/2) - Eduardo Sanchez (1/2)  1-0

Byes: Jerry Kavanau (2 1/2) and Hector Gonzalez (1 1/2)

U1400 Section (15 players)  

Bd 35  Leonardo Villaverde (2 1/2) - Jerry Qu (2 1/2)  0-1

Bd 36  Tom Lavoy (2) - Bill Murray (2 1/2)  1/2-1/2 

Bd 37  Monica Ness (2) - Rafael Hernandez (2)  1-0

Bd 38  Maria Murra (1 1/2) - Orrin Olgart (1 1/2)  0-1  

Bd 39  Keith Wetterer (1 1/2) - Larry Harper (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 40  Klodeta Abdoli (1) - Patrick Edwards (1)  0-1

Bd 41  Arnold Berlin (0) - Frank Gaylord (1/2)  0-1

Withdraw: Darryl Woodson (1)         

Tentative Pairings for next week will be posted tonight

Expected top boards are Smith-Funderburg, Vasquez-Murra,R, Draper-Delgadillo,D, Beck-Kavanau and Qu-Murray.  

  

Club Championship Rd 3

The Club Championships  Round 3 of 7  3/17/2010  7 PM

This tournament is in 5 sections. Time control is 40/90, SD/60, 5 second delay. Entry Fee: $25. Two byes are available, but no last round byes. If you would like to join this event, please email chucnglo@aol.com or call the club telephone at 619-239-7166. If you want to request a bye by email, please do it before 4 PM on Wednesday, otherwise you can call the club phone by 6:30. Byes after that time will be zero point byes instead of 1/2 point byes.   

78 players registered so far...     

Here are the results for round 3:  

Club Championship (16 players):

Board 1  Lennart Mathe (2) - John Funderburg (2)  0-1

Bd 2  Ronald Bruno (1 1/2) - Bruce Baker (1)  0-1

Bd 3  Todd Smith (1) - Paul Agron (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 4  Mario Amodeo (1) - Carl Wagner (1)  1-0

Bd 5  Ben Barquin (1) - Raoul Crisologo (1)  0-1

Bd 6  Fausto Robles (1) - Mariano Lozano (1/2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 7  Alejandrino Baluran (1/2) - Ronald Soto (1/2)  0-1

Bd 8  Eric Kuniholm (0) - Fawsi Murra Jr (0)  1-0

Reserve Championship (16 players):

Bd 9  Robert Hall (2) - Anthony Harbone (2)  0-1

Bd 10  Jerry Soelberg (1 1/2) - Eduardo Vasquez (1 1/2)  0-1

Bd 11  Erik Marquis (1 1/2) - Mayra Murra (1 1/2)  1/2-1/2 

Bd 12  Steve Perry (1) - Chuck Ensey (1)  0-1

Bd 13  Donald Klaas (1) - Rocio Murra (1)  0-1

Bd 14  Julian Rodriguez (1) - Chris Jensen (1)  1/2-1/2

Bd 15  Christopher Kuttruff (0) - Damani Fair (0)  0-1

Bd 16  Shaun Sweitzer (0) - Phil Skiba (0)  0-1

Bye: James Sturtevant (0)

Open Section (16 players so far):

Bd 17  David Delgadillo (1 1/2) - Pejman Sagart (2)  1/2-1/2 

Bd 18  Jim Humphrey (1 1/2) - Larry Vikander (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 19  Daniel Quan (1) - Buddy Morris (1 1/2)  1-0 

Bd 20  Marty Lower (1) - David Saponara (1/2)  0-1  

Bd 21  Tom Fries (0) - Matt Souza (1/2)  0-1 

Byes: Robert Draper (2), Dayne Freitag (1), Joel Batchelor (1), Phillip Roth (1), Chris Wonnell (1/2), Gary Tuttle (2)

U1800 Section (16 players so far):

Bd 23  Mark Lawless (2) - Jerry Beck (2)  0-1

Bd 24 Tom Kuhn (1 1/2) - Hector Gonzalez (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 25  Jerry Kavanau (1 1/2) - Santiago Rubio-Fernaz (1)  1-0

Bd 26  Fred Borges (1/2) - Fred Cleveland (1)  1-0 

Bd 27  Jim Krooskos (1/2) - Eduardo Sanchez (1/2)  1-0 

Bd 28  Guru Gopalakrishnan (1/2) - Eric Tuttle (1/2)  1-0

Bd 29   Edgar Lopez (0) - Rafael Hernandez (0)  1-0

Rafael came up from the U1400 section for a cross-sectional game 

Byes: Sean McNeely (1 1/2), Fawsi Jose Murra (1), Victor Delgadillo (1)    

U1400 Section (14 players so far):

Bd 31  Jerry Qu (1 1/2) - Tom Lavoy (2)  1-0

Bd 32  Bill Murray (1 1/2) - Maria Murra (1 1/2)  1-0 

Bd 33  Larry Harper (1 1/2) - Leonardo Villaverde (1 1/2)  0-1

Bd 34  Orrin Olgart (1/2) - Arnold Berlin (0)  1-0

Full point bye: Rafael Hernandez (1)

1/2 point Bye: Keith Wetterer (1), Monica Ness (1 1/2), Patrick Edwards (1/2), Darryl Woodson (1/2), Klodeta Abdoli (1/2)

No show: Frank Gaylord (1/2)   

Round 4 Pairings will be posted Thursday night. Top boards in each section are:

Funderburg-Smith; Harbone-Vasquez; Draper-Humphrey;Beck-Kuhn; Villaverde-Qu. 

  

March Gambito Opens: 459 - 462

Gambito #462  3/27/10

19 players, including 3 Masters (Lakdawala, Baker, Graves), 4 Experts (Sussman, Crisologo, Baluran, Wong), 5 Class A (Orlowski, Wonnell, Vajapeyam, Souza, Morris), 3 Class B (Robinson, Juroshek, Harbone) and 4 Class C (Kormanik, Krooskos, Cleveland, Kuhn). Bruce Baker directed and used a McMahon pairing system with M/E=2, A=1, B/C=0.

Welcome to out of town player Katherine Kormanik of Salt Lake City, Utah. Also welcome back to Datris Robinson who we haven't seen for a while.   

Here are the prize winners:

First Place/BU2400: Cyrus Lakdawala (5 1/2) and Peter Graves (5 1/2), $75 each

BU2200/2nd Place: Raoul Crisologo (4), Alejandrino Baluran (4) and Leonard Sussman (4), $23 each

BU2000: Buddy Morris (3 1/2), $50

BU1800/1600: Khris Juroshek (3) and Katherine Kormanik (3), $35 each

Total Prizes: $360    

Gambito #461  3/20/10

Decent turnout for this one, 19 players. 3 Masters (Lakdawala, Graves and Griffith), 1 Expert (Sussman), 7 Class A (Pryor, Vajapeyam, Aiello, Souza, Wong, Arbeiter, Sagart), 4 Class B (Ensey, Juroshek, Kuttruff, Harbone) and 4 Class C (Kuhn, Cleveland, Krooskos and Edwards). Welcome back to Khris Juroshek who hasn't been to the club for a few years, the military has kept him busy.  We used a McMahon pairing system with M/E=3, A=2, B=1, C/D=0. Here were the prize winners:

First Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (6 1/2), $100  Cy drew with Lenny in Rd 3.

U2400: Kyron Griffith (6), $50 Ky lost only to Cy

Second Place: Peter Graves (5 1/2), $20 Lost to Cy and drew with Lenny

BU2200: Leonard Sussman (4 1/2), $50  BU2000: Richard Wong (4 1/2), $50

BU1800: Chuck Ensey (3 1/2), $50      BU1600: Jim Krooskos (3), $40

Total Prizes: $340 

Next week: Super Gambito on 4/03  

Gambito #460  3/13/10  

Only 6 players today due to the St. Patrick's Day Parade and lack of parking. This really only happens a few times a year, but it is very annoying when it does and you have to seach for 1/2 an hour or more for any parking at all, even spots very far away were hard to find. I parked on Ivy and Columbia, which is just on the other side of Hwy 5!  Obviously most players just decided to stay away, but a few brave souls managed to somehow make to the club. A few other house players showed up after round 2. Players: Nikolay Arutyunov (1961), Roberto Aiello (1937), Chris Wonnell (1920), Matt Souza (1851), Chuck Ensey (1737) and Jim Krooskos (1468). House players: Christopher Kuttruff (1578), Phillip Skiba (1741), Guru Golapalakrishnan (unr) and Frank Gaylord (unr). 

Prize winners: 1st Place: Chris Wonnell (4), $50

2nd Place: Matt Souza (3), $30   3rd Place: Roberto Aiello (2), $10

U1800: Jim Krooskos (1), $20

Total Prizes: $110 

Gambito #459  3/06/10  March Super Gambito

34 players today, great turnout and that was with quite a few of our most frequent players missing, most notably Bruce Baker and Leonard Sussman. Bruce just needed a day off and Lenny is ok too, but he is still recovering from a fall and so he took a pass this week. Some others we missed today were Agron, Arutyunov, Bruno, Graves, Reyes Lopez, Milton, Mitchell and Orlowski. This isn't unusual; out of our 33 frequent players, there are always 10 or so who don't play any one particular week. However this is the first one Leonard Sussman has missed in a long time, we wish him a speedy recovery.

Also we would like to welcome some new players: Charles Gelinas, an Expert from Hemet, Tristan Pollner, a scholastic player giving the Gambito his first try, and also Jacobo Cortes, a brand new 11 year old player from Ensenada. Jacobo did quite well with 2 wins, earning an estimated provisional rating of around 1400. We normally don't have an U1400 prize at the Super Gambito, but we had so many players rated U1400 today, that I threw in an extra U1400 prize which was won by Andrew Negus with 2 1/2 points. The young man is getting stronger week by week it seems. He gained an estimated 112 points to 1317 and seems headed for over 1400 in short order.        

Open Section (18 players): 

5 Masters: Cyrus Lakdawala (2553), Jeff Arnold (2341), Ali Morshedi (2316), Ken Arnold (2296), Kyron Griffith (2208)

5 Experts: Eric Kuniholm (2146), Raoul Crisologo (2124), Alan Tsoi (2103), Varun Krishnan (2078), Charles Gelinas (2007)

8 Class A: Ben Barquin (1997), Jamieson Pryor (1952), Jacoby Johnson (1938), Madhavan Vajapeyam (1932), Roberto Aiello (1931), Chris Wonnell (1887), Matt Souza (1858), Pejman Sagart (1819)

Reserve Section (16 players):

4 Class B: Jason Arbeiter (1788), Chuck Ensey (1739), Sean McNeely (1694), Anthony Harbone (1600)

5 Class C: Tom Kuhn (1589), Fred Cleveland (1474), Jim Krooskos (1460), Edgar Lopez (1423), Gene Fernando (1400) 

7 Class D: Jerry Qu (1397), Patrick Edwards (1331), Claire Negus (1319), Armando Garcia (1289), Andrew Negus (1205), Tristan Pollner (769), Jacob Cortes (unr) 

Here are the prize winners:

Open Section:

First Place: Ali Morshedi (3 1/2), $125   Second Place: Cyrus Lakdawala, (3), $75

BU2400: Jeff Arnold (3), $80   BU2200: Eric Kuniholm (3), $80  

2nd U2400: Ken Arnold (2 1/2) and Kyron Griffith (2 1/2), $15 each

BU2000: Jacoby Johnson (2 1/2), $80

2nd U2200: Varun Krishnan (2) and Alan Tsoi (2), $12 each

2nd U2000: Chris Wonnell (2), Madhavan Vajapeyam (2) and Roberto Aiello (2), $12 each

Cyrus drew with Ken Arnold and Ali Morshedi. Eric drew with Chris Wonnell and Jeff Arnold. Jeff also drew with Kyron Griffith. Ken lost to Ali in the last round, Kyron lost to Cyrus.

Best Game Prize goes to Matt Souza, $15, for win over Ben Barquin.   

Reserve Section:

First/2nd Place: Jason Arbeiter (3 1/2) and Sean McNeely (3 1/2), $55 each

1st/2nd U1600: Jim Krooskos (3) and Gene Fernando (3), $55 each

BU1400: Andrew Negus (2 1/2), $25 

Jim and Gene lost only to Jason. Sean and Jason drew with each other in round 3 and won all their other games, including their last round games to tie for first.    

Best Game Prizegoes to Jason Arbeiter, $15, for win over Chuck Ensey.

Total Prizes: $805

Next week is St. Patrick's Day Parade, so be aware that parking will be quite difficult. If you are going to play in Gambito #460 on March 13th, you will have to arrive early and hunt for parking several to many blocks away, or another idea is to have someone drop you off or take a bus. I am usually able to park 5 to 10 blocks away if I get there at 9 AM or so. Another option is the Western Class Championships, a big full weekend money event in LA, see the SCCF web site for details.    

Total Prizes: $805

Friday Night Blitz Chess

Every Friday Night at  7 PM 

Game in 7 minutes w/ 2 second delay, 7 rounds, $5 entry fee.

We are holding this every Friday in the Skittles room (so as not to disturb Bruce Baker's Jedi Knights Club). I (Chuck Ensey) will try to make it whenever I can, but I can't be there this week. Christopher Kuttruff will run the pairings this week, with assistance from Bruce when needed. I think this might be a good way to help grow the membership of the club as there might be a lot of players out there who are not ready for tournament chess, or who may be be intimidated by the prospect, but they might be more willing to give this a try. We will see... if the format will grow over time or not. I think it might catch on, at least the players so far are very enthusiastic!           

Last week on 3/12 we had a good turnout and it looks like we can expect somewhere between 10 and 20 players each week.

Club Championship Rd 2

The Club Championships  Round 2  3/10/2010  7 PM

This tournament is in 5 sections. Time control is 40/90, SD/60, 5 second delay. Entry Fee: $25. Two byes are available, but a last round must be requested by the beginning of round 2 and is irrevocable. If you would like to join this event, please email chucnglo@aol.com or call the club telephone at 619-239-7166. If you want to request a bye by email, please do it before 4 PM on Wednesday, otherwise you can call the club phone by 6:30. Byes after that time will be zero point byes instead of 1/2 point byes.   

78 players registered so far...  

Here are the Results for round 2:  

Club Championship (16 players):

Board 1  Paul Agron (1) - Ronald Bruno (1)  1/2-1/2

Bd 2  Todd Smith (1) - Lennart Mathe (1)  0-1

Bd 3  John Funderburg (1) - Ben Barquin (1)  1-0 

Bd 4  Bruce Baker (1/2) - Fausto Robles (1/2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 5  Carl Wagner (0) - Alejandrino Baluran (1/2)  1-0 

Bd 6  Mario Amodeo (0) - Eric Kuniholm (0)  1-0

Bd 7  Raoul Crisologo (0) - Fawsi Murra Jr (0)  1-0

Bd 8  Ron Soto (0) - Mariano Lozano (0)  1/2-1/2

Reserve Championship (16 players):

Bd 9  Eduardo Vasquez (1) - Erik Marquis (1)   1/2-1/2

Bd 10  Chuck Ensey (1) - Robert Hall (1)  0-1 

Bd 11  Anthony Harbone (1) - Donald Klaas (1)  1-0

Bd 12  Rocio Murra (1) - Jerry Soelberg (1/2)  0-1

Bd 13  Damani Fair (0) - Mayra Murra (1/2)  0-1

Bd 14  Chris Jensen (0) - Shaun Sweitzer (0)  1-0

Bd 15  Christopher Kuttruff (0) - Julian Rodriguez (0)  0-1

Bd 16  James Sturtevant (0) - Steve Perry (0)  0-1

Open Section (16 players so far):

Bd 19  Pejman Sagart (1) - Marty Lower (1)  1-0

Bd 20  Phillip Roth (1) - Gary Tuttle  (1)  0-1 

Bd 21  Joel Batchelor (1) - Robert Draper (1)  0-1

Bd 22  Dayne Freitag (1) - Phil Skiba (0)  1-0

Bd 23  Buddy Morris (0) - Thomas Fries (0)  1-0

Bd 24  David Saponara (0) - Chris Wonnell (0)  1/2-1/2 

Bd 23  Antonio Gonzalez (1/2) - Jim Humphrey (1/2)  0-1

Bye: Larry Vikander (1), David Delgadillo (1), Matt Souza (0)

U1800 Section (16 players so far):

Bd 26  Fawsi Jose Murra (1) - Mark Lawless (1)  0-1

Bd 27  Jerry Beck (1) - Santiago Rubio-Fernaz (1)  1-0

Bd 28  Hector Gonzalez (1) - Jerry Kavanau (1)  1/2-1/2

Bd 29  Eduardo Sanchez (1/2) - Tom Kuhn (1/2)  0-1

Bd 30  Eric Tuttle (1/2) - Victor Delgadillo (0)  0-1

Bd 31  Fred Cleveland (0) - Edgar Lopez (0)  1-0 

Bd 32  Guru Gopalakrishnan (0) - Jim Krooskos (0)  1/2-1/2

Bd 33  Sean McNeely (1/2) - Fred Borges (1/2)  1-0 

U1400 Section (14 players so far):

Bd 34  Tom Lavoy (1) - Keith Wetterer (1)  1-0

Bd 35  Leonardo Villaverde (1) - Bill Murray (1)  1/2-1/2

Bd 36  Patrick Edwards (1/2) - Jerry Qu (1/2)  0-1

Bd 37  Orrin Olgart (1/2) - Monica Ness (1/2)  0-1

Bd 38  Maria Murra (1/2) - Frank Gaylord (1/2)  1-0 

Bd 39  Arnold Berlin (0) - Rafael Hernandez (0)  0-1  

Bd 40  Klodeta Abdoli (1/2) - Larry Harper (1/2)  0-1