Mechanics' Institute Chess Room Newsletter #20
1) US Women's Champion Camilla Baginskaite and Vinay Bhat will play in USA-China MatchMI members Camilla Baginskaite and Vinay Bhat will represent the United States in the upcoming match with China in Seattle from March 14-18. The match will have top male, female and junior players competing for both countries. The Chinese women have won the top two Womens Olympiads, they have the youngest GM in the world, and several men over 2600 so it should be a very tough match. For more information go to: http://www.seattlechessfoundation.org/scf.html
2)"JESSIE JEANS" OPENMajor chess tournaments north of the Golden Gate Bridge have been extremely rare the past few years but that looks to be changing with the emergence of events at the Jessie Jeans coffee shop in Santa Rosa. Tournament Director Jerry Weikel reports:
"JESSIE JEANS" OPEN - Jan 12-14,2001 - Santa Rosa, Ca We were very happy with the turnout (44 for main tournament and 31 for the Action tournament (G/50)) considering only 2 weeks notice for the tournament! After the 1 1/2 hour delay on Friday night's 1st round start everything went pretty smooth (I guess we'll have to cut off registration at 7pm next time!). The crowd that did attend was pretty much enthusiastic about what we're trying to accomplish in Santa Rosa. Most all seem to have a pretty good time. Thanks to Jessie Jeans coffee shop for hosting the tournament and the next one on March 16-18 at same site with pretty much the same details as this one (about only difference is that the G/50 tournament will be played on Sunday). We feel confident we'll hit 80 players next time which will mean a $4,000 prize fund!! This tournament paid out $2,200. See you all on March 16! Jerry Weikel OPEN SECTION Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Rd.4 Rd.5 Total 1.Mezentev,Vladimar (Mtn.View)(2534)(1/2) W7 W12 W10 W2 4.5 $275 2.Dorsch,Thomas (Menlo Park) (2200) D12 WF W9 W3 L1 3.5 $91 3.Narayan,Chethan (Milpitas) (2217) W15 W10 D4 L2 W6 " $91 4.Pinto,Mark (Sebastopol) (2204) W5 W13 D3 1/2 1/2 " $91 5.Weikel,Jerome (Reno,NV) (2064) L4 L11 W8 W7 W9 3 $151 6.Sze, Jerry (Hillsborough) (2002) L7 W15 W11 W12 L3 " $151 7.Gallegos,Paul (Windsor) (2200) W6 L1 1/2 L5 W10 2.5 8.Nambiar,Vivek (Milpitas) (2187) 1/2 L12 L5 (1) W13 " $27 9.Wang,Drake (San Francisco) (1833) 1/2 (1) L2 W11 L5 " $27 10.Luaces,Juan (Sonoma) (2098) W11 L3 W13 L1 L7 2 11.Wood,Norman (Santa Rosa) (1921) L7 W5 L6 L9 (1) " 12.Kowalske,K.(Pacific Grove) (2053) D2 W8 L1 L6 (0) 1.5 13.Mavraedis,C.(Pleasanton) (1948) W16 L4 L10 (0) L8 1 14.Hammer,Dale (Santa Rosa) (2026) 1/2 (0) (0) (0) (0) .5 15.Snyder,Larry (Berkeley) (2097) L3 L6 (0) (0) (0) 0 16.Haines,Bill (Vallejo) (2148) L13 (0) (0) (0) (0) 0 RESERVE SECTION (1600-1999) Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Rd.4 Rd.5 Total 1.Shnaiderman,L. (Santa Rosa) (1823) W13 W8 D4 D5 D2 3.5 $96 2.Gross,Benjamin (Sebastopol) (1900) L5 W12 W11 W3 D1 " $96 3.Setzepfandt, A.(Oakland) (1824) W12 D5 W10 L2 W8 " $96 4.Mead,Pat (Cotati) (1879) W9 1/2 D1 1/2 W5 " $96 5.Magaoay,Calixto (Vallejo) (1658) W2 D3 W7 D1 L4 3 $94 + B Trophy 6.Fajardo, Maximo (Vallejo) (1790) L10 (1) W9 D8 D7 " $94 7.Hirsch,David (Petaluma) (1677) W14 D11 L5 W10 D6 " $94 8.Sankovich,Matt (Ukiah) (1602) (1) L1 W13 D6 L3 2.5 $22 9.Holwell,James (Santa Rosa) (1652) L4 W14 L6 W13 1/2 " $22 10.Rose,Bleys (Sebastopol) (1485) W6 1/2 L3 L7 D11 2 11.Boyd,Thomas (Petaluma) (1662) 1/2 D7 L2 D12 D10 " 12.Hock,Paul (Sebastopol) (1602) L3 L2 (1) D11 L13 1.5 13.Meadows,John (Petaluma) (1500) L1 1/2 L8 L9 W12 " 14.Wittenstein,S.(Fremont) (1903) L7 L9 (0) (0) (0) 0 BOOSTER SECTION (1599 and below) Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Rd.4 Rd.5 Total 1.Campers,Willie (Santa Rosa) (1501) L6 W4 W13 W7 W2 4 $91 + "C" Trophy 2.Leavins,Weston (Sebastopol) (1510) W7 W11 W14 W3 L1 " $91 3.Anderton,Terry (Windsor) W10 W12 W6 L2 W4 " $91 4.Berosh,David (Santa Rosa) (1243) W9 L1 W11 W6 L3 3 $82 + "D" Trophy 5.Brett,Jamie (Santa Rosa) (1179) L12 D8 W9 W11 1/2 3 $82 6.De Vera,Narayan (Occidental)(1194) W1 W14 L3 L4 D8 2.5 $48 7.Brett,Peter (Santa Rosa) (1201) L2 W10 W12 L1 1/2 " $48 8.Comins,Garland (Santa Rosa) (1247) L11 D5 D10 W13 D6 " $48 9.Organist,Paris (Santa Rosa)(1040) L4 L13 L5 W10 W11 2 10.Coletti,Edward (Santa Rosa)(961) L3 L7 D8 L9 (1) 1.5 11.Gosk,Michael (Santa Rosa) (769/5)W8 L2 L4 L5 L9 1 12.Bernstein,Philip (Fairfax) (1426) W5 L3 L7 (0) (0) " 13.Sassin,Jon (Sebastopol) (1227) L14 W9 L1 L8 (0) " 14.McCandless,B. (Livermore) (1581) W13 L6 L2 (0) (0) "
"JESSIE JEANS" ACTION CHESS TOURNAMENT (Game/50 min.) Jan. 15 Open Section (2000 & above) (8 players) 1st - David Pruess (2354) 3 1/2 =$100 2nd - Richard Grijalva (2022) 3 =$50 3rd - Laszlo Rudolph (2064) 2 1/2 =$50 Reserve Section (1600-1900) (9 players) 1st - Mariusz Krubnik (1639) 3 1/2 =$100 2nd - Robertino Oberti (1735) 3 =$50 3rd - Alex Setzepfandt (1824) 2 1/2 =$17 3rd - Benjamin Haun (1793) " = " 3rd - Teodoro Porlares (1720) " = " Booster Section (1599 & below) (14 players) 1st - Wesley Chen (1509) 4 =$80 2nd - Daichi Siegrist (1532) 3 =$50 3rd - Alan Howe (1563) 2 1/2 =$10 3rd - John Meadows (1500) " =$10 3rd - Brenda Boudreaux (1374) " =$10 3rd - Aaron Wilkowski(1132) " =$10 1st(U1400)-Narayan DeVera(1194) 3 =$50
3) Upcoming Events at the MIMI Scholastic Chess Coordinator Anthony Corrales will be directing a tournament for juniors on January 27-28 at the MI. Contact him at (415) 861-6557 for more details. MI Assistant Director Joan Arbil is running Tuesday and Saturday Marathons at the MI throughout January. Contact her at jovid@slipnet.com for more information or visit the MI website (milibrary.org).
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