{"id":108,"date":"2012-08-10T08:46:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T16:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2017-05-05T16:44:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T00:44:19","slug":"four-players-tied-at-5-5-0-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/four-players-tied-at-5-5-0-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Players tied at 5.5-0.5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carl Haessler brought a 9-square by 8-square chessboard cake from Beaverton Bakery for a raffle to attract people to the Northwest Chess table at the 2012 US Open in Vancouver,\u00a0WA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

GM Yasser Seirawan and Yaacov Norowitz, the top two seeds in the group of 200+ players in the traditional 9-day schedule, drew their game last night allowing IM Salvijus Bercys and reigning Oregon champions Steven Breckenridge to climb into a four way tie for first place. GM Dmitry Gurevich heads a seven-player pack lurking a half point behind with three rounds to go in the 2012 U.S. Open Chess Championship. The 113th annual event is currently underway at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Vancouver, Washington.<\/p>\n

Denker High School Champion Atulya Shetty of Michigan is leading the six-day schedule after five rounds with a perfect score, a half point ahead of GMs Alejandro Ramirez and Alexander Shabalov, Andrew Ng and local favorite Igor Ummel of Washington.<\/p>\n

Through six rounds in the traditional schedule:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 GM Seirawan, Yasser WA 2674 5.5
\n2 Norowitz, Yaacov NJ 2569 5.5
\n3 IM Bercys, Salvijus NY 2479 5.5
\n4 Breckenridge, Steven OR 2349 5.5
\n5 GM Gurevich, Dmitry IL 2539 5.0
\n6 IM Mulyar, Michael A CO 2456 5.0
\n7 WFM Labedz, Patrycja Anna TX 2329 5.0
\n8 Sinanan, Joshua WA 2259 5.0
\n9 Cheng, Kun Jack, Jr BC 2156 5.0
\n10 Cooklev, Steven IN 2124 5.0
\n11 Tobin, Sean OR 2025 5.0<\/p>\n

Northwest players at 4.5 – 1.5:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prochaska, Peter OR 2200
\nWFM Airapetian, Chouchanik WA 2155
\nChan, James BC 2151
\nMay, Andy P WA 2121
\nKleist, Frederick K WA 2098
\nRobinson, Gary D OR 1880
\nStandings after 3 rounds in the 4-day standings:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 GM Hoyos, Manuel Leon MEX 2679 3.0
\n2 GM Bykhovsky, Anatoly ISR 2653 3.0
\n3 GM Diamant, Andre BRA 2573 3.0
\n4 IM Sarkar, Justin NY 2483 3.0
\n5 FM Bryant, John Daniel CA 2455 3.0
\n6 Shvartsman, Andrew NJ 2343 3.0
\n7 FM Roper, David WA 2288 3.0
\n8 Griggs, Walker Kyle OH 2268 3.0
\n9 Pamatmat, Jarod M TX 2233 3.0
\n10 Gallegos, Paul A CA 2213 3.0<\/p>\n

Link to the USCF cross tables.<\/a>
\nGary Dorfner’s third U.S. Open update:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wed. Quads had only 14 players in 5 quads. A player in
\nQuad #4 dropped out & there were only 3 players in
\nQuad #2. The winners were:
\nQuad #1 Nicholas Karas fro CA. 3.0 $50.00, Quad #2
\nJon Haskel from FL. 3.0 $50.00, Quad #3 Boas Lee
\nFrom WA. 2.5 $50.00. Boas won the Mon. Quad,
\nDid poorly in the Tue. Quad but came back & won
\nThe Wed. Quad.
\nQuad #4 Tanish Kothapalle from TN. 3.0 $50.00,
\nQuad # 5 Jon Eikenberry from Or. 3.0 $50.00.
\nEikenberry & Gary Dorfner were paired in R-3,
\nThey each had 2 points & so they were battling
\nIt out for the prize money.<\/p>\n

Game 15 Championship report
\n38 players took part in this event. The winners were:
\n1st-2nd Andre Diamant from Brazil\/MO Vitaly Neimer from Israel\/MO.
\n4.5 $342.00 each, U2100 Nikolay Bulakh from Wa., Yifei
\nHan from BC, Michael Goffe from Or. & Zhaozhi Li from
\nIL. 3.0 $37.00 each.
\nU1800 Kristen Dietsch from Wa. 3.0 $152.00,
\nU1500\/Unr. David Griffin from Wa. , Dillon Murray from
\nOR. & Jeremy Harlin from Wa. 2.0 $41.00 each.
\nUnder 1200 Kannan Nagarajan from FL. & Nicholas Wong
\nFrom Hi. 1.0 $38.00 each.<\/p>\n

Thursday Quads
\n15 players participated in two 4 player Quads & a Mini Swiss.
\nThe winners were: Quad #1 Nick Raptis from Or. 3.0 $50.00,
\nQuad #2 Harry Heublum from NY. 3.0 $50.00, Mini Swiss
\n1st Jake Winkler from OR. 3.0 $50.00, 2nd Adam Culbreth
\nFrom OR, Tanish Kothapalle from TN. & Nicholas Wong
\nFrom HI. 2.0 $8.33 each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GM Yasser Seirawan and Yaacov Norowitz, the top two seeds in the group of 200+ players in the traditional 9-day schedule, drew their game last night allowing IM Salvijus Bercys and reigning Oregon champions Steven Breckenridge to climb into a four way tie for first place. GM Dmitry Gurevich heads a seven-player pack lurking a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usopen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}