David Delgadillo Open Round 4

David Delgadillo Open  Round 4 of 6 on 8/04/10 at 7:00 PM

This tournament is in 4 Sections, all with one time control, G/100 with 19 second delay. Once again we honor one of our long time club members, David Delgadillo.  Entry fee is $25, SDCC membership ($60 a year) and USCF membership ($42 a year) are required. 2 byes are allowed, last round byes must be requested before round 2 and are irrevocable. No smoking, no whining, $5 fine for cell phone violations or other acts of rudeness. TD Bruce Baker settles any and all disputes.    

66 Players Total ...

Results for Round 4:

Open Section (22 players so far)

Board 1  Bruce Baker (2 1/2) - Todd Smith (3)  1-0

Bd 2  John Funderburg (2) - Alejandrino Baluran (2)  0-1

Bd 3  Raoul Crisologo (2) - Aaron Wooten (2)  0-1

Bd 4  Mario Amodeo (2) - Lennart Mathe (2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 5  Gary Tuttle (1 1/2) - Jason Qu (1 1/2)  0-1

Bd 6  Vincent Broman (1 1/2) -  David Delgadillo (1 1/2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 7  Buddy Morris (1) - Fawsi Murra Jr (1)  0-1 

Bd 8  Thomas Fries (1/2) - Marty Lower (1)  1-0

Bd 9  Rocio Murra (1/2) - Bob Defore ( 1/2)  0-1

Bd 10  Antonio Gonzalez (0) - Phillip Roth (1/2)  0-1

Premier Section (U1900), 9 players  

Bd 12  Kenneth Xu (21/2) - Robert Draper  (21/2)  0-1

Bd 13  Fawsi Jose Murra (1) - Steve Perry (1 1/2)  1/2-1/2

Bye:  Chuck Ensey (1 1/2), Matt Souza (1 1/2), Ron Rezendes (0)  

Withdraw: Igor Royzen (1/2), Jerry Soelberg (1)      

Reserve Section (U1700) 15 players 

Bd 18  Guru Gopalakrishnan (2 1/2) - Bruce Charnov (3)  0-1

Bd 19  Erik Marquis (2) - Mark Lawless (2)  1-0

Bd 20  Steve Gordon (2) - Fred Cleveland (2)  0-1

Bd 21  Jerry Qu (1 1/2) - Chris Jensen (1 1/2)  0-1

Bd 22  Mayra Murra (1/2) - Anthony Harbone (1/2) 1-0

Bye: Tom Kuhn (0), Jim Krooskos (1), Rocio Murra (full point bye)

Withdraw: Hector Gonzalez (2), Eric Tuttle (1)    

Novice Section (U1500) 20 players

Bd 26  Leonardo Villaverde (3) - Morgan Fox (3)  0-1

Bd 27 Andrew Negus (2 1/2) - Tom Lavoy (2)  1-0

Bd 28  Santi Pinon (2) - Bill Murray (2)  1-0 

Bd 29  Irina Nizmutdinova (2) - Maria Murra (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 30  Daniel Sun (1 1/2) - Tygan Zeng (1)  1-0

Bd 31  Daniel Press (1 1/2) - Mike Smith (1)  1-0

Bd 32  Arnold Berlin (1) - Rafael Hernandez (1)  1-0

Bd 33  Keith Wetterer (1/2) - Alfred Quan (1/2)  1-0

Bye: Jesse Wang (1 1/2), Mattew Wang (1)

 

San Diego County Championships

San Diego County Championships

 July 24 & 25, 2010

45 players total this year, listed below in rating order  

Open Section: 15 players 

2 Masters: Bruce Baker, Romeo Ignacio

12 Experts: Varun Krishnan, Raoul Crisologo, Eric Kuniholm, Alan Tsoi, Peter Hodges, Alejandrino Baluran, Michael Nagaran, Leonard Sussman, Aaron Wooten, Ben Barquin, Daniel Grazian, Jason Qu; plus 1 Class A playing up: Madhavan Vajapeyam.

House players: Experts Antonio Gonzalez and Alan Sebeckis 

Reserve Section (U2000): 23 players 

12 Class A: Dennis Saccuzzo, Bob Defore, Jamieson Pryor, Carey Milton, Esteban Escobedo, Pejman Sagart, Tom Fries, Chris Wonnell, Reyes Lopez, Igor Royzen, Daniel Collins, Chuck Ensey

7 Class B: Joe Rieker, Carl Newell, Edgar Lopez, Tom Kuhn,  Kenneth Xu, James Mitchell, Anthony Harbone

House player: Class B player Brian Kelly

4 Class C playing up: Arsenio Caccam, Todd Arone, Michael Ferguson, Wilfredo Lapurga 

Booster Section (U1600): 7 players

3 Class C: Ildefonso Mamaradlo, Jerry Qu, Fred Cleveland

3 Class D: Darryl Woodson, Alonzo Sanchez

1 Class E: Tygan Zeng    and   1 unrated: Manuel Mojarro

house player: Class D player Irina Nizmutdinova 

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Prize winners:

Open Section: 15

First Place: Peter Hodges (4), $300   

2nd Place/U2400: Jason Qu (3 1/2) and Romeo Ignacio (3 1/2), $135 each 

U2300/U2200: Ben Barquin (3) and Varun Krishnan (3), $120 each

U2100/2nd U2400: Aaron Wooten (2 1/2) and Daniel Grazian (2 1/2), $85 each

2nd U2300/2nd U2220/2nd U2100: Bruce Baker (2), Leonard Sussman (2), Alejandrino Baluran (2), Madhavan Vajapeyam (2) and Michael Nagaran (2), $30 each   

Reserve Section (U2000): 23 

First Place: Bob Defore (4), $180   2nd Place: Carey Milton (4), $90

U1900: Chris Wonnell (3 1/2), $120 

2nd U1900: Igor Royzen (3), Reyes Lopez (3), Daniel Collins (3), $17 each

U1800/1700: Edgar Lopez (2 1/2) and Kenneth Xu (2 1/2), $120 each

2nd U1800/1700: Carl Newell (2), Todd Arone (2), Arsenio Caccam (2), James Mitchell (2), Tom Kuhn (2), $20 each

Booster Section (U1600): 7

First Place: Fred Cleveland (4), $110

2nd Place: Jerry Qu (3 1/2) and Ildefonso Mamaradlo (3 1/2), $40 each

U1500: Alonzo Sanchez (3), $60

U1400: Darryl Woodson (1 1/2), $45

Total Prizes: $2,260

Best games still to be judged, stay tuned... 

Best Game Booster Section goes to Alonzo Sanchez, $15, for his win over Fred Cleveland in the last round. Up until then Fred had won 4 in row...

Best Game in the Open Section goes to new County Champion Peter Hodges, $15 for this win over Ben Barquin with 2 piece sacs!

1. e4 e6 2.d4 b6 3.Nc3 Bb7 4.Nf3 Bb4 5.Bd3 h6 6.0-0 Ba6 7.Ne5 Nf6 8.f4 Bb7 9.Nxf7 Kxf7 10.e5 Bxc3 11.bxc3 Ne4 12.f5 Rf8? 13.Qg4 d5 14.Bxh6! gxh6 15.Qg6+ Ke7 16.Qxe6#   

Best Game in the Reserve Section goes to Carey Milton, $15 for this win over Chuck Ensey:

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Nd2 c5 5.dxc5 Bxc5 6.cxd5 Qxd5 7.Ngf3 0-0 8.Bg2 Bxf2+ 9.Kxf2 Ng4+ 10.Ke1 Ne3 11.Qb3 Qc5 12.Ne4 Nxg2+ 13.Kf1 Qf5 14.Nd6 (Nc2 was better) Qh3 15.Kf2 Bd7 16.Rg1 Bc6 17.Rxg2 Nd7 18.Be3 Ne5 19.Rh1 Bd5 20.Qc3 Ng4+ 21.Kg1 Rfd8 22.Bc5 b6 23.Ba3 Rac8 24.Qxc8 (if Nxc8 Bxf3 25.Qxf3 Rd1+ 26.Qf1 Rxf1+ 27.Kxf1 Ne3+) Rxc8 25.Nxc8 Qh6! (I thought I had a few moves to re-organize my pieces, but I overlooked this move which crushes) 26.b3 Qe3+ 27.Kf1 Bxf3 28.Rhg1 Qd4 0-1   

 

David Delgadillo Open Round 3

David Delgadillo Open  Round 3 of 6 on 7/28/10 at 7:00 PM

This tournament is in 4 Sections, all with one time control, G/100 with 19 second delay. Once again we honor one of our long time club members, David Delgadillo.  Entry fee is $25, SDCC membership ($60 a year) and USCF membership ($42 a year) are required. 2 byes are allowed, last round byes must be requested before round 2 and are irrevocable. No smoking, no whining, $5 fine for cell phone violations or other acts of rudeness. TD Bruce Baker settles any and all disputes.    

66 Players Total so far...

Results for Round 3:

Open Section (22 players)

Board 1  Todd Smith (2) - Mario Amodeo (2)  1-0

Bd 2  Bruce Baker (1 1/2) - Jim Humphrey (2)  1-0

Bd 3  Lennart Mathe (1 1/2) - John Funderburg (1 1/2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 4  Jason Qu (1 1/2) - Raoul Crisologo (1)  0-1 

Bd 5  Fawsi Murra Jr (1) - Alejandrino Baluran (1)  0-1  

Bd 6  Aaron Wooten (1) - Buddy Morris (1)  1-0 

Bd 7  David Delgadillo (1) - Gary Tuttle (1)  1/2-1/2

Bd 8  Chris Wonnell (1) - David Saponara (1/2) 1-0

Bd 9  Bob Defore (0)  - Thomas Fries (1/2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 10  Marty Lower (0) - Donald Klaas (0)  1-0

Bye: Phillip Roth (0), Vincent Broman (1), Fausto Robles (0)

Premier Section (U1900), 9 players 

Bd 12  Kenneth Xu (1 1/2) - Chuck Ensey (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 13  Robert Draper  (1 1/2) - Steve Perry (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 14  Matt Souza (1/2) - Igor Royzen (1/2) 1-0

Bd 15  Ron Rezendes (0) - Fawsi Jose Murra (0)  0-1 

Reserve Section (U1700), 15 players

Bd 18  Bruce Charnov (2) - Hector Gonzalez (2)  1-0

Bd 19  Fred Cleveland (2) - Erik Marquis (1)  0-1

Bd 20  Mark Lawless (1) - Eric Tuttle (1)  1-0 

Bd 21  Jim Krooskos (1/2) - Jerry Qu (1)  1/2-1/2 

Bd 22  Chris Jensen (1/2) - Mayra Murra (1/2)  1-0

Bd 23  Rocio Murra (0) - Anthony Harbone (1/2)  1-0

Bd 24  Tom Kuhn (0) - Julian Rodriguez (0)  0-1    

Byes: Guru Gopalakrishnan (2), Steve Gordon (1 1/2)

Novice Section (U1500) 20 players so far

Bd 26  Tom Lavoy (2) - Leonardo Villaverde (2)  0-1

Bd 27  Morgan Fox (2) - Santi Pinon (2)  1-0

Bd 28  Maria Murra (1 1/2) - Andrew Negus (1 1/2)  0-1

Bd 29  Dan Press (1 1/2) - Bill Murray (1)  0-1

Bd 30  Jonathan Patriarca (1) - Arnold Berlin (1)  1-0

Bd 31  Matthew Wang (1) - Irina Nizmutdinova (1)  0-1

Bd 32  Daniel Sun (1/2) - Greta Dahamel (0)  1-0 

Bd 33  Tygan Zeng (0) - Keith Wetterer (1/2)  1-0 

Bd 34  Jesse Wang (1/2) - Alfred Quan (1/2)  1-0

Bye: Mike Smith (1/2), Rafael Hernandez (1/2)

Withdraw: Rachel Hong (1), Stanford Talcott (1/2)?

Please call the club telephone at 619-239-7166 to join this event or email chucnglo@aol,com  

David Delgadillo Open Round 2

David Delgadillo Open  Round 2 of 6 on 7/21/10 at 7:00 PM

This tournament is in 4 Sections, all with one time control, G/100 with 19 second delay. Once again we honor one of our long time club members, David Delgadillo.  Entry fee is $25, SDCC membership ($60 a year) and USCF membership ($42 a year) are required. 2 byes are allowed, last round byes must be requested before round 2 and are irrevocable. No smoking, no whining, $5 fine for cell phone violations or other acts of rudeness. TD Bruce Baker settles any and all disputes.    

66 Players Total so far...

Open Section (22 players so far)

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

Bd 2  John Funderburg (1) - Jason Qu (1)  1/2-1/2

Bd 3  Jim Humphrey (1) - Raoul Crisologo (1)  1-0

Bd 4  Mario Amodeo (1) - Aaron Wooten (1)  1-0

Bd 5  Buddy Morris (1) - Bruce Baker (1/2)  0-1

Bd 6  Thomas Fries (1/2) - Lennart Mathe (1/2)  0-1

Bd 7  Gary Tuttle (1/2) - Chris Wonnell (1/2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 8  Phillip Roth (1) - Vincent Broman (0)  0-1

Bd 9  Marty Lower (1) - Fawsi Murra Jr (0)  0-1

Bd 10  Robert Defore (0) - David Delgadillo (0)  0-1

Bd 11  Fausto Robles (0) - Bill Whitney (0)  0-1  Bill filled in as a house player

Bye: David Saponara (0)

Premier Section (U1900), 9 players so far 

Bd 12  Phil Skiba (1) - Kenneth Xu (1/2)  0-1

Bd 13  Chuck Ensey (1/2) - Igor Royzen (1/2)  1-0

Bd 14  Steve Perry (1/2) - Ron Rezendes (0)  1-0

Bd 15  Jerry Soelberg (0) - Fawsi Jose Murra (0)  1-0

Bye:  Matt Souza (0), Robert Draper (1)

Note: Buddy Morris was moved to the Open Section since he is over 1900. We need more players in this section so anyone who is between 1700 and 1900 please sign up ASAP! Possible players I can think of - William Wijaya, Joel Batchelor, Datris Robinson, Joe Reiker, Shaun Sweiter, Carl Newell and Damani Fair just to mention a few. Email chucnglo@aol.com to join this event!      

Reserve Section (U1700) 15 players so far

Bd 18  Hector Gonzalez (1) - Erik Marquis (1)  1-0

Bd 19  Guru Goplalakrishnan (1) - Mark Lawless (1)  1-0

Bd 20  Jerry Qu (1) - Bruce Charnov (1)  0-1

Bd 21  Rocio Murra (0) - Fred Cleveland (1)  0-1

Bd 22  Jim Krooskos (0) - Mayra Murra (0)  1/2-1/2

Bd 23  Anthony Harbone (0) - Chris Jensen (0)  1/2-1/2

Bd 24  Eric Tuttle (0) - Tom Kuhn (0)  1-0

Bye: Steve Gordon (1)   

Novice Section (U1500) 20 players so far

Bd 26  Leonardo Villaverde (1) - Irina Nizmutdinova (1)  1-0

Bd 27  Bill Murray (1) - Morgan Fox (1)  0-1

Bd 28  Rachel Hong (1) - Tom Lavoy (1)  0-1

Bd 29  Stanford Talcott (1/2) - Santi Pinon (1)  0-1

Bd 30  Andrew Negus (1/2) - Jesse Wang (1/2)  1-0

Bd 31  Maria Murra (1/2) - John Fountas (1/2)  1-0  John is a house player

Bd 32  Alfred Quan (1/2) - Arnold Berlin (0)  0-1

Bd 33  Mike Smith (0) - Daniel Sun (0)  1/2-1/2

Bd 34  Tygen Zeng (0) - Matthew Wang (0)  0-1

Bd 35  Keith Wetterer (1/2) - Dan Press (1/2)  0-1

Bd 26  Gaute Ljones (0) - Jonathan Patriarca (1)  1-0 these two are house players, Gaute is visiting from Norway...

Bd 27  Greta Dahamel (0) - Troy Fountas (0)  0-1  two more house players

Bye: Rafael Hernandez (0) 

Please call the club telephone at 619-239-7166 to join this event or email chucnglo@aol,com 

 

David Delgadillo Open Round 1

David Delgadillo Open  Round 1 of 6 on 7/14/10 at 7:00 PM

This tournament is in 4 Sections, all with one time control, G/100 with 19 second delay. Once again we honor one of our long time club members, David Delgadillo.  Entry fee is $25, SDCC membership ($60 a year) and USCF membership ($42 a year) are required. 2 byes are allowed, last round byes must be requested before round 2 and are irrevocable. No smoking, no whining, $5 fine for cell phone violations or other acts of rudeness. TD Bruce Baker settles any and all disputes.    

Open Section

Board 1  Todd Smith - Fausto Robles  1-0

Bd 2  Fawsi Murra Jr - John Funderburg  0-1

Bd 3  Raoul Crisologo - Robert Defore  1-0

Bd 4  David Saponara - Mario Amodeo  0-1

Bd 5  Lennart Mathe - Gary Tuttle  1/2-1/2

Bd 6  David Delgadillo - Alejandrino Baluran  0-1

Bd 7  Aaron Wooten - Phillip Roth  1-0

Bd 8  Vincent Broman - Jim Humphrey  0-1

Bd 9  Jason Qu - Marty Lower  1-0

Premier Section (U1900)

Bd 11  Ron Rezendes - Robert Draper  0-1

Bd 12  Buddy Morris - Jerry Soelberg  1-0

Bd 13  Fawsi Jose Murra - Phil Skiba  0-1

Bd 14  Igor Royzen - Steve Perry  1/2-1/2

Bd 15  Donald Klaas - Matt Souza  1-0

Bye: Chuck Ensey

Reserve Section (U1700)

Bd 18  Erik Marquis - Anthony Harbone  1-0

Bd 19  Bruce Charnov - Jim Krooskos  1-0

Bd 20  Tom Kuhn - Steve Gordon  0-1

Bd 21  Mark Lawless - Rocio Murra  1-0

Bd 22  Chris Jensen - Guru Goplalakrishnan  0-1

Bd 23  Eric Tuttle - Hector Gonzalez  0-1

Bd 24  Mayra Murra - Jerry Qu  0-1

Bd 25  Fred Cleveland - Sam Barboo  1-0 

Novice Section (U1500)

Bd 27  Arnold Berlin - Leonardo Villaverde  0-1

Bd 28  Morgan Fox - Daniel Sun  1-0

Bd 29  Rafael Hernandez - Bill Murray  0-1

Bd 30  Tom Lavoy - Tygen Zeng  1-0

Bd 31  Santi Pinon - Mike Smith  1-0

Bd 32  Irina Nizmutdinova - Greta Dahamel  1-0

Bd 33  Jesse Wang - Maria Murra  1/2-1/2

Bd 34  Rachel Hong - Matthew Wang  1-0

Bd 35  David Whitten - Jonathan Patriarca  0-1 

Please call the club telephone at 619-239-7166 to join this event.

 

 

 

July Gambito Opens #475, 476, 477, 478

Gambito #478  7/31/10

25 players, good turnout. We used a 3 point McMahon with M/E=3, A=2, B=1, C/D=0  Here were the players in rating order :

3 Masters: Cyrus Lakdawala, Ali Morshedi, Bruce Baker.

7 Experts: Peter Hodges, Raoul Crisologo, Paul Agron, Alan Sebeckis, Leonard Sussman, Aaron Wooten and Daniel Grazian. (Ed Baluran filled in for 1 game as a house player and he defeated new SD County Champ Peter Hodges).

5 Class A: Madhavan Vajapeyam, Carey Milton, Chris Wonnell, Aaron Householder and Chuck Ensey.

4 Class B: Edgar Lopez, Scott Householder, James Mitchell and Anthony Harbone.

6 Class C and below: John, Carson, Fred Cleveland, Rex Pimentel, Amado Ancheta, Kevin Ren and Alan Richardson. The last 2 were unrated. Kevin Ren, a new young player, won his first rated game over Fred Cleveland and also defeated Scott Householder, that's pretty good for a first effort!       

Cyrus drew with Ali in Rd 2 and also defeated Crisologo, Grazian and Baker. Morshedi drew with Cy and also with Paul Agron, then defeated Wooten and Hodges. Grazian drew with Vajapeyam, defeated Agron, lost to Cy and defeated Wooten. Sebeckis drew with Hodges, lost to Wooten, then defeated Agron and Crisologo. Milton beat Aaron Householder, lost to Crisologo, but then beat Vajapeyam and Sussman. James Mitchell lost to Edgar Lopez, but then beat Ren, Carson and Ensey. Fred Cleveland lost to Ren, but then beat Richardson, Amado Ancheta and Carson.

The biggest upsets were Mitchell over Ensey (230 point differential), Carson over Scott Householder (179 points), and Aaron Householder over Vajapeyam (127 points). For draws there was Agron's draw with Morshedi (131 points), Sussman's draw with Baker (102 points) and Morshedi's draw with Lakdawala (100 points)        

Here were the Prize Winners:

First Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (6 1/2), $100   Second Place: Ali Morshedi (6), $60

U2400/2200: Daniel Grazian (5 1/2) and Alan Sebeckis (5 1/2), $60 each

U2000: Carey Milton (5), $60   U1800: James Mitchell (4), $60

U1600: Fred Cleveland (3), $50

Total Prizes: $450

No Gambito Open on 7/24, due to San Diego County Championships (see that blog page for details)

Gambito #477  7/17/10  10:30 AM

Light turnout as expected due to the Gay Pride Parade. 9 players, "mini-McMahon" format with M/E=1, A and below=0.

First Place: Kyron Griffith (5), $50  

BU2200: Eric Montany (3) and Ben Barquin (3), $20 each

BU2000: Reyes Lopez (2 1/2), $35   BU1800: Kenneth Xu (2), $20

Total Prizes: $165 

Gambito #476   7/10/10

Excellent summer turnout of 31 players, strong field, tough competition. We used a 3 point McMahon with M/E=3, A=2, B=1, C/D=0. Here are the players in pre-tournament rating order:

5 Masters: Cyrus Lakdawla, Elliott Liu, Jeff Arnold, Ken Arnold, Kyron Griffith

4 Experts: Montany, Krishnan, Sussman, Grazian

7 Class A: Hodges, Vajapeyam, Wonnell, Aiello, Milton, Ensey, Dagamat

6 Class B: Ma, Mitchell, Xu, E. Lopez, Van Wyk, Kuhn   

4 Class C: E. Ancheta, Khanna, Cleveland, Arone

5 Class D: Siddiqi, Choi, Pimental, Vanderpot, A. Ancheta

Jeff Arnold (2349 now going to ~2361) had a nice day with a draw against Varun, a win over Kyron, a win over his brother Ken and finally a draw with Cyrus. Cy drew with Kyron, beat Varun, beat Elliott and drew with Jeff. Kyron drew with Cy, lost to Jeff, beat Peter Hodges and then also beat Elliott Liu. Tough day for Elliott, but we were so glad to see him and I'm sure he will bounce back. Ken Arnold beat Daniel Grazian, drew with Elliott, lost to Jeff and beat Eric Montany.  

Prize Winners:

First/Second Place: Jeff Arnold (6) and Cyrus Lakdawala (6), $87 each

BU2400: Kyron Griffith (5 1/2) and Ken Arnold (5 1/2), $37 each

BU2200: Varun Krishnan (5) and Eric Montany (5), $37 each

BU2000: Peter Hodges (5), $75

BU1800: Kenneth Xu (4), Jason Ma (4) and Edgar Lopez (4), $25 each

BU1600: Pratik Khanna (3), $75    BU1400: Haziq Siddiqi (2) and Jay Choi (2), $10 each 

Total Prizes: $570

Gambito #475 (July Super Gambito)  7/03/10  

Open Section

Another great turnout of 36 players, 19 in the Open and 17 in the Reserves. Some of our regular players were up in LA at the big Pacific Southwest Open, so it was good to still get so many participants.   

19 in Open in rating order: 2 Masters (Lakdawala and Baker), 4 Experts (Montany, Tsang, Sussman, Orlowski), 12 Class A (Barquin, Vajapeyam, Milton, Escobedo, Pryor, Aiello, Defore, Ensey, R. Lopez, Berkman, A. Householder, Dagamat) and 1 Class B playing up (Ma).   

First Place/Second Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (3 1/2) and Bruce Baker (3 1/2), $115 each

BU2400/2200: Eric Montany (3) and Hin Tsang (3), $80 each

2nd U2400: Jesse Orlowski (2 1/2), $30

BU2000: Madhavan Vajapeyam (2 1/2), $80

2nd U2200/2nd U2000: Aaron Householder (2), Chuck Ensey (2), Ben Barquin (2), Jamieson Pryor (2), Robert Defore (2) and Charlie Berkman (2), $10 each  

Plus Best Game Prize: Jason Ma, $15, for win over Carey Milton 

Carey Milton (1967) - Jason Ma (1738) Round 3  Ruy Lopez Steinitz Defence

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 d6 4.0-0 Nf6 5.d4 Bd7 6.Bxc6 Bxc6 last book move 7.d5 Bd7 8.Re1 Bg4 9.h3 Bh5 10.Qd3 Qd7 11.c4 c6 12.Bg5 Be7 13.Bxf6 Bxf6 14.Nc3 0-0 15.Rad1 Rad8 16.dxc6 Qxc6 17.Nd5 Kh8?! 18.g4+- (one of Carey's signature moves, it's actually good in this position, often he plays it speculatively. Here he threatens g5! winning the dark squared Bishop if 18...Bg6) Qd7 19.Nxf6? (better was 19.gxh5 Qxh3 20.Nh2 Qxh5 21.Qf3) 19...gxf6 20.gxh5 Qxh3= 21.Nxe5 Qxh5 22.Nxf7+ Rxf7 23.Kf1 Rg7 24.Qe3? an uncharactersitic move for Carey, underestimating his young opponent's threats. Sometimes Carey does ignore his own King's safety in the belief he can get out of anything or swindle his opponent if lost, so he concentrates on the attack and not so much on the defence. Necessary here was 24.Qd5 Rg5 25.Qd4=) 24...Rdg8! (the obvious but crushing move) 25.f3 Rg2 26.Qf2 (the only way to avoid mate from Qh1+) 26...Rxf2+ 27.Kxf2 Qc5+ 28.Ke2 Qxc4+ 29.Ke3 f5 30.Rc1 f4+ 31.Kxf4 Qd4 32.Red1 Rf8+ 33.Kg3 Qe3! 34.Kh2 Qf2+ 35.Kh1 Rg8 0-1     Analysis by Fritz, comments by Chuck Ensey

Honorable mention to Charlie Berkman for another win over Carey and also to Eric Montany for a nice Queen sac against Roberto Aiello. Usually it is not too hard to pick out the best game, but this time there were quite a few really nice games, thanks everyone for contributing and playing so well. I will post these games later on.

Reserve Section

17 players in rating order: 10 Class B (Arbeiter, Sarceno, S. Householder, Klaas, Harbone, Kuhn, Krooskos, Mitchell, E. Lopez, Charnov), 4 Class C (Ancheta, Sturtevant, Khanna, Cleveland), 3 Class D (Choi, Siddiqi, Pimentel)

First Place: Dante Sarceno (3 1/2), $80  Second Place: Jason Arbeiter (3), $30

BU1600: Fred Cleveland (3), $80   2nd U1600: Pratik Khanna (2 1/2), $30

BU1400: Haziq Siddiqi (2), $15 

Plus Best Game Prize: Jason Arbeiter ($15) for a Rd 3 win over James Sturtevant 

Total Prizes $825

Remember you can see reports on last week's Gambito (and many others) on the previous blogs... 

 

 

 

 

Buddy Morris Doubleheader Week 6 of 6

Buddy Morris Doubleheader Week 6 of 6 on 7/07/10  7 PM

This is a 6 week event where in the "fast" section you will play one player as White, then turn the board around and play the same player again as Black. The time control is G/45 with 5 second delay. The Slow Section plays just one game at G/120. 

Email TD Chuck Ensey at chucnglo@aol.com if you need to withdraw, but please notify me before 4 PM on Wednesday. If it is already later than 4 PM, or if you haven't hear back from me by email, then please call the club at 619-239-7166, but make sure you let us know before 6:30 PM. 

69 players total, 36 in the Doubleheader, 33 in the Slow Group 

Here are the Results for Week 6:   

Doubleheader (2 games per night at G/45), 36 players so far:

Morris Open (8 players):

First Place: Bruce Baker (9), $90  Second Place: David Hart (7), $50

Third Place: Eric Montany (6 1/2) and Raoul Crisologo (6 1/2), $12 each

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Bd 1  Jamieson Pryor (5) - Bruce Baker (7 1/2)  Bruce won 1st, drew 2nd

Bd 2  Leonard Sussman (5 1/2) - David Hart (5 1/2)  David won 1st, drew 2nd

Bd 3  Aaron Wooten (3 1/2) - Raoul Crislogo (5 1/2)  Raoul won 1st, lost 2nd   

Bd 4  Jim Humphrey (1/2) - Eric Montany (5 1/2)  two draws

Morris Premier Section (16 players):

First Place: Robert Defore (9 1/2), $90  Second Place: Buddy Morris (8), $40

BU1800: Jerry Soelberg (7) and Ron Rezendes (7), $30 each

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Bd 5  Robert Defore (8 1/2) - Jerry Soelberg (6)  two draws

Bd 6  Chuck Ensey (6 1/2) - Buddy Morris (6 1/2)  Buddy won 1st, drew 2nd 

Bd 7  Ron Rezendes (6) - Matt Souza (6 1/2)  Matt won 1st, lost 2nd

Bd 8  Dayne Freitag (5 1/2) - Shaun Sweitzer (5 1/2)  Dayne won 1st, lost 2nd

Bd 9  Jim Krooskos (4 1/2) - Pejman Sagart (5)  Jim lost 1st, won 2nd   

Bd 10  Mayra Murra (4) - Guru Gopalakrishnan (4)  Guru won both

Bd 11  Arnold Berlin (0) - Fawsi Jose Murra (4)  Fawsi won both 

Bd 12  Donald Klaas (2) - Hector Gonzalez (2)  Donald won both

Morris Reserve Section (12 players):

First Place: Sam Barboo (9), $90

Second Place/BU1300: Tom Lavoy (8) and Patrick Edwards (8), $37 each

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Bd 13  Fred Cleveland (6 1/2) - Sam Barboo (7)  Sam won both

Bd 14  Patrick Edwards (6) - Darryl Woodson (6 1/2)  Pat won both

Bd 15  Tygen Zeng (6) - Tom Lavoy (6)  Tom won both

Bd 16  Bill Murray (5 1/2) - Arnold Berlin (4 1/2)  Bill forfeited both (no show)

Bd 17  Irina Nizmutdinova (4) - Maria Murra (4)  Irina won 1st, drew 2nd 

Bd 18  Dan Press (1 1/2) - John Fountas (0)  John won 1st, only game

Bd 19  Vaishnavi Rao (2) - Dionnis Preclaro (0)  Vaishnavi won both 

Slow Group (G/120), 33 players so far:

Slow Open section (16 players):

First Place: John Funderburg (5), $90    Second Place: Todd Smith (4 1/2), $40

Third Place: Alejandrino Baluran (4), $20

BU2000: David Saponara (3 1/2) and Fred Deleon 93 1/2), $30 each

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Bd 20  John Funderburg (4) - David Saponara (3 1/2)  1-0 

Bd 22  Todd Smith (3 1/2) - Carl Wagner (3 1/2)  1-0

Bd 24  Alejandrino Baluran (3) - Jason Qu (2 1/2)  1-0

Bd 25  Mario Amodeo (2 1/2) - Gary Tuttle (2 1/2)  1-0

Bd 26  Fred Deleon (2 1/2) - Tom Fries (2)  1-0

Bd 27  David Delgadillo (1 1/2) - Vincent Broman (2 1/2) 1-0

Bd 28  Chris Wonnell (1 1/2) - Fawsi Murra Jr (2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 29  Robert Draper (0) - Peter Hodges (0)  0-1

Withdraw: Marty Lower (2 1/2)

Slow Reserve Section (17 players):

First Place: Rocio Murra (4 1/2), $90  

Second Place: Steve Perry (4) and Chris Jensen (4), $20 each

BU1600: Eric Tuttle (3 1/2), $60

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Bd 30  Rocio Murra (3 1/2) - Chris Jensen (4)  1-0

Bd 31  Edgar Lopez (3 1/2) - Steve Perry (3)  0-1

Bd 32  Tom Kuhn (3) - Bruce Charnov (2 1/2)  1/2-1/2

Bd 33  Eric Tuttle (2 1/2) - Rafael Hernandez (2)  1-0

Bd 34  Leonardo Villaverde (2) - Mark Lawless (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 33  Jerry Qu (1 1/2) - Anthony Harbone (1 1/2)  1-0

Bd 34  Eric Marquis (0) - Phil Skiba (0)  0-1

Withdraw: Joe Reiker (4), Damani Fair (2 1/2)