{"id":2219,"date":"2014-11-07T19:03:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T03:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2017-05-08T19:16:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T03:16:15","slug":"washington-results-blitz-championship-and-challengers-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/washington-results-blitz-championship-and-challengers-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington results: Blitz Championship and Challengers Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two important annual events recently took place in Washington (reported by WCF secretary Gary Dorfner):<\/em><\/p>\n

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Roland Feng at 2014 Washington Blitz Chess Championship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Washington State Blitz Championship<\/strong> was held at Cross Roads Mall in Bellevue on October 11, 2014. There were 32 players participating in this event. This year’s winner\u00a0is Roland Feng with 11.5 points. 2nd and 3rd places were shared by Daniel He and Marcell Szabo with\u00a010.5 points each.\u00a0In the Scholastic Section Jakey Snyder was first with 13.0, with a tie for 2nd and 3rd between\u00a0Christian Jordan and Vignesh Anand with 9.0 points each.<\/p>\n

The Washington Challengers\u2019 Cup<\/strong> was held at the Seattle Chess Club, October 25-26, 2014.\u00a0There were 67 players in all, 32 in the Open and 35 in the Reserve.\u00a0The winners were: 1st FM Curt Collyer with 4.0. He will be seeded into the\u00a02015 state championship; 2nd\u00a0Bryce Tiglon 3.5 (taking a second round bye and winning the rest of his games); U2100 David Rupel,\u00a0Kyle Haining and Derek Zhang 3.0 each; U1900 Severo Caluza, Jason Yu and\u00a0Trevor Jung 2.0 each. In the Reserve UW undergrad student Alan Tan was 1st with\u00a04.5 (conceding his only draw to WCF tournament coordinator Dan Mathews); the 2nd\/U1600\/U1200-Unr. prizes were split among Catherine Smith, Addison Lee and Frank Hou with 4.0 each; while U1400 was a four-way tie among Oscar Petrov,\u00a0Joshua Lewis, Jared Huang and Anshul Ahluwa with 3.5 each.<\/p>\n

The Challengers\u2019 Cup Scholastic<\/strong> was held at the St. Thomas More School on November 1, 2014.\u00a0There were 70 students participating in all. In the K-1\/U800 section\u00a0Walter Barr was 1st\u00a0with 5.0, Dhruv Ojha and Elizabeth Flynn shared 2nd with\u00a03.0 each and David Wilson was 3rd. In the\u00a02-3\/U800 section, Arjun Handa was 1st\u00a0with 4.5, and 2nd\u00a0was shared by Pranav Venkatesh,\u00a0Aaryan Dhingra and Krish Doshi with 4.0 each. In the\u00a0K-3\/Open section, 1st place went to Miles Kuipers, 2nd\u00a0place went to Daniel Qian, and there was a 3-way tie for 3rd, with\u00a0Andrew Nguyen, Anirudh Rajesh and Sophie Szeto finishing with 3.0 each. In the\u00a04-6\/U900 section, 1st\u00a0went to Arvind Manivannan with a perfect score of 5.0, 2nd to\u00a0Aditya Venkataraman with 4.0, 3rd to\u00a0Harvey Yang with 3.5, while Terence Sinn, Elliott Riedy,\u00a0Matt Flynn and Marcus Lam tied for 4th\u00a0with 3.0 each. In the\u00a04-6\/Open section, Ishaan Puri and Ethan Kam finished 1st\u00a0with 4.5 each, while 3rd\u00a0place was taken by Revanth Pothukuchi with 4.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two important annual events recently took place in Washington (reported by WCF secretary Gary Dorfner): The Washington State Blitz Championship was held at Cross Roads Mall in Bellevue on October 11, 2014. There were 32 players participating in this event. This year’s winner\u00a0is Roland Feng with 11.5 points. 2nd and 3rd places were shared by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5],"tags":[92,37],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholastic","category-tourn","tag-challengers-cup","tag-washington-chess-federation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}