May Gambito Opens #466 - 470

Gambito #470   5/29/10

24 players, pretty good turn out. We used a McMahon pairing system where M/E=3, A=2,B=1,C=0. Here were the players: 4 Masters: Lakdawala, Baker, Graves, Griffith; 3 Experts: Crisologo, Sussman, Agron; 5 Class A: Pryor,Wonnell, Aiello, Reyes Lopez, Aaron Householder; 6 Class B: Ensey, Delaney, Calangi, Scott Householder, Kuhn, Harbone; 6 Class C and below: Edgar Lopez, Cleveland, Siddiqi, Wilson, Bryan Tangtartharakul, Frank Tangtartharakul. Daivd Whitten filled in for one house game in round 1. 

Cyrus won all four games (against Griffith, Graves, Baker and Crisologo), first time in a while, lately he has been getting dinged for draws or even the occassional loss. Agron took a bye and then lost to Griffith, but then beat Aaron Householder and Peter Graves. Peter also lost to Cyrus but won over Crisologo and Sussman. Raoul beat Aiello and Griffith.    

Prize winners;

First Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (7), $100  BU2400: Paul Agron (5 1/2), $60

Second Place: Peter Graves (5), $50  BU2200: Raoul Crisologo (5), $60

BU2000: Jamiseon Pryor (4 1/2), $55  BU1800: Chuck Ensey (4 1/2), $55

BU1600: Edgar Lopez (2), $50   Best Unrated: Bryan Tangtartharakul (2 1/2), book prize

Total Prizes: $430   next week Super Gambito on 6/05/10                

Gambito #469  5/22/10

18 players once again: 4 Masters (Lakdawala, Baker, Graves and Griffith); 2 Experts (Kishinevsky and Sussman); 2 Class A (Wonnell and Reyes Lopez); 3 Class B (Whitt, Kuhn, and Harbone); 3 Class C (Whitten, Cleveland and Libano Rodriguez); 4 Class D (Rivas, Vanderpot, David Smith and Bennett). Brian Kelly and Buddy Morris filled in as a house players for one game each.   

Cyrus drew with Bruce in round 2. Bruce also drew with Dimitry in Rd 1 and Peter Graves in round 4. Kyron beat Dimitry but lost to Cyrus. Peter Graves lost to Cyrus, drew with Sussman and Baker.      

Bruce directed and used a McMahon pairing system where M/E=2, A/B=1, C/D=0.   

Here are the prize winners:

First Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (5 1/2), $100

2nd Place/BU2400: Bruce Baker (4 1/2) and Kyron Griffith (4 1/2), $35 each

BU2200: Leonard Sussman (4), $40 

BU2000: Reyes Lopez (3) and Chris Wonnell (3), $20 each

BU1800: Anthony Harbone (3) and Anthony Whitt (3), $20 each

BU1600: Libano Rodriguez (2 1/2) and Keric Rivas (2 1/2), $15 each

Total Prizes: $320

Gambito #468   5/15/10

18 players: 2 Masters (Lakdawala and Baker); 2 Experts (Sussman and Sebeckis); 4 Class A (Pryor, Arutyunov, Vajapeyam, Karadayi); 4 Class B (Ensey, Aaron Householder, Kuhn, Scott Householder); 3 Class C ( Edgar Lopez, Cleveland, Libano Rodriguez); 3 Class D (Andrew Negus, Siddiqi, Peavy). Paul Agron filled in as a house for one game, lost to Cyrus in Rd 1.  

Cyrus drew with Bruce in round 3. Bruce also drew with Lenny Sussman in round 2 after taking a first round bye. Jamiseon Pryor gave Bruce a tough battle in round 4, but eventually lost. It was good to see Alan Sebeckis back after a long time. He beat Jamieson in round 1, lost to Cyrus and Nikolay Arutyunov then then withdrew. Eren Karadayi came all the way down from Los Angeles to play. He says we have one of the best clubs if not the best club in Southern California because we have a large number of great players and good attendance.    

We used a McMahon pairing system where M/E=2, A=1, B/C=0.   

Here are the prize winners:

First Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (5 1/2), $100

BU2400: Bruce Baker (4 1/2), $50  BU2200: Nikolay Arutyunov (4), $40

2nd Place : Leonard Sussman (3 1/2), $20   BU2000: Eren Karadayi (3 1/2), $40

BU1800: Aaron Householder (3 1/2), $40     BU1600: Edgar Lopez (2 1/2), $30

Total Prizes: $320            

Gambito #467   5/08/10

24 players, good turnout. 2 masters, 1 Expert, 8 Class A, 3 Class B, 3 Class C, 7 Class D and below. Bruce Baker directed and used a "mini-McMahon" pairing system with Class A and above starting with 1 point, Class B and below with zero.

Bruce drew with Kyron in Rd 3 and both won their other 3 games. Nice performance by Keric Rivas of Helix Charter School, he gained 185 rating points (1068>>1253) by beating house player David Whitten, drawing with Mike Friedel and beating Patrick Edwards. This event is now rated.   

Here are the prize winners:

First Place/BU2400: Bruce Baker (4 1/2) and Kyron Griffith (4 1/2), $80 each

BU2200: Igor Royzen (4), $60     BU2000: Nikolay Arutyunov (3 1/2), $60

2nd Place: Jamieson Pryor (3), Madhavan Vajapeyam (3), Roberto Aiello (3), Jason Arbeiter (3), Leonard Sussman (3), Carey Milton (3), $10 each

BU1800/1600: Keric Rivas (2 1/2) and Mike Friedel (2 1/2), $50 each

Total Prizes: $440          

Gambito #466  May Super Gambito  5/01/10

30 players today - 18 in the Open and 12 in the Reserve. It was a strong field with 6 Masters (Lakdawala, Jeff & Ken Arnold, Graves, Baker and Griffith), 3 Experts ( Sussman, Kishinevsky, Crisologo) and 7 Class A (Milton, Barquin, Vajapeyam, Arutyunov, Wonnell, Souza and Royzen), 1 Class B (Ensey) and 1 Class C (Cleveland) plus Paul Agron played one house game (lost to Dimitry) and David Whitten played 2 (lost to Griffith and Wonnell). Note that there were 14 players rated over 1900 and that Milton and Barquin are pretty much Experts, currently just barely under 2000. This event is already rated.   

Cyrus Lakdawala drew with Jeff Arnold in Round 3 and beat Ken Arnold in the last round.     

Here are the prize winners:  

Open Section

First Place/Second Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (3 1/2) and Jeff Arnold (3 1/2),  $100 each

BU2400: Ken Arnold (3) and Bruce Baker (3), $50 each

BU2200: Dimitry Kishinevsky (3), $75

BU2000: Ben Barquin (2 1/2), $75 

2nd U2200/2000: Raoul Crisologo (2), Leonard Sussman (2), Igor Royzen (2) and Matt Souza (2), $12 each   

Reserve Section (U1800)

First Place: Aaron Householder (4), $75  Second Place: Sean McNeely (3), $25

BU1600: Tom Kuhn (3), $50    2nd U1600: Alexander Blank (2 1/2), $20

Best Game Prize Open Section: Matt Souza, $15, for win over Chris Wonnell

Best Game Reserve Section: Tom Kuhn, $15, for win over Sean McNeely   

Total Prizes $700   

 

Todd Smith Open Rd 2

Todd Smith Open Round 2 of 5  5/05/10    7 PM

2 Sections: The Slow Section (40/90, SD/60) and The Fast Section (G/90)   

In both cases it will be a McMahon Swiss. The McMahon bye points for each section: Masters and Experts = 4 points, Class A (1800-1999) = 3 points, Class B (1600-1799) = 2 points, Class C (1400-1599) = 1 point, Class D and below (under 1400) = 0. Entry Fee is $25 as always.

Not too late to join, just email Chuck Ensey at chucnglo@aol.com   68 players total so far, including the two match players but non including house players.  

Results for Round 2:

Frequent players we would LOVE to have join in this event, in no particular order: Fausto Robles, Eric Kuniholm, The Murra family, Larry Vikander, Eduardo Vasquez, Chris Kuttruff, Joel Batchelor, Matt Foley, Frank Gaylord, Jerry Beck, Jerry Kavanau, Eduardo Sanchez, Santiago Rubio-Fernaz, Datris Robinson, Ron Rezendes, just to mention a few...  

New players joining this week were: Jamieson Pryor, Anthony Harbone, Guru Gopalakrishnan, Libano Rodriguez Stanford Talcott and Dan Press. 

Slow Section (40/90, SD/60), 32 players: 

Board 1  Alejandrino Baluran (5) - Todd Smith (5)  0-1

Bd 2  Jason Qu (4 1/2) - Lennart Mathe (4 1/2)  0-1

Bd 3  Carl Wagner (4) - Thomas Fries (4)  1-0

Bd 4  Paul Agron (4) - Luke Neyndorff (4)  1-0 

Bd 5  Gary Tuttle (4) - Mariano Lozano (4)  0-1

Bd 6  Ronald Soto (3 1/2) - Igor Royzen (4)  1-0

Bd 7  Chris Jensen (3) - Marty Lower (3)  0-1

Bd 8  David Saponara (3) - Julian Rodriguez (3)  1-0

Bd 9  Steve Perry (2) - Anthony Harbone (2 1/2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 10  Eric Tuttle (2) - Donald Klaas (2)  0-1

Bd 11  Tom Kuhn (2) - Jerry Qu (2)  1-0

Bd 12  Guru Gopalkrishnan (1 1/2) - Philip Skiba (2)  1-0

Bd 13  Bill Murray (1) - Fred Cleveland (1)  0-1

Bd 14  Keith Wetterer (1) - Kevin Brocker (0)  1-0

Byes: Robert Draper (4), Rafael Hernandez (1/2), Monica Ness (0)

No show: Victor Delgadillo (1)

Withdraw: Fred Borges (2), Harry LaSalle (0)

Fast Section (G/90), 34 players:

Bd 16  David Hart (5) - Dimitry Kishinevsky (4 1/2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 17  Bill Whitney (4 1/2) - Bruce Baker (4 1/2)  1-0 

Bd 18  Pejman Sagart (4) - Jeff Turner (4)  1-0

Bd 19  Matt Souza (4) - Chris Wonnell (4)  0-1

Bd 20  Dayne Freitag (3) - Jamieson Pryor (3 1/2)  0-1

Bd 21  Buddy Morris (3) - Robert Defore (3)  1-0

Bd 22  Jerry Soelberg (2) - Erik Marquis (3)  1-0

Bd 23  Chuck Ensey (2) - Edgar Lopez (2)  1-0

Bd 24  Jim Krooskos (2) - Mark Lawless (2)  1-0

Bd 25  Michael Thomas (2) - Libano Rodriguez (1)  1/2-1/2

Bd 26  Stanford Talcott (1 1/2) - Leonardo Villaverde (1)  0-1

Bd 27  David Peabody (1) - Tom Lavoy (1)  0-1

Bd 28  Patrick Edwards (1) - Morgan Fox (1)  0-1

Bd 29  Arnold Berlin (1) - Dan Press (1/2)  1-0

Bd 30  Tygen Zeng (0) - Rachel Hong (0)  1-0

Bd 31  Alfredo Deleon (3 1/2) - Mario Amodeo (4)  0-1

Bye: David Delgadillo (0), Hector Gonzalez (3), James Sturtevant (1)

house players: Phil Skiba, Mario Amodeo, Kevin Brocker

Match Play:  Shaun Sweitzer (1) - Damani Fair (0)  1/2-1/2

Round 3 pairings will be posted by Thursday night...

Todd Smith Open Rd 1

Todd Smith Open Round 1 of 5    4/28/10  7 PM

This event will be in 2 sections:

The Fast Section (G/90)            and            The Slow Section (40/90, SD/60).

In both cases it will be a McMahon Swiss so that most players will be paired against someone near their own rating, at least initially. The McMahon bye points for each section: Masters and Experts = 4 points, Class A (1800-1999) = 3 points, Class B (1600-1799) = 2 points, Class C (1400-1599) = 1 point, Class D and below (under 1400) = 0. Entry Fee is $25 as always.

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Slow Section (40/90, SD/60)

Board 1: Todd Smith - Paul Agron  1-0

Bd 2  Alejandrino Baluran - Carl Wagner  1-0

Bd 3  Mariano Lozano - Robert Draper  0-1

Bd 4  Thomas Fries - David Delgadillo  1-0

Bd 5  Marty Lower - Gary Tuttle  0-1

Bd 6  Luke Neyendorff - David Saponara  1-0

Bd 7  Igor Royzen - Steve Perry  1-0

Bd 8  Julian Rodriguez - Fred Borges  1-0

Bd 9  Monica Ness - Jerry Qu  0-1

Bd 10  Donald Klaas - Chris Jensen  0-1

Bd 11  Fred Cleveland - Tom Kuhn  0-1

Bd 12  Victor Delgadillo - Eric Tuttle  0-1

Bd 13  Harry LaSalle - Keith Wetterer  0-1

Bd 14  Bill Murray - Carl Newell  0-1   

Fast Section (G/90):

Bd 16  Bruce Baker - Dimitry Kishinevsky  1/2-1/2

Bd 17  Jeff Turner - David Hart  0-1

Bd 18  Chris Wonnell - Buddy Morris  1-0

Bd 19  Pejman Sagart - Dayne Freitag  1-0

Bd 20  Robert Defore - Matt Souza  0-1

Bd 21  Erik Marquis - Chuck Ensey  1-0

Bd 22  Jerry Soelberg - Hector Gonzalez  0-1

Bd 23  Mark Lawless - Philip Skiba  0-1

Bd 24  James Sturtevant - Michael Thomas  0-1

Bd 25  Leonardo Villaverde - Jim Krooskos  0-1  

Bd 26  Edgar Lopez - David Peabody  1-0

Bd 27  Tom Lavoy - Patrick Edwards  1-0

Bd 28  Morgan Fox - Tygan Zeng  1-0

Bd 29  Rachel Hong - Arnold Berlin  0-1?? score not posted!!

 

Match Play: Damani Fair - Shaun Sweitzer  0-1

Tentative Pairings for next week will be posted Thursday night...

Not too late to join, get a first round bye...

     

You can sign up in advance by emailing Chuck Ensey at chucnglo@aol.com

Open House - Funderburg Lecture & Blitz on 4/21

Open House on 4/21/10 starts at 7 PM

There wa free food and a festive atmosphere as we applauded John Funderburg for attaining master level. He is the first player to win consecutive Championships since Cyrus Lakdawala- plus he also won in 2007, so he now has 2 out of the last 3 titles. John gave about a one hour lecture reviewing 3 of his games from the Championship. The games were versus Fawsi Murra Jr, Ben Barquin and Bruce Baker. There were about 20 people in attendance as John explained the key points of each game. Cyrus Lakdawala was also there and added his insights at various points. It was instructive and well received and there is some hope we can get John back for one more lecture that would be maybe 1/2 hour to 45 minutes on a Wednesday night before a tournament round.

Mario Amodeo then took on about 15 players or so in a simultaneous exhibition. Mark Lawless was able to get a win and added to his great record of simul wins. He has a win over John Funderburg and Adam Corper and maybe a few other too. Amazing for a player rated about 1600, I guess there is something about simuls that really inspires him. Ed Baluran also got a win and so did Bill Murray. Buddy Morris and Jim Krooskos both got a draws. 

Next: The Todd Smith Open, 5 rounds, details to follow soon. Round 1 on 4/28/10 at 7 PM. It will be in at least 3 sections.      

     

This is also our Open House so there will be some free food for all club members...

Some people may still really want a simul, so we can probably recruit Bruce Baker or maybe Mario Amodeo...  

             

April Gambito Opens (#463-5)

Gambito #465   4/24/10

Only 18 players today, lighter turnout than usual. We used a mini-McMahon pairing system with M/E = 2, A/B = 1, C/D = 0.

Cyrus lost to Bruce in Round 2, but then Bruce fell victim to the "Curse of Cyrus" and lost both of his next games against Kyron Griffith and Jesse Orlowski. We have noticed over the years that if anyone ever beats Cyrus, they tend to not do well over the rest of the event. Not sure why, but that's just the way it is. Tired? Overconfident? We don't know so we just call it the curse.

Carey Milton beat Kyron Griffith in the last round, an impressive feat given Kyron's performances lately. Datris Robinson also had another good day, show that his recent vault into Class A is no fluke. Claire Negus also did great, winning the BU1800 even though she is only 1322.        

Here were the prize winners:

First Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (5), $100

Second Place/U2400/U2200/U2000: Carey Milton (4), Kyron Griffith (4), Jesse Orlowski (4), Datris Robinson (4), $37 each

U1800: Claire Negus (3 1/2), $40   U1600: Fred Cleveland (3), $30

Total Prizes: $320      

Gambito #464   4/17/10

22 players, decent turnout. McMahon system with M=2, Exp/A/B= 1, C=0. Bruce Baker directed. Cyrus faced the toughest possible players, #3, #2, #4 and #5 in that order (Graves, Baker, Griffith and Sussman). Cy beat Peter and Lenny, but drew with Bruce and Kyron. Bruce beat Kyron, drew with Cy, lost to Peter and beat Carey Milton. Peter lost to Cy, beat Chris Wonnell, beat Bruce and drew with Kyron. Kyron lost to Bruce, beat Datris Robinson, drew with Cy and Peter. Datris had a great day, he is rated 1702, but he won the U2200! He beat Esteban Escobedo, lost to Kyron, beat Chris Wonnell and Jason Ma. 

Here were the winners:

First Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (5), $100

Second Place/U2400: Bruce Baker (4 1/2) and Peter Graves (4 1/2), $45 each

BU2200: Datris Robinson (4), $50   BU2000: Carey Milton (3 1/2), $50

BU1800: Aaron Householder (3), $50   BU1600: Guru Gopalakrishnan (3), $50

Total Prizes $390          

Gambito #463    4/03/10 (April Super Gambito)

Two Sections, Open and Reserve (U1800 rating), 4 rounds of G/45 minutes (or G/40 with 5 second delay, which is the preferred way to play) One bye allowed in rounds 1 - 3, but no last round byes.  

28 players today, just enough to cover the $700 prize fund. 16 players in the Open and 12 in the Reserve. Open Section, in rating order: Lakdawala, Graves, Griffith (3 masters); Kuniholm, Sussman, Tsoi, Lozano (4 Experts); Orlowski, Soto, Hodges, Hirata, Pryor, Aiello, Vajapeyam, Quiba (8 Class A) and Jason Ma (1769, playing up). Reserve Section: Sagart, Arbeiter, Robinson, Ensey, Harbone (5 Class B); Krooskos, Cleveland, Xu, Fernando, Beck, Azimzadeh (6 Class C); C Negus (1316). Several house players filled in: Whitten, Garcia, A. Negus and Gaylord.        

$700 in Guaranteed Prizes

Open Section:

First Place: Peter Graves (3 1/2), $125   Second Place: Kyron Griffith (3), $75

BU2400/2nd U2400/BU2200: Mariano Lozano (2 1/2), Leonard Sussman (2 1/2) and Alan Tsoi (2 1/2), $58 each

BU2000: Madhavan Vajapeyam (2 1/2), $75 

2nd U2200/2ndU2000: Erik Kuniholm (2), Jesse Orlowski (2), Jamieson Pryor (2) and Roberto Aiello (2), $12 each 

Cyrus lost to Kyron in Rd 3 and then drew with Alan Tsoi in Rd 4. A one-two punch from the Amateur Team West Junior Champions (see picture in Photo Section). Peter Graves won 3, but drew with Jesse Orlowski in Rd 2, another member of the "2 1/2 Asians" Amateur Team. (2 1/2 assassins might be more descriptive, or maybe even baby-faced assassins, which is how repeat Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum of the SF Giants is described). Peter beat Eric Kuniholm and Kyron Griffith in Rds 3 & 4. He also tied for First with Cyrus at last weeks' Gambito. "Is there a new King in town?" some people were asking...     

Reserve Section (U1800):

BU1800: Jason Arbeiter (3 1/2) and Chuck Ensey (3 1/2), $50 each

BU1600: Kenneth Xu (3), $50   2nd U1600: Gene Fernando (2), $25 

Jason and Chuck drew in Round 3. Kenneth Xu lost only to Jason in Round 4 and upped his rating over a 100 points to 1558 (estimated and the estimates are usually low for big gains, so it's probably closer to 1600). and Ken is probably still way underrated. He is one of those young players who learns faster than the rating system can track him. Ken beat Datris Robinson (1720) in Rd 1 and Pejman Sagart (1790) in Rd 3, Pejman had a rough day, also losing to Chuck Ensey (me) in Rd 2 and nearly losing to Claire Negus in the last round. Claire was up 3 pawns and a Queen versus Pejman's lone Queen, but got into time trouble and overstepped the 5 second delay, losing a heartbreaker. Hopefully she will learn from the experience and come back stronger. The young are resiliant. And the old aren't too shabby either, Gene Fernando continues to perform well with his 84 years of experience providing him with much wisdom. He was born with a pawn in his hand and I think his first words were "e4!" or maybe "your move!".      

Best Game for Open Section: Roberto Aiello, $15, for win over Peter Hodges. 

Reserve Section to be announced soon

Also welcome to new player Francisco Hirata (1950 rating) and long lost player Kamran Azimzadeh, who has returned to the club after several years absence (just busy with other things, he says).     

SCCF Senior/Junior Open

SCCF Senior/Junior Open, or the Over/Under 50 Tournament   

$3,200 in Prizes paid out!!

Enhanced Prize Fund, thanks to several generous donors...

April 10th & 11th at the San Diego Chess Club in Balboa Park

Senior Section (over 50 years old)

26 players in rating order include 3 Masters: Bruce Baker, Peter Graves, Avram Zaydenberg; 5 Experts: Raoul Crisologo, Leonard Sussman, Michael Nagaran, Alejandrino Baluran, Charles Gelinas; 5 Class A: Dennis Saccuzzo, Chris Wonnell, David Delgadillo, Rick Dyberg, Daniel Collins; 5 Class B: Alfredo Deleon, Ronaldo Salenga, Chuck Ensey, Kimberly Ogden, Anthony Harbone; 5 Class C:Wilfredo Lapurga, Libano Rodriguez, Fred Cleveland, Steven Dahl, Stanford Talcott; 3 Class D: Armando Garcia, James Hillard, Gary Wright.  

18 out of the 26 players won money due to the numerous prizes. For those who missed this event, put it on your calendar for next year - this is NOT one you want to miss!! Peter Graves is the SCCF Senior Champion for 2010, he scored 4 wins, allowing a draw only to Leonard Sussman. The most critical win was a last round defeat of the #1 rated player Bruce Baker. If Bruce had won the game he would have been Champion with 4 points, all alone in first place with 7 other players trailing at 3 1/2! The loss cost him $280, as with only 3 points he won nothing. Lower rated players snapped up the 2nd and 3rd place prizes, plus the U2400 and 2nd U2400. A round 1 loss to Alfredo Deleon (who also once beat Cyrus Lakdawala) also hurt Bruce's prospects. As it was, Peter took home the big First Place prize and bragging rights for one year. Peter also defeated NM Avram Zaydenberg in round 3.     

The logjam for 2nd Place included Zaydenberg, 3 Experts and also a two Class A players, Chris Wonnell and David Delgadillo. David did particularly well, defeating Expert Raoul Crisologo, and drawing with Experts Michael Nagaran and Leonard Sussman.  

First Place: Peter Graves (4 1/2), $280

2nd/3rd/U2400/U2200/U2000/2ndU2400: Avram Zaydenberg (3 1/2), Leonard Sussman (3 1/2), David Delgadillo (3 1/2), Michael Nagaran (3 1/2), Chris Wonnell (3 1/2), Alejandrino Baluran (3 1/2), $106 each

2nd U2200: Raoul Crisologo (3), $40  2nd U2000: Rick Dyberg (3), $40

BU1800/2ndU1800: Alfredo Deleon (2 1/2) and Ronaldo Salenga (2 1/2), $80 each

BU1600: Fred Cleveland (2 1/2), $80   Best Over 60 years old: Daniel Collins (2 1/2), $80

Best Over 70 years old: Armando Garcia (2), $80

2nd U1600: Steven Dahl (2), $40

B1400/2nd U1400: James Hillard (1 1/2) and Gary Wright (1 1/2), $40 each

Best Over 80 years old: Anthony Harbone (1), $80

"Junior" Section (under age 50)

27 players, in rating order: 3 masters: Jeff Arnold, Ken Arnold, Kyron Griffith; 3 Experts: Craig Clawitter, Varun Krishnan, Alan Tsoi; 10 Class A: Peter Hodges, Madhavan Vajapeyam, Esteban Escobedo, Roberto Aiello, Jamieson Pryor, John Badger, Mario Vinoya, Matt Souza, Simone Sobel, Charlie Berkman; 2 Class B: Yash Pershad, Datris Robinson; 3 Class C: Alexander Blank, Tom Kuhn, Victor Delgadillo; 6 Class D and below: Edgar Lopez, Jerry Qu, Ryan Valley, Derek Williams, Kristian Rosas (unr) and Ross Rosas (unr).  

First Place/2nd Place/U2400: Jeff Arnold (4), Peter Hodges (4) and Varun Krishnan (4), $187 each

3rd Place: Ken Arnold (3 1/2), $80       Best Under 16 years old: Kyron Griffith (3 1/2), $80

BU2200: Alan Tsoi (3 1/2), $120         BU2000: Esteban Escobedo (3 1/2), $120

2nd U2400/2nd U2200/2ndU2000: Craig Clawitter (3), Roberto Aiello (3), Jamieson Pryor (3) and Charlie Berkman (3), $30 each

BU1800/1600: Alexander Blank (2 1/2) and Datris Robinson (2 1/2), $100 each

Best Under 20 years old: Edgar Lopez (2), $80

BU1400: Ryan Valley (1 1/2), $60

2nd U1800/Best Under 12 years old: Yash Pershad (1 1/2) and Jerry Qu (1 1/2), $60 each

2nd U1600: Tom Kuhn (1), $40     2nd U1400: none       

Great Tournament, 53 players total, thanks everybody. More comments tomorrow night...     

       

 

Club Championship Rd 7

The Club Championships  Round 7 of 7  4/14/2010  7 PM

This tournament is in 5 sections. Time control is 40/90, SD/60, 5 second delay. Entry Fee: $25. No last round byes. If you need to withdraw, please email chucnglo@aol.com or call the club telephone at 619-239-7166. 

John Funderburg repeats as Club Champion. First Back-to-Back Winner in the post Cyrus era!!   

80 players    

Here are the results for round 7:   

Club Championship (16 players):

First Place: John Funderburg (5 1/2), $100   2nd Place: Mario Amodeo (5), $60

3rd Place tie: Todd Smith (4 1/2) and Paul Agron (4 1/2), $30 each 

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Board 1  John Funderburg (5) - Mario Amodeo (4 1/2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 2  Carl Wagner (3 1/2) - Todd Smith (4)  1/2-1/2 

Bd 3  Lennart Mathe (4) - Paul Agron (3 1/2)  0-1  

Bd 4  Ron Soto (3) - Fausto Robles (2)  1F-0F

Bd 5  Raoul Crisologo (3) - Eric Kuniholm (1 1/2)  0F-0F

Bd 6  Alejandrino Baluran (2 1/2) - Mariano Lozano (2 1/2)  1/2-1/2

Withdraw: Fawsi Murra Jr (1), Bruce Baker (2 1/2) 

Reserve Championship (16 players):

First Place: Eduardo Vasquez (6), $90   2nd Place: Chuck Ensey (5), $60

3rd Place: Robert Hall (4 1/2), $40

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Bd 8  Robert Hall (4) - Eduardo Vasquez (5 1/2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 10  Chuck Ensey (4) - Rocio Murra (4)  1-0 

Bd 11  Steve Perry (3 1/2) - Chris Jensen (3 1/2)  1/2-1/2 

Bd 12  Erik Marquis (3) - Anthony Harbone (3 1/2)  1-0 

Bd 13  Damani Fair (2 1/2) - Jerry Soelberg (2 1/2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 14  Donald Klaas (2 1/2) - James Sturtevant (1 1/2)  0-1

Bd 15  Philip Skiba (1)  - Julian Rodriguez (1 1/2)  0-1

Withdraw: Christopher Kuttruff (1 1/2), Mayra Murra (2) and Shaun Sweitzer (3)

Open Section (17 players):

First Place tie: Robert Draper (5 1/2) and Pejman Sagart (5 1/2), $80 each

3rd/4th  Place tie: Gary Tuttle (4 1/2) and Jim Humphrey (4 1/2), $45 

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Bd 16  Pejman Sagart (4 1/2) - Jim Humphrey (4 1/2)  1-0

Bd 17  Robert Draper (4 1/2) - Buddy Morris (3)  1-0  

Bd 18  Dayne Freitag (3 1/2) - Gary Tuttle (3 1/2)  0-1

Bd 19  David Saponara (3) - David Delgadillo (3 1/2)  1-0

Bd 20  Matt Souza (3) - Chris Wonnell (3)  0-1

Bd 21  Marty Lower (2 1/2) - Larry Vikander (2 1/2)  1-0

Bd 22  Thomas Fries (2) - Brian Kelly (0)  1-0

Withdraw: Phillip Roth (2 1/2)

U1800 Section (16 players):

First-Third Place Tie: Tom Kuhn (5), Hector Gonzalez (5) and Fawsi Jose Murra (5), $70 each

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Bd 23  Fawsi Jose Murra (4 1/2) - Tom Kuhn (4 1/2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 24  Mark Lawless (4) - Hector Gonzalez (4)  0-1

Bd 25  Jerry Beck (4)  - Edgar Lopez (3 1/2)  0F-1F

Bd 26  Santiago Rubio-Fernaz (2) - Victor Delgadillo (2 1/2)  0-1

Bd 27  Eric Tuttle (2 1/2) - Alexander Blank (0)

Bd 28  Fred Cleveland (2)  - Eduardo Sanchez (2)  1-0

Bd 29  Matt Foley (0) - Fred Borges (1 1/2)  0-1

Withdraw: Jerry Kavanau (4), Guru Gopalakrishnan (2 1/2), Jim Krooskos (2 1/2)   

U1400 Section (15 players)  

First Place: Bill Murray (6), $90

2nd/3rd Place tie: Jerry Qu (5 1/2) and Leonardo Villaverde (5 1/2), $60 each

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Bd 30  Bill Murray (5) - Larry Harper (3)  1-0 

Bd 31  Jerry Qu (4 1/2) - Maria Murra (3 1/2)  1-0

Bd 32  Patrick Edwards (3) - Leonardo Villaverde (4 1/2)  0-1

Bd 33  Tom Lavoy (3 1/2) - Rafael Hernandez (2 1/2)  1-0

Bd 34  Frank Gaylord (2) - Keith Wetterer (2 1/2)  1-0

Withdraw: Klodeta Abdoli (1), Monica Ness (3)

Next Week: Simultaneous Exhibition by John Funderburg...

Club Championship Rd 6

The Club Championships  Round 6 of 7  4/07/2010  7 PM

This tournament is in 5 sections. Time control is 40/90, SD/60, 5 second delay. Entry Fee: $25. No last round byes. If you need to withdraw, please email chucnglo@aol.com or call the club telephone at 619-239-7166.    

80 players registered so far...   

Here are the results for round 6:   

Club Championship (16 players):

Board 1  Mario Amodeo (3 1/2) - Todd Smith (4)  1-0

Bd 2  John Funderburg (4) - Raoul Crisologo (3)  1-0    

Bd 3  Bruce Baker (2 1/2) - Carl Wagner (2 1/2)  0-1

Bd 4  Fausto Robles (2) - Lennart Mathe (3)  0-1  

Bd 5  Fawsi Murra Jr (1) - Ron Soto (2)  0-1

Bd 6  Eric Kuniholm (1 1/2) - Alejandrino Baluran (1 1/2)  0-1 

Byes: Paul Agron (3) and Mariano Lozano (2) 

Reserve Championship (16 players):

Bd 8  Eduardo Vasquez (4 1/2) - Chuck Ensey (4)  1-0 

Bd 10  Chris Jensen (3) - Robert Hall (3 1/2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 11  Anthony Harbone (3) - Steve Perry (3)  1/2-1/2

Bd 12  Rocio Murra (3) - Damani Fair (2 1/2)  1-0

Bd 13  Jerry Soelberg (2 1/2) - Erik Marquis (2)  0-1

Bd 14  Christopher Kuttruff (1 1/2) - Shaun Sweitzer (2)  0-1

Bd 15  Mayra Murra (2) - James Sturtevant (1/2)  0-1

Bd 16  Julian Rodriguez (1 1/2) - Donald Klaas (1 1/2)  0-1

Open Section (17 players):

Bd 16  Robert Draper (4 1/2) - Pejman Sagart (3 1/2)  0-1

Bd 17  Gary Tuttle (3 1/2) - Jim Humphrey (3 1/2)  0-1

Bd 18  David Saponara (3) - Buddy Morris (3)  0-1 

Bd 19  Chris Wonnell (2) - Phillip Roth (2 1/2)  1-0

Bd 20  Larry Vikander (2 1/2) - Matt Souza (2)  0-1

Bd 21  Marty Lower (1 1/2) - Phil Skiba (0)  1-0 

Byes: Dayne Freitag (3), David Delgadillo (3), Thomas Fries (1 1/2)

U1800 Section (16 players):

Bd 22  Jerry Kavanau (4) - Fawsi Jose Murra (3 1/2)  0-1 

Bd 23  Hector Gonzalez (3) - Jerry Beck (4)  1-0

Bd 24  Victor Delgadillo (2 1/2) - Tom Kuhn (3 1/2)  0-1

Bd 25  Eric Tuttle (2 1/2) - Mark Lawless (3)  0-1

Bd 26  Edgar Lopez (2 1/2) - Guru Gopalakrishnan (2 1/2)  1-0

Bd 27  Jerry Cupat (1/2) - Fred Cleveland (1 1/2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 28  Datris Robinson (0) - Fred Borges (1 1/2)

Bd 29  Eduardo Sanchez (1) - Matt Foley (0)

Byes: Jim Krooskos (2), Santiago Rubio-Fernaz (1 1/2),   

U1400 Section (15 players)  

Bd 30  Patrick Edwards (3) -  Bill Murray (4)  0-1 

Bd 31  Leonardo Villaverde (3 1/2) - Tom Lavoy (3 1/2)  1-0

Bd 32  Larry Harper (2 1/2) - Jerry Qu (3 1/2)  0-1 

Bd 33  Keith Wetterer (2 1/2) - Maria Murra (2 1/2)  0-1

Bye: Rafael Hernandez (2), Frank Gaylord (1 1/2), Klodeta Abdoli (1), Arnold Berlin (0)