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<\/a><\/p>\nThe 2017 WA Open was held at the Lynnwood Embassy Suites over Memorial Day weekend May 27-29. A strong attendance of about 205 players took part from throughout the Northwest, primarily from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia.<\/p>\n
The event was hosted by Washington Chess Federation.<\/p>\n
Organizers: WCF Tournament Coordinator Dan Mathews & WCF President Josh Sinanan.
\nTournament Directors: Fred Kleist & Gary Dorfner.<\/p>\n
WCF Scholastic Director David Hendricks ran the WA Open Scholastic on Saturday, which attracted 74 players.<\/p>\n
International Master Georgi Orlov<\/strong> won clear first place in the open section with a perfect 6-0 score, defeating three FM’s along the way: Tian Sang, Roland Feng, and David Bragg. \u00a0A full point behind Orlov was a group of 4 players who tied for second place: FM Roland Feng<\/strong>, FM Tian Sang<\/strong>, FM Steven Breckenridge<\/strong> and Benjamin Mukumbya<\/strong>, who was featured in the recent Disney Film Queen of Katwe<\/em>!<\/p>\n The US Chess tournament rating report<\/a> is now available. Other winners include:<\/p>\n =1st Place Reserve Section: Daniel Shubin<\/strong>, Jeffrey Yan<\/strong>, Joshua Lewis-Sandy<\/strong>, and Brandon Jiang<\/strong><\/p>\n 1st Place Booster Section: Northern Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n =2-5th Place Booster Section: Drake Borden<\/strong>, Harrison Keyser<\/strong>, Michael Kuang<\/strong>, Erik Liu<\/strong>, Tommy Rodgers<\/strong>, and Ajay Pai<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2017 WA Open was held at the Lynnwood Embassy Suites over Memorial Day weekend May 27-29. A strong attendance of about 205 players took part from throughout the Northwest, primarily from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia. The event was hosted by Washington Chess Federation. Organizers: WCF Tournament Coordinator Dan Mathews & WCF […]<\/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":[138,175,33],"class_list":["post-3825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourn","tag-georgi-orlov","tag-wa-open","tag-wcf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825","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=3825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPhotos from the tournament can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n