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2008 Washington Class Championships

November 28-30, 2008 in Redmond, Washington

See the list of prize winners (PDF file)

Crosstables on available on the USCF website (uschess.org), event ID 200811301051.

Photos courtesy of Russell Miller: (click to enlarge)

WCF President Duane Polich makes grand entrance to the playing hall! Hail to the Chief!!

Left: WCF scholastic director David Hendricks. Left center: The scholastic tournament playing room in action! Right center: Assistant tournament director Gary Dorfner with the scholastic trophies. Right: WCF Treasurer Robert Allen.

Left: Josh Sinanan playing on top board in round 5. Left center: Polly Wright. Right center: Seattle Chess Club members August Piper and Darby Monahan. Right: David Rupel.

See additional photos by Philip Peterson (on his own website).

Report from Gary Dorfner

The 2008 event was held at the Marriot Redmond Town Center Hotel on Nov. 28-30. There were 141 players in all. Master 15, Expert 17, Class A 21, B 21, C 19, D 22, E 25. The winners were as follows:

Master 1st/2nd Michael Lee & Josh Sinanan $425.00 each, 1st U2300 David Roper, Gil Lapid Shafriri & Allen Smith $66.67 each.

Expert 1st Mike MacGregor $425.00, 2nd/1st U2100 Andy May & Yaman $212.50 each.

Class A 1st /2nd Kerry Xing & Cyrus Desmarais $262.50 each, 1st U1900 Bryan Yue & Nickola Pazderic $62.50 each.

Class B 1st David Inglis $325.00, 2nd Casey Xing $200.00, 1st U1700 Ethan Gottlieb $125.00.

Class C 1st Galen Pyle $325.00, 2nd Sarah May $200.00, 1st U1500 Bert Rutgers & Amith Vammane $62.50 each.

Class D 1st/2nd Ethan Bashkansky & Andrey Yatsenko $262.50 each, 1st U1300 Aakarsh Gottumukkala $125.00.

Class E 1st Shanglun Wang 6 points (the only player who scored 6-0) $175.00, 2nd Stoyan Iordanov & Dan Gordon $50.00 each, 1st U1000 J.C. Mies, James Smith, Don Schumacher $25.00 each, 1st U800 Rithvik Bharath $$75.00, 1st Unrated Henry Aguilar & Ben Brusniak $37.50.

Side Events Blitz-Open 1st Janne Makinen $55.00, 2nd/3rd Elliott Neff & Rex de Asis $34.00 Each, 1st U2000 Duane Polich & Sharad Cornejo $11.00 each. Reserve 1st Casey Xing $50.00, 2nd David De Labrena $$37.50, 3rd Donovan Zhao $25.00.

The G/10 on Sunday drew only 8 players. Winners 1st Bill Schill $45.00, 2nd Mike Murray $35.00, 3rd Yevgeniy Rozenfeld & Tony Lanb $24.50 each, 1st U1400 Greg Prentice $22.00.

There were only 15 players in the Novice Section. The winners were 1st Class E Sean Thatcher, 1st Class F Andrew Thatcher, 2nd Edwin Dodd, 1st Class G Kyle Haining, 2nd Iain Ang, 3rd Breck Haining, 1st Unr. Neel Vengateeshwara, 2nd Jeremy Whittemore, 3rd Robin Schmit. They all received trophies.

Bughouse: There were 8 teams (16 kids) in all. The winners were 1st Nicholas & Nagase, 2nd Don Zhao & Nic Orlov, 3rd Grace & Leann. They all received trophies too.

Elliott Neff played 17 kids in a simul. He won 17 & lost 1. Casey Schoonover was the player who beat Elliott.

In the Scholastic there were 122 players in all. K-3 Open 30, K-3 U800 32, 4-6 Open 31, 4-6 u800 14, 7-12 Open 15. The winners were:

K-3 Open 1st Carl Dutton, 2nd William Lee, 3rd Noah Fields, 4th Kyle Haining.

K-3 U800 1st Betty Hou, 2nd Colin Lehmann, 3rd Jason Edmonds, 4th Jonathan Han.

4-6 Open 1st Jack Go, 2nd Masayuki, 3rd Zamir Birnbach, 4th Daniel He.

4-6 U800 1st Emi Brawley, 2nd Ethan Kusters, 3rd Vinny Head, 4th Melinda Bhopatkar.

7-12 Open 1st Peter Marriott, 2nd Mayur Bedadala, 3rd Brian Chien, 4th John Dennison.

They all received trophies. Team awards: K-3 Open 1st Open Window, 2nd Evergreen. 4-6 Open Redmond, 2nd Medina. 7-12 Open 1st Interlake. Each Team received Trophies.

TD for main tournament; Fred Kleist, For Side Events; Gary Dorfner, For Scholastic: David Hendricks.