Saturday, October 20, 2012

Mario Amodeo Team Tournament Rd 5 of 5

Last Round of Team Tournament  10/24/12  7 PM
Bd 1  Mario Amodeo - Leonard Sussman
Bd 2  Bud Stamper - David Saponara
Bd 3  Thomas Webb - Hector Gonzalez
Bd 4  Eli Uskokovic - Stanford Talcott

Bd 5  Alejandrino Baluran - Jim Humphrey
Bd 6  Butch Aying or other house player - Jerry Qu
Bd 7  Tom Kuhn - Steve Perry
Bd 8  Rob Soul - Karen Kaufman

Bd 9  Peter Hodges - Bruce Baker
Bd 10  Bruce Charnov - Buddy Morris
Bd 11  Gregory Ingolia - Mark Lawless
Bd 12  Joshua Chung - Ron Stanard

Bd 13  Lennart Mathe - Chris Wonnell
Bd 14  Chuck Ensey or other house player - Pejman Sagart
Bd 15  Robert Henderson - John Huey
Bd 16  Roger Pedersen - Aaron Cook

Bd 17  George Zeigler - Fawsi Jose Murra
Bd 18  Mayra Movius - Alfredo Deleon
Bd 19  Phil Skiba or other house player - Rocio Murra
Bd 20  Maria Murra - Patrick Edwards

Bd 21  Allan Virtue - Raoul Crisologo
Bd 22  Shaun Sweitzer - David Delgadillo
Bd 23  Anthony Harbone - Darren Himeles
Bd 24  Bill Murray - Keith Wetterer

Thursday, October 18, 2012

10/28 Scholastic Chess Fall Championships

Scholastic Chess

SDCC Fall Championships 2012  Sunday 10/28/12

2225 Sixth Ave (1 block south of Laurel St in Balboa Park)

All Students K-12th grade are invited to play

3 sections: Novice (under 600 USCF or unrated)

                  Intermediate (under 1,000 USCF)

                 Advanced (1,000 or over USCF rated)

Entry Fee: $15

Trophies each section, rest receive medals 

Registration: 9:00 AM to 9:45 AM

Play begins at aproximately 10 AM, ends around 4:00 -4:30 PM

Bring chess sets if possible

email questions to Bruce Baker bakersandiego@cox.net or call 619-239-6177

    

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Mario Amodeo Team Tournament Rd 4 of 5

Mario Amodeo Team Tournament Rd 4 of 5  on 10/17/12  7 PM
Here are the results:
Bd 1  Mario Amodeo - Jim Humphrey  0-1
Bd 2  Tom Fries - David Saponara  0-1
Bd 3  Tom Webb - Steve Perry  1-0
Bd 4  Rob Soul - Stanford Talcott  1-0

Bd 5  Leonard Sussman - Lennart Mathe  1/2-1/2
Bd 6  Pejman Sagart - Bud Stamper  1-0
Bd 7  Hector Gonzalez - Phil Skiba (house)  1-0
Bd 8  Aaron Cook - Eli Uskokovic  0-1

Bd 9  Chris Wonnell - Alejandrino Baluran  0-1
Bd 10  Chuck Ensey (house) - Robert Draper  1-0 
Bd 11  John Huey - Tom Kuhn  0-1
Bd 12  Karen Kaufman - Roger Pedersen  1-0

Bd 13  Raoul Crisologo - Peter Hodges  1/2-1/2
Bd 14 Buddy Morris - Shaun Sweitzer  1-0
Bd 15  Darren Himeles - Butch Aying (house)  0-1
Bd 16  Ron Stanard - Bill Murray (house)  1-0

Bd 17  Fawsi Jose Murra - Bruce Baker  0-1
Bd 18  Bruce Charnov - Mayra Murra  1/2-1/2
Bd 19  Rocio Murra - Mark Lawless  0-1
Bd 20  Joshua Chung - Maria Murra  1-0

Bd 21  George Zeigler - Al Virtue  1/2-1/2
Bd 22  David Delgadillo - Alfredo Deleon  1/2-1/2
Bd 23  Erik Marquis - Anthony Harbone  1-0
Bd 24  Keith Wetterer - Patrick Edwards  0-1

Bd 25  Matt Tacheron - Sam Barboo  0-1  house game


Friday, October 12, 2012

October Gambito Opens

Saturday October 27, 2012  Gambito #584

4 rounds of G/40, d/5. Rounds at 10:30 AM, 12:15, 2:45 and 4:30, all over by 6 PM. Registration 10 AM to 10:25.  Entryy Fee: $20. One bye available. No memberships needed to play (other than USCF of course).       

Gambito #583 October 20, 2012

24 players today, including:

4 Masters: Dioniso Aldama, Cyrus Lakdawala, Kyron Griffith and Bruce Baker

7 Experts: Craig Clawitter, Aaron Wooten, Venkat Iyer, Leonard Sussman, Jamieson Pryor, Jeff Turner and Elkaei Rivera

4 Class A: Aaron Householder, Jason Arbeiter, Yohenis Carillo (house), Pejman Sagart and Jay Choi

6 Class B: Chuck Ensey, Gary Weeks, John Donahoo (house), Jerry Cupat, Scott Householder, Nicholas Wolff and Anthony Harbone

2 Class C: Byran Thayillam and Fred Cleveland

1 Class D: Cassidy Liu 

We used a 2 point McMahon pairings, with M=2, Exp=1, A and below =0. Here are the prize winners:

First Place: Dionisio Aldama (6), $100

2nd Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (4), $60   BU2400: Kyron Griffith (4), $60

BU2200: Jamieson Pryor (3 1/2), Elkaei Rivera (3 1/2), Craig Clawitter (3 1/2) and Leonard Sussman (3 1/2), $15 each

BU2000: Bryan Thayillam (3), $60

BU1800: Jerry Cupat (2 1/2) and Nicholas Wolff (2 1/2), $25 each

BU1600: Fred Cleveland (1 1/2) and Cassidy Liu (1 1/2), $20 each

Total Prizes: $430  

Gambito #582 10/13/12 National Chess Day

30 players, as follows, in pre-event rating order:

4 Masters: Dionisio Aldama, Cyrus Lakdawala, Kyron Griffith and Bruce Baker

8 Experts: Paul Agron, Aaron Wooten, Leonard Sussman, Alan Sebeckis, Jeff Turner, Ben Barquin, Jamieson Pryor and Bud Stamper

3 Class A: Kiran Yalamanchi, Zechariah Zhu and Chuck Ensey

7 Class B: Marco Gonzalez, John Donahoo, Daniel Zhu, Ildefonso Mamaradlo, Jesse Wang, Jerry Cupat and Anthony Harbone

5 Class C: John Huey, David Narevsky, Nicholas Wolff, David Palmer and Stephen Zhu

3 Class D: Fred Cleveland, Matthew Wang and Patrick Edwards

We used a 4 point McMahon with M=4, Exp=3, A=2, B=1, C/D=0

Here are the Prize winners:

1st Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (7 1/2), $130

2nd Place: Dionisio Aldama (7), $80

BU2400: Jamieson Pryor (6), $80     2nd U2400: Kyron Griffith (5 1/2), $30

BU2200: Ben Barquin (5), Bud Stamper (5) and Paul Agron (5), $37 each

BU2000: Kiran Yalamanchi (5), $80   2nd U2000: Zechariah Zhu (4), $30  

BU1800: Marco Gonzalez (4) and Jerry Cupat (4), $55 each

BU1600: Nicholas Wolff (3), $80

2nd U1600: Stephen Zhu (2 1/2) and David Palmer (2 1/2), $15 each

BU1400: Fred Cleveland (2 1/2), $50    2nd U1400: Patrick Edwards (1), $20

Total Prizes: $830

 

Monday, October 8, 2012

Mario Amodeo Team Tournament Rd 3 of 5

Mario Amodeo Team Tournament Round 3 of 5  10/10/12 

Tentative Pairings for Round 3 (really round 4, but we started over on round 2)

Bd 1  Lennart Mathe - Mario Amodeo  0-1

Bd 2  David Saponara - Pejman Sagart  1-0

Bd 3  Robert Henderson - Thomas Webb  1/2-1/2

Bd 4  Stanford Talcott - Aaron Cook  0-1

 

Bd 5  Leonard Sussman - Alejandrino Baluran  1/2-1/2

Bd 6  Jerry Qu - Bud Stamper  0-1

Bd 7  Phil Skiba - Tom Kuhn  0-1 

Bd 8  Karen Kaufman - Eli Uskokovic  bye-bye

 

Bd 9  Raoul Crisologo - Jim Humphrey  1-0

Bd 10  Tom Fries - Shaun Sweitzer  1/2-1/2 

Bd 11  Darren Himeles - Steve Perry  0-1

Bd 12  Rob Soul - Wendell Payne  bye-bye

 

Bd 13  Peter Hodges - George Zeigler  1-0

Bd 14  Alfredo Deleon - Buddy Morris  bye-bye

Bd 15  Sam Barboo - Erik Marquis  1/2-1/2 

Bd 16  Patrick Edwards - Ron Stanard  1-0

 

Bd 17  Bruce Baker - Chris Wonnell  1-0

Bd 18  Robert Draper - Bruce Charnov  1-0

Bd 19  Mark Lawless - John Huey  0-1

Bd 20  Roger Pedersen - Joshua Chung  bye-bye

 

Bd 21  Fawsi Jose Murra - Allan Virtue  1-0

Bd 22  David Delgadillo - Mayra Movius  1-0

Bd 23  Rocio Murra - Anthony Harbone  1-0

Bd 24  Bill Murray - Maria Murra  0-1

 

  

  

Saturday, October 6, 2012

October Super Gambito

Gambito #581  10/06/12

23 players, light turnout today due to the competition from the LA Open.

Open Section (13 players)

4 Masters: Dionisio Aldama, Cyrus Lakdawala, Ron Bruno and Bruce Baker

5 Experts: Criag Clawitter, Leonard Sussman, Jeff Turner, Jamieson Pryor and Elkaei Rivera

4 Class A: Pejman Sagart, Chuck Ensey, Ajay Krishnan and Jerry Qu

Reserve Section (10 players)

2 Class B: Rolando Ignacio and Anthony Harbone

2 Class C: Ben Keltner and Nicholas Wolff

3 Class D: David Palmer, Fred Cleveland and Cassidy Liu

3 Class E: Mark Negus, Patrick Edwards and Rohan Loomba

John Donahoo (Class B) filled in as a house player with one game in Reserve and 3 in Open

Cyrus lost to Dionisio and drew with Elkaei.

Prize winners:

First Place: Dionisio Aldama (4), $125

BU2400: Ron Bruno (3), $75

Second Place: Cyrus Lakdawala (2 1/2), $75

BU2200: Craig Clawitter (2 1/2): $75

2nd U2400/2nd U2200: Bruce Baker (2), Jamieson Pryor (2), Elkaei Rivera (2), Leonard Sussman (2) and Jeff Turner (2), $10 each

BU2000: Pejman Sagart (1 1/2) and Ajay Krishnan (1 1/2), $50 each

Best Game Open Section: Dioniso Aldama, $15, for win over Bruce Baker

Reserve Section:

First Place/BU1600: Ben Keltner (3) and Nicholas Wolff (3), $62 each

2nd Place: Rolando Ignacio (2 1/2), $22

2nd U1600: Fred Cleveland (2 1/2), $22

Best Game Reserve Section: Fred Cleveland, $15, for win over David Palmer

Total Prizes: $700