{"id":134,"date":"2012-08-13T08:16:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T16:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2017-05-05T16:53:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T00:53:32","slug":"hoyos-earns-title-bryant-wins-seed-into-next-us-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/hoyos-earns-title-bryant-wins-seed-into-next-us-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoyos earns title, Bryant tentatively earns seed into next US Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Viktors Pupols and Yasser Seirawan,\u00a0reenacting a photo shot nearly 40 years earlier. This will likely be the cover photo for the September 2012 Northwest Chess magazine. Photo credit: Jeffrey Roland.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

GM Manuel Leon Hoyos won an Armageddon<\/em> playoff with the white pieces to earn the title of 2012 United States Open Chess Champion. Hoyos finished with an 8-1 record, the same as GM Dmitry Gurevich and FM John Bryant of California. The top two players on tiebreak (Hoyos and Bryant) were seeded into the playoff for an extra $200 in prize money and the championship trophy. An Armageddon<\/em> style playoff is a one game blitz match of 5 minutes vs. 3 minutes (in this case with 5 second delay), black having draw odds. Hoyos is the reigning Mexican Champion currently attending Webster University in St. Louis. Bryant, as the first American finisher on tiebreaks, will be seeded into the next U.S. Closed Championship, assuming that the current qualifying rules remain unchanged for 2013.\u00a0The final crosstable is located here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Report from Rusty Miller<\/strong><\/p>\n

Results of Clark County Players (local to Vancouver, WA):<\/em><\/p>\n

Andy May 6.5 points out of 9 games played
\nSamir Sen 5.5 out of 8
\nMatthew Goshen 4 out of 6
\nAlec Ho 5 out of 8
\nDaniel Ho 5 out of 8
\nViajko Lakic 5.5 out of 9
\nMicah Smith 5.5 out of 9
\nBecca Lampman 5 out of 9
\nSarah May 4.5 out of 9
\nAaron Nickoski 4.5 out of 9
\nMilton Colpron 4 out of 9
\nFrederick Davis 3 out of 8
\nJon Strohbehn 3.5 out of 8
\nRussell Miller 4 out of 9
\nJames Schroeder 3.5 out of 6
\nRichard Banner 3.5 out of 9
\nAlexander Barrett 3 out of 9
\nJoshua Feener 3 out of 9
\nRick Nicoski 2 out of 8
\nGreg Bradburn 2 out of 9<\/p>\n

517 players total with 19 from Clark County. Three players tied for 1st place with 8 points out of 9: Grandmaster Manuel Hoyes of Mexico, Grandmaster Dmitry Gurevich of Illinois and FIDE Master John Bryant of California.<\/p>\n

The United States Chess Federation hopes to return to the Pacific Northwest in the next 6-10 years. The 114th US Open will be in Madison WI. and 115th in St. Louis MO.
\nThe event is held once a year and moves around the country. It was last held in this area in Portland Oregon in 1987 with 532 players and 1966 in Seattle Washington with 201 players. 8 players who played in Seattle also played in Vancouver.<\/p>\n

Andy May played in the one day Blitz tournament and tied for 7th to 14th place. 129 players took part.\u00a0Sarah May placed 2nd in the 2012 US Women’s Open.<\/p>\n

People who played in Seattle 1966 and Vancovuer 2012:<\/em><\/p>\n

Rusty Miller
\nMike Murray
\nJoe Brandenburg
\nAnthony Saidy
\nRonald Gross
\nSam Sloan
\nViktors Pupols
\nDavid Rupel<\/p>\n

Historic photo reenacted (Pupols & Seirawan) click here<\/a>. From the Idaho Chess Association web site.<\/p>\n

Webster University makes a clean sweep.<\/a><\/p>\n

Top Northwest & BC finishers (6 or more points out of 9):<\/strong><\/p>\n

GM Seirawan, Yasser WA 2674 7.5
\nBreckenridge, Steven OR 2349 7.0
\nFM Raptis, Nick OR 2330 7.0
\nSohal, Tanraj S BC 2199 7.0
\nFM Roper, David WA 2288 6.5
\nLee, Nathan Y WA 2123 6.5
\nMay, Andy P WA 2121 6.5
\nErichsen, Dan BC 2104 6.5
\nLee, Megan WA 2101 6.5
\nEsler, Brian John OR 2060 6.5
\nZavortink, Matt WA 2051 6.5
\nTobin, Sean OR 2025 6.5
\nSaputra, Yogi OR 1990 6.5
\nSinanan, Joshua WA 2259 6.0
\nGay, Daniel OR 2212 6.0
\nPupols, Viktors WA 2200 6.0
\nGreninger, Harley G WA 2197 6.0
\nLessler, Peter WA 2177 6.0
\nPatterson, Roger BC 2165 6.0
\nEdwards, Derek WA 2163 6.0
\nYu, Corbin OR 2150 6.0
\nWang, Michael WA 2148 6.0
\nSellers, Matthew B OR 2128 6.0
\nRupel, David WA 2109 6.0
\nDixon, Dakota WA 2108 6.0
\nKleist, Frederick K WA 2098 6.0
\nFM Bartron, Paul R WA 2096 6.0
\nHerrera, Robert OR 2044 6.0
\nHe, Daniel Ming WA 2030 6.0
\nArganian, David G WA 2002 6.0
\nRowles, David WA 1939 6.0
\nRobinson, Marcus OR 1898 6.0
\nWarrier, Krishnan V WA 1885 6.0
\nKiiru, Joseph K WA 1833 6.0<\/p>\n

For USCF online coverage by Al Lawrence, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gary Dorfner’s final US Open report:<\/strong><\/p>\n

US Women\u2019s Open
\n<\/em>There were only 6 players taking part in this event.
\nThe winners were: 1st Chouchanik Airepetian from WA
\n4.5 $650.00, 2nd Sarah May from WA 4.0 $400.00,
\n3rd Sandra Pahl from WI 2.5 $275.00, 1st U2000
\nNaomi Bashkansky from WA 2.0 $225.00, 1st U1800
\nDawn Fields from WA 1.5 $225.00, 1st U1600 Emily
\nSaletan from WA 1.0 $225.00.<\/p>\n

Prize amounts US Open Main Event
\n<\/em>The winners were: 1st-3rd GM Manuel Leon Hoyos from Mexico, a student at Webster University in St. Louis, GM Dmitry Gurevich from IL & John Daniel Bryant from CA 8.0 $4667.00 each. Hoyos also won the $200.00 Playoff Bonus, 4th-8th Yasser Seirawan from WA and the Netherlands, Alexander Shabalov from PA, Andre Diamant from Brazil, also a student at Webster University, Justin Sarkar from NY & Salvijus Bercys from NY 7.5 $820.00 each;
\nMaster 1st-4th Deepak Aaron from NY, Steven Breckenridge from OR, Ian Thompson from England, Nick Raptis from OR, Kevin Mo from PA, Sean Vibbert from IN, Francisco Guadalupe from TX 7.0 $643.00 each;
\nExpert 1st Tanraj Sohal from BC 7.0 $2400.00, Expert 2nd-4th Daniel Gater from IN, Nicholas Karas from CA, Jeremy Mandelkern from FL, Steven Cooklev from IN, Nathan Lee from WA, Andy May from WA, Dan Erichsen from BC, Megan Lee from WA, Andrew Rea from VA, Zhaozhi Li From IL, Joshua Sheng from CA, Brian Esler from OR, Matt Zavortink from WA, Sean Tobin from OR 6.5 $150.00 each;
\n1st Class A Yogi Saputra from OR 6.5 $2400.00. 2nd-4th David Rowles from WA, Marcus Robinson from OR, Krishnan Warrier from WA, Joseph Kiiru from WA & Jennifer Skidmore 6.0 $420.00 Each;
\n1st Class B Howard Zhong 6.0 $2400.00, 2nd-4th Yu Ji from BC, Ethan Neff from WA, Christopher Burris from OR, Tian Peng from IL & Aaron Grabinsky from OR. 5.5 $420.00 each;
\nClass C 1st-4th Ranjeet Singh from WA, Ben Brusniak from WA, Brian Liou from WA & Bert Rutgers from WA 5.0 $950.00 each;
\nClass D 1st-2nd Chris Devon from CA & Wesley Esko from WA 5.0 $1100.00, 3rd-4th Valentin Molchanov from OR & Karl Cui from BC. 4.5 $300.00 each;
\n1st Class E Edward Strong from WA 4.5 $1200.00, 2nd Geoffrey Kenway from OR, 4.0 $600.00, 3rd-4th Jonathan Yau from OR, Terrance Li from WA, Pavel Buzek from WA, John Ornes from OR, Brian Chen from WA, Audrey Whitmer from WA & Rinna Yu from BC 3.5 $86.00 each;
\nUnr. 1st John Dimick from WA. 5.0 $700.00, 2nd Eric Pacini 4.5 $400.00 3rd Corey Tache from OR, 4.0 $200.00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GM Manuel Leon Hoyos won an Armageddon playoff with the white pieces to earn the title of 2012 United States Open Chess Champion. Hoyos finished with an 8-1 record, the same as GM Dmitry Gurevich and FM John Bryant of California. The top two players on tiebreak (Hoyos and Bryant) were seeded into the playoff […]<\/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":[22,21,20,19,10],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usopen","tag-2012-us-open-chess","tag-bryant","tag-hoyos","tag-pupols","tag-seirawan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","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=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}