{"id":2901,"date":"2016-02-18T00:36:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T08:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2017-05-19T20:05:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T04:05:30","slug":"2016-wa-state-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/2016-wa-state-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 WA State Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2904\" style=\"width: 1114px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WP_20160215_19_52_53_Pro-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2904\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WP_20160215_19_52_53_Pro-2.jpg\" alt=\"IM Michael Lee - 2016 WA State Champion\" width=\"1114\" height=\"1139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WP_20160215_19_52_53_Pro-2.jpg 1114w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WP_20160215_19_52_53_Pro-2-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WP_20160215_19_52_53_Pro-2-768x785.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WP_20160215_19_52_53_Pro-2-1002x1024.jpg 1002w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1114px) 100vw, 1114px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IM Michael Lee &#8211; 2016 WA State Champion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here\u00a0are\u00a0the final results of the 2016 WA State Championship, Premier, Invitational, and Challengers sections in order of tie-breaks. The USCF rating report can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uschess.org\/msa\/XtblMain.php?201602155722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. Games from all 4 sections can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/chessmicrobase.com\/m\/sxdjd8x7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><u><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Championship<\/span><\/u><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>IM Michael Lee 2505 8.0 1st $900<\/b><\/div>\n<div>FM Tian Sang 2354 7.5 2nd $500<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>IM Ray Kaufman 2359 6.0 =3rd-4th $250<\/div>\n<div>FM Roland Feng 2425 6.0 =3rd-4th $250<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>NM Bryce Tiglon 2350 5.0 5th $100<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>NM Daniel He 2249 4.5<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>FM Nick Raptis 2396 3.5<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>LM Viktors Pupols 2206 2.5<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>FM Costin Cozianu 2451 1.5 (withdrew)<\/p>\n<p>Derek Zhang 2179 0.5<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><u><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Premier<\/span><\/u><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>FM John Readey 2266 6.5 1st $450<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>NM Kyle Haining 2202 5.5 2nd $250<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>NM Samuel He 2262 4.5 3rd $150<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>NM Michael MacGregor 2211 4.0 =4th-5th $75<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Anthony He 2135 4.0 =4th-5th $75<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>NM Josh Sinanan 2205 3.5<\/div>\n<div>FM David Bragg 2202 3.5<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>FM William Schill 2265 2.5<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>WFM Chouchanik Airapetian 2090 2.0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>FM Ignacio Perez 2264 1.5 (withdrew)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><u><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Invitational<\/span><\/u><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Neo Olin 2038 7.0 1st $225<br \/>\n<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>FM Nikita Chetrari 2298 6.5 =2nd-3rd $100<br \/>\nMasayuki Nagase 2000 6.5 =2nd-3rd $100<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>FM Paul Bartron 2064 5.5 4th $50<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Jason Yu 2008 4.0 =5th $6.25<\/div>\n<div>Toshihiro Nagase 2023\u00a04.0 =5th $6.25<\/div>\n<div>Sangeeta Dhingra 1928\u00a04.0 =5th $6.25<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>David Arganian 2000\u00a04.0 =5th $6.25<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Alan Bishop 2007 2.0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Damarcus Thomas 2020 1.5<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><u>Challenger<\/u><u>s<\/u><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><b>Vikram Ramasamy 2010 7.0 1st $112.50<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div>WCM Naomi Bashkansky 1979\u00a05.5 =2nd-3rd $50<\/div>\n<div>Brent Baxter 1916 5.5 =2nd-3rd $50<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Mary Kuhner 1933 4.5 4th $25<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Travis Olson 1961 3.5 5th $12.50<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Brendan Zhang 1932 3.0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Noah Yeo 1900 2.5<\/div>\n<div>Eric Zhang 1827 2.5<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mark Smith 1896 2.0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Michael Hosford 1933 0.5 (withdrew)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><b>Notes\/Requests:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prize checks will be mailed out later this week.\u00a0Please make sure we have your current address.<\/li>\n<li>We kindly ask that each prize winner submit an annotated game for publication in <i>Northwest Chess <\/i>magazine<b>.<\/b>\u00a0Please send the annotated game to Josh Sinanan or Jeff Roland (<a href=\"mailto:jroland@cableone.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jroland@cableone.net<\/a>) by Feb 21st.<\/li>\n<li>A panel of judges will judge the brilliancy prizes ($100) for all four sections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u00a0are\u00a0the final results of the 2016 WA State Championship, Premier, Invitational, and Challengers sections in order of tie-breaks. The USCF rating report can be found here. Games from all 4 sections can be viewed here. Championship IM Michael Lee 2505 8.0 1st $900 FM Tian Sang 2354 7.5 2nd $500 IM Ray Kaufman 2359 6.0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[213,212,214,33],"class_list":["post-2901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourn","tag-michael-lee","tag-microsoft","tag-wa-state-championship","tag-wcf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}