{"id":1445,"date":"2013-10-30T12:15:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T20:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2017-05-06T15:10:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T23:10:27","slug":"pnw-players-do-well-in-reno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/pnw-players-do-well-in-reno\/","title":{"rendered":"PNW Players do Well in Reno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>31st Annual Reno Western States Open<\/strong> was held Oct 17 to 20,\u00a02013. There were 201 players in 8 sections including a Blitz Event. As usual, Jerome Weikel of Reno was the organizer and TD.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"crosstable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uschess.org\/msa\/XtblMain.php?201310201112\">CLICK HERE for Crosstables<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>37 players in the Open section with 6 players getting 4.5-1.5 scores. Check the crosstable for the list.<\/p>\n<p>Gil Lapid Shafriri of WA was the best PNW scorer at 3-3. Corey Russell of Medford had 2.5-3.5 as did Aaron Putman of Seattle,\u00a0WA.<\/p>\n<p>The Expert Section was won by Aaron Grabinsky of Coquille, Oregon with 5.5-.5. Preston Polasek of Lafayette, Oregon had 4-2. Fred Kleist of Seattle was at 3.5-2.5 as was Edwin Battistella of Ashland, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Drayton Harrison of Seattle won the A Section with 6-0. At 3.5-2.5 was Ritchie Duron of Oregon. At 3-3 was Mike Schemm of Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>In B Section Ralph Anthony of Mukilteo, WA scored 3.5-2.5. At 3-3 were Dan Mayers of Idaho, Ewald Hopfenzitz of OR plus August Piper of Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>In the C Section Kerry Van Veen of Seattle WA, Josiah Perkins of Coquille, OR, Bernard Spera of OR all scored 4.5-1.5 to tie for 2nd., Joshua Grabinsky of Coquille, OR was the only 4-2 score.<\/p>\n<p>Best score by a PNW player in the D Section was by Tim Sheehan of WA at 4-2. At 3-3 was Sarai Perkins of Coquille, OR. She also won a side game.<\/p>\n<p>20 players took part in the Blitz tournament won by Enrico Sevillano of CA with 10-0. Nick Raptis of Portland was 2nd at 7.5-2.5.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"USCF story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uschess.org\/content\/view\/12402\/729\/\">CLICK HERE for the article by Randy Hough on the USCF website about the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Per this article the Seattle Chess Club won the team prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 31st Annual Reno Western States Open was held Oct 17 to 20,\u00a02013. There were 201 players in 8 sections including a Blitz Event. As usual, Jerome Weikel of Reno was the organizer and TD. CLICK HERE for Crosstables. 37 players in the Open section with 6 players getting 4.5-1.5 scores. Check the crosstable for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourn","tag-reno-chess-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}