Wednesday, February 18, 2009

27th Annual Waukesha Memorial
February 28

Open Results
3.5 J VEECH, J PRENOT, N HENDRICKSON, I WIJETUNGE, J ROMICH

*The main event has been rated, click here

*The blitz event has been rated, click here

The tournament was a huge success with a record 75 players.

Open winner ROBERT M BRUCH getting his travelling trophy from Jim Nickell

On the left is Top seed Alexander Velikanov [the #6 rated 11 year old in the nation] who was upset by Nolan Hendrickson [the #86 rated 15 year old in the nation] in 3rd round.

Last round board 2: On the right is unrated Thomas Irvin who was 3-0 before losing the "Battle of the Shaven heads" to J. Prenot . Looking on from board 1 is Wade Christensen , who lost to the tournament winner Robert Bruch.

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The blitz tournament was a very successful with 20 players. Thanks to Jim Rowe for his help in running this event. The tournament has been rated. Click here.

3 finished with 3-0

A. Velikanov
N. Hendrickson
J. Romich


History
2009 75 R BRUCH
2008 52 M WALLER, J KOHLENBERG, D CARDENAS
2007 47 P FRICANO
2006 38 P FRICANO
2005 42 A VAJA
2004 38 N GLEASON

Monday, February 09, 2009

U.S. Amateur Team - North

The Indiana quartet of "Jimmy Runs Deep" takes the North.

Open results here (tiebreaks here) USCF Results here
Scholastic results here
Blitz results here

Jim analyzing his last round draw with top seed FM Dennis Monokroussos



Amateur Team Winners

North 144 Players, 34 Teams
"Jimmy Runs Deep"
2219
JIM H DEAN
2132
GARRETT L SMITH
2083
DREW D HOLLINBERGER
1942
DANIEL GATER

South 121 Players, ~29 Teams
"My girl is pissed!"
2485 Bruci Lopez
2210 Ernesto Alvarez
2069 Gilberto Luna II
2009 Makaio W Krienke

East 1201 Players, 283 Teams
"Palin Gambit: I can see checkmate"
2320 Paul Mac Intyre
2210 Brian Hulse
2189 Libardo Rueda
2052 Alan Price

West 335 Players, ~79 Teams
"ACA BEASTS!"
2412 John Daniel Bryant
2147 Michael Yee
2158 Vincent Huang
2049
Santy Wong

White to play and win

This is my round 2 game from the UW Winter Open See comments for the answer