2007 Washington Championship / Premier

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2007 Washington State
Championship / Premier

The 2007 Washington State Championship / Premier tournaments were conducted as round-robins the weekends of February 10-11 and 17-19, 2007 in Seattle. Rounds began at 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM on the weekends, and at 1:00 PM on President's Day, Monday, February 19. The playing sites were Walsh Construction in Seattle for the two weekends, and the Seattle Chess Club in Shoreline on the final holiday Monday.

There is a requirement that each player must annotate at least one game and submit it to the tournament director. Prizes will not be paid until this small obligation is completed. These notes will be used in Northwest Chess Magazine so that the Championship event while serving primarily the best players, may also be a service to the main membership.

Final Results

See the games page for game scores in PGN format.

Winners shown in bold.

Championship

Congratulations to Ignacio Perez, our 2007 Washington State chess champion!

The players who competed appear in the table below and in these photos, taken on the first day of competition. (Click on photo to enlarge.)

Top Left: Pupols vs. Readey, Top Right: Koons vs. Bragg
Left Center: Fred Kleist (TD), Right Center: Perez vs. MacGregor
Bottom Left: Collyer vs. Raptis, Bottom Right: Bartron vs. Lee

The Championship has been registered and will be FIDE rated.
Titles: FM = FIDE Master, NM = National Master, LM = USCF Life Master.

	Name	Title	City (WA)	Rtg	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Readey, John	FM	Bellevue	2336	X	0	1	0.5	0	1	0.5	1	0	0	4.0
2	Bartron, Paul		Tacoma	2118	1	X	0	0.5	0	0	0.5	0	1	1	4.0
3	Bragg, David	FM	Bothell	2205	0	1	X	0	0.5	1	0.5	0.5	0.5	0	4.0
4	Raptis, Nick	NM	Vancouver	2312	0.5	0.5	1	X	0	0F	0.5	0.5	0	0	3.0
5	Perez, Ignacio		Seattle	2239	1	1	0.5	1	X	1	0.5	1	0	1	7.0
6	MacGregor, Mike		Tacoma	2161	0	1	0	1F	0	X	1	0	0	0.5	3.5
7	Collyer, Curt		Spokane	2219	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0	X	0	1	1	4.5
8	Koons, Nat	NM	Kenmore	2293	0	1	0.5	0.5	0	1	1	X	1	1	6.0
9	Lee, Michael		Bellevue	2202	1	0	0.5	1	1	1	0	0	X	1	5.5
10	Pupols, Viktors	LM	Poulsbo	2240	1	0	1	1	0	0.5	0	0	0	X	3.5

Premier

Congratulations to Josh Sinanan, winner of the Premier, who is now seeded into the 2008 Championship tourney if certain activity requirements are met.

The Premier has been registered and will be FIDE rated.

	Name	Title	City (WA)	Rtg	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Cloy, Elston		Shoreline	1959	X	0	0.5	0.5	0	1	0.5	0	0.5	1	4.0
2	May, Andy		Vancouver	1956	1	X	1	0.5	0	0.5	1	0.5	0	1	5.5
3	Ballard, Clint		Bainbridge Island	1914	0.5	0	X	0	1	0	0	0.5	0	0	2.0
4	Kalina, Chris		Shoreline	1954	0.5	0.5	1	X	1	0	1	0.5	0.5	0.5	5.5
5	Guo, Alex		Bellevue	1925	1	1	0	0	X	1	1	0	0	1	5.0
6	Calpo, Ben		Seattle	2024	0	0.5	1	1	0	X	0.5	0.5	1	0	4.5
7	Arganian, David		Seattle	2020	0.5	0	1	0	0	0.5	X	0.5	0.5	0	3.0
8	Sinanan, Josh		Brier	2077	1	0.5	0.5	0.5	1	0.5	0.5	X	0.5	1	6.0
9	Smith, Allen		Tacoma	1812	0.5	1	1	0.5	1	0	0.5	0.5	X	0	5.0
10	Gale, Geoff		Seattle	1986	0	0	1	0.5	0	1	1	0	1	X	4.5

Organizer: Dan Mathews, WCF Tournament Coordinator.
Championship prizes: $2,000 total prize fund for both sections
Premier prizes:
Look for a full report in the March and April issues of NORTHWEST CHESS.

Previous WA chess championships: 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | List of winners