GM Sam Shankland Summer Camp!

June 25 - June 29

June G/45

June 30 @ 11:00 am - 8:00 pm

                Big Congratulations to NM Derek O’Connor for winning the 2018 GM Koltanowski Marathon with clear 1st 6.5/7  !!

            GM Walter Browne Marathon

 

Senior State Championship Farid Watson vs IM Timothy Taylor Black to move and win!

Start Date: 7:20pm Friday, May 25th, 2018 (Registration closes at 7:10pm.)

Location: 2622 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley, Ca

Tournament Format: Six rounds, one game every Friday.
Rounds: May 25th, June 1st,  15th, 22nd ,29th, and July  6th.

   No round June 8th! Due to a Berkeley Weekender, however you can still show up for a rated game that Friday at 7pm for $5.00.

 

Fee: $35.00
GM’s IM’s and Masters free.
(Entry fee deducted from winnings.)

Time Control: G/90, 30 second increment.  If a player is more than 30 minutes late, their game will be forfeited.

Tournament is both FIDE, and USCF rated!

Prize fund: $500
1st Place $200: 2nd Place $120:
1st U2000 $60: 1st U1800 $60: 1st U1600  $60.

 

Berkeley Weekender June Alex Shrauger vs Louka Waharte Under 2000 section. Black to move and win material!

Experience vs Youth! Berkeley Chess Club’s Youngest Member Jayden Xu (10 years old) battling it out against our most experienced Member Alan Glasscoe. In this Game Experience beat youth!

Byes: Two half-point byes are available before 6pm Thursday, upon request; no byes for last round. If you don’t request a bye and don’t show up for the round, you will receive a forfeit. Byes can be requested via email at tournaments@berkeleychessschool.org or call 510-612-4547. Who: If you are under 14 years old, you must have a USCF rating of at least 1400. There is no rating requirements if the player is over 14 years old. USCF: Tournament will follow USCF rules. USCF membership must be current through the end of the tournament. Do you need to renew your USCF Membership? Renew here!

Current Pairings

GM Walter Browne Marathon

 

Pairings for Round 4. GM Walter Browne Marathon: 2018WsbFnm

 

Bd Res White Res Black
1   FM Ladia Jirasek (2345 : W : 3.0)   Michael Anderson (1905 : w : 2.5)
2   IM Elliott C Winslow (2299 : W : 2.0)   Anthony Acosta (1750 : B : 2.0)
3   Christian Jensen (1835 : WW : 2.0)   NM Roger M Poehlmann (2256 : B : 2.0)
4   Alex Hay Shrauger (1733 : W : 2.0)   Greg Lope (2095 : B : 2.0)
5   NM Michael S Walder (2064 : b : 2.0)   Matthew Marrus (1200 : B : 2.0)
6   NM Thomas F Maser (1900 : b : 1.5)   Grant Aung (1690 : b : 1.5)
7   Carl Nelson (1217 : W : 1.5)   Alan Glasscoe (1800 : BB : 1.5)
8   Aleksandr Ivanov (2193 : – : 1.0)   Samuel Za Agdamag (1392 : b : 1.5)
9   David J Trestor (1859 : w : 1.0)   Elizabeth Shaughnessy (1505 : w : 1.0)
10   Evan Carter (1482 : w : 1.0)   Sos Hakobyan (1790 : – : 1.0)
11   Enkhjin Gomboluudev (1723 : W : 1.0)   Caden Kim (1087 : b : 1.0)
12   Walter Lesquillier (1715 : w : 0.5)   William Thibault (1405 : b : 0.5)
13   Nicolas Petroni (1274 : WW : 0.5)   Kyle Donaldson (1538 : w : 0.5)
  ½ NM Derek O’Connor (2329 : B : 3.0)   BYE
  ½ Steffen Thieme (2085 : b : 2.0)   BYE
  ½ Isaiah Kim (2063 : B : 2.0)   BYE
  ½ Mohammad Soltani (1713 : B : 1.0)   BYE
  ½ Aniket Mondal (1624 : b : 2.5)   BYE
  ½ Louka Waharte (1580 : W : 0.0)   BYE
  ½ Andrei Secor (1155 : W : 1.0)   BYE

 

Berkeley Weekender June

ALL PAIRINGS ARE TENTATIVE AND ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE!

Pairings for Round 4. BCS Weekender June: Open

 

Bd Res White Res Black
1   Michael Kerner (2235 : WW : 2.5)   IM Alexander Ro Katz (2513 : BB : 3.0)
2   NM Michael S Walder (2064 : W : 2.0)   FM Ladia Jirasek (2345 : B : 2.0)
3   IM Elliott C Winslow (2299 : b : 2.0)   John Canessa (2124 : B : 2.0)
4   Isaiah Kim (2063 : W : 2.0)   Daniel Cheng (2049 : b : 1.5)
5   Cailen Melville (1959 : W : 1.5)   Joshua Lu (2022 : w : 1.5)
6   Evan Zihao Ai (1981 : w : 1.5)   Aghilan Nachiappan (1836 : b : 1.5)
7   Christian Jensen (1835 : WW : 1.5)   Shaaket Sivakumar (1847 : BB : 0.5)
8   Arul Viswanathan (1949 : W : 0.5)   Shaashwath Sivakumar (1944 : B : 0.0)
  ½ William Sartorio (2055 : B : 1.5)   BYE
  ½ WFM Annapoorni Meiyappan (1829 : WW : 1.5)   BYE

 

 

Pairings for Round 4. BCS Weekender June: U2000

 

Bd Res White Res Black
11   Luiz Antoni Uribe (1850 : b : 2.0)   Anthony Acosta (1750 : B : 2.5)
12   Mohammad Soltani (1713 : W : 2.5)   Louka Waharte (1580 : BB : 2.0)
13   Martin A Cortinas (1752 : w : 2.0)   Alan Glasscoe (1800 : b : 2.0)
14   Gio Marino Segura (1668 : WW : 1.0)   Nikko Daniel Le (1750 : – : 1.0)
15   Elizabeth Shaughnessy (1505 : W : 1.0)   Agnes Zhiyi Wang (1645 : W : 0.0)
  ½ Kavya Meiyappan (1544 : B : 1.0)   BYE

 

 

Pairings for Round 4. BCS Weekender June: U1600

 

Bd Res White Res Black
16   Ryan Tang Bi (1312 : W : 3.0)   Solomon Katsman (1294 : b : 3.0)
17   Benjamin Cryer (1385 : B : 2.0)   Max Hao (1428 : B : 2.0)
18   Peter Dubon (1171 : w : 2.0)   Michael Straus (1557 : b : 1.5)
19   Abraham Hill (0 : W : 1.5)   James Peter Chiu (1356 : B : 1.5)
20   Jackie Cowgill (1099 : b : 1.0)   Daniel Yan Liao (1103 : b : 1.0)
21   Kate Canessa (128 : W : 0.0)   Sandesh Aher (0 : B : 1.0)
  ½ Patrice Binaisa (1379 : W : 2.0)   BYE
  ½ David Ji Sartorio (1370 : B : 1.5)   BYE

 

 

Pairings for Round 4. BCS Weekender June: Extra Rate

 

Bd Res White Res Black
  0 Luiz Antoni Uribe (1850 : w : 2.0)   BYE
  0 Alan Glasscoe (1800 : W : 1.0)   BYE
  0 Solomon Katsman (1294 : B : 0.0)   BYE
  0 Peter Dubon (1171 : B : 0.0)   BYE
  0 Daniel Yan Liao (1103 : W : 0.0)   BYE

 

Western States Regional Women Championship

 

Pairings for Round 4. Women’s Western States Regional Champion

 

Bd Res White Res Black
1   Saikhanchimeg Tsogtsaikhan (2185 : WW : 2.5)   WIM Megan Lee (2313 : W : 2.5)
2   Badamkhand Norovsambuu (2076 : B : 2.0)   NM Rochelle Wu (2183 : BB : 2.5)
3   Rui Yang Yan (2015 : W : 2.0)   Yesun Lee (1547 : B : 2.0)
4   Brenda K Munoz (1154 : W : 2.0)   Lauren Goodkind (1875 : B : 2.0)
5   Barbara Goodkind (1749 : W : 1.5)   Ashley Pang (1673 : b : 1.5)
6   Emily Lu (1195 : w : 1.5)   Ana Hatarik (939 : w : 1.0)
7   Joonie Kim (130 : w : 1.0)   Svetlana Kondakova (0 : B : 1.0)
8   Sarah McCarty-snead (100 : W : 1.0)   Teresa Provenzano (0 : B : 1.0)
9   Constance Brand (662 : b : 0.5)   LIsa Guan (0 : BB : 0.0)
  ½ Elizabeth Shaughnessy (1500 : b : 2.5)   BYE

 

Current Standings

GM Walter Browne Marathon

 

SwissSys Standings. GM Walter Browne Marathon: 2018WsbFnm

 

# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Tot
1 FM Ladia Jirasek 2345 2354 W13 W11 W6 3.0
2 NM Derek O’Connor 2329 2340 W24 W10 W5 3.0
3 Michael Anderson 1905 1907 W33 H— W19 2.5
4 Aniket Mondal 1624 1697 H— W22 W30 2.5
5 IM Elliott C Winslow 2299 2294 W25 W23 L2 2.0
6 NM Roger M Poehlmann 2256 2253 W18 W16 L1 2.0
7 Greg Lope 2095 2096 H— W34 H— 2.0
8 Steffen Thieme 2085 2082 H— W30 D12 2.0
9 Frisco Del Rosario 2066 2067 H— H— W36 2.0
10 NM Michael S Walder 2064 2063 W31 L2 B— 2.0
11 Isaiah Kim 2063 2064 W36 L1 W24 2.0
12 Christian Jensen 1835 1845 H— W32 D8 2.0
13 Anthony Acosta 1750 1761 L1 W36 W27 2.0
14 Alex Hay Shrauger 1733 1746 H— H— W25 2.0
15 Matthew Marrus 1200 1221 H— W29 H— 2.0
16 NM Thomas F Maser 1900 1898 W34 L6 H— 1.5
17 Alan Glasscoe 1800 1772 D26 L19 W28 1.5
18 Grant Aung 1690 1697 L6 H— W32 1.5
19 Samuel Za Agdamag 1392 1447 H— W17 L3 1.5
20 Carl Nelson 1217 1190 H— L28 B— 1.5
21 Aleksandr Ivanov 2193 2193 H— H— U— 1.0
22 Kevin Yanofsky 1859 1842 H— L4 H— 1.0
23 David J Trestor 1859 1858 W28 L5 U— 1.0
24 Enkhjin Gomboluudev 1723 1725 L2 W26 L11 1.0
25 Mohammad Soltani 1713 1704 L5 W33 L14 1.0
26 Elizabeth Shaughnessy 1505 1509 D17 L24 H— 1.0
27 Evan Carter 1482 1527 W35 U— L13 1.0
28 Andrei Secor 1155 1189 L23 W20 L17 1.0
29 Caden Kim 1087 1082 H— L15 D34 1.0
30 Walter Lesquillier 1715 1696 H— L8 L4 0.5
31 Gio Marino Segura 1668 1665 L10 H— U— 0.5
32 Kyle Donaldson 1538 1523 H— L12 L18 0.5
33 William Thibault 1405 1397 L3 L25 H— 0.5
34 Nicolas Petroni 1274 1262 L16 L7 D29 0.5
35 J Steven Svoboda 2057 2041 L27 U— U— 0.0
36 Louka Waharte 1580 1568 L11 L13 L9 0.0

 

 

SwissSys Standings. GM Walter Browne Marathon: Extra Rate

 

# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Tot
1 Mayin Joshi 1307 1327 W2 1.0
2 Carl Nelson 1217 1200 L1 0.0

 

Berkeley Weekender June

 

SwissSys Standings. BCS Weekender June: Open

 

# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot Prize
1 IM Alexander Ro Katz 2513 2514 W21 W15 W12 D6 W5 4.5 400.00
2 FM Ladia Jirasek 2345 2346 W7 L12 W3 W13 W6 4.0 200.00
3 Joshua Lu 2022 2034 H— W16 L2 B— W7 3.5 60.00
4 Evan Zihao Ai 1981 2000 H— L14 W19 W16 W12 3.5 60.00
5 IM Elliott C Winslow 2299 2298 W8 H— D13 W12 L1 3.0  
6 Michael Kerner 2235 2234 D19 W21 W14 D1 L2 3.0  
7 Isaiah Kim 2063 2069 L2 W11 W18 W14 L3 3.0  
8 William Sartorio 2055 2060 L5 W22 D15 H— W13 3.0  
9 WFM Annapoorni Meiyappan 1829 1874 D13 D20 D10 H— W19 3.0  
10 Cailen Melville 1959 1950 L15 W19 D9 H— H— 2.5  
11 Arul Viswanathan 1949 1952 L17 L7 D22 W21 W16 2.5  
12 John Canessa 2124 2123 W22 W2 L1 L5 L4 2.0  
13 NM Michael S Walder 2064 2058 D9 W18 D5 L2 L8 2.0  
14 Daniel Cheng 2049 2041 H— W4 L6 L7 D21 2.0  
15 Christian Jensen 1835 1863 W10 L1 D8 D19 U— 2.0  
16 Aghilan Nachiappan 1836 1831 H— L3 W21 L4 L11 1.5  
17 NM Roger M Poehlmann 2256 2258 W11 U— U— U— U— 1.0  
18 Michael Anderson 1905 1909 W20 L13 L7 U— U— 1.0  
19 Shaaket Sivakumar 1847 1832 D6 L10 L4 D15 L9 1.0  
20 Henry Wang 2138 2120 L18 D9 U— U— U— 0.5  
21 Shaashwath Sivakumar 1944 1922 L1 L6 L16 L11 D14 0.5  
22 Om Chinchwadkar 1855 1849 L12 L8 D11 U— U— 0.5  

 

 

SwissSys Standings. BCS Weekender June: U2000

 

# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot Prize
1 Luiz Antoni Uribe 1850 1841 L9 B— W11 D2 W5 3.5 200.00
2 Anthony Acosta 1750 1770 W10 W10 D5 D1 D3 3.5 200.00
3 Martin A Cortinas 1752 1755 H— W8 D7 D6 D2 3.0 26.67
4 Nikko Daniel Le 1750 1774 H— H— U— W9 W7 3.0 26.67
5 Mohammad Soltani 1713 1722 W8 W9 D2 D7 L1 3.0 26.67
6 Alan Glasscoe 1800 1780 H— D7 W9 D3 L12 2.5  
7 Louka Waharte 1580 1631 W13 D6 D3 D5 L4 2.5  
8 Kavya Meiyappan 1544 1563 L5 L3 W10 H— W11 2.5  
9 Gio Marino Segura 1668 1669 W1 L5 L6 L4 W10 2.0  
10 Agnes Zhiyi Wang 1645 1606 L2 L2 L8 W11 L9 1.0  
11 Elizabeth Shaughnessy 1505 1474 H— H— L1 L10 L8 1.0  
12 Samuel Za Agdamag 1392 1455 U— U— U— U— W6 1.0  
13 Alex Hay Shrauger 1733 1715 L7 U— U— U— U— 0.0  

 

 

SwissSys Standings. BCS Weekender June: U1600

 

# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot Prize
1 Max Hao 1428 1439 W15 L9 W11 W8 W3 4.0 160.00
2 Solomon Katsman 1294 1408 W8 B— W6 D3 D4 4.0 160.00
3 Ryan Tang Bi 1312 1406 W13 W4 W9 D2 L1 3.5 80.00
4 Michael Straus 1557 1538 W7 L3 H— W9 D2 3.0  
5 Patrice Binaisa 1379 1357 L10 W15 W14 H— H— 3.0  
6 David Ji Sartorio 1370 1365 D11 W10 L2 H— W12 3.0  
7 James Peter Chiu 1356 1361 L4 D13 W15 W11 D8 3.0  
8 Benjamin Cryer 1385 1366 L2 W14 W10 L1 D7 2.5  
9 Peter Dubon 1171 1207 B— W1 L3 L4 D10 2.5  
10 Sandesh Aher unr. 1219 W5 L6 L8 W15 D9 2.5  
11 Abraham Hill unr. 1267 D6 W12 L1 L7 W14 2.5  
12 Jackie Cowgill 1099 1115 H— L11 D13 W14 L6 2.0  
13 William Thibault 1405 1370 L3 D7 D12 U— U— 1.0  
14 Daniel Yan Liao 1103 1053 B— L8 L5 L12 L11 1.0  
15 Kate Canessa 128 127 L1 L5 L7 L10 H— 0.5  

 

 

SwissSys Standings. BCS Weekender June: Extra Rate

 

# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Tot Prize
1 Luiz Antoni Uribe 1850 1851 U— W5 W3 2.0  
2 Alan Glasscoe 1800 1801 W4 U— U— 1.0  
3 Solomon Katsman 1294 1292 U— U— L1 0.0  
4 Peter Dubon 1171 1170 L2 U— U— 0.0  
5 Daniel Yan Liao 1103 1102 U— L1 U— 0.0  

 

Western States Regional Women's Championship

 

SwissSys Standings. Women’s Western States Regional Championship: Merge

 

# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot Prize
1 WIM Megan Lee 2313 2322 W7 W5 D2 W3 W6 4.5 550.00
2 NM Rochelle Wu 2183 2198 W13 W6 D1 W5 W7 4.5 550.00
3 Saikhanchimeg Tsogtsaikhan 2185 2175 D9 W21 W4 L1 W8 3.5 200.00
4 Ashley Pang 1673 1695 H— W11 L3 W9 W10 3.5 200.00
5 Badamkhand Norovsambuu 2076 2069 W18 L1 W10 L2 W13 3.0  
6 Rui Yang Yan 2015 2009 W25 L2 W21 W13 L1 3.0  
7 Lauren Goodkind 1875 1871 L1 W18 W16 W11 L2 3.0  
8 Elizabeth Shaughnessy 1500 1540 W19 H— W9 H— L3 3.0 200.00
9 Barbara Goodkind 1749 1727 D3 W24 L8 L4 W18 2.5  
10 Emily Lu 1195 1200 W17 H— L5 W21 L4 2.5 150.00
11 Brenda K Munoz 1154 1153 W23 L4 W22 L7 H— 2.5 150.00
12 Enkhjin Gomboluudev 1723 1724 H— H— U— U— W21 2.0  
13 Yesun Lee 1547 1543 L2 W25 W19 L6 L5 2.0  
14 Elena Kondakova 1381 1385 H— H— U— U— W20 2.0  
15 Fianna McCarty-snead 973 978 H— H— U— U— W22 2.0  
16 Orna Shaughnessy 895 896 H— H— L7 U— W25 2.0  
17 Sarah McCarty-snead 100 172 L10 U— U— W23 B— 2.0  
18 Constance Brand 662 667 L5 L7 H— W25 L9 1.5  
19 Joonie Kim 130 124 L8 B— L13 L22 H— 1.5  
20 Tallulah McCarty-snead 996 990 H— H— U— U— L14 1.0  
21 Ana Hatarik 939 929 X— L3 L6 L10 L12 1.0  
22 Svetlana Kondakova unr. 577 U— U— L11 W19 L15 1.0  
23 Teresa Provenzano unr. 100 L11 H— H— L17 U— 1.0  
24 Rodhe Lope unr. 750 H— L9 U— U— U— 0.5  
25 LIsa Guan unr. 268 L6 L13 U— L18 L16 0.0  

 

Berkeley Chess Club all time winners

All Time Winners

The following list is for those that got clear first or tied for first place in any BCC Marathon since

the 2007 BCC Grand Re Opening until the end of 2017

1)NM Roger Poehlmann 20 wins!

2)IM Elliott Winslow 8 wins

3)Farid Watson 7 wins

4)NM Derek O'Connor: 6 wins

5)NM Todd Rumph 6 wins

6)FM Ladia Jirasek 5 wins (in a row!)


7)Steven Krasnov 5 wins

8)Greg Lope 4 wins

9)WFM Uyanga Byambaa 4 wins (two with perfect scores, the only perfect scores in BCC history! Also the only Female winner in BCC History)

10)FM Robin Cunningham 4 wins

11)Salar Jahedi 4 wins

12)2 wins each. FM Josiah Stearman, NM Michael Lei Wang, Joshua Cao,

Ethan Chamberlain, NM Robert Hatarik, David Trestor, Craig Andries

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GM Koltanowski Marathon March 9th-May 11th Friday’s 7:20pm $50  NM Derek O’Connor EXPRESS REGISTRATION
Cal Chess Women’s State Championship March 16th-18th Friday -Sunday $50  Saikhanchimeg Tsogtsaikhan EXPRESS REGISTRATION
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Berkeley Weekender May 11th-13th Friday -Sunday $50  NM Roger Poehlmann EXPRESS REGISTRATION
Multi State Women’s Regional Championship May 18th-20th Friday -Sunday $50 WIM Megan Lee, NM Rochelle Wu EXPRESS REGISTRATION
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