{"id":3861,"date":"2017-11-28T23:23:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T07:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=3861"},"modified":"2017-12-02T23:05:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T07:05:13","slug":"2017-wa-class-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/2017-wa-class-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 WA Class Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Murlin Varner manning the WCF registration table.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 2017 WA Class Championships were held at the Lynnwood Embassy Suites over Thanksgiving weekend November 24-26. A strong attendance of about 180 players took part from throughout the Northwest, primarily from Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia. The event was hosted by Washington Chess Federation.<\/p>\n

Organizers: WCF Tournament Coordinator Dan Mathews & WCF President Josh Sinanan<\/p>\n

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L-R: Gary Dorfner, Robert Allen, Fred Kleist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tournament Directors: Fred Kleist & Gary Dorfner, with additional support from Murlin Varner, Jacob Mayer, and Chouchanik Airapetian.<\/p>\n

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Thanksgiving Scholastic Winners with TD David Hendricks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WCF Scholastic Director David Hendricks ran the Thanksgiving Scholastic on Black Friday, which attracted 132 players.\u00a0 Here is the US Chess Rating Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Steven Breckenridge (L) vs. Roland Feng on board 1 at the start of round 4.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

FIDE Master Steven Breckenridge from Gresham, OR won clear first place in the Master Section with an undefeated 5.5-0.5 score. Washington State Champion Roland Feng finished in clear second place with 5 points, a full point ahead of Anthony He and Kyle Haining, who split 3rd place honors.<\/p>\n

The complete photo album from the tournament can be viewed on the WCF FB page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other winners include:<\/p>\n

Expert: =1st\/2nd Sherry Tian & Benjamin Brusniak.<\/p>\n

Class A: 1st Peter Watts (6-0!), 2nd Brent Baxter, 3rd Wenyang Du.<\/p>\n

Class B: =1st\/2nd Frank Fagundes & Francisco Lopez.<\/p>\n

Class C: 1st Jasen Reeves, =2nd\/3rd Alison Xiao & Hongning Wang.<\/p>\n

Class D: 1st Harrison Keyser, =2nd\/3rd Varun Kumar & Jeffrey Kou.<\/p>\n

Class E: 1st Miles Hamilton-Sommer, =2nd\/3rd Ryan Clark & Angela Chen.<\/p>\n

The US Chess tournament rating report is now available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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